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Geek as well as on geekcastradio .com. So it's

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been a little bit since there's been an episode.

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So what's been new with you before we jump into

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it? What's been new with me? Let's see. I've

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been losing my mind. My health is going down

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the drain and I think I'm going to die. So business

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as usual. Yeah, pretty much. Same shit, different

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day. Yep. So with that. Funny guy. Yeah, we're

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trying to end Podcaster Meets World this year.

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yes we're we're going no no there's no try we're

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going to do it that's that's no there's no try

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because if we end it next i think if we end it

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next year it'll be 10 years since we started

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that damn show i think that's what it is because

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i think we started it in 2016 Because we had

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the top 100 TV shows in 2015 and it came in at

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number 50 out of the 100 TV shows that were listed.

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And we both scoffed at that and we're like, what

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the hell are you talking about? 50 out of 100.

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Easily top 25. I mean, come on. I mean, some

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episodes do deserve that, but. Yeah, but. But

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yes, we are working on getting Podcaster Meets

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World going and finishing that up. Yeah, episode

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zero was February 2nd, 2016. This is the funny

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thing about that podcast, folks. I'm sorry. Steve's

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going to go on his 3D printing love fest here

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in a little while. So I'm going to go on my podcast love fest here now. February 2nd, 2016. You know

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when the first episode aired? No. April 28th.

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April 28th, 2018. Okay, took us two years. To

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actually get going. This is supposed to be a

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15, 20 episode mini podcast that should have

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taken us a year at best. It's taken us almost

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10 between episode three and episode four, 2018

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to 2021. I mean, you know, there was that whole

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thing in the middle there that happened after,

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you know, 2019, but you know, it is what it is.

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We love the show. We love doing the podcast or

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whatever, but just other things were more important

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when it came to podcasting. We had transformer

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stuff. We had, Altered Geek stuff. We had other

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stuff. Well, I had a lot of job situation stuff

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between 2016 and like two years ago. Yeah. At

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least now you're settled. Hopefully. Hopefully.

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For the most part. Hopefully. You never know.

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You never know. But yeah, I mean, so we're working

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on that, working on a very... other shows um

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i'm waiting for side projects to die down at

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time to actually properly revive the cyber dragon

4:31

ball and m wire i mean i did put out a new cyber

4:36

dragon ball episode like a week or two ago uh

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by the time of this recording but uh yeah i would

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like to do it more consistently yeah well that's

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so i'm kind of waiting consistent is key yeah

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Yeah. And so I'm waiting until some other stuff

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kind of goes by the wayside. So, yeah. So without

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further ado, we've got some some movie stuff.

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We've got trailers. We've got a movie that I

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watched on Netflix recently. Something with the

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Avengers and a toy discussion. So since you brought

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up the trailers, why don't you kick it off with

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that first? All right, trailers. This will be

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quick, easy, and painless, folks, I promise.

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Since, you know, we don't really talk about sports

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around here on the Geekcast Radio Network all that often. I mean, we did have the sports gal

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pal on here. We interviewed her a number of years

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ago now. I was born and bred in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Boston sports is in my blood. It always has been

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in my blood. So whenever anything Boston sports

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pops up anywhere, my ears perk up, my eyes bug

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out and we're like, what, what's this? Um, currently

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I believe it's supposed to be a nine episode

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thing on max. Just like how Netflix has The Last

6:19

Dance, which is the Michael Jordan Chicago Bulls

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special thing that they did for that. Max has

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Celtic City going through the Celtics history.

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So I'm currently watching that. Coming up April

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8th, Netflix is going to be doing The Clubhouse

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a year with the Red Sox. So they're going to

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be doing that. So I put the trailer for Celtic

6:47

City out there in the show notes and I put the

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trailer out for Clubhouse there. Celtic City,

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as of this recording, just released episode five.

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So I'll be probably watching that as soon as

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we're done recording here. And it's just one

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of those things where like the Celtics, when

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they started, I wasn't even born. So getting

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to watch that part of history in sports, getting

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to actually watch what Bill Russell and John

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Havlicek and everybody else did in Boston for

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the city, for the fans, for the sport of basketball

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in the NBA. I mean, the Celtics were the early

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dynasty in the NBA. kind of thing and the red

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socks are are the red socks so you know it is

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what it is um but i just i love seeing that stuff

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and i love watching it it just that's just what

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i'm enjoying watching right now when it comes

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to certain stuff and i'm watching other stuff

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and other things but mostly like i'm watching

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that like i know unless i wrangle in one of my

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cousins or something i'm pretty sure i'm not

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going to get anybody to do a celtic city podcast

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with me you know so that i'm watching actually

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to watch to enjoy the thing and i don't feel

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like i have because it's a history thing for

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me like i said and you know it just is so it's

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not something i feel like i have to podcast about

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other than talking about it here now where it's

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like Oh, this is cool. I can sit back, relax,

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enjoy this and not have to do all the podcast

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prep stuff to then talk about what I watched

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kind of thing. And I'm not complaining about

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it. It's not a complaint at all. I'm just saying

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it's very rare that I get to do that these days

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because most of the stuff that I watch. I watch

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so we can talk about it. And I just, we just

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recorded, yeah, we just recorded, we just recorded

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Podcaster Meets World episode 13. Didn't we mention

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Wedding Crashers in that episode? Yeah, we did

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because Corey and Topanga were Wedding Crashers.

