5-29-25 - 9am - Jon Caldara Filling In - Video Games, Toothbrush & Comics

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
If you live in Douglas County, you have got to
put an American flag out on your front porch.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
If you're not doing this.

Speaker 1 (00:07):
Already, then you are not doing your job and deterring
the left from your neighborhood and the county in general.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Do it, and do it now? Really? What? What if
I don't want to? I'm John Gaelderic, give me a call.
Three h three seven one three eight two five five.
What is Brownie doing? By the way, see in uh

(00:36):
you can rehab again? Yeah? But no, no, no, undisclosed location,
disclosed location. Yes, his basement playing Fortnite is not an
undisclosed vacation.

Speaker 3 (00:49):
I would almost bet that Michael has no idea what
Fortnite is?

Speaker 2 (00:53):
You know, I don't either. Actually, I just know it's
a video game. I'm so I'm so fortunate that I
never got into video games. I've got somewhat of an
addictive personality to begin with, and I would not want
I would not want to be playing these these video games.
I would lose half my life. Why are they so popular?

(01:18):
Because it's an extension of yourself.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
You can build up your character to do bigger and
better things that you could ever accomplish.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
But it has that tiny little controller. And that's the
part that I've tried to play video games. But you
have this little controller with a few buttons, and it
doesn't actually feel like you're doing anything, at least with
the old school games, you know, Miss pac Man and
Centipede or whatever they want.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
You're going way back when you just have the A
and B button. But nowadays there's at least a half
a dozen.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yeah. But even back when they were arcade games, they
were big, kind of solid machines, and so you got
a joystick and you get and it was anchored there.
You could really, you know, go in any direction, go
anywhere you wanted. You could slam it, you know that
thall you know you it felt like a thing rather
than these little tiny buttons you have to press for

(02:14):
a video game. Just doesn't feel real, make any sense.
It's like pinball. I like pinball. There's it's a big
old thing. You you got the flappers and flashy lights
and noises. Yeah, but it was a big, huge physical thing.
Video games has a tiny little controller. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (02:38):
The controllers also nowadays they will vibrate when you do
something too, so it feels more immersive.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
Really, I'm surprised they haven't. What was the who put
out the Wii, I forget which Nintendo, and you could
interact with it more. It had like a bluetoothy sensing,
you know, so you play tennis or bowling or.

Speaker 3 (02:59):
Whatever, you actually had to move around. Yeah, yeah, so
I get that.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
I get how particularly now with virtual reality, it's more immersive,
so you're you're inside whatever you're doing more. I'm just
thrilled that I never got into it. I've been told John,
don't do cocaine, you'd like it too much. And I'm
glad I've never done cocaine because I bet I would

(03:24):
like it too much. And so I'm glad I haven't
done video games because man, what a time suck. Just
you know, I watch very little television, and I still
watch way too much TV. It's it's all right, explain
this one to me, dragon. Yeah. We go to Bronco

(03:48):
games to see two teams do their thing. You go
to Rockies games to see one team do their thing lose.
But now there's this this thing where people watch other
people play video games. They stream it on YouTube. Some
guy just sitting there playing a game and it has

(04:13):
become a spectator sport to watch somebody else play a game.
Help me, what why? How is this at all a
spectator sports? The idea of a video game was, it's
it's something you do.

Speaker 3 (04:30):
But you can also equate it to the skill, like
you know, darts are bowling or anything that we can
acquire those skills, but we still watch people play darts
and bowling, so it's it's not something you.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
Does anybody really watch bowling? Does anybody really watch dart?
Embody does? Yeah, no, nobody does. It's it's a learned skill.

Speaker 3 (04:53):
It's something that people put time and effort into and
they are better than you, so you just like football.
There better than us. They're much better shape than either
of us, and they they do their thing in Some
of those games also are team sports, so you have
to have the communication and they've got to practice just
as you know the football field.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
This is how old I am. In college, I knew
a bunch of nerd buddies who computer science kind of guys.
And this is when personal computers were just in their emphasy.
You know, the Commodore City four and Atari had a
computer called the st or something like that. It was

(05:34):
just a keyboard and you plugged it into your television
set and you could you could play some games and
do some rudimentary word processing kind of stuff. It was
just you know, the first computers, and these geeks had
a way to take four atari st machines computers and

