Episode Summary
Is Disney about to conquer the future with AI… or accidentally Skynet itself into oblivion? This week on Distance NERDing, the crew dives headfirst into AI, Disney’s looming tech future, and whether creativity can survive automation. Along the way we break down Avengers: Doomsday rumors, Daredevil’s bloody return, Supergirl’s flawless trailer, Star Wars Old Republic hype, Street Fighter chaos, and more unhinged takes than a Hulk convention. Expect deep nerd analysis, wild speculation, and at least one conversation that absolutely did not stay on the rails.
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⏱️ Timestamps & Topics
• 00:00 – Live show warning & chaotic intros
• 03:00 – Sponsor shoutouts & show setup
• 04:15 – Avengers: Doomsday teaser leaks & Marvel’s family obsession
• 12:00 – Daredevil rumored for Secret Wars (blood budget confirmed)
• 17:30 – Spider-Man + Punisher vs Grey Hulk rumors
• 25:15 – DC Watchtower: The Batman Part II & Gilda Dent rumors
• 31:30 – Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow breakdown
• 35:30 – Trailer Talk: Supergirl teaser reactions
• 46:25 – Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic reveal
• 54:55 – Street Fighter movie hype
• Final Segment – AI, Disney, creativity, and the future of fandom
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🧠 Key Takeaways
• Marvel may be shifting toward legacy, family, and emotional stakes
• Daredevil fills the MCU’s hand-to-hand combat void
• Supergirl’s trailer nailed Woman of Tomorrow energy
• Star Wars may be quietly canonizing Old Republic lore
• Video game movies might finally be learning the lesson
• AI could be Disney’s biggest innovation—or its biggest mistake
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💬 Best Bits
• “Thor is so OP we need Daredevil just to balance the universe.”
• “Marvel’s blood budget is just corn syrup and regret.”
• “Supergirl feels like Guardians of the Galaxy… and that’s a compliment.”
• “If Disney replaces writers with AI, the mouse becomes the villain.”
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gentlemen, let's jump into the first segment here.
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It's time to get everything that's going around the Marvel
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Universe. It's time.
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I'm straight from Jay Jonah. Oh, that's me.
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If these leaks are real family, maybe the heart of Doomsday.
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Alleged alleged descriptions. Alleged descriptions?
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That sounds very like serious. Alleged descriptions of four
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separate teaser trailers for Avengers Doomsday have surfaced
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online, each spotlighting a different character or theme.
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If true, Marvel is rolling out a carefully staged hype campaign.
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OK, so I'm going to give you the lowdown on all four, right?
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And then I kind of want to talk about this a little bit.
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So there's a Steve Rogers teaser apparently, and that's supposed
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to be the first one. So Steve is shown riding home on
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a bike. He's and he carries his baby boy
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like different things. And the tagline reads, Steve
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Rogers will return in Avengers Doomsday.
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Then Thor in the woods. So Chris Hemsworth Thor kneels
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in the forest, praying to Odin before a massive battle, asking
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for his safe return to his his daughter.
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And then there's the Doctor Doom teaser.
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Now it's shrouded in secrecy, only described as a Doctor Doom
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reveal. So you know it's going to be
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crazy. Maybe they'll get Trevor
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Slattery to do like the narration.
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Anyway, no footage details have leaked for it, leaving fans
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speculating wildly about how Marvel's going to introduce
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them. And then the 4th 1 is going to
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be like the whole like the big ensemble one like everyone's in
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that one. And there's like some idea that
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since they're really pushing Steve with his baby son and Thor
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with his daughter in the first time we see Doom on screen is
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Franklin gets to look at his face 1st.
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And so that's also kind of a familial connection.
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So they're saying that maybe it's all family theme that it's,
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you know, tying all that stuff together and and really talking
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more about lineage and like maybe making it about that.
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So, but the release date is going to be December 18th of 20
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26. What do you guys think about
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these 4-4 different like teasers?
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I, I think it's a smart strategy, mainly just because it
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seems like what they're trying to do is build that hype exactly
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almost what you're saying right now, where they're building the
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hype when it comes to family and family ties to characters and
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everything like that. Unfortunately, I've seen the
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screenshot leaks, leaks of that first Captain America trailer
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and it just because it came across my feed and the way they
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did it was like, you know, one of those one screen, but it has
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eight screenshots and it's like, damn it, all right, well, I'm
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not missing this. And the things that I've seen.
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It's obviously new faded footage.
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It it basically was exactly what you just described right now.
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You know, him holding his child, him on the bike, him folding his
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Captain America uniform back into into like a crate.
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And it's I think that it's a good strategy.
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Again, I think that what the whole thing is, it's not only
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going to be families, but it's going to be an attempt to break
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families, especially with the way that the what they're doing
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is trying to tie it from from things that have been coming
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out. They are tying it from, you
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know, end game, and this is supposed to be directly tied
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into end game. So it's almost like they're
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acknowledging the multiverse stuff that's happened so far,
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but at the same time they're almost going to erase it, with
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this movie being something that kind of messes with all the
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timelines all at once. Do you think that this is going
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to be like a movie that we see what was going on while the
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other stuff was going on? So like this is taking place at
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the the same time like the Disney Plus stuff is, and all
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the movies like the Fantastic Four and all that.
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Like we're seeing Doom get to Franklin and he gets to Franklin
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last. Like he's already done all the
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rest of this. I do believe that that's
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probably where they're going to go.
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It's it's that is going to kind of show, hey, here's where
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everything was was has been happening and this is what
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everybody's been doing in the meantime, especially with the
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big major characters that have been kind of absent from
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everything happening. James, what do you?
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Think, you know, that's a good point.
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I didn't think about that happening at the same time, but
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that would explain a lot. Like, you know, when we watch
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some of the Disney plus shows, we're like, where is everybody
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else, you know, like what happened to to their teammates?
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So that would explain a lot. So I'm interested.
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I didn't, I didn't think they were going to do this, but
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they're going to do this like 4 different trailers.
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I know there was rumors about it, but but they're doing it
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like it's, it's right upon us. It's it's pretty interesting.
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I do agree with the whole it's, it's a family theme and
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something's going to be breaking.
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Because I think there's a good hook for like Steve and Thor
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that there's stakes that matter to them now, not just like, hey,
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we're going to go save the world again or the universe again.
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But it's more personal for them, so it makes me wonder what
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what's going on with Doctor Doctor Doom.
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I don't know what he's going to be doing with Franklin though.
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Doctor Detroit, yeah. Yeah.
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And and also this, this is where it gets a little weird, right?
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Like, do we think that the son that he has here, do we think
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that's James Rogers or Ian Rogers?
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Oh, I don't know. That brings a lot out.
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Like that's something that I don't know.
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Because you have James Rogers. So James Rogers is is is Steve's
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actual son. He names him after Bucky.
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And Ian Rogers is his adopted son in the comics, but you could
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easily make Ian his actual son depending on which way they want
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to go with that. And Ian is much more of an
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expert in hand to hand combat versus where kind of, you know,
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James is more James is the actual kid that he had with
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Peggy. So it would make sense.
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Yeah, you know, and hopefully it is James could.
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Didn't they show like a picture of her kids when she was dying
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in one of the Captain America movies?
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And didn't she have a a son and a daughter?
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I think she. I want to say yeah.
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Yeah, who was what? What was her name?
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His love interest? Sharon.
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Sharon. Well, Sharon Carter was Peggy's
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niece. Yeah, that would be weird
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because he did kiss her and maybe did more.
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Stuff again, the family theme. It's a family affair.
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Oh, affair. I shouldn't have said that, OK.
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Anyway, Oh my gosh. Fred, what do you think about
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all this? I like what you guys are saying.
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It's really does line up with a lot of the stuff that I'm seeing
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and it really does pay off a lot of that.
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Thor getting a daughter that's not his own really, but he loves
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her as his own. Seeing Doom first with Franklin
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is also an interesting. And then also and Steve, like
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actually getting to see the stakes that Steve has now.
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I love that idea. So yeah, no, I'm totally on
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board with all of this. And I just think it's funny
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because everybody's like, oh, we're going to have to see this
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trailer. And then they're like, Oh no,
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it's going to be 4 trailers. And then it's like, you know
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what? Fuck you.
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Fuck you. It's.
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Smart. See them all later.
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It's smart marketing on Disney side because now I know at least
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three of those are attached to Avatar, so it's going to force
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people to go see Avatar. Yeah, three times.
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What the fuck? I don't want to see Avatar once.
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Why would I want to see it three times?
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I'm not doing it. I'm not.
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You don't have to sit through Avatar.
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I refuse Disney. I refuse.
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OK, I'm done with that. I'm I'm over it.
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We'll talk about Disney a lot more later.
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And I have some things to say about this little Mr. Bob Iger.
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OK, next. It's my guy.
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It's my little guy. From Hell's Kitchen to the
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multiverse, Daredevil may be suiting up for the biggest
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crossover of them all. He's going to cross over to my
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house. Reports claim Charlie Cox will
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reprise his role as Daredevil in Avengers Secret Wars, marking
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his return to the big screen after Disney Plus appearances.
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So here's like The big things about it is this is going to be
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the first time he's in an MCU movie since Spider Man No Way
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Home and the rumors that are that tie his arc to multiverse
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battles and potentially expanding the street level
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heroes roles in the cosmic stakes.
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So maybe not just him. Maybe we'll see Jessica, maybe
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we'll see a couple of the people from the Disney stuff.
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I don't think it's going to be Tatiana Maslany because she
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basically told Disney to. And then also Daredevils present
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in Secret Wars could point to him also appearing in brand new
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Day, right, Because they said Brand new Day leads right into
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Doomsday, right? And so you know, him saying, oh,
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I'm not in it, I'm not in it. And people going, are you the
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werewolf? I think he's the werewolf,
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y'all. But the Secret Wars is going to
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come out a year and a day after Avengers Doomsday, right?
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So it's like December 17th, 2027, whereas Doomsday premiere.
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Oh no, no, last, it's like one day less than a year as it's the
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18th in 2026. So, Phil, what do you think?
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I think it makes sense and mainly just because even though
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he is basically just like a, you know, like a sense enhanced, you
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know, person fighting amongst meta humans and things like
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that. His on screen acumen and just
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kind of the way that he conducts himself, his fight style, like
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everything about him just screams that he needs more on
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like big screen stuff. And the one the one big screen
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moment that we had with him was him being a lawyer as Matt
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Murdoch, but not fighting. And I want to see with the way
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that his character fights and the stunt team that is behind
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Matt Murdoch, I want to see what they can do on the big screen in
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a higher stakes, you know, bigger budget than what they
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already have because, you know, we all know 90% of the budget
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for Daredevil ghost of those fight scenes.
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So it's like, so I I want to see that same care done to him on
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the big screen. And also the blood packets,
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because, you know, they got to, they got to use a lot of money.
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For God his face is covered in blood in every scene in every
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season of Daredevil, including the Disney one.
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Because the Disney 1 and they also had a huge budget.
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Spoilers for the scene where Fisk crushes that dude's head,
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right? Yes, well, and Olive.
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And then Frank. When Frank got beat up, he was
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dripping with blood. Yeah, blood budget.
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I'm telling you, it has got to be massive.
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They're just like making corn syrup.
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Just like we're just, we're, we don't want you to make meth, we
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want you to make corn syrup. So we.
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We need more. Labs or corn syrup, Now there's
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a market for that. I think we can do it.
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Are we starting a business y'all?
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Think we might be? James, what do you think?
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Well. I think this is a good idea
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because, you know, there's not a lot of hand to hand fighters
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left, you know, like scar Joe or or Black Widow is gone.
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Black Panther, you know, are the new Black Panthers doesn't
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really do a ton of of hand to hand type stuff, you know, so I,
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I keep picturing like the way Captain America or Nomad was in
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was that Infinity War where he just had the two pointed Shields
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and just coming at coming at aliens or whatever it was.
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We need people that can do that. And I think bringing Daredevil
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in to do that would be interesting.
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So I, I could definitely see that happening.
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Plus having people like Thor, like Thor's way Opie, he's way
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too Opie. So we need people that are kind
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of grounded, that could take a punch.
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He's full God status at this point.
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So yeah, it's like, you know, like he is super Opie.
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And then you have Captain Marvel, who is super Opie.
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You have, you know, so many Scarlet Witch, which rumors are
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that she's going to be backed by by Secret Wars, Super Opie, like
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just all these characters. And then now we're bringing in
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mutants who have nothing but Opie characters.
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So yeah, we definitely need some of those grounded fights.
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I supposedly we're supposed to be getting more martial arts and
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brand new day like with with Spider Man and he's supposed to
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be fighting the hand and all that.
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So I mean like I, I want to see, I want to see more of that hand
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to hand combat stuff. Yeah, I think that's part of the
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reason why they didn't have the Hulk in Infinity War is because
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he would just be Opie and like whatever Thanos threw at them.
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It's like it didn't matter. Yeah, I need more Shang Chi.
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I'm sorry, I've been saying this on threads for like the last
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month. I need more Shang Chi.
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I'm I'm so upset that we have not had Shang Chi in five years.
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I know, I mean, you know, Simu was busy being a Barbie, but you
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know, whatever. Speaking spider man.
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Oh look, it's Charlie Cox again. Spidey, Punisher and Grey Hall.
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They're not walking anywhere. Sounds less like a team up, more
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like a demolition Derby. Kind of does.
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If I hadn't fucked it up, it would have been great.
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Rumors suggest Spider Man Brand New Day will feature Peter
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Parker teaming up with the Punisher to take on none other
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than the Grey Hulk. That's right, fellas, a grey
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Hulk. Not Maestro, but Joe Vixen.
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All right, so Spidey, A Punisher, a lion, Are you ready?
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So a rare came up that could bring Marvel's darker St. level
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vigilante into Spider Man's orbit.
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I just I I see like spider man doing all these jokes and stuff
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and punish her just being like, are you done?
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Like that's really what I see. And I feel like it's just going
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to be perfect. It's going to be chef chef's
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kiss perfect. Anyway, the Joe Fixit persona of
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Hulk is rumored to be the antagonist, adding a moral,
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morally complex foe. And then I mean, I said this
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too, you know, the Spider man quips and the Punishers grit.
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But I, you know, I feel like he might corrupt Peter a little.
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Peter might get a little darker viewpoint.
