The Morning Stream - TMS 2988: Seductive Bread

Episode Date: April 6, 2026

Do Muppets have biological eyes cuz I like really wanted to know. Stress of the White Lotus. Keeping Carbohydrated. Chicken of the bedroom. The Lemon Teas and the Whatnots. Sharing Isn't Always Caring. You'll have no David, no Keith and no Lt. Yar! Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice... & A Time Machine... AND A CAVEMAN! Onlybread dot com. Combover Chicken. Smoking Guns and Barrels and Bears, Oh My! There are TWO Nicks. Cock Is Obvious. Fight the Pollen. Geezin with Major Spoilers and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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The lemon teas and the what-nots. Sharing isn't always caring. You'll have no, David, no Keith, and no Lieutenant Yarr. Mike and Nick and Nick and Alice and a time machine and a caveman. Onlybred.com. Come over chicken. Smoking guns and barrels and bears, oh my. There are two nicks.

Cock is obvious. Fight the pollen, pollen, pollen. Geisen with major spoilers and more on this episode of the morning stream. Want me to run through a field of flowers, nude. Run through a field of flowers, nude? Your flower looks like an anus with a stem. The morning stream smells like apple pie. Hello, everybody, and welcome to the morning stream.

This is TMS for Monday, April 6th. The year is 2026. I am Scott Johnson. That is Brian Ibbett. Good wonderful Monday morning to you. Welcome back. Yeah. Sorry about TMS Friday, everybody.

I became very ill over the weekend. and I'm feeling much better today. Good. Brian likes to give things numbers. I'm going to see if I can do that. Yeah. Give me a percentage. What's your percentage?

If I'm, if being fully not sick is 100, obviously. This is the idea. And one being, you know, basically I'm dead or zero. Let's go with 78. That's how I feel. Oh, okay.

Not bad at all. Not bad. Yeah, like a movie that's probably worth seeing in the theater. 78's a pretty good score, you know? So I'm feeling all right about that. And I think if I just keep it up with the lemon teas and the whatnots, everything will be okay. I'm pretty sure my daughter wants to punch me in the face because now she has it. Well, I mean, there's really nothing you could do.

Virus going to do what virus wants to do. And I mean, you could walk around the house or you could isolate yourself completely and wear a mask 24-7 and all that stuff. but, you know, I mean, it's your house. You got to feel like there's got to be some place where you got to feel like I just want to recover. I don't want to feel like I'm, you know, a patient zero and contagion. Normally it'd be no big deal, but she's going to, she's supposed to go to Tucson with her friends for yearly something. And they're going to be trapped in a car for 12 hours. And so she's like, dang it, I can't, I don't want to go sick.

And she's got two friends with. Oh, and that case, yeah, I'd be pretty. Pretty pissed. Yeah, she's... Somehow, Kim's avoiding it entirely. I don't know how, but... Good. Well, she was sick recently, wasn't she?

Didn't Kim have something a couple weeks ago? A little longer than that. Okay. I thought everybody, but you in the house was sick about two weeks ago. Oh, no, that was like back in January or something. Was it really that far away? Wow. Okay.

Yeah, but still, it's like maybe they built up a little something. A little Carter got it twice. She's getting hit twice. Poor thing. Everything's fine, though. making it through, you know, got my wife's rewatching the white lotus

for some reason. Oh, good. Just likes to be stressed out while watching TV. You never, yeah, as you say, you never watch the most recent season with, um, I'm behind on, uh, although I've seen up, I think I haven't seen three or four. So, I've seen the Michael Imperialioli season, which is two. Which is two.

First one was, uh, Dadario and, uh, Sidney and all them. Yeah. And then they were the most memorable people from that season for me too. Yeah. I think there's only been three seasons. Haven't there only been three seasons?

I thought we were on four. The three seasons was Lorca. What's his face? Who's the actor? Lorca was third? Yeah, Lorca was third season. Oh, I think that is the most recent. So maybe there isn't a four.

Yeah. The Pinia Colada season. I thought there was a fourth season. I guess not. Well, anyway. Coming soon. I'm sure it's, oh, I think it already has been announced. and like they've even announced who some of the people are.

And that might be what you're thinking of too. Probably saw some announcement and I just went, oh, cool. Yeah, let's see. Helen and Bonham Carter, Steve Coogan, Camille and Johnny, Heather Graham, Rosie Perez. Oh my gosh. All right. This is cool.

That's a good group. This one will take place at the White Lotus on the French Riviera. Oh, my gosh. All right. Oh, filming. filming set to begin this month so they haven't started. Oh, Max Greenfield Sandra Bernhard.

Oh, that's cool. That's a big cast. It is a big cast, yeah. I'll, you know, I'm, I'm into it. I just can't rewatch it because I find it really stressful. And she loves it. So she's watching those first two seasons again. And then we'll meet up for three. And then we'll enjoy ourselves. But the point of that was,

what's my point. Oh, when you're sick and kind of half in and out of fevers and stuff like that, and you got White Lotus on. Then it's playing that like insanity music when anything's going on. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. It's like Paul Thomas Anderson times 10

as far as like music choices. And you're just laying there going, could someone just freaking, could a hurricane just take this island out or wherever the hell they are this time this season? But they just all die. Have it wipe the whole island out in episode three. And it'll be the biggest shock of any season of that show ever.

Yeah. And give me someone to root for sort of. you know yeah see that's the thing that's that's what i'm finding with madmen um uh still in the middle of season one and it's like don draper's he's supposed to be our our guy you root for it so they are supposed to connect with he always knows what to say he's he's wealthy he's got a great job he's got a beautiful wife he's um always well dressed he's good looking but they do everything they can to make sure he's to say here's why you don't want to be Don Draper

yeah he cheats on his wife constantly he's always he's a terrible person he's terrible he does you know when when people get really when they get misogynistic in the in the office he's the one that

that kind of stops that sort of thing he's the one who gets involved with that iCorp i have seen season three of White Lotus with Kerry Coon and Walter Walton Goggins. Yeah.

It's Scott that has... I have not. I thought that... Please keep track. I thought we were clear about that. I knew that three had those people in it. I just haven't seen it. It's...

Four is the only confusion. Yeah. I thought it had happened already. That's all. But anyway, so there's, you know, there's very few people in the show to root for. You kind of root a little bit for Betty. You just wanted to stand up for herself more, really.

And you root for the kids. Yeah. The kids are the only one. I felt like I had to root for because everybody else is just like you're all terrible. They're all terrible people. What's her name?

Moss's character was pretty Elizabeth Moss. Pretty interesting. You know what? You kind of root for her because she's breaking barriers as far as like being the first woman copywriter

since the war. She's already written her first piece of copy that they really liked. Oh, Cooper. Bert Cooper, you root for her. Yeah.

