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The Last Dragon Rewind: Arcade Nostalgia, ’80s Magic & Why It Still Hits · My Third Place Pod

• 0:01
  All right, right now he's watching the massive Universe
• 0:03
  trailer. I had it on mute because I don't
• 0:07
  know how I was going to if I get a copyright infringement on
• 0:11
  fucking YouTube or anything. But yeah, here we go.
• 0:14
  He's watching it right now live reaction.
• 0:22
  Like, I wish I could do it on here too, but you know.
• 0:29
  Plus he's wearing Fab and I'm wearing Flash.
• 0:39
  Where's he at? You look at that most skeletal
• 1:03
  man bit you. Said damn, all right, must be
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  good, must be good. Well, nobody's doing.
• 1:46
  Here. Yet so.
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  Yo, January has that weird magic to it.
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  Everything feels quiet but full of potential.
• 1:58
  The holidays are gone, the calendar is fresh, and out here
• 2:01
  in the Midwest, the world is basically frozen solid.
• 2:04
  No shit. Snow advisory, wind howling -35°
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  That's what we were told. But it's really -6 the kind of
• 2:15
  cold that makes you question every life choice that led you
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  outside. So we're staying warm the only
• 2:21
  way we know how, inside mic on nurse stuff everywhere, and
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  doing what we've always done here at my third place.
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  So welcome in. When is your first time pulling
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  up a chair? Or you've been hanging out with
• 2:36
  us long enough to know where the light switch is.
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  This is the flagship show. No rush, no pressure, just
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  conversation, curiosity, and letting the night go where it
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  wants to go. And yes, Greg is back.
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  Fresh year, same chaos. We're officially welcomed him in
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  tonight as Greg the human footnote.
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  Because no matter what we're talking about, he's got a memory
• 3:01
  of reference or a story to somehow ties it all together.
• 3:06
  Tonight feels like a reset episode, a check it, a look back
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  before we start spreading forward.
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  We're pulling pod decks and seeing where the question takes
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  us. We're cracking up in full year
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  podcast analytics, the winds, the surprise, the stuff we
• 3:19
  didn't expect. We're also looking back at the
• 3:23
  moment a year ago when TikTok has appeared for a single day
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  and the entire United States collectively panicked the after
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  we ran to the platforms that tried to replace it overnight.
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  And what that chaos says about where our third place is
• 3:39
  actually live Now we're reacting to the Masters of the Universe
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  trailer and what that franchise means to us growing up.
• 3:47
  Talking Ryan, her stepping into Kratos territory for the new God
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  of War series and why that casting actually makes a lot of
• 3:53
  sense. We'll hit more 3rd place talk
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  and deep cut conversation about the last dragon because
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  sometimes the past still knows how to punch the hardest and
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  we're not stopping there. No, when is that?
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  We got an orange envelope on the table.
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  I got it like the other day, Thursday or Friday.
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  I don't know when I got it, but you know, I have it.
• 4:17
  It says nothing in there that's value.
• 4:21
  It's the same stuff from Fast. I got a receipt from
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  Blockbuster. That's all.
• 4:26
  Some stickers. We're talking about TikTok
• 4:28
  getting sold, what that actually means and why every time one app
• 4:31
  sneezes, the Internet catches a cold.
• 4:35
  There's arcade talk, obviously, machines we miss, places that
• 4:38
  still get it right and this or that arcade edition because some
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  choices shouldn't be easy. So settle in, warm up, say hi in
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  the chat, whether you're here for nostalgia, for the
• 4:50
  conversation, just because this feels like a place you can exist
• 4:53
  without explaining yourself. Welcome to my third place.
• 4:56
  Let's put the quarter down and see what lights up.
• 5:02
  Greg, how you doing? Let's.
• 5:05
  Start this off with how was the week?
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  How? What's coming back from Texas
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  tells the whole situation there, brother.
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  What? Was going on I went to Texas for
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  my my aunt's funeral make sure yeah she rest in peace and and
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  so it's about a 20 I said give or take 21 25 hour flight 25
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  hour train ride yeah and. Around there. 25 hour.
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  Yeah. I get it from Michigan to from
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  Michigan to Chicago. It was beautiful.
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  I mean, I mean, it was nice, nice scenery.
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  I get Chicago. Hey, it.
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  Was nice, but they got to Chicago.
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  I I stepped in the Chicago Union Station now and the first thing
• 5:59
  I recognized was the stairs, those iconic stairs, because I
• 6:02
  remember that from the step move.
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  The Untouchables. No, I had a 2 hour layover.
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  So I get on this, the train, the Texas Eagle to Dallas, old ass
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  train, like 50 years old. It was terrible.
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  It was terrible, you know, and right, right, right.
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  But I made it to Texas safe, you know, I had a good domain, the
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  circumstances, I mean, paying my respects to my aunt.
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  But then the night at the funeral, they just all of a
• 6:43
  sudden we just ended up at my cousin house, a big birthday
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  party for me. Beer, liquor everywhere.
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  Yeah, crazy. So I spent there.
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  I spent, I spent, I spent some days in Texas.
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  Then I decided, well, I had to come home.
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  So I get a text message from Amtrak.
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  They say your, your, your, your departure.
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  Your departure from Texas from Texas has been delayed 3 hours.
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  So I was originally supposed to depart at 1:00.
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  I didn't leave Texas till about 7:00.
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  So come to find out it was a somebody had died on train
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  tracks in San Antonio police everybody had to investigate
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  this shit. So get Chicago my train to back
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  to Michigan had already left. So I'm, I'm asked that.
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  So luckily I, I, I contacted Amtrak and they sent me up with
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  a room free lift ride and they $15 voucher.
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  You know, the get a meal or whatever.
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  Yeah. And the hotel was beautiful
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  though. You can see the you see the
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  Chicago River and all them boasting shit.
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  And so then so I'm. So the next day I leave the
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  hotel, go back to Chicago Union Station and head up to the food
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  court. Bad ass food court though.
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  We've got with the Jersey Mike's had a never.
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  Been. You never been to Jersey Mike's?
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  I've never tried it but. You know, bread, bread, hard
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  bread, hard, as hard as a rock. Oh, that kind of bread, but like
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  flour dough. Now it's like, it's like the
• 8:49
  regular hoagie bomb, but it, I don't know if it's a bad batch
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  or what, but it was terrible. But you know.
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  Dirty bike was terrible. Yeah.
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  And but I made it back home so I would like, but I really would
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  let it go back to Illinois like doing the summer something.
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  Hell yeah. Look and look at land adventure
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  out in downtown or whatever, you know.
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  Yeah, there's a great place to be around in the summer.
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  Yeah, sometimes. Like I don't go around there
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  anymore for a reason. Yeah.
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  So yeah. So All in all, how was your trip
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  like? It was good like.
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  Coming back? Yeah, Come.
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  Back. OK.
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  Yeah, come back was good coming. Back was good that's good man
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  how you feeling now I'm. Feeling alright, you know I'm
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  saying warmed. Up and everything the.
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  Yeah, cold. And all.
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  That shit that yeah, I got home and I stepped out of trying.
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  Not like shit snow everywhere. Like yeah, like fucking planet
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  house. Wow.
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  Those. Yeah.
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  Those. Yeah, who don't know what planet
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  half is. That's the planet in her Empire
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  Strikes Back with the storm walkers.
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  That's what they call the storm walkers.
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  Yeah. Storm walkers, yeah.
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  Fucking snow and yeah at at. Yeah.
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  Oh yeah, man, my week was all right.
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  Like, not bad. Yeah.
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  And chilling at home trying to stay warm.
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  Trying to buy food for the so I can like have food.
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  Yeah, if. I get stressed out here and pass
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  out. I didn't have any fucking money
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  until Friday. Dang, I didn't have gas until
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  Friday. And then like, finally it's
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  like, all right, let me get the hell out of here.
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  Yeah, like I left, came back out and it's like just -5° and I'm
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  just like, this is horrible. This is.
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  Like I got. The food came back in the house
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  and that's they were good. I'm not going out for another 3
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  days. I didn't.
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  Buy any, like, cards or anything.
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  She had just been going on while you were away.
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  Like a bunch of drama everywhere.
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  There was a break in in New York at a Pokémon car shop in broad
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  daylight. Yeah, people, these two, two or
• 11:22
  three thieves stole at least $5000 worth of cards, all for
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  Pokémon cards. Dude, like I keep saying, all
• 11:29
  for Pokémon cards, but they're like, you know, they had, they,
• 11:35
  they they're worse stuff now. They're worse stuff.
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  Do you think? Yeah, so I get it.
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  I get why they would do that. Like, OK, I see.
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  Like, you know, it's, and it was in New York.
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  It was called, I forgot what it was called, but it's a big
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  Pokémon place. And like everybody on TikTok was
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  talking about that the whole on this day with last year being
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  the TikTok leaving and all. This shit was.
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  Fucking hilarious. I was looking at my like I I
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  didn't cry. We're good.
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  I don't get to. I don't get to that shit.
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  I did. I thought it was up without.
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  I was fucked up. Man, I was just like over it,
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  like God, everybody crying over a nap, OK.
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  What's the credit? I get it why, I get why now,
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  but. Alright, so crazy, but I was
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  content the next day, the next morning.
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  Alright, so with it's over with then my buddy, she hit me up,
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  she said we back on. Greg, I see you a damn lie.
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  We back on I love. That back on.
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  But then I just felt something, I said.
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  I laughed, I said something, something is out.
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  I said something is fucking out with this shit.
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  I said I don't feel right. I don't know if my jet, my Jedi
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  sense kicked in, my Spidey sense kicked in.
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  I don't know. But I'm like so something right?
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  This shit. And I was wrong.
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  It was messed up and been messed up ever since.
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  We got to start in the chat. We have people that was making
• 13:10
  it extra though. I said what I said.
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  I know. I get what she's saying.
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  I get what she. Said too, Yeah.
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  Oh, shit. I was like, we were all, we were
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  all she, she let me know what was going on.
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  I let her know what's going on. And we'll talk about that soon.
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  We'll talk about it later. We'll talk about it because
• 13:39
  like, it's, it's something that like, like I asked are you
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  going? She's all like, are you going
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  Like no, we both said no, like, no, we're good.
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  OK, Let's just stay here and chill.
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  Yeah, You know, let's just chill.
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  Let's just not go there at that group and we'll be fine.
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  Yeah, you. Know, and for good reason too.
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  All right, let's let's start the show, man, we got projects.
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  We like to start the show by opening the floor and not easing
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  in, no warming up, but jumping straight into the conversation.
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  Every week we throw a question out into the wild.
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  Sometimes it's thoughtful, sometimes it's nostalgic,
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  sometimes absolutely unhinged. And therefore, before we hit
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  record, the MVP community gets first crack at it.
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  You answer in the comments, the chat, the DMS across every
• 14:26
  corner of the Internet. We call at home, and then we
• 14:29
  bring those answers back here. We read them, we react to them.
• 14:31
  We spiral a little, a little, just a little.
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  This isn't just us talking at you anymore, it's us talking
• 14:38
  with you. Think of it as like a giant
• 14:40
  group chat where someone asked a question they probably shouldn't
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  have and nobody backed out. Truth or dare, Never have I
• 14:47
  ever. All kinds of shit like that.
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  So this is your first time listening.
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  Welcome in. Your voice belongs here.
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  And if you've been here for a while, you already know this is
• 14:55
  where the conversation really starts.
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  All right, our first question comes from Menace.
• 15:04
  Yes, it's the thing we're doing now where she's a subscriber of
• 15:12
  the show, She's a subscriber on the live.
• 15:14
  So like I give her first crack at it.
• 15:16
  There's two subscribers on the show.
• 15:18
  The other one you'll know about later.
• 15:20
  You know, I'll tell you right now her name is Katie.
• 15:24
  And I told her like she can have first crack and stuff as well.
• 15:28
  She still hasn't told me come back or message back.
• 15:31
  But she's doing well hopefully, and Mena's decided on the 1st
• 15:36
  question of the pod decks, so here it is.
• 15:39
  Is there a cent that can bring you back to your childhood?
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  Go for it. Me.
• 15:50
  Yeah. I'm gonna say the it's going to
• 15:54
  be crazy if I don't give a shit. Do it blockbuster.
