0:03

The. Hello, welcome to Geek Foods.

0:06

I am Frank and I'm here with gentlemen, and we are recording in person.

0:10

Let's go ahead and start things off, guys.

0:12

We have the Geek Freak's pet pantry going on for the next two months.

0:15

We're raising money for the Elk Grove Animal shelter,

0:18

and we're also supporting a local business that we absolutely love.

0:21

Beauty's biscuits, where you could use Code geek freaks for 20% off.

0:24

They do, these homemade. You can watch sunny,

0:28

amazing, sunny, book a lady's podcast, make these biscuits herself.

0:31

They go to fairs and stuff like that and hand them out over there.

0:34

I'm a frequent customer. I actually have another order on his way right now.

0:39

But check that out. Beauty's biscuits. And as for the Geek Freak's pet pantry, there's a link in the description

0:43

to go to the Go Fund Me that will raise money directly for the Elk Grove Animal Shelter.

0:47

I'm going to be pushing that for the next two months.

0:50

Let's talk about some of our pets. Jonathan, you talk about Elsa, your dog?

0:53

Yeah. So I had a dog named Elsa. She's an Alaskan malamute. All white.

0:58

They typically have, like, she has blue eyes, but with a brown spot and one on,

1:03

So we found her. We adopted her,

1:06

off of the streets. Yeah.

1:09

Kind of wandering around. My father, has an auto shop, you know, in a busy city,

1:14

and he would just feed whatever stray dogs came around. One time we were over there visiting him, and the stray dog comes up.

1:19

She looks beautiful. It's very young, so it's still a. Yeah.

1:22

She was, like, only 6 or 7 months old, right when you guys got.

1:24

Her and she had a lollipop stuck to her.

1:27

Yeah, yeah, just sad but funny.

1:29

Yeah, yeah. So then we talked about like.

1:32

Yeah, I mean, we should take that one home and sure enough, before we left, so.

1:35

Yeah, I, you know, I'll take that. So, that was it.

1:38

And, you know, we we took her in the gutter shots and all that stuff.

1:41

Clean her up. She's been through different seasons, and she's lived in our house at one point.

1:47

And then when we moved, she had a, you know, a little, outside and inside.

1:51

But now with a lot of country, we get lots of space. So, yeah, she mostly, you know, roams outside.

1:55

But we have, you know, any time it's bad weather. But she comes in and stays with us or,

1:59

but she loves it. She's all over the neighborhood.

2:02

Yeah, sometimes. Problem.

2:04

But, she's just such a well-behaved.

2:06

Extreme. Well-behaved. Yeah. Nicest thing.

2:09

I don't want to get into a big story, but she pretty much doesn't bark.

2:11

Except for one time. I remember we had a possum in the backyard. Yeah.

2:14

And I was like, why is she barking? She doesn't bark. Sure enough, yeah, there's a threat. There's a. Yeah.

2:18

So we had to go take care of that. But just, you know, so many dogs just you can't stop them from barking.

2:23

He's. Yeah, she's very calm and patient. Quiet.

2:25

So I could kind of master better.

2:28

I'm, Well, one thing I love about her is every time you see her,

2:30

she puts her her head, like, in your lap or in your arm or whatever.

2:34

Like, she really wants to kind of cuddle in with you, but I remember when, you know, because I was one of them

2:37

that was trying to potty train her in the early days.

2:39

And there's and we we would try to create trainer

2:42

and she was in your room and she got out. Remember that? And she just destroyed the place.

2:46

And of course, me. Being the country, I was like, I got to film this.

2:49

I just recorded the. Room like, hey John, check this out to me.

2:52

When we were trying to create training and she moved the crate off of.

2:56

Yeah, dug a hole into the carpet. Yeah.

3:00

Yeah, she definitely got through those terrible twos.

3:03

That was a she. Especially now that she's older. She's slowed down.

3:06

Oh, yeah. Yeah. She's always been friendly.

3:09

Just, if she wasn't so big, she'd be a good lap dog.

3:12

She really would be. Yeah. She drops about, you know, 3 pounds of hair a day.

3:15

But yeah, I did. For at least 50, 55 pounds herself.

3:19

Yeah, yeah. So she's a great dog.

3:22

So guys, let us know about your pets. You'd love to hear about it online on all of our social media channels.

3:26

We'll be sharing different pet stories throughout the next couple of weeks

3:28

and again, support the, Elk Grove Animal Shelter with us.

3:32

Link in the description.

3:37

All right, so this week in the news, we had the Brazil, D23.

3:41

They're trying to do, there's a big convention down in Brazil.

3:43

It's kind of becoming this big thing in Rio de Janeiro specifically.

3:47

We've got all kinds of cool new stuff. First off, we have that brand new Thunderbolts trailer that shows a lot

3:52

more of the character dynamics in between each of these, different characters.

3:56

What were your thoughts on this? Looks really good. It looks polished, and it, it's a good mix between

4:01

the action kind of spy thriller.

4:05

Genre. Yeah. And a little bit of the sci fi.

