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The Ronin Show is on the air. All I'm saying is repent, dudes. Repent. I thought we at least kind of got it right. Kind of. Sort of. You had the last little bit of it. I thought we had it down. I thought we did too. I mean, by kind of, I thought we nailed it. I thought we were in there. Easy there, Lenny. That was not the case. So in this Spaghetti Factory episode of Chunga and Bugsy. Yeah.

We went to the Fullerton Spaghetti Factory, which both of you, I think, have been to. Chris, have you and Brent been to that one? Maybe not. Brent hates spaghetti. I don't believe we've been to that. No. You guys passed. Yeah, you passed. I went there with you dudes. Yes, you did, Panda. Yeah. So we went to this historic old spaghetti factory in Fullerton. It's beautiful. It's haunted. We actually talked to some of the servers who didn't want to go on camera. They said, oh, yeah, it is very haunted. Very haunted. I was in the bathroom. Yeah, I was in the bathroom and heard a toilet paper roll, like start rolling. And I was like, uh, in the stall. I'm like, who's playing tricks on it? I was the only one in the bathroom. I'll do it to you. Every time. It's all the brown butter. So we were talking about.

We were talking about the Mazithra cheese dinner because both Chandler and Bugsy. We're going to have to figure this out. Every time you say it like that. I know, but we referenced Greg Panda in the video and we're like, Panda is like the Grecian final boss. And he goes to Greece and he's rolling like a pimp in Greece. And every time we talk to him, it's Mazithra. Yeah, Mazithra. Mazithra.

Me-Zithra. Me-Zithra. So we got it wrong. It's not a word for Zithra, it's Me-Zithra. Me-Zithra. Me-Zithra. Let's all say it together, shall we? Me-Zithra. So even when we tried to get it right. Even when you tried to do it right, you did it wrong. We got it wrong. But dudes, it totally made my day and made me laugh, man. Well, thank you. We wanted to get you in it, but you were working at the big boy job and we couldn't have you record anything. Yeah, we wanted to edit a piece of panda in. Oh, well, we'll get it the next time. We'll get it the next time. By the way, sorry we missed. Oh, gosh. Sorry we missed an episode. We have had... I want to say it's because of the weather, but it isn't.

We've had mass And mass Internet outages Yeah All through Summerlin And all through parts Of Las Vegas And it's kind of rolling We've even had them today But so far We've been okay For the past couple of hours Yeah So you know We always talk how Joey lives Across the street from us And we were trying to record The last episode of Ronin And we were just raging And I looked down at my phone And I see buzz buzz buzz buzz From one Joey sale Do you want your internet? Is your internet working? Raging So he just went out At the same time So so frustrating Because we were like You know 30 minutes into the show And then everything failed Yeah we were in there We were all queued up We were all teed up And having a great time And didn't get you a show And I'm so sorry Well yeah I mean And it really sucks Because you know We always spend the first little bit just getting everything together where we're like, okay, this is what we're going to talk about. Getting lubed up. Getting lubed up with that brown butter. As we're doing this and everything too, because not only was the internet giving us a problem, but the service that we even used to record was also...

giving us problems. Oh, yeah. Yeah, and we got a tactical map provided to us by Riverside. A tactical map. They're an Israeli company. Yeah, and they're like, hey, here's the outages that we're having. We're experiencing some issues. And it was all of the United States. I was like, well, Canada. Okay, cool. And Alaska. I just chalked it up to tariffs. Yeah, thanks, tariffs. You know, a little bit after, too, Chris and I were just kind of chatting, and we're kind of wondering if it might have been a cyber attack as well. Is that right? Really? Yeah. If you look at the map and we double-checked it, we figured out that it was North America incomplete.

So North America, North Canada, Alaska, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, anything that had a U.S. or a territory next to it was impacted. Hawaii, everything was impacted by Riverside. So we think it was a dedicated, you know, state support. It would make sense. Like a targeted kind of nation. It would make sense. And that's the first time, honestly, that it's ever happened. So we're really, really sorry. We were here. I promise. We were ready to do the show. I promise. We were excited to do the show. We absolutely were. We had all the show ready for you guys. Chris is back. Chris is back. You wouldn't know. Yeah, I know. I know. And thanks for being back on a show that didn't air. I'm sorry, Chris.

you're rushing back from england to make that show and then have it not work so yeah the thing is like no matter how hard we plan we always know there's always a risk with what we do considering the complexity of kind of the technology and the software it's actually really really complex to do this yeah you wouldn't you wouldn't think it is with zoom and everything else but to get it the quality that it is it create i mean it's very resource heavy yes yeah and it's really it's really complicated so without getting into it there's multiple cloud feeds and each of us are in our own cloud feed and they have to sync with one another and it's this whole thing and then the feed that we use to actually talk to each other here is different than the cloud feeds cloud you actually hear and they sync and In the final product. It's a whole thing. All right. Well, anyway, we're back at it. Thank you for being here. Thank you for your Thursday. Hopefully your Thursday is better because we were able to kind of waste some of your time. Welcome back, Chris. How was England? Was it good? It was good. It was hot. Oh, my God. I mean, I think it's hot in Vegas and you think it's hot in Salt Lake and 300 and something degrees with like massive humidity. It was no AC anywhere. It was kind of hot. So we talked to a Brit in Disneyland and he had just...

barely landed, and comes straight from the airport to Disneyland. This is our way, yes. And hadn't checked into his hotel yet or anything, and he found out that we were from Vegas, and he was like, oh, you've got nothing on us, mate. And I kind of laughed. I was like, England's cold. He's like, no, no, no, no. And he gave us a whole rundown. I was like, oh my gosh. It's like, what, 100 degrees and 100% humidity or something crazy like that? It's in the 70s, the 80s. We go in humidity. It's pretty down. We were melting in Disneyland, and it was 98 and 60% humidity. 68% humidity. He was like, this is chilly for what we've been through. I was like, oh my gosh. I can't believe it.

Yeah, I can't believe it. Well, the weird thing is when we flew in from Paris. Yes, I had to go through Paris. You poor bastard. We were kind of dropping into Manchester. You used to see the green lush fields of England. You kind of go in. Everything is brown. Everything is crispy. There's a lot of fire problems like you wouldn't believe over there. There's droughts everywhere. And it was kind of weird. So we arrived on the Thursday. And on Thursday to Sunday, it was just hot. Hot, hot, hot. And then on Monday, a couple days before, it rained every day. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. Wow. And I couldn't have been happier. So was it swampy and yicky or was it cool and crisp?

It was kind of cool and crisp because it dropped the temperature by 20 degrees immediately. It meant that, you know, that, you know, things were watering down. It helped with the wildfires. It helped with the drought stuff. And people, you know, I know people bitch about Britain and say it's always wet there, but trust me, you should try it in the heat. The wet is a way better break. Yeah, well, we're glad you're back. How's your pop? Is he good?

He's doing his best we can expect. He's, you know, the Parkinson's has really taken hold of him and the cognitive, you know, it's like dementia and, you know, Alzheimer's kind of rolled into one. He's not very chatty anymore and kind of, he knows you're there, he'll talk to you, but he kind of drifts in and out of kind of looking at things and stuff. So it's hard to see, we mentioned any parent kind of aging out, you know, and it's slow and my mom's doing the best she can. She's doing an awesome job. But yeah, he's in good spirits for the condition he's in and, you know, we got to take him out on his birthday. So we went for a nice cream tea with my dad and had went for a walk with him in the wheelchair and stuff and got him out. That's cool. Yeah, so we spent some time with him, which was fun, so. Yeah, well, I'm glad it went well and I'm glad you're back

Okay, so you want to get the show started? You want to try and do this again? Yeah, yeah. Welcome! Welcome, one and all, friends, to the often-imitated, never-duplicated Radio Ronin Show for your Thursday. Hello! I am Chunga, Jimmy Chunga, if you're nasty, and right over there is Way Cool Junior Chandler Smith. What's up? There you go. The Butterscotch Panda is in full-blown Halloween. I'm feeling spooky! Yeah, you've got your 70s Halloween decorations pool cider. Oh, hell yeah, I do. Yeah, it's great. It is time, man. It is time. Oh, yeah. Coming back from Disneyland, I mean, it's full-blown for...

alarm Halloween festivities now. I started on your birthday. Pumpkin spice wax melts going right now. Oh, you got pumpkin spice going right now? Good man. It is kind of fun that I officially have a Halloween birthday, which is weird. I'm down with it. I'm totally, totally up for it. Absolutely. And ladies and gentlemen, as we said, we can now safely call him the American. Chris, the American too. On my American passport, I am Jason Bourne. By the way, we saw him.

Yeah, we did see him. Jason Bourne. While we were in Disneyland, we ran right into him. We did, but here's the thing that's so wild is that we walked right into him, me and Chandler. And I saw the Boston Red Sox hat and I saw the birthday crew shirt that him and all of his family was wearing and walked right into him. And the only thing I thought at the time was two things. Wow, somebody really spent some money on those birthday crew shirts because they were like built shirts. They weren't like Timu shirts. They were nice. They were like Lululemon. So they were like Lululemon or something. So they were really nice birthday crew shirts. And so I thought, wow, somebody really spent some money on those shirts.

The Red Sox still suck. And I walked right past him without even realizing, oh my gosh, that's Jason Bourne. It wasn't until we got back to the hotel we realized, oh, that's actually Matt Damon. He was taller than I was expecting, though. Taller and very clean-shaven, which is weird for an actor. And incognito, nobody noticed him, including me, who walked right into him. There were videos of a father and his daughter who completely missed. That was Matt Damon standing right behind him. Isn't that crazy? Did you at least try to go back and call him Lenny the Pep?

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Pretzel bites with that girl's cheese. Oh, yeah. See, now you're talking. That's just fiendish, my friend. So Saturday went to a ball game to watch the bees play and got some nachos. And she said after the game, next time I really, really want nachos from this place, make sure that I don't get them. They use like a crappy kind of cheese. It's really bad. Everyone's in there. And the girls are superior in every single way. It's downright velvety. Anyway, get to Quencha. 611 North 400 East in Lehigh. Quencha makes every day better. Love you, Quencha. We love you, we love you. Let's see here. Do we have any new Patreon activity, Chris?

Well, funny you should mention, Junior, because yes, we do. Dang! Nice! As if I didn't know. So we have one sign-up, two sign-ups? How many do we have? We have a trifecta of awesome. Oh, is that right? Wow! Hey, that's cool. Let's go. Yeah, who signed up? Okay, so we have new super fans in the way of one Robert Norman.