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I think so. Yes, yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because

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they crashed, because she's in the second half

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of season six. They're preparing for their wedding,

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and they go to this fancy wedding where the bride's

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father is trying to bribe Corey. One million

9:32

dollars! And I brought up the movie Wedding Crashers,

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and I just looked on Netflix. Guess what's on Netflix? Wedding Crashers. Guess what has a 20th

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anniversary this year? Wedding Crashers. Wedding

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Crashers. New episode of Studio 2009 coming later

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this year. Oh, God. So, yeah, Celtic City is

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on now on Max. If you have Max, if you want to

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learn about the Boston Celtics and the history

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of that, like I said, there's that. And then

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the clubhouse for the Red Sox. I'm interested

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to see that, the clubhouse thing, because a year

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with the Red Sox, I don't know where that's going

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to, I don't know. I got to look at that trailer

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again because I'm not sure where exactly in the

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history that that is, if that's current or if

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that's whatever. Because last year, for the 20th

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anniversary since the Red Sox did the big comeback

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in 2004, last year Netflix did the special The

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Comeback, revisiting and talking about the history

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of the big comeback against the Yankees and the

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fact that the Red Sox won the 2004 World Series.

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I'm not sure what exactly. I don't remember off

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the top of my head about the clubhouse, but I'm very excited for that. So yeah, trailers. Yay!

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Yeah, and then speaking of trailers, I thought

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it was kind of funny that we finally got YouTube

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cracking down on those garbage fake trailers

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and their monetizations. I saw news on that earlier

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and I was ecstatic. I was like, oh, finally.

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There's only one fake trailer I've ever actively

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enjoyed. And that's the one with old Superman,

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old Batman. It's all this old combination of

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footage of movies that have already been out.

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kind of thing it it's an old old you know which

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one i'm talking if you see it if i send it to

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you later you'll know within two seconds oh yeah

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i remember this uh that's the i don't do fake

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trailers i don't want like we don't get political

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on the geekcaster network folks but i'm gonna

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say this anyway i don't care what kind of news

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it is i don't care what industry of news it is

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i don't want fake shit in my news I don't want

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fake stuff in my trailers. I want the real stuff.

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I get it. People are excited. I get it. People

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want to make like, there's a difference in a

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fake trailer and a, and a, and somebody wanting

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to do their own thing with like, like a, I don't

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know much, but I guess it's an homage. I don't

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know. Don't do it, folks. Don't try to make shit

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up that isn't already there, please. I mean,

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not with trailers. Don't try to like. Give me

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an example of a fake trailer you saw recently.

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Hmm. It's it's more so just like the stuff like

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they they try and like I've seen some of the

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Avengers or Marvel related stuff. on on youtube

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specifically and you can like they splice different

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stuff together or then you've got the ai stuff

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where they've kind of created it um i don't know

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i can't tell one specifically but i've i've seen

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a few of them when i'm actively trying to find

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a legit trailer yeah and it's it's highly frustrating

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especially when you're trying to see something

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legit Like it would be one thing if they just

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labeled it, you know, like fan trailer. Just

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right off the bat instead of trying to like actively.

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But I'm glad that they. They're demonetizing

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those because honestly. I know it's not like

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their commentary. It's not like they're adding

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something. They're just creating. I mean, yeah, they're fun if that you're into that. But I mean,

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I I'm not. and again like like i said that one

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that's the justice league because the the whole

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point of the old superhero one that i'm talking about is it's it's like i don't think it was

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it might have been christopher reeve i don't think it was but it was like christopher reeve

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michael keaton yeah it was and um wonder woman

14:36

linda carter uh it was all of them but that was

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like That was done like 14, 15 years ago from

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stuff that had already been out. What you're

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talking about is people trying to fit together

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things that either aren't released yet or just

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making up their own stuff. And it's like, yeah,

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I mean, I don't mind the ones that like they

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somebody used AI to create from with Christopher

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Reeve, Michael Keaton and Linda Carter and. um

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john wesley ship and you know all those guys

15:10

like creating the justice league from like the

15:12

90s or like you know earlier than that like i

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was fine with that like because that that was

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just you can tell it's fake and it was just it

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was different but like the ones that are trying to pass off as a modern movie coming out now

15:29

that's that's where i kind of I'm like, OK, that's

15:35

not. But yeah, that's. It's one of those things

15:42

that I'm just not fond of in general. Yeah, me

15:47

either. Now I'm going to skip along because I'll

15:53

touch on the action figure stuff later. Should

15:58

we do the Marvel or the electric state? Well,

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let's do the Marvel because it kind of ties into

16:04

the movie stuff. Electric State we can do in

16:07

a minute. But the Marvel, I don't know about

16:09

you, but if I see a certain thing one too many

16:15

times in a short time span, I'm like, okay, I'm

16:18

sick of this already. Did you know I finally

16:20

watched The Social Network? Oh, did you really?

16:23

What did you think? Actually, it wasn't too bad,

16:26

but it jumped around too much in the beginning. Yeah, yeah. Uh, my Mary and I have been jumping

16:33

around watching based on a true story films.

