The Morning Stream - TMS 2658: Midnight Duds

Episode Date: June 11, 2024

Brilliant at night, stupid in the morning. I don't like Judgemental BEEEEEEEEES. You'll have no honey, no wax, and NO LT YAR! The only thing to sphere is sphere itself! Disorganized Retail Theft. Hit 'Em At Dusk! I'll kill the wasps but I ainât cleaning the windows. MacOS Fresno. We Are All Encino Men Now. LEGO of my LEGO. Dookie Of Hazard. Hornets, spray and pray. McSpacenstein. Time Rice Cooker. 3 to 7 business days with Amy and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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It's the morning stream for Tuesday, January. Nope, June. I looked at the J and got confused. June 11th, 2024. I don't know how. It gets confused with July. Like if there's anything, you're going to get confused. with. Yeah, I know, right? Plus, it's 100 degrees yesterday or something. I'm pretty sure it's not

January around here. Uh, anyway, it's me, Scott Johnson. Brian Dibbitt over there. Hi, Brian. Good morning. Hello. Well, hello. Yeah, nice to see you. I did that thing again last night where I woke up in the middle of the night, thought I had a really great cartoon idea, wrote it down. I've done this two nights or every other night. This has been happening. Wrote it down, got up this morning, 6.30 or so, looked over, saw my note and how stupid it was. It was so stupid that there's no way. I'm not drawing that shit. Forget it. I'm not even going to tell you guys what it said. It was so dumb. But why are things so brilliant at 1.30 in the morning and so dumb when you get up? That's really funny. So you're not going to do the Jerry thing and tell everybody, what is this made?

I wrote this down, this joke down in the morning and I don't know what it means. Unfortunately, I know exactly what it means and it's dumb. It was so dumb. It's just not funny. It's not funny at all. Like there's been times where I've gotten some decent ideas in the middle of the night, but not this one. This is terrible. So forget that. I'm going to stop writing them down and like, well, you know what, I'll keep writing them down and then in the next day I'll keep deciding what to do. It's fine. Absolutely. Absolutely. What are you going to do? All right. It's a new show, new day. It's a Tuesday. We got all kinds of shit to talk about. I don't know if you heard it yesterday. We're not going to get into all the details because, you know, go watch it yourself,

but Apple had their big WWDC event yesterday. I watched it. Brian watched it. There were some moments of interesting. And for the most part, it's exactly what I thought they were going to do with the AI thing. They were going to tell you all the ways their products were going to have a bunch of secure AI stuff in them. They weren't going to try to change the world. They just kind of want you all to use their devices and use their AI tech. And I love, I, I, I, I, I, I, I like their approach to security and things like that. So that all rings. Keep it within the, you know, instead of having you go out to the AI,

it basically brings the AI to your device. Yeah, it's all on device, which everybody had predicted they were going to do that, which makes sense. It's a little bit of a bummer. If you have an iPhone 14 of any ilk, you will not be able to use these features, many of them. And that's just last year. That's the sad thing. It's like...

Well, two years now, I guess, right? Two years ago, right. Yeah, that's true. But still, I thought the 14 was going to be okay, but the A17 chip needs to be that or greater. Anything with an M1 and forward on the Mac and iPad side, it's fine. So that's good. That's a good five-year, four-and-a-half-year coverage there. I do think they should have figured out a way to make the phone.

Well, whatever. And also, none of these are that groundbreaking. It's basically just like, oh, Siri might work now. and be decent so that's cool after 14 years of existing we're going to make Siri usable and the rest of it's fine none of it really jumped out at me

and made me go ooh I'm curious to see what people do with it the whole writing doing math is cool that's cool I don't I can't think of the last time I needed to do that sort of thing but it's it's one of the scenes like

oh check this out look what I can do Oh, really? When did you use that last? Oh, I don't use it. Yeah. I'm probably barely ever going to use that that I can think of. There was one that I remember seeing that I was really excited about. It was like, oh, that's cool. I mean, calculator finally is nice to actually have a calculator on the iPad. Yeah. I've been using third-party calculators. I have two. I forget that you don't even have one because I've been using somebody else's for so long. It didn't matter. Yeah, but I'm using a free version of it, and it's like it's a calculator with ads on the bottom or ads.

every time you do a you do a you get like an ad for just doing like a use like something like that yeah let me see which one I'm using it's to the point where if I'm in front of my phone or my computer as well as my iPad I'll do it on the I'll do it on the computer more than anything else if my phone's with me I'll do it on the phone rather than do it on the iPad yeah um it is calculator period like calculator dot dot dot like brother dot like my nephew's band brother dot yes Like Brother Dot. Yep, exactly. That's great.

Try free for three days. So apparently I haven't even used it since I've upgraded my iPad. Oh, did 18 hit yet? We have to wait until it's just beta right now, right? Oh, yeah. Yeah, it's in its developer beta right now. It's not even user beta. But Barry, Barry's been using it.

No surprise. Barry's been using it. Barry loves to get on there. And he says it's actually pretty solid. I do have a developer account because I had a Coverville app for quite a while. So I might consider putting it on something, but I don't want to break. Listen, if I break my Marvel Snap or my Star Wars Hunter's functionality, then that's it. Then forget it.

Forget your beta Apple. Yeah. Because those are the two things I'm using on my iPad probably more than anything else right now. Do you have to pay for that every year, the developer access stuff? Yeah, 99 bucks. Well, it's not bad. No. And I'm still, and I'm going to say I'm working on another app.

I've got the idea in my head and the UI in my head for this other app, and I just need to freaking build it. And I found, it's really funny. Somebody actually used ChatGPT to build a Swift app. And I'm kind of thinking, wouldn't mind trying that with this and see how far I can get. Go for it. I watch somebody in 10 minutes make a breakout clone on GPT. Oh, yeah.

They just sat down and just started talking to it and said, all right, I want these blocks to be this color and they need to move like this. And all this code just going and before they were done, they compiled it and ran it and it was a damn video game. It's crazy. Yeah. They made a weed joke is the reason I brought this up. Okay. All right. And I wanted to share it because I think a lot of people missed it.

All right. So Apple, they're in California, California. It is legal to have recreational weed. so I assume this is much more okay there but Ken or Ken Craig Federigi made a weed joke and I'd like to share it with you Brian would you like to hear his weed joke? I'd love to hear it please.

Here is his weed joke that most people missed. That brings us once again to the annual escapades of our legendary crack marketing team. Distracted briefly from their marathon hacky sack session they stumbled into their minibus and wove a trail toward the Sierras eventually rolling to a stop in a beautiful national park

staring skyward up the towering trunks surrounding them they felt a deep kinship with anything that could get that high Oh I see what you did That did go right past me because I was still chuckling about the hacky-sac session

because that's all I'm picturing people inside the giant spaceship, Apple spaceship campus thing just a bunch of guys playing hacky-sac We need to figure out what you know what national landmark ios 18 is going to be yeah yeah no kidding so that so the consistent thing they've been doing with the recent releases they stuck with another california landmark and uh i'm starting to wonder when they run out so when do you start doing

san fernando valley or freaking mohollen drive yeah or baker's field or something iOS fresno everybody yeah i don't know i don't know i don't know when they run out maybe they never run out. It's a big state. There's a lot there. We're really excited to introduce iOS 23, Vacaville. Yeah, maybe don't. Maybe that one, not so much. Not so much. Yeah. Encino. That'd be cool. I'd use MacOS Encino's not bad. Yeah. Yeah, we'd all be Encino men then. Yeah, but that made me laugh because, you know, that was clearly a weed joke and I don't think a lot of people heard it. Yeah, no, that's great. I need some advice. chat room and brian give me your advice lend me your ears here's my problem sure sure i have a hornet's nest

that has begun in our backyard it is up on uh up on a window well above a window but on like a rain gutter ledge and it is growing loss yeah a little mud wasp thing it's getting bigger every time i look up there the little ball has grown yep and uh more you know i see more buzzing around it that sort of thing and uh my first inclination was let's get one of those long sprayer things. But the problem with that is where it's located, it will get all over my windows and all over the place. Now, that's not...

You can watch the windows. That's true. I can wash the windows. But here's the question. It's either that. So that's option number one. Perfectly reasonable option. Option number two is I see this in videos all the time

and I wonder if it's, you know, maybe I should do this. Because either way I'm going to have to go, either I go, psh, and run away. Or I take a rake and I rake it off of there and run. away. No, you don't, you don't rick. Here's what you do, because we've had these before we get them every couple of years. You spray, but you do it at dusk because that is when they're the least active. Okay. Like, just as the sun's going down, you, you hit that thing and, um, you still, you know, is it a temperature thing? Or is that why you do it? I think it's just that their bodies that

they go, they go pollinating or, or really, I guess they're wasps. So what do they do? just sting people. It's their only purpose. Eat and sting people. Yeah, you hit them at night. Or you hit them at dusk. Okay. Yeah.

