We Came For Grogu, Stayed For Josh Gad Getting Yeeted

A glossy Grogu spot during the Super Bowl should’ve been a layup. Instead, it left fans asking who it was for—and why it needed a post-game explainer. We unpack what didn’t work about the Tauntaun homage, how to fix that approach with a smarter series-led strategy, and why clarity matters when you’re teasing the future of Star Wars to more than the diehards.

From there we follow the money. We talk rumored budgets for the Mandalorian and Grogu film, what “cheap for Star Wars” actually means, and how box office math shapes creative risks. Toy Fair leaks keep the conversation spicy: a battle droid in Mando armor, Grogu magnet-perching on Din’s back, and collector sticker shock as “deluxe” pricing becomes the norm. That flows straight into Disneyland realities—after-hours events that cost extra, early closures that sting, and how to judge value when the unique stuff (rare characters, themed parades) is genuinely special. We also break down Galaxy’s Edge timeline blending, with Original Trilogy energy by the Falcon, Disney+ icons in the marketplace, and Rey near Rise—an elegant way to widen the tent without wrecking immersion.

We cap it with a Wonder Man review that might surprise you. The series uses MCU connective tissue—Trevor Slattery, Damage Control—without demanding homework, prioritizing character over lore dumps. We call out one detour that slows the momentum, celebrate standout chemistry and sharp comedy, and explain why this is the MCU lane that works on TV: tethered to canon, free to breathe. Along the way, we detour into the Winter Olympics for curling steals, skeleton courage, and hockey blowouts, plus a confession about a $55 DCA 25th popcorn bucket that lights up and syncs to parades. It holds little popcorn and a lot of joy—maybe the best metaphor for fandom we’ve had all year.

If you’re into Star Wars marketing, Disney parks, Marvel storytelling, or just honest fan math, this one’s for you. Tap follow, share it with a friend who loves Grogu, and drop a rating with your take: did the Super Bowl ad help or hurt the hype?

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Chapters

• 1:03 Palantine’s Day And Chaos Banter
• 1:50 Super Bowl Grogu Ad Backlash
• 4:05 Marketing Strategy And Star Wars Hopes
• 6:54 Budgets, Box Office, And Toy Fair Leaks
• 10:14 Action Figures, Magnets, And Price Shock
• 15:10 Transformers 40th Hype And Merch
• 21:31 Park Hours, After-Hours Events, And Costs
• 30:13 Super Bowl Game And Commercials Recap
• 38:11 Winter Olympics: Hockey, Curling, And Skeleton
• 49:52 Wonder Man Review: Hits And Misses
• 1:00:59 MCU Tie-Ins, Damage Control, And Structure
• 1:10:15 Horror Marathons And 90s TV Rabbit Holes
• 1:21:13 Disneyland Updates: Galaxy’s Edge Changes
• 1:33:25 DCA 25th, Tech Popcorn Bucket, And Soarin’
• 1:44:17 Movie Plans, Scream 7, And Closing Bits

Transcript

Palantine’s Day And Chaos Banter

SPEAKER_03 0:33

What? Happy Olympics, everybody.

SPEAKER_00 0:37

It's Palantine's Day. If bitches get Galantine's Day, we get Palantine's Day.

SPEAKER_04 0:43

No, we get steak and BJ Day.

SPEAKER_00 0:46

But see, my problem with that is it's also on pie day. Like, why do we gotta do everything? Steak, pie, and then a BJ? I'm gonna sleep after the steak.

SPEAKER_04 0:57

I mean, there's probably some truth to that though. I don't know. After after my BJ, I'm trying to get some pie myself.

SPEAKER_03 1:11

Before, after, during, let me some pie.

SPEAKER_04 1:16

I mean with a nice with the Keon to some father.

Super Bowl Grogu Ad Backlash

SPEAKER_00 1:20

Dude, okay. So um the Grogu trailer. Right? Like if they had to explain that it was supposed to be a um homage to the Clydesdale horses, then they done fucked up.

SPEAKER_04 1:35

Yep, yeah, yeah. I was thinking that too. I saw I saw some of that where they dropped a here's an explanation of what was happening. I'm with you. As soon as that shit happened, it was like, Y'all done messed up, eh, Aaron? Y'all spent eight million dollars minimum for that. You you you got your mind.

SPEAKER_00 1:54

And then it's gonna piss you off because it probably doesn't even happen in the movie. If it was created for that, it probably isn't even in the movie. No, it's 100% created for that. That's there, there's they're not they're not gonna have that in the movie. There's not we don't know.

SPEAKER_04 2:09

They could they could be after some blue milk on Hawth instead of Budweiser.

SPEAKER_00 2:16

But it would have been uh I was watching uh one who was talking about it. There was somebody talking about it. I watched the video. They were saying like in a vacuum, the ad wasn't bad, right? But what? No, it was fine, but when you're trying to relaunch Star Wars movies, and that's what you give us on Super Bowl?

SPEAKER_04 2:42

To be fair, there wasn't like any commercial on Super Bowl that was really good. Maybe one. I can't think of it, but I'm just gonna throw it out there because it probably was one.

SPEAKER_00 2:49

But they were they were saying it with it with them going like, hey, look, it's the Clyde Seals. Oh, gotcha, it's the Tauntauns, like they should have had a whole series of kind of spoof-ish type ads, right? Spoofing different types of uh, you know, the uh the the different types of popular uh.

SPEAKER_04 3:13

I mean, I mean for Star Wars fans, we all knew it with Tauntauns like in the first three seconds. Come on. Yeah.

Marketing Strategy And Star Wars Hopes

SPEAKER_00 3:20

But they were like, they were saying their point was like instead of just having this thing be this kind of nebulous, like, what are we what do you who are you trying to sell this to, right? If you're not trying to sell this to Star Wars fans because those people are already on board, right? You're not you're not introducing it to anybody new because everyone's confused on what it is and why it's in, you know, why is this worth seven million dollars, right? Plus the amount that it took to create it. Um so they were saying if you're gonna do this, like if that's the marketing, right? If you're gonna like be like, hey, we're gonna be funny and that's what people are gonna know us for, then you should have had a whole series of them throughout the whole Super Bowl of different takes on different popular uh Super Bowl type commercial that wasn't on Fox this year, so they couldn't cut themselves a deal on the advertising cost. Great. But next year for Starfighter, that's what we'll get. No, next year it's gonna be on the SPM.

SPEAKER_04 4:16

Yeah, that's ABC Disney.

SPEAKER_00 4:18

It was owned by Disney. Sorry, you said Fox.

SPEAKER_04 4:22

Yeah, you did say Fox.

SPEAKER_00 4:23

I did. I don't know. Shit. All I saw was Disney World is going to the Super Bowl next year.

SPEAKER_04 4:28

So you're still stuck on 20th century Fox, is what you're on.

SPEAKER_00 4:33

Hey, they own Fox now, too, so what do they do?

SPEAKER_03 4:36

Or at least that studio. Yeah, okay, that's fair. It was just I saw and was like, this is it.

SPEAKER_04 4:44

Again, it didn't take me very long to realize, oh, cool, tauntauns. And I was like, oh, what are they doing with this? And then they just showed it was like, that's it. That's that's that's the ad. Alright. If they want to waste eight million dollars, that is their prerogative.

SPEAKER_00 4:59

Yep. Well it was nice that Sam Elliott did the uh the voiceover, so that was cool.

SPEAKER_03 5:05

But does that mean that Sam Elliott's gonna be in the movie? Exactly. Sam Elliott is now Star Wars canon. Uh I'd be alright with that. I still got one good arm to hold you with, Ellie.

SPEAKER_00 5:21

They were they were saying the um I watched a few videos about it to just kind of get the like uh and they were saying that the marketing of this seems very similar to how they marketed solo, which isn't great because they didn't do a a really good job of marketing solo either. Uh as far as like trailers or that type of thing. So it's Grogu, right? That's all you need. Grogu's gonna put butts in scenes.

SPEAKER_03 5:49

As long as people know you can only see it in the theater.

SPEAKER_00 5:55

I don't know if I mean it's not I I hope you're right, but it's been a rough few years for Star Wars, so it'll be interesting. Bitches love Grogu though.

SPEAKER_02 6:07

Was that bitches love Grogu. Bitches still love Grogu.

Budgets, Box Office, And Toy Fair Leaks

SPEAKER_04 6:12

Not sure, not sure enough to go to the movie theater though. Them them fan bitches will be like, we'll wait till Disney Plus in three months. Then they're not gonna care. Yeah. Give them something to do post after all the summer rush and the summer hotness is done. Then it'll be time for the these movies to come out on streaming. They're like, oh, we have nothing to watch, July and August. Oh wait, Mandalorian and Roguos comes out. Grogu's cute, let's watch it now. Because I like I told y'all, I I think this movie's gonna bomb. I'm uh it might be a good movie. I'm just saying Box Office is not gonna this I expect this movie to lose money. Well, thankfully they said it's the cheapest Star Wars movie ever, so Oh, so only 400 million to make and 200 advertised.

SPEAKER_00 6:58

Something like that, 150 or something, I think.

SPEAKER_04 7:00

Oh, that's it.

SPEAKER_00 7:02

Yeah, it was cheap as hell.

SPEAKER_03 7:04

That's rare. Just for any movie, let alone Star Wars. Right? For real though. Mm-hmm. Again, on that vein, I know it was last week. Oh, Toy Fair, what do they got?

SPEAKER_00 7:24

266.4 million is the budget for Mando and Grogan.

SPEAKER_04 7:28

Okay, plus another hundred for advertising. So 206, 250 million. Well, now 258. Uh but that only you know what? Never mind. If that that's if that truly is the real budget, because you know how Disney is, they lie about their budgets um until two years later, and it's like, oh my god, we didn't lose that much money, we didn't lose any money because our budget was 200 million. You find out it was really 350. That's how Disney is. Uh let's just assume 250 is correct. That's not bad. Then they only have to make 500 million in the movie theater worldwide, they'll get that. They won't lose money, they won't lose money off of that.

SPEAKER_03 8:06

Which is gonna suck because now they're gonna think they're good enough for a sequel. Um, but yeah, Toy Fair is out. Or going on. Maybe it's over. It should have ended for tomorrow. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 8:20

Um so no spoilers, but they did release well, one little spoiler. There's some like battle droid-looking fucker that wears uh Mandalorian armor and rides a stab. So that's interesting. They're they're hype hypothesizing that it's some droid that helps protect Grogu or something.

SPEAKER_03 8:41

Interesting hypothesis, like guys, is that even necessary?

SPEAKER_00 8:47

I don't know. Din doesn't care about droids anymore, so I can see it. I guess he added it, you know. But a lot of the toys are cool, it's because they're making it so that Grogu's on uh Din's back. I guess he like magnets on there or he sticks to his back somehow. The black series and the vintage figure have it like that.

SPEAKER_03 9:06

That's kind of cool.

SPEAKER_00 9:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 9:09

Wait, have they not made a Luke Yoda? They haven't done a Luke Yoda with that yet.

SPEAKER_04 9:16

Seems like a lost opportunity. They're gonna do this magnet thing. He's like, dude, take advantage of that shit.

SPEAKER_00 9:22

But he was always in the backpack. This is like just Grogu hanging onto his jetpack.

SPEAKER_04 9:27

Oh, gotcha. Gotcha, okay.

SPEAKER_00 9:28

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 9:30

I'm thinking it back, I'm like, man, you can make a Best Spin Luke with the magnetic hand.

SPEAKER_00 9:35

They had a Best Ben Luke with the magnetic hand.

SPEAKER_04 9:38

Oh, did they?

SPEAKER_00 9:38

The victim series. Best spin Luke and Yoda were really good. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 9:42

Oh, okay. Well, that's solid then. Damn.

unknown 9:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 9:45

Like I said, man, when a couple weeks or a couple months ago, when I saw the figure prices at 20 bucks for a three and three-quarter inch, man, y'all can eat it. I am so glad. Uh granted, I jumped out in uh 2005, 2006, 2007. Uh but damn. Yeah, it was. It was I think it was. It was six, seven. Whatever that last wave of man, I can I can picture the bet, the saga wave or something like that. The black-white, the black silver uh packaging. But fucking 1999 for a regular three and three-quarter inch. 20, was it 27 for a black series, 30 for a black series? Uh-uh.

SPEAKER_00 10:28

Oh no, here, this is even better. So I did order because I'm a sucker still. So I ordered the deluxe vintage Mando and Grogu$27.99 for five three-inch figure. And then my Black Series Mando and Grogu is$34.99. But the regular vintage figures are$19.99. Probably a little different little lower if you buy a case of them, but then you're dealing with that point. No, no, I'm just saying, like you're gonna do uh pulse and I get free shipping.

SPEAKER_03 11:06

I save$6.99.

