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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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Speaker 1:Pickle Rick.
Speaker 3:Did you turn yourself into a pickle so you could avoid therapy?
Speaker 1:How are?
Speaker 3:you guys doing Good Tired man.
Speaker 2:You look like you've been at a convention all week, or something.
Speaker 3:Dude 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 3:Denver. 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 1:Yeah, you're saying I've got up, but I got up at 7 30.
Speaker 2:I'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 1:what are you talking about?
Speaker 3:But 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 2:Like a gang.
Speaker 3:It was man, especially for their nerd gang. We were ready to throw down Pro tractors pocket protectors.
Speaker 1:Your root beer mug.
Speaker 3:I 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 1:Yeah, we are. Lovers of themselves Also true Self-lovers.
Speaker 3:I 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 3:They 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 1:Sounds like someone needs to go on a Disney cruise.
Speaker 3:Man for real To get a Star.
Speaker 1:Wars quiz. Star Wars quiz fix Right.
Speaker 3:But 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 2:You brought what you know is a woman with you. Just stick with that.
Speaker 3:You 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 2:I was gonna say she knew just about all of them.
Speaker 3:Uh-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 2:okay, you're like fuck up. I just want to know what his name was. Right, I just want to know?
Speaker 3:I 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 1:outfit 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 3:A lot of them are 13, though You're not wrong about that A lot of them are 13 episode seasons.
Speaker 1:Respect for that.
Speaker 2:We'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 3:The 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 1:No, 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 3:He was a furry and it was a bear. Lou knows about the bears. Oh, no, wait, pride month's over.
Speaker 2:No, I don't back in the closet.
Speaker 3:Back 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 3:Yeah, 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 2:Wars together.
Speaker 3:Twilight 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 1:I said he was, I don't know white manager uh, no, yes, okay, never mind.
Speaker 3:yeah, 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 1:But it was pretty cool. It would have been funny if he would have shown up at 11.38.
Speaker 3:Oh, 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 2:It'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 1:He 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 3:I 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 1:If 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 3:No, it would be obviously set in Egypt and he could still yell sun rays. It'd be fine.
Speaker 1:It'd be Raw Raw.
Speaker 3:There we go.
Speaker 1:Now, all of a sudden, he has a southern accent. Wait what?
Speaker 3:Yeah, 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 2:Best part of Acolyte.
Speaker 1:Jason Mendoza. Jason. Mendoza. Recognize Jason Mendoza Good place.
Speaker 2:Next time you need a TV series we watch Good Place.
Speaker 3:Okay, stop, stop, stop. No spoilers, because that is our next watch. Hell yes, Holy fuck.
Speaker 1:All 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.
Speaker 3:So, 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 3:So yeah, when she got to the front Wait did you get the quote.
Speaker 3:Yes, 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 3:I 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 1:Sidebar. From that Still charged you full quote rate, though Sidebar on that.
Speaker 2:He didn't charge for a quote. Duke and I met him a million ago when he did iRobot.
Speaker 3:Really God dog. It was iRobot and Steve the Pirate, la Comic and Sci-Fi Con he, it was iRobot and.
Speaker 2:Steve the Pirate. La. Comic and Sci-Fi Con. It was their promoting iRobot.
Speaker 1:It's the part of town you don't like to go in, lou, yeah, I was right next to.
Speaker 2:USC. So I mean we were strapped up, obviously, obviously.
Speaker 1:Yeah, 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 3:Christian Bale. They were in a movie together.
Speaker 2:Reign of Fire. Bro Dragons, it was fucking badass.
Speaker 3:That 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 2:Christian.
Speaker 1:Bale. We met Sam Raimi because of Spider-Man. They were there promoting OG's.
Speaker 3:Spider-Man.
Speaker 1:We 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 3:Do 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 1:It 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 3:There 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 2:Got 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 3:Uh, 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 2:I'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 3:Only 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 2:Coup, coup, coup.
Speaker 1:Coup, coup, coup, coup, coup.
Speaker 3:Coup, coup, coup, coup, coup, Coup, coup, coup.
