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Episode 765 - Just One Muppet
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Introduction to War Rocket Ajax
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Slytus, I'm bored. What plaything can you offer me today?
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got War Rocket Ajax to bring back his body. Terminator X-Z-Z-Z!
Episode Format Change: Listener Questions
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Hello everybody and welcome to War Rocket Ajax. This is the internet's most explosive comic book and pop culture podcast. We are your hosts. My name is Chris Sims. With me as always is Matt Wilson. And Matt, i bid you I bid you greetings on this, your special day.
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The special day when the coffee cup squeaks in the background. That is that is the sound, that that is the celebration but That is happening on this, Matt Wilson's favorite day of all.
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Now, why is this my favorite day? i'll Check the calendar, baby. 4.17? when the show goes up. Oh, all right. It's going up on 4.20. I see, I see, I see. yeah and And the grassman, Matt Wilson.
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i was I was not kayfabing it. i was I was thinking what day it actually was and not day 4. it was good The show was going up. i yeah I think maybe you were ah maybe ah a little too high. so i was ah hitting hitting debong a little too much.
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That's exactly what someone who does that regularly would say, for sure. Hi, hi everybody. um So here's the deal about this week's show.
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I am leaving on a trip tomorrow as of the time. Yeah, on ah on ah on a ah trip. That's right, on a trip. And um Chris had a pretty wild day.
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And so we're not going to do like the regular segments. We're just going to take some listener questions in this episode. Yeah. ah so And it's going to be pretty freeform. I don't have time to edit this, really.
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So I'm probably just going to throw it together. Like I said, you're going to hear coffee cup noises, and that you're going to be okay with that. I have because taken away the squeaky toy. Okay. But but we we will see.
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If there are other coffee cup noises to be concerned with. Yeah. um Because you know what? Otherwise there would be no show. ah we're we're We're doing a show as best we can. It's 2026.
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Give us some grace. that's That's our motto for 2026.
Support for Joe Hunter
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That's our theme of the year. Yeah. um This is also peek behind the curtain.
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ah We're recording on Friday night. Teeny Howard was just on Jeopardy. ah which I thought was fascinating. If you haven't seen that episode, you should go watch it. Also, um I want to say, before we get into the listener questions, this would have been my check.
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um This has been going on for a while now, ah but ah
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i wanted to let people know about it in case they haven't heard about it. um I don't think he's ever been on the show, but he is someone we know, someone we've worked with.
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um He was the colorist on my comic, Everything Will Be Okay. um Joe Hunter, who ah recently has a ah a book out that's that's very good, which um is has been in the hospital with a pretty severe case of pneumonia.
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yeah And ah there is GoFundMe to help pay for his ah recovery. And people listening to this she go should go contribute to that if you haven't yet.
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um I will find the link and I will put it in the show notes, and and you can go to that GoFundMe and help out Joe. I know that there are some serious medical expenses at play with that, so if um you are able to help ah out with Joe's GoFundMe, please do that.
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And um be sure to check out ah Joe's recent book, Beat Everyone Up. It's called Beat Everyone Up. Yeah, it is from... Who's the publisher on that?
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Maverick. It's Maverick. So, yeah, go check out Beat Everyone Up. And I believe Lan Pitts, who is the writer of that book, is organizing the GoFundMe. So, ah yeah, just go help Joe if you ah We're both big fans Joe. We've both worked with Joe.
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Good guy. ah Really hoping for the best. I know that he oh seems like he's on the mend. oh Yeah. yeah But obviously, you know, the expenses are going to be something.
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So, ah you know, Joe, where it we're glad you're doing better. ah And everybody else, if you can, lend a hand. Yeah. All right.
Listener Question: Venom #256 Discussion
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Now we're going to start taking some listener questions. And our first one is actually was actually sent to us by email from Sean Bell.
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And the question is, just wondered if you guys had any reaction to the major development in Venom number 256. Yeah.
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Chris, i don't think i do it do you know what happened in this issue of Venom? There there has been an issue since. venm Venom 257 just came out this week and has some pretty wild stuff in it.
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No, I'm a little bit behind, so I don't know what happened in Venom 256. But i Matt, you've got to tell me. Okay. Chris, I'm going to spoil it for you. Listeners, if you don't want to be spoiled, here is your warning.
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For the spoiler of the big thing that happens in Venom 256. Our
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but or boy Paul?
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Our boy Paul gets got. No! Not my boy Paul! Our boy Paul gets stabbed in the abdomen by...
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ah wow What's that fucker's name? i keep wanting to call him a Spiral. Torment, yes. I keep wanting to call him Spiral because the book's called Death Spiral, but there's already a character named Spiral.
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So they had to name him Torment instead. not Not my boy, Paul. Yeah, Al Ewing and Carlos Gomez. Al Ewing, the guy who made the paul made Paul the most interesting, also killed him off in ah in Death Spiral.
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Well, I mean, look, look, we all know that means nothing in Marvel Comics. That's true. Paul could come back at any time. paul Paul could be Iron Man next month.
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He sure could. We don't know. and you know what? We're going to, Paul's going to be coming back. yeah We can only hope. Paul's going to be in a movie. So you know Paul's going to come. We're going get a Paul OGN.
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Prestige warm-up. Paul's going to be in a movie, which makes you think that Paul will have to return ah in some capacity. But that issue also ends with Torment fusing with Carnage, which is pretty wild.
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So Venom number 257 ends with a different character fusing with Carnage, but I won't spoil who that is. that sounds like it's going to be Carnage. It's going to be Carnage. that Death Spiral has been a very Carnage-heavy event ah through through and through.
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ah ah How much Carnage would you say is in it? I wouldn't say it's the maximum, but I would say it's high levels. Do you think maximum carnage was the most carnage there can be in a story? It kind of was, yeah. yeah because of theirre inminent First of all, it's 14 issues. It's a lot of carnage.
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and And we found out that he ruled. um Death Spiral has less carnage. So I would not call it maximum carnage, but it is high-level carnage. Limited carnage.
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But high. Limited but high.
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All right. I don't know which one of them that was. We got the whole wolf pack in here. We got the whole the whole bedtime bunch. That sounded like pi that sounded like ah like a puppy dog.
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Yeah, I think that might have been. Yeah, that well, that was definitely Truff. I think that was truffle both times, yeah. yeah ah Peter the Balloon Animal on Blue Sky asks, a lot of folks say that AEW has too many belts. If you had to choose one of their championships to get rid of, which one would get the boot?
AEW Championship Belts Debate
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I would say... I have my answer, for sure. i mean like i First of all, I do think AEW has too many belts. yeah Because there are... there are So many. And there's one that's like changed names like five times.
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Yes, there is one that has changed names a couple of times at least, yeah.
