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🎧 Episode Summary
Taco Tuesday gets dangerously nerdy as the crew dives headfirst into Marvel, DC, and Star Wars chaos. From Jessica Jones’ MCU return and Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 hype, to Marvel teasers casually pulling over a billion views, this episode spirals into multiversal speculation fast. The Russos may be playing 4D chess with Endgame timestamps, Mister Miracle officially joins the DCU, and James Gunn politely tells Batman fans to wait their damn turn.
Then Lucasfilm drops the big one: Darth Vader, Luke, Leia, and Han are invading Disneyland, breaking Galaxy’s Edge out of sequel-only jail. Add Ryan Hurst becoming Kratos, Hans Zimmer waving his musical wand at Harry Potter, and several deeply unserious jokes about Fruitopia, kink shaming, and Sam Rockwell dancing, and you’ve got a full-blown nerd buffet .
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⏱️ Timestamps & Topics
• 00:00 Live show warning & chaos intro
• 04:30 Jessica Jones returns in Daredevil: Born Again Season 2
• 09:00 Marvel teasers hit 1 BILLION views
• 12:40 Avengers: Doomsday, Super Bowl trailer hype
• 14:00 WWII Avengers set photos & Captain America theories
• 21:00 Russo Brothers hiding Endgame clues in teasers
• 27:00 Mister Miracle confirmed canon in the DCU
• 32:00 Batman: The Brave and the Bold delayed (again)
• 38:00 Headlines Rapid Fire
• 41:00 Ryan Hurst cast as Kratos in God of War
• 47:00 Hans Zimmer scoring Harry Potter HBO series
• 55:00 Galaxy’s Edge adds Vader, Luke, Leia & Han
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🧠 Key Takeaways
• Jessica Jones is fully integrated into the MCU, not just a cameo
• Marvel’s teaser strategy is optimized for short-form domination
• Avengers: Doomsday may directly confront Endgame’s consequences
• Mister Miracle brings Darkseid and the New Gods into DCU canon
• Batman will arrive… eventually… probably
• Disneyland finally embraces multiple Star Wars eras
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💬 Quotes of the Episode
• “They’re short king teasers and they’re doing fine with a billion views.”
• “We don’t kink shame. We kink inform.”
• “That pause between nerd and together…”
• “Fruitopia, but a zoo.”
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Let's do this. We're we're going to get super
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dirty. There's a lot to talk about.
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Apparently if if we razz you, Phil, you get, you get, I don't
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know, you're off your game and then we have to take over.
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What the fuck? No, you know what?
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I think I'm figuring out what's going on.
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It's because all of a sudden, right as the show started and
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because my my phone is my new camera and it's facing away from
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me, somebody was trying to call me.
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Oh, all right. Yeah.
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So I this is. Going to be such a good show.
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I'm so happy we're doing it right now.
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Yep, Yep. And there's always, you know,
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there's always the hey, I need to call you right now.
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One the way I'm going to change that.
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Do not disturb. There we go.
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So I should be OK. Now there you go.
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There you go. Hey, this week on Death, we've
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got Gods of War, Scorpion Kings, Russo Clues, and just as
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Lucasfilm moves into a new era, Vader is descending into
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Disneyland once again. I like it, all right.
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I'm excited about the Disneyland news.
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Yeah, it's it's. OK, continue the show.
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All right. Well, first segment we got going
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on here, ladies and gentlemen, of course, it is straight from
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Jay Jonah. I like it.
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So let's jump right into the news, the newsy news.
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Don't call it a comeback. I've been here for years.
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Jessica Jones. All right, Jessica Jones is
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officially stepping back into the spotlight and daredevil born
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Again season 2 will fill in the missing years since we last saw
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the hard drinking private investigator and reveal what
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she's been up to since her Netflix days ended.
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So Marvel's head of streaming television, Brad Wunderbaum
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basically said what's really fun about that character is the time
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jump from the last time we saw her.
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So we're re establishing the character.
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This is catching the audience up to what the hell she's been up
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to. And that is filled with a lot of
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really cool surprises. What do you think she's been
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doing? Are they going to say she's
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going to have a baby? I think she's going to have her
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baby. Oh, I'm sorry.
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Go ahead. I didn't mean to.
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No, no, no, no. You, you exactly.
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It's exactly where we're going to.
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I was saying like, what, what do you what do you guys think she's
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been doing since the end of the Netflix show to to now?
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And that's your prediction right there.
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You think that she's had the baby.
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Does that mean that she's actually been with Sweet
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Christmas? Because I know there there there
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were jokes about her and Luke Cage together, but it's like, do
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you think they were official in between all these shows?
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Yeah, that would actually really help the bring Luke Cage in it
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in as well, because if she is does already have a child and
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that's like that's the big thing then yeah, Luke's going to come
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and be like, Jessica, stop leaving the baby with me, you
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know, and that kind of stuff. So I like that.
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Although they could go with the whole Trish as what was it?
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She's a cat. Wild cat no.
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Black Cat. No, that's easy.
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No, the yellow and blue. Heathcliff.
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What Heathcliff Garfield. Let's just name off famous cats.
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All the cats Alf tried to eat. All the cats Alf should have
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eaten. Right.
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Yeah, the But what is her name? It's not Wildcat.
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It's like, what the heck is it? You think of that, but I think
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that would explain a lot. I would explain where they've
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been and why they haven't been like surfacing like there's
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other heroes. We have priorities now and we
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have to take care of priority one and that's the family and
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not not be go out and being a superhero.
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So until they get a call from, you know, Daredevil, they're
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off. They're off.
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Yeah, because I mean, the, the, the, the main thing is supposed
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to be and then and they've said this, that it's not fanservice,
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right? It's it's not going to be them
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just kind of doing a cameo or nostalgic victory lap, just
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saying, hey, Jessica Jones, she exists.
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Go watch the other show. Like she's supposed to be
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something completely integrated into the season.
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So I, I, I, I think there's a combination for me is I, I would
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like to see the baby and that, but I also that's that's
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something that I don't want to see off screen.
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I want to see that relationship kindle unless they do kind of
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like a, oh, hey, let's go back and do another season of Jessica
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Jones. And here's what happened in
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between everything, you know, and and again, like I, I want to
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see those relationships built. I want to see everything between
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Luke Cage and Jessica Jones and what what brings them to who
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they are. So, you know, that's that's
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that's where I want now. I do know that for sure.
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Lat end of last season, you know, Daredevil was building an
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army to take on Fisk. I think she's going to be a part
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of that. Yeah.
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And I think from what I hear, I think this season is going to
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incorporate the whole Daredevil Defenders, you know, Pocket into
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the MCUA lot more than just like, hey, we're going to guest
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appear on, you know, Spider Man, No Way Home, that sort of thing.
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So it'll be interesting. I'm I'm I'm with it.
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So am I. So with that being said, Marvel
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has officially announced that Season 2 of Daredevil Born Again
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will premiere on Disney Plus on March 4th, 2026.
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Guys, that's like less than two months away.
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That's math, Yeah, that's about. I I had to think of.
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Math six weeks. Away.
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Yeah, it's six weeks. Yeah.
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So I mean, like we, we're it, it's, it's coming.
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Like it's up and coming. It's going to be here before we
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even realize it's here. Awesome.
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Excited. Yeah, very, very excited.
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All right, so let's. Continue not going to Hawaii in
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in February. Just realized I haven't talked
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to you guys about that, but I'm not going to Hawaii in February.
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No, no, it's fine. We're going next year.
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It's no big deal. Well, it has nothing to do with
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anything we were talking about. Let's move on.
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It's. All good, say Wong saying I
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wonder I'm I'm curious what his thoughts are here.
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We are going to move on, but please put them in the chat.
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So let's let's move on to the next story that we've got going
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on here Dooms. I mean, Disney's plan is
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working. From Marvel Studios perspective,
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this experiment clearly paid off.
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Studio refers to all four clips strictly as teasers, and
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together they've crossed an enormous milestone.
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Collectively, the four teasers have pulled in over 1 billion
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with AB views online. Wow, I haven't seen them.
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It it's I. Haven't watched any of them you.
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Haven't watched any of the four I'm telling.
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You right, the Captain America 10 and I watched the Thor one.
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That's right. You didn't watch the X-Men or
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the no, you got to watch the other two.
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They're good. And again, there's they're not
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giving away any plot points at all.
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You know, like you're getting a lot of kind of there's a little
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bit of fan service inside of these trailers because it's
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making us like, you know, Oh my God, these are things that we've
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wanted, but they are not giving us anything aside from, you
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know, interactions and and and characters that are being
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brought in. So I mean, again, just to kind
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of reiterate everything on here, just like some of the
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announcements of of of how many times these have been viewed,
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Instagram alone accounted for more than 500 million views.
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TikTok delivered another 100.
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Hilarious. Yeah, It's that's insane.
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TikTok delivered another 100 million, right?
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So, I mean, between the two, you have 600 million.
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Both figures represent all time records for any Marvel trailer
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released on either of those platforms.
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Mm hmm. Mm hmm.
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Which is crazy. I mean Instagram is is by far
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destroying all of the numbers on all this.
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Well, if you think about it, I mean, these teasers are made for
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short format, you know, they are platforms like TikTok, like
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Instagram, you know, they're they're short little videos and
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that's what gets consumed on those platforms the most.
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Right. I think calling them short is
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disrespectful and I think you need to apologize to them.
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They're short king teasers and they're doing fine with a
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billion views so. That's right.
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That's right. James takes offense to that.
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I take offense to you saying that I take offense.
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To that YouTube. YouTube also has roughly
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1, roughly 60 million views and counting.
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To put it into perspective, Avengers End Game racked up
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close to 300 million YouTube views in a single day back in
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2019. Yeah.
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I mean, I don't even remember 2019.
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The Internet was different back then.
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Absolutely. Was we?
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Were all so naive back then. I'm excited and supposedly we're
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getting a full trailer during the Super Bowl.
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So I'm, I'm ready for this. I'm I'm I'm ready to see.
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Super Bowl time again. Oh my God.
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Super Bowl is coming up. It's not too far away.
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So doomsday is coming December 18th, 2026.
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Do you think actual Doctor Doom is going to be in this movie
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though? I, I would hope so.
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Oh no. I I think eventually, at some
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point the the person who's going to take over Doctor Doom for the
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remainder of this next phase of the MCU will show up.
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Yeah. Do you think it's going to be
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Sam Rockwell? No.
