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SDCC News Rundown & we litigate the ending of Eternals - Add To Party 07.26.2022
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This week we talk about all the news from San Diego Comic Con and why no one is talking about the giant god who appeared in the sky during Eternals.
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Introduction and Climate Humor
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Speaker
Welcome to Add to Party, a friendship simulator masquerading as a new show. I'm your host, James Hartwell, and I'm joined by Charles Jamaat, and I'm joined by Andy K.
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Speaker
Good evening, gentlemen. Climate change is over. It was created today. Climate change solved.
00:00:36
Speaker
That's right. After a week straight of ninety five plus temperatures came down to like a reasonable eighty two today. So you know what? I think we're all set.
TikTok Trend: Pink Sauce and Health Risks
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Speaker
I listen, I saw something and James as our resident tick tock expert. Have you seen it's something called like pink sauce or something?
00:01:04
Speaker
I mean, pink sauce is a classic Italian pasta sauce. Oh, is it really? Well, apparently some Tik Toker is making it, right? She's just making this out of it. Oh, oh, yeah, I did see this and she's just shipping it without any. She's just putting into fucking plastic delicatessen jars and shipping sauce in the mail without any ice or anything. She just wraps it up and it contains dairy.
00:01:31
Speaker
Yeah. A sauce that contains dairy during a heat wave, although we did just solve climate change, but this was before it. Yeah, a box sitting in 100 degree weather on your stoop. Just cooking that dairy. Watch out, people on TikTok. Don't just buy stuff.
TikTok Security Concerns
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Well, first of all, how dare you? What did we do? I did buy cookies off TikTok one time, and they were good.
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Um, however, you know, I, I didn't eat them like quickly. And I remember one day I just opened one bit into it and it was like moldy and I went, Oh no.
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Speaker
Oh, so is this a big thing on tik tok like, like local or small owned businesses just selling food? I don't know if that's like a big thing. I think it was just someone being like, I'm gonna I have a big following because people watch me for my recipe videos, then mow me some money and I'll send it to you completely ignoring any health, food, shipping, safety, anything like that.
00:02:42
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Were they good though? I don't know. I didn't see the person. I just saw like the quick video of them putting wrapped plastic containers into a box with no ice or anything. Oh, sorry. I was thinking about the cookies. If the cookies were good. Oh, the cookies were good. I mean, before they went bad, they were right naturally.
00:02:59
Speaker
I'm surprised you're still using TikTok. Wait, why? Because of the entire security thing that came up again recently, where they're like, you know, when we weren't sending it to China, we're still sending it to China. And then it was like, how much of it are we sending to China? Absolutely everything on your phone is possible. Yeah. Everything. Everything.
Celebrities and Privacy on TikTok
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Everything accessible on your phone. Even when you say, don't do it, it's still doing it.
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Oh yeah, oh yeah. And like, oh, well then yes, I wouldn't put you on my phone.
00:03:36
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That's interesting. But there's so much good millennial content on there, Charles. Millennial? I thought it's for the Zoomers, James. Zoomers, James. No, absolutely not. Some of my favorite people on TikTok are like 60 years old, including your neighbor. That's true. Oh, wow. I guess it is. Well, and now China knows that, too. That's right. China knows everything. That's OK. I mean, they already know that I hate them.
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What are they going to do? What are they going to do to me? What are they going to do to get somebody important? Oh, I guess. Well, that's right. I mean, yeah, Vin Diesel has it on his phone. The Rock has it on his phone. Those are. Listen, we can't lose those national treasures. OK, that's right.
Marvel Comic-Con Announcements
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Protect them at all costs. Keep out China. Ariana Grande has it on her phone.
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So is the Epic Store also selling the same information? Because everybody got mad at Epic. I mean, the Epic Store has is Tencent owns a 10 percent stake of Epic Games, which is a non-controlling share. So I don't know.
00:04:54
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Well I know that was a big issue, but I guess we all forget TikTok. Saudi Arabia like bought some company too. Oh really? I think that was what you might call it THQ. Oh Saudi Arabia bought like a big share of or whatever the Embracer group.
00:05:12
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What are they going to do with THQ? Saadia, Oribia. Make another Darksiders. They're going to hold off on releasing Darksiders 4 like I wanted. Oh, wait, we got Darksiders 4, didn't we? Oh, you didn't. You got Darksiders Genesis over the shoulder. Well, an isometric game that you can play all the horsemen in, not a third person action adventure.
00:05:34
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Oh, okay. Okay. Here we go. Last month, Embracer Group announced last week that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia through its savvy gaming group has made a $1 billion investment in the company granting an 8.1 stake in Embracer Group.
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These are the that's right. That's right. And when you buy Saints Row remake, you will be fun. You will be giving dividends to the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Oh, the money is going every now is Embrace are the one that we all didn't realize existed, but owns every. Yes. OK, OK. Well, I guess why not? Everybody's got their hand in everything, guys, except except what's what's Trump's social media platform?
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That's already gone. I don't even remember. Well, I was going to say, at least we can depend on that not selling data, although I'm 100 percent sure it sells data. Listen, I understand if you want to install TikTok for the horrible security nightmare that it is.
00:06:37
Speaker
Keep in mind, I installed fucking cracked ROMs for games the entirety of my life until like 10 years ago. So you know what? All my information has been leaked. Also, the Equifax leak happened. All of your information is already out there.
00:06:53
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Everybody has our social security number. Yes, that information is important. The real important information, though, is your habit data, which is what TikTok gets like you get it understand, you know, it knows your behavior. That's it.
