🧠 Episode Summary
This week, the Distance NERDing crew proudly gets accused of “unoriginal content”… and then absolutely owns it. Chapter 256 is a full-on 2025 pop culture recap, covering the best TV shows, best movies, and standout performances of the year, while actively dodging TikTok bans, appealing algorithm nonsense, and arguing passionately about Daredevil, Andor, Superman, Murderbot, Thunderbolts, and why Galactus is inevitable.
Highlights include:
• TikTok declaring war on the word “lamp”
• A deeply scientific taco-based rating system
• Daredevil being unanimously crowned “Red Batman (Affectionate)”
• Murderbot supremacy
• A shockingly emotional defense of Fantastic Four: First Steps
• The realization that “unoriginal content” might actually be the most original bit of all
If you love nerd debates, chaotic energy, and year-end lists that spiral gloriously out of control… this one’s for you.
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⏱️ Timestamps & Topics
00:00 – Live show warning + instant TikTok trouble
01:22 – What even is original content anymore?
05:24 – Top 5 TV Shows of 2025 begins
07:24 – Gen V, Andor, The Studio, Daredevil: Born Again
27:06 – Murderbot takes the crown
33:47 – Honorable TV mentions (yes, a LOT of them)
36:25 – Top 5 Movies of 2025
37:13 – Fantastic Four: First Steps
41:17 – Superman discourse (brace yourselves)
45:08 – Thunderbolts surprises everyone
49:08 – K-Pop Demon Hunters sneaks into the rankings
52:11 – Weapons and horror redemption arcs
End – Chaos, convictions, and content appeals
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🔑 Key Takeaways
• “Unoriginal content” is sometimes just passionate nerding with receipts
• Andor continues to prove Star Wars can grow up
• Daredevil works best when it’s violent, messy, and emotional
• Murderbot is the sleeper hit nobody was ready for
• Fantastic Four finally feels like a family
• TikTok moderation remains the true villain of 2025
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💬 Quotes from the Episode
• “TikTok says this isn’t original content… appeal immediately.”
• “Daredevil is Red Batman but emotionally available.”
• “Galactus isn’t a villain. He’s a fact.”
• “He didn’t get beat by a nobody. He got beat by himself.”
• “I only watched five shows, so statistically all of them made my list.”
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Warning This chapter of distance nerding was recorded live, which
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means there may be strong language unsuitable for children
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and unusual humor which may be unsuitable for everyone who
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claims to be human. Perennial discretion is advised.
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Distance nerding. Welcome to Chance.
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Welcome to the pants party where I love I love lamp I I love
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lamps. Oh my God it did it again.
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There it is because it contains unoriginal or reproduced
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content. You guys are terrible upheal
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TikTok. Right now, everyone.
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TikTok already telling me that I am not giving original content
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here. Well, ladies and gentlemen,
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please welcome yourselves here. Welcome.
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You're now clearancing distance, nerding.
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He's young Phil, appealing the decision I'm.
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A girl. And they are Shadoo, and we're
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here. To.
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Nerd together, yay. Talking any pop culture news,
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movies, music, food, wrestling, comics, comic cons, whatever
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you're nerding out on. He want to talk about it.
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This week we're going to talk about 2025.
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That's right ladies and gentlemen, we are doing a 2025
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recap talking about the best shows, best movies, and our
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opinions on the standout actors of the year.
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But before we jump into that, ladies and gentlemen, you have
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stumbled onto the worst kept secret on all of the Internet.
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Ladies and gentlemen, you are now watching the Distance
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Nerding Podcast. I love it.
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It's like TikTok is like hey unoriginal content.
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Unoriginal. You guys aren't doing original?
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Content. Original music, original people.
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Yeah, like. Original graphics like
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everything about this. Original graphics.
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Everything about this show is as as original it's going to as
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it's going to get for all of this.
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We'll find out here in a minute when like, you know what if we
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start, if I start seeing like people pop up in the stream, But
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as of now, we're just going to keep on rolling forward because
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we are live on Instagram, we are on YouTube and and and we're
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going to just keep it moving and rolling, ladies and gentlemen.
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So with that. And moving and moving and
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rolling. Moving and rolling, moving and
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rolling and moving and all that. Well, ladies and gentlemen, here
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we go. This week on deck, like Jen
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said, right at the top, right here, we're doing top fives of
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2025. Oh yeah.
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Yes, we are. But before we get into all of
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that, we're about to get banned on TikTok again here in a second
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because I'm going to do an advertisement, ladies and
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gentlemen. Really, it's just a.
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I'm just telling people to check out comic cons.
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It's not not that big a deal. Yeah.
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And we're not selling anything. I'm not selling a damn.
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Thing. Aside from myself.
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You could buy this in the TikTok shop if you wanted to, yeah.
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So I'm not selling anything aside from myself and and and
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being. And we are selling ourselves.
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Exactly which is that? That's what everybody does on
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TikTok, right? All right, anyways, that's the.
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Whole point of the damn app Whatever.
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Ladies and gentlemen, let's show we're never.
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Going to get to the 2025. We're not, ladies and gentlemen,
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we're jumping right into this. It is time for the down low.
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Let's do this. All right, all right.
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We did it. We did it.
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We made it. Well, ladies and gentlemen, as
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Jen said, we're going to jump right into this.
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It's time for top five. Oh, look at that.
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It's so sweet. That's cool.
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That's good. All right.
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So original, So original. So original, original.
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It's original. I feel like that's what the
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episode's going to be named, original content.
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It's literally what it's going to be called.
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Hold on. Let me check TikTok again to see
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if they banned us again. Nope, we're still going.
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All right, let's do this. They probably still haven't
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taken the appeal down anyways. Ladies and gentlemen, Jen, take
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it over. This is this is, this is your
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arena here. Right, so I'll do how about
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this? I'm going to do the TV streaming
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Phil, you want to do the movies and should do you want to do who
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won 2025 like the standout performances?
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Yep, I'm going. To do that, host.
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Them OK cool I forgot to put the hosts on there guys I'm sorry
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normally we're you know what I just I just didn't do it you're
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fine it's a wrap up show so. So you said you're running the
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top five or the the TV? Yeah, I'll do the TV.
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Do you want to do the TV? No, no.
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No, that's fine. I just want to make sure.
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I just want to make sure, OK. All right, so we're recapping
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some of our favorite TV shows of 2025.
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We each have come up with a top five list and we can do it one
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of two ways. Just let us know.
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Let me know. We can do it round Robin where
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we go one each, or we can just do them all and then talk about
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well. Let's let's do like.
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I'll do mine and then. Let's do this just because the
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way I have it set up on on this OK now, because I have I have
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them set as like 54321. So we can we can do that now.
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I also didn't put anything in a particular order.
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Mine are just ambiguous. So I'm just going to go off the
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list that I have written. OK.
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Mine are in order. Yeah, mine are not in order so.
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Let's let's start with this guys.
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We're starting with #5 #5 number. 5 So my number 5 was
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Gen. V season 2.
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Yes, I. Felt that Gen.
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V Season 2 topped Season 1. It was so much more consistent.
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The ACT, like the actors, the characters knew what they were
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doing. They had their mission.
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There wasn't so much that oh God, we're doing something
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wrong. They were just like, I don't
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care if it's wrong or not, we're doing this.
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And I felt like that was really what the show needed.
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So there, that's my #5 should do.
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I, I, I can, I just, I I love this.
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I love this graphic. All right.
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So my so yeah. So it was running with five.
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All right. So I didn't watch a lot of TV
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this this year. Apparently I didn't watch a lot
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this year, period, evidently. So from the five TV shows I
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watched #5's Ironheart, it was all right.
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Because he only watched five TV shows over the course of the
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year. So this is.
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What I'm saying? So I just had to rank the five
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that I actually watched it. It was OK.
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So I mean, I liked it. Was OK I.
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I liked that we got Mephisto finally.
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I liked his his portrayal. The the themes they were going
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for I think were were really interesting.
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I don't know if the execution was necessarily that good, but I
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did. I did enjoy it.
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So I thought it, you know, solid 6 out of 10.
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So yeah, that's, that's, that's my #5.
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Tacos on the table tacos. Tacos out of 10 The tacos out of
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10 That's right, it's my. My AI powered TAC 00.
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AI powered tacos. I mean TikTok likes AI.
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Yeah, almost too much. All bad.
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All right, so my I guess what I'm putting in my #5 of all
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these. Let's go with the pit.
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Oh. OK, I'm I'm again, it's not in a
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particular order again on this just because I I I I couldn't
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rank any of these like these. These shows are so good.
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The pit was really good and, and, and it's just think ER, but
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in a shorter form. You're not getting like 30
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episodes a season. And it is just as intense and
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it, but I mean, I, I would say it's got more kind of like more
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adult themes because you're able to do it on HBO.
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And then, then there's just, it's, it's a little more real in
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ways of what you would expect in an ER.
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So I, I, I thought it was a really good show.
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It was, it was really good. Noah Wiley killed it.
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Awesome. OK, All right, very cool.
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All right, we. Going to #4I.
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Actually haven't seen that I, I got really like, I got really
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burned out of ER and I was like, man, we're.
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Rewatching ER right now so I mean.
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Oh, God and Noah. Wiley's in that too, so I mean
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like. Yeah, well, so when we went,
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said this funny story and then I promise I will try and keep my
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funny stories to a minimum. We went.
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So Shadoo's dad and I, when we lived in California, we went up
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and did the WB tour in LA and there the ER set was there and
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we saw a bunch of assistants on the ER on the outside ER set
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smoking weed of. Course they were and.
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We were on the tour. We were on the tour like a whole
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bunch of people on this long, you know, bus thing.
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And it's like, oh, fuck, look, these, these those assistants,
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And then it was like, oh shit, they're smoking weed.
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It was over. There, they're smoking pot.
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And this was a while ago. This was before it was legal.
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Right, right. Yeah, this was this was early,
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early 2000, so. So even more reason to be like,
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oh, they're smoking pot. You got dog?
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Yeah, so. Anyway, that's my.
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All right, well, let's jump into the next one here #4.
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Oh, number four. So we're on our 4th one, my 4th
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1, and I know people are going to be like really and or.
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I loved. It I loved Andor.
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I thought it was a great conclusion to the story.
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I thought it was really well done.
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I just feel like there are three more that I liked a little bit
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better. OK, fair enough, fair enough.
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All right. So my #4 because I only saw, I
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only saw like Fox TV. You don't have.
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To say it every time. So, you know, I didn't see a lot
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of TV shows this year and is Star Wars tales of the
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underworld, which was good. I mean, the the little tales of
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anthologies they've done have been, have been really
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interesting. I've I've enjoyed them.
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The underworld one I thought was a little the CAD brain stuff was
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was really fun. I, I enjoyed kind of seeing his,
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his origin in the more kind of St. level stuff in, in Star
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Wars, especially a non human dominated planet.
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But yeah, I, I, you know, I enjoyed it.
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I thought it was good. I'm excited for whatever
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anthology they inevitably do this year.
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You know, here's hoping for Tales of the Sith or something.
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I mean. They're kind of doing that.
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That's kind of where they're going next, I mean.
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Yeah, well, they did. I'm saying they did tell us, you
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know, and then, yeah, they're doing the mall thing.
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But yeah, yeah, yeah. Right, right, right, right, my
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#4 and again, I I am going to keep repeating this for new
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people who come in. Mine is not in a in any
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particular order, but my next one happens to be and, or, and
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again and, or really. Yeah.
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Also the appeal was approved. Thank you.
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TikTok. Hey, how long?
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Until it happens again, yeah. I know, right?
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It's well, the next thing they're going to do is say you
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didn't add and it's not on the TikTok shop.
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OK, Anyways, it was, it was really well done.
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And and like, yeah, say Wang, you're saying, yes, we all know
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how it ended because yeah, it leads up into a show where or a
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movie where we know what happens in the end, in the end of that.
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But it's more so again, we're seeing the beginnings.
