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Vaguely Inconsistent
From Cosplay Chaos to Autograph Adventures: Navigating Fan Expo Denver
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Ever wondered what it's like to plunge into the sensory overload that is a modern convention? This week, we take you through our sleep-deprived journey at Fan Expo Denver, where anime has firmly claimed the throne from traditional fandoms. The evidence? No Star Wars panels across four days, but dozens of anime events filling the schedule!
The celebrity encounters alone made the exhaustion worthwhile. We share our experiences meeting John Boyega (super chill in his LA Dodgers cap), Alan Tudyk (who hilariously gave away everything from valuable Rogue One script pages to hotel laundry bags during his panel), and Manny Jacinto from The Good Place and The Acolyte. These aren't just signatures on memorabilia—they're moments of genuine connection with the creators behind beloved characters.
Artist Alley revealed fascinating trends in the creative community, with many artists shifting toward traditional media like watercolors to distinguish themselves in the age of AI art controversies. Meanwhile, RSVLTS T-shirt exclusives created daily stampedes, with their floral pattern completely selling out across all sizes.
We also dive into the cultural shift happening at conventions, observing the sometimes awkward generational divide between longtime attendees and the younger anime-focused crowd. It's a fascinating glimpse into how fan culture continues to evolve while maintaining its core community spirit.
Whether you're a convention veteran or curious newcomer, this episode captures the exhaustion, excitement, and unforgettable moments that make these gatherings the beating heart of fandom. And for those keeping track—San Diego Comic-Con is just two weeks away!
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Fan Expo Denver Recap Begins
Speaker 1So many things.
Speaker 2Look into my eyes.
Speaker 1I am the host of this podcast.
Speaker 2now I'm the host.
Speaker 3now I am the host.
Speaker 1No, you're not. You have no admin power, or else we would have started this earlier without. Jack.
Speaker 3Probably not even with that power. Hey everybody.
Speaker 2Hi Dr Nick, oh wait.
Speaker 3That's not a Simpsons podcast. Yeah, let's say howdyons podcast. Yeah, it's a. Now it's a South Park podcast. What's going on right now? We're trying to Hashtag South Park.
Speaker 1Hashtag Simpsons.
Speaker 3Bunch of cartoons Simpsons. Now it's a Charlie Brown podcast.
Speaker 2And now we just age ourselves. Hashtag Pickle Rick.
Speaker 1Pickle Rick.
Speaker 3Did you turn yourself into a pickle so you could avoid therapy?
Speaker 1How are?
Speaker 3you guys doing Good Tired man.
Speaker 2You look like you've been at a convention all week, or something.
Speaker 3Dude bruh. Four hours of sleep Didn't have to go too crazy. I just wanted the parking more than anything, and there's a place downtown that I like to eat breakfast, so I did on Friday. Saturday and today, so knocked it out Good portion of the place called Sam 3 if you're ever in downtown Denver. But Thursday didn't start until noon, so knocked it out Good portion of the place called Sam three for if you're ever in downtown.
Speaker 3Denver. But Thursday, thursday, they didn't start until noon, so I left work at 11 and went to the commitment center Okay, okay, fan expo Denver, and so I didn't have a chance to get breakfast then. But yeah, no joke, it was. It was. Leave Boulder at seven 30 every morning, get to convention parking at 8, get to breakfast at 8 15, be done by 9, be in line by 9 15, get in at 9 30. As you can tell, it's nowhere like san diego I can do that.
Speaker 1Yeah, you're saying I've got up, but I got up at 7 30.
Speaker 2I'm like, uh, no breakfast is like parts out of my yeah you're like sleep and you're like sleeping in at 7 30.
Speaker 1what are you talking about?
Speaker 3But then obviously you're doing all the walking around and everything. It wasn't too bad and it was pretty big. The convention hall floor was pretty big this year. It's put it this way Thursday we hit some panels Nothing crazy, a lot of it, because it was me, an old girl, my niece, an old girl, my niece and then eventually we ran up to her son and his friends, so it was like five of us all just kind of roaming around.
Speaker 2Like a gang.
Speaker 3It was man, especially for their nerd gang. We were ready to throw down Pro tractors pocket protectors.
Speaker 1Your root beer mug.
Speaker 3I did have my Wild Bills mug. That ain't a joke. You can put your hand right in there, almost like a brass knuckle. Not that most young nerds know what brass knuckles are, it's okay. They're lovers now.
Speaker 1Yeah, we are. Lovers of themselves Also true Self-lovers.
Speaker 3I tell you what. No, that reminds me, though I'll tell you what. Between I don't know what's going on, and now it's up to a family guy saying isn't this reminding me of the time? That you know. But no, seriously, it was weird because the last several years, at least in Denver, the convention has really turned anime heavy. Um, there wasn't even a star wars panel, uh, in four days, but there was probably 80 anime panels. It's like every anime you can think of.
Speaker 3They had a panel a cost with your audience yeah, that's exactly right, because they do the surveys after the end of each one and obviously in the last few years it is turned. There used to be a star wars trivia one that each one, and obviously in the last few years it has turned. There used to be a Star Wars trivia one that I would go to regularly and the last two years they didn't have it, but there were like three anime trivias per day.
Speaker 1Sounds like someone needs to go on a Disney cruise.
Speaker 3Man for real To get a Star.
Speaker 1Wars quiz. Star Wars quiz fix Right.
Speaker 3But here's the thing. There's so many people in the anime. That's great and all, but you look at some of these women wearing with all their titties hanging out and it's like shit, man, first of all, are you a male or are you 14? It's like you know what. I can't tell. I'm just not going to look.
Speaker 2You brought what you know is a woman with you. Just stick with that.
Speaker 3You know what, what I wasn't sure Just looked over, looked down like all right, we got cleavage, okay next. And then you see another one. It's like god damn it, that looks good. No, wait, you might be illegal, I'm not looking, but no, it was crazy how much anime look like, even even the cosplay. The cosplay was super anime heavy. I mean, don't get me wrong, there was certainly some other stuff cosplay, right but most majority of it was really anime and I didn't know a lot of it, but I gotta say a lot of it looked pretty cool. It was like, oh, that looks badass. And then I got my niece like, oh, that's this one, oh, that's every five seconds.
Speaker 2I was gonna say she knew just about all of them.
Speaker 3Uh-huh, okay, it was. It was just like okay, it's like. I'm like, hey, what's that thing? Some dude's got a triangle basket thing on his head, you know. It's like oh, that's chainsaw man. Or like blah, blah, blah, like what, what is this? That's this one. This is from the anime phone game from season three, episode 25 daddy, you ain't even far from the truth on that shit. It's like, yeah, that was that one, but did they change this one when they went over to this season? It was like what?
Speaker 2okay, you're like fuck up. I just want to know what his name was. Right, I just want to know?
Speaker 3I just want to know who she was like. Is this, is this? Is this girl wearing this outfit just super busty, or is that just how the outfit is? Oh, no, that's how the outfit is. She picked that?
Speaker 1outfit 99% of the time. That's how the outfit is. These outfits are not being adult enhanced. This is just what they look like. That is one, and also respect to anime for still doing fucking like 30 episode seasons on, like this bullshit that we're getting right now because of streaming, where it's like, oh, six episodes, we're done.
Speaker 3A lot of them are 13, though You're not wrong about that A lot of them are 13 episode seasons.
Speaker 1Respect for that.
Speaker 2We're going to finish the Bear tonight and I think that's 10 episodes. The Bear is anime. No, I thought we were just talking about Chuz in general, oh.
Speaker 3The bear is enemy. No, I thought we were just talking about Chez in general. Oh okay, Wait, wait. I could have swore I saw a preview of the bear someplace earlier today.
Speaker 1No, no, no, that was season 27, episode 13, of that one guy that you saw at the after hours party at the con, the one where he was dressed as a bear. You didn't have to ask your niece about that one, you already knew he was a furry and it about that one you already knew.
Speaker 3He was a furry and it was a bear. Lou knows about the bears. Oh, no, wait, pride month's over.
Speaker 2No, I don't back in the closet.
Speaker 3Back in the closet with you no, it was cool, though I mean it was long. It was like I mean I got john boyo, john boyega autograph totally for jack. Like I said, total fangirl for that one. I said that over the text. It was super cool. He was I, I I was early like the one of the first like ninth or something.
Speaker 3Yeah, I think I think I was ninth or eighth and she was over in alan tudyk's line and was eighth or ninth. It timed out well enough, because it was manny jacinto, uh, john boyega and alan Tooting next to each other. They grouped all the people to get Star.
Speaker 2Wars together.
Speaker 3Twilight was together, the Flash were together. They did a good job of keeping that, but Manny was probably still about 15 minutes away or something like that. No, no, no, no. I finished up John right away because he was the one like one of the first ones there, and then alan was on time I, I do no, he was obviously a white or british.
Speaker 1I said he was, I don't know white manager uh, no, yes, okay, never mind.
Speaker 3yeah, yeah, I was always like but, but, but. But, but, to be fair, no, he wasn't. Uh, I think it was supposed to be 10, like he didn't show up to like 10, 37 or something, okay, but it was still faster than wasn't I think it was supposed to be 10. He didn't show up until 10.37 or something, okay, but it was still faster than Manny and Allen.
Speaker 1But it was pretty cool. It would have been funny if he would have shown up at 11.38.
Speaker 3Oh, I think I would have timed my stuff like that or something, 38. Then I can just argue what time zone I'm in.
Speaker 2It's like oh, I'm just doing based, enough of this. So like 10 38, if the floor opens at 10, I'll be there at 10 38, did you? Did you dampen all it? Uh, shook his hand just just.
Speaker 1He was yeah, he said look, my stupid friend wants star wars, but you are the bomb in pacific rim bruh. Um, actually I loved you.
Speaker 3I loved you when I attacked the block, uh, that I mentioned this. I didn't mention pacific rim to him. I was like, actually what I said to him was I'm like dude, I uh screw all the. I think I said screw all the disney jama man, but if they give you an opportunity to come back, I and and they give you a proper story. I hope you're not too stubborn and take it so they can flesh out your character some more. And he was like thank you, I appreciate that. You know the whole like let's see more thin type thing. That was super cool. But yeah, super nice, dude man. I forgot about the accent too.
Speaker 1If it's just a movie about Finn, though, who's he going to yell at for two hours and be completely ignored the whole time.
Speaker 3No, it would be obviously set in Egypt and he could still yell sun rays. It'd be fine.
Speaker 1It'd be Raw Raw.
Speaker 3There we go.
Speaker 1Now, all of a sudden, he has a southern accent. Wait what?
Speaker 3Yeah, dude was chill, she's just chilling with the LA Dodgers cap on. It was like alright, so I got done with that. She was still in line for Allen and then it was like, oh, hang on, I might want to get a Manny, because I was going to get my poster signed for Manny Jacinto. For those who don't know, the stranger, the master from. Acolyte.
Speaker 2Best part of Acolyte.
Speaker 1Jason Mendoza. Jason. Mendoza. Recognize Jason Mendoza Good place.
Speaker 2Next time you need a TV series we watch Good Place.
Speaker 3Okay, stop, stop, stop. No spoilers, because that is our next watch. Hell yes, Holy fuck.
Speaker 1All it took was you seeing him in person for you to go. Okay, I guess. No, it was on the list. It was already on the list.
Anime Dominance and Cosplay Observations
Speaker 3So, the way the timing worked out, he wasn't there but Alan was. So I was like wait. I was like, when you're done, just come over and meet me in the Manny line, because she was going to get a Good Place autograph, one of the table prints. So I was like wait, well, there's no line over here, really, with me maybe five or six people. Why don't I just go with you to Alan? Because I was getting my Funko Pop sign my K2SO from Andor she was getting her Funko Pop sign K2SO from Rogue One.
Speaker 3So yeah, when she got to the front Wait did you get the quote.
Speaker 3Yes, no, I got no on mine and she got the whole. Congratulations, you're being rescued on hers. So, no, no, no shit had I had. I got the quote down again. I texted it to her, both of them, just in case so there's no confusion of what's right. But yeah, since I was up there, I was like, hey, can we do the quote? Because he signed and everything. It was like, oh, can you put the quote. So he put the quote on the side of the funko box yep, and it was he did hers first and he's like what about for this one?