Speaker 1:Coup, coup, coup, coup, coup, Coup, coup, coup.
Speaker 3:Coup, 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 1:But 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 3:You'll get the whole show itself. It wasn't all that great, but you were, that's allowed.
Speaker 1:Isn'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 3:We never have breaking news mean that'll be next year's exclusive.
Speaker 2:so we never have breaking news.
Speaker 3:I 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 1:You know that was saturday they're doing.
Speaker 3:They don't know what the fuck they're doing they don't know what sure.
Speaker 3:Sure 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 3:When 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 1:Styling online.
Speaker 3:Oh 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 1:pack it for you. Yeah, did you have to pack it yourself or they pack it for you.
Speaker 3:They 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 1:Packed it as tight as they could.
Speaker 3:As 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 1:Leon from Resident Evil.
Speaker 4:Yeah, or 2 or 4. 2 or 4. But yeah, she dressed up as him.
Speaker 3:And 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 3:Uh 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 2:But I should have watched you too, like we did. Exactly, that's what I'm saying. I watched it for two months.
Speaker 3:He 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 2:They got a new apartment. They got to decorate.
Speaker 3:That'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 3:We 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 2:Really Just walk up.
Speaker 3:It 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 2:They gotta make a smaller run for that kind of show.
Speaker 3:I 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 2:Well, like you said, that was a banger for locals, For locals for the Rockies it really was, and that went quick.
Speaker 3:And for the people who do the whole floral, no matter what.
Speaker 2:There's some people who are just doing it. Yeah, that's a jam.
Speaker 3:They 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 1:And then it was like a neon or something right, not quite.
Speaker 2:They did one last year too.
Speaker 3:The 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 2:I 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 3:Yeah, 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 2:Yeah, all those other ones, All those Diego.
Speaker 3:Yeah, 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 3:I had to go back the next day and buy another pin so I could get my own lanyard.
Speaker 2:You have that problem a lot.
Speaker 1:Yes, 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 3:Not yet. That could turn into something. Then you have your shit stolen.
Speaker 1:I only got you to worry about Lou. Mm-hmm.
Speaker 3:I 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 1:So Well, I'll let you know when we get closer to September.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, let me know, it's like a mellot.
Speaker 1:Make me a mellot your way. Uh wait when is your, when is your, when is your Before or after.
Speaker 3:I see you in Vegas.
Speaker 1:I think it's after Okay.
Speaker 3:I'll just bring it to Vegas then.
Speaker 1:Well, no, sorry, I think us meeting up is after.
Speaker 3:Okay, 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 1:It is September 5th through the 7th, so yep like a couple weeks before we see each other.
Speaker 3:I'll just mail it to you now.
Speaker 1:And whatever I pick up for you guys, I'll just bring with me.
Speaker 3:Yeah 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 3:I 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 3:Alan 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 2:I don't know anything on here, his draws. Right, you know it was just a win, his draws.
Speaker 3:However, 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 1:But 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 3:Lou 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 1:It's an empty chicken nugget box from Lawson's.
Speaker 3:But 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 2:Green Union kind of.
Speaker 3:What 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 3:And 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 1:You know what?
Speaker 3:I'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 3:Yeah, 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 3:So 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 3:This 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 1:So it's like same. I was like it was supposed to be an 80. Oh, and. Jackson were like.
Speaker 3:F, both of y'all. It's supposed to be 165.
Speaker 1:For real, I'm just going to put some stakes out on my pool, yeah dude.
Speaker 3:For 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 1:Tell 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 3:And 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 1:Or wristbands or something. I ain't trying to do that. But, if they're not Star.
Speaker 2:Wars it's less passable too. We only did it last year because it was Star Wars.
Speaker 3:Yeah 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 2:Yeah, they did.
Speaker 1:Portland. Yeah, exactly, I got you guys that right yeah.
Speaker 4:I thought I did yeah you did yeah, yep. Because, it had the.
Speaker 1:Rose City, the old town, white stag sign, the light up sign in front of it, yep.