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We're seeing how Andor became the freedom fighter that he
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becomes and the sacrifices that he had to make and the tragedies
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that he had to go through in order to experience and become
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who he becomes. And, and why he has to be this
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callous, almost heartless person that he becomes 'cause he loses
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everything. I mean, to a point we, we
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realize he thinks 'cause we, we, we don't know for future
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stories, but he thinks he loses his, his child, you know, And
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it's, it's, it though, there's a lot of tragedy to that character
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and it adds so much more nuance to the story.
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It adds so much more background to why he is who he is.
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Also, we get the most badass K2. SO scene, I'm sorry.
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He just, he just, it's, it's arguably just as bad as a badass
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as any other hallway scene we've gotten in Star Wars.
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Oh yeah, definitely. Like K2, SO with just the light
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coming down and just wrecking people down a hallway, it's he's
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such a beast. It's just awesome.
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All right, let's go to three. Right, let's do 333 number 3.
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OK, my #3 daredevil born again. Yeah.
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Oh, wait, no, that's my #2 I'm sorry.
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Oh. Spoilers.
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Oh, spoiler alert. OK.
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The studio is my #3 this show, I couldn't watch all of them at
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once. It made me so uncomfortable
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because of the crap that they did in the show.
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I was like, they are not good people.
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It was like Hollywood's version of Seinfeld.
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It really was. That was partially.
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They are not good people. Yeah, that.
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Was partially, yeah. I loved it though.
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Oh no, absolutely I loved it and the and the last episode showed
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was chef chef's kiss perfect. It was so good that two parter
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Oh my God, it was so good cinema God all right, that's what I'm
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going to say all right should do you have only seen five movies
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or five TV shows this year, so please tell us your number.
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I've. Seen I've seen 6 movies so all
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right, so my number 3 is Peacemaker season 2.
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Yes. So there.
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So. Yeah, I'll, I'll say it now.
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Go ahead. OK, I, I, I might say the same
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thing. So we'll see.
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So I'm a little bit a little bit disappointed in how it ended.
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But overall I think it was very, very good and it was kept a lot
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of the the good things from the the first season really
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developed. A lot of the characters I think
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made them a little bit more, I don't know, a little more
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developed, I guess. So, yeah, no, I really, I, I
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enjoyed it. I loved the whole little
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alternate universe thing and that everyone guessed what the
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twist was in like episode 2. It's very funny, we.
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Knew it was Earth Axe. We knew it was.
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But it was, but it was really fun going through all of that
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being like, oh, it's totally that, you know, and everybody
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being like, oh, it's totally the oh, yeah, it's totally the Nazi.
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And the way they revealed it was very, very funny, right?
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And I loved the whole, well, OK, here it says, oh, there's a
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giant rule obviously there. So yeah, I, I thought it was
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very good, right? Amount of comedy, Very, very
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James Gunn. It was a good contrast to
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Superman. Yeah.
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And you're like, oh, right. Yeah.
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That's James Gunn. Yeah.
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So I I, I really enjoyed it. So what you're going to say?
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Yeah, before I even get into my #3 and, you know, even not on
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the honorable mentions, I, I pulled up lists of like what TV
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shows and what movies were were up this that came up this year
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so I can kind of figure things out.
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You know what, 2 shows didn't pop up in any lists that I
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pulled up. And it's like, God damn it, I
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missed these two and they're, they should be in my top five,
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Gen. V and Peacemaker.
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And it's like, these were two shows that I made like a big
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deal about this year, right? And I was again, that they're
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shows that should be in my top five.
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They're not right now because when I was looking up what shows
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came out this year, literally typed in what TV shows came out
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in 2025 streaming. I did too, and for some reason
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it yeah. Neither of those came up and
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that kind of pisses me off now because now I'm not they're not
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on my list even though I like the shows that I that I did
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pick. My number 3 is also the studio.
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We met. Yeah, and and and again, the
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studio was so well done. It was such a like like it it
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again, chef's kiss, exactly what what Jen said, because it was
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such a in look on Hollywood and and on the way Hollywood really
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is, you know, like the the I don't mean to offend anybody,
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but I but but I'm going to by accident because I'm a Jackass
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in the studio system. I mean the things like that,
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right or I love the whole one shot thing and it's like the you
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know, the the studio execs just get in the way, right.
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Is there anybody who's ever worked in Hollywood knows that's
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exactly how it is? You know, it's like, dude,
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you're just in the fucking way. Get out of the way.
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Why I don't want to work in Hollywood.
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So, so yeah, man, I, I, I, I, I absolutely love the studio.
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It was, it was one of those sleeper hits because I was not
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expecting it to be something that I was going to really love
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the way I did and, and, and I absolutely loved it so.
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Nice. Awesome.
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OK, let's go to two. We're almost here, y'all.
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Two number 22. #2. I think you know what mine is?
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It's Daredevil born again. Yeah, I'm sorry, but it had to
00:20:22
be because we got the fight scenes like the original
00:20:28
Daredevil, but really on like Adderall and we got messy, like
00:20:37
messy. And that's those are the two
00:20:40
things that Daredevil is really good at.
00:20:44
Messy, messy and fight scenes and it delivered on both of
00:20:52
those. I got to see Charlie Cox and he
00:20:56
was dreaming. And.
00:20:59
Sent d'onofrio and he was scary and there was a lot of blood and
00:21:07
that was fantastic. So that is why it's my #2 should
00:21:11
do. Hold on real quick.
00:21:13
I'm just shouting out echoing beans on on TikTok.
00:21:17
That's a great. Game.
00:21:18
Yeah, I know, right? They asked, are these nerds
00:21:20
distanced, right. And I said, Barry, because I'm
00:21:24
in Sacramento and they're in Tulsa.
00:21:25
So he said, he just said makes sense.
00:21:29
We are. So it is halfway.
00:21:31
We are distance nerding for sure.
00:21:33
Yes, that's. It just not to put.
00:21:36
Too fine of a point on it, but yes, we are.
00:21:39
Oh. I'm sorry, hold on.
00:21:39
I got to throw this on the screen.
00:21:42
I have my picture #1 Anthony Joshua knocking out Jake Paul.
00:21:46
I Yes, Yeah, yes, no. That was also very good.
00:21:48
Yeah. So someone needed to almost as
00:21:52
good as Joe Rogan. Getting called out for all of
00:21:54
his Jake Paul shit. So all.
00:21:58
Right, actually. Dude, what was your number 2
00:22:00
Sir? Can we?
00:22:00
Attach to that, my number 2 is a show that has not completed its
00:22:03
run yet I don't think. Or maybe it has it's first
00:22:08
Jackson, the Olympians season 2, which we just watched another
00:22:10
episode of. So I mean, obviously I left the
00:22:14
first season. Basically those books were I
00:22:18
think they kind of how I learned to read and me and Frey really
00:22:24
shared that as when I was much younger.
00:22:27
And so that was a lot of my childhood.
00:22:29
Well, those were the books that like we started when I would
00:22:32
read you, that was like, I think your first chapter books, 'cause
00:22:38
I would. And then when you got to the
00:22:40
point where you could read them yourself, we would read them
00:22:42
together. So yeah, it was, it was a, it's
00:22:45
a very nostalgic thing for both of us.
00:22:47
So it's. Very meaningful to me and I
00:22:49
think they've done incredibly on both of these so far adaptation
00:22:54
wise and portraying everything well and having the right amount
00:22:58
of like weird in comedy and gravity to all of this.
00:23:02
And it's, you know, so I'm very, very pleased with them.
00:23:06
And I really, I really have enjoyed the second season
00:23:08
because Sea of Monsters was always my favorite book, so.
00:23:12
It's it's good so far. The the show is good so far.
00:23:15
I'm definitely watching it. It's it actually is on my
00:23:18
honorable mentions and it's it's it, it was again, it's so, so
00:23:23
well done here. So I will agree.
00:23:25
With you, I didn't put it in there because it hadn't.
00:23:29
It hasn't finished yet and. And I I kind of crossed around,
00:23:32
but also I've only anyway, all right, so I'll go I've.
00:23:35
Got a couple of like ongoing shows on my in my honorable
00:23:38
mentions. All right, so my number 2 and
00:23:40
remember, I didn't plan this. My number 2 is Daredevil born
00:23:45
again also again, the fight scenes that we do get just me
00:23:49
and Jen literally have the same thing.
00:23:50
But again, the difference is is I just I just threw what my
00:23:55
favorite shows were. Hers are in order, right?
00:23:59
Daredevil born again what I what I for for almost the same
00:24:03
reasons as Jen. The fight scenes when we get
00:24:05
fighty fighty and they're great, right?
00:24:07
Like we get really good fight scenes when we do get fight
00:24:09
scenes in the show. Like specifically the one that
00:24:13
comes to mind is the fight scene when he he beats up the cop in
00:24:20
the apartment. Yeah.
00:24:22
Because you're not expecting that that.
00:24:24
Muse, the Muse fight scene too, in the in the sewers.
00:24:28
That one was really good too. But yeah, yeah.
00:24:30
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Again, you don't really expect
00:24:33
that. You don't expect this, this
00:24:35
hyper violent scene. And I mean, same thing the, the
00:24:39
opening scene, you know, it, it's, it's bloody, it's violent.
00:24:43
It's, it's, it's so messed up. He throws him off the roof.
00:24:48
Yeah, yeah, right. And, and it's like the big whole
00:24:51
thing with that was just, you're not expecting it to be as
00:24:55
violent as it was. And, and it and, and it holds up
00:24:58
and like some people were thinking, oh, they're just
00:25:00
trying to outdo Netflix. Well, no, like every bit of
00:25:03
violence that was in this show was something that matched up
00:25:07
with what what was going on in the story.
00:25:10
Yeah. Oh, yeah.
00:25:10
Absolutely. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:25:12
So I, I I absolutely love that show.
00:25:16
I, I thought it was really good. Some people felt like it was too
00:25:18
slow. I felt like it was enough
00:25:21
exposition. And it was enough of them
00:25:25
explaining why he did not want to continue on that he had his
00:25:29
reasons for not wanting to continue being Daredevil.
00:25:33
And then he gets thrust right back into the world and realizes
00:25:37
I have to be Daredevil because the New York is not safe unless
00:25:41
I'm Daredevil. And, and I, I, I love that they
00:25:44
went that route. So yes, I do love this show.
00:25:47
Again, being Red Batman. Sorry, but I I have the hots for
00:25:57
Daredevil and I don't have the hots for Batman.
00:26:00
I mean. No, he's you.
00:26:01
You. You don't want to.
00:26:03
You don't want to get into that. It doesn't depend on the actor.
00:26:06
It really doesn't. OK, I have some I have some
00:26:10
issues with Batman and Bruce Wayne and his emotional
00:26:15
unavailability. And but also Robert Daredevil.
00:26:19
At least you get some way out of it, right?
00:26:22
You can have a good time with him.
00:26:24
Yeah. Well, with Batman you really
00:26:26
can't. Not wrong.
00:26:27
So. Look, I'm an older woman who has
00:26:30
needed everyone I. Don't need to know this.
00:26:34
We're moving on. We're moving on for the new.
00:26:37
Audience members out there should do that, is my.
00:26:42
Mother. Yes, that is my mother.
00:26:44
So. Whenever we make uncomfortable
00:26:46
sex jokes, yeah. That is usually yeah, 10 to
00:26:49
make. Should do feel I make.
00:26:51
Them too. It's only fair so.
00:26:54
It goes both ways. All right, so and on that
00:26:58
awkward transition, number one, everybody let's.
00:27:02
Number one. Number 11.
00:27:06
My number one absolute favorite show of 2025 is a very
00:27:15
unexpected show. I think Murderbot.
00:27:20
Murderbot from Apple TV Plus Murderbot.
00:27:24
I love it. It's amazing.
00:27:26
David Desmachians in it, Alexander Skarsgard's in it and
00:27:31
he doesn't have a penis in it. He it's just he's like Ken.
00:27:35
He's like Ken down there and I love every single character in
00:27:40
that show. I love the absurdity of that
00:27:43
show. I love the narration of that
00:27:46
show. I love the B plot.
