WEBVTT 00:00:00.140 --> 00:00:01.683 Alrighty, guys, we are. 00:00:01.683 --> 00:00:11.667 You know, here in the undergrounds we are a rebel sect called the Gentle Lads and you know we are hiding from the Empire. 00:00:11.667 --> 00:00:17.560 Welcome to episode 124 of Project Geekology. 00:00:17.560 --> 00:00:23.370 And this week we are covering the first six episodes of Andor, season two. 00:00:23.370 --> 00:00:27.214 And I know, I said you know Rebel Sect of Gentle Lads. 00:00:27.214 --> 00:00:31.469 You know it's a little inside joke that we have off of the podcast. 00:00:31.469 --> 00:00:34.603 You know now it's on the podcast, so you guys have joined us. 00:00:34.603 --> 00:00:41.002 But, yes, I am one third of your host, anthony, and joining me, as always, is Dakota. 00:00:41.241 --> 00:00:51.308 And yeah, gentle Lads is the name of our text group and I will be sure to change that as soon as possible because we have to keep you guys guessing. 00:00:51.308 --> 00:01:04.983 Yeah, I'm really excited to be talking about Andor, season two, the first six episodes, a lot of rebel sex activity and yeah, yeah, my name is Dakota and I'm joined as always with, and, yeah, my name's. 00:01:05.004 --> 00:01:06.073 Dakota and I'm joined as always with Rich. 00:01:06.073 --> 00:01:06.618 Glad to be with you guys. 00:01:06.618 --> 00:01:16.174 You know, honestly, my redonium's running a little low and I just needed a little bit more of a fix of Andor. 00:01:16.174 --> 00:01:19.450 So happy to be talking about episodes one through six with you guys. 00:01:20.340 --> 00:01:24.429 Now I'm kind of upset that I didn't start the podcast in my Saw Gerrera voice. 00:01:25.831 --> 00:01:26.492 That's pretty good. 00:01:27.441 --> 00:01:28.546 You can do that next week. 00:01:29.680 --> 00:01:31.706 Rhydonium, it's like my sister. 00:01:32.248 --> 00:01:32.990 That was wild. 00:01:32.990 --> 00:01:35.822 I was very confused, like the first time around. 00:01:35.822 --> 00:01:37.328 I was like wait, what's going on? 00:01:37.328 --> 00:01:40.043 Man Guys, this guy is. 00:01:40.043 --> 00:01:42.509 We find a lot more about Saw Gerrera. 00:01:43.210 --> 00:01:43.671 We do. 00:01:43.671 --> 00:01:46.962 But before we get into that, it's been two weeks. 00:01:46.962 --> 00:01:53.665 We had a little bit of a week off, but now we are back to it, strong, with Andor, season 2. 00:01:53.665 --> 00:02:00.581 Like I said, it's going to be the first six episodes this week and then we'll do the remaining episodes next week. 00:02:00.581 --> 00:02:08.062 Too bad, we don't wait on Rogue One, because we could have let up to Rogue One, but we already did a Rogue One episode. 00:02:08.062 --> 00:02:15.514 So after you listen to this season, you can go back to the Rogue One episode and go listen to that. 00:02:15.514 --> 00:02:18.228 But yes, like I said, it's been two weeks. 00:02:18.228 --> 00:02:20.325 I'm going to go to Rich. 00:02:20.325 --> 00:02:21.925 Rich, what have you been up to? 00:02:21.925 --> 00:02:28.544 And we do know that it's been a lot of baseball, but what else have you been doing outside of baseball? 00:02:29.366 --> 00:02:29.467 I. 00:02:29.467 --> 00:02:34.782 So I I shockingly do have outside of baseball news, although there was much baseball I. 00:02:34.782 --> 00:02:35.865 I do want to highlight that. 00:02:35.865 --> 00:02:40.114 But I got a for father's day. 00:02:40.114 --> 00:02:43.927 My son and my wife got me this. 00:02:43.927 --> 00:02:44.990 I should. 00:02:44.990 --> 00:02:54.811 It's this it looks like an action figure but it's actually like a kind of piece of plexiglass, almost that has the image inside of it. 00:02:54.811 --> 00:02:57.502 So it just has me and it says gamer dad. 00:02:57.502 --> 00:03:01.007 This is like a normal dad, but much cooler. 00:03:01.007 --> 00:03:04.173 And then the controller next to me has my son's name under it. 00:03:04.173 --> 00:03:13.731 So I got that and my son's idea was to grab me a N64 controller that connects to the Switch. 00:03:14.800 --> 00:03:18.812 And I promptly schooled him in Mario 64. 00:03:18.812 --> 00:03:23.408 I'm not going to lie, the pure jubilation. 00:03:23.408 --> 00:03:29.931 So he immediately was like this is much faster than Mario Kart Deluxe. 00:03:29.931 --> 00:03:34.170 He felt that even the 50ccs was faster for some reason. 00:03:34.170 --> 00:03:37.969 And man, I remember those. 00:03:37.969 --> 00:03:46.243 I wasn't sure if I would remember the shortcuts and where I needed to drift and where I had to stop drifting, but it all came back. 00:03:46.243 --> 00:03:48.270 You, you fell back into step. 00:03:48.270 --> 00:03:51.139 Yeah, it was impressive holding that controller. 00:03:51.139 --> 00:03:55.473 It was different, like I, it felt different than playing mario kart deluxe. 00:03:55.473 --> 00:03:58.281 I, I just I really enjoyed it. 00:03:58.281 --> 00:04:00.768 And then I did something a little crazy. 00:04:00.768 --> 00:04:03.282 We've gotten my son a number of things for graduation. 00:04:03.282 --> 00:04:10.788 He's graduating fifth grade this year, even though it's just kind of a legal state requirement that everyone has to go through, because it's not much of an accomplishment. 