Thank you, Robert Norris. Thank you, sir. That's a way to become a super fan. A $10 super fan in Cheryl Lawrence, or Cheryl, if I'm telling you. Cheryl, thank you. She's been a lifer with us forever. Thank you, Cheryl. Yeah, and who else, Chris? Who's that rounds out the trifecta? Oh, yeah. And last but not least, as another $10 super fan, we have Nathan Carter. Hey, Nathan. Thank you. So we have Robert Norman, Cheryl Lawrence, and Nathan Carter. So thank you, everybody. Thank you very much for your investment in this series. They're no doubt signing up because we have our new bonus episode, which we are about to record. We've all been doing crazy research on. Oh, yeah. And this one is a little bit different because we normally hide.

our choices when we select different things. But we're all kind of collab. We're doing a collab. As they say on TikTok, we're doing a collab. We're all working with each other on our individual choices for haunted amusement parks. That's our next bonus episode in Patreon. Very cool. Super excited for it. It's coming your way soon. Yeah, very, very soon. I think we're going to record it probably this week. Oh, I can't wait. So if you're not signed up for Patreon, $10 a month on Up gets you your bonus episodes, hence...

Three super fans signing up wanting the bonus episode. And you get every single one. It's not just the one. You get all of them. Unlocked immediately, yeah. Yeah, there you go. So, patreon.com forward slash Radio Ronan. Woo! Nice. Yeah. Panda birthdays. Who's having a birthday? Yeah, so we've got a couple belated birthdays to quickly mention here. So, we hope that these two individuals had, like, the best birthday ever and that they only get better from here. Yeah. So, starting off that list of belated birthdays is one Marta Lord. Marta!

We didn't get to say... For some reason, I thought we did wish her a happy birthday. We did on the last show. It was on the last show that disappeared. I think on social media, we did wish her a happy birthday. She is one of our favorite people. She's just an amazing human being. Marta, we love you so much. Marta's awesome. Thank you, Marta, for being a... She's just rolling through and through, isn't she? Oh, yeah. I think Marta deserves an official... Ow! I will relent, and I will give her an... Ow!

I didn't even get one of those. Nor will you ever. Okay, well, Marta, I hope you had a great birthday and sorry it was belated. We actually did wish you a happy birthday. Love you, Marta. Who else, Panda? Yeah, so the other belated birthday is our good buddy, Garth Wright. Garth, I hope you had an awesome birthday, man. Happy birthday. Did you get a lot of people saying party on, Garth? Oh, I say that to him every time. Yep.

No, I'm sure he loves it, dude. I love Garth. He's a man like when we talk about things on the show, like, hey, you should like, you know, maybe people stay off your phone so much and, you know, do some more things to find a new hobby and do things like that. Garth was like, I'm going to do that. So we got into motorcycle riding because of that talk. Yeah, we were like, hey, everybody get off social media. Yeah. And so he's not on socials and he's out just riding his motorcycle, making memories, not even taking pictures of that and just living in the moment. I love it, dude. It's really cool. So yeah, happy birthday, Garth. Yeah. Good man. Good man. Happy birthday and cheers to many more. Yeah. And I have to say one of my favorite things about Garth is like every time I talk to this guy, he is always smiling. It's true. Yeah. That's true.

Yeah, I love chatting with the dudes. So happy belated birthday, brother. It was fun seeing you at St. George. He came down to the St. George meetup. Oh, yeah. So cool. Haunted Forest as well. We talked for like an hour after the Haunted Forest last year. Oh, did you really?

Anybody else, Panda? Are we good? Yeah, so we've got one birthday happening between this episode and the next, and that is one Glenn Strong celebrating a birthday. Happy birthday, Glenn! This is like lifer alley here. That's cool. Well, happy birthday, Glenn. Is this one a posthumous one? This one is happening between this episode and the next. Let us know what you end up doing, man. I hope you have a great birthday, and I hope the family takes really good care of you. Happy birthday, dude. Okay, so Panda, any others? Is that it?

That is it. If you have a birthday and you want that birthday, shout it out. Just send Chandler a message. Chandler at RadioRona.com or hit him on socials. You can also message any of us, but it's probably easiest if you just send it to Chandler. Yeah, I know it's up to Panda and he'll be the keeper of birthdays. Chandler's the smart one out of the four of us. Chandler is the key master. Panda is the gatekeeper. And yes, they get together once every so often and do it. I want to do it.

Wait, wait, wait. I'll be the big or the little spoon, Chandler. I keep forgetting. I'll be the little one. Okay. We'll have to give a shout-out to Patrick Dunlavy because he's been testing me to check if I'm even checking my emails. Oh, has he? Oh, you're checking this question, my question. Patrick, I'm checking my email. Thank you. Nice. Well, I'm happy to know that because I have to get into the habit of...

Chris actually has this. I can message him here. That's cool. So, okay, well, speaking of birthdays, if I may, I want to say a very heartfelt thank you to all of you for all of the birthday wishes. I tried to do this on the last show. Thank you very much. There were a lot of birthday wishes, and thank you, thank you, thank you to all of you. I want to say a very special thank you to Jill and Nicoletti for the pigeon poop soap dispensers, which are proudly displayed on my kitchen counter, Mike Island. Yeah. Does it come out brown and do you feel they need to taste it?

No, it comes out just soap. And yes, I feel the need to taste it every time. He's putting whipped cream in it. Just throw some pudding in there, man. Yeah, exactly. I wish I could get some of that green pudding from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle pies. You don't know how much I miss those Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle hostess pies. I would love to find one of those. I actually found one panda at Rocket Fizz in Area 15. Did you really? What? I did. The last time you were there, and I meant to point it out to you and then forgot. Dude, because I would have totally gone the entire day without any carbs just to eat that one Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle pie. Yeah, and it was

It was a really hot day, remember, and Neil Jensen and Eric Coleman, they're all just like, we are dying. Get us back to the hotel room, and I think I'm ready to tell you. I want to say thank you to these very special, amazing humans that are here on the show, Greg and Chris. We're special. My goodness gracious. Chris and Bren got me just an incredible piece of art from Disneyland from one of my favorite artists, if not my favorite artist, David Bird.

who is a good friend of mine. He works in stained glass and he's a Disney artist and I love him. So I want to give David Bird a shout out. But my other favorite is a guy named Eric Tan. Yeah. Okay. Eric Tan does mid-century modern art pieces and they're very, very Disney kind of in the 60s and 70s kind of thing. But very neon at the same time. Yeah, they're very non-conventional mid-century modern. And so Chris and Brent got me a Mr. Toad's Wild Ride attraction poster as done by Eric Tan. Oh, wow. And it is...

Beautiful. Yeah. It's so cool. Yellow and green. Yeah. It's the most chunk of thing you've ever seen. He was in London. We were on FaceTime. Him and Brenner in London and they're eating their tea cakes. Very popular. Very proper. Yeah. And I'm like drooling and blithering like an idiot because it was so, but it's just, and Chris is like, mate, that's the most chunk of thing we've ever seen. So we had to get it. And thank you. Nice. Thank you to Chris and Brenner. It's going to be, there's, I'm redoing an entire wall just for this thing. Yeah. Thank you guys. And then there's Panda. I have been looking for a,

record for years for years literally years i've been looking for this i've had chris looking for it you've had joey looking for joey snow looking for it i've had velvet rebel looking for it i've had stacy blades of la guns and the rocket mafia looking for it i've had chandler looking for it yep uh and that album is killing joke yeah yeah and killing joke it's the one with 80s and love like blood yeah nighttime thank you Yeah, that's right. And I have an original pressing now that he got out of Germany and it took you like how many years? So I have been looking for a copy of this for two years.

Two years I have been searching, stopping in at every record store throughout Utah that I've been to, asking, do you guys have Killing Joke? And I always had to make sure that they knew I was looking for the 80s. The OG. Yeah, because there's a newer band called Killing Joke that is way different than... Oh, really? Yeah, what the hell are they doing? Like, why even do that? This is weird. Yeah, who knows? Anyway, so Killing Joke, British band, they are very much like, they're kind of a post-punk, think the cure, but less mopey and more rock-based. Yeah.

A little more punk, yeah. Yeah, I wouldn't say rock bass, but they're a little less shoegazy and a little more like thrash punk that you got from the 70s. It's more, it's got a bit of melody to it. Yeah. Geordie Walker was their guitarist and he was known to be a really good guitarist, even though he didn't really share that in Killing Joke as much as he could have done. No, and it uses a lot of alternate tunings and weird. The Nirvana song Come As You Are is a direct ripoff of 80s from Killing Joke, but Kurt Cobain couldn't figure out the tuning or the tone, I should say, because he was using a weird kind of drop C tuning. It was crazy what he did for the song 80s. And so he just copied it as best we could and you have the song Come As You Are, which is so awesome. And I love the Killing Joke because it's like,

member of the cure like drink two cups of coffee like they have more energy they're happy and enjoy life and uh at neon society which is a gig that you know chunga and i do at pochi pochi uh chunga remixes the killing joke all the time so panda tipped me off early like very very early that he was working on this i knew for a long time oh really and this is like right before you played a gig and you remixed like three other songs that night i was like panda you are the man 80s um they get they get a lot of love in neon society because they're one of my favorite 80s bands they're great fantastic yeah great fantastic band i mean and that album is solid all the way through like that's one of those albums i don't skip a track and also i don't think a lot of people realize too how big of an influence they were on bands like nirvana you know especially a lot of like grunge bands loved killing joke well a lot of industrial bands like uh ministry post ministry and kmfdm machines of loving grace and knights are up there's just a lot of bands that drew influence from this they were a very pioneering sound killing joke so if you don't know them and you're interested in what's like some early new wave kind of post-punk kind of vibe killing joke is it it is a kind of a darker album they're kind of politically motivated but it's fantastic yeah so really good stuff thank you panda i don't want to ask you what this cost you i bet it was yeah i'm not gonna

let's just say there's a reason why I'm working so much overtime you guys are nuts So Chris, Bren, Panda, thank you to all of you. Of course, Shannon and Chandler, you guys hooked me up and took very good care of me. Oh, yeah. Well, we hope you had a great birthday. It was fun taking you out to Disneyland and having Disney open up the gates for Halloween on your birthday. I mean, how cool is that? Yeah, the Haunted Mansion holiday opened on your birthday a full day early. Soft opening. Yeah, they did a soft opening, and so we went and just ran amok. It was a blast. It was a last minute thing, too. It was like super last minute. Denver was actually there, and he had a big group, and he was like, hey, are you coming to Disneyland for your birthday? I'm like, no. Without knowing, you and Shannon had it planned. We had a plan the whole time. Yeah, it's been a secret plan the whole time. Had no clue. So thank you. Thank you, everyone. I had a lovely birthday, and Chris.

