026 - Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings, Transformers, and more

[00:00:01] Speaker A: Hey, everybody. How you doing? How you been? What's it been, three months? [00:00:05] Speaker B: Four months? [00:00:05] Speaker C: What do we. [00:00:06] Speaker B: What are we, are we recording right now? [00:00:07] Speaker C: I don't. [00:00:08] Speaker A: We've been recording for 8 minutes. [00:00:10] Speaker C: We actually have. [00:00:11] Speaker B: Oh. Welcome to podcast number 20. Number 26. [00:00:16] Speaker A: 26. I did that. I did that on. My name is Bryce Raykins and you're listening to another exciting episode of Sneaky Geek. We are. Yeah, we're here. We're still here. We are still alive. [00:00:58] Speaker C: We're doing another one of these episodes. [00:00:59] Speaker A: We're going to do another one of those we're still alive episodes that we didn't die. What happened? Well, a lot. [00:01:05] Speaker C: Lot. [00:01:06] Speaker A: And let's talk the non geek stuff first. What happened first? I went through finals of my first semester of grad school, which then went to Christmas time, which meant sleeping a lot. And then I got really sick. And Brian doesn't seem to have the mononucleosis anymore for the most. Yeah, yeah. And he seems to sleep less than he used to. And then I was in Bakersfield because I got really sick and was sleeping like 14 to 16 hours a day. And then after that I moved out of my place in Pasadena. Yeah. [00:01:50] Speaker C: And we decided just to set up like a new place. [00:01:53] Speaker A: Yeah. That we like to call sneaky geek headquarters. [00:01:58] Speaker B: Special guest, Clay David. [00:02:01] Speaker A: So I moved in with Brian. Yeah, so that's a thing. And Clay, because he's here too. Clay is here too. He's our cousin. I was here first. Were you, though? Because I've been sleeping on this couch for a long time. [00:02:14] Speaker B: Who collectively has spent more nights in this house? [00:02:17] Speaker A: Me, Brian, because it's six years or something like that in home. [00:02:21] Speaker B: Yeah, fair enough. [00:02:22] Speaker A: Anyway, so I moved down south to Garden Grove, which means that we can record all the time. So what did we do when I. [00:02:29] Speaker B: Moved over the yard and tore up. [00:02:34] Speaker A: The carpet instead we came in and went full on. Jonathan and drew on this place or Chip and Joe? I like Jonathan and Drew. [00:02:43] Speaker C: I like Chip and Joe. [00:02:45] Speaker A: Ebony. [00:02:48] Speaker B: Calvin and. [00:02:51] Speaker A: Oh, you don't watch HGTV. [00:02:53] Speaker C: Anyway, you are missing out, sir. [00:02:56] Speaker A: Anyway, quite a bit on Hulu. It's true. It's true. [00:02:58] Speaker C: And I have house hunters. Oh, yeah. The fuck did they pick house number two for? [00:03:05] Speaker B: The only people I know who can watch some crazy, horrible death scene be like, that was brutal. And then make comments on the granite countertop that Brenda's looking at. [00:03:19] Speaker A: Well, did you see that shit she picked out? Like son of a bitch. Yeah. No, seriously, it's going to burn with as much as she cooks, and she clearly doesn't know what a trivet is, so it's going to be ruined. [00:03:29] Speaker C: And those damn kids in the house. [00:03:30] Speaker A: Running around, way too many damn kids. She's going to forget about something and leave it on the counter. [00:03:33] Speaker B: It's only a matter of time before she puts Pyrex on the counter on the stovetop. Exactly. [00:03:37] Speaker A: Only a matter of time before she puts Pyrex on the countertop. That might have happened. Not because of any of us, thankfully, because we are intelligent human beings who make intelligent choices. Anyway, I moved in with Brian, and now we're over here at SGHQ and we can record all the podcasts once we start getting done with all the renovation things that we've been doing. Yeah, we revarnished the floor in my bedroom. [00:04:03] Speaker C: We also sanded it. [00:04:04] Speaker A: We also sanded it for a day, which required 45 pounds of weight to be sat on top of it. And at one point, I may or may not have sat on said Sander while Brian pushed. [00:04:14] Speaker C: We have pictured video evidence we may or may not post. [00:04:17] Speaker A: Stay tuned. So, yeah, now that the house is starting to get together and now that we have successfully missed, oh, I don't know, six, seven major geek films that have come out that we didn't even look into, tv shows, new seasons coming out. [00:04:32] Speaker C: We're behind. [00:04:33] Speaker A: What? Okay, let's see. A new season of Punisher came out. Yeah. A new season of Daredevil came out. [00:04:37] Speaker C: Sure did. [00:04:38] Speaker A: A new season of Runaways came out. [00:04:40] Speaker C: Not in any disorder. [00:04:41] Speaker A: We're just no bumblebee. Bumblebee. Oh, so good. Aquaman happened. Mortal engines. Oh, I still need to see that happened. That's at the top of the captain Marvel happened, venom happened. And we did record a podcast about it, and we spent most of it being very upset and angry. So we're not entirely sure how exactly to handle that because it's not exactly the happiest. Not. [00:05:02] Speaker C: It's not the sneaky, geekiest episode. [00:05:05] Speaker A: By no means it is, but it isn't. [00:05:07] Speaker C: Well, we'll figure that out. [00:05:09] Speaker A: A doctor who New Year's special came out. [00:05:11] Speaker C: We still haven't watched that. [00:05:12] Speaker A: We still haven't watched it. Nor have we recorded anything for actual Doctor who's first season back after their hiatus. [00:05:19] Speaker C: Yeah. Had no idea that it would be so short. [00:05:22] Speaker A: Yeah, it was very short. It was very good. [00:05:24] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:05:24] Speaker A: I balled like a baby at the end of one of those episodes. Clay was there. I was there. Golly, what else? That's ten major things. Oh, and into the spiderverse came out. [00:05:33] Speaker C: Oh, it was amazing. [00:05:34] Speaker A: I saw it twice. [00:05:36] Speaker C: Yes. And I cried both times. Stan came out. [00:05:40] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, that was rough. [00:05:42] Speaker C: That was so good. [00:05:43] Speaker B: I don't think I've seen anything on the list that you just. [00:05:48] Speaker A: Well, I've been crazy busy with school, so I actually have only seen one to two episodes of all three of the tv series seasons that I mentioned. [00:05:57] Speaker C: I just started Punisher and finished episode one, like, two days ago. [00:06:01] Speaker A: Yeah, you haven't seen Punisher, but you know what has happened. [00:06:04] Speaker C: You do. [00:06:05] Speaker A: Even though I've been very bad about going to the movies Game of Thrones, I am completely, 100% caught up on Game of Thrones. [00:06:12] Speaker B: And what a blessing that is to be able to freely talk about Game of Thrones in my own home. It's indescribable, to be honest. [00:06:20] Speaker C: Oh, it's so nice. [00:06:22] Speaker B: It's liberating in a way. [00:06:23] Speaker C: It really is. [00:06:24] Speaker A: No, it's great. I'm getting all sorts of memes that were actually subtle and I'm able to look at other memes without being upset that they're spoiling things again. [00:06:31] Speaker C: Yeah, we caught you up pretty quick. [00:06:34] Speaker B: Once you really got to it, you burned through. [00:06:36] Speaker A: Right through it. Oh, yeah. [00:06:37] Speaker B: You really did. [00:06:38] Speaker A: So I hadn't watched season three intentionally. Like, I had avoided it because I wanted to get through the book. But what I did realize, like, well, I'm more than halfway through the book, I can probably watch a couple of episodes. I realized how out of order and how much it was starting to deviate from original books. Yeah. Once that happened, that got me through season three relatively easily. I was working on that music video in January when I was doing production design. Was this the ropes? This was the ropes, yeah. When I had made a giant series of nets in Bryan's living room, which is now our living room anyway, in the process of that, that was when I watched season four. And I'm coming back from. I don't know, I