• 15:59
  We wouldn't block never gave a shit.
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  The blockbuster sent. Oh God, the new.
• 16:08
  That carpet and that that popcorn.
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  Oh my God. Hell.
• 16:14
  Yeah, I could. I could smell it now and the and
• 16:19
  the smell of them, the the, the plastic on the movies and shit
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  and just take me back. I missed that.
• 16:27
  I missed that scene too. And actually, I miss this going
• 16:31
  into a video store. Tell your truth, you know.
• 16:43
  They're more. Yeah, I basically it OK for me,
• 16:51
  yeah. OK, so my mom's from Central
• 16:54
  America. So she's like Cuba, Nicaragua,
• 17:02
  Guatemala, like all the all the all those freaking, you know,
• 17:07
  fast talking country. She's from Nicaragua.
• 17:14
  So one day she decided to make her home food homestyle.
• 17:23
  And I was like, damn, this fucking fucking smells so good.
• 17:26
  Like what is it? It's from Nicaragua.
• 17:28
  I was like, all right, cool. So she every time I come over
• 17:35
  every not every, not every year, but every time I come over from
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  here to California. She knows exactly the type,
• 17:42
  though. One meal that I like and it's
• 17:45
  rice with just about everything on it with made her way in her
• 17:50
  country's whole country style. So every time I come over, I
• 17:53
  smell it already. I was like, thanks, Ma.
• 17:57
  She's not like, of course, of course.
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  Like I know what my tongue wants.
• 17:59
  I was like, hey, thank you. So I was like, I don't even like
• 18:03
  like knocking the door and then I come in and then I smell it
• 18:06
  already. It's just there.
• 18:08
  It's the smell of fresh food from another country that you
• 18:13
  haven't been in quite a while. Not only that, but since that
• 18:18
  whole area of central is they their group, their meat, right.
• 18:22
  So there's El Salvador, there's Guatemala, there's Cuba, there's
• 18:26
  Venezuela. So next door neighbor is El
• 18:33
  Salvador. So she has a friend.
• 18:35
  She had a friend, I don't know if she still talk that had a
• 18:39
  business across the street and she'd be like go get me some
• 18:43
  pupusas. I'm like, what the hell are
• 18:46
  pupusas? Just go get some pupusas.
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  Go to this place, go to the store and get pupusas and tell
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  them that I'm that I'm your mom's, like, all right, So I
• 18:54
  went over there, did that, and fucking as soon as I come in,
• 18:59
  the entire place smelled like childhood.
• 19:02
  Yeah. Like that whole place smell like
• 19:06
  you're in a different country and you're just like the spice
• 19:09
  all in your fucking nose, dude. Yes.
• 19:13
  I'm like, hell yeah. So I'm like, hi, I'm here to
• 19:16
  pick up some Papoo sauce. And all I hear is just nothing
• 19:18
  with Spanish songs, nothing with Spanish words.
• 19:21
  And they're like, you want me to speak Spanish?
• 19:27
  You want me to speak Spanish? And I'm saying in Spanish, like,
• 19:35
  and then they like, you know, like they all thought I would
• 19:38
  only speak English because I'm fucking this complexion right
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  here. What they called it was leche
• 19:45
  milk. They used to call me like Mr.
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  Milk. Dang.
• 19:50
  And so, yeah, I know, right? So I'm like Mira Carones.
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  You don't fuck with me, OK? I know Spanish.
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  I know ball, Sir. So I'm like, yeah, let me get
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  the. So I pick him up, take him home,
• 20:05
  and we opened it up and so fucking good there.
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  I didn't know what the poodles were at the time.
• 20:09
  So when I did, I just like, I ate them and I'm just like been
• 20:12
  in love with Boo Boo ever since. So everything, every time I come
• 20:15
  over now, do I get the rice, I also say, hey, is that place
• 20:18
  across the street still there? Yeah, All right, let me go over
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  there. I go over there, hang out, open
• 20:25
  the door and everything. I smell it.
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  And the lady that still works there fucking yelling at me like
• 20:32
  as like, like we know each other.
• 20:34
  She gives me hugs and every single things.
• 20:36
  I'm like, her child is like, I'm not.
• 20:37
  No. OK, hi.
• 20:38
  But yes, sure. Why not?
• 20:41
  Yeah. Gosh.
• 20:42
  Then she starts telling me stories about her fucking hers,
• 20:45
  El Salvador and everything. And then her son comes over and
• 20:49
  we're just talking and I'm just like, this is so fucking
• 20:51
  awesome. I love it here.
• 20:52
  Yeah. Like, you know, you go to A and
• 20:55
  before you know it, I don't even know where I'm what time it is.
• 20:57
  It was. It felt just like, what are
• 21:00
  those times where you want to go to a place you you're, you can't
• 21:04
  wait to get to your place, you get to your home, vibe with your
• 21:08
  mom and then vibe with the other people that are around the
• 21:10
  neighborhood. And that's what that was.
• 21:13
  That the kind of scent that brings me back to my childhood,
• 21:16
  Leanna says in the chat. Says mine is the smell of funnel
• 21:20
  cake at the drive in movie theater.
• 21:22
  Yeah. Oh, the smell of fucking drive.
• 21:26
  I can't eat that anymore. You know that I can't eat that
• 21:30
  anymore. But yes, follow cake.
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  I had it at a fucking what were they like fairs at the State
• 21:38
  Fair? At the State Fair they would
• 21:39
  have them and I'd be like, you know, like you don't see it
• 21:43
  anywhere else. So you see it there and you're
• 21:45
  just like, can I have this funnel cake?
• 21:47
  What's a funnel cake? I don't know.
• 21:48
  I never had one. All right, here you go.
• 21:50
  And then I have it and it's like, OK, I'm good.
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  I haven't had one the longest time.
• 21:55
  We need to go get you 1. You need to go get.
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  You need to go to the drive thru and get you 1 immediately.
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  Yeah, I'm fun OK now. How?
• 22:04
  Yeah, dude, next question. I just picked it out of the
• 22:09
  freaking thing. I was tired of all the like, you
• 22:12
  know, What do you want to do in the future?
• 22:14
  What do you do in the past? Let's do some upbeat questions.
• 22:19
  What did you do as a kid at recess?
• 22:24
  Recess. Recess, yeah.
• 22:29
  Really. I mean, shit, dodgeball, yeah,
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  sliding then down the line like it got some fun.
• 22:45
  What was having all out wrestling matches doing?
• 22:48
  Recess. Look at.
• 22:51
  You yeah, like, for real? Like one dude to get a stunner.
• 22:55
  I pedigree one. I pedigree one dude my home.
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  But my boy, my boy, rock bottom somebody.
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  You had freaking backyard wrestling matches.
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  Let's fuck it. Awesome.
• 23:06
  I love it. Yeah, then.
• 23:08
  Then I remember the Pokémon craze when it got real popular,
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  but I wasn't messing with it though.
• 23:14
  But I remember, yeah, I already wasn't messing with it, but I'm
• 23:17
  everybody just sitting down. What the fuck out playing
• 23:21
  Pokémon costing middle school, we had the hood kids on the 1st
• 23:28
  on the 1st and 2nd floor, but the rich kids on the 3rd floor.
• 23:33
  So I just start buying Pokémon cards and start selling bad
• 23:36
  boys. I was a hustling motherfucker.
• 23:40
  Yeah, you. Tell me stories about that, I
• 23:42
  love it. You know, yeah.
• 23:44
  But I mean, you know, I mean, it brings the memories, you know,
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  I'm saying. But that's what most of what we
• 23:49
  did during recess, you know? Yeah, mine was what?
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  Dodgeball. Kickball.
• 24:02
  And it was like it was lunch and then recess and then during
• 24:05
  lunch you had your scam. I had my little hustle too,
• 24:11
  where a group of us, we just during lunch, we just like, you
• 24:14
  know, look at our food like we don't want this shit.
• 24:17
  Not really. I'll trade you that for this,
• 24:19
  like, all right. Cool.
• 24:20
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Obviously, some of us are poor.
• 24:24
  So like, one of them, like, hey, are you gonna eat that?
• 24:28
  Like, as soon as this dude walked over by the garbage and
• 24:30
  he's, like, trying to throw himself in the garbage, Like,
• 24:33
  no, you want it? Yeah, sure, I'll trade you.
• 24:35
  Like, all right, cool. So we started doing trades over
• 24:39
  for fucking food. Like one of us had a hamburger,
• 24:42
  the other one had a pizza. And we're like, I don't want a
• 24:44
  hamburger today. Like, there you go.
• 24:47
  Or if anybody bought their lunch, brought their lunch from
• 24:50
  home or, or a brown sack of a brown bag.
• 24:55
  Yeah, maybe. Like, what do you have?
• 24:57
  I was like fucking sandwich apple orange.
• 25:01
  Like. Oh, look, you Mamas wanna make
• 25:04
  you healthy and shit, and that was fun.
• 25:08
  And then like, at the time, we would always talk about
• 25:10
  wrestling, all the shit that was going on in wrestling, because
• 25:15
  that was safe. Hold on, Leanna says.
• 25:20
  We were over here, red rovering, clothes lining people, club
• 25:26
  lighting people, red Rover with Rover.
• 25:29
  I've never seen a cave in red Rover.
• 25:30
  I got to I got to look this up online.
• 25:32
  That was like a covered wall in the middle of the playground.
• 25:35
  That was all. Thought was cool to hang out
• 25:37
  because that was safe. There you go.
• 25:39
  There you go. Later on down the line also, I
• 25:44
  was just playing soccer, football.
• 25:48
  We would play football and it wasn't touch.
• 25:50
  Yeah. It wasn't touch at all.
• 25:53
  It was fucking rough football with the coach.
• 26:00
  Like we would just like beat each other down, drop kick each
• 26:04
  other and do all kinds of shit to each other.
• 26:08
  Memories are being unlocked. Hell yeah, memories are being
• 26:10
  unlocked. I remember just like doing the
• 26:14
  whole because you, we did the whole wrestling thing and every
• 26:17
  time we played football, football, we're just like, all
• 26:20
  right, we're going to spear. We're going to spear one of
• 26:21
  them. No, you're not superkick.
• 26:26
  And it's like it just turned into a whole like little
• 26:29
  wrestling thing. But at the same time, we were
• 26:31
  still playing football on the ship.
• 26:34
  Shadwick, how you doing? So yeah, that was really fun
• 26:39
  time, man. What's a moment lately that made
• 26:45
  you laugh? And it's probably gonna be the
• 26:49
  last one because we're at 30 minutes already.
• 26:53
  Yeah, yeah, that's fine. What's a moment that made lately
• 26:58
  that made you laugh? Like I'm trying to think of
• 27:00
  mine. And like, I know it just just
• 27:02
  happened and I'm trying to think what it was.
• 27:06
  I like kind of forgot. You have one.
• 27:13
  All right, go ahead, Leanna. You don't remember.
• 27:20
  You don't have you don't have one.
• 27:23
  You don't have one. It's all right.
• 27:26
  The tree. What about the tree?
• 27:32
  Like I'm trying to remember. I really AM, because it just
• 27:39
  happened recently. Marvel Rivals.
• 27:48
  The fucking tree marble rivals. Oh, the Christmas tree.
• 27:59
  Me doing any of my rivals. I'm going off.
• 28:02
  Thanks. Thanks a lot.
• 28:07
  It made me laugh too. It like made me literally laugh
• 28:12
  and stuff but I don't know it was around here laugh few nights
• 28:17
  ago and we were just fucking laughing the entire time and I
• 28:21
  forgot what it was about. I'll probably talk about in the
• 28:23
  next episode, but some some fun stuff happened and I just like
• 28:28
  I've laughed so hard because somebody I don't know why it
• 28:33
  just happened anyway, that's fine, That's fine.
• 28:37
  It's fine. It's all good.
• 28:41
  Speaking of marble rivals, like I said, some some popped off on
• 28:46
  marble rivals a few this past week.
• 28:52
  What was that? I remember cracking up.
• 28:54
  I don't know. I don't remember.
