The Morning Stream - TMS 2863: Derps Per Minute

Episode Date: August 4, 2025

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Good morning, everyone, and welcome to TMS. It's the morning stream for August 4th, 2025. New month, who dis? Mm-hmm. Wait, when did it roll over? We rolled over on Friday, but that was our Friday show. Oh, yeah, yeah, that's right, because we didn't think we talked about it then.

Between then and now, Brian had a birthday, a belated public non-Friday happy birthday to you. Thank you very much. I think we mentioned it. We may have mentioned it Thursday, but I don't remember. Well, we did pre-show. film sacks so if you have not heard the pre-show of film sack you need to be a patron for film sack first of all please yeah um and then you hear well i guess you get my lyrics for the song there's so many

cool things extra host shows lots of cool stuff there's never been a better time to get in there and you also get our pre-show which includes a very in-depth discussion of what i did on my birthday which was a lot of fun it was fun we got a bunch of people in there uh well not a bunch but a handful of comments on the film sac Patreon comment section saying it was one of our funniest pre-shows. I don't know why. Oh, really? Oh, I love that. I don't remember what

we said that was so freaking funny, but apparently we were on, we were on, you know, we were talking about pancakes and uncooked, under-cooked hash browns and, you know, what is the best meal and why is it breakfast? Yep, why I was so late to get us started and all that fun stuff.

That's right. Brian had a date and it was like, we did. Paulin' ass. We didn't miss you up, did we have to go. How was your mystery date? It worked out perfectly, actually. Time was great. So mystery date was me planning for Tina this time around.

It was Saturday morning. And this is kind of a sequel to a mystery date that Tina did for me maybe two or three years ago. Like really early on mystery date time. And it was for the, oh, what the thing? I think it's called Catapalooza. Film Fest. Oh, right. Talked about this before.

I think it, let's see, let me just like Cat Film Fest and see if I find the actual name of it. Because I think. That's ringing the bell. Yeah, I think you can actually, let's see, Cat Video Fest is what it's called. Okay. And this is, they were showing this at the Almo Draft House,

so it included, we went and had lunch there as well, ate lunch while we watched cat videos. And let's be honest. I mean, these are cat videos like you'd see on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, things like that. But because it's an hour and a half long, they've curated the very best, like only the funniest and craziest cat videos. So it's not just your, you know. It's not just you sitting down to a bunch of rando business. No, these have to be, they have to pass muster to be the best of the best cat video videos.

If you go to catvideofest.com, you can see where it's going to be showing. It's all over the U.S. and actually in South America. I love that this exists so much. Yes. Oh, man, the landing page is awesome. Look at it. It's great, isn't it?

Yeah. Let me move that up a little. That's freaking great. Let's see if I can get it anywhere near me. Yeah. There's got to be Utah. I would think so. Look at all the Texas.

My God, it's like, it's like all over Texas. Jesus. All right. We're searching, we're looking. Some reason, I have something weird blocked, and maybe I have an ad blocker that's blocking it.

It shouldn't, though. It's just a map. Well, anyway, I'll figure it up. Salt Lake City, August 16th at the Broadway Center Cinema. Oh, I know. That's great old theater. It's old.

Oh, really? Perfect. Yeah. That's cool. I may do, wait, give me the dates again since I can't tell. Sure, August 16th.

So that's going to be two weeks, like a week from this coming Saturday. Two weeks. all right i mean that sounds great i need to do it so you'd highly recommend this right i would highly recommend it there the the only it's funny because usually i don't complain about animated cat videos but when you're watching video after video of cats like freaking out over cucumbers or or um uh getting in weird like their weird little bat bat bat bat bat bat bat bat attack uh where they look like Yoda trying to get the

the flashlight away from R2D2 with the cane my homeness is. Then when they stick in an animated thing, it's like, all right, well, this isn't, you know, this is staged, so to speak. This is, you know, cat comedy that's not just cats doing the cat things.

Do you need to be like a, would you say you need to be kind of a hardcore fan of cats? Or can you, okay. No, I don't think so. Because Kim is not a big cat person, but she likes, she likes humorous, you know, content. I think, I think she would like this because this also, this, this takes cats down a peg, which they need to be taken down a peg.

Damn straight. They're a little, you know, dogs, the difference between cats and dogs, cats are like. But, you know, just how cats just always kind of carry themselves all high and mighty. And this, this takes them down a peg and shows, you know, the really dumb. dumb things that cats can do and their bizarre behavior. Well, good. I'm all, I'm in on this. I'm going to see it.

Yes, there you go. You'll get your tickets now. Brian, let's, I'm going to do it right after the show. Let's do a thing we haven't done it a bit. We got one of these here. Watch a foodie. We got a box. Mike Petcholik sent us a box of more Oreos. Now, these immediately excited me because they have, you know,

a foreign language on them. That's right. Oh, let me get the glare off of that. Yeah. And, uh, I think. When I first saw it, I went, oh, these low sugar and, you know, all that. I don't think so. I think it's...

No, I don't think so either. But we can pretend. We can pretend that some of the weird writing on here, the Mandarin Chinese. It is Chinese, I think, right? Is it? I don't know. It's not Korean. I can tell you that, because I'm used to seeing that from my brother.

It could be Japanese. The thick, these down here, that looks Chinese to me. I do like how on the side that's got the pagoda, I guess it's on that side, too, that you just showed. The, because it's Oreo, which begins and ends with an O, the characters,

it has that same, it's like a happy guy dancing. Left and right. I love it. It's like a really happy space invader coming down. Instead of it being like just the Japanese word for chocolate cookie with filling, it really is like, O-R-E-O.

I feel like I want to shoot them before they get to my base. All right, here we go. These companies are convenient little units. Nice little, I don't know what the, what do you call these? I call these and eat these all in one sitting package. I mean, the Selena Gomez's were what, two per pack? Two, yes. Four?

No, five. Five. Oh, that's borderline. Yeah, push it. I mean, actually five is more. Four is borderline. And I really shouldn't have all four of these. Three is the perfect.

Yeah. I think three is the perfect. Five's on its way to a full sleeve. Two is like, oh, I could open one more pack, couldn't I? Now, I'm going to try to eat it between the two flavors because it's cut in half. Right. Yeah, so you've got to see where that line of demarcation is. And the line is not as visible.

No. Like, these things are machined so hard. It's like. It's so much light. I get to figure out my light situation. All right, here we go. You can't tell anything. But it smells like glue, by the way.