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do Do you have one that you would chuck immediately? I would probably get rid of the TNT Championship. Really? That's not the one I would pick. That's interesting. just Mainly because of the name.
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I think naming... naming Naming the the title after a network that you're on, like particularly when Dynamite is no longer on that network.
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No, Collision's on that network. Collision is. Like, I think it's a like it's a a good title with like a good legacy, but i I would not name my title. Like, imagine if, you know, if WWE had the TNN championship, you know?
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Or the USA Network Championship? or the fox Or the Fox Championship? Or the... Fuck, what other networks have they been on? NBC?
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ah yeah Yeah. The NBC Saturday Night Championship? Yeah. yeah i I like the TNT and TBS Championships. I like the TBS and TNT Championships. I sort of like the...
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them being kind of mirrors of one another. and I like them as like the top secondary championships in aew yeah there was I would also get rid of the TBS championship, but I would replace it with something else.
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yeah I don't think that that TBS logo looks good on a championship belt. No, it's not a very good logo. That's very true. um The title I would get rid of – okay, here ah let me say what titles I wouldn't get rid of.
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I wouldn't get rid of either set of tag belts. I wouldn't get rid of TBS and TNT. I wouldn't get rid of the world titles. I wouldn't get rid of the Continental title because it is the reward for the Continental Classic, which is one of the best things AEW does.
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Yes. The Continental Classic tournament is so good, and that belt is the prize for that. So I would not get rid of that. Yeah. I would stop having belts as prizes for the Owen.
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I would just... like Those belts aren't really on TV anyway, but the fact that belts are the prize for that seems like it's adding another belt, and Mercedes-Benz Mane counted it as one of her belts.
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So I would just make trophies that the reward for the Owen and not belts. I would get rid of both the international and national titles.
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I... i would not like i I don't know why they didn't just keep the the unified title. Well, because Okada lost the Continental title by losing the Continental Classic.
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Yeah. But I mean, like i I would keep i would not keep the the Continental Championship name. i would But I would combine the International Championship, the Continental Championship, and the National Championship. That's so much.
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Yeah, they when they added the National Championship, it was like, what's what are we doing? like This is so many belts. I think the National Belt is looks the best of all of them, though.
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I don't think there is any reason for AEW to have five men's singles titles. Yeah, that's weight that's too many. that is Especially when you consider when you consider that Ring of Honor titles are in the mix, too. yeah Yeah. And the CMLL titles on TV sometimes. Yeah, there's also no reason for them to have to like if you're counting the ring of honor stuff there's no reason for them to have two sets of trios titles Yeah, i the trio's titles have been really hot-potatoed lately. like the The Ring of Honor six-man titles have not been on TV so much. it's It's really like the Ring of Honor world title that's on TV sometimes.
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um I think keep all the Ring of Honor titles off of AEW television, even if people who hold them are competing. and like i and I get why like it it brings some prestige to have like the IWGP championship on AEW TV sometimes.
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But it's a lot of belts. It is a lot belts. Somebody needs to go on but it list of all current champions and all Elite Wrestling Wikipedia page. Hey, first of all, I have not watched Dynamite, so this spoiled me on that.
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um Oh, yeah. Yeah. But somebody needs to go in there and edit it because it still says AEW World Championship and not AEW Men's World Championship. they They haven't called it that since Hangman lost it, which is unfortunate. They they really should go back to calling it the Men's World Championship. They really should, because it is.
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Hangman tried to get that going, and they should return to it, for sure. I agree. I agree. But yeah, five...
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like Five men's singles titles is too much. I think maybe three. Three is probably good, yeah. That's why I would get rid of international and national.
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Especially since they they they sound like this like you shouldn't have international and national. Well, I don't think you should have continental because the other company has intercontinental, which sounds better.
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Sure, sure. I don't mind Continental, but International, National, and Continental is a little much. Yes. Let me see if I can name them all. because ah Because if I can't, that that's ah that's a detriment to having that many titles. Okay, Darby just won the world title.
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TNT title, Kevin Knight won that in the Gauntlet match. Okay, yeah. Because Kyle Fletcher had to at two let it let it go. ah Continental title is Mox.
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TNT, oh wait, I said TNT. ah International is Okada.
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And National is Jack Perry. Yes, you got him. Okay, okay, okay. Nonetheless, too many belts. Too many belts. Too many belts. Too many titles.
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Here's a question from TalesToEnrage on our Discord. When you play Japanese video games, do you use the Japanese or English audio? ah If there is English audio, I will generally use that.
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Yeah, me too. i um i don't know and I don't know enough Japanese to... understand it and like them speaking japanese with english subtitles i don't know i'd rather just probably hear the english general well i mean you play like a dragon yeah which is only in japanese with english like subtitles no it's not it's not there's english voice acting and like a dragon
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Is there? yeah Okay, well, I guess I play it in Japanese with English subtitles then. Because I didn't even know that was an option. I don't know what Kiryu sounds like in English.
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There are English voice actors. ah they That is like the one game one game series. That is like the one game series that I think makes the most sense to play in Japanese with English subtitles.
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Because it is so Japanese, and it takes place entirely in Japan, and so on and so forth. I've gone back and forth and in those games, sometimes.
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But, not so much... Usually I just listen to the English voice acting, though. yes i like ah For most things, I think I i i pick the English voice acting. like I did the English voice acting for Persona.
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oh But...
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But Yakuza, I didn't even look to see if there was English voice acting. No, I should have played the ah the Fist of the North Star oh Lost Paradise game with Japanese voice acting, because the voice of Kiryu also does the voice of Kinshiro.
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ah That's a good fit. Damn. yeah and Actually, there is a ah there's like an outfit that you can get that just makes Kinshiro Kiryu.
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So you can play that game, which is basically a Yakuza game, as Kiryu if you want. ah You should play that game, Matt. It's great. okay ah no out Fitness Boxing Fist of the North Star has, no offense, some of the worst voice acting in English.
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But like I don't know if there is an option to change that, and I don't know what Let's Do Hooks is in Japanese. So there would be a functional problem with that.
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ah Our next question comes from Teach on our Discord. What's the best sheath?
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Excalibur's. Excalibur's scabbard. So what is what is, I don't know that I know the significance of Excalibur's Scabbard. We've talked about it. the The sword is an incredibly powerful sword. The Scabbard keeps you from bleeding to death. at like The Scabbard protects you from dying.
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That's right. i I did know that. Yeah. That's pretty good. That's pretty good. Second place has to be the sheath for that sword from Metal Gear Rising Revengeance. That is a gun. That's a gun. Yes.
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Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Yep.
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boss of hills or Now, the does the Kirkhammer count as a sheath? i don't i That's a secondary version of the weapon. It's not really a sheath. But you but it is functionally a sheath.
