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Geek freaks it freak. And I'm joined by Jonathan. Well, hello.

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And we have a lot to talk about today. Its big news day. So, we have Happy Gilmore trailer came out finally.

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We have a first look at Mortal Kombat.

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It's it has the dragon stuff. Coco. Two crazy stuff there.

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We're also going to be reviewing Severance season two,

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and we're gonna be talking about an upcoming convention that we have a booth that we want to make sure you guys head out today.

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To drop in. From the always start with a question of the week.

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This week is which pop culture universe has the best soundtrack?

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I kind of think that was an easy one. As soon as as soon as I read that question,

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I realized, like, first thing I think of is Guardians of the Galaxy.

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There's not a lot of other, you know, movies

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or franchises where their soundtrack really stands out above.

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The rest is that, to me is number one. Is Guardians.

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Yeah. And I like to throw out there Lord of the rings as well,

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because there's something about that sweeping music that just,

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I mean, anything like John Williams esque or whatever, but, that sweeping music

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makes me visualize the environments of middle earth, like, it's just so good.

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And then those parts are like, you can feel like the drums kicking, like, okay, we're going in a battle.

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I think it's so well constructed for the movie,

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that it brings you right back to that universe. But the most replayed one is absolutely Guardians Galaxy.

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And, another one I was thinking about, but I just. Gosh, I can't keep saying the same damn series all the time is Star Trek

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because there is no intro to that franchise.

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It is good. Now, obviously Voyager is the best for us, but every one of them is good.

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You know. What's. You know, what's funny is when you start watching,

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Star Trek Enterprise, the intro is kind of jarring.

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It's very different than the rest of them. It's kind of like, you know, rock ballad intro.

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But after a few, you know, a few episodes or a season of it

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and like, oh, yeah, I can't imagine this without this kind of intro now it feels

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it fits more of the show than you realize.

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Until you watch the show quite a bit. Especially Archer. Like, it really fits Captain Archer, you know.

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Yeah, it's got that Americana in it.

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Yeah, a couple of our inches from social media we got this

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was from our threads. One of them said, Silent Hill, which two free to play Silent Hill.

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But I know that I would know. Yeah.

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Like, oh, good music, good stuff. I don't be scared. Yeah.

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Another one is, is it a John Williams score, then?

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That's the correct answer. And I think that kind of goes back to like what I say,

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the Lord of the rings be like, think about Harry Potter.

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I mean, that score, it somehow brings you right back to Hogwarts or whatever.

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All the Star Wars scores are always so good.

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I mean, it's crazy, that one franchise.

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I mean, there's a lot of movies in that franchise, mind you, but there's a couple songs

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that are so iconic to the show, to the movie,

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like Imperial March.

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Was that duel fates like so many songs

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that are like, oh yeah, that's the Lord of the rings, and this is the fight that I'm thinking of at the time, and a lot of like,

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Star Wars. But that's the kind of thinking at the time, stuff like that.

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So John was a great, great choice all around.

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Let's get into the news. Three starting off with Happy Gilmore to finally release a trailer.

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Have you watched this trailer and what are your thoughts? I did the trailer didn't seem to reveal a lot, which is fine.

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I mean, it's not the kind of movie that has a deep story.

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Or we won't. Be expecting it.

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But it just looks like it's more of the same Adam Sandler fun.

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And I like that. I like seeing, his, how do I say it?

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His newer movies are a little bit more mature

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comedy than his earlier ones that, you know, college humor kind of stuff.

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They're still silly, funny movies.

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But yeah, it looks like it's just kind of more of the same stuff.

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More, you know, him older, trying to get back into the golf business.

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Will it have the same charm as the first one? Is what I'm worried about?

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Because something about the first one, like this kid who wants to play

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hockey, gets into golf, has a goofy swing,

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a great cast around, and, this one feels like it's a washed up

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golfer who returns to golf for whatever reason, I don't know.

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To me, it might be leaning too much on nostalgia, and not so much on trying to tell

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a new story. Yeah, that might be the case.

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You've seen that a lot with all the remakes, and continuations.

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Reboots of Everything Is nostalgia is what they're leaning on.

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But I mean, I don't know, Adam Sandler's been still producing pretty good

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movies lately. Yeah. But, yeah, it looks like it's, from just from the trailer.

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We didn't get a lot out of it anyways, but, like, it might have a little bit more heart to it than the first one.

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To the first one was primarily comedy with a little bit of heart to it, but,

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more of a like you're saying he's

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kind of older, retired and then trying to get back at him,

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come out of retirement to golf again and stuff. So maybe they'll be.

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Yeah. And his age as an actor.

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And maybe there's going to be a lot about like, finding your,

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your place in your next, you know, stage in life.

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Yeah. Like trying to stay useful.

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Relevant when you become old and you're kind of,

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you know, ready to retire or that whole passing the torch to the next generation kind of story.

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And we might see that he has a, you know, young kid that he starts

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coaching or something like that. I think that this movie looks like it's geared for his generation,

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which would be our generation. Let's be honest.

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When the first one was like geared for like early 20s frat house bro's.

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When we were that. Right. And so, I thought it I think it's interesting that he knows it

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like, I'm not going to get new viewers.

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I'm just gonna give people coming back to view this. I mean, this is coming to Netflix. Everybody's gonna watch.

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But, instead of going for that new group like, hey,

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what's the next generation of frat bros? He's just like the guys that have knee problems.

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Now let's talk about them. Yeah. Which we've seen that with our entire generation.

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Like, we're so millennials are so interested in nostalgia for some reason.

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Because it was easier back then. And, I think that's what Adam Sandler is going for.

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He's just like, screw it. I'll just give you more of what you like. Ben Stiller's back.

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He's the nurse. Yeah, you know, stuff like that.

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I think we're going to get nostalgia burnout pretty quick, though,

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because we've seen that with a lot of stuff where they just,

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you know, re returning something we've already watched.

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And, I don't know, I think people are going to get burnt by it's, you know,

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tired of the same old thing. Yeah. We're seeing that with the remakes and the reboots and stuff like that.

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At a certain point you're like, make something new. Yeah.

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It's not done well often.

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Yeah. It's always exactly. Yeah. We had a company, you know, Disney or somebody who started really

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dumping like, you know, you you spend $100 million on the first movie.

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Let's spend 150 on the sequel. Let's make sure it's better than the first one that would be great.

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Okay. I'll definitely go see that. If you have a reputation of making your sequels

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better than your first movie, but unfortunately,

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they usually take advantage of the fact that they already got the name out there.

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People are going to want to see it because the first one was a hit,

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and then they cut back and spend less on the second one,

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and it ends up just not as good. Or because our standards

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and expectations are unrealistic, because we envision it in our head

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to be 120% of what the first one is, and it's just not possible.

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I'm a big fan of those spiritual scissors, too, because if we look at,

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a movie I think can never be remade. First off, John Candy's past, but is planning to change it on.

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It's perfect movie. Don't mess with that. But we got that due date and to me feels like,

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okay, you guys kind of remade planes, trains, automobiles, different cat.

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I mean, like a totally different vibe, right? But it's still kind of the same thing.

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And I love that. Like, hey, this worked over here with Adam Sandler.

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You know, and make it becoming a golfer.

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Do it again. But different story.

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Different, you know, but pull the same vibes.

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I think that works well without you having to. Then rely on or cheapen yourself by like, oh, nostalgia will cover us.

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Yeah, you have to. You have to do good. And I think due date, I know it's probably very forgettable for everybody.

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That's listening to this right now. Watch it again.

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It's a funny ass movie. It's so good.

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Jamie Fox is in there too. And, and I think it stands on its own without any references to pointers

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and all of those, but thinking that it is sort of a sequel to that, I think enhances it.

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Yeah. And what I would love is just a cameo that ties the two together where, yeah,

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you know, it's so many years later, so, was it Steve Martin?

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Was that Steve Martin? Yeah. If he was, you know, just happened to be working somewhere

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in the show or had played a really minor role that, you know, we recognize him.

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It's like, oh, okay. That's kind of a nod that they are in the same, you know, world anyways.

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Right? Right, right. Yeah. Maybe Robert Downey Jr stayed in that.

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But my be. Yeah. There you go. Yeah it's a funny

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all right moving forward we have the first look at Mortal Kombat two.

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So let's let's start off with this job.

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I know you're not a big Mortal Kombat player. Yeah, definitely. Squeaks. Jam.

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Who is always busy right now.

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But looking at these first images,

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are you interested to see the sequel? Did you watch the first one?

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I personally watched the first one because there's a pandemic thing, right?

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Everything was coming out. I don't think I would have gone to theaters for it.

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I don't see myself going to theaters for this one, too.

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Yeah, I didn't watch the first one, and I don't know, I but to me

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it looks like it's one of those action

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and explosions and stuff without the meat and potatoes of the deeper story.

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It's just. Yeah, just, I don't know,

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sparklers, just just to get attention.

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But, I don't know. It's remarkably forgettable, too. I mean, I couldn't tell you much about the first.

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I just remember visually, everybody I remember, like, wanting to see Sub-Zero,

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but it was so forgettable. And this one, they bring in Karl Urban, and I'm like, okay,

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I love me some Karl Urban. I usually will watch anything he's in,

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but I don't think it's still not enough to bring me into the theaters.

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Yeah, I mean, I could see this being made later.

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It's in the last movie, but going straight to Netflix, I could see it being made for streaming, but

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I don't know, a full theatrical release for for another Mortal Kombat.

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I'm surprised they're really going for it, honestly.

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And that's the thing with the last one, it was Max and it went straight to Max because of the pandemic.

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They intended it to go to theaters and I'm like, this ain't

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what flopped in theaters, right?

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But it had the advantage of being kind of like, hey, we need something.

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God, the pandemic, we were we were watching all kinds of random stuff.

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Tiger King was king. So kind of shows you where we're at.

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Yeah. I and I don't know,

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I don't know as much as I think Karl Urban is a fantastic

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I don't know if he's a big enough name to sell a movie by itself.

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No, I don't think so. Yeah. You gotta watch the boys.

