WBM Podcast aka Witty Banter Media
The Three Best Bros anybody could have (feat. Oski, xFer, & Merc) sit down and go into all sorts of topics while also diverging into wild content. Anime! Pop culture, video games, movies, books, science fiction and actual science. Nothing is safe from the Witty Banter Media treatment. Every episode tends to take an unexpected left turn, so listener discretion advised. However, follow along and you will see they always bring it back full circle. Do not take the WBM Podcast team too seriously because they will never be above a witty joke!
WBM Podcast aka Witty Banter Media
Bloodlines, Donghuas, and Barcelona
Ever wondered what happens when death has unfinished business with your entire bloodline? After fifteen years, Final Destination returns with its most creative and gruesome kills yet. Then the conversation shifts to the beautiful game as we celebrate underdog victories across European football. Napoli's fourth-ever championship brings glory to Italy, while Barcelona's youth academy produces 17-year-old phenom Lamine Yamal who's embarrassing veterans twice his age. Finally, the boys dive into the rapidly evolving world of Chinese animation, where "donghua" is challenging Japanese anime with stunning visuals and mature storytelling.
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Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you so much for tuning in to the WBM podcast. This is one of your hosts. It's your boy, Merc.
Speaker 2:Welcome back everybody. It's your boy X-Fan.
Speaker 3:And it's your boy, Oski, in the mix In the mix Tell them, merc Guys.
Speaker 1:so we have one hell of an episode for you this week.
Speaker 2:That's right, guys. We're going to start a little bit of football wrapping up the season. Visca Barca.
Speaker 3:And, as always, we're going to do a quick movie review of Final Destination, since I watched it.
Speaker 1:That's right, and we're going to talk about some Japanese Dongwa man. They've been hitting this past season.
Speaker 3:Dongwa is from China, brother.
Speaker 1:Well, yes, but yeah, chinese anime has been coming out. It's not even anime, though, though right, because that's japanese. Yeah, so it's down, it is down, right. Okay, perfect, japanese down. Oh, did I say that? Yeah, don't listen to me, ladies and gentlemen, you're on for a fun episode I thought you realized that was a joke.
Speaker 3:I thought it was a good joke my bad brother, I thought you caught your own mistake no, I love that.
Speaker 1:The corrections on the podcast are great.
Speaker 3:I love them, like when nobody notices it.
Speaker 1:Oscar's like that's wrong.
Speaker 2:And I'm like, oh yeah, you know what You're right.
Speaker 3:He's going to notice I, rather than let him Tell me, ladies and gentlemen, if I mess up. I don't want this guy to correct me, let it be you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I should chai tea, but people still say chai tea, so suck it. You got that from the Spider-Verse. I thought about it from the.
Speaker 3:Spider-Verse but that's a fact, though People still say chai tea you don't say tea, tea yes, but I say Chinese Dong.
Speaker 2:I say ATM machines.
Speaker 1:Absolutely.
Speaker 3:Social security numbers yeah, anyway, that's right guys, welcome back everybody. What do you guys want to start?
Speaker 2:welcome back, we are here live on may 23rd of friday. I don't know when this episode will be edited, posuki. I say it because today sparks a special day for the city of naples, winning their fourth ever championship in italy. Literally, when it comes down down to the Italian league is the one of the most competitive. The way the league works is like, obviously, who has the most wins throughout the season. Now, what happens when two teams are neck to neck? They both have the same amount of wins, the same amount of losses and the same amount of ties. What comes down to goals where, like, one goal can make all the difference. And this afternoon, that's exactly what's happening all over Italy Two simultaneous games. They were each scoring. You know one team was leading against the other.
Speaker 2:And then one is Maradona's legendary team, which is Napoli. There's a name after him. You know what it's called Inter. It's a legendary club in Italy, very, very famous for having won many trophies throughout their longevity. And then they score from the beginning.
Speaker 2:Then Naples scored, then they scored, kind of like a movie. You know, it was a tug and pull, you know, and this is a team of rejects, because this is like a team where, like you, weren't good enough for the Premier League, go over there with the Italians, and then these guys end up becoming the MVPs, carrying trophies, carrying the league, and this city means a lot because it's one of the poorest cities quote-unquote of Italy, right? So it means a lot for the city of Naples. So, after 100 and whatever years that the League of Italy have existed, they win their fourth trophy after so many years and this really has become like a very special closing of the football world. You know, as we're coming to our end, when we first started our podcast, I had mentioned big names, but all the stars I failed to mention is someone that you've seen all over online, a 17 year old phenom, lamine Yamal.
Speaker 3:Now the thing is here like my kid is going off crazy. A 17 year old bro like my kid is going off Crazy.
Speaker 2:A 17-year-old bro Like he's going to do homework after he's done with the matches bro, no excuses, and he's like embarrassing.
Speaker 3:Like you know pro players, you know all these 30-year-old defenders.
Speaker 2:Breaking ankles, bro. They got families to feed, bro. You're not anymore. Let them work, go ahead and quick, sell them For real. And honestly I'm believing I'm going to dub this that.
