🎙️ Episode Summary
In Chapter 247: “And Somehow, Ben Solo Returned”, the Distance Nerding crew dives headfirst into a galaxy of nerd rumors and geeky goodness! From Star Wars clone theories and Scarlet Witch’s mysterious Marvel future to DC’s latest chaos with Batman and Supergirl, no fandom is safe. Plus — He-Man’s comeback, Spider-Man’s new sidekick theories, and the eternal question: who’s paying for all these Labubus?! 🤣
All that, plus tacos on the table, Scottish accents gone rogue, and the funniest “if he dies, he dies” moment this side of Eternia.
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🕓 Timestamps & Topics
[05:34] – “Banned in Belarus!” He-Man rumors and Dolph Lundgren’s possible return
[09:06] – Andy Muschietti slips about The Brave and The Bold Batman movie
[12:23] – Superman sneaks into Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow reshoots
[15:04] – Spider-Man: Brand New Day set leaks and Sadie Sink speculation
[20:56] – Scarlet Witch rumors: is Elizabeth Olsen back for Vision Quest?
[23:11] – House of M, Magneto, and the future of the MCU
[26:42] – Superior Iron Man and Marvel continuity madness
[39:04] – “Labubus” & Dad life chaos – the most relatable tangent ever
[40:41] – Rosario Dawson teases Ahsoka’s lighter side and Season 2 details
[01:29:00] – Taco Party time! Prizes, giveaways, and Jackrabbit Brewery trivia event
[01:32:49] – Outro and the funniest toddler interruption ever recorded
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🔑 Key Takeaways
• Ben Solo isn’t the only one returning — the crew brings Star Wars Legends back into the rumor spotlight.
• DCU on the edge: Brave and the Bold and Supergirl reshoots hint at big shakeups.
• Marvel’s multiverse magic continues with talk of Scarlet Witch, House of M, and Superior Iron Man.
• Sadie Sink in Spider-Man? Possible Punisher connection incoming.
• He-Man’s back, baby! Dolph Lundgren might return as King Randor.
• Rosario Dawson confirms Ahsoka’s “Gandalf the White” era — but with more fun and less snips.
• Distance Nerding’s Taco Party is growing! Join the movement, win prizes, and celebrate the road to episode 250. 🌮
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💬 Quotes from the Episode
“If he dies, he dies. Eternia’s original hero might be making a comeback!”
“James Gunn’s not gonna get mad at Muschietti. He’ll just get a slap on the hand… maybe a taco.”
“She’s the only person in the universe who gets to call Superman a b***h.”
“Spider-Man can do anything right now — even make Hulk need a doctor.”
“Rosario’s in her Gandalf the White era… but make it Star Wars.”
“Join the Taco Party — it’s how we pay for BooBoos and LEGO.”
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Let's do this. Band the Belarus fans.
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Loves us so much. That's right.
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They love us. They love us in Belarus.
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Belarus. Right now, all I know is that is
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a dictator runs that place. I mean, you know.
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Right, let's keep it moving. Yeah, Seb.
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Yeah, in classic Rocky 4 fashion.
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Yeah, no, it goes. Yeah, Seb, Yeah.
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Oh God. OK, now.
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Now that's like running back to me.
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If he dies, he dies. If he dies, he dies.
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It's Hernia's original hero might be making a comeback to
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off Lundgren, who played he man in 1987.
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To hear that I was born. Masters of the Universe film
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dropped a major hint that he could appear in Amazon MGM's
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upcoming reboot. Lundgren was asked if he's
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involved in the new Masters of the Universe movie, and his
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response practically confirmed with a smile saying maybe.
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Yeah, you will have. You will have to check it out
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when it comes out. Masters of the Universe will
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bring the power back to theaters on June 5th, 2026.
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That was not supposed to be in the Lungren voice.
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Alright, tacos on the table. Tacos on the table.
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Will Dolph go? Will Dolph go another round in
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Masters of the Universe in their universe?
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Universe, universe, universe, you know, the way he put that, I
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think he's in it, he's going to do, he's going to be something
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in this movie because if he wasn't in it, he'd be like, Nah,
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I'm not in it. They didn't ask me.
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I'm butthurt, you know, they didn't ask me to be in Punisher
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either. And so I think he's going to be
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in it because he was like, good. Go check out the movie and.
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I mean, I know they're doing a lot of Easter eggs for stuff
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like that. Like they're throwing in a lot
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of like in universe Easter eggs and things like that.
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It's gonna be interesting to see what they do.
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I I don't think that Dolph is. Obviously he's not playing he
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man, like he's not coming in and playing anything like that.
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But like, maybe, I don't know, maybe Dolph comes in and he
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plays what was his dad's name? King What?
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Was his name. I forgot his name.
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The king, The king, The king. Yeah, like maybe, maybe he comes
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in and he plays the king. Yeah, it could be.
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You know, especially like after Dolph Lundgren, we know that he
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can play kind of epic characters like that still because he did
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that in Aquaman and that's. Right.
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And he looked kind of big. Yeah.
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I mean, they he had a bunch of suit on just like Jason Momoa,
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but he looked pretty big still. Yeah.
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Oh, I forgot about that. All right, maybe maybe he'll,
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he'll be the Masters of the Universe, the the merman guy.
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Oh. Merman like he could be he.
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Could just be merman. It's a King Randor.
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So like, you know, what if he came in, he played King Randor.
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That's not bad. That would be kind of cool if he
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came in and played King Grant played King Randor, right?
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Like, so my tacos are on the table.
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I 100% believe that if not a mainstay character, he's at
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least coming in for some type of cameo with the way that he talks
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about it. So.
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I agree, my Russian borscht tacos are on the table, yes.
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Isn't, wasn't he, isn't he some kind of like European, not
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Russian? Rocky, for he was.
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Come on. Well, I know, I know.
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He played a Russian, He played. He played Yvonne Drago.
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I know that. But I'm saying like, isn't he
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Like, isn't he? God damn it, It's another
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country that starts with AB. Belarus.
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He's from Belarus. Belgium.
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No, Belgium, isn't he? Belgium.
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Small world. Oh, is he?
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No, that's you're thinking of Jean Claude Ben Van Damme.
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I might be anyways. Oh no, he might be Swedish
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actually. I think you're right there.
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Yeah, Anyways, let's let's go ahead and move on to the next
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story. Here we have a brave director
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teasing a bold rumor. Who DC Universe is getting a new
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version of Batman with the Brave and the Bold.
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Fans have been left waiting for real updates because they have
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been not getting any at all. Now it looks like that wait for
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information might be coming to an end.
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Thanks to the director Andy Musquietti Variety Musquetti
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Variety Asked about the status of the movie, Andy replied we
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have to wait a few a couple of months to start talking about
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it. Then realizing he might have
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said too much, he laughed and said I screwed it already.
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Tacos on the table. Will we be getting a Batman an
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update or is it just a brave and bold tease?
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I honestly talk us on the table. I, you know, I think he screwed
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it up. I think he caught it.
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And he was like, oh, a few, I mean, a couple.
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Like he screwed it up. But he's OK.
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Like James Gunn's not going to get mad and he's going to get a
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slap on the hand and be like, OK, move on.
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Yeah, we're OK. But I think this goes into James
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Gunn kind of trying to pace the amount of news dropping for DC.
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Like, hey, let's not step on each other's toes because we
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went through this whole thing of we're talking about Superman
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before it was coming out, but then we're also talking about
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creature commandos. And then people were speculating
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on on Batman and the Batman Part 2 and, you know, all this stuff.
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So it was super confusing. So I think they're just kind of
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being like, let's all play Hush. Let's not not saying that Hush
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is going to be in The Batman, but let's all be quiet and we'll
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push one project at a time. Yeah.
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I. I I 100% agree.
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And in that whole thing, I think that Annie Muschietti, probably
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he dropped more than he was supposed to.
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I think. I think what James was trying to
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do was kind of just do like a sudden drop and make people
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think like, oh, yeah, no, we have nothing.
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We're not planning anything. And then all of a sudden drop a
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trailer, like, yeah, yeah, we told you nothing was happening.
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This is what's happening right here.
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And like, you know, just kind of like drop who's playing who and
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who's coming in is what and everything like that.
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And just kind of like drop a bunch of news on us all at once
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just because he, he's, he's just gonna build sudden hype because
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James Gunn is known for doing stuff like that.
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So I, I don't see it being, you know, I feel like Andy just just
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screwed up because he was just like excited about it and was
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like, Oh yeah, shit, we haven't said anything about this yet.
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Fuck, I'm I'm, I'm yeah, mother or he's like.
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Finally we're we're getting ready to talk about it.
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He's like, oops, can't talk about it.
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Right, Right. So.
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I'm with that my tacos are on the table I.
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Like it? All right, let's go.
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Ahead and move on to the next story here, James Gunn is
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souping up Supergirl. The latest DCU reports suggest
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that Supergirl, Woman of Tomorrow is getting a little
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extra Superman action. Rumor says the upcoming film has
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entered a new round of reshoots and they featured David
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Cornsweat Superman. The film originally wrapped
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principal photography back in May, but with cameras rolling
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again this week for the additional scenes involving the
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Man of Steel, potentially expanding the on screen
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connection between Cara Zorrell and Clark Kent in the DCU.
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Adding some fuel to the Superman rumor of fire, fans noticed that
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the Superman costume on display at the Warner Brothers Studio
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Tour had been removed. A sign left in its place read.
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Superman costume currently being used by production.
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Tacos on the table. Are we doubling the Kryptonian
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count for the next chapter of the DCU?
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Oh my. Tacos are on the table for this
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one. I I think they're going to treat
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this Superman, David Corn sweat Superman a little bit
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differently. I don't think he's going to be
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this pedestal, you know, character that like is
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untouchable and not going to be in any project.
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You know, I think he's just going to be sprinkled it kind of
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like how we saw Supergirl at the very end of the Superman movie.
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Yeah, I think it's going to be like that where he may come in
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for a cameo. I don't think he's going to be
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like a Co star in in this movie, but I think he's going to pop in
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and out. And then I think James Gunn's
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going to create that kind of fluidity between all the
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different shows that are happening, all the different
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projects. He's going to slowly bring
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people in and let them come in and out.
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What do you think about Suit Corn Sweat being in Supergirl?
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It makes a lot. Of sense I mean you have the
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relationship between David Corn Sweat Superman and and and cars
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or L already like the relationship was built at the
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end of Superman. So it does not not make sense to
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have cow show up and you know, like maybe there's like a fight
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that happens and he comes and helps or you know, maybe it's
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the other side of the coin for that scene at the end of
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Superman. Like maybe they expand on that
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because remember, this movie is supposed to take place at the
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same time that Superman was happening, Ah.
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OK, right, All right. Does that make sense?
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She shows. Back up at the end of Superman,
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right? Uh huh.
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And is like, you know, she's shit faced and is like, where's
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my dog? Right.
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And so, you know, maybe there is maybe he came back to film a
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scene that was like that. They're gonna use the beginning
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of the movie where it's like Clark saying bye to Cara and
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saying I'll take care of your dog.
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Don't worry about it or something at the end where it's
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the other side of that coin. It's expanding on that scene
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where she goes, where's my dog? And then how was your how was
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your vacation? And she like looks at him and
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you know, it's not a recap of, you know, she's not going to
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explain what happened in the movie, but it's like one of
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those smirky smiles that's like, you know, she's got a story to
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tell Clark because you just watch that story, right, right.
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And then the movie ends on that. Like that's that's what I think
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it's going to be. I think it's either going to be
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something at the beginning or it's going to be a like a tale
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at the end. I want.
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Want to know if they're going to do like totally Superman is is
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very like good for the entire family up until when Cara
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Zarrell shows up and she calls him a bitch yeah, you know, like
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totally is this movie is the Supergirl movie.
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Is she going to be dropping you know, F bombs and you know, B
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bombs and calling Superman. Who gets to call Superman a
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bitch? She's the only person in the
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universe that gets to call Superman a bitch because.
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Technically she's stronger than him so it's like.
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I mean, hey, she's got a cool coat too, so absolutely.
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So yeah, let's let's continue on.
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I've got another story to move on to here.
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The Spidey tingle is blowing up this week, because it really is.
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We got another batch of exciting set photos from Spider Man Brand
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New Day. The latest images give us our
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first look at Sadie Sink in costume, a battered Mark Ruffalo
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as Bruce Banner, and even a mysterious female character who
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could be the movie secret villain.
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The biggest reveal from the round of set photos is Sadie
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Sink, who may be playing a street level character rumored
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to be the sidekick. Which.
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Be on the lookout, guys, when I have a video explaining that
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character coming pretty soon. Then there are photos featuring
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Mark Ruffalo's Bruce Banner being loaded into an emergency
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vehicle looking injured. Why would someone who can turn
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into the Hulk need medical attention?
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Think about that, guys. It's a thought to put in your
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head, right? Another image shows an
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unidentified woman confronting a group of extras on set.
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The social media quickly lit up with the theories that she could
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be the film's a mysterious female villain.
00:16:00
Oh, the secrecy around the appearance has speculating about
00:16:03
everything from Black Cat to a new original antagonist created
00:16:07
specifically for the MCU. So tacos on the table, Sadie
00:16:10
sings role. Bruised up Banner, bruised up
00:16:12
Banner bruised up, bruised up Banner.
00:16:14
OK, and the mysterious maiden. What are your spider Spidey
00:16:18
senses saying, James? You know my.
