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I could do this all day.
Story you want to get my word?
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You do? Oh? Hello,
their Internet. Welcome to issue five and
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twenty nine of Comiccast. I'm Michael
Carroll alongside Jong Lee Jong. How are
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you? I'm doing okay? I
know for everybody here at uh we're not
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here, but because I'm not I
don't work for gal Media, but everybody
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at gal Media and here in Houston
this we're recording the song March eighteenth,
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and it's just, you know,
not even a week since mister fred Vauer
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the falcon passed away. He passed
away on I think he passed away on
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the fourteenth, from the reports that
I saw, he passed away in the
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early hours of March fourteenth. He
was found March fourteenth, later in the
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day, so I think people are
kind of saying that he did pass away
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that day. But but yeah,
it's very sad, very very sad.
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It hit everybody pretty pretty hard.
I think, pretty surprising. I think
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for the most part. Yeah,
I just I saw. I think everybody
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kind of saw. When they opened
up Twitter's AJ's tweet and I texted him
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and asked him, you know what
happened, and he kind of explained what
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he knew, and yeah, just
it's one of those things that they kind
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of you know, people that kind
of that are close to you. And
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you know, I haven't spoken to
Fred in a few years, but you
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know, when we did work together, we were pretty in sync and we
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talk every day and we talk about
stuff outside of sports. It kind of,
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you know, as we were kind
of getting older, which is kind
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of leaned away from talking about our
personal lives more because we didn't see each
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other as often. But it's you
know, you develop that friendship with somebody
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and you know, you kind of
take it for granted that time that you
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think you're going to have more with
a specific person or specific people, and
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in something like this, it just
kinds of gut punches you and then you
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kind of realize, hey, like, you know, the people that we've
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kind of grown up with, it's
the clock is ticking on a lot more
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of these people than we know,
and you know, as time goes on,
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more and more people pass away.
But yeah, been very very shocking
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news that Fred passed away last week, and it's it's sad news overall.
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And you know, the city of
Houston sports radio in general is you know,
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in the grief state. Yeah,
it's really feeling feeling this one,
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because like Fred has been a staple
in Houston sports media for I don't know
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decades at this point now, and
to lose such a big personality from the
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landscape's just it was shocking. Obviously, you and I both worked with him
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when we were with Cumulus and with
gal Media, and you, like you
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mentioned, you worked with him more
so since you were producing The Blitz and
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producing different shows where Fred was the
host on. But I liked what you
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said in your your tweet thread that
night when we when everyone was kind of
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finding out the news, because I
hadn't thought about it, but like I
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think it was like you you mentioned, he was like the backbone of ESPN
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ninety seven five, And honestly,
it's true. It's it's very, very
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true. He was a fixture on
ESPN ninety seven five for so many years,
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and like I told others, like
I told Barry, without what him,
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you and AJ did with the Blitz, I don't know that I would
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still be on ESPN ninety seven five. I don't know that we we would
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be having these discussions that I had, like appearing on ESPN ninety seven five,
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last week without Fred and his contributions, and from the hilarity to just
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different aspects of the company itself giving
me opportunities to work on things. It's
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just, man, it's it's he
was a He was a huge fixture for
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for ninety seven five and again just
the sports media landscape in general, oh,
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for sure. And the longevity event
makes him, you know, the
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fixture of ninety seven five, you
know, Dave Dave Tipper was program director
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for for the majority of my run
and then I kind of slid in there
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and then yeah, and then Fred
was there nearly at the beginning, and
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he was and a lot of people
don't know that he was kind of essentially
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working for free over there Cumulus,
because you know Cumulus. I mean,
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let's face it, we all we
all didn't make a lot of money over
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there Cumulus, right, and he
was no exception. You have your top
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dogs over there at one o four
and then everybody else just kind of gets
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the scraps. So it's it was
very admirable for him to tough it out.
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And I mentioned this in my tweet
too. He was working the you
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know, the mornings over there,
and then they said he became a adjunct
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I think an ajuct professor at San
Jack. And then he came back and
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he would do the show right you
know around I think when we were from
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twelve to two. I think at
the time when he was doing that.
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But yeah, that's that's a lot
of dedication. San Jack's not far from
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it. It's pretty far from the
station, it's not close. And he
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would come in the morning and record
some updates. He would stay for a
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little bit, see if any news
broke, and then he you know,
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taped some in the can and jet
out to Saint Jack and then come back.
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And there were times where here he
was laid and you know, me
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and AJ gave him a lot of
you know, crap for it. But
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but yeah, I mean he was
he was hustling man. And then all
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that work eventually paid off and we
got the big four to seven drive time
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show after Carl left. When we
got when we moved over to the GAO
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Dave, I know, had to
fight for us over there. But yeah,
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and then essentially when we did get
that move to from four to seven,
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it you know, it just kind
of wrote itself. History wrote itself,
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and we just kind of cruised there
for a few years and I eventually
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left and then AJ eventually left,
and like I said, the backbone of
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Fred, you know, Fred was
there still there, so you know,
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and and so yeah, he made
him and a bunch of handful of other
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people, including yourself and Dave and
AJ made that station and to what it
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is today. And yeah, it's
he's leaving a legacy at both at the
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Chronicle, He's leaving a legacy at
the station. It's a very very sad
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day, very vague it was.
It was a sad day and spend a
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sad day since since it's passing,
I know, you know, there's a
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lot of people doing their contributions on
how they're going to honor Fred. And
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you know, this us talking about, you know, what he meant to
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the station and what he meant to
us. I think it's a little part
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of how we can honor him too. Yeah, definitely. And there is
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a bigger like stream being hosted by
Barry Lambanek on his Barry on Deck show
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that's happening at on the day of
this recording. It's happening this afternoon.
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You'll be part of it, a
live part of it. And then by
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the time folks are hearing this,
the podcast will be up, and that
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tribute show will be up on Barry's
I believe YouTube channel. So folks that
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are listening to this either on ESPN
ninety seventy five on Sunday morning, or
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you know, on our podcast after
the fact, go check out Barry's tribute
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show, which you can again find
on his YouTube channel. But yeah,
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sad, shocking news to say the
least, and definitely hits close to home,
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especially having worked with Fred for so
long and knowing him for as long
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as we did. I was thinking
twelve years, but I think I worked
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with him for like thirteen thirteen years
or so, because I think he finally
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let when he left GAO it was
like twenty twenty two. I think maybe
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twenty twenty three. It was because
he was doing After ninety seven five,
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he started working on the network for
a little while doing shows there, so
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he was still around and recording some
stuff, and so man, it's wild
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to think that it's only been like
maybe a year since I've worked with him.
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So yeah, that's crazy. Yeah, you worked with him longer than
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I did. I then turned back
in twenty and eight. I left in
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twenty nineteen. Yeah, Yeah,
I worked with him with I worked with
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him for eleven years. Crazy and
I know, for me, like the
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first time I worked with him,
and I've told this story on Twitter and
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I told it on my tribute video
to Fred, But the first time I
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worked with him back in two thousand
and nine, I was filling in for
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Able Rodriguez, the morning show producer
at the time, running traffic updates and
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Sports Center updates, and Fred was
the sports update anchor for that shift,
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and you know, he made everything
super easy, kept everything cool, and
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then of course major technical issues on
the second day of me filling in and
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again made everything light, kept everything
smooth, and was just made things easy
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for young Michael who was freaking out
at the time. So I appreciated that
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so much. And then of course
again you know, working with him over
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the years, he made it easy
to work with him record and he was
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always a pleasure to work with.
My first in all producers is that used
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to do and this is uh,
you know, this is of ancient pastimes.
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Good don't do updates anymore. But
you know, young producers that you
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know used to do that shift always
missed up because that was there, that
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was essentially there kind of right up, not rite. A passage that was
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kind of like their entry entry into
being a you know, a producer,
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is to start with the updates to
you know, make sure because that,
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aside from running games, that was
essentially the least amount of kind of work
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that you'd had to do. Just
pot up a mic, make sure that
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all your carts and all your carts
are in line, and make sure that
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the music is in there, and
make sure that it's the right music,
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and then make sure that the microphone
turns on. My first mistake, and
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and I think I made this maybe
once or twice in a row. Mistake
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was he was the anchor and I
was in They're ver Able like you and
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the Sportsman sports Center music hit and
I turned on the round macaphone and I
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did that and then he and then
the and me. I'm like, oh
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man, it went smoothly, and
you know, it went wonderfully. And
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then the update ends and he's like, I couldn't hear myself, and I
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go, oh, that's weird.
I think it aired, and he goes,
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okay, and then it happened again
and then he you know, I
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said it again. It's like,
oh crap, I turned on the run
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macaphone again and then he just said, you know, it's fine, it's
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you know, it makes mistakes.
You make mistakes, and it's like five
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in the morning, nobody's nobody's you
know, unless somebody's calling the station.
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Nobody's listening right now because it's really
really early. You make your mistakes and
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you move on, and you know
that's you know, you kind of that's
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kind of the model that I kind
of live by is you're not trying to
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make a mistake, but what you
do after me making that mistake is is
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kind of a tell on how you
know someone's character is can you bounce back
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from making that mistake? And yeah, essentially kind of did. And you
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know, fast forward eleven years later, and you know, we're the number
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one sports talk show in the city
of Houston for almost a year straight,
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you know, excluding no yeah,
excluding I think December, the holiday season.
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But man, we took eleven out
of the thirteen or twelve out of
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thirteen. You know, there's thirteen
books in a year, but we took
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twelve out of thirteen and it felt
so good. And you know, thinking
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back on where I started, it's
it's pretty incredible. And he was a
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big part of that journey, a
major, major part of that good journey
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because I rode that journey with him
all eleven years. Yeah again, I
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you, Fred aj'all again took the
show, took the station in New Heights.
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And I can't stress enough to people. I don't know that I would
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be here. I don't know that
a lot of us that are currently on
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ESPN ninety seven five would be here
without without those years and without the success
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of the Blitz and where it took
the station during that time. And yeah,
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Fred just a huge fixture for ninety
seven five and thoroughly will be missed.
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And again, condolences to Fred's family
during this time. It's just this
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sad, sad time. And yeah, my thoughts go out to them and
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to you as well, John,
because obviously you worked alongside him more often
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than I did, producing the shows
and everything, and you know it was
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he's a close person to you,
and you know I knew him, and
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I wasn't necessarily super close, but
you know, considered him a friend.
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So it's just sad, all right, p Falcon. Yeah, and yeah,
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like you mentioned that, he's leaving
two young kids behind, and I
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think I think will is writing for
a newspaper. It's crazy how fast they've
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they grow too, and it's just
it's amazing, Like it's just you know,
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you think the first time I met
Will, he was like, you
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know, he was a little kid, and then the next time I saw
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him, he's taller than I was. Later it was like, man,
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that ower fower Gene is very very
strow friends friends. A friend's not a
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short guy. Frit's like two,
I mean comparatively to me, he's he's
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he towers over me. But you
know, I think he's like six foot
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two, six foot one something like
that. Ag is like six foot three,
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and I know you're pretty tall too, so but yeah, it's it's
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crazy how how much, uh,
you know, things changed throughout the years.
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And yeah, it's uh, he
has a gofund me and I need
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to find it and we can mention
it at the end of the show.
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I'll find it and we'll mention it, plug it in at the end of
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the show. Yeah, he needs
some you know, the four family need
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some help paying some you know,
funeral expenses. So I'll mention that at
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the very end of the show.
I need to find it first. But
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yeah, it's a very sad,
and I think he would be kind of
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a little mad that we're spending so
much time, on on on on him.
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But you know, I think we
do need to do demand some justice.
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And I know he would want us
to move on and and people celebrate
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his life. And I know he
didn't want this morning. He's mentioned this
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multiple times. He does not want
everybody mourning him at his funeral. But
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it's gonna happen. It's gonna happen
soon. So it's you know, but
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we have to do. We have
to do what we need to do to
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honor your friend. So rest in
peace. Fly high, Falcon, Fly
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High. I'll also include the GoFundMe
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so if anyone wants to check it
out, go to our description of this
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episode and click on the link there. Jong's let's move to what we've been
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watching as of late, and of
course we've been watching Showgun, we've been
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watching Halo, but let me really
quickly start off with Invincible, because that's
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come back for the rest of its
season two finish for the last I think
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it's four episodes. You haven't had
a chance to watch it as of yet.
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I got to has to watch it
yesterday. As of this recording.
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I think a lot of the complaints
have been it took too long to get
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to the second part. But now
that it's here, it doesn't miss a
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beat. It's so many different things
happening all at once, the Grayson family
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back together, the Grayson family.
Well, I don't want to say too
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much, but there it is a
thoroughly bloody, incredible comeback for this next
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part of the season. Of course, dealing with the fallout of where we
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ended with the Vultrumites attacking the Thraxins
and attacking Mark and an Omniman and taking
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Omniman and of course leaving Mark all
jacked up. But this first episode kind
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of deals with the ramifications of that, as well as letting Mark get back
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to Earth and dealing with the fallout
of being gone for so long. And
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yeah, again, the show doesn't
miss a beat. It's just as good,
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just as bloody. It's it's a
good comeback. Just a little too
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long of a wait, I would
say. Yeah, I know a lot
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of people are pretty upset on when
they decided to take this break, and
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then when they started promoting it there
you know, the rage came back like
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this is I okay, I I
for the I for one at the time
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understand and now I still understand,
you know. And with me, my
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whole thing is if you're going to
do something, do it correctly and take
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your time. My assumption here is
that the animators needed some more time to
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finish and they didn't want to put
them under crunch, and I understand that.
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I do understand that, but there
is a little bit of frustration where
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you do have to wait. What
is this like three months? I don't
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think so, it's like about three
months of a wait. That was in
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December. I think it was.
It's almost three months if it didn't hit
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three months. But I had say, people's frustration why you know, you're
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like, oh, well, we
waited all this time, and you know
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you're only releasing half the episodes and
now it's coming back, and you know,
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it's frustrating that we have to wait
this long. I get that part
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too, you know. So,
and another part of me is like,
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maybe you guys shouldn't have released the
first half of the season so soon.
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Maybe you should have waited until twenty
twenty four to release it all. And
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if you needed a break to animate, you know, more stuff then take
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maybe like a month off or something
instead of three. That might have been
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a better react way to do it. But people are still still going to
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watch this. I had a pretty
long week. I had a bunch of
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stuff I had to do, but
so I didn't get to watch Invincible.
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I did get to watch the other
stuff, So we were a little beat.
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We were gonna watch that Sunday night, but it was just freaking tired
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from the weekend. But yeah,
I heard nothing but good things about this
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episode. I heard shocking things that
happened to this episode. I heard people
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say, Oh my god, I
can't believe they adapted this from this from
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the comics in this episode, So
I can't wait to watch this episode.
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Yeah, there's so much that they're
like, I'm not familiar, super familiar
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with the comic itself, but there's
so much that they're introducing that like Mark
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and the rest of the heroes have
to deal with all at the same time
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of not only that, but trying
to balance the personal issues, you know,
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with Mark having been gone for so
long, coming back to his girlfriend
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and trying to work that stuff out, trying to work out with his friends
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again, and just trying to balance
superhero life with just regular life, but
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at the same time that superhero life
is extra brutal in terms of there's some
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gnarly deaths in this in this comeback
episode, and and I it left me
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shocked to say the least, and
some shocking relevant revelations too by the end
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of the episode that leaves you going, h I see what's happening now,
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and I'm very curious to see what
they do coming up in the next I
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think it's only three episodes and then
really quit going back. The first part
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of Invincible season two aired in November
of twenty twenty three, so it's been
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Yeah, it's been about three months, three and a half months since we've
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gotten to watch these characters. I
kind of wish, like, kind of
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what you were saying, why not
save it for the anniversary of the Invincible
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comic releasing, which was March thirteenth. Why not just save it all for
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that and have it to where it
releases week to week to week. But
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hey, it is what it is. It's it didn't hurt the content,
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didn't hurt the goodness of Invincible because
it's back and it's great man, and
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it's definitely worth the watch when you
get a chance to watch it. Yeah,
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I didn't know it was only three
episodes, so I think people have
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more reasons to complain. Yeah,
it's only gonna be I think it's an
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eight episode season in total, so
there's only four left. So now,
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yeah, well, I guess it's
uh. I mean, if you're if
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you're you know, if you're keen
on binging, then I guess it's not
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the worst thing in the world to
wait, you know, three, I
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guess even two more weeks, two
and a half more weeks for everything to
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come out and just kind of watch
it all at that at once. I'm
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gonna try to watch two episodes this
week and then the final one the following
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week. So yeah, I can't
wait to watch these. The last thing
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I will say, and I think
Invincible does this better then a lot of
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other shows, is they're able to
balance the emotional with the over the top
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you know, violence and gore and
everything. They balance it really well.
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There is a heartfelt opening to this
new part of the season. Of the
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rest of season two, there's a
really heartfelt opening with Mark and the thractions
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and where it takes him in the
beginning, and there's some heartfelt moments for
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Eve and some other characters, and
it's just they do that very well without
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it feeling forced or feeling cheap or
anything like that. Like it's it's a
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good emotional punch that they give you, especially when you get to Sandra O's
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character Debbie. She delivers some emotional
punches left and right. And also they've
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made me care about Donald, the
guy with the glasses that works alongside the
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guy who runs it, runs the
government secret thing. I forget his name
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off the top of my head,
but they've created some storyline from for Donald
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to work with, which I thought
was really interesting. So it's it's a
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good show. Definitely go check it
out if you have a chance to watch
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Invincible. Now let's go to things
that we both have watched, and let's
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start off with showgun spoiler alert,
spoiler alert, spoiler alert, Wan Man,
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what a What? At first was
like a Okay, we're learning the
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tactics, we're learning this and that, and then, as a lot of
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people said, the final like five
minutes, holy crap minutes, it was
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like the final minute, yeah,
like final few minutes of it just incredibly
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shocking to say the least. What
did you think of episode four of Showgun.
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Yeah, like you were saying,
we get to you know, some
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backstory on or not backstory, We
get some teachings on how you know,
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you know, John doesn't know how
to train a you know, infantry.
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He knows how to command and you
know, at least somewhat of a command
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a naval a naval force, and
so he knows how to use cannons,
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and so he starts teaching them how
to use cannons. He gets closer to
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there's a couple of relationships that he
gets he gets a little bit closer to
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which kind of saw that one of
them coming. So it's like, uh,
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it was nice. It was a
nice change of pace. The frantic
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last episode was you know, pretty
quite frantic, and so you're kind of
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thinking, okay, they're gonna dial
it back a little bit and you know,
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and then go from there kind of
set up kind of let us breathe
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for a little bit and then kind
of go and you know, set up
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story. And it was you know, to that point, it was you
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know, getting up there and then
you started to see the chest pieces move
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a little bit more right where you
know, his son, uh, Tornaga's
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son was. It felt like he
was a little gun. He was just
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kind of like he wanted to he
was trigger happy. He wanted to do
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something. He wanted to prove himself. Essentially, I guess this is old
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Japan, NEPO baby syndrome mayor.
He wanted to do something. He was
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like, you know, I want
to prove prove, you know everybody that
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I'm not just you know, my
son, my you know, son of
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my father, who is you know
great, But you know I want to
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come out of the shadow and all
that, all that jazz. But yeah,
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and then the final you know,
the final minute, the final two
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minutes of the show of that episode, it was explosive. I guess you
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would say, to say the least, it was something that, Yeah,
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it was something that we kind of
didn't see coming. I think I don't
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know if I would have said I
would have saw that coming. At the
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very end. I think his plan
might have I would imagine his plan might
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have kind of taken an episode to
kind of like think about. But it
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just, you know, he sold
the seeds in that episode. He wanted,
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you know something, he wanted to
do something, and he did and
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it happened at the very end,
and I mean, I guess won't power
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to you for taking that up,
of taking that into your own hands,
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but that was probably not very smart. Well, it's interesting too because when
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you bring up the sun, he's
the one that earlier in the episode tells
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his dad Tornaga, about like I
forget the I didn't I meant to write
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the line, but I didn't write
it. But it was something about like
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an ambitious ally can also be like
I don't know that you could trust the
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ambitious ally that or an ally that
has ambitions. And so Toronaga doesn't end
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up staying in the village. He
stays on the ship because it's probably safer.
