I Call Shenanigans | How Dare You
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[1:03] Yeah, welcome back. We took a holiday break. Thanks for waiting for us, but we got a lot of good content for you today. We'll be recording a few episodes and we're super excited. Um so Christmas just passed. We we survived the holidays. How how was your holiday date?

[1:17] Um it was very uneventful, and I don't know if it's just this year or something, but like Christmas didn't feel like Christmas, you know?

[1:24] I totally get it. Um so so my Christmas miracle, uh I one of them did happen. I was also not feeling very spirited, and then um basically my enlistment bonus hit my checking account on Christmas. So suddenly I was very spirited, Nate. Very people who I didn't buy gifts for suddenly got gifts and uh a little late, but they got them. So but yeah, it's it's been a tough year, I think, for everybody.

[1:24] That was general, like when I talked to my friends and family, everybody was just kind of like, uh, like it just doesn't feel you know, like all those Christmas Christmas movies tell us it's not about the gifts, and but it is about maybe like spending time with your family, and since we didn't get to do that, like it zapped right, it was pretty [expletive].

[2:04] Total bummer, and I think it doesn't help too that we live in the desert, so it's still 70-something degrees outside right now, yeah. And that's not very Christmassy, yeah.

[2:13] That never changes, so we usually just deal with that. But now it's like you don't see people, we live in the desert, like there's no Santa, like it sucks, right? There's really no difference between Christmas and some other Friday at this point. So I'm gonna move on to New Year's because I'm really hoping next year is gonna be a lot better. I think that's uh probably collectively what everybody's hoping. Um, I think so too.

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[3:50] If you just want to see pictures of our handsome faces, you know, go check that stuff out. If you want to see me struggle and look at the word Nalai for five minutes and be like, Nate, I'm not gonna read that on the thing, and then you can watch that too. It's a great time.

[4:03] It's great. We have a whole clip of him just really struggling to pronounce my friend's names. Uh so yeah, it's it's good, good, good times, good times. So today's segment we have is called I Call Shenanigans, Nate. Uh, it's a new one. It's a new one, and I'm pretty excited about it. Um, you wanna know why I'm excited about it, mate? Why are you excited? Because it's literally just gonna be us ranting and getting worked up about stuff. I'm pretty good at it. And just calling shenanigans. Uh, you know, for for users who aren't familiar with the phrase, uh, when you call shenanigans, you're basically saying [expletive], right? That's what you're saying.

[4:32] Yep.

[4:32] Yeah. So today we're gonna call [expletive] on some topics that we think aren't fair, they're not fair, or something not getting enough love, or something getting too much love. Or it just doesn't make sense. Like, why have this? And it doesn't even make sense. It's it's a really great topic because for those of you that don't know Nate, um, over over the episodes you've probably gotten the feeling that he he puts his heart and soul into everything, but he also gets real bananas about stuff. Like, he has opinions, strong opinions about things that most people don't have opinions about. And I'm really excited today. I'm gonna just prod that. I'm gonna harness it and I'm gonna channel it into hopefully good content. Um well, they're not really opinions, Nate.

[5:10] They're they're kind of facts at this point. It's not even up for debate. Like, this stuff doesn't make sense, and I am here to shine a light on a lot of that stuff. You're gonna shine something. Let's let's do it. All right, let's go. Um, what would we have up first, Nate? Um, the first talking point we would have is what was the point of Jar Jar Binks? Do you have anything to say in defense of Jar Jar Binks? Because I don't, because he was a waste of time.

[5:37] So I literally watched the episode out of not even like in preparation for the show, but like three nights ago I was up late and was like, I'm gonna watch Phantom Menace. Like, I don't even know what occurred, but I felt it. And so I got to, yeah, you know, it was kind of a I haven't watched probably in a couple years the that that that particular movie from the sequel or the prequel trilogy. And yeah, so Jar Jar Binks, you get this like there they were going, you could tell in this movie they were going for diversity. This is their first shot, like so. Disney did its own kind of like, hey, we want to have more diversity.

[5:37] But the the sequel series also I saw a lot of attempts of of them doing it too. You know, you have like the captain, you have Jar Jar Binks, but is it done well? I don't think so. Right. You know, Jar Jar Binks, I'm getting some like weird Jamaican vibe, yeah, but he's also an idiot, which doesn't make the case well. Um, you know, but you ask me what is his purpose. I mean, he does have a plot device. Like he is meant, he is this like he keeps connecting them to the Gungans who are needed to win the battle of Nabu. They're needed to help the Jedi escape the droids in the beginning and find Naboo.

[5:37] Um, and then and and then he's continually, he has a really pivotal part in the next movie where he gets everybody to give Palpatine literally all the power of the empty.

[6:50] Which doesn't make any sense. Like, he's just from a tribe on Naboo, which is a small planet, anyways. And then all of a sudden you get a seat in the Senate. Like, even if it's not a real position of power, like you're still dressing up nice and you're going there every day. Like, nobody does that. It doesn't make any sense. Like, hey, you random Misa guy, you're not gonna come with me and partake in my political ventures, you know? Like, it doesn't make sense.

[7:13] The Gungans as a whole aren't developed well, so really I think who's to blame is Boss Nass. Because so that character multiple times, right? So in the beginning, he's like, We don't get along with the Naboo. They think they're better, they think they're better than us, and then the whole plot just turns around when they're like, No, we we don't think we're better than you. Also, conveniently they say that as they need their army, right? And they're like, You like us? And then that's it. And then that's it. He's like, Okay, let's do this, and then but then also like after that, he's like, He's uh, what was it? Jar Jar, he's like, You you a general now. I'm so happy. Like, he's just happy with him and makes him a general.

[7:13] Like, that's not why like you need military experience, right? You know, you cannot just go ahead and make someone a general, especially as clumsy, like he banished Jar Jar because he's clumsy. He's the villain in the beginning of the movie.

[7:58] Yeah, like nobody takes the villagit and like, hey, you, you want to lead this army because things worked out in your favor for once in your entire life?

[8:05] And then after that, they're like, hey, great job, I guess. Now be a senator. Like, also, how many generals do you know that become senators? It's like not like they're not like the same skill sets, right? Like blowing stuff up and winning battles and then like being democratic and compromising with other politicians. Not things I'd expect the same person, you know. We'll see sometimes the Secretary of Defense, right? Maybe that makes sense. But like, you know, that's just not even fair for a regular person, let alone like an imbecile.

[8:32] Right. You know, he doesn't fit the bill for any of those. For either of those categories, he does not fit the bill. Like, it just doesn't make sense, it drives me crazy. Like he was just some character George Lucas made and was like, you know what? We're gonna throw this guy into every scene I can possibly fit him in. You know, like he Watkins go into the bathroom at one point, and Jardor's like, hey, I'm in the background, like just throw him in there.

[8:54] Yeah, well, like the pod racer scene, he gets his tongue stuck. Like, literally, you're not kidding. Like, he really is the amount of airtime they give him. Like, okay, he's a he's a convenient plot device, but then like he actually keeps like over and over again being in the scenes. I'm like, you that was really not necessary. Like, you probably could have very easily moved the plot along without it, you know?

[9:15] Right, like the the five-minute scene where he steps on that droid and the droid gets stuck on his foot, and now he's moving his foot and the blaster's shooting all the other. That was a complete waste of time. It was not funny. Okay, I might have chuckled the first time I saw it, but after that, it's not funny.

[9:28] It's a lot, all right. Let's transition this because we're getting heated. Okay, so we gotta make sure this is entertaining for the guest name. This has to be good for them.

[9:35] I'm sorry.

[9:36] Um, you you got me going though, dude.

[9:37] If you hate Jar Jar, uh let us know. Comment something.

[9:40] I'm just gonna end it with do you think Jar Jar is a Sith Lord? Because there are some theories out on Reddit that he actually was manipulating the Senate and working for Palpatine the whole time.

[9:51] I've read those theories, and they are the only thing that makes sense about this whole thing. Like, if he is this big of an idiot, he has to be a master manipulator in order to get this power to become a general of the Gungan army. It's the only thing that could possibly make sense.

[10:06] Isn't it sad that I'm more likely to believe that than to believe that he just is so clumsy but also like lucky to make like a bunch of stuff turn around?

[10:15] No, because that's the only thing that makes sense.