think it had probably been like six, seven months since the end of season three, which is a garbage season ender. But Red Wedding's just before, like, it was almost like a recovery period. It really was. I watched the last two and a half discs of that four disc season in one night. [00:07:37] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:07:38] Speaker A: I remember Oberon's fight with the mountain happened at like five in the morning while I was just standing there at the television. I had not even done anything with the rope for like 10 minutes as I just stood there in shock. [00:07:56] Speaker C: Hell, yeah. [00:07:57] Speaker A: And then I watched season five pretty quick because I was trying to catch up for Clay and Victoria. And then we watched my girlfriend. Yeah. [00:08:06] Speaker C: Because you guys were in season six watching rewatching. [00:08:09] Speaker B: Right. We'd burned through season six. We wanted to watch season seven with Bryce. [00:08:15] Speaker A: Yeah. And you had asked that I specifically watch the season finale of six with you. Yeah. So we had destiny come over, who is like, our Game of Thrones buddy. [00:08:26] Speaker B: Our Game of Thrones connoisseur. [00:08:28] Speaker A: If you the. And everybody was in here, and I was yelling at that television like I was by myself. It was great. Yeah. That was a very upsetting time. And then I walked around in a sad stupor for, like, the next three days as Clay kept telling me to snap out. It was so upsetting. [00:08:51] Speaker C: So we'll probably do an episode leading up to the new and final season. [00:08:55] Speaker A: Fuck, yeah. [00:08:56] Speaker C: We'll see if we can get around for that. Stay tuned. We also caught Bryce up on the Wolverine movie. [00:09:02] Speaker A: Yeah. I finally saw the Wolverine. I had seen Logan and I had not seen. And we watched the special edition, right? [00:09:08] Speaker C: Yes. [00:09:09] Speaker A: What makes the special edition special? [00:09:10] Speaker C: 10 minutes of extra ninja fighting. Oh, I mean, and blood and f bombs. [00:09:16] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm here for it. [00:09:18] Speaker C: I'm here for it. [00:09:19] Speaker A: The Wolverine was really good. I was really glad because I was worried it was going to be kind of crappy. [00:09:22] Speaker C: Yeah. A lot of people didn't like it, and I see why, but I don't care. Because it's Wolverine fighting ninjas and shit. [00:09:30] Speaker A: Give me that. Either. Is that the third Wolverine movie or the second? [00:09:33] Speaker C: 1 second. So you watched them out of order. [00:09:36] Speaker A: What's the third one, Logan. Okay. For some reason, in my head, I had this thought there was another one. No. What's the order? [00:09:44] Speaker C: I don't really like to talk about that. [00:09:46] Speaker A: No. I had included days of future past. [00:09:50] Speaker C: Basically a Wolverine movie. Yeah. [00:09:53] Speaker A: Which I also love. That's a good one. It's a really good one. I loved how much Jean Grey was involved in the wolverine. Oh, yeah. And I like the direction they took the Silver Samurai. That was a really interesting. [00:10:03] Speaker C: That's the big part that a lot of people hated. Really big giant robot kind of thing. [00:10:08] Speaker A: I mean, it's not the best way they could have gone with it, but if you want a full on Ronan Wolverine story, it would have had to come out when Logan came out, when the world was ready for that sort of. But that's why Logan did as well as it did, because we were ready for that, which is why I think I have my mixed feelings about Captain Marvel. But that's another podcast that's a whole. [00:10:34] Speaker C: Nother podcast, which we're going to get. [00:10:37] Speaker A: Yeah, we are. Yeah. I'm looking at, like, the checklist up on the whiteboard as if it's going to help me, and all it's telling me is to mop and consolidate stuff. [00:10:45] Speaker C: Finishing touches. Dining room. [00:10:49] Speaker A: Yeah. Anyways, bathroom. Got a Brasso. The fox. I bought Brasso today, by the way. You guys don't care about that? [00:10:55] Speaker C: Okay, well, we also watched the Transformers. [00:10:57] Speaker A: Oh, my God. We've been watching so many movies. So. [00:11:00] Speaker C: Okay, what had happened was Bryce borrowed a bunch of movies from his parents, and in that selection was most of the Transformers movies. [00:11:10] Speaker A: Well, okay, so I've only ever seen Transformers one, I missed transformers two in theaters. And so I never went and saw the other Transformers movies because I wanted to actually watch them all. And at one point, when I was still dating Danielle, I tried to watch them with her, and she fell asleep during the first Transformers movie every single time we tried. So I've seen the first Transformers movie, like, 40 times now. It's not great. No. Megan Fox was very much in the learning stages of her acting career. And frankly, after I finally watched episode or episode two, the second movie, she might still have been in that phase, but she ever leave it? I heard Jennifer's body was really good. [00:11:53] Speaker C: Oh, I don't know. I did hear that too, though. [00:11:56] Speaker A: And I liked her. A new girl. [00:11:57] Speaker B: I didn't. [00:11:59] Speaker C: She was okay in Ninja Turtles. [00:12:01] Speaker A: Yeah, she's good in Ninja Turtles. I haven't seen her like a ninja Turtle movie. Man. We are on a Michael Bay kick right. [00:12:10] Speaker C: Away, solar flare, lens flare going. [00:12:12] Speaker A: Oh, there it is. [00:12:12] Speaker B: There it is. [00:12:13] Speaker A: Right between our. [00:12:14] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. Why is that camera so low? Whatever makes me look bigger. [00:12:17] Speaker A: It's on a dolly. It's fine. Just let it go past. Where's that? Make sure the american flag is behind you. [00:12:22] Speaker C: That acoustic song. Oh, we're set. We're good. [00:12:25] Speaker A: Hey, that robot just landed on the ground. I guess a shooting blast of water needs to come out or sparks or. [00:12:31] Speaker C: Yep. [00:12:32] Speaker A: Oh, another explosion. [00:12:33] Speaker C: Oh, sparks first. [00:12:34] Speaker A: Sparks first, now fire. Everything has wiring, and it's all faulty. That's why the Michael Bay universe has such rampant robot problems, because nothing wired connected. Yeah. Anyway, yeah, so I brought over a bunch of dvds I hadn't watched, including Transformers, Dark of the Moon, Transformers, Revenge of the Fallen, Revenge of the Fallen, and a bonus Transformers dvd, which was called Transformers beginnings, which I was pretty dopey. It's pretty dopey. Are you fucking kidding me? I was pretty freaking excited about. And it's not great. [00:13:10] Speaker C: No. [00:13:11] Speaker A: It's essentially a flash animation of existing comic pages. [00:13:15] Speaker C: It was a comic book that came. [00:13:16] Speaker A: Out, the prequel that came out with not great voice acting. Had I been a six year old boy wanting more details about transformers, I probably would have enjoyed it in that I was getting more transformers information. [00:13:28] Speaker C: Oh, you're not a six year old. [00:13:31] Speaker A: Boy wanting more transformers information. No, I'm a 31 year old man trying to get more transformers information. Okay. With the heart of a six year old boy, which I'm told I'm legally allowed to have. It's kind of weird, but okay. I think it makes the desk look complete. Anyway, we went and watched that. It was not good. Then we watched Transformers two, Revenge of the fallen. [00:13:53] Speaker C: Yeah, funny story about that. When I saw it in theaters, it got to about 5 minutes into the final battle and the film literally burnt up. And they gave us a free ticket to come back and watch it. [00:14:05] Speaker A: Wow. [00:14:06] Speaker C: Yeah. Which I was just like, I have to see through this shit again. [00:14:10] Speaker A: I got to say, I didn't hate transformers two, but it definitely was. I don't know, I see the problems, but I also like Shia Labeouf. [00:14:19] Speaker C: Yeah. On this last rewatch, I didn't hate it as much as I used to. Maybe I know what's coming from Michael Bay movies and I just kind of went with it. [00:14:29] Speaker