The Morning Stream - TMS 2628: Hell Toupee

Episode Date: April 9, 2024

I Don't Lyft For Fun Bro. Nun of the Nudity. You Lost Me At Cowboy. Moretets Lipsmack. Red On-Air Arms. Not Chechnya's Tempo. All Up in the Good Wife. Babies smell like what we dip them in. Isn't there a Cowboy named Space something? Ramazan whoah black Betty! Why do my eyes hurt, 'cause I like really want to know... Frankensteins, Werewolves, and Shit, Oh My! Lance Bass Residency. Did they Gleam the Cube. Luscious Beards with Travis and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Red on air arms. Not Chechnya's tempo. All up in the good wife. Babies smell like what we dip them in. Isn't there a cowboy? named Space Something. Ramazan, whoa, back, Betty. What do my eyes hurt because I, like, really wanted to know?

Frankenstein's werewolves and shit. Oh, my. Lance Bass residency. Did they gleam the cube? Lushes Beards with Travis. And more on this episode of The Morning Stream. I brought you a gift of tobacco. Attractively finished in a gift box.

This one would make a cute gift for a man named Steve. Where is a gift, not a gift. The morning, the morning stream, I am your father's, brothers, nephews, cousins, former roommate. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to TMS. It's the morning stream for Tuesday, April 9th, 2024. I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian Abbott. Hi, Brian. Hello, Scott and all who are listening to us. That's right. Whoever you may be, wherever you may go.

I didn't know where I was going to go with that. I just went there. I liked it. It was a little song, sing-song. I liked it. It was nice. Yeah, nothing wrong with that at all. Real quick here.

Let's see, the 10th now I'm being told, this is just in, although I think it popped last night. So tomorrow. Tomorrow, yeah. It looks like they're dropping that Fallout show. early. Oh, I saw that, yeah. And it's Amazon, right? So we're getting probably all of it all at once?

Yes, so sometime Prime's back and forth on that. They'll do some week-to-week some not, but in this case... Bosch was week-to-week and it drove me nuts. Yeah, Bosch was great, dude. You haven't watched any legacy, have you? No, I got to get to that. You know the Bosch guy, Titus Wolover or whatever?

Titus Williver, yeah. Man in Black from Lost. I forgot how, I forgot he was all up in that good wife business that Kim's been watching. Oh, I didn't know that, really. Yeah, he's like a, he's all up in the good wife. Yeah, he's some kind of evil district attorney guy, and he's great, and he's very good in it. Oh, that's interesting, because I, man, uh, even though it's funny because he played, he plays a relatively bad guy on Lost. Yeah. I'll say more than that because even, even people that we are very close to are currently doing a watch through of Lost, one of whom is not seen it. And I'm just

excited because they keep telling me like episodes that they get to and all that. That's great. But because of how chaotic good he is on Bosch Legacy, I can't picture him as a bad, bad guy. Yeah, he's, he's hard to, it's hard to put, it's hard to put a pin on him. Even when he's playing a raw bad guy, he's got like a, I don't know, that's what makes him unique. he's a very unique actor. It's a very interesting guy. And he's really good on it.

Also, Pedro Pascal showed up as a prosecuting attorney for like 10 episodes. Didn't see that coming. Really? Yeah. Oh, nice. Wow. It's a bunch of, uh, a bunch of good folks on that. No, that show is a rotating door of famous people.

It's crazy how many people are on there. Anyway, uh, Brian, I got a little test for you this morning. Yeah. Oh, let me ask you before you do that, though. Yeah. Um, really quick. Do you actually keep like a, an app or something that has your these are the things i've been told to watch and i need to

check out i do i have a huge list yeah gigantic do you look at it ever do you i do yep i look at it all the time for example here i'll tell you what i got on here i mostly put i put a lot of our recommendals on it not all but a lot of them um where is my list just the ones that the ones that get to you yeah so like this one's you're like oh yeah okay that does sound like it's up my Yeah, there's a documentary on plagiarism I want to watch. There's one called Ink on Freevi. I want to watch. There's this thing from, let's see, the new Starblazers anime.

I want to watch that. Oh, and I watched one of these things, take it off. Jodorowski's Dune has been on this list forever. I watched that ink on Freevy. How was it? If it's the thing I'm thinking of, it felt so weird. distractingly low budget

like it was like it was I'm thinking I might be yeah father and daughter a thrust in a fantastic

dream world battle between forces of good and evil and this allegorical tale of love loss

and the search of blah blah blah um this was a movie this was a movie I did

I sat through the whole thing and it was like oh no I didn't continue watching 88 minutes left

so I only made it through 88 of the one hour and 46 minute runtime

And I had a real difficult time getting through it. Like low budget, crappy. Yeah, it felt like a student film, but it's got, it's got 221, like, reviews, and it's four and a half stars. Maybe I need to give it another, another chance. I can't remember who told me about it, yeah. Yeah, I can't either. There's somebody, either somebody recommended it here, or I guess there'd be an easy way to tell

who recommended it tools. Yeah. I don't know. I don't remember who told me. We're talking about a movie called Inc, and it's on freebie, which means it's on Amazon Prime. Yeah. Also, let's see.

Or the freebie app if you have that. That'll work. Or the freebie app, yeah. Freebie. Where's this other one that I wanted to see? Oh, Frontier. I don't remember what that is on Netflix. I have a lot of these are just names and then a link.

I know. See, that's the other thing is like I try to group them. We use just notes. I just use the notes app. And the reason I do that is because I can share it with Tina and she can add stuff to it as well. And so I'll put in here, like, Monsieur Spade, AMC Plus, binge after 218, because I know that like all the episodes are going to be available after that date.

Death and other details, binge after 3-5 on Hulu. But then we've got like, we've got Gavin and Stacey on here like three times. I think because she added it and I added it and then we've got in a separate place. But it's like a lot of recommendals and it's other things that we've been meaning to go back to we've watched the first season of or second season of Tokyo Vice is on here and I know that's oh that's on my list too yeah that's right here second season yeah I've been wanting to see that for a long time why why do you ask you were asking if I had a list and oh just because we were talking about um uh you asked if uh like the fallout thing and I said oh yeah I need to put that on my list as a

as a thing to watch and oh right right that's why I asked you about that yeah it's uh that's gonna be great. I have really high hopes about it. I mean, it may be terrible. I don't know. I don't know what to expect tomorrow. I'm going to binge that shit, though. I'm going for it. Are you? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I'm going right in. You can start probably binge it tonight after 10 p.m. I think. Yeah.

If you want to stay up and do that, maybe. I don't know. Anyway. So the second season is the final season of Tokyo Vice, so it's a two and done, right? I think it got canceled, didn't it? Did it? Okay. I thought so. It's a bummer. Yeah.

well these shows that don't get watched yeah it's true let's see is it say it's canceled yeah fan favorite star unpack season two finale fate and future finale hits all the sweet spots even though we want a season three oh i see what you mean for your rangers okay season two is complete okay i thought you meant the series was finished now oh okay maybe they are still going i thought it said something about canceled that'd be great well anyway promoted pretty well so hopefully it's doing well for him yeah yeah i like I like everything about what I hear about that. So kind of my jam.

All right, Brian, I'm going to test you on something. Yes, test me. I did not do any pre-looking or anything like that. Excellent, because had you done so, there would be real repercussions. That would be hell to pay. I just thought this is interesting. I found a list of what is purportedly the highest grossing horror film franchises and film series of all time. this is a top 20 thing

and I'm asking you rather than say Monica or somebody who's really into horror movies because I think she just know this I think she just know it I am so yeah I like horror films not nearly as much as Monica and not as much as you but I do like like horror films

and so I feel like this is a fun list all right and I'll give you a couple of hints here we are talking about a range the top 20 A range of 2 billion or so, little more than 2 billion, is the top end of the franchise again, not single films, franchises. 2 billion at the top end, half a million at the bottom end, okay, for the top 20. Cool. Okay. Give me, just tell me some that you think you know.

What do you think is up here? Yeah, and this is funny because part of our mystery date, this somehow connects to our mystery date, so this is actually kind of fun. All right, so I'm going to say Friday the 13th. All right, let me take a look. It's got to be up there. It is actually not in there. No way. Okay.

No Friday the 13th. Let's say the Freddy Kruger, the Nightmare and Elm Street franchise. That would be correct at number 19. Oh, wow. Almost out of the top 20. Yeah, but that one did eke out your other classics. Is Alien considered horror? Is it on the list?

