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welcome everybody who is tuning
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As always, well, almost always,
I have Amanda from The Pop
Break joining us tonight.
How are you doing tonight, Amanda?
Hi, I'm great.
Thank you for having me.
It's always a lot of fun.
And thank you for joining us
on Saturday Morning Adventures.
That was a great time.
Our episode dropped.
Learning that Riverside,
the system that y'all use over there,
is very noise sensitive.
So that was fun.
I never realized that, but no,
that was a great time.
I'm looking forward to the
next time that we can all
get together and do it again.
Absolutely.
Well,
you'll be joining us this coming week
as well to talk about the Acolyte.
Let's plug that right now
while we're at it.
Let's go ahead and plug it.
So that's June 13th.
So we, so we record on Thursdays,
but the episode will drop on Friday.
Okay.
So we will be talking about
on the 13th and dropping it on the 15th.
Tracking.
Yeah.
Okay.
I think.
I think it's the 14th.
The 14th.
Because it's a Friday.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Thursday, Friday.
Yeah, that makes sense.
Yeah.
So we're excited to have you.
You get your double debut here.
Because you debuted for us
on the Pop Break with
today's episode that
dropped of Saturday Morning Adventures.
And now we get Jeffy Jeff Week.
I know.
I like it.
And y'all had another Jeff on.
Yeah.
Yes.
We discussed the first two
episodes of the Acolyte and
Yes, we did.
We had a good friend of mine.
His name is Jeff Gretler
over at the Dose
Incredibles Network and him
and his co-host Mario Pena.
I've been on there a couple
of times and they do a lot
of fun reels and clips and
talk a lot of pop culture.
But he joined us to talk
about the first two
episodes of the Acolyte.
And then, of course,
the the trailers for Venom
and Alien Romulus,
which I know will will be.
We're going to get into those tonight,
too.
Yeah.
So excited to hear what you
think about those.
I'm excited to talk about
them and excited to come up
on the pop break.
It was funny because like I
seen Bill make his post
about y'all talking about
the first two episodes and it said,
and we welcome Jeff.
I'm like, wait a damn.
I was like, oh, wait,
there's another Jeff.
So I made a comment on there about it.
He's like, oh, dude,
we're going to have to talk
about this at the meeting of Jeff.
So I'm like, oh, yeah.
I got it on my calendar, dude.
Yeah.
I'm like, y'all would,
y'all would have a good time.
He's good.
He's good people.
We call him our, our, our good brother.
He's a, he's a retired wrestler.
Oh, okay.
Nice.
Yeah.
He's really, he's a lot of fun.
His video clips are hilarious.
Danny.
I did watch a couple of them when,
because I'm, you know,
when it's another Jeff and
he's running another podcast, I'm like,
you know what?
Let me see what this is all about.
And I was cracking up within a couple,
and I was like, all right, yep,
he's a Jeff.
I know.
Y'all Jeffs got to stick together.
We do.
And it was great.
It was cool.
But yeah, after this,
you'll have to give me his contact info.
We'll have to get in touch,
and we'll work something out.
We'll get him on a USDN.
awesome awesome I think I
think you guys will have a
great time so but yeah but
we're I think we're ready
to have a good time talking
about because I want to
know what you think I mean
I'll get that preview
because I know I'll ask you
a little bit about it you
know when we record on
thursday but I want to know
what you think about the
acolyte well I'm glad you
brought that up because
let's just jump right on
into it um I'm like dying
to know I'm like it's like
I'm like I might check
because I really want to
know what you think we're
100 years prior to um
Phantom Menace.
Yes.
Holy shite.
Thank you.
And I'm loving the costumes.
I really am.
I love the really formal Jedi outfits.
They're rocking.
The color scheme is on point.
Coruscant looks like Coruscant,
but you could tell from
this Coruscant to the
Coruscant and other movies,
how it's kind of evolved,
which was kind of cool to
see that it's evolved from
I will say this.
Carrie Ann Moss got a short stick.
And that was like my biggest
disappointment during this whole thing.
I'm like,
they've been parading her around
doing TV spots, interviews,
talking about this show.
Spoiler alert for anybody
who ain't watched it yet.
Sorry, folks.
But and then we get her for about 10,
12 minutes and she's gone.
But I know we're going to get her back.
We're going to get some
flashbacks with her.
We're obviously going to
learn more of this story on
Osha and her sister as we go.
We're kind of going to get a
flashback story of why and
where we're at in these
first two episodes.
I'm really liking the cast.
It was really cool seeing all the good,
the like Lee Jung Jae and
JJ is calling him from the
other Netflix show.
The Korean actor.
Squid Games.
I never watched Squid Games.
So I didn't either.
But my one of my best
friends who's she watches some Star Wars,
but she's not like a huge Star Wars nerd.
She was like, oh,
I'm going to watch this
because my guy from the
Squid Games is on there.
So we're getting I've seen
other Korean shows.
So I do like him a lot.
But he learned English for the show.
And he took Qui-Gon Jinn as
like an inspiration.
Like he watched Qui-Gon in the shows,
in the movies to help him
learn English and how to act as a Jedi.
I'm like, dude,
if you're going to pick somebody,
you made a good choice.
It's Qui-Gon Jinn, man.
he really channeled that energy.
I, I love his mannerisms and everything.
The way he's carrying
himself is very Qui-Gon.
So I was like,
you can really see it and
what he brings to the screen.
And, um,
And it's, it's such a, it,
there was a lot of smart
choices going that route because you know,
what I, what I like,
I definitely appreciate
that this is a hundred
years before the Phantom
Menace because you know,
basically the high Republic
era started off,
I want to say it's 500 years before.
So yeah,
so this is kind of the tail end of
that era.
So we're also coming out of
the Sith Wars and like all
those wars prior to this
and they were kind of entering the,
We're at peace right now.
This is that hundred years
of peace they talk about
before we get into the
Phantom Menace and all
those troubles that brew from there.
Yeah, and there's no, I mean,
Sith aren't even on the radar.
I mean, most of the High Republic era,
they're fighting the Nihil.
And that's, I mean, of course,
that's a whole different,
not even close to Sith.
It's a whole different villain, you know,
and so it's interesting to
see the contrast of how the
Jedi are presented here and
you know versus what we're
used to seeing and and kind
of being the survivors if
you will so I mean you have
of course we're used to
obi-wan we're used to
qui-gon we're used to yoda
yoda um and yoda's alive
around this time do you
think we're gonna see yoda
I think we get both yoda
and we get waddle they're
both they're both they're
both alive during this time
frame so I mean we're
talking creatures that live
900 plus years yeah so I
mean they're both going to be
in their 700s 800s at this time.
Yeah, about right.
And I,
I also feel like we're gonna get a
master Cinebay as well.
The older Yeah, okay.
Yeah.
And the Clone Wars get her
her lightsaber back.
I feel like he may show up.
He's alive around this time too.
He would be and that would
be awesome to see him
because that he was one of
the he was a fucking dinosaur.
It was he was freaking cool.
Well,
he got a live action debut in Mando
in the Chamber of Horrors.
Yeah.
I was like, oh, and that's like a master.
He deserved better.
I was like, give him, let him, let him,
let us have him in like peak form,
please.
Exactly.
Not just.
In this, in this timeframe,
he would have been in his prime.
So hopefully we get that.
Cause I'm not sure.
they never really mentioned
I know he in in the clone
wars he mentioned something
about how old he was but he
never like gave it as that
like age he's just like
when you've seen the things
I have or lived as long as
I have you seen danes yeah
I loved him I loved him in
the clone wars actually
made me really sad when I
saw him in mando like that
I'm like oh yeah right um
and uh I i wonder if we're
gonna get I i feel like one
of the stills that leaked
in the the early trailer showed plocoon
Yeah, we could get Plo Koon.
I'm not sure how his race ages,
but it would be a very young Plo Koon,
I would think.
Could be.
I feel like it would be a
much younger Plo Koon
because he's fairly
seasoned by the time he
finds Ahsoka and we get to
the main events.
So I'm curious to see if
we'll get him or someone of similar being,
if you will, or kind of of his same race.
Because we really haven't
seen much of the council yet.
We've seen...
Like the one... What's her name?
The other... The Twilight hybrid.
Not Aayla.
Is it Aayla?
Yeah, Aayla.
Aayla Secura?
No, no, no.
The green one in Acolyte.
Oh, you're talking about Verna Strobro.
Yes, thank you.
But Barriss Offrey is of the same race.
Yes, yes.
sorry I'm like brain farting
all over the place oh no
there's a lot of details
with the high republic like
vernestra rose stuck out to
me because I remembered her
she's one of the main
characters her younger self
is one of the main
characters in like the some
of the comics and the kids
content for the high
republic book era so uh for
people who are worried like
do I need to read the high
republic books no they're
great by the way the comics
are really good
Black Horse did a fantastic,
and they're still doing a
fantastic job with the High
Republic stuff.
And me and Slimo,
over at Slimo Training and whatnot,
have been saying this for months now.
Get in on the High Republic
now before it skyrockets in value.
Yeah, it's going to.
It is going to big time.
Yeah, they're fantastic.
You don't necessarily have to read them.
They're great reads,
but it's not necessary to
know a lot of the Jedi.
There's a lot of new names,
not necessarily required for this show.
For Nestra, though,
it's a nice little Easter
egg for people who have read.
She is.
I'm pretty sure somewhere in
one of these boxes behind me,
there is quite a few comic
books with her on the cover and
It's cool seeing her.
The whole thing to me has been,
I know a lot of people are,
it's being shat on.
Oh, yeah.
We've only gotten two episodes.
There's no reason to shit on
something two episodes in.
No, it's like, give it a chance.
And I mean, one of the, you know,
I've heard people say everything from,
but there's no Skywalkers.
And I'm like,
this is before they were ever born.
Exactly.
And I'm like, you know,
there's so what I love
about Star Wars is that
there's so many stories
that you can tell and they
don't necessarily have to
revolve around the Skywalkers.
It's just one segment.
But if when you go back and
we know all of us who've
been fans for a while, you know,
with the old Republic era
and now high Republic era,
like there was a lot of
cool stuff that happened at that time.
And like the old Republic
era and the new Republic era,
there's so many good
stories that can be told out of there.
And I know Leslie Hedlund,
she has mentioned wanting
to make a Knights of the Old Republic,
either a TV show or movie.
Man, that would be a fantastic TV series,
in my opinion.
It would.
Based it off the video game,
and it would be even better.
See,
I'm torn about that because it's one
of those where I'm like,
I want the big fights to
happen in a theater.
Yeah.
Maybe they'll do like a
simulcast or something.
Yeah, like they did with Mando and Ahsoka.
There was episodes where they were like,
go to the theater and watch
it for 15 bucks in IMATs.
yeah like they could even
like if you stream you know
or do do a tv show for the
first few episodes and then
like like kind of like what
they did with andor and
ahsoka it's like here's
your mid because you know
with disney they always hit
with episode five it's like
okay episode five we're
gonna special premiere in
theaters as well I know
they did that here for for
the acolyte too with the
first two episodes people
were able to go ahead of
time but I mean can you
imagine those were invite onlys
yeah they were if well you
had to try to go claim your
seats and yeah my internet
doesn't like me so there we
are I was like but that
would admit me leaving the
house and like going to a
movie theater and I'm just
not about that life yet
I'll get there eventually
it is for me I'm enjoying
it more it's nice being
back in the movies hi
joseph hey joseph how are you bud
um yeah it's nice to to kind
of get back out there
depending on what it is and
get the experience again
and yeah the last time I
went to movies was uh I
think me and my daughter
went and seen uh bad boys
three nice okay and then I also did um
I rented the theater back
during COVID for Jujutsu
Kaisen arc that came to the theater.
Yeah,
so I rented the theater for my
daughter and a bunch of her friends.
And it was fun.
It like I've never seen
Jujutsu Kaisen before.
Oh, it's one of my favorite enemies.
And I enjoyed that art.
I enjoyed a lot of it.
Zero was a fantastic movie.
I'm glad you liked it.
It's fantastic.
See what we got here.
Oh, no,
we appreciate you stopping by and
hanging out with us while
we talk about the Alkalite.
And we're going to hit some
rumors and some other news
here in a little bit.
Thank you.
Yeah.
So I'm curious to see what
you think about or what
your thoughts are on how
the Jedi come across here.
Especially when you see Yord
and some of the other... What's up,
Kelvin?
What's up, brother?
But some of the other Jedi
we're seeing compared to
who we're used to.
What are your thoughts on
how the Jedi come across there?
I'm enjoying seeing
different Jedi right now.
It's a breath of fresh air
to me to see different
characters that we've not seen yet.
And not just not seen yet,
but characters that are no
longer with us by the time
we get to the Phantom Menace.
outside of like Yoda and a
couple of others, Plo Koon,
maybe perhaps.
And, uh, to me, that's, it's like I said,
it's like a breath of fresh
air breathed into the,
the franchise itself,
despite like people not
liking the stories and like
two episodes deep, give it a break story.
I thought the story set up
was really good.
I mean, I'm liking it.
I'm liking like, we have this,
this set of twins, OSHA and I think may.
Yes.
And both believes the other dead until.