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You got to watch. I mean, what, Lord of the rings? Whatever.

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To really be a fan of his, he was in that Dredd two I or that,

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I guess that Dredd to the remake of Dredd, which I still to this

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I have not seen yet. Judge Dredd. I know you're a fan of it.

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Yeah. He is good in that. And I wish they would continue that world,

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even if they build side stories or something like that would be cool.

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There's just that whole post-apocalyptic, you know, Judge Dredd world

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they built was awesome, but but, yeah, I mean, even that if they made

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if they made new versions of that, I doubt that would go well in theaters.

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Like, that's a, that's a HBO Max, you know, type of show. But

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I don't know. It's got to be a little bit more mainstream and a more believable story.

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And, and invested.

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And you can't just make, you know, low budget movies and expect

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they're going to succeed in the box office.

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It brings me back to Happy Gilmore. I think what we need, and we have it right now.

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Like I'm saying this, why we have such a unique moment right now

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where, like, we have a couple movies that are actually new or different

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in the theaters right now. We need to stop making movies that are just IP movies.

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It just is starting to get exhausting.

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And you're talking to a couple guys who watch every damn Marvel thing that comes out,

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and they're looking for all the DC stuff, but man, tell original stories.

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You know, like Nova Kane with, Jack Quaid just came out.

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That's interesting stuff like that. You know, Mickey 17.

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Totally different idea. Really good actor Robert Pattinson.

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Man, it feels like we have nothing original anymore and it's just starting to get exhausting.

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We've been looking forward to Snow White. I mean, that's one of the least original stories, right?

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Right. Yeah. One of the oldest Disney things ever made. Yeah.

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And I wonder if some of these movies that aren't as interesting,

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I wonder if theaters have ever considered or if it's possible with the way they do

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their budgeting and stuff, to have cheaper tickets for cheaper movies like Less Interesting movies.

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If it could go to to streaming straight away.

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What if they said, hey, you know what, we're going to put it in theaters, but it's only going to be like $6 a ticket instead of $12

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a ticket or something like that. Right? Like, okay, maybe it'll do okay for the first three days,

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it'll get some money up front and then okay after that week or whatever.

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Then it goes straight and then it goes to streaming.

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I wonder if that would. You know, it's a limited run to they don't have to like,

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invest as much as like having the theater fully booked for it.

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It's not in all you know, maybe it's only got like five showings a day or whatever.

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Even less. Yeah. And the theater still gets the popcorn sales and stuff like that,

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which is what they're in the business for, of course. So I think that way you. Can even, like sell.

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That is like an arthouse thing, like, hey, it's, what's our indie movie of the week

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or whatever? That will be very interesting,

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especially with those who with movie passes, do the AMC stubs or whatever,

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where it's like is nothing really big that I know is coming on.

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So let's head there anyways and just see what the indie movie is for the week.

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Yeah, that could be a really cool thing. Like there's this movie coming up, Sacramento,

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which we'll be talking about next week. It's about two people that are going to be, you know,

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one of them is basically becoming a dad, yada, yada, yada.

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And they're gonna be driving up to Sacramento and it's all the.

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And you, boy, you may have driven that I-5 route many times.

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It's the most desolate freaking drive on the planet.

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But it's about that drive. And it's like,

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I don't think I would go to the theaters for it, but if it was like a $6 ticket any day,

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hell yeah, I'd be there. That's such a good idea.

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Yeah, I think that'd be cool. All right, let's move into House of the Dragon.

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We have a character confirmed. Before we get started, I will say I work so hard on saying this guy's name

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that I've messed up the easier name. Oh, so.

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The actor status. So, pretty good guys at home about that one.

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Confirmed the character Darren, which is the name I messed up.

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It's coming. Is.

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In a TikTok. I did this. I'm like daddy on me.

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I was like, really? Throw some mustard on it because I worked on you.

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I always pull up those, how do you pronounce I'm doing the whole time?

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How do you pronounce whatever name for a name I don't recognize

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Steve, too, so. Okay, I think you're ready.

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Steve doesn't. Okay. You're good. And it is like. And Darian, like.

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Sound of a bitch. Yeah, I would imagine Darren b day e all. Ron.

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Well, you just stared. I only read it in the book I did.

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Nobody read it to me in the books. You know, I don't have the audiobook for it.

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So anyways, yeah, Steve says he ends up, posting

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basically like the page of a script, but it was on his iPad.

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And they're at the table read and on. It shows that Darren Targaryen is part of the show.

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He is the younger brother to both Aegon and Damon,

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now Aegon and Eamon, and is coming from, Hightower.

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So we kind of thought he was going to be there.

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We saw his Blue Dragon, but we weren't we weren't sure about that.

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And he's going to add a lot of firepower to the green side because right now with the blacks and the greens,

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it looks like the greens are getting outmatched pretty hard.

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And now you have this young, scrappy fighter coming in, aiming to ask,

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but more, more studied character.

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He's kind of seen as a bit of a charming hero, a little bit too.

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It just adds another dynamic. I mean, a little more, variable, I, I imagine

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I mean, there's going to be a big battle they're going to kill off.

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Now, if the people who fell in love with. So.

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So they're going to need other people to lead the story and carry it on.

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So, I mean, and this is all based in the books, right?

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It's it's already been written, into the story.

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So I'm all for it as well.

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What I want to know is, as a viewer who doesn't know the story from the books,

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do you feel like this feels like an even battle

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between the Greens and the blacks right now? I don't know.

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Not really. I mean, Dragon count wise, I guess it's pretty close, right?

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I mean, right now it's basically Vhagar.

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You know, we have Aemond dragon and technically a sister's dragon, but she's never driven.

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Driven her, ridden her dragon much.

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So, yeah, it really feels like it's just one dragon on one side,

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and then the rest has all their dragons still. But it's one, like, massive, unstoppable dragon.

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Exactly. Do you just eat the dragon?

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Yeah, I don't know. I guess it seems like it would.

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It seems like it's balanced enough because it's got to be the

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the super powerful one against all the smaller ones.

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Right? And the the characters involved too.

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It's like, you know, the.

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Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, it's.

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I think it needs to be there's going to be a big battle.

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There's going to shake it up, has to reset skills.

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It's what I think it's. Spoiler alert for what's to come. But,

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we're gonna get some betrayals that'll even things out a little bit.

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Okay? And I think that's needed.

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But I think it also kind of prolongs the story that maybe,

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I think if it wasn't for the fact that George R.R. Martin was like, oh, wait, this could be a TV show,

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wouldn't have it wouldn't be play played out. And it's a shame,

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because I really like the characters that they end up doing this portrayal.

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Yeah. So I think that like for people who are watching this show now, you might be thinking

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all they have to do is take out Vhagar and they win this thing.

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There are a lot of twists and turns to come,

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and the fact that we have something as simple as Darren Targaryens

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bringing another dragon for the green Side,

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and he's bringing the Hightower army from Oldtown.

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I think it's going to be a lot bigger than they expect. And boy, this first battle is a sea battle that is so freaking cool.

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And the books I'm looking forward people saying that. That'll be fun, man.

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Let's move on to a litany of Disney announcements.

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So be ready for this, guys. They are rebooting Power Rangers.

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Are they bringing the beginning? The ten Percy Jackson time to do this.

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Their key is to revitalize the brand.

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They're working with Hasbro on this. Who acquired the company back in 2018?

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They don't want to just make another, like, live action crappy show.

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Like, not to be me, but, like, you know, at a certain point, they just kept wearing down like this,

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I don't know, Thunder Fairy Force or whatever.

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Now they actually want to reboot it. They actually want to use high quality, imagery and storytelling.

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Is this franchise worth rebooting?

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I think so, I mean, they do a different, though.

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I mean, like you're saying, don't make it the same,

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you know, like targeting children as much.

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Yeah. I don't think it's a as big of a part of our generation's

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childhood as you know, they want it to be.

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Right. But I think if you were to, like, kind of mute the colors a little bit,

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make it a little bit more mature, realistic. Okay.

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Yeah, a little bit. Yeah. Make it a little more realistic.

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I mean, I did like the movie, the one that came out when we were kids with Ivan Ooze.

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Oh yeah. That was that was awesome, right? Like, you know, we don't want to keep seeing the same stuff, but follow that

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trend, follow our generation if that's if we're the target audience, I don't know.

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But I think if they to make it a little bit more mature,

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kind of in a deeper story to it, not just, oh my God, this is something bad guy.

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We got to go do karate in the street. It's like, let's tone down the karate and make it more.

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You guys are global.

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You know, a global force that goes around and like Avengers

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a yeah, league that goes together and protects people.

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I don't know. I think they could do it a lot better.

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And using, like, modern, modern CGI version of technology where it's like, Tony Stark's

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suit, how it assembles on them and stuff that looks a lot better than the way.

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We're morphing time. Yeah, to make it look a little bit

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more believable with what we're used to seeing now.

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I think there's I think there's a lot of fans out there of Power Rangers

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today still, even from our generation, but I hope they don't target us.

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That's what I'm worried about. I don't want them to try to make it for us.

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Yeah, I want them to try to get the next generation like Marco, like Power Rangers, his own work, his own way.

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And it's silly when you I personally, when I rewatch

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Power Rangers now, which we did recently for their anniversary, it looks so stupid.

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But as a kid I freaking loved it. And that's how that's supposed to be.

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Like, not everything has to stick with us, right? We talked about this earlier and so make this for the kids again.

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Make this I mean, not even for the kids, right? When we watched it, I think it was geared for teenagers,

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maybe a younger teenager generation, but

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do that again, make it for them somehow, find it relatable.

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Which means, I don't know, I guess TikTok and Snapchat, I don't know.

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I don't know how they could that with the way technology has changed

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and entertainment has changed, we have so much more options, even like

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at a young age, comparing this to Phineas and Ferb or something like that.

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Like, I don't think kids would watch this as much as we did back when we were that age.

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Maybe if they were to set it in like a high school setting and it's like,

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hey, after school, we have to go fight this bad guy

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or something like that, right? That might bring in a teen tween group, but I don't think it I don't think it.

