The Morning Stream - TMS 2695: Just Wung It

Episode Date: August 26, 2024

Star Search Is Processed Cheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeese! Ending with the Starter. What's in your Morgan Wallet? The Sound of Shifting Sharon Stone. A Little Less Dolly Parton a little more Post Malone. Half Your Asses Are Belong To Us. Potato Pocket Thing. Your Child is Hooked on Speed. The Dixie Kong Thing. Beta testing the Alamo Arcade. It's All Downhill From Here. The Internet's A Series Of Straws. Authentic Tattooine Clam Chowder. Stoopid Space Aliens. Here's Your Brownie. NOW GET THE F*** OUT and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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A little less dolly part and a little more post malone. Half your asses are belong to us. Potato pocket thing. Your child is hooked on speed. The Dixie Kong thing. Beta testing the LMO Arcade. It's all downhill from here. The internet's a series of straws.

Authentic tattooing clam chowder. Stupid space aliens. Here's your brownie. Now get the F out! And more on this episode of The Morning Stream. It is not beyond the scope of possibility that we could have in fact been created and deposited here on Earth so that we could propagate our species. And if that's so, then we could in fact be direct descendants.

Space aliens. Space aliens. Just simply ask stupid questions. The Morning Stream. Tear out bad wood, put in goodwood. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to TMS. It's the morning stream for Monday, August 26th, 2024.

I'm Scott Johnson, and that is Brian DeBitt. Hello, Scott. Hello, and happy Monday. Happy, welcome to another week. Yeah, man. It's a, you know, fresh start. Everybody gets to figure out a way to take a hold of their week and grab it, wrestle it to the ground, make it do what it wants, you know?

That's right. That's right. I wish everyone luck in that regard. My wife got up at like 5 a.m. And just started just, I hear the shower kick on. I hear the dish. She's moving. I hear all this stuff going on.

And I'm like, what is she doing? Why, why 5 a.m.? And she says, I was just laying there awake and may as well get productive and do something with my day. I said, all right, then. She is better than me because at that point, I had been up for two hours. I had watched the finale of House of the Dragon or House of Dragons. I had watched the most recent episode of Big Brother and started catching up on the new season of Solar Opposites. So good for her for actually doing something productive with her time.

Yeah, I would do like you. I'd just wake up and, you know, watch something on the iPad and say, let's see if I can fall back to sleep. Sure. Yeah. And I assume you headphone that stuff so that Tina doesn't. Oh, yeah, for sure. You got to do that.

Yeah, that would solve that. It would be a problem that would solve itself really quickly. If I listen to that while Tina's trying to sleep, I would very shortly not have to worry about waking Tina up. Yeah. She would not be in the house with me. She'd be like, Brian, that couch is very comfortable and you'll be on it tonight. That's what she'd say.

That's right. Exactly. Well, it's good to be here, everybody. Glad you're all well. We have a show to do. We got a lot to talk about. I would like to start things today talking about Kona Grill. Have you ever been to Kona Grill?

I have been to Kona Grill. Yeah, we get those here. Those are good. Do you ever do the Power Lunch, I think they call it? No. No, I won't see what that is. What is the Kona Grill Power Lunch? Some smoke in the air.

making me cough for some reason we're getting blow over from somebody we're not on fire but somebody is not who it is anyway uh so cona grill has this power lunch thing between a certain time and a certain time we have happy hours and all that and it's a good thing because the place is kind of expensive for what it is it's all right but the food's good it's i think you know it's fine the food's fine this is like a once every quarter kind of place i would go to yeah it's just that I go to or would go to if it was closer. It's in Cherry Creek. So it's more like a once every year kind of thing for me. We'd been twice, I think, and the first time was with Kim's brother and his wife, and he paid so I don't really know what we got or how much it cost. So going

in the other day, I was like, oh, this menu is expensive. And the lady goes, well, do you know about our Kona power lunch? And I said, well, no, let's talk about that. She says, for like 19 bucks you get this full thing which includes like a starter and then your main thing and then a salad or something and then uh i forgot what else like a brownie at the end so yeah you got brownie to go is their only option for for dessert can you can you do any three things or do you have to do a starter a main of dessert is what i want to know could i do two starters oh like a salad and a and a soup and then like a california roll for my main or something like that i didn't ask but I possibly the problem that you would have had with us is the lady who was helping us was being

trained no no problem I don't mind that she's like and she even let us know she goes just so you know I'm being trained so I'm new here and you know just letting you know and and we said oh no problem that sounds great and she goes so apologies in advance I'm like no no you're good don't worry about it well it turns out she was smarter than the dude who'd been there for a long time that was supposedly training her so uh they were We're very confused. She came over. She says, how about the power lunch?

We talked about her for a minute. I said, yeah, it sounds great. Let's do it. So I got their burger thing. Kim got, I don't remember what all. Chicken, I think the chicken spicy, something, whatever it was. Yeah, fried chicken sandwich? Yeah.

I think that was it. It was good. It was really good. I had part of it. It was really good. So that's what we order. They bring out the salads first. It's some kind of like summary.

Looks like, or at least this one is Asian salad. Knappin, red cabbage, green onions, bell peppers, cilantro, carrots, almond, ramen crunch, and sweet soy dressing. Yeah, the almond crunch concerned me a little because basically it's just crumbled up ramen cakes, you know. And that's fine. I just picture like a bucket of like the Mucin brand or whatever it is that everybody buys. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And that's what they look like, little cubes of that. And I just kind of thought.

And they just take their shoes off and stomp it. Like somebody's stomping grapes to make wine. Yeah. That's how they crumble up the ramen before they put it on your salad. Yeah. Yeah, they got, I mean, they have a clean feed, so I'll give them that. But anyway, so they bring them out and they're fine. We get done with these salads, and this dude who's training her comes over and

goes, all right, did we leave any room for dessert? And I go, I don't think we're done yet. I go, I think these are just the salads. We got the power lunch thing. They got the mains yet. Yeah. And he goes, he goes, oh, oh, oh, oh, okay, okay, right, right. You're just on the salad.