Speaker 3I was like no, he started laughing. He was like no, he started laughing. He was like alright, and he did that one on mine.
Speaker 1Sidebar. From that Still charged you full quote rate, though Sidebar on that.
Speaker 2He didn't charge for a quote. Duke and I met him a million ago when he did iRobot.
Speaker 3Really God dog. It was iRobot and Steve the Pirate, la Comic and Sci-Fi Con he, it was iRobot and.
Speaker 2Steve the Pirate. La. Comic and Sci-Fi Con. It was their promoting iRobot.
Speaker 1It's the part of town you don't like to go in, lou, yeah, I was right next to.
Speaker 2USC. So I mean we were strapped up, obviously, obviously.
Speaker 1Yeah, I do miss those days, my friend. Did he just finish dodgeball? So you're strapped up with wrenches, right exactly? I still have my Reign of Fire poster, signed by Christian Bale and Matthew McConaughey, somewhere, hell yeah.
Speaker 3Christian Bale. They were in a movie together.
Speaker 2Reign of Fire. Bro Dragons, it was fucking badass.
Speaker 3That sounds familiar. I probably saw it and didn't realize it was them. I probably saw it and didn't realize it was them, gerard Butler's up in that bitch. That's what I'm saying. I probably saw it and didn't realize it was them you wouldn't know, because that was back in the day. Yeah, exactly Before he was.
Speaker 2Christian.
Speaker 1Bale. We met Sam Raimi because of Spider-Man. They were there promoting OG's.
Speaker 3Spider-Man.
Speaker 1We actually had the band poster because it had the Twin Towers they had the twin towers with the spider web we like, we met stanley before he became an insufferable prick, like it was pretty cool, I met stanley.
Speaker 3Do not besmirch stanley yeah, I was gonna say I met. I met stanley in early 2000s in vegas. He was at a. He was when I was collecting the bus. Uh, he was at a comic store that I would go get my bus from regularly and, matter of fact, because I was working, I was still. I was working in the industry, so it's still hoa managers, like 2004 or something like that. And the dude because, again, obviously spent a lot of money on bus there on a regular basis for general giant bus and he, just like dude, there's a long line, just when you get here, come to the back door, I'll let you in. So I did. I came, came there for lunch break, went to the back door. He let me in, he let me in his back door.
Speaker 1It was great, uh, nice trying to get in john boyega's pacific rim, getting being let in the back door of the bus, of the shop, the bus shop the bus shop, uh, so I could bust in his back door.
Speaker 3There you go. And then, yeah, and then I got to meet stan lee. Just skipped the whole line, I was going around the block so that was super cool. But yeah, so we went to, like I said, said we went together to get to get Alan sign. Uh, the pops and super cool dude. Uh. And as soon as that was done, went over back over to the, the Manny line, which is like two booths over, so and I would think that that was third in line at that. Point out nice and straight.
Speaker 2Got that sign he saw it and was like, oh, that's pretty damn badass, uh, and then, and then she was signed them before. I don't want to hear that, I know right it's like this ain't new and yeah, yeah for real.
Speaker 3Uh, and I didn't realize alan was in celebration too. Yeah, I didn't remember anyway. And then, and then, yeah, then she started talking about the good place and then making a point. It was like, and he asked me he like so do you know what happens in the good place? I go no, I really don't know anything about this show, but I keep hearing good things. So what's next on my list? He's like all right, good, try to do the best you can to keep it. You don't know what happens. I, kirsten Bell, kirsten Bell and Ted Danson I know they're in it. What more do you need? And I know there's like in heaven or she dies or something. So that's all I got out of it and I was like all right, but everybody keeps talking about his damn shows. I'm like fine, I give up.
Speaker 2I'm going to watch it so, especially since, like they're, only half-hour, like four seasons, something like that yeah, oh yeah, because we were watching Coupling and we finished Grant Coupling's.
Speaker 3Only like 29 episodes total for the series Coupling, coupling, coupling, not Coupling, coupling, coupling, coupling, c-o-u-p, c-o-u-l-i-n-g, coo-ling, insider jokes, coup. Coup.
Speaker 2Coup, coup, coup.
Speaker 1Coup, coup, coup, coup, coup.
Speaker 3Coup, coup, coup, coup, coup, Coup, coup, coup.
Speaker 1Coup, coup, coup, coup, coup, Coup, coup, coup.
Speaker 3Coup, coup, coup, coup, coup, Coup, coup, coup, coup, coup, coup, Coup, coup, coup, coup, coup C. We go back and forth. So we'll probably do like three episodes of france, three episodes, uh, of good place. So but yeah, nice dude, and I did make that comment, I was like I was like the whole, you were the best part of that show. I was like, don't get me wrong it, we watched it, it was fine.
Speaker 1But almost everybody, I know when we talk about the show is how you are the best part of the show, so just don't watch my podcast about it. You can watch the podcast, I'll tell you.
Speaker 3You'll get the whole show itself. It wasn't all that great, but you were, that's allowed.
Speaker 1Isn't he having a novel coming out? They're putting out a novel based on him, based on a stranger, I think oh shit, Breaking news. I mean, that'll be next year's Comic-Con exclusive.
Speaker 3We never have breaking news mean that'll be next year's exclusive.
Speaker 2so we never have breaking news.
Speaker 3I didn't download it that's fair we just talk about shit we see on the internet somebody already broke it um, but yeah, so that was that was.
Speaker 1You know that was saturday they're doing.
Speaker 3They don't know what the fuck they're doing they don't know what sure.
Speaker 3Sure don't. Yeah, that was actually yesterday Like Thursday. It was just hit some panels like anime panels and I think we tried to do the up and down thing. The aisles, one through 14 or 15, whatever, I guess one through 14 and then artist alley. But yeah, that didn't happen. It was go to a panel and then come back to it.
Speaker 3When we tried to do the up and down thing we ended up hitting two booths. We were stuck at one for a while because it was cool art and then another one for a while because it was cool art, and that was Thursday. Friday we actually got through our stuff and whatever and we ended up doing the up and down on Friday. But it took us all day like between panels and then taking our time at all the art stuff. We all day like between panels and then taking our time at all the art stuff. We started at 1,400 with a lot of the art stuff and we worked our way down to 100, you know the typical vendors. Once we got through the art stuff, it did go pretty quickly.
Speaker 1Styling online.
Speaker 3Oh yeah, they were like in two or three booths there. You know it Ended up, I think, between everybody was there this like five shirts from T-Turtle, just buy four, get one free. So that happened Today was $100 worth of candy, fudge, turtles and truffles, did they?
Speaker 1pack it for you. Yeah, did you have to pack it yourself or they pack it for you.
Speaker 3They pack it for you. Good, I mean better. That's customer service, they, they, they. They wrapped it properly and then just packed it.
Speaker 1Packed it as tight as they could.
Speaker 3As actually yeah, Nice little fold over. They had to reach around into the bag. It was. It was nice, Filled up your box. Oh my God, as a matter of fact, that was our last purchase today. It was that Say bye to some friends. And then, yeah, packing the fudge was the last thing that happened to me, but yeah, so Friday, I don't think any autographs, not from us. Anyway, I think my niece no, my niece, she's dressed up as Leon from us, anyway, I think my niece, she dressed up as.
Speaker 1Leon from Resident Evil.
Speaker 4Yeah, or 2 or 4. 2 or 4. But yeah, she dressed up as him.
Speaker 3And then, oh, that jacket you saw in the picture that she was wearing. She didn't go the last few days. I took it with me and got him to sign the jacket as well, so that was kind of cool. The jacket was kind of cool. Uh, the jacket was big as fuck on her.
Speaker 3Uh huh, I mean she, she goes like five foot one, so that was like a small or something. It was still ginormous on her, um, but yeah, so she did that. And then we did again more panels, that we did the anime quizzes for her and a little girl's kid who's actually in Japan right now. He landed a few hours ago. Oh yeah, you did say they were going, huh, yep, yep. So he's there now. As a matter of fact, I started a Discord group for the family so they could keep in touch with them and everything, because they weren't sure what to do later. We just started Discord and invited everybody. Hopefully he didn't screw up his Saley thing and he's got it going.
Speaker 2But I should have watched you too, like we did. Exactly, that's what I'm saying. I watched it for two months.
Speaker 3He didn't watch it at all but whatever. So I've tried to think was Friday. Friday was that, I think, friday. The main thing about Friday was doing the walk up and down to get all the aisles done, including artist alley, and we Artist Alley. We didn't even finish Artist Alley. We got to a third of it on Friday and then finished it up yesterday. Oh my gosh, she probably bought 20 prints. It was crazy, don't get me wrong. Y'all look good, you know how it is. They have these places.
Speaker 2They got a new apartment. They got to decorate.
Speaker 3That's what I said. Even then you need to get a portfolio book because y'all got too much, both of y'all. They both went all out. And then the art. Well, my two well, I guess there's two favorite art booths was the one that had the three binders of not safe for work stuff Boobies everywhere, it's like coochie everywhere. Some of them had some pee-pees everywhere. It was like damn, they went all out. Literally it was all out, it was all out. But yeah, and then I think yesterday was tiring, yesterday was, and it's Saturday, so it's the busiest day it's crowded.
Speaker 3We did some, we did our, like I said, finished Artist Alley got some more prints. Because I got some too. I, because I got some too. I got a. Oh Roosevelt, oh my God, roosevelt. I was there every day. As a matter of fact, that was my first stop. Every morning it was, except for today. It was Roosevelt, because they didn't have an exclusive. Today it was Roosevelt, and then go do what we're going to do. So yesterday was Return tickets Return tickets no no.
Speaker 2Really Just walk up.
Speaker 3It was a walk up and I got to get in a little bit early. So when I got Well, when they let the regular crowd in, there's probably only like 20 people in line dude. I mean I was early, so I don't know how it got uglier. When I left, I bought my shit and bolted and started doing what we were going to do. I don't know if it stayed busy, but it was busy enough where I go back later in the day and 4X, 3x, 2x sold out, you're stuck with X and lower, then you're stuck with just L and small, then you're stuck with just extra small or whatever. That's crazy. It was wild to not see the line like that but to come back later today and see, yeah, this is all sold out, this size is all sold out.
Speaker 2They gotta make a smaller run for that kind of show.
Speaker 3I would imagine. I would imagine, because it's not SDCC, you know. Yeah, but the floral is the only one that sold out completely all sizes.
Speaker 2Well, like you said, that was a banger for locals, For locals for the Rockies it really was, and that went quick.
Speaker 3And for the people who do the whole floral, no matter what.
Speaker 2There's some people who are just doing it. Yeah, that's a jam.
Speaker 3They just do florals, so it was super cool. I mean, the Hercules was the Thursday exclusive, friday was the floral exclusive and Old Girl got one for herself. And then Saturday was that weird looking Colorado vibin one.
Speaker 1And then it was like a neon or something right, not quite.
Speaker 2They did one last year too.
Celebrity Encounters with Boyega and Tudyk
Speaker 3The smile happy day or whatever it's called. Yeah, the smiling face one. They did that one. And then also yesterday was the Crypto and Superman. So that was when, I think, I sent you guys a picture of it so you saw that I got your sizes and then they had the extra ones that weren't part of the whole. I didn't know they were doing other show exclusives and that's where the hey hey came in, because Old Girl got that one too. And then the Amblin. The Amblin one was kind of cool.
Speaker 2I ain't gonna lie, it is, but I'm like, eh, I was very iffy on that one. But it was cool, so I don't know. We'll see.
Speaker 3Yeah, it's not too bad, and I think that's the one that's gonna rotate, so it'll be at San Diego also.
Speaker 2Yeah, all those other ones, All those Diego.
Speaker 3Yeah, all those other ones, all those show, yeah, it's like their tour shirts or some shit. Cause that a star Wars sketch, one that they didn't have your size in, that's going to be there as well. Uh, the guy said so, and then, for the first time, I got some pins. It was like, oh, do you guys have the pins? Like, yeah, I didn't know if floral pattern. I was like all right, Until it got stolen by somebody.