Okay. And yeah, you know why you see all those videos of people with a rake? Because they always end with the thing not landing in the trash can that they think they've got strategically placed. Or the person with the lid for the trash can puts the lid on too fast and it ricochets off or something like that. That's why you see all those videos because mishaps happen with the rakes. I mean, my thinking was it would just fall to the ground and then I would run and then I would go out there again 15, 20 minutes later when they've all calmed down and then there might be a few buzzing around the little husk, but then I could get in there, you know, smush any onlookers and toss that thing and then I don't have to worry about the windows. But I think you've convinced me. I think I'd rather just spray that shit.

Who cares about the windows? Oh, my gosh. I don't know. It's extra work. It's just more work. spray is going to get on my windows. It's just more work. I don't want to go, look, I already got to kill wasp, but I got to go clean the windows? What, hey, what kind of schedule to be people think I have over here? You can spray,

you can just wash the window from a distance with the hose. That's all you need to do. Oh, I thought it was like stuff that would stick and get no, gosh, no, no, it's like a foam kind of thing. Kay Katsumi also brings up the other point that I forgot is that dust catches most of them in the hive. They'll like relocate to the hive

as the sun starts going down. so that's another good reason to hit that thing then. Oh, I see, because they're all coming home. Yeah, exactly. From their long day of... From their long day of being dicks. Yeah, their long day of utter bullshit that they're up to. Exactly.

All right, well, that's happening today. We're getting rid of those. Cool. Yeah, get that good... There's like a raid hornet spray that we use that just does the job, gets a puppy kitty trot says genocidal massacre tips yeah you know what if they want to be left alone go go the forest go into the mountains there's lots of mountains here in colorado go there totally leave that'll be your place this is my place yeah when you start squatting on my

property on my territory you break the covenant you break the agreement that we have that's right Speaking of bugs, Kim brought home from Mississippi some cicada husks. Oh, those are so cool. Yeah, when they mold, they leave like a full-on exoskeleton. It looks like a, yeah, it just looks like a cicada. You wonder how the hell they get out of that thing. Yeah, somehow she flew home with those. I don't know how she did it without breaking them, but she did.

Exactly. Yeah. So we got those here now. But yeah, we're done. Look, if you had talked to Carter, she thinks that after this life, we're going to have to face a panel of super bees. It's going to be our, right, we're basically going to be facing the tribunal. Yeah, yeah.

We're going to have to stand with our, you know, in our shackles and answer for our crimes against the apian world. Yeah, and they're going to be giant judgment bees that are floating there with their stingers out going, you have been found guilty of genocide of the worst order. What do you say for yourself? Yeah. uh well i'd much rather still i would still kill you if i could if i had a canterate here right now sir i would shoot you in the face exactly let he who's without a stinger cast the first stone i say you have been condemned now to be hell where you'll be stung every five minutes for the rest of eternity that's what's going to happen and that's fine it'll be uh uh you're going to be in be hell which is pretty much like heaven except there's no honey so good luck no honey to put in your tea yeah no honey Honey grams. Nope. Sorry.

No more honey. Yeah. That's how they get you. Yeah. You know what? I think I'm okay with that. I've had honey in a long time. I'm right with it. I'll stop having honey. It's fine. It's kind of gross anyway. We're eating all this like yellow goo that came off of the ass end of a freaking bee. What are we doing anyway? What are we doing? like honey think about it like milk kind of gross out of a cow's utter if you think about it too much you're like oh what are we doing here that's mother's milk from a cow why are we drinking that there's other things like that to eat we're like oh that's weird I can't believe we eat that honey like I know it's sweet all right and I know it lasts a long time but it's coming off the ass and a bees you're eating bee ass don't they puke it I thought they puke honey Worse even then.

Worse. It ain't getting better with the truth. You know what I mean? Yeah, honey is bee vomit. Yeah. Gross. That is so gross. Why do we eat that?

All right. Let's move on. It is delicious. It is delicious. Give me some of that sweet, sweet bee vomit. All right. So I'm doing spray and prey instead of rake and run. Those are my two options?

100%. Okay. All right. Yeah. 100 times out 100. That's what you do. Spray from a distance. Do it at dusk.

Big long sleeve shirt. Yeah. Lung pants wouldn't hurt. Maybe tuck your, tuck the, uh, the bottom of your, um, your pants into your socks. Yeah. Got to go full, uh, full hazmat suit if I had one. No, full hazmat suit, sure. Yeah.

You know, you don't need to go ahead and get one of those hats that's got a little, uh, net around it, but, um. True. True that. But, you know, have a, have an exit strategy. What's the, have the, the door opens or you're not banging on it like George Jetson trying to get into the, uh, I don't know, I guess it's Fred Flintstone that was trying to get into the house after the saber two, tiger those two those two did shit that I mix up all the time right yeah now George George Jetson got stuck on the the the treadmill the space the space treadmill where he's like jane stop this crazy thing yep and he's mad at the because the dog did it right I think didn't the dog Rastrow did Rastrow did Rastrow did it I think Rastrow started running on it made it

spin too fast or something like that and then and then the kid Elroy he's yelling for Elroy to stop it or I don't but the deal is. But here's the thing. I'm going to say a controversial thing about the Flintstones. Oh, no. The Jetsons, the Jetsons is just a DLC skin for the Flintstones. Oh, yeah, of course it is. It was never anything more than that. They just have some modern, they have some futurism tropes. Yeah. But it's the same damn cartoon. They are absolutely, okay, I thought you're going to say something controversial, but no, that's exactly what they are.

It's basically like, instead of, you know, Newt, well, as you see, Newt Rockinney, but that's a real guy. McRockenstein, it's McSpacenstein is basically, you know, we just figure the word space or comet or Cosmo or whatever. Dino is a dog instead, it's Astro. Right. Who is this? Did he have a friend like Barney? That's the only thing I can't think of. Did he have a buddy like that?

Oh. I don't think he did. I don't think he did. It was more about family stuff. Nobody that was like Fred and Barney. Like, no, nobody's as close as that. No, it's always like that. You know, he worked for Spacly Sprockets instead of

who was at the quarry that he worked for, that Fred Flintstone worked for? Mr. is like Stone. Mr. Slate, that's it. Yeah, and Spacely, it was, of course, Spacely. Spacely Sprockets. It's so dumb.

Most of their storylines are around the daughter trying to go out and have fun and be with her friends 50s style. Right. And then she submitted that song to Zip Rocker. No, what was it? It was. It was. It was Epe Op, Ork, uh-uh. Which the violent films covered really, really well, by the way.

Eap-op-Ork-A-A-A-A-W-E-Up-O-Rq-A-A, and that means I love you. I don't think I've heard that. Zip-Dash, dash, Rip Rock. Thank you. Matuba dash riprock. Yeah, we learned a lot from the Jetsons. Also, we got this message from Frost, Minnesota. Frost Minnesota wrote in, it says,

listening to TMS, for the kid that keeps biking through your yard, you should invite the neighbors over and watch that King of the Hill episode where the kid bullies Hank by biking through his yard and chanting dusty old bones full of green dust, a passive aggressively cough at poignant times, and passively, aggressively cough at poignant times. I don't remember this episode, and I just did a full rewatch of King of the Hill, and I don't remember this at all.

So the kid, like, bikes through the yard and then goes, dusty old bones, full of green dust. Yeah. I don't remember this at all. I'm not entirely convinced that... I think Frost Minnesota might be mixing it up with something else because I do not know what this is from. Chat's got a link.

Let's see. Sunbun has one. Is this the episode? don't remember this at all. Hank's new neighbor's son won't stop harassing him. His parents refused to do anything about it. So he takes matters into his own hands, but he gets him in trouble with the police.

I don't remember this episode. Not at all. All right then. Well. Weird. Well, now you got another episode to watch. Maybe there was something controversial in that episode so the streaming services don't air it.

Ooh, didn't think of that. Someone dropped the N-word. I doubt. there's some of my gosh boomhauer holy yeah slow down boomhauer um here's one more thing this is a sports check from luke in boulder colorado oh cool hey luke i hope you're coming to the uh the meetup uh july 13th at the pinball colorado pinball pub i think he is i think i heard somewhere he was he says uh to assist dunaway with his questions about the legitimacy of the

in certain sports. This came from our half-asses or feud, one of the two. Yeah, right. Both the NBA and NFL have an official MVP award each season. Both are determined by votes from designated group of journalists and others. And then the NBA has an official NBA finals MVP award, again

determined by official vote, and the NFL has an official Super Bowl MVP. I could go on about the specialty name awards in baseball like the Cy Young Award and the Con Smith Award and the NHL. What now? Oh, Smyth. Consmive.

