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Whoa. Fresh back

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from all your adventures at

1:02

San Diego Comic Con. Now before we

1:04

started you were like

1:06

this guy just assails me with like minions

1:09

gifts in our group chat. They'd be like

1:11

let's go let's go. Like have you ever

1:13

seen minions Ryan? No. Minions

1:16

is like the worst movie I have ever

1:18

seen. Oh that's why it's really funny. God.

1:21

It like what are you going to start doing

1:23

big bank theory gifts at me next? Jesus.

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What do you want to be annoying? And

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you want to be intentionally annoying. Whoa you're

1:32

like a robot. I am a robot. That's

1:35

how you sound. Oh wait I'm not. Oh

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sorry I was I was I

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was muted. I'm unmuted on our on our

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on our Zoom call. Oh whoops. Oh

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that was hopefully nobody heard that then. No

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it's fine. We got that we

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we have a separate video window here because

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Zincaster the podcast platform we use their their

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video thing sucks so we don't use it

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so we have to go and mute ourselves

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on this other window. Yes I clearly. I

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clearly use Shrek

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and minions and like

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memes ironically. I'm

2:08

not a grandpa on Facebook

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using it intentionally. When

2:13

I use it, it is a commentary

2:17

on the social malaise of

2:20

the internet. Oh look,

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Dario over here. Jesus.

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Well, how's it

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going? How's it going? Pretty

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good. Oh good. Back from Comic Con. I've been back

2:33

for a week and it feels like I just got

2:35

like boy my arms tired. It feels

2:37

like I just got back. Like I don't know. I don't know

2:39

what the hell like time is. Explain

2:42

this when you have new experiences time moves

2:44

really slow and then when you go back

2:46

in your own routine time moves really fast.

2:49

I had this like weird like I blinked

2:51

and suddenly like I was back for a

2:53

week from Comic Con. I'm like holy shit.

2:55

Like that long ago that I was there.

2:57

It felt like I just you know I

2:59

had so much work to do when I

3:01

came back and just right back in routine.

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So Comic Con was a new experience for

3:05

you though. Time passed slow. You've never done

3:07

that. Well, it's different than my normal day

3:09

to day. You know I can run

3:12

around from 6 o'clock in the morning till 2 o'clock in

3:14

the morning and wake up at 6 o'clock in the morning

3:17

the next day and be like yep let's go. Let's go

3:19

to Comic Con and then Sunday

3:22

about 1 o'clock I just like stood in

3:25

the hall and I was like oh oh

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I've hit that wall. I'm done. I'm going to go

3:30

back to the hotel and sleep. Goodbye Comic Con. I

3:33

ran out of gas. Yeah I seriously like

3:35

I really hit a wall and I was going

3:37

to pass out in the middle just like walking

3:39

around the con floor. But it was cool. It

3:41

was fun. Yeah. Yeah. If you want the two

3:44

hour version of this conversation go listen to the

3:46

comic experience. No I want it now but in

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like two minutes. Yeah. Yeah. What was

3:50

the coolest thing? The coolest thing

3:52

is I got to go to the Iceberg Lounge. That

3:54

was the coolest thing we went to. So there is

3:56

a they have these off sites.

4:00

familiar with comic con, they do these things where they

4:02

have is less now

4:04

it used to be like tons of them. There's

4:06

there's way less now because every

4:08

every movie studio is poor and

4:11

they have no money. They

4:13

they're, they're billions of dollars that they

4:15

make. They

4:17

don't can't they just can't spare any more

4:20

money. Nope, they can't spare it.

4:22

They need to save it for the CEO. Yep. Yep.

4:24

The CEOs and the stockholders. So

4:27

there's less of these, but they will do like

4:29

these sort of like, you know, pop up events

4:31

outside the convention that are free, free to go

4:34

to use on the giant ass line. One

4:37

of them was for the

4:39

penguin the TV show coming up it's soon it's

4:41

like this month, right? It's it's really soon. The

4:43

one that's the spin off of the the Matt

4:45

Reeves Batman TV show.

4:49

Really look forward to that too. You cannot wait. Well,

4:52

how was you went to the actual iceberg

4:54

lounge? Yes. So the pain the penguin was

4:56

setting up crime plan. Yeah, so they had

4:58

an executing people. So a lot of the

5:00

stuff they do during the day and you

5:02

go get a t shirt and whatever. But

5:05

it's like, you know, this was like at

5:07

night at a nightclub actually took over like

5:09

one of the nightclubs in in downtown San

5:11

Diego. And we had put

5:14

in to get tickets like it was just

5:16

free. So you just put in of course, we didn't

5:18

get them. And our friend's friend

5:20

ended up knowing someone there. None of

5:22

us realized what had happened. And

5:25

suddenly they're like, oh, yeah, you guys can come in. Yeah,

5:27

yeah. Oh, you had the inside connection.

5:29

No clue. Right. Right. Right.

5:32

Nice. One of the goons. So one of the

5:34

doors. They have real

5:37

you're one of the you're one of those guys that

5:39

get to disintegrate in the back. Say,

5:46

yeah, went went went in, got some drinks,

5:48

bought some drugs. That was pretty cool. Well,

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no, they gave us drugs for free. Got

5:53

some tattoos. I was nice. Yeah, you know,

5:55

all the normal stuff. Kill the

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Batman. No, no, no. But

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you know, they had like people, you know, they had all

6:02

their thugs and all the, all the girls like

6:05

the penguin. No, no, no. But it's like, you know,

6:07

you're in the iceberg lounge, right? And so you should

6:09

have had a guy dressed up as a penguin, but

6:11

being like, like doing a

6:13

Burgess Meredith. And while there was like a, so

6:15

there was like a, if you, if you kind

6:18

of want to talk to some of the people

6:20

that were in the club, eventually you learn that

6:22

there was like the speakeasy in the club, there

6:24

was like a secret club within the club. And

6:26

so, you know, they would kind of give you some hints on

6:28

what you had to do to get in. So

6:31

we eventually got in and there was something else going

6:33

on. We got there a little late and, you know,

6:35

we were kind of not expecting to be able to

6:37

do this. So we didn't get

6:39

kind of get a chance to kind of do

6:41

everything. But it was cool, though. It was really

6:43

neat. I've not done

6:45

too many of these offsite things because

6:47

usually it's a six

6:50

hour wait standing in the middle of the

6:52

burning San Diego sun in the middle of

6:54

the day. And then you walk in and

6:57

so there's one for the bear, right? You know, me

6:59

and I know you haven't watched it yet, but me

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and Justin talk about it all the time. And it's,

7:03

you know, it takes place at a restaurant, right? Well,

7:05

they had this there, basically for FX and you go

7:08

in and FX, the bear,

7:11

Hulu. I think I think

7:13

it's part of it. Well, whatever it

7:15

is, whatever, whatever the area was. Yeah,

7:19

our friend Toby went in and he

7:22

waited for like six hours to get this thing. And they're

7:24

basically like, welcome to the bear. Here's

7:27

a t shirt. Take a picture. Now get out. Like,

7:29

you know, like he was five

7:32

minutes if that right. Ryan.

