Latest / My Third Place Pod / Super Mario Bros (1993) Rewind: Nostalgia, Black History Month & Pop Culture Check-in
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- 0:00February is here, the short month, the cold month, the why
- 0:05is winter still talking month. So wherever you're listening
- 0:10from, bundle up, stay warm, grab a hoodie, maybe a blanket, maybe
- 0:15that hot drink you forgot about 5 minutes ago.
- 0:17And welcome back to my third place.
- 0:20This is episode 276 and I'm here once again with the Man the
- 0:24myth, the freshly rebranded, the freshly hydrated Greg.
- 0:34New nickname still pending. We'll workshop it live.
- 0:38That's part of the fun. Although I just called him the
- 0:42The Hydration Man right there. This week we're loading up a
- 0:47double feature that smells like arcade carpet and warm BHS
- 0:50plastic for Black History Month. We're talking Boomerang from
- 0:541992. Style, comedy, culture,
- 0:57confidence in an era where ROM coms had bite, wardrobe
- 1:02mattered, and soundtracks were doing real work.
- 1:07And then we're jumping through a warp pipe straight into chaos
- 1:10with Super Mario Brothers from 1993, the movie that boldly
- 1:14asked what if Nintendo but grew Leonard jackets?
- 1:21Dinosaur City bombs, riding elevators, A movie that
- 1:25absolutely feels like it was rented at 9:47 PM because
- 1:29everything else was already gone.
- 1:37We were kids. We were kids.
- 1:40We didn't know any. Better no.
- 1:44Super Mario Brothers. Oh, cool.
- 1:47And the dog's like, what the hell was wrong?
- 1:52Oh man, February's here. The calendar flipped, and we're
- 1:55setting the tone early. We're also breaking out new pod
- 1:59decks from this past week. Fresh questions, fresh chaos,
- 2:01and prompts that make you stop missing and go, wait, why did I
- 2:06have locked that memory? Super Bowl week is upon us, so
- 2:13we're talking who we're rooting for, who we say we're rooting
- 2:16for, and who we quietly never want to see whenever again.
- 2:20And of course, trailers. All the trailers expected to
- 2:23drop during the Super Bowl, because once again, we're
- 2:25standing at the digital window like kids outside a video store,
- 2:28hoping for one teaser, 1 logo, one release date, anything.
- 2:34Please give us anything. There's also an update in my
- 2:40favorite franchise movie, Fast and Furious Saga.
- 2:45Because. Somehow that franchise is still
- 2:48doing laps around the block, and one person on TikTok has a
- 2:51theory about how it should end. That made me stop scrolling and
- 2:54saying, all right here, I'm out. We're checking in on movie news,
- 3:00video game news, including a realization that hit us like a
- 3:02CRT flick at 2:00 AM. Video games turning 30 in 2026,
- 3:07bro, we're getting old. We're getting old.
- 3:10Which also means some of the games that raised us are
- 3:13officially older than the kids discovering them on TikTok.
- 3:18So be nice to your elders, kids. We're also talking upcoming
- 3:24games in 2026. We're visiting those $0.99 games
- 3:28I mentioned last weekend. Yes, actually playing them to
- 3:30see if they're hitting gems or just digital clearance bins.
- 3:34Plus, we get into some deep nerd territory with Paper Made
- 3:38breaking down the cast of wrestlers, Power Rangers, and
- 3:41Power martial artists involved in this story about a secret
- 3:44fraternity of Black martial artists.
- 3:47If you blink, you miss how stacked that lineup actually is.
- 3:52We also got thoughts under the Unreal Season 2 if you watched
- 3:56it. If you watch it, yes.
- 4:01All right, we're going to talk about it.
- 4:04We're we're definitely going to talk about it.
- 4:05We're case a band. Reality gets weird and the lions
- 4:08stay intentionally blurry. And throughout them all, we're
- 4:11talking Mario arcades, quarters lined up on cabinets, comics
- 4:15folded one too many times, Saturday mornings, rental
- 4:18counters. And that feeling with the intro
- 4:20music alone told you everything was going to be OK for at least
- 4:23a little while. This is that space between home
- 4:27and work, between nostalgia and now, between pressing start and
- 4:31seeing how the level actually plays out.
- 4:33So wherever you are, welcome in, stay warm, and let's get into
- 4:39it. This is the M3B podcast.
- 4:44Greg, how are you? Am I?
- 4:47Right, brother, How are you? Feeling better after last night?
- 4:52It is. So I've come to a realization
- 5:00that there are two type of restaurants, those that take
- 5:06accountability and those that don't and blame you.
- 5:15Those that do take accountability, you know they're
- 5:17going to be like, hey, we got you, no problem.
- 5:19Next time you come in, just let me know.
- 5:21Blah, blah. OK.
- 5:26I see you complain, and then they tell you like, yeah, we got
- 5:29you. All right, Cool.
- 5:31Those that don't. My people.
- 5:35My people. Why?
- 5:38OK, so I called in a Mexican restaurant last night, Said it
- 5:43in Spanish, Said it in English, just in case.
- 5:46Hi. I would like to get nachos, but
- 5:50in these nachos, I only want sour cream.
- 5:56Cotita cheese. Cotita cheese.
- 5:58Yeah, the crumble cheese, they don't have it.
- 6:01OK, I'll just get the cheese. Whatever.
- 6:03You have the cheese. Like, but can I get the beans on
- 6:05the side and, you know, some green onions mixed in there?
- 6:12OK. Yeah, sure.
- 6:13We got that. OK.
- 6:14OK, let me also get a burrito. Yeah.
- 6:16OK, Everything has a burrito, but on the nachos, say it in
- 6:21Spanish. Por fuer MI puede la esto esto
- 6:24esto esto esto Y ESO one of beans.
- 6:27Said it in English again, like beans, all of that.
- 6:29Like sure, clatter, clatter. Clever.
- 6:31Sure, no problem, No problem. No problem, No problem.
- 6:33OK, And a fucking orchata. I might as well call the small
- 6:38one. Just type it.
- 6:40Small orchata. I get there so I can come back
- 6:45home. They're about to close.
- 6:48Oh shit. Love that I eat the food right
- 6:54before I want to stream because I'm streaming right after,
- 6:56right? The burrito freaking fire.
- 6:59It hit the spot. The nachos I'm eating, I opened
- 7:03the thing, it has lettuce, tomato, sour cream.
- 7:10That's not what I asked. Yay, what the fuck?
- 7:15Listen, that where's the green onions?
- 7:16Where's the obviously the sour cream is in there because it's
- 7:19all mixed in with the with the stuff and they gave obviously I
- 7:22asked for the cardinal Sala. So like where's the why?
- 7:29Why aren't there lettuce and tomato on there?
- 7:30I didn't ask for that, you know, so I ate it anyways.
- 7:36I was like felt sick, couldn't get on.
- 7:39Oh no, they fucked up. They fucked up.
- 7:41Reopened. They fucked up.
- 7:42They fucked up. OK, this is not what I asked
- 7:45for. But, you know, called in this
- 7:50morning. It's like, yeah, hey, I ordered
- 7:54a nachos last night and they gave me this.
- 7:58Oh, we apologize. We sorry, sorry.
- 8:00You must have not have said it right?
- 8:08She must not have heard you right or you must not have said
- 8:10it right. I said it in Spanish and
- 8:13English, Sir. I made sure that the audacity
- 8:17and I'm just like, OK, well, next time you come, we we get
- 8:23you a new Nacho. OK, That's it.
- 8:30You know, I was like, but you you probably must have not said
- 8:33it right. It's like, oh, OK, well, that's
- 8:36good to know. Like next time I come in, you're
- 8:38not going to give me my money back.
- 8:39What can I get? My money back.
- 8:42Fuck this. I'm not trying to come back next
- 8:44time if you can't even hear me the right way.
- 8:46I said it both sides. I was like, I, I said it in
- 8:48Spanish and English. Then you must, you must, you
- 8:51must have misunderstood or you must have not said it right.
- 8:56I'm not eating there again. Well, I don't want your nachos,
- 8:59ma'am. Right.
- 9:02I'm just sitting there like, oh God.
- 9:05So we can't take. Meanwhile, if I go to another
- 9:11place like Chick-fil-A, it's like, oh, aye, we are terribly
- 9:14sorry, Sir. Here, why don't you go sit down
- 9:17for a minute and we'll treat you like a king right now.
- 9:19And yeah, I was like, thank you. No, thank you.
- 9:25My pleasure, My pleasure. I have not heard my pleasure in
- 9:29a while and when I, you know, usually I don't.
- 9:34I was like, oh, thank you. They're like my pleasure.
- 9:36I was like, alright, appreciate that.
- 9:38I did like a freaking video two years ago when I said that when
- 9:44they don't say my pleasure and you're just like, what does it
- 9:46mean? Why did they say my pleasure
- 9:50anymore? So yeah, that happened last
- 9:53night. Fucking.
- 9:54Then last night I couldn't like, or, you know, couldn't get on
- 10:01here because I was hurting. This morning.
- 10:02I called him up. They told him about everything,
- 10:04blah blah. They're like, well, OK, it must
- 10:06be your fault. Fucked up.
- 10:11Yeah, I'm not going there anymore.
- 10:12Wait, I'm not going there anymore.
- 10:13Fuck that $20 fucking nachos. Get out of here.
- 10:17I'll go back to Taco Bell. I'm gonna go back to Taco Bell.