Yeah. But this text is getting long. Also, Dennis Robman won the NBA's official defensive player of the year award a couple of times, but not MVP awards in the regular season, nor the finals for Mr. Rodman. That's the one I got confused about because I knew he had won something. Could not remember what it was. It was defensive player of the year multiple times. That guy could rebound and block and cause you pain every damn time.

He was so hard. like for the jazz we struck robin was our problem you all think it was jordan was our problem uh-uh jordan's a problem don't get me wrong yeah but between uh carl malone and john stockton we could figure out a way to outscore the bulls the problem we ran into is broadman would be down there after a weekend bender in Vegas and he would still come to our town into our freaking stadium and just destroy us in the in the in the paint that bastard S-O-B. I know.

He was great. Rodman was great. He was great. Now he's, you know, he's a little off the, off the rails. Yeah,

what's he up to? Is he still go to North Korea? Sure, he's hanging out of North Korea with Kim Jong-un. Yeah. He got along with his dad, okay, I think.

I think so. They were buddies. Yeah, love the shots of them walking around together that they would get shared around. It's just such a bizarre thing. Yeah, it's really weird.

Max in the chat says Rodman was no Horace Grant. That's true. Horace Grant was really good. good. Man, those heyday, I was so into basketball then. I loved it. And it's because the jazz were actually good and we almost won a championship. That's why. Now, I just, every year ago, okay, what are we doing? Okay, we're losing. Okay. I guess we're not playing to win. All right. Let's do some news. We got news. Where's the thing? Here it is.

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That's the last time you were in a Woolworths. Do you remember? I can't remember the last time I was in a Woolworths. I don't even know if there are Woolworths around me anymore. I don't know either. Last time was probably 20 years ago for me, long time. My first Micronauts figure came from a Woolworths. Oh my gosh.

That's a big. Woolworths on Colfax at JCRS, which was a big deal. Doors down from Casa Benita, and I remember my love affair with the Micronauts collection of action figures and toys began right there at that old five and dime. I just remember my mom buying most of our Halloween candy at a Woolworth's for some reason. Oh, really? Okay. I don't know if they had a sale, if it was just like, it's like mostly suckers and stuff. My mom was not, she didn't buy cool candy bar stuff or any of that.

It was all like hard, hard garbage candy. Like dumb doms, if she could find dumb dumbs on sale, that's, There's your Halloween. That's what we do. Okay. Anyway, a Woolworth's in New Zealand, of all places. They have Woolworths in New Zealand. They have Woolworths there? Okay. All right. Lucky Phil.

The staff are going to all start... Close to you. Like you Phil. Yeah, pretty close. But it's close to you. Yeah, you guys are within the same hemisphere. I see that they're also in Australia, which is why I brought it up. Sure. Anyway, the staff there has to wear body cameras to help reduce abuse against workers.

Oh, New Zealand. I thought you guys were perfect and always nice and never had a problem there never had any issues no that's ireland oh also not true woolware stores across new zealand are introducing body cams for staff to where to keep people safe the body worn cameras will be that's what a body cam is article you don't have to tell me in the way body worn camera works anyway they're going to be implemented across stores as part of the supermarket giants uh investment into security and safety measures that's interesting supermarket giant so I don't think of them is that.

It must be, for us it was more of an upper end drug store, kind of like Walgreens Plus. Yeah. Trying to think of what. I would call them. Here they were like Walgreens minus.

They were never thought of very well. Oh, really? Yeah. Not that fancy here. But they were, but yeah, that's more like what it was. It was like a, so, Dr. Calhoun is saying that

Woolworths in New Zealand, Australia, are totally different companies, no relation to the Woolworths that we had here. Oh. Not part of the same. Not even the same origin. Not even, none of that. It's just a grocery store.

Okay. Why would somebody, it just feels like such a weird name to pull out of thin air to not have any connection to the Woolworths we had in America, right? Yeah, I don't know. It's weird. Somebody's last name. Yeah, so I assume it was.

I guess I never knew, but I assumed it was somebody's last name here. Yeah. So, yeah, that's interesting. They, what did this remind me? Oh, yesterday everyone's saying, oh, you got to watch Hitman. You got to watch Hitman.

And I went, are we talking about those shitty movies based on the Hitman movie or Hitman video games? And they're like, no, no, the new Hitman. I'm like, okay, but is it based on these? And they're like, no, it's that guy from Top Gun Maverick. And he's all over the place now. I can't think of his name. It's that guy who's rubbing up all over Sidney Sweeney and that anyone but you movie

that Apple TV really wanted me to watch. And it's like, no, I'd be interested maybe a minute of that. movie, but that's about it. I can't think of Glenn Powell. Glenn Powell. That's it. Yep, that's his name. So apparently it's got zip-to-do with the Hitman series, and that's fine, but it's just

throwing my gamer brain. I can't deal with it. But it's getting a lot of hype. It's got like 97% of rotten tomatoes. People are into it. By the way, yeah. So retail chains using the Woolworth name survived in Austria, Germany, Mexico, and the United Kingdom as of early 2009.

The similarly named Woolworth Supermarkets, and Australian, New Zealand are operated by Australia's largest retail company, Woolworth's group, a separate company with no historical links to the F.W. Woolworth Company or Foot Locker. Just same name. That's it. So Foot Locker is an offshoot of Woolworth. I did not know that. Must be. They're like, hey, we're doing good with these shoes. Let's have a whole, let's focus on shoes. Let's have a store based on these shoes. Do you mind wearing a referee outfit? No? Okay, good. Yeah. Interesting. Yeah, in the U.S. they were like five and dime.

They were like, yeah, yeah, they were Walgreens. Here there were Walgreens Plus. We had one, like I said, on Colfax, and then we had another one on the 16th Street Mall downtown that was pretty popular. Our CVS near us is still the saddest place to go into. It's so sad. Is it? Unless you need free paper. Just buy a pack of gum and get a receipt as long as Dennis Rodman.

And people in there just seems so grumpy. I don't know what's going on. Yeah, and it's always this one location, and it's always just like, hey, how you doing? Oh, it's hot out. Yeah. I don't know. There's just something in there's just depressing. I can't put my finger on it.

I don't know what's going on. Do you find everything you're looking for? Kill me. Kill me. Can I help you? Do you need any batteries? Kill me? Yeah.

They wear their badges upside down to indicate distress. So I have to watch for me. By the way, I do, you know, I've been going to the local Walgreens, which is not a sad place. um because i'm trying to track down listen i drink coke zero i have a coke zero every day a bottle if i can get it or a can you do too i know you like the the zero drinks but i do try and i do keep it to one uh one a day and um of course while they're doing this damn marvel promotion i got to try and get collect them all i want all the um the characters not because i'm keeping the bottles but if you scan them if you go to the you you like go to the uh QR code and scan it you get a little AR superhero that you can put on your on your desk and look at

through your phone camera and move around and have like a little Ms. Marvel or Thor swinging his hammer around on your desk. What app do you have to use for that?

Something they made. Some specific um, uh, Coke product app. That's pretty cool. But, uh,

yeah. So I'm down to just needing like a handful of them. How do they look? Are they cool looking? They look interesting. They're red and black. So it's like you boil down, because it's Coke Zero. So they boil down all of the superior colors to just red and black.

Or if you're getting them off the regular Coke bottle, they're red and white. So that works really well for like Spider-Man, but how does that look for like, I don't know, venom or something? It looks really weird for like She-Hulk. Yeah, how do you do the Hulk for She-Hulk? That's weird. Yeah, they're kind of weird. I mean, I guess there's Red Hulk, whatever. Yeah, Red Hulk works fine. But then you scan it, and it's on your phone.

and then you just get rid of the bottle, and then you can just go bloop and pop them out, you know, onto your desk any time. Once you've collected them, thankfully you don't need to keep the bottle or anything like that. So wait, are there days where you're like,

I'm in the mood and you just pull your phone out and go, oh, look at the Captain America standing there. I haven't done it. I have not actually reloaded any characters. I've scanned them in, and then you, you know, first time you scan them in, you can play with them and stuff

and, like, about them 30 seconds later, I'm bored with that crap. So I'm done. Well, you're a true fan. This is, this is a sign of the true marble fan. A true fan would pop them out. Let me actually, I wonder if I can scan. Like, pop one in here and then send you a video of it.

Yeah, I want to see. Let's take a look at a little guy. Juggernaut's pretty cool. Let's give you a juggernaut. Yeah, give me juggernaut, bitch. He can run through walls and chase Kitty pride. Allow, allow, allow. Yeah, allow, allow it.

