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Exploring the Depths of Black Indie Comics: A Conversation with Brian J. Lambert · Blerd’s Eyeview

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Yo.
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I'm back, I'm back.
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Yeah, look crazy 8 the great nerd core rap got into a dual fade and I just pulled a trap car Third rate rappers with a fourth rate catalog Destined for the shadow realm Y' all should never act I
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was so insidious that I need an apprentice master with the force Peep the context of my sentence like the sickness just don't ask me what my parents they know that I'm the meanest who you kidding?
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I'm in the tattoo job hot headed brown just str you can never tw my metal like the jury never mad when I push it to the max I got Chris riding with me about to turn this to fury
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road since animated I'm the one that congratulated winners will provide protective cover like it's laminated Damn, I made this.
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of these are bad words Biggest living mirrors they just choose to see a bad word who be the leaders of discussion when a topic trans dissections got the culture under microscopic lane who got the type that you can
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miss it from the start and make me feel like an expert on the subject by the time check this stat Louis viewership is mad nice all these other shows don't seem to cut it that's a bad taste off
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the books with a scripted joke you can't write no vampires but these interviews don't end right yeah, this the best part rhymes on Mandalorian independence made a best scar starting a war with these stars you won't get far
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this is the way you play a game of life A death star so far removed from the drama we don't notice but won't hesitate to shed a light like a patrona when mix of manage troubles at a disadvantage
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Know.
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So without further ado, my man Navy Martel's in the building.
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What's going on, Navy?
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What's going on, brother?
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I.
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I hope you're feeling a little bit better.
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Ginger tea.
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Good man.
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Good man.
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Now, I don't have the ginger tea, but I do have the wild bills.
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So you know what?
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Found this at Dollar tree for a dollar 25.
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All right.
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Speaking of wild bills, for those who go to conventions, okay.
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There is a certain vendor by the name of Wild Bills who sells root beer and these really cool mugs.
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Now, this past weekend, we were out of town for a family function.
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We had a.
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My wife had a death in the family and we were staying at a hotel.
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What I did not know was the hotel was right around the corner from the convention center, and at that convention center was an anime convention going on.
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So I was like, well, this is new.
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I, like, had no time to go to this thing at all.
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So I looked it up and I said, oh, okay.
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Is the name of this con.
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I think it's his fourth year in West Virginia.
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What's it called?
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Sabusa Khan, I want to say.
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Is it T S, A B, A, S, A?
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Yes, A T, Yes.
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Yeah.
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Depending on how you.
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Yep.
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And so I looked up to see what vendors were there.
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I didn't recognize a lot of them, but I did recognize wild bills and I did recognize D8 sabers.
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I'm like, if I had time, I would have went in there to get some accessories for my lightsaber from DX Sabers, because that's where I got my saber from.
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So.
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But I was.
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That was a pleasant surprise.
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I said, man, if I had, like, extra time, I would have just jumped in, like on one day, did my walk around and jumped out.
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It's something about Wild Bills.
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It's a staple at Cons now, and I can confirm this.
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We will have Wild Bills at blurcon.
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Yeah.
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I can.
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I can say that much.
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Everyone to get my mug.
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I don't know if.
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If y' all are out there, you understand the excitement that this man and I are exhibiting.
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Wild Bills is one of those staples, because when you go to the vendor, especially the.
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The food vendors, and you get a simple soda that runs you four or five dollars a pop every time if you're lucky.
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Wild Bills has a system where if you've already bought a cup from them, you pay an extra five, maybe $10 and you can refill the entire weekend.
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The entire weekend.
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They put a little lanyard on your cup.
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You go, here you go.
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Okay.
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And you ice.
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Fill it up.
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Keep it moving.
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I love it.
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No one else does that.
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Mal's in the building.
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What's going on now?
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What up, sir?
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Just sweetie glare.
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We can't do it like lady man.
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Thank you, Ma, for the donation.
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Thank you.
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Yes, I'm pushing through.
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Thank you.
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Bama's in the building.
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Yeah, do sweetie.
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Dwight.
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Yes, it's actually ginger turmeric.
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So, yes.
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Okay.
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We do listen to our audience.
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You know, actually has turmeric in it.
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So I.
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I said, ah.
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Hey, cold call me early this year.
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So.
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I'm so glad.
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I never had one of those before, but I have heard some disastrous things.
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When you are a practicing voice actor, it's hello.
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Well, you're an up and coming voice actor.
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I can imagine.
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See, but I'm stupid like that.
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I'll take any adversity to my voice, and I will still somehow make it an advantage because now I want to see what I can do with it now that my voice has gotten weird.
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Here.
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Here's the thing.
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People say, oh, take some Nyquil.
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Here's the thing about me and Nyquil.
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We don't have a very good relationship.
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Apparently, I have an allergic reaction.
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Oh, no.
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Nyquil.
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But here's the allergic reaction I have.
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Everybody's used to the deep, sultry voice.
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Nyquil makes me sound like Mickey Mouse.
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Trial and error.
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Trust me, I know.
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Oh, my gosh.
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I can imagine you doing an intro for the show, and it's like, hello, everybody.
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Welcome to Lord's Eye View.
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I had, like, it.
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I.
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This happened a couple years ago, and I noticed it, and I took it, and I'm like, yeah, is my voice going?
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And then when I'm pushing through it, why do I sound like this?
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You know, like, what?
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I shouldn't have been drinking anything when you did that.
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Yeah, look, the look my wife has, and I'm like, I don't know what's going on.
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It's like.
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It's.
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It's like that episode is like the movie Roger Rabbit.
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And I would turn around, and I turn around and have a voice just like us.
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And I'm like, now this.
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It's not a pretty sight.
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It's at all.
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Now, I will add to that, because when I get sick, my voice drops three octaves.
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Oh, you turn into Barry White.
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Yeah, I turn into Barry White.
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Someone says, hey, Monta.
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Hey, what's going on?
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Who the hell is this?
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I won't be coming to work today.
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Not talking like that.
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Sorry.
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It doesn't.
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It.
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It does help that while at work today, because it's been.
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It was CSP week, and they're celebrating all the texts in the air, in the hospital.
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They.
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They've been feeding this crap out of everybody.
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They brought in these great brownies.
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I've seen some of the girls getting brownies.
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So I.
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You know, I go in straight.
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I got a mask on.
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I go straight.
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Go ahead and get you one of them brownies.
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Rich, decadent, luscious chocolate.
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Everybody was like, what's the narrator in here?
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It worked.
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It.
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It does.
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It does tend to work.
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I.
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I feel that.
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My dude said, hey, he does do a little bit of outside, so there it is.
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I love chocolate, but chocolate is like my favorite op because milk chocolate puts me to sleep.
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It makes me drowsy and knocks me.
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Out, literally, like a baby.
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Like a baby, Yo.
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Dark chocolate doesn't do it.
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I don't touch white chocolate.
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That's just pure sugar right there.
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But milk chocolate, forget it.
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That's the.
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That's the.
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That's the tits right there.
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Dark chocolate, that's my jam.
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What?
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70%.
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Let's go.
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That is my jam with the salt.
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And caramel on the inside.
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So peep.
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We have a guest in the building.
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This brother is working on a little bit of everything.
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Let's go.
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But if you.
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If you remember Malachi Bailey, he has her.
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And that's over at Wings Comics.
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If you recognize justice, that's it.
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Wingless Comics.
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If you recognize immortals, that's at Wingless Comics.
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And up and coming Air Force Ones which is also turning into an animation.
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So dope for Blurry Station, also from Wingless Comics.
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This man is literally hands on in the indie comics industry.
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Brian J.
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Lambert is in the building.
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What's going on, Brian?
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Hey, sir.
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I'd give a standing ovation, but I.
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I think this is good because otherwise you just see nothing but shirts.
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So.
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Hey.
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That part, that part.
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Okay, okay, okay.
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I got the Wild Bills.
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Okay, this is the antidote right here.
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This is a wild.
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I got the antidote and the cheeses.
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I got cheeses here.
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Okay.
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Yes, sir.
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How are you doing this evening, man?
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Oh, you're muted.
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Take off your mute some reason.
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Yeah, it says you're muted.
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There we go.
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Have I been talking this whole time?
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I said a bunch of cool stuff too.
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You had to repeat it now.
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Yeah, yeah, just repeat it.
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Yeah, I made a joke about you and chocolate and falling asleep.
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I said, the world notwithstanding that, we're good.
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You know what I mean?
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Again, no, thank you guys for having me.
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I'm just really happy to be here.
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I appreciate you guys.
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It's just been really, really awesome just even getting this opportunity to talk to you guys and to be on, you know, Blurred's Ivy podcast and just politic with everybody.
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So I appreciate it.
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Just out the gate.
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I appreciate it.
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Look, it's great having you on because first off, as you know, we're over at Blair Station as well and seeing Air Force Ones when we seen that trailer.
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And the way.
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The way Hell Spawn just.
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He said, there's no other way to say but black people in Gundams and Selling point.
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That's.
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That's the selling point.
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Yeah.
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You know, man, I've been working on it for a while, honestly, and it's a.
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For us older anime lovers and anime heads, right?
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Like, it's a love letter to Robotech into the original Gundam and all of that stuff because.
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Yeah, right.
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So we didn't even.
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Back then, like, yeah, you had Bowie Grant and you had like the Grant family, right?
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But those are the only black people you saw really, in any of that stuff.
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And they weren't main characters.
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Claudia didn't get to fly nothing.
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I love Claudia, but you know what I mean?
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Like, we were always like, also Ransack, right?
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And so I always wanted to do that.
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And honestly, man, the idea came to me in the middle of the night one night.
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Most of the time, if you like me, you get an idea in the middle of the night, you don't write it down, you don't tell nobody, and you forget it in the morning, this one stuck with me, right?
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All I had was the title.
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I was like.
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I had hit up a friend of mine when I woke up, and I was like, air Force Ones.
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I was like, but they're pilots.
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And they looked at me like I was a fool.
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And I was like, trust me.
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Like, just trust me.
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Trust the process.
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Right, right, right.
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And yeah.
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Yeah.
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So it just.
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It came together like that again.
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I started with.
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Started taking.
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When I had the real idea, I started taking Gundam pictures, right?
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Like Gundam posters.
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And I was trying to put my lettering and stuff on there, like, to really, like, matriculate the vision.
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Like, hey, it's gonna be this big.
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But this is where we're starting and getting the logo and just getting the look, right?
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And then just creating that intersection in that cross section of like, shoe culture, popular culture, Gundam culture.
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Like all these things that I feel like in our community have been married for a long time, and just bringing that into, like, a bigger form.
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That was really, really what I wanted to do.
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And like I said, it's a love story and it's a love letter to.
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To.
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To the things I grew up on.
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I should.
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I wanna.
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I wanted to be a Gundam pilot.
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You know what I mean?
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And so I want to be able to show that, you know?
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Yeah.
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Still do.
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Right, right, right.
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I'm real disappointed in the Space Force, bro.
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I thought I was like, oh, we gonna get some Gundams.
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And then, you know, look what we got.
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Yeah.
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Look at what we got.
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Okay.
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I get hurt.
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Oh, my Lord.
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I.
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So I.
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I gotta ask you, when you said it was a love letter to.
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Especially all the mech anime that we came up with, you know, like Gundam across.
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Was it Venus Wars?
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Oh, my goodness, the list goes on and on and on.
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So was there a particular property that just said, this is the.
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This is the main song in that love.
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In that love letter to what I'm creating.
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For me, it would honestly have to be Robotech.
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And that's because that was the very first one I ever saw, right?
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So I can remember being.
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I think I was like three years old when it was actually airing on TV, you know, before we had to get it on DVDs and everything else.
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And so I remember very vividly watching the episode or the after effects of the episode where Roy Foker dies, right?
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And I had never before.
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And since really, I had never seen that on, like, American TV like that.
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You don't see cartoons.
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Didn't have debts.
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Anyway.
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You know what I mean?
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Yeah, exactly.
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So.
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So that one was a thing.
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And I always had this dream, I guess, of if I could do anything I wanted, tomorrow I would do a four part movie series of the Robotech, you know, the Macross saga.
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And it would be this big Baz Luhrmann type production with those angles and that kind of artistry and musicality and all of that stuff.
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Right.
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Because it's a space opera.
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And so I wanted to do something that was reminiscent of that but very, very much grounded in who I am and my ideas and thoughts and again, my cultural ideas and thoughts.
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As the series progresses, you're gonna see how very much of a.
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Of a LA story this is as a California story this is as the story progresses.
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We're in the 7th Ward now.
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That's like the big main place we are.
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They're gonna go to other wards and third Ward folks.
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Hey, we don't mess with seven Ward, you know, blah, blah, blah, you know, so it's, it's very, very tribal, very, for lack of better words, gang culture oriented, but not in the pejorative way.
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Right.
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There is a lot of social black culture that's interconnected with what's contemporarily called gang culture or California, you know what I mean?
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Like all those little nuances.
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Whereas we understand that a certain way.
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We know where to go, who to talk to, how to phrase things and everything and not be affiliated at all.
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But we can still move in those circles and move around those circles and they move around us.
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Other people have not been exposed to that and they have no idea it's gang culture.
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Bad.
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Red red rag bad.
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No matter what's going on.
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And that's not necessarily the case.
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Right.
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There are all these nuances about our culture in general that I like infusing into the stories that I'm writing.
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And I think that a Gundam style mech, anime and manga is the perfect way to show that tribalism and to show that fight for freedom.
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So I noticed that in your background and on your shirt.
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Yes, yes, yes, sir.
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Are several of the mechs that are in.
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Going to be in Air Force Ones.
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Yes, yes.
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So in, in volume one, all the mix that you see here are actually.
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These are our four.
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I think you can see all four of them.
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These are our four main mechs here.
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The Gilgamesh, the Yasuke, the Old Gun and the Kitsune.
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I have the Kitsune on my shirt here.
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Real men wear pink, as my boy Cameron used to say.
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I want that shirt too.
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Oh, oh man.
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We, you know, it's gonna be on the website Real, real soon, right?
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We just.
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My wife is the genius behind this one.
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I had this poster a friend did for me, and I just had it.
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I was gonna sell it as a print and she was like, if you don't get me a shirt so I can wear that.
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And I was like, if you don't o.
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But I listened to her.
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I defer to her.
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You had no choice, man.
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You had no choice, right?
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And it came out dope.
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You know what I mean?
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So actually this was supposed to be her shirt.
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Actually, this is the one I ordered for her.
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And then it came out, the package, and I was like, oh, oops, I bought it too big for you, baby.
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I gotta wear it.
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You know what I'm saying?
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So.
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Oh.
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Oh, no, you can't wear this.
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This is not flattery.
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That side eye was probably legendary.
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Just.
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Just look at you.
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Like, right, right, right.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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So, yeah, I think it's.
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There's a part.
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Part of it always be branding, you know, is.
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That's what they say.
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But at the same time, man, I honestly enjoy this so damn much that I want to wear it.
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Right?
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Like, I want to wear these shirts out.
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I love the characters.
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I love what I'm doing.
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And not just because I'm doing it, because I get to see it, man.
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And.
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And having other people like it and other people get down.
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It's just.
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It's.
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It's everything to me, right.
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Like, it's.