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True, but it is also a hammer that you use as a weapon. That's um that's pretty good. I mean, if it counts, it's great. yeah There's another sword in that game.
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ah What's it called? it's i think it's called Ludwig's ah It's not the the Moonlight sword, but it's like kind of a replica of... It's Ludwig's Holy Blade.
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That sword has a sheath that's a bigger sword.
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Amazing. I love that. Like, you put your faster, lighter sword inside the sheath, and then you take that off your back, and you could use that as a sword, too. Well, it's like the ah it's like the the sword that Reggie Jean Page has in the D&D movie.
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Yeah. Where... It's a dagger inside a longsword, and you can shoot the longsword part out of it. Yeah. ah Pretty good shit. Pretty good shit. Along those same lines, Matt Fraction on Blue Sky, a.k.a. Buttstuff Werewolf, wants to know, how many swords are too many swords, and why did neither of you have that many?
Balancing Personal Interests in Relationships
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i think I think I can answer the why don't either of you have that many. ah For both of us, just by saying, I think we would prefer to stay married.
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And and yeah living in our homes. yeah If I had like a shed... You would make it a swed?
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swed. Yeah. ah i you know how many How many would be too many? ah Look, I'll let you know when I get there. Yeah.
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Yeah, that's a great question. I will say this. That also is a very subjective ah measurement that really depends on who you are and who you're married to.
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Yeah. I think it's like, you know, you you get swords for different purposes, right? you get you get different swords that you need for different scenarios that have different uses,
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And once you've got enough, like, I guess it's like, are you worried about function? Are you worried about, ah like, what do you need or what do you want? Because then it's there's there's a really different answer of how many is too many.
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Yeah. i i was actually having – I don't want to give the idea that either of us is like, oh my jerk wife. It won't let me have all the swords I want. Because, look, AC is correct.
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I should not have more swords. But we were talking... Hang on. I will fill this time. We were talking last night, ah and she was like, yeah, look, I appreciate that you keep all of your swords in your office.
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And I was like, look, they're They're mine, and I know they're mine. They're like, I don't leave Goku action figures everywhere either. you know yeah yeah like They belong in here because they're a thing that I like. All the swords and knives are up here.
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And I was like, now, if I bought one of those $700 Lord of the Rings museum-quality replica swords, those I think i i we would have a discussion about whether those can go in the living room.
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Yeah. Look, it's a puppy, folks. It's a puppy. you get a It's a puppy, and I'm having to to solo parent them right now.
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Alright, here's ah our next question. It's from Boss of Hell's Bitchin', a.k.a. Patrick O'Duffy the Boss Dog. Best score in wordplay so far? Any tips?
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Oh, um I had a really good one ah that was like... I think I had like enunciations.
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Which is a pretty solid word. That's a very solid word, yeah. Yeah. As for tips, man, don't know, man. You know a lot of words.
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you got You got two U's in one draw? Unbelievable. Yeah. Unbelievable. Wait. ah night Annunciation. No, only one U. Are there not two U's in annunciations?
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In annunciations? Like the enunciation of Mary?
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Only one you, bud. Okay. I don't know why I thought there were two. don't know why you're arguing with me about spelling. I'm very good at wordplay. I'm not trying to argue. I'm trying to...
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ah yeah i like wordplay a lot more than I like spelling bee. Because spelling bee is like... Spelling bee is so weirdly specific. Like...
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There was one word that it did allow the other day that is like clearly a slang word that I got mad. Yeah. and It's all just like a weird preference thing. Yeah.
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Yeah. It's like, you can oh, you can't use proper nouns, except for sometimes you can. Yeah. I mean, that's very much the case in, like, like i don't get mad at strands.
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But like, strands pulls all kinds of bullshit. Strands does pull some wax stuff every now and then. Where it's like, your spangrum is three words?
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What? I like you calling it a spangrum and not a spangram. Yeah. Because you're classy. it In my head, it's a spangrum. Yeah.
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Spangrum. All right. Why did I think enunciation had two U's? I don't know. ah All right, here's a question from David L. from our Discord. What's the best cheeseburger you ever had?
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Damn, that's a good that's a good question. um
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The first time I went ever went to In-N-Out, that was pretty magical, honestly. Yeah. like It was good. Those are good burgers. Yeah. I did recently have one... home ah In Minneapolis, Matt, next time you come visit, which should be soon.
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yeah because ah eight i Legitimately, AC was going around not too long ago being like, I miss Matt Wilson. I was like, damn, I also miss Matt Wilson.
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that's That's my boy. That's very nice. i don't know when I'm going to be able to get up there, but I would like to. I would like to. Yeah, ah but you get a damn good burger or a damn good hot dog at an ice cream shop here?
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Oh, yeah. Ice cream shop a food can be fan-fucking-tastic. Yeah, if you if you go to an ice cream shop and they've got a hamburger on the menu, woo! Woo! That's some good stuff. I had one of those last week. It was delicious. yeah I don't know. like it's so It's hard to say. like
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like I don't know if there's a big gap in quality between the best burger I've ever had and the worst burger I've ever had, you know? Oh, i've I've had some bad burgers that are really bad.
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i guess i i guess, yeah. Like, that are just, like, too dry or undercooked? I guess, like, what I mean is by by the, like, like, there's aren't, like, by number, there aren't a lot of outliers.
00:28:54
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Most of them fall within the same range. Yeah, that's true. That's true. i like I've had a lot of good burgers.
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I'll say this. I haven't had a ton of burgers, even if I pay upwards of $25 for them. That's too much.
00:29:17
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That are better than Smashburger from Culver's. Yeah, man. Or a Butterburger. That's what they call them. Yeah. Like...
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Like, just a standard Butterburger from Culver's can beat we can whoop just about any of them. Yeah. Yeah.
00:29:40
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So, I don't know. People up here like the ah like like the Juicy Lucy. Yeah. Which is a um a ah A hamburger – like a cheeseburger, but cheese is inside the burger? the The cheese is inside, correct. there's ah There's a place here called Juicy Lucy's without – and I'm not realizing that it was a Minneapolis thing.
00:30:04
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um Asked you and AC if you wanted to go there, and AC almost went through my ceiling. ah Because – understandably so. It would be like if in – If I took you to get some Carolina barbecue? Yeah.
00:30:16
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yeah if Exactly so, yes. yeah um But I do think the burgers at Juicy Lucy's are good. I never actually get a Juicy Lucy there. I just get like a regular burger.
00:30:27
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here i mean Here's the thing. like they put the They put the cheese inside the burger, and they're like real into it up here. And I'm just like, you know you could just put it on top and it would be functionally the same.