A: Yeah. I also had a major preface of everyone complaining there was too much human plot and I liked there was way. [00:14:35] Speaker C: Too many humans for a Transformers movie. [00:14:37] Speaker A: I liked the plot of it. I liked that he was in college and trying to adjust and everything, and I enjoyed that. But I also felt like there were times I didn't enjoy his parents and how much they were involved in them getting like shipped to Egypt or whatever. But I much more enjoyed John Terturro in that one than I did in the first one. Yeah, not as much as I enjoyed him in the third one, which is great. Yeah, I guess the third Transformers movie is fantastic. [00:15:08] Speaker C: It was a hell of a lot better than I remember being. [00:15:11] Speaker A: It was fun. I mean, first of all, you know what you're getting because you're going into. [00:15:14] Speaker C: A Michael Bay movie, a third transformers. [00:15:16] Speaker A: And you're like, okay, we know what's happening. Yeah. Second, Leonard Nimoy is solid. Great. Leonard Nimoy sings the original Bilbo Baggins song. He's fantastic. He's also know. For your information, Clay, I'm telling Clay these things. So this is the podcast and I'm explaining to Clay, and I think he knows all of these things. [00:15:36] Speaker B: Actually, I know who Leonard Nimoy is. [00:15:39] Speaker A: Yeah, he's looking a little upset. Anyway, so Leonard Nimoy being a transformer was super cool. The devastation was actually a serious thing. You're like, oh, people are legit dying. That's great. I mean, it's awful news for the people in the film, but it's great news for anybody who regularly complains about age of Ultron having no deaths happen except for, like, six scientists. Bryce does that. Bryce does that all the time. Because Bryce really was frustrated with Age of Ultron. So, yeah, actual devastation, it felt like the world was possibly going to end. No idea when the Transformers were coming back because we watched them blow was. It was a rough time. [00:16:19] Speaker C: And then plot twist. [00:16:20] Speaker A: And then I swore very loudly when bad things happen, because people were like, by one point, a bunch of them blow up and just kind of disappear. Allah, not cosmic cube, but tesseract powered weapon. Oh, poof. There they go. And then a skull rolls out of the freaking ashes. Yeah, that's what I'm looking for when I'm looking for someone who's going to end the world. Ultron. [00:16:42] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:16:43] Speaker A: Anyway, so that happened, and that movie was great. [00:16:45] Speaker B: Infinity War must have been a field day for you. [00:16:47] Speaker A: Oh, it was marvelous. [00:16:50] Speaker C: I see what you did there. [00:16:52] Speaker A: I didn't mean to. Yeah, no, it was great. Yes. And then we watched the fourth Transformers movie twice. [00:17:00] Speaker C: Well, yeah, I got halfway through it, and I'm like, I can't do this anymore. I'm going to bed. [00:17:04] Speaker A: So I went to bed. So, for just a visual representation of how this happened, Transformers three was on. I was at the edge of this couch, and I swore the f word, like, three different times because just shit was going down in the Transformers movie. I was so excited that the next day, I was like, we can't watch the next transformers yet. I need a few days to process, because this was so exciting for me. [00:17:27] Speaker B: Quick sidebar. How do you not swear the f word? [00:17:30] Speaker A: Did I say? [00:17:31] Speaker B: You said I swore the f word. [00:17:33] Speaker A: Oh, well, sometimes I go, oh, fuck. And other times, and other times when I was watching it, I went, oh, fuck. Which just is. [00:17:43] Speaker B: That one was swearing. [00:17:44] Speaker A: Definitely. If I'm in front of children and I go, oh, fuck, they might think that I'm saying pretty poetry. It's all about delivery, Clay. [00:17:52] Speaker B: Fair enough. [00:17:52] Speaker A: It's all about delivery. And this is why I always postmates my swear words. [00:17:57] Speaker C: What? [00:17:59] Speaker A: Okay. You haven't. [00:18:01] Speaker C: Delivered. [00:18:01] Speaker A: To you? Yeah. [00:18:03] Speaker B: Okay. [00:18:03] Speaker A: I don't know. Okay. They can't all be zingers. The next film we watched was transformers four. The next transformers we watched was transformers four. And I got up and organized things and cleaned and dishes mid movie because I was so bored. Just. Yeah, bored and out of it. I could not stand Marky Mark's daughter I could not stand Marky Mark's daughter's love interest. I like Marky Mark. [00:18:32] Speaker C: I mean, what's not the like? [00:18:33] Speaker A: I like TJ Miller until he made a really dumb error and his not the bomb getting bombed thing when he gets the turns into metal or. [00:18:46] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. [00:18:47] Speaker A: I was like, yeah. Can we do that to, like, a bajillion Chicagoans or Beijingians. I don't know what the word is for a native Beijing chinese clay. Can we not be racist right now? [00:19:02] Speaker B: You said Beijingians. [00:19:03] Speaker A: I said Beijingians because they don't have a soft zhu in Chinese. You racist. [00:19:08] Speaker B: All right. Just because I'm not a linguist doesn't mean I'm a racist. [00:19:14] Speaker A: Anyway, we watched. That wasn't a great movie. [00:19:17] Speaker C: No. [00:19:17] Speaker A: And then Brian had to watch the rest of it today. I'm like, so that we could watch the next Marky Mark movie tonight. Yeah. [00:19:23] Speaker C: Which I haven't. Yeah. But I did watch Bumblebee when it came out, and that was amazing. [00:19:29] Speaker A: Really? [00:19:30] Speaker C: That was so good. [00:19:31] Speaker A: I'm very excited. [00:19:32] Speaker C: And then they announced after the movie came out, because it's a prequel, that it's not actually prequel, it's a reboot. [00:19:37] Speaker A: So we never have to watch that weird cubes flying transformation again. [00:19:41] Speaker C: God, I hope not. But luckily, Michael Bay's only executive producing. He's not actually producing or directing, which will be Fantastic. [00:19:50] Speaker A: Yeah, that's really good. That is really, really good. Not that I didn't enjoy. I mean, he clearly can make a film that I like. He only did a few Michael Bay things in the third one. Like, there's a few sweeping shots, but not nearly as many. There's no, like, hey, we're going to kiss at the end of this. Let's aim it so that we have the sun going down right between our. Know, at one point in the last movie, Kelsey Grammar, like, is standing there looking up, and you can't even see his face because the lens flare. Like, people give shit to JJ Abrams for lens flares, but at least you. [00:20:24] Speaker C: Can see what's happening on screen. [00:20:25] Speaker A: Yeah, this is out of control lens flare problems. And it's always the sun because he shoots everything at dusk. I can't imagine his films happen very quickly because the dude lives in Magic Hour. But only if he can exhaust magic hour. I've never been sick of magic hour before, and I was so over magic hour. Hang on. Please explain magic hour on like the. [00:20:51] Speaker B: Fourth magic hour, I was like, how many times anymore? [00:20:55] Speaker A: Magic hour is that time when the sun is just low enough that it's not like a big, bright white ball in the sky and it's more of a yellowy ball in the sky. It's when sunset happens, basically. It's really good because it makes for softer shadows on faces and such and everything's really nice and evenly lit. Gives you that nice Rembrandt shadow without being Rembrandt Shadow is a regular shading, lighting, basically light source angle that Rembrandt used. Anyway, I'm not explaining any more film crap because honestly, I should just let Logan and Devin do that sort of thing and that's it. That is a different podcast. Anyway. [00:21:36] Speaker C: Yeah, so news wise, Star Wars Land is opening May 31 here at Disneyland. I say here at Disneyland, it's like 2 miles up the road. That's how close we are. [00:21:46] Speaker A: Yeah. Because we can hear the fireworks in our house. [00:21:49] Speaker C: Yeah. But, yeah, Star wars land. I tried not to read a whole lot about it because I want