Well, you went from 19 all the way to number two. nice job. Oh, wow. Yeah, it's a nice job. So far, two out of 20. All right. Um, the Halloween franchise. That would be correct at number 11. Wow. Right in the middle. It's really just because Friday 13 films have just put out such garbage, I think. I think that. Plus it was, they kind of stopped doing them around the time that big box office was even a thing. So you wouldn't have as much earning capability. Whereas Nightmare on Elm Street kind of the same problem, except it just barely got into there. Yeah, and that's true And the list is probably going to be

Much heavier, weighted on newer stuff, I'm guessing. It is. So saw. Saw is number five, nicely done. Below alien, though. What's the... Huh?

Below alien. Surprisingly below alien. But I guess, you know, the alien movies attract both a horror audience and a sci-fi audience. Sure. That makes sense. Sure.

All right. So, what's the one with the husband and wife? Farmeagia, is that the insidious? It's the Annabelle series. It's the Conjuring universe, I believe, is what you're looking for. Conjuring universe. And I'm going to give that to you. That's currently number one at $2.4 billion.

Yeah, lots of money. The highest grossing in that, oh, I should be telling you this, because this bit's interesting. The highest grossing film in that that got the close, you know, really bumped up their numbers, was the nun with 365 million. Interesting. In alien, it was Prometheus with 403 million. million and uh let's see you said saw saw three was the big one there 164 million and in Halloween

what was the Halloween uh please don't tell me it was like the most recent uh Michael Myers return or whatever I mean it says Halloween yeah with 259 million but that might not be the original that might be the that's probably the the not the reboot but the right kind of soft reboot all the same name. Oh, how about, so Scream probably wouldn't be on the list, or I guess it would be, because it's still horror, even though it's comedic horror. Congratulations. It is on there. Number eight.

Highest grossing is the original. 1996, $173 million. It's actually one of the few here. I'll tell you this. It's one of the few here with the original being the one that made the most money. That's interesting. Yeah. So, so far you are six out of 20. okay um well i said insidious earlier is that a franchise has there only been one insidious movie it's a franchise and you are correct with number 13 okay uh that one's highest grossing for that one was insidious the red door at 188 million i don't i've seen none of those so i have no idea i haven't yeah i haven't seen any of me either um all right uh oh uh the exorcist just had that new film come out did that bump it up probably not it did nicely done

You did it. Exorcist 14. Okay. The highest grossing is The Exorcist. Oh, so there's another original. I don't know if that's adjusted for inflation or if it's over time or whatever, but $441 million for that. So far, you're doing, man, you're doing real good, actually. Good.

This is where I think of, like, when we see a trailer in before whatever we're watching at the theaters, this is where Tina looks at me and says, no. It's like, no, I've not to let you know right away. that. Chuckie. I know Chuckie's, has he had enough stuff in the new era to put Chuckie up there? I do not see Chuckie. Okay. No Childs Play franchise. Yeah, I'm looking for Childs Play and Chuckie both and there's nothing. Yeah, nothing there. There hasn't been anything new except for TV shows, right? Or has there been a new? There's no new movies that I'm aware of. Well, I mean, there were new movies, but I don't think they were made any kind of dent. They may have been direct video. But yeah, that TV show, and they're not counting that, any revenue from that.

so yeah right right okay um let's see i think hostile i know there were a couple hostels but i can't imagine oh uh what about um uh terrifier because there were two of those they were both recent they might have made a lot of money terrifying a box office money i wouldn't think so they are obviously they're very let's see yeah not on here they're very cult favorite but i don't there i don't think they break through like that not yet anyway even though barbarians are not a franchise just one film, but... Yeah, that's not on here. That made money.

Texas Chainsaw Massacres. There was that more recent one that came out for that. Surprisingly, not on here. Not on the list, yeah. I thought for sure it would be. I really did think it would. I don't know why, because they've made, I don't know, what, five big budget versions of this thing?

Yeah. Seems like it be on here, but... Because some of these, I can't believe are on here. Oh, really? Yeah. Yeah, I might be getting to the extent of my... the extent of my knowledge here on this one.

They also put a couple I would classify as kind of like alien, a little more action, sci-fi or just outside of the horror genre. I'd say more sci-fi than action. So I'll give you one of these, number 12 predators on here. Oh, really? Okay. And the highest grossing predator movie, if you had to guess what do you think it is?

Oh, geez. Please tell me it's not well all right let's say it's uh would they count aliens versus predator as a predator movie yes and that's the one 172 million dollars crazy right yeah yeah that's kind of depressing i don't like that fact it's awful right um let's see um so there's one more sci-fi one i feel like you want to try and get that um but i wouldn't put i definitely wouldn't put predator quote even a secondary genre i don't know if i would say horror film. Yeah, to me that's not a horror film. And either is there's a couple here that are like that. I'm just like

come on. But whatever. Let's see. Nothing new. I'm trying to think of what scares me. And the surprising thing is there's there's only one property on here. It's probably give it away. But there's one property on here that is Stephen King related. Oh,

really? Wow. What do you think that is? As a franchise. Oh, it, of course. That is correct. It is fourth or sorry yeah fourth on the list yeah 701 million just shy of a billion they did real good wow what about uh nothing new from amniville right no amityville we've had a movie in the last 20 years but that's about it yeah nothing like that omen like those are all too old and untouched although that new one looks like it might do well but huh all right i'll give you i'll give you the

rest of these tapping out yeah at number three resident evil oh really yeah 100 let's see 1.2 billion dollars when was the last resonant evil movie I think that may have been the final chapter which was a few years ago 312 million for that wow yeah I'm surprised honestly that one's up there because those movies are all kind of uniformly bad yeah yeah yeah what about underworld I guess that's definitely not on here that's not considered that's not considered horror either no but if some of these are that may as well be um let's see Hannibal. And the reason they listed as Hannibal and not like the Science of the Lambs or something is because the movie Hannibal, the one that Ridley Scott directed, is the one that made all the money, $351 million. That's the one that actually, okay. And it is

the Hannibal franchise. Right. You know, it's like it's kind of like what we've done with Game of Thrones. They're not the Game of Thrones books. There's the Song of Ice and Fire books. The Game of Thrones just happened to be the first one. That's exactly it.

Dracula? uh that's a weird one because van hell that's a weird one because van helsing's your number one at 300 million and van helsing i wouldn't call a dracula movie yeah plus i mean i know he goes his whole origin is he goes after dracula is a vampire hunter sure but that movie is a that's a group film that's got frankenstein's monster and a werewolf and all the shit well and also it's i mean i guess it's franchise it's not it's not all one story like like the Friday the 13th and the Freddie Krueger stuff, like where it's all the Annabelle stuff. I guess you can count it. It's close to a billion over all over time. Average per film, $60 million. But Van Helsing, at $300 plus million, that's crazy. That movie sucked.

It really did. That was bad. That was so bad that I remember watching it for film sec, and that's all I remember. Yeah, no kidding. That's terrible. Scary movie at number nine. oh really yeah see now that's

I was ruling that out because I thought well you know scream felt like a stretch because it's so parody but scary movie is full on parody straight parody does not belong in a horror list

it's never been more straight parr it's may as well say airplane is a great disaster movie I mean I think one of them was did have one of the Zecher brothers involved the scary movies oh I think you're yeah I think you're right that's where they ended up

paranormal activity I don't have Leslie Nielsen and that's you know that should be the sign that's your that's your that's that's your that's your that's your that's uh number 10 paranormal activity series at number 10 oh I forgot about those yeah that's a good one I mean that's a good yeah one for the list almost 900 million I haven't seen a single one of those either the paranormal activity movies those kind of things cameras sitting there while weird shit happens in the background those freak me out yeah I don't like them because it

feels too feels too I don't like it real life like I don't want to... And what's funny is, I don't mind found footage movies. I just can't do, like, stationary security cam. I have something about it. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's because you could just as easily look at your door ring bell and go, or doorbell and go, oh, what was that? Yeah, oh, I'm seeing movement.

What's that? Oh, crap. Yeah. I don't like that. Even though I don't believe in any of this bullshit. That still scares me. Halloween. Oh, we did.

Let's see. Predator Insidious. The Exorcist you did. You had a real run there in 10 through 14. Let's see. Final destination at 15. Final destination. Wow.

