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It was silence. Yeah, anyway, Silver Age Comic
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That distance starting is hosting, correct?
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voice actors. Friend of the show Tony Oliver
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Big and he is he's not from Puerto Rico.
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He's not, it says that on and it says like he's like still there.
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Like he grew up there and all this and he didn't, he grew up
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apparently. You know, Wikipedia is free to
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edit. You could somebody could just go
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It's gonna be a great time. Of course, distance, Nurding,
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Girl show, and it's going to be a great time, so.
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Hey, wait a minute before we we move on from the Colossus
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Colossal girl stuff. Didn't we have a comic
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conversation actually show up on YouTube today?
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That is correct, ladies and gentlemen, on this very YouTube
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channel, we just dropped our video interview with Bonnie
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Wright at Gem State Comic Con. So if you are used to our comic
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conversation series, we just dropped a video version of it on
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YouTube this morning. So of course, pass by the page
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and check that out. It is it is very fun.
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It's a couple different video angles and all of our audience
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in there. If you are a, if you were at Gem
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State Comic Con and you were there for that that interview
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and and you asked questions guys, you will be you are in
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that video 'cause I have videos of everybody that was there so.
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And comment, comment on the video and tell us like, who you
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were, what you were dressed like or how much you liked it.
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Yeah, things like that. Just go and tell us.
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Also, I have to say this because I was not there, but I really
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enjoyed the I, I watched it twice and I really enjoyed it.
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I enjoyed the different camera angles.
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I loved that we could see the, the questioner, the, the person
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that asked the question, the, the, the fan questions fans.
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Why did I have such a hard time saying that the fans, but that
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you could see them when they ask the question because so many
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times in videos that you'll see like from other conventions,
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it'll just have who's on this, like who the the big name person
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is, but it doesn't have who actually asked the questions.
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And I loved that. I think that's really great.
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I think it should be something that everybody does.
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But yeah, Bonnie Wright was, she was amazing.
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Like some of the some of the answers to those questions was
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like, I was like, Oh my God, I never even thought about it that
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way. So.
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She's really far. She was really fun.
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She was really intelligent. It's it was a blast talking to
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her. The next one that we're putting
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out just as a teaser for everybody here, the next
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interview we're putting out next week is going to be Sean Gunn
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and Scott Patterson. So guys, be be ready for that.
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It's going to be a good time. Very, very fun.
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I cannot wait because I actually did write some of that.
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I actually wrote all of it. And that one actually was really
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funny. Scott.
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Scott told a few people that he felt that I had the funniest
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joke of the entire thing, so. Oh, awesome.
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Yeah. So, so you guys, you guys will
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get to see that it was it was it was pretty fun.
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What Phil didn't tell you is that he paid him to say that.
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Absolutely, absolutely did pay him to to say that.
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Yeah. You know, like, what better way
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to make it seem like I'm, I'm actually fairly funny than to
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have a celebrity say that I was a funny guy?
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There we go, You know. Well, ladies and gentlemen,
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before we move on to the rest here, we did have a
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representative of the DN head over to a little Weekend Blender
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down in Tracy, ladies and gentlemen, to talk about Weekend
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Blender and Tracy. Bring on our friends of the show
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and fellow YouTube correspondents.
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It's the Delong fam. How's it going guys?
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Good, good. We just had tacos.
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So great. Well I am jealous that you guys
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just had tacos. So with that being said guys,
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let us know about the weekend. Here go.
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Ahead, help me throwing it over. Well, it was really fun.
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We saw a lot of old friends because it's for us seeing a lot
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of other cosplayers that we know and love and hang out with.
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And we hosted the Deadpool and friends meet, which was mainly
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Deadpool's. And obviously, like I said
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before, I was to celebrate our kiddo turning 10 and everyone
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had a great time with that. There was a lot of vendors that
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we, a lot of them we knew, a lot of them we didn't know.
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So we got the new connections and had a lot more fun with
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them. And there was the cosplay
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contest, just hosted or hosted, sorry, he judged on Sunday.
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And there was a breakdance group that was there during What's it
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called again? When we were deciding, yeah.
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And mind blowing. So when the judges are picking
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the winners that there's a group of kids break dancing and they
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did an awesome job. I know I posted a lot of
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pictures of it on our Instagram and SAC Geeks posted a bunch.
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So you guys can see a lot more of what we did on the weekend
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there too. And of course, we had our
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friends Power Ranger, Norcal Power Ranger group there.
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They're always fun and this was the first time Pepper Jack
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hosted the cosplay contest and she did an amazing job hosting
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in Cindy Rue's place. Yeah, also Terror, Terror Dog
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Squad was there as well. Oh.
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Cool. And I don't remember which Droid
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group or which Star Wars group, but one of the couple of the
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Star Wars people were there as well.
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So I know our buddy Steve with one of the Droid.
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Voters, he didn't make it. OK, no, he he actually wasn't
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able to make it after all. So he wasn't.
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Gotcha. Yeah, I know he was listed as a
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vendor, so I guess, I guess, yeah, he didn't make it, but
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still, yeah, I mean, even with all that.
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But there were a lot of cosplay makers there, like drop cosplay
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dropouts of course. Pepper Jack too, and John Morris
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and the voice of Andy was our celebrity guest for Saturday.
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Nice. Nice.
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It's very cool. And and there was lots of
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creative Deadpools that showed up this.
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Time I can, yeah. It's going through the thing I
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can see, yeah. Yeah, one of them the the
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interesting ones is ARF. Pool arf.
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Pool barf. Oh barf.
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Did it work to be with you? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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So it was like barf but Deadpool.
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Yeah, yeah, he's half dog pool, half half human and.
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He. No, he's half dog pool, half
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human. Oh.
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Yeah, and he gifted Sonic kid pool Iron Man, Infinity
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Gauntlet. Nice.
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Looking at all the pictures here.
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So guys, what's the next kind of show that you guys have going on
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here? Next we will be at Sinister
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Creature Con. Oh, that's going to be a good
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time. Not this coming weekend, but the
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one after. OK, that's the weekend before.
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No, no, Yeah. So the next coming weekend,
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yeah, yeah. So Sinister Creature Con is
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going to be hopefully should be a good time.
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Yeah, they, they just released that they're going to have the
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girl from The Exorcist. Right.
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That's right. That got exercised.
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They're they're supposed to have Doug Bradley there.
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They have Kennedy, Jamie. Kennedy.
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Jamie Kennedy there. Devin Sawa, Yeah.
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So they're going to have they have a decent set of
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celebrities. Unfortunately, Doug Jones had to
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drop out. That was the one that.
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Was. Before him.
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But they just got, they also recently released that they got
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someone else that was in trick or treat and I, I have a thing
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that I'm getting signed by a bunch of them.
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So at least I got that to look forward to.
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Yeah. And the cosplay.
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Yes. Right, right, right.
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So ladies and gentlemen, for those of you who are interested
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in Sinister Creature Con, cause Sinister Creature Con is going
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to be June 21st and the 22nd at the Scottish Rite Center here in
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Sacramento. You can get tickets if you head
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over to sinistercreaturecon.com. Tickets are available.
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Again, the, the guests that are going to be there, we, they just
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mentioned Linda Blair, David Howard Thornton is going to be
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there. Who is the terrifier?
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Of course, Doug Bradley, Devin Sawa, as they mentioned,
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Danielle Harris from Halloween 4 and she's been in a couple Rob
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Zombie movies. Miko Hughes is going to be there
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from Pet Cemetery. In Wes Craven's New Nightmare,
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they mentioned Jamie Kennedy. Camille Keaton from I Spit on
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Your Grave is going to be there. Michael Hargrove, who was in The
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Candyman. Jeff Daniel Phillips.
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Basically he's been in every Rob Zombie movie.
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If you're familiar with Rob Robbie movies, he's been in all
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of them. Brett Wagner, who was in The
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Crazies. Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Emily
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Perkins who was most famous for the original 8 movie, David
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Barkley who has worked in creatures and then like like in
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in creature effects and and puppeteering and everything like
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that. And then Sean Roberts from a
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whole bunch of Resident Evil movies.
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I believe he's actually the one who played Wesker in the
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Resident Evil movies. Cool.
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Yeah. So I I was waiting for some type
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of reaction there. Was a lot.
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I was like I. Was waiting for like
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confirmation. There were a lot of major to
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like, like horror celebrities like those are not small names.
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No, they're not. I was, I thought you were
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talking to the deluxe. I was like listening.
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And I'm like, OK. We're probably just gonna, yeah.
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Yeah, no, I was, I was, I was talking about the con for all
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the people who are listening to the show.
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OK, never mind. There's also so many vendors
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there that they are actually looking to upgrade their
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building size for the next one. Phil Corfil.
00:18:47
Yeah. I'm just I'm.
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Just hyping up this con for all the listeners and I get shut
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down. It's just, Oh, yeah.
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No, no. No, no we don't.
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I thought you were man's playing the Delong.
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We don't care about the listeners.
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No, no, we, we, we just care about us here.
00:19:00
We're not. We're not gonna worry about.
00:19:01
Oh, no, no, no, no. It's like we planned it but we
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didn't, which makes it even better.
00:19:07
I. Wasn't sure if he was done.
00:19:11
And we're here to nerd together. I guess so.
00:19:14
And we're here to mess with them.
00:19:18
So guys, before I go until the the rest of the show, go ahead
00:19:23
and give your pluggables, let everybody know where they can
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find you and and everything else.
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Well, tomorrow we will be on our our channel on YouTube.
00:19:34
We're going to be weathering this mask right here, showing
00:19:39
you different techniques on how to age up a store bought mask
00:19:42
and make it look a little bit more custom and more in
00:19:48
universe, should I say. There's a lot of random stuff
00:19:51
there. We are on all the social medias,
00:19:55
the long term cosplay, Facebook, Instagram threads and YouTube.
00:20:02
When you look us up on YouTube, it is all one run on Word, very
00:20:05
ADD style. So anything else?
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I think that's it for now. Great.
00:20:11
All right, So we will see you guys back here for the dance
00:20:14
party in a little while. Again, I appreciate you guys
00:20:16
coming on and talking comms with us here.
00:20:18
All right, All right, guys, we'll see you in a bit.
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See. You guys all right.
00:20:22
With that being said, ladies and gentlemen, it is now time to
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jump into the next segment here. It's time to start some rumors
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I. Don't know where my mouse is?
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OK, here it is. Could you hear that a little bit
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better? Nope, not at all.
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Couldn't I hear it at all? Completely silent.
00:20:42
I yeah can't help you. Don't, don't.
00:20:44
Know luckily I have that burned in my brain.
00:20:48
Yeah, yeah. So with that, there is a request
00:20:50
to see Creepy Baby. I know I can see Creepy Baby
00:20:52
behind you. Yeah, creepy baby's right here.
00:20:54
Yeah, see her. Interesting.
00:20:56
She said that Sandra said that she couldn't hear it either.
00:20:58
I don't know how to fix the audio on that because that's
00:21:01
something with Talk Studio. Hello.
00:21:04
This is going to have to be something we have to mess around
00:21:05
with later, no? She just likes you, Phil.
00:21:17
Absolutely. Not look, there's there, She's
00:21:19
mentioned in the show tonight. She is, apparently.
00:21:22
She is actually, yeah. Oh God.
00:21:25
Well, ladies and gentlemen, let's yeah, let's let's go into
00:21:29
this first. Story.
00:21:32
We really got Phil off his game there for a second.
00:21:35
He was. Like that was good.
00:21:36
Brain. There, the Fantastic Four have
00:21:39
landed. Or have they?
00:21:41
Marvel fans thought they had it all figured out after
00:21:44
Thunderbolts ended with that jaw-dropping post credits scene.
00:21:47
A mysterious ship entering Earth 616's atmosphere, seemingly
00:21:51
carrying the Fantastic Four. But Kevin Feige is here to shake
00:21:54
things up. In a recent interview, Feige
00:21:56
hinted that while the ship bears the Fantastic Four logo, it
00:22:00
might not actually belong to them.
00:22:02
This has sparked speculation that Doctor Doom could be the
00:22:04
one aboard, potentially setting up a major multiversal conflict.
00:22:08
Meanwhile, rumors are swirling that Doom has sinister plans for
00:22:12
Franklin Richards. The son of Reed Richards and Sue
00:22:15
Storm, Franklin is one of the most powerful beings in Marvel
00:22:19
lore, capable of really reality manipulation, time warping, and
00:22:23
cosmic level feats. If Doom gets his hands on him,
00:22:26
the MCU could be headed towards something truly catastrophic.
00:22:30
With the Fantastic Four first steps releasing soon, fans are
00:22:33
eager to see how this all plays out.
00:22:35
Will Doom hijacked the Fantastic Four's arrival?
00:22:38
Is Franklin Richards the key to the next phase of the MCU?
00:22:41
Buckle up, things are about to get fantastic.
00:22:43
So guys, tacos on the table. What does Dooms interest in
00:22:47
Franklin Richards mean? The Fantastic Fours arrival.
00:22:50
You know, OK, I'm all for Franklin Richards coming into
00:22:56
the MCU because I think he's really important because he
00:22:59
actually spring springboards a lot of stuff.
00:23:03
But but the whole Doom's going to pop out of the Fantastic Four
00:23:07
ship, it's very reminiscent of Kang to me.
00:23:10
It really smacks of, oh, we're just trying to like erase
00:23:14
everybody's Kang memory. And it's like, no, I mean, if
00:23:17
that's how you were originally going to have show up, we all
00:23:22
know it wasn't, then don't do this.
00:23:26
This is like a cheap knock off of the Kang reveal.
00:23:30
Yeah. So I mean, I know quantum mania
00:23:33
wasn't that good, but it. Was you already?
00:23:36
You already pulled that hat trick.
00:23:38
Let's let's try another one. You got like 60 years.
00:23:42
Yeah, no, right there. So, so the, the, the next thing
00:23:45
is we're gonna, we're gonna reveal Doom.
00:23:47
We're gonna go to a castle at the center of the multiverse,
00:23:51
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, Doom.