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Uh huh. So we watched the one about NASA and

16:39

you know, the, the origins of the computers and

16:43

you know, that they were actually people, you

16:46

know, outsmarting, you know, being able to do

16:49

the calculations and then they use the computer, you know, they got all trained on how to use

16:53

the giant IBM computers, the size of a room that

16:56

barely has enough memory. to compete with your

17:00

mouse um and it was that was interesting and

17:06

then you know of course we watch the social network and then i don't know what we're gonna watch

17:11

next but i've got a list that we're gonna probably

17:15

go through and try and you know uh try and just

17:23

kind of enjoy them and then get a little bit

17:26

of history with them at the same time, which is something we've been trying to do more of,

17:32

uh, less brain rot and more something with a

17:36

substance. Um, not that I don't occasionally

17:40

enjoy the, you know, the other stuff, but I'm

17:45

going back and watching older things because

17:47

one, I haven't watched some of them and two,

17:50

uh, it just kind of feels like it's, time to

17:53

watch some of them yeah uh but yeah with with

17:59

the whole avengers doomsday cast that i mean

18:04

you can clearly tell they're not done teasing

18:07

who's in it oh no they're not um and i i did

18:11

like how at the end of the the teaser that they

18:13

had uh robert downey jr at the end kind of going

18:17

yep um but I find it funny. The first name is

18:22

Hemsworth. Of course. Because, I mean, he's pretty

18:27

much the only OG Avenger. Well, outside of Robert,

18:33

but Robert is going to be doomed this time. Yeah.

18:35

Well, I mean, you got Hawkeye that's still around

18:38

and you got the Hulk. Yeah. But the rest of them

18:42

are dead. Yeah. And and I'm fine with Hemsworth.

18:48

Like, I I'm glad that he's kind of carrying the

18:50

torch. And, you know, he's like, I'm happy to

18:52

come back for as many films as you'll have me. And as long as the role is different. And then

18:58

we've got Anthony Mackie is his captain. Yeah.

19:03

Then we've got the, you know, Vanessa Kirby is

19:07

Susan Storm for the new Fantastic Four, which

19:10

I'm cautiously optimistic about just because

19:13

they're kind of taking the 60s. to kind of differentiate.

19:19

Yep. And then you get Ant -Man. Yeah, I could

19:24

do it on him. I wish somebody would step on him

19:27

already. I'm fine with him being there. And then

19:34

we get... Florence Pugh. Yep. The White Widow,

19:41

essentially. John Walker. And then we've got

19:49

Namor, which he hasn't been in a film yet, right?

19:53

Not to my knowledge. Not in the MCU. I could

19:56

be wrong, but I don't think so. And then we got

19:59

Shang -Chi, which is surprising because that

20:04

movie bombed. Then we've got the White Wolf,

20:08

Bucky Barnes. He's an OG. I mean, he's not...

20:13

You know, I mean, he's not of the original Avenger

20:16

film is what I'm getting at. That's what I'm

20:19

counting as an OG, like not the fact that he

20:22

predates them. Not the original six. Yeah. Yeah.

20:25

But he's he's like immediate second tier. Yep.

20:31

And then we get the new, you know, Shuri, the

20:35

Black Panther. Which I thought that was kind

20:38

of just why is just having her play the role rather than trying to recast. Absolutely. you

20:44

know story progression it just makes sense Ben

20:47

Grimm the thing and then we get into some X -Men

20:53

which Kelsey Grammer is the beast which I loved

20:58

the trailer where it was just kind of doing regular

21:00

like Avengers music and then it went into like

21:03

the X -Men theme like rolled into it it was like

21:07

you know and I was like oh this is cool And then

21:12

we get Sentry, which I'm not sure who that is.

21:16

I think they're from that new anti -hero Marvel

21:22

film. I could not tell you off the top of my

21:27

head. I can't remember what. It's the new one

21:30

that, you know, the White Wolf and all of them

21:34

are in. I can't remember the name of it, mostly because I don't care and I'm not going to see

21:38

it. And then we get the new Falcon. Yep. Joaquin

21:45

Torres. And then we get the new Johnny Storm.

21:49

Yep. And Red Guardian. Yep. Returning. And then

21:54

we get M 'Baku. M 'Baku. Yeah, M 'Baku. I'm not

22:00

sure who... Was he in the films? Yeah, M 'Baku

22:03

is... He's in the Black Panther films. Okay.

22:08

Oh, God. I want to say he's in the Black Panther

22:17

films. That's OK. And then and then, of course,

22:23

then we have ghosts who's again from. The same

22:27

film as. As Bucky. Thunderbolts, that's the Thunderbolts,

22:36

that's what it is. Yes, that's the all of the

22:38

Thunderbolts are here. I'm wondering if they're

22:41

going to be the catalyst to start this off. I

22:43

think they are because I think somebody said

22:46

something about something in the Avengers Doomsday

22:51

teaser spoiled Thunderbolts or something. I don't

22:56

know. People are just whatever anyway. And then

23:03

we get Loki returning. Of course. I wonder which

23:08

variant or if this is going to be the one that

23:11

was in the Loki TV show. Like almost like he's

23:17

connecting the threads to bring all of these

23:19

people together. Yeah, probably. But he's an

23:25

OG. So I would throw him in there and then we

23:28

get the X -Men. We get Patrick Stewart is Professor

23:32

X, which. They've killed him three times. Twice

23:40

in the Fox universe and once in the MCU. We're

23:44

going to go for four. Uh -huh. Yeah. Yeah. Some

23:49

people have hinted that this film could be an X -Men versus the Avengers. I don't think it's

23:54

going to be. I think it might start out that

23:58

way. Yeah. But they'll quickly, you know, Doom

24:02

will enter and they'll be like, we have a common

24:05

enemy. Yeah. Like if they were really. So if

24:09

if if the Marvel if Marvel Studios and the Marvel

24:13

Cinematic Universe really wanted to do an AVX

24:16

and Avengers versus X -Men based on the comics.

24:19

They would market it as Avengers versus X -Men.

24:23

They would not market it as Avengers Doomsday

24:28

going into Avengers Secret. The whole point of

24:32

Doomsday is leading into Secret Wars because

24:34

Doctor Doom had a whole big to do with the Secret

24:38

War. Secret War is the next big Avengers thing.