Because he's a good guy. He's like, he's all right. Like, you know, people come in, please don't smoke in my office. Come on. And everywhere else, it's like a cloud that everybody's walking through. Yeah, I don't know how. Anyway, I don't know how anyone survived the 60s. I don't know with all that smoking.

Crazy. I will say that we watched a movie last night that I am going to recommend here because I've got another thing lined up planned for recommendals in a couple of weeks. And this would normally be my recommendal, but I kind of want people to watch it sooner because it's really good. Sure. It is called Mike and Nick and Nick and Alice.

Oh, I saw something about this. Yeah, Vince Vaughn, James Marsden, Ia Gonzalez, who we really love from like third body problem or three body problem and all that. Yeah. This is a gangster film kind of like your smoking guns and barrels

and, you know, it's a pulp fiction light. Sure. But it involves a time machine, which is the thing that you haven't had in one of these before. I'm sorry. You said it involves a time machine. It involves a time machine. All right.

Okay. I'm in. You know what? You just got me. Also, Dolph Lundgren and Stephen Root, man. Dolph Lundgren. Oh, David Keith. Or Keith, or Keith, David.

Keith, David. David. Yeah. David Keith was Mr. Bill on family affair. Yeah. Yes, he was. It's easy to mix those up. We've got two first names.

Yeah. I'm all in on this. It looks great. It's a lot of fun. Time machine. That is a really weird thing. It's a good time machine. And that's all I'll say about it.

Ben Schwartz is your time machine inventor dude. Great music cues in this thing. Oh, Brian. You're right, G. That was Brian Keith. Was, yeah, in Family Affairs. Thank you. Is there no Brian?

Is there no Keith, there's no David Keith? I think there is a David Keith. He's the guy who drew Max, I think, was David Kithe. Oh, yeah. You remember the Max with two X's? Yeah, he just died. He just died like a week ago. Yeah.

Oh, shoot. Yeah, we were talking to, I can't remember who I had a big long fan. Probably done away or something. Had a big thing on play retro about it. But yeah, he just barely passed away. It was only 60, 60, 60, maybe 61. Anyway. Wow.

Yeah. Wow. I don't know, I didn't know what to expect from this, but now that you're telling me we got some time travel, I need to see either how well that works or how poorly that works. I will tell you that they did not adhere to my rules of time travel, but like back to the future in the case of comedy, it's perfectly, I perfectly allow it.

All right, so dark comedy, you'd say? Kind of dark, very dark comedy, very bloody, not very bloody. like gun play with some with some blood um yeah yeah there's a sniper scene that's pretty pretty graphic uh but that can be done right it was it was done right yeah exactly i'm into it i got a pet peeve i'd like to share i just was noticing this time the i mdb okay uh when they show these because they do you know pressers they go around and answer questions yeah the junk gets and stuff all that stuff sometimes the premiere or whatever. And then the art that gets used for thumbnails on official sources or pages, including IMDB, are often mishmashes of things to make it look like these two people were

there together. And instead, what we get is a gigantic head. That's just size-wise. It's all wrong. Vince Vaughn's way too large right there compared to her. I mean, Vince Vaughn is a large dude, but here's the thing. The reason that you can tell that, you know, I mean, I'm sure his head is pretty large compared to hers. He's a huge guy. But he's also way taller than her. And if this was them really standing together, you'd see his chin. That's true. This photograph.

Yeah, he's a beast, isn't he? He's kind of a big old. Plus, plus it just looks like he's resting on her back. Yeah. Which nobody wants Vince von on their back. No, nobody does. But yeah. Wild. I want to see it. That sounds great. I'm all in. Yeah, watch it. It's a lot fun. You and Kim would love

it. Thank you for the corrections on it being Sam Kife, who was the artist who did the the Max. Oh, right. And so good. And Jeannie Corrects us that, well, not corrects us, but also adds that

Brian Keith killed himself, the main, the dad-in family affair. Oh, shit. Yeah. So not a, not a happy memory with Brian Keith. Not happy memory. It did not, you know, Buffy and Jody just did it for him. And Mr. French just kind of pushed him over the edge.

Damn. That movie again is Mike and Nick and Nick and Alice. Mike and Nick and Nick. And I'm sure it'll make sense. It'll absolutely make sense. Because I mean, those are all names, so we know that. There are two of them.

Nick. That's about it. Not supposed to be two Nick's. That's supposed to be two Knicks. That's the truth. Another thing I was going to say about being sick is for some reason the only thing I wanted to eat was bread. Bread.

That's it. And I could, nothing else sounded good. And sometimes I'm a big believer that when you're not well, you should listen to what your body is saying. and sometimes it wants things that seem ridiculous or whatever. In this particular case, and it didn't hurt the Carter. It made some brand new fresh sourdough. My mother-in-law's, so when my mother-in-law died,

everybody split her famous sourdough starter that she's had for decades. And that's what she used. And it's very, very good. So that's part of it. It's really good bread. but also I just craved nothing but bread. And I don't think when you have a cold, I don't know why bread was the thing I wanted.

No, no, usually it's like, you know, you're craving something with vitamin C or your body tells you drink more liquids or whatever. Oh, nothing sounded good. Yeah, your body, your body just wanted bread. So I'm going to start onlybred.com. And that's instead of only fans, and it will just be very seductive bread photos and videos for you.

Here's a slogan for you. give us this day our only bread. Oh, that's pretty good. Yeah, that's, you could have that one for free. That's coming. This is coming together. Billion dollar idea.

Yeah. All right. Well, I can't even imagine the real good stuff you're holding on to if you're giving that one for free. I'm saving that stuff for my own bread. My own only bread paywall feature. Your own sexy bread concern that you're working on.

Well, all right. Guys, here's the exciting news. Big guys on the phone or bri guys on the phone. or bri guy's on the phone. I don't know why I said big guy. The big guy. And we're going to do this.

All right. Hey, welcome Brian done away to the program. Hello, Brian. Oh, sorry. I had you muted. That wasn't you. That was me. I'm not doing it again.

Oh, hi, Scott and Brian. Oh, hi. Oh, hi. Yeah, you doing all right, man. Yeah, I'm doing okay. Yeah, it's good. Just trying to survive, yo. I know.

Every day. Paul is trying to kill me, but I'm not. having it. Yep. Get up every day as if it's your last. You got to fight the pollen that B. Yeah. Yeah. Fight the pollen. Well,

welcome to the show. We're going to have a game. We're going to do a game. Brian, explain the game so we can have the game. I can't explain the game so we're going to have the game. Welcome to the morning. Half As is a trivia game where I'm actually going to be giving you to the answers. I'm going to give Scott and Brian in category and six possible answers. Three of those answers are ding ding ding ding ding. And three of those answers are. Depending on how confident you feel with the category can provide one, two or three guesses.