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by how often you do an open apps, what you check, what you're looking at. Oh, yeah. And it watches your face sometimes. What? Oh, yes. Oh, it's pupils dilated. It's absolutely using every piece of data points it can have. It takes. Oh, yeah. Let me tell you, the algorithm is razor sharp. I hear about that. Let's say I'm in the I was in the mood to talk about it mostly because I had to talk about security, software security for a bit today. It's fun.
00:07:39
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Now, listen, should people be installing TikTok on phones that, you know, are related to, you know, secure data and this? No. Do people do that? Yes. But people are dumb.
Marvel Phases and Multiverse Discussions
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Interesting. Do you think Biden has it on his phone? No, absolutely not. Biden uses a shuttle bug. Oh, my God. I completely forgot that existed. Does it still exist? Yeah.
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Well, a shuttle bug phone, let's see. Oh, the jitterbug. Excuse me. Oh, the jitterbug. Ew, the shuttle bug came up with. Oh, I don't want to look at this.
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Well, security nightmares about our dystopian society where companies know every decision we make and every move we make, using them to generate even better content to make us more pliable drones for their global plans of domination. That's right, James. Let's talk about Marvel's new content.
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Hey, you know what? I bet that was planned using stolen data, too. They know what we want. And my question for you guys is, do you want any of it? Oh, God, yes. Really? Oh, yeah. So if you didn't know, San Diego Comic Con was this weekend, and that included
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Um, panels from Marvel, uh, a release of the Dungeons and Dragons movie trailer, which we'll talk about in a second and DC's very sad offerings, but Marvel definitely had the most interesting thing, which they had to, um, two panels, um, two days apart, one about their animated and one about their live action. Um, so, uh,
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I want to say so for the live at or for the animated, just to kind of sum up very quickly. What if season two things are coming in there? They talked about that. They announced a five episode group, baby group short that will be coming to Disney plus to like baby. Yeah, baby. Yes.
00:09:44
Speaker
No, like, you know how Groot's the big tree guy? Oh, Groot! Sorry, I heard group, and I was like, oh, a group of babies? They talk a language we can't understand? That's baby geniuses. I know! I want another one!
00:10:02
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Um, and also that there will be a specific Marvel zombie show coming out rated M for mature. So they're really going to get in there. What? Really? Yeah. Wait, a zombie one? Yeah. Marvel zombies, which is a comic brand. Um, and it will be, it will be a mature, all the gore that comes with that and the animated, uh, animated series and maybe kissing.
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Uh, they also announced that the X-Men 1999. Um, what would you call that again? Revitalize revival revival. Thank you, Andy. Um, has already been approved for a second season.
Live-Action Marvel Updates
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Did it release? No. Oh, the X, the, the animated X-Men 1999 series, Charles. Oh, the, that they were going to redo it or continue it.
00:10:59
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they're continuing it and season one is coming out i think this year maybe next um and that but they've already approved season two of it wow they also announced that all the voice actors from the original series are back that's pretty cool that's pretty fun but they better record as many as possible to some of those actors are probably really old
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You're still really quiet, Charles. Um, this far, I was too far away. Too far away, Charles. He got the mic arm. Just lean back and bring it to you, buddy. Make love to the mic. No, no, no, no. I like to keep things at a distance as a metaphor for my heart. That's true. That's fair. Arms. That is fair.
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Um, yeah, so those are kind of the big, those are the big news from the animation. And then we had the live action one where, um, very similar to 2019, which was the last time we were allowed to have conventions that mattered. Um,
00:11:55
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or a phase revealed the phase four plans. He revealed the plans for phase five of Marvel and a little bit of phase six as well, calling it the multiverse saga. Oh, no. Oh, no. We don't remember Andy doesn't like multiverse. Remember, I don't. Well, except for everything everywhere all at once. It's done. We did it. That's it. We can move on now.
00:12:20
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Perfectly executed everything everywhere once multiverse movie. Yeah. Otherwise multiverses just feel bull. No, no, they're just not for me. I need to look at it that way. I'm glad you're excited, James. I want to encourage you. I'm very excited. Yeah, that's great. So what does it mean for Marvel, though? When you say multiverse in Marvel, what does that even mean?
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Well, we addressed this in Spider-Man No Way Home and Doctor Strange multiverse of madness. OK, so here's the thing. Let's get rid of phase five and phase six. We're not. Go ahead. Charles sent me a clip from No Way Home.
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Wait, was it No Way Home? Yeah. Yeah. Of that wonderful scene of multiverse Spider-Men getting to talk to each other and just enjoy time with each other. I want that movie. We don't need any of this. We just need three Spider-Friends, okay? And that's it. Three Spider-Friends. That's all I want. Spider roommates.
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the roommate yes oh what a fun time there's your multiverse James yep yeah that's so weird how that no I couldn't I thought I had this but anyway phase 5 is going to consist of so phase 4 will be ending with Wakanda forever which comes out this November which by the way so we've been talking shit about that
00:13:56
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For a while now, that trailer is fantastic if you haven't watched it. Yeah, easily the best trailer. Yeah, I feel like from any Marvel thing, which one again will get there too. OK, OK.
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Um, yeah, that, that trailer is incredible. Um, so I still don't know if that's going to be a good movie, but I've, I've upgraded it from doubtful to maybe generous James. I know. Um.
00:14:33
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But past that, uh, we then launch into phase five, which starts with a man, the was quantum media, which was already a known property guardians of the galaxy, volume three, the marvels starring this marvel and captain Marvel, the Michelle Ali blade movie. Can't fucking wait for that. Um, captain America new world order, which will be the first captain America movie helmed by.
