hey, all. Welcome to Gig Freaks. I have Rakim here. A gentleman.
Hey, hey, yo. I'd say we have a lot to talk about.
We're gonna be going over Avatar announcements, a lot of DC stuff
I'm going to be discussing, so I'm invincible.
We're both going be talking
with that crazy Ticktock band going on right now, the first chart and let's.
Well, how have you been? Let's go. That was.
Fantastic. Well, I'm doing fantastic now.
I was so sick for a few days.
We had a birthday party for my son and my wife,
and after that I was like, dying from sick.
But then Friday morning it was just like a light switch flipped
and I felt amazing. So doing it.
How been going around? Well, I've been doing good.
I was sick a couple of weeks ago.
When you're sick, do you find that you say like,
Hey, I'm home, time to watch movies and play video games?
Do you find yourself actually doing that or just like sleeping?
Yeah, sleeping. So?
So I tried to I'll put on something like,
man, I've been waiting to watch this movie for so long.
Finally, I could justify just being in bed and watching a movie.
But I don't have the mental capacity to really pay attention to it,
and that's the worst.
It's like I have the time, but I don't have the focus to actually enjoy it.
So I just put on the Seinfeld or, you know, reruns of Avatar, Star Trek,
something that I don't have to pay attention to.
But if I catch an episode or a glimpse, then I'll still enjoy it
without spoiling something.
So I usually just put that on in the background.
Yeah, Bob's Burgers is like such a great one for me.
It's like I've seen it a dozen times and it just makes me feel good.
That's when I'm sick and I'll just like, zone out.
Yeah, it's hard because it's like, man, I don't know, guilt free being a
bum right now.
Let me get some video games in and just never works out.
Right? So betraying.
All right.
Let's move on to our question of the day or week we have.
If you could be any dystopian movie character
for one day, who would it be?
I'm going to go ahead
and go into some of our answers, Jonathan, while I look that up.
So first off, we have Dan for Z
is saying Duncan, Idaho from okay,
I got to give a spoiler warning first off or like the future Dune books.
So be careful, guys. Okay?
That means skip for 15 seconds.
Duncan Idaho dies in the first book, first half of the first book, whatever,
and then the first movie.
But he's cloned multiple times later on in the story.
And so he's alive multiple times, time and time again.
And Duke played or not, Duke Leto portrayed his son.
Leto is pretty crazy, and he's like a worm, dude.
And the whole thing, he's friggin Duncan, Duncan, Beck.
So great choice.
He says, I get revived eight times and some top tier modifications.
So yeah, pretty, pretty awesome. No, no.
We have
Vinnie s who says K, which is from Akira,
one of the most legendary anime scenes ever.
Is K sliding on his motorcycle.
It's probably it's been mimicked so many times in movies.
It's so freaking cool.
And I don't I can't find it here, so I'll open up the replies.
I know somebody, I don't know the name, said Judge
Dredd, and I was like, Yeah, nailed it
and it's a good one.
What do you think of John and what's your dystopian character?
So many.
Can you guess what my top one would be?
My first one. I am Legend.
No, that's a good one.
But what would you, would you enjoy that?
I mean, it's so lonely and you're just wandering.
You have full access. If you want to go see some monuments and stuff like that.
But I was thinking about it as like, cool, you know, peace and quiet finally. But
but I don't see where you would have, like, fun with it.
I don't know.
So my number one go to at least right now in the state of mind in
is ready Player one You can go anywhere and everywhere.
It is technically a dystopian future,
but you log in and you can just explore so much stuff.
It would be a lot of fun.
But then, you know,
like you said, Judge Dredd Book of Eli,
the RoboCop, like there's a lot of them where it'd be fun to like play
as some of your favorite characters in these.
Somebody who's unstoppable, right? That's kind of part of it.
I like Stoppable, very little consequences,
even like Rick Grimes to a degree, except for you,
like the whole losing a wife and son and daughter,
but like, you know, where you could just, like, shoot some zombies
when you need to blow off some steam is fun stuff.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
I have to go with with a I am legend, especially the movie
version Will Smith I kind of wouldn't want to just be one day.
I kind of. I don't know. I think I would do good in that world.
And you just have to stay in the sunlight.
Easy peasy.
And I haven't seen the movie in a while,
and they're making a sequel to it, so I might need to go.
Michael B Jordan's It's a prequel.
Michael B Jordan's going to be in it too, so I have to go back to that.
So begin. Have you ever seen the movie? Dealbreakers
Yes, it's so good.
Okay.
See, when you say, you just got to stay in the summer,
I was like, yeah, that's another great one where it's like, Yeah, I guess
it's a it's a dystopian future horror, really.
No, it's vampires. Real world.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah.
But it's such. A cool perspective.
I love to see movies like that.
And another good one.
You reminded me is something that's not on our list
because it flew under the radar.
Surprisingly Ready Player two in productions.
So I think I finally got an audio book and.
I can't say the book four two is better than the book four one,
but it's just such a good one was so good.
I want more of it too is also really good.
So yeah, I'm excited for it.
Did you do the audio book or did you read it?
It was audio book, yeah. Okay.
I might have on.
I think it was at first picked up Audible back when we were we were promoting it.
Yeah. A long time ago.
And that was one of the probably the first five audiobooks.
I listened to it to them.
To check it out.
Boy, the Dune audio
book is out of this world the way it has, like that sand rolling in and
yeah.
It really gets you immersed. Yeah.
All right, let's go and get into some of the quickies here.
First off, Netflix announces not only Avatar season two, but season
three as well.
And we had a really cool I did a posting on TikTok.
You saw that, right? Or Daniel Dae Kim kind of surprise the cast.
Yeah. Yeah, that was cool.
He did like a meeting with everyone he is like, Hey guys, this one.
You know,
I had had an interview or had a meeting with
some of the executives or the producers, whatever it was.
And, you know, I got some news.
You know, fortunately, you know, I really wanted to come here
and be able to tell you guys, we got approved for season two.
I can't I can't tell you that.
They told me don't don't, you know, don't break the news like that.
And by the way, while you're saying that Ang looks
devastated, like all these young actors, this is their break.
They all look so sad.
He's trying to let them sit heartbroken for a minute.
And you're like, Yeah,
we actually got approved for season two and three at the same time.
And they're like, my God.
Yeah, that was kind of funny.
It was sarcasm, tears, and I felt so good.
I just, I truly love that cast.
They've just totally buy into it.
And that's so fun to be like.
Like we talk about Iman Vellani a lot. Ms.. Ma. Ms..
Marvel, you may or may not like the character,
but you cannot hate the actress because, man, she she is an MCU fan
just as much as you. Me And that's what we want.
I hate when, like, Ben Affleck doesn't like being Batman.
Then why do I care about you being Batman?
You know, I'm saying I just love when you have somebody like I love being ing.
It's so cool if you.
See somebody who really doesn't want to be Batman,
you almost want this to be a Joker movie where he's, you know, fighting Batman
from his perspective, anything that's I want to see them.
You want to see them lose at that job, do a bad job.
They recently posted an obituary to you on Instagram, so I don't know
if I'll figure out a way they had the kids try out for all these roles.
This happens all the time.
They read the lines when they're trying out for it,
but it's not related at all to Avatar like Sokka is about this guy
who lost his dog at 82, and then they have a film they reveal.
By the way, I hope you're okay with this.
We'd like to have you play Ang Last Airbender and like, he's like,
my God, no way.
You know, like because you didn't know what you're reading for.
You know, you're hoping for something cool, but you know, whatever.
And he's got a good head of hair and he's just like.
Wait to shave my head.
Like, Yes, you do.
Well.
Do you think he shaved his head or did they put him in a shade?
Is that. Okay? Okay. Yeah, because.
You saw me. It's just growing back and stuff like that.