4:07

I really is watching it. That's probably why I haven't seen, like, Black Widow and some of the,

4:13

Captain America stuff is it's all very, you know, guns and bombs and spy stuff.

4:18

Yeah. It doesn't have the sci fi element that you see a bunch of other stuff.

4:22

And that's what I realized. I like in all the what we watch is more of the sci fi side of things.

4:28

So I think that's why there's a lot of, you know, marvel

4:30

that I just kind of haven't seen or stay detached from.

4:34

So I think this does a pretty good job. It looks like it does a pretty good job of kind of bridging the. Yeah.

4:38

And it just looks really. Really cool.

4:40

Yeah. Because because with this one, we're definitely gonna be getting sentry,

4:43

who is a Superman level hero with a split personality complex.

4:48

It's like the most, you know, broad strokes version of him.

4:50

And he's going to be the bad guy, quote unquote.

4:52

And so we're going to be seeing those ground level heroes

4:56

fight the one of the hardest things

4:58

they could ever fight, which is basically Superman gone mad.

5:01

That's going to be cool, but also just the dynamics between these different players.

5:04

One of the things that I got this time I didn't catch last time is the fact that it looks like Red Guardian,

5:08

who is this old Soviet version of, you know, Captain America, who's aged out

5:13

and he's, you know, the pseudo dad for Black Widow.

5:17

He's like, oh, this Winter soldier, he's excited to see what a soldier.

5:20

And I was like. A little bit over it. Right? I didn't think about like, oh yeah, when a soldier was off

5:23

and on ice throughout the last 100 years. So he knew him as a badass, you know, SAS.

5:28

And back in the day, it probably was a nemesis. And ally had some fight like they had their own things back then.

5:32

And I can't wait for that dialog between the two. Like what happened to you?

5:35

Get a Winter soldier. You can imagine, like he might have the baseball card, you know. Yes.

5:41

Oh my God, do they hope they do that? Yeah.

5:43

Some like really crappy Soviet baseball card, like,

5:49

yeah, yeah, yeah, it would be wonderful.

5:52

Oh, man. So yeah, it does look like it's going to be a fun, fun story.

5:56

Fun romp. And I think it's going to establish that with this next one.

5:59

When we talk about Captain America, it's going to establish

6:02

the difference between the government and the superheroes,

6:04

which I think in the MCU so far has been shaky.

6:08

Like we see Secret Invasion. They kind of were a little bit mixed up.

6:11

Civil War was definitely mixed up. But in the comic books, there's a little bit

6:14

more of a clear divide where like shield and sword,

6:17

like they all have their clear divides. So I think we're going to start getting that to where

6:20

you're going to see the Avengers need to be assembled outside of the US government

6:24

so that they can kind of hold their own morality.

6:26

That's something we seen from the very beginning of X-Men.

6:30

Very our own thing. The government doesn't even know we exist, right?

6:33

Cases and stuff like that. So that'll be I think that's smart. I think that'll be.

6:37

We are seeing the growing pains through Civil War and stuff like that.

6:39

Yeah. We did plan this out very well.

6:41

And now, you know we have to establish that. But

6:44

one of the things it's not on our note here, Kevin Feige

6:46

mentioned that the X-Men are coming into the MCU after Secret War,

6:50

which is going to be basically collapsing all the multiverses into one.

6:54

One universe. And that's when the X-Men will become a big player.

6:57

I think that's important because we need to establish,

7:00

you know, this is Captain America. This is, you know, Iron Man is the Avengers

7:03

because there are a lot of times, unfortunately, where like Captain America,

7:07

who is definitely not, like tied to the American government,

7:11

but is kind of a pseudo American government representative, obviously,

7:14

is is used to show how the X-Men are on the outs.

7:18

He's worked with them, you know, on money many times.

7:20

But also these people mistreat the X-Men, too.

7:23

So I they think they need to show that, like, our heroes can be wrong

7:26

and it's still like, you know, does that make sense? Yeah. They could try to stand for the government.

7:30

And you taking a stance to, you know, support what they think is supporting the people. Yeah.

7:34

But in the end it's, you know, turning his back on a different group of people.

7:38

Yeah. So it'll be interesting to see how they move forward with that.

7:42

I think. I think we've got two movies are here that are really setting up.

7:44

These are grounded heroes. Very well. Captain America, Brave New World.

7:47

We got a new trailer for that that shows a lot more of the combat.

7:51

What did you think of this one? Yeah, that one.

7:53

I see less of a sci fi. Yeah, just kind of an action movie.

7:56

So it's definitely let's. Let's let's humor as well.

8:00

Yeah. Then Thunderbolts. Let's. I'm sure there's

8:02

a whole large group of people that love movies like Mission Impossible.

8:06

Well, you're looking at one. Yeah. This is like, right up their alley.

8:08

So I'm sure there's going to be. Yeah. And Disney, everything, pretty much everything Disney makes is is good.

8:14

Yeah. So I don't think it's going to be hard for them to,

8:17

to turn a good profit at this one. But yeah, it might not be for me.