What's her name?
Ends up dead.
And then they're like, oh, well,
OSHA killed him.
They're like, well,
how can she kill him when
she's been aboard this ship
working as a mechanic for
who of all people?
The Trade Federation.
Right.
The irony.
I was like, wow,
the hate has been there for a while now.
I was like, I'm like, damn,
that hate runs deep.
And there's again there and
Kelvin's in there right on.
There is conflict within the
Jedi Order around these two
kids who both believe the other's dead.
And I got to say, what's her name?
The girl who plays Osha.
Is it Amanda?
Oh, it's Amandla.
Amandla Sandberg.
Amandla, yeah.
She's doing a fantastic job.
Yeah,
they do a really solid performance
because it's just, it's a tough,
it's tough to play twins.
She's playing twins.
And there's only one of her.
And they're both very
different in how their
mannerisms are and their
characters are and everything.
But good on her, man.
She's killing it.
And oh, by the way,
if you didn't see the video
of her playing the Star
Wars theme on violin,
you have missed out.
Because the writer,
the guy who writes all the
music for Star Wars,
wrote her a special piece
on violin just for her.
And they have her in studio recording it.
And it is fantastic.
She's a fantastic violinist.
Come on.
What's not to like about her?
I think she's done a fantastic job.
Yeah.
And again, I thought the story, the setup,
the character introductions, everything,
the pacing was on point.
I really enjoyed it.
I was surprised.
Now, I was surprised,
but I wasn't surprised.
I know you brought up
Carrie-Anne and her character,
Master Andara,
kind of about 10 minutes in.
Yeah, so...
i was surprised but I wasn't
surprised I had heard like
kind of some pockets and
rumors here and there that
people were like oh she's
gonna die the first episode
now I was surprised it
happened ten minutes and I
mean I loved the fight
scene because we don't have
like it is a really good
non-traditional fight scene
and we so far we have not
got a traditional like lightsaber duel
and it and honestly it's
been uh like it's been
different like they're
using the force to fight
similar to what we got in
ahsoka with um uh what's
his name oh my god ezra yes
when he gave up his
lightsaber and he was just
using the force conflict
within the jedi order what
conflict okay um
Well, I would say, like,
for the conflict part of it, it's,
you know,
you have... There's some pockets
of Jedi where it's, you know,
very political.
And I think this is kind of
the predecessor to what we
see in The Phantom Menace.
You know, the...
And it's kind of coming from
the High Republic era.
It's like they were very
much political figureheads.
It's like, I think,
even with the Starlight
Beacon going back to 500 years ago,
the Jedi out there were
going out there for the
ceremonial cutting.
And it's a lot of politics
and less about the Force.
I mean, and it's also...
they were using Jedi during
this time or they're coming
out of a time when they
were using Jedi kind of as
regional governors,
almost where they were
assigned an area and they
patrolled and policed kind of that,
those areas and the conflict between, uh,
Legion J's character and, um,
In Vernestra's probably.
In Vernestra's.
Yeah.
Because they have two like
different opinions on like, no,
we have to bring her in.
She has to stand trial for this murder.
And then Lee Jun Jae's character going, no,
I know her.
She wouldn't do this.
So we're getting those.
Feelings versus politics.
Yeah.
And he's very much his character is.
is similar to, again,
very much like Qui-Gon when
it came to Anakin,
when we're talking about
Osha and how he feels about her.
And then his new Padawan, Daphne Keene,
who X-23, by the way.
It's kind of cool seeing her
in something else besides being X-23,
which we're going to see
her again here soon in Deadpool,
hopefully.
They're being very tight-lipped about it.
I agree.
But she even brings it up
that why do you keep these
things of your former
Padawans when attachments aren't allowed?
He's like the way he
explains it was wonderful.
Just, you know, it's not an attachment.
I forgot how he explained it exactly,
but it was very.
Well, very Jedi way to explain the,
you know, it's, it's not a,
it's about learning from many mistakes,
growing from the experience, you know,
it's a teaching, you know,
kind of a teaching kind of
for him to be a better teacher.
Yes.
You learn from what you do
with your Padawans.
Exactly.
Thank you.
I love that.
And I'm like, it really was.
but yeah oh I loved I loved
daphne keen in this as
jackie jackie is awesome
and she's very like you can
tell she just absorbs
everything her master tells
her and when she was flying
the ship in that one scene
and um she's like you're
under arrest or whatever and
May is legit.
The way she kicks up the
dust storm and then just
disappears again.
I was like, alright, cool.
She's going to be a great
little villain in this.
We still got to find out
who's behind the mask and
who's her master.
It's going to be interesting
how exactly they got her out when
you know, they, they're like, well,
we couldn't get her out.
So who actually got her out and saved her?
Yeah.
I see.
I'm the one I'm curious
about is Manny Jacinto's character.
Come here.
The, the shop guy.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
He's got a lot up his sleeve.
He's playing several
different stories at once with him.
Like he's got ulterior
motives on top of ulterior motives.
It seems like,
He is more than just kind of
a shady criminal.
Like he knows a lot about
the dark side and about, you know,
kind of this, like,
I think it's the first line
he quotes is a Sith is from,
from the Sith teachings.
It is.
So I'm like, there's something here.
I don't think he's the master.
No, but he is.
I know they're connected to the master,
like both of them.
I don't know if he's a dark
side user or if he's just, or what he's,
But he's definitely going to
be an interesting character
to watch as we go.
Because he comes across as
I'm not really that threatening.
I'm just like kind of a shady thief.
You know,
I got a kind of living and it's like, no,
no, bro.
You know,
this is really quoting the Sith
teachings here.
So we'll see.
We'll see.
Like he may turn out to
somebody to be somebody
else from we know from, you know,
in the future as well.
Are we heard of?
You know, we don't know yet.
Who knows who he turns into later?
Yeah.
Do you have any thoughts on
who the master is?
Any guesses?
I don't really.
Because I got a feeling.
We all know who we want it to be.
But I got a feeling we're
not going to get what we
want out of this.
It's going to be something.
I got a feeling if you've
read the legends.
And you've read the High Republic stuff.
You're going to know.
And be like, damn.
I didn't see that one.
Or you're going to be like, eh,
I fucking called it.
But I don't want to put
nothing out there that, like, oh,
we're at USDN.
They're saying this.
Now, do you have a thought on it, though?
I do.
I have a guess.
Let's hear it.
Let's hear yours.
But I want to hear yours, too.
We're not... Now,
we can disclaimer that we're not,
like... Whatever we're
saying is not official.
This is just speculation.
I'm thinking... I don't know how long...
Sidious is, um, master.
What was his name?
Yeah.
He's alive.
I want to say around this time.
I want to say he's a young one,
a young plagiarist, a plagiarist,
the wise.
I want to say it's him just
because it would sit
everything up that we've already seen.
So, but who knows?
He's a pretty obvious choice.
Like, I think, I think he's a very wanted,
a wanted choice.
Please tell us who do you think it is?
Drop in the comments.
If y'all have any guesses.
Yeah, please.
We want to know everybody,
everybody's guesses.
If you're watching, let us know.
I know there's four of you watching.
Let us know.
See, at first I thought, I'm like, well,
because Darth Pelagos'
master is alive at this time, too,
and that's Darth Tenebrous.
Tenebrous, yeah.
That would be a really good one, too.
That might be solid.
But I'm like,
we're talking about the
Acolyte and the title here.
Didn't he have Darth
Venomous as well at the
same time as Pelagos?
Yeah, he did have two.
So they broke the rule of two.
They've all broken it.
So I'm like, well,
Venomous is technically an Acolyte.
Yeah.
True.
It's not a real Sith.
Cause it can only be one,
two Siths at a time.
So I'm like, that's a possibility too.
Cause I feel like Peligus is
going to show up,
but I feel like he's going
to be a season two.
Hmm.
Because that puts us closer
to the events of Phantom Menace.
And supposedly he was in
Phantom Menace when they found like,
he's there rumored that he was there when,
um,
he introduces Darth Maul.
Yeah.
Like he was there.
He was there.
So I'm kind of wondering
that would make sense for a
season two hook to get people.
No, I like that.
To the 100, you know, towards,
towards the phantom menace period.
But I feel like it's either, you know,
Darth Tenebrous is a guest for me,
but also I kind of am
leaning towards venomous because,
you know, you got to,
he's got to be removed out of the way.
Quite mere.
Yeah.
Yeah, I can see that.
Yeah.
No,
I just decided to see like I want I
really want to know because
we never like even in the
books in the comic books, we don't get.
A lot of details on these people.
I mean, we get their names,
we get these things thrown around,
but there's always somebody
else out there like as the
face of these people.
So we'll see.
I'm excited to see where it's going and.
Honestly, I think it's what?
We're getting 10 episodes or 8?
I believe 10.
10?
I believe.
Yeah,
because we're going until July on
this one, I think.
Yes,
because it's running neck and neck
with House of the Dragon.
Yes.
Which is a great day to be a nerd.
We got both of those shows.
Well, I'm watching.
I'm actually season 3
episode 8 of The Boys right now.
playing catch up oh it's
eight episodes eight
episodes thank you joseph
okay oh yes thank you thank
you and um I'm just trying
to play catch up on the the
boys before that new season
comes out here soon you
want to be surprised no no
that I don't blame you dude
I kind of want to be surprised,
but I also kind of want to be like, damn,
I called it.
Just give me both.
Give me a surprise and be like, okay,
I wasn't too far off.
I'm the same way.
That's the way I see it.
I just want a good story.
I like the way the story is going.
I know a lot of people aren't liking it,
but I don't know if they're
just not liking it because
it's Disney Star Wars or
because it's Leslie Hedlund
or it's Kathleen Kennedy.
I just said that name out loud.
But anyways, but I mean,
I like nobody old story.
I do, too.
You got the master.
And then what did the Jedi do?
That's what I want to know.
She's targeting these four.
What did they do?
And then, of course,
we saw Torben just take the
poison like he's the vow of the vow.
Everything.
I'm like now,
which I finally realized where he's from.
And it's from Game of Thrones.
Yeah.
I was like,
I know this guy from somewhere.
And I spent like, you know,
10 minutes a day like, oh,
fuck Game of Thrones.
That's where I recognize this guy from.
He was younger than he was a kid.
And but no, it's cool.
I know she's trying to kill
these four because they
were the ones that were
there the day that May
started the fucking fire.
Like she's the one that
started the fire that killed her family.
But yet you want to go and
kill the people who you
blame for it when there's
nobody to blame but yourself,
which is like the most Sith thing to do.
That and actually I want to
say Bill had a theory that
maybe the Jedi were mind
controlled and they just
didn't know it by the Sith.
That's very much too true.
I mean, they could be.
Because, I mean,
they're not used to having
Sith at this point.
Right.
There's no Sith.
There's no dark side users
that they're aware of.
Even Yoda in the later episodes after this,
he couldn't feel the dark side.
And he also fell for it.
And I know during this time
where they're at peace and
there's been no Sith for a millennia,
So very well,
we could be looking at
something like that because
they're not used to having
that kind of force users around.
So they could have been
brainwashed or manipulated
into doing something that
they haven't realized.
Yeah,
or Torben did and he just... And that
might have been why he was
in such a deep state of
meditation was because of that.
So...
Yeah,
because the vow is the baractic or I
can't say it pronounced it correctly,
but it's a particular vow.
It's in the comics.
It is.
Yeah.
And he's not the only one
who's in the middle of one
right now in the High Republic.
There's a couple more.
Yeah.
And so this was this was
really interesting.
It made me wonder, like,
did May herself actually start the fire?
I have that question, too.
I was like, or was it pinned on her?
And that's what I'm wondering.
And I got a feeling we're
going to get that played
out on flashbacks in this.
And Joseph's hitting it
really good right here.
It's a murder mystery.
And it's a really cool way
to do a murder mystery,
and I'm here for it.
Yeah, I like, again,
the dual mystery because
you have the two questions
of who is the master and
what really happened that night.
And I'm here for it.
Absolutely.
I know people were mad about
Carrie Amos in the 10 minutes,
but I don't think, looking back on that,
I think it was actually smart in a way.
It was.
Yeah.
Yeah, it hooked you.
Because you're like, what the?
Now I got to know what the
hell was so bad for her to
die in the first 10 minutes.
Exactly.
And then the second,
it was smart to kind of,
because everyone was familiar with her.
I think not having her
around helped people
connect to the other characters,
especially with Master Soul.
And Kelbaka, we're getting another one.
Kelbaka is going to be like,
We got that tease at the end
of episode two with him
when the people were trying
to break into his crashed ship.
And I'm just like, hell yeah.
He's not supporting his Jedi
robes at the time.
So he's just like out there looking at it.
Maybe.
Well,
I'm curious to find out how long do
you think he's going to be around for?
Well,
considering we've already lost two of
the four,
I got a feeling he will at least
meet up with the others.
And I got a feeling he will
go out on a shield.
I don't think he'll take it
laying down like Torben.
Torben, right?
Yeah.
I don't think he'll take it like he did.
Because she still has to meet.
She still has to kill a Jedi
without a weapon.
Yeah.
For her master.
