Our Kids Play Hockey
Our Kids Play Hockey is a podcast that focuses on youth hockey, offering insights, stories, and interviews from the hockey community. It provides valuable advice for parents, coaches, and players, covering various aspects of the game, including skill development, sportsmanship, teamwork, and creating a positive experience for young athletes. The show frequently features guests who share their expertise and personal experiences in youth hockey, both on and off the ice.
The show features three hockey parents, who all work in the game at high levels:
- Christie Casciano-Burns - USA Hockey Columnist, Author, and WSYR Anchor
- Mike Bonelli - USA Hockey Coach and Organizational Consultant
- Lee M.J. Elias - Hockey Entrepreneur, Author, and Team Strategist
In addition to the main podcast, there are several spin-off series that dive into specific aspects of youth hockey:
1.Our Girls Play Hockey – This series highlights the growing presence of girls in hockey, addressing the unique challenges they face while celebrating their accomplishments and contributions to the sport.
2.The Ride to The Rink – A shorter, motivational series designed to be listened to on the way to the rink, offering quick, inspirational tips and advice to help players and parents get into the right mindset before a game or practice.
3.Our Kids Play Goalie – This series is dedicated to young goalies and the unique challenges they face. It provides advice for players, parents, and coaches on how to support and develop young goaltenders, focusing on the mental and physical demands of the position.
Together, these shows provide a comprehensive platform for parents, players, and coaches involved in youth hockey, offering insights for all aspects of the sport, from parenting, playing, or coaching to specialized positions like goaltending.
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•Certification and ongoing education are crucial for maintaining a safe and effective coaching environment.
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•Regular team-building activities help create a cohesive and motivated team with trust and communication.
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good morning, good afternoon, good evening. Wherever you are, we hope it is good. Welcome to another edition of geeks who like sports. As always, I am ray carcillo in beautiful los angeles, california, to have the best for the entire world over in Philadelphia, pennsylvania.
Speaker 2:Beautiful Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Say it right.
Speaker 1:It's all right.
Speaker 2:Beautiful Philadelphia. You had an earthquake today. Don't tell me it's beautiful. Oh, that's right.
Speaker 1:Actually, we did have an earthquake.
Speaker 2:We've been having earthquakes the last couple of days. I took a nap.
Speaker 1:I napped yesterday through our earthquake. It was like at this point, earthquakes right. Oh, the oh, the room is shaking whatever beautiful los angeles where the earth shakes and not in a good way.
Speaker 2:I'm in philadelphia stable philadelphia, pennsylvania. Well, stable is not a good word either for here now I'm thinking about it.
Speaker 1:No have fun with your blizzards in the winter so we haven't had blizzard here in years.
Speaker 2:Give me a break, I'll take a blizzard over an earthquake you know what you get you.
Speaker 1:The earthquake lasts only a couple of minutes I'd rather shovel snow than rubble it's. We haven't had a rubble. Don't don't, no, no, don't do that. Don't do that. What?
Speaker 2:are you doing?
Speaker 1:right, right. It's been 30 years, at least this part of la yeah, yeah, right, shut up now let's go big one, baby, let's go.
Speaker 2:The guy has a 4.5 earthquake. He's like we haven't had a big one, like dad shut up. Man, that might have been the opening choir. That was the preamble to what's about to become 2012, where that movie with the rock, the san andreas movie, which was really ridiculous, but it was very rocky ray today. Uh, we're not doing a door dash dash of the week, we're back to, uh, non-sponsors of the week. I'll tell you you why I have a special guest here, ray, I have a special guest with me today, oh, I have a little baby pool with me here today.
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Speaker 1:I saw last Friday. I was going to say stale popcorn, I'm telling you it's fresh, it's delicious.
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Speaker 1:Thank you so much oh goodness, we are gonna get into deadpool and all the other fun stuff later we have a big show for everybody. We got obviously some a handful of announcements out of comic-con. We've got some. We've got more strikes going on. We've got deadpool, and wolverine is going to lead the geek way. We've got all kinds of tv and video game news.
Speaker 2:Hmm, was that the deadpool wolverine come out? Nobody's talking about it. So yeah, yeah, nobody's talking about it, I'm just trying to get.
Speaker 1:I'm just trying to uh really quickly.
Speaker 2:I want to look up the box office, oh it's top first off top 10 all-time ever releases, not just rated R. I believe it is the number one rated R release of all time at this moment.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, okay.
Speaker 1:I wanted to be. Yeah, I wanted to be sure, I thought that's what it was, but we are in the opening weekend. We're going to get into the more of this later, but in the opening weekend, worldwide, just under half a billion dollars worldwide, quarter a billion here in the states alone and another quarter of a billion worldwide. Yeah, I think a few people went and saw this movie, lee. I think r-rated marvel works. Anyway, what we're gonna get into, we're gonna get into that later. Uh, because we're actually gonna kick things off with some baseball talking. Baseball, baby, we are talking, talking about things heating up. It's hot.
Speaker 1:So if I, we, oh folks, we are two hours away popping we are two hours away from the trade deadline coming to a close and everybody's making moves. This is one of the most frantic baseball trade deadlines we've seen in a while. Um, goodness gracious, I mean, I, I we're. There's still tons of rumors going on. The dodgers have been super hot, the mets have been hot, the yankees, the phillies, the, the diamondbacks, uh, cleveland, a lot of t. It is clear who is we.
Speaker 1:I thought the picture was gonna be very muddy, who was gonna be buyers and who was going to be sellers. Oh no, it came pretty quickly, very clear who's buying, who's selling, and we've got moves being made. I mean, lee, we can start with your Phillies. You guys sent Sir Anthony Dominguez to Baltimore for Austin Hayes, baltimore, of course, making a bunch of moves. But you guys currently holding the best record in baseball, uh, second game of three against the yankees tonight. Uh, yankees will warren. Uh called up emergency start because garrett cole late scratch, which only is going to heat things up. We're gonna folks, this is gonna be coming hot and heavy throughout the show. Yankees are in the starting pitching market now, maybe because of the call injury suddenly, yeah yes, alex cobb.
Speaker 1:Just literally as the show was starting, alex cobb traded from the giants to cleveland to help their starting pitching. Uh, we've got yankees making moves to the bullpen. We've got, uh, baltimore making moves to the bullpen.
Speaker 1:Uh, I really don't even know where to start I'm looking at the tracker right now, we might have some stuff happen here on the show, literally as the show goes on, we are going to have moves being made, but Yankees just got Mark Leiter Jr from the Cubs for a pair of prospects to help out the bullpen, also supposedly trading now to make room for that move, sending the awful, awful Caleb Ferguson to Houston for what's sounding like cash considerations.
Speaker 2:That's official.
Speaker 1:That is official. So, lee, what are your thoughts on the trade deadline so far, with two hours to go?
Speaker 2:You know it's interesting, ray, I'm going to go a little bit of a different direction with this. It's just, it seems like we know the teams that are going to go for the World Series a little too much, and I don't know if I like that from a parity standpoint, keeping in mind my team is leading the pack. I'm saying that, but, look, I understand bolstering a roster right now. What I always wonder about is the chemistry and the team cohesiveness that comes with changing a roster. It can be devastating if you're not careful. Yes, you know, and it was funny, rob thomas the, the phillies manager, was talking the other day. You know we, we had to, we had to release some players. Um, yes, we talked about the difficulty. He's like I, this guy's a great locker, locker room guy. Talk about a walker, I believe. Um, and just, you know, he's like we, like the guy. It just doesn't fit and we got to do it and everybody here's got to understand the mission.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know what I mean. Yeah, and rob thompson is good about keeping people on in line for that's his role.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, I mean arguably the best manager in baseball at the moment. So it's uh, it's tough, right, but look, when you want to win, you understand. I mean, I know the phillies like the example, because I hear about them a lot. But the idea is now you're coming here, we're here, we're here to win a world series. So if you're coming or going, that's, that's the thing. And the incoming players have said that, like man, I'm just happy to be here, right, yes, um, but we'll see. I, I, two hours is plenty of time. Um, my guess is, the deals that are going to be done are already done, but we don't know about them yet yes, yeah, or they're just hammering out details, and, of course, the other thing, too, is look for the phillies again.
Speaker 2:I'm just using that as an example. Yeah, top team in baseball, bats are a little cold at the moment, which happens. Yeah, you really want to mess with that lineup right now. You really want to mess with the lineup too much right now? That pitching is always something to mess with on any team. Sure, I don't. You know. Okay, bats are cold. Yeah, it's it's July, it's almost August. They'll keep back up again. Just you know, you got a nice 10 game, nine game.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you got plenty of room, you got plenty of a cushion. Right, you're going through. You swept, you're going through a stretch. Right now You're four and 10 in your last 14, to be fair, I mean as a Yankee fan, obviously we know we've. I were 12 and 23 in our last 33 or 35.
Speaker 1:Yeah, coming back it's all in front of you. Right, it's, but that's the problem. That's what the problem is is that, again, I hate our manager more than anything and I, I, I hate, like I want you to hold these guys accountable. Be like yeah, we're not hitting the, but we're not swinging well right now. We got to be better. Like, not, it's right in front of us. It's right in front of us. I give you more bubble gum. I'm giving you more bubble gum. That was right in front of us.