7:36

Ryan. What's up? Sometimes

7:38

you eat the bear and sometimes the

7:41

bear will eat you should watch the

7:43

bear man. That's your

7:45

you should watch the big Lebowski. That's

7:47

fine. Watch the bear. That's great. You

7:49

don't even recognize that quote because you

7:51

haven't seen that. It's true. I have

7:53

not weirdo. But

7:56

but yeah, we get to spend a real serious

7:58

time in there. And yeah, who

8:00

got there earlier could have been there

8:03

even longer. It is really cool. So

8:06

that did I did like a signature

8:08

like a like a signing with the

8:10

cast of the intervention vampire TV show.

8:13

I won. I won that so I was pretty cool. I

8:16

got a fairly I mean, she's a big fan of the show. I

8:18

like the show but she's like a big big fan. So she never

8:21

goes to these things. So they all they'll sign

8:23

it to her. Yeah

8:25

to some panels. The

8:28

one panel I couldn't get into that I waited

8:30

in line for and that like nobody got in

8:32

it was the Jim Lee

8:34

and friend Jim Lee president.

8:38

Cco of DC Comics. They

8:42

he had his panel and which is which is

8:45

usually full but pretty full but this

8:47

was like way over full and

8:49

it was because Kevin Feige had a panel

8:51

after him and they just the

8:53

head guy from the Marvel cinematic

8:55

universe. Stuff and they

8:57

Marvel Studios and they put

9:00

them in one of these like normal sized rooms

9:02

like not like the big Hall H the big

9:04

like, you know, they have these big big ballrooms

9:06

where they do like the massive presentations. They had

9:08

them in kind of like a normal room and

9:10

I'm like and what do you people think and

9:12

so people camped there early and never left lame.

9:14

Yeah, they shouldn't let him do that though. Yeah,

9:16

it just takes too long to empty the rooms

9:19

between panels. So they just let everyone stay. Yeah,

9:24

the only thing planning. They did that.

9:26

They did. There was a screening of

9:28

Deadpool Wolverine that on Thursday

9:30

night. And

9:33

that was like the one time they actually cleared the

9:35

panel before hand because you had to register for tickets

9:37

to get it and then that was a nightmare because

9:39

apparently people weren't getting in like they overbooked it and

9:42

people couldn't get in to see the panel

9:44

or the movie. I mean you would you

9:46

would think that with the big things that

9:48

I mean, you know the people those two

9:51

panels the Jim Lee and Kevin Feige one,

9:54

you know that everybody there organizing knows

9:56

that people are going to want

9:59

to see those. Yeah. Yeah, right.

10:02

Put one in one room and then one in

10:05

another room. Don't put him in the same. Right.

10:07

Well, but something lame after Jim. Yeah,

10:09

yeah. You know what I mean? Do those panels

10:11

early? Like, you know, have it the first panel

10:13

or second panel? You know, because yeah, because it's

10:15

just not fair, because I mean, it's

10:17

like, I mean, sure, it's fair if you want

10:19

to sit there for three or four panels and

10:21

but it just ruins it for anyone that wants

10:23

to get into those panels. So yeah, it's it

10:25

sucks. But

10:28

yeah, I don't normally go to those big panels because of

10:30

that. I don't deal with that. And

10:32

it's a pain in the ass. So if I

10:34

can walk in and do something, is what I always tell

10:36

people at Comic Con, if I'm already in line or I'm

10:39

or I can just walk up and kind of get something, I'll

10:41

do it. But if I'm like, I'm

10:43

kind of staying in fucking Funko line for

10:45

six hours to buy you a goddamn minions

10:47

pop, like, no, no, I'm not going to

10:50

do it. No, no, that's what you do

10:52

when you're like, like 22. I

10:55

can't. So I stood in some

10:57

long lines. Don't get me wrong, but it was for

10:59

stuff that I wanted. So I'm OK with that, right?

11:01

Like if something I want and even then, like, I

11:04

didn't send anything crazy, you know, like

11:06

the longest I maybe waited, it was like

11:08

45 minutes. Wait, but

11:10

the thing was that the thing after Jim

11:12

Lee was after like the MCU thing. No,

11:14

no, it was just a panel with Kevin

11:16

Feige. Yeah, he announced anything. But I think

11:19

people just, you know, assume, oh, we're going

11:21

to get something. So right. Well,

11:23

I mean, they did announce. Everything,

11:26

but that's all at the at

11:28

the other the other panels,

11:31

right? So they have this was

11:33

that where they announced like Avengers

11:35

Doomsday. Yeah, that was the college

11:37

panel. So Comic Con, the San

11:39

Diego Convention Center, they're they're big

11:42

panel room is called Hall H. It's like

11:44

it's like six thousand people, seven thousand people

11:46

or something like that, that's like the big,

11:48

big panel room. And that's where you all

11:51

the the Doctor Who panel and the Marvel

11:53

Cinematic Universe in DC panels and yeah, the

11:55

interview, the vampire panel, like that's all there,

11:57

these these smaller rooms that they have. within

11:59

the convention center. And again, it's not small.

12:02

It's 500 people, maybe 1,000 people could

12:06

fit in some of these other rooms. But maybe

12:08

not 1,000. It's not center

12:10

court. Right,

12:12

right, right. There's not 5,000. Let's

12:15

go with it. Yeah, they are still

12:17

somewhat limited. And

12:19

you can usually wander in if it's just a random panel.

12:21

I went to a Mark

12:23

Wade comic writer, did a panel for

12:25

this documentary about Kingdom Come, the

12:28

DC comic. The

12:31

documentary? Yeah, it's coming out. It's

12:33

going to be on Kickstarter. But I don't have

12:35

some sort of release. But

12:37

it's mostly about Alex Ross and his

12:39

art, the artist for the Kingdom Come

12:41

series. But obviously, Mark

12:43

Wade's a big part of it. So

12:46

he was there. Did they get to interview him?

12:48

Yeah, yeah. Alex is going to be like, I

12:51

only draw them the way they

12:53

looked in Superfinance. Alex Ross doesn't

12:55

do conventions and stuff. I don't

12:57

draw anything else. But

12:59

I draw him really good. He does his.

13:01

He does his. I don't

13:03

know why he sounded like that. Roar, roar,

13:06

roar. It's in my head. No, no. I am sure

13:08

he sounds totally normal. Yes, he's a normal human. He's

13:11

an excellent artist. Yeah, yeah, that's fantastic. But

13:14

yeah, so that was in one of the really small

13:16

rooms. I think it was like 150 people in that

13:18

room or something. But that would be just kind of,

13:21

I walked in like most of the way

13:23

through the previous panel and just got a seat. And then

13:25

there's no. They really kind of go right

13:27

into the next panel. So there's not a big break for those.

