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Fandom Flashback - February 2024 · Fandomonium! A Fandom Comedy Game Show

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Hello, leap Frogs. I come to you today with sad tidings and some
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happy tidings that should average out to just tidings. So here are some tidings.
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I've never said that word so many times before. The bad news is
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due to some audio technical difficulties, we've lost an entire episode of Gate Sleepers,
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and due to the nature of this podcast taking a long time to research,
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to write, to prep, to organize, to record to edit,
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it's just not possible to put something else together in the timeframe at the level
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we're at within the podcasting industry. So yeah, I'll say now, it
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was a Star Wars prequels episode. It featured some of my favorite people,
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and because of that, it was a lot of fun. And I feel
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confident saying that to you, even though you're not going to listen to it.
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It was a good time. Lots of good jokes were made. Just
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assume all of the prequel references were made and good riffs were made about them.
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I'm sure sometime next year we'll revisit the Star Wars prequels with different games
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to play so that it can feel like an organic space again. But if
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we just went right back to trying to rerecord it. I don't think we'd
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capture the magic, and I think you'd agree. But the good news is
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the feed won't be empty this week. We've decided to drop our latest Patreon
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bonus episode for free here on the main feed, our fandom flashback for February
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of twenty twenty four. And the reason I'm excited about that is we tried
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a new format for our fandom flashback for this episode, and I was really
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pleased with how it turned out. Our bonus episode tends to be a look
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back at the releases from the previous month, so it's a bit more like
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a topical version of Gateleapers, but this time I decided to make games being
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inspired by the headlines and the big news stories and releases, so I think
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it just makes a more cohesive listen. And yeah, if the job's done
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correctly, you should feel like myself. Audra and Jason take you back through
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February of twenty twenty four, all the way back to that time you know
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that was three weeks ago, and relived twenty nine days worth of content via
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the classic gate Leapers medium of games and challenges and laughs and fun. And
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the reason I'm extra excited is we recorded this on leap Day, February twenty
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ninth, the day for Gate leapers, because that means I only have to
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think about it once every four years. Thank you so much for your support
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during this not really difficult time. Much more difficult things are happening in the
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world. But I appreciate everyone who reached out and was like, I'm sorry
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you lost an episode. I know that must be stressful. It was for
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a couple of minutes, but then I spun it into a positive thing and
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here we are. And if this is your first time listening to one of
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our fandom flashback episodes in total, and you have a good time with it,
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we drop one of these on around the first of every month and it
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comes with supporting us on Patreon for just a few dollars a month and you
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get this bonus episode as well as access to the video recordings from our regular
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episodes you know when they turn out. So that's Patreon dot com forward slash
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gateleepers, if you'd like to support us. Thank you so much to a
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couple of people who've recently joined at that first tier. It means a whole
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lot to see people support us, and hopefully this kind of content is the
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thing you enjoy in return, and because I won't be able to do it.
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At the end of this episode, thank you to Derek Logan of This
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Parish for supporting us at the highest tier, the games Master tier at patreon
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dot com. Forward slash Gatesleepers. It's because of your support that we can
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make extra content like this, and we have backups when the random chance of
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technical glitches gets in the way of things. I don't think I'll have anything
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to say on the other side, so please just sit back and enjoy this
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fandom flashback for February of twenty twenty four. It's Leap Day. Leap February
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twenty ninth, the perfect day for this Podcastleepday. Oh yeah, is this
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our It's this our national holiday. I think it is because that's great because
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we only have to celebrate it once every years. Yeah, we get four
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years to prepare for the festivities. Yes, we take turns sleeping on each
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other. Yeah, that that happens. The leap day leaps we call them,
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yep, where we leap on each other for the number of years we've
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were alive or the number of years that gate Leaper has been brought in.
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Oh, okay, we won't die that way. Yeah. Yeah, I
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don't know if I can jump twenty seven times, let alone on one of
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you. But yeah, after we do the leap day leaps, we post
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a lot on social media. Apparently I did that today. I was like,
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I woke up going I hate posting on social media. But this day
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doesn't exist at any other point in time apart from once every four years.
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I can be a different version me for one day. Yeah, easy,
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one day every four years? What every four years? Every four years?
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I'll commit to that. This sounds like a stupid question. I'm gonna ask
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it out loud because that's content. Babe. Does everyone everyone in the world
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quote unquote celebrates leap Day? Right? Because everyone follows this crazy calendar I
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have? Yeah, I think so, Because so how we leap day science
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time? Oh? Yes, technically in order to move around the sun.
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Technically it's three hundred and sixty five days and six hours. Oh. I
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thought it was Greg Gregory being a little weirdo. Maybe he was a little
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weirdo, but there. I don't know if the science came prior to Gregory
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being a little weirdo or not. Freaking yeah. The Gregorian calendar. Yeah,
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is that it was her? Pope? Oh Len Pope Gregory sounds right,
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doesn't it. Yeah. I think I don't even know anything about him
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other than the calendar. But I think that I'm pretty safe. Historically speaking,
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most people can be referred to as like weird little guy. Yeah,
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yeah, there are a bunch of weird You're a weird little guy. If
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you have a if you have a me mobile, you know, yeah,
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we don't have a gate Leapers mobile yet. No, then we'd be weird
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little guys. Yeah, we would be speaking a weird little guys actually,
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Jason, Oh yeah, the frogs. We got to talk about the frogs
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that you've been I love them so much. Thank you, as Drew refers
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to them, my my little sons. I love that a lot. It's
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fantastic. There are a good bunch of sons. Thank you, thank you.
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Yeah, it's been a lot of fun drawing them. I I like
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their little subtle facial expressions. I'm really embarrassed by how much a literally flipping
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a frown upside down, like how much joy that gave me? It just
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looks like a bad It gave me so much joy. Like they look like
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he just looks it adds words are so hard that that's how much he impacted
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me. I'm leaving that in okay, but it swapped him not to looking
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joyous but looking genuinely touched, which is such a more complex emotion for this
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cartoon frog. Yeah, to keep feeling who is meant to represent fans of
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this game, showy or just the mascots of each fandom that we cover.
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That's your choice, depending on if you want to be known as a sad
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little frog on honestly honor. That's kind of what I'm hoping for. Like,
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like, we're not when it comes to this stuff. We're we're DIY,
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we're not professionals. We're doing what we can. Jason and I do
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put effort into things, though, So we have a brainstorming session and then
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we had then we had an ideas like creative session, and we basically came
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up with like, Yeah, we've got to go down the frog groupe because
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leap frogs, that's that's the nickname We've got gate Leapers, that's that'll be
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a cute thing on merch. And then we we really got into the minutia
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of like Okay, but what's this guy like? He is he someone who's
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super happy? Is he sad? Is he fulfilled? What's his home life
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like? Does he have a family? We went, oh, too sad?
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To he needs to be a little bit more bereaved, like like he's
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kind of a little lonely but has friends. Yeah, he's but hopeful.
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We went, oh, is it a mister toad mister frog kind of vibe?
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How do I translate that without being, you know, infringing on copyright?
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Yeah, we we went into it. It's I've never had people talk
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about my art so much. I'm really glad it's bringing such an illsted response
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here. But it really does feel like our collective son when you when you
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put it in those words. And soon our son will be available on a
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T shirt, maybe a beanie if we're looking. Yeah, but certainly all
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across, all across an upcoming website that we'll have by the end of the
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Yeah. For gate Leapers, please no one take gate leapers dot com.
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Don't you dare. It's Q three Q three unless you're buying it to give
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it to us, please don't do it. That's also fine. Yeah,
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but he'll be be all over that website and also some new podcast dot work
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coming up as well. So yeah, we're doing a whole rebrand. We're
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really leaning into this Gate Leepers thing. What did I what did I file?
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Name that? Gabe Leeper sent me some initial PNGs. It was like
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Gabe liber Gabe Leber feels like he feels like the HR guy at an accountancy.
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Honestly, as soon as we can start paying staff if your name is
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Gabe Liber, because yeah, that's this is where you belong. Yes,
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you'll get your own little frog as well. What are you into? Let
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us know if your names gave liba get in touch. Oh wait, this
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one isn't on the public feed. This one is out to the ten people
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who we know are listening. Hello and welcome to Gatesleaper's fandom flashback. Where
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Matt that's me, Audra that's me, and Jason I think that's me.