Thank you for my art piece, Panda. Thank you for my record. Of course. I'm a very happy Chunga. Well, yeah, you know, and I always know, like, as your birthday's approaching, man, I'm always thinking, I'm like, what have I not gotten for Chunga yet? Oh, yeah. What does he have is the conversation. That's why I also had to keep consulting with Chandler. I'm like, please tell me your dad hasn't found this yet. No, he's been looking for it forever. He's like, I got you. And it's always a very eclectic mix. Like, it's Whitesnake or Frewer or, you know, I'm missing a DeBarge record, Panda. I'm not giving you my rhythm of the night, man. That's the one I'm missing. That's not happening, man. I just...

barely found that one for myself. It's a tough one to find, but yeah. Anyway, so the birthday was fantastic, and I just want to say, you know, thank you, and I love you guys, and it was really cool in Disneyland, and I'm kind of laying there watching Riff Trax with Chandler, and Midnight rolls around, and it's bing, bing, bing, bing, bing. It's message after message after message, and thank you. Oh, it's so awesome. I do want to tell the Runner fam, I think if you are having a birthday, this is a new tradition that we started with Chunga. I think everyone in the Runner fam has to partake in this because your birthday will be better, and that is at the strike of midnight, you start...

the Rift Tracks version of Birdemic. And that's what we did. Birdemic live. Solar panel. Solar panel. Make a big sell, 50% off, million dollars. Oh, no deal. We started that at Howl, and then we went to bed at like two in the morning and, you know, have a great birthday. I'm pretty sure our neighbors there at the hotel were pretty pissed. Yeah, a new tradition has been born, Birdemic at the stroke of midnight. I think I'm going to have to make that happen during my birthday this year, too. We'll do it with you, Hannah. We'll start with you. Yeah, I don't know if I've told you this yet, but I actually had my mom watch the live Rift Tracks Birdemic with me. Did you really? What did she think? She laughed so hard.

So that movie, if you guys have not seen this movie, don't watch the regular movie. Watch the riff tracks. Yes. Where you've got the comedians. The live version, yeah. Yeah, where the comedians, they comment on the movie as the movie is playing. It's called Riffing. And it is probably one of my top five favorite movies of all time. This movie is so horrible. Because I'm hanging out. Hanging out with my family. With my family. Having ourselves a party. Tippi Hedren. Tiffany, the legendary actress Tippi Hedren is in this movie as the leading lady's mom. The Victoria's Secret lady's mom? My goodness. It's just so funny.

bad. It's just crazy. Anyway, go watch it. Just go watch it. I wanted to get all this fun stuff. I wanted to get through all this fun stuff because right before the show started, it's Tuesday night, right before the show. It was a couple hours before Dolly Parton passed away. Dude, this really hit me hard. We've lost some amazing entertainers, some amazing performers, and 2026 has been really, really rough. I guess...

I don't know. I was surprised, but in reading everything through socials and the trade publications and things like that, people were not surprised by this. Yeah, that's what it looked like. She's been having some health problems. She's even had to unfortunately cancel some gigs and stuff that she was set to do because of her health problems. So, you know, even I wasn't super surprised. Okay. But at the same time, I mean, yeah, it's pretty devastating that, you know, that she's gone. Babylon Bee, which is kind of like, I guess, a more politically conservative.

satirical publication kind of like The Onion. You're right. If you haven't heard of the Babylon Bee, I love Babylon Bee. It's really funny. But they posted that this is the first sign of the apocalypse. Dolly Parton dying because she was the last universally adored human being on the planet. Yeah, honestly. If Jeff Goldblum goes next, we're all screwed. I'm leaving planet Earth, man. I'm going to hitch a ride with the greys and we're just going to go tour the universe. Is that what you're going to do? The women Nords are pretty hot from what I hear. How do you tell the difference? Oh, never mind. Yes, we have to go for it. You'll know.

Well, I mean, and Dolly Parton, too. She's definitely one of these people where even though I didn't really, you know, her music wasn't really my kind of music. But her personality, first of all, was great. I mean, and two, when you hear her story of what she went through to get where she is at, I mean, she got crapped on a lot. She got screwed over a lot by various people. She did. But she, you know, she just kept plugging away. And then the amount of just charity stuff that she has done throughout her life. Including in Utah. Yeah. She created a whole program because she wanted kids to be able to have books to where for free, she would send books out to children so that they could actually have a chance.

to read a lot of these books. I didn't know this until Dolly Parton made me aware of it that Utah has a massive literacy crisis. Wow. There's a lot of kids in Utah that don't learn how to read when they go through the public education system and she put a lot of money into Utah specifically to make sure that that changed and it did change. So, yeah, she's, I was never a fan. I don't like country music. I was never a fan of her music. I loved her. I thought she was fantastic. I'm still kind of, you know, I still kind of cringe. I'm not going to lie. She sings a Christmas song with Kenny Rogers called A Christmas to Remember. And there is the word, the two words ski chalet in the song. And she pronounces it as a chalet in the song. And it's just like, I cleanse my butt cheeks. Like every single time I hear is I ski chalet. I'm like, Dolly, get it right. Come on. So, so I have to let that go because it's Dolly Parton, right? Yeah. Anybody else?

would have been dead to me. She was just a light in the world, you know, in a world that is very dark right now. She was just a light in that. And, you know, Dolly World, we had the Holmgrens go up to Dolly World and they're like, we like this better than Disney. I loved it. So, I mean, it's just, 2026 has just been a crappy year. That's because they let Onion just play on the tractor all day. Oh, is that why? That's why. You can ring the bells and be like, if he wants. I don't let him out every so often. Yeah, it's the correlation between Onion, Silo, Holmgren being released in this devastation. I mean, it should surprise no one, Chandler. That's a good point, okay. Well, and I don't know, you know, like how many people realize this too, that, you know, Whitney Houston's like biggest hit that she ever had. I will always love you, yeah

originally by Dolly Parton and originally sent by Dolly Parton. From the movie The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, which was a musical before a movie. She certainly is going to be missed because her personality was something else, man. She's a humanitarian more than a celebrity and that's incredible considering what she did for the six decades she was in the limelight, basically. There will never be another like her. No. Ever.

and it's one of those things I'm sure you guys have seen these memes where it talks about there are 8 billion trillion stars in the galaxy the earth has been around for this amount of time and throughout all of human history you're alive at a time when Dolly Parton was alive or you're alive when Eddie Van Halen was alive what a great era to be here you know what I'm saying yeah very cool and may she rest in peace Dolly Parton yeah okay well this is I mean it's really I remember when Mr. Rogers died I cried Yeah. I met Mr. Rogers when I was a little kid, and that's probably what did it to me. I never met Dolly Parton, but I still felt that way. Yeah. Great person. Yeah. Didn't kind of know how to react to it, sadly. All right. Well, listen, before we get into the producers here, switching gears, because there's really no other way to do this. The Ronan Movie Club is back. Oh, yeah. Coming back, baby. It's September, right? It's in mid-September. When is the movie coming back? It is Friday night, September 18th.

So it's going to be a Friday night. Yeah. Okay. And do they need to know, do we have a sign up or do we have any sort of anything going on with that? Yeah. So we do have an event page that is in the Ronin Fam page. So go there and you'll be able to get all the details. But we are going to be going to see the 89 Batman in theaters. Tim Burton directed me. Never rub another man's rhubarb.

That movie is fantastic. It is. And are you going, Chris? Are you going to go with Panda to see this? Me and Panda had a discussion about this for like over an hour in the week about how much this movie means to me personally. It's the first that I kind of like grown up-ish movie ever because it was a PG-13 in the UK. And my stepdad took me because he knew what a big Batman fan I was. And he was like, this is the coolest thing ever. We never told my mother. Oh, really? Oh, wow. So it's always our secret. Mom, if you're listening, I'm sorry, but Steve's awesome. And, you know, you know. Yeah, but, you know, just like.

Everybody was scared, you know what I mean, of Michael Keaton being Batman. He'd been Beetlejuice and whatever else. And then he basically racks out this amazing performance as Batman. It's dark. It's gothic. You know, it's got Bob Kane written all over it. It's a decent story. You know, the only big thing I don't like about it is Jack Palance, but we can put that to one side. I can live with it. Jack Palance being Jack Palance. He's just himself.

I don't think he sobered up I think they just Kind of like Dan Michael Vincent In Airwolf I think they just Kind of put a hat on him And rolled him out Yeah exactly But you know It was a huge thing Because it was like 80s Prince You know was involved In the score It was an all round Home run for me I absolutely loved And also considering I grew up on You know the comic books Like the Dark Detective the DC as well as Adam West and Burt Ward as Batman and Robin. You know what I mean? I was scared it was going to be that, but it was so good. And you know, to me, it holds somewhere special. It kind of indebted my love of Batman even further to this day. We're all big Batman fans here, but really very much. I said that Prince did the entire score. No, Danny Elfman did the entire score, but Prince was heavily involved with his section of the score. And when I'm saying that he did the whole thing for the Prince stuff that you hear, there were no other musicians. He played every instrument. He wrote all the stuff and he performed even his own backing vocals. So it was a solo project for Prince for him to the bat dance and all that stuff. That was all Prince. Well, yeah. And even when

i think of like when i think batman theme the first theme that actually plays in my head is that danny elfman score from this movie and for me too the batmobile will always be the batmobile from the 89 batman yeah i'm with you on that yeah for sure i got to interview in fact i've interviewed every batman except for Well, what's his name? Robert Pattinson. Oh, yeah. He's the only Batman that I haven't interviewed. I almost said Daniel Craig. Could you imagine? Yeah, no, that was... Could you imagine Daniel Craig has been... No, I can't. No, no. It's been awesome that I've been able to interview every Batman. Every Batman? Well, every Batman that I know. Is there a missing Batman that I haven't interviewed? Did you interview Kevin Conroy? I know it's a source of subject. Oh, well, no. As a matter of fact, then he can burn in hell. Why'd you have to do it? Do you want me to hand you the salt?

I know. Oh, sorry. Yeah, so the quick story, we've talked about it here on the show, but Kevin Conrad was the voice of Batman in the animated series. He was also doing the video games and things like that, and he decided he was going to retire. Yeah.

I'm going to retire. And so I auditioned for, I believe it was, what was the first Arkham video game? It was Arkham Knights. So that was the one I auditioned for was Arkham Knights. And it was really cool because booking this role meant that they were also going to mo-cap your face and your body, which means I got to wear the Batsuit. I booked the part. I got to play Batman. Yeah. So I'm in the Batsuit. I'm on the mo-cap stage. They're filming my face, the whole thing. Chandler has heard the audition. I think, Pandy, you heard the audition. Yes, I am good. I'm pretty happy with it. I ended up booking it and then Kevin Conroy said he wanted to come back. And they fired me. They let him come back and redo it.

I even tried to talk to him about it and he was a total douche. What a chode. But I did get to read with Mark Hamill for a day and I did get to do some different things. That's so cool. Yeah, with Mark Hamill as the Joker. So anyway, I'm glad he's dead.

He was a dick, man. All these people love Kevin Conroy, and I'm just like, you don't know the man. He's just an ass. He's an ass. So anyway, yeah. So thank you, Chris, for bringing up that ugliness. Yeah. No, every on-camera Batman, Adam West, Burt Ward, I've interviewed. Let's see. Yeah, Clooney and Michael Keaton. Christian Bale. Christian Bale, yes. And then in the early, early days, we had him on with Chris Nolan. Oh, nice. Okay. So that was really fun, and it was really, really cool. I loved interviewing Adam West. I loved interviewing Michael Keaton because he said Batman was his favorite role.

He said Batman will always be his favorite role. How could it not be? Out of everything he's done. Did you also interview Val Kilmer as well in his brief? I did, and it was weird.