Speaker 1:I'm going to change up the lineup for the ninth time in nine days. I'm Aaron Boone, right at the coattails of a home run I hit 20 freaking years ago. But I will say this Very excited to get Jess Chisholm from the Marlins, who immediately says because Aaron Boone's like, can you play third base? And he's like I've never done it, but I'll play it because I want to be a Yankee and I want to win. By the way, I thought it was funny that he took a Rod's number and then started playing and played third base for us, but which also, by the way, like Glaber Torres. Talk about a guy who at this point now needs to go just because of his locker room. This when the Yankees went to Glaber Glaber. Do you think you could play third? I'm second baseman, I play second. I only play second.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:And, by the way, glaber Torres is categorically the worst second baseman in baseball, leads the league in errors and since starting it, since becoming the second baseman in 2018, gleyber Torres is categorically the worst defensive second baseman in all of baseball and has been for a long time. Please trade him for a bucket of baseballs and a plate of nachos, please, please, get rid of him. I hate him so much. He's awful.
Speaker 2:Here's one for you, ray. Paul DeJong just got traded to the royals from the white socks. The white socks are playing the royals right now, so he has to go to.
Speaker 1:That's fun, he just goes.
Speaker 2:He walks across the blade hey guys, good to see you well, that's a bit.
Speaker 1:That's a good pickup, for that gives kansas city some infield depth that, uh, they've been having. They've been looking to fill second base for a couple of years, ever since whit merrifield went up to Toronto and then to Philly and now he's in.
Speaker 2:We just released him, didn't we Merrifield? And now he's in Atlanta. Yeah, when you released Whit.
Speaker 1:Merrifield and now he went down to Atlanta to replace Ozzie Albies, who is likely out for the rest of the year. Atlanta made a splash bringing back former World Series MVP Jorge Soler, for basically nothing from the Giants. Speaking of guys who left, I thought to your point. The Yankees released Jemai Jones, who was a utility man who the Yankees need to make room for. When they signed Jazz Chisholm, they traded for him, I mean, and Aaron Judge hit a home run up in Fenway and did his celebration with Jemai that he used to, with nobody there in the dugout because he was like my buddy got cut. But it happens.
Speaker 1:That's how it goes, especially that's how it goes right now.
Speaker 2:It's like they didn't have a spot for him.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they didn't have a spot for him and they unfortunately had to let him go, and that's the way it works. But yeah, yankees have won three in a row.
Speaker 2:Not ready to say we're back just yet, but obviously it's big that we took two or three from boston up in fenway. You went tonight with that situation you're back.
Speaker 1:I think that's fair. Yeah, I think that's fair, especially because we have a and after tonight, even if we lose tomorrow.
Speaker 2:Yeah, if we take the series from the phillies I don't, I don't think you win tonight, but if you do, you're back right.
Speaker 1:And then the thing is is that then the yankees have a very soft schedule. The next nine games, because we have the Angels, the Blue Jays, who have been one of the big sellers so far has been Toronto, and then the White Sox, who are on a historic losing pace right now. They've lost 15 in a row. They are almost 60 games under 500. The White Sox folks, this is a disaster for for the south side. Uh, I mean I get it's great that they're selling everybody so they do have a bright future. They have a stacked minor league system but as of right now, white socks fans are suffering like this is historically bad at this point of the year. Um, I can't remember the last time I've seen it. I mean there was a detroit tigers team about 20 years ago that it was about this bad and obviously they turned it around and with verlander for there for a while and scherzer, and made a couple of runs at the world series.
Speaker 1:But right now the white socks are going through it and that paul de jong trade yeah, it's a big deal for them to send to Kansas City, kansas City, cautious buyers. They made a move for a pitcher, they got Lorenzen from Texas. They got the obviously backup infielder and Paul DeJong. Maybe they can provide some second base stability for them.
Speaker 1:But Kansas City knows where they're at. They're building towards the future. They have a wild card currently. Currently they are a game up on Boston for the final wild card in the American League. But they also don't want to trade away future, knowing that they are on the up and up in what has really historically been a soft division, even though Cleveland going all for it. Getting Lane Thomas from Washington yesterday, wow, solidifying that lineup, a guy who has 28 steals on the year, obviously a little pop good fielder as well for the outfield. But yeah, lee, like you said, the buyers are buyers, the sellers are sellers and this very clearly shook up more clearly than it has in years past, because there are teams that are right in the bubble that are like no, we're usually who are buyers, like the Diamondbacks, and who are buying, but a lot more sellers than I expected.
Speaker 2:Well, here's the thing in Major League Baseball and this is what's interesting about this time of year is, like you know, a lot of copycat stuff that goes on and it's an arms race. Right, you get this guy, you got to get this guy. But then last year you see, the Diamondbacks kind of come out of nowhere and they're there. So I think decisions like this are tough, like you have to look at the long-term success of the team. Um, honestly, like the phillies, the orioles, the yankees, yeah, I mean, does anybody else in the nl scare you right now? Like the phillies, if they're hot?
Speaker 1:I mean the dodge.
Speaker 2:If the dodgers put it together, sure like like so let's just go with those four teams like yeah, from a decision, big, big time buyers too at the deadline.
Speaker 2:Yeah, from a decision making standpoint, purely from that standpoint, those are world series ready teams. And you do have to and again, this is where fans get lost. Those teams I just mentioned are world series ready. They could win the world series this year. Not guaranteed to win? Yeah, probably a little bit of a higher percentage. So, yes, there is an equation that you have to make of okay, if I sell the farm or I make a bad move right now, it could hurt us in five years, right, but if you win the world series, it will have been worth it a hundred percent.
Speaker 2:These are, that's the type of decisions these gms have to make. And I'll be honest with you people out there most of you couldn't make these decisions. Yeah, most of you would splurge everything, destroy, destroy your organization or you'd be too conservative. Yeah, you have to have some guts to to to make decisions. They're going to help you win and there's no guarantees, right, if you run into a team where someone's hot that you didn't expect that you can lose. But you have to have the guts to make the decision. And that's why those four teams are super aggressive, because they know it's in play this year.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah play this year? Yeah, yeah, I mean the orioles and the phillies trading with each other was very interesting. Yes, it's very much a they are the favorites to win their respective leagues right and it's the attitude with that is look, let's you know, we're gonna block the other teams in our leagues and we'll meet you in the world series. Yeah, that's actually pretty interesting because you don't typically see that happen right now and both teams got better.
Speaker 1:Baltimore needed bullpen help and you guys needed an extra, a more solidified outfield, and moving marsh to center and haze the left I think is going to pay off for you guys in the long run yeah, and like again, the phillies won't make any more, uh, fielding trades, but they may make another bullpen arm because you guys end up with another reliever here, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but yeah no. It's very interesting to see. And then some interesting moves between sellers. Right, the Cubs and Tampa Bay really been selling at the deadline but then the Tampa Bay sends Isaac Paredes to the Cubs, who was a very coveted piece, and then the Cubs sends Christopher Morrell back to Tampa along with prospects and both organizations say we think this is going to help both of our respective organizations in the long run. But it's interesting. It takes interesting pieces off the board for possible buyers as those two teams as sellers sell to each other, similar in a way to the way Baltimore, andimore and philly, two buyers, bought from each other.
Speaker 2:Everyone's trying to get better. Just because you're a seller doesn't mean you're gonna give everything to a better team, right? Especially if those teams are in your division yeah, no, for sure.
Speaker 1:And then, that's why, too, it's a safe trade, because it's interleague right right, you know um so but you know, very interesting to see and and definitely going to be fun. Be fun Last couple of hours. If anything breaks here on the show as we're recording, we'll give you our thoughts in the last hour and 18 minutes before the deadline, or, excuse me, 118 minutes, hour and 58 minutes before the deadline. It hits here for baseball.
Speaker 2:I mean, I'm watching it. That's why I keep looking away.
Speaker 1:No, me too. I'm refreshing every couple of minutes because it literally could be. It could happen at any second.
Speaker 2:Folks, that the quote-unquote that big earthquake could hit California.
Speaker 1:That's right.
Speaker 2:The 10.0 the trade to the Dodgers.
Speaker 1:Yes, uh-oh.
Speaker 2:Trade alert. Trade alert.
Speaker 1:Trade alert yes, trade trade alert trade alert, trade alert deal.
Speaker 1:The new york mets the new york mets are going to get right, a very solid right-handed starter from the oakland athletics getting involved. We were talking about this earlier on my stream on tiktok, about how the athletics have been unusually quiet for a team that is oftentimes sellers. That the deadline. But the mets looking to shore up their rotation, especially with the injury to Senga, who looks like he's going to miss the whole rest of the year. Now Paul Blackburn looks like he will be heading from Oakland to Queens for a trade that is breaking as we are recording.
Speaker 1:Look, the Mets have been buyers and honestly I hate the Mets, but the moves they've made are very good and if they're going to get one of those wildcard spots, they've done what they had to do. They've shored up their rotation, they've shored up their bullpen. They added a right fielder in Jesse Winker, who's having a nice year overall. This is an interesting move. Now, as they got themselves a nice middle of the rotation starter in paul blackburn. The return has not been, uh, finalized yet, but again, we will talk about this throughout the show. As it happens, um, fascinating, fascinating. Completely forgot about paul blackburn in oakland, because he's he is a good starter. He's just his number. His wins and losses aren't there because he plays for Oakland um. But yeah, great, great moves there.