00:16:20
My tacos are on the table for all this because it feels like
00:16:24
Spider Man can do anything right now.
00:16:26
This new brand new day movie can be like, let's grab Punisher,
00:16:29
let's grab the Hulk, let's make the Hulk get hurt.
00:16:32
Let's make Sadie Singh 17 different characters.
00:16:34
Then they'll all be justified, you know, like they're gonna do
00:16:37
anything that they want to do. Let's let's have Tom Holland
00:16:40
waving to the fans when they're, you know, sneaking fan film
00:16:44
while things are being shot. You know, like this movie is
00:16:46
completely different. I don't know what is gonna
00:16:48
happen in the movie, but I have. No, I don't think they're going
00:16:51
to hold back. I think this is honesty.
00:16:53
I think this is Sony going to be like, you know what?
00:16:56
Do whatever you got to do, like go make us a big, huge movie.
00:16:59
This honestly could be our last, you know?
00:17:02
Yeah, I, I see. That, and I mean, again, there's
00:17:04
a lot of speculation on who Sadies Inc is going to play
00:17:06
based on the photos and what she's wearing.
00:17:09
I know me and Jen were talking about this a couple weeks ago or
00:17:13
or last week. We both are in agreeance that we
00:17:15
think this is this is Rachel Cole Alves, who is technically
00:17:19
the second she's been known as Lady Punisher.
00:17:22
She she ran with Frank for the longest time.
00:17:25
Former Marine, former. She's got a lot of tragedy in
00:17:29
herself. Again, we we're going to be
00:17:31
having a we have a video that's going to be coming out hopefully
00:17:33
sometime this week of an explainer on Rachel Cole Alves.
00:17:38
And you know why we think and not why we think it's good like
00:17:41
that. Sadie Sync is gonna be that.
00:17:42
But you know, if Sadie Sync is playing Rachel Cole Alves, then
00:17:45
you know, at least you guys, all, all the nerds out there
00:17:47
will know who she is ahead of time.
00:17:50
And and yeah, and just based on the outfit that she's wearing,
00:17:52
she looks very Rachel Cole Alves right.
00:17:55
And the red. Hair and it looks like she's
00:17:57
wearing some kind of shirt that may have like the the spray
00:18:01
painted Punisher logo on it. We'll see.
00:18:04
I mean, I I think that is a more we kind of talked about this the
00:18:08
other week. That's a more plausible.
00:18:12
I can't even think of the word. That's a more believable role
00:18:15
than I think like Phoenix, you know, Jean Grey.
00:18:18
I don't think they're going to go that deep.
00:18:20
Yeah, with I. Agree.
00:18:21
What's going to happen in? Spider Man because a lot of
00:18:23
people. Are like, you know, the the
00:18:24
speculation is oh, she's going to play Mary Jane Parker or Mary
00:18:27
Jane Watson. She's not Parker yet Mary Jane
00:18:29
Watson or she's going to play the new, the on screen version
00:18:32
of Gwen Stacy or she might be playing Firestarter.
00:18:34
Like, there's there's so many characters that everybody's
00:18:37
saying that she might be. And based on these set photos, I
00:18:40
I honestly think that she's gonna be Rachel Alves.
00:18:44
Yeah, makes sense. It is.
00:18:45
She's not a major character, but at the same time, she's also not
00:18:48
a minor character. She this is a character that
00:18:50
could show up in all of these ground level shows.
00:18:53
And especially if anything in this is setting up anything for
00:18:58
for or Daredevil season 2 or born again season 2, you know,
00:19:02
if they have any setup that's happening in this, right?
00:19:05
Then you have Frank Castle, you have Rachel Cole Alves, and
00:19:08
they'll be fighting alongside with Daredevil in season 2 to
00:19:12
fight Kingpin, which again, that's that's a really good
00:19:14
setup if that's what they're gonna do.
00:19:16
And that makes the world that much more cohesive.
00:19:18
You know what I mean? My tacos.
00:19:19
Are on the table straight that I really like that she gets added
00:19:23
to the you know, Daredevil season 2 or the Punisher.
00:19:27
Maybe she gets introduced in the Punisher special, who knows, but
00:19:30
we'll see. That's The thing is the I know
00:19:32
they rap principle on the punisher special, but like are
00:19:35
they are they? Is that coming out before Spider
00:19:39
Man that I don't? Know that we'll have to look up.
00:19:42
Yeah, we'll have to look. That up.
00:19:43
In the meantime, let's go ahead and move on to this last rumor
00:19:46
that we have here. Marvel Studios has been stirring
00:19:50
the pot, or maybe the cauldron. This time, it's all about
00:19:52
Scarlet Witch. Over the past week, the studio's
00:19:55
official social media accounts have been posting clips Wanna
00:19:59
Maximoff, which has fans wondering, are they getting
00:20:02
ready for Elizabeth Olsen's return in Vision Quest?
00:20:04
The timing of Marvel's recent Scarlet Witch posts seems
00:20:08
deliberate, and with Vision Quest updates fresh out of New
00:20:11
York Comic Con, fans are connecting the dots.
00:20:13
During a recent interview with In Style, Olsen lit up while
00:20:17
describing the experience of working on those massive
00:20:20
productions and Goofy. It's ridiculous, she said with a
00:20:23
laugh. We're grown people behaving like
00:20:25
children on a playground. We're flying.
00:20:27
We're shooting things out of our.
00:20:28
Hands and it's a character that I've gotten to return to so many
00:20:31
times over 10 years it's good to put her down and then I miss her
00:20:36
and I want her back I jump at the opportunity to be in her
00:20:38
shoes again Last bit of scarlet witch news Elizabeth Olsen has
00:20:42
made it clear that she's done signing on to big studio films
00:20:46
unless they're destined for the big screen.
00:20:48
So with that being said, tacos on the table as Elizabeth
00:20:51
Elizabeth Olsen got us trapped in her hex.
00:20:54
Is the Scarlet Witch returning my tacos on?
00:20:56
The table I you know what she's not talking about anymore.
00:20:59
She's not talking about money or getting paid Yeah, You know, I
00:21:03
think Disney's got her like, all right, you got it whatever you
00:21:05
want we'll make it happen as long as you come back, you know,
00:21:07
keep your mouth shut and we'll get you in a bunch of different
00:21:10
projects and and we're good to go.
00:21:11
You just gotta play play ball with us, right, right.
00:21:14
And I totally think she's doing that.
00:21:16
She's you know she what did she say?
00:21:17
She recorded the Marvel zombies like years ago?
00:21:21
Yeah, You know, so she's she's on board.
00:21:23
There's a long term Kevin Feige plan that she's aware of, that
00:21:27
we're not aware of, that we're always rumoring and speculating
00:21:30
on. But I think she's on board for
00:21:32
the long haul. So yes, she's in.
00:21:34
Yes. She's going to be Scarlet Witch
00:21:36
over and over again. I think that last bit of piece
00:21:39
of news about big studio things, I think that was her saying,
00:21:42
like, I also like to do independent films, you know?
00:21:46
Yeah. But like, I can do both.
00:21:48
Like she likes to do indie, you know, artsy films, but also she
00:21:51
likes to do Scarlet Witch big budget stuff.
00:21:54
Yeah. And.
00:21:55
I mean, like, she's been able to do more productions lately,
00:21:58
especially because her character's been kind of missing
00:22:00
for a little while. But I mean, at the same time,
00:22:01
she has talked about, like, storylines that she would like
00:22:04
to revisit. She has talked about wanting to
00:22:06
be Scarlet Witch. We know that she's in contract
00:22:09
for at least three more productions now.
00:22:12
I don't know if zombies counts as one of those.
00:22:15
I don't think so. Because she totally forgot she
00:22:17
was even in it. Yeah, because I.
00:22:19
Mean, you know, that's The thing is she could she she she had
00:22:22
signed on to she contracted to do three more projects with
00:22:26
Marvel after she had already done Doctor Strange Oh yeah,
00:22:33
the. Multiverse of Madness Multiverse
00:22:34
of Madness. So because like that that again,
00:22:38
it it doesn't specifically say what projects they were.
00:22:41
It just said that she signed on for three more project.
00:22:44
Marvel Zombies could have been one of those.
00:22:46
Yeah, I. Could see that, but at the even
00:22:48
even if it's just like a few lines.
00:22:50
I think they wanted her for the original What if episode, but I
00:22:53
think she was still in contract negotiations.
00:22:56
Yeah, but yeah. And, and now again, and it, it
00:22:59
would be so dope to lead up to getting some kind of House of M,
00:23:03
especially because she has said that she wants to do House of M.
00:23:06
The thing is we need to establish the X-Men before we
00:23:08
can do that. So it's not going to be until
00:23:09
after Secret Wars, I was thinking.
00:23:11
About this based on our last conversation about like how are
00:23:14
we going to get to House of M with with this situation, I
00:23:18
think she's going to end up doing House of M though I don't
00:23:21
think they're going to involve Magneto, but then.
00:23:24
It doesn't work if Magneto is not not a part of it.
00:23:26
I think they're. Going to find a way, think it's
00:23:28
just going to be her and her crazy powers and what she and
00:23:32
she's something's going to happen to her kids and she's
00:23:34
going to be like, I want my kids back.
00:23:36
Maybe she's going to blame mutants.
00:23:37
I don't know what it is, but I feel like we've gone so far away
00:23:40
from World War 2 and Magneto's origin story.
00:23:45
I don't know if they have to retell it, but I think they're I
00:23:47
think they're going to find a way to get Scarlet Witch to
00:23:50
stand on her own. And they're doing a great job
00:23:51
doing it. Like she's been part of so many
00:23:53
projects. So I think there's that was what
00:23:56
I was just thinking it. You know, I think based on last
00:23:58
week, I think they're going to get away from Magneto.
00:24:00
I think they are we'll. See, my, my, my change on that,
00:24:03
What I think is going to happen is after Secret Wars, once they
00:24:06
merge all the universes, I think towards the end of Secret Wars,
00:24:10
you're going to find out that, you know, Magneto is their
00:24:14
actual father. So when the universe, or maybe
00:24:16
like the person who played their dad ends up playing Magneto the
00:24:20
person. Oh, you mean in the in like The
00:24:22
Avengers in The Avengers? Movies, you know, like because
00:24:24
you do get a glimpse of her father, you know, so maybe you
00:24:27
do get that person who ends up playing her dad.
00:24:29
Or maybe they, you know, do well, they they pull a
00:24:31
peacemaker and they like, you know, do some revisionist
00:24:33
history and it's like she remembers and Magneto is her
00:24:37
father in their universe. But when the universe is merge,
00:24:41
he's Magneto. Yeah, I could see that, you
00:24:43
know, and that. Leads into like you establish
00:24:46
that relationship and that leads into you start doing X-Men
00:24:50
projects and now you can do house event I.
00:24:53
See that? I can see that.
00:24:54
I can see that though. You know what's funny as you, as
00:24:56
you were saying that, like with DC, like retconning Peacemaker
00:25:01
and even that end scene with, with the JLA or you know,
00:25:05
Superman, Wonder Woman, that sort of thing, I was like, I'm
00:25:08
OK with that. Like, OK, James Gunn, you do
00:25:10
what you do, you be you. That's your universe.
00:25:12
We're just living in it. But if you apply that same thing
00:25:14
to Marvel, I'd be like, no, no, no, you don't get to do that.
00:25:17
We're we're living in one timeline, bro.
00:25:19
It's one continuity. You know, like I can't, I can't
00:25:22
let Marvel get away with something like that to retcon
00:25:24
something. Though I do hear there's a rumor
00:25:27
that maybe Robert Downey Junior's Tony Stark, maybe not
00:25:30
actually a Stark. But anyway, that's some rabbit
00:25:33
hole speculation. But that's yeah.
00:25:35
And. Like I said, I and I don't want
00:25:37
to jump too much into this, but just like a tease for people to
00:25:40
go and look it up. But I mean, if you haven't
00:25:42
checked out Superior Superior Iron Man, go check out Superior
00:25:45
Iron Man because in Superior Iron Man it is an alternate
00:25:49
universe. Sorry, my hand is moving my
00:25:50
table. It is an alternate universe
00:25:53
where Doctor Doom is Tony Stark in another universe, and he he
00:25:58
uses that to his advantage. We've been saying it on the show
00:26:00
for a while now that I think this is superior Iron Man
00:26:03
because it's going to be Doctor Doom using the fact that he
00:26:07
looks like Tony Stark in this universe to get The Avengers to
00:26:10
do what he wants. And then once they finally
00:26:13
realize, oh, we're doing bad stuff, that's it's, it's, it's
00:26:16
like too late already. And Doom is going to have the
00:26:18
upper hand because of that. I think they are going to take
00:26:21
elements of superior Iron Man and use that in this universe.
00:26:24
Yep. I.
00:26:25
Think if anything we've learned there's not going to be a
00:26:28
straight adaption of the comics or whatever comic storyline
00:26:31
there is. You know, everything is adapted
00:26:33
for the MCU to make it, I don't know, original or make it.
00:26:37
So make it owned by the MCU. Not just like Marvel Comics is
00:26:40
the scripts. So yeah.
00:26:42
Like I said, they're going to use elements of.
00:26:43
So let's let's continue on here guys.
00:26:46
That is the end of the rumors to move into this next segment.
00:26:49
Guys, it's time for the download.