13:30

Nice. But yeah, yeah, got to see a bunch of stuff and

13:33

lots of stuff and ate a

13:36

lot of food and stayed up way too

13:38

late. And then I came home and now I fall asleep at 930

13:40

again like an adult. Did

13:43

you get to meet Dr. Doom? Robert

13:45

Johnny Jr. No, I did not. What

13:48

do you think of that? What do you

13:50

make of that? The stupidest shit I've ever heard in my entire life.

13:54

You sent us like a link or a

13:56

picture or something and I was like, you

13:58

just made that up, right? sound

14:00

real. This isn't like like that with that that's

14:02

there's that's gotta be fake. That is no way

14:04

that was this isn't like random

14:07

Ryan that hates everything Marvel. This

14:09

is every person I talked to

14:11

at the convention. Every customer in

14:13

the store has brought it up

14:15

to me and been like, what the hell is up

14:17

with this? Um, so

14:21

I will let me well yeah, well, I mean, the

14:23

tweet that I saw somebody they were the one that

14:25

I remember somebody was like, Robert

14:27

Downey Jr. coming back to the MCU

14:30

as Dr. Doom is big. We tried

14:32

nothing. We're all out of ideas. Energy,

14:34

right? It feels super lazy. Like, had

14:36

they cast him as Dr. Doom?

14:38

I'd be like, Oh, that's interesting. Yeah, sure. But

14:40

this so uh,

14:44

to and I guess light,

14:47

light, not light, but not

14:49

really lightish spoilers for for

14:51

um, Deadpool Wolverine.

14:54

Um, again, nothing. You don't know if you

14:56

haven't seen the trailer. Um, and

14:59

seen anything about the movie. You know,

15:01

this is not just, you

15:04

know, a Deadpool Wolverine from like,

15:06

this is another multiverse thing, right?

15:08

Take the Deadpool Wolverine movie is

15:11

a lot involved with the TVA at

15:13

the time variance authority, which is from

15:15

Loki and, and deals with

15:17

more diverse stuff. And,

15:20

you know, we could talk more about the

15:22

movie later if you if you want to

15:24

hear about it, but um, just about the

15:26

doctor stuff. I movies really good, really good.

15:28

Right? But it's a the

15:32

multiverse stuff is just I'm so sick

15:34

of it. And it's

15:36

run its course. And this was an awesome send

15:38

off and I never want to see it again.

15:41

Right? But of course,

15:43

casting Robert Downey Jr. as Dr. Doom

15:45

based on a he's gonna come from

15:47

a Fantastic Four movie that takes place

15:49

in an alternate universe. It's just like,

15:52

we're never gonna get away from this.

15:54

He's gonna be like, there are

15:56

adventures and I'm I'm the

15:59

version of Tony. Stark and he really

16:01

is going to sound that way. I

16:03

I just it just feels we

16:05

now have had. Like.

16:11

The Roger Corman Fantastic Four movie, which

16:14

was the most comic accurate,

16:17

but the terrible,

16:19

right? Right, right, right. We

16:22

had the early 2000s

16:24

Fantastic Four movie where they're

16:28

fine for what they are, but but. Doom

16:32

is. Not

16:34

great. It's not really doomy. It's

16:37

not really Dr. Doom. It's kind of this,

16:39

you know, if we're going to kind of,

16:41

you know, read Sue and Dr. Doom like

16:43

didn't really work. Then

16:46

they had the 2015

16:49

that when that came

16:51

out. You remember they made another Fantastic Four movie?

16:53

I remember. It was awful. Right.

16:56

Never saw it. Yeah, it's real bad. And

16:58

now we're going to get another Fantastic Four

17:00

movie and they're going to fuck up Doom

17:02

again like I. It

17:06

it's it is maddening. And

17:10

they're calling it like what is it? First steps?

17:12

It sounds like. No,

17:15

no, no, the other. No,

17:17

no, the other Fantastic Four. There

17:19

was another one. Nobody remembers this. Me, I went and

17:21

saw it in the theater because we want to talk

17:24

about it on the podcast. My friend Brian came with

17:26

me. He bought a ticket for another movie because he's

17:28

like, I will not give this movie a penny, but

17:30

I want to watch it. So he bought a movie.

17:32

He bought a ticket for like some indie movie. We

17:34

walked in. He pirated Fantastic Four in the theater. Yeah,

17:37

yeah, yeah. And then so we went in. He's like,

17:39

no, I will buy a ticket for this independent movie

17:41

that I already saw that I like. They'll give him

17:43

more money, but I'm going to go in and watch

17:45

Fantastic Four with you. He's like, I will not give

17:48

it a penny. And so it was

17:50

all right. Who of us were the only people in the theater

17:52

watch? I think it was like one random person in the back.

17:54

This was like opening weekend. It was awful. The

18:00

cursed franchise. It really

18:02

is. Yeah. What's it called? Like Fantastic Four

18:05

first step babies babies first. Yeah. Or something

18:07

like that. It's first because they're going to

18:09

do like Spider-Man. No way home. Far from

18:11

home. Is there going to do it? It's

18:13

going to be like Fantastic Four first family.

18:15

And if you want to call the first

18:18

family, I'm down with it. That's what they

18:20

know. But it's going to be an origin story.

18:22

They're not a family yet, right? Fucking there.

18:25

It's the fantastic babies like.

18:33

When they announced it and they

18:35

showed the logo and they showed the name and

18:37

then mentioned Dr. Doom, I'm like. We're

18:42

just we're just fucked forever. Like we're never going

18:45

to get a Fantastic Four movie that's any good.

18:48

And it's supposed to be out in a year.

18:50

And like they started filming like this week. Like

18:52

like it's Superman just finished filming and it's

18:54

out at the same time. It's out July

18:57

of next year. And you know,

18:59

there's no way Fantastic Four comes under line next

19:01

year unless they fucking rush it and it's going

19:03

to be horrible. But

19:05

I'm I'm just like, why can't

19:07

we have a normal fantastic

19:10

four movie? You don't

19:12

even have just because you just call it the Fantastic

19:14

Four. It's not hard. Yeah. Like

19:17

that original promo shot, like the artwork and

19:19

the style and everything. I was like, oh,

19:21

yeah, they're doing this. It's like a retro

19:23

future 60s. Like this looks cool. Sure.

19:25

Maldonir universe is fine and whatever they find a way to

19:28

bring over. I don't really care about that. But

19:30

like. So

19:33

and like that's just doing

19:35

being Robert Downey Jr. is just going

19:37

to suck like everything

19:39

out of the movie, you know, like

19:41

that, like that becomes the movie and

19:43

it's I

19:46

don't like he never takes off his mask. You never

19:48

see his face. Never, ever,

19:50

ever. And they just do not come. They

19:52

do not try to connect it back to

19:54

Tony Stark. That would be the only what?