00:27:49
That is the show within a show. It is just so awesome.
00:27:55
I cannot wait for the second season.
00:27:57
Let's do this thing. All right, I like it.
00:28:00
I like it. It's pretty cool.
00:28:01
I. Have not seen it very much.
00:28:04
We want to all right, so my top show will surprise absolutely no
00:28:10
one. It is Andor, of course.
00:28:14
So I think again, first season was incredible.
00:28:18
Second season even more incredible as we were kind of
00:28:22
getting like inching closer towards towards a New Hope and
00:28:27
towards George Roy going all about it.
00:28:28
Really. You started to kind of see, oh,
00:28:30
there's all these familiar elements starting to come
00:28:33
together and just everything. I mean the first the first
00:28:36
season had a lot of very had had some of this as well.
00:28:40
But I think second season really nailed down the political
00:28:43
allegory of everything that was going on and made it incredibly
00:28:50
relevant to to now to when the show came out and to current
00:28:54
events and things. Even if apparently some of that
00:28:57
wasn't even intentionally just predicted things, it's still
00:29:01
just an incredible show. It it it's like, oh, we could
00:29:05
have been doing this in Star Wars the whole time.
00:29:07
We could we we could have been doing this like it.
00:29:10
It took what George Lucas intended with his allegories in
00:29:15
the original trolley and things a lot of people didn't really
00:29:18
even pick up on and really was like, here, here's what this is
00:29:22
supposed to be saying. Here's why this is important.
00:29:26
And so I absolutely loved it and made me cry.
00:29:29
I but it was just, it was incredible.
00:29:33
I really so Andrew's top throw of the year.
00:29:36
Awesome. All right.
00:29:37
Phil All right, So my number one, that's not really my #1 but
00:29:42
I'm going to say #1 of course. Real Housewives of New York.
00:29:46
Was secret lives The Secret Life of The Secret Life of Mormon
00:29:53
wives? That's what it was.
00:29:54
This is that one. Oh, there.
00:29:55
You go. No, no.
00:29:59
Taking shots of Pepsi. It's it welcome to dairy?
00:30:06
IT welcome to dairy. IT welcome to dairy.
00:30:08
No, it welcome to dairy was so good.
00:30:11
You guys have heard me kind of ranting on this over the last
00:30:15
couple of weeks, and it's mostly just because the way that they
00:30:20
did this show is firmly, firmly planted in the world of Stephen
00:30:27
King. But not just firmly planted in
00:30:30
Stephen King. It references so much, alluding
00:30:35
to such a bigger universe. You know, there's a lot of
00:30:41
people who are upset about Pennywise and like, oh, it's so
00:30:46
out of character based on the movies and all this other stuff.
00:30:48
But everything that he does in the show and everything that
00:30:52
they kind of set up for the next couple of seasons are things
00:30:56
that are confirmed in the books. So this whole idea of of
00:31:03
Pennywise being 1/4 dimensional being that can essentially time
00:31:12
is in a sense the same way that like like sitting in a room
00:31:17
would be. So me touching my desk and then
00:31:20
touching the table over to the side of me at the same time is
00:31:24
the way that Pennywise perceives time.
00:31:27
So. Like the weirwoods from Game of
00:31:30
Thrones? Kind of, yeah.
00:31:31
So like the whole thing is that he exists and his his his his
00:31:36
perception of time is all time at the same time happening all
00:31:39
at once. So you know everything.
00:31:42
Everywhere, all around kind. Of, you know, they, they, they
00:31:44
talk about like, oh, well, he, he can time travel.
00:31:47
Well, no, he's not time traveling at all.
00:31:49
Based on what what I understand from the way that Stephen King
00:31:52
has written his character, it's it's not that he can time
00:31:56
travel, it's that he can see the future and the past and the
00:31:59
present all as if it were one thing happening all at once.
00:32:04
Yeah, very cool. Yeah, I think he just ate the
00:32:07
bagel. Selecting a bagel.
00:32:12
So. So yeah, he ate.
00:32:14
The bagel he. Ate the bagel.
00:32:17
So yeah, I, I again, I, I, I love this concept of the way
00:32:22
that they've kind of like built Pennywise and set things up.
00:32:27
They've also made it that, that they kind of reference to the
00:32:30
fact that in the books, they've talked about how he can't really
00:32:34
die. He's an immortal being and he is
00:32:36
a, he is a God essentially. And they've kind of, oh, wait.
00:32:40
You know what I think he's my third cousin.
00:32:43
It's. True, I totally forgot.
00:32:45
About that until just. Now.
00:32:47
You said Pennywise. I don't know him as Pennywise, I
00:32:51
know him as Panda. I don't know.
00:32:53
Why, everybody calls him Pennywise, but all right,
00:32:55
whatever. Yeah, no, I remember that guy.
00:32:57
He was Jen. I did not know that you were
00:32:59
from tow dash space. That's that's it's interesting.
00:33:02
Well, no. I didn't do a lot.
00:33:04
He just like, he just like hung out in the corner.
00:33:08
It was weird. It was just, yeah, he was giving
00:33:10
me weird vibes. He.
00:33:11
Really likes French onion dip. That's what he eats at the
00:33:13
party, yeah. That is, yeah, that is.
00:33:15
I mean, hey by by French. Onion dip?
00:33:17
You mean French people who are deathly afraid of onions?
00:33:21
Oh, that's where the dip was red.
00:33:24
Yeah, well, that's why. It was red, OK.
00:33:27
Anyways, so before we get into the next thing we're going to do
00:33:31
here, give me a second. I've got a pause.
00:33:33
TikTok. Well, no, we've got honorable
00:33:38
mentions real quick and then we're going to OK, let.
00:33:40
Me, let me not pause TikTok yet. OK, so let's let's go ahead and
00:33:43
do honorable Mensch. Let's do some.
00:33:46
So let's just go. With the, we don't have to like
00:33:48
discuss it. If you want to find out about
00:33:51
it, go go watch them. Yeah, OK.
00:33:55
All right, Phil, what's your honorable mentions, dude?
00:33:58
So. I've got a couple that are
00:33:59
written here, but I'm just going to go down my list of everything
00:34:01
that I didn't mention here so my honorable mentions this show's.
00:34:04
Going to be like 4 days long, no?
00:34:06
It's not I'm I'm because I'm not going to explain any of them.
00:34:08
So my honorable mentions are Reacher, King of the Hill, Alien
00:34:12
Earth, Stranger Things, which finishes tomorrow.
00:34:16
So make sure you guys check that out.
00:34:18
Eyes of Wakanda, Last of Us season 2, Paradise, which if you
00:34:23
have not seen Paradise go check that out.
00:34:26
Marvel Zombies, so good Marvel Zombies, Iron Heart and then my
00:34:32
Ongo, my 2 ongoing shows that are happening right now, Percy
00:34:35
Jackson, which you mentioned, and then Fallout season 2.
00:34:38
OK, awesome, awesome. I to add to yours, I'm going to
00:34:43
put Gilded Age mythic quest. Good show.
00:34:48
Peacemaker, obviously, I think that's it.
00:34:53
Like we watch a lot of the same stuff, so I'm like, he really
00:34:57
got like all of them. So.
00:35:00
So yeah, so I, I feel like yeah, anything.
00:35:02
You want to build it aged. Woohoo.
00:35:04
And as I said, I've only watched.
00:35:06
Five shows. Five shows, all right.
00:35:08
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00:36:20
Jen, introduce us before I take over here.
00:36:22
What are we? What are what Are we going to
00:36:23
start talking here now? We are going to start talking
00:36:26
about the top five movies of 2025 y'all.
00:36:32
Top five movies, so I'm going to put that up here so.
00:36:38
Maybe take that off this? No, I am I, I had to change the
00:36:42
bottom part so that way people see what's going on.
00:36:44
So ladies and gentlemen, let's jump right into this.
00:36:48
We're going to talk about, we're going to recap some of the best
00:36:51
movies of the year, some of our favorite movies that we've seen.
00:36:55
And maybe, yeah, that's, that's what we're going to do.
00:36:57
So let's start with #5 I'm on. Sorry, I'm on the wrong screen.
00:37:04
Number. 5. 55555. All right, so let's start with.
00:37:10
Should do here? Should do what is your #5 movie
00:37:13
OK? Cool, my number 5 is fantastic.
00:37:18
Four first steps. So this is the first Fantastic
00:37:24
Four adaptation that has actually been a good movie, so.
00:37:29
I'll agree with. You.
00:37:32
Yeah. So this really, I think captured
00:37:35
the core of comics and really kind of, I think setting in an
00:37:40
ultimate universe helped to be able to kind of tell their own
00:37:44
story that's not as bogged down by all of the others have been
00:37:48
having to explain. Well, you know, they were in the
00:37:51
60s. And then there's the whole
00:37:52
thing, whatever. It's like, no, no, it's a
00:37:53
retrofuturistic world, don't worry about it.
00:37:56
Right. And I think that really helped
00:37:58
because it could tell its own self-contained story.
00:38:00
It could really focus on the characters.
00:38:03
There's always been the core of Fantastic Four, the Fantastic
00:38:06
Four, if you will, and that. Yeah, yeah, 4 core and it, it
00:38:15
just really I, I think it was a great adaptation.
00:38:18
I loved, I really liked Galactus just as a villain.
00:38:22
Yeah, in general I always have because I really like kind of
00:38:26
leaning into that cosmic horror side of of comics.
00:38:29
And so I really loved how they did Galactus.
00:38:32
He was just intimidating enough. Well, keeping a tiny bit of the
00:38:36
silliness, which I think is is always good.
00:38:40
And it really wasn't afraid to be kind of ridiculous, which it
00:38:42
should be. It's fantastic.
00:38:43
Or I just, I loved everything. It was really a solid, solid
00:38:49
adaptation. So yeah, I loved the
00:38:52
inevitability. Of Galactus, because Galactus.
00:38:55
Again, it was it was a very like it was kind of light hearted
00:38:59
well-being existentially terrifying, which is a is great
00:39:03
though. All right, yeah, that is much
00:39:06
Yum, Yum. Yummy.
00:39:07
Super awesome. Yummy, yummy, yummy.
00:39:11
Again, I did not put any of this in order, so I'm going to start
00:39:14
here with, I guess I'm going to start with Superman.
00:39:18
So Superman can't believe such. Superman's number 5 no.
00:39:24
No, no, no, it's not my #5 like I said, I'm not in order at all.
00:39:29
So Superman is such and it's just, it's just the first one I
00:39:33
want to talk about. Superman is probably my number
00:39:36
one actually. But Superman is such a was so
00:39:39
good. And again, I I know we're we're
00:39:41
going to get a lot of hatred for this.
00:39:43
We're going to get a lot of praise for it too.
00:39:44
But like Superman, if you are a comic book fan at all, if you
00:39:51
understand comic books in any way whatsoever, especially
00:39:55
Superman comic books, this movie was perfect.
00:40:00
It's it's you have all these people who complain.
00:40:03
It's like Superman. He he was he, he got his ass
00:40:06
kicked by by by a dude. Yeah, that dude also happened to
00:40:10
be fucking bizarro. And he was Superman, Yeah.
00:40:14
That dude was him, yeah. It's it's, it's basically he got
00:40:16
beat by himself. So when everybody sits there and
00:40:19
complaints about Superman getting his ass kicked by a
00:40:22
nobody, well, that nobody happens to also be Superman.
00:40:26
So and. Also the hammer of Bolivia,
00:40:29
yeah. What, what, what what what what
00:40:32
what? That tells me whenever I see
00:40:34
people complaining about stuff like that.
00:40:35
Like, oh, they nerfed Superman to a point he got his ass kicked
00:40:38
by everybody. No, he got his ass kicked by two
00:40:40
characters who matched his power.
00:40:43
And when you when you say that, Oh yeah, I know he got his ass
00:40:47
kicked by random people, that tells me all you saw was a
00:40:50
trailer and you didn't actually watch the movie.