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Oh, shit. Who's the guy who plays Anthony Mackie? Thank you, Anthony Mackie and Thunderbolts,
Directors and Casting in Marvel Phase Six
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which is basically kind of like the Suicide Squad of the Marvel universe. This is also including with Secret Invasion, which is a Disney plus TV show, Echo, which is another Disney plus TV show, Loki season two, Ironheart, which is stars, which is about Ruby Williams, who will be appearing in Conda Forever.
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She's basically like the young hip Tony Stark. Agatha, Coven of Chaos. So Agatha from WandaVision getting her own show. And Daredevil, Born Again, an 18 episode series starring Charlie Cox. We did it, everyone. We did it, everyone. We brought him back.
00:15:48
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Oh, can it be just a lawyer drama? I mean, they'll probably be a little lawyer drama in there. Oh, I don't know. I just want them to speak quickly and intelligently at each other. Well, I mean, here's here's a great thing, right? Charlie Cox is definitely perfectly casted as Daredevil. And that's why everyone wanted him back. I think one of the best things about Daredevil is that Charlie Cox actually has a great calming voice when he's liking his lawyer talk. Yeah. Yeah. I could trust this lawyer.
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I want him to be my lawyer. Yeah, you're right. Yeah. So it's great. I want that. Yeah. And Vincent Denafrio returning again. I think Vincent Denafrio will also be an echo as Kingpin, but we'll see about that.
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Also, She-Hulk will be coming out this August, which is about phase four, which is another lawyer drama, Andy. Oh, does she get to talk quickly and technically? I think so. I think that might be more of a lawyer drama than Daredevil will be. I really like lawyer dramas, and I love it when they drink at the bar after their cases.
00:16:56
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i think that will happen yeah oh i just want to hear about their day and best of all andy she she is that while also being a giant attractive woman there we go imagine her in a power suit she'll take over yeah yeah
00:17:16
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Um, but yeah, now are there any like surprise directors announced any directors? Yeah. I mean, besides the fact or something, uh, actually today for phase six, James, if you want to move to phase six real quick.
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Speaker
Sure. Yeah. And then phase six, the picture here, which sucks. But for phase six, they've only revealed three movies. Fantastic Four will be kicking off phase six. And then phase six will be ending with two movies, much like Infinity War and Endgame ended phase three, which is Avengers, The Kang Dynasty and Avengers Secret Wars.
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Yeah. And so the thing they announced about Avengers, the Kang Dynasty is that Daniel Destin Kreten, the guy who directed Shang-Chi, that's it. It will be directing Avengers, the Kang Dynasty. Oh, wow. That's a big get for him. Yeah. No, it's going to be good. I was like, listen, I trust him on getting some great fight sequences. There's some good stuff there.
00:18:23
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Yeah. Um, I mean, noticeably absent from this was Shang-Chi too, but he, I would have to imagine that that's somewhere in phase six. They just haven't quite figured out where to put it yet. Yeah. Um, but yeah, I mean, excited for secret wars. That was my favorite. Secret wars is great. Um, I'm not going to spend 20 minutes describing secret wars, but it's,
00:18:49
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It's Marvel's multiverse war, and it's super fucking cool. And the X-Men are heavily involved. Yeah. Okay. To be absolutely reductive, it's kind of like if somebody were to take all these Marvel characters and put them in the Fortnite, which they already did. Whoa. But serious for real this time. Oh, so it's a Fortnite movie.
00:19:17
Speaker
There you go. And you did it. You found out. I found out. Listen, I really want I want weird directors for these movies. Can they have just like weird art house Marvel? Oh, that's I mean, that's what they do because that's how they save money. Can I get I want a movie by Darren Aronofsky. I want a Requiem for the Dream of Marvel.
00:19:44
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I want. I feel. Well, very rich. I want. You're not going to get lunch. I made it. I almost feel like they might get an Aronofsky movie. I don't know what movie they could do for it. Trying to think of what what I mean, like a doctor strange wouldn't be a bad place to put an Aronofsky. You know, I don't know. Like we said, the Daniels have to get a movie.
00:20:08
Speaker
Oh, I need to get a movie. Absolutely. Maybe they'll get the X-Men movie. Oh, that'd be sweet. Yeah. Give it to the Knives Out guy. I like him, too. Right. Well, Ryan Johnson and Disney have an interesting relationship. Oh, Star Wars. Yeah. So I know it wasn't. But it's, you know, I think Ryan Johnson is staying away from nerds for a while. And you know what? He deserves to.
00:20:38
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But yeah, no, I mean, this I think we will see probably a lot of new new directors coming in here. I mean, we have to find out the cast for Fantastic Four. By the way, something else they reveal the San Diego Comic Con. So Will Poulter will be playing Adam Warwalk in Guardians of the Galaxy three. Do you know who Will Poulter is? Yep, I do. Andy, do you know? No.
00:21:02
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Um, he, you may know him best as the person in the meme where it's like, you guys are getting paid.
00:21:10
Speaker
Oh, I don't know that meme. Is this a thing, James? No, it's not. This is old. This is it's old meme. But basically he's known being like super skinny, super fucking like like way fish. Oh, here's here's the picture. And the Marvel machine does it again. Look at this man. Oh, my God. Yeah, here we go. There's there's original Will Poulter.
00:21:35
Speaker
Holy crap for our listeners at home. He's jacked now. Yeah. The Marvel machine does it again. Holy. I want to get cast in a Marvel movie. They can pay me zero dollars. I just want to fucking go on their weight loss. So funny story about that. There was another person.
00:21:58
Speaker
Let's say if you remember him, Jimmy Wong of what's it? Asian Jim to be reductive. And he was he played in the live action Mulan film as a as a one, you know, one of the three people that you know, and he has like barely any lines of the film. They made him get super Jack.