Speaker 3I had to go back the next day and buy another pin so I could get my own lanyard.
Speaker 2You have that problem a lot.
Speaker 1Yes, I do After what we talked about last week. My problem solved itself. I don't have anyone stealing shit from me, hey hey.
Speaker 3Not yet. That could turn into something. Then you have your shit stolen.
Speaker 1I only got you to worry about Lou. Mm-hmm.
Speaker 3I can share. I'm a jealous type, but so yeah. So Roosevelt's was a thing. I already sold nine of them so far. I still have one, two, three, five to go um. But yeah. So roosevelt's absolutely happened all the time. Oh, the, the fill up my drink thing. And there's another one, like some energy drinks they have there. If you bought this fancy ass cup, the big thermos type thing it was a nice cup, 50 bucks, he refills all weekend for free. It was like, oh, oh damn. So both girls got got, uh, each got one.
Speaker 1So Well, I'll let you know when we get closer to September.
Speaker 3Yeah, yeah, let me know, it's like a mellot.
Speaker 1Make me a mellot your way. Uh wait when is your, when is your, when is your Before or after.
Speaker 3I see you in Vegas.
Speaker 1I think it's after Okay.
Speaker 3I'll just bring it to Vegas then.
Speaker 1Well, no, sorry, I think us meeting up is after.
Speaker 3Okay, all right, Then I'll yeah. Well if that's the case, I'll just put it in the box that I have for you for your crypto and Superman and your pop protector, so just throw it in there.
Speaker 1It is September 5th through the 7th, so yep like a couple weeks before we see each other.
Speaker 3I'll just mail it to you now.
Speaker 1And whatever I pick up for you guys, I'll just bring with me.
Speaker 3Yeah boy, that'll work, that'll work. But yeah, it was pretty decent. I mean, they really didn't. Roosevelt's, really, I don't know, it wasn't a crazy line, but there were people hanging around their booth the whole time, whether it be fans or people actually buying, but there was people there the whole time.
Speaker 3I did both like I would walk up by the daily shit, would leave and come back. It's like, oh, I don't remember, like day one, thursday, like I don't remember that vader thing or the amblin thing and the hey, all that stuff. I went back to do a second order, uh, after the hercules one, to get all the other stuff, because, like I said, she wanted the Heihei, I got the Vader, I think I grabbed an extra Amblin to flip, yeah, so that was kind of cool. There wasn't really too many boosts. I was like, oh, let me go back here, let me go back here. It was just like, go through, get whatever prints and then maybe come back one more time, like especially today or yesterday when, um, when her daughter came today, oh yeah, it was like, oh, let's show her all this stuff that we had. Right, we think you might like the anime you might like and stuff like that. And then we and our last panel today was, uh, alan tudyk's panel. That was hilarious.
Speaker 3Alan tudyk's panel was so funny, that's funny he brought like a random bag of stuff to give out anybody who asked a question. He would sign something and give it to them Like it's like so he even said it like some of it's good stuff and some of it's just crap and one of the things he signed. It was like the laundry bag from his hotel room, a little plastic bag and he signed it gave to somebody. He had a Starbucks gift card.
Speaker 2I don't know anything on here, his draws. Right, you know it was just a win, his draws.
Speaker 3However, the good stuff was really good. A couple of script pages from Rogue One, oh nice. So it was like, oh, holy crap, he gave that away as well. A shell gasoline gift card, oh his ID badge to get into the Warner Brothers studios, like when he was working there he had his ID badge, he signed that and gave it to somebody. It was like damn. So it was pretty cool. Oliver was like here's a plastic bag that something came out of. It was pretty wild.
Speaker 1But just him telling stories and him, just typical, him was just here's a Lawson's bag from my trip to Star Wars Celebration.
Speaker 3Lou would have punched somebody for that. Yeah, out of climbing over chairs like hold on, I'm about to jump your ass for that shit.
Speaker 1It's an empty chicken nugget box from Lawson's.
Speaker 3But on that same vein, he had a receipt from when he was at Star Wars Celebration in Japan. And he had a receipt. He's like it's a receipt from when I was in Japan two months ago. Sign here two months ago, here you go. I don't know what it's for, but it's a receipt in Japanese. I was like alright, but yeah, so that was super cool. And then I think that was today's only panel I went to today. Yesterday's cool one was the Flash Carlos.
Speaker 2Green Union kind of.
Speaker 3What is it? Wells Flash, the four of them were there. I can't remember. Oh my god, the black girl. I cannot think of her character name, iris. Thank you, I wanted to say something with A, but that's not right, so the four of them were on the panel. It was super cool.
Speaker 3And then today I got to actually get up close with Danielle Panabaker for the Killer Frost and and go from there. So, yeah, yeah, she was, oh my God, she's super pretty up close, like I'm, like you know, a foot away from her face and, as a matter of fact, we both, because we both got I got your pop sign and she got a two inches away from her face.
Speaker 1You know what?
Speaker 3I'm saying, until I got excited. Then I had to back up. But yeah, so she got a killer because she wasn't. She's like I want to go with you to get Jack's time, just so I can meet her, meet her too, because she, she loved the show and, with the arrow verse, the whole thing. And then when she got up there she's like I'm gonna get some sign, so. So she ended up getting the killer frost print sign and then I got, obviously, jack's pop sign. It's like two years, do it for real no that was just the one, because it was last year.
Speaker 3Yeah, no just the one year, because I was supposed to go to colorado springs to get it signed and it was like the only thing, the only thing I'm going here is for the, for this one, I'll sit on it for a minute. And now this year I'm going well, I guess I'm going for two things to get signed to the same thing, but the bad, bad sprint. So but overall it was tiring a lot of. I mean, it was like come, come back, come back. It was late, get up at you know six 30 to shower, or well, shower the night before, but to get ready for the next day and again so I can do breakfast, parking, the whole thing.
Speaker 3So like like today with with the oldest, with the boy going to Japan, it was kind of up late making sure he got there and all that stuff and that was fine. So it didn't go to bed till two this morning and up at 6 45. So, man, it was like I actually took a nap. I was like I set an alarm to wake up to hit this and it was like, all right, we gotta do this, because I'm going right back to sleep soon.
Speaker 3This is done I am tired and tomorrow will be a long day. It's 80 like 89, 90 and I gotta walk properties tomorrow, so properties tomorrow.
Speaker 1So it's like same. I was like it was supposed to be an 80. Oh, and. Jackson were like.
Speaker 3F, both of y'all. It's supposed to be 165.
Speaker 1For real, I'm just going to put some stakes out on my pool, yeah dude.
Speaker 3For real, though, yeah, so, and BB Create, they are doing a thing again. First of all, their booth is double-sized this year at San Diego, thank God, and they are going to do the. Kennedy for whatever the extra one is. They showed me one. It looked pretty damn cool. It was like Godzilla over the convention center or something like that.
Speaker 1Tell me that owner isn't dope as shit though that guy is so cool. Oh yeah, he's got to I when I talk I talked to him for like a good 20 minutes at uh rose city last year. I was like yeah, yeah, man, I we saw you at comic-con, like the fucking lines.
Speaker 3And he's like, oh yeah, the lines like go back and watch that uh and they're making more, though, so they're hoping that you don't have to go first thing in the morning, first thing in the morning, like're making more. There's still going to be a line in the queue in the morning, but we made enough that if you want to come back later in the day, you should be okay. I'm like good, because that's my plan.
Speaker 1Or wristbands or something. I ain't trying to do that. But, if they're not Star.
Speaker 2Wars it's less passable too. We only did it last year because it was Star Wars.
Speaker 3Yeah what they're doing. If it's like Godzilla stuff, all of it, then I don't have to worry about it. And it took me a second to realize, even though I got it anyway. But it was after I bought it, but before I sent you the picture, I think before I sent you the picture, the Death Star pin that was this year's exclusive. I didn't realize it was Red Rocks in the background Red Rocks. I was like, oh, that's super cool Because they did other. You know they've done LA New York and all that.
Speaker 2Yeah, they did.
Speaker 1Portland. Yeah, exactly, I got you guys that right yeah.
Speaker 4I thought I did yeah you did yeah, yep. Because, it had the.
Speaker 1Rose City, the old town, white stag sign, the light up sign in front of it, yep.
Speaker 2I recall. So yeah, then again.
Speaker 3You saw no, no, I was going to say. Then I sent you the picture of the rest of the pins and it was like ugh.
Speaker 1I was like I can't zoom in this much on those.
Speaker 3I was like man, there is so. Actually I was wondering about that. I was like, no, I can just take a picture and then they can just zoom in on it.
Speaker 1Mugs. We need to start our own be dope as shit doing pins. You guys have all the experience and I'm just a positive influence.
Speaker 3So he says yeah, overall, super cool, good time. Looking forward to next year already. Oh, next year they're moving it from July 4th week. In the last three years I don't want to go as far as States Memorial Weekend, because I don't know what Memorial is, but it's May 28th to 31st, but it's May 28th to 31st. It's May 28th to 31st, but I don't know if that falls into.
Speaker 1Memorial. I think that is because Memorial Day is always the last Monday of the month.
Speaker 3Yeah, but this year was like the 25th or something like that, or 26th.
Speaker 2So that's why I was like it doesn't mean it's actually you don't the autism that lets you know what day of the week each one is May 25th 1973.
Speaker 1I mean usually. I know for Star Wars.
Speaker 3May 25th 26th that's a Monday, so it would have to be the weekend after Memorial Weekend, so it's going to be a con week next year.
Speaker 1Why can't you have any good tisms Lou? All my tisms are good Just because an old girl says they taste good doesn't mean that they're good.
Speaker 3Oh, maybe I misunderstood the question. So yeah, the last weekend of May is next year's con, so that'll be kind of cool. I'm like I mean they're getting it off a holiday finally. So because it was like 4th of Uh, I, I'm like I mean they're getting it off a holiday finally, so cause it was like four July, four July, four July, thanksgiving. It's like what is wrong with you people? My, my, my thought is it was just cheap, because nobody wants to do a convention then. So they rented it out cheap, but now they're big enough that they can around a little bit. John Cena was the big draw. He's the one that had his little private booth, for Last year was Hayden had his own private area for signing. This year with John Cena Exactly, I don't know.
Speaker 1Couldn't see him because he was in a private booth. That was my thing.
Speaker 3Bro was doing the panel. I'm like how can you see him if you go to a panel?
Speaker 2Does he just call this in?
Speaker 3Weird.
Speaker 1Yeah, I was't know A voice from beyond.
Speaker 3His face looks weird to me. I like his shows, but his face looks weird to me so I wasn't caring about going to the panel or walking by his booth to see, but I think he was actually. I don't even think he was in the actual floor area. I think his area may have been moved like Hayden's was.
Speaker 1Hayden's was yeah what they do at Comic-Con.
Speaker 3That's exactly what it was. Spin them off Hotel the Comic-Con, taking a different hotel. You got to come over here to buy your $400 autograph and then they'll give you a ticket and tell you where you're going. Mm-hmm, it's like.
Speaker 2Put a bag over your head.
Speaker 3Which people promptly put on freaking social media. He stayed at the Hyatt room, blah, blah, blah. But yeah, overall good. You know how it goes Snacky during the day, breakfast was the meal and then snack beef, jerky and almond bars. But yeah, again already looking forward to next year. Had a good time and I will do it again.
Speaker 1We're what? Three weeks from.
Speaker 3Comic-Con. We're not even bro. Two weeks, two weeks from Tuesday, I'm on the road, pick up the rental at 7.30 in the morning, on the road, at 8. That's on Tuesday morning. That's how that's going. Get in around, I don't know, 9 o'clock at night and then the very next day back on the road again.
Speaker 3Good times that one. Now I can focus more. Now that this one's done, it's like, okay, let me go back, shift gears, yep, the whole blog daily. I stopped doing it. Again shifted gears back to Denver. Now it's like, okay, let me catch up in the last week of whatever SDCC blog that I missed and go there, sell all these Roosevelt's and get my funds ready for STCC. So here we go.