SPEAKER_00 11:10

And even better, they are planned to ship before the movie comes out. So you could have your laptop. Let's see. Yeah, take it with you. Pre-ordered our well, so the vintage Commando and Grogu April 1st. Um IG 11 is not till June 1st. Well, that's right afterwards, so that's not bad. Yeah, like a week later. That's not bad. So yeah, so the Den and Grogu, black and vintage, are supposed to ship on April 1st. Everything else is June 1st, which is right after. The snowtrooper looks cool though. The Imperial Remnant Snow Trooper.

SPEAKER_03 11:51

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_00 11:51

So it looks like a regular snowtrooper, but he doesn't have the face mask, like the little skirt flag on the face.

SPEAKER_04 11:58

Yeah, that flag.

SPEAKER_00 11:58

Yeah, so that's missing. That looks pretty cool.

SPEAKER_03 12:02

Okay. The BJ Snow Trooper, got it. Yes. Oh my goodness.

SPEAKER_00 12:13

And then that girl snake eyes that I showed you guys. I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 12:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 12:17

Snake Eyes with I don't know.

SPEAKER_04 12:20

Some clone you said?

unknown 12:22

G.

SPEAKER_00 12:22

I drill got weird, yeah. Yeah, it's a Dr. Mindbender downloaded his memories into her. I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 12:32

Snake Eyes can't just have a kid?

SPEAKER_00 12:37

Because then it's not shocking and scary enough or whatever. Well, remember too, I mean, comic books always follow trope other tropes, right? So if somebody, if like cloning at some point was a big deal at the time, they are like, oh, well, we're just jumping on the bandwagon and making clones. Right. I mean, I don't know if that's the case, but in general, comic seem comic books seem to have follow the same tropes. Like somebody'll do something, and if it does really well, then everybody else does the same thing.

SPEAKER_04 13:06

So is it DC did this? Okay, Marvel's doing it. Now Image is doing it, now Valiant's doing it.

SPEAKER_00 13:13

She is a Mexican-American teenager with exceptional physical abilities, which initially caught the attention of Cobra Commander. Her character was developed by Larry Hama, though, so she's a legit character. It's not like somebody just made her up and pulled her out of her ass. If Larry Hama made it, it's legit. As close as legit you can get with G.I. Joe, that is.

SPEAKER_04 13:36

Yeah, I was gonna say put legit in, put legit in quotes, but okay.

SPEAKER_00 13:41

Lou, did you see the trailer for the Transformers the movie, The Apology Tour?

SPEAKER_04 13:47

No, what the hell?

SPEAKER_00 13:48

That shit was funny as hell. We'll have to send that to you later. Yeah, yeah. But basically basically they were like, Yeah, what's what's it it's it's Hasbro going, our bad for ruining your childhood by killing Optimus Frames. Sorry. But there's gonna be like a re-release of the movie in the theaters. There's gonna be like concerts, uh, toys.

SPEAKER_04 14:10

They're doing a 40th anniversary?

SPEAKER_00 14:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 14:13

Oh, holy shit. Oh man, I'm uh I'm I'll be watching that shit like I did episode one thirteen times in a theater.

SPEAKER_00 14:29

Forever.

SPEAKER_04 14:30

Man, just jump in. If it's in a theater or something. I would save money. I would I would totally save more money on that.

Transformers 40th Hype And Merch

SPEAKER_03 14:38

Transformer. I can hear the theme song and that and dare to be stupid. Oh. Okay, that's cool.

SPEAKER_04 14:50

Yeah, I didn't hear anything about that. I mean, obviously I knew it was the 40th anniversary, but I didn't hear anything. I was like, oh well, why why they didn't really do anything for 3035 other than re release on DVD? Blu-ray, Blu-ray, whatever.

SPEAKER_00 15:03

Yeah, I think I ordered that actually. And I got like a print of uh whatever the cover art was for it.

SPEAKER_03 15:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 15:12

Was that Matt Ferguson guy that's been doing all the Star Wars re-releases?

SPEAKER_04 15:16

So it was a pretty good was it was it the one with uh uh Hot Rod holding the Matrix?

SPEAKER_00 15:22

Yeah, I think so. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 15:23

I think it was Hot Rod Holding the Matrix on that one. Yeah. He had it up or something like that.

SPEAKER_00 15:27

Uh-huh. Looking like Tron.

SPEAKER_04 15:30

Yeah, basically. Oh, but yeah, no, no, that's that's good to hear. I will be all over that, obviously. Spent$207 on fucking three shirts, but you're still thinking about buying the fourth one.

SPEAKER_00 15:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 15:45

I am.

SPEAKER_00 15:46

It's muddy, no. Yes.

SPEAKER_04 15:48

It's it's it's it it got put on my wish list. I'm not gonna lie. I added it to that heart thing just in case. So there's a still company.

SPEAKER_00 15:57

Not your 15% discounts. What about your rewards so you can cash them in and actually make some hard money off of it?

SPEAKER_04 16:03

Those are pretty solid. I have yet to use one reward. I've only used the 15% off.

SPEAKER_00 16:08

Sounds to me like it's free, Lou.

SPEAKER_04 16:10

It might be, shit. But I'm with you, though. When I saw that, I was all like, uh, it's I mean, uh, I'm not like I hate the Autobot. There's some cool Autobots, mainly the combiners. Yeah, it's just a good guy's usually just okay, whatever. Um, they're pussies, so it's like whatever. Uh but the coloring, it looked good. It was like, all right, but then I gotta wear it with the plain black hat, because I'm not gonna wear my Decepticon hat with the Autobot shirt. That ain't gonna roll. Yeah, that'd be weird. Mm-hmm. Um, and and it's short sleeves, so I got my Decepticon tattoo showing.

SPEAKER_00 16:46

Nobody else would fucking notice it. Nobody else would be like, Lou, what's happening? You're confused, buddy.

SPEAKER_04 16:52

Like they they they will call me out at Denver Comic-Con and San Diego Comic Con.

SPEAKER_00 16:59

Lou just got the email from Roosevelt's going, hey, uh, you have this in your cart. Are you you're you you're miss, don't miss out. We saw you were looking at this earlier, you know.

SPEAKER_04 17:12

I'll be in I'll be in San Diego at one of the hat racks just to get a hat to go with one shirt. Like, I need a black hat with a reddish tinted Autobot insignia. It's like, sir, we only have that in blue.

SPEAKER_03 17:33

No, that means we only have that in blue insignia. I'm like, uh, you would.

SPEAKER_00 17:41

Yeah, I didn't think you would go for that other one, the the comic one. The comic one?

SPEAKER_04 17:46

It it just it just looked cool. I'm not gonna lie. It was just like, it was a little bit busy, but so was the Dano Bots one. But it was like, you know, I kind of like this sketch. I think I think it's the it's the Star Wars sketch-looking one that that was like, you know, I kind of like that style. It's kind of like the Funkos when they do those black and white ones, the Disney black and white ones that they did. I was like, those actually look kind of cool. That sketch art looks cool. And and it kind of gave me that impression. But it obviously it was it was the per the purple one that was like bad. Uh that that wasn't even question mark.

SPEAKER_00 18:21

I think I think it has to be.

SPEAKER_03 18:38

I don't know, at the 40th this year, maybe. Maybe. I mean one can hope. They can drop it when they re-release the fucking alien shirts. Ugh.

SPEAKER_00 18:54

Maybe we'll get that on uh Alien Day. What is it? 426? 427. Is that the planet or two? Yeah, yeah. 427, I think, is the LV427, right? That's the yeah. Well, I was thinking Stitch, because Stitch is 626, so one of those. Whatever.

SPEAKER_03 19:12

Redrop my alien shirt.

SPEAKER_00 19:14

I'll buy three if I have to. Fuck it.

SPEAKER_04 19:16

Did you ever open up your damn Predator Blood Feud? That thing is so sick.

SPEAKER_00 19:20

Yes. Yeah, it is.

SPEAKER_04 19:22

It looks so good.

SPEAKER_00 19:23

I liked it. I wore the um the skull one on Friday to work. I didn't have any other Friday the 13th-ish kind of thing. So I'm like, skulls work, skulls work.

SPEAKER_04 19:36

I'm surprised. Well, maybe they did. Uh, make a like, you know, Jason Freddie, Michael Myers, like combo Halloween shirt.

SPEAKER_00 19:44

I don't think anybody ones yet.

SPEAKER_04 19:48

Might be a problem, you know, might be a problem with licensing, but uh you would think like put them all take take the heads of those three. I'm not sure. I'm not sure who uh I guess what Leatherface might be the fourth one.

SPEAKER_00 20:01

Maybe, yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 20:02

Um the Scarecrow Jet Jeepers Creepers thing. Uh I don't know. I'm just thinking you would think that would just be a thing.

SPEAKER_00 20:08

Leatherface.

SPEAKER_04 20:08

Hellraiser, pinhead. Or or actually Hellraiser could do their own, because all the Cinebites their own, like in one shirt, all the heads of them. That chatter dude is creepy. Pinhead looked badass. Yep. Oh man.

SPEAKER_00 20:24

Thanks, Jack. That's right. Tomorrow's a holiday. You'll be fine. It's fair. That is fair. Yeah, this whole not not working thing. Hey Lou, we don't want to work.

Park Hours, After-Hours Events, And Costs

SPEAKER_04 20:36

Exactly. Bruh. Exactly. This whole not working thing. Oh, I'm all like, why are you why are you off Monday? It's a holiday. What? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. People with jobs worry about that. What day do I have off? Or get extra pay. But yeah, it took me a minute. It's kind of funny. I was focused on this old girl's uh uh son's 21st uh tomorrow. So I was focusing on that, and I was like, you're off. Did you take it off for his birthday? Like, no, bro, it's a holiday.

SPEAKER_00 21:11

She planned it out 21 years ago.

SPEAKER_04 21:14

Right. So like, oh man, the day is finally here. Your patience has waited. You're right, your patience has come through.

SPEAKER_00 21:21

15 jobs, and I've had this day off planned since then.

SPEAKER_04 21:25

Oh. Man, I I tell each one of my jobs look, when uh when Feb 16 2026 comes around, we got top.

SPEAKER_00 21:37

These are conditions of employment.

SPEAKER_04 21:40

Oh shit. That's too funny. But yeah, it did take me a minute to realize like, what is going on? I was like, oh yeah, okay.

SPEAKER_00 21:47

That's the problem, is though. Lou goes into an interview and he's just like, these are all the days I need off for the next year, by the way.

SPEAKER_04 21:55

Yep. That's exactly when I started that last job. I did that. I'm like, look, I got I got uh this coming, I got because it was that before it was October, so we already got some Comic Con. So I was like, look, I got some days in December, I'm not gonna be here for Disney. I got some days in April, I'm not gonna be here for Japan. I got some days in July, I'm not gonna be here um for San Diego. The rest of the like Denver Comic Con, I only need to take like one day off, two days off. So those ones I wasn't worried about. Uh especially with in in in my line of work. We usually have a a a floating free day every month because we have HUA meetings in the evening, so we have a day off every month to cover up for it. So I was like, oh, well, I'll just take a half day on Thursday and then take all of Friday off, and I can go to and then Denver Comic Con's cover. So that those ones are no big deal. It's it's it's yeah, it's obviously it was Japan and San Diego, San Diego being a week, Japan two, two and a half. Those ones needed some, like, here, here's what's happening, and if y'all can't manage this, that's fine, but no, I'm gonna quit the day I have to leave. Y'all want to hire me for six months, that's fine, but I'm out. Right.

SPEAKER_00 23:03

I am pro I'm I'm putting in my two weeks notice six months early.

SPEAKER_04 23:07

Yep. I'm gonna put it in right now, just so you know. I'm not gonna be here so y'all can deal with it. We only need somebody temporary anyway. Okay, works for me. Let's do this. I'm your man. I'm your man. Oh man.

SPEAKER_00 23:22

So uh we didn't we we did not do a pod last week.

SPEAKER_04 23:26

Uh oh my god, I was I was just about to go there.

SPEAKER_00 23:28

All right, good timing. So uh someone was excited because he thought he was gonna be on all the rides while we were doing the pod, and then all of a sudden it became sweetheart's night and the park closed at eight o'clock.

SPEAKER_04 23:41

Uh horrible. Okay, back up. Was that already planned? Did you learn about that that day, or did you already know that that was gonna be a thing? Like, how did that work out?

SPEAKER_00 23:51

Think about it until like a couple days before, and everybody on the Facebook groups was talking about it, and then I looked, I'm like, oh. Huh.

SPEAKER_03 23:58

All right then. I guess we're just closing early. Okay, okay. Gotta make the victim sad.

SPEAKER_04 24:07

Well, you mentioned that, I was all like, that's a thing. Like, okay.

SPEAKER_00 24:11

Well, I mean, they do it for like Star Wars Night too. Yeah. Like they count everybody in the street.