00:23:54
Doom's gonna be in there. Although it would be really cool
00:23:57
to see Loki and the Tony Stark version of Doom like go all
00:24:03
like, no it's my castle like slap fight.
00:24:06
I would love to see a slap fight between them.
00:24:08
That'd be. Great.
00:24:09
A slap fight like the one that we me and John Wick had in
00:24:13
Deadpool versus John Wick. Like that slap?
00:24:15
Fight. Yeah, yeah, yes.
00:24:17
Or they go full on sumo in the little muashi.
00:24:22
Of course, Moana. All right.
00:24:24
Yeah, I know I would pay to. See that little very specific
00:24:28
kinks y'all? No, I mean, OK, sure.
00:24:32
All right. Yeah, I'll take.
00:24:34
It OK, OK, No, I see it. Yeah.
00:24:37
So my tacos are on the table. I do think that all of this is
00:24:41
gonna happen and I Yeah. And the whole Doom's interest in
00:24:44
Franklin Richards, that's really interesting.
00:24:48
They, they could really set it up to where Franklin Richards is
00:24:53
warping the reality. Like warping reality.
00:24:56
But then it then you get Wanda coming out and she's like, Oh
00:25:01
no, no, son, because Wanda does that too in the MCU.
00:25:05
So that could that's giving her a villain or giving her an
00:25:10
adversary that's on her level. So it's somebody that can keep
00:25:14
her in check and she can keep them in check.
00:25:16
So I'd like that balance. So I'm yeah, my tacos are on the
00:25:20
table for this. Right, she do about your weird
00:25:22
tacos what you got? I'm trying to come up with a
00:25:25
weird Taco. Yeah, let's see.
00:25:26
So my, what I wanna do here? So what's?
00:25:31
Relevant. You're both magical but at the
00:25:33
same time roboty, right? Tacos.
00:25:36
My. It's gotta be a digital Taco.
00:25:39
My my nationalistic, somewhat benevolent dictator tacos are on
00:25:44
the table. Dick tacos.
00:25:46
Dictator. Dictator.
00:25:48
Taco authoritarian. OK, very authoritarian tacos.
00:25:50
Yeah, OK, so penis potato tacos. Gotcha.
00:25:56
OK, that's fine. My talk was around the table.
00:26:00
It makes sense because this gives you an excuse to kind of
00:26:03
bring in Franklin Richards, who is a massive, massive like Omega
00:26:09
level character within the Marvel Universe, along with
00:26:13
Doctor Doom who was another Omega level character within the
00:26:16
Marvel Universe. Having both of those characters
00:26:20
in the universe makes a lot of sense to me.
00:26:22
So yeah, my tacos are on the table.
00:26:24
They're gonna introduce all of it.
00:26:26
Plus, at the same time, we know that in first steps, she's at
00:26:30
least gonna be pregnant. Which means that, I mean, for
00:26:32
the most part, it's probably gonna be Franklin.
00:26:34
Yeah, I don't think they'd skip him.
00:26:36
Yeah. So yeah, I, I, I.
00:26:38
Think that I just had a brain wave for some reason, Phil, when
00:26:42
you start talking about subjects, I'm like, oh, oh crap.
00:26:45
I just had a really interesting theory, so I'm going to say it.
00:26:49
Say it. What?
00:26:50
So here's the thing. What if the Fantastic Four do
00:26:53
skip Franklin and go to, what's her name, Valeria or whatever?
00:26:59
I think we might get the Franklin Richards of 616, and
00:27:06
he's already an adult. Like he's an older Franklin
00:27:13
Richards. And that's going to really mess
00:27:16
with Reed because they have to stay here and they didn't have a
00:27:24
Franklin. So that's like, that's so in
00:27:27
line with the weird family dynamics that they've had so far
00:27:34
in the MCU. I mean, I, I, I kind of want
00:27:39
this to happen like 616 Franklin with the, you know, Fantastic
00:27:45
Four from, you know, their 60s universe.
00:27:48
And then and they all are stuck together.
00:27:51
His family's dead, like long dead.
00:27:55
And yeah, and the twist you find out what happened really was his
00:28:00
family got sucked into the thing that the other ones thought,
00:28:04
that they were in the same place they got sucked into.
00:28:08
And so it really is his dad. Anyway, now I'm getting really
00:28:11
conspiracy so I'm going to stop. Franklin, I am your father.
00:28:18
We, we, we are gonna start getting really, really deep into
00:28:21
this. So yeah, before we get moving,
00:28:23
we're more deep into this. Let's move on to the next story
00:28:25
here. Hey, and it's me.
00:28:27
I just like to hear myself talk. Marvel's next showdown, The bear
00:28:32
versus the Last of Us. Who's hungry?
00:28:36
Me. Oh, oh, oh.
00:28:38
Marvel's casting rumors are heating up, with Bella Ramsey
00:28:42
and Jeremy Allen White both reportedly being eyed for major
00:28:46
roles in the MCU. Ramsay, known for her fierce
00:28:49
performances, is rumored to be in consideration for a big
00:28:53
Marvel role, though details on the character remain under
00:28:56
wraps. Maybe she'll be a mummy.
00:29:00
Meanwhile, White, who famously had a rocky first meeting with
00:29:04
Marvel, appears to be back in the mix, with insiders claiming
00:29:08
he's now being seriously considered for an MCU project.
00:29:12
Tacos on the table? What kind of role fits them
00:29:15
best? Villain, mutant, or something
00:29:18
completely unexpected? I don't.
00:29:22
Know I trying to think. I mean, there's, there's a lot
00:29:25
of people that are speculating that Bella Ramsey is going to be
00:29:28
like rogue or something like that.
00:29:31
I'd be Kitty pride. Yeah, actually that's yeah.
00:29:34
She could be Kitty Pride. I can see that.
00:29:36
Jeremy Allen White can be anything.
00:29:38
So I mean. It's I I would prefer Kitty
00:29:40
Pride to like actually be played by a Jewish actor, but that's
00:29:43
just me. So.
00:29:45
Yeah, wow. I mean, yeah, I mean.
00:29:47
I'm just saying you. Didn't have a problem with John
00:29:50
Locke and he played a Jewish character.
00:29:52
I know. Look, I have double standards,
00:29:54
OK? Obviously, I'm sorry, Phil, go
00:30:00
ahead. No, I was just saying, like, you
00:30:02
know, Jeremy Allen White can essentially play anything.
00:30:06
Bella Ramsey has already proven that she could probably play a
00:30:08
villain and be really good at it.
00:30:10
Yeah. I mean that that would be cool.
00:30:12
Yeah, just because she she does have a lot of heart in the way
00:30:16
that she plays her characters all the way like back to Game of
00:30:19
Thrones. So yeah, I can see Bella Ramsey
00:30:22
kind of like playing either way, a hero or a villain.
00:30:26
As far as Jeremy Allen White, he he can play a good guy, but he
00:30:32
can also play someone who's very indifferent.
00:30:34
Yeah, that's true. Which actually goes well,
00:30:37
weirdly enough, goes well for for Logan.
00:30:40
Oh, I wouldn't mind him as Logan, actually.
00:30:44
That's a That's an interesting choice.
00:30:47
Yeah, Jeremy Allen White, because he's a good enough actor
00:30:50
where he can pull off that kind of character.
00:30:52
And again, he can play kind of indifferent and and a little
00:30:57
cold, but just kind of traumatized, you know?
00:30:59
Yeah. Exactly, Yeah.
00:31:01
Especially if you are fans of Shameless, you kind of know the
00:31:04
kind of character he plays. If you're a fan of the bear, you
00:31:07
know that he can play those kind of characters.
00:31:09
If you've seen the claw, you know, especially the claw, like,
00:31:12
you know, he can get really deep into the weeds.
00:31:14
So I think Jeremy Allen White there, there's a lot of
00:31:18
characters that he could kind of like lend himself to.
00:31:20
I think he could pull off Logan and he's he's kind of ripped
00:31:23
enough to do it too. Yeah, I could see that.
00:31:25
And he's not as like he's getting there, but he's not as
00:31:30
recognizable as like maybe a, an established movie person.
00:31:35
So he could really make make that role.
00:31:39
And. He could be the face.
00:31:41
Of it, there's some marketing there where like, oh, you know,
00:31:44
oh, did you hear the guy from the bear is, you know, Wolverine
00:31:47
or whatever, like that's I think that's a good you want some kind
00:31:50
of in that level of notoriety. Yeah, we could have a, have a,
00:31:54
do a story on it and we could say, oh, he goes from Bear to
00:31:59
Wolverine because they're both animals.
00:32:02
And so, you know, one and then the other.
00:32:05
But yeah, my talk goes around the table.
00:32:08
I I really, I get, I get a Kitty Pride feeling from Ella Ramsey.
00:32:14
It's very similar to things that she's already done.
00:32:17
Kitty Pride's very outspoken. She doesn't back down.
00:32:21
She's feisty. But then also I can very.
00:32:23
Much see it, yeah. I could also see her playing
00:32:28
with somebody else like she could.
00:32:30
I don't know about Jean Grey, but she could play a multitude
00:32:36
on any mutants she. Was a lot younger to me, so
00:32:40
it's, you know. Well, she could skew younger or
00:32:42
older. She could you know, there are a
00:32:45
lot of mutants that she could play.
00:32:47
There are a lot of non mutants that she could play.
00:32:50
So I, I think that that I, I'm, I would be happy to see either
00:32:56
of them or both of them in an MCU project in hero, villain or
00:33:02
unexpected roles. So she, she might play Thor's
00:33:08
niece. Oh, if they age her up a little
00:33:11
like she, that would be a great role for her.
00:33:14
So. Hot take Bella Ramsey plays Beta
00:33:17
Ray Bill. That would be amazing.
00:33:20
She's the real Silver Surfer. It's just, well, no.
00:33:25
I was thinking because she could become Moon Dragon.
00:33:28
Moon Dragon's girlfriend is Phi Lavelle and they would be an
00:33:35
LGBTQ plus couple. Bella Ramsey is a they look at
00:33:40
that. There you go.
00:33:42
No, wait, we're supposed to be. We're using they them pronouns.
00:33:45
Is that what we're? For for Bella Ramsey, yeah.
00:33:47
Yeah, yeah, you guys have been saying she.
00:33:51
I was, I was, I bought whatever. Anyway, my tacos that are
00:33:56
stuffed with mushrooms are on like a little, just a little
00:34:00
like a really fancy little tiny plate, little little tiny plate,
00:34:04
a little like streak of some sort of sauce or something.
00:34:06
Your Michelin star tacos. Right, my Michelin is just being
00:34:10
served onto the table onto the. OK, it's it's a bear reference.
00:34:13
I get it. Yeah, and a Last of Us.
00:34:15
Reference. Why is that a bear reference?
00:34:17
Oh my God. That was a bear reference and a
00:34:18
Last of Us reference because the mushrooms.
00:34:20
Yeah, there you go. I see.
00:34:22
Wow, exactly. I'm on the wrong page.
00:34:25
I'm not even going to deal with it right now.
00:34:27
I bet she do feels good about that.
00:34:28
He's like, oh, he's not going to do it.
00:34:29
Yay. Wow.
00:34:34
God, you. Did it earlier and I was like,
00:34:40
we're moving on. I load him into like a false
00:34:42
sense of security there. We're moving on.
00:34:46
Oh. You can say this next story
00:34:49
really rocks because Clay and his name is Never mind.
00:34:54
DC Studios Sergeant Rock Project may not be completely dead yet,
00:34:57
according to a new report. While the film remains on pause
00:35:00
until 2026, insider Daniel Rickman claims it's still
00:35:04
technically happening for now. The World War Two said
00:35:07
adventure, which originally stated for 2025, faced budget
00:35:10
concerns, scheduling issues and even uncooperative British
00:35:13
weather before being shelved director Luca Guadia.
00:35:19
That's not going to. Happen.
00:35:22
Guadagnino, Guadagnino, Guadagnino Luca Guadagnino has
00:35:28
since moved on to another project.
00:35:29
We're leaving the film's future uncertain.
00:35:31
Meanwhile, the Clayface movie appears to be moving forward,
00:35:34
with cameras reportedly set to roll in September.
00:35:36
The casting process is in full swing with actors Jack
00:35:39
O'Connell, Tom Blythe, George McKay and Leo Woodall all
00:35:43
reportedly in condition to play the shape shifting Batman villa
00:35:47
later. Mike Flanagan, who developed the
00:35:48
pitch, has confirmed he's no longer involved in directing the
00:35:50
film, but hopes it stays true to his original vision.
00:35:53
With Clayface gearing up for production at Sergeant Rock
00:35:55
still lingering in limbo, DC Studios seems to be keeping its
00:35:58
opinions open, so it's keeps keep his options open as it
00:36:02
builds out the next chapter of the DCU.
00:36:04
So tacos on the table for Sergeant Rock get a second
00:36:06
chance? Or is Clayface the more exciting
00:36:08
project? That's people.
00:36:10
So my tacos are on the table for both of these, and it's mainly
00:36:13
just because I know Clayface kind of picked up a lot of steam
00:36:17
probably a couple months ago where people got excited for
00:36:20
what it could be and where they're gonna go with it.
00:36:22
It seems like the studio is really, really like pushing
00:36:26
forward on Clayface, which means they probably have a really good
00:36:29
treatment for it. So I'm I'm kind of excited to
00:36:32
see what they do with that. Sergeant Rock seems like more
00:36:35
like one of those James Gunn pet projects where he's like, I
00:36:37
don't want to let this one go. Yeah.
00:36:41
Regardless of where where the direction of the entire universe
00:36:45
is going, because it is also something that takes place in
00:36:47
the past. So it's not like something that
00:36:49
is it's not one of those projects that has to happen
00:36:52
right now. It can happen eventually, right?
00:36:54
Take his time on that and and kind of keep it in the wraps so.
00:36:58
Well, and it oh, go ahead, I'm sorry.
00:37:00
I was gonna say I it's definitely something that James
00:37:02
Gunn is gonna keep around. Whether it happens right now or
00:37:06
it happens like a couple years down the road, I think Sergeant
00:37:09
Rock is eventually gonna end happening.