00:40:53
Yeah, right. Because had you watched the
00:40:56
movie, you would have realized that at the end of the movie
00:40:59
they reveal that he was fighting Bizarro Superman, who has the
00:41:03
same goddamn powers. So with that being said, right
00:41:09
and and and I can go off all day on on all these haters and
00:41:13
poking holes in every single thing you guys and he.
00:41:16
Will I'm not. Going to, I'm not going to.
00:41:19
I'm just saying this movie for anyone who understands Superman
00:41:24
because he is the Big Blue Boy Scout.
00:41:26
He is the guy that does everything.
00:41:30
He he does everything the right way, even if to nauseam, even if
00:41:34
he is lawful good in every sense of the word.
00:41:38
Superman was done perfectly and that is where I'm leaving that
00:41:42
Gen. to #5. My #5 because I did mine in
00:41:48
order, Thank you very much. I, I knew I understood the
00:41:52
assignment and did the assignment the way it was
00:41:54
supposed to be done. But I'm going to go ahead and do
00:41:57
it my way #5 is weapons. That's right, everybody.
00:42:01
I got a horror movie on my top five.
00:42:03
I know everybody needs to go buy a lottery ticket because this is
00:42:08
never going to happen again. I just looked at ours, Jen.
00:42:11
All of ours are the same except for one.
00:42:13
I know, I know. And I'm like, I cannot believe
00:42:17
you just, well, at least. I'm here to make things
00:42:18
different. So yeah, so Weapons, I thought
00:42:22
it was really good. I did not expect to like it
00:42:27
because I am not a horror fan at all.
00:42:30
I loved it. I I only looked away twice and
00:42:35
it wasn't because of the scary scariness of it, it was because
00:42:38
of the gore. I was like, I don't really need
00:42:42
to see that. That's a little too much for me.
00:42:45
So. But every once.
00:42:48
Yeah, that's true. But I loved the way that it was
00:42:54
set up, the way that you didn't really know what was going on
00:42:57
until about halfway through the movie.
00:42:59
I liked that. I loved that everybody was
00:43:01
making such a big deal about the 217 and it really didn't fucking
00:43:05
mean anything at all. It was just happened to be the
00:43:08
time. I mean, like, you know, it's
00:43:09
like, OK, all right, whatever. And I thought that like, I
00:43:13
thought all the actors did really well.
00:43:16
And you know, I love Benedict Wong and he did such a good job.
00:43:19
Yeah, he did. So I, I, I loved his
00:43:20
performance. I.
00:43:21
Love my wongers. All right, so that means we are
00:43:25
moving on to #4 #4. All right, I like.
00:43:31
Fantastic Four. Yeah, should do.
00:43:34
Yes, well, of course I did Fantastic Four for #5 So my
00:43:39
number 4 is the Thunderbolts and it is of course I, I it was
00:43:47
really good. I did not think I would like
00:43:49
this movie as as much as I I did actually for the for the next
00:43:52
one, it's the same thing. But yeah, I didn't think I'd
00:43:54
like movies which I did. It was great.
00:43:56
It was really it was like it kind of accidentally commented
00:44:02
on the MCU right now and like kind of burn out of all of these
00:44:05
things and taking these these characters that you know, have
00:44:09
become more prominent, obviously, but I still kind of
00:44:11
like, you know, C listers and putting them all together into a
00:44:16
team and playing off their strengths and these people that
00:44:20
are just kind of, you know, lost and don't really have a a
00:44:24
purpose to find kind of a purpose, but also to work
00:44:27
through trauma in all of these ways.
00:44:29
Having sentry be the the villain was really fun.
00:44:33
I ever since I kind of heard about what the whole idea of
00:44:37
Century was and his his Baxter, I thought it was really, really
00:44:40
cool. I think they they did it really
00:44:43
well. I really, it was a like kind of
00:44:45
a nice simple movie and it was executed incredibly well.
00:44:49
And the whole twist at the end was very fun.
00:44:52
I got to it before there was all of that movie, all of like, oh,
00:44:55
it's the new Avengers, you know, whatever.
00:44:57
I got to it before then. So I was like, oh, shit.
00:44:59
OK, yeah. So it's I, I really loved it.
00:45:04
It's great movie so. Awesome.
00:45:08
My again, not in the right order.
00:45:11
My, my number 4 is going to be sinners.
00:45:15
Yeah, definitely not in the right order.
00:45:16
Not your. #4 I know for a fucking fact that's not your
00:45:19
number 4 but OK. Definitely not in the order OK.
00:45:23
If we, if we go in the order that that you guys are going in,
00:45:26
my #5 would have been Predator Badlands.
00:45:28
I mean, I'm obviously going to get into this anyways, and my
00:45:30
number four would have been Thunderbolts.
00:45:31
So it's it's fine. I'm kind of just going down the
00:45:35
list as I have it right. So sinners.
00:45:37
Whatever. You're fine, Yeah.
00:45:38
Sinners, we'll talk. About them anyway.
00:45:40
We. Will we'll talk about it later.
00:45:42
Sinners is is the next movie on my list and again it I I've I've
00:45:49
heard complaints and and yes, it is 2 movies in one, but they're
00:45:52
two good fucking movies mashed together into one.
00:45:57
It is a really good drama, really good dramatic movie That
00:46:02
that, that that tells this really nuanced, really kind of
00:46:08
Southern story in Mississippi and then becomes this entire
00:46:14
like vampire movie that you just kind of, I mean, you expect it.
00:46:18
But had you gone into the movie not seeing any trailers and
00:46:21
knowing what it was about, you wouldn't have expected a vampire
00:46:23
movie to pop out of this movie. It it it was really well done.
00:46:29
The acting is really good. And we'll get into that in, in
00:46:32
in the next segment. But like, the acting was really
00:46:34
well done in this movie. The the story was really well
00:46:38
done. Everything about this movie was
00:46:41
as as films go, for the most part, perfection.
00:46:44
It it was really good. Also, Nathan, Nate Price in the
00:46:49
chat saying Century over Superman.
00:46:51
In the end, Superman would beat Century easily.
00:46:54
Yeah, yeah. But let's let's continue on.
00:46:57
So that's that's that's the number 4 on my list.
00:47:01
All right. My #4 because you know, I love
00:47:05
branding, is the Fantastic Four first steps 4 for four.
00:47:12
Fantastic Four. Fantastic.
00:47:15
OK. No, So everything that should do
00:47:22
said about it, I absolutely agree.
00:47:24
I do like that it was set apart from like, from like what we've
00:47:31
seen so far. I liked that.
00:47:33
I liked seeing the almost manic side of Reed Richards.
00:47:38
Like, you know, he there were a lot of parallels of him and Tony
00:47:43
Stark from the first Iron Man in The Avengers, where he's trying
00:47:47
to make the, you know, Avengers all like Age of Ultron trying to
00:47:51
make a, a shield around the whole, the whole earth and
00:47:56
trying to figure out, yeah, how how to, how to do that.
00:47:59
I liked the inevitability of Galactus and that it wasn't
00:48:03
like, hey, we maybe we can beat him.
00:48:05
It was we have to trick him to get him to go somewhere else so
00:48:11
he doesn't destroy us and move him so far away that he won't
00:48:15
get here for a really long time. So I loved that part of it.
00:48:19
It was very unconventional as far as superhero movies go, and
00:48:24
I liked that. I thought everyone did an
00:48:26
amazing job. I liked Evan Moss Bacharach as
00:48:31
Ben Graham, the thing. I thought that was amazing.
00:48:36
I thought they all did really well.
00:48:37
They felt like a family and I, I feel like the other movies
00:48:41
missed that. They have to feel like a family
00:48:44
first before you can have them in their roles.
00:48:47
And I just felt like they didn't.
00:48:49
The other Fantastic Four movies didn't focus on that.
00:48:52
So I, I feel like it was a great movie so.
00:48:54
Yeah. All right.
00:48:56
All right. All right, so let's move on to
00:48:59
the next number here, number 3333.
00:49:06
All right, you do what you got all.
00:49:08
Right. So this might this might
00:49:10
surprise some people or not. We'll see.
00:49:13
My number 3 is K Pop Demon Hunters, actually, Yeah.
00:49:16
Fucking gold. Yeah, no.
00:49:19
And and, you know, some of that has been stuck in my head for
00:49:21
for a while. So this is this is another movie
00:49:24
I really was kind of kind of cynical about.
00:49:27
Not really cynical, but like, I don't know, you know, I was
00:49:32
like, oh, this is whatever. It's a musical and it's what?
00:49:37
No, just. Go ahead and say, oh, so I
00:49:41
really liked it. I mean again, I'm I'm shocked
00:49:43
that I did, but some of the songs it would stuck in my head.
00:49:46
It is again a very like Thunderbolt.
00:49:48
It's a very simple I I don't mean symbol in a bad way, but
00:49:52
it's it's a very like straightforward movie.
00:49:54
It's like, OK, you can kind of see where it's going, see what's
00:49:56
what's going on there. But the, the world building
00:49:59
they've done is really well folded in.
00:50:02
All of the characters are amazing again, even if
00:50:06
archetypes, but it's, it's very well done.
00:50:10
I really, really enjoyed it. And the, the again, the, the
00:50:15
theming is, is good. I yeah, and I got music
00:50:19
obviously is very, very well done.
00:50:21
I loved it for a musical. It wasn't just arbitrarily, this
00:50:25
is a musical. It was, no, the music is part of
00:50:27
the whole thing that is in the lore and in the, in the world
00:50:33
itself. And it was very, very folded
00:50:36
into that. I, I loved it and I loved it
00:50:38
wasn't that it was also very Korean.
00:50:40
It had a very, very Korean feel to it.
00:50:44
So it wasn't just like all these are just, you know, Christian
00:50:46
demons or whatever. No, no, it's the Korean version
00:50:48
of demons. It's that same kind of thing.
00:50:50
So right I it's. Demons in the West are not the
00:50:55
same as demons in Asian culture, and it's just for every, right?
00:50:58
And really explored a lot of that and it just, yeah, it was
00:51:01
great. So I that's my #3.
00:51:05
Very good, very good. My #3 on my list is weapons.
00:51:13
Weapons. What more can I say than
00:51:17
anything else that that Jen mentioned Yes, I love Benedict
00:51:20
Wong's character in it. I love the way that they kind of
00:51:24
told this almost non linear story and just kept going back
00:51:27
to moments that were going on in the movie.
00:51:30
I, I, I loved the overall story. I loved how they kept you
00:51:36
guessing the entire movie thinking like, Oh, you think
00:51:39
it's one thing and then they like throw a wrench in there.
00:51:41
It's like, oh, oh, it's oh, OK, it's this, oh, it's, oh, it's
00:51:45
something else. And just kind of the creepy
00:51:49
moments in that movie. It was, it was really, really,
00:51:51
really well done, really well acted.
00:51:55
Every everything about that movie was was was done in a in
00:51:59
in a way that kept you engaged in the movie.
00:52:02
And I thought it was it was really good.
00:52:03
So and yes, like I mentioned that that and earlier on that
00:52:08
one really graphic scene at the end of the movie.
00:52:10
She deserved that shit 100. Percent she did.
00:52:15
Also. That shit.
00:52:17
Also I want to know why they decided on old Betty Davis for
00:52:21
the luck. I approve of it, but it
00:52:25
absolutely was old Betty Davis. I have pictures to prove it.
00:52:28
I. Am I, I, I, I, I have a lot of
00:52:31
faith in that Kriger. Kriger after the barbarian and
00:52:35
then weapons. Now he's, we'll talk about this
00:52:38
next week, but now he's getting Resident Evil.
00:52:40
I'm very excited for everything he's going to do.
00:52:42
So yeah. Yeah.
00:52:44
Jen, what's your #3? My number 3 is Sinners.
00:52:49
That's right, 2 horror movies in what year?
00:52:58
Like 2 lottery tickets? Because this will never happen
00:53:02
again. No, I was really surprised about
00:53:08
this movie. I love vampire movies.
00:53:11
Like if if we're going to talk horror.