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Anyway, it releases on July 31st of 2026, so less than a year,
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like seven months. Bill, what do you think?
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It's interesting if they're bringing in the Gray Hulk for
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the ring and Joe fix it in. Are they going to Vegas?
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He could leap there. Like is is, is Peter even old
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enough to go to Vegas? Not yet.
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I mean, graduated high school, yeah.
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Yes, but that's three years later.
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There's this three years after he graduated high school.
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Like, I mean, it could be they could be telling that story
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because I mean, you can. Go on the floor at 18 into
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casinos, buddy. Yeah, but.
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That's not fun. Vegas isn't fun until you're 21.
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Oh that's alright. Unless you're a Raider fan, then
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you can go be disappointed at Allegiant.
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But I mean like. That was uncalled for.
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That's unsportsmanlike conduct, so I'm throwing the flag.
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The Emirates game that the Spurs are in right now.
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There you go that that that that's fine too now and and Frey
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you know you know my reference to that Joe fix it like first
00:19:31
emerges in in Vegas. So I was like, are they going to
00:19:33
Vegas or are they going to reference Vegas with this?
00:19:36
But I I like that they're bringing in the different
00:19:40
versions of the Hulk. I think eventually, given that
00:19:44
they keep expanding on the Hulk in this, I feel like they're
00:19:48
almost setting up agents to smash at this point, which would
00:19:52
be really cool. Maybe no, I want it.
00:19:55
Yeah, I know. Like if they just, if we're
00:19:57
getting Grey Hulk, we've already got Red Hulk, we've already got
00:20:00
the original Hulk, we've got multiple versions.
00:20:02
If we get, we've been introduced to Amadeus Cho in an alternate
00:20:06
universe. So it's like, OK, we get Amadeus
00:20:08
Cho and and we get. She Hulk.
00:20:11
We have she Hulk. That's right.
00:20:12
So like, it almost seems like they're setting up, like
00:20:15
inadvertently setting up Agents of Smash, which would.
00:20:18
Be we have 5 hulks. Are we talking 5 Hulks in the
00:20:22
MCU right now? If, if it's true that we're
00:20:24
getting the Gray Hulk. And again, Amadeus Cho has been
00:20:28
introduced, but he hasn't Hulked out yet.
00:20:30
So it's like, yeah, in in the MCU, his mom was introduced.
00:20:35
So we know his mom exists in the universe, and again, he's a
00:20:39
scientist in an alternate universe at this point.
00:20:41
So, you know, we know Amadeus Cho is there, which means, you
00:20:45
know, where they're begging for to to have the 2nd hole come
00:20:48
out. And technically we have the
00:20:50
Hulkling too. Yeah.
00:20:51
Yeah, with weird hair, but yeah. Yeah, I mean, we have the
00:20:55
Hulkling scars here. So I mean, like technically we
00:20:58
have another Hulk. So I mean, you know, there
00:21:00
there's there's, there's a couple of different Hulks that
00:21:02
we have. I think that it makes sense.
00:21:04
That also makes sense to have Spider Man and Frank Castle, to
00:21:09
have to have Peter Parker and Frank Castle, instead of
00:21:12
fighting regular Hulk, you're fighting the Gray Hulk, who
00:21:16
tends to be more savage on the front.
00:21:19
Yeah, on the front end, you know, and then he's more
00:21:21
reasonable on the back end, but it's like he tends to be way
00:21:25
more savage in the on the front end.
00:21:27
Punches first and ask questions later.
00:21:29
What would, yeah, what would be cool is if we get a moment where
00:21:34
Bruce shows up and punches Joe, fix it in the face and we get to
00:21:39
get some Hulk on Hulk action. He's so dope.
00:21:42
And then the porn parody would be totally different.
00:21:45
Oh, yeah. Hulk on Hulk action.
00:21:48
Didn't that happen? All right?
00:21:49
Didn't that happen with China back in the day?
00:21:52
OK, stop. I'm, I'm not, I'm not feeling
00:21:56
this. I think there's too many people
00:21:59
with with the gamma rays and the Hulkness.
00:22:02
There's too many people with the, with the secret serum.
00:22:05
That's not so secret. Everybody can be a Captain of
00:22:07
America now out of nowhere. So I don't like it.
00:22:10
I feel like this is a, a quick fix for a, a villain or
00:22:14
something to fight, but I don't like it.
00:22:16
Like, I don't know who Joe fix it is.
00:22:18
Like we're just going to throw another Hulk in.
00:22:20
Like what? Nah, I'm not feeling it.
00:22:23
So his tacos are off the table for this one.
00:22:26
Yeah, I guess so to call back from, I don't know, episodes ago
00:22:30
since we haven't done that in a while.
00:22:33
Yeah, Yeah. No, I, I, you know, at this
00:22:35
point I'm just like, so over how many people they've talked about
00:22:39
being in this. Oh, where are your tacos?
00:22:42
No, I'm like, do it. Just put everybody in it.
00:22:44
I don't. I don't care anymore.
00:22:45
But again, I've mentioned. My tacos are ambivalent at most.
00:22:49
Again, I've mentioned that as long as the way that they do it
00:22:52
is not just, you know, characters in the entire movie
00:22:57
for the entire movie, it's like you can do an opening scene.
00:23:02
They've done this in other movies.
00:23:03
You can do an opening scene with Peter and and Frank teaming up
00:23:08
to fight grey Hulk. And that's like the opening, you
00:23:11
know, insight into what's happening in in in in the movie.
00:23:15
And it's more just showing like, you know, kind of like what
00:23:17
Spider Man has been doing since he's been, you know, since
00:23:21
nobody knows who he is again. Or they could do it thing where
00:23:24
they're fighting, go fix it. And then it it like stops and
00:23:29
you hear Tom Holland like say, oh, hi, let me tell you how I
00:23:34
got here. Yeah.
00:23:35
And then they go back and then it ends with.
00:23:38
That would be cute. Or, or or you do a or at some
00:23:43
point in there you've got to do a sun's going down big guy, and
00:23:46
Joe just looks at him and punches him across and like into
00:23:49
a building and it's like that usually works.
00:23:50
He's like, he's like, it's noon. No, but like because that worked
00:23:55
with with David, right. But it's the word with David
00:23:57
with Bruce got harkening back to the 70s.
00:24:00
Sorry, harkening back to the 70s that that worked with with
00:24:03
Bruce, right. But it's like Joe Fixit isn't
00:24:06
Bruce Banner psyche wise. So it's like.
00:24:08
Yeah, like, whatever. OK, good for you.
00:24:11
All right, so the Marvel Universe is shaping up for some
00:24:15
seismic lashes. Now let's teleport to the
00:24:18
Watchtower for some DCU news and rumor.
00:24:22
Hey, before we get to the DC stuff, just to pull back to the
00:24:26
Daredevil, I did see that Charlie Cox is in a new movie on
00:24:30
Amazon. I think it's called Merv.
00:24:33
I watched it by accident the other day.
00:24:36
It is very cheesy. That dude can see he didn't have
00:24:39
sunglasses on, he was using his eyes.
00:24:41
It was weird to see his eyes moving around the screen.
00:24:44
It felt off to. Me, I don't like it.
00:24:46
Did you also watch MERV? I'm just saying that I saw the
00:24:49
trailer. I'm like, is that Charlie Cox?
00:24:51
Then he started talking and then he had a British accent and like
00:24:54
Daredevil's British, and then now Daredevil can see.
00:24:57
Yeah, I'm not going to jump too much into this, but it felt
00:24:59
really weird because there's a scene where he meets his parent
00:25:02
where you meet his parents and you meet his mom 1st and she's
00:25:05
just 100 percent American. And I'm like, so is he just
00:25:08
gonna? And they're like in California?
00:25:10
So it's like, so he just, he's just weirdly has a British
00:25:14
accent and then you meet his dad and his daddy's British.
00:25:16
So it's like, okay, now it makes sense.
00:25:18
Yeah, yeah, okay, wow. All right, so Greece maybe
00:25:24
setting up Gotham's most heartbreaking love story.
00:25:27
Rumor suggests Scarlett Johansson, AKA Scar Joe is being
00:25:31
considered to play Gilda Dent in The Batman Part 2, potentially
00:25:36
weaving in key storylines from The Long Halloween.
00:25:39
So not, I mean, I don't want to spoil a lot.
00:25:43
So if it does happen, but Gilda Dent is married to Harvey Dent
00:25:48
and she is part of that. She's she's a major part of the
00:25:53
story and Long Halloween, but I, but yeah, I don't want to really
00:25:59
spoil it. It's just she, it takes her job
00:26:02
as his wife very seriously. I'll just say that.
00:26:06
And so Johansson's casting would also bring star power and
00:26:10
emotional weight to that role. And then I mean, of course, like
00:26:14
The Batman is going to be released on October 1st of 2027.
00:26:18
I like they're doing it in October just to say like because
00:26:22
it does seem very Halloween like Batman to me.
00:26:27
Should be a Halloween movie. All of them would be October.
00:26:31
Well, especially if what do you think?
00:26:33
Yeah, especially if they are tying into Long Halloween.
00:26:36
That makes a lot of sense, yeah. Did they say if they were going
00:26:40
to playoff Long Halloween? I I wasn't.
00:26:42
Sure, the first movie was was 100% based on Long Halloween.
00:26:46
It was a portion of it, but it was based on long Halloween.
00:26:48
OK, so it's it's like if they're going that route, if they're
00:26:52
going along those lines and then that makes a lot of sense.
00:26:55
Guilt bringing in gilded dent makes a lot of sense.
00:26:58
I also, I, I can understand why Scarlett would, would cancel the
00:27:04
other movies that she's working on in order to do this because
00:27:09
gilded Dent is a character wise, she is a major player in that
00:27:16
series. And she would she would be
00:27:19
spanning between both Batman Part 2 and Batman Part 3, which
00:27:23
you know, they're saying they're going to end it on the third
00:27:24
movie. So it's it makes a lot of sense
00:27:28
to bring her in and for her to focus so much on this because
00:27:31
this is going to take a a lot out of her emotionally.
00:27:34
That character is so tragic. It's ridiculous.
00:27:37
She's got a lot of layers and all of them are crazy.
00:27:41
Anyway, James, what do you? I it's interesting if they pull
00:27:46
this off because having a name like Scar Joe, I, you know,
00:27:51
somebody that like a major name coming over from the MCU over to
00:27:55
the whatever version of the DCU this is, is a major get.
00:28:00
But also having them not be like a main character that is in
00:28:05
multiple projects is, is sort of interesting.
00:28:09
You know, I thought maybe they'd bring her in and she'd be, I
00:28:11
don't know, like part of the Justice League or something like
00:28:14
that somehow. But she's going to be playing.
00:28:16
She's going to be in the Long Halloween.
00:28:19
Canary, right? Yeah, she would be.
00:28:21
The only thing is that what they're going for is more
00:28:25
dramatic realism when it comes to this version of the Batman.
00:28:27
I mean judging based on the 1st movie and then how the Penguin
00:28:32
played out like she her coming in as gilded Dent in this
00:28:36
universe again would be highly tragic.
00:28:39
And it's, it's a way for her to like to, to, to really stretch
00:28:43
those acting jobs. Yeah, doing something that she
00:28:46
hasn't done for a while, and I think that's good.
00:28:48
Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, I agree with you guys.
00:28:51
I, I think it's interesting. I didn't think about Gilded Dent
00:28:54
because I didn't know if they were going to continue the long,
00:28:57
long Halloween or if they were going to do something else.
00:29:00
So that's why I was like, hey, Sasha Bordeaux.
00:29:02
Hey, what about this? What about?
00:29:03
Yeah, but I, I like it. I, I think she can do it.
00:29:06
I think it's really, it would be a good character for her to do,
00:29:11
giving a little like Lucy vibes to me, just a little bit as far
00:29:15
as like how far she'll go kind of thing.
00:29:18
But yeah, I like it a lot. That's kind of kind of dope and.
00:29:22
We didn't get Harvey in the first movie, did we?
00:29:24
No, and they did kill off the DA so it does make sense.
00:29:29
Right. So it would make sense for for
00:29:31
Harvey to come in as the DA in this.
00:29:33
And I mean, even then, Harvey, Harvey Dent in Long Halloween,
00:29:36
like it's one of those characters that plays a big role
00:29:38
but doesn't play the big role. Like, he's not, he's not kind of
00:29:42
like the main focus, but he's there.
00:29:44
Yeah, that'll be that. I like it.
00:29:46
I think it's a interesting take and I hope it is is true so.
00:29:50
Yeah, it'll be interesting if they go the entire Long
00:29:53
Halloween, Halloween, the Long Halloween arc in this and then
00:29:58
go, yeah, go to Hush by the third movie.
00:30:01
But like, if they do Long Halloween and we get Harvey Dent
00:30:05
and we get Calendar Man and we get Scarecrow and we get all
00:30:09
these characters that are so involved in Long Halloween and
00:30:13
then the if it pays off by the end of the end of this movie and
00:30:16
leads into Hush, that'd be amazing.
00:30:18
It would be amazing. It would be a good lead in, too,
00:30:22
because I think Hush really does lend himself to something like
00:30:25
that. Yeah, You know, I do enjoy
00:30:28
Batman and his family, but I feel like we should get super.
00:30:32
An imperfect Supergirl may be exactly what the DCU needs to
00:30:36
soar. James Gunn has emphasized that
00:30:39
his version of Supergirl will be imperfect and human quality, he
00:30:43
says make her compelling. So guns approach does contrast
00:30:47
with the traditional portrayals of Supergirl as flawless or
00:30:51
idealized and gives her more depth and layers there.
00:30:54
There was one where, like when Jim Lee reintroduced her, where
00:30:59
they tried to make her a little flawed and they went through
00:31:01
that whole dark side thing where she went bad and then she was
00:31:05
redeemed and then she went to Paradise Island and all that.
00:31:09
But and I feel like that's the closest that they've come before
00:31:13
for woman of tomorrow, but woman of tomorrow does tend to really
00:31:16
highlight that part of her. So I think that's great.
00:31:19
The vision aligns with his broader DCU philosophy of plot
00:31:23
relatable hero as well. And the release date for
00:31:26
Supergirl is slated for June 26th, 26th.
00:31:30
So that's 062626 y'all nice. Not a seven in the in the group.