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But by the end of it,
his ambition kind of undercuts probably a
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lot of what Tornaga was planning with
this initial like just basically shot of war.
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I mean, war has begun now
that he's taken the first shot,
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and that's probably what Tornaga was not
wanting to do exactly, at least not
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in this way. But you have
so many different characters in this with ambitions,
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from Tornaga's son to Omi, who
is the nephew of the uncle that's
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got ambitions of his own. He's
kind of playing Tornaga's son to kind of
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he puts that little like bug in
his ear about decisions and stuff like for
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his own ambition. Like ambition was
a big part of this episode, and
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I think and it played out in
a lot of ways for different characters.
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Yeah, and there was the like
the mistress Chio, I think that's how
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you say her name, like she
she basically you know, essentially inceptions omi
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and kind of like gets in his
head and you know, he's like,
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oh, you know what about you, Like you're you know, you deserve
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something. You know I'm paraphrasing too, Like she's essentially getting in his hands,
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like you deserve something too, and
so you need, you know,
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take what's yours whatever, forget what
she said. But that gets into his
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head and he talks Tornanga's son and
that it was kind of a you know,
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it was a domino effect, and
I I just you know, I
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love a chess match between you know, among everybody. And and it's it's
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a one season show and there's not
a lot of episodes left, so I
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it's it's gonna be These seeds seem
like it should be. It's sown for
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multiple seasons. It feels like because
right now if Cheo sees this, you
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know, so's the seed. What
is she trying to do? What what's
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her long term ambition or her what's
her goal? Is it to kind of
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become something higher than what she is, which is I think she's just a
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servant right now. Is it something
that you know she wants uh to be
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on the you know, on on
the only side when he becomes something bigger,
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like a lord or something. It's
it's kind of cool to just kind
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of see these all these different chess
chess matches being played among everybody, and
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I think, you know, it's
it. This is the first moment where
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I'm like, Okay, well and
now I see why people call it Game
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of Thrones, like the ending.
Like up until this point, I was
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like, no, it's not.
I mean, I can understand why you
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think it's Game of Thrones. It's
uh, you know, you're you know,
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fighting for a crown. There are
multiple you know, different families and
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alliances. I get that part,
But it didn't feel like Game of Thrones
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where it was going to be like
a long, long, drawn out,
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you know, slow moving story with
a lot of explosive and shocking moments.
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This was this one this show,
you know, feels it felt like there's
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a goal at the end where he
becomes a showgun, and we're kind of
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going the ride of how he becomes
a showgun, and so like I was
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like, okay, this is this
is interesting and then now we kind of
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see why people kind of call this
game of Thrones, where you have a
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lot of different you have a lot
of different sides here. There's not two
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sides. There's not you know,
there's not one side. There's not the
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Christian side, and there's not the
Japanese side. There's just there's multiple sides.
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There's a lot of different story going
on. And now I'm thinking or
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now I'm wanting more seasons, but
I know they're not going to do season
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two, So I'm curious to see
how they're going to play all of this
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out because if they don't, I
feel like, if they don't pay off
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on her, you know, her
sowing that seed in Omi's head, I'm
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gonna be a little disappointed. I'm
not gonna lie because that was something that
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I didn't necessarily see coming. And
I'm like, oh, this is something
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that I hope they explore. Where
is what's what's her motivation? What does
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she want out of all this?
Could she be the the rat or the
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mole or whatever that is? Like
where is she at? Or like who
409
00:30:45.559 --> 00:30:49.079
is this leak leaking info? Do
you think it could be her? Oh?
410
00:30:49.119 --> 00:30:53.119
Yeah, I mean she's in a
prime position where she's not you know,
411
00:30:53.359 --> 00:30:57.599
they're not very suspicious about her because
she is just kind of there.
412
00:30:59.200 --> 00:31:03.559
But she is in the ear of
his nephew, which is a very powerful
413
00:31:03.559 --> 00:31:07.039
thing. And and and he doesn't
even your shoot gie, I figured how
414
00:31:07.039 --> 00:31:12.480
you say his name. But but
I really don't think he thinks his nephew
415
00:31:12.519 --> 00:31:15.400
is very bright. I think he
thinks his nephew is okay, But I
416
00:31:15.440 --> 00:31:18.640
don't think he's I don't think he
thinks his nephew is a big threat.
417
00:31:18.759 --> 00:31:22.359
And I think I think he should
think otherwise. And now you kind of
418
00:31:22.400 --> 00:31:29.599
see, not not for the fact
that he is, but combine his thinking
419
00:31:29.640 --> 00:31:34.240
process with chio, I think that
makes a I didn't say, I wouldn't
420
00:31:34.279 --> 00:31:38.759
say a powerful couple, but that
makes it a very manipula, manipulative couple
421
00:31:38.880 --> 00:31:44.799
that can get some stuff done.
I don't think he will ever ascend and
422
00:31:44.960 --> 00:31:48.039
become very powerful, but he has
a chance to become a lord and a
423
00:31:48.119 --> 00:31:51.400
chance to you know, at least, you know, kill some people off
424
00:31:51.400 --> 00:31:53.119
and be a little bit of a
past. But I don't think he's he
425
00:31:53.160 --> 00:31:57.480
thinks that way. Yeah, he
could be. He could present some very
426
00:31:57.720 --> 00:32:04.200
uh big problems for the tour Naga
side, just because like this episode showcased
427
00:32:04.200 --> 00:32:09.359
the power struggle that's going on between
the different groups within Toro Naga's army,
428
00:32:09.519 --> 00:32:15.279
if you will, and like the
even the like the opening when Naga shows
429
00:32:15.359 --> 00:32:22.119
up and the army starts chanting his
name instead of the uncle's name, and
430
00:32:22.160 --> 00:32:27.599
it's just like little things like that
are getting under people's skin and forcing people
431
00:32:27.640 --> 00:32:34.880
to make these not rash decisions,
but these again manipulative decisions that are going
432
00:32:34.920 --> 00:32:38.279
to result in something in the coming
episodes, because yeah, there is a
433
00:32:38.319 --> 00:32:43.880
lot to resolve, and we only
have six episodes left of the show with
434
00:32:43.880 --> 00:32:47.559
with the episode the fifth episode coming
on the day of this recording. We're
435
00:32:47.599 --> 00:32:52.440
recording the day the episode five releases, so there is a lot to unpack.
436
00:32:52.759 --> 00:32:57.200
It's very bloody. I also liked
that Fuji pointed the gun at at
437
00:32:57.319 --> 00:33:02.039
at Omi. That was pretty good. I like that at the cannons,
438
00:33:02.119 --> 00:33:07.240
Holy crap, those are accurate cannons. Was not expecting the super accuracy of
439
00:33:07.240 --> 00:33:14.839
those cannons and uh yeah something and
of course interesting developments with with Blackthorn and
440
00:33:15.119 --> 00:33:20.839
Marry Co and their budding relationship if
you will. But yeah, Who's a
441
00:33:20.880 --> 00:33:23.920
solid, solid episode. Do you
think Fuji told her to go in there
442
00:33:24.000 --> 00:33:30.039
and have at it? I kind
of feel like kind of America kind of
443
00:33:30.400 --> 00:33:34.359
kind of implies that. Yeah,
I feel like that was the case.
444
00:33:35.279 --> 00:33:37.440
Yeah, I like that was the
other thing. It's like, I don't
445
00:33:37.440 --> 00:33:40.519
think America is just gonna sneak in
there, like very like. It just
446
00:33:40.559 --> 00:33:44.960
felt like that was something where the
two of them talked about it. Yeah,
447
00:33:45.319 --> 00:33:46.759
it almost feels like, you know, I might be the front,
448
00:33:46.799 --> 00:33:52.319
but you know he's yours kind of
thing. Mm hmmm. Because if you
449
00:33:52.480 --> 00:33:55.680
if you questioned Tornado, you're you're
you're dead. You know, oh yeah,
450
00:33:55.680 --> 00:34:00.799
you're dead dead, You're you're extra
dead at this point. Any other
451
00:34:00.839 --> 00:34:07.159
thoughts about Showgun episode four before?
I mean, just looking forward, looking
452
00:34:07.239 --> 00:34:13.760
ahead, I I just I can't
wait. It's a it's and here's the
453
00:34:13.800 --> 00:34:16.920
other thing, Disney, come don't
come after me. But Hulu's doing this
454
00:34:16.960 --> 00:34:21.760
thing where they're just following Netflix where
they're doing, uh, you know,
455
00:34:22.239 --> 00:34:28.960
one account for household. We sure
Hulu with something else. I don't know
456
00:34:29.000 --> 00:34:31.239
when this is gonna happen. I'm
gonna have to find an a way to
457
00:34:31.239 --> 00:34:39.639
watch this thing. Yeah, but
no. But regarding the show, you
458
00:34:39.679 --> 00:34:44.000
know, I'm I'm looking very looking
forward to, you know, the aftermath
459
00:34:44.039 --> 00:34:47.360
of all this. I'm also looking
forward to when they start showing the Ronans.
460
00:34:47.760 --> 00:34:51.960
I think that's when it's gonna you
know, the business is going to
461
00:34:52.039 --> 00:34:54.320
pick up tremendously, and I would
imagine the Ronans are going to be on
462
00:34:54.320 --> 00:34:58.840
the side of Tornaga. I mean, I guess there's no side because they
463
00:34:59.199 --> 00:35:02.960
basically as you know, mercenaries or
you know, weapons for hire because I
464
00:35:04.039 --> 00:35:06.400
you know, torn Nugga needs all
the help that he can get. And
465
00:35:07.800 --> 00:35:09.440
yeah, I mean I think we
kind of see where all this is kind
466
00:35:09.440 --> 00:35:14.119
of going to at the very end. But the journey is going to be
467
00:35:14.199 --> 00:35:19.000
very very interesting and very great.
I love the intricacies of these characters that
468
00:35:19.039 --> 00:35:22.840
are all interwoven together, and it's
it's been very very good so far.
469
00:35:23.239 --> 00:35:28.199
Last question I just thought of,
do you think Blackthorn's men are still alive?
470
00:35:30.559 --> 00:35:35.360
Odds? Odds are that they're not, but odd, they're low,
471
00:35:35.519 --> 00:35:40.320
very low. I'm trying to think
of it from a storytelling perspective. There's
472
00:35:40.360 --> 00:35:45.239
no reason for him them to be
alive, right, Yeah, I don't
473
00:35:45.239 --> 00:35:50.440
think they're alive. Yeah, there's
no way. There's no way. Yeah,
474
00:35:50.480 --> 00:35:53.239
I think they're dead. They're just
dangling on a carrot like carrot on
475
00:35:53.320 --> 00:35:57.519
string kind of thing to kind of
kind of motivate him to do stuff.
476
00:35:57.559 --> 00:36:00.639
But I don't. I don't think
they're I don't think there's a finito.
477
00:36:00.760 --> 00:36:02.159
I don't. I don't know that
they are. No, they're not.
478
00:36:02.880 --> 00:36:07.559
Yeah, I don't. I didn't
think so either. Okay, let's jump
479
00:36:07.599 --> 00:36:15.920
to what I think. Showgun is
definitely appointment viewing Halo, but solid episode
480
00:36:15.960 --> 00:36:30.440
with episode seven spoiler alert spoiler alert
spoiler alert. With Halo episode seven,
481
00:36:30.519 --> 00:36:36.119
we got to see the fallout,
of course, of master Chief touching the
482
00:36:36.199 --> 00:36:43.360
fore Runner Keystone. We saw Halsey
and Miranda Keys and Kwan going into a
483
00:36:43.400 --> 00:36:52.400
Forerunner structure inside of Onyx. Of
course, the Prengngoski's big plan that it's
484
00:36:52.519 --> 00:36:57.239
kind of dumb but whatever, and
uh yeah, we saw some interesting things
485
00:36:57.239 --> 00:37:00.960
and Chief finally got his armor back. So what do you think of episode
486
00:37:00.039 --> 00:37:05.760
seven. Okay, so before we
start on this, and this does does
487
00:37:05.840 --> 00:37:10.679
es have something to do with the
episode? I you know, and I
488
00:37:10.719 --> 00:37:15.559
watched this. I want to say, I watched this on Friday, so
489
00:37:15.599 --> 00:37:20.239
this comes out on Thursdays, right, Ye? Yeah, So I watched
490
00:37:20.239 --> 00:37:25.039
this on Friday. And I try
to stay off of you know, reading
491
00:37:25.239 --> 00:37:30.000
you know, spoilers or whatnot,
but there are people that talk about,
492
00:37:30.159 --> 00:37:34.679
you know, the characters and just
the source material and everything like that.
493
00:37:34.719 --> 00:37:39.440
And I saw something very interesting.
It's kind of a spoiler for this episode,
494
00:37:40.000 --> 00:37:45.280
but it talked about how Kai the
interaction between Kay and Master Chief,
495
00:37:46.559 --> 00:37:51.880
and how master she was, you
know, very upset and rightfully so,
496
00:37:52.599 --> 00:37:57.679
and how he was very angry with
her and wasn't showing very much compassion.
497
00:37:58.440 --> 00:38:04.960
But somebody posted a The same person
posted a screenshot of the video game one
498
00:38:04.960 --> 00:38:07.800
of the video games where Master Chief
is talking to somebody. I don't know
499
00:38:07.840 --> 00:38:13.280
who he's talking to because my knowledge
on Halo lore is not very very extensive.
500
00:38:13.599 --> 00:38:16.000
I barely remember the first game.
I know I played one and watching
501
00:38:16.039 --> 00:38:20.719
my brother play two. But he
was talking to somebody and it looked like
502
00:38:20.760 --> 00:38:27.400
he was like it might have been
Colonel Keys or is it Colonel Captain Keys,
503
00:38:27.400 --> 00:38:30.280
Captain Keys. It might have been
Captain Keys, I don't remember,
504
00:38:30.280 --> 00:38:35.440
but it was almost the exact same
situation where that character in the video game
505
00:38:35.840 --> 00:38:39.880
does something that should have upset master
Chief, but master Chief kind of like,
506
00:38:40.159 --> 00:38:45.079
instead of scolding him, kind of
tells him calmly, more of a
507
00:38:45.079 --> 00:38:49.119
bigger picture, and like, how
kind of people make mistakes, And I
508
00:38:49.119 --> 00:38:51.480
don't judge you on this kind of
thing. I know who you are,
509
00:38:51.519 --> 00:38:53.519
I know your character, and blah
blah blah, and I'm like, man,
510
00:38:53.679 --> 00:38:59.519
they really really changed the character of
master Chief in the video in the
511
00:38:59.559 --> 00:39:01.719
TV show, oh you know.
And if I didn't see that, I
512
00:39:01.719 --> 00:39:06.000
would have been okay with it,
And now that I see it, I'm
513
00:39:06.039 --> 00:39:10.079
like, I can't unsee it.
Like, I think, deviating so much
514
00:39:10.119 --> 00:39:15.079
away from the Master Chief character and
the way that he is, I think
515
00:39:15.679 --> 00:39:19.039
is a disservice to the character.
And I wish that, you know,
516
00:39:19.119 --> 00:39:24.039
they would let the staff play the
video games at least to get a sense
517
00:39:24.039 --> 00:39:29.760
of what kind of person that he
is. So that kind of colored my
518
00:39:30.480 --> 00:39:35.559
vision on how I viewed the episode. I thought it was in terms of
519
00:39:35.679 --> 00:39:39.039
just straight you know, episode wise, I thought it was okay. I
520
00:39:39.119 --> 00:39:43.880
think it was like maybe a mid
seven, like which for Halo is actually
521
00:39:43.880 --> 00:39:47.159
pretty good. Maybe it's a low
seven. But knowing what I know now
522
00:39:47.159 --> 00:39:52.119
about the master Chief character, it
was very disappointing that they didn't adapt that
523
00:39:52.880 --> 00:39:57.800
part of master Chief into this version
of master Chief, into this version of
524
00:39:57.880 --> 00:40:01.599
John. I really wish that maybe
they should go back and you know,
525
00:40:01.679 --> 00:40:06.480
rethink on how you know, they
developed some of these characters. But for
526
00:40:06.519 --> 00:40:09.599
the most part, I enjoyed the
episode. I didn't enjoy what Soron was
527
00:40:09.599 --> 00:40:14.480
doing. I'm like, you're looking
for your son this entire time, and
528
00:40:14.599 --> 00:40:17.119
all of a sudden you do a
one eighty flip because you went through the
529
00:40:17.119 --> 00:40:21.480
same thing and you know, you
want your son to stuff for for this
530
00:40:21.800 --> 00:40:25.400
entire series, you were very very
you know, you were very strict on
531
00:40:25.480 --> 00:40:30.760
how you know where and how your
son was being treated. And now you
532
00:40:30.800 --> 00:40:32.599
make this one eighty switch and then
you make the one aide switch again,
533
00:40:32.719 --> 00:40:37.079
and I'm like, I didn't like
that. I really really didn't like that.
534
00:40:37.039 --> 00:40:40.440
I did like the I do.
I really like how they're using the
535
00:40:40.519 --> 00:40:45.280
Quan character. I really like how
she's kind of deviating away and kind of
536
00:40:45.280 --> 00:40:50.639
being her own character even but she's
also helping, you know, the core
537
00:40:51.519 --> 00:40:54.239
main protagonists. Right, She's a
very she's becoming a very useful part,
538
00:40:54.800 --> 00:40:59.639
uh to this synergy of all these
characters. I did like that part.
539
00:41:00.079 --> 00:41:06.280
And where that hell did Halsey go? Whatever the artifact was. Once Miranda
540
00:41:06.360 --> 00:41:08.960
Keys, doctor Keys opened it,
she looked up and then she was gone.
541
00:41:09.079 --> 00:41:15.079
She I tailed it out of there. Yeah, she's like, uh
542
00:41:15.199 --> 00:41:19.960
miss uh doctor Halsey. She goes
up and she's gone. She is Absolutely
543
00:41:20.360 --> 00:41:23.239
they need to explain what the hell
has just happened. I don't I know,
544
00:41:23.280 --> 00:41:25.840
I'm just gonna running through all this
stuff, but you could address some
545
00:41:25.880 --> 00:41:34.679
of this. I really don't like
how the antagonists are, uh. They
546
00:41:34.760 --> 00:41:40.159
seem very weak, uh and stupid. I understand both of them, both
547
00:41:40.199 --> 00:41:45.559
of them, Parngoski and Akerson.
Akerson in the first half of the season
548
00:41:45.760 --> 00:41:50.800
was this villain that you know,
it's either his his way or the highway.
549
00:41:50.840 --> 00:41:52.719
You're not gonna stop me. If
you try to stop me, then
550
00:41:52.719 --> 00:41:54.559
I'm gonna do something about it.
And then all of a sudden his balls
551
00:41:54.599 --> 00:42:00.719
triple up when he goes up against
Paran Parrengosky right, Just like, well,
552
00:42:02.599 --> 00:42:05.679
if I had to go against one
of those two, one of hit
553
00:42:05.840 --> 00:42:07.760
her or John, I think I
would pick my fight with Pengosky. You
554
00:42:07.800 --> 00:42:14.679
can you can manipulate your way around
her, and you can physically subdue her
555
00:42:14.840 --> 00:42:17.800
and take over command. With John, I don't think he could do either
556
00:42:17.800 --> 00:42:22.360
one of those. But he did
it anyway, right. He didn't physically
557
00:42:22.360 --> 00:42:27.199
you know, restaind him, but
he used his resources to to sign sideline
558
00:42:27.280 --> 00:42:31.039
John for quite some time doing that. Seems like he's a very smart person.