SPEAKER_04 24:16

I get. I mean, the whole Carter IP thing, but they don't do that for wedding, do they? Do they do that? Like Thanksgiving night and they close down at 8?

SPEAKER_00 24:25

No, no. It's um only for the after hours parties, like Sweethearts Night, Star Wars Night, Boogie Boogie Badge. Yeah, but at least that's a California adventure. Nobody cares for California Adventure. But I'm we're just talking about nights they close early.

SPEAKER_04 24:39

Like Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 24:40

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 24:41

I didn't, yeah, I didn't. I okay, I remember hearing about the Oogie Boogie Nights one, but I didn't know what exactly it was.

SPEAKER_00 24:48

They'll kick you out early. Unless you have like a lanyard and a wristband.

SPEAKER_04 24:53

Okay, that was my next question. So, how does that work if you've done it before? If you did Star Wars night and they close at 8 or whatever time they close, do you do you have to leave and come back in, or do you just stay in?

SPEAKER_00 25:03

No, generally you can um they'll have like a booth set up already, and you can go get your lanyard and your wristband. Uh, because that's what me and Oldus did when we went to um Halloween Horror Nights. So we got a ticket for the day, and then later in the evening as it got closer, uh they gave us our wristband so we could stay in the park once the horror nights started.

SPEAKER_04 25:25

Is this something that like uh sells out ahead of time, or do you just buy a ticket when you're there? Yeah, yeah. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 25:30

It generally does. I think May 4th has already sold out.

SPEAKER_04 25:33

Yeah, I was gonna say, May no, I think you're right. Like, I remember seeing that on the on one of the groups that were both in there.

SPEAKER_00 25:41

But they start like Halloween Horror Nights and all the you know, not scary farm all these. They start those like middle of September now because they're so popular. They can stretch it for a month and a half, two months, you know, uh and make money off of those. I mean, that's what it comes down to. It's an extra ticket, basically. So you pay, you have to pay to get into the park. You can't just buy the horror nights pass. You have to buy your daily pass. So you're paying the$150,$175 for the daily pass. Then on top of that, you're paying another$100,$150 for the actually you don't. Really? You just have to pay the$175 or whatever they're sorry, I'm gonna forget of Disney. Yeah, Disney for well, I think you can't add um Universal 2, but just because I hadn't taken oldest and I hadn't been since before we left fucking California in 2005. I'm like, okay, we'll just get like whatever combo ticket they have.

SPEAKER_04 26:39

Um and we'll just I was gonna say, so anybody with a regular ticket, they're losing out four hours.

SPEAKER_00 26:46

Yes. Yeah, that's when you get screwed.

SPEAKER_04 26:49

Yeah, I was gonna say, do they is the price of the ticket cheaper that day because of that?

SPEAKER_00 26:53

No.

SPEAKER_04 26:55

Oh man, I I lose my shit. Um obviously I just want to go that day. That solves the whole problem. Unless I'm doing unless I'm doing the event and combo ticketing, so I feel like I'm getting value, but damn. So I imagine then it's not full capacity, so there's probably four hours of less waiting, so that's on rides, so that's probably over. Did they do anything special?

SPEAKER_00 27:25

Um bring up characters that aren't always out. Um just because that's what I pay attention to. So like Star Wars Night, they'll have like a Star Wars parade, they'll have Figrin Dan in the model nodes, they'll have like Rebels characters, they'll have like different uh versions of Leia, um track in Padman shit. The characters you can only see then.

SPEAKER_04 27:49

Yeah, yeah. That that's that's kind of cool. So you're getting some value for the extra pain and all that.

SPEAKER_00 27:55

The whole park isn't open. It's not all the rides are open, it's only select rides, right? Jack, I don't think the whole park is open. It's uh let's see. But that would sound after hours access to attractions, rides some like for example rides. So I'm just looking at Star Wars. Like you can ride all the Star Wars rides.

SPEAKER_04 28:15

Yeah, that's what I was that's what I was thinking.

SPEAKER_00 28:16

I don't know. I like it.

SPEAKER_03 28:17

It looks like if only Galaxy's Edge was open.

SPEAKER_00 28:24

Um so I'm looking at the tickets at Star Wars nights are from 9p to 1A. And you can get into Disneyland three parks before the party begins. So you can get to Disneyland at 6 p.m. to 1 a.m. So you're getting seven hours at Disneyland for like one to sixty-five.

SPEAKER_04 28:46

Wait, you can't say you can't get in at eight in the morning.

SPEAKER_00 28:51

Not if you only buy that. So if you want to buy your two hundred fifty dollar ticket, you can start early, but you have to pay the one seventy-four on top of it.

SPEAKER_04 29:00

So wait, I'm confused. Okay, so a regular ticket at Disney is like one fifty.

SPEAKER_00 29:05

Okay. And then you pay the one seventy four on top of it for starting.

SPEAKER_04 29:08

On top of that. So but there is no like 250 and you get everything. Like there's no discounted rate for getting both.

SPEAKER_00 29:15

No, I'm looking at it now.

SPEAKER_03 29:16

So you have to do it a la carte, basically. Yikes. People pay it though. Oh, okay, I get it.

SPEAKER_04 29:26

So if you don't have the regular ticket, you get to get in at six and the party starts at nine.

SPEAKER_00 29:31

Yes.

SPEAKER_04 29:32

And everybody else has to leave at nine or eight with an hour layover or something.

SPEAKER_02 29:38

Eight.

Super Bowl Game And Commercials Recap

SPEAKER_04 29:38

Eight with an hour to get people out because you're not gonna leave out on time. It's like the buffets when they try to get you, it's like, I'm gonna show up at 3 30 and stay for dinner at 4. I'm like, nope dinner doesn't hurt till five. Fuck off.

SPEAKER_00 29:49

Okay, so if you were to go to Disneyland on May 6th, which is what I was just looking at, it's$104, one day, one park.

SPEAKER_04 30:00

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 30:00

So$104 plus$174 plus the$174.

SPEAKER_04 30:04

So$280.

SPEAKER_00 30:05

So yeah.

SPEAKER_04 30:07

$278. So$280.

SPEAKER_00 30:09

If that's a good deal for you, then I say knock yourself out.

SPEAKER_04 30:12

I mean, it's it's a good deal if you're if you just want to experience Star Wars Knight at least once. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_00 30:19

Yes.

SPEAKER_04 30:20

It's like I don't I don't think I'd be opposed to that at least once. You know, it's like, all right.

SPEAKER_00 30:32

Because I'm not about to pay all that money for the passes we have, plus 174 times four on top of it. Right, right. If it was just me going, cool, that's fine.

SPEAKER_04 30:43

Right. For you, that 700 bucks ain't worth it, especially when the girls, that's not real like the three of us plus plus old girl who's really into Star Wars 2, it would make sense for us.

SPEAKER_00 30:54

Exactly. Yeah, no, we'd have fun.

SPEAKER_04 30:56

Maybe maybe that's yeah, maybe that's something we look into next year, year after, whatever. Sometime in the next couple years. I mean, no super rush, but I think I'd like to do that at least once. Is it always uh like middle April to middle May? Is that like the basic time frame?

SPEAKER_00 31:13

Yeah, so they can hit May 4th, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 31:14

Yeah, I feel like I wasn't sure if it was like it starts early May and goes to June, or starts early April, ends early May, or they try to do middle to middle. It's like have they been pretty consistent? Let's see. Let's see what this year's because the last thing I remember like you talking about it maybe a couple years ago, it was like third week of April to third week of May.

SPEAKER_00 31:36

Okay, so April 28th, 30th, May 4th, and May 6th. So it's only four nights.

SPEAKER_04 31:44

Okay. What was I thinking when they were just like those like a month-long thing? Maybe it was just something attraction.

SPEAKER_00 31:50

Or Star Wars like life days. Or Oogie Boogie. Oogie Boogie goes for like a month or so.

SPEAKER_04 31:54

That's the one that was a month? Okay. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 31:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 31:57

Alright, cool. Yeah, we'll we'll we'll plan that like out in advance so we know like as soon as tickets go on sale for that, we jump on it, all that shit.

SPEAKER_00 32:05

I do get early access to those tickets though with my pass. So I should be able to get early access to tickets for all of us.

SPEAKER_04 32:12

I was about to ask, can you get multiple tickets? Is the question? That would be the main thing. If we can only get yours, that would suck. If you can get everybody's in, then hell yeah.

SPEAKER_00 32:23

Yeah, I don't know about the early access. But I don't know. All the consumers.

SPEAKER_04 32:27

Yeah, we can we can worry about that later. That's that's probably problem. Yeah, I was gonna say that's uh at the soonest, that's a next year problem.

SPEAKER_00 32:36

And that's yeah.

SPEAKER_04 32:39

I was gonna say, we because I gotta imagine they're also gonna do it come celebration, um, celebration in in uh yeah, I think they did last year.

SPEAKER_00 32:48

Last time next year. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 32:50

Okay, yeah. Uh they did it with Anaheim.

SPEAKER_01 32:53

Uh when we were Anaheim 22.

SPEAKER_04 32:57

I remember they did it 22 or Anaheim, so I imagine they're gonna do it again, even though I know LA is not Anaheim, but close enough.

SPEAKER_00 33:04

Mm-hmm. As opposed to what the Angels try to make you believe. Yeah. The Anaheim Angels of Los Angeles. Or Los Angeles Angels of Anachangel. No, no, no.

SPEAKER_04 33:15

Anaheim Angels of Los Angeles, I think, is right. Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, that'd be weird.

SPEAKER_00 33:20

Well. They should have just stuck with California. They should have just stuck with California. That sounds weird too.

SPEAKER_04 33:25

Yeah. It all sounds weird. You're right. Yeah. Just stick with California Angels from 30 years ago and leave it alone. Own the whole, just take just take over the whole state.

SPEAKER_00 33:35

Take the state. And then you can be anywhere.

SPEAKER_04 33:37

I would've. I would have. I would have been like, no, why are we just running a change and look like? Let's let's own the whole state. That way, fuckers in Fresno and Modesto can't do for us.

SPEAKER_00 33:47

The Warriors. They're the golden state warriors.

SPEAKER_04 33:50

Exactly. Where do you play? Oakland, San Francisco, wherever.

SPEAKER_00 33:56

They can't be in LA though. I mean, let's be honest. They would not be allowed to move that team to LA.

SPEAKER_04 34:01

No, they would with two teams already there, the Lakers owning it. Uh pork lippers. Um I mean, even I have to say it, even Sacramento has has more of a uh a hold on on a city. And that says like that says a lot.

SPEAKER_00 34:17

I saw something. I think Angel Stadium is like one of the oldest baseball uh uh stadiums in the major leagues these days. Dang, everybody rebuild it and get new stadiums on it. Everybody for the most part is coming a new stadium to one uh at one point or another in the last like 30 years, but the Dodgers Stadium's like been around for a minute.

SPEAKER_02 34:36

I was gonna say Dodgers is old.

unknown 34:39

Dodgers.

SPEAKER_04 34:43

I wonder which is older. I gotta imagine the Dodgers, but they have to be. Yeah. They might have done some upgrades throughout the years, but I but I'm guessing those are like either safety upgrades or let's add some more bleachers so we can sell more tickets and make more money to pay our$700 billion payroll.

SPEAKER_03 35:03

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_04 35:05

Oh man. Uh I like how other player teacher butthurt about it. It's like, dude, your your team can do that too. They just choose not to.

SPEAKER_00 35:13

Yeah. The oldest park is Fenway, followed by Wrigley two years later. 1962 is when Dogger Stadium was made, and 1966 with Angel Stadium. Okay. Wow. Wow. Then ten years later, uh, or sorry, six years later, uh Kansas City Royals Kaufman Stadium came uh was opened.

SPEAKER_04 35:40

So who's got the newest stadium? That makes me curious now. Who's got the newest stadium?

SPEAKER_00 35:45

Uh oh, hang on. Las Vegas Athletics, bruh. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 35:48

It will be. It will be in two years.

SPEAKER_00 35:50

Whatever they're called, since they can't clear a trademark to save their lives.

SPEAKER_04 35:55

Honestly, I I wouldn't fuck 'em. I don't even worry about being called the athletics. Come to Vegas, pick up a team name that that lines up. Yeah, lines up with whatever Vegas is about.

SPEAKER_00 36:08

And then you'll drop that stigma, and then Vegas will attach to it.

SPEAKER_04 36:13

Yeah, absolutely. Fuck that.

SPEAKER_00 36:16

Um, the s before the athletics, so the the newest stadium is the Sacramento Park for the athletics. Uh the second second newest is uh the Rangers had a park that opened in 2020. Globe Life Field. Well, that's not bad.