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Let's get into the news. Four more news trailers,
00:27:01
reactions check out the distance nerding post on Facebook and let
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us know what you're nerding out on, including you geek freaks
00:27:08
network and then let us know what you're nerding out on.
00:27:11
That's right all right let's let's dive into this stranger
00:27:14
things finale will be a monster cry Oh my goodness.
00:27:18
The Duffer brothers say fans will cry in front of strangers
00:27:22
during the theatrical finale of stranger things season 5.
00:27:26
Joseph Quinn's Eddie Munson is officially dead and two two of
00:27:29
the final episodes are pure monster.
00:27:32
Mayhem 1 was the most insane shoot of their lives.
00:27:35
They said Hawkins is going out swinging and nobody's making it
00:27:39
through dry eyed. Will you see the finale in
00:27:42
theaters? What do you think, young fella?
00:27:44
You're going to go check it out, I-100.
00:27:46
Percent AM. And here's the thing.
00:27:47
We've been speculating on this for the last two weeks.
00:27:50
I know on Geek Freaks, they were speculating on this.
00:27:52
This is official. It is going to be in theaters
00:27:56
and and that's the whole thing is I think what they're doing is
00:28:00
I I've got to go double check on on on the source, but I think
00:28:03
what they're doing is they're doing a simultaneous release.
00:28:05
So it's going to be like K pop demon hunters, like we were
00:28:08
saying, like like last time, it's something that is going to
00:28:10
be available on Netflix, but then also something that you can
00:28:15
you have the option to go see in theaters and especially if it's
00:28:18
something that's meant to be seen in theaters, I think a lot
00:28:20
of people are going to spend money to go see this.
00:28:22
I totally. Agree.
00:28:23
I think they're going to treat it as like a movie premiere red
00:28:26
carpet, this and everything. Like they're going to get some
00:28:29
some Demogorgons walk in the red carpet and whatnot, some
00:28:32
cosplayers. I think if you're going to treat
00:28:34
it as like a big time movie event, right, so.
00:28:37
Shout out to Matt Aguilar in the chat right now.
00:28:40
He said he's definitely going to go catch it in theaters.
00:28:42
The Swaguilar. Going to go to the movie
00:28:44
theaters OK all right you know I want to see this in theaters but
00:28:47
I don't know if I could wait no I hear you no like if if they
00:28:50
say like this is going to drop at say mid what's going to stop
00:28:53
me from like I can turn this on right now or I can wait until
00:28:57
when I can go see this in theaters like the next day but
00:29:00
again I I think it's. Going to be like K pop demon
00:29:02
hunters because think of it like for for you, John, as like you
00:29:05
specifically have seen K pop demon hunters multiple times on
00:29:08
screen, but you've also seen in seen it in theaters and it's
00:29:11
like, did it diminish your experience seeing it on on on on
00:29:15
the small screen before seeing it in theaters?
00:29:17
I get. What you're saying there?
00:29:19
But I'm, I'm just seeing like, like the first time seeing the
00:29:21
finale, you know what I mean? Like, yeah, seeing it.
00:29:24
Am I gonna am I gonna be able to wait?
00:29:26
I don't know if I could wait. Yeah, I hear you, man.
00:29:27
I, I, I, I get what you're saying.
00:29:29
I'm probably gonna do both. I'm probably gonna go, yeah,
00:29:31
there you go. I'm probably gonna watch it and
00:29:32
then go see it in theaters because the experience is gonna
00:29:34
be different. And it's also gonna be an
00:29:36
experience that you have with other people, which makes that
00:29:38
experience completely different from watching it at home.
00:29:42
I know specifically Jackie Jackie's into Stranger Things.
00:29:45
She likes watching Stranger Things.
00:29:46
So mm, hmm. I I.
00:29:47
Know that. Jackie is probably gonna wanna
00:29:49
watch it at home because she doesn't like going to the
00:29:51
movies. But then for me, it's like,
00:29:53
cool, this is great. If it's as long as it's like as
00:29:56
good as I'm anticipating it to be, I'm probably gonna go see it
00:29:59
in theaters 'cause it's like I want that experience.
00:30:01
I want that, that popcorn, that candy, that, that hanging out in
00:30:04
the theater with a bunch of other people watching this,
00:30:06
this, this finale. And it's supposed to be a 2 hour
00:30:09
finale. So why would I not want to go
00:30:10
see theaters, right? And the popcorn.
00:30:12
'S better. Oh, absolutely, movie.
00:30:13
Are you? Kidding me?
00:30:14
Yeah, way better than. The popcorn I make at home.
00:30:16
I mean, I, I air pop my popcorn and I, you know, I put fresh
00:30:20
butter and whatnot. But I mean, it's all right.
00:30:21
Gordon Ramsay. Just relax.
00:30:23
It's it's not. The same.
00:30:24
So let's go ahead and move on. Tell you what?
00:30:26
You know what? We should do, you know, let's
00:30:28
take a little poll on Instagram or something.
00:30:30
Oh yeah, maybe, maybe we rent out a theater or something like
00:30:33
that and that'll force us to like, OK, we have to save this
00:30:37
because we bought a damn theater.
00:30:39
So we'll save watching this at midnight and go watch it in the
00:30:43
theater together and, you know, eat popcorn and maybe somebody
00:30:46
will come dressed as the Demi Gordon Gorgon and we'll throw
00:30:49
popcorn at the Demi Gorgon or something like that.
00:30:51
So maybe, maybe I'm writing it. Down right now write it down.
00:30:56
OK, I'm gonna move on, all right?
00:31:00
Back to. High school as Carrie raps TV
00:31:03
adaption Forgot about Carrie was coming up.
00:31:06
Mike Flanagan calls his Carrie series one of my favorite
00:31:09
projects ever. As filming raps, expect
00:31:12
psychological horror. Heart and blood and a lot of
00:31:15
blood. And then maybe more blood
00:31:17
because it's scary. Amazon's betting the big one on
00:31:20
this. Amazon's going to be the Queen
00:31:22
of the prom on this one. I I can see that the show is
00:31:28
interesting. I mean, like everybody's going
00:31:31
and doing this right now. Like kind of on the horror side,
00:31:33
everybody is kind of doing a prequel series to, to something
00:31:38
to, to something that's there. I think this series in
00:31:40
particular is a retelling of Carrie.
00:31:42
Yeah. But I mean, like, welcome to
00:31:43
Dairy's out right now, right? And like, everybody's raving
00:31:46
over the first episode. Camp Crystal Lake is going to be
00:31:48
coming out on FX pretty soon. You know, like we're, we're
00:31:50
getting all these shows that are doing a long form version of the
00:31:54
things that we all grew up loving.
00:31:57
I I, I have been happy so far with the quality of things that
00:32:01
Amazon puts out. So I think I'm a little more
00:32:04
excited for this than I am other things.
00:32:06
That's why alien Earth geek freaks in the chat right right
00:32:08
now saying Alien Earth. That's that's another good
00:32:10
example of a kind of prequel for a horror series, You know, so
00:32:14
I'm, I'm, I'm definitely ready to see this mainly just because
00:32:18
it's I want to see that take. I want to see a new take on on
00:32:21
this. Plus it's supposed to be
00:32:22
something that is closer to the book and I'm always more excited
00:32:26
for things that are more willing to go into the the intricacies
00:32:29
that the books have. So yeah, I.
00:32:31
Agree, I think streaming platforms give give IP like this
00:32:35
a chance to do it right in the fans eyes, you know, like, you
00:32:40
know, maybe it's a movie, you know, 2 hours to do a movie.
00:32:43
But like turning this into a series where you can tell a long
00:32:45
form story, you know, stuff that's in the you know, what do
00:32:48
we always hear about people that read a book and then go see the
00:32:50
movie like, oh, the book was better, there's so much more
00:32:53
blah, blah blah. Like the series you get to do
00:32:55
this same thing. Like welcome to dairy.
00:32:58
I've heard a lot of good things about that.
00:33:00
I'm not going to see it one because I'm scared two, I'm
00:33:03
lactose intolerant so I'm not going to watch it.
00:33:06
But I'm. I heard it's really good.
00:33:07
Yeah, I heard it's really. I've heard good things and, and
00:33:09
I'm I'm gonna watch it. Everybody on the horror side
00:33:12
that we all know, you know, the delongs are really into it.
00:33:16
They've already watched it sack Deadpool and and they've they've
00:33:20
they've all watched it and they've all said that it's good.
00:33:22
They all that they've all said that it is something that is
00:33:25
very much in the vein of it, but like it to to to an extent, it's
00:33:29
scarier and that makes me more interested in.
00:33:31
So I like it. All right, let's keep going
00:33:34
here. All right, Sarah, Mel Giller
00:33:36
talks reboot. You ready for the?
00:33:38
Yeah, I kind of AM. Geller says you.
00:33:39
Don't need to watch the original Buffy the Vampire Slayer to
00:33:42
enjoy the reboot, but longtime fans might catch deeper
00:33:47
emotional threads. New slayers, new vamps and same
00:33:50
stakes. Now here's a question.
00:33:51
How would you modernize the Buffy reboot?
00:33:55
I don't think. There's a lot of modernization
00:33:57
that needs to happen with a Buffy reboot just because for
00:34:00
the most part it's use whatever technology is available.
00:34:04
Use whatever is available for the most part again with, with
00:34:07
Buffy and the way that she kind of operates, she doesn't really
00:34:11
rely on a lot of new technology because kind of like the oldies
00:34:15
are the goodies, right. It's a stake to the heart and
00:34:16
that's what goes but like, you know that delivery system like
00:34:19
what if she has more of like a crossbow with stakes or she has
00:34:23
you know, kind of like other things.
00:34:25
I, I don't think that there's gonna be a lot of kind of like
00:34:28
adaptation to, to, to newer things aside from maybe she can
00:34:32
track vampires now with like GPS and stuff.
00:34:35
Oh, you're you're. Like technology wise, like what
00:34:37
is it gonna? I was talking about like story
00:34:39
in general. Like how are they going to
00:34:41
improve, improve the story? Like how Kevin Smith took the
00:34:46
original Masters of the Universe.
00:34:48
I love this. Now I'm going to elevate it and
00:34:51
tell an, you know, an extended version of the story on that.
00:34:54
Level I feel like, I mean, we already know the majority of the
00:34:58
story is her teaching a new Slayer, right and and activating
00:35:02
the next generation of slayers. I think that a lot of this, I
00:35:06
think Sarah Michelle Gellar, her whole role role in this is a
00:35:09
mentor. I don't think it's going to
00:35:10
revolve around her. I think it's going to revolve
00:35:12
around the new character, but she's going to be kind of like
00:35:15
jumping in every now and then. There's probably going to be
00:35:17
some good action scenes with her, like showing her like this
00:35:20
is how you do it, you know. And I think that that's kind of
00:35:22
we we don't everybody wants to see Buffy.
00:35:25
But at the same time, if it's a new generation, I don't want it
00:35:28
to be over saturated with Buffy. I mean, well, I think.
00:35:30
There's a way to solve that. I think they can bring in old
00:35:32
characters from the original story, but again, raising the
00:35:37
stakes. Get it mistakes, vampire, get it
00:35:39
what he did there Slayers, if they start bringing in some of
00:35:43
the old cast, but to make it a little bit more interesting, if
00:35:46
they start killing off some of the old cast, you know, and be
00:35:50
like, OK, here's your farewell, you know, and next thing you
00:35:53
know, this new Slayer has to take things seriously.
00:35:56
You know she can't she can't screw up, you know, because
00:35:58
people are dying. Buffy's friends are dying right
00:36:00
right now. Again, I'm I I I like the idea
00:36:03
of of revamping the story for another guy from.
00:36:07
The revamping. For the next generation and, and
00:36:10
just telling this retelling the story so that another generation
00:36:14
of people can enjoy these stories because in the 80s we
00:36:16
had the movies in the 90 or the movie in the 90s we had the TV
00:36:20
show. And now in the 20 twenties, you
00:36:23
know, almost like in 30 years later we're we're getting, you
00:36:26
know, a new revamp and and another generation of slayers.
00:36:30
I like it. I.
00:36:30
Like it? All right, let's keep it going.
00:36:32
The fantastic first family steps onto Disney Plus.
00:36:36
Here we go, Marvel. Fantastic Four First Steps
00:36:39
finally gets its Disney Plus premier date.
00:36:43
It's about time. It will also be available in
00:36:46
IMAX Enhanced mode, offering an expanded aspect ratio for a more
00:36:50
immersive experience. Kind of interesting.
00:36:53
All right. Stretchy science meets cosmic
00:36:56
setup. Fantastic Four First Steps
00:36:59
launches on the Disney Plus Wednesday, November 5th, 2025.
00:37:04
That's like a week away, right? Yeah, it's like a week.
00:37:06
Yeah, it's about a week away. Pulling a Netflix on this,
00:37:10
essentially the idea is what they're doing is they're they're
00:37:13
waiting and they're holding it to the chest until the last
00:37:15
moment to say, hey, it's coming out.
00:37:17
And then you get excited. I love the idea that they're
00:37:20
doing an IMAX thing because if you have like a home theatre,
00:37:23
theatre, like you have like a projector or something like
00:37:25
that, you can like straight up do a wrap around and that's
00:37:27
that. That's actually a pretty cool
00:37:29
idea to to launch it that way, yeah.