19:58

Sure. That would be the only. to

26:00

be but I can't picture

26:02

him being like you know they

26:04

had they should have just cast

26:06

John Krasinski I

26:08

know they had because he I mean they had him in

26:10

that that he didn't want to yeah in

26:14

Dr. Strange yeah but I mean that's that's the kind of

26:16

I don't know yeah

26:20

he has the right sort of attitude for

26:22

it where he can be a little bit

26:24

diggish and a little standoffish and you know

26:28

but you know what to be fair Ryan

26:31

comic movies are littered

26:34

with instances where people went know that's stupid

26:36

oh sure of course and then that person

26:38

showed up in that role and we went

26:40

we could never see anybody else in it

26:43

so you never know they saw it

26:46

could just be Peter Pascal's hot we

26:48

want him he's you know the hotness

26:50

right he's he's like he's really he's

26:52

the dad right now so that's why

26:54

they right yeah so maybe but they

26:56

could have seen something in him that

26:59

it's like oh this make

27:01

this character interesting in a way that people aren't expecting

27:03

we'll see yeah I mean yeah

27:05

so I'm

27:09

uh everything I see about FF makes

27:11

me um less

27:15

excited uh but I will I

27:19

mean that's that's an uphill battle for them no matter

27:21

what because they have never had

27:24

any goodwill for that franchise so well

27:27

let me tell

27:31

you x-men 97 and Deadpool Wolverine

27:34

will definitely has definitely given people hope

27:36

for the x-men but

27:40

we'll see about that from rest of the Marvel

27:42

universe well I

27:44

Ryan I watched a movie the other

27:47

night that I

27:50

want to talk about oh real briefly it

27:53

uh you may may

27:56

or may not be surprised that I have not seen

27:58

this just I don't know, given

28:00

my superhero fatigue and all that,

28:02

but I've watched Deadpool 2.

28:05

I had not seen Deadpool 2. That's OK. Deadpool

28:09

2 is hilarious. Deadpool 2

28:12

is great. Yeah. I really

28:14

like that movie. Yeah, I

28:17

probably got to go back and rewatch it. Yeah,

28:20

thinking back on the three. I

28:26

think Deadpool 1 is probably the best of

28:28

the three because it is like the most

28:30

it is a movie is something that's rewatchable.

28:32

It's it's it's it's very much its own

28:35

thing. Yes, origin, but that's you know, it's

28:37

Deadpool 2. I

28:40

don't know. I liked it, but

28:42

I didn't love it. A

28:44

little too, I would say too jokey, but a

28:46

little too. I mean,

28:48

you can't it's that's what it is.

28:51

That's the character. Yeah. Yeah,

28:53

but. What

28:56

I think they did a really good

28:58

job in the

29:00

first one and the third one

29:02

to a degree sort of limiting

29:05

not only Deadpool, but also surrounding

29:08

his scenes with

29:10

some so much more serious scenes.

29:13

I can I said this said

29:15

this to someone else. I was like, I can

29:17

handle like two hours of Deadpool like every six

29:19

years. All right. I've heard you say that. Yeah,

29:22

Deadpool. So I feel like it's about the right

29:24

amount of time between movies. Deadpool 2 was a

29:26

little too much Deadpool and a little too quick.

29:29

So I liked it. I

29:32

didn't like it. I don't think I like this

29:34

much. The first one, though. Hmm.

29:38

Yeah, I thought like it's the one thing that's

29:40

ever done cable in a way that's just like

29:42

the cable is pretty good. Yeah, we can understand

29:44

what's up with this character. I

29:46

think the X-Force stuff maybe

29:49

was just like the step too far. Like

29:51

I cable, I like a domino. Like there

29:53

were cool characters in that. Domino

29:55

was great. Yeah. Yeah. I think I think they

29:58

just. They

30:00

sort of went one step too far.

30:03

And you get a couple scenes in one

30:05

and three that are pretty gross out, but

30:07

I think they knew

30:09

when to pull back. I feel like Deadpool 2

30:11

went a little, they didn't

30:13

pull back as much, which I thought was

30:16

a little too much. But

30:19

I still liked it. I still like Deadpool. I

30:22

mean, of all the Marvel movies, God, of

30:24

all the Marvel movies, is Deadpool the best?

30:29

Like, no real dud in that

30:31

trilogy. Like Avengers 2, Age of Ultron.

30:35

I don't like Age of Ultron. Thor

30:37

3 and 4 suck. Whatever.

30:42

Thor 3 is like the best one in the

30:44

whole franchise. Iron Man 3 sucks. Like

30:46

all the MCU, right? Civil

30:51

War is okay, but

30:55

not as good as Cap 1 and 2. Yeah.

30:58

Oh, Civil War is like average.

31:02

I would say, look, I didn't like Thor 1 and 2.

31:05

Oh, I like Thor. I never saw Thor 4,

31:07

but Thor, Thor Ragnar was excellent. No,

31:10

if you like Ragnar, you won't like Thor 1

31:12

and 2. I like, Thor 2 is fine.

31:14

I'm not gonna sit here and defend Thor 2. I

31:16

did not like the first two Thor movies. The greatest movie ever, but

31:19

I liked Thor. But

31:21

let's see, Iron Man, Iron Man 1 was the

31:23

only, I liked really just

31:25

flat out good Iron Man. Oh yeah, I liked 2 a

31:28

lot though. That too was good. 2

31:30

is like, it

31:32

exists. 3 sucks. And

31:35

Iron Man 3 is... Sucks.

31:40

It sucks. It's another one where it's just

31:42

like, yeah, I guess this exists. F. It

31:45

is the worst. What

31:48

else? I'm the worst Marvel woman. Guardians, I know

31:50

you didn't like 2. I too was 2. I

31:53

didn't see 3. 3 was

31:55

fantastic. 3 was

31:58

great. It's like 1 and 3 are... You

32:00

know three's a half step down from one

32:02

but two is two is no good. I

32:04

thought two is pretty okay Except

32:08

for I do agree with you 100% on

32:11

them going overkill with Drax. Yeah.

32:13

Yeah I mean they completely just like made

32:15

him a cartoon character. Other than that, it's

32:18

pretty good That that

32:20

movie has like my favorite scene in

32:22

the entire NCU Guardian

32:25

you when y'all do get to spin back and

32:27

he's just murdering Cool. That

32:29

is like my favorite scene in the MC.

32:31

That's cool. See it's this cool scene. My

32:33

favorite scene is though is the One

32:36

and a half seconds. You see the villain in the movie.