00:22:25
Speaker
I'm looking. His name is Randall Park, by the way. I'm looking. No, no, no. I'm not. I did not say Asian Jim. I said Jimmy Wong. Jimmy Wong is Randall Park. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Real life person. Jimmy. Oh, oh, oh, oh. I'm sorry. I was wondering why you would make a weird Asian joke about Asian Jim right now. And I was just because the person he plays in Marvel is
00:22:51
Speaker
You understand my confusion now. Okay, just chuck yourself a little. That's it. He posted a bathroom selfie when he was going through the workout regimen. I'm not sure if you're finding if you just searched Jimmy Wong.
00:23:11
Speaker
Yeah, but yeah, that's it. He got shredded. There's this picture. Here it is. Here we go. There we go. No, that's not him. Oh, all right. Well, I don't know. That's a little bit racist again. Just I don't know him from Adam. All right.
00:23:33
Speaker
Uh, you know, this is a little awkward. I see Jimmy Wong on Twitter and I clicked it. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Just another age. Listen, I know Will Poulter, a good, a good down home American white boy. Yep.
00:23:53
Speaker
But no, yeah, that the fucking Marvel machine is ridiculous. Even like Shuri in the Wakanda Forever trailer did look like she got pretty toned for that movie. And I know Lupita Lupita, I say I actually don't know properly how to say it.
Wakanda Forever and She-Hulk CGI
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Lupita.
00:24:15
Speaker
I spell her name wrong, but it'll get me there. Nyong'le, I think is how you say it. Yeah, she's been posting regular like Instagram things about her getting fucking jacked for Wakanda forever, too. Wait, is this the vaccine denier? No, that's that's well, that's Shuri. Yeah. Who I forget her actress's name. Letitia Wright. Letitia Wright. Yeah. Yeah. Is she still the lead of Black Panther?
00:24:40
Speaker
Based on the trailer, you don't know who the lead is. Definitely Lupita gets the most screen time in the trailer.
00:24:50
Speaker
Um, next to name or Prince of Atlantis, although they did reveal that it's not Atlantis. It's, I think it's like tal, tal Chan, which is a ancient Mayan sink and sit sunken city. Cause they're really pushing like, um, name or being more of like Mexican and Mayan descent in this movie, which is awesome. That's a cool way to make him less stupid. Cause he's real dumb in the fucking comics. Oh no.
00:25:14
Speaker
No, I mean, like he's cool. I mean, he's fine and everything, but like his design has always been like a speedo and he's got little wings on his feet. They weren't running out of ideas. Yeah, I think making him Mayan inspired is really cool. Yeah, Andy, here's here's a look at that speedo.
00:25:39
Speaker
He's going to save the world in that thing. It's really hard to make underwater superheroes look cool. When you're not Jason Momoa. Yeah. Because the question is just like, why would you put more coals on them? You're just like, you're right. Why would you?
00:25:56
Speaker
I also like this idea that they brought the wings back, but it makes sense because of the Mayan decoration on his feet. Sure. Yeah, here we go, Andy. Oh, no, this is a good picture. Don't do this to me, Google. Whatever. For our listeners at home, it looks exactly like you think it does. Yeah, see, let's look at his little wings on his feet. Is that how he swims so fast? Ah, no.
00:26:22
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Like he's so strong because the underwater pressures of the ocean is so tremendous his body had to adapt to Oh Listen Aquaman Is a better hero than name more and that's sad because Aquaman's not that great a hero But maybe Wakanda forever will fix that maybe cuz he looks fucking awesome in that fucking trailer. Yeah, I
00:26:45
Speaker
Um, yeah, so that all got announced. It's really cool. Um, she whole, still looking like a hot mess. Uh, I believe the director came out the other day and said, you know, I think we really would have thought about how much we want to have a CGI character on the screen. And that's like, oh, that's, that's, that's some backtracking. You're really trying to soften the blow there. Um, we'll see. Hopefully it's, if it's a good show with shitty visuals, I can get
Resident Evil Netflix Series Critique
00:27:12
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over it. However, it's a bad show with shitty visuals might be a little rougher.
00:27:17
Speaker
Oh, man, let me tell you about that. That's it. I'm going to derail a little bit to talk about the Resident Evil Netflix series that came out. Oh, yeah. Go for it. So
00:27:31
Speaker
Okay. Remember what James said right there. Bad CGI with a good story passable. Yeah. Resident evil has no redeeming qualities. Well, okay. Almost no redeeming qualities here. Okay. Now the only saving grace is that Lance Reddick is in this, uh, is in the show and he plays a black Albert Wesker and one nothing wrong with that.
00:27:59
Speaker
He actually has a really good style and everything. But James, I want you to Google Lance Rhettick Wesker and look for the image of him in his Wesker attire, because that is they did not do him favors. It's oh, there it is. I saw that. Oh, there you go. That is not Wesker. That is not. That is not Wesker. Keep going. Keep going. No, keep going. Keep going. Because like there is that's Wesker. Oh, yeah.
00:28:30
Speaker
So the big joke about it was when they reveal them so they do In this in the show. There's this sort of mystery because he was just like Albert is is a treating like a is like this kind father figure but then they should and they finally reveal that Wesker has clones and Original Wesker. It just looks like fucking somebody cosplaying his blade He looks like spirit Halloween blade. Yeah
00:29:00
Speaker
Oh, yeah, they did no favors. That was like somebody was like, what's in the studio department leftovers? And they're like, got it. Yeah, it was it was very sad. But otherwise, Lance Riddick does a great job. Oh, God.
