Pop it.
::Pop it?
::Pop it.
::He went out.
::He just went out.
::Pop it.
::DJ.
::Welcome to Films of Black and White,
::everybody.
::All right, all right, all right.
::How are you all feeling?
::It is a great day to be with y'all.
::Y'all,
::we got like a premium dictionary
::definition of a Sunday evening.
::It is 79 degrees.
::It is sunny.
::We are so happy to be with
::you all because it's really,
::really great.
::We got a great episode.
::Y'all, this is a news episode.
::So it is news in black and white,
::which is really, really exciting for us.
::So we're going to touch on
::some things that we're interested in.
::We might have a serial showdown,
::which I'm very excited about.
::I'm excited to dredge up old wounds.
::But most importantly... It's
::not really wounds.
::It's just you.
::Well, maybe they're wounds to me.
::Oh...
::What cereal hurt you, Doug?
::Tell me.
::It's the whitest,
::plainest cereal ever in existence.
::I'll give you a hint.
::You want to know what cereal hurt me?
::Captain Crunch.
::Oh my gosh.
::Ryan and I were like on another level.
::That was good.
::Anyway, but in order to do this well,
::in order to do it right,
::we've got to make sure
::everybody is welcomed and
::brought into this space.
::So I'm going to kick it on
::down to Marcus J. Destin, a.k.a.
::Ham Sandwich.
::Marcus, how are you feeling, sir?
::Reporting live from the scene.
::We're up here feeling good, feeling great.
::Nice 4th of July break,
::but that also means we are
::inching closer and closer
::to the beginning of the semester.
::For those keeping count,
::it's like 100-something days,
::50-something.
::It's like 50-something days.
::It's like close.
::Oh, it's close.
::ever closer so this summer
::flew the fuck by I don't
::know what happened but it
::flew yes it doesn't help
::that they're already doing
::back to school stuff in
::target and you're like no I
::still have sparklers in my
::garage like stop it you
::know yeah there's kids
::there's naughty kids still
::popping fireworks right
::outside of my house yes yes
::there are yeah
::What was the question?
::There was no question.
::You're right, though.
::I remarked to Brittany.
::I was like,
::I can't believe it's July 8th today.
::It's July 8th, everybody.
::We have Labor Day to look forward to,
::and that's it.
::And then here we go.
::Here we go.
::Time flies when you're having fun,
::says that gushy external
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::absolutely and who wouldn't
::want to do that uh but
::brian roush unreliable
::ecologist uh how are you
::feeling sir dracologist I'm
::happy to be here I'm going
::to explain my chiron me uh
::so maggie and I recently
::purchased the board game
::worm span and essentially
::you play like a dragon
::scientist call it
::dracologist and you're just
::trying to like
::get these dragons in your
::caves and at the end of the
::game you get you have the
::most points and so we've
::been after we've learned it
::we're like in it to win it
::now and like one game I won
::by like one point another
::game I got blown out by
::like 20 by my wife so like
::just I'm a very unreliable
::dragon scientist right now
::like I got high highs I got
::low lows so that's how I'm feeling right
::What's the name of the game again?
::It's called Wormspan.
::It's a take on Wyvern.
::If you've played the game Wingspan,
::it's very similar.
::We're huge board game geeks over here.
::We finally got to sink our
::teeth into this big game
::over the long holiday weekend.
::Everybody was like, yeah,
::4th of July in America.
::I was like, Dragons.
::That's what we're doing.
::We're doing dragons here.
::Somebody clip that,
::make that the commercial.
::Somebody sponsor my man
::Brian for this game.
::That's how you do it.
::Dragons.
::Fourth of July?
::Dragons.
::Nah, just dragons.
::Wingspan is my jam.
::I affectionately call it
::birds when I try to
::convince my wife to play.
::I'm like, hey,
::you want to play some birds?
::And she does not like
::playing new games with me
::because I'm a big fan of like, hey,
::someone said this is a lot of fun.
::But then I get out.
::If the instruction manual
::has more than a page.
::Oh, man.
::Like, get the fuck out of here.
::Like, I don't have the time.
::It's also partially my fault
::because I don't read the directions.
::Oh, man.
::I'm one of those people that's like, no,
::no, no.
::We'll just figure it out as we go along.
::How do you play D&D then?
::Oh, my gosh.
::It's different.
::No.
::How is that different?
::It's just there's a hell of
::a room for D&D.
::Oh, yeah.
::OK, you're building a world here.
::You can take your time.
::There's no clock.
::So Chilton's to your point.
::Yes, we're talking board games,
::but also you need to get
::yourself a Maggie.
::And I'm very lucky because
::not everybody can have
::Maggie because she like was
::a former high school married.
::She's also currently married.
::My wife, but fuck up.
::She was a former high school
::English honors teacher.
::So she has no problem
::looking at information and
::then looking at me and being like,
::all right,
::this is how I'm going to teach
::you how to play this game after.
::Dear Lord, I'm supporting a hypocrite.
::I don't know what's happening in the chat.
::I said board games and set
::the chat on fire.
::I said board games and we
::got people calling us hypocrites.
::What is everybody's go-to?
::Let's go ahead and nip it out.
::What is your favorite board game?
::Let's do two answers because
::y'all always give me good dad answers.
::Give me your family board
::game and then give me your individual.
::I'm going to say no card games.
::Nothing like Pokemon, no Yu-Gi-Oh,
::no nothing like that.
::How dare you?
::That's reasonable.
::Here's my favorite dad game.
::I really like Break the Ice
::with my children where you
::have to knock out.
::It's a game where there's a
::blue plastic and it's
::raised up a little bit and
::there are little ice blocks
::that are in there and
::there's a penguin that's in
::the middle and you have to
::hit out an ice block without
::letting the whole thing
::fall and the penguin
::falling on the inside.
::And it's just really easy.
::It's easy to set up.
::They get a kick out of it.
::Anytime the penguin falls in, they're like,
::oh, you killed the penguin.
::They're very into it.
::So it's easy to set up.
::It's easy to clean up.
::And here we go.
::Currently, my favorite board game to play,
::like if I'm playing with other adults...
::I really like Ticket to Ride.
::Ticket to Ride has been my jam lately.
::Oh, man.
::But if someone wants to learn birds,
::I love to teach him.
::Birds is great.
::What is birds?
::Wingspan.
::Am I stupid?
::Oh, okay.
::No, you're good.
::That's what I call wingspan is birds.
::Oh, this motherfucker think he cool.
::He get to call it a nickname.
::Oh, calling it a thing.
::Yeah, that's right.
::Brian?
::Favorite dad game.
::We play a game called Outfoxed,
::which is basically like a
::takeoff on Clue a little bit.
::And you have to kind of go
::through and be like...
::Hey, did this person steal the turkey?
::Oh, no.
::We know that the thief has a necklace.
::And then you look at all the suspects.
::Does anyone have a necklace?
::And you're like, yeah,
::that one has a necklace.
::So you're like,
::this one moves up on the suspect board.
::So it's really good.
::I kind of get involved with it.
::It's kind of nice.
::It's a mixture of clue and guess who.
::yes yeah that's it it's a
::little bit of both it's not
::totally like I mean
::obviously it's for children
::but it's like this is nice
::that we get to do it as a
::team um which is nice uh
::but yeah my uh if it's just
::if we're if we're talking
::like game night uh with the
::adults uh yeah I definitely
::am obsessed with with worm
::span my risk used to be my go-to
::But it's also really hard to choose one.
::I've also played a lot of
::Settlers of Catan, Cities of Night.
::So, yeah, that's where I'm at.
::Marcus, do you have a favorite board game?
::I must be out of the board
::game for a while because I
::did not know all of these
::board games existed.
::These titles and names are
::throwing me for a loop
::because I didn't know shit
::about half of these games
::that y'all are saying.
::Or maybe I don't play enough games.
::Maybe that's the problem.
::I feel like...
::Okay, as a family,
::my family does pretty well with, like,
::Sequence.
::Ooh, that's a good one.
::We love Sequence.
::Like,
::we will bust that shit out at any
::moment and talk cash shit
::from the youngest to my grandmother.
::Like, that's how we get down.
::Yeah.
::And I think, individually, this is, like,
::super, super corny, but, like,
::I grew up with...
::as far as board games go,
::I grew up playing Scrabble with my mom.
::So me and my mom get really
::competitive over Scrabble
::and I love words.
::And so like,
::that's one that I think is like,
::I'm always down to play a
::game of Scrabble and then like sequence,
::I'm always on the bus out
::of game of sequence.
::Now card games,
::we'll have to talk about
::that another time because
::that's a completely different topic.
::yeah I i can't spell very
::well so scrabble was never
::my jam just because I'm not
::a very good speller so like
::they'd be like oh that was
::close doug but you're
::missing a u and I'm like
::well god damn it then um
::and so I always lose
::scrabble because I spell
::shit wrong that's just how
::it goes and it gets and you
::can't do that when you're
::playing with somebody like
::my mom or my grandmother
::who because they take that
::that's not a word like it
::becomes a whole thing yeah
::I see Mahjong tiles from
::that good shit all day, baby.