32:38

That was my favorite part of that movie and

32:40

into yeah Yeah, did Kurt

32:43

Russell the whole time? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, the

32:45

the one and a half seconds that you

32:47

see Home movie he was

32:50

ego incorrect the one and a

32:52

half The one and

32:54

a half seconds you see ego the living

32:56

planet was great I wish

32:58

ego the living planet was in the rest of

33:00

that movie I wish the villain that

33:03

they named in that movie was in that movie

33:05

at all. It wasn't it was just

33:07

some guy walking around So

33:09

not ego Hashtag

33:13

not my ego. Okay, not

33:16

my ego Sorry

33:22

But uh, wait, how do we get here he's

33:24

a false one boy God God

33:27

really disappointed in that movie. Oh, I wanted

33:29

like this some cool stuff, but I'm movie

33:31

just makes me Sad every

33:33

time I see another one. It's just like Easily

33:38

the worst Avengers movie Ultron just is no

33:40

good in that movie. Yeah, and the villains

33:42

are always good Ultron himself

33:44

was the worst part of it, right? Yeah, I always say

33:46

this when the villains are bad. The movies are bad So

33:49

that's always yeah, but the villain sucked the

33:51

movie sucks. It's them. You got to nail

33:53

the villains It's so hard if the

33:56

villains are bad Like

33:58

in Guardians 2 is excellent be

42:00

some, you must be doing enough

42:03

business. Because

42:07

companies will be happy to kill stuff when

42:09

they, the thing stops making money. Yeah, yeah.

42:11

Yeah, I mean, it might be, you know,

42:14

split between the website revenue and

42:17

game revenue. And it might just, you know,

42:19

like, yeah, it's a lot of the magazine revenue might just be like,

42:21

yeah, no, we just kind of do it all. It's all part of

42:23

the brand. So I feel

42:26

really bad, like the thing that

42:28

makes me sad about Game Informer

42:30

is that the whole

42:32

website's gone. Every

42:35

single URL just redirects to that like,

42:37

thank you, goodbye message. It's just

42:40

all of it vanished in the blink of an eye.

42:42

All the work, all the work that was there is

42:45

just not available anymore. And that's sad.

42:50

If you're a writer, back up your

42:52

stuff. Yeah, really. So just makes me sad.

42:55

See another one. Yeah.

43:06

Another one go although GameStop,

43:08

you know, they suck, they've

43:10

always sucked. Yeah. You

43:12

see something like the guy like the like the

43:14

like the CEO is going to jail or some

43:16

shit like, oh, yeah, the CEO

43:19

of GameStop is being sued for like,

43:21

he likes like securities fraud, like

43:24

insider trading. Yeah, yeah. Right. So

43:26

that dude, that dude like is

43:28

a big like, meme Lord on

43:31

social media, who's also just like

43:33

a financial criminal. Oh, geez. And

43:36

some like conservative talking head.

43:38

Yeah, it's all bad,

43:41

all bad. And the sentiment I saw

43:43

from from like current, well, not current

43:45

anymore. But you know, then

43:47

current and for and former

43:50

game and former staff was

43:52

just like screw this guy.

43:54

So yeah, it's,

43:58

it's just a sad thing. And they

44:00

were just like, as

44:02

far as I understand, brought into an office in the

44:04

morning and just feeling like you're laid off, this is

44:06

done effective immediately, goodbye. These

44:09

people out here will talk to you about severance, it's over, you're

44:11

out. And it's just, what I got, Punch. I

44:17

know how that goes. Sucks.

44:22

Yeah. Man, I

44:24

remember the good old days of babbages and

44:26

Funko land, software, et cetera. And

44:30

then GameStop came along and bought all of them. They

44:34

freaking bought EB Games, killed GMR,

44:36

which was their house magazine. Bastards.

44:39

I wrote a lot for GMR, Ryan.

44:41

Did you? Oh yeah. I

44:44

wrote so much for GMR that it was on my business card.

44:47

Right, Ziff. I

44:49

was their star freelancer. But

44:54

yeah, GameStop, now they've killed

44:56

their magazine. Everything

44:58

they touch turns to dust, Ryan. Yeah.

45:01

Yeah, so. It's

45:05

almost like China corporations

45:07

are a bad idea. Sometimes

45:12

they're a really bad idea. Yeah.

45:18

How's your investments doing today? How's your stocks

45:20

doing today? How's your retirement

45:22

fund doing today? Speaking of senior companies.

45:26

Well, all the people trying to

45:29

engineer a recession so

45:31

that Kamala Harris loses. There's

45:34

more conspiracy theories there. Get

45:37

on ready. Put on my tinfoil hat. Whatever.

45:40

That's long term, Ryan. You can't look at

45:42

the short term, it's the long term. It's

45:45

fine, it'll be fine. Speaking

45:48

of a big company that

45:50

can do no wrong, Ryan. Have

45:53

you been keeping up

45:56

with the Olympics? No,

45:59

absolutely not. Sports incorporated. No

46:02

Red Sox are on a Tear

46:04

to try to get into the playoffs. So I

46:06

am I am all Boston all the time now

46:08

But I have seen the memes I've seen is

46:10

that an Olympic thing. Yes baseball. Yes Play

46:16

fall in the Olympics. Not now. No, I don't

46:18

learn not this year. I don't know. No, I

46:21

mean, yes they have but not now Okay.

46:25

Now I've never been an Olympics guy

46:27

and never never have I mean I

46:29

always see stuff about it It's impossible

46:31

to you know, especially

46:33

now it's you know, yes.

46:35

Yes. I've seen the memes. Yes The the

46:37

shooters are cool. That's neat. Oh, yeah, they

46:39

look they're all like anime care. Yeah. Yeah.

46:42

Yeah But like I saw that.

46:44

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, I I don't I don't

46:46

pay too much attention to the Olympics Like

46:49

I hit in the pole with a pole Adam

46:52

is obsessed with the guy. Yeah that

46:56

that knocked the pole down with the giant

46:58

penis. So I'm

47:00

talks about this constantly. It's very funny It's

47:03

very funny. He lost but really

47:05

did he lose? No, probably not some

47:13

We did finish be visit by the way nice

47:15

I think it's too often cool

47:19

All good polls Yeah,

47:22

but yeah, no Olympics nuts. Yeah again,

47:24

I'll come I just The

47:27

tennis is done so it's done for me. I don't

47:29

care about anything else. I Do

47:32

love our group shower at it's like 4 o'clock in

47:34

the morning. Yeah, I'm like well watching Table

47:38

ball line dancing the

47:41

Croatian sure did nail it this

47:43

year It's like 3

47:45

a.m. And he and I'm like USA is up 5

47:47

to 2 Seems

47:49

like these weird That

47:52

he's watching too. What the hell

47:55

are you watching volleyball? What are you

47:57

doing? So

47:59

weird to stay Yeah,

48:02

that's okay. Okay, well,

48:08

no Olympics then. Okay, cool. I

48:10

have been watching. I have been

48:12

watching something nerdy in comic book

48:14

related. If you can believe that.

48:17

Yeah, watching man. What?

48:19

You see those man memes, man

48:21

memes. Yeah, man. Don't you know

48:23

man man, man. I

48:26

mean, I know, man. I know what a man is. But

48:30

you don't know the character man. I don't

48:32

know this meme. I don't know. You remember,

48:34

okay, you've totally seen this. Remember in the

48:36

flat, Michael Keaton as Batman in the flash,

48:38

that that image is him like smiling. Yeah.