Speaker 2:So right, let's talk about how Simone Biles just became the most decorated gymnast in US history and Olympic history yes, the Olympics.
Speaker 1:The US women's team just won the gold, uh, in the gym in gymnastics. Uh, us, of course, winning the medal count. As of right now, there are, I think, a couple behind japan for the gold medal leader, but, um, us, I know it's not surprisingly going out very strong. The us ladies. And yes, simone biles uh, leads the us women's gymnastics team to olympic gold, kicking off their quote unquote redemption tour. And yet she is now the most decorated American woman in gymnastics with eight medals. That's her eighth medal, congratulations to her.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah. So, ray, here's a question for you.
Speaker 1:And she's only going to add to it as this goes on, most likely.
Speaker 2:Agreed. Here's a question for you. It's something I was debating the other day. This should be for our audience too. Medal count.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:You know the way they do the medal count is it's total medals and the way you quote, unquote win that tally board, win the Olympics is most medals, right? I don't know how I feel about that. So I was saying the other day to my wife we were having a conversation is it, should it be medal count, which is one that is a chart, don't get me wrong or is gold medals what we should be counting? And I went back and forth on that. So I'm interested in your thoughts on this Ray of what is more important in terms of keeping score, if you will. Is it total medal count? Because I'll tell you right now if a country led the medal count and had like two golds, 12 scissors, 12 silvers and like eight bronze.
Speaker 2:I'm not taking anything away from the medals. I don't want anybody to think that that's where I'm going with this. There's certainly something to be said to being second or third best in the world, plus four, five, six, seven, eight, nine and ten. I mean like that's an amazing accomplishment to even be at the olympics. But the competitor in me is like well, gold means you want right silver and bronze, you want something right, but you didn't. You didn't, you're not. You're not the best, you're not number one in the world. You're definitely number one in your country, most likely, unless it's like the us gymnast team that it's like right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think the us slimmers, I think went one, two in a competition the other day or whatever so what should we be counting, ray?
Speaker 2:I want to know your thoughts. I mean and again, I know the answer is both. But what is a more important count to you total medal count or gold medals?
Speaker 1:one, because we're not leading in the gold medals one right now no, I think it's japan right now, as of as of this moment of recording, I just I, I don't I.
Speaker 2:I go back and forth on this one. I wonder what you think. I wonder what the audience thinks uh, I think it's.
Speaker 1:I think I think the total medals is the consolation prize, like I think it should be gold medals. I think it should be gold.
Speaker 2:See, I think I agree with you on this, right? Yeah, it's like the reason I say this, ray, is because, like I don't, I've never looked at my second and third place trophies and medals as like success. I mean no.
Speaker 1:I recognize. I look at them, them as like, like there's a little hint of regret like I could have done, yeah, a little bit more, almost like I'm gonna say this again it's not that I'm not proud of them and I'm not saying that something wasn't earned there. All right, I don't have anything beyond third place.
Speaker 2:I am not a fan of participation trophies yeah, no, it's top three.
Speaker 2:It's top three above the age of uh, I'll say eight. Yeah, I'm not a fan of participation trophies. I'm not even sure you need them before that. So I acknowledge the second and third place things that I have. I'm not the type to throw them away like we earned them, but I don't look at them like I have a gold medal. Let's be honest, I have a gold medal. It's probably displayed in my office. I wouldn't look at the silver one if we came in second. Right, right again. You lose silver. You can only win bronze and gold. So I don't know, I I believe that gold medals is the count that I want to look at and I, yes, I always feel like it's like a, it's like politics, like they're lying to us, right, it's like, oh no, us is leading the medal count, we're 22. And I'm like man, that country has more golds than us, yeah, so I feel like I'm hitting the eight ball on a pool with this a little bit.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, I agree.
Speaker 2:What's our motto? Ray, Go for the gold.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, exactly yeah at no. So I mean, and sometimes too, I mean like it also depends on the situation, like I think what was it? The men's team, I think, got silver yesterday, which I think was was it's their first medal in 16 years and they're in four olympics again, it's an accomplishment.
Speaker 2:I guess I want to make sure this is clear. I am not poo-pooing on the silver or bronze medal or even being an Olympic competitor. Yeah, I am not in any way. But I'm talking about winning in the in the literal sense of winning a competition. I'm not talking about moral victory. That's a great moral victory for the men's team and being second in the world is fantastic. There's no shame in that. But you're not first in the world and that's what I'm trying to say that always bugs me a little bit.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, I mean, there were some great stories, like even this weekend, like I watched the women's team archery, which was really fascinating. And Mexico, the Mexican women got the bronze, and it's a great thing because it's the first time the country has ever meddled in women's team archery. Right, that is a huge accomplishment for them, right they? I think they knocked off the Dutch, I think, in that bronze medal match.
Speaker 2:Well, here's the other thing too. You're bringing up a good point. Like we're Americans, we're also very used to winning. All right, we have a massive population. Historically, we win at the Olympics, right? If I was from St Lucia, trinidad and Tobago, you know Jamaica. If I was from a smaller country, I imagine this conversation is a little bit different. Sure, right, because of where you know, not your place in the world. I'm not trying to say that, but like we have the odds in our favor with our population, not to mention we draw people from all over the world, I mean we get resources?
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, I almost have an unfair advantage.
Speaker 2:We don't, but we always do that's just. That's part of having the ability to come to this country. But yeah, I thought it was a question I want to ask you. It's an interesting yeah no for sure.
Speaker 1:And in that competition by the way, this was a fascinating stat the south south korean women uh team archery women's team archery has been a sport since 1988, so there have been 10.
Speaker 1:This is the 10th time it has been a sport at the olympics. South korea has won the gold every time and listen to the broadcasters like this is the kind of this is the kind of interesting. This is when color commentary is at its best. They're like archery in south korea, which I would never have known, is like basketball in the united states. Like these women are paid and like the men and for the team career are paid, and like athletes like basketball in the United States. Like these women are paid and like the men and for the team career are paid, and like athletes, like basketball athletes are here in America. Like it's insane, but like also that's amazing and good for those women continuing what is basically a dynasty where South Korea and, by the way, literally by a millimeter they beat china in the tie-breaking set by a millimeter to continue that domination 10 straight olympics for the south korean women.
Speaker 2:That's the difference. And again, look, that's the difference. That's how I would say that that's an accurate portrayal of how close these things are.
Speaker 2:Yes, again if you want to look at track and field, which usually is on the later half of the Olympics, yes, look at the difference between first, second and third place. It's like that quick. Yeah, like that's the difference. I always like to equate that to people. Can you imagine operating in your job where that was the variance you had to perform at between you and somebody else to keep a job? Yeah, you would lose your mind, right.
Speaker 2:No, the pressure, the gap is much bigger in the workforce. But yeah, it's an amazing thing, the Olympics I've always appreciated them, obviously both sets, and yeah, I was looking too at the like. You know, most countries pay for a gold medal. It was actually funny because America's on the much lower side side of that. But that's also. It's also economy of scale, where we have so many gold medalists that can only pay like 30 40 000 per gold medal, where some countries are paying close, close to a million. But yeah, but how they can pay? Well, they're not going to win the gold. That's that.
Speaker 1:That's why it's up to a million, it's. So yeah, so yeah it's. It's why it's a big deal when, again, mexico gets third place in women's team archery, like you win something nice, yeah, yeah for sure when it's trip to america.
Speaker 2:I'm just kidding, yeah, um go to beautiful los angeles. They can get a beautiful los angeles in a few years. Ray they'll be there. I can't wait to see track and field when the ground is moving.
Speaker 1:It's gonna be great I will say this, though at least la I can say. I will confidently say this, and I don't usually say something like la is cleaner than paris oh, at least the water is at least the water is.
Speaker 2:I don't know if you guys will do the triathlon in the la river no, I think they will use the pacific ocean wisely.
Speaker 1:They will use the pacific ocean, uh, and I will say this, folks, this is this. There's been some, really there's been a lot of great stories coming out of the olympics. There's also been some bad ones, and one of the top ones, top of the mind today, is, uh, the sane river, sign river, however you want to say it, the river sane. In going through paris, the men's triathlon was delayed to due to high e coli levels in the water and general toxicity and contamination. Basically, folks, france paid a billion dollars, $1.5 billion, to clean the water over the last year and it's still so dirty and disgusting that they don't want the athletes to swim in it. It is filthy.
Speaker 1:And if you folks, you've never been to France, I can tell you I've been to France many times, all up and down France. I've been to Nice, I've been to Lyon, I've been to St Raphael and I've been to Paris. It is one of the dirtiest countries I've ever been in. And I've traveled the world. I'm not tooting my own horn here. I've been to Australia, I've been to Japan, I've been all over the us and all over canada. I've been to eastern europe, I've been with belarus, I've been to germany and italy and spain and england. France is filthy, it just is folks. And boy, oh boy, they are seeing it firsthand right now, as they delayed the triathlon because they're still cleaning the water.
Speaker 2:Tell us what you're really, that you're not wrong, I'm sorry. It's not filthy in the garbage, like people aren't picking up the garbage, sense, it's just it's out of control. You know littering, I mean, it's a little different. It's like that like garbage bags on the side of the street. I've been there too, but yeah, look, it's interesting that you know I garbage bags on the side of the street. Um, I've been there too, but yeah, look, it's interesting that you know I was the mayor. The mayor of, uh, paris was like swimming in there the other day and then, just a few days, because it rained, they, the e coli is filling up the river, so it's, it's a interesting situation, a little bit embarrassing, but um, oh yeah, it's definitely a bit of a black.