00:29:17
Speaker
That's a shame because Lanceford is such a good actor. Yeah, he's great. He's really good in this series. But here's the problem. The main focus of the series is like this. It does flashbacks to like the past and then to the present of a post-apocalyptic world.
00:29:35
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surprise. And you follow this woman named Jade. And the flashbacks of what are before the before the apocalypse of the world, where her father, Albert Wesker, because her name is revealed to be Jade Wesker, was working in a town in South Africa called New, New Raccoon City after the original Raccoon City got destroyed, mysteriously. But
00:30:04
Speaker
The problem is Jade as a protagonist has no likable qualities, either as an adult or as a young person as a kid. Jade plays this 14 year old person. She also has a sister, so it's kind of like a sister drama.
00:30:22
Speaker
But as a child, she makes all the dumb decisions and then yells at everybody else and never takes responsibility for it. And never throughout the entire series, even after visibly causing a lot of problems for other people and hurting them, she never takes responsibility for it.
00:30:40
Speaker
So you go, well, I don't care about these people whatsoever. And then they just keep making stupid decisions. And then in the present, same thing, like is just like, oh, she's like 30 years old now and still has all these problems. And you're just like, this is fucking stupid. And then, you know, and you could probably guess in the future, in the present timeline of the post-apocalyptic, Lance Riddick isn't there to save the day.
00:31:06
Speaker
as an actor so you're just like this is fucking dumb why do they have a scene where they sing a song who sings that's what make there's like a scene where one of the some some woman like sings a song weirdly oh i um
00:31:26
Speaker
There's a I don't know. There is a. All right. That's been making the cringe tick tock reels. Yeah. There is this thing where there's the CEO of Umbrella now is this descendant of Dr. Marcus in Resident Evil lore. Marcus is one of the founders of Umbrella Corp in the lore.
00:31:49
Speaker
But in this show, he had a daughter and the daughter took over the company after the Raccoon City incident. And the weird thing about it is she looked like this attractive 20-something person, the CEO, in the flashback. And then you cut to present time and she looks like she hasn't aged a day. And you're like, well, that's weird.
00:32:14
Speaker
And then they wave it away and finding out that she's actually like this dummy CEO, like a figurehead that's being kept alive by being pumped with drugs and robotics. Oh my God. Yeah. Fair. Eight episodes. So that line was thrown out there like nothing.
00:32:37
Speaker
Well, you're like, so you've just been controlling her. I'll pump them full of drugs, blah, blah, blah. It's useful to have, you know, sort of enemies to focus on them instead of me. Like, what the fuck are you talking about? That's an exciting plot twist. So you wouldn't recommend it. Save your time in life. And you didn't want a new movie either. No, that movie was terrible. Yeah.
00:33:05
Speaker
can't catch a break Resident Evil, except the game. The game is good. Games are so good. One other. So two other things to wrap up, San Diego Comic Con news. One was the trailer for the Dungeons and Dragons Honor Among Thieves trailer came out.
00:33:22
Speaker
which looks surprisingly good. Like it's kind of it. Again, trailers are so tough because you can you can almost cut a good movie out of any trailer, right?
Dungeons & Dragons Movie Reaction
00:33:34
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Or any you can cut a good trailer out of almost any movie. But this feels like they really understand what makes Dungeons and Dragons, Dungeons and Dragons.
00:33:44
Speaker
like the way every plot set up is like, we are a lovable gang of thieves and we stole something and we shouldn't have stole it. Oh, sure. Yeah. And that, you know, like Chris Pine plays a bard who's the who's the face of the party. What is he? It's all Chris Prime. He was Kirk in the new Star Trek's. Oh, OK. And he was also the love interest in Wonder Woman.
00:34:12
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He was also one of the princes in Into the Woods. See, I felt bad watching this trailer. Why? Because I kept thinking I don't want this and I don't know why, because there's nothing inherently bad about it. I was actually it had me thinking and I asked about Chris Pine because I didn't really recognize him. Well, I kind of did, but not really.
00:34:39
Speaker
And I was like, would I like this trailer more or this movie more if it had like an A-list celebrity that I recognized? And then I was like, well, that's pretty vain. Well, hold on. You got Hugh Grant. You got Michelle Rodriguez. Justice Smith, Andy. Who are any of these people? You know who Michelle Rodriguez is. Don't fucking lie. Yes, you do. OK. She was in Lost. She was in Fast and Furious. No. Oh, God.
00:35:08
Speaker
Justice Smith was the human lead of Detective Pikachu. He's also Will Smith's son. That was a fun movie. Wait, is Justice Smith also Will Smith's son? Hold on, everybody got that wrong. Who am I thinking of?
00:35:26
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Jayden Smith, right? Jayden. Jayden, I know is. No, wait, hold on. Justice Smith sounds like a familiar name now. Yeah, because he was the person in Detective Pikachu. Yeah. No, he's not. He's not Will Smith's son. That's so funny. I always thought he was Will Smith's son. Because I was like, who's this person? Why is he getting all these movies? I assumed it's because he was. I mean, that's reasonable. I just assumed nepotism.
00:35:54
Speaker
I was like, wow, man, thank God he's better than Jaden. Um, well, I was like through me. I was like, at least one of those kids turned out. Yeah, no, but I think it looks it looks fun. Internet nerds were immediately mad because Druids can't shape shift into owl bears or some shit. Oh, my God.
00:36:17
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D&D rules lawyers, you know? No, my list, I have more grounded criticism. Oh, go in. Yeah. So my thing, my question is what actually makes a D&D movie? I always found it weird necessarily to think about doing a D&D movie just because I was like, well,
00:36:39
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It's just a fantasy movie, right? It's just like any generic fantasy movie. Because D&D, D&D's backstory is just every fantasy thing. It's every fantasy trope. And I was just like, okay, so how do you make a fantasy movie and make it feel like D&D without actually doing mechanics of D&D?