Speaker 2:The school is called La Masia. This is the school that all kids in Barcelona you know. They go, they train, you pay a fee and then every once in a while there is a kid with obsessional talent. Hey, this kid get full ride. You know we're going to develop him and eventually there are two things he's so good that we sell him for like $100 million to this high level team. We start him in Barcelona and we keep him right. And this is Juilliard, the Harvard of soccer. Because many talents, very few Barcelona by. So Ronaldinho was a bottom, that's how talented that man was. But Messi, he was there at age 13, full ride. His colleagues that he played with during his longevity there. They also were tenured in that school. Many of the high-level coaches in the Premier League, arsenal, who was number two, man City you saw that game those coaches not only played at Barcelona, got full rides in Barcelona, but also directed. They became coaches in Barcelona. So that school pretty much is the economy I want to say of Barcelona.
Speaker 3:They got to pay taxes. That's why they're one of the biggest teams really, because they get first pick, basically.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and little kids want to play for this school because Messi graduated, and now you can say Lamar graduated 17-year-old, and it's not just him, there's a defender named Kubarsi, also 17. So there's like this club was so broke Broke because one, they're building a brand-new stadium, so half of the funds go there and the second half, if Messi was so expensive, they're like, hey, we can't pretend it's the year 2015. We can't pay you, but what we can do is have like checks that go on to 2045 or 2035. You're down. Msc was like anything to help the club. You know I love it here, but that money, you know, tied up in the new stadium and MSC's long-term payments.
Speaker 2:Barcelona had to find a solution, you know. So they called these 15-, 16-year-old kids. Y'all want to go ahead and you ahead and promote them to the A-level. And here they are. They became the most dominant team in Spain. They won only the Super Cup, the King's Cup and even won the season. So this little kid, this phenom, as you see all over TikTok edits he really is what they say the flair of Neymar, the left foot of Messi and the attitude of Ronaldo. So there's a very cool-ass fucking meme they do where it's Messi and Neymar doing the fusion I was just thinking about that.
Speaker 2:He's definitely a fusion of some of the best players and if you see his TikToks, he looks good.
Speaker 3:Those are the stars that he grew up watching, so it makes sense that he'll copy all other play styles.
Speaker 2:Yeah, man.
Speaker 3:I got to just make it into one single play style. He plays so aggressive, bro. Yeah, that's what it is. He's got that ego, Like his ninja agent got that ego where they play really aggressive.
Speaker 1:Well, because you got to think about it. You can't be humble with these 30 year old motherfuckers, like they'll break him.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you can't be starstruck.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 3:So, like your goal is to embarrass them.
Speaker 2:You know like I'm here for a reason, bro, hey play for that, play for your freedom. Yeah, man, you think like Kobe whenever he's just like, like this whole season, which I follow, this season right, barcelona will be down like two goals, three goals. There wasn't one game where they were 4-0 the first half and if it wasn't for Decemento, I would say fuck it, give me the ball, bro, and just put him in the top corner and motivate other grown men in his team like to step it up you know like it's crazy it works
Speaker 2:he definitely does watch Bulak man. I think he's the biggest shot I want to give. But to wrap it up, how this to the season included. It's also a, a season that concluded with like fairy tale stories. One of them is called I will save the best one for last, because think of as a capitalist, it makes no sense. Son with the smallest tenure was loyalty. You know, loyalty pays off eventually. A, a Korean man named Sun, plays for a team called Tottenham, which is Tom Holland's Spider-Man's neighborhood club.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, that's right they're doing shit.
Speaker 2:17 years of eating dick bro.
Speaker 3:Second place, everything Second place. This, what a way to describe it.
Speaker 2:Not a thing, bro. The thing is they're my rival team. I go for Arsenal.
Speaker 3:They were about to drop leagues down to the second league.
Speaker 2:Yes, there is like 15 in place. They're doing horrible right? There's a song saying 15 in place. Who gives a shit? Kings of Europe is what I am, because this is what happened, bro. After 17 years, this team finally got their dub. This man named son korean, who got placed with this league and for 10 years seeing all his friends move on to other clubs and win trophies you know other teams calling him hey, come join us. But this man was like no, I want to stay here. This team gave me the chance. This is you know. I built my home here. Stay there, loss after loss after loss, and persistence, I guess you know, pays off, man. 10 years later, he's holding a european cup 10 years.
Speaker 1:Next is uh newcastle, a team that has not seen a trophy in 70 years.
Speaker 2:They kind of went what's called a mickey mouse trophy, you know it. They kind of win what's called a Mickey Mouse trophy, you know. It's kind of like a team where like, hey, there's $50 million if you win this tournament, you know. And teams are like, well, that's five players right there, you know. So these teams join it and they win their trophy. But seeing old man saying 70 years like damn, we finally went to 70, it means something to them.
Speaker 2:Now this is the one that really blew my mind the most right it is. I want to say the one because if you think about it, it's a bad business. Like the idea of a team is to win right Trophy, and if you win, obviously you use that money to bring it back. But what if? In the last 166 years, bro, what business model? For 166 years, bro, not winning dick, bro, not a trophy, not a semi-final, not an invitation to nothing, bro, nobody knows you, it's called crystal palace. But after 166 years, bro, you actually joined a very famous tournament called fa cup, where the king himself was there shaking hands everybody hey, you should call me up, you know. And literally putting bangers. Not even like winning the game, but winning it came righteously.
Speaker 2:Bro, the best part is seeing grown men say I used to come here with my grandpa, I used to come here with my grown man. I came here when I was a kid. My dad died of cancer 30 years ago. This is for him. This is for my dad. This is the side of London that people grew up in. The east side of London. The generation is here. World War II they got bombarded and they still went to a game just to find out they fucking lost 5-0. And they're going to be here again next Sunday. What kind of business model is that, bruv? But I guess at the end of the day, persistence wins man. And watching them lift that trophy and the king himself handing it to them.