Yeah. Tastes a little like glue. All right, that's not the worst thing I've eaten, but I feel like I'm eating flowers or perfume or something. Yeah, I don't like them. No, I don't like these. Raspberry blueberry flavor. I'm going to go ahead and disagree with that,

that that is either of those fine flavors on their own. I don't taste that. The flavor gets more artificial the longer it goes. That's bad. I'm used to these Asian ones being really good That's not good Man China what are you guys doing What do you got going on over there

With your weird Chinese ways I'm going to have such a hard time eating the remaining 24 of these You're going to try though I'm going to put these I'm going to put these where Carter can have them I don't want them Good yeah please do that I'm putting these back in the little tube

The box is going right over here her and Alicia can eat those well they're hoping the kids eat them yeah usually I'm like man you guys eat the good ones or whatever not this time not this time well thank you for that Mike Picholic you're always welcome to send those and anyone else out there who's like you know I found something weird at a store and I bet these guys will eat it you can find our shipping addresses on the website frogpants.com slash TMS that's right rainbow bright had the blueberry pylins She said they were great. Oh, well, that sounds all right. It does sound all right. Because think about it, good blueberry. As long as the flavor in the middle is good. The outside is kind of pie crust.

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. You know what? Yeah. I like it. Seems like that would work. I'm into it. All right, guys.

It's time for us, too. What else we like? You know what? We like Donaway. We like him. Do we love him? I don't know how we feel. But we're going to find out together.

Whom-Wong. Hey, Brian Dunaway. What are you doing, man? No, hi. It's gotten, Brian. What I'm trying to do right now is to dry out. Oh, no. Why? Did you get drunk or what? What happened? No, yeah, yeah, I got drunk. I watched Superman 3, and I got really drunk. Oh, I see. That's the only way to enjoy Superman 3, if you asked me. Yeah. No, I went outside to get lunch, and it hasn't rained in a while at lunchtime, and it was deceptive. It was, it looked sprinkly. I'm like, oh, it's a sprinkler a little bit. I went outside, and I was like, ooh, that's sprinkling on.

a lot. But you know what? You know what? I just got wet. It's fine. That's nice. Nothing wrong. It didn't melt? Yeah, did it? Well, I look. Let's get you, my pretty. Yeah, you're not, you're the we call you the witch of the South. Thank you. You've never said that to my face, but I appreciate you

confessing. That's right. Well, let's get to it. We got a game to play. Brian, tell us the rules and who we're playing for today. We're playing for patrons now. Who are they? That's right. Welcome to the morning half ass is a trivia game where I'm actually going to be giving these two guys the answers. I'm going to give Scott and Brian a category and six possible answers, three of which are correct. And three, like these raspberry blueberry concoctions, are incorrect. Depending on how confident they feel with the category, they can provide one, two, or three

guesses. But if any of those guesses are wrong, they get zero points for that round. Zero. If you get one right, though, you get a point. If you get two right, you get two points, or I'm sorry, three points. I can't even remember my own amount. Damn man. And if you get all three correct you get five bonus points I'm sorry five points total the player with the most points listen you all know the score

dude yeah we're only starting 15 minutes earlier and it's like we just look Brian Ibitt from his slumber exactly this damn it's these I still have this flavor this sugar in my mouth I'm not you're not kidding and I'm gonna go ahead and confer

it is distractingly bad these things it really is like it's they're bad like I'm eating it but there's no substance in my mouth. Yeah. It's like I looked. Raspberry butthole. It's like,

you know what it is? It tastes like my grandmother's little soaps that look like roses. The little sashet that she puts in her drawer of unmentionables to keep it learning that Scott used to eat his

grandma's soap, but okay, good, good. Thanks for not pointing out Brian looking in grandma's drawer at unmentionables. Oh yeah, good point. It was getting to it. Focus on the soap. Focus on the soap.

I'm seriously going to eat the rest of these by scraping the stuffing off and eat them as just chocolate cookies. Just eat the cookies. The cookies are fine. It's that goo in the middle. It's a mistake. I think you're called stuff. It's not stuffings, but oh, you're making it sound gross. Stuff it. Love it. Double.

Double stuff it. Anyway, you're going to be winning prize for our contestants, and we've pulled contestants from the patron pool. Go join us at patreon.com slash TMS. Scott, you're going to be playing for Mick Listener.

Nice. And Brian, you're playing for Lincoln. Lincoln? Oh, Lincoln like the guy that got shot or the... No, Lincoln like, like if you added the two, if you added the letters E.N to the end of the character that's always trying to rescue Zelda. Gotcha. Gotcha. My name's Link, short for Lincoln. It's really sure for Lincoln. I love it. I love it. But it's not spelled the way you think.

All right, let's get to half-asses here. Let me make sure it probably needs to be refreshed. I believe it does. I don't see the other sure does. Yep, we're good. Cool. All right. Let's get to question.

There we go. Question numero uno. Classic novels to which the author wrote a sequel. Which of these are classic novels where the author said, you know, I have more story to tell. I'm going to tell it. Okay. Let's see if we can figure out.

Your choices are, 20,000 leagues under the sea, The Three Musketeers, Catch 22, Lolita, the brothers Karamazov and Ivanhoe to which of these novels was there a series? These are all well-known sequels, right? These are all well-known novels.

These would be... Novels, yeah, yeah, yeah. If you get the correct ones, they'll be well-known prequels, I suppose. In the end, if there was a sequel. I chose two that I think are correct, but I don't know. I chose two that I also think are correct.

Oh, good. I was going to choose three that I didn't think were correct, but I don't think that's how we play the game. well you've locked in and you both locked in with two answers as you said and both of you said the three musketeers yes um do you know what the sequel was called by the way of yeah the four musketeers right that's what the movie sequel was called oh okay the book sequel was called 20 years after oh my lord oh all right that was the whole title no no's the whole title or nothing yeah according to this unless it was called the three musketeers 20 years after but the the card says moops now here's where you differed one of you said 20,000 leagues under the sea the other one of you said Ivanhoe Ivanhoe Ivanhoe all right yeah Ivan hose is the follow up this time yeah part two even hoogaloo that's right one of you is correct the other one is not correct so we're going to see some points coming out here

which one is it it is 20,000 leagues in the sea the sequel was called Around the Moon. Oh, man. The other one is Catch 22. The sequel was closing time. I couldn't remember if Catch 22 had one or not. That's interesting. It was called, what, Closing time?

Closing time. Catch 23 should have been the name, but whatever. It should have been. It's funny, though, that the three that had numbers in the title were the three that had sequels. That is funny. So it could have been 20,001 leagues under the sea and the four Mustceteers and Catch 23. Dang.