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We were watching the second Iron Man and I was like, man, I
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really wish Sam and he had like his own like little manservant
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guy. And that guy was hilarious in
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Iron Man 2 and I was like, what happened to that guy?
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I. Mean he's.
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Never like a slap fight with Happy or anything.
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I wanted something. Yeah, he is somewhat wasted as
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Justin Hammer, but I mean, still like, you know, like I, I, I
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want to see, I, I would like to see more Justin Hammer show up
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eventually. I would too I I miss the dancing
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Justin Hammer. Yeah, anyway, Sam Rockwell
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having to dance in every movie he's in.
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It's it's contractual. All right, let's let's move on
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to the next thing we got going on here.
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Fish and chips on your left sounds delicious.
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While previous reports claimed Avengers Doomsday reshoots were
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scheduled to begin in April, recent photos indicate
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production may have started early in London.
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No cast members were spotted, but crew wearing Avengers
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Doomsday jackets. We're seeing filming scenes
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staged in what appears to be a World War 2 era London.
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So there's no clear indication who these scenes involve or what
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exactly is being filmed. But we know Steve Rogers and
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Peggy Carter immediately come to mind.
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Because if you could just easily, I mean, it could just be
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an alternate reality sequence. It could be something
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establishing them back in the day.
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It could be something that's just a complete multiverse
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storyline. So what?
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What are you guys thoughts? What do you think is happening
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in in the timeline? I think we're getting Captain
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Carter and Captain. America Yep, I think we're going
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to get both. I think we're going to get both.
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Somehow. We're going to get both.
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And I also think this is smart by Marvel and Disney.
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Like, hey, we have shoots planned in April, but F that.
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We're going to do some right now and just completely, completely
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screw over like all the tabloids and all that and be like, no,
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we're doing it right now. We're not going to say anything.
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We're just going to do it. I think that's smart,
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absolutely. I think it's going to be the
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Captain Carter from What If though.
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Yeah, OK, not the one from Doctor Strange.
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Multiverse of Madness. No, no, it's going to be Captain
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Carter from What If? I think that's a good move.
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And if they were going to do it anywhere, this is where they
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would do it because it's not going to fucking matter after
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this is over. So they can put all the what if
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characters they want in here and then they can fuck off.
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So that's that's it. That's that's my big swing.
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Hot take on all of it. What if multiversal characters?
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Travis in the chat saying Captain Hydra.
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Now here's my thing. I think Captain Hydra shows up
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in the movie. I think we're going to get a
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version of of Captain America where he's a Hydra agent.
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I don't think it's going to be Carter fighting Captain Hydra.
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I think if Carter, if Captain Carter fights Captain Hydra,
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it's going to be more modern. I don't, I don't think it's
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going to be something in World War 2 because in the comics
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Steve doesn't reveal that he's Captain Hydra until way later
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on. It's, it's already, you know,
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everything's already been done. So I, I, I, I mean an alternate
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version, like an alternate universe version where he's
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already Captain Hydra could be interesting.
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Yeah. That would be a, a, a, a first
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for Captain America to be a full grown full blown Hydra agent in
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World War 2. That would be in like FX Frey.
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Frey, Frey, you're raising your hand.
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Raising my hand because I keep interrupting and I'm, I feel so
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bad about it. It's not raising my hand.
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I what about this? What if it's just a scene like
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another scene from the first Avenger, like the very first
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movie that they were in together.
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That is something that it could be because like there were
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several scenes where they were in London, like at the bar or
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whatever. It could be something else like
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that, or it could be something that changed like right after it
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because he came back. What if it's just him coming
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back? What if they just revealed the
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scene of him coming back to her? Like, you know, it's been like a
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week since he he, he went off and then he walks back into.
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The bar Saturday and he walks into the place that they were
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meeting to go and dance and he danced.
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That's where he first dances with her.
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Right. That I think that that would be
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a really good kind of like reintroduction to Steve is it
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ends with his scene in ending. He goes back in time and he
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walks back into that Saturday scene.
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And I think I what what I would as far as storytelling,
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storytelling goes, that would be something that would happen at
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the very beginning of the movie where he goes back in time, he
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goes and meets with. Returns all the stones and then
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he's like let me settle down. Right.
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He, he, he, he meets with Peggy and he lives his life.
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Fast forward, it's a year later, they have a that they have a
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son, you know, and it's them having this really nice happy
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life and then something just completely fucks it up and he
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has to kind of like get back into it.
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Yep, I'm on. Board, I think that's probably
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the closest to what it actually is going to be 'cause that.
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Seems like something that Marvel does.
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They give you this kind of like, OK, you know, everything is OK
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and everything's seeming fine. And then just if something comes
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in and destroys everything, think, think back to Hawkeye at
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the beginning of Avengers. Or or like Vision and Wanda.
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Yeah, in Infinity Stone, it's going to be that.
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Well, So what I was thinking is that what it like it could also
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be yes, it is something like that where he does come back and
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we get that. What if it's we have the false
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starts, you know how they'll do false endings where you think
00:19:12
something's going to end and then it continues and that, you
00:19:15
know, movies and stuff. So we'll get Captain America's
00:19:20
start. Like that's the start that they
00:19:22
would do for that movie. Then we get we get Thor's start
00:19:28
and then we get the remnants of Iron Man start, you know, like
00:19:33
that kind of stuff. So we get the start of the movie
00:19:37
is just us catching up with all of them, and then we go into the
00:19:42
actual movie and what's going on like at the moment.
00:19:47
I think that would be amazing and would be so cool because
00:19:51
they do it for endings all the time, where you're like, oh,
00:19:53
this is the ending. And then you're like, no, just
00:19:56
kidding, that's not the ending, you know?
00:19:58
And so why not do that with the start of a show?
00:20:01
Yeah, absolutely. Cool.
00:20:06
OK. Any any other thoughts?
00:20:08
James, you had any thoughts on this?
00:20:09
Nope, we did it. Right, so let's let's move on to
00:20:14
the next story. Here, the Russos are teasing us
00:20:18
again, but fans might know what's going on.
00:20:21
According to Anthony Russo and Joe Russo, there's a major clue
00:20:25
buried in the doomsday teasers. A theory is spreading that
00:20:29
claims the teasers are quietly pointing back to some very
00:20:34
specific moments from Avengers End game.
00:20:36
I don't know if you guys have been following this whole thing.
00:20:39
I know IGN was reporting on it, but it's it's, it's insane.
00:20:42
And some of the the there's a lot of people are turning them
00:20:45
into time markers and going back to different points within The
00:20:49
Avengers movies and they think it's explaining parts of the the
00:20:52
movie. So report from IGN highlighted
00:20:55
the a theory that started starting numbers on those
00:20:58
countdowns match time stamps from Avengers end games.
00:21:01
They just said not random time stamps either, but moments tied
00:21:04
directly to the multiverse unraveling.
00:21:06
It's like what caused the multiverse to unravel.
00:21:10
The Captain America teaser time code lands on the scene and end
00:21:13
game where the Ancient One warns Hulk about the dangers of
00:21:18
removing the Infinity Stones from the Time heist.
00:21:24
Things to think about. Thor's teaser points to the
00:21:26
exact moment Loki escapes with the Tesseract in the end Game.
00:21:30
OK, there's another, there's another stone there, right?
00:21:33
The X-Men teaser points to the scene in End Game where Rocket
00:21:36
says Thor are you crying? While the Wakanda teaser points
00:21:40
to The Avengers planning the time heist to begin with.
00:21:44
So what are your guys's thoughts on all of this?
00:21:47
Like do you guys think that this is people not looking into the
00:21:51
right direction but finding something that means something?
00:21:54
Or do you think they're spot on? What do you guys think?
00:21:57
Trey, go ahead. Oh, OK.
00:21:58
You want me to go, well, I was going to say that I looked at
00:22:02
all these time stamps and I looked at the scenes that they
00:22:05
were connected to and I totally agree.
00:22:07
I think, I think it's the Russo saying these are the major
00:22:11
moments in our MCU that are causing the the issues within
00:22:17
the timeline. And it all boils back down to to
00:22:23
the Time Heist. Like it was a great idea.
00:22:27
They, Oh my God, they did it. And they, you know, ended up
00:22:30
stopping Thanos. But it's going to be at what
00:22:33
cost? And that cost is going to be
00:22:37
screwing up the timeline, screwing up the universe.
00:22:38
And now we're going to have incursions.
00:22:41
Yeah, it's, it's insane. Like, I, I think that the Russos
00:22:47
are really good about not pandering, like not pandering to
00:22:50
the audience and saying, oh, we're just going to baby you
00:22:52
guys on stuff. He knows that there are fans
00:22:55
that are, or they know that there are fans that are going to
00:22:58
figure these things out, right. And that they are going to
00:23:00
figure out, you know, oh, yeah. There's the, the, the Reddit
00:23:04
finds everything. Like it really does.
00:23:07
And I think that they probably built this by design for Reddit
00:23:14
to go wild with all of their theories.
00:23:19
You know, I like the counter social media of it, like, you
00:23:24
know, we're going to use social media to our advantage instead
00:23:27
of being on the back foot there. I like that.
00:23:29
I like that theory. I think it's it's interesting.
00:23:31
I honestly, I believe this is just consequences of the actions
00:23:35
that they took and the and those scenes, yes, are important.
00:23:41
Those could be the scenes, you know, what in the TVA didn't
00:23:44
they say something about like there's certain points that have
00:23:48
that have to happen for things to go the way that they're
00:23:52
supposed to. And so, and that's why they
00:23:54
will, people that aren't in that timeline, they will, you know,
00:24:00
get rid of. And I feel like that's going to
00:24:03
be a big thing too. I think Loki's series is going
00:24:09
to be a lot more impactful than a lot of people think.
00:24:12
I, I do think something's going to happen there.
00:24:14
We know that he's coming back. So that's cool.
00:24:18
But I do I think that that that's a big thing and the time
00:24:25
stamps and I actually without knowing that when I watched the
00:24:28
Captain America one, I was like, this is like giving me vibes of
00:24:34
end game and like, you know, and the Thor when I was like, man,
00:24:37
this that forest really reminds me of the forest in the first
00:24:42
Avengers movie. And then I was like, so I was
00:24:44
like already on that path of these.
00:24:48
This is stuff that that we're supposed to remember other
00:24:52
moments from, But I do think that those moments are going to
00:24:57
be pivotal in the like in the movies, just because those are
00:25:00
the moments that have to happen to those certain characters to
00:25:03
get them to be where they are now.