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Was that though. It was in well, it was set in the high school age kids,

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but it was set at like these, like, juice shop or whatever.

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After school. They would be at like, that's where everything was.

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Done it, I don't remember, but. They were all that age.

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Yeah. Yeah, yeah. See, hopefully they did go with it.

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I hope they, I hope they let, let this generation have their own power.

19:59

And just because I do feel like sometimes they try to kowtow to us too much

20:02

and it's like it's okay. We can miss out on this, guys.

20:05

That being said, I have a lot of friends that I know we're going to be like

20:08

over critical about this. If it's not exactly like they'll power just like it was it for you, that's fine.

20:12

Yeah. You know, what I can imagine is a really big Power Rangers convention

20:16

where, like, everybody cosplays as a Power Ranger.

20:18

That'd be kind of fun. Especially since there's at every convention, there's a Power Ranger.

20:22

It's like such a because there's so many different versions of the Power Rangers

20:25

and it's like, hey, I need to attack. That's your job now.

20:28

Is it going to be Star Trek? Same way. I'm not talking shit.

20:30

Yeah, so I took the same way. Two as your two Star Trek. You're like, you got a job for life, buddy.

20:34

I got to do is travel the globe. Yeah, yeah, this one, I think this. Would be a perfect.

20:37

I mean, we got to do less reboots and remakes and stuff.

20:40

Yeah, yeah, yeah, this would be a perfect show for them to do a, animated version of.

20:44

It as kids. Like. Like, my son likes to watch the Spider-Man,

20:48

Spidey friends adventures or something like that. Yes.

20:51

Like that. Why would they not make something like this out of power?

20:54

I imagine it's got to be way cheaper to do animated than live action.

20:58

And if it kind of checks those boxes,

21:02

fun and easy for that group, I don't think they need as much.

21:05

Then the bright colors and stuff are all it takes for that younger,

21:10

you know, three to 6 or 8 age group.

21:14

And the live action is just not as engaging for them.

21:16

So I don't know, it'd be. That being said too, like, doesn't this feel like it's

21:20

such an anime waiting to happen, like the anime fight style?

21:23

I think we did really well for parodies.

21:26

Yeah, or like Teen Titans. Like even like a Western wrestler.

21:28

I was just there. To get the kids because they did Teen Titans.

21:31

I'd be perfect. And that was good.

21:33

Yeah, I think that's a good idea. That's a good one there, and I'll probably be checking it out.

21:37

But again, I hope it's not necessarily good for us. It's terrible.

21:40

Yeah. More Disney. Here we go. Coco two.

21:43

And now I know Coco is big at your house I freakin I can't watch it with Mama Coco.

21:47

Oh I love Coco. Where do they go with this?

21:51

Like. I mean, you've already told the story of this traditions.

21:54

Do you can you think of again? You're not directly part of it, but, you know, with your wife and whatnot,

21:58

she's probably more familiar with it. Are there any other traditions you wanted to explore?

22:01

So spoiler we talked about this on the Disney Moms Gone Wrong.

22:04

I was a guest on our last episode. So spoiler we haven't announced the Disney one was gone wrong is coming back.

22:09

So season three.

22:13

Not happened. And that was a fake big news.

22:17

So I, I did talk about this

22:20

a little bit before, and I think one story that would be really cool.

22:24

And let me start this by saying, I don't know enough about the, you know,

22:27

Hispanic history and culture. And a lot I learned from Coco.

22:31

I didn't realize then, you know, believing

22:33

I thought it was just traditional Catholic, afterlife beliefs that they had.

22:36

It's like, oh, no, there's this whole other

22:39

realm that they believe in and stuff is very interesting.

22:42

And then you learn about the day of the dead.

22:44

Yeah. Growing up, I didn't know anything. It's just that, you know, certain people celebrate skeletons on a one day a year.

22:50

It's just, like, very foreign. But one story, I think would be interesting to explore,

22:54

because in this first movie, it was like, you know, Miguel trying to reconnect his family, bring them back together, bridge the past

23:01

generations or whatever, and be free to, play music, which was kind of his.

23:06

His dream. Yeah. So in this next now he's gone to to the land of the dead,

23:11

and he kind of knows what's behind the curtain.

23:15

I think in this next one, he's going to be, you know, a little bit older

23:18

than 20 years old or something like that, like cats making noise.

23:21

He's going to be a little bit older and, maybe he has a child

23:25

that tragically dies very heavy for Disney.

23:28

Right? But, what Disney movie doesn't start without the kid's parents

23:32

all dying in a ship crash? Or that freaking up after ups intro intro?

23:35

Oh, yeah, they they will torture you. Emotionally, not cry and watching big movie.

23:40

But, so Miguel's child, you know,

23:43

maybe he's got, like, three kids and one of them dies.

23:45

So now he has to find a way to get back into the, land of the land of the dead.

23:50

And, you know, he goes on that day, he uses some kind of spiritual magic

23:54

or whatever gets across the bridge and is trying to bring his child back.

23:59

And it's his whole internal,

24:01

his whole battle to, you know, fight death and resurrect his child

24:05

to bring his child back. What would be sad is that can't happen.

24:08

So in the end, it's going to be this turmoil.

24:12

Acceptance of death is final and eternal, and it's coming for everybody.

24:17

And all we can do is remember that person.

24:20

So when you go back, you know, maybe he has like a family ritual

24:23

where they do a certain special Remembrance Day for that child or something like that, but it's like,

24:28

yeah, no matter what, you know, it's it's coming for all of us.

24:32

Now, have you seen a song like from Remember Me to like, remember them

24:36

and and be about, like, making sure to keep

24:38

the people who have passed in your life still in your heart. That.

24:41

That's one thing you know, me and my wife talk about is Disney movies have to nail the music.

24:45

That is the yes. Number one thing I remember when I think about any Disney movie,

24:50

if I liked it, it's because it had good songs.

24:52

So they really I mean, you can't just tweak a song.

24:55

You gotta. I mean, they can replay the old one in there somewhere, but,

24:58

you have to really nail the music. If they just kind of cut corners to try to make it

25:02

a little bit lower budget or something like that. Yeah.

25:04

And the songs don't hit, then they just lost the movie.

25:07

You're so right about that. Like they had a wish come out.

25:10

What's more recently the biggest complaint was like is basically I generative music was terrible.

25:15

Meanwhile, I mean, I think cars life as a hobby.

25:18

I was so attached to cars that as the song hit the charts, it kept bringing up

25:22

the movie again, like the video clips about, you know, mater and all them.

25:26

Yeah. I think this is a good idea to bring back Coco. I just was wondering if there's another tradition

25:30

that like that we could look at too, as I too learned a lot about, you know, who knows if it's accurate,

25:34

but I too learned a lot about, you know, the day that that is of like that,

25:38

which I thought was just Mexican Halloween back of the day when I was a kid.

25:42

It is not an I hope that they find a way to do that.

25:45

I hope they find a way to represent more of the cultures and stuff like that.

25:48

Straw hat goofy, creator I, I'm a big fan of.

25:50

And luckily, Thomas has had a chance to meet him. So we've had him, you know, around, he likes the idea that.

25:55

What if this is in the future? Enough where Miguel himself is passing.

26:00

And, he didn't become a famous musician.

26:03

Like you can tell he wants to be a guitarist in the first movie.

26:05

He did become a famous musician. And instead, And he's worried like, oh, they're all going to forget me

26:10

because I didn't make it big. But then he realizes by the

26:14

end of the movie, it's not about the world not recognizing you or remembering you.

26:18

It's about your family remembering you. Which I think that to kind of brings back the idea of what's important.

26:23

Like there's always got to with all Pixar movies,

26:25

there's like a really broad morality, you know, and for this one, it would be,

26:29

fame versus family connection type of thing.

26:32

I think that would be very serviceable. I, I would like to watch that too.

26:35

Yeah. Yeah, that sounds good. I don't think that his character I mean, he would age a lot between now and then.

26:41

So he would grow and change. But at the end of the first movie, it's like he wasn't all about fame.

26:45

He was doing it well, I don't know, I guess he was doing it for fame.

26:50

At one point, he was turning from his family to go pursue

26:54

his dream of being a musician. So yeah, I guess I would make sense.

26:59

And he's a. Kid, so, like, I mean, it was such a base level version of that.

27:02

But if it became his career

27:04

and that's all he was thinking about, then suddenly he becomes an adult, right?

27:07

Like, you know, yeah, that would be very.

27:09

But hopefully he learned something from his great great grandfather who did that same thing and died

27:15

and never got to see his daughter again kind of thing.

27:18

I got to rewatch Coco. Yeah.

27:20

So freaking good. Crazy.

27:22

And the music too. It's part of my. I have a Disney playlist on Spotify that, Well, I gotta move that over to the

27:27

YouTube music now that I switched over. But it that's in there where it's just like they remember me

27:32

every time it's go to. Yeah.

27:34

All right. American dad, let's talk about this is okay. Hey.

27:37

More Disney guys. Like I said, American Dad is nearing a deal to return to Fox.

27:40

After nearly a over a decade of being on TBS.

27:44

You're not an adult animation guy like I am, so I know I'm.

27:46

Not as much. Yeah, I did used to watch

27:48

American Dad a lot back in the day, though it is a great show.

27:51

So what I love about America, dad so much

27:54

is it left Fox and went to TBS, which felt like

27:58

near cancellation. Right? You're going to go to basic cable.

28:00

You're not going to be on the main main network.

28:03

And they retooled the show, which they retooled the show a little bit

28:05

beforehand, but especially on TBS, it is not political satire at all anymore.

28:11

When it first started, the whole joke was like, you know, stand

28:14

being the CIA agent and being overly, pro-america and stuff like that.

28:19

It now just embraces the weird with weird, fantastical stories all the time.

28:23

They, they take chances that I don't see

28:26

any other version of adult animation in this kind of way.

28:29

Taking. They just had one of the episodes from the last season

28:32

that I really enjoyed was like, this is something unique was,

28:35

they plan to hire Cecile from a bank in the middle of a grocery store.

28:40

Almost the entire episode is about them developing the heist.