I thought it was a weird interview, full stop. It was a very weird interview. Thankfully, it was... So we had this deal. I don't want to get too much into it, but we had this deal with MTV back in the day. And MTV helped us get all these A-list guests. And it was a great relationship that the show had with all of these people. So it was really easy to get these guys. And we had Val Kilmer on a couple of different times, but he was such a method actor that when he wasn't playing a character and he was just being himself, he was just kind of like a blank sheet of paper. And it wasn't really much of an interview. It was just kind of simple, yes, no, very spoke above a mumble. And that was really one of the worst interviews we've ever had. Wow.

That's too bad. Not because he was being a jerk, but... Yeah, I always just picture him as Chris Knight from Real Genius. Yeah, and that's kind of how I wanted to think of him too. No, he wasn't that way at all. Chris Knight is Chris Knight. In fact, Michael Biehn from Terminator and Aliens, he played Johnny Ringo in Tombstone with Val Kilmer. And somebody asked him after Val Kilmer died, they said, what was it like working with Val Kilmer? He said, I never met Val Kilmer. Wow. I only knew Doc Holliday.

Yeah, he was pretty like Daniel Day-Lewis about the whole thing. And, you know, I think that kind of acting is just kind of dumb, but whatever. Yeah, but anyway, so Batman, you guys are going to see Batman. Oh, yeah. So cool. I am excited to see this one in the theater again, because I remember when I originally saw it in the theater when I was a kid.

And just what an experience that was. I had so much fun because right after the movie was over, there was a new place that had opened up right next to the theater. Chunga, you know where this theater used to be. It was in Kearns. Yeah. The Valley Twin. I used to go to my summer movies there all the time. Yeah. And there was a place that opened up right next to it called the Nifty 50s Cafe where they had live rock bands that would come and play 50s and 60s music. It was a cool place, man. It was rad. Is that building still there, Panda, or is it gone? The building's still there, but I think it's like a Domino's now.

Yeah, and it used to be that. The movie theater was, sadly, I loved that theater, and it became, I think, a nightclub for a short time, and then it was an indoor soccer place, and I don't know why. Yeah, I don't know what it is anymore, but I loved that area because there was a card shop right next to it. Yep, I went to that card shop a lot. Mm-hmm. Many of allowances were spent in that theater and that card shop. Yeah, good times. Good memories, man. Holy cow. Anyway, okay, so I hope everybody goes to Batman with these guys. Yeah, yeah. It'll be so fun. And we, as usual, we will have some sort of pre-movie meal meetup over there. You don't have that set yet, right? Yeah, that's not set yet because the movie, it's going to be at...

The Cinemark 24 in the Jordan Landing in West Jordan. Nice. It's a great theater. It is. I love that. Or as we say in Utah, it's a great theater. Theater. Can I just, I've almost come to blows with co-hosts about this. Theater. Theater.

It's not theater. That is a full-blown mispronunciation of a word. In any accent, anywhere on earth, it's theater. Theater. I don't know where that came from. There is no theater. That's weird. It's theater. And then you have Chris here. Theater. Even Onion locked in his silo up there on the homegirl compound, even he pronounces it as theater. Theater. I have one word to say to you, Chunga, and it is me-zi-thra. Yeah, here we go. No way. Yeah, exactly. Let's bring it back.

Mizithra. Mizithra. Well, you can go watch that episode. We do try. We do try. They do say Mizithra a lot in that episode. Mizithra. So you should go watch Mizithra. Yeah, yeah. Just play some sort of a game with how many times they say that. It's like a drinking game. Roxanne. Roxanne. You want to thank some producers? Let's thank you. Let's do it. We have a Chunga poll coming up. I'm pretty excited about this Chunga poll. And Chris, did you, I know we did this while you were gone, but did you do the favorite teams thing? Were you able to narrow this down?

From the last Chunga Polls? Or do you even know what the hell we're talking about? I know what you're talking about because I actually posted the Chunga Poll. Oh, yeah. Thanks, man. I don't get college sports over here. I have no idea why everybody gets so crazy about it. We have professional sports teams. You know, I guess if it's your kind of alumni, then so be it. But I don't know why people get so franchised. Like, I only play March Madness because I could win shit. You know what I mean? I don't follow a team I don't care enough about. Because you're a huge fan of Ricky Rubio bobbleheads.

So we do have a winner, if I understand that, right? So we'll announce the winner coming up. Yeah, nice. We do have a winner. Did I get that right? And frankly, I don't care, but we do have a winner. Yes, okay. All right, very good. Yeah, I mean, and I do get why people like college sports so much because there's a little bit more of a pureness to it because they're not all in there to make big bucks, you know, from contracts and stuff like that. They are now, yeah. Well, I mean, it depends.

Some of them are. Some of them are. That's what I'm saying. Yeah. Good point. But the one thing about college sports, and sports in general too, I'm kind of over the whole rivalry thing. Why can't we all just... Oh, the fake bullshit rivalry. I'm sorry. I have opened a Pandora's box teasing the struggle pole. Wow.

Nobody cares about your stupid rivalries. Play the game and go home. Lonnie's got a hot dog and a soda. I'm usually pretty sound in my way. It's a game. That's all there is to it. Right now Steve McKiff's in the other room breaking the furniture. All right, here we go. Let's get to the producers. Let's do this. Producers, producers, producers. The mighty, the powerful Radio Ronan producers. Official producers of the show. Each and every one of them. Meaning you can put this on your job resume. So that you won't have an employment gap, for example. Which is awesome. You can also list this on your LinkedIn job title, even though LinkedIn sucks. Stupid LinkedIn.

There is a special place in hell for whoever that a-hole was that created LinkedIn. I have a good mastermind for our social media platform. You created... Thank you for your insights, Steve. I'm good without ever having used it. And you're kick-ass. So let's get to it. The Radio Runner Producers are... Alright, so everyone's going to be $20 a month on this episode. So, starting us off, we have AccentDoors.co. Don't let the big box stores charge your more for what's in style. Come see us and we'll save you some money. Up next, we have Anna Barry. Anna! She's going through a lot of health stuff right now. She's winning the fight. She's doing awesome.

Yes, we do. We love you, Anna. Up next is Ash. Me and the crew, we're getting kind of funky, Jenkins. Yeah. I still don't know what this is. Yeah, we have one more show. Me and the crew, we're getting kind of funky. It sounds to me like it's the cast of What's Happening.

from the 70s. I know Ash doesn't know what that is. Yeah. Sorry, Ash. One more show on that one. Up next, we have Mr. Halloween himself. That is Baird Manor. Oh, we need to get him back on soon. Actually, that's a great idea. Brian and Angela, peace! We love you, Brian and Angela. Peace! Peace! Castle, no legs. I won't stand for this. Castle has a new symbol that he's kind of representing himself by, which is the plus sign and then an X, which is positive times. I thought he was the new leader of the Crimson Dawn and a construction

He constructed spider legs with the power of the Force. Castle's going through some stuff, as of a lot of Rotomar, but he recently got the Plus and the X as a tattoo, his first tattoo ever, and it looks at positive times, which is very cool, Castle. We love you, dude. Yeah, I think Castle's going to eventually become our Professor X. He is bald. He's just going to be rolling around, but he'll have a Utah accent.

Instead of a UK accent. Theater. We're going to go see the theater. Exactly. Chaz Hill. Thank you, dude. And Chaz Hill with a Chaz Eye right there. Chaz Eye. Daisy Puppers. That's Haley and Michael out in Florida. Thank you. Michael. Thank you, Haley and Michael. David Paul of Daybreak Records. David Paul. There we go. Congrats on the world record, my friend. That is very cool. By the way, Daybreak Records is going to be doing one of their yard sales on September 5th from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. down there. Is that their location in Sandy?

No, it's the daybreak. This is where the yard sale open daybreak where it originated. We used to have the yard sales. You used to go all the time, Chris. April, May. I love it. The thing is, it's kind of cool when the weather's good to be outdoors. It's kind of rummaging through vinyl and just chatting to other collectors and stuff. It's such a fun time. It is a really fun time. Yeah, that's a big deal. Chris has done that for a couple of years. A long, long time. September 5th. Thank you, David. Thank you. Debbie and Joe Johnson, otherwise known as Nan and Pop, are awesome. You're awesome. Thank you. DPSF, Darren Phillips, Superfire. He's the man. Up next, we have...

Groundskeeper G! G! Groundskeeper Gilly. I love that so much. That is awesome. Thank you. Ian Daisley, we will not see you in hell. That is Andy Daly. We'll be doing well. Up next is, I'm gathering a group of women who love to travel and want to explore the world alongside other female travelers. This is, in fact, Heather. We have confirmed this. This is Heather. Email her. Hello at heathersnowtravel.com. She's doing some river cruises soon. She's going to Europe. But you've got to know, ladies. You've got to know. I know you do because you're a woman. You're a female. They want all women to go to this because when this happens, this is what goes down. I'll share this with guys because every woman knows this. So they'll go to dinner.

then they'll gossip, and then they'll all get in lingerie and have a pillow fight. So... This is not like those videos you watched in your... I've seen Cinemax. No, I've seen Cinemax, I know. They talk about how much I don't like men.

They don't like skin and mash. They'll go on this cruise. They'll say, we don't like men. They'll drink some champagne, some bubbly. And then after dinner, they'll all get in lingerie and have a pillow fight. So if you're looking for that, that's Heather Snow Travel. She's going to get some guyland there in Taylor Brooke as well. She's going to get some wild emojis. What did you say on the podcast? Thank you, Heather. We love you, Heather. Up next, send your pillowcases to Heather. Up next is JJ. That's Jared Jolly of Jolly and Shirts. Jared Holmgren of Grandpappy Jay. Grandpappy Jay. Onion's playing in Dollyworld right now, so thank you, dude. Jennifer Stoddard, Jay Stoddard. We like y'all.

Jennifer Kilkowski or J. Kill. Yeah, thank you. Jeremy Big Sexy. Oh, Jeremy. Yeah, you hung out with him. Didn't you pay him this weekend? I did, yeah. I got to hang out with him and his lovely wife. Well, and Jeremy was letting me know, too. Like, that same night, he was going to his 30th. No way. I saw his report that he actually loved it. Yeah, I'm so glad that he did and that, you know, he felt good in the warm and fuzzies. That's awesome. I love seeing his pictures of his kiddos going back to school, too. So I love him and his whole family. These guys are awesome. Thank you, Jeremy. Up next is Ghost.

Call of Duty Modern Warfare Force is legit! Ghost! Coming soon. The beta has now closed, so now the next thing is the release of the game soon. Get ready. Go. Do your stretches. Holy crap. Yeah. Up next, we have Jordan Miller. Jordan. Jordan. Hey, Jordan. Love you, man. Love you, man. Carl Parkinson. My son just came home from his mission. Anyone offering internships to an aspiring Imagineer. So we've put some feelers out there. We've put some feelers out for you. I don't have anything back just yet, just so you know. But it's awesome, Carl. I'm glad he's back home for you guys. That's amazing. Up next is Caleb Kirby. Thank you, Caleb. Thank you, Caleb. Thank you. Thank you, Caleb. Yeah. We love you, man. We have Lady Terrier Fiddly Hall. Terrier Hall. Pillowcases and internships.

with Santa. Let's have a pillow fight. Rogue feather. Thank you, Terry. Marcos Lopez. Red, white, and blue everyone's minds today. There we go. Thank you, Marcos. MCAT and Splendidaddy. Thank you, MCAT. Splendidaddy. You're awesome, dude. Thank you. I'm going to give you the North Pole tickler.

