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Gran Turismo Movie & Twisted Metal TV Series · Dad Needs To Talk

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  What's up y'all? And welcome back to Danny's to
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  talk. I'm your host robber.
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  And today today I am here to talk about the Twisted Metal TV
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  show and the Gran Turismo movie. Now that is something, back when
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  these shows, when this stuff was announced maybe a year plus ago,
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  Would I have ever imagined that I would want to do a dedicated
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  episode for these shows? But here we are.
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  But before I get started, as always y'all know, here again to
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  talk, it's all about discussions surrounding fatherhood and
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  family, manga, anime, TV, movies and gaming.
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  And so here we are. And I definitely have to say
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  starting off, I think that Sony and PlayStation Studios,
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  PlayStation Productions, they figured out some type of special
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  sauce or something. But I kind of want to take a
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  step back though, because I feel like, you know there's been a
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  upward trend and the last like handful of years that of course
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  I've been very happy to see because you know up until
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  recently, you know when when you hear that video games and stuff
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  for getting adapted into TV shows, movies or whatever.
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  I was like, I don't know about that, you know, but you know
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  with and and and of course I feel like, you know, there's
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  been more success on like the animated front versus like the
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  live action stuff for sure. But in the last handful of years
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  we've and we're at least like for me personally where I feel
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  like things are kind of sort of the trend more upwards was even
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  stuff with like Detective Pikachu some years back and the
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  Sonic movies and stuff have been pretty good.
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  And then like I said of course like with like the the animated
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  stuff, with of course this earlier this year the the Super
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  Mario Brothers movie took over the world and we've had like the
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  Castlevania series on Netflix, the League of Legends series,
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  Arcane cyberpunk, edge runners, anime.
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  And so it's been a lot of like good stuff.
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  And so speaking specifically with PlayStation Productions,
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  PlayStation Studios, when they announced this kind of road map,
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  whatever some while sometime back, of course the first couple
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  things they announced made the most sense for live action.
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  That being the charted movie, which I know some people are
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  kind of 5050 on it or whatever, but all things considered, I
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  feel like was more positive than negative.
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  And of course the Last of Us series on HBO, like took over
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  the Internet earlier this year when it aired or whatever, they
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  they knocked that out the park. But those like, like if you've
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  played the Untreaded video game series or the last of the
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  series, then those games and stuff are very cinematic.
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  And you know, a lot of people joke about like, Oh well, they
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  might as well make a TV show or movie out of this, whatever,
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  instead of a game. Well, hey, they've been able to
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  accomplish something on both ends of, like says video games
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  and being adapted to the big screen.
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  But when they mentioned that, Oh yeah, we're also going to do one
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  for a Twisted Metal and Gran Turismo, it was like, I don't
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  know, especially the Gran Turismo 1 until they kind of of
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  course clarify that it's based on a true story and a true on a
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  true story, which I'll talk about in a second or whatever.
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  And it was like, I don't know, but whoever over at position
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  studios is kind of like behind this stuff.
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  Whatever they have taken, they have it seems like they've been
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  taking extra care that regardless of the streaming
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  platform or the movie platform whatever, that they put people
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  behind this stuff that have some level of care for the series and
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  stuff. Because like I said with the
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  Grand Turismo ones, Okay, how you going to make a a movie
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  based off of a off of a driving game series And then with
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  twisted mirrors like Okay it's going on Peacock.
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  It's like Okay who who watches stuff on there.
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  But hey, I did and so I I I guess I'll kind of start off
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  with Gran Turismo. So like I mentioned, Gran
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  Turismo, this is based off of a true story about a kid or I I
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  guess I'll say he he's a young adult, but I guess he was 19 at
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  the time, whatever. But, but this young man
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  basically who was one of the best in the world at the video
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  game Gran Turismo, getting an opportunity to go into this
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  thing called the GT Academy where basically it was like a
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  competition to to turn these people who are great at the at
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  the SIM driving game into actual professional race car drivers.
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  And so going to this movie like I said I honestly had little to
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  no expectations for this whatever just simply because I'm
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  not much of A of a racing game type of person whatever.