00:36:59
Speaker
Like, because my thing about the film, I'm not even going to say it's going to be good or bad because, you know, you can make something good from it. Like, how would you do it here to make it look like D&D? Like, if you didn't put the name D&D, the only thing that could tell you something is D&D was there's a couple of more distinct things, right? One, an owl bear. Two, a gelatinous cube. Three, a mimic. Yep. Yep. Also, someone did Misty Step.
00:37:27
Speaker
Oh, I wouldn't know that. I couldn't tell the difference. What's the misty step look like other than somebody teleporting? Like that would just be whatever. Right. Like, well, isn't misty step after your hit? That's escape. Oh, that's misty escape. OK. Yeah.
00:37:42
Speaker
So that's my thing, right? Where I just like, I mean, sure, it could still be good. But I honestly would just be like, I don't know. You have to do everything iconic. You have to throw in everything in order to be like, that is D&D. Because personally, the charm of D&D and making it fun is the table talk.
00:38:06
Speaker
And it and like if you're doing a serious fantasy movie I'm just I I like to think like it and this is again saying it could still be a good movie But I I always find it weird just because I was like, okay It would be hard to distinguish from being any other generic fantasy movie. I I think and this is what I've heard I
00:38:29
Speaker
is that the way they're this movie is framed is that it's closer to what you're saying, Charles, in that it's not a serious fantasy movie. It's like if someone took a tape like a friend's D&D campaign and turned it into a movie and that's a problem.
00:38:50
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Oh, no, but I mean, like the characters will make quips and decisions in a way that like you would at a table and it's all a certain level of tongue in cheek and not serious. I think the critical role people might be making cameos on this movie. I think I heard that somewhere. Oh, so I kind of like that idea, though, like it being like a bitter reverent, right?
00:39:14
Speaker
And like, yeah, just like some like, you know, nap 20 moments where just something super dumb happens that shouldn't. But that could be fun. I like when you described as that, that warmed me up to the movie, honestly. Yeah, that's I don't I don't know that for sure. I have heard it described that way to me. But that doesn't mean when we actually get the product, it will be like that. Mm hmm.
00:39:39
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Um, but I mean, the fact, like I said, like if, if what I heard in the critical role, people are there, um, also like, you know, Hasbro is making this movie, right? This is the first movie from Hasbro's movie division. So, you know, they know like their audience, right? To a certain extent. So if they, you know, did this, you know, if they didn't Hollywood it out, right? I think it could be good.
DC Comic-Con Highlights and Issues
00:40:06
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I'm, I'm, I'm pleasantly optimistic.
00:40:10
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You won me over to it, and then it'll be bad. Yeah, Andy, probably. I'm hoping for a solid 7.5 out of 10 from this movie. 7.5 is pretty good. Yeah, I go to this movie, have a few laughs, a couple cool scenes, I don't look at my watch, I eat some popcorn, I had a great time. That's what I want out of this movie. And I think I would call that a success.
00:40:35
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Yeah, as as would I. I think it also just needs to come out at the right time. Like they really need to just thread the needle and have like nothing else out and just have this movie get released and it will do well. You know what I mean? Did it give a release date? I don't know. It just said next year. I know. Which is why media always says like January is like the worst time for movies.
00:40:58
Speaker
That's where they send movies to die. Yeah. Yeah. I think it's just called like, fuck you, it's January. You just release all the garbage. So release this during January. Maybe sometimes, sometimes that works. Sometimes that works. So one other thing to just round out our San Diego Comic Con discussion before we can discuss like the two, two actually interesting gaming news.
00:41:22
Speaker
There's a couple, but two that are actually talking about this week, at least, which is DC coming to fucking sending you a comic con and just talking about Shazam to releasing the trailer for that and showing more Black Adam footage and not talking about Ezra Miller, the Flash Superman Aquaman with him for her. Oh, yeah.
00:41:45
Speaker
just just going you know what they were just like hey guys we don't fucking know what we're gonna do so we're not gonna talk about it is essentially what happened there was a big there was a big rumor that Henry Cavill might show up that they were gonna announce that he was gonna come back to Superman that didn't fucking happen
00:42:04
Speaker
Um, so, yeah, DC is in a weird fucking place right now, because let's be honest, Black Adam doesn't look good. She's up to the trailer. It's fun. I like Shazam one. Yeah, Shazam was a good movie. I um, it does end on a pretty good joke. But, you know, again, trailers rate all the jokes in the trailers. Mm hmm. But yeah, I don't know what the. So we said we were talking about a couple of weeks ago.
00:42:30
Speaker
If you don't know what's going on with Ezra Miller, God bless you. God bless and keep you. Charles, you want to take a stab at it? Imagine. Imagine an entitled person slowly breaking down and going crazy at the people around him.
00:42:52
Speaker
OK, you know, and this person just has no boundaries, right? He just gets drunk, starts, you know, drunk driving, gets into fights with people. And then all the while, you're also signed to be the lead of a very important franchise of TV shows and movies.
00:43:13
Speaker
He's also doing this in Hawaii. He's also doing this in Hawaii, too. So Andy, there might be a chance that we get into a fight with that. Oh, no, I can't win a fight. I'm going to be there to you guys. We'll be there to back you up. Thank you. Don't worry. Ezra Miller, if I recall correctly, is also a way for a human being. Let me. Yeah, but he does have a lot of guns, apparently. One of the things do.