Okay, no problem. And so he leaves. They bring out the mains. we're eating those we finish those now this guy has now been informed that this is the power lunch that's what we're doing sure yeah he comes back as we're getting close to being done with this portion of things before the little bucket with the they brought them out like little soup bowls the the brownie to go fits right in there oh really okay kind of weird a little bit weird but they didn't bring him out yet so we're just finishing you know the main course if you want to call it that the

sandwiches and stuff and he comes out and goes all right now, have we left any room for dessert? And I went, I think we just left room for that brownie that's on the power lunch menu. Like, I'm just, I'm confused that he goes, oh, right, you got the power lunch. Like, he is on autopilot, right? Like, he's, uh, yeah. And there were only like three people in there and it's in that section anyway. So it's not like it was crazy or anything. And it's fine. We're not like giving them crap or anything, but it was just so weird that he kept doing it. And I half expected after they brought the brownies in the little cups, I thought, all right, any minute now, he's going to come back here and go, all right, did we need, did we leave room for dessert?

Like, he was on like a robot, like an android. It was busted. Somebody reboot this guy. He had his, uh, his, uh, his functions that he was going to execute in order. Yeah. And, uh, nothing was going to steer him away from that. Yeah. Uh, Chris Brown took me and teen out to dinner on Friday night at a brand new Indian place that just opened up in Arvada.

Oh, nice. I love good Indian food. A really cool place called The Spice Room. And that great Vindaloo, great chicken teakamasaela we had. And then we had, oh, what was the third thing? Oh, yeah, some sog panir. And then Chris Brown said, by the way, it's Brian's birthday, even though it was like 24 days ago.

Sure. And they brought me out a dosa, like a crispier crepe, drizzled with some sort of like cinnamony kind of spice and a little drizzle of chocolate on top and that was really, really good. That sounds fantastic. Yeah.

Do they have those, what are those little potato pocket things called? What are those called? They're like, oh, samosa? No, that samoses. It's like that, though. And they kind of have like a,

what's the flavor I'm thinking of? Like, gingery? Kind of flavor. I don't know what they're called. I always like those, though. Big fan. The chorus, says Amy, maybe. That might be it.

Yeah, we have a place called Himalayan Kitchen. We get those there. It's very good. Nice. I love an Indian place, man. That's great. And it's near you. Yeah.

So if you ever need to, you know, you get your curry on, you can go over there. I mean, we've got four near us, but this one is, I think, the best of the four. And it's, uh, it used to be a Gunther Tudis. So I was kind of expecting at some point during the meal, they would start playing Bollywood music and they, all the employees would jump up on the

table and do a do a you know that the dance like the end of slumdog millionaire or something but they didn't do it it's a little bummed little bum that they didn't do that but never heard of a gunther tootie is that a oh have you not it's gunther toadies when it was around and there might still be some around they are a a diner that's supposed to look like um it's an amazing name by the way yeah it's a diner that's supposed to look like a old 1950s diner right with like the the the plates with the blue stripe around the blue plate specials and um and they play oldies music in there and then every once in a while they they play a song and like all the the uh servers and hosts and stuff have to do like the the hippie hippie shake or the hand jive or something like that

but it's your typical like you know greasy spoon without it being greasy got it like really really good they're trying to match the era but not yes not the health violations Right, exactly. Still get an A from the health department, but capture everything else about the experience. I guess, yeah, I'm looking at this. Gunther Tudis is Colorado. That's amazing because they've, they, there's like seven locations around the, the city. So I always assumed that it was just like a, an all over the place kind of thing.

They're still around, though? They didn't close, just that location. Still around. This location closed or moved or something. Like there's, yeah, two down in Colorado. springs one up in north glen one in thornton kind of surprised because it was always busy when we when we were in there and um um yeah but uh it's like an improvement a definite improvement with the indian place oh hell yeah yeah it's like this right around the pandemic we lost uh not

chubbies what's it called what's the pop bellies sandwich place by us oh really oh no really and we love that place it was awesome but the pandemic killed that location but they've got a whole bunch of others that are thriving. So it irritates the hell out of me that the one that was like within driving distance, I can't go there anymore because I love their sandwiches. That's a bummer. Yeah, there's one, there hasn't been one close to the house, but there is one about 15 minutes away,

which is just far enough that it's like, I'll just go to what's it called Jersey mics or Jimmy Johns or something like that. Those are both a lot closer, even though I like pot bellies a little bit better, especially their Italian. Damn. Oh, it's all good. The one where they just dump, well, whatever, I always get, I get mushrooms on everything. But they have one where it's just mushroom heaven.

And I could just eat that right now, dude. Nice. But the right cheese on there and freaking, oh. So good. So good. All right. We were talking about Star Search not long ago. Yeah.

Star Search is easy to make fun of, right? It's just like this weird thing. Happens in the 80s. Ed McMahon. It's just weird. It felt like the most processed, like if there was an equivalent to the processed cheese that you get at Costco, a television equivalent, it was Star Search. Yeah. Yeah, that's what it's so manufactured.

And yeah. That's what it felt like. Well, it turns out we were wrong that it was a more impactful thing than we think. At least that's according to Magenta who wrote it and said, hey, stars and bars. I'm a lurker who's been listening. for years when I never able to listen live or participate in the community maybe after I retire, he says. I am a few weeks behind, but you discussed the TV show Star Search and which stars come out of it, which stars come out of it. I put together a list of some of the bigger names that have

appeared on the show, although most didn't even make the finals, which is pretty funny. I'm sure there are more, but I found this lineup pretty impressive. So check this out. In the music department, we got Sawyer Brown, Sam Harris, Shanice, Leanne Rhymes, Tiffany, Alea. Alea. Alea. I never knew how to say that one right. Pick yourself up and try again, Scott. Yeah. Pitbull, Atlanta's Morris Set. That's a big one.