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Look back at the last month through the lens of pop culture stories, big
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media releases, and what we've been consuming, like thirsty media elephants, slurping
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up all that content through our lovely big face noses. Yes, but of
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course, but of course there's a classic Gates Sleepers twist. The twist is
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this is a game. It's just like pal World in that we're highly derivative
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but also very cute guns and we're holding guns. Yes, if you're listening
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to this, you are a patron, So thank you so much for supporting
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us here on Patreon. This is your little bonus for the month of February,
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the shortest of the months, but this time a little bit a little
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less sure. Sorry, this isn't available to you on Leap Day. It
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will be the day after. Oh you'll be coming down from your Leap Day
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revelries and you'll require a bit of a bit of a bit of comfort,
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a little bit of joy exactly. Yeah, you'll have been lept on for
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however long your podcast has been running out. I know we've got a couple
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of patrons who that will be slightly longer than us, So yeah, prepared
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to get left on. I'm so sorry. Okay, I've read enough for
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this opening copy. Let's do our fandom flashback for February of twenty twenty four.
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Round one is our dance across the biggest media releases and pop culture stories
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from the last month, and it's called so Quotable. I have here a
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board of six quotes that I'm gesturing to, but they're not actually real.
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Uh, and Audro and Jason just have to buzz in and say what they
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think I am referencing. So before we carry on, Captains, og captains,
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what is your buzzer this month? What word would you like to sum
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up your February. I'm gonna say legends. Legends. Yeah, so right
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towards the end there, right towards the end, Pokemon Day happens, and
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there are some big announcements for Pokemon. I'm starting to get back into it
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as a hyperfixation, and a new Legends game got announced and I'm very excited.
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Hell, yes, nice, so Legends it is? Who will Legends
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be facing? This is cheesy, but it is also the month of Valentine's
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Day, of course, And I love my friends. I love our patron
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love love love. And also that makes our team names alliteration, all the
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ls loves Legends. Yeah, loving Legends. I love it and I legend
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it. Okay, your first quote of the month is from a TV series,
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and here's the quote. You will always be my friend Legends. Yes,
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Jason, is it Avatar? That's your TV show Avatar? Oh,
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I was like, I watched this so recently. It was like a quote
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from the first episode. Yes, it's his mentor before he's you know,
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murdered and genocide it. Yeah. Yeah, he says to Anger, you
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will always be my friend, which would be a touching moment if the acting
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from that gentleman was kind of hammy. But the kids are really trying.
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Well, yeah, okay, all try and I I'll confess we've only watched
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the first episode. But Jason, you've watched more of it, right,
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more of it? Yeah, I'm towards last two episodes of this adaptation.
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All of us here have watched the first season at least of the cartoon.
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Yes, so we're well armed with what this is adapting. Mm hmmm.
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Not only the actor could have acted that better. I also felt like maybe
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I would have cared about this old man a little bit better if I knew
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who he was, or if he didn't come across as just an older person
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in Ang's life. You know, he's like, yeah, I'm your friend.
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Aha, we made a laugh, didn't we. It's like, Okay,
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I guess this guy died uncle Grandpa, I guess. Yeah. I
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thought that was quite a dark scene. It was quite a dark I get
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them opening on the flashback from later in season one to do the chronological or
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yeah, to do chronological, but I thought that was I mean, maybe
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it's just because obviously there are genocides happening in the world today. It seemed
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very like, oh shit, this is a genocide that is being oldered right
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now. This is doc for a family. Ye, the undertones of this
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adaptation are quite dark. And that's that's something that this show has had a
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lout of, is like, there's criticisms towards this adaptation and what it's doing
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with the story. So I had a lot of criticisms. I had a
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lot of things where I went, I don't know if I'm fully bought into
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this or if I like this. I don't. I don't know if I
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like this or not, and trying to get over my bias and a lot
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of dumb internet comments that I've seen about criticisms and so and so forth.
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I can safely say moving forward into episode five, I am on board of
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this adaptation. And that's I think a very distinct thing that we need to
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talk about is that it's an adaptation. It's yeah, it's different, it's
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a different medium, And while the first few episodes are trying to more or
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less replicate the foundation, it starts becoming its own thing and it needs to
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be its own thing and people need to think of it as its own thing.
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Right, That's usually good for adaptation, Yeah, there for sure for
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adaptations. When you're taking something from one medium to another, the rules are
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different, Like the rules of things that you can do in cartoons are different
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from what you can do in live action, like The Last of Us,
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the amount of killing you can do in a video game versus the amount of
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killing your main character can do in a TV show live action. There's different
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rules for different mediums and also different times, so adapting different things about the
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situation. The point is to tell the story with the types of character arcs
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and growth in a way that will impact this audience with this medium. And
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I'm feeling cautiously optimistic. Yeah. Yeah, from the first episode, they
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seem to be nailing like the heart of the story. I certainly like the
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moll sort of touching moments between Aang and Katara of like really nailing the things.
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Oh yeah, we're just kids and now, but we're kids during wartime,
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So yeah, there's responsibility to be shouldered and we've got a step.
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I don't know it. They kept the themes there, yeah, for sure,
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for sure, I wish there was more levity towards it. But the
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kids are are possibly the best part of the show. Yeah. Maybe it's
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just because I expect less from younger actors. Yeah, but the adults pissed
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me off. And there was there was the scene where we get introduced to
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Zuka and I was like, oh, this this, I mean, he's
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probably not a kid, the one playing. He's probably early twenties or something.
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Yeah, yeah, but it's still a young actor. He's really given
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it everything. He's nailing the like I'm acting like slightly anime exaggerated style but
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keeping it like grounded and gritty enough. It's like that's awesome. And then
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the uncle comes in and just flat reads a line like he's in a scrape
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for you don't And it's like, well, this this kid's he's trying so
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hard and he's doing so well and you're giving him nothing. Maybe maybe that's
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also a theme too, is that adults sucking kids rule? Oh yeah,
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wait a second, di'mond adult. We're not We're not gen z we don't
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don't know how to slay, will never know how to slay, but you
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do know how to slay questions, Jason, because you've got a point for
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that. Thank you. Your next quote is from a film. When you
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take on the responsibility, great power will come legends. Yes, Jason,
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I don't watch this movie. You couldn't pay me to watch this movie.
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It's Madam Web. It's it is, indeed Madam Web, absolutely brutal.
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Was anyone interested in this? I mean, you know what my answer is
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gonna do. I wasn't interested in The Good Spider Man. It just sucks
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too, because it's like they Hollywood does this all the time. They're like,
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you see, women can't sell anything. There's not a good movie,
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just the women's But it's like, yep, did you try to make a
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good movie? I don't think. So they set them up every time,
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like I suppose not every time because Bobbie has booked the trend. Yeah yeah
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this year, so last year, so we can we can point to that.
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But definitely with these franchise things, they they wait until the hype is
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done in the genre or the scene or the movement, and then they go
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all right, now it's the ladies turn and it's like putting them out on
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stage when everyone has left the building. Alright, oh yes, it's like
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what you do it? Oh wait, you're doing it on purpose. I
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see yeah, oh yeah, you're demonstrating this to maintain the patriarchy within this
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money. Very clear, very clever. Yeah, I see what you're doing.
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Sneaky like a spider. You like that, don you? With all
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your spider movies? Yeah? I am curious because there is This is from
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the B movie studio, right, this is Sony. Yeah, this is
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the this is the Spum, the Sony Pictures, the universe of Marvel Movies,
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the Spum. I didn't expect there to be two m's with you,
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sorry Spum, but yeah, no one. This is from the studio that
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brought you. That's another nail on the coffin for this movie. The wondrous
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movies you know and love Venom of course, Venom two, of course,
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amazing Spider Man two. Wait, not that one they do that? They
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did do that one? Morebius uh? Oh of course? Yeah? And
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soon also super exciting movie that everyone's super into, Craven the Hunter. Oh
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yeah, Oka, wait, how many movies have they done now? What's
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this spum count? How dare you? How many movies? Did I say?