Speaker 1:That victory must have been so sweet.
Speaker 2:It must have been so sweet so it was a very way, a very beautiful way, a fairy tale ending to 2024, 2025 soccer season. Seeing teams that never win nothing, people that stuck it through the worst, you know, showing that man, if you really stick in there, bro, no matter what, you too may you know, and I'm not talking about soccer you can see the blue look influence. And I'm not talking about soccer either.
Speaker 3:It's all the Cinderella stories.
Speaker 2:Yeah, man, it's nice to see it. It was nice to see it too.
Speaker 3:The thing is, I always root for the underdog.
Speaker 1:Always Were there any crazy injuries that happened during the season.
Speaker 2:Oh, many. That's the thing that hurts the most, because one can start very strong during the season. And your, because one can start very strong during the season, and your star guy that would create plays Hammy.
Speaker 3:That's six, eight months of trying to survive. It's always an injury that can mess up the whole team's career throughout the tournament.
Speaker 2:Two detrimental dudes. The striker's gone. What the fuck? What am I going to do? I'm going to have no striker.
Speaker 3:Hey, you're a defender, Especially when he's talking about a lot of teams invest so much into players. You know.
Speaker 1:Damn that was so, Only for this player to be out for months.
Speaker 3:Yeah, like they invested so much into this player.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and the FIFA is different because you can't tell the player like hey, bro, are you good? Like no, bro, I'm still hurting. You know, the doctor says yeah.
Speaker 1:That's like guaranteed money. It's like baseball money too, thank you.
Speaker 2:Thank you for my check. I appreciate.
Speaker 1:I don't care if I blew out my knee in the first play, my first hit. You said, you know, but like football you gotta play for it that's why you gotta play for it.
Speaker 2:You gotta make a certain number of games. You gotta do this you're fucked up, bro.
Speaker 1:I mean, that's a brutal sport to do it in as well.
Speaker 2:Yeah, practice in the morning, but soccer's no joke either, bro.
Speaker 1:You're running for 90 fucking minutes, plus this guy's this guy's to put in the time practice, bro. But then you see some of those slide tackles dog, and then it's like it'd be some final destination shit that's going out there. They're trying to end in lives, bro. You know what I'm saying? One little key falls like perfect.
Speaker 2:What a pass bro that that pass.
Speaker 1:I'm glad you liked it, link her on and everything for you I guess that's gonna be our next topic.
Speaker 3:Our next topic is final destination. Final edition. Bloodlines came out after like how long has it been since the last Final?
Speaker 1:Destination 2011. Almost 15 years. Almost 15 years since the last one.
Speaker 3:To be honest, I didn't think Final Destination was going to be one that was going to come back.
Speaker 1:Me either. I thought it was done for.
Speaker 3:I did not For a while. They released a Final Destination every three years or so, every three to four years. Yeah, while they released the Final Destination, they were three years or so every three to four years. And it seemed like that kind of franchise to where, like, okay, we're going to see Final Destination 11 by the time we're done, but then it went to sleep.
Speaker 1:It did After the fifth one. Nobody really was like. I mean, there was a big plot twist you said in Five, which we're talking about later.
Speaker 3:There was a big plot twist in Five. So if you're Final Destination fan, five is actually the first one that you got to watch.
Speaker 2:Break it down for me. What do you mean? Let's go through the order, bro. What do you mean? Why five? What do you mean by that?
Speaker 3:Well, final Destination has one of those plot twists that is the craziest plot twist in cinema. It's like peak cinema plot twist Like Sixth Sense. Final Destination 5, okay, damn, I'm talking about that big of a plot twist, that big of a plot twist.
Speaker 1:They were dead the whole time.
Speaker 2:Bruce Willis was dead.
Speaker 3:The whole time Spoilers. Final Destination 5. Typical Final Destination frame. There's an accident at the beginning. The bridge collapse.
Speaker 1:I don't know if you've seen it yet.
Speaker 3:Yes, I do remember the bridge collapse, the bridge collapse happens, and then he sees it before it happens and then he saves everybody and then that comes back and kills everybody, I guess that's. I mean, everybody knows the final decision concept. Right, final decision is different. It's, it's a horror movie, but when the when the writer was writing it, he said he wanted to do a different kind of horror movie where there's no boogeyman, there's no freddy krueger or jason killing everybody.
Speaker 3:It's like the concept of death itself killing people I like that, that and it's like invisible, like it's just a force, it's just a force of nature that's killing everybody and that's just, like you know, swinging the arm the wrong way.
Speaker 2:Yeah, man.
Speaker 1:Yes, absolutely.
Speaker 2:Ever since you saw that movie, the one where it had, like the wood, the wind. The truck with the woods. Oh, the logs yeah the truck with the logs I drive around in that because of that fucking movie Bro.
Speaker 3:Every millennial is traumatized.
Speaker 1:We don't play that shit dog.
Speaker 3:You know what's crazy this whole time? I just watched a video on TikTok. Behind the scenes of that movie those logs are CGI because, okay, they did it practical, because back then they used to do practical effects. They actually put the AC wheeler on the road and drop the logs. But the logs drop and roll off the road. They don't bounce, like think about that, like stop and think about that, because in the movie they bounce, but in real life physics yeah they wouldn't do that shit.