00:31:36
What's up Bill, Tell me, tell me your thoughts and your dreams
00:31:39
about Super Ghoul. I, I am so, so on board and
00:31:44
we're going to talk about this here in a minute, but I mean,
00:31:45
like, it's just, I'm so on board for what this is and where
00:31:51
they're going with it. I, I, I, I love the way that
00:31:55
they've already portrayed her so far, the way that she looks in
00:31:58
the trailer and, and just kind of the way that they're playing
00:32:02
her off to be. She's not the, you know, broken,
00:32:06
but still innocent Cara that we knew before Woman of tomorrow.
00:32:10
She is very much the broken and and I don't know how to fix
00:32:17
these pieces oral that we know from from from the better,
00:32:22
better comics that are out there.
00:32:23
It's it's these character studies that that make her
00:32:26
again, so much more human than than anybody gives her credit.
00:32:31
And I get it. Her and her and cow are both
00:32:33
alien, but you know, and Cara had time to grow up, you know,
00:32:38
on, on Krypton. And she, I, I, I, I just love
00:32:42
the level of PTSD and a superhero that they're playing
00:32:46
off of on this. And again, we'll talk about that
00:32:48
when we're here in a moment because I'm I'm blown away by
00:32:51
the way that they're, they're already portraying the character
00:32:54
and we haven't even seen that much yet.
00:32:56
Absolutely, James. Yeah, I agree.
00:32:58
Let's get to the trailer. I.
00:33:01
Just wanted to talk about the trailer.
00:33:03
Yeah, things that I will say about this before we do get to
00:33:07
the trailer. I do enjoy that, that James Gunn
00:33:11
wants his heroes to be flawed and wants them to be like human,
00:33:16
to show the human side of them. Because I feel like when you do
00:33:20
that to any hero, you really make them more relatable and
00:33:25
then and that makes people love them more.
00:33:28
And so, yeah, I absolutely love it.
00:33:30
And I do love how she can't talk to Clark, think about it,
00:33:34
because Clark didn't go through any of it.
00:33:37
And so she feels way more isolated than he does.
00:33:40
And so I like that. Like, you know, as Clark feels
00:33:44
isolated himself because he's different.
00:33:46
He still had that human experience growing up and and
00:33:50
Cara didn't get that. So I love that they're
00:33:53
highlighting that. But anyway.
00:33:55
Weirdly, he's still her baby cousin somehow, but I mean like
00:33:57
you. Know, I know, right?
00:33:58
And that's kind of also like screw with her head too.
00:34:00
It's like my baby cousin is older than me and look how
00:34:04
totally got oh shit, you know, like it's that kind of thing.
00:34:07
But from cosmic clashes and Gotham shadows, we zoom out of
00:34:12
the Watchtower and back down to earth.
00:34:14
It's time to shift gears, get out the popcorn and talk some
00:34:17
trailers. It's time for trailer talk.
00:34:20
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flavors like like, like, like flies in a barn.
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It's crazy. OK, Yeah, just keep going.
00:35:09
He's like, weird. Reference to keep going it.
00:35:12
Was meant to be it was meant to be a weird reference, but yes,
00:35:15
ladies and gentlemen, let's keep it going.
00:35:17
We did watch a a couple of trailers and we want to tell
00:35:20
everybody about what we saw and how we feel about those things.
00:35:24
So, ladies and gentlemen, let's jump right into trailer talk
00:35:27
here. Supergirl finally takes flight
00:35:30
in her first DCU teaser. This was awesome.
00:35:34
The teaser for Supergirl. It's not you, James.
00:35:37
No, it's me, Phil. No, it's me.
00:35:40
I'm the one that wanted to talk Supergirl.
00:35:42
It's OK, Let him, let him took it.
00:35:43
Here let me do Supergirl cuz this.
00:35:45
Is actually. I want to talk to the other two
00:35:47
anyway, so let him do this one. Yeah, see.
00:35:50
All right. Anarchy, the teacher for
00:35:52
Supergirl, introduces Millie Alcock as Cara Zorro, showcasing
00:35:56
her journey across alien worlds and her struggle with
00:35:59
imperfection. Okay, we all saw the trailer.
00:36:02
Yeah, yeah, as Philippe was talking about it on the last
00:36:06
story. I'm like, let's just get to the
00:36:07
trailer. Let's talk about the trailer.
00:36:08
So would you guys think of a trailer of, of Cara?
00:36:12
You know, we've, we've read Woman of tomorrow.
00:36:15
Yes, we saw her wielding a sword.
00:36:17
Yes. What did you guys think of the
00:36:19
trailer? How about we do some kind of
00:36:21
rating like out of 10? Yeah, yeah.
00:36:26
I'm also going to give it a 10 out of 10.
00:36:27
I'm going to give this 10 small city or 10 giant cities in a
00:36:31
small bottle out of 10. 10 swords.
00:36:38
That or no no no no no. 10 lassoed things that are
00:36:43
destroying people in a circle. Reference to the end of the end
00:36:47
of the trailer. We haven't done this in a long
00:36:51
time. We haven't done this in a while.
00:36:53
And, and I, I miss doing this actually just making things up
00:36:56
on the fly like that. No, this trailer was great.
00:36:59
Just, it's funny, everybody who's complaining about it
00:37:02
online is like, oh, it's James Gunn doing Guardians of the
00:37:04
Galaxy. Well #1 James Gunn didn't direct
00:37:07
or write this movie. So you guys can shut shove it.
00:37:09
Just shut up, right? He did not write it.
00:37:12
He did not direct it. He is the producer and executive
00:37:16
producer behind it, but he's not the one doing all the work on
00:37:20
this and, and the comic. If you if you're sitting there
00:37:24
complaining about this movie looking like Guardians of the
00:37:28
Galaxy and you didn't read Women of Tomorrow and you don't
00:37:31
realize how much Women of Tomorrow is basically fucking
00:37:34
DC's Guardians of the Galaxy, yeah, then then you don't
00:37:39
understand shit. I'm sorry.
00:37:41
I'm just throwing that out there.
00:37:43
And this is going to be our take and this is going to be the
00:37:44
TikTok and I'm going to get yelled at by all the the weird
00:37:48
Intel nerds on on TikTok, but it's fine.
00:37:50
This trailer was perfect. It's everything I wanted Woman
00:37:54
of Tomorrow to be. And, and I, I was just kind of
00:37:57
when they said that they were doing Woman of Tomorrow, I was
00:37:59
like, God, this can go both ways.
00:38:01
This could be really bad or this could be the most amazing thing
00:38:03
ever. And so far, that trailer makes
00:38:05
me feel like this is the most amazing thing ever.
00:38:08
One of my favorite lines out of all of it, right is and echoes
00:38:12
across everything, right? Superman sees people for who
00:38:16
they are. I see things the way they really
00:38:18
are. I love that line so much.
00:38:21
The lines, actually, Superman sees the best in people.
00:38:26
That's what it was. I see the truth.
00:38:29
Right, that's what it is, but it's such an impactful line the
00:38:32
way she says it. I I am so on board for this.
00:38:36
I cannot wait for a story trailer.
00:38:38
Also, Jason Momoa for two seconds.
00:38:41
Is Lobo smoking the cigar? He's got the eye, The, the, the,
00:38:45
the, the rings around the eye. He looks like Lobo.
00:38:49
Everybody who's complaining, shut your mouths.
00:38:53
Why would they be complaining he was on screen for like 2
00:38:55
seconds. No, they're complaining because
00:38:57
he was Aquaman before and now they're like, Oh well, now he's
00:38:59
Lobo. Some dude who obviously doesn't
00:39:02
know shit about comics was like, oh, now Jason Momoa.
00:39:04
Jason Momoa went from being a a a superhero to being someone
00:39:08
nobody knows. If you know DC, you know who
00:39:10
Lobo is. Almost everybody who knows DC,
00:39:15
anybody who loves DC Comics, top ten favorites, Almost everybody
00:39:19
on your list, everybody who has a top ten list of comic book
00:39:23
characters, comic book characters.
00:39:25
Lobo is on everybody's top 10 somewhere, whether it's low on
00:39:28
that 10. That he might not be.
00:39:30
He might not be in my top ten. He's in most.
00:39:32
People's top 10s He's in most. He was like DC's answer for
00:39:36
Wolverine. He's worse than Wolverine dude
00:39:39
like Lobo. What I love about Lobo is he was
00:39:43
the first person to cuss non cuss in in in in the thing
00:39:48
because they gave him his own cuss word.
00:39:50
Yes, yeah. So he says frag, right.
00:39:52
And it's just like fragging frag, frag, you know, And he
00:39:55
cusses so much. And, and I considering James
00:40:00
Gunn and the way he he runs things, I wonder if he's going
00:40:03
to go purist and let him just say frag or if he's just going
00:40:06
to cuss up a storm. I would, I would, I'd like to
00:40:08
see him say Frag. I would like that to be like the
00:40:11
bad word out in the Galaxy and like, fuck's not that big of a
00:40:16
deal, yeah. Yeah, I want him.
00:40:18
I want I want to hear him say fuck, but at the same time I
00:40:21
want to hear him use frag like it's somebody freaks out when he
00:40:24
says frag like you fragging looking at me.
00:40:27
Yeah, I want to see. I want to see like Ferret say
00:40:30
it. They fuck and like she's like,
00:40:33
oh, and he goes, what? What are you fragging talking
00:40:36
about? And then like everybody else
00:40:38
goes like you said something. Yeah, that.
00:40:41
Would be good. Thing I it won't be in there but
00:40:43
it would be amazing so yeah so can I talk about it now or are
00:40:48
we going to. Unchange No, please, please talk
00:40:50
about it. I definitely of all people, I
00:40:52
love James's take, but of all people I want your take because
00:40:56
you are probably our subject expert when it comes to this
00:40:58
character. All right, so at first the
00:41:02
opening I was like, OK, no, this is definite.
00:41:05
This is has such James Gunn James Gunn feels because it's
00:41:09
the it's Crypto and he knocks something over very Groot like,
00:41:14
very rocket like, and then the whole peeing on the paper and
00:41:18
then she wakes up and you can tell she's hungover and she's
00:41:21
like, Oh yeah, almost got all of it on the paper way to go.
00:41:25
And I was like, Oh my gosh, she's a millennial teen.
00:41:28
She's a teen. She is a teenager.
00:41:32
And I loved that because in the comics, the the reason that her
00:41:38
series doesn't do as well as other Superman series, because
00:41:42
they don't know what to do with her.
00:41:44
Nobody has teenage girls, I guess in their lives or what?
00:41:49
And you know what, if you're not married, don't have teenage
00:41:51
girls in your lives. But I she was very in the whole
00:41:57
thing, the through line. I just kept thinking she's a
00:42:00
teen. She is a young adult teen.
00:42:03
She doesn't know what she's doing.
00:42:05
She's trying to make it work. She's going out and she's going
00:42:09
to these places so she can drink away her pain.
00:42:13
And I completely understood it. I was like, I would absolutely
00:42:17
do that. If I could go to another star
00:42:20
system and just drink my pain away, That would be fantastic.
00:42:23
And that she brought crypto with her and she's talking to him.
00:42:26
I'm like, no, I totally understand that.
00:42:29
I feel like this movie might have been made for me personally
00:42:32
made for me. Thank you all for, you know,
00:42:35
watching it in the future, but no, this is for me.
00:42:38
This movie is for me. So what would you rate the
00:42:41
trailer? Then the movie it would be for
00:42:43
me that one out as well. Any of the female movies are me.
00:42:47
I'm just going to say that right now.
00:42:48
Right now. So what would you rate the
00:42:50
trailer? I already said a 10 would give
00:42:53
it a 10. What?
00:42:54
Oh I would give it 10. Tara blowing blowing out the the
00:42:59
drinks out of 10. Crypto peeing on the paper.
00:43:04
There you go. I love it.
00:43:06
Because I thought it was great. That was really great.
00:43:08
And I just, and the, all the Easter eggs, the when Raya, no
00:43:15
Raya, Ravi Rava, I can't remember what her name is in
00:43:18
that. I'm sure we'll, they'll tell us.
00:43:20
But she asking, well, what's Superman like that?
00:43:24
And then also when she was like, oh gosh, I'm so sorry.
00:43:28
You're from Krypton and your, your, your world was destroyed
00:43:32
in a day. And she said Krypton wasn't
00:43:34
destroyed in a day. The gods are not that kind.
00:43:38
And I was like, she's there's a lot of pain and and she's got a
00:43:42
lot of stuff to get through, really.
00:43:45
And I liked it because I was like, we need this damaged Kara.
00:43:49
Because then when she finally gets over it and she realizes
00:43:54
that she's a hero too, it's going to be such a payoff.
00:43:57
So yeah, I love that. And the Lobo, as soon as I was
00:44:00
like, Oh my God, Lobo, as soon as that.
00:44:02
And then I was like, like that. That was how I did it.
00:44:05
I watched the premiere by the way, sat there for 30 minutes on
00:44:09
that screen of just her so I can watch it when it came out.
00:44:14
So good. That's fun.
00:44:15
That's fun. Yeah.
00:44:16
I'm excited for it too. I I really love the trailer.
00:44:20
I kind of agree with everything you guys said.
00:44:22
It felt very Guardians of the Galaxy DNA like that lived in
00:44:27
universe, like they're living in space, living in the future, but
00:44:30
it's very worn down, you know, and I and I just like that
00:44:34
aesthetic. I think it's pretty cool.
00:44:35
It's like cyberpunk in space or something, but I like it.
00:44:40
I like Kara again, James Gunn handling broken characters is
00:44:45
great. I think this is going to be a
00:44:46
good breakout for Millie Alcock because in Game of Thrones or
00:44:52
House of Dragons should say very quiet, very stoic, but she could
00:44:56
act. But now playing this character
00:44:58
with a ton of range, I'm excited for her version.
00:45:02
I also. Like that Tom King is involved,
00:45:07
like he's not just a consultant, like he helped write it.
00:45:10
And I feel like that is where you really start to get those
00:45:15
little nuances and knowing each like he knows Kara.