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  But I I, I do know that I like, like the the attention to detail
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  and care that goes into the Grand Turismo series has always
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  been there, very apparent, like I said, just even from somebody
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  like myself who has just observed the series from afar or
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  whatever. I always know and have heard of
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  the love and care that goes into kind of bringing the look and
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  feel of real life cars into this game, into this, into this
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  driving SIM. And so this movie honestly, was
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  really well done because y'all know me, I I of course I I love
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  movies and stories about perseverance and somebody
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  overcoming ridiculous odds. And that's pretty much what
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  happened with this. And I love how they actually
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  worked closely with the actual guy who the movie and stuff is
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  based off of. So the young man's name was a
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  Jan Martin Borough who was a son of, I believe his father played
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  football or soccer professionally at some point in
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  time. And so, you know, he kind of
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  came up in this home where, you know, you have a great former
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  athlete in your father. His younger brother was also
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  kind of like on that path to also become a great football
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  player as well. And the dad never really like
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  like a lot of parents even stood to this day or whatever, never
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  really got or understood, you know, his son's love and
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  dedication to playing this game. Well, like I said, the movie
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  they, they, they got this guy very deeply involved with the
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  production stuff of the movie, of telling his story.
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  He was even the stunt driver for the guy that was playing him in
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  the movie and stuff. And so yeah, honestly from from
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  start to finish this movie like had me on the edge of my seat
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  and so many aspects and and it kind of gave a greater
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  appreciation for this journey that that this guy went through.
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  Whatever. Because yeah, some something
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  that some of his skills and instincts from playing years and
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  hundreds, thousands of hours of the game did help translate over
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  to real life. But there was also a lot of more
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  physical demands that he had to overcome and this journey to
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  become great in this sport. And so like I said the movie
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  showcase his whole journey really well done looking until
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  like like kids like like the actual timeline of stuff that
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  happened in real life, whatever they did switch around a couple
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  of events, whatever, which I guess, you know for the movie
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  made sense. Whatever just for you know
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  certain things that happened. And then kind of like the
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  comeback type of situation would ever flow better in the movie
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  versus how they actually played out in real life.
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  But, but even to where there was a situation to where and minor
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  spoilers for the movie and the situation whatever.
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  But there was a race that he was involved in where his freaking
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  car flipped or whatever into the crowd and actually killed a a
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  person, a pedestrian. There was a onlooker, there was
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  watching the race, whatever on the side and you know, just
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  saying like that the weight of that situation and how that
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  affected him. And you know, he, you know, did
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  just all that stuff. But.
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  And it was just like just for me to say this movie was so well
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  done. And like I said, I I really
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  enjoyed just seeing his journey through this Academy, through
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  the stuff with his father, his brother, his mother, family
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  stuff, whatever, with his friends, with his coach who was
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  portrayed by I always forget the name of the coach, but.
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  But he he he's portrayed by, I think is it David?
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  Yeah. David Harborough he, he did a
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  really well, well done job. And I feel like both both this
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  and I'll talk about with tussle metal in a minute or whatever.
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  Some of the trailers and promotions came off like kind of
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  like kind of corny and weird in a way, but in the context of the
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  actual movies and shows, whatever, it actually wasn't
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  that crazy. Because like, like in the
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  trailer, it's like, you know what?
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  What was the line everybody make fun of about how, like, you
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  know, if you crash in the game, you can you can just reset, hit
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  the reset button and start over. But there's no reset button in
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  real life, so to speak. Whatever.
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  And yeah, some some of that stuff kind of was like beating
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  you over the head and the trailers and the previews or
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  whatever, But in the context of the actual situations that that
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  was happening in the movie, it actually made sense.
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  Whatever. And it didn't come and it didn't
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  come off as corny and cheesy and stuff, whatever.
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  But yeah, but All in all this was a really well done movie and
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  portrayal of this heart touching story for me at least of seeing
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  this young man take this journey from his love and passion, from
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  just love of cars and racing that he got from an event that
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  his dad took him to when he was freaking five years old, to the
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  love of the game through this Academy and then becoming a pro
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  and then you know, ended up, you know, winning.