All the post ups stuff.
And later seasons, he starts to grow his hair back.
So especially season. Three and three.
Yeah. Yeah.
Do you think? Okay, here's the question for you. There was a meme.
There's a great Twitter account.
If you guys are on Twitter
for called discussion films, discussing films of things.
And it is there's a meme version of a fake version of that
where they post fake news.
It feels almost real the, you know, the Onion crying.
And they were saying that they're going to go
with a non blind actress for Toff and everybody lost their mind.
At first off, it's a fake account, so don't freak out, guys.
Yeah.
Do you think they go with a blind actress or a non blind actress?
That's hard because it takes
well, I don't know.
Yeah, I will throw this out there, throw a wrench in it.
Data was not played by a blind guy.
Yeah, and I think, like the vast majority
of blind characters in TV have not been blind actors.
I think acting as a skill set or as a career is not often pursued
by blind people.
It's very hard to do, I'd imagine, you know, without sight.
So there's probably just
a small handful of blind actors as there is, let alone ones
that look like the character that you try to cast them for.
So and it's not like you can go find a blind person say, Hey,
we want someone blind to play this character.
Do you think you can act because you need somebody who knows how to act?
Yeah, you need somebody else. Yeah.
So, yeah, I don't know.
I'd say the right. Age group and the right race.
It's a very niche window You're trying to tighten it down to to add blindness
on top of that might be too niche to even find the right actors for that.
Because if you
if you have a good actor who can act like
they have a German accent or whatever, you don't need to go find a guy
with a German accent.
You need a really good actor
who can act like they have that accent and then also act like they have that,
you know, Nazi rage or whatever is required for that character.
Or Germans will always be one thing. I know
it's not like.
For them when they built when they made the frankfurter know it's always Nazi.
Stuff. Yeah. I guess
they have the wrong side of history.
Unfortunately they are. Yeah.
But yeah.
So I think it's more
when you have an actor who can act really good for the character
and blind being just a one piece of that character versus
and if you find them all align and there happens to be a blind actor
that fits the role, fantastic, That's great.
But I don't think that's going to be very common.
So I wouldn't make that be a bottleneck.
That limits what actors you can find for that role.
You know, what I'm going to want to look into is try to find good blind
any actual blind actors or actresses and and see what roles we might be missing.
Because there's probably something out there
that we're not thinking about, like deaf deaf actors have been on the rise
recently in real prominent roles and have done a phenomenal job.
I want this one. I want to look into that.
That's interesting cause I just don't really think about that.
All right.
Let's move on to our next thing here.
Venom three is confirmed to be coming to theaters later this year,
and they changed their name to Venom.
The last Dance you haven't watched Venom, right?
I think I watched the first one.
I don't remember how it ends.
That's fair.
But I definitely don't think I saw the second one.
They're pretty forgettable, but they're not like, terrible.
I think especially when compare compared to something
like Matt and Weber, Morbius But they're serviceable, right?
Like there Marvel in name only.
There's Sony driven first, but you've got Tom Hardy being Tom Hardy.
That's always fun and it's kind of like a ridiculous version.
It very much reminds me of like early 2000
superhero movies where I was just like, What the hell, We got the rights to this.
Make this so it's worth a watch in that sense.
Yeah, I definitely love Tom Hardy.
It's anything he's in. I'll watch
while
I say that, but I haven't seen the second one's a failing.
But yeah, the second. One's worse in the first one.
But it's got Woody Harrelson playing Carnage,
and I personally liked Woody Harrelson as Carnage because Woody Harrelson plays
Sucralose real well, so he's just kind of doing his thing.
It's perfect. Nice.
The Batman Part two is delayed to 2026.
I still listen to that soundtrack.
That's such a good soundtrack,
the beat of Batman with that and it's so freaking good.
I'm going to. It's it.
I'm sure it was good.
It was a really good movie, but I can't say
I remember any of the songs that were in it.
I don't think I've ever listened to soundtrack though.
Like, what's the
gosh, Guardians of the Galaxy?
That's the one.
I set up a Pandora playlists from them, you know, many years ago.
And so that's just kind of my go tos like that or like,
you know, nineties country.
So I don't really venture out and look for other soundtracks. To.
Listen to anymore.
I recently got a new record player for Christmas from Miguel,
and because my old record player was is too big and cumbersome for the shuffle,
this is a new one.
And so I was like, okay,
time to fire up on the record collecting again.
And the first record I knew I wanted to get
was the Guardians of the Galaxy record.
They had like the close edition that has the first and second album
and I mean, that's what's great about a record
or what's nice about those is a record you put on there.
You have like five, five songs per side.
It's not super easy to change songs or move songs around.
It's really a device
where you should listen to the entire album while
reading a book or something like that, which is what I use it for.
And Guardians of the Galaxy, there's not a freaking mist.
It's just hit after hit.
Just perfect. Yeah, that's funny.
It's kind of nice to have that thing.
You know, we take advantage of the conveniences
that we're given today, but when you have to sit through
like a trailer or a commercial or like that,
where you have to listen to the song, if you're on regular radio
and you have to listen to songs that I wasn't looking for this one, but
I'll listen to it anyways, because that's where you find it.
Not only do you find patience and you learn to appreciate the songs
you really like, but then you also find music
that you haven't heard before
and you might find your next favorite song is You're Not You know, listening
to your playlist of your top five over and over again.
So I'm not an audio file guy.
Like, I mean, I edit and I've gone to school for editing podcasts.
Everyone get it.
But I'm not like a guy who's like, it's got to be just right, man.
But there's something about a record, and I think I've talked to you about it
before.
Like if you get an old record, I have a lot of records
that are printed in this or pressed in the seventies like you actually,
that was press in the seventies, the music analog on there.
So when you're listening to it, it feels like it's more real in a way.
And it's funny because like on Spotify or YouTube, wherever you listen to music,
it's way higher quality, sure, but it doesn't feel real.
And for some reason a record just is
and I don't know, I can't really fully explain it.
Maybe.
Maybe some musician out there gets it, but it's cool.
Yeah. Feels aged.
Yeah. Yeah.
Like. Like they're actually in the room or something like that.
Yeah, that's cool. Among us.
Have you played that game at all real big? Yeah.
In the pandemic, Everyone playing it, I sucked at it.
yeah, yeah, yeah. I played that a lot.
My nieces had it and we would play together on on my phone, I think.
Yeah.
So they're, they're making a live action TV series, I want to say.
Yeah, it's TV series now.
No, I've actually I still I've actually I'm sorry, it's a cartoon.
It's done by the guys who did lower decks.
Does okay.
Yeah. Yeah. Titmouse That company.
So they just casted the four main characters.
Randall Park.
Who is the one that's like they're Jim. Yeah.
From the office. Fake Jim that you've seen it.
Yeah. Yeah.
Ashley Johnson is going to be playing in this.
Yvette Nicole Brown going to be the Orange one.
And Yvette Nicole Brown, of course, is the she's from community.
She's the one that's
really Christian and like Christmas all the time and stuff like that.
yeah, yeah.
And then Elijah Wood is going to be in as the green one.
And it's like this star studded cast is just freaking nuts.
Elijah Wood.
That's yeah, that's real. Good.
I know he has been in much, but he's such a great actor.
Yeah.
And Ashley Johnson's the voice of
she's been in a bunch of stuff, but most recently people know her
as the voice of Ellie from the The Last of US.
So she's she's been very prolific up to this point, too.
But the but the Monkeys show,
I'm kind of hoping they don't tell us who's killing everybody I want to be.
I want to try to figure it out as a surprise.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I know who it is.
And then it's just like we're in on it, and I don't know.
Yeah.
I hope they're using this name and just the rough concept
to really sell it, but they completely make it a whodunit,
kind of a thriller drama that we can fall into.