SPEAKER_04 36:33

Okay. Six years ago. Okay, all right. Uh okay, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 36:39

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 36:39

I'm thinking of Houston, but that that old Astrodome. I don't know where they play now. That Astrodome with that fucking turf that caused so many injuries back in the day. I think you were playing in uh Philadelphia, the Eagles. That old the vet caused so many injuries back in the day. Speaking of which, we didn't talk, obviously, no pods, we didn't talk football. You're playing on a though. Yeah. It really is, though. I mean, this shit was crazy. I went to I went to that stadium once. Uh back when the Phillies shared that stadium with the Eagles when I was living in New Jersey. Yeah, you could see it from up top, man. And that's that that field was like, man, I want no part of that.

SPEAKER_00 37:18

Loosed up his toe. Getting the hot dog.

SPEAKER_04 37:21

Dude, for real. I got Deion Sanders turf toe for the rest of my life because it's just going to get a hot dog. All I want. Back then it was only a dollar for a hot dog, so it was cool. But damn.

Winter Olympics: Hockey, Curling, And Skeleton

SPEAKER_00 37:34

Uh what'd y'all think? Super bowl. The community commercials were here were meh, and the game was first math.

SPEAKER_04 37:43

The game was expected. I expected that game. Everybody I talked to you was like, I was like, Seahawks gonna blow them out, man. How many times did I say it uh leading up to the leading up to the playoffs? The Broncos had the easiest schedule in the NFL. Who had the second easiest? The Patriots, or vice versa. So it was like it was like, once they play a real team, they're screwed. And that's exactly what happened. They played a real team, they got screwed, and it was a blah game. I think I think I was I'm I'm almost certain. I'm almost I don't remember this, but I think I was playing Magic on my computer on one screen while the game was on the other. That's I was like, okay. Let me let me let me eat these snacks that I have. Um drink a beer. No. No, man, and I didn't it wasn't cold enough. I didn't have to wrap up. I'm good. Uh but uh yeah, it was a very uh unexciting. I mean, again, anybody who watches football knew that that was gonna be a garbage game. And it was. And then like like Duke said, Yeah, honestly, yeah, that was the better choice by far. Even if it was four hours cut short.

SPEAKER_00 38:55

That's why we were looking vicariously through you on that day.

SPEAKER_04 38:59

Man, you're like, what's going on? What you doing? Um, and then and then like like like Duke said, man, the commercials. Uh I'm trying to think of commercials that stood out. And they're there, I mean, the jokes were pretty funny.

SPEAKER_00 39:14

It's enough that even like scrolling through YouTube, I didn't see anything that was like, oh, hey, Super Bowl commercial, watch this.

SPEAKER_04 39:21

Yeah, exactly. The halfway there insurance, I mean, that was funny because of the jokes afterwards were were fucking um what Haley Sansfield, is that her name? Mm-hmm. Where she made it the Super Bowl before her husband did. I was like, that's rude.

SPEAKER_01 39:39

Hey, it was a good joke.

SPEAKER_04 39:41

Uh but Josh Allen, you know, whatever. Uh that one was was okay. But but again, everything there was like, okay, that's an okay commercial. It's an okay, but nothing was like, oh my god, you gotta go watch this. Or you're sending a YouTube clip to somebody about hey, you gotta watch No, there wasn't one that I can think of that was that was oh that stood out. Although I will admit the tight end one was funny. The tight end one was pretty funny.

SPEAKER_00 40:07

The Guy Fieri where he's normal, and then he was just a guy, but then like he would get the Bosch appliances and become Guy Fieri.

SPEAKER_03 40:18

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Was that really him normal?

SPEAKER_02 40:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 40:22

Well, I think it was his own. Oh, that wasn't like a double or something?

SPEAKER_04 40:27

No, no, no, of course not. But I wasn't sure if that was his. I couldn't tell. It was like, did they get a body double or something?

SPEAKER_03 40:32

Somebody look alike? Like, what are they doing here?

SPEAKER_00 40:38

The problem is that they have like, to me, like the TurboTax commercials with Adrian Birdie, where he was like, I need to get into character, and the person is just like, oh yeah. Like, I though I think like they almost get too abstract with it. And the commercials are so short that it's really hard to like follow them. Get into it, like, yeah, yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_04 40:59

Like I mean, I didn't know.

SPEAKER_00 41:02

I thought it was fine, like him getting upset because he's like, I'm trying to trying to get this like tax person, and the tax person is just like uh it's fine.

SPEAKER_03 41:09

I'll just you know, like but I didn't remember that commercial.

SPEAKER_04 41:17

I mean I remember halfway their insurance. I remember the tight ends. Yeah, you would. Hell yeah. Okay, Mr. I want to operate the drone on skeleton.

SPEAKER_00 41:35

I mean and it's funny after that they showed like the thing about interviewing the drone operators and how they work and everything.

SPEAKER_04 41:43

Oh, really? Oh, that's cool. Yeah. I mean, that part where I would even that I might have to look that up because that would be cool. I want to know the the background. I will admit though, like watching the the fucking sky ninjas do their thing. I'm like, I don't like the buzzing of the drone. When they switch to the drone cam, I'm like, oh my god. Because I I'm just yeah, I'm just bad against that that type of background type noise that you're all that type of shit irritates me. It's like why I can't read with any kind of noise, but whatever reason I've got this tick where that and that droning thing, as soon as they switch to that camera, it's like, ugh, and if it goes too long, I'll just mute the TV. But that sound is terrible.

SPEAKER_03 42:27

I have to imagine the technology is there to not make that noise.

SPEAKER_00 42:33

Or here's a thing. Turn off the mics. You can have a quiet vacuum cleaner, but people don't know what's working at that point. So they have to be able to make silent drums. It's like when all the electric cars were coming out. Everybody's like, oh, is my car on? I can't hear it.

SPEAKER_04 42:50

That is true. Those things are when I've my first time I ran into a Prius, uh, and I'm all like, this car is quiet as fuck, dude. That's a little that was a little creepy for me. I mean, obviously years ago, but yeah, you're up on the sidewalk or whatever, and then you're just kind of waiting for the light to turn, and next thing you turn around, there's a car right there. Like, didn't even hear it, did not even hear it pull up. But like I said, for me, mute the mic. You you don't like the people are talking anyway, and like he's doing a you know, uh triple quartz through, you know, 1440, whatever. Okay, that's fine. I want to hear you. I don't need to hear like damn, mute the mic on the damn drone, and then I get it. You want the mic then in case you're in a crowd or whatever, you want to hear what people are talking about. But for that, when you're just watching them, watching them fly, just mute it. I don't need to hear that.

SPEAKER_03 43:43

See, curling knows better. Curling doesn't have that crap, they have actual camera people and cheaters. And cheaters, Canada.

SPEAKER_00 43:53

I was like, what is all that about? So I'm like, oh dang, Canada like told the Swedish guy to fuck off. Fuck off, yeah. They started showing him throwing the rock and flicking it with his finger. I was like, bruh, that guy cheated.

SPEAKER_04 44:05

And then and then the women got caught too yesterday. Also Canada. Stick with hockey.

SPEAKER_02 44:13

Yep.

SPEAKER_04 44:15

Dude, ten to two.

SPEAKER_03 44:16

Tanda two they won today.

SPEAKER_04 44:19

Jesus, that's disgusting.

SPEAKER_00 44:21

Who are they playing?

SPEAKER_04 44:23

Uh Japan, I think, maybe.

SPEAKER_00 44:25

Oh that wasn't fair.

SPEAKER_03 44:26

No, of course not. Like what are they like No no no no no. No no no no. No, that was women. Ten to two. Yeah. The same ratio is Germany, and it's like winning the tournament. And then you have the American women.

SPEAKER_00 44:51

The last USA game and they said that they were playing Germany there. So my wife's like, no how to play hockey there. I'm like, like, yeah. It's good in Germany. I I don't know.

SPEAKER_04 45:01

I was gonna say those those uh European They got snow.

SPEAKER_00 45:05

I don't know.

SPEAKER_04 45:05

Dude, Denmark, Sweden, they're good teams. Finland, though, those are some good hockey hockey countries.

SPEAKER_00 45:14

Well, I saw I mean a couple of our guys would go to those teams. I saw um Dreisad was playing on Germany. Yep. I guess that's the same thing.

SPEAKER_04 45:24

Yeah, uh Vegas, Vegas has I think nine, maybe. Yeah. I counted, I looked, I looked it up last week. Seven and nine uh are are on uh national teams. Colorado has like the same thing, nine to ten. And then every Colorado player that went to the Olympics scored in the three games that they played. Disgusting. Some of them obviously some of them playing for Canada, and as far as everybody on Canada scored. They have all-star lineups on all four of their lines. It is disgusting.

SPEAKER_00 45:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 45:58

I mean, their team is so gross.

SPEAKER_00 46:01

It's like playing like US and basketball. It's like, why bother?

SPEAKER_04 46:05

Basically, yeah. When they decide to show up and play, you don't get taughty. That's the that's the worst part with the American basketball team. It's like, oh, we're gonna win. No, you actually still have to play the fucking game.

SPEAKER_00 46:15

Yeah, you still have to play.

SPEAKER_04 46:16

Yep, because if you remember last two years ago, they almost lost uh the gold.

SPEAKER_00 46:22

They have that documentary that came out too that like the college team. That was so good. Yeah. That beat the original dream team, I think it was, right?

SPEAKER_04 46:31

No, it was the it was the redeem team documentary where Kobe was like basically took hold and made them all be good. Because the everybody but Kobe went out to a club the night before. They got in at five in the morning and Kobe's in the weight room. And then at that point, they're all like, oh shit, we should take this seriously. And they did, and they destroyed everybody. Because I remember one of the things in that documentary was talking about, because if you remember, Pal Gasol was on Kobe's team as a Lakers.

unknown 47:01

Yep.

SPEAKER_04 47:02

And the opening seconds of the game, Kobe ran his ass over. Like he ran into him on purpose. He told his team, he's he's like, I'm taking an offensive foul and I'm gonna and I'm gonna and I'm gonna run his ass over. And he did, and that set the tone, and the redeemed team came back and whooped that ass um the whole Olympics because they got beat uh you know the couple of years before in FIBA World Championships, and the couple years before that in the last Olympics. So it was like, okay, no more fucking around. And it was a good documentary. Um I'm not a huge basketball fan, but I was a Kobe fan, and I watched it, and it was it was like, wow, I didn't know it was like that. Like I thought they married because again, that cockiness was pissing me off watching them go out and F around. So LeBron and uh Carmelo and that group, they're just out there Fing off, and it was like, okay, no more of that. Nope.

SPEAKER_00 47:55

It's not the Harlem Globetrotters, damn it. Real game.

SPEAKER_04 47:58

Uh-huh. Especially, especially this upcoming tournament, the FIBA this year and then the Olympics in two years. The Fran the French team is freaking solid. I mean, the French team, if they're not in the finals, uh, I'd be surprised. They have come up strong the last couple years. I think it's finally going to show uh bear some fruit here uh this year and in two years. So the Americans need to get their heads out there ass. So at least this year, Winter Olympics, I've been I've been watching a lot. Um, it starts off usually about one in the morning, uh, my time, uh, and then it ends around you know, three or four, depending on what's on, if it's on watching. I'm usually just watching uh most of the uh curling men and women's and then the hockey games, like they use oh which is gonna suck. I actually got to set an alarm uh for tomorrow. So I've been usually going to bed about four or five in the morning. Uh but the American women play their semifinal match at 8 40 my time.

SPEAKER_00 48:54

It's like, ugh, uh God. Lou's gotta be up at 8 40 in the morning. Oh my god.

Wonder Man Review: Hits And Misses

SPEAKER_04 49:01

Bro, when you're used to going to bed at 6, when you're used to going to bed at 6 a.m., that hurts. We'll stay up at that point. If there's an event on, I'll just stay up, but good lord. Because usually what happens is there's there's a curling, there's a men's curling match in like the morning, and then a women's in the after, like late, but like, but for my time, it's like a one o'clock curling match, a six o'clock curling match, and then like a 11, 12 o'clock curly match. And it's usually two men and a woman, or two women and a man. They they rotate.

SPEAKER_00 49:33

And a baby. Um two men and a baby.

SPEAKER_04 49:35

I know them rocks are their babies, so yeah. Total propes.

SPEAKER_00 49:39

$500 rocks. I looked into that shit.

SPEAKER_04 49:43

Shit. Damn, man. That's crazy.

SPEAKER_00 49:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 49:47

Well, I guess with all the technology, too, the sensors that are in the rocks these days.

SPEAKER_00 49:51

Well, they come from like a particular part of the world. It's like a specific part of Scotland or something, and they have to be made a certain way.

SPEAKER_04 49:58

Damn. I didn't know that.

SPEAKER_00 49:59

Yeah. Yeah, it's like a specific quarry or whatever. It's like the difference between like champagne and like sparkling wine or something. That has to come from this place. From this particular Scotland. When I looked into it.