Oh, no. Oh, no, that's Terry. Oh, no, that's Terry. Sorry, I'm Kat. We don't say such names to him, Kat. Sorry, I'm Kat. She's a lady. I got carried away. The North Pole Tickler. Mikey Hale. Speaking of North Pole Ticklers, there we go. Mikey! Mikey Hale! Never keeps his shirt on. Hey, Mikey, hope you're doing well, man. Nameless Enchman. Thank you, Nameless Enchman. He's still kicking it. Nate Davis. Gently now, you just want to kiss it. Just a little peck. A smooch like you're kissing your sister. I said kiss it.

Wow. Wow, Nate. I don't know if I can say that on a podcast. Deliverance. Was it deliverance? No, that's all about dudes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Doesn't mean they don't have sisters, bud. Yeah. Yeah. All right, never mind. Oh, goodness. The record check. Hey, Logan. Hey, Logan.

Thanks, man. Hey, dude. I'm glad Panda went down for his big event over the last few years. Yeah, there was quite a few people stopping in there, which was great. And then it looks like he's teaming back up with Angela, I think, September 2nd. It's a Wednesday night. Nice. Very cool. Nice. Hot Ronin on Ronin action. September 2nd, Wednesday, between 6 and 8, with live music starting at 6 p.m. Once again, 611 North, 400 East, Lehigh. Nice. And if it's that same band there, they're a cover band called And Beyond. They were a lot of fun.

Yeah, nice guys too. What did they play? What was their stuff? Was it just all 80s? Yeah, it was all 80s and it was a bunch of just like rock and roll stuff. I mean, they threw some ACDC in there. I mean, it was good stuff. They even did their best attempt at Brian Johnson's vocals.

Oh, man. It didn't quite work, but... Of course it didn't. Yeah, yeah. That's a tough one to do. That's nearly impossible. Yeah, cool. All right. Very good. Yeah, thank you, Rekord Shag. Up next is Rob Wetzel. Ronan never say die. Yeah, Rob. Thanks, Rob. Thank you, Rob. Thank you for sending me photographs of your legs after my bad meme. I really appreciate looking at toes, mate. I was confused. You know how hard it is to do a podcast twice a week? Because we say a lot of stuff. You know what I mean? You forget stuff. He's like, hey, Chris, I know you asked for pictures of my feet. And Chris is like, what? What is this about? Did Chris say that? Probably. No, he did not. I will get texts from people. Yeah.

Yeah, yeah. And it's the same problem. I'll get these texts from people where they will be listening to the show and then send me a text as they're listening. And I'm like, huh? I know what you're talking about. They're totally out of context. Yeah, we say a lot of crap. He's got some good pins, though. I'm not going to lie. I can see where this is wet, so I'm not with those. Hey, yo, hey, yo. Shauna and the Dog Man. That's Dustin. These guys are awesome. Thank you. They were just in Vegas doing Universal Horror again. I saw that. I'm so jealous. Tiffany Conrad, if you're looking for new flooring, come see me at SunWest Flooring in Murray. Thank you. Go support Ronan Businesses. And then we have Tito Delgado.

Todd Hanson speaking of BYU and college teams I know you don't understand his ways Chris but Todd he bleeds blue possibly royal Go Googs. Love you, Todd. And then wrapping us up here, our wonderful producer list. That is the man Tyson Grant. Tyson Grant. Tyson Grant. He's back at the tail end again. Yeah, wrapping up the rear. Bringing up the rear. Thanks, dude. Love you, Tyson Grant. If you would like to become a Patreon producer and have us butcher your name, well, all you have to do is go to patreon.com forward slash Radio Ronin and get yourself signed up. Nice. We would love it. T-shirt meetup coming up the Goblin Ghost Hunt for our goblins and their guests. It's coming up.

Pretty soon. Working on the t-shirt design right now. Pretty excited about it. Yeah, okay. So we have not talked about Bad Mean Friday yet. No, we have not. So we had that lost show on Monday. So we should probably go over this quickly and announce the Bad Mean Friday winners. Can we do that? Can we do that quickly? Is that okay? I think so. All right. Chris has got to be back in town anyway. I was on the bench and I think Chandler was on the bench. I was on the bench as well. I had so many good memes to share. Damn it. I know. It's too bad.

Yeah. So we have three places. Bad Meem Friday is a contest that takes place in the Radio Ronin Fam Facebook group and only in the Ronin Fam Facebook group. So you've got to be a member there to play. And what we do is we don't allow memes anywhere because memes are stupid. And we only allow you to do it on Friday. It's like The Purge. You get it all out of your system. And so we call it Bad Meem Friday. And the meme that gets the most likes, well, you win. We have first, second, third, gold, silver, bronze. There you go. So, Chris, who went up on the podium this week? Okay, so this week's Bad Meem Friday, delayed edition. Starting off in third place, bronze medal winner. Second runner up, it's me. Yay!

From England, you computed. So what was your name, Bronze Metal Chris? Mine's a picture of a wrinkly old guy. Oh, yeah. This is my nutsack when the summer is over and it won't get stuck to my leg for another six months. Yes. I saw this and I sent Chris a text. I'm like, you're such an asshole. I laughed so hard eating my cereal in the morning. Oh, yeah. There it is. It looks like Ronald Reagan's nutsack, actually. Yeah. Well, so anyway, it's not very often I get to bust out my Reagan nutsack voice. Well, Chris, congratulations. You won the bronze.

Who got this over, Chris? Okay, so this week's delayed edition of Batman and Friday Silver Medal winners, their first runner up, Neil Jensen. Oh, Neil! Neil Jensen. I hope this is the one that I'm thinking that it was. What was his name? So let me explain. This one, it looks like an 8 or 16-bit video game. Yes, yes, that's what happened. And it's called the Super Chunga Brothers Mandalay The Escalator Edition. And it's got Chunga and Chandler on an escalator. With the cans of coke for black hat. They're pulling out everywhere a black hat. And he says, why won't these cats stop walling? And then it's like, oh, dad, f*** it, run.

That's exactly what happened. Neil got it right. Dead on. I was dying when I saw that one. And he got the hair right and everything. It was actually a great meme. The best part is I just drank the last dented Coke right before we started the show. No, we still have a couple. Do we have a couple? Oh, no. What I'm saying is we had a couple. You just drank the last one. I polished the last one off. And I sent Neil a message. I'm like, dude, you have no idea how accurate that is. That was like a spitting image from the CCTV feed. I think we have a couple of milks still left. Oh, hey. And a couple of bubblies. The Chunkers are big milk drinkers. Yeah, I think we have a couple of Simply Orange Cards. Do they have lungs in them now? Yeah, probably. So anyway, Neil, that was great.

I was like, congratulations on winning the silver. So, Chris, who got the gold? Okay, so this week's Bad Mean Friday gold medal winner, heavyweight champion of the world, the one, the only, Butterscotch Panda! This had me in stitches. Yeah. Oh, my God. I was dying. What was the meme for people who don't know? Panda's meme is it's a picture of Big Bird sat on a bed with Miss Piggy on his lap. Kermit in a little wingback. Totally fucking Kermit. Yeah. And he says they don't call him Big Bird because he's tall. I was in Disneyland and was...

howling i was laughing so hard panda when this i i was i can't believe i was like you know these our boys are doing us proud with chris's nutsack and uh yes yes so funny You guys are both on the bench. We're tagging in. So very cool. Bad meme Friday happens tonight, actually. If you're listening on Thursday, get your memes ready and get ready to participate in the RoninFam Facebook group. If you're not in the group, go ask to be let in. You must fill out the questions. Yeah, Chris, right. Do it now. You have to answer the questions and then we'll let you in. Awesome. Cool. But until you do those questions, you can't come in. So let's see. What do we have? Oh, now this is going to this is our man.

I'm now second-guessing this. Because unlike Chris, unlike Greg, unlike Chandler, the Ronin love their college sports. Yes, they do. And I was not thinking that we were going to get the varied responses that we got. We got all kinds of stuff.

The Ohio State, Notre Dame, USC. We got all kinds of colleges. A lot of people backing up with the banana slugs just for the mascot only. So we did this jungle poll and it was, what is your favorite college sports team? And we said, whoever wins, Ronan is going to root for that team. Radio Ronan, the four of us, the four Ronan, are going to root for that team for the rest of the year. So Chris, you went through dutifully as we committed you to do without your proof. In the UK, he did this, yeah. And who won?

Okay, so overall, it was pretty close between two Utah-based local teams, the U of U and obviously BYU. But this year, BYU has edged it out as being the preferred college team. Go Cougars! We are apparently Cougars this year. Robbie Bosco!

I think it was because Tim Hemingway threatened to put Dave Matthews Band lyrics on, like, everything unless people... Son of a bitch. He was. He was. He was. It was like a war crime. You know that, right? When faced with that prospect, yeah, I'll gladly wear some Cougar Blue for a year to not listen to any of these ever again. Okay, so Ronan is officially, as of this moment, we are Cougar supporters. Angela Hammond. She cannot rage quit. She's like, wah! Andre's mom, Angela Hammond, all of you, this is, I mean, this is just, we used to do this on the radio show all the time.

We would just switch back and forth. We would do a jungle poll, and whoever won, that's who I would root for. And I would get bullied in school. And Chandler would get bullied. My dad doesn't like that your dad picked this. What does this mean, Ute fans? Bully Chandler. That's what that means. It is time to cyber bully the kid. It's like high school all over. I will do what I always do. I'm just going to root for all of our Utah teams. Yeah, go for it. I got to learn how to pronounce a bunch of poly names now. Go Matt Gay! Yeah, he's a raider now. Oh, is he? He's a raider now? He's one of us? Yep. Well, that's backfired. Yeah, he's a raider. Nice. Because you're a little gay.

He is a very good kicker. Yeah, he's a good kicker. All right, let's catch him more than a pitcher. Oh, yeah. Well, he's a good goalie, too. All right, anyway, let's move on. Let's move on. It's time for you to chug a bowl because we have to catch all this up because we have the lost show. So I'm pretty excited about this one. This one comes from yours truly. And I think it's a good kind of pre-Halloween chug a bowl. All right. And I think you in particular, you're going to like this. Okay. Dracula.

His weakness is garlic. Dracula's bane is garlic and crucifixes, right? And silver and all sorts of different things. He's got a lot. He's got a bitch when you think about it. Kind of is. The wolfman. His bane is wolf's bane. And silver. Silver. Silver. Superman. Not really a Halloween thing, but his bane is kryptonite. You have Frankenstein.