00:30:41
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But they put it inside, that's different. well it's But it doesn't It is not a different or better experience. like I don't know why there's so like there's like so many places that are the original.
00:30:58
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this The Minneapolis original. It's like, man, I guess. it's ah It's just a gimmick. everybody People want a gimmick. People do want a gimmick.
00:31:10
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Yeah, man. Not me, though. No, you've never liked a gimmick. Never liked a gimmick. A gimmick? A novelty?
00:31:21
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No thank you. Get out of town. Not for this guy. CJ Crawl Impaired wants to know, other than the K-Bartana, what is the dumbest thing you've ever spent money on?
00:31:38
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God, I can't even begin to answer this question, Matt. There are so many things that qualify. i mean, ah like, AC will occasionally just tell people, oh yeah, my husband loves getting scammed. Because I do enjoy, i like, I, here's here's the thing that everybody needs to consider, right?
00:32:03
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when you When you really get down to what your life is like.
00:32:10
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In every transaction you make, you are paying for both a product and an experience. This is true. So if that experience is going to be funny, to me that is worth it.
00:32:24
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Give me an example. I mean, the Kmartana. like I probably would have bought one. like That's not worth $30. But it's I would consider that a scam. like You knew what you were buying.
00:32:36
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That's true. That's true. i i know i can't I can't think of like a good example right now, but it's it's I enjoy the experience sure of a thing that I purchase. So I have bought um i bought some real dumb shit in my life.
00:32:59
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$2, for instance. I don't think this is the dumbest thing I've ever spent my money on, but it's the thing that I remember most. Regretting buying?
00:33:12
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um So when I was like, I don't know, 14 or 15 years old, I went on a church youth trip to the beach. We went to this beach every year.
00:33:25
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for a mission trip, quote-unquote, where we would just like do like vacation Bible school for some kids who were around. um But like there was no mission trip about it. We were going to the North Carolina coast. like there was you but It was just an excuse to go to the beach. Anyway, the first year we went, I went with like...
00:33:51
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I don't know, some amount of money. like We were told to bring a certain amount of money for like...
00:33:59
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Certain meals – a lot of the meals were just provided at the house where we were staying, but there were a few meals that we would have to pay for at restaurants.
00:34:10
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And there were other things that we would just need some money for. So I came with like what my parents believed was enough money for that. And I just, for whatever reason, thought I had some money to spend Yeah.
00:34:24
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And so we went to this bookstore, and it wasn't even a Christian bookstore. It was just a regular bookstore, because this was the 90s, when like a Christian trip didn't have to be all Christian. And so I went to this bookstore, and they had this like big joke book.
00:34:43
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And I was like, that's a fun thing to buy. so I spent like half my money on this joke book, which I returned to the house with and started reading, and the jokes were fucking terrible. like I knew when I was 14 that these jokes were fucking terrible. They were like like atrociously bad and corny, and I knew that I had wasted my money. And then I ran out of money.
00:35:10
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And so like on the way home, I had to like bum five bucks off of the pastor to eat at Hardee's.
00:35:26
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That's a very Matt Wilson story. Yeah.
00:35:35
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ah Here's a similar question from Jerry. Can you recall a moment where you felt the most broke financially? man. This is a depressing question.
00:35:48
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it is.
Matt's Financial Struggles in Chicago
00:35:49
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i i mean, it's either it was either on that church trip where I ran out of money or like immediately after we moved to Chicago. Marlene and I moved to Chicago because we moved. I quit my job at the newspaper in Chattanooga and we just moved to Chicago kind of like on a whim.
00:36:10
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And I didn't have a job at the time. And we had like a certain amount of money saved up that if we ran out of that money and I didn't get a job, we would have to like move back home or like move somewhere that wasn't Chicago. And so ah there was a little bit of time where we were like living on the razor's edge and of, will will I get a job or not? And then I got one of the worst jobs of my life, but ah it was it helped pay the bills for a while after that. So that was probably the time I felt the most broke. ah
00:36:48
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That like first few months of living in Chicago. I think any time I had car trouble when I was working at the comic book store, I don't know if I've talked about this a ton, but like ah like I had an hour commute to the comic book store.
00:37:09
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ah Which was bad. And I had a series of bad cars. And so like anytime I would like get a flat tire, it was like, well, I can't go to work today.
00:37:22
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and At my job where I make very little money. ah But you know I like being around comic books. And... like having to buy a tire or be stranded ah somewhere in a swamp between my house and my job or, or getting stuck. Like, like, no, I can't actually come into work today. Cause no one's going to drive me an hour.
00:37:49
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Like, yeah. Yeah. and Just simply can't do it. That, that, those were always like, really like car stuff was very tough when I was, way more broke than I currently. Yeah, i I definitely had some of those situations, too. And I had cars that like routinely fucked up.
00:38:13
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I almost said the like the purchase I regretted most was this one car with like a terrible transmission that I had to constantly get fixed when I was 23. Yeah.
00:38:23
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twenty three
00:38:26
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Kathy Leamy on Blue Sky. Good friends. Good friend of the show. Friend of the show. Friend of ours. ah Kathy asks, let's say a comic gets a grim and gritty reboot.
00:38:38
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What's the best possible comic that this could happen to?
00:38:44
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mean, here's the thing. I think it could potentially happen to anything and be good. Because it's all in the execution. Sure.
00:38:55
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Sure. it's I feel like you're walking a tightrope with that, because usually if something is getting a grim and gritty reboot, then it's a property that isn't that.
00:39:08
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yeah but but um But sometimes that can work. Flintstones. Archie. Archie. Yeah. Yeah. Like, Riverdale's a fucking hoot.
00:39:19
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Yeah. But I don't like, Riverdale is only, like... in the trappings of grim and gritty. What it really is, is camp. Well, that's so often what happens with quote unquote, grim and gritty reboots though. Right. yeah Like, um, like they're, they're, they're trying so hard to be g grim and gritty that they're not there or that they become campy. Like, you know, that space ghost comic that we've ragged on before comes to mind.
00:39:54
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I don't know. like what would be a fun what is What would be a fun thing that hasn't gotten a Grim and Gritty reboot that could? And and then there are like other examples like ah ah Pluto where it takes something that's for kids and makes it like good.
00:40:14
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Yeah, Pluto is actually grim and gritty. yeah yeah And is one of the best comics ever printed. yeah Like that comic is great.
00:40:27
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like I don't know. though like like That's what I mean. is like If you were to tell me, like yeah, it's Astro Boy, but like but it's about emotions. It's about it's Astro Boy, but it's about the horrors of war.
00:40:43
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Would I ever think that was a good idea if I hadn't read Pluto? If I didn't already know it?