00:45:20
So having him help write it I think was a stroke of genius
00:45:26
that they, you know, they could say, hey, can we have this in
00:45:29
here? Or is, was that just like you
00:45:32
wanted to have comment in the in the store, like, you know what
00:45:35
I'm saying? Like, is this the essence or can
00:45:38
we move a little away from it? And I feel like that is
00:45:40
something that a lot, a lot of companies don't do and I think
00:45:46
they should. So Percy Jackson, they do that.
00:45:49
Rick Riordan helps write scripts and stuff for the Percy Jackson
00:45:53
and the Olympians. So and I love that show.
00:45:55
So. Yeah, it's really good.
00:45:57
Yeah. 2 new episodes out so far I think third one this week.
00:46:02
Oh wait, is the new season of Percy Jackson already on?
00:46:06
Like this last week? Damn it, new episode.
00:46:08
So I've got I've got to watch. I've got to watch that.
00:46:11
And then tomorrow, Fallout drops early.
00:46:15
I think Fallout comes out tonight.
00:46:17
Oh well, I'm watching that. So OK, we got we got to continue
00:46:20
because more things to talk about from the gaming awards.
00:46:22
I'm really excited about the next two things we're going to
00:46:24
talk about. Go for it.
00:46:26
So let's let's talk about this. The Old Republic returns in a
00:46:31
Galaxy spanning teaser. Archonaut studios unveiled the
00:46:34
teaser for Star Wars Fate of the Old Republic APC and console
00:46:38
title in early development. While not a direct sequel, the
00:46:41
game shares DNA with Knights of the Old Republic and the Old
00:46:44
Republic MMO, which was on PCs promising a fresh but familiar
00:46:49
dive into Jedi versus Sith conflict.
00:46:51
So a mass figure resembling Darth Revan flash briefing on
00:46:55
the screen, which was pretty dope when you when you see him
00:46:58
kind of show on. It's got a lot of people talking
00:47:01
about the role that he may be playing in this, especially if
00:47:03
it's not something that ties to the original games.
00:47:06
The Jedi temple architecture mirrors, classic couture concept
00:47:10
art and it Oh my God, the trailer is absolutely gorgeous.
00:47:14
I'm hoping that this is. Actually, what the game?
00:47:17
Yeah, I'm hoping this is actually what the game is going
00:47:19
to look like and it's not just old school couture doing like,
00:47:24
oh, here is the most amazing trailer in the game doesn't live
00:47:26
up to it kind of thing. Now the Sith armadas feature
00:47:29
designs reminiscent of cinematic trailers from the Old Republic.
00:47:33
So we're seeing a lot of that old Republic stuff.
00:47:36
As of right now there is no release date and and they don't
00:47:39
have anything but people are speculating it's going to be
00:47:41
closer to 20-30 just far time away but they're getting the
00:47:45
hype built right now. So guys, did this teaser
00:47:48
convince you that the either of you that Arkanot can carry the
00:47:52
Old Republic legacy forward or does it feel like a recycled
00:47:55
nostalgia game? It did have a feeling of
00:47:58
previous games, I didn't know which one it was, but it did
00:48:02
feel like that. But I think that's a good thing.
00:48:05
I think it felt like it was in the same universe as some of
00:48:08
those really good Star Wars games.
00:48:10
So this is, I think it's going to be fun for me because I don't
00:48:14
know a ton about it. So I think it'll be fun just to
00:48:17
hear all the lore that comes out of it.
00:48:19
Yeah, and there's also, they're still working on the remakes of
00:48:23
Couture and Couture 2, which expand heavily on Sith history,
00:48:29
on Darth Bane, on Mandalorian lore and Mandalorian history,
00:48:33
which they've actually implemented within the shows and
00:48:36
everything like that. So I mean, yeah, there's there's
00:48:39
a lot of fun stuff. If you if you didn't get a
00:48:41
chance to play it when the games came out, now is going to be the
00:48:44
time to to to get on this. Frey, what are your thoughts?
00:48:47
Did you ever play Kotor? Did I play Kotor?
00:48:50
Oh, then what are your thoughts on this?
00:48:51
Dare you, How dare you. I played them both.
00:48:55
I played Kotor and Kotor too. Thank you.
00:48:57
The the sick one. All right.
00:48:59
I loved them both. I cannot wait to play this game.
00:49:05
I am a huge Kodor Star Wars game fan, so this is right up my
00:49:11
alley. The only thing is like the the
00:49:14
faces and stuff, they're so good.
00:49:17
Like I'm getting uncanny valley a little by them.
00:49:20
Yeah. Like the graphics are amazing
00:49:23
and I just I think it's going to be cool and I cannot wait until
00:49:28
it comes out. I hope it got sound sooner than
00:49:30
the 2030. Yeah, no, it's it's kind of
00:49:33
ridiculous. Just one when she ignites that
00:49:37
lightsaber, just the way that that blue shines across her
00:49:41
face. One of the issues that they've
00:49:43
always had was making water look good on skin.
00:49:48
And it seems like this is what makes me feel like this studio
00:49:52
is probably going to be, you know, who's gonna carry it
00:49:56
forward because they managed to make the water look good on
00:50:00
skin. I mean, you just, I'm gonna put
00:50:01
it back on the screen. Like if you look at that, just
00:50:03
look at how well that looks, you know?
00:50:06
I feel like I'm getting, like I'm also moist.
00:50:10
Because she is. Yeah.
00:50:12
That's how good it is. Philippe is moist for different.
00:50:15
Reasons I'm very moist for different reasons.
00:50:17
I'm my, my whole thing is, you know, are these going to be new
00:50:22
characters if they are going to be redoing the lore altogether,
00:50:26
or is this Basta la Sean? Are we getting a new version of
00:50:29
Basta la Sean out of this? Especially when what?
00:50:32
If it's their daughter. It could be that too.
00:50:35
Now what they're saying is it's not connected to the Old
00:50:38
Republic games as it is. And I think part of that is
00:50:41
because the the the rumor is what they're doing right now is
00:50:46
bait of the Old Republic is going to be retelling the lore
00:50:49
so that it becomes Canon. So this is their way of taking
00:50:54
things that were in the first three sets of games, being Cult
00:50:58
or Quarto True and Old Republic, and taking elements of those,
00:51:04
recycling elements of those, and making things officially Canon.
00:51:08
Those games weren't produced by Disney, right?
00:51:10
No. Those were all yeah.
00:51:13
That's cool. All right.
00:51:14
But the Feige has no. Sorry, not Feige Filoni.
00:51:20
I always get their names backed up, mixed up.
00:51:22
Filoni has has he's expressed multiple times that he wants to
00:51:27
find ways to get the Old Republic lore and make it a part
00:51:30
of Star Wars and just not all at once.
00:51:34
So he's been kind of like, you know, drip feeding different
00:51:37
parts of Old Republic lore. Like Darth Bane is now
00:51:40
officially a part of Star Wars lore being that he communed with
00:51:45
Yoda at the end of season 7 of Clone Wars.
00:51:48
So things. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:51:50
Yeah. So like, you know, they've,
00:51:52
they've done things like that. They've done a couple of
00:51:55
different things. Again, I believe in Andor, they
00:52:00
confirmed the existence of the the Forerunners, who were the
00:52:04
people who essentially originally populated the Galaxy,
00:52:09
you know, and they were the first like interstellar
00:52:12
travelers and things like. Toyota.
00:52:14
Yep, Toyota. They last a long time.
00:52:17
But but like so. So they have taken different
00:52:20
parts of the lore and and added it in.
00:52:23
Vibro blades were also something that came from from couture, you
00:52:27
know, and now, you know, we've seen Mandalorians that walk
00:52:29
around that train with Vibro blades.
00:52:31
So I mean, like, it's things like that that you're doing.
00:52:34
I love the idea of them taking the parts that they want to make
00:52:39
Canon and then retelling that story.
00:52:42
And then, and I mean, obviously we're going to be seeing
00:52:44
something that right there say Wong's putting it in the chat,
00:52:50
the not a said do who are right, who are like the the original
00:52:53
race And then the the great Hyperspace Wars, which was the
00:52:56
first Sith Empire, right? This was back before the Sith
00:53:01
were a ideology. It was back when they were still
00:53:03
a people. Didn't they also talk about the
00:53:07
Ricotten? Yes, the Ricotten.
00:53:10
The the Ricotten have been brought up on this too.
00:53:13
And, and just again, there are so many different things that
00:53:18
they've brought up that, you know, I, I, I would like to see
00:53:22
if that's what they're doing with this, right?
00:53:24
It's hey, we're going to take parts of this and, and establish
00:53:27
certain things. Again, Darth Revan being one of
00:53:30
the most beloved characters that people have.
00:53:33
Again, if they canonize Darth Nihilus, which is a character
00:53:37
that people are absolutely afraid of, Darth Scion, another
00:53:40
character, Darth Trey, Trey that another character that people,
00:53:44
you know, those were the three Sith Lords that that essentially
00:53:47
just destroyed the universe before the Republic had to fix
00:53:50
everything. So again, I'm I'm very excited
00:53:53
for what implications this could have and whether Filoni is using
00:53:57
this as a vehicle to establish Old Republic lore within Canon
00:54:02
in Star Wars. Yeah, it it does tell me that
00:54:05
DC, Disney wants to care, keep this going.
00:54:10
They want to carry it forward. So I'm OK with them kind of
00:54:13
cherry picking from previous games and previous storylines to
00:54:17
make it part of the Star Wars universe.
00:54:20
And I, I do kind of appreciate that Star Wars has like 1
00:54:24
continuity now. Yeah.
00:54:25
And moving forward, they're finding ways to bring in the
00:54:29
stuff that worked and, and bring it into this, into the Canon.
00:54:32
So yeah, cool, I'm in. All right, so let's let's go
00:54:36
ahead and move on because I, I definitely spent too much time
00:54:40
on this and I'm probably going to spend too much time on the
00:54:41
next one too, because again, something I'm very excited for
00:54:46
Capcom's fighters stepping into the cinematic arena.
00:54:49
Arena. Arena.
00:54:50
Arena. And is this the finish him one
00:54:53
or is that the other one? No, that's Mortal Kombat.
00:54:55
OK, Yeah, this one is. You win, you lose, the teaser
00:55:02
for the Street Fighter movie showcased.
00:55:04
Right Ryu, I was going to say Ryu Ryu, Chunli and Guile and a
00:55:09
globetrotting martial arts showdown.
00:55:11
So guys, Ryu was a kind of hadoken pose was teased in the
00:55:14
silhouette. Chunli's stage backdrop for the
00:55:17
arcade classic recreated in the live action shot.
00:55:20
Liu Insignia within Bison's presence.
00:55:22
The movie itself is scheduled for October 16th, 2026.
00:55:27
For you guys because I have a lot to say.
00:55:29
But for you guys, did this teaser convince you Street
00:55:32
Fighter can finally break the video game movie curse?
00:55:34
Or are you guys still skeptical? Fred, you have any thoughts on
00:55:37
this? I do actually have some
00:55:40
interesting thoughts, well I mean like I saw the 1st Street
00:55:43
Fighter movies, first one with Raul.
00:55:47
Raul, Julia. Raul Julia.
00:55:49
I cannot believe I forgot his name.
00:55:50
Anyway, I I loved it. I loved the first one.
00:55:53
So I like all. I'm bored for this.
00:55:55
I'm like, yeah, it's going to be a fun movie and seeing.
00:55:59
Didn't we get to see like $0.50 one he in it too?
00:56:02
Playing ball rock in there, yeah.
00:56:03
He's playing ball rock and he looks like ball rock.
00:56:06
Yes, and freaking the wrestler guy, which one looks like he
00:56:11
came out of the freaking game with his hair up like.
00:56:15
That Oh, she's talking about Cody Rhodes.
00:56:17
Yeah, Guile. Guile I was like, what the hell?
00:56:21
Oh, so I'm like, I'm super excited about this.
00:56:24
It looks so much more colorful than the original 1, and I love
00:56:28
that because I'm so happy that they're like going back to the
00:56:31
game version of them. Yeah, I think that's really
00:56:35
cool. So yeah, I like it.
00:56:36
I'll watch it. Yeah, I'm gonna watch it too.
00:56:39
You know what I like? This holiday.
00:56:40
It didn't feel like it was taking itself too seriously,
00:56:44
right? Like it was having fun.
00:56:45
The, you know, the colors were super punchy.
00:56:47
Everything was like larger than life.
00:56:50
Honestly, when I first saw it and I saw it on Instagram, I
00:56:53
didn't think it was, I didn't get like, you know, trailer this
00:56:56
intro. It was just straight into the
00:56:58
trailer. I thought it was fake at first.
00:56:59
I'm like somebody came out with some really good, good AI or
00:57:03
something like that. And then I started watching
00:57:05
like, wait, this is this is real.
00:57:07
This is the real trailer. And it, it's, it was so fun.
00:57:11
It, it's such a fun take on, on the Street Fighter and like a
00:57:15
beloved franchise. I think they're gonna, I think
00:57:18
this is gonna be a franchise where they're gonna start
00:57:20
spinning out a bunch of them. Yeah.
00:57:22
Are are we ready? Are we ready for this?
00:57:24
Yes, all right. Did I time you?
00:57:26
Should I tell you at like 3 minutes?
00:57:28
OK, wrap it up. You might need to.
00:57:30
So did you guys get a chance to watch me play Street Fighter Six
00:57:34
on the stream? No.
00:57:35
I think so. Back in the day, Yeah, do.
00:57:37
You love how I went, No. OK, so the reason I'm bringing
00:57:41
that up, the reason I'm bringing that up this trailer is so much
00:57:45
Street Fighter six vibes. And and when I say that it's the
00:57:48
neon colors, it is the the the way that everything kind of
00:57:52
flows and moves. It is the hip hop music backdrop
00:57:55
because Street Fighter Six, so much of its personality was, was
00:58:00
hip hop. It really was, it was kind of
00:58:01
crazy. And not only just that it's,
00:58:05
it's, it seems like there's a focus on the martial arts.
00:58:07
There's a focus on all the fighting.
00:58:09
A lot of the fight scenes look like old school, like Chinese
00:58:14
martial arts movies, like the weird, the weird cuts and the,
00:58:18
and the zoom in, the zooms in and things like that.
00:58:21
Yeah. There's a scene where Chun Li
00:58:25
chokes Cami out with her foot, right?