00:04:10.889 --> 00:04:19.293 It's not like you have a choice, but anyway we got to celebrate him yeah, you can't get held back in new york state anymore at that early of an age. 00:04:19.480 --> 00:04:26.218 Yeah, so, but he's been talking about the switch to a lot and I finally I was gonna ask about that. 00:04:26.298 --> 00:04:27.120 I found a tracker. 00:04:27.723 --> 00:04:28.504 I found a tracker. 00:04:28.504 --> 00:04:32.721 I found I started following a twitter account and there was, uh, the. 00:04:32.721 --> 00:04:41.084 There was news that they were dropping it on june 11th, so at like 11 o'clock luckily, my classes are pretty much winding down. 00:04:41.084 --> 00:04:55.394 The rumor was from 9 to 12, so I just basically was just spamming the reload button and, as luck would have it, I got myself a pickup model, so it should be arriving on friday. 00:04:55.394 --> 00:05:01.432 By the time you guys hear this, I'll hopefully already have it and unveil the news to charlie. 00:05:01.432 --> 00:05:08.630 So I'm very happy to find out that the controller is compatible with the new one, cause I was like, oh no, what if it's not compatible? 00:05:09.471 --> 00:05:10.713 but it all is. 00:05:10.934 --> 00:05:11.781 And I'm very excited. 00:05:11.781 --> 00:05:24.211 I'm going to be driving to Yonk to go grab this and luckily it's not a GameStop in Texas, because I don't know if you guys heard of the news, but it was something like $1.6 million or more than that. 00:05:24.211 --> 00:05:26.415 Switch 2s were stolen. 00:05:26.415 --> 00:05:36.331 A shipment was hijacked on its way to GameStop Texas, so something like 280,000 units or something were stolen. 00:05:36.331 --> 00:05:41.230 And just imagine if you had a pre-order and you were about to go pick that thing up. 00:05:41.230 --> 00:05:42.704 That's crazy. 00:05:42.725 --> 00:05:43.648 That's wild actually. 00:05:44.220 --> 00:05:44.824 Yeah, that is actually I did. 00:05:44.824 --> 00:05:45.507 That's crazy, that's wild actually. 00:05:45.528 --> 00:05:45.951 Yeah, that is actually. 00:05:45.951 --> 00:05:46.454 I did not know that. 00:05:46.454 --> 00:05:56.930 That is awesome, though it's amazing that we hold these things like N64 controllers as pinnacles of creation, but it's one of the least ergonomical controllers. 00:05:57.180 --> 00:05:57.947 How do you hold it? 00:05:57.947 --> 00:05:58.752 It was terrible. 00:05:58.752 --> 00:06:00.427 He's like how do you hold this for racing? 00:06:05.579 --> 00:06:08.045 And I'm like oh, you got in the middle here, buddy, it makes sense, but what an era of gaming like. 00:06:08.165 --> 00:06:08.987 It was such a such a fun time. 00:06:08.987 --> 00:06:17.749 I cannot wait till I play him with what is it called slappers only in golden eye this good old slap fest golden eye session. 00:06:17.749 --> 00:06:25.581 And then you pick odd job because he's slightly shorter than the other guys and you have an unfair advantage because their chops go over your head. 00:06:25.581 --> 00:06:27.586 I can't wait to spam him that way like I'm just. 00:06:27.586 --> 00:06:36.072 I'm so excited to use my knowledge to once again assert my gaming dominance in the household yeah, but you know can. 00:06:36.232 --> 00:06:38.384 Can you beat him in diddy kong racing? 00:06:39.267 --> 00:06:45.485 oh, I mean, that was one of my favorites, I'm not gonna lie, I really loved using the helicopters in that game, loved the diddy kong racing man. 00:06:45.485 --> 00:06:47.913 Yeah, I think that like one of my favorites, I'm not gonna lie, I really loved using the helicopters in that game. 00:06:47.932 --> 00:06:48.595 Loved the diddy kong racing man. 00:06:48.595 --> 00:07:05.202 Yeah, I think that like one of my favorite things about it was mario kart was fun, but diddy kong racing had like all these different types of vehicles they had like airplanes, these like hovercraft, you know regular vehicles, like it would change up and so like that was one of my favorite things. 00:07:05.202 --> 00:07:09.833 And then you had a bunch of like characters across rare that you could play. 00:07:09.833 --> 00:07:13.892 That was fun, but but yeah, um a good tracker? 00:07:13.952 --> 00:07:27.052 I don't know if I know that you said that you had been following a tracker but, there is a good one that I had used in the past called now in stock, and I had actually used that one to snag a ps5 way back when. 00:07:27.052 --> 00:07:27.982 Oh yeah, that one. 00:07:28.062 --> 00:07:29.545 I think I used that one because I had it. 00:07:29.545 --> 00:07:32.242 I had that one going on the computer the entire time. 00:07:32.242 --> 00:07:39.048 I was searching for a ps5 on the desktop and like that was during like pandemic time, so I was teaching from home and everything. 00:07:39.048 --> 00:07:44.103 And one late night my wife is sitting in front of the computer and I hear that beep. 00:07:44.103 --> 00:07:49.173 Look, it could have been interpreted as other things, but I launched her from that chair. 00:07:49.173 --> 00:07:53.411 Essentially I jumped like the Black Panther and just jumped to get that. 00:07:53.411 --> 00:07:55.779 I'll never forget the feeling. 