28:43

It's, Roger, Stan, and Francine

28:46

and about two thirds of the way through,

28:49

somebody ends up, doing the plan, and they're like, what happened?

28:53

Well, what it was, they took a drug to forget their memories

28:55

so that they couldn't be asked questions about it.

28:57

But then they forgot they did the heist. And in the heist, they changed where they hid the money.

29:03

And so they're like, now they're ransacking this grocery store,

29:05

trying to figure out where they hid the money in this grocery store.

29:07

Meanwhile, other cops are. Trying to same this money.

29:10

So it's just like. A family guy wouldn't take time to let that breathe, you know,

29:14

to let that story breathe. There's so many other ones that are like that.

29:17

And then on the other side of that, I mean, we have Bob's Burgers,

29:19

which I think is probably the best animated show on television right now.

29:22

That's all about character driven, like really good stories that are like,

29:26

they're funny because the characters are funny. This show is funny because they're just like taking

29:30

whatever story they want to making fun, whatever it is.

29:33

And I hope that their return to Fox doesn't mean that they're going to try

29:37

to return to what they used before at Fox, which is political satire.

29:41

I think if it were a secular political satire, that show would have been canceled so long ago.

29:45

How crazy divided we are as a country right now versus when it came out

29:49

from the way it would have. It would have brought, certain people,

29:52

but it would have pushed away a lot of people at the same time.

29:54

The first few seasons openly made fun of

29:57

Stan being such a fan of George Bush, the president at the time.

30:00

And that was the joke, was like, this guy likes George Bush that much?

30:03

That's crazy. Could you imagine doing that with Donald Trump?

30:06

Oh yeah. No. People would be fighting on either side and on the same side.

30:10

They'd be fighting about this episode, probably. Yeah, exactly.

30:13

Yeah. So now that they're they make jokes about, you know, Roger,

30:17

dating himself or whatever the hell's next, you know.

30:19

Yeah. That's like, okay, that's fine. Like, do you can't be mad at that.

30:22

It's an alien dating himself. So I really hope that they kind of keep to the the fun that they have adapted.

30:28

What are you watching any of the adult animation of?

30:31

Probably Bob's Burgers? Probably only really one that you really watch, right?

30:33

Yeah. Nothing on. I don't watch anything on a regular basis anymore. All right.

30:36

Now I'm trying to watch Daredevil to get caught up so I can actually see the new series.

30:42

But, yeah, there's nothing that I. Oh, I watch survivor once a week. I make sure to watch survivor.

30:47

I think that's the only show that I watch, you know, regularly.

30:50

Consistently. Yeah. Yeah. Otherwise, it's like when I got a minute, I'll throw on an episode or something

30:55

random, but yeah, definitely not consistent on anything anymore.

30:59

Adult animation is my go to bed shows, you know, like it's a

31:03

I think view is probably, Star Trek, right? Where it's kind of like something you can put on and passively watch.

31:08

You'll catch, you'll pay attention here and there, but not too much.

31:10

So I see a lot of these shows over and over again, because you're going to bed and

31:16

I don't know if the show's longevity will be strengthened by switching over back to Fox.

31:21

I think it makes it more competitive and stuff like that.

31:23

Where TBS, there was absolutely no competitors for it.

31:26

So we'll have to see. But yeah, I think it's also elevation.

31:28

I did one of those things where it's like, I want to start a podcast for,

31:31

because I just watch so much of it. I just don't know what the hell it would look like.

31:35

So that's not happening. But when it when it moves like that, do you know,

31:39

does a creative team move with it or is it just the cast?

31:42

You know it does. You know who's one of the writers?

31:44

The creative team will move with it. Gosh, I guess Soren Cameron was last name from so on.

31:49

And boy, Soren Booey. Yeah, I think about this one boy.

31:52

He's one of the writers for the show. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

31:55

And I'm getting their clips now on TikTok, by the way. By him and Dan.

31:58

Yeah, it's those two are just. There's such geniuses. Yeah.

32:02

So that's good. Yeah. Next up last bit of Disney move

32:07

very now we're kind of like this is Disney move tactically kind of thing like that.

32:10

Yeah Jonathan Majors says he wants to return as king.

32:15

He's he's showing interest for it I you know, okay,

32:18

let's kind of remind people he got kicked out for some domestic abuse, stuff that came out.

32:22

First off lessons. Did that ever get settled?

32:24

Do we know. There's a level of it getting settled that he did actually do stuff was.

32:28

Abusive. Okay. Yes. So so Disney didn't want that that name and their orbit or anything like that.

32:33

They're going to get as far away from this as possible.

32:35

Even though he was a big character in their,

32:38

you know, main series at the time, everything.

32:40

Was hinging on him. Dude, everything goes shit.

32:42

Yeah. But is there a path forward for him back in the Marvel?

32:47

Do you think he could come back? I think, yeah, I think so.

32:50

I think everybody deserves redemption. Has the potential to change their life, you know, for the better.

32:56

One thing I think it would take, I mean, if Disney is standing

32:59

by morals, which is what we hope to see,

33:02

is that he is a person needs to come out and make a public apology for his actions.

33:06

Say, I don't condone this. You know, it was me acting irrationally.

33:10

Maybe I was substance abuse problems or whatever power and money

33:14

got to my head, whatever it is. But we need the children who look up to him to know that that wasn't the him.

33:20

The version of him that they should be looking up to. True. Right. That's.

33:23

And then, you know, there's going to be, I'm sure, some kind of trial period

33:27

or something like that. Disney's got to work with him for a while to make sure that they could trust him as an actor

33:32

or a, oh, what's that called it?

33:35

A contract where he has to maintain decency.

33:40

There's words that make sense for that. I can't remember what that contract is called,

33:43

but yeah, I know, I know what contract you're talking about.

33:45

Where, like. Yeah, basically what you do outside of work affects what you do in works.

33:49

You have to make sure I stay safe. Yeah. He's been on a bit of a redemption tour doing all these interviews.

33:52

He did the Breakfast Club. Great. Great interview.

33:55

I personally don't think he can be redeemed.

33:57

I mean, domestic violence or whatever I think is definitely, you know, beyond redemption.

34:01

But, there are some things he mentioned. I think it's a good point.

34:03

The fact that Marvel was so quick to act

34:07

without maybe having the full story or any confirmation, that's a good point.

34:10

Maybe he shouldn't have jumped to that immediately. I mean, they should have acted the same way that they did act,

34:15

just maybe not with as, as fast as possible.

34:18

I, I like the character Kang, and I feel like the character

34:22

Kang needs to be brought back. I think we could not use Jonathan Majors for the reason he was was,

34:28

Another reason why he was removed wasn't because of substance abuse or it's anger issues and not to spit rumors,

34:35

but, you know, I know a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy kind of thing.

34:38

He was terrible on set.

34:40

He was a real problem, real jerk.

34:43

And, from my understanding, like, he's

34:46

kind of mentioned even in the interviews, he's kind of referencing the fact that, like, he was a jerk and he's saying that, like,

34:51

when I'm now working on projects, I'm a different person on set

34:55

and it's like, okay, the fact that that's not the allegation that got you removed,

34:59

but as you're saying, and now during your kind of redemption

35:01

tour shows to me that he knows that's one of the reasons the studios

35:05

I want to work with them anymore is because he was like a pain in the ass.

35:07

You know, you were a problem for more reasons than the public knows.

35:11

Yeah, well, and if it's not worth it for Disney,

35:14

if it's like, hey, this guy was already a problem and this was the one thing he got tripped up

35:18

on, but we know there's more down the pipeline. Or, you know, could have been or was going to be or whatever.

35:22

So it's okay to just to not bring him back in the fold

35:25

and like you're saying, recast, bring the character back.

35:28

There's nothing wrong with the character. But yeah, recast him with somebody who's less problematic.

35:33

Yeah. With doom coming up, I think it was tricky at first.

35:37

I didn't know how they were going to do it. Like, how are you going to transition over to a different character?

35:40

They had to use somebody big like doom.

35:42

But now that they're starting that process, I think we're all on board enough for it to not be a problem.

35:47

They're not using Kang anymore. Yeah, yeah, a little jarring in the timeline.

35:52

Everything. But we've seen plenty of stuff like that.

35:54

Not a big deal. Yeah, they've. They've really.

35:57

How many Loki's have gone through? I mean, come on.

35:59

All right. All right, we're going over to video game stuff.

36:02

Xbox, this job, and this is what you've been wanting, man.

36:05

This is what you've been praising for

36:07

Xbox accidentally posted an image of showing like,

36:10

oh, you can play Xbox on all these different things. It's like this future UI that that the user interface

36:15

you've worked Xbox on your phone, you're whatever the hell.

36:17

And in it people were looking at the categories. One of them is steam.

36:20

You can integrate steam into your Xbox. This is the next generation of Xbox.

36:24

Yeah, go for it, John. Let's get the rant on why this is so required.

36:27

It's funny, I sent you like a little teaser of somebody, you know, talking about that and you're like, oh no, that's fake.

36:33

And it probably was at the time. Anyways. And this hadn't been leaked yet.

36:36

Yeah. But I was like so excited, like, oh my God.

36:38

We talk about I've talked about this so many times. Oh, you know, Sony and Microsoft should both be getting into the PC

36:44

gaming development business instead of making the Xbox.

36:47

You make a, you know, a computer that plays Xbox games because they're almost the same thing.

36:53

Just bridge that little gap and you hope you unlock doors for players

36:56

on both sides of it. At least the consumers.

36:58

So now we're we're hearing that that's what they're going to do.

37:01

The next Xbox will be equipped with Microsoft re able to play.

37:06

It'll have steam integration. So it sounds like what it'll be is basically

37:09

like a Xbox version of Microsoft probably, you know.

37:12

Yeah. Yeah. So with steam though, that means you could potentially

37:15

be playing your PlayStation exclusives as well.

37:18

That's wild to me. Is so wild I would be able to play like frickin spider man on my Xbox.

37:24

Yeah. So I'm hoping though in this or at least in the next coming steps,

37:28

they make it to where you can use that same system for your homework and,

37:32

you know, household projects or whatever.