I'm going to allow this. while you're saying that WinMegas made a nice reply or made a nice reminder to everybody if you have not yet done so and you're a PC gamer Marvel Midnight Suns is currently free

on the Epic Store there is zero reason not to grab that is a fantastic video game cannot recommend it enough that's very good that's cool very cool it undersold though so you will probably not ever see a sequel

so enjoy it while you have it all right and then's the That's too bad, because that was one of their better games for sure. I agree. She just didn't sell very well. I don't know. It's strategy, turn-based stuff.

That's not real mainstream. As much as we keep trying to make it mainstream, it isn't really. You're going to see. Boy, Scott Zumi Fingers can have some real fun with looking at all this stuff on my desk. Well, if it's video, I can't, I mean, it's harder to do that. Oh, good, good. Then, all right. It should be arriving in your.

uh text messages any second i see it now let's pull it up take a look at it folks oh not supported why what's going oh really yeah well my browser just doesn't like the format let's see all right here you go chat there's juggernaut let's hit play oh yeah look at him chilling on your desk going i'm red i'm juggin out bitch oh he jumped and broke and gave you a fake That's great. Any sound of these things? Are they just video? No idea. I don't have the audio turned on on my phone. Just curious about that. Yeah.

Well, all right then. That was fun. Let's move on. Oh, so the point is careful because these guys are, I guess there's a history in New Zealand of people getting picked on and they're just going to wear cameras so they can bust people for being dicks. So watch out. All right. Why? That's crazy. Why? I don't know. They don't even get into why it's happening. They just say that there's been a bunch of security and safety stuff happening.

Assaulting the grocery store worker. That just seems crazy. Yeah, it says our team deserves to feel safe, coming to work every day, and what they're dealing with is unacceptable. What 99% of people walk through our door are great and treat them very well. Every day our team across the country are still experiencing instances of abuse and aggression from shoplifters and other offenders says Mr. Stockhill. Stoke Hill.

anyway could you are you out of mangoes could you look in the back no damn it damn it piece of shit uh

let's move on this story uh man age 71 was arrested after the LAPD finds nearly 3,000 boxes of stolen Lego sets in his home oh that S-O-B the second time I've said S-O-B and I've never used that phrase

my S-O-B my dad always said that that's very uh familiar He says, oh, I don't trust that guy is a real S-O-B, you'd say. That's son of a bitch, stealing all this late. I'll just lean right into it. There you go.

Go the full way. Police in Los Angeles, California, seized more than 2,800 boxes of stolen Lego sets from a 71-year-old man. This dude's really into Lego. Officers arrested. Richard Siegel is his name and is alleged accomplice

39-year-old Bianca Goudino, I think is their name. After raiding the elderly man's Long Beach home, according to Los Angeles Police Department. The individual boxes have a retail value ranging 20 bucks to well over 1,000. That sounds right. Lego stuff's expensive.

Some super rare sets in there. Well, some of them are just expensive. Like, you go buy into that Star Wars shit, you're going to spend $200, $300 on those things. Stark Tower is something like $500 or $600. I'm not doing that. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, definitely not Steven.

He's too young, chat room. He's way younger than 71. but it also does not live in Long Beach. No. Detective started investigating the case after a retailer in San Pedro identified this lady as a suspect who had allegedly robbed them several times in December. What was the dude? Oh, yeah, no, I'm sorry. It was the lady, the third nine-year-old.

So bummer, I'm bummed that the 71-year-old's not going in and doing the robberies. Like a dusty old De Niro character. He's like Kevin Spacey and Baby Driver. He's back at the base. Right. He's the mastermind. Yeah. He's drawn up the map.

of the Lego store and saying, you're going to come in through here. Yep. And then you're going to pull a gun right here. And he's going to have a bad experience with a car later. We know that for that. That's right. Several months later, on June 4th, officers witnessed the same lady, stealing from retailers in Torrance and Lakewood before dropping them off at Siegel's home.

Detectives believe Seagull would sell the stolen goods online since several potential buyers showed up his home while officers raided it. So while they were there, they had people show up. I'm here for the bionicle. Now, this time I haven't heard of. Investigators booked Siegel, the old guy, for organized retail theft. I've never heard that. Organized retail theft.

Amazing term. Love that. I love that term. Is that the mastermind, like, you're basically, since you're the one working back at the base? Yeah, you're the mob boss. You're the guy calling the shots, and you get organized retail theft. And she was booked for grand theft. so I don't know which is worse

I don't know which one's cooler but either way you're both busted so yeah no kidding enjoy your time in the can Brian let's move over to fish the band fish sure sure

couldn't find any more fish for more fish a fish fan who ripped first bong at the sphere in Vegas permanently banned from the venue for whipping his bong out and taking a big huffer on there. Madison Square Garden Entertainment is permanently banned.

I didn't know they were in charge of this, by the way. That's news to me. Because it was called the MSG sphere. I didn't know that. Yeah, which I always thought, well, why not call it Madison Sphere Garden then? Just lean into the name. You've got Madison Square Garden in New York. Call this thing Madison Sphere Garden.

Yeah. Or just, yeah, what's wrong with them? That's a terrible thing not to do. They should have done it. Yeah. THC Square. That's a great idea, Benjinn. And it's also, here's something I learned, it's not the sphere, it's just sphere.

It's kind of like foo fighters, not the foo fighters, just foo fighters. So when people say the Las Vegas sphere, they should just say Vegas sphere? Or is it okay if you put Vegas in there, I guess? I guess it's okay if you put Vegas in there, but it's not the sphere. So when you say we're going to meet you at sphere? At sphere, right, exactly. Oh, I hate that. Like basically you're saying Thunderdome.

Yeah. We're going to go. We'll see you at Thunderdome. We'll see you at Sphere. Yeah, I ain't doing that. Can't do it. It's annoying. It is the Sphere.

That's just how it'll be for me. The rest of you, call it Sphere if you want. I'm not doing it. Where are you guys going? Sphere. That sounds so, I hate it. I hate it. Oh, we're going to go see fish at Sphere.

Yeah. Yeah, that's terrible. I don't, they should not, they should make it the other way. Anyway, Fish fan who ripped his first bong. Big trouble, band forever. He is also credited as the first bong hit to ever be ripped inside the sphere during a fish concert on April 20th, 204. So this is right before we got there. Oh, really?

Yeah, no kidding. He's just now getting busted, though. I don't know why I thought Fish was after that. I guess Dead & Company is there now. Yeah. By the way, Deaden Company. So it's John Mayer and the surviving members of the Grateful Dead. So probably a lot more bong hits.

you're not getting caught in there um four and a half hour show oh my gosh that's a lot i can't imagine i can't imagine being in that thing for four and a half oh yeah you mentioned this before and they get like 30 minute break or something right 30 minute intermission yeah yeah that's not enough no i'll have to pee more than that i know and i don't want to keep getting up in those really steep seats those were precarious i thought if you're like a very precarious Carey is, yeah. If you're an older guy or you're somebody with some like some balance issues, yeah, for sure. That show's crazy. Well, anyway, they got a video of this is the problem.

Video of this individual smoking is bong prior to the fish show at the $2.3 billion venue in Las Vegas. Was shared on fish fan sites and quickly went viral while the individual became something of a folk hero among bands fans. MSG, the salt that is in food. Just kidding. MSG, the Madison Square Garden people. Owner of Sphere. I hate that. I'm going to call it the Sphere.

It's just how it's going to be. People are going to call it the sphere. Yeah. Good Lord. Like, I understand Ukraine versus the Ukraine. It's like proper now. I can understand all that. This thing, you just can't make me.

Just can't make me. Anyway, didn't seem to find the video as funny over there at the headquarters. And a letter sent by Christopher Schmiff. Schmips. Schmit. How do you say that, dude? Let me find it. I'm looking at the video of this guy.

I would pronounce it Schimpf. Schimpf. Schimp. Okay. Christopher Schimpf. SVP Associate General Counsel at Madison Square Garden Entertainment on June 3rd. The concert Gore was informed that he had

violated the guest code of conduct by visibly smoking inside the venue. Sphere Entertainment Company will not tolerate actions that threaten the safety and security of our guests and employees, unquote. As a result, he is hereby indefinitely banned from Sphere. There you go. See, you did it. You did it.

Very good. It just felt gross saying it. It's funny, actually, in this article, though, they say from attending events at the Sphere and other Madison Square Garden venues. they even get it wrong. Yeah, it's because it's just officially. Because it's hard. But it's hard.

It's hard not calling it the sphere. The chat or the story at the end says, moral of the story, dude probably should have stuck to edibles. So there you go. You know, I mean, we call it,

you know, I'm going to go see, I'm going to go see blues traveler at Red Rocks. You don't say, I'm going to go see Blues Traveler at the Red Rocks. Yeah. So, I mean, I guess,

you know, we can get there. We'll get there, Scott. Yeah. We'll start calling it sphere. Eventually we will. I'll bet by next year's TMS Vegas.