00:37:31
You know, I think the release date sort of has something to do
00:37:35
with Soup and coming to HBO Max. You know, each HBO Max really
00:37:40
closed that window for Superman and was like, Hey, we're going
00:37:43
to put this, you know, it's it's still be in theaters almost, but
00:37:46
they were like, let's bring it to HBO Max because of Peacemaker
00:37:49
and that like theater to streaming window became super
00:37:53
short. I think I think Disney was like
00:37:54
crap. You know, like our movie came
00:37:57
out like a week or two later, but we haven't put it out.
00:38:00
We got to get this out. You know, Disney plus still
00:38:02
needs to be valuable somehow, but you know, like, what are we
00:38:06
going to do? We don't have anything really
00:38:07
planned. Let's put this out.
00:38:08
Honestly, I think they were gonna wait till like December
00:38:11
for that, you know, Christmas rush.
00:38:12
But they put it out beginning of November.
00:38:15
OK, as long as you put it out, I mean, I'm happy for you.
00:38:17
Disney Plus. Yeah.
00:38:18
And it's also. There, it's almost like they're
00:38:20
bypassing physical media at this point.
00:38:22
Oh, that's a good point. You know, you know, that's
00:38:24
probably a good idea because whoever's gonna buy this
00:38:26
physical, media wise, steel, steel book or whatever, maybe
00:38:29
they're gonna buy it anyway and they're gonna wait till Black
00:38:32
Friday to buy, whether it's streaming or not streaming.
00:38:35
People just want to buy their their thing.
00:38:36
They want that tangible piece, right?
00:38:38
Not me. I'm I'm gonna.
00:38:39
Watch it streaming. I mean, certain movies I will go
00:38:42
out and buy. So like Fantastic Four, Superman
00:38:45
movies like that, like Temple movies I'm probably gonna gonna
00:38:47
buy. But outside of that, I mean,
00:38:49
yeah, look at you buying. Buying things like you don't got
00:38:51
kids, man, I got to pay for like Lunchables.
00:38:55
I got to pay for uncrustables. Anything with a bulls in it I
00:38:59
got to buy or buy. Go Kurts.
00:39:01
The Boo boos. The Boo boos.
00:39:03
No expensive laboo boos are yeah super.
00:39:05
Super expensive. Oh, my God.
00:39:07
Go, Dad. When you get your, you know,
00:39:08
twin daughters, Laboo, Boos and and and your son.
00:39:10
Yeah, yeah. We went to the pop Mart store
00:39:13
side quest. I went to the pop Mart store in
00:39:15
the mall and I don't know why. We just got caught up with it
00:39:19
and we let them go ham. Next thing you know like we have
00:39:22
like 2 loo Boo boos and then some clothing or some other
00:39:25
crap. I don't even know.
00:39:26
It's just there goes a car payment out the window.
00:39:28
Like I hope we're going to have a car next month because we just
00:39:32
bought a bunch of laboo boos. Can we take a little laboo boos?
00:39:34
Can we ride on their backs? I don't know.
00:39:35
Anyways, sorry you're. Going to bed, all right?
00:39:38
Let's keep it going. Ahsoka teasing season 2 arc OK
00:39:43
Rosario speaking at Comic Con Scotland You have a Scottish
00:39:47
accent for me Speaking of Comic Con Scotland Speaking of
00:39:50
Scotland, Rosario Dolson Share No, I'm not going to do.
00:39:54
It's actually not bad. Yeah, it's not bad at all.
00:39:55
I'm pretty proud. Conor McGregor, she had a more
00:39:59
of a strong gravitas. Oh, this is Rosario talking
00:40:03
about Ahsoka. She had a more of a strong
00:40:05
gravitas at the beginning and she was a little bit more
00:40:08
unflappable. I like that she's relaxing.
00:40:11
She's kind of getting back to her joy.
00:40:13
I think those moments with Hayden and Anakin were so
00:40:17
important for her to heal something.
00:40:18
She could be more present. I kind of like this idea, you
00:40:21
know, we didn't really get to see.
00:40:24
Like fun Ahsoka like the the most fun she ever had or the
00:40:28
most like down to earth and like present moment she had was when
00:40:31
she was with Grogu right? But other than that she was like
00:40:33
super serious, always arguing with with what's her name,
00:40:37
Mandalorian girl. I hate when my brain does that
00:40:40
but. You're now I'm doing it we both.
00:40:43
Did it? Hey, we're not allowed to both
00:40:44
to do it like when you do. Very thank you.
00:40:47
Thank you. When I do it, I try to save you,
00:40:49
but you didn't save me, but you saved anyway.
00:40:52
Less snippy, back to more snips. I like this.
00:40:55
I like it. It's having.
00:40:57
Having her kind of like rekindle that snips, you know, kind of
00:41:00
like thing because she has been a little more serious and like
00:41:03
more projects lately just because, I mean, you know, she's
00:41:06
had she's been through a lot. She's had to deal with a lot.
00:41:09
She's had a lot less fun as a character.
00:41:12
So it's nice to hear that she's kind of like jumping back into
00:41:14
that. Yeah.
00:41:15
And. Plus, she came back and she was
00:41:17
in like her white robe. She's, she's in her like Gandalf
00:41:20
the White era, you know what I mean?
00:41:22
Yeah. Like, she's, she's at peace with
00:41:24
things. She's good.
00:41:25
She's gonna have fun even though she's stuck in another universe
00:41:27
or another Galaxy or whatever. Well, I mean, obviously.
00:41:30
We're gonna see her get back, so spoiler alert.
00:41:32
All right, from White Ahsoka to Green Lanterns, Green Lanterns
00:41:35
get real. The Star of Lanterns, Aaron
00:41:38
Pierre says the Green Lantern Corps are extremely relatable
00:41:42
because they embrace their flaws in a way that is beautiful.
00:41:45
DC's cosmic cops are getting a ground glow up.
00:41:49
If kindness is punk rock, then vulnerability is the new
00:41:53
superpower. And being a cocky space cop is
00:41:57
670. You are terrible.
00:42:00
That's that's so cringe 6. 7 is that that that is.
00:42:04
That is so cringe. OK Oh my God.
00:42:07
It's it's not. That you're saying 6-7, right?
00:42:09
It's the way you're saying 6-7, like anyways, 6-7.
00:42:15
OK, number one, I can't look at Aaron Pierre without, like,
00:42:19
getting lost in his eyes #2 wait, hold, hold.
00:42:22
Hold on, hold on, Frank. Clip that.
00:42:25
Yeah, we'll tag him in that, too.
00:42:26
There's like Aaron Pierre. I can't look at you without
00:42:29
getting lost in your eyes. I'm sorry.
00:42:30
It is a sea of green and Gray and it is beautiful.
00:42:33
Anyways, no, I love that they're trying to make them relatable
00:42:38
and that they're they're gonna have flaws.
00:42:40
We already know that the Green Lanterns have flaws just because
00:42:45
the way that they've already been portrayed within this
00:42:47
universe, you know that bowl cut is a flaw, 100 percent, 400 and.
00:42:53
31 chicks say it. It's not a flaw, I'll tell you
00:42:56
that man. No 100.
00:42:57
Percent. It is, but still, yeah, I'm, I'm
00:43:01
excited for this. Again, we all know I've said it
00:43:04
in the past. I'm a massive Green Lantern fan.
00:43:06
I know that Matt Aguilar, Mr. Swaggilar in the chat, I know he
00:43:10
is also a big Green Lantern fan, given that, you know, and both
00:43:14
me and me and him agree our favorite Green Lantern is not
00:43:17
going to be in the show because James Gunn has already said that
00:43:20
he's not a fan of our favorite Green Lantern.
00:43:22
My second favorite is Jon Stewart.
00:43:24
And I think that Aaron Pierre is going to massively, in a good
00:43:27
way, wreck this role. So I mean, I think he's going to
00:43:29
kill it. And and he's a good, he's a
00:43:32
really good actor. And him playing Jon Stewart, I
00:43:35
think he can, I think he can convey that leadership and that
00:43:38
gravitas that Jon Stewart is known we're doing.
00:43:41
And then the, I forgot the name of the actor, but the actor
00:43:44
who's playing Hal Jordan, he's Kyle, Kyle Chandler.
00:43:47
He's got the comedy chops to be the snarky kind of, you know,
00:43:51
just kind of Jackass that that Hal Jordan is.
00:43:55
I'm hoping that that James Gunn is swerving us and Kyle Rayner
00:44:00
ends up in the end. I know he said that he doesn't
00:44:02
like Kyle Rayner, but I think he also knows that we all love Kyle
00:44:05
Rayner so well. I mean just.
00:44:06
Like just like how it started with Hal Jordan, if we just have
00:44:10
to think, let the universe expand, right?
00:44:12
We got to let Hal be Hal and John be John and what happens
00:44:16
with them? Same thing with Guy, you know,
00:44:17
we just got to let it expand and then we'll get to a Kyle.
00:44:20
I mean, we haven't even gotten through one season of Lantern
00:44:24
shit, so just ease up, man. What I'm saying like.
00:44:27
Like we already got Guy Gardner. We know Guy Gardner exists.
00:44:30
We know that this show is going to be how Jordan and Jon
00:44:33
Stewart. You know, it's like you've got
00:44:35
three of the four core Green Lanterns.
00:44:38
Like just he doesn't even have to be a Lantern and just kind of
00:44:41
like introduce Kyle Rayner at the end or something that, you
00:44:43
know, All right, let's do a. Bet what?
00:44:45
What? I love Green Lantern too, but
00:44:47
who do we get first? Do we get Kyle Rayner or do we
00:44:49
get Chip? Because my votes chip.
00:44:51
We're gonna. Get chip 100% we're gonna get
00:44:53
Chip we're gonna get we're because we're going to see parts
00:44:57
of the Lantern court, right? Yeah, we're going to see Tomar
00:45:00
Ray. I, I I want to see another
00:45:02
interpretation of Tomar Ray. He's such a good character.
00:45:05
I I think again, and this is what we were saying before, I
00:45:08
think by the end of the season, the coolest thing would be if
00:45:11
they introduced the Manhunters because that is another threat
00:45:15
that could, that could lead into a whole another season and I
00:45:18
could. See James Gunn wanting to do
00:45:20
that because honestly, you need a little bit of cannon fodder.
00:45:23
You need something to beat up run to show their strength.
00:45:26
So bringing something like that, like the manhunters back like
00:45:29
this is where we screwed up in the past.
00:45:31
Sorry about that Green Lanterns go handle that.
00:45:33
I could see them wanting to to bring in the manhunters, but
00:45:36
they should bring in chip. That's number one.
00:45:38
So the manhunters. Come in and Chip comes in and
00:45:40
they they get surrounded by a bunch of manhunters and then
00:45:43
Chip by himself comes in and just wrecks a whole bunch of
00:45:45
there you go I. I like it.
00:45:47
There you go. I mean, I like it for you,
00:45:49
buddy. Let's go ahead.
00:45:51
Yeah, I can't. I bet we.
00:45:52
I bet we see OA too. Yeah, at least by the end of.
00:45:54
The series because it is supposed to be like a a buddy
00:45:57
cop thing at the for the premise of the show supposed to be a
00:46:00
buddy cop thing. So yeah, I think it won't be
00:46:02
until like the season finale that we see them go to OA.
00:46:04
Gotcha. Gotcha.
00:46:05
All right, I got more DCU. Let's do it.
00:46:08
You thought she was gone, but honey, she never left.
00:46:11
James Gunn confirms Waller is still active in development at
00:46:16
TC, while Viola Davis is still leading.
00:46:19
All right, OK, I'm glad, I'm actually really happy that they
00:46:22
kept Viola Davis in this role. Yes, you know, leading into
00:46:26
Peacemaker and plan to keep her. I really do that.
00:46:29
The show will follow what Waller has been up to during the events
00:46:33
of DC Studios Superman movie, the second season of Peacemaker
00:46:37
and the follow up to Superman Man of Tomorrow.
00:46:40
The Superman sequel is due out in summer of 2027, so it looks
00:46:44
like we will have to wait about two years for the Waller series.
00:46:49
Amanda Waller don't play. Will she be after Peacemaker as
00:46:53
well? Peacemaker is not not doing well
00:46:55
with friends I. Am all for this, I want to know
00:46:59
what Amanda Waller has been up to since she got knocked out at
00:47:02
the end of of Suicide Squad. Because the first season of
00:47:07
Peacemaker was like all everybody's fallout to betraying
00:47:11
Amanda Waller. And it's kind of like, you know,
00:47:14
that plus, you know, they kind of halfway built the
00:47:16
relationship between her and her daughter.
00:47:19
We're already seeing ads kind of, you know, become or like
00:47:23
take in that leadership role, but just not be as much of A
00:47:26
heinous bitch as her mom. And, and that's, I've been
00:47:29
saying that on on the show that I, I think that ads is gonna be
00:47:33
the Amanda Waller of checkmate. I can see that.
00:47:35
I think she's gonna. Be the one that's running
00:47:36
Checkmate. But again, less of a heinous
00:47:38
bitch cause her mom is kind of a, a monster.
00:47:40
But at the same time, I, what I want to see is them kind of get
00:47:45
into the back story of Amanda Waller.
00:47:46
I do want to see where she's been through all of this stuff
00:47:49
in DC. But I do want them to kind of
00:47:50
explain for the broader audience that she is a former special
00:47:54
forces operative, that she has a lot of like combat experience,
00:47:59
like hand to hand combat experience.