8:21

Like I didn't see the Black Widow movie.

8:23

Yeah. So if I go to watch these, I'm going to have to do a lot of catch up as well.

8:27

You do need to watch that. You need to watch the, Captain America series.

8:31

There was, well, spoiler.

8:33

It's called Falcon and the Winter soldier, but at the end, it becomes Captain America in the Winter soldier or Bucky or maybe even so.

8:39

You do want to watch that? That's a really good show. That kind of is a lot of this underground spy thriller stuff.

8:45

Totally worth a watch. You could skip Secret Invasion, that's for sure.

8:49

I did watch the first few episodes, and, like. Like. Yeah.

8:52

Did you finish Agatha Holt? Yeah. That was.

8:54

I love that show. But. Yeah. So I think this is going to be a much needed refresh for the MCU.

9:00

And I think that this version of Captain America, the Sam Wilson combat

9:03

we're seeing is showing the homage to the original Captain America,

9:06

while also showing Sam's special, additions to the.

9:09

Because I think a lot of people online get a little antsy saying,

9:12

oh, he's not our Steve Rogers. Like, no, he's definitely not.

9:15

And even in the trailer, they point that out.

9:17

Do you know what he means when he says it? Like, yeah, I'm not Steve Rogers, right?

9:21

What would you say are the big differences between.

9:24

I have a feeling at that point knowing kind of how he developed his character

9:28

in the series as well. He's probably trying to be Steve Rogers as much as possible

9:32

and then at a turning point realizes like, no, I've got wings.

9:36

I'm a little bit more hardcore. You know, I could step it like there is a point in the comic books

9:41

when when a soldier is Captain America and he uses a gun,

9:45

and so it's like the shield and gun in one hand. It's classic comic book cover.

9:48

And it's like, yeah, you don't you could still be Captain America and not Steve Rogers.

9:52

I think that's the moment he realizes that. I think Steve Monroe I can't

9:57

stakes very strong and hard to a moral code and a moral compass.

10:02

Yeah. And I think sometimes he's probably saying, you gotta break that every once in a while.

10:07

Like, you know, running with a shield and a gun,

10:09

you're not just knocking people out and pushing them to the side, or they get,

10:12

yeah, they're going to get rescued by somebody. You're shooting them dead as you're fighting.

10:15

Yeah, it's kind of that's hard. But these guys are trying to kill, you know, a

10:19

larger group or something like that. Well, and we're seeing like where he's knocking those missiles out of the sky.

10:23

That's over. I think his name is Ty. Matt. It's the, from Eternals, the big metal guy that comes metal.

10:29

And they had mentioned that that's how they're going to introduce Adam.

10:34

I Adam, I adamantium into the MCU.

10:37

So that's why all the governments want this stuff. Because, like, hey, it's a vibranium.

10:40

Vibranium alternative. You and the American government.

10:42

Let's get in on that. So there's going to be something, I think, where Steve Rogers is

10:46

or I'm sorry, Gretchen, Sam Wilson's gonna be like,

10:48

that's not right for us to do this like that or whatever or whatever it is,

10:52

and have to turn on the military, which I think that's something

10:55

that Steve Rogers might 100% not. Do, because yet Steve Rogers was, from the beginning, this Americana guy,

11:01

right, representative of, you know, American values.

11:04

And, Sam Wilson might be saying like, well,

11:08

I represent people in freedom and, yeah, like the American government.

11:13

The American people. Yeah. Or even that.

11:16

And like, not to bash Steve Rogers in any way.

11:18

I mean, literally in the MCU, the Civil War,

11:20

he turned against the American government during that, too, because they wanted to register everybody.

11:24

But I think we're gonna get a more defined line for that with Sam Wilson,

11:28

let alone the fact that he just looks like the way he lands

11:30

it has that sonic boom come behind him. Just freaking cool looking. Yeah, this is going to be really awesome.

11:35

Then he has a helmet that we haven't seen before, so. And he's going to have a Falcon on 062.

11:38

So we're gonna have two falcon, you know wings flying around.

11:41

It's going to be dope. We have some concept art for avatar Fire and Ash.

11:45

And I had to clarify to you, that's the Blue people.

11:48

I was like, oh, I was excited to, like, wait, this in a video game?

11:51

Something like that from avatar the last. Yeah.

11:53

You know, again. And I was like, What do you think about, have you seen the.

11:59

I don't think you've watched have you watched avatar two?

12:02

Oh, yeah. Oh you did. Yeah. How did you like it?

12:04

And, Oh okay.

12:06

Was I skipped out on that one. I thought it was pretty good.

12:10

I think it is. Yeah, yeah. And knowing it, maybe I wouldn't go to the theaters again.

12:15

Yeah. See you at home. The whole world.

12:17

It's beautiful, but it's not really a story I needed to see.

12:22

That was pretty much. Yeah. I think they're longer than they need to be. Those movies.

12:25

I do like them a lot, but they.