I'm going to be talking sphere left and right with no the in there. Sure, I'll bet you. God, I really want to see a show there. The only thing, like when I'm there in a couple weeks, the only thing, it's still going to be dead in company. And I, even though I can get under $100 tickets in the aftermarket, I still can't do it.

Four hours, man. Four hours. I mean, I don't have to stay for the whole thing. Obviously, I can go chill out with the robots downstairs. Just go back to the hotel. What's better coming early for the first? half or coming to the last half when's the best music gonna be oh good question do they do like big finish type stuff in there i assume they do because of the no idea what um what the deaden

companies uh you know sets would be like if they i want to hear ripple i like that song a lot i want to hear uh um casey jones uh you know those songs sure but that's done and that's 10 minutes of content You don't want to be there for a little four hours. Yeah, exactly. Well, good luck, everybody. Yeah, one day there'll be a band you're going to die for and you're going to go. I'm hoping so, and then I'm going to make a plan to go out there. Apparently, there's one, at one point during the fish show, they had, the video made it look like you were in a giant, like, crystal ball, and a dog was licking the outside of it.

Oh, weird. Like, you're basically, like, you're looking at a giant dog, licked. the outside of the ball. I don't know if I like that. I'm going to see if I could find video of it. I mean, it was sphere where I saw giant elephant butthole. So why not a dog tongue? That's fine.

Sure. Why not? It's only right. Yeah. If you're getting any of me butthole, BioCow is a video. Oh, here it is right here. Here it is. Oh, there we go.

Biocale found it. Oh, yeah. Look at that. Oh, my God. Part of it looks like you're going through a car wash. too yeah i mean that thing is crazy it is crazy look it looks amazing you see the finally gets a perspective when you see the stage down below yeah let me pull up to the dog here oh wow i feel like i feel like um this is the this is the way i can enjoy just about any show

is just by looking at the video it's slow motion dog licking the crystal ball for a really long time he's really like i mean he's there this is a long what is the song what song are they playing while this is happening uh i don't know i i don't hear any music actually i don't either i just hear the crowd laughing yeah it might be interstitial or something yeah like between sets see this this is how i can see any band at sphere is if the visuals just completely distract me from how bored I am with that band's music. Yeah. I think I'd be okay with the experience alone.

I think I would too. Not, it doesn't really matter. This might be. That might be a case for Edibles right there. Yeah, dude, right there. That's when you bring out your bong right then. Yeah, right there. The giant dog, look you.

Oh, my God. I think I'd be. How are you going to, you can't ignore it? Look at it. Oh, my gosh. I can't close the video. Scott. Yeah. Well, good job the sphere. All right, we're going to take a break. When we come back, Amy's

back. We're going to do read this, going to learn some book business, and we look forward to her triumphant return. That'll happen after this song selection that I'm pretty sure you brought. I brought. And speaking of Amy, Georgia Lines is the name of the band. Amy, of course, being in Georgia. They have a brand new album. It's their debut album. It's called The Rose of Jericho. I've listened to three, four songs from this album, and I'm hooked. I need to listen to the rest of it, but I really, really like the lead vocalist voice.

She's just got a really, really cool vocalist, or really cool voice. And she actually might be Georgia Lines. I think she is Georgia Lines, as opposed to it being a band. Regardless, the album is called Rose of Jericho. This is the first single from the album. It's called Wayside. Here's Georgia Lines. Avoiding the empty spaces where I know all your things belong, tearing apart the places where I know where to find me, babe.

Don't fall by the wayside. Don't let this pass by. I'll keep holding on to hold. Keep holding my breath, so there's nothing left. Don't fall by the wayside, fall by the wayside. Don't fall by the wayside. Don't fall by the wayside. Don't fall by the wayside. ways I fall I push and I pull

the distance but my edges they start to fray I try not to mend the friction so I sit all alone with this pain you know where to find

me Don't fall by the wayside Don't let this pass by I'll keep holding on to hold Keep holding my breath So there's nothing left Don't fall by the wayside Fall by the wayside

Don't fall by the wayside I fall by the way Oh I learn to let go of control Like the ocean tide Fighting for your life And I'll be here through the fall Through it all Till there's nothing left

wayside don't let this pass by I'll keep pulling on to hope keep holding my breath till there's nothing left so far by the wayside don't let this pass by the wayside don't let this pass by I keep moving on to her I'm holding on to heart You're working my breath So there's nothing else Don't fall by the wayside Fall by the wayside

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Ends Labor Day. All sleep number smart beds offer temperature solutions for your best sleep. Check it out at a sleep number store or sleepnumber.com today. Where have I seen this actor before? Hey, what's that song? I just get really excited when I talk about pizza. and we've returned who was that again sure that's georgia lines and a song called wayside from their debut album just came out this last weekend the rose of jericho check out all of it it's really well from from what i've heard so far it's really really good nice nice nice i don't know if you noticed a trend yesterday but

every time they had tim rice tim cook tim cook you know football legend tim rice He would come on the Apple presentation. I was thinking composer, musical composer, Tim Rice. No, what's wrong with me? But when Tim Cook would come on, he would, I expected, I started recording it, recording audio, because I was going to do a compilation of all his products, because it's just, it's always fun every time. He didn't do it until the very end of this thing. The very end, when he was walking around the campus.

Yeah, when he was all done. We're just so excited to bring you all these new products. Right. You want to talk about AI, but it's absolutely. Apple intelligence. It was mostly about platforms, was the new word he used. Platforms. And unfortunately, he says that kind of normal and it's boring, so I didn't capture it.

Yeah, yeah. All right. Amy time. Break it down. Break it down. Here we go. Whoops, that's red fraggle I'm looking for, not Amy. There we go.

Same person, hard to find them in the list. All right. Stick close, everybody. This is happening, whether you like it or not. One of the things that I enjoy also is reading. Yes, that's right. We like to read, and so does Amy Robinson, who joins us now to help us do a little more of that.

Amy, welcome back to the show. How are you? Oh, I'm great, friends. How are you? Fantastic. Hello. How's your ankle doing? Give us an ankle update.

Oh, yeah. The ankle update. Okay, so I did not break anything. Nothing's broken. Out of the boot. The boot actually came off pretty quickly. I went to the podiatrist for the earliest appointment that they could get me in, which was a few days later. And I do have to wear a little ankle brace for three or four weeks.

And they gave me, you know, the big horse pill 800 milligram ibuprofen things for pain, you know, but it's like as needed. So I'm basically just taking them like before bed at night in case like my ankle is sore after walking around on it all day. sure um and you know ice in it and putting it up whenever i can but pretty much uh pretty much back to normal there's a little bit a little bit of soreness a little bit of tenderness uh i watched the monday show last night so i can like what carter was saying about her ankle and like if we move it a certain way it hurts like yep that tracks yeah Tolbert toldbert uh toldbert toldbert sent us a thing when he's in the chat yesterday and he said it's called oh crap forgot the name it's basically this part of the healing process in the

the ankles in particular where the nerves are healing and the nerves start acting like other problems like shin splints or it'll feel like other stuff and it will like sometimes spread around your leg but man ankles dude that's a real pinpoint problem isn't it like they hurt like hell you would think that like they would have been designed a little more sturdily if you know I mean they're holding up your entire weight right and and they have to pivot around and do all sorts and things like that. But I've always had kind of weakish ankles. I used to play volleyball in high school, and I always had to wear like the little lacy-upy ankle braces

then, you know, because otherwise I'd just roll my ankle. I never understood the girls that were on our team that wore like low top shoes to play volleyball. I was like, dude, how do you do that? Inviting problems. Yeah. Right? Exactly. So I screwed up when I played basketball on those boots. And it was just supposed to be a couple of quick, you know, half court shots. No big deal. We're just screwing around in the back of this warehouse and I came down on a guy's foot and that ankle is forever mush like I can it will always turn if I don't wear the right shoes now so once you

hurt them even if you got great ankles once you hurt one that thing is now prone to get hurt every time you do anything over and over and over again yep the exciting news I have on like the health care front though if for anybody who follows me on TikTok you would have seen me I did like a little celebratory in the parking lot little update on this I have had pain in mostly my right hip, but both, pretty much both hips for like 16 or so years. Wow. And 16 years ago, I went to a doctor. They did an x-ray and they said, oh, you have the most interesting little bone spur.

And it was like, nothing we can do about it. So go to PT, strengthen your hip flexors and just try to live with it. Right. So I finally got tired of that because it freaking hurts. And I get, like, every woman who puts on a little bit of weight, every bit of pain is because, oh, you need to lose weight. Well, no shit. I'm trying, but everything hurts, you see. So, anyway, so I go to the doctor, referred me to an orthopedist.