SPEAKER_04 50:16

Well, that case I need to get some scotch and start drinking scotch to watch these matches.

SPEAKER_00 50:21

There you go.

SPEAKER_04 50:22

Support. But uh the men, the men have been inconsistent. They're three and two or four and two uh in the round robin play. The women are second place so far and looking pretty good. They upset Canada um on a last shot uh win was fantastic. And then this morning against this morning against China. Oh my gosh, China is so good. They've only given up one steal uh all tournament. They gave up three to the U.S. this morning. So it was like, hell yeah. And the last two, in the last two ends, nine and ten, the Americans got one and one to win. They were down like 5-4, and then stole one to go 5-5, and then stole the tenth to win at 6-5. So it was like these the the the women are on it. The men, I I honestly I don't expect them. They they missed too many easy shots. There were a couple of misses they had this morning. It was like, I'm watching this like, man, I sorry asked to do that. Like, I'm gonna limp you and if that's all you guys do.

SPEAKER_00 51:20

I'm gonna show you how to sweep some ice, bitch. Move. Right.

SPEAKER_04 51:24

Bullshit.

SPEAKER_00 51:26

My uh my hips and knees and ankles. We were last night we were at dinner and the the biathlon stuff was on. Okay, oh yeah. Man, these girls come cruising up to like the little yoga mat, and they're just like, but now, and like their knees are like, and I'm like, ah, like every single time they're laying down to shoot the gun, I'm just like, oh god, like just seeing the way their ankles go to like put the skin down the flat. I'm like, nope, nope, nope, fuck off. Like, oh my god, that's been like that since I was five. Since I came out the room, like that's how long it's been. My bones were still soft. But yeah. Oh my god. That's some hardcore shit, man.

SPEAKER_03 52:11

Like I really haven't watched is skating. The figure skating? I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 52:20

It must be on at a week. It must be on at a week.

SPEAKER_04 52:23

Figure skating's usually on about four. About four in the morning, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 52:27

Yeah, I've seen some of the speed skating. Um I didn't see that chick do like her triple backflip or whatever the fuck it was they were going on about. It was impressive, but I didn't see it until I saw the clips. The replay, yeah. Um shit, I don't think I saw any bobsledding either.

SPEAKER_04 52:45

Bob, the the women's runs were this morning. There was some some of that this morning. The women's skeleton is.

SPEAKER_00 52:55

Yeah, that's just facts.

SPEAKER_04 52:56

Yeah, yeah, we can't help that shit.

SPEAKER_00 52:59

I didn't see the clip.

SPEAKER_04 53:00

You know what's funny? It's funny you say that because this morning when the women were on, I saw a yellow and green, you know, sled. I was like, hey, Jamaica! I was like, oh, it wasn't Jamaica, it was somebody else, but I was like still rooting. I was like, hey, I was like, oh, never mind. Fuck you, you're not Jamaica. Although, although I I caught because because of our recent travels, I do catch myself now rooting for America, obviously, first. Then uh Britain, Spain, and Japan. Not in that order, but um yeah, I mean, I don't know what it is about about uh Europe and all that, but obviously Spain because I'm not Spanish. The the England, it's probably I follow the English soccer team. So that's why I root for them if Americans aren't winning. Uh and then Japan, because of recent travels, and I was like, go Japan. Like I said, them sky ninjas on the ski jumping are just dominating. Like, holy shit.

SPEAKER_00 53:51

Well, I didn't I didn't see the clip, I just saw the highlight or the the thing pop up on my short, but they were talking to they had uh the Colin Jose do the bobsledding thing. He said it's the most scary thing he's ever done in his entire life. Like, I'm like, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 54:07

He tried it? He actually tried it?

SPEAKER_00 54:09

Yeah, they put him in and he went and did it, and then they talked to him afterwards, and he's like, that was the most terrifying thing ever.

SPEAKER_04 54:16

I'm all about it.

SPEAKER_00 54:17

Scarlett Johansson to go out with you on a date, and that was scary than that. Yeah, no shit.

SPEAKER_04 54:21

Like that's not scary. The worst that happens is he says, no, go away. That's easy. I can deal with no go away.

SPEAKER_00 54:28

That's getting turned down front by Scarlett Johansson as opposed to rolling over in the bobsled where your head is, you know, getting your head.

SPEAKER_04 54:37

Although, okay, okay. Of the three, luge, bobsled, skeleton, I'm trying skeleton first. I don't care who you are. That's the first time I don't give a fuck. That is the first one I'm trying.

SPEAKER_00 54:49

I don't give a fuck.

unknown 54:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 54:50

If that's how I die, fuck it.

SPEAKER_04 54:53

Fine.

SPEAKER_00 54:54

I did 80 miles an hour down the fucking ice tube. I'm out. If that's how I go out.

SPEAKER_04 55:00

I am all about it. I'm all about it. I mean, uh, I don't I don't think I think Bob Fled would be would be second and lose last. I think the issue with Luge, that whole feet first thing, I can't see where the fuck I'm going. I don't like that.

SPEAKER_00 55:15

Because you're bellying your man tets.

SPEAKER_04 55:18

Oh yeah. Hello, what else would it be? This is like, now you're gonna tell me I can hold a beer in my gut while I'm losing. Okay, let's do this.

SPEAKER_00 55:33

I'm trying to find the there was something in my uh social media thread earlier. It was a video of like the um it was the skeleton guy coming down face head first, and they were talking about yeah, these skeleton guys are uh supposed to be real skinny, but it was like him coming down, and it was like slow-mo, and you just see his ass cheeks just rolling, and he's like, but the Italian guy's got some meat on that bone.

SPEAKER_04 56:01

I was like, Oh my god, that is that is that is so funny. I was watching, I think it was the snowboard cross two days ago uh on Friday. The snowboard cross, the race of four people. Um, and and I'm sitting there like, all right, they're all in shape, they're all in shape, and then there's the Italian guy with his gut. It was like, bruh, wow. Yeah, okay, okay. Obviously, he did not win. He was he was but he, yeah, I think that was it. He did not win his race, he was last. Uh he was four, four out of four in that heat, but and the old ass American, just about the same. He's your anchor. Man. That shit was funny, though. Like, still Philboard Cross was kind of cool. Because just when you think I'm like, Wow, they're so far back. And then the fucker comes from fourth to first, and a lot of these races was like, wow, they did pretty good. That was that was entertaining. Although the Americans like choked in the half pipe, though. I don't know what that was about.

SPEAKER_00 57:00

They did, dude. I was that I that was one that I watched too. And like they fucking wiped out. I'm like, dude.

unknown 57:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 57:07

How'd you even feel like that was not that was not fun? The the again, uh, every time I'm watching the ski jumping and watching the the sky ninjas, and just like, dude, they are so good at this. Just all of all the flips, I don't think all their runs, you know, you get, oh, you're gonna throw out this one score. None of their scores got thrown out. They were just like, nope, they're all good. I'm like, shit, man. I'm like, alright. Kudos to you. What I don't get though, how does Australia win some of this stuff? Are there mountains in Australia that I don't that I'm not aware of? My geography that's fucked up.

SPEAKER_00 57:42

There's no way they have snow down there.

SPEAKER_04 57:44

That's what I'm saying. There's no way.

SPEAKER_00 57:46

There's no way there's snow in Australia.

SPEAKER_04 57:48

They're like top three in a lot of these these jump events, and it's like, what is going on?

SPEAKER_00 57:54

It's like the Jamaicans and the bobsled, I guess.

SPEAKER_04 57:57

That would make sense. Speed. We saw the movie. Get that. We need we need speedsters. But the other thing, I don't, I don't, I'm still debating if I like this or not. The fact that you could be like born here with the whole dual, triple, quadruple citizenship crap. Uh my grandmother is this, therefore I can apply for an Italian like citizenship. Um like the uh it's like all right, all right, I I guess, I guess that's a thing. Um, but I was watching the game, a hockey game yesterday, and it was like half of their team were born in America. Uh, but they had a dual citizenship thing going on because of a mom on this side, or a dad on this side, or a grandma on that side, whatever the case may be, whatever the rules are. And it was like, uh, alright. Uh it's kind of like it's kind of like I hate Brazil because of this. The Summer Olympics, they'll have Brazilians in beach volleyball who didn't qualify for Brazil, but they've got like a relative from Latvia, so you have Brazilians on the Latvia national team for beach volleyball. I actually do not like that at all.

SPEAKER_00 59:00

Hey, if we get more Brazilians playing beach volleyball, though, I don't give a fuck. Yeah, Lou, you're not gonna win anyone here. You're not gonna win over anybody here.

SPEAKER_04 59:07

No, yes, I am, because I'm talking about the men. The women, the women could do whatever the hell they want. As long as they keep wearing them outfits, they could do whatever the hell they want. They could be Chinese citizenship requirements.

SPEAKER_00 59:21

No.

SPEAKER_04 59:22

And then he's like, actually, let me make sure we're clear because the women don't do that, and I don't know why the women don't do that, but the men do. Like the men will do that, but the women won't. Like the women Brazilian team, they'll the their three qualifiers, that's it. You're not gonna find your Estonian uh Nashville team and it's a bunch of Brazilians, but the men will do that, and again, not sure why that's a thing, but it is also true.

SPEAKER_00 59:49

They're weak egos.

SPEAKER_03 59:51

So they'll go. Just weak in general. You show us titties and we're done for. I mean, that's fact. That is true.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:01

That's why women women's skeleton is so awesome. You see them booties, see them butt cheeks. You get Italian uh skeleton women and you get fat butt cheeks.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:14

More cushion for the pushing.

MCU Tie-Ins, Damage Control, And Structure

SPEAKER_04 1:00:16

That's what I'm saying, reverb, man. Less work to do. You're hitting from behind. Just do one stroke and just bounce the rest of the way. Yeah. You get one stroke every 14 seconds. I counted. Just fine. Oh man. What else? I think I think that's mainly though, I will say that when other events are on, I kind of tune in, I half-ass tune in. But curling, curling and hockey, especially the last couple days, it's been hockey on the main screen, curling on the on the laptop. Um, even though there's other events going on, I just I I gotta say, I haven't cared too much about the other events. If nothing else was on, fine. And especially if an American isn't is competing, okay, fine. But it's been like, nah, alright.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:03

So are we gonna try to get tickets for the Summer Olympics then?

SPEAKER_04 1:01:06

If it's not crazy expensive, I'm down.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:09

Even if it's just something stupid, right? Because obviously we're not going to like fucking uh like gymnastics or some shit, right? We can't afford that.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:17

Or at least not the the finals, you know, some of the pre freelance shit? Sure. But you're right, because that's gonna well it's like it's like basketball. We could go to a basketball game as long as it's a preliminary round round robin and not the gold medal game, you know, that's different. So yeah, but if there's something that's absolutely doable, fuck yeah, uh definitely. I'll even go to the track and field and watch Javelin. You know what I mean? I don't even care. Just I went to an Olympic event and yep, yep. As simple as that. I went to an Olympic event and then another thing that's gonna be expensive tickets, uh swimming. Summer, summer swimming, oh god, that those are expensive tickets too.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:54

Some of that shit's supposed to be in San Diego, too. While we're at Comic-Con, actually.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:59

Oh, whoa.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:00

Oh, that's gonna be. That year during Comic-Con is gonna be a hot mess.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:05

Ooh, wee, you gotta put that uh put that timeshare in as soon as it broke the 363. Yeah, whatever that limit is, 365-day limit or whatever the rule is, as soon as it hits, you better set an alarm now. Is that a reminder?

SPEAKER_00 1:02:20

I should just like reserve the entire month of July and just rent that shit out to Olympic people. Oh, bruh, how awesome would that be? Thank you.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:34

Minimum. Minimum shit.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:37

Except for this week while we're at Comic-Con. You can't have it that week.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:40

Yep, yep. You gotta leave. You gotta leave for those five nights. Blackout date. Yeah, blackout dates. Oh man. But yeah, I I think uh whatever the skeletal works out for whatever we're doing, if we're doing extra, whatever we're doing. Um yeah, fuck yeah. Uh going to an Olympic event uh was on my list. Uh God, probably since Atlanta '96.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:06

And that the year got blown up.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:08

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:09

That was the year the ex when they got the wrong guy. Yeah. Yeah, that's the year.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:14

That's Atlanta, man. Crime crime's gonna have a lot of black people in Atlanta.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:17

Atlanta.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:18

That reminds me, y'all see that frickin' black game looters or re-looting or something? D y'all hear about that video game? No. There's a there's a there's a video game, and it's supposed to be, you know, black representation, but the idea in the game is you're supposed to go steal stuff. I you can't make you can't make it.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:41

I would be uh I would be interested in seeing the pictures of the people who developed that game.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:51

Obviously, it is bombing really hard. Like, you know, I guess on stream or I don't know what it's called, theme, maybe where they do you can tell how many people are playing the game. Like it maxed out at like 78 users or something like that. They tell you all-time high and all that. It was like 35 users right now, max high was like 78 users. It was just like, this is a real thing. They made this game. So the idea is just just to be clear, just to be clear. So it's not as bad as it sounds. It's bad, but it's not as bad as it sounds. The idea is black people are supposed to be going to steal stuff that was stolen from them that they consider still like any culture. Like, what was it? Was it uh Wakanda? Uh Black Panther, where he went into the museum.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:36

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. At the beginning. At the beginning. Okay. Oh, the racist Black Panther. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:42

Yeah, that one.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:43

Not the Charlotte.

unknown 1:04:44

Correct.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:46

Ray, Ray, Racist Michael B. Um what movie was he in when he was a kid? Well, what was that movie when he was a kid? It was like Glock, nine millimeter, him and his buddy. Because that was like one of those Vib U movies. I can't remember what the fuck that was.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:59

Uh he was in the Boys in the Hood.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:00

I think I think it was Boys in the Hood, wasn't it?