48:41

You've seen the image of people to Photoshop

48:43

the ears off. Oh, so it's just yeah.

48:45

Yeah. Yeah. That's not Batman. It's just man.

48:47

Okay. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Um,

48:50

Doug and man, I have seen that. But

48:53

I did not know that that's what it

48:55

was called. Okay. Okay. Yeah, that's what that

48:57

is. That's what the Batman Yeah. I watched

49:00

first couple episodes of Batman caped

49:02

crusader, which is the

49:05

Amazon is it the

49:07

caped crusader or just caped crusader

49:09

Batman caped crusader Batman

49:12

colon caped crusader. It

49:15

is the Matt

49:17

Reeves and Paul Dini

49:19

produced Batman

49:21

animated series spiritual successor

49:24

show on Amazon

49:26

Prime. Okay,

49:31

I have two problems with this. Okay. Arlene

49:33

Sorkin is not in it. She does not

49:35

voice Harley Quinn. Okay, well,

49:37

unfortunately, Arlene Sorkin is dead, Ryan. But

49:41

that goes to the heart of one of

49:43

my other problems, which is Kevin Conroy is

49:45

dead. Yes. And also, this doesn't look exactly

49:47

like Batman the enemy. So here, here's the

49:49

problem, right? Here's my problem with the show.

49:51

And I guess getting raked over the coals

49:53

from the internet because of racist

49:55

bigots and stuff like that. Because there's

49:58

women in the show. But How

50:00

dare them? But that's not the problem. The

50:02

problem is exactly what you just said. You

50:05

either do Batman in the animated series, like

50:08

X-Men 97 did, or... Yeah,

50:11

it looks like it's trying to be like,

50:13

it's clearly trying to make you go, hey,

50:15

this looks like that, but it's a little

50:18

different. Right, so it's totally different. It's... Oh,

50:21

okay. It is the style, but

50:25

all the characters are different. Batman

50:31

clearly is different. He's a

50:33

little bit different design. Gordon

50:38

isn't the same. In

50:40

the show he's black, which is fine. It's

50:43

not the same. Penguin is a woman.

50:46

Clayface is the golden age Clayface. Harley

50:49

Quinn, I hope we've not got

50:51

to this episode yet, but she's

50:53

Asian and she's more like Harlequin,

50:55

the Silver Age character, the DC

50:57

character. Okay. So

51:01

all the characters, it's like, why

51:07

would you, you're setting

51:09

yourself up for failure by comparing yourself

51:12

to arguably the greatest animated series

51:14

of all time, right? It

51:17

just, I wish they had done their own

51:19

thing. Cause it's too

51:22

close to, it's too

51:24

close to not be compared,

51:26

but it's nothing like Batman, the

51:29

animated series. Like in tone

51:31

and style it is, but

51:33

not in substance and characters. And

51:36

so it's really

51:38

hard to judge it on its own. And

51:40

I'm like, I like it, but

51:43

it's not Batman, the animated series. They should have

51:45

done their own thing. Like Batman Brave and the

51:47

Bold is phenomenal. I was going to say, I

51:49

was going to say people really like that, but

51:51

it's because it's very, very

51:54

different. It's completely its own thing.

51:56

It's great. It has its own

51:58

world, its own style, right? And

52:00

this has been one to have him in this good, you

52:02

know, like I didn't care for for Beware

52:05

the Batman and the Batman like those didn't really

52:07

work for me, but they tried to be their

52:09

own thing, right, and have their audience. This to me,

52:11

it's like it's good. It

52:13

just. Why?

52:17

I know what they were trying to do, and

52:19

it just it was the it was a mistake

52:21

because it's not as good as Batman, the animated

52:23

series. So it's just it is.

52:25

It's unfair comparison, but they've done it

52:27

to themselves. I wish they hadn't because

52:29

I think it's pretty good. But

52:33

it's pretty good. It's not the greatest animated series of all

52:35

time. So it's it's like, you know, I'm going to keep

52:37

going. Obviously, I'm going to watch the whole thing. But

52:41

it's maybe it'll grow on me more.

52:43

But it's like, oh, there's just something

52:45

a little off about it. And

52:47

that's in just sticks with you the whole time

52:49

you're watching it. You know, if you've never seen

52:52

Batman in the original series, you probably be like,

52:54

yeah, this is awesome. But if you know it

52:56

like as you know, like deeply as we know

52:58

it, yeah, it's real hard to

53:00

not make that comparison. And I think it's in

53:05

hindsight, it's a choice I wish they didn't make to

53:07

be to be so close

53:09

kind of tonally and stylistically to

53:12

it. Yeah,

53:16

it's good, though. I think it's worth a watch.

53:18

It definitely is. It's definitely good. But

53:21

it is hard to. It's

53:23

hard that it's hard to take the comparison makes it tough.

53:26

So every make it about

53:29

some episodes or like like he. I

53:31

see Greg Rucka, his name is mentioned. Yeah,

53:33

Greg. I think they're both credited on an

53:35

episode and they were both in the writers

53:37

room. And I'm sure Baker may have been

53:40

involved like in some level of showwriting. I

53:42

don't remember the whole deal with it. So

53:46

it's not it's got that comic pedigree. So

53:48

they're not pulling from nothing.

53:50

They're pulling from real comic stuff, which is

53:52

cool. It's just. Hmm. Fat

53:55

Alfred to like gold, like Golden Age Alfred.

53:59

Yeah, before you get. like modern, you know,

54:01

silver age skinny Alfred. Yeah.

54:07

Close, close. Okay,

54:09

welcome. How come Paul

54:11

Dini's not on? Well, you need Bruce Tim and

54:14

Paul Dini. You can't make

54:16

the magic without a load of them. You're

54:18

missing a whatever. Oops, sorry, Penny. Smack

54:20

my dog in the face. There you

54:22

go, what are you doing? Yeah,

54:26

you know, X-Men 97 and

54:28

Beavis and Butthead are

54:30

good examples of things people love,

54:32

but they did the thing. Yeah,

54:34

yeah, yeah. They are direct continuations

54:37

and the style is, you know, modernized,

54:39

but it is still like

54:44

if this was the, like

54:47

the animation was the same, the

54:49

character models were changed, and

54:52

the plot was obviously adjusted a little bit

54:54

because it wouldn't, you know, it doesn't really

54:57

work if, you know, if

55:00

it's the exact same plot because it's

55:02

obviously, like we just watched Clayface

55:04

episode. Obviously Clayface exists in the Batman animated

55:07

series. And so they never

55:09

even called him Clayface in the episode. You know,

55:11

they never call him Clayface in the episode. It's

55:13

kind of weird. But

55:17

yeah, it's. Yeah,

55:21

I want to like it more than I do. I like it. I

55:23

don't love it. We'll keep going. We'll keep

55:25

going. Well, yeah, she'll watch it. Let me know what

55:27

you think. Who is it? Let me

55:29

see. Jamie Chung plays Harley Quinn. Yeah,

55:33

I haven't got the Harley episode yet. I

55:35

was going to say I was going

55:37

to ask does she voice her correctly. There's

55:39

a correct way to play Harley Quinn.