Yeah, that's a big one. Yeah, I thought she got her start on. You can't do that on television. But I guess it was Star Search. According to this, Usher, Christina Aguilera, Britney Spears, Billy Dean, Backstreet Boys, Justin Timberlake as Justin Randall. So that's pretty cool. I would have, again, all the three of those,

Britney, Christina, and Justin, I again, thought Mickey Mouse Club first and not Star search. Destiny's Child with Beyonce as Girls' Time was the name of the band. Wow. Yeah. In comedy, Brad Garrett, Jenny Jones, Dave Chappelle of all people. Geez. Wow.

James Sandler, Conan O'Brien, Dennis Miller, Dana Gould. I'll skip down a little bit. Drew Carey, Steve Odenkirk, good Lord. Kevin James, Rosie O'Donnell, Norm MacDonald got started there. Norm effing McDonald. Wow. Martin Lawrence. He doesn't mean Bob Odenkirk, right?

Steve Otterk I don't know who that's. Steve Odecirk is you know the guy who does is it the karate the fake the goofy karate movie

is that who I'm thinking of hold on I'm taking a look as well probably because that that sounds like something I don't know so yeah

Kung pow that's it yeah that guy Oh thumb Wars he was the guy behind the Star Wars parody with the thumbs That's right

That's right Yeah he did Frank nation. Yeah. Frankenthumb and bat thumb and all those. Fantastic. So, I mean, the point is, wow, right? Yeah, that's a pretty, it's an incredible list. I'm kind of amazed that these people started there when I thought a lot of them had started, like you said, on either Canadian.

You know, you can't do that on television or Disney Mickey Mouse Club or whatever. Hey, 90s kids. Mark Summers was on there first. I don't know what he did, but he's on this list. Also, Sharon Stone is on here. Oh, really? Yeah, she sat in. What was her?

I wonder what her talent was that she did on Star Search. She sat in a chair and, and Newman watched her come across her legs. Yeah, she just sat in a chair and a short white dress. Yeah, and the rest is history. I like that it has a sound. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. The sound of Sharon Stone shifting her weight. Uh, Brian, you had, so you got up to some wacky business over the weekend.

I did. Yeah. So, uh, first was a really quick lift story. I, I drove a woman to a car dealership to pick up her truck that was being serviced. And along the way, she told me about how, you know, she's going to be glad to get her truck back. But her daughter, who's 15 and, and just got her permit is even going to be happier because she's, you know, really eager and antsy to get some hours in learning how to drive. Right. And, um, the more we talked and, you know, her mom was like, yeah, she's, she's got a little bit of a lead foot and then we started talking about um she was talking about how her daughter also wants to you know she wants to trailer the horse uh with the but she's not ready for that and i'm guessing obviously that means you you're backing the trailer up to where the horse is at so you can load them onto the trailer and uh and i said yeah you need to you need

ever like trailer a parking space or something first just to see if she can get it between the white lines before you involve a living creature yeah and we talked about the the horse and she says oh yeah we we actually right up the street from where I live she says we do this thing called Jim Kana and I'm like wasn't that a Van Dam movie and she didn't get that show? She didn't get it?

Oh man she didn't get it bummer but Jim Kana apparently is like a horse gymnastics and speed course kind of stuff like a bunch of um obstacle courses and

um uh barrels that they have to run around and go really, really fast, and she says, yeah, my daughter is really, really into it, and she's really good at it. And without thinking, you know, Scott, we often speak sometimes, you and I, without thinking, and say the first thing that comes to mind. And I said, wow, sounds to me like your daughter's hooked on speed. What'd she say? Did she get it? We both started laughing. I said, let me rephrase that. I think your daughter likes to go fast.

That's the perfect way to do that. That's a good follow-up. It's like, let me say that again. Now, everyone's in on the joke. Everybody gets it. Yeah, no one feels bad. It was immediate, it was immediate as I was saying it. That I was like, yeah, let me rephrase that. So this.

Thomas was Jim Cotta, not Van Dam. I don't know why I associate Jim Cata with Van Dam. Oh, I do too, so I don't feel bad. Who's Kurt. I don't even know who Kurt Thomas is. I don't know what Kurt Thomas is either. Never heard of that. Thank you, Dr. Calhoun.

So the, the equestrian Jimcana thing is that, that's not what they do in the Olympics. Is it? It's something else. right right it's it's equestrian i know that and it's like a it's like a you know i don't know i have never even in this last go round i don't know what they do for equestrian if it's dressage or it is dr calhoun so it's more like the um less about speed and more about the accuracy of navigating your horse around like a a course and um okay uh Tina's mom apparently used to do dressage.

Let's see. A collection of times speed events. Jim Con has a collection of time speed events is barrel racing, pole bending, keyhole race, keg race, also known as the down and back and flag racing. Yeah, that's the speed one. Or ride a bunk.

What does that mean? Write a bunk. Oh, you can also do, this sounds like a rodeo. Sometimes the goat, they have a goat tying event that is included where the rider will ride up to a goat tied to a steak, jump off and hog tie.

goat. Yeah. Great. That sounds very rodeo. Very rodeo. Very national western stock show, which we get every year in January. Like fancy rodeo is what this is. Fancy rodeo. Maybe they should start doing that for Olympics instead of this hoity-toity dressage stuff. Yeah, good point. Oh, this reminds me. Sorry, rodeo brought me somewhere else that I have to say because it was you that I was talking to about this. One of the tracks on the new Post Malone album, F1,000 or F1 million or whatever it is. Yes. Has

Dolly Parton on it. It's a co-lab with Dolly Parton. And it's good. It's a nice little song. But she kind of ends it in the way that you told me her last album. Oh, no. Does she really look like a, And that's why I had my teeth pulled or whatever.