00:40:51
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and don't know like And also, like, what's left? What's What not had a grim and gritty reboot? What's left is the big question, right? Because, like... Yeah. Like, the only things I can think of kind of sound like jokes, like Power Pack or something like that. and we kind of have... We've gotten, like, bits and pieces of a grim... Like, of Power Pack stuff coming back. I mean, like, we're reading, you know, Hick Mania's got Alex Power in it.
00:41:19
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Yeah, it does. So... Like, I think, okay, here's ah here's my real answer. Because I don't think this exists.
00:41:34
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And I think every attempt to do, like, a more kind of grounded, realistic version of it hasn't worked. But I think it could work.
00:41:46
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Masters of the Universe. Like, I think you could do, like, an actual, like, serious, more violent Masters of the Universe, and it be effective. I don't think it has happened outside of that one Hordak comic.
00:42:05
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they they've They've tried it so many times. They've tried it. They've tried it like at least three times. Yeah. And it simply does not work. That new movie looks terrible.
00:42:18
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Yeah, man. Terrible. But I think it could be done. like it's It's so weird because like I feel like the opposite version where they take something that's like grim and gritty and make it fun has such a better success rate.
00:42:35
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I agree. Yeah, I agree. Like Space Ghost or Birdman or... Well, those weren't great. Those didn't originate. They were like serious action cartoons. yeah That they made funny, yeah. That they made into into goofy like comedy. But also, like you know, the the the Starsky and Hutch movie. like That's perfectly watchable as far as I remember. Don't tell me if it's not.
00:43:04
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I never saw that movie, I don't think. It's fine. Okay. But like you've seen Dragnet. I've seen the movie Dragnet. Yeah. There you go.
00:43:15
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Yeah. Yeah. I don't know if it works for Anaconda. I didn't see the the the funny comedy version of Anaconda. er I don't know about that one. but Yeah.
00:43:30
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I don't know. like i I honestly don't know what's left. Pirates of Dark Water? that's ah That's got Dark in the name. Damn, you're right. That was already there.
00:43:42
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got dark in the name.
00:43:45
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I don't know, Kathy. I don't know. But here's the thing Kathy can text me about this. Kathy also asked what's the worst possible thing to make Grim and Gritty, and it's um anything with Disney ducks. Don't do it. DC Comics.
00:44:04
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Boy, they've tried and tried. They've tried and tried. hey do you ever think about what if Superman was bad? Not like if the comics were bad. like If he was bad. If he was not morally upstanding. Yeah. yeah ah yeah that would be That would be so interesting.
00:44:21
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ah King of Doma on our Discord wants to know, how do you currently stand on the ninjas versus pirates debate? Is that even... ah like Okay, here's an honest question. I'm not trying to diss this question.
00:44:33
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Was that ever actually even a debate? like I feel like that... like That's like the internet meme version of an industry plant.
00:44:45
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like I feel like someone came up with that and then decided it was a thing. Yeah. it it
00:44:58
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I think between the two ninjas, probably? i mean, yeah. and it just like i mean Basically what you're asking me is what do you will you like better, Snake Eyes or Shipwreck?
00:45:10
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And snake eyes every time. Hey guys, come on. yeah Be for real.
00:45:17
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Isabelle on our Discord, the creator of the Discord, wants to know, what are some other pieces of media that are feminist like Bayonetta?
00:45:27
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um This is a great question that you should ask to other people.
00:45:35
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Lollipop chainsaw. I mean, yeah, if I'm putting it in my personal canon, yes. i do I believe Lollipop Chainsaw is secretly feminist.
00:45:51
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Man, i i heard it that is I don't know where I pulled that from. That is a 14-year-old game. i mean, it did recently get like a like a remastered version that came out. So I do feel like people have...
00:46:08
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Maybe not come around on it, but like there's enough there's enough interest in it where it did make a little bit of a comeback. Co-written by DC Studios co-head James Gunn. Yeah, James Gunn and Asura Goichi.
00:46:26
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Yeah.
00:46:30
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So that's something. Yeah. Any other thoughts about... media that's feminist like Bayonetta? I mean...
00:46:44
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it's it's It's a very difficult... It's a very difficult the thing to have. because you's like like The thing is, if you've got exploitation, yeah but you're commenting on it, you still have exploitation. Yeah.
00:47:02
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correct but i do But I do think there's something to be... Like it like that, um... ah the The Grindhouse X-Men book. Uh... Who was that?
00:47:14
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Wait, which Grindhouse X-Men book? The one... the the We read it for Comics Catch-Up. though oh Oh. Who wrote that Mockingbird? Was it Leila Del Duca?
00:47:27
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It wasn't Leila Del Duca.
00:47:31
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Fuck, I'll find it. i'll I'll remember what it is in a minute. Exterminators is what Leo Williams is. Sorry, I could not remember. It was Leo Williams, yes. Yeah. That comic was feminist-like Bayonetta.
00:47:46
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It is hard to tell sometimes, though. Because there are things that like look like they're doing that thing that are just the thing. That are just the thing, yeah.
00:47:57
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like They look like they're commenting on the exploitation while just being exploitation. The the thing that comes to mind immediately is the movie Sucker Punch. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. It is not that.
00:48:09
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it is It maybe is trying to be, but it's not. Yeah, I mean, we also have ample evidence that Zack Snyder hates women. so Yeah.
00:48:22
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Yeah. As in like you know all of his other movies. Correct. Yeah. Yeah. oh I don't know if Spring Breakers, I don't know where Spring Breakers falls on that.
00:48:36
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It really could go either way.
00:48:42
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It's tough to say. Yeah. it's Tough to say. I think Harmony Corrine has said some like dumb bullshit very recently, so it might fall on the bad side of the it's it's It's hard out there for media criticism.
00:48:59
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Sure is. Sure is. Like, i i I... I almost want to put, like, Ben Mara comics out there, but I don't think they are. i think they're a secret third thing.
00:49:16
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They're doing something else. i think i think that's true. I think that's true. Yeah, that they're not... They're not feminists like Bayonetta. They're...
00:49:29
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They're something beyond comprehension in a lot of ways.
00:49:37
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Chris, Laura Lynn, Jack Black, Olus. On Blue Sky, which, that is such a local, specific joke. Laura Lynn is the store brand at the at the grocery store chain where I live, Ingalls. Mm-hmm.
00:49:56
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It's named after the owner of Ingalls, Bob Ingalls' daughter, Laura Lynn. So if that's what you if you wanted to know that, you know that now. But Chris asks, are y'all fruity candy boys or chocolate candy boys?
00:50:11
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a and Interesting question. I do like a chocolate candy. I like chocolate candy, but if I have my druthers, the candy I go for...
00:50:27
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And that I consider my favorites are almost all fruit-flavored. Mm-hmm. Your Starbursts.