• 28:55
  It just came up. It just came up and then it just
• 28:58
  gets his period for good. I don't know why, but it just
• 29:01
  like whatever, what's the habit of routine that's actually
• 29:07
  working for you? I want to say this right here
• 29:13
  where what we're doing like I have a calendar now like you're
• 29:19
  our episode is tonight me and minutes episode is on Wednesday.
• 29:24
  Predictions for Royal Rumble. Our next episode is on the 31st
• 29:29
  where we talk about probably the Royal Rumble and Teenage Mutant
• 29:34
  Ninja Turtles. Our next episode after that is
• 29:37
  on February 4th where I might do a solo episode again.
• 29:42
  Oh. And then again, February 4th.
• 29:45
  That's my mother's birthday. OK all.
• 29:48
  Right. And and we talk about Ninja
• 29:50
  Turtles and she took me to see TMNT 1990.
• 29:55
  That's amazing. That's awesome.
• 29:58
  Dude, that's amazing. Oh, that's what I remember, my
• 30:01
  mom taking me to fucking go watch Purple Rain because I back
• 30:07
  in the chat, I said it back in the chat.
• 30:09
  I was like that one moment where he takes her to Lake Minnesota
• 30:17
  and says that he had that she has to purify herself.
• 30:20
  Yeah. And then she opens up her dress.
• 30:23
  And my mom at the time covered my eyes.
• 30:29
  I'm three years old, this movie just come out, my mom covers my
• 30:33
  eyes and after that I slept throughout the entire movie.
• 30:36
  Die. And like, I didn't wake up until
• 30:40
  like what? I will die for you?
• 30:43
  And like the whole epic scene of that because I didn't see it.
• 30:47
  She got made out of move. Yeah, so yeah, I slept in the
• 30:51
  whole movie. So somewhere down the line I
• 30:54
  freaking watched the movie. Finally.
• 30:55
  I fucking put it on and I remember asking and I'm just
• 30:59
  like, I remember going to watch this.
• 31:02
  What the fuck? How come I don't remember the
• 31:05
  entire movie? I told my mom I was like, hey,
• 31:07
  do you remember taking me to watch Purple Rain?
• 31:10
  She's like, yeah, I do. What happened?
• 31:13
  You fell asleep. I covered your eyes and fell
• 31:16
  asleep. I'm like, why?
• 31:17
  Because I didn't watch you watching Vanity take her shit
• 31:21
  off. And I was like, Oh, well,
• 31:22
  thanks. She knew what she was doing.
• 31:24
  Mama wanted to watch alone. Oh my God.
• 31:28
  Hey, I'm Chris. How you doing?
• 31:29
  That's right. All right, all.
• 31:34
  Right, Apollonia. Apollonia 6.
• 31:35
  Yeah, sorry. Man, thank.
• 31:40
  You. Yeah, She, that's her.
• 31:47
  I just watched it tonight. Yeah, I watched it tonight too.
• 31:51
  Yeah, Vanity. That's bad.
• 31:55
  All right, all right. So lately before there's a
• 32:04
  moment that should switch for a minute, I know that you're
• 32:09
  probably seeing this on your for you page and the algorithm and
• 32:12
  shit. The Kingsman 265 situation.
• 32:19
  Do you know any about that? No, you probably don't.
• 32:21
  So my rivals hosted a creator tournament for $40,000 prize
• 32:25
  pool 40,040 K. It was a framed as a fun creator
• 32:29
  focus event, but once you put real money on the line, the buys
• 32:32
  get complicated real fast. During practice Kingsman 265
• 32:37
  creator suggested the teammate swap heroes because the comp
• 32:40
  wasn't working. Nothing wild, just competitive
• 32:43
  talk. But that moment blew up.
• 32:44
  Words were exchanged, feeling got heated, and ultimately,
• 32:47
  Kingsman was removed from the team for killing the vibes.
• 32:51
  That's when the Internet did what it does.
• 32:52
  Kingsman poses his side. The clip went viral and suddenly
• 32:55
  this one's about one tournament anymore.
• 32:57
  It became a bigger conversation about competitive integrity with
• 32:59
  the creator culture. Are you there to win or just to
• 33:02
  have fun on stream? Instead of hurting the Tim
• 33:07
  Kingsman, the situation actually boost Kingsman's career.
• 33:09
  His Twitch exploded with support donations rolled in and the
• 33:12
  Rivals community rally of art behind him.
• 33:14
  Meanwhile, some other creators involved face backlash.
• 33:17
  There were like three other girls not feeling.
• 33:20
  I just woke up from that all right sorry to hear that
• 33:23
  Meanwhile, some other creators involved face backlash like
• 33:27
  three other girls were mean to him because they didn't want to
• 33:30
  change and so he kind of like told him like hey, can you like
• 33:38
  he asked nicely. Can you change from Black Widow
• 33:41
  to another to bucking, you know, so we like so we can actually
• 33:44
  win. I want to win this $40,000
• 33:47
  because I want to pay for my college.
• 33:49
  They said no, fuck you, that's bad, too bad for you.
• 33:54
  Shut the fuck up. Then they kicked them out of the
• 33:56
  team and everything. So this all was recorded.
• 34:00
  Everything was recorded and everything.
• 34:02
  So he posted it like a whole hour long video on TikTok about
• 34:07
  how all this stuff happened and it just became like a whole big
• 34:13
  deal. So the rivals community rally
• 34:16
  hard behind him. Other creators involved face
• 34:18
  backlash that the girls sponsors drop off because of how things
• 34:22
  were handled publicly. Message situation.
• 34:25
  But also reminder even how you communicate in teams getting
• 34:28
  matters just as much as how you play.
• 34:30
  So quick gut check if there's real money on the line.
• 34:33
  Are you playing for good vibes or are you playing to win?
• 34:39
  Hope you feel better, get some rest.
• 34:46
  Like are you playing for good vibes or are you planning to win
• 34:48
  those $40,000? Like do you want to continue
• 34:53
  with this fucking person or like Nah dude, if you're not going to
• 34:58
  fucking take this seriously, then I'm leaving the fuck out.
• 35:01
  Yeah, yeah, get out. Yeah, same situation.
• 35:12
  Like I said, I'm just chilling over here in Bronx Tree.
• 35:16
  We're all, we're all just chilling in Frost Tree because
• 35:19
  we don't want to deal with the whole shit.
• 35:20
  It's just like become something bigger.
• 35:23
  The sponsorship, they dropped off the three girls that were
• 35:25
  mean to him and they like went to him and say like how we want
• 35:29
  to sponsor you, Sir. He didn't get $40,000 off of
• 35:34
  that because it was at the end of the day, it was going to be
• 35:36
  like 3000 each for each person in the team.
• 35:40
  And then when he went on Twitch to do his stuff, everybody like
• 35:45
  people on follow those three girls and they followed him some
• 35:48
  more. And then like it added up to
• 35:51
  like at least three thousand $40,000 where he can actually
• 35:54
  pay for college. So like, even though like
• 35:59
  there's fucking cruel ass awful people out there, he still got
• 36:04
  karma, like good karma out of us.
• 36:09
  So I'm like, hell yeah, dude, go go get your fucking bank.
• 36:12
  Go get your cash. Get that shit.
• 36:18
  All right, so this is where you're gonna love it.
• 36:22
  Tick Tock last year and this year, let's rewind to January
• 36:26
  19, 2025. A die of lot a day.
• 36:29
  A lot of people in the United States will never forget if you
• 36:31
  were on social apps back then because late in January 18, Tick
• 36:35
  Tock just stopped working for mills of American screens.
• 36:40
  Screens went black, screens went blank, videos wouldn't load.
• 36:43
  And folks we hear hit with a message saying something like,
• 36:46
  sorry, TikTok isn't available right now.
• 36:48
  The app hasn't been banned, all due to a new law passed in 2024
• 36:53
  that would ban TikTok unless the Chinese parent company divested
• 36:56
  US operations. It actually disappeared from the
• 36:58
  Apple App Store and Google Play overnight, leaving people in the
• 37:00
  US with nothing but a dark app icon and disbelief.
• 37:03
  What made it surreal that it that it felt like watching the
• 37:06
  lights go out at school right before summer break.
• 37:09
  Complete chaos, confusion, memes, and emotional goodbyes
• 37:11
  everywhere. People were posting farewell
• 37:13
  videos, annual recap montages, fake funerals for TikTok, and
• 37:17
  even organizing real life send off Hangouts to rewatch favorite
• 37:20
  clip together. Reddit, Twitter, and Discord
• 37:25
  exploded people later. Literally people refreshing the
• 37:27
  app over and over, trying BPNS and panicking about lost follows
• 37:31
  and openly debating where to go next.
• 37:35
  With TikTok down, even if only temporarily, people immediately
• 37:39
  started flying, trying to fill the void.
• 37:41
  Some of the big names that got attention included Red Note.
• 37:44
  Remember that app? It was a Chinese app where
• 37:47
  everybody is like, you know, if we're not going to have TikTok
• 37:51
  and because the government's trying to shut down because it
• 37:54
  thinks Chinese people are trying to like get our data, we're
• 37:56
  going to go to Red Note, a Chinese app so that we can get
• 38:00
  our, our data. This Chinese social app shot at
• 38:07
  the top of the US free app chart as users try to take it out.
• 38:10
  Take it out like TikTok, but different.
• 38:12
  At what point I hit #1 before many users dropped it, when
• 38:15
  TikTok came back, it did it. It only worked for like a few.
• 38:22
  And like we were, we were hoping that none of the, you know, the,
• 38:31
  the manga people, we go over there and just ruin it, but they
• 38:36
  end up going over there anyways. And then like we came back to
• 38:41
  TikTok and then you download Red Note again.
• 38:45
  I just downloaded recently to check it out.
• 38:47
  People are still there. They're still.
• 38:49
  There, they're just fucking causing problems to the Chinese
• 38:52
  people are just like, damn, that sucks.
• 38:55
  Like you can't go live there, so what's the point?
• 38:57
  You can't do anything. Yeah.
• 38:59
  So there was no point in that. I was like, I dealt with it for
• 39:01
  the vibes basically to check on people and it came back with
• 39:06
  like, this sucks. Beyond red Note.
• 39:09
  A lot of other apps got hyped up with the new TikTok but didn't
• 39:12
  quite stick. Remember Neptune?
• 39:14
  Do you remember an app called Neptune?
• 39:21
  No, a female founded social platform that promised creator
• 39:25
  first fees and less algorithm pressure, buzzed online but
• 39:28
  never replaced TikTok. Fool pool.
• 39:32
  The female CEO stepped down and a new CEO came up and it was
• 39:40
  just on Apple and I don't even know if it like launched or
• 39:44
  anything, but it never flew because it's not on fucking
• 39:51
  Android. They were like, so when's it
• 39:52
  coming on Android? Like we don't know shit.
• 39:54
  OK, There's still a discord out there for our first people first
• 39:59
  like you know all that stuff. And they they bought in, they
• 40:02
  bought their fucking profiles and everything but just app
• 40:06
  never flew. So they're like where's my
• 40:08
  money? Where's my money?
• 40:10
  Like y'all scam these people do. Damn, that sucks.
• 40:14
  There was a another app called 35A short form platform they're
• 40:18
  going to take you and create our circles, but never grew
• 40:19
  mainstream own another TikTok alternative concept that
• 40:23
  creators talked about but didn't build big network effects still
• 40:26
  doesn't and and again red note people tried it was a life raft,
• 40:30
  but most accounts dropped that fast once a TikTok came back.
• 40:36
  All of course, folks also tried to big establish rivals,
• 40:39
  Instagram reels, YouTube shorts, Snapchat Spotlight, all of which
• 40:42
  people checked out because there was really no tick tock to
• 40:44
  scroll through for hours. But none of them had the same
• 40:47
  grip on users or creators the way Tick Tock for you feed did.
• 40:50
  So even though we joked about switching platforms, most people
• 40:53
  kept trying tick tock until it came back.
• 40:57
  So what are you going to tell us about that day?
• 41:01
  What can you tell us about that day that happened?
• 41:04
  Were you upset? Were you pissed off?
• 41:08
  You did say you almost cried a little bit.
• 41:12
  Man, I'm in my head that day I had like I had like something
• 41:17
  like 15 drafts. I posted out and I post out and
• 41:24
  most but and I see some, I see some tear.