Speaker 2:I recall. So yeah, then again.
Speaker 3:You 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 1:I was like I can't zoom in this much on those.
Speaker 3:I 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 1:Mugs. 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 3:So 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 1:Memorial. I think that is because Memorial Day is always the last Monday of the month.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but this year was like the 25th or something like that, or 26th.
Speaker 2:So 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 1:I mean usually. I know for Star Wars.
Speaker 3:May 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 1:Why 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 3:Oh, 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 1:Couldn't see him because he was in a private booth. That was my thing.
Speaker 3:Bro was doing the panel. I'm like how can you see him if you go to a panel?
Speaker 2:Does he just call this in?
Speaker 3:Weird.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was't know A voice from beyond.
Speaker 3:His 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 1:Hayden's was yeah what they do at Comic-Con.
Speaker 3:That'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 2:Put a bag over your head.
Speaker 3:Which 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 1:We're what? Three weeks from.
Speaker 3:Comic-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 3:Good 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 2:We got the other badges too, the wife's badges. Gotcha, gotcha.
Speaker 3:I 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 2:uh, portal Got to take care of that, even UCC is kind of weak, though.
Speaker 3:Are 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 2:Uh, the snakes, ugly things those three inch things.
Speaker 3:those 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 1:Uh, later did you guys talk about the uh Darth Vader pin. Um that looks dope as shit, sorry.
Speaker 3:What are you talking about? The?
Speaker 1:Punch it Chewy. The guys that are with the BB Cream. They have a.
Speaker 2:They have a. Really it looks like a it looks dope.
Speaker 1:Yep, looks dope.
Speaker 3:BB Cream dropped a pin on the blog. Yeah, oh yeah, you were talking about Godzilla.
Speaker 1:You 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 3:Yeah, no, I have no idea. I have no idea what you're talking about. I have not seen it.
Speaker 1:Well, you'll be pleasantly surprised when you look Right on.
Speaker 3:I 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 2:Yeah, yeah Cause.
Speaker 3:I 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 2:it is.
Speaker 3:Something 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 2:I don't know. I haven't seen any announcements.
Speaker 3:But 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 2:FigPin'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 1:They blind bagged their animation cells this year.
Speaker 2:Hey, there's no horror. They don't give a fuck. Yeah, the UCC ones.
Speaker 3:Yeah, people don't want a random cell. They want what they want Now, if they're good and you can turn them.
Speaker 2:It has been an animated series, oh okay, I and you can turn them.
Speaker 1:They are all good. It is Batman animated series. Oh, oh, sorry, sorry, I guess the continuation of that.
Speaker 3:Oh, you got a randomness of now you have an anime and now you have.
Speaker 1:Yeah, this is all. This is all Batman animated series. That's not bad it looks like there's five of them.
Speaker 3:People 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 1:It looks like they're limited out of $500.
Speaker 3:Same as last year, I think, or was it $1,000?
Speaker 2:last year. Oh no, it was $100. It was $100 last year.
Speaker 3:I'm almost certain it was $100.
Speaker 2:Oh.
Speaker 3:I 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 2:Like I put her in the closet Okay, the.
Speaker 1:RTD2 butts on things. Luggage tag is pretty funny.
Speaker 3:You mean an RTD2 butt or put a butt on RTD2?
Speaker 1:They put a butt on RTD2.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's a guy, I remember that one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the butt-tongue I remember that one, sorry, all right, I got sidetracked.
Speaker 3:Squirrel. Yeah, you did this guy. So, Roosevelt, what else?
Speaker 2:I got my Roosevelt on for Jurassic Park Did you go watch it today. Yep, I liked it.
Speaker 1:Did you? Yeah, what's wrong with you?
Speaker 2:It was a Jurassic Park movie.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it was a Jurassic Park movie. Yeah, it was just that Family B story was just like no point.
Speaker 2:I was like whatever I didn't know. They wanted Pedro to play the dad, though.
Speaker 3:Oh 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 2:Oh yeah, for sure.
Speaker 3:For 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 3:But 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 2:My man pooped his pants when that happened.