00:43:39
Speaker
One of the things that came out, too, was like a video of him and a woman and her child and the baby was playing with a bullet. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Yeah, it's really. Here's the thing. And I feel rooming a kid. Yeah, that happened, too. I I feel like he's having a psychotic break and he needs help. I honestly, I think, yeah.
00:44:08
Speaker
Yeah. And I don't want to say like, you know, cast him out and let's never use him again or anything like that. But I mean, it's like until he seeks help, DC is fucked. Yeah. Yeah. Because they are. They were so dependent on the flash as being like this big reset point. Hey, everybody, we got Michael Keaton back as Batman. It's going to be great. And Ezra Miller is literally getting into more shit every week. I'm surprised he didn't.
00:44:37
Speaker
Show up at Comic Con, start a fight. Just for the hell of it. DC knows how to pick them.
00:44:46
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Let's see mere hours after they were arrested They they is Ezra Miller goes by data mere hours after they were arrested for disorderly conduct harassment Miller was released on bail and then a Deligid allegedly stormed into a couple's bedroom and Threatened them her court documents the cover claimed the Miller burst into their bedroom and said I will burn your slut. Oh my gosh
00:45:10
Speaker
Like, Jesus Christ. They're definitely. Yeah, they need help. Yeah, I it's it's tough. I want them to get help. I want them to be healthy, but also it's just like, holy shit. DC cannot make good decisions. And again, also, like I said, too, you have Aquaman two with Amber Heard, who just, you know, basically internet public enemy number one.
00:45:38
Speaker
Um, for, for, uh, for the defamation suit against, or with Johnny Depp that she lost. Um, so yeah, DC is in a bad place. It's really showed in there. I'm curious if next year they'll be in a better place.
Marvel's Continuity and Oversights
00:45:54
Speaker
Um, oh, also one other Marvel thing too, which is that, um, D 23, which is in September, um, Kevin Fage, uh, head of Marvel studios said there will be more information about phase six there. Oh.
00:46:08
Speaker
And that Eternals will be returned. Oh, do we need that? Andy, that's one of your art house films. Yeah. Jessica's out. Yeah. Yeah. The Eternals? Yeah. The woman who directed Eternals is Art House. She won Best Picture. Yes.
00:46:27
Speaker
To be fair, I went to go see that and then I had to leave 10 minutes in because I got an hour's call. Jesus Christ. And I brought it up on the call every time. I was like, guys, I'm missing a movie. OK, I don't care what's going on. I'm missing a movie.
00:46:42
Speaker
Also, I saw a thing the other day that we've now gone three or four Marvel properties since the Turtles that haven't mentioned that at the end of Eternals, a giant God appeared in the Indian Ocean and is now there as a Marvel statue. Oh, wow.
00:46:58
Speaker
Yeah, that's it. Andy, pull up a picture of the now-statued Eternal. Eternal Celestial. Oh, and Andy. At the end, a giant head appears in the sky for everyone to see. Oh yeah, no one talks about it.
00:47:16
Speaker
That too. So there's a permanent celestial embedded in the earth, right? But also another celestial came to earth, parted the clouds, and yelled at three people and summoned them into space. It is insane. I kind of wish I saw this. I just saw Angelina slide for a bit and then I had to go.
00:47:43
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. This is this is this is what's in the Indian Ocean and no one matches it. Notice how. Notice how it's above the clouds at that point. Right. Those are clouds. Yeah. That giant hand reaches from the ocean, rises up above the clouds.
00:48:03
Speaker
Yeah, I want to say maybe the middle knuckle is where planes fly. Maybe. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, listeners at home. I can't imagine what this statue looks like underneath the clouds. It must be gigantic. And it's got a creepy mask. It looks like a sele mask from Ava.
00:48:23
Speaker
Yeah, too creepy. I want to show you the end of it. Okay. Fucking. Oh, I have six eyes, not seven. Yeah. Oh yeah, there was a baby. There was a baby, a turtle.
00:48:40
Speaker
Oh, the Eternals aren't the name of the people. Here we go. See, the clouds are forming. Yeah. Jon Snow looks very concerned. And then this happens. Literally everyone on that side of the world.
00:48:57
Speaker
Oh my god. Jesus, giant creature. How, how that wouldn't cause religion to just spring forth. Like as something that happens, right? And you get pulled out. And then, Oh, let me go with scale space. Yeah. Look at, look at the scale.
00:49:16
Speaker
OK, that person got zoomed out. You saw that person's head. Look how fucking gigantic. Oh, my gosh. No one has said anything. But you would not think all the world, the governments would just go, let's stop fighting, huh? Yeah, giant fucking. You know, that dwarf our entire planet in the sky.
00:49:44
Speaker
Yeah. And no one talks about it. Yeah, no, it's up to Jon Snow and apparently Michelle Ali to take care of it. And Harry Styles. Yeah, that that was wild. Yeah. Do you think they're not talking about it because they wanted to drop the Eternals?
00:50:05
Speaker
No, no, I mean the Eternals are kind of important in the grand scheme of things Yeah Yeah, they kind of explain this to you in the movie after 10 minutes Which is that these the role of these those beings of celestials is they literally start galaxies? So like, you know when they are born which are born from the planet a planet
00:50:30
Speaker
they take the energy and create new galaxies, which starts off new life, right? So it's kind of like, yeah, you need them in order to keep the cycle of life going, but the problem was Earth would be destroyed when this one got born.
00:50:42
Speaker
I'm just saying we saved half of the universe's life. Maybe just give us this one, you know? Right, exactly. Yeah, just maybe. And you know, it's like just maybe go, all right, fine. The celestial has to be born. You get 10,000 years to get off your planet or some shit.