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  He didn't get first place, but he got a thing like third with
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  his team and ended up on the podium and stuff And so yeah, so
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  All in all Gran Turismo was really well done and like I
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  said, I I just kind of just often think about the kind of
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  like overnight life changing stuff to where you know you're
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  kind of and for like a better term a normal civilian.
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  And yeah you might have a little bit of popularity and clout
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  within like your small circle. But to see him going from this
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  person who is known what a pretty well known within the
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  racing community to now you know, people not taking him
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  serious when he started coming, coming out to the pro scene and
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  stuff, whatever. And then eventually earning that
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  respect toward now when he when he's traveling places, he's got
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  the cameras and stuff on him, he's on TV and interviews and
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  stuff whatever. And so just having that that big
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  glow up and blow up of Famous stuff overnight was really well
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  shown. Now switching over to Twisted
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  Metal now I had kind of started hearing rumblings the other week
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  when this first dropped that Twisted Metal actually wasn't
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  that bad. Which, you know, might might
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  sound funny, me saying that, but, you know, because honestly,
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  I was thinking about maybe maybe checking it out.
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  Just because, like, there are certain things to where
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  sometimes you do need to be a judge for yourself on the
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  quality of something. Because there's been plenty of
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  stuff to where, you know, other people have been like, man, this
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  freaking sucks. I don't like this this show,
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  game, monger, anime, whatever. But then you check out yourself
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  and you're like, man, I actually like that.
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  And also vice versa to worry about.
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  I was like, yo, this is the dopest thing in the world and
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  you're like, I don't know what you're talking about.
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  So yeah, so, like I said, so, so Twisted Metal streaming on
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  Peacock. And so that out the gate was
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  kind of like Sony just kind of just tossing this into the wind
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  or whatever. They them, you know, of course,
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  you know, like just just, you know, on papers.
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  OK, They got Last of Us put onto freaking HBO where some of the
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  most prestigious television stuff goes, but then they put
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  Twisted Metal on Peacock, whatever.
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  And it's just like, OK, they don't really care.
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  They're just trying to get this out there.
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  But after watching this, you can clearly see that that somebody
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  there they worked on or whatever did actually put some love and
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  attention into the series. And I recently had listened to a
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  very well done interview discussion from Last End Media,
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  part of the Sacred Symbols Plus podcast, where the host, Colin
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  Moriarty. Moriarty talked with David Jaffe
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  who was one of kind of like the lead minds and producers on the
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  original Twisted Metal series as well as the original God of War
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  series about the path to the creation of the Twisted Metal
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  games and stuff. And so I got to listen to that
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  over the course of this last week or whatever.
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  Before I watched the show, and even even Jeff, he talked about
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  how much he loved and admired the small details and stuff that
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  they put into the show. Whatever.
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  Now, for myself, just like with Gran Turismo, I don't really
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  have too much history and background, wits, twisted metal.
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  I don't even know if I really ever even played the series
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  whatever back in the day. But of course I knew that it was
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  about this apocalyptic world simulator, whatever, filled with
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  just car combat and this, you know, crazy clown driving an ice
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  cream truck, whatever, that that's what it was like all my
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  knowledge I knew of this series and like I mentioned with Grant
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  Turismo, with Twisted Metal, some of the initial trailers and
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  Tasers and stuff that they put out for it or whatever, didn't
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  really do this series justice because this series is so much
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  more than just the car combat. Now the car combat that is in
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  the show, whatever is really well done, especially in that
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  last freaking episode. Because I guess I should
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  clarify, this is a 10 episode series and there will be at some
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  point probably another season just based just based off of how
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  the story and stuff went in this whatever.
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  But, but yes, so, so you had Anthony Mackie starring as
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  literally a captain named John Doe because he knows nothing
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  about his history and his background.
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  And he is what's known as a, a milkman who is basically a
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  delivery driver where he drives from city to city.