Yeah. 600 and something million. The Ring. The Ring is all about the first Ring movie at 250. That thing was a, yeah, that thing was a juggernaut. That might have reinvigorated the horror movie genre. Like basically that style of horror movie, because we had been, prior to that point, really leaning into the slasher, the Freddy's, the Jasons, the Mike Myers and stuff, and ring and let the right one in.

And what was the one, was that Let the Right One in with the, there was a Japanese remake? Well, there was an English remake. So the Swedish one and was called Let the Right One in. And then the one we got was called Let Her In. Okay. And that had more Tetz, lip smack, what's her name? The kick ass girl. Chloe and Chloe Grace Morettes.

That's the one. She was in it. Like more lip smack? Is that what you call her? She's got big lips. They're big. She does have big lips. It's just something I notice.

Full, full lips. That's right, full lips. By the way, that original ring film, PG-13. Oh, really? Yeah. That's weird. That's weird to me. That is weird to me, too.

I guess that probably helped them make a ton of money. I don't know. Yeah, actually. Number 17, a quiet place, did real well overall. Oh, see, yeah, that's, I wouldn't have even... I only got two of those. And that's a lot more science fiction than horror, right? Like, it is horror.

It's scary, but it's more like... I'd say it's more horror than Predator. I would say that belongs on the list more than Predator. Because I see Predator is just a straight-up sci-fi alien movie. Yeah, and that's my problem with the next one. I Am Legend is number 18, and that's less horror to me than it is. that's that that's barely a franchise it's one movie that's a remake of another movie right yeah i don't know and that counts on here because you also have that with uh what's the other one here

well i guess it counts with i guess things like halloween hannibal uh i mean they're all they're all kind of a thing i don't think if it is a sequel i think it was it a remake right like a it was a remake omega man uh was the original i think omega man is that right yeah Well, so let me make sure this is right. $589,000, or sorry, $589 million total box office for that, quote, unquote, franchise of I Am Legend. I Am Legend made $585. So what that says is $4 million is from the original movie? Like, what's that $4 million from?

Yeah, that, that's weird. That is weird. Oh, was it, have we gotten to all of them? Is it the 28 days later? No, not on here. It should be, because I love that one. Those belong, if that's, if, if we're calling I Am Legend a horror movie, then the 28 days later series is way more of a horror movie with, with the same kind of elements. I agree.

It would be on here if it made that much money of it. It didn't. The purge at number 20 with the purge or the purge. I'm not seeing a single purge episode because I feel some days like I'm living. I saw purged part two. I don't know why I didn't see the first one, but I saw. saw the second one, and I quite liked it. It had Frank Grillo in it, and he was good.

Oh, nice. Yeah, I like him. Yeah. Yeah, I feel like, you know, so lifting, we told lifting story in pre-show or talked about Lyft, but I just see people now who, I don't know, get tired of waiting at a red light and decide they're just going to go through it. I mean, we had that video that I shared of the guy flying through it, but now it's like yesterday had one person

who was next to me and waiting at a red light, he just gave up waiting and just went through it. Wow. I don't think you, you just can't decide that all of a sudden the lights don't mean anything. The rules are all of a sudden

We should be able to do like a citizen's arrest or something. It's like you can't. It's like, I'm not a Boy Scout, but seriously, like come on. There are rules here for a reason. Follow the law. Follow the law. All right, if you had to guess, highest grossing film of 1931 when we had, when we started tracking horror films, what do you think the highest grossing film was that year?

And what it's, I'll tell you what it's worldwide grosses in a second because it's hilarious to me. Well, I mean, 1931, so we're looking at one of the original universal, either Frankenstein or Dracula. You got it. Frankenstein, okay. Nailed it, 12 million bucks worldwide. Wow. It's not bad by their day terms, but still, wow. Then if you jump to last year, what was 2023s, top horror movie,

grossing horror movie of the year? Of last year. Yeah. This is a little tricky? And is it a true horror film or is it going to be one of those where I like asterisk it? I'm going to say it is a true horror film for those who find the things in it horrifying. Okay. And the reason I say it that way is because personally,

Yeah. Oh, okay. Let's say it's like the... Is it a documentary about the election? No. No. It's a movie with supposedly scary stuff in it. Let's see if the check gets this.

Oh, people are saying Megan in the chat. That seems really good. Was Megan last year? I thought Megan was 22. I thought it was too. I thought 2020 was Megan. So that doesn't count. Oh, yeah, the Five Nights at Freddy's?

God, could that be... Would that have gross that much? No, I would... Ding, you got it. That's it, huh? Yeah, made a lot of money. $293 million for a horror movie that's pretty high. The year before that, smile, year before that, the latest conjure.

I was going to guess Smile. Yeah, smile was awesome. I mean, Barbarium was the better horror movie that year, but I still think smile was really good. And then if I go back to, let's go back to our youth. 1985, what do you think that year? It was a big year for movies. And horror movie, horror movie in 1985. Yeah, and I'll give you a sandwich here.

84 was Gremlin's, 87, I'm sorry, 86 was aliens. What was five? 85. Okay. Oh, interesting. 85. It's a big gap in money made. It's weird.

Like, like way higher than... Way lower. So Gremlins made a ton of money, then this thing did kind of, and then aliens made a ton of money. So 85 was not a great horror year, it turns out. It would have been, what, two or three years into the Friday that they're... Oh, Freddie Krueger Dream Warriors. Let's see if that's correct. Is it Freddie Krueger Dream Warriors?

Where's the fart sound? It was, I wouldn't have got this either. It's Day of the Dead. Oh, really? Okay. Day of the Dead. Yeah, $34 million. Prior to that, though, Gremlins did $212 million. Aliens did 183.

I mean, those are, by today's standards, those are like your top box office getters. Predator was your 87. Dreammaster was actually 88. So you were correct in the pick, just wrong year. Well, Dream Master. Oh, what were you thinking of? I said Dream Warriors. And I'm in Street Street, three Dream Warriors.

It was 87, and I don't know where. Where did that land in the list? It doesn't say, were they really back-to-back that year? You got Dream Master and Dream Warrior one year after. after each other? Geez. Yeah, I don't believe it. I believe it because two was,

first one was 84. Right. That's correct. And so two was 86. He just kept doing them, dude. Look at that. Yeah, it's like Beatles albums. Like,

yeah. What are you doing? Oh, we're filming the next three Nightmare and Old Street films before Heather Langenkemp ages out. Yeah. Now, again, some of these like Constantine's on here, Halloween, or sorry, the Sixth Sense.

I don't know if I'd call Sixth Sense that. That doesn't feel like a horror movie. as far as a horror movie. It's more like a thriller, mystery. Yeah. I guess you see dead people, but come on now. Yeah. All right.

Well. Horror cast a wide net, whereas Brandon would say horror. Horror. Horror. Horror. All right. I'm going to play a call we got, and I want you to help me understand it. Cool.

All right. Because I don't get it. Is this found audio? Is this going to be scary? Is it going to be, uh... I wouldn't call it scary. I would call it confusing, though. Okay, good.

And maybe I'm just, you know, it's a lot. Sometimes you hear a thing and your brain just cannot process whatever the hell it is. Maybe that's just me and you'll suss this out. So here it is. Hey, sightless and blind. I'm about a month behind, but I think it's pretty funny that not too long after some guy wants to or threatens to commit pollution via suicide, you guys spend an entire segment talking about AI generated images on the podcast. Anyway, pretty ironic. Love the show Shmows.

Help me understand the irony. Okay. Yeah, so wait, somebody threatens to commit pollution via suicide. Yeah, or suicide. I assume what he means is suicide via pollution, but I think he went back the other way. I don't know. Like I... But let's say it's either way. And then he says, and then you went on to a bunch of AI stuff. Talk about AI. Yeah, it's a... I don't understand the irony. What is the irony? The person is confused, says Bobby Franks. Dr. Cahoon says meth. I mean, I don't want to, I'm not, I don't want to cast a spursion to this person.

I just don't know what the hell they're talking about. I imagine, I'm sure that, uh, that there was just a point left out of that statement that would have made a, made a lot more sense to us. Yeah. Yeah. So, and I don't remember a conversation about a guy who tried to commit suicide via pollution. What does that even mean? I don't know.

Or, or his suicide would have caused pollution or something? I don't know. Was that what it was? and then maybe AI is, okay, so Dr. Cahoon says maybe it's because it's so much computational stuff used to make AI stuff that that leads to pollution. That's a stretch, man. That is a stretch. It does, I see where you go in Dr. Calhoun.