00:25:06
And had they changed then other things, then those would be the
00:25:11
points where we have the other universes.
00:25:13
So I do think that that's important.
00:25:16
So yeah, and I feel like I didn't really say that much, but
00:25:19
I do want to say the only one I haven't seen is the X-Men one,
00:25:23
because I remember the Fantastic Four one with the Wakanda thing
00:25:27
and somebody mentioning that, hey, doesn't that look a lot
00:25:30
like the Namor stuff and I. And so, yeah, So yeah, I
00:25:38
actually saw three of the four. I didn't look at like look at
00:25:43
them at all. So you guys missed me, didn't
00:25:46
you? I didn't see one of them.
00:25:48
Wait, I've seen three of them. I didn't see any of them.
00:25:52
I saw one of them. I saw the Captain America one.
00:25:54
No, wait. I saw the Thor one.
00:25:55
I saw two of them. Saw two of them.
00:25:57
Wait, wait. No, no.
00:25:58
I saw the Wakanda one. I saw the Wakanda.
00:25:59
I've seen three. I've seen three.
00:26:01
And then she's going to go back and go.
00:26:03
No, wait. I remember the the Cyclops
00:26:05
moment. OK?
00:26:05
No, I saw no. I honestly I did not see the
00:26:08
X-Men one. I promise I'm not having some
00:26:11
sort of weird like. You got to watch the X-Men 1
00:26:14
after. This dementia.
00:26:16
Yeah, the X-Men one is actually really good.
00:26:18
Yeah, it's. It's very emotional.
00:26:20
I will watch it. I've actually been just
00:26:22
listening to music like the last week I've been like just not
00:26:27
watching anything except sumo, of course.
00:26:29
I've been watching sumo but and basketball.
00:26:32
But yeah, so so I've been just kind of like chilling out.
00:26:36
Well, doomsday speculation is running wild, and that's exactly
00:26:39
how Marvel likes it. It's all like underground and
00:26:44
marketing, you know, it's like they're not doing anything right
00:26:47
now as they've released the trade, the teasers, they're out
00:26:50
there now. Everybody's just talking about
00:26:52
it still. They're like our job's done.
00:26:56
Well, let's. Well, that's what you do.
00:26:57
You create buzz, right? Exactly.
00:26:59
So let's jump into the next portion here.
00:27:03
Ladies and gentlemen, it's time to see who's watching The
00:27:06
Watchtower. Us, we're watching the
00:27:08
Watchtower. That's the answer to that
00:27:10
question. All righty.
00:27:13
So let's do this first one. James Gunn confirms.
00:27:17
Oh, that's not it. That's it.
00:27:19
Yeah, Sorry, guys. This is my first time back.
00:27:22
I'm a little nervous. All right, DC isn't hitting us
00:27:26
with TZ teasers. James Gunn has confirmed that
00:27:29
Mister Miracle, the upcoming animated series, is officially
00:27:33
set within the DCU. While some animated shows are
00:27:37
being positioned as stand alone else world stories, Mr. Miracle
00:27:41
isn't one of them. The series is Canon, and that
00:27:45
confirmation carries some massive implications for the
00:27:48
cosmic side of the DCU. So we know Scott Free is going
00:27:53
to be Mr. Miracle and he appeared in Mr. miracle #1 back
00:27:59
in 1971, created by Jack Kirby. So, and I mean, that's the, he's
00:28:05
the escape artist that was from Earth, but then was brought to
00:28:13
Apocalypse and raised as an apocalyptian person.
00:28:18
And then Orion's in there somewhere because Orion is
00:28:23
actually dark side child that was raised by High Father.
00:28:26
It's a thing anyway. He's the escape artist and he
00:28:32
falls in love with. Barta, like technically his
00:28:34
stepbrother, but I mean, like, yeah.
00:28:36
Right. And that, yeah, whatever.
00:28:38
And Caliban is the whole a whole nother mess anyway.
00:28:44
But Big Barta was one of was the head of the Female Furies under
00:28:49
Granny Goodness, and so there's that.
00:28:52
But it looks like with the art and everything, it looks like
00:28:55
the Scott and Barta are together, and I guess they've
00:28:57
escaped back to Earth, so that's kind of cool.
00:29:00
I mean Barton. Does eventually settle on Earth
00:29:03
way down the line. So yeah, it could be that story.
00:29:07
Yeah, it could be, but yeah, so it's it's confirming that the
00:29:11
New Gods are part of the DCU, which LO, thank you very much.
00:29:16
Apocalypse exists, New Genesis exists, and Dark Side exists
00:29:21
too. So eventually we're going to
00:29:25
have to answer the question dark side.
00:29:27
So that I just think that that's really interesting.
00:29:32
But I do have an Opsis. I guess I didn't know we were
00:29:36
doing this still, but I do have one.
00:29:38
We're bringing them back. OK, I'm going now.
00:29:44
It's a miracle. OPSIS Another OPSIS synopsis.
00:29:47
Read synopsis. It's a miracle.
00:29:50
OPSIS Another OPSIS synopsis Read synopsis synopsis.
00:29:58
This series follows Scott Free, the world's greatest escape
00:30:01
artist, known to the world as Mr. Miracle, whose perfect life
00:30:05
with his warrior wife Big Barda falls apart when there are two
00:30:09
home worlds. Apocalypse and New Genesis go to
00:30:12
war and Scott's cruel adopted father Darkseid appears to have
00:30:17
captured the ultimate weapon, the Anti Life equation that will
00:30:21
give him total dominance over the universe.
00:30:26
It seems like we're going. To get.
00:30:28
It seems like we're going to get thrown right into it, so I kind
00:30:31
of like this. Yeah, like it seems like they're
00:30:33
they're starting it with Apocalypse already having the
00:30:35
anti life equation, which that that I mean that that's kind of
00:30:41
kind of kick off into where they're going with like with
00:30:45
salvation, salvation run and everything like that.
00:30:47
It's it's, it's, I mean, he said that he wasn't going to do the
00:30:50
dark side stuff with Salvation Run.
00:30:52
But I mean, it seems like they're kind of teeing it up.
00:30:55
So at least the existence of the characters are there.
00:30:58
So this is it's going to be interesting.
00:31:04
This also means we're going to we're we're more than likely
00:31:08
going to get the design reveal for Apocalypse within within the
00:31:12
DC Universe. Yeah, oh, oh, oh, yeah.
00:31:19
OK, yeah, I see what you're putting down.
00:31:23
All right, No release date on for Mr. Miracle Casting is in
00:31:27
progress. James, just call me.
00:31:30
I'll do the Bart of ways. That's fine.
00:31:32
I can do it. And now Dark Side is looming.
00:31:39
We're getting dark side at some point.
00:31:41
I like it, yeah. I'm just looking at Phil like,
00:31:45
and he's just like, the hell is going on with her, All right,
00:31:53
Holy delay Batman. I thought we did that one
00:31:56
already. Did we do the holy delay,
00:31:58
Batman? That was last year.
00:31:59
Anyway, that was last year, OK? James Gunn Co CEO of DC Studios,
00:32:05
for those of you who don't know that, shared a blunt update on
00:32:09
the status of the upcoming Batman movie, and it's probably
00:32:13
not what anyone wanted to hear. The Brave and the Bold is the
00:32:18
DCU's planned introduction of Batman and his son Damian Wayne
00:32:23
as Robin, with Andy Machete Muskete Muskete attached to
00:32:29
direct. Dunn responded to a fan on
00:32:32
Threads who asked about her rumor claiming the script was
00:32:36
done and that the movie was targeted for a 2028 release.
00:32:42
Gun shut that down quickly. Writing fiction?
00:32:45
Sorry the screenplay isn't finished.
00:32:49
No Brave, no bold, but The Batman Part 2 that signals into
00:32:55
theaters October 1st of 2027. What do you guys think?
00:33:00
I feel like go ahead, James. Go ahead, James.
00:33:03
I was just gonna say, I think this is part of the reason why
00:33:06
James Gunn was OK with The Batman and the whole Matt Reeves
00:33:11
Batman universe going still, because I think he knew that he
00:33:15
was gonna have problems getting The Brave and the Bold up and
00:33:18
running. And for whatever reason, it just
00:33:21
hasn't landed quite yet. So he's like, yeah, just keep
00:33:25
giving us content, even if we'll call it Elseworlds, we'll do
00:33:29
something else with it. But I can't get my vision of
00:33:33
Batman quite yet. Yeah, I think I think the other
00:33:37
thing that kind of plays into everything, especially given
00:33:40
it's under the same studio. Andy Musquietti is now working
00:33:44
on Season 2 of Welcome to Dairy and I feel like they with with
00:33:51
how well season 1 did, I think Warner Brothers went like full
00:33:57
hog into what we need to get season season 2 up and running
00:34:01
Like now, you know, and I think that probably got into, you
00:34:07
know, Andy Muscadi's schedule and they were probably like, OK,
00:34:09
well, screenplay, screenplay for Batman isn't fully done, so we
00:34:13
should probably put this on the back burner.
00:34:15
I'm going to finish season 2 of Welcome to Dairy and then we can
00:34:21
go in on Batman after that. I think that Warner Brothers
00:34:27
selling or well, whoever Dick wad selling Warner Brothers
00:34:34
probably also delayed it because, I mean, James Ben
00:34:41
didn't know if he's going to have a job, you know?
00:34:43
But it's like, yeah. So I mean, I could see that as
00:34:46
well. But I do think, you know what,
00:34:50
take your time with Batman. Just take your time with it.
00:34:53
Make sure it's perfect. Because I really loved Superman.
00:34:58
And I think that he did a really good job with that, introducing
00:35:01
the world and all the stuff I've seen about Supergirl and the
00:35:05
trailer. Oh my God, I love her already.
00:35:09
I want 12 more movies, like haven't even watched it yet and
00:35:13
I want like another one. So yeah, I mean, take your time
00:35:18
on Batman. I like it.
00:35:21
I mean, you could put you could put Wonder Woman like before
00:35:24
Batman if you wanted that. That would be fun.
00:35:27
I wouldn't hate that. But you know, whatever.
00:35:30
You do you, James, You do you. I also feel like they don't need
00:35:33
to necessarily introduce Batman in a Batman movie.