Speaker 2:They're so heavy and then you start rolling off. Yeah.
Speaker 3:Because they're heavy.
Speaker 2:Oh, that makes sense. In the movie they're heavy. Oh, that makes sense.
Speaker 1:And then we're like the guy yeah, yeah, it's flying straight through fucking windows.
Speaker 3:You need it to bounce, so he could go inside, yeah, yeah, if you think about it.
Speaker 2:It's like it jumps, so I guess the from the ground it's a dog that's like about yeah, it bounces the whole car yeah like then physics yeah, of course, yeah, let it happen.
Speaker 3:Now you're fucking with me.
Speaker 1:All the logs are actually cgi man, but I mean, mean back when I watched it, I didn't know Bouncing logs is what gets you but death, chasing after you and killing you with a fucking floss, that's life.
Speaker 2:You know what?
Speaker 3:I'm saying that's life.
Speaker 1:When that motherfucker dies in the tub in the first one bro.
Speaker 3:Oh, you're thinking about the first one, bro. Okay, let's go. So what's the?
Speaker 2:overarching story in here, tell me.
Speaker 3:Oh well, every movie has its own story, like every movie in Reddit. They call them visionaries, so it's the main character, I guess the vision.
Speaker 1:Right. That saves everybody.
Speaker 3:That saves everybody, and the first one they're about to get on the plane fly to Paris flight 180. Absolutely, the plane's about to blow up Get off the plane.
Speaker 1:He saves six students, six or eight of them, or some shit like that.
Speaker 3:And a professor. He saves six or eight and then precedes Debt coming after them, because, since he stopped. Debt's plan. Debt is coming and correcting itself and killing one by one, in the order that we're supposed to die.
Speaker 1:I like the concept of like that there was an order, that there was a seating chart, was like who's going to die next? Yeah, you know what I'm saying. It was like well, it all depends on the order that we were sitting in the plane.
Speaker 3:You would think the plane, it just blows up and everybody dies.
Speaker 1:Yes, the way it would have went down In Impact, we all would have died in this order. So if that's the case, blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 2:But Jim Foyle doesn't burn at 2,000 degrees.
Speaker 1:Anyway, sorry, Sorry.
Speaker 3:Whoa, whoa. That's a whole other episode.
Speaker 1:Sorry.
Speaker 3:That's a whole other episode CIA go ahead, we got him. But it always connects. It always kind of like there's every movie, there's kind of Easter eggs where it connects to the other ones. Yes, like flight 180 is always referenced.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the number 180 is always yeah.
Speaker 3:The big plus is in five is that you know they go through their store, they all start dying and at the end of the movie, like the main guy makes it with his girlfriend Right, he makes it and they're about to go on a trip, you know, because he got a job in France, right, and the whole movie they're using flip phones, right, and you think nothing of it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, until you realize the time error what it is.
Speaker 3:They're about to, like they get on flight 180, and then you see the group of students. Freak, the fuck out, get me out of the plane and they get off the plane. What that's?
Speaker 1:the end of number five, and then they blow up yeah, oh, one through four goes yeah.
Speaker 2:So number five ends with the guy in the beginning with the plane from the very first one. Yeah, oh, that's the plot twist, that's the number five starts the sixth sense plot twist that's great.
Speaker 3:That's really.
Speaker 2:That's the plot twist that you'll never see coming Each one of the films is Before we even get to the new movie.
Speaker 3:I guess we got to talk a little bit about the new movie Bloodlines.
Speaker 3:In Bloodlines, the main girl. We travel back in time and she gets a vision of her grandma going up a tower and the tower collapses and the restaurant on top of the tower collapses. Everybody dies. But this is something that happened 50 years ago, right, really. But she stopped it and she saved a bunch of people and, as we learn in the movie, death has been going through and basically killing everybody one at a time. But since she saved so many people by getting everybody off the tower, years have passed and all these people have had children and grandchildren and she herself learned to avoid death by isolating herself. She herself avoided death for 20 years, until the movie?
Speaker 2:Which one? This one Six.
Speaker 3:Bloodlines. That's kind of the plot.
Speaker 1:That makes perfect sense, yeah.
Speaker 3:It's crazy, because this grandma, she's isolating herself and the granddaughter comes by and sees her and is like hey, why am I having this vision? Why do I keep seeing things? And she's like she's explaining everything that happened. Death is coming after our family. If I die, then it's going to come, for it's going to go through my oldest son and everybody in that bloodline. And then the granddaughter doesn't believe her and then the grandma walks out and then, of course course, wind starts blowing and she starts falling apart and then she's like okay, you don't believe me.
Speaker 3:Okay, they say seeing is believing, and she steps out and BAM, she died just to prove a point. Damn, it was a gangster way to go out. She died just to prove a point. Like the whole movie could have been avoided if she just stayed alive.
Speaker 1:There's so many moms who would have just did that, bro, just spiteful-ass moms. You know what? Okay, let me prove it to you.
Speaker 3:You don't listen.
Speaker 1:How many times did I say you took it to the trash?
Speaker 3:How many times did I say it? That's how the grandma died. And then it's like two sons, like one son and one daughter, and they each have their own families. So it comes from one bloodline, like the oldest son bloodline first, so him and his two sons, and then the other bloodline, which is cool because there's an order to it too. It goes eldest to youngest son and then the next bloodline in order of age. Yeah, but it's very like they put this whole structure and lore into it.