::And then he said, hold up,
::did you say that the
::penguin falls and dies?
::My kids are really into it?
::My kids are,
::they get really excited
::because the penguin falls in.
::And lately,
::my five and seven year old have
::all been about like, oh no, it dies.
::Like that's just kind of been,
::I don't know if they watch something, but
::Things are dying in my house,
::and we're trying to be like, hold on.
::Let's not get too excited.
::But lately, yes.
::Like, oh, you knocked him in.
::But lately, it's been like, oh, he died.
::And then Harrison,
::because he's really into
::the word about butt cheeks, he'll go like,
::oh,
::he fell down and broke his butt cheek.
::And you're like, what?
::Yeah, I guess he did.
::Butt cheek is a funny word.
::It's the t-t and the ch-eek.
::It's a good word.
::It's the eek that makes it great.
::Because you can really make
::it like your butt cheek.
::You can really get that
::emphasis out on butt cheek.
::Welcome to the grown podcast.
::This is an adult podcast.
::But Doug Demolition Man
::Demolition Man?
::Yeah,
::I almost exploded half of my family
::on the 4th of July.
::It's not on purpose.
::It's never on purpose.
::No, it was absolutely not,
::but I got to running.
::So...
::We were lighting off fireworks,
::and we had fireworks that
::were left over from last year,
::so they were old.
::And one of them, I set it up the right way,
::I lit the fuse, I stepped back and said,
::okay, everybody, it's about to go off,
::prepped everybody,
::and then that must have, I don't know,
::tipped over,
::and it then went firing at
::everybody and the house,
::and they looked at me and they went,
::what is wrong with you?
::And I was like, you guys, I am so...
::I'm so sorry.
::Did you put yourself in timeout?
::They said, like,
::maybe you're done for a while.
::I was like, no, no,
::maybe I am done for a while.
::Like,
::I just kind of sat down in a chair
::and I was like,
::somebody else light
::fireworks for a while.
::And then my brother-in-law
::proceeded to go and do
::almost the same thing,
::not two fireworks later.
::So then I was redeemed
::because it wasn't just me.
::It's a firework.
::yeah it's a fine line yeah
::yeah I you know as soon as
::fourth of july happened
::like my tiktok feed started
::to shift towards fireworks
::accidents pretty much like
::so maybe you should I don't
::know doug maybe you you
::were gonna show up there I
::don't know man now I i I
::almost did I kind of there was a moment
::I think I'm too old for Roman candles.
::I think I've made that decision.
::There's a moment where you get,
::because here's the thing.
::The thrill of a Roman candle
::is not the firework itself.
::When you light up a Roman candle,
::it's shooting about each
::other or it's holding it.
::This one had seven shots and
::I got to six and I was like,
::what if it blows up in my hand?
::And I went, okay, I'm too old for these.
::Like, I'm too old for these,
::because that's what I'm
::thinking about now.
::What if it blows up in my hand?
::Oh,
::that's totally that dad energy flowing
::through you.
::I'm just like,
::this is an unnecessary risk
::I have to take.
::I have a responsibility now.
::Wow, how will I type like this?
::how would I feed my family
::wow I work at a job where
::it's mostly computing I
::should put this down and
::then I had this notion to
::throw it and I was like no
::no no it's not done don't
::throw it like it's I had a
::whole internal battle like
::hey at least you didn't
::throw it towards the
::fireworks supply area or
::the or the family members
::because this was post
::almost destroying them
::I feel like I, growing up in, like,
::when we were in Louisiana,
::the 4th of July was, like, the jam,
::right?
::Like, granddad kicking,
::granddad and my uncle drinking beers,
::cooking hog.
::Like, they got the turkey going.
::Like, they're going to full shebang for,
::like, and then, of course,
::when the sun go down and you're on a,
::like, farm or, like, a lot of land,
::you get your shit off.
::You live in a small area, like,
::where you can be in the street and, like,
::once in every blue moon, a car, like,
::a few cars will come or
::something like that.
::Yeah.
::Yeah.
::shooting Roman candles at each other.
::Like, it's just like,
::that's what it was having
::firecracker wars,
::throwing things at each other.
::Now I had a similar experience.
::My Greg and my grandmother, right.
::She was, um,
::she had surgery done on like her,
::some knee surgery or something like that.
::So she was in like a, like a Walker.
::And so everybody was on the patio.
::They was drinking.
::Somebody set off the firework that tilted,
::right?
::And then it did the spinning thing,
::so it went.
::So it went and headed towards the porch,
::was on the porch about like
::two feet away from her,
::and the shit just started spinning.
::Everybody just left.
::Everybody ran in their
::separate directions.
::She just sat there.
::And I was like, damn,
::that's kind of fucked up.
::It's cold.
::It's a cold world out here, right?
::It really is.
::It really is.
::Nobody was harmed or injured,
::but it was a little touch
::and go there for a second.
::That's absolutely hilarious.
::Well, terrible, terrible, but hilarious.
::Doug,
::I'm glad everybody's still in one piece.
::Demolition, man.
::They are.
::They are, thankfully, in one piece.
::Thankfully, gentlemen,
::we have a whole ass episode to get to.
::But before we do that,
::we need to play a little game.
::We like to call catch that.
::Yeah.
::Yes.
::Thank you.
::The silky sounds of Marcus J. Gentlemen,
::I'm going to log in here
::and get this quote pulled
::up because I did not do that before.
::I believe, if I'm not mistaken,
::we are at around like $80, give or take.
::We are.
::So if we get this, I think we get,
::what is it, $20 per thing?
::No, it's 10.
::Yeah, well,
::so we'll be close and we'll be
::making a donation, a matching donation,
::one that comes from Romans
::Inn and one that comes from
::our actual inn to a
::domestic violence center or
::some domestic violence
::program or something of the
::sort to support those in need there,
::because that was a promise
::that we made a couple months ago.
::Absolutely.
::Roman also said he upped the
::difficulty a little bit to
::try and keep us on our toes,
::which is fair.
::We are close.
::He doesn't want to make it easy,
::which I get.
::So here we go.
::Gentlemen,
::are you ready for this week's quote?
::Hit me.
::Hit me.
::I suffer without my stone.
::Do not prolong my suffering.
::Oh, my God.
::You know what it is, right?
::I suffer without my stone.
::Do not prolong my suffering.
::That is such an ambiguous ass, like,
::quote.
::I'm going to start the timer.
::We got a minute, boys.
::How we want to do this?
::I got no idea what this is.
::I'm going to start off off the rip.
::Yeah, I have no idea what this is.
::I suffer without my stone.
::Can you read it again?
::I suffer without my stone.
::Do not prolong my suffering.
::I suffer without my stone.
::I suffer without my stone.
::Do not prolong my suffering.
::Do not prolong my suffering.
::It's like the priest from
::Princess Bride showed up in
::a Monty Python show.
::He was in a regular... I
::really don't know what it is.
::I suffer without my stone.
::I suffer without my stone.
::Do not prolong my suffering.
::Do not prolong my suffering, boy.
::Say it in a woman's voice, apparently,
::is what the clue is in the chat.
::Okay, read it again,
::but in a woman's voice.
::This might help.
::Be careful.
::I don't know if I can do that.
::I haven't suffered without my stone.
::Is this a witch thing?
::Like an English woman's voice?
::Could be, could be, could be.
::It's a witch.
::i need a hit roman I need a
::hit the time's up I mean I
::i also like I like witches
::so I don't know I'm a
::little biased it is a
::witch's day uh I don't know
::it's for agatha all along I
::don't know why you're
::looking like that no no I
::know he likes witch I know
::it's for agatha all along
::it's just it was such a
::random aside like I'm like
::I like witches so I might be biased
::I was like, about what, Brian?
::Like, about what?
::My man is feeling witchy.
::He just wanted the world to know.
::No, I'm just saying I'm biased.
::I'm biased towards a quote
::being about witches.
::Oh, about being about, got it.
::Okay, there we go.
::Fantasy stuff.
::The individual saying it is
::much larger than a person.
::I'm never going to get this.
::Here's the thing that I got this at.
::Okay.
::This makes me feel like,
::do you remember that movie
::where Sean Connery played a dragon?
::I think it was called Dragonheart.
::I feel like this could be Dragonheart,
::just because that's the
::only thing I can think of.
::Or something else dragon-related,
::but that's all that I got.
::The individual's saying it
::is much larger than a person.
::I'm thinking like a Jack and a Beanstalk.
::Something like that, maybe.
::I'm going with Dragonheart
::just because I have to lock in something,
::and that is my locket.
::I don't know, man.
::King Arthur.
::I don't know, man.
::I don't know.
::King Arthur.
::Doug,
::can you search it and then give us a
::hint?
::I'm adamant about this shit
::because I feel like it
::feels like an animation.
::Is it?
::No, but there is a dragon in this,
::but I was incorrect.
::There's a dragon in this.
::There's a dragon in it,
::but I was incorrect.
::I got nothing.
::I know we're not getting it.
::Just tell us what it is.
::This is the movie Eragon.