24:43

So I would love to see that. I think that would

24:47

be super cool if they adapted. the avx comics

24:51

into the live action marvel cinematic universe

24:53

but i think you're right i think it's gonna be

24:56

you know it's it's gonna kind of be like uh world's

25:02

finest i don't trust you you don't trust me oh

25:07

crap lex and joker teamed up we have to work

25:09

together yeah it's gonna be something like that

25:13

and um Yeah. So, I mean, I see that happening.

25:19

And then we get Ian McKellen coming back as Magneto.

25:23

Yeah. Which is the first time since like Days

25:25

of Future Past. Yeah. And then we get Alan Cumming

25:29

coming back as Nightcrawler. Yeah. Which is cool.

25:33

And Rebecca Romijn coming back as Mystique. And

25:36

then Donut Lord. Yes. James Marsden as Cyclops.

25:41

It's funny because somebody posted they're like,

25:43

OK, there was a meme going around earlier. I

25:50

don't remember what day it was. It was probably

25:53

a couple of days ago. So they showed Jason Marsden in a car driving with the bunny, you know, having

25:58

hot. And then it was him in the car again or

26:02

the truck with Sonic the Hedgehog sitting next

26:04

to him. And somebody was like, they're like,

26:08

give this to me, Disney. And it's got Cyclops

26:11

sitting in there with Rocket. Yeah. In the, in

26:15

the image for doomsday, like as a joke. And it's

26:17

like, it kind of makes sense. Like he's kind

26:20

of typecast as the guy that's got the CG animal

26:23

friend. Yeah. And the funny thing is, is I remember

26:28

I just saw a clip the other day. I think it was

26:32

at the Sonic three premiere. Where somebody asked

26:37

him. So donut Lord in X -Men. he's like no no

26:45

i don't know what you're talking about it was those rumors had been going around i think ever

26:52

since he first starred in the first sonic movie

26:55

like whether he would return or not as cyclops

27:01

and i'm glad he's returning because honestly there's nobody else i can see in hollywood that

27:05

could play that role better than he does even

27:08

though he only had the Three or however many

27:11

films he was in. I don't remember. He was only

27:14

in those three. He wasn't in Days of Future Past,

27:18

was he? No, he was already dead. People kept

27:20

saying he was and I'm like, he was not there. No, he was not there. But yeah, I personally,

27:28

I hope that I hope that for Magneto and Cyclops,

27:36

they give them. The proper comic attire. Yeah.

27:42

Like they did Wolverine and Gambit. I'm personally

27:46

hoping that they do this. Because, I mean, Professor

27:50

X already has the chair. They used it in Multiverse

27:53

of Madness. Yep. So there's no reason why they

27:57

won't do the rest of them. I think they've come to the realization that people want it. Yeah.

28:02

And it will happen. um well and and jackman said

28:06

he said recently over when when uh deadpool wolverine

28:11

happened he's like somebody asked him how does

28:13

it feel being in that suit he goes oh it feels

28:16

fine it feels great i don't know what i was thinking 25 years ago he's like i wish we would have done

28:22

this 25 years ago yeah exactly um but yeah i

28:28

think it's cool that they're all they're all reprising they're all coming back and then we

28:32

get gambit finally coming back and and then we

28:43

of course jump over to Pedro Pascal as Mr. Fantastic

28:47

and then we get Robert Downey Jr. and then it

28:49

you know this is now in production and then people

28:52

were like well where's Doctor Strange where's

28:54

Hawkeye where's Hulk where's Spider -Man where's

28:57

Wolverine and Deadpool and you know these others

29:00

and I'm like so Part of me thinks that they're

29:05

not done revealing. Right. Part of me wonders

29:08

if they're going to pull like a Mark Hamill in

29:10

The Force Awakens where some of these show up

29:13

at the end. Yeah. Part of me also wonders if

29:18

the Avengers and the X -Men like the X -Men are

29:20

drawn into this battle because the Avengers are

29:23

failing so poorly against Doom, who is probably

29:27

playing like he's Tony Stark. Oh, yeah. And almost

29:33

doing like Justice League Doom, where the whole

29:43

initiative that Batman has to take down the rest

29:46

of the leaguers, I'm wondering if Doom is tearing

29:49

them apart from the inside and the X -Men are

29:51

drawn in by Loki to fix things. And in doing

29:55

so, they have to bring all these other Avengers

29:58

that aren't there. But I also get the vibe that...

30:02

Every time the Avengers are in a fight and Hawkeye

30:05

is not there, they lose. That's true. So I'm

30:10

thinking Doomsday is going to be them losing.

30:15

And then the follow -up film is going to be them

30:18

resetting the slate. Yeah. Like full reboot with

30:22

Fantastic Four continuing beyond. Yeah, could

30:26

be. That's my thought. I hope that Wolverine

30:33

gets to kind of finally play with the X -Men

30:35

in the costume and, you know, Deadpool and Colossus

30:39

and, you know, some of these other guys that have been there forever. Yeah, absolutely. But

30:43

yeah, I mean, obviously they can only afford

30:45

so much. So I'm, I'm hoping that we end up with,

30:52

with a really good film either way. Just sucks.

30:57

I got to wait a year. Oh, it'll go by really

31:02

fast. Yes, I know, I know. But then again, 2025

31:06

has felt like, you know, we're at the end of

31:11

the first three months, it's felt like nine years. At least to me it has, but... Oh, boy. And in

31:22

other movie stuff... Yeah, so I watched The Electric

31:27

State on Netflix, which is done by the Russos.