00:53:13
And I don't really consider vampire movies horror because
00:53:16
really it's just homoerotic fiction, so I feel like.
00:53:22
I mean, you're not wrong. It is.
00:53:25
It's a very if you've. Read Dracula are.
00:53:27
Very sexual. It's a very sexual you've read.
00:53:30
Dracula. It is incredibly queer.
00:53:33
It is absolutely like you know, there are by people all over the
00:53:37
place and you know I am there for it anyway.
00:53:41
But I loved it because of that. But I also really liked that it
00:53:46
was you thought you were going down a certain Rd. in the movie
00:53:51
and then it pivoted and then you were like oh shit, this just
00:53:55
levelled up. This movie just levelled up and
00:54:00
the people at the end deserved everything they got.
00:54:03
Someone going to say someone? Going to say, although Halo
00:54:07
Steinfeld was super raunchy in this movie and I don't know how
00:54:13
I feel about that. I don't know if.
00:54:15
That I want Hawkeye to be. I feel great about it.
00:54:19
And the Bishop? That I love would not say those
00:54:23
words that came out of her mouth.
00:54:25
That's all I'm saying. Was it?
00:54:27
Was it all the Coos talk? It can be two.
00:54:28
Things I realize that what? Was it all the Coos talk?
00:54:33
Yes. Let's.
00:54:36
Let's just be glad that Florence Pier or Aubrey Plaza were not in
00:54:39
that movie. Oh my God, if Aubrey Plaza was
00:54:40
in that movie, am I? I I.
00:54:42
Think Phil would not be worth it?
00:54:43
I I. Think my I think my nether
00:54:45
realms would have exploded. This is.
00:54:46
What I'm saying he would be dead, Yeah, he would have had a
00:54:51
heart attack. Or something.
00:54:54
Exhaustion, anyway. Anyway, we're moving on.
00:54:57
So we get banned from TikTok. I don't think we're going to get
00:55:01
banned for I've. I've heard worse on TikTok.
00:55:03
All right, well, ladies and gentlemen.
00:55:04
Oh yeah, fair enough. Let's move on to the next one
00:55:06
here. It's time for #2 #2.
00:55:12
So my #2 do 2 is Superman. I can't.
00:55:18
You are not my child. I was kidding.
00:55:21
That was a joke. What?
00:55:23
Wait, wait. I'm sorry, what?
00:55:28
So Superman, but again, it's a it was a solid Superman.
00:55:35
It really felt it. I'm not sure what else I could
00:55:38
say that it hasn't already been said.
00:55:39
I felt the comics there. I felt the the spirit of what
00:55:44
Superman is supposed to be. He was a big Boo Boy Scout.
00:55:47
He was incredibly naive. I love that his first, like you
00:55:53
know as he got out of the thing after being killed by the sun or
00:55:56
the beginning of it was golly perfection.
00:55:59
Perfection did not curse once of the movie, which is amazing.
00:56:03
Everybody else around him was. So it's like, it's great, no?
00:56:07
But he did curse once, but it was in reference to somebody
00:56:10
else calling him a super shit and it's the only bad word he
00:56:14
said in the whole movie. I've actually I've checked.
00:56:20
But also perfect. His characterization was great.
00:56:23
Lois was great. No notes.
00:56:25
I'll get into this too, Lex. Perfection.
00:56:28
Yes, everything about it felt besides engineer.
00:56:32
But again, we're not we're not talking about bad things.
00:56:35
Everything else felt very much straight out of the comics,
00:56:39
straight out of this is what Superman should have been the
00:56:42
whole time. It's like, oh, he's not dark and
00:56:44
dreary and like all in his feelings.
00:56:46
No, he's just Superman. He's doing the best he was.
00:56:50
In his feelings, he was. He wasn't like taking it out on
00:56:54
people and shit like I'm just in anyway, I really loved it.
00:56:59
I think it was a great movie. It's a fun movie too.
00:57:02
It was a fun movie to watch. I agree.
00:57:04
And we got a live action Green Lantern for in first time, first
00:57:08
live action Guy Gardner, who was perfect, a perfect amount of
00:57:12
asshole. It was.
00:57:15
It was great. Yeah, Guy, Guy Gardner needs to
00:57:17
be a bag of Dicks. And then he really was a bag of
00:57:20
Dicks. It was great.
00:57:21
And I love Mystic terrific too. So good.
00:57:24
He was so good. I can't even mention everything
00:57:27
I loved about it. It was great movie, incredible
00:57:31
cinematic introduction to the new DCU.
00:57:34
Yeah. I agree.
00:57:36
My number 2 is Thunderbolts and Thunderbolts again.
00:57:42
It it, it was a Thunderbolt. Yeah, there's a the Thunderbolt.
00:57:45
OK, no, I can't do it. It was a sleeper hit.
00:57:49
It was one of those movies that you went in thinking like, I'm
00:57:52
going to watch it because it's a Marvel movie, but it's going to
00:57:54
be OK. And it's like, Oh my God, Oh my
00:57:56
God. Better and better every minute.
00:57:58
Every minute of this movie gets better.
00:58:00
Every scene tops the next scene. Century was so well done.
00:58:05
He I was not expecting that they were going to go into the void
00:58:08
and they did. And like that's that, that's
00:58:12
that's kind of what scared me when they said they were doing
00:58:14
century was they're they're not going to do the void properly
00:58:16
and they're not probably not even going to address the void.
00:58:19
They're just going to do Superman and just going to do
00:58:21
like emo Superman because that's what century is.
00:58:23
And it's like Oh my God no, he is every bit the amnesiac idiot
00:58:29
that he is when he's century and the monstrous dark just entity
00:58:37
that is again like. Eldred's Lovecraftian horror.
00:58:40
Oh my. God, yeah.
00:58:41
Well, when it comes to the void, he's 100% that.
00:58:43
And he leaned into it so hard. It's so good.
00:58:47
Pullman does such a good job with that character.
00:58:50
And then on top of that, Florence Pugh, amazing action.
00:58:56
I, I, I think the only thing, the only note on the movie that
00:59:00
I have was as much as I rooted for them to kill off Taskmaster,
00:59:10
I did want a little bit more of that version of Taskmaster.
00:59:13
Because when Taskmaster goes into the scene that she goes
00:59:17
into and she starts kind of really going into like, like
00:59:21
she, she gets a little witty and it it, it kind of gave me a
00:59:26
second of oh, no, OK, so she's, she's got like those witty
00:59:29
retorts that that Masterson has. And that's kind of what I
00:59:32
wanted. And then they killed her off and
00:59:34
I was just like, damn, man. Like I, I kind of, I kind of
00:59:38
wanted more of that version. But hopefully that means that we
00:59:42
will get a Chris Masters and we will get a proper Taskmaster
00:59:47
because you can't just get rid of Taskmaster like that.
00:59:50
He is such a good character to have around.
00:59:53
And and yeah, no, I, I, I just everything else.
00:59:57
I also love the kind of everybody's mission is to kill
01:00:01
each other aspect of it, right? Because it's kind of like, yeah,
01:00:07
it was really good in in in the sense of everybody's job was to
01:00:10
try and kill each other. And of course, Johnny Mayo is
01:00:12
just being the biggest asshole there is.
01:00:14
So, I mean, you know, that's it's so.
01:00:16
Good. I love that.
01:00:17
Yeah. Nate Price in the chat here.
01:00:19
So many people hated on Thunderbolts.
01:00:21
Was so sad. Happy to see mental health
01:00:23
included in a superhero movie in this way.
01:00:25
And I agree 100% agree with that.
01:00:27
It's mental health being something that they bring in
01:00:31
there. I feel like that's also what
01:00:33
Supergirl is going to be later on in in 2026.
01:00:36
So let's continue on. Jen, it is time for your number
01:00:40
2. Shocker.
01:00:42
It's Thunderbolts, AKA New Avenger.
01:00:51
So here's I here's what I want to talk about.
01:00:54
I love the Speaking of the mental health part of it.
01:00:57
This the villain of this movie above and beyond Century and and
01:01:03
honestly is very integral into century is depression.
01:01:08
Yeah, Lawrence Pugh's character had depression, David Harbour's
01:01:13
character had depression. You had Bucky, who lives in
01:01:18
depression, and you had Ghost, who is like, well, I mean, I got
01:01:24
this fixed, but now what do I do?
01:01:26
Johnny Mayo. They were all, they all were
01:01:28
going through depression. They were basically the
01:01:31
different aspects of it. And I loved that I called this
01:01:35
movie The A 24 MCU movie, and it really was.
01:01:41
It took character development and focused on characters and
01:01:45
how you take these death disparate people and make them
01:01:51
into an unwitting team they don't really like.
01:01:55
Hardly any of them, any of them have actual powers.
01:01:58
A couple of them do, but not very many.
01:02:00
And they still managed to come together and save one of the
01:02:08
most powerful beings in the MCU. And not only that, but they're
01:02:14
like, no, no, dude, you don't have to be a hero.
01:02:16
You just sit in your recliner and read and do the dishes.
01:02:20
And I loved that because it wasn't about how can we use this
01:02:26
person to help us fight off whatever they were like, no,
01:02:32
you, your health is your mental health is so much more important
01:02:36
than black is coming or whatever.
01:02:40
I liked that. I loved the different like
01:02:44
combinations that they got. I also love Julia Louis Dreyfus
01:02:47
in it. And I felt like it was, it had
01:02:50
very similar, a very similar tone and aspects that James
01:02:56
Gunn's The Suicide Squad had, but just like the MCU version of
01:03:00
it. And I loved that as well.
01:03:02
And when she which she said too, what is like Red Guardian, when
01:03:07
she said to him, she was like, who's this angry Santa?
01:03:09
I was like, this is this is going to be my top five, top
01:03:13
five movie right there. Who's this movie?
01:03:16
Santa. Yeah.
01:03:17
I loved it. I loved it.
01:03:19
I loved it. And a guy named Bob is the most
01:03:23
powerful person in the world. OK, Yeah.
01:03:26
Sure, Yeah. Shout out to Gig, who was
01:03:30
killing it on the Jeopardy last night, he said.
01:03:35
Aunt Gladys ran like she owed those kids some money.
01:03:38
Oh. Yeah.
01:03:39
She ran like. She owned Moon Night Money.
01:03:43
So good. All right, let's jump into this
01:03:46
last one. It's time for the number one
01:03:48
number. One number one, all right, my
01:03:54
number one will surprise no one at centers.
01:03:56
So this is, this is the first time.
01:04:01
Seriously, what else can I say other than I'd like to point out
01:04:05
the aspect ratio changes and how all of that played into it.
01:04:10
Incredible. I loved the choices that were
01:04:13
done and everything. I loved how.
01:04:15
And Because Gravy's not here, I can say this, I love that they
01:04:18
included vampire lore in it and just expected.
01:04:20
Hey, everybody knows what vampire lore is.
01:04:22
We don't have to explain the whole damn thing.
01:04:25
I. That was great.
01:04:26
Yeah, I really, I it was. It was good.
01:04:30
Again, two very solid movies in one that complemented each
01:04:35
other, that played off each other and used metaphors and all
01:04:40
those different stuff. I just, I loved all of it.
01:04:42
I loved, again, a lot of the best movies this year were very,
01:04:45
very focused around music and how that brings people together
01:04:50
and how that can has, you know, this innate power to it.
01:04:55
And I just, I'd loved, I loved that.
01:04:58
And so I was, yeah. Synopsis is my my number one
01:05:02
movie of the year. That's a horror movie.
01:05:05
It's barely a horror movie, but it's a horror movie, so go and
01:05:10
buy a lot of. I mean, it's a horror movie.
01:05:12
I wasn't. I was.
01:05:13
I don't think I was ever really. I don't think I was ever really
01:05:17
at. Horrific.
01:05:19
I don't think I was ever really scared by it, I was just kind of
01:05:22
disturbed by it, which is so. Kind of what it's supposed to
01:05:24
be. And also I hate that they made
01:05:28
my favorite Irish folk song into the villain song.