559
00:42:31.639 --> 00:42:36.599
And then all of a sudden he
does his flip when he's up against
560
00:42:36.679 --> 00:42:39.880
the wall being choked by John,
and then he goes to you know,
561
00:42:40.199 --> 00:42:45.960
goes up against Perengosky, and you
know, he you know, divides this
562
00:42:45.079 --> 00:42:47.239
plan and to do all this stuff, and I'm just like, come on,
563
00:42:47.360 --> 00:42:52.800
man, like you I feel like
in terms of in terms of what
564
00:42:52.880 --> 00:42:55.679
you believe in his morals and is
like what he just believes in. I
565
00:42:55.719 --> 00:42:59.960
think he his his beliefs is so
strong that he, you know, he'll
566
00:43:00.039 --> 00:43:02.239
do whatever he wants he wants to
to get that thing done. And then
567
00:43:02.280 --> 00:43:05.719
he just kind of I don't know, I don't know, I don't know
568
00:43:05.760 --> 00:43:07.880
how I don't know if they know
where each character is going. At the
569
00:43:07.880 --> 00:43:10.960
beginning of the season, it's almost
like, Okay, we have this type
570
00:43:10.960 --> 00:43:15.360
of character that fits this trope,
and we're gonna use this until it doesn't
571
00:43:15.360 --> 00:43:20.079
benefit us anymore. And I think, you know, taking him, taking
572
00:43:20.079 --> 00:43:23.000
that character and just kind of basically, you know, crumpling up and throwing
573
00:43:23.039 --> 00:43:27.119
him in the trash can was was
very just. I didn't like the character,
574
00:43:27.280 --> 00:43:30.760
but you did a very big disservice
to the Akerson character. And Perengoski,
575
00:43:30.840 --> 00:43:36.000
Oh my god, what an idiot. I get. So I understand,
576
00:43:36.159 --> 00:43:39.719
I understand that. But she is
so arrogant that the person that is
577
00:43:39.800 --> 00:43:45.119
in charge of your spartan three's is
telling you they're not gonna make it,
578
00:43:45.239 --> 00:43:47.960
like none of them are going to
make it. And she's like, well,
579
00:43:49.000 --> 00:43:51.039
she's basically, you know, her
plan was like, you know,
580
00:43:51.119 --> 00:43:53.960
if only one make it, it's
fine, but he's telling you none of
581
00:43:53.960 --> 00:43:57.440
them are going to make it,
like none of them they're not trained for
582
00:43:57.480 --> 00:44:00.000
this. And so this is her
hell Mary. This is her hell Mary.
583
00:44:00.960 --> 00:44:06.119
And if she wasn't so damn stubborn
about it, she'd go and find
584
00:44:06.239 --> 00:44:08.679
John and Kai and you know,
if they didn't let this, if they
585
00:44:08.760 --> 00:44:13.239
at least told what was going to
happen on you know, on Reach,
586
00:44:13.320 --> 00:44:16.039
they would have been better prepared.
And maybe they say, Vanik and Riz
587
00:44:16.079 --> 00:44:21.039
doesn't get shot up in the back, and you have at least four spartans
588
00:44:21.480 --> 00:44:25.440
to to lead this suicide mission.
But it's just like, come on,
589
00:44:25.559 --> 00:44:30.440
man, I'd like the writing.
Here is a problem, and this is
590
00:44:30.480 --> 00:44:35.599
it's going to it's going to it
not going to It hurts the show because
591
00:44:36.079 --> 00:44:40.159
visually it is. I think it's
beautiful. The way that you're portraying.
592
00:44:40.639 --> 00:44:45.800
The armor looks great. John's armor
looks great. The that the Covenant,
593
00:44:46.039 --> 00:44:50.119
the short amount of time that we
see the Covenant. Can it be better?
594
00:44:50.239 --> 00:44:52.880
Yes, but I think it looks
good. I look, it looks
595
00:44:52.920 --> 00:44:55.159
good. For what it is,
it's good. Yes, yes, yes,
596
00:44:55.239 --> 00:45:00.199
it's good. And it's frustrating to
watch because the writing is not on
597
00:45:00.239 --> 00:45:04.039
par with everything else. So acting
it's fine, some characters are very good,
598
00:45:04.159 --> 00:45:08.199
some are okay. But it's just
like that's the least of the problems.
599
00:45:08.440 --> 00:45:12.280
They need to fix this writing.
The Showgunner needs to go. They
600
00:45:12.280 --> 00:45:15.000
need to bring somebody and this is
the second show winner isn't it. I
601
00:45:15.000 --> 00:45:20.920
believe so, And they need to
bring somebody in that understands the Halo lore
602
00:45:21.519 --> 00:45:28.360
and it understands the character behind all
of these people and just does it justice.
603
00:45:28.440 --> 00:45:31.000
It just doesn't make any Some of
the stuff they do doesn't make any
604
00:45:31.039 --> 00:45:35.599
sense. And that's the frustrating part
of me. Because frustrating part because it
605
00:45:35.639 --> 00:45:39.000
can be a good show because it
has potential. It definitely has potential,
606
00:45:39.039 --> 00:45:45.039
and it's displayed that over the course
of this new season. I think it's
607
00:45:45.119 --> 00:45:50.719
been a better season than season one, but there are frustrating like flips for
608
00:45:50.800 --> 00:45:53.960
certain characters, like you mentioned the
store and flip with Kessler, like oh,
609
00:45:54.360 --> 00:45:59.079
he's got to pick his battle or
whatever he says, but then he
610
00:45:59.159 --> 00:46:04.639
ends up fighting the different UNSC training
personnel. Anyway, that was a weird
611
00:46:04.719 --> 00:46:07.480
like flip to have in that moment. And also they're just hanging around Thermopyla
612
00:46:07.639 --> 00:46:10.679
like it's nothing like I just feel
like there would have been some you know,
613
00:46:10.760 --> 00:46:15.440
soldiers around there to maybe stop them
from just hanging around. But whatever,
614
00:46:15.599 --> 00:46:22.079
Parangosky and Akerson, I think they
they had this idea of them being
615
00:46:22.119 --> 00:46:28.440
the super smart behind the scenes villains
that are not physically imposing, but mentally
616
00:46:28.480 --> 00:46:32.519
and tactician. As tacticians, they're
smart, but so far everything that they've
617
00:46:32.519 --> 00:46:38.400
showed of them hasn't been smart or
hasn't been Oh, they've outthought things.
618
00:46:38.480 --> 00:46:45.639
I think Akerson. My knowledge of
Akerson got better with the oh he's leading
619
00:46:45.679 --> 00:46:50.320
the Spartan threes, that's why he
didn't care about the Spartan twos and setting
620
00:46:50.400 --> 00:46:52.039
up master Chief in this way and
blah blah blah blah. I was like,
621
00:46:52.079 --> 00:46:54.679
okay, I can, I can
see that. But this episode with
622
00:46:54.719 --> 00:47:00.880
Peregovski, where it is just it
comes across as just arrogance and to throw
623
00:47:01.639 --> 00:47:06.679
like this is baffling to me.
There is a giant like Covenant Armada,
624
00:47:07.639 --> 00:47:13.280
and your plan is to send these
different condors, which are mid size ships,
625
00:47:13.320 --> 00:47:15.719
they're not very big ships, with
a bunch of Spartans on them,
626
00:47:15.800 --> 00:47:22.800
and just throw them like again cannon
fodder towards the Covenant Armada Armada and like,
627
00:47:24.000 --> 00:47:27.239
okay, none of them got through, let's do it again. Like
628
00:47:27.280 --> 00:47:30.039
it it's baffling to me, Like
why aren't you like setting up a plan
629
00:47:30.199 --> 00:47:35.960
to where like you're distracting with major
ships and then these Spartans kind of come
630
00:47:36.000 --> 00:47:38.159
through around the backs, like around
the flank or something like that. Like
631
00:47:38.199 --> 00:47:42.719
it was just baffling to me that
this was, like, this is your
632
00:47:42.719 --> 00:47:45.760
big plan is to just throw spartans
at them and then just hope one of
633
00:47:45.800 --> 00:47:50.440
them works and hope one of them
lands with a spike. Also, how
634
00:47:50.440 --> 00:47:52.800
many spikes are there? Like are
you just blasting through all these spikes?
635
00:47:52.840 --> 00:47:57.480
Like it's nothing Like it's just really
I don't know, it's really like a
636
00:47:57.519 --> 00:48:02.000
weird, dumb kind of plan,
you know, I don't, I don't
637
00:48:02.039 --> 00:48:09.920
know. I did not love that
Master Chief. He is vastly different from
638
00:48:10.280 --> 00:48:15.400
from the Halo games, and I
think the thought process there was to make
639
00:48:15.519 --> 00:48:22.119
him more I guess what's the word, just more like combative towards the leadership
640
00:48:22.159 --> 00:48:29.360
and everything. And while I get
it, but at certain times it's frustrating
641
00:48:29.400 --> 00:48:36.039
because again it again goes back to
my thoughts is Master Chief was able to
642
00:48:36.079 --> 00:48:39.159
display emotions and different things when he
was in the armor, and it's just
643
00:48:39.559 --> 00:48:43.679
this this group does not know how
to do that, so they take him
644
00:48:43.679 --> 00:48:45.760
out of the armor. All the
time. He's it's been like I don't
645
00:48:45.760 --> 00:48:49.199
know, however many episodes. I
mean, he's finally back in the armor,
646
00:48:49.519 --> 00:48:52.599
thank goodness, but it's still I
don't know that they fully understand the
647
00:48:52.679 --> 00:48:57.280
character. I get that you want
him to be a little bit more complex,
648
00:48:57.360 --> 00:49:02.760
a little bit more complicated, because
obviously the video game version is designed
649
00:49:02.800 --> 00:49:08.360
for the player to insert themselves as
this masked character and let them feel like
650
00:49:08.400 --> 00:49:13.039
they're Master Chief. I get it, and he is more about the cause
651
00:49:13.079 --> 00:49:19.719
and doesn't really question a ton of
orders necessarily, but there are certain instances
652
00:49:19.760 --> 00:49:23.199
where it's like, that's not really
Chief, that's don't I don't think y'all
653
00:49:23.239 --> 00:49:28.159
are getting the gist of it.
I do like that they've added these different
654
00:49:28.239 --> 00:49:32.159
layers to Chief in different ways,
but I think it's come at a at
655
00:49:32.199 --> 00:49:37.679
a cost in certain situations. Again, with folks that he's having to deal
656
00:49:37.719 --> 00:49:43.679
with with Perengovsky and Akerson and all
this. Like to have a season where
657
00:49:44.440 --> 00:49:47.360
he's only fought the Covenant like once, it is kind of weird to me.
658
00:49:47.639 --> 00:49:52.320
Like to have him go up against
O and I for a majority of
659
00:49:52.360 --> 00:49:57.760
the season can be interesting, but
like the Covenant are still like the ultimate
660
00:49:57.800 --> 00:50:02.840
bad. This is not like h
Lanisters and the night Walkers White Walkers are
661
00:50:02.880 --> 00:50:07.880
all that where like, oh yeah, the Lanisters are the problem that we
662
00:50:07.920 --> 00:50:09.039
got to deal with. Yeah,
we'll get to the White Walkers whatever.
663
00:50:09.159 --> 00:50:15.920
Now the Covenant are actual like threat, they're there. How do we not
664
00:50:15.079 --> 00:50:20.800
deal with them until? Like episode
eight is weird to me and also to
665
00:50:21.679 --> 00:50:27.519
seemingly everyone understanding that the Halo Ring
is a weapon. It's kind of weird
666
00:50:27.559 --> 00:50:31.760
to me as well, Like I
just I don't know, Like there is
667
00:50:31.800 --> 00:50:36.119
a whole aspect of the game where
it's like, oh, we don't know
668
00:50:36.159 --> 00:50:39.440
what it is, and the Covenant
kind of know but don't really know.
669
00:50:40.280 --> 00:50:44.519
So let's, you know, let's
discover it and do all this and that,
670
00:50:44.559 --> 00:50:47.320
and everyone's treating it like a weapon
or right off the bat. But
671
00:50:49.199 --> 00:50:53.079
I don't know anyone knows the scale
of this weapon or what it's actually intended
672
00:50:53.119 --> 00:50:57.960
to do, except for well,
I don't know how much Kwan would know.
673
00:50:58.079 --> 00:51:04.440
But I think Kwan's story is more
interesting because that moment when the star
674
00:51:04.599 --> 00:51:09.239
map that her, Halsey and Miranda
are seeing and it goes from white stars
675
00:51:09.280 --> 00:51:13.960
to the red stars and they're like, oh, that's the Empire expanding,
676
00:51:14.599 --> 00:51:20.039
and I think Kwan realizes, no, that's something spreading and not what they're
677
00:51:20.079 --> 00:51:24.000
thinking at all. And I don't
know if it's gonna be Halsey and Miranda
678
00:51:24.159 --> 00:51:29.840
or whoever's gonna unwittingly let loose the
flood at some point, but that seems
679
00:51:29.880 --> 00:51:34.039
like we're building up to that.
That'd be great. I mean, I
680
00:51:34.079 --> 00:51:37.239
mean in terms of not in terms
of the human survival, but in terms
681
00:51:37.239 --> 00:51:42.039
of just visually. Oh, I
say visually, because you know, like
682
00:51:42.920 --> 00:51:45.480
it'd be awesome to kind of see
on screen, you know, if they
683
00:51:45.480 --> 00:51:47.760
do it correctly, if they do
it, you know, because it's it's
684
00:51:47.800 --> 00:51:52.239
it's it's a huge you know,
it's a huge threat, and it's gonna
685
00:51:52.280 --> 00:51:54.480
be you really something like that.
You're looking forward to a giant battle,
686
00:51:54.519 --> 00:52:00.239
right. I do think one of
the problems that they have is not it
687
00:52:00.239 --> 00:52:05.480
doesn't it's not within the story.
I do think they are probably on a
688
00:52:05.519 --> 00:52:09.199
budget restriction, and I think that
might be one of the reasons why we
689
00:52:09.239 --> 00:52:14.000
haven't seen The Covenant that much,
and when we do it's just what's his
690
00:52:14.119 --> 00:52:19.000
name, the the Arbor. I
think that's one of the reasons too,
691
00:52:19.119 --> 00:52:24.079
is you're on Paramount Plus, a
streaming service that from all indications, isn't
692
00:52:24.119 --> 00:52:28.559
doing the best. You know,
you're you're limited on what you can do
693
00:52:28.599 --> 00:52:32.119
with budget, so I think that
is probably working against them, and it
694
00:52:32.280 --> 00:52:36.639
just it kind of sucks. But
yeah, that's I would imagine that's why
695
00:52:36.639 --> 00:52:39.079
we don't see the Covenant all too
often. Yeah, that would be my
696
00:52:39.119 --> 00:52:43.480
guess too, honestly, which kind
of sucks too, because like Covenant or
697
00:52:43.679 --> 00:52:46.960
really interesting characters are can be,
especially now that we have the Arbiter and
698
00:52:47.000 --> 00:52:52.320
everything. But it feels like we're
finally going to have John on the Halo
699
00:52:52.400 --> 00:52:57.400
Ring finally in episode eight. How
Quan fits into that I think is vastly
700
00:52:57.480 --> 00:53:01.880
important and vastly intrigue because I think
she's going to be the warning bell for
701
00:53:02.280 --> 00:53:08.760
the flood and what they can possibly
do. I don't know, like if
702
00:53:08.800 --> 00:53:13.920
she how much she knows about it, or she just knows it's a monster
703
00:53:14.079 --> 00:53:17.559
or whatever. But I'm hoping we
get the teas to the flood at the
704
00:53:17.719 --> 00:53:22.519
very end of episode eight, at
the very least a tease to the very
705
00:53:22.639 --> 00:53:27.519
end. I wonder about Kai and
Perez because if they are going on the
706
00:53:27.559 --> 00:53:30.159
suicide run, do they make it
or do they just try and end up
707
00:53:30.440 --> 00:53:36.000
heading towards the Halo Ring and try
and get to it. Some way,
708
00:53:36.000 --> 00:53:38.920
because there's I don't think there's any
way that the spike is getting planted in
709
00:53:38.960 --> 00:53:44.000
the next episode. There's there's just
too many Covenant ships, there's too many
710
00:53:45.000 --> 00:53:47.400
things happening all at once for them
to be able to even make it.
711
00:53:47.880 --> 00:53:52.440
They're probably screwed. I don't know
if both of them die, but maybe
712
00:53:52.440 --> 00:53:57.440
one of them possibly bites it in
episode eight and while the other one sees
713
00:53:57.519 --> 00:54:00.719
or something like that. But yeah, I just can't see the spike working.
714
00:54:00.800 --> 00:54:06.400
And then I just hope Kortana and
Chief have a reuniting outside of just
715
00:54:06.760 --> 00:54:12.320
him guiding her guiding him through doorways, and eventually we get to a moment
716
00:54:12.519 --> 00:54:15.480
I guess. I guess it's happening
on the Halo Ring, and then I
717
00:54:15.519 --> 00:54:22.360
don't know, we'll see what happens
with Perengoski or Akerson because outside of outside
718
00:54:22.400 --> 00:54:25.679
of those two, I don't know
that there's anybody that they can introduce that
719
00:54:25.719 --> 00:54:30.679
would cause a problem for this those
two. Outside of I guess Chief being
720
00:54:30.719 --> 00:54:36.119
alive, that truth coming to pass, and maybe that somehow brings down Perengosky
721
00:54:36.119 --> 00:54:39.599
and Akerson. Outside of that,
I don't know what's going to bring them
722
00:54:39.639 --> 00:54:43.840
down. In the next episode.
We'll have to wait and see, obviously,
723
00:54:43.920 --> 00:54:46.840
but yeah, it's set up for
some interesting things, but at the
724
00:54:46.880 --> 00:54:52.320
same time some frustrating things. How
much training do you think Prescott in between
725
00:54:52.400 --> 00:54:58.199
when she was on that planet and
when she is now a Spartan three,
726
00:54:58.239 --> 00:55:05.239
Because I feel like being a communications
fish specialist and then being essentially now a
727
00:55:05.280 --> 00:55:10.159
Spartan three, that's a massive job. That's unbelievable. Man Like I like
728
00:55:10.280 --> 00:55:15.079
that character. I like Talia Perez
I do. I think she almost bring
729
00:55:15.400 --> 00:55:20.840
brings a and I wish that she
and John can share more screen time together
730
00:55:20.840 --> 00:55:23.559
because she almost brings like a calming
presence and kind of can talk talk to
731
00:55:23.639 --> 00:55:28.239
him. And now she's a Spartan
three and she gets thrown into all this
732
00:55:28.400 --> 00:55:32.000
And in one of the characters,
one of the you know, character points
733
00:55:32.000 --> 00:55:37.360
that I do like about her is
like she I don't know what John's gonna
734
00:55:37.400 --> 00:55:39.400
do. It feels like he's going
to the Halo Ring. It feels like
735
00:55:39.960 --> 00:55:44.679
that's where he's headed. But it
almost felt like Perez kind of talked him
736
00:55:44.679 --> 00:55:47.199
out of it and said basically said
come help us kind of thing. It
737
00:55:47.239 --> 00:55:52.960
almost feels like he's second guessing himself. So that part that that I really
738
00:55:53.039 --> 00:55:57.280
like, that part of that character
is you have somebody else in John's ear
739
00:55:57.320 --> 00:56:01.559
that basically is like helping him think
about what he needs to do or what
740
00:56:01.599 --> 00:56:06.360
he has to do, or it's
just the thought process what's the right thing
741
00:56:06.360 --> 00:56:10.880
to do. But it's just like, it's unbelievable that she can go from
742
00:56:10.960 --> 00:56:16.760
a communication specialist that was very bad
at shooting on that planet she didn't know
743
00:56:16.760 --> 00:56:21.440
how to work a gun, uh
to being a Spartan three, which is
744
00:56:21.440 --> 00:56:24.679
supposed to be an elite group,
in which from all indications that group is
745
00:56:24.719 --> 00:56:29.239
not very elite. The way that
they've been training, like it just looked
746
00:56:29.280 --> 00:56:35.039
bad. Yeah, they they completely
rushed, Like Spartan threes are like it.