12:27

That one I watched at home and I watched in two parts,

12:29

and I think that's how it should be enjoyed, you know.

12:31

Yeah. And some of the story just didn't really make sense to me.

12:35

Like, I don't know the writing. And I'm sure these were probably written a long time ago, I don't know.

12:40

Oh no, these are brand new. No, no, this isn't a book series.

12:42

This is all just James Cameron doing some stuff.

12:45

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it just seemed like a kind of a shallow plot.

12:49

It looks great. I know they put a lot of money in the CGI and stuff like that.

12:53

So yeah, they're focused on.

12:55

Well this one we're going to have two new tribes joining the fight.

12:58

So we have the Air Tribe which they have these big flying balloon type things.

13:03

We saw the concept art for that. I think they might be living creatures even,

13:07

because they have the tentacles going down to the ground,

13:09

which I'm like, okay, I think that's, you know, how they feel things.

13:12

And then we have the fire tribe, which are apparently bad navy,

13:15

so I presume they're gonna be working with the humans to take over the planet,

13:19

and they probably made some deal with the humans, and they believed it.

13:22

And the humans are going to just take over everything.

13:24

Yeah. This should be good.

13:27

I know squeaks is going to be crazy for this, and we're going to definitely have him go out there for the reveal.

13:31

Try to get him early tickets. For me, it's it's just. Okay.

13:34

It's interesting, but. Early on, the first one and I don't remember how much it was,

13:38

but I know it was like record breaking costs.

13:40

Yeah. It's huge. Expensive. Do you think they're going to be stepping down

13:43

how much they invest in these sequels? Because sequels don't usually have the same return.

13:47

No, no, because, actually Disney has said

13:51

this is one of their new tentpole IPS.

13:53

So much like Marvel, Star Wars, Avatar,

13:56

they consider it on par with those two, which is a very high bar.

14:01

If this is successful and what they're hoping for, making this such a magical,

14:05

you know, franchise that that people embraced through the multiple iterations.

14:09

Yeah, I can totally see them making a segment in one of their parks.

14:13

They already have it, just not in our park.

14:15

Their park in Disney World. There's already a segment for this.

14:18

I know. I know, right where the OG.

14:21

Park, what the heck? So yeah, hopefully we do get a ride for because there is like

14:24

they have the Animal Kingdom stuff, that's all. Like you're walking around on, Pandora.

14:29

So hopefully we do get a little bit of that over here. That'd be nice.

14:32

Ice age six has been announced. Now, here's the trick with this, guys.

14:35

Ice age has always been made by Fox and made by blue Sky Studios.

14:39

This is the first time it's going to be made by Disney because they bought Fox.

14:42

So, Ice Age I think is just generally been

14:45

solid flicks there, like just a little Kung Fu Panda for me.

14:48

Like I'll watch them, but not crazy for it.

14:52

Yeah, you probably won't see the theaters.

14:54

Maybe if you get nothing. But if nothing else, you watch it. Yeah.

14:57

Sometimes I'm in the mood to just like, I'll put it on cartoon I haven't seen before.

14:59

I still gotta watch all the inside out so I know there's a.

15:02

Both them are very good, but like soul was really good.

15:05

Stuff like that. So, I'm hoping Disney can step up the game on Ice Age and make it even better as a dad,

15:11

do you think Marco would be excited for something like this?

15:13

I think so right now especially. He likes the animals especially. He's focused on sea creatures.

15:17

He has a big hang up on space now. He's yeah, moving on. How do you keep up?

15:21

So yeah, I think

15:24

if we show him this movie at the, easy with.

15:28

That, does he go? How how long does the phase like?

15:30

Because you got to buy toys and stuff like that to match, or you just avoid it?

15:33

Hey, stuff that he gets excited.

15:36

It's like because he watched a new YouTube clip that.

15:38

Oh, boy, it or whatever.

15:40

So, I mean, for his back toys, he's got a bunch of sea creatures

15:43

because that's just makes sense. Yeah.

15:45

In his room, we have, you know, stars and planets and stuff like that.

15:48

So we just keep getting a look. If we're gonna buy him something,

15:51

we'll just buy whatever matches his current interest. Yeah, we know what's going to pass.

15:55

What about, have you ever been introduced into one of your fandoms,

15:58

like Avatar The Last Airbender? I had him watch it, but it has a grasp.

16:02

Okay? He's not hung up on it, but once he does, I mean, I'm going to quickly

16:06

get him an arrow tattoo. There we. Go. There we go.

16:15

Andor season two, we have a release date now. It's going to be April 22nd.

16:19

I think Andor might be might be the best thing that Star Wars is doing.

16:22

Yeah, I can't wait for it. And like we talked before, like, I like the sci fi.

16:26

Not so much the spy drama and stuff. Yeah.

16:28

Yeah, absolutely. It has plenty of the I mean, it's all in space and all these different planets.

16:32

It's all like it has all the, the sci fi, elements, but it has this deep

16:37

and really rich dramatic like spy thriller.