And every, this is green light thinking here. There are no bad ideas. No. Let's workshop that and come back to us because, man, I still don't get it. Well, whoever you were, they were anonymous, so I don't know who they were. Yeah, give us more. Call back and give us a little bit more because we do, we genuinely do want to know what you what you were referring to yeah and if you drunk or weed called us that's

fine too we don't care you call us in whatever state you're in we don't care uh all right there's that also we got some confirmation on this whole baby why baby's head smell good thing oh yeah uh dr calhoun or sorry dr cowhoun dr jerry tollbert piped in a doctor a carrier of an actual medical license he went to medical school the guy knows his stuff he does know his stuff he said the Baby brain smell is totally made up concept. They smell good because of the stuff we cover them in. Fun fact, newborn babies don't really sweat much at all for the first few months that they're alive. That's why it can be really easy for them to overheat if you swaddle them too tightly or cover them up too much.

They mostly thermal regulate through their breathing, kind of like a dog. Little tiny little pores, you know, in those babies. They don't have big pores yet. By the way, I'm looking at the original text from Dr. Tolbert and this, and you took out Coverville was right. that they smell good because of the stuff we cover them in. You did a little editing on this, Scott. Well, I did that because nobody was, we all were saying that, weren't we? You were saying, uh, you were saying you weren't sure.

No, I did not. I said I 100% called this bullshit. I said from the, from word go. In fact, I've been walking around the house proudly proclaiming what bullshit it was. Okay, you're, okay. Which probably just gave away who told me this. Anyway, somebody in the house. The, the facts were coming from inside the house.

Somebody, I'll just say it, because she said it on a Monday show last night. Carter had a friend at the office tell her this and was convinced of it. And as soon as I... The brains smell good. Yeah, and as soon as I heard it, I went, this is horseshit. This is not true. Anyway, he goes... So this is really just me doing the same thing.

I saw that Coverville is right, and I'm proudly proclaiming it much like... Well, I mean, you were right. I just think we were all right. But anyway, the stinky... The stinky sweat we associate with teenagers is stinky because the bacteria that grows in their particular types of sweat glands. called apocryan sweat glands. Sweat from those glands has a lot more fat content,

which the bacteria chow down on, gross, and quickly multiply as they are digesting the fats. They are releasing a lot of gases that smell bad. So it's essentially bacteria farts that you are smelling when you smell a sweaty teenager. Gross. Man, this is really going deep. Yet another random fact.

It says brains don't really smell especially sweet, especially when you consider the smell of blood to be somewhat sweet. I have smelled quite a few for various reasons across the years, not something I want to do frequently, yeah. I imagine it just smells like iron, like that iron smell that you get from blood. Like copper pennies, you know? Yeah. Gross.

I don't want to hear about, I mean, maybe I do want to hear about some of his experiences, but maybe not all of them. I'd like to find out the best story as to why you smelled a brain. Yeah. Just one, just look at all the different brains you've smelled over the years and said, oh, you know, the third one. I smell, there is a funny story to that. Yeah, I don't need multiples, just one. And why would people think, why would this other idea have come out? Like, why would people think the brain smells sweet

in babies? And because of the thinness. Like, where did that come from? That just seems insane to me. Like, I understand, you're living in the 1800s and I don't know. The goat looks at you funny and you go, I think that goats, the devil, because you don't know any better in the 1800s, right? But in a modern day, who goes, well, I think babies' heads smell good because their brains are coming through the skin. Who says that? I don't know who comes up with that.

They just don't have that filter of their skull. Has it fully developed so the brain smell permeates through the skin and you're smelling a sweet brain. It's freaking foul. All right, you went to your circus deal last night. Yes. Tell us. It actually happened. Help, help.

It's happening. Yeah. Paranormal Cirque. C-I-R-Q-U. all right this thing was was legit incredible like this is this is cirque de solace level acrobatics and feats of strength and feats of skill and things like that that is easily on the level with anything i've seen in a cirque show or in a in a Vegas show the whole thing is presented kind of like a rob-zobie fever dream where it's like you're everybody's wearing black leather and it's all weird and red and black are the only two colors that are used throughout the whole thing. But they've got, you know, they start out with this cube

in the middle of the floor, empty, just the bars. And it's two guys who are walking around like zombies and jump up and basically swing and jump from bar to bar on the cube further distances than you would kind of think

people should be able to do that sort of thing and be able to catch the bar and go over the bar and catch it with their feet and that sort of thing. So by on purpose that stuff. They're not. Oh, yeah, yeah.

On purpose. All right. People doing incredible balancing. There was a motorcycle that rode on a tight wire, a tight wire, a tightrope, with a woman suspended underneath, definitely providing some nice ballast, but still doing balancing acts

while this motorcycle is going back and forth on this high wire. And then at one point, they both spin around the high wire. That's cool. Yeah, yeah. Really, really incredible stuff. This thing is touring weird vertical stripes through the U.S. right now. But if you're on the West Coast stripe or the East Coast stripe or the stripe above Denver and Casper Billings, Edmonton, Red Deer, is really worth checking out.

Is there? There's a lot of overlaps. We still don't know why they did this touring. No idea why they're touring like that, but it's really interesting. But I just noticed that the three tours are going on simultaneously. So you're going to get different acts or at the very least different performers may be doing the same acts. Oh, wild. But it's called paranormal Cirque, C-I-R-Q-U-E.

Tina were both saying this thing would make a killing. in Vegas because there's enough people who want this sort of dark version of Cirque de Soleil that would flock to this thing. Did it feel like it was at the scale of the Vegas ones? Like it's big enough?

Easily. They should do that. Get a residency in there? And enough stuff. I mean, it's a regular... You know, and I watch Fool us all the time. The Penn & Tellers Fool Us.

And I grew up learning magic and that sort of thing. And they did an act. there that I know how they did it but I can't figure out how they did so much of it like they basically had

a woman in a box box opens disappeared like she's gone disappears and it's like all right well there's a bulge and there's like the table is misleading to make it look a lot thinner than it really is it's actually a fairly thick table and she can kind of fit she's a slight

woman and she can kind of fit in that in that hidden thickness of the table and then he pops out and I'm like oh yeah it was pretty cool yeah I know where she was and then another one pops out and then another one pops out and four women pop out of this table wow uh where I was like all right I can see how maybe he's room for one maybe two and we're just figuring that they're like laid in there like a pack of kosher hot dogs and each one as they get out they kind of help pull the other one over to the to the escape hatch So that when he lifts up the blanket, they pop out again.

I would be claustrophobic in there. Yeah, I would do. But it was absolutely, really, really incredible stuff. So go see it if it's coming to your town. ParanormalC.com. Nice. I wonder what it takes to get a Vegas thing. That would be like a casino, a group approach you and say,

hey, we got a opening this year or whatever. We got this room. Yeah, we got, you know, so Katie Perry is leaving. So we've got space for a show and probably, I imagine people, pitch them for residencies at hotels. I imagine they have a, you know, ah, one of the guys from

in sync wants to do a solo tour and Lance Bass wants to once a residency. They probably have a stack of people who've requested residencies are offered and they just basically have to say, all right, how many tickets do we think we can sell to this? Or how about this, this horror cirque show or this, you know.

Yeah. Because isn't that basically what absent is? It's also, you know, body. or whatever, but it's like another one of these kind of things that's just... Very much. Yeah, it's like a, it's like a Cirque show that is kind of like the weirdness of

Moulin Rouge, that weird Baz Luhrmann kind of mindset, but raunchier. And then they've got, I don't know if they still have opium at Cosmo, but that was like a Barabarella-style cirque show from the same guy

as from Spiegel World. Oh, wow. And then they've got a third one at Planet Hollywood. That's something like Something Cowboy. That, yeah, that doesn't give me enough of a... Something Cowboy. Something Cowboy. You lost me at Cowboy. That sounds interesting.

They're making a new Barbarillo movie. Are they? Yeah, with what's her name? Sidney's in it. Oh, Hollywood's current It Girl. Yep. She's all over the place now. And let's see, who's

It was somebody kind of cool directing it. Barabarella remake. Who was this? I wonder if she'll find a way to take her clothes off in this one because you'd think a movie about a nun. You think she wouldn't have to, but apparently there's nudity in her new nun movie. That's right.