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Too many? Too many? Too many? Is the answers. It's
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sorry, I only wanted to say the joke. Yeah, I actually get
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although I will I'm gonna check because I think what was the last movie they
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released in this uh this world? Probably Venom. They're also technically responsible for
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the Spider Verse movies, but that's a fluke. That's also that's Sony Pictures
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animation, and they feel different. Yeah they're not so, I mean,
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technically, morbius. Have they had live action characters appear in the any of
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the animated movies? Yet? Across the Spider Verse they have Donald? But
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is he a cartoon or is he himself? No, he's himself Donald.
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It's not Donald Glover, is it No, Danny Glover's who I'm thinking it
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is, Dono. It is Donald Glover. Donald Glover shows up as a
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live action version of the problem. Okay, nic Yeah, so but again,
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that's not anyone's universe. That's just an Easter egg for us. That's
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just the thing. Yeah that happens. Yeah, so it's not like it's
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not like Tom Holland's just like hello, there I'm Tom Holland look at it.
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You're flat. That's weird. Oh no, yeah, it's it.
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I was just checking out the like what it did at the box office.
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Awful? Yeah, pretty bad. But I defended the previous ones, like
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even Mobius at the box office made three times what the budget was, and
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if something makes twice the amount of the budget, it's considered a success.
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Yeah. Yeah, so I went you made the money. Yeah, I
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went to bat for some of these movies that I'm never gonna by saying that.
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From a business point of view, I see why they're doing this.
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Yeah, but this one not so much. No, No, it's it's
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exactly like you said. It's it's you've tainted your brand with subpar products on
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top of a brand that is already starting to die out. People are tired.
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All the fans are tired, general audiences are tired with keeping up with
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a bunch of stuff. It was doomed to fail from the beginning, which
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is really unfortunate because the concept in itself is not bad. It's superheroes,
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but it's remember Nicholas Cage next, Remember remember like groundhog Day? Is that
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it's that? Yeah, will be Sidney Sween remember that it's tough. Man.
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I can't talk about this movie. Yeah, no, we can move
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much to talk about. It's on to a new quote from February this again,
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we're going back to TV series for this one. Okay, here is
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the quote. We are the ones who live? What TV shows came out
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this month? Yeah? Who would? Who would need to live? Who
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would? Who? Would it be a big deal if they if they kept
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on living? What's a franchise that just for some reason keeps on living and
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it's just maybe returned some of its major stars to its to its to its
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screen for its seventh spin off? I know that, I know it.
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What franchise just won't die even though it's undead? Okay, I'm going to
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say love, Yes, this is the Walking Dead. It is the Walking
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Dead came back. And not only that, it's the Walking Dead Colon the
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Ones who Live. It's terrible because they've brought back Rick Grimes and shown I've
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been written out like five years ago and now they're back in it. What
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is the timeline? Okay, hold on, because I didn't know this existed?
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What is the timeline of this franchise? There was the Walking Dead,
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wasn't there like a prequel series that may be released. I don't think it's
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prequel. I think it was just set in a different part of America.
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Okay, going back to the start of the did that ever release? Is
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that a real thing that happened? I think that got five seasons. Yeah.
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Here's the thing. This is why I feel like I need to mention
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it. Love content, Like I feel like I got to mention it because
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this stuff is still watched by millions of people. People are hardcore into the
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Walking Dead fandom. We just don't interact with them a turn. I guess
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that's true that are we lonely or are they lonely? What's happening here?
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I feel twenty four everybody is lonely. That's true, but I'm not I
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think there's more people that watch The Walking Dead. The third or fourth spin
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off series. I think this is maathly the sixth because they've done what mini
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series. Some of them are just meant the GERRYLD. Dixon Show. I
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think that happens. Yeah, yeah, I think that's one of the spin
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offs that's already happened. This is shown solo series. No, I think
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it was. It's shown and Rick are like doing a you know, like
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how Obi Wan was like a series about I think that's that's what it's like,
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framed as a Rick show, but it's about Rick and Mashon. I
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tapped out like season seven or so. Yeah. I tapped out of like
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season two of The Walk against idea. What's going on? Yeah, I
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just think it's the CSI of our generation. It's just got the the staying
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power on TV to produce content. Someone just turn it on and just didn't
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turn it off and now they're stuck. Yeah, that's that's ultimately it.
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I guess that's okay. What's worse to be a Madam Web or to be
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a Walking Dad? I mean, philosophic, I think, yeah, it
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is. It is generally, I think Walking Dead would probably be a more
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fun set to be on because I imagine they run like a machine. Now
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it's almost like America's Doctor Who at this point. Yeah, the genre a
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piece that just keeps on going. I bet you being a zombie is like
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this generation's being a clown because you gotta go to like zombie school, you
25:40
know, learn the physicality. There's a lot of zombie media these days.
25:44
There's probably some barised out in Hollywood. Who's like, you know, I
25:47
was an extra on The Walking Dead. I would do zombie school and everything.
25:49
Three zombie certifications are ye? Would you like brains with that? Oh?
25:59
Man, I had not. I feel like I gotta mention it that
26:00
franchise is still alive. It's still but good job a recalling. I think
26:07
if Matt had a gun to my head, I wouldn't have guessed that in
26:11
a million And that would have been a clue as well, because they do
26:15
that all the time and all the time you're dropping just alive, I'm dead.
26:21
That could have said zombies to my face, and I still would guess
26:23
that Last Last of Us is high are Walking Dead skin down there? It's
26:30
the difference between like Dune and Star Wars, right, Like, oh yeah,
26:33
I said, yeah, I am mad at you. The Last of
26:37
Us is such a good adaptation. I am so upset that you get a
26:41
great adaptation and I get I'm not gonna say, all right, we'll just
26:45
we'll just move on to another release and another quote, this time about a
26:51
video game released in February. Okay, and here's your quote. One of
26:55
the world's finest heroes snuffed out by this love. Yes, so did the
27:03
Last of us? Are you putting the last of Us? Know? That
27:06
was? That was January? That was January? Okay? Uh so no,
27:10
but I probably no that that wouldn't be a line of dialogue in the
27:14
last Oh this is a quote from the video It's a quote from the video
27:18
game. Yes, yes, okay, okay, snuffed up by this.
27:22
Did a Resident Evil come out? Did a did a Final Fantasy come out?
27:25
No? Heroes? What hero based video game? Did a Marvel game
27:30
come out? Not Marvel? Oh? The Legends? Yes, Jason,
27:37
Oh my god, February just flew by. I forgot this happened. Oh,
27:40
it's suicide squad killed the Justice League. It is exactly that suicide squads
27:45
killed the Justice League. Superhero fatigue continuing the video game world, it is,
27:52
yes, specifically, so the hero that they're mentioning is the last voice
27:57
role potentially of the late great Kevin Conroy Batman for an entire actually multiple generations.
28:06
This video game takes place in the arca verse. So also for a
28:08
generation like their definitive video game, Batman just gets shot in the face on
28:14
a park bench by Harley Quinn. Oh yeah, did they by a woman
28:18
as well? Did the did the in cells complain about it online like they
28:21
did us? They definitely they'd used Oh my god, the word disrespect was
28:26
used so much, and it's snowflakes, such a strong word for a narrative
28:33
choice in a narrative game. The other, the other issue with this video
28:38
game comes from superhero fatigue and video games. So a lot of video games
28:45
have tried to become this service based thing. Yeah, live service. Yeah,
28:52
so fortnight money, they want that Fortnite money, and so they're basically
28:56
taking grinding game play and making you play same missions over and over again with
29:02
new skins and new loot with hopes that either you spend hours, like dozens
29:07
to hundreds of hours on the same thing trying to get a better thing,
29:11
or just spend the money on it to fast forward the system as it were,
29:15
okay, with no real multiplayer components, So it's really just for you,
29:19
I guess. Yeah, it's not great. Yep. Yeah, so
29:23
we've we've come to that conclusion in about forty five seconds. You think companies
29:27
would have fucking clung on to that idea. Yeah, yeah, it's happening
29:33
here. Me and my friends have been looking for four player games as well.