All right. It wasn't. All right. Well, so, Brian, you're going to. going into i wouldn't know what scott's thought his ivanho sequel was though just iven hoes even more ivan hose okay just an ass that's all it is like alien look who's ivan ho now yeah all right let's get to question number two this one you guys got to get right it's superhero no which of these are members of the legion of superheroes your choices are

lady luck bouncing boy saturn girl rich boy matter eater lad and the Skinny Man. Which Skinny man? He's, he just, he's, he got,

he got a, a, uh, a radiated dose of Ozymbic. Skinny man. Skinny man. I don't know. Which three of these

were actual members of the Legion of Superheroes. I'm pretty sure on one unless you just tell me, not the Legion of Superheroes, but I definitely know one of them is a, a character. I think the other one is two. We'll see.

We'll see how we do. We'll see. I've picked two, Scott. how many did you pick? Did you pick the right ones? I don't know. You guys are both locked in. You guys both locked in, as you said, on two. The only one you overlapped on, surprisingly, was Saturn Girl.

Saturn Girl, indeed, was a member of the Legion of Superheroes. She was a founding member, as a matter of fact. All right. Can remember her little Saturn on her chest, I think, a little low-go Saturn. One of you from here chose Bouncing Boy. The other one of you, I guess you could tell by, yes, you could tell by who's laughing. The other one of you chose Matter Eater Lad,

one of my favorite DC superheroes, but was he a member of the Legion of Superhero? Yeah, we're going to find out. That's the thing. Congratulations to both of you, Banner Eater, Ladd, and Bouncing Boy, between the two of you. You got all three answers correct, which means you both.

Rich boy just funded the whole thing. Rich boy, I know. He just made sure they had cash. And the problem is he's gone too far. And no, it doesn't matter anyway. Now, I've seen, boy, what was that? That's fantastic. All right.

All right. That means it comes down to this right here. Brian, you are going into the question three with six points. Scott, you're going into question three with three points. So it is still available for anybody to win right here. Let's get question number three. TV. Boy, you guys, it's like right in your wheelhouse today.

books, TV, and superheroes, I love it. Sitcom characters played by more than one actor on the show. Okay. So where they... None of these are easy. These are all... No, they're not, exactly.

Okay, we know that one. Lionel on the Jeffersons. Anne Veal from Arrested Development. Aunt Viv from Fresh Prince of Bell Air. Pugsley from the Adams family. Darlene Connor from Roseanne and Grizz from 30 Rock. Three of these were played by multiple actors on the show.

Oh, Jesus. But which one was it? I'm just doing two. I don't know. All right. I'm just going to do one, so we're going to tie this thing up if Scott gets it. I wasn't sure about Darlene. One of the dollars was definitely played by two characters.

One of them was the one from Scrubs and the other one was the original. But I think Darlene was the not swapped. Well, choose accordingly. Yeah. choose according to you already chosen oh oh you already locked in sorry my bad all right okay you're locked in and um oh brian playing it safe only choosing one the one he chose was was aunt viv from the fresh prince of bell air that's a definite okay

Scott locked in on two he also locked in on aunt viv yeah from fresh prince of bell air and then he locked in on lionel from the jefferson's a big tall dude right yeah yeah yeah there was two characters in that neighbor role but i think they changed the name of them he wasn't lionel in both or maybe i don't know go ahead well we're going to find out the answers are yes lionel from the jefferson's left scott gets three points but it's not enough brian with oh no point locks in seven to win the game how did you get all three dude and yes it was becky was the one that got replaced with um what's her face from who does one of the voices on rick and morty

She was on Scrubs. Oh, I forgot her name, but I like her a lot. Yes. Sarah Chalk. Sarah Chalky. She's awesome. Yeah, she's the sister on Rick and Morty, Morty. Yep.

Well done. Gris from 30 Rock Pugsley all were the same actor all the way through. Lionel was played by two characters. I thought it was two different characters. I didn't think it was the same. Two characters. You got two actors? Is that what you mean?

Yeah, two actors. Well, no, I thought it was two characters that played similar roles. but they were different names. Two different neighbors, two different, gotcha. Oh, I see what you're saying. Okay. I can't remember Ann Veal from Arrested Development. I remember the name, but I don't remember who played her. It was something like...

Oh, I do remember that. I have no memory of that one. It's a time for a rewatch of that. Oh, Ann, the ugly girlfriend, well, that's the joke of the show. She was ugly. She's the one that went on to be in parenthood and the one I'm thinking of anyway. She may have been the replacement. I can't remember.

She's great. That's a great actress. Brian, who won what in our little game here? Well, I'm going to tell you our winner today is Lincoln, spelled differently. Lincoln, you're getting a copy of Tropico 4 Collectors Bundle and Rad, courtesy of SunBun. But don't worry, McClistener. You're not going home empty-handed. As a matter of fact, you're not going home because you're probably already home.

Sonic Generations is what you're getting a copy of. Nice. Brian Dunaway, we did good work today. I think we did. We helped people win some shit. Yeah, I'm really proud of it, too. Here's what I'm also proud of. You and I getting to do a play retro tomorrow.

Tell people what we're covering. Absolutely. We're doing, it came from the desert. Amiga's turned 40 this year, and we decided to do kind of a point-and-click action adventure kind of game. Really wrapping up the summer as well, it harkens back to those 50s drive-in movies like them. Do you remember them, the giant? Yes, yes. Those are good times.

I love that stuff. Yeah. Find that tomorrow, 4 p.m. Mountain Time, unless I'm late from that hotel meeting I have. But we should be on time. 4 p.m. Mountain Time right here at frockpance.combe, Brian Kiss our butts. Yeah, a little hotel. A little bit of the old meaty, meaty. We'll see how it goes. Come to the table with a lot, ask for a lot more than what you want. Oh, I'm going to get, you won't believe the money I'm going to demand. Demand. No, I am going to try to be a, a. smooth asker of operations, yes.

Yeah. We'll see how it goes. Hey, look what we got. And now welcome Stephen to the show. He's a huge freaking nerd. Dollar, dollar bills, y'all. Steven Schleiker joining us as he does many Mondays of the month. Hello, Stephen.

How are you? Hello, Scott. Hello, Brian. I am doing fine considering it's Monday. Yeah, it is Monday. Yeah. Because yours going okay. School coming back soon, right?