01:05:31
I really don't like that. Wasn't the villain.
01:05:34
Though he just wanted to see his family.
01:05:36
Rocky road to Devlin. Yeah.
01:05:38
Such a good version of that song though.
01:05:40
But a? Really.
01:05:41
Yeah. A really good version of it.
01:05:42
A really creepy version of it that I have saved.
01:05:44
Yeah. So it's, it's good all right.
01:05:46
Yeah, I had that song repeat for like a couple of days after that
01:05:49
movie. Yeah.
01:05:51
And I mean, that version of it 'cause it was already out.
01:05:53
Oh, yeah, yeah. So my, my number one, that's not
01:05:57
really my #1 I mean, again, if we were doing this by the way
01:06:05
that I had it written now this would have been my #5 but still
01:06:07
Predator Badlands. So Predator Badlands, again,
01:06:12
another sleeper movie that I did not expect to be as good as it
01:06:17
was. Went into this movie thinking,
01:06:19
OK, it's going to be a Predator movie.
01:06:21
It's going to be OK. They're going to, you know, tell
01:06:24
whatever story it's going to be about the the first time that's
01:06:27
at the in the at in the perspective of a predator.
01:06:31
What I didn't expect is walking out of this movie wanting to
01:06:34
learn how to speak Yaocha because he speaks Yaocha.
01:06:39
No. But I mean, yeah, I know.
01:06:41
So what's crazy is the guy who created Klingon.
01:06:47
Oh, really? Yes, the guy who created Klingon
01:06:50
created the Yaocha language. Is it Klingon?
01:06:55
Or Valerian. I thought it was the same guy
01:06:57
that created Leon Valerian. Oh.
01:06:58
So is it OK? Is it David G Peterson or is it
01:07:04
Mark Akron? I, I I.
01:07:05
I know that he had his hand in in writing.
01:07:09
I'll figure. It out.
01:07:09
I'll figure it out. You continue.
01:07:12
But yes, so again, I, I was not expecting that that I, that I
01:07:19
was going to get so into this, this this language and this
01:07:24
story. Again, when we get into my, our
01:07:27
favorite actors, you know, one of my honourable mentions, I
01:07:32
might as well just say it like Elle Fanning killed it in her
01:07:36
role. And I think just between her and
01:07:39
Michael B Jordan, both characters, but both of these
01:07:43
people in both these, I see your hand.
01:07:45
OK, just give me a second. Both of these actors in both of
01:07:50
these movies played multiple roles and differentiated
01:07:56
characters from each other. Wow, that's awesome, you know?
01:07:59
So it's like how you like like she played two different synths
01:08:04
that were based off the same person and the two of them were
01:08:09
distinctly different characters. Same thing with smoke and stack
01:08:13
and sinners where they were. They were very distinctly
01:08:15
different characters, even though they were twins.
01:08:18
So it's just that that just kind of seemed to be the thing this
01:08:21
year is is actors being able to play two different characters
01:08:24
and this distinguish themselves from each other.
01:08:28
The action was amazing. Everything in this movie was was
01:08:32
great and to the point where you know, you, you start rooting for
01:08:36
the bad guy because you realize he is the bad guy.
01:08:39
You start rooting for the bad guy.
01:08:41
And then at the end of the movie, you almost like you're
01:08:46
rooting for his revenge and he gets his revenge, but you're
01:08:50
rooting for his revenge against a bigger bad.
01:08:54
And then it leads into another movie and it's like, Oh my God,
01:08:58
this is so good. I was not expecting this.
01:09:01
And I say, give I'm I'm forgetting his name right now.
01:09:05
But the director, the guy who directed this movie, it was, was
01:09:09
it Noah Hawley? I don't remember.
01:09:12
It was the guy that did. I think it was Noah Hawley prey.
01:09:16
Right. He's.
01:09:17
The guy, the same guy that did prey, same guy that's been doing
01:09:19
all of the the the the new predator stuff.
01:09:22
Give him everything Predator give.
01:09:27
Them a Star Wars show. I think they're going to, I
01:09:31
think, I think actually they're talking about that.
01:09:32
What were you going to say? Who?
01:09:34
Who's the Who's the linguist? So it is neither.
01:09:38
It is the guy who created the Navi language for Avatar.
01:09:40
Oh, OK. I'm sorry.
01:09:42
The two people, Steve Perry and SD Perry.
01:09:46
I wonder if they're related. Yeah.
01:09:49
So it's it's those guys, but. Still, you're creating amazing
01:09:52
languages. Yeah, just like creating these
01:09:54
amazing languages, right? Like the, the, the, the, the
01:09:57
Yaucha language is so cool. And it just, Yeah, it makes me
01:10:01
want to go learn how to speak Predator.
01:10:03
It's so dope. Anyway, I mean, again, I really
01:10:06
enjoy Khan Lang, that's one of my nerdy things, so moving on.
01:10:10
Yeah, oh, so earlier I was talking about echoing beans on
01:10:14
on TikTok. That's that's Ethan Sack,
01:10:17
Deadpool's son. Oh, cool.
01:10:20
Nice. So anyways, I, I, I have talked
01:10:27
too much. Jen, what was your number one
01:10:30
my. Number one was Superman because
01:10:34
of the worst it was. It's a fucking DC movie.
01:10:37
I'm going to make that right now.
01:10:41
Shut up. You're just, you're just
01:10:43
disappointed that Wonder Woman wasn't it?
01:10:46
No, I really wasn't. I, you know, I feel like if she
01:10:49
had been in it, it would have taken some away.
01:10:51
It would have taken something away.
01:10:53
I feel like the characters that they did put in it, like Hawk
01:10:57
Girl, I loved her. She was.
01:11:00
Awesome. I also, I loved Nathan filling
01:11:04
as Guy Gardner. I loved Mr. Terrific.
01:11:08
I, I they really got Mr. Terrific's essence.
01:11:13
Michael Holtz as Terrific as Terrific.
01:11:16
I want to talk about Metamorpha. Yeah.
01:11:18
He was terrific. I want.
01:11:21
To talk about. Metamorpho.
01:11:23
They gave Metamorpho so much more depth than I've ever seen
01:11:30
on the screen. He and he played it to
01:11:34
perfection. It was amazing.
01:11:36
It was so good and Crypto crypto's such a bad boy, but I
01:11:41
love him so much Crypto, he's such a bad dog.
01:11:46
I love him and yeah, so I I just had everything.
01:11:50
Clark being that oh gosh darn it kind of guy.
01:11:56
Paw Kent being all like oh, he's getting all mushy and.
01:12:01
I just. Loved all of that.
01:12:03
I loved all of it. It was great.
01:12:05
And the whole music conversation and and the punk rock maybe
01:12:13
kindness is the punk rock, you know, I mean, I I loved all of
01:12:16
it. The message was perfect and it
01:12:19
was very comic bookie. It wasn't too like kitschy, it
01:12:24
wasn't too like goofy, but it was just the right amount, just
01:12:30
the right amount. And it almost felt like we were
01:12:33
seeing the world through Superman's eyes.
01:12:39
It was his reality and that. And so everything was a little
01:12:44
brighter. Everything was a little bit more
01:12:45
hopeful. Things got a little less bright
01:12:49
when he was having his crisis and you know, so and it it
01:12:53
really, I loved it. David Cornswat and Nicholas
01:12:59
Holt. I loved them together.
01:13:01
They were amazing. Nicholas Holt was the best movie
01:13:08
Lex Luthor that I think we've ever got.
01:13:11
And I just and he was perfect. His anger, you could see it.
01:13:16
Those blue eyes were. They really were in.
01:13:20
Parts and you could tell. So anyway, that's it.
01:13:23
But I mean, we talked about Superman enough.
01:13:25
We don't have to talk about. It Yes, yes, he's a punk rocker.
01:13:28
Yes, yes. All right.
01:13:31
Well, before we jump into the next part, we do have honorable
01:13:35
mentions. So we will format this the same
01:13:38
way that we did the last thing. We will just kind of name off
01:13:42
shows and say what your favorite ones were so should do.
01:13:47
I'm going to let you start off on this one man.
01:13:49
Give us your. You you.
01:13:50
You mean movies, right? Yeah, for for movies.
01:13:53
Sorry, your honourable mentions for movies.
01:13:56
I only have one honourable mention.
01:13:58
That was the other thing that I know I saw this year.
01:13:59
I think I may have seen those two things.
01:14:01
I don't know if they released this year though, was Captain
01:14:03
America Brave New World, which no one mentioned.
01:14:05
It was fine. It's unfortunate that it was
01:14:09
fine because I really liked, I really like Falcon, the world of
01:14:11
Soldier. I really liked Sam Wilson as
01:14:14
Captain America. It's unfortunate that his first
01:14:16
outing was not that good. But you know what?
01:14:19
Harrison Ford was cool as a Red Hulk.
01:14:21
That was that was cool, yeah. No, I.
01:14:24
Agree, Bucky was there briefly so I didn't.
01:14:26
I didn't dislike that movie and and it is on my honorable
01:14:29
mentions as well so we won't go too.
01:14:30
Far into it, yeah, Anyway. So the rest of the honorable
01:14:34
mentions I have here and then I have Jay Jen wrap everything up
01:14:39
Jurassic. World.
01:14:41
Jurassic World Rebirth. OK.
01:14:44
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Lilo and Stitch OK because
01:14:49
Fantastic Four wasn't on my list.
01:14:50
Fantastic Four is in my honourable mentions.
01:14:53
How dare you. Demon Slayer which amazing movie
01:14:59
is getting anime but it was really good.
01:15:03
Captain America Brave New World, which we just talked about.
01:15:06
This may not be on anybody's lists, but I enjoyed this movie
01:15:09
running the The New Running Man. Yeah, haven't haven't seen it,
01:15:13
but I. Enjoyed it, I thought it was
01:15:14
good and then K pop Demon Hunter so the.
01:15:16
Powers is in it, so I'm not going to see it.
01:15:20
So yeah, that's that's what's left on my honorable mention
01:15:23
list. What do you got, Jen?
01:15:25
I have, I like the like most of the ones that we have.
01:15:29
I I don't remember if these if movies came out this year or
01:15:33
not, to be honest with you. Most of the time, yeah, neither.
01:15:35
Of these movies came out this year, these were both last year
01:15:38
red 1, Red one was last year last.
01:15:40
Year, yeah. They just re released you
01:15:42
together. Like we, yeah, we watched it
01:15:44
like the day, like Christmas Eve.
01:15:46
That was our Christmas Eve movie, Yeah.
01:15:47
I watched Red 1 Christmas last year.
01:15:50
Oh. Really.
01:15:51
Yeah. I watched it.
01:15:52
I loved it. JK Simmons is the best Santa
01:15:55
ever. He's a.
01:15:55
Really good Santa Claus. And then Barbie, and not because
01:15:59
I came out this year because I don't I know for a fact it
01:16:03
didn't She's. Like, that's the best movie of
01:16:05
all time, so it's in every honor.
01:16:06
Oh, this? Happened last year too.
01:16:08
I remember this. Yeah, it's going.
01:16:10
To be every year, guys, it's going to be that every year
01:16:13
until I die, Barbie prepared. My honorable mentions were every
01:16:18
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Ross. Time to thigh out.
01:17:52
Exactly, exactly. Now with that being said, we've
01:17:55
got one top five left. So should you go ahead and
01:17:59
introduce what top five we're doing?
01:18:01
So this is the stand out performances of 2025.
01:18:08
These are the actors and actresses that have won 2025 S
01:18:15
Yeah, let's, let's get into it. We will start with who did we
01:18:18
start with last time? It started with Fred.
01:18:20
Start with Phil. Starting with me.
01:18:23
OK, my #5 since I'm going to I need to do this before.
01:18:31
You get into it. Are we going to change the
01:18:33
ticker at the bottom? Oh yeah, that's, yeah, probably
01:18:39
do that La La. La La La La.
01:18:44
La La. All right, there we go.
01:18:48
So all right. I don't.