55:41

That one. Sorry. If she started, she

55:43

was a voice when she started. There's

55:45

a correct way to do it. Yeah, I

55:48

know the Harley episode, I think, is

55:50

kind of the one

55:52

that I think has turned the most people off

55:54

on the show. I have not seen it. No,

55:56

no. But because it's just so different.

56:00

It's not Harley, so but again, I have not

56:02

seen it. Don't know. Internet is

56:04

dumb. But I definitely

56:06

saw some people that

56:08

that episode didn't work for a lot of people. But, you know,

56:10

whatever. You get to it. OK.

56:14

Yeah. Well. Sorry

56:17

that you hate Batman. Yeah. Yeah.

56:19

No. You think it's

56:21

the worst thing ever made. Worst character ever.

56:23

You know me and my hatred of Batman.

56:26

Yep. Ah.

56:32

Well, now you got man to be a fan. Now,

56:35

you know, just no man. Have

56:37

you been playing any video games? Oh,

56:41

little Final Fantasy 14. Running

56:43

a bunch of random dungeons that

56:45

I needed to get done. OK,

56:48

it's fun. I stand around and people that are much

56:50

better than me. The boss and I don't do anything.

56:53

Because you're a healer. Playing a

56:55

little Pokemon almost done with Scarlett.

56:58

Didn't DLC right now. So I'm almost

57:00

done with that. Have you started playing

57:02

the NES World Championship? No, no. It's

57:05

so me and the end. I'll probably play at

57:07

some point. We're playing. What are

57:10

the Kirby games? One of the Switch Kirby games. And which

57:12

one it is in front of me

57:14

here. It's over there. I can't see it. Kirby and the

57:16

amazing. It's just one of the multiplayer.

57:18

It's one of the ones with multiplayer stuff. So but I

57:20

do want to try. I do want to be epic yarn.

57:23

Yeah. No, it's not that one. I do want to

57:25

play. I have it. I have it. World

57:27

Championship, though. I do want to play that. Let

57:30

me tell you, Ryan. Yeah, you like it. Oh,

57:36

I'm going to get your trophy. No,

57:39

no, no, no, no, no. The

57:41

B button and the A button on

57:45

the switch. And in

57:47

fact, for every Nintendo console that ever came

57:49

after the NES. They

57:51

are not positioned the

57:54

way that the B and the A button were on the

57:56

NES. OK. OK. Super

58:00

Mario Brothers you press B

58:02

to run an A to jump correct,

58:04

okay? Now

58:07

when Nintendo made the Super NES and

58:10

they made Super Mario World They

58:12

wisely made the choice to make Y Be

58:15

the button to make Mario run and B to

58:17

be the button where he jumps because of the

58:19

because your finger rests on those Two buttons because

58:21

they are at a diagonal correct correct Nintendo

58:25

and its infinite wisdom Made

58:28

it so that B and A are the buttons to

58:30

do everything in Nintendo World

58:32

Championships and It

58:34

sucks because the controls suck

58:37

That's But doesn't it

58:40

have the I mean you can

58:42

use it with the NES controller.

58:44

That's why right What

58:48

you can use it with the The

58:51

NES classic controller that's

58:54

why okay. No no no I don't

58:56

care about that I care about the

58:58

switch controller which is the control scheme

59:00

you can't change you can't change the

59:02

no There's nothing in the settings

59:04

to change the buttons and it it it

59:09

Tires out your hand because

59:12

you're like Holding it weird so

59:14

you can hit the button like one

59:16

of the like the first Mario challenge Because

59:18

you know there's like Mario where there's like

59:20

these little quick five seconds You

59:22

know do this as fast as possible right Zelda

59:25

running the cave and get the sword right

59:27

and The first challenge on

59:29

Super Mario Brothers one is just get the mushroom

59:31

in world 1 1 Okay,

59:34

and the controls working the way they

59:36

do Make it hard

59:38

to get like the best rank in it

59:41

Hmm interesting it's terrible

59:43

the controls are actually terrible. They really botched

59:45

it. Yeah Which is unfortunate

59:47

because the concept of the game is neat and

59:50

I like it But

59:52

the controls suck So

59:54

I just wanted to talk about and you can't you can't you

59:56

look it up. You can't change it I cannot change and there's

59:58

nothing in the settings to change them Hmm House

1:00:03

called Nintendo world Championship

1:00:11

Now look when I just got a run in a

1:00:13

cave and get a sword control I can get a

1:00:15

good score there man And

1:00:18

not getting in the term trolls Let's

1:00:21

say Yeah, Brian.

1:00:23

Okay, you know Didn't didn't

1:00:25

didn't You

1:00:28

can use x and place of B for controllers with

1:00:30

the standard for button layout people saying you need to

1:00:32

remember I mean and it's no need We

1:00:35

really this just says you can

1:00:37

use you can use X and place of B

1:00:40

for controllers with the standard four button layout Who

1:00:43

you can that's what this says Ryan

1:00:47

yeah, I just hack it's called google.com I'm

1:00:50

here. Yeah a bit and then you skip past all the

1:00:52

AI bullshit top and you go down to like results Yeah,

1:00:54

but why would I need to google that when there could

1:00:56

just be a setting to change the button? Why

1:01:01

would that even if there's no setting change

1:01:03

the buttons I would just assume There's nothing

1:01:05

Ryan because that's how you change things in

1:01:07

a video game Okay,

1:01:10

well I'll investigate further yeah in any case,

1:01:12

you know, it'd be nice to just use

1:01:14

why yeah Two

1:01:17

buttons are a little weird. I would use the bottom Yeah,

1:01:20

yeah, so what so would I um? but

1:01:25

Yeah, the the game's kind of neat I Can

1:01:28

get that Kate sword in that cave so fast

1:01:31

Zelda you walk into the cave you pick up the sword. That's

1:01:34

it Yeah

1:01:37

But people are people are shaving, you know hundreds

1:01:39

of a millisecond off right? I mean, yeah, like

1:01:41

yeah, I'm sure there is just a there is

1:01:44

just a limit how fast you can do it

1:01:48

Yeah, probably Well

1:01:51

in any case, um That's

1:01:55

what I've been playing that's cool nice. Yeah,

1:01:58

I've heard it's fun Yeah,

1:02:01

it's cool. My pile to read. My

1:02:04

pile to play. You done

1:02:07

PoopSock in Final Fantasy? You already out? I'm

1:02:11

just a little bit burnt out, but that's okay. I'll

1:02:13

be back to it. I always come back to it.

1:02:15

Who would have guessed playing 18 hours a day for

1:02:17

a week straight would burn you out of a game?