[10:16] It's the only thing that makes sense, yes. All right, so Jar Jar probably sip. Definitely. Write it down. So for it. Write it down. You heard you heard it here first. Guaranteed. Canon. Next part I want to talk about, and we're gonna just stay on Star Wars just for a little bit longer. People who like the sequel trilogy better than the prequel trilogy. Now, here's where here's my thoughts. A lot of people, right, when Phantom Menace and all that stuff came out, they're like, wow, this is crap. And we basically, you know, uh here we are, decades later, decade later, we have the the sequel trilogy and we felt the same way. So our generation, I think, feels about the sequel trilogy as like the original generation felt about the prequels.

[10:16] So maybe it's just like it's hard to hit the same audience again like 10 years later with the same series. Maybe that's part of it. But here's my here's my my honest to goodness take on it, Nate. Um, the sequel trilogy is garbage and trash. You know, you just talked about how like what's the point of Jar Jar? But you know what, like, there is just kind of a point. It's stupid, and he's like, it's a love, it's very luck-based in his character, and they just make him really dumb. But in the sequel series, there is a lot of what was the point of this, and there legit was no point to it.

[10:16] Or like it was even more transparent that it was just like like the whole the thing that gets me in the last movie is that somebody made a dagger that is a map of ruins, like literally makes no sense to me. Like, why would you why would you do that? Why would you leave something in the Death Star but make a dagger map of like who's doing that? Who's making the dagger maps? Right.

[11:51] Why does it have to be on a dagger? Like, that's something like from a bad DD campaign, and they're like, you know what? This worked great in my DD campaign.

[11:58] And do you know how precise your angle would have to be to look at like a protractor knife that points to the room in the ruins of the Death Star that is the thing? And then let's also just talk about the compass to the Sith Planet, like there's just a GPS. Like that this is so anyway, going back, trying to stay focused here. You know, there's a lot I don't like about the prequel series, right? Like Anakin, cringy. Also Anakin as an adult, cringy. Like a lot of it, Jar Jar, Gringy. But like the plot makes sense. If you watch that movie, for the most part, like they tell a story. Yes, is it space politics? Did I learn a lot about the Galactic Senate? Is all a phantom menace?

[11:58] Basically, Paletine be like, and this is where the bureaucrats do that. Like, he does that like seven times, or he's like, and now they're gonna vote on like healthcare. Like, and it's just like wow, like, okay, like we get it, Pautini. Like, you're trying to take over, we get it, but like literally stop talking about like how voting works. Um, but you know, it made sense to me that that um and I uh personally, the third one, Revenge of the Sith, I'm a big fan of it. I do like Revenge of the Sith. I thought that was a that was a good ending, you know. Like, uh so what are your thoughts, mate? Like prequel series versus uh sequel series.

[13:07] I like it all, and it's it's hard to say, but like it's tough. I'm more upset about the fact that the originals I can't find without all the added CGI [expletive]. Like, I'm pretty upset about that.

[13:18] Yeah, and like that was like George Lucas being like, it'll be really good if I went back and like added this giraffe monster like right before I see a scene.

[13:26] In the [expletive] Cantina where like all of a sudden there's a big seeing number and the guy's like and then that chick's like I remember watching it and Megan's like, what's going on? And I'm like, honestly, I have no [expletive] idea. I never remember seeing this ever. Like, what is this?

[13:42] Yeah, if if uh viewers, if you haven't like gone back and watched the like I mean, it's it's impossible really to find the movies without because unless you have like VHS, because even shortly after VHS is even in when I remember my dad had VHS sets and was complaining about the same thing almost like 20 years ago. So, like, pretty quickly they started like adding effects and they just kept doing it more and more. So good luck finding the originals. But if you haven't watched it since you saw the originals like un on a unaltered, watch it just to like have a really strong reaction. It's out of control. It's it is and it's just random, it's nothing important they added like a desert monster just standing in the background for no reason.

[14:20] Like, why did you feel the need to add that?

[14:22] In like way enhanced CGI versus the rest of the movie, you know. It's like it's like when you watch like a like a real time, like a movie that's in like real time and then they have like cartoon animations over it. Yes, like that's like literally the stark difference. It sticks out so production. It's so weird, it's so odd. Um, so so you just like all of it. You don't are you telling me you don't think the sequel series is worse than the prequel series? If you had to pick the first three movies, the original or the in the timeline, those three movies, episode one, two, and three versus Yeah, it'd be the prequels I like better.

[14:51] Like even with Jar Jar and everything, the at least the setup for Anakin, like he's a whiny [expletive], but so is Luke. So apparently that's something in their DNA. Yeah, you know?

[15:01] And and that's gonna lead us well into the next my next rant because people tend to be upset when people maybe have qualities that are are human, which is not being likable, is one of them, you know? Like everybody's like, Anna, like Darth Vader was supposed to be this badass, and he's just a whiny [expletive]. Like, yeah, like have you met, like usually some of the like really tough guys you meet in life were just little [expletive] that like you know, like that's part of the transformation process, you know? Like that all that angst like resulted in something like pretty terrible or bad decisions that led him down a path. And so I get annoyed when people are like Anakin was a little [expletive].

[15:01] Yes, like well, of course little Anakin was a [expletive] annoying child. Like he was a child, right? And then like they're like the child actor sucked because he was a child, like you know, like and that's also probably true of like how this a kid would act. It gets me, you know, this was supposed to get you worked up, but I'm just feeling way more worked up myself. I think I messed that up. I can see it. I can see. So I don't know. I just I don't think it's fair when we get mad for people like making you know, just having qualities that like suck. And that's gonna bring me to the next one, all right? So I'm just taking over this show. No, yeah, you take over this. So Legend of Korra, alright?

[15:01] I loved it. I loved it. Yes, is it perfect? Did I know my cat was in here? No. But here's the thing. Listen, alright, Avatar the Last Airbender, it's amazing. Like, right? I can't argue that. It's amazing. And when you were a child, and if you watched Avatar the Last Airbender, you're gonna know, like, it just covers such mature topics so well. It's like, it's just, you know, it's an adventure you want to get behind, especially as a kid. It's it's like magical, it's adventure, it's fantasy. And then there's just these really epic stories being told, and it's great. That being said, Legend of Korra is something different, it's the same, it's the same universe, but they wanted to tell different stories.

[15:01] They are tackling a different age group, which are teenagers who have, you know, more issues, honestly, you know. And then to me, it's a little bit more realistic. You know, one thing that will always stand out to me is that in Avatar The Last Airbender, for a child dealing with genocide, he's handling it pretty [expletive] well. Yeah, he's handling it pretty great. But but so so like of course Korra looks like a dumb [expletive] by comparison when she like has relationship problems or PTSD, like you're like, wow, that's really lame. But it's like, well, yeah, because in Avatar, Aang is basically perfect. Like he like the worst episodes is when he fights with Katara and like feels bad about it, you know. Like, you know, so like it's not fair.

[15:01] It's not like why do people hate Legend of Korra? What do you think? Because it's it's strong, it's it's I mean, viewers right now are probably like, I'm not listening to the show anymore. Korra's garbage.

[17:33] I honestly have no idea because you actually got me into the Korra show. Like, hey, just check it out. So I watched it and I loved it. I liked it better than the other avatar because number one is set in like a steampunk kind of world. Right. [expletive] right off the bat, like, okay, you got me. I'm in.

[17:47] There's some really cool characters in it, like uh, what's his name? Merrick? Yes, like I mean, there are some, there's just some phenomenal stuff. Like, it's just a different, it's a different story, and there's some really great stuff. There's also some more characters that annoy us, but like, you know, Avatar Last Airbender, it's just one half of it, you know. And I to me, there's so many, like the ending of Avatar Last Airbender to me was a huge disappointment, even as a child, especially as an adult, but even as a child, I remember being like, Oh, that fight was kind of lame. Right?

[17:47] Like, that's it, and you just took away his powers, like, and like, dude, literally, really, just like one or two episodes before, a [expletive] lion turtle, Ducex Machina, comes and gives the answer. That they really they mentioned lion turtles like once or twice. I've rewatched the show a couple times, and it like maybe comes up briefly that like a lion turtle exists, but that's it, you know. They don't like really lead up to it. It's except in that like Aang has to find his own way, his own solution, right? They they kind of that's that is what they're building up to. But the fact that just the episode before here's the answer to all your problems, your your your life crisis, that kills me every time. And so, you know, too convenient, too convenient.