- 10:21To the band. In the first.
- 10:24Place right should have gone a bell but they were you know they
- 10:27were closed they closer I went to freaking this place because I
- 10:33wanted something new anyway so yeah, that that happened last
- 10:38night. Other than that everything is
- 10:41you know whatever big shout out to Jane who's in here right now.
- 10:48Tomorrow is Mother's Day for them so early celebration.
- 10:54Well, actually, it's almost tomorrow over there.
- 10:58There's already tomorrow there. So happy Mother's Day, Jane.
- 11:02Happy Mother's Day. Happy.
- 11:03Mother's Day. Hope you're having a great
- 11:05Mother's Day evening pre Mother's Day.
- 11:15So yeah, that happened. Let's everybody's saying it.
- 11:20Happy Mother's Day. Beautiful.
- 11:21Exactly. All right, let's start off with
- 11:23Pod X. We like to kick things off by
- 11:26throwing out a question. No warmups, no small talk.
- 11:29Sometimes nostalgic, sometimes thoughtful, sometimes a little
- 11:33unhinged. The community answers 1st in the
- 11:35chat, comments, DMS, and then we bring those responses to the
- 11:38show. We read them, react to them, and
- 11:41let the conversation go wherever it goes.
- 11:43It's not just us talking, it's a group chat with a mic.
- 11:46If you're new here, welcome. If you've been here, you already
- 11:49know this is where the show really starts, she says.
- 11:54Thank you. Guys like to ask, I'd like to
- 11:59get the producers in on this now because it's it's we're going to
- 12:06start doing this from now on. Like if you guys want to get
- 12:09involved with this, let me know. I even put it on in the in a
- 12:14video earlier today. So Menace has another question
- 12:21for us. She says what was the first
- 12:27purchase you paid for with your own money that made you proud?
- 12:30What was the first purchase you paid for with your own money
- 12:40that made you proud? And I know it's going to like I
- 12:44already put in the in the on a post.
- 12:48I know it's late, but we'll probably end up reading more of
- 12:51the answers next week. That's fine.
- 13:09I want to say mine was a cassette or CD.
- 13:17Your mom's like some clothes. Some what?
- 13:20Some clothes. Clothes.
- 13:22Yeah. No, see, you have your
- 13:23priorities straight. I didn't.
- 13:26I wanted fucking DVDs and CDs. I wanted fucking stuff that
- 13:35just, you know, a hat, maybe, but not clothes.
- 13:38Clothes are too expensive. I'll get the clothes later when
- 13:42it's like I have more money in the bank.
- 13:45Freaking I was working with minimum wage over here.
- 13:49Mine was the car. Leanna.
- 13:52Says hers was a car. Jane says she she says thank you
- 13:58guys. The boys have bought some gifts
- 13:59to me without knowing it themselves.
- 14:01That's great. So yours was a car and all that
- 14:09stuff? Mine was like an ACD, The
- 14:14Michael Jackson history CD? Yeah.
- 14:19It is hell. Yeah, and like I was freaking
- 14:25bumping that shit 9796, wherever that, whenever that came out.
- 14:31Man as ever. Oh, yeah, Like I I would ask my
- 14:40mom for money, of course, because there was this guy who
- 14:42was selling cassettes used to come from the apartment all the
- 14:45time with like a freaking suitcase full of cassettes of
- 14:50this freaking stuff. I saw bad in there by Michael
- 14:53Jackson. I'm just like, let me get that,
- 14:55like, all right, cool. Here you go.
- 14:58I was like, yeah, I'm so proud of this.
- 15:00Like, why? Because I love music, that's
- 15:04why. Jeez, Leanna says.
- 15:08That wasn't my first thing, but that's the first thing that was
- 15:11really proud of Good. Of course, the question comes
- 15:19from one of our community members and producers of the
- 15:21show, and we love spotlighting the voices that help shape these
- 15:24conversations. So if you want to drop a
- 15:25question for the podcast, inbox me and we might answer it live
- 15:29on the show and feature it here on the socials.
- 15:32So tell us yours in the comments.
- 15:33We want to hear the stories behind it.
- 15:37Let us know. All right, Next question.
- 15:43That was from last week. We already, we already said this
- 15:45growing up. What was your struggle meal?
- 15:47Tiffany answered with spaghetti, just sauce noodles, no meat.
- 15:53Melissa says ramen and hot dogs. Vicki Becker says beans, fried
- 16:00potatoes and cornbread with diced onion.
- 16:05Stacy says OK, so hear me out. It was steak matching corn,
- 16:09except it was cube steak and cream style corn.
- 16:11Back then I thought it was the bomb.
- 16:13Now not so much. Inked up.
- 16:17Angela, 95, says Navy beans and sausage and then our friend
- 16:20Lauren MFLB, Hamburger Helper, spaghetti, hot dogs and Mac and
- 16:26cheese and baked beans. I still make them because I
- 16:28still be struggling. Did you answer this one last
- 16:38week? What's the weirdest thing you
- 16:39found in someone's? Home.
- 16:44Nah all. Right, So what's the first?
- 16:50What's the weirdest thing you found in someone's home?
- 16:52Shit. I don't even go to people have
- 17:01like it's great. I would rather than.
- 17:07So my neighbor had this stuff, his dog that passed away
- 17:13stuffed. I, I, I don't know what it's
- 17:17called anymore. I forgot what it's called, but
- 17:21it's a stuffed dog. And I saw like, where is he?
- 17:25He would talk to him and everything.
- 17:26And I'm just like, I'm not coming back here ever again.
- 17:29But it's like, oh, and from every every other time that
- 17:35would be like from the outside, like how you doing?
- 17:36Hey, hey, how are you? Hey, Annie, how you doing?
- 17:39Taxi Derby taxidermy. Yes, I never.
- 17:42Had. Taxidermy freaking dog.
- 17:44And I'd like, you're still talking to him, you're talking
- 17:48to your dog. He's dead.
- 17:50He's right there. I was like, Oh my God.
- 17:54Catch Comics. Norman Bait.
- 17:59Yeah, Norman Bait. How you doing, Annie?
- 18:02How you doing? How's your night going?
- 18:07That it was the weirdest. There's more weird things.
- 18:10I freaking found someone's home, but still, that's like the
- 18:13weirdest thing that I can remember.
- 18:16Mina Tim Curry as G Tim Curry's girlfriend.
- 18:20Mina, Tim Curry's girlfriend, says a GYN speculum.
- 18:27Yeah, she was a nurse, and she said she got in when she was in
- 18:29nursing school, but that didn't track with why wasn't there in
- 18:32the night stand. Menace says a poop spatula.
- 18:42Hey, thank you for the heart. Me Appreciate that.
- 18:48Yeah. Menace.
- 18:49We what? Like I had to look up what that
- 18:54was, what that looked like and everything.
- 18:56And I was just like, Oh my, that is the weirdest thing ever.
- 19:03Brooklyn Barbie, 13, says a chick lived out Uptown.
- 19:05In her apartment was a closet with no stove and mice.
- 19:10Damn. Yeah, Leanna says.
- 19:14A dirt floor in a basement with jars of random things.
- 19:17That was the first and last time I went there actually was the
- 19:19last jars of random things. That's crazy.
- 19:26Great job, great job. Nikki Doodle says motorcycle in
- 19:32the living room in various stages of getting worked on
- 19:38hooks, books and crimes. Says litter a hole in the living
- 19:41room floor at least 2 feet wide. And then she comes back with I
- 19:45don't know but that she still haunts me.
- 19:47That same girl OD when we were 14.
- 19:49It still freaks me out and haunts me.
- 19:51Damn damn I know right? Oh man, Eddie, welcome into this
- 19:59chaotic mess. How you doing?
- 20:02Like oh shit, what did they stumbling on?
- 20:10Did you answer this one? What is something you do now?
- 20:12The younger you would have absolutely loved.
- 20:16Yeah, I did. You did.
- 20:18OK so we did that last week new answers.
- 20:22Cookie says loving myself. OK Jane says doing this TT
- 20:28thingy and now to not being afraid to be the weirdest
- 20:31awkward me. You mean even being the awkward
- 20:34you this whole time we didn't know that I thought you were
- 20:40just being yourself didn't even realize you were awkward ma'am.
- 20:47Thank you for the both popular. She's not awkward.
- 20:52You're not awkward. Stop it.
- 20:54There she is. Silly little redhead says just
- 20:58be myself without regret and no shame.
- 20:59I buy things that I love and make it makes me happy like
- 21:02Hello Kitty kitchen stuff. Okay Karen, Linus that's making
- 21:08videos lol no no that's all of us.
- 21:10That's all of us. He like she's kidding but you
- 21:13know she that's all of us at the moment.
- 21:15Like younger you, younger us would have absolutely loved
- 21:19doing videos, MENA says. My younger self would have
- 21:24believed that I'm talking about wrestling every month.
- 21:27Also that I've made friends with people from all over the world.
- 21:30Yes, that's us Fox, this TCG Hunter being able to take part
- 21:36in stuff that interests me rather than just getting all my
- 21:38info from books and magazines pre Internet.
- 21:41Oh dude, that's yeah 'cause we, we've been like watch reading
- 21:47books, magazines and stuff we'd read.
- 21:51Like we want to know about wrestling with wrestling
- 21:55magazines, we want to know about how we read healthy magazines,
- 21:58all that shit. I know the girls would read
- 22:01Cosmo, all the juicy gossip out there.