00:37:10
Especially that the character did show up in in Creature
00:37:14
Commandos. So he kind of did kind of lay
00:37:16
that groundwork already, yeah. Yeah, I feel like the Sergeant
00:37:19
Rock is kind of Evergreen and that it builds the bricks of the
00:37:25
universe he's trying to create. Like it's a story set in the
00:37:28
past of this universe, so it gives it a history.
00:37:32
So I definitely think he's going to keep it.
00:37:34
But yeah, it may be on the back burner as far as like immediate
00:37:38
projects. And then, yeah, I'm, I'm all for
00:37:43
the Clayface movie and I hope it's like like a horror like
00:37:47
Universal monsters type of movie.
00:37:50
I think that would be amazing. And it sounds like that's where
00:37:53
they were going with it, especially since Mike Flanagan
00:37:56
was involved. So I'm hoping that that, you
00:37:59
know, that they stay with that motif and kind of get it because
00:38:03
I would love that to be it. He's so meant to be a universal
00:38:08
monster like type of character. If he's going to have his own
00:38:12
movie scarecrow as well, he should also be universal.
00:38:16
He should get that universal monsters treatment because
00:38:19
they're just they're supposed to be terrifying.
00:38:22
They're supposed all of the characters are supposed to have
00:38:26
root in some sort of human fear. Fear of poison, fear of clowns.
00:38:34
You've got fear of not being able to solve riddles.
00:38:37
I mean, they're they're all fears.
00:38:39
Fear of a nice, you're right, but I mean, like, that's it's
00:38:44
true. You've got scarecrow creepier.
00:38:47
Oh yeah, it is. Scarecrow is like fear of
00:38:50
scarecrows and and just fear itself.
00:38:53
And then you've got Clayface and he's fear of monsters.
00:38:56
So is Killer Croc. I mean, it like fear of what's
00:38:58
in the sewer, you know, it's that kind of stuff.
00:39:01
Those are all human fear. So I think that it's a genius
00:39:05
and I hope it it works out and I hope it's amazing and we start
00:39:09
seeing more of that and see maybe a horror take of the
00:39:13
Batman villains. That would be amazing, right?
00:39:16
And I'm done. Tacos are on the table.
00:39:18
Great. Yep, my shape shifting now
00:39:20
they're just now it's a burrito. OK, now it's back to a Taco, so
00:39:24
it's on the table. Clayface, you did.
00:39:27
There Clayface joke. OK, yeah, I see exactly what you
00:39:33
did there. Fine.
00:39:34
So guys, I'm gonna try some material on you here.
00:39:37
Are you guys ready for this? Sure, yeah.
00:39:40
All right, Superman, Crypto and Supergirl walk into a flashback.
00:39:43
That's all I got. I don't have a payoff for it at
00:39:45
all. And we'll work on it.
00:39:47
Yeah, we're definitely gonna work.
00:39:48
Let's workshop. Yeah, absolutely, Millie.
00:39:51
How Cox Supergirl Woman of Tomorrow might feature a cameo
00:39:54
from David Corn Sweat Superman, according to a new rumor.
00:39:58
The scene reportedly shows Cara's arrival on Earth emerging
00:40:01
from her ship alongside Crypto the Super Dog, with Superman
00:40:04
greeting her warmly. Interesting.
00:40:06
This flashback would tie into Gun Superman, where Clark is
00:40:09
said to be looking after Crypto for Cara.
00:40:12
James Gunn has emphasized that this version of Supergirl will
00:40:15
be much more hardcore, shaped by years of survival on broke on a
00:40:19
broken Krypton before arriving. On Earth, the film is set to
00:40:22
release on June 26th of 2020. Sixth.
00:40:24
We'll also feature Jason Momoa as Lobo, David Krumholz and
00:40:29
Emily Beecham as Kara's parents, and Mathias Schoenertz as the
00:40:33
villainous creme of the Yellow Hills.
00:40:36
With production underway, fans are eager to see Alcock's full
00:40:39
Superman Supergirl reveal Not Superman stronger than Superman
00:40:43
Shark Supergirl reveal tacos on the table.
00:40:46
What do you think? Does this cameo make sense for
00:40:48
the sort? Yeah, I think so.
00:40:50
I mean, again, they're connected.
00:40:52
Yeah, so. Well, I mean, she's gonna be in
00:40:54
Superman. He's gonna return the favor.
00:40:57
It's gonna happen. I was convinced that it that the
00:41:01
big cameo before I read the story, like read the actual
00:41:04
story, was that it was gonna be crypto because I was like, well,
00:41:08
that's a no brainer because it was definitely gonna be in.
00:41:09
It needs to be in every freaking movie going forward.
00:41:14
So so yeah, I was like, oh, yeah, that's totally.
00:41:18
And then it was like, oh, it's gonna Superman.
00:41:20
I was like, well, duh. OK, sure.
00:41:22
I mean. Yeah, it's obvious.
00:41:23
It's like, all right. Cool.
00:41:24
So and it being a flashback, I love that.
00:41:27
I love that they're gonna do that.
00:41:29
So it's you kind of see what Carol was like when she first
00:41:32
got like she just pops out of the spaceship.
00:41:35
So I think that's kind of a neat thing.
00:41:38
I think it'll make us curious as to what happened in between.
00:41:42
And that's what you want in a movie and a character, so.
00:41:45
Absolutely. No, I agree.
00:41:46
That's definitely something that, again, my tacos are on the
00:41:50
table. It's it's it's one of those
00:41:52
things that keeps the universe interconnected.
00:41:55
You kind of get that tease in one movie and it kind of goes
00:41:58
into the next one. It's one of those things that
00:42:00
just makes you it gives you that larger world building narrative.
00:42:04
Yeah, James Gunn is already so good at doing so.
00:42:07
I'm very excited to kind of like get that and see more of that
00:42:12
and those kind of things. And I'm sure we're going to get
00:42:14
like, you know, those kind of things in Peacemaker.
00:42:16
We're going to get those kind of things in Superman leading into
00:42:21
Supergirl, you know, and it's, yeah, it's going to be great.
00:42:24
So I'm I'm very excited for all that.
00:42:28
Yes, my tacos that represent hope are on the table.
00:42:32
Tacos that represent hope, all right?
00:42:35
So it's not a tea, it's not a tea, it's hope.
00:42:37
It's not a tea, so let's let's go ahead and move on to the next
00:42:42
story here, guys. All right.
00:42:44
Oh, always two there are Lucasfilm is reportedly
00:42:48
preparing for a leadership shift, with Calvin Kennedy's
00:42:51
tenure winding down and Dave Filoni and Carry Back being eyed
00:42:54
as potential successors. Filoni, a George Lucas protege,
00:42:58
has been a driving force behind the Clone Wars, Rebels, The
00:43:00
Mandalorian, Ahsoka, and pretty much everything Star Wars that
00:43:03
we've seen in the last few years.
00:43:05
His deep connection to Star Wars mythology has learned to made
00:43:07
loyal following, but some insiders worry he might lean too
00:43:10
heavily into lore, potentially alienating broader audiences.
00:43:13
Back, who has been with Lucas Films since from 12 as well
00:43:16
versed in the studios operations but like Filoni, lacks extensive
00:43:19
film experience. Kennedy may remain involved as a
00:43:22
producer to ensure a smooth transition.
00:43:24
Fans are already debating whether Filoni's mythology heavy
00:43:27
approach is the right fit or if Lucasfilm needs a fresh
00:43:29
perspective. With Star Wars at a crossroads,
00:43:31
the next era of the franchise is about to take shape.
00:43:34
So tacos on the table. Should Filoni and Beck take the
00:43:37
reins, or does Lucasfilm need a different direction?
00:43:41
So I'm going to start with this. Please.
00:43:44
All of the executives who are trying to do good or they're
00:43:49
going to make good movies. Shut the fuck up.
00:43:52
I'm sorry. That is probably the most angry
00:43:54
thing you heard me say. Like in that way.
00:43:56
No, no, no. I love it.
00:43:57
You didn't pass. That's good it.
00:43:59
Really it, it pisses me off that these, these executives are
00:44:03
like, well, well, no, you need to make films that the, it's,
00:44:07
it's going to alienate new, new viewers and it's not.
00:44:12
The thing is, is that there is a combination of the way that
00:44:17
Filoni does these things where it makes it open for new
00:44:21
audiences to come in. Now I get they're probably
00:44:24
afraid because Ahsoka was kind of in lore and really played off
00:44:28
as a another season of one of the animated shows.
00:44:32
Still my second favorite Star Wars series.
00:44:34
But I mean, rather than being its own thing, but at the same
00:44:36
time, it's not one of those things you can walk into and
00:44:40
just be like, oh, I'm completely lost that yes, it is bringing in
00:44:44
new characters, but they also reintroduce those characters.
00:44:48
And it's, it's one of those things where it's more like.
00:44:50
Huh. These characters are
00:44:52
interesting. I want to learn more.
00:44:53
You go back and watch Rebels, you know, or you know, it's
00:44:58
those kind of things. The way that Filoni does his
00:45:01
storytelling is they are fairly self-contained stories as far as
00:45:05
the stories themselves, but there are references within
00:45:08
other places that make you want to dive deeper into Star Wars.
00:45:12
Right, that's what I'm saying. Like the, the, the great thing
00:45:15
about phony is it's a gateway. It is a gateway into the rest of
00:45:18
lore and the rest or whatever. And again, from just a pure
00:45:22
capitalist perspective or pure, you know, marketing secretary,
00:45:25
you want people to be in the lore, right?
00:45:27
Cuz then they're gonna buy more shit from you.
00:45:29
They're gonna, you know, subscribe to Disney Plus for
00:45:31
longer. They're gonna buy comics.
00:45:32
They're gonna you know why the movies on DVD or I, I don't
00:45:36
know. I I don't be whatever anyway.
00:45:39
The two things that piss me off the most are executives who are
00:45:44
so disconnected from not only the fans, but just these genres
00:45:51
in general to a point where all they care about is money.
00:45:55
And it's like, you know what's going to make you the most
00:45:57
money? Make a good fucking film, right?
00:46:01
The other thing is gatekeepers, which this kind of is like
00:46:05
Hollywood gatekeeping. But gatekeepers is the other
00:46:07
thing that pisses me off because exactly what we're talking
00:46:09
about. How are you supposed to be a fan
00:46:13
if you tell people you can't be a fan if you didn't watch Star
00:46:15
Wars or during this, or if you didn't watch it this way or if
00:46:18
you didn't? You don't like this?
00:46:19
Yeah, like, no. Shut up.
00:46:21
Like as a as a fan you should want the most amount of people
00:46:25
to be into this. Right, right.
00:46:27
You know, however. However they they're introduced
00:46:29
to it. Exactly.
00:46:31
So just just jumping on, you know, tacos being on the table,
00:46:37
I 100% believe in Felonia. I believe in Beck.
00:46:40
They know how to put these films on to a point where it is
00:46:44
something that continues on everybody who loves Star Wars
00:46:50
and continues on that love for Star Wars.
00:46:52
At the same time inviting more people into Star Wars.
00:46:57
I I don't think that they need to go into a more closed off
00:47:00
direction where it's like, OK, well we're just going to make
00:47:03
these movies and we want to make money.
00:47:04
Like, no, if you want to make money, do these films for the
00:47:09
fans. And that not just fanservice,
00:47:11
like fanservice is one thing, but like make it something that
00:47:14
the fans will enjoy. No one gave a shit about Andor
00:47:18
until we were like, Oh no, it's it's really good.
00:47:21
It got more people. This is what I'm saying.
00:47:23
You can do this. It's not make something good.
00:47:27
Right. And and Andor would have been
00:47:30
made without the Mandalorian success.
00:47:34
Exactly. And Filoni was really
00:47:37
instrumental in that. So anyway, my tacos that contain
00:47:47
the spirit of a dead Jedi are are on the table.
00:47:53
Sometimes I really worry about you, I think.
00:47:57
We. All do I'm I'm yeah, I really
00:48:00
sometimes no, my talk is around the table.
00:48:03
I think that they they do, I think they'll do a good job.
00:48:06
I think splitting, I think splitting there's like the role
00:48:11
is probably for the best because it has become a much bigger role
00:48:16
since it was just, you know, since Kathleen Kennedy took over
00:48:20
really. So they may need more, more eyes
00:48:25
and arms. And I think Co Co leading is
00:48:29
really in right now because of the whole, you know, James Gunn,
00:48:34
Peter Safran thing. Right.
00:48:36
And I hope. It reminds me of that.
00:48:39
Yeah. I hope that kind of we have
00:48:42
felony on one side doing a lot of the creative stuff, whereas
00:48:45
Carrie Beck is handling more of the business stuff.
00:48:47
I think that would be good. So again, they can kind of play
00:48:50
to their strengths somewhat. Absolutely right.
00:48:54
Anyway, so that is it for rumors, ladies and gentlemen.
00:48:59
So it is now time to move on to our next next segment on the
00:49:03
show. It's time for the download.
00:49:14
I could hear that. I don't know what happened.
00:49:16
No, I changed some of the stuff on the back end.
00:49:17
So OK, good. That fixed everything.
00:49:20
I see. Well, with that all being said,
00:49:23
and now that we know everything that's going on, ladies and
00:49:26
gentlemen, for more news, trailers, reactions, check out
00:49:29
the distance Nerdings in post. Let us know what you're nerding
00:49:32
out on. Of course, you can hit us up on
00:49:34
Discord and all the places. Just tell us what you guys want
00:49:38
to talk about and we will make sure we bring up topics in
00:49:40
regards to those things. We're actually already doing
00:49:42
that in this episode. So ladies and gentlemen, let's
00:49:46
move on to this first story here.
00:49:50
Well, actually not first story. Sorry Jen, we are moving on.
00:49:55
We're well it's because we haven't done it in like 2 weeks.
00:49:56
So we're bringing back a segment because Jen's been gone for two
00:50:01
weeks and we haven't been able to do the segment.