37:34

And you do all in all in one system because it just makes sense to do that

37:38

ideally. Right. Because as computing power, you know, for the two.

37:41

But I think to be able to just change enough to be able to do that

37:44

adds more expenses to the machine that they don't want to add.

37:47

And the leak that we did get, it's very clear, just a UI change.

37:51

So it's not going to be it's still a video game system.

37:54

It's not be able to do all that stuff. As much as we think that would be cool.

37:57

Even if the upgrade version, the $500 one, just plays games, the $700

38:01

one is the home entertainment device, so it does all the things that you could

38:05

need in the house. And nowadays, I mean, just through Wi-Fi or whatever,

38:08

you can connect your computer to all the TVs in the house.

38:11

I was like, why would you not just make it all integrated, make it one big system?

38:15

So the thing you sent me was a guy saying like,

38:17

this is what should be the future or whatever. And that was just kind of like, you know, random thought discussion

38:22

and based off of some discussions that had been going on for a while,

38:25

this is actually a still image from a presser that they put out. And

38:31

I think this is so the way you win the next

38:35

if a console was even a thing anymore, that's how you win it, man.

38:38

You know how many steam games we all have. They always have these.

38:40

There's a spring sale going on right now on steam where you could buy $60

38:43

game, $70 games for two bucks, three bucks, five bucks.

38:47

Everybody has a library full of that stuff.

38:49

And I play Marvel Rivals right now.

38:51

But I have to be concerned that, like, oh, it's a shame I can't play on the Xbox

38:55

as well, or the PlayStation as well because it doesn't integrate the same.

38:59

Both my steam accounts attached doesn't matter because it's using my steam saves,

39:03

and I think that this is the biggest

39:05

and frankly, easiest slam dunk Microsoft can do.

39:09

You are the only company that can bridge the gap between

39:12

PC gaming and console gaming so comfortably.

39:15

And you'll stick it right to Microsoft, because my career at the PlayStation

39:19

position is at the point where they're having to leverage

39:22

some of their exclusives on a PC to be able to bridge the gap between new releases of their sources.

39:28

And now Microsoft's like, great, we're going to put that over here

39:30

while still there now, while still controlling the destiny of their own games

39:34

and putting their exclusives on a PlayStation.

39:36

So when there's a workaround now

39:40

to essentially take PlayStation exclusives,

39:42

they are controlling how PlayStation, how Xbox exclusives get to PlayStation.

39:47

I think that's just an advantage that I didn't expect going forward.

39:50

And I really, I really think it's a smart move on Xbox aside to be able to control that destiny.

39:55

And it's a way that they can add this massive library to their system

39:58

without having to buy the individual games.

40:00

It's like, yes, though with Game Pass, you don't get to play all these steam games,

40:05

but we all have. Like you said before, we all have a large steam library

40:09

and steam sales go on all the time. Steam is really killing it with the, you know, platform.

40:14

So it's like, yeah, they just connect the two and allow you to access it.

40:17

You know, Steam's already been doing the business. Maybe down the road Microsoft is going to buy steam because it'd be kind of cool.

40:22

But if yeah, even if they don't, working together is profitable for both.

40:27

Yeah. And we have it's it's all but confirmed the handheld Xbox,

40:32

every every ounce of rumors with all the legitimate people behind it saying, yeah.

40:36

Hannibal handheld Xbox coming announced later this year.

40:40

And so when you add that to it, it's the Steam Deck.

40:44

But now it's Xbox is a Steam Deck, and it literally

40:47

could use a steam stuff like it. This it's crazy how much this just makes sense to me.

40:51

Yeah, yeah. I think this is a slam dunk. I can't wait for this.

40:54

I, you know, this is a good move on Xbox.

40:57

This part another interesting move on Xbox.

40:59

This part is they also just recently was discussing, in an interview

41:03

with Phil Spencer that they are still investing in adaptations.

41:08

Now, this is all because of the Minecraft Minecraft movie coming up,

41:11

which I didn't even think about how that's like an Xbox adaptation.

41:14

Yeah. But everybody's concerned because they're like, hey, the halo.

41:17

It didn't turn out good. And I don't make those mistakes.

41:20

I wouldn't say that. So, so clearly to Halo, especially season one I thought was good season.

41:26

Is it. Yeah. There's only two seasons where it season two was a little shaky.

41:29

There's a lot of complaints that fans had, but it was still good

41:33

I liked it I want to you know I'd watch it again.

41:36

And if they were to continue it I would, you know, watch the next seasons.

41:40

But fans had plenty of complaints about it.

41:43

Yeah. But so there is a lot of different Microsoft games or.

41:48

Yeah, I guess Microsoft games. That I think would be cool to make a series or a movie about.

41:53

So I made a list. Ready. Okay. Let's say.

41:55

Oh, so do you want to mention the ones that you posted online already.

42:00

Know the tier list? Because if they double up, that works.

42:02

Okay. So this would be,

42:07

I don't know, like a Lord of the Rings Game of Thrones kind of thing.

42:10

If we got to see Elder Scrolls. Yeah, made into it.

42:14

It can't be a movie, though. Make a series.

42:16

It's got to have the full, you know, Game of Thrones treatment.

42:18

And that would be would be dope.

42:20

Especially following the success of fallout.

42:23

Like you see, the Bethesda titles can be actually worked into one main story.

42:27

And so you could absolutely do that. And and it's so much lower and Elder Scrolls and Dragons from hell.

42:32

Yeah. So speaking of fallout, I think something that would have a similar vibe

42:36

maybe to that is Red Dead Redemption. I haven't played it, though. I've seen clips of it.

42:40

But imagine like that kind of, setting, I guess.

42:43

I, I completely agree with you. That's not an Xbox game.

42:46

Oh, no. No, no, it's it's on PlayStation.

42:49

So I played it only on Xbox. But there absolutely should be an AMC series.

42:53

And I think games is a studio or the publisher behind it. Yes.

42:56

Fully agree. And then you or some, maybe somebody else was explaining this game called Firewatch

43:01

was that you told me. About to me. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

43:03

That would make such a good TV show.

43:06

Yes. Thinking about it, it's like so it's it's people who work in the forest.

43:09

Right. And they have these towers, they climb to the top of the tower and they have to be the lookouts for fire.

43:14

Yeah. You know, wildfires that start and they can barely communicate with the next tower, you know, from them.

43:19

And they're out there for months at a time by themselves, pretty much like,

43:22

imagine you come, you climb down from your tower

43:25

and you have to just go investigate and check out the area,

43:28

make sure it's safe, and you find a animal with a broken leg or something like it.

43:31

You just have a little adventures and you collect some resources and stuff.

43:35

And yeah, every once in a while you have to go up to your tower

43:37

and you make sure everything every night for sure.

43:39

And eventually and towards

43:42

a certain point in the game, a fire does break out and you're working with a team to help fight it.

43:46

But there could also be this, like kind of mystery stuff that you find, which.

43:49

Is in the game, right? Yeah. They randomly find a chain link fence and then it's a government project,

43:54

like what's going on in there. Yeah. And then there's the mysteries of like, who is the guy who I'm replacing?

43:59

Why am I finding his stuff out here? Yeah, he had a son out here. He was supposed to have a son in here.

44:03

So, yeah, there's, like, Smiths year in solving.

44:05

It's a six hour game or whatever. I can't suggest it enough, guys. Firewatch is a great story.

44:09

Nice. Also, the Xbox game, by the way.

44:12

I want to throw that out there. Is it. Matt? Oh, okay. I, I just googled like

44:17

I Google. The Microsoft games and then I must click the link that brought me to other games.

44:21

Yeah, yeah. But, no.

44:24

I just love it. Yeah. Also the movie The Gorge on Apple TV, if you guys haven't seen it

44:28

the way we're talking about. Like, okay, go ahead.

44:30

Yeah, it's kind of all right.

44:32

But, sounds a lot like that. Firewatch. A lot of friends watching that.

44:35

Everyone is coming back with them, like, hey, it's worth a watch. Yeah, I gotta check it out.

44:38

Yeah. Was good. But yeah. So do you have any do you have any actual Microsoft games

44:41

that you think should be made into movies and TV? So Gears of War, we would have a live action adaptation coming up for that.

44:46

But and hopefully we get Dave Bautista with that as he's already expressed

44:49

that he wants to play, Marcus Fenix in that.

44:52

It's just such an easy classic. Definitely do that.

44:55

I think that Crash Bandicoot could be made into a really cool

44:58

series for kids, like a Shrek or a Kung Fu Panda type series.

45:02

He's lovable, he's likable, he's got a he's got a good cast around him.

45:05

It's just it's a fun one to do.

45:07

Fable is coming back in 2026 with a game that I can't wait to play,

45:11

but use that as a reason to also make a series for it and not a series.

45:16

I'm sorry. Movie and go for Dungeons and Dragons with it.

45:19

The movie Dungeons Dragons where it's, joke like, I think I'll just go.

45:24

Should be your serious Game of Thrones clone.

45:26

I think fable should be your, like, high jinks in a tavern, story, because that's how, right?

45:32

I mean, it's one of the games where famously you could be called

45:35

chicken kicker because you actually, like, cook the chicken as a kid and, like,

45:38

that becomes your name throughout the entire game. Like, I love that so much.

45:42

So have fun with it. Like, I would love to see that.

45:44

And then lastly, like Activision Blizzard, there was a deal with Netflix before the acquisition,

45:49

to start making Netflix shows for for the Warcraft, Call of Duty, Overwatch.

45:55

Overwatch I mean is banging for, kicked that all off?

45:57

I mean, Blizzard has taken such care with the story of their games.

46:01

I know that's less true now than it was yesterday, but, still,

46:04

I think you can start tapping into that Blizzard profile

46:06

and you're going to get a lot of old school stories. Yeah.

46:09

So, not to segue too fast, but before we start talking about severance,

46:12

there's one other game that I was thinking about that I'd still would love to see made into a series or movie,

46:17

and I don't know if it's owned by Microsoft. I have no idea.

46:19

But we've talked about it before as portal.