00:07:55.779 --> 00:08:08.752 I mean, those were days where I was waking up at I had to teach at nine or like 830 and I would show up at Walmart in yonkers or something, because I heard rumors that there were three available, and I would walk into the store. 00:08:08.752 --> 00:08:10.459 They would just be like it's not available. 00:08:10.459 --> 00:08:11.605 I'm like thank you, have a good day. 00:08:11.605 --> 00:08:17.928 Turn around and then get back, jump in front of the computer, be like hi guys, sorry, I'm a couple minutes late, it's got back from walmart. 00:08:17.928 --> 00:08:19.321 They're like did you secured a bag? 00:08:19.341 --> 00:08:27.853 I'm like I did not, guys, I did not so you know, the the funny thing is is that, as much of a gamer as I am, I just I. 00:08:27.853 --> 00:08:29.622 I don't care to do all that. 00:08:29.622 --> 00:08:32.711 I'm like no, I'm sorry, but no, you're just gonna wait till it's. 00:08:32.730 --> 00:08:34.303 I'm gonna wait until I can get one. 00:08:34.585 --> 00:08:40.585 That's just my thing and dakota knows like I am the gamer of this podcast or like for the longest time. 00:08:40.585 --> 00:08:42.871 Like you know, I I talk about all the time that's my thing. 00:08:42.871 --> 00:08:47.347 You like where you guys are like watching stuff, I'm feeling that time gaming. 00:08:47.347 --> 00:08:58.153 But when it came to the ps5, I wasn't gonna go try to go to some back alley behind walmart and do a handshake deal to get a ps5. 00:08:58.153 --> 00:08:59.279 I'm not doing all that. 00:08:59.279 --> 00:09:03.708 I saw that they had them available to buy at gamStop. 00:09:03.708 --> 00:09:06.033 One time I happened to go online. 00:09:06.033 --> 00:09:08.605 I ordered it and picked it up and called it a day other than that. 00:09:08.605 --> 00:09:09.528 I'm not doing all that. 00:09:09.528 --> 00:09:12.202 I'm sorry, I just don't get into the FOMO like that. 00:09:12.202 --> 00:09:19.082 When I get the PS5, I get the PS5, you know well, to be fair, I can't remember what game it was. 00:09:19.123 --> 00:09:20.488 There had to be a wrestling game or something. 00:09:20.488 --> 00:09:21.542 There's always a reason. 00:09:21.542 --> 00:09:22.746 Or maybe it was FIFA. 00:09:22.746 --> 00:09:32.453 There was a reason why I needed to get the ps5, not because I wanted the ps5, but because I think that fifa wasn't releasing one game. 00:09:32.453 --> 00:09:33.341 And maybe it wasn't fifa. 00:09:33.341 --> 00:09:36.610 There was a game that was not going to be releasing on ps4 anymore. 00:09:36.610 --> 00:09:39.506 Maybe it was marvel and with the switch. 00:09:39.506 --> 00:09:41.615 Honestly, the only reason I did this is because of charlie. 00:09:41.615 --> 00:09:43.802 So, yeah, no, I get that this one. 00:09:43.802 --> 00:09:48.373 I actually was like telling him like, dude, the launch titles are weak. 00:09:48.373 --> 00:09:52.644 I mean, you know, mario kart's gonna be fun, but like, then it's over, that's it. 00:09:52.644 --> 00:09:58.124 Like, you know, you don't need to rush to get this blah blah, but he's been watching all those videos on. 00:09:58.124 --> 00:10:00.669 He's got, you know, watches youtube as much as the rest of us. 00:10:00.669 --> 00:10:04.134 So he's like, oh and, and the way the controllers go? 00:10:04.134 --> 00:10:04.556 Like he's. 00:10:04.556 --> 00:10:10.471 And I'm like, dude, you gotta stop watching reviews of the console, you're gonna go crazy are you? 00:10:10.652 --> 00:10:13.908 did you get the mario kart world bundle one? 00:10:13.908 --> 00:10:18.020 Or yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, okay, that, honestly, that's the smart play right there. 00:10:18.020 --> 00:10:28.624 Yeah, because mario kart world is 80 on its own, but when you get the bundle, you're getting it for 30 cheaper oh, I'm glad that happened, yeah, yeah so. 00:10:28.624 --> 00:10:33.475 So the system itself is 450, the bundle is 500. 00:10:33.475 --> 00:10:39.327 So mind you, you buy the 450, say you get the 450 bundle, and then you buy the game. 00:10:39.989 --> 00:10:43.364 You know you're spending an extra 30 and, gentle lads, I left this part out. 00:10:43.364 --> 00:10:45.711 You know what happens with the Switch 1, right? 00:10:45.711 --> 00:10:55.634 This guy right here just got a new Switch 1 to play, so it's the very first hand-me-up in my family that's going to happen. 00:10:55.634 --> 00:10:58.120 Where he's going to hand me up the Switch, oh, I like that. 00:10:58.139 --> 00:11:17.176 He doesn't know this yet, but yeah, it's mine so I just find it so funny that we've gotten to a point in, like tech cycles that you know we have to make back alley deals, like they're like drugs, you know, like my precious right. 00:11:18.864 --> 00:11:30.470 So yeah, it just makes you wonder it makes me feel like I was part of the rebellion, honestly like I feel like I could be hanging out with andor and bix and cintra not, not val. 00:11:30.470 --> 00:11:31.572 I don't, she doesn't. 00:11:31.572 --> 00:11:33.982 I don't like her much I don't. 00:11:34.082 --> 00:11:35.105 Yeah, she's a little harsh. 00:11:35.405 --> 00:11:41.666 I feel bad for her on occasion, but she's a little harsh yeah, what were you up to the last couple weeks dakota, last couple weeks, dakota. 