- 22:08So it's like, for us, it's like, This Is Us.
- 22:12Yeah. Free Internet.
- 22:15Tina says that I'm singing and sharing my favorite songs, books
- 22:18that I like to read. Getting out of my shell is a big
- 22:20deal for me. And Katie Hoffman says actually
- 22:23loving myself and putting myself out there.
- 22:25I didn't start loving myself until 2020 when I got an ad this
- 22:28app and I was 41 years old. I'll be 47 next Tuesday and I
- 22:32share everything with you guys, the good, the bad and the ugly.
- 22:36Thank you, Katie, for sharing that with us.
- 22:40Jane says Nope, not me. We didn't have that to hear.
- 22:43OK, once again, if you guys have wanted to drop a question for
- 22:51the podcast, inbox me and we might answer it live on the show
- 22:54and feature here on the socials. Tell us in the comments.
- 22:56We wanted to hear the stories behind it.
- 23:00There's more, there's a lot more.
- 23:01We have more questions coming soon, but you know, the question
- 23:08that's up there right now will probably later next week.
- 23:12All right, brother, Last week I mentioned Capcom will be selling
- 23:15$0.99 on the PlayStation, $0.99 games on the PlayStation.
- 23:18This was during me being told to drink water.
- 23:21So don't forget to drink your water again, Sir.
- 23:30You hear that? He's drinking it, OK.
- 23:35Shit. Just a pain.
- 23:39Yeah, water. Hi, Drake.
- 23:42Yes, ma'am. Thank you.
- 23:43Appreciate you. The four games, the four games
- 23:47that I played were super goals and ghosts final fight, Mega Man
- 23:53one and two and like it's a bundle thing.
- 23:59Don't fight it Greg, don't fight it Greg.
- 24:01Drink your water. I know dude, I know.
- 24:11Also in on this bundle is all the Street Fighter two titles,
- 24:15alpha turbo OG, all that dude. I played these games.
- 24:20I even streamed it on YouTube and everything.
- 24:24Yeah, watch it. You did.
- 24:26It is crazy. It was like, it brought back
- 24:31memories of just like sitting at home on the Super Nintendo or
- 24:36sitting or just like using the joystick at the arcade.
- 24:40And I'm like, hell yeah, I love doing this.
- 24:43I used to love doing this. I'm going to do it again.
- 24:45And now we're doing it again on here and it's only, it was only
- 24:48$0.99. You know, I was like, fuck, you
- 24:49might as well buy it. It was freaking off.
- 24:52It was awesome. I loved it.
- 24:57What was your favorite game back then?
- 25:00Back then, yeah, those kinds. Of like what game?
- 25:03What game you would play now that you know if you had the
- 25:07chance? Search.
- 25:15Any game. Any game.
- 25:20Sonic who? Oh yeah.
- 25:24Mario Brothers. Mario.
- 25:27Mario one. Oh yeah, James has Tekken 3.
- 25:36If they ever bring it back, know that I'm the first one there to
- 25:40grab it. Conquer the one that wasn't
- 25:47supposed to play because it has so much radar stuff.
- 25:55Conker's bad for a day dude. If that game.
- 25:59Ever got? Again, I am so there.
- 26:02I'm picking it up. I don't care.
- 26:06Taken 3, Chip and Dale. Chip and Dale had a game like I
- 26:11would love to play Aladdin again.
- 26:14I played it. What about that game?
- 26:20She's still hard. She's still hard.
- 26:24Like Lion King. The Lion King, that's the one.
- 26:27Like The Lion King and Aladdin, those are the two games that I
- 26:29would love to play again because it was my cousin's PlayStation
- 26:33or not the PlayStation. It wasn't my cousin's Take a
- 26:35Genesis. And obviously she has Barbie in
- 26:39there as well. And I'm just like, you know, let
- 26:41me play like, let me borrow Lion King.
- 26:43Like you're already here. Like let me borrow like I'm
- 26:45gonna bring it back. Like the mom would say, like my
- 26:48aunt, I would say like, no, I'm like, yeah, like I would bring
- 26:51it back, lady. Damn, you guys can trust me.
- 26:53What the fuck? Jesus.
- 26:57Like you guys know where I live? Right across the street.
- 26:59Just, you know, let me borrow it.
- 27:01I will give it back to you. Never gave it back.
- 27:07Aladdin never gave it back. But I love crack.
- 27:11Bandicoot. Yeah.
- 27:12Those other games I would definitely play if they were
- 27:14like to bring it out on the console that I'm working on, but
- 27:22Aladdin and The Lion King, 'cause I would always get stuck
- 27:27in the same spot in Aladdin that the freaking inside the cable
- 27:35wonders when in that carpet level.
- 27:41And then Lion King, I never made it past him being a cub.
- 27:47Made. It past but if you guys can
- 27:51bring this back please I want to play it again or if I can find
- 27:56it I'll play it again just to see what the hell what's wrong
- 27:59with this? They actually have on
- 28:03PlayStation. I'll have to look for them
- 28:08because like, you know, because I like ever since then I was
- 28:12like I I need to finish each game because if I don't, it's
- 28:15going to be Aladdin and Lion King Thai style.
- 28:19And they both on it more games, they said on TikTok.
- 28:23Yeah, I I want that too. I need to get one more time for.
- 28:29It's APS store STD 3 so what's that?
- 28:34You need to get this shit they got.
- 28:37Shooting. All right, I'm gonna have to
- 28:39look into that. You have to buy Crash, though.
- 28:42All right, Speaking of games, here are the upcoming games
- 28:46coming out this year in 2026. Scott Pilgrim XPS 5PS4 Xbox
- 28:55Series XS Switch and PC on March 3rd.
- 28:59Invisible Versus on PS-5 Xbox Series XS PC on April 30th.
- 29:06Lego Batman Legacy, The Dark Knight PS-5 Xbox Series XS
- 29:10Switch to APC on May 29th. Grand Theft Auto 6.
- 29:14Finally. What took you guys so long?
- 29:17Damn. On PS-5 Xbox series November
- 29:2119th. They have a date too.
- 29:23That's great. And these these next ones, I
- 29:26don't have a date at all. Marvel 1943, Rise of Hydra,
- 29:29Marvel Wolverine PS-5 on the Musha Wade of Ford, PS-5 Xbox
- 29:35Series and PC and WWE2K26 to be announced.
- 29:40We all know it's coming out in March.
- 29:43Hell yeah, I guess you can actually play inner gender
- 29:48matches now. I heard that.
- 29:51I heard that too. So, you know, China's going to
- 29:56be the world champion. Goodbye, Goodbye.
- 30:02No, I don't know. I haven't played in a while so
- 30:06I'll probably like do some crazy shit on there.
- 30:10Also, happy birthday to the following video games this year.
- 30:13Turning 25 conquered bad Verde for the Nintendo 64.
- 30:17I told you 25 years old, 25 years ago I played this fucking
- 30:21game and now I feel old. Final Fantasy 10 on APS 2, Devil
- 30:27May Cry series, Grand Theft Auto 3 on the PS2, and Tony Hawk's
- 30:31Pro Skater 3 is 25. And not only that, if it's
- 30:36three, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater one was probably 30 years ago.
- 30:41And you know, we all enjoyed the soundtrack.
- 30:46Yeah, it made sense. The soundtrack with Bomb We all
- 30:50enjoyed the soundtrack Turning 30.
- 30:53Duke Nukem 3D on the PC, The Pokémon series, so obviously
- 30:59we're going to be celebrating that too.
- 31:00Here. Play Final Destination 7 or
- 31:04Final Fantasy 7. Jane I know right?
- 31:13Like Final Destination had to have a 7 this Final Fantasy
- 31:16does. I love it.
- 31:21Kirby Superstars for his Super Nintendo Resident Evil series.
- 31:26Nintendo 64 was released 30 years ago and so was Super Mario
- 31:3164. The Game Boy Pocket was released
- 31:34also Tekken 2 on the PS1 turn turns 30, Crash Bandicoot series
- 31:41turned 30, Mortal Kombat Trilogy, Donkey Kong Country on
- 31:46three on the Super Nintendo and Mario Kart 64 turning 35342 in
- 31:52the arcade Sonic the Hedgehog, Super Nintendo's released in the
- 31:56US, Super Mario World and The Legend of Zelda, A Link to the
- 32:00Past and turning 40. Super Mario Brothers, The Lost
- 32:09Levels, you know, Super Mario Brothers number. 2.
- 32:12Yeah, I didn't like that one. The Legend of Zelda series,
- 32:17Donkey Kong and the Metroid series.
- 32:22And yeah, those. I've never played a Metroid
- 32:25game, so I like if I find it. Also because I like like I know.
- 32:31Who they are? Yeah.
- 32:34It's on it, it's on the game. It's on the game also, all
- 32:36right, I'm going to have to. Look at game state again.
- 32:39Give me some slack. It's 4:33 AM here.
- 32:41OK, ma'am. Final Fantasy, final.
- 32:43Final, final. This nation.
- 32:44I got you. Oh, man.
- 32:49Are you ready for some football tomorrow, Sir?
- 32:52And if you're listening to this tomorrow on Sunday, Are you
- 32:54ready for some football tonight? Are.
- 32:58You ready for the season finale of the football?
- 33:02This year's Super Bowl 60 goes down on Sunday, February 8th,
- 33:052026. Kickoff is scheduled for 6:30 PM
- 33:09Eastern Time. That's 5:30 PM Central on NBC,
- 33:12with pregame shows starting hours earlier.