(05:57):
hook them up together so that they could play a
game where they they were all in the same game,
playing an individually. Now, the game was this. You were
a big round ball with a face on it and
going through a maze, and you could sneak up behind

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the other guys who are also big round balls and
shoot them, and that was it. It was just it
was it was. It was ridiculously small. It was your
tennis ball and you're going through a maze. That was it.
That was That was the whole experience. And other guys

(06:40):
it wasn't like today where I get it. You get
you play these games for people who are old and
don't understand it. You're on gaming machines, you've got a
headset on and a microphone, and you're talking to your
team members who could be literally all around the globe,
but they come together in the way that I go

(07:01):
to a poker game. So I go every couple of weeks,
I get together with some guys and we played poker
and it's fun and you hang around and it's a
social thing. And these video games have become social things
for people even though they don't leave their home, which

(07:22):
is really cool in a way, kind of weird in
another way. During during the lockdowns, we played poker virtually,
so we all got on a zoom call so that
we could crap talk each other and see each other,
and we could talk, but we were playing online. We

(07:44):
had a playing each other on a iPad or something,
and so you could just go ahead and play and
it actually worked out pretty well. You can hang out
at home, drink your own beer, and still play poker
with with your buddies, and so I get how video

(08:05):
games are kind of like that for young people. Am
I hitting the right?

Speaker 3 (08:11):
And people do watch the World Series of Poker on TV.
So if you're talking about watching people play video games,
well there you go. Yeah, but pretty close to the
same thing.

Speaker 2 (08:19):
Yeah, But the difference is I think with poker, if
you're into poker, you're like, oh, I would not have
done that. I would have done this, And there's a
strategy to it, and there a whole bunch of luck
to it. Same with the.

Speaker 3 (08:33):
Game I wouldn't have gone to. I wouldn't have traded
out that weapon for this weapon, same kind of thing.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
All right, do you do you actually do these games occasionally? Uh? Yeah,
you look like a sad lonely I am married. But yeah, yeah,
I just said that you look like a sad lonely guy,
so I assumed you were married. Understand, there are two

(09:00):
types of people, dragon. There are divorce people and there
are pre divorced people. You're a pre divorced person. Someday
you'll grow up and be divorced like me. I was divorced.
Now I'm just pre divorced again. Now, yeah, that's it.
It's it's a toggle switch. That is it. You're it's

(09:20):
a toggle switch. Oh my married friends hate that joke.
They hate that joke until they get a divorce and
they go all right. Speaking of which, I see if
I can find this because it's it was really I
thought pretty funny. No, no, no, no, how how do

(09:45):
people get caught in extramarital affairs with with an electric toothbrush?
So of course, yeah, check this one out. This is
from uh oh, I forget which site out of the UK.
Woman catches husband cheating with help of electric toothbrush. A

(10:09):
UK woman started suspecting her husband of cheating after checking
the data on her electric toothbrush companion app, noticing that
they were brushing at odd times of the day. Paul Jones,
a private investigator over a decade of experience, who recently

(10:33):
recounted one of his most unusual cases. Catching a cheating
partner in the act is rare, but rarer still is
catching them cheating with the help of an electric toothbrush.
One of his clients, a married mother of two who
was trying to improve their children's brushing habits by monitoring

(10:58):
their electric toothbrush US use via a smartphone app, notice
the brush was being used at oh strange times of
the day when her kids were supposedly at school and
her husband was at work. Hmm. After making sure her

(11:21):
kids were indeed at school, she confronted her hubby, who
claimed to be at work all day. Aha, overtime, here's
a quote. Overtime. The client noticed their partner's brushing history
was being logged at odd times, times when they were

(11:42):
supposed to be at work. At first, it didn't seem
like much brushing late in the morning on Fridays didn't
raise red flags, but over time the woman started to
see a pattern. The electric toothbrush was being used on
Friday mornings when her husband was supposed to be at work,
or spouse hadn't been to work on Friday morning in

(12:04):
months and been having an affair with a colleague right
there in the family home. It's time staff stamped, often
location based and emotionless. You said about the data. When
a device says someone brushed their tea at ten forty
eight am when they're supposed to be to work at nine,

(12:27):
it's hard to explain that away. I would imagine cheaters
and previous generations didn't have these problems. They probably didn't
have things like bring cameras all the security cameras we

(12:51):
now have around our homes. They didn't have iPhones, which
basically track wherever you go. No, you had an affair
and and nobody knew about it, or at least it
wasn't a digital trail. This this is, this is this

(13:18):
is why you should always use a good old fashioned
analogue toothbrush. Just just something to think about, just something
to think about, all right? Three oh three seven one three, eight,
two five five. Oh all right, So looking at this story.