• 41:29
  Not saying I'll say goodbye to everybody though.
• 41:31
  Really. I said this is it really on the
• 41:35
  flips? I really wasn't.
• 41:36
  I mean, I was crying kind like I enjoyed my time, you know, I'm
• 41:41
  saying, but I've been trying to, I've been trying to retire for
• 41:44
  years. So so.
• 41:47
  Yeah, you were. You've been trying to retire.
• 41:49
  Right, still England. Yeah, still laugh.
• 41:51
  But but but you know, sack I I built, I built friendships with
• 41:57
  people. That's the main thing that I was
• 41:59
  crying about. Build friendships and bonds with
• 42:01
  people, you know, And then when it, you know, when it finally
• 42:08
  went dark, Yeah, this is it. But like I told everybody, I
• 42:12
  said I got enough, I got enough content in my in my Google
• 42:17
  Photos. So kick it back up again or
• 42:21
  something else, you know, I'm saying.
• 42:24
  But then I woke up the next morning and I was content.
• 42:27
  I said I is what it is. That's when my buddy, she missed
• 42:31
  me and she said we back on. I saw it.
• 42:34
  What? And she said it's back up.
• 42:37
  It's back up and running and I said I went.
• 42:41
  It was crazy. All thanks to one person, like
• 42:52
  the narcissism of him. Just like you can save me later.
• 42:57
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 42:59
  Come on. It wasn't because of you.
• 43:02
  But OK, if you need a little stroke there because, you know,
• 43:05
  it was our saying thing. Yeah.
• 43:07
  Go right ahead. You could have that one.
• 43:10
  Yeah, food. So we were, we're just fucking
• 43:15
  hanging out for a bit. Mass hysteria.
• 43:18
  Mass hysteria, like that moment on Almost Famous when the planes
• 43:25
  about to go down. Everybody in that plane is
• 43:29
  telling each other their secrets.
• 43:31
  Yeah. And then the plane doesn't go
• 43:34
  down and everybody's all like, oh, bullshit.
• 43:38
  OK, before I die, I just want to tell you this.
• 43:41
  The same thing happened over here.
• 43:42
  They were telling their secrets. They were telling everybody
• 43:44
  doing everything like this. One time I did this and this and
• 43:48
  this and this. Like, why are you telling us
• 43:50
  this? Because you're not going to hear
• 43:51
  from us ever again. That's why people were posting
• 43:55
  their their Groove videos there. There's again, six people do web
• 44:03
  videos. And then, oh.
• 44:06
  And then, oh, yeah, people wanted us to go to their lives
• 44:12
  because it was the last time they're going to see us.
• 44:15
  Like, join us. Come on.
• 44:16
  Come on. Where are you?
• 44:17
  And I'm like, now I'm good. I look over like, do you want to
• 44:21
  go there? Like, no, no.
• 44:22
  All right. I'll just stay here.
• 44:23
  Chill. The only person I went to who I
• 44:26
  whose live I went to was still a little redhead.
• 44:30
  She was in there by herself, right?
• 44:33
  You know, And I figured, like, I'm gonna hang out with you for
• 44:37
  a bit and for a bit. Ended up the entire night.
• 44:40
  Yeah. Because and I'm just like, I'm
• 44:42
  just going to chill here. I know I'm getting sent like
• 44:45
  invites over here, but no, we're good.
• 44:47
  I'm just going to chill here for a bit.
• 44:49
  She's sitting there and then she gets the message like that tick
• 44:53
  tock about to go down everything.
• 44:55
  And then that's when the Water Works come out.
• 44:57
  She started crying on the stream and I'm sitting there like,
• 45:00
  sorry, you're going to be fine. You're going to be fine.
• 45:02
  Whatever happens, we got you. We all got you.
• 45:05
  Are this community right here? We got you.
• 45:07
  We're going to take you somewhere else.
• 45:09
  We're going to do this up. We're going to find each other.
• 45:12
  The whole they had on me is still, it's annoying.
• 45:15
  Jeez Louise. Really.
• 45:18
  Like do this or you're out or something like that, I guess Do
• 45:22
  this for us. Come on, come on.
• 45:23
  If you love us, do it for us anyway.
• 45:29
  Yeah, so fucking hell yeah. I'm saying it was like that's
• 45:37
  what y'all were dealing with. I knew right away it was like,
• 45:40
  Nah, I'm gonna be here with her. It's chilling.
• 45:44
  I guess I don't then. Bye.
• 45:45
  I'll see you tomorrow. I'll see you tomorrow then,
• 45:51
  right? Is that what's happening?
• 45:52
  Yeah. I figured everybody posted their
• 45:56
  goodbye videos. I posted the ping pong video
• 46:00
  which was just like the first and last video you see on G4 TV.
• 46:07
  Oh yeah, yeah. And that was the whole thing of
• 46:10
  this, like, what is this being? What does it mean?
• 46:12
  Like it just means that, you know, I served my purpose.
• 46:15
  It's just a ping pong video. What do you want?
• 46:18
  It got some attention. They got people like coming to
• 46:20
  the video I'm looking at. It got like a lot of views.
• 46:23
  Yeah. I'm like, I wasn't expecting it
• 46:25
  to get a lot of views, but all right.
• 46:27
  Cool. Yeah, awesome.
• 46:28
  Thanks for the views, guys. And it wasn't anybody from the
• 46:33
  United States because they're all banned.
• 46:36
  It's like VPN. There's no VPN.
• 46:41
  The only person we had was Jane. It's like, hey, how's our page
• 46:44
  doing? It's there.
• 46:49
  I guess I can look at it, but it's nothing fancy, like, all
• 46:53
  right. Cool.
• 46:54
  Thanks. Thanks a lot, Jane.
• 46:55
  Appreciate that. Who else is?
• 46:58
  If anybody that we knew was from Canada, we'd ask them.
• 47:03
  But some of them from from Canada also got banned.
• 47:05
  So there's like a little little over the border kind of.
• 47:09
  Thing, yeah. There were other people as well
• 47:14
  and then it just took like fucking what, 8 hours?
• 47:17
  And then he came back and I'm just like, well, then I guess
• 47:25
  we're back. You guys are back.
• 47:27
  I'm not gonna post until like the end of the month.
• 47:32
  I hurried up like as soon as I like I I'll scrolling like I
• 47:39
  said earlier, I said something my Jedi, my Jedi, my Jedi mind
• 47:45
  was like something is not right. I said something something
• 47:50
  don't. I said something nice sitting
• 47:51
  away with this shit and I was just looking out, looking at the
• 47:55
  quality other video. I said they fucked.
• 47:58
  I said they fucked with this. I said they didn't do something.
• 48:04
  I remember 'cause I did, I did actually the Star Wars sound.
• 48:06
  I did the other one can always sound and everybody agreed with
• 48:13
  me. And then I did a video reply to
• 48:17
  somebody coming on their video and I said I was, I mean I was
• 48:20
  sitting in the car, I said something, I said something
• 48:23
  right y'all? I sound like the way this gonna
• 48:25
  go. I have a.
• 48:29
  Bad feeling about this. Ain't been.
• 48:30
  Ain't been right ever since I'm telling you.
• 48:32
  Yeah. Yeah, Oh yeah, it says.
• 48:35
  Remember some delete their app and was freaking out.
• 48:37
  Like why would you do that? They deleted the app from the
• 48:40
  App Store. Yeah, I didn't do.
• 48:41
  I ain't did it all though. And as soon as it came back,
• 48:46
  they couldn't float it until like a week later.
• 48:48
  Yeah. And they were pissed off because
• 48:51
  America was back. They got online, they got on
• 48:56
  their computer, and they were able to post from there because
• 49:00
  hilarious. After by the day in the dark.
• 49:03
  TikTok was restored in the US app and service by midday on
• 49:07
  January 19th, 2025, but wasn't quite the same story as before.
• 49:10
  It was restored back because incoming administration agreed
• 49:13
  on a pause and negotiation into the full enforcement.
• 49:16
  Here's a twist. Even though it came back on 2
• 49:18
  phones, it wasn't available for downloads or updates for several
• 49:20
  weeks. That meant you could keep using
• 49:22
  it if you already had to download it.
• 49:24
  New users couldn't download it, it couldn't be updated until
• 49:26
  later, and it felt weird and fragile for months afterward.
• 49:30
  The entire algorithm was sucked. What the hell is this?
• 49:38
  Why am I getting ads? Why am I getting ads?
• 49:42
  It is starting. Are we starting with this?
• 49:45
  Why are we getting ads? Why are we getting videos from
• 49:47
  like December from November? Yeah, why are we watching?
• 49:51
  It then back then. That's why.
• 49:55
  It's still like that today. It is.
• 49:58
  It's still, it's like I had somebody come in into the chat
• 50:01
  and say there's ads and then there's ads about dating, online
• 50:10
  dating, and I'm just like, I don't, oh, I see it now.
• 50:15
  OK, there it is. I didn't realize it until now.
• 50:17
  I'm just like, oh shit, you are. You're right.
• 50:20
  You can't talk about certain seniors.
• 50:22
  He can't say they're sent certain things on the on live
• 50:25
  anymore because then they'll get you restricted and then they'll
• 50:29
  get you banned. I'm like, OK, that was a little
• 50:34
  live and they couldn't see the G word.
• 50:35
  You can say the roses, but you can't say the G word GIFT.
• 50:40
  Damn, for real? Yeah, you can't.
• 50:43
  You can't say that. That's a damn shame.
• 50:46
  I know. And it was like, I was in there
• 50:48
  and I was like, what did you say the G word?
• 50:50
  I did. I remember, I remember people
• 50:52
  saying that there's 'cause people be begging in the lives
• 50:57
  of that shit. Now they're very strict about
• 51:01
  it. It just went downhill really,
• 51:05
  like really compared to when we, compared to when we first start
• 51:09
  was doing our thing. Right.
• 51:11
  It was fun. Now, just like, what are you
• 51:13
  guys doing? This feels like The Hunger Games
• 51:15
  out here. Yeah.
• 51:16
  Yeah. Who owns Tick Tock?
• 51:19
  Now, Fast forward a year, and in December 2025, January 2026,
• 51:23
  Tick Tock, the US feature really shifted.
• 51:26
  After a long negotiation to meet the law's requirement, the Tick
• 51:28
  Tock be major B majority American owned instead of
• 51:33
  controlled by the Chinese parent.
• 51:34
  By then, the company's US operations were finally spun off
• 51:37
  into a new joint venture. The new entity, called TikTok,
• 51:42
  USDS Joint Venture LLC, is majority owned by American
• 51:46
  investors like Oracle, Silver Lake, MGX, and several others,
• 51:51
  with Byte Dance keeping a small minority stake, about 19.9% to
• 51:56
  meet legal limits under the law. The idea is that U.S. data
• 52:01
  content moderation algorithm safeguards will be controlled
• 52:04
  domestically while TikTok continues to operate in
• 52:06
  basically the same way millions of people are used to.
• 52:09
  So right now TikTok is back, you download it again and creators
• 52:13
  are still posting every day, but the ownership and structure have
• 52:16
  changed in a way that meant to keep it alive in the US without
• 52:19
  fully severing the connection and to bite them.
• 52:21
  It honestly used to be new way is whatever now if you remember
• 52:28
  that week it wasn't just a brief outage, it was panic meme
• 52:32
  economy explosion, emotional goodbye TikTok content always
• 52:36
  people joking about starting over, folks trying to every
• 52:39
  trending new TikTok replacement app and the real sense of
• 52:42
  digital withdraw. The only social media regulators
• 52:46
  fully understood. People were like where do I go
• 52:49
  now? Can I still use my VPN?
• 52:51
  Why is red no trending my algorithm feed all while
• 52:56
  scrolling Twitter about TikTok. That moment wasn't just a text
• 52:59
  story, it was digital culture anxiety broadcast in real time.
• 53:02
  And it didn't end the way a lot of people feared.
• 53:06
  So there you have it. That's who owns TikTok now.
• 53:11
  And it's going to be weird these coming days and weeks and
• 53:15
  months. So let's see how it acts.
• 53:26
  All right, Master universe live action.