Yeah, I'm at the office today, prepping classes, and then the kids start a week and a half from now. Why is that, why does summer seem? so fast this year. That was really quick. Seems like it's starting so early. Yeah, we're being sucked into a black hole, so time dilation. Did you get to do, I don't know, anything fun for your timeout? Not really, because my oldest son went to Japan, so that kind of sucked up a lot of money. And then next year, my youngest is going to Greece, so that sucked up that money. Oh, well, then, no money then. All the money is gone. No money. All right. Well, let's talk about

money anyway. Stephen comes here from major spoilers.com. We talk about movies, comics, and all that kind pop culture stuff. Today we're going to talk about the three biggest summer movies and whether they made money or not because there's, and I see this a lot, a lot of arguing online about whether Superman was actually successful or if Fantastic Four was actually successful. Although the big complaints right now is that FF4 took a big dive at second week. It's not Final Fantasy 4. Yeah, I'll keep, I keep doing that. Fantastic 4. Why do I keep adding the FF4? FF4? Fantastic 44. They took a big dive in the second week, which is kind of a bummer. really they didn't stay number one yeah they went down like 80% something like that that's considerable yeah well it's not as bad as the Pixar's ilio or whatever that went down like 90% or something like that but so listen we're not here to talk still number one at the box office says tvs Travis oh yeah just just just the whole the whole box office is just yeah we are not here to talk about whether a movie because of its box office performance is quantitatively good or bad

And we're not here to say whether Superman is better than Fantastic 4. We're not getting into a DC versus Marvel fight. I just wanted to really kind of talk about how do we determine whether a movie is profitable. And I'll give you a little heads up, Scott. It's impossible to tell. Let's look at the grosses. Is it because they don't have to report every little dime? Is that the deal?

Yeah, so let's look at the grosses as of Saturday when I sent you this email. Jurassic World Rebirth had $729 million against a reported budget of $180. So that seems good. Superman has 527 million against a reported 225 million. And Fantastic 4, as of Saturday, had 257 million against a reported budget of $200 million. So, again, reported budget. Who's reporting on this? And do you really want people to know how much you spent or didn't spend on your movie?

So did Fantastic 4 spend exactly $200 million? Of course not. And studios are notorious for not wanting this information out because of some of the other reasons that we'll about in a moment. However, we can find these budgets, actual budgets, if there are ever lawsuits. So Thor had a lawsuit. I think it was the Andrew Garfield, Spider-Man, had a lawsuit. Coming to America, the very first Batman movie, all had lawsuits that if you go into those court records, those budgets are available. So you can see exactly where all of the money met. Oh, that's where they went public was discovery for lawsuits, as we were saying.

Yeah. Yeah. So the studio isn't just like, hey, And you can't go to, like, a Disney's annual report or anything like that and look to see how much they spent on any one movie. Yeah. So you have to keep that in, so you have to keep that in mind. So, again, if we're just looking at these reported numbers, it looks like all of these movies have made money and the studios are rolling around and Zazlov's just like getting another $50 million a year bonus. I knew this all came down to your hatred for Zazlov, by the way. Yes, so that's what it's all about. Yeah.

Let me ask you this, though. So the number up here where we show Jurassic World Rebirth, 720 million take against a reported budget of 180, even if they're fudging that and they're not counting promo or, you know, all the other stuff they have to do, that still seems like that one is the, of all this list, this is the one that is the most in the green, right? Probably maybe.

First of all, you did say about the promotion. So marketing, printing, and advertising is what it's typically listed as P&A, depends on the movie and how much the studio wants to spend on marketing and publicizing the piece. That can often be as much as the budget of a movie. So Jurassic World then would have an estimated cost of $360 million, and Superman would have a cost of $450 million. And Fantastic Four would have a estimated cost of $400 million. Then you have to think about the overhead and the splits like theater. owners, they're going to get 40 to 50% of the amount of money that's brought in. So of that $729 million that has been reported for Jurassic World Rebirth, half of that is

to the theaters. So now you can cut that money in half. Right? And then, of course, well, it used to be different, right? It used to be depending on, and it still is, because again, we don't know how all these contracts are negotiated. Each movie can be negotiated on a film by film basis. Some people may say, hey, look, the studios get 90% for the first two weeks.

And then after that, the, the theater owner can have 40%, 50%, 80% over time, depending on how long that movie is in the theater. But generally, we say around 50% is going to the theater owner. Then you have the distributor, the people who actually distribute this film. In this case, it's Warner Brothers that distributes Superman, Universal, that distributes Jurassic World. and Buena Vista, which distributes the Fantastic Four, they all get a cut. Yeah.

30% roughly, right? So if you look at it, Superman is actually a whole different production company. It's one of, what's his names? Production companies, there's a couple of them that put that movie together that actually came up with the financing for that. Then they sell that to a distributor, in this case, Warner Brothers. And they're like, yeah, we'll buy this for X amount of money. we will release it into the theater. But Zazlov needs his money, so he needs his 30%.

And then there's production overhead. Zazlov needs 15% for running the studio. Yeah. Well, not Zazlov specifically, but the normal day-to-day operations at Warner Brothers needs to be paid for as well, which gets credited to this movie. So now we're taking even more of that money off the top. And then we get into this really weird area called gross points or monkey points. There's two different types.

Kind of like space points, really. They're kind of meaningless at this point. Well, it depends, right? If you are somebody who is a gross points person, then you get first dollar off of gross. So, for example, Stephen Spielberg and Tom Hanks combined together, they had 40% of first dollar gross off saving private Ryan. So if we just said that there was a 40% first dollar gross of the Jurassic World Rebirth, 40% of $729 million automatically goes to the star or the producer or the director or whoever is able to negotiate this. Okay.

Right. Okay. Then the theater owners get 50% of that remainder, then 30%, 15%, etc. Interesting. So that lowers the amount of money that the movie has technically, quote, unquote, made even more. Okay, explain this to me like I'm 10 and let's say a movie only, I'm making movies with my friend, to cost me two bucks. Okay.

Okay. And a dollar is a ticket that you, the person who comes to see it. Brian's my little friend up the street. Yeah. 10 year old Scott. Yeah. 10 year old. Yeah.

He says to 9 year old or he just turned 10 as well, Brian. He says, hey. Two weeks older than me, man. You're just two weeks older than me. That's right. I feel like a geeseer. Anyway, he says, hey, Brian, my tickets are a dollar. And Brian says, cool, let me get a buck for my mom.