::Oh, fuck.
::I was thinking Eragon.
::You said Dragonheart.
::And it's John Malkovich.
::Glabatrix says, I suffer without my stone.
::Yeah, that seems like a Jeff.
::Do not prolong my sufferings.
::Yeah, that seems like a line for him.
::Yeah.
::Hey, congratulations, Roman.
::You beat us.
::Does it make you feel better
::about yourself?
::No, that was a good one.
::Eragon came out when we were in college,
::at least when I was in college.
::Yeah.
::And I remember that book series was huge.
::Never saw that movie.
::But I was like, boy,
::this looks like it's for me.
::The movie was bad.
::I heard the movie was not great.
::I heard the books were good.
::I think there's three books.
::I read the first three.
::The movie just didn't do well.
::It didn't do well.
::Those were prime sweating days for me,
::2006.
::Excuse me?
::Don't worry about it.
::Yeah.
::I've been kind of on a tear with voices.
::I listened to an NPR story
::where a Texas man...
::said something about
::preparing for the hurricane
::and I replayed that shit 10
::times wait why right after
::why because he was like you
::see down here we gotta I
::gotta make sure that I put
::all these girders around in
::my boat because the water
::and the storm surge is
::gonna come up and if I
::don't want to lose my boat
::and I just kept I'd go back
::and I'd be like I would
::take a break and I'd be like I gotta
::put these burgers on my boat.
::You took a break?
::Would you take a water break
::or like a Gatorade break?
::No, no, no, no.
::Like I would have nothing in
::the car and I would try to
::do his voice back to him
::that I would play it again.
::So you're doing it.
::Yeah.
::Oh, I get this.
::Hey, if you're ever concerned,
::you never see those people
::who are shaving and driving.
::You won't see me shaving and driving.
::You will see me try voices
::while I'm driving.
::That's equally as dangerous.
::It is because I get into it.
::I love it.
::I love it.
::Nevermind.
::Forget it.
::How do you get into it?
::Like,
::how do you know you've hit a stride
::where you've gone too far into like,
::It's when I start giving
::them like backstories that aren't there.
::I got it.
::So yeah,
::I got to prepare my boat because
::this is all I have after the divorce.
::Like that's usually like,
::that's where I'm like, okay,
::that's where it's now gone.
::All right.
::Got it.
::Thank you for answering my question.
::That was a perfect answer.
::There you go.
::That was a perfect answer.
::So I give these people backstories.
::Yeah.
::Yeah, it's all she left me in the divorce.
::It's all she left me in the divorce.
::And if this boat goes down,
::I ain't got nothing left.
::Like, that's just.
::Yeah, like,
::you should get your priorities together,
::man.
::Yeah, man.
::I get it.
::If it was all I had, yeah,
::I'd put girders on my boat.
::Marcus,
::you had a this or that you wanted
::to play with us.
::What do you got?
::Brian is, yo,
::that was the wildest segment.
::And you talked about Brian's
::little one-off shit.
::Like, yours is just as equally as crazy.
::I felt goaded into it.
::Yeah.
::All right, here's what we're going to do,
::y'all.
::We are going to go.
::Oh, God.
::And we're going to have a cereal contest.
::If you were here for our last one,
::it's MCU.
::It was, we had an MCU showdown,
::which had some of the MCU,
::some of it not.
::This is not a perfect or
::like well thought out, like ours bracket,
::like our brackets are,
::but these are 32 options
::and we're going to go down
::all the way to number one.
::All right.
::Is everybody ready?
::Yeah.
::This first matchup is like
::horrifying to me.
::So let's do it.
::So our first matchup,
::we have strawberry milkshake,
::frosted flakes versus Twinkies cereal.
::Yeah.
::Twinkies cereal?
::What?
::Does it have the cream in the middle?
::That's what I was asking.
::It's gotta have something in it.
::It has to.
::That feels like too much.
::I'm going Frosted Flakes
::strawberry milkshake.
::This feels like I'm picking
::from the bottom of the barrel.
::I agree.
::I'm gonna react less to the
::strawberry milkshake situation.
::Alright.
::We have Kellogg's.
::That was a weird way to
::start the competition.
::I didn't like it.
::We have Kellogg's Frosted Flakes,
::the original versus Reese's Puffs cereal.
::Reese's Puffs cereal.
::Reese's Puffs.
::It's not as filling,
::but it's more satisfying.
::I do like Frosted Flakes.
::I can eat Frosted Flakes at any point,
::but I do enjoy a Reese's Puffs cereal.
::Next up,
::Captain Crunch Crunch Berries
::versus Kellogg's Eggo
::Blueberry Waffle Cereal.
::Oh, golly.
::Okay, well, Crunch Berries, right?
::I mean, Crunch Berries?
::Yeah, Crunch Berries with my jelly.
::I'm just more familiar with
::Crunch Berries.
::Yeah, me too.
::Alrighty.
::Next up, we have Icy the Cereal.
::Icy Cereal.
::That's weird.
::I felt weird saying it out loud.
::Icy the Cereal and S'mores the Cereal.
::Both of these,
::you will lose all your feet and all toes.
::Immediate diabetes.
::I'm going S'mores.
::I'm also upset that it's
::spelled with a Z. But I'm going S'mores.
::I remember these from the early 2000s,
::I think is when these came out,
::which is why it's got the
::attitude Z at the end.
::I'm going to go with S'mores.
::Attitude Z. That's exactly what it is.
::Next up,
::we have Honeycomb Big Real Honey
::Flavor Cereal versus Waffle Crisp.
::I'm going Waffle Crisp.
::I'm going Honeycomb.
::Yeah, I had Honeycomb.
::I didn't mind it.
::It was a little bland,
::but I had Honeycomb.
::So you're like, okay,
::we're going Honeycomb.
::Alright, well,
::fuck Waffle Crisp and fuck me too.
::Raisin Bran Cereal and Honey Smacks.
::I'm going Honey Smacks.
::Oh, Raisin Bran.
::I'm also going raisin bran
::I'm sorry the dance
::outmoded you I can't see
::him but I know that he's
::like he's taunting me I
::couldn't see him I'm not
::it's just I guys when these
::came up I went well this is
::where I am now the outlier
::and so when brian was like
::raisin brown I'm like fuck
::yeah I'm gonna slam that
::how do y'all not like honey
::smacks honey smacks is so
::good marcus I love the I
::love the chewy raisin in
::there it's nice oh
::the one chili raisin.
::No, it's more than that.
::All right.
::We want to go Captain Crunch.
::Oops, all berries or frosted miniweeds.
::You know what?
::This is a frosted miniweeds.
::Frosted, yeah.
::Oops, all berries.
::I will say this.
::If this is a game where
::you're not having milk, it's dry cereal.
::It's oops, all berries.
::Frosted miniweeds is like
::eating sawdust without the milk.
::If we went as specific as
::Strawberry Frosted Flakes,
::I'm going to change my answer.
::Because if it's Strawberry
::Frosted Mini Wheats, I'm in.
::But I'm going to go Oops All Berry.
::It doesn't matter.
::I'm lost anyway.
::Going down with the berries.
::Oh,
::and with that Llama Llama Red Pajama
::book?
::Yes, sign me up.
::Excellent.
::All right.
::Golden Graham Cereal versus
::Red Berries Kill All Special Cake.
::No, Golden Grahams.
::Yeah, Golden Grahams.
::I don't like Golden Grahams.
::Special K is the one.
::What the hell?
::I don't like them.
::They're overrated.
::I can't believe that shit.
::Round nine.
::That was just bullshit.
::I just think he's bullshitting us.
::I don't think he's getting
::around his answer.
::man this is this is this is
::chips ahoy ahoy versus
::fruit loops fruit loops I
::mean fruit loops it's it's
::classic I mean they served
::in for hotels for pete's
::sake funny enough fruit
::loops is still an
::underrated cereal like
::amongst all of the cereal
::it is still like not
::mentioned as much as it
::should be all right round
::10 pops versus tricks I
::have a before we answer I
::have a clarifying question yeah
::Is this just tricks in
::general or is this tricks
::with fruity shapes?
::Because yes, it does change my answer.
::It does.
::It says six fruity shapes.
::Then I'm going with tricks
::because lately they have
::changed tricks where it's
::not the shapes anymore.
::It's just like round balls.
::And if that were the case,
::I'm going pops because it's the shapes.
::I'm going tricks.
::Yeah, I'm going Trix, too.
::I'm going Pops.
::Trix just never did it for me.
::Yeah, Pops was kind of... I don't know.
::They were just bland.
::Apparently,
::some people eat Frosted Mini
::Wheats without milk.
::So, good luck to you in the chat.
::Alright, don't die.
::Alright, here we go.
::Good luck to you in the chat.
::Cheerios,
::just regular Cheerios or Cocoa
::Buff cereal?
::I mean... I mean...
::This is Cocoa Puffs for me.
::I'm going Cheerios.
::Obviously, if my doctor's watching,
::it's Cheerios, you know,
::because of that heart health, you know.
::I'm going Cheerios,
::but I am adding blueberries
::to my Cheerios.