Speaker 2:The actor that played Candyman. What's his role? Is he a cop or yeah? But it's very like they put this whole structure and lore into it. What is the actor that played candy man? What is what's his role? Is he a cop or something?
Speaker 3:no, he, there's always somebody that knows about death what's his name, if you could look it up for me? Yeah, absolutely, uh, the actor that he played candy man and he did just pass away that was his soul for real.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that was his final.
Speaker 3:That was his final film, that was last movie.
Speaker 2:He's a horror film too man.
Speaker 3:Yes, he's a big horror icon and he was already sick when he filmed the movie. The producers knew Tony. Todd, tony Todd.
Speaker 1:He was so happy.
Speaker 3:I watched some interviews. He was so happy when he got the call because he's like I definitely want to be involved and because he knew that he didn't have that much time left and the producers knew he didn't have that much time left. He has a scene like in the movies. In every movie he's the kind of guy that they go to.
Speaker 1:He's like I know a guy that knows all about that. He's always that guy, yeah, yeah, like for some reason, the story shit. Yeah, he's always. It's always like some riddle. You have to be careful where you go and you're like what the?
Speaker 3:fuck, just tell me, bro. And the second one's like to avoid death, you need new life. I was like well, what do you?
Speaker 2:mean have a baby, yeah.
Speaker 3:Just say that Well, that's what they thought because one of the victims was pregnant, but turns out she never died, so anyways yeah, I think that's just funny.
Speaker 1:Like each time they think they try to outsmart death, they're like, oh, we can skip it yeah, if I get skipped over the next one. It's like, if so, if I save somebody or if I kill somebody, I get to steal their time that's something that got introduced in the fifth one. If I kill somebody else, then I take the years they have left yes, yes, or just dying, like that's the only way that you beat death yeah, yeah, there's no way to beat that, that's a matter of fact.
Speaker 3:all of the characters through all movies, they all die, all of them die?
Speaker 1:There has never been one. Even if they make it to the next film, they die in the next film.
Speaker 3:Off screen, off screen.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, they're like.
Speaker 3:Oh, by the way, they all confirm death, Every single character in all of the movies. They're all confirmed death.
Speaker 1:Yep, sure are bro.
Speaker 3:But Tony Todd Todd, the scene he has in this one is great because towards the end, as he's walking out of the morgue because they always find him in the morgue he drops a few lines and they say that he improvised it.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 3:He basically I don't want to ruin whatever he said, but he's like hey, you never know how much time you have left. Try to do the best which you can with the time you have left. It was kind of emotional.
Speaker 1:And then the music sting from finalization the movie was actually great.
Speaker 3:In 4dx you felt every death. The movie was gruesome it was. I thought it was way more gruesome than some of the other ones and the deaths were so creative. There's one that involves an mri machine, like with the, the safety off, and basically like it wouldn't happen in real life, but the MRI machine level keeps going up, which is basically a big magnet.
Speaker 1:So it starts pulling all the metal.
Speaker 3:It starts pulling all the metal and this guy with piercings, those piercings get pierced out his ears piercing gets pierced out, then you see this going on then you see this going on's what I run into the theater, one like, because you see his dick person just flying to him and then a wheelchair kind of like blocks him into the mri machine and then the wheelchair keeps getting pulled into the hole of the mri machine so, which pulls us back into it more and more it just gets folded backwards into the machine that one's sick and there's some other deaths that are just Well, it's fucked up because I'm thinking about the dick piercing.
Speaker 1:It didn't come straight up in the center, it pulled out as a bar straight in the middle.
Speaker 3:He had dick piercings, nose piercings, all kinds of piercings.
Speaker 1:No medical professional. If you got metal piercings, leave them on. I just see an editor like see it.
Speaker 3:Well, he wasn't supposed to be in the room. Oh, and then where my cheek being turned on was an accident like a clip, of course movie, movie plot I guess it's supposed to have safety measures for it to happen, but it went into force that's freaking crazy.
Speaker 1:So, overall, do you want me to recommend it?
Speaker 3:overall. I mean it's up there, it's better uh like in the whole, out of the six final destination movies I would say is the uh third best I'm gonna say top three no two or three. Top three, top three, yeah, okay, top three. Uh, my favorite one ever is final station. Two, yeah, uh, the first one is great because it sets up the whole thing, it is and it's very original, and then I would say bloodlines perfect, I was.
Speaker 1:You know, I was really gonna say so what's your one?
Speaker 3:my radiant. Well, it's a horror movie, you know. So yeah, I mean you're not going for the acting horror movies yeah you're going for the titties and the gore gotcha there's no titties in this one uh, but horror movies I do put on a different scale okay and even even as a horror movie like this, one had more jump scares than the old one, so it did have jump scares, which I thought was interesting. That's pretty cool and again, it was really gruesome. It was really funny. Was it really funny? Yeah?
Speaker 3:There was more humor in there than I thought there would be and it wasn't cringy or anything. There was just one character that was legit, funny, nice, because they thought he was going to die but it turned out he was adopted. He's the one that gets sucked by the MRI machine because, when you fuck with death, it fucks back damn quote that that's going to be the title of the episode for a horror movie, I'll give it an 8.
Speaker 3:I must say that's the thing about horror. This year there's so much like horror stuff coming out from Sinners to Final Destination, 6 to 20 years later, to Megan 2.0, the sequel to megan, even though that one turned into kind of an action movie to I know what you did last summer.