00:48:00
And that's what kind of shapes why she's the way she is and why
00:48:04
she's so callous and why she's such a, you know,
00:48:07
straightforward, you know, get shit done kind of person is
00:48:11
because of her experience in special operations.
00:48:15
And I don't know if they're gonna go this far.
00:48:17
It would be really cool to see them like, you know, explore her
00:48:19
relationship with Deathstroke because they work together.
00:48:22
Not like relationship like they weren't like together, but like,
00:48:25
you know, they they work really closely when they were in
00:48:27
special forces. So it's like kind of that would
00:48:30
be a cool like flashback to Amanda Waller and you get Slade,
00:48:36
Slade Wilson. That would be a good.
00:48:38
Way to introduce Deathstroke, Yeah, and.
00:48:40
Like you get this, her enslaved on a mission.
00:48:43
That would be so dope. That would be pretty.
00:48:45
Cool. Now she was also in Creature
00:48:48
Commandos. So she has been in the new DCU.
00:48:52
I mean, that's where we saw Rick Feig senior and her connection
00:48:56
with with him. But they didn't say what
00:48:57
happened after Creature Commandos and what's going to
00:49:00
happen to Waller, because it kind of, I think it kind of took
00:49:02
place kind of like the same time because she was part of Argus.
00:49:06
Yeah. But they they also say you can't
00:49:08
use humans or whatever like that.
00:49:09
Yeah. So at this point.
00:49:11
Rick Flag Senior has taken over her position, right?
00:49:14
So that'd be kind of cool to see kind of like also the fallout
00:49:17
between the two of them. Like maybe in the Waller show
00:49:20
they show her passing the torch and not being happy about it.
00:49:24
I don't think she's like in jail, but I think she must.
00:49:27
Maybe she's heading up like another organization, something
00:49:30
like that, like AIM or something, Who knows?
00:49:32
But yeah, glad they're still pushing forward with with a
00:49:34
Waller. A Waller series.
00:49:36
Yeah. All right, let's keep it going.
00:49:38
Running, man. Nah, it's a runaway man.
00:49:43
All right, James. Gunn's DC You may be setting up
00:49:46
Salvation Run as a major over event.
00:49:49
According to a new report from Night Edge Media, DC Studios
00:49:53
recently registered a copyright trademark for Salvation Run, so
00:49:57
that's the studio that put in the trademark for it.
00:50:00
So any kind of show or filming rights, DC Studios put the
00:50:04
patent or put the copyright on that.
00:50:06
Villains exiled to a hostile planet?
00:50:09
Yes please. DC's rogues gallery might
00:50:11
finally get their own war story. Legions of villains fighting
00:50:16
together. Will this story be the Salvation
00:50:19
for average DCU fans? I have some thoughts on this
00:50:23
please. So I think it's too early to get
00:50:27
into Salvation Run because we've barely been introduced to any of
00:50:32
the villains across the DCU. You know, we've seen inks and
00:50:36
that's about it. You know, like I think we need
00:50:38
to see some of these other rogues, of some of these other
00:50:41
villains in the normal world before they get thrown into
00:50:45
Salvation. And then we do the Salvation Run
00:50:48
story because the whole idea is you take all these criminals and
00:50:52
throw them over there, right? We need to know the stakes and
00:50:54
the value or what it's what it costs to take all these villains
00:50:58
off the streets and put them in another universe.
00:51:01
And then what happens to Peacemaker?
00:51:03
Yeah. What do you think?
00:51:03
So my. Thoughts on this?
00:51:05
I think so far, thus far, James Gunn has been really good about
00:51:10
not talking down to the audience.
00:51:11
So you have a lot of in past ventures, you have a lot of
00:51:16
talking down to the audience. And just like I have to hold
00:51:18
your hand and I have to explain every character, everything like
00:51:21
that. Well, we know the majority of
00:51:22
these characters. We haven't seen them fleshed out
00:51:24
in this universe yet, but we know the Joker, we know Lex
00:51:28
Luthor, we know if you're watching, if you watch the shows
00:51:31
and stuff like a lot of the other TV shows, like we've been
00:51:34
introduced to people like Catwoman in the Penguin and even
00:51:38
Captain Cold to an extent. Like there there are a lot of
00:51:41
these characters have been introduced in other mediums.
00:51:43
So I don't think he needs to reintroduce them in the the
00:51:47
universe in this universe. I think if he did Salvation run
00:51:51
because he's already made references to other villains,
00:51:53
like literally Lex Luthor talks about, you know, captain or not
00:51:57
Captain Doctor Phosphorus and Killer Rock supposedly hooking
00:52:01
up in jail, you know, and it's like, you know, it's it's there
00:52:05
are all these things that, you know, they make references to
00:52:09
characters. And if you know, you know, if
00:52:11
you don't, then you're more curious.
00:52:13
I think that if they do Salvation run, they're just
00:52:16
going to introduce a lot of these characters in that show.
00:52:19
And those are gonna be, you know, more almost like Suicide
00:52:22
Squad, right? Like you look at Suicide Squad
00:52:24
the movie, he introduced a crap ton of characters and you didn't
00:52:28
feel like there was like you that you didn't get enough out
00:52:31
of, you know, you didn't feel like I need more background on
00:52:34
these characters. Like we got enough background on
00:52:36
Polka dot Man that we were happy with that.
00:52:38
Same thing with Ratcatcher, same thing with like all these
00:52:40
characters in there. I think that they can do the
00:52:42
same thing for Salvation Run and him just do it with more major
00:52:46
villains. And with that being said, you
00:52:49
know, he also said that the big twist at the end of Salvation
00:52:54
run is probably not going to happen when they do Salvation
00:52:57
run because he said that he's trying his hardest not to
00:53:01
introduce the new Gods just yet because he doesn't want to step
00:53:04
on what what Snyder did because he actually said that he enjoyed
00:53:08
what Zack Snyder did with with the new Gods.
00:53:10
And he's like, I want to give myself a little bit of distance
00:53:12
between then. So there's a big twist at the
00:53:14
end of salvation run. Again, go read the book if you
00:53:17
don't know what happens in it or listen to previous episodes
00:53:19
because we've talked about it. But there is a big twist at the
00:53:22
end of salvation run that introduces the new Gods.
00:53:25
And, you know, I James Gunn already said he's not going to
00:53:27
be doing that. So that means we can focus on
00:53:29
all of the villains that are going to be in this show.
00:53:31
And if that's the case, again, I think he's going to Suicide
00:53:34
Squad. I think he's just going to
00:53:35
introduce his versions of major villains on this planet.
00:53:39
And then going forward, now you have all of these villains that
00:53:43
you can use in different. That's a good point.
00:53:45
That's a good point. Or I could see this turning
00:53:47
into, OK, we've gathered up a bunch of these villains, but
00:53:51
we've throw them in this other universe.
00:53:55
But then the US government finds it unconstitutional or something
00:53:59
like that. So they end up having to release
00:54:02
all these villains back into the world.
00:54:05
And then it becomes like, all right, there you go.
00:54:07
There you go, heroes, you have your villains to go after.
00:54:09
Let's go make some content, right?
00:54:11
Or somehow. They just like half of these
00:54:13
dudes are probably end up back in Blackgate.
00:54:15
So it's I mean, like, you know, they've already established a
00:54:16
lot of these dudes are in Blackgate.
00:54:18
So like, you know, either they all end up in Blackgate or they
00:54:20
all end up back in Belle Reeve and Blackgate Belle Reeve or
00:54:25
back in Arkham. If they start going in that that
00:54:28
way. I wonder if they introduce Aaron
00:54:31
Judge just because Aaron Judge is a major character on like
00:54:36
when it comes to the prison systems in in DC.
00:54:39
You know, he's he's like he's one of the prison guards that
00:54:42
like, you know, everybody knows. So it'd be kind of cool to see
00:54:44
Aaron Judge show up in in this. I like it.
00:54:46
I. Like it?
00:54:47
We'll have to see. I'm just interested because I'm
00:54:50
surprised it went this direction so quickly.
00:54:53
Yeah, with James Gunn and Peacemaker season 2.
00:54:55
So it'll be interesting to see where it goes.
00:54:56
But now let's keep it going. We got a few more stories to get
00:54:59
through. All right, All right.
00:55:00
Creed goes to Miami. Michael B Jordan is in early
00:55:04
talks to star in Joseph Kaczynski's Miami Vice movie at
00:55:09
Universal Studios. High speed, high style, high
00:55:12
stakes. The neons about to get louder,
00:55:14
break out the shoulder pads. Michael B Jordan, welcome to my.
00:55:18
Miami, thank you for doing that so so I mean this is the
00:55:25
obvious, but we think he's playing tubs right I mean he.
00:55:29
Could be Crockett. There's no, you know, honestly
00:55:31
there. Is there is nothing that says
00:55:33
that he couldn't play Crockett. He could.
00:55:34
He'd be. Cool either way.
00:55:35
He'd be cool either way, yeah. Because I mean, like, you know,
00:55:38
Don Johnson was a was it was, it was a very handsome man.
00:55:41
But I mean, here's here's. One Jordan.
00:55:43
How about they make Michael B Jordan Crockett and then they
00:55:47
get a Latino to play Cubs? It's in Miami.
00:55:50
Come on now. Yeah, I mean, but.
00:55:52
They also had Martin Castillo, right?
00:55:54
So I mean like Martin Castillo could be that that's your Latino
00:55:56
dude, he's not There you go. Definitely not as as high
00:55:59
profile as as Crockett and Tubs, but I actually I think I think I
00:56:03
do like your idea better. You know, we get to play Tubs,
00:56:06
Bad Bunny. There you go, Bad Bunny.
00:56:08
He's a good actor now. Man, he's, he's been in a couple
00:56:10
of different things, Yeah. And he doesn't need.
00:56:12
To talk much, you know, he could do a hurricane Rata off the top
00:56:15
of a Lamborghini. Yeah, I'm I'm into it.
00:56:17
I'm into right. He's a good.
00:56:18
Wrestler geek freaks is is saying Austin Butler is actually
00:56:22
rumored to play Crockett right now.
00:56:23
I'm with that Austin Butler after Dune.
00:56:26
That dude can do no wrong. Yeah, that, but.
00:56:28
Honestly, that's too much sexy for one one movie.
00:56:31
Are you kidding me? Austin Butler.
00:56:33
And Michael B Jordan, that's just like, yeah.
00:56:34
And there's, like, your quintessential, like, hot Miami
00:56:36
dudes, Yeah. You're gonna break some movie
00:56:39
screens. Yeah, that one.
00:56:41
All right, I think that was it. Yeah.
00:56:43
So we've explored the Upside Down, spilled a little blood and
00:56:46
booked our trip to Miami. But now it's time to slow the
00:56:50
scroll. Let's zoom out and dig in.
00:56:52
These are some stories shaping the fandom, stirring debate and
00:56:56
trending up. That's.
00:56:58
Right, well, ladies and gentlemen, let's trend up.
00:57:00
Let's talk about what's trending on the interwebs right now.
00:57:02
Greenlit, then ghosted. Steven Soderbergh's The Hunt for
00:57:06
Ben Solo was more than a pitch. It had a completed script, Adam
00:57:10
Driver, attached to Lucas Film's full support, But Disney shut
00:57:14
down the Star Wars sequel at the top level, reportedly over
00:57:18
disbelief that Ben Solo could have survived The Rise of
00:57:21
Skywalker. Disney internally Lucasfilm felt
00:57:25
the story was sound, and Soderbergh confirmed this was
00:57:28
the first time Disney rejected a finished Star Wars script.
00:57:31
Fans didn't take the cancellation lying down.
00:57:33
They rose up like the people of Ferrick's and launched a full
00:57:36
scale campaign, flying a banner over Disney Studios and buying
00:57:40
billboard space in Time Times Square, demanding the film be
00:57:44
revived. The message?
00:57:46
Don't pretend to support fan favorite characters and
00:57:50
redemption arcs if you're going to pull the plug.
00:57:53
When it counts from scrapping. Redemption arcs to rejecting
00:57:58
redemption deals. The studio shuffle continues
00:58:01
over at Warner Brothers Discovery.
00:58:02
So moving into the next thing before we get into the
00:58:04
discussion, yeah, I got I. Got I got comments on both, but
00:58:07
yeah I know. Meanwhile, Warner Brothers
00:58:10
Discovery is navigating its own identity crisis.
00:58:12
Paramount Skydance offered a staggering $60 billion to
00:58:18
acquire Warner Brothers Discovery with 80% in cash and
00:58:22
even proposed to Co CEO role for David Zaslov in the merged
00:58:27
company. But Warner Brothers Discovery's
00:58:29
board rejected the offer, calling it too low, despite
00:58:32
Zaslov potentially netting $500 million personally if the deal
00:58:38
went through. The contradiction Zaslov has
00:58:41
publicly Warner Brothers Discovery as a leaner, more
00:58:44
focused studio post merger. Yet he's entertaining offers
00:58:48
that would entrench his own power while destabilizing the
00:58:52
brand. Fans of DC and HBO properties
00:58:54
are left wondering, is this about building better content or
00:58:58
consolidating control? The connective thread Fan trust
00:59:01
versus studio strategy. Both stories expose A widening
00:59:06
gap between what studios say they value, fan loyalty,
00:59:09
creative innovation, legacy characters and But their actions
00:59:13
reveal risk aversion, executive power plays, and a disregard for
00:59:17
audience investment. Whether it's shoving A beloved
00:59:19
redemption arc or rejecting A merger that could stabilize A
00:59:23
flailing brand, the message to fans is clear.