00:11:42.267 --> 00:11:48.509 Last couple weeks yeah, because it's been two weeks since we recorded last but you know, not a whole lot. 00:11:48.509 --> 00:11:54.807 I in my personal life my, you know, secular work I am training. 00:11:54.807 --> 00:12:02.485 Right now I'm doing like a bunch of test prep for my journeyman's license, so I'm excited about that. 00:12:02.485 --> 00:12:17.005 That should be coming two Saturdays from now that I take that test, and so just a lot of like studying learning diagrams, understanding Ohm's law, stuff like that, and, yeah, a lot of like last minute. 00:12:17.005 --> 00:12:22.160 Not a lot, you know for riches and a lot, but for me it is a lot of baseball games. 00:12:22.160 --> 00:12:24.923 I've just been supporting my local New York teams. 00:12:24.923 --> 00:12:30.727 One team won and the other team lost, but I enjoyed myself. 00:12:30.727 --> 00:12:31.528 Baseball is fun. 00:12:31.528 --> 00:12:33.049 I went to two games. 00:12:33.049 --> 00:12:36.933 It wasn't a Mets versus Yankees game, it was Yankees versus Red Sox. 00:12:36.933 --> 00:12:37.374 They won. 00:12:37.374 --> 00:12:41.437 And I went to a Mets game and they lost, but the food was better. 00:12:41.437 --> 00:12:43.969 The food was better than Yankee Stadium. 00:12:43.969 --> 00:12:44.938 That's what matters in the end. 00:12:45.639 --> 00:12:48.750 I know you made Rich proud by going to see the Mets. 00:12:50.000 --> 00:12:58.269 I will also make Rich proud by announcing that I had two hot dogs at the Yankee Stadium and I had two hot dogs at Mets Stadium. 00:12:58.269 --> 00:13:02.070 The two dogs at Yankee Stadium were the worst glizzies of my life. 00:13:02.070 --> 00:13:11.451 Like they were just it was like pre-made, like wrapped hot dogs and the buns were like squished, like they were like rolled into little burritos. 00:13:11.451 --> 00:13:13.022 I was and I was like what is? 00:13:13.022 --> 00:13:13.943 This is the worst. 00:13:13.943 --> 00:13:23.629 The condiment station sucked, so that was rough, but I I had a pretty good hot dog, two hot dogs actually at that stadium. 00:13:23.629 --> 00:13:26.061 So, and listen, you know if you ever field, if you ever. 00:13:26.100 --> 00:13:28.811 If you ever feel in randy and you want to go out on a tuesday? 00:13:28.811 --> 00:13:35.333 All right, on tuesdays they got five dollar dogs and if you hang with me I have a 15 discount. 00:13:35.333 --> 00:13:36.518 All right, so that's even. 00:13:36.518 --> 00:13:42.888 You're getting better guzzies at a discount price wow, it's like 425 a dog. 00:13:42.888 --> 00:13:49.163 That's crazy, I am honestly wowed that you were able to do that math in. 00:13:49.163 --> 00:13:51.730 Never in a million years would I have a time. 00:13:51.730 --> 00:13:53.596 I just get really happy. 00:13:53.596 --> 00:13:56.083 Whenever I use the discount, I'm like, oh, look at that. 00:13:56.504 --> 00:13:59.759 I never have a conception of what I actually don't know if that math is correct. 00:13:59.759 --> 00:14:02.062 I'm gonna look that up really quick. 00:14:02.062 --> 00:14:05.025 Five times 0.15. 00:14:05.025 --> 00:14:06.326 Yeah, I was right. 00:14:06.326 --> 00:14:11.652 Wow, oh, 4.25 a dog Plus tax baby Can't beat that, anthony. 00:14:11.672 --> 00:14:14.475 you got to come up here, man, just for the glizzies on Tuesdays, does it? 00:14:14.475 --> 00:14:18.418 It's actually really good, just fly up from my, I'll pick you up from LaGuardia. 00:14:18.418 --> 00:14:20.106 It's right outside the stadium. 00:14:20.106 --> 00:14:25.091 All right him, all right, and then we'll go grab some dogs, and then you know and then maybe watch some people throw a ball around. 00:14:25.510 --> 00:14:27.852 Anyway, anthony, what have you been up to this past couple weeks? 00:14:27.893 --> 00:14:29.995 tell me, tell me I'm gonna be honest with you, though. 00:14:29.995 --> 00:14:32.375 Like hot dogs are, like not even my favorite. 00:14:32.375 --> 00:14:33.557 Like if they're. 00:14:33.557 --> 00:14:38.721 If I'm at a party and there's a choice between hamburgers and hot dogs, I'm going burger all the time. 00:14:38.721 --> 00:14:40.344 That's fair. 00:14:40.344 --> 00:14:41.686 I'm a burger guy. 00:14:41.686 --> 00:14:42.969 Let me ask you a question, anthony. 00:14:43.350 --> 00:14:57.068 He's not in new york you're walking in new york you're walking through washington dc, you're walking through apalachia, you're walking through vegas all that have been hit by nuclear bombs. 00:14:57.068 --> 00:15:00.743 When you're walking around those locales, you know what you never see. 00:15:00.743 --> 00:15:02.408 You never see a hamburger. 00:15:02.408 --> 00:15:06.720 But you know how many hot dogs I've seen in fallout 76. 00:15:06.720 --> 00:15:09.686 My friend, the structural integrity is fine. 00:15:09.686 --> 00:15:11.250 Here's the thing about hamburgers. 00:15:11.250 --> 00:15:15.692 That person at that party do you know if they know how to cook a burger the right way? 00:15:15.692 --> 00:15:19.423 What if you get slightly ill from the temperature of the meat? 00:15:19.904 --> 00:15:22.831 hot dogs, or or the opposite, the opposite. 00:15:22.831 --> 00:15:28.966 You can be like having, you know, a cookout with my father-in-law and you get served some hockey pucks. 00:15:29.107 --> 00:15:31.432 There you go but hot dogs you can't really. 