(13:40):
It's on Oddity Central some website, and of course they
give you a story about cheating, followed by let's see one, two,
three three viagra ads and some testosterone ads. Matter of fact,

(14:05):
it's it's it's mostly ads, uh three or three seven,
one two five five? Why do I have a feeling
there's a bunch of men listening, going home and throwing
away their electric toothbrush. Just grab some of these, uh,

(14:30):
some of these uh texts I've gotten. I love this one.
I mean, John Old Trek all the way. I think
people realize how important Star Trek was for those of
us who had no lives as kids. Four o'clock, Channel
four every afternoon, come home, go to the basement, and

(14:53):
I'd watched Star Trek. It's sad. It's sad. What's weird
is now that Comic Con and Marvel Comics and all
this other geek stuff has made being a nerd an

(15:14):
okay thing. Way back in the day, they had Star
Trek conventions and Trek these would get together and shoot
each other with phasers and drool all over the stars
who came to speak, And it was considered. I don't
know how to put it, a convention of losers. Fast

(15:37):
forward to today and these conventions are huge, main stream events.
I went to a Star Trek convention way back when
it was actually kind of fun. I didn't want to go.
Somebody dragged me, but it was kind of fun, and

(15:59):
there were a couple thousand people and two girls. They
were they were all dudes. They were all dudes. And
then somebody recently dragged me to some comic book like
conventions selling a lot of the same stuff and doing
the same things. It was mostly women, hot chicks dressed

(16:25):
up in costumes going to going to comic con It
has now turned the corner. And in the sixties Marvel
car comics and DC comics, they were for mostly boys
and geeks. Geeks watched it. In the seventies there were

(16:47):
the reruns of Star Trek and cartoons a Spider Man,
and it was just kiddy stuff. And now people love
Marvel in the whole Marvel universe. Bob Iiger was the
head of Disney, really saved that company. He realized that

(17:12):
they needed more franchises, and he bought Star Wars and
he bought Marvel, and they have been massive money makers
for Disney. Who would have thought Disney used to buy

(17:35):
franchises before? He might recall they bought the Muppets way
back when the Muppets are a Disney owned franchise, when
I was a kid, I think it was in the sixties.
They bought the rights to the Winnie the Pooh books
to do the animation for that, and so they brought

(17:57):
in these new set of characters beyond just the regular
Disney characters. And then what fifteen years ago, I forget,
they started doing these Marvel movies. It was an amazing
run for them. It was brilliant. And now these things

(18:20):
that were for geeks is completely mainstream. Is there another
franchise out there that that the entertainment world should buy?
He might not know it because it's in a graphic
novel or some sort of comic book or something. It's

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not in the regular world. God bless the geeks who
will inherit the earth three three seven, one, three eight
two five five In for Michael, I'm John kel Derek.

Speaker 4 (18:53):
Hey, this guy talking for the Michael Brown Show right now.
He's a real du this man. He's talking about trends,
gender rights and stuff like that man, some girls some boys.
Just like the rolling Stone song says, just like when
the whip comes down, some boys turn into some girls,
and some growths turn into some boys. It's an economic

(19:13):
and a political situation, Matt. There's there's truth and then
there's lying on resumes. You know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (19:23):
No, I have no idea what you got, John? That
makes complete sense? I mean I understand I'm in dufis. Yep,
that is. That's rather self evident. The rest I didn't
quite follow. Hey, I'm John Calderic. Give me a call
three h three seven one three eight two five five.
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(19:48):
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(20:09):
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(20:31):
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(20:51):
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(21:12):
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(21:35):
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And I've always thought the revolution to save Colorado it's

(21:58):
got to be fun. Otherwise why do it? The battle
is the fun stuff, all right? So Dragan and I
were having this argument offline about about who your favorite
superhero is, who your favorite Marvel character is, and you,

(22:20):
of course said Deadpool. Of course, yeah, Deadpool, dead dead.
Deadpool was done so well by Ryan Reynolds, and in
these in these three movies, it's just and the idea
that Disney owns this foul mouth, disgusting, perverted, wonderful, humorous

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character is a joy within itself.