00:58:27
Yeah. And it, it zooms in on, on, on,
00:58:30
on them and then zooms back out and she's just holding her up
00:58:33
and she's choking. There's there's a scene where
00:58:35
they do the same thing with Roman Reigns as Akuma there.
00:58:39
There's you. You have so much of it where it
00:58:42
is not taking itself very seriously.
00:58:44
It is very just like outlandish crazy martial arts like
00:58:49
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon kind of kind of fight scenes.
00:58:53
The immediate moment that you see Guy will do the superkick to
00:58:57
Vega through the wall. That is so much something you
00:59:00
see from the games. You know, Dan Hibiki being like
00:59:05
the most nerdy character and then getting a superpower driver
00:59:10
by Zen Geef, like I mean that whole thing right there.
00:59:13
Now, one of the things that I was upset about in the way that
00:59:18
they announced this the the this movie was they gave us a bunch
00:59:22
of announcements for characters that are going to be in the
00:59:24
movie. But there were a couple of names
00:59:26
that were just like like a couple of my favorite characters
00:59:29
that were not included on that. One of them, the big one against
00:59:32
me was was Sagat. Sagat's one of my favorite
00:59:36
characters in all the Street Fighter, right?
00:59:37
And Sagat was not announced in, I know I'm coming up on time.
00:59:40
Sagat was not announced in this movie.
00:59:44
But what gives me a little more faith, something that happened
00:59:47
in this trailer that I think a lot of people didn't realize
00:59:50
because it was flashing through things so quickly, right?
00:59:54
There were two characters that showed up in that trailer that
00:59:57
were not announced with the rest of the cast, right?
01:00:00
There is a scene towards the end of the trailer where it is
01:00:03
clearly for Street Fighter fans out there, a Don fighting a
01:00:07
Fuerte, right? A Don is throwing a.
01:00:13
A head kick and he basically knocks El Fuerta down to the
01:00:17
ground. And these are two characters
01:00:19
that they did not announce were in this movie, which tells me
01:00:22
that, OK, we're getting more Street Fighter lore characters,
01:00:26
which means there's a chance Sagat's going to show up in
01:00:29
this. And it could be that Sagat is
01:00:31
playing so big of a role that they didn't announce who he is.
01:00:35
Could be or setting him up for Street Fighter 2.
01:00:37
Could be that too. It could be like Sagat is 1
01:00:40
character, Golkin is another character because Golkin is a
01:00:44
character that has so much lore tie to Akuma and it's like, OK,
01:00:48
we have Akuma in this, but why not Gokin, right?
01:00:51
Gokin is basically his brother and he's also Gokin's the guy
01:00:54
who trains Canon Ryu. So it would make sense to have
01:00:57
him in this. He's also and then Ryu trains
01:01:00
Dan Hibiki. But I mean, like, I also want to
01:01:03
see Sakura, right? If you're going to have Dan
01:01:04
Hibiki in this, we need to see Sakura.
01:01:05
She's she's so much better of a character than than Dan.
01:01:08
But Dan it's funny. So I mean of course you show
01:01:10
Dan, but you also have a a well known comedian playing Dan
01:01:16
Hibiki. Why would you not show him off
01:01:18
in the trailer? So overall you were excited for
01:01:21
this I'm. Very excited for this.
01:01:23
This this passes a Street Fighter fan test.
01:01:27
Absolutely man, I say I this trailer for the trailer, the
01:01:31
trailer I'm giving. Also, A10 dragon punches out of
01:01:38
10 psycho powers. OK.
01:01:41
Those are Street Fighter references.
01:01:44
Yeah, those are Street Fighter references.
01:01:45
If you don't get them, look the shit up.
01:01:48
Also, they didn't. Also, they didn't show Blanca in
01:01:51
the trailer, and I know that he's in the movie, so there's
01:01:53
that too, yeah. Yeah, tell you what.
01:01:55
Though you can't show Mamoa in everything so.
01:01:58
Come on, Literally in three trailers right now that are like
01:02:01
that matter. So it's like.
01:02:04
You know, you didn't mention it really, but Davis Mulchin looked
01:02:07
pretty good as Bison. Oh my God, I think I said that
01:02:09
off my Davis Mulchin looks amazing as as as.
01:02:12
Yeah, I was like, oh, look at him, all right.
01:02:14
Which also again, I, Sagat and DJ are two characters that are
01:02:18
so intrinsically tied into Shadowlou and him, they need to
01:02:23
be there. Well, I hit the Cape thing, the
01:02:25
Cape Furl. I love that.
01:02:26
And I was like, oh, that's so in bison.
01:02:28
Yeah. Philippe Philippe was about to
01:02:30
shadowlou his pants over this trailer.
01:02:32
I'm. I'm a big Street Fighter fan.
01:02:34
I mean, like anybody who follows the show knows that I am you.
01:02:38
Are big. Street Fighter fan?
01:02:39
No idea. There's not very many games that
01:02:42
I've played on stream, and Street Fighter 6 was one of
01:02:44
them. So I mean, like, you know, it,
01:02:46
that should say a lot about how much Street Fighter, what Street
01:02:49
Fighter means to me as as a franchise.
01:02:50
Cool. All right, something to look
01:02:52
forward to. Also, E Honda, Jen, I don't know
01:02:55
if you saw that, but I believe he's an actual sumo wrestler.
01:02:59
The guy who who played plays E Honda.
01:03:01
What? I'm going to have to look again.
01:03:03
Oh my God, that'll be amazing. I bet I don't know who he is
01:03:06
because he probably retired already.
01:03:08
Yeah, but super go All right, so yeah, we do need to move on.
01:03:11
I I'm very excited. You guys know how excited I am.
01:03:14
Again, based on the trailer, what do you guys rate the
01:03:16
trailer at? I already said I gave it an 8.
01:03:19
Why do you guys you guys don't listen?
01:03:21
Yeah, it's got to be. It's got to be memorable.
01:03:24
I need I give it 9 Hadouken's out of 10 long Dal SIM arms or
01:03:31
something. I don't know.
01:03:33
I was hoping one of you guys was going to say something about
01:03:35
broken cars out of 10 broken cars.
01:03:39
I'm I'm giving it 8. I don't even know if that's a
01:03:44
thing out of 10. We're getting a sumo wrestler in
01:03:48
this motherfucker. OK, go ahead.
01:03:55
I'm just pulling it up for you before we move over his name.
01:04:00
Never mind they pulled up the someone actor who played him in
01:04:02
the first movie. His name is Robert Paulson.
01:04:07
His name? Is John Cena?
01:04:09
Oh Cena? His name is John Cena first.
01:04:12
Oops, sorry, wrong John Cena. Now I just do it.
01:04:18
I don't. I'm not even a fan of him as a
01:04:20
wrestler, and I do it. I can't find it here, but I'm
01:04:26
not going to even worry about it.
01:04:27
So guys, let's go ahead and move on, you know?
01:04:29
Yeah, Yeah. Now I'm saying we're moving on.
01:04:31
So now it's time to get into the headlines.
01:04:34
Did we have something written this?
01:04:35
We did not. All right, but we're going to
01:04:37
jump into the headlines. All the big things going on
01:04:40
around the world, we're going to do this rapid fire here, guys,
01:04:43
because we've got a lot to cover before we get to trend to the
01:04:45
trend up. So let's let's jump into this.
01:04:48
Darren Aronofsky weighs in on streaming's shifting landscape
01:04:52
Speaking at the Red Sea Film Festival, Darren Aronofsky
01:04:55
admitted the Netflix Warner Brothers deal has left him
01:04:58
unsettled. He warned that consolidation
01:05:02
shrinks creative opportunities. But at the same time, Aronofsky
01:05:05
acknowledged AI is reshaping filmmaking, noting his own
01:05:09
experiments with new technology from streaming to AI, Aronofsky
01:05:14
sees both limits and possibilities.
01:05:17
Interesting, Interesting. He's basically saying what a lot
01:05:21
of creatives in Hollywood are saying.
01:05:24
I sent that Pablo Torre finds out to you guys.
01:05:27
You guys get to watch that. I think, James, you said that
01:05:29
you you you thought that it was a good conversation.
01:05:32
It was Michael sure who did Parks and Rec, The Good Place,
01:05:37
and now he like executive produces like hacks or
01:05:39
something. And he was talking about how he
01:05:42
didn't think either deal was good for for Hollywood because
01:05:46
it's less. A less opportunity, less
01:05:48
competition. Less competition, less
01:05:50
opportunities. Yeah, I mean, and I, you know, I
01:05:53
feel like we we said that too, like if we had our way, we
01:05:56
wouldn't want this deal to go through at all, period.
01:06:00
But of those two, Netflix is our choice over her Paramount.
01:06:06
So yeah. Right, well, let's, let's
01:06:09
continue on, unless you guys have other thoughts here.
01:06:11
Nope. All right, let's do this.
01:06:13
Terry Gilliam is pushing for one last ride.
01:06:17
Terry Gilliam urged Paramount's green light, the defect
01:06:21
defective detective calling it his final film and saying he
01:06:24
wants to direct it before he dies.
01:06:27
Terry Gilliam's swan song may finally get its curtain call.
01:06:30
What are you guys? Are you guys fans of Terry
01:06:32
Gilliam at all? I don't know what else.
01:06:34
Oh. That's cool.
01:06:37
So they're are they green lighting the.
01:06:39
Monty Python stuff. Yeah, Terry Gilliam is from the
01:06:41
Monty Python. So did they green light it?
01:06:43
He's yeah, he's. Trying to get them to green
01:06:46
light it right now he's saying that they're not.
01:06:48
They haven't greenlit it yet. Oh, I see it here.
01:06:50
So the long lost fantasy noir has been sitting in Paramount's
01:06:54
vault since 1990. Paramount's busy trying to buy
01:06:59
Warner. It's Terry Gillum's over here.
01:07:02
Hey everybody, I just want to make my movie.
01:07:04
Throw some money at stuff. Throw some over here.
01:07:07
Exactly. Take take a fraction of that so
01:07:10
I can make my movie. Cool.
01:07:11
He was the American Python. He was the American Monty
01:07:14
Python. He's American.
01:07:16
Is Harry Gilliam. American.
01:07:17
Yeah, I. Always thought he was British.
01:07:19
He was. No, he's he's American.
01:07:21
Yeah, cool, because I know he's. The only one.
01:07:22
I know he's Co creator of of Monty Python that's why I was
01:07:26
just like oh. Yeah, yeah.
01:07:27
He, yeah. No, he's American.
01:07:29
Yeah. Did not know that, I always
01:07:30
thought he was. British, yeah, well, he doesn't.
01:07:32
He's never on the show like he's behind the scenes.
01:07:35
He did all the graphics and did all that stuff.
01:07:37
So he, he was there like behind the scenes guy, he.
01:07:40
Did a lot of the animation stuff.
01:07:42
He made Brazil and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
01:07:46
Wow, yes. All right, let him make that
01:07:48
movie. Give him the movie.
01:07:50
Let him make the movie he wants to make.
01:07:54
Yeah, I love him. I think it.
01:07:56
I think it's. I want to see it.
01:07:57
I just love that. He's like, I want to do this
01:07:59
before I die. Y'all let me make my movie
01:08:02
Exactly. That was like, I'm like, you
01:08:05
know, he's not getting any younger.
01:08:06
Let's let him do it. Not wrong, not not wrong at all.
01:08:09
He's he's definitely not getting any any younger.
01:08:12
Let's go ahead and move on. Disney is in its villain era.
01:08:15
Disney is developing a live action Gaston movie with Across
01:08:19
the Spider verse writer Dave Callum attached.
01:08:22
Plot details are scarce, but sources say the movie will tell
01:08:26
a new and original story with a new actor stepping into the
01:08:29
role. Beauty may be timeless, but
01:08:31
Gaston is getting his own beastly tale, especially with
01:08:35
that massively hairy chest. Yeah, I cool move on.
01:08:42
Is, is Disney going to try to make us love Gaston like we
01:08:48
liked Maleficent in the Maleficent movies?
01:08:51
Like, you know, telling, giving, giving the the villain some kind
01:08:54
of humanistic character. Gaston is such a jerk.
01:08:58
Like, like he's such an asshole. And it's like, OK, the live
01:09:01
action movie gave him a little bit of a little bit of of like
01:09:06
relatability, but he was still a Dick head.
01:09:08
Yeah, You know what I mean? I.
01:09:09
Want it that he discovers he's he's gay.
01:09:13
I mean, they did, they didn't make, I was gonna say lemur, but
01:09:16
it's not the other guy that's that's with him.
01:09:21
Ah, no, no, the guy that's with Guy.
01:09:23
Oh, what's his name? I know, I know you're talking
01:09:25
about but. Oh, I know you're talking about.
01:09:27
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
01:09:28
But they they Lafleur, Lafleur, Lafleur.
01:09:32
Lafleur, lefleur Lafleur. They did make Lefou gay.
01:09:35
Lefou is is officially gay now. Oh good.
01:09:39
Yeah, a diversity. Yeah, but the the best thing
01:09:43
about Gaston is the only good thing about Gaston is his song
01:09:47
from the first animated movie wasn't as good in the live
01:09:49
action. It wasn't as good in the live
01:09:51
action. The one the one in the animated
01:09:53
one was better. Maybe he'll kill the horse.
01:09:55
That horse man did nothing good. Shut up.
01:09:57
Ran away. What was that horse's name?
01:10:00
Philippe. Oh, that's right.
01:10:03
OK, OK, let's. Keep it, let's let's continue on
01:10:07
since James wants to have me assassinated and maybe these
01:10:11
these assassins can come for me, right?
01:10:13
Heartbreak looks good in a book like this.
01:10:16
The K Pop Demon Hunters art book confirms a long circulated fan
01:10:20
theory. Rumi's mother was a warrior who
01:10:22
died when Rumi was just a baby. Her mother's bandmate, Celine of
01:10:27
the Sunlight Sisters, became Rumi's caregiver and mentor,
01:10:30
hiding her and Huntrix in their mission to protect the horn
01:10:34
Moon. Behind the Neon battles, family
01:10:37
heartbreak takes center stage. That is tragic.
01:10:40
And, and if they're going to be doing anything with any of the
01:10:44
animated films and, and you know, they're going to be doing
01:10:46
new movies, they need to address that.
01:10:49
I actually do want to see that story of of her her mom
01:10:52
sacrifice, even if it's just for like the the 10 seconds at the
01:10:55
beginning of the movie. Yeah.