Because if it's kind of
campy,
an overly cartoonish, just to be like a, like a kids game, then sure,
it'll be great for the 7 to 12 year olds and nobody else will be interested in it.
But but yeah, I think they have something here
that they could really get a lot of, you know, clickbait based on the name,
but also they have a good opportunity
to make an exciting, dramatic kind of thriller.
Yeah, and again, lower lower
decks, animation guys, Vox McCann, animation guys.
So it's going to be high quality and I just think that would be blast.
Like at the end of the first episode, somebody open an airlock and they're like,
What the hell, Who did that? You know, and try to figure it out the whole time.
And then we could like make bets on who we think it is. That's great.
So if this is a complete flop, I think they should
still pursue among us and make it a reality show.
Imagine all these terrible reality shows that they're making.
Yeah.
Get rid of. I don't know.
I tried to watch one recently that was just
unbearable.
Yeah. Was a traders. yeah.
Yeah, traders. Yeah.
It's like, this is it's.
Just trying to be super overly dramatic and that's just you got to,
you got to work for it. You can't just force it.
But, you know, we had kind of fun as a reality show.
DO Yeah.
You remember the show The Mole. It was like. Yeah.
That was exactly. Yeah.
So I saw my wife, too, was like, This is kind of like they're trying to be
like the mole, but it's not as good that they're heavy handed on the drama.
Yeah.
All right.
What do we have next? John?
so. Sorry.
I'm delayed.
Have you seen the new Fallout trailer?
I know you played Fallout a lot, right?
Yeah, it looks super good. What do you think about it?
Yeah, I think. I think I played it just a little bit.
I don't even remember,
honestly how the game was, but the trailer looks really cool.
And as I was watching it,
it looks like a great hybrid between, you know, trans transitioning or,
I don't know, translating a fun game like it to live action.
But I didn't play Fallout or if I did not very much.
What I was thinking is how good this would look as overwatch
if they did overwatch in the style in a movie.
What do you think?
Embracing bright colors which is really nice because.
Yeah, post-apocalyptic world.
And so sometimes they're like,
they could make it sad and drab, but this feels bright and that's how.
Yeah, you're right with Overwatch, it's all about those bright colors.
That would be cool.
I wonder if this is a new style we're going to see too, because this
a lot of this kind of reminds me of steampunk,
but it's not the traditional steampunk we're used to.
It's this whole new kind of cartoon,
you know, animation live action makes.
And we've seen it in a few other things.
But I think I think we're going to start seeing this as a as a popular style
move forward.
Yeah, we just got that Borderlands trailer,
which again, is the same kind of thing where it's a little bit post-black.
I mean, that one's more space bound, but it's the same thing
where it's just like rock and roll blast in the background somewhere you do.
So yeah, this is more subtle in a different way.
Like this one.
Let's be honest that I think Borderlands just having the same
doesn't have the same quality as this was going to have.
I literally taught Howard, the maker of the game,
is involved in making the show as well.
Then I think that's a big part of the feel
because I was like, I want there to be humor.
And they have humor in this, which is nice because the fact that like,
you know, one of the characters played by Walter Goggins, which I just freaking
love, he's from Righteous Gemstones and stuff like that, and he's
Uncle Bobby, Uncle Baby, Billy and Righteous Gemstones.
But he's going to be playing the nose,
this character in this show, and he's like 200 years old.
And the whole thing is that he's like an old Western star who survived
a nuclear apocalypse and now just watches old videos of him as an old Western star.
Like, that's ridiculous.
You're supposed to laugh at that
because of how ridiculous that is and not just be like, he's a killer.
That's not the point, you know? Yeah.
Yeah.
I like the technology where it's like it's either
it's like a retro technology in the future or it's like a different style.
We see the same kind of thing on BioShock.
Like maybe if technology evolved in different branches or a different way,
you know, if we didn't find, you know, gasoline engines
that didn't make combustion engines, but we focused on steam,
things would be totally different if we didn't
develop electricity or if we developed it 200 years earlier or whatever.
You know, how different our technology could have evolved.
I love seeing that.
It's just takes this, you know, creative, artistic mind to make all these different
branches of how things could have been made.
But it looks really cool when you see it in a game like that.
DO Yeah, and follow up.
The idea is that they they took nuclear power
and they just kept going and nuclear power.
They didn't ever steer away from it.
That's why it's fallout, you know, from a nuclear war or devastation.
And yeah, so they just embraced it and then like yeah with with BioShock
I think the whole thing was the fact that they learn the stems, right?
It's like they gave each other magic abilities basically.
Yeah.
And that's where they diverted as they went toward God.
I can't wait for another one of those.
So I don't remember.
We, I'm sure we talked about on here.
Weren't they working on a BioShock movie or.
I thought it was like a series.
They're working on a movie and they're working on another game,
but they are so far out that it's going to be a bit.
Yeah. I'm ready.
I mean, I know I keep saying, like, Avatar finally came out and I was
waiting so long for that, but okay, this is the next thing.
Like, where. Do I hear it? Right?
I'll it's worth the wait because if they decide.
To take your time. Yeah.
I mean I like, I like Halo, but I'm so sick
and tired of trying to defend hey, a lot of people and it's like. Yeah, it's.
Good. Give it a shot.
But it didn't like, do exactly like this one.
You could tell like, they're just straight up making another Fallout game.
But in a halo's not that Halo's like, we're going to use this
the world, but it's not going to feel the same.
And some are defending it all the time, and that's just hard to do sometimes.
I wonder too.
So you talk to a lot of Halo fans, but have you heard from other people
who've never played the games? Do they like Halo?
I've never
talked to somebody, hasn't played.
I still said just, you know, yeah.
I avoid them.
I see them in Walmart. I turn away. No.
But yeah, it's.
Great to fight somebody as a player. Yeah.
Yeah.
That's no wonder because I'm loving it but the same.
I mean, obviously it's not matching the game
and you see the differences and some things that make you
a little uncomfortable.
But overall it's like a beautiful they're doing a good job there.
The writing is pretty darn good.
But yeah, if you're an avid fan of the game,
then you obviously see the discrepancies and are disappointed.
I like how there's tumor episodes to go in the finale for this
second season of Halo and Paramount came out to announce that
the end of Halo two will match the first Halo game.
Like we're going to be there almost saying, just at least watch those guys,
because I promise you, we're going to get to the thing
you've been waiting two years for and good.
I'm glad you said that. We need that. Yeah.
At least there's going to be a little payoff by the end of the season.
Come on, guys. Yeah.
But yeah.
As for Fallout, again, a very bright world.
I like how they make sure to show the inside of the vaults,
which is like, you're really controlled, but you're kind of safe.
Like, you know, we're playing ping pong and stuff like that.
We've been here forever, and then outside it's completely factions.
That's one of the bigger parts of the game is that there are hardcore factions
and I think in every game
you have to choose a factor that can help more than others
and they will come to the top.
But every faction has a good and a bad.
It's like I remember one of the halo's maybe Halo four, like,
there's these engineers or these are scientist tech guys that are like,
they're clearly going to go for the best of mankind.
Are you slave labor?
So it's like one of those things.
Yeah, it's always complicated.
Yeah. That does look really good.
All right, let's move on to our next thing.
James Gunn revealed a bunch of stuff about DC, so I love him on threads.
Guys, if you're not following them tradition,
you just randomly, like,
sit down on his couch one day for, like, 2 hours
and just answer people's questions on threads.
It's so. Fun.
So let's go ahead and go over a couple of things.
First off, they announced today that they're gonna be making a live action
Teen Titans movie using the Supergirl writer.
I think her name's Anna.
I, I practiced her name so hard for the ticktock.
I forgot it already. And another year. Yeah.
Teen Titans movie. This is like a slam dunk, right?
Yeah, That's. I'm excited.