I don't know if I'd go up
against a Wookiee with no weapon.
Yeah, no.
I'm not doing it.
No.
I mean, she tried even with Master Soul,
though.
And that fight scene...
That fight scene was phenomenal.
And he never drew a weapon.
No.
It was all force.
And it was amazing.
That scene, I was like,
this is like the way
they're using the force.
Even with the Carrie Ann Moss fight,
the way she used the force
without having to pull her
weapon was something we never,
we didn't get that until
Ahsoka with Ezra.
That's when we got something like that.
And we went, what,
nine episodes of the Star
Wars and never seen anything like that?
Well,
Vader and Obi-Wan did that to one of
the sisters.
I'm like Vader, Obi-Wan.
Oh no.
Yes, I know who you're talking.
Yeah, I can't think of her name.
Don't get me wrong.
I love Ewan McGregor.
I love Hayden Christensen.
Kenobi was not my favorite.
It wasn't?
It's not my favorite.
I don't think it got the...
a good script or the love it
deserved or what it could have been.
A lot of those is kind of like Boba Fett.
I kind of blocked out some of that.
I kind of blocked out some
of that a little bit,
minus the lightsaber battles,
which are beautiful.
But yeah, it was, that was, yeah.
So I'm not going to remember the twins.
I'm not going to remember
the sisters' names.
No.
But what I loved about this,
you felt like a lot of
martial arts influence.
And I feel like with Carrie Ann Moss,
she channeled her trinity.
She did.
Did you notice that there
was some stuff in there from the Matrix?
Yes.
When she did the...
I was like, oh, Trinity.
I know.
I was like, ah, that was me.
It was so great.
No, I'm right there with you.
There's people sitting on
their couches right now
pissing their britches over
Carrie Ann Moss.
But deep down inside,
they were sitting on their
couch like the rest of us going, yeah!
Oh, it was so good.
Trinity!
Reva.
Reva, there we go.
Thank you, Brian.
There we go.
I always count on Brian.
I'm like, there it goes.
I was like, my brain, there we go.
Now it's Kenobi's back in the brain.
But,
but what I loved was the contrast in
those fights too,
because Carrie Ann's precision,
like she just had this
knife cutting precision and
like Li Zhengjie is super fluid,
even like with his lean
backs and everything.
Like it was just, it was like a,
a matrixy,
John wickish, like dance,
and it was just a beautiful
scene to watch.
I'm probably going to watching it again,
to be honest,
the first two episodes just
because both those fight
scenes were that good to me.
I've watched it a couple of times already.
I've watched the fight
scenes a couple of times
already on YouTube.
But like,
I really want to sit down and
like kind of dissect them a
little bit more before
I meet up with y'all on the
13th to record.
Yeah.
But it's, there's so much good stuff here.
And I just, the, a lot of the Easter eggs.
I mean,
I love the fact that we went to new
planets.
It did.
Yeah, very much.
It did.
And I love that.
We went to new planets and
11 went to Carlac.
Yeah.
I was like, okay, hello, clone wars.
Thanks.
Exactly.
Thanks for,
thanks for the love before it
became war torn.
Yeah.
So that was cool to see
before it got just like
shellacked in the Clone Wars.
I know.
I was like, what's up, Death Watch?
We're here.
But it also already had a
little bit of a war kind of
situation with the Galactic
Republic and the Nile.
It was already a former battle site.
So I was like, ooh, this is great.
Did I geek out?
Yeah.
But you could tell it's recovered, though.
It's in that stages of recovery.
And it looked good, like the scenery.
So I know this was filmed...
I got it written down here.
It took place in London and
in Shidenfield Studios in Berkshire.
Ah, okay.
And then they also filmed in
Wales and Portugal.
So I'm guessing all the
wooded scenes were filmed in Portugal.
Okay.
And then some of the
Highland stuff were filmed in Wales,
I'm guessing.
Yeah.
What's crazy is, so this was filmed...
2022 to 2023.
Yeah,
I. So it's been they've just been
like hacking on it and
probably doing reshoots for
over a year now.
I mean, I'm here.
I'm happy that we got out to
real scenery and not just
kind of in kind of the as
cool as the technology is
to film like Mando and to film, you know,
some of the some of the
other Disney shows that they have,
you know, in studio and all of that.
It's nice to get out and see
beautiful scenery.
I will always enjoy getting
to see scenery in them shooting outside.
Like there's some some stuff
in Ahsoka where they were
filmed outside and it was
just like the area they were filming.
It was amazing.
Like it fit the vibe so well.
And I'm like,
and if you can leverage both
of those elements together, it's just,
you know, the payoff is really beautiful.
And I'm like,
for all those Instagram
people that do like all the
influencing on create the travel reels,
I'm going to give you guys an idea.
Please go to these places.
Yes.
Create the reels.
They're amazing.
Exactly.
Like there's a Facebook page.
Well, it's like Star Wars.
It's like sci-fi,
but it's people who visit.
Places where sci-fi movies
and Star Wars and Star Trek
and these places were
filmed and they take pictures.
Like,
do they do the side by sides with the
picture they took and the
picture of from the show
and they put them together?
It's really cool to see how
it actually looks there.
Yeah, I love that kind of stuff.
So I'm like, I'm here for it.
I'm here for it.
And you're welcome.
Y'all can just tag us and give us credit.
Exactly.
Oh, man.
So we'll wrap up with Acolyte with this.
Where do you see... By the
time we get to episode eight,
do you see it like...
Like what kind of time jump
do you think we're getting in here?
Are we staying within like, oh,
this happens within like a month?
Or do you think by the time
season two comes around that, hey,
we're going to be like 50 years forward?
I think it's going to depend
on how well this season
does with how big the time
jump is for season two,
because for season two,
if they feel like there's
going to be a struggle, um,
with people really needing
Skywalkers to stay tuned in,
then I can see like a 50.
I hope we don't, we don't need,
we don't need it.
I mean, you can only, and I know,
and I love Hayden Christensen.
I really do.
I think he, he,
he deserves all the flowers
that he's getting.
Um,
I think he's been used very
strategically so far.
So let's not overdo it and bring in Anakin,
which would be the most logical choice,
if you will,
because obviously we don't
have Luke and Leia right now.
But that's the most logical
Skywalker that's closest.
I just hope that they
don't... It's not needed.
It's not needed.
If we time jump, in my opinion,
we stay within this hundred
years or speaking of before
we get to the Phantom Menace.
Yes.
And you give us something
that gets us a little
closer to that or even two
more seasons to get us to
something like that.
That's what I would like to
see is this go for at least
three seasons.
I think three seasons is a good call.
And and I feel like this
season is going to focus on
the wrapping up the immediate mystery.
Yes.
The end of episode one,
they revealed the master's
voice and what the master looks like.
What did you both think of that voice?
And it sounded very muffled
and not a clear male voice.
And they did that very strategically.
Yes.
As not to give us anything.
I don't even think they gave
us an actor yet or actress.
No.
Who may be behind the mask.
They...
Similar to what they did
with Merrick and Ahsoka.
Before we learned he was just green mist.
They've kept it very tight-lipped.
I mean,
we knew who the actor was playing him.
But we didn't know what
exactly his story was.
And he ends up being just,
you know... He was one of the brothers.
Yeah.
So...
yeah I i feel like I hope we
don't get green mist again
although it worked for
ahsoka it did it worked in
ahsoka because we were
dealing with you know
joseph I there is a female
sith that is alive and I
think I know where you're
going and your guest and I
think I think that's a fire
choice too yeah this could
be if she was like the sith
of sith she did not fuck around
No, that's that's my thought.
Pardon my French on that, but she was.
Like people were legit scared of her.
The Sith mentioned her name
in their skin crawled.
Speaking of her.
yeah I i her you know my my
significant other and I
were talking about possible
sith that that that could
show up for this and darth
gean was one that came up
in discussion I'm here like
I would love to see her
because you get like female
sith going because we never
have any oh okay okay which
which one are you let's see
come on joseph you're
fucking teasing us bro let me see
I'm waiting for him to speak.
I know.
I'm waiting, too.
I'm curious.
We were close to having your S.O.
here tonight.
I know.
He's off doing an awesome opportunity.
And when he told me what he was doing,
I was like giddy with joy
for him because I know he is right now.
And I know you are.
I could just tell from the smile.
Yeah, I'm proud.
Really?
Holy shit.
Interesting.
That's an interesting choice, dude.
I like that.
That would be quite the twist.
Actually, I do too.
I did not even consider that.
I didn't either.
All things considered about her,
I wouldn't think about that.
No,
and the way that she's been marketed so
far, that would be a twist.
She's marketed as a kid's character.
Yeah.
But also, she's very like this.
She's very by-the-book Jedi.
Yeah.
Yeah, that would be something.
I don't know.
I'm kind of digging that idea.
Because we don't have kind of,
there's this gap between, again,
what we're getting in the
High Republic content up to this point.
Because I actually brought
that up when we talked
about it too for episode one,
or the first two episodes
when we did ours.
It was, you know,
we have this very different
interpretation of her here.
And she's a little bit more
open and a little bit more
adventurous and
he doesn't mean you're young
you think you're invincible
you're a prodigy and you're
getting that vibe in the
car in the what we have in
the comics and the the kids
content so far so I was
like I'm curious to see
what happened between then
they do have a higher
public uh from black horse
that is being that is
actually marketed more
toward the kids yes and
she's like this all-star in
it yeah and she's like
she's legit really good
And she's very by the book
Jedi for that timeframe.
But she, yeah, no, I'm, I'm digging it,
dude.
That's a good theory.
Yeah.
I didn't even think about that.
I didn't either.
I love it.
No, now like if that right there to me,
like that's enough to tune
in right there.
So if y'all were listening to USDN,
when I dropped this next Wednesday,
It ends up being Venestra.
All props to Joseph here, man.
That's a good theory.
I'm happy you shared it with us, man.
That's amazing.
It just depends on how much
more High Republic content
they're going to market with her in it.
Here's the thing.
28% of Rotten Tomatoes,
people got on there and shat on it.
On Rotten Tomatoes.
People need to pull their
fucking head out of their asses.
This is my rant for this.
Frank D would normally be doing the rants,
but he's not here today,
so I'm giving it to you.
Pull your heads out your asses,
open up your fucking minds,
and just enjoy the damn show.
We're getting new Star Wars people.
That should be enough to
make you all happy.
Instead of getting on Rotten
Tomatoes and fucking shitting on it.
Let's not do that.
Let's give the, let's eight episodes here,
people.
Let's enjoy these eight
episodes of new star Wars.
And if you want to shit on
it after the fat,
because it was a chat story,
but then by all means go for it.
But until then, let's not do that.
All right, cool.
I'm done.
I'm a. Okay.
No, that's my plan.
I'm definitely going to
rewatch it because she does.
She's a lot more strict.
It seems on the show.
Yeah,
it's a different it's a different
vibe for sure.
Yeah.
No.
So I was it made me curious
to see what happened, you know,
between I guess what I was
reading because she shows
up in some of the young adult books too.
Yeah.
Yeah, it is.
So I mean, it's it's a very viable.
It's a viable theory.
While we're talking about Vern's.
um vern um was the name of
earnest yes no jimmy vern
yep I wonder if you're
going there with that one
yeah I was like every time
I hear that like they now I
gotta go watch uh some
earnest just because
because it's earnest he's
great it's earnest he's great yeah
Like his greatest luxury he
ever bought himself was a
Rolex and a DeLorean.
That's how down to earth and
cool that dude was.
A twin turbo DeLorean and a
Rolex was like his greatest possessions.
But for him, it was all about family,
which is really cool.
yeah well in fact I don't I
think right now he's
probably I think I'm safe
to say this since I think
he's wrestling right now
but um I went to a vhs swap
here in san antonio so yeah
so lots of if you're in the
san antonio area uh go
check out we have a gg's
emplorium here they are
fantastic um they are they
sell vintage toys videos
comics like they are they are
That's my vibe right there.
I like that.
If you're visiting San Antonio,
go check out Gigi's Employium.
Especially comics.
Yes.
They had a bunch of Star Wars comics.
I would drop my check.
Just be like, here.
I want that box right there.
That's what happens when I go.
They have a huge Star Wars toy collection.
Reasonably priced.
Nothing insane.
They get a lot of horror type of stuff.
They have a wide variety of things there.
The owners are great.
Well, we're talking about Star Wars toys.
Yes.
The Mandalorian prototype for Boba Fett,
the original,
that shot the rocket out of
his back before they banned those,
just sold for a half a million.
Oh, wow.
Half a million dollars for a
piece of plastic that shot
a rocket out of his back.
You know what?
The prototype.
You love it.
It is awesome.
It's amazing.
I was like...
dumbfounded by that price.
I knew it was going to fetch a nice price.
But 500 grand, like half a million dollars,
I was not expecting it to go for.
Jeez.
But, I mean,
you do what you got to do for
when you love something.
Exactly.
And that's a lot of love.
That's a half a million
dollars worth of love to give somebody.
Well,
to give a piece of plastic that
shoots a rocket out of his back.
Because it's the only one.
They never went to...
to the like,
they had the commercial with it.
And then there's another
company that was making
another toy that shot
rockets out and kids were
getting injured from them.