29:36
We've like my friend's back in the UK video games how we stay in
29:38
contacts. We recently had so much fun on Boaldus Gate. We've moved on
29:41
to Divinity two. Another game from hell Divers Too is a new video game,
29:45
and we've heard great things about hell Divers Too. Killed The Justice League
29:49
was brought up for like a second until we realized it was barely it's not
29:53
even four player properly. It's like, oh, really like it or it
29:56
doesn't work in as many big ways as you'd want it to write. It's
30:00
a border Lands with money. Yeah that costs money. Yeah. Yeah with
30:07
the with hell Divers Too, where we just heard that the serve is aren't
30:10
great and that's tough when you're going from eurof us. So we're gonna wait
30:14
for the wait for the service, to wait for the die down. Yeah,
30:15
because there's a lot of great clips online about hell Divers Too. But
30:18
yeah, it's just it's just snowflakes going like they're also clinging onto continuity is
30:23
the idea. This Batman is so awesome? How could you kill him?
30:26
Kill him? One? It's a multiverse story. You really think they're gonna
30:30
get this the way it is. Yeah, you don't think this is comic
30:33
books and people. It's just god hate. Also, no one deletes the
30:40
original thing when an adaptation is made. Yeah, No, like they don't.
30:44
They don't say we made a live action avatar. Scrub the animated avatar.
30:51
It's gone glob the people. Yeah, call the people. Scrub it
30:53
from the internet. It's gone. Send for everyone. We need every single
30:59
versi of this taken off the internet. For Life of Four Nations lived in
31:03
harmony until Netflix attacked. Oh my god, brilliant stuff. All right,
31:11
We've got another quote here at this time for a headline for an event that
31:17
happened in February, and I'll say specifically, this is a quote from a
31:21
CEO of a company. We will collaborate on an all new games and entertainment
31:26
universe that will further expand the reach of our beloved stories and experiences that could
31:33
be all of them. Is it Disney from my VR is Warner Brothers from
31:40
my bathtob what's ah An? He guesses, Yes, I am going to
31:47
go I am you said it as a joke. I am going to say
31:51
Disney because they said stories and experiences. I think Disney says this about something
31:56
that they're doing now. For me, this is Disney investing one point five
32:01
billion dollars to Epic Games, so that they are now treating Fortnite as a
32:07
franchise that can be added to their theme parks in exchange for them investing money
32:15
into the development of the Fortniteflike, no, sorry, Disney plus adaptation is
32:20
going to go wild gang. I can't wait. I mean it will happen.
32:23
Yeah, it will happen. It's that's that feels like the snake eating
32:28
itself in a different way. Because Fortnite is such an IP heavy base,
32:34
and now that Disney is buying it, do they also have access to all
32:37
those ips? I mean, obviously Mickey Mouse is going to hold a gun.
32:40
We know he's in the public domain. Now we can do whatever we
32:45
want with I can't wait to tea bag. John Wick as Pluto, Well,
32:52
that's the thing, Like, yeah, it's the IP crossover. So
32:53
is John Wick going to be at Disney parks? Is it the idea of
32:58
like John Wick is shooting around firing, John Wick is never firing. I
33:04
can't wait. That's gonna be surreal. Moment you go to Disney Park and
33:07
you know when like kids line up to see the people in the costumes.
33:09
Yeah, and it's just like Peely the banana and it's just out there and
33:13
he's flossing. Kids are like freaking out in one hundred and ten degree California
33:17
weather. But here's the thing, Like the peak Fortnite was five years ago,
33:22
and I understand it's like a lifetime brand. People are gonna introduce their
33:24
kids to the next version of it. All that kind of stuff. Uh,
33:28
the kids who were into flossing when they were like eight are now thirteen,
33:32
and by the time they arrive and arrives in Disney Parks, it'll be
33:36
there'll be like fourteen fifteen. Yeah, the last thing they're gonna want to
33:38
see is a banana doing a flyos. But you know, Disney's gonna pay
33:43
some poorschemuck minimum wage, yeah, to floss and hit the glitty in a
33:47
fucking hot suit. Yeah, in damp ass, fucking damper Florida one hundred
33:52
percent, and all of a sudden, Jafar won't be the worst costume to
33:55
wear anything. In terms of hate, it'll be. It'll be but a
34:02
character he's called Peely. Yeah, Yeah, there's I know a couple.
34:07
Mister mio stick, he's a buff cat. You'd love him. Some person
34:12
is going to have to say that they're friends with Peelely. Yeah, Bana,
34:17
the guy who's yeah, know that if you are the person you are
34:22
friends with them, that's Oh, I'm friend, I'm friends with Cinderella.
34:28
I'm friends with yeah. Almost like someone told like he dresses a Santa or
34:31
the tooth fairy talking about oh, I know the tooth fairy kind of thing.
34:36
At least make belief characters. I can't. Yes, I have mixed
34:39
feelings about this. Are we in the worst world? Or are we in
34:42
the best world. It's a world that honestly doesn't really affect me that much,
34:45
so that's fair. But I will say at one point five billion steak
34:51
in something like this is usually a prelude to an all out purchase in several
34:54
years time. It's a state Oh I just yeah, yeah, I don't
34:58
think it's a it's an actual just that's happened. But what will be interesting
35:01
is Disney entering the video game space, because what other billion dollar companies who've
35:07
done that in the past have wanted to do is come out with their own
35:10
console and stuff. So I will will the twenty thirties see a Disney console.
35:15
The epic Mickey games are getting a remaster, so it seems they can
35:20
load it up with all the epics. Yeah, what a fucking release title,
35:27
Epic Mickey four, Mickey's Got a Gun. Please buy it? All
35:31
right? We got one more quote left on the board. One more quote
35:35
in round one. This time it's from the world of sports. And this
35:39
quote is just a comment I saw beneath a video. Okay, cook,
35:45
why did Taylor's boyfriend push that old man? He? Yes, this is
35:53
when Travis Kelsey yelled at his coach and it became a fucking me also known
36:00
as the super Bowl. Yeah, at the super Bowl. At the super
36:04
Bowl, Yeah, I mean it's the Super I felt like I had to
36:07
mention the super Bowl. Yeah, because it's the biggest thing in sports in
36:10
America. Therefore it's the biggest sports culture thing. Although just like every I'm
36:15
like, I failed to see this as a sports game. Everyone online wants
36:19
to see the hoftime show and the commercials. That's that's what people talk about,
36:22
especially because the lineup a lot of people were not very excited for.
36:27
I think Chiefs fans are always die our Chiefs fans and no one wanted to
36:30
roof for the forty nine ers for some of the yeah but uh no,
36:36
some memorable moments all featuring Travis Kelsey. I feel he's the star player,
36:40
isn't He's the star paler? Yeah, him just going absolutely ape shit.
36:45
I think he lost his brain when he went. I loved the memes of
36:52
them showing Taylor's face and they're just like, she got the ick. He's
36:59
really actions at the super Bowl will be the things that Swifties point to when
37:02
they inevitably break up at somewhere down the line, as like, no,
37:06
she knew from then. The way he celebrated was so cringe. We cannot
37:09
deal with that. But also that's kind of the Kelsey brand as well,
37:13
because did you see his brother Jason Kelcey kind of like tag along with Travis
37:19
and Taylor afterwards. The man is unhinged. There's a lot of means of
37:24
like when your custom character walks through the cut scene, because he's like he's
37:30
decked out in like flames and just like it's the Las Vegas like after party's
37:35
celebration for them and he's fully decked out in like Mohawks and just chief skeer
37:40
and just walking behind them like a third wheel toddler with his little tummy out.
37:44
And it's really funny. Now, I love the Kelsey boys. Good.
37:49
Good on Travis's team because they've pushed him to the moon and he's great.