A little bit. A little bit. It's like she ends it with a lyric and in that weird way. Or whisper or something. Yes. Dolly. Why do you have to? Why are you falling into this trap?

Yeah, so far, the only thing I've heard from that album is pour me a drink, which is... Paul me and drink. If you plugged create country song into an AI song generator, it feels like it. But I do love the Post Malone touch that he kind of adds to it, especially with his vocals. The one he does with... See, that one's with... Oh, shit. They're all collaborations, it feels like.

But one of them he does with that Morgan Wallin dude. and I forgot what it was something about how it's half your fault I got where I'm at or something like I forget the name of the thing Just as you were saying it, Mason Gregory in the chat says Yeah, I hate that Morgan Wallin song Really? I like that song and it's all right

They call him Morgan Wallet, nice He's, yeah, that one's a good one And also Morgan Wallin on his own is real good I like that dude The guy's got, I'll have to give it a listen Yeah, I'm not a I like some country, but it takes a lot to get me, you know, it takes something unique and fresh to get me to like country music. And it can't sound samey, samey with other country songs, no matter who the vocalist is on it.

Well, this album's country as hell alone is his super quick vibrato stuff that he does. It is very country. I'll tell you, I'll say that. Yeah. Like the whole thing is pretty thick with it. So your mileage may vary. There is a couple of songs in there, though, that don't feel. so much that way. It's just like a weird touch. I'll give it a listen and see what I think. Listen,

you know, like what's his face, Sturgle Simpson and he, boy, that guy goes around, bounces around between all sorts of different kinds of country music and rock country and then more traditional kind of bluegrass for one album. Like he's all over the place, which I really, really like. Yeah, love that guy. Also have the Alamo Draft House arcade thing this weekend, Scott. Oh, yeah. How'd that go? You remember we were looking at the lineup and it was going to be NES World Championships and then I think Donkey Kong Country 3 and then some mysterious third game and stuff like that. So me and Burgess Diesel in the chat room, Wes, and three, four other players, three other players, and there were five of us total. They had ruled for 16 and it turned out to be just five of us.

it became very clear almost immediately that the wonderful woman who was putting this thing together had never done it before and maybe had not even used a Nintendo Switch before because first thing she's you know we're watching her trying to get the screens to show the

the games we're going to be playing and she's like going through and like I don't know how to get out of this and and having to back all the way out to the home screen and close the software to choose a different game in the NES thing. They didn't have the NES World Championship. They did not spend the $30 to download that game. They had the, I think it's part of the Switch, whatever they're monthly, get a few things free.

It's just Switch Online, I think they call it. Switch online, yeah, where you get the NES classics and the Super Nintendo Classics and stuff. So first thing she had us do is play Super Mario World and basically a race. in level 2-1 to get the mushroom. Who could get the mushroom the fastest? And so it was basically the five of us each took a turn going through the level to try and get

a mushroom first. And Wes and I think were the fastest on that. I think I was the fastest. And so she put me at Seed 1 and then ranked everybody else all the way down to Seed 5. Then she had us play

and Burgess here in the Correct me if I'm wrong on any of this. Then she had us play Mario Tennis. Oh, no, it was Donkey Kong Country. Donkey Kong Country was next. Oh, yeah. So Donkey Kong Country 3, which I don't think I'd ever played before. And it was, she's like, all right, well, it's going to be who can, initially she said

it was going to be like, who can get the highest score? And we're like, well, there's no real score on there. There are bananas. There's a fixed number of bananas in the level. She's like, yeah, okay, who can get the most banana? in level 1-1. Okay. And it's a fixed number of bananas.

So if everybody, you know, plays one like you're supposed to, technically you should all get the same amount of bananas. And so the first two or three guys go, and one of them doesn't realize there's bananas underwater. So he kind of zips past that. And then the next guy misses a bunch of bananas at the beginning. And it's almost like he's trying to speed run it and gets to the end. And then Wes goes, and Wes knows, you know, gets the,

bananas underwater and gets the bananas up above the rope and da-da-da-da-da gets to the um the end with 81 bananas and and i'm like all i guess all i can do is tie and so i'm just going through bloop bloop bloop bloop and i'm trying to trying to figure out how to do the um like having donkey and daisy kong or whatever the the ponytail dixie i think dixie kong things have them do a thing where she he propels her up in the air so that she can get a a bunch of bananas on top of a shed or something, could not figure out how to get there. So I'm like, all right, well, it looks like I'm just going to tie. And as I'm jumping off the shed, the top of another shed, I miss one banana.

And there is, like, I am jumping. There's no way I can get back up on that shed. Oh, man. So 80 bananas to Wes's 81. So he took number one on that one. Nice. Then they had us play Mario Tennis, NES, which I had never played before. I have no idea how to play this damn game.

And I'm, like, swinging, you know, my rack and stuff. stuff. Wes is like a freaking natural, so he cleans house with that thing. And then the other two guys, two of them had played that one regularly. But it was almost like she was making these games up on the fly. Like she was saying, um,

play Mario, let's play tennis. Like, okay, all right, sure. Great. Doesn't sound like you really planned it out very much. Sounds like they kind of won it. Yes. Well, the last one for sure. So we're going into the end and I was still in first place somehow

and Wes was right under me and then the other three guys and it came down to back to Super Mario World level I think it was 2-1 again and it was who could die the fastest or I'm sorry, who could die the most in three minutes.

So you start out with 99 lives and it's how many of those lives can you use up in three minutes. Right. Well, it becomes a little repetitive because you you start out and you've got your cape and you flip around and you you know you have to die and then you get then you have to hit something else and then you die die and then you start over again right and then pretty much from that level on or from that point

on it is hold down the the speed button run to the right and run into the first guy a little flying cape guy that flies towards you over and over and over again and um wow after a minute of she's like, hmm, maybe we'll just do two minutes. Who can die the most in two minutes? I clearly she hadn't thought that one out. She had not thought this one through. And so we finally get to, you know, I died 11 times and then it's Wes's time to go. And we're watching, you know, he kind of foibles the first one with the cape and misses, jumps over the guy.