00:59:26
Your passion is marketable, but not always actionable and fans
00:59:30
are are done playing passive. They're demanding accountability
00:59:33
and studios might finally have to listen.
00:59:35
So the overarching question that we have here, if fans are are
00:59:40
are the true commodity in why are the studios ignoring what we
00:59:44
want? James, give me all your thoughts
00:59:45
so. Interesting.
00:59:47
So interesting. Well, let's let's jump back to
00:59:49
the Ben Solo solo movie. Yeah, I think Star Wars, like
00:59:55
after this new trilogy came out, they were a massive ship sailing
01:00:00
in the night without a rudder. I think they didn't know where
01:00:03
to go. They had all these ideas, but
01:00:05
then things didn't land or the feedback that they were getting
01:00:08
wasn't as as well received as as it should have been.
01:00:12
And they freaked out. And they were like, you know,
01:00:13
shut it down. You know, pretty much anything
01:00:16
related to the new trilogy or sequel trilogy.
01:00:20
Let's cut it. Ben Solo, You know, we still
01:00:22
haven't seen the Ray move. Apparently it's being made, but
01:00:25
we still don't know exactly what what's happening with that
01:00:27
movie. But I think they were like, shut
01:00:29
it all down, you know, let's let's figure out something else.
01:00:32
And which led to Mandalorian, which led to Grogu.
01:00:35
So I think they ended up riding the ship somehow.
01:00:38
But it would have been cool. Would have been cool to see the
01:00:40
hunt for Ben, Ben Solo. That would have been dope.
01:00:42
But I don't know. Anyway, going over to the Warner
01:00:46
Brothers and Paramount side of the thing.
01:00:48
Holy First off, holy cow, where does Paramount get that kind of
01:00:51
money to throw around like that? You know, I mean, they're.
01:00:54
Owned by a billionaire, so, but and.
01:00:56
That is true. But you know, everything that's
01:00:59
happened with Warner Brothers over the last 2-3 years were
01:01:02
like, what is Zazzlav doing? Like why does he keep cutting
01:01:06
things? Why does he keep, you know,
01:01:07
shelving projects like the Looney Tunes stuff?
01:01:09
You know, I think now we're starting to find it out.
01:01:11
I think he was trimming the fat and you see this with a lot of a
01:01:14
lot of companies, they trim the fat before it gets sold.
01:01:18
So the, the, the product that looks super streamlined, the
01:01:22
budgets are a lot lower. I think all of that was because
01:01:26
of this. All of it led to Zaz Lab and
01:01:29
Warner Brothers being like somebody bias, somebody,
01:01:32
somebody bias. We want to get out of get out of
01:01:34
this and somebody bias. So I think now we're figuring it
01:01:36
all out. So what do you, what do you
01:01:37
think about all this? What do you think about Ben
01:01:39
Solo, Warner Brothers, Paramount Plus having $60 billion to throw
01:01:42
at a competitor? This.
01:01:45
This. Really does kind of get down to
01:01:47
the thing that really angers me about what the studios are doing
01:01:51
and the way that they think think about things like they
01:01:54
they really don't care about what the fans actually want.
01:01:58
They're they're still on this old school power trip that is we
01:02:02
give you what we think you want and you just enjoy it, right?
01:02:06
As of right now, the studios that are kind of proving that
01:02:11
they are just shitting all over what all these major studios are
01:02:15
doing are the anime studios. How so?
01:02:17
If you look at what's happening with that, right?
01:02:20
They're taking something that originally was not something
01:02:24
that was considered profitable, that was not considered
01:02:26
something that you would want in theaters.
01:02:28
And they're saying, hey, like Demon Slayer just did it right
01:02:30
now. Like, hey, let's take the last
01:02:33
season of this show and let's just make it in the three movies
01:02:36
and put them in theaters and just see how it does.
01:02:38
And now Demon Slayer is one of the highest grossing movies in
01:02:41
the country. Because the highest.
01:02:43
Grossing, was it foreign film or International Film or something
01:02:47
like that? Yeah.
01:02:48
So like you. Have that right.
01:02:49
And then on top of that, Chainsaw Man just released the
01:02:52
movie this weekend and that's killing it right now.
01:02:55
And it's like, you know, the, it's, you talk about something
01:02:58
that a demographic that understands, understands its,
01:03:03
its fan base and is giving its fans what it, what, what, what
01:03:06
it wants, right? Versus you look at what the big
01:03:10
majors are doing right now, what all the big studios are doing
01:03:12
right now. And it's like, OK, you guys are
01:03:14
learning some of your lessons. You're figuring some stuff out.
01:03:17
Like, you know, it's, it's this, but a lot of it is also, we're
01:03:19
afraid to pull the trigger on things, right?
01:03:21
Disney is the biggest example of we are afraid to pull the
01:03:25
trigger on things that people want because what we want as
01:03:28
fans, what we want is good movies, movies that are well
01:03:33
written, right? We want new property.
01:03:35
For the most part, the majority of people want just new things.
01:03:39
We don't need to relitigate all of the old movies that are out
01:03:42
there, right? Hey, I know, I know you're going
01:03:44
to disagree with me on this, James, but hey, we're going to
01:03:46
take Moana and make it live action.
01:03:48
Hey, we're going to take Lilo and Stitch and make it live
01:03:50
action. Hey, we're going to take Frozen
01:03:51
and we're going to make it live action.
01:03:53
Right now they're talking about making live action Rapunzel,
01:03:56
right? Like, that's not what we want.
01:03:58
New interpretations are fine. That's that's fun and whatnot,
01:04:01
but that's not the majority of what we want.
01:04:04
You know, like fans. You think I talked about this
01:04:07
last week? They think that we're tired of
01:04:10
superhero movies. And what I was talking about
01:04:12
last week is we're not tired of superhero movies.
01:04:14
We're tired of shit writing. We're tired of you taking a
01:04:18
trope and leaning on that trope, right?
01:04:20
Right now they're talking about multiverse fatigue, right?
01:04:23
Because they're gonna find every kind of fatigue that they can
01:04:25
find. That's bullshit because
01:04:26
Invincible made one of the best multiverse T things on TV and in
01:04:32
a single episode, right? DC just did really good
01:04:35
multiverse stuff, right? They're doing really good stuff
01:04:38
with the multiverse that doesn't feel trite and and convoluted
01:04:42
and and played out because they're using it as a part of
01:04:45
the story versus a crutch for the story.
01:04:48
You know what I mean? And that's that's kind of where
01:04:50
like, you know, where Marvel has has dropped the ball is we're
01:04:53
lying on it rather than telling a good story that happened to
01:04:56
have these elements in it, right?
01:04:57
And focusing on a good story. You want to know where there's a
01:05:00
good example of that? Deadpool, Deadpool and Wolverine
01:05:03
may not have been, may not have had the best, like, you know, a
01:05:07
plus story that was in there, but it gave us everything we
01:05:10
wanted, right? The comedy was there, the buddy
01:05:12
cop atmosphere was there. We got a version of Wolverine
01:05:16
that everybody's been waiting for.
01:05:17
We got the Council of Wades. We got so many different
01:05:20
elements that people wanted without it feeling like it was
01:05:23
too much, you know what I mean? And it made a butt load of
01:05:25
money, right? My issue right now, and this is
01:05:28
leading back to the point, my issue right now is Disney
01:05:31
saying, and I understand what they're saying is, well, Ben
01:05:34
Solo died, OK? It's not like you can't write a
01:05:37
version of something that brings that in.
01:05:39
You decided in that same exact movie to bring back fucking
01:05:42
Palpatine that had no one lie. Yeah, you know.
01:05:46
You, they had no explanation, still hasn't had any explanation
01:05:50
and now you're passing that off to Filoni to fix, right.
01:05:53
And which, knowing Filoni, he's gonna fix that and it's gonna be
01:05:56
fucking great because Feloni understands good story, you
01:05:59
know? So I mean, I agree.
01:06:01
Can you make my shirt? Live action I know I need to get
01:06:03
you your shirt I. Agree with a lot of your what
01:06:05
you're saying, but I will say keep Lilo and stitch out your
01:06:09
mouth. If you're going to talk smack
01:06:10
about Lilo and stitch. No, no dare you.
01:06:12
It's not, it's. Not about Lilo and Stitch
01:06:14
itself. It's about the, the overall
01:06:16
concept of let's remake something that we've already
01:06:19
made, right? I, I, I don't need as much as I
01:06:23
enjoyed that movie, I did. I, I'm not taking that away and
01:06:26
I guarantee I'm going to enjoy the Moana movie, right?
01:06:28
It's not that I'm not going to enjoy these movies, but at the
01:06:30
same time, it feels like you guys are creatively bankrupt and
01:06:34
you do not know how to create new stories.
01:06:37
And I've said this in the past, they do not take risks and
01:06:41
they're afraid to take risks. Whereas Walt Disney built an
01:06:44
entire company on risking things, on think, on creative
01:06:48
ventures that he thought I'd do. Well, Snow White is an example.
01:06:51
Mary Poppins is an example. All of these things he made.
01:06:54
Yeah. He made so many creative risks
01:06:57
that all paid off in the end because he believed in the
01:07:01
product, he believed in the storytelling, he believed in
01:07:04
what it was. And Disney has fallen to the
01:07:07
wayside that they have lost that that threat.
01:07:09
And now it's like, OK, we did creative things in the past, but
01:07:13
we're so afraid to lose money because that's all we care about
01:07:17
now. There it.
01:07:17
Is yeah, that's all we all we care about is money at this
01:07:20
point. We're so afraid.
01:07:22
And again, I've said this in the past as well, they are not
01:07:24
losing money. They're just not making as much
01:07:26
money as they did last year, right?
01:07:28
Oh, we're not making. The shareholders as much money.
01:07:30
When you prioritize shareholders and profits over the fandom, the
01:07:35
fandom is not going to pay you back.
01:07:37
Right. The focus should always be on
01:07:39
the fans. The focus should always be on
01:07:42
creative creating things that. Make people want to go to the
01:07:45
theaters, I think. Some of these bigger companies,
01:07:48
Disney, Warner Brothers, they forgot what it's like to just
01:07:52
make something that's good for a pocket of people.
01:07:54
Yeah, it's like they can't put money behind something that's
01:07:57
that's niche. Like like Demon Slayer, like
01:07:59
that's such a good example of like, here's something that just
01:08:03
works. We don't know why it works
01:08:04
because we're too fucking old to understand why it works.
01:08:07
But it works, you know, well, just like K pop demon hunters,
01:08:10
it works and we didn't know it was going to work.
01:08:11
But I just way to go Sony. It's just Sony making.
01:08:14
The biggest mistake of their fucking entire.
01:08:16
Well, they've made big mistakes, but I mean, making the huge
01:08:18
mistake, like, yeah. And, and again, I, I, I fear
01:08:21
that these studios are going to learn the wrong lessons with
01:08:23
this kid. Guarantee in the next year, one
01:08:27
of the studios is going to try and make a live action demon
01:08:29
hunters aren't demon slayers movie Guarantee.
01:08:30
Oh yeah, guarantee it. Because they're going to be
01:08:32
like, demon slayers makes money. Let's go and make a live action
01:08:34
one. That's not the lesson you should
01:08:36
be learning. Oh my gosh.
01:08:37
Isn't. Isn't Demon Slayer on Hulu which
01:08:40
is owned by Disney? It's.
01:08:42
It's it's on Hulu, it's on Netflix, but it's not, it's not
01:08:46
owned by those, right? Crunchyroll runs that right, OK.
01:08:50
OK, yeah, but I mean like. You know, same thing with
01:08:52
chainsaw man like it's and Netflix has been trying to do
01:08:55
that and failing, you know, let's make live action anime.
01:08:57
And it's because they again, they follow, they, they fall
01:09:00
away from the plot, they want to go and recreate something and
01:09:02
it's like, do what Marvel did in the beginning, right?
01:09:05
I'm OK with you. Changing stories.
01:09:07
Lines. I'm OK with you changing things
01:09:09
as long as it's still in the same.
01:09:11
Vein of the source material as long as it's something that
01:09:14
still lives in that it still exudes what we love about that
01:09:20
property right do. Not go and make something just
01:09:23
because you want to make money off it and assume that the fan
01:09:26
base is going to go see it when you decided to change everything
01:09:29
about it. Because by the time X-Men is in
01:09:31
my example where I I talk about the X-Men movies a lot and how
01:09:35
much I don't enjoy those movies is because I said it in the
01:09:37
past, X-Men as as a franchise was a bunch of movies about
01:09:43
mutants that tangentially shared the same name and characters,
01:09:47
but they weren't X-Men moves. You know I I can.
01:09:49
See what you're saying? But I feel like we had to have
01:09:52
those X-Men movies in whatever fashion they were, in order to
01:09:56
get to the MCU, no? And I, I wholeheartedly.
01:10:00
Agree with that. But what I'm saying is that's an
01:10:02
example of, you know, OK, we need to change everything in
01:10:06
order to make it something that the audiences will enjoy.
01:10:10
But in the end, you know, what the audiences enjoyed the most
01:10:13
was Wolverine in the yellow fucking suit that they thought
01:10:15
wasn't going to work. Yeah, that's.