1:02:19

Who would guess? Hey,

1:02:24

you know, you're right. I don't know

1:02:26

who would have guessed that. That's

1:02:29

you know, that's a

1:02:31

lesson learned. That's what you heard here. So

1:02:34

you don't have to go through it yourself. Every expansion comes

1:02:36

out. You're like, oh, that's fine. I could just not

1:02:38

have a life for two weeks and play 40 hours

1:02:40

a day and just never. I

1:02:44

don't. But I don't. I didn't do that. There

1:02:47

is not so much stuff in there that you really have to do that.

1:02:49

Okay. Yeah,

1:02:52

I didn't even like the new raids came out.

1:02:54

I didn't even finish those. You

1:02:58

don't do that stuff on level or not. Not like at

1:03:00

the same time. Nothing. Not the

1:03:02

savage raids. Yeah. No,

1:03:04

just the normal raids. It's like normal content.

1:03:08

Yeah. Do it as

1:03:10

a game, sir. I'm never going to do savage stuff.

1:03:12

That's for people who aren't me. Not

1:03:15

into that, but just normal raids. You know,

1:03:17

the stuff you could queue for in Beautyfinder.

1:03:19

Yeah, I haven't finished those. Yeah,

1:03:24

I'll get back to it. Bless

1:03:27

you. Geez, sneezing

1:03:29

on my podcast. It's

1:03:32

not allowed. Never. Not

1:03:34

the sneeze box. No, no,

1:03:37

no. Well.

1:03:42

For coming from Comic Con. I guess that's

1:03:44

all. Back, back

1:03:46

doing whatever the hell I do. I have anything

1:03:49

going on. Do you have anything else? No, it's

1:03:51

a dipper warframe. No. What's

1:03:54

Beatles just come on? Are you going to see that you loser?

1:03:56

You'll see that. September. I

1:04:00

thought it was August. Oh, next month. Okay, it's

1:04:02

next month. September or September 6th. Yeah.

1:04:05

I saw a bunch of

1:04:07

ads for it and I'm like, oh no. It's

1:04:15

one of those movies where I'm like, please, please

1:04:17

just don't let it suck. I'm sure it's gonna

1:04:19

suck, but just please, please don't let it suck.

1:04:21

Please just be okay. Just be all right. And

1:04:24

the poster looks like AI made it. The

1:04:30

characters all look weird. Jen or Tega's hair

1:04:32

looks wrong.

1:04:34

Yeah, the poster's bad. Yeah,

1:04:40

they released another trailer for

1:04:42

it. Maybe

1:04:49

it won't suck, but it probably will. Maybe

1:04:54

I'll really torture myself and watch that new

1:04:56

Ghostbusters Frozen Empire movie. You're gonna watch them

1:04:58

both at the same time? Yeah,

1:05:00

yeah, same time. Yeah,

1:05:06

well, maybe next week we'll talk about

1:05:09

Deadpool and Wolverine. I'll

1:05:11

go see that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. First

1:05:13

comic book movie in theaters since... I

1:05:21

don't even know. I

1:05:23

didn't see in-game in theater. Yeah.

1:05:25

I saw Infinity War, I think. Infinity

1:05:28

War might have been the last comic movie I saw in a

1:05:30

theater. Yeah.

1:05:34

Jeez. Well,

1:05:36

I guess

1:05:40

that's it. I'm

1:05:43

glad you had fun at Comic Con, Ryan. I

1:05:45

did. I did. You met

1:05:47

the penguin, you did crimes. You should go in there.

1:05:53

I've been. Yeah, you should go again. Why?

1:05:56

As a fan. As a fan. I

1:05:59

don't know if I... I can do that with conventions. I

1:06:02

feel weird. I don't know. I don't know

1:06:04

if I could ever, I

1:06:06

don't think I have been

1:06:08

to a convention just for fun. Yeah,

1:06:11

that's your, that's your, that's your. Since like, maybe

1:06:15

we've gone to like local comic cons or

1:06:17

something in the last 21 years. I've

1:06:19

been, by the way, I've passed

1:06:22

my 21st work anniversary, by the way,

1:06:24

at CGW. So it's been a while.

1:06:28

But I

1:06:30

can't remember the last time I went to a convention just

1:06:32

for fun. I guess I went, no,

1:06:34

I went to, what was

1:06:36

it? The classic game expos,

1:06:38

did you in San Jose? What's

1:06:41

it called? The arcade?

1:06:47

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I

1:06:49

went to that a few years ago for a

1:06:51

day. That was cool. But

1:06:58

I feel

1:07:00

like going to comic, like a comic con type thing with

1:07:03

all these different halls and all these fields just

1:07:06

moving around. I feel like work brain would just

1:07:08

turn on. You just feel, you know, like I

1:07:10

would just be stressed the whole time, even

1:07:14

though I'd be like, okay, no, there's no work,

1:07:16

there's no, there's no, I don't have to be,

1:07:18

it's fine. Do you chill, Ryan? I feel like

1:07:20

I would just be stressed. Yeah. Anyway, yeah, maybe

1:07:22

I'll go one year,

1:07:24

get that Rona. Apparently

1:07:32

just about everyone

1:07:34

got it. So, real bad. I

1:07:37

was fine, I didn't. Yeah,

1:07:39

so far. But yeah, yeah, yeah. Have

1:07:42

you tested, get that Rona? Yeah, I

1:07:44

did, I did. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, test again. Maybe

1:07:48

you're immune now. Anyway, okay, well,

1:07:51

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1:07:55

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but that's a lie. I'll use it.

1:08:19

Huh? Use it for work. I mean, I check my

1:08:21

DMs again. Yeah,

1:08:23

yeah, yeah, yeah. You're getting a lot of

1:08:25

DMs. A lot of people slide into your

1:08:27

DMs, Ryan. No, not anymore. No, that's why

1:08:30

I don't check it that often. Every

1:08:32

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1:08:34

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1:09:14

yeah, do you have any parting words, Ryan? Word

1:09:16

to wisdom? Oh, power

1:09:18

or courage. See

1:09:21

that's the triforce. No, not

1:09:23

not. Long, long version

1:09:25

of the Comic Con talk on the

1:09:27

news. And

1:09:29

next week, we'll ask because

1:09:32

we just kind of talked about the shit we did

1:09:34

and then we'll actually be covering the there

1:09:37

was news. There was more news of this comic that

1:09:39

I think I did not

1:09:41

say the triforce of nerd. Any any

1:09:43

comic con I've seen in a while.

1:09:45

And we'll be talking about the Deadpool

1:09:47

Wolverine spoiler. That's the one that Tingle

1:09:49

has. You're a Tingle. Oh, nice. Nice.

1:09:52

What's this thing? Rimpah? No, is that him? No. What

1:09:54

else you say? What? What tells

1:09:56

this thing? Huh? K'lulimpah.

1:10:00

Yeah, yeah. That's a thing going on. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

1:10:03

Well, I'm glad we're landing on that note. Thanks

1:10:07

for listening, everybody. Go check out the

1:10:09

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1:10:11

Con 2024 news. And

1:10:14

we'll see you next time. Goodbye.