Speaker 2We got the other badges too, the wife's badges. Gotcha, gotcha.
Speaker 3I was going to say to those I was going to ask you, those should have come in by now. But okay, cool, and then Fast and Furious. When it comes down to all the drops, the schedule is going to be out next week, the latest, and then any of the last, all the last one, the exclusives they're going to be dropping the lottery.
Speaker 2uh, portal Got to take care of that, even UCC is kind of weak, though.
Speaker 3Are they done? Are they done Cause I saw what they had out more stuff. Um, they dropped more of the little pet shop stuff.
Speaker 2Uh, the snakes, ugly things those three inch things.
Speaker 3those three inch things, wherever they're called, the threes and all that, yeah. But you're right oh the lottery doesn't seem all that. Okay, that's good, that's one less headache that to worry about.
Speaker 1Uh, later did you guys talk about the uh Darth Vader pin. Um that looks dope as shit, sorry.
Speaker 3What are you talking about? The?
Speaker 1Punch it Chewy. The guys that are with the BB Cream. They have a.
Speaker 2They have a. Really it looks like a it looks dope.
Speaker 1Yep, looks dope.
Speaker 3BB Cream dropped a pin on the blog. Yeah, oh yeah, you were talking about Godzilla.
Speaker 1You were talking about Godzilla and I'm like oh. I saw that. Godzilla and I kept scrolling down and I'm like, oh Lou's going to come over that one.
Speaker 3Yeah, no, I have no idea. I have no idea what you're talking about. I have not seen it.
Speaker 1Well, you'll be pleasantly surprised when you look Right on.
Speaker 3I think so yeah, let's see what else that's crazy, though that's crazy that there's not a whole lot exclusive. I mean, I guess you could throw your tickets in Mattel, but doesn't. Doesn't Mattel creations usually sell their stuff?
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah Cause.
Speaker 3I think this week isn't it Monday, don't they have? Aren't they dropping their stuff Monday Just? Buy it that way, um, or or was it last year? They didn't do it year before, now they're back to doing it. Is that what?
Speaker 2it is.
Speaker 3Something like that up last year and was like I don't see the thing. But now they're back to going to the. Is it mail or pickup on site?
Speaker 2I don't know. I haven't seen any announcements.
Speaker 3But I could have swore they were doing. It's coming up either this week or next week that their stuff's on sale, man that's. And I haven't heard anything about freaking doorables for the Lucas civilian yet either. Nope.
Speaker 2FigPin's heard anything about freaking doorables or the Lucas civilian, yet either Fig pins doing a pin a day. So they showed their fantastic four quest Spider-Man animated series. The one that just came out, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man pin for him coming out I think it's Goku. They haven't shown any of the Star Wars ones yet.
Speaker 1They blind bagged their animation cells this year.
Speaker 2Hey, there's no horror. They don't give a fuck. Yeah, the UCC ones.
Speaker 3Yeah, people don't want a random cell. They want what they want Now, if they're good and you can turn them.
Speaker 2It has been an animated series, oh okay, I and you can turn them.
Speaker 1They are all good. It is Batman animated series. Oh, oh, sorry, sorry, I guess the continuation of that.
Speaker 3Oh, you got a randomness of now you have an anime and now you have.
Speaker 1Yeah, this is all. This is all Batman animated series. That's not bad it looks like there's five of them.
Speaker 3People just just hang out at the booth and trade or just sell. If you're like, oh, I didn't get the money, I want you to sell it. You'll still get your money back, so it's not terrible.
Speaker 1It looks like they're limited out of $500.
Speaker 3Same as last year, I think, or was it $1,000?
Speaker 2last year. Oh no, it was $100. It was $100 last year.
Speaker 3I'm almost certain it was $100.
Speaker 2Oh.
Speaker 3I was going to say, never mind it's on the other computer I'm like I have the one still that I still need to sell.
Speaker 2Like I put her in the closet Okay, the.
Speaker 1RTD2 butts on things. Luggage tag is pretty funny.
Speaker 3You mean an RTD2 butt or put a butt on RTD2?
Speaker 1They put a butt on RTD2.
Speaker 3Yeah, it's a guy, I remember that one.
Speaker 1Yeah, the butt-tongue I remember that one, sorry, all right, I got sidetracked.
Speaker 3Squirrel. Yeah, you did this guy. So, Roosevelt, what else?
Speaker 2I got my Roosevelt on for Jurassic Park Did you go watch it today. Yep, I liked it.
Speaker 1Did you? Yeah, what's wrong with you?
Speaker 2It was a Jurassic Park movie.
Speaker 3Yeah, it was a Jurassic Park movie. Yeah, it was just that Family B story was just like no point.
Speaker 2I was like whatever I didn't know. They wanted Pedro to play the dad, though.
Speaker 3Oh you know they did yeah and everything else Shit. I could totally see that, but yeah, I just didn't. It was like, first of all, this family wasn't even in the trailer. Really, I don't remember seeing the family trailer. It was like this is where these people show up from, and then their story was irrelevant.
Speaker 2Oh yeah, for sure.
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Speaker 3For most of it I was going to say the one thing, like when they were trying to slow it down with Black Widow's and Blade's little personal stories. Only Blade's personal story was relevant. Have that played out towards the end and saving the kids and everything because of his own personal history.
Speaker 3But Black Widow's story was like oh okay, why did we slow the story down to get your story when it didn't become relevant later on? Blade's story became relevant later on, so I got it. I was like, okay, great. But overall I was just like I think part of the problem that I had was I didn't feel like the characters had any kind of stakes. I knew who was going to die and who wasn't. Oh yeah, so it was like because of that, it was like, okay, they'll survive this or they won't survive this. And the only potential never happened, which was the boy peeing, which was pretty funny actually that he survived it when he survived that velociraptor coming after him.
Speaker 2My man pooped his pants when that happened.
Speaker 3He sure the hell did uh, but overall I mean it was like I'm glad I quote unquote saw it for free. You know, I used one of my monthlies. I had four, so I used two of them last night to watch it and it was like, all right, I saw it. Um, I would have been fine paying five bucks for it, but not have been fine paying full price for it. Out here it's 1375. I don't know what is that where you guys are before right movie uh, you know me, I'm balling.
Speaker 2It was a lot of shit I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 3He doesn't even know how much tickets cost he has his.
Speaker 1Uh, he has a secretary. Buy him for him before he shows up shit I'm actually.
Speaker 2That's the one thing I'm gonna say. There's no way Jack is all handling.
Speaker 3that I guarantee it. But again I'm not going to say it was a bad movie. I don't think it was a bad movie. I just think it wasn't a great movie, although I'm hearing Box Office did well.
Speaker 1Yeah, I mean that's a dress party, because it always does well.
Speaker 2Fast and the Furious. You know what you're getting.
Speaker 1Yeah, I watched a video where they were talking about like I'm putting this video out to just kind of save my peace, but I know it's all irrelevant, because it's still going to make a billion dollars, like the last movie was, which was ass. Thank you very much, but it still made a billion dollars. So until they stop making billions of dollars, they're going to continue to make them, even if they are not.
Speaker 2Fair enough yeah it was entertaining enough.
Speaker 1Because I mean, really, we continue to make them, even if they are not fair enough. It was entertaining enough, we peaked at one and they've all been going downhill, but you know.
Speaker 3I didn't mind the. Star-lord ones honestly first one, especially kind of like episode 7, where they got to rehab, do a similar thing to get the audience back in and go from there. I thought, what is it? The first Jurassic World? Because his series started off being called Jurassic World right.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3I thought it was fine. I liked that one Jurassic Park 1, and then Jurassic Park 4, I suppose 4.
Speaker 1How many times are we going to let Henry Wu do some dumb shit and go oh, I didn't know this was going to happen?
Speaker 2Hey, he wasn't in this movie, so it's fine, he was not.
Speaker 1Finally, they finally didn't pin it on him, because every single movie it's like he shows up halfway through and he's like guys, I was just trying to do something good, oh no.
Speaker 3What Looks like their five-day opening weekend for Jurassic World was worldwide 320 million.
Speaker 2All right, well, enjoy it, because next week's Superman, so Yep. Speaking of which, when we were walking in, somebody looked up and saw Crypto Pleshy, so we had to get one on the way out.
Speaker 3Mm-hmm, crazy how that works out.
Speaker 1Well, because they were looking up. You don't look up at anything, sir. This is true.
Speaker 3Although that totally tracks, though that's their theme for Superman. Look up.
Speaker 1I did see that they cut out a scene where the girl punches Crypto. I guess test audiences were super upset about that. He's a super dog, he can take it.
Speaker 3He's a super dog. That's dumb. That's a stupid fan. Right there, all I'm doing is reporting.
Speaker 1I'm not saying I saw it. I'm just saying I saw an article that was talking about it.
Speaker 3The only thing, I knew they cut out was that flying scene where he looked weird in the closer flying scene. I heard they cut that out. They edited that first trailer where the guy throws the can at his head and he blinks. They fixed that too, where he doesn't blink because he shouldn't have blinked for something thrown at Canada's head. He's not even going to feel that. You know what I mean he would feel it. But it wouldn't affect him at all, Right?
Speaker 2but it could still surprise him.
Speaker 3Well, people bitched about it, so they changed the CGI of him not blinking.
Speaker 1It's the people who are firing guns in the movies and they're like and you're like wait, how are you actually hitting anything with your eyes closed?
Speaker 2I mean because he looks upset when he's walking in there so his super hearing probably isn't on so he wouldn't hear the can coming. They're going to hit him in the head and be like oh shit, you can surprise Superman yeah.
Speaker 3Obviously. I'm just saying they fixed it, because if you look at the trailer now, now he doesn't blink.
Speaker 2Henry Cavill doesn't blink. He doesn't even have eyelids.
Speaker 1He just has guns and replaces arms. But it's Henry Cavill.
Speaker 3That was his Mission Impossible, where he loaded up his Before he's about to fight.
Speaker 1Yeah, when he has a mustache. He couldn't shave and he loaded up his arms. The best thing that ever happened in Mission Impossible Was him loading his arms.
Speaker 3I actually like that movie. Speaking of trailers and them fixing things I was gonna say hold on before we get the trailers. Do we want? No wait, we can save iron heart for next week because somebody didn't watch it still all right.
Speaker 1I mean, you guys can still talk about it. It's fine because I have my. I have the reasons why I haven't watched all the way through yet, so, but we talked about that last week. So if you guys want to talk about it, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3I had a choice.
Speaker 1I had a choice to make, and I always made what I felt was the right choice.
Speaker 3We got 40 minutes. We got trailers. If we need to come back to it, we can come back to it. If we need space time, whatever All right, let's hit these trailers, all right?
Speaker 1our infrequent, uh, our infrequent um. I send out a bunch of trailers that have come out um in the last couple of months recently, and in fact, there was like way more.
Speaker 1Of course, I think this happened last time, where I sent out trailers and then, like the following week, more came out, like a ton more trailers came out. So we'll have to talk about those. Maybe potentially too. Uh, all right, so, um, so you guys watched all the trailers? Yes, all right. Uh, the first one that I sent you guys is a movie called uh, roof man. It is a based on a real life story. Uh, it is a crime. Comma, comma, comma, comma. John Henry. Wow, it is a crime comedy drama coupling.
Speaker 1Um it stars Chad Tatum, justin Dunst and Ben Mendelsohn. Uh it is, uh the. It is a biopic of the fugitive Jeffrey Manchester, a former United States Army Reserve officer who stole from a bunch of McDonald's stores and then hid in a Toys R Us store for a period of time.
Speaker 2Now I remember it.
Speaker 1Peter Dinklage is the manager of the store. Ben Mendelsohn is a pastor. Kristen Dunst works at the store. Channing Tatum is the thief.
Speaker 2I'm going to watch it just so I can see Toys R Us again. There you go.
Speaker 3Filmed on location in Canada.
Speaker 1There you go. Thoughts it looks okay.
Speaker 3It's definitely a Tuesday movie. I'm curious, but not curious enough to go read the real story to see what happened, right. Maybe after I watch it I will to see how close it was to how it played out. But it looked okay, just didn't look fantastic.