::Okay, who won?
::Because that threw me off.
::It's Cocoa Puffs.
::I was just trying to make a
::joke about how Jera is
::definitely better for you.
::No way.
::No way.
::That's real.
::This feels like a trap.
::It is a trap.
::Plot twist, I made this.
::So that is actually a real cereal.
::Is it really?
::I think so.
::Because it's got a WWF.
::Maybe it's not.
::Somebody should look that up.
::I can't exit the screen.
::Okay.
::I'm really upset with how they drew them.
::Galactic.
::What if they really look like that?
::That's nevermind.
::We're getting distracted by
::the long thing.
::Lucky charms.
::This is a WWE tie-in serial.
::Is that their lips or their teeth?
::Because if it's their lips,
::then they've got some explaining to do.
::That's their teeth, buddy.
::Here's the thing.
::It looks weird, right?
::And my knee-jerk reaction is
::that's racist.
::Don't do that.
::It's racist, WWE.
::I'm going Lucky Charms.
::I'm also going Lucky Charms.
::I'm going Booty O's.
::Because I don't support a racist cereal.
::I'm going Booty O's.
::Support the black creators.
::At Wrestlemania 32 tie-in cereal.
::Support the black creators.
::I'm going for Booty O's.
::Okay.
::These are new.
::Cosmic brownie cereal?
::Cosmic brownie cereals
::versus cinnamon checks.
::I voted
::I'm going cinnamon checks
::because cosmic brownie
::cereal sounds like too much.
::You know,
::I'm probably going to go cosmic
::brownie cereal.
::I'm going to go cosmic brownie.
::Cinnamon check sounds crazy.
::I'm sorry.
::Do you guys go to the dentist regularly?
::Who the fuck is looking at your teeth?
::I didn't have any cavities last time,
::okay?
::I'd like to try again.
::It's a little bully for you, Brian,
::because you're really
::playing with fire there.
::Roman Barrett said,
::what do the bootyos taste like?
::They taste like ass.
::All right.
::Next up,
::we are going to go honey bunches
::of oats with almonds versus
::Eggo homestyle waffle cereal.
::Well,
::I'm going honey bunches because I
::literally had that this morning.
::I'm also going with honey bunches of oats.
::I'll go Eggo, but yeah, for sure.
::Yeah.
::Why do I feel like you're
::picking just the cereal
::that I'm not picking?
::No, that's not true.
::That's not true.
::That's not true.
::Okay, family size doesn't matter.
::Fruity Pebbles Crunched or Golden Crisp?
::I'm going Golden Crisp.
::I'm going to go Golden Crisp
::over the Fruity Pebbles,
::but that's the only time
::Golden Crisp is going to
::win for me because, like, man,
::it's just sugar.
::Like,
::it's the most sugar cereal I can
::think of.
::The mascot's name is literally Sugar Bear.
::True.
::Good point.
::Good point.
::I don't know.
::Yeah, what did you pick, though?
::I'm going to go with Fruity Pebbles.
::All right.
::Okay.
::Who won?
::Where are you going, Marcus?
::Golden Crisp.
::All right.
::Golden Crisp it is.
::And then Golden Crisp won.
::All right.
::Sorry.
::All right.
::Apple Jack cereal versus Cocoa Pebbles.
::I'm going Apple Jacks.
::I like the consistency better.
::Okay.
::You know?
::I disagree with Apple Jacks.
::All right.
::Here we go.
::Jesus Christ.
::Honey Bunches of Oats with
::Omens versus Galactic Lucky Charms.
::We are now at the head-to-head matchups.
::Honey Bunches of Oats.
::Yeah, I'm still going Honey Bunches.
::Proud of you, Crunch.
::Proud of you.
::All right, next up,
::we got Fruit Loops versus
::S'mores with an Attitude Z. Fruit Loops.
::Fruit Loops, for sure.
::All right, here we go.
::Strawberry Frosted Flakes
::versus Cocoa Puffs.
::Cocoa Puffs.
::For sure.
::Alrighty.
::Captain Crunch Crunch Berries versus Trix.
::Trix.
::Crunch Berries.
::Captain Crunch for me.
::Yeah, I'm going Crunch Berries.
::Crunch Berries.
::Crunch Berries.
::All right.
::Frosted Mini Wheats,
::the original versus Cosmic
::Brownie Cereal.
::I refuse to answer until Marcus answers.
::I'm going Frosted Mini Wheats.
::Eat it.
::Frosted Mini Wheats.
::I'm also going Frosted Mini Wheats.
::Why are you trying to be so divisive?
::Jesus.
::All right.
::Honeycomb Cereal versus
::Reese's Puff Cereal.
::This is Reese's Puffs for me.
::Yeah, I'm going Reese's Puffs.
::That's also my selection.
::Why is he waiting to pick?
::I don't know.
::I don't know.
::I don't know, man.
::He's trying to prove a point
::that's not going to get proven.
::Golden Crisp versus Apple Jacks?
::I'm going Apple Jacks.
::Apple Jacks.
::I am also going Apple Jacks.
::doing that shit.
::I don't know if you're
::trying to be dramatic.
::I don't know what's happening here.
::He wants to wait for me to
::pick as if I'm doing the
::opposite of him and I'm not.
::We've agreed on most of these,
::I feel like.
::Doug, why are you doing this?
::You always make it seem like
::we are fighting brothers.
::I pick Raisin Bran.
::I am without my stone.
::Laughter Laughter Laughter
::All right.
::Raisin Bran cereal versus Golden Grahams.
::Raisin Bran.
::I guess I'm going Golden Grahams.
::I think I'm like... I'll go Raisin Bran,
::actually.
::I think.
::Golden Grahams taste like cardboard.
::They do.
::That's the thing.
::It doesn't really have a lot of taste.
::It's nice and sweet.
::A little sugar over top of
::the Raisin Bran is always good.
::Frosted Mini Wheats.
::The original versus Fruit Loops.
::I'm going Fruit Loops.
::Frosted Mini Wheats.
::I'm going Fruit Loops.
::Yeah.
::All right, here we go.
::Honey Bunches of Oats with
::Almonds versus Cocoa Puffs.
::I'm going Cocoa Puffs.
::HBO's with almonds.
::It's got to be Honey Bunches.
::Cocoa Puffs just turns,
::it's just chocolate milk after a while.
::That's good.
::What the fuck is wrong with that?
::Reese's Puffs cereal versus Apple Jacks.
::I'm going Apple Jacks.
::I'm going Reese's Puffs.
::Reese's Puffs.
::It tastes so good.
::It really does.
::Did y'all both go Reese's Puffs?
::We did.
::I know.
::We're starting to... Raisin
::Bran Crunch versus Cap'n
::Crunch Crunch Berries.
::I'm still going Raisin Bran, sorry.
::We got people rooting for
::Raisin Bran in the chat.
::I don't know where I'm falling on this.
::Y'all motherfuckers gonna hate me.
::I'm going Crunch Berries.
::Gosh, really?
::Sorry, Brian.
::think of your colon brian no
::no no think of the fun
::thing think of how rough
::this major brian the roof
::of your mouth is made of
::steel because okay here's
::the thing raisin bran
::raisin bran like it you're
::like it's healthy but then
::like you look at the added
::sugars and it's just as
::much as like any other like
::sugar branded cereal
::Everything's organic raisins in it.
::They toss those fuckers in
::sugar and then they were like,
::now put them in.
::That's why I'm going Captain Crunch.
::At least I know what I'm
::getting with Captain Crunch.
::Raisin Bran.
::And I like to be lied to,
::so Raisin Bran for me.
::What?
::That's true.
::You got to know what your thing is.
::Honey Bunches of Oats,
::HBO with almonds versus Froot Loops.
::Honey Bunches of Oats.
::I'm going to call them exclusively.
::I'm calling them HBOs from now on.
::HBOs.
::HBOs.
::That's what I'm calling them.
::HBOs Max.
::Oh, my God.
::It was this.
::The HBOs.
::It was the best one.
::Yeah, that was solid.
::It was fine.
::We said that.
::Yeah.
::I'm going –
::Look, I eat HBO.
::It's like every other day.
::But man, I like Fruit Loops better.
::I just do.
::I do like Fruit Loops.
::I'm sorry.
::I do love Fruit Loops better.
::Yeah, I do.
::Sorry.
::Both of those brands lost.
::All right.
::Here we go.
::Reese's Puffs cereal versus
::Crunch Berries.
::Reese's Puffs.
::Yeah.
::Reese's Puffs.
::Yeah, I'll go Reese's Puffs.
::I feel like we dragged you
::along for Reese's Puffs.
::Here we go for the final round.
::Oh, man.
::Reese's Puffs cereal versus Fruit Loops.
::Going Reese's Puffs.
::Sorry.
::I think when it boils down to it for me,
::all fruit cereals taste very similar.
::Yeah.
::Look at the mascot, though.
::Nobody's talking about the mascot.
::2K and Sam.
::It's very much for kids of just like,
::look at this cartoon bird
::and eat his circles.
::I don't know.
::What about the fact that is
::Reese's Puffs cereal the
::best version of a peanut butter cereal?