00:15:31.432 --> 00:15:33.546 They're already cooked, man, they're already. 00:15:33.546 --> 00:15:36.260 You don't even need to really warm them up, man, you can just eat them. 00:15:36.341 --> 00:15:49.229 I'm sorry, man, but it just I mean and and honestly, like if, if you're gonna go fallout, dude, there's still brahmin, I mean you can ground that beef, but that's true, all right. 00:15:49.229 --> 00:15:53.892 So what I've been up to these past couple of weeks is that. 00:15:53.892 --> 00:15:59.211 So I had a con that was a sandwich between this hot dog. 00:15:59.211 --> 00:16:01.445 No sandwich between. 00:16:01.445 --> 00:16:05.086 Like these two weeks, like I got to go to Otaku Fest. 00:16:05.807 --> 00:16:06.971 Nice, tell us. 00:16:08.643 --> 00:16:09.986 But yeah, I had Otaku Fest. 00:16:09.986 --> 00:16:11.490 It's con time. 00:16:11.490 --> 00:16:15.363 Cons are kicking in the tickets for this convention. 00:16:15.363 --> 00:16:20.509 I actually had won them back in February by cosplaying Obi-Wan Kenobi. 00:16:21.471 --> 00:16:23.053 Oh, that's right, I've seen that picture. 00:16:23.614 --> 00:16:24.596 Clever, clever. 00:16:27.620 --> 00:16:27.980 Best show on TV? 00:16:28.061 --> 00:16:29.284 Yeah, man always I mean, you know how it is man. 00:16:29.304 --> 00:16:39.357 I always have a good time going to conventions and stuff man yeah, you're definitely a con man I am a con man you should come up to nycc man. 00:16:39.458 --> 00:16:40.399 I just procured tickets. 00:16:40.399 --> 00:16:56.589 The fam and I are definitely going on friday up here oh, and they started selling tickets yeah, yeah, I secured the pro pass or educators pass, and then they got the friday passes well, nice I mean I have been wanting to go to new york comic-con. 00:16:56.629 --> 00:17:05.113 It's been a while but yeah, I went up there and I I went with dakota and gen one year anthony, listen, we're thinking about going as thunderbolts. 00:17:05.641 --> 00:17:07.324 Okay, I was gonna be bucky. 00:17:07.324 --> 00:17:13.173 All right, my wife is going to be elena, my son is going to be. 00:17:13.173 --> 00:17:14.502 Who do you want to be? 00:17:14.502 --> 00:17:17.750 I'm blanking out right now, but we need a red guardian. 00:17:17.750 --> 00:17:19.401 Oh yeah, he wants to be century. 00:17:19.401 --> 00:17:21.105 You could be red guardian man. 00:17:21.105 --> 00:17:25.432 I've seen you bald, like, I think a little good, and I can be the leader. 00:17:25.532 --> 00:17:35.517 Let's go all you have to do is just get stung by a dozen of bees. 00:17:35.517 --> 00:17:39.284 Jen could be the that betsy that look like him who's betsy? 00:17:39.444 --> 00:17:41.469 she's got some relation to the hulk. 00:17:41.469 --> 00:17:43.192 Betsy ross somehow is related to hulk. 00:17:43.192 --> 00:17:45.808 Maybe, uh, jen could be bety Ross. 00:17:45.808 --> 00:17:46.230 I don't know. 00:17:46.900 --> 00:17:48.086 Somehow, some way. 00:17:48.140 --> 00:17:50.107 Something about there's some relationship to Hulk. 00:17:50.107 --> 00:17:50.826 I don't know what it is. 00:17:50.826 --> 00:17:52.461 Is that his estranged daughter? 00:17:53.224 --> 00:17:55.846 No, that's the nurse that stuck him with Gamma. 00:17:55.846 --> 00:17:58.028 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, she sucks. 00:18:02.020 --> 00:18:03.064 Well, maybe we should. 00:18:03.064 --> 00:18:04.789 Sorry, but I think we've deviated. 00:18:06.960 --> 00:18:10.286 Alright, go ahead, tell us about otaku con or otaku fest otaku fest man. 00:18:10.326 --> 00:18:12.589 Yeah, dude, just straight. 00:18:13.310 --> 00:18:22.250 Otaku tastic man, you know so, for those of you who don't know, this is a anime themed convention, correct? 00:18:22.490 --> 00:18:25.453 yeah, I mean, you know you can there. 00:18:25.453 --> 00:18:35.784 There's always going to be stuff that's not anime related there, but it's definitely a little bit more geared towards that when you think of otaku. 00:18:35.784 --> 00:18:37.450 You know obviously that's. 00:18:37.450 --> 00:18:38.472 You know they're. 00:18:38.472 --> 00:18:45.730 They're using that japanese word that kind of describes somebody who's like obsessive over, you know, nerdy stuff. 00:18:45.730 --> 00:18:48.122 And yeah, man, it was good it. 00:18:48.122 --> 00:18:53.012 They had moved it back to the original convention center that it was at. 00:18:53.012 --> 00:19:03.666 I guess it had outgrown it and so they tried to like move it to another one, but that one was way too big for it and I think that it costed a lot more money. 00:19:03.666 --> 00:19:06.962 So now they moved it back to its original space. 00:19:06.962 --> 00:19:11.819 The problem with the last time when it was in that space, I think they oversold. 00:19:11.819 --> 00:19:19.741 It's just crazy that these places like they oversell and their tickets and stuff, you know yeah, oh question, anthony. 00:19:19.781 --> 00:19:38.071 You said that you were seeing how to train your dentist over the weekend how to train your dentist these guys, these guys all right, wait, wait, rich explain it so I'm, you know we have a group chat going on and anthony goes hey guys, I think I'm gonna go see ht how to train. 