Speaker 3:He 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 2:It was a lot of shit I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 3:He doesn't even know how much tickets cost he has his.
Speaker 1:Uh, he has a secretary. Buy him for him before he shows up shit I'm actually.
Speaker 2:That's the one thing I'm gonna say. There's no way Jack is all handling.
Speaker 3:that 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 1:Yeah, I mean that's a dress party, because it always does well.
Speaker 2:Fast and the Furious. You know what you're getting.
Speaker 1:Yeah, 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 2:Fair enough yeah it was entertaining enough.
Speaker 1:Because 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 3:I 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 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:I thought it was fine. I liked that one Jurassic Park 1, and then Jurassic Park 4, I suppose 4.
Speaker 1:How 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 2:Hey, he wasn't in this movie, so it's fine, he was not.
Speaker 1:Finally, 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 3:What Looks like their five-day opening weekend for Jurassic World was worldwide 320 million.
Speaker 2:All 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 3:Mm-hmm, crazy how that works out.
Speaker 1:Well, because they were looking up. You don't look up at anything, sir. This is true.
Speaker 3:Although that totally tracks, though that's their theme for Superman. Look up.
Speaker 1:I 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 3:He's a super dog. That's dumb. That's a stupid fan. Right there, all I'm doing is reporting.
Speaker 1:I'm not saying I saw it. I'm just saying I saw an article that was talking about it.
Speaker 3:The 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 2:but it could still surprise him.
Speaker 3:Well, people bitched about it, so they changed the CGI of him not blinking.
Speaker 1:It'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 2:I 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 3:Obviously. I'm just saying they fixed it, because if you look at the trailer now, now he doesn't blink.
Speaker 2:Henry Cavill doesn't blink. He doesn't even have eyelids.
Speaker 1:He just has guns and replaces arms. But it's Henry Cavill.
Speaker 3:That was his Mission Impossible, where he loaded up his Before he's about to fight.
Speaker 1:Yeah, 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 3:I 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 1:I 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 3:I had a choice.
Speaker 1:I had a choice to make, and I always made what I felt was the right choice.
Speaker 3:We 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 1:our 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 1:Of 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 1:Um 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 2:Now I remember it.
Speaker 1:Peter Dinklage is the manager of the store. Ben Mendelsohn is a pastor. Kristen Dunst works at the store. Channing Tatum is the thief.
Speaker 2:I'm going to watch it just so I can see Toys R Us again. There you go.
Speaker 3:Filmed on location in Canada.
Speaker 1:There you go. Thoughts it looks okay.
Speaker 3:It'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 1:Not one that we need another trailer for, though.
Speaker 3:No, yeah, they're done. That's the one I've done. Yeah, I don't need to see them other than that.
Speaker 1:The next is Chapter 2 of the Strangers, which is a horror film. It's actually directed by Rennie Harlan from Long Kiss.
Speaker 3:Goodnight 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 1:It 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 2:I'm looking it up right now. It came out in 2008.
Speaker 1:So 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 3:No, it's the direct sequel world, but a different.
Speaker 1:no, 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 2:I see it now. Yes, I do see that now.
Speaker 3:The 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 2:Then, 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 3:This 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 1:And 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 3:Last weekend of September. Okay, last weekend of September.
Speaker 1:Okay. 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 2:I learned about it from uh, the cartoon?
Speaker 1:yeah, 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 3:It'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 2:Yeah, 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 3:Less than NC-17. Wait, less than NC-17? Yeah.
Speaker 2:Jesus. 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 3:Oh, the trailer was pretty gnarly, bro.
Speaker 2:The trailer was pretty gnarly, but it wasn't 17 gnarly.
Speaker 3:It was definitely rated R gnarly, that's for sure, and it's been it's.
Speaker 1:It'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 3:and 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 2:So depending on the next trailer, you might go see it. Honestly, yeah, but it'd still be a Tuesday movie.
Speaker 3:Let's be real, I'm definitely spending more on a squishy than I am on that movie ticket price A crypto squishy?