16:41

Yeah, I love it. I love that story.

16:43

I really like this actor, Diego, who plays, and or himself.

16:47

I hope he gets some more roles, because, man, he's so good in this.

16:50

Of course he played in terminal. We we're both big fans. Yeah.

16:53

But hopefully he gets some more stuff after Andor is done.

16:56

What else can we see? That's kind of on the same ground level that Star Wars are in.

17:01

Star Wars or, Oh, geez, I don't know, like you're talking about what other kind of series.

17:06

Yeah, because I think we're getting a lot of like the building of the rebellion.

17:08

We have rebels and stuff like that that shows that. But I would like to get more outside of that particular timeline.

17:15

This shows the Star Wars universe. We always mentioned the pirates.

17:18

Of course, the pirates are on the table, but it would be nice to kind of see

17:21

more of the day to day life of people who live on these planets.

17:24

Yeah. So we have, I'm sorry.

17:27

It's okay. What's his name?

17:30

I can't remember the name Paul.

17:32

Such and such, but, Mr. Kim from Kim Convenience.

17:35

Okay. Yeah. Paul Lee.

17:39

Who plays one of the one of the pilots.

17:41

Yeah. So I was thinking I'd be kind of cool to have a series that is like

17:45

they're flight school Academy or something like oh heck yeah.

17:49

These people training you know because yeah you train you we see like

17:53

these things get picked up out of the sky and it's just a little burning ball

17:55

and it's quick and, you know, not so significant to us what they were training with each other.

18:00

Yeah. You know, ten years or something like that to be able to talk.

18:03

Maybe that's but they know these people really well.

18:05

And so when somebody, one of your brothers in arms dies, how traumatic is it for them.

18:09

So I think we could see building a lot of characters real close knit, like,

18:14

and then them going into battle and then the challenges, the like.

18:17

So I have a couple options. As you're saying this first off, you could put it back in this time period

18:21

and they're trying to create a flight school in the shadows.

18:25

So that the Empire doesn't know that they're training X-Wing pilots.

18:27

That's cool. Secondly, you can have after they win, and then you have also Hong Lee's time

18:33

when when we see him in The Mandalorian, where they're out there patrolling the outer rooms

18:36

where the Republic is still building again, so they can't have the ability.

18:39

So they're fighting like Little Empire Empire outlets or whatever.

18:42

You know. That's how you can introduce Empire.

18:45

It's. Yeah. Yeah.

18:47

Empire. I thought you said empires. I'm like Empire it. Oh my God.

18:51

So how do you think? But what if it's also the Clone Wars?

18:54

Because if in the Clone Wars, they're training these pirates,

18:56

they're training these pilots, and then you have that sad realization that they're dying to robots, to droids.

19:02

And so it's like, you know, why are we wasting our life?

19:05

You know, because if we're just dying and then these clones come in

19:07

that replaces that, there's all kinds of like, you know, you'd have a clone come in and, like,

19:11

trying to figure out what your relationship is with clones and stuff, and they age faster than you do.

19:15

Like questioning, like the value of life. Yeah.

19:17

Kind of thing versus like, you know, all these droids in this war.

19:21

I bet, right? Yeah. I think that would be something special.

19:25

Let's add more to Andor, because this is once the two seasons is

19:28

just simply not enough of the show. I think it's too expensive for them to keep making.

19:30

Frankly, they use good actors and stuff like that.

19:32

So that happens. And then we have, an announcement.

19:36

This is outside of Brazil's D23.

19:38

Lucas, film announced they're making three new Star Wars movies,

19:42

a trilogy, all created by Simon Kinberg.

19:45

So the key with this, there are other Star Wars

19:47

movies in the works, but they're all standalones. This is specifically a trilogy, and a first one is the first announced

19:52

by deadline. They said it was going to be a continuation of the Skywalker saga.

19:57

Then they said, well, we're hearing sources that it's not a continuation.

20:00

It's a separate trilogy. Which would you prefer, another Skywalker saga or outside of that?

20:05

I think outside of that, starting a new trilogy,

20:07

a whole new era would be, I think, better for the franchise in general.

20:12

I think the Skywalker thing is being played out.

20:15

Yeah, we, you know, we've seen so much of it.

20:18

But yeah, start mean and it doesn't have to be like this trilogy

20:22

and then it's over. Yeah. And see how the fans like this brand new adventure that you put together

20:27

and build on it. If people like it.

20:30

Yeah. I actually think it should be the Skywalker trilogy.

20:33

Trilogy. And this is why, because we already have other standalone movies coming up.

20:38

And I think if you kind of can service both sides of the fandom because,

20:42

boy, Star Wars fandom is so freakin toxic, it's just unbearable.

20:45

You have people who are willing to give everything a shot that,

20:48

like the world of Star Wars and just like, hey, let's show every corner

20:52

and then you have the other side of that. It's like it's lightsabers and lightsabers.

20:55

Guys, I don't care about anything else. I don't care about people's feelings.