They took an x-ray. He's like, did you see that they show you on an x-ray where this bone spur was? And I was like, if they did, I don't remember. And he's like, yeah, there's no bone spur there. You literally just have bursitis. and we can cure that with a cortisone shot. I can't believe after all this time, no one has ever offered you a cortisone shot.

And so I was like, are you telling me that like pain I've lived with for 16 years is going to be gone in three to seven business days? Not business days, but just days. Business days. Sorry, my kids have gotten me saying that. You know, I don't know if you've heard that the kids are saying that now,

like everything that takes. like a certain about of time is like takes this many business days. That's funny. Infected my speech. But yeah. That's great. I'm like, are you serious? 16 years?

Yeah, took them long enough. I had the same thing. It was 10 years, but the same thing happened with that cancer ball on my neck. Everybody was like, oh, no, that's just some kind of thing. We'll use some steroid cream. It's just an irritate. It's just a patch of psoriasis or whatever 10 excuses. And these were all professional skin people.

And then finally I go to this old ancient guy. He's like, oh, yeah, that's a skin cancer, and we should get it off before it spreads. I'm like, holy shit, 10 years, you just been giving me creams and suddenly you tell me, I mean, I was thrilled and mad at the same time. Right. So I get it. I think from now on, my rule is going to be any doctor who tells me, like, yeah, you're really just going to have to kind of work with that or we can, we can treat it or whatever, but you can't really get rid of it. I'm going to get a second opinion, like, automatically. like just like anybody who tells me I got to just live with something or something is because I way too much I just instant like automatic second opinion yeah it's such a bummer though to have to like like say all right for any you know for any definitive even definitive one way or the other like oh we know exactly what this is it's this um you still like well is they are they 100% sure do I need to get a second opinion on that you know we hate to have to do it but I think it's a

smart thing to do. Well, especially since we have to pay for it, because our country is stupid. But anyway. It is stupid. Yeah, our health care system is way effed up. It ain't great. It's not great. It is indeed.

But you know what is? I'm choosing to look on the good news side of it and like pain that I've had for 16 years is going away. Good. I'm glad. That's a great way of looking at it. You just had to twist your ankle at the Renaissance Festival to find it out, which is good. Exactly. Exactly.

Small price to pay. Hey, when you did that, did, um, like, uh, you know, like the plague doctors of the long bird nose looking things. So they come out and go, quickly, my liege, we must save her from the plague. Oh, I wish. That would have been so fantastic if they had done that, right? Like, I, and, and no joke, we were on the lookout for, uh, like a, like a walking stick vendor kind of a situation. Like, but we didn't, we didn't happen to find one. but yeah like that would have been so fantastic I would have loved that I have a quick anti

recommendation I'd like to make sure I give people all right I'm not telling anyone what they should do or shouldn't do or should do but what I'm going to say is I started watching with the full intent of being all in all the way on this renfair document quote unquote documentary series that's on max currently HBO's doing it and it's basically following one of the founders of the biggest renfair in the country in Texas oh yeah yeah yeah this whole thing and it's just called Renfair. And it's got all the ingredients of something I love, a quirky bunch of people doing a thing that I don't really understand. So it's fun to learn and all that. And this thing, first episode, first three, I'd say first two quarters, I'll say three, three, the first three fourth.

That's fair. Of the thing is good. It's like setting stuff up. I'm learning who these people are. It's documentary-ish and the way it's doing everything. In that final fourth, this thing jumps the shark so effing hard that I end up hating it. I was mad I spent the time with it. I'm not saying you should or shouldn't. Maybe someone else watch it. Maybe you get a different vibe than I did. But let me just tell you this. If you're going to. Yeah, you start having internal dialogues. Where are the guys walking around and you hear a voice of him saying, I wonder if you're pissed. Like that's not a documentary. That's scripted television. It really pissed me off. I hate when I get drug along like that and then they yank it. It reminded me of the time.

I found out that Gary Busey, that Gary Bucy reality show wasn't real. It was all made up. When I found that out, that pissed me off. And then the other one is like Tiger King does the same thing. It's like interesting, quirky, weird, but let's go ahead and make it super dramatic for no reason at the end. Hated that. So don't, I'm just saying save yourself the time.

If you don't believe me, I guess go for it. But I really disliked it. Well, that's good. Worn us away from the things that will. make us angry and waste our time. I'm pro of that. Yeah. And look, if you're going to, if you're going to present yourself as documentary, fine. I'm in. Do that. Do the work of documentarians. But if you're just going to, you know, if you're just going to BS me, why am I giving any time to you? So lame. Anyway, let's get to these reading selections that

you brought with you this week. What do you got here for us? Yes, we've got two this week. Funny you should mention a documentary because there's an upcoming documentary that I am very excited to see and it sort of inspired me to go and read these two books. So if we can start with the one I sent you labeled Team B. Here is Team B. The after party was at a nightclub called the Palace. Laser lights slashed through the smoky room as that 80s beat filled the air. The club was full. People clustered by the bars, danced. Everyone shouted to be heard. I wafted through the party on a cloud of alcohol and cigarettes. Eventually, I was corralled along with James Spader for a quick on-camera chat.

James and I had become close during filming. He was a fellow East Coaster, I felt comfortable with him. For reasons that made sense only in a world created by MTV in the 1980s, Fee Weibel, the lead singer of the Tubes, was conducting interviews and had the unenviable task of trying to get James and me to speak coherently about the movie, or anything at all. James rambled on in his charming patrician fashion about a car he had once owned. I swayed back and forth, drunk and anxious, blowing cigarette smoke,

and trying not to appear frozen by the few benign questions that were lobbed my way. I feel like I should know this guy's voice. He probably should. He probably said. He was in that movie with James Spader called Less Than Zero, which is probably what they were talking about there, right? Actually, no. Was it some kind of one?

different movie with this guy and hold on okay then it would have been the other one where james spader was a jerk a mannequin no no different one even even more holy crap one other uh movie were those two in together uh there weren't a weekend of bernies together no but but scott should have been able to figure out who it is by now by those two yeah by those two movies this is like the Travis game you know we've given you like three movies i still don't know who this is i have no idea the voice is really familiar to me, though. Yeah, so Cole Cash in the chat has gotten it. Of course.

It's pretty in pink. It was pretty in pink. I forget that I think of Ducky. I think of Molly Ringwald and I think of Andrew McCarthy. And I can never remember. I've never remember that James Spader was in that thing. James Spader is the, he's the sort of the antagonist of the movie. Yeah.

So, yes, this is the book is called Brat an 80s story by Andrew McCarthy. Okay, now I know why I know that voice. It's Andrew McCarthy. It's Andrew McCarthy. Yes. And it's okay. So I kind of enjoyed it.

You know, I think Andrew McCarthy was perfectly cast as Blaine in Pretty and Pink. And that's what I'll say. He's sort of like, you know, you can tell he's a very sensitive, has always been like this very sensitive soul who maybe takes himself. just a little too seriously. But it's a good read. And it's also, it's quite short. I think the audiobook, it took me about, you know, it took me like one business day to get through it.

It was about eight hours long. So, yeah. So, I mean, it's worth reading. And there were some really good stories in there. He spends a lot of time talking about St. Almost Fire, actually, which I love that movie. Of all the bratpacky movies, I love that movie. And I did not know that apparently the label the Brat Pack was a completely accidental thing.

So it was one of those situations where, like, I think it was Roblo, Emilio Estevez, and maybe one other big star. They were doing a thing where they were going out clubbing and they had intentionally leaked it to the paparazzi because they wanted attention, right? They wanted everybody, all the allies on them, right? And but during that, they went out and got just blasted and, excuse me, and we're acting like complete jack and apes. And so that article labeled them the brat pack and it stuck. And Emilio Estevez freaking hated it. He hated it. Hated it so much.

He was like, in fact, he turned down roles in movies. that the other brat packers were in simply because other brat packers were in it because he wanted to distance himself so much from the brat pack label that he basically nuked most of the rest of his career let's be honest right like because you didn't see him anymore after that like he did that movie wisdom and then you know he shows up in like Mission Impossible for a minute and a half before he gets an elevator thing to the face and then like You don't see a million west of us anymore. Nothing until the blacklist. Oh, no, I'm sorry. That was Spader. Yeah, spayed or not. Right.