So Hasbro seen that was like, No,
we can't make this we can't
catch lawsuits because this
thing shoots rockets out of his back.
So they never made it.
So it makes it even more
rare and even more special.
half a million dollars a
special though that's crazy
that's cool it was actually
like 538 million something
like that yeah that's
amazing it was nuts but
like I i found a vhs of it
was like an earnest vhs but
it was like of like
bloopers and oh that would
be commercials I found that
hilarious oh I know and I
got it I got it for
this one oh you had to I had
to he's gonna love that
yeah so he will but yeah
you'll have a you'll have a
flocking great time
watching it exactly what I
did there I liked it I
liked it and so yeah so go
support your comic book
stores your vintage toy
stores they know where it's
at and that's always my
plug exactly I'll let you
have it I'm like I always
plug the local comic shops
Got to do that.
I'll add my voice to Jeffy
Jeff's over here and add
that because I mean,
you find some amazing
things at your local with
your local stores that
you're not going to find anywhere else.
So hit those dollar bins.
You'll be surprised what's
in the dollar bin.
And it's great.
It's great.
So are we going to – we got
some trailers to talk about though,
right?
Yeah, let's jump into some nerd news.
Let me see.
Oh, let's start with Godzilla Minus One.
I finally watched it.
It came out to streaming on
Netflix with subs and dubs.
What did you think?
It took 70-plus years to win, what was it,
a Grammy?
No, an Academy Award, right?
Yes.
One of the two.
Fucking well-deserved in about damn time.
It was phenomenal to watch.
Happy ending,
which was amazing to see with
him finding his...
His wife, girlfriend, significant other,
like they found each other after the war,
which is like a love story
of love stories to me.
So it was really cool.
Godzilla was a straight beast in it.
Zero fucks whatsoever.
But it was great.
It was done great.
The story was good.
You could tell it was kind
of like meant to be like
The very first, you know,
even before the stuff in
the 70s or the 60s, whenever it was,
this is meant to be like before that.
This is like his origin story.
I guess you could say it felt like.
But no, I enjoyed it a lot.
I really did.
If you haven't seen it yet, go watch it.
It's on streaming right now.
I know everybody has Netflix
and get yourself a Netflix
subscription free for 30 days.
Just come up with a new email.
yeah I mean it is it is
outstanding I've been
telling people since we saw
it in theaters and I mean I
this is the first time I've
ever cried in a godzilla
movie I've seen dude the
human story in this alone
is so good that's why I
cried because I was like
yes you never really get a
sense of the people or
they're just kind of like
master buys and the other
godzilla movies it's about
the kaiju right yeah
godzilla movies this is
about the human in godzilla secondary
Yeah, it was so good, so moving.
And, you know, again,
I've never cried into Godzilla,
and I've seen them all,
and I love them all.
You know,
my son and I love watching
Godzilla movies.
He's watching them right now.
Yeah,
it's one of the first things I showed
him when he was, you know,
old enough to watch movies.
Exactly, you got to start with me on.
That is Star Wars.
It's like, that's how you do it.
Now we're diving into anime, but, you know,
that's what we do.
It's a natural thing.
progression of things.
It is.
And wrestling.
We watch wrestling together, too, now.
I would hope so.
I imagine he's front row
with you on some of these.
Usually, yes.
Usually, yes, he is and enjoys it.
And now he doesn't get
yelled at because Brandon's a good guy.
Now he's a face.
He's not a heel,
so he doesn't get yelled at anymore.
He's having a fucking good time.
Exactly, exactly.
But Godzilla, man.
Y'all need to go see this.
Let's...
Amanda, this is completely up to you.
We keep talking about
wrestling and Brandon and everything.
Let's tell the people what
we're referring to.
Are you good with that?
I am totally fine with that.
Okay.
I'll let you go.
So, yeah.
So,
my significant other is a professional
wrestler.
He's an indie wrestler here in Texas.
He goes by Brandon Vice.
And, of course,
graduating out of the
Hybrid School of Wrestling.
So,
if y'all haven't watched or followed
the Hybrid School of Wrestling,
you should.
Very much.
In fact,
if you're familiar with Wren
Sinclair on NXT,
she is a Hybrid School of
Wrestling graduate.
So...
A lot of great talent coming
out of the school there.
And, you know, so he's,
he's been wrestling.
He graduated in 2019 from the school.
So he's been wrestling for a
little while now and just
really enjoying it.
You know, traveling around Texas,
he wrestles for different promotions,
river city wrestling.
He's wrestled for United two one Oh here.
He's gone.
I'm trying to remember.
Right now he's in Mexico.
He was visiting CMLL yesterday.
He didn't wrestle,
but he was there for the show.
Today, he's wrestling.
I don't know the promotion's name.
It's kind of terrible.
They're new for me,
but the show looks pretty good.
The card looks pretty good.
CMLL, for those who don't know,
CMLL and AAA are the two
big promotions down in Mexico.
They're also the companies
that do Forbidden Door.
this year, I believe with AEW.
Yes.
And so he was there,
he was checking things out and kind of,
you know, and it's, it's always good to,
for a lot of, a lot of the,
the indie wrestlers to go
look and see like,
and get ideas and kind of just see like,
and give motivation to be like, okay,
what do I need to do to get
at the next level?
It's always a great learning opportunity,
great network opportunity.
So appreciate CMML or CMLL.
I'm sorry.
I can talk today.
You know, for, for the exposure.
I can't remember names today.
So.
No, I was like, I get tongue-tied.
I get tongue-tied.
But appreciate their time and everything.
So him and David Kidd are
also out there as well.
So he's the A-plus wrestler
in another hybrid school.
A graduate,
one of my – I call him my other kid.
Um, you know, one of my,
our good friends and, uh, I,
I remember him early on in his career.
He's also my son's swim teacher.
So Seth's favorite person,
Seth's favorite person.
So, um, so yeah, so it's a little bit,
so he was supposed to, uh,
Brandon was supposed to be
on with this today, but, um, but I mean,
I'm like, go, go do your thing.
Exactly.
So yeah,
so support your local wrestlers as well.
They actually had a good
time wrestling NostalgiaCon
when they came here to San Antonio.
That was just last month, right?
That was, yes.
I'm pretty sure I've seen
all the pictures and some
of the clips from last month.
Yeah,
so thank you again for letting me
plug him.
No, plug away.
And we're eventually going
to get him on here.
He will.
He'll jump on eventually.
Maybe someday we can get
both him and his tag team partner on.
Yeah, Casey Blackrose.
Who was just on WWE not that
long ago as a security person,
which was really cool to see.
I think I messaged you right
after I seen him on TV.
I was like, I just seen Casey!
Casey breaking backs everywhere.
I mean, we're counting.
We are counting every time
he throws back breakers.
I'm like, I want to see him.
I think the most I've seen him do is six.
So I want to see him do more backbreakers.
I think he can do better.
He's throwing it out there.
He can do better.
I'm pretty sure.
He could.
So go check out your local
wrestlers because you never
know who's going to show up
on the big screen.
And just like, again, support local,
period.
Exactly.
There you go.
And follow them on social media.
Exactly.
Plug their stuff.
Yeah.
Share the content.
That's how we get around is
we share each other's content.
i know a friend of mine
recently is like dude why
are you selling like you
know sharing all this shit
from michigan because you
know I'm a die-hard alabama
guy and I'm like well dude
that's uh he writes for bcp
plus and I also do articles
sometimes when I can pull
myself to do an article for
bcp and rob and those guys
over there and we just
share each other's content
I share all the pop break
stuff and we appreciate
your mine and yeah
It just spreads our content
around to more eyes and
that's what it's all about.
Yeah,
we love engaging in different
conversations.
Again, like Godzilla minus one.
I was so happy.
Yes, he did.
He did wrestle the Von Erich
earlier this year.
They had a fantastic match.
It was a great match.
It really was.
And the Von Erichs are the
current tag team champions
for River City Wrestling.
So both very, very nice.
It's cool to see the Von
Erich name out there again
and associate it with wrestling.
Yes.
And that's how we say it
down here is wrestling.
W-R-A-S-T-I-N-G.
S S L I N. You get the
little posh free on there if you want to.
Yes.
And, and they're, they're great.
They had a killer match too
against the kingdom.
You know, this, this past show,
they're going to have
another outstanding match.
I think June 16th is the
next show for river city wrestling.
Brandon and Casey will both
be wrestling there as well,
as well as David kid.
So David,
he's actually going up against
the champion bow.
Amir.
May the force be with you, David.
Good luck, kid.
But if you follow Amanda,
you will see she threw
those graphics up earlier for RCW,
and I seen it, and I was just like, man,
this is going to be awesome shows.
There's a lot of great indie
wrestling in Texas and the East Coast,
all up and down the East Coast.
There's lots of great indie
wrestling out there.
Yeah.
And so, you know, so,
so show a lot of love.
It's, it's always appreciated.
You know, everyone's working hard.
And so again, we, we appreciate it.
Thank you again, Jeff.
And so.
Hey, no, hell no.
That's what it's all about.
So let's,
let's jump onto Giancarlo Esposito.
Yes.
Joining in Captain America's
brave new world cast.
I know they've already
released some steals of him.
And I'm guessing he's playing a baddie.
He's playing a villain.
It looked like.
showed him with a trench
coat and some knives on his vest.
He looked very much Danny
Trejo from Machete.
So I'm not sure who he's intended to be.
They haven't quite released that.
It's been pretty
tight-lipped so far on who
he is going to be.
And for the life of me,
I can't even think of what
character he could be.
I know with his look, I'm like,
and I love Marvel.
It's just my lore is like
not as deep as it is like
with Star Wars and anime and wrestling.
So I'm always like learning.
I'm a big indie comic guy.
So I don't read a whole lot
of Marvel either.
Outside of like,
I just did the Marvel versus, I'm sorry,
Wolverine versus Predator.
Nice.
That was my last Marvel pickups.
Okay.
And my daughter reads Spider Punk.
Nice.
Yeah.
Although I am reading the
current... The one that
Bill's been writing about lately.
What is it?
Bloodline or whatever?
I believe so, yes.
Something like that.
I am reading that.
Yeah.
But yeah, I have no idea.
But I love that Giancarlo
Esposito is going to be a bad guy here.
I mean, he does a great job in Mando.
He does.
He is...
villainy is his thing better
call Saul I mean he's an
excellent excellent villain
like he was made to be a
villain and I don't care
what he's he really is like
he is such a nice guy
anytime like you see some
of these clips of people
like meeting him at cons
and stuff and like the guy
is just like oh you made
that for me he's like no
and they're like yeah he's
like free pictures come here
And I'm just like, he's on my list.
If he ever comes to a con
close to me or if I'm ever
traveling and there's a con
in town and he's there,
I'm hitting it up because I
want his autograph.
Oh, yeah.
And I mean,
I just he's so charismatic with
his acting,
like no matter what role he plays,
like he's a scene stealer,
even though again,
it can be like low key.
Like it doesn't have to be
like a loud presence.
Yes.
On screen is going to take
you away from whatever else
it is that you're watching
in that because he is there.
And I love that we don't
know who he's playing.
Like, it's nice to have some speculation,
some mystery.
Cause I feel like it is trailers.
We know too much.
Exactly.
Like trailers give away the
whole movie sometimes.
And I'm like, okay, y'all can stop now.
Like I, I really just, here's one for you.
Okay.
One of his first movies he ever did.
I'll give you one hint.
Okay.
It was a book first by Stephen King.
Oh no.
Oh, oh, hold on, hold on, hold on.
That I don't know.
I'm drawn to blank.
It's got a big truck in it.
Oh, man.
Maximum Overdrive.
That's right.
He was a waiter.
I don't even think he was a
named character.
He was just a waiter at the restaurant.
Oh, that's amazing.
I'm going to have to go look that up.
You can literally just
Google the scenes and you'll see it.
It's pretty cool.
Yeah, I'm here for it.
Let's bring it on.
Thank you, Marvel, for doing that.
And again, just keep us in suspense,
please.
Let's talk about Tom Hardy's
last appearance as Venom.
Thank God.
And this isn't on Tom Hardy.
I thoroughly enjoy stuff
with Tom Hardy in it.
I don't know if anybody
probably watched it.
They only got one season of this show,
but it was called Taboo.
Where he comes back to get
like revenge on the people
who killed his father.
I think it's on A&E maybe.
I know it's on like Netflix or maybe Hulu.
But it's an excellent show.
And they only got one season
and they canceled it.
And I was very much pissed.
Because it was that good.
But it's Tom Hardy.
He's an excellent character
actor when it comes to things like that.
And I'm looking forward to
his new movie he's got coming out.
What is it?
With the motorcycles.
Bikers.
Yes.
looking forward to seeing
that when it hits streaming
as well yeah like tom hardy
really has some fun has
some fun acting choices in
his in his resume like I'm
gonna do this this is for
you ben murkison I enjoyed
him in peaky blinders
I loved her in Peaky Blinders.
Ben was trying to get us to watch it.
I started finally watching it.
So I had that on our list
and I removed it.
But since you brought it back up,
that's also getting a movie on Netflix.