Speaker 1:Yeah, 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 2:Silver Surfer. Silver Surfer and.
Speaker 1:Thanos and Han Solo and Henry Woo from the Jurassic Park movies. That son of a bitch.
Speaker 2:He turned up those children to make dinosaurs.
Speaker 3:Oh, 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 1:We have that. It's called a xenomorph.
Speaker 3:Get 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 1:Yeah, 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 2:All 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 3:This 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 2:It's like a mystery kind of thing. Don't give me enough to figure it out. Don't ruin the mystery.
Speaker 3:Just just get me to the theater at this point and right now. You'll get me at the theater, Just stop.
Speaker 1:In May 2023, pascal exited the project due to his commitments with the Fantastic Four movie.
Speaker 3:Man, this is right up with Josh Brolin.
Speaker 1:That's a good point.
Speaker 3:With Josh.
Speaker 1:Brolin in talks to replace him.
Speaker 3:That's a good point. Why can Silver Surfer do it if Mr Reed can't?
Speaker 1:Because she literally just walked in, they scanned her body and then she left.
Speaker 3:She came back with voiceover. Yeah, we'll call you for voiceover work.
Speaker 1:So this looks like it might be interesting.
Speaker 3:I 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 1:You 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 3:It'll be like 10 years ago, when Deadpool was in the 20-something different covers of movies.
Speaker 2:He'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 1:well, this generation's nick cage isn't everything, everything it was. You're right, he's getting his superhero in fucking sammy.
Speaker 3:Um, 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 2:We're done. Two trailers in a minute.
Speaker 1:All 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 2:He said yes too, so whatever.
Speaker 3:I know. It's fine.
Speaker 1:It 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 2:Did that also star, liam Neeson?
Speaker 1:It 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 1:It'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 1:Liam Neeson movie. He has a certain set of skills.
Speaker 2:I'll watch the first one, then I'll stream this one.
Speaker 3:I'm with you on that one.
Speaker 2:I think I will if I'm super bored and I've watched everything else. Yep, yep. After the Toxic Avenger.
Speaker 3:After I finish four seasons of the Good Life.
Speaker 1:Wow, you're going to watch the Paris Hilton.
Speaker 2:Nicole Richie show.
Speaker 1:That 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 1:Squad. 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 1:Yeah 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 3:Nah, 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 1:He was innocent.
Speaker 3:I won't go that far. He was not feeling guilty.
Speaker 1:Did you guys ever watch any of the Naked Gun or see any of the Police Squad stuff online or whatever? Oh, absolutely.
Speaker 2:I'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 1:That 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 3:Heyday. 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 1:I was saying, yeah, it was that period of time. I wasn't speaking particularly of a particular movie, the movies that did well.
Speaker 2:Fuck you, James Franco. Oh my God.
Speaker 3:I 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 2:social 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 1:I'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 3:I 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 2:People are retro waiting on it now.
Speaker 3:Yeah, 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 1:Yeah 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 2:That's what you had to say Timothy Olyphant in an Alien TV series, done Justified with aliens.
Speaker 3:I'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 1:Would 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 2:Wait, there's a woman. No, I'm out.
Speaker 3:Wait, what in an?
Speaker 2:alien movie Fuck that.
Speaker 3:There's never been one good alien movie with a female lead ever.
Speaker 1:But 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 2:And 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 3:That freaking.
Speaker 1:Yeah, 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 3:Yeah, I think that was my first time seeing the trailer properly and I was not interested.
Speaker 2:It's on Netflix. It's not going to cost you anything, oh, except for an hour and a half of your time.
Speaker 3:It'll be bottom of the list because it did not look like. Ooh, I can't wait to see this.
Speaker 1:We'll have Haley Joel Osment though.
Speaker 3:So, 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 1:The 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 2:That one looked entertaining.
Speaker 3:I 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 1:This 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 2:Um, yeah, we can talk about running man I saw that one earlier, and then I saw it with Jurassic.
Speaker 3:World Jurassic Park.