But if you get any of those guesses wrong, you get zero points for that round. If you get one right, you get a point. Two right gets you three points. Three right gets you five points because we're using the new math and not the old math. Yeah, King's Math is what we're using. The play with the most points after three rounds wins the prize for their contestant. And I've pulled contestants from members of the tad pool that I don't care if they're able to listen live or not. That's who we pulled.

Scott, you're playing for Ian Klein. Oh, I like Ian Klein. His movie about VR was Just kidding, that was Ernest Klein. Anyway. Okay, very excited. Brian, you are playing for Anthony Lauer. Oh, I'm Anthony.

Matt Lauer's brother. Probably not nearly as of a dirtball as his brother. Not nearly as bad as his brother. Yes. Dirt balls. Very good. All right, let's get to the game. Do not put your hands on your buzzers

because there are no buzzers in this game. It's, you know, it's just the way it goes. I'm waiting for it to refra. there we go okay question number one you know best thing for you when you're sick is a chicken soup what kind of what kind of chicken might have been used in your soup uh question number one breeds of of chicken your choices are red shaver kifuzzi piquio piquin pool de boudoir let me try this one again yeah and yang ys all right is that uh is that a Is that a chicken of the bedroom?

Is that what? What's what it sounds like? Chicken of the bedroom? Pullet. Pullet. Pullet is a chicken, right? It is. French, I think.

L'Ivoire's bedroom. Yeah. So chicken of the bedroom. They got to decide whether that's a breed of chicken or not. I don't, none of these, these all sound like Pokemon. So I'm just going to wing it here and go with two of these that seem might be like possibilities.

I don't freaking. No. Yeah, I don't either. I'm going with these. Okay. Brian's locked in. Scott's locked in. Let's talk. Let's go with the, let's start the top left.

Red Shaver. All right. I mean, come on. Red Shaver, a breed of chicken. It is a breed of chicken. Yeah, of course. From Canada, the good old red shaver. Yeah.

Yeah, they got the combs, right? And they get to comb it over with the red shavens. Exactly. Yes. Sure. Peekin. Scott, you chose Pekin over there on the top right. Pecan chicken?

I was thinking of pecking, but that's probably why it drove me there is what I'm saying. That's probably why it was thrown in there, right? Because it looks like Peking. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, actually, it is. It's Peking from China. Turns, God, you killed me then. That means that my god probably is not right.

Yes. Well, that's where the two of you joined forces. You teamed up on Poul de Boudoir, which is French, means chicken of the bedroom. Well, Scott, we're either going to live together or die together. And congratulations, you are both going to die together. Polde Boudoir, I think just means chicken the bedroom. Yeah, your real ones were Pki-O, which is P-I-I-K-K-I-O. That's the craziest one.

That's the most Pokemon-looking one there. Yeah, it is really is. Yeah, it's funny because I put 1K and 4-Eyes instead of 2Ks and 3-Eyes, but I don't think that would have made any difference. Did you call me four-ey-ey- or might just damage my child? damage, you're damaged. Okay. No one does that anymore.

I was talking to some kids the other day. If you have glasses in school, nobody says this anymore. Nobody goes, hey, four eyes. Yeah, nobody does. You just have glasses. Just people have glasses. Exactly. Man, what I...

They find other things to make fun of you for now. But what a utopian society to live in where nobody's being ripped on for their eyewear? Right. Yeah. Anyway. So, uh, Piquio is from Finland. Peking is from China.

Yang Yam is Korean, but it doesn't say what it really is. And Kai Fuzi is also. Canadian. Caifuzi is Canadian. Caifuzi. All right. If somebody who knows French can tell me what Poulet de Boudoir

means, I'd love to I'd love to know. Please. Do it again. Chicken of the bedroom. Talley says She already did. Poulet is chicken, pull his hen. Cock is obvious. Well, yes.

But what is... Cock is obvious. So what does it mean, though? You don't hear that. Did you actually say what So just says hen of the bedroom? Hen of the bedroom? Is that what it means?

Count Drake. All right. All right. Okay. Well, let's... Don't go to hen of the bedroom.com. I wouldn't go there. You know, you know who loved chicken?

Gonzo. Gonzo loved chicken. And he's a Muppet. Let's go to a question about the Muppets. Do you see what I did there? This is for Amy. It's for Amy. Amy, no help.

I haven't seen her in the chat, but she'll be bummed she wasn't here. Muppets, who don't actually have eyes. Your choices are. Animal, the Swedish chef, Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, Janice, the Count, and Beaker. Which of these Muppets don't actually have eyes? Oh, gosh. Eyes you can't see, I'm assuming. Yeah.

All right, so question for the host. Yes. We were just talking about eyewear. Yeah. Is that, meanwhile, I've clicked. All right, all right. All right. So we're talking about actual biological, you know, representing.

biological eyes, whites and people like the people who made the Muppets did not make eyeballs. Yeah. I like that. I like that. That's a good way to say it. Good way to say it. In this case, I know the answers. I think it's these three.

Oh, do I dare? You know what I'm going to go to. All right. Let's start bottom left. I think this was the first one that both of you put. Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, who wears glasses. but doesn't need him because he doesn't have eyes. Scary. Eyeless.

Yeah. Eyeless. Iless. Dr. Bunsen, Honeydew. The Swedish chef. Oh, do you drink a birdie, bird. I can't see.

Chippa, chippardper. Yep. He's got big, heavy eyebrows and a hat that comes down over his face. You never actually see his eyes. He does not have eyes. Yeah. So far so good. Scott, you've got your points because those are the two you chose.

Yeah. Brian decided to risk it all. if sure is going to be Janice because you can't see because we're here. Oh, shit. I almost did it, though. That's absolutely correct. Janice does not have eyes.

She's got big old eyelashes, but... It felt too fake. Something about it felt fake. Her hair comes down. Her hair comes down over her, over her eyes. Indeed, yes.

I should have just done it. I couldn't remember what the count had, and the count's not in the Muppets. He is a Muppet. He's a Muppet, but he's not on the Muppet show. Right. The rest of these are. so I thought that was there to throw me off.

He has poo eyes, Scott. I guess actually her hair doesn't come over her eyes. She just has, here's a picture of Janice. Let's take a look. Copy image paste in the TM Ash. There's no eyes there. There are no eyes there. Her eyes are perpetually closed, but her hair doesn't come down over her eyes.

You're right. She just has, yeah. Ah, I should have gone with my gut. Dang it. Look at those lips. Oh, my gosh, dude. I think about him every day. She preceded the Instagram era of lip injections.

She did, yes, exactly. And she wearing a little, oh, it's all peace sign on her there. She's great. She's a hippie. Yeah. Like one of my favorite hippies. She's great. For sure.

All right, let's get to question number three. Brian going in with five points. Scott, going in with three. You need some more points here, Scott, to win the game. All right. Spinoffs of other TV shows. You think you guys can do this one. Which of these TV shows came from other?