00:35:38
You know, like honestly, they could probably introduce Batman
00:35:42
in in like 1 of the animated things that they're doing and at
00:35:46
least you know, that will reveal casting for who played Batman,
00:35:51
who who's playing Batman, you know, because remember his big
00:35:54
thing is if you voice the character, you're also playing
00:35:57
them on screen. So.
00:35:59
Yeah, that's true. Right.
00:36:00
So that would be kind of a cool reveal for who's playing Batman
00:36:04
is Batman randomly shows up in one of the one of the animated
00:36:08
shows and we learn who Batman is through his voice.
00:36:14
And then on top of that, Clayface is coming out.
00:36:16
So I mean like, what's to say that Batman doesn't show up in
00:36:19
Clayface? I thought they were saying that
00:36:21
that Clayface was it, that that was actually going to be an
00:36:24
Elseworlds thing as well. Did they take that back?
00:36:28
I I, I thought originally they said that it was supposed to be
00:36:30
attached, but I mean if it's not, it's not so but but I mean
00:36:32
still. Either way, I mean, I, I see
00:36:35
your point on that because I do think you could bring Batman in
00:36:40
or you could do like a weird cameo thing where it's like you
00:36:43
just see the bat signal or you see like his shadow.
00:36:48
So you don't actually see the actor or anything.
00:36:50
Well, they did that because. Yeah, so.
00:36:54
But Keith, like, you could continue doing that, like,
00:36:57
because like the first time we saw Thanos, we didn't really
00:37:00
like, see, you know, it wasn't Thanos.
00:37:03
We heard his voice. We heard, you know, that kind of
00:37:05
stuff. But so I'm just saying.
00:37:08
And then like. 10 movies. Later.
00:37:11
But there's nothing wrong with teasing people.
00:37:14
It people like it, it's a fetish.
00:37:17
Like people go to like dominatrixes to get teased.
00:37:24
That's like a thing. It's a condition.
00:37:28
It's a condition. It's a kink and we're not going
00:37:31
to kink shame. We don't kink shame around.
00:37:32
We don't kink shame, we kink in form.
00:37:35
There we go. All right, let's let's go with
00:37:38
that. Well, ladies and gentlemen, that
00:37:40
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00:37:44
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00:38:42
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00:38:45
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00:38:48
And at the top of headlines, James, are you limber?
00:38:50
Are you ready here? Let's do it.
00:38:52
Let's do it. All right, let's get into these
00:38:53
one shots. All right, don't forget.
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More news, more trailers, more reactions.
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Check out the distance during. You can post on Facebook and
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tell us what you're nerding out on, but let's dive in.
00:39:04
The Mummy franchise will rise again.
00:39:08
The Mummy series is moving forward into a fourth
00:39:10
installment, according to scooper Daniel Rickman.
00:39:14
Universal Pictures has its sights set on Dwayne Johnson,
00:39:18
The Rock returning as the Scorpion King.
00:39:22
Universal also appears interested in launching a fresh
00:39:26
take on the Scorpion King, potentially giving the character
00:39:30
a modern reboot with Johnson once again set at the center of
00:39:35
the film. Yes, that's what we need.
00:39:39
That's what I'm talking about. I don't know if we need this,
00:39:41
but let's. Oh yeah, we need it.
00:39:44
I just have one thing to say, go for it.
00:39:46
The rock like sand. That is.
00:39:48
Well, Anakin doesn't, so I mean, that's something I want to see.
00:39:52
The, the, the, the, the Scorpion King versus Anakin Skywalker.
00:39:54
Boom, there we go. Let's go.
00:39:57
Oh my gosh, the world of Burke is calling once again and Cate
00:40:02
Blanchett is answering. The two time Oscar winning
00:40:06
actress is officially set to start in the live action How to
00:40:10
Train Your Dragon 2. Reprising her role as Vulka.
00:40:14
I really like how like Gerard Butler and her are coming back
00:40:19
playing the characters that they played in animation.
00:40:22
It's just for some reason it makes me super happy.
00:40:24
Universal and DreamWorks have locked in a June 11th, 2027
00:40:29
theatrical release date for the live action How to Train Your
00:40:32
Dragon two. I'm excited.
00:40:34
I like I. Haven't seen the first one and I
00:40:36
know it's on. It's on Paramount Plus.
00:40:38
Peacock. Peacock.
00:40:39
It's on Peacock. So I mean I can watch it.
00:40:41
I I just haven't yet. I've been I just finished
00:40:44
purpose. So I mean like.
00:40:47
If you like the the animated film, especially the first one,
00:40:50
you will enjoy the live action version.
00:40:54
Maybe I'll watch it tonight. There you go.
00:40:56
Yeah. I still haven't seen Wicked.
00:40:59
You should watch that too. It's good.
00:41:01
It's really. Good, I know all.
00:41:03
Right the God. Has scolded me.
00:41:06
And we're scolding you too. Watch it.
00:41:09
Do it for good, All right? The God of War is coming.
00:41:13
Probably on a motorcycle. Ryan Hurst.
00:41:16
Friend of the show Ryan Hurst. Friend of the show Ryan Hurst is
00:41:19
officially stepping into one of the most legendary roles in
00:41:22
gaming history. The actor has been cast as
00:41:25
Kratos in Prime Videos God of War, a live action adaption
00:41:30
coming from Sony Pictures. Oh look, Sony.
00:41:33
All right Sony, good for you it's Sony N Amazon MGM studios.
00:41:38
The series has already secured A2 season order pre production
00:41:43
is underway in Vancouver and casting is now rolling forward
00:41:47
the two. What do you think about Ryan
00:41:50
Hurst? Two things on this I think Ryan
00:41:52
Hurst is probably going to kill the role.
00:41:55
I think he's going to do really well.
00:41:56
I'm just wondering, is he going to cut that long, beautiful hair
00:42:00
of his? Because you know, Kratos is, is
00:42:05
bald. I, I don't know about a two
00:42:09
season run. As long as, you know, they take
00:42:13
this seriously and they do a combination of a little bit of
00:42:17
fan service along with an interesting story.
00:42:22
Like again, I, I say this a lot about video game adaptations,
00:42:25
but do do what fallout is doing right now.
00:42:29
Don't do what Halo did. So I mean, that's, that's where
00:42:31
I'm going to leave it. I like it.
00:42:35
All right, I'm going to keep it going.
00:42:37
Avatar is bending towards a new comic series.
00:42:41
Fans of Avatar the Last Airbender have another exciting
00:42:45
reason to head to their local comic shop.
00:42:47
Dark Horse Comics is launching a new 3 issue miniseries titled
00:42:52
Avatar the Last Airbender. Kyoshi Warriors developed in
00:42:57
collaboration with Avatar Studios and original series
00:43:00
creators Michael Dante Dimartino and Brian Coensko.
00:43:05
The series is expected to hit comic shops on May 6th.
00:43:09
I think that's really cool. I'm all I like this, the Kyoshi
00:43:12
warriors are bad ass, I'm all for this.
00:43:14
I think it, yeah. I love the Kyoshi Warriors.
00:43:16
I want it to be a musical, The Law K Pop Demon Hunters, and I
00:43:27
think that would be amazing. So make it happen.
00:43:30
Dark Horse. It's not a bad call.
00:43:32
You know, get those, get get those comics out so that we can
00:43:37
have our dream realized. Get that, Get that K pop money.
00:43:41
Might as well make it some J Pop money, who knows.
00:43:46
I, I don't, I don't, I don't know.
00:43:48
I 100% don't know about that. Again, I'm I'm curious how they
00:43:52
portray Suki in this because she's such a good character.
00:43:56
Again, it's a comic. So I mean, there's they can go a
00:43:58
lot of a lot of ways with this. But no, I mean all for the
00:44:02
Kyoshi Warriors. Yeah, and I do like how they're.
00:44:05
I don't. Think they should sing and
00:44:06
dance? And a comic.
00:44:12
That'll work too. That'll work too.
00:44:13
I. Don't know.
00:44:14
I do like how they are taking the universe and expanding it,
00:44:19
but instead of just like linearly, you know, like, oh,
00:44:23
what's what's ANG doing in the future as an adult?
00:44:27
It's not just that, but it's like, let's tell side stories,
00:44:31
you know, and expand the universe kind of sideways too.
00:44:35
So I'm into it. I like it.
00:44:38
OK, moving on, Bethesda is up to big things.
00:44:42
After wrapping up work on Indiana Jones and the Great
00:44:45
Circle, it looks like Machine Games is heading back to one of
00:44:49
the most iconic franchises. The studio is once again taking
00:44:53
aim at the Wolfenstein universe, with Wolfenstein 3 reportedly
00:44:59
now in development. A Wolfenstein TV series was also
00:45:03
announced last year and is currently in development at
00:45:07
Amazon Prime Video. I'm for this, I, I love the
00:45:11
Wolfenstein series. There's just this game series is
00:45:16
really good. And the other thing is that it's
00:45:18
somewhat relevant right now. So it's kind of like, you know,
00:45:22
it's, it's crazy. And, and I think Amazon, I, I
00:45:27
don't know, they're, they're taking a big leap with, with
00:45:30
doing Wolfenstein because where Wolfenstein left off, the last
00:45:34
game was in the 80s in a world where the, where the Nazis won,
00:45:41
right? So if they if the last game was
00:45:43
in the 80s, I'm curious if they take the plunge and go into the
00:45:49
90s or even like to modern times with Wolfenstein.
00:45:54
I just think they're scary motherfuckers.
00:45:56
Oh my God, some of the, some, some of the, the Uber sold outs,
00:46:03
the, the Uber sold outs, the, the, the, the Super soldiers
00:46:07
that are in this game are absolutely horrifying because
00:46:10
it's, it's almost like a, like a Nazi horror game.
00:46:12
It's crazy. Interesting, interesting.
00:46:17
Cool. All right.
00:46:19
Yeah, I have no other comments beside what I said.
00:46:22
I stand by that. OK, HB OS Harry Potter
00:46:26
television series just locked in a huge creative win.
00:46:29
Hans Zimmer and his company, Bleeding Fingers Music, are
00:46:33
officially on board to compose the show's original score.
00:46:39
I like this setting the music foundation for the Wizarding
00:46:42
World. The series will adapt each of JK
00:46:45
Rowling's 7 novels into its own full season and will premiere in
00:46:49
2027. In the meantime, Zimmer is
00:46:52
currently Oscar shortlisted for his work on F1, and audiences
00:46:56
will also hear his music in HBO's Euphoria and Dune Part 3.