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I love all the things that Wingless Comics does.
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I love all the things that I've created.
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I love all the things I've created with other people editing and all this other stuff.
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Air Force Ones and the ones universe is.
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Is.
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Is a different beast for me.
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I want to.
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Before we go on, I want to show the new trailer that you have because obviously the first one had literally the Air Force Ones by Nelly and the same lunatics.
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Yeah.
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And we.
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We couldn't use that copyright.
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Right.
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But.
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Right, right.
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So here's the.
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Here's the.
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The newest version with its own music.
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And here we go.
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They were never meant to fly now they'll tear down the sky Rising from the ashes of a failed peace I.
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Look into a broken mirror and still.
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See me Is this a nightmare or a broken dream?
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I step inside and take control of my destiny A vessel made for righteous wrath Reigniting fires of a war torn.
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Past I'd sacrifice all that I have if faith could save me from this B.
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They were never meant to fly out now they'll tear down the sky Air Force wants Fire.
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Okay, I want the song.
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Okay?
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I want that song.
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I want it, I want it on repeat because it makes me just want to just go out and just do some stuff.
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See, that's what I'm talking about, sir.
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This is giving, it gives.
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It gives your typical anime feel, man.
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I ain't gonna lie.
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So again, I love my wife and she loves me, obviously, because she haven't killed me yet.
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Because like you said, I've been playing that thing non stop.
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My ADHD and ADHD, I can listen to that thing 12 times in a row and not be phased at all.
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I'm just into it.
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So if y' all know about the air, if y' all know about the ADHD out there, you know, you truly understand when you are transfixed on something, you listen to the same thing or watch the same thing for
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hours.
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Right?
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Right?
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Yeah, man.
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So it's again, man, it's just been, it's been very, very dope.
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I love the song.
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The song is actually, it's actually not just for that opening either.
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It's a full.
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It's the full length song.
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There's a full length version that I will be releasing in parts because again, I want to put some more trailer materials together, some other stuff together, and as we go start producing volume two, that's going to be a
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thing.
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I am going to end up releasing the entire song.
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You know what I mean?
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I.
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I feel like we're going to take it to streaming platforms and the whole deal, like do a full release for it is why I love it that much.
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And so it don't matter if it's gonna have a million of streams, if for no other reason than I've streamed it a million times.
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So, you know, again, man, I, I think that there are a lot of properties and a lot of things that we see in our again in our community and in the wider comic community in general.
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And I, I'm not setting out to prove that you don't need a million dollars to do something beneficial or do something great or do something of high quality.
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But I am doing it right.
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Like my, my goal is to complete this project.
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My goal is to do the next thing and invest and invest and show that there is kind of a path and you don't.
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Again, you don't have to.
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I don't need to fleece everybody for a bunch of money to do a small thing right.
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Like, I invest in myself.
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I make sure again, even when you see the animation, that animation is top quality animation.
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The song is top quality songs you don't skimp just because you don't have a, a, a pocket full of money.
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You just have to take the time and plan it out and do it right.
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And I realized that like life comics and all this other stuff, we get judged by the worst of us and not by the best of us.
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The best of us is the exception.
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Oh my God.
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It's how you know you're, you're amazing because you did that.
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Not everybody could do that, but the worst of us.
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Yeah, that's how all of you guys are.
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So the same thing goes for comics.
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If you see a, a bad black indie comic, then somebody goes, see, that's what indie comics are.
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That's what black indie comics are.
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No, everything you'll think out of Wingless is, is 100 the best quality that we can do at the time.
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And we're just going to keep leveling up and we started at a quality that's at least on par with the big two.
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And we're just going to get better.
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And I mean that for every project.
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That we do, I, what I've seen and like I said, Malachi Bailey's been on the show before a couple times and talking about her and when you see the level of her and then you see immortals and then
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you see justice and now you have fades that you're working on.
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Let's talk about those projects too.
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Like yeah, these are things and we, we said here, here on the platform like we love our black indie creators because they are giving us stories that we can't get anywhere else.
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They're giving us characters that aren't just weather based or electricity based powers.
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Like in most, in most cases, origin story is better storyline.
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Story arcs are much better.
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Like it just leave.
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It's not the same repetitive thing over and over and over.
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And you don't have the whole, we're gonna do a seven story arc and then we're gonna start over with a new writer and put somebody else.
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And you scrap everything from before you guys.
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And I mean black creative indie creators have given us something that goes on and on and it just gets better and better and we get more and it's like.
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And we're starving for it.
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We're like, yes, I need more of that.
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And the fact that you haven't gone like commercial in the sense of it becomes watered down is a godsend.
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You know, a really good friend of mine and I consider him a mentor as well and appear and a business partner.
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Jason Reeves, man really schooled me on some stuff when I first got into the game, right, and look, I'm over Jason's house once or twice, you know, a month or whatever.
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Like, that's my, that's my people.
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And when I first got in, I wanted to do this.
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Like you said, I want to do a six issue arc that does this and that and all this other stuff.
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Right.
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And he was like, why, why would you, why would you make people wait that long?
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You know, an indie comic does one, maybe two a year, right?
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That's just the cycle.
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And it happens until you catch fire.
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So he was like, get your story right, do it in four issues because then you get to tell the next story.
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And that is probably the biggest hurdle for indie comics, being able to tell the next story.
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Right.
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Like, you have to continue to invest and continue to invest, but it's not a bad thing.
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It's, it's actually something that helps stories matriculate as opposed to, and don't get me wrong, I grew up on Marvel and DC Image.
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I still, you know, I still have affinity for those comics.
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I don't necessarily collect the way I.
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Used to, but I can't say that my corner is taller than me now.
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So, yeah, I can't say that.
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Right, right.
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It's.
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It's hard.
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So I do like some of the new stuff they're coming out with.
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I, I won't deny that.
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Right.
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Like the, the new Wonder Woman and Batman series.
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I like some of their shorter stuff that they're starting to do, the absolute stuff and some of the shorter things that they're doing.
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Because again, you get bogged down by hundreds of years of, of continuity that folds back on itself.
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And I think that that bogs down American comics.
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Right.
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Whereas necessarily manga, even if it'll have hundreds of issues, it's not bogged down by the continuity issues.
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Right.
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And I think that that's something that helps it sell in this market a little bit differently than a superhero comic.
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Also, manga, you mentioned fades.
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Manga allows you to tell a diverse, a more diverse group of stories than is traditionally welcomed in American comics.
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Now, American comics does do all of it, but people don't associate American comics with all these different genres of things.
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Whereas they do that for, for manga.
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And so with something like fades and like you said, telling stories that we don't normally get to see.
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Fades is a project like that.
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Fades is, is an anime, sorry, not an anime.
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Fades is a manga I'm developing based around a barber shop.
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And it's going to be a slice of life barber shop manga.
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Right.
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Where, where you get to see our culturally dive.
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Again, a barbershop is sacred to us, right?
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A barbershop is holy ground.
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You can have two crews beef and you can have all this other going on, right?
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They step in a barbershop, everything knock it off, right?
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And Right, right.
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And so those kinds of things are important, right?
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And, and the, the show, the social aspects of a barber shop.
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Unless you've been into a barbershop, you don't understand it, right?
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But the moment you get in one, you understand it.
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And, and again, we don't get those kind of stories.
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We have the movie Barbershop, right?
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We have the movie Beauty Shop, but we've never had a comic or a manga do that.
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Whereas Food wars could do it and they could just be talking about food, right?
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So makes it hungry too, you know.
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Right, right, right.
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So, so I wanted to do that same kind of thing with, again, something that's culturally relevant for us.
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And for me, that's a barbershop.
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For me, that's, you know, getting in there and seeing somebody want to be the best barber, you know, because their father was.
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And however that story matures, I think all those things are, are incredibly important.
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Also, I learned from Jason Reeves controlling the means of production.
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Right?
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Money is good, and I will never say money is not good.
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We can always use more money to do more production, right?
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But all money ain't good money.
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So if I want to continue my voice and I want to keep the means of production and I want to do what I want to do, then there are certain things that I can't take.
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There are certain deals that I can't really get into.
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I've had a number of, a number of offers, quote unquote, you know, for IP licensing and on and on and on.
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And while they might look good on the surface, somebody's like, oh yeah, I'll give you 100k for justice.
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Okay, over what kind of a time period, over what are the constraints?
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What kind of creation can I do after I give you this IP licensing deal?
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Right?
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And again, 100k for a year is, is nice.
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It's okay.
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But if you're talking about 100k over 10 years, that means nothing to me.
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Right?
30:49
Like, so it's all these little things that go into what we control and how we should be taking over and controlling the narratives of, of, of who we are socially, which we don't necessarily get to do.
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Other people get to control who they are socially.
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If, if we're talking about manga, talking about anime, if I put on a samurai helmet right?
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Now everybody knows that's Japanese, right?
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So I'm doing something that's culturally relevant to Japanese people and blah, whatever it might be.
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If someone goes out there and raps or somebody goes out and does K Pop.
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Demon Hunters, a movie which I love.
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Let me put.
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Put it out there.
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I thought it was dope.
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I love the music.
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I think it's great.
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Right?
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But the fact of the matter is K pop itself, not the movie, but K pop, the genre itself is just R B, Right?
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And R B doesn't get that.
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Props for that.
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It's not.
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When they do K Pop and they do K pop Demon Hunters, it's not like, oh, they're doing a black thing.
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And it culturally goes back to, oh, man, let's give some props to black people because they invented this, right?
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And it's culturally relevant to them and it's part of their cultural identity.
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It's not that it's.
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Well, K pop is different.
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No, it's not.
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It's not.
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It's just done by different people.
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Right.
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And so I think that that's a part that we try, that I try to infuse in my stories and I try to infuse in everything that we're doing and how we control our narratives and how we produce the
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stories that we produce.
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I think that's incredibly important.
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Yeah, I think so, too.
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Voices Sauce says indie comics are better than mainstream comics nowadays.
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What we see in the main.
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Main books are regurgitated mess.
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We have Wingless.
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Don't produce no mess.
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Hey.
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Right, so this is true.
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This is true.
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This is back to what I was saying about repetitive storylines and just kind of repeat once again.
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It's great.
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I'll use Superman as an example.
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There's a reason why I didn't get Superman comics after a certain point in my life, because what do you do with that character?
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You can't always have him fight Doomsday.
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You can't always have him fight Apocalypse.
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Like, what do you do?
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Like, you have.
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You change the power set, you change the scaling of powers, you change the village.
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You can't.
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You can't always have Lex Luthor involved.
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What do you do with over 80 years of history?
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There's.
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There's got to be a story that you haven't been able to tell yet.
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The fact that they even introduced his kid now and been able to tell stories with it has been a miracle in a way.
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That it can tell more stories has been a miracle in itself.
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So that's just an example.
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Like, how many times can you do it?
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Yeah.
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And.
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And I also think that.
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Well, in my opinion, my humble opinion, I think they've lost the plot a lot of times on Superman, right?
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Because it becomes one of two camps.
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It's either, like, we got the dark and broody Superman or Superman is all about hope.
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And, like, both things are actually true, right?
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Like, Superman, in my opinion, is a very tortured individual.
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Right?
33:49
Oh, yeah.
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He's.
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He's got to be a man conflicted.
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He does have all this power.
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I love Bruce Timm did it with.
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At the very end of Justice League Unlimited, where he lets loose on Apocalypse on.
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On Dark side, right?
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For, like, the last time.
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And he tells.
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He tells him, like, I walk around in the world of, like, cardboard and tissue paper, and, like, I forget that I can actually let loose and.
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And go to town and go to work, right?
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It's a great speech that he gives, right?
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And so I think that were I writing a Superman story, you would see how tortured he is with that, right?
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Because he's got to be this beacon of hope.
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But that can't be.
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That can't be possible all the time, or it can't be easy all the time, right?
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He's got to be this person that.
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That's with kid gloves all the time, even with the people he loves.
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He's got to hold back even his temper, right?
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Like, and I know they showed a flash of that, like, in the.
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In the James Gunn stuff, right?
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But even then, right, like, his temper has to be so under control that he can't yell, because if he yells, he could, like, rend the flesh from your body with just his voice.
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You know what I mean?
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Like, there are those.
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There are so many things that.
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And so many nuanced levels and layers of who he could be, right?
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And.
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And how he probably should be done in order to.
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To reinvigorate his stories.
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Similarly, like, Batman.
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Batman is his greatest.
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When he's a great detective.
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I get it.
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He's kung fu dude.
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I love it.
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He does a bunch of cool.
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He's got gadgets and stuff, too.
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But, like, when he's actually the world's greatest detective, that's when you get the best stories from him.
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Yeah.
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And they.
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Again, they lose that a lot of times, right, In.
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In favor of the Flash and Dash.
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And.
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And so a way that I think that indie comics.
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Excuse me, let me say this.
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A way that good indie comics and indie comics, not amateur comics, right?
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Because those are two different things, right?
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Doing well is.
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We're able to tell those diverse stories.
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Right.
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And sometimes indie comics and amateur comics get conflated.
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And that is also an issue.
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You have a lot of amateur comic writers, which I'm.
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There's no shade to them.
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They are doing their dream and their passion and they should continue to do it.
35:59
But there is a difference between the Saturday morning cartoon guy who watched X Men, the original run of X Men.
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It was like, I want to do comics.
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Never studied anything, never read anything, never learned story, never learned how to write the basic stuff and then does a comic.
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You can tell when that comic comes out.
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Whereas someone who's studied their craft and studied storytelling and really has a passion for it, does it.
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And those are two completely different realms of storytelling there.
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And.
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And when you mentioned.
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I'm glad you mentioned, like, the storytelling aspect, especially when you have different writers.
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When I.
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When you mention Batman being like, when he.
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You tell those detective stories.
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Those are the best stories.
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There's a reason why Chips Zdarsky's run on Daredevil is such a great run because, like, he's telling a different version.
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There's a reason why Hickman's run on Fantastic Four, X Men.
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Right.
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You know, whatever else you touch is a reason.
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He's like, I have this story.
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I want to tell it.
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It's going to be good because it's going to make you.
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Make you go somewhere where you haven't been before, haven't been in a lot in a long time.
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Make it build something out from.
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From this point on.
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So you're right.
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When you have writers in the indie field who just, oh, I like it and I'm just gonna write it, like, yes, but is it.
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Do you really want to be so one dimensional?
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Right.
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Really?
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Writer say, wow, I never expected to see it that way.
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I never expected to feel this way about seeing a film or watching a movie or watching a television show or even reading a comic or a novel for that matter.
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Yeah, see, now I'm see a different version of what I'm seeing.
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James Gunn, Guardians of the Galaxy, all three volumes.
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You watch them in the first entirety.
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You're like, great superhero films.
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You didn't think this was Rocket Story the whole time until third film.
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Now you go back and be like, oh, wow, it's.
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There was another level, you know, so it's.
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It get that people don't understand.
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A lot of people don't get to see that aspect in writing in indie comics.
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They just say, I'm going to tell a story.
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And that's.
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And that's.
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The end of it.
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And I, I think that's where a lot of people are gravitating to the more independent companies, you know, like image, boom, idw, Ignition.
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They're, they're, they're hungry for something outside the normal parameters that have been set through all these years.