Speaker 1Not one that we need another trailer for, though.
Speaker 3No, yeah, they're done. That's the one I've done. Yeah, I don't need to see them other than that.
Speaker 1The next is Chapter 2 of the Strangers, which is a horror film. It's actually directed by Rennie Harlan from Long Kiss.
Speaker 3Goodnight Damn Sam Jackson, geena Davis, long Kiss, goodnight yeah. Wow, I believe yeah, that trailer made me want to watch the first one. I wasn't interested in that line at all and then I saw this trailer and was like whoa, this actually is pretty good. Makes me want to watch the first one.
Speaker 1It is a second installment of a new trilogy and a direct sequel to Chapter One. And it's people wearing masks doing creepy shit killing people. It's people wearing masks doing creepy shit killing people. It's been. The Strangers came out a long time ago.
Speaker 2I'm looking it up right now. It came out in 2008.
Speaker 1So it's been around for a minute, I don't know, I don't think this was a reset. I think this was just a it's like in the same world, but a different.
Speaker 3No, it's the direct sequel world, but a different.
Speaker 1no, it's the direct sequel. No, no, no. This is the second installment in a new trilogy of films the strangers. The movie, I think, came out in 2008, but was is its own thing? I don't think it's. There was a chapter one.
Speaker 2I see it now. Yes, I do see that now.
Speaker 3The strangers chapter one came out in 2024 okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, but there was a movie called just called the strangers that came out in 2008 that these are based on so chapter one is based off of the original 108, correct? Okay, I don't think I've seen this.
Speaker 2Then, yeah, that has a cute girl from uh riverside and I don't remember watching movies with her ah, all right, well, let me be clear.
Speaker 3This made me want to watch chapter one like there you go. All right, it looked, it looked. It looked suspenseful enough that I'm like and especially how it picked up off the last one that I'm curious how that's going to play out. I'm like, oh, that it was enough to get my attention again Again, don't need another trailer. Let me just have time to watch Chapter 1. I'm sure it's streaming somewhere.
Speaker 1And then go from there and you won't have really time for another trailer. It comes out in September. So I think the weekend that we were at the house football weekend, it comes out that weekend.
Speaker 3Last weekend of September. Okay, last weekend of September.
Speaker 1Okay. Next, I feel like this one is right down Jack's alley would be the Toxic Avenger. Oh God, no, it is a reboot of the original Toxic Avenger series from the remake of the 1984 film. It stars Peter Dinklage, with Jacob Tremblay and a bunch of other people, including Elijah Wood and Kevin Bacon. Yeah, if you don't know what the original 1984 movie was about, janitor falls in. Yeah, I read a comic. Honestly.
Speaker 2I learned about it from uh, the cartoon?
Speaker 1yeah, yeah, there was a cartoon that came out about that shit. Yeah, you're right, um, I love that. The fact that uh, set in a fantasy world following janitor his name is winston goose, g-o-o-z-e after a freak accident transforms into a mutant vigilante known as the toxic avenger. Armed with his mop, the unlikely hero battles freaks, gangsters and corrupt ceos, while save trying to save his relationship with his son.
Speaker 3It's gonna be so bad, but it's gonna be amazing at the same time yeah, I I I was definitely very much of uh I I it'll be on streaming one day that was my thought.
Speaker 2Yeah, that's probably where I'll watch it too. I don't see me going, if it even gets a wide release, because it's already having issues getting rated. Yeah, really.
Speaker 3Less than NC-17. Wait, less than NC-17? Yeah.
Speaker 2Jesus. They've submitted it a few times and it keeps coming back NC-17. I want to know what scene is screwing them over.
Speaker 3Oh, the trailer was pretty gnarly, bro.
Speaker 2The trailer was pretty gnarly, but it wasn't 17 gnarly.
Speaker 3It was definitely rated R gnarly, that's for sure, and it's been it's.
Speaker 1It's been in production hell because the uh, the it was originally announced in 2010 and it was going to star arnold schwarzenegger and it was originally supposed to be a family-friendly pg-13 movie tied to the car site, tied to the cartoon hell yeah, toxic crusaders oh my god, yeah I definitely was just like, what are they doing with this?
Speaker 3and it was like, oh god it was. It was just a lot of me shaking my head, saying they're not getting my money at the theater for this. That that's what that was. There's a lot of that happening when I was watching that one. I'm not saying it's going to be bad, it's just like I can't see myself. Maybe. Maybe my mind will change as we get closer, because it does look so stupid funny. It's like I'm watching in like Llamageddon or something One of those.
Speaker 2So depending on the next trailer, you might go see it. Honestly, yeah, but it'd still be a Tuesday movie.
Speaker 3Let's be real, I'm definitely spending more on a squishy than I am on that movie ticket price A crypto squishy?
Speaker 1Yeah, the next movie is I think we may have talked about this before a movie called Weapons. It is a mystery horror movie Starring.
Speaker 2Silver Surfer. Silver Surfer and.
Speaker 1Thanos and Han Solo and Henry Woo from the Jurassic Park movies. That son of a bitch.
Speaker 2He turned up those children to make dinosaurs.
Speaker 3Oh, you know what's funny? You say that Because the rumor is like the next Jurassic Park is going to be that human-dinosaur hybrid that they're trying, that they talked about like years ago.
Speaker 1We have that. It's called a xenomorph.
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Speaker 3Get the fuck out of here I'm just saying well, the that one that d-rex dinosaur looked like a yeah it looked like we fight godzilla in the next movie.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, for real uh, real quick before we talk about it. The premise is uh, when all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night and at the exact same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance.
Speaker 2All them kids ran off with anime runs too, with their arms behind their backs. Arms down. Yep, they want to go on. Dragon Ball Z.
Speaker 3This trailer was way better than the first one, I thought. And now I'm done, don't show me anything more. This is good. No, no, no, no.
Speaker 2It's like a mystery kind of thing. Don't give me enough to figure it out. Don't ruin the mystery.
Speaker 3Just just get me to the theater at this point and right now. You'll get me at the theater, Just stop.
Speaker 1In May 2023, pascal exited the project due to his commitments with the Fantastic Four movie.
Speaker 3Man, this is right up with Josh Brolin.
Speaker 1That's a good point.
Speaker 3With Josh.
Speaker 1Brolin in talks to replace him.
Speaker 3That's a good point. Why can Silver Surfer do it if Mr Reed can't?
Speaker 1Because she literally just walked in, they scanned her body and then she left.
Speaker 3She came back with voiceover. Yeah, we'll call you for voiceover work.
Speaker 1So this looks like it might be interesting.
Speaker 3I don't know. That's perfect for that meme, though where? Why is Galactus going to destroy Earth? It's because, pedro is in everything.
Speaker 1You know, we're going to see some movie that's going to be set like 20 years from now. We're going to see movies that are going to be set in the 2010s and they're going to break into a blockbuster that doesn't exist anymore. But all the posters are just going to be Pedro Pascal on every single one. He's the Terminator. He's Han Solo.
Speaker 3It'll be like 10 years ago, when Deadpool was in the 20-something different covers of movies.
Speaker 2He's going to be this generation's Nick Cage. He's in everything, everything, everything. He was you movies he's. He's going to be our gen.
Speaker 1well, this generation's nick cage isn't everything, everything it was. You're right, he's getting his superhero in fucking sammy.
Speaker 3Um, but yeah, so that one is that that was definitely a watch. Uh, I'm not sure if it's full price watch or tuesday watch, but it's watch, that's for sure that one looks good but also don't need to know anything else about it.
Speaker 2We're done. Two trailers in a minute.
Speaker 1All right, so the next two movies kind of tangentially related. First one was Ice Road Vengeance. Ice Road Vengeance is a movie that is a sequel to one that came out. Ice Road Truckers yes, not Ice Road Truckers, what the hell was it called? Where was it at, this guy?
Speaker 2He said yes too, so whatever.
Speaker 3I know. It's fine.
Speaker 1It doesn't fucking matter. It's another Liam Neeson movie that his family got, so whatever he needs a movie. Hang on. Oh, it's a direct sequel to the Ice Road, so it's just the Ice Road which came out in 2021.
Speaker 2Did that also star, liam Neeson?
Speaker 1It did, it did also star Liam. Neeson. I didn't realize that and basically there's no summary, even though the movie technically came out June 27th again this movie starring liam neeson yes, cool, that's all you need to know it's like when I go see jurassic park or fast and furious.
Speaker 1It's a liam neeson movie uh, this is, uh, they're, they're the. To sum up, the movie is. For me was uh the beginning of the trailer when they were like here's your tour guide that's going to take you up into the mountains and you're going to like become one with the universe or whatever. And then, 45 seconds later, she is unloading a fully automatic ak-47 outside the school bus door with no flinching, no, nothing, just dead shot, just like pop, pop, pop pop. And I'm like, okay, either the training, the training for the tour guides in Nepal, is wild, or so, yeah, real quick thoughts on this movie it's a.
Speaker 1Liam Neeson movie. He has a certain set of skills.
Speaker 2I'll watch the first one, then I'll stream this one.
Speaker 3I'm with you on that one.
Speaker 2I think I will if I'm super bored and I've watched everything else. Yep, yep. After the Toxic Avenger.
Speaker 3After I finish four seasons of the Good Life.
Speaker 1Wow, you're going to watch the Paris Hilton.
Speaker 2Nicole Richie show.
Speaker 1That was the Simple Life, but it was also the good place but I'm sure uh also starring also starring liam neeson. Uh, the next trailer is uh the naked gun uh, which is a sequel to uh the naked gun, the movies and the TV show that was known as Police.
Speaker 1Squad. Yeah, he is also starring in that as the son of Leslie Nielsen, who was Frank Drebin in the original run of Naked Gun slash Police Squad. So it's good that they, it's good that they uh, it's cause it's good that he knows that that that he's being pigeonholed in things, and it seems like he is accepting that this is like cool, let's make fun of myself again.
Speaker 1Yeah exactly, so it looks like it's going to be two hours of them just completely clowning every single thing that Liam Neeson has been in in the last 20 years, with some OJ jokes in there. Yeah, with some OJ jokes in there. Yeah, with some OJ jokes.
Speaker 3Nah, that was pretty good Every time I see that part of the trailer because I've seen it a few times now and every time I see that part I'm just like dang. It's like I don't even know why the hateful dude was not found guilty.
Speaker 1He was innocent.
Speaker 3I won't go that far. He was not feeling guilty.
Speaker 1Did you guys ever watch any of the Naked Gun or see any of the Police Squad stuff online or whatever? Oh, absolutely.
Speaker 2I'd seen them when I was a kid, when they were coming out, but do I have any relationship with them? No, I know what they are, what they're about, but I'm not like, oh yeah, bring them right, my jams I'd rather than bring back airplane to bring back, like I want to see, an airplane sequel type of thing.
Speaker 1That would be funny only if they all spoke jive. Well, I think they gotta do it right I think this is them dipping their toes in that I feel like if this does good, that seeing if they can bring back other kinds of we can have a bigger conversation about comedy and how comedy is in movies. We had a heyday with all the old. Actually, we're going to get to one of those movies here shortly the heyday of the Judd Apatow, Adam Sandler.
Speaker 3Heyday. Those garbage-ass movies. Oh, I like pineapple express, the only movie in the last 30 years that I turned off 20 minutes into it.
Speaker 1I was saying, yeah, it was that period of time. I wasn't speaking particularly of a particular movie, the movies that did well.
Speaker 2Fuck you, James Franco. Oh my God.
Speaker 3I mean but but if they're going to do Spaceballs 2, then maybe they'll just cut off Again. Back to your whole. We'll have a separate discussion slash argument on comedy. But obviously the left has killed it. I mean, everybody's getting so fucking offended over everything. Speaking of which, did you see the thing going on?
Speaker 2social now, I guess. Usa showed the first Rush Hour movie and they said, hey, we love buddy comedies too, but just remember, this was filmed back in the 90s, so some of the humor is a little disgusting and offensive.