00:50:03
Ladies and gentlemen, it is time to take a stroll down the lane
00:50:09
of actors and actresses and everything happening because,
00:50:12
ladies and gentlemen, we're jumping into the casting cache
00:50:16
with Jen. Let's cast a spell on these
00:50:23
actors. Upcoming world Walton Coggins is
00:50:33
You just need to apologize to Walton.
00:50:37
Walton Coggins is trading in a cowboy hat for a wardrobe right
00:50:41
out of Ben Mendelssohn's dreams. The man with more Southern charm
00:50:45
than a glass of sweet tea might just be stepping into the
00:50:49
dictator's boots for Legendary's live action Street Fighter
00:50:52
movie. And honestly, that makes a
00:50:55
smooth talking charisma. An unhinged menace could make
00:51:00
for one of the most memorable M bisons we've ever seen.
00:51:06
Imagine him delivering those iconic lines with that signature
00:51:09
smirk. This could be something special.
00:51:13
M Bison with southern charm. Suddenly, world domination is
00:51:18
sounding kind of tempting. It's interesting with that I I
00:51:25
do like the idea of Walton Goggins playing M Bison.
00:51:29
The only thing I have with that is there is a high bar
00:51:34
considering that the best on screen, M Bison was played
00:51:38
played by an amazing actor in a terrible movie.
00:51:42
As much as everybody's going to sit there and say like, oh, but
00:51:44
but I have good memories. Yeah, we do.
00:51:46
There are good memories of this movie.
00:51:48
It's still not a good movie. So I mean, the old star Street
00:51:52
Fighter movie from the 90s, Raul Julia, like he killed that role,
00:51:59
given it was his last role, but I mean, it was he absolutely.
00:52:03
He has one of the best lines in existence in in a movie that was
00:52:08
just so blase, you know, but I mean, like, you know, the the
00:52:16
worst day you ever you ever had in your life was the day M Bison
00:52:20
came to your village. To me, it was another Tuesday.
00:52:26
You know, like that is one of the most diabolically well
00:52:30
delivered lines in any movie. And it was and it was M Bison in
00:52:34
the shitty Street Fighter movie. But I mean, like, but it was he
00:52:37
has Walton Goggins is going to have a high bar to pass if he
00:52:40
wants to do or just at least meet to get to the level that
00:52:46
Raul Julia put on to play in Bison in that movie.
00:52:49
So. Right, no, I agree, but I think
00:52:52
he I like that they're not just like going oh, let's get
00:52:55
somebody kind of like who he had before.
00:52:58
And so they cut, they're going in a different direction.
00:53:00
And come on, you're telling me that you wouldn't fall for
00:53:04
Walton Goggins Southern accent? The thing is is that we don't
00:53:11
what I kind of don't want him Bison to be charming.
00:53:14
I don't want him to be somebody likable and Bison is iron fist
00:53:18
destroy the world by any means. He is the diabolical, you know,
00:53:25
just he is. He is that dictator that like
00:53:29
the the cliche dictator. He puts the Dick in dictator.
00:53:32
He kind of does, so I don't want to lean too heavy on this
00:53:35
because I know you got more casting to talk about.
00:53:37
So we have so much work. Yeah, Oh yeah, HBO's Harry
00:53:42
Potter series is filling up fast.
00:53:44
Wingardium Castillosa. Nice.
00:53:48
Here's who's stepping into some of Hogwarts most iconic roles.
00:53:53
They cast Lox Krat as Draco Malfoy.
00:53:58
He's in the picture there. He looks, he looks like a little
00:54:02
shit. Lucia's Malfoy is Johnny Flynn
00:54:08
now I know who he is, but no one else will 'cause I watch way too
00:54:12
much British stuff. Yeah, he was in, he's been in
00:54:18
like a lot of British stuff. Just just trust me, he, he'll,
00:54:20
he's going to be really good at it.
00:54:22
Molly Weasley is Catherine Parkinson, she played Jen from
00:54:28
the IT crowd. She I think she's going to be
00:54:31
amazing. Seamus Finnegan is going to be
00:54:36
play as Leo Early is playing Seamus Finnegan, you know,
00:54:41
Seamus the. Oh, Sheamus, OK.
00:54:45
And Alicia Leonie is going to play Parvati Patel.
00:54:52
Siena Moussa is Lavender Brown. Bertie Carville is going to be
00:54:56
Cornelius Fudge. Now he's the Minister of Magic.
00:55:00
Yeah. And yeah.
00:55:02
So I mean, like, that's a lot of people.
00:55:04
They're really going hardcore on this casting.
00:55:07
So with this lineup, Hogwarts is filling up fast.
00:55:10
Now the real question is how many of these characters will be
00:55:13
getting their own dramatic TikTok edits before the series
00:55:17
even starts? The only thing I'm wondering
00:55:20
here is so in the picture that's on screen, the Ders are there
00:55:24
and yeah, I don't feel like, did they?
00:55:26
No, they didn't announce who's playing the Dersleys in this.
00:55:30
No, all they did, I don't think it mentioned.
00:55:33
I don't think where I was getting my sources, I don't
00:55:35
think it mentioned them, but they actually did.
00:55:37
Let me see if I can find who they are real quick.
00:55:39
Because like, yeah, like I said, the picture has the Dersleys in
00:55:41
it and it's like, oh, you know, that's that's gonna be
00:55:44
interesting because I definitely wanna see who plays Petunia, OK.
00:55:47
Let me see. Yeah, hold on here.
00:55:50
Top stories. Here we go.
00:55:53
See, it is damn it, Dodd, for riding so well that you're
00:55:58
bearing the lead. OK Belle Powley and Daniel
00:56:03
Rigby. OK, So the with the real red
00:56:07
lips, that's Belle Powley. And Daniel Rigby is the one next
00:56:11
to her. OK.
00:56:12
So I. Mean they look like younger
00:56:14
versions of the Dersleys, which is going to be very interesting.
00:56:18
Yeah, no. We lost.
00:56:20
We lost every. Oh whoops, I don't either.
00:56:23
I don't know what happened there.
00:56:24
I don't either. That's that's fun times.
00:56:27
OK, woo Hoo, I wasn't even on stage.
00:56:29
I just heard everybody go silent.
00:56:31
Anyways, let's continue. But I just think that it's, I
00:56:35
think it's coming together. I'm actually really excited
00:56:38
about this. I, you know, I'm, I'm just, I
00:56:42
really do not like JK Rowling at all.
00:56:45
She's been shrivel up and die now because she's given us the
00:56:50
Harry Potter stuff. So fuck off.
00:56:53
And but I really want to see the show.
00:56:56
I'm really interested in it. And especially after watching
00:56:59
the Bonnie Wright interview, I'm like, I'm so much more excited
00:57:03
about it now. So yeah, I'm excited.
00:57:06
All right, well, it's. Nobody else has any other like I
00:57:10
stunned you. I know I'm conflicted about
00:57:13
watching it so. I'm not, I'm, I'm open to, to,
00:57:18
to, to newer versions and kind of like doing the long form
00:57:22
storytelling. I'm actually interested in
00:57:23
seeing all the things that were in the books that was not in the
00:57:26
movies because. They right?
00:57:28
Yeah, more. Time, that's the same thing that
00:57:30
Bonnie was saying is that she was She'd be way more interested
00:57:32
in watching the shows because there's so much more you can do
00:57:35
with the show than you can do with the the the movies.
00:57:37
Yeah, I agree. I agree.
00:57:39
Hopefully it doesn't go the way of Wheel of Time though.
00:57:41
Those bastards. OK, has nothing to do with what
00:57:45
we're talking about next. So the underworld just got a new
00:57:48
queen. Mia Goth is set to Co star
00:57:51
alongside Ryan Gosling in Star Wars Starfighter, the new
00:57:55
standalone film from director Shawn Levy.
00:57:57
Details of her role are, of course, under wraps, but rumors
00:58:01
suggest she'll be playing the film's villain, facing off
00:58:05
against Gosling's character. Set five years after The Rise of
00:58:09
Skywalker, the movie introduces an entirely new cast of
00:58:13
characters, actors, and is slated for May 28th, 2027.
00:58:17
So that's pretty interesting. No, it is pretty interesting.
00:58:23
Mia Goth is more famous for like horror films and kind of like
00:58:26
some of the, some of the stuff she's been in has been pretty
00:58:29
hardcore. So I mean, it's gonna.
00:58:30
Be I want her to be a Twilight. It's gonna be kind of cool to
00:58:33
see her kind of in like something that is not as, I
00:58:38
mean, intense in another way, but not as intense as some of
00:58:40
the movies she's been in. Yeah, she might be playing a
00:58:43
kind of horror adjacent villain to some degree.
00:58:47
Yeah, so. I'm saying I want her to be a
00:58:49
Twilight, okay? Venice City, he's got that.
00:58:52
Look. Darth Kala.
00:58:54
Maybe. Just commenting on this.
00:58:56
Venice City just commented. Wait, there's a Harry Potter
00:58:59
show upcoming? Yes, there is.
00:59:00
They are currently casting for it, yeah.
00:59:02
Oh yeah, they've got like, almost everybody, right?
00:59:05
At least for the first book. I want to say last week we we
00:59:09
talked about casting of the main cast or.
00:59:11
Two weeks ago, that was. They were cute.
00:59:13
They were so cute. Yeah.
00:59:14
And it was a Jeff Nerdy question that none of us got right.
00:59:17
No, let's. All right.
00:59:20
You on here. Even dead.
00:59:22
I'm the hero. Just maybe not the one you need.
00:59:25
Emily Hampshire will embody Edith in the upcoming Vision
00:59:28
series for Disney Plus. Hampshire's casting suggests a
00:59:32
bold new direction for Edith, possibly evolving beyond its AI
00:59:36
roots into something much more tangible.
00:59:38
With Hampshire's sharp wit and dramatic chops, Edith might just
00:59:42
prove that even in human form, she's still Stark's ultimate
00:59:46
fail safe. So I mean, I think it's going to
00:59:51
be cool. Yeah, I definitely.
00:59:55
She's kind of it's. Bad ass it's to her.
00:59:58
Yeah, right. See it I well, no.
01:00:00
It's gonna Maria Hill to her a little bit, so don't.
01:00:02
Think it's in that picture. Well, a little bit.
01:00:05
No, I like. I think it's a.
01:00:06
Great. I think more Maria Hill attitude
01:00:09
more so. That's kind of yeah, like energy
01:00:11
more than yeah. Yeah, she's giving off Maria
01:00:13
Hill energy. Yeah.
01:00:15
It just lends credence. It lends credence to my theory
01:00:21
that it starts in Vision's head and then it comes out because
01:00:26
Edith is the Stark thing, right? And so is Ultron, and Vision was
01:00:31
as well. So he's trying to go back to his
01:00:33
roots to find out who he is. This is absolutely the way that
01:00:37
he would do that. And then also, if they're in his
01:00:40
head and he can make them bodies, then by the end of the
01:00:44
thing they're not going to be in his head that anymore, and
01:00:46
that's going to be terrifying. Yep, so.
01:00:49
Right, all right. I'm done.
01:00:51
Yeah, OK. I'm like, I'm done.
01:00:54
Oh, that Southern drawl has me in its throttle.
01:00:58
Oh, and we have merch people. We got merch people.
01:01:03
That's really what I was waiting on.
01:01:04
It's like we've got it like there on there.
01:01:08
So guys, let's jump into the rest of the stories here, Marvel
01:01:11
said. Surprise.
01:01:12
What are we The Thunderbolts twist that the team is actually
01:01:17
the New Avengers was supposed to be a big reveal near the end of
01:01:20
the film. But just days after opening
01:01:22
weekend, Marvel flipped the switch and rebranded the movie
01:01:25
in its marketing, leaving fans who hadn't seen it yet feeling
01:01:28
spoiled in the worst kind of way.
01:01:32
Disney's SVP of marketing, Ryan Stankovich.
01:01:36
Yeah, that's fitting, defended the move, saying that Discourse
01:01:41
is part of the Marvel fan experience and that many fans
01:01:44
actually found the marketing clever.
01:01:46
Of course, the ones who already saw the movie were probably the
01:01:49
ones who thought it was clever because they weren't the ones
01:01:51
getting spoiled. So the reveal happens when Julia
01:01:55
Louise Dreyfus, her Valentina Allegra Defontaine in full PR
01:02:00
spin mode, brands her ragtag team as the New Avengers after
01:02:04
the Louis Pullman century situation goes off the rails.
01:02:08
Then in the post credits scene, Anthony Mackie Sam Wilson is
01:02:12
seen assembling his own real Avengers team and he's not
01:02:15
thrilled about the branding hijack.
01:02:17
Marvel's marketing machine has always been a force of to be
01:02:20
reckoned with, but this time it might have been a little too
01:02:24
efficient. Fans hoping for the surprise in
01:02:27
the theater got a reminder that in the MCU, nothing says secret
01:02:32
for long. How long before Marvel just
01:02:34
drops post credit scenes details in the trailer so fans don't
01:02:37
have to wait? I I have not seen this so
01:02:43
spoilers. Spoilers, I haven't watched the
01:02:47
number one movie in the fucking world.
01:02:48
Come on man. What?
01:02:49
We had a car crash. Look.
01:02:52
Yeah, there's a lot of stuff kind of happened, OK.
01:02:54
I'll. Give you that, but it's OK.
01:02:57
No, I, I feel like if they had just gone new Avengers the whole
01:03:02
time or Dark Avengers or whatever, just just just put
01:03:06
Avengers in there. You're gonna get asses in seats.
01:03:09
True. More than Thunderbolts.
01:03:12
I'm gonna say more than Thunderbolts.
01:03:15
It's like just just put Avengers in there.
01:03:17
That's what people want to see. Like, oh, Avengers, oh,
01:03:19
whatever, you know, whatever. This just anyway.
01:03:25
Just like Sandra Betty in the chat.
01:03:26
Just add it to Shadoo's list. Yeah, of like the 1000 movies he
01:03:30
still hasn't watched I it's. Growing every day.
01:03:36
Day by day. All right, well.
01:03:37
Let's let's not bad. Let's let's move on here.
01:03:43
Grab your tickets, your popcorn and a bucket so big it could
01:03:47
devour worlds. Fantastic Four.