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You know, you have this pantheon of heroes from the Justice League and, and you know, people don't know that much about the Justice Society.
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And you, you know, you see the Teen Titans, but you don't really hear about Young Justice.
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And you go on Marvel sides.
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You got the New warriors and the Young Avengers, but you really don't hear that much about them until something significant happens and then it becomes a big media blitz.
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And when you mentioned about indie comics writing, the crazy thing is the first step, the first title that popped up in my head was Irredeemable.
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Mark Wade writing on Irredeemable, flawlessly incredible because it showed a superhero who's so op that no one else could touch him, but he goes on a rampage because something happens to him.
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And I think when you mentioned Superman, I said, there's parallels in that story, except one holds restraint.
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The other just said, nah, I, I, I'm done.
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I'm good.
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Yeah, I'm good.
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Right?
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And then that's very rare that you get that kind of storytelling or even just even a twist as, as easy as Batman and Wonder Woman being the couple and not Superman and Wonder Woman.
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Right?
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Hello.
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That's mind blowing for people, right?
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But it makes perfect sense and it gives you some different storytelling aspects.
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But then also you get the same thing where you do something like injustice in that story, right, where Superman, because Joker has, makes him kill Lois, you know what I mean?
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And then he goes and becomes this authoritarian and all this stuff.
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But then it goes on too long because then they want to milk it for all the money they can and the story becomes stupid and convoluted as opposed to doing something like, like, well, they even did with Kingdom
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Come.
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Kingdom Come.
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Look, beginning to end.
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Alex Ross.
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Brilliant.
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Boom.
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In, out, let's go.
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Right, and that's, and that's done.
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And it's, it's over.
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And then they got to do the Kingdom, you know what I mean?
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And don't get me wrong, I read all of the Kingdom and it was stupid, but I still loved it as a kid, a, as a younger man.
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Right?
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But it was dumb.
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It didn't need to be done.
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And that's one of the problems, I think, with, with capitalism.
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Right?
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Like, that's what it Boils down to, oh, we want to try to wring some more money out of this property, as opposed to having something that's dope as hell and then sailing off into the sunset.
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Which is why Milestone took off so well, because it was off the beaten path.
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Even though DC published it, they didn't own it.
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And Milestone said, okay, we're going to create this entire ecosystem of nothing but people of color, and let's see them go through their normal problems.
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But now they have superpowers they didn't expect.
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And I said the whole thing, the setup was incredible.
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That's why I'm always a Milestone fan.
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Always, right?
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I'm a.
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I'm a depressed Milestone fan.
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I ain't gonna lie.
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That relaunch, man.
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So.
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Oh, you know, look, look, Dennis and Reggie and.
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And Joe and all of those guys.
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Again, I know Joe Illage.
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You know, I've met Dennis Cowan before.
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Again, it's not like I know him and I'm an inbox him or nothing.
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And I got nothing against those guys.
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But what I wish, like, my personal wish is that they had called the indie market, the black indie market for some of these up and coming writers, right?
41:31
And some of these up and coming artists and really, really relaunched Marvel.
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I mean, sorry, Milestone, if.
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If you could have had somebody like Greg Anderson, Elise on.
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On Zombie, right?
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Like.
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Again, if you could have got somebody like.
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Like Jason Reeves on.
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On Hardware.
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And don't get me wrong, I know these guys want to tell their stories because they're their characters.
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So I'm not saying that they shouldn't.
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What I am saying is if they had really brought up the next generation along with them in this relaunch, I think it would have been more sustainable.
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I think that they wouldn't have had some of the publishing and production issues woes that they had.
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I think.
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I just think that there were just some man, Some other things that they could have done.
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And I know.
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I know for a fact that the black indie community would have backed them and supported them, because we did, regardless of that.
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And so I think that that support would have tripled or quadrupled if.
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If Milestone was as much a movement this time as it was last time, right?
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It was a movie because we hadn't seen that in comics the first time.
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The second time, it.
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In my opinion, it should have been a gathering, right?
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Like the.
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My.
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Like when they even had the Milestone initiative and Dorado Quick.
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That's my guy.
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Greg Burnham is my guy.
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And I'm glad that they got to do Their thing.
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But that should have been a movement, right?
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Like, that should have been the churning that started something else.
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And unfortunately, that didn't happen.
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So that makes me a very depressed, you know, Milestone fan in that regard.
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You know, this is one of the reasons why, like, Blair Station is existing.
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Is existing right now.
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Being able to take a lot of these stories and put them in other mediums, in most cases, stay in the same medium and still get out, to get out to the masses once again.
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There are stories that can be told in fresh, new ways, you know, and we.
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We're having those opportunities now.
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And you're right.
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In the situation, like, with the Milestone relaunch, you know, it was there.
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We were happy because we got it, but then it was just like.
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Yeah, but did it feel like the same boom that we got in the early 90s?
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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You know, and it felt.
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It felt cold a little bit.
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It felt like he was kneecapped, you know, to a degree.
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And I'm like, man, we should be hearing more about this.
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Why are we not getting more?
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And why are you releasing it in the way that you really.
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Oh, there's a problem.
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Yeah.
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And I agree with Brian.
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It should have been a movement.
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Because when.
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When Milestone, when the word I got nothing, Milestone was coming back, I sat there and literally thought, now the door is going to open for these other black comic creators who've been waiting for this door to open so
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they can come in.
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And so, hey, I want to be on board.
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I want to bring my characters along with this universe so that way people can see there's more to it than the standard characters that people have been seeing for years.
44:31
And I think somewhere along the lines, somebody said, yeah, that's a bit too much, so we're going to kneecap it.
44:38
Right?
44:38
But I think what they fail to realize is you can trip somebody up, but.
44:42
But unless they fall and don't move, they're gonna keep moving.
44:45
And these different companies out here know Wingless and Ray and.
44:49
And Midnight Comics, doing God's work, okay.
44:55
Something I can introduce to my grandchildren and that I'm.
44:58
I'm very proud to be a part of.
45:00
So.
45:01
Sir.
45:03
You know, so I think that.
45:04
I think that a piece of it, and it's unfortunate, right?
45:06
But I feel like.
45:08
And again, I'm not in D.C.
45:09
editorial, so I don't actually know, right.
45:11
But I feel like some of it stagnated and it fell back on some of those old storytelling mechanics, even, whereas we wanted something newer and.
45:20
And fresher and an updated take on, on what we had seen before.
45:26
And, and you do have, again, you get, you got people like Sebastian and Stranger Comics and Uraeus who just launched Jason Wise.
45:32
Yeah, there's, there are these crazy, crazy movements going on.
45:35
Right.
45:36
Got the brother who did Dark Pink over there.
45:38
You know, just so many things that, that again, there's so much potential and so much that can be mined from this community that mainstream hasn't really realized yet.
45:50
Which I, I think that's a plus and a minus.
45:52
Right.
45:53
Because mainstream has a way of, once they find out, they try to mine everything until it's dead.
45:59
Thank you.
46:00
And, and, and, and that becomes a casualty.
46:02
So there's a part of me that's happy that that hasn't happened yet.
46:05
And I hope by the time that mainstream does get aware and does try to do that, attempt to do that, I hope that we are educated enough, Right.
46:13
To, to take the benefits of that but not suffer the consequences.
46:19
And that comes into the business aspects of it.
46:22
Right.
46:22
And the contracts and what we're willing to do and not willing to do and knowing our value and annoying our worth.
46:27
So I'm hoping that there's a given, a give and take because again, it's bound to happen.
46:32
It's, again, it's, it's, it's capitalism.
46:33
It's going to happen at some point.
46:35
Right.
46:35
But if we're educated and if we are, if we know what to do, then it won't matter if we know.
46:44
Our power keep, keep harnessing so we can become stronger and they can't take from us.
46:50
So we talked about Air Force Ones, we talked about the main, the main three a little bit and where they, where they're stumbling and we talked about some of the black creative indies that are out here.
47:04
Let's talk about some of the other titles you have going on.
47:06
Yes, sir.
47:07
Please.
47:08
So the Wings, the Wingless Universe.
47:11
I'm very fortunate.
47:12
The Wingless Universe is an interconnected universe and as we get more issues, you see the interconnectivity.
47:18
So we started out with Nightfall, which is a, a five part series that we.
47:22
The beginning and ending.
47:23
It's five part crossover series that had justice, it featured justice, it featured her, it featured Caliburn, it featured Avery the Astonishing and it had a couple cameos across the indie universe.
47:33
So that sets the stage for all of our characters kind of coming together.
47:37
Like I said, I mentioned her.
47:39
And that is Malachi Bailey's character that spun off from his novel, his award winning novel, her.
47:45
And then he had the second volume of that novel.
47:48
And he's working on the third right now to end her trilogy in novel form.
47:52
And she will continue her adventures in comics.
47:56
And so her is a water elemental and immortal that every time she dies, she has to come back and remember her life and figure out her life and figure out why she is being killed.
48:05
She's known as the oldest woman because she's been around since the beginning of time.
48:11
So she's got a lot of mystery and a lot of.
48:13
Of things kind of in her corner and also against her.
48:16
So I love seeing her and justice together, because justice is said to be the angel that barred the gates of Eden and that brought down the walls of Jericho.
48:25
And obviously he's been doing all these ethereal things right throughout the universe and throughout the galaxy as our timeline has gone on.
48:32
So to see those two interact, like, I love how they crisscross each other.
48:37
And you're going to see a deeper history between those two as well.
48:42
We also have Immortalis.
48:43
And Immortalis is the story of the fall of the last bastion of the Roman Empire.
48:48
And so basically, that sets the stage for everything that happens in the Wing, the contemporary Wingless universe.
48:54
So Immortalis is set slightly in the past, a couple hundred years in the past, and it watches Constantinople fall, which opens the gateway for darkness.
49:03
Right.
49:04
Wingless.
49:04
The Wingless universe is a quote unquote, dark universe, right?
49:07
It's our timeline.
49:08
But if, if the worst of the worst demons and.
49:12
And monsters were let loose and we had no heroes to stop them.
49:17
And so Immortalis sets the stage for that.
49:20
It's the last pass, you know, the last place, you know, the last holdout.
49:24
We also have, for lack of better words, acquired.
49:27
And we're working in partnership with Constant Hustle comics and Lawrence James King and Avery the Astonishing is actually a legit and strategic part of Wingless Comics as well.
49:38
So Avery the Astonishing's history is part of Wingless.
49:41
And you'll see that as we get into issue two, where you see, again, where the crossovers kind of happen.
49:47
And you'll see some Easter eggs of some of the wingless characters in the background of Avery.
49:51
So that you see they're all in the same world as well as.
49:55
And Lawrence, you can't kill me because you're on the east coast and I'm on the West Coast.
49:59
But we are also going to bring over the Last Line, which is Lawrence James King's other title for his.
50:05
His cadre of family heroes.
50:08
They're also part of the Wingless Universe.
50:10
So they're probably the, the, the plan is to have them for our next crossover, which is called Paradise Lost, where we bring in all the Wingless characters again until a big larger than life, you know, five, six part
50:22
story again.
50:25
This is gonna be amazing.
50:27
We, we really try.
50:30
And I, I'm gonna, I'm gonna take a little victory lap because Wingless Comics, not me specifically, but Wingless Comics is very fortunate because a lot of people set out to do crossovers and set out to do multi issue
50:43
arcs and just because of the way this business is, it's not really feasible.
50:46
It's very hard to do.
50:47
It's not an easy feat.
50:49
And Wingless Comics has been blessed and fortunate and strategic enough within our first two years, we were able to put out an entire trade paperback, an entire five issue crossover, Right.
51:00
In addition to the other comics that we were producing at the same time.
51:04
So we look forward to being able to do those big events because I believe that our fans and our supporters deserve that as well.
51:10
Right.
51:10
I don't only need to see Marvel doing, you know, the age of Apocalypse or the aftermath of Apocalypse.
51:17
I want to be able to produce those stories myself and ourselves.
51:22
And so that's what we're doing at Wingless.
51:24
Right.
51:25
And that's, and that's part of, of bringing all these characters together.
51:29
I love this, this is awesome because, and I'm glad you mentioned that because when you are in this business of comics and storytelling and when you, you perfectly described the whole crossover issue with a lot of things, it's
51:48
a lot of politics involved.
51:50
It is, it's a lot of positive and honestly, it's a lot of ego.
51:53
Like let's.
51:53
Yeah, I'll be real.
51:54
Right.
51:55
Like again, I started.
51:56
We did Nightfall within the first year we released justice number one.
52:00
And I.
52:00
Not even, I think before her number one hit, you know, we were on her zero and I was like, nightfall.
52:07
Okay, cool.
52:08
Nightfall number one.
52:08
Right.
52:09
Let's do it.
52:10
And we worked with Concert Hustle Comics and we worked with Concept Moon Studios and Lawrence is my, my big brother and Brandon Diddley's my big brother as well.
52:19
And truth be told, me and Brandon got into it over marketing, over all these things, right.
52:25
Not necessarily characters and what happens with the story because we had hashed all that out.
52:28
But it's also business, right?
52:30
We forget that a lot of this.
52:32
We love what we do and it's very passionate, but it's also business, right?
52:36
And business takes time and it takes communication and you have to put your ego to the side and you have to do what's best for business.
52:46
And neither I nor Brandon at the time did that to the extent that we needed to.
52:52
Right.
52:52
Again, we're good now and everything is fine.
52:55
And everything went out the way it was supposed to go out.
52:57
But initially that was hard, right?
52:59
Initially those were hard conversations.
53:01
And a lot of times we don't get through those hard conversations.
53:04
A lot of times we just get the glitz and glam of, oh, we all put our characters together.
53:08
Okay, great.
53:08
But what does that actually mean?
53:10
What are we actually doing with that?
53:12
What is the actual goal?
53:14
And those things are important and very, very often get overlooked and very, very often can lead to worsening outcomes.
53:22
So again, we're fortunate with Wingless that, that we were able to strategically put this together and again, do it from beginning to end.
53:29
There are a lot of companies that have been around 10 plus years that haven't been able to do a crossover and to do a multi part story.
53:35
And we were able to do it within one.
53:37
So, you know, I.
53:40
I'll never stop being thankful for that.
53:44
Wow, y'.
53:45
All.
53:45
If y' all have not had the chance to go over to Wingless, wingless entertainment or winglessint.com, y' all need to go check this out because this gives you a glimpse into what they are creating here at Wingless Comics.
53:58
Let me tell you, I looked at it before when I was at work and I work at a gaming comic book store.
54:03
So, you know, we're.
54:04
We're dealing with that all the time.
54:05
And I went over and clicked on it and I just.
54:07
I.
54:07
So I sat so transfixed.
54:09
Takes on this that I didn't hear, hear my.
54:12
My manager go, my tail.
54:14
My.
54:14
My tail.
54:16
My tail.
54:17
Huh?
54:17
Oh, okay.
54:18
Got it.
54:19
And they came over and they were trans.
54:20
I said, what are you looking at?
54:21
What were you looking at?
54:22
I was looking at that.
54:23
What's that?
54:23
And I said, well, I'm glad you asked.
54:25
And I brought him out to him.
54:27
I was kind of embarrassed, but, y', all, this is beautiful.
54:31
To see this collective talent create something this magical.
54:36
It.
54:36
It does something to my heart.