TV shows. Your choices are, Cheers. Daria, Allie McBeal, Seinfeld, Mork and Mindy, and Knott's Landing. Okay. Brian locked awfully quickly. He did. Oh, did he? Did I? Oh. There's a question here about one of these

in my head. Now I just don't know. Um, well, shit. Well, poopie in the pants. Um, I'm doing it. Okay. All right. I'm doing it. I'm doing it. More for more.

How's it going, Fonzie? Let's start with that one. Yeah, Mork and Mindy. Mork started out on Happy Days. He appeared as an alien visiting Riverdale or wherever the hell. Which is so funny because that show, that was in the throes of the shark jump era, right? Yeah. You bring in an alien in your freaking 50s nostalgia show.

Stupidest thing ever. And it gets a spinoff and turns into an amazing other thing. Right. Which doesn't take place in the first. 50s. So Mork, Mork appears in the 50s. Yeah. And then appears the same age in the 80s when he's living with

Mendy. Man, we were so much easier back then on just stupid shit like this. That's crazy. We really were. He was an alien. Yeah, of course, the spawned from Happy Days. You guys also weren't fooled by Daria. Daria, of course, came from Bivis and Butthead.

Great all spin-off. And Janine Garoflo spun off from Daria. Yeah, yeah. She sure she sure embodied that. Was it even heard? Did she do the voice? I don't think she, did she do the voice?

Yeah, are you looking it up? Yeah, I'm going to look it up. Because she's so like her. She is Darya. Yeah, wicked kitten. Monica says, no, she did not do the voice. But boy, she sure embodied. She embodied the spirit of Darya.

She's right. Tracy Grandstaff did it. Oh, that's a great name. Grandstaff. But she, man, did she freaking channel her, though? Wow. Yeah, surely did. There's that.

Okay. That comes down to question or to your response. Number three. I'll just go right out and say. Scott chose, Scott chose Allie McBeal. Shred chose Knott's Landing. Oh,

Brian sure is feeling confident about Matt's landing. I can't imagine. All right. I never watched that shit. That was my mom's TV show. I didn't watch that. Allie McBeal, do you know what it spun off from,

what it spun off from? Let's see. I had Peter McNickickricks. so Ghostbusters 2 It came from Why am I drippings with dancing baby? Yeah Yeah

Now Brian's right He's right to be cocky Not's landing Absolutely Brian goes Three for three on two of these Ending the game with 10 points Scott with three Ah that's poopy

You know These are all been very good questions today Because some of these I was like Yeah Daria Morca Mindy Bam bam Yeah And then I'm left going You get to the third

It's like crap Do I go for it or? Same thing happened with the previous question. He's really good today. Brian, you deserve that win. That was a hell of a thing. Scott Fletcher would like to have a word. Congratulations.

Brian, who won what today? Yeah, Anthony Lauer is our big winner. He's getting a copy of Jagged Alliance 3 and Beneath Oressa. Ooh, nice. Courtesy, I didn't write down who these came from. They came from Wesley. Thank you, Wesley for sending these games. but Ian Klein, don't worry, man,

you're getting a copy of Dordong. Dordogny. I don't know if it's, yeah. Is that how to the hen in the bedroom? It's probably pronounced, yeah, this is the Poulet de Boudoir d'U d'Au. Oh, yeah, poo, pooh.

That's fantastic. Speaking of codes, by the way, quick shout out, because we'll get to them eventually, but I want to just thank him early. Two people in case I forget. Keith Hicks sent us big stack of codes. Oh, good.

And so did. grievous or grievance. Oh, yeah, grievous to send us some before. Yeah, a whole bunch of new codes. Yep, already in here, ready to rock just as soon as we get to them. I may have to take a look and just make sure that they're all good. Yeah, look for something. There's probably something in here you want.

Hard West 2 is really good. Small land's good. I already have all these. Let's see. Intravenous 2 is very good. Yeah, exactly. It's like, you're probably the best person to be able to say, oh, yeah, brand, I know what you like.

You would like this or that. Yeah. obviously nothing until I do dispatch, but there's... Oh, yeah, dispatch. I can't wait to hear what you think of that. I know, I can't wait. I've got, you know, I've got, what, 160-something Pokemon? Can I see how many Pokemon I have?

That is many Pokemon. They're all mine. Yeah. They look, many look alike them, but... What, they're yours? They're mine. Oops. I don't want to do that.

I'll look later. Well, it's taking too long to get to... Like, you wake up in the morning, it's like, oh, waking up in my house. How great. It's fantastic in here. I like that voice. All right. Well, we did it.

Hey, Dunaway, guess what? Good news. What, what? Tonight, me, you, 4 p.m. I say tonight, it's really afternoon. We could just say we should do that tomorrow instead. Oh, shit. Yeah, it's tomorrow.

Sorry. It's the day quill talking. We could do it tonight if you want to. No, no, no. I'm not prepared. It'll definitely be tomorrow. I have a whole other thing tonight. Yeah, my schedule is stupid.

But yeah, tomorrow night, Tuesday night, we're going to do watch retro. That's a fun thing we do. The day before we do play retro, we watch old cartoons. We look at stuff. We're going to watch the sectars. Yeah, the sectars. I don't remember that at all. Zero.

They're insects. Yeah. And tars, apparently. Yeah. What was that third one, too? Oh, I remember cops. Oh, cops. Yeah.

Not the TV show, the cartoon. The cartoon, not the, yeah, not the realities. quote-unquote reality show. But that's all coming up on Tuesday. We'll remind you again tomorrow, so don't worry about that. Don away, anything else you want to say before we go? Oh, I just feel better, Scott. And just, you know, good to talk to you guys.

Yeah, man. Kiss our butts. All right, he's out of here. That's the end of that. Guys, we've heard you. It's time for us to do this, if I can find it. Here we go. Where is it?

And now welcome Stephen to the show. He's a huge freaking nerd. Dalla, Dala, Dills, y'all. Flicer joining the program all the way from Hayes, Kansas, and major spoilers.com. Hello, Stephen. Hello, Scott. Hello, Brian. Hey, man.

What's going on with you? How's things? How's kicks or whatever? What do the kids say? I don't even know. I don't know what the kids say either. I don't think they say that. Hey, old man, get out of my way.

There you go. Nailed it. They call him geese's in the movie thrashing. They do, yeah. Now, what's great is the kid that said, who's the geese when talking about a guy that was probably in his 30s or 40s. Well, I mean, Sam Flood looked like he was in his 50s or 60s,

but it was a different time. It was a different time. He's probably 45 or something. That kid is now well over that age. Yeah. He's now... Josh Bowling. No, it's a different kid.