[17:47] So people give Cora crap about that all the time. The first season, yeah. It's a little bit of the same where Aang reappears and like gives back the bending. Okay, fine. But like, you know, Avatar Last Airbender invented that game, you know.

[19:05] Yep.

[19:06] And then it's also, Nate, it's also so easy to just episode by episode just go back to the status quo and reset, which is what basically very few episodes in Avatar Last Airbender go. Some of them are two or three parters, but almost never. That's usually not the case. So there's one episode, they tackle an issue. If they had a fight, episode three, episode four, they're they're [expletive] like it never happened. Right.

[19:26] It's like a sitcom more than anything. Exactly.

[19:29] You can do whatever you want in a sitcom and have no repercussions for the next episode. Exactly. So of course there are like choices and challenges. And then, you know, also people have to understand politics. Like, I'm so glad we got to see more of Avatar. You but it came at a cost, you know. The first I don't know if you know this, Nate, but the first two seasons of Legend of Cora did air on Nickelodeon, I think, online, or or it was just on their TV show. And then the second two seasons, they literally just were like, okay, you can like it's not gonna be on Nickelodeon, and that's why they started to do a little bit like the the last two seasons are better and they kind of cover more mature content.

[19:29] Oh, yeah, got more adulty. Yeah, because they got the freedom basically from like Nickelodeon to do that. So that's how stuff works, and that's that's why the first two seasons, and then also the first season probably had to prove itself again, and so it probably had a more limited budget than the rest. So that's probably why we got like cut off towards the end. Whereas three seasons in the Avatar Last Airbender, they should have been able to like that's a super short season, too. The third book is only a few episodes. So I just think you know, throw them a bone, throw, throw Cora a bone. If you haven't watched Cora, give it a chance.

[20:31] But please give it a chance.

[20:33] Yes, does she make the same mistake over and over again? Yeah, well, guess what? So do I. Like, do you ever like do something you're like, I knew I should have done it, and I did it, and I regret it. Absolutely not. I am perfect in every way.

[20:43] Well, that makes one of us nate.

[20:46] So for the rest of our viewers who I hope relate a little bit more to just being just unapologetically imperfect, like that's okay. Like, everybody's like, I can't believe she like keeps doing the same dumb [expletive]. I'm like, I do it all the time. I can totally believe it. It's called hubris, it's called pride, it's wanting to do the good thing or wanting to do something, but not you know, accepting that it like just doesn't work out the way you want to. Like that [expletive] happens all the time.

[21:11] So it'd be like the part like where they're upset about her being whiny after being killed. Like, yeah, if I was almost killed by somebody, like I kind of wouldn't want to do that thing ever again. Yeah, like I was almost killed. Like, I I value my life, you know.

[21:23] It's crazy, it's crazy. All right, I'm gonna I'm gonna let you take the next one because I need to calm down a little bit. I got you, you I thought I was heating you up, but I mean, I'm gonna I'm fired up. I'm fired up, mate.

[21:33] Yep. All right, so here we go. So the next uh talking point we have is I know you're gonna if you've seen Avengers, you know what I'm talking about. And I don't mean to be that guy or anything, but I mean I watched it with my wife, okay, and this scene completely killed the mood of the whole movie for me. And I think you know what I'm talking about. It's the part where everybody's fighting Thanos at the end, and then all of a sudden the women get together and they're battling, which is fine, but then they do all do a pose together. Like, was this really necessary?

[21:33] Like, it completely the pose itself completely took me out of the movie, and I pretty sure I got up and like I'm gonna go make a sandwich or something, you know, at this point. Like, I'm over it.

[22:13] Right? All right, listen, all about women empowerment here, but like you have to do like love the ladies, one of us does. Um, but listen, you like the guys wouldn't stand there and pose. Like, why would the girl like and this is this was a very high-stakes battle, you know. Obviously, they set the whole it's called Endgame is the name of the movie. Like, so why are we doing stuff like that? Like, you know, like let's just show a perfect example. Mandalorian recently um had their like finale had a lot of women, right? A lot of women in it. Yep, and they don't have to stand there and pose. There's one scene where they're all walking down the hallway together, but that's just like what people would do when walking in a hallway.

[22:13] It's not overly um glamorous. Yeah, exactly. And so, like, do it and do it well because we want female empowerment more than anything, but we want it authentic. And when you just cram, like when you get the pretty superheroes wearing tight clothing, posing in the middle of like a high stakes, this is the end of the world battle. It's it it it breaks too much. Yeah, it breaks too much. Nobody would stop doing what they're doing.

[23:13] Like when Scarlet Witch is going in attacking him, boom, boom, boom, boom, attacking him. You like, and then everybody teams in, they're attacking them. You don't take the five seconds to like put your hands on your hips and look at the sunset right now, you know? Like, you're still gonna be punching this guy. Like, why stop punching him? Continue punching him, like kill him. Doesn't make sense.

[23:31] Finish him.

[23:32] Exactly. You're not gonna be like boom boom, and then hold on, how's my hair? Yeah, oh, look at that over there, everybody, and then everybody looks in the same direction and like puff up their chest and [expletive].

[23:41] It's a discredit to the heroes, right? You know, because they're they're just as badass as the other heroes, but like that's that's not a thing. It completely kills the character. Absolutely. It totally does. Um, I was thinking you know, I was gonna say something else. Also, we are supposed to be saying our key phrase, which is I call shenanigans. Oh, yeah, sorry. So I'll go ahead and make sure it worked out. That's so worked up about I call shenanigans. So worked up. I call shenanigans. Um, yeah, I I don't know. There is, you know, I'll just jump into the next one. So thank God it's it's a lot of the same, and that's I just watched Wonder Woman 1984. How was it? In my opinion, mate, hot garbage. And now listen, so here's the thing.

[23:41] I'm gonna try not to overly spoil it because it is pretty it came out on Christmas on HBO Max. So, but I was so excited. So the first uh you you know about like DCU movies, like they're not great. They're not great, especially compared to Marvel, they're not great. But Wonder the first Wonder Woman of the this recent universe was held to be like one of the better, if not one of the best movies in the current DC universe movie, like you know, cinematic universe. Um, it was a good one. In my opinion, I don't know if you feel that way, but I I actually like the first Wonder Woman. Um, and it is generally held as like a really good one. So little did I expect the second movie to be total garbage.

[23:41] Um, I'm gonna give you the premise of the movie, but I won't I won't spoil it. But the premise of the movie is that she works in a museum, right? Uh Wonder Woman, that's kind of what she does, makes sense because she's a relic herself. Yes, so she can identify relics, and they basically find um a wishing stone. And they don't know it's a wishing stone at first, and they make a joke, they're like, Oh, wouldn't it be great if I get a coffee and someone gets a coffee? And then so of course, Diana, um, and this is where it starts, like all the issues I think with the movie, is she just kind of she's still not over the guy.

[25:21] Did you see the first uh uh I saw it one time, but it was a while ago. I know I had the guy from Star Trek, yeah. All right, Chris Pine is that.

[25:28] Yeah, Chris Pine. She's in love with Chris Pine's character in that movie, and she basically this is now it's like 1984, World War II, when was World War II? And what was the day of that? 19 we're talking like 50-year difference, right? Yeah, yeah. Something like that. So 50 years later, Wonder Woman is still hung up on this guy enough that she wishes for him on a stone, and then that whole movie, it's like 1980s nostalgia and wishing, and and so it gets out of control.

[25:28] But like a lot of the problems, like not I'm not I'm not saying like reasons they don't like the movie, but a lot of the conflict in the movie and the drama around the movie is that she doesn't want to like give up her wish of of Chris Pine. Like Chris Pine's they they bring him back with the wishing stone, yeah, and she's in love with him, and she almost starts losing her powers because you to give the wish you have to you know lose something. Oh, okay. And she in the for a while, for most of the movie, she won't give up. She she wants to keep him so bad, she's giving up her powers, even though [expletive]'s going crazy, [expletive]'s going down. And to me, that was just total garbage.

[25:28] Like, so like, and that's just we wouldn't do that with a male hero, but we would do that with a female hero, right? She's just so in love. 50 years later, by the way, like, yo, she like an Amazon princess who's like a god in her own right, super powerful, is still hung up on a guy. Yeah, it doesn't matter. And and and hey, listen, I'm all about love. I just told you too, like, right? Like, Cora is a real character and that's why I like her. You know, we should be able to say, yeah, Wonder Woman's a person too, and she has feelings as well. But the fact that she would risk and everything in the show gets so bad, like it just escalates really quickly.