I like Teen Titans as a kid. Then they kind of. They changed it. The
kid was probably a teen when
it started coming out, but they changed the animation style.
I was old enough to just be like, Yeah, I'm good.
Anyways, I didn't watch it after that.
But in general it's a good dynamic and it's great, especially for for kids.
So I'm wondering, I, I kind of want them to do both.
I wanted to make this for kids and I kind of want to make it for us.
I don't know.
Obviously, I don't think they could do both
at the same time successfully, but what do you think?
Do you think it's going to be more for the adults that watch Teen Titans
when they were younger, or you think it's going to be for the next generation?
I can see them going for more young adults.
I think they could probably go for a 20 to 25 year olds.
I would say kind of like the Flash TV series is for, because
the reason I say that is because right now they're about to release issue ten.
But Titans is the main team for DC, not Justice League.
It's actually Titans.
And so and that's happened in the past, not necessarily that officially, but
Titans have been adult titans for a while now
and they always rebooted back to the teens by the teens
so I could totally see them going adult version and led by Nightwing.
How freakin dope would that be?
Actual and actual flash on there?
Not just kid Flash.
You know, I think they it's warranted.
You know what? I think we need a little kid version.
You know what you just like blew my mind
too, or, I don't know, reminded me.
I guess we're not the youngest generation of adults anymore.
There's these 20 to 25 year old.
20 to 30 year olds that are younger than us.
That's disappointing.
man. Okay, so there's a new generation of adults
that can't do it to create.
Do I guess.
When you get up at the edge of your bed
and try to figure out what's going to hurt today?
That's something a lot of other people have to deal with.
What new is it going to hurt today?
Yeah, like, it's the left knee today.
But it's interesting. Look after.
There we go. Hey, Eddie, you're up.
Come on, buddy.
Yeah. Yeah.
You didn't have.
You looked like you're going to hurt tomorrow.
I had to fucking.
All right, let me get the other one opened up here.
I didn't have it open for some reason.
You could go. one thing, though, about teen titans.
So one thing I didn't like about, I think it was the Justice League movie,
which also had Cyborg, how they didn't really build up the characters first.
So I'm wondering, with Teen Titans, I hope they do a good job at
not just jumping in here. We got a team.
These guys are all super cool and we'll figure it out later.
You got to build the backstory of why we should care
about any of these characters, why any of them are powerful independently
or starting out where they're not powerful independently,
and then, you know, bring them together, build them up.
But I don't want you to show me a bunch of people and say,
yeah, you just got to believe me.
This guy's really good at that. That guy's really good at this.
I kind of need it.
So you don't tell me that's a big thing over on.
Except that we talk about that. Show us. Don't tell us.
Don't say this like on Avatar was a big thing.
Like, don't say Ang's just going to be the best.
Everybody have to show us that. And then of course he does. But yeah, so.
Okay, but but I'll tell you this, Jon.
So they're not going to do the origin story for Superman.
They're not going to do the story for Batman.
So you're saying that
teen Titans is the place they should do in order to start?
Maybe we
because we're going to be starting with a robin that's retiring,
kind of retiring from being a robin maybe.
And we've seen
the Batman and Superman origin story many times, but I don't think we've seen
a Teen Titans origin story, you know, on the big screen.
Yeah.
So they're not characters that everyone's, you know, well aware of.
So yeah, I think once you've done it, you know, once, maybe twice, then yeah,
you don't have to repeat it.
Like I know every Batman and Superman movie
seems to retell their origin and we don't need to see it again.
But especially if they're going to stay with the same actors,
which I don't think they are.
But if you're going to stay with the same actors
for a while, then they definitely don't repeat it.
But yeah.
I just don't think they're well enough known characters outside of
maybe our generation, but it yet to justify
and you know when you make sequels down the road then yeah
they're established characters and they're they're great but
you don't want to just lunge at it like the biggest one to me
was they barely introduced and Justice League most of the characters, but
especially Cyborg and one other character in that too, that there's two of them.
They're like, You barely get to know anything about them.
And then it's
they're supposed to be just as good as Batman and Superman and Wonder Woman.
That didn't make any sense.
There's all kinds of problems with the Cyborg in the Zack Snyder verse.
There's controversy on controversy with that.
So honestly, and not necessarily with Cyborg,
but with just them ditching him and stuff, it's a shame.
Yeah, this is our chance to to get a new cyborg.
And you know what?
We're getting Batman brave braving the board
the movie beforehand which will be introducing Damian Wayne
my favorite Robin as Robin that's a really good time to set up.
Hey, older Robin, you're ready to move on and start your own thing maybe.
And that's where we get the Nightwing of it all.
And they can even introduce Deathstroke, which is a major villain for Titans.
So maybe they could kind of have like the, the regular villain of Batman
coming together for Deathstroke and he accidentally kills Robin's girlfriend.
Boom. There you go. Also The Examiner.
And honestly, one of the things I think that was
a big factor for Marvel's success in getting to
The Avengers was building these characters very slowly
and not just throwing them at you super fast, you know?
But each of them had, for the most part, maybe like black Widow
was probably rushed a little bit or something like that.
But for the most part, they each had their own movie or two or three movies
building up who they are and why you should care about them.
And then it's like they're already a major powerhouse in their own right.
And then you put them together and it's like, it's explosive.
You can't just cut to the end.
They have no value if you just don't build up that character
in their own big movie, this massive world that they're in.
And you know, a lot of people relying on them, you have to
you have to make stakes to be able to, you know, be invested in the characters.
You're so right.
I remember us having this conversation back in like 2010 when they were first.
It was so new.
The idea that they were going to have
these characters come together for an Avengers movie,
it was like, Are you really going to plan movies out that much?
And now we're it's a given.
But I mean, we already know when the reboot for Marvel is coming up.
That's what's crazy.
But yeah, the idea that they're
going to come together and you had to have a villain, a threat
big enough where Iron Man couldn't handle it or Thor couldn't handle it.
So we do need to have that with DC as well.
There needs to be something that not just Robin can do,
but everyone's DNA,
which then in that case it's the Ravens dad is the one that's the
the other big bad for them.
That's like too big for anybody.
So there's a lot of options there.
I think Teen Titans is going to be a solid, solid pickup.
Yeah, for sure.
Now, let's move on to Peacemaker.
Obviously, this is
this is the thing that got James Gunn this and Suicide Squad got James Gunn
into the DC side of things in the first place.
And that's where they gave him basically the reins of the kingdom.
So he says that Peacemaker Season one is still considered DC.
EU So that's the old verse and season two, which is almost going
to be like a whole new story is going to be in his universe.
Interesting that they're going to divide it in half.
John You have a chance to watch Peacemaker yet?
I think I only saw like an episode of it.
It's so damned good.
Watch it.
So between these two, are they going to have all the same cast and everything?
Everything's going to be the same. It's just going to
be confirmed.
All of team peacemakers coming back.
That's that's going to be weird.
So it's going to be a show that bridges the two is weird
or is it going to be maybe season two will just kind of be like a soft restart.
Like they they all woke up on the beach and then it's like, well,
that was a crazy party or something, you know, I don't know.
It would be interesting because at the end of season one, spoiler alert
and they're going to watch this, I'm telling you to watch right now.
And I may be able to get Jonathan to go and go for it.
And it's for that's where it's at anyways.
Yeah.
At the end he actually like talks to for a second Ackerman and Flash from DCU
so like they are definitely definitely tied but
I think that's why it kind of clarifies is not going to be tied to that at all.
It's a it's a great story though.
It's worth it's worth bridging
and there is a character in the comic books, so try to remember who
which which one it was.
But after they did a crisis on Infinite Earths
and they merged all the universes together,
there was one character who went insane because of it,
but he was the only character that had all the memories from the universe's past.
And so he was this one guy that remembered like, No, there was like five.