Speaker 3:Coming back to weapons, which is like a crazy ass about the kids going off and disappearing oh yes uh, to the conjuring, last rights, oh the last one looks like it's gonna be better than the last one yeah to him, to the black phone two like five nights freddy's are two man five night.
Speaker 1:Freddy's two is coming out this year. That was actually pretty good I watched it was it was. It was a legit horror movie again.
Speaker 3:My kids played the games and they read the books so like they were giving me background lore yeah, bro, they're like. Well, you can watch it without not knowing anything yeah, I don't know anything.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but I thought it was it's go if you have somebody that obviously is a fanboy or a girl about it. Dude, go with them, because they give you like oh, that's so, and so this is so, and so this is so much horror coming out.
Speaker 3:I'm not a big horror fan because I live by myself and I don't want to like get that juju in my house, but I'll probably watch some of those. The next one I'm really excited for as far as horror genre is 28 years later, nice Me too.
Speaker 2:I want to see that, because I've seen both of them actually.
Speaker 1:I haven't seen any of them, dude you haven't, bro.
Speaker 3:they're like classic zombies.
Speaker 1:They're not bad, they're cult classics, though 28 Days Later, was not like an original blockbuster hit.
Speaker 3:It was set though right yeah, it was an independent film.
Speaker 1:And they just got it to start streaming because there was only film production. I like scared, it's more like run bro they're so smart and they're not like walking zombies, they're sprinting zombies it was one of the first movies that did the whole sprinting zombie thing, way before World War Z, like a few years before World War Z.
Speaker 3:It was one of the first movies that did the whole sprinting zombie thing. So to see sprinting zombies was a new thing why are we doing this?
Speaker 1:and it was kind of shaky Cam. Everything was very, very dark.
Speaker 3:No, the first one was so low budget that it might seem like it, but no, it was just low budget. Okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 2:I think it's well done. The first one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, again, I think it was slept on nobody. And then the sequel happens 28 weeks later. And then now years, now years, which everybody thought Killian Murphy was that zombie in the fucking.
Speaker 3:He's supposed to be coming back.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's not that zombie, the first one touches a theme where I didn't remember they touched on the second one because in the first one there was a scene where, like, a person got bit or had the virus but didn't transform until they were already behind the doors. No no, no, like years later, until she saw somebody that did her wrong. You know what I'm talking about, the very beginning. And then she became the zombie out of hatred.
Speaker 3:Yeah, because it was a trigger. It was dormant. Yes, this virus is supposed to come from animalistic rage.
Speaker 2:Yes, the virus comes from like being like a mad dog. Yes, yeah these things right? Yes.
Speaker 1:Isn't it like for monkeys or something it?
Speaker 2:triggers a certain part of your animalistic side of your brain.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay, I thought I just remembered the rage side of your brain Rage.
Speaker 2:That's where they sprint Rage.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so the virus it comes from. It's a good concept, that's cool.
Speaker 2:I love that concept. It's more like a survival out and just give a whole recap of it. It's just, it touches those uh those, those, those uh, those, oh meta those meta themes I'm like, oh so meta.
Speaker 3:Well, the first one, uh, he ends up making it into the countryside and then, uh, you know, in the end. It's a different story zombies are not the bad guys. The humans are the bad guys. He was always back yeah so yeah, because like in the very first one, the zombies are just kind of like a side plot and then it becomes about survival and by the end there's no like he's not fighting zombies in the end, he's just fighting people with that you know, better survivors, or whatever yeah, whoever's left over damn they have that armageddon era duck.
Speaker 3:That's crazy, anyway okay yeah, it's really different, it's really if you haven't seen it you'll find it you'll find it different, and you can probably find it where other movies have taken from it. You'll be like, oh, I could see the influence in this movie, so, and so did this. Because of this interesting anyways, that's my horror take. I like it. That took a little bit longer than I expected yeah, your mother said the same thing, so the final thing we're going to go and talk about yeah, guys are uh, that rhymed well in my accent.
Speaker 1:They're right that was our popping. Right now, guys, they're like china is spitting out crazy heat, it's chinese anime right, yeah, per se, yes.
Speaker 3:Chinese animation yeah, and uh is the chinese word for anime.
Speaker 1:Yes, now what I don't, what's hard to get into it for me, is, uh, trying to watch it subbed, because the the chinese dialect is so different, very different, so different like watching something completely different yeah, even their emotions, like because I'm so used to the japanese emotion yes, that like in my mind, to like, like the, the language they.
Speaker 3:They almost have this whole language with grunts yeah but then the chinese is a whole different. It's more nicely it's faster it's faster, it's faster than japanese it is but, it's different.
Speaker 1:It's different. Yeah, so like, because so cool I tried watching supercube like that, and I was like, oh, bro, I always loved.
Speaker 2:I always loved like chinese accent, because like seeing the movies and they go so well yeah, that's exactly what it is. I remember watching movies I think, like like we are so sorry I took six semesters. One semester I took six months of mandarin mandarin sounds tough because of the movies like, like, like the movie where, like Jet Li, the one where he I forgot yeah, I'm thinking of Jackie Chan, the way he says it.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Jackie Chan, Wong Fei Hong, the movie that wants to play in China. That was his character, Wong Fei Hong, and like seeing movies like that because I used to watch them with the subtitles in Spanish, so like I know what you mean. Anime grinds Nani Dajibu desu ka.