31:33

The Russo brothers did it. And I genuinely enjoyed

31:39

this film for what it is. And it was very it

31:43

felt very original. And fun, like just something

31:48

I'd not seen before. Which Netflix seems to be

31:53

doing really well at. uh, you know, the Ryan

31:56

Reynolds stuff. Um, we've, we've had that, um,

32:04

and his variety of films and they've all been

32:09

enjoyable. Yeah. And so this one, I sat down

32:16

kind of half expecting to enjoy it half thinking

32:19

this is going to be stupid. Cause it's a bunch

32:22

of, you know, robots running around talking to humans and green States. And then they, they

32:28

explain that, you know, everybody's kind of plugged in and, you know, living virtually and not actually

32:33

living. And I was like, okay, so it's got some

32:35

Wally in there. It's got, you know, gamer, you

32:40

know, that film. And, uh, it was just a lot of

32:45

things going on in it. And I, I love how the

32:48

robots felt like they were real, like they were, authentically there we had some I don't know

32:56

there was a lot of throwbacks just a lot of stuff that was fun that kind of felt like 80s and 90s

33:00

to it yeah so it kind of made me you know I was

33:03

like oh I'm kind of at home here and then Chris

33:06

Pratt kind of reminded me of he kind of reminded

33:11

me of like a Han Solo type character but for

33:16

a modern era so The voice acting was fun and

33:23

kind of on spot. Stanley Tucci is like the bad

33:28

guy. And then Giancarlo Esposito, I can't pronounce

33:38

his name right, but he played Colonel Bradbury.

33:40

He plays bad guys a lot and everything. But he's

33:45

kind of a bounty hunter in this film. And I felt

33:49

like he did. really well with what he was given

33:53

and then we had um of course like the main characters

33:58

the Millie Bobby Brown who's from Stranger Things

34:02

and the Enola Holmes have Chris Pratt Guardians

34:05

of the Galaxy and Jurassic World and you know

34:08

the list goes on and on Jason Alexander was at

34:10

the beginning uh Woody Harrelson he plays Mr.

34:16

Peanut which was great uh I don't know. Hearing

34:21

some of these older legends playing some of the

34:24

robots was just a lot of fun. Brian Cox playing

34:28

Popfly, which is he's a baseball bot that shoots

34:33

baseballs, but he also falls asleep a lot. Jeez.

34:37

I don't know. I found the movie to just be fun

34:45

in general and just a lot going on. uh, Herman,

34:49

that's Chris Pratt's character's friend is Anthony

34:54

Mackie. Yep. So I'm like, you got the Marvel

34:56

connection there. There you go. Yep. Um, and,

35:02

uh, yeah. So, I mean, just, just overall, it

35:08

was just, it was a lot of fun to watch. without

35:15

giving too much away, especially because you haven't seen it. And then, you know, I, I want

35:19

people to genuinely just go watch it because again, it was, it was fun in a different way

35:24

than a lot of the crap that seems to be coming

35:27

out or rehashes. Yeah. I'll give it a watch.

35:33

Uh, the funny thing is, is that, uh, when, um,

35:38

when I read the, uh, the basic plot of the film,

35:49

I was like, huh. So just this line, where it's

35:57

like, With the help of Center CEO Ethan Skate,

36:02

who developed Neurocaster technology that allowed

36:05

humans to upload their minds into drone robots,

36:09

that reminded me of a... amazon prime tv series

36:15

that debuted in 2020 that we were supposed to

36:19

discuss on whatever show we were supposed to

36:24

discuss it on you remember upload yep is it very

36:29

similar so upload in 20 no it's it's not exactly

36:34

similar but it it it's it doesn't have to do

36:38

with robots it has to do with death unfortunately

36:41

In 2033, humans can upload themselves into virtual

36:45

afterlife of their choosing. When computer programmer

36:48

Nathan Brown dies prematurely, he is uploaded

36:52

to the very expensive Lakeview, but then finds

36:55

himself under the thumb of his possessive still

36:57

-living girlfriend Ingrid. As Nathan adjusts

37:01

to the pros and cons of digital heaven, he bonds

37:04

with Nora, his living customer service rep. Nora

37:07

struggles with the pressures of her job, her

37:10

dying father, who does not want to be uploaded,

37:13

and her growing feelings for Nathan, while slowly

37:16

coming to the belief that Nathan was actually

37:18

murdered. Upload is supposedly getting a fourth

37:26

and final season. At some point, according to

37:29

this, as of 2024, it has not had its fourth and

37:34

final season yet. It's got three seasons at this

37:37

point. So, yeah, interesting. I don't know. I

37:45

remember when this first hit Amazon. Again, I

37:51

know we're talking about Electric State, but... i remember when this first hit amazon prime and

37:57

karen and i had watched it and we watched that

38:01

first episode we were just like oh my god this

38:05

is hilarious like this is a show we should be

38:08

podcasting about even though it's about death

38:10

and dying and afterlife and what just the hilarity

38:14

and the the dude uploads himself to the digital

38:18

afterlife and the first thing he wants to do

38:20

Is pee all over the wall. Because he can. Because

38:23

he's dead. And it doesn't matter. So anyway.

38:31

Electric State. Yes. I will watch Electric State.

38:34

And I will report back next week. Because it does look really fun. Like you're saying. I saw

38:39

the trailer earlier. And yeah. No. So very cool.