00:19:38.071 --> 00:19:43.041 Yeah, httyd, and I'm I'm racking my brain over here. 00:19:43.041 --> 00:19:44.727 Guys, I have no idea. 00:19:44.727 --> 00:19:51.829 I'm like, and after just like an hour, I think, of pulling my hair, I was just like can someone please tell me what hd? 00:19:51.829 --> 00:19:56.247 So now they go off with uh, how to train your dentist? 00:19:57.028 --> 00:19:58.874 it's just how to train your dog. 00:19:58.874 --> 00:20:00.136 Yeah, I mean. 00:20:00.438 --> 00:20:04.845 I got the message loud and clear after that, but I felt a you know. 00:20:04.845 --> 00:20:12.556 I guess I just completely forgot because I think in my worldview it doesn't feel like that long ago that I saw how to Train your Dragon. 00:20:13.099 --> 00:20:15.862 You know, like my son we watched it Same for me, so like. 00:20:16.182 --> 00:20:21.227 I've seen it within the last five or six years, so I didn't know that there was a need for another one. 00:20:21.406 --> 00:20:30.307 It's a it's, so it's a live action version of the animated film and it's very, very closely like, linked to the animated film. 00:20:30.307 --> 00:20:30.950 Apparently. 00:20:30.950 --> 00:20:31.590 That did you. 00:20:31.590 --> 00:20:32.373 Did you watch it, anthony? 00:20:32.373 --> 00:20:33.240 I haven't so. 00:20:33.662 --> 00:20:39.374 So that was the plan with my group of friends, but we ended up not being able to go and see it. 00:20:39.374 --> 00:20:41.344 We just got caught up in in our own stuff. 00:20:41.344 --> 00:20:51.250 But it was the plan, but by the time that time kind of rolled around, we're too tired from you know just just living. 00:20:51.490 --> 00:20:56.724 Yeah, just tired of living just living yeah but it is, it is a plan. 00:20:56.724 --> 00:20:57.769 I do want to see it. 00:20:57.769 --> 00:21:02.911 I mean, maybe I might I could go and see it tomorrow, because I don't work tomorrow. 00:21:02.911 --> 00:21:21.891 Tomorrow is juneteenth and since it's a federal holiday, you know, the bank follows the federal holiday and so we all have it off awesome, cool awesome, you got that you have tomorrow off as well, rich right yeah, actually I got a sweet four-day weekend because my son's graduation on friday. 00:21:21.911 --> 00:21:24.957 So well, you should be finishing school up soon, right? 00:21:24.957 --> 00:21:28.182 Next Friday is the last day. 00:21:28.182 --> 00:21:31.535 Yeah, there you go, the kids down in South Florida. 00:21:31.535 --> 00:21:36.003 They've been done with school for a week or so now. 00:21:36.690 --> 00:21:38.857 Yeah, but they go back a little earlier, I think. 00:21:38.857 --> 00:21:41.980 I think you guys, they go back, yeah, they start earlier, yeah, they do. 00:21:43.352 --> 00:21:48.309 But yeah, that's what I've been up to, but we're a bit deep into the recording. 00:21:48.309 --> 00:21:51.876 Shall we talk about and or season two? 00:21:52.699 --> 00:21:55.063 episodes one through six just call it an episode. 00:21:55.063 --> 00:21:55.852 I think this is good. 00:21:55.852 --> 00:21:56.354 This was fun. 00:21:56.354 --> 00:21:57.780 Uh, we'll see you guys next week. 00:21:57.780 --> 00:21:59.769 Thanks for uh being thanks for listening. 00:21:59.769 --> 00:22:00.371 Leave. 00:22:00.531 --> 00:22:05.403 Leave a review for four stars, we'll make an and or season two, one through six mini. 00:22:05.403 --> 00:22:08.104 So that is not sorry guys. 00:22:08.124 --> 00:22:16.252 Let's start talking about that, right, donium boys no, you have to say it the right way, dakota let's start talking about the right donium boys. 00:22:17.415 --> 00:22:17.997 No, that was a bad. 00:22:17.997 --> 00:22:18.638 That was a bad one. 00:22:18.638 --> 00:22:27.343 I I'm really good at like redoing his lines, but I can't just create new lines for him, like if that makes sense. 00:22:27.343 --> 00:22:33.624 But yeah, so Andor is back and potentially better than ever. 00:22:33.624 --> 00:22:37.861 A lot of people are saying that this is the best season of the two seasons. 00:22:37.861 --> 00:22:44.115 You know, it's not a super, it is a high bar, but it's not like an incredibly high bar because there's only one other season. 00:22:44.115 --> 00:22:48.109 What do you guys think of the start to this season? 00:22:48.109 --> 00:22:52.397 Some people are like in the camp where first six episodes are boring. 00:22:52.397 --> 00:23:00.109 Some people are like, you know, getting on their knees and just like bowing down, like it's, it's the best thing since sliced bread. 00:23:00.109 --> 00:23:00.750 What do you guys think? 00:23:01.132 --> 00:23:03.696 I think it was pretty good. 00:23:03.696 --> 00:23:06.762 I would say, like the the first. 00:23:06.762 --> 00:23:16.020 To me it starts off a little bit stronger than maybe the first season of andor, and the first season of andor was really good anyway. 00:23:16.020 --> 00:23:18.974 But you have to get those characters established. 00:23:18.974 --> 00:23:23.490 But now that you have those characters that are established, it was able to go. 00:23:23.490 --> 00:23:25.075 You know a little bit, you know start a little bit. 00:23:25.075 --> 00:23:27.501 You know start a little bit stronger. 00:23:27.501 --> 00:23:34.480 You know we don't have to figure out who Luthan is, we don't have to figure out who Bix is, because they were explained in that first season. 