He's now a guy. But Brolin is in that movie. That movie is... It's both shit and kind of... And we had a good time. Here's the... Yeah, if you're going to see Thresh and watch it with friends, because that's the only thing that made that movie fun

for me is seeing it with people I like. Yeah, do that. That's most advice for most of FilmSack, by the way. So are you going to follow this up with, are you going to follow this up with Rad? No, but, uh, I forgot about rad. What rad will happen, but gleaming the cube definitely got some mentions. Yeah,

uh, Randy brought up North Shore too, which is a surfing movie, kind of along the same lines. Yeah, yeah, they all, everybody tried to make one of these back then. And we may get to them all. We've done enough of these, why not? Nope, we're watching the old quick in the dead this week and not, uh, Not the after hours that I was promised.

Yeah, I know. Well, it's Netflix's... It'll come back. It'll come back sometime. Yeah, one day we're getting your movie back. But none of that matters because right now we have Stephen here, and he is here to talk about some cool stuff. For example, I skipped way past your stuff. Oh, Mario's successful at the box office.

It turned out. It's going huge. It was. Biggest opening this year so far for me. Yeah, even beat out Project Hail Mary. Yeah. Five-day weekend, $204 million, more or less. That's a pretty good thing.

and coupled with the Project Hail Mary launch, people are wondering with Supergirl, Dune, Avengers, Spider-Man, and a couple of other movies that are coming out. Is this going to be the year that everything comes back? Are we going to get back to the Halcyon Days of 2019? Maybe. I mean, probably not. Here's the interesting thing.

When you look at the people who went to go see the Super Mario Galaxy movie, non-frequent moviegoers made up 62% of the audience. So that's not Brian. Brian is a frequent moviegoer. So these are people who aren't like on reward plans and stuff. Yeah. That's how they can tell that it's not. Yeah.

Why do you suppose, what's the draw there do you think to people like that? That's a weird thing to me. Well, first of all, this is a classic four-quadred film, right? It appeals to the youngs. It appeals to the olds. It appeals to the men's. And so it's got everything.

It's got everything everybody can want. Everything except decent reviews from critics. Well, that's the, critics, but the audiences like that. The audiences love it. This is easily the most disparate score of the year so far. So far. Yeah. Absolutely. And I'll chime in on that on Friday because I'm seeing it Thursday night. Oh, nice. I still haven't seen the first one. I probably shouldn't do that. I think the biggest argument from the critics is it's not as good as the first one. Yeah. Really? Okay.

Or the review. The review I read says it just feels frenetic and weightless. Like nothing matters. Like a little man who runs through the pipes and jumps and floats through air Has anything to do with weight Yeah Right That's a good point Right there's just no pathos Yeah

I was searching for deep meaning in Rosalind's quest Exactly This one from mood He just eats the mushrooms It's not like he wants to eat the mushrooms I love these two reviews And what's up with the dinosaur It makes no sense

Sarah Michelle Fetter's on movie freak dot com Says one out of four I found it all deeply annoying I like that one And then... You want to bet she's never played? Probably never played. Or she had a boyfriend with an NES and he paid more attention to that than her.

Probably. There's one... Made her very angry. This one from Mashable's pretty good too. It's another negative one. It says, we all have a finite amount of time on this earth. And I cannot think of a single reason why you should spend any of yours on the Super Mario Galaxy movie. I'm really curious what you think of this, Brian, because did you go see the Minecraft movie?

No, no. If the Minecraft movie can be, can blow people out of, you know, make a lot of money last year. Yeah. Yeah. That was the big... This has got to be better than that. Wasn't that the big... That was the biggest moneymaker last year, right? One of the biggest moneymakers, yeah.

They're pretty close. And that thing... I never played Minecraft, although now that I'm doing Pokemon Pocopias, it's very Minecrafty from what I hear. Yeah. Who knows? Maybe I'll give the Minecraft movie a chance. I really like

the cast. Yeah, the cast seems great. I like the director. It's Jared Hess, who made your Napoleon Dynamite. Yeah. That's another big disparate one. Oh, what did that? Big gap on that one, too.

Wow. Maybe this is the future of video gain adaptations for the most part. Maybe they're just audiences will love them. Like they make it to make sure it appeals to audiences and who cares with the critics. I guess so. These audience are going to see it whether the critics say it or not. I mean, you shouldn't, if you're making a movie to appeal to critics, you've already lost. Yeah.

Sure. Yes. Yeah. Why would you even do that? That's the truth. Well, good deal. I guess you have to do that a little bit toward the end of the year when you want to I mean, if you're doing something that is Oscar paid, sure.

But that's stuff where you start going into. Let's elevate this to art. And again, it's not to please the critics. It's to appease an appeal to your fellow craftsmakers to say, look at how great this acting was or how great the story was. It's not to say, oh, the critics are voting for the Oscars or they kind of are in the Golden Globes. But when you look at the Oscars, it's like they don't get a vote in any of that unless they've been in a movie. That's true. Well, let's move over to the Darkman.

Night, the Batman. You may have heard of him. Batman Nightfall, highly regarded run, getting a four movie animated adaptation. Wow. That's three. Four movies. I don't know why I put up three fingers. Four movies. That's crazy to me. That is crazy. I've read a bunch of that. I didn't know it was that worthy of four movies.

Well, it ran for a year and it's actually broken into three arcs, right? So you had Nightfall. That's where Bain shows up and breaks Batman's back. And then you have Night Quest. That's where we get to. Asriel showing up as the replacement. And then you have Knights End where Asriel goes like crazy and Batman has to talk him down and take back over as Batman again. So, yeah, they debuted the movie over in France and an animation festival. They announced it at the New York Comic Con a couple of weeks ago. But yeah, we're going to get four animated movies between now and the end of 2027.

And that's pretty typical for T.C. They release about one a quarter. So if they're doing this along with anything else that they have, DC animated should have a pretty good slate of movies for people in the next year. All straight to. Oh, yeah, yeah. None of this is going to the theater. No, no, no, no.

Okay. This is all premium on demand, stuff that you can get off your HBO Max if you subscribe that. By the way, you should be subscribing to HBO or your Apple, Apple services. Sure, sure. Yeah, I need to read these, apparently. Yeah, they're really good. Like the Bain stuff is famous, but the whole run is really good. What was I going to say about, oh, the last time that DC did do an animated Batman feature was in the 90s and it was that Fantasm thing, right?

Oh, no, they've done so many Batman. No, I mean like to the theaters. Oh, to the theaters. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Mask of the Fantasom was. No, there was another one after that. It was a Mr. Freeze story that went directly to theater. Right to theaters.

Okay. That was like a Christmas release, if I remember correct. but it was the follow-up to phantasm. Yeah, the mask of the phantasm was awesome. I saw it in theaters and I was like, can we do this more often? And then they just kind of stopped doing that. I don't know why.

Maybe it was, I don't know, it's expensive, I guess. Was this the introduction of Bain? Yes, Nightfall was the introduction. Well, technically there was a one shot, a Bain one shot that nobody picked up. And so if you did pick that up like me, it's worth a pretty penny now. Oh, I'm sure.