01:10:56
Look, I mean, yeah, I'd like to. That would be cool to see a
01:10:59
flashback. I mean, I haven't seen the first
01:11:01
one, but I think that would be good.
01:11:02
You always want depth, Yeah? I like it.
01:11:06
I like it. I'm not going to go out and buy
01:11:07
the hard book, but I think it's cool.
01:11:09
No, you're going to buy 3 of. Them that's true expand on the
01:11:14
universe is what I was going to say, but it might expand into my
01:11:18
wallet so it's. Definitely going to expand into
01:11:20
your wallet. I love them.
01:11:22
He needs one for each kid. Space Godzilla is stomping back
01:11:27
into the big screen. Legendary confirmed Godzilla
01:11:30
versus Kong Supernova will bring Space Godzilla into the monster
01:11:35
verse. The monster verse is blasting
01:11:37
off into cosmic territory. Where are my where are my Kaiju
01:11:41
fans at? Are you guys?
01:11:43
Are you guys big Kaiju? Fans, I just I just love the
01:11:45
picture I was. Like this I was going.
01:11:47
To say the worst. Kind of like what the hell?
01:11:51
Space I'm. Not even the even the modeling.
01:11:54
I'm like, were they thinking? But I think it's going to be
01:11:58
fantastic. It's also the 1970s in Japan, so
01:12:00
I mean like. Hey, I'm not a big Kaiju fan.
01:12:04
I think it's fun and all, but I'm not super into it.
01:12:07
But I am in the shoulder pads and the way that this Kaiju can
01:12:12
rock some shoulder pads, he could be yeah, I'm tough
01:12:15
Filipina Tita at any any formal gathering with those shoulder
01:12:21
pads. OK, so they're so.
01:12:23
Pointy. I wonder.
01:12:25
I wonder how too close. I wonder how our sponsor,
01:12:28
Colossus Girl Entertainment, feels about this.
01:12:31
I'm sure he would love it. I'm sure he loves it.
01:12:33
I'm sure Dave loves it. Yeah, Dave is a big Kaiju guy.
01:12:36
So I mean, I'm sure I don't know He's, he's on the he'll probably
01:12:40
be on the fence knowing him. Does that, does that mean that
01:12:42
we're going to get Godzuki? Oh.
01:12:45
God, I've been saying for a while, please don't bring in
01:12:47
Godzuki. I I do not want Godzuki in this
01:12:50
at all. That just it it, it takes
01:12:53
they're doing such a serious take with with the way that
01:12:57
they're doing this new universe. And it's like, if you bring
01:13:01
Godzooky, it just it, it takes away all the seriousness that
01:13:04
they've tried to establish with this this universe.
01:13:07
Is that like baby Godzilla? Kind of.
01:13:10
It's worse. It's.
01:13:12
It's just it's, you know what they should do?
01:13:14
They should do an animated series and do it full full on
01:13:18
Chiba. Do you like full chibi?
01:13:21
Yeah, Chibi, chibi Kazuki. Oh my God.
01:13:25
So bad. Chibi.
01:13:28
Scrappy. Godzuki.
01:13:31
All right, let's move on to the next.
01:13:33
I was going to say Godzuki is like the Star Wars holiday
01:13:36
special of Kaiju. It kind of is.
01:13:38
It kind of is all right it. Really is.
01:13:40
I just think it's hilarious. I'm like, we're good, Godzuki.
01:13:43
Jesus getting into the next story here.
01:13:45
Pennywise may not be done haunting dairy.
01:13:48
Reports suggest it chapter 3 is being considered as Welcome to
01:13:52
Dairy season 1. Raps.
01:13:54
Dairy's nightmare may be far from over.
01:13:58
Did you guys catch Welcome to Dairy at all?
01:14:02
Of course not. Again, what the hell?
01:14:04
It looks scary, but I'm hearing it.
01:14:07
It's really good. It's like if you're a fan of the
01:14:10
franchise, it's I heard it's really good.
01:14:12
So I made a point of watching the season finale last night and
01:14:17
it not last night on Sunday, but it's it was really good.
01:14:20
Now I know Graveyard feels very opposite of this.
01:14:24
Graveyard is a purist and he really hates the show.
01:14:28
For me that. Usually means it's going to be
01:14:31
really popular. Yeah, for me, it it it.
01:14:34
I really enjoyed what they did. They expanded on the lore.
01:14:38
They expanded on the character. They kind of took something that
01:14:44
was a throwaway line in the book and made it a big plot point in
01:14:48
the season finale, which is going to go into future
01:14:52
implications. It's going to tie into the next
01:14:55
two seasons, which they've already announced.
01:14:57
What season is going to be about because they all take place 27
01:15:01
years apart from each other, and if they're going into a third
01:15:05
movie, based on what happened at the end of this film or at the
01:15:11
end of the series, it is possible that he could come back
01:15:14
again. If you're unfamiliar with what
01:15:16
happened in the movie that had that that came out in 2019,
01:15:20
spoiler alert, Pennywise dies at the end of the movie.
01:15:23
The spoiler alert what he. Done died.
01:15:26
He dies, but there is there's something that happens.
01:15:31
Obviously you can't kill him off in the series because this takes
01:15:33
place 27 years before the events of the movies.
01:15:37
But one of the things that they kind of they explain at the end
01:15:42
of the show, and I'm not going to explain too much of it.
01:15:44
I want you guys to go watch the show, but one of the things that
01:15:47
they kind of get into at the end of the show is something that
01:15:50
could cause that, that that could create a possibility for
01:15:52
him to come back, which is why it makes sense when they say
01:15:56
that, OK, they're developing a third movie.
01:15:58
And again, I'm hoping Andy Muschietti is involved in all
01:16:01
this because he's the one that did the first two movies.
01:16:03
He's the one that did the series.
01:16:05
I would hope that he's doing the third movie if they do a third
01:16:08
movie. And again, based on the way that
01:16:11
he did the story, it could make sense.
01:16:13
Stephen King was also heavily involved in the in the in the
01:16:17
series. Cool.
01:16:18
Well, no, you know, I don't have a problem.
01:16:21
Like, look, I know that Stephen King's got this whole universe
01:16:24
thing going on and I think it's great.
01:16:26
I am just not a horror fan and so I'm not going to not going to
01:16:31
watch this. Cusby asked me.
01:16:33
He was like, are we are you wanting to watch Welcome to
01:16:36
Dairy? And I was like, fuck no, why
01:16:38
would I want to watch that? It's a horror movie and it's
01:16:40
Stephen King. I'm not.
01:16:41
I just, I don't do that kind of stuff.
01:16:44
The Shining scarred me. It I mean, I feel like I have
01:16:47
physical scars. And this show not?
01:16:49
Physical, but they feel like it. Funny enough, this show ties
01:16:52
into The Shining too. See.
01:16:54
Look. Look what I'm talking about.
01:16:55
And you want me to watch it? Are you sick?
01:16:59
I think you're sick in the head. It also, it also ties into the
01:17:02
Green Mile and everything like that, like it's, it's there's
01:17:04
there's a lot of cool things that they do or not Green Mile.
01:17:07
Sorry, Shawshank Redemption, I was.
01:17:09
Like Green Mile? What?
01:17:11
Yeah, not the Green Mile, sorry. Shawshank Redemption.
01:17:13
It also ties into Shawshank Redemption.
01:17:16
They, they they did a really good job in tying the universe
01:17:19
together and everything like that.
01:17:21
So yeah, I, I, I'm not going to speak too much more on this, but
01:17:24
definitely something to check out for everybody out there that
01:17:28
is, that is interested in this now.
01:17:30
Is it an anchor baby? Is it an anchor baby?
01:17:33
There there. Is welcome to dairy their anchor
01:17:36
baby? Maybe there's there's a baby.
01:17:38
The universe. That you say that and there's
01:17:40
like a weird baby scene at the beginning of the series.
01:17:42
That's why I'm like, did you not watch the show?
01:17:45
I didn't. I just know weird shit I guess.
01:17:49
I'm like, is it a anchor baby? Oh.
01:17:51
God, so, so going from Pennywise and everything going going on
01:17:57
there to another set of kids that are fighting horror
01:18:00
elements upside down, You turn me round, round we go.
01:18:04
You spin me right? Yeah, you turn me side out and
01:18:11
round and round, right? Oh, OK, Upside down, turn me
01:18:16
round and round and OK. Oh yeah.
01:18:19
The Duffer Brothers teased that Stranger Things Season 5 Volume
01:18:24
2 will be far darker as new details emerge and the trailer
01:18:28
drops. Hawkins may not survive the
01:18:31
final descents. Did you guys check out the
01:18:35
trailer, Fray? I know you're super far behind
01:18:38
on this. All right, James, did you watch
01:18:41
the trailer for? This.
01:18:42
I haven't watched it yet, but I was winning for Jenny to watch
01:18:45
it with me because we're super into Stranger Things and I've
01:18:50
been telling everybody that's been willing to listen to me
01:18:53
about Stranger Things. And in the final season, like
01:18:57
this is the best, like final chapter of a story that I've
01:19:02
ever seen ever, you know, and how it's tying everything in
01:19:07
together from the very first episode till right now.
01:19:10
I'm so impressed with with how they're handling this.
01:19:14
So yeah, we're going to watch it later.
01:19:15
She's like, oh, no, I can't watch it right now.
01:19:17
I'm like, well they can, but. Yeah.
01:19:20
I think one of my theories is because I talked about my
01:19:25
theories last week or two weeks ago when you weren't on.
01:19:28
Well, I think one of my theories might be true.
01:19:30
In this I have. Which one?
01:19:32
I have a feeling, yeah, especially after this trailer,
01:19:35
it's like, Oh my God, It really feels like the theory, one of
01:19:37
the theories I had is, is going to be true.
01:19:40
It's that. Was that the one about Vecna?
01:19:43
Yes. So the one about Vecna not being
01:19:45
the actual villain of the show. Yeah, that Vecna is being
01:19:49
controlled by the Mind Flayer, and the Mind Flayer is the
01:19:52
actual villain of the show, and he's been controlling them the
01:19:54
entire time. There's been hints about that,
01:19:56
yeah, all over, especially with Will in Season 1.
01:20:00
Season one, yeah. Yeah, so there's show.
01:20:02
One of the things that you see in this season Part 2 season
01:20:06
trailer is there's a scene where Henry is looking up and there's
01:20:11
black veins coming up the side of his neck.
01:20:14
And that is very similar to what happened to Billy in season 3
01:20:18
when the mind flare took over his mind.
01:20:20
So I have a feeling that they're going to go that route.
01:20:25
The rumor is if you follow this kind of theory online, is that
01:20:29
the mind flare took control of Henry when he was a child and
01:20:36
helped him develop his powers. And the Mind Flayer basically is
01:20:40
the reason that that Henry killed all these people and kind
01:20:44
of turned into this little psychopath that he turns into is
01:20:46
because. He's Emperor Palpatine.
01:20:48
Yeah. He's Darth Sidious.
01:20:50
Right. The mind flayer was basically
01:20:52
controlling him the entire time and when he got banned into the
01:20:56
upside down, the mind flayer essentially his he tried to
01:21:02
elevate Henry and turned him into this, you know, vine
01:21:05
monster that he is now. So you know, he's just warped by
01:21:10
by the mind flayer in the upside down.
01:21:12
So it's interesting to see where they go with this.
01:21:16
And again, they're talking about they're going to be some major
01:21:18
deaths in this. Again, my predictions in this.
01:21:22
I think Jonathan Byers is going to die just because he hasn't
01:21:26
been doing very much the entire show.
01:21:28
I think they've just been kind of pushing him back or, or.
01:21:31
Still rocking a bowl cut and you're like, you can't live with
01:21:34
a bowl cut. Or, or again the theory that
01:21:38
everybody has because it's going to carry so much emotional
01:21:42
weight, is killing off what's his name, Chips Ahoy do that
01:21:47
everybody loves. Steve.
01:21:49
Steve. Steve.
01:21:50
I don't. I have.
01:21:51
I watched the first season and I remembered Steve.
01:21:54
Yeah, but I mean, like, I think again, because if you kill off
01:21:57
Steve, there's emotional weight to that and it's gonna break
01:22:00
everybody and and you know, either that or you kill off
01:22:04
Will. No, I'm sorry, not Will you kill
01:22:07
off Mike because. He's like kind of the main guy.
01:22:10
Mike is the leader of their group.
01:22:12
Mike is the emotional anchor between everybody.
01:22:16
All of the main characters have some kind of tie to Mike.
01:22:19
And if Mike dies, everything goes to hell.
01:22:23
And then when I say goes to hell, everybody's going to
01:22:25
break, right? Like every character in that
01:22:28
show is tied to Mike in some way, whether it is, you know,
01:22:32
related to him or they're friends with him.
01:22:35
Will is his best friend, right? Yeah, I mean, that's why they
01:22:38
had to go find him. Yeah, 11 is her.
01:22:41
Is is is his girlfriend. 11's his girlfriend.
01:22:44
So you kill Mike and you cause an extreme for everybody.
01:22:49
They'll be like, well, this is it.
01:22:51
That's the straw that broke the camel's back.
01:22:52
I can see that. Yeah, I think, I think Hawkins
01:22:55
is gonna die. I think they're gonna pull a
01:22:58
Buffy and hell mouth it. They already kind of hell
01:23:01
mouthed it. Yeah, they just put some band
01:23:03
aids on top. Exactly.
01:23:03
They put a big metal Band-Aid on it.
01:23:06
That's right. She hasn't watched it so she
01:23:08
doesn't know what's going on. No, yeah, they kind of, they
01:23:12
kind of did hell mouth it. There's a there's a giant rift
01:23:14
in the middle of the town that that is connected to the Upside
01:23:17
Down. This is how they connect to
01:23:19
Buffy. You know the reboot.
01:23:20
There you go. So, yeah, again, my my
01:23:23
prediction is we find out that Vecna is not the real villain,
01:23:26
that Vecna is creating an army to fight the mind flare.
01:23:29
That's why he's kidnapping all these kids.
01:23:32
And that. Yeah.
01:23:33
And that's why. And.
01:23:34
And again, I I feel like in the process Beckman is going to kill
01:23:38
Mike. Oh no.