• 53:32
  Did you watch what you think of it?
• 53:35
  Man, it was that that's going to be.
• 53:39
  It's going to be a good ass movie though, I can tell right
• 53:41
  now, yeah. Yes it will.
• 53:45
  Much better than hell. I ain't never I've never really
• 53:48
  watched all of the original movie.
• 53:51
  I catch it on here and there, but you know the.
• 53:56
  Same. No, no, no, it's fine.
• 53:58
  It's fine. I didn't like, I've never seen
• 54:00
  the entire movie. In its entirety.
• 54:01
  Like the first opening minute, you know, I've always come
• 54:05
  through like towards the middle. Yeah.
• 54:07
  And it's like of Lundgren and I'm just like, oh, it's human.
• 54:11
  Of course, Master universe. I get it.
• 54:15
  OK, sure, why not? But and then the the movie and
• 54:21
  it's like, oh, that was human, right.
• 54:24
  OK. And just recently, because a
• 54:27
  movie is coming out, I saw like a behind the scenes somebody put
• 54:31
  up like 15 facts of the movie. Didn't know.
• 54:34
  One of them being that you never saw anybody die in the movie
• 54:39
  because copyright.
• 55:11
  There's no meant, there's no freaking Grayskull, there's no
• 55:16
  none of that shit because it's too much money to do.
• 55:21
  It was a lot of stuff and I'm just like, how did this survive?
• 55:25
  We're like, hey, I ended up liking it, but still, yeah,
• 55:29
  Courtney Cox was in it. Obviously, the principal from
• 55:33
  back in the future, Dolph Lundgren and some other people.
• 55:37
  And then Oracle was replaced by this wizard.
• 55:40
  I don't know what it was, but it was so weird seeing him there.
• 55:43
  And I'm just like, OK, that's fine.
• 55:45
  Here you master the universe movie we have.
• 55:50
  Here's the cast. Nicholas Galatine, Prince Adam,
• 55:53
  he man. He was last seen in red, white
• 55:57
  and royal blue on Amazon Prime bottoms and purple hearts.
• 56:02
  Gallatin has quietly become Hollywood go to earnest but
• 56:05
  physical capable lead. The trailer leans hard into Adam
• 56:08
  vulnerability before the transformation was very on
• 56:11
  brands for his recent roles. His bulked up.
• 56:13
  He bulked up significantly since signaling that isn't wink wink
• 56:17
  take his sincere hero with myth making Camila Mendez as Tila
• 56:21
  she's Veronica from Riverdale. She fits because Mendez brings
• 56:28
  sharp intelligence emotional grounding trailer.
• 56:30
  Tila feels less sidekick and more code lead warrior.
• 56:33
  Very much in line with modern Eternia takes and the revelation
• 56:37
  influence. Idris Elba as men at arms.
• 56:41
  Duncan last seen on Luther the Fallen Sun extraction 2.
• 56:48
  Morena Baccarin as the sorcerers of Gray School, last seen in
• 56:52
  Deadpool and Wolverine. And then we have Skeletor,
• 56:58
  played by Jared Leto, last seen as Jared Leto.
• 57:06
  Fucking Morpheus. Fucking Joker.
• 57:08
  Fucking all these other horrible movies they've been in.
• 57:16
  I didn't see who Evil Lynn was not fully revealed.
• 57:20
  Let me go check. Eva Lynn is Allison, played by
• 57:25
  Allison Brie from Community. Nice, I like it.
• 57:36
  We got Kristen Wiig as Roboto, not bad.
• 57:45
  We got Kojo Ada as try claps, John Zhu Zhang as Ram Man Sam C
• 57:55
  Wilson is Chronic Trap Jaw. OK, let me look at the other one
• 58:01
  right here. Johannes Hakur Johanneson as
• 58:04
  Fisto, last seen in Captain America.
• 58:08
  Brave New World hat for Jordanson as Goat man.
• 58:13
  The mountain from Game of Thrones.
• 58:18
  And so this is not going to be a camp first like the 1987 Dolph
• 58:24
  Lundgren version. It looks like closer to do Lord
• 58:28
  of the Rings God of War. Yeah.
• 58:31
  It it looks better. Yeah it's human but treated like
• 58:36
  actual mythology. Humans re entering the
• 58:40
  mainstream at the same time as a retro toy culture booming
• 58:43
  fantasy IP is getting serious budget again.
• 58:45
  A properties being reconstructionized instead of
• 58:48
  mocked. If this lands, eternity becomes
• 58:53
  a cinematic universe, not just nostalgia bait.
• 58:57
  And just imagine who gonna if we get a fucking Thundercats movie.
• 59:04
  I would like to say that it's time, man.
• 59:06
  It's time. It's time real.
• 59:10
  If we're getting a He Man movie, I want a Thundercat movie right
• 59:12
  away. And it better be live.
• 59:14
  I don't want to see no fucking cartoon.
• 59:16
  I don't see. I want to see them.
• 59:18
  I feel real fuck down. OK, you know what I'm saying?
• 59:21
  I don't. Want I don't want to see cats
• 59:23
  either. I just want to see scunter cats
• 59:26
  thundercats, not fucking who is visibly absent from the trailer
• 59:33
  of skeletons fully revealed. But he's not just you know, he's
• 59:38
  just there like final boss mode evil Lynn She she hasn't spoke
• 59:48
  yet. She's being reworked lens hench
• 59:50
  women more art driven. She appears later as a twist
• 59:54
  battle cat. We know we saw the little
• 59:58
  regular cat, but we didn't see battle cat.
• 1:00:01
  We didn't see an armored tiger not yet.
• 1:00:04
  This is like a big one for me. Yeah, because I love battle cat.
• 1:00:07
  I like freaking got him as the first thing to get him.
• 1:00:11
  He man and battle cat package deal.
• 1:00:13
  Yeah. The trailer focuses on that, on
• 1:00:17
  before the myth, marketing wise, more smart, emotionally risky,
• 1:00:21
  but bold. Orco.
• 1:00:23
  It's not in this fucking movie. If he swear to God, he better be
• 1:00:27
  in this fucking movie because the last one was horrible.
• 1:00:31
  We didn't get Orco. We at least better get Orco.
• 1:00:34
  I know he's just a flare of floating wizard, but still, we
• 1:00:37
  better get at least like a little spirit saying or a nod or
• 1:00:41
  a name like Orco this and this and this.
• 1:00:46
  Another person that wasn't seen was beast man.
• 1:00:50
  He's usually the the beast, the one with the teeth, the freaking
• 1:00:54
  henchman, the first henchman that we see of Skeletor.
• 1:01:00
  And I swear to God, I better hear his laugh.
• 1:01:05
  I'm telling me the gun he man. Oh straddles mechanic, Triclops
• 1:01:15
  and trap jaw. These are toys that I had when I
• 1:01:18
  was a kid. I remember these names.
• 1:01:20
  I just don't remember their faces.
• 1:01:22
  I know Triclops. It was the one that you kept
• 1:01:24
  moving his eyes and trap jaw was the metal jaws one.
• 1:01:29
  Yeah, mechanic. I don't know Stratos or
• 1:01:31
  mechanic. I think I do T toy ild cuts
• 1:01:35
  basically Fisto with the fist with the fucking hard metal
• 1:01:43
  fist. That is a fucking guy that's I
• 1:01:46
  want that. I was like hell yeah, I had him.
• 1:01:50
  King Randor and Queen Marlena is missing and then somebody said
• 1:01:57
  Shira. Yeah.
• 1:02:00
  When I was little going on, when I was checking up online on
• 1:02:03
  TikTok, they said like we better get Sheila in the end credits
• 1:02:07
  after credits. And it's like Adam comes over
• 1:02:11
  like, yeah, man, hey, we need to talk about your sister, my
• 1:02:14
  sister. Boom.
• 1:02:17
  And the and the movie there is like and then you see the the
• 1:02:20
  after credits as Shira and fucking another multiverse some
• 1:02:25
  shit like that. Yeah, please don't make it in
• 1:02:28
  multiverse. I'm done with those.
• 1:02:32
  Oh, dude, yes, thank you for cake slice.
• 1:02:37
  What else did she say? No.
• 1:02:41
  OK, dude, I got a means. I got to look for my he man
• 1:02:48
  toys, Master Universe toys, and I'll probably end up changing my
• 1:02:54
  my picture to me holding the fucking Prince Adam toy.
• 1:02:57
  Yeah, if it comes out because that is the fucking greatest.
• 1:03:03
  What does this mean for you as a kid?
• 1:03:05
  What, knowing that there's a fucking Master the Universe
• 1:03:09
  movie coming out that's not Dolph Lundgren?
• 1:03:13
  Where is that? You know, it's it's coming back
• 1:03:16
  to the forefront. You know, I'm saying this could,
• 1:03:19
  I mean like like you said her, this could be the start of them
• 1:03:25
  expanding more shit like Thundercats, like Thundercats
• 1:03:30
  and what else? Fucking that's another fuck.
• 1:03:38
  It Yeah. Joe Voltron.
• 1:03:41
  Voltron. You know I'm saying a real.
• 1:03:43
  GI Joe movie, Yeah. AGI Joe, like the last GI Joe.
• 1:03:47
  I didn't see the entire thing, but I saw the ending of it and
• 1:03:51
  they had Transformers in there. Or was it Transformers?
• 1:03:54
  Yeah, that Transformers, they had GI Joe, so they said yeah,
• 1:03:59
  or cross off of Transformers and GI Joe.
• 1:04:03
  Yeah, there it is. Really, really, if you think
• 1:04:07
  about it, when they did the when they did the Transformers movie
• 1:04:10
  and that that was the start of this year.
• 1:04:16
  So after that GI Joe came back. Now you've got he man, now
• 1:04:24
  Masters of the Universe. It's a matter of time.
• 1:04:29
  I give them a couple years. It's going to be.
• 1:04:30
  I can't wait for that. Really, I would love that.
• 1:04:35
  No Voltron is coming so. Voltron, any of the 80s show
• 1:04:40
  that we used to watch Silverhawks movie The Dundard A
• 1:04:45
  barbarian. It like the same thing films
• 1:04:49
  like teenage mutant Ninja Turtles movie, another one
• 1:04:53
  Ewoks, mask centurions those these movies were that were our
• 1:05:03
  childhood Shira movie. I guess.
• 1:05:11
  A war TV series finally confirms Cradles acting.
• 1:05:14
  He has a franchise connection. Who is this?
• 1:05:19
  Comicbook.com revealed that Pride Video has confirmed the
• 1:05:22
  Star of God of War TV show, revealing that Reinhurst will
• 1:05:26
  take on the role of Cradles for the series.
• 1:05:28
  Hearst, a fan favorite from his roles in Sons of Anarchy.
• 1:05:31
  Opie Opie. The Walking Dead, remember.
• 1:05:36
  The Titans, remember. The Titans bad motherfucker boy
• 1:05:40
  And then my play got a war, but I know that's going to be a bad
• 1:05:43
  boy, man and. I hope he hasn't shaved his
• 1:05:48
  beard. I think he did.
• 1:05:51
  Though Oh yeah, he did after the.
• 1:05:53
  Whole. Because I saw him, I saw a clip
• 1:05:55
  of him getting. Samurai.
• 1:05:58
  His beard King Samurai is this part of the first piece of the
• 1:06:02
  casting puzzle for the serious fans of the God of War video
• 1:06:04
  games will no doubt recognize hers too.
• 1:06:06
  At least his voice, as he previously voiced the Norse
• 1:06:09
  Scott Thor and God of War Ragnarok, even earning a BAFTA
• 1:06:13
  Award nomination for his performance.
• 1:06:14
  Imagine if Christopher Judge, the voice of Kratos from God of
• 1:06:20
  War, comes in and plays. Thor Yeah.
• 1:06:27
  That'd be like a whole reverse. That'd be great to see
• 1:06:32
  Christopher Judge again and be like, say it, say it, say it,
• 1:06:36
  say what? So you know the same boy.
• 1:06:44
  Pre Production is currently underway for the God of War TV
• 1:06:46
  series in Vancouver, with Prime Video confirming that casting of
• 1:06:49
  her other roles in the show is still underway.
• 1:06:51
  The series has already been given a two seats in order.