37:52
He's a good character. Good on the Chiefs. I know people in
37:58
Kansas City. I prefer Kansas City to the forty nine ers. That's true,
38:06
A lovable due for his years and we stand. Yeah, and they're
38:08
all they'll all wear matching shirts, just like nerds do at conventions. Yeah,
38:12
as we've said so many times, sports is fandom. Travis Kelsey and
38:15
his friends, we love them. Yeah, yeah, I think. I
38:19
think their quarterback, Patrick Mahomes is arguably one of the greatest quarterbacks of all
38:22
time, but no one talks about it Travis and his friend. Okay,
38:30
that is the end of round one, and holy shit, guys, you
38:32
both know February equally well three points apiece, Oh my god. Okay,
38:39
Now Round two is going to be a little bit different than the past several
38:43
months that we've been playing this, and so is round three for that for
38:45
that matter. For that matter of fact, I'm sugar, we had cupcakes.
38:52
Yeah, it's so, I've made two games for you guys based on
38:57
headlines from from this past month. And it's less that you need to know
39:01
things. It more sort of just like links to and then we can play
39:05
the games. But the best way to play games is play them, right,
39:07
Let's just get to it. Yeah. Round two is called Josh Brolin's
39:12
Poetry Corner. Oh, so, I think I think you guys might know
39:16
what this could be to do with so Dune Part two worms its way into
39:21
theaters in March. But have you guys been following the Josh brolinan poetry that
39:25
he's been writing about his Dune co stars. I've been going in spoiler free
39:30
No it happened, but I haven't read anyone because I want to buy the
39:34
book. What No, this is? This is perfect. It's it's super
39:38
earnest, occasionally horny, and apparently he's written poems about everyone on set and
39:45
so and he's going to release as a as a book alongside it. But
39:50
I've decided to make a game out of his poetry. So in this game,
39:53
I will read a line of poetry. All Audra and Jason have to
39:57
do is decide if it was written by Josh Rolin on me at two am,
40:04
Sexy Hour. That's great, both guests for each one, so you
40:07
can either like go say you go for different answers and reflect your points.
40:12
It's however you feel. I might try doing a Josh Brolin voice because it's
40:15
just that generic, like American, it's extremely generic. Yeah, Josh Broke,
40:22
Josh Broke, Josh Brolin, Josh Brolin in June two. Is that
40:29
is that kind of? It's kind of it's the thing where you're whispering and
40:32
growling. Give it a little naz wh I think a little a little higher,
40:36
a little higher, Yeah, a little higher like that? Yeah,
40:38
yeah, yeah, Josh star of movies, and yeah true? Is it
40:43
my true? Great? No, I think I'm thinking of someone else.
40:47
I'm in Marvel. Is he old No country for old men? Yeah?
40:52
No, maybe that's what I'm Okay, there we go. I was in
40:54
that movie. But now let me read you some of my poetry that I
40:58
wrote about some of my co stars. Love them all. These these first
41:02
poems that come from the poem about Florence Pew, great great actor, great
41:07
actor. Okay, here we go. Where she looks matters, even with
41:13
a sparkling veil over her face. Her eyes shine a mischief that's hidden by
41:19
her soft orange laugh orange. I'm going, Brolin, I think this is
41:27
real. This is real, Really, Brolin, it is this is I
41:31
want to get a feel for his voice as well, because I feel like
41:35
I know your voice in in parody. Yeah, I've tried. I've tried
41:38
to replicate his voice as much as possible, I mean, in writing better
41:43
than Yeah. God, it's killing my voice. You don't do it,
41:49
you don't know. There's only five more of these to go. So here's
41:53
another one about Florence great Gal. When a star arrives in pure silver light,
42:00
you can feel her presence shift the balance of a set talent that will
42:06
take her into a storm. She is already becoming. I like the last
42:12
line. That's very like amateur poetry. I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go.
42:19
I'm gonna go browling again. Actually I'm gonna go mad. Okay,
42:23
split split vote, that's good, that's good. This one was me.
42:30
This one was me, although I did take like one or two words that
42:32
he used, but I think he used presence and talked about becoming. Yeah,
42:38
yeah, nice that's this is good. This is good, and I
42:43
do one is like Miss Piggy. That's not way for one of the impressions.
42:46
I do do like a. Do any of us have a Miss Piggy?
42:52
I think I could do Fazzy Bear Waka Walka, I'm a the Bat.
43:06
Yeah good, I don't know. I just wanted to say I got
43:15
one more about Florence Pugh before we'll move on to the main event, the
43:20
five. There's three Florence Pews the only poems. That's true, that's fair,
43:25
the only poems that have been released ahead of the buck of the two.
43:29
One about Florence Pugh, one about Timothy Chalomey. So we've got three
43:31
about Florence Pugh. Then we got three about Timothy Shallow, and you'll see
43:36
why Timothy Shallamy is the main event. So here's your final one about Florence
43:39
Pugh. I think with Josh, I watch a bunch of interviews and really
43:45
nailed it. But now that we're outside of that space, I'm not that's
43:52
okay. I think with this character either rubbing off or being incarnate already,
43:59
she's destined to a lava that nobody eventually will even dare approach. Is this
44:05
poetry or is this just thinking that it is a style of poetry? Okay,
44:08
like free verse, incarnate is a strong Incarnate is a strong word.
44:13
That's Brolin. That's Berlin. You feel that, man, if you if
44:19
if you brought up incarnate, that's crazy. That's huge place from you.
44:22
I do know some words. I know if you I'm gonna say this is
44:28
Brolin. Also, I feel like I feel it you both saying Berlin,
44:30
It is Brolin. Yeah, this is good stuff. How do you feel
44:34
about is poetry about Florence per Bear in your mind? The middle one wasn't
44:37
real? It's poetry is one of those things where when you say a thing,
44:44
it's like, all right, guy, it sounds it sounds better in
44:47
your head. I think poetry always does. Like that's one of the weirdest
44:51
things, because that's the that's the thing is about poetry that people say is
44:54
like, oh, you have to hear it out loud, And I'm like,
44:57
do you though, it's never as good when I hear how earnest you
45:01
are. It's like it's like when some people just speak lyrics without context of
45:07
music, they sound sound kind of bad, and but at all the music
45:12
in there and it's great, and it's like this is our fantastic I think
45:15
poetry is just missing that music. And all I'm doing is shitting on an
45:17
older art form from pre electric guitar. Let's be fair. We're not shitting
45:22
on Brolin. It's just the idea of poetry. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
45:24
oh yeah, We're not shitting on one specific person that the Internet agrees
45:28
is kind of average. We're all of poetry. That's how high we are
45:34
on our horses. Okay, speaking of horses. His his poetry about a
45:39
proud thoroughbred called me that hr. I can say that about Timothy Shalloway.
45:47
People can't say that about Yeah, I quit that job. Nice. Okay,
45:53
here is the first one about shallow May. And remember these are hornier.
45:58
He's much hornier for Timy. Your juvenile face is etched with a maturity.
46:04
I cannot resist, no, I fear the age. I have become
46:08
a hopeful sage to gaze upon your pronounced beauty. That's a lot that's long,
46:15
that's longer than the others. Hopeful sage is as such a good it's
46:22
such good imagery. I this is a lot. I'm gonna go with Matt
46:29
on this one, because I think he's pulled the essence of a lot of
46:30
these quotes and he's he's turned it up to eleven. Yeah, I just
46:36
this is maybe this is my bias showing. I do think this is you
46:39
because I trust you to have come up with something as good as hopeful Sage.
46:44
Are you both going for me on this one? Yeah? Yeah,
46:45
it absolutely is me. And again I've pulled that. I've pulled the essence
46:51
of the lines and changed them around a bit, but hopeful Sage was mine.
46:54
So I'll take no. I just I like the contrast of that so
47:00
much. Maybe poetry is good. Hold on, I can do the ode
47:06
less traveled by Stephen Frye. I will teach you how to write poetry.
47:09
I haven't finished it the writing poetry either. Okay, here is your next
47:16
poem about Timothy Shallomey. Your cheekbones jump toward water, youth laden eyes that
47:23
slide down a prominent nose onto lips of a certain poetry. Sure, it's
47:31
detailed. This is where we were talking about. Poetry is a lot.