Cillian Murphy is returning
one more time to put the hat on.
And to go gangster again.
I'm here for it.
The show's excellent.
The show is excellent.
I've not watched the entire thing yet.
I'm still in the middle of it.
I mean,
I just told you I'm catching up on
the boys right now.
Peaky Blinders will probably be next.
And yes, you're absolutely right, Kelvin.
Peaky Blinders is getting a movie.
Ben's been waiting for this.
He's been waiting so long for this.
Since he played the father
of the atomic bomb,
Has got nothing but love.
He's got Peaky Blinders movie coming out.
He's got 28 days or 28 years later.
Yeah.
In the process of being made.
They're making it right now.
So he is like all over the place.
And I'm here for it.
I'm not mad at all.
The dude deserves it.
He is a great actor.
He does.
He's outstanding.
And if y'all haven't watched
Peaky Blinders and you're
wanting some homework,
I'm going to plug in.
Ben did a great job hosting
one of our episodes of
Socially Distanced on Peaky Blinders.
That was a good episode, by the way.
Thank you.
Yeah, Ben, that's all Ben.
And, you know,
he did such a great job with it.
So if you're wanting like
kind of a quick guide to
kind of catch you up on
Peaky Blinders and kind of
like to give you a flavor of the show,
check that episode out.
Ben did a great job with it,
curating the episodes.
He gave us homework and I am
not mad and I enjoyed it.
And Tom Hardy was my favorite part.
of this.
So of the show.
And so, and I, and I actually really liked,
it's kind of funny.
He wasn't withering a
version of withering Heights.
And I wasn't mad because Tom
Hardy is like moody.
And he's got that,
that I'm pissed off at the world.
He also played a, what was it?
That movie about the
brothers that fought in the UFC.
Yeah.
Oh, man, that was a throwback.
Yes.
That's another good one.
Bane.
He played Bane.
Of course.
Excellent job at Bane.
It was good.
But let's talk about Venom, though.
What do you think about the trailer?
It's one of those where I'm
like... You're thinking of
something nice to say.
I know I'm trying.
You're calling me out like Bill does.
Yeah, I'm trying.
It's just it wasn't a bad trailer.
Like I was like, okay,
this is this is going to be like,
all out crazy because it is
his final appearance.
But I also feel like it's
kind of an example of why
people are superhero
fatigued a little bit like
it's very much it feels
like kind of the older
phase of or like this kind
of current phase of Marvel
where it's not super exciting.
Keep in mind, this is Sony.
Yeah.
And that's the superhero movie from Sony.
Yeah.
It's that part of Marvel
that I don't like to talk about.
Are any indicator of this one?
We're looking at a shit show
that doesn't make any kind of sense.
Well,
and it just depends on where the
future of the character is
going to go in the Marvel,
overall Marvel universe.
Like the Sony parts of things, you know,
with their live actions, really,
they struggle.
I mean,
you get something like Into the
Spider-Verse and it's beautiful.
Yeah.
And kind of that whole world.
Their animated content is amazing.
It's similar to DC in that fact.
Yes.
DC puts out fantastic animated...
tv shows movies are straight
garbage yeah so I'm not
like running to theaters to
go see this yes thank you
palvin it is that's the
best way to put it yes and
whereas marvel is the
regular marvel is like hub
that's down here and then
we love it um but um but
yeah it is it I'm just not
super like I'm gonna for me
I'm more of like I'll
stream it when it comes to
When I can stream it.
Do I want to run to a
theater and go see it?
No.
I'm with you.
I will watch it like I did
eventually watch Carnage.
Because I'm a huge fan of Carnage.
He was probably one of my
favorite comic characters coming up.
If you got an episode of
Spider-Man or Venom and Carnage was in it,
it was just going to be straight fire.
Like that dude is he lives
and thrives in chaos.
And I was there for it.
That's exactly exactly.
Yeah, wait, exactly.
Max.
Exactly.
There's no rush.
Yep.
I agree.
It's a stream for me, of course,
like most everything.
But now we got Haley Atwell
is set to voice Lara Croft
and they we finally got
like the first like kind of
trailer with her as voice in Laura.
And I thought it was spot on.
I enjoyed the hell out of
seeing the trailer and
hearing her as Laura.
I was like,
that's what we've needed for
quite a while when it comes
to anything Tomb Raider related.
Well,
and I like that Laura Croft still
feels fresh,
even though she's been around
for a long time.
Like us OGs remember like the early,
like mid early nineties
when we were all playing.
With the triangles.
Yeah.
And like playing on our PCs and all that.
all that and and um you know
I i remember playing I
loved I loved the character
I know the audience was a
little bit more male
oriented but I just it's
just for reasons yeah but
it was fun having a female
explorer too it really was
you know it was it was fun
it was exciting I she she
walked so dora could run
okay there you go but you
know bill you can use that
one because I know y'all
talk about dora over there
but yeah so I mean you know
and even with the Angelina
Jolie movies came out they
weren't they were okay like
they weren't terrible like
they were like alright you
know but I really enjoyed
the fact that Netflix did
this because they have been
slaying it from an animated
series so I just finished
season 2 of Blood of Zeus
just before season we're
about to get season 3 of
Blood of Zeus so I'm like
I'm playing catch up on this
so fucking good it's the
same guys who gave us um
castlevania castlevania and
I love their anime style
like it almost has that old
school feel to it but it's
modern I don't know it's
hard to describe it's crisp
very crisp very crisp and I
i feel like they also I
want to say they did the witcher
animated they may have
because it looks similar I
want to say that I still
need to go back and watch
that one too that was very
good that one is very good
also so you know netflix
has been doing a great job
curating you know their
animated series netflix
also just just got
sovereign drain as well I
don't know if you've
watched that yet I haven't
it's it's og feel like when
it comes to the anime style
In the story, it's exactly what it sounds.
It's scavengers,
and they crash on this planet,
and the planet is alive.
Okay, okay.
I need to check that out.
Literally, the planet is alive.
It has its own...
It's weird, but it's good.
Okay,
because Netflix is getting some good.
I mean, I'm looking forward to, you know,
and I'm hoping that from Anime Expo,
maybe we'll get an update
on the Wit Studios remake
of One Piece because
Netflix is going to be
getting the remake of the
entire anime series.
It's going to be done by a
different studio than what
it is currently.
Yeah, they're going back.
It's still the same everything,
but they're crisping it up.
Okay, it's got your Ghibli feel.
Okay.
It does.
Yeah.
Thanks, Kelvin.
That's that's what I was looking for.
It's very Ghibli.
Okay, I'll have to check that out.
Because I know I think very
Hell's Moving Castle isk.
Okay.
Yeah, I love Hell's Moving Castle.
So everybody does.
Yeah.
If somebody says they hate it,
then that person has no soul.
yeah I i I I'm I'm liking
this again I think it's
going to be a strong again
netflix doesn't hold back
they pull they pull all the
stops when it comes to
their anime they really
have so I mean we got uh
what was it a blue eye
samurai was phenomenal the
art the story everything
about it was so beautifully
done and I was about two
episodes in before I
realized the samurai was a girl
So bad on me for not like
there was things that
should have like added up
quicker than they did.
But for some reason,
I can't get two and two to
five until like episode two.
Well, they had a lot.
They were throwing a lot, too,
for Blue Eyes Hammer.
There was a lot of
information that was coming
to you and a lot of it was so good.
If y'all haven't watched Blue Eyes Hammer,
go watch it.
It's amazing.
That time before the second season drops.
Yeah,
it'll be about a year before the
second season drops.
Yeah.
And Netflix also, you know,
Delicious in Dungeon is
easily animated the year last year.
Easily.
They also have Delicious in
Dungeon running right now,
which is very good.
I've heard nothing but good
things about it.
It's good.
It's funny.
I haven't watched it yet,
but the clips I've seen, I cackle that.
I was like, okay, I got to come back.
I'm like Jericho over here.
I'm pulling out my list, and it's like,
you just made the list.
That one should,
that one should make the list.
It's definitely on the list now.
It's really good.
And, and I like some romances too.
So they did pick up my happy marriage.
So that one was actually really good.
My daughter,
I think has the mangas of that.
Yeah.
So that one was really well done.
If she enjoyed the manga, she'll like the,
the series.
She's probably watching it.
I know between that and
Grey's Anatomy right now.
Yeah.
So she's always on some anime.
So Netflix.
So I'm glad we were getting
some movement because I'm like,
I know they announced Lara Croft.
I was excited.
They dropped Terminator.
Oh, good.
That's a you know, that's fucking awesome.
I love the tie in that you just did there.
And we're in the elephant
voice in the Terminator.
Yeah, our Al Manarino, I think,
was crying tears of joy
when I sent him the news
because he is such a
Timothy Olyphant fan.
And if you're not a Timothy Olyphant fan,
you're wrong because that
dude's amazing in everything he's in.
He's like the best part of
the book of Boba Fett.
He was, yeah.
No, you're spot on.
Other than Cad Bane's entrance.
Other than that, Cad Bane was fantastic.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
But Cobb Vanth, man.
I got his figure somewhere around here.
Oh, yeah.
Just the style.
And the fact that they set this anime.
The Terminator story takes place in Japan.
It's going to be extremely interesting.
And the animation looks crazy.
So good.
They've only released, I think,
a single clip of it.
Like a two-minute.
Like, how do you do?
And it's got that Japanese
anime feel to it as well.
It does.
You know what I'm saying?
It does.
Almost like...
what was it?
Ninja Kamui.
Yeah.
It has that, like that.
Yeah.
That's a very good,
that's a good way to put it.
It's like a very,
like an Americanized version.
Yeah.
Calvin, go look up the teaser.
It's out there.
It's like, it's, it looks incredible.
So I'm, I'm a, I'm here for it.
Oh, and by the way,
this is one of the coolest
things they're doing with it.
They're dropping it on judgment day,
August 29th.
Yes.
That is dope as hell.
Like, you know, like, yeah, it's done,
but we can't release this
until August 29th and Judgment Day.
So that is dope.
Exactly.
Like anything that when they
do something like that,
because we know August 29th
is Judgment Day and they're like.
It's got to release August 29th.
It has to.
And then if they wait till a
whole year for season two
to come and then drop it on
August 29th again.
I ain't going to be fucking mad.
That should be just how it
is from this point on.
It's been done for six
months sitting on the shelf,
but August 29th,
Rosemary and I will drop it.
What I love about these
Netflix animated series is
that they do a great job of
revitalizing interest in
the original franchise.
They do.
I feel like this will give
Terminator the franchise a boost.
A much needed boost.
Especially after the TV series they did.
That TV series was a hot mess.
Yeah,
and I've always loved the Terminator
franchise.
I've always really, really enjoyed it.
I did too,
until the last couple and then
the TV series.
I'm like, these weren't necessary.
It's almost like,
because I know we're getting a 300 anime.
Yeah, I'm on the fence about that.
It's one of those where it's like the 300,
they had their time in the
sun and them boys need a rest.
I'm kind of like with the
last few Terminators was
kind of that way.
I'm like, all right, come on.
Yeah.
And the dollars have been
drained out of this franchise.
Well, it's anime.
So exactly.
I think this may spark.
And I think with any animated series,
especially if it's done well,
you have a lot more freedom.
There's a lot more
creativity and expression
that comes from it.
And we were talking about
this a while back with What If.
Should we move some of these
characters to live action?
It's like, no.
Let the freedom,
let the medium speak for itself.
And I think this would be really cool.
I think Terminator will get
a much needed...
you know shot because a lot
of times again with netflix
they come out swinging with
these animated series so
they're hitting them out of
the park though yeah they
really are so I'm I'm here
for it and again you
brought in timothy oliphant
you're welcome I'm already
here oh yeah dude
Now,
if they will give me a date on Devil
May Cry so I can cover it on Anime Pop,
that'd be great.
Netflix.
I've been waiting for that one.
Devil May Cry has been one
of my favorite video game
franchises for as long as I can remember.
I literally bought it at
Xbox just to play it.
Yeah.
It's such a great game franchise.
Did you watch the show?
No.
Again, I'm catching up on things.
The show came out
Years ago.
I know.
Maybe 15 plus.
I know.
I had it on DVD.
I believe you can stream it on Netflix.
Yeah, I think I'd seen it on there.
I just hadn't.
I know I had seen it when
scrolling at some point.
I was like, oh, damn.
I watched it.
I watched it when it aired.
I got a notebook over here
and I'll write down stuff.
I'm like, oh,
I got to come back and watch that.
I watched it when it aired on TV.
I was like, that's how old.
I was like, oh, yeah.
I remember when it... You
were just a baby in that time, though.
I think I was at least like...
maybe like I was like in middle school,
maybe when I came,
I think I have to go back
and look at when it came out,
but I've been waiting for
them to announce something
on that for a while.
So I'm like, okay,
I'm getting hope because
y'all announced Lara Croft.
Cause that was,
they announced that devil
may cry on Lara Croft at the same time.
Those were in the works.
And then if it's the same company though,
it's one of those where you're like, okay,
let's toss a coin to see
where we're going to put
the effort before we start
working on the next one.
Yeah.
So hopefully I think it's I mean,
I've seen some leaks, but yes, dude.