00:47:03
He's getting some work from Warner Brothers.
00:47:05
It's going to for you, Hans Zimmer.
00:47:06
Oh. Yeah, it's going to be
00:47:07
interesting seeing what direction he goes with because
00:47:12
the music from the movies is very iconic and.
00:47:15
John Williams. Yes, John.
00:47:16
Williams and and at this point, when you like the there's there
00:47:20
are themes from John Williams score that it's almost like Star
00:47:25
Wars. Like if you hear something that
00:47:27
sounds vaguely Harry Potter, it's like, oh, that's a that's a
00:47:30
Harry Potter clone, or it's the Harry Potter inspired.
00:47:33
That's how you know that something is iconic is when an
00:47:37
entire like a score from a movie becomes its own genre.
00:47:42
Yeah, totally. So it's I'm I'm.
00:47:44
Curious to see what called. Zimmer if if he differentiates
00:47:47
himself or if he stays within that genre.
00:47:50
The Drew Strzberg, like he did that for posters.
00:47:56
So I feel like Hans Zimmer's very much like that with music.
00:48:01
Like you can listen to music and automatically know like be
00:48:07
transported back to that IP. And it was the same with Drew
00:48:11
Strzen. So it was, it's kind of cool and
00:48:14
they both complement each other because a lot of the posters he
00:48:18
did, Hans Zimmer did it like you see where I went with it, but.
00:48:22
It's also like Hans Zimmer has created scores like that, like
00:48:24
Pirates of the Caribbean is 100% the same level of score.
00:48:30
Yeah. Oh yeah.
00:48:32
So yeah. Yeah, we'll be interested to see
00:48:34
what they do with it. Love it.
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All right, can't wait. All right.
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All right, move over, Disney. There's more Disney bringing in
00:49:25
the bucks. Disney's Zootopia has beat out
00:49:28
the studio's previous highest grossing animated movie, Inside
00:49:32
Out Two. Oh my gosh, with Zootopia sequel
00:49:37
bringing in $1.7 billion in worldwide box office.
00:49:43
That is so huge. This is the ninth highest
00:49:45
grossing movie ever at the global box office.
00:49:49
This milestone is the 8th. This is a milestone in the
00:49:53
eighth week with a running total of 390 domestic and a
00:49:57
1.3 billion abroad. It's doing so big overseas.
00:50:03
That is crazy. I, it's almost like I don't, I
00:50:07
don't feel like this movie is that big of a phenomenon for it
00:50:11
to be making that much money. I'm, I'm, I'm happy for it.
00:50:14
I 100% am happy for it. I just, I don't, I don't know,
00:50:18
it doesn't feel like Frozen level.
00:50:19
It doesn't feel like Moana level.
00:50:21
You know what I mean? Like it's, it's, it's, it's one
00:50:24
of those things where I, I believe that it is big and
00:50:28
people are watching it, but I just don't feel like it has the
00:50:32
cultural impact that some of the other movies have for it to be
00:50:37
one of the one of the highest grossing movies.
00:50:40
Yeah, it's stunts. Think of it as like the
00:50:45
Fruitopia but a zoo. Oh, you just said something that
00:50:49
like your son wouldn't even understand.
00:50:52
Frutopia. Yeah, yeah, Every time I hear
00:50:58
Zootopia, I'm like, oh man, remember Frutopia?
00:51:01
Like that's the only thing I think about.
00:51:03
I never want to see any of the movies ever.
00:51:06
Like I don't think the first. One was good, the first one was
00:51:09
really good. I don't care.
00:51:11
Like the I just said I, I don't care.
00:51:14
Bring Frutopia back and maybe we'll talk about it.
00:51:17
With Zootopia 2 hitting the highest grossing animated movie
00:51:20
under the Motion Picture Association, China's NIZA 2
00:51:25
remains the highest grossing animated movie ever worldwide
00:51:29
with $2.2 billion. What, what we're forgetting here
00:51:33
is that Zootopia has a land in one of the Disney parks that's
00:51:37
overseas. And it's like the only, only
00:51:41
version of it out there like no, you know, not in Disneyland or
00:51:45
Disney World. So it's huge overseas.
00:51:49
And that's leading to why we're getting $1.3 billion in box
00:51:54
office overseas. So that makes.
00:51:55
Sense. Walt.
00:51:56
Walt. Disney Studios owns the top
00:51:58
three animated MPA releases, with a Zootopia 2, Inside Out
00:52:03
two, and Frozen two. My gosh.
00:52:07
Interesting, now that does make sense because they have a land
00:52:09
out there. Big franchises for Disney
00:52:15
Speaking of love from Disney, Disneyland loves Us 3000.
00:52:22
Disneyland just released early testing footage for an upcoming
00:52:26
Marvel attraction, Stark Flight Lab, and fans are comparing it
00:52:30
to an attraction in Epic Universe.
00:52:33
Epic Universe announced an attraction using a Kuka arm
00:52:37
system with the Monsters Unchained, The Frankenstein
00:52:40
Experience, and fans loved it. So I guess it's, it's a new type
00:52:45
of of ride, like, yeah, like, not like a roller coaster.
00:52:49
It's it's kind of different, kind of different.
00:52:52
Disneyland seems to be playing in the same space.
00:52:55
The newly released video gives us our first behind the scenes
00:52:59
look at actual human testing for Stark Flight Labs.
00:53:03
I watched some of it and it looks like, I don't know if you
00:53:07
get motion sickness. I get motion sickness and this
00:53:11
does not look like a ride I would enjoy because you get like
00:53:15
jerked around and thrown everywhere and twisted and
00:53:17
turned. I'm like, I don't know about
00:53:19
this. Ride.
00:53:19
I don't, I don't get motion sickness, but Husby does, so
00:53:23
yeah. This is I don't know.
00:53:25
Maybe the Jenny's can go on it and the husbies can stay up.
00:53:32
Well, you know, to be honest, one thing I like about Disney
00:53:34
rides is that like, I don't usually.
00:53:37
The only thing I ever really felt like I was getting like
00:53:40
nauseous of and couldn't get over was like Star Tours so.
00:53:45
Of all yeah, Star Tours is that I know a Star Tours coaster.
00:53:48
No, and credit coaster's just a roller coaster and it's pretty
00:53:51
tame for a roller coaster standards.
00:53:53
You know, there's like 1 little loop de loop.
00:53:56
So seeing something like this, I'm like, I don't.
00:53:59
I think Disney's, like, pushing the boundaries of like, like
00:54:02
what their rides can do. And I'm like, I don't know about
00:54:05
this. So we'll see.
00:54:07
We'll see. Also, Robert Downey Junior will
00:54:11
return as Tony Stark for some of the vignettes ahead of time.
00:54:16
That's at Avengers Campus. That's pretty cool.
00:54:18
Oh, that's neat. Interesting.
00:54:21
All right. The way that they got like 90%
00:54:24
of the cast to come back for for the Guardians of the Galaxy
00:54:29
ride. Yeah, and you got Tom Holland.
00:54:32
Everybody wants to be a voice at Disneyland.
00:54:36
Heck yeah. For posterity, like the rest of
00:54:38
existence. Yeah, your voice is going to be
00:54:41
there. I mean, come on, the Hall of
00:54:43
Presidents is still there, people.
00:54:47
I wonder if you get like, I wonder if you get like
00:54:49
residuals, you know, like every year they get paid to be like,
00:54:53
oh, it's my voice in that. That's interesting.
00:54:56
Based on how many times people rode the ride, yeah.
00:55:00
Interesting. OK, a penny a rye.
00:55:02
I'm keeping it going with Disneyland.
00:55:05
Vader is about to get a chokehold on Disneyland.
00:55:09
One of the biggest debates around Star Wars Galaxy's Edge
00:55:13
was its timeline. The land opened at Disney in
00:55:16
2019, locked between the events of The Last Jedi and The Rise of
00:55:21
Skywalker. So right there in the sequel
00:55:24
trilogy. But starting April 29th, some of
00:55:28
the most iconic characters in all of Star Wars history are
00:55:32
finally getting their due and arriving in Galaxy's Edge
00:55:36
Disneyland. So Luke Skywalker, Han Solo,
00:55:38
Princess Leia, and Darth Vader will all begin appearing in the
00:55:43
land make marking the first time Galaxy's Edge fully embraces
00:55:47
multiple eras of the franchise. And this is pretty huge for for
00:55:55
a lot of like the Star Wars fans that are also Disney fans, it's
00:55:59
kind of huge news. And it's always been like this
00:56:01
big debate with a lot of the Star Wars fans is like, Hey, I I
00:56:06
really like Galaxy's Edge. I really like that they keep
00:56:08
evolving it. But I'm a little tired of the
00:56:11
sequel trilogy. It's not my trilogy that I want.
00:56:16
So this is like Lucas Star Wars, Disney finally listening and
00:56:21
being like, Oh my gosh, let's open it up.
00:56:24
Let's find a way to to bring people in and give all the Star
00:56:28
Wars fans more of a reason to come back to Disneyland.
00:56:32
So. I thought it was interesting
00:56:33
when I, when I read the original article on this was not only are
00:56:37
they changing because I guess half of Galaxy's Edge is going
00:56:43
to be original trilogy, half of Galaxy's Edge is going to be
00:56:46
sequel trilogy. And I found that interesting.
00:56:48
But I, I thought that it was kind of cool that they were
00:56:52
completely changing like the eras that they belong to.
00:56:55
So it's supposed to be like Batu station during the original
00:56:58
trilogy and it was a Imperial outpost.
00:57:03
And, you know, kind of like just changing the story just enough
00:57:09
in a way for it to work and and having Vader looking for rebels
00:57:15
around there kind of the way that when you see the videos of
00:57:19
of. Kyle Ryan.
00:57:21
Walking around right now, we're going to get Vader doing the
00:57:23
same thing. I think that is kind of a smart
00:57:27
move and maybe the one time that I'm happy that Disney listened
00:57:31
to the toxic fans 'cause you know, we're.
00:57:34
Not all toxic. No, no, but I mean, you know,
00:57:36
it's the toxic fans are the ones that were complaining about it.
00:57:40
OK, maybe, but not all of all of us.
00:57:42
I think, I think for the most part, the majority of people
00:57:45
were just enjoying. Fan is that?
00:57:47
What you're saying, I'm saying I, I, I think the majority of
00:57:49
people were enjoying the experience for what it was.