Well, plus wasn't, my memory is, what's her beak? Jane Fonda was naked in the Barbarrella deal, right? She was, yeah. Yeah. Let's see. Here it is. who's making this but it was but it was very wasn't it super like

from a distance nudity or there was it felt like there was uh i remember watching it again for film second i can't remember yeah completely faded into my memory oh la serge even nuns are naked sometimes yeah good point that's true some parts of their day i assume yeah uh i don't they don't have a director attached i thought they did so oh well i mean that could be dumb or Great. I don't know which. Probably more dumb than great, but.

I feel, yeah, maybe we just haven't found the right thing for Sidney yet, but she, her comedy, her turn on SNL did not impress me at all. And I'm sure she was great in euphoria. Yeah, she was really good in that. Yeah. Heartbreaking in that. She was one of the better actors in it. Okay.

All right. Let's move on to some news, everybody. Yeah, news. Let's inform and entertain. it's time for the news brought to you by a guy in his imaginary friend take on the finance sector any guesses as to well you're talking about one of my favorite movies i think you're talking about one of my favorite movies i mean if the if the imaginary friend is tyler durden then uh then that's that's what i'm uh that's what i'm going with all right you are correct at his fight club uh seems like an easy one but i liked it so i picked it yeah i have a list of these i'm not making them up i found them somewhere so cool i like it i'm not i'm not going to look for that list i'm having a good time figuring sussing these out so far you're i don't think you've lost one you're like four for four i haven't i haven't done yeah so i'm well done here's a story about uh scientists who kind of screwed up

they made a they made a mistake uh they were supposed to make mice some genetically altered mice and where mice mice mice need to reproduce my nice mice need genitalia they need genitalia Yeah, but they grew legs where that was supposed to be. And that was a mistake. Oops. Yeah, it's not great. If you're the mouse, I guess, it's not great for them. Turning out or turning off a gene early in mouse development led researchers to end up with an accidental six-legged mammal version of the mouse.

Oh, wow. So it grew two legs in place of its, uh, yep. They have a little, they have a little, uh, what do you call it, a, uh, x-ray looking thing? Here, you pull this up. Like an x-ray. What do you call it when you do the woman's, you're checking the baby? Ultrasound. That's what it looks like.

But those highlighted parts are the various legs. Glowing like I'm on the haunted mansion ride at Disney. Yeah. Maybe it looked like a black light would make them even brighter. Yeah, exactly. So the two purple ones are the legs where a penis should be, basically. Yeah. It's kind of a bummer for the mouse, I suppose.

Or I don't know. Maybe this is a whole new way of living. Anyway, says here the strange result took the spinal cord research of developmental biologist, Anastasia Lavoski, and Moses Malo, and their colleagues in Portugal's Kulbikkin, Kulbekiyan, Science Institute. Something like that. Dasmelt chain. It says, I didn't choose the project. The project chose me, says the scientist. The team compared 10 to 17-day-old mouse.

embryos with and without functioning versions of the gene in the question, which is TGFBR1, which codes for the receptor protein by the same name. That contributes to a signaling pathway that gives the forming body its trunk to tail directions. The pathway provides a create a limb here sort of, you know, command. And the external genitals instructions to the developing embryo cells, just like people, like any other mammal. Sure, sure. You're following the little IKEA. instructions inside your body and it's like okay

all right place limbs here yeah yeah and they screwed up those instructions and now this now this poor mouse is walking around on six legs so congratulations spider spider mouse and has no penis so that's good

this mouse has no penis so that's good though won't reproduce and cause you know further harm who knows maybe it you know maybe it operates with finger guns I'd love that That'll be a great follow-up Without getting any further descriptive

Isn't it funny by the way how You look at this mouse embryo on the left In this on this page And It looks like it could be Dog, could be cat Could be tiger, could be Yeah, that could be anything

I don't know that it's a mouse. It could be anything like mammals It's like a potato mammals, they kind of all have a very similar-looking embryo. Yeah. Plus, these are, it looks like to me, they've, the overlay of these brightly colored limbs are actually 3D renders. Yeah. Oh, I'm talking about the, the, oh, down here.

I didn't scroll. Down here. Yeah, yeah, yeah, scroll down a little bit. Oh, yeah, if it wasn't for that tail. If it wasn't for the, well, I mean, you know, still would be, yeah, I guess the tail is, is very mouse-like, but still, I mean. Yeah, it could be a dog. Could be a dog. It's got a very dog-looking face.

Yeah. Or a tiger-licking face. Yeah. Either way, I'd keep it for a pet. Oh, look at this. All these arms on this one. Boy. I didn't see this picture before.

We should see if there's a story behind that. No, I just hadn't scrolled down and seen it. Anyway, that's pretty cool. Telly's here. She could give us any further. Is there anything else we need to know, Talley, about these? I know you. Hers is all brain science, right?

Is there any, uh, she, I thought, I thought it was all brain science for her. But she, but she worked with mice, I think. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Did you guys have, uh, what'd you guys all do with mice? Did you, was it, was it a bad, uh, scene in your PhD, uh, course where you were like, uh, I don't know, wrecking mice like this? Did you put, since it's neuroscience, did you have any limbs where brains should be? Yeah.

Yeah. What did you guys do? Uh, yeah, we want you to type it all out, Talley. That's what we're saying. Yes. Uh, yeah. We ain't got no time for a call. Sorry.

All right. One final note, Chechnya has banned all music that is either too fast or too slow. So, Brian, take your library somewhere else. I'm sure you've got selections. That seems so subjective. Doesn't it, though? Yes. Here's what they say.

The Russian Republic is said to have ruled that all music should, quote, correspond to a tempo of 80 to 116 beats per minute. The culture of ministry made the announcement in a statement earlier. this week, according to the Moscow Times, the new standard of music is relatively slow compared to a lot of modern day pop music and would rule out a number of Western genres from being played publicly in the conservative Islamic society. It says here, the republic's leader, Ramzan Kadaarov, instructed, Ramzan's a great name. Love that. Instructed cultural minister Musa Dadaviev to make Chechen music conform to the Chechen

mentality, he says. Borrowing music culture, musical culture, from other peoples is inadmissible. This ban was reportedly announced following a meeting between the Republic's ministry and local and regional artists. Yeah, I don't like any of that. I don't like that at all. No, no. That's not cool.

So let's see here. All right. Do I have some of these? Can you tell what their beats per minute are? I have, yeah, I have beats per minute plugged into a few songs. So Nirvana's cover of David Bowie's Man Who Sold the World. You know that one? Yeah, I like that one.

I know we're like the, what, 30th anniversary of Kirk Cobain's death. Do you want to guess what the beats permit? Would that be inside or outside this? Let me think. I'm going to say it would fit that it'd be okay. It does fit. 114, though, barely fits. Oh, barely fits.

Okay. Oh, man. Temple Pilots. Yeah. Let's see here. Why is that? That can't be right. Why is that coming up?

Something's wrong here with that. Okay. All right. Let's not do Stone Temple Pilots. Give me somebody else. Let's David Bowie. All right. And we'll give you a song.

China Girl. China Girl. Do I have that one? I do not have the BPM on this one. Yeah, all right. Within or out, in or out of the Chechninean, Chechninean deal. Let me imagine it.

I'm a miss without my little China girl. Wake up in the morning, where's my little China girl? I'm going to guess it is still in the range. It is outside the range. 134 beats per minute. That's a fast one. It doesn't seem like it'd be a fast one, but it is. Yeah, it's hard for me to hear it in my head.

Yeah. Let's try one more. Give me, do you have a copy of, oh, I can't think of a good song that I think is going to be in the middle. This is hard. It is hard. Which is why it's such a stupid law.

Yeah, Love Shack. Oh, Love Shack's got to be out of it. It's got to be too high. Yeah, 132. Oh, same as, beats per minute. It's the same as China Girl? Really? Save as China Girl. That surprises me to hear that, actually. That's funny. Private Idaho, you're living in your own private Idaho. That's a big one. That's a fast 166 beats per minute.

What's the high? Can you, can you sort by highest? Oh, I bet I can. Let's see here. This will be interesting. Um, the highest BPM in my library. Well, this, this is a highly inflated number, I believe. 30,720 per minute. I'm even going to call bullshit on a couple of these because Boulevard of Broken Dreams somehow got clocked in at 200.