Diana Troy's and no, there's three Batmans.
And you were like, This dude's crazy, you know?
And so Peacemaker could be that character, the guy who is remembering like,
No, don't you remember when, like, you know, we already fought a superman,
Went bad for a second, You know? Like.
What? Crazy that would.
Be like, like the Deadpool that's kind of outside. Of.
But not looking at the camera,
like, actually, it's like a mental breakdown almost.
But yeah, not looking at the camera, though, because that's.
All I can see.
Yeah.
Not breaking the fourth wall, but he's outside.
He can see more than everybody else inside their world.
Yeah. And everybody thinks it's just a mental breakdown.
And technically it could be actually in and then you could actually just make it
that all the DCU do is some psychotic break in peacemakers mind.
Which would be dope.
Yeah,
that would make sense why it's so dark.
God.
James Gunn, call me.
I'm going to help you out with this man.
You should be consultants.
I know. God. So. Okay.
You have watched Peacemaker all the way through.
Have you watched the new suicide squad, then with King Shark?
Negative again, Jonathan.
I didn't.
Because I know I totally agree with you.
And after that, for a suicide squad, who would give him a chance?
Dammit. So good. King shark.
it's so freaking.
It's solid.
I won't say it's so good.
It's very much like a of the Galaxy vibe.
Of course it's James Gunn that did it, so it makes sense.
He's on the guard, the galaxy as well.
But like King Shark, played by Sylvester Stallone, of all people.
Yeah. Is hilarious.
He just has these short lines.
And yet at one point he like, don't watch it. Susan.
There's that one part where like, literally rips a guy in half,
like this way and have
it had like blows raining and floods, they're coming out of it.
It's just so dope.
Javier And that's what peacemakers introduced
and they gave him his own series after that.
Yeah, it's, yeah, yeah, it's cool. Yeah.
Watch it on your phone while I work.
So why does it see literally a dude.
He ripped an F.
Yeah. She might have nightmares on that one.
Idris Elba is the main star.
I'll throw that in there.
I like it.
So I did. I do it. If we can. Make a movie.
This guy just Elba versus Tom Hardy.
I'm down.
God, I would watch that or that.
And make it like an Inception thing, too.
Like, I'm so ready.
That was the first time I remember seeing Tom Hardy was in Inception.
And then it's like, Yeah, that's right. yeah.
He's the guy that. Gets. To.
He is, Yeah.
Okay. Water.
The water series is getting delayed.
It's just because they want to make sure are nailed down.
But it it's not going to be Viola Davis
who again we saw the suicide squad, so she's getting her own thing.
It's just going to be delayed a little bit.
And then he also confirmed that creature commandos,
which is going to be the first thing in the DCU does take place.
let's see. It's the official start of the DCU.
It takes place before Batman or Superman or anything like that.
And then Batman is going to be taking place after Swamp Thing.
So it's like he's starting to set up the timeline a little bit
so we know where everything takes place. I'd like that.
We have like one hand kind of guiding everything now.
It was needed. Yeah.
And I don't know, I hope obviously they're trying to replicate
what Marvel's been doing,
but I really think they should try to pick a slightly different lane.
I don't think going head to head and try and repeat it
because honestly, people are getting Marvel fatigue.
They're kind of getting tired of the same thing that Marvel's been doing.
So if you're going
to pump out the same thing they've made,
you're not going to do any better than they are now.
You want to repeat their success from 1020 years ago.
You need to start doing what they did back then and,
you know, create something fresh and innovative off of popular names.
But yeah, I.
Think I think you've got to do something
a little different than Marvel is doing now.
And in dark times.
This is something that people have been mentioning online.
In dark times, light shines, right?
So right now we're we're divided country.
We're talking about all kinds of dark stuff going on right now.
But, yeah.
And during the pandemic, like this is when this stuff starts first
getting kicked around in the in the old thought bubbles.
But we have something like Superman coming up and James God
being like, he's going to be the bastion of hope.
He's going to be a good guy all the way through.
We have Fantastic Four that they're like, It's going to be inspired by Star Trek.
It's going to show the future that you guys wanted.
And it's like, this is this is kind of the reason I get into too
complex in the first place is it's a place where Superman's just a good guy
and he's your example and not like, he's tortured by his mom's death and shit.
Like, you know, it's just like that then.
Yeah, for sure.
All right, guys, there's a bunch of X-Men stuff, too.
We have X-Men 97 coming up on the 20th.
I'm very excited for that, of course,
But me
and Thomas are going to do a special episode
of We're talking about our favorite moments for each of the characters,
and we're going to break down a brand new era of X-Men comic books coming up.
So I'm going to put a clip of that at the end of this episode,
but also make sure to check out Challenge Accepted.
We have a full breakdown of that next step.
Jon, let's talk about Tick tock. What do you. Think?
Yeah, so we got this whole this whole.
Tick tock being going on and so it's super complicated.
I'm sure you know all about it.
I'm trying to give. A. Basic rundown.
It's not that complicated.
So there's a bill that was passed in the House,
and it's going to the Senate after that.
It can go to the president,
but it is, too it's I don't even remember the name of it.
The purpose of the bill is to
prevent other countries
from manipulating our people, pretty much manipulating
the American people, The it's I can't explain the way it's worded.
I'm trying of trying to put it together.
Like they're wording it to where they don't specifically say, tick tock, man.
It says they're trying to make it as broad as possible to.
Yeah, it's
definitely blocking out tick tock in bite Dance especially, but also being like,
we're not going for just tick tock, guys, We're just being safe.
Yeah, Yeah.
So it's, it's a, it's a workaround, but it's saying that
like a company that or a social media platform or.
Yeah, a company that's owned by a adversarial
country.
A country is now one of our not our allies shouldn't be able
to influence the American people and they think bye bye.
Chinese company owning tick tock, tick tock.
Having such an influence on Americans that
that it's going to be a problem that they can just say through their app,
you know, use their algorithm to only show you stuff
that's going to persuade you to vote the way they want you to vote or,
you know, start a civil war if that's what they want us to do.
And I understand that as a real threat.
Like I could see if, you know, I don't think China's
trying to attack us right now, but maybe they are.
Don't know if you say Russia was trying to influence us.
I believe it a little more.
But whatever politics aside. Let me hop in real quick.
We do have listeners in those countries as well,
and I just want to especially not true, but I want to clarify something.
It's we're always attacking each other in a way, right?
Like there's always a level of spy games going on,
and that's we're talking about is is not necessarily like
firing a bullet,
but always, always pushing each other's lines.
That's how this how international geopolitics works.
So just to throw that out there and then one of the other things, too,
that they're really concerned about is that 170 million Americans
data is available to Bytedance's, a Chinese owned company,
which then could be given to the Chinese government.
So that's something to be concerned about.
Yeah. So I. Mean.
They're worried about this.
Yeah.
Chinese owned companies being controlled by their government,
being told they have to turn over this data
to the government and they can do malicious things with it.
So I'm not 100% against this ban.
What they're trying to do is get Bytedance's to sell a portion
of their company to an American owned entities.
So it could be Rand, you know, the U.S.
branch could be ran by an American company.
You know, it's sticky.
Obviously, they don't want to sell any of it.
They're doing great.
They may, of course, made, you know, all the success.
So whether they should be forced to or potentially have
did not operate in the U.S., you know what what I don't like is
they can't the US government's trying to stop Bytedance
or a Chinese owned company from influencing Americans,
but they have no problem with Facebook or Twitter or anybody.
Else that's. Doing the same thing.
So it needs to be non and not necessarily based on what country
the company is owned by.
It needs to be based on the the purity or the authenticity
of the information that's coming through the platform.
And it should be governed equally, I think.
But I don't know.
What do you think? Yeah, I totally agree with you on that.