Speaker 3:You know, but it's not there, it's not, it's not so we're accustomed to it. That's exactly what it's like.
Speaker 1:That's a very good interpretation of it. I'm sorry to Mandarin.
Speaker 3:I'm so sorry, we are going to get wrecked on Red Note, absolutely.
Speaker 1:On Red Note, but I love it. No, I'm joking, but yeah, it's a lie.
Speaker 2:Good luck, come Go win come.
Speaker 3:What's that song?
Speaker 1:You, you, you, anyway, the animation, anyway, yeah, yeah, Supercube has been.
Speaker 3:Supercube. I watched the fights for Supercube. Isn't Supercube like Pokemon?
Speaker 1:but with big ass bees. That's a different one that you're thinking of. That's like the new age Pokemon. That's like bleach, yeah, but it's Dunqua right.
Speaker 3:Yeah, dude, that's another one. It's like a big ass whale fighting a big ass gorilla.
Speaker 1:For no reason, man, it's sick.
Speaker 3:It's so sick Dunqua's getting creative Supercube.
Speaker 1:it was like an amazing fight scene. Supercube was the one with the fight scenes.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:With the hand-to-hand combat.
Speaker 2:That's what Sakamoto Day was supposed to be like Supercube, like the fights were supposed to be, like what Sakamoto Day was supposed to be about. But Sakamoto Day is just trash, like nobody's talking about it.
Speaker 1:Nobody's talking about it. At first they were excited about it, but nobody cares.
Speaker 2:But Supercube is everything that should have been, I think, like the Dongwa, because I've noticed there's one of the hidden gods, or the hidden paths it's what Dongwa about like these, uh, elemental gods that can't interfere with humans, right? So, dongo, I'll send this to you, the group chat, okay, uh, and then, um, likewise, likewise, like you. Like you mentioned, bro, it was them fighting demons. It's just like way more detailed, I feel like it's like the.
Speaker 1:The production value is just higher on that and on that side yeah, well, I feel like, because they're like they're trying to establish a name, so they're like fuck, fuck it, put the money into it, bro, and that's what I was going to bring up.
Speaker 3:I'm surprised that they have this really crazy animation coming out when China is known for censorship.
Speaker 1:I was going to say the same thing.
Speaker 3:Where is?
Speaker 1:this heat coming from bro I don't know, they've just been stored in the backlog.
Speaker 3:It's almost like they keep saying Like China is not what you know. This impression of China that we have is not what is you know. It's propaganda, absolutely. But I'm not going to get into that.
Speaker 1:But OK. So what I want to talk about primarily was my personal favorite that I've been getting into, which is to be hero X to be hero To be hero that's what it switches.
Speaker 3:Animation yes.
Speaker 1:Between 2D and 3D. I talked about this earlier in the season.
Speaker 1:It's getting a lot of hype, bro. It is really fucking good. As far as character development story, it was going one way. Shit does a plot twist. You're. You're invested in the characters. Crazy shit happens at like two different endings and you're like whoa, whoa, what the fuck? And then they cut in a different story for you're like I'm three episodes into this different story. I hadn't even got an answer to my, my plot twist. But these stories are so good I don't even care about it, because it's like about being a hero yes, so the way the world works is heroes are established by trust.
Speaker 1:Trust is by given by the people the number of trust you have and determines, like, your value of level of strength as a hero. Right, nobody's can become heroes, right, but it's very, very rare. At this point it's like the nba has already been established. You know, you're not going to have an all-star team that's going to come up here and do some shit like that, right, but everybody has a certain level of trust by somebody family, friends or whatever but everybody's aspiration is to want to be something like that. They have a top 10. If you live in top 10, you live in Heroes Tower. Heroes Tower is where all the big bads live, or all the big heroes live in.
Speaker 3:I'm already sold man Right.
Speaker 2:I'm watching it tonight.
Speaker 1:there's a my hero moment, I told you there's a my hero moment in the end of the first or the second episode. You too could be a hero. It's a really cool moment, fucking all my carries, my hero. What I like, though what I like, what's kind of extreme, is some of the ass whoopings in the scenes like I'm like, oh, they're gonna stop. I'm like, oh, they're still going. Damn, they're beating the fuck out of this.
Speaker 3:It feels like they don't want, especially this don't, uh, don't want to just came out and that I wrote his high four. They feel really mature like I feel like this is not kid animation, definitely not kidding no, definitely not kidding.
Speaker 1:I mean, you could try to sell it to your kids and you could sit down with it, but they're definitely gonna be some plot twists like they're. They're the adult twist happens.
Speaker 3:You're like, oh shit, that's crazy it's definitely aim that I'm mature or you or you know young adult. It does its job, man.
Speaker 1:Teenagers I like it because I'm like it's interesting, it's different. I like the 2D 3D animation mix. They do it very well. I thought it was going to be something that and, like I said, we haven't even gotten to like all the top heroes. I think we've only seen like oh it's still airing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's still going right now at this point we've only seen heroes 10, 9, and 8 or something like that, but there's still 1 through 7 that we haven't even glimpsed at, and we're already on episode 8 in the season, so I don't even know if we're going to get all the top 10 heroes within the first season.
Speaker 2:I want to see 2B.
Speaker 1:Hero X.
Speaker 3:I was going to bring one up that I watched last year. I think it's called IU the Mishi uh. Translated into X and Y, it was a Don Juan that I randomly watched last year, cause it was at the anime awards.