I know it's not. It's a slower song, but I think it might be, it looks at the jinnin-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-d that the song begins with and might see that as the speed. I didn't know if that was automatic. or if you had to put it in like metadata or what, like manually? No, it was a, there was a program that I had that I, at the time,

loaded my whole library into so that I could create workout playlists of songs. There were all the same beat. Let's see. When we start getting into the 180s, we've got stuff like leaving on a jet plane but the version by Slightly Stupid, which I believe. is on i totally believe that's 180 beats per minute can't think of that one um let's see because i'm believing yeah but it's the fast one uh trying to find a good like a good popular song here chat's like what's the lowest one i'm sure there's some zeros in there because

they just aren't right well there's some that just don't have a number logged so the lowest one i have logged in here looks like 64 beats per minute oh that seems reasonable um no I guess 60 beats per minute so basically a beat every second

uh zero tools warning from the starcraft two wings of liberty soundtrack oh wow do you have any that are 72 which is exactly my resting heartbeat the greatest love of all by Whitney Houston 60 beats per minute oh wow I have the greatest uh if I uh my

resting heart rate is 72. Do you have anything that's exactly 72? Let me give you a 72, sure. I'll sleep with it. I'll see if I can sleep with it and it'll keep my heart rate the same. Let's see. Lots of lots of 70s. Get me to the 72s. There's the 72s. Okay. Matt about You by Belinda Carlyle.

Oh, okay. I like that. Yep. A girl by the Beatles. I like that song too. Rang drops by basement jacks. Nice. let's see let me find another good one Billy Idol cradle of love

cradle of love is 72 beats per minute Wow Really? We didn't start the fire by Billy Joel Yeah To be 72 beats per minute It claims to be Claims to be

I think that's a faster one Yeah Nah na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na Yeah that's the Here's a song that would not make it in Chechnya That kind of stuff would not make it Definitely would not No

and that's just some AI-created thing. Here's the worst part. That right there? Yeah. Ain't happening. Forget it. It's not going to be, not going to work for your... No, they're going to go full John Lithgow on that.

I guess it's dancing in Lithgow's case, but... Right, yes. They're not going to be happy about it. All right, we are going to take a break, though. When we come back from this break, because today's been full of various bits of trivia, we decided to add one more and have TV's Travis on. He also got a little phone call directed at him, which will play when he gets here but that'll be after this song break speaking of music brian what did you bring for the

middle of the thing here today so uh you remember the film american pie scott they had those uh those basically four friends who were just all trying to i guess get laid i can't remember i think that was the plot of that movie was sure and so you had the main guy right you had that dude who boinked a pie you had stiffler um you had the uh the the jock dude who joins the choir and then you had the fourth dude. Well, that fourth dude is a guy named Thomas Nicholas, and he actually fronts a band as well. He was the little kid in Rookie of the Year. There's another connection, Hollywood connection. He has a brand new album called, let's see, the album is called, or is this just a single? This is just an EP. It's called Wrongside. Just

came out. This is the Thomas Nicholas Band, and this is the title track featuring the early November. Here is Wrongside. I got no place to go Stuck in the loop I wonder if you know What I did to try to satisfy Feed your appetite be what you desire Lie to myself to think that I could push me aside

This would pass a spot And we'd be all right I'm living on the wrong side, start out at the stoplight, when it changes will I let it go? Sink of living on the wrong side, stepping out into new life, I'm only scared because this is all I've known. Letting go Letting go The path in front of me It's filled with falling leaves

It's just so hard to see The fears I had to simplify What I feel inside I'm so terrified Still, I tried to justify how to break the tie, could not say goodbye I'm living on the wrong side, start out at the stoplight When it changes will I let it go Sink a living on the wrong side

Step it out into new life I'm only scared because this is all I've known. I'm letting go. I'm letting go. I'm letting go. I want you to know. It's more than just the words this time. I want you to know.

I'm living. on the wrong side Start out at the stop line When it changes Will I let it go Sick of living on the wrong side Step it out into new life

I'm only scared because this is all I've known I'm only scared because this is all I've known I'm only scared Because this is all I've known. I'm letting go. And we've returned. Tell me more about ex-pie-man, term musician.

Sure. This is the Thomas Nicholas Band from a brand-new EP called Rungside, and that is the title track, featuring the early November. And, yeah, you know, Amy just reminded me, Stiffler wasn't one of the original, like wasn't one of the four. He was this kind of outside character,

which means there are two guys now. I can't remember their deal. This is the dude that I think wanted to get with Tara Reid, if I remember correctly. I think so. He was like the nerdy quieter one, I think. Correct. I think that's the guy. The shortest one of the four.

He's the one that did the terrible thing to the orange juice, if I remember right. And then Stifler got the orange juice. Do you remember this part of the movie? Because I'll never forget. It'll stay with me for all time. Yeah, I remember that somebody did something. Pretty sure it was him. Pretty sure him and Tara Reed did a thing to some orange juice and then Stifler drank it.

Yeah, I think that's right. And then Stifler hurled somewhere. That movie, it's a very uncomfortable film. I don't remember much, but I do remember all that correct. You remember orange juice getting tainted. Yeah, let's call it tainted, is the word. Let's get a non-tainted individual in here. His name is TV's Travis.

He is currently untainted. He is the untainted. And he'll be joining us as I hit his little intro here, which if I could find it, would be great. Where is it? This is Travis, and you'll do well to listen carefully to what he has to say. Hello, Travis. What's up, man?

Oh, just another day in paradise with the sun out all day instead of being covered part way through it. Oh, well, that's, you could have used that today, then yesterday, you know, flip it, you know, and then yesterday you'd have had a better look at that, uh, at the big moon deal, the moon sun deal, you know? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it would have been, uh, that would have been way cool. What part of the, I always forget what part of the country are in. What state are you in?

I'm in Michigan. Michigan. Did Michigan have a decent view if the clouds weren't there? Actually, yesterday wasn't too bad. We only got to like 88% coverage. So it was just sort of twilight around 3 o'clock in the afternoon, which is eerie. It is eerie, right? It's cool, though. I like it. Yeah. That's not really cool. 66% here and got a little, little twilighty, but not quite as twilight as you got. We didn't have sparkly vampires level of twilight. No, no. I hope not. The 2017 one was like that. It just kind of changed the atmosphere.

for a little while and that was really cool I could have used more of that well anyway good day of here oh I saw something interesting yesterday I put it somewhere I think I put it in Discord anyway let's see if I can find it real quick somebody had done a check on Google Trends

yesterday and at about let's see the same time of day I don't have the exact same time of day here but there are two search phrases that showed up that have been kind of just down here at the bottom forever and never never and then shot up.

Both these things just went fling into the sky. One was my eyes hurt and why do my eyes hurt? Oh, no. There's no way that that's, you know, like an anomaly. That had to have happened

because of either dumb people or those glasses didn't work or something or people got cheap ones. They were probably, yeah, they probably got ones that weren't ISO certified lenses and cheese. I mean, that's, why do my eyes hurt?

Yeah, what's going on? It's strangely happened as soon as I looked at the sun, but I can't find any sort of correlation. Yeah, it's like there's another great one of these happened once when somebody gathered reviews on Amazon right around the time that COVID hit. There were people on their, on candle reviews saying, I can't smell your candle. I'm returning it, or this is the worst candle I ever bought because they couldn't smell it. If Paul Trow, this candle does not smell like. Yeah. So there's that.

Maybe not a bad thing. Yeah, yeah. Well, anyway, it's good to have you here. We're going to do like we do every month with Travis. He's going to throw some questions at us and see how we do. Travis, take it away. What's our, what's our, oh, I've got to play your call. Let me play this call.

Oh, okay. This is for you. I thought it was interesting. Here you go. Hey, guys. I was a great episode with TV's Travis. I was calling to ask all of the questions were centered around individuals who are African-American.

Was this done on purpose or was this just a coincidence? If it was done on purpose, that's really cool. If it was a coincidence, then that's cool as well. Seeing how it's Black History Month. So just wanted to call and, yeah, get your thoughts on that question and great show today. So how did that go last month during Black History Month? I guess it had been February, right? It would have been February, yeah.

And, yeah, Collar nailed it. It was definitely on purpose. Yeah. Yeah. It was one where he asked about, I think, what, Lawrence Fishburn and. We had In Living Color, we talked about the show, Denzel Washington, Spike Lee, Sidney, Poitier. So I'm really glad that someone picked up on that,

because I do try to come up with something themed for my categories and my answers every month. Nice. Um, I like that. So it's, it's fun when somebody picks up on that. Last month's, by the way, um, had to deal with because I was going to Adepticon. I tried to theme it around Warhammer type stuff or springtime. One of, one or the other.