54:37
Y' all need to go check these out because these folks is working.
54:41
Folks is working.
54:42
Okay?
54:47
It's.
54:48
I think that getting an opportunity, right, to talk about something that I love with gentlemen that are as studied in this craft as yourselves, right?
54:58
Like, you guys aren't just, hey, I sat down and did a podcast, right?
55:01
Like, you know, comics, you know, conventions, you know, material, you know, stories.
55:06
And to be able to come and talk story and say, like.
55:09
And have someone say, hey, man, this is dope.
55:11
Like, I genuinely.
55:12
Hey, I just really like this thing that you're doing.
55:14
Not the promotion side, not the other thing.
55:17
Like, I want to see the shirt.
55:19
I want to see the character.
55:20
I want to.
55:21
You know what I mean?
55:22
That means a lot more.
55:24
Look, sales are great, but sales come and go.
55:28
True.
55:28
What doesn't come and go is people that are actually interested in the work you do, right?
55:33
And so I think for me, that that is more quantifiable.
55:38
Not in dollars and cents, obviously, but it's more quantifiable and it means more to me personally, right?
55:43
Because.
55:43
And I said this when I first hit the scene, I was like, I can write justice for the rest of my life, right?
55:48
Like, that can come out of my own pocket, and I can produce that and publish that.
55:51
I own the means of production for that.
55:53
So that's never going to go away if I don't want it to.
55:55
To.
55:55
Same for Air Force One.
55:56
Same for the things that I'm doing.
55:59
But when you have somebody that wants to read it or have someone that's interested or understands where you're coming from, when you talk about Macross or when you talk about Battleship, Yamato, you know what I mean?
56:09
Like, when people know you're like, man, I'm gonna do this thing, and then they can really get with you.
56:14
You know what I mean?
56:14
Like, that's a.
56:15
That's a.
56:15
That's a different level of success, right?
56:18
That's a different level of achievement.
56:20
And that's the level that.
56:23
That too, sometimes, to the consternation and annoyance of Brett and Lawrence and Malachi and my wife and everybody else that, like, I try to live up to, right?
56:33
Because we're gonna come out and.
56:35
Nah, Mal, write that again.
56:36
Nah, Mal, write that again.
56:38
Nah, that don't make no sense.
56:39
Write it again.
56:40
Right?
56:40
And he's gonna hate me by the end of the editing process.
56:43
When it comes out, it's gonna be fired up, you know?
56:45
But when you get to the end of that process and he looks back and goes, I see what you were talking about.
56:50
Now you've planted that seed.
56:52
And as that seed continues to grow, you created something beautiful, right?
56:57
And that's always the foundation of companies like Wingless Comics and Noah, like Midnight Comics.
57:03
Just a beautiful collective of.
57:07
Of imagination and creativity and.
57:10
And dedication.
57:12
Because we mentioned before, Marvel and dc, I.
57:15
I hate to say y' all are getting kind of complacent because you're expecting people to come to Your stuff.
57:21
But I realized if it, if it matters or not, however, you have companies like Wingless Comics, like Ray Comics, like Midnight, who are going, oh, you want something that's meaningful and that's created.
57:32
Come on.
57:33
Come on over.
57:33
Come on.
57:34
You got Kingwood, you know.
57:38
Right.
57:38
Killer B.
57:39
Right, right, right.
57:40
You got things like that.
57:41
Exactly, exactly.
57:42
You got things like this.
57:44
So it.
57:44
It really is.
57:46
It's more than a breath of fresh air.
57:48
It's just awake.
57:51
Yeah, yeah.
57:53
Spartans in the building.
57:54
Our ship.
57:55
Right?
57:55
What's going on?
57:59
Yeah, Deacon Deadlift is way tired.
58:05
So I.
58:06
This.
58:06
It's been, it's.
58:07
It's.
58:08
It's a refreshing thing when you have like maybe, just maybe didn't even name a fraction of the black owned.
58:18
Right?
58:18
That's like a portion.
58:19
It's not.
58:20
I don't know if that's how you can place it, but that's just a.
58:24
That's just the tip of the iceberg.
58:26
Other people that we, We've listed, like, there are so many more who have, like, some.
58:31
They either have great art, great storytelling, fresh new ideas, original ideas, representation across the board, different shades, colors, backgrounds.
58:49
This is why a lot of something that's.
58:51
Something that's incredibly important, that again, gets missed with some of the things that we see out of Marvel and DC and whoever.
58:57
Right.
58:58
Is culture is just as important or more important even than color.
59:03
Color, right.
59:04
So I.
59:06
There, There is always that argument of like, oh, well, we don't want reskinned characters and blah.
59:10
Look, I want it all.
59:11
Give me.
59:11
If, if every.
59:13
If you turn.
59:13
If DC turns every redheaded character into a black character, all ATV shows, fine, I'm cool with that.
59:19
But again, that's not where it stops.
59:21
I'm not going to cheer that on.
59:22
And for that to be the end, the, the goal, right, is to represent who we are as a culture.
59:28
And I think that I, I always work with this idea of cultural exchange, which I think is very, very big.
59:33
And I don't think that black people get the credit for.
59:37
For doing it and having done it historically, that we deserve.
59:42
And I, when I say that, I mean like black Americans, right?
59:45
Because again, that gets conflated when you say black people, then it's like, oh, man, the diaspora.
59:49
I'm not, it's not necessarily what I'm talking about.
59:51
And that's no disrespect to anyone in the diaspora.
59:53
What I am saying, though, is that there are a lot of things.
59:56
You have UK Drill rap now.
59:58
Right?
59:59
Right.
59:59
But UK Drill rap comes from Drill Rap, which comes from rap, which come.
1:00:04
You know what I mean?
1:00:04
Again, let's, let's go back.
1:00:05
Okay, so that's.
1:00:06
Again, that's a black American thing that started.
1:00:08
And there are so many things like that again, that, that happens again.
1:00:11
K pop is, is a big one.
1:00:13
You can talk about a lot of the Harajuku culture in Japan and on and on and on.
1:00:17
And I have no problem with any of these things, right?
1:00:20
Because those cultures don't necessarily take credit.
1:00:23
Like they invented it.
1:00:24
It.
1:00:24
What happens in America though is they repackage it like those people are saying that they invented it.
1:00:31
And so I think it's very important for our cultural identity to be matriculated in a way that we decide it is and we say, hey, basically, like they do to us, right?
1:00:42
We're loaning this to you.
1:00:43
Look, I can go into a manga space, I can go into an anime space, but I realize that it's on loan, right?
1:00:49
Like it's.
1:00:49
Someone else created it.
1:00:51
I'm just doing my thing within it.
1:00:53
And, and it's.
1:00:54
It's high time for how we tell stories and how we, how we dispense and disperse our culture to be done that same way.
1:01:05
No, no, you can do it.
1:01:07
Right?
1:01:07
But this is us.
1:01:08
I am so tired of Kim Kardashian being the one who created a wife beater or cornrows or whatever else, you know, I mean, like, it just makes zero sense.
1:01:17
Sense, right?
1:01:18
But again, that in the American press, that's what's what happens.
1:01:21
And so I think that the cultural exchange and how we deal with what we culturally lend other people needs to change.
1:01:27
And I think that starts with storytelling, at least for me, right?
1:01:30
There are going to be other people that do it in other ways.
1:01:32
For me and for the black comics community, it starts with storytelling.
1:01:35
It starts with this word of mouth.
1:01:37
It's.
1:01:37
Look for the rap artist.
1:01:38
It starts with your storytelling, bro.
1:01:40
It starts with your beats, it starts with your music.
1:01:43
And I think that that's just incredibly important.
1:01:45
And when we're doing that, and we're doing that at our highest level, we can't be beat.
1:01:51
You know what I mean?
1:01:51
Like, and that's just, that's just the fact of the matter, right?
1:01:54
When we're doing, when rap was at its highest level, that's why it took over.
1:01:59
It was something that was unfathomable.
1:02:01
No one could do it the same way no one could.
1:02:03
You can't copy, you can't duplicate it.
1:02:05
You can't.
1:02:06
That's why pop music is Pop music because they couldn't do R B.
1:02:09
So they were like, well, we're gonna do this music.
1:02:13
Right.
1:02:13
It's closed.
1:02:14
But we did.
1:02:14
We just don't quite have it right.
1:02:16
The Swedish, to their credit, the Swedish got really close business.
1:02:22
You know what I'm saying?
1:02:23
So the Swedish got real close.
1:02:25
But again, those are things.
1:02:27
When we.
1:02:27
When we.
1:02:28
When we hold those things dear and keep those things close and make sure that those things are us and deeply associated with us.
1:02:35
Us, that changes the narrative and it changes the dynamic of.
1:02:40
Of this cultural exchange that we're already engaged in.
1:02:43
Right, right.
1:02:44
But then.
1:02:44
But then we hold the means of production and.
1:02:47
And I'm.
1:02:47
I hammer that home because me and Jason hammer that home when we're talking about things.
1:02:51
And it's a principle that goes throughout everything that we do in life.
1:02:57
Yeah, you said it.
1:03:00
Because culture.
1:03:02
I.
1:03:02
I always.
1:03:03
I always said they loved.
1:03:04
I said, in the words of Paul Mooney, everybody want to be one.
1:03:07
Nobody want to be one.
1:03:11
Right, Right, right, right.
1:03:14
I think this is a great conversation because here we don't do interviews.
1:03:21
We do conversations.
1:03:23
Precisely.
1:03:24
Amen.
1:03:25
Like, they're just.
1:03:26
That's just what it is.
1:03:27
Brian.
1:03:27
We're gonna take a break.
1:03:30
We're gonna talk about.
1:03:31
Because we're in our spooky season, right?
1:03:33
Yes.
1:03:33
We're going to talk about black vampire films and shows that you should be watching.
1:03:43
Always black, right?
1:03:45
Always back.
1:03:46
Can you join for that?
1:03:48
Yeah, definitely.
1:03:49
100.
1:03:49
100.
1:03:50
Okay.
1:03:50
Definitely.
1:03:51
Okay.
1:03:51
So we'll be right back with our guest, Brian J.
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1:05:22
What's going on, Brian?
1:05:23
Thank you for doing all these great things.
1:05:25
Talking about wingless comics.
1:05:27
Now we are stepping into black vampire films and shows you need to be watching.
1:05:34
And there are more than you think.
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I was trying to figure out how I want to do this.
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I'm going to show a few things, just a few images, and I want each one of you to tell me what you think.
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What's the first thing that comes to your mind for.
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For just these couple of properties.
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So we're going to start with our man, Blade.
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The O.G.
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Yes, sir.
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Always be named.
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Yeah, he's always going to be.
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He's always going to be Blade.
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It's always going to be one Blade.
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There's never going to be another.
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And yet how true that is becoming.
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Right, right.
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That was a joke.
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What we thought was a joke.
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So.
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So yeah, Brian, what's the first thing?
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Don't stink me, y', all, but I love the fight scenes, so let me say that I love the fight scenes.
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I did not like Blade two, though.
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Oh.
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I thought it was convoluted.
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Right?
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Like it was a cgi, wasn't it?
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Right, right.
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They.
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No, well, the story wise.
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They do a lot of things to do nothing.
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I knew y'.
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All.
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I knew y' all was gonna betray me the whole time.
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Then why'd you just kill him, bro?
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Why do we do all that?
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Right?
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He said the whole setup, the whole.
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The whole plot hole in the middle of it.
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I get that part where it's like, right.
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They trained eight years to take you out and now you gotta work with them.
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And you're right.
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Paranoid.
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Right?
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And then what happened to the.
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What happened to the daytime suits?
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They came out.
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They had them in the beginning and then they didn't.
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They just didn't use them for nothing.
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It's just also.
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Okay, last thing, real quick.
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I have a huge beef with Blade three and not for the reason.
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Well, because it did suck.
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Right?
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But Blade three, there's a part at which Dracula gives this speech talking about how they're honorable men and blah, blah, blah, and they gonna have this sword fight while he's holding a baby.
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Dangling off of a roof.
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How can you.
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We are honorable men.
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As I'm about to kill this innocent baby, I just.
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I was like, who wrote this?
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You know, somebody's coffee was spiked.
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It's like.
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More and more, you realize why Wesley was being where he was on set.
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Right?
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You're just like, right.
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It's not his fault.
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It's not.
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It's not his fault, but it's.
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It's whoever was on that Michelle Pfeiffer when they wrote that story.
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Right.
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Right.
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Thank you.
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Whoever's in the writers room talking about, you know, it'll be great.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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He's talking about, baby.
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Is.
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Is Brian Pearlman.
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Right?
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Right.
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You had Ron Perlman, which could have been a great person to have as a vampire.
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I still say, like this.
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You had Donnie Yen as the Iceman, and.
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And you wasted nothing with him.
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Not a thing.
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Oh, my God.
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I just knew watching that in theaters and telling my wife this Donnie in.
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Oh, we about to have a black.
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Wait, he ain't do nothing.
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Nope.
1:08:46
You don't even see.
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Right.
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I thought he was gonna be the climactic battle scene.
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I was like, when they do some kung fu, this is gonna be the Donnie Yen show.
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I was.
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I was ready.
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And then.
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Cause y' all don't make me mad.
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I'm go watch it.
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Huge disappointment.
1:09:01
Huge disrespect.
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Yo, if you haven't watched Dragon, Tiger Gate, go check that one out though, too.
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That's a good one.
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Tanya is fire in Dragon?
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Yes.
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So, Spartan, what's your thoughts on Blade just showing that image?
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What's the voice of things that come to mind?
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Right.
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Have you lost your goddamn mind?
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That was.
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I.
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Like, that didn't look like that was in the script, now, did it?
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It was like, I.
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I still say it like this every time I get to that part.
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It's like.
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Like you said, Like.
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Like you said Fury.
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I think that was AD Lived, and I think a stuntman just got it wrong.
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Like, oh, crap, this was supposed to be blanks.
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Oh, crap.
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Oh, crap, this is supposed to be.
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And Wesley kind of broke character for a second.
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He went from brooding to just said.
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No, keep that in the film.
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That was.
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That was.
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That was gorgeous.
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That was perfect.
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Keep it what?
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Yeah, Hurt.
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This best ain't for show.
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But.
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No, no, that's what.
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Let's come to play.
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I mean, outside of.
1:10:05
Outside of.
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Again, we.
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We know the.
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We know the impact.
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And what led to the beginning of the MCU was basically because this is, of course, the first ever you could Argue all you want to.
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I know we won't this.
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I know we won this group, but they showed a successful superhero movie that you can do.
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Marvel's out there and said, oh, we're just gonna call it Marvel Knights, because if it bombs, we could just sit there and say, y'.
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All.
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Y' all are the.
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Y', all, the redheaded stepchild of the group.
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But no, outside that.
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I mean, it set a different tone for a story.
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It wasn't the typical vampire brooding, I want to suck your blood and damsel in distress and all that mess.
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Although there were some elements in it.
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But it was really.
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It was really.
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I'm not gonna lie, it was really speaking us as black folks because we wanted a black superhero look.
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It set the standard.
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Oh, indeed.
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Definitely set the standard.
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Indeed.
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Maybe what's the first thing to come to mind when you see Blake.
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Legacy?