Yeah.
Four is four is amazing.
I'm still playing for I will.
My daughter's got that spots
in her room and I will
still go sit in her room
when she's at work or
something and play some Devil May Cry.
So I'm hoping I'm hoping they'll drop.
We get something at Anime Expo.
We get we get something.
But Netflix has been on a
roll with with news.
I mean, their big one right now, though,
is that live action one piece.
Did you watch the series?
Yeah, but we got to save that one.
Are we going to save it?
OK.
Yeah,
we're going to save that to the
rumors right now.
Let's jump into Alien Romulus, though.
That trailer was so good.
Like, I'm so hyped for this movie now.
Like we needed like a good
breath of fresh air into that.
And now we're getting this movie.
Oh, I love the throwback to the original.
Like it gives me the original Alien 1979.
Yep.
vibe,
just the horror elements and the
suspense.
And that's why, what is his name?
Fede.
Yes.
Fede Alvarez.
Yeah.
You can roll your R better than my kid,
so I'll let you say it now.
You did a good job.
Thank you.
I'm still just sinking,
just taking in the trailer.
I was at the edge of my seat
the whole time.
Yeah.
When they bust the face
huggers bust through, I was like, oh,
my God,
that's like my my skin like crawled.
And at that scene,
there was just so many face huggers.
I'm like, oh, my God,
this is going to be so fucking intense.
And it's going back to its horror roots.
Yes.
Yeah, I'm here for it.
This movie could possibly
get me out of my house.
This would be the one.
Yeah.
This could be one of them.
I mean, it, the level,
the attention to detail,
like that first scene with
the face hugger, like you see it,
like getting into the guy's mouth.
I'm like, yeah, I'm, I was like, I can't.
And, and I,
what I love about this is it
does go back to the horror roots.
Like you,
everything feels very small and
claustrophobic and like, and it's dark.
Yes.
But it's not dark to the
point where you're like,
you can't see shit.
Yeah.
You know,
like you see some horror movies
that they do that dark.
It's too dark and you can't
see that what the hell is going on.
But this one,
the way they do the lighting
in the darkness.
And then there's also the
water in that one scene.
Like that's just like recipes for,
you know, nefarious acts.
Yeah.
And I love that, again,
it's going more towards
suspense than gross.
I think some of the last
ones just went on the gross
factor and the big factor.
And I'm like,
but that's not really what
made Aliens so special.
It's the edge of your seat.
It's the jump scares.
It's the...
where's the next face hugger
going to come from it oh my
fucking god why is there a
fucking alien crawling down
the wall yeah and you know
you have like the a little
bit of the gross factor
because I mean obviously
you have like the detail
when it's like you know
aliens are like bursting
out of people's stomachs
and stuff yeah that
naturally is like but it's
not so overdone like and
there's still the
possibility we may get a
alien tv series based on the these movies
That's been rumored for a while.
Yeah.
I didn't think that was,
I didn't know that was
still being talked about actually.
Well, it, it,
the rumor started around the
same time as alien Romulus
is rumor started,
but I'm still hoping for it.
Cause I know it was supposed
to be an F that's a TV
series and their TV series
are killing it right now as well.
So we'll see.
I won't be mad either way,
but I'm definitely down for this one.
oh same I mean this this as
as calvin said this does
deserve the theater
treatment it does well will
I be hiding behind brandon
the whole time watching it
yes yes I don't do scary
movies very well like this
is me and I'm like okay I'm
good I'm good I can still
see it but I'm like for
some reason it's funny you
you're sitting here like
this right here because
that's used to be how I
watched uh freddy krueger
because he used to scare
the shit out of me and um
Actually, at a con,
I got to meet Robert England.
Nice.
And the dude's like a
classically trained actor.
He did theater before, you know,
ultimately becoming like
the king of scare, you know,
and being one of the, you know,
the four pillars of horror.
And one of the nicest fucking guys ever.
And I think he just had like
a 80th birthday or something.
And the dude still looks phenomenal.
So big props to you, Robert England,
wherever you are tonight.
Thank you for scaring the
shit out of me as a kid.
The Borderlands is next.
Let's let's let's hop in on
this Borderlands.
And honestly,
I think they put together a
great cast for this movie.
Jamie Lee Curtis, Jack Black is in there.
The only one I'm not too
keen on is Kevin Hart.
That's only because I feel
like Kevin Hart's making an
appearance in everything.
He's kind of like,
I've had my fill of Kevin Hart,
I guess you could say.
I don't know.
I think for me,
if Kevin Hart is in a very
strategic good role, I'm here for it.
I like him in a lot of the animated films.
No, no.
When he lends his voice to something,
I can deal with that.
He's solid.
Yeah,
and I feel like here he'll fit in
just fine.
They are going more for a
comedy relief type in this.
He's a good Borderlands choice.
He could be.
He definitely could.
I like the fact that Tiny
Tina is being played by Ariana Greenblatt,
who we all know as young Ahsoka.
Mm-hmm.
Something else here recently too.
Barbie.
Something before that too.
Shit, I can't think of what else.
She went back to back big franchises.
She's been all over the place.
You're breaking out the Google machine.
I'm breaking out the Google machine.
Yeah, please.
Bother me now.
Yeah.
Cause I loved her and Barbie as well.
Like I thought she did a great job.
She was, she was young Gamora.
That's right.
That's, that's the one I was thinking.
I was like right there, right there.
There it is.
Cause she went from Gamora
to young Ahsoka to Barbie.
Now Borderlands is tiny Tina,
which to me is like phenomenal.
Like that's like a lineup right there.
I'm here for Cate Blanchett.
Oh,
Cate Blanchett's character in this is
phenomenal.
I'm a huge Cate Blanchett fan.
I'm like,
if she ever wants to just slide
in my DMs and be my best friend,
I'm cool with it.
It's Best Friends Day,
which I love all my best friends,
by the way.
Oh, by the way, it's also Ghostbusters Day,
so shout out to Rob over at BCP.
I know he is a big Ghostbusters guy,
and I'm sure he is
celebrating Ghostbusters
Day with all his heart.
Yes.
I'm here for Borderlands.
It's a Netflix movie, right?
Or is it going to theaters?
I can't remember.
I'm going to ask the Google.
She was Young Gamora.
Anytime I've seen Young
Ahsoka and Young Gamora,
she's perfect in both of them.
Don't get me wrong here.
She is absolutely perfect in both of them.
And then to jump right into
Barbie and now to be Tiny Tina, which,
by the way,
is a great video game as well.
is spot on.
She fits the role perfect.
so yes it's going in
theaters august 9th okay
well I have august night
down here I just couldn't
remember if I didn't write
down if it was netflix like
I thought it went into
theaters it's probably
gonna do the same it's like
theaters and then it'll be
streaming yeah at a certain
point but kate blanchett I
just I love her her
character in this looks so
much fun and so and jamie
lee curtis in the new
trailer where she steals
the gun from kevin hart
she's like I needed a
fucking gun they're shooting at us
I was like, he just takes that pause.
It goes, if you needed a gun, just ask.
Oh, I know.
I just, it's, it's,
the trailers have all been fun.
They have been.
And I haven't,
I think I've played a little
bit of borderlands.
I haven't played too much of,
of throughout the kind of franchise.
We have the entire franchise,
including tiny Tina.
Yeah.
I haven't played too much,
but I feel like it's,
it's capturing the vibe.
it really is it it does and
we'll see have to see like
what kind of video game
elements other video game
elements they actually roll
into it for it to really
hit that vibe yeah because
a lot of people have been
killing these video game
franchises lately we had uh
fallout um we had one
before that too um the last
of us shit that's right I
was bringing for it in there
So, I mean,
they've been spot on here
lately and I'm hoping this
one is following suit
because I really want this
one to be good.
I do too.
I'm like, if these continue to be good,
then it gives me hope for
when God of War joins us.
Because that one, I'm like,
y'all have to do that one right.
I've been a long time.
TV series.
Either way, I believe it's a TV series.
I think Amazon was working
on it from what I understand.
If Amazon's touching it,
then it's going to be spot on.
Yeah, it should.
Amazon has not done a bad
video game series yet.
Really?
Well,
outside of the Lord of the Rings
stuff they've been doing,
which I heard still wasn't bad.
Just ain't my cup of tea.
It's very slow.
It's not terrible.
but it wasn't my favorite.
And I love the original Lord
of the Rings trilogy.
As you should.
The Hobbit, as anyone should.
It's a great trilogy.
I didn't go this far back on the nerd news,
but I know we're also
getting a new Grendel.
Are we?
Yeah.
Huh.
I'm like, I didn't even, I was like,
I completely, I was like,
there's been so much.
I had shared it,
but I just didn't go back
that far because I think I
shared it like later last month.
Oh, that's right.
That's right.
Okay.
That's right.
I should have went back like another week.
Oh, yeah.
This is all good stuff.
Like there's a lot.
So much good shit.
It's a good time to be a nerd.
So if y'all are following,
if you're listening to me
and you don't really follow the page,
follow the page.
Like I stay on top of all the news,
all the rumors.
I kind of what I've tried to
do is just give everybody a
one stop shop.
whether it's video games, movies,
TV series, anime, horror, you name it.
I just try to give you a one big ass,
one-stop shop.
Come visit USDN on a day and
just see what's going on.
There's some slow days.
The weekends are pretty slow
because nobody's working on
the weekends and there's
not a lot of news being released.
But it gives you time to catch up.
But it does give you time to catch up.
So...
There you go.
Shameless plug of myself.
Nothing wrong with that.
It's a lot of good content.
It is.
And I do put a lot of stuff out there.
Sometimes by the end of the day,
sometimes I'm like, fuck,
today was a day.
There was a lot of shit.
And then I'll have a day
where there's like, well, fuck it.
There's been no content today.
All right.
Well, damn.
All right.
And I'm okay with that too.
So let's jump right into the rumors now.
Okay.
And we'll start with one
that you've already started to mention,
which was the one piece.
I can't help it.
I'm all like on a crusade to
get people to watch one piece.
So I've, I've not watched the anime.
I'll put that out there.
I've not watched it.
It's kind of daunting.
A lot of people are like,
there's like over 1100 episodes.
I'm like, yes.
But I will tell you guys,
the manga and the anime are
both excellent.
There's not a lot of filler.
So I know a lot of y'all are like,
it's not,
it's not going to do Naruto on you guys.
No, it's not.
My daughter said the same thing.
Yeah, it is.
She's not a big one piece fan,
but she's up to date.
Like she's 1100 episodes deep.
Okay.
So she's an egghead with us.
Yes.
Okay.
I, however, I've watched the live action.
okay I mean the live action
is a really good and I've
really enjoyed the live
action on season one now we
know it's either we could
probably move this one up
to just the news because
they are currently filming
season two and season three
back to back whether or not
they will release them that
way or if we'll get like a
year gap like netflix tends
to do sometimes on these
but they are filming season
two and season three,
supposedly back to back.
I'm not mad about that.
I'm all for it.
I just don't see them doing
1100 episodes worth of live action.
Cause I'm sure this thing is
not cheap to make.
no but it's also netflix's
success story right now it
is they have butchered many
a live action adaptation
looking at you death note
and dragon ball but you
have to bring up both of
those I know they weren't
responsible for dragon ball
I know but they still aired
it though I blame netflix
so a little bit a little
bit I'm still something
embarrassing I went and
seen that in theaters
But this is before you knew
what it was about though, right?
This is before you knew it was bad.
Yes.
I'd just seen live action
Dragon Ball and I was like, fuck yeah.
I almost got up and left.
Yeah, it was terrible.
It was fucking horrible.
It was terrible.
They butchered the fuck out of Death Note.
And also, again, not Netflix's show.
It was done by somebody else.
but fuck was it bad I'm a
big fan of the manga of
death note I read it before
there was ever I love the
anime love the anime was
good I did watch that with
my daughter and I read it
with my daughter like we
were literally I read
volume one handed it to her
read volume two handed it
to her we've had a few
where we went back and
forth with but death note
was probably my favorite
one that we've done
together and watched together
So, but one piece, one piece,
I know I was nervous when
they announced they were
doing a live action.
Cause I'm like, how are y'all?
And the thing about the
anime and the manga is that
there's a lot of moving pieces.
So in terms of, it's not, you know, it's,
it's things that came up in
the early seasons are now
coming back up in egghead and, you know,
but everything flows seamlessly.
And so it was okay.
Like, you know,
how are they going to tie
if they had over adapt and,
Then I'm like,
how are they going to write
this later to make everything make sense?
And I mean,
there were a couple of things
with the live action that I was like, oh,
they're going to have a
hard time explaining that later.
But I think they might go in
a different direction.
And that's that's OK.
As long as they do it, they do.
It's one of those where I mean,
we're eleven hundred
episodes into the anime and
they still haven't found
the fucking one piece.
Oh, they're getting there.
It's it's getting towards the end, though.
Yeah, that's what my daughter was saying,
that we were pretty close.
It's getting there.
How do you do that with a TV
show where at most we're
going to get is five seasons?
I've never seen them go over five.
Right.
But I think, too,
you have the freedom in a
live action to cut through.
You do.
I'm sorry.
You do.