And I'll be down there at four. Brian shows up. He's here to see the movie. We break down the money from that. Okay, so if there are gross points involved, we, and let's say it's 40% using the Spielberg-Hanks one that I just used. Yeah. That means that now you have 60 cents left out of that dollar after you pay, you know, Scott Johnson, the director. Right.

And then you have to split that money with your sister because she's letting you use her TVVCR combo. So you have to pay half of that to her, the remainder. All right. So now Wendy gets 30 cents. Jeez, Wendy. Okay. And then because you are now also Scott Johnson, the distributor of this, the VHS tape that you have to put into the machine. You get an extra 10 cents off of that.

And then, of course, your mom wants nine cents because it's her house that you're having Brian come over. And, you know, the last time Brian came over, he threw popcorn everywhere and scream something about chicken fight or something. Sure, that makes sense. So she gets her cut. Yeah. So that means after all of that, there's only about a. 11 cents left that goes back to the cost of you making that $2 movie. So production, marketing, all that, I have to figure out how to make that 11 cents cover all

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on this. Very few movies make money anymore. Yeah. At the theater. And in the long run, most never have. In fact, Lucasfilm says Return of the Jedi has never made a profit. Like ever in the history of...

No, because every time they do a re-release, the re-release, all gets charged back to the original production. Every time that Mark Hamill or Harrison Ford are getting their cut of the movie, that gets charged back to that production. If they have to ship George Lucas overseas to go into

a big marketing campaign or go and talk about the Return of the Jedi gets a cut of that. It all goes towards the cost of Return of the Jedi. The major debuts, you know, if they're doing a big movie red carpet premiere, that gets charged back to the production. All the press junkins gets charged back to the production. Why isn't that true of New

Hope and Empire? Or is it? Well, I'm also assuming that. Lucasfilm is the only one that Return of the Jedi, sorry, is the only one we know where they've come out and said. We haven't made it. any money. Okay. That makes sense. Okay. All right. Wild. So if people want kind of a good estimate to kind of figure out is this movie successful or not. Yeah. Take the estimated budget, multiply it times two and a half and that's just the break even point. Damn, dude. So to break even, Jurassic Park needs to make $675 million, which based on the reports, it probably is in the black by now, but we don't know

about gross points. Superman needs to make $843 million to break even. Currently, it's not profitable. Yeah. Although it has doubled its production cost. And Fantastic Four needs to make $750 million to break even. Again, it hasn't done that as of today. As of today, right.

There's still, is there room for any resurgence? Obviously, school's starting soon, so you're going to lose that summer push and kids and everything. But do you think any of these guys have a path to profitability while in theaters, either internationally or nationally? So we're looking at worldwide box office. That's where those numbers are coming from, not just domestic. So there might be. The other thing is if studios were smart, they would say, hey, it's Christmas time.

Kids want to go see something. Let's put Superman back into the theaters. Let's put Fantastic Four back into the theaters for a limited like four week run or something like that. Where movies, I said earlier, it's like most movies do not make a profit. Even if a movie makes three times its estimated budget, only 99% of the, those movies will be profitable, where movies end up making their money, if they don't make it in the box office, they used to make it up through DVD sales and through HBO and through airline sales.

How's that going now with all the streaming? With streaming, yeah. It has, it has completely destroyed it. And while I'm a big believer of day and date release on streaming, it has caused a lot of problems. Scarlett Johansson's lawsuit against Disney several years ago were Black Widow. took a lower percentage of her salary to be Black Widow in the Black Widow movie in exchange for these gross points on the back end, but the movie never went to the theater.

So she lost out on like $20 million, according to her. It's a lot of money. She's. Yeah. And it doesn't pay like, like, I mean, I'm sure it does pay something, right? Like when HBO Max at the end of the month reports on everything that people watched, I'm assuming they have to, is there like a. a percentage of what they make from subscriptions that goes to those films?

That's a great question. How do they do that? Or do they just buy, they just say, we're buying the rights to show this film for this? So that's where you get into this weird Hollywood accounting thing, right? We don't know. There has to be some kind of an internal thing because you do still have to pay residuals, but if you are counting minutes stream, are we counting minutes stream? Are we counting based on subscriptions?

Are we counting? We don't know. I mean, your household, Scott, has a lot of people in it. Do we take that $20 a month or whatever for Netflix and we divide it by the number of people? I hadn't even thought about that. And if you only watch the first five minutes of the movie and then turn it off, does it only do that? Exactly. Yeah, that's why.

See, there's so many caveats you don't think about immediately. That's crazy. That's one of the reasons why you hear these things where Netflix will spend a billion dollars to be able to stream friends. for four years because then that billion dollars then supposedly goes right to the production of friends and then gets distributed out that way. But, you know, if you're HBO and you're Warner Brothers and you're just saying, well, left hand, here's some right hand money. That should take care of it, right? We don't know that. And again, if you go and dig in through the financials, a lot of that stuff is not easily available. Yeah, not reporting. I'm sure there's some

accountant somewhere that knows all of this stuff. Sure. But he's not going to calling the Hollywood reporter or Variety, which, by the way, are owned by the same publisher. Yeah. And saying, hey, here's the budget and here's how much money that Scarjo got paid this month. Or here's how much, I don't know, who's even in Jurassic World. Here's how much they got paid this week. This leads to consolidation across the board. That's what happens.

You just mentioned it with the two newspapers or the two, you know, Hollywood rags are now owned by the same publisher. That wasn't always true. We're about to see a big merger between Paramount. And who's the other one? Star Media or whatever. Yeah, up in the CBS. There's something international too, though, right? It's a big merger.

Anyway, whatever that thing is, I think that's still on the hook is whether it's happening or not. But you're just going to see more and more consolidation because the profit margins are getting weird and fray at the bottom. Nobody knows what to do with them, you know? Well, listen, if this kind of discussion is interesting to you, and you think that a deeper dive into the world of not just pop culture, not just movies, not just comic books, but lots more is worth your time.

Perhaps major spoilers.com should be on your radar. I would agree. Stephen, what's going on over there? Do you have anything going on you want to mention? This week we have the previews. If you're looking to see what is at the comic book shop, if you're looking for what Marvel is releasing this week, and there are some really good Marvel titles coming out this week,

or if you're trying to find out you've heard a rumor that Ultimate Spider-Man is coming to an end, then you want to head over to Major Spoilers.com because we've got the stories and we've got the previews for you to check out. Sweet. What if I'm really hot, and it's like 98 degrees. Well, then you definitely need, well, if you're 98.6, then you're just right. But if you're feeling a little thirsty and parched, make sure you stay high-dry.