46:22

If if the people who made severance, Ben Stiller and his team made a portal.

46:26

Series, which. Yeah, the mystery.

46:28

And like all the everything that's going on in there, it just.

46:31

Yeah, it reeks of severance. So maybe a milkshake is the right vibe for like,

46:38

how it's funny how unserious or serious things are at some times.

46:43

And that's where severance has a milkshake. And so you could totally do that because like when you're playing portal,

46:48

you're like this weird place, you don't know what's going on

46:50

and definitely has that sterilized environment.

46:52

But there's also like, if you finish this, you get a cake, you know, like,

46:56

and that's like, that's milkshake. That's great.

46:59

What would be interesting is seeing them do

47:01

the game did so well, but the emotions and everything that you,

47:04

you feel without having other people in the room at all, it's all automated

47:10

and, you know, robots and prerecorded videos and stuff like that.

47:13

But to be able to, like, tell a story with their enemies, you have the main characters life.

47:17

But I think they'd be I think they could do such a cool show series with it.

47:21

Absolutely. I just the main thing for Xbox and Microsoft making adaptations, I hope that they learn from Halo, while

47:27

Halo is finding second success on Netflix, by the way, I can't negate that.

47:30

That's, stick to the source material.

47:33

That's what we fell in love with. Why do you guys have to change the story?

47:35

It does not make sense. Arbiter should not be dead at the end of season two.

47:39

Like, that's so stupid of me. He's such a good character and bringing back his player. Sad.

47:44

Let's see if they can. If they could land us. And maybe we'll even get a Halo movie because they have been people

47:48

in that back and forth. And I think Spielberg still has the rights to it to make that movie.

47:57

Let's move into our review for Savage Season two.

48:01

Jonathan, you had a chance to watch over season two with me as well.

48:04

Do you even want to briefly go over the story? Like, his story is so wacky here?

48:08

I know if I would have to have written it all out to really follow it, because it was it's all over the place.

48:13

What are your thoughts then on on the second season? Oh so good.

48:17

The first season was just setting up a lot of questions

48:20

and just giving you strings that you want with threads that you want to pull on.

48:23

And so second season, it starts out, I guess in the beginning

48:26

it does answer a little bit. And each episode just kind of brought so much more to the table.

48:31

The answers a lot, but asks more questions and, you know, there's

48:34

so much behind the curtain you can't see still. Right.

48:36

So each episode kind of, you know, got did did seem to progress

48:40

the narrative a lot and you got to see a lot that you didn't know.

48:45

But then. Yeah. And the finale too, it's, it almost gives you everything.

48:49

But then we still kind of have these characters

48:51

in a situation where it's not completely resolved.

48:53

So, it's it was very satisfying.

48:56

I've seen a lot of people on line saying this was the best season of TV made, the best episode.

49:01

You know, the finale of TV, you know, of our generation or whatever.

49:05

Very good. So we have our review in charge,

49:09

except that it's over an hour just talking about seven. So please check that out if you want a full deep dive.

49:13

But the cliff notes on my side of things is that I was not a big fan of it.

49:17

I my big problem is that I think this is a beautifully made show.

49:21

I think it's like, damn, this is like the best kind of TV making hell a good performance.

49:25

Is everybody directing? Holy cow.

49:28

But I felt like the story was just okay.

49:31

And I think the first season story, it had a like a clear conclusion like,

49:37

hey, let's try to figure out what this world is, okay?

49:39

There's a mystery going on with people like that are kind of, you know, maybe trying to break this world

49:43

and at the end, like, we're going to break this world.

49:45

And in the second season, I felt like it was like,

49:48

oh, hey, we're both the world. We have to somehow make it to where we could still be in this world.

49:51

Okay, we're going to lie.

49:53

And then over here we have like, there's a lot of little of the mysteries going on.

49:57

And Marc is continuing to try to merge both sides.

50:00

That seems like it should have happened multiple times throughout the

50:03

throughout the season. At the end, we find out Marc S doesn't want to be merged,

50:08

and we're going to try to break things again.

50:12

But the breaking

50:14

like, I don't know, to me, I just felt like this was so unsatisfying.

50:17

Now, will I watch season three? Absolutely.

50:20

This was some major, production quality.

50:23

I personally just not really enjoying it as much as I'm seeing anybody else

50:26

enjoy it, you know? Yeah, it's such a complicated story.

50:29

So I know, like, it's layers and layers in it, but I loved it.

50:34

I don't know, I

50:37

one thing I think is a big challenge for a show like this

50:40

is there's so many fan theories

50:43

going on that everybody that I see online are so excited to try to like,

50:47

you know, explain what's going to happen next or, you know, guessing at it

50:50

that when it does eventually unravel, it's like, well, it has to be one of one option.

50:56

It can't be everything that we hoped it would be all the different ways.

51:00

And so I think people were disappointed that it wasn't,

51:03

you know, aliens or wasn't the thing that they were trying to imagine it to be.

51:07

I kept thinking, they they're cloning the whole time. I wasn't that they were just basically trying

51:11

to make the best employee possible without any emotions.

51:13

And it was kind of like, yeah, the first thing you

51:17

predicted was the thing, but it's because, like, yeah, they can only write so much story.

51:22

It was the original story. We guessed it right away.

51:25

And then we started getting further and deeper and harder, weirder things.

51:28

But yeah, I, I don't know, I loved it.

51:30

Every show struggles with that nowadays. Any well-written show struggles with that where, people are starting to write

51:35

or think of or content creator around the show and like,

51:38

this is what I think it could be. And then by the time it actually gets there,

51:41

all the fanfiction is so much better than what could have been.

51:43

And it's like, it's not the original guys. How many times have we heard, like Marvel series could be like,

51:48

this will be the one where they'll bring in a famous brother or whatever, you know, and

51:52

and it's like, no, it's what you would expect. It's this thing, you know?

51:55

But it's like you guys overthought it. It's not our fault.

51:58

And I think that that could have been a problem is everyone's as well.

52:02

It is it's hard because I think like, okay, so let's let's go bit by bit here.

52:06

I think the performances in this thing are bar none.

52:08

I mean, holy cow, Adam Scott, when I first was introduced, Adam Scott back in stepbrothers days.

52:13

And he's the asshole brother who would have thought he could he had these acting chops in him, right?

52:17

Yeah. As amazing. Like in the beginning of the finale where he's doing that back and forth,

52:22

talking to his in between the indie and out of with the camera, like,

52:25

such a good job in that. And you start to see it's so beautifully done.

52:29

He starts to get irritated with himself, like they're fighting almost over

52:32

these little video recordings and stuff. It's like a he's actively playing two separate

52:37

characters of the same character, two different versions of the same character.

52:41

Yeah, it's just so. Yeah. So well done.

52:43

All the all the actors did great, but especially him. Him and Milicic I think are my two favorite, characters.

52:48

Well, I got to give it to John Turturro playing Irving as well.

52:51

I think he does a good job. I think drew,

52:53

I think the first half of the season, he's stronger

52:56

than the second half of the season, where we see that him and,

52:58

Bert are separating ways, and then let's I gotta give a shout out to Dylan as well.

53:02

Played by Zach Cherry, who, has a love triangle with himself and his wife.

53:08

And it brings up good questions like, what is you?

53:11

And I loved how that ended.

53:13

Where, Dylan's outie is telling him, like, hey, man, that's my wife, right?

53:17

That would you expect? But he's also. I like that there's a part of you in me.

53:21

What's something I think as adults, we all kind of look back at our lives

53:25

and think of what we want our lives to be as teenagers are like, oh, I'll want to be president,

53:28

or I'll be a NASCAR driver or some random thing.

53:31

And then by the time you're 40 years old and you're like, dealing with bills and,

53:35

you know, new medications or whatever, you're like, man, you know,

53:38

and the idea that he can see like, yeah,

53:40

but it's still a part of me that's that little rebel. That's a little bit of a fighter. Yeah.

53:43

And he literally has a manifestation of it. And for his wife's side of it, too,

53:47

like she's able to see the man that she fell in love with, like,

53:49

visually in front of her. Yeah. And I think that there's, I think that he's probably

53:53

one of the most relatable characters personally for me. Like, I, I get that, you know.

53:57

One thing I don't understand, though, I see if you've been severed

54:00

for, you know, 20 years or five years or something like that.

54:03

Have you been severed for a while? The two versions of you would start to grow apart from each other,

54:08

the one that doesn't have to go to work and, you know, stays at home and gets more creative or whatever.

54:12

And then the version of you that does go to work and it gets more analytical and strategic and, you know, uses

54:17

their time better, those parts would would grow separate.

54:20

But when you're first severed, you are the same version of yourself, right?

54:24

Or both of you the same way.

54:26

We don't know the how the severance.

54:28

Procedure, because we see that they wake up

54:31

on the table and they have to like, coax them into like you're basically a new person, I think. Right.

54:35

It's like most of your memories are gone, right?

54:37

You, you you know, instinctive reactions like how to drink water, right?

54:41

And stuff like that. But you don't. Need to think, yeah.

54:44

Yeah, yeah, you don't know who you are or why you're there.

54:47

So, I guess without your memories, you're a different person.

54:50

That would kind of make sense. But right instinctively, like, you would react to things the same way

54:55

until you've developed enough memories and character to change it.

55:00

So that what I'm trying to say is that any version of him and the Audi

55:03

version of him should, for the most part, do the same things, act the same way.

55:08

And but he, he would be the best candidate probably for like a reintegration

55:13

where the Audi would gain the memories of the any.

55:16

And he could be that better person, you know, to some extent.

55:21

Yeah. Because there's a part where, like, the energy finds passion in his work.

55:24

The Audi has a hard time staying employed.

55:27

The any is got this kind of rebellious, not a rebellious people

55:30

like a fighter streak in him like literally choked a dude.

55:34

The Audi has that problem. And I think the problem is like the Audi is a fellow there.

55:37

He's he's been beaten down by life. He's, he's living his life and the and he hasn't had that put on him.

55:43

So it's cool to see that like there is a what I imagine like

55:46

there's a 20 year old version of me still in that that's like still at the point where they're like there

55:50

there's not a life a lot, a lot of life experiences behind them.