Because it had, people were like, who's this guy? They just kind of bypassed it. And the next thing you know, he shows up in Nightfall going, I will break you. The bat and breaks him over his knee. Yeah. Yep. And now you'll hear it, you hear it a Tom Hardy voice when he does it.

Yeah. Totally will. Take back your city. Frank Miller is back at it. He did a cover of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 300. I kind of have a general beef with Frank Miller's recent art. Yeah, it's really evolved. It's really weird compared to what he used to do.

Yeah, a lot of people, I mean, artists are going to evolve and they're going to interpret things their own way. Frank Miller is definitely older. But if you've seen the variant covers that he's done for Wolverine or any of the Marvel stuff, it's kind of along the same vein as this Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles one, which is, is interesting. I think the thing that everybody is very excited about is because Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was directly inspired by Frank Miller's Daredevil run. And for people that don't know that story, you know that Matt Murdoch shoves a guy out of the way from being run over by a truck. And then this ooze falls off the back of the truck covering Matt Murdoch with chemicals to make him. see while he's blind and yet that ooze rolled down the alley and covered a bunch of turtles

in that so if you if you watch that or if you read that very first TM&T issue that's kind of the joke is that the teenage mutant inch turtles are really in the marvel universe but they never call any of this out directly but and so it's nice then to see that frank miller for the 300th anniversary issue is doing the cover for that yeah it's cool it's cool i just i don't know something about the current style is just weird to me it is weird It's almost like you said, you told AI to do something in the style of Frank Miller. Yeah. Yeah.

And I don't know if it's just there's the flat lines or the... Yeah. I don't know what it is. He's also getting older and he doesn't care. Like, well, I don't mean he doesn't care what I think about the changing art. He's going to do whatever he's going to do. He's a legend. As he should.

Yeah, he's a legend. Let him do what he's going to do. Do a quick search for that Frank Miller, Wolverine variant cover. Oh, dude, I hate it so much. Frank Miller. It's pretty bad. Wolverine. Yeah, you got to see this. It's really bad.

I've got his original Oh God, is that the one with the X, the Red X behind him? Yep. It looks like some kid drew it. Yeah. Oh, man, that face is horrible. I mean, all of it is horrible. It's really horrendous. Like, this is the guy that used to do covers of Ronan.

I mean, I've got the, I've got, you know, his his limited series that he did for Marvel, the Wolverine Limited Series, which was excellent, and this was the cover of that. And look at the comparison of like, you know, put those side by side. That's really, really bad. And not in a...

I don't know. It's so bad it's good kind of way. No, I think, honestly, if it was anybody else, they wouldn't run it, but it's Frank Miller, so you run it. Otherwise, that thing didn't get made. He did a whole series of these. So there's a Captain America one. Is there a...

There might be another Daredevil one, but he did a whole series of these. Yeah. Yeah, there was a minute there where there were a bunch of them, right? Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. They were all kind of bad. But that one?

Yeah, I'm okay with, you know, after seeing that one, the Teenage Mutantia Turtles one looks pretty good. It looks a lot better, doesn't it? Yeah. You know what? Here's an old thing he did, very stylized. All new X-Men.

At least this is evocative of Frank Miller's work. It's not great. Just Brian's. It's not great. Don't get me wrong. There's like a vibe that at least has, I don't know, his old energy in it. My first thing I'd say when I saw that is, oh, wow, was there an issue where the beast got Wolverine-Clauss? Yeah, yeah. I don't know what happened.

I don't know. Maybe he's just tired. Okay, again, compare that to, I'm going to put something in our TMS. Compare that to issue three of that limited series. Look how good, like a black and white image. There you go. Just reversed out. Wolverine. Look at how cool that looks. That's beautiful.

It says so much in that, you know, in that, in that shot. Same artist. When he did Dark Knight returns either two or three, I think definitely by three, that is when this current art style starts to. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know, man. I don't know. Frank.

I mean, maybe he's got the, this thing. I don't want to, I don't know what his condition. He's got some weird neck thing. Every time he's seen, he's all bent over like this. Maybe that's just messing him up. I don't know. If I couldn't keep my head up or, you know, you got to draw like that? I don't know.

I benefited the doubt, Frank. I have no idea what's going on at your house. Yeah. Yeah. But you're a legend for a reason and we all respect you. Did he do this one too? No. Who did this Deadpool Wolverine cover?

I'll put this in our chat as well. And then, um. Oh, dude. I think that is Frank Miller. Yep. Is that Frank Miller as well? Yep. That's FM right down there.

Oh, there it is. Yeah, that's, oh, geez. I just, okay, yeah. It's almost like, I mean, it's not just the, the, the, the detail is gone. It's the fact that it's almost like he, he's forgotten how bodies work. Did we lose Stephen? No, I don't know. No, he's still here.

He's just, uh, marveling at all the, at all the wondrous joy. Uh, yeah, it's pretty bad. Maybe he went to the Leifeld Art Institute and learned some things. I mean, one thing that we can look at it, and Scott, you're an artist, so you can weigh in more on this than most people. You know, as you get older, your art style is going to change. And you may be looking for shortcuts to get your art out faster. Or like Charles Schultz, he ended up towards the end, he was drawing on these huge pieces of paper and then shrinking those down for the newspaper. So, you know, I'm just curious, you know, obviously his style.

has evolved, you know, over the last 20 years. But I'm just curious if there's a reason for his change in the art style or if it's just simply with age and maybe you as an artist can weigh in on that. Well, I remember the, um, Hagar, the horrible artist. I forgot his name. Sergio, Oregonis. That's not Hagar. Oh, I'm sorry.

Not Hagar, the horrible. I'm thinking of a grue to the wander. Hagar the horrible's artist had a severe macular degeneration or something later in his life. And he, I remember seeing these, I remember these kind of shocked me. I was pretty young when I saw it. But it was basically him at a drawing table with some kind of giant apparatus that essentially was like a big magnifying device that he had to use to get the stuff done. And he still did this for years and it worked for him.

But it was like crazy amounts of machinery to make it happen. And, you know, these days even with digital stuff where you can do a lot of pinch and zoom and things that don't require magnification or it's, you know, magnification is built in. I think there's still a tendency just over time for your art to change. Sometimes it simplifies. Sometimes it's getting more complicated. Oh, yeah.

There's the fantastic forward. Here's the thing, though. I kind of like this one. I like this one a lot. And it's, I kind of like the thing. It's pretty cool. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. You know what? It's just catch them on the right day. I don't know. I guess so. Yeah. Is it,

I mean, is it as a, as a publisher or editor-in-chief, can you, Do you feel like you can say to a Frank Miller, do you want to take another run at this one? Yeah, hey, Frank. Not what that side eye gives you.