And doesn't lose his cape to go down to regular micro Mario. size um but then somehow somehow pulls it out in the end to where uh the last you know minute and 45 seconds was him just going to the right speed running and just barely beat me by uh like the very last millisecond he got that last death so west ended up taking first place i ended up taking second place and uh nice the other three guys uh took third fourth and fifth so so it sounds like you guys were you were beta testing this this competition He said that they'd been doing it for a couple months there, but it was her first time hosting it. And, but they'd been doing it at Austin, at the Austin locations for a while.

Oh. So, you know, Wes and I were both like, yeah, we'll go back and try it again the next month when they do it. See if they have some better, better deals. Yeah, Wes ended up with four free movie tickets and a free $10 snack voucher. And I got three movie tickets and a snack voucher. No, nice. Yeah. So even though I've got the season past, this means I can bring Tristan and Kay to a movie or I think what we'll just do is just give them the three tickets so that they can go, you know, go and do it themselves.

Yeah, they don't need you there, right? They can just go. They don't need us there. As a matter of thing, they'll probably have more fun. I'll have to spend less if they go, if they go on their own because I won't end up buying their food and drink. Right. It's the way, as tradition goes. It's interesting.

By the way, you shouldn't feel bad that you'd never play Dixie Kong double. Trouble or Donkey Con Country 3. That game came out at the same year after the N64 launched like Mario 64 is out, Pilot Wing 64 is out. Like that was such a late game SNS Ness title.

It sold poorly. Hardly anyone played that one. And honestly it might be the best of the three. It's a very good game. Oh really? Yeah. I mean, it was kind of fun. I mean, those games were fun in general, but it had really good levels and I thought her her abilities are better than Diddy Kong's in the first game and

it's just a good game so if you ever get a chance to you know pull up your Amber Nick and play it it's pretty good it's not bad I think I will yeah I've got it uh I mean I've got it on the switch SNES thing classics too but the so we afterwards were like so maybe you know if you do the the dying thing was really fun except it got super repetitive and we said how about you just make it so that you can't do the same

level twice. So how quickly can you die going level one, level two, level three, level four, level five, etc. Going through that and see if that makes it a little bit more of a challenge. Yeah. She should put you in charge of the whole damn thing. She should. I'd be fine with that. Although she was having a blast

hosting it. At one point, oh yeah, we had to guess how long she would live what was the game that she played West? Was it also Donkey Kong or it was Super Mario World? Like she said closest to how quickly I die.

Oh, that's right. So when Wes and I were playing Who Can Die the Most, she had a thing for the other three people. Guess how long I'll survive in a regular level of Mario? And one guy said one minute, two minutes, three minutes, and she died in 30 seconds. Oh, geez.

But wait, there was no stakes with that, though. They were just guessing for funsies, or was that part of this car? They were guessing for third place. There were a third place prizes, well so they were they were playing for third what did third get they got one ticket and like one movie ticket or maybe i think they probably got two movie tickets because you know yeah you got to bring bring a friend but uh anyway yeah it's very interesting uh little setup they have there at the at the draft house nice that's awesome well uh you should go whenever they do it it sounds like fun yeah yeah

and also you probably get a bunch of free tickets because it seems like you're maybe going to dominate every time i mean it sure i kind of surprised i have no idea how i ended up winning because I lost every round of stupid Mario tennis. So I don't know how that didn't put me way behind the other the other three guys or Wes and the other three guys

who were all doing much better at tennis than I did. The Super Nintendo Super Mario Brothers tennis game is much better. I forget what it's called, but it's a lot easier. I think that was the one we did. It was the Super. Oh, was it the Super? Oh, was it the Super? Maybe it was the NES tennis. Do you remember Wes? Was it NES? yeah i know i even lost to her and she neither of us had ever played it before and somehow

she lobbed a couple of my serves back to me and i just ran past them on the damn on the damn court he thinks it was sness yeah that's actually a really good tennis game but i guess yeah if you're coming to it fresh it's probably if you've never played the damn thing it's you know it's uh it's got a great so same guys that did the uh it's camelot who did the uh golf game for that for that i think that version yeah anyway It's really good. Super good game. I remember seeing the Camelot stuff at the beginning of some of the games.

Some games I like. When they started adding voices, you could hear every time they'd say their logo, Wario would go, Camelot. Really? Yeah. I can never get that out of my head. Anyway, well, that's great. Good weekend all around, everybody.

Mine was swamped and crazy and insane, and I played a ton of World of Warcraft on Saturday. So I don't know how I did. It got anything done, to be honest. But lots of family stuff. judged by my mother-in-law last night it was great everything's great what a weekend we need to hear that story tomorrow yeah judging by your mother-in-law yeah she's always doing that everywhere I go um okay we're going to add done away to the call we're going to have a little game we're going to give some prizes play a little half-asses on a Monday eh I should probably do this

Brian Dunaway, bellying up to the bar. What's going on, man? Belly up. Oh, hi, Scott and Brian. Hi. Hello. Oh, you know. Super good.

Super good. Yeah, pretty good so far. What's yours looking like? You got the good prospects today? Yeah, because I'm getting hang out with you guys. This is the highlight of my day right here. Right here. Right here.

It was slowly ramping up. This is going to be awesome. And then downhill for the rest of the day. Yeah. the rest of your day will not look as good as now. Well, that's all right, because we're going to play a game. We're going to give away some stuff. And Brian, Ibit is here to explain the whole damn thing.