747
00:56:35.199 --> 00:56:37.719
Like I've mentioned in the last couple
episodes, Spartan threes are disposable to
748
00:56:37.760 --> 00:56:44.000
a certain extent in the books,
but they're way more closer to Spartans than
749
00:56:44.079 --> 00:56:50.280
what they have betrayed with these Spartan
threes on the show. These these Spartan
750
00:56:50.480 --> 00:56:58.400
threes feel more like odsts to a
certain extent. Odsts are orbital drop drop
751
00:56:58.480 --> 00:57:01.400
shock troopers, I think is the
what they stand for. They feel more
752
00:57:01.400 --> 00:57:06.840
akin to that than they do to
actual Spartan threes. Spartan threes can actually
753
00:57:07.440 --> 00:57:10.800
hold them hold up against an Elite
or two or whatever, not quite as
754
00:57:10.800 --> 00:57:15.440
good as master Chief, but this
one, their training makes zero sense.
755
00:57:15.480 --> 00:57:20.199
Like there's no way she could be
a Spartan three after having been a communication
756
00:57:20.320 --> 00:57:23.360
specialist because the time jump only feels
like it's been like a couple of weeks
757
00:57:23.599 --> 00:57:28.360
and she's already like, helping lead
a mission as a Spartan three makes no
758
00:57:28.480 --> 00:57:32.719
sense whatsoever. Yeah, they almost
feel like those stormtroopers in space malls.
759
00:57:34.840 --> 00:57:38.239
They're like they seem incompetent, not
that bad, but or they just feel
760
00:57:38.239 --> 00:57:44.880
like stormtroopers, Like they don't feel
elite to me. Those they if anything
761
00:57:44.960 --> 00:57:49.559
they needed, if anything, they
just rushed the story and just kind of
762
00:57:49.760 --> 00:57:52.880
made just kind of threw them out
there, showing them fail a bunch of
763
00:57:52.880 --> 00:57:58.719
times, never and then when they
succeeded, it almost felt like they did
764
00:57:58.760 --> 00:58:02.679
something to to help them succeeds.
It was too easy, right, and
765
00:58:02.760 --> 00:58:08.559
so it just you just didn't develop
that story long enough to make viewers realize
766
00:58:08.599 --> 00:58:13.639
that, hey, these are some
formidable troops and their armor they don't look
767
00:58:13.760 --> 00:58:20.960
very elite, right, They just
it looked like they didn't spend much money
768
00:58:21.000 --> 00:58:28.440
on that gear. And compared to
the Spartans like Kai and master Chief and
769
00:58:28.599 --> 00:58:34.880
Vanik and Riz there the armors very
thin and they're all short. They're not
770
00:58:35.119 --> 00:58:37.239
very menacing in the presence. Isn't
like, you know, they're not going
771
00:58:37.320 --> 00:58:42.679
to catch you. They just look
like regular troopers. Mm hmmm. Yeah,
772
00:58:42.719 --> 00:58:46.360
that's why I relate them more to
odsts than actual Spartans in any way.
773
00:58:46.519 --> 00:58:51.000
In any way, they also,
like, I know, Spartan three's
774
00:58:51.079 --> 00:58:54.239
are supposed to be I guess more
human to a certain extent, but these
775
00:58:54.320 --> 00:59:00.199
just feel like, I don't know
what what's making these soldiers Spartan three he's
776
00:59:00.239 --> 00:59:05.000
outside of Did they just recruit him
and they just got some fancy suits to
777
00:59:05.039 --> 00:59:08.360
a certain extent that are better than
an infantry person, But like what makes
778
00:59:08.360 --> 00:59:14.199
them actual Spartan threes. I haven't
seen that like that case be made as
779
00:59:14.239 --> 00:59:19.440
of yet. They just seem like
soldiers in not as cool armor that everyone
780
00:59:19.519 --> 00:59:23.119
just calls Spartans, like there is
no indication as to what has made them
781
00:59:23.119 --> 00:59:28.519
better. I know in some of
the other Spartans that pop up in the
782
00:59:28.559 --> 00:59:32.239
games, like there's a character who
was an odst that becomes a spartan.
783
00:59:32.559 --> 00:59:36.519
But he does, I want to
say, he goes through some kind of
784
00:59:36.519 --> 00:59:42.199
procedure to help him be stronger,
faster, and different things like that.
785
00:59:42.400 --> 00:59:45.079
These characters don't seem like they've gone
through anything outside of put put on some
786
00:59:45.239 --> 00:59:52.079
armor. Yeah, it's just it's
disappointing. Disappointing. Indeed, Well,
787
00:59:52.719 --> 00:59:54.159
real quick, Jong, we got
a couple of things that I want to
788
00:59:54.199 --> 00:59:58.360
get to before we run out.
X Men ninety seven, Hey, it
789
00:59:58.440 --> 01:00:04.039
premieres this week. Are you excited
for X Men ninety seven song? Yes?
790
01:00:04.119 --> 01:00:07.719
I am, actually I uh,
you know, it's one of those
791
01:00:07.760 --> 01:00:13.159
things where you get all these when
people say ads and promos don't work.
792
01:00:13.199 --> 01:00:15.760
They work, They work. They
just you know, the hype is real
793
01:00:16.320 --> 01:00:22.199
and it's it's gonna be I think
when we talked about this, I couldn't
794
01:00:22.199 --> 01:00:23.559
promise of you if I was gonna
watch this or not. I'm gonna watch
795
01:00:23.599 --> 01:00:29.239
it. It has a bunch of
nostalagi, of factors that make it make
796
01:00:29.320 --> 01:00:36.119
me want to watch it. It's
you know, I think just hearing the
797
01:00:36.199 --> 01:00:38.000
music is it does it for me? No? No, no, no,
798
01:00:39.079 --> 01:00:44.519
no no. And they released the
clip on social media where they're fighting
799
01:00:44.519 --> 01:00:50.679
a bunch of sentinels and it just
kind of brought me back and just them
800
01:00:50.880 --> 01:00:55.119
doing work on sentinels and beasts,
rearranging and modifying the sentinels on the go,
801
01:00:55.880 --> 01:01:00.400
and then using the sentinels against the
sentinels was amazing. And you know,
802
01:01:01.400 --> 01:01:07.480
it's it's it hits all the right
buttons in the nostalgia factor and I'm
803
01:01:07.480 --> 01:01:12.360
gonna be sitting here watching it and
I hope it gets renewed. The showrunner
804
01:01:12.400 --> 01:01:17.880
creators not coming back because there are
some reports that saying that he's a bit
805
01:01:17.920 --> 01:01:22.559
of a bit of a creep on
OnlyFans. Other people have said that,
806
01:01:22.599 --> 01:01:28.519
well, it's not any explicit stuff. There is a report from the Hollywood
807
01:01:28.559 --> 01:01:35.679
Reporter saying that he does go on
these you know rants on Twitter, you
808
01:01:35.719 --> 01:01:38.760
know, responding to people, and
he deleted I think he deleted his account
809
01:01:38.960 --> 01:01:44.960
in May of last year. And
so he's had some problems with social media
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and stuff like that. And I
don't know how bad it could have gotten
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to warrant a firing a little over
a week before the biggest animation show,
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Marvels done ever, I think is
going to get re released, Like what
813
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could what could possibly if you've done
for you to be fired eight days before
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the premiere. It's just crazy.
I want to know what happened, and
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it could could have been some of
the stuff that happened on only fans.
816
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Maybe I it's just maybe Disney just
doesn't want their creators to be on only
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fans. I don't know, because
like they knew about it. It's something
818
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he had been running two years.
Yeah, two years. Yeah, he's
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not for two years. And he
did finish writing season two just recently.
820
01:02:36.840 --> 01:02:40.840
So and so far they seem to
be going ahead with his work into season
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two. So and the creator were
referencing, I don't know that we said
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his name, Bo Demeyo. No
reason was given for his firing, just
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a couple of days, like you
said, away from the premiere, and
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just a few days before the red
carpet premiere of the show. Yeah,
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I don't know. This one's strange. This one's really weird because I don't
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know that we've seen this from any
show. But yeah, like his work's
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01:03:08.199 --> 01:03:14.519
done, he won't be part of
it moving forward. I don't know that
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we'll ever find out what really happened. If it was something with OnlyFans,
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or if it was something online that
he said. You know, it's a
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mystery right now, no one has
responded or given their side outside of they've
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just moved on and they're going in
a different direction. So yeah, I
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don't know. But the show itself, it looks good. The animation looks
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good. The sentinel clip that you
referenced there earlier looks made me get even
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more amped up for the show.
I'm excited to see the combinations that they
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do. And one thing that I
found interesting when I was reading there was
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an extended article I think from the
Hollywood Reporter about X Men ninety seven and
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they referenced cameos about if they're gonna
have cameos like the original show did because
838
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in the original show, Spider Man, Ironman, Captain America, like different
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classic characters popped up a lot in
that show. They said cameos would be
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happening in X Men ninety seven.
I'm hyped. I'm definitely hyped to see
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who they include, the possibilities that
they continue on from picking up from where
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the last episode of season I guess
it was five or whatever of that show
843
01:04:26.039 --> 01:04:29.760
left off at. I'm just excited
for it. I can't wait for X
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Men ninety seven, which is premiering
March twentieth, with two episodes that we
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can check out Last Thing. I
do want to get to teen Titans,
846
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but I feel like we could have
a longer discussion about that. I'll save
847
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that for next time. But Last
Thing before we run out. Venom three
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has a title and a new release
date. The new release date is now
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October twenty fifth of this year instead
of November eighth, and it is now
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titled Venom The Last Dance. The
screams to me another rom com. I
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01:04:59.159 --> 01:05:03.360
just have a feeling we're gonna get
a rom com around Halloween time, except
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01:05:03.360 --> 01:05:08.960
it's with Venom and Eddie Brock.
Oh. I think you were gonna say
853
01:05:09.119 --> 01:05:15.920
spider Man zero. Yeah, I
have zero interest in watching this unless Spider
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01:05:15.960 --> 01:05:20.119
Man is involved. I didn't watch
Venom two. Let there be carnage.
855
01:05:20.239 --> 01:05:26.880
I the Last Dance, I don't
know. Maybe is it a reference to
856
01:05:26.960 --> 01:05:30.559
a comic book, because I don't
know what the Last Dance is reference referencing
857
01:05:30.599 --> 01:05:34.639
to. Is it referencing to the
last time They're gonna He's gonna graze the
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01:05:34.639 --> 01:05:41.679
screen as Venom. That's what I'm
figuring because the only other reference I could
859
01:05:41.719 --> 01:05:45.000
come up with was the Jordan documentary. So I don't know, Yeah,
860
01:05:45.119 --> 01:05:49.719
me too, Why else there is
no comic to my knowledge of Venom with
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01:05:49.760 --> 01:05:54.760
the last dance. That's why it
screams to me like we're doing a last
862
01:05:54.840 --> 01:05:59.159
dance between Eddie Brock and Venom.
Tom Hardy's Venom is this is the last
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01:05:59.159 --> 01:06:02.079
time we'll be seeing the character at
least for some time, and this is
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01:06:02.119 --> 01:06:05.239
their last dance, which makes me
It just screams to me, brom Com
865
01:06:05.239 --> 01:06:11.440
again. Second one was rom Com, Yes it was. There was elements
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01:06:11.440 --> 01:06:15.360
of rom Com in the second one. Interesting all right, yes, yes,
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01:06:15.760 --> 01:06:24.360
very interesting. Well the Sony Versus
at it again. Hey, I
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01:06:24.400 --> 01:06:30.039
want to mention one thing. The
Madame Web released on on whatever you could
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01:06:30.039 --> 01:06:34.840
buy Madame Web, you could stream
it. I don't think I've ever seen
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01:06:35.440 --> 01:06:42.760
people do a reverse on a movie
that was bad more than Madam Web.
871
01:06:42.840 --> 01:06:46.159
I'm like, what are y'all doing? They took they were taking screen grabs
872
01:06:46.159 --> 01:06:50.079
from Madame Web comparing it to you
know there they're actually you know, shooting
873
01:06:50.119 --> 01:06:55.880
in the street in Madam Web or
whereas you know, Spider Man No Way
874
01:06:55.880 --> 01:07:00.400
Home. They're digital, they use
CG for for there's shots h you know,
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01:07:00.440 --> 01:07:02.360
in the middle of the street or
blah blah blah. I'm like,
876
01:07:04.800 --> 01:07:11.519
how short is our revisionist history to
where we're doing this with Madam Webb.
877
01:07:11.599 --> 01:07:15.199
I don't understand, Like, if
you think Madam Webb is amazing, you
878
01:07:15.199 --> 01:07:18.039
should have went out and supported Madam
Webb and maybe they wouldn't have all this
879
01:07:18.119 --> 01:07:21.920
problem. Maybe you know, maybe
there actors and actresses aren't dis in the
880
01:07:23.000 --> 01:07:27.880
movie, like where were you a
month ago? What are you doing?
881
01:07:28.480 --> 01:07:31.639
Like you guys are crazy, Like
this is crazy. There is some while
882
01:07:31.760 --> 01:07:38.000
I saw one of these tweets from
someone that was like talking about the diner
883
01:07:38.079 --> 01:07:43.480
scene where the villain comes in in
full suit and just murders the Sidney Sweeney
884
01:07:43.800 --> 01:07:46.719
character and the other some of the
other characters, and they're like this is
885
01:07:46.760 --> 01:07:51.039
the best, you know whatever,
better than mcu has ever done or something
886
01:07:51.079 --> 01:07:55.199
like that, and it was just
like, are you serious right now?
887
01:07:55.239 --> 01:07:57.800
Like this is one hundred percent?
And then you like look at some of
888
01:07:57.800 --> 01:08:00.760
the tweets and it's like, oh
no, it's a bad movie and it's
889
01:08:00.800 --> 01:08:04.000
bad writing, but but man,
this right like it contradicts itself at the
890
01:08:04.000 --> 01:08:09.079
same time and it's just like,
I think you're just here for engagement,
891
01:08:09.239 --> 01:08:14.159
is what I'm guessing, because you're
making zero sense with your arguments about this.
892
01:08:14.480 --> 01:08:18.800
This is also a film or a
scene where the main character hits the
893
01:08:18.880 --> 01:08:24.199
villain with a car for the second
time in this movie, and it's just
894
01:08:24.279 --> 01:08:28.920
like, that's what we're saying is
goaded or whatever. I don't, I
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01:08:28.960 --> 01:08:31.039
don't. I don't understand. I
don't understand the youth these days strong.
896
01:08:31.119 --> 01:08:35.720
I just don't understand. Yeah,
I mean, I don't think. I
897
01:08:35.760 --> 01:08:41.319
don't know. When's the last time
we saw a movie go from theaters to
898
01:08:41.319 --> 01:08:46.640
to on demand so quickly. It's
like, yeah, it's just it's pandemic
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01:08:46.680 --> 01:08:51.880
time all over again. Where movies
would go to streaming the day of release.
900
01:08:51.960 --> 01:08:56.960
It's it's it's it's wild. It's
another thing. Spider Man Now Way
901
01:08:57.000 --> 01:09:00.760
Home was filmed during the pandemic.
So you know, if you're gonna complain
902
01:09:00.840 --> 01:09:03.760
about you know, them CGI in
New York City, well they couldn't do
903
01:09:03.840 --> 01:09:09.920
much with restrictions and whatnot. So
there's that. Also, Madam Webb should
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01:09:09.960 --> 01:09:14.520
not get credit for live action shooting
or whatever. Just because they shot on
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01:09:14.600 --> 01:09:18.079
a street does not make that any
good. That's no. The writing is
906
01:09:18.199 --> 01:09:23.199
terrible. The acting is fine,
but they don't have much to work with.
907
01:09:23.720 --> 01:09:27.760
But like, oh okay they're in
the street. Oh okay, cool,
908
01:09:28.239 --> 01:09:30.079
they didn't do it on the green
screen of blue screen? Oh riveting?
909
01:09:30.800 --> 01:09:35.399
Tell me why the main character is
Oh god, there's so many things.
910
01:09:35.479 --> 01:09:41.479
Also, the spider people in the
Amazon. That's the whole screen grab
911
01:09:41.560 --> 01:09:44.479
situation that I don't know if you've
seen, but that is one of the
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01:09:44.479 --> 01:09:47.760
more baffling decisions of that movie.
Yeah, the less I see, the
913
01:09:47.760 --> 01:09:54.000
happier I am, the better.
It might be one of those things where
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01:09:54.319 --> 01:10:00.479
and I did this with it X
Men, which you will the last one
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01:10:00.479 --> 01:10:03.000
of Phoenix. I forget what the
title was, Dark Phoenix or whatever.
916
01:10:04.000 --> 01:10:08.880
I did it with that movie.
I haven't done this a lot in my
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01:10:08.920 --> 01:10:15.600
lifetime, but when I get bored
I have nothing to do, I go,
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01:10:15.319 --> 01:10:20.479
how bad can this movie be?
I did it with Avatar The Last
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01:10:20.520 --> 01:10:27.000
Airbender, which to this day,
to this day is the worst movie I've
920
01:10:27.439 --> 01:10:33.079
ever seen. X Men, whatever
the Phoenix movie is called, the very
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01:10:33.199 --> 01:10:40.079
very last X Men movie was god
awful. And so within the next couple
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01:10:40.119 --> 01:10:45.159
of years, I do feel like
if I get really really bored. It's
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either morph in time where it's sitting
down and watching Madam Webb. It's one
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01:10:51.520 --> 01:10:56.640
of those two. I feel like
and and I think that's gonna be the
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01:10:56.680 --> 01:11:00.880
best intro to a podcast ever.
Oh, I can't wait for that.
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That's the only way I'm gonna be
watching any of the Sony Spider Man movies
927
01:11:03.359 --> 01:11:10.439
is if I get so bored there's
nothing else to watch. I can't wait
928
01:11:10.520 --> 01:11:14.159
for that day. I am so
excited for you to see one of these
929
01:11:14.319 --> 01:11:17.319
terrible, terrible movies. If you
had to do it all over again,
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01:11:17.359 --> 01:11:24.800
which one would you watch? Morebius? If I had to pick morebeus,
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01:11:24.960 --> 01:11:29.279
Yeah, well then then maybe I
will watch Madam Web. Yeah you know
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Saturday, I've got nothing to do. Yeah, throwing Madam Web and yay
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that terrible dialogue. That's gonna do
it. Yeah, we'll see that's gonna
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do it. For today's issue of
Comentcast Issue five hundred and twenty nine,
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thank you all for tuning in listening
wherever you are. We appreciate you as
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always. You can follow us on
social media. I'm at Producer Mike nine
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01:11:50.439 --> 01:11:56.079
to seven five, and I'm at
One Punch and of course you can rate,
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01:11:56.079 --> 01:11:59.199
review, share, subscribe to podcast
and all your favorite podcast platforms.
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If I start step cool, we
really appreciate it and we will touch to
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you guys next week, oh before
we jet off, before we jet off.