Speaker 1:I mean, look, I'm gonna say it's not gonna be. I'm sure there's. There's going to be problems in LA in four years too, but this was not good.
Speaker 2:Other issues. It's embarrassing, yeah, but, like you said, there's more good than bad. But that's not the only thing we're going to talk about.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, because there is also. There's a food shortage in the Olympic Village. Whoops, they were like, oh, the athletes don't eat that much. No, meanwhile, michael phelps, a few years ago, was telling us about how he ate 40 000 calories a day while he was in the olympics. Right, but no, we're gonna. The french, they could survive on baguettes 1500 calories a day. They'll be fine croissant, we'll give them a croissant. Give them another croissant. The uk is flying emergency rations into paris for its athletes, and other countries are going to follow suit soon, because there's not enough food in the Olympic village. You Unbelievable. The beds are bad, there's no curtains in the rooms, there's no air conditioning. Paris, what are you doing? This is always the rooms. There's no air conditioning Paris.
Speaker 2:What are you doing? This is always the case, like every four years. It just seems like the village is just not adequate for these athletes and I don't understand. And you know that you think you'd learn by now. Well, you know, the French athletes are taken care of. I wonder if this is just bad gamemanship at some point.
Speaker 1:Like you heard about, when Sochi uh, in those winter olympics and other russian, it was horrible. Like yeah, just well, in rio a few years ago too, like it just yeah, it's like it's every olympics. We hear about the disasters in the olympic village and nobody seems to learn. And, like you said, is it just bad gamesmanship? Is this gonna happen now, in four years, where the us athletes are perfectly taken care of? Meanwhile we put all the other athletes down in skid row.
Speaker 1:I don't know, we'll see what happens, but it just it doesn't seem like the best way to put your best foot forward in the eyes of the world right when the eyes of the world are on paris right now, and mostly what we're talking about is how dirty the water is and how there's no food in the village not good no, it's not a good look. Um, yeah, so it just it just unbelievable, uh. I will say this though uh, the beach volleyball in front of the eiffel tower is really cool it's really awesome.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I like the way they set that up a hundred hundred percent.
Speaker 1:I hope we do something. We probably won't do something as cool because we actually have beaches here in LA. Yeah, you'll be on the beach, you'll actually be on the beach, but it might be cool because you can see the Ferris wheel in the background on the Santa Monica Pier.
Speaker 2:Yeah, keep telling yourself it's cool, that's awesome.
Speaker 1:It's not the Eiffel Tower.
Speaker 2:I know it's not these little hiccups, man, they don't. They don't make a lot of sense no, it just seems like again.
Speaker 1:It feels like the fact that this happens every four years and like nobody's.
Speaker 2:Everybody's caught with their pants down again look, you got to remember this, ray that the olympics are always a financial hole for these cities, like they do not make money on the Olympics ever. That's true and you can look at. You can look at the. I mean, I sound like a dork, I studied this, but you can look at the historical data.
Speaker 2:Every city loses money in the Olympic games, the only city the only city, ray, not to lose money, it was Los Angeles. Yeah, and it's because they're not creating venues for the event. They're using existing venues. Now, with that said, that Olympics was in what? The 80s, 84, yeah, yeah. So different time, different media coverage, different spend, all right, I think the spending on the next Olympics in LA is going to be a little more than it was in 84. But you're still going to save money spending on the next Olympics in LA, or it's going to be a little more than it was in 84. Yeah, you're still going to save money. You're not building a new Coliseum.
Speaker 1:No, and that's the thing. We have all the arenas here. We have all the horse tracks for the horse, the equestrian events.
Speaker 2:So we have the ocean, you know like that's again. That's why it's a good place, cause, with that said so, everybody's probably thinking now, well, okay, leave, they don't make money. What's the point? The point is, paris is now in the eyes of the world and you're talking about Paris Right and long-term, over 20 years.
Speaker 1:The tour. It'll be a boon on tourism yeah.
Speaker 2:Someone's going to go to Paris because they're seeing Paris, like that's Right, like when's the last time you talked about Paris, I Paris, but when's the last time you talked about Paris? Yeah, that's very true, it's in your mind. When's the last time you talked about Rio? Right Right, by the way, salt Lake City, utah, just awarded another winner Olympics. When's the last time we talked about Salt Lake City 2002. The last time there was an Olympics there, yeah, was it 2002? I think it was 2002, right so was it Something like that?
Speaker 2:It was a long time ago now. Yeah, but that's why they do it. But, yeah, why would they spend money on the athletes when they know they're losing money? That's where they cut the cost, which is amazing. Right, you can have a beach volleyball court next to the Eiffel Tower, but you don't have any food.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's just kind of mind-boggling you know what's also going to be interesting.
Speaker 2:Kind of mind-boggling, what. How much. I want a baguette and a croissant right now. Thanks, ray, I would love a croissant. I would go to Les Bouts and get a chocolate croissant. Croissant, Croissant. We're not being funny. That's how French people speak.
Speaker 1:That's how they say it. So anyway, next year is going to be something interesting the official Olympic esports event Video games, olympic esports event video games. For the last couple of years, the olympics have been looking to incorporate video games more and more to the events. The official olympic esports event will be taking place next year in saudi arabia. That was like I'm all for. I I think obviously like olympic esports is is an interesting thing. I think obviously like Olympic esports is an interesting thing. I think obviously there's a competitive aspect. Obviously it's not the. Obviously esports is great and it's obviously it's getting its fair share of attention. I don't know if it should be labeled as an Olympic thing, but like, especially because the Olympics are basically not doing most of the games that are considered the most competitive games. They are going to be doing Street Fighter, they said. They are going to probably be doing Rocket League, but they're not going to be doing Call of Duty. They're not going to be doing over, like anything that's a shooter probably will not be featured, which.
Speaker 2:I think is it makes sense.
Speaker 1:But it's also interesting because, like you're not, it also means you're not doing fortnight right, which is like these are the biggest competitions, typically in esports or counter-strike or rainbow six, um. But it's interesting and I think it's also interesting the venue that they're going to go to saudi arabia, which saudi arabia has been trying to get into video games for a long time, but not usually. And again, this is kind of like we've talked about this before. It's usually interesting how countries we talked about it last week with Latveria, a fictional country in our mashup Sometimes countries that don't have the best standing in the world but getting a chance to host Olympic events and kind of what goes into that behind the scenes and the money and whatnot.
Speaker 1:But Lee what are your thoughts about video games getting their own Olympic-branded event?
Speaker 2:I just think it's going to be really interesting when a guy's about to win and then logan paul comes out of nowhere from the top rope at the crown jewels event it's also simultaneously taking place to take out whoever it is playing whatever game, and he's just going to say I'm the us champion. You know that's going to be fun. Uh, no, look it's. It's. There's a lot of new. Um, there's more sports that come to the Olympics, and I think people realize, like, for example, we didn't talk about it Break dancing is now an Olympic competition this year. Right, first time break dancing has ever been there. Um, there's also other things that are there, like you know, three or three basketball. I don't think it's new, but it's newer, right? So, uh, something to think about. It's.
Speaker 2:I mean, should gaming be in the Olympics? Yeah, there's competitions. It's been around for a long time. Why would you not? It's about competing, right? Sure, I mean, that's what it's about. It's about competition, you know. Is it about athletic prowess all the time? I don't know. We'd have to have a conversation about that, right?
Speaker 1:Like you know there's some. It's also getting its own event right. It's not part of the actual summer or winter Olympics, it's getting its own officially the the e-sport, the Olympic e-sports games that will start in 2025.
Speaker 2:There you go, so when are you signing up?
Speaker 1:I can be a coach. I'm too old.
Speaker 2:now there's a 61 year old ping pong player in the Olympics. Right, I don't want to hear any bullshit.
Speaker 1:I saw that from. I don't want to hear any bullshit from you. She's from Chile. Yes, okay, I could. Maybe I could be an Olympic athlete.
Speaker 2:I mean, what if they do something like GoldenEye?
Speaker 1:Like the kids can't play GoldenEye today. Sure, sure they can't do that.
Speaker 2:That's the thing. Rocket League, to be perfectly honest with you, it's soccer with cars. It's a fun gimmick. It's a fun gimmick.
Speaker 1:I don't understand why people keep playing it. It's a fun gimmick, but hey, to each their own right.
Speaker 2:No, no, I'm not ripping on it, I'm just saying I never understood it. I never understood why that was a thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, for sure, for sure, but no, but no, I get it. It's a fun game, but yeah, I got out of rocket league a while ago, but good to the people still playing it.
Speaker 2:you know what else is is, uh, changing next year 2025 yes, I do right, because I have a rundown in front of me that tells me what you're about to talk about, but the audience doesn't, so why don't you let them know?