20:58

I just wanna see lightsabers hit each other. So it's like,

21:00

okay, let's just give them both in because we can have our standalone stuff

21:03

that'll explore different corners of people, and then we can have the Skywalker Saga.

21:06

It's like, yeah, just tell the story of, you know, Luke Skywalker's kids.

21:10

You can just do that or whatever. Yeah.

21:12

I guess we just keep going until it works.

21:15

Yeah. It's just it's a shame that we can't enjoy things anymore.

21:20

It needs to evolve. Like, you need change. So even if it is going to continue in the Skywalker saga, there's.

21:24

Yeah, you know, some major differences.

21:27

And what we're saying, like, yeah, the Jedi starts to become corrupted

21:32

and the new orders already got problems and it's going to be dissolved

21:36

in reform or something. You know. Something like that. Yeah.

21:39

But even that feels like it's been played out. You know, what movie I keep returning to is that daddy movie.

21:43

Yeah. That it was such a freaking good movie and all.

21:47

It was like, hey, we're going to tell a small story in a world you're pretty familiar with.

21:50

If you know judges or dragons at all, I can't.

21:52

We just do that. Why is that so hard to do?

21:54

Landing on a planet boom happened to be, you know, three stormtroopers and some,

21:59

you know. They were. They were transporting a bunch of Wookiees.

22:02

Another Wookiees broke out on the loose. And you got to hunt them down.

22:05

There you go. We just made a good movie out of it right there.

22:08

Hit predator. But with the Star Wars stuff.

22:11

Yeah. Wookiees. They use the elements against them, and they end up killing them

22:14

and taking the ship, and they know how to fix it, so they restore.

22:16

Oh, my God. And like I said, you see, is

22:19

that, like, heading towards a rebel base and, like, joining the rebels and stuff.

22:22

Like, made friends with, the natives on the planet?

22:25

Yeah. He walks. Why not?

22:27

We already got he walks on the story. Oh, man. There you go.

22:31

Lucasfilm. Once again, please get. Ahold of us. We'll help you guys out.

22:34

All right, that's it for the news. It's been a pretty light. Newsweek.

22:37

It's been a lot of Brazilian, DC, Brazilian, D23.

22:40

Boy, the brain cells are firing today. Let's we're going to head into a review.

22:43

But first, Jonathan, let's talk about magic mind.

22:46

We both have used Magic Mind for a long time.

22:49

We're talking about how much it helps us stay focus in the morning

22:52

while not creating the that, jittery feeling or anything like that.

22:56

Can you talk a little bit about Magic Mind? Yeah. I gotta say, every once in a while,

22:59

from busy around the house, or especially if we're gonna take a trip somewhere.

23:03

Before I used to bring an energy drink. Yeah, I would pound energy drink and think like, oh, yeah, I'm little, I don't,

23:08

I get, like, hyperactive you.

23:11

Yeah. And sure, I move fast and stuff, but that but my focus isn't there.

23:17

I just don't feel healthy, obviously. Yeah, but when you use magic, right. It's just totally different.

23:21

You're sharp and clear and focused.

23:23

But, I mean, you feel like you would like your synergy to be

23:27

if you're going to go in a certain you're you're able to focus without being shaky.

23:31

Jittery. Yeah. Hyperactive energy.

23:34

Yeah I like that. It's just kind of,

23:36

you know, it's not like a night and day transformation of who you are. No.

23:39

You can just feel you're just feeling a little bit more clear

23:42

and on point versus, you know, drowsy or groggy or, you know.

23:48

Yeah. Guys linked in the description to get yourself an order, a magic mind

23:51

and then use the, code to get 20% off.

23:55

All right. So next up we're going to be talking about Dragon Age the Vale guard.

24:00

John, have you had a chance to play? What game are you playing right now?

24:04

I'm not playing. What do you like, a dad?

24:08

All right. I just reviewed my tour list and realized, man, I'm getting behind us some choices.

24:11

Yeah. Eight last time I try to use my computer was trying to play satisfactory,

24:15

which is a great game, and it's fully released now, and my computer can.

24:19

Yeah. And then I'm really realizing, like, regular web

24:22

browser stuff is starting to get slower. Yeah, yeah.

24:24

Definitely need to upgrade my computer. I have an Xbox Xbox One and don't play anything on that.

24:29

So my computer was my gaming system and it's,

24:33

nothing right now. It. I didn't realize how old your computer had gotten, but then it was like, wait,

24:37

that was like eight years ago. So it's. Yeah, it is time to upgrade.

24:40

And you have got a new graphics card since eight years ago. Just to clarify how long it's been.

24:44

Yeah. Okay, so I was playing Dragon.

24:48

Dragon Age. The Vale guard brand new game just came out from BioWare.

24:52

I like Dragon Age Inquisition, so I was looking forward to an a continuation of that.

24:56

Now, a couple of quick things. Just right off the bat, first off, combat is far faster than Inquisition.

25:01

It's a whole, you know, it kind of pushes aside

25:04

the strategy based combat of the old games and now embraces its faster pace,

25:08

more modern combat that we're seeing from, like, Final Fantasy and whatnot.