00:50:35
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Your Swedish Fish. Your Skittles. Disgusting. um i If I'm going through if i'm going for the checkout line, then...
00:50:48
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it's It's going to be a Reese's Cup for me. Yeah, Reese's Cup is like top of the heap. Although, you know about the recent Reese's Cup controversy. i I did hear there was a Reese's Cup controversy, yes. Yeah, they changed the chocolate.
00:51:03
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And people got mad. Why would you ever change the Reese's Cup? Because chocolate got too expensive. And so they tried to like reformulate the chocolate, and people immediately noticed that it tasted different.
00:51:17
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And now they're going to change it back, apparently. But...
00:51:23
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The economy's going great. Yeah. but seems Seems like American capitalism's working out just fine. Yeah.
00:51:31
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You're telling me... You're telling me... this someone decided they couldn't earn a profit on fucking Reese's Cups? Well, you know how it is, though. It's not that they weren't earning a profit. It's that they weren't they they weren't getting enough growth to appease the shareholders. Because the only people that matter in the modern economy are shareholders.
00:51:59
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I mean, like, but you, but you, you sound recent. How are you not? How are you not doing good? they Yeah, they were making they were making profit. I guarantee you they were making profit.
00:52:12
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But they wanted to make more a profit. I don't understand. like I don't understand it. like It's like the the fucking Brindley Mulligan Oreo CEO yeah video where it's like, yeah, you you can stop.
00:52:30
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You made Oreos.
00:52:34
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It's like, I'm sorry. I'm not trying to not trying to be mean to anybody. I don't want anybody to lose their jobs, especially not in this economy. Why does Coca-Cola have a marketing division? And why are they making fucking AI ads?
00:52:48
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Yeah. Like, like if if there's one thing you – like, why is your marketing division harmoning harming your brand? Yeah. Jesus Christ. Yeah.
00:53:00
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But like, like that fucking those fucking Christmas AI ads make me not want to drink Coca-Cola. Absolutely. Yeah. Like, here's an experiment. Don't do advertising for like a month and see if anyone stops drinking the the the this product that they already know about.
00:53:22
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Everyone knows about Coke. Everyone knows. I mean, the same can be said for like McDonald's. and but like McDonald's has new products that they're trying to promote, I guess. but They've got to get people buying those, what is it Big Arch burgers?
00:53:39
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Is that the the one where the guy was like, I love this product? That's the one. yeah ah let me try those Let me try the product. It's so weird to describe...
00:53:52
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something as a product. like they do it like If you don't watch wrestling, they call wrestling the product all the time. All the time, yeah. And that's so weird.
00:54:07
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But I'm used to it. Hearing someone be like, i love I'm going to eat this product now, that's bananas. Yeah, it's it's so weird that like it's so weird to get like jargon
00:54:24
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breaking through the the barrier to customers, which I feel like is a thing that's happening more and more. Yeah. And I hate it.
00:54:35
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Yeah. i I never want to see another business-to-business ad again for my entire life. I saw an ad? i shouldn't know what Salesforce is All right, so I was watching Dynamite, which is the only time that I watch like TV with ads, which is...
00:54:52
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and or Ads are wild. Ads are wilding out these days. There was an ad I saw for diapers and the spokes mascots, like the little mascots, were a little CGI i drop of piss and a CGI piece of shit. And that's like appropriate, I guess, for the product? Because that is what it is?
00:55:13
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But also, what the how did that get past a second person? What?
00:55:23
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What? Ads are wilding out. It's true. But like, yeah, I saw an ad for the company that's like, we make the shirts that say Chili's that you wear if you work at Chili's. Yeah. Like, I don't need to see that. I don't care about that. That's an ad directed at people who own a business.
00:55:45
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Don't put that on regular TV. Yeah. Why is this on TV? almighty. God almighty. Why is this on on my TV? I'm going to do a little aside here for a second, Chris, because you don't live in South... Start the clock. It's one of Matt Wilson's classic rants.
00:56:00
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Yeah. You don't live in South Carolina anymore, and neither do I, but I live in a market that gets ads like you know like the TV stations are for both North Carolina and South Carolina. ah And so I've been getting ads in the South Carolina...
00:56:21
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gubernatorial primary. in Those are always fun. So there are five people running to, in the in the Republican governor, ah in the Republican governor race, you know, primary.
00:56:40
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The governor, the current governor, is Republican. The entire South Carolina legislature is Republican. Every single one of these ads is like,
00:56:52
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The government here in South Carolina is a bunch of crooks. ah so they're still They're stealing your money, and they're trying to – it's waste. It's nothing but waste in Columbia.
00:57:05
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Vote for me, and I'll clean it up. And it's like they're your people. I mean that is true, though. Sure, but like, it's so... like Yes, the Republican-controlled state government of South Carolina is a bunch of crooks. That's true.
00:57:22
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But it is mind-blowing that you're in their party. This is how you're running. But every single ad is like that.
00:57:33
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Every single one. It blows my mind. um I guess there is one candidate who's like got the governor the current governor in her ads, and she's like the lieutenant governor. but like it's Unbelievable.
00:57:47
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Unbelievable. Hilarious. To answer the question, um I'm going to get a Reese's Cup, probably, but i like i like I think my favorite candy to have is Starburst jelly beans, which are fruit flavored. I don't like Starburst, but that's a texture thing like that's i don't like the They're too tough.
00:58:09
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too Too chewy? Too chewy. That's what I like about them. Lokified Lucas Brown on our Discord it says, Everyone asks about what movie you'd replace the whole cast with Muppets bar one human.
00:58:23
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But what movie would you replace one character with a Muppet, and which Muppet? in That's a great question. As I've written on Letterboxd, my answer to the first question is Love Actually. okay yeah And the one human I would keep... Wait, wait, wait. I'm just answering this this question okay as well. The one human I would keep in Love Actually is a real toss-up between if I want it to be good, keep Liam Neeson. If I want it to be ah the beautiful soul-scarring and harrowing oh story that I want to be, Andrew Lincoln.
00:59:04
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Yeah. Yeah. Andrew Lincoln telling Miss Piggy he will secretly love her until she's a mummy. Now, are you sure that it would be Miss Piggy or would that be Janice?
00:59:15
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Oh, Janice would be, you're right. I'm picturing Janice. now um ah What would be really funny is you'd have to have two Muppets who were those body doubles.
00:59:27
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One of whom is Martin Freeman. Yeah.
00:59:34
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That would be Bunsen and Beaker. Oh, absolutely. Nailed it. Holy shit. Easy. i My first thought for what I would do with one Muppet is John Wick.
00:59:50
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Okay. And it would be Kermit as John Wick. As John Wick. And then everybody else is human. Everyone else is human, yeah. um I would also...