How'd that go? We had event horizon and, and, uh, Highlander, yeah. How, how'd it go at the, at the con? Was that cool? A lot of Warhammer craft. Oh, it was so much fun. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I played, I played the first games of 40K I've ever played, so. Oh, cool. Nice. But yeah, it was, uh, it was a ton of, uh, it was a ton of fun i'm uh i've already got stuff planned and um working on for next year and uh and i can't wait

it's funny people think of warhammer and they're like oh it's just you just move you guys around you take your turns but there's like you got measuring tapes and it's not like it's not like a simple grid where you're like well i need to move three spaces right there's no such thing it's like we got to get around this mountain or around this volcano and you can only move so much during a turn and you got to like measure that shit it's crazy to me watching people play out yeah yeah It's cool, though. Yeah, it really, really is. I mean, the friendly tournament that I did was a little more lax, which is fine for me.

But you get into some of those hardcore tournaments, and it's like down to the quarter inch they're measuring and making sure it's just crazy. Your bullet would reach and then just drop because it's not quite far enough for your bullet to reach. Yeah, the video games, the video games do it different, but there's one game, one of the video games called, shoot. forgot the name of it it's real good though and they try to adhere to that method of play so most of the Warhammer games they'll give you grids and you know they kind of make it

gamey they gamify it but this one cannot remember the name of it but it's... Is it the newer one? Rogue Trader? Not Rogue Trader, no that's more like an RPG you know, Boulder's Gate style this is more like not Mechanicus. Can I remember it

but you basically play it like a real Warhammer game and the distances are all done by measurement. There's no grid to anything. It's really good. And I cannot remember the name of it. It's on Game Pass. It's not Tacticus. Shit. I can't remember it. Anyway, I'll try to think of it before the end of the show.

Well, Travis, let's get to today's thing. What are you going to do for us? All right. So, as always, we're going to do five rounds. Best of five between Scott and Brian. I will give you a category and what your clues will be. You will bid on how many clues it will take you. And

this month, we're going to start with Brian. You get the first bid. Our first round is a director. And we're going to go by titles that this director has done. So a list of movies named the director. This is where Scott excels. And I,

so I kind of want to play it. Force him into an aggressive play. Sure. No, I totally get it. I'm going to say three, three movies. Three. All right. Three movies. Scott, can you do it in less than three? I mean, I feel like with directors, if you know who directed a movie in that movie happens to be in your list, then you don't need more than one. That's true. Yeah. I'm going to go for it. Let's try two.

I'm going to try in two. Okay. Two. So, Scott, here are your titles. Yeah. The Informant. The Liny. Michael Mann Michael Mann No Incorrect The informant's not What am I thinking of

Shit Incorrect You just watched Limey too didn't you No I've seen Limey Oh shit I have seen that

Yeah that's where I realized what happened The Informant What am I thinking of With Michael Mann The smoking one That was the one You're thinking of Matt Damon right

No The informant Russell and Matt Damon, you're thinking of the insider. Oh, the insider is what I'm thinking of. Because he informed on the freaking the smoke, the tobacco industry, and Russell Crow was in it, and Al Pacino, and oh my gosh. All right. Sorry, I screwed that up.

Big old fart for me. I really hope he could accidentally give me some more information to help me. All right, the informant and the limie? Yeah. Oh, I got nothing. That had Miles O'Brien in it, the Limey. Did it? Yeah.

Was he the titular limie? No. No, but he was very good in it. It was good. Very Irish in it. Yeah, because he's Irish. Yeah. Not one of them stinking lymies.

No. Crap. I'm not going to be able to come up with anything. I'll say Guy Ritchie just to move us along even though I know 100% that that's not a guy Neither of those are Guy Ritchie films Correct, neither of them are The director you're looking for is Stephen Soderberg

Oh, Soderberg! Hold on, didn't he do a whole, he did a whole trilogy of those lines The Limey's part of a three part, not three part, three, it's like a trilogy, right? Like the Coronado trilogy, not really connected, but I thought there was. Maybe. I might be confusing that with a whole third director as far as I know. Could be. A couple others he did that were on my list were Haywire. Yeah. Magic Mike. Yeah.

Logan Lucky and then of Oceans 11. Yeah, I would have gotten. Logan Lucky, it would have probably got me. I would have gotten that. Yeah. It wouldn't have gotten to Oceans 11 before I would have been able to like sex lies and videotape. And that on the list. I always forget Magic Mike was his. That always throws me. I completely forgot it was his when I was making the list up. I did too. Yeah, that does not seem like a style. All right. Well. all right okay good start no one takes round one round two scott you get to do the the start our bidding we are looking for a movie title based on the cast movie title based on the castors not characters you're going to give us actors and you're going to give how many actors are you going to give or is that the is that the question how many actors that's what you're betting on okay that's how the game works scott i thought it was like sets of actors you know like you'd say someone I don't These three people?

Or is these three? That's what I thought you were going to do. Okay. Oh, gosh. I'll say, I'll say four. Four? Okay. Four.

All right, Brian, you think you can do it in fewer than four? I'm going to try three. I'll take three. Okay. Three actors. So here you go, Brian. Here. Your three cast members. He gets to counter, though, doesn't he? Oh, Scott, do you think you can do it in two? No, I think Brian should try it in three.

Okay, Brian would try in three. Here are your three. James Woods, Alan King, shit. And Kevin Pollock. Damn it! I know this.

Okay. It's coming to Scott before it's coming to me. So James Woods, Alan King, Paulick, yeah, yeah, yeah. Kevin Pollock. Kevin Pollock. It's that. that uh cats uh it's the anthology the stephen king uh james woods is trying to stop smoking allan king

is the the guy who's going to help him stop smoking i don't remember kevin pollock in this but um is it called cat's eye cat's eye cat's eye incorrect it is casino it is casino oh okay the alan king part's one that got me i couldn't remember kevin pollock for sure i was like a little iffy on Kevin Pollock, but the other two. Alan King and James Wood's definitely in Cat's Eye, but apparently, yeah, not Kevin Pollock would have been 18 or something, probably. It would have been way too easy to do, you know, Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci, Robert D. Yeah, of course.

Yeah. And for full disclosure, I saw Casino not even a month ago, just, just a rewatch, yeah, because I just love that movie, so almost not, almost not fair. I don't think, well, no, I mean, fair is, you know, it's not like Travis said, Oh, Scott's seen Casino. Let's do that one. Dang it. All right.

So we're one nothing in favor of Scott moving into round three, which is our musical round. Oh, good. Well, I'm screwed. So, Brian, you get to start the bidding on this round for a song. I have clips of 2, 4, 8, 10, and 13 seconds. Okay. So if I say 4 and Scott says 2, I can't, I can't counterbid because there's nothing.

There's nothing below that, yeah. So I'm going to just, I'm just going to say two seconds. Two seconds? All right. Two seconds. I'm going to say, name that thing. There's no way I'll do it. Brian, here are your two seconds of this song.

It's Frank Sinatra. Luck be a lady. That is correct. Gosh, dang it. I even knew that one. Now I also get the theme here that we got going today. Uh-huh, yep. Got a real Vegas theme happening.

A little Vegas theme. I wonder why. Why Vegas? I can't imagine where that would come from. Yeah, weird, man. Weird. Nicely done. Geez, that ties us up then?

That's good. That ties it up. One-one, moving into round four. Oh, gosh. Round four will be Scott starting the bidding. We're looking for an actor. we're going to go based on titles of movies this actor was in.

Okay. I can do it in... I can do it in... I can do it in four. Four? Okay. Four, Brian. I'll try three.

He's going to try three. Scott, you can go for two or make Ryan, guess it in three. So my original strategy was, if he says three, I can still do two, but now I'm scared. Now that we know the theme, I'm going to attempt two. I'm going to try. It's the only shot. You've got a category, yeah.

Sure, sure. That's good game theory. All right. Scott, here are your two titles. King Creole, GI Blues. Something just fell. Okay, give me those titles One more time

King Creole G.I. Blues. Shit. This is an actor. These are movies? Yes. Those are movies. Oh, G.I. Blues.

This is some old 50 shit. That is, uh, um, Damn it. That's got to be, that's Elvis, Elvis, Presley, Presley, Elvis. That is the king, Elvis. I was really hoping I got him on this one. Oh, wow. I could hear Brian, you picked it up right away.

As soon as he said GI Blues, I'm like, oh, I don't think he's going to get this. You know what? That's a brilliant question, because in my head I'm thinking, how is that casino related? Neither of those movies have any casino relation. And one of them I don't even know, like the GI or the other one that's not GI-I-Bloos. King, King Creole. Yeah, I didn't know what that is. But then GI Blues, he always did this thing where he was like in the army, playing music.