Oh, I like that advice. It's very nice. Stephen, we'll see you next time. By now. By now. I keep hearing that big Doom crossover is really, really good. The comic book multi-crossover event with Marvel. Yeah, I hadn't heard yet.

I did want to read it, though. I'm interested. And how that kind of leads into what they do next with the films, whether it does or doesn't. Is it Wonder World? under doom yeah one world under doom that's cool I want to read it why not I could read it liberty and let very under

there you go use the same structure but insert all these fake places and exactly I like it all right you guys we got time for a little bit of this it's time to do some news brought to you by brought to you by daily music headlines

you put daily news which is understandable because it's news it's music news and it's delivered right to your ears every day every weekday for five minutes today learn about what is tiny vinyl. Scott, do you know what tiny vinyl is? I'm going to guess it's a small, uh, little bitty records like this big. It is little bitty records, little four inch records that have enough, uh, room for four minutes of song on each side. And, uh, is that a hot new thing, a hot new trend? It, they think it's going to be. I get ready to watch it

crash and burn, but it's, um, like, uh, and here's the thing. They announced it today. But you can't get any albums until Friday, the Vince Goraldi trio comes out with one. You get the Linus and Lucy song. Chapel Roan comes out in October, Pink Pony Club. It's really goofy how slowly they're trickling these out. I kind of want to pick up one or two just to have them. Sure. But I would love to have just a couple to hang on to because I'm with you where I don't.

And you like tiny things. I love little things. Big things, little things. I don't like the real things, but give me a pencil that's too big or too small. I'm into it. And we technically, Monica says, didn't we have this? And technically we had 45 RPM singles, which have a song on each side. But they're bigger, and they require a plastic insert on some turntables to be able to play.

So it's, this is different, Rufus, than the ones that they have on the special Crosley players. Rufus says, this is not new. They put them out of your record store day. very different very different uh thing yeah it's a whole new thing the same i mean not very different because it's really just a new different thing and these apparently are only available at target look them up at tiny vinyl dot com oh it's like a target because they get the little target and they can do that okay exactly so get ready to watch these uh just disappear uh very soon leaving a store near you soon daisy daisy daily music headlines dot com

for your daily dose. Oh, yeah, that's right. Daily Music Kidlands to come. And this Thursday, I should plug it now. At 5 p.m. Eastern, we're doing a live stream with the entire DMH crew. So Tom, Eileen, Hamm and me, Anthony, all talking music and about the show and the music news and stuff like that. What time is this on Thursday? 5 p.m. Eastern on Thursday.

That sounds awesome. That sounds awesome. Our time. Yeah. Might be done with Core by then. I hope. That's only two hours, of course, Scott. Well, yeah, it might be another hour after that.

You guys are keeping it for posterity, I say, we can... Yeah, we will, yes. Okay. Well, I'm definitely going to check it out. Radioactive wasps. You don't think we like... We don't like bees, well, we don't like wasps. These were found at a south or near a South Carolina nuclear facility.

Okay. Do they have powers of a human? Like, uh... Not yet. They're bitten by a radioactive human kind of thing? Not yet, but I wouldn't hold it past them. What? Put it past them.

That's what I'm trying to say. them. There you go. Wouldn't hold it against him, wouldn't put it past him. Anyway, we should have brought this up while Dunaway was here, because maybe he could speak to it. But radioactive wasps have been found at a nuke facility in South Carolina, according to a report from the U.S. Department of Energy on July 3rd just before 2 p.m., radiological control operations discovered a wasp's nest on a post near a tank at the Savannah River site in Aiken. This is all very scary movie stuff. Oh, yeah. Officials stated that the nest was sprayed to eliminate the wasps. The nest probed. Sorry. The nest was probed and found to have 100,000 DPM, a moderately high radiation level. Oh. Damage per minute is what I would think that. Instead of DPS, it's DPM. Yeah, what is DPM?

Much slower damage. Anyone know what that actually means? DPM? Probably something, yeah, I don't know. I don't know what that is. Per minute is probably correct. No, if it's radiation level, it's probably. Per.

make derps per minute now you gotta look it up no that's what you count here on this show is derps per minute disintegrations oh disintegrations per minute you're right no so it's like how you know like half life how it

how it radiation degrades so to have a lot of radiation basically it's the decay of the the oh decay of the amount of the amount Or the radiation dies out after so much.

Yes, exactly. Interesting. Yeah. Didn't know anything about that until now. Very good with the PM. Yeah. Good job, guys. Hey, we need better DPM out of you before we go to our next raid.

Exactly. Anyway, the wasp nest is considered on-site legacy radioactive contamination is the exact quote. And it is not attributed to a loss of contamination control. It's just sort of a adjacency thing. Legacy radioactive contamination is lingering radioactive contamination is lingering radioactive containment or sorry contamination from the past activities the Department of Energy did not list any other cause of the insect's contamination after the wasps were killed they were

bagged as radiological waste ground up and putting your cheeseburger oh no thanks yeah this further goes to show why we don't need wasps oh i agree dude because all right so first we have murder wasps now we have radioactive wasps what happens when we get radioactive murder wasps i know we're way too close to that edge. Oh, my God. I don't like it. It feels like that's the end of all life. I don't like it at all.

Officials on the ground and surrounding area did not have any contamination. The incident did not impact other activities. They didn't say whether anybody got stung. I would be curious about that. But everything seems to have gone okay. So I wouldn't worry too much about it, everybody. Yeah. I want to thank, let's see, an anonymous listener for sending this.

Okay. For TMS about Superman. We got a lot of feedback on this. a lot of disagree. I know. Really a lot of people disagreeing about this. Fine. It's fine. I still feel like what you originally said was 100% fine. It's not like, sure, if you want to get weird in the details, it's easy to come up with a million other things, but I don't know. I liked your original description. He says, I agree since, I disagree. Since the 1980s comics, Superman develops his powers over time, only becomes full powered around the end of high school. You know,

the end of puberty. Yes, right. Exactly. He grew up being Clark Kent. Here's a clip from the Lois and Clark show where he says it better. I'm not going to play that clip, but I will say that it varies from interpretation, you know, adaptation, so different movies, different TV shows are all going to have a slightly different thing. But if you go back to like even the 78 movie, the kid

lifts the car and saves Paw Kent for dying. Yeah. Yeah. That's not good point. I mean, maybe not full power or maybe not full emotional control over his power. Which one dealt with that where it was like hard for him as a kid? He could hear everyone's voices too much and you didn't that smallville or no i never see i never watch smallville or i started watching the continuing adventures of lois and clark or whatever it was called was

it just called lois and clark los and clark the one with uh yeah um dirtbag who had terry hatcher and somebody else and that other guy um the one that was really good was the one with um Tyler Holchin, the one that was Superman and Lois, I think. It was C.W. last couple of years. Something like that. That one was really good. I didn't see that. I need to pick back up with that one.