Brian has it work. Sure. Welcome to the morning half-asses, a trivia game where I'm actually going to be giving you to the answers. I'm going to give Scott and Brian a category and six possible answers, three of which are correct. And three, like all that practicing I did with NES World Championship, pretty much garbage, useless. Depending on how confident they feel with the category,

they can provide one, two, or three guesses. but if they get any of those guesses wrong, zero points for that round. Get one right, gets you a point, two right, gets you three points, and three right gets you five points. We'll add up all the points after three rounds, and they will win a prize for their contestant. Contestants, you say? Yes, contestants, I say.

Here are your contestants that you're going to be playing for. Scott, you're playing for Linda in Austin, Texas and Castle Rock, Colorado. Oh, wait. Oh, she's a tramp. Which way, though? From Castle Rock to Austin? Is that the deal? I don't know.

The semi-colon indicates maybe in that order. I'm going to say Austin, Texas, and now Castle Rock, let's hope. Maybe she left Castle Rock because of the weird happenings. The Stephen King-like happenings were happening in Castle Rock. Even though it's the wrong Castle Rock, it's still good to. There are plenty of weird things that happen in Castle Rock because of its proximity to Colorado Springs. I'll tell you that. Brian, you're going to be playing for Mark Hensley in Spokane, Washington.

Oh, nice. Yes. That's where Ethan's at right now. He's up in Washington. Is he really? That's cool. All the way across the country. Love your sun.

Yeah. He likes it. Is he like it there? Is it nice and rainy for him and all that stuff? He hasn't told me that. He's on the West Coast time. So every morning when I get up, I usually like to send him a text message, has it going and stuff. But then he's all the way up there.

I'm like, oh, what time is it? I guess a better wait. It's like 4 a better wait. Yeah, we're doing that. Well, that's great. Congrats to him. All right. Well, I like my chances today.

I don't even know what the subject is. So let's go. Well, let's get to it. Let's get to subject number one. Once again, I'm going to give you category. Six answers, three of these are right. Let's start with movies. This is right near and dear to both of your hearts, I think, especially Brian Dono is.

Which of these are movies that are over three hours long? Your choices are. Dances with Wolves, the Deer Hunter, the Godfather, the Green Mile, Scarface, and Saving Private Ryan. Three of those are longer than three hours. Three of them are not. Which ones not just feel like they're over three hours, but actually are three hours. hours. Oh, man. I'm only confident in two of these, so I'm going to lock them to.

That was me, too. But I'm going three. Yeah. All right. You guys are both locked in. Yeah, it dances with wolves. That is a whopping three hours and one minute. So just over the three hour limit. Uh-oh, no, I'm worried because that felt like that was like four hours. I thought that was solid in the three-hour range, don't they?

Green Mile, three hours and nine minutes. So Brian Dunaway, you chose that one. Just watched that about a week ago. Yeah, that one goes by at a pretty good clip. It feels like, even though it's that long, it feels like I'm not waiting around forever for it, though. It's a good movie. Yeah. And one of you chose The Godfather and one of you chose Scarface.

I'm going to tell you right now, one of those is incorrect. Scarface we just watched for FunSack. Do you remember how long? I would have been three hours. I felt like it was three or more, but. It was pretty damn close. Brian just froze Oh, we all froze.

Is it me? Ah, shit. I mean, like, from the time he gets up in the morning until the time he goes to bed. Until the time it goes out, Hunts Deer comes back. It's three hours of playing Russian roulette with Christopher Walkin. That's what it is. So, yeah. I lost.

connection for a second, but now it's back. Okay. I switched the... Well, last connection with the game? No, with my internet. Oh, okay. Still saying... That's funny, because, well, I guess that would...

I didn't miss you all. Me and I was having a conversation. No, I know. You guys didn't go anywhere, but I did. So see yourself clear. Um, why... This is really weird. I don't know what happened.

I can't get either ISP to result... But you guys are talking to me, so they must be working. So... It does work in. It's probably Twitch. Yeah, you're still on the more and a half-asses too, so probably Twitch or YouTube or wherever you're at. And a nice little 300 resolution for a minute there. Oh, okay.

As it buffers, as it gains its buffer. So how much, like, where did we lose everybody? Do they hear the answers to all these? I think you were about to say who won what, and it's showing. Scott, I can't hear anymore. You don't hear me at all? But I can't see him. That's wonderful.

We can't hear you. Okay, hold on. I can't hear. No, I know. I know. on okay how about now you can hear me now no nothing i think discord is discord is farting out gosh dang it why now why no i know um okay discord won't launch for me this is great this is what you want

this is how you want it yeah we're good we're back we're good Okay, so where we were is you had, you had just announced which ones were wrong or right, and then I didn't hear it. I see it now, but we didn't hear it. Yes, all right. So, yeah, Green Mile, dances with wolves and Deer Hunter were longer than three hours. Scarface, two hours, 50 minutes, saving Private Ryan, two hours 49 minutes and Godfather, two hours 55 minutes. Still freaking long. That's really long.

Done away. That's right. I was just going to say, how come Godfather was what again? How long do you say? 255. Yeah. That's may as well be. It's very close.

I mean, those, you know, those all feel like three-hour movies. Do these count credits and stuff? Yeah, okay. Yeah, they must. Yeah, run, full runtime. Because dances with wolves, three hours and one minute. But if you're counting actual movie time, I mean, the opening studio logos alone has got to be more than a minute. Yeah.

And how long is it dances with the wolves part? I mean, when he dances. They dance for at least an hour and a half. Yeah, yeah, he's got that wolf. He's got his little, little paws on his shoulders. It's very cute. Right, the judges give it up, give that 109.3. It's very good dancing.

Yeah, and then the wolf says, John Dunbar. And it's just the best. John Dunbar. John Dunbar. All right, let's get to question numero dose. We're going to this one, zero, zero. Let's see if you can do a little better on this one. Rappers, whose real first name is Christopher.

You've got The Notorious B-I-G, Exhibit, Ludacris, Fitticent, Common, and Frank Ocean. Which of these rappers' real first name? You couldn't help it, because you had the Frank Ocean. He's like, I got to say it. I couldn't help. Rappers is real first. Which of these rappers' real first names is Christopher? Or Chris, or any variation of that.