to be surprised when I get in there. I did see some merch and I'm like, all about it. [00:21:58] Speaker A: Yeah, we got an animatronic Honda, which looks Honda. We love Hondo. Oh, my gosh, it's March. [00:22:05] Speaker B: Yeah, we got less than two months, buddy. [00:22:08] Speaker A: No, we got less than a few weeks before. And I don't know if you've heard this. Clone wars is coming back. [00:22:15] Speaker B: Oh, I don't care. [00:22:17] Speaker C: Is it coming out next month? [00:22:18] Speaker A: Isn't it supposed to be out in March? No, you told me March. I'm listening to you. [00:22:22] Speaker C: Remember this? [00:22:24] Speaker A: Clone wars supposed to be back in March. They were saying march. [00:22:26] Speaker C: No, they haven't set a date yet. [00:22:28] Speaker A: Because it's going to be. Check. [00:22:34] Speaker B: Anybody out there excited for the Amazon Lord of the Rings series? [00:22:37] Speaker A: Fuck yes. [00:22:38] Speaker B: That's what I'm in for. I'm more of a high fantasy guy. So the Transformers talk. [00:22:43] Speaker A: Oh, my. Jesus Christ. They're not saying late 2019, right? No, you told me it was going to be around March back in November. [00:22:55] Speaker B: I'm going to like this. [00:22:56] Speaker C: So, yeah, Clone wars is coming back. [00:22:57] Speaker A: Yeah, Clone wars, maybe everything perhaps, but Clone wars is coming back, which has Hondo says Hondo in it. Some bullshit is happening on this fucking website that I've accidentally thought was a safe one to go to. I hate the Internet. Okay, so Clone wars is coming back, and that's really exciting because Hondo is in Clone wars and is also in Star Wars Land. [00:23:27] Speaker C: Yeah, there's a full animatronic of the. [00:23:29] Speaker A: Dude, he looks like they just ripped the skin off of Jack Sparrow and then put a Hondo skin on him to be perfect. [00:23:35] Speaker C: Whatever, I don't care. [00:23:37] Speaker A: Makes him more brutal. [00:23:39] Speaker C: Hondo does not fuck around. [00:23:41] Speaker A: He doesn't. Except for when he does. Yeah. [00:23:43] Speaker C: Which is hilarious. Oh, Hondo shenanigans. [00:23:47] Speaker A: What else? [00:23:48] Speaker C: That Lord of the Rings show. [00:23:49] Speaker A: We got a Lord of the Rings show on Amazon. [00:23:51] Speaker C: They just announced, I don't know if you saw it, that they're going to do it in the second agent man. [00:23:56] Speaker B: Yes, I heard. So no Aragorn, no fellowship, which I personally am very excited about. Yeah, because it doesn't get enough coverage. Tolkien created this huge world and it's all about the history and the land and the Lore. And Lord of the Rings, beautiful as it is, amazing as it is, covers at most like 100 year span. Oh, yeah, maybe 180 if you cover the life and death of Aragorn. Yeah, but that world's been around for thousands of years and I'm super excited. [00:24:28] Speaker A: To see what age of man does. [00:24:30] Speaker B: The third age. [00:24:32] Speaker A: The third age. Okay, so is the second age the War of the ring, or does that happen in the first age of man? [00:24:37] Speaker B: No, that's in. [00:24:37] Speaker C: The forging of the rings is in the second age. Okay, so the intro of fellowship is the second age, the end of the second age. [00:24:45] Speaker A: So Smeagol and Deagle and all of that stuff happens. [00:24:48] Speaker C: Who's Deagle? [00:24:49] Speaker A: Isn't that his. Ben's name? Yeah. [00:24:51] Speaker B: Deagle is Smeagol's cousin who he strangles to steal the. [00:24:55] Speaker A: I'm on the cover of a book called Smeagol Deagle and the Beagle. Fun fact, I did an underwater photo shoot back in my. It's a series of essays by the guy who wrote the last unicorn, I think. But that's the only reason I remember what Deagle's name got it. So, yeah, there's my not even remotely humble brag. I'm on the cover of a book. It's on Amazon. It's audiobook only, actually, so it's not even technically a cover. It's actually just the first picture you see before you see real words, so you will click past it quickly. [00:25:29] Speaker B: Anyway, it's budgeted to be the most expensive tv series in history with a budget of. I just saw $250,000,000. [00:25:39] Speaker A: Wow. What's Game of Thrones? [00:25:42] Speaker C: I don't know. [00:25:43] Speaker B: I don't know yet. [00:25:43] Speaker A: I mean, if it's more than Game of Thrones, that means we can have wolves and dragons in the same episode. [00:25:49] Speaker B: I mean, to be fair, we've already had white walkers and dragons in the same episode. [00:25:52] Speaker A: I just feel like frigging ghost should be in every episode all the time. [00:25:57] Speaker B: I still feel hesitation talking about Game. [00:26:00] Speaker A: Of Thrones in front of you. [00:26:01] Speaker B: There's just that nagging feeling of, like, what can I talk about? [00:26:03] Speaker C: Yeah, everything. [00:26:05] Speaker A: Spoilers. [00:26:06] Speaker C: We're probably going to talk about a little bit about Game of Thrones. [00:26:07] Speaker B: That's true. We should probably. By the way, that's more my realm of. [00:26:14] Speaker A: You're a fantasy guy. [00:26:16] Speaker B: I don't really do the Transformers. I appreciate Star wars. I'm not the biggest fan. Marvel is definitely, like, as close to Sci-Fi as I really get into, because. [00:26:30] Speaker C: There'S so many different things going on within the Marvel movies. [00:26:33] Speaker B: Yeah, you can Sci-Fi super hit and miss for me. Like, I loved arrival. I loved arrival. That's very Sci-Fi yeah. [00:26:39] Speaker A: I still haven't seen arrival. [00:26:41] Speaker B: I love the. Even the ones that people say, like, it was supposed to be another movie, and then they just slapped Cloverfield on. I love all those movies. [00:26:50] Speaker A: No, I really enjoyed the Cloverfield paradox. [00:26:54] Speaker B: I think you saw it. [00:26:55] Speaker A: I saw most of it, yeah. [00:26:57] Speaker B: I think what bothers me about Star wars is that they've created. It's very similar to Tolkien. It's this enormous universe with such a huge history, and we're going to focus right here, and then when we make new movies, we're going to do the same thing we did in the first series all over again. We're not going to talk about the Force wolves. We're not going to talk about the Sith and the Jedi as a religion, but we are strictly going to keep them in a. This is how they affect the government. [00:27:26] Speaker A: Really bugs me. That said, they've done a lot better than they used to about other force users that aren't. They've been really good about that. I'm sorry. Yeah, they have in rogue one. What is his name? They're force sensitive. And he is like an actual monk of sorts. [00:27:53] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:27:54] Speaker A: That is meant to be a guardian of the wills. Wills? Wills. Not wells. I was going to say wells. And I'm like, he's not guarding wells. I mean, he might. I don't know. [00:28:03] Speaker C: I mean, they might have wells over there. [00:28:05] Speaker A: I should hope so. They need water, but they've been better about that. [00:28:10] Speaker B: There's just so much that they can delve into as someone who we've been watching the Game of Thrones discs, and we've been watching them with the extra features. So every time something comes up, we can learn the history, we can learn the lore, we can learn about all that. And that's what I love about Game of Thrones is they're so in depth and they'll go into all the history and Star wars, there's just so much to talk about. But instead, we focus on this same thing and that. [00:28:42] Speaker C: With the expanded universe in before jen goes, oh, fanfic, because it technically is now, but the old expanded universe goes back to Knights of the old Republic, which is like 10,000 years before, and it focuses on the religion. [00:28:57] Speaker A: Right. So before they became legends, which they now use as kind of a basis for what they talk about within the main canon that exists now. Back before Star wars got bought by Disney, back before you got into Star wars in any capacity, there was a massive expanded thing, and that's all they focused on. They barely ever went back to the original trilogy for, or they went