- 33:15Pace right and ready for prime time vibes.
- 33:17Expect the pregame festivities to start well before that, with
- 33:20performances and intro events of Tune in Early.
- 33:23It's a classic AFC versus NFC showdown between Seahawks,
- 33:26Seattle Seahawks versus New England Patriots men's already
- 33:30in the chest saying go Hawks, go Hawks.
- 33:35These two teams lock horns at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara,
- 33:38CA, a rematch of old playoff rivalries.
- 33:41We shoot stakes under the light before the 1st snap.
- 33:44You're getting music. Green Day will kick off Kick off
- 33:48the Super Bowl festivities early with opening Ceremony
- 33:51performance, a hometown rock inspired to start the evening.
- 33:54You know what song we're going to hear?
- 33:58We all know what song we're going to hear on that first
- 34:01thing American Idiot. And then the the first song is
- 34:10American Idiot. The last song is probably going
- 34:12to be good rhythms, you know? And just before kick off,
- 34:20expected patriotic classics Charlie Puth will be singing the
- 34:23national anthem, Brandi Carlisle will be singing America the
- 34:27Beautiful and Coco Jones. Lift every voice and sing.
- 34:33And then classic Sunday advise with a soundtrack to prime the
- 34:37crowd. The halftime show, baby.
- 34:42It is Benito Bowl. Bad Bunny will be singing live.
- 34:47This year's halftime headliner is none other than Bad Bunny,
- 34:50the global superstar wrestler bringing reggaeton, Latin trap
- 34:55and getting these energy to the center stage.
- 34:58This is a historic moment. Bad Bunny will be one of the
- 35:00first solo Latin artists to headline the Super Bowl halftime
- 35:02show. He's expected to bring out all
- 35:04the big vibes and maybe some surprise guest.
- 35:09Chambea. Obviously we're going to hear
- 35:11some Chambea, we're obviously going to hear some good BJ
- 35:17reggaeton music. We better hear some Chucky in
- 35:20there as well. You can expect his set to kick
- 35:23off roughly 90 minutes after kickoff, usually around 8:00 to
- 35:269:30 PM. Eastern, depending on how the
- 35:27game is flowing. Super Bowl commercials are their
- 35:30own halftime show by themselves ads, but they're going to be
- 35:32around 8 million for a 32nd slot, which means big brands are
- 35:36pulling out big budget creative cinematic ads to grab your
- 35:39attention. Expect star-studded celebrity
- 35:42ads like the Amazon Spot with Chris Hansworth and Nelson
- 35:44Paniki navigating weird and funny AI chaos with Alexa sneak
- 35:49peek movie trailers. Hollywood often uses this night
- 35:51for exclusive privilege at blockbusters, tech and food
- 35:55brands going wild, memes, mascots, emotional beats and
- 35:57more. If you're into commercials,
- 35:59build an ad watch list. Some of these are going to be
- 36:01talk of Monday morning. The Super Bowl movie trailers
- 36:05are expected to debut, according to slashfilm.com, The
- 36:08Mandalorian and Grogu, how do you feel about that?
- 36:15I'm anxious. You're anxious.
- 36:16All right, I haven't seen the last season of The Mandalorian
- 36:21just yet, but right before this movie hits, I'm going to watch
- 36:25it. Supergirl.
- 36:30Oh yeah. Hell yeah, there's disclosure
- 36:33day. I don't know much about it, but
- 36:35I'm going to watch it anyways. The trailer, the Super Mario
- 36:38Galaxy movie. There's a new trailer that's
- 36:40going to come out. Hopefully it'll show more than
- 36:43just Yoshi now. Like Jill with the stuff,
- 36:46Minions 3. Here's something you're going to
- 36:52like, Michael. Yeah.
- 36:55Another Michael trailer and Scream 7.
- 37:01That's what's up. 30 years of scream Hell yeah and then the
- 37:10cast of paper madedeadline.com exclusive Miles Truitt Timac
- 37:23Walter E Jones, Cording Denea and Russell Dyer de Branado have
- 37:29joined the cast of martial arts feature Paper Made which stated
- 37:32to shoot March in Tampa, FL right director Ryan Winston's
- 37:36film Ryan Watson's film says in the fictional HBCU historically
- 37:40black college and universities and follows Tevon Watkins Druitt
- 37:43who joins the secretary fraternity a black martial
- 37:46artist for several severe hazing incident.
- 37:49The script was Co written by Watson and Geron Horton.
- 37:53The ensemble cast also includes wrestler Jamar Garrett AKA
- 37:57Marasad Marasad, a Jakara Jackson from NXT, stuntman and
- 38:03martial artist Sam Lee Herring back in action and martyr troll
- 38:06artist Jerry Mohammed, Shawn Greenspan from Amber Alert,
- 38:10Brian Uran and Dara Baranato. I had her name on here also
- 38:17forgot what was she? Who's Baranato?
- 38:31Sonia Deville. Thank you.
- 38:32Yeah. Sonia Deville, Our producing
- 38:36cast. So Sean Greenspan, Bryant Uran
- 38:39and Sonia Deville are producing. Casting is by Charlie Lowland,
- 38:43Ringer, Ty Mac and Walter E Jones, Black Ranger, who will
- 38:47serve as executive producers. Martial arts have been a part of
- 38:52the Black America experience for generations and our film brings
- 38:55excellence to the forefront from a perspective as rarely if ever
- 38:58been seen in America. Cinema producers Joran and SUNY
- 39:03de Ville, who are hoping to project and span a franchise
- 39:05added growing up loving both martial arts and cinema in New
- 39:08Jersey. This story grip that's the first
- 39:10time we've read Ryan and Jerome script.
- 39:12They have crafted dynamic character piece with an action
- 39:14twist. This story transcends all
- 39:16culture and Tavan is a protagonist for all.
- 39:18So you have Leroy, Bruce, Leroy, Zach from my from Power Rangers
- 39:28to Black Ranger. You have Sylvia Deville, you
- 39:32have Jakara Jackson. You have a bunch of new names
- 39:40and they're all going to be in this movie.
- 39:43I'm still there. I want it.
- 39:46Let's let's, let's ride out. Let's watch this movie.
- 39:49We're still there. Have you guys seen a new Star
- 39:52Trek series? I have not like Jane.
- 39:59Are you recommending that we watch it?
- 40:07Fast Forever Particle is from haggerty.com.
- 40:11The 12th and final film in the Fast and Furious franchise will
- 40:14be titled Fast Forever and hit movie theaters on March 17th,
- 40:172028. The news came straight from the
- 40:19horse's mouth in the form of Instagram posts by Vin Diesel,
- 40:23who first played St. racer Dominic to Red in 2001.
- 40:28He says no one said the road would be easy.
- 40:30But it's ours, right Diesel? One that has defined us and
- 40:34become our legacy. And the legacy lasts forever,
- 40:39you know, family. At 2025 Fieldfest, Diesel
- 40:44confirmed that he wanted to bring Brian O'Connor back from
- 40:47the dead once again. After Walker's tragic death in
- 40:502013 when he was a passenger in a Porsche Carrera GT, director
- 40:53James Wan had to enlist Walker's brothers Codeine, Caleb, and
- 40:56UCGI to complete the filming of Furious 7.
- 41:01Now, with more advanced computer imagery and AI, return of Connor
- 41:04for one final Fast and Furious outing would technically be
- 41:07easier. His wouldn't be the only
- 41:09resurrection either, as judging from the past credit scene in
- 41:11Fast X, Gal Gadas Giselle will also be returning.
- 41:14Perhaps even more dramatic is that Dwayne Johnson appears to
- 41:17have made amends with Diesel and will be bringing Hobbs back to
- 41:19the franchise. Other stars set to appear
- 41:22include Jason Momoa, Jason Datum, Jordan Bruce, Jordana
- 41:25Brewster, and Michelle Rodriguez.
- 41:28Vin Diesel has confirmed that for his grand finale, Fast and
- 41:30Furious Forever will return to his roof in the Los Angeles
- 41:33street racing scene. So no more submarines or space
- 41:35missions. God, so glad.
- 41:45So you know, looking up and seeing all this stuff already
- 41:49and everybody's talking about it on TikTok.
- 41:51Obviously I one person 1 little video that caught my eye was
- 41:57what movie was that The Fast and furious franchise, The fast
- 42:02access when they go space. It's.
- 42:05It's it's weird. This one comes from Noah that
- 42:09speaks O1 How I would handle Brian O'Connor and fasten him
- 42:13forever. So this is his theory.
- 42:18His theory is I fucked it all up.
- 42:27OK. His theory is that we first we
- 42:31need to address the elephant room.
- 42:32Where has Brian been, especially after the events of 889 and 10?
- 42:37I know there's some throwaway lines addressing his retirement
- 42:39and our babysitting duties, but it's not good enough.
- 42:42Given his direct involvement in taking Dante's money in past
- 42:45five, it felt very strange that there was no direct mention of
- 42:48Dante targeting Brian. This needs to be addressed,
- 42:52perhaps toward the final face off of the film.
- 42:54Dom and the crew are in immediate danger to have no
- 42:56other life lines against Dante. Then here shows up a small army
- 43:00of all kinds of federal forces and law enforcement.
- 43:03We see the likes of the Rock step out.
- 43:08Mr. Nobody making his grand reappearance.
- 43:13Yeah. Monica Fuentes, 2 Fast 2
- 43:17Furious. Who is with Hobbes?