01:03:51
First Step has blasted past the competition in pre sales,
01:03:54
proving the audiences are ready to embrace the power of Marvel's
01:03:59
first family. It's outselling Mission
01:04:02
Impossible and Minecraft, which means Tom Cruise might need to
01:04:06
do an actual space stunt to compete next time.
01:04:10
Oh, just you. And he's going.
01:04:11
To do it. Don't.
01:04:13
Literally going to jump out. He's literally going to jump out
01:04:16
of a out of a out of like fucking shuttle out of a
01:04:19
shuttle. Exactly.
01:04:20
I was. I was.
01:04:21
I was. I'm gonna do it.
01:04:22
I'm gonna do it. That's true.
01:04:23
I'm gonna do it. Airplanes.
01:04:24
Whatever. Well, he'll be closer.
01:04:26
To his and the Galactus. Close to Xenu.
01:04:31
Sleeping. Oh my God.
01:04:37
Sorry, continued your friend. OK, no, put that down.
01:04:41
That's gonna be your joke. I am.
01:04:44
Right. Or the end of the show.
01:04:46
Do it right now. And the popcorn bucket.
01:04:50
It's absurdly enormous, Marvel basically said.
01:04:54
What if your popcorn container looked like it can could consume
01:04:59
an entire planet? It's 17.5 inches tall and 20
01:05:05
inches wide. This thing is 20 inches wide,
01:05:10
almost 2 feet. It's not so much a snack hole as
01:05:16
it's a new roommate. You don't just carry this thing,
01:05:21
right? Just don't carry this thing into
01:05:23
the theater. You commit to it.
01:05:26
Man, yeah. AMCS Herbie Snack Vessel It is
01:05:32
perfect for those who want their popcorn guarded by a sassy
01:05:36
little robot, while Regal Cinema's Fantastic Car Bucket
01:05:41
lets you eat from the same vehicle that Reed Richards
01:05:44
insists is totally aerodynamic, even though we all know it's
01:05:50
just a marble branded and. It's also totally not
01:05:52
compensating for something. Are you prepared to snack like a
01:05:57
cosmic entity or will you need to train your arms before
01:06:01
attempting to carry this planet size bucket into the theater?
01:06:06
I love popcorn like popcorn is is one of my favorite things.
01:06:10
This is still this is too much. No, this is true.
01:06:14
I'm I. Want one?
01:06:15
I'm ready for this. I want one I'm ready for.
01:06:18
This Yeah. I don't normally buy these
01:06:20
things, but I mean, if it's that big and all it's meant for is
01:06:24
for me to put popcorn in it, yes, I'm buying it.
01:06:25
It's probably gonna cost like 2. 100 I have never wanted one.
01:06:30
I've never wanted one. Now I'm you know, I'll eat my
01:06:33
words because I will want the Wonder Woman one, but I have
01:06:38
never wanted a popcorn bucket and I am like, I really want
01:06:41
this freaking popcorn bucket. I want to see the girth of this
01:06:45
thing. The.
01:06:48
So I'm like, OK. All right, we'll move it on.
01:06:54
Like no, no, you are not allowed to make these jokes.
01:06:57
She's my mom. No, we now we know where cryptos
01:07:01
been. James Got is shutting down the
01:07:02
runtime Rubus writing Superman. The director confirmed that the
01:07:05
film is 2 hours and 9 minutes long, including credits and post
01:07:08
credit scenes and made it clear that Warner Brothers has zero
01:07:11
influence over the runtime be as DC Studios handles its own
01:07:14
productions. So if anyone was worried about
01:07:16
WB trimming it down guns saying not a chance.
01:07:19
Meanwhile, for the forces of solitude, a surprising new
01:07:22
details emerge about the abominable snowman.
01:07:24
Well, it gets icy Outskirts, a children's high end book
01:07:27
revealed these creatures aren't just a single monster encounter,
01:07:29
they're actually a whole tribe just living around Superman's
01:07:32
frozen sanctuary. Even better, crypto loves to
01:07:34
chase them, which raises some truly weird but fantastic
01:07:38
questions. Are they terrified?
01:07:39
Do they fight back? Is there an annual Superdog
01:07:42
versus Snowman showdown at the fortress stands against?
01:07:44
DCU is leading fully into the sci-fi weirdness, and this deep
01:07:47
cut lure fits right in. Could these snowmen be descends
01:07:50
of Superman's old intergalactic zoo?
01:07:52
Now that's a mystery worth exploring.
01:07:54
Are we ready for Superman to embrace its full comic book
01:07:56
absurdity? I.
01:07:57
Kinda AM. And I feel like there's gonna be
01:08:00
a point where they're just gonna show crypto, go outside and come
01:08:03
back with like a snowman leg and the snowman's just gonna hop.
01:08:08
I'm like, can I get that back? So does this mean that Bumble is
01:08:15
is DC Buchanan? They probably probably will.
01:08:20
Be thank you for getting that joke, Frey.
01:08:22
Frey was doubtful that you would get that joke.
01:08:25
That's good. That's got.
01:08:26
That was originally the tagline, but she was like, no, no, it's
01:08:28
too obscure. It is very obscure.
01:08:30
It's very obscure. I I like it.
01:08:33
I like it. Oh, man.
01:08:36
Let's let's let's move. On but no I I am ready for the
01:08:39
Yeti. Absolutely.
01:08:44
You're full of it tonight. Yeah, uh huh.
01:08:47
I know Jen's gonna be excited about this, so let's let's move.
01:08:50
Into the I am. I actually was so excited I got
01:08:53
the hiccups for a second. Yeah, she messaged us earlier
01:08:56
and was like super excited about it, Yeah.
01:08:58
I may have cursed and then demanded more screaming, so
01:09:03
figure that out. She is beauty, she is grace, and
01:09:09
she has a lasso. Woo James Gunn has confirmed
01:09:13
that Wonder Woman is officially getting her own stand alone film
01:09:18
in the rebooted DC Universe. While details are still scarce,
01:09:23
Gunn revealed that the movie is currently being written separate
01:09:27
from Paradise Lost, the HBO Max series exploring the Mascaras
01:09:32
mythology. There's no director or star
01:09:35
attached yet, and Gunn hasn't confirmed if he's writing it
01:09:39
himself, but he has hinted at working on a secret DCU script,
01:09:45
which makes this timing interesting.
01:09:48
This announcement reinforces Warner Brothers Discovery CEO
01:09:51
David Zasloff statement. With that, Superman, Batman,
01:09:56
Supergirl, and Wonder Woman are the four foundational pillars of
01:10:00
the new DCU. Gunn echoed that sentiment,
01:10:04
saying he feels great about where Superman and Supergirl are
01:10:08
positioned. While Batman and Wonder Woman
01:10:10
are still being developed, the Superman arriving soon and
01:10:15
Supergirl Woman of Tomorrow rapping filming, DC Studios is
01:10:19
locking in its core heroes, Wonder Woman's return is now
01:10:24
officially in motion, and the DCU's Trinity is slowly taking
01:10:29
shape. Diana is back.
01:10:32
But seriously, is anyone more excited about this than me?
01:10:37
No, seriously. No, no, it is.
01:10:40
Can you believe I got through that whole story without
01:10:42
screaming? So, not that I'm not excited
01:10:45
about this, but I'm not more excited about it than you are.
01:10:48
Right, right. Yeah, Yeah, No, I'm, I'm also
01:10:50
excited about this. But again, I'm mostly excited
01:10:52
about it because of you. What I'm interested in is who
01:10:57
are they going to recast? So who plays Wonder Woman?
01:11:02
You know? That's gonna set the tone for
01:11:05
the whole film. Is who who plays Wonder Woman?
01:11:08
I mean, she's the one. Yeah, and it's like, you know,
01:11:11
do do they are, are they as good or better than?
01:11:17
Gal Gadot. Than Gal Gadot.
01:11:19
Yeah. Yeah, I think it would would
01:11:22
need to be different, obviously. I mean, if she's still going to
01:11:25
be wearing the same outfit, she's still going to be wearing
01:11:28
the same outfit. But sorry, I wasn't saying it as
01:11:35
a question. I was a statement no, but I so I
01:11:42
was looking at some of the actresses not to objectify them
01:11:46
by and you know, I apologize, I'm not trying to objectify
01:11:49
anyone except Chris Evans, but right, of course I it's gonna be
01:11:56
different, right? I there's one actress who I
01:12:00
guess she's in, she plays Talon in ATV series Overlord or
01:12:06
something. Anyway, her name's Jessica Green
01:12:09
and she really looks like a traditional Wonder Woman.
01:12:12
She's got the blue eyes, she's got the dark hair, she's
01:12:16
statuesque, she's tall. So I kind of like her, but I
01:12:22
also like Audra, Adria, Adriani. The woman who played.
01:12:29
Yes, Bix, I would love, I love her as well.
01:12:33
Like, as far as like she's got a very Wonder Woman vibe about
01:12:37
her. And she is also statuesque.
01:12:40
And yeah, so I, I, you know, I think those two would be it.
01:12:43
I like yeah, Jessica Green has that look.
01:12:45
I I do think it is that almost there is kind of a like, again,
01:12:49
I don't mean this in an objectifying, there is like a
01:12:51
Greek statue kind of yeah, which I.
01:12:53
Think is good for. Diana.
01:12:54
Yeah. Yeah.
01:12:55
Yeah. Absolutely, and I agree if they
01:12:58
go with the clay. Right or exactly it is the whole
01:13:02
beautiful Zafrite wise Athena so.
01:13:05
Yeah, I kind of hope that they go with the same origin that
01:13:09
they went with in Snyders universe.
01:13:12
I like the idea of mashing the two origins of Wonder Woman and
01:13:18
and mashing it together. So like the story she was told
01:13:21
growing up was that Zeus breathed life into the clay, but
01:13:25
in reality she's the daughter of Zeus.
01:13:27
Yeah, right. Yeah.
01:13:28
Her actually being a demigod, I kind of feel like it lends more
01:13:32
to her character for her to actually be a demigod than for
01:13:34
her to just be Clay. Yeah, yeah.
01:13:37
No, absolutely. I, I do think that I, I liked
01:13:41
it. I liked the changes that they
01:13:43
made to the origin. So I do kind of hope that they
01:13:45
stick kind of with that. There have been so many rewrites
01:13:50
of her origin, so they've got a lot to choose from.
01:13:53
But no, I'm really excited about this.
01:13:56
I was super excited when I saw it and I was like, we're
01:13:59
reporting on it and. She texted us this morning and
01:14:03
was like, they're doing the Wonder Woman movie.
01:14:05
I'm writing the story right now. So, yeah, so I was like, OK, I
01:14:13
definitely want, you know, I want to do this.
01:14:15
And so I'm really excited about it.
01:14:18
I I do think that they will find the right actress to do it.
01:14:23
And it it may be somebody that's not on anybody's like radar
01:14:28
right now. So we don't even know.
01:14:30
I hardly anybody knew who David Korn Sweat was and he's Superman
01:14:34
now. So I think that's where where
01:14:37
James Gunn is going with this, trying to get fresh faces that
01:14:40
may not have a lot of acting experience or do, but just not a
01:14:45
lot of successful acting experience.
01:14:48
And I think that that that may be the way he goes.
01:14:51
So hopefully we'll see soon and we'll get more from this.
01:14:55
And James Gunn is writing the Wonder Woman movie because I
01:14:57
think he would do a pretty bang up job on that, right?
01:15:00
Or Greta Gerwig. Those are my 2 choices.
01:15:04
So there we go. Great it'd.
01:15:06
Be interesting to see Greta Gerwig doing an action scene.
01:15:09
Yeah, absolutely. Well, you know, she got a lot of
01:15:12
practice with the Barbie. Yeah, so.
01:15:15
Yeah. But I mean, there weren't like
01:15:17
hand to hand combat action scenes.
01:15:19
There were a lot of fast-paced scenes and there were a lot of
01:15:22
kind of more like musical esque scenes, but there weren't really
01:15:25
like action fight scenes. What do you call Battle of the
01:15:30
Beach? Yeah, no, that was more like a
01:15:32
dance battle. That's a thing.
01:15:33
But a other thing, choreography, it's the same.
01:15:37
Called the same thing. I'm saying that's why I say
01:15:40
it'll be interesting because she knows how to direct those kind
01:15:44
of choreography scenes and stuff like that.
01:15:47
It'll be interesting to see if she can dictate beats on fight
01:15:50
scenes. Yeah, well, I mean, it would be
01:15:52
interesting because I'm obviously she would hire a fight
01:15:56
choreographer and, you know, like a whole fight team.
01:15:59
So they would probably come up with the fights and she would
01:16:02
just have to know how to frame them so that she got the best
01:16:06
out of it. Yeah.
01:16:07
You know, I just think it would be interesting to have another
01:16:10
female director because we. Should move on.
01:16:14
This is the quick bites. Oh yeah, sorry, we got lost.
01:16:17
We got lost in the weeds. It's OK, so let's.
01:16:20
Buy the one keeping us on track? Hold on.
01:16:23
Yeah, no, no. So let's go ahead and continue
01:16:26
on here, guys. This is some news that, again,
01:16:29
I've been kind of following a little bit closely.
01:16:32
So now the Predator knows how it feels to be in every horror
01:16:35
movie ever. Predator Badlands is flipping
01:16:39
the franchise on its head. This time, the hunter is the
01:16:42
hunted. Instead of following humans
01:16:43
trying to survive, the story centers on deck.
01:16:46
I've never been able to say their racist name.
01:16:50
Is it right? Yeah.
01:16:52
Yeah. I wanna say it's a outcast who's
01:16:55
on the run. From his own kind.
01:16:58
Director Dan Tracenberg describes the film as an
01:17:01
inversion of the usual Predator formula, where Deck must prove
01:17:05
himself while being relentlessly pursued.
01:17:07
Deck played by Demetrius Shuster, Kola, Matagani,
01:17:12
Matanagi. Yeah, Kola Matanagi.
01:17:14
I Yeah, I think you. Yeah.
01:17:15
Uh huh. Kola Matanagi, yeah.