[25:28] We're talking like it kind of goes into like the Cold War and like missile crisis type stuff. And like it gets that escalated basically because Wonder Woman isn't ready yet to like give her a boyfriend. And I'm like, that's such garbage. Like, I'm sorry, but she like is a bad like if you're gonna do a badass female superhero, then do it well. Don't make it tied to her being in love or being it doesn't need to be, yeah. It could be so many other things. It didn't. So the I mean it was just a weak premise, even taking like sexism or you know, maybe some of the maybe just outdated um just strategies there out of the picture. It just is like a a a movie based on the wishing stone, right? Not great.

[25:28] Not you know, and I get we're going for 1980s nostalgia, nostalgia.

[27:41] How was that by the way? Because I am a big fan of the 80s.

[27:45] Um for me, everybody was like, oh wow, it was so cool. They kept like referencing all this 1980s stuff. For me, I don't know. Like it was it wasn't the kind of 80s stuff I think of. Oh you know, okay. It was more of the like cheesy like jazzer size aerobics and like stuff like that. Like that was more trans and cocaine and mullets and blood life. Kind of see, I'd even be more down. I would have been more down for that. Um yeah, I don't know. Um, Kirsten Weir's uh Kirsten Wig, I think it's her name. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh she plays I forgot whoever the cheetah girl is that like is is her enemy. You don't even remember? No, that's Thundercats. No, that's Thundercats. Yeah, that's what I thought too.

[27:45] Uh she plays a villain and it's just not good. And her premise is to like, I don't know that character's original backstory. I should go look it up, but I'm guessing it's not wanting to be a badass from she's like a nerd who uses the wishing stone to become a badass. And like again, that like it's just a weak premise.

[28:36] So kind of like a poison ivy, how she was like a botanist and like some stuff fell on her.

[28:40] It's like the same thing, dude. It's like the same. And for me, in 2020, I'm just expecting like better storytelling. And I don't know, maybe that is the comic stuff. And if that's the case, then DC is trash because that's some garbage.

[28:51] Because Marvel, you get such a deep story out of the whole Marvel universe. Like the last Spider-Man, the like I almost cried. Like when it was like Tony Stark poster on the wall, and I'm like, oh my god, I miss him too, you know, is a fictional guy, and I miss him.

[29:04] Yeah, yeah. That's you know, it's just not the case with DC, and they didn't, they really and but what kills me though, it performs so well um as on the streaming service. They've already greenlit the third one, which I do. I like I don't think Wonder Woman is ruined. I want them to make a better movie and get it back on track as one of the better DCU movies. So I I think whatever, hopefully it gets better. But did that movie like it's brilliant, it's the equivalent of breaking box offices now, but for streaming services. But did it deserve it? I don't think so. Um, I think we were all just bored at home. We had HBO now or Go or whatever, or Max is now what it's called. Yeah.

[29:04] And it was Christmas, so we're like, whatever, let's watch it. But I don't think it was a good movie.

[29:42] Well, I'm gonna go home and give it at least 20 minutes of my time. And if I get up and make a sandwich, it's over.

[29:48] I I hope you live stream or you you send me text. Go ahead and post to social media how terrible it is. I don't care.

[29:53] Yeah, okay. I don't care any H.

[29:54] I'll give you play-by-plays. All right, I hope so.

[29:57] If I stop messaging, it'll be because I fell asleep at one point.

[30:00] Oh man. I think you'll be more angry than asleep. Oh, okay. All right, so the next topic is yours, and I have to be honest, um, well, go ahead and then uh I'll talk about it.

[30:10] I'll look it up. Hold on. I got stretch for this. Okay. Now the scene in Goonies, everybody out there has watched the Goonies, right? Now remember when Bran is he has the little girl's bicycle, right? And then, like, what's his name? Shows up in the Mustang, and he's all super cool, and he's like, Well, I'll give you Rad and puts his hand on his hand and holds him somehow securely to his Mustang and guns it. And then this little butt tricycle, and it's got training wheels on it, all of a sudden is going like 60 miles an hour right now. 60, 80 miles an hour. The training wheels fly off, and he's like, Oh my god, you know, you know that scene because that's exactly how it happened.

[30:10] Then he flies off the cliff into the woods on a little girl's tricycle, bicycle, and it just doesn't make sense. You're going 80 miles an hour, and you fly off into the woods, and you like you would have been dead. It doesn't so I'm I I I'm having I'm at a loss for words right now because you would have died. And how is he holding on, like just like that, yeah, holding on to his arm? Apparently, you're just magnetized, like he was stuck to the musket.

[31:07] We've all done that as a kid, too, right? Where we try to like rapple somebody while riding a bike, and then what happens? You both fall over. Like, you know, it wouldn't have like his bike would have just like lost the back would have hit the front and he would have just fell immediately. You wouldn't have been able to keep him like perfectly balanced to like at 80 miles an hour fast.

[31:22] Realistically, he's gonna be like, oh my god, the front tire wiggles, he slides underneath the back tires of the Mustang, the dunk the dunk, and then all of a sudden he killed Bran. And then now there's gonna be a police report, and then Mikey and the rest of the Goonies are probably gonna die down there.

[31:36] All right, few questions. So, did he not die in the movie?

[31:38] Is that what No, he did not die. He did he had like a couple scratches on his face, and then he shows up somehow, miraculously, at the old summer restaurant, and they're like, Oh, your face, and he's like, got one little scratch on his lip, like he crashed into the woods, flying off of a cliff on a bicycle, going, I'm assuming, 167 miles an hour. And like, that's at least. I call shenanigans. I call shenanigans. Definitely. And she's like, Oh, your lip. And he's like, I've had worse. Like, you've had worse than being thrown off of a cliff going 60-something miles per hour. Like, no, you have not, and like that's all you got to show for it.

[32:14] So a few things. Here, here's my thoughts on it. First of all, in the beginning, you said, Who hasn't seen Goonies? I haven't seen Goonies, you son of a [expletive], Nate. So thankfully, I asked you to text me what you I want to see if we were like our rant topics were on the same page yesterday. So I asked you to like send me your topics and you you put this, and so I actually YouTube'd the clip. So I know nothing about what the movie Goonies is about, but I saw that clip and was very confused. Um, and then the second part, and I agree that I was like, oh yeah, that kid's dead now. And then since I hadn't seen the movie, I didn't even look it up.

[32:14] I was like, I'm gonna just ask Nate if he died. And so it turns out he didn't die, and that makes sense. Okay, so but that's that's part one. Part two is that while I was looking for the YouTube clips, there was a clip that said deleted scene, um, and it was obviously not real, but I didn't know that, so I watched the deleted scene, and then it's like right after that last part where he like goes off the cliff, it just has like someone from a video game animate, like you have like your hands on the bike and it's just going down a path, and it's just like a dirt bike, and no, it just cried no, just going down straight to their depth.

[32:14] And but like I actually at first was like, Oh, well, maybe like maybe Nate's mad because he hasn't seen this deleted scene, and then I watched it made no sense. So I was woefully unprepared to really have this argument with you, and so I'm just gonna go ahead and say, Yeah, uh, I caution against that doesn't make any sense. Right. After watching the clip with no context, it doesn't make sense.

[33:29] And the the whole thing, anyways, just doesn't make sense. Like the Fratelli's, like, they could have just showed up and be like, Oh, these kids have the treasure, blah, blah, blah, with a gun. They had guns, they could have just shot these little kids and been like, oh, now the treasure's ours. Instead, it wasn't that easy. Like, there has to be an adventure. [expletive] Steven Spielberg.

[33:46] I gotta be honest, you've kind of sold me on this movie. Like, I don't think that was the intention. Everybody's gotta watch it, but I might have to check it out.

[33:52] There's a lot of good, uh, there's a lot of greatness in the movie, but there are a couple scenes where like that doesn't make sense. Wait till you get to the other scene where they're in the cave and they're like, oh, we gotta shake the pipes, and then all of a sudden the pipes go up in the building, up and down, up and down, up and down. It doesn't even [expletive] make sense. That's not how pipes work, they just don't go up and down, like without friction, from [expletive] 50 feet underneath the earth up into this building, and then it like back pressure, and then it blows the [expletive] kid off the toilet and [expletive]. Like, it doesn't work like that.

[33:52] Like it's hilarious, and I loved it as a kid, but now looking back on it, it just pisses me off. Wow. Sorry.