SPEAKER_03 1:05:02

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Michael B. Jordan.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:04

Where he was Yeah. Go look look up his IMDB. There's a like young, like, like that, one of those Boys in the Hood Minute Society type. I think it was Boys in the Hood.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:13

I I don't think he was in Boys in the Hood specifically, so I was like, uh But yeah, okay. Please go.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:20

Yeah, but that but he was a kid in that, and but but he was one of the kids where they heard the guns going off, and him and his buddies stop, they're like, Galock, nine millimeter. And that was uh kind of like I guess started off his career, whatever movie that was. And now it's gonna bug me. When do y'all look it up? I I am doing that shit.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:39

Um his first so The Sopranos Black and White, The Wire, CSI, Cold Case.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:48

No, it was a movie y'all would know.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:58

He was a pretty boy flea on the boondock.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:01

I didn't know he was in ass cool. But yeah, so that that game is basically why people stole your shit, go steal it back.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:14

No he was in that Wow The LeBron one? That's a LeBron space channel?

SPEAKER_00 1:06:25

Yeah, because they were in the locker room and they're like Michael Jordan. Michael Jordan. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:32

That shit was funny. That was that was good. They did good with that one.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:35

That was the only good part of that man.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:36

I mean, also true. But yeah, so that's a real video game, people. You're a black person, and they made it so your job is to steal something.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:56

I feel like our demographic probably doesn't lean that way, Lou. Again, you're the whiteest person on this podcast. I am my sound.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:08

That's also true. That shit's not even close. Y'all celebrating black history before I am.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:18

People look at the thumbnail on YouTube and they're like, oh, let's hear what that guy has to say. Nope. Sorry.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:28

Oh shit. What what is on his red hat? What is that? Oh hell no.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:38

Well, speaking of black history, uh, did we all watch Wonder Man?

SPEAKER_04 1:07:43

Yes. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:44

Did you finish it? Yeah, I finished it. I texted you. I said I finished it. Yeah. Did you? It was for the window now.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:49

Bruh, it was for the pod. You don't you you sometimes you kind of lead stuff in there knowing that you know the answer. You ask questions you know the answer to. Oh, right?

SPEAKER_00 1:07:56

Sorry. Sorry, sorry, Pod. AI cut this out. Never mind, never mind.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:01

We're gonna hold on, no, we'll just do it over. So hey, D, did you're the last one? Jack watched it first. I watched it second. You were gonna watch it earlier. Did you get a chance to finish it?

SPEAKER_00 1:08:11

I did get a chance to finish it. Thank you for asking.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:14

Right on. Yeah, no problem. What'd you think?

SPEAKER_00 1:08:17

Good. I enjoyed it.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:19

Yeah, I did too. I thought it was well done. There was no woke bullshit. You know me. First thing I'm looking for is how how to hate something. And there wasn't a whole lot to hate on this. Except no, I'll get I'll get into that later.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:29

So you did say you had something you didn't like.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:33

Okay. You want to talk about it first?

SPEAKER_00 1:08:35

Okay, let's go. Let's go. No, let's go to the hate. Let's go. It wasn't even major. And then we'll get to the good stuff after. Yeah, okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:43

Wasn't major and it probably my own expectations. But two two things. There are two things that stood out. You said one. Oh, the I did say I did say that. I thought about the second thing. The one was there was an episode that I thought was absolutely unnecessary and it slowed the whole show down. That could have been an exposition. Just tell us what happened with this one situation, or why actors can't be superheroes. Just tell us what happened. I didn't need to see that. Or if they were going to show it, speed it up. It was like, this is slow, this is long, this is drawn out. Okay, we know this is leading to because the way the show was going. We know they're going to tell us what the issue is, but get there already. And it was just like, okay, then this happened. And I'm just sitting there like, after a while, I was starting to straighten up stuff in my limb room. This is like this is low and boring. So that one episode.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:35

I like that episode. I like that episode though.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:37

I I liked the explanation. I didn't like how long it took.

Horror Marathons And 90s TV Rabbit Holes

SPEAKER_00 1:09:41

I think if they would have had it earlier in the show, I think the problem is that they make the offhand a comment in the episode one about the form that he has to sign, and they don't really say anything else about it. And then like two episodes later, then all of a sudden you throw in this like explanation, right?

SPEAKER_04 1:09:59

There's no like three episodes later because it's episode four.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:03

Right. But but but they don't have like there's no like they're having a conversation about it, and then that leads into the episode, right? They just kind of throw it into the middle there. So it was kind of dis disruptive in that regard. Uh but if they would have had it right after she had that conversation with the guy where he's like, you gotta sign this extra form because we don't have one for you, and then bam, right into like And here's why. Yeah. So that was I mean, yeah. So I see it, I see it from your perspective as far as like being disruptive, but I think they could have put it in earlier and it would have been better. The flow would have been better, right? Just dropping it in the middle like that without any kind of context before, I think was was uh Alright.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:45

Uh hold up, Jack. Like I was saying earlier, I gotta get my camera real quick. Um Yeah, it'll be just just for like a minute. He has a so um I got a lady, I got a lady of the night coming in.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:01

But Dorman Yeah yeah. Yeah. Um but also Dorman's one of Wonderman's villains. Oh. So wait, say that again. Dorman is one of Wonderman's villains. Oh, I didn't know that. So if it goes further, that will be an important episode. Right now, maybe not, but he is one of Wonderman's villains.

SPEAKER_04 1:11:23

Uh, that helps a lot, and I feel better about that episode already. It's still it was slow and took a long time to get there.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:30

But he made Josh Gadd disappear. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:11:32

So Josh Gad was so good. Josh Gadd was so good in that episode.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:36

That's just because he was just being himself, Lou.

SPEAKER_03 1:11:40

That's probably true. Okay, that's one.

SPEAKER_04 1:11:47

So again, the the main point was because it was again, it was slow, and it slowed the rest of the story down for me. The other part kind of ties back into that, which was slowing down the story. Now, this could be a me thing. This this might be my fault for expectations. Uh, you know, Jack always warns us, don't have any. But after it started with the whole uh uh audition and all this stuff, I'm expecting more of that. The audition and what's happening with that. And they really don't make that the focus until the end. You know, leading up to it, there wasn't a whole lot of, okay, what I'm like, what happened, especially the fourth episode. I'm like, well, what happened with the audition? We don't know what's gonna happen. We'd have any kind of call. What's going on? We're gonna have this other episode instead. So that was like, again, I if if I wasn't expecting that, if I was expecting this gonna be drawn out, I think I wouldn't have had a problem with it. Because I'm sitting here like, dude, I want to know what's you had this, what's going on with this audition? I wanted that answer, and I didn't get it soon enough. And again, that's probably a me thing. But those are that's it. That's the only two things I can really bitch about.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:56

You and Simon, because Simon was the same way. I want to know, I want to call. I want to call back right now. Exactly. Both you and Simon are sitting here tapping the table, going, Where's McCall, bitch? Where's McCall? Man, I was.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:07

I'm looking I'm looking at my own phone of on his behalf. I'm like, what the hell?

SPEAKER_00 1:13:11

He's like, I'm gonna I'm a Texas bitch. Hold on.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:14

Right, it's like, come on, what is going on here? And then obviously, yeah. Uh and then Trevor Slattery, banking. Oh, he rocked it.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:25

He he sold he stole the whole show, dude.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:28

He's yeah, he was fantastic. A little bit predictable, like like once I was gone. That that whole uh first first half of the first couple episodes, I was like, okay, I know where this is going. After they explained why Trevor was doing his thing, I was like, all right, uh predictable, know how this is gonna finish. Knew how it was gonna get resolved, the whole thing. It was like it was like, all right. But don't care. It was played out very well. Uh I enjoyed the show. I hope there's a second season.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:56

They had good chemistry. The two of them had really seen with each other.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:00

Yeah, yeah, they did.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:01

So that also helped sell it as well.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:04

Like you know what? I wonder if they rewrote the show based off of auditions for that actual show. And I was like, huh, let's put some of this on our let's write some of this on our show and how they play off well. And that would be kind of funny if it did.

unknown 1:14:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:19

I mean, they couldn't obviously. I mean, they could with they could with uh Simon, I don't know the actor's name, but Trevor, they had to keep him because he's obviously an established character. But did they bring in a bunch of other people to read with him to see how it was gonna be how it be on the show? And then they're like, hey, let's write this into the show. This is pretty good.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:38

That would be kind of fun. Simon's mom was awesome.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:41

Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Good call.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:44

Mama.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:45

I even I even liked the brother because he was the asshole that he needed to be. Like, you know what I mean? It was like you could see the older brother being like that, but still supporting him, but it was like it's like, bruh, what the hell, man? But so that it was it was really good. It was a really good show. Okay, you guys? Anything yet?

SPEAKER_00 1:15:04

No.

SPEAKER_04 1:15:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:04

I liked it. I enjoyed all of it. Yeah. I like I didn't mind the doorman episode. It was entertaining enough. I agree it took you out of Simon's story. But I mean, if they have eight episodes they have to film, whatever, and if it leads to something more with doorman, because now you can have a running joke in every Marvel movie about where Josh Gad is.

unknown 1:15:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:23

So that would be hilarious.

SPEAKER_01 1:15:25

That is also true.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:26

Uh so it kind of spoilers, uh, Doorman, when he throws up, he throws up Josh Gadd, right? That's like Josh Gadd's energy. Is that what we're assuming? Are we assuming that Josh Gadd is a part of the middle of the the throwing up with just a physical reaction? Isn't that crazy? Yeah. Whatever.

SPEAKER_04 1:15:44

Yeah, I just I took I took the throw up just because sick, and I took Josh Gadd is in the uh doors.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:52

Yeah, and that was Ahsoka Morals in between uh the alien when she's the alien.

SPEAKER_03 1:16:01

Oh yeah, when she's making that movie. Uh yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:07

I saw that. No, no, he's Josh Josh Gad's in the Phantom Josh Gad's in the Phantom Zone. I saw it on New Adography, like we talked about. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:17

But no, I mean I think he's just like in the at the Lost In-Been Worlds.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:22

He's in the Phantom Zone.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:23

Uh I I think that was one of the stronger uh overall was in my opinion, was one of the stronger Disney Plus shows uh for Marvel. For sure.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:31

Like yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:34

It's up there at the top.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:35

I mean first time in a long time.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:37

Well, and I think those those shows that have ties to the universe, but aren't like beholden to the universe, right? Because they had Trevor, they had the Department of Disaster uh control, like they had a bunch of elements from the universe, damage control. They had a bunch of the elements from the universe, but they weren't like focuses. They they yeah, they didn't have they didn't weren't like, oh my gosh, we have to have all of this lore explained to us to to into the show, right? So sometimes these shows I think get kind of sidetracked as far as like, oh well, if you haven't seen all 12 of these movies and you haven't seen all other of these other series, where Wonder Man was kind of like isolated in its own universe, you know, which is which is which was nice because then you weren't having to re-tread a bunch of stuff or trying to like catch up with what was going on. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:17:30

Well was the uh guy from damage control the guy from Miss Marvel? I can't remember. I I remember seeing them, but I couldn't remember where I started.

SPEAKER_00 1:17:38

He's been in a couple of things. Uh let me double check. But I'm pretty I think I'd recognize I think I'd seen him before.

SPEAKER_04 1:17:46

Because yeah, I definitely recognize him, but I'm like, damn, I can't remember which one. And the first one that came to mind was Miss Marvel.

SPEAKER_03 1:17:53

Although I enjoyed that show. I know a lot of people dogged it, but I enjoyed Miss Marvel. I liked him.

SPEAKER_00 1:17:58

Because it's again, the TV shows I like better when they are just like self-contained, right? I mean Daredevil works that way because it's self-contained, right? It's just Daredevil. He's not uh trying to join the Avengers, he's not I I think you need to save that stuff for the movies because not everybody's gonna watch the shows. And in reality, everybody is not gonna watch the shows.

