All right, Scum and Villainy! It's 2-2-2-2! Let's welcome Kevin Smith and Mark Benarden to Fatman

Beyond!

Welcome back to Fatman Beyond, I'm Kevin Smith, I am Mark Benardeny!

We just gave each other a COVID doing all that, man! Welcome back kids, here we are in the real world, we're both coded up because it was very chilly in the green room out back. It's cold in Los Angeles to show. We might as well be doing this fucking show in Jersey.

Whether it's not what it's meant to be in shit. Before we get started kids, I'll forget if I don't do this. We got Birthday in the house tonight.

Who's Birthday? Steven Silva, is your birthday? Where are you? Where? Who else is Birthday? Over there. Steven, welcome, man, hold that thought. Is your fucking birthday too? Happy Birthday.

Is your birthday? What's your name? Mike? Who's me? Are you serious? We know when all of your parents fucked, man. All we have to do is count back nine months. Mark, do the math. What is it?

What's your name? Byron? We got a Byron, we got a Mike and Steven. Ladies and gentlemen, years ago we couldn't do this because allegedly Warner Bros. owned the song and thanks to a landmark lawsuit that proved they've never owned the fucking song.

We can all sing Happy Fucking Birthday without fearing fucking Bugs Bunny coming through the door. So here we go, ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of Steven, Mike and Byron, we'll get all their names in the fucking song. Let's do it. Count of one, two, three. Happy Birthday to you. Happy Birthday to you. Happy Birthday to you. Happy Birthday, Steven. I can buy run. Well done.

Happy Birthday to you. Oh God, no, I'm so done. God, I just, that was it. I lost all my fucking breath on that one. Yeah, I'll see you later. I mean, I just showed you, mate, we're going home.

I felt like I thought I was Whitney Houston for a second there and I really really went for it with lungs I don't have. Instead you were Fergie and it didn't work out so well. I guess it was kind of Fergie. Welcome everybody. We got a bunch of fucking show for you tonight.

If I am quiet and express no opinions whatsoever, it was because the last time we did this show, I made the mistake of saying that, you know, with 10 Oscar nominations, I think is weird that Spider-Man didn't get one and shit.

And then three days later, I was treated like fucking Hitler on the internet, man. So fucking bad. I saw fucking people tweeting shit like you should have died with your heart attack. People were fucking, I'm serious. People were fucking mad, man. Like as if it was outrageous hot take or something like that. So I had to deal with it for a good, I don't know, 24 fucking 36 hours and shit. And then 72 hours later, the Academy came out and said, oh, we're going to let the audience vote on that.

And then we got to get the audience vote on an award. So that's Spider-Man could get a mention at shit. So, you know, fucking if I, if I seem a little circumspect tonight is because I don't want to get yelled at by strangers for suggesting that the movie could have been nominated not win.

But fuckers like is no way should win you're an asshole. I was like, I didn't even say it could win or should win. But I was like when they extended that category, best picture from five nominations to 10. It was after the dark night.

And it was because they were like the dark night should have been fucking nominated. We only have five slots in the future. We're going to extend it. Some more popular films can fucking get nominated.

And so I mentioned on the podcast like, you know, fucking they got to include more populist films if they want people to watch it. And then a bunch of fucking film Twitter just came for me, bro. Holy shit.

Like I had no recourse in shit. It wasn't like, hey, I made clerks like fuck you. They just, you know, no, and I was like, I know. But they came after me so fucking hard for suggesting that it could have been one of 10 films nominated for fuck's sake.

So if I don't talk a lot tonight, if Mark does most of the talking and hopefully he has a fiery fucking opinion that makes the internet mad at him.

It's only for that reason.

Oh, well, I had some love the week before you decided that Spider-Man was good. What happened to you?

Oh, I had feelings about Joe Rogan.

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