01:00:01
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do a movie where the one Muppet is... No! No! no Sorry. okay It would be Bert. Ernie would be dead. Okay.
01:00:13
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So, like, in the flashbacks where you see Helen and John Wick, it would be it would be Ernie. Okay. And John Wick would be Bert. So i guess it's technically replacing two characters, but Helen's not really in those movies, so... In the photos, but yeah. Yeah.
01:00:31
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Yeah, I'm thinking I'm back. I'm thinking I'm back.
01:00:37
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ah I would ah do It's a Wonderful Life.
01:00:45
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And the one Muppet would be Clarence, who is Gonzo. um No, Fozzie. Oh, that's good. That's good, too.
01:00:56
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That's real good. So it's all of the same human actors... Jimmy Stewart, everybody. And the Muppet wouldn't show up until ah more than halfway through the movie.
01:01:08
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Because Clarence shows up late. like clarence You hear Clarence's voice right at the beginning, but Clarence in the flesh does not show up until late in that movie. So you're going to be surprised to see a Muppet suddenly appear as ah George Bailey's guardian angel.
01:01:29
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I think a surprise Muppet would be great. yeah like I think that's the only way that the scene in Little Women, where Bob Odenkirk shows up, could be like funnier and more shocking. If it was a Muppet. If it was literally Teeth.
01:01:46
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the most Bob Odenkirk of Muppets?
01:01:55
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who is the most bob odenkirk of muppets
01:02:01
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Matt, that's a great question. I mean, my thought is Kermit, but like there's probably somebody who's a better fit. like I mean, that's that's really tough.
01:02:15
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Yeah. we'll talk about it We'll think about it. Captain McGlue on our Discord wants to know, do you miss Thought Balloons? Yes, absolutely. That's why I like Supergirl so much. Yeah, i would say i they're not totally gone.
01:02:28
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Supergirl's carrying the torch for them. Which, i would i I want more books to bring them back. Absolutely.
01:02:39
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Let's see. I like first-person narrative captions. As much as the next person. Sure.
01:02:49
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like jim toplin But Thought Bubbles, yeah. Yeah. I don't want it want your boy JB coming for me. Rocket Witzel says, on the last Every Story Ever episode, you talked about Farnes being the most complicated character in Berserk.
01:03:05
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And it got me thinking about how much it sucks you guys in a panel president before ranking any Berserk and Dragon Ball characters. Would you consider us bringing back the segment under a new title, and which of the Berserk characters do you think would rank the highest, lowest?
01:03:17
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ah panel Panel Revolutionary? I mean, I guess there's a universe where we could do one that's manga, but I think we'd have to read a lot more manga. Yeah, i don't think like people I think people would be sending in a lot of stuff that I haven't read. i think I could rank plenty of characters, but it would have to be stuff that I have read. ah um Which I guess is what you just said, and I said it in a more complicated way.
01:03:40
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I'll tell you this. um The top of Berserk characters? Skull Knight. Easy. Skull Knight, pretty good. like When you find out Skull Knight has like an ex-wife...
01:03:53
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God, I love him. thats God, I love Skull Knight so much. he's like He's one of my favorite characters in anything. like Folks, the boy loves Skull Knight.
01:04:05
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God, I love him. um As for lowest ranking characters, um
01:04:13
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probably like Conrad. we Conrad? Well, Matt, he's Conrad's nasty. Conrad is supposed to be nasty.
01:04:25
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Conrad is nasty, and he's like the one member of the God Hand who kind of doesn't do anything. yeah like rubbi Ubik talks, at least. Conrad is just like hanging out with his weird face, and his like face pops up sometimes.
01:04:43
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And that's all he does. like like At least Slan and Void
01:04:49
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and void have personalities. Like, Conrad is just, like, a weird guy. yeah Conrad and Ubik both have weird little faces.
01:05:02
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Yeah. Weird little... They're some real freakos. but They did that thing with their hands. They do that thing with their hands. I don't like it. I don't the only The thing is, like, Berserk – like, every character in Berserk plays their role perfectly.
01:05:19
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yeah Right? Like, even that weird little freak in the dungeon. i was going to say, he's probably, like, the lowest rate character, that weird little freak. But he does exactly what he's supposed to do.
01:05:30
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Because he closes that door, and he's like, oh, too bad. You can't get through this door. It's double reinforced. And then Gus just smashes through that fucking door.
01:05:41
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Oh, I'll tell you. I'll tell you who the worst character in Berserk is. Okay, I was i was about to ask you because I can't remember this guy's name, but you go ahead.
Berserk Manga Character Discussion
01:05:49
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I can't remember his name either, but he's he's like new he's he's the guy who brings down the Golden Age.
01:05:56
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Uh, near the end. Is he the, is he the weird little, the weird little Frico? He's a total Frico guy. He's not an egg. No, who's the weird little Frico egg guy shows up in the, in the story with father Mosgus.
01:06:10
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I love that guy. The, the, uh, the egg. No, thank you. Uh, no thank you ah What is it? Egg of the Fallen World or whatever his name is? Yeah, that guy's name is Egg of the Fallen World. Egg of the Perfect World. Egg his name is egg fuck of the Perfect World.
01:06:32
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ah
01:06:35
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Wild. Wild's the worst character in Berserk. That very frustrating lady who fucks everything up.
01:06:45
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Wait, who's that? Oh, yeah. she People hate her. People, i mean, like... She does exactly what she's supposed to, people aren't here. She exactly what she's supposed to, but man, she is very... As a person, she sucks really bad.
01:06:59
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Wild is the worst character in Berserk. Because he is a villain with no redeeming qualities at all.
01:07:11
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yeah And he's like... he's he's like he's the He's the example of Mura kind of like going too far into his impulses. Wilde shows up near the end of the Golden Age, just before the Eclipse stuff.
01:07:31
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And he's like supposed to be like the extreme, awful bad guy. yeah And he's too much. yeah He's like way too much.
01:07:41
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I do like it when he turns into an apostle though, and he's got that that weird body. Got those lay eyes on his shoulders. He's got eyes on his shoulders, yeah and a mouth on his pecs.
01:07:53
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yeah And his his tummy is also an eye, but his his like he's got two bodies. He's got two tortsos. yeah ah I don't like him though. I kind of hate Wilde.
01:08:08
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well wild Well, it's pretty bad. I mean, I don't love Ganishka either. Well, there are some characters who kind of verge into stereotype.
01:08:19
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ah but Yeah. yeah um All right. I think we have time for one last question, and we'll try to get through this as quickly as we can. It's from Brad Fox from...
01:08:30
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ah Blue Sky. My 70-year-old daughter wants me to pick a favorite Super Mario princess, but I have no knowledge of any of them except Peach. What's the Every Mario Princess ranking?