What's Frankenstein's bane? Fire. Fire. Yeah. Very good. It's Frankenstein's monster, by the way, for all the people. Frankenstein, yeah, the monster. Set and get super dirty. It is not. Frankenstein was the doctor. The monster was the monster. Yeah, there you go. So Frankenstein's monster, his bane was fire. What is... The bees. The bees. The bees. The bees. Yes. So here's my question for you, Ronan. What is your bane? Oh, man. Yeah.

Think about it. You like explode whenever you... Okay. All right. So a zombie's bane is being shot in the head. Yeah. So what is your bane? Think about it for a moment. What is your bane? I think Chuck should go first on this one. I think Chuck should go first on this one. When you see it, you just are just like, and you just explode. My bane is that damn tree in our front yard. My mesquite tree is my bane. Yeah. I hate it. I hate it. An insensitivity to the homeless. That's also my bane. And the Dutch. Yeah. Yeah. And I don't like the Dutch.

No, no, my bane. My bane is the tree in my front yard. This thing sends me into a rage every single time I see it. I will never forget. We hopped on the feet here, and Chunga had to leave for a moment because, you know, there was a boob going on outside. Yes. And you could hear you just storming off down the hallway, and Greg goes, well, there goes Chunga bitching about his tree again.

Yeah. It's a daily occurrence. There it is tree. That tree. I hate that tree so bad. Massive now. And the fun thing is with doing Chung and Bugsy and doing the YouTube thing again. Yeah. I've kind of gone back through the archives and watched a lot of the old quote unquote Ronan TV videos. Yeah. And you see the tree when we first moved to Las Vegas. And it's like a stick. It's like a stick. This is like a 40 year old oak. It's massive now. These mesquite trees grow really, really fast. My neighbor pulled up in front of my house and he's like, yo, you got to trim that tree back, man. Forgot about this. While Joey was standing on her front line, Joey was like, well, all right. Yeah. I mean, he wasn't wrong, but this tree is now massive. It's completely out of control. It's it is like.

It is like Seymour No. 2 from The Plant. Yeah. From Little Shop of Orange. From Little Shop of Orange. Oh, Audrey 2. I said Seymour. Audrey 2. My bad. Hey, Seymour? Yeah. I was actually the voice of that plant. You'd think I would know that.

Where are you playing? I was in a play. Oh, nice. Yeah, well, and let's just hope to, with that tree being as massive as it is right now, that you guys didn't buy your home above, you know, graves that were not, you know, the bodies were born. Yeah, because you know you're going to have that tree try to eat you like it tried to eat the kid from Poltergeist. Yeah, I'm telling you, if I get one of those clowns, you can go to the Universal Horror Experience, by the way, and actually buy one of those clowns. Yes, you can. It is an actual, it is a one-for-one replica of the clown in Poltergeist, and they are flying off the shelves. So cool. So excited to get those clowns. That's rad.

that and sit it next to the tree out front, it would get me. It would totally get me. So that is my bane, the tree in front of my house, which I would love to get rid of. That's a good one. But the three HOAs I have to pay, they say, no, you have to keep the tree. Your tree, stay in there. That's because the HOA is the one that built your home on top of the bodies. Exactly, I know. Okay, who's going next? Who's going to go next? Pandas. So this one, because I have legit sometimes felt like I needed to shove very sharp things into my ears when this happens. Yes, yes. And that would just be like...

music that is just so irritating to me like the honky-tonk badonka-donk oh the honky-tonk badonka-donk is your being if i were to play that song but just really shitty music like you know if i had to sit and listen to dave matthew Dave Matthews Band over and over. I would have the exact same kind of reaction to it where I want to just shove sharp objects into my eardrums. I've seen him do it. The thing that's hard from here is can we narrow it down at all? Because that's a thing. I know you do have to narrow it down. It's a very broad thing. Yeah. I mean, I would say, you know, let's just narrow it down to the honky-donk-ba-donky-donk and Dave Matthews Band. I mean, there's a lot of other really shitty music that drives me insane, but yeah.

I was going to say country music, but I had a feeling that's where you were going. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Country, especially modern country, could be added. Yeah, okay. So the Honky Tonk of Donka Donk and Dave Matthews Band.

Good job, Panda. Good job, Panda. All right, let's see Chandler. All right, for me, it was hard when you first said this, because I'm like, you know, you can go Nazis, you can go ISIS. I don't like them. You know, very small dogs don't like them. But no, for me, it really is, it's onions. Onions are your bane. They are the bane of my existence. You lose your superpowers if you see an onion. I touch one, I explode like a vampire in Lost Boys. Chandler, I will save your life. I will eat your onions for you, sir. Watching, like, I can't even physically watch someone. Like, we like, you know, a lot of YouTubers and stuff like that. We watch food reviews, and I will watch Panda eat an onion, and I am so grossed out, I have to look away. It's like looking at a car.

He will physically gag. Yeah, I've seen him gag. I was on a film set, actually filming for the Latter-day Saint Church in Illinois, Nauvoo, Illinois, specifically with Denver. And our entire film crew... And the story that had pillows, and they were cross-stitched, and on the pillows it says, I love Mormon Boys. I love Mormon Boys. We all bought those, actually, to come home. That's a very true story. And I got followed by a cop because I had tattoos. It was a weird place. But no, they were filming and had a large crew of just normal film guys, and they all had a lot of money on the table while we were having dinner. It was like $600 on the table for me just to take a bite of an onion. Did you do it? I tried, and I failed miserably. You tried to leave, and then puked in the bathroom. Lost the thought, buddy. I can appreciate it.

that you can cook with them, but something in my body just rejects it immediately. 600 bucks, I'd set myself on fire. I would rather have done that than eat a damn onion. I'm with you. I can't do it. Onions, man, they're the worst. So, yeah, that's it. That's my thing. All right, okay, there you go. Well done, Chandler. Chris. Okay, so mine is probably similar to Chandler because it does cause me to explode and it's people and restaurants that hide nuts.

In food. Oh, yeah. You are allergic. Dining roulette. That's like legit. The bane of my life is that you go to a nice restaurant, you sit down, you look at the menu, you ask all the questions. Does it have nuts in it? Do you have an allergy? Yes, you do. Go through it all. And it still turns up on your meal and it ruins the rest of the evening. And trust me, I have such a bad intolerance to nuts that it is horrendous. It's really bad and really dangerous. Oh, it is very dangerous. But it's my bane because I've nearly died once in the Utah Natural History Museum. I don't know if it's a long story yet. And that involves zoopers, so...

F*** you, Zoopers. Hot Mom Central. Hot Mom Central. Yeah, and your pesto that doesn't have nuts in it, that does have nuts in it, that I basically, I nearly passed out, lost like about 19 pounds in weight. We've really stepped in it this time. It is the bane. It is the bane of my existence is people like Cheesecake Factory. Oh, yeah. You know, down at the mall, fashion place. Stop hiding peanuts in your shit because it makes me shit.

Thank you. There it is. Explosively so. And if somebody says, I've been around that, when it happens, it's ugly. It's horrendous. You tried to blame it on Lily once, and we were all like, dude, listen. It was really bad. We all left the house. It was so bad. It was a case of it. We had to eat breakfast. She didn't agree with me. I tried to hold it in as best I could to get out, and I'm like squeaking towards the front door, and then she was like, oh my God. Oh, I think Lily's shit somewhere. I was like, no, that's me. Well, you know, your wife is not the best poker player, because I said that, and she got the hell out of there. She knew. She just knew. Yeah. So there you go. All right. So what is your, I was going to say tomatoes, but everybody knew that. Yeah.

He's a country music, but everybody knows. I was going to say Sarum Apocalypse. So really, you know, something that I'm really hating right now is that tree. So it could be something simple. It could be something very broad like pandas. It could be whatever it is. What is your bane? What makes you lose your superpowers? What makes you lose your superhuman abilities? Or your composure or anything. There it is. There it is. What is your bane?

Angela's going to pose. My podcaster's picking to vote for the Cougs all year. Angela, the only thing I can say is, you know, you should have brought more people into the fold to vote for the U. That's all I can say. Oh, man. I'm excited to see what people pick for this, though. If you have pictures or if you have examples or you like Chunga Street and you want to, you know, post them in the comments because we'd like to see them. And if you have physical pictures, add them. Yeah. You know, if you want to add a picture to your Chunga poll. No, Chris, you can't do it. No, Chris can't. No, that's a no for me, dog. And it'd just be a picture of Dave Matthews Band looking douchey. Yeah. And it'd be also me smashing a brick into my face every time that I hear Dave Matthews Band.

Hack up your world. You know the parents have weapons to start stabbing themselves in the face? That's Panda. Whatever. I hated having to pretend I liked him. Alright, okay. So there you go. That's your Chunga poll for your Thursday. Go to the Radio Ronan fan Facebook group, the regular Radio Ronan page. Any of our individual social media accounts. We'll check them all. Sweet! And we'll have your answers on Monday. Alright, so before we get to the goblins here, Chris sent me a picture. Oh my goodness. Panda, did you see this picture? I did see it. So it was a group. So he sent it to all of us. I didn't realize that at the time. But what it did is I showed my awesome wife Shannon. I showed Shannon and it sent her

into a death spiral. Like this horrible rage. And I guess this is something that Shannon has been noticing for a long time. I don't pay attention to this kind of stuff because my wife is awesome. She just handles it, right? So Chris sent me this thing. He goes, you guys are not going to believe this. And the picture that he sent to Chandler and Panda and myself is a row of Halloween candy. It's in like purple cardboard display boxes and there's bags of Halloween candy on the shelves in these purple cardboard display boxes. Everybody sees them all. They're out, right? The Halloween candy's out now, right? It's officially out. And there was a price tag. I believe it was from Smith's? Yes. Smith's. Smith's.

So you're at the Smiths. Was it you and Brennan? Was grandma with you? Was grandma with you on the show? I had less than four hours to shop, so therefore grandma was not with us on this occasion. She would have had six of those bags in her car. Yeah. So the price tag for these bags of candy, by the way, $30. $29.99. $30. $120 pieces of candy. They were big bags, but even still, that was discounted from $35. What? $120 pieces of Halloween candy. What kind of Halloween candy was it?

You know, little Kit Kats and little Snickers and things and little Twix in there. That is the bag of candy that we typically buy, not for the kiddos, because for the kiddos we like to do kind of bigger things, cotton candy and all kinds of fun stuff. But we like to sit and eat that when we're playing Call of Duty and things like that. Oh yeah, just a munch on. Just kind of munch on. And Chris does the same thing. And I saw that and I was like, that can't be right. That's got to be AI. And Shannon went crazy. She's like, oh no, that's real. I saw the same thing here.

$29.99 for a bag of Halloween candy. That's on sale. I said, how much did it used to be? She's like, well, way back in the day it was $250, then it was $450, then it was $650, and then it just jumped like crazy. Yeah, well, and the thing too is, yeah, I mean, 100 and whatever pieces may sound like it's a lot, but when you consider the size of each piece of candy in that bag, they were small. I mean, the price of chocolate in general has gone up so crazily high.