Speaker 1I'm like this is Rush Hour If they didn't put a context on that to just say, hey, some of this humor is just really bad, but this movie made a lot of money, so we're going to show it in syndication. Sure.
Speaker 3I mean again the whole lefty I'm offended crowd, fuck off. It's like I was talking to somebody, I think, at the con and standing in line talking about how you can't make blazing saddles today, and the guy was like, sure you could, you can just do the opening credits and the end credits. You have a 30 second movie. I was like you're not wrong, but just people, a tropic thunder, that was even that long ago and people would lose their minds.
Speaker 2People are retro waiting on it now.
Speaker 3Yeah, exactly, it's retro waiting on it now. Yeah, exactly, it's like god damn you idiot I'm. I'm gonna see how. How can I be a victim today? Oh, I know, I'll take aim at this shit that happened when I wasn't even born. And be offended for somebody you know retroactively, I mean, I'll eat a dick, fucking lefty, whatever. Luckily I don't have an opinion. Yeah, luckily I don't have an opinion on that.
Speaker 1Yeah moving on, and now we don't have to have a discussion about it because we already had it, so it'll be interesting to see how the naked gun handles that. Yes, it looks like it looks like it was written and was directed by the same guys who did the original, so that'll be, uh, that'll interesting to see. So next is actually a TV show and is Alien Earth. So, yeah, looks like we get a. We have Timothy Olyphant-tastic Done.
Speaker 2That's what you had to say Timothy Olyphant in an Alien TV series, done Justified with aliens.
Speaker 3I'll wait till the series or the season is over and then I'll watch it. I don't know if I want to do a weekly meeting.
Speaker 1Would a space vessel crash lands on Earth? A young woman and a rag-type group of tactical soldiers make a discovery that puts them face to face.
Speaker 2Wait, there's a woman. No, I'm out.
Speaker 3Wait, what in an?
Speaker 2alien movie Fuck that.
Speaker 3There's never been one good alien movie with a female lead ever.
Speaker 1But they've also well, I guess, I guess, hi Sigourney, she has the body of a robot and the consciousness of a human, so while female also hybrid, so not female also hybrid, so not Some woke shit, which I think they talked about in the trailer, something.
Speaker 2And then also the Predator. Wildland trailer has some kind of android in it too, so like, oh, maybe they're working towards a new Alien vs Predator.
Speaker 3That freaking.
Speaker 1Yeah, that show looks pretty damn um, after that we have happy gilmore 2. Speaking of movies from the late 90s, early 2000s, that uh starring in eminem. So you know I'm there, yeah yeah, and bad bunny they're in that yeah, uh, bad Bunny is, eminem is too.
Speaker 3Yeah, I think that was my first time seeing the trailer properly and I was not interested.
Speaker 2It's on Netflix. It's not going to cost you anything, oh, except for an hour and a half of your time.
Speaker 3It'll be bottom of the list because it did not look like. Ooh, I can't wait to see this.
Speaker 1We'll have Haley Joel Osment though.
Speaker 3So, oh, I can't wait to see this. We'll have hayley joel osment though, so you know you'll see dead people. Yeah, the only dead in that thing is the profit margin, but whatever uh, and then the last one the.
Speaker 1The last movie that I sent you guys a link for is a movie called good fortune. Uh, gabriel is a budget guardian angel one day he notices john wayne down on his luck. Who does odd jobs for a wealthy suss-a-late named Jeff Once? Arch falls asleep in a booth at the Benny's restaurant, he hits rock bottom after subsequently having his card towed from the parking lot.
Speaker 2That one looked entertaining.
Speaker 3I did see that one before the trailer list and I liked it then. So, uh, this one looks like it'd be okay, I'm gonna.
Speaker 1This will probably be a a tuesday movie I it seems uh, very much like the keanu reeves humor that he's like all about now which is kind of dry, like pan kind, of hey, like I'm trying to help you. You know, that was my keanu reeves impression, so just uh, well, we'll just move on from that, uh, but but yeah, I, I think it'll be good, I'm, I'm looking forward to that one um, I think lou said add running man to that.
Speaker 2Um, yeah, we can talk about running man I saw that one earlier, and then I saw it with Jurassic.
Speaker 3World Jurassic Park.
Speaker 2Yeah, jurassic, even though I'm of age. I did not grow up watching Arnold Schwarzenegger. I've seen it maybe once back in the 90s, so I have zero connection to it. It doesn't look horrible. It's some dude getting chased by people. I'm not going to say, oh look, they're making a new Hunger Games kind of movie.
Speaker 3It came out way before Hunger Games, but that is what people are saying yeah, the first 10 seconds it was an interracial couple, so I was like I'm out.
Speaker 2It's the future, Lou, and they're poor.
Speaker 1The only interracial couple that's allowed in Lou's world is Lou.
Speaker 2I mean, I don't know it's because the lady was black Lou just doesn't like women.
Speaker 3Yeah, yeah I don't know, man, I haven't visited my parents in a while. So, for those of y'all who don't get the joke yeah, my parents interracial me dating a white girl. So yeah, that's the joke. My parents interracial me dating a white girl. So yeah, that's the joke. So they know this, but you guys might not. So that that's why it's funny, uh, but overall though, I I didn't, I didn't like the change up. I didn't like that. It was like the world against him.
Speaker 1Well, they, they made it like one of the there's that movie's like come out before with the like oh, you're like jackpot, right, the john cena. Going back to john cena, the movie where it was like, oh, not, not jackpot. There was the movie that was out where it's like if you survive 24 hours but like anybody who kills you gets the money, type of thing and this one's what 30 days maybe I don't know I think it was 30 days stephen king novel.
Speaker 2Do we know? Is this more based on the?
Speaker 3novel. It's funny you say that I was thinking the exact same thing.
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Speaker 3I didn't read the novel and I wasn't sure if this is more like the novel versus the movie bastardize it and they may have, but either way, that's what I grew up with, that you didn't grow up with, so that's what I was expecting. So to get this trailer where it's like, okay, it's him against the world and whatever, I'm not saying I'm not going to watch it, it didn't look bad enough to not watch. It was just like I wasn't expecting that as a thing. I was like, oh cool, we're going to get an updated Running man. And then I saw the trailer and was like this is not running. This is some other movie.
Speaker 1They did not need to call running man, they need to call it like run manners just to get rid of the ending. Um, I guess the other trailer that came out this week was uh, ryan gosling and project hail mary. Did you guys see that one wait I did not watch that.
Speaker 3Yeah, that was at jurassic park, dude, we didn't get that one. Oh, you didn't get that one.
Speaker 1Oh, that looked good, i't get that one.
Speaker 3Oh, that looked good. I like that one.
Speaker 1So it's the book. It's based on the book also written by the guy who did the Martian, but it's him being the only person, I think, that can save the world, type of thing, and he has to go.
Speaker 3Yeah, it's like a bunch of suns are dying, including Earth's sun, and then there just one planet or one system where the sun didn't die. So they send him out there. Like Duke said, he's like a teacher of science or whatever, and they send him out there to go figure out what it is. It literally starts off with him waking up from a coma. He's like, hey, I just woke up from a coma. And then they backtrack and it's like okay, what's going on?
Speaker 1And they explain why he's going out there and he's like I'm not an astronaut, I'm not an astronaut, but it looks. That looks good. Sounds like a combination of armageddon, sunshine and the martian, so not, not. Uh, not a bad threesome to, and ryan gosling and ryan and ken he is ken enough he's getting, he's like that from star wars.
Speaker 3Yeah, he's getting his practice for that next space movie he's doing yeah, whatever that is.
Speaker 1I mean not that we heard about that at all or anything, uh like a couple months back, no, someplace where were we when that happened?
Speaker 2I don't remember here somewhere we were.
Speaker 2Uh, we were doing our podcast like we normally do, yeah makes sense, okay, so the running man novel, the contestant is declared an enemy of the state and released with a 12-hour head start before the hunters, an elite team of network-employed hitmen are sent out to kill him. He earns $100 per hour for staying alive and avoiding capture. Blah, blah, blah. Viewers can receive cash rewards for informing the network of his whereabouts. So in the novel he does go out into the world. It's still a TV show but it's not in a studio.
Speaker 3And the viewers aren't trying to hunt him down, so I don't know the hunters are trying to kill him in the trailer.
Speaker 2I don't know if it's just.
Speaker 3That part makes sense, though I thought the other people in the world were trying to kill him as well. The fact that they're not that makes me feel better about this. And if it's just the corporate people going after him, it's like oh, these 12, or I don't care how many, just point it at those corporate people.
Speaker 1I'm okay with that.
Speaker 3Isn't that Thanos 2?
Speaker 2That's the dude from Maverick.
Speaker 3Wasn't that Dude from Maverick Dude from Twisters?
Speaker 1I didn't even see that one. Uh, did you guys? Did you guys see the trailer for? Uh, nobody too. Yes, did you guys see nobody? Yes, what did you guys think about? I enjoyed it.
Speaker 2Yeah, I enjoyed back in by then I'm gonna go on a monday.
Speaker 3While everybody's at school, I'm just enjoying myself yeah, I, when I saw the trailer I think it was last week, week before whatever I saw in the theater and I saw the nobody to. I think it was last week, week before whatever I saw in the theater and I saw the Nobody 2 trailer, I thought it was like, oh shit, I didn't realize it was coming. I knew it was coming out. I didn't know it was coming out that soon enough to have a trailer. So I was kind of excited to see the trailer of that. So I was like oh sweet, but I was late to the party on the first one.
Speaker 2I didn it until it was streaming.
Speaker 3I think, yeah, it was streaming and then, months after it was streaming, then I finally watched it. I wanted to watch it early on, I just never got around to it and I enjoyed watching that one, so I was definitely looking forward to part two.
Speaker 1Have you guys watched any of the Conjuring movies?
Speaker 3Yeah, Because there's another one of those coming out too.
Speaker 1Well, I think it's like closing, it's like bringing it all. The trailer has all of their like, all the different items from all the other different movies, like Annabelle and all that kind of stuff, bringing them all together. So you're not a Conjuring guy, jack, I just haven't watched them I was late to that too, but I'm definitely watching that.
Speaker 3I'm in, I liked. When I finally did start watching the other ones, I was like I'll watch this one, then I watched the next one.
Speaker 1It was like I watched this one, then I watched the next one it was like a week and I watched a bunch of them and it was great. Uh, we didn't I don't think we talked about this one yet.
Speaker 3Uh, him like, uh, looks like a horror movie dealing with like a football guy oh yeah like keep pushing keep pushing that type of thing like what are you willing to sacrifice to become popular, or whatever look like it's gonna be where they going with that, which is why I like it even more, because I'm not sure what they're doing with it.
Speaker 1It looks like it's going to be super fucked up.
Speaker 3Yeah, exactly Exactly. I don't know why. Is it because they sell a soul to the devil to be a great player, to be popular? I don't know, it just looks I like that.
Speaker 1I don't know what's going on Tron Ares Excited, not excited, for some reason the girls want to watch it.
Speaker 2I'm like, have you guys seen the other one. She's like no, I'm like I don't know the other two, yeah.
Speaker 3So I think this is definitely one where I'm going to have to go back and re-watch.
Speaker 2Oh, 100%, especially since the girls haven't seen it. Yeah, and then I'll go watch it in 3D. That's a 3D movie Release date. Release date for Tron Ares is October 10th 2025.
Speaker 3Two weeks after we're there for football?
Speaker 1Yeah, there'll be a.
Speaker 3Yeah, I saw that they're at SDCC.
Speaker 1Yeah. And then you could say and girls, this is Daft Punk, one of the greatest electronic musician groups ever to exist. That's true.
Speaker 3When I listen to my Pandora soundtrack station that I started off with Conan, the Barbarian soundtrack, when they switch over and they do get to Daft Punk as soon as it starts, I'm like I know who it is and it's always good. Let's see.
Speaker 2Now you See Me 3?.
Speaker 3Oh yeah, I saw that trailer too during Jurassic and last week.
Speaker 2I like those movies. I probably would.