01:08:41
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um i would Honestly, I think Peach is at the top. I think Peach is at the top, and honestly, honestly, this people aren't going to like to hear it.
01:08:52
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Daisy's at the bottom. Oh, damn. Damn.
01:08:58
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I'm sorry, everything you like about Daisy is like fan canon.
01:09:06
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Daisy is just the Game Boy Peach. Yeah. now she I believe she has become Luigi's Peach. That's true. so so hey We've said it before, shave as close as a blade.
01:09:20
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right so So what you're doing is you're going Peach, Rosalina. Rosalina, yeah. Than Daisy. Than Daisy. I'm trying to think if there are other princesses.
01:09:33
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Well, there's like Baby Peach. paul You're talking Baby Peach is a different character. I mean, no. I would not consider Mario and Baby Mario different characters.
01:09:46
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Yeah, okay. Are we counting Pauline? Pauline's not a princess. Ah, maybe we should count her, though. She's a mayor. She is a mayor.
01:09:59
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um there's like I would put her as a strong number, too. If you go on the Mario wiki and you search for princesses, Blaze the Cat is on there.
01:10:10
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No. ah No. oh No. That's a Sonic character. That is a Sonic character, yes. Get the fuck out of here.
01:10:21
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Now, there is Princess Shroob, who is from Mario and Luigi's Partners in Time, which is a game I never played. I have not played that one, either. And I think she's a villain, actually.
01:10:33
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If Paper Princess Peach is a separate character, as this wiki would have you believe, I think Paper Princess Peach goes above Peach. I'm gonna go Buck Wild here, and on my personal list, i put Rosalina number one.
01:10:53
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Now, why is that? ah Cool design. I like her haircut. Yeah, but like, I do too. I think Rosalina is a great design.
01:11:03
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What has Rosalina done?
01:11:08
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ah she She helped Mario through the galaxy. Matt, she's done nothing. Peach has done things. That's true. Peach peach was but has been a playable character. Peach has starred in two games. Now, you don't talk about like best design. I actually think Rosalina is probably the best design. But I also think the Rosalina design really works in contrast to the Peach design.
01:11:33
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but yeah like I think Daisy's at number three. Alright, I think we can agree. Probably Peach, number one. Rosalina, number two. Daisy, number three. like Apparently there's Princess Shakora from Wario Land 4, another game I've never played.
01:11:47
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If we put Pauline on the list, I would put Pauline at number two. Pauline is great, yeah. Because Pauline was kidnapped by a gorilla. Yep. And then really came back from that has a a great political career hu ah leading the people of New Donk City, and cut a pretty great track.
01:12:11
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Yeah, that song she sings in Super Mario Odyssey is my favorite sequence of Super Mario Odyssey. Old Jump Up Superstar? Yeah. Yeah, man. Like, where you're you're doing the 2D platforming stuff with fireworks going off.
01:12:27
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She slaps. Yes. I would i would give Paulian a strong number two. yeah but i just don't think she has done as much as Peach. like Peach has been very active in the community. That's true And Peach has been a playable character ever since Super Mario 2.
01:12:48
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She's been there like from the very beginning. Holding it down. Yeah. Sending you P-Wings. In Mario 3. Changing her name from Princess Toadstool to Princess Peach.
01:13:02
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Just like Bowser changed his name from Koopa, King Koopa, to Bowser. I do... I think Princess Toadstool was probably a better name for her.
01:13:15
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Well, Peach was like... So they did the opposite... For those two names? Mm-hmm. So, Princess, but she was she's been called Peach in Japan from the start.
01:13:26
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Right. And they changed her name to Princess Toadstool for the United States for some reason. Well, because she's the princess of the Mushroom Kingdom. Right, but Toad's name is already kind of Toadstool.
01:13:40
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Yeah, I guess. I guess. But Bowser, or ku King Koopa, King Koopa was King Koopa in the United States and Japan through like the entire n NES run.
01:13:53
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yeah And then it Super Mario World, they decided in America to call him Bowser. Well, i remember him being called Bowser somewhere prior to that.
01:14:06
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For me, it was say I remember the change happening in Super Mario World. Maybe so. Maybe so. Maybe there was an n NES game where he was called Bowser. Was he called Bowser? Well, that was an so that was an SNES game. I was going to say in Mario Kart, but that was an SNES game. Now, here's what I'll say.
01:14:23
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If we're throwing all Nintendo princesses in there, Zelda's got them all beat. True. Although, there are multiple different characters who have been named Zelda. I would say number one, number one Breath of the Wild Zelda.
01:14:39
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Who is also Tears of the Kingdom Zelda. Who is also Tears the Kingdom Zelda. Who is a dragon. Spoiler warning. Who is also Hyrule Warriors ah Age of Calamity Zelda. And Age of Imprison... Well, i I guess Age of Imprison... No, Age of Imprisonment is in continuity.
01:14:56
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Age of Calamity is in offshoot continuity. But I say we count all those the same. That's number one. but Now, now i know that you do I know that you don't like Ocarina of Time. Oh, but i but i have I have nothing but respect for Sheik.
01:15:11
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But Ocarina of Time Zelda is also Sheik. Yeah. Who rules. Yeah. No, i ah umm ah I'm fine with that. So that's that's number two. Then Twilight Princess Zelda is number three. Okay.
01:15:26
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then maybe Peach. No, no, sorry, Tetra has to go Wind Waker. Wind Waker Tetra, yeah. She's actually above Twilight Princess Zelda. ah And then maybe Peach.
01:15:42
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And the only reason they're even on the list is because because Samus isn't a princess. Samus worked for a living. Samus is a bounty hunter, yeah
01:15:52
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yeah. Samus is the princess of of this household.
01:15:57
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And then other Zeldas
01:16:01
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kind of would probably be lower on the list. Like, uh, Zelda from Zelda 1 and 2. Zelda from... Zelda's asleep for all of Zelda 2.
01:16:13
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For all of Zelda 2, yeah. And then Zelda from, uh... ah Fuck, what was the SNES one called? ah Link to the Past, Matt. Link to the Past, yes. Oh, no, I forgot. We gotta put Princess Hilda on there. Wait, what's Princess Hilda from? Princess Hilda is the princess of Lorule?
01:16:38
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Which is the Earth-3 Hyrule from Link Between Worlds. Oh, I never played that. Oh, Link Between Worlds is great. And I love that there is – it's Link to the Past, but the Dark World is Lorule. So you've got Hyrule and Lorule and Princess Zelda and Princess Hilda.
01:16:53
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And we we love we love Princess Hilda. That's pretty good. It's pretty good. Yeah.
01:17:03
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