Speaker 1:yes, so it is official now we've talked about this a couple times but it is official that warner brothers will be losing the NBA after next season. So, starting in the 2025-2026 season, nba is going back to NBC. Abc, espn will also have NBA games and now Amazon will also be getting NBA games joining their. Obviously, their deal with the NFL, as Amazon is starting to become more of a place for sports, 're starting to see the streamers. We talked about this a lot. Obviously, you get live sports traditionally. That's the only thing. Reason why I have any sort of traditional. I have sling. I think lee's got youtube tv. The only reason why I have this is because of sports. Once that's gone, goodbye, bye-bye. Cable Cable becomes an internet company. That's what it is. That's all cable will be anymore it already is.
Speaker 2:People on cable still are over 60. Yeah, look, it's an amazing deal. Also, we should note and I'm going to give my support props here the NHL did something similar to this a few years ago. This is just following suit. The NHL switched from NBC to ESPN. So the funny thing I saw this the other day was charles barkley saying I'm not going to be with a company that has to sue to keep us around like you know what I mean. Like, if they don't want us, then we're not going to stay right because they tried to match that offer. It's time for a changing of the guard, like I. I love charles barkley and I.
Speaker 2:That panel is great, but let's be honest, it's dated. They're overpaid, um for announcers at this point, um, and you need to bring in some fresh blood like that. That is the 90s generational panel there and it's like that's 30 freaking years ago. It's time to bring in the guys from the 2010s. They're much more affordable. It doesn't mean chuck can't can't do broadcasting still, it's just like it's. This is one of the reasons they're making the change. No one's talking about that is how much money they're going to save on their new panelists. Sure, it's gonna be a lot of savings right there. But um, look, here's the deal. This is this story. I was that. I always think stories like this are a little bit dumb because people like, well, they're gonna bring back the the song and you're gonna have that song again they are gonna bring back the song.
Speaker 2:Yeah, da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-. Streaming services. And I think we're, yes, just three to four years away, like so this deal is going to be in 2025. It's probably what? A 10-year deal, it's probably something like that. Yeah, and there you go.
Speaker 1:So 2035 yeah, it's gone. It's a big. Yeah, it's a bigger deal that amazon, like you said, it's bigger deal that amazon is getting streaming games, now more than the tnt games are going to warner brothers games are going to go over to nbc universal. Now, right, like I mean that's still a big deal because obviously it continued, it shows the continued collapse of warner brothers under zaslav right, like because he doesn't know, he doesn't know, the first thing of what he's doing, aside from from all he knows, is how to tear things down. But this is a big deal, right?
Speaker 2:so warner brothers continues to suck yeah, warner brothers continues to suck, which we'll get into more of that later like even the boys is making fun of warner brothers at this point, who happens to be an amazon run show. Yeah, I said this to you without giving away anything. They literally said in an episode of the boys they had this. I'll just say they had this film coming out and the film gets canceled because the tax write-off would make more money. That and they say it in the show and look right at the camera yeah, it was like oh my.
Speaker 2:God.
Speaker 1:Brilliant, yeah, no, it's so. So good on the NBA go and get more money for the league. And bad on Warner brothers and good on NBC. Who want? Who realizes that this is a chance for them to get back into, get back into basketball. So, and kind of continue to look, get back into basketball.
Speaker 2:So and kind of continue to Look, nbc lost hockey and it was bad, oh yeah.
Speaker 1:Hockey did really well.
Speaker 2:They realized they had a huge hole in their lineup without hockey A huge hole and that ESPN did a better job with it. In spite of everybody hating on ESPN, they did a better job with it.
Speaker 1:Yes, yes, except for Sean McDonough is one of the worst play-by-play men in sports.
Speaker 2:Again. Broadcasters aside, more people watch Game 7 of the Cup Final than had in like 20 years.
Speaker 1:Yes, they did a better job, better job of promoting it. 100%, yeah, absolutely. You know who else was making fun of Warner Brothers this weekend? I do Pretty directly Deadpool, baby yeah, lee. I'm going to go right into the big questions. Are we going to get Henry Cavill as Wolverine? No, we did already.
Speaker 2:Ah, yeah probably not Listen, obviously.
Speaker 1:It's like Krasinski as Miss Reed Richards it's a one-off.
Speaker 2:Spoiler alert if somehow you have not seen this film yet, although if you have not seen it. I don't know how it hasn't been spoiled for you, because, as we predicted good ray and I saw this film within probably 24 hours of it coming out.
Speaker 1:Thank goodness we did, because the spoilers are everywhere, so this is where spoiler alert spoiler spoiler. It's our turn now to talk about it.
Speaker 2:We gave you 96 hours oh no, we're within our own spoiler rules here. What was amazing to me is it wasn't just spoilers like oh, this person's in the film, it's the, it's the clips from the movie.
Speaker 1:Yeah, all over social media yeah, how all these people have not been flagged by tiktok, how these people did not get caught to have their phones in the theater.
Speaker 2:Like it's bad folks, like it's real bad I mean it's still made and it's still made it's still made almost half a billion dollars. Yeah, it is what I'll say. I've seen it, so I don't mind seeing these things. It's kind of fun to watch those scenes again, but the problem is, if I haven't seen them, you've ruined the movie. You've ruined the movie. I'd say. It took 24 hours before I started seeing things everywhere, and to me this was a week-long embargo.
Speaker 1:Yeah, everywhere, and to me this was a, this was a week-long embargo.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, it's. It's but top grossing r-rated film opening weekend all time. Uh, I think it's in the top six all-time opening weekends in history, yeah, which is saying something yeah, it's unbelievable how, how much money it's making and honestly and it's well deserved because it was.
Speaker 1:It is a hysterical movie. It is very well written. It breaks the fourth wall brilliantly. I would have like maybe a little more stakes into terms of how it ties into the larger mcu, but at the same time.
Speaker 2:We got that and I don't think that we've picked on it yet. I'll tell you my thought on that too, in a minute.
Speaker 1:The big thing I think we get is anchor beings.
Speaker 2:I just wrote that down because that that is the key to the whole thing. We're going to talk about Dr Doom in a minute. I'm sure that's going to play into that.
Speaker 1:And also the fact that Deadpool, as basically has, with a couple of lines, been like I can go from universe to universe because I'm deadpool. Um, basically because he, he has the device he took cables time hopping device at the end of of deadpool 2 is basically how he explained it and he can kind of go wherever he wants, whenever he wants, and break the fourth wall however he wants.
Speaker 2:I doubt he will very often, I don't think we'll see him again. To be honest with you, I don't. I don't think we'll see him or wolverine anytime soon everybody's oh they're gonna make a wolverine hulk film? No, they're not, because there's absolutely no plot to that film and if they are, it's not gonna be with you, jackman yeah and it. Even if it was, it's not gonna be good, because I have read wolverine versus hulk ray has read it. There's no storyline, it's just them fighting and ripping each other apart.
Speaker 1:It could be a cool 20-minute sequence in another movie maybe, if you figure it out. I agree with that. Yes, that's true, but we also got that sequence.
Speaker 2:We got that sequence already in this film. Look long story short. Deadpool and Wolverine was a love letter to the Fox universe, while also nodding to the MCU in the best way possible. It was fantastic, completely lived up to the hype. I know that cause. I couldn't stop thinking about it after I saw it. Unbelievably funny, unbelievably thoughtful, unbelievable fan service, unbelievable story and it was great. I mean it was. It was exactly what they advertised and you got to give Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman a lot of credit for understanding the audience and doing this the right way.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, it's absolutely unbelievable. They did it right. Yeah, like you said, lee, there's nothing else to say they did it right. You know what else? I can't stop thinking about how much I want a Channing Tatum Gambit movie now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, how much I want a Channing Tatum Gambit movie now. Yeah, yeah, that was acknowledged today by Channing Tatum that he was really thanking Ryan Reynolds for going out of his way to allow him to play that character. For those who don't know yeah, this was a green lit movie that Channing Tatum was going to play Gambit. It got, if I'm not mistaken, get extremely close to production.
Speaker 2:I mean, yeah, the script was basically done like and it just died in development hell yeah, and and he showed why he should be the guy. I mean, he did, he nailed that character. He didn't just it wasn't that, wasn't just a cameo like that was a well done character, that in fact I'll say this to all the cameos in this film were they had purpose 100 right? They weren't just there to be there right, they, yeah, they were.
Speaker 1:There were no throwaways. Everything had a reason and it was really brilliantly done. And again, channing Tatum's Gambit, his action sequence. He stole the show man and this is the most comic, accurate Gambit we've ever had in live action. And Tatum was good. I know a lot of people are making fun of his Cajun accent, but I was all for it, it was fine. It was fine.
Speaker 2:I don a lot of people are making fun of his Cajun accent, but I was all for it, it was fine. It was fine. I don't know what you're making fun of. It sounded just like Gaben. He sounded like Gaben in the cartoon. Yeah, it's only weird to you because it's a human being and it's him, and you know who this guy is now.
Speaker 1:You know who Channing Tatum is right.
Speaker 2:Right it. I think, like you know the way he said it, he was spot on he took it a hundred percent serious.
Speaker 1:He and honestly, like the way and again you mentioned it, like I mean, and ryan reynolds even said too, like I, I know the pain that channing went through, because if I didn't leak the deadpool footage I would have been in that same spot we wouldn't be here, we wouldn't be here.
Speaker 1:So like it was kind of his way in a weird way, almost like leaking the gambit footage. That never was. But I, I demand, and here's the thing, we know that he there's, they hinted at him and blade and electra, and we know definitely for sure x23 did at them all surviving right I demand the channing tatum gambit movie or at least have him be Gambit in an X-Men movie, I think a lot of people are going to be wanting that and look.