::Yeah.
::What other peanut butter
::cereals are out there?
::Captain Crunch does one.
::There's some other options out there.
::It's the texture and the consistency.
::That shit is rough.
::It is.
::It's smooth, but it's got crunch,
::but it's got... It's not
::falling apart in your mouth.
::I don't know.
::I don't know how to describe this.
::It's Reese's Puffs for me.
::I guess I like the way it
::feels in my mouth.
::But...
::I know what I said.
::I know.
::I should have thought about
::that just a tad bit more.
::oh it's good I answered that
::question after the fact I
::want to answer I saw that
::question in the chat I want
::to go back to it because
::that'll be good good
::question survey it's a
::great question question
::loops or reese's puffs doug
::wagner what is your
::decision reese's puffs all
::right brian roush what is
::your decision I'm locking
::in reese's puffs all right
::so it really doesn't matter
::what the fuck I do huh
::reese's puff wins you
::brought us the bracket it
::wins the match I don't know
::You're the one that brought
::us the bracket and bootios.
::That's something I will forget.
::I was introduced to that live on air.
::You remember the Bustin' Up
::bar from Tropic Thunder?
::Oh, yes.
::Bustin' Up bar?
::Yeah.
::Booty sweat and bustin' up.
::Energy drink and bustin' up bar.
::That movie was great.
::You can't remake
::But that was a great movie.
::No, you can't.
::But it was awesome.
::All right.
::Here was a question from one
::of our viewers on Twitch.
::GZDREV.
::Do you think your ratings
::would change if you had to
::use almond milk or soy milk
::to wash down the cereal
::like a banana flavored
::almond milk instead of whole milk?
::It's a great question.
::A little bit.
::Wait, hold on really quick.
::What milks do you all
::currently put in your cereals?
::A vanilla almond milk.
::Okay.
::Okay.
::Black people are lactose intolerant,
::so I'm trying to.
::I guess we're learning things today.
::The more you know.
::I'm a 2% cow's milk kind of guy.
::I am sorry.
::Homelander?
::Human milk?
::What the fuck?
::I'm a skim milk person.
::Always have been.
::So that's me.
::I don't think my rating...
::If it's a banana-flavored almond milk,
::yeah, my ratings are going to change.
::Actually, Reese's Puffs would be good.
::Yeah.
::It would be okay.
::It wouldn't be terrible.
::I feel like it would help
::the sugar cereals a whole lot.
::Yeah.
::I don't think my ratings
::would change a whole ton.
::Y'all really don't like sweet cereal.
::Y'all really are.
::I mean, it's just more of a dessert now.
::As a kid,
::I would put away Cinnamon Toast
::Crunch like it was my job.
::I thought Frosted Cheerios were healthy.
::They were not.
::Yeah.
::I know, right?
::I like to be lied to,
::so if there's a cereal that's like,
::this is healthy,
::and I don't have to look at
::the nutritional information,
::then I'll eat just about whatever.
::I think, to answer your question, for me,
::because I think I might
::have been the only one,
::almond milk in a vanilla or
::a chocolate or something
::It's usually pretty good with anything.
::I think that's the best
::tasting milk for me.
::Even the regular milk
::doesn't taste the same as
::when I was growing up.
::You used to down it.
::They did the milk propaganda,
::that whole thing.
::It's just not the same anymore.
::I think that might change my decision,
::but not too much.
::I think when Brittany was
::pregnant with Harrison,
::I feel like we gave up milk
::for a little while and we
::only drank almond milk for
::a little while.
::I mean,
::we changed to whole wheat bread
::during Maggie's first pregnancy.
::I only eat whole wheat bread.
::Is that what you buy now forever?
::We're 42 minutes in and
::we've just... Fuck movies.
::Fuck the groceries in black and white.
::Hey, what did you buy today in this week?
::Nobody gives a fuck.
::You ever have those grapes
::that taste like cotton candy?
::yeah who bought those
::yesterday they were so good
::fucking groceries are too
::expensive um and what about
::airplane food I had to put
::the girders on my boat all
::right all right it's about
::to go but we are a movie
::podcast believe it or not
::yeah we are a grocery and
::cereal podcast uh so brian
::You are live and in living
::color with Paramount Plus on that.
::What do you got, sir?
::So as you for our listeners, you know,
::we've been following this
::beat that Paramount has
::basically just been
::shouting from the top of
::their mountain logo like somebody buy us.
::And so they got their wish.
::They are going to be merging
::slash acquired by Skydance.
::And if you've heard us talk
::about this before,
::this is a company run by
::David Ellison that has
::produced movies such as Top Gun Maverick,
::as well as Mission Impossible.
::possible movies so they are
::they're very much in the
::movie making business and
::they have uh they they sent
::out a deal to sherry
::redstone who is the leader
::of paramount uh she is the
::heir to the to basically
::her her family's creation
::of paramount and the entire
::movie studio and
::essentially skydance made a
::really good offer now if
::you're like hey wait a
::minute didn't that fall apart
::It sure did.
::Last month,
::they walked away from negotiations,
::but it was reported yesterday,
::over the Fourth of July weekend,
::basically,
::that Skydance and Paramount had
::come to good terms.
::And basically,
::I could give you a bunch of
::business mumbo-jumbo,
::but the quick summary here
::is that Sherry Redstone is
::going to get a ton of money.
::Yeah.
::like like billions of
::dollars in stock if she
::sells it which she probably
::will uh and that was one of
::the sticking points so
::she's gonna she's gonna be
::a billionaire so congrats
::to her and she gets more
::legal protection for
::shareholders that want to
::sue her because she may be
::cashed out when she could
::have got a better deal and
::it adds around with that
::nina with that nina
::So basically all in all
::paramount leadership got,
::got some good money and
::David Ellison is now going
::to be this big paramount mogul.
::So it's over.
::It's all done.
::There's probably going to be
::a ton of changes coming up
::in the next year or two.
::So that, that is the end of the saga.
::for Paramount.
::Brian,
::we appreciate your due diligence in
::following the beat and
::following that storyline
::through and through.
::I don't know what the fuck
::is wrong with Doug.
::Yeah,
::Doug is currently missing from his chair.
::Talk about some fucking...
::Ride around with that Nina randomly.
::Ride around with that Nina.
::Why are you yelling?
::Is Nina slang for money?
::I don't know.
::It's from a song called Cashing Out,
::and that's what made me laugh.
::And then before that,
::his stupid ass kept
::whispering in the background,
::good for her.
::Good for her.
::You don't know her from a lick of Adam.
::You talking about some
::fucking good for her.
::I mean,
::if you got Sherry Redstone on speed dial,
::that'd be great.
::Listen,
::I don't fucking marry Sherry Redstone.
::Well, she is 70 years old.
::Perfect.
::She'll call me a couple
::slurs on the way there,
::but I'll get paid.
::I'll get paid.
::So there might be an age difference,
::a significant age difference, but I mean,
::she's probably going to be
::a billionaire in the next year or so.
::So I don't know if that's worth it to you.
::Sometimes you got to eat that shit.
::Yeah, for sure, Sherry.
::What'd you call me?
::What'd you call me?
::An elevator attendant?
::Yes.
::Okay, that's fine.
::What'd you say?
::A moon cricket for a million dollars?
::That's fine.
::I'll be the million dollar moon cricket,
::I guess.
::I don't even know half of this.
::I don't know if it's like... Oh, it's bad.
::Okay, it is bad.
::You know what?
::These are things that are so
::dumb that racist people
::call black people that just
::are like... You know,
::it's a shame that that is a slur.
::It's a shame that that's a
::slur because Million Dollar
::Moon Cricket is a great AKA.
::It would have been a great AKA this week.
::It would have been a great AKA.
::Million Dollar Moon Cricket
::would have sold...
::I would have been like,
::that's the fucking AKA.
::Racists really just come up
::with the dumbest stuff.
::I don't even understand.
::Leave me alone.
::Anyway, Paramount,
::there's going to be a whole restructuring,
::so get excited for that and
::everything that comes with that.
::Is she going to be...
::She's not going to be making decisions.
::She's just the owner, right?
::She's basically giving up
::all of her authority to
::make decisions so that David Ellison,
::this guy from Skydance,
::is going to start making decisions.
::They're bringing in an
::executive from NBC to also
::help run things.
::So it's going to be a weird...
::I don't know.
::I think it's going to be a weird mix.
::I don't want anyone to lose their jobs,
::but I think it's very clear
::they're going to downsize
::that operation pretty
::significantly to try to
::make it profitable.
::I hope everybody makes it
::out okay on the other end
::of Paramount because we saw
::what happened with HBO and
::WB and all that good stuff.
::HBO.
::Marcus, what do you have, sir?
::I believe you're reporting
::live ringside with some WWE news.
::All right.
::So I was watching some, you know,
::world wrestling entertainment.
::There was a great quote,
::and I'm going to butcher
::the fuck out of it.
::I was trying to find a way
::to describe what wrestling is.
::And I think it was from
::Triple H in like a recent interview.