It's honestly outrageous, man. I mean, it's unbelievable that that was even real. So I asked Shannon, it was this big debate. She's like, no, that's real. Candy is really that much money. Yes, we did the math on it. If you didn't have the discount of $5, thanks, miss. It was like nearly 30 cents a piece. Yeah, for a tiny little piece of chocolate. Tiny, tiny bite-sized pieces of Halloween candy. Tiny piece of chocolate was like 30 cents. And that kind of sent Bren down a rabbit hole as well because we were all pretty pissed about this because I need two guys saying, what the hell is this? And then Bren was like looking at Amazon things. She could buy like squash mullows in bulk, like 160 of them for cheaper than that.

Yeah. We can give out toys. Those are toys. They're plushies. They're really popular. Very popular with the kids, yeah. So we can buy toys and whatever else, you know, for cheaper than we can buy candy to give out at Halloween. We're like, well, in that case, we're not going to give out tons of candy because I don't want to drop like $100 on candy. And then have all this leftover candy at $30 a pack. Yeah. But it gets worse because on the Sunday, well, last Sunday just gone, after we couldn't record, we went to Lowe's to look at all the Halloween stuff because it was all out in all of its glory. And the price of Halloween just decorations and paraphernalia is through the roof. Like a basic set of light is like,

nearly $15, $20 now. What do you like? Two, three bucks like a few years ago. Yeah. They had small Mickey and Minnie kind of like carved pumpkins, which have been about like 10, 15 bucks and now nearly $40 a piece. Yeah. The blow molds at Disneyland, little tiny, like eight inch diameter blow molds at Disneyland, $40. Yeah. Holy cow. Yeah. It was just crazy. Yeah. That's why with like, uh, any kind of holiday decorations, you just wait till the holidays over and go get them at like 50% off. Yeah. That's kind of what I do is I'll, I'll just go pick up a bunch of stuff when it's extremely discounted. Well, yeah, I mean, it really is getting up there as far as, uh, prices go because even when I went to, uh,

you know spirit halloween um you know and walking through there and seeing some of their prices i i you know i was thinking about well maybe i should pick up a costume for this year and i saw a willy wonka costume that looked pretty cool nice 90 bucks. 90 bucks for Willy Wonka, like the classic Gene Wilder, Willy Wonka, 90 bucks. I've been doing a lot of research over here while we've been talking, just trying to figure out, like, why? What's the reason behind this? Oh, you've got some science. I do, I have some science. You've got science. So they're saying one of the facts, yeah, one of the biggest reasons why this is actually happening is there's a massive shortage of cocoa in West Africa. They're having a drought, and so they can't grow cocoa to make chocolate. So chocolate is in. Chocolate as a whole, they're saying chocolate as a whole has risen about 36% over the last, like, five years, which is, I mean, that's bad, but that doesn't make sense of why we're seeing the hike.

this bad on certain items. It says, within the last five years, that Halloween candy has gone up between 100% and 120%. And I agree with you. I think that it's still way lower than it actually is. I think those numbers are not real. Well, when Shannon's saying a little bag like that would be like $250. And now it's $30. And now it's $30. What kind of percentage jump is that? I mean, it's hundreds. I mean, that's not year over year. I mean, that's not from last year to now. Yeah. The stats I have are within the last five years. So kind of like post-COVID to now. A lot of it, they are saying it's tariffs. That's the biggest thing. And then the cost of plastic and manufacturing. And then the cost to actually get the chocolate in is sending everything through the roof. And so I'm with Chris. I'm with Chris.

I don't think the 120% is even close to accurate. I think it's probably closer to 200 or 300%. That's crazy. It's just ridiculous. And kids, you know, we've talked about kids aren't really trick-or-treating now. They're doing the chunk-or-treat. If they even do that. And so it's just a dark time, man. I'm with Chris. Start handing out plushies or cool things like that because this is just nuts. At this point, I'm just passing out crypto. It's cheaper. Here's a Bitcoin, kid. Yeah, no kidding. There you go.

With the candy, though, like, I know you guys love, like, the Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, like the pumpkins and stuff. Just buy that, because you can buy those probably cheaper than you can buy regular candy and just have the stuff that's Halloween-specific, because you can get a Snickers or a Twix or a KitKat any time. You know what I mean? You don't worry about that. It was always convenient because it was small, but now I'm just focusing on the stuff that is going to be Halloween-themed.

So back in the day, we love to do this. We started doing it in Utah. We've continued it here. We would go to Costco and buy full size, like a king size Snickers, like the candy bars, like the big ones. And that it really came out to people were really like the kids are freaking out. Everybody's having so much fun. We'd stamp their hands so they couldn't come back. Yeah. Yeah. That sort of thing. But but the thing is, is like everybody was like, oh, you guys are so fancy. You guys are so fancy. Well, the truth is, is that it really wasn't that much more money. No, you go by the big king size boxes.

And when you looked at the Halloween bags, the markup was so crazy on those Halloween bags that it was really not that much different to just buy king-sized candy bars. And now we do like the bins of cotton candy, the plastic bins of cotton candy. I posted them on my socials and stuff. Those things are only like $1.25 apiece. It's not really that much more. And if you don't get a lot of Halloween trick-or-treaters, they think they're getting a cool thing. You can hand them a little tiny Twix bite-sized that's not a whole lot cheaper. You could do that. So it's really too bad. It's unfortunate. It is too bad. And so I've been doing more research. I'm asking AI to kind of sweep the dark web, essentially. I'm like, how much has Halloween candy increased in inflation versus normal candy? They're saying normal candy.

Just on its own. Same exact kind of candy bars. Yes. 36%. But Halloween candy is 100 to 120%. So you're getting screwed. That's what happens. Yeah. So it's Halloween. People, they know you're going to buy it more. So they're like, all right, here you go, dude. 30 bucks for a bag of candy. I could not believe that when Chris sent that over. I was just shocked. So bad. Don't blame me. Well, and forget about it too. If you're ever trying to buy like zero sugar candy, because holy shit. So much worse. Yeah. Yeah. Like, cause you know, cause I still have a sweet tooth despite being diabetic and I would like some sweet things every so often. Yeah. And when I go to try to buy a bag of zero sugar candy, I'm like 14 bucks for like 10 pieces of candy. That's insane. Yeah.

It sucks, man. It's wild, man. So yeah, I guess Bren's got the right idea. Find alternate trick-or-treat goodies, right? I like the plushie idea. I think that's really fun. Do something different. We just start giving out those crappy Brocks, Candy Corns, and Smarties. Smarties, yes. Candy Corn. Here you go, Tommy. We call these Necco Wafers. There's one for you. Give Candy Corn to all the other kids you hate. Here's a Pepto-Bismol, kiddo. There you go.

These days I'll take the Pepto-Bismol. Here's some Tums. I saw Panda light up there like, ooh. He's like, hey, I'll take that. Don't mind if I do. Thank you, goblins. Goblins! Thank you, goblins, for being the amazing people that you are. Thank you for supporting the show. We love you. We are very grateful. I believe the people that are listening to the show are very grateful. Yes, absolutely. The goblins, by the way, $50 a month on up. They're definitely walking the walk. Amy B leads off. Amy B. She's at $55.55 a month. She says, I once worked with a guy for three years and never learned his name. Best friend I ever have.

Excuse me. Best friend I ever had. We still talk sometimes. I think that's Ron Swanson. It's got to be Ron Swanson. Sounds familiar. I don't know any Ron Swanson.

Sorry, Amy. I'm sorry. I think I watched the first couple seasons of Parks and Rec, and that was about it. So a lot of these quotes, I'm not going to know. Everybody's 50. Yeah, there you go. Everybody's 50 until I say otherwise now. Nice. Taylor Casper. Thank you, Taylor Casper. Thank you for being a goblin, Taylor Casper. We love you very much. Seen on the small screen podcast with Becky and Jake. Thank you. Once upon a time, Becky gave me a box of Count Chocula, a box of Frankenberry, and a box of Booberry, and they were gone the same day. I remember this. Not surprised. Yeah. And then she told me she had COVID. No.

And it was too late. Did I get COVID? No, I didn't. And I will actually be recording with them in mid-September. Yeah. Small screen of fun. Yeah, there you go. We love you guys. Next up, I prayed that he would burn in hell, but in my heart, I knew that hell would not have him. Must be talking about Kevin Conroy. I don't know. I don't know what this quote is. Yeah. I prayed that he would burn in hell, but in my heart, I knew that hell would not have him. I have no idea what that is. No idea. Yeah. Yeah. Too bad. I'm sorry.

Would it be Hellboy? Yeah, we've got a couple shows on this one. Oh, wait, wait, hold on. Is it Halloween? I think it's Halloween. Should I break our rules? Yeah, yeah, break it, break it. I think it's Dr. Loomis. Or it's either Laurie Strode or it's Dr. Loomis. Why don't you be like Dave Matthews Band or something really stupid? It was Dave Matthews Band. Okay, so update. I have the answer here. Yes.

1989, Halloween 5. Yes! Yeah! Well done, Chugga. Well done. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. St. Shannon and Sir James West. St. Shannon and Sir James West. I love you guys. I hope you guys are good. Lieutenant Daniel Caffey, you can't handle the truth. LT. We love you, LT. Thanks, man. Hope you're good, man. DaBoot boys, two votes for the Utes.

That didn't win, I'm sorry. Much like your Eagles, you're on the losing end. Hey, one's a Niners fan. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's right. Much like the Niners. Oh, never mind. Well, I mean, with the current owner and his trouble. I saw that. That's not good. That's Raiders material right there. I mean, hell, he could have gone to Nevada and gotten that without getting in trouble. The thing is, Mark Davis is rolling around like that in Vegas and nobody cares. That's so true. It's just like...

More concerned about his hair than... So anyway, yeah, thank you both boys. Her Royal Highness Miss Jessica Terry. Jessica! We love you very much. Next up, Gina and Janae Green. Yay! Thank you, ladies. Thank you, ladies. The coolest pack of lords! Come on, Kunis! Come on! Let's go get some pumpkin cookies! That actually sounds good right now. I want some pumpkin cookies now. The coolness would be down. Love you, love you, love you, dude. Angel!

Angel! Thank you, Angel. Jody College, be afraid, be very afraid. Now, we never figured out what this is. Did you look this up once, though? I'm going to look this up. We looked it up a couple of times. I think it was... But we don't know. Wasn't it The Fly? It is The Fly. It is The Fly, 1986. That is right. But was it in the original Fly? No, it's not the original Fly. Be afraid, be very afraid. College girls, these are Jody's daughters, by the way. College girls, a gentleman allows a lady to maintain her fictions. We can look this one up. I'm on it. I'll find it. Chandler searching away. Amelia!

Nothing is impossible. The word itself says I'm possible. Yeah. It's true. Well said, Millie. Good job, Millie. Okay, I do have the quote here. I have it. I think we actually may have guessed this one at some point. Yeah. Captain Jack Sparrow.

That's it. Pirates of the Caribbean on Stranger Tides. That's it. Jack Sparrow. Thank you. Sugar Ray and Heather Shelton. Sugar Ray and Heather Shelton. We love you guys. Thank you for all the support you chose. We love you very much. Cindy, Queen of Bash, our first Super Goblin. There you go. Cindy. She's royalty in the Bash music family, and thank you very much, Cindy. Family, man. Rory, Gwen, Trey, Natalie. Yeah, we love this. Thank you very, very much. 50.01. Riach coming in. Thank you, Riach. He's back in school. He's looking good. Every time I see him go back to school, I get nervous.