01:10:17
True. You know what I mean?
01:10:18
It's, it's all of these things, you know, you know how
01:10:20
infinitely excited we are when we're hearing that we're going
01:10:23
to get Jim Lee's version of the X-Men on screen.
01:10:26
That's a good point. You know, like how?
01:10:29
Excited. We are like, I might just go
01:10:31
watch that movie just because we're getting Jim Lee's X-Men on
01:10:35
screen, right? And again, Sewang going back to
01:10:37
Star Wars. Like, OK, they, they, they, they
01:10:40
added Palpatine into, into episode 9 and they're talking
01:10:44
about, oh, whoa, he died in that movie.
01:10:46
OK, it's Star Wars. Clones exist.
01:10:49
Back. The tanks exist.
01:10:50
Ray has force healing, yeah. Hey, remember, these are
01:10:54
imaginary space Wizards right now.
01:10:57
Ray can heal you with the force. Darth Maul came back after being
01:11:01
cut in half. There are explanations to bring
01:11:04
back any character, and if all of the people on the production
01:11:07
side thought that it was a good movie, but Disney was like, no,
01:11:11
we're not. We don't, we're not with this.
01:11:13
Iger was like, I don't think this would be plausible.
01:11:15
How would you bring Ben Solo back?
01:11:16
It's in the fucking script. We wrote it for you.
01:11:20
So, Luke. Had a clone exactly and and I do
01:11:23
agree with say Wong on certain some things.
01:11:24
I know Filoni's been kind of making his way back to this, but
01:11:27
using some of the. Legends plot lines that do work.
01:11:30
Not everything in Legends works. I'm sorry, everybody out there,
01:11:32
I know everybody's pissed off about like, Oh well, they just
01:11:35
should have used everything when Star Wars Legends.
01:11:36
No, not everything in Star Wars Legends works.
01:11:38
OK. As much as everybody loves a lot
01:11:41
of the things in Star Wars Legends, there are some fucking
01:11:43
stupid things in Legends. But there are really good plot
01:11:45
lines in Star Wars Legends that you can learn from and use,
01:11:48
which we're literally getting the use on BOG.
01:11:50
We know that that's happening, right?
01:11:51
We know that that's, I'm pretty sure it's happening.
01:11:54
They just established a bunch of lore that is related to the use
01:11:57
on BOG in the end of Ahsoka Season 1.
01:11:59
So we may not get it in Ahsoka Season 2, but they established
01:12:03
that the environments that they come from exist.
01:12:06
Yeah, so we can. Get.
01:12:07
The use on Vog in the future there, there, there.
01:12:09
There are so many things in Star Wars that baloney has been taken
01:12:14
'cause he's admitted that he loves a lot of the things and
01:12:18
Legends. There are a lot of things that
01:12:20
he is starting to move over. I'm waiting because he said that
01:12:23
he loves Mara Jade. I'm waiting for him to find a
01:12:25
way to bring Mara Jade into this.
01:12:27
It that's we. Nailed it.
01:12:28
Sadie Sink in Marvel is Oh my God Sadie Sink as.
01:12:32
Mara Jade and they find somebody who can play a young Luke
01:12:36
Skywalker. And that's a relationship they
01:12:37
had in between the him taking Grogu on as as as a protege,
01:12:42
which was very short lived to the point where Ben kills
01:12:45
everybody right in between there.
01:12:47
There's going to be this budding relationship with Luke.
01:12:50
And as much as everybody's tired of Luke, I think everybody wants
01:12:52
to see Luke and Mara Jade together.
01:12:54
That's something that everybody wants.
01:12:55
It's like that's. The last piece we want to see
01:12:58
from like the original trilogy stories like in the in the
01:13:02
expanded universe, like just give us Mara Jade, give us Mara
01:13:05
Jade and then you can do whatever you want.
01:13:06
You know, we already got thrown. We're happy.
01:13:08
Let's see what else happens. OK, let's get back to Warner
01:13:11
Brothers though. So this whole Zazz Lab thing
01:13:13
being sold or Warner Brothers being sold to to Did you even
01:13:18
know this was trying to happen? Yeah, I didn't know.
01:13:20
I I. Knew about this and the first
01:13:23
thing that came to mind for me was, isn't this, isn't this
01:13:26
against FCC protocols as far as like monopolization?
01:13:30
They're there. They've been trying to block
01:13:32
stuff like this forever because they don't want monopolies,
01:13:35
right? They want competition in the in
01:13:38
in the industry. But allowing Paramount to
01:13:41
purchase Warner Brothers Discovery is like that is
01:13:44
against everything. That the FCC has fought for for
01:13:47
the last. Hold.
01:13:48
On this, this is like Disney buying Fox sort of deal.
01:13:53
Like it's huge, it's big, but it's not saying it hasn't been
01:13:57
done before. No, but the thing.
01:13:59
Is, is that Warner Brothers in Discovery already had a merger
01:14:02
that already like went through a lot of turmoil that was like,
01:14:05
oh, well, you know, we may not let this happen.
01:14:08
It's not supposed to happen. We can't let it happen.
01:14:10
Finally, they let it happen. And now Paramount's talking
01:14:12
about buying and, and if you I don't want to get, I don't want
01:14:16
to get into politics on this at all.
01:14:17
I really do not, I do not want to talk politics on this show at
01:14:20
all. But I think a lot of this also
01:14:22
the, the, the allowance of this happening has to do with the,
01:14:27
the new CEO of Paramount positioning himself.
01:14:29
And I think the FCC, current FCC in its state is just doing him
01:14:33
favors because he's doing favors for that.
01:14:35
I, I think it's, I think it's, I think there's a lot more
01:14:38
implication on the back end. And I am not for this just being
01:14:43
somebody who these, these, it's, it's, it's all money grabs for
01:14:47
all of them. They don't that none of these
01:14:49
people give two shits about entertainment.
01:14:51
They care about entertainment is a is a mode for us to make
01:14:54
money. And if I can merge all of these
01:14:57
properties together, I'll make more money.
01:14:59
And that's the way they look at it.
01:15:00
And that As for me as a fan of cinema, as a fan of
01:15:05
storytelling, I feel like that is just when your motivation
01:15:09
becomes money over making good properties.
01:15:12
I feel like you're in your, your mindset is the wrong place.
01:15:15
That's that's why I. Like the studio?
01:15:17
I don't know if you you watched the studio.
01:15:18
The studio was. Perfect.
01:15:19
The studio was a perfect example of of of, you know, kind of them
01:15:25
telling that story and and what's the word I'm looking for?
01:15:29
They the not sarcasm, the satire.
01:15:33
Satire is the word I'm. Looking for It's a satire on the
01:15:36
state of the industry and what the industry is right?
01:15:39
And it is a perfect encapsulation of what that what
01:15:41
what is happening, but what? I liked about it.
01:15:44
Is the Seth Rogen head of studio character still wanted to make
01:15:47
good things? He still wanted to make art in
01:15:50
cinema and he still wanted to put out beautiful movies.
01:15:54
But then he had screwed. It up whole.
01:15:55
Time, but then he had to make. Cool the movie so.
01:15:59
But like, that's what I want like Brothers or Paramount to
01:16:03
be. But it's not like that.
01:16:04
It's it's all money. It's it's more about the Excel
01:16:06
spreadsheets. And is something going to make
01:16:09
money? Not make money.
01:16:10
And you can even tell like going back to Disney, like thinking
01:16:13
about Marvel, thinking about, say, Thunderbolts and how
01:16:16
overall people were happy with it and people were like, this is
01:16:19
refreshing. You know, we finally get a movie
01:16:21
that after a couple duds, they didn't feel like they connected
01:16:25
Thunderbolts connected with us. But you know, when it comes to
01:16:28
the spreadsheets, that movie failed.
01:16:30
You know what's the same thing with Superman?
01:16:32
It's the same thing with Superman.
01:16:33
Like the Warner Brothers didn't make the amount of money that
01:16:37
they wanted on there, but creatively, it is 100% something
01:16:41
that people love. Yeah.
01:16:42
And that's. Some bull that is some bull like
01:16:44
there is exponential growth when it comes to like Superman never
01:16:48
flopped. It may on paper didn't say you
01:16:51
made money, but it established a foundation for the DCU that you
01:16:56
can build off of and you're building off of right now.
01:16:58
So don't tell me it was a flop. Yeah, it wasn't it. 100% wasn't
01:17:02
and and that's the whole thing is like it didn't make as much
01:17:04
money as they wanted it to, but it.
01:17:06
Still made a good. Amount of money The thing is is
01:17:08
that streaming numbers is absolutely ridiculous it is like
01:17:12
one of the highest streaming things out there right now one
01:17:16
of the the big issues with that is again you have a lot of the
01:17:21
the the. The the anti.
01:17:22
Snider the anti Snider, the anti gun guys online that are upset
01:17:28
and talking about like, Oh yeah, well, it didn't make this and it
01:17:31
didn't do this and it's not doing this and these numbers are
01:17:34
not that great. And they're talking about don't
01:17:37
use the excuse that people aren't going to the movies,
01:17:39
whether or not because tickets are expense exponentially higher
01:17:43
than they ever were. Snacks are super expensive when
01:17:46
you can go and wait for it to come on TV on.
01:17:50
COVID messed everybody up because now everybody's willing
01:17:53
to wait for it to hit hit streaming, especially because
01:17:55
everybody has decent TV's, decent home theater systems.
01:17:58
I can just watch it at home and I could pause it to go to the
01:18:01
bathroom. I don't have to, I, I don't have
01:18:03
to walk out of the theater to go pee and miss like a scene to
01:18:06
where I have to go watch the movie again, you know, right.
01:18:08
You know, people wait for it to hit streaming.
01:18:10
And especially when they know, like, look how fast Superman hit
01:18:13
streaming. They know it's coming.
01:18:14
So why, why, why spend the money and why wait?
01:18:17
Yeah, like 2. 2 1/2 months, something crazy like yeah, so I
01:18:20
mean that. That's The thing is that of
01:18:21
course it's not going to make as much money.
01:18:23
And then the and then the argument they make is, well,
01:18:25
look at demon Slayer. Well, demon slayers and the
01:18:27
different things. We don't know when that's coming
01:18:29
with and that's going to hit streaming.
01:18:30
Yeah, and. Any money, any money that makes
01:18:32
in the theaters, it's like good for them.
01:18:34
Yeah, whether it was, you know, going to make all the money back
01:18:36
or X, you know, XXX, whatever it is going to be, it doesn't
01:18:39
matter. It's like good.
01:18:40
You made it to theaters. Demon Slayer.
01:18:42
That's probably a bigger, a bigger accomplishment than
01:18:45
whatever you're going to make in the theaters.
01:18:46
Same thing with, you know, K Pop Demon Hunters.
01:18:48
You made the demand and you got put in theaters.
01:18:51
I think that's the win. Yeah.
01:18:52
KKK. Pop Demon Hunters was was,
01:18:55
according to Sony, was never going to be something that was
01:18:57
supposed to go to the theaters, right?
01:18:59
You know and. Then it went to the theaters and
01:19:01
it fucking killed it. And it's deserving is all shit
01:19:03
because it is a amazing property.
01:19:05
Yeah, yeah. OK, I think we've we've said big
01:19:09
movie studios bad enough, but OK, let's keep it going.
01:19:14
We've gone strange, talked cosmic cops and went deep for
01:19:18
the trend up. Let's wrap this up with a geek
01:19:21
and update where cosplay goes to the ball and the pop culture
01:19:24
pulse goes live. Oh yeah.
01:19:36
All right, upcoming we got Fan Expo coming November 28th, 29th
01:19:41
and 30th in San Francisco at the Moscone Center.
01:19:45
We're working on that. We'll figure out who's going to.
01:19:48
I know I can't go because that is Black Friday, Thanksgiving
01:19:52
weekend. I don't know what.
01:19:53
How are y'all at cons hanging out?
01:19:55
You know, I got 3 little kids I can't just up and leave for a
01:19:58
con when they're all at home hopped up on pumpkin pie.
01:20:02
Are you guys breaking away from cons?
01:20:04
Uh. We're not breaking.
01:20:05
Away from cons, we're just going to more and more cons as it is
01:20:09
as of right now, Fan Expo, man, I'm I'm really kind of excited
01:20:13
about this. You've done a lot of.
01:20:14
Cons yes, and I will. I understand you want to go to
01:20:17
fan Expo, but you know, we sacrifice a lot of family time,
01:20:21
a lot of weekends to do cons. If, and this is Thanksgiving
01:20:24
weekend, if you don't go to fandom con or fan Expo, I think
01:20:28
you're OK. I'm just throwing it out.
01:20:29
No, I know. I know, I know.
01:20:31
I mean, again, it's it's a lot of it is, is part of it is the
01:20:35
coverage I I actually enjoy. Lately I've been enjoying going
01:20:39
to shows that we are doing press coverage for and like last
01:20:45
weekend. Was it last weekend?
01:20:47
Yeah, Halloween sinister Halloween con I Oh yeah.
01:20:51
Had so much fun doing photography and not like being
01:20:55
on stage. There was just something.
01:20:58
About that, that just it it stood out as a different level
01:21:01
of experience for me right you. Got to just enjoy the con as as
01:21:06
like a fan because I wasn't. I mean, I was working, but I
01:21:09
wasn't like, you know, I wasn't working.