Speaker 3I'm going to rewatch the first two again, but that looks like it'll be a fun movie. The whole unrealistic. It's like that would never happen, but I don't care. It looks like a good popcorn movie.
Speaker 1I guess there's the next Avatar movies coming out in December. Oh, I didn't know that.
Speaker 3I didn't know it was that soon.
Speaker 2Thanks, disney, you're going to end up with fucking Elio again.
Speaker 3Is there a teaser for that one, because I could have swore I saw something on that.
Speaker 1They're just interviewing him. They haven't done a trailer. It's Maybe that's what it was.
Speaker 3Maybe it was just yeah, but I think I did hear about that. I was shocked when I heard it then, that it was coming out this evening. I'm like, oh, we're already there it's the fire one right, that might be fun.
Speaker 1Anaconda with Steve Zahn, Paul Rudd and Jack Black.
Speaker 3They redid Anaconda.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2Without Ice Cube, fuck them.
Speaker 3They're rebooting it. That'd be funny if he has a cameo Right.
Speaker 1As he should, although.
Speaker 3Well, yeah, but you know, you know how the lefties are. They dog him when he wouldn't get the jab. That's why they they wouldn't Greenlight the next Friday movie the last Friday, because he wouldn't get the jab. So they basically blackballed him and now you find out the jab is what's Fucking people up or whatever Way to go leftist, allegedly. Stop bringing up freaking politics, dude, good lord.
Speaker 1I know I'm sorry, I'm very sorry. I can't help myself.
Speaker 3Man what else?
Speaker 1I think that's it through the end of the year. I mean, there's a bunch more movies coming out, but none of them really have trailers or anything. Once the summer wraps up, we'll do this again, okay.
Speaker 3Well, in that case, this is a true story. I think we were in one of the panels and you know how you get there early. I don't know if they do it at Rose City or whatever, but they show trailers to whatever is coming up yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3And then they showed the Superman trailer, the latest one, and then they put up July 11th. I they put up July 11th. I actually forgot that shit is this week. Superman actually comes out this week and I was like, oh well, I guess I may have to go see that on Thursday. She's like you're going to go without me.
Speaker 2I'm like I'll see it twice, don't worry about it. Maybe it could be woke as fuck, lou, and you won't go see it again.
Speaker 3That is true. You'd be on your own if that's the case, but I'm likely. I don't think I have an HOA meeting this week, or at least not Thursday. So I am likely going to go ahead and watch that on opening night Thursday, assuming I can get a decent time ticket, because I have to work on Friday. So if I can get a decent time ticket and blah, blah, blah. But yeah, I cannot believe. I didn't realize. I thought it was next week. But no, it is four days from now that movie comes out.
Speaker 1They actually are doing a thing where, if you had Amazon Prime, you could actually see it on Tuesday, like a bunch of theaters were showing it at 7 o'clock. But, those ones like disappeared.
Speaker 3I thought I heard about that. I thought it was just like they're just streaming 15 minutes of the movie.
Speaker 1I didn't know, it was actually the whole movie in the theater.
Speaker 3Wow okay, that's cool.
Speaker 1That's cool. Amazon must have dropped the dime. But I mean, I've seen the marketing for Superman has been crazy. The places that I've seen it I'm like that don't make no sense.
Speaker 3Well, they have to, though, because if this is going to start and kick off, this is the Iron man for them, so it has to do well, but it has hype behind it, Iron man was just like.
Speaker 2well, here's a new superhero movie.
Speaker 3That is true, bro.
Speaker 2This has expectations.
Speaker 3I still remember when we were at SDCC and we got into the Iron man panel and you looked over and I remember, before we called the panel, you looked over at me and said, hey, are you in? I go, I don't know. And then by the time the panel ended, I looked over at him and said I'm in uh after that panel. And they showed us that one with him flying jets, him flying with the jet scene, and I was like okay, I'm watching.
Speaker 1I mean I was kind of interested, but now I was like sold after fabs came out and was like uh, let me show you the trailer. And then showed the opening to the iron man cartoon, right, I don't remember that it was at the very beginning, because he's like ah we got a trailer for you guys. And then it was like the 80s cartoon.
Speaker 3Man. But yeah, so I get the marketing, I get their spending. They're basically not trying to make money off of this one. They're trying to break even with the marketing and cost and everything, because this is marketing for the future.
Speaker 2Everything else, yeah. But yeah, this is marketing for the future.
Speaker 3Everything else, yeah, so, um, but yeah, I mean, I haven't heard really too much about it, other than it's like it's a social media thing and Lex and trying to make Superman look bad, and blah, blah, blah. I'm like that's kind of. You know how James Gunn is, he'll put his life into all his movies. Uh, and I'm absolutely watching. If I don't go opening night, that's fine. I will not wait until Tuesday. It'll be opening weekend.
Speaker 2Oh yeah, we got Saturday morning, I think ish. Yeah, we're going at 9.30 on Saturday.
Speaker 3If I can't do 9.30 in the morning, hell yeah, god damn.
Speaker 1Theater was open that early For Superman it is.
Speaker 3That's a good point. If I don't watch it Thursday night, friday night, I'll wait then until Sunday when it all goes back. I'll just watch it with her at that point. If I don't watch it in the first two days, I may as well wait until Sunday. Spoilers that's the other side of that coin. It's Tuesday. Like Duke said, people are watching it on Tuesday. There's going to be spoilers. Yeah, that's going to be crazy, but yeah, I'm kind of excited about that coming out so soon. And then the week after is Smurfs and something else.
Speaker 1Eddington Edging Another Pedro Pascal movie.
Speaker 3That's not the one I was thinking of. There's something that comes out with Smurfs and I was like, oh, that's different, so you can watch this, or Smurfs.
Speaker 1I think I would rather watch this, whatever this is, or I know what you did last summer, I am not watching.
Speaker 4Yeah, I know what you did last summer. I am not watching. I know what you did last summer.
Speaker 3That's the one. Yes, that's what it is, which I thought was a stupid title when they've already done that title. And there is an AMC, it was an.
Speaker 1AMC Scream Unseen.
Speaker 3Scream Unseen. Oh Well, my problem with I know what you did last summer. I still know what you did last summer. The sequel If this, but with the, with the, with freddie prince and, and jennifer loves huge tits. In this one it's obviously continuation of the first two, so why are you going back to the first title? That bothers soft.
Speaker 1They did that with scream too, though yeah, soft reboot with who scream are you sure?
Speaker 3I thought it was just scream one, two, three, four, five, six, seven.
Speaker 2The first one with Jen Ortega was called Scream.
Speaker 3Oh, that's dumb. Then why is the second one with her called Scream 6 or something Remember? If you look at the end of the M the M looks like a VI or IV or, yeah, vi for 6. So I was like I just don't like that.
Speaker 2You're not a creative type, Lou, so don't worry about it.
Speaker 1Yeah, that's why we don't own a pin company.
Speaker 3If you're, that's crap, though Again, like Running man, they're not continuing the first one with Arnold, or are they? So it's not Running man 2. You know what I mean? No, it's obviously a whole different style with the game show.
Speaker 2It evolves past the TV.
Speaker 3If Arnold shows up in it, then I'm going to be mad. They called it running man. I'll wait Wow.
Speaker 2Reserving judgment until he actually watches something. Holy shit Stop.
Speaker 1Cut.
Speaker 3Let me let me be very clear. Don't get used to this. I'm just saying but yeah, the whole time I'm trying to figure out why they call it the same title if it's part three.
Speaker 2It's soft reboot kind of stuff. Final Destination did it. Yeah, Bloodlines.
Speaker 3Didn't Final Destination have a second name?
Speaker 2Or it had like the Final Destination or something like that that works.
Speaker 3That's different Alien. Aliens, I mean I'm allowed, that's okay.
Speaker 2As long as it's different. If it's the exact same one, it needs to be a reboot.
Speaker 1Yeah, there was. Final Destination 1, 2, 3, the Final Destination. Final Destination 5, and Final Destination Bloodlines, Final.
Speaker 3Destination 5 and Final Destination Bloodlines. See, there you go. Different, different names.
Speaker 2Fast and Furious did it too. They added or took out a the.
Speaker 3No, they have 2, 3, 4,. Whatever the stupid names they had, not one of the names was a repeat name.
Speaker 2It sure enough, was yeah, 2009. Fast and Furious.
Speaker 3And there's no the right.
Speaker 2No, they just took out the the on both of them.
Speaker 3Exactly. That's different. That's my point. It's not the same thing. So, in continuation, if you pick the exact same name, it needs to be a reboot. They're trying to fuck with me in the studios.
Speaker 1Sometimes the hills you die on are hilarious.
Speaker 3But I'm not wrong, it's different. Y'all know how literal I am, so nope, it's different.
Speaker 2Suicide Squad and then the Suicide Squad Yep.
Speaker 3Because the same characters. It wasn't a reboot, so if they were rebooting it properly, they could have used the same name. Wouldn't bother me at all. That's the only thing If you're actually going to reboot the series. Oh, this came out in the 60s and we're okay, we're going to call it the exact same thing. Now we have a whole new whatever Great the moment, it's a sequel or whatever. Change the fucking name and with, with. I know what you did last summer. They didn't change the name, so it's like bullshit.
Speaker 1It's actually has a s-u-m-n-e-r. Yeah, I know what you did last sumner, sumner. There you go exactly it actually takes place. It actually takes place it actually takes place at fort sumner uh, I thought the girl that was in the tv show the Terminator TV show.
Speaker 3Wasn't her name the Firefly girl?
Speaker 1Oh, Summer, oh Summer, summer Glau, oh, never mind, not Sumner.
Speaker 2Sumner Glau.
Speaker 3Oh wait, there was another trailer. Well, I thought, maybe, maybe not. I thought there was a trailer for Fallout, the next season.
Speaker 1I don't remember seeing one. I mean I guess it's possible.
Speaker 3I think what it was is like last week or something like that. You were telling us it's coming up at the end of the year. There's only a trailer out yet.
Speaker 2Yeah, it's like December or something.
Speaker 1Yeah, it's the end. Hard to find trailers on youtube anymore because there's so many of these guys doing these bullshit oh, fake trailers.
Speaker 3But then they don't, they don't tag it right or they do tag it right, right, right, yeah, they tag it right to get their your eyeballs yeah if it doesn't say ign or like rotten tomatoes on, I'm like nah yeah yes, I don't think it was like I saw the one, the thundercats one, I was like, wow, they should really do this. Henry Cavill, as Lionel, I'm down.
Speaker 2Well, and they do that with music videos too, Because I saw one yesterday. It was Eminem, Snoop Dogg, Dre, 50 Cent and Redman. I'm like fuck, yes. And I looked at it and I'm like no, that's not real.
Speaker 1By the way, Candy Shop is 20 years old.
Speaker 350 Cent just turned 50 today dang yeah wow, you gotta market that. What are you doing?
Speaker 1oh man, damn 20 years old good lord yeah, yeah, yeah, it was one of those videos of like these songs all are now in 2025, are now 20 years old, like the first one was one of those videos of like these songs all are now in 2025, are now 20 years old, and like the first one was Candy Shop and I was like oh, oh, that's craziness yeah. Have you ever done the like? These are the songs that are popular the year that I graduated high school and you're like oh my God.
Speaker 3No, I've done the movie one though I think yeah, I think it was or either by senior year, high school I don't know if it's actual graduating 93 or senior year, but I think, like I can't remember if it was like tombstone or, uh, jurassic park, like those ones. I was like damn and I still can't believe. I think I saw jurassic park recently, like recently in the last six months. I was like still can't believe how that holds up.
Speaker 1Yep, unlike the most recent one. Wait what.
Speaker 3You know what, though You're not wrong. I'm okay if I don't watch the new one that just came out. I'm okay if I don't watch it again, but I'd be mad if I can't watch the original again. Oh yeah, for sure. So, yeah, I enjoyed the hell out of that one. That was fun. The original, I got tickets for the what was it?
Speaker 235th anniversary of the original Ninja Turtles 35,.