[34:26] It's a lot to unfacter.

[34:27] Sorry, it's a lot to uninvested, though.

[34:29] But I agree, I agree. I call shenanigans. I'm gonna go back and watch that, and I'm gonna try to channel even a tenth of the the rage that you just you just left. You'll probably love it. Like it's a good uh it's a good family movie. I tried getting Corbin into it, and he's like, nah, that wouldn't happen. Yeah, that sounds like your child. Yeah, um, all right, how about this one's also yours? Uh you have a bone to pick with horror movies.

[34:48] Yeah, this actually rolls into the whole uh not shooting the kids. So uh in horror movies, the heroes who don't use the weapons that they have, and then that'll break off into another thing, the bad endings. But like, so the hero, like you manage to like wrestle the machete away from Jason and [expletive], right? And then like he falls down, he's unconscious for a little bit, and she just stands there, or he just stands there, like, oh my god, and then they just they run off. Like, what the [expletive] are you doing? Like, chop this guy's head off. He's been trying to kill you for over an hour and a half. He's been trying to kill you, like, and now you have a weapon and you're just gonna run away. Like, [expletive] stab this guy.

[34:48] What was the last one we watched? Megan, if you're listening to this, tell me later what the last one we watched is. But the guy shows up with a car, and then somehow they wrestle, and she gets out, and then he gets his head hit on a rock and he passes out. And she has some kind of weapon, but she decides to get back in the car, and instead of getting in the car and just running this [expletive] over and then driving off to freedom, she just apparently he's passed out. He should be fine, and just gets in the car and just drives away. Like, it doesn't, it shouldn't work like that. Doesn't make sense. No, it doesn't matter. I call shenanigans. I call shenanigans 100%.

[34:48] Like, especially if you have a gun and the guy's passed out for he looks like he's sleeping. Like, what are you doing anyways? Like, oh, he's sleeping, I better get out of here. Like, no, he's been trying to kill you all [expletive] day.

[36:02] [expletive] shoot him. I agree. So, alright, here's I'm gonna play devil's advocate because I think that's important, you know? And so if I alright, if I had a gun, yeah, just I'm gonna straight up [expletive]. Yeah, because I'm like, it's not hard for me to operate a weapon and make sure he's dead. But you you had like you had jokingly said, like, oh, just use a machete and chop off his head. Like, well, what if I like only get it partly into his neck?

[36:02] You know, like to me, could there be some fear that they're not, you know, practic they're not equipped well enough with the weapon or skilled enough with the weapon to actually like you know, because it's scary, the guy has been trying to kill them for an hour, like, unless they're sure they're gonna be able to kill the person.

[36:34] Right.

[36:34] And like, so like a baseball bat, I don't know, but like a gun, all right, sure. So do you think like maybe fear is supposed to play into that? Like, you don't think they just you know pan like panic or or just No, because like we said, they've been running for an hour now.

[36:49] Like, you're tired, you're exhausted. It's nothing new at this point. Like, oh my god, how many different ways is this one guy gonna try to kill me? Yeah, like and obviously he can teleport because I've ran probably six miles and he is at least 200 pounds heavier than me, and he walks. I am running through the woods, and this [expletive] is walking, and somehow he's ahead of me, and that doesn't even make sense. So obviously he's got some kind of magical powers, and I need to put a stop to this right now, you know, by killing him. And if you feel like you can't kill him, I don't know what to tell you, then you should have just laid down and died in the first place.

[36:49] Like, you want to survive, then you need to like just kill this guy.

[37:22] I think there is an exception to your your this so this right, this is a common um thing. Oh, all the [expletive] pattern that we see in movies, but there is an exception. There are the trap layers, right? That's a per there are people who love to do traps. If you think of like first Freddie Krueger at the end, she goes bananas to setting up traps, yeah. And like basically kills them with like home alone style. Like we don't even get into that, right?

[37:43] Or uh um Arnold in Predator. The whole ending was I'm gonna set up traps.

[37:48] Yeah, yeah.

[37:49] Get down.

[37:51] So I think that's like they're they're they're not courageous enough to just shoot them or like stab him in the heart, but they are courageous enough to set up a bunch of [expletive] traps, right?

[37:59] And clear-minded enough to like develop engineer these elaborate traps and like have the time to sharpen all 56 of these pungy sticks, you know. Like, you got plenty of time to do that.

[38:13] I call it shenanigans.

[38:14] I call shenanigans, and then the the second part of that was um the endings to about 99% of the last horror movies. I'm also a big horror movie fan. I watch them whenever I can. I actually have a subscription to Shudder. A lot of people don't have that. No, I haven't heard that one. Oh, yeah, it's good. I love it. But I also hate the last 30 minutes of every movie. It's a great movie. Like you can tell the writers are really working on it. Give us an example. Um, let me see. What was the last one that I had? Nobody facts here, Nate.

[38:43] When you're talking about it.

[38:44] I know I should have been more prepared.

[38:46] You just generalize on a topic.

[38:48] No, because they're it's all generalized, they're all like that. Like, it's all great. Like, I'm following the story, like, oh man, the kid could be the killer, you know, and then like they just give up halfway through. They're like, nah, the kid's not the killer. It turns out it's a neighbor down the street. Like, well, who the [expletive] is this guy? Like, you haven't even introduced him. He has no backstory to the plot whatsoever, and now you're just gonna throw in some guy. They just give up. Like shenanigans. Yeah, shenanigans. Like, it was a great story, the whole hour long, up until you get to the half hour mark, because all horror movies are super short nowadays for some.

[39:16] It's like there's like a timer, like, and they're like, and 30 minutes, give up. Everybody just stopped.

[39:20] They're like, hey, Steve, uh great script, but you're fired now, bud. Uh Jim is gonna take over from here.

[39:26] And it's always Jim who finishes the script.

[39:29] And he's just the [expletive] coffee guy, you know? And he's like, oh yeah, I can wrap this up real quick. I'm thinking, old guy next door. They're like, perfect, love it. There hasn't been an old guy in the entire [expletive] movie. Yeah, he's a [expletive] killer. [expletive] get him, you know?

[39:40] Got him. Oh goodness. Yeah, it works me out. I gotta just believe you because I gotta be honest, Nate. Uh, I don't watch a lot of horror movies. I'm uh I'm a big, I'm uh a little bit of a scaredy cat. And I like my I like suspense. I like I like that kind of stuff. But but just stray horror and the gore, it's not my thing. It's not my thing. So maybe if the 30 last 30 minutes were better though, maybe I would.

[40:01] Yeah, because honestly, at this point, Nate, you're not missing out on much, except for wasting probably an hour, hour and a half of your life getting invested into a show. Because they make it good just long enough that you're like, you know what, I'm gonna ride this out to the end, and then they [expletive] on you in the end. They're like, Well, what the [expletive]? Now I just wasted my life watching this [expletive] movie. I'm not gonna get that back.

[40:19] Yeah. It's a shame. It's a shame. Sorry. All right, all right, wow. We we really we gotta calm it down. And I think I have a great way to make sure neither of us get too worked up. Uh, I want to talk about guys the Oxford comma, all right, or the serial comma. Do you know what the Oxford comma is?

[40:38] Please explain it to me, right?

[40:39] All right, listen. And I'm sure the viewers, this is the time if you want to go get your coffee, if you want to make that sandwich, uh, like that scene in Avengers, uh, you can go ahead and do that. So, so when you have a list of things, I'm like, so I like strawberry, chocolate, and vanilla. The Oxford comma puts a comma after strawberry, after chocolate, and then the word and and then your final item. So it's always comma and final item. Okay, whereas without the Oxford comma, you don't put the comma. So it's like first item, second item, and third item, and there's no comma there. Now, here's the thing does it matter any? All right, not really. But listen, people are crazy.

[40:39] Like the grammar Nazis are crazy about the Oxford comma, and people who don't have an opinion or don't even know much about grammar are like, but you have to do anybody who's anybody does the Oxford comma. No, I don't give a [expletive]. First of all, all right, the AP style guide only uses it for clarification. They do not, they like that whole style guide, which is you know generally used for a lot of very credible sources, like you know, news and whatnot, they don't even deem it necessary because it's pointless, all right? And here here's what gets me, all right? Here's where I call shenanigans. People use this grammatic example um where it basically like without the comma, it looks like you invited like uh Hitler and a stripper to a party.