like. [00:29:25] Speaker C: 30 years into the future or 150 years into the future past Return of the Jedi. [00:29:29] Speaker A: But a lot of the really good content took place with older public stuff or way into the future stuff or, like young Quinlan Voss kind of stuff, like age of the Republic. And they're slowly getting further and further away from the original trilogy with their canon right now, but they're having to reestablish a lot of the stuff that they established with the original Thrawn trilogy. When they first started pushing out a consistent canon of expanded universe, they only did it within the same lifetime of Luke and Han and Leia. So they're kind of just taking the same route they did last time. I wouldn't be surprised if we go considerably further ten years from now, hopefully. [00:30:16] Speaker C: Although with Rian Johnson's new trilogy, we don't really know where it's going to take place, but there's rumors it's going to be like, old Republic status. [00:30:22] Speaker A: Oh, that would be cool. And we have Mandalorian coming out. [00:30:25] Speaker C: Mandalorian, which we haven't even talked about. [00:30:26] Speaker B: See, that's why I think it's supposed. [00:30:28] Speaker C: To be after Return of the Jedi, but I'm not positive. Yeah, we'll learn more about that, I'm sure, in Star wars celebration next. Yeah, we're going to get all sorts of news and trailers with that kind of bumper not going to whatever, and. [00:30:39] Speaker B: That'S what I was going to say was, that's why I almost prefer, oh, I'm going to get a lot of enemies. That's why I almost prefer the prequels. Because we're not just blowing up another Death Star. We're not. There's the enemy. We barely survived. We blew up the base. Credits roll. Like, there's some weird stuff. Solo is my favorite Star wars movie, which is weird because it's a western in a Sci-Fi setting. I don't prefer Sci-Fi I don't like almost any westerns. But you put those together, makes an amazing movie. [00:31:14] Speaker A: Which is why you need to watch cowboy bebomb. [00:31:16] Speaker B: Yeah, I've been told it's so good, but, like, I. Star wars universe. And that we see, what is it? The crimson sun. [00:31:26] Speaker A: Crimson Dawn. [00:31:27] Speaker B: Crimson dawn. And we see the kids. [00:31:30] Speaker A: I don't know what they're called. [00:31:32] Speaker B: The kids. Every time they came on screen, the choir was like, hi. Shy. [00:31:37] Speaker A: Infest nest. [00:31:38] Speaker B: Yeah, that was cool. Crimson dawn was cool because I'd never heard of any of those things. I'm sure they were around. [00:31:46] Speaker A: Not really, no. Crimson dawn. Yes. That's held out from the Clone wars. Arguably some of the best story work in the Clone wars. Outside of that one clone squadron or delving into the force a little bit deeper. [00:32:05] Speaker C: Jedi stuff. [00:32:06] Speaker A: Really deep Jedi stuff. [00:32:07] Speaker B: Also, I'm super on board to see. [00:32:09] Speaker A: As far as overarching. [00:32:10] Speaker C: Sounds like we're going to watch Clone wars next. [00:32:13] Speaker A: Overarching stuff, though. Some of the best stuff is what happens with the crime syndicates and things like that towards the end. Yeah, I'm really going. [00:32:21] Speaker C: So I'm rewatching Clone wars right now and I'll get into the bounty hunter stuff. [00:32:26] Speaker A: It's got aura Singh. [00:32:27] Speaker C: It's got young Boba Fet, who's voiced by the original dude. [00:32:30] Speaker A: Yeah, he has that awful lisp. I guess I don't like the voice of Boba Fett in the show. He's the one voice in that entire show I don't like. And remember, I used to dislike. What's his name? Wolf. Y'all aren. Now I love Wolfie. When something starts and it doesn't have him being like a galaxy in peril, I'm like, oh, wait, where's. You learn to tell me what's going on. Yeah, no's on the march. [00:32:54] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:32:54] Speaker A: I was really sad when Legend of Korra didn't keep doing that in the seasons. I didn't do that in season three, did I? I don't think so. [00:33:00] Speaker B: How many seasons is that show? [00:33:02] Speaker A: Five? [00:33:02] Speaker C: Four or four. [00:33:04] Speaker A: There's the one with Amon with Steve Bloom as the main bad guy. Then there's harmonic convergence, and then there's life after harmonic convergence, and then there's the last season, which I don't know anything about. [00:33:16] Speaker B: That's as long as Avatar. [00:33:18] Speaker A: Avatar was three seasons. [00:33:19] Speaker B: Avatar was three seasons. [00:33:21] Speaker A: Yeah. It's book one, two, and three. Book zero was air, and he lived that life out already. [00:33:27] Speaker B: It's longer than Avatar. [00:33:29] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:33:30] Speaker B: Weird. [00:33:31] Speaker A: It's really good. I didn't finish season three, though. [00:33:34] Speaker C: Four seasons. [00:33:35] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:33:35] Speaker B: I haven't seen Avatar beginning to end. I loved it. [00:33:38] Speaker A: You never finished Avatar? I am. [00:33:40] Speaker B: No, I've seen. No, I've seen it. I've seen the final. I've seen the first. I've seen the last. [00:33:46] Speaker A: But have you seen leaves on the vine? [00:33:49] Speaker C: My cabbages. [00:33:51] Speaker B: My cabbages. I know. My cabbages. [00:33:55] Speaker A: Uncle Iroh. Like, going to the tree, maybe winter, spring, summer and fall. No. Oh, dude. [00:34:06] Speaker C: I don't remember. It sounds like we're to watch it. [00:34:09] Speaker A: It was the one that they released right after Mako passed away. Mako. The voice of the original uncle. The original voice of Uncle Iroh. It's when he goes and visits his son's. [00:34:17] Speaker C: That's right place. Oh, yeah. [00:34:19] Speaker B: Wait, the voice actor for Iroh changes in the show. [00:34:23] Speaker A: He dies. And the guy who replaced him also, if I'm not mistaken, and I don't think am he, basically, he's become the mako replacement actor. So when they brought back samurai Jack, they hired him to be aku. [00:34:39] Speaker B: Oh, wow. [00:34:40] Speaker A: Cool. [00:34:41] Speaker C: Right on. [00:34:41] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:34:43] Speaker C: Fun facts. [00:34:43] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. You know, fact. Jerk. Real quick, just to be sure. [00:34:47] Speaker B: You know what I'm excited to get into because I just cleared with Victoria and she says she doesn't want to watch them with me. I'm going to start doing the studio Ghibli movies. [00:34:55] Speaker A: Oh, my gosh. [00:34:56] Speaker B: I've only seen spirited away. I loved it. Even at a young age, I loved. [00:35:00] Speaker C: Yeah, I remember watching it, being impressed with it. [00:35:02] Speaker B: Someone put on Howl's moving castle at work and I was trying to ignore it because I want to watch it in a vacuum. I want to be alone with food and just watching that with. [00:35:12] Speaker A: No. [00:35:13] Speaker B: Rather than like, yeah, I haven't seen. [00:35:15] Speaker C: Any of them, so whenever you want to throw them on, let me know. [00:35:17] Speaker A: I don't. Have you never seen Princess Mononoke? [00:35:20] Speaker C: No. [00:35:20] Speaker A: The english version's got Billy Bob Thorne. Nice. And Jillian Anderson, too, I think. [00:35:24] Speaker C: Oh, cool. [00:35:25] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:35:25] Speaker C: I've been meaning to watch more anime lately? Because I watched a little bit growing up here and there and then, like, fell out of it and then got more into it and then fell out. And then with the Netflix stuff, I started getting into it again and started watching the Gundam unicorn on there. And is Gundam unicorn any good? I'm digging it, but the first few episodes, I'll admit I had other things going on that was just distracting me. So it was kind of on in the background, but I'm down with Gundam, and they just announced the live action Gundam movie. [00:35:55] Speaker A: They did? They did. I thought for sure that Guillermo del Toro already did that, but apparently not. [00:36:01] Speaker C: Nope. Apparently. [00:36:03] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:36:04] Speaker