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If you want to donate to the
Falcon fundraiser, if you just search,
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01:12:13.920 --> 01:12:16.439
if you go to if you just
go to your Google and search Fred
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01:12:16.479 --> 01:12:20.039
Fower, go fund me will pop
up. But you can also go to
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go fund me dot com, backslash
f backslash, fred Dash, the Dash,
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01:12:25.640 --> 01:12:30.239
d Dash, the Falcon, the
Dash, Falcon Dash our Dash Fundraiser.
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I know that's a little more difficult, but yeah, just go and
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01:12:33.079 --> 01:12:38.119
search Fred Ffower Fundraiser or go fund
me and you will find it there.
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And I'll drop the link in our
show description for this for this week,
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so if folks didn't catch it,
they can always look down into description and
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click on the link. And one
last thing, one last thing too to
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01:12:50.600 --> 01:12:57.479
marinate for next week. Apparently,
according to Daniel RpK. King, the
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01:12:57.520 --> 01:13:00.479
Conquer is still going to be the
main villain for the Avengers movie that they
953
01:13:00.560 --> 01:13:03.039
want to add another villain, Deadpoole, be introduced in the new concept of
954
01:13:03.039 --> 01:13:10.119
the Multiverse of one being in every
universe that without them, the universe will
955
01:13:10.119 --> 01:13:14.479
die. The idea right now is
to have mister Sinister as the main villain
956
01:13:14.479 --> 01:13:17.039
for the X Men reboot. MCU
ghostwriter will not be the same as one
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01:13:17.439 --> 01:13:20.680
appeared in Agents and Shield, so
take that for what it's worth and we
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01:13:20.720 --> 01:13:25.920
will. We can talk about that
next week. I want mister Sinister.
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01:13:26.479 --> 01:13:35.079
Yeah, Okay, that's all.
That's greater done till tomorrow. Stay sports,
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you bitches.
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I could do this all day.
Story you want to get my word?
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You do? Oh? Hello,
their Internet. Welcome to issue five and
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twenty nine of Comiccast. I'm Michael
Carroll alongside Jong Lee Jong. How are
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you? I'm doing okay? I
know for everybody here at uh we're not
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here, but because I'm not I
don't work for gal Media, but everybody
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at gal Media and here in Houston
this we're recording the song March eighteenth,
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and it's just, you know,
not even a week since mister fred Vauer
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the falcon passed away. He passed
away on I think he passed away on
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the fourteenth, from the reports that
I saw, he passed away in the
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early hours of March fourteenth. He
was found March fourteenth, later in the
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day, so I think people are
kind of saying that he did pass away
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that day. But but yeah,
it's very sad, very very sad.
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It hit everybody pretty pretty hard.
I think, pretty surprising. I think
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for the most part. Yeah,
I just I saw. I think everybody
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kind of saw. When they opened
up Twitter's AJ's tweet and I texted him
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and asked him, you know what
happened, and he kind of explained what
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he knew, and yeah, just
it's one of those things that they kind
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of you know, people that kind
of that are close to you. And
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you know, I haven't spoken to
Fred in a few years, but you
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know, when we did work together, we were pretty in sync and we
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talk every day and we talk about
stuff outside of sports. It kind of,
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you know, as we were kind
of getting older, which is kind
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of leaned away from talking about our
personal lives more because we didn't see each
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other as often. But it's you
know, you develop that friendship with somebody
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and you know, you kind of
take it for granted that time that you
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think you're going to have more with
a specific person or specific people, and
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in something like this, it just
kinds of gut punches you and then you
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kind of realize, hey, like, you know, the people that we've
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kind of grown up with, it's
the clock is ticking on a lot more
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of these people than we know,
and you know, as time goes on,
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more and more people pass away.
But yeah, been very very shocking
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news that Fred passed away last week, and it's it's sad news overall.
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And you know, the city of
Houston sports radio in general is you know,
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in the grief state. Yeah,
it's really feeling feeling this one,
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because like Fred has been a staple
in Houston sports media for I don't know
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decades at this point now, and
to lose such a big personality from the
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landscape's just it was shocking. Obviously, you and I both worked with him
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when we were with Cumulus and with
gal Media, and you, like you
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mentioned, you worked with him more
so since you were producing The Blitz and
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producing different shows where Fred was the
host on. But I liked what you
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said in your your tweet thread that
night when we when everyone was kind of
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finding out the news, because I
hadn't thought about it, but like I
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think it was like you you mentioned, he was like the backbone of ESPN
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ninety seven five, And honestly,
it's true. It's it's very, very
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true. He was a fixture on
ESPN ninety seven five for so many years,
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and like I told others, like
I told Barry, without what him,
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you and AJ did with the Blitz, I don't know that I would
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still be on ESPN ninety seven five. I don't know that we we would
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be having these discussions that I had, like appearing on ESPN ninety seven five,
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last week without Fred and his contributions, and from the hilarity to just
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different aspects of the company itself giving
me opportunities to work on things. It's
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just, man, it's it's he
was a He was a huge fixture for
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for ninety seven five and again just
the sports media landscape in general, oh,
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for sure. And the longevity event
makes him, you know, the
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fixture of ninety seven five, you
know, Dave Dave Tipper was program director
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for for the majority of my run
and then I kind of slid in there
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and then yeah, and then Fred
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he was and a lot of people
don't know that he was kind of essentially
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working for free over there Cumulus,
because you know Cumulus. I mean,
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let's face it, we all we
all didn't make a lot of money over
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there Cumulus, right, and he
was no exception. You have your top
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dogs over there at one o four
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the scraps. So it's it was
very admirable for him to tough it out.
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too. He was working the you
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know, the mornings over there,
and then they said he became a adjunct
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I think an ajuct professor at San
Jack. And then he came back and
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he would do the show right you
know around I think when we were from
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twelve to two. I think at
the time when he was doing that.
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But yeah, that's that's a lot
of dedication. San Jack's not far from
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it. It's pretty far from the
station, it's not close. And he
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would come in the morning and record
some updates. He would stay for a
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little bit, see if any news
broke, and then he you know,
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taped some in the can and jet
out to Saint Jack and then come back.
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and AJ gave him a lot of
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but yeah, I mean he was
he was hustling man. And then all
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that work eventually paid off and we
got the big four to seven drive time
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show after Carl left. When we
got when we moved over to the GAO
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Dave, I know, had to
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and then essentially when we did get
that move to from four to seven,
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it you know, it just kind
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and we just kind of cruised there
for a few years and I eventually
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left and then AJ eventually left,
and like I said, the backbone of
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Fred, you know, Fred was
there still there, so you know,
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and and so yeah, he made
him and a bunch of handful of other
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people, including yourself and Dave and
AJ made that station and to what it
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is today. And yeah, it's
he's leaving a legacy at both at the
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Chronicle, He's leaving a legacy at
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day, very vague it was.
It was a sad day and spend a
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sad day since since it's passing,
I know, you know, there's a
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lot of people doing their contributions on
how they're going to honor Fred. And
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you know, this us talking about, you know, what he meant to
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the station and what he meant to
us. I think it's a little part
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of how we can honor him too. Yeah, definitely. And there is
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a bigger like stream being hosted by
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that's happening at on the day of
this recording. It's happening this afternoon.
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You'll be part of it, a
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the time folks are hearing this,
the podcast will be up, and that
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tribute show will be up on Barry's
I believe YouTube channel. So folks that
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are listening to this either on ESPN
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you know, on our podcast after
the fact, go check out Barry's tribute
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show, which you can again find
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sad, shocking news to say the
least, and definitely hits close to home,
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especially having worked with Fred for so
long and knowing him for as long
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as we did. I was thinking
twelve years, but I think I worked
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with him for like thirteen thirteen years
or so, because I think he finally
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let when he left GAO it was
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twenty twenty three. It was because
he was doing After ninety seven five,
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he started working on the network for
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he was still around and recording some
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to think that it's only been like
maybe a year since I've worked with him.
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I did. I then turned back
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twenty nineteen. Yeah, Yeah,
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him for eleven years. Crazy and
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first time I worked with him,
and I've told this story on Twitter and
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I told it on my tribute video
to Fred, But the first time I
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worked with him back in two thousand
and nine, I was filling in for
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Able Rodriguez, the morning show producer
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Sports Center updates, and Fred was
the sports update anchor for that shift,
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and you know, he made everything
super easy, kept everything cool, and
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then of course major technical issues on
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again made everything light, kept everything
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for young Michael who was freaking out
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so much. And then of course
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the years, he made it easy
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always a pleasure to work with.
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to do and this is uh,
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know used to do that shift always
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kind of like their entry entry into
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is to start with the updates to
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aside from running games, that was
essentially the least amount of kind of work
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that you'd had to do. Just
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all your carts and all your carts
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the music is in there, and
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and then make sure that the microphone
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and I think I made this maybe
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was he was the anchor and I
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the Sportsman sports Center music hit and
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did that and then he and then
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man, it went smoothly, and
you know, it went wonderfully. And
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then the update ends and he's like, I couldn't hear myself, and I
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go, oh, that's weird.
I think it aired, and he goes,
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okay, and then it happened again
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macaphone again and then he just said, you know, it's fine, it's
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you know, it makes mistakes.
You make mistakes, and it's like five
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in the morning, nobody's nobody's you
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Nobody's listening right now because it's really
really early. You make your mistakes and
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you move on, and you know
that's you know, you kind of that's
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kind of the model that I kind
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make a mistake, but what you
do after me making that mistake is is
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kind of a tell on how you
know someone's character is can you bounce back
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from making that mistake? And yeah, essentially kind of did. And you
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know, fast forward eleven years later, and you know, we're the number
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one sports talk show in the city
of Houston for almost a year straight,
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you know, excluding no yeah,
excluding I think December, the holiday season.
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of the thirteen or twelve out of
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thirteen. You know, there's thirteen
books in a year, but we took
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twelve out of thirteen and it felt
so good. And you know, thinking
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back on where I started, it's
it's pretty incredible. And he was a
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big part of that journey, a
major, major part of that good journey
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because I rode that journey with him
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you, Fred aj'all again took the
show, took the station in New Heights.
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be here. I don't know that
a lot of us that are currently on
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ESPN ninety seven five would be here
without without those years and without the success
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of the Blitz and where it took
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Fred just a huge fixture for ninety
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sad, sad time. And yeah, my thoughts go out to them and
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to you as well, John,
because obviously you worked alongside him more often
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than I did, producing the shows
and everything, and you know it was
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he's a close person to you,
and you know I knew him, and
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I wasn't necessarily super close, but
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like you mentioned that, he's leaving
two young kids behind, and I
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think I think will is writing for
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they grow too, and it's just
it's amazing, Like it's just you know,
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you think the first time I met
Will, he was like, you
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know, he was a little kid, and then the next time I saw
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him, he's taller than I was. Later it was like, man,
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that ower fower Gene is very very
strow friends friends. A friend's not a
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short guy. Frit's like two,
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he towers over me. But you
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two, six foot one something like
that. Ag is like six foot three,
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and I know you're pretty tall too, so but yeah, it's it's
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crazy how how much, uh,
you know, things changed throughout the years.
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And yeah, it's uh, he
has a gofund me and I need
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to find it and we can mention
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I'll find it and we'll mention it, plug it in at the end of
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the show. Yeah, he needs
some you know, the four family need
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some help paying some you know,
funeral expenses. So I'll mention that at
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the very end of the show.
I need to find it first. But
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yeah, it's a very sad,
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a little mad that we're spending so
much time, on on on on him.
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to move on and and people celebrate
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his life. And I know he
didn't want this morning. He's mentioned this
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multiple times. He does not want
everybody mourning him at his funeral. But
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it's gonna happen. It's gonna happen
soon. So it's you know, but
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we have to do. We have
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honor your friend. So rest in
peace. Fly high, Falcon, Fly
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High. I'll also include the GoFundMe
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so if anyone wants to check it
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episode and click on the link there. Jong's let's move to what we've been
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watching as of late, and of
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watching Halo, but let me really
quickly start off with Invincible, because that's
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come back for the rest of its
season two finish for the last I think
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it's four episodes. You haven't had
a chance to watch it as of yet.
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I got to has to watch it
yesterday. As of this recording.
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I think a lot of the complaints
have been it took too long to get
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to the second part. But now
that it's here, it doesn't miss a
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beat. It's so many different things
happening all at once, the Grayson family
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back together, the Grayson family.
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much, but there it is a
thoroughly bloody, incredible comeback for this next
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part of the season. Of course, dealing with the fallout of where we
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ended with the Vultrumites attacking the Thraxins
and attacking Mark and an Omniman and taking
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Omniman and of course leaving Mark all
jacked up. But this first episode kind
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of deals with the ramifications of that, as well as letting Mark get back
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to Earth and dealing with the fallout
of being gone for so long. And
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yeah, again, the show doesn't
miss a beat. It's just as good,
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just as bloody. It's it's a
good comeback. Just a little too
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long of a wait, I would
say. Yeah, I know a lot
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of people are pretty upset on when
they decided to take this break, and
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then when they started promoting it there
you know, the rage came back like
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this is I okay, I I
for the I for one at the time
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understand and now I still understand,
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whole thing is if you're going to
do something, do it correctly and take
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your time. My assumption here is
that the animators needed some more time to
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finish and they didn't want to put
them under crunch, and I understand that.
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I do understand that, but there
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you do have to wait. What
is this like three months? I don't
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think so, it's like about three
months of a wait. That was in
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December. I think it was.
It's almost three months if it didn't hit
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three months. But I had say, people's frustration why you know, you're
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like, oh, well, we
waited all this time, and you know
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you're only releasing half the episodes and
now it's coming back, and you know,
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it's frustrating that we have to wait
this long. I get that part
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too, you know. So,
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maybe you guys shouldn't have released the
first half of the season so soon.
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Maybe you should have waited until twenty
twenty four to release it all. And
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if you needed a break to animate, you know, more stuff then take
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maybe like a month off or something
instead of three. That might have been
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a better react way to do it. But people are still still going to
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watch this. I had a pretty
long week. I had a bunch of
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stuff I had to do, but
so I didn't get to watch Invincible.
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I did get to watch the other
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from the weekend. But yeah,
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episode. I heard shocking things that
happened to this episode. I heard people
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say, Oh my god, I
can't believe they adapted this from this from
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the comics in this episode, So
I can't wait to watch this episode.
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Yeah, there's so much that they're
like, I'm not familiar, super familiar
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with the comic itself, but there's
so much that they're introducing that like Mark
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and the rest of the heroes have
to deal with all at the same time
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of not only that, but trying
to balance the personal issues, you know,
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with Mark having been gone for so
long, coming back to his girlfriend
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and trying to work that stuff out, trying to work out with his friends
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again, and just trying to balance
superhero life with just regular life, but
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at the same time that superhero life
is extra brutal in terms of there's some
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gnarly deaths in this in this comeback
episode, and and I it left me
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shocked to say the least, and
some shocking relevant revelations too by the end
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of the episode that leaves you going, h I see what's happening now,
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and I'm very curious to see what
they do coming up in the next I
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think it's only three episodes and then
really quit going back. The first part
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of Invincible season two aired in November
of twenty twenty three, so it's been
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Yeah, it's been about three months, three and a half months since we've
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gotten to watch these characters. I
kind of wish, like, kind of
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what you were saying, why not
save it for the anniversary of the Invincible
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comic releasing, which was March thirteenth. Why not just save it all for
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that and have it to where it
releases week to week to week. But
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hey, it is what it is. It's it didn't hurt the content,
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didn't hurt the goodness of Invincible because
it's back and it's great man, and
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it's definitely worth the watch when you
get a chance to watch it. Yeah,
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I didn't know it was only three
episodes, so I think people have
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more reasons to complain. Yeah,
it's only gonna be I think it's an
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eight episode season in total, so
there's only four left. So now,
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yeah, well, I guess it's
uh. I mean, if you're if
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you're you know, if you're keen
on binging, then I guess it's not
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the worst thing in the world to
wait, you know, three, I
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guess even two more weeks, two
and a half more weeks for everything to
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come out and just kind of watch
it all at that at once. I'm
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gonna try to watch two episodes this
week and then the final one the following
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week. So yeah, I can't
wait to watch these. The last thing
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I will say, and I think
Invincible does this better then a lot of
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other shows, is they're able to
balance the emotional with the over the top
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you know, violence and gore and
everything. They balance it really well.
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There is a heartfelt opening to this
new part of the season. Of the
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rest of season two, there's a
really heartfelt opening with Mark and the thractions
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and where it takes him in the
beginning, and there's some heartfelt moments for
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Eve and some other characters, and
it's just they do that very well without
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it feeling forced or feeling cheap or
anything like that. Like it's it's a
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good emotional punch that they give you, especially when you get to Sandra O's
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character Debbie. She delivers some emotional
punches left and right. And also they've
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made me care about Donald, the
guy with the glasses that works alongside the
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guy who runs it, runs the
government secret thing. I forget his name
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off the top of my head,
but they've created some storyline from for Donald
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to work with, which I thought
was really interesting. So it's it's a
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good show. Definitely go check it
out if you have a chance to watch
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Invincible. Now let's go to things
that we both have watched, and let's
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start off with showgun spoiler alert,
spoiler alert, spoiler alert, Wan Man,
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what a What? At first was
like a Okay, we're learning the
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tactics, we're learning this and that, and then, as a lot of
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people said, the final like five
minutes, holy crap minutes, it was
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like the final minute, yeah,
like final few minutes of it just incredibly
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shocking to say the least. What
did you think of episode four of Showgun.
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Yeah, like you were saying,
we get to you know, some
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backstory on or not backstory, We
get some teachings on how you know,
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you know, John doesn't know how
to train a you know, infantry.
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He knows how to command and you
know, at least somewhat of a command
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a naval a naval force, and
so he knows how to use cannons,
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and so he starts teaching them how
to use cannons. He gets closer to
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there's a couple of relationships that he
gets he gets a little bit closer to
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which kind of saw that one of
them coming. So it's like, uh,
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it was nice. It was a
nice change of pace. The frantic
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last episode was you know, pretty
quite frantic, and so you're kind of
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thinking, okay, they're gonna dial
it back a little bit and you know,
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and then go from there kind of
set up kind of let us breathe
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for a little bit and then kind
of go and you know, set up
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story. And it was you know, to that point, it was you
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know, getting up there and then
you started to see the chest pieces move
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a little bit more right where you
know, his son, uh, Tornaga's
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son was. It felt like he
was a little gun. He was just
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kind of like he wanted to he
was trigger happy. He wanted to do
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something. He wanted to prove himself. Essentially, I guess this is old
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Japan, NEPO baby syndrome mayor.
He wanted to do something. He was
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like, you know, I want
to prove prove, you know everybody that
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I'm not just you know, my
son, my you know, son of
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my father, who is you know
great, But you know I want to
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come out of the shadow and all
that, all that jazz. But yeah,
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and then the final you know,
the final minute, the final two
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minutes of the show of that episode, it was explosive. I guess you
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would say, to say the least, it was something that, Yeah,
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it was something that we kind of
didn't see coming. I think I don't
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know if I would have said I
would have saw that coming. At the
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very end. I think his plan
might have I would imagine his plan might
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have kind of taken an episode to
kind of like think about. But it
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just, you know, he sold
the seeds in that episode. He wanted,
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you know something, he wanted to
do something, and he did and
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it happened at the very end,
and I mean, I guess won't power
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to you for taking that up,
of taking that into your own hands,
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but that was probably not very smart. Well, it's interesting too because when
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you bring up the sun, he's
the one that earlier in the episode tells
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his dad Tornaga, about like I
forget the I didn't I meant to write
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the line, but I didn't write
it. But it was something about like
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an ambitious ally can also be like
I don't know that you could trust the
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ambitious ally that or an ally that
has ambitions. And so Toronaga doesn't end
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up staying in the village. He
stays on the ship because it's probably safer.