• 1:06:53
  Damn. A sure sign of confidence, and
• 1:06:58
  one that can make fans rest easing knowing his fate.
• 1:07:01
  Per their press release, Prime Video notes that the Cradles
• 1:07:03
  played by hers in the TV series would largely follow the
• 1:07:05
  storyline of two most recent games in the series.
• 1:07:08
  So Ragnarok. And yeah, OK, focusing on the
• 1:07:12
  narrative between Cradles and his 10 year old son Atreyu,
• 1:07:16
  which they call the heartbeat of the new show.
• 1:07:18
  So he's going to say boy. Fans may be surprised to see her
• 1:07:21
  taking on the part of Kratos, given not only how he already
• 1:07:24
  has a major role in franchise, but also how voice actor
• 1:07:26
  Christopher Judge has noted his own interest in continuing to
• 1:07:29
  play the part. Gibson balled in the series
• 1:07:34
  already. Though it's perhaps safe to say
• 1:07:36
  that hers is fully aware creative journey and pathos, and
• 1:07:39
  it's eager to do justice to the characters that fans have known
• 1:07:41
  for decades. It's worth noting the Judge can
• 1:07:44
  still be seen as Kratos at a Prime Video TV series, just not
• 1:07:47
  the upcoming Data World show. He can be heard in a serious
• 1:07:50
  speaker level, reprising his character Nice Co produced by
• 1:07:57
  Sunny Pictures Television and Amazon MGM Studios in
• 1:08:00
  association with PlayStation Productions and Tasha
• 1:08:02
  Productions. Gotta Work.
• 1:08:03
  TV series has major creative force behind it, with Ronald D
• 1:08:05
  Moore of Battlestar Galactica and For All Mankind serving as a
• 1:08:08
  showrunner. That's gonna be legit awesome as
• 1:08:15
  fuck, dude. We're getting, we're getting,
• 1:08:19
  we're getting fed. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:08:21
  Hell yeah, we're gonna be fed. Let's go fucking crazy Awesome.
• 1:08:27
  Right now. 3rd place is recap. All right, man, did you hear the
• 1:08:34
  episode of third place of our Third place is how we feel and
• 1:08:40
  all that stuff. Basically it's like, you know,
• 1:08:44
  it's not home, it's not work, It's somewhere where you're like
• 1:08:46
  you felt like you belong. The first one in the series, it
• 1:08:51
  was a laundromat and not just because of the chores and all
• 1:08:55
  that stuff. It would because right in the
• 1:08:57
  mid and like hidden in like a little thing where arcade games
• 1:09:03
  and I would go always go to the laundry just to hang out there
• 1:09:07
  to do obviously to do my laundry, my mom's laundry as
• 1:09:09
  well, but to watch people play the arcade.
• 1:09:13
  Yeah. Because I would love, I love
• 1:09:16
  going there and doing that stuff.
• 1:09:18
  And like when I was a kid, I I wouldn't play.
• 1:09:24
  I'd have money to play, but I wouldn't play just like watch
• 1:09:27
  the other kids, the other fucking adults do some crazy
• 1:09:30
  stuff like that. KT welcome in.
• 1:09:32
  Appreciate you coming in like we would always just like watch
• 1:09:36
  other people play and I don't have if it was anybody you would
• 1:09:40
  always see people with the quarters right on the edge of
• 1:09:43
  the. Machine.
• 1:09:44
  And then they would just hang out and stuff and you know, like
• 1:09:50
  all that stuff. So everybody's been telling me
• 1:09:52
  their third place, what how they felt and everything.
• 1:09:55
  What's your third place? What was your third place?
• 1:10:01
  I got a similar thing but like how would you with the lunch
• 1:10:03
  member? Mine was the grocery store
• 1:10:07
  grocery. Hold on, let me.
• 1:10:11
  Put you up again. Let me see what happens if I do
• 1:10:13
  this. Hold on.
• 1:10:20
  Yeah, yeah. OK all.
• 1:10:22
  Right, go for. It Yeah, mine was like a grocery
• 1:10:24
  store because they had like, the cloud machine, get your prize,
• 1:10:31
  whatever. Then they had the candy cloud
• 1:10:34
  thing. No matter what you do, you're
• 1:10:37
  going to get some candy out there, motherfucker.
• 1:10:40
  Then they had the arcade. Like they had three arcades,
• 1:10:43
  like Street Fighter two. Yeah.
• 1:10:47
  The Punisher and Metal Slug. Oh my shit I love Metal Slug
• 1:10:57
  plugs. Mine was obviously Mortal Kombat
• 1:11:06
  and. Street, Yeah.
• 1:11:08
  Those two ones that would always go back and watch and play, and
• 1:11:12
  then prior to that it'd be WrestleMania.
• 1:11:14
  Yeah, the arcade, yeah. So those were a few of them.
• 1:11:25
  So those were yours growing up. That's so cool.
• 1:11:27
  Yeah. Like hell yeah dude, hold on.
• 1:11:30
  I have a game for you as well, Sir.
• 1:11:38
  We're going to do a dis or that for arcade you.
• 1:11:44
  Ready for this? All right, Doggy Kong or
• 1:11:47
  Pac-Man? Pac-Man.
• 1:11:53
  Street Fighter Two or Mortal Kombat?
• 1:11:55
  Street Fighter 2. A galaga or centipede.
• 1:12:00
  Galaga. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles or
• 1:12:05
  The Simpsons. TMNT.
• 1:12:08
  TMNTWEF superstars or virtual fighter?
• 1:12:12
  WWF superstar, a Daytona USA or cruising US?
• 1:12:18
  Cruising USA, They're about the same.
• 1:12:20
  They're cruising USAI. Love that one too.
• 1:12:23
  X-Men or Marvel versus Capcom? Oh shit.
• 1:12:29
  Uh, X-Men. Alien versus Predator or crazy
• 1:12:35
  taxes? Oh man, I got the credit.
• 1:12:41
  Tax cut out my shit. Star Wars or quote Soul.
• 1:12:46
  Calibur. Star Wars and then asteroids or
• 1:12:51
  QR? Asteroids.
• 1:12:54
  Asteroids. Hell yeah, dude.
• 1:12:55
  It's fucking awesome. So yeah, those were our fucking
• 1:12:59
  games growing up and stuff. And like I would like my comic
• 1:13:07
  shop has them and I was going to go this week but freaking.
• 1:13:12
  Cold, yeah. So like I have a bunch of
• 1:13:15
  quarters ready. I just like going to go this
• 1:13:17
  weekend. I'm going to go next week
• 1:13:18
  probably and just like probably record myself playing and
• 1:13:22
  putting the quarter on the machine and see what.
• 1:13:24
  Happens, yeah. See how that goes.
• 1:13:26
  So yeah, I'm going to enjoy doing that one last single.
• 1:13:33
  Last man. The Last Dragon would be so much
• 1:13:36
  fun. They would.
• 1:13:37
  The Last Dragon just recently watched it today.
• 1:13:43
  Directed by Michael Schultz, produced by Berry Gordon, Motown
• 1:13:48
  released in 1985. At its core, The Last Dragon is
• 1:13:53
  a Kung Fu hero's journey draft straight into 1980s black urban
• 1:13:57
  culture, blending martial arts, cinema, hip hop aesthetics,
• 1:14:00
  Motown energy and comic book mythology.
• 1:14:04
  Leroy Green AKA Bruce Leroy There's a martial artist living
• 1:14:11
  in NYC who's obsessed with Bruce Lee philosophy.
• 1:14:13
  He believed that true mastery comes from achieving the Glow, a
• 1:14:17
  mystical state of mind, body and spirit.
• 1:14:20
  But Leroy's questions and just internal you have shown up the
• 1:14:26
  self-proclaimed Shogun of Harlem who wants Leroy's title.
• 1:14:30
  Eddie Arkadian and unhinged musical mogul wants fame,
• 1:14:34
  control and Leroy out of the way and you have Laura Charles
• 1:14:38
  played by Vanity AVJ presenter becomes the emotional anchor and
• 1:14:42
  moral compass. Leroy must realize the master
• 1:14:46
  he's been searching for is. Himself.
• 1:14:50
  That final revelation, straight whoopsie philosophy filtered
• 1:14:53
  through VHS era NYC swagger. This movie is absolutely soaked
• 1:14:58
  in Bruce Lee homage. Explicit references.
• 1:15:03
  Leroy wears Bruce Lee's game of death style outfits constantly
• 1:15:08
  quote philosophy and poster imagery.
• 1:15:10
  Training mirrors enters the dragon aesthetics.
• 1:15:13
  The glow is essentially Lee's total self explosion expression
• 1:15:16
  made visual subtle martial arts nods.
• 1:15:20
  The masters Riddle echoes classic Shaolin cons shown of
• 1:15:24
  exaggerated villain mirrors Shaw Brothers antagonist.
• 1:15:27
  Final fight choreography blends Kung Fu cinema with American
• 1:15:30
  brawling. It's not a parody.
• 1:15:32
  It's mythologic, mythalizing Bruce Lee through a black
• 1:15:36
  American culture experience. One SEC.
• 1:15:41
  The main cast timek Timek. Is that his name?
• 1:15:45
  Tobeek. To Matt to me OK Bruce Leroy it
• 1:15:50
  was his first acting role. Love that Julius Carey rest in
• 1:15:58
  peace show enough iconic operatic villain energy Vanity
• 1:16:04
  who we just like thought it was earlier vanity Laura Charles and
• 1:16:10
  Christopher murney as AD arcadian background and early
• 1:16:13
  roles you might have missed William H may yes JJ Eddie
• 1:16:20
  Arcadian's Huntsman freaking frank Gallagher from.
• 1:16:24
  This. Is so epic trying to get Lonnie
• 1:16:29
  Bargo 626 in here. OK Chaz Public Terry a random
• 1:16:33
  thug driver years before a bronze tale.
• 1:16:38
  That's the guy who said like, sit tight, Miss Laura.
• 1:16:40
  Charm, yeah. He was like pushing, he got
• 1:16:43
  pushed through the the window of the.
• 1:16:45
  Fucking car seat. I I didn't know it was him.
• 1:16:49
  I was like I had to look it up and say and my favorite OG Ernie
• 1:16:54
  Ray's junior, one of shown us no, wasn't shown us fighters.
• 1:16:59
  Ernie Ray's junior, one of Bruce Leroy's fighters.
• 1:17:04
  Pre TMNT, pre Surf Ninjas. He's the dude that isn't return
• 1:17:13
  of the. Youth.
• 1:17:15
  And is like wants to fight with. The girls and they don't want.
• 1:17:22
  This movie has a lot of before they were famous museum Easter
• 1:17:26
  eggs and D cuts shown ups crew wearing glowing red uniforms.
• 1:17:29
  Twisted mirror of Leroy's eventual glow.
• 1:17:32
  Eddie Arcadian's mayor of session.
• 1:17:34
  Narcissism versus Leroy self reflection.
• 1:17:37
  The glow only appears after Leroy stopped seeking approval.
• 1:17:42
  NYC neighborhoods are shot like mythic battlegrounds.
• 1:17:44
  Alleys become arenas. Who's the baddest structure?
• 1:17:48
  Like a pro wrestling promo. Way ahead of his time.
• 1:17:51
  Also because Muhammad Ali, probably because I know I've
• 1:17:55
  heard him say that. Before this, yeah.
• 1:17:58
  Who's the bad? Who's the bad?
• 1:18:00
  Like I've seen I've I've had Ali's fucking movies documentary
• 1:18:07
  fucking yeah. He's greatest boxer ever lived.
• 1:18:13
  Showing up isn't just a villain, he's a living conflict character
• 1:18:16
  before conflicts mayor mainstream.
• 1:18:18
  The girl in this movie, the one that annoys you, you know who it
• 1:18:22
  is. Was she supposed to be a parody
• 1:18:27
  of Cyndi? Lauper.