::And it was like,
::is it a is WWE a sports
::show or is it in the entertainment?
::And they was like,
::it's a documentary of a sports show.
::It's like an entertaining
::documentary of a sports
::show or something like that.
::And I think that kind of made sense.
::Somebody could like maybe
::look up the quote to help me out here.
::But the way he explained it
::put a different view on wrestling,
::because I think it's such
::an interesting thing.
::medium of entertainment in
::general that I didn't
::consider when I was a kid
::right it's like oh the
::insult used to be you know
::wrestling is fake right but
::it's like yeah no shit but
::it's also they have these
::storylines they tell these
::stories like all of that
::kind of shit that and the
::way that they tell them and
::then the way that these
::actors act when they're not
::in like their wwe world is
::also kind of crazy too um
::I did.
::Triple H said there's
::nothing like WWE and the
::fan base is constantly
::craving more and said WWE
::isn't a sport but compared
::it to a movie or TV series about a sport.
::ballers of that same kind of breath.
::I thought that was interesting.
::It put the show into perspective.
::Wrestling is making a great
::comeback ever since they
::got rid of Vince McMahon.
::I'm not really sure if he's dead or alive.
::He is alive.
::He's still a terrible person.
::Yes, he still has the mustache.
::He won't let it go.
::Damn it.
::Yeah, he still won't let it go.
::But he's out.
::The Nasty Motherfucker is out.
::Triple H and the new leadership is in.
::It's not just Triple H,
::but it's a lot of people.
::So the wrestling storylines
::are kind of picking back up
::for those that are keeping track.
::The Bloodline storyline with Roman Reigns,
::who is the big dog usually in wrestling.
::He has stepped back.
::Unfortunately, in real life,
::Roman Reigns lost his real life father.
::And so he's been dealing with that.
::And his entire family are
::legends in wrestling.
::You know, I mean,
::it just you just can go follow it.
::The Bloodline storyline,
::which is him and then two
::of his two of his family members,
::he would run the Bloodline
::with Paul Heyman being his wise man.
::The Bloodline has been taken
::over and he was like, trade it.
::um he was betrayed by
::somebody within the
::bloodline when roman lost
::in wrestlemania 40 to cody
::rhodes um solo took over
::and now has like turned him
::to a heel like a complete
::heel and it's like demand
::and respect so they're kind
::of building that storyline
::of like roman reigns gonna
::come back and take that
::over there's just a lot of
::different shit going on but
::the most important news
::last night which I'm sure
::everybody saw um hi hi roman's daughter
::Hey, baby.
::Hi, baby.
::Happy to lull you to sleep
::talking about wrestling.
::Yeah, we'll talk in very hushed tones.
::So, Marcus,
::what was the story about the
::WWE yesterday?
::Last night here, ASMR in black and white.
::No.
::Riding around with that Nina.
::No.
::Nina.
::This one's a toddler.
::Raise our voices.
::Not woohoo.
::Woohoo.
::She's three.
::Woohoo.
::He went from whispering to a woo-woo.
::I'm trying to get it all
::riled up so he struggles.
::That's messed up.
::Okay.
::Last night,
::John Cena announced his retirement.
::Or he's going on his retirement tour.
::he's retiring from any
::in-ring challenges and
::anytime you see him after
::he's done retiring I think
::he's got about 30 matches
::like tied up leading the
::Wrestlemania 41 and then he
::will retire so in 2025
::that'll be the last time
::you see him he said after
::that he'll be in nothing
::but suits when you see him
::and he's doing these
::appearances he's retiring
::the whole thing like all of
::the John Cena thing
::And what I thought was
::interesting was like, one,
::congratulations to John Cena.
::And I wanted to double down
::on something Triple H said
::in like a post interview from the WWE.
::Somebody had asked them and
::they knew the answer, but they was like,
::will John Cena get into the Hall of Fame?
::The WWE Hall of Fame.
::And Triple H legitimately was like,
::we think that John has put
::so much into the game, basically.
::And he has so much respect.
::And he said, I'm willing to say this,
::that John,
::he can pick when he wants to go
::into the Hall of Fame.
::He will be able to make that decision.
::And I was like,
::that's good that they recognize.
::I think it's very interesting.
::I also saw a conversation
::that I think we started.
::i ain't gonna take full
::credit best wrestling best
::wrestler turned actor it
::was on it was on x and it
::was between john cena the
::rock and batista exactly so
::no way yeah I saw that um
::what is happening he's mad
::at me because I was trying
::to keep his three-year-old
::up because he's going off
::in the comments and I'm
::just like wait a minute
::he's starting to use big
::words like patronage
::John Cena's retiring.
::He gets a different type of
::respect than I think The
::Rock does or anything like that,
::if that's the immediate comparison.
::But just thoughts on that.
::That was all I wanted to say.
::Congratulations to him.
::choose to John Cena.
::He's been not only one of
::the most prolific names in that industry,
::he's also a stand-up dude.
::He's made the number one for
::Make-A-Wish appearances.
::He makes every effort to try
::and make that a thing.
::Kudos to him.
::I did have a joke in my head
::where I was like,
::I officially won't be able
::to see him anymore.
::That was the...
::Yes.
::I'm picking that up, Doug.
::You can't see it.
::You won't be able to see him.
::You can't see him.
::You'll never see him.
::He'll have to change it from
::you can't see me to you won't see me.
::I do want to say as of September 2022,
::John Cena had made 650 make
::a wish wishes fulfilled,
::which is just incredible on
::top of everything else he does.
::Yeah, I mean, John Cena,
::I feel like once the
::Attitude Era ended for WWF, WWE, and,
::like, there was kind of this, like,
::interlude, then John Cena came,
::and I feel like it reinvigorated a lot.
::He brought that shit back.
::yeah a little bit like I
::don't want to say it was
::totally him but he brought
::an energy to it and I feel
::like that's what got you
::through that yeah those
::late 2000s early 2010s
::types you know time frame
::um and john cena just yeah
::just like a good dude like
::this man this man is in his
::50s I want to say by the way
::No, he's 47.
::I take it back.
::I mean, he's 47.
::That's actually good.
::He actually looks pretty good.
::And he's strong as hell still, too.
::He's still wrestling.
::He was just at WrestleMania 41 and kind of,
::you know,
::he's not because he's saying
::he's not doing guest refereeing.
::None like none of that.
::He's not doing any of that.
::So he's done done like
::retiring with the greats.
::I think honestly,
::I think that's really smart
::because I feel like he
::knows he's at a point in
::his life where he can just
::go full time with the
::movies and like any any TV
::shows or whatever.
::And he doesn't he doesn't need to do it.
::And I think he knows that
::his legacy is better off if
::he's just like, no,
::this is the this is the
::hard line I'm stopping at.
::This is my boundary.
::Peace out.
::Like, what does that mean for The Rock?
::Because that is the instant comparison of,
::like, should he be retiring?
::Should that have been a Rock move?
::You know, should the Rock be retiring?
::Because the Rock is getting old now,
::and he can't keep... Yeah.
::You know what I mean?
::He just popped a blood
::vessel of some type of
::training or some shit like that.
::Like, and...
::He's in an 824 movie about a
::wrestling fam.
::I'm pretty sure he's in an
::824 movie about either a
::boxer or a wrestler.
::UFC.
::UFC fighter.
::And he fucked up his... Sorry,
::he screwed up his elbow.
::Come on, man.
::We was doing so good.
::Quinn, go to bed.
::Go to bed, little one.
::My stone.
::The Smashing Machine is the
::movie we're talking about.
::I did not realize that he
::got injured doing that.
::Only if you follow him on socials.
::There was nothing flashy about this story.
::Just the fact that John Cena,
::who is a legend, is retiring.
::And like Brian said,
::during that shift between
::the Attitude Era and everything like that,
::you put Cena in the middle.
::Cena versus CM Punk.
::Cena versus The Rock.
::Cena versus anybody.
::He was going to pop out, talk that shit.
::I've seen some clips of him
::talking shit where I...
::don't think him and The Rock
::really was fucking with
::each other back then.
::I don't know what their
::relationship is now.
::It don't seem like they
::really care for each other.
::Go ahead, Doug.
::I was going to say,
::I think as far as I think
::we're kind of getting to this place where
::They've all carved out their
::own respective places.
::You don't typically see The
::Rock do a comedy.
::He's really carved out the
::space of being an action star.
::Unless he's with Kevin Hart.
::He's really an action star
::and a children's movie star.
::He's really those two things
::with both Moana's
::And being a part of the
::live-action Moana 2,
::that's really who he is.
::So I think it's capable, though,
::because it seems like what
::I think Cena has done
::particularly well is he's
::been able to do... He's
::carved out comedy as his, like,
::this is sort of my corner of things.
::He had that movie on Prime Video.
::He's been a part of... He
::was in that movie Blockers, I feel like.
::He was also...
::And the Amy Schumer movie, too.
::I'm totally blanking on it right now.
::I'll find the title later.
::But he played a significant
::comedic role in that.
::Yeah, he did.
::Yeah, he did.
::Trainwreck.
::Trainwreck, yeah.