C: Also, I need. [00:36:05] Speaker A: I haven't seen the second Pacific Rim. Yeah, I did see the Pacific Rim, the first Pacific Rim, like in December. I've been catching up. I've been getting all the things that I missed. [00:36:15] Speaker C: Yeah, I need to start my list. [00:36:18] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:36:19] Speaker B: I'm hesitant to watch anime because. [00:36:28] Speaker A: I. [00:36:29] Speaker B: Don'T know, there's just a thing about people that watch anime that it's only ever one type of person. [00:36:34] Speaker A: Welcome to Sneaky Geek, the podcast. All about watching things and liking things and being afraid to tell people you do because of the other type of people who like them. [00:36:46] Speaker B: Yeah, I know, I know. And that's why I was hesitant to say it at all, is because the reason I'm hesitant to watch anime is a stupid reason. [00:36:53] Speaker A: But, I mean, it's not uncommon. It's not uncommon, no. [00:36:56] Speaker C: And we talk about it a bunch in previous episodes where it took me all to get into Doctor who, same, certain people and same thing with the anime. And then Tate slowly got me into them, which is cool. Sometimes he got a little too excited, which made me step away a little bit, and then I'd get back into it. [00:37:16] Speaker A: That's a common thing when you have a fan group. I got into Steven universe, episode nine. Had I known what the Steven Universe fandom acts like now before I started watching it, it would have taken a lot to get me to turn that on because Steven universe panels at cons, it's like weird, giant group therapy, sob stories. It's awful. And their fans can be so aggressively emotional. Don't be wrong. Be in touch with your emotions. But it's almost in a selfish way in that they kind of make things about them that aren't necessarily about them. Yeah. [00:37:55] Speaker B: We had discussed this earlier about how you thought there should be two panels, one for genuine questions and one for people who want to share the sob stories that Steven universe provided. [00:38:03] Speaker A: Yeah, because I want to hear what plans are with various things or ask what motivations were. And instead I have to hear, my son didn't have friends, or this show saved my life, and it's just every one of them. And I'm like, dude, I value you, and I appreciate your struggle. Can you not waste my time in this panel right now, though? Because I kind of waited in a line that went around an entire hotel building, like, come on. And so had I known that, I would not have gotten into it, but I did. And in that, and of course, I'm pretty aggressive about how much I like that show. I'm like, dude, you got to see this show. It's so good. [00:38:46] Speaker C: Which stopped me from watching it for a long time. [00:38:48] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:38:48] Speaker C: And then I got into it kind of. [00:38:50] Speaker A: I mean, it's a slow process. You're about to get to a point where things are actually really moving, but there have been points where you've reached out and said, yeah, the next episodes you're coming up on are kind of filler. You probably can skip them. And I've been able to kind of do that with you for Steven Universe. There's not a ton of them because unfortunately, they sneak a little something in there. But there have been one or two where I've been like, we're skipping this. You don't need to see this. It's not worth it. Although I did make you watch onion gang, which I kind of regret. But also, it was weirdly foreshadowing. And I was like, I didn't even notice that this was foreshadowing. But when that happens, you'll be like, oh, that was what that was. I still don't remember it. And I'll be like, good. It doesn't matter. I'm sorry I made you watch onion gang. Anyway, so we're back, and we're going to talk about things in a more concentrated and focused manner. When we have things to talk about in a more concentrated focus, which we do. [00:39:48] Speaker C: So now we have to actually get it scheduled down. [00:39:51] Speaker A: Yeah, but we've gotten through most of our fix up the house and make. [00:39:54] Speaker C: It nice to do list. Most of the things that have prevented us from sitting down, actually getting a podcast done are pretty much out of the way for the most part. [00:40:02] Speaker A: Yeah, I have midterms next week, so God only knows how much I'll be able to do next week, but we should be able to get more stuff out and be out a little more regularly. [00:40:10] Speaker C: Yeah, we got Wintercon coming up. Well, I have Wintercon coming up. I don't know if you bite your badges yet. [00:40:14] Speaker A: I was hollering out to you from the shower, telling you that I wanted you to buy my badge, and I was going to Venmo you, and you yelled out, take your shower. And I was like, 10 minutes. [00:40:24] Speaker C: You were like, I'm going to go take a shower. And then for another 10 minutes, random stuff kept coming on, and you kept telling me a story. And I'm like, I'm going to go. [00:40:31] Speaker A: I had a very good day. [00:40:32] Speaker C: A little bit. And then you came out again and then went back in the bathroom, and. [00:40:37] Speaker B: Then I came out and said, brian, so you got to take your shower, because I need to take a shower. Yeah. [00:40:41] Speaker C: So then I closed my door, and I hear this. [00:40:43] Speaker A: Brian, come out. I need to tell you something. [00:40:45] Speaker C: I'm like, go take your shower, dude. [00:40:47] Speaker A: And then I was like, I'll just text you. And then I forgot to text. [00:40:51] Speaker C: So, anyways, I'm going to Wondercon. [00:40:55] Speaker A: I will hopefully be also going to Wondercon. Good. [00:40:59] Speaker C: It'll be a good time. So if anybody else is going to Wondercon, let us know. [00:41:01] Speaker A: We'll meet up. Yeah, hit us up. We'll probably bring our little Bob Barker microphone. [00:41:05] Speaker C: Yes, we will. [00:41:06] Speaker A: We have two of them. [00:41:06] Speaker C: Two of them now. [00:41:07] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:41:08] Speaker B: I don't know why, but you said we're probably going to bring our little. I thought you were going to say me for some reason. [00:41:12] Speaker A: Our little Clay. [00:41:15] Speaker B: On a leash. This is a con. Wow. Yeah. For those listening, I've never actually been to. [00:41:21] Speaker A: Oh, we got to put you through your con mitzvah. Yeah, we do Clay's con mitzvah. Anyway, so Clay's here and lives in the house, so he'll be here a little bit more often. In fact, up on our board of things to do around the house, it says fixing up S-H-Q with special guest, Clay Davis. I like that. [00:41:42] Speaker B: Despite the fact that I've lived here a few years more than you. [00:41:48] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, I moved in in January, but whatever. Anyway, yeah, so thanks for listening. [00:41:57] Speaker C: Anything else going on, guys? [00:41:59] Speaker A: I work sort of for a comic book shop now. Yeah, I have been producing the weekly what's up for our comic book shop, where we have our polls, which is the comic book hideout over on Commonwealth in downtown Fullerton. [00:42:15] Speaker C: DTF for those in the know, currently. [00:42:17] Speaker A: Owned and always has been owned and will be owned by our lovely friend of the podcast, Glennis. She's so cool. Hi, Glennis. Love Glennis. And I've been doing that, which has allowed me to actually pick up and flip through more comics lately, which is nice because I'm down there all the time. So when I'm not going through all of my. I mean, this whole episode has been, what have you been reading and looking at lately? But I picked up Mr. And Mrs. X and read issue eight just randomly off the shelf while I was waiting for Glennis to take care of a few customers. And I am in it. Oh, my gosh. [00:42:55] Speaker C: Bust up the last eight. [00:42:56] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:42:57] Speaker C: Maybe the wedding issue too. [00:42:59] Speaker A: Yeah. I actually really would like to read that led up to all the things that happened, but yeah. Mojo, which I haven't read a comic with Mojo in it. I don't