25:12

Visually beautiful. There are plenty times where I stopped and like, oh, that's way

25:15

they cool how they have this planet floating by or something like that.

25:19

It is the environment. Like, damn, somebody put a lot of time in this game.

25:22

Yeah, cool. I just want to spend a little time in this world.

25:24

Yeah. There's plenty of times where that you're on

25:26

rails is not open world, but you don't feel too constrained.

25:30

The hub places are very, you know, a lot of places to explore.

25:33

You'll find secrets if you do. And then, of course, there's the story and the characters.

25:37

The story. Solid story. There's a, it can bogged down in the middle, I've realized,

25:42

but it's a solid story where you're trying to basically stop

25:46

these two gods that got out at the very beginning. I like how it does the call of duty interests, what I call it, where it puts

25:50

you in the middle of a major story already a major mission, and you failed it.

25:55

And then you're like, oh, now we got to undo what we just failed.

25:57

So it's a Call of Duty move. But they did it in this one.

26:00

Like I did. You can't. Yeah. That the truth.

26:03

You guys weren't meant to fail it. But you did that. So many other plans.

26:07

But yeah. So that's that's how it starts off.

26:10

And then a lot of it is like, just trying to

26:13

I find myself wanting to do all the side quests

26:15

because you push up all the, campaign, companions you're with

26:20

because this is one of those games where every single decision you make

26:23

and talking in dialog and stuff like that affects how the story's

26:26

going to go, how your campaign, how your companions react to you.

26:30

You can fall in love with some of them. Malaria all day.

26:33

And yeah, so it kind of changes based off all that.

26:37

It's a really, really great RPG that I haven't had a good Western RPG

26:40

in a long time and reminds like fable, you know, those old classic ones.

26:43

I used to play a lot Skyrim, but it's third person, you know?

26:46

And yeah, the decisions are really impactful.

26:49

And what I like is the game automatically saves before you enter into, conversation, because you might have messed up,

26:55

and if you messed up and you were like, said something like, oh, no, I was offensive to that guy.

26:58

Didn't mean to me. I just accidentally press that button. You could go back to the save.

27:01

Yeah, because they were having problems with that.

27:03

But have you played any games like that in a while?

27:07

Things. I can't think of it. I mean, honestly, when I think of things much the horns.

27:11

But I think you played fable right now try to remember what games you. But.

27:16

Yeah. Where you. Like.

27:18

That's classic. Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah.

27:23

Oblivion was the closest thing that. Yeah.

27:25

That doesn't have this though. Like this one has like, you know,

27:28

Knights of the Old Republic made by the same company and stuff like that.

27:30

There's all these things where the things you do impact the game,

27:34

and it really makes you think about it. It's it's really quite a fun system to have in the game.

27:38

And it makes me actually care about these companions.

27:41

I've gone purposely like, hey, your next mission is to go this way.

27:43

I'm like, okay, hold on. Before I do that, let me go check in with everybody and it adds more missions to you.

27:48

And you know, you can flirt with some or you like continuing the beef with others.

27:52

One of the famous early decisions I say early because it's like in hour ten.

27:57

It's a 60 hour game. But one of the, early decisions is where you have to choose

28:01

to save one city, whether there's a dragon attacking each city.

28:05

And so you could choose, and, and of course,

28:09

the companion came from each city, so they're going to care. And one city is, it has these crows that are kind of like an assassins guild.

28:16

It protects the city, kind of the law for the land.

28:19

And they protect the people there. The other city has a bunch of, like, mages that kind of run the city and stuff,

28:24

and I choose the crow side because I felt like, well, the other side

28:28

looks like they have more people and they're really worried about. Yeah.

28:31

And they were really worried about like if they were to defend against a dragon,

28:34

which sounds like they could successfully do that.

28:36

They're adversaries of an Atari. We're going to, you know, take the seat of power.

28:41

I was like, that seems like someone could handle these guys.

28:43

Don't have that. These are a bunch of assassins versus a dragon.

28:47

They'll be be outmatched. And other than that, it's just regular people.

28:49

And online like TikTok feed is always right now

28:52

it's all Dragon Age and politics. So.

28:55

But there's so many people arguing from both sides of that particular choice.

28:59

And one lady who I don't know what her background is, but you could swear

29:03

it's got to be in like city structure or whatever,

29:07

because she's breaking down like, well, this is a port city.

29:09

And so when they go down, you know, it'll affect these different regions.

29:12

But the city that most people didn't pick, which one I didn't pick the one for the mages.

29:16

They said that's actually a major city that supports all these are surrounding towns.

29:19

And so now you affect all those towns and it's like, oh man.

29:23

I love the depth that this game goes into and you can really dig that into.

29:27

But yeah, it's a really solid game. I'm giving an eight out of ten.

29:30

You're describing that,

29:32

how you react to changes the outcome of the game?

29:35

Yeah. Seems like such a smart mechanic to put in the game, because it sure takes a lot of work.