Speaker 2:the beauty of Secret Wars is they can kind of do whatever they want.
Speaker 1:They can have him come back, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we're not going to discuss every little thing that happened in this movie. There's enough people on social media doing that. But I do want to talk about the implications of the movie with anchor beings, which we'll use that to transfer to rdj in a minute. But the other thing too is that it seems like they've consolidated the multiverse a little bit. In fact, they kind of joke about it in the film of like that's, that's enough of the multiverse, like you guys aren't doing it. Well, um, they're still going to use it, but I think there's going to be a little bit more of a concise storyline within it.
Speaker 2:The problem with the multiverse is that it's infinite. It's infinite and if you play in that playground too long, everybody, the stakes go away, right, because there's always another person, there's always another thing, so you have to have something singular. So the introduction of an anchor being and this is brilliant, okay, it's saying that each universe has one person, that if that person is gone, it was they joked that within a few hundred years yeah right and paradox who's the bad guy from this was like oh, I don't want to wait, I'm just going to do it now.
Speaker 2:Which, but again, yeah, fun character a little bit of a week week, uh story, also another character from the comics.
Speaker 1:He's a little known character from the comics but they did a good job with them yeah, they really did.
Speaker 2:But now the idea is that, okay, who's the anchor being for the MCU, was it?
Speaker 1:Iron man, was it Iron man? Who was it? We don't know If he said he's not Iron man from 616.
Speaker 2:And there you go. So that's now the congruence.
Speaker 1:Everyone's speculating now that it's Tom Holland, that it's Tom Holland's.
Speaker 2:Spider-Man? Sure, look, my point is this that's the important question that Deadpool and Wolverine brings to the larger MCU Before we close the loop on Deadpool and Wolverine. It was just wonderfully fun, exciting. It lived up to the hype. It was a brilliant movie. I do not think we will see Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds as those characters again outside of Cameo.
Speaker 1:Outside of Cameo sure.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there's no need. There's just no need to bring them back again. Yeah, um and again, there's a lot of speculation. They can make this movie. They can make that movie they can make. Yeah, just calm down. We got told they're gonna make another. Uh, andrew garfield spider-man a few years ago. I haven't seen anything about that. Stop, stop spreading things like that I.
Speaker 1:I have heard that toby could be part of secret wars, but I think a lot of people will be in secret wars.
Speaker 2:It's just. It's going to be like an avengers assemble moment, though it's not like the whole movie is going to run around the whole movie's going to revolve around them. But um anger beings right. Let's transition here, ray, unless you have anything else on deadpool and wolverine I'm ready. I'm ready to move on, for sure yeah, so obviously it was announced um at comic-con that robert downey jr is going to play dr, and of course the internet is erupting in conversation.
Speaker 1:How can he?
Speaker 2:play Dr Doom. He's Iron man. You can't have him play. You can't do that. First off from Ray and I, both from our hearts shut up, yeah, shut up. You don't know the storyline, you don't know how they're going to do this. If there's anything we have learned, ray, if there's anything we have learned Ray gave this example, but we all know it is Heath Ledger as the Joker. You could use Michael Keaton as Batman. You don't know, something's going to be crap until it's crap. There's also a lot of actors. We thought that's going to be a great. Jared Leto is the Joker. You put that on paper. Sounds great, sounds really great. Guess what Wasn't great Not?
Speaker 1:good. I don't think he was as bad as people think, but it also just didn't work all right. I thought I thought he was.
Speaker 2:I thought it was pretty freaking, god awful personally, it just it was the, the portrayal as it was written versus what we got conflicted in my mind. All right, that was his worker, all right. So I don't know what the story is of how rdj is going to become dr doom. I don't care, you know why? Because rdj is a fantastic actor and he deserves a chance, just like leto did. He deserved the chance, yeah, okay. Also the other thing I tell people get this question is there any comic book history where that could even be possible? Yes, it has happened in the comics a couple times yes, all right.
Speaker 2:The first time. Uh, very short is. Dr doom actually transfers his consciousness into tony stark and vice versa, so he literally becomes tony stark. I possible, I don't know if that's going to happen. And then there's the other one, where dr doom takes on the iron man kind of name for a bit of time. He has all his magical powers and he's iron man. They may use those, they may not, it doesn't matter. Give it time and see what happens.
Speaker 1:yeah, and there's all. There's also earth 5012, where tony stark becomes dr doom and then it comes to the mainline universe and becomes the iron maniac and gets a cool purple, purple suit of armor. But like, anyway, like there are so many variations, they could do so much with this and you know what? You could just have it where, like the dude happens to look like Tony Stark, he could be Victor Von Doom and it just so happens to be, who knows, maybe they're going to scar his face up, like in some versions, dr Doom. The reason why he wears the mask is because, he was Hittles hideously scarred.
Speaker 1:You don't know, and if you're going to get one of the best actors of all time, then like yeah, this could be roll the dice.
Speaker 2:This could be like a Josh Brolin thing we talked about the other day. He was cable. He's also famous, yes, okay, so so we don't know. The point is this we don't know. We can speculate all we want. All what I do know is R. I highly doubt, highly doubt he would have taken this role if it did not amaze him and challenge him.
Speaker 2:He doesn't typically do things like that for money. He likes to challenge himself, he likes to push himself. And the other thing, too, is this he's smart enough. He would never try and compromise what he created with Iron man, unless this was an amazing story the way they pitched it to him. So look, if it's crap, we'll be on here in 2026 telling you it's crap, but I'm not going to tell you that today.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, we'll wait and see. By the way, breaking news Tanner Scott closer for the Marlins going to the Padres. That's what's in that is what's happening as of this moment, with an hour and 20 minutes left before the deadline.
Speaker 2:You got any more of those relievers there on your team? We need some relievers.
Speaker 1:Yes, as also JT Charjois, another Marlin reliever going to Seattle. So the Marlins selling heavy their bullpen, charjois can also be a spot starter, but he's a long reliever going to seattle. So the marlins selling heavy their bullpen, uh, charge walk, can also be a spot starter, but uh, he's a long reliever mostly. Uh. So two arms out of the marlin pen, one going to seattle, one going to san diego. Uh, the returns not yet in, but we will. We will see if that comes in before we wrap up the show here today. Folks, folks. But as it also looks like, looks like the Tigers are sending left-handed reliever Andrew Chafin to the Rangers. That's an interesting move. I thought the Rangers were going to be sellers, but they've picked up a couple of pieces from Detroit. Now they also got Carson Kelly in a different move.
Speaker 2:Well, ray, I thought the Rangers were going to win the Stanley Cup. It just shows you don't know what the Rangers are ever going to do. Different Rangers. I know that, ray, but that was the point I know. Don't ever sigh at me like I'm some dolt. I am a geek who likes sports. I make jokes like that on my show and my podcast, sir Kneel. Before it's on it just felt like to say that I don't know why I did it, but it felt right yeah, that was it worked.
Speaker 1:It would have worked, we didn't have one more story. We didn't have one more marvel story to talk about. That would have been good, but rdj as doom, take it to the banks, wait to the internet. Uh, the other thing that also kind of leaked out of comic-con I'm sure we'll get it in full, like 4k and all that fun stuff in a couple of weeks. Uh, the fantastic four first trailer, for now officially the title fantastic four first steps and very much getting a captain america first avenger vibe from it and I am all for that.
Speaker 1:I imagine at the end of the film the the fantastic four will be frozen in stasis or sent forward in time or something like that, but clearly taking place in the late 60s, early 70s. We got a first glimpse at galactus um and just digging the vibe. The trailers seem to more heavily focus on reed well, there's no trailer yet, right?
Speaker 2:this is leaked footage from comic-con. Leaked footage from comic-con.
Speaker 1:Yes, but, uh, yeah, all looking forward to and I think that, yeah, I think this will be a good setup and then they'll eventually bring the Fantastic Four into the main universe. Cannot wait for that, because they also did some stuff for Thunderbolts. We know that's coming. Yeah, I think the Marvel Universe is turning a corner. I think they're getting back on track. Yeah, all for it. Um, absolutely, my phone continues to blow up because of the trade deadline trades, those trades happening oh my god.
Speaker 1:So I think, I think I, I, yeah, I think I mentioned already my one friend's like, oh man, we traded caleb ferguson. Like, yes, you don't, that happened an hour and a half ago.
Speaker 2:Um I'm live broadcasting on a podcast right now, simultaneously doing this, and you're texting me, you dare text me, stop texting me old news anyway, um, but yeah, so fantastic four.
Speaker 1:Cannot wait to see that, and it's all its glory, uh, but the leaked footage from comic-con has me excited. So, yeah, lee, any thoughts on fantastic four?
Speaker 2:I feel like the MCU feels a little bit back on its game here, Like it was feeling lost there for a while. I think that Deadpool and Wolverine gave us the feeling we had been missing for a while there. I feel like some of these decisions of changing Kang dynasty to doomsday, to consolidate things, to kind of say, hey, look this, these are the, these are the things you should be focused on, it feels like the MCU of the past a little bit more right now. Again, the one thing about RDJ whether you're bitching or love it, you've I don't know anybody who's uncomfortable with him Like, oh, it's good to have him back, it feels good. It was good to see Chris Evans in Deadpool and Wolverine. Other things too Remember what's it called? It's coming up. What's her name all along.