01:23:40
Gil Girard passed away, guys. Oh, no, yeah.
01:23:44
Buck Rogers. Oh no.
01:23:45
Thanks. That's super sad.
01:23:46
Thanks Dave for telling us, but yeah, Oh my God.
01:23:49
It must have been itching, man, because we were just talking
01:23:51
about Dave. Yeah, Oh, man, that's sad.
01:23:55
And he actually said it like appropriately, because we're
01:23:58
getting ready to talk about Rob Reiner so now.
01:24:00
Yeah. So now we're going to bring
01:24:02
everything down right now. So all right, from all the
01:24:05
things that we were talking about to to one of the sadder
01:24:09
things that that's happened this week, we're going to miss you,
01:24:12
Rob. And apparently we're going to
01:24:14
miss you, Gil. So, I mean, you know, that's
01:24:15
breaking news for us that Gil Gerard passed Buck Rogers
01:24:18
himself. But we'll, we'll, we'll address
01:24:23
this here. Rob Reiner was a celebrated and
01:24:25
brilliant filmmaker whose career defined modern storytelling
01:24:28
across genres. Each film touched our hearts and
01:24:31
made us laugh through the tears. From heartfelt dramas to
01:24:34
timeless comedies, his films continue to inspire audiences
01:24:37
and film makers alike. A life cut short, a legacy that
01:24:40
will remain forever. Rob Reiner's legacy isn't about
01:24:43
endings. It's about the timeless stories
01:24:45
they continue to live on. Did you guys, have you guys
01:24:49
gotten a chance to see his latest movie?
01:24:51
No. Which one is that?
01:24:53
So he just sadly he didn't even get the chance to get the
01:24:56
laurels from it. They just released.
01:24:58
Oh, I'm forgetting the name already.
01:25:04
It's a sequel. I know he's going to be in the
01:25:07
Bear. And are you saying about Spinal
01:25:10
Tap 2? Spinal Tap 2.
01:25:12
OK, yeah, he was at the the premiere and then.
01:25:15
But I mean, like, again, he's not going to get his laurels.
01:25:17
Like basically it's, it's, there's been a lot of hype
01:25:20
because now that it's it's streaming right now, there's a
01:25:22
lot of hype about like how how much everybody's loving this
01:25:25
movie and it like it literally just hit streaming like a couple
01:25:29
of days ago. That's awful.
01:25:31
Yeah, so I mean, like, he's not even going to get a chance to
01:25:33
see, you know, the cult status that it's going to hit, you
01:25:37
know, and it's it's it's so sad, you know, everything surrounding
01:25:42
what happened and everything like that.
01:25:43
And I don't want to get into all that.
01:25:44
I just want to remember his legacy and you know, a few good
01:25:47
men and just all the movies that that Rob Reiner has Princess.
01:25:53
Bride. Princess Bride is a major movie,
01:25:56
you know, Like, yeah, it's, it's very sad to know that we're
01:25:59
never going to get his creativity, you know?
01:26:02
Yeah, super sad. Yeah, he'll be missed from all
01:26:05
in the family all the way till now, yeah.
01:26:08
I totally forgot he was an all he's.
01:26:09
Everybody's meathead. Oh, like.
01:26:12
That's how that's how he got famous, was was being an all in
01:26:15
the family. Well, he got famous because of
01:26:18
his dad but. Well, yeah, yeah.
01:26:20
I mean, Carl Reiner was a legend too.
01:26:22
So I mean he died in 92 I think. Yeah, I want to say 2000s, but
01:26:29
I'm I'm not sure on that. I don't know.
01:26:31
I I love Carl Reiner. I loved him in the Dick Van Dyke
01:26:35
show. I think that's the first place I
01:26:37
ever saw him and then heard he and and Mel Brooks like we're
01:26:42
like pals and stuff and it's like 2020.
01:26:45
OK, yeah, that's I thought it was in the 2000s so.
01:26:48
But yeah, it yeah, I'm in AI will absolutely miss him.
01:26:52
I feel like my favorite uncle died, you know?
01:26:55
Yeah, God. And you know, you know, when we
01:26:58
found out yesterday what was going on, Jackie immediately was
01:27:01
like, nobody tell Mel Brooks he's not going to be able to
01:27:04
take that because, I mean, they were best friends.
01:27:06
Yeah, I know. To this day, they were best
01:27:08
friends, you know, and it's, it's really sad to hear, you
01:27:11
know, that, that, that, that he passed.
01:27:13
And it's like God, Mel Brooks, I, I imagine he's not taking it
01:27:17
easy. He's 97, guys, yeah.
01:27:19
Man, he was, yeah, Rob Reiner, he was.
01:27:22
I mean, he goes so far back. He was even in, like, the Batman
01:27:25
series. Yeah, an episode.
01:27:28
Yeah. Yeah.
01:27:28
Damn Hollywood royalty. He really was, yeah.
01:27:32
That's crazy. He will be.
01:27:33
Missed for bitching about Disney?
01:27:36
Yeah, Yeah, let's do that. Let's.
01:27:38
I need to let out some of it. But Jen, before you do that, I
01:27:43
need you to talk about our last shot out here.
01:27:46
Oh yeah, yeah. Glad somebody remembered because
01:27:51
I forgot to. Yeah, where is Oh, here we go.
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So guys, it's time to talk about what's happening in all of the
01:28:50
nerd world, the things that are trending online.
01:28:52
It's time for the trend up. Now can I?
01:29:03
Go can I? Go.
01:29:05
OK, All right, Go. Bob Iger's got a lot of
01:29:08
explaining to do. Disney has struck a massive
01:29:12
partnership with Open AI, investing 1 billion into the
01:29:18
company and bringing more than 200 Disney characters to the
01:29:22
Sora video platform. The Rela is expected to begin in
01:29:27
2026 with integrated Disney's IP into interactive AI driven video
01:29:34
experiences, potentially reshaping how audiences engage
01:29:39
with beloved characters across Disney Plus and beyond.
01:29:43
This is kind of entity. So let me let me let's break it
01:29:47
down just a little bit. So Disney, you know, has always
01:29:50
led with some innovation when it comes to technology, from
01:29:54
animation to theme parks, all that stuff.
01:29:57
But AI is expanding storytelling possibilities.
01:30:01
And this could go in so many different directions, letting
01:30:04
fans interact with characters like Elsa or Iron Man or Buzz
01:30:09
and Woody and it talking back to you in the voices.
01:30:13
Kind of like that the turtle Turtle Time or turtle something
01:30:17
with Crush in California Adventure.
01:30:21
But there's an actor that's doing.
01:30:22
There's an actor behind that, so the automation can handle
01:30:26
repetitive tasks freeing human. Fire him.
01:30:30
You're freeing human artists to focus on bold creative work.
01:30:34
So thanks, Crush, go go focus on bold creative work.
01:30:39
The deal democratizes access to Disney's IP, making it more
01:30:45
interactive and globally accessible.
01:30:48
I don't. So the cons, I mean, there's a
01:30:50
gazillion cons, but a billion dollar AI push risks sidelining
01:30:54
human writers and animators and creatives.
01:30:59
Feeding 200 characters into sore raises concerns about narrative
01:31:03
control and authenticity. AI generated content may lack
01:31:09
emotional nuances of human artistry.
01:31:12
Disney's legacy was built on imagination, not automation.
01:31:16
Over reliance on AI could flatten creativity.
01:31:19
So I'm going to ask you guys, is Disney's billion dollar leap
01:31:23
into AI the future of storytelling, or does it risk
01:31:27
turning creativity into corporate code?
01:31:30
So this is where AI can become problematic like like hardcore,
01:31:35
because it's one thing if you're using it as a tool, it's one
01:31:38
thing to do like, hey, this is a fun little thing you can do
01:31:41
where you make a video of you interacting with Mickey Mouse or
01:31:45
something like that. But it's another thing, when you
01:31:47
use something like Sora 2, which is a full on replacement, you
01:31:53
know it's a. Freaky, freaky thing.
01:31:55
Yeah, like, you know, it's, it's, it's not you're, you're
01:32:01
taking creativity away from creators.
01:32:03
There, there's there's no, there there is no, you know, this is
01:32:07
the future and this is what's going on when you're doing that,
01:32:09
you're you're, you're hollowing out what is capable, what it
01:32:13
what is possible of, of happening.
01:32:15
It's this is again, I've always been an advocate for using AI as
01:32:20
a tool, but using it as a replacement is where it's wrong.
01:32:23
And, and Disney paying this much money into something that is
01:32:27
going to be a full on creative hindrance and to say that, oh,
01:32:32
no, we're using it so that they can free themselves up to do
01:32:35
more creative things. Sounds like you're looking for
01:32:38
an excuse to fire people because they're not being creative
01:32:40
enough in your way. It, it, it actually really
01:32:44
concerns me because these, this kind of thing needs to be
01:32:48
something where, again, you can use it as a tool to help refine
01:32:53
what you're doing, but to use it as something that's replacing
01:32:55
the creativity in the first place is problematic.
01:32:59
Fred, do you see any potential good uses of this AI with
01:33:04
Disney? The thing that got me, like the,
01:33:06
the pro that got me was the, the, oh, what was it?
01:33:12
It's the expanding, the not expanding the storytelling, the
01:33:18
democratizing access to Disney's IP.
01:33:20
Disney has always been really stingy with how they use their
01:33:26
their IPS. It's like they had the vault for
01:33:28
a long time where it was like, oh, it's not coming out for 12
01:33:31
years. So if you want to watch Sleep
01:33:33
and Beauty, you better watch it now.
01:33:35
Like that kind of stuff. And I was like, that's
01:33:37
ridiculous in this day and age. So that was really the only one
01:33:41
that I was like, you know what, I kind of I, I would like
01:33:45
Disney's IP to be a little bit more accessible, but they kind
01:33:48
of changed that with Disney Plus.
01:33:50
I feel like Bob Iger instead of spending a billion dollars on
01:33:56
trying to be more creative and have more creative people jump
01:34:01
on board, he gave a billion dollars to AI so he can push
01:34:06
humans out of the equation. That's how honestly how I feel
01:34:11
because Bob Iger is a fucking corporate shill.
01:34:15
He he's even more than a shill. He's not even a shill because he
01:34:18
fucking owns it. You know what I can't even with
01:34:21
him. I can't odd with him.
01:34:23
I don't even want to. I will punch him in the face if
01:34:26
I ever see him and I'm only like 50% kidding on that guys.
01:34:30
I he has done more damage over the years than any other studio
01:34:39
head and I'm still including Zasloff in this.
01:34:43
Wow, OK. Zasloff is a jerk and an idiot,
01:34:48
but Iger knew what he was doing. He knows what he's doing with
01:34:52
this, too. He is trying to get all that
01:34:56
money, everything he can. And you know what?
01:34:58
He's still going to die. And what's going to happen to
01:35:00
that money? Oh, his kids or whatever are
01:35:03
going to fuck it off. And then where's that money
01:35:06
going to be when he could have spent that billion dollars
01:35:09
enriching other people's lives, helping creatives, and maybe
01:35:13
bringing a second renaissance into the world?
01:35:16
But no, no, fuck that shit, let's go corporate, let's do AI.
01:35:20
So fuck him. And I hope his yachts, all of
01:35:25
them, sink. Wow, So you're OK with this?
01:35:28
OK, I get it. I get it.
01:35:30
I, I 100% don't disagree with Jen at all.
01:35:32
Like I'm, I'm again, I, I just. I mean, what concerns me is the
01:35:36
billion dollar investment, Not that they're using AI.
01:35:39
Like, I get it, you're going to use AI.
01:35:41
You have to stay ahead of the curve.
01:35:44
So you need to be aware of what's out there.
01:35:46
OK, I got it. But throwing a billion dollars
01:35:49
into another company, this is an investment that they're
01:35:53
expecting to pay off down the road.
01:35:56
So I don't know how they're going to, you know, equate this
01:36:00
to making their money back. I also think this is a way to
01:36:06
make characters live on past the actors that are portraying them.
01:36:10
So like, I don't know, you know, we're looking at Buzz and Woody
01:36:14
on the screen over here. You know, like if, if Tim Allen
01:36:19
ever decides, you know what, I'm done, they're going to find ways
01:36:22
to carry this forward with some kind of AI actor.
01:36:25
Or they're going to put this on the cruise ships and you could,
01:36:29
the kid can walk up and, and go interact with Buzz or Woody or,
01:36:34
you know, Sleeping Beauty or something like that.
01:36:36
Instead of having characters and costumes, you know, you'll just
01:36:40
walk up to a screen and interact with the screen versus, you
01:36:43
know, hugging Cinderella when you meet her at Disneyland.
01:36:47
So again, I think this is going to pull the humanity out of the
01:36:52
Disney magic. So it kind of bums me out.
01:36:55
Yeah, and I mean. Like being an actor, like I'm
01:36:59
going to, I'm going to put my actor's hat on for just a second
01:37:02
If we if we do that. So if you think about the stage,
01:37:06
think about theater, how many times has Shakespeare's Hamlet
01:37:11
been done, or Romeo and Juliet or like any of them Midsummer
01:37:16
Night's Dream. If you if let's say you put all
01:37:19
that in AI, then no one knew would be able to experience
01:37:24
being able to say Romeo's lines from when he spots Juliet on the
01:37:31
balcony. Park.
01:37:33
But yeah, it is the East and Juliet is the sun.
01:37:37
Arise fair sun and killed a envious moon.
01:37:39
I actually know the whole thing. I'm not going to do it, but I
01:37:42
do. And I'm saying that it is a
01:37:44
really good monologue. But I just feel like having
01:37:48
humans be able to interpret things like that, I feel like
01:37:53
that's what we need. I think that's what not only
01:37:56
fuels our creativity, but also helps us become more curious.
01:38:02
And that is something as humans we need to do.
01:38:05
And I feel like we don't have that as much with Google And
01:38:07
with all of that, I just, you know, everything's at our
01:38:10
fingertips now. Creativity, I feel has been
01:38:13
stifled because of it. So yeah, I, I, I get it's a, a
01:38:18
really good shortcut, but I'd rather have 15 actors play
01:38:22
Winnie the Pooh then have the original guide to it, you know,
01:38:27
because then it's like, oh, this actor brought something else to
01:38:29
it. Think about Wicked.