Speaker 3Oh, that makes sense. Yeah, I was like damn, that does make sense. Good lord. I was like hell. Yes, in 90, I was in just got to New Jersey, Because I remember watching it in the theater Because we hadn't had our Hell. Yes, in 90, I was in Just got to New Jersey, because I remember watching it in the theater, because we hadn't had our base housing yet, so we were in one of the temporary houses. I remember walking to the theater to go watch that one, the base theater. I was all into the Turtles back then, man, I had all the posters on Well you live there.
Speaker 3I had Donatello. I was like did I have a ball.
Speaker 1Nope, that does track, that does track. If I was. I didn't need to ask what your favorite turtle was, lou, I could have guessed it.
Speaker 3First two don't count, you get three guesses. First two don't count man, yep. What else what's?
Speaker 2going on. The oldest has seen it, but I don't think the little one has. I think that'll be fun.
Speaker 3You know what? I might have to go back and watch those three again. It's been a while. Honestly, I didn't hate the reboot of that. I think they did two live-action ones after that.
Speaker 2Yeah, the Michael Bay ones.
Speaker 3Yeah, I actually didn't mind those. I had the.
Speaker 1Transformers version of the Turtles.
Speaker 3Yep, basically that reminds me I did get a print, the Transformers print that I got. I got three of them actually, One I think was Nemesis Prime. It looked pretty badass. And then, oh, there was a crossover that some dude had. It was star scream, but they replaced his head with cobra commander's head. Nice, dude, dude voiced them both. I was like that is super cool now you gotta get that dude to sign it.
Speaker 2Oh, he died yeah, I don't think he's with us anymore. Yeah, like a long time ago all right, well, never mind how about the one that did it most recently?
Speaker 3right if he. As long as he did both voices, sure, um, but yeah, so it was a cool. It was a cool print with some of the main bad guys. It was like trypticon was on it with megatron, with soundwave, with a devastator uh, I think Shockwave might have been on there. It was just all the bad guys, the main ones that you're going to recognize. I was like this is freaking cool. They did it with Autobots too, but I had no interest. Oh, blitzwing was on it. I was surprised at Blitzwing.
Speaker 2It was like, if it's not the Dinobots, I'm out.
Speaker 3Right. I looked at it and I was like yeah, know, right. I looked over. I'm like uh, yeah, we're good. Next let's go back. It was funny you say that, though, because I was asking him like hey, do you? I was like he had the shockwave by himself. You happen to have a sound wave? He's like no, but that's a popular one. His most, his most requested are grimlock and sound wave. So he's going to colorado springs comic-con next month. He's going to have a grimlock and a sound wave. I'm like well, you buy two get one free.
Speaker 3I know what two I'm buying. I gotta figure out which free one I'm gonna get. But yeah, he did say he's doing a grimlock, so that's kind of um trying to do any other art that really stood out. There's a there a lot of uh, the style this year, basically the anime, but the foil like there's, like some of the highlights yeah, that's starting to get really popular.
Speaker 3Okay, that was there's a lot of that, uh, that I saw, and obviously the the acrylic that yeah, the acrylic background, like using the acrylic to do the art on, and the metal, yeah because, I do something to stand out.
Speaker 1Everybody sells prints now, so you gotta stand out somehow, yeah so you gotta invest a little bit more well, and the cost of all that stuff has come down a lot.
Speaker 3And then then I was talking to a few of the artists. A lot of them are switching over to watercolors and other things because the AI accusation and stuff like that. It's like, well, if I do a watercolor type of thing, then they're not going to get the AI accusation because they're like, oh, that's just an AI Nobody. A lot of people they want AI, but they don't want AI art at all. Yeah, I don't care. Honestly, I'd rather lean towards something quote-unquote real, but if it looks good, I don't give a shit.
Speaker 2Don't tell my oldest that She'll cut your throat.
Speaker 3Again at the same time, label it that it was AI. I don't want you to take. Don't tell me ai as actual art.
Speaker 3Yeah, that's different yeah, tell me what it is, but if it looks good I don't give a shit. Uh, does some of the watercolors that the guy was? Uh, he did because he had like said he had switched over. I was like, oh, that's kind of cool. He's explaining the process. He's like, yeah, then I moved this to give it some texture and all this. He's moving the water around. It's like solid, it looks, look like it was a good looking piece. I'm down for that. Um man, it's like I'm sad comic con or denver expo is over, but at the same time, like man, I am so glad so I can actually sleep eight hours, at least for a few days.
Speaker 1Yeah yeah, that's a good point, I got six.
Speaker 3What are we at 16 days? Um, and then add it again.
Speaker 2Yeah, that'll be fun.
Speaker 3And honestly, if the exclusives suck, I mean I mean that's more money I save up for Japan or LA Celebration Right Just book it off to the side and makes LA 27 even more fancy. That way we can keep up with Jack who doesn't pay attention to his bills. Yeah. Or it'll make September very alcoholic.
Speaker 1Yeah, Jack be buying bottles of Skywalker Ranch wine at the cantina and shit I don't give a shit.
Speaker 2Pop them bitches.
Speaker 1Oh man, he's fucking getting bottle service at the fucking cantina. You guys got table service, you guys got bottle service here. They're like uh sure For you, yes.
Speaker 3Man, I'll go to Oga's and I'll pay that extra to have people not sit next to me there you go, I'll make two separate reservations at the same time. Yeah, can you put it for real For five? It's not even a joke, man.
Speaker 1Then at least we get the booth hard, you get a barrel.
Speaker 3You want six people around a barrel, they put in there.
Speaker 1Yeah, have fun standing there for the next hour and a half. Right, 45 minutes, 45 minutes, sorry, 45 minutes.
Speaker 2Two drink maximum.
Speaker 3Unless we have back-to-back reservations. Yeah, that's for sure, Duke you book, Jack you book, I'll book. And then we've got two hours 15.
Speaker 1What'd you guys do? We just said old guys got fucking busted. Whatever Then, Jack?
Speaker 4was like. I got it and we're like we love you, Daddy.
Speaker 3Here's my discount.
Speaker 2Sorry, sir, that doesn't work on alcohol I know right it'll.
Speaker 3It'll count on whatever mug we have to see what name was on it oh my god, oh shit, oh you guys got going on this week.
Speaker 2Work.
Speaker 3That's it. Same old, same old, Nothing crazy. Did you have softball tonight?
Speaker 1dude no Fourth of July weekend.
Speaker 3Okay, that's what I figured, but.
Speaker 1I'll let you guys know my schedule. They'll hopefully announce it this week, so I'll know if there's going to be days where it'll be dicey to start it at normal. Why are you data-eyeing right now, Jack? We're losing him. We're losing him.
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Speaker 2I don't know what the shit's going on. No, they're working on our backyard. They should be putting the grass in this week. Nice, that'll be cool.
Speaker 3ETA for opening yet.
Speaker 2I don't know the project manager's coming over tomorrow, so Give you an idea. Okay, get updates tomorrow.
Speaker 3I expect it to be done by September. I'm like, oh, yay.
Speaker 1I hope it's set by September. You can still use it, right.
Speaker 3I was like at least you can still use it as Vegas. For real, though, even out here pools stay open until the 3rd of September, you could get away. I mean hell, let's be real. Some apartment complexes, their pools are open year-round.
Speaker 2Yeah, it doesn't get cold here until November 1st. Anyways, we'll be alright yeah.
Speaker 3I remember going to the play.
Speaker 2That Plus. I think it's heated.
Speaker 3Oh, that helps too.
Speaker 1And we got the hot tub, so we're good, yeah, regardless.
Speaker 3Yeah, this guy we look at, look at him, right, hey.
Speaker 1I have been a positive influence over that's fair.
Speaker 2All right 30 year friendship.
Speaker 1Yes, yourself, sir. Anything going on.
Speaker 3I again. I don't think I have a meeting this week. Next week I do on Wednesday, but it'll just basically a lot of catch-up at work, like emails. Now that meetings I have a little quiet downtime for meetings. It's catch up on all the action.
Speaker 3That was so loud, that was so fucking loud what that tells me is lunch will be at sam's club to get a hot dog combo. That's that makes you think of. Every time I hear I hear that I think big ass thick hot dog for a buck 50 at sam's cheapest lunch ever.
Speaker 2I love it it's funny, I call my pants sam's club hey, oh, also a cheap lunch in jack's pants oh, so I was out on my friend's boat, uh, watching the fourthth of July fireworks.
Speaker 1Wait, stop right there.
Speaker 3This fool could give you shit about you. I'm just going to pay a bill. I was on my friend's boat on 4th of. July.
Speaker 2My rich friends were on a yacht on this bitch they were in a helicopter.
Speaker 1If Jack lived here, I'd be on his boat. He don't live here and he don't got no boat.
Speaker 1I, if Jack lived here, I'd be on his boat, but he don't live here and he don't got no boat, so I got to go find somebody else. All right, oh my God, and they were talking about we were having the conversation about, like, all the people who come out and like you're looking we were kind of talking a little bit about it earlier with your anime conversation, lou Like you people that come out for the for the fourth of july weekend, all these people out on boats and you'd be looking at them going, should you be wearing that? Like, like, and they're like, well, you should like. You should know what a miner looks like when you see it my way. What my name ain't drake, what, oh damn, half the boat got it. The other half were like what I'm like?
Speaker 3I don't think I can I was kind of proud of myself for that one oh my god that shit is still real, though it's like I can't tell if you're 14 or 24 half the time it's like, because you come out, you come out wearing a swimsuit that you're like, like like why are your parents allowing you to wear that at 14 yep, yep back in our day? Yeah, there's no way you're getting away with that shit. See, you knew whose parents didn't care about the kids.
Speaker 1Yep. But then they were like ah, those girls have been coming out every year for a while, so I think they're probably like 17 or 18. I was like oh, okay, cool then.
Speaker 3It's like no. No, it's not 17 or 18. It's 18.
Speaker 2Duke's on his phone. He's like age of consent in Oregon Right.
Speaker 3Right, for real. It's like age of consent in Oregon 16. No, yeah, she's great.
Speaker 2Yeah, I just can't take pictures of it. It's fine, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3Which is so weird.
Speaker 1Hang on, jack, let me take a picture of you. Yeah, no, no, no. Move to the left. Okay, all right, cool. Oh, I just went out of focus.
Speaker 3Whoa, you went out of focus.
Speaker 1That's wild, what just happened there.
Speaker 2Your camera was like where did you go.
Speaker 1My camera is just predator-ed me, oh see, this is it?
Speaker 2Hello, oh, my God.
Speaker 1Why do you have flowers in a six-pack? What?
Speaker 3Chris.
Speaker 1Hansen just got a hold of my webcam and was just like why don't you have a seat? Dude.
Speaker 3Were you expecting to meet blah blah blah here? Oh shit, Chloroform.
Speaker 1This is for the dreams.
Speaker 3Oh my God, I'm a scientist. Leave me alone.
Speaker 2Chloroform. I thought it was chlorophyll. We were going to do gardening, oh man, this is not for my greenhouse.
Speaker 3Totally screwed this up.
Speaker 2That son of a bitch at Home Depot.
Speaker 1You know what the Lowe's Lowe's.
Speaker 2The not rapey home improvement store yeah.
Speaker 1Oh my. God, okay, all right, gents. Yes, let's get loose. That's all she wrote. Let's get out of here. This is going downhill real quick. Yeah, it is.
Speaker 3Matter of fact, I don't even know if I'm gonna make it to the bed. I'm on the couch right now. I'm gonna put on my puzzle game and lay down and fall asleep while I'm playing it, because that's what I usually do. It's gonna it's gonna be either carcassonne or clash of heroes, and I'm gonna wake up at two in the morning with the controller on my chest and shit, and then I'll get up and go to the bedroom at that point but I can see it.
Speaker 3I'm like, okay, I've got to wind down from this, which will be with the game, and then, yeah, I'm going to wake up with drool on my pillow at two in the morning.
Speaker 1One of these times it'll be drool in your controller and you'll be like god damn it. Dude for real.
Speaker 3I'm a wake up shock because the controller shocked my ass. I drove all over it.
Speaker 1Sweet, have yourself a good week We'll do it again at 7.
Speaker 3Thanks for listening.
Speaker 1Bye.
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