- 43:20Oh, we would love to get her back.
- 43:23Uh huh, Fast. She's in Fast 5 also.
- 43:25Yeah, we will have to get Eva Mendes back.
- 43:29Agent Stasiak, Fast and Furious, Fast and Furious 6F9 in the
- 43:33fucking douchebag, and Sergeant Tanner from the Fast and the
- 43:40Furious, Agent Bilkin from Fast and the Furious 22.
- 43:44Fast 2 Furious. And Dante appears surprised
- 43:48knowing he has made an effort to hunt most of these people down.
- 43:52Lastly, our Al stepped Brian from an R335 GTR, stating he got
- 43:57in touch with some old friends, both active and retired old
- 44:00friends, who are here to put an end to this.
- 44:02This would absolutely lead to Brian's team disposing about
- 44:05these thugs while Brian and Don get to chase after Dante in an
- 44:08effort to flee. Of course you would want Evan
- 44:12Mendes back. Of course we would ma'am, of
- 44:14course we would. We would.
- 44:19After a thrilling change in fight album during him, Dante
- 44:22crashed his car and Dom and Brian apprehended him.
- 44:24Dante says he'd rather die than fail.
- 44:28Brian would then laugh and recite Reyes famous line right
- 44:32back at him. Never accept deaths when
- 44:34suffering is owed. Of course the fight is over.
- 44:39Don interesting by Hobbs and Brian and finally explain to Tom
- 44:42and everyone else that he's been on watch of Dante's moves and
- 44:44active activity for the past while creating and ensuring a
- 44:47strong attack plan in place that could be compromised or exposed.
- 44:50That's why he stayed in the shadows along with his ensemble
- 44:53team until the moment was right. Everyone embracing.
- 44:56We had some nice character moments.
- 44:58Monica Fuentes approaches. Brian and romance and Roman.
- 45:01Monica Fuentes approaches Brian and Roman it says nice working
- 45:05with you O'Connor. She didn't stepped away and
- 45:07Brian jokingly asked Roman are you checking her out?
- 45:11I call back to a couple moments and too fast and too furious
- 45:14when he does the same thing. We would then cut to the Toretto
- 45:17house for one more obligatory family meal.
- 45:20Family. We would see the likes of Dom
- 45:24and Hog reconnecting, Mr. Nobody chatting with Han and Giselle,
- 45:28Roman trying to be smooth with Monica and even Sean, Twinkie
- 45:30and Earl, Tokyo Drift all hanging out together, even the
- 45:35the other guys the the thong guys.
- 45:41We would even see a reunion between Ted, Ted and Sookie.
- 45:45A long lost relationship now seemingly back and alive.
- 45:48Giving Ted a nice ending while also bringing back a fan
- 45:51favorite. It was rumored if she was
- 45:53returning to the final film. Hell yeah Sookie.
- 45:55Hell yeah, we want Sookie. So my Eva Mendes and Sookie,
- 46:03that's who we want. OK, Brian's lovely Athens by Mia
- 46:14and her two kids present. That's when we hear turbos pull
- 46:20and a blow off where there pulls into the driveway.
- 46:22The orange sopra from the first film.
- 46:25Brian's son, Jack daughter and little Brian are stunned by
- 46:28Supra. So it's Dom.
- 46:29They all ask kinds of questions. Brian explains he tracked down a
- 46:32car down a while back and Dom explained to the kids the car's
- 46:35origins. Dom pulls out all the lawyers
- 46:37from the garage shed and showed them to the kids, pointing out
- 46:40Jesse and Leon along with themselves, all working on the
- 46:43car bonding. Brian and Dom both say the car
- 46:46wouldn't have been fully realized without Jesse.
- 46:48They miss Jesse. You bring back everybody, but
- 46:51you don't bring back Jesse. That's some bullshit.
- 46:55I was dead. Right, like everybody.
- 46:59Everybody has come back from the dead except for Jesse.
- 47:07End the film with Dom dusting off a 70 charger and taking a
- 47:10drive. After the meal, he comes to an
- 47:11intersection and stops. Brian pulls up beside him in the
- 47:14Supra, this being the exact place they raised in the first
- 47:17film. Dom says the last time we pulled
- 47:19up here it didn't end well for either of us.
- 47:21Living life 1/4 mile at a time. Nothing else mattered.
- 47:25That life is gone now. Brian smiling responds well how
- 47:30about we just live this life then.
- 47:32No looking back, no more bullets, no more risking what we
- 47:34have now just looking forward. Thank God no more.
- 47:39Dom would then send grin and respond Sounds good O'Connor.
- 47:42So we take we're talking or re racing.
- 47:44Brian Revs the Super and says on green, I'm going for it.
- 47:48We get to the final shot of the two taking off.
- 47:49The flash of the green lamp mirroring of the final film
- 47:51coming full circle. Black screen row credits that
- 47:57song. We also go on to talk about the
- 48:04the ending of the franchise would help Brian O'Connor's
- 48:06character feel more important to the plot without too much
- 48:08involvement. And it's a long ass paragraph.
- 48:11I'm not going to read it. We're good, everything is good.
- 48:14As long as we get Wiz Khalifa in here again, we're good.
- 48:22So like, if that ever happens, I'd be like hell yeah, let's do
- 48:25it. OK.
- 48:26What was your favorite French final fucking fast movie?
- 48:33What was the last one that you watched?
- 48:38French. Oh, see.
- 48:44Yeah, I had to watch all of them too because, you know, you have
- 48:48all this for a while. I think it was on Peacock and
- 48:53they like, they didn't have all of them.
- 48:56It's like 1-2 and then five and then 7 and 10.
- 49:00I'm like, where's the other one? Netflix, you're just fucking
- 49:04weird as hell. Fast 3 is still my favorite
- 49:12because it brings brings back no Fast 4.
- 49:15Fast 3 was 2. Tokyo Drift.
- 49:18Fast. 4 is my favorite because it brings them all back.
- 49:21I get fast 1, fast 2. Freaking Brian says ka yeah ka.
- 49:35I'm like where the fuck that come from?
- 49:38What? Oh man, Roman goes from fucking
- 49:48big ass dog to hell yeah to a fucking.
- 49:53You better hide all that baby oil.
- 49:59Better for having. Big ass boy like Oh yeah,
- 50:04fucking even the rocks fucked him up.
- 50:07He became a little. Funny.
- 50:12He just became a freaking side character that like funny
- 50:15moments and shit. I'm like dude, you were like
- 50:18main character in Part 2 and now just like what if we're
- 50:23superheroes? What if we're in Invincible?
- 50:29Did you guys ever know this coincidence that we get shot and
- 50:31nothing happens to us? He's becoming self aware.
- 50:39Yeah, yeah. So, yeah, that's fucking.
- 50:43I'm going to enjoy the fuck out of this movie.
- 50:45I'm done if it doesn't turn out, you know, I think I'm seeing
- 50:50them all now. That's good.
- 50:51Thank you, Jen. Pretty.
- 50:52All right, The Unreal Season 2 recap.
- 50:56Would you think of it? I love that our truth episode.
- 51:03The R Truth episode, yeah, that was pretty fun because we were
- 51:12all invested in that. Like we get that they have to
- 51:16like release some people and everything, but our truth is
- 51:20sacred man. Yeah, yeah.
- 51:23Like, after all the stuff that he's done for us and everything,
- 51:26and I feel like the commute, the wrestling community on
- 51:29everywhere, Twitter, everywhere, got a little depressed when,
- 51:35like, he got let go 'cause he made us laugh.
- 51:40Like if we're not our truth, I don't think we'd be like, damn,
- 51:43yeah. That was like that hit us a
- 51:45night. What that hit us?
- 51:50And then just that they made him go back to I thought it was
- 51:58going to get wrong. You know what I'm?
- 52:01Saying yeah, from Kenny, yeah, that would have been great to
- 52:06see just because I I never experienced that.
- 52:11Yeah, I saw him there just like, OK, you know, he we get
- 52:15Ronditrick killings and then we get like a push.
- 52:20Yeah. But that never happened.
- 52:23And then he cut off his dress and I was just like, no, what
- 52:27are you doing? My favorite would have to be the
- 52:38case they want where Seth has to lie.
- 52:45Yeah, because like the entire time we were like, you know,
- 52:54because we saw it happen and shit in real time.
- 52:58We saw the the video of him and his daughter walking around and
- 53:02stuff and going down. Like, why are you posting videos
- 53:05like that? He never does that, you know,
- 53:09like getting suspicious here and there.
- 53:14But of course, like my first reaction when it happened when
- 53:17he did that with the knee and it's like, it's the same fucking
- 53:19knee. Like this dude is like cursed
- 53:23forever. Like really?
- 53:26Like, oh shit, he lied. OK, see, I knew it.
- 53:30Everybody. Like, that's some fucked up
- 53:32shit, you know? How dare they lie to us?
- 53:36Are you serious? How dare they lie to us?
- 53:41What, Like how back when we didn't have Internet, Like, how
- 53:47the hell were we supposed to know that Vince was the higher
- 53:51power? How the hell were we supposed to
- 53:56know that Hulk Hogan was the third man?
- 54:01'Cause that's the love. That's because real, but not for
- 54:07the enemy. She's like it.
- 54:11Also shout out to that being 30 years old.
- 54:17Yeah, 1996 bash at the beach. The NWO is now 30 years old.