Speaker 2:Yeah, 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 3:It 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 2:It's the future, Lou, and they're poor.
Speaker 1:The only interracial couple that's allowed in Lou's world is Lou.
Speaker 2:I mean, I don't know it's because the lady was black Lou just doesn't like women.
Speaker 3:Yeah, 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 1:Well, 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 2:Do we know? Is this more based on the?
Speaker 3:novel. It's funny you say that I was thinking the exact same thing.
Speaker 3:I 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 1:They 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 3:Yeah, that was at jurassic park, dude, we didn't get that one. Oh, you didn't get that one.
Speaker 1:Oh, that looked good, i't get that one.
Speaker 3:Oh, that looked good. I like that one.
Speaker 1:So 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 3:Yeah, 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 1:And 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 3:Yeah, he's getting his practice for that next space movie he's doing yeah, whatever that is.
Speaker 1:I 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 2:I don't remember here somewhere we were.
Speaker 2:Uh, 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 3:And 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 2:I don't know if it's just.
Speaker 3:That 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 1:I'm okay with that.
Speaker 3:Isn't that Thanos 2?
Speaker 2:That's the dude from Maverick.
Speaker 3:Wasn't that Dude from Maverick Dude from Twisters?
Speaker 1:I 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 2:Yeah, I enjoyed back in by then I'm gonna go on a monday.
Speaker 3:While 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 2:I didn it until it was streaming.
Speaker 3:I 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 1:Have you guys watched any of the Conjuring movies?
Speaker 3:Yeah, Because there's another one of those coming out too.
Speaker 1:Well, 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 3:I'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 1:It 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 3:Uh, 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 1:It looks like it's going to be super fucked up.
Speaker 3:Yeah, 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 1:I don't know what's going on Tron Ares Excited, not excited, for some reason the girls want to watch it.
Speaker 2:I'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 3:So I think this is definitely one where I'm going to have to go back and re-watch.
Speaker 2:Oh, 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 3:Two weeks after we're there for football?
Speaker 1:Yeah, there'll be a.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I saw that they're at SDCC.
Speaker 1:Yeah. 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 3:When 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 2:Now you See Me 3?.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, I saw that trailer too during Jurassic and last week.
Speaker 2:I like those movies. I probably would.
Speaker 3:I'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 1:I guess there's the next Avatar movies coming out in December. Oh, I didn't know that.
Speaker 3:I didn't know it was that soon.
Speaker 2:Thanks, disney, you're going to end up with fucking Elio again.
Speaker 3:Is there a teaser for that one, because I could have swore I saw something on that.
Speaker 1:They're just interviewing him. They haven't done a trailer. It's Maybe that's what it was.
Speaker 3:Maybe 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 1:Anaconda with Steve Zahn, Paul Rudd and Jack Black.
Speaker 3:They redid Anaconda.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Without Ice Cube, fuck them.
Speaker 3:They're rebooting it. That'd be funny if he has a cameo Right.
Speaker 1:As he should, although.
Speaker 3:Well, 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 1:I know I'm sorry, I'm very sorry. I can't help myself.
Speaker 3:Man what else?
Speaker 1:I 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 3:Well, 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 3:And 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 2:I'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 3:That 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 1:They 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 3:I thought I heard about that. I thought it was just like they're just streaming 15 minutes of the movie.
Speaker 1:I didn't know, it was actually the whole movie in the theater.
Speaker 3:Wow okay, that's cool.
Speaker 1:That'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 3:Well, 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 2:well, here's a new superhero movie.
Speaker 3:That is true, bro.
Speaker 2:This has expectations.
Speaker 3:I 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 1:I 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 3:Man. 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 2:Everything else, yeah. But yeah, this is marketing for the future.
Speaker 3:Everything 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 2:Oh yeah, we got Saturday morning, I think ish. Yeah, we're going at 9.30 on Saturday.
Speaker 3:If I can't do 9.30 in the morning, hell yeah, god damn.
Speaker 1:Theater was open that early For Superman it is.
Speaker 3:That'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 1:Eddington Edging Another Pedro Pascal movie.