Speaker 1:Oh, Agatha.
Speaker 2:That's what I said. Agatha, all along is coming. Also, thunderbolts was very clearly represented at Comic-Con, which is good, because they're basically saying look, you're going to be rewarded now for all the stories that you've been following, we're consolidating, all right. I appreciate the Thunderbolts thing right, because that's six or seven shows and movies coming together and as a fan, it's like look, you're going to be rewarded, look, you're gonna be rewarded. Okay, you will be rewarded here. I have no idea how they're gonna get away from kang. All right, that I think.
Speaker 1:I think they should have robert downey jr kill all the kang, the council of kang's in the first, the first thing he doesn't I?
Speaker 2:think that that's what's gonna happen. The brilliance of that scene now is they're all in one place. Yep, you just have to zap away and that's the end of that. Don't beat up a lady next time. Yeah, fantastic Four looks like a lot of fun. It looks like a lot of fun, but they did a good job here, man. And, like I said, just the reorganization. They needed a big Comic-Con this year and they needed it to work well. Yes, and they totally did. Surprisingly, ray switching out of the mcu. We have some not negative dc kind of stuff here.
Speaker 1:By the way, dc, before we jump into it, before we jump into it, redid their logo again and they did it right they're the movie studio logo is now the dc studios logo is now the logo that was on the comics for basically our lives from like the 60s through the 90s, until they were like you know. We need to do new, we need to add a swish to it.
Speaker 2:We need to do this, we yeah no don't fix something that's not broken yeah, marvel, never did that marvel's logo has been the same for 70 years yeah, they might have gotten rid of the big m, but the marvel was always there, look. So, yeah, they went back to the classic kind of I'll just say the death of superman logo, because that's probably the focal point for everybody. Yes, yeah, um, and, by the way, for those who don't know, the old logo was kind of the d with the page kind of turn, which I, you know, I, that was the old movie logo, right, the D, and then there's like a little bit of a P.
Speaker 1:I think that was also in the comic. It's DC in a circle with like four stars.
Speaker 2:Real, simple. I'm saying the old DCU logo was the D with the P, oh, yeah, yeah. Okay.
Speaker 1:That's right it was mildly clever.
Speaker 2:but it's like what the hell are you doing, right? Like that's not dc comics? Well, we're not dc comics, we're dc movies. You're the same thing, you morons? All right, that's the one thing the mcu has always, always understood. Even in their misses, even in marvel's misses in the mcu, they are somewhat comic accurate. Yeah, all right, like like eternals, which they're never going to go back to, somewhat comic accurate. They still didn't screw that part of it up. Dc, let's give Batman guns and let's have him have guns, and then he can shoot at Superman, and well, he'll have guns. What are you thinking? Now we're past that. I do believe that this logo coming back is heavily being influenced by our friend who's making the new movies.
Speaker 1:Oh, James Gunn.
Speaker 2:I think James Gunn was like.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, this was his. I think this was 100% his decision. You want to get people excited. This is a starting point.
Speaker 2:Put that logo back up there. But Batman Caped Crusader came out.
Speaker 1:It is coming out later this week.
Speaker 1:Thoughts Ray coming out later later this week. Thoughts right, uh. So they had a panel at comic-con and the whole series will be dropping on amazon prime. I'm still very excited for this series. Everything I'm seeing from it makes me excited. Uh, there was a lot of backlash on the internet over this. Of course, because and again, my approach is wait and see, wait and see, wait and see uh, basically, they announced that mini driver, the legendary actress, is going to be playing the voice of the penguin and that it will not be oswald cobblepot, it will be oswald uh, and that the penguin will be a female penguin this is multiverse this is I mean, yeah, this is infinite.
Speaker 1:I mean yeah this is Infinite Crisis. This is a different universe, right the Caped Crusaders taking place yeah.
Speaker 2:So anybody who complains about that, anyone who complains about that, you have to immediately say that you don't like Miles Morales' Spider-Man Sure, Because Doc Ock is a woman in that. So you can't complain about this and not about that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's a different universe, completely different take on the characters. Um, yeah, I mean, I think you could have gone. You could have gone, I don't know, I only had to call her oswalda. I think you could have come up with something better than that. But, um, yeah, whatever, let's see how she does. Like again, maybe, maybe, maybe, look, maybe there's a whole lot, a lot of aspects that are gonna suck and then we can definitely tear apart, but, like, we don't know yet all we know about, just need a win.
Speaker 1:We need a win for batman right now yeah, definitely, and, like I again, we're talking about all the wrong things with this show right now, and that's not good.
Speaker 2:Um, I mean the the fact that some of the things and again, this is me being 40, but like I'm starting to see stuff from like 90s batman films, like happy meals and clips, and even like batman and robin batman forever like has a little bit of rosy color to it now, like oh yeah, I kind of miss that yeah I mean, I mean look, I will say this I get it.
Speaker 1:It does feel like an unnecessary change for the penguin, well, like it just but it's one of those things where it's also like if you get mini driver to do something and she wants to do it right, yeah, like so I don't know it doesn't it doesn't bother me either way, like I don't know, I'm just gonna say on the note I just said too, this is totally off the side, I, I do believe.
Speaker 2:Right, actually, let's do a little sidetrack here real quick. Of the original four batman movies, that's batman, batman returns, batman forever, batman and robin right, I've maintained that batman forever follow me here from a story only standpoint was actually the best film, not by portrayals, not by actors, not by uh, the crazy 90s, you know, gotham city, but the story of batman forever to me was the most complex and interesting story of the duality of bruce wayne and batman. My second pick would be the original batman, but that's a pretty 89 it's a pretty black and white.
Speaker 2:You killed my mother. My name is ignacio montoya. You killed my mother prepared to die. You killed my father prepared to die, like that's what that story was right. It didn't really dive into who batman was to the city and you know well, that's the thing.
Speaker 1:But it's also like. It's also like very in a weird way, almost year one where he's still kind of establishing himself. It's an origin story.
Speaker 2:But look, I maintain this too, like Rocky III is actually my favorite Rocky story, right I?
Speaker 2:agree with that, rocky, I is great I agree with that but it's an origin story, right, rocky III is actually, and everyone loves Rocky IV. But Rocky IV is kind of a crazy story. Right, rocky III is actually the most realistic boxing story they had. Yes, right, he's a champion, he loses, he's scared, like that. That was a good story. But I love batman forever, um, because of the, the duality I mean he has a therapist in that movie. Um, and that, that, the decision that I am both bruce wayne and batman at the end, right, I was like wow, this is like really deep, but it's it's the 90s, so we can't be deep because everything's hunky-dory, right. So here's jim carrey. Oh, yeah, we changed, uh, two-faced to another actor.
Speaker 1:That happens to be a different race no big deal. Uh, that was miscast horribly that was that, like I love tommy lee jones, but I do too they should. They should have just stuck with billy d williams, they should with him.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but do you disagree with me that Batman Forever one of the best stories Batman's ever had? Story only Again.
Speaker 1:I mean it's not original. Right Like the duality of Batman is not an original idea. I'm not saying original.
Speaker 2:I'm talking about just in the films that were made Right and keep in mind too, robin is is introduced in that film too. That was well done, really well, sure, like I don't. I don't think chris, whatever his name is, I I think that movie tried to do too much I think there was again.
Speaker 1:I mean, this is the problem with the last two movies is they jammed way too much stuff not to say there were bad ideas. I mean there were bad ideas in batman robin, but it was not to say they were bad ideas in batman forever. But I think they tried to do too much. Sure, one film and it got bogged down by the robin origin story, the duality of batman, the riddler origin story, two faces do I mean?
Speaker 2:again. Just ignore two face. They didn't do the lack of duality for two face yeah, like what happened he put a manila folder on his face and became two-faced. It's like what uh anyway, uh, batman needs a win.
Speaker 1:That was the point we were making yes, and again, I think we're talking about the wrong thing here. With the cape crusader show, I hope it's good it comes out later this week. There's a good chance I will binge it over the weekend. Yeah, me too. Um, I'm curious to see what they do with this female penguin I I see here's. My thing too is like they could have avoided all of this, because you knew, they had to know that there was going to be this backlash. Right, you could have avoided all of this if you had just kind of gone, maybe more, and been like well, the penguin is a title and it's a completely different character as a woman, as the penguin. That's brilliant. You just said that Because they've done that before. They did that with the vent different character as a woman, as the penguin.
Speaker 2:That's brilliant.
Speaker 1:You just said that like because they've done that before. They did that with the ventriloquist in the comics, with the original ventriloquist, arnold wesker dies, and then somebody else finds scarface and she kind of goes crazy and she becomes the ventriloquist, like it just feels like I don't you could have had I think that would have been a better idea where, like you have a capo or a don as a mafia boss, well, now you have a penguin, right, and you could have had a female penguin, but it's a title and it's a completely different character and I think you could have avoided the people getting. You know, because, again, it's not like it's because there are we've had alternate universes where there is the what would they call?
Speaker 1:you know, the gender bend right, where you've had all of the female characters are male right we've had that before the boys does a really good job with that, by the way they've they've transitioned a lot of male characters to female, perfectly, yeah yeah, yeah, and like you could absolutely have done that, I feel like my fear is that this could be just lazy right, that this could be just a oh, we just made her a woman and that and that's it.