He looks like he's about to kill you. That's the thing. It's like he's such a, he's deservedly a well-respected luminary in the comics industry. So it would be really hard for me, hard for anybody as a publisher, editor-in-chief to say, really, maybe can you do another cover? Just give us something and compare this to?

Yeah. Well, the interesting thing is that all of these covers are all, the character hunched over jumping out at you for the thing. Yes. And so they feel very mechanical. It's almost like, here's the base body.

Now draw the thing over that or the Wolverine over that or the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles over the top of that. So yeah, I don't know. I don't know as an editor if I would go back and say, take another crack at this. Hold me. I look at the details like, here's Wolverine's fist.

And that reminds me of dark night art, like stuff from that book. so I know that it's Frank Miller in there. I don't know. I'm also curious who's doing the inking on this because you remember like all the Dark Night Returns art is now I forgot his name, but it's all inked by somebody else.

Oh, right. As often as the case, yeah. Yeah, and so there's a change in that as well. But you're right, that hand does look like that. Clos Johnson, maybe. Clouse Johnson, that's who it is. Yeah. Well, there you have it.

Uh, let's move on down the road to, uh, Wonder Man. Oh, no, not Wonder Man. Wonder Man is getting a season two. I think we talked about that. Oh, did we, uh, oh, did we talk about that? If not, hey, Wonder Man is a great series. Everybody should watch it. Yes.

It really feels like, um, actors on acting is, is really kind of the big theme that runs through. And superior part of it is such a low, like it is the C story almost, basically. Almost. I mean, you could look at. this, oh, you can be in these movies as long as you aren't a superhero kind of theme. Or you could read it as you can be in this as long as you aren't fill in this underrepresented group of people, Jewish or gay or whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Interesting. And so that's, that's an interesting thing is how do you keep your secret from getting out in a system that demands 100% transparency? And then on top of that, you just have these great exchanges between the actors who feel like they're not reading a script or acting from a script. It really feels like you have these two just talking about, hey, I do this method. How do you do it? And they're just having this conversation on what acting means.

So it's really great. And Kingsley is just a top form. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Everybody in there, even when you have, what's his name? Josh Gad. No, no, Josh Gad. What's his name? Pants who's in there.

Oh, Pantiliana, Joey Pantiliana. He's also great just talking about what does it mean to be a good actor. Yeah. Yeah, hurry up and watch it, Scott. Did well enough to get picked up again, eh, for season two? Oh, yeah, season two. Which I'm going to be interested to see how they continue that because it does end with a big superhero kind of moment. Yeah.

And so I'm wondering if it's going to be now, oh, now we can lean into the superhero stuff or if it's going to be, oh, I don't know what they're going to do. But they've given it a green light. It's good enough. Do we know, is this happening before Doomsday? or is it probably not yeah probably not because there's no way

they can get a second season out this year yeah right it seems like a lot to expect it makes me wonder if somehow

they probably won't work him into Avengers of Doomsday but oh who knows I can see I can see slattery somehow making an appearance

just because he's involved in the whole Shang Chi side of things and yeah we were going to get some Shang Chi in our lives

again he will be in Avengers I think he's yeah he's in the Simuloo is in Doomsday. I think he was on one of the chairs. Pretty sure.

He wasn't Aquafina one of the chairs, too, or no? Yeah, I think she is too. Oh, did it say Aquafina? Aquafino will return or? Avengers, Dune's Day. The water, the bottled water will return to the set. No mention of any Eternals, I don't think. No, I haven't seen any of that, which is a shame because that movie wasn't horrible.

I mean, but it was not great. And, you know, Rob Stark's character, I can never remember the character names of the Eternals, but your main eternal guy who's basically, um, oh, that two starks in it, didn't it? Didn't it have, uh, or had John Snow, I guess, and John Snow, his brother again, yeah. But that must have been a, Icarus, thank you, Cyranox. Oh, Icarus. Icarus could be the one I'd see that they pull in for future Avengers stuff. Yeah, that guy, that Richard Madden guy?

Is that who it is? Yeah. Yeah. My wife wants him to be, we were talking last night, she wants him to be 007 real bad. Oh, yeah, yeah. I think that'd be fine. I think it would be great.

Yeah. We saw his butt in Game of Thrones. Anyway. I feel like Randy said, oh, he's too old to play. I don't think he's too old at all. No, I don't think so either. No, I think he's so perfect. Roger Moore.

He's what, like 30? Yeah. That's not old. Roger Moore started at what would we determine? 433 or six or something. Something like that. And even Sean Connery if you count for your eyes only. Oh yeah.

For your eyes only you count, but you don't count never say never again. No, you literally just never. Non-canon. Never watch never say never again. That's right. And then always say never when that comes to that movie. That's right. Let's talk quick.

Oh, yeah, go ahead. We'll just, we can wrap. We don't have to talk about chainsaw man unless anybody cares about chainsaw. I mean, I like chainsaw man. What's actually happening? So the series just came to an end last week. For good? The manga series.

Yeah, no, it was just like, hey, this is the end. Thank you, everybody. And they were in stage two or act two, so there's not going to even be an act three. So, like, even my youngest son, I was like, hey, did you hear the chainsaw man ended the manga? He's like, yeah, I read it last week. And I was like, oh, okay, well, there's me out of the loop with manga. But there apparently is going to be one more installment that is going to be included in the volumes, the collected editions as opposed to the week-to-week chapters that will come out late 2026, early 2027.

But a lot of my kids love the chainsaw man. A lot of my kids. Two of my kids. I've got two kids. You have two kids. They both love it. They both enjoy the chainsaw man. My wife hates chainsaw man.

Yeah. She just thinks it's too violent and scary. I mean, it is, I mean, the guy's got a chainsaw on his head. It's like kind of hard not to see that for what it is. But the anime is all I've seen. read any of the manga but um i think that was a lot of fun is that going to keep going do we know anything about that i'm sure that the the anime will continue because now you have a finite series so it's really and and it is a very popular anime on the crunchy role and the other places where

the kids are all watching their animas today and saying get out of her old man this is for us young so i'm sure that that will just continue through its run it still has that popularity level and again it's a finite series so why wouldn't you just wrap it up unlike you know the The One Piece or Invincible is also a closed series, so you know you're going to push through with that all the way. Yeah, and one punchman. One punchman, yeah. Yeah, I should figure that one out. Hey, that was great.

Everybody needs to go to major spoilers.com, which my understanding is, if I go to major spoilers.com, it's now forwarding or is it? Not yet. Not until May, because I'm still, I'm going to milk these guys. If I'm having to force to pay them to keep my old website up, I'm going to make sure that that site is as rickety as possible. so that they have to work to keep it going. Yeah. That's what you should do. Screw those guys.

Every day I'm getting like five things like, oh, your site is down. Now it's back up. We're working on your site. It's like, I don't care. Go to major spoilers.substack.com. Yep. But until then, I'm going to make them work for that money. They're extorting out of me.