01:21:10
Yeah, You know, I mean, like, even at La Comic Con, it's like,
01:21:13
you know, I'm trying to find interviews.
01:21:15
I'm meeting indie creators, trying to book, you know, work.
01:21:20
We are literally booked out until January for shows for,
01:21:23
for, for guests right now. And it's like, yeah.
01:21:26
And, and it's like, you know, it's, it's doing that work.
01:21:29
So that way we can continue on doing, you know, promoting other
01:21:34
people and interviewing small, small creators over the course
01:21:38
of the year. But like going to Sinister
01:21:40
Creature Con was like an entirely different experience
01:21:44
'cause I was able to look at like I instead of looking for
01:21:46
like, oh, who's the next interesting person I could talk
01:21:48
to? It's oh, look at this cosplay.
01:21:50
Let me take a picture of your cosplay.
01:21:52
You know what I mean? Like it was just, it was so much
01:21:54
fun to just go at that level rather than going as somebody
01:21:58
who's working in the con. I I totally.
01:22:00
Know what you mean because when we go to cons normally like when
01:22:03
we're working with Colossus girl, like I'm sometimes I'm
01:22:06
walking through the cons or like Gem State Comic Con on AC
01:22:09
cosplay or AC vendors, but like my mind is focused on doing
01:22:14
something else the next, you know, stage interview.
01:22:16
We don't who's getting the next guest for the panels, you know,
01:22:20
that sort of thing, like what's happening, blah, blah, blah.
01:22:22
So I totally agree that attending a con is is kind of
01:22:26
fun. Actually, the last time I went
01:22:28
to was it SAC anime? I think it was SAC anime or SAC
01:22:31
SAC Expo. I just attended as a fan.
01:22:33
I brought the kids and it was fun and I got to let them have
01:22:37
cosplay and let them have fun and you know, check out all the
01:22:40
vendors and you know, so it was cool seeing letting them kind of
01:22:44
experience a con. So I totally, but you're doing
01:22:47
more than cons, right? What else you got going on?
01:22:50
Show me your fangs. Show me, Show me my.
01:22:52
Fangs, I actually didn't set that up because we didn't have
01:22:54
it in set up in the Rundown. But yes, this weekend we did.
01:22:58
A whole bunch of us. We did attend the vampire ball
01:23:02
here in Sacramento where at Harlow's.
01:23:04
That was actually a lot of fun. We all dressed up as vampires.
01:23:08
So it was myself, Sackpool, Loose to Arrow and the Galongs
01:23:13
and we all dressed. Up as a bunch of vampires.
01:23:15
And it was, it was a lot of fun. Where did you?
01:23:17
Get all your all your clothing. I saw some pictures of some red
01:23:21
jackets and you guys were very fancy.
01:23:24
So me parts of it were Amazon. Oh, nice.
01:23:27
Yeah. Parts of it were.
01:23:29
I just like, stole stuff from like suits that I already have.
01:23:31
Yeah, okay, you know, the the goal if we if, if we're gonna do
01:23:36
a vamp because we pretty much go the vampire ball every year.
01:23:38
Now the goal is I'm gonna be buying pieces of the costume
01:23:42
every year until I get a full Victorian.
01:23:46
Victorian like costume. Like vampire costume.
01:23:48
Nice. Now, how did how did this differ
01:23:52
from like cosplaying at a con? Like what is what is the
01:23:55
difference in the vibe going from like a Comic Con to say
01:24:00
this because it's a completely separate type of event.
01:24:02
Yeah, it. Was it was themed, right?
01:24:04
So I mean, like the whole thing is you're going in with a
01:24:07
vampire theme. So all of us are pretty much
01:24:10
just dressing up as different types of vampires.
01:24:13
And it was it was fun. It was, it was really fun to see
01:24:16
kind of what everybody's interpretation of what they
01:24:18
think of vampires so. What was going on where there
01:24:20
was a music playing was so there's.
01:24:23
Music. There's a burlesque show.
01:24:24
Oh, hello. I know, right?
01:24:26
So not not for your kids. But area the lead.
01:24:30
Excuse me there. Were like vendors there and
01:24:33
stuff like that, like people selling like soaps and like, you
01:24:36
know, stickers and shirts and stuff like that.
01:24:39
There's like a whole little vendor section.
01:24:40
They have like, you know, vampire themed drinks, You know,
01:24:44
they had snackies all over the place.
01:24:47
There's two different areas, so there's like DJ's upstairs and
01:24:50
live bands downstairs. Oh, that's fun.
01:24:52
So it was kind of cool. And just again, just kind of
01:24:55
like bars everywhere. This is all in.
01:24:57
Harlow's. That's impressive.
01:24:59
Yeah, so. It was a lot of fun.
01:25:00
Man, I like that. That's good.
01:25:02
I wonder, I wonder if the the promoter puts on other types of
01:25:05
shows more than just vampire balls.
01:25:08
Yeah, I. I I I'm sure she does multiple
01:25:11
shows. I think she's also a promoter
01:25:12
for Sinister Guacon, so maybe? Werewolf birthday parties.
01:25:17
Oh yeah, there you. Go yeah where?
01:25:18
You know the mummy themed pub? Crawl, yeah.
01:25:22
An Invisible Man bat mitzvahs. I don't know something.
01:25:26
So that's like a. Bat Mitzvah where nobody shows
01:25:28
up? Oh, that's sad.
01:25:30
Saddest bat mitzah? Ever.
01:25:32
I'm glad you had fun. That was good.
01:25:33
That's good. Frankenstein themed cotillion.
01:25:38
Cotillion. I can't think of any other
01:25:43
Frankenstein quinceanera. Bright, brighter.
01:25:46
Frankenstein. Quinetta.
01:25:47
Oh, there you go. There you go.
01:25:48
That's what it is. Oh, no, creature.
01:25:49
From the Black Lagoon Quinceanera.
01:25:50
There you go. There you go.
01:25:52
So you didn't you didn't have a distance nerding shirt on at the
01:25:55
vampire ball? Come on man.
01:25:56
No. Because I was dressed as a
01:25:58
Victorian. Vampire why would I wear a
01:26:00
distance nerding shirt? I'll.
01:26:01
Tell you what, you can wear a distance nerding shirt to the
01:26:04
next vampire ball because they're 20 bucks and we got
01:26:07
merch people. We got merch people, we got
01:26:12
merch vampires. How about that?
01:26:14
Oh, there you go. There you go.
01:26:15
Somebody fixed that in post anyway, and so can you DM us at
01:26:18
distance during on Instagram? Let us know what shirt you're
01:26:21
looking for. We got the logo shirt.
01:26:22
We got the character shirt. They're 20 bucks, 25 if we have
01:26:25
to ship it to you. Totally.
01:26:27
OK, Normally Philippe has those at the cons that he's that he's
01:26:30
hosting, but he didn't bring him to the to the vampire ball.
01:26:34
Yeah, unless you did. I don't know.
01:26:35
Yeah, we we brought a. Whole box, just like, you know,
01:26:37
all just walking around with a box.
01:26:39
Exactly. We we had to make sure there was
01:26:41
an Igor with us, you know, and he was carrying all the boxes.
01:26:43
There you go that. 'D be fun.
01:26:45
That'd be fun So again, shirts are 2025 if we got to ship it to
01:26:49
you, if it's in Florida, I don't know what it's going to cost.
01:26:52
Maybe. Maybe it's going to cost you $50
01:26:54
and an alligator leg, Who knows? Yeah, 4. 120 bucks plus
01:26:58
alligator Nuggets alligator. Nuggets have you?
01:27:01
Have you never? Had alligator Nuggets.
01:27:02
Oh dude, have you never? Had alligator Nuggets.
01:27:05
Who has alligator Nuggets around?
01:27:06
So good, now I've. Been to a couple of restaurants
01:27:09
where they like ship them in you don't go.
01:27:10
To Arby's and say hi. Can I have your six piece
01:27:13
alligator nugget? Yeah, in Florida.
01:27:15
You can. Can you really?
01:27:17
I'm sure you can. Vampires.
01:27:19
Man, Eden Alligator, Who knows? Yeah.
01:27:21
All right. What else we got?
01:27:22
We got a schedule. Socks, ladies and gentlemen.
01:27:25
On Tuesdays, all the nerdy news on the distance starting
01:27:28
podcast, 6:30 to 8:30. We are doing our thing, having
01:27:31
our fun on our show on Tuesdays, Thursdays, the build from 6 to
01:27:36
8. Now this week, our guest, let's
01:27:39
see, who do we have on this week?
01:27:40
This week our guest is, oh, Nick Edwards.
01:27:43
He has a horror themed comic book and we're going to be
01:27:46
talking about his book and everything that's got going on
01:27:48
there. Now, Fridays, we typically do
01:27:50
the buzzer. It's game night from 6:30 to
01:27:53
8:30. This week we are not going to be
01:27:54
doing the buzzer because it's Halloween and we're all
01:27:58
respectively giving out cane. So I like it.
01:28:00
Yeah. So we we won't be doing the
01:28:03
buzzer this week, but next week the buzzer is back and I believe
01:28:07
we're playing well really. So join in on all the fun, have
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fun with us guys. It's going to have it's going to
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be a good time as it always is. With that being said, James, do
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The next goal guys we got, we want to give away more stuff.
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So James, what do you think our next goal should be?
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It's. 600 subscribers on YouTube, but I think we're at
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like 530 something. That's you know what?
01:29:33
There's a couple things we got to talk about.
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SO1600 subscribers on YouTube. Let's do it get us there.
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We'll give stuff away. We were talking to Kyber Cave.
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We're going to work out some deals with Kyber Cave.
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Maybe we're going to give away some lightsabers.
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I'm just throwing it out there. Just throwing it out there.
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Also right around the corner. We're on episode 247.
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Episode 250 is almost here. It is time to celebrate, y'all?
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That's right. Episode 250 is right around the.
01:29:55
Corner, ladies and gentlemen. So maybe we'll give away some
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prizes that on episode 250. I like it.
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We're going to. Give away maybe some merch,
01:30:02
maybe some Lego, maybe some tacos.
01:30:04
Oh boy, tacos. That would be kind.
01:30:06
Of cool. You know what we could do too.
01:30:08
The next event we got going on, ladies and gentlemen, this
01:30:11
Saturday, Oh, he got littles with him this Saturday.
01:30:15
Ladies and gentlemen, if you are in the Sacramento area, make
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your way over to Jackrabbit Brewery from 4:00 to 7:00.
01:30:21
We're going to be doing trivia. Oh.
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Thanks to SAG Geeks, I like this.
01:30:25
That geek shout out, we're going to be giving away prizes.
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There is going to be a charity tap.
01:30:30
It is going to be a whole lot of fun.
01:30:32
I know it's the day after Halloween, but we're going to be
01:30:34
doing a horror trivia. I'm going to, I've, I've made
01:30:37
some horror, horror questions and we're going to do some
01:30:39
specific horror question horror trivia.
01:30:42
So ladies and gentlemen, make your way over to Jack Rabbit
01:30:44
Brewery in West Sacramento this Saturday, November 1st between
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4:00 and 7:00 and get in on some trivia and win some prizes.
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There you go. And honestly, it's a family
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friendly event. Jack Rabbit's great to go and
01:30:57
hang out with your family. They got lots of board games,
01:30:59
lots of room. They usually have food trucks, I
01:31:01
think. I don't know which one's gonna
01:31:02
be there, but I think they have one, maybe 2 food trucks there
01:31:05
for the trivia event. It's gonna be awesome.
01:31:08
There's gonna be tons of prizes. That's right.
01:31:10
There's going to be all kinds of stuff.
01:31:11
We're going to be giving away all kinds of things.
01:31:13
Maybe we'll have some shirts to throw at people, literally
01:31:15
throwing them at people. We're going to have a good time,
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guys. So with that being said, have
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something you want to discuss. Connect with us on all the
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Or of course, if you would like us to read your e-mail on air,
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and gentlemen, James, take us, take us out.
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Thanks. Everybody and especially thanks
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Frey, Frey girl who's having the night off.
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But thanks for the 499 Super chat.
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That's another way you can support us as via super chat.
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There you. Go, we should put Italian.
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So if you super chat whatever giveaway, we're going to get
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entered into. You're entered into.
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I like it. Frey, you're entered in
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giveaways. I like it all right.
01:32:12
Whatever, whatever. Filled stuff we can give away,
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we're going to give away and you're entered in yeah, all of.
01:32:16
My stuff. Wait, what?
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Yeah. Exactly.
01:32:19
All right, everybody. Thanks.
01:32:21
And keep nerding together. That's right.
01:32:24
And of course, it's the end of the show, Bruce.
01:32:26
It's special. Bedtime, Buddy.
01:32:27
Go to go to go to sleep, Buddy. It's it's time.
01:32:29
I'm going to bed. We love you, Buddy.
01:32:30
But, but go to sleep. All right.
01:32:31
One more time, James. One more time, James.
01:32:34
No, I just got here. You ain't got teeth.
01:32:36
Go to sleep. It's a it's.
01:32:39
A toothless Kaya got here. I just got here.
01:32:42
Oh, speaking. Of la Boo boos.
01:32:44
Look at that, Boo. Boo, Boo.
01:32:46
I just. Alright, time to go.
01:32:49
Time to go. We're going to get off.
01:32:49
We're going to eat some tacos one more time.
01:32:52
Send us out, James. Thanks and.
01:32:54
Keep nerding together, we'll see everybody on.
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