29:40

A lot more. Yeah, pretty much. Right. A lot more stories that don't get used.

29:45

It means if you go back and replay this game and you intentionally just make some different decisions.

29:49

So yeah, this time I'm going to play a little more of a selfish jerk or whatever.

29:52

You'll get a totally different game. Yeah.

29:54

Famously, BioWare games work that way. People online, a lot of people are saying that,

29:58

hey, I'm playing my second time through this. I'm I'm, romancing this person all this time, I'm

30:02

really spitting down on these people and stuff like that. You can to play that way.

30:05

For Knights of the Old Republic, I always generally play is,

30:09

fallout calls him the Jesus character. Like, it's all good.

30:12

And, you know, the paladin of the group, are you gentleman, by the way?

30:15

But I went back to knights, a little public purposely playing like a Sith asshole.

30:19

And there's a whole different experience is great.

30:22

And it was it was fun. Was at the end, I ended up doing the same choice

30:25

because I was like, well, as a Jedi, the, the,

30:28

you know, when you find out you've been betrayed, I'd still want to save as many people as possible.

30:32

So I'm like, okay, I would go this way. But then as a Sith, I was like, wait a minute, I just found out I was betrayed.

30:37

Oh, I'm going to burn that guy down. Who's ready to kill all those people?

30:40

Yeah. So I was like, okay, I'm still being good.

30:43

And the redemption arc, if it wasn't such a selfish.

30:45

Yeah, it's just at the end, I'm, like, striking down all the Sith or I'm becoming the ones.

30:49

It's the. Best thing. Yeah. It was.

30:52

It's it's a really fun mechanic, but it does add a lot of story.

30:55

It adds a lot of recorded lines. It adds a lot of expense. BioWare happens to be known for it.

30:59

Yeah. I'm sure I had to upgrade my computer before.

31:02

This bad boy does not even land on Xbox One, Xbox Series X only.

31:06

It is very heavy duty. The combat is so fast. It's crazy.

31:11

Yeah. And I you know, we

31:13

we had a bet going on me and squeaks were squeaks had to pick my class.

31:16

If I had lost the Cowboys lost. I'm watching them lose right now behind you.

31:20

And. Yeah, sure enough, he picked.

31:22

He picked one. I would not have played normally, but it took some time.

31:25

But I'm getting used to it, and I'm. I'm this rogue duelist that has to, like, dodge and parry a lot more

31:30

than I would normally play in a video game. And I'm watching people

31:33

online play the mage and like, that's what I wanted to do.

31:35

But hey, that's what the second game plays for.

31:38

It's a blast, guys. Again, eight out of ten totally worth picking up if you haven't played it yet.

31:42

And, I feel like it's going to be on sale for Black Fridays if you want to wait for that.

31:46

Totally worth it. Yeah.

31:48

All right, I know this is a short one, but we're gonna go right into network news.

31:53

So for what's nice is we're heading in that time of year, everybody's off season.

31:57

So, you know, our last podcast has a few more episodes

31:59

to go, but our graphics interviews are done until February.

32:01

They're already booked, but they're in February. Challenge accepted.

32:06

We have an episode for Veep coming out next week.

32:08

And then we're also going to be doing a grand review for The Penguin and Arcane.

32:12

We're going to do arcane next week on, both.

32:15

I'm sorry. We're going to Arcane and Penguin, also on geek for next week's do.

32:18

Don't get me wrong on that, but it's going to be on challenge accepted.

32:20

And we just got done doing Twilight with very special guest Christina, wife of Thomas.

32:24

And holy cow, there's so much vampire law in those movies I did not know about.

32:29

Oh my god, dude, she read all the books like twice.

32:32

She read all the books? Yeah, I wish I could read fast.

32:34

Harry Potter had, like, a depth to it. Oh,

32:38

yeah. This is so much more.

32:41

I know there's like, oh my God, so much stuff. She knew it was really fascinating. Actually.

32:44

Got me actually kind of a fan of it. And then, yeah.

32:48

And so we actually have the, Who's Got Next Game podcast,

32:52

it's going to be on a break because of, we got a new baby in the family,

32:55

and then fandom portals is also on a break due to technical difficulties.

32:58

Poor Aaron, he likes to make his episodes, which is what a good podcaster does.

33:02

He banked up his episodes. All the files got corrupted.

33:06

I know, crushing. So sad.

33:08

Oh my God. So give some support to fandom portals to Aaron over there.

33:12

Poor guy's going through it right now. I hate when that happens

33:15

that we've all got technical difficulties, but the banked episodes that's.

33:18

Rough rerecording is never. It seems so hard to rerecord. Yeah.

33:23

Oh, yeah. And then we have Lore Master coming out on the 23rd.

33:27

So, you're going to start seeing art and stuff like that coming out for that right now.

33:30

I'm actually working with the artists right now for the covers,

33:32

so that'll be up pretty soon. All right, guys, thank you very much for hanging out with us this week.

33:36

And we'll see you next one. Bye.