38:44

Very cool. I'm just. I'm kind of over Pratt at

38:47

this point. I am too, but he does really well

38:51

on this. I mean, it's him. So, I mean, you know

38:54

what you're getting. Yeah. But yeah, I mean,

39:02

it was just it was fun and I wasn't expecting

39:06

it. Cool. That's good. That's awesome. Looking

39:12

forward to it. So with that aside. Getting into

39:20

toy talk. Yes, toy talk. So in a previous episode,

39:26

I brought up the Star Trek nacelle figures. And

39:32

brought up how wave one, you know, they start

39:38

out with some obscure characters. I mean, for the most part, they're not all obscure. Like

39:41

you get Captain Jellicoe. Ronnie Cox which is

39:48

tempting enough just to have a figure of the

39:50

dude I mean these these are coming out in October

39:56

for one and they're like they're 2029 bucks or

39:58

whatever which is not bad for what these are

40:02

considering how highly detailed and how articulated

40:06

like they got the ankle the double jointed knees

40:09

twisting you know at the waist the twisting at

40:12

the legs the you know ball joint arms and or

40:16

arm and leg sockets and then you get the twisting

40:18

arms and then you get the you know you can swap

40:21

out hands and they come with like usually some

40:24

of their key items like jellico you get like

40:28

a phaser uh uh pad a book and like some paintings

40:32

from picard's thing and then the fish tank like

40:35

so they all come with something you know for

40:38

display piece and then you get you know like

40:42

captain garrett from the enterprise c you get

40:45

you know a bunch of other random characters captain

40:47

sulu from the excelsior and then um and they

40:51

only had eight figures and like the other ones i mean the only two that were somewhat enticing

40:56

for me for this wave were the captain jellicoe

40:59

and the captain sulu like the rest i was kind of like meh um but then i i was like you know

41:07

what they need they need kirk from generations

41:09

like they need yeah you know they need that for

41:12

wave two and then lo and behold i i get up like

41:18

this morning and i'm i'm checking online and

41:21

i'm like look holy crap well so i i looked like

41:25

it was literally the day after we published the

41:28

episode that that popped up for that one but

41:32

then like today they unveiled the whole line

41:36

of wave two and i was going what these are awesome

41:42

you know and i mean i'm not gonna buy most of

41:45

them but the the main one that's of interest

41:48

to me is the uh captain kirk from star trek generations

41:51

and it's because he's wearing the vest like that

41:54

was that was one it held a special place for

41:57

me in my childhood for one because the first

41:59

trek film i saw in theater was generations Yeah.

42:03

And then I saw the, you know, his outfit and

42:05

I was liked the, the design of the vested Kirk

42:09

outfit. Cause I'd never seen this one before. Like he wore one similar in Star Trek two, but

42:14

then it wasn't like this was, this was new. And

42:17

so I, I just liked the aesthetic. I liked the

42:19

color. I like, you know, just the whole thing. So, um, so anyways, they, the likenesses of these

42:28

nacelle figures are spectacular. um they look

42:33

just like the actors they look just like they did in the film for the most part i mean it's

42:37

like the equivalent of a masterpiece figure for

42:41

a you know a poor person pricing right um they

42:45

you know he can clasp his hands behind his back

42:47

he comes with uh because in the movie he's cooking

42:52

in his house and so he's got this jar of dill

42:54

weed so like they of course give him that and the two eggs that he cracks and then he's got

42:58

some firewood and the stump and then the axe

43:00

that he's chopping and then the horse so he can

43:02

ride a horse and all of these come with the kirk

43:08

figure nice and i was like okay this is uh this

43:14

is kind of cool like i'm genuinely excited for

43:17

this this figure like i this one for sure will

43:21

be on my my go -to list like i'm gonna get it

43:24

um and then of course they reveal the rest of

43:27

the line and they added two more figures to this line to kind of flesh it out a little bit and

43:30

they they kind of made sure they took something from every generation they took you know kirk

43:35

from uh generations they took captain janeway

43:40

from the episode year of hell um they took wharf

43:45

from generations in the sailor uniform they took

43:48

to paul from star trek enterprise season three

43:50

and four They took Geordi with the sailor uniform

43:53

from Generations. So we get three from Generations

43:56

here. We get another from Star Trek The Undiscovered

44:00

Country with Valeris, the betrayer. Yes, the

44:06

betrayer. And then you get the Romulan commander

44:08

from the original episode Balance of Terror,

44:11

which was Mark Leonard, who later played Spock's

44:15

dad. um carol marcus from star trek to the wrath

44:18

of khan we get nog from deep space nine and then

44:22

we get uh the character called bem from the animated

44:24

series which i'm not familiar with uh but no

44:30

i was just like okay this is kind of cool we got some next generation stuff we got some tos

44:34

we got some you know star trek movies we've got

44:37

specific episode versions of characters uh from

44:43

Enterprise Voyager and Deep Space Nine and the

44:47

animated series and so I'm genuinely I'm genuinely

44:55

excited to see how well these prototypes show

45:01

up and while I'll probably only get the Kirk

45:08

from this line I'm excited to see what Nacelle

45:11

does because For the first time in ages. I'm

45:18

excited about a Star Trek toy. That isn't Playmates

45:22

toys like the. The recent resurgence of Playmates

45:27

toys into Star Trek like five years ago. The

45:31

figures comparing them to the original figures

45:34

that came out in the 80s and 90s and early 2000s.