SPEAKER_04 1:18:25

And if you and if you're gonna put him in the show, like if Spider-Man shows up in Daredevil, it needs to be quick, being get getting get out, you know, one of those type of things.

SPEAKER_00 1:18:33

100%. And I think they learned their lesson from like WandaVision going into Multiverse of Madness. You know, like why is Wanda like that? And people were lost. Yeah, you have to go back and watch WandaVision. And I think they need to accept everybody's not gonna watch everything that they put out.

SPEAKER_04 1:18:50

They just don't have Yeah, it's like it's like you you said this before. Um, you want to throw in an Easter egg for those people who did watch it? Great, but don't make it the story.

SPEAKER_00 1:18:59

Exactly. Yeah, well, it's like Gideon and the Darksaber too, in Manda.

SPEAKER_04 1:19:04

Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_00 1:19:06

Uh he was in uh Miss Marvel and also Spider-Man No Way Home as the same character. Yeah, uh Agent Clear. Okay. So he's been around for a little bit. I think he's the one that like wasn't he the one that was like interrogating uh Peter Parker? Peter No Way Home. I think that was the first time we'd seen him.

SPEAKER_03 1:19:27

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:19:30

But see, now he's like uh Colson. He's just like there all the time. But he's like he's like a dickhead Colson. Yeah. It's like an evil voice.

SPEAKER_04 1:19:38

Yeah, you know, did you guys get out of that? Did it seem like he wasn't actually doing things properly?

SPEAKER_01 1:19:46

Oh yeah.

unknown 1:19:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:19:48

Okay, just make it okay. Watch it, I was like, I don't think his bosses know that he's basically blackmailing or extorting, I'm not sure which is the right. No, blackmailing? I think it's blackmailing. Like, what yeah, like what word am I want to use? I think blackmailing shh Trevor and all that. I was like, the second time I was like, well, how does Trevor not have a lawyer? I'm sitting there watching this and I'm like, are you kidding me right now?

SPEAKER_00 1:20:09

Right Trevor's, man. He reminded me he reminds me kind of the guy from uh uh Wolverine and Deadpool. Uh the agent that's like part of the agency, but he's like kind of a little rogue. Like he's kind of he has his own kind of uh end that he wants to meet.

SPEAKER_04 1:20:29

Yeah, got his own agenda, yeah.

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SPEAKER_00 1:20:31

Yeah. So but no, I thought it was a really solid show. Like, I I'm glad, like, I mean, it's uh it's been out for a little while. We I think we could do some light spoilers. I'm glad that they didn't have his powers become like his powers were around and central, but they weren't something that was a thing that perpetu that pushed things forward every week, right? Like it was just him doing his thing, right? Um But I did like that at the end that at the end that he obviously he had spent some time learning figuring it out holding them, yeah. So I'm like he can fly now? They can fly now.

SPEAKER_04 1:21:12

Oh, you know what though? Did you guys did you guys figure out what he was doing before you saw what he was doing?

SPEAKER_00 1:21:20

Yeah, I was like, why does he want to go to work with that guy?

SPEAKER_04 1:21:24

Unless Yeah, yeah, that was me too. I was thinking the same thing. I was like, this don't seem right. I'm like, oh they gotta wrap up the the Trevor thing. I'm like, okay, I see what he's doing now.

SPEAKER_00 1:21:37

It it took me a minute, but I got there.

SPEAKER_04 1:21:39

Uh-huh. That was the other thing. Like, what did I miss in one of the other shows that Trevor didn't finish his sentence? Like, how is he out?

SPEAKER_00 1:21:48

You have to go back and watch one of the shorts.

SPEAKER_04 1:21:53

Shorts?

SPEAKER_00 1:21:54

Okay. I think it was on Iron Man 3. But um the Twitter. That's yeah. That's how he ends up in Shang Chi with um with uh Chang.

SPEAKER_04 1:22:08

In the car. Yeah, in the car. Um yeah, okay, but those shorts are I was gonna say you you can't watch the shorts on Disney Plus without there's a separate section that has all those shorts. Yeah, they're called. But okay, but I'm sort of like I'll I'm not like if he's out, like why wasn't he arrested a long time? I mean, he's a long time ago. I guess that's his first time landing back in America or something.

SPEAKER_00 1:22:30

Exactly. He's been in frickin' Ching Chi land.

SPEAKER_04 1:22:34

Okay. Alright, that makes more sense. I was like, I was I wasn't sure if it was that or something to do with the blip. Like, was he blipped out and they don't count that five years of service? I mean, I don't know if they do or not.

SPEAKER_00 1:22:47

I think about Crunchy made me think about that little creature with the wings. I can't remember his name. Right? What happened to Morris? Why didn't he bring Morris with him?

SPEAKER_03 1:22:54

Oh yeah, huh?

SPEAKER_00 1:22:57

He had a button. It's called um Marvel One Shot All Hail the King.

SPEAKER_03 1:23:01

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:23:03

And it's him in prison with uh Sam Rockwell's character. It's fucking hilarious.

SPEAKER_03 1:23:09

Okay, I'll give it a shit.

SPEAKER_00 1:23:10

What there's a monkey in it? Sold. Justin Hammer.

SPEAKER_04 1:23:14

Oh my god. You but you missed that part, Duke, earlier on. We're waiting. I was chatting with Jack. I saw that the monkey movie, it was so bad. It was so bad. But I couldn't stop watching it.

SPEAKER_00 1:23:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:23:27

It was absolutely horrible and terrible. And I just train wrecked, dude. I watched the whole thing, I couldn't stop.

SPEAKER_02 1:23:37

I watched uh a movie called Night Shift. It had like Justin Long in it.

SPEAKER_00 1:23:43

Uh CM Punk W E.

SPEAKER_03 1:23:46

Yeah, I think it's like it was Yeah, it was something.

SPEAKER_00 1:23:52

I mean, it was fine, but you could also tell like it was something that it was a it was definitely like it was it seemed like it was like an original shutter production, you know? Where it's like uh like one of the not necessarily it's not as bad as the ones where it's like you know, they come out with like final destination and then they come out with the final destinations, which is like you know, I think they're called the asylum movies where they're like just you you can't make you can't make fun of that.

SPEAKER_04 1:24:21

If you're gonna have alien and then have aliens, you can't you can't make fun of that.

SPEAKER_00 1:24:26

But then but then the asylum comes out with aliens with a Z at the end, you know.

SPEAKER_04 1:24:30

Um that is true. That is true, or a Y, aliens with a Y.

SPEAKER_00 1:24:35

It definitely was like leaning uh that that direction. Like it was very like you could tell like the production value just was uh Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:24:45

Sorry, I'm I'm laughing at my own jokes in my head because when I'm thinking of the alien alien aliens, alien yins, it's a Japanese alien movie, alien yens.

SPEAKER_03 1:24:58

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_02 1:25:04

I don't even know where to go from here.

SPEAKER_04 1:25:07

Uh I watched all the scream movies, because Scream 7 comes out in two weeks. Um one was great. Uh I didn't remember I remembered most of one. It turns out I remembered more of one. I didn't remember there were two bad guys, so I didn't think. Yeah. Uh I thought that might have been the case, but uh there were like two bad guys in almost all of them.

SPEAKER_00 1:25:28

Oh shit, there's two.

SPEAKER_04 1:25:29

I was like, man, it was annoying. It was like, oh, there's two of them again. You'd watch the next one. Oh, there's two of them again. But finally, there's one bad guy. Oh, this one has three. What the f it was it was slightly annoying. Um and lazy, um episode three was yeah, the last one.

SPEAKER_00 1:25:44

Yeah, there were a lot.

SPEAKER_04 1:25:45

Yeah, four four was not bad. They brought it back.

SPEAKER_00 1:25:48

Um, I did not like the third one.

SPEAKER_04 1:25:51

Okay, good. Uh I didn't like if they killed off Dewey. I get it. He had to die. They had to do something, right? And I and I do like that they meme themselves. It was so funny, just like, yeah, the third now you're in a franchise. Now it was like, oh my god, this is so good. Uh, in the sense of just them making fun of themselves. I did like that part. Um so yeah, so now I'm caught up with all the screen movies. Um, although it's been two weeks, so I don't probably remember who all were the killers in the first six.

SPEAKER_00 1:26:23

Don't even remember exactly who all the killers were in it. Sounds familiar. Right.

SPEAKER_04 1:26:28

It was like, was this girl in the previous movies? Right. Wait, is that the girl from Friends? Wow, she looks familiar.

SPEAKER_00 1:26:39

I was like, oh cool. Got a shout out speaking of 90s uh television stars, you know, rest in power, Dawson.

SPEAKER_02 1:26:48

Um, you know.

SPEAKER_00 1:26:50

The Dawson. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:26:53

Not a show I watched, but I knew about it.

SPEAKER_00 1:26:56

And Varsity Blues, hello. It's about white teenage girls talking about sex. Yeah. Joey Potter, man.

SPEAKER_04 1:27:02

That's what Dawson's Creek was?

SPEAKER_00 1:27:04

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:27:05

Who were the who were there? Any famous girls in that show? Uh kind of like Veronica Mars has everybody famous in that show?

SPEAKER_00 1:27:13

Uh Busy Phillips. Um I know that name.

SPEAKER_04 1:27:18

Like, old girl was doing a rewatch. Veronica Mars. Oh, okay. I know that name. Michelle.

SPEAKER_00 1:27:23

And um fuck why can't I remember? Who played Joey?

SPEAKER_03 1:27:26

Katie Holmes. Oh, damn. Okay. That's a line. Joshua Jackson of uh the Mighty Ducks. Um shit. Yeah, now there are a lot of people on that show.

SPEAKER_00 1:27:43

Uh Jenny Knuckles from Supernatural.

SPEAKER_02 1:27:46

Um The Boys. Let's see. And the boys. I'm looking at Rachel E. Cook was in it as a guest.

SPEAKER_00 1:27:56

Hell yeah. I'm looking at like guest stars of uh The Flash. The Flash was Dawson's dad.

SPEAKER_04 1:28:05

Wait, huh? Oh, wrong flash. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:28:07

OG Flash. John Wesley ship. Yeah, like OG Flash.

SPEAKER_04 1:28:10

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was gonna say, I was gonna say Grant. Like, no, there's no way.

SPEAKER_02 1:28:14

Brittany Daniel was in it?

SPEAKER_03 1:28:16

I don't know. I don't know if I know that name.

SPEAKER_02 1:28:20

Melissa McBride was in it.

SPEAKER_03 1:28:22

Carolyn from The Walking Dead.

SPEAKER_02 1:28:25

Um Allie Lardomurray. Landman.

SPEAKER_04 1:28:30

Ally larder. Oh, her. And finally.

SPEAKER_03 1:28:33

She was in like varsity blues, too, wasn't she? Yeah. She was the whip cream girl. Yes, she was.com. Yes, she was.

SPEAKER_00 1:28:46

Jack is really pushing for that sponsorship. Dude, for real. I can't wait until you do the 30-second read of promoting Mr. Skin. Monica Keena, she was in um one of the Halloween movies.

SPEAKER_03 1:29:03

Promote versus Jason. Let's see. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:29:09

I mean, there's there's been a bunch of people. Seth Rogan. But what'd you say? Seth Rogan was in.

SPEAKER_03 1:29:15

He had butt cancer. Is that what his issue was? Yeah. Yep. Well, you watch that tight ends commercial.

SPEAKER_04 1:29:25

You don't need to get your finger up your butt anymore. You just do your blood check or whatever the hell it is they were doing in that commercial. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 1:29:33

Poop in a box and send it away. Jonathan Lipniki from That's just nasty.

SPEAKER_03 1:29:38

From uh Jerry McGuire. You just poop in a box and you mail it away. Okay, yeah. B it be no.

SPEAKER_00 1:29:50

Come on. You know your whole life you wanted to poop in a box and mail it. Now you can do it legally.

SPEAKER_04 1:29:55

I will I will go there and poop on somebody. You know, that's fine. They can have it that way, but I'm not gonna put it in a box and just mail it in.

SPEAKER_00 1:30:02

We're Spanish, not German.

SPEAKER_04 1:30:04

Whatever, either way. It's still it's still in Europe. Close enough. Besides, with my politics, most people think I'm German anyway.

SPEAKER_00 1:30:23

Well they think you're a specific uh they think you're you're a German from a specific time of the history.

SPEAKER_04 1:30:32

That's probably better clarified. Good job.

SPEAKER_00 1:30:35

Not like a German of today, because you already disparaged him earlier during the Olympics.

SPEAKER_04 1:30:40

Exactly. Oh man.

SPEAKER_03 1:30:45

All right. Holy shit. Oh my gosh. Are you still a sleepy head over there?