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Because when Blaze, that should be the fourth film.
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Right.
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When Blade came out in the theaters, this.
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And I.
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And I went and saw it in the theaters with.
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With my dad.
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And this was one of those movies that.
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It brought all of us out.
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And I'm gonna tell you what's funny.
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In the theater, black folk, we know when something's good because you'll hear us.
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Who also know when something shitty.
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You'll hear us.
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Yeah, it's like the apart.
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It's like Showtime at the Apollo.
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Yeah.
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If it's like, what the.
1:11:41
That didn't just jump all the way over there.
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Yo, it was.
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But what's so funny is after leaving the theater, the energy people were still talking, and we're still chatting about it.
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Yo, Wesley looked dope.
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I mean, he wasn't playing around.
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It was.
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It wasn't a disrespect to the character.
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And those of us who love the comics know how they wrote Blade and how they made him seem like a second string character.
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He didn't feel second string in that movie.
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He was up front.
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He was up front.
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Especially.
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Especially when you get a dose of blood and you suplex somebody and you come up with the woosh.
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At that.
1:12:25
Right, right.
1:12:34
I felt bad for the vampire Loki.
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Like.
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That was still my.
1:12:39
That was still my favorite.
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How you gonna look somebody dead in the eye while you hold him?
1:12:42
Like, right, Just drop the man at this point, he can't fight back.
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What we doing?
1:12:50
This is what we do.
1:12:51
Okay, that, that, and that and multiple kick in the ribs until you kick him across the room.
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And I'm like, yo.
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Oh, damn.
1:12:58
But you talk about setting the stage, though, Rev.
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The first 10.
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The first 20 minutes.
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Yeah.
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Right.
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I mean.
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Yeah.
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How many movies could sit there and say that the first 20 minutes is probably the hardest to ever duplicate another movie?
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Yeah.
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To introduce a Marvel character.
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The most relevant.
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Val says.
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Yep.
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Blade Legacy.
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Come now.
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October 31, 2027.
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I am down for it.
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Let's go.
1:13:28
I would like to have a Blade legacy, but we're gonna have a GTA 6 first.
1:13:31
When we have a Blade movie at this point.
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Right.
1:13:33
And if we do make sure that we have the child of Whistler taking up the mantle as being that, you know, being that back that dude, it's like, come on.
1:13:44
Instead, it'd be like his daughter or maybe something like that.
1:13:48
I think that would be fire if they did something like that.
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Yeah.
1:13:51
It would be glorious.
1:13:52
It would be.
1:13:54
Here's another film I want everybody's opinion on.
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Queen of the Damn.
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Oh.
1:14:00
Oh.
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God rest us all.
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That woman, we lost her way too soon during filming.
1:14:07
No doubt.
1:14:08
Right?
1:14:08
I, I her best.
1:14:10
I would say that was probably her.
1:14:11
That was probably the what, if not her best acting role above Romeo mustache.
1:14:17
Yeah.
1:14:17
I was just about to say, how dare you disrespect Romeo Must Die.
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I won't not.
1:14:22
Here's the way.
1:14:23
Now, I will say this.
1:14:24
This.
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I will never disrespect the Jet Li movie because in my mind, that man.
1:14:28
Never made a bad movie.
1:14:28
Oh, yeah, that's right.
1:14:30
Right.
1:14:30
But if we're saying.
1:14:31
But if we're saying from the late Aaliyah, she killed the role.
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She killed the role of the Queen of the Vampires.
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Because the first time it came out, everybody was like, aaliyah, right?
1:14:44
You had a lot of people going at R B.
1:14:46
Singer is going to take on this role to where?
1:14:51
And everybody's like, well, has she ever done acting?
1:14:53
I mean, you heard all the napkins out there.
1:14:55
She's only done singing.
1:14:56
She's done dancing.
1:14:57
This is a whole different area.
1:14:59
The movie came out and shut everybody.
1:15:04
She nailed it.
1:15:06
Literally a case of do not talk about what someone can't do because you haven't seen it when you realize they could do it.
1:15:14
You just haven't seen it.
1:15:18
Between her and.
1:15:19
And from the last series, Sonalathon, I would be a vampire so damn quick.
1:15:25
Like, there's no, hey, Brian, did you get turned, bro?
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Don't even ask me that.
1:15:30
You know.
1:15:33
You give them that.
1:15:33
You give him that look like, come on now.
1:15:35
Yeah, yeah, right.
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Here.
1:15:39
Just go ahead and bite me.
1:15:40
Why she looked like Lathan, man.
1:15:42
Why she look like Snyder?
1:15:44
Yo, what up, shorty.
1:15:47
I am not ashamed to say, when I seen that Eric Brooks mother was annihilating, and I'm like.
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Like I said, I'd have been turned hella quick.
1:16:01
I understand.
1:16:04
All I gotta say is, between her and Bianca Lawson.
1:16:07
Yeah, right.
1:16:10
I understand.
1:16:10
Now, like, you're just like, I.
1:16:14
I would.
1:16:14
I would get paused at that.
1:16:16
At that point, I would get paused.
1:16:20
I mean, I'll be a night person.
1:16:21
I'll live with that.
1:16:22
I mean, what has the sun really done for me lately?
1:16:24
Right?
1:16:24
Right.
1:16:25
Yo, come on now.
1:16:27
Right?
1:16:28
We get mad.
1:16:30
Why is it bright?
1:16:30
This is one of the things, like, so, right?
1:16:33
So blaze mama turf.
1:16:36
I understand, bro.
1:16:36
I understand.
1:16:37
I understand.
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Right, right.
1:16:39
That's not one of the ones you question.
1:16:40
You don't look at him like, how dare you?
1:16:42
You're like, well, bro, well, I would try to dap you up, but I can't let you in.
1:16:47
So, I mean, look, it's that slow nod, like, yeah, I mean, I.
1:16:51
I get you, but.
1:16:52
Right, right, right.
1:16:53
That's Rumor Brothers.
1:16:54
Everybody got stinks.
1:16:55
I'm like, he got turned.
1:16:57
Who turned him?
1:16:57
She did.
1:16:59
Well, you know.
1:17:03
So bad.
1:17:04
Right?
1:17:04
How much garlic do we need?
1:17:07
I'm like.
1:17:08
You'd be sitting there.
1:17:08
You almost sitting there thinking about it.
1:17:10
The rationalization kicks in.
1:17:11
Like, is really.
1:17:13
Is really drinking.
1:17:14
Is that.
1:17:14
I mean, I can give up meat.
1:17:15
You can still eat meat, right?
1:17:17
I mean, y' all good on me.
1:17:19
I mean, y'.
1:17:19
All.
1:17:19
Y' all ain't vegans, right?
1:17:21
That's the only thing I'm worried about.
1:17:22
Right, Right.
1:17:25
Like Brussels sprouts.
1:17:26
No way.
1:17:31
Here's another one.
1:17:34
Oh, yeah.
1:17:37
Oh, man.
1:17:38
I will watch this every time it's on.
1:17:42
Every single time.
1:17:43
I don't care.
1:17:44
Bad wigs and all.
1:17:45
I.
1:17:46
What sold that movie for me was the fact that 1.
1:17:50
This was at Eddie Murphy's height of his career.
1:17:55
2.
1:17:56
They said Angela Bassett, and I said, I sold.
1:17:59
I'm like.
1:18:04
For a man.
1:18:04
And this was a.
1:18:05
Correct me if I'm wrong.
1:18:06
Vampire in Brooklyn was the first movie that Eddie had multiple roles, right?
1:18:10
Yeah.
1:18:13
No, no, because he had done that in coming to America.
1:18:15
Okay, So I got that back.
1:18:16
Okay, I got that.
1:18:17
Back to America was the first one.
1:18:19
No, but the reason why I bring that up is because that, to me, again, a different vampire movie.
1:18:25
But you saw.
1:18:28
You really saw a different.
1:18:30
It's not horror.
1:18:31
It's a.
1:18:31
It's horror, but it's funny.
1:18:33
But it's not cheesy.
1:18:34
Like, it wasn't as cheesy as.
1:18:36
Yes, it's good.
1:18:38
Yeah.
1:18:38
And what he did.
1:18:41
Evil assail the.
1:18:45
Entire thing to the entire church.
1:18:47
It like looks.
1:18:48
And they.
1:18:49
And they all agreed.
1:18:50
That's the sad part.
1:18:52
It's like, you know what?
1:18:53
Evil ain't so bad.
1:18:55
But.
1:18:55
But that.
1:18:56
That to me, outside of.
1:18:57
Outside the story.
1:18:58
Then Khadeem Hardison, which again, I completely forgot he was in the movie until the very end.
1:19:02
But the level of.
1:19:06
There's no other way to say this.
1:19:07
The level of blackness in that movie, it was unparalleled.
1:19:12
Yeah, right.
1:19:15
He didn't have to be a poor vampire in order to do it.
1:19:18
Right.
1:19:21
His.
1:19:21
His origin was Dracula's origin.
1:19:23
You know what I mean?
1:19:24
Like, yeah.
1:19:24
Coming on the ship, the whole deal.
1:19:26
I love.
1:19:28
Yep.
1:19:28
Yeah.
1:19:30
Just coming from the.
1:19:31
Just from coming from the Caribbean Islands.
1:19:33
Just I'm like, do it again.
1:19:36
That's all I'm saying.
1:19:38
Do it again.
1:19:38
Right, but that.
1:19:39
But that just goes to show you, that's how well you can write a story where you don't have to give it a stereotype.
1:19:44
You don't have to nerf us.
1:19:46
I mean, in the words.
1:19:47
In the words of the Reverend, you don't gotta nervous.
1:19:50
You can literally give us the same.
1:19:52
You can give us the same level of attention to where, like you said, a fluent vampire, very old in age, but he ate poor.
1:20:01
He's well dressed, he's well spoken, he's charming.
1:20:05
At the same time, the story can write and the story writes itself around him.
1:20:09
Exactly, exactly.
1:20:14
Navy.
1:20:17
Classic.
1:20:18
Straight up classic.
1:20:20
That.
1:20:21
Honestly, that is one of the few movies that the minute you sit down and start watching it, you don't get up, you don't pause it, you don't do any of that.
1:20:30
And.
1:20:31
And that speaks a lot for what the movie has done, really.
1:20:34
Eddie's brolin there and with Lady Angela in there.
1:20:39
I mean, it was incredible.
1:20:41
It was fun.
1:20:42
It's a fun movie.
1:20:43
Genuinely.
1:20:44
It didn't get the accolades I felt like it deserved because once again, everybody in the world has got to be critical.
1:20:50
It's amazing when you don't do.
1:20:53
You ain't a part of.
1:20:54
And you won't have.
1:20:55
But you want to be the most critical person in the world for no reason, but you don't contribute to it.
1:21:02
It.
1:21:03
Shut up.
1:21:04
Say it again.
1:21:05
Right.
1:21:06
I'm just saying, don't forget your boy John Witherspoon acting a fool in there too, man.
1:21:22
Great.
1:21:24
It's them being at the shipping dock and the cops come up with the German shepherd and Max Maximilian is like.
1:21:31
He Just kind of waved his hand and a crowd of people, and they literally watch a German shepherd launch in a buffer smoke and landing, like.
1:21:40
And nobody's.
1:21:41
Nobody's questioning anything.
1:21:44
Nobody's saying a word.
1:21:45
They're looking around like, what just happened?
1:21:47
But, like, nobody seems to be out of sorts at all.
1:21:51
No, not a flinch.
1:21:54
It's not a flinch.
1:21:55
Evil is good.
1:21:56
Thanks, Safari.
1:21:57
That's gonna be unstuck in my head, and I'll be reciting that whole thing.
1:22:02
Eva is good.
1:22:07
Eva is good.
1:22:11
Here is one that I don't think a lot of people know about.
1:22:17
Black's Night.
1:22:18
Oh, yeah.
1:22:21
Yes.
1:22:22
Oh, my gosh.
1:22:23
That is an undiscovered, super underrated.
1:22:25
Yes.
1:22:26
I'm so glad I'm amongst people who have watched this.
1:22:29
This is so awesome.
1:22:32
Undiscovered.
1:22:33
My goodness.
1:22:34
Right?
1:22:34
The minute I heard vampires, black slayers, and Keith David, I said, oh, this is.
1:22:42
Bro.
1:22:42
This is gonna be interesting.
1:22:43
Right?
1:22:45
Mr.
1:22:45
Silver throw himself, right?
1:22:47
New Orleans.
1:22:49
I'm sorry.
1:22:50
Every time he talked, I kept hearing the Shadow man from the Princess and the Frog.
1:22:52
I ain't gonna lie.
1:22:54
New Orleans.
1:22:55
And then they.
1:22:56
And even going down to the point where he.
1:22:58
Where he's.
1:22:59
Where Keith David's character is telling the story of.
1:23:02
Oh, yeah, we can walk during the daylight because of the melanin in our skin.
1:23:05
Right?
1:23:07
I'm like, oh, man.
1:23:12
And then after all that, that last scene, I ain't gonna lie.
1:23:15
Like, I was in it.
1:23:16
And then that last thing happened.
1:23:17
I was like, what the.
1:23:18
Oh, God damn it.
1:23:19
Yeah.
1:23:23
This brings you right back.
1:23:24
It's like, oh, y'.
1:23:25
All.
1:23:25
Forget y'.
1:23:25
All.
1:23:25
Y' all think y' all getting happy ended.
1:23:27
Right, right, right, right.
1:23:30
Underrated.
1:23:33
Yeah.
1:23:34
I think it's still on Amazon right now.
1:23:36
Yes, it is.
1:23:37
For free, if I'm not mistaken.
1:23:41
Yeah, yeah.
1:23:41
Oh, Amazon needs Amazon.
1:23:43
Would love to welcome us back the same way Target would.
1:23:45
That's a whole other story.
1:23:46
Right, Right.
1:23:48
Y' all still watching 2B?
1:23:49
You need to be smacked.
1:23:50
That's all I got.
1:23:51
Kind of say, for real.
1:23:52
Oh, man.
1:23:54
They lure you in with some classics.
1:23:56
That's for sure.
1:23:56
They got the cartoons and, too, man.
1:24:01
I'll go to YouTube first before I.
1:24:03
Go to T.
1:24:04
They lure you in with classics you like.
1:24:07
Oh, sucked.
1:24:08
Oh, y.
1:24:10
Right, right.
1:24:12
Check out Internet Archive, though.
1:24:13
Internet Archive.
1:24:14
You can get most of that stuff and downloaded, because I got a ton of them now.
1:24:19
Oh, yeah.
1:24:20
That's how.
1:24:20
That's how I found my Samurai.
1:24:22
Samurai Troopers, man.
1:24:23
Right.
1:24:23
Same.
1:24:26
I get a block of Toonami for four hours.
1:24:29
And all I gotta do is just sit there and just watch four hours in a video.
1:24:35
So here's.
1:24:37
I know I don't hear people talk about Jamie Foxx and Day Shift.
1:24:41
Underrated.
1:24:43
Yeah.
1:24:43
I like Day Shift so much, but I think that they screwed up on the lore aspect.
1:24:49
Like this.
1:24:49
No, sorry.
1:24:50
The.
1:24:50
Like the last third.
1:24:51
Right?