00:51:04
Speaker
You know, one favor. That's all we want. If She-Hulk does not mention this, I'm gonna lose my shit.
00:51:14
Speaker
But yeah, that's it. Yeah, Andy, the premise for She-Hulk is that they're starting a new division to represent superheroes in legal trouble. Oh, that could be a fun show. It is. She-Hulk is a fun comic. Also, Andy, much like Deadpool, she breaks the fourth wall and talks directly to the audience. Oh. Which, again, a good place to talk about that giant fucking thing.
00:51:42
Speaker
They don't do it here. I'm so mad. Watch them talk about it Wakanda forever just for no reason. Honestly, I bet you that could be a reasonable place to put it. Hey, why are you guys name or what are you doing over here? Well, there's a giant fucking statue over there that came out in this place.
00:52:06
Speaker
You go, oh, okay, that's fair. I'm not thinking about gaming news this week. Andy, I want you to think about what that would do to the oceans, right? Oh my God, the water would rise. Islands also disappear.
00:52:25
Speaker
Also, Andy, he didn't just come out of nowhere. He came from the Earth's core. Wait, really? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, so he rose from the Earth. The planet was basically an egg for the celestial. And no one's brought it up. No. I would love, love, love, love a movie exploring how like faith
00:52:47
Speaker
and religion is a factor. There's a great whole events. There's a great comic series about Thor that explores that very thing.
00:52:58
Speaker
I, yeah, I think that would be great because you have half the world disappearing and then coming back. And then you have God appearing in the sky. And you have like all these insane events and insane powers. Like, what is Jesus anymore? Who cares? Right? Oh, so he rose someone from the dead? Who cares? You've got someone wiping out half the universe. Oh, I want this. I want this.
00:53:26
Speaker
Yeah. David Lynch. So we've had moon night, Spider-Man, no way home. Uh, back strange in the multiverse of madness, miss Marvel and Thor love and thunder happened and not mentioned this at all.
00:53:44
Speaker
This marble also would have been a great place to mention it, too. Yeah, honestly, strange would have been a great place to anything remotely would prove about this. That'd be all I talk about in life. I'd be like, hey, guys, was it fucking matter anymore? Yeah, life got snapped. And then I'd be like, and then the clouds parted and a giant fucking head appeared in this guy and then disappeared. You are so insignificant. You are so worthless. And
00:54:14
Speaker
Don't forget that in Thor Love and Thunder, there's an ice cream shop named Infinity Cones. Right, which is awkward as fuck to talk about. It's a Thanos themed ice cream store, you know, the guy who killed Infinity Cones. Oh, the stones? Yeah. So it's like the Thanos gauntlet holding an ice cream cone. Oh, no. I mean, he's got to laugh about it eventually.
00:54:38
Speaker
Yeah, it's a little soon, Andy. Let me, let me propose this to you. Let me propose this to you. What if I opened a 9 11 theme restaurant? Yeah, there you go. Welcome to dine 11. Try our twin towers of onion. That's not my joke. I saw someone make it in reference to the infinity. I thought it was perfect.
00:55:06
Speaker
Oh my god, can I? No, this idea's got legs, James. Just based on world tragedies every day. There you go. New menu item, you just fucking...
Conclusion and Farewell
00:55:20
Speaker
Oh. Oh my god, yeah. We're going to hell. But it doesn't matter because nothing matters.
00:55:27
Speaker
Um, but yeah, yeah, especially in the Marvel universe, nothing matters. Yes. When's, when's she Hulk starting by the by? Oh, but I'm looking at an official, not an official. I'm looking at an assumed timeline. So I've turned those took place in 2024 in the Marvel like chronological timeline. Um,
00:55:48
Speaker
Moon Knight, Moon Knight, Spider-Man, Hawkeye series, Dr. Strangers Marvel and Thor Love and Thunder all took place time wise after internal. So after after the journals. Yes. Jesus Christ. Because Hawkeye happened December of twenty twenty four. Eternals happened at some point during twenty twenty four. OK. So yeah. Again, as a normal person, I would just be like, guys,
00:56:17
Speaker
That's Hawkeye feel about this. It just appeared everybody in the world could see it at the same time. The entire northern hemisphere saw an eldritch being appear from nowhere and scream at the planet about being mad.
00:56:48
Speaker
I will judge if this planet is worthy, he screams. Oh my gosh. Wow. You know what? That people will reach across the aisle to fix that issue. Right away. That's how we get the thunderbolts, Andy. Is it okay? Yeah, U.S. agent's going to solve this problem.
00:57:17
Speaker
U.S. agent is the guy from Hawkeye in the winter or Falcon and Winter Soldier series. Yeah. Yeah. For that one, Andy, imagine if they desaturated Captain America into just black and red and then went, well, we can't call you Captain America anymore. You're a U.S. agent.
00:57:45
Speaker
Yeah. U.S. agent was a secret character in Marvel versus Capcom Battle of the Gems. Oh, was that Marvel versus Capcom four? That was one. Oh, that was the first one. Oh, boy. Oh, hey, remember when this we were going to talk about games? That didn't happen. Yeah. Maybe we'll talk. Maybe we'll talk about them on another party.
00:58:10
Speaker
Yeah, there are a lot of PS VR to news came out this week. Fucking Minecraft shit on NFTs. That multiverses game actually pretty good. But maybe maybe again, we'll talk about that next week. I've been your host, James. I want to know about the statue in the Indian Ocean. And I've been joined by Charles, founder of the six eyed religion, Yamant. And I've been joined by.
00:58:40
Speaker
Andy, we're worthless. We're nothing. We're just nothing, Kay. Have a good night. Have a good night.