::And then on top of that, I feel like he's,
::you know, with Peacemaker, yes,
::it's an action element,
::but there's such a comedic
::tone to it so much that I
::feel like he's kind of
::striding into his own as well there, too.
::So I...
::I think they can both exist in this space.
::Even when you take Batista, he seems to,
::now that he's moving on
::from Guardians of the Galaxy,
::he's starting to take on
::some more serious, more dramatic roles.
::I think they can all
::coalesce and coexist in this space.
::Somebody's got to pave
::the... We've seen a lot of
::wrestlers attempt to make that transition,
::just like rappers moving
::into other areas.
::Adam Edge Copeland.
::I mean, he was in Money Plane.
::He was in Money Plane.
::Then he was in fucking... Percy Jackson.
::Percy Jackson, yeah.
::Yeah, yeah, yeah.
::But that's sort of my two cents.
::I mean,
::and I think you make a good point
::that Cena has kind of cornered comedy.
::I mean, like, Dwayne Johnson, Rock...
::he does he does do comedy
::but it's always you're
::right though it's always
::like with an action veneer
::like it he has to be
::punching someone or or
::throwing something and
::that's fine I just think
::that someone is something
::you're doing that and it's
::very quippy comedy it's very like
::you know like if you look at
::Jumanji for example like
::he's making a quippy joke
::like he's punching
::something and then he's
::making some sort of like
::comedic you know sort of
::like quip right afterwards
::so there's you're right
::veneer is the best way to
::put like an action veneer
::is the best way to put it
::and and like he's fine at
::the action comedy I want to
::put that out there like the
::action comedy he's really good
::It's very enjoyable.
::I love the Jumanji movies.
::Oh, me too.
::They're great.
::I just think that, man, I think John Cena,
::with The Rock going back,
::that really felt like,
::can I keep doing this?
::It felt very experimental to me.
::I'm just like, can we go back?
::Can you start doing this again?
::And I was kind of left like, huh, I mean,
::I guess you could.
::50s, I guess you can, but
::I don't know.
::It just seems more decisive
::and more... I don't know.
::It's a little more magnetic
::to me for someone to be like, that's it.
::I'm done.
::You won't see me doing this anymore.
::It also builds up hype.
::I totally get that.
::You won't be able to see him
::referencing Doug's joke.
::I definitely think that...
::I think, here's my theory,
::and then we can move on.
::I think that The Rock,
::I think that John Cena just
::stepped on The Rock's moment.
::Because I think it was in
::the near future for The
::Rock to go on that same
::type of run where he was
::about to retire from wrestling.
::So he could just be on the board.
::But you gotta give Rock a finale,
::and you know how The Rock is like.
::he likes that kind of
::grandiose shit and it's got
::to like if he's on and on
::the board you if you're
::giving John Cena the
::biggest celebration goodbye
::tour The Rock is going to
::expect something even like
::bigger than that you know
::what I mean like I just
::feel like there's that
::forever internal competition so
::I think I also say this.
::I do think, though,
::with what The Rock had
::experienced with his issues at WB,
::I do feel like his return was,
::I need to do something I'm good at.
::Because remember,
::he came back shortly after Black Adam.
::Yeah,
::and that whole play to be the next
::big thing in the DC
::universe sort of blew up in
::his face a little bit.
::He allegedly fucked some people over.
::And kind of burned some bridges,
::and he sort of was like,
::I got to get back to
::something that I do well.
::I'm going to go back and play this role.
::I'm going to be a villain
::and enjoy doing that.
::So I do think he was maybe
::like... It felt like he was
::working out some demons a
::little bit for himself.
::Honestly...
::That wouldn't surprise me at all.
::He is a human being after all.
::There's something from the book,
::the memoir of... I'm glad my mom died.
::I'm going to look up the author.
::I'm happy my mom died.
::She was Nickelodeon style.
::Jeanette McCurdy.
::Mm-hmm.
::By the way, I recommend the memoir.
::Read it,
::especially if you ever saw iCarly.
::And essentially she talks about like, yeah,
::like all this stuff was
::terrible and I had long
::days and I and but like
::this one feeling at the end
::of the day always drove me.
::And it was it was nice to
::feel good at something.
::Sometimes it's nice to feel
::good at something.
::And that's immediately what
::I'm thinking of.
::with Dwayne Johnson and being like,
::you know what?
::I can do this.
::I can do this and it's going
::to make waves and I'm going
::to get the right attention for it.
::So I totally get what you're
::saying with that statement.
::Yeah, you know what?
::We're all human and you want
::to feel like you're good at
::something sometimes.
::I get it.
::It's nice to feel like you
::have a safety net,
::like something you can fall back on.
::For sure.
::Do you have any news for us?
::I do.
::So,
::Nicolas Cage is in a new horror movie
::that is getting some traction.
::It's called Long Legs.
::And it's apparently...
::Like very, very good.
::And so,
::but in a recent interview for the
::Hollywood Reporter,
::he said that he recommended,
::he said of the like 270
::movies that he had done,
::he only recommended that
::you sit down and watch one.
::So I wanted to ask you all
::what you think his movie
::that he recommended that you all see is.
::Of one that he's done, right?
::Yes.
::oh god that's a long list
::before we start sorry 120
::movies oh my gosh okay hang
::on here wait a minute if
::we're gonna do this we're
::gonna at least look at a
::list yeah please alright
::here we go Roman's a wicker
::man I don't think it's I
::don't think it's a wicker
::man it is not wicker man I don't know
::I feel like... What was the one?
::Saving Arizona?
::Raising Arizona?
::Raising Arizona?
::What's the one where they're
::on the plane and they
::escape to... Con Air?
::Con Air.
::I want to figure out if it's
::a newer movie or one of his older movies.
::Oh God.
::I don't know.
::See these movies.
::So here's the thing.
::And when we reviewed to the one,
::I'm discounting,
::I am discounting basically
::everything after I'm trying
::to find it here.
::Basically when the lawsuit
::happened and he had to pay his,
::and he had to pay his bill.
::So like dying of the light left behind.
::Yeah.
::I'm not,
::I'm not worried about any of the
::USS Indianapolis.
::Not worried.
::men of courage yeah I'm
::actually gonna kick it I'm
::gonna kick it back to like
::at least pre-2002 I think
::well adaptation matchstick
::men how funny is it gonna
::be if he said national
::treasure that's crazy I
::don't know what it is I
::can't I do know what it is
::I feel like his premium run
::is between Face Off.
::It's like the 90s.
::It's Face Off, isn't it?
::Leaving Las Vegas, The Rock, Con Air,
::Face Off, City of Angels, Snake Eyes.
::All of those were great.
::What a run!
::Hell of a run.
::I'm going to say Face Off,
::because I know it's not that,
::because I know his mind is like,
::his favorite is not the
::general masses favorite,
::and he wasn't the sole
::person in that movie.
::But he was a lead in it.
::So I want to go Face Off, Raising Arizona,
::or Con Air,
::since you've got so many shit
::to pick from.
::You know what?
::I'm going to...
::You know what?
::I'm going to go for the curveball.
::I'm going to go for the curveball.
::I'm going to say The Family Man.
::I'm going to say The Family Man.
::The one where he's a weather
::reporter and then he goes
::into an alternate universe
::for his family.
::Brian and Marcus, you both are incorrect.
::The movie is far more recent.
::It is 2021's Pig.
::Pig?
::Pig is the one he wants everyone to see.
::And he said...
::Pig is something that I
::think people can get
::something out of because
::tragedy is going to hit all
::of us at some point.
::It's just a matter of when.
::It's also a movie that to me
::is like a folk song.
::It's very quiet, gentle,
::which the polar opposite of
::people thinking I'm crazy.
::So he likes that because he
::was able to kind of show
::his show his range a little bit more.
::Um, so he's, he's,
::he just thinks that like
::acting has gotten more personal.
::Um, so, uh, long legs comes into theater,
::opens in theaters this week.
::Pig is currently streaming on Hulu.
::So maybe that's something we
::could watch for like a Patty family or,
::you know, maybe as a fun,
::you don't need something.
::Yeah.
::But then he also sort of said, like,
::you know,
::it's been a while since we've
::heard anybody talk about AI in movies.
::And so he is currently
::making a movie where he's
::had to have his likeness scanned.
::And he put it this way.
::He goes,
::they've scanned me and put me into
::a computer.
::They can basically do
::anything they want with my body now.
::And then he goes, God, I hope I'm not AI.
::And so...
::He's really nervous.
::He's definitely AI.
::I'll say this.
::If anybody's going to be AI,
::it's going to be him.
::He makes the most sense.
::He's going to be the guy like the Siri,
::but in your eyeball.
::But it's just Nicolas Cage.
::I don't know.
::I can very easily see him
::being AI with six fingers on one hand.
::You're like, well, it's Nicolas Cage.
::He goes, poof!
::Oh, fuck.
::like oh my god um there you
::go um but yeah that's all I
::really wanted to talk about
::sounded like long legs is
::supposed to be very very
::good it's a horror movie
::which means I'll have to
::watch it at home with the
::lights on during the
::daytime um but but it
::sounds it sounds very very good
::Gentlemen, anything else?