1:24:52
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:24:53
Two thirds of the movie were, like, good.
1:24:54
And then you get to that last third where it's like this crazy Machiavellian plot that comes out of nowhere that's about real estate with the white chick.
1:25:01
And I was like.
1:25:05
Is it.
1:25:05
I'm like, is this the plot from the original Superman?
1:25:08
What is going on?
1:25:11
It's when you have.
1:25:12
It's when you have.
1:25:13
Folks, again with Day Shift, how it started.
1:25:16
Awesome.
1:25:17
You again.
1:25:18
You're telling a different vampire story.
1:25:21
It's like you.
1:25:21
You felt like you need to add a little extra at the end.
1:25:23
You didn't need to add extra at the end.
1:25:25
Just stick with.
1:25:26
Just stick with what brought us to the dance.
1:25:28
That was.
1:25:29
Right, right?
1:25:30
Can we talk about character was dope.
1:25:32
Jamie's character, how they was throwing them vampires against the wall and all them contortionists and all that.
1:25:37
Yeah.
1:25:39
And even the lore of, like, hey, we got slayers and we got watchers and we got zombies.
1:25:44
We got all this stuff happening.
1:25:48
You had a Men in Black style conglomerate.
1:25:51
Yeah.
1:25:52
This is your job.
1:25:54
Yeah.
1:25:55
Job.
1:25:56
You get paid by snatching out teeth.
1:25:59
This is like, you're a body hunter.
1:26:02
The only gripe I had is, why did y' all name him Budget Jablonski?
1:26:08
Why did you name a black man Bud Jablonski, bruh?
1:26:14
You mean to tell me y' all didn't have enough time in that writer's room to come up with a better name than Bud Jablonski?
1:26:24
Let's be honest.
1:26:24
There.
1:26:25
There was nobody in the writers room.
1:26:27
Oh, you already know this.
1:26:30
You know we're gonna be Jamie King again.
1:26:35
Who say.
1:26:36
Who auditioned for the role?
1:26:37
Jamie Foxx, but the character's name is Bud Jablonski.
1:26:41
How are we gonna fix that?
1:26:43
I mean, you could give him anything else, but I'm like, dang.
1:26:46
Even Black Dynamite had Afrocentric names.
1:26:49
God dang.
1:26:50
Right, Right.
1:26:53
Oh, my God.
1:26:54
There is another one.
1:26:57
Vampire.
1:26:58
There's vampires in the Bronx, yo.
1:27:01
That was good, too.
1:27:02
Yeah.
1:27:02
Yeah, that's.
1:27:03
That's another one.
1:27:04
Did not say that one.
1:27:05
Yeah, that's.
1:27:06
That's another.
1:27:06
I want to say is that one.
1:27:08
I want to say.
1:27:08
That's Is that Prime?
1:27:10
That's Netflix.
1:27:11
Okay.
1:27:11
Netflix.
1:27:12
Yeah, yeah, that one was good.
1:27:14
That was.
1:27:14
That was like Boonies meets meets fresh meets Vampires.
1:27:19
You know what I mean?
1:27:20
Yeah, yeah.
1:27:20
It had the our elements to it, you know.
1:27:22
Oh, wow.
1:27:24
Here's another one.
1:27:25
And she's not even in it long.
1:27:27
And it's an older one.
1:27:28
She's not even in it long.
1:27:30
Grace Jones.
1:27:32
Yes.
1:27:33
Oh, my gosh, I remember that.
1:27:36
It took me a while.
1:27:37
Holy crap.
1:27:38
Yo, I forgot.
1:27:39
I forgot.
1:27:39
She played a vampire and iconic with him.
1:27:42
I totally forgot about vamp.
1:27:44
I told y'.
1:27:45
All.
1:27:46
Like, we.
1:27:47
It's like we've been around all this time.
1:27:49
Yeah.
1:27:51
So, yeah, that's one of them.
1:27:54
Maybe name a vampire of black parent vampire film that kind of stands out for you.
1:28:08
I said before and I say it again.
1:28:13
Blackula, 1973.
1:28:20
Yeah.
1:28:20
That's the standard one.
1:28:23
That movie did not.
1:28:24
It wasn't cheesy.
1:28:26
He wasn't made to be a comical character.
1:28:29
He was legit, of royal blood and happened to come over here on a mission.
1:28:35
And I told.
1:28:36
I'm telling y'.
1:28:36
All, that was.
1:28:37
Yeah, you, you.
1:28:38
It was the 70s.
1:28:39
Yeah.
1:28:39
You had the stuff that would now make most people cringe, but it was part of the story and he was taken seriously as a character.
1:28:46
Right.
1:28:48
Loved it.
1:28:49
I, I, again, one of those movies as a kid that I could watch over.
1:28:53
It's like, okay, I see me in that character.
1:28:56
I see me in a horror character.
1:29:00
Nothing against anything else horror wise, but when was the last time we actually had a black horror character that was respected?
1:29:08
There you go.
1:29:09
I'll wait.
1:29:11
You'll be a while.
1:29:12
So, yeah.
1:29:14
Do we have Candyman now?
1:29:15
I feel like Candyman is up there now.
1:29:18
Yes.
1:29:23
As a matter of fact, he's the one that's just like, no, we know why he's doing what he's doing.
1:29:27
So we don't mess with him.
1:29:29
True.
1:29:31
Candyman was only old Candyman was only scary if you mess with him.
1:29:35
Yeah.
1:29:36
Right.
1:29:36
Outside of that.
1:29:37
Right.
1:29:39
What we learned from the first movie, don't go.
1:29:41
And don't go saying his name three times.
1:29:43
Don't go.
1:29:44
Don't go messing this man.
1:29:45
He won't mess with you.
1:29:47
Don't summon him.
1:29:48
You ain't got no issues.
1:29:49
Right.
1:29:51
Oh, that's just such and such.
1:29:52
We don't.
1:29:53
We don't mess with.
1:29:54
It's like that one, cuz when they come to the cookout.
1:29:55
Yeah.
1:29:56
We don't mess with him.
1:29:57
It's like.
1:29:57
It's like seeing a Ouija board A Ouija board at a party.
1:30:00
Let's go talk to the dead.
1:30:02
Let's not.
1:30:02
No.
1:30:03
How about now?
1:30:04
I'm out, right?
1:30:06
Right.
1:30:07
It's like going camping in the middle of the woods.
1:30:09
No, we have.
1:30:09
Have civilization.
1:30:10
Why do I need to go out and go the woods?
1:30:11
What am I proving?
1:30:14
No.
1:30:17
Brian, what's a black vampire or show, film or character that kind of stands out for you?
1:30:23
I mean, I'm taking the easy way, but I loved it so much and I watched it so many times that I gotta say sinners, man.
1:30:31
Yes, sir.
1:30:31
Just yes, sir.
1:30:32
The way it treated every piece of itself, right?
1:30:37
In terms of how it treated, how it.
1:30:38
How it talked about music, how it talked about religion, Christianity and other.
1:30:43
How it talked about black culture, how it talked about vampires, how it talked.
1:30:47
Just.
1:30:47
Every piece of that movie was outstanding.
1:30:52
And I'm gonna say it, and I don't care.
1:30:56
Haley Stanfield can go on that list of, like, if I got turned and she was in the room, I don't want nobody looking at me crazy.
1:31:03
Now, I'm not saying I'm running after her or nothing, but what I am saying is if I got bit, don't look like.
1:31:07
How did you get bit, Brian?
1:31:11
Like, look, bro, come on, man.
1:31:13
She was on me and she was slobbering.
1:31:14
What.
1:31:15
What did you think I was.
1:31:16
Was gonna do?
1:31:17
Although.
1:31:17
Although I ain't gonna lie in the middle of that scene.
1:31:19
Honey, you drooling, right?
1:31:23
It was nasty.
1:31:25
I was like, bro, you didn't.
1:31:29
It's that meme and that woman who makes that face, like.
1:31:40
But you got a point about the.
1:31:41
About centers.
1:31:42
It's just like from.
1:31:44
From the music to the setup to literally.
1:31:47
I mean, you throw humor.
1:31:48
You throw humor in every.
1:31:50
In.
1:31:50
In bits and pieces, but, man, there was so many bits of truth and story being wove in.
1:31:57
It was.
1:31:58
It was really.
1:31:58
It was really a love letter to Lovecraft country.
1:32:00
Because Lovecraft, same thing.
1:32:03
They woven a little bit of truth, but you got humor in action, things of that nature.
1:32:07
And again, what.
1:32:08
The same way with the shoot, I'm losing words.
1:32:14
It's pretty much telling the story of how, again, towns in Mississippi, you had this side, you had this side, and going from there.
1:32:23
So.
1:32:23
No, I know.
1:32:24
I completely agree.
1:32:25
Centers is one of those movies that's just.
1:32:27
I mean, Mr.
1:32:28
Coulter, I mean, man, knocked out the park and then some.
1:32:31
I mean, you could play that every Halloween.
1:32:33
It still will have a packed house.
1:32:38
That would be Jamie Lawson and she played Pearl.
1:32:41
Pearly.
1:32:42
Yeah.
1:32:42
And I also think that how it dealt with.
1:32:46
How it dealt with African spirituality.
1:32:49
And again, this is not like.
1:32:50
It's not necessarily an emerging thing, but I think it's more.
1:32:52
Getting more media attention now, how it dealt with that.
1:32:55
And not in a way to say that it's immediately evil and it's the bad thing and it's the wrong thing.
1:32:59
Right.
1:33:00
I think that just taking that and, and giving that the care that it deserves.
1:33:04
Yeah.
1:33:05
Whether or not you agree, whether or not you believe whatever, that's.
1:33:08
That's not of import.
1:33:09
I think just dealing with it in a different fashion and not automatically making something that's black taboo was.
1:33:17
Was amazing.
1:33:18
Right, Right.
1:33:19
I think that was just.
1:33:20
Agree.
1:33:21
Yeah.
1:33:21
I want to stay here with sinners for a second.
1:33:23
Because if.
1:33:24
If Blackula set the standard, sinners raised the bar.
1:33:29
Yeah, yeah.
1:33:31
Yes.
1:33:31
And that's exactly like Blackula set the standard.
1:33:35
Sinners raise the bar on.
1:33:39
On culture, on music, on mythos, on representation.
1:33:46
It went above and beyond.
1:33:49
And when you.
1:33:50
It's literally.
1:33:51
It's one of my favorite horror films to literally watch now because I'm like, this is so much better for so many reasons.
1:34:04
But it was really.
1:34:05
But it was such a.
1:34:06
It was a.
1:34:07
It was a layered story, but at the same time, it was a simple story.
1:34:10
If you really think about it.
1:34:11
It was layered, but it was simple.
1:34:13
But the same time you had.
1:34:15
You had the music aspect where it's like, yeah, the blues came from us.
1:34:20
The blues came the blues.
1:34:21
I mean, from those, from those steel pine guitars, which a lot of people like.
1:34:26
Oh, well, that's the reason why.
1:34:27
Yes, he tells the story.
1:34:29
I mean, it's, it's.
1:34:30
It's.
1:34:30
Again, everybody's like, oh, so it's loosely based.
1:34:32
No, it's not loosely based.
1:34:33
Off.
1:34:35
People love using loosely based.
1:34:37
I know they always say that, but I'm like, if you believe the crossroads story, that's up to you.
1:34:41
He never confirmed it.
1:34:43
Never confirmed it.
1:34:44
Not the crossroads of the crossroads story.
1:34:46
But the fact that you sat there and you gave an aspect to it at the same time.
1:34:53
Oh, the.
1:34:53
The prison scene is what got me.
1:34:55
Where the Delro Lindo's character was.
1:34:58
They were passing by the chain gang, and he sat there and said, y' all keep your heads high.
1:35:02
Y' all keep y' all chest high.
1:35:04
Don't let that get you down.
1:35:05
And then the whole, you know, that story he gives.
1:35:08
Which found.
1:35:09
Which we found out later was ad libbed.
1:35:11
Yeah.
1:35:11
Ad lib, yes.
1:35:12
Oh, and I'm like, oh, we acting, acting out here.
1:35:15
Give it to me, letting that natural talent come out, you're not trying to keep it just stringent to the script and keep it strictly to the.
1:35:24
The dialogue.
1:35:25
No, some of the best moments in movies have not been scripted.
1:35:30
Right.
1:35:30
And most people swear up and down they weren't scripted.
1:35:32
Scripted.
1:35:34
But at the same time, though, between Delroy Lindo's character and Michael B.
1:35:39
Jordan, I'll give that man credit for.
1:35:41
For literally showing two sides because the way he.
1:35:46
The way he played that role, I will give him that.
1:35:48
And also to.
1:35:50
I forgot her name.
1:35:51
That freaking fast.
1:35:54
Damn.
1:35:55
What's.
1:35:55
What is her name?
1:35:56
The leading lady at the time.
1:35:57
Because they showed.
1:35:59
You did not show.
1:36:01
Yeah, thank you.
1:36:02
They did not show.
1:36:03
And my apologies, ma'.
1:36:05
Am, I did not mean to forget your name because you definitely were not forgettable in the movie, but you.
1:36:10
You showed a.
1:36:13
A natural full figured woman and let her lead as you should not find as hell.
1:36:22
Yes, she looks good in Lovecraft country.
1:36:25
And then they put her in.
1:36:26
In this movie.
1:36:27
Yeah.
1:36:30
Beautiful.
1:36:30
I mean, it was.
1:36:31
And I still mad about cornbread because ain't.
1:36:34
Ain't no way there's a reason take.
1:36:35
That long to take a piss.
1:36:36
I'm sorry.
1:36:37
No, I'm sorry.
1:36:39
I'm not.
1:36:40
You.
1:36:40
You in Mississippi.
1:36:42
Mississippi.
1:36:43
In the dark in the woods, and you go, how far away from the building?
1:36:47
You could have went right around the corner out of the.
1:36:50
Out of.
1:36:51
Out of Ey shot.
1:36:52
You could have went behind by the board.
1:36:54
Right.
1:36:54
You didn't have to go deep in no woods for anything.
1:36:59
Grab a bucket and go back inside somewhere, man.
1:37:01
Keep your ass.
1:37:02
He's gonna get caught up anyway.
1:37:04
Like, let's be real.
1:37:07
The moment he stepped foot outside, it was a rap.
1:37:09
I was like, you know what?
1:37:10
I was so mad about that.
1:37:11
Like, bro, you the biggest thing out there.
1:37:14
You just because you're the biggest thing out there just means you're just a bigger target.
1:37:18
Even Delroy Lindo's character, who was drunk, Trunk was like, he went, he's been gone too long.
1:37:26
This ain't.
1:37:27
I ain't even supposed to be watching the door right now.
1:37:30
And then all you.
1:37:30
Then you hear one whisper, he's like, I'd have been like, nope.
1:37:35
And I was just like.
1:37:36
I'm sitting there like, I'm like, dude, you stopped midstream.
1:37:39
You just.
1:37:42
Those kiddies have been like, nope, let's go.
1:37:47
What I loved about sinners is the fact that they kept.
1:37:50
Left the element of horror without focusing on gore.
1:37:55
How many times we've seen movies, they Use the whole Gore device because they want to keep your attention because the story is so weak, you can't keep anyone, you know, invested.
1:38:07
Right.