Speaker 3 (22:44):
Even beautiful that they didn't own him, then they bought
him and then continued to let him do his thing.

Speaker 2 (22:51):
That was beautiful. Well, now he Ryan Reynolds played Deadpool
in some some X Men movie way back when, and
it was a terrible, terrible role.

Speaker 3 (23:04):
Yeah, it was the Wolverine Origins movie that was absolutely terrible.
But because it's Hugh Jackman and you know Ryan Reynolds,
everybody still kind of liked that duo, and then they
did two Deadpool solo movies by Fox. Then Disney bought Fox,
and then they also did that third Dead Poo movie.

Speaker 2 (23:26):
We'll tell me that the first two Deadpool movies that
were fun foul mouth, those were Fox movies, correct, all right?
That makes sense, yes, all right, because and Disney didn't
own it. Correct. And then Disney bought it and they
did the Deadpool Wolverine movie Wolverine movie, which also was

(23:46):
an absolute riot and a lot of fun. It's just
a great ride because these are these are really the
two characters. You love, Wolverine for some reason, Hugh Jackman's
portrayal of him. It's just it's just always been the
cool X Men really, you know, he's he's the guy,
and yeah, he's a badass, good guy who's also he's

(24:12):
a smart ass. He's got a foul mouth, but he's
not silly and perverted the way Deadpool is. So that
first Deadpool he was in an X Men movie, and
Ryan Reynolds was funny, but he only had this tiny
little part and then at the end they showed his

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mouth shut or something like that.

Speaker 3 (24:35):
Correct, I remember that, right, dreadful decision by Fox at
that point.

Speaker 2 (24:42):
And what's funny about comics brought to brought to the
big screen is now you can do the special effects
and make it look right. I remember as a kid
there was a live action TV show of Spider Man Terrible,
I only remember. And so when he shoot out his

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web and he climbed on to it.

Speaker 3 (25:08):
Like off screen, you know the hand, you just see
the web shooting out on the.

Speaker 2 (25:12):
Ware shooting out, but also when he was climbing, his
web was basically thick nylon rope. Yeah, it's like, no,
that's not a web, that's thick nylon rope. You know
the animated Spider Man in the seventies that that could
work because you know, you can animate that stuff. But
it never looked real. It never looked right. Same thing

(25:35):
with Hulk. Remember who was the Loof Regno, but who
was the actor? I cannot recall the He was an
Eddie's father, the Courtship of Eddie's Father. I can see
his face talking my best anyways, that guy, and it

(25:55):
was okay. But but Loof Rigno was the Hulk and
it worked, but it didn't work as well as the
Hulk today because of the graphics are just incredible and
it looks it looks real. So what a great time
to bring all these comic books to life. And how

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boring is Superman? Now there's a new Superman coming out
and it's basically, you know, just a it looks like
the same old as Superman. But you can't do anything
with Superman. Superman is the most boring superhero. What can
he do everything? What's his character flaw? Nothing? There's nothing there.

Speaker 3 (26:46):
It's hard to find a villain for him too, because
you define the hero by the villain, So you can't
have just a normal guy go up against Superman who
can do everything right.

Speaker 2 (26:59):
It's like, but it's your superpower. I can turn in
I guess he can't turn invisible, but he can. He
can fly, he can shoot laser beams, he has X
ray vision.

Speaker 3 (27:10):
I'd argue the invisible thing because he can move fast
enough to phase through something, so that could be invisible.

Speaker 2 (27:16):
I suppose. I suppose. I remember when Christopher Reeves was Superman.
I was a kid, and it was a big deal
because he finally had some special effects that looked looked real.
Growing up, I remember watching Superman, which was black and white.