I there's a strong it's so funny when you look at like who voted for what.
Right. It's not necessarily all one party or the other party.
Strange bedfellows on this one folks.
You have some of the most polarized characters, quote
unquote, of each party standing side by side, either pro or con on this.
And it's all about who's paying their bills.
You know, there's a lot of fund raising money on this and it's done by media.
And not only I will also say Bytedance is also putting a lot of money into this
campaign as well.
American politics have not
legislators got ever I used to I know the word lobbyist.
Lobbyist think you have a lot of lobbyists and that's their job.
That's just how this country works.
So, yes, there is a lot of meta money in this.
And we know you got to literally point out to people different very high level
people who have meta money involved and then bytedance on their side of this.
How they're throwing their money around is they have invested
in advertising on their own platform,
making it extremely easy for you to call your senator and bug them.
And the senators
in their reaction have complained about you guys are voicing your opinion too.
Much.
And have even issued a statement to Bytedance
saying this is exactly why we need to ban you guys is because you're
influencing people, which I completely disagree with.
And there's a lot of there's a narrative out there and certain
that there's another thing, too, where there's an age gap, right?
Where people are getting their news from.
The TV might not necessarily understand what TikTok is fully,
but they're being told in some that Tik Tok forced their users to call.
No, you close the thing and you go, That's absolute.
I didn't call.
So there's that, too.
Yeah.
And media being, you know, lobbying against this.
Do you think if Tik Tok was deleted from the world or not accessible to Americans
because that's that's what's going to happen.
Do people think it's going to go you know, other countries will still have
Tik Tok is just we won't be allowed to use it.
Do you think if it was God, you would use Facebook more?
So Facebook came out with reels, YouTube came out with shorts.
We publish on all of them and the idea is that those would become more
prominent ideally, or more importantly, because what happens if this bill passes?
Bytedance has 180 days to divest
its stakes in and make it to where it's owned by United States.
A company.
So who's big enough to do that?
Elon Musk?
Zuckerberg It's you know, Medha would eventually buy TikTok in that case.
Okay, Then we have another question.
And will you guys be so picky about this?
That's Monopoly.
Yeah. And no, no, that's not a fact.
We're not going to ask that question. I wonder. Why.
We don't enforce monopoly laws in America very well.
Not very well.
We have these specific like in the nineties
we did a bunch of Microsoft and then we shut up about it.
It's like we really should diverse again.
So if what does it take to be an American owned company?
Could Bytedance not
buy a building
in New York and have a guy sitting at a desk
answering the phones and say, okay, we have an American owned company
or move servers, build servers here, spend.
The time that they have.
I will say the United States
stuff is the United States user information is stored in America.
So could they not be a parent company of a US based company?
Do we not already have that?
And a lot of our businesses well here where the parent company is.
So you bring that up, you know, Fortnite, whatever, Fortnite
old time, it's 40% owned by Tencent, a Chinese owned company. Yes.
I do not think they can introduce the next generation completely.
Yeah, absolute. LI.
Yeah.
And yeah, it's just because there's not Yeah.
Lobbyists that are pushing for Fortnite to be.
You know Fortnite is not costing matter anything.
Yeah yeah.
So that's
why it's so
so I kind of
wanted to talk about that too, like there is some real legitimate discussion
to have here and I'll go over a little bit more.
The actual pros and cons on that.
But it's being bogged down so much by the politicians
and it's a shame because they're the ones who have to decide.
For us, that's how just governments work, but because we know that they're
they're being diluted by meta money or tic tac money.
Either way,
they can't sit down and just have a conversation over a table
to figure out what's best for the people that they represent.
And that is so frustrating.
Yeah, the more the heat gets turned up, the more it shines a light on
how in the in the ways that our government is broken.
And most of that is, you know, corruption from Citizens United and the dark money
that's coming in
and all these people stuff in their back pockets, it just can't happen anymore.
We have to break that up to be able to have relatively honest government.
Yeah, that's a long it's a long conversation and a long problem.
But yeah, as for what we have here,
yeah, I think, I think the idea that
first off, what would happen if it does happen.
It's not that tic tac it's deleted from your phone,
it's just you can't download it again.
So it'll, it'll force it to go away eventually because you know,
new phones and stuff like that.
And I used to talk a lot of the PC, weirdly enough,
so I would have it still access to it on the PC, things like that.
So there are it's a weird situation.
Where is Apple based out of is Apple American company.
It's California company.
Because all of our phones are made in China, right?
Yeah, because that's cheaper. But it's here.
Yeah.
So the businesses here but the the labor can be in another country,
but you can't have the labor here and the business, be it another country.
It's very odd like that. Yeah.
Yeah, I know. It's so confusing.
So just real quick here we have the official pros and cons on this.
So the pros to do to banning TikTok is national security.
It aims to protect the U.S.
user data from potential exploitation by a foreign adversary.
China can request from any company that's in their borders
the data or can request any information they wanted anytime.
So that is true. That can happen.
And then the data Privacy issues addresses concerns regarding the privacy
and security of American user data.
Is the com to a TikTok ban.
Market disruption could negatively impact small businesses and influencers
relying on TikTok for marketing, sales and income like ourselves.
Well, I would argue that Tik Tok right now is our most prominent
advertising source for the Geek Freaks podcast.
If you guys look at the numbers, I mean, look at today's fucking videos.
They didn't do well, but normally lately they did do pretty decent.
And that's a way to kind of we always we have headlines.
We talk about what we're going to be talking about on the next gig freaks.
And we have clips going up. That's one of our big things.
There are a lot of people now who make their money on Tik Tok.
If this gets banned, you put they said 300,000 people out of work
because they're influencers or they're selling shame.
And I like. It because, like, you know what? I want to look up a recipe.
I don't Google recipes anymore.
I look up TikTok videos of other people making that recipe, and I follow that way.
You know, this is a lot you can get at.
And if you use the right way, I.
Get recipes not wanting them, not necessarily looking out for them.
They're like, that's a good idea. You know what?
I think I have that and I make. Exactly.
Yeah. Of free speech concerns.
So critics, including digital rights groups, argue a ban would infringe
on America's right to information advocacy and entertainment.
It's a little tricky because free speech necessarily it's complicated.
It's kind of like a government has to block the free speech
for to actually be a free speech problem.
But it is how we share information.
And for those who are saying like,
they can make it to where it leans one way or the other,
my feed is very much different than my father's feed
and and very much different than your feed.
It very much different than like Mom's feed or whatever.
My feed politically is polar opposite to my dad's feed,
and they're not steering either of us in any particular way.
It's it's giving you what you already engage with.
And that's why I knows what kind of politics I like,
what kind of politics he likes.
You know?
Yeah. That and right now it's doing that.
I think there's concern is
they can lose control of that and it'll be used maliciously.
But yeah right now it gives you what you want it it
finds what you're looking for and gives you more.
But yeah, if, if they decided to turn
the steering wheel left or right, then it could probably influence people.
But I think that's something that we have to,
you know, work with, with like dance on is like, Hey, you're great company.
We want you to be involved in the U.S., but we need to have
some kind of regulations on how this is rad to make sure it's safe
and these aren't going to be imposed on just you.
It's going to be pose on all social media companies
that operate in the United States.
So Meta and all the other ones are going to have to follow along as well.
And just regulations. They are okay with that. Yeah.
Yeah.
Like how are how our data is handled and you know how the information is.
Give it to us.
You know what, what do you look at someone's clicks,
You know, how do you determine
what they should be seeing to make sure that you're not getting pushed a certain.
Maybe an outside source that does the moderation on
that would be really nice. Yeah.
Personally, I've noticed a tick tock.
I mean, via Twitter.
I mean, it's gone to shit guys.
I know people still use Twitter and I still visit Twitter because it's
where I have connections that I need to be able
to like email people back, whatever most people back.