1:38:08
Nah.
1:38:08
We gonna do this right?
1:38:10
Yeah.
1:38:10
There'll be a little bit of violence, somebody, some blood.
1:38:12
It's a little bit of gore.
1:38:14
But that's not what you should be focusing on.
1:38:16
Focus on these characters and how they got here.
1:38:19
Right.
1:38:19
Why they got here.
1:38:20
And all the lore and the storytelling and the character development.
1:38:24
That is what made this such a beautiful masterpiece to me also.
1:38:30
Yes.
1:38:30
Give me the payoff of killing a bunch of Klansmen at the end.
1:38:36
Every single time.
1:38:39
Three times in the theater.
1:38:40
Three times in theater.
1:38:42
Yo.
1:38:42
Applauded every single time.
1:38:44
I'm right.
1:38:45
Was he not at the ready where he sat there?
1:38:49
This man said.
1:38:50
This man said.
1:38:51
Don't tell me here's.
1:38:52
I knew that the truck must have played a major role because how did the white girl.
1:38:56
Did you bring the truck?
1:38:57
Of course we brought the trunk.
1:38:58
Oh, Lord.
1:38:59
Very soon.
1:39:01
Right, Right.
1:39:02
We don't need the truck.
1:39:04
Let's calm down.
1:39:05
Like, oh, yeah.
1:39:06
Of course he brought the Trump.
1:39:08
Okay.
1:39:08
Yeah.
1:39:10
Barry knew what the Trump was like, right?
1:39:13
I got this.
1:39:19
I appreciate how the movie ended.
1:39:20
I really appreciated how they.
1:39:22
They brought that story to the clothes that it came to.
1:39:25
Because how many times we've seen movies where there has to be a cliffhanger.
1:39:29
Oh, what happened to so and so?
1:39:31
And there's no resolution or the resolution they have is so weak.
1:39:35
Nobody wants to revisit this.
1:39:37
Right?
1:39:37
But they said, here is class.
1:39:40
Here is a story that comes to an end beautifully.
1:39:46
We all.
1:39:47
We all clap when the KKK got God.
1:39:49
Right?
1:39:49
We all clap every moment of it.
1:39:51
Every.
1:39:52
And then when the last one he thought he just let me go and he shot him a bunch of times.
1:39:57
Yeah, do that.
1:39:58
But he kept his word.
1:39:59
I mean, hey, Smoke kept his word.
1:40:02
Come back exactly.
1:40:04
Right, right, right.
1:40:05
Malaika, stop that, man.
1:40:07
Stop it.
1:40:08
Stop it, bro.
1:40:10
That part on that button, that's the first thing I said.
1:40:12
Wrong audience.
1:40:13
These joker still don't know where that button is.
1:40:15
So don't.
1:40:15
No, no, we, we.
1:40:17
I blame Stack for that.
1:40:18
Stack was questionable as all get out.
1:40:19
Just like.
1:40:22
That was a very cousin moment.
1:40:23
He was just like, listen, he heard he fight.
1:40:31
But no, but I.
1:40:32
But I will also say this to the.
1:40:35
To the guy again, again.
1:40:37
Remick.
1:40:38
There we go.
1:40:38
Couldn't think of his name.
1:40:40
Jack o'.
1:40:40
Connell.
1:40:41
Who played him.
1:40:41
Yes, man.
1:40:43
You literally.
1:40:44
I love the fact that a lot of people are missing where he again.
1:40:48
The realism where again, you saw, uh, Miles, Kevin's character was praying at the end and he was.
1:40:53
He was basically reciting them line for line.
1:40:55
He says.
1:40:57
And I love that part where he goes, yeah, I used to say that too, because those same words were taught to me when they still give me comfort when they came for me too.
1:41:04
And I love how a lot of people want to say.
1:41:06
When I was in the movie theaters, watch it.
1:41:08
You heard this collective.
1:41:10
No, they didn't.
1:41:11
I said, yeah, right.
1:41:13
I just, I just said, welcome to your history lesson.
1:41:16
You didn't think you're gonna get one woman didn't worry.
1:41:21
I just, I like I said sitters you can.
1:41:23
Centers is one of those.
1:41:24
It's.
1:41:25
It's.
1:41:25
It's really one of those mainstays that are just.
1:41:28
Along with Blackula, along with Vampire in Brooklyn, along with Queen of the Dam.
1:41:34
It's.
1:41:35
I just love the fact that we actually now have another.
1:41:40
Another movie that is literally for us in a genre where there's not a lot of our movies there.
1:41:51
That's what I love about that.
1:41:53
Right.
1:41:53
And it's an undeniable one too.
1:41:54
It's not a B movie.
1:41:56
It's not a.
1:41:56
Where they can say it's an Also ran like this.
1:41:59
No, no.
1:41:59
It is an epic film.
1:42:02
And there's nothing you can say otherwise.
1:42:05
That part.
1:42:06
This is literally one of these films where this is very rare for like people who are film goers or into cinema.
1:42:13
This is one of those films.
1:42:15
Sinners is one of those films where you don't want a sequel that you don't that Beginning, middle, tell this story.
1:42:26
Leave it open ended.
1:42:27
I don't care, but leave it here.
1:42:31
Yeah.
1:42:31
You don't have to add.
1:42:33
You can let your mind run, of course, but.
1:42:36
But you don't want.
1:42:38
But what.
1:42:39
And someone trying to stare and say, well, they should write a sequel.
1:42:42
Where you gonna go?
1:42:43
Because again, we know two people survived.
1:42:47
We also know that Smoke and Stack had an agreement about their cousin.
1:42:53
Like, look, because we.
1:42:54
Look, I'll be honest.
1:42:55
Stack wasn't supposed to be here and Stack wasn't supposed to be here unless he sat there and told Smoke, like, look, I'm not taking you out.
1:43:03
You will watch him for the rest of your days.
1:43:06
Cool.
1:43:07
Right?
1:43:07
What else do you need?
1:43:08
Right?
1:43:10
At the same time, it's like it doesn't.
1:43:11
It's like it doesn't need to.
1:43:13
It doesn't need the.
1:43:14
It doesn't need the extra.
1:43:15
Like some movies just need to be a one shot.
1:43:19
Need to be a One shot and be done with it.
1:43:21
You don't need.
1:43:21
Because if you go.
1:43:22
If you try to go back and do a Sinners too, you kind of crap on the first one.
1:43:28
Because where do you go.
1:43:29
Because where do you go with a sequel like that anyway?
1:43:31
There's not.
1:43:32
There's no room.
1:43:32
It's like saying, hey, you know, it's like LeBron James going back for another ring, sir.
1:43:37
You've accomplished what you got to do.
1:43:39
Bow out gracefully.
1:43:41
Right, right, right.
1:43:44
Sorry about your LeBron fans.
1:43:45
No, no, no, it's true.
1:43:49
This.
1:43:49
This movie just creates those types of conversations that it's necessary because when you are really ingrained in the culture, when you're born of the culture and you see things from sharecroppers and just the stuff.
1:44:05
I'm like, man, it's taking place in the 1930s, and you're like.
1:44:09
But you see it, you feel it.
1:44:14
That part.
1:44:15
You understand it.
1:44:18
The conversations that's being had, the elements that are being shown, the way this thing has been shot, the music element.
1:44:25
I'm like, this dude didn't miss.
1:44:33
I lied to you.
1:44:35
Dang.
1:44:36
Right, Right.
1:44:37
Kill me Cornbread.
1:44:38
Cornbread was gated, though, when.
1:44:40
When he got that dance going.
1:44:43
I was trip on the fact just.
1:44:45
And to hear.
1:44:46
And to hear a bluegrass guitar like that, that's.
1:44:49
There's a hit.
1:44:50
There's a history behind that, too.
1:44:51
I love that.
1:44:52
He.
1:44:53
He did put a spotlight on that.
1:44:54
That type of.
1:44:55
That type of music with that type of guitar and that sound.
1:44:58
And the fact that our people have such a rich history to that.
1:45:04
I again, work.
1:45:07
Tied it together, but I'm trying to think there's.
1:45:13
There's Ganja and Hess is another vampire film.
1:45:16
Film.
1:45:16
Yep.
1:45:17
Oh, I've never seen that.
1:45:18
You never heard of that 70s.
1:45:21
That's a 70s horror film.
1:45:23
Black horror film.
1:45:25
Black Doctor Gets.
1:45:27
Goes to an island, and they have rituals going there in terms of.
1:45:32
He gets.
1:45:33
He becomes a vampire through a spear.
1:45:35
Yep, Spear.
1:45:37
He was pumped with a spear.
1:45:38
And he become.
1:45:38
He becomes vampiric.
1:45:41
They actually did.
1:45:43
I think it was.
1:45:44
Spike Lee did a remake.
1:45:47
I'm trying to.
1:45:48
I cannot think of the name of it, but Spike Lee did something like that.
1:45:52
Just.
1:45:52
Just maybe just.
1:45:56
That's what it is.
1:45:57
Yeah.
1:45:58
Yeah.
1:45:59
2014.
1:45:59
Sweet blood Jesus.
1:46:00
Yeah.
1:46:01
I had to think about.
1:46:01
I had to think about that one for a second.
1:46:03
Yeah, but that's what that is.
1:46:05
There's.
1:46:05
There.
1:46:05
There's quite a few.
1:46:08
The latest interview with the vampire television series.
1:46:13
Oh, that guy's name.
1:46:14
What's his face.
1:46:16
Who's the actor that played Lestat?
1:46:20
I know it's.
1:46:21
It's a.
1:46:22
It's a unique name.
1:46:23
I apologize.
1:46:24
I apologize.
1:46:24
I don't want to destroy his name.
1:46:28
Let me see if I can find it, because I know I was just.
1:46:30
Oh, wait, Louis Dupont Dulac.
1:46:33
That's who it is.
1:46:35
That's who it is.
1:46:36
So that's the character or character and you know, which I'm finishing off the first season and I'm like, yo, this is good.
1:46:45
But.
1:46:46
But yeah, that was, that was when he was in.
1:46:48
Yeah, they're set up in New Orleans with his.
1:46:50
So that's right around a lot of, A lot of upper class society, him trying to come back.
1:46:56
And, and it.
1:46:57
Yeah, it's.
1:46:58
I was watching that.
1:46:59
I got caught up until I didn't finish.
1:47:01
But.
1:47:01
But again, like you said, it's, It's.
1:47:03
It's different, but at the same time, you can tell, like, like we've been saying, a lot of care has been taken into each of these, into each of these movies and television shows.
1:47:13
And you can tell because we don't want to show off, you know, and again, to not speak, to pick it back off.
1:47:19
What to pick up with.
1:47:20
Raven said what the Reverend said we don't want gore.
1:47:23
There's no need for gore.
1:47:24
Vampires precisely for gore.
1:47:26
And vampire.
1:47:26
Right.
1:47:29
It's more mind seducing that it is.
1:47:35
Yeah.
1:47:35
Psychological.
1:47:36
Thank you.
1:47:36
So, you know, we don't need the whole, you know, hey, gets taken off or flaws decapitate somebody.
1:47:41
We.
1:47:41
We don't need that.
1:47:42
I mean, it worked in Castlevania.
1:47:44
That's fine.
1:47:45
But that's an anime.
1:47:46
It's not movie.
1:47:48
But no, it's just like.
1:47:49
Oh, like again, in Castlevania, we had a van.
1:47:52
We had a.
1:47:52
We had a female vampire, which, again, she wasn't overall.
1:47:58
Overall menacing, but if you pushed her.
1:48:02
Oh, yeah, you got that point.
1:48:04
But again, it's just.
1:48:05
I'm just saying this as.
1:48:06
It's just the approach they've taken to how black vampires in movies and television and anime, how they're presented and they're always presented.
1:48:16
And I love this.
1:48:17
I have yet to still find one where I didn't like it.
1:48:19
You can tell that it's written with care because they're presented with style, they're present with flair, poise, mannerisms.
1:48:28
At the same time, there's that underlying threat of, if you push me, I will end you.
1:48:35
Oh, yeah.
1:48:36
But sidebar.
1:48:37
I needed more Mr.
1:48:38
Trick from Buffy the Vampire Empire.
1:48:41
Slayer.
1:48:44
I'm Just saying.
1:48:45
I mean, I'm like, you know, I'm liking his vibe, but y' all playing it right now.
1:48:49
Y' all nerfing him a little bit.
1:48:51
But look who the writer was.
1:48:52
Exactly.
1:48:57
To figure it out.
1:48:57
But, like, you played us with Kendra, then you turn around with Mr.
1:49:01
Trick, you know, like, yeah, look, it's.
1:49:03
No worse than Sterling K.
1:49:04
Brown and Supernatural, where he was a hunter and he got turned.
1:49:07
Yes.
1:49:08
Yeah, yeah.
1:49:09
People forget he was in Supernatural.
1:49:13
He was a rival hunter that got turned and he adapted quite quickly, actually.
1:49:21
I was gonna say, can we count Bones?
1:49:22
Although because I'm just a Bianca Lawson fan.
1:49:25
So can we count Bones?
1:49:26
Even though Snoop Dogg's acting was overly.
1:49:28
Horrible.
1:49:30
Wasn'T he, like a deep.
1:49:31
Was he a.
1:49:32
Was he a vampire?
1:49:34
He was a resurrected.
1:49:35
He was a gangster.
1:49:36
He was a resurrected gangster, but he wasn't.
1:49:38
He wasn't.
1:49:39
It was like a.
1:49:39
A.
1:49:40
More like a demon spirit, but he wasn't a vampire.
1:49:44
Yeah.
1:49:44
Although he had fangs for no reason.
1:49:46
On the same end.
1:49:47
I'll count Bianca Lawson, because she's Bianca Lawson.
1:49:50
So I'm with you.
1:49:52
I just.
1:49:52
I just wanted the technicality.
1:49:53
I just wanted to know.
1:49:55
But I'm with you.
1:49:56
Let's count her.
1:49:59
She is actually a vampire because she.
1:50:00
Ain'T aged at all.
1:50:02
Yeah, they said, oh, yeah.
1:50:03
She was like.
1:50:04
It was like, oh, yeah.
1:50:05
She was like 20.
1:50:05
And.
1:50:10
Between her.
1:50:11
Angela Bassett and there was another one.
1:50:15
Angela Bassett played a vampire in the season of America Horror Story Hotel.
1:50:21
I literally was like, makes sense.
1:50:23
I see it.
1:50:24
It's fine.
1:50:26
No disrespect to the Queen Mother, but, ma', am, you have a regiment.
1:50:30
That's another one.
1:50:31
Don't ask me no that's another one.
1:50:33
Don't ask me no questions when you see me turn don't ask me no.
1:50:35
Don'T ask me Will Smith doing like this.
1:50:42
Right?
1:50:42
How could you?
1:50:43
How could you let this happen?
1:50:45
I'm just saying.
1:50:47
Right, right.
1:50:48
But no, but, yeah.
1:50:50
It's just.
1:50:50
It's.
1:50:51
If you really think about it, it's just these.
1:50:53
Especially around the horror side, we are getting a lot more movies, not just vampire.
1:50:58
I mean, not just, you know, vampire in general, but, I mean, look at.
1:51:02
Look at us.
1:51:03
Or look at.