Speaker 2:We'll see. It all comes down to performance. It's an opportunity for me to drive her. We'll see what happens. And look, I like what you said about the penguin being a title. But I'm gonna be honest with you, ray, like I just don't give a shit. I, I don't. I don't know why people give a shit, like it was like when the mermaid was like black and people like she can't be black.
Speaker 1:I'm like she's. It's a, it's a mermaid, it's a fictional mermaid. There's no racial and that's the problem and that's really the core of the issue is that all the folks who are getting mad on the internet are wait, really just wasting their life, energy.
Speaker 2:We don't have to make everything about race and gender. It's like just shut the f? Up and enjoy you live in a country the culture war, everything would be a fight the reason I say that too is because there's actually legit things with gender and race to discuss that we ignore in the face of an animated film.
Speaker 1:Yes, shut up the penguin is not real, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 2:What I know it took I'm gonna call benny devito and we're gonna it took me years, me years to realize, to understand that my life was illusion.
Speaker 1:You've been the penguin. I'll say this I like Minnie Driver, but I should have been cast as the penguin.
Speaker 2:I just don't understand the anger. I don't understand any of the people being disgruntled about it. I honestly don't look at that and go like I don't do that. It's like I don't, I don't. I honestly don't, don't care. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, again we're at a point where we know that our energy is better spent on things that actually matter.
Speaker 2:So this is a great time to remind all of you to vote Yep. It's the most important election of your lifetime, until the next one, and you need to go vote this November 5th. God bless you all.
Speaker 1:Speaking of voting, sag-aftra has voted to go on strike again. Yeah, that was an easy one. Thank you, sir. Basically, sag.
Speaker 1:I'm surprised they didn't do this when the other, the original strike was going on against the film industry, but sag after has started a new strike against the video game industry, and understandably so. Yeah, because they have been taking advantage of voiceover and voice actors for a long time. Um, and there really isn't a general agreement for video games and new media in general. And also, partially, this is also because the video game industry in itself hasn't really properly unionized. You're starting to see it bits and pieces here or there, little by little, but again, unions are good.
Speaker 1:Protecting people is good. Billion dollar companies should pay people more money for services rendered, and that's what this is coming down to. Obviously, it's more, you know, making sure voice actors have breaks, make sure that there's safety precautions when they're forced to do mocap, things of that nature. And uh, yeah, I mean I feel bad, for I have a lot of friends who are doing video games right now. They can't talk about the games because of the strike, but at the same time, I'm also also extremely jealous because they got her. They are in video games but um and yeah, but this is a gaming industry's loss.
Speaker 1:My friend believe me yeah, it's, this is a good thing. This is a good thing in the long run and, uh, yeah, the video game industry needs to. You know, the ceos at the top of the video game industry need to be punched in the mouth and they need to understand that the again we talk about this a lot, the unprecedented growth they had in the pandemic is over now because the pandemic is over and they need to grow up and they need to understand that, like A stop wasting money on dumb stuff and pay your people what they're worth. Because in the long run, at what nintendo's doing, when things go bad for nintendo, their ceos take pay cuts, they don't fire people and then, oh, and then nintendo comes out of it and now they're making record profits again. Oh, because the people they invested in now are making these amazing video games that everybody loves.
Speaker 2:I don't know what you're talking about what a concept I would never do that ray take care of your boy, what a novel concept taking care of the people that take care of you what an idea, holy shnikes.
Speaker 1:Oh, but yeah. This is a good thing. I stand with sag after a video game industry. Get your head out of your collected asses yeah, well, look, here's the other thing too.
Speaker 2:I'll say this, right, and this is what's funny this is after they're doing this, after the film industry, right.
Speaker 1:Again, they should have done it together, in my opinion.
Speaker 2:Whoa, whoa. I like to bring this up to our audience, ray. They're doing this after the film industry. Ray, please tell people this stat once again the size of the gaming industry versus the film industry.
Speaker 1:This actually is being done backwards. Yes, the gaming industry last year made 181 billion dollars. What was that number again, my friend? 181 billion dollars with an m, billion with a b. So uh, and that's more than the music, movie and movie, music and movie industries and every major sports league combined.
Speaker 2:Combined.
Speaker 1:It's MLB, nba, nfl, nhl, mls, music pro archery Throw archery in there.
Speaker 2:You can throw a few more sports in.
Speaker 1:WNBA I'm sure you can throw a few more WNBA, and the gaming industry still made more money. Wnba I'm sure you can throw a few more things in there, and the gaming industry still made more money last year than all of those combined Yep.
Speaker 2:So Sega Africa doing it right, but hopefully this starts to right the ship a little bit buddy. That industry is not going anywhere. They are losing people quick.
Speaker 1:Yes, including me.
Speaker 2:I want to say it, man, deadpool andverine was one of the best films and most fulfilling experiences I have ever experienced in a theater and I'm so thankful that that lived up to the hype. Yes, I, I probably will see it again. Uh, because there are so many holy shit moments in the film that it's almost tough to sit still and like see everything that's going on. But even in watching some of the clips again that are being leaked, it's like, oh, that's really like you see it again. We've, with even more reverence, and like the last film that I remember doing that right was probably endgame. Like obviously the avengers assemble scene. Like I've probably watched that a few hundred times that scene oh yeah, you know, I mean you, and it never gets. I still watch it when it comes on. Yeah, all right, like like this movie felt like that, especially when wolvieie and Deadpool are fighting all the Deadpool core. I mean that was pretty amazing.
Speaker 1:That was brilliant, Absolutely brilliant. So yeah, the music, how they used the soundtrack, I mean from the beginning to the end, it just it was nearly perfect.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was paced well, unlike Acolyte. So what's next? Right Before we close up, what is the next thing coming out? Is it Agatha?
Speaker 1:For Marvel, it's Agatha.
Speaker 2:It's in general. Star Wars doesn't have anything coming anytime soon.
Speaker 1:Well, I'm not going to see it in theaters, but the Borderlands movie, which, of course, is based on a game. I'll wait for that to hit Netflix.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's not big enough for me.
Speaker 1:The Beetlejuice sequel in.
Speaker 2:September. That's exciting. I'm excited about that for sure.
Speaker 1:I think September, october you're going to see some big stuff.
Speaker 2:starting with that, for sure, you got the new Aliens movie in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1:I wonder what happens in that film.
Speaker 2:It's the exact same thing as the first Alien. I wonder what?
Speaker 1:I obviously Face huggers, hatch and then attach to people's faces.
Speaker 2:The humans will be the main characters that you really really care about. This time you're going to care about them and the alien is going to be kind of like a sideshow. Yeah, no, no, no, this one is different. No, no, it's not. No, it's not, no. No, they changed this thing and it's different. No, it's not, no. All right, I look I'm a fan of xenomorphs, like anybody else, but you haven't changed anything. The only the only film that ever was fun to watch was prometheus, because it's interesting and it's not really aliens, it just is a prequel to aliens. I was like oh, this is interesting, I interesting. I appreciated that film, but since then no.
Speaker 1:No, nope, no, yes. I guess the big thing would probably be yeah, I mean, I might binge Caped Crusader, but yeah, movie-wise it's Beetlejuice, beetlejuice, yeah absolutely.
Speaker 2:For those of you who don't want to say Beetlejuice twice.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice. Looking forward to that. Yeah, and then Agatha. I feel like there's a couple other things coming out. February is Captain America 4, Brave New World.
Speaker 2:That'll be fun. Thunderbolts is coming too, so we'll see.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but that's basically it.
Speaker 2:That's basically it for us this week, folks. Oh my god, we'll see you next time on Deadpool and Wolverine, like Sports.
Speaker 1:They might like sports. Wolverine likes sports.
Speaker 2:Here's a question for you, Ray, before we close this out. Yeah, you and me. Who's Deadpool and who's Wolverine? I think that's a harder to answer question than you might think on the surface.
Speaker 1:I feel like we're both Wolverine.
Speaker 2:I feel like I have a lot of Deadpool in me.
Speaker 1:I have some Deadpool too. Yeah, it's the problem.
Speaker 2:I talk too much. I make a severe amount of pop references from my day. I do too.
Speaker 1:All right. I mean I literally crack jokes now I literally get to go on stage.
Speaker 2:I feel like I'm pretty witty. I mean, I have the Wolverine body.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I have the Wolverine, berserker rage Berserker barrage. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, right, I don't know. Will you grace us all with a Berserker barrage? Berserker barrage, thank you. Thank you, it's worth it. Okay, goodbye.
Speaker 1:All right, yeah, goodbye. All right, yeah, no, let us know what you guys think. Who's more Deadpool? Who's more Wolverine? Comment below.
Speaker 2:I'm a little bit Deadpool. He's a little bit Wolverine. You should have done that. Let's go viral.
Speaker 1:Oh, my goodness.
Speaker 2:Well, on that, that's a Deadpool thing that I did there, that's a Deadpool thing On that. No, that is a very Deadpool thing.
Speaker 1:And my reaction was very Wolverine, like, oh God, all right for Babypool, for Lee, I'm Ray. Stay tuned for the mashup later this week, folks, it'll be fun, but until then this has been Geeks who Like Sports. Good night, everybody. Bye.