But I, I log into Twitter, John, maybe once a week and I
am constantly just blocking reporting bots for the first like 30 minutes.
I'm on there and I'm like, how this has never been done before.
And it was literally the point of Twitter being sold.
Elon Musk because he was going to bots, they are far worse by email.
It is almost unusable to me.
And it's, and I'm a heavy social media user because of this podcast.
It's ridiculous.
One of the last cons, by the way, brought up
often is a requirement for Bytedance to sell TikTok and give up the algorithm,
which is very hard for them to do and can be leaked to mirror or not.
We keep saying about it, but could be anybody else
who's got a social media thing going on, even blue sky or something.
It's nearly impossible for them to do it in 180 day timeframe.
That 180 days is being based off of Elon Musk buying Twitter,
which he was only doing.
He did it for 44 million or 44 billion.
I'm sorry,
I was only doing because he was forced to base off a promise and then a lawsuit.
So they that can't be replicated for bytedance.
It's impossible.
So they're they're basically forcing the ban in a way
because they can't sell it on 180 days, literally, like not possible.
So then you're forcing it to get banned.
It's it's all shady politics. It might be.
I wonder what it costs.
How much would it cost Bytedance?
How much would they struggle if they did have an American audience?
There's a big world out there.
We're just a piece of it.
Would they be just fine to be like, You know what, U.S.
Sorry, you guys are being stupid over there.
We don't we don't need you there.
There really is already like basically Africa, what it's called.
But there is a there's a tick tock for I know
China has their own and there's even a Fortnite specific for China.
And so sometimes I watch control of their TikTok or their Fortnite and it's
it feels a little cheaper if I'm being honest, but like more wacky.
And so it's kind of fun to watch just this goes on.
But yeah, so they already have their own and they would definitely take a hit.
Definitely take a hit.
And yeah, Metta would do well.
A the whole there are is an argument out there too.
Like well then the money would go to American companies.
Yes, money would go to people who are so stinking
rich that numbers don't matter to them anymore.
Yeah, it's not going to go to you and me.
It's going to go to people who are.
It's going to be funneled to different billionaires or billionaires.
Yeah, it will never see the effect of money coming to an American company.
Ages will never happen. Yeah,
so we know that if it does get to Joe Biden, he says he will approve it.
He's already he's been saying that since day one.
Tick tock will likely challenge this in court.
They have the option to do that.
It it will unlikely be successful if they do, though,
and it has an uncertain future in the Senate.
But there are a lot of experts that are saying this is happening.
So it's it's all about whether or not they could sell.
And I almost think Bytedance needs to look at selling it now
before it becomes toxic
its ugly future, though man for TikTok.
Yeah yeah.
I wonder why the why could they
They shouldn't have to sell it to somebody like Elon Musk or whatever if.
They could sell anybody.
But it's so expensive
that it have to be somebody that owns a social media company basically.
Yeah.
I mean, I would sell it to the smallest one it to MySpace.
So that so that Elon Musk does get it, you know.
Yeah, but, Yeah, I don't know.
It's just crazy.
I hope they have.
There's a way that they can just make a,
a US company
and it still be Bytedance just they have a US division.
Why would they not? I don't know.
Maybe they probably already have that set up. They operate here.
They have, like you said, they have servers here and everything.
So I think Microsoft's big enough to own it
that doesn't technically have a social media company.
They have Xbox and I would you know, what might that be tied together in this?
You know, I wouldn't mind that.
And I believe Oracle is already working with TikTok to provide their US servers.
So in is one of those companies that's gigantic.
It's just not set often.
In the nineties it was known a lot more they could on like there are definitely
some tech companies that are big enough for it,
but the ones that would be interested in it is definitely Mark Zuckerberg.
And of course he's putting money behind it.
And you know. Elon Musk. Yeah.
I love I love music.
Tik Tok again, will you advertise the podcast through?
But even just as a user, I've met some wonderful people over there,
people that, you know, talk about being consumers at Disneyland
or people who just spout off on Lord of the Rings like it's a history book
or I was just shared with Kevin today,
a guy who broke down the production of Deep Space nine in Voyager
and why they were so unique in the Star Wars, their Star Trek canon.
And it's like, man, I get fueled from there.
And there's some of the funniest things I've seen in my life are on Tik Tok,
so I hate to see that go away. You know.
Who was the. Guy who.
Who wrote Game of Thrones?
George R.R. Martin. George R.R..
I was going to say J.R.R. Tolkien and I was like, No, that's not right.
Lord of the Rings.
Yeah, yeah.
So but I keep seeing videos now of him talking about, you know, the books,
and he was just explaining one of my saw where it kind of diverged
between the show and his books is like,
Well, yeah, my books, there's a lot of characters
that are still alive that they killed off in the show
and what they didn't know is they have comeback stories.
There's there's, you know, certain things that are going to happen
they can't show because they're killed off this character.
But he has a huge arc that's coming back or something.
And it's like, man, it's Of course it is. Yeah.
There's a. Lot of great. Stuff to see.
I notice.
I see on tick tock a lot, tick tock, sharp things, and at one point
it kind of got annoying. I'm like.
Why do I keep seeing this?
But, you know, things that I don't want to see over and over again.
But then I realize it's like, well,
every once in a while I like something that's from the Tick Tock shop.
I don't buy it, but I like it.
And it's like, wait, I should see that. That's a shop. Yeah.
And but they get a lot of cool stuff on there and usually, you know,
really good deals and like, at some point I'm going to, I'm going to buy the bite,
the bullet, pull the trigger for one of those, too, and,
you know, buy something on it and then it's going to be every other tick
tock swipe. I'm going to be buying something.
I believe it's every third is a sponsored ad or marketplace check.
I got it up right here.
So obviously that's Oreo's 1 to 3 sponsor.
Okay, Ready? 1 to 3
now. Okay.
So they changed it when it first came out.
When the shop first came out is every three was sponsored or a
but it was just like, okay, guys, what you could do to help with that
and you could actually ban hashtags that you don't want to see on your feed.
So ban hashtag tick tock shop and it gets a lot of them off.
Not to do that though. I see some really good stuff.
I just saw like a a kid's kid's a Playboy ad or whatever,
like to get your kid off of tablets, which.
Yeah, unfortunately when my son's, you know, matter whatever,
we'll give him his tablet or give him one of our phones
over at the store and stuff like that.
But they have, as you know, a lot of kids toys, but
it's like a bunch of little toy cars inside a plastic case.
And they all have letters on them.
And then there's parking spots.
It's like you're in a parking lot as parking spots for each of the letters
and see it's like a little magnetic wand and move all the little cars
into their parking.
But it's all, you know, learning.
Mailbox letters and stuff. That is.
Yeah.
And fine motor skill
because you got to go really slow because if you move too fast,
it falls and there's a lot of little spots to do, like a roundabout.
So you could turn the car around
if it's the right direction and it's like, man, it's smart,
it's relatively small, you know, it's a little bit bigger than a tablet, but
maybe less, you know, a foot and a half or something like that square.
And, you know, it was only like $40, I think, or something like that.
Yeah, like.
You going to target, you're going to find a toy like that.
Yeah. But it's going to cost you 40 bucks. So yeah.
I might as well buy it on the tic tac shop.
I see so many, like cool 3D
printed ideas that I just never would have thought about,
like different kind of holders that you would like. of course.
Why do we have that already?
So I search for 3D print ideas.
Now too on there. A lot of cool stuff.
I tell you what I mean.
It's especially like 2:00 in the morning.
It has made me laugh harder than any comedy movie I can think of.
And just the next one is about a dog dying
and I'm crying and it's like, like
it's so good because it's so real and I hate to lose it and it's
not going to be replaced by Instagram or, you know, YouTube's trying.
I do like YouTube's credibility.