know ever if I've actually ever read him. I think I only know who he is because of tv show and an action figure that I have of him, which is pretty great, pretty cool. And then I have occasionally picked up, but I haven't done a whole lot with it. I'm still working through american gods. What about you? [00:43:23] Speaker C: Well, I bought me a switch back on Black Friday, so I've been playing some. Let's go, eevee. So good. [00:43:31] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [00:43:32] Speaker C: Which is just basically a port of Pokemon yellow but with Eevee instead of Pikachu. But also in related Pokemon, Pokemon News, they announced Pokemon Shield and Sword. Yeah. [00:43:45] Speaker A: And Detective Pikachu's coming out, which I'm also super excited for. Did you see the arcanine picture that they posted? No. Yeah, they nailed it. [00:43:52] Speaker C: Oh, shit. Okay. [00:43:53] Speaker A: It looks so good. Take that sonic the hedgehog movie with your weird eyeballs. Oh, God, it's so creepy looking. Anyway, carry on. [00:44:01] Speaker C: But I'm super excited for Shield and Sword because those are the new generation games. But they're not on the DS. They're on the switch. [00:44:11] Speaker A: Yeah. So television, Pokemon. [00:44:13] Speaker C: Gorgeous graphics that are on there. [00:44:15] Speaker A: Yeah. And the level design looked really good. And it looked like they were. [00:44:17] Speaker B: It's basically. [00:44:18] Speaker C: And what I've been waiting for since Zelda on the 64. Ocarina time. [00:44:22] Speaker A: Ocarina time is the first one. [00:44:23] Speaker C: Yeah. As soon as I saw that on there, I'm like, I want a Pokemon game like this. [00:44:26] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:44:27] Speaker C: And now, 1520 years later, we got it. [00:44:30] Speaker A: Yes. [00:44:30] Speaker C: So I'm playing through that. Playing through Smash a little bit. There's a couple of indie games that I've been playing. Bro force. [00:44:37] Speaker A: Bro Force is so good. Have you played bro force yet? [00:44:41] Speaker B: I've played. [00:44:41] Speaker A: Wait, did you get smash? [00:44:43] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:44:44] Speaker A: How have you not known? I live here? How did I not know? I also just found out that you have Marvel. [00:44:50] Speaker B: Wait, you didn't know he had to. I knew it. [00:44:54] Speaker A: I almost bought smash the other day, and then I realized I don't have money, but I came super close to even messaging you. Like, yeah, should I get Smash? Because I feel like we really need smash in this. I had no idea. Okay, so in the process of all this cleanup, a, we've had to varnish my bedroom, which means I haven't been able to sleep in my bedroom for two weeks, which is something he is used to, which is something I'm used to. However, now all of my worldly possessions are shoved into the house. So Brian has taken the Nintendo switch out of the living room. [00:45:28] Speaker C: I've just been playing handheld stuff, and. [00:45:30] Speaker A: He'S been playing handheld, so I haven't heard. I haven't seen anything. Like, when I first moved in. [00:45:34] Speaker C: I've been trying to unlock a bunch of characters. [00:45:36] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm down to help with my. Like, your wi u hasn't been in here, and neither has the switch. And I play PlayStation occasionally in here, but I haven't even gotten my t. I have a brand new tv still in the box. And it's still in the box special thanks to my roommate, who won it and didn't want it. [00:45:57] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:45:58] Speaker A: Anyway, so you have smash, apparently, and have been playing these other games on your Nintendo switch. And how's that? [00:46:06] Speaker C: I love it. [00:46:07] Speaker A: Good. [00:46:07] Speaker C: I fucking love the switch. [00:46:08] Speaker A: I really want one one day. Yeah. [00:46:11] Speaker C: You'll get there. [00:46:12] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:46:12] Speaker C: Clay, what you got going on? [00:46:13] Speaker A: What are you. Clay, what are you reading? [00:46:15] Speaker B: I bought the first Game of Thrones book. I'm burning through the Lord of the Rings trilogy. I've got the simmerillion on the back burner, and I've got the Tolkien beastie Arie sitting on my. [00:46:27] Speaker A: Oh, I saw that. Yes. [00:46:29] Speaker B: It's got a bunch of art. My sister actually just got me a Tolkien coloring book. That should be pretty telling of the kind of person I am. [00:46:37] Speaker A: Yeah, we have been debating actually getting coloring books for the podcast. [00:46:44] Speaker C: Yeah. Because I have a bunch of coloring books that I don't really use all that often. [00:46:47] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, I have coloring books that are just coloring books, but they're not, like, geek related, but, like, getting geek related coloring. [00:46:52] Speaker C: I got a Deadpool one. I got a Lord of the Rings one. I got a Game of Thrones. [00:46:57] Speaker B: I think I have the same Tolkien. [00:46:59] Speaker A: Okay. [00:46:59] Speaker B: Coloring book that you. [00:47:00] Speaker A: But it would be cool to have guests of the podcast color pages, and then we can post their picture as kind of making it our guest book. A visual page out and stick it into a little sleeve in a binder. [00:47:13] Speaker B: And it's like a visual representation of the pastime on the podcast. [00:47:16] Speaker A: I mean, we also would have to have them be relevant, which I doubt we'll be able to do because we talk about too much stuff. Although if we had, like, three Star wars ones and three marvel ones, we'd be pretty much set for at least a third of our episodes. [00:47:29] Speaker C: Seriously? [00:47:30] Speaker A: What? [00:47:30] Speaker B: No, you guys, I love Star wars fantasies. [00:47:34] Speaker A: We haven't really talked about fantasy stuff. [00:47:35] Speaker B: Because I would call it the Game. [00:47:41] Speaker A: Of Thrones series was, like, off limits until I got through it, handled. And then Lord of the Rings is also kind of off limits because I haven't watched the Hobit movies yet. [00:47:50] Speaker B: Oh, my man. [00:47:52] Speaker A: The Hobbit story is a far more tragic one than my Game of Thrones story. Game of Thrones story. It's like, oh, Bryce didn't finish the book, and he was a purist. The Hobbit story is, I watched the original three Lord of the Rings movies with my best friend's family, and they went and saw the first Hobbit movie without me. Granted, we were all adults, but it was like, it hurt. And then my best friend, who actually, they also went without him, went and saw without me, too. And I was just like, well, I guess I'm just not watching Hobit movies. Also, life is busy and I don't have money, so this is a convenient excuse. And then suddenly there were three of them, and I haven't seen a single one. [00:48:29] Speaker C: Well, first one expanded. [00:48:30] Speaker A: That's nice, because I would probably prefer that, given how the reviews were so utterly mixed. [00:48:37] Speaker B: First one is good. Second one is great. [00:48:42] Speaker C: Yes. [00:48:42] Speaker B: Second one's the best one. [00:48:43] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:48:44] Speaker B: Third one, just a weird. Okay, so here's the thing about the third one that I'm surprised more people don't complain about this. The third one is called the battle of the five armies, and I won't spoil anything. Well, there you go. It's a battle of five armies. [00:49:00] Speaker A: In the book, nothing. [00:49:03] Speaker B: I'll say what? It's a three hour battle. I'm in that Bilbo is unconscious for the entire time in the book, right? In the book, he sees all the forces arrive, gets hit on the head with a rock, is knocked unconscious, wakes up, the battle is over. [00:49:27] Speaker A: So is it kind of like when Tyrion gets knocked out? [00:49:30] Speaker B: Yes. When he's got the hill tribes fighting for him because he goes out, knocked out, wakes up. And Braun says, lucky to be alive. And Tyrion says, do we win? Braun says you wouldn't be here if we didn't. And that's what we get. [00:49:46] Speaker A: That's what