01:17:17
We're just gonna go with. It yeah teams up with with Thai
01:17:20
synthetic Android played by Elle Fanning, who appears to be a
01:17:24
creation of Waylan Utani, linking the film to the Alien
01:17:27
unit. Together, they set out to find a
01:17:30
ultimate adversary, all while the Predators hunt deck down
01:17:33
like prey. Trachtenberg, who previously
01:17:35
directed Prey and Predator killer of killers, is breaking
01:17:38
new ground with Badlands. The film is set to be on a
01:17:41
remote planet and explores Predator culture, complete with
01:17:44
fully developed Predator language created by the linguist
01:17:48
behind Avatar's knobby. With a November 7th 2025 release
01:17:52
date, Badlands is shaping up to be a bold new direction for the
01:17:55
franchise. Are you, are you guys?
01:17:57
Because I'm, I'm excited for this.
01:17:58
Are you guys excited to see a Predator fight for survival
01:18:02
instead of being the unstoppable force?
01:18:05
Sounds cool. Sounds cool.
01:18:06
That's it. OK, I'm excited.
01:18:09
I knew that one. Where I'm excited about this is
01:18:13
not only are you getting kind of the inverse, you're getting that
01:18:16
predator kind of being haunted because they're supposed to be
01:18:18
the ultimate predators in the universe.
01:18:21
So to see one that's kind of on the defense is very different,
01:18:24
right? Even because even when in all
01:18:27
the movies, when you know, the haunted is reversing the table
01:18:32
on the predator, they usually are still kind of like dominant.
01:18:36
They're still the ones that are in control.
01:18:38
And then the last minute thing happens and they just nuke
01:18:41
whatever's happening, right. So it's like, right, you know,
01:18:43
it's it's you've never seen a situation where you have a
01:18:47
predator that is doesn't have all the weaponry, have all the
01:18:51
things that it normally has in any of these movies, and it's
01:18:55
being hunted by other predators. It's it's just, it's such a good
01:18:58
kind of idea. The other thing that excites me
01:19:00
about this is we have never heard their spoken language.
01:19:04
Right. Oh yeah, we haven't.
01:19:05
I forgot all about that. Yeah, I am always excited about
01:19:08
conlings so. Yeah, because because that's the
01:19:11
other thing is with with the predators on this, we, we, we
01:19:16
tend to hear like the clicking and we hear like all the like,
01:19:19
you know, when they're mad, they they have the scream, like that
01:19:21
blood curdling scream they have, you know, but we've never
01:19:24
actually heard them speak to other Predators.
01:19:26
Now we've gotten closer in some of the newer movies, we see more
01:19:29
Predators and kind of them looking at each other and you.
01:19:32
Know dude, I watched the first one when it came out, I don't
01:19:36
remember. But that's where I'm kind of
01:19:38
giving you guys the update. Like, you know, in in some of
01:19:40
the newer movies, you have them where they'll look at each other
01:19:43
and they'll kind of they'll look at each other and they kind of.
01:19:48
Sort of editor. Yeah.
01:19:50
And and that's kind of have an idea of like what's going on.
01:19:53
No, there's like a buzzing, but then like we've never actually
01:19:58
had them speak. And that's kind of like what I'm
01:20:02
excited about, you know what I mean?
01:20:03
Yeah, I got you. No, I I think it's cool again.
01:20:06
I always yeah, I'm I'm here for any new con lines.
01:20:09
So, and it sounds like it'll be interesting since there is kind
01:20:11
of a, a clicking and whatever it might be much more alien than
01:20:15
right, right than even the Navi. I do like that, you know, they,
01:20:19
they have an actual linguist coming in and creating this
01:20:22
language, so it's kind of cool. Yeah.
01:20:24
So no, I'm always there. I probably, I probably know who
01:20:28
that is. Hold on.
01:20:30
Well, let's for now, let's go ahead and move on here to the
01:20:34
next story. He can save these hey.
01:20:40
God, creepy baby. Creepy Babies Boo just scored a
01:20:45
new studio, Blum House Bloom House.
01:20:50
Bloom House is officially stepping into the Saw franchise,
01:20:53
acquiring twisted Pictures share of the rights.
01:20:56
This marks a major shift for the long running horror series,
01:20:59
especially since it brings James Wan back into the fold.
01:21:04
The director who launched the franchise with the original Saw
01:21:07
in 2004. At the moment, no new Saw film
01:21:12
is affected officially in development, but this shake up
01:21:15
makes it inevitable that more jigsaw mayhem is coming.
01:21:19
The stalled Saw 11 project, once slated for September 20 of 25,
01:21:26
was shelved due to creative disagreements between Lionsgate
01:21:30
and producers, despite Saw 10 pulling in 112 million globally.
01:21:36
A Bloom House involvement means we might see a more grounded A
01:21:41
psychological horror approach, which or I'm sorry, much like
01:21:46
which, much like what we they did with the Invisible Man.
01:21:51
Or who knows, maybe Jigsaw's traps get an extra layer of
01:21:55
existential dread. We don't know, with one
01:21:58
potentially closer to the property than he's been in
01:22:01
years. The real question isn't if Saul
01:22:03
will return, but how. So does this mean Jigsaw is
01:22:07
about to get his a Blum House horror makeover?
01:22:10
Or will he keep things twisted in the classic soft fashion?
01:22:16
It's going to be interesting because I mean, like at this
01:22:18
point, it's not the same franchise it was unless they're
01:22:22
rebooting it, which we don't really need that.
01:22:25
But I mean, yeah, it it'll be interesting to see what they do
01:22:28
with the franchise itself now that it's coming to Blum House,
01:22:31
who kind of they're more famous for allowing more creator
01:22:37
creativity, right? Like, you know, there's, there's
01:22:40
less like studio, like, Oh yeah, you have to do this.
01:22:44
Like it's more like, hey, be creative, do what you got to do.
01:22:47
And James wanting back to the franchise is kind of a big deal
01:22:49
with that, too. Yeah, I have an idea though.
01:22:51
Animate it. Do it like heavy animation,
01:22:57
almost like it's like those old Sin City comics kind of thing,
01:23:01
that kind of animation and animate it.
01:23:03
I think it would be fantastic. Yeah.
01:23:07
They could be the untold stories of Saw I I.
01:23:11
I mean, if they go back and tell like some of the earlier stories
01:23:14
like I, I, I would prefer to see stories of like him when he was
01:23:17
younger. Yeah, I'm just saying animated.
01:23:21
Can you imagine Jigsaw animated fire?
01:23:26
Yeah. And I don't want like an origin
01:23:28
of like, oh, where did he become Jigsaw and start using the, the,
01:23:32
the puppet and all that. Like, I want to see, you know,
01:23:36
younger him and some of the, because I mean, he was obviously
01:23:39
established by the 1st movie. So like, you know, those murders
01:23:43
and, and the way that he he like just messed with people when he
01:23:48
was younger kind of thing. Yeah.
01:23:50
Yeah, cool. All right.
01:23:51
OK. Let's.
01:23:52
Move on. Yeah, let's go ahead and move on
01:23:54
here. Again, another story I'm excited
01:23:56
for. My, my, my nerd.
01:23:57
Nostalgia is jumping all over the place.
01:23:59
Link's going to need more time travel for this one, because
01:24:03
yeah, The Legend of Zelda live action movie has been pushed
01:24:07
back, but only by a few weeks. Originally set from March 26th,
01:24:11
2027, the new release date is now May 7th, 2027.
01:24:14
According to Zelda creator Shigeru Miyamoto, the delay is
01:24:19
purely for production reasons, ensuring the film is as good as
01:24:24
it can be. Given how long fans have waited
01:24:26
for this adaptation, a few extra weeks might be worth it.
01:24:29
Director Wes Ball from Kingdom of the Planet Planet of the Apes
01:24:33
has promised to go to the ends of the Earth to make this movie
01:24:36
live live up to its expectations.
01:24:38
He's aiming for a live action Miyazaki feel, something
01:24:42
whimsical yet serious and immersive.
01:24:45
With Nintendo and Sony Pictures Co producing and Derek Connelly
01:24:48
from Jurassic World writing the screenplay, the stakes are high.
01:24:52
After the Super Mario Brothers movie dominated the box office
01:24:55
named Nintendo is betting big on Zelda's cinematic future.
01:24:59
What do you guys think? Will this delay make the movie
01:25:01
even better? Or are you just ready to see
01:25:03
Link on the big screen already? Because I am ready to see Link
01:25:06
on the big screen. I mean, obviously my name is
01:25:08
searching for the Master Sword. Come on.
01:25:10
Again, I'm, I'm, I'm, I, I've already handed several of my my
01:25:14
nerd cards and I'm gonna hand another one in.
01:25:16
I've never played a Zelda game so well.
01:25:19
I we were not a Gen. We were not a Nintendo
01:25:21
household. We weren't, we were not.
01:25:24
We were an Xbox household. Yes, and still.
01:25:28
Mostly I'll I'll give you this Shudu.
01:25:30
By the time you were old enough to play a video game, consoles
01:25:36
were already like, you know, next Gen.
01:25:39
Yeah. So it wasn't like when when it
01:25:41
was like our age where all we had was Nintendo and we played
01:25:46
Zelda because that's all we had. And Zelda was amazing.
01:25:49
Yeah, I've never played The Legend of Zelda.
01:25:52
What are you talking about? So Phil, no, I know some things
01:26:00
about it, which is why I was able to make the joke and the
01:26:02
little thing here, but so no, I gotta be cool.
01:26:06
It is another iconic fantasy thing, so I'm always there.
01:26:10
That's the other thing is for a guy, that is all I know.
01:26:14
Fantasy. And you?
01:26:15
I'm not saying I don't wanna play is all the game.
01:26:18
I just haven't. Like you've literally not you're
01:26:22
you're all into high high. I would have to.
01:26:25
Seek out a Nintendo console somewhere.
01:26:28
You can emulate most of those consoles, but I mean even then,
01:26:32
given that you're not, you haven't played the game that
01:26:35
literally hinges on High Elf and High Valerian.
01:26:38
Come on man. Well, really, he's not
01:26:43
technically an elf. He is an elf.
01:26:45
Oh, here we go. Sure, Willa.
01:26:47
Yes, they are all elves. This.
01:26:50
Entire world is supposed to take place in in in a land where and
01:26:55
it's basically like the the land beyond where the elves are at.
01:26:59
OK. Anywhere new menor something
01:27:04
like that? That's not no, that would,
01:27:07
that's Valinor I think. Valinor Yeah.
01:27:11
Any Menor speaking? Of fantasy.
01:27:14
Who needs a party where you could spend the night playing
01:27:16
with yourself? I'm tis.
01:27:18
Oh wait, wait, I say, but I'm tis but.
01:27:23
There you go. And D&D, of course.
01:27:26
Wizards of the Coast has teamed up with Giant Skull, a new
01:27:28
studio led by God of War Three and Star Wars Jedi director Stig
01:27:32
Ogleson, to develop a single player action adventure game set
01:27:36
in the Dungeons and Dragons universe.
01:27:39
This marks Giant Skulls first major project and is being built
01:27:42
in Unreal Engine 5. While there's no gameplay
01:27:44
footage or concept art or anything yet, the game promises
01:27:47
to be a narrative driven, action-packed journey to a world
01:27:50
filled with Dragons, dungeons, and dice.
01:27:54
You get the idea. No release date yet, but it's
01:27:56
shaping up to your fresh take on solo adventuring in the DND
01:27:59
universe. So, Are you ready to embark on a
01:28:02
legendary solo adventure, or do you still need a party to hold
01:28:05
your hand? Is this?
01:28:09
Not, I think that story just called us all out.
01:28:14
That story called us out, said do we need to, do we need to
01:28:20
have our hands held? That story called us weak.
01:28:26
I think no, no, for I think you could survive without Chuck's
01:28:30
character. Oh yeah, no, I totally could
01:28:33
this. Is what I'm saying.
01:28:34
It's like. You I'm like one shot in like
01:28:36
bosses. I mean, yeah, you're.
01:28:37
Yeah, I could. I'm.
01:28:38
Just yeah, anyway. I'm just saying that the story
01:28:43
called this week. Yeah, I'm excited about this.
01:28:46
And I wrote it, and I didn't realize it, so I stand behind
01:28:53
the words I wrote. I'm excited about calling us.
01:28:55
I think this will be fun. I yeah, I wonder what they're
01:28:59
going for. Yeah.
01:29:00
I I wonder cuz there is pretty much all the really popular D&D
01:29:04
like video games have been party based.
01:29:06
And so I'm wondering, I'm wondering if you think?
01:29:10
Maybe like a like a Dragon Age? Yeah, something like or like a
01:29:15
like an Elder Scrolls thing or something.
01:29:18
Yeah, probably. Interesting.
01:29:20
Say Wong has the best answer ever right here.
01:29:22
Will they add cutaways to people sitting around the table arguing
01:29:25
in rolling dice? Yes, I mean, I mean that that is
01:29:28
pretty much what D&D is, so. Yeah, I know.
01:29:32
So just to kind of jump back, yeah, so I've been proven wrong
01:29:34
by both should do and say. Yeah, I, I saw, I saw, say Wong.
01:29:38
There so not just that I had to look it up and it says
01:29:40
specifically they are humans but they are elf like.
01:29:45
Look at that, people doing their homework.
01:29:47
Yeah, well, really. So no.
01:29:51
Anyway, so I think it'll be interesting.
01:29:53
So anyway, I'm wondering if they're going.
01:29:55
I keep saying so anyway. So anyway, they keep going.
01:29:59
Are they gonna? Keep write that down.
01:30:00
That's his joke. Are they gonna keep doing a
01:30:04
strategy RPG kind of thing like they did with Ballerskate, or is
01:30:07
it gonna be like a first person thing?
01:30:09
Is it gonna be like Dragon Age? So I'm, yeah, I'm curious.
01:30:12
I'm interested cuz before Baldur's Gate we didn't really
01:30:15
have a lot of very good, more modern D&D games.
01:30:19
And so I'm wondering what they're going for.
01:30:21
So I'm excited. We'll see.
01:30:24
I think we'll buy it. I wanna play it.