They did a bizarro on there, didn't they? Didn't they do that? I don't know. They didn't when I was still watching it. They were still figuring out. They got the kids, you know, who are developing powers, shuttle off to a farm in Smallville. And, uh...

Oh, geez. Um... Yeah. Seems bad. Kind of. Ripped from today's headlines. It was actually really good. Well, I'll have to check it out.

Yeah. So that's a, thank you for that, anonymous person. We'll take that into an advisement. I mean, it's that whole debate about the, Batman is, you know, Bruce Wayne with an alter ego. But Superman is Superman and his alter ego is Clark Kent. Was the point that somebody was trying to make, the point that I was relaying.

Yeah. I just think it's. one of those things that because we're talking about fictional characters when there's a lot of thudge room in the different comics speculation and different writers had different points about it and different universes different this different that totally totally i got in a fight with a guy about uh silver surfer lady what's her name um shalabalabal shalabal got an argument yeah yes harold the surfer harold the herald surfer harold the herald the surfer um i just gotten a big argument about they were complaining that i can't believe hollywood made

or a woman. You didn't have to do that. You're always talking about being consistent. And I said, no, no, no, they're more than two, but there's a couple of big ones. And the dude is this guy. And then she's this one. And they're comic. Read, for God's sake, read

a comic. Is what I feel like telling people. It's like, before you get up on some horse, it's actually really easy to go to Google or an AI agent or something and just say, are there female silver surfers in the comic books? And it will come back and tell you who they are, what their names are, and then you could have saved it. And then it occurred to me,

Brian. They did this on, they're not trying for truth. Exactly. You walked right into their trap. I did. I went into their trap. I harold your trolling. Have you seen the reviews for her, her, uh, for weapons coming out next week? No, but is it good? 100% right now. I'm so excited, dude. So excited. Tina said no to that because she says it looks too scary, but I want to see it. It does look scary. Yeah. She's seen Barbarian or no? No, she's not seen Barbarian.

Yeah, it's, I mean, it's... She wouldn't like Barbarian. I mean, I know, Tina. If she wouldn't like that, she probably wouldn't like the same makers. This was, you know, we allow a little bit of talking in the theater when the trailers are on. And it really is just a trailer comes up. Mm-hmm. We watch it.

And then I look over at her and she says, nope. She senses. She doesn't even take her eyes off the screen. She's keeping her eye on the screen, but she can sense me in peripheral vision looking towards her like, we're going to see this? And she's, nope. I like that. I like that you have this little subtle thing every time you see him.

But it is getting, yeah, there it is 100%. It's only 18 reviews, but still, I mean, 100% of launch is pretty good. Yeah. I think, I mean, I'd like to, I can go see movies without her. I could go to the theater and see this without Tina. Kim ended up loving Barbarian, and she's not a huge horror fan, but she loved it. And so in this case, I've convinced her to go because I'm like, oh, it's the Barbarian guy. You loved that.

Oh, yeah, I did like that. So if this is way scarier, I could be, you know, I might be terrible. You could be one step forward, two steps back with Kim. Yeah, we'll find out the hard way next week, but I think we're definitely going to see this. We're certainly going to watch Bloodlines, Final Destination Bloodlines. week now that it's streaming on HBO Max so oh you're gonna love it you're uh I can't wait I want to tell you about one death but I won't I just want to say that when you get there you'll know it that's all I'm sure I'm sure you'll see it and go this is the one Scott was talking about I'm still

not over it is what I'm getting at really it's permanently etched you can't unsee it kind of thing yeah I also I want to say something to the millennials okay that the specifically millennials not alphas not not z not Xs or anyone else just the millennials. I understand the trauma that you must have had because I was driving on the freeway yesterday and Kim and I noticed that there is, all the lanes were pretty full, four lane highway, mostly full of cars. The one right next to us, weirdly empty for a big chunk. So someone had pulled way, way, way back and left a big berth. And I notice, as I look back, I'm like, why is that guy going so slow? And I look forward and there's a giant

truck with a ton of logs on it. Oh, geez. And I don't think that's just because they're logs. The just seen Final Destination 2. Yeah. This is basically like... Or I don't remember it was one or two, whenever it was. But that thing...

One was the airplane, too, was the logger. Yeah, but didn't the log thing happen? I don't remember. Yeah, you're probably right. I think it is too. But anyway, that thing is just looming up there and I'm thinking, you've seen final destination. Anyway. Was it two?

I think it was two. Yeah, Sean Bloom says logs was two. I can't remember. I remember it was a trailer thing. Because it was, because the trailer had the logs and the logs were not, they couldn't be fully showing it, obviously.

Right. But then I would go see the, or then I saw the movie and I was just like, oh, my gosh, that's horrifying what happened. So it is too. Interesting. Why do I keep thinking that's one? Because they have a reference to it in the final film and I always thought I was the first one. Oh, really?

Oh, interesting. Yeah. Yeah. It's not a spoiler. It's just kind of a, it's just a, you know, it's just fan service. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because they always look back and say, how did they figure out that there were these final destinations? Yeah.

Oh, no, it's a final destination. I see you in the chat mentions one of the deaths and the new one, but that is not it. The one I'm, the one I'm, the one I'm, yeah, don't look. But the one Brian's going to, he's going to send me a message and go, I think I know which one. And then we're going to, yeah, I'm sure I will. We're going to find out. And this is still in the little, like the comedic level that. Tina likes, where it's like big Rube Goldberg devices that cause people to die.

Like, we saw the trailer where the kid gets his, uh, his piercings stuck in the ceiling fan. Yeah. Yeah, there's lots of that. And it's, that's what makes those movies fun is it's like Rube Gold. It totally is. Like all the weird things that close the tanning beds on the two girls. It's not a guy with a knife chasing you through the house doing horrible things. It's more like, I'll bet that engine's going to fly into his face.

I'm never going to get her to see the. the black and white clown dude, art, uh, whatever those movies are called. Oh, hell no. Hell no. I barely ever want to see him again. I mean, I'm glad I saw him, but man. Yeah. They're, they're gross.