00:23:34.480 --> 00:23:43.135 I would say the first season crawled so that this season could run not walk but run and it was solid. 00:23:43.135 --> 00:23:52.285 I mean, I liked the first six episodes and there's a lot of parallels to things that happened in real life that I definitely picked up on in these episodes. 00:23:53.151 --> 00:23:53.372 Rich. 00:23:53.372 --> 00:23:53.974 What are your thoughts? 00:23:53.974 --> 00:24:04.785 So I think I would have been in the first camp after my first watch through, because I think that I appreciated some of the relationships more. 00:24:04.785 --> 00:24:07.737 I mean, I love the series. 00:24:07.737 --> 00:24:09.101 I just think that it would the. 00:24:10.152 --> 00:24:30.644 It's difficult for me to just say like this first six are slow, because I think once you watch the whole thing on second rewatch and of course I did like a third rewatch, but it's all the interactions are so what's the word pregnant, that there's so much to them that you don't even know until you finish the series. 00:24:30.644 --> 00:24:51.396 And then you go back and now these moments, the way they're playing off each other, the moments between the Imperial, the ISB and kind of that dance that's going on there, even the dance between Deirdre and Cyril's mother, between Deirdre and Cyril's mother, I mean everything like once you know more just becomes. 00:24:51.396 --> 00:25:02.082 They did such a great job of setting the groundwork for the series to have a really impactful end and I mean that cutaway scene from the wedding, you know, is just. 00:25:02.082 --> 00:25:06.317 It's amazing how they made that just be something. 00:25:06.317 --> 00:25:07.180 That was so. 00:25:07.180 --> 00:25:12.240 Even though I already watched it, I was on the edge of my seat again. 00:25:12.902 --> 00:25:17.141 Yeah, so you're talking about the cutaway to the wedding, specifically in episode three. 00:25:17.141 --> 00:25:21.219 I'm assuming it's the scene where everyone's dancing. 00:25:21.219 --> 00:25:22.742 Yes, correct, yeah. 00:25:22.742 --> 00:25:27.236 So that's such a fantastic moment for me and that was like a big like wow. 00:25:27.236 --> 00:25:28.599 I can't believe they pulled that off. 00:25:29.210 --> 00:25:31.818 So there's a couple things happening all at once. 00:25:31.818 --> 00:25:37.823 You know it's the climax of several plots within this 4 BBY setting. 00:25:37.823 --> 00:25:42.701 So it's like a year, a little over a year, since the first season took place. 00:25:42.701 --> 00:25:49.441 And you know, andor, bix, brassoso and wilmon are on the on the run. 00:25:49.441 --> 00:25:58.634 They're living on this agricultural world being mechanics and they're basically just hiding away from the empire while also doing luthens bidding. 00:25:58.634 --> 00:26:06.596 Andor is often like a side side job for a bit of this first three episode arc and it all comes to a head. 00:26:06.596 --> 00:26:10.544 You know where the, the empire catches up to them. 00:26:10.544 --> 00:26:13.997 They rasso ends up dying and they leave that planet. 00:26:14.759 --> 00:26:21.080 All the while, there's a whole bunch of stuff happening with mon mothma at the exact same time, or we assume it's the exact same time. 00:26:21.080 --> 00:26:21.362 It could. 00:26:21.362 --> 00:26:24.174 It could be different time periods, but whatever and what? 00:26:24.174 --> 00:26:32.294 What's fantastic about the way that they did that was they used the music of the dance. 00:26:32.294 --> 00:26:36.041 So there's a bunch of stuff happening with Mon Mothma. 00:26:36.041 --> 00:26:40.597 She doesn't want her daughter to get married to this thug's son, basically. 00:26:40.597 --> 00:27:05.875 But she's young, she's dumb and she thinks that she's in love and she know she's gonna go full steam ahead with this marriage and on top of that, the integrity of, or the secret of, their rebellion and her you know, funds that go towards it are about to potentially be dried out in the open, as her friends is now ready to. 00:27:05.875 --> 00:27:13.962 He's not getting that end of the deal anymore and he's starting to wonder when he's going to get his cut and it's starting to get agitated. 00:27:13.962 --> 00:27:21.013 You could see he's like sweating for most of this, like wedding arc and luthen basically tells mon that like we got to kill this guy. 00:27:21.013 --> 00:27:23.727 You know, like no amount of money is going to fix this problem. 00:27:23.727 --> 00:27:29.311 This is going to keep coming back to bite us and to drown out her sorrow in. 00:27:29.532 --> 00:27:41.496 You know, like this childhood friend who has to be killed to pacify this issue, she literally just drinks and starts dancing and it's such a fantastic scene because you can see there's no joy on her face. 00:27:41.496 --> 00:27:46.054 But, like when you watch the trailers for this, you're like, wow, mom's really like getting down at this party. 00:27:46.054 --> 00:27:50.221 But when you see the context of what's happening, it's so fantastic. 00:27:50.221 --> 00:27:59.604 And that music that they play, like with the, with the droid the droid, that's like DJing the party is also used diegetically. 