01:30:26
I mean, I'll definitely probably gonna play it once it comes out.
01:30:28
Well, I definitely wanna see it first because I'm sitting here
01:30:31
saying like, I'm gonna buy it. We're gonna buy it and then and
01:30:34
then. It could be shit.
01:30:35
It could be cuz that's the other thing is like never winter
01:30:39
exists right? Not the.
01:30:40
Great, that is true. Never Winter exists.
01:30:42
Not the greatest game. Balder's Gate 3, probably one of
01:30:46
the best games ever made. I mean, exactly right.
01:30:48
There are games that. It's a crap shoot.
01:30:50
Mixed bag, yeah? There are games that live within
01:30:53
the DND universe, and now this is not the first solo quest game
01:30:57
in the D&D universe at this point because like, they're
01:30:59
making it seem like, Oh yeah, it's the first time we're doing
01:31:01
a solo game. No, literally, I just named two
01:31:03
of them. Never Winter and you.
01:31:05
Know what? They agree.
01:31:06
But you know what? Never mind.
01:31:08
It's too dirty. I can't say it now.
01:31:09
But I think they're no, no. It's too bad.
01:31:11
They're emphasizing because with Baldur's Gate and I think would
01:31:16
never Are you talking about the MMO?
01:31:17
Are you talking about like Neverwinter Nights?
01:31:20
There was two different games, so there was the MMO.
01:31:21
That's what I'm saying. It was the MMO anyway.
01:31:24
I think all of those include a party with you.
01:31:26
I think they're saying this is just a solo thing.
01:31:28
You're not gonna have a party. So basically it's like the
01:31:31
Witcher but. That's what I'm saying.
01:31:32
It's like the it's like the Witcher.
01:31:33
It's like Skyrim or it's like drag.
01:31:35
Well, I guess Dragon Age, that's a party.
01:31:36
But yeah, it's like, you know, Skyrim or the Witcher or
01:31:39
something. Yeah.
01:31:39
Yeah, OK. I'm not as excited about it.
01:31:42
Excited about? It I'm more excited about it,
01:31:44
but. It'll be fun to kind of see
01:31:47
like, you know, like, OK, if you pick Bard, can you like sing
01:31:50
your way out of? Out of can you just charm?
01:31:53
You're right. Exactly.
01:31:54
That's yeah, that's good. Alright, anyways, let's go ahead
01:31:57
and move on to this next story here.
01:32:00
Put that on screen and boom, George, you're the problem, it's
01:32:06
you. He really is, George.
01:32:10
You, you're the problem, it's you.
01:32:12
George. RR Martin is not thrilled about
01:32:14
screenwriters taking creative liberties with adaptations
01:32:18
during a recent event with fellow fantasy author Joe
01:32:21
Abercrombie. That is not a real name.
01:32:25
Joe Abercrombie and his buddy Mike Fitch.
01:32:29
Martin voiced his frustration, saying that wow, nobody got that
01:32:33
joke, saying that film and TV are inherently collaborative.
01:32:39
The real challenge comes from writers adapting his work and
01:32:43
making it their own. He specifically called out the
01:32:45
industry's tendency to rewrite stories instead of faithfully
01:32:48
adapting them, using The Great Gatsby as an example.
01:32:51
I don't want anyone to make The Great Gatsby their own.
01:32:54
I have some thoughts about that. Martin has previously expressed
01:32:59
concerns about HBO's House of the Dragon, deviating from his
01:33:02
book Fire and Blood, warning that bigger changes could be
01:33:06
coming in season 3 and 4. It's a familiar struggle.
01:33:09
Struggle Authors build intricate worlds only to see them reshape
01:33:13
when Hollywood gets involved. Martins Martin's stance,
01:33:17
adaptation is fine, but rewriting for the sake of change
01:33:20
isn't collaboration, it's dilution.
01:33:22
What do you guys think? Should adaptation stick closer
01:33:24
to the source material or is reinventing part of the process?
01:33:28
I have. I also have thoughts on this.
01:33:30
Yeah, that's. Why it's in the download?
01:33:32
Exactly, yes. Big thoughty thought thing.
01:33:35
So, should you give us your thoughts?
01:33:37
OK, we're first of all the Leonardo DiCaprio of Great
01:33:40
Gatsby. I assume he's talking, but it's
01:33:42
pretty good actually, and I read the book first.
01:33:45
It's one of my favorite books. I own the book.
01:33:47
Yeah, it's 1. I had to read it for school and
01:33:50
I actually enjoyed it. So yeah.
01:33:51
See, there you go. Yeah.
01:33:53
Yeah, I thought it was great. I thought it was better than the
01:33:55
original adaptation. The original adaptation was
01:33:58
terrible, but I mean that also, and there's like 3 or 4
01:34:01
adaptations before that. But that also lends itself to
01:34:05
actually proving his point right.
01:34:07
Right, Yeah, I mean, sure, but I don't know, I feel like it is
01:34:11
hard. Then basically what he's wanting
01:34:13
is he's wanting everything to be a series essentially.
01:34:16
Because I think a lot of the problems with adaptations come
01:34:18
with trying to compress and kind of trim the fat of a story
01:34:23
that's not going to fit into a 2 hour movie.
01:34:25
So. Yeah, that's true.
01:34:27
I was. Saying, I mean, yeah, I mean, we
01:34:30
were talking about Harry Potter, that that's the same kind of
01:34:34
situation where you have, yeah, again, it's like there's so much
01:34:38
stuff from the book they weren't able to put in there cuz it was
01:34:40
a movie, it wasn't a series, it was whatever.
01:34:42
So that too, but also George, which is why the intro is
01:34:47
George, you're the problem. It's you.
01:34:49
If you had finished your series, they wouldn't have.
01:34:53
They wouldn't have had to go on their own and make it their own
01:34:57
for the last few seasons of Game of Thrones.
01:35:00
That, yeah. Part SO.
01:35:02
Part of that, I mean there's, there's multiple things going on
01:35:04
on there 'cause like. Yeah, they're pushing for the.
01:35:06
Series to get done. He's still involved in it.
01:35:09
It's stopping him from from finishing the book itself now.
01:35:12
Yeah. And I'm not, I'm not saying
01:35:14
that. I'm just saying that there is,
01:35:15
there's an argument there. Yeah.
01:35:16
I, I don't know That is, I see his point as as an author, as a
01:35:20
writer, I understand where he's going.
01:35:23
But I'm also a filmmaker. I understand what's going on
01:35:25
here. It's yeah, it, it, it, it's a
01:35:28
hard, it's a hard thing to do. And I don't, I don't envy anyone
01:35:33
trying to do it, but you know, it's, it's less about trying to
01:35:37
make it your own. It's more about what to
01:35:38
emphasize in such a short period of time.
01:35:41
But anyway, there's a whole, there's a whole longer
01:35:43
discussion. There's a type of podcast about
01:35:45
this somewhere. Yeah, there are like a series of
01:35:48
podcasts. You could talk about this for a
01:35:49
really long time. And so, yeah, I just think be
01:35:53
careful if you're going to adapt something.
01:35:55
But we also need more just in general.
01:35:58
We need more original stories. That are not.
01:36:01
Necessarily from this is from a book.
01:36:04
We're remaking this thing for the 50 thousandth time.
01:36:06
It's like, no make your own stories.
01:36:09
No, so I agree. Now here's, here's my take
01:36:13
because I mostly agree and I've for years I've agreed with kind
01:36:17
of this take that George RR Martin has.
01:36:20
There's a reason that people enjoy the book or the comic book
01:36:25
or whatever it is that they're adapting, right?
01:36:29
My issue with what Hollywood does is they go and take
01:36:34
something that people already love and then go and completely
01:36:38
change it because it's like, well, this is what I would do if
01:36:40
it were what I wanted to do. Right, that's not really.
01:36:44
Yeah, my my examples here X-Men is a.
01:36:47
Perfect, Yeah. Because I've always looked at
01:36:50
the X-Men movies as OK, here is a series of movies that really
01:36:54
just are movies about mutants that kind of share the names of
01:36:59
characters from from the comic books because.
01:37:01
Right. Yeah.
01:37:02
They they, they, they never really, you know, look at the
01:37:05
way that they did. The Phoenix is like, oh, we want
01:37:07
to focus on this. So we're going to change every
01:37:10
aspect about this character. Another example of something
01:37:15
that they did not need to do, that they decided to do because
01:37:18
they wanted to make more money. Warner Brothers when they made
01:37:21
the fucking Hobbit movies, Yeah, OK, that was the opposite.
01:37:25
They needed to create more shit because they wanted to stretch
01:37:30
out a movies worth or maybe 2 movies, something that could
01:37:33
have been 2 movies or you know, technically everything could
01:37:36
have fit into one movie. They wanted to stretch it out
01:37:39
into 3 movies into a trilogy because they wouldn't get as
01:37:42
much money as they could out of it.
01:37:44
And and it ended up not being good because they kept they they
01:37:47
were things that they changed in that in in that from the book to
01:37:51
the movies. That didn't need to happen.
01:37:55
Yeah. You know, Azog was not he he
01:37:58
was, he was not the character that in the movies that he was
01:38:01
in the books. Yeah, yeah.
01:38:02
Honestly, it they didn't need to change it.
01:38:05
It could they could have went off the source material probably
01:38:08
would have made better a better movies out of them.
01:38:11
And, and and you maybe could have gotten you, you probably
01:38:14
could have stretched 2 movies out of it, adding in like the
01:38:17
ties to Lord of the Rings because they wanted to do that.
01:38:19
But at the same time that again, the whole Legola story doesn't
01:38:24
exist in the book. No, right.
01:38:26
And as I've, as I said, for The Hobbit is my favorite Lord of
01:38:29
the Rings book, right? And I have not watched the
01:38:32
movies yet because I'm like no, I don't want to see it ruined.
01:38:35
The, The thing is, is that you, you do get a little bit of
01:38:38
expansion stuff like they, they, they do take a little bit from
01:38:40
the Simmarillion, put it in there.
01:38:42
So there's like a couple things where it's good, but they also
01:38:44
do add, add in a whole bunch of shit that is just unnecessary.
01:38:48
So I mean, like, it's, it's things and, and a lot of it was
01:38:51
Peter Jackson like trying to find ways to stretch the movies
01:38:55
out because Warner Brothers was like, no, we don't want to do 1
01:38:58
movie. This needs to be a trilogy.
01:39:00
Right. And that's hot take, but the, I
01:39:05
feel like with books, and then I don't know this for certain.
01:39:11
I'm sure people write, write books for different reasons, but
01:39:15
I, I feel like with a book, there's not as much of A
01:39:18
financial incentive. Whereas with a movie there's
01:39:21
like, there's a lot of pressure to be like, we got to make a
01:39:24
bunch of money on this. We got to, you know, milk as
01:39:27
much as we can out of this. But The thing is, is I
01:39:29
understand that. But yeah, if you're trying to
01:39:32
get the most money out of it, why alienate the people who made
01:39:35
it popular in the first place? Because they don't know what
01:39:38
they're doing. But that's what I'm saying.
01:39:39
That's my issue with Hollywood. I agree.
01:39:42
I agree. Then yes, I completely agree.
01:39:43
I was adding it, yeah. You know, and that's what George
01:39:45
RR Martin is complaining about is you don't need to take a
01:39:49
property that people already enjoy and that has already been
01:39:54
massively successful in the way that it is and completely change
01:39:59
everything about it. Because some executive at
01:40:02
Hollywood was like, I think this would be better.
01:40:04
No, no, that's bullshit. Yeah, your fucking ideas are are
01:40:08
not helping anybody. They're helping your your own
01:40:12
ego in order to make something that you you want to make.
01:40:16
But it's like at the same time you don't need to change what
01:40:20
was already already done. You know what I mean?
01:40:24
Sorry, that's what I was trying. That's kind of what I was trying
01:40:26
to say. It's like make your own original
01:40:29
thing. If you want to do something, go
01:40:31
off and do it right. You don't need to, you need to
01:40:34
slap, you know, fucking Starship Troopers on it or something.
01:40:37
Like, I mean, that's, that's a bad example.
01:40:39
No, no, no. That has been done.
01:40:41
That's what I'm saying. Like you or or or Hellraiser
01:40:44
like where you right, OK, or, or what's the?
01:40:47
Story doing it. Right now.
01:40:51
Wheel of Time. Sure, to a certain degree.
01:40:54
No, no, that's all. That's all the only one that's
01:40:57
happened and it they did veer off.
01:41:01
Quite. They did veer off, right?
01:41:03
Well, but you weren't talking about that.
01:41:06
You were talking about Hellboy, weren't you?
01:41:10
No Hellraiser. Oh, OK.
01:41:14
Because Hellraiser, the Hellraiser series like people
01:41:16
will that they would make movies and then they would say, oh, you
01:41:19
know how we can milk this and make it into like a a bigger
01:41:23
franchise. Let's just tack on a scene with
01:41:26
a pinhead in it and we're going to call this a Hellraiser movie.
01:41:29
And it the entire movie had nothing had anything to do with
01:41:33
with Hellraiser. Cloverfield is doing that right
01:41:38
now too, where it's just. In the.
01:41:40
Movie that has nothing to do with the original premise of the
01:41:43
first movie, but they're just tacking on Cloverfield and
01:41:45
saying, Oh no, but it's part of the universe, right.
01:41:49
Those kind of things like you don't need to do that shit like
01:41:52
make it its own thing. That movie in itself, the
01:41:55
Cloverfield, whatever the second movie, that movie was good on
01:42:00
its own. Did not need to be part of the
01:42:02
Cloverfield universe of of fucking shit, right?
01:42:06
Like it's, it's I, I agree with make your own thing and make
01:42:12
that its own property. You don't need to attach it to
01:42:15
another property to, to make more money.
01:42:18
Now, my exception to this rule is the way Marvel was handling
01:42:22
things, because the way Marvel is handling their movies is they
01:42:28
are essentially treating it as, hey, this is a new or it's
01:42:34
almost like it. This could be its own comic
01:42:36
series, like these movies are their own comic universe, like
01:42:40
this could be written as own comic rebranding and that
01:42:45
universe lives contained in itself where you're updating
01:42:50
origin stories, you're updating the the story.