55:53

So they're still at looking at everything ahead of them and are ready to take on that challenge.

55:58

And I think that's a thing that that Dylan

56:01

is the only character that can really see that, like really being parallel.

56:03

You know, I don't think we're getting that with Marc. I don't think Marc has like his any is one way or Mark

56:08

on the inside eventually becomes a lover and a fighter.

56:11

But it's not like that's something that's innate from the beginning.

56:14

Yeah. And we mostly see his differences is and he loves heli and his Audi loves his wife.

56:19

Gemma. Gemma. Yeah. Yeah. And then in the end, he chooses to not.

56:24

Which the. Any is only a fraction of the both of you are only a fraction of a person.

56:30

Right. But the enemy seems like a much smaller fraction because you don't have

56:34

the memories of 50 years or 20, which was his.

56:36

Complaint, and that in that argument he's like, what if we do merge?

56:39

I'm going to be out shadowed by you. Yeah, yeah.

56:42

Like, but you would be not not dissolved.

56:44

You'd be absorbed and we would be one.

56:47

Your memories will be part of my life, and my memories will be part of your life.

56:50

And so we will remember Gemma and he'll lea the same.

56:54

And, you know, just have this weird love triangle where,

56:57

I mean, Gemma is eventually, or, hell, he would eventually leave work

56:59

once all this chaos is settled and no longer be her any self anyways.

57:04

So yeah, I don't know how this well, that's a lie.

57:08

She'll leave work if she lets herself leave work and he won't if he doesn't

57:11

walk out the door and they stay in there till you know the food runs out.

57:15

That's that's the whole thing, right? With the end of the season, which I know is the point is where are they going now?

57:20

Because Mia Mark, they they can't even leave the floor.

57:24

They have to be on that floor of that building for that to work. Yeah.

57:26

It's like the only ever if they only have five minutes of running down the halls together,

57:30

they want to spend that five minutes running down the halls together

57:33

until they don't exist anymore. That's well said.

57:35

Yeah, yeah. It's just a shame. Yeah.

57:38

Hell, I, I think does a hell of a good job in this season because that turn

57:42

a few episodes in, we find out that she's been lying this whole time.

57:46

I felt betrayed as much as the actors do.

57:48

And there's so many times now at shows where we're so analytical that we see the,

57:52

the turn coming and or when the turn happens,

57:56

it feels like, well, I was just the sake for the sake of the turn. But now when this happens, this one, we're like, oh, snap.

58:01

Because of this, she slept with Mark. Because of this.

58:03

Did it? It a and I felt like it was super well earned.

58:07

Super well played by Brett.

58:09

Lower all around. Good job. Hell is becoming a really cool character to me.

58:13

Yeah. So I've heard a lot of fans suggesting that she's pregnant and that, I heard

58:17

early on, too, that, yeah, eventually she's going to have Mark's baby and stuff,

58:20

and it's going to be a whole nother thing that we might see in season three.

58:24

Yeah, that's what that's what Thomas is banking on to this.

58:27

She's pregnant. And, that's what that cabin's for is when they're pregnant.

58:30

So. Yeah. Yeah. We'll see. So how do you think lumen recovers from this whole situation?

58:34

Like, where would the season three even start?

58:37

I'm sure there would be some kind of. Well, I imagine there would be a time jump.

58:40

And then we see how it was all wrapped up that.

58:43

Yeah, I don't know. Right. Because we saw we have the board, we saw actually there in the painting

58:47

on the top of the mountain, that new painting, I always thought the board was the, basically a server

58:52

that has the collection of all the organs that are passing up

58:55

that have died in the past, thrown on there like an engine repair.

58:58

And that's what I always thought the board was and that,

59:01

you know, they needed that Mike and somebody to talk to you because they didn't have a corporeal form. Yeah, but

59:06

I don't know them all standing on the top there. I'm like, maybe they're not. Maybe they're actually real people.

59:10

And hell, he's in both of those images.

59:13

I don't know. I think we have to go next to the board.

59:16

I don't want to see middle management much anymore.

59:19

And let's go up like we had a middle manager. This time there's this guy this whole time,

59:23

which got, you know, clocked out by that go killer.

59:26

So let's go up to the bosses.

59:28

What are you what do you want to get to the next one?

59:31

Oh, yeah, I don't know.

59:33

I'm kind of lost on where it goes because it's like the people have died,

59:37

and it seems like lumen doesn't replace employees when they go away.

59:40

They just dwindle into a smaller or smaller operation

59:43

because there's such a there's so much behind the curtain.

59:46

We don't see this company's got to be so big because they have

59:50

random departments. Oh, and is a full department of its own.

59:53

And then was the the the marching band was their own department.

59:57

Management, something in management.

59:59

Choreography and management department.

1:00:01

Like, that's just insane.

1:00:04

You have a department just for practicing music and dancing,

1:00:08

but you don't have a security team at all.

1:00:12

There's absolutely no study.

1:00:15

You would think these guys have a full on stormtrooper military

1:00:17

that would march down the aisles and take control of the room, but they don't.

1:00:20

They don't have anybody. And that might be an Eagan, you know, sociology practice

1:00:25

that they don't believe in, you know, law enforcement or something like that.

1:00:28

I could totally see that happening, but it just seemed kind of odd

1:00:31

that when when the red lights are going off

1:00:33

and things are not working the way they want to,

1:00:36

you don't have stormtroopers marching in and taking control of the situation.

1:00:39

Yeah. One of the things, but okay, so

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first off, milkshake, let's let's talk about him for a second.

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This guy, I hear there's an interview with him and Stephen Colbert.

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He has such a happy, bubbly personality, so he doesn't have it in the show.

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Yeah. I love how in this we're starting to see these cracks form in his personality.

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Yeah. And it's a it's, you know, it's got undertones of undertones, overtones of race.

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Frankly. It's clearly about that.

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And, I like that we're starting to see him evolve.

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But then I'm also like, man, he gets put into a bathroom locked up by his employee.

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So if you were to rebel against the Egan's and Lumen,

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you'd have to join the employee side. And even there, he doesn't want to be because they're assholes to them.

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And so, I don't know, I, I think I'm more invested in him than I am

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within anybody else. Yeah.

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And I, we don't know much about

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the backstory of his character or whether or not he is like fully severed head.

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A lot of people suggest that. Doesn't serve it at all.

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Okay. I've, I've heard people suggest he doesn't have like an outside life.

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He doesn't have an Audi, that certain characters are just the any

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they're just the versions controlled by lumen.

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And yeah, I don't know, but I do want to see more of his character.

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But if that's the case, then we're seeing those little cracks in him.

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It's like, like, if I develops consciousness,

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we're starting to see maybe an any break through the,

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you know, severance process without even the help of an Audi

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or without re-integration, but just out of pure, like, emotional,

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growth or, you know, like the the little bit of racism

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or the overwhelming racism that he's starting to see.

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And, the what was his name?

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The guy that keeps complaining about him using big words and being sophisticated

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and stuff like that, trying to make him that stupid. Yeah.

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It's like, that, that, that kind of stuff getting under his blood

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and things that are getting down to the core of who he is as a person.

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Like we're saying, if you don't have your memories, you would still react instinctively.

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Well, these are, you know, getting to his instincts, getting to his core that that's not right.

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And cracking breaking through what lack of memory he has.

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I don't know if they got to explore that more later. I hope they don't just kind of skim over his character and let it go.

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What what an excellent tool for showing, belittle meant

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in forcing someone to use smaller words.

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I, I, I think that was so creative, so original.

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Yeah. And really shows how how much pride music

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takes in his vocabulary, which he shared because it is pretty extraordinary.

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And I'm just using the same words over again. I'm trying to find a third one for sure today.

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There are none. But but yeah, I like the way that like, he's belittling him in that sense.

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And then that is one of the things that Belichick says. Pride, even when he's talking to the animatronic,

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like there's a back and forth there that's like this, how prerecorded is this?

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Because it didn't feel like that prerecorded now. Doesn't it felt that's another situation.

1:03:28

I thought the Eagles were like an end, not an eye.

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But on a server like you're saying and controlling this, you know Android.

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Real. Yeah. I think some of the pacing was was my biggest concern.

1:03:39

Like there are times where they linger on shots for the sake of art,

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but in doing so, it hurts the storytelling.

1:03:46

You got to get from point A to point B, guys. And I mean, there's sure to to see the crowd,

1:03:49

but you don't know if they get lost. Yeah. And I think they got lost too often.

1:03:54

I think that this could have been a six episode season and far tighter.

1:03:58

I think I would have enjoyed it more.

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I don't agree. I feel like there was. So I mean, I don't remember seeing scenes.

1:04:03

It seemed slow. There was just always so much, you know, you're anticipating.

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Maybe that's what it is, is the stuff that seemed slower was building anticipation.

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And you're waiting for this like, you know, jaw dropping moment.

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And then eventually the a lot of stuff did spill out and it's like, oh, okay.

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That's why they did that and that's why they did this. And yeah, Coble, kind of would let a lot out of the bag at once.

1:04:23

So, yeah, I don't know. I think it was a lot of,

1:04:26

a lot of good return to me for the build up in the waiting, though.

1:04:29

Unfortunately it can only be one way.

1:04:32

So there was only one answer to the questions that we had

1:04:36

20 different options for. And people were, you know, writing so much fanfic.

1:04:40

But, yeah, I think it, I think it all came together really well.

1:04:44

Just don't wait for the next season still. Well, yeah.

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Hope is not for years. Like whatever the last one felt like.

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I, I totally agree that this was so well done.

1:04:52

It's just it wasn't for me, I think. Or not.

1:04:54

That's not fair to say. This is totally my thing, but I just didn't land the ship for me.

1:04:58

It didn't land the plane. And so I, I know I'm in the minority

1:05:02

and I, I'm, I'm giving this a seven out of ten.

1:05:07

And I really struggle with that because I'm like, man, production wise, this thing's like a nine, ten and ten.

1:05:10

But then also like, I just sometimes didn't enjoy the show.

1:05:14

And so I think I got to sit around seven.