So I didn't know this. You know that, you know, Andrew McCarthy directed 15 episodes of Orange's the New Black? That's cool. Oh, I didn't know that. I did not know that. Yeah, I, I, so he, he talks about in the book how he moved into directing. And I think that's probably like, he's probably pretty, pretty good at that, you know, like, I don't know. I just, I never really, I never really got into,

Andrew McCarthy on screen. I just didn't, I don't know, something just didn't connect with me. So I was very much team Ducky. So, yeah. So you like the original ending of Pretty and Pink

as opposed to the Hollywood ending. Yeah. Well, and like the original ending wasn't even that like she gets together with Ducky. It's literally that like she just gets stood up. And then she's there and like Ducky like kind of rescues her from having to go through that by herself. but then they're still like friends and oh really okay but then it's been well since i've seen the

alternate ending yeah but then like she i thought she ended up with deckey but i guess not the audience just hated it so much that they ended up shooting it over again wow so yeah um and it turns out that molly ringwald is who actually got him that part because john hughes initially wanted somebody like kind of like a like a billy zabka or you know, like a big douchebaggy kind of guy, like, you know, to play the part of Blaine. And Molly Ringwald was there, you know, for some of the auditions and just said and saw Andrew McCarthy and she was like, that guy. That's the guy I can, I can believably fall for on screen.

Right, because, right, you don't want Andy to end up with, or think that the audience to think that she's ending up with a douchebag. Right, exactly. She'd fall in love with him. Yeah, makes sense. He was in an episode of Blacklist last year with his old pal. Yeah. That's what I was linking up when we were talking like, oh, yeah, Spader.

And then I'm like, oh, you guys are still talking about Estabez. Sorry. Yeah. I was going to move back to Spater. I was like, you're right. Like, Andrew McCarthy and James Spader did a lot of stuff. No, they always end up together. The fact that they're hanging out a year ago in a show like Blacklist is just kind of hilarious

to me. But that's like, what, four or five movies, these two? Four things. So three movies in a TV show, Manikin, Pretty and Pink, less than zero, and then Blacklist. Yeah. Yeah. Crazy. And just to highlight, like, the beginning of this story, he starts talking about that Molly had just had her wisdom teeth out.

So she wasn't on the red carpet for Pretty and Pink. And that's like, this is like, you know, they're talking about the after party of the premiere of Pretty and Pink. But yeah, she did not walk the red carpet for Pretty and Pink at all. And yeah. But that's how young. she was. She just had her wisdom teeth. Love it. They still had her go. She got

pretty and pink gauze, because your gauze gets all pink from being on your bleeding teeth. That's interesting. So this is a book he wrote, and of course he's narrating it, but he wrote this, right? This isn't some ghost writer or something like that? Okay. That's cool. What is that, when is the show that is tied

to this is 13th or Friday, right? I think, yeah, it's coming up soon. It's either Thursday or Friday. It's dropping, I think it's on Hulu. so I'm going to have to sign back up for Hulu to be able to see it. Oh yeah. Brainbow Bright makes a good point.

Emilio Vestavis showed back up for the Mighty Ducks. That's very important that we recognize it. Yeah, that's a key moment there. He did a bunch of other stuff. He would just stay away from those guys. Like he just didn't do it. Like we're going to watch Repo Man. He's in that.

There's other stuff he did. No other Brad Packers than that. Or that was. I very guilty. I actually love the stupid movie called Men at Work that he did with his brother. With Charlie, yeah. Oh, my God. It gets so awful, but it's so bad.

It's funny, right? It's probably, I don't know. It might be sackable. Not sure. Brian, you're right. Repo Man is 84. It was a year before that. Yeah.

It was pre that whole thing. It was the same year, Breakfast Club was 84 as well, even though. Breakfast Club was 85, wasn't it? Oh, 85? Oh, okay. I thought it was. Breakfast Club was. You're good with years.

so I believe you if you know there it is yeah 85 so that was man if you look between 84 and 86 this whole group is having a freaking moment man yeah right yeah like it is big and I mean all thanks to John Hughes mostly like he brought all of that into into the foreground that you know hey teenagers can be something other than just you know porkies right like they and because Porky's was a big deal. And so everybody thought that was hilarious. And then they were like, well, I don't know, maybe these are people and we can tell some good stories with them.

And so John Hughes leaned all into that and became the voice of our youths. Exactly. Let's do movies focused on what it's like to be that age and not be focused on peeking through peep holes and showers and focused on sex and stuff. Sorry, Weird Science. But for the most part. I mean, Weird Science is. hilarious. It is hilarious. I'm never going to

disparage word science as being less than, you know, less than good. It's fantastic. Pretty and Pink's got some themes as well. I've got some stuff going on in there. It's a little rough in parts. Yeah. Cool. So what's clip number two all about? Team D

we call it. Clip number two, you can probably figure out if clip A was Team B, this one's Team D. All right, here we go. So there you go. All right, here we go. God. Damn it. it. Cut. Cut, cut! The director yanks off his headphones and wearily barks.

I'm pretty sure doves don't shit sideways. Am I right? Anybody? That's what I thought. We are shooting outside a wedding chapel in Phoenix, Arizona during the summer of 1983, and it's incredibly, unbearably, fantastically hot. The reason Bob, our director, is asking about the physics of bird ejecta, is because in this particular shot, the animal wranglers were supposed to release some doves. And when those doves flew over the wedding party, they were supposed to shit on us as we exited the chapel. Sadly, the actual doves, ignorant of their cue, indifferent to the wishes of the director, as well as unconcerned about their chance at screen stardom, did not cooperate and empty their bowels upon us. So the special effects guy, 95% sure it's Alan, ever resourceful had jury-rigged an elaborate backup system of pressurized containers to squirt fake dove poo on the wedding party from either side of the key. camera. But no matter how he tried, said Pooh would reign onto the partiers with a noticeably

wide arc. This made Bob unhappy. Apparently, he felt any discerning moviegoer would immediately notice the crap's flight path, and their sense of cinematic verisimilitude would be forever compromised. Bob was turning out to be the Stanley Kubrick of turd trajectory perfectionists. I like the term bird ejecta. That's fun. Right? Yeah. Right. I mean, it's so, like, There's so much word smithing in such a hilarious way. And he's telling a story about trying to get crapped on by doves. But in these wonderful just turns of phrase that are, I mean, I was just, I was cackling.

It was so, so charming and lovely. So yes, Brian has correctly spotted that the bleeping of the F-bomb there. Well done with that bleep, by the way. Indeed, intentional, a duck quack. So a team ducky, this is John Cryer. The name of the book is, so that happened, a memoir by John Cryer. And, you know, written and narrated by him, as you can hear. And it is hilarious.

It's absolutely, it's, I mean, honestly, I'm like, I don't know how they so perfectly cast these two guys for that movie, but they did. You know, like, Blaine is all like sensitive and he's, you know, he's like this, this nice guy, but he's in with crappy people and he, but he's a coward and, you know, all that kind of stuff, but he just loves her and, but it's all just kind of milk toast. And then Ducky, I just, I mean, he's hilarious. He's, he's, you know, he comes just storming into the record. shop lip-syncing to Otis and you know I mean how do you not love him right and so it's like and

here they are you listen to these two books back to back and you're like okay the the Andrew McCarthy book has some really great stories in it and his writing is fine there's nothing wrong with it but you know it's okay um but then you go to the john crier book and you're like oh my god this is hilarious he's got such great ways of telling these funny stories of this feels like the one that I'd that I'd listen to between the two of them, the one I'd gravitate to first. So does it, um, does it spend a lot of time in that era or does it move on a lot into the two and a half men stuff? Oh yeah. He goes through all of it. He, yeah, he, he doesn't spend like the entire time just talking about 80s stuff and whatnot. It is, I mean, okay, good.

Yeah, he goes all up into like, I think there is in fact a chapter called, oh yeah, and the Charlie Sheen. Like that's the title of the chapter is that Claire Gack, the Duck connection is that his character in the movie Pretty and Pink was named Duckie.

Or that was his nickname. His actual name was Philip F. Dale. But he went by Duckie. Yeah. So yeah. Famously in that movie, he was Duckie. Yes.

So I'm Team Duckie all the way. I would much rather, you know, guy who can make me laugh. then duck you was who i hung out hung out with in high school not uh blaine right right exactly cool uh so this is a similar thing though this is like telling a story growing up in the 80s doing movies you know like these are these are almost sister publications sort of you can you know if you're really into these 80s guys you can go read both these books and you're going to get a big taste of what that was like exactly exactly and you know and it's it's great fun and they're both really short so you know

You can read these in really no time at all. I read both of them in a couple of days. They're not long drawn out things at all. But they are, they're worth it. There's some good stories in there, some stuff you maybe didn't know. And, you know, it's fun. It's a fun little trip down amnesia lane. Did he talk in that book at all about his, he auditioned to be Chandler Bing for friends?

Did that, does that come up? Yes, yes. I believe he does tell that. story. And he would have been great, but honestly, like, rest in peace, Matthew Perry. Yeah, it was the role for Matthew Perry for sure. Yeah. Yeah, that was his, that was his role for sure.