• 1:18:28
  I think so. I think, I think that's what
• 1:18:31
  they're going for, yeah. Damn, they got everything out of
• 1:18:36
  her for that her from her voice. So and it's like the the most I
• 1:18:46
  know I hated it like I hate it and there's like why are you
• 1:18:49
  talking ma'am, shut up, please. It's like it made me hate her
• 1:18:53
  more. But then at the end is like she
• 1:18:56
  tries to tell she tries to warn him, but same time Nah, your
• 1:19:01
  voice still sucks. Go away Eddie arcading with that
• 1:19:08
  Napoleon fucking complex because he's so small and wants
• 1:19:12
  everything. Done.
• 1:19:16
  I the what's his face? Bruce, Not Bruce.
• 1:19:23
  Let's let's call him Leroy. Leroy, just like you know, has
• 1:19:26
  the Asian culture. Down that.
• 1:19:30
  He does the whole thing. He goes down and goes to those 3
• 1:19:34
  Asians who have the black culture down.
• 1:19:36
  That and I'm like, this is so OK Watching it back then, I didn't
• 1:19:43
  realize that. Watching it now as an adult,
• 1:19:47
  like, oh, OK, I see, I see what we're doing here.
• 1:19:56
  Lil Libra to the brother like I'm gonna teach you how to rap.
• 1:19:59
  He doesn't teach him how to rap. He's trying to teach him how to
• 1:20:02
  talk. Yeah.
• 1:20:03
  How to do the whole the you know, the lingo and it's like
• 1:20:08
  this is it? It's like that's how it is, man.
• 1:20:10
  It's like, are we doing the the 80s one or like, is this like
• 1:20:15
  giant? Because like they do that and
• 1:20:22
  one of them reminded one of the guys.
• 1:20:24
  The three agents reminded me of freaking what's up from the 80s.
• 1:20:29
  A wrestler, one man gang when he turned into a kid, Yeah.
• 1:20:34
  Yeah, the African. And he would always go like this
• 1:20:38
  the entire time. Like, yeah man, you know, you
• 1:20:41
  dig and. I'm just like.
• 1:20:43
  Oh my God this is so good. They're basically making fun of
• 1:20:49
  just about anything in pop culture, actually, especially
• 1:20:54
  Cyndi Lauper, that that's a whole shot at Cyndi Lauper for
• 1:20:57
  her voice and her character and stuff because she wants to be in
• 1:21:02
  everything. Like, I love this movie as a
• 1:21:07
  kid. I love it now.
• 1:21:09
  I saw it for the first time now and since like, what, 10-15
• 1:21:13
  years ago? And it's so fucking epic when he
• 1:21:21
  said like you're doing the WASA, I'm like, you just better not be
• 1:21:26
  how freaking the WASA guys got because.
• 1:21:31
  We got, you know, the WASA. I was like, yeah, Wasa.
• 1:21:34
  The was like, that's where the game is still, yeah.
• 1:21:37
  That's where they got it from. Like Wasa Wasa what?
• 1:21:41
  Yes. Oh, what else?
• 1:21:46
  Oh my God, the. Soundtrack.
• 1:21:47
  The sound it. Yeah, that's the fucking
• 1:21:51
  soundtrack throughout. Of the night.
• 1:21:54
  Jimmy. That's all you had to do, that's
• 1:21:57
  all you have to do to sell me on this, Stevie Wonder say.
• 1:22:01
  No more. Say less Smokey Robinson, yes,
• 1:22:06
  what's up? You got Motown, you got Barry
• 1:22:10
  Gordy. Like that's it was like as soon
• 1:22:12
  as I saw that name, like like back then I didn't realize it.
• 1:22:16
  I think I who know who the fuck now I'm just like, that is epic.
• 1:22:20
  OK, yes, all right. Devarge, Stevie Wonder, Smokey
• 1:22:24
  Robinson, since funk R&B, pure mid 80s Motown.
• 1:22:30
  It the music doesn't support the movie.
• 1:22:31
  It defines the vibe because that was a vibe back then.
• 1:22:36
  The Varge rhythm of the night. I do the best thing ever made.
• 1:22:41
  You want to dance, Laura Charles doing her saying this fucking
• 1:22:50
  band, he's just so beautiful is. Amazing she was resting.
• 1:22:57
  Yes, Sir. Everything about this movie just
• 1:23:01
  speaks to you, dude. It's just a bunch of it's so
• 1:23:04
  epic. Like I would recommend it to
• 1:23:06
  anybody at this moment. And you had a DVD.
• 1:23:10
  Right. Like it's her extras in there.
• 1:23:14
  I didn't look at I looked at on to bit but let me see special
• 1:23:23
  features or special features, directors, commentary, bonus
• 1:23:29
  trailers, filmographies and production notes.
• 1:23:35
  Oh hell. Yeah.
• 1:23:40
  Impact on pop culture still felt today.
• 1:23:42
  Fashion and style glow, aesthetics inspire St. wear
• 1:23:45
  cosplay Sneaker culture Sneaker culture is all over this every
• 1:23:49
  time. Show Enough is a Halloween
• 1:23:52
  staple for a reason. Hip hop and music referenced by
• 1:23:56
  Wu Tang, Chance, Big Sean, Kung Fu and hip hop synergy predates
• 1:24:02
  Kill Bill and Afro Samurai. It's inspired by the urban
• 1:24:11
  martial arts hero archetype. The DNA can be seen in Afro
• 1:24:15
  Samurai, Black Dynamite and the Boondock.
• 1:24:18
  Yeah, of course, the boondocks. And the boondock is all over.
• 1:24:22
  There, Yeah. Because you have freaking a pimp
• 1:24:28
  called a pimp, a pimp named Slick back and it just reminds
• 1:24:35
  me of Sean Nuff for. Some.
• 1:24:36
  Reason I mean like his name like a a pimp named Slick back just
• 1:24:41
  like A Tribe called Quest, but still.
• 1:24:43
  Dude I freaking watch the boondocks.
• 1:24:45
  I. Love.
• 1:24:46
  Modern anime hip hop crossover culture.
• 1:24:51
  The Last Dragon gave us something rare in 1985.
• 1:24:55
  A black Britannicus. A brat Britannic.
• 1:24:57
  Protagonist. A black protagonist seeking
• 1:25:01
  spiritual mastery, not revenge. That was rare.
• 1:25:05
  Confidence without arrogance. Power rooted, insulting.
• 1:25:09
  That message is timely. Why does this movie still hit?
• 1:25:15
  Thank just because of the it's just the music.
• 1:25:22
  I mean, the set designs mean just a, you know, classic
• 1:25:29
  underdog story believing in yourself.
• 1:25:35
  You know, I'm saying just one of them.
• 1:25:39
  Just one of them timeless classes, man.
• 1:25:41
  Like like just like. Beneath the fiance and
• 1:26:08
  Roundhouse kicks the movie ask one question.
• 1:26:10
  Who are you when you stop trying to be teach someone else?
• 1:26:15
  That's why people still quote it.
• 1:26:16
  That's why Shona still lives friend free in our heads.
• 1:26:19
  That's why the glow still matters.
• 1:26:23
  Who's the baddest? Show.
• 1:26:25
  Enough. Show enough.
• 1:26:30
  Show enough? Fuck yeah, the show goes Harlem.
• 1:26:33
  I love it every time who was was in this movie?
• 1:26:38
  I'm trying to sing. Like I went through the casting.
• 1:26:41
  I was like, OK, cool. Yeah, I see it like the whole
• 1:26:47
  Frank gallery. And I was like that you could
• 1:26:52
  say you could see it's him too. Like damn Frank, you're so.
• 1:26:55
  Young. Yeah, Yeah.
• 1:26:58
  Time Act as Leroy Green Julius Carrier Show Enough Vanity is
• 1:27:02
  Laura Charles Lee O'Brien as Richie Green, Christopher Murney
• 1:27:06
  as Eddie Arcadian, Ernie Reyes Junior as Ty Glenn Eden at
• 1:27:10
  Johnny U Faith Princess Angela Baraco, the William H Macy of
• 1:27:17
  JJ, Karl Anthony Payne as Kid in pizza shop.
• 1:27:21
  That's a car. And the pain.
• 1:27:23
  That's a call from Martin. Yeah.
• 1:27:30
  Nice. Oh yeah.
• 1:27:31
  Jim Jim Moody at Daddy Green Chad Palma Terry Queen estamero
• 1:27:37
  as Mama Green, Keisha Knight told him.
• 1:27:42
  So that's Rudy from the Cobb show?
• 1:27:44
  Yeah. I'm like what?
• 1:27:47
  What was it? That's crazy.
• 1:27:49
  Oh, the little girl, the little baby, as I totally forgot, she's
• 1:27:52
  in it like the first half of the movie, and then you forget about
• 1:27:55
  her throughout the entire. Like, yeah, look, Mike star as
• 1:28:02
  Rock, Anthony Cortino, Thomas Akita, Rhonda Ross, Kendrick,
• 1:28:08
  Clayton Prince, a bunch of people I don't know.
• 1:28:13
  Ernie Reyes, senior as a martial artist fighter and Tony head El
• 1:28:20
  de Barge, of course. Yeah, OK, cool.
• 1:28:25
  Andre Brown has Beast and everybody else is in there.
• 1:28:32
  You're gonna have to watch it again.
• 1:28:34
  Oh, hell yeah. Usually IMDb has some stuff in
• 1:28:40
  there as well. Hold on.
• 1:28:41
  Let me go check. I love that people are being
• 1:28:50
  invited and they haven't showed up.
• 1:28:52
  I'm trying to stay as long as you guys possible.
• 1:28:54
  Katie, I'm sorry. There's no trivia for this.
• 1:29:03
  I guess I'm gonna.
• 1:29:26
  Go shout out to Ryan Coogler, the director for centers.
• 1:29:32
  Out of most nominations, 16 nominations. 16 man fucking
• 1:29:43
  hell. I told I'll tell everybody I
• 1:29:46
  told you I said since was a hell of a movie.
• 1:29:49
  Well, nobody listen to me. I will, like I said.
• 1:29:53
  I was like, I'm gonna. Watch.
• 1:29:55
  I'm gonna watch. It I'm gonna watch it and I seen
• 1:29:57
  it was like. Holy shit.
• 1:29:59
  Looking. Movie, Yeah. 60 nomination I
• 1:30:04
  hope it wins movies a year. Director freaking they deserve.
• 1:30:10
  Yeah. One of the Oscars?
• 1:30:14
  What are the Oscars? But in a strange way, I feel
• 1:30:17
  like it ain't gonna win shit. No.
• 1:30:21
  No, bro, bro, bro. March 15th.
• 1:30:25
  I don't want to sound like no. I don't want to be negative, but
• 1:30:29
  I just know the history of the Oscars, yeah.
• 1:30:34
  Fucking hell. And we know the history.
• 1:30:35
  I, I just know, you know, saying they, they ain't being
• 1:30:38
  appreciate the move like that, but I, I really hope they do.
• 1:30:41
  I hope they win something, but I just, I don't know, just got a
• 1:30:45
  sixth sense. Like I feel like they ain't
• 1:30:46
  gonna do shit. My Oscars this year on March
• 1:30:51
  15th, 2026 at 6:00 PM something 7 E 7:00 PM Central.
• 1:31:03
  So yeah, I'm definitely going to be watching Centers again.
• 1:31:07
  I gotta go buy it. Yeah, he need, that's something
• 1:31:10
  you need to own for real, like. Knowing Ryan Coover, he's gonna
• 1:31:18
  have lots, yeah, behind the scenes stuff, all that shit.
• 1:31:21
  Yeah. Definitely gonna go buy it.
• 1:31:27
  Yeah, man. All right.
• 1:31:29
  This feels like a good. Place to leave.
• 1:31:31
  We're good. All right, before we get out of
• 1:31:35
  here, we got to show love where it's due.
• 1:31:37
  A huge thank you to our subscribers, Medicine Katie, who
• 1:31:41
  was just in here and she just left.
• 1:31:43
  Ow sorry, I just shouted you out for supporting the show, holding
• 1:31:49
  it down and helping keep this dirt place alive.
• 1:31:52
  That kind of support doesn't go in notice and we appreciate you
• 1:31:54
  more than you know. Also big shout out to Leanna in
• 1:31:58
  the chat holding. Much love.
• 1:31:59
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• 1:32:03
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• 1:32:07
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• 1:32:10
  More back. Got y'all always awesome.