Speaker 3:That'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 1:I think I would rather watch this, whatever this is, or I know what you did last summer, I am not watching.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I know what you did last summer. I am not watching. I know what you did last summer.
Speaker 3:That'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 1:AMC Scream Unseen.
Speaker 3:Scream 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 1:They did that with scream too, though yeah, soft reboot with who scream are you sure?
Speaker 3:I thought it was just scream one, two, three, four, five, six, seven.
Speaker 2:The first one with Jen Ortega was called Scream.
Speaker 3:Oh, 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 2:You're not a creative type, Lou, so don't worry about it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's why we don't own a pin company.
Speaker 3:If 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 2:It evolves past the TV.
Speaker 3:If Arnold shows up in it, then I'm going to be mad. They called it running man. I'll wait Wow.
Speaker 2:Reserving judgment until he actually watches something. Holy shit Stop.
Speaker 1:Cut.
Speaker 3:Let 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 2:It's soft reboot kind of stuff. Final Destination did it. Yeah, Bloodlines.
Speaker 3:Didn't Final Destination have a second name?
Speaker 2:Or it had like the Final Destination or something like that that works.
Speaker 3:That's different Alien. Aliens, I mean I'm allowed, that's okay.
Speaker 2:As long as it's different. If it's the exact same one, it needs to be a reboot.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there was. Final Destination 1, 2, 3, the Final Destination. Final Destination 5, and Final Destination Bloodlines, Final.
Speaker 3:Destination 5 and Final Destination Bloodlines. See, there you go. Different, different names.
Speaker 2:Fast and Furious did it too. They added or took out a the.
Speaker 3:No, they have 2, 3, 4,. Whatever the stupid names they had, not one of the names was a repeat name.
Speaker 2:It sure enough, was yeah, 2009. Fast and Furious.
Speaker 3:And there's no the right.
Speaker 2:No, they just took out the the on both of them.
Speaker 3:Exactly. 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 1:Sometimes the hills you die on are hilarious.
Speaker 3:But I'm not wrong, it's different. Y'all know how literal I am, so nope, it's different.
Speaker 2:Suicide Squad and then the Suicide Squad Yep.
Speaker 3:Because 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 1:It'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 3:Wasn't her name the Firefly girl?
Speaker 1:Oh, Summer, oh Summer, summer Glau, oh, never mind, not Sumner.
Speaker 2:Sumner Glau.
Speaker 3:Oh wait, there was another trailer. Well, I thought, maybe, maybe not. I thought there was a trailer for Fallout, the next season.
Speaker 1:I don't remember seeing one. I mean I guess it's possible.
Speaker 3:I 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 2:Yeah, it's like December or something.
Speaker 1:Yeah, 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 3:But 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 2:Well, 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 1:By the way, Candy Shop is 20 years old.
Speaker 3:50 Cent just turned 50 today dang yeah wow, you gotta market that. What are you doing?
Speaker 1:oh 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 3:No, 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 1:Yep, unlike the most recent one. Wait what.
Speaker 3:You 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 2:35th anniversary of the original Ninja Turtles 35,.
Speaker 3:Oh, 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 3:I had Donatello. I was like did I have a ball.
Speaker 1:Nope, 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 3:First two don't count, you get three guesses. First two don't count man, yep. What else what's?
Speaker 2:going on. The oldest has seen it, but I don't think the little one has. I think that'll be fun.
Speaker 3:You 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 2:Yeah, the Michael Bay ones.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I actually didn't mind those. I had the.
Speaker 1:Transformers version of the Turtles.
Speaker 3:Yep, 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 2:Oh, 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 3:right 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 2:It was like, if it's not the Dinobots, I'm out.
Speaker 3:Right. 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 3:I 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 3:Okay, 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 1:Everybody 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 3:And 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 2:Don't tell my oldest that She'll cut your throat.
Speaker 3:Again 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 3:Yeah, 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 1:Yeah yeah, that's a good point, I got six.
Speaker 3:What are we at 16 days? Um, and then add it again.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that'll be fun.