[40:39] Or and then without the comma, people think the stripper is Hitler.

[41:59] Oh, okay, okay.

[42:00] But then the what's annoying is you can literally change that sentence and it works like I could be like, I invited my dad, comma, Hitler, comma, and the clown. And with that, with with the Oxford comma, it sounds like my dad is Hitler. Right. So it's the same thing. It's the same thing, they I call shenanigans. And so listen, grammar, is it sexy, is it pop culture, is it cinematic? No. But listen, if you're out there and you like, here's my thoughts. If you like the Oxford comma, cool. But just always strive for clarity, all right? Sometime, and it is not the end all be all.

[42:00] You like I write press releases, I write, I write stuff, yeah, you know, in my spare time, and I'm not less of a writer because I don't use the Oxford comma. I use it when it's needed for clarity, and then I don't when it's not needed because it's excessive and I hate it, okay?

[42:44] Right.

[42:45] And but it doesn't make me less of a writer. So if you're one of the Oxford comma grandma Nazis, well [expletive] you. Well, [expletive] you. All right, listen, just get over it. It doesn't make you better, and people who don't use it might actually use it intentionally and not because they don't know, right? Okay, so that's that's what I got. You know, was that exciting? No, did I have to say it? Yeah.

[43:02] Well, side note, I always thought the comma was like and it meant and, like already. So when we write comma and is aren't you just saying and and that's like saying I'm going to the ATM machine. So you're going to the automatic telling machine machine. Like it stop it. Like I'm going to the ATM. I'm not going to the ATM for those of you out there who say I'm going to the ATM machine, [expletive] stop it. The M at the end already stands for machine. You're not going to the machine machine.

[43:27] We do that in the military. You have something called the CAC card, which is your common access card. So it's just a CAC. If you say CAC card, you're saying the common access card card. Right. And you sound like an idiot. It doesn't make sense. It's just, yeah, stop it.

[43:38] Yeah, you want to stop it.

[43:39] Yeah. I so see, that was that was a really great way to bring it down to people who don't clearly understand how grammar works at all. Right. Um, you've really made it accessible to them. So awesome. That was a great example. Thank you. I know we're gonna don't worry, the re everybody, the rest of these topics are back to what we were already talking about. But I just had to sneak that in because that bothers me, you know? [expletive] you, [expletive] you.

[44:00] But uh like us on uh our Facebook and uh go ahead and uh subscribe to our Patreon. It's only a dollar. It's only a dollar. And if you subscribe to our Patreon, you can actually use as many commas as you want.

[44:09] We actually approve it. We approve it for it. All right, so back to fantasy, uh where this show should probably always stay and never and never again branch out like I just tried to do. Um, where does the Mandalorian go from here? And if you can, try not to ruin it too much for people who haven't finished season two, but yeah, well, you should have finished it already, but there there comes to a point where one of the main characters seems to go off by themselves.

[44:36] So where does that leave us? Like, I got into this show for this character. You know who I'm talking about. I'm not trying to ruin it, but he's [expletive] my favorite.

[44:46] You know, he's so cute.

[44:49] Like, where do we he's not here anymore? Where do we go from here? Like, I was only invested in the show because it started out like, oh yeah, that guy's adorable, but then the show got good. So then now I have to follow it religiously. And but where do we go? Like, yeah, it's still somewhat interesting, but without him, am I really gonna like still pay for Disney Plus?

[45:11] Right, that is the real question. Well, you know, if you love Star Wars, they just announced like 12 Star Wars like series.

[45:16] It was like the Obi-Wan Kenobi one.

[45:18] Obi-Wan Kenobi, which I'm super, and it's Ewan McGregor, or whatever you say is [expletive] name, which I'm really excited about. Um, so there's gonna be a lot of good stuff. Uh I I defin I I agree. The first when Disney Plus first came out, I really got it for Mandalorian. I watched it and then I kept it for six more months, never watching it. Right. And we recently canceled it. Now I just mooch off of my mother who lets me use it. Uh but anyway, I agree for a while, like Mandalorian was Disney Plus. I think we are getting to a point though where that will be a little bit different soon. But the I guess we digress. Um, did you watch?

[45:18] There was a scene at the end of the credits of the last episode of season two of Mandalorian. Did you watch the hidden scene?

[45:58] No, I don't think I did.

[45:59] So it kind of doesn't answer your question, but it actually just kind of indicated a spin-off series. But a lot of people were wondering if that is the direction for, which I don't know. Do we want to do we want to talk about it? Do we want to ruin it for our viewers? Yeah, let's ruin it.

[46:12] You know what? [expletive] them.

[46:13] [expletive] them. Yeah. I call Shenana. All right. Just a dollar. It's just a dollar. So at the end, at the end of season two of Mindala, and it's not really a big spoiler. Um, season two introduces a character from the original Star Wars series that we assume fell in a saw pit.

[46:29] Okay.

[46:29] All right, we know who that is. Um, if we don't, I won't say it.

[46:32] I guess maybe, but most people should know who that is.

[46:35] If you don't know who fell in a Sarlack pit, well then Yeah. You're at the wrong show. Um, so basically at the end of the show, they show him sitting on Job of the Hutts like little throne with his new companion, and there's gonna be like a four-episode arc called Book of It's Boba Fett. It's Boba, guys. It's BaFett. So they're doing Book of Boba Fett, and there was a scene, it's just a scene of him at the end doing that.

[46:59] So with the little weasel guy?

[47:02] The weasel guy?

[47:03] Is it the weasel guy? Well, I didn't see the scene. I should have stayed. Well, you say he's sitting on the throne with a little friend.

[47:10] Uh oh no, no. All right, well, it has a couple of the people who are in, like, you remember how Jabba the Hutt has like had like a court?

[47:17] Yeah, he had the albino guy at the table. Yep, the albino.

[47:20] That's that guy's there.

[47:21] He had the little weasel looking thing that was always like, Oh, okay.

[47:24] I don't remember if the weasel's there, okay, but or not. But I I don't. But there's a bunch of those characters, and by by his friend, I I guess it was condescending that I said little friend. By his friend, I meant the assassin who like works for him now. Oh, okay. Which I have questioned, you know, let me just go ahead. That wasn't even on the list. Yeah, let's [expletive] add it. So she he she is in his servitude because Boba Fett rescues her in the desert and then kind of puts some like mechanical stuff in her stomach. In her guts. But like for somebody who is this like badass assassin who's now just this subservient, like, very like, I'm gonna do whatever Boba does. She, I guess she's very grateful, you know.

[47:24] Which I feel like by now she's already helped Boba Fett do a bunch of [expletive] that was very dangerous. Right. And so probably, right? Wouldn't that life debt be fine? Like, I'm kind of annoyed. To me, it's just another like kind of subservient female character, and that actress, um, man, you know, I don't remember her name then. I'm so sorry, but she is a badass. Like that that that female Asian specifically has all of like the best roles in a bunch of movies, um, and then in series. She's in um what's that Marvel? Agents of Shield. Yeah, yeah. She's a badass agent in that. Um, they're crazy rich Asian. She's like the the [expletive] mom, and she's like a terror and it's awesome. Like, all of her roles are are really good.

[47:24] And so I just like her being a badass, also another bad assassin or sharpshooter would be awesome. And I just wish she would get a little. I hope in hopefully in Book of Boba they give her a little bit more. I'm also kind of like, I want to know, because it's going directly into the next topic that I didn't put on the sheet. But where the f has Boba Fett been? All right. This is what gets me. So Boba Fett in the show, we're just going with all spoilers all the way now. But Boba Fett in season two of The Mandalorian, he basically sees Mando. So Mando finds his armor and gets it off of a guy. Yeah, on Tatooine. Yep. The Marshal, the Marshal.

[47:24] The Marshal, yeah, on Tatooine, where I guess Boba Fett's probably been for decades now at this point. He somehow that Marshal got his armor, and we hopefully we'll find out one day how that happened, but whatever. And so Boba Fett's like stalking him, and then [expletive] Mando leaves the planet, and Boba Fett tracks him all the way to this other planet to get his armor back. And I'm like, the decades you were on Tatooine, you couldn't find the guy on the same [expletive] planet who had your armor, but you can track [expletive] Boba off the or Jang or Mang Mando, I don't know [expletive] all these guys' names. Like, I don't understand why he just didn't get his armor back at any other point.