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  Because a lot of the cities like Chicago and San Francisco and
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  some other ones across the country, they basically like,
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  like wants the world went to ish.
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  They pretty much walled up the cities or whatever, and they
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  pretty much threw a lot of people like like a lot of like
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  criminals and crazy people or whatever, just out into like the
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  wasteland, so to speak. Whatever.
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  And it's like, hey, it's there's people who only live inside the
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  cities and then there's people who only live outside of the
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  cities, whatever. And so, like, say, Anthony
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  Mackie, John Doe, he is this person who is tasked with
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  delivering packages and goods and stuff from city to city and
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  you know, traversing this wasteland and stuff.
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  And I do not expect to really enjoy this series because they
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  they did such a good job of fleshing out, like I said, the
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  little bit of stuff that you might know or remember from the
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  game series back in the day. But taking it so much more to
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  where like I said you, you get introduced a sweet tooth at some
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  point time. And I will say that that this
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  series, which I guess is expected, but it is very, very
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  brutal, very bloody, gory or whatever.
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  Like, like there's a point where like, of course, like there's
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  like a little bit of violence early on, but I think it was
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  like episode like 3 or 4 something or whatever.
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  Pretty much like when Sweet Tooth came to the picture to
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  where it like ramped up to where it was like heads getting
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  decapitated, limbs flying, big splurts of blood.
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  And it was like, whoa, OK, no, no Kitty gloves on this show,
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  whatever. Sex and all different types of
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  crazy stuff going on in the show.
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  But yeah, but but I really enjoyed it.
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  Like I said, the fact that I freaking benched it over the
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  course of the last day or so. But but yeah, but like I said,
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  you kind of get to see more of these characters and I like how
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  they introduced them and they also spent Pepper in back
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  stories for a lot of these characters.
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  Get back stories and like Sweet Tooth and John Doe and some of
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  these other characters that you meet along the way.
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  And it's funny, It's violent and also has a few like heartwarming
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  moments, whatever, within some of the corniness of it.
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  Because you know, there are definitely some stuff to where
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  it's like okay, that's kind of cheesy, but in a way that is
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  kind of like part of the charm for the show and and and it
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  works for for what it is. And like I said, you kind of get
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  these different character arcs and stuff because.
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  There are certain characters that you get introduced to and
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  that you consistently see over the course of this, over the
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  course of the show. And you kind of get to see like
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  different confrontations and rivalries and revenge and stuff
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  kind of play out over the course of these ten episodes.
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  And like I said, you kind of get to see some character growth.
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  And like I said of course, like I said like lots of goofy cheesy
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  moments and stuff that that legit like made me laugh
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  throughout or whatever. And honestly I feel like it was
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  kind of like like like a lot of a lot of humor that that I like
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  and enjoy and stuff as well so but but yeah but Twisted Metal
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  was pretty well done and like I said definitely worth you
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  checking out it. It got me to sign up for at
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  least hey even if I don't I'm not going to probably not going
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  to keep Peacock over there but hey they they got me in the door
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  to at least watch this whatever and I might see what other stuff
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  is on there while I have it to to to check it out to check out
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  and stuff whatever. So, but all that said, kind of
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  kind of going back so Uncharted and Last of Us were kind of like
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  easy wins in some aspects or whatever because of the gangs
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  that they're based off of. And so now seeing how they
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  handled Gran Turismo and Twisted Metal, now I am definitely
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  willing which which I feel like I feel like I've always kind of
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  had like an open mind with trying out stuff, whatever,
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  because those are all that. They have followed my channel,
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  my podcast, all that stuff since I've been doing this.
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  Whatever. Y'all know I love finding
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  hitting gems and giving stuff a chance.
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  There's a lot of anime and manga and maybe even some games or
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  whatever that I've talked about over my time that not many
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  people have talked about or have given a fair shot.
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  And that's something that I like to try to do here on my show and
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  stuff. And so like I said, with that
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  being said, kind of looking looking ahead to other stuff
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  that they have planned. So they have a Horizon series
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  plan, I believe for Netflix, God of War.