01:38:31
Like if we just had Wizard of Oz and they just, you know, put in
01:38:35
Glenda's old voice and hadn't had her AI character do it, we
01:38:39
wouldn't have gotten Ariana Grande's.
01:38:42
Good point. You know the wicked witch we
01:38:45
wouldn't have gotten Christina Evio.
01:38:49
How do I say her last name? Cynthia Revo.
01:38:51
Cynthia Revo. What did I say, Christina?
01:38:54
Yeah. I don't know.
01:38:55
OK, never mind. I am horrible about that.
01:38:58
I apologize but we wouldn't get her amazing singing or her
01:39:01
interpretation. You're, you're not getting new
01:39:03
takes on the different characters.
01:39:05
I mean, we've been talking about, I was talking about the
01:39:07
other day about Sebastian Stan potentially playing Luke's
01:39:10
younger Luke Skywalker, right? Because we're talking about Mara
01:39:13
Jade and doing a Mara Jade story where we need a younger Luke
01:39:16
Skywalker. You know, Sebastian Stan can
01:39:18
play that character and Sebastian Stan has talked about
01:39:21
how he wants to play Luke Skywalker.
01:39:22
So I mean, you, you don't get the opportunities to do that.
01:39:26
If we are doing AI Luke Skywalker, you know, if, if we
01:39:29
are doing AI versions of characters that you know, you're
01:39:33
programming but aren't emotionally there and not
01:39:37
portraying the emotion in the character, you know, you're not
01:39:39
doing anything new with the character because you don't have
01:39:41
an actor that's doing a take on the character.
01:39:43
It's in some cases AI is fine. And, and, and, and the cases
01:39:50
that I mean, it's going to be like, OK, we use Sora 2 to put
01:39:54
Mickey Mouse in a video game, right?
01:39:56
I'm OK with something like that if it's like a small cameo.
01:40:00
The only thing I don't like about that is, yeah, we're not
01:40:02
getting a voice actor to do the character right.
01:40:06
But I mean, even then, you know, there there are things with
01:40:09
Mickey where he you just visually see him and he doesn't
01:40:12
talk. Yeah, you know, and things like
01:40:14
that I'm OK with, you know, things where say you have like
01:40:18
the Harry Potter newspapers, right?
01:40:22
Like set something up like that, right where kind of how James
01:40:26
was saying in Disneyland, right? You walk by and you have
01:40:31
Cinderella, the the actual cartoon character Cinderella
01:40:34
interacting with you on screen but not saying anything.
01:40:38
You know what I mean? Like you walk by a you walk by
01:40:42
like a magic mirror and Snow White or the, the wicked Queen
01:40:48
is, is in that magic mirror and she's messing with you.
01:40:50
That's something fun you can do with AI, right?
01:40:53
Because she's not talking to you, but she's like mirroring
01:40:56
your movements and, you know, doing all kinds of different
01:40:58
things in a mirror in a way that like, again, like the newspapers
01:41:01
in Harry Potter where you have the, the, the GIF inside of the
01:41:04
newspaper. That kind of thing would be
01:41:07
something fun you do with Disney characters in AI, right.
01:41:11
But. But completely, Sora 2
01:41:14
completely fabricates videos that are somewhat realistic
01:41:19
based on scripts. And now you're going to have
01:41:22
people interacting with, oh, Mickey Mouse just got caught on
01:41:26
my front yard, you know, trying to grab a a box.
01:41:31
Yeah. It's a long in the chat, said
01:41:33
Mr. Rogers turns heel. So Sora 2 is, is that the videos
01:41:38
I see of like somebody takes Mr. Rogers and puts puts him in in a
01:41:42
wrestling arena and he's like walking down?
01:41:45
It's the ones that are real. The Sora 2 is are the ones that
01:41:49
look real. Oh my gosh.
01:41:51
Right. Husby sent me a couple of them
01:41:52
and I'm like, babe, that's Sora. Yeah, Sora 2 Did you see the
01:41:57
video? So like, like this is on topic
01:41:59
for everything we've been talking about tonight.
01:42:00
Did you see the video of Millie Alcock interacting with crypto?
01:42:04
Yeah, Yeah. So there's a video out there
01:42:06
right now of Millie Alcock. It looks like she's on set.
01:42:10
She's wearing her full on costume.
01:42:13
You know, she gets down on one knee and starts petting crypto
01:42:16
and starts playing with crypto, right?
01:42:18
People are being fooled by it because Crypto is a fully
01:42:22
animated dog. Yeah, there's no real dog.
01:42:24
There's no real dog. He's based on James Gunn's
01:42:28
actual dog, but that dog is black.
01:42:30
Yeah, James Gunn's dog is black. He's not white.
01:42:33
He's grey. A grey OK, but he's he's he's
01:42:36
he's not he's not a white dog like Crypto, right?
01:42:39
Crypto as a dog is not a real dog.
01:42:42
He was animated by animators, fully animated by animators.
01:42:46
And yeah, and there are, there's AI stuff out there right now
01:42:52
because AI does animals. Asura too, specifically does
01:42:55
animals really well. Yeah, interesting.
01:42:58
You know we're gonna talk about this though a lot.
01:43:00
I'm sure this isn't going away anytime soon so and we're almost
01:43:04
at 2 hours so we should probably move it along.
01:43:07
So, yeah, we're going to we're going to go ahead and move on.
01:43:09
Again, it's it's it's very concerning where they're going.
01:43:13
But either way, from Hawkins to Hollywood, that's the big
01:43:17
picture for the week. But now to bring it back to us,
01:43:20
it's time for some wearables. That's right, ladies and
01:43:23
gentlemen, because we got merch people.
01:43:25
I'm saying that like I don't have the button ready.
01:43:29
I think that was AI Young Phil, it was.
01:43:32
He. Got merch people.
01:43:36
In hindsight, in hindsight, that did sound like like like the
01:43:40
Internet was slowing me down and stretching me out.
01:43:43
No, ladies and gentlemen, that's my acting ability.
01:43:45
I was actually stretching that out trying to move screens for
01:43:48
the audio listeners out there. All right, James, go ahead.
01:43:50
You must have gone to the Trevor Slattery Acting school.
01:43:55
We got merch people and so can you DM us at distance starting
01:43:58
on Instagram? Let us know what shirt you're
01:44:00
looking for. We got two different shirts.
01:44:02
We got the black shirt with the logo.
01:44:04
We got the character shirt and charcoal.
01:44:07
They're 20 bucks, 25 if we got to ship it to you.
01:44:09
We got different sizes. Let us know what size you're
01:44:12
looking for, how many shirts you're looking for.
01:44:14
Come get them. Christmas is almost here.
01:44:16
That's right, and distance nerding.
01:44:18
Merch if it's your favorite nerd, right?
01:44:21
Yeah, distance starting merch is the best gift to get for anybody
01:44:24
in your family. Just DM us, let us know.
01:44:27
Yes. So nerdable.
01:44:29
So nerdable. All right, ladies and gentlemen,
01:44:30
talk about our schedule. Tuesdays, all the nerdy news,
01:44:34
all on distance nerding. We are.
01:44:36
We are currently doing that show right now.
01:44:38
Thursdays, the build. Ladies and gentlemen, James, I
01:44:43
don't know if you want to be here for this one, but from SAT
01:44:46
Geeks Direct Frisco is going to be on the show this week, so
01:44:50
it's. Going to be oh nice, good job
01:44:52
so. We're going to be talking.
01:44:53
With Frisco, such a good guy. Yeah, we're going to be talking
01:44:55
with Frisco on on on this Thursday, talking about his
01:44:58
origin story. I don't know if he's from the
01:45:01
city at all or he might be from Frisco, TX.
01:45:03
No, probably not. But we will be talking with
01:45:06
Frisco this the from SAT geeks this this Thursday.
01:45:11
So tune in for that. I am still building the Grinch
01:45:17
wreath. This is what I've got built so
01:45:19
far so you guys can see that. Nice.
01:45:21
Right now I've got to actually build the Grinch.
01:45:24
And then I also somebody sent me this and I, I may actually build
01:45:27
it. Somebody sent me like one of
01:45:29
those little mini kits of a Christmas tree.
01:45:31
Oh, how cute. Oh.
01:45:33
So I'm probably going to build that on on Thursday too.
01:45:35
You're. Going to build that so that the
01:45:37
Grinch can steal it. The Oh my God, yes, I'm probably
01:45:40
going to do that. And then of course, ladies and
01:45:42
gentlemen, on Fridays, we've got the buzzer from 6:30 to 8:30,
01:45:46
playing all the different games, all the different things.
01:45:48
You guys missed out on Jen's holiday edition, Jeb Nerdy on
01:45:52
Friday. It was absolutely hilarious.
01:45:55
It was a riot. It was so much fun.
01:45:58
You know, I'm glad that you guys liked the categories because I
01:46:02
was really stressed out about it.
01:46:04
But you all really like, you ran the Tim Burton one like, and
01:46:10
the, the, the Christmas Carol, the Twisted Christmas Carol
01:46:14
movies. Yeah, yeah, guys ran those like
01:46:17
immediately. It was crazy.
01:46:18
Yeah, yeah. And then there was like the
01:46:20
horror one that that only graveyard knew.
01:46:24
I can't believe that the the hidden Bruce Campbell.
01:46:29
Of all people. He didn't even know that movie.
01:46:31
Of all people, the guy who knows nothing but Bruce Campbell
01:46:34
didn't know the hidden Bruce Campbell question.
01:46:38
I mean, to be fair, it was a hallmark.
01:46:40
Hallmark movie, Yeah. But it's it's fun, I thought.
01:46:44
For sure. I was like the only Hallmark
01:46:47
movie he'll know and he didn't even get it.
01:46:49
And freaking Bill was like, I bet it's Bruce Campbell.
01:46:53
And I was like. I made a joke.
01:46:55
Even say that. I made a joke that's like, it's
01:46:58
probably Bruce Campbell. It's probably, that's probably
01:47:00
the hidden Bruce Campbell. And it ended up being the hidden
01:47:02
Bruce Campbell. Yeah.
01:47:03
It was fun, we had a good time. Yeah.
01:47:06
So guys, do we have any plugables?
01:47:07
Anybody want to do any side plugs?
01:47:09
Anybody have any events or anything that they're doing?
01:47:11
Seduce Channel. Seduce channel all right SHTU
01:47:15
studios guys also delong fam cosplay I know they're still
01:47:19
trying to get to 200 followers guys follow delong fam cosplay
01:47:22
if you're not already doing that they are giving stuff away and
01:47:26
and and and get that out there guys we want to want to
01:47:29
celebrate and. Get them to 200.
01:47:31
Get them to 200 guys. They're they're, they're so
01:47:33
close. Get them there.
01:47:35
I, I, matter of fact, I got to celebrate here.
01:47:38
We just hit 500 subscribers on on Oh Not subscribers, 500
01:47:42
followers on on the Ticky Talkies.
01:47:44
Nice. Yeah, some cracks.
01:47:46
On the ticky talkies. Oh, never mind.
01:47:48
Somebody unfollowed us. We're 499.
01:47:50
Damn it. I got excited for a second.
01:47:53
I was like, I'm looking at it again.
01:47:55
Nope, We we lost the follower. Probably, probably, probably
01:47:58
somebody that was really upset with my my Aquaman take again.
01:48:03
It was, it was one of it was Disney's AI.
01:48:06
They're like, Nope, I don't like what they're saying.
01:48:09
Oh, they don't like. AI yeah, we're about right.
01:48:13
We're about 76 away from 3000 followers on the on the
01:48:17
Instagrams. James, what are we looking like
01:48:19
on YouTube right now? I think it's 552. 552 guys get
01:48:23
us get us to 600 I'll give away more prizes so let's let's do
01:48:26
that tell your. Friends.
01:48:28
Yeah, I know, right? Tell your friends about us guys.
01:48:31
You know, tell all your friends about distance nerding, about
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the good word of distance nerding, and let him know that
01:48:37
if you follow us that we will let Cthulhu know and he won't
01:48:41
kill you in the afterlife. So we're good.
01:48:46
With that being said, ladies and gentlemen, if you would like to
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support distance nerding, the best way to do that is to head
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01:49:17
give random prizes away during the show I've got a couple
01:49:19
movies I need to give away So guys, I think I think yeah,
01:49:23
actually that's what we're going to do live next week for
01:49:26
distance nerding. I'm going to give away a movie.
01:49:28
Let's. Do it.
01:49:28
I've got a copy of Roofman so and got excited.
01:49:33
James, you're on mute, but I've got a copy of Roof Man so.
01:49:36
I was going to say we should give more away.
01:49:38
Give give something away on Instagram.
01:49:39
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, like I said, the, the,
01:49:42
the, the, the, the ticky tockies, I'm going to hop back
01:49:45
there and be like, hey guys, we're one away, you know,
01:49:47
subscribe or follow us on on TikTok.
01:49:50
Actually, matter of fact, our 500th subscriber on TikTok, I'm
01:49:53
giving them a prize there. You go.
01:49:54
There you go. Right there.
01:49:56
But you got to stay on there for at least a week.
01:49:58
Exactly so. You get be a secretive the 500
01:50:03
and then get back off like the other person.
01:50:04
Yeah, 500th follower on TikTok. As long as you don't you don't
01:50:08
unfollow us, I will send you a movie.
01:50:10
Okay, there you go. All right.
01:50:12
Ladies and gentlemen, well, that's that's pretty much it
01:50:15
from us. Have something you want to
01:50:16
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01:50:27
Thanks and keep nerding together.
01:50:30
That's right. Good night, Bruce.
01:50:33
Brucey, it's time to go to bed, buddy.
01:50:34
Good night. Good night buddy Sound, get out
01:50:37
of bed. Sun's getting kind of low.
01:50:42
Sun Sun's getting low there, Sandra will tell you That kid
01:50:45
has been hulking out lately. So there you go.
01:50:47
It's some excuse. There it is.
01:50:49
Well. Ladies and gentlemen, that is it
01:50:51
from us. We will see everybody on
01:50:53
Thursday with Frisco talking about SAT geeks and all the fun
01:50:58
things that we got going on there.
01:50:59
Frisco on a Thursday. Frisco on Frisco on a Thursday.
01:51:04
That works for him. All right, ladies and gentlemen,
01:51:06
that's it from us. We will see everybody later.
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