I'm sorry, Rich. It's just a weird thing. Like, I see your classroom, I see you all excited for school, and it just gives me the willies. Yeah. Three ring binders of all. Yeah. I wish it didn't, but it still does. Yeah, I'm with you. How many Martas could Marta echo? If Marta echoed an echo by Marta echo, hail Meme Co. Oh, that's Denise and Hemi. Yeah. Denise and Hemi. We love you, Denise. Denise Godzilla Hunsaker. Happy birthday, by the way. Yeah. And Chunga, you did really well on that one. I know. That's weird. You're still right through that. I know. It was like I almost practiced it, and I didn't. Next up, Marta Lawrence and Sissy Echo. Hey! 211.

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more thing to do here panda it's the panda movie for this for this particular show which is what all right so like i said is i have never been so uncomfortable watching a movie but this is uncomfortable in a good way because this is how well this movie kind of skeeved me out it is uh from 2025 and it is called obsession oh okay i knew i knew it I knew it. I haven't seen this one yet. Chunga watches it. I told Chandler because he's got a good girlfriend now. I do. But I told him, I'm like, you don't want to watch Chandler. You in particular, you don't want to watch it. I got some doozies, man. So this movie was, there are a couple of movies, Panda, before you get into this, can I just tell you, there are a couple of movies that I've seen in my lifetime that just made me feel icky. Eight millimeter.

was one of these. Pulp Fiction was kind of one of these, to be honest with you. From Dusk Till Dawn for me. From Dusk Till Dawn for Chandler. I loved From Dusk Till Dawn. It's full on skeeved Chandler out. And I would also say probably I would put, you know, 8mm, I'd probably put 7. Oh yeah, 7 I could see you putting in there. I didn't like 7 at all. Put it in the box. Yeah, exactly. So, is this movie on par with that for me? It kind of was. It's just kind of a different way. Yeah, yeah. And this one I actually will watch again because I love this one.

a ton because yeah everything about this is what uh really good horror should be like really good thriller horror i mean this movie is amazing so those who are like a cautionary tale honestly it's almost like a fairy tale it's like the monkey's paw uh stories you know be careful of what you wish for because, you know, it doesn't always turn out to be what you had hoped. Yeah, so the premise is... Yeah, the premise is after breaking the mysterious One Wish Willow, which I am seeing replicas of the One Wish Willow everywhere now. Do you want to explain what this is? Can you do this without spoiling? I guess you can. It's a branch, a little twig. It's essentially a little kind of... It almost looks like a decorative twig. It's in a box, like a 50-style box, like when you buy an airplane kit or something like that, right? And you open it up and you break the willow and you make a wish. Yep. Right?

And yeah, I'll let you take it from there, Pam. So his wish is to win his crush's heart. I mean, and he's essentially, he's like kind of a hopeless romantic, our main protagonist in this. And he finds himself getting exactly what he asked for, but soon discovers that some desires come at a dark, sinister price. The wish was, I wish so-and-so would love me more than she's ever loved anything. Yeah. And...

The girl goes nuts. The chaos ensues. And it's so creepy. There's no spoiler in saying that this chick does go crazy, but the amount of crazy that this character goes, and there's a lot more to it than just this girl going crazy. Yeah, I mean, you're not giving anything away. That's kind of the... I mean, and this is so well done. I mean, the two main characters in this, Indy Navarrete is her name. She should win so many awards. She should win an Oscar.

She should win an Oscar for this role. She is so good in this. I mean, her acting ability, especially snapping so quickly back and forth between this loving... Well, she's really cute. She's really just cute as a button. Really pretty. Great kind of spicy personality. She's really cool and very hip. And this guy has all of the reasons to have a crush on her because of the way she is. Oh, yeah. And then there's the other part.

And she's like an entirely different human being. Kind of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Yeah, it's like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Yeah, for sure. And then the, you know, our main guy in this too, Michael Johnston is fantastic in this as well because he plays such the, he's so good at playing the awkward kind of, he's kind of nerdy, but kind of not in a way. Michael Cera would have been great in this role. Can I tell you? You don't think so.

No, not for this role. Okay. No, he's too goofy and funny for this kind of a thing. Like this guy, he did so well, it just had that very nervous energy without playing it up for yucks. There's a couple of films that are out right now. One is called Smile.

I love Smile. That are really high on the creep factor. And then you have, or even like weapons. Yeah. That are just super, super creepy. Very, very just kind of like, oh my gosh. It's just, it's just, I am so uncomfortable watching this. There's all these movies and then there's Obsession, which is that like times three. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, two, it's like really cool what's happened with this movie because I mean, like it was made for a budget of about $750,000. Yeah. It's opening weekend. It made about $17 million on its opening weekend. Yeah.

worldwide gross, as of recent, it's up at $470 million. You can really tell it's low budget. You can tell, but it doesn't matter. Being a film nerd that I am and working in the industry, I've been keeping up on this movie quite a bit. As of this morning, Panda, it has made $501.6 million. Half a million dollars made for under $1 million. They're saying it is the first film since E.T. to increase its gross each week for three weeks in a row. It was number one in the theaters beating major big titles that people knew. It was destroying them for

like it was about three or four weeks in a row it was number one in the theater so it's theater release yeah so for people who don't know if you don't know the movie business and you don't know how it's virtually impossible to make a feature script into a film for that kind of money church ball back in the day was over a million dollars oh yeah um it's it's really hard to do that for that kind of money for the permits and the location shoots and the cast and the flights and the hotels and all that kind of stuff, plus P&A, which is prints and ads. You're basically shooting that movie on your iPhone is really what you're doing because you're cutting corners everywhere you can in order to make this work for 700K. You know what you're doing? You're telling a good story.

And that's how this works so well. You know, Denver and I worked on documentaries and stuff that had a budget very similar to this, like very, very close. And for them to be able to have this level of success, they're saying it also broke a 53-year record, becoming the highest grossing film ever made with a budget under a million dollars since 1973's Enter the Dragon. I mean, it's broken. It has several world records. Whoever made this, that's very, very cool. And the dude who made this, too, is like in his early 20s. Some film dude, yeah. He's just a young guy who had an idea and said, let's go get this thing made. And I want to see more from this guy.

And I want to see more of these, you know, of these, you know, especially these two main characters in the movie. Like Indy Navarat, like, holy cow. Like I said, this girl deserves all the awards. She deserves an Oscar. Yeah. This is acting. I mean, it's an acting clinic, what she does. I haven't seen anything like this, Panda, since there's two.

that come to mind. The Blair Witch Project that everybody, that was shot for about this much. Yeah. And it was shot on home camcorders, mini-DV home camcorders kind of thing with no budget whatsoever. Yeah. And Napoleon Dynamite. Yeah. Is it kind of like Grave Encounters as well where it's like super, super low budget? Okay. It is super low budget like Grave Encounters but the story is just dripping all over this. It's a very sticky story that kind of gets into your bones and yeah. And too, like, you know, Chandler, with you being such a big kind of cinematographer kind of nerd, the shots in this I thought were really well done where honestly when I watched this movie,

I didn't see it as a $750,000 movie. No. Yeah, they're just that talented. Yeah, like the way that they do this and you've got about maybe what, like four or five different locations that this movie takes place in because it is low budget. A lot of it's filmed in a house and then also a music store, which is pretty cool. I thought that was an interesting twist. They all work in a music store like Guitar Center.

I think that's really cool. But it's like a mom and pop music store. And I think this is a really cool thing because you've had, you know, it's been a good year for movies. Spider-Man's broken tons of records. You have the Odyssey. So you have the Odyssey. You have Nolan, you know, doing his crazy thing with these IMAX cameras. And then you've got just this kid just running on and just making bank on a really cool way. That's how the movie industry should be, in my opinion. I think that's awesome. There's a little bit of a secret, too, because what he did was really brilliant in the way he filmed it. But business-wise, he got Focus Features, which is a Fox kind of art house distribution company. They distribute documentaries and like Sundance Film Festival type films, really low budget stuff. He went and really, really pitched them.

and really got them to sink their teeth into it, and then they just ran with it. It's their highest grossing film of all time. Is that a focus feature? Yep, focus features. Keep in mind, Good Night, Good Luck from George Clooney was a focus feature.

So that should give you the kind of caliber films that these guys do. That's awesome. And yeah, I mean, this kid's going to be a, they're all going to be huge. The actors, the director, they're all going to be really big. Especially Indy. She's going to be massive. Oh yeah, she is so good in this. And you know, I love seeing success stories like this where you've got literally, I mean, the only person who I think anybody would have known who was in this movie is Andy Richter of Conan. Who plays one of the girl's dads who owns the music store. And you can't really tell it's him. Oh really? You don't really, because you don't even really see enough of him in the movie to be like, oh, that's Andy Richter. I think he's got like three or four lines is all. Yeah.

I mean, and yeah, so, you know, having a movie where, you know, you don't have a well-established actor that everybody knows, like a Matt Damon who, you know, just shows up to Disneyland at random times. Yeah, and you know, to see it succeed like this, this gives me hope that we will get to see more stuff like this instead of the same garbage that it's like, well, let's run a franchise into the ground. Here's another superhero movie. This movie takes a lot of those big budget tropes. and just takes a big steamy pee all over him. This is so steeped in story. It's a phenomenal movie. But it is creepy, man. It is. It's creepy. And if you have a college-age kid, you'll be afraid to let them out of the house. Oh, yeah. I want to watch it. I want to watch it.

too like i was uncomfortable in this movie but it was uncomfortable in a good way for me because you know that that's what i did try to kill you yeah yeah yeah yeah well and man i'll never look at a brick the same way as i did in this one yeah so yeah like i highly recommend this one to people man this one's so good but but the question remains yes where can we watch this panda Well, I actually got to see it on it, because I intended to go see it back when it was in its theater run, but it always seemed like the showings, because this is the way the theaters are sometimes with these low-budget movies. They're only playing at certain times of the day when I can't go. Yeah, yeah. So, I missed it when it was in theaters, and I intended to watch it, and then Peacock dropped it on their service. Peacock of all places. No way, for free. So, I got to go watch it on Peacock, so if you have a subscription with them, you can watch it there, but immediately after I watched it on Peacock, I said, I need to buy this movie, so I went and bought it.

Yeah, there you go. Nice one. Obsession is what it's called. Obsession. I've got to watch it this week. The creep factor on a scale of one to 10 is about a 25. Dude. So. Nice. Yeah, it's nuts. We'll watch it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Cool. You're ready. That is your show for your Thursday. A reminder for you of Batman Friday. It happens tonight at midnight if you're listening on a Thursday. Chung and I are back. Set your calendar. Batman, the Ronin Movie Club, the 89 OG Batman. What's it take for that again, Panda? So that is September 18th. It's a Friday night, 730 showing at the Jordan Landing Cinemark. Cool.

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