Yeah, you do.
And I want to say this first
season adapted the first 100.
It was like the East Blue Arc.
And they adapted that.
And they did a really good job of it.
Yeah.
For me,
as an outsider who will never watch
a single episode of the anime,
I thought it was great.
I enjoyed the hell out of it.
Not going to lie to anybody.
There was a couple of
episodes where I was just like, fuck,
get on with it.
But outside of that,
it was thoroughly enjoyable.
And it was only because they
were trying to give us this
person's little character
arc that they want to do, which is okay.
A lot of TV shows do that.
And their character arcs do
come back as they power up.
So it's really, you know, Usopp.
They had a few, especially Usopp.
We were like,
they changed his backstory
almost entirely.
I was like, oh, okay.
We're going to see how they do this.
The one I'm curious about is
for season two, my girl Nico Robin.
I'm like, y'all mess up her backstory,
I am going to be livid.
Because she is...
her character,
she's kind of the archaeologist.
She is one of the key,
and she's part of the
conflict that's going on in
the anime series right now
because of what she knows.
Her backstory is very
important to the rest of the series,
if you will.
She is wanted for what is in
her head and her legacy
without giving away too much.
I'm curious to see where
they're... I know they've
put out casting calls, I think,
for her and for a few other characters.
Actually,
I follow one of the,
the cast and call things on Facebook,
like several of them.
And I seen when that one went out.
Yeah.
So I'm excited to see her in
season two chopper as well.
He's a little, the little reindeer.
Yeah.
I don't know if we're going
to get Brooke yet,
or if he's going to be a season three,
he's the soul King or the
skeleton that is in the,
I thought they teased him
at the end of season one.
Who was that that they
teased at the end of season one?
I want to say it's going to
be Chopper probably because
I want to see Chopper was next.
And then Nico Robin as well.
So then we might get those
two straw hats before we get Brooke.
But I enjoyed the cast.
I really think they cast.
I didn't know who any of
these guys was except for
the guy with the swords.
yes from yeah that's the
only guy that I like knew
out of all these oh once
they announced they
announced him being cast I
was like I'm in y'all
announced him as oro done
yeah no done right he was
one of my like the reasons
why I was going to watch it
because I enjoy him as an
actor because he was the
only one I knew and I was
like oh damn all right cool
I can get down with that
and zoro I feel like it's
one of those characters you
had to get right
Yeah, and I think they nailed it.
I think they did nail it.
They did.
I'm like,
if you didn't get Luffy and you
didn't get Zoro right,
then you're already off.
Luffy isn't bad either.
I kind of like the kid.
I don't know who he is, but I like him.
I do too.
And I liked who they got for Sanji.
I really feel like the
casting for this show was on point.
And yeah, once McKenney joined Zoro,
and Zoro's my anime husband.
Jamie Lee Curtis is in it as well.
I don't know if that's been
officially announced,
but that's a rumor and that's,
that's a fan.
Is it official?
I want to say it's official.
I would have to go back and look later,
but I'm pretty sure I shared that on USDN,
but I'd have to go back and look.
I don't know if it's beneficial.
She's marketing it.
She's been pushing to be
casted in it for forever,
as well as us that are One Piece fans.
She is perfect for Chopper's arc.
She is the Doctor who he's
living with and the one
that encourages him to go.
uh joined the straw hats and
so she is a dead ringer and
I think just the the
manners side and I was yeah
and she's a fan she's a fan
and she's like
I know.
I'm like, give us this.
Give us this, Netflix.
If you're going to give us fan service,
this is the fan service to give us.
This is the fan service.
Exactly.
This is the casting we want.
Disney made Rosario Dawson, Ahsoka.
They got that right,
and they listened to us.
You know what's funny is Boss Logic.
He's a graphic designer,
comic book cover artist out of Australia,
I believe, or New Zealand.
I can't remember which,
but he's the guy who did the original...
poster that featured rosario
dawson as ahsoka rosario
dawson seen it and was like
oh and then she was like
hey dave make it happen and
then dave was like got it
and he was like say no more
fam let's do it and that's
literally how she ended up
with the part of ahsoka it
was called some designer
and is he from new zealand or
I can't remember which.
Yeah.
But I remember seeing that poster.
Yeah.
It was a fan poster.
If you want to make one of
Jamie Lee Curtis' Correja,
that would be amazing.
I'll put it like this.
There hasn't been too much
that he hasn't put out
there that hasn't came to
fruition to some degree.
Because he does work on stuff for people.
Okay.
for companies.
He does posters for them and
stuff and he'll post a
teaser and then it'll be
months later and you're like, oh shit.
He did it again.
And but you know,
eventually you figure out like, oh,
he's been like,
they tapped him to do to
work on some stuff for him.
So yeah, so yeah,
so I'm happy they're filming, you know,
I'm not surprised if
they're doing two seasons, because,
you know, right, right.
It makes sense.
It is their biggest cash cow,
because I know Avatar did well.
And I know they're moving quickly on that.
um it's like it did it did
well better I think than
expected is it one piece
level no no um but you know
it pulled eyes in and but
one piece is the one that
got people it did it got
re-energized and so it's
like why not write out that
momentum especially while
the cast um is the ages
that they are yeah it's a
perfect thing for them to grow
Yes.
And they're not going to get
a lot of time.
Stranger Things, we're talking to you.
These kids are 30 now, okay?
Finish it up.
The nice thing about One
Piece is that Luffy is also aging.
Along with the character is
aging as he should.
So this I think will work in that
In that favor, yeah.
In that favor, for sure.
But I think a lot of it this
season is going to be
whether they get the
animated characters right.
And it gave me hope that
they got Appa done well for Avatar.
Because I'm like, OK, Chopper.
And then I'm not sure how
they're going to do Fronky either.
He's kind of the ship mechanic,
if you will, the shipwright.
And he's great.
He's kind of based off of Ace Ventura,
Jim Carrey's Ace Ventura impersonation.
He's hilarious.
Yeah.
And then Brooke, who is again.
No, Avatar was spot on though.
I enjoyed the hell out of Avatar.
And I went through and I
power watched the animated
series before the live action came out.
And Dave Filoni.
Samurai Appa and Samurai Momo.
I almost bought a Appa today.
I seen one at Walmart and I was like,
I kind of want to get that.
But then I'm like, no, I don't.
I got to.
I got to be good and not get
that kind of stuff.
But I was tempted.
I was very tempted.
But I feel like because they
got Appa done well, I'm like, okay,
maybe they'll – They did a damn good job.
Him and the monkey.
I can't remember his name.
Yeah, Momo.
Yeah, thank you.
Yeah.
And they did fantastic work.
Yeah,
so I'm feeling like if they can get
them done right,
then they should be able to get Chopper.
I think they will.
They did a fantastic job on
the cast of both of them.
Yeah, so more to come on that.
And when we get, I'm like,
I'm here waiting, ready.
Whenever you want to drop a Netflix,
we're ready.
Yeah.
We're here.
Speaking of dropping stuff,
so we have two Predator
movies on the horizon.
Supposedly.
We have Elle Fanon,
who is supposedly getting
ready to join a Predator
movie entitled Badlands.
I can't see really Elle
Fanon being like the the
main character of a Predator movie.
To me, it doesn't fit her, but.
Who am I?
You know, I'm just Jeff.
I'm just a man talking about
her joining this movie potentially.
I don't know how the rumors came about.
I just know that they were
saying that she's
potentially joining the
cast of this movie called
Badlands for Predator.
So I don't know what she
could be playing or if
she's going to be like the
person who takes on the Predator.
At this point,
there's really nothing out
there other than she may
potentially join the cast.
I mean,
I think it would be kind of cool
for her to be the person to
take on the predator, but she just,
she doesn't give that vibe.
You know what I'm saying?
Yeah,
I it's always tough because I think
it just comes down to who's
writing and I need I need
to look up like who's who's
the writing team for this
because it is it all
depends because again you look at it.
I think you can have a
female lead like look at prey.
Yeah,
and that was actually our nest on our
list is pretty too with
Amber Mid Thunder
potentially returning for it.
I don't know how they're
going to do this because
it's not the predator.
It's not been the predator
their way so far.
it's kind of like they never
bring back a person as the
protagonist to the predator
they've just never done it
before so if we're going to
get an amber mid thunder it
would have to be a
different timeline and
maybe like her great great
granddaughter or something
you know what I'm saying
but she's returning she's
playing the person but
she's a different character
if that makes sense.
Yeah.
Well, and I think, I think you can,
the way that it's, it's written, you know,
I think, I think you can,
that the story is not very traditional.
It's not traditional elements.
It's not, but it doesn't,
it's not the typical predator.
And I see prey as prequels
to what we get in the predator later on.
That's how I look at prey as being.
So if we're getting a prey to,
I would love for it to be like,
The same way.
We're not quite to that time frame.
Of modern day.
When we're used to it.
I think it'll be interesting to see.
If they bring her back now as the chief.
Like the war chief.
And that's what I'm hoping.
That would be dope as hell.
I'm not going to lie.
It left that open.
I almost feel like.
I look at it like you do.
Where it's like a prequel.
But I also feel like it's kind of.
In it's own separate predator verse.
Yeah, no, absolutely.
And I think I think that
would be a really neat, you know,
like I really enjoyed it.
I really enjoyed.
I enjoyed.
I enjoyed the hell out of it.
It was so good.
It was different.
Amber Midunder killed it.
That role, it was perfect.
And she was the perfect
person for that role.
And I think if you give
Ellie Fanning the same treatment, right?
No, absolutely.
I think it just comes down
to who's going to write.
And again, Amber Mithunder just slayed.
And I'm like,
it was so good to see female
protagonists.
Absolutely.
And if that's what Elle
Fanning is going to be doing,
then more power to her.
Because I think that would be fantastic.
Because it's not necessarily
about the strength.
It's being smarter than the
person chasing you.
And how can you come up with
your own ways?
Because nobody's ever going
to beat the Predator like
full on strength on.
Arnold didn't even do it.
Yeah, because they're not sure,
at least from what I'm seeing,
the writer for Prey,
they're not sure if he's
going to do Badlands as well.
Yeah, that was also rumored as well.
Would he be the one writing
this movie as well?
So if it's him,
I could see Elle being the person.
And that would be dope as hell.
Because she's not that...
You don't see her.
Amber Midunder was
introduced to us by that.
Elle Fanon, we've known for years now.
We've watched her grow up.
So she doesn't have that same vibe to me.
She's more of that...
you know,
the devil wears Prada type of actress,
you know, she wasn't in that,
but you know what I'm saying?
Gotcha.
Yeah.
I just, I, you know,
but it gives me good hope
that the same director is attached.
No, absolutely.
Dan Trattenberg.
I think that's his name, right?
Dan.
Like if he writes this movie too,
if he writes Badlands,
then we're in for a treat
because that dude has been killing it.
Prey was phenomenal.
It's one of those where you
have something that works,
bring him back.
He knows the franchise.
He's absolutely nailed Prey.
I know for a fact that he's
attached to Prey too.
I'm here for it.
If they can make it work with L,
then fuck yeah, I'm here for that too.
I'm like,
I'm here for the fact that we're
getting like re-energized
predator and aliens.
You're welcome.
Thank you.
It's like, this is, this is the time.
This is the era to be alive as a nerd.
We're getting like re-energized.
For the love of God.
Don't cross the streams again.
Thank you.
Yeah.
Or if you're going to,
if you're going to do it,
like really just make us
follow the comic book.
Yeah.
The comic book.
Just make us forget that the
other even happened.
Yes, please and thank you.
All right.
We have one more rumor,
and I'm actually digging this rumor.
My boy Rob posted this rumor
on a slow news day, and I don't know.
I can't remember where he got it from,
but it's Sasha Barrett Cohen, which, oh,
by the way, I just posted this,
that they've already
selected their live action He-Man.
So if you know where we're going with this,
Sacha Baron Cohen is
rumored to be playing
Skeletor in the live action He-Man,
which we're just now getting the spin.
We've known there's a live
action He-Man coming for a while.
They've named their live action He-Man.
It's a younger kid.
I don't really recognize him for anything.
that he's been in.
I watched The Idea of You
not that long ago with Anne
Hathaway and I liked him in it.
I love watching a lot of action movies.
He's a fairly new guy to me.
He's not been around long,
which I'm okay with.
I don't mind seeing these
actors on the come up get
these roles like this.
I'm here for it.
I love them.
That's how we got Amber Midthunder.
That's how we got the young
lady that played Echo.
That's right.
And I'm here for that kind of stuff.
I love seeing these guys get
these big roles and then
absolutely kill in it.
In this this one, honestly,
the last time we got him in
on the big screen live
action was garbage.
Sorry, it wasn't that great.
It was be maybe be movie like areas.
I mean, it was made in the 80s.
I'm surprised everybody
wasn't half naked in it running around.
but it just wasn't that good of a movie.
They just kind of like
pulled these people into
modern day and let them run
around in their underwear.
The movie deserves more than that.
Skeletor deserves more than that.
He-Man deserves more than that.
And by damn,
if Sasha Baron Cohen is going
to be Skeletor,
then I'm here for that too.
Cause that dude can play a
villain in a character.