::That was really it.
::It was really short and sweet.
::I guess talking about Nicolas Cage.
::Anything else that you all
::have for this week's
::episode that you want to talk about?
::The only thing I wanted to
::say on the Marvel beat was
::that the Agatha, Agatha all along.
::We now have an official
::title for this show, by the way.
::Agatha all along.
::The trailer came out.
::The teaser trailer came out today.
::And I didn't know what I was
::expecting from this, this teaser trailer,
::but I'm like, surprisingly hyped.
::I did not know Aubrey Plaza
::was in I knew Aubrey Plaza was in it.
::I just didn't know what role it was.
::And I kind of was waiting
::for her to play the same
::role as she did in Legion.
::But I don't think they're doing that,
::which is fine, by the way, like,
::that's totally fine.
::We don't need that crossover.
::And I don't know,
::it looks like a bit I don't know,
::it kind of feels I don't know,
::it kind of feels good.
::Like I'm more excited than I
::thought I would be about it.
::And it looks like it's gonna
::have some more horror elements,
::which I think Marvel could
::dive we've talked about
::this before that I feel
::like monsters is like the
::next frontier for Marvel
::after the multiverse.
::But like,
::it looks like they're adding in
::some of those horror elements.
::And it looks like it's going
::to be kind of a fun
::Halloween season watch.
::So yeah, I was surprised.
::I was surprised how good it was.
::Have either of you had a
::chance to watch the teaser trailer?
::I have not.
::I have not.
::But it's on my list of things to do.
::I'll watch it after the pod.
::No, I mean, it's not what I expected.
::I'm digging it.
::I'm expecting Wanda to show up,
::but I'm expecting her as
::like a hallucination or a vision.
::I still don't think we're
::going to get any clarity
::about what happened to her at the end.
::I think she's alive and well.
::I agree.
::I think she is alive and well,
::and she's going to pop up
::and make it everybody's problem.
::But yeah,
::so I just wanted to say that that
::teaser trailer came out today.
::We finally know what that
::show's title is because
::there was like six of them
::floating around at one point.
::There really was.
::Too many of them were floating around.
::House of Harkness.
::Yeah, it was the one I remember.
::That's what I kept calling it.
::People were like,
::what are you talking about?
::That sounds more like a Dune
::spinoff than necessarily a Dune spinoff.
::Do you think the boner is
::going to be in this?
::I'm sorry, what?
::The boner.
::Oh, the Quicksilver guy?
::Oh!
::Man, that's a deep cut.
::That's like a three-year-old reference,
::man.
::I had to really think about
::that for a second.
::What is Marcus saying?
::First of all,
::I would never call it a boner.
::That feels like a very like... Yeah,
::you know?
::I don't know.
::feels more appropriate and I
::don't see I don't think I
::don't think that character
::is going to be in it
::apparently there there is
::like seven people returning
::from WandaVision though
::which I'm really curious
::about yeah me too is it is
::it also rumored that was it
::am I misplacing this or is
::this um Ironheart where
::it's um Mephisto is in this
::I think Mephisto is in Ironheart.
::That was the rumor that Sacha Baron Cohen,
::the last time I saw Sacha
::Baron Cohen was Mephisto in Ironheart,
::which is when I was like,
::I can't keep looking at these rumors.
::This feels like Mad Libs.
::I will say, Marvel rumors have slowed down
::significant.
::I think Marvel's undoing was
::the amount of content they
::were putting out that they
::couldn't control.
::They couldn't put a cap on
::how much was getting leaked
::and going out because
::you're recording 15,000
::projects all at once.
::Somebody can't keep their mouth shut.
::Now that they've slowed down,
::you don't hear nearly as
::many of those casting rooms.
::All of that slowed down significantly.
::It's far tighter than it used to be.
::It also feels like Disney.
::It also feels like Disney
::Marvel is trying to be a
::lot more strategic with
::what they let leak.
::Like, oh, we'll let this go.
::And then because they'll let
::something will come out.
::And then like a day later,
::Kevin Feige is like, yep, told you.
::Yep.
::Yep.
::That's what I feel about it.
::That's what it's going to be.
::Yeah.
::Yeah.
::yeah and they're like gonna
::be in the middle of filming
::fantastic four here like
::any day now too so six
::years cast most most
::beautiful fantastic there's
::only one way that cast
::could have gotten better
::and that's if sydney
::sweeney played mrs miss fantastic
::That's all I'm going to say.
::I'm going to leave it right there.
::You know what?
::She had her chance.
::She was in Madam Web, okay?
::Okay, that doesn't feel fair.
::She was Spider-Woman for
::like five seconds.
::It's like saying the only
::ride you can go on is the
::bus it takes you to get to
::the theme park.
::Man, I still think about that review.
::It might be a top contender for this year.
::Anyway, that's all the news I have.
::Outstanding.
::Gentlemen,
::anything else that you all want
::to chat about before we close this out?
::Roman Myers.
::Yep.
::That's it.
::Yep.
::That's all you can say.
::I'm playing some music.
::Okay, outstanding.
::Gentlemen,
::what do you got to plug this week?
::Brian, take it away.
::Hey folks,
::I'm here to talk to you today
::about Color Me Confetti,
::my wife's event printable shop on Etsy.
::Go to etsy.com,
::search Color Me Confetti
::for all of your printable event supplies.
::Sorry, I didn't realize that.
::That's okay.
::We'll have a split screen
::with the music video.
::Let's do it.
::Yeah, sorry.
::Marcus, what do you got?
::You want to make sure you
::follow the mantra, never offend it,
::always humble.
::Do whatever it is you got to do.
::Buy yourself some gear or
::don't buy yourself some gear.
::Whatever you do, just follow the mantra,
::baby.
::Never offend it,
::always humble or Noah for short.
::And always keep it 500-500.
::No matter how many people show up,
::no matter how many people are in the room,
::whether it's 500, 5,000, 5 million,
::they all get the same
::energy from you 24-7, 365.
::Follow the mantra, baby.
::Absolutely.
::Absolutely.
::I want to plug this podcast.
::Hey,
::if you enjoyed our cereal conversation,
::which was the majority of this podcast,
::if you enjoyed our
::conversation about cereal
::and the sprinkling of news,
::share us with a friend or a
::family member.
::The Best Way to Support podcast.
::If you're feeling generous
::and want to go over to
::patreon.com slash films in
::black and white,
::sign up for one of our tiers there.
::Be a part of the family, Patty family,
::that helps produce this show.
::We would very much appreciate it.
::Quick programming update.
::We will be off next week as
::Marcus and I will be in
::Orlando hunting alligators.
::Down in the bayou.
::Picking us up with some alligators.
::And that's what we got.
::But we'll be back the week
::after to talk a little Deadpool 1,
::Deadpool 2 before we really
::get into the main attraction,
::which is Deadpool and
::Wolverine coming up here in
::about two weeks.
::But we have a three-step
::process to success.
::Brian, what is that first step?
::Hey, folks.
::I'm here to tell you to read a book.
::I hope you read a book over
::your vacation or your long weekend.
::Maybe you didn't take that Friday off.
::But I'm just here to tell you.
::Pick up that book.
::No, it will not be a Brian-only episode.
::It's not going to be.
::It'll be the best listen-to episode ever.
::Yeah,
::it's going to be the one episode
::everybody listens to, finally.
::Holy shit,
::we had 1,000 people listen to a
::Brian-only episode?
::it's gonna be like oh my
::gosh brian only fans radio
::just like and another thing
::about star wars uh anyway
::read a book while he shows
::pictures of his feet he
::just but it's him showing
::pictures of books yeah it's
::just book it's just hella
::books you see this book you
::like this book how do you
::like this book this is a digital book
::he's gonna give us uh it'll
::be like all of those movies
::about a court of rose all
::of those court books that
::he read he'll be giving you
::those I can talk to you
::about a romance have you
::ever felt like you wanted a
::strong muscular man to take
::you away and face a whole
::new set of problems
::Bay romance.
::Marcus!
::What do you got for that second step?
::Just drink some water.
::Okay.
::Absolutely.
::Hey, look.
::I'd watch it.
::To be honest with you, I would too.
::I'd watch it too.
::I'd watch it in my private
::time and my public time.
::Step three, look, wash your ass,
::especially if you're making
::booty-os or whatever it was
::that they were.
::Make sure you wash your ass.
::Or don't.
::That's where the flavor lives.
::Just wash your ass.
::It's going to get hot by the
::end of the week.
::Carry that sweat with you,
::especially if it's humid.
::Wash your ass.
::Or if you don't, give it some flavor?
::I don't know.
::No, don't encourage that.
::Don't encourage that.
::And Roman wants us to remind you, too,
::as we will, too,
::support your local small theaters.
::Very important.
::Go out and see a movie there.
::But yeah.
::Hey, like I said,
::we're not going to be back next week.
::But in the meantime and in
::the between time, stay, stay,
::stay healthy.
::We love y'all.
::We appreciate y'all.
::And we will catch y'all in two weeks.