Yeah. Yeah. To those of you who are listeners who are kind of on the younger side, if you want to know what the high school experience was like for me, Scott and Amy, go check out John Hughes movies because they did a great job of accurately representing what that was like for us. Yeah. If you just want to just do one, just do Breakfast Club.

That's all of it. That's everything. Oh, yeah. Breakfast Club encompasses most of it. But like, and honestly, if you want to see like the whole like love triangle thing, some kind of wonderful is far in a way a better movie than pretty. It's a better story than pretty and think. Yeah.

And interesting, interesting footnote there. Andrew McCarthy was offered the part of Keith in some kind of wonderful. But he turned it down because he read. the script and he's like, uh, this is the same movie I just made. It's just like, the genders are reversed, you know? Right. Right. And, um, but, you know, it was a better movie. Uh, puppy, kitty trout. After having read both, I would way rather hang out with John Cryer. No question. No question. Because the dude would be, would I just be laughing the whole

time. Seems like a pretty good dude too, from what I can tell. Yeah. Yeah. And he doesn't, you can tell from the cover of the. book, right? Like, he's just like, well, here I am. I'm a goofy dude, you know. And we, you know, if you compare the two, the covers of the two books, like that's all, that tells you everything you need to know about these two guys. There's nothing. And again, that's nothing against Andrew McCarthy. He's fine. It's just, you can see the difference between them. Like, Andrew McCarthy is sort of, you know, it's in black and white and it's, it's, you know, he's staring off into the, you know, into the netheres and what.

whatever, you know, like he's just, it's, it's very, you know, almost sepia tone. And then there's John Cryer and it's just like this, you know, teal background. And he's just like, hey, here I am. Like, I'm a dork. You know, so. I forgot John Cryer was in Superman for the Quest for Peace. Holy good. I mean, there's a lot of that movie that's, that's forgettable.

I think he played, oh, no, he wasn't, somebody named Lenny. I don't remember anything about that movie. He was the son. of the he was somebody's son right like the but he was the hacker or something like he was he a hacker type dude some rich person's son who was able

to do the hacking oh my god yeah he was Lex Luther's nephew that's what it was oh okay that movie was so bad I've like scrubbed it yeah honestly this is like this weird little niche thing that's like you know those movies that you see

and you're like certain that no one else has ever seen it but you. This is like my favorite John Cryer movie ever, I think. It was a movie called Morgan Stewart's Coming Home. I have literally never met anybody who has seen that movie. I've seen that movie. Have you? It was so cute.

It was supposed to be like a like a Ferris Bueller style thing, right? Yeah. And it very much kind of was. But he never, I don't think there was any fourth wall breaking. No, no. But he was just like, good things always happen to this person kind of thing. Here's the short description. IMDB has it as a free-spirited teenager attempts to get back in touch with his overly conservative parents after returning home after years away at a boarding school.

Yes. So, yeah, I mean, and that makes it sound way more serious than it was. Really what was happening was the, you know, his dad's a politician and his mom is like, you know, the obsessed politician's wife kind of thing. and they bring him home from boarding school so that he can be part of their political campaign like they don't care about him they don't know him at all they just like they want him to be in their photo apps and then and he is obsessed with horror movies

and like decorates his whole entire bedroom with like all of his horror movie posters and everything and he's super excited to be home and then he goes out for the day comes back and his mom has had all of that stuff incinerated you know and it's like so but it's all it's all played for laughs and it's all just you know it's it's all very funny and it's also got the oh what's the guy's name the guy that played uh mr vernon in the breakfast club oh really jack um paul gleason paul blison there you go yep that guy

yeah he's cool yeah lyn redgraves in it was jack vernon and that's why that's the put his mom and And it's great. It's good fun. So, yeah, I saw that. We had HBO when I was growing up. So I saw it many times because it was on repeat on HBO. And, you know, he ends up somehow finding this girl who is as obsessed with horror movies as he is. And, you know, so they have a little fun adventure and whatnot.

Must have, there must have been a stink on the set because this is one of those Alan Smithy directed films, which that's a fake name for somebody who got mad and left. I guess originally it was Paul. Aaron, then somebody named Terry Windsor, and then final credit went to Alan Smithy, which sounds like a troubled production, but... Oh, apparently so. Yeah. You don't see that very often. This is great.

I didn't realize this. IMDB has an entire listing of all Allen Smithy movies. Of course they do. I just never thought about it. But like, how can this be? Hold on. Oh, there's something called Anatar that's supposed to be like Avatar. It's like a really bad rip-off.

Alan Smithy the third Oh wow Yeah they're all on here This is great If you guys want to go down a bad path Go look for all the Allen Smithy movies You want to go down like a B movie A rabbit hole

Yeah Give it those two titles one more time Just so people know what they're looking for Sure So the first one is brat An 80s story by Andrew McCarthy And so that happened A Memoir by John Cryer

Nice go get it Wherever books are sold I hope you have a fantastic month. It's very nice having you back. And I hope your, you know, hope your ankle continues to convales and become the true ankle it was always meant to be. Me too. Me too.

I do want to mention really quick. Audible is having like a site-wide super sale right now. So if you're not like me and already, you know, have an audible subscription, if you just want to pick up a couple of titles for super cheap, now is the time. because they have, you know, they've got a lot of books that were previously like, you know, $20 or $25 or like $5 or $6 right now.

So good time, good time to get in and listen to some audio books if you want. I agree. Get in there. Sales are good. Have a fantastic month. We'll see you next time. Thanks. Bye.

Bye, I know. All right. Cool. Looky here, everybody. Time for us to end this show. Do have a quick outro, a little voice. Mel, I'd like to play from Leslie Logan's mom. Okay.

She had this experience and wanted to share it. Here you go. Hi, this is Leslie, Logan's mom, and we just finished watching Doom Part 2. And our bird says hi. And Logan wanted to sing you something real quick. He knows what's up. Nailed it, too. Yeah.

Logan knows what's up. I can't play the whole thing. Last time I played more than like two seconds. seconds of this, I've got to take down notice. Warner Brothers is freaking litigious, man. Apparently so, yeah. Every time I've had any problems on YouTube, it's always something Warner Brothers owns every time.

That time I got kicked for a month off of YouTube and couldn't even access my account. It was because of freaking the Beverly Hillbillies. What's the movie we saw? The Duke Boys. Oh, the Dukes of Hazard. Geez, isn't there a Duke something with Duke in the name? Isn't there a Hazard movie with some Duke boys in it called something?

Yeah, that thing got me screwed. And all that was was like voice samples. So freaking Warner Brothers, calm the F down. Good Lord. All right. That's it for that. We're going to go now. Go check out frogpants.com slash TMS for all the links to things,

including Brian's quicktms. L.I URL, which he puts these books up and movies we watch and all that fun stuff. And nice one puts the songs that you hear in every episode, links to them, all that stuff. Yeah, it's all there. and available for your perusal. Brian, let's get out of here with a song. Do you have a song? Sure. Andrew Ben and Josh

wrote in and said, Hey, sailboat and boy, or buoy, says, pronounce it however you want. Claire can't hurt you. So true. I'm writing to request a song. This year, me and my two friends, Josh and Ben, are turning 40

within a few weeks of each other. Josh and Ben actually share the same birthday. We decide to celebrate with our significant others on a weekend, week-long, sorry, sailing trip aboard a catamaran in the Bahamas with a captain and chef. Would you please play a song for us to commemorate our communal step into middle age? Our trip is June 14th through June 23rd, so I'd love it you could play this song the week prior.

That way I could play it for them on the boat. Thanks for all you do every day to make the world a happier place. Yes, all the exclamation points are intentional. That's how excited I am for this trip. Trim the gibbio, arborist Andrew. Nice. Perhaps a cover of Lincoln Park, but not a piano cover. I've heard enough of those.

Why, yes, as a matter of fact, I do have a really good cover. of Lincoln Park. This is something I found while I was looking for songs for another episode of Coverville. I was like, oh, this is great. This is Tommy Prophet, Melan G.I. and Fleury from a single

from 2019. This is In the End. All I know So unreal I'll watch you go I tried so hard, and got so far. It doesn't even matter

I had to fall to lose it all But in the end It doesn't even matter I tried it so hard And got so far But in the end It doesn't even matter I had to fall

To lose it all And in the end, it doesn't even matter It's all to know So I love you Watching go I tried so hard but in the end it doesn't even matter I had to fall to lose it all

but in the end it doesn't even matter I tried so hard and got so far but in the end it doesn't even matter I had to fall to lose it all But in the end It doesn't even matter This show is part of the Frog Pants Network. Yes. Get more at frogpants.com.

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