Those movies. Exactly. Uh, all right. Brian, it's that time. Yeah. A couple things, frogpans.com slash TMS for all your needs. We got to get a. Oh, the mashup.

Oh, the mashup. Yeah, we definitely do. Sorry. I totally, my eyes went right past it. Uh, Jamie sent us a mashup. This is the accent special. shuls okay i think this is mostly you and i doing like southern voices sure it is yeah so i guess we'll find out together because i didn't preview it but um big thanks to jamie for these uh everybody

at home hopefully you'll enjoy this and it's not too insane here you go i put an extra bullet in the hard drive that's where i keep all my porn i don't need all your book learning f that i got my gun of my dog exactly oh what you're saying it's okay to kill 50 dudes on screen but you can't have a booby We take care of ourselves. Yeah, you'd put yourself in a good place physically. You might be just fine. Hey, Larry, do you read the paper? I think they found your foot.

I ain't doing that. Didn't you hear what's your name? Get on the TV and tell everybody, vaccinations are giving you government blood? Everything's too gay for him. I too did. I see some boobs while I spoke by pop. Yeah.

Ain't nobody at the time for that? There's a blue circle in that water, if you know what I'm saying. We don't give no handouts. Y'all got to pull up your bootstraps and do it from fresh hell. I'm glad you found that. That's quite the fun. When the meth takes me. It makes me damn naked on the Waffle House tables.

I will not be afraid. The next time I take bath salts and I go outside and expose my sexual organs, I will not be afraid. I got a gun and I ate your cat. Stub and by a eater. Oh, there we go. Look at all them comers. Look, tick, dare down. I got over to Bill Dover's house and get some truck parts.

Everything just heat up on stove. Heat up on stove and then you go, uh, y'all want to just put it in your armpit and heat it up after a day or so. Y'all want to eat. A dog. I got three of them cooking. right now I'm a pit. I got one in this pit, one in this pit, and a third one down to my crutch. Y'all want a crotch dog? Cutch dog. Hey, I like fireworks. Fireworks are great. Patriotic, and if you don't like it, you're an American. Yep, I'm a sperm donor, but I

will masturbate. Yeah, it's only natural delivery. I want some video of this. Hey, Bill, why don't you film the whole damn thing? You know, I was going to throw that lawnmower out, but, you know, be a much better idea. Yeah, we should not shoot that shit. fill up with tanneride and go shoot it in the woods that's right let's take it out back bill you got anything else that you want to throw away we can fill up so many southern listeners are mad at us right now i'm sure they are we love the south i married a girl from mississippi yeah you don't see well muffing i think i'm going to take the lawnmower out back fill it with tannerite and then shoot it in a wooded harry no you don't that wouldn't be the voice you'd use no brian made my point better than i could

This is why we're using that voice. I don't know how. I mean, we talk to Jamie a lot. I just don't know his method for how he, I don't know what he does. Does he listen and then mark the times and then later go cut him out? I mean, this again, this is back, you know,

these are old, like so old that I can't remember the context of a lot of these. But he just, he ain't got time for this now, apparently. But, yeah, I don't know how he did it. Or if he just while he listened, kind of like how you watch film sack movies you pause it back it up record that segment and then keep watching oh yeah i've actually refined it now so for those here's a little inside baseball uh used to be exactly what brian just said then i figured out how to well i just got smart about it basically it's always recording

now oh cool and then if i hear something i want all i have to do is split the file edit that split because I'm using what do you call it? My brain is half dead here. Audio hijack. I split the file, quickly edit out the piece I want. I can even have it still playing

while I do it if it's a short one. And it's still recording, right? So I edit that, poop it out to a file, keep going. It's so much faster than it used to be because timestamps. Good job. Timstamps are a nightmare.

Backing up was a pain because some streaming services go back 30 seconds, some go back 10. like just sinking it was a nightmare. This way I can just kind of keep going. I pause a lot, but I don't have to rewind anymore, which is nice. So there you go, a little inside baseball.

Guys, now it's time for us to mention frogpants.com slash TMS, where all the links for everything you'll ever need are right there, including a link to our Patreon at patreon.com slash TMS. Today, at 1 p.m. you'll get the Monday show. So if you're looking for more content, good news, you'll have that. and of course daily music headlines is already up and out so go check that out uh brian we have nothing left but a song do you have something here we can play i do so this is one that we got that we missed in may um talk to the person who submitted it and they actually put uh the date that they wanted

to hear it two weeks before the date that they made the request so time had already passed obviously like they basically made it for april and he submitted the request in may but we got it all figured out and I put it here so eridow this one's going out to you he says hello saw and blade on May 23rd I'm going I went under the knife for ankle surgery hopefully this will be the start of a journey back to being able to walk and run for more than short distances I was hoping to request a song that is somehow related or upbeat slash poppy if there's nothing that fills the subject I leave the choice in the capable covermeister's hands if the 23rd does not work any date the week or weeks after works good thing you said that august fourth as well as i'll be off recovering

for several weeks afterwards and hope to tune in live love the show though errodow i'm assuming he's running marathons now this guy he probably like exactly he's uh he can't be stopped this guy everywhere he goes he's running um this year uh earlier this year uh scott bradley's postmodern jukebox took on kate bush's classic the song that made her a number one um um number one single in the UK uh with the longest distance she's got the record for longest time between number ones and of course it's it's running up that hill big thanks stranger things uh scott bradley's postmodern jukebox is of course putting their own vintage vintage style on it here is running up that hill

it doesn't hurt me you want to feel how it feels you want to know no no it doesn't hurt me you want to hear about the feel we're making it you to me and if I only could I make a deal with and I'd get them to swap all places be running up that road be running up that hill

be running up that building I'd say if I only could I don't want to hurt me, want to stay out in deep bullet lives, I know where I'm tearing you asunder, there is thunder in our hearts. Is there so much heat for the ones we love? Tell me we're both mad now, don't we? You and me You and me

Won't be unhappy And if I only could I'd make a deal with God And I'd get them to swap our places Be running up that road Be running up that hill Be running up that building Say

If I only come Oh, no. No. Come on, baby, come on, darling, come on, darling. Let me steal this moment from you now. Come on, angel, come on, come on, darling. Let's exchange the experience. Oh

Oh Say if I only would I'd make a deal with thought I'd get them to swap our places I'd be running up that road Be running up that deal There's no problem Say if I'll make a deal

Who you make a deal with God Biden up, burning up That do you No problem Your pants size is frog. You're always welcome at frogpants.com. You just ate my hot dog, and all I have is the coffee.