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But by the end of it,
his ambition kind of undercuts probably a
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lot of what Tornaga was planning with
this initial like just basically shot of war.
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I mean, war has begun now
that he's taken the first shot,
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and that's probably what Tornaga was not
wanting to do exactly, at least not
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in this way. But you have
so many different characters in this with ambitions,
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from Tornaga's son to Omi, who
is the nephew of the uncle that's
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got ambitions of his own. He's
kind of playing Tornaga's son to kind of
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he puts that little like bug in
his ear about decisions and stuff like for
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his own ambition. Like ambition was
a big part of this episode, and
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I think and it played out in
a lot of ways for different characters.
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Yeah, and there was the like
the mistress Chio, I think that's how
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you say her name, like she
she basically you know, essentially inceptions omi
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and kind of like gets in his
head and you know, he's like,
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oh, you know what about you, Like you're you know, you deserve
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something. You know I'm paraphrasing too, Like she's essentially getting in his hands,
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like you deserve something too, and
so you need, you know,
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take what's yours whatever, forget what
she said. But that gets into his
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head and he talks Tornanga's son and
that it was kind of a you know,
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it was a domino effect, and
I I just you know, I
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love a chess match between you know, among everybody. And and it's it's
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a one season show and there's not
a lot of episodes left, so I
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it's it's gonna be These seeds seem
like it should be. It's sown for
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multiple seasons. It feels like because
right now if Cheo sees this, you
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know, so's the seed. What
is she trying to do? What what's
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her long term ambition or her what's
her goal? Is it to kind of
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become something higher than what she is, which is I think she's just a
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servant right now. Is it something
that you know she wants uh to be
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on the you know, on on
the only side when he becomes something bigger,
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like a lord or something. It's
it's kind of cool to just kind
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of see these all these different chess
chess matches being played among everybody, and
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I think, you know, it's
it. This is the first moment where
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I'm like, Okay, well and
now I see why people call it Game
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of Thrones, like the ending.
Like up until this point, I was
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like, no, it's not.
I mean, I can understand why you
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think it's Game of Thrones. It's
uh, you know, you're you know,
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fighting for a crown. There are
multiple you know, different families and
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alliances. I get that part,
But it didn't feel like Game of Thrones
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where it was going to be like
a long, long, drawn out,
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you know, slow moving story with
a lot of explosive and shocking moments.
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This was this one this show,
you know, feels it felt like there's
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a goal at the end where he
becomes a showgun, and we're kind of
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going the ride of how he becomes
a showgun, and so like I was
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like, okay, this is this
is interesting and then now we kind of
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see why people kind of call this
game of Thrones, where you have a
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lot of different you have a lot
of different sides here. There's not two
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sides. There's not you know,
there's not one side. There's not the
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Christian side, and there's not the
Japanese side. There's just there's multiple sides.
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There's a lot of different story going
on. And now I'm thinking or
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now I'm wanting more seasons, but
I know they're not going to do season
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two, So I'm curious to see
how they're going to play all of this
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out because if they don't, I
feel like, if they don't pay off
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on her, you know, her
sowing that seed in Omi's head, I'm
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gonna be a little disappointed. I'm
not gonna lie because that was something that
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I didn't necessarily see coming. And
I'm like, oh, this is something
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that I hope they explore. Where
is what's what's her motivation? What does
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she want out of all this?
Could she be the the rat or the
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mole or whatever that is? Like
where is she at? Or like who
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is this leak leaking info? Do
you think it could be her? Oh?
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Yeah, I mean she's in a
prime position where she's not you know,
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they're not very suspicious about her because
she is just kind of there.
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But she is in the ear of
his nephew, which is a very powerful
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thing. And and and he doesn't
even your shoot gie, I figured how
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you say his name. But but
I really don't think he thinks his nephew
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is very bright. I think he
thinks his nephew is okay, But I
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don't think he's I don't think he
thinks his nephew is a big threat.
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And I think I think he should
think otherwise. And now you kind of
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see, not not for the fact
that he is, but combine his thinking
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process with chio, I think that
makes a I didn't say, I wouldn't
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say a powerful couple, but that
makes it a very manipula, manipulative couple
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that can get some stuff done.
I don't think he will ever ascend and
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become very powerful, but he has
a chance to become a lord and a
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chance to you know, at least, you know, kill some people off
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and be a little bit of a
past. But I don't think he's he
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thinks that way. Yeah, he
could be. He could present some very
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uh big problems for the tour Naga
side, just because like this episode showcased
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the power struggle that's going on between
the different groups within Toro Naga's army,
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if you will, and like the
even the like the opening when Naga shows
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up and the army starts chanting his
name instead of the uncle's name, and
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it's just like little things like that
are getting under people's skin and forcing people
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to make these not rash decisions,
but these again manipulative decisions that are going
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to result in something in the coming
episodes, because yeah, there is a
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lot to resolve, and we only
have six episodes left of the show with
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with the episode the fifth episode coming
on the day of this recording. We're
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recording the day the episode five releases, so there is a lot to unpack.
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It's very bloody. I also liked
that Fuji pointed the gun at at
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at Omi. That was pretty good. I like that at the cannons,
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Holy crap, those are accurate cannons. Was not expecting the super accuracy of
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those cannons and uh yeah something and
of course interesting developments with with Blackthorn and
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Marry Co and their budding relationship if
you will. But yeah, Who's a
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solid, solid episode. Do you
think Fuji told her to go in there
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and have at it? I kind
of feel like kind of America kind of
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kind of implies that. Yeah,
I feel like that was the case.
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Yeah, I like that was the
other thing. It's like, I don't
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think America is just gonna sneak in
there, like very like. It just
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felt like that was something where the
two of them talked about it. Yeah,
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it almost feels like, you know, I might be the front,
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but you know he's yours kind of
thing. Mm hmmm. Because if you
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if you questioned Tornado, you're you're
you're dead. You know, oh yeah,
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you're dead dead, You're you're extra
dead at this point. Any other
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thoughts about Showgun episode four before?
I mean, just looking forward, looking
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ahead, I I just I can't
wait. It's a it's and here's the
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other thing, Disney, come don't
come after me. But Hulu's doing this
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thing where they're just following Netflix where
they're doing, uh, you know,
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one account for household. We sure
Hulu with something else. I don't know
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when this is gonna happen. I'm
gonna have to find an a way to
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watch this thing. Yeah, but
no. But regarding the show, you
458
00:34:39.679 --> 00:34:44.000
know, I'm I'm looking very looking
forward to, you know, the aftermath
459
00:34:44.039 --> 00:34:47.360
of all this. I'm also looking
forward to when they start showing the Ronans.
460
00:34:47.760 --> 00:34:51.960
I think that's when it's gonna you
know, the business is going to
461
00:34:52.039 --> 00:34:54.320
pick up tremendously, and I would
imagine the Ronans are going to be on
462
00:34:54.320 --> 00:34:58.840
the side of Tornaga. I mean, I guess there's no side because they
463
00:34:59.199 --> 00:35:02.960
basically as you know, mercenaries or
you know, weapons for hire because I
464
00:35:04.039 --> 00:35:06.400
you know, torn Nugga needs all
the help that he can get. And
465
00:35:07.800 --> 00:35:09.440
yeah, I mean I think we
kind of see where all this is kind
466
00:35:09.440 --> 00:35:14.119
of going to at the very end. But the journey is going to be
467
00:35:14.199 --> 00:35:19.000
very very interesting and very great.
I love the intricacies of these characters that
468
00:35:19.039 --> 00:35:22.840
are all interwoven together, and it's
it's been very very good so far.
469
00:35:23.239 --> 00:35:28.199
Last question I just thought of,
do you think Blackthorn's men are still alive?
470
00:35:30.559 --> 00:35:35.360
Odds? Odds are that they're not, but odd, they're low,
471
00:35:35.519 --> 00:35:40.320
very low. I'm trying to think
of it from a storytelling perspective. There's
472
00:35:40.360 --> 00:35:45.239
no reason for him them to be
alive, right, Yeah, I don't
473
00:35:45.239 --> 00:35:50.440
think they're alive. Yeah, there's
no way. There's no way. Yeah,
474
00:35:50.480 --> 00:35:53.239
I think they're dead. They're just
dangling on a carrot like carrot on
475
00:35:53.320 --> 00:35:57.519
string kind of thing to kind of
kind of motivate him to do stuff.
476
00:35:57.559 --> 00:36:00.639
But I don't. I don't think
they're I don't think there's a finito.
477
00:36:00.760 --> 00:36:02.159
I don't. I don't know that
they are. No, they're not.
478
00:36:02.880 --> 00:36:07.559
Yeah, I don't. I didn't
think so either. Okay, let's jump
479
00:36:07.599 --> 00:36:15.920
to what I think. Showgun is
definitely appointment viewing Halo, but solid episode
480
00:36:15.960 --> 00:36:30.440
with episode seven spoiler alert spoiler alert
spoiler alert. With Halo episode seven,
481
00:36:30.519 --> 00:36:36.119
we got to see the fallout,
of course, of master Chief touching the
482
00:36:36.199 --> 00:36:43.360
fore Runner Keystone. We saw Halsey
and Miranda Keys and Kwan going into a
483
00:36:43.400 --> 00:36:52.400
Forerunner structure inside of Onyx. Of
course, the Prengngoski's big plan that it's
484
00:36:52.519 --> 00:36:57.239
kind of dumb but whatever, and
uh yeah, we saw some interesting things
485
00:36:57.239 --> 00:37:00.960
and Chief finally got his armor back. So what do you think of episode
486
00:37:00.039 --> 00:37:05.760
seven. Okay, so before we
start on this, and this does does
487
00:37:05.840 --> 00:37:10.679
es have something to do with the
episode? I you know, and I
488
00:37:10.719 --> 00:37:15.559
watched this. I want to say, I watched this on Friday, so
489
00:37:15.599 --> 00:37:20.239
this comes out on Thursdays, right, Ye? Yeah, So I watched
490
00:37:20.239 --> 00:37:25.039
this on Friday. And I try
to stay off of you know, reading
491
00:37:25.239 --> 00:37:30.000
you know, spoilers or whatnot,
but there are people that talk about,
492
00:37:30.159 --> 00:37:34.679
you know, the characters and just
the source material and everything like that.
493
00:37:34.719 --> 00:37:39.440
And I saw something very interesting.
It's kind of a spoiler for this episode,
494
00:37:40.000 --> 00:37:45.280
but it talked about how Kai the
interaction between Kay and Master Chief,
495
00:37:46.559 --> 00:37:51.880
and how master she was, you
know, very upset and rightfully so,
496
00:37:52.599 --> 00:37:57.679
and how he was very angry with
her and wasn't showing very much compassion.
497
00:37:58.440 --> 00:38:04.960
But somebody posted a The same person
posted a screenshot of the video game one
498
00:38:04.960 --> 00:38:07.800
of the video games where Master Chief
is talking to somebody. I don't know
499
00:38:07.840 --> 00:38:13.280
who he's talking to because my knowledge
on Halo lore is not very very extensive.
500
00:38:13.599 --> 00:38:16.000
I barely remember the first game.
I know I played one and watching
501
00:38:16.039 --> 00:38:20.719
my brother play two. But he
was talking to somebody and it looked like
502
00:38:20.760 --> 00:38:27.400
he was like it might have been
Colonel Keys or is it Colonel Captain Keys,
503
00:38:27.400 --> 00:38:30.280
Captain Keys. It might have been
Captain Keys, I don't remember,
504
00:38:30.280 --> 00:38:35.440
but it was almost the exact same
situation where that character in the video game
505
00:38:35.840 --> 00:38:39.880
does something that should have upset master
Chief, but master Chief kind of like,
506
00:38:40.159 --> 00:38:45.079
instead of scolding him, kind of
tells him calmly, more of a
507
00:38:45.079 --> 00:38:49.119
bigger picture, and like, how
kind of people make mistakes, And I
508
00:38:49.119 --> 00:38:51.480
don't judge you on this kind of
thing. I know who you are,
509
00:38:51.519 --> 00:38:53.519
I know your character, and blah
blah blah, and I'm like, man,
510
00:38:53.679 --> 00:38:59.519
they really really changed the character of
master Chief in the video in the
511
00:38:59.559 --> 00:39:01.719
TV show, oh you know.
And if I didn't see that, I
512
00:39:01.719 --> 00:39:06.000
would have been okay with it,
And now that I see it, I'm
513
00:39:06.039 --> 00:39:10.079
like, I can't unsee it.
Like, I think, deviating so much
514
00:39:10.119 --> 00:39:15.079
away from the Master Chief character and
the way that he is, I think
515
00:39:15.679 --> 00:39:19.039
is a disservice to the character.
And I wish that, you know,
516
00:39:19.119 --> 00:39:24.039
they would let the staff play the
video games at least to get a sense
517
00:39:24.039 --> 00:39:29.760
of what kind of person that he
is. So that kind of colored my
518
00:39:30.480 --> 00:39:35.559
vision on how I viewed the episode. I thought it was in terms of
519
00:39:35.679 --> 00:39:39.039
just straight you know, episode wise, I thought it was okay. I
520
00:39:39.119 --> 00:39:43.880
think it was like maybe a mid
seven, like which for Halo is actually
521
00:39:43.880 --> 00:39:47.159
pretty good. Maybe it's a low
seven. But knowing what I know now
522
00:39:47.159 --> 00:39:52.119
about the master Chief character, it
was very disappointing that they didn't adapt that
523
00:39:52.880 --> 00:39:57.800
part of master Chief into this version
of master Chief, into this version of
524
00:39:57.880 --> 00:40:01.599
John. I really wish that maybe
they should go back and you know,
525
00:40:01.679 --> 00:40:06.480
rethink on how you know, they
developed some of these characters. But for
526
00:40:06.519 --> 00:40:09.599
the most part, I enjoyed the
episode. I didn't enjoy what Soron was
527
00:40:09.599 --> 00:40:14.480
doing. I'm like, you're looking
for your son this entire time, and
528
00:40:14.599 --> 00:40:17.119
all of a sudden you do a
one eighty flip because you went through the
529
00:40:17.119 --> 00:40:21.480
same thing and you know, you
want your son to stuff for for this
530
00:40:21.800 --> 00:40:25.400
entire series, you were very very
you know, you were very strict on
531
00:40:25.480 --> 00:40:30.760
how you know where and how your
son was being treated. And now you
532
00:40:30.800 --> 00:40:32.599
make this one eighty switch and then
you make the one aide switch again,
533
00:40:32.719 --> 00:40:37.079
and I'm like, I didn't like
that. I really really didn't like that.
534
00:40:37.039 --> 00:40:40.440
I did like the I do.
I really like how they're using the
535
00:40:40.519 --> 00:40:45.280
Quan character. I really like how
she's kind of deviating away and kind of
536
00:40:45.280 --> 00:40:50.639
being her own character even but she's
also helping, you know, the core
537
00:40:51.519 --> 00:40:54.239
main protagonists. Right, She's a
very she's becoming a very useful part,
538
00:40:54.800 --> 00:40:59.639
uh to this synergy of all these
characters. I did like that part.
539
00:41:00.079 --> 00:41:06.280
And where that hell did Halsey go? Whatever the artifact was. Once Miranda
540
00:41:06.360 --> 00:41:08.960
Keys, doctor Keys opened it,
she looked up and then she was gone.
541
00:41:09.079 --> 00:41:15.079
She I tailed it out of there. Yeah, she's like, uh
542
00:41:15.199 --> 00:41:19.960
miss uh doctor Halsey. She goes
up and she's gone. She is Absolutely
543
00:41:20.360 --> 00:41:23.239
they need to explain what the hell
has just happened. I don't I know,
544
00:41:23.280 --> 00:41:25.840
I'm just gonna running through all this
stuff, but you could address some
545
00:41:25.880 --> 00:41:34.679
of this. I really don't like
how the antagonists are, uh. They
546
00:41:34.760 --> 00:41:40.159
seem very weak, uh and stupid. I understand both of them, both
547
00:41:40.199 --> 00:41:45.559
of them, Parngoski and Akerson.
Akerson in the first half of the season
548
00:41:45.760 --> 00:41:50.800
was this villain that you know,
it's either his his way or the highway.
549
00:41:50.840 --> 00:41:52.719
You're not gonna stop me. If
you try to stop me, then
550
00:41:52.719 --> 00:41:54.559
I'm gonna do something about it.
And then all of a sudden his balls
551
00:41:54.599 --> 00:42:00.719
triple up when he goes up against
Paran Parrengosky right, Just like, well,
552
00:42:02.599 --> 00:42:05.679
if I had to go against one
of those two, one of hit
553
00:42:05.840 --> 00:42:07.760
her or John, I think I
would pick my fight with Pengosky. You
554
00:42:07.800 --> 00:42:14.679
can you can manipulate your way around
her, and you can physically subdue her
555
00:42:14.840 --> 00:42:17.800
and take over command. With John, I don't think he could do either
556
00:42:17.800 --> 00:42:22.360
one of those. But he did
it anyway, right. He didn't physically
557
00:42:22.360 --> 00:42:27.199
you know, restaind him, but
he used his resources to to sign sideline
558
00:42:27.280 --> 00:42:31.039
John for quite some time doing that. Seems like he's a very smart person.
559
00:42:31.639 --> 00:42:36.599
And then all of a sudden he
does his flip when he's up against
560
00:42:36.679 --> 00:42:39.880
the wall being choked by John,
and then he goes to you know,
561
00:42:40.199 --> 00:42:45.960
goes up against Perengosky, and you
know, he you know, divides this
562
00:42:45.079 --> 00:42:47.239
plan and to do all this stuff, and I'm just like, come on,
563
00:42:47.360 --> 00:42:52.800
man, like you I feel like
in terms of in terms of what
564
00:42:52.880 --> 00:42:55.679
you believe in his morals and is
like what he just believes in. I
565
00:42:55.719 --> 00:42:59.960
think he his his beliefs is so
strong that he, you know, he'll
566
00:43:00.039 --> 00:43:02.239
do whatever he wants he wants to
to get that thing done. And then
567
00:43:02.280 --> 00:43:05.719
he just kind of I don't know, I don't know, I don't know
568
00:43:05.760 --> 00:43:07.880
how I don't know if they know
where each character is going. At the
569
00:43:07.880 --> 00:43:10.960
beginning of the season, it's almost
like, Okay, we have this type
570
00:43:10.960 --> 00:43:15.360
of character that fits this trope,
and we're gonna use this until it doesn't
571
00:43:15.360 --> 00:43:20.079
benefit us anymore. And I think, you know, taking him, taking
572
00:43:20.079 --> 00:43:23.000
that character and just kind of basically, you know, crumpling up and throwing
573
00:43:23.039 --> 00:43:27.119
him in the trash can was was
very just. I didn't like the character,
574
00:43:27.280 --> 00:43:30.760
but you did a very big disservice
to the Akerson character. And Perengoski,
575
00:43:30.840 --> 00:43:36.000
Oh my god, what an idiot. I get. So I understand,
576
00:43:36.159 --> 00:43:39.719
I understand that. But she is
so arrogant that the person that is
577
00:43:39.800 --> 00:43:45.119
in charge of your spartan three's is
telling you they're not gonna make it,
578
00:43:45.239 --> 00:43:47.960
like none of them are going to
make it. And she's like, well,
579
00:43:49.000 --> 00:43:51.039
she's basically, you know, her
plan was like, you know,
580
00:43:51.119 --> 00:43:53.960
if only one make it, it's
fine, but he's telling you none of
581
00:43:53.960 --> 00:43:57.440
them are going to make it,
like none of them they're not trained for
582
00:43:57.480 --> 00:44:00.000
this. And so this is her
hell Mary. This is her hell Mary.