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  I think it's for Amazon Prime, maybe I or I might begin those,
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  mix up, whatever. And there's also a Ghost of
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  Sushima series and I believe a A Day's Gone series and stuff
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  painted as well. Now some of these like the Let
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  me see the Ghost of Sushima and Day's Gone seem like some of two
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  of the easier ones to kind of clear the bar on because go to
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  Sushima samurai type of you know feudal Japan setting or
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  whatever. You know there's been tons of
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  samurai movies and stuff with us so that should be pretty solid.
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  Same thing with Days Gone. Apocalyptic zombie type of
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  setting should be easy money there and it looks like they
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  also they also maybe have a series based off of the Gravity
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  Rush video games which they might be interesting maybe kind
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  of trippy to watch as well because that the twisting and
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  turning of the gravity and stuff might might be.
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  I got the thing that kind of comes to mind with that is like
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  something like inception mind effort going on with that but
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  but yeah but like I said I am, I am interested to see how these
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  other projects and stuff kind of play out because you know now I
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  feel like God of War and especially Horizon with the
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  freaking robot dinosaurs and creatures and stuff whatever.
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  But hey like I said if if if they put as much love and care
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  and attention to that as some of this other stuff whatever then I
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  feel like that could be a a really big surprise.
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  The part of me kind of wishes that they might would have been
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  like animated for God of War and Horizon.
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  Like I said, kind of like in like the vein of like
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  Castlevania and Cyberpunk and Arcane and stuff, whatever.
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  But you know, we'll see. Like I am definitely very open
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  to seeing the rest of the stuff as they continue to roll it out.
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  Now there there's no dates and stuff for any of this other
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  stuff, whatever. So and yeah, and looking at it,
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  looking at it now, God of War is for Amazon Prime and Horizon is
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  going to be for Netflix. And like I said, I think that's
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  the only ones that they have listed right now for their
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  current slate of upcoming series and stuff.
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  But like I said, hey did this first couple of years with like
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  I said Uncharted at the beginning of last year, days
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  last, it was the beginning of this year and now I twisted
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  matter on Gran Turismo. Hey they're they're four for
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  four and my ballpark of course some of them little bit better
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  than others but but All in all though all of them are good in
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  my book and all of them are things that I would recommend
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  checking out. Now I don't know if you want to
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  go out and see grants original but maybe hey maybe you'll find
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  like a man nation and stuff of it and stuff but but All in all
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  good stuff. Like I said, I am very hopeful
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  in PlayStation Studios productions and stuff going
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  forward, at least until until they until they proved me wrong.
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  I'm willing to go in and watch movies, shows, whatever stuff
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  that they have planned until further notice and other stuff
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  in general. I am excited just for the future
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  of video game adaptations because like I said, we we now
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  have a good couple of handfuls of series that if these studios
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  put the proper people behind them, can be turned into some
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  really potentially amazing or at least at least baseline solid
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  watches. So yeah, so and I think I think
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  that's kind of going to be it for me with that, with those
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  couple things. Like I said, I just want to just
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  kind of show some love to both Gran Turismo and Twisted Metal
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  which ironically are both series kind of a themed around cars and
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  driving but on totally different spectrums of you know, both of
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  them have some level of dangers but one of them little bit more
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  dangerous than the other but but All in all good stuff.
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  So yeah, so y'all y'all let me know what y'all think of all
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  this. Are y'all feeling positive like
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  me about the current state of video game, video game stuff
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  getting adapted into, you know, different TV shows and movies,
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  whether it's live action or animated or anything in between.
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  Have y'all watched the Twisted Metal series or the Gran Turismo
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  movie or any of the other stuff I mentioned or whatever?
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  If so, let me know what you think you know and let's let's
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  start our conversation. But as always, you can find me
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  everywhere at Dad needs to talk. Make sure to follow, subscribe
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  all that fun stuff and reach out.
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  If y'all want to talk, I'm always down for a conversation.
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  But until then, y'all be easy and I'll catch on the next one.
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  Peace.