Elvis connected to Vegas. Boom. All right. Does that mean I win? No, that's round four. We've got one more round. Brian can tie it forcing us to study. All right, all right.

So, Brian, you're going to start the bidding. Round five is a TV show. We're going to go with cast members of the TV show. Okay. These are the actors, not the characters, right? Yes, actors. Cast members, yeah, cast members of the TV show. I will say, I really want to crack at this.

So I'm going to say, I can still do two. I'm going to say three. Three? All right. Scott, you want to try and steal it for two and seal the win? Not that there's any pressure. Well, game theory-wise, if I don't do that, then I'm counting on Brian getting it wrong and then me guessing it right.

So I'll say I can do it in two. All right? It doesn't mean I will, but I'd say it. Brian, you could steal it and try to get it in one. Try to get in one? No, I don't think I'm going to do it. I think there are a lot of TV shows that one person could have been in. Yeah, you're not wrong there.

All right. All righty, Scott, here are your two actors that were in this TV show. James Kahn Oh Josh Juhamel Las Vegas Las Vegas Yeah

Laura Flynn Boyle Get blown off the roof Of a casino I was really hoping That I'm not going to lie to you In my head I was like I hope this is Las Vegas Because I know a lot of those actors

I was thinking the same thing I was like it's going to be Las Vegas or CSI Or maybe what was the one I did look at CSI for sure what was the one the man called hawk was a spin on oh um casino or i mean just straight Vegas yeah i was thinking either that or las Vegas or um you know something like damn it so james con would have been the one like if you would have if i would have said one you

would have said james con and based on the theme i could have gotten it in one because he did very little that guy did very little television and so he really did yeah so i if you said to me hey scott how many shows has he been in it so i know about las Vegas and that's all i'd know about that guy sure okay I feel like I got the lucky stick there on that one nice job well done

you did you did but uh no that's to give Scott the win here which I think ties us up I think that is uh yeah my memory is that Brian was ahead as of last time so we are now tied yep it is tied 2-2 after four quizzes

in 2024 that means may we'll be the big month could you make it all uh two second song clips for me thank I'm so bad at those. Getting that in two seconds. I'm so bad. Like, I knew that that was Frank Sinatra,

but I would have never gotten to luck be a lady. I just wouldn't have done it? And he's enough of a connection to Vegas that he's already in the theme. He's already, yeah, well, and there's other casino or gambling-related Sinatra songs, I think. Yeah. Yeah, there's a few of them. That's sad one he does.

We just watched 2049 again, and they have a hologram of them singing, I forget what it is It's flyed me to the moon Isn't it in that one? No, it's where he goes like You're sitting there Something something It's a real lazy like

Everything's closed I'm smoking loungy Oh yes One for my baby That's it Yeah yeah yeah See I'm so bad I wouldn't have remembered that

And I just watched it So yeah Brian excels of the music stuff Well Travis that was awesome And I do look forward to seeing you and your luscious beard coming up here in a few weeks. Yeah, just a couple weeks away. Yeah.

You excited? Are you pumped? I'm real excited, yeah. I've got some projects I'm working on to bring with me, or a project to bring with me. We'll see if I can get it done in time. And I've got, I'll have a present. Actually, I'll have presents from somebody for both of you. Oh, wow.

Tonight. Okay. All right, then. Well, look at you. Yeah, I feel so bad because we've got so many people now, regular, TMS regular. who are going to be in Vegas. Bill's coming, you're coming. And I want to figure out a way to say,

all right, we're going to make Taskmaster eight people this year. But there's no way I'd have the time or that, you know, KT Data and Hammond and Ducey would have the time to like do the editing and stuff. So I'm going to figure out a way, TV's Travis, for 2025 to incorporate you and Bill into Taskmaster somehow. Nice. Why did we just finally get rid of Wendy?

Yeah, just kick her right out. Yeah, freaking screw her. What is she doesn't know anything. thing. Well, that's great. I love that idea as well. Travis, have a safe time before we see you and look forward to him. Make your beard blue so that's what I remember. All right? So the prophecy can finally come true. Yeah, I need this all to be true eventually. Well, there you go. That is Travis. Big thanks to him again for being part of this today. And we are done. There's not a lot to tell folks about except a new Monday show went up last night. And let's see, we've got, um,

Oh, today's actually nothing. I have an appointment today with a doctor. I hope it goes well. Just a follow-up, yeah. Cool. It should be pretty simple, I hope. So, yeah, nothing big there. You got anything coming up today?

Anything publishing on feeds or anything? Let's see. I don't know if we've got a soundography coming out today. We might. I have to check and see if we're ready for me to post the next one. I think I could do a stream. I might do a little Melanium Falcon stream, which is really, I mean, if there's anybody watching this to learn how to build a Millennium Falcon,

they're really going to the wrong place, they're listening, or they're watching to hear me talk about everything that I can talk about while I'm building, because I don't want any dead air. So it's really just like a stream of consciousness, me talking during the whole, nothing wrong with that. The whole building process. Nothing wrong with that. That's ASMR for somebody. Millennium Falcon therapy is what it is.

Yeah, some Millennium ASMR Falcon Therapy. Get in there. There you go, exactly. That's it for the rest of the show. Don't forget to check out our website. It's got links to everything we got going on. There are still a few tickets left for Vegas. If you are interested, there's links there.

There's links at V-V-TMS, Vegas. All of that is at your fingertips if you just get on there and declare your ownership of said ticket. All right. So go check it out. Available now at Viva. TMSVegas.com. And like I said, all else is at frogpans.com slash TMS.

We're going to take our leave with a song at the end. Brian, take it away. Katie Fisk wrote in and said, hello, sweethearts and bottle caps, two of my favorite Wonka candies. I think both. Oh, no, Sweethearts is not made by Wonka, but bottle caps, I think is.

April 6th is the birthday. We missed a couple days of my amazing fiancé, Dave. We're getting married on July 5th, and I thought I'd do a double dedication in honor of his birthday and our upcoming wedding. We met at a swing dance in 28, and fell in love so quickly our friends and family were worried we were going to run off in a lope.

Now our non-eloping wedding is coming up, and I can't wait to start the next chapter of our forever lives together. Dave is the best dance and life partner I could ever have asked for and could never have imagined. In honor of all things, Dave, could you please play a cover of either dance with me by Philip Phillips or shut up and dance by Walk the Moon? Both songs are going to be used in our wedding. Thank you. And can I get a cover of the original honk? Oh, you want the cover, do you? She wants the cover, I guess, so...

Here it is. There it is. It still resonates. I did a cover of the cover. I did the cover of the Jimmy Hendricks version of all along the watchtower instead of covering the original. Ah, gotcha. All right. Walk the Moons, shut up and dance.

I love that song, and I love this cover of it. This is by Matt Johnson. It's an acoustic version that he recorded for Live Lounge over there in the Beebe. 2016, this version came out. Here's Matt Johnson, not the one. one from The The, and also not Scott Johnson's brother, but a whole different Matt Johnson altogether doing Shut Up and Dance. Oh, don't you dare look back.

Just keep your eyes on me. I said, you're holding back. She said, should up and dance with me. This woman is my destiny. She said, ooh, who, shoot up and dance with me. We were fake. dims off the night The chemical, physical

Krypton night A helpless to the base And the fading light Oh, we were bound to get together, found to get together She took my arm I don't know how it happened We took the floor

And she said Well don't you dare look back Just keep your eyes on me I said you're holding back She said shoot up and that's you me. This woman is my destiny. She said, ooh, who, shut up and dance with me. One backless dress and some beat-up sneaks. My discotheque, Juliet, teenage dream, I felt it in my chest as she looked at me. I knew we were bound to be together, bound to be together. She took my arm. I don't know. I don't know

how it happened we took the floor and she said well don't you dare look back just keep your eyes on me I said you're holding back she said shut up and dance with me this woman is for destiny she said whoo-hoo shoot up and dance with me Deep in her eyes, I think I see a future, I realize, this is my last chance. She took my arm, I don't know how it happened. We took the floor and she said, well, don't you dare look back, just keep your eyes on me. I said you're holding back. She said, shoot up and that's with me.

This woman is my destiny. She said, ooh, who, shoot up and dance with me. Shut up and dance with me. Should up and dance with me. Should up and dance with me. Get more at frogpants.com. Thank you.