- 54:26Thanks. That means the X is 29 years
- 54:30old. We're going to be crotch
- 54:35shopping next year, buddy. I'm going to tell all the
- 54:38teachers. Suck it.
- 54:46What else? So, yeah, those were my my
- 54:50favorite knowing that the Sandman did that back then and
- 54:56lied to us. And you know, the Cafe momentum
- 55:01when he even Paul him and said if like he didn't go out, he
- 55:06stayed inside the house for weeks.
- 55:08How do you do that? Not being able to do anything
- 55:12like that, not being able to go pick up your son at school for
- 55:16five weeks, not being able to do anything because people believed
- 55:23that you were blind and everything.
- 55:24And then doing this assassin now in this situation and Ruth
- 55:31telling her teacher, yeah, he's faking it.
- 55:36Like what? Yeah, I told you.
- 55:38I told my teacher that your prove it was fake.
- 55:41Oh shit. He goes over to the teacher.
- 55:44Please keep it a secret. Oh, yeah, sure.
- 55:49No problem. Yeah, those are the best.
- 55:57Those are the best. Not as not knowing if it's real
- 55:59or not, if it's cafe or not. Those are the best storylines.
- 56:04Yeah. So what's next?
- 56:08The Survivor Series 2, The Road to WrestleMania again, or Royal
- 56:13Rumble again? That's going to be great.
- 56:16But yeah, we're going to have to hear about AJ Styles now.
- 56:20Right. Oh.
- 56:25My God. So, yeah.
- 56:29So unreal. Season 2.
- 56:32It's a great watch. Definitely recommending it to
- 56:35everybody that has never seen it, that hasn't seen the first
- 56:38season. Go for it.
- 56:39Watch it. You'll hate it, you'll love it.
- 56:42It's whatever. But I love knowing this.
- 56:45Like we're, we're like, we're old enough to know.
- 56:49Like the kids are not old enough to know.
- 56:51Like, but this age, yeah, we're, we're, we're here.
- 56:55We, we, we have to know. Like, I wish it was like, back
- 56:59when we were younger. I wish we didn't have this.
- 57:02If we had to react to this back then, it'd be like, Oh my God,
- 57:07you know, like, this is great. Seth Rollins comes out, takes
- 57:13off his knee brace and goes after CM Punk who doesn't get
- 57:16out of the ring ever, dumbass. But I refuse it.
- 57:21She would be talking about Carl McMahon wouldn't look for
- 57:26something. He would not.
- 57:28He would never. He wouldn't pay.
- 57:30No similar. He would.
- 57:32Yeah, that's true. That's right, man.
- 57:35That's that's right. Oh my God.
- 57:41Boomerang. I've never seen this movie from
- 57:521992. I've never seen this movie.
- 57:56I love the soundtrack. I only heard one song from this
- 58:00movie ever. And obviously it's the end of
- 58:01the road and they play it in the middle of In the Life, in the
- 58:06middle of the beginning of the movie.
- 58:07I'm like, holy shit. So right after that, just
- 58:12another song by PM Don. I'm like hell yeah dude, what
- 58:16the fuck? Have I never heard the
- 58:18soundtrack before? And like the PM Dawn song, as
- 58:23soon as I heard it, I was like looking for it online and shit.
- 58:27Like OK, this is some great fucking thing watching the
- 58:32movie. Of course Chris Rock is in it.
- 58:37Beginning of this freaking movie.
- 58:40He tried. Like when you gonna hit that?
- 58:41When you gonna hit that we have a pool going on of when you're
- 58:46going to hit it blah blah, blah. Yeah fucking OK, throwaway joke.
- 58:51Didn't think much of it. Later on he's talking to Givens
- 58:57character and Givens law like Robin Givens law like yeah, my I
- 59:02I gave my second day of the night off because the the week
- 59:06off because they want she want a freaking pool, the office pool
- 59:10and I'm like your secretary won. The office pool was great when
- 59:17movie. It was boomerang with Eddie
- 59:21Murphy and star-studded pro Martin Lawrence Halle Berry, a
- 59:30young Halle Berry freaking hot dude.
- 59:34Like what? This is ridiculously crazy.
- 59:37Robin Givens, Chris Rock, A young Chris Rock with fucking
- 59:42fro and everything. Now the question is, did Robin
- 59:49Givens knew about the pool and that's why she went ahead and
- 59:53did like, when's your day coming up like?
- 59:57She probably did. Today, today, today.
- 1:00:00All right, I'm going to do it. Today.
- 1:00:01You're going to get that vacation with this money.
- 1:00:07Oh my God, I was like, she probably did.
- 1:00:10That's why she went ahead and did it with him and was like,
- 1:00:12huh, that is fucking awesome. That is a great way to like
- 1:00:15throw away that joke, you know, and then come back to it.
- 1:00:23I love the fact that fucking parents, not fucking parents.
- 1:00:27I. Don't know.
- 1:00:29I only know how much Pops from Yeah, you know, Wayne's brother.
- 1:00:35I love that. So freaking there's an opera
- 1:00:40silence in the freaking movie where the pop and the wife are
- 1:00:45doing it in the bathroom and Marcus all like, where are your
- 1:00:52parents in the bathroom? Damn.
- 1:00:56During the bathroom doing it. Oh, they come out and they're
- 1:01:01just staring at each other. Like I see the way that you are
- 1:01:04now. I understand why you're this way
- 1:01:06now, you know, not not saying it at the same time, like I know
- 1:01:11'cause parents are like that. I'm just like, yeah, that's
- 1:01:14yeah, come here. Fucking dogs.
- 1:01:17Everything is. Like I understand.
- 1:01:19Now I haven't either. I was like, you guys need to
- 1:01:25watch it. It was, it's on Tubi.
- 1:01:26It was on Tubi. I have to watch it on TV 'cause
- 1:01:30it was free. Another one that was free was to
- 1:01:36Mario Brothers and and I wanted to look for them on DVD.
- 1:01:42Do you have them on DVD? Do you have one of them
- 1:01:46Boomerang? I have the.
- 1:01:50It's free I. Don't have Boomerang on DVD
- 1:01:53because I sold it, but I have it on Disney OK and I have Mario
- 1:01:58Brothers on. DVD.
- 1:02:00OK, so I have to look for them on DVD to see what they have for
- 1:02:06special features and stuff. They really know best foods.
- 1:02:12It's just. Like the issue right now.
- 1:02:15OK. All.
- 1:02:18Right Super Mario Brothers, directed by Rocky Morgan and
- 1:02:21Annabelle Jenko, released Night Night 3, based on Nintendo Super
- 1:02:25Mario Bros franchise. No, it's not.
- 1:02:30This was the first major Hollywood video game adaptation,
- 1:02:32years before studios learned the phrase brand fidelity.
- 1:02:36Fidelity. So nothing's the movie Nintendo
- 1:02:39didn't ask for. The movie Nintendo didn't ask
- 1:02:43for they didn't. In a greedy alternate reality in
- 1:02:46New York, Mario, Luigi, Eyebrook and Plumbers, they discover a
- 1:02:49parallel dimension called Dino Hatton.
- 1:02:53Humans, a dinosaur split evolution due to the meteor King
- 1:02:56Koopa rules the fastest cyberpunk city.
- 1:02:58Princess Daisy, not Peach is the key to merging world.
- 1:03:03Instead of fancy mushrooms and castles, the movie gave us
- 1:03:05corporate dystopia body horror. The evolution, leather clad
- 1:03:12goombas with tiny heads and political paranoia.
- 1:03:17It's basically Blade Runner for kids.
- 1:03:19Accidentally. Bob Hoskin as Mario.
- 1:03:26You might remember him from Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Hook.
- 1:03:31Gruff working class Mario Barry, Brooklyn Barry, 90s John
- 1:03:36Leguizamo, Luigi Carlito's Way, Romeo and Juliet, the past, and
- 1:03:43you might see him now as John Wick in John Wick.
- 1:03:46Not as John Wick, but in John Wick.
- 1:03:48A young, anxious Weegee. This was a career launching
- 1:03:51role. Samantha Mathis.
- 1:03:54Princess Daisy. You might remember her from Pump
- 1:03:57Up the Volume and Little Women. Daisy is reimagined as a science
- 1:04:00minded archaeologist. Dennis Hopper, King Koopa.
- 1:04:06Not Bowser. King Koopa.
- 1:04:10You might have remember him from Speed Hopper goes full Hopper.
- 1:04:16Full Hopper. Manic, terrifying and unhinged.
- 1:04:20Fiona Shaw as Lena. She's from Harry Potter, that
- 1:04:25bitch. She's she's the Harry Potter's
- 1:04:30aunt the. Fucking yeah.
- 1:04:34The one that lived with fucking that whore.
- 1:04:36I mean that bitch Koopa's ambitious Lieutenant, A proto
- 1:04:40evil queen archetype. Despite appearances, the movie
- 1:04:46does reference the the games just sideways.
- 1:04:53We get Mario, Luigi, Koopa, Goombas, and Toad.
- 1:04:57We don't get an actual Toad, but we get Toad.
- 1:05:02I was pissed off, dude. I was like fucking pissed off.
- 1:05:06It's like, how dare I like this shit as a kid?
- 1:05:09And then like now it's like, this isn't fucking Toad.
- 1:05:12Shit in there. We get warp pipes.
- 1:05:16We get boots, Mario's jumping boots, reference super jumps.
- 1:05:20We get BA bomb. A little one.