00:57:51
The toxic ones were like, that's not my Star Wars.
00:57:54
And they like finally listened. It's kind of like, I'm not going
00:57:57
to argue with that. I I actually kind of like the
00:57:59
idea of this. Oh, you mean for once toxic fans
00:58:03
actually got something done? I I got something done right?
00:58:07
Good for them. OK.
00:58:09
All right. All right, we're.
00:58:10
I'll allow it. We're getting young Luke, young
00:58:14
Leia, young Han, probably not young Darth Vader, and they'll
00:58:19
be walking around. We'll also be getting the John
00:58:22
Williams music. So that's kind of nice, like the
00:58:25
original trilogy music playing throughout the OR that part of
00:58:29
the land. So I'm excited for that.
00:58:31
They're also changing. This is what I noticed.
00:58:33
They're changing the stores because if you go into Galaxy's
00:58:39
Edge, there's like a strip like almost like a shopping center.
00:58:43
They're of course changing all those to be like original
00:58:46
trilogy era. So it's like all new droids that
00:58:50
are going to be there. So it's all new merch that'll be
00:58:53
coming to Galaxy's Edge because along.
00:58:56
They got merch people. Speaking of merch, so if you buy
00:59:03
a lightsaber, they do like a little thing where they walk you
00:59:06
through the whole like thing of like building a lightsaber.
00:59:09
You get to choose parts. And now Luke Skywalker will be
00:59:12
the one training young Jedi to build their lightsaber.
00:59:16
Oh, that's cool. Yeah, move along.
00:59:17
I love that's move along. No, no, I'm not telling you guys
00:59:24
to move along. I'm just putting that's in that
00:59:26
era. But they will be keeping they
00:59:30
will be keeping Mando and Grogu and Ahsoka and Ray just in like
00:59:34
the other part, right? That'll still be the sequel
00:59:37
trilogy so that you can still see those characters.
00:59:39
Oh my God, that's pretty. Cool.
00:59:40
I hope that when the show comes out, they do like a crossover
00:59:45
and Ahsoka and Vader run into each other and they just like
00:59:49
stare each other down like from the other side of the this like
00:59:53
sides that they're on. And the explanation that they,
00:59:56
the explanation that they give is we're, we're in the, the, the
01:00:00
place beyond time. There you go.
01:00:04
There it is. There you go.
01:00:05
All right, these changes are currently exclusive to
01:00:09
Disneyland in California, which is galactic basic for second
01:00:14
Florida, you don't get any of. It letting everybody know
01:00:18
California's still better, yeah. Got to come to California to get
01:00:23
the OG. Oh Gee.
01:00:25
All right, this is my last, my last news story.
01:00:31
Misa gets mine's own comicy bookie, Marvel Comics.
01:00:36
Really. Good.
01:00:37
I know. Thank you very much.
01:00:39
I appreciate you noticing. Thank you.
01:00:41
Unlike young Phil, Marvel Comics is launching Star Wars Jar Jar,
01:00:46
a new series that finally answers the long outstanding
01:00:49
question of what happened to Jar Jar after the prequel era.
01:00:53
The series is Co written by Ahmed Best, the actor who
01:00:57
brought Jar Jar to life. Early preview images show Jar
01:01:02
Jar and Keller and Beck crossing paths under tense circumstances.
01:01:06
So a new comic. Series when Jar Jar went, it
01:01:09
became became a Sith Lord and. That's why Keller and Beck's
01:01:13
going to fight him. Yes, exactly.
01:01:16
That's going to be best, killing off the old version of himself.
01:01:20
Yeah, well, there it is. There it is.
01:01:22
The story also looks to set to flesh out Keller and Beck even
01:01:27
more, which is, you know, Ahmed Best wanting to enhance a new
01:01:32
character, which should be exciting for fans who've wanted
01:01:35
to see more of the character since his live action debut.
01:01:39
You remember where we saw Keller and Beck?
01:01:43
In The Mandalorian. He's the one that saved Krogoo.
01:01:47
That's. Right.
01:01:48
We know he did something good, all right.
01:01:51
Are you reminding yourself because we both already knew
01:01:55
that I'm. Just throwing it out there.
01:01:56
I'm just throwing it out there. All right, we, I, I got to
01:01:59
mentally prepare literally he sent this to me today so I could
01:02:02
practice it. So.
01:02:04
Misa gets mines owning marveloso comicy bookie opsis sis who this
01:02:10
does Keller and Beck thinks he's stealing minds of spotlight
01:02:14
synopsis. Misa gets a minds owning
01:02:18
marveloso comicy bookie opsis sis sis who is this Keller and
01:02:23
beck thinks that he is stealing minds.
01:02:26
Minds are Spotlight, synopsis, synopsis.
01:02:32
I I applaud you both. I applaud you both.
01:02:35
That was that was pretty good. Jar jar returns Co written by
01:02:39
jar jar himself Ahmed best, Jar jar faces the consequences of
01:02:43
giving emergency powers to chancellor palpatine.
01:02:47
What pivotal role does jar jar play in the formation of the
01:02:50
rebel alliance? Guest starring fan favorite Jedi
01:02:54
Knight Kelleran Beck, Star Wars Jar Jar Number One hits comic
01:02:58
shops February 11th. Oh.
01:03:01
Oh wow, right. You know what?
01:03:03
Get that for your Valentine. There it is, right?
01:03:07
Well, ladies and gentlemen, that is it for our regular news.
01:03:11
So let's jump into the last segment of the night.
01:03:14
It's time for the trend up like a.
01:03:29
Music. Queue.
01:03:29
Yeah, something, something. I mean, whatever, it doesn't
01:03:34
need it. We had New Hope for Lucasfilm.
01:03:39
Star Wars is in the middle of its biggest shake up in a
01:03:42
decade. Leadership changes, new creative
01:03:45
voices, long term trilogies, and a surprising amount of clarity
01:03:50
about where the franchise is heading next.
01:03:53
Kathleen Kennedy is officially leaving her leadership role at
01:03:57
Lucas Film, shifting back to producing while exploring new
01:04:02
creative tools, including AI. Because of course she is.
01:04:05
As she exits, she shares fresh updates on several Star Wars
01:04:09
films and addresses the franchise potential of
01:04:13
Starfighter. Meanwhile, Dave Filoni and Lynn
01:04:16
when Brennan are stepping into top leadership positions,
01:04:20
signaling a new creative direction for the studio.
01:04:24
The incoming team has also thrown full support behind Simon
01:04:28
Kinberg's planned Star Wars trilogy, which is expected to
01:04:32
guide the franchise well into the 20 thirties.
01:04:35
So obviously this is a big deal, yeah.
01:04:40
Huge. Yeah, huge.
01:04:42
So I I have some talking points, the pros and the cons and it
01:04:48
like try to do some from the fans perspective and then some
01:04:51
from the industry's perspective. So I'll break those down and if
01:04:56
you guys want to talk about any of them, just start talking.
01:05:00
OK, all righty. So from the fans perspective,
01:05:05
the pros of this are a felony LED era could finally bring
01:05:10
consistent lore, tone and world building across movies and TV
01:05:14
shows. Kennedy returning to producing
01:05:18
might mean more filmmaker driven projects with fewer corporate
01:05:22
constraints. A clear support for Kinberg's
01:05:26
trilogy gives fans a long term road map instead of constant
01:05:30
uncertainty and then having like fresh updates on multiple films
01:05:35
signal that Star Wars movies are finally moving again.
01:05:38
So the only thing I found from any of that that she had said
01:05:45
significantly about was Starfighter.
01:05:47
She talked about The Hunt for Kylo Ren, saying it was such a
01:05:50
good script. But that's really all I could
01:05:53
find about like specific things. So I don't know what multiple
01:05:56
films she was. She also talked about the, the,
01:06:01
so they're still moving forward with Taika Waititi's movie, but
01:06:05
he he doesn't have a finished script and that's why it got put
01:06:09
on the on the back burner. The concept and, and, and the
01:06:15
pitch were really good. And she's like, they are 100%
01:06:19
backing this film, but they're waiting on him to submit his
01:06:23
full script. So I did notice that as far as
01:06:27
Filoni leading everything Filoni is, is Lucas's literal Padawan,
01:06:35
right? Like he is, he is the chosen 1.
01:06:37
Like this dude knows lore better than anybody in Star Wars and,
01:06:43
and, and it's involvement, involvement in Star Wars.
01:06:46
Like again, we talk about the consistent lore, tone, world
01:06:49
building, everything like that. He's already proved that he can
01:06:52
do that, especially with the animated shows, which is what
01:06:55
kind of got him into the live action stuff.
01:06:59
Filoni is the perfect person to lead creative when it comes to
01:07:04
this stuff. From what I understand, Lynn
01:07:08
Wynn, Brennan, Brennan, she is like the the financial person.
01:07:13
She's the she's, she's basically how over at DC where James Gunn,
01:07:19
Filoni is the equivalent of James Gunn.
01:07:21
He is the, the, the, the, the, the guy that has all the
01:07:25
creative input. And you know, hey, this wouldn't
01:07:27
happen in Star Wars, but this would be good.
01:07:29
This is good lore, things like that.
01:07:31
And then when Brennan is the equivalent to.
01:07:36
Peter. Safran, Peter Safran who's like
01:07:38
more the the financial person. So again, I have faith in a lot
01:07:43
of what's what what they're doing.
01:07:45
I I don't have problems with Kennedy because the moves that
01:07:49
Kennedy, that Kathleen Kennedy did make at Lucas were usually
01:07:55
good. The ones that everybody gives
01:07:57
all of the hate to were people, other people, not just Why am I
01:08:04
forgetting his name? She gets a lot of hate for all
01:08:06
the negativity, but everybody forgets all the good stuff that
01:08:10
happened. There's a lot of good that
01:08:12
happened. Yeah.
01:08:12
Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob is the reason that like half of the stuff that
01:08:16
everybody claims, Bob Iger. Bob Iger is half the reason why
01:08:21
anything that anybody blames on Kathleen Kennedy about like oh
01:08:24
Kathleen Kennedy ruined this. Honestly go and look up like the
01:08:28
majority of what people actually in the industry talk about and
01:08:31
Bob Iger is the reason 90% of that stuff is messed up.
01:08:34
If you guys hate the sequel trilogy, Bob Iger is 90% of the
01:08:37
reason why the sequel trilogy ended up the way it did.