47:35
It's it's a lot. I feel I am going to reverse my thought process
47:40
a certain poetry. I do really like as a as like a phrasing,
47:46
a grouping of words. Yea. But I am going to give this one
47:50
to Brolin. I do think the famous one is JB. Honestly, I'm
47:53
also leaning towards that, but just for fun, I'm gonna go with Matt.
47:59
Respect it is, but it's Brolin this one. Respect. There's something
48:06
about the succinctness I love. Also, you're like that first one it was
48:12
a really long one, and that second one you're like, that's short.
48:15
There's maybe like three words different. I like, that's what poetry does to
48:22
people, put us in different places. You took me on a journey,
48:24
you know, Yeah, that's what it was. Okay, we come to
48:28
the final the final poem is this is this Brolin? Or is this me?
48:31
Because something in me tells me you are going to offer me something,
48:36
and for now, I'm not sure it's going to be something I want anymore.
48:40
Oh that's so vague and simple compared to the other ones. You know,
48:47
like the other ones are like, oh, if I could jump on
48:51
a lily pad and smell the history within your eyebirth, that's exactly how I
48:53
wrote it. But this one's just that was good. It's kind of how
49:02
Brolin talks about people. All Right, I am that's a hard one.
49:09
I'm gonna go with Brolin. I think the simplicity of it is just again,
49:13
it's gonna match the stream of consciousness, consciousness that he his. Let's
49:19
go Brolin. You're both going Brolin. Yeah, this one's Brolin to finish
49:22
off, absolutely pure true Brolin. It was simple. Yeah, he talks
49:29
about his co stars. I wonder what's gonna come out about Stealin's Scarsguard.
49:32
Is that big creamy barrel. The way you float makes me want to float
49:38
with you. I did see. I spoiled myself a little bit. I
49:45
did see. Austin Butler, who's known for voices as replicated Stellin Scars War's
49:52
voice, and it is haunting performance. He's annoyed me throughout the past few
49:58
years and impressed to us with his whole Elvis Presley stick and stuff. Yeah,
50:02
but I'm excited. I think this is good casting. I thought that
50:06
they were going to get I thought they weren't going to have this character because
50:08
he is like relevant, like he's introduced in the first half of the book.
50:13
I was so excited when I was like, fuck yeah, we got
50:16
fav out the and hey, that's coming up in next month's fandom flashback.
50:21
I'm sure there's gonna be tons of Dune Part two talk. I'll post pictures
50:24
on our Instagram when we go to see it. Oh, yes, the
50:30
bus. We're going to see if we can get one of the dumb fucking
50:32
buckets. They're so good, you're capitalist dogs. Yeah, okay, it's
50:40
a fun bucket. Let's look at those scores. Those scores are well,
50:44
it's all changed for some from some risky plays by Jason, but I respect
50:49
it. Jason is on seven points, but Audrey is in the lead with
50:52
nine points. My mastery of verse, you know it, you know,
50:59
you know the poems get developed in this segment as well. Yeah, I
51:01
didn't have some emotions. I did not have it before this. This is
51:06
just a crash course. You might finish that, Stephen bridebuck Now I might.
51:10
Okay, let's move on to round three. Round three is a game
51:14
that's called finished projects versus Hollywood. Oh now. This month saw the news
51:20
of yet another completed film scrapped by Warner Brothers. Chayote versus Acme. Yeah,
51:25
uh well, I think I would have enjoyed that film, What do
51:29
you guys think? Honestly, I feel like I didn't miss personally. I
51:31
didn't miss out on anything with like other films that have recently been scrapped,
51:35
but John Cena versus Will Forte in a courtroom legal battle with cartoons everywhere.
51:40
Yeah I heard some talent. Yeah, I heard some talent that was made.
51:44
It really exciting and it was interesting. So no, oh well,
51:47
okay, So in this game, we're going to look at other abandoned,
51:52
fully completed films from history and how much they lost. So how much they
51:57
supposedly lost the company in terms of how much the budget was to get it
52:01
right, to get it made, although we say lost the film costs seventy
52:07
five million dollars to make Coyote versus Acme, that is, but they managed
52:10
to write off around one hundred and fifteen million dollars in tax in their fourth
52:15
quarter of twenty twenty three. So depending on how many other projects got scrapped,
52:20
they may have even profited by not releasing this movie, which is why
52:23
these things happened. Someone showed somebody high up the producers and they were like,
52:30
this is great. Why is no one doing this yeah, yeah,
52:34
pretty much. So now that you guys know that Coyote Versus Acme costs seventy
52:38
five million dollars, we're going to play a classic game of higher or lower.
52:43
Okay, So I'm going to read another project that was scrapped in film
52:47
history, and all you've got to say is whether you think it's higher or
52:52
lower, as in lost more money or less money than the previous project in
52:57
the sequence. Okay, So we're beginning with Coyote versus Acme, and your
53:00
next project is bats Go bats Girl from a couple of years ago as a
53:07
scrapped DC project from fully finished, fully finished, Yeah, fully finished.
53:14
Higher Jason saying higher as in lost more money. I'm gonna say, I'm
53:20
gonna go bold, I'm gonna go lower, say lower, it is higher,
53:24
it is million. I've adjusted all these for inflation, but I imagine
53:30
it was ninety million, because now it's ninety five million. Ah. This
53:34
one is when I followed closely. I heard about this one. Yeah.
53:37
Yeah. It's the main victim of the DC shift in terms of like changing
53:42
over from the Snyder era to the James Gunny era, right, yeah,
53:45
yeah, yeah, because again they didn't know what they were going to do.
53:47
Michael Keaton has filmed several cameos because they thought he was going to be
53:52
the Batman going forward. Yes, then they shot it again with Ben Affleck,
53:58
and then they were like, what do we do put George Clooney in
54:00
a thing? I don't know? DC has no fucking clue what's going on.
54:04
It's crazy. Oh yeah, and I guess it just was another thing
54:07
of it became more expensive, it became more profitable to write this off.
54:13
Yeah, and just yeah, recoup that money, which is insane. It's
54:15
with projects like this. It's only really a shame for anyone who's like Star
54:20
is on the rise and whoever would like lose out on this being a thing
54:22
because the other thing is and I've heard several people mention this. If let's
54:27
say, you know, you've done the calculations, and you're like, if
54:30
we write it off, we make more money than if we ever release it.
54:32
Why not just release it afterwards? That it's a piece of art that
54:36
people have put work and time into, And it's like, if you've already
54:38
major money, just release it for free or leak it or something. There's
54:42
certainly that argument to be made, and in terms of leaks. That's something
54:45
that happened with this next project in the list. So ninety six million dollars
54:49
is your number on the board. This next project is the Fantastic Four,
54:52
but from nineteen ninety three. Yeah, so this is pre MCU. I
54:58
don't know this number. I'm gonna go with less and yeah, everything suggested
55:04
for inflation. I'll say that against Arrested Development did an episode about this movie.
55:08
Yes, I'm gonna go lower, just because I think since it's pre
55:19
Superhero Boom, I think they won't have thought to spend fuck off money a
55:23
super not like if it was a scrapped Fantastic Faull project now, which I
55:28
believe isn't going It's going ahead, right, they're doing You are both absolutely
55:36
right, this one is lower even adjusted for inflation. They only spent three
55:40
million dollars on this, and stan Lee went on to say in the years
55:45
afterwards that he thinks it was only so that parts of the movie industry could
55:50
secure trademarks on various Marvel things. So it's not the whole thing was a
55:53
Ponzi scheme, but it kind of was. It was kind of like,
55:55
let's pretend we're making a movie, so we can so we can get stand
56:00
in the Door, Hollywood, so we can get Marvel property in the in
56:02
the doll There's apparently a fantastic documentary about it that I will watch eventually,
56:07
because there was a lot of things that happened with people who were hired and
56:10
gave checks and bonus checks to put like intentionally shell this. And there's even
56:16
like a testimonial from a producer who when I bought as many copies as I
56:21
could and I burned them in my backyard. Yeah, which is crazy,
56:24
Yeah, crazy. I've got to watch that documentary because that really peaked my
56:29
interest of like, oh that's that's super interesting from a Hollywood business point of
56:32
view. But yeah, so three million dollars is on the board, and
56:37
for this one, I'm really going to remind that we are adjusting for inflation.