- 1:05:22Tiny BA bomb. Yeah.
- 1:05:28We get a Yoshi, a baby Raptor in the lab.
- 1:05:32He ain't green or not. He ain't green.
- 1:05:34He's light green. He's dinosaur scaly.
- 1:05:38He's a real dinosaur. Not fucking.
- 1:05:41Oh, hey, look, it's a green dinosaur.
- 1:05:43No, it's a real dinosaur. Early Mario cartoons portrayed
- 1:05:48Mario as a working class guy, not a fairy tale hero.
- 1:05:51The movie leans into that pre Super Nintendo Entertainment
- 1:05:55System interpretation. Koopa as a tyrant reflects early
- 1:05:58villain depictions before Bowser's modern design
- 1:06:02solidified it. Easter eggs and background
- 1:06:06supporting cast Mojo Nixon as Toad.
- 1:06:13Punk rock icon turned conspiracy theorist version of Toad.
- 1:06:17Fisher Stevens. That's Iggy Koopa.
- 1:06:20He's the guy from Short Circuit and Succession.
- 1:06:25Yes, that's Fisher Stevens. The fucking guy that ended up
- 1:06:30playing in Indian Richard Edson, a Spike Ferris Bueller's Day
- 1:06:35Off. Do the Right thing.
- 1:06:38The Goomba's tiny heads are a visual joke about the evolution.
- 1:06:41Horrifying, but intentional, They they said.
- 1:06:47You know that last scene in Beetlejuice when the headhunter
- 1:06:52shrunk shrinks his head? Yeah.
- 1:06:55Let's do that, but dinosaurs and call them Goombas.
- 1:07:02And then for Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice.
- 1:07:05Let's do the Goombas but more of them.
- 1:07:11So Oh my God it reminded me so much of the Goombas.
- 1:07:17Entire subplots were removed. It was horrible.
- 1:07:20The darker body horror things were toned down.
- 1:07:24Actors have only said the script change daily.
- 1:07:26There's a reason this movie feels like a fever dream.
- 1:07:28It was 1. They had rock, techno and dust.
- 1:07:32Survives. Matches the grim Dustopia rather
- 1:07:35than Nintendo whimsy. Very early 90s extreme
- 1:07:37aesthetic. Of course.
- 1:07:42While it failed, why it failed at first Nintendo.
- 1:07:46Nintendo fans were confused. The older, older Nintendo fans,
- 1:07:50not us kids. We, we doesn't.
- 1:07:56Feel good, Mom, can I go see Mario Brothers?
- 1:07:58Sure. OK.
- 1:08:00Yay. McDonald's toys, Happy Meal.
- 1:08:04Yeah, that's fucking why they did that.
- 1:08:08General Audisons didn't know what they were watching.
- 1:08:10Tone was too weird for kids, too silly for a gay adult.
- 1:08:15Love your bride, bro. Thanks bro.
- 1:08:17Appreciate that film, Cat. Hope you're doing great, Wyatt.
- 1:08:20Reverend. Now one of the first hyper punk
- 1:08:22video game movies. Predicted Hollywood struggled
- 1:08:24with adaptations, became a cult classic.
- 1:08:26Embrace for its audacity. This is why we don't ever trust
- 1:08:30movies anymore. Mario Brothers lowered my
- 1:08:36expectations for every video game movie after that.
- 1:08:44Oh, what's next? Fucking Street Fighter?
- 1:08:49Street Fighter, what's next? I was like, Oh yeah, of course
- 1:08:51they're going to ruin it. They did they.
- 1:08:55Did. Too.
- 1:08:56They did too. Being a Witch comic book that I
- 1:09:03bought. The guy I won.
- 1:09:07I got the sangie. Now here's the guy I won.
- 1:09:11So yeah, long term effects. Nintendo locked down IP control
- 1:09:17for decades afterward. They did.
- 1:09:20Like, don't fuck with our shit. It's like we're waver.
- 1:09:25If you're gonna fuck up our shit, we'll do it.
- 1:09:27We'll fuck our own shit. This movie directly influenced
- 1:09:31Detective Pikachu's tonal balanced the Super Mario Bros
- 1:09:34Movie. You know, to play it safe.
- 1:09:36Now we're getting the Galaxy movie.
- 1:09:39We're fine. We're fine now.
- 1:09:42This movie frequently cited in video essays Meme culture So bad
- 1:09:46is fascinating list so bad is good.
- 1:09:49No, it's bad. This is the blueprint of what
- 1:09:54not to do to video game movies. It's terrible.
- 1:10:01It's terrible. But you got to put it, you got
- 1:10:05to have bigger connections. In revaluing it today, modern
- 1:10:11viewers see Super Mario Brothers as a bold misfire, a genre
- 1:10:15blender before the genre existed, a reminder that
- 1:10:17adaptation does not equal translation.
- 1:10:20It didn't understand Mario, but it understood 1993 perfectly.
- 1:10:25We didn't care. The 1993 Super Mario Brothers
- 1:10:29movie isn't a bad movie. It's a great movie from a
- 1:10:31universe where Mario was never a cartoon there.
- 1:10:36That's the reason. That's why.
- 1:10:45So, yeah, All in all, the freaking movie, I'm going to
- 1:10:50give it a six out of 10. It was great for the year that I
- 1:10:57was at because we were kids and we didn't know any better.
- 1:11:01We didn't think it was going to be like that when.
- 1:11:10And I'm thinking like, hey, they made a video game out of Mario.
- 1:11:17You should check it out. I don't want to play the game.
- 1:11:19Tell me all about it. OK, So Super Mario Brothers,
- 1:11:23they have a green dinosaur called Yoshi.
- 1:11:25He's like, good, let's add that. You don't want to see what it
- 1:11:33looks like now, but let's add the green dinosaur.
- 1:11:38Light green. Let's make it light green.
- 1:11:39Let's make it an actual dinosaur.
- 1:11:42Yeah, yeah. And we almost kill it by
- 1:11:44stabbing it. How dare you?
- 1:11:49Why? So what?
- 1:11:51The. The only time something gets
- 1:11:55stabbed or killed, almost killed, is when the stabbing
- 1:11:58happens with Yoshi. You know, just like this is
- 1:12:02fucking horrible. You're going to traumatize the
- 1:12:05children. Thanks, it didn't make sense.
- 1:12:15The ending, the ending. There's obviously the first
- 1:12:18ending. Daisy comes back and tells them
- 1:12:23you're not going to believe this.
- 1:12:24And then it ends right there. Post credit after the credits,
- 1:12:28after the Berry credits end and stuff.
- 1:12:31Here come Japanese people coming to the apartment saying like, we
- 1:12:35want to make a video game after you.
- 1:12:38And cut to the two people, Iggy and the other guy, the the
- 1:12:44Goombas. The guys are just like, you
- 1:12:47know, I was like, yeah, let's call it super, super, super
- 1:12:51Koopa and, you know, adventures and all that.
- 1:12:55No, let's call it something else.
- 1:12:57Let's call it this. Let's call it that.
- 1:12:59I'm super Koopa super, you know, all this shit.
- 1:13:03I'm just like, this is fucking horrible.
- 1:13:06But you're like there. And that was it.
- 1:13:10It was like they didn't take video game seriously at all.
- 1:13:15No, they're like, let's just make a movie out of this.
- 1:13:18It's fun. OK.
- 1:13:20And from there gave us fucking a Street Fighter double dragon
- 1:13:26deal. Like double dragon.
- 1:13:32Oh my God. Yeah, Double Dragon is with
- 1:13:35Scott Wolf and you know about Double Dragon the the the game,
- 1:13:40right? Yeah.
- 1:13:42So is that Alyssa Milano's in it?
- 1:13:47Hold on. This you know.
- 1:13:52I'm about to see 1994. It came out 1994, so a year
- 1:13:55after let's double down and see what happened when we it's on to
- 1:13:58be so I'm about to watch it. Mark the Caskos as Jimmy Lee,
- 1:14:07Scott Wolf of Billy Lee, Alyssa Milano as the girl.
- 1:14:11Robert Patrick, Christina Wagner.
- 1:14:17Bunch of other people. Vanna White.
- 1:14:20No shit. Michael Berryman.
- 1:14:25Andy Dick, Michael Berryman. You know him as such movies as
- 1:14:31The Hills Have Eyes. He's in, He's in the poster of
- 1:14:35The Hills Have Eyes. He's the the bald guy.
- 1:14:40So he's in this movie, Jeff and Maida and yeah, a lot of other
- 1:14:51people that, you know, they're just like small little roles in
- 1:14:57there for them. Gilbert Gottfried.
- 1:15:02And that's the next one I'm going to probably watch just for
- 1:15:04the hell of it. Oh.
- 1:15:06Thank you tonight. Let's go, let's do that.
- 1:15:08We'll watch. We'll talk about it next week.
- 1:15:12Oh shit. I mean, we're we're doing a
- 1:15:14fucking video games to movies. So let's do that one for next
- 1:15:17week. So next week we're doing we're
- 1:15:21discussing double dragon. Wow, this whole this whole movie
- 1:15:26seems to be freaking awesome. What about black history, black
- 1:15:31excellence movies? What do you want to watch next?
- 1:15:37We did boomerang. That's ROM com.
- 1:15:41Was it the wood? It's.
- 1:15:44The wood. I've never seen the wood.
- 1:15:46Is that with 99? You should watched it, yeah.
- 1:15:52Taye Diggs? Yes, Sir.