Speaker 3:And 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 1:Yeah, Jack be buying bottles of Skywalker Ranch wine at the cantina and shit I don't give a shit.
Speaker 2:Pop them bitches.
Speaker 1:Oh 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 3:Man, 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 1:Then at least we get the booth hard, you get a barrel.
Speaker 3:You want six people around a barrel, they put in there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, have fun standing there for the next hour and a half. Right, 45 minutes, 45 minutes, sorry, 45 minutes.
Speaker 2:Two drink maximum.
Speaker 3:Unless 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 1:What'd you guys do? We just said old guys got fucking busted. Whatever Then, Jack?
Speaker 4:was like. I got it and we're like we love you, Daddy.
Speaker 3:Here's my discount.
Speaker 2:Sorry, sir, that doesn't work on alcohol I know right it'll.
Speaker 3:It'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 2:Work.
Speaker 3:That's it. Same old, same old, Nothing crazy. Did you have softball tonight?
Speaker 1:dude no Fourth of July weekend.
Speaker 3:Okay, that's what I figured, but.
Speaker 1:I'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.
Speaker 2:I 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 3:ETA for opening yet.
Speaker 2:I don't know the project manager's coming over tomorrow, so Give you an idea. Okay, get updates tomorrow.
Speaker 3:I expect it to be done by September. I'm like, oh, yay.
Speaker 1:I hope it's set by September. You can still use it, right.
Speaker 3:I 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 2:Yeah, it doesn't get cold here until November 1st. Anyways, we'll be alright yeah.
Speaker 3:I remember going to the play.
Speaker 2:That Plus. I think it's heated.
Speaker 3:Oh, that helps too.
Speaker 1:And we got the hot tub, so we're good, yeah, regardless.
Speaker 3:Yeah, this guy we look at, look at him, right, hey.
Speaker 1:I have been a positive influence over that's fair.
Speaker 2:All right 30 year friendship.
Speaker 1:Yes, yourself, sir. Anything going on.
Speaker 3:I 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 3:That 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 2:I 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 1:Wait, stop right there.
Speaker 3:This 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 2:My rich friends were on a yacht on this bitch they were in a helicopter.
Speaker 1:If Jack lived here, I'd be on his boat. He don't live here and he don't got no boat.
Speaker 1:I, 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 3:I 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 1:Yep. 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 3:It's like no. No, it's not 17 or 18. It's 18.
Speaker 2:Duke's on his phone. He's like age of consent in Oregon Right.
Speaker 3:Right, for real. It's like age of consent in Oregon 16. No, yeah, she's great.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I just can't take pictures of it. It's fine, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:Which is so weird.
Speaker 1:Hang 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 3:Whoa, you went out of focus.
Speaker 1:That's wild, what just happened there.
Speaker 2:Your camera was like where did you go.
Speaker 1:My camera is just predator-ed me, oh see, this is it?
Speaker 2:Hello, oh, my God.
Speaker 1:Why do you have flowers in a six-pack? What?
Speaker 3:Chris.
Speaker 1:Hansen just got a hold of my webcam and was just like why don't you have a seat? Dude.
Speaker 3:Were you expecting to meet blah blah blah here? Oh shit, Chloroform.
Speaker 1:This is for the dreams.
Speaker 3:Oh my God, I'm a scientist. Leave me alone.
Speaker 2:Chloroform. I thought it was chlorophyll. We were going to do gardening, oh man, this is not for my greenhouse.
Speaker 3:Totally screwed this up.
Speaker 2:That son of a bitch at Home Depot.
Speaker 1:You know what the Lowe's Lowe's.
Speaker 2:The not rapey home improvement store yeah.
Speaker 1:Oh 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 3:Matter 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 3:I'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 1:One of these times it'll be drool in your controller and you'll be like god damn it. Dude for real.
Speaker 3:I'm a wake up shock because the controller shocked my ass. I drove all over it.
Speaker 1:Sweet, have yourself a good week We'll do it again at 7.
Speaker 3:Thanks for listening.
Speaker 1:Bye.