Chris. I'll lock him a two, but I'm not that confident. I don't feel that good about this. You're going with two? Then I'm going to go with. Yeah, lock it in. Okay. Wow, Brian locked in with one.

Scott locked in with two. By the way, notorious B.I.G. Chris Wallace. I thought it was. I wasn't sure. Felt wrong. Frank Ocean. Real first name is Chris.

Not Chris Ocean. He took his name from Frank Sinatra and Ocean's 11 is where Frank Ocean got his name. It's like really Lonnie. Or not Lonnie. Uh, shoot, Chris Brough, I think it is. Chris, Brose, Brow, yeah. Br, B-R-B-A-U.

Hey, man, bro. Uh, yeah, your answer is, uh, Scott, you said 50 cent. His name is Curtis. Com's real name is Lonnie. Oh, Curtis. Shit. Curtis? And Exhibit's real name is Alvin.

So zero points on this one. Ludicris. Oh, I'm sorry. One point for Brian on this one because he just said ludicrous. I know Ludicris is a Chris. And for sure. It's a duh. It's a duh.

I thought it was too. obvious. I didn't like that ludicrous one. It was like, it's right there in the name. It can't possibly be Chris. It felt like a dangling carrot, didn't it? Like a trap. Yeah. That's a trap.

It's a trap. All right. Brian, going into round three with one point. It's a wrap. Very good. Round three, Brian's got one point. Scott's got zero. Here's his chance to take the lead. Question number three. We're going to geography. Oh, geography.

Which of these six spring fields in America are the most populous. So the three most populous springfields in America, Springfield, Ohio, Springfield, Massachusetts, Springfield, Illinois, Springfield, Oregon, Springfield, Missouri, and Springfield, Tennessee. Three of these are the most populous of those. Six.

I'll choose. Of those. Six. Six. Six. Six. Yeah. I chose three because I have to be ballsy at this stage.

You have to take risks. There is no. there's no win without risk these all sound like the largest ones there i'm going to maybe i could tie it and we could do some kind of weird tie thing would i could still get a tie no that would work with it two three yeah would no no because you five oh well yeah three gets you five points it's right there oh well every damn week if but that's only if he gets it had a point for it again yeah um so this is interesting you guys chose you both chose springfield illinois which i'm sure is the most populous of all the springfield springfield springfield illinois springfield massachusetts

Also, the most populous, one of the most populous Springfields. The third one is Springfield, Missouri, Scott, taking it. What? Look at that. My one point. Creeped right up your butt there, didn't I, buddy. Oh, that's not nice. No, it isn't.

I didn't expect to win. I'll be honest. Well, I was going to go Springfield, Ohio, so it wasn't going to get it either way. So it was fine that you took it to the limits. 100% of guess. I just went with the ones I most know and most. my head, and those were the three. Missouri.

Yeah. Let's see. Actually, Springfield, Missouri, I think, is the, I'm trying to find an actual list. Springfield, Missouri and Springfield, Massachusetts were the world's most populous cities named Springfield, the world's most popular. So take that, Springfield, Belgium. China. Right.

Yeah, Springfield, Massachusetts became nationally important in 1979 when George Washington founded the U.S. National Armory. at Springfield. Illinois, Missouri, pioneering advances, blah, blah, blah. But anyway, there you go.

Springfield, Illinois, the one-time home of Abraham Lincoln is the only U.S. state capital with the name Springfield. And where we keep all the guns, right? Is what you said? That's right.

Guns are there. Yep, guns are there. Where's those guns, Tommy? So congratulations to Scott for this one. Well done. That means Linda in Austin, Texas. You're getting some games. You're getting chained echoes.

And Cifu. S-I-F-U. I hope they can offend somebody by saying that name. It is actually Sifu, and it's really good, but hard. That game is hard. It's a sports illustrated F-U is what it stands for. It's a very difficult game. I don't know why, but it is.

But the good news is you're not going home empty-handed. Mark Hensley in Spokane, Washington. You're getting a copy of a game as well. You are getting high on life. I mean, the game, high on life. I don't know. Maybe you're getting high on life as well, and if so, good for you. Yeah, good for you.

All right, they're telling me my internet's bad again. So I'm switching back to the other ISP. We'll see how that goes. You know, we just can't do much else, but switch around. You guys are still here, and that's good. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you can't get rid of us that easy, Scott. No, unless there, I always feel like there's like a straw. Like, imagine the internet is a straw, and we're all in the middle of that straw,

but if we suck it all the way out and there's no other Coke behind it, are we right now talking in the final stretch of it? of the straw. I don't know. Right, right, right. It's that little delay, that seven-second delay of internet access. Yeah, I just don't know. The still talking that you get after your head is chopped off in a guillotine situation.

Oh, yeah, one of those, and you're blinking your eyes and all that. It's like, there's hurts. I saw, that's so funny you bring that up. I just watched a video on this the other day. I just watched that episode of Seinfeld, Brian. It's amazing. You brought that up. Oh, I wish they had.

one like that but no it's this episode it was something on YouTube like a little mini documentary about the science of it and how long they think and how they first tried to test it and it was a dude it was a scientist who volunteered to have his head cut off or either that or got arrested for something after death right well it's a commitment

to science right there well he just get his lid lifted no what he did head cutting off and lid no here's what he did he did full guillotine but he said to the to his people that were going to carry on the study they said you need to do the following, count how long my eyes are still open, whether they blink or not, whether they move, whether my mouth tries to move, like, all this kind of stuff. And they had

to, like, document it. It's like the most macabre freaking document, uh, medical experiment I've ever heard of. It's so weird. No kidding. Yeah, for sure. Very, very weird. But anyway, uh, well, uh, good job. Everybody involved, especially, uh, Linda in Austin, Texas. You're the big winner of these two games. And we'll get those right out to you, Scott. Well, I, you know, I got Yeah, pull it out of the end there with your knowledge on Springfield. I will never challenge you on Springfield again. Yeah, don't even try. What are you even trying for, you insane person? Exactly. Brian Dunaway, you're going to have a great day. I just know it. And you should kick our, kiss our butts. I'm going to kick your butts. Don't kick our butts. Don't kick our butts. All right, chat, we're going to do a quick thing where I double check. Anyway, so we're going to announce the song and say goodbye. And, uh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The irony here is murder. All right. Well, isn't that ironic?