45:38

The ones that they came out with recently, yes, they have more articulation. Yes, they can physically

45:43

sit in a chair without their legs going bow -legged

45:47

out like they're trying to spread eagle. It's

45:51

like they can actually sit in the chair because

45:55

they have the articulation of modern toys, but

45:58

they looked like crap. And they were shorter

46:02

than the originals. And just felt cheaper. And

46:08

I don't know. I'm glad for another company to

46:13

take on what Playmates started with and kind

46:18

of accelerated. And it's honestly actually, in

46:23

my opinion, better than the Art Asylum stuff that came out years ago. I don't even remember

46:29

that stuff. Yeah, I remember it, but it was like

46:32

too much out of my price range. At the time,

46:34

I mean, now I'm looking back and I'm like, oh, they were 30 bucks. It's like, but I mean, at

46:40

that time, I couldn't afford that for, you know,

46:42

a figure. And I was like, I don't I don't I don't

46:44

want to. I mean, now I'm like, oh, that's kind

46:47

of par for the course. But we've also got Master

46:52

Replicas, which has and this is the weird thing.

46:56

Nacelle has the rights to Star Trek of old. Anything

47:02

predating the reboot of the J .J. Abrams from

47:06

2009, everything from 2009 onward is by a different

47:10

company, and everything 2005 to the 60s is Nacelle.

47:17

Anything from the 60s to 2005, Nacelle can make.

47:22

But they can't make anything from any of the

47:25

modern Trek series. Interesting. Which is weird.

47:30

And they're only allowed to make in America.

47:35

Weird. So I'll probably pre -order the Kirk when

47:41

he's available for pre -order on their website

47:43

because Walmart sells nacelle figures. They sell

47:48

the nacelle company figures of biker mice from

47:51

Mars. I don't know if I would ever see the Kirk

47:55

in store. And so and BBTS doesn't carry this

48:01

stuff. These are like exclusive through these

48:05

companies. Otherwise, I would just preorder through

48:09

them. But. But I'm genuinely excited for what

48:14

Nacelle is doing. Master Replicas, on the other

48:17

hand, which took the line of the Eagle Moss Star

48:19

Trek ships. And they've kind of bought up other

48:23

companies that have gone bankrupt or whatever.

48:26

Taking the brands like they have some Star Wars

48:28

and Star Trek, some Orville, Doctor Who, Battlestar,

48:32

like they take a lot of sci -fi properties. They

48:36

got the rights to all the modern Star Trek. And

48:40

so they have like Picard season three of Worf,

48:42

Riker and Picard. And. Looking at them like they

48:52

do look pretty close. To the nacelle company

48:58

figures. However. They've almost got like an

49:05

unrealistic. Look to them that the nacelle company

49:09

seems to have captured the exact likeness. And

49:14

nacelle companies figures are also like six inch

49:16

figures. Master replicas are like four and a

49:20

half. So they'll fit more with the playmates.

49:23

line but they're fully articulated so they again

49:27

it's kind of it's weird I'm interested in some

49:33

of those however like I don't know if I'll actually

49:37

pull the trigger on any of the new stuff like

49:39

from Picard season 3 just because it's another

49:43

website that I would have to get crap from if

49:48

BBTS had them all I would be happy but they don't

49:52

so But yeah, I mean, it's a really weird place

49:56

in the toy market, especially when companies

49:59

that used to make toys don't make toys and companies

50:02

that own licenses to certain brands license them

50:06

out to other brands. And then it's a strange

50:10

environment we're in. Very, very strange. And

50:18

honestly, I'm kind of. I think toy companies

50:25

have become like streaming. There's too much

50:30

choice to get your toys from everywhere and anywhere.

50:36

There's too much choice in streaming to watch

50:39

your stuff wherever you want to watch it. Whether

50:42

you purchase it on Fandango, whether you stream

50:46

it on Netflix, Hulu, wherever, Max, wherever.

50:53

Toy companies, same thing. It's like, Hasbro

50:57

has this, but they're then licensing this out

50:59

to Playmates, or Mattel has this, or Funko has

51:02

this, or the guy that created Funko has left

51:07

Funko and created this company now, or the guy

51:09

that was running Funko for the longest time has

51:11

now left Funko, and he's got his own company

51:13

now. It just all feels way too splintered, and

51:19

I don't know. Remember, folks, because we're

51:24

recording this on March 31st, 2025. Tomorrow,

51:27

April 1st, everything is a trap. It's a trap.

51:34

It's a trap. So the other thing that's kind of

51:40

funny, too, is Playmates got the license for

51:44

Power Rangers from Hasbro. Yep. And these figures

51:49

look like... crap um they so like i i looked

51:57

at these and i'm like why would like i mean hasbro

52:00

redid the automorphin rangers you know like like

52:05

what bandai made back in the day and then um

52:10

and then we got of hasbro more recently And then

52:19

these ones, they just look weird, like weirdly

52:23

proportioned, tiny head. Like, I mean, they don't

52:26

even look there's something that just looks odd

52:28

to the face and they're called Power Rangers

52:30

Reignition. And it's like they're rehashing season

52:34

one, season one and two Power Rangers all over

52:36

again. And it's like, OK, we've we've had this beaten to death. Yeah. And it's not like they're

52:43

reviving the old Rangers. It's like, no, they're.

52:46

they they're rebooting like why make these again

52:50

when hasbro just made them yeah really uh now

52:55

the benefit here is like i mean they don't have

52:58

the the armor coming off on the green ranger

53:00

or whatever but they're also coming out with

53:03

the zords again so like you if you missed out on the original dino zords and you know building

53:08

them that hasbro came out with you know the crappier

53:11

version Or even like kind of I almost equate

53:17

them to kind of in the middle. They because they

53:21

can shoot out of the saber tooth tiger and the

53:23

triceratops. Out of their tail, like they have

53:27

a colored blast that comes out. I think they

53:32

sell them individually. I don't know that for

53:34

certain, but I know that they sell the power more for they're going to. With. The power coins,

53:41

all five power coins and 40 sounds and phrases,

53:44

and they're selling the power more for. For 1699.