01:08:41
So I have to say this. It's tangental, tangentially,
01:08:48
tangentially related. It's really giving the studio
01:08:55
vibes to me. I was like, OK, so Kathleen
01:09:00
Kennedy is Catherine O'Hara and Dave Filoni is Seth Rogen.
01:09:06
And like, I was like, oh shit. Bob Iger.
01:09:11
Yeah, yeah, it's there. It's there.
01:09:13
Bob Iger's from forgetting his name, but he's the dude that
01:09:16
that was like, we have to make a a kool-aid movie.
01:09:19
If you're going to take this job, you have to make a move.
01:09:21
A Kool-aid movie. Yeah, that was yeah.
01:09:25
So I it just yeah, studio vibes. The studio vibes anyway.
01:09:31
So you actually, Phil, you kind of talked about some of the
01:09:35
industry perspective pros. That restructuring can
01:09:39
streamline decision making and reduce the development
01:09:42
bottlenecks of the past decade. Filoni and Brennan offer a blend
01:09:46
of creative and operational stability that Hollywood
01:09:49
insiders have been calling for a decade spanning Trilogy provides
01:09:53
predictable scheduling and franchise planning for studios,
01:09:57
partners and merch pipelines. And Kennedy shift back to
01:10:01
producing could strengthen relationships with directors and
01:10:04
writers who prefer working directly with her again.
01:10:08
Studio. The Studio vibes.
01:10:11
Yeah, and you got to keep in mind, like, she's produced on
01:10:14
huge films like Indiana Jones and whatnot.
01:10:18
And when she got this gig, it was literally right when like
01:10:22
George is like, hey, I'm going to hire you.
01:10:24
You're hired your job. Awesome.
01:10:26
That's great. By the way, I'm also selling the
01:10:28
company to Disney. Good luck with all that.
01:10:31
And she's the one that had to go through all this and how
01:10:35
Lucasfilm was going to move forward in this new Disney era
01:10:38
and it was all her. So she gets a lot of hate.
01:10:42
I don't hate on Kathleen Kennedy, though a lot of fans
01:10:45
do. All right, so the cons now and
01:10:49
we talked about the pros, let's talk about the cons.
01:10:52
So from the fans perspective, Baloney's strengths are in
01:10:56
animation and TV. Some worry the cinematic side
01:10:59
may not translate as smoothly. Announcing updates during a
01:11:03
leadership transition feels risky.
01:11:05
Fans fear another round of shifting priorities.
01:11:08
Committing to a trilogy now could lock the franchise into a
01:11:11
direction before audiences weigh in.
01:11:14
And the starfighter ambiguity may signal hesitation rather
01:11:19
than confidence. That's from the fans pers.
01:11:22
What do you think about all that, Frey?
01:11:24
What do you think about the con portion of it?
01:11:29
What you don't know if a direct, if a director or creator is
01:11:34
going to be good in a different medium until they are in a
01:11:40
different medium. So, you know, I think like the
01:11:45
Russo brothers started with Community, that was TV show, a
01:11:49
comedy TV show, and now they're helming the MCU.
01:11:54
And they're coming back to the MCU like to the point where, you
01:11:57
know, nobody's been able to replicate, you know, the, the
01:12:00
lightning and the bottle that they've created.
01:12:02
So they're coming back. I right here.
01:12:05
Here's my thing with. Filoni that's that's that's the
01:12:07
only thing I was thinking is that that, you know, OK, great.
01:12:11
And this will be shortly, Yeah, this will be, this will be
01:12:14
short. My thing with Filoni is if you
01:12:17
are afraid that he may not have an eye for cinema, then you have
01:12:22
not been paying attention to The Mandalorian.
01:12:25
You have not been paying attention to anything that he's
01:12:28
done because every single one of those shows is cinematic.
01:12:33
Each episode is cinematic. You know, condensing story is
01:12:39
all really what he's going to do.
01:12:40
And he seems like the kind of person where he he starts from
01:12:45
point A to point B and is like, this is this needs to be this
01:12:48
long. So how do I get from point A to
01:12:50
point B and get this all done in an hour?
01:12:53
The guy knows how to do episodic TV.
01:12:57
He has done animated films. So what is there to say that he
01:13:02
can't do in a feature film if he has the eye for a cinematic
01:13:09
film? Yeah.
01:13:10
And, and the TV shows that he's done and he has written movies
01:13:14
that have done well. I I don't have a problem with
01:13:18
him doing a film and and helming a film franchise.
01:13:23
And don't forget, he has Jon Favreau to support him as well,
01:13:28
right? Right.
01:13:29
And then it's not like he's only done Star Wars.
01:13:31
He was the director for the first season of Avatar the Last
01:13:35
Airbender. And that's actually what I was
01:13:37
thinking in my head was like, he he he helmed Avatar the Last
01:13:40
Airbender. That's a big deal, yeah.
01:13:44
Yeah, I think it's going to be in a good direction.
01:13:46
And I I like that they have him to only focus on creative.
01:13:51
Yeah. No, I, I think the partnership
01:13:53
thing is really in now, you know, that that instead of
01:13:57
having one person over all of it, you know, get 2 people and
01:14:02
then that way one can cover the financials and all that, the
01:14:06
other can cover the creatives. And so, yeah, I really like
01:14:10
that. I think it's a, it's a good
01:14:11
thing. So from the industry's
01:14:15
perspective, though, like major leadership changes can disrupt
01:14:19
ongoing projects, create uncertainty.
01:14:22
We were talking about like, you know, Zasloff selling Warner
01:14:25
Brothers and how like that could have affected the brave and the
01:14:31
bold. So like it's uncertainty and
01:14:34
people don't want to move forward with things if there's
01:14:37
uncertainty. Early commitments to long term
01:14:39
slates limit flexibility if market trends shift or box
01:14:44
office performance dips. AI driven creative tools raise
01:14:48
questions about labor, authorships and future
01:14:52
production pipelines, and Kennedy's exit could lead to a
01:14:56
re evaluation of projects she championed, causing potential
01:15:00
delays. Again, I don't think that's
01:15:02
going to happen just because Filoni's also been involved with
01:15:05
the majority of those projects. Filoni has been the like
01:15:09
creative force behind Star Wars for a long time at this point.
01:15:13
Kathleen Kennedy's just been kind of like on the back end
01:15:16
producing and she gets the final say.
01:15:19
I I, I think nothing is really going to change because the
01:15:22
majority of the projects that are in the pipeline right now,
01:15:25
Filoni has his hands in to begin with.
01:15:27
So I it it when you take the guy who's already doing creative and
01:15:32
you put him in charge, I don't see him going.
01:15:34
OK, well, yeah, I was doing this just because Kathleen Kennedy
01:15:37
and I'm just going to get rid of all your projects.
01:15:39
I I don't think I I don't think Filoni 1.
01:15:42
Filoni doesn't seem like that kind of person, but to he also
01:15:46
seems like somebody who has been excited and been involved with
01:15:50
every one of these projects from the from the ground up.
01:15:53
So I don't, I don't see any of that kind of being a concern,
01:15:56
you know what I mean? My my concern is that Filoni's
01:16:01
only been so only focused on Star Wars, right?
01:16:05
Which is great, but now being ahead of Lucasfilm and what
01:16:11
other projects may take some of his time now, I'm concerned like
01:16:16
maybe he strays away from Star Wars because he has more going
01:16:20
on and then we start to lose focus.
01:16:22
But I don't think they're going to let that happen.
01:16:24
I think they're going to make sure that whatever projects
01:16:27
they've announced, they're going to be like, we need to push
01:16:30
through with this slate of projects.
01:16:33
And we can't let anybody down. We can't let the fans down.
01:16:37
Can't let we can't go back on our word is this is what we said
01:16:40
we're going to do. We're going to do it.
01:16:42
Yeah, Filoni's baby is Star Wars first and foremost.
01:16:45
The guy is always going to focus on Star Wars.
01:16:47
I am interested in him just being someone who kind of thinks
01:16:52
the same way that Lucas thinks. I I'm actually genuinely curious
01:16:58
to see what he would do with Indiana Jones.
01:17:02
That's a good. Point.
01:17:02
That'd be really cool, yeah. He's really good at at expanding
01:17:07
universes. We're very good, you know, and
01:17:09
I'm sure that. Would be.
01:17:11
Interesting. I mean, he dresses like Indiana
01:17:13
Jones. Why would he not be an Indiana
01:17:14
Jones fan, right? Like I mean, I'm sure.
01:17:18
Trapper Wolf. Trapper Wolf.
01:17:20
That's right, yeah. Trapper Wolf.
01:17:22
Get some Trapper Wolf stuff out. There I do want to see trapper
01:17:26
wolf like the character that he plays.
01:17:28
I I want to see more Trapper Wolf in the universe, but I mean
01:17:32
like seeing what he does with Indiana Jones because it's kind
01:17:37
of like, OK, here is the care that I took for Star Wars.
01:17:40
I wanted to, I want to take that same care and put it to Indiana
01:17:44
Jones. We know that Indiana Jones can
01:17:47
expand into more things because the game is fucking perfect.
01:17:51
I'm sorry, Great circle was a perfect game and I know that we
01:17:56
can do more Indiana Jones, right.
01:18:00
The thing is, do we do young Indiana Jones?
01:18:04
Do we do Indiana Jones? You know, we know he has
01:18:09
offspring at this point, right? We don't 100% know what happened
01:18:14
with with with mud, but at the same time, you know what I mean?
01:18:19
They talked about it in in the last movie, but it's kind of
01:18:23
like, you know, can you fix that relationship?
01:18:26
Can you fix that character and lead up to, you know, obviously
01:18:30
we know he dies at some point. If you haven't watched those
01:18:32
movies, guys said they've been out for like 3 years so but I
01:18:37
mean I. Haven't watched them, thanks so
01:18:38
much. OK, well, that's your fault for
01:18:40
not watching a movie that's been out for three years.
01:18:42
So spoilers for a movie that's been out for three years.
01:18:46
But I mean, like, you know, that that's the whole thing with that
01:18:49
is is you know, does he go and fix that that that mud character
01:18:53
that everybody hated so much, You know, Indiana Sun, Do you
01:18:57
start leading into his goddaughter who was kind of a Co
01:19:01
lead in the latest movie? You know, like do you do the
01:19:04
legacy of Indiana Jones or do you recast for a younger Indiana
01:19:08
Jones and tell more stories because they made it a non
01:19:13
linear film franchise which to advantage that that is an
01:19:17
advantage to Indiana Jones. You know, who do you get to play
01:19:20
Indiana Jones? You know, and, you know, and and
01:19:26
and yeah, like. It's Ryan Gosling.