01:18:50
Know it's not capitalized, we have to so.
01:18:53
My number 5 is going to be Amy Madigan, who plays the aunt in
01:19:01
in Weapons. Such a just kind of nuanced
01:19:05
performance, but just that there's a level of creepy that
01:19:08
she brings to that character that just the minute she comes
01:19:14
on screen, I am captivated by what is going to happen next.
01:19:18
So I, I, I was a big fan of Amy, Amy Madigan's performance in
01:19:23
this. So that that's, she's she, she
01:19:28
makes my #5 on this. So yeah.
01:19:31
Nice, nice. All right.
01:19:33
Hey. Yeah.
01:19:34
So then Fred. Oh, you're next.
01:19:37
Am I next? So we're going, we're going this
01:19:39
way. OK, we're going. 10:00 You're
01:19:41
next. OK, I'm next.
01:19:43
Anyway, for my #5I debated between 2:00 here, but I put one
01:19:49
in my inventions. Pedro Pascal for Fantastic Four
01:19:52
First Steps. I again, I feel a little bad
01:19:55
giving it to Pedro because we know he's awesome, but the way
01:19:59
that he portrayed portrayed Reed was perfect.
01:20:07
And just yeah, the whole the manic, the really the kind of
01:20:12
this. Troubled, you know, who's a
01:20:14
genius, but also is emotional and also like has this, yeah,
01:20:19
this everything that he did was amazing.
01:20:22
It was a very different it wasn't a very different take,
01:20:24
but it well, yeah, it was a different take on Mr. Fantastic
01:20:27
that really got to the core of his character and his regret
01:20:30
over the whole incident and whatever was was great and his
01:20:36
protectiveness and just all of it.
01:20:37
He was was great. I loved everything there.
01:20:43
So, yeah. So he's, I mean, he's, he's,
01:20:45
he's better Pascal. So, you know, All right, Fred.
01:20:51
All right, my number 5 is Jazz Sinclair from Gen.
01:20:56
V. She played Maria Moreau, Monica
01:21:01
Moreau, Marie Marie Marie Moreau.
01:21:06
And the reason I picked her over like other people because, I
01:21:09
mean, there are a lot to choose from.
01:21:11
There are a lot of good performances this year, but she
01:21:15
really came into her own, her character, the way she performed
01:21:21
it. She was very subtle in a lot of
01:21:24
the things. She had to deal with a lot of
01:21:25
emotional weight this season and she pulled it off like a pro.
01:21:30
It was amazing. I watched every episode of Gen.
01:21:34
V and I wanted to watch the next episode because of her
01:21:38
performance, so I feel like she deserves to be in the top five.
01:21:42
Nice. All right.
01:21:43
All right, like that. So now we get to move to number
01:21:52
4 #4 So Phil, what is your number 44 my.
01:21:59
Number 4444, my number 4 is where am I right here?
01:22:07
So I have Nicholas Holt as Lex Luthor and Superman and, and
01:22:14
it's just the, again, the way that he performs that version of
01:22:19
Lex, it is, it is emotional. It is just captivating.
01:22:25
Like the way that he plays the character.
01:22:28
It's just, I, I, I couldn't look away on any scene that he was
01:22:33
in, and it just continued to make me enjoy that particular
01:22:39
performance. So, so yeah, I, I, I absolutely
01:22:43
love the way that he played the character and the way he did
01:22:45
everything in that. That Lex Luthor is next to the
01:22:50
Animated series is probably one of my favorite Lex Luthor's.
01:22:53
Agreed. Agreed all.
01:22:55
Right. So my number 4 is Lewis Pullman
01:22:58
from Thunderbolt. So we already mentioned him and
01:23:03
for basically the reasons that you said, he was great as just
01:23:07
Bob really got to the core of like coping with comedy and all
01:23:11
of that. I kind of it felt relatable,
01:23:16
which didn't really expect that from our ovary.
01:23:18
But yeah, it was very, again, it was it was good in his his whole
01:23:23
scene in the in the vault or whatever with with Florence
01:23:27
Pugh, the whole well, you know, you had to you had to push it
01:23:29
down or whatever. It's like that was really,
01:23:32
really good, and everything about him doing the void, the
01:23:36
complete just switch was incredible.
01:23:40
And how he was able to do that, how he was able to be this also
01:23:43
incredibly intimidating villa after you've seen him be kind of
01:23:46
the Comic Relief this whole time.
01:23:47
And everything that happened in the void itself was really,
01:23:52
really good and his like, just incredible.
01:23:57
So I really, yeah, I loved it. So Louis fullman #4 All right,
01:24:03
Fred, I. #4 is Florence Pugh nice?
01:24:11
Gee, I loved her in Thunderbolts.
01:24:15
I loved her in it. I thought she did a really good
01:24:17
job. She has a good comedic timing
01:24:22
and you need that for it to be a successful MCU character.
01:24:28
You do need to be able to have the witty line.
01:24:33
She her characters also like very sarcastic and cynical.
01:24:41
But at the end, she's also she, she finds her hope again.
01:24:45
And I feel like her whole, you know, from Black Widow all the
01:24:51
way to Thunderbolts has been such an arc for her that she can
01:24:56
finally step into the Black Widow role that Scarlett
01:25:00
Johansson left. And I think that she's going to
01:25:03
knock it out of the park. So I, I feel like she deserves
01:25:05
to be in it. She pretty much knocks it out of
01:25:08
the park in anything she does, to be honest with you.
01:25:11
And she can really do a lot. So, So yeah, that's that's why
01:25:16
short hair, long hair, she just does it all.
01:25:20
Yep, there we go. All right, so now we're moving
01:25:23
on to #3. #3. And Phil, go ahead and start
01:25:28
Phil So. My number 3 here is going to be
01:25:32
Hailee Steinfeld in Sinners and We're.
01:25:35
Not talking about any of the rest of it because of her potty
01:25:39
mouth. More so again, because she is
01:25:46
100% playing a, another character that is outside of who
01:25:52
she is. Like if you look at her
01:25:54
interviews, the way she talks and on on a regular basis, she,
01:25:58
she is playing a character and, and, and she's doing a very
01:26:01
nuanced character performance. You know, she has this whole
01:26:07
kind of like love thing that's going on with with with with,
01:26:11
with, with stack, But then also, you know, just kind of living in
01:26:17
a world being what, what, what, you know, we would call passing
01:26:24
and, you know, people not realizing that she's she's she's
01:26:27
black, which actually in real life, fun fact, if you guys
01:26:30
didn't know this shit through her, her mom, she she was doing
01:26:39
some genealogy in researching the role and found out that
01:26:43
she's part black. Oh, that's good then.
01:26:45
Yeah, she found. Out she was 1/4 black.
01:26:47
She didn't know that her grandfather was half black.
01:26:50
Oh. Wow.
01:26:51
Yeah, so she ended up finding out that she actually is the
01:26:55
character that she's playing, which the entire staff movie
01:27:03
ended up helping her along with that role too.
01:27:06
So it was, it was pretty cool to find out just knowing that she's
01:27:09
three quarter Filipino and quarter black, so.
01:27:12
Yeah, that's. Awesome, yeah.
01:27:13
So I'm sure. James is very excited, yeah.
01:27:15
I know, right? So, so, so pretty cool on that
01:27:18
end. But again, just really, really,
01:27:20
really good performance. Very haunting in some of the
01:27:23
scenes that she's in, specifically the scene after,
01:27:27
you know, her and Stack are doing their thing, but when she
01:27:31
gets up she's covered in blood and she looks at everybody and
01:27:34
says we're going to kill you all and then runs out like that's.
01:27:37
So fucking good it's. Really good, right?
01:27:40
So very impressed with that performance and she sits easily
01:27:46
at my #3. Yeah, definitely.
01:27:49
All right. My number 3 is Nicholas Holt
01:27:52
from Superman. I don't really think I need to
01:27:54
say much more than Phil said because he really he got it.
01:27:59
The intensity, the nearing melodrama of how he played Lex
01:28:04
Luthor. Incredible.
01:28:06
Looks exactly the same as as a comic books Luthor.
01:28:13
But he also had kind of this like tech billionaire kind of
01:28:17
vibe as well. I think it's perfect for kind of
01:28:20
trying to update that a little bit more.
01:28:22
He had a very like, I don't give a shit about any of you and I
01:28:25
have money. It was amazing and I, I loved
01:28:30
and the whole, the whole stand out thing is that him screaming
01:28:36
1A is like, it's, it is an improv exercise come to life.
01:28:41
It's amazing the amount of emotion and like it's just, oh,
01:28:47
I, I love it. So I'm yeah, Assault is #3 All
01:28:53
right, Frey, what do you have my. #3 is Alexander Skarsgard.
01:29:01
Of course, a murder. Bot.
01:29:05
Of course. And he plays the titular
01:29:07
character murder Bot in it. He is amazing in this.
01:29:11
The narration, the comedy that he does, the deadpan, like how
01:29:19
he says stuff. It is just amazing.
01:29:23
And he's not a like as an actor. He's not afraid of anything.
01:29:29
He was like, oh, you want me naked?
01:29:31
Oh, we're going to make me into a Ken doll.
01:29:32
OK, sure, I can do that. Like it.
01:29:35
And he just walks around like that.
01:29:37
I just don't know how he does it.
01:29:39
So yeah, I was just like, this is awesome.
01:29:42
He was so good. And how he interacted with the
01:29:46
other characters in it, it was just sublime.
01:29:49
He just did such an amazing job. So he's my #3.
01:29:54
Nice. Nice.
01:29:56
I'm I'm glad we're getting some more representation here, even
01:29:59
though I haven't seen it. You've raved about it since you
01:30:01
saw it, so you know it's. Such a good show.
01:30:05
Alright, well with that, let's move on to #2 to #2, and Phil.
01:30:11
Alright well my number 2 on my list here is Diego Luna in
01:30:17
Andor. Diego Luna's portrayal of Cassie
01:30:22
and Andor between both seasons with especially in season 2, we
01:30:28
went from, OK, why are you making a show about this guy?
01:30:32
I don't really care too much about Cassie and, and, or he's
01:30:36
probably one of the most, you know, he was kind of a Dick.
01:30:38
He was kind of like the most uninteresting character in the
01:30:41
movie. And then they do season 1 and
01:30:44
it's like, OK, I kind of like him.
01:30:46
I, I like him a little bit more. There's a little more that's
01:30:48
going on. Season 2 is nothing, and I
01:30:52
mentioned this earlier, nothing but tragedy.
01:30:54
It's nothing but him dealing with things and getting back up
01:30:58
and continuing on. And it's that ability to act
01:31:03
through all of that and that ability to kind of play the
01:31:07
emotions that he plays through every scene and every single
01:31:11
thing that he goes through. Diego Luna gives a master class
01:31:17
in acting one O one in season 2 of Andor and it's so good, you
01:31:23
know, and and and I absolutely loved his performance through
01:31:27
the entire movie. So he is he he he gets a high
01:31:30
mark on my list. And and yeah, that's it.
01:31:34
Very, very nice. All right.
01:31:36
My number 2 is also from Andor Cheneva Riley as as Ma Motha,
01:31:45
just mostly for the speech. But overall throughout the whole
01:31:53
thing, she was incredible and really portrayed.
01:31:57
I mean that and the whole the all of the stuff on Tandrola
01:32:02
incredible. Yeah.
01:32:04
With the whole wedding thing. You see this, this nuance in her
01:32:08
character and like taking Mon Mothma from which one of the
01:32:13
Jedi and just being like, oh, this is all the bullshit she had
01:32:18
to go through. Being the political face of this
01:32:21
rebellion, having to to live in these two worlds and, you know,
01:32:24
say the right things and have the right decorum, but also be
01:32:27
this revolutionary on the surface.
01:32:29
It's just so I'd. I'd love it.
01:32:33
I really do. And it all culminated in that
01:32:35
speech that was just catharsis and it was incredible.
01:32:40
Yeah. So yeah, I generally.