• 1:32:12
  We love that around here, everyone listening, watching, or
• 1:32:16
  hanging on the chat. New faces, familiar names,
• 1:32:19
  lurkers and longtime regulars. Especially the lurkers.
• 1:32:24
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• 1:32:44
  Kiss my ass, thank you for. Spending part of your time with
• 1:32:54
  us, that's the real currency in here.
• 1:32:57
  Next episode, we're switching gears and bringing the chaos.
• 1:32:59
  Royal Rumble predictions are coming up, and you already know
• 1:33:01
  things are about to get loud women.
• 1:33:03
  The steps into conversation. After that, we got some deep
• 1:33:08
  dives on deck. A full Teenage Mutant Ninja
• 1:33:10
  Turtles movie breakdown. Can you believe I've watched
• 1:33:17
  Secret of You before I ever watched?
• 1:33:21
  You watched the time one first. I watched the second.
• 1:33:25
  One yeah, that's why I caught it.
• 1:33:26
  Now the time 1. The same one, Was it the?
• 1:33:32
  Same because if you look at the if you watch the original for
• 1:33:39
  that time period, it was very dark.
• 1:33:43
  You don't think, you don't think, you don't think about it.
• 1:33:45
  You. We didn't that shit when we're
• 1:33:47
  kids, but now that we've got old, that shit was dark as fuck.
• 1:33:52
  Like Rafael? And the kids in the background,
• 1:33:55
  the kids basically, thank you for.
• 1:33:56
  The Harmony appreciate your medicines in here.
• 1:33:58
  That's what that's why I always say it's the best one at all.
• 1:34:01
  All of them. It was just dark, you know, I'm
• 1:34:04
  saying, just like how Batman Returns, like how Batman Returns
• 1:34:09
  was, Batman Returns was dark, real dark.
• 1:34:13
  Like it was gritty, you know, so people don't understand how
• 1:34:16
  gritty Batman Returns would though that shit.
• 1:34:21
  That shit was hell yeah. Putting Batman Returns on the
• 1:34:26
  list might as. Well, I already watched it
• 1:34:29
  during Christmas, but I watched it again.
• 1:34:30
  I don't give a shit. Oh shit, it's been fun here,
• 1:34:36
  able to hear Greg. It has been fun.
• 1:34:39
  Appreciate that so they they're. We're gonna.
• 1:34:44
  It was like, if it goes well, we're gonna have to do it again.
• 1:34:46
  Just. Like it's nice to be heard to
• 1:34:48
  true. It's nice to be heard.
• 1:34:50
  Yeah, Everybody is all like who you talking to?
• 1:34:53
  Who you talking to? I'm talking to other person in
• 1:34:56
  my headphones. I'm sorry.
• 1:34:57
  Do you want to hear it? I'm going to try to.
• 1:34:59
  I have a head speaker. I'm going to try to do that.
• 1:35:01
  So you can work. I know it won't be able to work
• 1:35:05
  when I'm when I actually hear the sing because it's going to
• 1:35:08
  look, it's going to sound like I'm way away from the
• 1:35:12
  microphone. Yeah.
• 1:35:14
  Like that, but it's just going to sound like it's like what
• 1:35:20
  it's it's on speaker, so it's fine.
• 1:35:23
  It's OK as long as you get people on TikTok get to hear
• 1:35:27
  you. We're good.
• 1:35:29
  Makes it so much better. It's nice to know what he's
• 1:35:31
  saying makes it so much better. And even with no headphones on.
• 1:35:35
  Oh, girl. There you go.
• 1:35:39
  All right, let's go. Let's go, let's go.
• 1:35:42
  And somewhere down the line, we're circling back to third
• 1:35:44
  places. The spots that raise the shape
• 1:35:46
  doesn't gave us somewhere to belong before you.
• 1:35:49
  And you, we needed one. What's another place?
• 1:35:52
  What's another third place for you?
• 1:35:54
  Another one. Yeah, Oh.
• 1:35:59
  Man, 3rd place another third place, the pawn shop.
• 1:36:19
  Yeah, that's where I got the book of my movies from.
• 1:36:23
  You will find some gems in the head.
• 1:36:25
  That's the first place all I bought Purple Ryan on VHS.
• 1:36:30
  Should I go to the pawn? Shop anyway.
• 1:36:31
  I know I there's. One around here.
• 1:36:33
  Should I go do it? You'll find some kid, I bet you
• 1:36:35
  I bet you find some shit on their own DVD.
• 1:36:38
  I bet I will. That's the next.
• 1:36:40
  One I'm going to I heard there you'll find some gym there
• 1:36:45
  they're. Fine.
• 1:36:49
  OK. All right.
• 1:36:51
  So that's we're circling back to third places, pawn shop, maybe
• 1:36:56
  another for a fun episode. Spots that raised us, shaped us
• 1:37:02
  and gave us somewhere to belong before we even knew we needed
• 1:37:04
  one. So keep telling us your stories,
• 1:37:07
  where you hung out, what era you were in, who you were with has
• 1:37:11
  enough style to hit you as hard as it hit us.
• 1:37:13
  Got you feeling all the feels. Share your story until next
• 1:37:16
  time. This has been my third place.
• 1:37:18
  No gatekeeping, no pressure. Just pull up a chair and we'll
• 1:37:21
  save your spot. Thanks for hanging out.
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  Appreciate it, Greg. Thanks for.
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  Hanging out with me. As always, been awesome brother.
• 1:37:30
  That's not. That was our goodbye, I guess,
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  like I'm I guess I'm not doing the same old stuff.
• 1:37:38
  It's different. We're trying something
• 1:37:40
  different. All right, that's what we're
• 1:37:42
  doing these days. So let's do the different stuff.
• 1:37:46
  All right, man, thanks for hanging out.
• 1:37:49
  It's been fun and anything you want to say before we.
• 1:37:53
  Go appreciate everybody who who checked on me this week is there
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  for me when I had my little crash out in Illinois.
• 1:38:07
  It shout out to Leanna and menace and you, you know, you
• 1:38:14
  were there for me too. You know, it means a lot to me.
• 1:38:20
  You know, I'm saying you know, it's people don't understand.
• 1:38:24
  It's rare, you know when you have people in your corner that
• 1:38:29
  you really can look, look on to and be a true family, true
• 1:38:37
  friends and not just know and not just know Funk ass hashtag.
• 1:38:44
  You know, you know, like actually people you actually
• 1:38:50
  closely like not know motherfuckers.
• 1:38:54
  They just do fucking duet chains for no fucking reason and and
• 1:39:04
  obsess over motherfuckers with a S on their neck and shit.
• 1:39:11
  It kind of forgot. It got me fucked up, but I don't
• 1:39:17
  give a fuck. I don't care no more.
• 1:39:19
  I ain't got shit to lose. Yeah, this is always got.
• 1:39:24
  You. I'm big, I'm big, great.
• 1:39:31
  I don't give a fuck. But now I'm serious though.
• 1:39:35
  Love y'all, I love y'all. I appreciate you.
• 1:39:38
  And we're gonna ride this motherfucker to the wheels.
• 1:39:41
  Fall off. You're filming.
• 1:39:43
  Hey so we were talking about TikTok video.
• 1:39:51
  Remember when we did? I know we're not leaving yet.
• 1:39:54
  Fuck it. It's like we still and we still
• 1:39:58
  record too. Telling their friends pretty
• 1:40:00
  fine. We're still recording.
• 1:40:01
  It's like your parents telling your her friends goodbye.
• 1:40:04
  It's like 10 more minutes, 10 more minutes for us.
• 1:40:06
  We're gonna go 10 more minutes. I was trying to bring back the
• 1:40:13
  Alexa play lip gloss the lip. Gloss Video.
• 1:40:19
  So it's like time to chat like should I bring back Alexa videos
• 1:40:24
  like or play lip class videos like yeah, like what you doing
• 1:40:27
  about me? The one that we.
• 1:40:28
  Did where we all just run around?
• 1:40:30
  Yeah. Gotta hug everybody by three
• 1:40:32
  times. Yeah, exactly.
• 1:40:34
  This is our this is our 4th 5th hug.
• 1:40:36
  Around there it. Was like, alright, brother,
• 1:40:38
  alright. So it's like that feels like,
• 1:40:44
  like a celebration fucking sound, you know?
• 1:40:49
  Alexa, play lip gloss. Oh yeah.
• 1:40:51
  All right. Oh, yeah.
• 1:40:53
  So I'm like, all right. So once it hits 3.
• 1:40:57
  Oh God, we can't play. We can't play.
• 1:40:59
  We can't play it. Not here, not here, not.
• 1:41:02
  Here my Alexa picked up your voice and started playing your
• 1:41:08
  Gambit and Rogue playlist. Oh shit, Alexa, play lip gloss.
• 1:41:24
  Hold on, hold on, she thinking. What is that?
• 1:41:33
  What? Is that bitch heard you all way
• 1:41:37
  over here though, Alexa, she thinking that's no, that's
• 1:41:46
  that's fine. And this is the part where it
• 1:41:48
  made me laugh so hard. Takes takes a lot from her.
• 1:41:52
  That's crazy, that's crazy. She fits you across the ground
• 1:41:56
  though. If I don't get if people don't
• 1:42:01
  listen to this episode and I don't hear everybody saying I
• 1:42:06
  when I was playing your episode, my Alexa played lip gloss.
• 1:42:13
  Keep saying it. I better hear this if you're
• 1:42:17
  Alexa played lip gloss. Tell me in the comments, tell
• 1:42:24
  this is going to clip this. I'm good.
• 1:42:25
  We're going to clip this. Yeah, you got to clip this on
• 1:42:27
  ticks that bro real really put. This on TikTok Alexa play lip.
• 1:42:33
  Gloss still thinking too. Oh shit, you need to update.
• 1:42:40
  You need to update again. Yeah, we're getting new fucking
• 1:42:44
  robots around here pretty soon. Alexa, play Lip Grouse.
• 1:42:58
  Amazon Music here. And if you made it this far,
• 1:43:01
  tell me in the comments, you made it this far.
• 1:43:05
  Hey, it's been made it this far in the episode.
• 1:43:07
  Tell us in the comments. Oh my God, Like we still haven't
• 1:43:16
  ended. This is why Alex show dude stop
• 1:43:24
  stop. Fucking hell.
• 1:43:29
  Oh, Oh my. God.
• 1:43:33
  That's what happens when you're unhinged and this episode's
• 1:43:37
  unhinged and, like, unsupervised, Alexa says.
• 1:43:42
  Nah, we're going to leave it at that.
• 1:43:47
  We're going to leave it at that. We're going to leave it here.
• 1:43:49
  I'm just going to title this episode.
• 1:43:50
  Alexa, everybody go listen. Oh, so the point of this is that
• 1:43:58
  once we get the 300 episodes, I'm going to do that.
• 1:44:01
  That sound to fucking celebrate and shit.
• 1:44:05
  You do that shit, 300, I'll do it again.
• 1:44:07
  I do it 300. Yeah.
• 1:44:10
  Everybody saying they want to do it again.
• 1:44:12
  So as soon as that shit hits 300 episodes, everybody's invited to
• 1:44:16
  do the what you know about me, what you know about me?
• 1:44:20
  My lip gloss be popping my lip gloss.
• 1:44:22
  Yeah, it does. Can't wait for that.
• 1:44:26
  Can't wait for that. Yeah.
• 1:44:29
  So she's finally going to join it.
• 1:44:32
  Yeah. Everybody's going to join.
• 1:44:33
  Everybody's invited to join it. You all are invited.
• 1:44:35
  Let's do it. Let's go, Let's go.
• 1:44:37
  Yeah. It's gonna be better just
• 1:44:38
  because I ain't gonna be around no bullshit.
• 1:44:46
  And on that note, let's go. It's been fun, man.
• 1:44:51
  Yeah, yeah. It's time to go, time to put the
• 1:44:56
  quarters in and we're out. All right, brother, thanks for
• 1:44:59
  hanging out. Thanks for doing this with me.
• 1:45:00
  As always. Appreciate it.
• 1:45:01
  It's like almost at 2 hours right now.
• 1:45:04
  It's all good. I pray, yeah.
• 1:45:08
  All right, I'm gonna stop right here.