56:42
Because your next film comes from nineteen twenty six, whoa and is a
56:45
film called a Woman of the Sea. Do you want any guesses at which
56:51
director will have done this in the nineteen twenties, big big name in Hollywood
56:53
in the in the nineteen twenties, James Cameron lumi Air Guys. One decade
57:05
after the loomis early American pioneer. Uh, the one that did that Rosebud
57:15
No, no, not no. But we're in the right era now for
57:19
sure. Uh. You know he's got a funny little mustache and the top
57:24
chopping Chaplin. Yeah, Charlie Chaplin. Wow. He did a film called
57:30
a Woman of the Sea. Now, is this for tax purposes? Yes?
57:34
And he was the first person to do it. This is the earliest
57:37
recording recorded example of someone scrapping a film for tax purposes, and he famously
57:42
also burned all copies of the film a bit in a big party. I
57:45
think this is going to be higher, higher than three million, adjusted for
57:51
inflation. My prediction, it's going to be wildly fucking higher, wildly wildly
57:58
higher, That's what I think, because I think he's gonna have poured everything
58:01
onto it and been like, we're writing it off. Let's fucking write it
58:04
up. Yeah. I'm just gonna go lower because I don't know much about
58:08
films, but I know old films are like man spills a spoon, woman
58:15
looks at sea. It looks at se five seconds and then the subtitles come
58:22
up and it's like, wow, that's water. Okay, So we've got
58:28
higher from Audra, wildly higher from Uldra, not that it matters, and
58:31
we got a lower from Jason. This is even adjusted for inflation, is
58:37
actually lower. Whoa, it's two million dollars. It's just simply the films
58:43
were much cheaper to produce back in the day, partly because they weren't pesky
58:46
workers. Right, So that's one for Jason there, Yeah, two million
58:51
dollars. Good job on the lower there. That's crazy. All right,
58:54
we're gonna we're gonna catch up to the modern day just a little bit.
58:58
And you know what, for this one, I'm just gonna say the name
59:00
of the film and see see if anyone remembers it. So it's from twenty
59:05
seventeen, and the film is Goal. I mean, it's gotta be more
59:10
right, two million, it's gotta be right. I feel like the Paranormal,
59:15
like the first Paranormal Activity, I bet you was like two point three
59:17
million or something like that, even if it was just filmed on iPhones or
59:21
whatever. Okay, but Gore? Is this Gore? Or is this al
59:27
Gore? Is this a movie about Al Gore? And it's gonna have been
59:32
like three hundred thousand because he's saving all the money for the environment. Yeah,
59:38
three hundred thousand and rescued polar bear. It's what this film? Yes,
59:45
or Hiro lowdly for twenty seventeen film called Goal Higher. We're going higher
59:55
like Auldre's voice. Yeah higher, Jason, Yeah higher, Yeah, both
1:00:00
going both going higher. Yeah, it is higher. You've not followed from
1:00:04
my trap. I tried to make it sound like it could have been a
1:00:06
low budget horror movie go, but it was actually an abandoned biopic about gol
1:00:10
Vidal. Oh you were so you were, you were close with the gore.
1:00:16
But it's due to the person who was playing Golvidal, oh, Kevin
1:00:21
spacey seventy. Not just tax purposes, it's just overall. That one had
1:00:28
to be scrapped because there was no way they could release it. Yeah.
1:00:30
Yeah, but you both get a point for that one. Nice, all
1:00:35
right, good one one film left in the sequence. Forty six million was
1:00:38
how much they lost Netflix lost because of oh, the Golvidal biopic Big Money.
1:00:45
So forty six million is your number. And your final film is also
1:00:49
from twenty twenty two, and it is scub Holiday Haunt what. Yeah,
1:00:54
it was gonna be a sequel to the remember Scoob the animated there was gonna
1:00:59
be like a holiday sequel to Oh I said there was going to be that
1:01:01
was fully finished? Wow? Oh man, because it's hard because uh,
1:01:07
animated films are usually cheaper, but still, like forty six mil is cheap
1:01:13
in today's world, so like a bit tough to finish. Yeah, I'm
1:01:16
gonna say higher, higher than forty six mil. Yeah, I'm gonna say
1:01:22
lower. Just just for dramas, just for the drama, just fucking drama.
1:01:30
You love Scooby do you wouldn't you have wanted them to splash the cash
1:01:32
out on Scoob. I want them to splash that cash on a better Scooby
1:01:36
do you adaptation? Another one with John Cena. Yeah, so we got
1:01:43
higher from Jason lower from Auldra. Nice intense For the final question of the
1:01:45
round, Higher or lower than forty six million? Scoob A Holiday Haunt cost
1:01:51
forty three million to make. That's how much they lost or possibly wrote off
1:01:57
in text, right, Yeah, possibly profits Scooba Holiday Haunts. That's a
1:02:01
point for Ordra there. Nice all right, Yeah, that's the end of
1:02:05
the round. What do you think of the two custom games that are based
1:02:07
on. I like this a lot, ye, keeping us on our toes.
1:02:10
Yeah yeah, I like the theme as well. That it's it's based
1:02:14
off of the headlines that are coming on. Yeah, then just different things
1:02:16
each time. Yeah, yeah, like a lot. All right, good,
1:02:20
Oh you both get an extra point compliments. All right, So let's
1:02:24
check those scores. Jason, still behind on twelve points, Udra's lead not
1:02:29
so strong. Now only ahead by one thirteen points. Very nice, And
1:02:34
our final round it's not changed. It's the inventive, the genius, the
1:02:38
inspired, the world famous audio word cloud. It's the thing that plays.
1:02:46
So if you are listening to this for the first time, an audio word
1:02:51
cloud slowly reveals clues to an upcoming media release the world is excited about,
1:02:57
specifically something that had a major trailer this month. As soon as you know
1:03:00
the answer, buzz in and say what you think it is. Oh and
1:03:05
this final question is worth two points, so anyone could win. Wow.
1:03:10
Here it is this month's audio word cloud game franchise Wrath Shooter, gear Box
1:03:23
Pandora. Le Yes, Jason, this was a weird one. This is
1:03:30
the Borderlands movie. Yes, this is the trailer for the action movie adaptation
1:03:36
of Borderlands, the louter shooter video game series. Have you seen the trailer?
1:03:39
I have, yes, yeah, several times. Yea, yeah,
1:03:43
it's it's a weird one. So we've all played Borderlands adra famously within our
1:03:49
friend group dislikes it. I'm not a fan. Yeah, I get lost
1:03:54
and I have no aim in video games. Yeah, and so rough time
1:03:59
for is rough. There's a lot of that world. Yeah, yeah,
1:04:02
rough game for me to play. I however, I'm a big, big
1:04:04
fan and there's kind of huge internet hate towards this. Oh yeah, and
1:04:11
I don't think deserves Yeah. So it's a weird cast. It is that.
1:04:15
That's the thing that really intrigues me, is that how we at the
1:04:17
cast is yes, and it's giving me like the D and D movie vibes
1:04:23
from a couple of years ago, last year, where it's like I'm interested
1:04:27
in the ensemble and in this world and I'll probably watch it when it hits
1:04:30
streaming. Yeah, that is where I'm at with it. Who's who's in
1:04:34
it? May I ask? It's okay? So like, first of all,
1:04:38
Jack Black's claptrap is inspired because oh Jack Black clap trap. Oh listen
1:04:43
to how that sounds? Right? That's fantastic. But then isn't it okay,
1:04:47
isn't it like Kate Blanchette, Yeah, Kate Blanchette is the super stereotypical
1:04:55
hot game feminine or heroine lil Yes. It's then Kevin Hart, who's the
1:05:02
also stereotypically hot, super stereotypical hero. And then it's we've got Jamie Lee
1:05:10
Curtis is in it. Jamie Lee Curtis is Patricia Tannis. Yeah, a
1:05:14
seventy year old woman playing the crazy scientist character. Arianna Greenblatt is tiny Tina.