01:32:42
Riley, you're amazing. So, all right, Frey, what is
01:32:49
your #2? My number 2 is Nicholas Holt, so
01:32:54
I'm. Not going to.
01:32:55
Talk about him and Superman, because I feel like we have we
01:32:59
kind of beat that dead horse, right?
01:33:00
I'm going to say, you know what shocks me the most?
01:33:03
This is the same person that was the little boy in about a boy.
01:33:11
That is what shocks me so much. He has been a consummate actor
01:33:18
from that age until now. He is supremely and superbly
01:33:24
talented, and I am so glad that he's our Lex Luthor.
01:33:29
I thought, I think it's funny that he went from 4:00 to 3:00
01:33:32
to #2. Yeah, well, it's because I am
01:33:37
correct. All right, so now we can move on
01:33:46
to number 11. Number one, Phil, who is your
01:33:53
top actor of the year? My number 1 is going back to the
01:33:59
pit. It's Noah Wiley.
01:34:02
Noah Wiley killed it. I'm, I'm, I'm sorry, every,
01:34:05
every single range of emotion that you can have on any show,
01:34:11
you get from Noah Wylie in this, you get angry Noah Wylie, you
01:34:15
get sad crying Noah Wylie, you get, you know, action moments,
01:34:21
you get a lot of dramatic moments.
01:34:22
So what? Are those shirts all the faces
01:34:24
of of Noah? It really is because the whole
01:34:27
thing is he he he really does show every range of emotion in
01:34:31
the pit. And like, I can see why it won
01:34:33
so many awards is, is because these performances that they
01:34:38
have, and I mean, he had a lot of good performances in ER, but
01:34:41
it, it, it was just up a notch for, for the pit.
01:34:45
And I mean, you know, he, he, he basically took the, for all the
01:34:49
ER fans out there. He took the doctor green spot,
01:34:51
right? So he's basically Doctor green
01:34:53
in the show. He's the attending physician.
01:34:56
And it's, it's, it's so good. It is just so, so good.
01:35:02
So Noah Wiley is is my top pick for the for for for 2025.
01:35:06
Nice, nice, nice, nice. All right, so for my #1 actor of
01:35:12
the year, I may have I, I, I admit I cheated a little bit
01:35:18
because I picked 2 Michael B Jordan.
01:35:21
Michael B Jordan in in centers. No, so seriously, just I really
01:35:29
just for being able to play 2 characters so differently as
01:35:36
they are two distinct people. I'm going to admit, I don't know
01:35:39
if I realized that it was Michael B Jordan for both people
01:35:43
until like halfway through the movie.
01:35:45
And it's like, oh shit, it's been it's been just Michael B
01:35:47
Jordan. At the same time, I thought it
01:35:48
was like, oh, this guy really looks like Michael B Jordan.
01:35:51
Oh, wait a second. Just just great.
01:35:56
And really and being able to play off yourself is really
01:36:00
isn't a really interesting skill to have.
01:36:02
And I love, I just loved everything that happened there.
01:36:05
And yeah, it's, I mean, you could tell, oh, this is smoke.
01:36:09
This is a stack. This is a distinct and just.
01:36:12
It's. Yeah.
01:36:13
I don't know what else I need to say about that.
01:36:14
It was really. Like they literally have two
01:36:18
different. They literally have two
01:36:19
different personalities, like both characters.
01:36:21
Yeah, and. It's crazy that someone is able
01:36:23
to do that. And again, I didn't even notice
01:36:26
until like halfway through. It was.
01:36:29
Yeah. I just, I love.
01:36:30
I mean, really, I think most people consider it could
01:36:32
probably be me in the top here. Everybody was great there.
01:36:38
They were, yeah. Excellent.
01:36:40
Yeah, I don't remember the guy's name.
01:36:42
The guy who played the the head vampire was was also very very
01:36:48
good wasn't? His name?
01:36:49
Isn't his name Jack O'Connell or something?
01:36:51
I. Think it is, I was actually
01:36:53
considering putting him on my list so.
01:36:55
Yeah. Really good, yeah.
01:36:57
The guy, the guy who played the master vampire was great.
01:36:59
So he. Should be Banshee.
01:37:03
Oh, that's a that's a good, Yeah, yeah.
01:37:07
All right. Frey, who is your #1 Actor of
01:37:11
the Year? Catherine, Mother Han.
01:37:15
No one is surprised. That's it.
01:37:18
I'm not saying anything else. OK, Fair enough.
01:37:21
Fair enough. All right, so we're going to do
01:37:24
our honorable mentions here. We're going.
01:37:26
To do our honorable mentions here.
01:37:28
All right, Well, yeah, Phil so. I'm, I'm going to start with my
01:37:31
female actors and then go to my male actors or sorry.
01:37:35
Yeah, I'll do that. I'll, I'll start with my female
01:37:36
actors. Go to my male actors.
01:37:38
Elizabeth. Was it Du Lau from Andor?
01:37:42
She Yeah, Du Lau. Du Lau.
01:37:44
She was the I'm, I'm forgetting her name, but she was Claire,
01:37:48
Claire Claire. This was her first role.
01:37:50
So this is like her first acting role ever.
01:37:53
And she really killed it. Yes.
01:37:55
She had never acted anything before this, and she absolutely
01:37:59
fucking murdered it. I just had to say that outside
01:38:02
of all my other mentions, I had to say that this was her first
01:38:05
role and she murdered it. So really, really, really good
01:38:09
acting. You know, just where she
01:38:11
murdered. Lutheran too.
01:38:13
It's true. True, she murdered Lutheran.
01:38:15
Katherine Hahn is on my honorable mentions list
01:38:17
specifically for the studio Elle Fanning from Predator Badlands.
01:38:23
Let's see Sterling K Brown in paradise.
01:38:25
So good, so good. David Corn Sweat Superman as as
01:38:31
a foil for Nicholas Holt. I just felt Nicholas Holt's
01:38:34
performance was just that eked out that that much better.
01:38:39
Michael B Jordan, of course, we just mentioned him right now.
01:38:41
Charlie Cox, of course. Daredevil was amazing and Hamish
01:38:45
Linklater and Gen. V.
01:38:49
Yes, he was excellent in Gen. V, Yes.
01:38:51
So Hamish Linklater again just and in.
01:38:53
Batman he. Was Batman in the Yeah yeah, in
01:38:57
in in the The Animated series he plays Batman.
01:39:01
Yeah. Yeah.
01:39:02
Kate Cruseter, Kate Cruseter, Hamish Linklater.
01:39:06
What I liked about that performance was he played like 3
01:39:10
different characters at different points in the show
01:39:13
because he was possessed by different people.
01:39:15
So it's just kind of like I like, yeah.
01:39:17
So I, I love. Crazy I love.
01:39:19
How like, he takes on those personalities and it's very much
01:39:22
like, you can tell he just hangs out with his actor friends all
01:39:25
day and he's like, I'm going to make fun of you.
01:39:27
And like has those nuances as those characters.
01:39:29
So it's Hamish Linklater's performance was really good.
01:39:33
I hope he gets more roles. So that's my honorable mentions
01:39:36
for actors this year. Nice, nice.
01:39:38
All right. I have a lot of the same just
01:39:42
again, everybody in centers. I'm Hailee Steinfeld in there as
01:39:45
well because she was great. And yeah, knowing that she
01:39:47
played so outside of her, her actual personality is is great.
01:39:52
Elizabeth Dulo or Dulo or whatever insane that that's her
01:39:56
her first role. She was I think probably my
01:39:58
favorite character in both seasons.
01:40:01
Vanessa Kirby for Chance for it was either her or Pedro for my
01:40:05
spot there. I picked Pedro, but she was
01:40:09
really, really good, really good as a foil to to Pedro as well.
01:40:13
Florence Pugh from other bolts, pretty much everyone from
01:40:15
another bolts again, but Florence Pugh stand out.
01:40:18
She's kind of the main character.
01:40:19
So of course John Cena from Peacemaker.
01:40:22
Of course he's main character, shockingly good actor David
01:40:25
Denman Keith from Peacemaker as well.
01:40:30
Really, really solid performance an.
01:40:32
Angel. Cool really, really, really
01:40:36
solid performance and him being able to also kind of again, a
01:40:41
lot of these things were like turning on a dime and I I love
01:40:43
that Diego Luna from Andor Alan Tudic from Andor David
01:40:48
Cornsrett, of course, the Superman he carried the whole
01:40:50
damn movie. So you know Audrey Arhona from
01:40:54
Andor as well. A lot of her stuff was very,
01:40:57
very emotional and her her like depression and trauma and also
01:41:00
this the spirit of revenge and all of that.
01:41:03
It's it was great. So again, everyone from Andora
01:41:06
was amazing. But yeah, so that's that's,
01:41:08
that's my annual mentions. All right, I'm trying.
01:41:11
To think of more people, right? Yeah, right.
01:41:13
Well, that is it for our recap of the.
01:41:16
Upgrades, gentlemen. Oh shit.
01:41:18
So what are your audible? Mentions for 2025 my.
01:41:21
Bad, my bad. Hey I'm trying.
01:41:24
To skip over. Everything that you guys said,
01:41:26
but like Elizabeth de la David, Corn Sweat, Amy Madigan,
01:41:32
Jennifer Holland, I thought was a a standout in.
01:41:36
Peacemaker. She did such a great job.
01:41:38
A lot of emotional weight. She's.
01:41:40
Here, everybody. Everybody's peacemaker, John.
01:41:44
Cena Catherine O'Hara. And not just in the studio, but
01:41:48
she was also in Last of Us Season 2.
01:41:50
And she did such an amazing job in both of those and so I had to
01:41:56
at least give her a shout out. I thought it was.
01:41:57
Funny they paid her in pot. Oh yeah?
01:42:01
Well, yeah, come on, money doesn't really mean that much in
01:42:04
The Last of Us universe because other things are way more
01:42:10
useful. So, you know.
01:42:12
What? At least they didn't pay her in
01:42:13
magic mushrooms. I'm sure she would have took
01:42:15
that too, no? Because the.
01:42:20
As long as they weren't Cordyceps.
01:42:21
Fine. Yeah, as long as it's not
01:42:24
Cordyceps, it's fine all. Right.
01:42:28
All right, all right. So that is it.
01:42:31
That is it. So ladies and gentlemen, just so
01:42:33
that we know next week we will be coming back.
01:42:36
We're going to be talking about what we're looking forward to in
01:42:39
2026. So I, I've already got that list
01:42:42
written out because I, I thought we were doing that today.
01:42:44
And then I realized, oh, that's for next week.
01:42:46
So, so I do have a whole list of what we're going to be talking
01:42:50
or, or what we're excited for next, next year moving forward.
01:42:55
And we will be doing that at the beginning of the year on our
01:42:57
first episode of 2026. Well, ladies and gentlemen, if
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you would like to represent distance nerding and do all of
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All right, all right, ladies and gentlemen, because now that
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So, you know, just sorry. Tariffs.
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You know, tariffs have really hit everybody hard, so.
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All right, I'm going to unpause TikTok now.
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We don't. We're probably not doing a
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Don't think we're doing 1 this week if we do.
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I know. I I, I had beer.
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Yeah, it was. It was good.
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I guess that idea yes. Now I want tacos.
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Actually we had Jackie made sushi bakes.
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So I am excited here in a that's.
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Not a bad, that's not a bad consolation prize there, buddy,
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No. No, not at all.
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Not at all. Especially when Jackie makes
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01:48:59
still time to go to sleep buddy. It's Betty.
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Bad time, buddy. You need sleep, You need sleep.
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Wish I could have it all right. Wish.
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We all could have it all right? Well then, have a great night
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and happy New Years. Happy New Year's, right?
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Yes, happy New Year's. Happy 2026.
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Let's make 2020. 6 The best yet I.
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I don't, I don't have like a party popper, but here's the
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next best thing. That works.
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May 2026 be better than 2025 and whatever way you want.
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Thanks. And keep nerding together.
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Let's go. Let's grab this stuff.
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See everybody later. Goodbye distance nerding.
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