00:27:59.604 --> 00:28:07.102 So diegetic music is like in world music that you hear but also works as the score for the episode. 00:28:07.102 --> 00:28:10.813 They use that diegetically at the end with cassian as well. 00:28:10.813 --> 00:28:24.134 So like the intense upbeat music while you know they're on the run, his friend's just been killed, been murdered, and the look on his face, you know, mixed with mon dancing super chaotically and drinking heavily. 00:28:24.134 --> 00:28:29.503 It's's just such a fantastic buildup to that last episode. 00:28:30.289 --> 00:28:33.537 Right, it's almost like the emotion is kind of matched there. 00:28:33.537 --> 00:28:45.737 You know, I mean sure, you know you have Cassian that is mourning the loss of his friends, but then you also have Mon Mothma that's kind of mourning the loss of, you know, her daughter in daughter. 00:28:45.737 --> 00:28:52.377 In a sense, you know that she's being married to somebody that you know she didn't want her to get married to. 00:28:52.377 --> 00:29:01.786 But, dude, you know, that moment was so strong and it left me like like wow, this is intense, like it's crazy. 00:29:01.786 --> 00:29:22.267 I'm actually a little side note and I I don't know and I hadn't really realized this in the first season, but then when I looked at the cast, so I don't know if you realize, but the actress that portrays Mon Mothma actually does the voice for Moira in Overwatch. 00:29:22.830 --> 00:29:25.259 I did find that out online recently. 00:29:25.259 --> 00:29:27.095 Yeah, I thought that was pretty. 00:29:27.214 --> 00:29:36.942 I was crazy and then, like, when I thought about it, I was like I see the similarities in a way, you know, like the look, but you know, I thought that that was like a little neat aside thing. 00:29:36.982 --> 00:29:47.442 But man, it's such a it's actually, like you know, leaning into that a little bit, it's such a weird contrast because this is such a fantastic visual actor. 00:29:47.442 --> 00:29:58.492 You know, like her presence on screen is crazy and that usually doesn't always translate to voice actors, so it's cool that she has that ability to do both. 00:29:58.492 --> 00:30:00.798 You know, like there there are actors who do both. 00:30:01.398 --> 00:30:42.230 Mark hamill is a actor who's very famously both on screen and, you know, just vocal, but it's cool that there's others in star wars that do that too yeah, yeah, in the first three episodes you get something that you just don't see in star wars and you have like an imperial officer, that is, you know, he proceeds to try to assault bix, you know, yes and you don't see that in star wars ever, really, you know we haven't, yeah, and there's been, there's been, like certainly they've kind of teased the idea of it. 00:30:42.391 --> 00:31:02.115 You know it's been skirted but it hasn't been shown in this capacity and I thought it was crazy because you know I could very much so see the Imperials you know pretty much abusing their power for stuff like that and it's insane, like I was, like man. 00:31:02.115 --> 00:31:06.797 You know this show is powerful in more ways than one. 00:31:06.797 --> 00:31:19.380 It shows a part of Star Wars that some people you get caught up in the mysticism of the larger part with the Jedi and stuff, but you don't get the common man and this is what you get. 00:31:19.839 --> 00:31:30.402 You don't get the nitty gritty as often as and for me when it comes to Star Wars it doesn't get any more nitty gritty than Andor and Rogue One. 00:31:30.883 --> 00:31:38.624 It really this season, you know, at least in this first part, it really just blew my mind. 00:31:38.624 --> 00:32:05.761 Something else that I really got that kind of blew my mind was Gorman, and Gorman drew like such a heavy parallel to World War II Europe, like I mean you could place Gorman, it could be a European country and like think of the way that they dress and like think about the way that it was intense for them. 00:32:05.761 --> 00:32:09.132 You know that they're trying to build up this like rebellion. 00:32:09.132 --> 00:32:16.673 You know I can imagine this being europe before the war was in full swing, you know, before the invasion. 00:32:16.673 --> 00:32:20.720 This is what europe in that time period was in the 30s. 00:32:20.720 --> 00:32:22.923 You know, and yeah, man it. 00:32:23.410 --> 00:32:33.865 It really it blew my mind how they were able to do that, because with Star Wars a lot of times we get the Western side or we get the samurai side, but we never get that side. 00:32:33.865 --> 00:32:47.002 I mean, you get parts of it but you don't get it as strong as you do in this show, like the World War II influence that Star Wars has, you know, and you know it's very much so. 00:32:47.002 --> 00:32:52.817 You know that's a huge part of Star Wars, that influence and you get it a lot in this show man. 00:32:53.530 --> 00:32:54.509 Yeah, I totally agree. 00:32:54.509 --> 00:32:57.779 I think you know to tag along with what you're saying. 00:32:57.779 --> 00:33:02.477 It's funny because we've seen so many things that are Star Wars related. 00:33:02.477 --> 00:33:06.634 We've read Star Wars, we've seen comic books and so on and so forth. 00:33:06.634 --> 00:33:27.385