1:05:21
That's fine, she's she's a child actress. Yeah, a lot of
1:05:26
media now. And then it's a Floridian I don't know his last name,
1:05:30
I'm sorry, big buff guy from Creed as Creeg the Psycho. Yes,
1:05:33
he's just a voiceless buff guy in the trailers right now. But the weird
1:05:39
thing is is that it's a seven year old woman, a like fifties to
1:05:44
sixties. I think it's fair to say that, like Cate blanchet is fifty
1:05:46
yeah, yeah, yeah woman. And then it's Kevin Hart, a comedy
1:05:50
small man who's these stereotypical characters. That feels the most out of place for
1:05:56
me. That feels most because he's not funny in the trailer at all.
1:06:00
Yeah, he's not being Kevin Hart at all. But the thing is is
1:06:02
I like that it's not the fan cast by any means of these characters.
1:06:08
And I think the big swing I think the appeal of Borderlands is that it's
1:06:13
mad Max with a touch of sixteen year old humor in it. You know,
1:06:17
like there's psychos that just yell semen. There's weird missions where you're picking
1:06:23
up like porny mags and like other random bits for a mechanic who's a product
1:06:29
of potentially incest and as a Southern accident, anything for his hot mom.
1:06:33
It's all sorts of weird. Speaking of hot moms, it sounds like that's
1:06:36
what the cast is for this film, honestly. Yeah. And I think
1:06:40
a lot of internet game boys are mad because it's not their fan castings.
1:06:43
But it's like, you can't do stereotypical castings and a serious Borderlands game because
1:06:49
then you lose your precious comedy that makes the game yeah or world interesting.
1:06:55
Yeah. So that the overall feel and vibe of the trailer is this is
1:06:59
guard into the Galaxy because there's something hard definitely in the trailer is with a
1:07:04
little bit of a weird world, and that's what you want to go for
1:07:08
as an adaptation, I think, right, yeah, Like we were saying
1:07:10
at the start with Avatar, it's a similar line of thinking and bothlines is
1:07:15
a manic series. It's a very manic game, so this is a manic
1:07:19
cast. This is a manic choice to take. It might just feel like
1:07:23
your typical action popcorn movie, but hey, isn't it great that it's from
1:07:27
a brand new franchise that hasn't yet hit the big screen. With's nice,
1:07:30
Yeah, with a brand new feel like that's what you want from these types
1:07:32
of movies, because in my opinion, when we talk about adaptations, you
1:07:36
can't get the feelings across in the same way. The whole point of that
1:07:41
type of humor, like to randomly play basketball or like shoot a guy in
1:07:45
the face because he tells you to shoot you in the face, is because
1:07:46
you spent hours doing regular, normal video game things, right, and you're
1:07:51
the person who's doing it, So it feels weird that you're shooting a guy
1:07:55
in the face, but you just watch a guy shoot a guy in the
1:07:57
face. Randomly. Yeah, it probably is not as fun. No,
1:08:00
So I think doing a weird cast of a listers is going to get people
1:08:04
talking, and it's gonna be a hopefully decent popcorn movie like Dungeons and Dragons
1:08:09
was. It's a fun adventure. Yeah, that's the ultimate goal. Yeah,
1:08:13
we'll wait to see I mean we want review it in March, partly
1:08:15
because I think it's out in a few months time, yeah, and also
1:08:19
because, as I previously said, it's a wait for streaming one. Yeah.
1:08:24
But hey, we can get excited about doing part two. That literally
1:08:27
in a few days time we will be going to see together in Imax.
1:08:30
My first. I don't think I've been in an Imax screen since pre Pandemic,
1:08:34
pre Pande. What a movie to do it? Yeah? What?
1:08:39
I want to see those worms. I want to see Timmy Shallowmy write some
1:08:42
worm. Yeah. I want to see your hand in my worm bucket.
1:08:47
I won't just be my hand in them, like the look of those teeth.
1:08:57
All right, Well that's about it from us. Oh wait, I've
1:09:00
got to read the final scores. Oh Jason, you will thanks fourteen points
1:09:06
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It's records are My energy was kind of dying down at the end of
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yeah when the regular feed episode drops, yeah, like I hope it's It's
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so much fun and it's been great sharing clips this this month. On talk
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I've used TikTok throughout February. I say it like that I use TikTok in
1:10:04
such a boom away because I do not have it as an app on my
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phone. Good. I use the browser uploader to upload and edit videos and
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drop them because then I don't have to get sucked into an algorithm. Yeah,
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that I will loathe and get addicted to it at the same time,
1:10:20
it starts being really nice to just like throw clips up and to It reminds
1:10:25
me of Twitter, honestly. It reminds me of what Twitter was like about
1:10:28
ten years ago, where you put a thing out there and the algorithm would
1:10:30
just put it in the faces of different people. Yeah, and people engaged.
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Like we've there was We've got one video that we got like sixty likes
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on it. No, wait, there's one video that has ninety likes.
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Wow. Wait, I like there's a video that has one hundred and one
1:10:45
likes because I remember watching it go over one hundred. Wow. So it's
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it's really cool. And then our listenership has gone up, which is great
1:10:53
to see. So people are checking us out from TikTok. Yeah, obviously
1:10:56
this is just the just the Patreon, but yeah, it's good to like,
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Like that really feels things like this, Yes for us to do more
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stuff like that. Not only does Matt's energy go up with that, but
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it's like to get engagement like that. That hypes me up so much because
1:11:23
a like versus a view is so different in the world of TikTok for sure.
1:11:27
That means a hundred that's crazy. Actually, I want to say this
1:11:29
out loud. One hundred and one people liked that clip. Yeah, I
1:11:31
think it was like it was it was viewed by about nine hundred people and
1:11:36
one hundred and one of I've been really specific. It sounds like I'm being
1:11:40
really pidantic, but it's like one in nine people. Yeah. And then
1:11:43
when you check the stats for like who watched the video all the way through,
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it was about one in nine people. So it's like pretty much everyone
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who watched it all the way through likes it. And that's pretty cool.
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That's awesome. Yeah, that's awesome. So yeah, follow us on TikTok
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at gate leap as if you're not already. If that's not your thing,
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I get it because I just talked to us on discord Yeah and all the
1:12:00
other things. That's fine. Yeah, and in March, we have an
1:12:04
episode with some brand new players that we've already recorded that's in the fandom of
1:12:10
PC gaming, which was one of those nice broad ones that we can get
1:12:13
forward to, very silly, and yeah, yeah, that was a really
1:12:15
fun episode. And then I think we're gonna revisit a classic fandom towards the
1:12:20
end of March, one that we haven't touched since season one of gate Leapers
1:12:26
actually, and we're going to leap into it in a very Gateleapers way.
1:12:29
But I'm gonna I'm gonna keep that honestly. Yeah. Since, yeah,
1:12:31
I'm falling on that. I am hyped for this. Yeah, because I
1:12:35
think it serves as redemption. I think it serves as well. It's going
1:12:41
to be a versus as well. Well, these are all clues that I
1:12:45
own, So I want to know what people would think this is. Yeah,
1:12:49
I mean, let us know in the comments below this on Patreon,
1:12:53
like what fandom do you think we're revisiting? Not touched it since season one?
1:12:57
It will be a rematch, And also you two are going to on
1:13:00
the same team. I thought, again, I thought it's going to be
1:13:02
a nice place to be in. Yeah, yeah, yes, I'm enjoying
1:13:06
this cap. It's the Captain's United, It's we win. Any final words
1:13:15
from you both for the month before we uh, before we sign off?
1:13:18
You know, always floss, Always remember to clean your belly button and behind
1:13:27
your ears. Sometimes I forget just good advice. That's just no one's smelling
1:13:30
behind your ear, but they tell you to do it. Yeah, but
1:13:33
when you notice that you haven't cleaned behind your owning is, You're like,
1:13:36
damn, why didn't I do that? Yeah? Disgusting. Yeah, just
1:13:41
ended on life advice. No, you said any words for the end of
1:13:45
the month, and I just said disgusting. Yeah. Jovial leap leap,
1:13:51
leap, leap, leap, leap leap. No, we should have said
1:13:55
that the most sacretive day. Forget what I said. Leap, leap,
1:13:59
leap. Goodbye, lie frogs.