we get of that battle in the book. It's really good, that battle, because he does still get know his whole face cut off. Yeah, that's when he gets his face cut. [00:49:55] Speaker B: Oh, it wasn't in the battle of Blackwater. [00:49:57] Speaker A: That isn't the battle of Blackwater we're talking about. [00:49:59] Speaker B: The hill trip is right now. [00:50:00] Speaker A: Oh, you're talking about that fight. No. He doesn't get knocked out in the hill tribe battle though, right? [00:50:04] Speaker B: Yes, he. [00:50:04] Speaker A: Sorry, sorry. He doesn't get knocked out in the battle of Blackwater Bay. No, that's right. Okay. I was thinking of the hill tribe battle. You're right. Yes. But he gets knocked out in the hill tribe battle. Yes, he does. And then all the hills people like, obey him clear up until Blackwater Bay. And then we don't really explain where they go. No. Just yet. After Daenerys goes to the weird town with the mysterious room that fucks with her head, which we never really explain, which, by the way, is a great chapter of that book. It's probably the best chapter of that. [00:50:34] Speaker B: Wait, are you talking about Khaleesi? [00:50:36] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:50:36] Speaker B: Going to the tower? [00:50:39] Speaker A: Yeah. Where weird things happen in there, in the book. [00:50:43] Speaker C: It's way weirder. [00:50:44] Speaker A: It's so weird. It's the trippiest thing. Like, it freaked me out, which is. [00:50:48] Speaker C: Probably why they didn't include it in the show, because it was probably too. [00:50:52] Speaker A: Because they didn't know where it was actually going because George couldn't explain it. [00:50:59] Speaker B: Mean, I. The funny thing is, now that we're all caught up on Game of Thrones, I'd love to review it, but I can't speak for season eight because I'm avoiding trailers and teasers like the plague. [00:51:12] Speaker A: Good. Number four. [00:51:12] Speaker B: I'm not looking at anything I did. [00:51:14] Speaker C: I didn't give a fuck. [00:51:16] Speaker B: I know you don't. And I don't get it. I'm talking to my mom, who's going through them for the first time. [00:51:23] Speaker A: It's so fun to hear you yell back and forth with your mother on the phone. Sometimes they'll hear you be like, no, but isn't it the weirdest thing how you think that they're the best couple? But, like, three episodes ago, you were horrified by his presence. You were talking about Drogo and Drogo. [00:51:41] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. And she is midway through season four. She has seen a trailer for season eight. She picked it out and she watched it. I was like, you want to know what's going to happen? [00:51:53] Speaker A: And she's like, yes. [00:51:55] Speaker C: People do that. [00:51:57] Speaker B: What is that mentality? [00:51:58] Speaker A: Everyone has their own approach. My approach is I enjoy the oh, shit. Feeling of, like, when things totally catch me off guard. [00:52:07] Speaker B: Oh, you mean the whole point to watch anything? [00:52:10] Speaker A: No, but it's not the whole point to watch anything. Sometimes you watch it because you really enjoy the character work or whatever. The plot twists don't bring joy to people as much as they do to you and I. The plot twist in, I can't even describe it because that would spoil. Because when you tell that there is a plot twist, you are spoiling the plot twist because people are expecting a plot twist, which is why I'm not. Shyamalan movies don't go, oh, yeah, that Shyamalan movie came out, too. Glass. [00:52:37] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, I saw that tape things, oh. Glass. Yeah. Because I caught the last, like, hour of it. [00:52:44] Speaker B: Maybe you saw. [00:52:46] Speaker C: Oh, that was split. [00:52:48] Speaker B: Either glass is the end of the trilogy, the apparent trilogy. [00:52:52] Speaker C: I heard it was okay. [00:52:54] Speaker A: And it's got what's her name from Sarah Paulson. Sarah Paulson. [00:52:58] Speaker B: She graduated from my. [00:53:00] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, yeah. You've told me that before. But they don't. [00:53:05] Speaker B: Good. It was good. I liked. Well, can I discuss the fact that there are twists? I mean, it's a Shyamalan movie. What a twist. There's multiple twists. The first one, I was like, does that count as a twist? [00:53:25] Speaker A: Okay. [00:53:26] Speaker B: But then the final twist, I was. [00:53:27] Speaker A: Like, that's pretty cool. [00:53:28] Speaker B: I'm down for that. [00:53:29] Speaker C: I need to rewatch Unbreakable. [00:53:32] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:53:32] Speaker B: Amazing movie. [00:53:33] Speaker A: So good. Did you not like Unbreakable? Are you not a fan of our lord and savior, Bruce Willis? [00:53:39] Speaker B: I was a little bored. [00:53:40] Speaker A: He saved a shopping center for our sins. That's the spirit of Christmas. [00:53:45] Speaker B: All right. This is totally different. [00:53:48] Speaker A: I'm pretty sure that he's the same character in every side. John McClain. [00:53:54] Speaker B: Can we discuss the ending of unbreakable? Since it's, like, 20 years old, they. [00:53:58] Speaker A: Call me Mr. Glass. That's all I remember. [00:54:01] Speaker B: Are we allowed to do that? [00:54:02] Speaker A: There's three things I remember about the original unbreakable. One is when he's lifting weights and you're like, yeah. Oh, wow. Yeah. Oh, sorry. In the first of this trilogy, in the old unbreakable film, the second is when he goes, all right, you made your point. You get a raise. And he's like, what? He goes, you asked me the other day how many sick days I've taken, or you've taken none in 20 years. You never take a sick day. Okay, again, I get your point. All right. That and then the final ending when he goes, they call me Mr. Glass. That's all I remember from that movie at all. [00:54:38] Speaker C: It was good. [00:54:40] Speaker B: The premise of that movie is, oh, my gosh, he might be a superhero. [00:54:45] Speaker A: No, he might be a superhero. You know what I mean? [00:54:49] Speaker B: No, you know what? I don't think he is a superhero. Wait, is he? No. Because that proves he can't be. [00:54:59] Speaker C: Wait, that's pretty accurate. [00:55:00] Speaker A: Okay, so then he. [00:55:02] Speaker B: Oh, the twist. Credits roll. [00:55:04] Speaker A: Yeah, that's unbreakable. That's every good Shyamalan movie is. You go, okay, I think I figured out the twist. Wait a minute. That is evidence against the twist. No. Okay, that's the twist. No, wait, what? And it's that back. [00:55:19] Speaker B: Okay, that's the village that you're describing right now. [00:55:21] Speaker C: That's lots of half is movies. [00:55:25] Speaker A: If you're in a Shyamalan movie and you figure out the twist in the beginning, but you pay enough attention to everything else that might counter the twist. If it's a good Shyamalan movie, then those counters to the twist will keep you unsure. And then at the end, you're like, I guessed it at the beginning. And many people, I. E. Douchebags, go, I guessed it at the beginning. Yeah, you guessed in the beginning, and then you second guessed the whole time, which is why you sat in theater, you dipshit. [00:55:53] Speaker B: But. [00:55:56] Speaker A: If he doesn't do that, then you're just like, yeah, I have no idea what the hell's going on. Then you're watching the happening. [00:56:02] Speaker B: Yeah, that's a weird one. [00:56:04] Speaker A: I've heard devil is really awful. And I've heard, wait, devil was Shyamalan after Earth was awful, too. And it's also Shyamalan. I have problems. [00:56:13] Speaker B: I had no devil the elevator movie. I had no idea that I think. [00:56:18] Speaker A: Was produced by Shyamalan. I don't think it was directed by Shyamalan. I think it was somebody else. [00:56:22] Speaker B: Still. I just. [00:56:25] Speaker A: Fact checking this right now. It's Shyamalan. [00:56:27] Speaker C: Shyamalan. Anyway, so that's kind of what we got going on. [00:56:33] Speaker B: We didn't even talk about my favorite Shyamalan movie. Yeah, the Last Airbender. [00:56:38] Speaker A: That movie never happened. [00:56:39] Speaker B: This podcast is overload.