[47:24] Why did he wait for another Mandalorian to get his armor and then chase him off the plant? It seems very impactful. I call shenanigans.

[49:52] Because uh the Marshall story just doesn't add up. Like, yeah, you ran away from the guys and all of a sudden the Jawas, and then you gave the Jawas this thing, and then it just so happened they had Boba Fett's armor. Like, that doesn't really add up. No, you know, and I'm not believing that story one bit.

[50:06] And I really thought they were gonna go give us his like how did he survive the Starlight? We want to know. And so hopefully Book of Boba like covers that, but the end scene looks almost like a future of like what Boba's gonna do versus what he's been doing. So I don't know. Hopefully, I guess we'll see and we'll find out.

[50:21] Or they might just screw us over and chalk it up to like, hey, these things happen.

[50:25] Sometimes you survive the Starlight pit. No, you don't know, you want to survive the Starlight pit, you know? That doesn't happen. That's not a thing, Nate. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, I digress. Um, all right. The next one, uh, I'm gonna preface this real quick. I didn't know this about Nate until very recently, but Nate is uh a big Potter nerd.

[50:42] Yes, is there a term for Potter fans? Uh I've heard like Potter Head, but I [expletive] I hate that.

[50:47] Yeah, that's dumb as hell. Don't say that. All right, well, yeah, big big Harry Potter. He knows a lot of trivia. He's a fan of the movies to some extent.

[50:54] Movies books, yep.

[50:54] Um, so what do you what do you have to gripe about?

[50:56] I really feel like the Harry Potters should have been a series. Like, we're looking at all these great series nowadays, and you can go into so much detail breaking this stuff down. Like even the the Lemony Snicket, like that was awesome on Netflix. I love that. The series of unfortunate events, and I feel like Harry Potter just didn't get justice, like there was so much left out in the movies, and there was a lot of movies, but there was so much left out that I felt like could have been great if you threw it and just made it a series that was a like a community.

[51:26] I would love to follow the other schools too. Like that [expletive] sounds I love [expletive] the fourth movie where those other schools come where you have like the pretty school and then the like then the Russian jocks. Like, I dig it, I dig it. Um, I I would have loved that too. Yeah. I mean, it is funny though when you say a series, like why couldn't it have been a series? Eight movies to me is kind of a series, but I want more than that.

[51:49] So, like every movie I want that to be one season. At least, right. I just want more hours total covering Harry Potter. That way we get the most out of it that we can.

[52:01] You know, I I wonder what the holdup is there because it it's just like it's natural. Like that's the way, all right. Game of Thrones, book turned into series, you know, a bunch of other stuff, book turned into series. Like, it's just like you know, The Witcher, another example. Like, we just know it's gonna be a hit, right? Like, no business person's like, oh, I don't know if we're gonna make a bunch of money with a Harry Potter series. Like, no, literally, that's not a question. So, what's the holdup? You know, now I it's been years, so there's been plenty of time to do it. I would say now, uh, JK Rowling, not so hot these days. Right? She's in a lot of hot water, yeah.

[52:01] She's in a lot of people kind of hate her, um, which is is something, you know. I don't even know if I have opinions on it, because like I think the author has allowed her opinions, but when the opinions are kind of weird and biggety, right, then it's like, oh, I don't know. But when what things I've read about what she's tried to say is what I get the vibe is that she's just really bad at articulating, right? Ironically, the burn author. Um, I think like she has I I I I I wonder if she's just like just she took her fame too seriously and thought she really could just put her opinions out without like taking the time to process and understand like how to make a good art.

[53:11] Yeah, she's like Donald Trump on Twitter, like it's out of control, like just saying whatever you want, and then people will just love it, and that's not the case because she used to be like uh a nice name, you know, like when she came out and said that like uh Dumbledore was gay, you know, and everybody's like, Oh yay, she's fighting for us, you know, like which is fine because it made sense in the story. It actually did the way it was written, it makes perfect sense. But then now to come out and be like kind of backlash on like the whole other category of that thing, like look, like lady, just go back to writing wizard books.

[53:42] Like that you know, that's that's the thing, is like, you know, it's not that you don't get to have an opinion once you're famous, but it's almost like you have to understand that you you are now empowered, that good or bad, you you can do a lot of you can go either way, you know. It's like you have the ability to become a Sith or a Jedi once you're a famous author. And so, like, you know, unless you're willing to do good and not just like selfishly, it's not even just about your opinions.

[53:42] Like, I don't know how much education she was doing on the topic, and I think that's the problem, is that this is probably she's done a lot of good for other topics, but in this one she didn't seem very knowledgeable about and you know, so just be careful when you become famous, you have the ability to do a lot of really good stuff, but probably don't state a public opinion until you've sat down with people and you've like really gotten all sides of the story, and even then, you know, maybe just keep writing if you're an author, maybe just stick to writing the book, you know. Like if you're you know, it's a big thing to take up a platform and support communities.

[53:42] And I'm that the the celebrities who do do it, I I am very grateful for, but we've seen that it can also like end their careers, and frankly, we don't want to see that either. You too, you know. I don't want a celebrity to go down because they said some dumb [expletive] on Twitter, and that's what we're doing.

[54:57] And that's what we're seeing with it. When we become rich and famous, yeah, I'm gonna hunker down and hide. And if I ever have to make a public statement, like I'm gonna be sure that Nate gets it first because sometimes I say things that are completely inappropriate, hilarious, mind you, but completely inappropriate.

[55:13] If I ever wanted to blackmail you, I got the clips are on my phone, on my computer. Um, I you need to break that [expletive] immediately. But I'm sorry. No, no, yeah. Real talk guys, I pretty much I mean, even if Nate does a social media post, he sends me a preview real quick because we're just we're just building him up to me trusting him doing public relations.

[55:31] I work outside with men for a living. And like it's a whole different world, actually. Like, not that I don't care about it, but then like when you're put on that, like underneath that scope, you know, like we're like, oh man, I need to be conscious about it. Like, wait a second, I say a lot of [expletive] up [expletive]. Like, I need to like take a step back here and like realize what I'm doing, you know.

[55:52] Well, and that's really all that counts is the awareness, right? Of like being able to acknowledge, like, hey, yeah, like maybe this like work environment is not exactly like reflecting of the real world, right? Right. So, like maybe the work environment doesn't change, but maybe it's not something that needs to like carry through to all of your other life. And I'm trying, everybody's been trying. You know, I find that too with the military. Like, there's like definitely cultures there where I'm like, uh, I'm gonna go ahead and leave that here and not bring that home or anywhere else, you know. And that just and that's everybody's job at some extent. But you know, I I agree.

[55:52] Um, you stay in a dark place, um, hidden away from public relations until we need to be on camera, and then this is where you shine, mate. Sounds good. This is where you incinerate my my retina. Um Patreon. Okay. Uh so here's another one. We we talked about me not seeing the Goonies. I have not seen Ready Player One. So go ahead and uh I want you to first, before you get into a hot rage, uh, can you give me a quick premise of the movie and then you can go ahead and tell me why you hate it?

[56:48] Okay, the premise of the movie, it's based off of a book, which I have read approximately seven times. Oh wow. I love it. Wow, I really, I really do. Nice. Like the binding's all [expletive] up at this point now. But um, so it's set not too far into the future, and everybody is into uh VR. It's called the Oasis. And everything that you can imagine doing is done through this headset. Now everything, like everything from like you want to check out an apartment, like you put on the headset, you go into the oasis, like you talk to. It's not just entertainment, it's like practical people like okay. So, like uh like 90% of everyone's job is like in the oasis at this point.

[56:48] Like, even if you're like a stripper sounds great or whatever, like you're stripping in the oasis, you know, and it does an okay job showing.

[57:30] So far, I'm loving it.

[57:31] Right. And then so um it turns out that the guy who built the oasis, he's dead. Happens, but in his will, he leaves an Easter egg in the game because Oasis is technically a game, and he left an Easter egg in there. And if you find the Easter egg, you're the first one to find it, you get complete control of the oasis.

[57:48] Oh my goodness. So naturally, right, everybody is like, let's go find that everybody's in the oasis. Everybody and nobody can log into the server because it's backed up, and so everybody's on it anyway, so it's no big deal.