Speaker 3:Uh, it's a psychological thriller, yeah, like, uh, right, right, it's just very interesting. Like it's based on like this girl owns escape room, oh, an escape room, yeah, an escape room, yeah, an escape room. And this guy goes into the escape room after work because he's like, hey, let's try out the escape room. And then apparently he passes out and wakes up at home he doesn't think anything about it and his whole life becomes an escape room and he can't tell what's real and what's not. It's wild.
Speaker 3:Imagine you go to an escape room and your life becomes an escape room. And you don't know if you're still inside the escape room or you have escaped escape room. And then he keeps going back to the escape, to this girl, and he's like you, witch, what are you, where are you controlling? And she doesn't know what, what he's talking about. And then you don't know what's real or what's not. Oh, that's fucking nuts, it's wild it sounds dope.
Speaker 3:It actually sounds pretty good, man and I know, and in mandarin I don't even know what like that their expressions.
Speaker 1:It's cool, man. What I do like is that it's actually it's simulcast, uh, to be here like simulcast, so they come out with the english dub as soon as the new episode drops. So that's why I love that I can just keep up with it yeah but it's peak I'm excited for. If you guys haven't checked it out, my recommendation to be here I like this idea that it's expanding like of.
Speaker 3:of course, we know Japanese culture, but now this what?
Speaker 2:was it called Mexican animation.
Speaker 3:This curiosity.
Speaker 2:Mexicanga Mexichingichanga.
Speaker 3:This wonderment of the Eastern, you know culture has expanded into Chinese Donghua and into Korean Manhwa. You know, we're not just watching Japanese anime Now, we're watching Mexican Novelua.
Speaker 1:Now we're watching Korean Manhwa Now we're watching Korean Manhwa, now we're watching Chinese Donghwa, so like we have really expanded into other countries. I wanted to share it in the group chat. I didn't get a chance to do it, but there was a Peruvian anime. It was their attempt at an anime and they were speaking in.
Speaker 3:Spanish. What's his name? Was in it like he was flown down there to like dub it. We were in that panel. He talked about being flown to Peru. Shit, yeah, it's the only one that I've. We were in that panel. He talked about being flown to Peru. Shit yeah, it's got to be. It's the only one that I've seen I can't.
Speaker 2:Don't get me to start lying to the actor.
Speaker 1:But yeah, that's crazy, I had never seen it. It just it was like stop scrolling, it's not an anime, this is a Peruvian anime and I was like, and it started showing looks dope.
Speaker 3:You know, I would give it a shot just because I'm like, damn, this is for the culture.
Speaker 2:That's cool man For the culture.
Speaker 1:Yeah Anyway, but yeah anyway. So, like I said to be here, I actually go watch it.
Speaker 3:It'd be crazy to get that call as a voice actor because remember you told that story. I can't remember his name, anime.
Speaker 1:C. He's a director, wasn't he? Isn't he also a director?
Speaker 3:He's been in the industry for a while so I think he like yeah, he works with. I forgot who it is, but I know who you're talking about C, yes, absolutely Alright, guys.
Speaker 1:Well, suki, you know what? Actually, I want to get your two cents on the Peruvian anime, as a matter of fact, oh, no, oh, the comic blues are round up time for that Go downstairs.
Speaker 3:We'll get you in a minute. They announced the final announcements of the guest list.
Speaker 2:That's right, guys.
Speaker 3:That's right and before you forget, the WBN podcast is going to be at Comic Blues in 2025. When?
Speaker 2:June 20th to the 22nd when At the George Orr.
Speaker 3:Brown Convention Center. That's right. We're going to have our own panel. We're probably going to have two different panels. We're going to be talking to people Shaking hands, kissing babies, doing the whole witty banter media experience.
Speaker 1:If you guys follow our socials, you know why I can't speak.
Speaker 3:And the final announcements were what are the final announcements?
Speaker 1:Ladies and gentlemen, we have two of the greats for Latino culture. We have Cheech and Chong. Viva La Raza.
Speaker 3:Cheech Marin and Tobin Chong.
Speaker 1:Cheech and Chong up in smoke 1, 2, and 7.
Speaker 3:I know, I know Leo in that 70's show he was my favorite character that's how I found out, that's how I knew Chong we're going to hotbox a.
Speaker 1:They use Jadon's Christmas lightsaber to spark it the first time I saw Chong was at a lulak event you know that and he was trying yeah, at a lulak event, oh really yeah, and he was, uh, no, he was actually like spitting, like political shit and I was like he had a suit on.
Speaker 3:He is an activist. Yeah, he's a, very, he's like very uh super involved, activist and like does you know speeches and stuff?
Speaker 1:100. He delivered. I was like damn. I like this is a guy smoking weed back in.
Speaker 3:Vietnam, but he's all about legalizing. Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 2:He's all about legalizing.
Speaker 3:He's serious about it. He's actually making change Mexican-American love education and takes baggage to get a beat.
Speaker 1:You know what, how many times did you get caught with that for the red light? That's been like 40 years. I've been caught with that shit, bro, oh man, but. I'm excited it's going to be awesome.
Speaker 2:It's cool, it's like a cool and the nannies and their no, no, and their nanny no, no, no.
Speaker 3:It's a cool final addition to the Comic Palooza roster.
Speaker 2:Yeah, man, absolutely. It's cool to see you in.
Speaker 3:Oh, less than 30 days, that's right, so go get your tickets now.
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