01:19:29
I was thinking the exact same thing.
01:19:31
It's perfect, perfect. Ryan Gosling is young Indiana
01:19:35
Jones. I'm sure he would love to do
01:19:36
that too. Oh, he would be so good.
01:19:40
He has that kind of comedic timing that Harrison Ford does
01:19:44
as well. And they've bit.
01:19:47
They've done stuff together, and if you have never seen their
01:19:50
interviews that they've done together, you have to watch the
01:19:54
interviews that they've done together.
01:19:55
They are freaking hilarious. I did blade.
01:19:58
Runner, right? They did Blade Runner together.
01:20:00
Yeah. I, I want to see Ryan Gosling in
01:20:06
the suit that Doctor Jones wears in, in, in like when he, when
01:20:12
he's teaching, like the, the tweed suit that he wears when
01:20:14
he's teaching and just kind of see what that look, that look
01:20:17
would look like, just that kind of like that old 1940s look.
01:20:22
I want to see more Nazi stories. We know that he interacts with
01:20:27
with the Russians 'cause, you know, again, Crystal Skull leans
01:20:32
more into him fighting the Russians.
01:20:35
So, I mean, there are so many eras and so many stories that
01:20:38
you can tell with Indiana Jones if you cast the right actor to
01:20:42
continue on with. Yeah, I think it would be great.
01:20:45
There's also a lot of books that are good and again, the game
01:20:48
really leans into it. I'm done.
01:20:50
I talk too much. OK, so I do have a question now
01:20:54
that we've gone through all of it.
01:20:57
So is this the moment Star Wars finally finds long term
01:21:02
stability? Or is Lucasfilm entering another
01:21:06
cycle of big promises and unpredictable pivots?
01:21:11
Young Phil, keep talking. If anything, I feel like this is
01:21:15
the moment for them to find stability And, and I've been
01:21:17
kind of this, this goes with the theme that I've been saying the
01:21:20
entire night right between the two people that they've chosen
01:21:24
Lynn when Brennan and and Dave Filoni, Dave Filoni is that
01:21:27
person that is going to uphold the legacy of Star Wars, because
01:21:33
this is a man who lives, breeds, dies Star Wars And Lynn when
01:21:39
Brennan is somebody who is, has, has proven to be good on the
01:21:44
finances. Again, I, I, I was very
01:21:46
unfamiliar with her until I started doing research when they
01:21:49
announced that she was the Co, she was going to be the Co head
01:21:53
And, and I think it was a good decision.
01:21:54
I think it's is a smart decision again, somebody who like like
01:21:58
Dave Filoni, who takes so much care into storytelling, not just
01:22:03
Star Wars, but everything that he's ever put his his hands
01:22:07
into. I'm interested in seeing him
01:22:10
helm everything in the Lucas library and expand everything in
01:22:17
the sphere right, Expanding on everything that Lucas owns
01:22:23
because Star Wars again, I, I, I think he's the right person to
01:22:28
to steer that ship. I would also like to see what he
01:22:31
does with Indiana Jones. I would also like to see what he
01:22:33
does with every other Lucas property because.
01:22:38
You can't think of another one, can you?
01:22:40
At the moment I can't and I know there's multiple ones.
01:22:44
What about Howard the Duck? He did.
01:22:45
Howard the Duck. No, I, I, I I would rather.
01:22:49
I think, yeah. Yeah, well, Spielberg did Howard
01:22:51
the Duck more than than than Lucas did, but Lucas had his
01:22:55
hands in it and I would prefer Marvel.
01:22:57
Hand, I thought Lucas directed it.
01:23:00
I thought Spielberg directed that.
01:23:02
I thought it was George Lucas. How about you guys look it up?
01:23:06
So I kind of agree with what you're saying about about Filoni
01:23:11
and Brennan. I, I feel like the Star Wars
01:23:14
side of Lucasfilm is in good hands.
01:23:17
I think they're good. I think where Kathleen Kennedy
01:23:21
is leaving things and going back to the producer role that she
01:23:25
had, I think that may be something that's a strength of
01:23:29
hers that she hasn't been able to to flex in a long time
01:23:33
because she's brought bangers to box offices for decades going
01:23:39
back to like the 80s. And I'm just looking at at the
01:23:43
list and I'm just looking Poltergeist ET Twilight Zone.
01:23:48
We talked about Indiana Jones already, but Empire of the Sun,
01:23:52
Rodger, Rabbit Land Before Time, Back to the Future, you know,
01:23:56
always Cape Fear, Arachnophobia, Gremlins, all these are
01:24:01
executive produced by her. And having somebody like that in
01:24:06
Hollywood getting back into like, hey, let's make some
01:24:09
projects. I'm excited to see what else she
01:24:12
can come up with now, whether it's AI or not AI, that's a
01:24:16
whole separate, whole separate, you know, question.
01:24:19
But like, I think she has an eye for projects and films and I
01:24:24
think her getting back to that will be super interesting.
01:24:28
And we were both wrong. It was William Hayek and he also
01:24:32
wrote it. So William, don't.
01:24:35
Let the All right, all right. But George Lucas did.
01:24:41
He produced, produced it. Yeah, Spielberg had nothing to
01:24:43
do with it but it. But yeah, Lucas produced.
01:24:46
So I was more right. Than wrong.
01:24:48
We were both wrong. We were both wrong, but Phil was
01:24:52
more wrong. Sure.
01:24:54
OK, continue. I also had some really good
01:24:58
points. I was.
01:24:59
Trying to go back so. You did.
01:25:01
Just letting you, just letting you know.
01:25:02
You did? No, you were very persuasive.
01:25:06
I was actually trying to type it into our group chat and and Jen
01:25:09
decided to put it on the show so OK.
01:25:12
There you go. Well, he said.
01:25:14
Look it up. I'm get any other thoughts
01:25:18
answer what they want. Any other thoughts on the
01:25:21
transition between Kathleen Kennedy leaving and Filoni and
01:25:24
Brennan coming in? I think that we all knew that
01:25:29
this was going to happen. They've been talking about it
01:25:32
for what, two years? I think Dave Filoni's is good as
01:25:39
a creative on the creative side. And Lynn, when Brennan, from
01:25:42
what I understand, is very good on the financial side, she
01:25:46
understands all of that. So I think as long as they have
01:25:50
a good relationship together I don't see it being a problem.
01:25:55
Agreed. Yeah, good point.
01:25:58
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All right, let's talk schedules. Ladies and gentlemen, Tuesdays,
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the show you are watching right now from 6:30 to 8:30 distance
01:28:30
nerding Thursdays, the build this week on the build, super
01:28:35
excited. The voice of young Goku.
01:28:38
The voice of young Gohan from Dragon Ball Z, ladies and
01:28:42
gentlemen, it's Stephanie Nandolny and I am so excited to
01:28:45
talk to her because she is the current voice of Goku and Gohan
01:28:49
as well as on Dragon Ball Dyma. She is again the the current
01:28:54
voice of the character. I think this is this might be
01:28:57
the first time we're getting somebody who is currently
01:28:59
voicing a character. We should put out some promos on
01:29:02
that. Yeah, I should probably do that
01:29:03
tonight. Yes, that's awesome.
01:29:06
OK. Finish the show so you can do
01:29:08
that. Yeah, I know, right.
01:29:10
And then, of course, Fridays, when we can the buzzer from 6:30
01:29:13
to 8:30, then not everybody can make it on Fridays.
01:29:16
Sometimes we have to cancel the Friday show, but when we do, we
01:29:20
have a blast. Just stay glued to the social
01:29:23
medias. You don't know whether we are
01:29:24
playing a buzzer on a Friday, but we usually play at 6:30 to
01:29:27
8:30. All the times they're in
01:29:29
Pacific. What is it?
01:29:31
Pacific Daylight Time. It's standard.
01:29:34
No, it's standard. Now Pacific Standard Time.
01:29:37
As we because we fell back OK, so now it's standard daylight is
01:29:44
when it's lighter out for longer, so we jump forward.
01:29:49
Fray plug your time zone. Plug your time zone fray.
01:29:52
Central time zone. There you go.
01:29:55
Yeah, I, I mean, look, you guys are this flashy Pacific Time
01:30:01
zone. U.S. central time zoners don't
01:30:06
like really talk about it. It's just central time zone.
01:30:10
Get over it. Move on.
01:30:13
The only real time to move on time.
01:30:14
All right, let's move on. We're going to move on.
01:30:16
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James, where we're at 570 right now. 571. 571, we are getting
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there, guys. 571, once we hit 19 more subscribers, once we are
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It is. It is fun.
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I'll give away a kidney. There you go.
01:31:09
Jen's going to give away her kidney.
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No, that's. So illegal.
01:31:12
We can't do that. We will not do that.
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Our lawyers have said we are unable to give a human organ
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away. Even if it's not, get lawyers
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involved. What's a kidney among friends?
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Yeah, come on. Exactly what is a kidney among
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friends? You know your your, your
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friends, real friends. Y'all miss me?
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Well, of course, ladies and gentlemen, have something you
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That is it from us. Bruce buddy.
01:31:50
Time to go to bed James, take us home.
01:31:53
Thanks and keep nerding together oh creepy baby in 2026.
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All right, it's because we don't do the dance party anymore.
01:32:00
So creepy baby's like I'm here. I want to dance.
01:32:04
I want to suck your blood, my. Creepy babies, I need to have
01:32:08
words with you. We will speak.
01:32:12
We will have words. Sandra saying she wants more
01:32:16
Lego. Well shit, she participates a
01:32:19
lot. So I mean, I can't say well get
01:32:21
your friends to follow us. I think all of her friends
01:32:23
follow us at this point. There you go, real quick.
01:32:24
Shout out to Sei Wong, Shout out to Travis, shout out to Chris.
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Chipperson. Chipperson shout out to Sandra,
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appreciate you all. We'll see you soon.
01:32:34
Everybody interacting in the chat.
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That's right, Thursday, ladies and gentlemen.
01:32:38
We will see everybody on Thursday for Stephanie Nadoni.
01:32:41
That's right. Let's get this going.
01:32:43
We will catch everybody again, James, one more time.
01:32:47
Thanks and keep nerding together.
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Bye. Distance nerding.
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