Like we we published all of them and they definitely all have strengths
at different times. It's really weird.
Like also I'm like, Instagram is doing well.
The other two are Slack, and by now it always takes changes like that. But
yeah, it's it's an interesting time.
We live in our now hopefully
hopefully this way for this to work out I just don't see it.
Yeah.
You know. Let's see how it plays out.
Yes. Okay guys.
By the way, I will end this thing off with Invincible Season two.
Part two just came out and I just got a chance to watch that again.
I did that and the meta felt like I was in a theater Super.
It was incredible.
Started incredible return.
I did nothing.
They could redo Redeem Mark's dad.
If you guys have, you guys got to watch it.
But I Mark's dans Notre Dame talking me wrong
but all of a sudden I am far more sympathetic for him.
The writing on Invincible is impeccable.
It's Robert Kirkman.
Of course it's going to be really good.
He's the one that The Walking Dead. Of course.
It's so, so good.
And the fact that it's animated, sometimes I forget that it's like animated
when I'm watching. I'm like, This is.
This is incredible writing.
And like, that's right.
This is also animated.
It's just so good.
Have you had a chance to watch Invincible yet?
I haven't seen any of it.
Okay. It is very good, John.
I think it might be up your alley.
Yeah, it is very good.
I was just.
Where do you watch the prime?
Okay. Yeah, I have Prime.
Yeah.
And it's Robert Kirkman, the guy that did Walking Dead. It's.
It's.
Think of early walking in that house, just like, man,
this is really heartbreaking stuff for whatever the idea is.
That is. I'll just give you the real broad strokes here.
He's the son of essentially a superman who's a guy from space, yadda,
yadda, yadda.
You find out that he comes from a race called the vulture mites
who send out basically
one member to each planet to get them ready for them to come over and invade it.
And when Mark finds out about this, who is is half human, half vulture.
My son finds out about it.
He tries to beat his dad to stop him.
It does not go well. And
it is an incredible story of
multiple layers and trying to figure out like, I love my dad.
He wants to murder this planet.
And you're there's one line that crushes me, crushes everybody where he's talking
shit about his mom, the woman that the guy married and had Mark with.
And she's like, I love her. She's like a pet to me.
Like she's not real the all my level. And it's like.
Bro, fuck you, Sylvester.
Like, I love my dog, too. But, you know.
That's like, was that other show?
The boys are superhero show?
yeah, the boys. Yeah.
I saw Brian. Yeah, that was.
That was a good show.
I put off watching him for so long, and then I finally watched.
It was like,
yeah, just don't watch it with, you know, my wife instead of the room.
For real. Yeah, that's kind of episode two.
I'm really happy for that one as well.
Yeah. So. Yeah, good times.
Okay, so yeah, Invincible Season two, Part
two Coming back, I would say I'd give it a good B plus.
Okay, I'm going to go eight and a half more.
Almost nine out of ten for that one.
Guys, with your watch network stuff, what's going on on the network.
So first off, we're going to be talking again
a lot about X-Men over on Challenge Accepted. Come and join us.
We're going to be talking about our favorite moments
from the original X-Men animated series, getting ready for the next one,
Outlast podcast is back and in full swing.
We're talking about Survivor Season 46 of Survivor over there.
Jonathan, real quick, do you have any favorites yet?
dude, I do actually have your favorites.
Mom's and mine and my wife on my phone.
Let me find them very quick.
I know Mom bumped Hunter.
I was going to pick Hunter, and then I was like,
no, not if she is already got because I don't want to
I don't want to be the one on on somebody already, especially when I know.
You're going too good.
Like you might get kicked out because he's too good. Yep.
And so often.
I kind of hope so now, because I totally wanted to pick him,
but I was like, No, no, no, not off.
But then Susie picked my wife, picked him like, Yeah.
You could do that. Yeah.
But yeah, did it in this last episode where we saw how good he is
with the challenges because he literally practice them, you know, as his job.
Yeah, I think that's pretty dope.
mine are already on the brink of failure, so I'm probably not going to do great.
But I picked Kenzie and Tiffany, which are two like butting heads with each other.
But I think if they make it to merger, they're both going to be sharks.
Well, they're on the same side right now, but it's just like it takes a second
for one of those two to turn on the other one. Yeah.
they're both.
Super aggressive players, but they're on the same team right now.
Yeah, Yeah.
They're on the same side because there's such a small tribe with them.
But I think as soon as they're in a bigger crowd, they're.
They're out for blood. Yeah.
Neither them would trust each other.
So who's got Hunter and who else?
yeah, a hunter and Q.
Q Q is so aggressive, I think he's going to grab attention as soon as they merge.
Yeah, I think it's. It.
He seems so socially good, you know,
pretty smart and effective in challenges, but he is a little bit too big of an ego
and I think that's going to be a problem moving forward.
You know, the whole like don't worry, I got you this.
I'm going to take care of you.
It's like you're putting on a lot of confidence
for know something you don't have much control over.
Yeah, so but then that whole, you know, the passionate
commitment comes with a failure, and then it's like, I completely failed.
I'm useless. Just throw me away.
That's not good.
That's emotional instability and we can't trust you.
I know he does that a lot, though.
He does that where he's like, Yeah.
I don't care for that so much.
So guys, join us over on our podcast.
We like to keep track of everybody's favorites and see how they do.
We pick our favorites at this point and see how far they get in there.
Those are some really good ones, I think.
I think we have a really good season.
We just got to get Bonnie out of there and we're fine.
He is a mess.
But I think he's got a good point.
Keep him along and use him in your top three.
He would be a good one to sit next to for sure.
And he is like, he's so defenseless.
You really can just take it away.
All right.
And then who's got next game podcast?
They just finished their PlayStation one brackets there this week,
going to be at the Arizona Gamers Expo.
So if you guys are there, go check them out.
They're going to be cruising around
Charles and Connor down there taking pictures and having fun.
But yeah, they just finished up the Pierce one bracket.
And I will say I was upset about it,
but that's, that's good podcasting when I was like.
Those bastards.
Has crashed, I got to win this.
And then over our challenge accepted.
We are wrapping up Halo this week, which is the final
two episodes we'll be doing our.
We're also going to be challenged by Drake Kongo from 90 yeah nineties.
Remember the movie Congo with the Apes? The white apes?
No, you were too. Young, man.
There's like a big reason they're killing gorillas with it.
It's okay.
I will.
Yeah, because there's, like, a blond woman,
and they were, like, trying to live amongst the apes, right?
There was a bit of that. Yeah.
There's one gorilla that like the sign language,
and they use that to, like, translate for them. Yeah.
Okay.
Drake challenges to that.
And I was like, I haven't thought about that since the nineties.
So I'm excited. To check that out.
I challenge accepted by the way, shout out to myself,
Andrew and Thomas, we just donated our food.
It was £210 of food over there.
We did that pays off the lessons from last year.
£210 of food, about 250 items, give or take.
It was wonderful.
I appreciate every single lesson over there. Guys.
Thank you so much for joining us on that adventure.
We're going to do it again for sure.
And I think we're going to do it for geek freaks as well.
Just because I loved bringing that food, that food shelter.
So I'd love to do that again.
And then
lastly, we're doing this across the entire network.
This is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, guys.
If you're over 45, you go in, you got to get that checked out.
It's once every ten years.
Once you get the procedure done, once you get the check,
you're good for another ten years.
And they just they check for polyps.
They take those polyps out and you're you're safe.
They test the polyps and then you're good.
So check that out, guys in the link in the description
is going to have more information on collect call on the cancer.
And we're going to also have a page where you can find your local testing sites.
It's it's not an easy test. I'll give you that.
But again, once every ten. Years, you can't beat that.
All right, guys, thank you so much for joining me.
And we'll see you guys next week. Bye bye.