583
00:44:00.960 --> 00:44:06.119
And if she wasn't so damn stubborn
about it, she'd go and find
584
00:44:06.239 --> 00:44:08.679
John and Kai and you know,
if they didn't let this, if they
585
00:44:08.760 --> 00:44:13.239
at least told what was going to
happen on you know, on Reach,
586
00:44:13.320 --> 00:44:16.039
they would have been better prepared.
And maybe they say, Vanik and Riz
587
00:44:16.079 --> 00:44:21.039
doesn't get shot up in the back, and you have at least four spartans
588
00:44:21.480 --> 00:44:25.440
to to lead this suicide mission.
But it's just like, come on,
589
00:44:25.559 --> 00:44:30.440
man, I'd like the writing.
Here is a problem, and this is
590
00:44:30.480 --> 00:44:35.599
it's going to it's going to it
not going to It hurts the show because
591
00:44:36.079 --> 00:44:40.159
visually it is. I think it's
beautiful. The way that you're portraying.
592
00:44:40.639 --> 00:44:45.800
The armor looks great. John's armor
looks great. The that the Covenant,
593
00:44:46.039 --> 00:44:50.119
the short amount of time that we
see the Covenant. Can it be better?
594
00:44:50.239 --> 00:44:52.880
Yes, but I think it looks
good. I look, it looks
595
00:44:52.920 --> 00:44:55.159
good. For what it is,
it's good. Yes, yes, yes,
596
00:44:55.239 --> 00:45:00.199
it's good. And it's frustrating to
watch because the writing is not on
597
00:45:00.239 --> 00:45:04.039
par with everything else. So acting
it's fine, some characters are very good,
598
00:45:04.159 --> 00:45:08.199
some are okay. But it's just
like that's the least of the problems.
599
00:45:08.440 --> 00:45:12.280
They need to fix this writing.
The Showgunner needs to go. They
600
00:45:12.280 --> 00:45:15.000
need to bring somebody and this is
the second show winner isn't it. I
601
00:45:15.000 --> 00:45:20.920
believe so, And they need to
bring somebody in that understands the Halo lore
602
00:45:21.519 --> 00:45:28.360
and it understands the character behind all
of these people and just does it justice.
603
00:45:28.440 --> 00:45:31.000
It just doesn't make any Some of
the stuff they do doesn't make any
604
00:45:31.039 --> 00:45:35.599
sense. And that's the frustrating part
of me. Because frustrating part because it
605
00:45:35.639 --> 00:45:39.000
can be a good show because it
has potential. It definitely has potential,
606
00:45:39.039 --> 00:45:45.039
and it's displayed that over the course
of this new season. I think it's
607
00:45:45.119 --> 00:45:50.719
been a better season than season one, but there are frustrating like flips for
608
00:45:50.800 --> 00:45:53.960
certain characters, like you mentioned the
store and flip with Kessler, like oh,
609
00:45:54.360 --> 00:45:59.079
he's got to pick his battle or
whatever he says, but then he
610
00:45:59.159 --> 00:46:04.639
ends up fighting the different UNSC training
personnel. Anyway, that was a weird
611
00:46:04.719 --> 00:46:07.480
like flip to have in that moment. And also they're just hanging around Thermopyla
612
00:46:07.639 --> 00:46:10.679
like it's nothing like I just feel
like there would have been some you know,
613
00:46:10.760 --> 00:46:15.440
soldiers around there to maybe stop them
from just hanging around. But whatever,
614
00:46:15.599 --> 00:46:22.079
Parangosky and Akerson, I think they
they had this idea of them being
615
00:46:22.119 --> 00:46:28.440
the super smart behind the scenes villains
that are not physically imposing, but mentally
616
00:46:28.480 --> 00:46:32.519
and tactician. As tacticians, they're
smart, but so far everything that they've
617
00:46:32.519 --> 00:46:38.400
showed of them hasn't been smart or
hasn't been Oh, they've outthought things.
618
00:46:38.480 --> 00:46:45.639
I think Akerson. My knowledge of
Akerson got better with the oh he's leading
619
00:46:45.679 --> 00:46:50.320
the Spartan threes, that's why he
didn't care about the Spartan twos and setting
620
00:46:50.400 --> 00:46:52.039
up master Chief in this way and
blah blah blah blah. I was like,
621
00:46:52.079 --> 00:46:54.679
okay, I can, I can
see that. But this episode with
622
00:46:54.719 --> 00:47:00.880
Peregovski, where it is just it
comes across as just arrogance and to throw
623
00:47:01.639 --> 00:47:06.679
like this is baffling to me.
There is a giant like Covenant Armada,
624
00:47:07.639 --> 00:47:13.280
and your plan is to send these
different condors, which are mid size ships,
625
00:47:13.320 --> 00:47:15.719
they're not very big ships, with
a bunch of Spartans on them,
626
00:47:15.800 --> 00:47:22.800
and just throw them like again cannon
fodder towards the Covenant Armada Armada and like,
627
00:47:24.000 --> 00:47:27.239
okay, none of them got through, let's do it again. Like
628
00:47:27.280 --> 00:47:30.039
it it's baffling to me, Like
why aren't you like setting up a plan
629
00:47:30.199 --> 00:47:35.960
to where like you're distracting with major
ships and then these Spartans kind of come
630
00:47:36.000 --> 00:47:38.159
through around the backs, like around
the flank or something like that. Like
631
00:47:38.199 --> 00:47:42.719
it was just baffling to me that
this was, like, this is your
632
00:47:42.719 --> 00:47:45.760
big plan is to just throw spartans
at them and then just hope one of
633
00:47:45.800 --> 00:47:50.440
them works and hope one of them
lands with a spike. Also, how
634
00:47:50.440 --> 00:47:52.800
many spikes are there? Like are
you just blasting through all these spikes?
635
00:47:52.840 --> 00:47:57.480
Like it's nothing Like it's just really
I don't know, it's really like a
636
00:47:57.519 --> 00:48:02.000
weird, dumb kind of plan,
you know, I don't, I don't
637
00:48:02.039 --> 00:48:09.920
know. I did not love that
Master Chief. He is vastly different from
638
00:48:10.280 --> 00:48:15.400
from the Halo games, and I
think the thought process there was to make
639
00:48:15.519 --> 00:48:22.119
him more I guess what's the word, just more like combative towards the leadership
640
00:48:22.159 --> 00:48:29.360
and everything. And while I get
it, but at certain times it's frustrating
641
00:48:29.400 --> 00:48:36.039
because again it again goes back to
my thoughts is Master Chief was able to
642
00:48:36.079 --> 00:48:39.159
display emotions and different things when he
was in the armor, and it's just
643
00:48:39.559 --> 00:48:43.679
this this group does not know how
to do that, so they take him
644
00:48:43.679 --> 00:48:45.760
out of the armor. All the
time. He's it's been like I don't
645
00:48:45.760 --> 00:48:49.199
know, however many episodes. I
mean, he's finally back in the armor,
646
00:48:49.519 --> 00:48:52.599
thank goodness, but it's still I
don't know that they fully understand the
647
00:48:52.679 --> 00:48:57.280
character. I get that you want
him to be a little bit more complex,
648
00:48:57.360 --> 00:49:02.760
a little bit more complicated, because
obviously the video game version is designed
649
00:49:02.800 --> 00:49:08.360
for the player to insert themselves as
this masked character and let them feel like
650
00:49:08.400 --> 00:49:13.039
they're Master Chief. I get it, and he is more about the cause
651
00:49:13.079 --> 00:49:19.719
and doesn't really question a ton of
orders necessarily, but there are certain instances
652
00:49:19.760 --> 00:49:23.199
where it's like, that's not really
Chief, that's don't I don't think y'all
653
00:49:23.239 --> 00:49:28.159
are getting the gist of it.
I do like that they've added these different
654
00:49:28.239 --> 00:49:32.159
layers to Chief in different ways,
but I think it's come at a at
655
00:49:32.199 --> 00:49:37.679
a cost in certain situations. Again, with folks that he's having to deal
656
00:49:37.719 --> 00:49:43.679
with with Perengovsky and Akerson and all
this. Like to have a season where
657
00:49:44.440 --> 00:49:47.360
he's only fought the Covenant like once, it is kind of weird to me.
658
00:49:47.639 --> 00:49:52.320
Like to have him go up against
O and I for a majority of
659
00:49:52.360 --> 00:49:57.760
the season can be interesting, but
like the Covenant are still like the ultimate
660
00:49:57.800 --> 00:50:02.840
bad. This is not like h
Lanisters and the night Walkers White Walkers are
661
00:50:02.880 --> 00:50:07.880
all that where like, oh yeah, the Lanisters are the problem that we
662
00:50:07.920 --> 00:50:09.039
got to deal with. Yeah,
we'll get to the White Walkers whatever.
663
00:50:09.159 --> 00:50:15.920
Now the Covenant are actual like threat, they're there. How do we not
664
00:50:15.079 --> 00:50:20.800
deal with them until? Like episode
eight is weird to me and also to
665
00:50:21.679 --> 00:50:27.519
seemingly everyone understanding that the Halo Ring
is a weapon. It's kind of weird
666
00:50:27.559 --> 00:50:31.760
to me as well, Like I
just I don't know, Like there is
667
00:50:31.800 --> 00:50:36.119
a whole aspect of the game where
it's like, oh, we don't know
668
00:50:36.159 --> 00:50:39.440
what it is, and the Covenant
kind of know but don't really know.
669
00:50:40.280 --> 00:50:44.519
So let's, you know, let's
discover it and do all this and that,
670
00:50:44.559 --> 00:50:47.320
and everyone's treating it like a weapon
or right off the bat. But
671
00:50:49.199 --> 00:50:53.079
I don't know anyone knows the scale
of this weapon or what it's actually intended
672
00:50:53.119 --> 00:50:57.960
to do, except for well,
I don't know how much Kwan would know.
673
00:50:58.079 --> 00:51:04.440
But I think Kwan's story is more
interesting because that moment when the star
674
00:51:04.599 --> 00:51:09.239
map that her, Halsey and Miranda
are seeing and it goes from white stars
675
00:51:09.280 --> 00:51:13.960
to the red stars and they're like, oh, that's the Empire expanding,
676
00:51:14.599 --> 00:51:20.039
and I think Kwan realizes, no, that's something spreading and not what they're
677
00:51:20.079 --> 00:51:24.000
thinking at all. And I don't
know if it's gonna be Halsey and Miranda
678
00:51:24.159 --> 00:51:29.840
or whoever's gonna unwittingly let loose the
flood at some point, but that seems
679
00:51:29.880 --> 00:51:34.039
like we're building up to that.
That'd be great. I mean, I
680
00:51:34.079 --> 00:51:37.239
mean in terms of not in terms
of the human survival, but in terms
681
00:51:37.239 --> 00:51:42.039
of just visually. Oh, I
say visually, because you know, like
682
00:51:42.920 --> 00:51:45.480
it'd be awesome to kind of see
on screen, you know, if they
683
00:51:45.480 --> 00:51:47.760
do it correctly, if they do
it, you know, because it's it's
684
00:51:47.800 --> 00:51:52.239
it's it's a huge you know,
it's a huge threat, and it's gonna
685
00:51:52.280 --> 00:51:54.480
be you really something like that.
You're looking forward to a giant battle,
686
00:51:54.519 --> 00:52:00.239
right. I do think one of
the problems that they have is not it
687
00:52:00.239 --> 00:52:05.480
doesn't it's not within the story.
I do think they are probably on a
688
00:52:05.519 --> 00:52:09.199
budget restriction, and I think that
might be one of the reasons why we
689
00:52:09.239 --> 00:52:14.000
haven't seen The Covenant that much,
and when we do it's just what's his
690
00:52:14.119 --> 00:52:19.000
name, the the Arbor. I
think that's one of the reasons too,
691
00:52:19.119 --> 00:52:24.079
is you're on Paramount Plus, a
streaming service that from all indications, isn't
692
00:52:24.119 --> 00:52:28.559
doing the best. You know,
you're you're limited on what you can do
693
00:52:28.599 --> 00:52:32.119
with budget, so I think that
is probably working against them, and it
694
00:52:32.280 --> 00:52:36.639
just it kind of sucks. But
yeah, that's I would imagine that's why
695
00:52:36.639 --> 00:52:39.079
we don't see the Covenant all too
often. Yeah, that would be my
696
00:52:39.119 --> 00:52:43.480
guess too, honestly, which kind
of sucks too, because like Covenant or
697
00:52:43.679 --> 00:52:46.960
really interesting characters are can be,
especially now that we have the Arbiter and
698
00:52:47.000 --> 00:52:52.320
everything. But it feels like we're
finally going to have John on the Halo
699
00:52:52.400 --> 00:52:57.400
Ring finally in episode eight. How
Quan fits into that I think is vastly
700
00:52:57.480 --> 00:53:01.880
important and vastly intrigue because I think
she's going to be the warning bell for
701
00:53:02.280 --> 00:53:08.760
the flood and what they can possibly
do. I don't know, like if
702
00:53:08.800 --> 00:53:13.920
she how much she knows about it, or she just knows it's a monster
703
00:53:14.079 --> 00:53:17.559
or whatever. But I'm hoping we
get the teas to the flood at the
704
00:53:17.719 --> 00:53:22.519
very end of episode eight, at
the very least a tease to the very
705
00:53:22.639 --> 00:53:27.519
end. I wonder about Kai and
Perez because if they are going on the
706
00:53:27.559 --> 00:53:30.159
suicide run, do they make it
or do they just try and end up
707
00:53:30.440 --> 00:53:36.000
heading towards the Halo Ring and try
and get to it. Some way,
708
00:53:36.000 --> 00:53:38.920
because there's I don't think there's any
way that the spike is getting planted in
709
00:53:38.960 --> 00:53:44.000
the next episode. There's there's just
too many Covenant ships, there's too many
710
00:53:45.000 --> 00:53:47.400
things happening all at once for them
to be able to even make it.
711
00:53:47.880 --> 00:53:52.440
They're probably screwed. I don't know
if both of them die, but maybe
712
00:53:52.440 --> 00:53:57.440
one of them possibly bites it in
episode eight and while the other one sees
713
00:53:57.519 --> 00:54:00.719
or something like that. But yeah, I just can't see the spike working.
714
00:54:00.800 --> 00:54:06.400
And then I just hope Kortana and
Chief have a reuniting outside of just
715
00:54:06.760 --> 00:54:12.320
him guiding her guiding him through doorways, and eventually we get to a moment
716
00:54:12.519 --> 00:54:15.480
I guess. I guess it's happening
on the Halo Ring, and then I
717
00:54:15.519 --> 00:54:22.360
don't know, we'll see what happens
with Perengoski or Akerson because outside of outside
718
00:54:22.400 --> 00:54:25.679
of those two, I don't know
that there's anybody that they can introduce that
719
00:54:25.719 --> 00:54:30.679
would cause a problem for this those
two. Outside of I guess Chief being
720
00:54:30.719 --> 00:54:36.119
alive, that truth coming to pass, and maybe that somehow brings down Perengosky
721
00:54:36.119 --> 00:54:39.599
and Akerson. Outside of that,
I don't know what's going to bring them
722
00:54:39.639 --> 00:54:43.840
down. In the next episode.
We'll have to wait and see, obviously,
723
00:54:43.920 --> 00:54:46.840
but yeah, it's set up for
some interesting things, but at the
724
00:54:46.880 --> 00:54:52.320
same time some frustrating things. How
much training do you think Prescott in between
725
00:54:52.400 --> 00:54:58.199
when she was on that planet and
when she is now a Spartan three,
726
00:54:58.239 --> 00:55:05.239
Because I feel like being a communications
fish specialist and then being essentially now a
727
00:55:05.280 --> 00:55:10.159
Spartan three, that's a massive job. That's unbelievable. Man Like I like
728
00:55:10.280 --> 00:55:15.079
that character. I like Talia Perez
I do. I think she almost bring
729
00:55:15.400 --> 00:55:20.840
brings a and I wish that she
and John can share more screen time together
730
00:55:20.840 --> 00:55:23.559
because she almost brings like a calming
presence and kind of can talk talk to
731
00:55:23.639 --> 00:55:28.239
him. And now she's a Spartan
three and she gets thrown into all this
732
00:55:28.400 --> 00:55:32.000
And in one of the characters,
one of the you know, character points
733
00:55:32.000 --> 00:55:37.360
that I do like about her is
like she I don't know what John's gonna
734
00:55:37.400 --> 00:55:39.400
do. It feels like he's going
to the Halo Ring. It feels like
735
00:55:39.960 --> 00:55:44.679
that's where he's headed. But it
almost felt like Perez kind of talked him
736
00:55:44.679 --> 00:55:47.199
out of it and said basically said
come help us kind of thing. It
737
00:55:47.239 --> 00:55:52.960
almost feels like he's second guessing himself. So that part that that I really
738
00:55:53.039 --> 00:55:57.280
like, that part of that character
is you have somebody else in John's ear
739
00:55:57.320 --> 00:56:01.559
that basically is like helping him think
about what he needs to do or what
740
00:56:01.599 --> 00:56:06.360
he has to do, or it's
just the thought process what's the right thing
741
00:56:06.360 --> 00:56:10.880
to do. But it's just like, it's unbelievable that she can go from
742
00:56:10.960 --> 00:56:16.760
a communication specialist that was very bad
at shooting on that planet she didn't know
743
00:56:16.760 --> 00:56:21.440
how to work a gun, uh
to being a Spartan three, which is
744
00:56:21.440 --> 00:56:24.679
supposed to be an elite group,
in which from all indications that group is
745
00:56:24.719 --> 00:56:29.239
not very elite. The way that
they've been training, like it just looked
746
00:56:29.280 --> 00:56:35.039
bad. Yeah, they they completely
rushed, Like Spartan threes are like it.
747
00:56:35.199 --> 00:56:37.719
Like I've mentioned in the last couple
episodes, Spartan threes are disposable to
748
00:56:37.760 --> 00:56:44.000
a certain extent in the books,
but they're way more closer to Spartans than
749
00:56:44.079 --> 00:56:50.280
what they have betrayed with these Spartan
threes on the show. These these Spartan
750
00:56:50.480 --> 00:56:58.400
threes feel more like odsts to a
certain extent. Odsts are orbital drop drop
751
00:56:58.480 --> 00:57:01.400
shock troopers, I think is the
what they stand for. They feel more
752
00:57:01.400 --> 00:57:06.840
akin to that than they do to
actual Spartan threes. Spartan threes can actually
753
00:57:07.440 --> 00:57:10.800
hold them hold up against an Elite
or two or whatever, not quite as
754
00:57:10.800 --> 00:57:15.440
good as master Chief, but this
one, their training makes zero sense.
755
00:57:15.480 --> 00:57:20.199
Like there's no way she could be
a Spartan three after having been a communication
756
00:57:20.320 --> 00:57:23.360
specialist because the time jump only feels
like it's been like a couple of weeks
757
00:57:23.599 --> 00:57:28.360
and she's already like, helping lead
a mission as a Spartan three makes no
758
00:57:28.480 --> 00:57:32.719
sense whatsoever. Yeah, they almost
feel like those stormtroopers in space malls.
759
00:57:34.840 --> 00:57:38.239
They're like they seem incompetent, not
that bad, but or they just feel
760
00:57:38.239 --> 00:57:44.880
like stormtroopers, Like they don't feel
elite to me. Those they if anything
761
00:57:44.960 --> 00:57:49.559
they needed, if anything, they
just rushed the story and just kind of
762
00:57:49.760 --> 00:57:52.880
made just kind of threw them out
there, showing them fail a bunch of
763
00:57:52.880 --> 00:57:58.719
times, never and then when they
succeeded, it almost felt like they did
764
00:57:58.760 --> 00:58:02.679
something to to help them succeeds.