01:42:53
So then that way it's more appealing to a modern audience.
01:42:57
Yeah. And I'm.
01:42:58
OK, like Elseworld. Yeah, well, exactly.
01:43:01
Cuz they're not changing the core of the characters, right?
01:43:05
Right. And when I do complain about
01:43:07
Marvel, it's when they deviate from what the core character is.
01:43:11
Right. And I think that's comic books
01:43:14
are almost a different situation.
01:43:16
But I mean like anyway, cuz they, they lend themselves to
01:43:18
that kind of thing, right? But but like, it's the same
01:43:20
thing with movies where a lot of times in these movies you are
01:43:23
changing the core character or what people love about it in
01:43:27
order to like what they think they're doing is trying to
01:43:31
appeal to to a broader audience when they're not Star Wars is a
01:43:36
good example of that. They tried to appeal to a
01:43:39
broader audience and it fucking failed.
01:43:43
Yeah, yeah. The the the concept of it failed
01:43:46
like. I just want to say one thing
01:43:49
please. I'm sorry we haven't.
01:43:51
We haven't let you talk. George is being a whiny little
01:43:55
bitch because he's had a couple of bad experiences.
01:44:00
I would say for the most part most people know the know what
01:44:08
they're doing. Like actually love the source
01:44:12
material to a point where they want to do it justice within the
01:44:16
means of what they have available.
01:44:19
So I do think that there is some give and take and for him to
01:44:24
just, you know, get on his high horse about this when he has
01:44:28
some other kind of writing to do.
01:44:31
Like, you know, if you're going to type some stuff out, why
01:44:33
don't you type some stuff out for Winds of Winter?
01:44:36
Yeah. Yeah, I just think, no, I think
01:44:40
that generally the creatives probably have somewhat pure
01:44:43
intentions. I think it's just studio fuckery
01:44:46
is the. Yeah.
01:44:48
Yeah, Oh yeah. If you guys had watched the
01:44:51
franchise TV series you would understand, but whatever.
01:44:56
Yeah, last example I'm gonna give because we do have to move
01:44:58
on to this last story. The last example I'm gonna give
01:45:01
is how the, the give and the take and the hatred and love
01:45:07
that Zack Snyder gets. Yes.
01:45:11
And and The thing is, is that if you if you look at what Zack
01:45:15
Snyder's intention was and what he was going for and what he
01:45:18
wanted to do, the the story laid out was beautiful.
01:45:23
The problem is, is Warner Brothers got involved and said
01:45:26
we don't think this is gonna be good enough and we're gonna
01:45:29
change everything. I talked about this a couple of
01:45:31
weeks ago about how Batman V Superman originally was two
01:45:35
different movies. It was supposed to be Dawn of
01:45:37
Justice and then Batman V Superman, and they didn't like
01:45:40
the ideas that he was putting forth.
01:45:42
So they made him mash those two movies together and we got
01:45:45
Batman V Superman. And it was.
01:45:47
It was not as good as it could have been, no.
01:45:49
It was the best introduction of Wonder Woman.
01:45:52
I mean, it was a cool introduction of Wonder Woman,
01:45:54
but the thing was is it was supposed to be a 5 movie arc.
01:45:56
And even then again, just this league ended up being the third
01:45:59
movie was supposed to be the 4th movie Justice League.
01:46:02
The extended version was far superior to the Justice League
01:46:05
version that we got. Yeah, right.
01:46:07
The. Especially when Wonder Woman
01:46:10
beheaded Stefan. Wolf.
01:46:12
That's cool, but her opening scene was different from the way
01:46:16
Joss Whedon. Did oh.
01:46:17
Yeah, and that opening scene was way cooler than the way Joss
01:46:20
Whedon, you know? So, I mean, like a lot of those
01:46:23
things, right, everybody? And then you have a whole
01:46:25
segment of people who blame Zack Snyder for how horrible that
01:46:29
went when it was really the studios that were specifically
01:46:32
Warner Brothers was the problem with what that happened.
01:46:35
We don't think this is going to make money.
01:46:37
So we want to change everything, right?
01:46:39
So we don't like what Zack Snyder's doing.
01:46:41
We're going to get Joss Whedon in here to do it.
01:46:42
And it's like. OK, so I do have something to
01:46:44
say about that. Yeah.
01:46:46
But I didn't like Zack Snyder's take on the characters, so
01:46:52
there. The only one I really liked was
01:46:54
Wonder Woman. I thought that was a really
01:46:55
great thing. And I feel like he didn't have
01:46:57
hardly anything to do with it. And Aquaman, that was it.
01:47:02
I mean, I, I, I liked all of the the movies, they were fine.
01:47:06
I just, I didn't like his versions of Superman or Batman.
01:47:12
Although I do think that Ben Affleck did a really amazing job
01:47:15
playing that Batman. I just didn't.
01:47:18
I didn't see his vision for that and.
01:47:21
We didn't. Get it imploded so.
01:47:23
Right. We didn't get the full vision
01:47:25
though, because what ended up happening was Warner Brothers
01:47:27
stepped in and changed a bunch of shit from the beginning.
01:47:30
Like again, where everything went off the rails 100% was
01:47:34
Batman V Superman. And that was supposed to be two
01:47:36
different movies that had a lot more character development in it
01:47:39
that they took away, right? So.
01:47:41
Exactly. He never got a chance.
01:47:43
He he didn't get a chance because from the beginning
01:47:45
Warner Brothers was changing things and messing with things
01:47:48
and, and and they've been doing that because, again, the Batgirl
01:47:52
movie got destroyed. Oh, yeah, we can watch it.
01:47:54
You know Warner Brothers is the problem.
01:47:57
There is blame for all. And that is the moral, the story
01:48:02
the Warner Brothers is the. Problem.
01:48:03
So let's we're we're going to come to another story that is
01:48:06
also going to grind my gears here.
01:48:07
So yeah. Let's.
01:48:09
Let's let's get into this next story here.
01:48:12
Let's. You.
01:48:13
You. Don't.
01:48:16
Really grinds my gear. Right.
01:48:18
You know what really grinds my gears?
01:48:20
Alright, good. Heartbreak feels good in a place
01:48:23
like this. AMC theatres is adding more ads
01:48:26
before movies start beginning July 1st.
01:48:29
The new Platinum Spot ad will play right before the film
01:48:33
begins, ensuring audience audiences won't miss it.
01:48:36
AMC was initially reluctant to adopt this model, but with Regal
01:48:41
and Cinemark already doing it for years, they've decided to
01:48:44
follow suit. The move is aimed at generating
01:48:47
vital revenue, especially after the pandemic's impact on the
01:48:50
industry. While AMC argues that this won't
01:48:53
affect attendance, moviegoers might feel differently.
01:48:56
The company already acknowledges that movies don't start at their
01:49:00
listed Showtime, with about 20 minutes of pre show material
01:49:04
before the feature begins. Now that pre show is getting
01:49:07
even longer. On the bright side, AMC is
01:49:10
bringing back discount Wednesdays, which could help
01:49:13
draw audiences back. But will more ads push people to
01:49:17
skip the theater altogether? So what do you guys think?
01:49:20
Does this make the moviegoer experience better or worse or
01:49:24
somehow? I for some reason feel like you
01:49:26
have a lot of thoughts here so. My thoughts on all of this is
01:49:30
everything is going to everything is going to to add
01:49:34
driven, you know, everything. The entire streaming industry is
01:49:39
this now. And, and the whole point of
01:49:41
cutting the wire and going to streaming services was one, it
01:49:45
was supposed to be cheaper, which is not anymore.
01:49:47
Two, it was to get away from ads and now the only way you can
01:49:51
afford it is if you get the ad versions of it.
01:49:52
So now movies are starting to become that where you you went
01:49:56
to the movies to watch a film and not have to deal with all
01:50:00
the ads and shit that you deal with on TV.
01:50:02
Well, now you got to deal with all that.
01:50:03
Now you have to go to the theater and now you have to deal
01:50:05
with ads. And it's like that is everything
01:50:08
about the about just the film industry is becoming that.
01:50:12
And it is annoying as all fucking hell.
01:50:16
Yeah, I agree. You are I I'm totally agreement
01:50:19
with this. That's that's right.
01:50:20
You already charge us ridiculous amounts for concessions.
01:50:24
You already are raising prices on movies.
01:50:27
So now not only do I have to pay more just to go see a film that
01:50:31
used to be something where that that that was cheap and easy to
01:50:34
do. Well, now it's expensive and
01:50:36
it's like you have to plan a whole entire night around that.
01:50:40
Well, now I gotta deal with all the fucking ads on top of that.
01:50:42
So OK, it's like Netflix where I have to pay $27.00.
01:50:46
I don't pay that tier. But I mean, like, you know, you
01:50:47
have to pay $27.00 for something that has HD but also has to have
01:50:53
ads in between stuff. Yeah.
01:50:55
You know, now I don't pay that tier because I can't afford that
01:50:58
tier anymore. But I mean, I remember when
01:51:00
Netflix was $10 a month and you got everything.
01:51:02
Yeah. Yep.
01:51:03
It's. Somehow, yeah, but somehow it's,
01:51:06
I guess it's got to be more profitable or something.
01:51:08
I don't know. I can't imagine what it would
01:51:10
be, but. Every, every industry, every
01:51:13
single industry is not around. How do you take care of how do
01:51:17
you take care of the customer? How do you take care of the
01:51:20
people who work for the company? It is how do you take care of
01:51:23
the investors? That is a major problem with
01:51:27
everything in this world is the focus is on how do you give rich
01:51:32
people who invest in this company money back so they can
01:51:35
be more rich? I become more and more illusion
01:51:39
by, by the world every day because of this stuff.
01:51:42
You know, it, it it just again, it really starts to, to, to, to,
01:51:46
to get at my, my psyche. Yeah.
01:51:48
When when everything in the world is revolving around how do
01:51:53
you make rich people more rich? Well, before we get dangerously
01:51:57
political, I'm. Not going to go into that like
01:51:59
it's, it's, it's rather than taking care of the the people
01:52:03
who you should be taking care of, which is the customer, yes,
01:52:06
you know, you should. Focus very, very much.
01:52:08
Enticing us to come and see more movies.
01:52:11
To leave our houses. I absolutely agree.
01:52:14
And you know what else I agree about?
01:52:16
That we got merge people. That's right, we got merge
01:52:18
people. Because we're now we're going to
01:52:19
do an ad. Now we're now we're going to ads
01:52:24
because because, yeah. But I mean, you know.
01:52:27
But our ads are better. Our ads are definitely better.
01:52:29
Our ads aren't we're we're not giving rich people money.
01:52:33
No. We're giving poor people money.
01:52:35
We're giving. Poor people, money it's giving.
01:52:37
Poor people, money and you AT shirt or whatever.
01:52:40
That is right. Let's.
01:52:41
We're a con bag. Yes, or these wonderful
01:52:44
beautiful stickers that I still have here.
01:52:47
That is nice. We just call it called
01:52:50
hypocrites right now. Hypocrisy.
01:52:53
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01:52:56
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01:53:00
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01:53:01
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01:53:18
And if you are, if you really are investor, yeah.
01:53:20
And and if you are a major investor in Warner Brothers,
01:53:23
just don't bother. If you're a major.
01:53:26
The shirts. Yeah, exactly.
01:53:28
Now I'm willing to show. Let's go.
01:53:30
I'm kidding. I will.
01:53:31
Never show. I'm not going to show.
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Do not, No, no. That is a joke.
01:53:38
I am not Wow, not. Be a James James.
01:53:41
That's the. Truth.
01:53:41
Wow, we should clip that. Make it a short and then they're
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Do not do not. Yeah, that is going to be a
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01:54:07
We will send you some stickers. Let's talk about the schedule
01:54:11
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01:54:15
Do you want me to do the schedule?
01:54:16
Go ahead, I do have. To we really need to update this
01:54:19
this. Slide I I need.
01:54:20
To yeah, absolutely. So on Tuesdays, we have the
01:54:24
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01:54:31
we're trying. Every Tuesday we try Thursday's
01:54:35
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01:54:40
Hang out. Well, it's actually on YouTube.
01:54:42
Hang out with us as Phil builds a a Lego kit and just and just
01:54:49
hang out with some nerdy friends.
01:54:51
We also tend to do brackets unless I'm there and then we
01:54:54
never get to the bracket Fridays a week.
01:54:58
Real quick, I was gonna I was gonna preview the guests that we
01:55:02
have this week. So this week's guest, we have a
01:55:06
Drew Lenhart and Dennis Valencia.
01:55:09
I believe they have a comic book.
01:55:12
Let me pull it up here. Well, Google Drive has kicked me
01:55:18
out so well. That's we got the buzzer on
01:55:21
Fridays. That's right.
01:55:24
It's like a different host trying to answer questions they
01:55:27
clearly don't know but laugh and curse while doing it.
01:55:29
Somebody's jacks box. Sometimes it is Jeopardy,
01:55:32
sometimes it is yours truly's. Well, really.
01:55:35
But it's all in good fun. Exactly.
01:55:39
And of course, ladies and gentlemen, on Saturdays we do,
01:55:43
or at least I do do game streams.
01:55:45
So anybody who would like to hang out with me and see
01:55:50
whatever game I'm playing or anything like that, I do that on
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TikTok and on and on Twitch actually.
01:55:55
OK, so the the book that we're reviewing is called Celestial
01:55:58
Night. Celestial night Oh hey, I think
01:56:04
it is that from the guys. I think that's the same guys
01:56:07
that we did the karate. Bigfoot nose karate.
01:56:14
Or yeah, and and the other one, we've had two, two of them, but
01:56:20
I thought I remember they were doing the Celestial Knight was
01:56:23
doing a crossover with one of the other characters.
01:56:27
Well, I'll shoot you the link after the show and we'll go over
01:56:29
all that. So yeah, they're right there.
01:56:31
Cool, Sai, Juan said. How dare you throw an ad in my
01:56:33
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01:56:42
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01:56:48
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01:56:50
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