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Where are you sitting at? Probably 9.5.

1:05:19

Yeah. You're up there. Yeah. I mean, I'm sure some of the writing could have been a little bit different,

1:05:24

the delivery and stuff, of how the layers unfold and stuff.

1:05:28

But overall it's such a good to me.

1:05:31

It's such a good show. Yeah, I definitely watch more of it.

1:05:34

Yeah, I mean, I, I'm looking forward to season three. Yeah. And,

1:05:38

Wow. Some of the cinematography. Holy cow. It was beautiful.

1:05:41

I mean, just the, those hallway runs, I mean, while I'm watching, I'm

1:05:44

sitting to think like, how did they shoot that? How did they do this? How did they do that? This transition that was so creative.

1:05:49

The visual storytelling with, like, the lights and stuff like that.

1:05:51

Like that. It's well done. It's crazy. Yeah.

1:05:54

There's still so much we don't know to that I'm sure people

1:05:57

will pick apart and help explain some of it online.

1:06:00

The things that were answered that I didn't even see the answer to yet.

1:06:04

But I get that that one scene where Mark is in a room and you see somebody in black

1:06:08

going through a door behind him or something like that. It was like, who was the Man in Black?

1:06:11

I don't think it still answered that question.

1:06:13

Yeah. And, you know,

1:06:15

who was the guy that Cobell was afraid of that was standing with Helly or Helena.

1:06:20

And sacrificing goats. You know?

1:06:22

Yeah. Well, they said something like it was

1:06:25

to carry the consciousness from one to the next, right.

1:06:27

Oh, is that it? It was okay. I didn't I didn't catch that. Yeah.

1:06:31

I'm pretty sure that's what the way, what's her name

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from Game of Thrones had to bring bring the goat to be sacrificed.

1:06:37

Yeah. Then Chris, do I think. There you go.

1:06:39

Yeah. I tell you what. I, I love that goat.

1:06:43

If they killed that goat, I was going to be pissed off.

1:06:46

And so. There's a little thing a little bit like, oh, my. God.

1:06:49

Yeah, you need a new dead.

1:06:52

And then they put him in that little, little thing to, like, kill him, and I'm like, no, get him out of there.

1:06:55

I'm gonna go to the cast. I was I was rooting for a little goat man.

1:06:58

Yeah. I kind of. Like how the whole elevator scene played out, too.

1:07:01

Is, like, you wouldn't think that was going to work that way.

1:07:03

That's so well done. Yeah, like.

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Oh, crap. Yeah. Just that the changing of people.

1:07:08

He flexes his muscles a little bit. Whatever. And then yeah.

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Yeah, I think it was a That was great.

1:07:14

Brutal. Again. So well done.

1:07:16

I, I agree that that it deserves a higher score.

1:07:19

Yeah. That's the 9.5. Okay, so I gave it a seven. I have to find the average on that.

1:07:23

Probably going to be just an eight, I guess. Because I haven't put it, I put, I put the typed out review,

1:07:27

but I haven't put like the number review out yet. And I'm kind of like, let me talk to everybody else,

1:07:31

see what everyone wants to do is we'll do an average like Thomas is with you.

1:07:33

Thomas thinks this is like a perfect show. Yeah.

1:07:35

I'm like, yeah, I, I understand that, I definitely do.

1:07:38

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1:07:41

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1:07:47

Let us know what you guys thought and, give us your opinion on that.

1:07:49

We appreciate it. Network news.

1:07:52

Guys, we have a convention coming up on April 5th.

1:07:54

Rancho Cordova, they're gaming expo. This is the second year they're doing it.

1:07:57

We really enjoyed the first year.

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We didn't know what to expect the first year and the amount that the community came out for.

1:08:03

That was exciting. And so we are doubling down as much as we can

1:08:08

for the new one coming up on April 5th.

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Bigger prize. Well, I tell you, I love my prizes so much.

1:08:12

Is my baby now. Bye! Poor dogs hate the hell out of me cuz I keep spinning it as I walk by.

1:08:18

All right, so. Take a spin on the.

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And, this. One's like six feet tall, right?

1:08:22

Yeah, yeah, it is this big. The other one was like two feet as a little tabletop.

1:08:26

Set on access and on table. This was big.

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We're going to have the switch there. We're going to be having people playing Smash Brothers.

1:08:32

It'll be, set up to side. And we have, like, a new stand for that door than, you know, it looks amazing.

1:08:38

We have so many new things, a lot of prizes there.

1:08:41

We have so many cool things coming up. We're gonna be doing live podcasting.

1:08:44

I'm going to be introducing you guys to distance nerding.

1:08:48

That's another spot if I have it going on in the network. Damn, Frank.

1:08:52

A new show joining the network, distance learning. I'll explain that more in the next episode of Geek Freaks.

1:08:57

It'll all be there. So I hope that you guys come and join us.

1:09:00

It's Rancho Cordova Gaming expo, the second annual one.

1:09:03

John, what's your favorite part about the. We're getting into convention season?

1:09:06

We have more of these boots coming up as well. What's your favorite part about getting into the boots season again?

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I know I always say it, but I love Lucy and all. The cosplay is fun.

1:09:14

Yeah, you know how excited people get for their different characters,

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and it doesn't need to be movie quality costumes.

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Just make make something at home that that's fun, that you enjoy.

1:09:22

That's the main thing I like to see is like, especially when you see young kids cosplay.

1:09:26

That's a lot of fun. But also all the vendors we see, some vendors are just selling Funko Pops

1:09:31

and stuff, which is cool, but I love to see the custom handmade craft stuff too.

1:09:35

That takes a lot of work and time and creativity.

1:09:38

I don't have the creativity to make that kind of stuff, so especially seeing somebody else

1:09:42

putting all their effort into that, it's, it's really fun. I'm a big fan of, like when we have the booth set up,

1:09:47

it happens every time there's a couple people who will show up, some random dude

1:09:51

that's like, hey, do you guys talk about turtle?

1:09:54

Of course we do. Whenever there's something good to talk about.

1:09:56

And then he's like, I really like Raph or whatever, and they'll just kind of start going and it's like,

1:09:59

you can feel there's like pent up geekiness inside

1:10:02

some people that don't have an avenue for it.

1:10:04

Yeah. And, and I appreciate that. Don't buy bikes

1:10:06

because we don't need more podcasts out there competing with us. It's

1:10:10

but when they come by our booth, like, they'll sit there for a good ten, 20

1:10:13

minutes talking about the latest Avengers movie or whatever.

1:10:16

And I love that because, man, that's what it's all about is sharing your geek

1:10:19

fandom with other people. And for us to be this avenue for people to like, come to

1:10:23

and just be like, I want to talk about Daredevil.

1:10:25

Like, yeah, go for it, let's do it. Let's start with how awesome is Fisk?

1:10:28

That's that's fun. I love that part so much.

1:10:30

Yeah. Also, speaking of Fisk, I was mentioning to my wife, like, yeah, this is character.

1:10:33

I think I could totally cosplay him. Only thing is, I don't know if I'm willing to shave off my beard.

1:10:38

Yeah, it's completely shaved. And, she's like, yeah, I don't know.

1:10:41

I like your beard to say, okay, maybe I won't cosplay.

1:10:44

I can still do Uncle Pyro at some point, but yeah, but.

1:10:46

If you do like, oh man, Fisk, like you make a new character essentially.

1:10:49

And it's like he tried to do like an old version of hammers that like that.

1:10:51

Cool. And like maybe like you put powder in their beard to make a white or something.

1:10:55

Yeah. I have to get ripped.

1:10:57

And then I would tear off the sleeves of a suit, too, and have a big old arm sticking out.

1:11:02

Yeah. Post-Apocalyptic face. Yeah.

1:11:05

I guess I. Go to the gym more.

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I know you just go. Yeah, it's enough.

1:11:11

I just get styrofoam arms. I gotta do more of those ropes.

1:11:14

I hate those did better of so much. They were what? My ass. Yeah. Shoot.

1:11:19

Let's end off, So. Yeah. Guys, real quick, I want to reiterate this.

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It'll be in the description, all the information.

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Rancho Cordova Gaming expo, second anniversary, second annual.

1:11:27

It's going to be at the City hall.

1:11:30

Which one? It was there last year. But I know that's kind of unique for convention.

1:11:34

Okay. Let's end with our, recommendations for the week John, what do you got.

1:11:38

If you haven't seen if you guys are following saga like me, the newest issue sagas come out.

1:11:42

So make sure you go out to your local comic book shop and pick that up.

1:11:45

But I think that's all I got for this week. There's several movies in theaters that I wanted to go see I haven't seen yet,

1:11:49

so I can't, say anything on that front.

1:11:51

Okay. Yeah, yeah, I saw the cover for. I read a little bit the synopsis, is the end of one of the arcs for saga, so.

1:11:58

And they're bringing back that little cute seal dude.

1:12:01

So let's go. All right. My recommendation for you guys.

1:12:04

I'm starting right now. Squeaks is like chapter 4 or 5,

1:12:06

and so we're gonna have a review for this eventually. Sunrise at the reaping.

1:12:09

It's the new Hunger Games book. It's, telling the story of Hamish,

1:12:12

who was the mentor to Katniss in the first series.

1:12:17

And it's a little bit past the newest movie. We had to because that was all about President Snow.

1:12:21

So it's called sunrise on the reaping.

1:12:23

400 pages, very consumable. Squeaks again. He's on chapter four.

1:12:27

I just had a guy that came in last night,

1:12:29

and he's already saying it's like, oh man, this is already so good.

1:12:32

Yes. I'm excited. That'd be cool. Hamish is such a cool character.

1:12:35

I hope Woody Harrelson like when they do the movie adaptation for this, which they definitely will do.

1:12:38

I'm hoping Woody Harrelson will do like a cameo or something

1:12:41

like that, like back in my day and then go in and story.

1:12:44

Yeah, that'd be cool.

1:12:46

Thank you guys for joining us. We appreciate it. We have a lot coming up for you on the network, guys.

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So much stuff coming out. So make sure you follow all of our podcast links in the description.