He really can.
I hate Borat.
I will never watch it,
but he can play a character.
He played a villain in Sweeney Todd,
which is one of my favorite movies.
And Gangs of New York as well.
That's right.
I was about to say Gangs of New York.
That movie was phenomenal.
I didn't expect a lot from that movie,
but when I sit down and I watched it,
I was glued for almost
three hours to that movie.
Yeah, it was really good.
And I like that Sacha Baron
Cohen brings not only just
the villain energy,
but Skeletor has that humorous.
Humorous, yeah.
And I feel like at times
watching the cartoon and
watching the show growing up, Skeletor,
at times you felt bad for him.
You have a little bit of sympathy for him.
And just depending on how
the story is written,
um you know skeletor is is
likable I mean obviously
he's really I love it he's
mean he's got some of the
best memes out there he
does he does um but you
have to you have to watch
the animated series with
him and he you love to hate
him but you also feel bad
sometimes because you like
he's he gives you the plan
and you're just kind of
looking at it I'm like
that's what you want us to
do boss so it's it's
definitely interesting and
the fact that he gets
dragged sometimes in the
cartoons as well oh yeah
it's you know so I mean
it'll be interesting to see
if sasha baron cohen can
balance the villain
performance with with the
comedy the comedy I think
he can I think yeah but I
think it's a combination
yes I think it's a sympathy
component can he evoke
the evoke you still liking Skeletor enough,
like the balancing,
the actually making him a
little bit more of a threat,
but yet at the same time, still likable.
Can,
can he do that and not lean in too
much into the comedic?
He is that likable villain.
Yes.
The,
the writers of the animated series did
such a good job with him.
And I can't remember, for the life of me,
I don't know who voiced him
in any of the animated series.
Well,
I believe Mark Hamill did for the
newer ones.
Was it Mark Hamill?
Actually, I think you're right.
It was Mark Hamill in the newer ones.
I mean,
he voices everybody else that's evil.
And he's so great.
He is.
Yeah.
Joker forever.
And, you know, Fire Lord Ozai,
I'm here for it.
Forever and ever.
R.I.P.
Kevin Conroy, his Batman.
Yes.
Oh, yes.
Which we get them both one more time.
They have one more movie
coming out together and it
will be the last one.
And I know Mark Hamill has
officially retired from the
role of being the animated Joker.
He won't voice it no more
because his Batman is no longer with us.
I know.
And I mean,
as much as it's hard for him to
retire and like it hurts, it's like,
but at the same time, yes, he did it for,
by the way,
it was for the most recent Revelation.
I was trying to go see how far back.
Did you watch Revelations?
I did.
It was good.
And I loved it.
It was so good.
Rob put me on it.
He's like, dude,
you got to go back and watch this.
They're so good.
Well,
as soon as I found out Mark Hamill
was voicing, I'm like in.
Yeah.
In immediately.
Like if there's anything
that has a really good villain in it,
Nine times out of ten,
Mark Hamill is the voice.
Yes.
I'm like, I will follow.
Will I root for the villains?
Absolutely.
His Joker hands down, best one.
Best one.
I know people are going to be like,
Jack Nicholson.
Are they going to be like...
And I love Heath Ledger.
I do.
I love him.
Exception to the rule.
Two completely different, but...
know spot on spot on is is
the joker and so and I
really liked him as
skeletor for the for the
animated series like I feel
like again mark hamill just
does that where it's you he
balances being a villain
the comedy and being
creating that sympathy that
then that and he does he's able to
It's him, though.
That's Mark Hamill in a nutshell.
It is.
And Sacha Baron Cohen has
challenged because he is
polarizing as well, too.
People either really like
him or they don't.
He has a presence.
He's not a small individual.
No.
I don't think people realize that.
He's a good-sized fella.
Yeah, he's kind of skinny,
but he's still a tall,
intimidating figure,
especially in Sweeney Todd.
Yeah.
And, and I mean,
I think he can use that as
an asset for Skeletor and
bring that imposing because Skeletor,
sometimes I feel like, you know, he does,
he's somebody that can be
almost too comedic at times.
And so it's nice to get that, you know,
he is a threat and he is credible.
So like he is the villain.
No, I mean, he,
there's been many a times
where he has succeeded in
pulling off his villainous plans and,
So I'm curious to see if Sasha Baron Cohen,
if he is indeed cast, you know,
if he can balance all of
those different elements,
that's my only concern.
I mean,
he's one of those guys where it
feels like he's never
really tapped his full
potential on the screen yet.
And I think this is like the
perfect character for him
to really tap into all those things.
Yeah, I can see him doing that.
And having a veteran working
with someone like Nicholas
Gallatin that they've cast.
And I've only seen him in The Idea of You.
And the movie is with Annie Hathaway.
And the rumor is it's
loosely based on Harry Styles,
that his character is,
and his tendency of falling
for older women.
If he's going to fall for one,
Anne Hathaway is the one.
I know.
I love her.
Again,
another one that could be my best
friend anytime.
Slide on in, Anne Hathaway.
She's amazing.
You can be my bestie, too.
So what was it?
The Princess Diaries or whatever it was?
And then she went from that
to that one movie where
she's in high school and
she's hanging out with the gangbangers.
Oh, man.
I just drew a blank.
Yeah.
I had that.
I literally had a note like
in my head of like, oh,
I got to mention this movie
or that movie.
Whenever I talk about Anne Hathaway,
like the Devil Wears Prada.
She's such a great actress.
She is.
She was very good in this.
She's another one that I
feel kind of gets like shat
on by mainstream Hollywood.
And she doesn't deserve it.
She's really good.
I mean, my besties and I,
she can be our other bestie.
She was a good Catwoman as well.
I liked your Catwoman.
I thought she was fun.
I know some people were not happy with it,
but I liked it.
It's the version of the
Catwoman she was playing.
Yeah, I like it.
And that's what it boils down to.
I mean,
we get these Batman movies or these
superhero movies and they
don't necessarily focus in
on like a character
They go, okay,
we have this story from this comic book.
We're going to tell it.
And this is how the characters are in it.
They don't really do that.
So they kind of do a hodgepodge of them.
See what I did there?
Hodgepodge.
Shout out to those guys.
Hodgepodge-tastic right there in Texas.
Yes.
Great people over there, by the way.
And go check them out.
If you really want a true Funko store,
they are.
They are pure Funko.
I have a Crow Funko signed by the man.
And I also got my Crow book signed.
by James O'Coffey, I think is his name.
James O'Barr, yes.
Yes, O'Barr.
So big shout out to them.
And like,
she took extreme care with everything.
She got it packaged nicely.
She made sure it arrived in
minty condition.
So mad props to her and the
team over there at hodgepodge.
They have, if you need a Funko pop,
they are there.
They probably got it.
They got it.
They got a huge collection.
So, and if you're around Texas, they also,
they also are at some of the cons.
So go by their display is amazing.
And of course,
Sarah and Chris are good people.
Yes.
They're good friends of ours,
so we love them.
And eventually we're going
to get them on here.
Eventually.
And we're going to talk to
them and talk about the
Funkos and talk about cons.
Oh, yeah.
They're great.
You have a good time with
them on because Chris is hilarious.
I love him.
He has a great sense of humor.
My face hurts from laughing
after we all hang out.
They look like they're both
such fun individuals.
So that's one of those where I'm like,
All right.
Eventually I'm going to get them on.
But they stay traveling.
Like they're always,
it feels like here and there on a cruise.
So mad props to them.
They look like they're
having the time of their lives.
It's awesome.
So with the time of our lives being said,
Amanda,
final shots and thoughts before we
wrap it up.
All I have to say is I am
happy to be a nerd right now.
We have new star Wars.
We're getting like re-energized predators,
aliens.
We are getting, you know,
like there's so much happening.
I'm like,
we're getting so much good stuff here.
And it is, it is a real treat.
Right now.
I mean,
we got excellent video game
adaptations coming to the screen,
both big and small.
We got killer animated
series that are coming.
I'm like, I don't even know right now.
I don't know if I have
enough hours in the day.
And that's a great problem.
And that's the best problems to have.
And just I'm just here like
be open minded.
Let's see.
Let's see what we got.
And again, especially with Star Wars.
Hey, Joseph, thanks for stopping by, man.
We really appreciate it.
We really appreciate having your,
your theories and hope
we'll see how they play out, man.
That was great having you.
Thank you.
But I'm here for it.
I mean, what about, what about you, Jeff?
What are your final thoughts?
I'm excited.
We're getting new star Wars
and a new era that we've
never gotten before.
Honestly,
there's just so much great shit
coming out and there's not
enough time in the day
between having to adult and
And, and do what it is that we love to do,
which is talk about nerd
things and watch nerd
things and play video games
and come on here live and
talk about it all.
I wish we could do it more often,
but honestly,
adulting and getting the kid
off to college.
I got graduation this
weekend or actually just
coming up weekend.
So I mean, it, it, it's,
it's hard to believe it's
already that time.
So it's I'm pretty sure I'll
be emotional more.
So next week, we'll check on you.
We'll check on you.
Please check in on me.
I'm not going to be doing OK next week.
Don't worry.
We'll get you.
We'll have you when we have you next week.
Don't worry.
That's right.
Bill and I will take care of you.
Let's do let's plug away.
Hey, Brian, thank you.
Yeah.
Thank you.
Thank you for everybody who
jumped in and tuned in.
We, it was, it was a lot of fun.
Thank you, Jeff, for having me.
It's always a pleasure and
it's always a great time.
And we are looking forward to having you.
So I am the co-host of two
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You can find us on all I'm sorry.
It's socially distanced,
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That's one of the podcasts I'm on.
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I got to,
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which was a great time with Alex and,
Yes, we had a great time with you too.
And so, yeah, so, so, um,
so Jeff was on our,
the episode of the drop today.
Uh, we are, we, we have a,
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So I was able to host this,
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Jeff was our special guest
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And so more to come in terms
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the podcast actually covers
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And some of those from the present,
you know,
it's the shows that you grew up
watching as a kid.
And like hanging out and
then the cartoons that are
still giving us life today.
So lots to come.
I was kind of looking at the lineup.
I think we're covering the Owl House.
Bill's going to be on
hosting several episodes on Bluey.
So it's going to be.
Bill and Bluey, man.
I'm telling you.
Bluey's a good show.
I'm just saying as a parent, I enjoyed it.
It's not one of those that
you suffer through.
I didn't get Bluey.
I got.
So during that,
the formidable years for my daughter,
we were living in Korea.
so she got pororo the
penguin yes and uh she was
raised on like the korean
cartoons and it helped her
like she's bilingual well
actually I guess she's
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her learn korean and then
when she took spanish in
high school so she's
actually she she speaks
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yeah so again yeah thanks
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and then of course we're
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know we talk about
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we even talked about
bridgerton uh we will be
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was but I i have not
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damn by the end of that
episode y'all did I was
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the hype now so now I'm about to
It's on the list and I will
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We have two.
We have two episodes on
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My sister hosted the first
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She kind of did an outline
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if you haven't watched all of Bridgerton,
here's some of the key
things that you can watch
to help you prep for season three.
And then the second episode was on
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So, but yeah,
we talk about all kinds of things,
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and have a cavalcade of
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Like we have a fun summer
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we call it the house of the
acolyte since we're going
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We're going to be looking at Beetlejuice,
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We're going to be talking football.
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next uh next week and a
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going to be on this current
season of demon slayer so
we were talking about that choice
Yeah,
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and Rejections podcast.
So we did Demon Slayer.
Our last episode that's
currently streaming right
now was on My Hero Academia.
That's a good choice.
Yeah,
we had Marshall and Courtney
Stevenson from the Blurred
Watchers podcast,
which theirs is fantastic as well.
And we've talked about Kaiju No.
8.
We've talked about Solo Loveling.
Kaiju No.
8 is good too.
It's fantastic.
I read that one with my daughter.
Oh, so good.
The anime is outstanding as well.
So I've heard nothing but
good things about it.
It's my anime of the year so far.
Really?
Oh, it's so good.
It's so good.
I lots of love for Kaiju number eight.
I have to check it out here.
Yeah.
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He's got a restraining order
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So, um, but that is it for me.
And again, thank you again for having me,
Jeff.
And we're excited to have you next week.
Jeff's episode on the acolyte.
We're going to be talking
about episode three.
We were talking about that
and that should be dropping next Friday.
And I'm hoping I get to,
to make an appearance for
all the rest of the episodes.
That would, that will be fun.
And then for us over here at USDN,
tonight was our first two
episodes of the Acolyte.
We will reconvene on the
Acolyte at the end of the
season for a route party
where I will have Amanda probably back.
I will probably have Rob.
And probably Frank D.
Because we always got to have the hill.
So with that.
Oh,
I think we'll be back here at USDN in
maybe two weeks.
dependent on the schedule
and what's out and,
but we'll be discussing more nerd news,
more rumors and trailers.
Cause we love talking about
trailers to shit that comes out.
But with that, everybody,
when I think you all for
coming out and hanging out with us,
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Appreciate everybody that
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And, and we got some great ones tonight.
I appreciate everybody
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Um,
We hadn't attended him being
in about a 90 minute show,
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