It was too easy, right, and
765
00:58:02.760 --> 00:58:08.559
so it just you just didn't develop
that story long enough to make viewers realize
766
00:58:08.599 --> 00:58:13.639
that, hey, these are some
formidable troops and their armor they don't look
767
00:58:13.760 --> 00:58:20.960
very elite, right, They just
it looked like they didn't spend much money
768
00:58:21.000 --> 00:58:28.440
on that gear. And compared to
the Spartans like Kai and master Chief and
769
00:58:28.599 --> 00:58:34.880
Vanik and Riz there the armors very
thin and they're all short. They're not
770
00:58:35.119 --> 00:58:37.239
very menacing in the presence. Isn't
like, you know, they're not going
771
00:58:37.320 --> 00:58:42.679
to catch you. They just look
like regular troopers. Mm hmmm. Yeah,
772
00:58:42.719 --> 00:58:46.360
that's why I relate them more to
odsts than actual Spartans in any way.
773
00:58:46.519 --> 00:58:51.000
In any way, they also,
like, I know, Spartan three's
774
00:58:51.079 --> 00:58:54.239
are supposed to be I guess more
human to a certain extent, but these
775
00:58:54.320 --> 00:59:00.199
just feel like, I don't know
what what's making these soldiers Spartan three he's
776
00:59:00.239 --> 00:59:05.000
outside of Did they just recruit him
and they just got some fancy suits to
777
00:59:05.039 --> 00:59:08.360
a certain extent that are better than
an infantry person, But like what makes
778
00:59:08.360 --> 00:59:14.199
them actual Spartan threes. I haven't
seen that like that case be made as
779
00:59:14.239 --> 00:59:19.440
of yet. They just seem like
soldiers in not as cool armor that everyone
780
00:59:19.519 --> 00:59:23.119
just calls Spartans, like there is
no indication as to what has made them
781
00:59:23.119 --> 00:59:28.519
better. I know in some of
the other Spartans that pop up in the
782
00:59:28.559 --> 00:59:32.239
games, like there's a character who
was an odst that becomes a spartan.
783
00:59:32.559 --> 00:59:36.519
But he does, I want to
say, he goes through some kind of
784
00:59:36.519 --> 00:59:42.199
procedure to help him be stronger,
faster, and different things like that.
785
00:59:42.400 --> 00:59:45.079
These characters don't seem like they've gone
through anything outside of put put on some
786
00:59:45.239 --> 00:59:52.079
armor. Yeah, it's just it's
disappointing. Disappointing. Indeed, Well,
787
00:59:52.719 --> 00:59:54.159
real quick, Jong, we got
a couple of things that I want to
788
00:59:54.199 --> 00:59:58.360
get to before we run out.
X Men ninety seven, Hey, it
789
00:59:58.440 --> 01:00:04.039
premieres this week. Are you excited
for X Men ninety seven song? Yes?
790
01:00:04.119 --> 01:00:07.719
I am, actually I uh,
you know, it's one of those
791
01:00:07.760 --> 01:00:13.159
things where you get all these when
people say ads and promos don't work.
792
01:00:13.199 --> 01:00:15.760
They work, They work. They
just you know, the hype is real
793
01:00:16.320 --> 01:00:22.199
and it's it's gonna be I think
when we talked about this, I couldn't
794
01:00:22.199 --> 01:00:23.559
promise of you if I was gonna
watch this or not. I'm gonna watch
795
01:00:23.599 --> 01:00:29.239
it. It has a bunch of
nostalagi, of factors that make it make
796
01:00:29.320 --> 01:00:36.119
me want to watch it. It's
you know, I think just hearing the
797
01:00:36.199 --> 01:00:38.000
music is it does it for me? No? No, no, no,
798
01:00:39.079 --> 01:00:44.519
no no. And they released the
clip on social media where they're fighting
799
01:00:44.519 --> 01:00:50.679
a bunch of sentinels and it just
kind of brought me back and just them
800
01:00:50.880 --> 01:00:55.119
doing work on sentinels and beasts,
rearranging and modifying the sentinels on the go,
801
01:00:55.880 --> 01:01:00.400
and then using the sentinels against the
sentinels was amazing. And you know,
802
01:01:01.400 --> 01:01:07.480
it's it's it hits all the right
buttons in the nostalgia factor and I'm
803
01:01:07.480 --> 01:01:12.360
gonna be sitting here watching it and
I hope it gets renewed. The showrunner
804
01:01:12.400 --> 01:01:17.880
creators not coming back because there are
some reports that saying that he's a bit
805
01:01:17.920 --> 01:01:22.559
of a bit of a creep on
OnlyFans. Other people have said that,
806
01:01:22.599 --> 01:01:28.519
well, it's not any explicit stuff. There is a report from the Hollywood
807
01:01:28.559 --> 01:01:35.679
Reporter saying that he does go on
these you know rants on Twitter, you
808
01:01:35.719 --> 01:01:38.760
know, responding to people, and
he deleted I think he deleted his account
809
01:01:38.960 --> 01:01:44.960
in May of last year. And
so he's had some problems with social media
810
01:01:45.039 --> 01:01:47.880
and stuff like that. And I
don't know how bad it could have gotten
811
01:01:49.880 --> 01:01:58.719
to warrant a firing a little over
a week before the biggest animation show,
812
01:01:59.519 --> 01:02:04.639
Marvels done ever, I think is
going to get re released, Like what
813
01:02:04.679 --> 01:02:08.119
could what could possibly if you've done
for you to be fired eight days before
814
01:02:08.119 --> 01:02:13.199
the premiere. It's just crazy.
I want to know what happened, and
815
01:02:13.559 --> 01:02:16.039
it could could have been some of
the stuff that happened on only fans.
816
01:02:16.079 --> 01:02:22.039
Maybe I it's just maybe Disney just
doesn't want their creators to be on only
817
01:02:22.079 --> 01:02:27.280
fans. I don't know, because
like they knew about it. It's something
818
01:02:27.280 --> 01:02:29.920
he had been running two years.
Yeah, two years. Yeah, he's
819
01:02:29.960 --> 01:02:36.119
not for two years. And he
did finish writing season two just recently.
820
01:02:36.840 --> 01:02:40.840
So and so far they seem to
be going ahead with his work into season
821
01:02:40.880 --> 01:02:45.119
two. So and the creator were
referencing, I don't know that we said
822
01:02:45.159 --> 01:02:51.239
his name, Bo Demeyo. No
reason was given for his firing, just
823
01:02:51.559 --> 01:02:53.679
a couple of days, like you
said, away from the premiere, and
824
01:02:54.000 --> 01:03:00.199
just a few days before the red
carpet premiere of the show. Yeah,
825
01:03:00.239 --> 01:03:01.559
I don't know. This one's strange. This one's really weird because I don't
826
01:03:01.559 --> 01:03:08.159
know that we've seen this from any
show. But yeah, like his work's
827
01:03:08.199 --> 01:03:14.519
done, he won't be part of
it moving forward. I don't know that
828
01:03:14.559 --> 01:03:17.440
we'll ever find out what really happened. If it was something with OnlyFans,
829
01:03:17.519 --> 01:03:22.079
or if it was something online that
he said. You know, it's a
830
01:03:22.119 --> 01:03:27.000
mystery right now, no one has
responded or given their side outside of they've
831
01:03:27.039 --> 01:03:30.800
just moved on and they're going in
a different direction. So yeah, I
832
01:03:30.800 --> 01:03:35.760
don't know. But the show itself, it looks good. The animation looks
833
01:03:35.760 --> 01:03:39.559
good. The sentinel clip that you
referenced there earlier looks made me get even
834
01:03:39.599 --> 01:03:45.519
more amped up for the show.
I'm excited to see the combinations that they
835
01:03:45.559 --> 01:03:47.760
do. And one thing that I
found interesting when I was reading there was
836
01:03:47.800 --> 01:03:52.480
an extended article I think from the
Hollywood Reporter about X Men ninety seven and
837
01:03:52.519 --> 01:03:58.159
they referenced cameos about if they're gonna
have cameos like the original show did because
838
01:03:58.159 --> 01:04:02.199
in the original show, Spider Man, Ironman, Captain America, like different
839
01:04:02.280 --> 01:04:08.280
classic characters popped up a lot in
that show. They said cameos would be
840
01:04:08.360 --> 01:04:15.039
happening in X Men ninety seven.
I'm hyped. I'm definitely hyped to see
841
01:04:15.320 --> 01:04:20.320
who they include, the possibilities that
they continue on from picking up from where
842
01:04:20.360 --> 01:04:25.760
the last episode of season I guess
it was five or whatever of that show
843
01:04:26.039 --> 01:04:29.760
left off at. I'm just excited
for it. I can't wait for X
844
01:04:29.800 --> 01:04:33.360
Men ninety seven, which is premiering
March twentieth, with two episodes that we
845
01:04:33.400 --> 01:04:36.719
can check out Last Thing. I
do want to get to teen Titans,
846
01:04:36.719 --> 01:04:40.400
but I feel like we could have
a longer discussion about that. I'll save
847
01:04:40.440 --> 01:04:44.280
that for next time. But Last
Thing before we run out. Venom three
848
01:04:44.519 --> 01:04:47.360
has a title and a new release
date. The new release date is now
849
01:04:47.440 --> 01:04:51.840
October twenty fifth of this year instead
of November eighth, and it is now
850
01:04:51.880 --> 01:04:59.039
titled Venom The Last Dance. The
screams to me another rom com. I
851
01:04:59.159 --> 01:05:03.360
just have a feeling we're gonna get
a rom com around Halloween time, except
852
01:05:03.360 --> 01:05:08.960
it's with Venom and Eddie Brock.
Oh. I think you were gonna say
853
01:05:09.119 --> 01:05:15.920
spider Man zero. Yeah, I
have zero interest in watching this unless Spider
854
01:05:15.960 --> 01:05:20.119
Man is involved. I didn't watch
Venom two. Let there be carnage.
855
01:05:20.239 --> 01:05:26.880
I the Last Dance, I don't
know. Maybe is it a reference to
856
01:05:26.960 --> 01:05:30.559
a comic book, because I don't
know what the Last Dance is reference referencing
857
01:05:30.599 --> 01:05:34.639
to. Is it referencing to the
last time They're gonna He's gonna graze the
858
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screen as Venom. That's what I'm
figuring because the only other reference I could
859
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come up with was the Jordan documentary. So I don't know, Yeah,
860
01:05:45.119 --> 01:05:49.719
me too, Why else there is
no comic to my knowledge of Venom with
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01:05:49.760 --> 01:05:54.760
the last dance. That's why it
screams to me like we're doing a last
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01:05:54.840 --> 01:05:59.159
dance between Eddie Brock and Venom.
Tom Hardy's Venom is this is the last
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time we'll be seeing the character at
least for some time, and this is
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their last dance, which makes me
It just screams to me, brom Com
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01:06:05.239 --> 01:06:11.440
again. Second one was rom Com, Yes it was. There was elements
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01:06:11.440 --> 01:06:15.360
of rom Com in the second one. Interesting all right, yes, yes,
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01:06:15.760 --> 01:06:24.360
very interesting. Well the Sony Versus
at it again. Hey, I
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01:06:24.400 --> 01:06:30.039
want to mention one thing. The
Madame Web released on on whatever you could
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01:06:30.039 --> 01:06:34.840
buy Madame Web, you could stream
it. I don't think I've ever seen
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01:06:35.440 --> 01:06:42.760
people do a reverse on a movie
that was bad more than Madam Web.
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01:06:42.840 --> 01:06:46.159
I'm like, what are y'all doing? They took they were taking screen grabs
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01:06:46.159 --> 01:06:50.079
from Madame Web comparing it to you
know there they're actually you know, shooting
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01:06:50.119 --> 01:06:55.880
in the street in Madam Web or
whereas you know, Spider Man No Way
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01:06:55.880 --> 01:07:00.400
Home. They're digital, they use
CG for for there's shots h you know,
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01:07:00.440 --> 01:07:02.360
in the middle of the street or
blah blah blah. I'm like,
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01:07:04.800 --> 01:07:11.519
how short is our revisionist history to
where we're doing this with Madam Webb.
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01:07:11.599 --> 01:07:15.199
I don't understand, Like, if
you think Madam Webb is amazing, you
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01:07:15.199 --> 01:07:18.039
should have went out and supported Madam
Webb and maybe they wouldn't have all this
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01:07:18.119 --> 01:07:21.920
problem. Maybe you know, maybe
there actors and actresses aren't dis in the
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01:07:23.000 --> 01:07:27.880
movie, like where were you a
month ago? What are you doing?
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01:07:28.480 --> 01:07:31.639
Like you guys are crazy, Like
this is crazy. There is some while
882
01:07:31.760 --> 01:07:38.000
I saw one of these tweets from
someone that was like talking about the diner
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01:07:38.079 --> 01:07:43.480
scene where the villain comes in in
full suit and just murders the Sidney Sweeney
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01:07:43.800 --> 01:07:46.719
character and the other some of the
other characters, and they're like this is
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01:07:46.760 --> 01:07:51.039
the best, you know whatever,
better than mcu has ever done or something
886
01:07:51.079 --> 01:07:55.199
like that, and it was just
like, are you serious right now?
887
01:07:55.239 --> 01:07:57.800
Like this is one hundred percent?
And then you like look at some of
888
01:07:57.800 --> 01:08:00.760
the tweets and it's like, oh
no, it's a bad movie and it's
889
01:08:00.800 --> 01:08:04.000
bad writing, but but man,
this right like it contradicts itself at the
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01:08:04.000 --> 01:08:09.079
same time and it's just like,
I think you're just here for engagement,
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01:08:09.239 --> 01:08:14.159
is what I'm guessing, because you're
making zero sense with your arguments about this.
892
01:08:14.480 --> 01:08:18.800
This is also a film or a
scene where the main character hits the
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01:08:18.880 --> 01:08:24.199
villain with a car for the second
time in this movie, and it's just
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01:08:24.279 --> 01:08:28.920
like, that's what we're saying is
goaded or whatever. I don't, I
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01:08:28.960 --> 01:08:31.039
don't. I don't understand. I
don't understand the youth these days strong.
896
01:08:31.119 --> 01:08:35.720
I just don't understand. Yeah,
I mean, I don't think. I
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01:08:35.760 --> 01:08:41.319
don't know. When's the last time
we saw a movie go from theaters to
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01:08:41.319 --> 01:08:46.640
to on demand so quickly. It's
like, yeah, it's just it's pandemic
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01:08:46.680 --> 01:08:51.880
time all over again. Where movies
would go to streaming the day of release.
900
01:08:51.960 --> 01:08:56.960
It's it's it's it's wild. It's
another thing. Spider Man Now Way
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01:08:57.000 --> 01:09:00.760
Home was filmed during the pandemic.
So you know, if you're gonna complain
902
01:09:00.840 --> 01:09:03.760
about you know, them CGI in
New York City, well they couldn't do
903
01:09:03.840 --> 01:09:09.920
much with restrictions and whatnot. So
there's that. Also, Madam Webb should
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not get credit for live action shooting
or whatever. Just because they shot on
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01:09:14.600 --> 01:09:18.079
a street does not make that any
good. That's no. The writing is
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01:09:18.199 --> 01:09:23.199
terrible. The acting is fine,
but they don't have much to work with.
907
01:09:23.720 --> 01:09:27.760
But like, oh okay they're in
the street. Oh okay, cool,
908
01:09:28.239 --> 01:09:30.079
they didn't do it on the green
screen of blue screen? Oh riveting?
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01:09:30.800 --> 01:09:35.399
Tell me why the main character is
Oh god, there's so many things.
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01:09:35.479 --> 01:09:41.479
Also, the spider people in the
Amazon. That's the whole screen grab
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01:09:41.560 --> 01:09:44.479
situation that I don't know if you've
seen, but that is one of the
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01:09:44.479 --> 01:09:47.760
more baffling decisions of that movie.
Yeah, the less I see, the
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happier I am, the better.
It might be one of those things where
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01:09:54.319 --> 01:10:00.479
and I did this with it X
Men, which you will the last one
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01:10:00.479 --> 01:10:03.000
of Phoenix. I forget what the
title was, Dark Phoenix or whatever.
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I did it with that movie.
I haven't done this a lot in my
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lifetime, but when I get bored
I have nothing to do, I go,
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01:10:15.319 --> 01:10:20.479
how bad can this movie be?
I did it with Avatar The Last
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01:10:20.520 --> 01:10:27.000
Airbender, which to this day,
to this day is the worst movie I've
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01:10:27.439 --> 01:10:33.079
ever seen. X Men, whatever
the Phoenix movie is called, the very
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01:10:33.199 --> 01:10:40.079
very last X Men movie was god
awful. And so within the next couple
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of years, I do feel like
if I get really really bored. It's
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either morph in time where it's sitting
down and watching Madam Webb. It's one
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01:10:51.520 --> 01:10:56.640
of those two. I feel like
and and I think that's gonna be the
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01:10:56.680 --> 01:11:00.880
best intro to a podcast ever.
Oh, I can't wait for that.
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That's the only way I'm gonna be
watching any of the Sony Spider Man movies
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01:11:03.359 --> 01:11:10.439
is if I get so bored there's
nothing else to watch. I can't wait
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for that day. I am so
excited for you to see one of these
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01:11:14.319 --> 01:11:17.319
terrible, terrible movies. If you
had to do it all over again,
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01:11:17.359 --> 01:11:24.800
which one would you watch? Morebius? If I had to pick morebeus,
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Yeah, well then then maybe I
will watch Madam Web. Yeah you know
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01:11:29.880 --> 01:11:32.720
Saturday, I've got nothing to do. Yeah, throwing Madam Web and yay
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that terrible dialogue. That's gonna do
it. Yeah, we'll see that's gonna
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do it. For today's issue of
Comentcast Issue five hundred and twenty nine,
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thank you all for tuning in listening
wherever you are. We appreciate you as
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always. You can follow us on
social media. I'm at Producer Mike nine
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review, share, subscribe to podcast
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If I start step cool, we
really appreciate it and we will touch to
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you guys next week, oh before
we jet off, before we jet off.
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If you want to donate to the
Falcon fundraiser, if you just search,
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01:12:13.920 --> 01:12:16.439
if you go to if you just
go to your Google and search Fred
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01:12:16.479 --> 01:12:20.039
Fower, go fund me will pop
up. But you can also go to
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go fund me dot com, backslash
f backslash, fred Dash, the Dash,
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d Dash, the Falcon, the
Dash, Falcon Dash our Dash Fundraiser.
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I know that's a little more difficult, but yeah, just go and
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01:12:33.079 --> 01:12:38.119
search Fred Ffower Fundraiser or go fund
me and you will find it there.
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And I'll drop the link in our
show description for this for this week,
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so if folks didn't catch it,
they can always look down into description and
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click on the link. And one
last thing, one last thing too to
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01:12:50.600 --> 01:12:57.479
marinate for next week. Apparently,
according to Daniel RpK. King, the
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01:12:57.520 --> 01:13:00.479
Conquer is still going to be the
main villain for the Avengers movie that they
953
01:13:00.560 --> 01:13:03.039
want to add another villain, Deadpoole, be introduced in the new concept of
954
01:13:03.039 --> 01:13:10.119
the Multiverse of one being in every
universe that without them, the universe will
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01:13:10.119 --> 01:13:14.479
die. The idea right now is
to have mister Sinister as the main villain
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01:13:14.479 --> 01:13:17.039
for the X Men reboot. MCU
ghostwriter will not be the same as one
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01:13:17.439 --> 01:13:20.680
appeared in Agents and Shield, so
take that for what it's worth and we
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01:13:20.720 --> 01:13:25.920
will. We can talk about that
next week. I want mister Sinister.
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01:13:26.479 --> 01:13:35.079
Yeah, Okay, that's all.
That's greater done till tomorrow. Stay sports,
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you bitches.