But they've got, there's so much here, dude, newsletters, podcasts, of course, reviews, retro reviews. Like, yeah, missed a beat. It's great. Do you know that? Oh, yeah. No, we've moved to all the original content from the old, over onto substack. So it's not like you're missing anything.

And I'm enjoying doing these newsletters every week. You're getting on Monday a deep thought piece this week. It's talking about we're back and talking about the success of Super Mario and Project Hail Mary. Then on Wednesdays, I do some comic book recommendations as well as usually some kind of numbers kind of thing like, hey, here are some important numbers to kind of keep in mind. And then on Friday, it's kind of a wrap up of the big news for the week. Nice.

Go check it out, everybody. Lots of good stuff coming back this week, by the last. the way, TV show-wise. He got Invincible back last week, but now you got The Boys and Darth Mall, that new Darth Mall. I think that one drops today, right? Does it drop today? I'm very excited about that, because

there's also, I think, a tie-in series over at Marvel that's on issue number two that also kind of ties into the TV series. So, yeah, I'm looking forward to that mall series. This boys season is the end, right? The end season for boys? Yeah, yeah, the last season of the boys. And Daredevil is

the second season is really good. it's really good yeah i heard it was a little slow burning at the beginning is that true oh maybe in the first season of born again but second season just kind of picks right up oh yeah okay that's good because you got your uh you got your burnthal on his two airlobes are they there we we got him back no he's he's back i don't think we we're not getting we haven't gotten enough of him yeah we haven't got much of him yet wonder how much it'll cross over with the spider-man thing if they'll have any of that i don't mean by crossover i mean like well the stories Interlink somehow.

They might. And here's the only reason why I say they might. If you know what's going on and born again, Fisk has basically created his own military. We're not going to call them ICE, but they're basically ICE. And they're all wearing Punisher badges. If you watch the trailer for a brand new day, he's driving around with a military unit supposedly tracking down superheroes, which is what Fisk is trying to do. So it wouldn't surprise me if he is somehow involved in them, although he's seen. very opposed to them using his symbol in the first season.

Freaking kingpin. Can't trust him. Oh, yeah. No, there's a great development with an anonymous type person doing Wilson Fiske impressions. Very V for Vendetta, if you ask me. Yes, yes. Bring it back around to Frank Miller. Well, in the meantime, everybody, major spoilers.substack.com.

Go there, support creators making rad stuff, long form content. we need it in our lives. Stephen, have a fantastic week. Bye now. Bye now. All right. Cool. We got a quick email from,

this is a text actually, cranial spasm, wrote it. Okay. You should probably get that looked at whatever's going on there. Probably. Don't forget the jugs of pee though,

Scott. Oh shit, I always do. Why, why, here we go. This is about the jugs of pee? Have you guys ever read this quote

from Servantes? He was the Don Quixote. Author, right? 1600. sometime. Man of La Mancha. Yes. Too much sanity may be madness.

And the mad... Sorry. Too much sanity may be madness. I did say it right. And the madness of all is to see... Not maddest. And the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.

Then he says, after that quote, do you know what this means? Love the show. Cranos spasm. I mean... Yeah. I guess so. I don't know.

But I feel like you've got to have some hope and envision the world you want, not just the world you have. You can't get to the world you want unless you know what the world is that you want. There you go. You know what your canvas is before you can paint on it. There you go. Exactly.

Take that, Cervantes. Look at my quote. Yeah. Stick that in your windmill and spin it. That's right. Cranial spasm. I hope you don't actually have cranial spasms. Oh gosh.

Yes, please. Let's hope I hope not. I'm really glad you wrote in, though. So thank you for that. If you guys would like to write in yourselves, you can do that at frogvance.com slash TMS. It's all there for you. And that is it for today's show.

I think that's everything. Oh, Monday show's back today. Carter's in town, obviously. Cool. We'll be recording that. You guys will both be lamenting over your illness. Yeah, probably, you know, blowing our noses and making sounds. We shouldn't, things like that.

But it should be fun. So maybe I'll let her hit me on air. Maybe that's where it'll happen. You should. Yeah. You totally should. Not that I have to let her. She'll hit me if she wants.

Uh, anyway, find more about, uh, this and other stuff being scheduled for the programs, uh, this week at frogpants.com slash schedule. It's just always a place to find out what's coming up next. Brian, we got to get out here with the song. Do you have anything in mind? I, I might have something. I might have something in mind. And, uh, by something I mean, uh, crude fish, aka Chris wrote in. It says, I'm turning 45 and that's no joke.

This was on April 1st, by the way. Catching up with all the April 1st, uh, birthday request, which is crazy. Can't think of a better way to start a day than some Biffy Cleo. Hope you've managed to avoid any obvious April fools and enjoyed some that aren't, says crude fish. Yeah, no, I didn't get fooled by anything. And fortunately, I didn't care to look for anything that could fool me. Yeah, it was a real limp, real limp biscuit of a day this year. Just with nothing.

Like, nothing funny, nothing great, nothing dumb and nothing that I would have believed. It all just like, no big deal. Exactly. So Biffie Clero got a track that they contributed to the Kerrang high voltage

magazine CD, one of the CDs glued to the front cover of a magazine that people usually steal from the Barnes & Noble. I don't. I buy the whole damn magazine

is what I do. This is their cover of Weezer's Buddy Holly. Here's Biffie Cliro. Listen to this mashup and many more after the show at patreon.com slash mashup guild. I have to share this Twitter conversation real quick.

Okay. You know how I signify my jokes on Twitter? I put a winky face. That's how I say, oh, I'm kidding around, you know. Okay. I'm joking around. I said, Trump is like global warming. It's good people are trying to do something about it now, but it's probably too late.

Winky face. Yeah, I did see that. I liked a love. It's a little joke. It's nothing more than a joke. And I get this from Honeycat 155 who says, prove global warming. You can't.

It's a belief, not a provable concept. I said, what brand of crack are you smoking today? This is powerful stuff. And he wrote back, prove it, you can't. And I said, I had a sandwich for lunch. Prove it, you can't. You can't tell me on Twitter, prove it, you can't. That is not the place to ever have a conversation about proving anything.

If your statement is prove it, you can't. You don't want to actually hear me say anything. You don't want to hear me say what I think proof might be. Basically, you've made the request and you've issued the response to the answer of your quest right there in the space of one tweet. Yeah. I'm listening. I'm not listening anymore. Yeah.

It's basically what they're saying. Yeah, it's like saying, tell me your name. Don't tell me your name. Right. Well, I can't have that guy. That is not an argument I'm going to have. Tell me your name.

I don't care. So if you want to know why I keep making jokes back at you, this guy, is because you're not giving me any options here. So go back to your school of how do you do that. This has been a frogpants production. Find all our shows at frogpants.com.