[58:00] Like, that'd be terrible. It's like loading screen, like that's the whole movie. That actually would have been better than the movie if there was just a loading screen. Oh god. Um, but um the rest of it goes like so you you follow this kid named Wade, and then he goes and finds the Easter egg and [expletive], and then they go on this adventure. Uh IOI are the bad guys, which is supposed to be like Apple, I guess, you know? Because let's face it, Apple are the bad guys. Yes. And then, and so the book's great, you know. Wade saves the day, blah blah blah, gets the eggs, plugging all that [expletive].

[58:00] And then there's tons of 80s references in it, but all like nerd culture references, you know, like some ET, some back to the future, uh, was some rush England.

[58:40] It sounds like a great formula so far. Where where does it go wrong? You know, and that's enough for me. So, where is it? What's the what's the where do you call it standing against it?

[58:47] Well, the only problem I have with the movie is that the only thing that was the same of the book and the movie was the [expletive] title. Really? Yeah, at one point Steven Spielberg, I believe, just said, you know what? [expletive] it. I'm going live. We're gonna make my movie, I'm gonna do whatever I want. And it doesn't follow the book.

[59:04] How much are you exaggerating? Like, because that's a big statement to make it. Is it called the Oasis in the book? Like, yeah, it's still called that.

[59:11] Like all of the framework is there, but the main stuff is completely gone. Okay, like um, so he has to go on three quests and find three different keys to help him to get to the point where he unlocks the the egg or something. In the movie or the book? In the book.

[59:25] In the book, okay.

[59:26] In the movie, uh, what does he do? He drives a race backwards. That's not even in the [expletive] thing. It's not a thing. No, and then the the the second one is he watches uh the shining, which isn't even in the thing. It was supposed to be war games.

[59:40] That's not a quest.

[59:41] Like these aren't quests, these are just No, it's just like occurrences that happened, yeah. And like it it's I'm sorry, hold on.

[59:49] Yeah, guys, so I mean you can hear the excitement in my voice, but there's actually like pained expressions, and for those of you who aren't on a Patreon, it's only a dollar, check it out. Um, but for those of you who can't see Nate's face right now, like he's literally like like welling up.

[60:02] It's it's tough, you know, because I love the book so much. And Ernest Klein, the author, is awesome. Like his uh other book, Armada, or is it Andromeda? I think it's Armada. It doesn't [expletive] matter. It's also good, but I only read that like twice. But Ready Player One was my jam. Like, some reason I love the idea, like uh Sword Art Online of being able to go into a video game and it's like real life. Like, I want that so bad. And Megan knows it, but she judges me about it all the [expletive] time.

[60:30] Same thing, same thing, you know. Um, I I'm waiting for some kind of culture to do. I mean, I guess maybe Sword Art Online is a good example. I think some will debate yes, some will debate no. I don't know what your thoughts on that are, but yes, I want this like that is what we all kind of want, is where we put on a helmet and can experience our wildest fantasies. Like, we're close, we're close, but we're also so far away, you know, it's not the same. Um, you know, when I I want to be where I put on that helmet, and I imagine like Darth Vader appears in front of me and he appears in front of me. And I'm like, and now I have two twin lightsabers and I'm fighting him.

[60:30] Like it needs to be that like instantaneous. Um, so I hope we get there. Like, and even just like a good story of the repercussions of what that deal with, because also, right? Like, if we think of um what's that, what's that Disney movie, Wally, where like you know, they're on spaces and they're on fat, like I would like like I don't want to see a movie where everybody's fat, but like I think like a movie where there's real repercussions of living in that life, and they're probably I'm sure you know our viewers will be like, actually, there's a bunch of those that exist, but to me, none that are high budget, like right, you know, grand fantasy, and then still like tackle some some cool [expletive] or some serious issues.

[60:30] So, um, and if we're wrong, go ahead and comment on social media or send us a message. Let us know. Yeah, guys, we we want your feedback uh so badly. So let us know if you disagree with anything or you do agree, I want to hear it. Get on social media and let's talk about it, let's have a conversation, or become Patreon and get on our Discord, and we'll really lay into you that that's just five dollars. That is that is just five dollars.

[62:00] We can talk to you, you can have as many [expletive] Oxford commas as you want on there. Just [expletive] go away. Comma, comma, comma, comma, and comma, comma, comma, and do whatever you want.

[62:07] Do it. I mean, I'll send you pictures of me cringing, but yeah, do it. Do it all right. We are we are almost done. We got just a few. Um, oh, that's that's where I put okay. The the last one, and to be honest, I don't know where you're going with the one, this one, but the last topic we have for today is druids in movies. Where are they? I took this directly from his text and put it onto our like where are they?

[62:31] Like, druid is a class that, if you were familiar with fantasy, everybody knows the druid. He is a nature-y wizard. And I wrote a small rant about it on our Facebook page, but there's sort of we didn't even have videos up yet.

[62:44] His first I asked him to do a social media post thinking he'd be like talk about us. I'm pissed about it! And he like gave us a post about druid. Sorry, go ahead.

[62:52] Like, there's something about it, like I don't know if it's like my Irish heritage, there's something about like communing with nature and like I can turn into a bear or whatever [expletive] animal I want. Like, where is that in movies? It's nowhere to be seen. Like, instead, you got [expletive] Nicolas Cage as a [expletive] sorcerer's apprentice movie. Like, no, like that was garbage, you know? Like, where's the druid? Like, if he was a druid, I would have watched that movie. But no, instead, he's like, Oh, I'm a powerful wizard. Like, no, you're [expletive] not. You're Nicolas Cage. Like, you last week you were [expletive] vampire killer. The week before that, you're hunting for the Declaration of Independence.

[62:52] And and you're in a biker gang, and that's I think this is really turning into hate hate on Nicolas Cage. But seriously, so the druid, if if you play Warcraft or like there's a couple other video games out there, if you're familiar with fantasy, like druids are the they're at one with nature. Like, so I are we at a point in movies where people are like, you know what? [expletive] nature. Like, I'm gonna cast fireball on this whole forest. Then the druid should pop out. Like, I made a joke to Megan the other day. So some kid was out in the street playing with a stick, and I was like, Oh, we can't walk over there, babe. The [expletive] druid over there, and we don't know what he knows, you know.

[62:52] What level could it be? And he's like swinging the stick around, it's still got leaves on it and [expletive]. But a lot of people wouldn't get that joke. We're like, what's a druid?

[63:59] You know, and then like it's because it's not mainstream, you know. And we see a lot of weird implementations of druids, or not even a lot, I would say, but we see a couple, you know, like Beast Boy technically like is a druid. Um, but even then, like he's not, it's like he just turns into animal. It's it's dru druid is a lifestyle, right? It's not just the the power to turn into animals, it's about preserving the environment, nature, and like being able to commune with it, you know. Even like I think can druids talk with plants sometimes, like stuff like that. So that like there's a full power to that, and we don't see it. We have Aquaman who can talk to fish, fish, yeah. Just like just a lot of stop.

[63:59] There's just these like weird tangent like implementations of the druid, but like where's the movie uh about right? And especially like we are a society today that cares a lot about the environment, thank goodness, because this planet is like burning up. Um, but um how dare you!

[64:55] How dare you! That could be the next druid movie starring Greta Darnsberg or whatever her name is. How dare you do you want to explain that joke?

[65:07] Because that was like an outtake, I think. Oh, yeah.

[65:10] I made that joke before on one of the outtakes. We're like, I just thought that whole like I understand. Like, we need to worry about global warming and everything like that. Like, I'm the little girl who like frowned at Trump, basically. But to come out and say that that was hilarious. You have to admit it was hilarious. Like, if anybody said that to me, I would just start laughing instead of taking them seriously. Like, if we're me and Nate are having a conversation and I did something wrong, and he's all of a sudden, how dare you! I'd be like, Whoa man, okay, and try to keep from laughing at his face, even though he looks dead serious. So that's my pitch.

[65:10] Uh, movie producers out there for the next druid movie, have Greta in it, and then uh we're gonna burn down this forest, and then she appears out of nowhere and she's like, How dare you?

[65:51] And then a druid's in it for some reason.

[65:53] Right, she is a druid, she is a druid, and then like birds come in and make a cloak around her and [expletive]. And like that's her only line in the whole movie because I understand, like, you know, she's not an actress or whatever, but how dare you? That can even be the name of the [expletive] movie, [expletive] pitch it. You know, name of the movie, how dare you, starring Greta, uh story about a druid saves a planet. You know, I love it. I think uh, you know, I think that's a great place to end. Okay, uh, what do we got here? Um, be sure to rate our podcast. Leave us some reviews.

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