1:51:04
Get out.
1:51:05
Or look at.
1:51:06
I haven't seen him yet.
1:51:07
I want to see him.
1:51:08
I don't know if him is more psychological than anything else, but it looks like it.
1:51:12
Yeah, I'm still.
1:51:12
Yeah.
1:51:14
But you can tell that the horror aspect is being expanded on, and I love that it's being Expanded on.
1:51:22
And it's not just your.
1:51:23
It's not just your A to B.
1:51:25
We summon him.
1:51:26
We knocked this over.
1:51:27
We broke this.
1:51:28
We went to a place supposed to go to.
1:51:30
It's.
1:51:31
It's so different in how each of these stories are being shown that it.
1:51:35
It's.
1:51:35
It makes you want to go see it just off the narration alone.
1:51:40
I agree.
1:51:41
I remember when that US trailer dropped and it had the.
1:51:46
Just the music.
1:51:47
Yeah.
1:51:47
That was the creepiest, you know, twist on.
1:51:51
I got five on it.
1:51:52
Like, again, I love that we.
1:51:55
I love that our horror stories are being told like.
1:51:57
Like us as well.
1:51:57
Like, it's not like, oh, hey, don't go touch that Ouija board.
1:52:00
And then somebody does.
1:52:01
And then they summon a demon.
1:52:02
Like, because black folks don't do that.
1:52:03
Right?
1:52:04
So they have to find new ways for us to be entrapped in these things that would make sense with our personalities, which I love that they're taking the time to do that.
1:52:12
Right.
1:52:12
Like, it makes sense, so it makes for better stories.
1:52:15
Yeah.
1:52:15
I want.
1:52:16
I want anybody who's listening or watching right now.
1:52:19
If you can find it, go back and watch Night of the Demon.
1:52:25
Your boy broke out, right?
1:52:27
This, like, Roger wasn't nothing to play with.
1:52:30
Like, even if he said, my father's.
1:52:32
They in the haunted house, this brother said, my father's a preacher.
1:52:36
We don't do this.
1:52:39
Roger, Roger, we need to get out.
1:52:42
Roger showed exactly what you should do in a horror movie.
1:52:45
And you notice that no demon can outrun him.
1:52:49
My man dove through a plate glass window.
1:52:52
He was climbing over a wall with his barbed wire.
1:52:55
Little white girl was just like, it hurts.
1:52:57
He was like, I'm leaving.
1:52:58
I don't care.
1:52:59
I'll heal.
1:53:00
I'm leaving now.
1:53:03
Right?
1:53:03
I still, like, I still laugh at Roger.
1:53:05
Where you going?
1:53:06
You on your own.
1:53:11
She's like, roger, you ain't going to get me.
1:53:13
He just.
1:53:18
That fits.
1:53:19
Wow.
1:53:19
That fits.
1:53:21
Oh, man.
1:53:21
Yeah.
1:53:22
But whoever.
1:53:22
Whoever got door.
1:53:23
Whoever got do or die to sit there and say, hey, we want to take.
1:53:25
I got five on it.
1:53:26
And we want to put a horror spin on it.
1:53:28
How did you convince them?
1:53:30
That's right.
1:53:33
I got a better one.
1:53:34
How many times people look at the clock and it says, 11.
1:53:36
11.
1:53:36
And you stop, man.
1:53:41
Look, like I said, we were out of town this weekend.
1:53:43
I seen three logging trucks.
1:53:45
Thank God they were on the opposite side of the free.
1:53:51
And I just shook my.
1:53:52
Every time just shook my head, yo, I'm done.
1:53:55
Final destination made us so Final destination turned Us into better drivers.
1:53:59
I'm just saying you won't go, you won't go nowhere near or behind a log truck since that movie came out.
1:54:04
Right?
1:54:05
Right.
1:54:05
Now, you know what I thought about Death by Temptation.
1:54:08
Only difference is she's more of a succubus, right?
1:54:11
Yeah.
1:54:12
But still, that was still a good movie.
1:54:14
I think it was another Kaden Harson movie actually.
1:54:16
It is.
1:54:16
Yeah.
1:54:17
That was like right during his fame.
1:54:20
During.
1:54:20
That was different.
1:54:21
Different world.
1:54:22
Different world, right?
1:54:23
Yeah.
1:54:23
So, Brian J.
1:54:26
Lambert, brother, this has been great.
1:54:30
It's been a blast.
1:54:31
It's been fun, man.
1:54:33
I appreciate y' all so much, man.
1:54:35
I really do.
1:54:35
I.
1:54:36
I just love being able to commune with some like minded folks in general.
1:54:40
But y' all are hilarious, man.
1:54:41
And I just, you know, I appreciate y' all even just having me on here and talking about my comics and, and comics in general and, and let me rant my bull, you know what I mean?
1:54:50
I appreciate it.
1:54:51
Look, this is what we do here.
1:54:53
We, we consider people family for one.
1:54:56
Thank you for including us and joining up with Border Station for Air Force One.
1:55:01
Yes.
1:55:02
Grace, that's gonna be freaking fire.
1:55:08
That's gonna be off the chain.
1:55:09
For real.
1:55:10
For real, bro.
1:55:11
We are, we are, we are working.
1:55:12
I can't wait till our next.
1:55:14
We got some things happening in early.
1:55:17
Do we have a minute to where I can give a little quick little sneak peek, please?
1:55:21
So I can't show anything right now, but in early 2026 we are going to debut.
1:55:29
Myself and Jason Reeves, we're debuting a project together.
1:55:32
We are doing a trading card game.
1:55:34
And imagine if you will, a world where Street Ball meets Pokemon.
1:55:40
Oh, say less.
1:55:42
I'm invested.
1:55:43
So let's go again.
1:55:46
Yeah, so again we're gonna have that.
1:55:48
We're gonna start putting out some materials in November.
1:55:50
We're gonna release it in, in February.
1:55:52
And then that's gonna lead to everything else, man.
1:55:54
That's going to lead to all the stuff that we see with our 2000 release of volume 2, 2026 release of volume 2 of Air Force Ones and some more animated material.
1:56:04
And this time on the next set of animated material is actually going to be anime, I realize.
1:56:09
And I, I've again, I've had people make the little jokes and stuff.
1:56:11
The animation, the first animation we did is not anime inspired, art wise, art style wise.
1:56:16
But again, that's just somebody, man.
1:56:18
I really wanted to work with that animator.
1:56:20
He was dope and he's still dope.
1:56:22
But as we do our next set of animation we're already talking to Spoof Animation and a couple other studios.
1:56:28
Nice.
1:56:29
And we're going fully into the anime field.
1:56:32
And 2026 is gonna be.
1:56:35
It's gonna be something special.
1:56:37
So again, Blur Blurd's Eye View first people to hear about our new project and our new trading card game.
1:56:43
Paul, who's got next?
1:56:45
Nice.
1:56:46
And again, like I said, it's going to be Street Ball meets Pokemon.
1:56:49
It's gonna be something like you've never seen it.
1:56:50
It's gonna be dope.
1:56:51
I'm invested.
1:56:53
Right?
1:56:53
Let's go.
1:56:54
The minute you mentioned Pokemon now David's ear said present and accounted for games.
1:57:02
I'm like, let's go.
1:57:04
Okay, let's go.
1:57:06
Oh man.
1:57:07
Brian, tell everybody where they can find you.
1:57:10
You can find us at Wingless Comics on everything social.
1:57:13
Well, not on Twitter or X or whatever it's called these days.
1:57:19
You can find us, right?
1:57:20
You can find us on Instagram under Wingless Comics.
1:57:24
You can find us on Facebook as a Wingless Comics.
1:57:25
Can you?
1:57:26
You can find us on Tick Tock as Wingless Comics.
1:57:28
We are also online on our website direct@www.wingle.com you can get everything and all our information there.
1:57:37
Again, much more to come.
1:57:38
In 2026.
1:57:39
You're going to see the release of her number two.
1:57:41
You're going to see Avery number two.
1:57:42
You're going to See volume two or Air Force Ones.
1:57:44
You're going to see the trading card game, who's got next?
1:57:46
And a few more surprises.
1:57:48
We are coming out the gate hot in 2026.
1:57:51
That is a promise.
1:57:54
I'm here for it.
1:57:55
I hear holsters being reloaded right now.
1:57:57
Right.
1:57:58
And in February you are gonna see how.
1:58:02
How right and close to the mark you are, sir.
1:58:05
Something special.
1:58:06
I got a couple other special things.
1:58:08
You know what, when those drop, please bring them by the ship.
1:58:12
Gladly.
1:58:13
Have you on, please.
1:58:14
Thank you.
1:58:15
Definitely, definitely, definitely, definitely.
1:58:17
Gentlemen.
1:58:19
Spartan talk to the people.
1:58:21
Ah yes.
1:58:23
Black underscore.
1:58:23
Spartan615 is I usually can find me.
1:58:26
Shows are still going on folks.
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We are covering everything crazy in the world.
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Especially when it comes to Taco and his regime.
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You know the man the high Castle.
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The man in high Castle discovered McDonald's.
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How the we got here every Wednesday at 7:30pm of course myself to Farai Joe.
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We do cover the news in the world of video games, anime, manga, radio, wrestling, you name it get bit every Friday, 8:30ish shows can be found where they're usually found on all aspects of the Internet.
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Still doing the streaming thing.
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Still trying to finish Silk song, but you know, being a dad, gotta make sure everybody's taken care of.
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So gaming.
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The gaming streams will pick back up on Saturday because why?
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I have exactly two weeks left before Ninja Gaiden 4 comes out and that's gonna pretty much encompass my life.
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So I didn't kind of need to get that and try to get one game knock out the way before I get the other one.
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So again, black underscore Spartan 615 on Twitch and on YouTube at the same time.
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Guys, the rules still do apply because Khan's still going on.
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Respect the cosplayer.
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Cosplay is not consent.
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Please treat me like human beings.
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Number two, wash your ass.
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We the.
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It's flu season.
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Flu season's around the corner.
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Clean clothes, please.
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Underwear.
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I know you're seeing this clean thing going through cons.
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That is not cute.
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Because they have to do this.
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Because.
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Because some of y' all really don't believe in soap, water, hygiene or good decisions.
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So please wash your ass.
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Clean clothes will be always welcome.
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And again, the last thing I have for myself, as I have for everybody else in a world that is cruel, that is kind, that is unkind.
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Be nice, be kind.
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Talk, share and discuss your fandoms.
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Don't be a dick and you won't get jumped.
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I love how it changes every week.
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There it is, baby.
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Montel, my guy.
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What's going on?
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Talking to the people.
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Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, Blurs of all ages, good evening, good morning, good afternoon.
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It is I, Navy Montel, your frosty bearded blur.
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Corn here with the crew, with this Amazing Creator, Brian, Mr.
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Brian Lambert here doing his thing.
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Y' all gonna show this man love.
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Go support him.
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He is part of a cornucopia of culture and creation that cannot be denied.
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Please go show that support.
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If you want to know what I'm up to, I'm with this illustrious crew usually on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
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I'm also with Lady Mandalore.
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Room full of blurbs.
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Every Sunday at 7, we talk about independent comments.
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We bring on the character, the creators.
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We have a good time.
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We just all types of stuff and fun like that myself.
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Florida corn combos are back.
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I'm getting my kiss my guests lined up.
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Please come and show that love.
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I'm getting back on my random Instagram where I'll pop in because I got something to say.
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And now that I am on YouTube, I've been still on YouTube and be more active.
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Y' all in trouble Bible.
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Okay?
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So come on be a part of the conversation.
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And I stream on Sundays.
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I am currently going back to Diablo 3.
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Why?
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Because if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
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And I'm using a lady barbarian and she is just running roughshod.
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We're gonna chat, we're gonna talk.
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We're gonna have all the funds.
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And I will say this before I.
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I'm passed on to the illustrious Captain.
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Find your safe space.
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In a world where chaos is starting to become the norm, which it shouldn't be.
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Find your safe space.
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Whether it's at home with someone close to you, a hobby, a reading, a book, going and sitting at the park, maybe taking a drive.
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Find your safe space because your mental health is your number one precious commodity that you give up to anyone or anything for any reason.
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Find your safe space, please.
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We need to keep y' all around.
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The Saints are going home.
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They don't need to be going home younger than 40 or 40 or 30.
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Okay.
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Find your safe space.
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If you need someone to talk to, find me.
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If you need to.
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I'll be there.
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Same here.
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You.
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If you are.
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If you haven't followed Blurred Station on Instagram, please do.
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Because this weekend, Saturday, as a matter of fact, we have our very first Fireside chat with a voice actor.
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The series will be called Unmuted.
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You'll have your answers, question or some of your questions answered.
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Talking about how to get into the voice industry, voice acting industry and things of the stuff.
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I believe that will be at 8 o', clock, 7 o' clock or 8.
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I think it's 8.
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8 o'.
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Clock.
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8 o'.
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Clock.
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Yes.
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So go to the Blur Blurs.
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Go to the Blurred Station Instagram page.
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Go check it out.
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Out Lady Mandalore will be the host.
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Yeah, some great stuff going on also.
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You can check us out Every Tuesday, Thursday, 8pm Eastern, YouTube, Twitch, and you can watch past episodes of Always Press Record Television through your Roku and Amazon Fire devices.
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Mouthful when you have a little congestion going on.
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But that's okay.
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I got my ginger and turmeric tea is doing this job right now.
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Now I'm just stuffy.
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Everything else is good.
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But other than that, thank you to our guest, Brian J.
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Lambert.
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This has been amazing.
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These are always fun to talk to, like creatives who are really doing their thing.
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So absolutely.
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Please come back.
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Come back to when you start talking about when.
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When 2026 ramps up because.
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Yeah, because.
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Because the people got an exclusive, right?
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We do exclusive.
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I always have one for y'.
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All.
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Appreciate you stopping through.
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Thank you to the crew.
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Thank you to everybody in the chats, man.
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Everybody's in the chats.
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Thank you.
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Thank you to B who all there made his donation.
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Thank you.
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I'll be sure to hit your donation.
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Be sure to hit that like subscribe that notification bell and YouTube channel.
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Be sure if you're watching on Twitch, Twitch, go over there again.
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We're not trying to hit millions, millions of streamers on Twitch because I, I don't have.
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I don't have streaming time right now.
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I don't have time.
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Facts.
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Right, right.
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I got.
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I got adult stuff to do.
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I hate it.
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But look at that lottery check clears.
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We got.
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We gotta do work, man.
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I got work.
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But tune in next Tuesday.
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We will be talking about some more nerdy stuff.
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We'll be doing some more horror stuff.
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We'll probably be talking about some other.
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I'm thinking about doing final Girls again.
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We got time.
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I gotta go back to the final final girls round two.
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So be sure to come back next Tuesday, 8pm Eastern.
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We will be here.
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Remember to educate yourself and others, entertain yourself and others, and most of all, encourage yourself and others.
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I'm Chris Fury with our guest, Brian J.
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Lambert over on this side.
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Yeah, sir.
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My guys, Baby Montel and Black Spartan.
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Check us out on all the socials.
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Show your support.
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And until then, we will see you guys next time.
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We're out.
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Bye.
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Snake, are you okay?
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Snake.
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Snake.
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Sam.
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Wa.