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It was actually filmed in color, so later they could
show it in color, but TVs were black and white,
and it was terrible. Had you know, guy with a
beard gut was Superman and he would do the same thing.
He would jump out of windows onto you know, a
bunch of mattresses and his his classic go to style

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was taking two bad guys and knocking their heads together
and then they would collapse because they had to do
it live in front of a camera. There were no
special effects. Oh oh so bad. All right, So Bill Bixby,
by the way, Bill Bill Bixby, thank you. Yeah, Bill
Bixby was Doctor Banner. I mean all those things. That's

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what made Marvel characters so cool is that they had
some sort of real life conflict in their in their backstory.
Now here's here's a guy who's on the run. He's
a good guy, but he can't control the Hulk. That's cool.
Spider Man hit home in the sixties and early seventies

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with adolescent boys. Why because he was an adolescent boy
and young teen boys feel misunderstood. They're always in trouble
even though they're actually good guys. And then along comes
super This basically a kid who's always in trouble. Everybody's

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out gets Spider Man, even though Spider Man's just doing
the best he can and is actually very heroic. Just
because he screws up somehow, everybody thinks he's the villain.
And so kids loved Spider Man. It worked, and then
then we had like fifteen different Spider Man movies, all

(29:36):
of them which were Okay. I think I'm a little
marveled out. I don't know about you. I've watched all
the Marvel movies. They got really good with the Avengers
and they all came together, and now I just feel
like Disney is just milking it for everything it's got,

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and it's lost its magic.

Speaker 3 (30:01):
It's getting hard because you can't just have a solo
movie anymore after the several Avengers movies and the several
Avengers movies that are planned upcoming. I mean, they tried
to do it here with the Thunderbolts that recently came out,
and they did well in the beginning, but it's just
kind of falling off hard, and it's the team up.

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You have to have that now versus just you can't
have a Bucky Barnes movie, you can't have the Red
Guardian movie. It needs to include everybody else in order
to make that box office money back.

Speaker 2 (30:38):
Yeah, and it the arc of this decade of ever
since Tony Stark came in with Iron Man, the first
real Marvel movie that was really well done all the
way up to them killing Thanos. No, it was like,
that was just this beautiful arc of movies that kind

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of eve together but had the right amount of humor,
had the right amount of storyline. Uh. And after that
they just should have stopped. It would have been nice
if they just you know, put a bow on it
and and let it, let it set off into the sunset.
But you don't kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.

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I guess after that, nothing really was as good. And
then you had what Miss Marvel or Captain Marvel boring
the Marvels. You get all three of them. Yay, that
was fun. Yeah, girl time on Marvels. It didn't work
because Captain Marvel is kind of like Superman. And then

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you get Nick Fury.

Speaker 3 (31:42):
You get him in there looking all goofy, and it's
same with the most recent Thor movie. You make them
all goofy versus the actual superpowered beings that they are.

Speaker 2 (31:50):
Stop. Yeah, yeah, I saw. I saw the Thor movie.
It was like, that's just stunk. Where whereas in the
arc that he had up to the Thanos on that
last one when he's big and fat and let himself go, well,
that's how you do it. That was really funny. I thought,

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all right, God, word, geeks, let's take a break. I'm
John Calderic. Keep it right here here in six point
thirty k how.

Speaker 5 (32:21):
John, just want to let you know that Larimer County
Habitat for Humanity is having a pride build on in June.
How many religious organizations support them, and here they go.

Speaker 1 (32:35):
Down the road.

Speaker 2 (32:38):
I don't know what a pride build is. And by
the way, this is what I really worry about when
we talk about the trans issue is because it gets
confused with the gay issue. And I recently got some
email telling me how remarkably anti gay I am, and

(33:03):
that I'm an anti gay activist. I'm like, wait a second,
I've been promoting gay marriage forever. You know. It's it's like,
this is not true, This is not true. I believe
maybe I'm wrong, but there there is a coming civil

(33:24):
war inside the left and the LGB part of the movement,
and the t part of the movement are going to
be at odds. They want different things. Lesbians and gays
wanted to get married. That's what they wanted. They wanted

(33:47):
marriage equality. They have achieved that. But there's nothing worse
than a movement that has achieved its goals, because then
what do you do? And so there is I believe
a real tension between the l G and the T
that there are. There are people in the homosexual community going,

(34:12):
wait a second, these kids are not in the wrong body.
They're not trans. They're gay, and let them explore that.
But when you mutilate their bodies, you are saying that
they're in the wrong sect. No, they're they're not. They're not.

(34:37):
That's that's the issue. So why why do we call
these gay kids? Why do we call them why do
we care call them trans? It's it seems very wrong,

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doesn't it. It sure does to me? All Right? Three
h three seven one three eight two five five. We'll
cap off the show with this. Remember, if you want
a good boob job, just say you've got to change

(35:27):
your sex. Ay. Let's that's about it. I'll be back tomorrow.
Check out Independence Institute. Go to thinkfreedom dot org. And
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