- 1:15:56Elmar Epps, Dude, already. You already sold me at Taye
- 1:16:01Diggs. Now you got Omar Epps and then
- 1:16:04Richard T Jones. That's a great trio right there.
- 1:16:08Yeah, you gonna love it. OK, alright, but let's go.
- 1:16:12We'll go. We'll do that next week.
- 1:16:14Hold on, Harlem Knight. That's 80s.
- 1:16:18I know. Like I'll watch it anyways.
- 1:16:22I know, I told. Her, I told her.
- 1:16:25So Harlem Knight and the Wood? Yeah.
- 1:16:32Then let's go. Let's watch that so next week
- 1:16:35Harlem night the wood and the freaking video game movie double
- 1:16:41dragon oh shit and then I got to play the game obviously all
- 1:16:50right what else is there to talk about What do you what do you
- 1:16:55have what's going on with you what's going on here this
- 1:16:58weekend with you she. Meant OK watch this game
- 1:17:06tomorrow. Yeah, what were you rooting for?
- 1:17:10Seattle, Seattle. You're going to be busy, man.
- 1:17:14Fine, it's fine. Oh yeah, busy because I have
- 1:17:18rivals. New season .5 comes out this
- 1:17:22weekend, next weekend. So I'm just tired of fucking
- 1:17:28Deadpool. So now, right now, it's not even
- 1:17:30funny. It's horrible when the first
- 1:17:37thing of Deadpool movie, the first Deadpool movie, him and
- 1:17:42Wolverine, you know, origins when he came out, like that's
- 1:17:46not Deadpool blah, blah. His fucking mouth is fucking
- 1:17:49Ryan Randolph, you know, fucking And then he fucking, you know,
- 1:17:55like said, I want to watch, I want to play Deadpool.
- 1:17:58And I was like, oh shit, he's really doing it and the movie's
- 1:18:01really coming out and all this stuff and it's like, OK, cool,
- 1:18:03one movie, it's going to be great.
- 1:18:04And then he did it. And then I was like, that's a
- 1:18:07great movie. I just not aim for kids,
- 1:18:10obviously, Jane said. I just saw that my youngest had
- 1:18:14downloaded my rivals. Good luck, ma'am.
- 1:18:16Good luck. He could have come back with I
- 1:18:19hate this community because so do I.
- 1:18:24We hate people in there. Trust me.
- 1:18:27You'll understand later, the first Deadpool movie, what you
- 1:18:31think of it. I love it.
- 1:18:35OK, Yeah. Did you want a second one?
- 1:18:39The second one, did you want a second one like right away
- 1:18:44'cause that came? Out.
- 1:18:45Not right away. Yeah, that came out rather
- 1:18:47quick. Yeah.
- 1:18:49And I was like, in that Pete, you know, it's unpopular
- 1:18:53opinion. And I'm like, OK, that's fine.
- 1:18:56Don't I who the battle before Juggernaut?
- 1:19:00Juggernaut and Colossus, but that's not really Colossus.
- 1:19:06Other guy playing Colossus. I mean, it was fun and then I
- 1:19:11was like, oh, what the hell is going on here?
- 1:19:13Now they're using time travel for the instance.
- 1:19:21Like you could use, you could have done another movie,
- 1:19:23another, you know, but same time.
- 1:19:26All right, I get it. And then Deadpool, Wolverine,
- 1:19:33Yeah. And even Dennis, like I think we
- 1:19:38over we got overexposed for Deadpool.
- 1:19:42Oh yeah. Because now it's I wasn't
- 1:19:46expecting him to be on in the game right away for this season.
- 1:19:52Like he they talked about him in the first season, in Season 0
- 1:19:56when there's like all the stuff and Jeff the shark is his kid.
- 1:20:03And like, you know, that was from his comic book that like he
- 1:20:06found he adopted this baby shark and you know, that's the whole
- 1:20:12thing. And OK, you're Deadpool being
- 1:20:16talked about in season 0. It's like, all right, that's
- 1:20:17great. But I hope they don't bring him
- 1:20:20in just yet. You know, let's hear about him.
- 1:20:22Same with the same thing with What's the big blade?
- 1:20:27He was being talked about. He got, he got put on a fucking
- 1:20:31as a prisoner fire by Dracula. And then we see him in Wakanda
- 1:20:42sleeping on the bed and everything and then we don't see
- 1:20:44him at all and then he shows up. So it's the same thing with that
- 1:20:47pool. And I'm just like, this man is
- 1:20:50overexposed. We can't ban him in any of the
- 1:20:55games because he's there's three of them.
- 1:21:00And like, I haven't played in a bit.
- 1:21:02I don't want to play it for a bit.
- 1:21:04It's like I told everybody, it's like I didn't like Season 3 and
- 1:21:07I'm not liking Season 6. So I know like, if we're going
- 1:21:11to continue this little trend here, Season 9 is not going to
- 1:21:14be my favorite either. Probably we're going to go with
- 1:21:17that. He was around forever before we
- 1:21:20could do anything. Was super annoying because of
- 1:21:21what I I think, yeah, he's been around.
- 1:21:23He's been around for the past 15 years.
- 1:21:27And it's probably why we are like, all right, that's too
- 1:21:29much. But yeah, that's my that's my
- 1:21:35opinion about Deadpool. Ryan Reynolds, a great actor,
- 1:21:42but yeah, too much of him is like too much already.
- 1:21:47All right. All right, you ready to head
- 1:21:54out? Yeah, we are at one hour and 20
- 1:21:58minutes. That's great.
- 1:22:01All right, we're going to bring this home today.
- 1:22:03We broke down movies, games and culture the only way my third
- 1:22:06place can. We kicked off boomerang style
- 1:22:08laugh and the kind of confidence only that era could deliver.
- 1:22:13We delve into the wonderfully wild of Mar Brothers, a movie
- 1:22:15that still feels like someone dumped quarters into an arcade
- 1:22:18cabin and asked for more chaos. We shuffled through new decks,
- 1:22:22sparked through, saw us on our Fast and Furious franchise and
- 1:22:26paused to consider Tic Tac Derry.
- 1:22:27That made us stop scrolling. And actually, I think we checked
- 1:22:30the pulse on movie news and video game news, including the
- 1:22:33fun realization that video games turned 30 on 2026, which means
- 1:22:36the stuff we grew up now playing qualifies as retro by the people
- 1:22:39discovering on TikTok them assholes.
- 1:22:43We talked upcoming games in 2026 and actually played those $0.99
- 1:22:46games I mentioned last week, and some of them are wild in ways I
- 1:22:49didn't expect. We also got deep nerdy who's in
- 1:22:52the cast of Paper Mage, featuring wrestlers, Power
- 1:22:54Rangers, and martial artists tied up in a secret fraternity
- 1:22:57of black martial artists. WWE Unreal Season 2 updates that
- 1:23:01blur the line between the reality and Kfave in the best
- 1:23:04ways. We.
- 1:23:06Before we send you out into the cold, however, let's lock in the
- 1:23:09details of the big game to no Morrow or tonight, which never
- 1:23:13you're listening to this Super Bowl 60s Seattle Seahawkers New
- 1:23:17England Patriots going down Sunday, February 8th, 2026.
- 1:23:21Kickoff is set for 6:30 PM Eastern, 3:30 PM Pacific from
- 1:23:24Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, NV.
- 1:23:27So whether you're here for the football or the commercials or
- 1:23:29the halftime show, make sure you've got snats in a seat and
- 1:23:32somebody to yell with. Speaking of halftime, this
- 1:23:35year's performance about energy, nostalgia, and headline fire.
- 1:23:38The kind of show America tunes in for a rise of who's in the
- 1:23:40game. Now here's what we want from you
- 1:23:43this week. Will you be watching Super Bowl?
- 1:23:46Who are you rooting for and why? What was your favorite part of
- 1:23:49today's episode? And while we're in the subject
- 1:23:52of anticipation next week, we're turning our eyes towards the big
- 1:23:55screens. Obviously, we already told you
- 1:23:59yes. Levi Stadium in San Francisco.
- 1:24:01I know I fucked that one up. Thank you Menace from Levi
- 1:24:05Stadium in San Francisco, CA. What the?
- 1:24:14Thank you for to our producer for letting us know that you
- 1:24:17know, it's from at Levi Stadium in San Francisco.
- 1:24:20Appreciate you as producers. You're fine.
- 1:24:24You're fine. You're absolutely right.
- 1:24:26As soon as I read that, I knew it was wrong.
- 1:24:29And then I was like waiting for you to someone once say waiting
- 1:24:32for someone to say it. One more hydrate you, 21 more
- 1:24:36hydration. You heard her.
- 1:24:44OK, we hydrated, we did it. We did the same.
- 1:24:49We did. I did.
- 1:24:58What movies are you looking forward to?
- 1:24:59Drop your picks because we're going to have movie trailer
- 1:25:01reaction content coming up this week and then we'll tell you
- 1:25:05what we thought about them next week.
- 1:25:07Also, Valentine's Day is right around the corner.
- 1:25:09Let us know what your favorite romantic comedies are in the
- 1:25:12comments. Whether you love them to write
- 1:25:14them or quote them in your sleep, we want to hear it before
- 1:25:18we really go. Take a breath with me whenever
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- 1:25:21Noise wins losses. You don't have to carry all of
- 1:25:24it into tomorrow. Thank you for spending this time
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- 1:25:31To the space where we show up as ourselves, even when it's cold
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