We're going to, we're actually, we are done for the day. We're out of here. I didn't tell you on this earlier, but I have a meeting right after the show. And because of that, I got to go. But also, Bobby's on a cruise. He's up in the freaking Alaska wilderness right now. He's not even here. He's learning the science of glaciers right now and calving and, and watching those things

crumble into the cold North Pacific waters. That's right. and maybe he'll bring home some fish if he did one of those excursions I don't know oh maybe yeah we didn't do it it was expensive it was like 300 bucks I'm like yeah no not worth it I can get fish at home I can be as fresh but guess what I can still get fish at home yeah I can kind of get fish wherever I need to get we have fish here and while I was there I had some great fish so I'll do that and then when I go home I'll have regular fish it's fine not $300 and cod yeah it's a little much there is a food truck here called on the hook

I think they bounce around everywhere, but like a whole bunch of different states on the hook. I'm going to find it really quickly here. They do single line caught Alaskan cod. So not net, you know, not like caught in a net with a bunch of them. It's like, nope, we catch one at a time and they're damn good. They bounce around. Let's see.

What states do they go around? Your nearest truck. Let's see. We've got to find that thing. Choose your state. Utah. They'd come to Utah. Sweet.

Arkansas, Colorado, Ohio, I'm sorry, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska. I've seen this truck. I'll bet you have. This blue truck? Now I know this truck. That's crazy. So you're saying I should get it. I should try it.

You should 100% get it. Get on the notification list so that you get an email when they are coming to your town. And you get notified the day before so you can start salivating right away. Oh, here it is. This Saturday, 830. want in sandy i can go from 11 to 7 there you go we're doing it i'm writing this down yeah write it down it's so freaking good it's uh cod and big thick fat um fries and um uh they have a characha chili sauce that they give you with the fries sounds good yeah chat's like it sounds expensive hey food trucks

they're all expensive all right yeah but you're supporting a small business as opposed to like a big chain. You know, nobody at Red Lobster is getting rich off of our on the hook fish and chips. No, no. In fact, they're in bankruptcy. Oh, their clam chatter is, uh, it slaps as well. It's really good. You might have to get that. It's cooling down here. So it's perfect weather for a little clam chatter. Oh, good weather for soups. Is the sand, is there sand in it though? Is it one of those? No, I got it. I got it last week and there was no sand in it. Okay, good. Because those people, you people out there in Boston or wherever you live and you think that that's how it's supposed to be, that it's supposed to be sandy? You are so wrong.

about that. Yeah, there's nothing authentic about sand in clam chowder. You can have perfectly authentic clam chowder without having any grit that breaks her teeth in it. I would love to hear people tried to defend it because when I was specifically when we're in San Francisco on Fisherman's Wharf, we're like, we're going to have the clam chowder at this place that was famous for amazing clam chowder. Oh, I know the place too, right there in the pike market. Yeah. And it was, and everything else there was fantastic. They bring me this boldness and it's really authentic. And I'm like, sweet. I'll have the real stuff.

Big spoonful, gritty, sandy-ass, mother-effing. It was so gross. I couldn't know it. I will allow one grain of sand in my clam chowder before I'm put off, before I'm a little ticked off about it. Yeah. Because I feel like it's going to happen. It's like, what's a good example of this? Like getting a broken bone in your plate of wings.

It'll happen. Right. You know? Right. You're not going to get a steak without a little knobby. piece of gristle once in a while. Grisle on, exactly. Right. But if it's mostly...

Yeah, and if every bone and every wing bone is broken, then no. No, I'm not in. I'm out. I'm out, Jerry. I'll take one toenail per box of Lucky Charms. Cinnamon toast crunch is allowed to have one severed finger and no more

than that. Yeah. You put a whole hand in there, I'm out. I'm never buying your cereal again. Well, all right then. A quick note about tonight, the Monday show will happen. Carter is feeling much better. She's now two weeks, basically, since her surgery. And so that means that we'll be down here live on camera is the plan. So after a couple of weeks of rest, you'll get to see her triumphant return to the camera,

and we will be doing a live version of the show tonight, 5, or excuse me, 4 p.m. Mountain Time. Check it out, frogpants.tv for details. Ryan, I think that's it. We should play a song and get the F out. What do you got for us today? Okay. Yeah, I've got a song. Warped Forge, local Colorado,

Colorado man, right here. He said, I heard this one time in a Lincoln or Buick ad, and I fell in love with it. Before this song, I thought of covers a song sung by mediocre bands and bars. Yeah, I had a lot of people feel that way that before I re-educate them on what makes a great cover song.

Warp Forge continues, after this song, I became a Coverville fan. Awesome. This is a great one, too. A great, great thing. Came out a couple of years. ago. This is a band called Ruel and their cover of the police song Walking on the Moon. Walking on the moon We could live together

Walking on the moon Some may say, I'm wishing my days away, I'm wishing my days away. No way No way And if it's the price I pay Some say Tomorrow's another day You stay

I may as well play We could walk forever We could live together Walking on the room Feet they hardly touch the ground Walking on the moon My feet don't hardly make no sound Walking on

Walking on the moon Hey Some may say I wish my days away, no way, no way. And yes, it's the price I pay, so stay tomorrow's another day, you stay. We could live together, walking on, walking on the moon. This show is part of the Frog Pants Network. Yes, get more at frogpants.com.

Thank you.