53:51

Which I've never seen it that low. That's not

53:54

bad. No, that's not bad at all. And I'm like,

53:58

hmm. i'm like you're thinking about it well like

54:02

that was one of those like bucket list things when i was a kid and even when i was a young

54:06

adult i was like man i'd love to get my hands

54:08

on a power morpher and then like a legit one

54:10

like my 3d printed one is nice don't get me wrong

54:13

but i i don't like i don't know it'd just be

54:17

cool to have like the display item yeah well

54:20

it's not just the display item it's you know

54:23

what it is i don't i don't know if this will

54:25

actually come across in the microphone because

54:28

sometimes it won't pick it up but it's the lights

54:34

and sounds man i bet that didn't pick anything

54:38

up it did not but of course it didn't but no

54:41

i mean it's the lights and sounds it's the fact

54:43

that it'll look pretty close i mean i have the

54:47

i still have the original playmates like communicator

54:50

from star trek like the one i bought back in

54:54

94 as well as like a couple of other Star Trek

54:58

figures I actually owned back in the day. And then, of course, I've supplemented since then.

55:03

But no, I mean, I'm super excited about that.

55:06

They're going to come out with the Blade Blaster for 20 bucks, which will again have sounds and

55:11

lights and all that. It's in some regards like

55:15

I'm it's nice to see other companies take it

55:18

on because somehow these other companies are

55:21

making it work. Yep. like they're they're making

55:26

the prices down to where people can actually

55:29

get some of these things that for whatever reason

55:31

hasbro couldn't get cheap and i don't know if

55:35

it's like a playmates toys thing like i don't

55:37

i really don't know like and it could be where

55:40

it's manufactured like i i really don't know

55:43

but um i'm kind of excited to you know finally

55:49

get my hands on that get my hands on the kirk figure I find it odd that, again, other companies

55:58

are taking on, like these new companies or even

56:01

Playmates being as old as they are, taking on

56:03

these licenses of these companies that have been

56:06

around forever. And they're just kind of tossing

56:10

them around to different ones and doing, in some

56:14

areas, a better job than the company that owned

56:17

the license previously. or produced the toys

56:21

previously you know in the case of the power

56:24

rangers like yeah the figures were better with the lightning collection but you know as far

56:29

as their accessories they were unaffordable or

56:34

you couldn't get your hands on them with uh with

56:37

hasbro but playmates it'll be far more likely

56:40

that i'll see in the store and then with the

56:44

nacelle company again like these are like awesome

56:50

figures like i think they'll scale well with

56:52

the first contact playmates figures that came out way back when but uh yeah i mean i'm i'm

56:59

super stoked for some aspects of the toy industry

57:03

and then i'm and others i'm not so Yeah, absolutely.

57:11

The other big thing that I've been keeping my

57:15

eye on is in our back end of the website, under

57:20

our podcast tab for published podcast episodes.

57:25

So far, folks, in almost 16 years, 3 ,979, we

57:32

are 21 away from 4 ,000 published podcast episodes.

57:41

Bet you never thought we'd get that far. Yep.

57:49

Who knows? You never know. I just hope when it

57:58

gets to $399 .99 that they don't offer us a discount.

58:04

I was going to say, I hope it doesn't start counting

58:06

backwards. like wait a minute you can't erase

58:12

this don't don't do that hey now but uh but yeah

58:21

i i started looking at this uh about the end

58:27

of last year when it was somewhere around 3800

58:31

and i was like holy crap oh boy but yeah no that's

58:41

uh yeah oh yeah i forgot to bring i'll bring

58:50

the other thing up next week but i forgot to bring this up i now have a uh 3d printed decepticon

58:55

matrix of leadership thanks to mr megatron over

58:59

there I just don't know, out of all the whatever

59:03

toys I do have around here that are not Funko

59:05

Pops, who can actually hold this damn thing? I don't think any of them can. Well, one shall

59:13

stand, one shall fall. Yes. One shall fall all

59:17

over the Matrix. Fall over. You know what Ford

59:26

stands for, don't you folks? Frapped on a raw

59:28

deal. flip over read details fix or repair daily

59:35

how about forward backwards drivers return on

59:37

foot that's funny not not my jokes folks al april

59:44

al april's auto nims old comedian uh that's funny

59:48

out of florida i saw him in louisville kentucky

59:51

at the comedy caravan years ago i love that guy's

59:53

stuff But yeah, so hope you guys enjoyed this

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episode and the discussion that we had on here. Thank you as always for listening to Altered

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more thing really quick. I'm sorry to interrupt before I forget, before my brain farts on it.

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Again, folks, March 31st, we're recording this.

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Happy birthday, Brad Maul. Enjoy your birthday,

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even though it's late when you hear this, buddy. He's a huge listener of ours. I was going to

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say at the beginning of the podcast, and I forgot.

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My brain sucks. Yeah, yeah, yeah. See, I'm the

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worst podcaster. I told you I'm the worst podcaster.

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There he is, Brad Mull, longtime listener. Thank

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you so much for listening all these years, buddy.

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Happy birthday. Hope you had a great birthday. Okay, now you can go through your outro. Sorry.

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Yes, we hope you have a good birthday, sir. Yeah,

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so anyways, be sure to check out this episode

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on the episode link on geekcastradio .com. And

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until next time, get altered, get geeky with