SPEAKER_00 1:30:51

Always. I'm gonna fall asleep 15 minutes after the episode's over. Well, it's a good time to get away. Some of us got a job, Lou. Some of us gotta be up at 8 o'clock every day.

SPEAKER_04 1:31:02

Not tomorrow, son. Don't give me that excuse. No, not tomorrow. I learned this holiday.

SPEAKER_00 1:31:07

Guys, I gotta bank the I gotta bank those hours. I'm I'm my boss is a good thing.

SPEAKER_04 1:31:11

That's right. I forgot.

SPEAKER_00 1:31:12

I forgot that the five other people out of everybody that works in my office will be working tomorrow.

SPEAKER_04 1:31:19

Yeah, you can work on your fantasy basketball team tomorrow, too.

SPEAKER_00 1:31:23

So Lou, I'm sorry, Jack. Any uh any good Disney series from last weekend? You seeing uh balls up?

SPEAKER_04 1:31:32

Are they are they kind of even though you were cut by four hours?

SPEAKER_00 1:31:36

Um we didn't even bother going down by rise just because I knew it was closed. Kind of reopened Friday, whatever the term, right? Thursday four or five weeks or something. Thursday.

SPEAKER_04 1:31:49

Well, that's what I'm saying. My point is they like this whole switch thing they're doing, they planned this a year ago. I know it's they they would have had to build all the new mechanics, new everything, and then boom, let's implement it and install and be done with it. So it's like they have to be.

SPEAKER_00 1:32:05

But I mean nothing's changing on Rise, so that was just regular.

SPEAKER_04 1:32:08

They're not pushing it to Vader?

SPEAKER_00 1:32:10

That was just post that was just post-holiday uh let's fix all of our broken shit because it breaks every five minutes. Before Star Wars Night starts, before the phone.

SPEAKER_04 1:32:19

Okay, okay. Well, to be fair, that one breaks the most, right?

SPEAKER_00 1:32:23

Yeah. I mean, Ogaz is closed until March twelfth or something, but that one is being original trilogy. Yeah, they're adding DJ Rex or adding a bunch of music for him and stuff, right? Yeah. But then also just through the land, you're gonna hear the Imperial March and shit. So I'm not super happy about that, but that'll be why.

SPEAKER_04 1:32:46

If it's if it's pre-Jedi, I'm fine with it.

SPEAKER_00 1:32:49

Um no, it should just be all the way just original trilogy. That's all.

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SPEAKER_04 1:32:54

Well, that's what I mean. But if it's pre-Jedi, you should they had their own music.

SPEAKER_00 1:32:58

Oh, they had their own music?

SPEAKER_04 1:32:59

Oh, yeah, that would have been fine. Just leave it alone.

SPEAKER_00 1:33:01

Yeah. John Williams came in and did a whole new soundtrack just for Galaxy's Edge.

SPEAKER_04 1:33:06

Yeah, you could I didn't know that.

SPEAKER_00 1:33:08

We had no reason to add in, you know, the Imperial March and all that shit coming in there. Right. We'll see how it is. No, I hear you.

SPEAKER_04 1:33:16

I didn't know. Okay, that makes more sense now. Yeah, I think left that alone.

SPEAKER_00 1:33:20

I think yeah. We we'll have to have a conversation after the next time we go about what we how which one we feel.

SPEAKER_04 1:33:27

The changes, yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:33:28

Because I'm one of I'm in my head when I was hearing about all the changes and stuff, I'm like, I don't understand why they just couldn't alternate. Because then you're getting people to show up multiple times to do different things, right? So if you have it like monthly or weekly or whatever, like we all go on December 9th this year because it's original trilogy week or month, right? December this year, but then next year it's prequels. The year after that, it's sequels, right?

SPEAKER_04 1:33:54

Like, so you're that's a lot of work though.

SPEAKER_00 1:33:58

But again, it's Disneyland, they should have the ability to do that. You know, again, they they have the ability to set up like oogie boogie nights and have it for a month and a half where they're every night. But I'm saying, but there wouldn't have to change that much stuff, right? Like so, but again, I think we don't we don't know that, though.

SPEAKER_04 1:34:18

That's what I'm saying. If if if that is true, then I agree with you.

SPEAKER_00 1:34:21

That's why I was saying after we go next time, we should I'd like to have a conversation. Make the comparison like then then you're kind of satisfying all of it instead of just combining all of it and mixing it all up. But again, we'll have to see when we go how it how they handle it, right? Like um, yeah, you know, do they kind of have the invisible lines where if you're in sp specific areas you might run into Ray, but Ray is never gonna be in an area where Leia is, for example, you know, or that type of thing. Um, yes, that is actually so from Kylo's now Vader shuttle up to the Falcon, it's supposed to be OT. Okay. Maybe PT, but for sure OT. Then the marketplace, so from like docks until the Wookie Wood shop over there where the bathrooms are, is gonna be kind of like Disney Plus ish. That's where Boba Fett and Mando and all of them are gonna be. And then outside of there is gonna be where um Ray and stuff are. On the Rise. Outside where where the Rise is. Yeah. Okay, Rise and Pose uh Fighter. Yeah, yeah, where all that stuff is. That'll that's where you'll find Ray. You'll you won't find Ray in front of the Falcon anymore.

SPEAKER_03 1:35:40

Okay. So we'll see. And then there's what is your first visit?

SPEAKER_00 1:35:47

Kylo's gonna be in the Star Wars where we saw Vader. Because Vader's gonna be in Galaxy's Edge now. So if you want to see Kylo, you gotta go over to the to Tomorrowland. For the picture? Um the picture place or yeah. Okay, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:36:03

Well, that's cool then.

SPEAKER_00 1:36:03

So then next year we can go and get pictures with Kylo.

SPEAKER_03 1:36:08

Nice. Um, our next visit.

SPEAKER_00 1:36:14

Well, we're going to WonderCon.

SPEAKER_04 1:36:16

Your next visit after the change, uh I guess is what I mean.

SPEAKER_00 1:36:20

Um, it depends on when the big change is. We're going shortly after Ogus reopens. I don't know if that's when the change is. Are they gonna save the change for when they do all the Mando and Grogu stuff? I think that's when they were doing it, but I don't know. I mean that would make sense. Is that they just do it? They do it uh they do it, you know, life day right before Mando and Grogu hits the theaters. Like right. That to me would make the most because that's when they did the changes last year to Star Tours, right? Was Life Day. Yeah. Yeah. Or Life Day, Life Day in Jammer, right? Like it's um the season of the force is yeah, what they call it. Yeah, when um they start all their Star Wars celebrations, hyperspace mountain and all that.

SPEAKER_04 1:37:07

I like that you're timing it that you're opening, that you're going back right after Ogaz opens so O Girl can get her drink.

SPEAKER_00 1:37:17

Well, we're going for WonderCon, and then I'm like, well, I guess Oguz opens then too.

SPEAKER_01 1:37:22

So we'll be there.

SPEAKER_00 1:37:26

We'll be at the Anaheim Convention Center, which is a stone's throw from Disneyland. Yeah, and Daddy just re-upped the magic key tickets, so you know. And what if um WonderCon sucks and we gotta do something else for the rest of the day?

SPEAKER_02 1:37:40

Oh darn.

SPEAKER_00 1:37:41

Darn. But any uh any good stories from last weekend or just um no, not a lot. Um food stories? They did bring back um um Abraham Lincoln. So you remember where we saw um Walt Disney? Yeah. So now they um now they um they can alternate it between Abraham Lincoln and Walt. Like for a day, for a week? I think they just rotate the stage. Like such and such show is Abe, such and such show is gonna be Walt.

SPEAKER_04 1:38:19

Okay, okay. Well, same day you can watch both.

SPEAKER_00 1:38:23

Yes. I forgot how good that show was, too, because it's obviously it's been a while. You just walk out of like, yeah, fuck yeah, America.

SPEAKER_03 1:38:34

You the man, Abe. You the man. Yeah. Good thing he was Republican. Still have savory. Right.

SPEAKER_00 1:38:43

Um but no, it it was it was just I, you know, it wasn't anything like super crazy or nobody was like super annoying mostly. Well, if nobody else was super annoying, then that means you were super annoying.

SPEAKER_04 1:39:00

Okay, so that means you were the annoying one. Exactly.

SPEAKER_00 1:39:04

Right. So from eight to one thirty, it's Abe Lincoln. And then from two to eight, is Walt.

SPEAKER_03 1:39:14

That'd be a nice, nice break. That's it. And they stop at eight. Yeah, I guess so. There's still four more hours to go.

SPEAKER_00 1:39:21

Yeah, everything gets weird after the fireworks, though. Like all that kind of stuff, like fireworks isn't till nine, though. But but but there's no I don't understand why they wouldn't have stuff on Main Street like that when people are gonna be I mean, do you not really be trying to get through a fucking crowd after fireworks two years ago? Like, I can't imagine I can't imagine people are going into the the But we did get the um I would to avoid the crowds. That's the problem.

SPEAKER_04 1:39:54

Oh, yeah, you did talk about a bucket.

SPEAKER_00 1:39:56

What were you saying, dude? So they had a no, you're good. Um so Dis California Adventure turned 25 while we were there. We were actually there on the 25th anniversary of it opening. And um so all weekend they had a um a popcorn bucket.

SPEAKER_03 1:40:16

That's uh Ferris Wheel, the the you know, the Pixar Ferris wheel that we almost killed Lou on. Because we're like, yes, pick the moving cart where it like swings you and there's like, hey, when do we get to go again?

SPEAKER_00 1:40:37

Um but it lights up and I th it basically has magic band technology in it. So as you walk around the park, um it changes colors based on like where you are in the park. If you watch one of the parades, it syncs up with the parades. So it's a pretty dope bucket, and I should have bought more because hold on, is that sold?

SPEAKER_03 1:41:02

Sold.

SPEAKER_00 1:41:05

Ah, they're not going for as much as I was hoping. So it was a$50 bucket, a$55 bucket. Uh one just sold for$185.

SPEAKER_03 1:41:13

Damn. Yeah. Holy shit snacks, man. That's crazy.

unknown 1:41:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:41:20

Yeah, you should have bought more.

SPEAKER_00 1:41:22

Yeah. I should have. You should have been that guy with the uh the guy with the uh death stars bags. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:41:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:41:28

Yep. Yep. Every time a bucket drops, that guy's there.

SPEAKER_03 1:41:34

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_04 1:41:35

Damn though, that's crazy. First of all, it's crazy that's a$55 bucket. That's that's first part.

SPEAKER_00 1:41:41

Yeah, technology. I'll find some videos for you though showing it like syncing up with appraise, though. It's really cool.

SPEAKER_04 1:41:47

No, it sounds pretty badass.

SPEAKER_00 1:41:50

Um it doesn't hold much popcorn. Well, so I was saying earlier that that would make sense, so then people aren't ducking into the they're not using it as like a a thing to be get like good better seats on Main Street. Because I think they want to keep people either in the if you're buying stuff in the stores, they're fine with it. But I think a lot of the stuff on Main Street they push you out at like eight o'clock so they they can get all of the traffic and everything routed for the fireworks.

SPEAKER_04 1:42:16

So that's what happened to us, right? They made us go around. We couldn't we couldn't go through the store.

SPEAKER_00 1:42:21

Yep.

SPEAKER_04 1:42:22

Because like half of that was on parade, parade time, fireworks time, best time to be on rides because all those fuckers are doing that, which means it's clear for the other stuff, which is why I would want it to be open. It's like, let me go do this while these people are wanting to do the damn thing.

SPEAKER_00 1:42:39

Who knows? That's uh made above us. Oh, and they also brought back, since it's the 25th anniversary of California Adventure, they brought back um Soren over California. OG Soren. With the orange grove smells. So that's cool. That's kind of cool. And that's gonna run until July when they switched to Soren over America for America's birthday.

SPEAKER_04 1:43:03

For the two, yeah, for the 250th. Did you guys do it? The Soren over Cali?

SPEAKER_00 1:43:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:43:08

Yeah. Um, it should still be there when we go in June, too, so you can see it. Hell yeah. Oh. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:43:18

Because if you're not switching until July, then yup. Mm-hmm. Hey, look, it's a Barstow.

SPEAKER_01 1:43:25

It smells like Taco. Del Taco.

SPEAKER_04 1:43:27

It smells like Del Taco, right? Exactly.

SPEAKER_00 1:43:29

Oh god.

SPEAKER_04 1:43:31

I don't smell it. Oh god, no. That's that's as long as we don't get Tommy Burger. As long as we don't get Tommy Burger, we're good.

SPEAKER_00 1:43:37

Ten minutes after you pass over Barstow, it's gonna be like, uh, what? Like, what is that?

SPEAKER_04 1:43:44

This ride is so legit.

Movie Plans, Scream 7, And Closing Bits

SPEAKER_00 1:43:47

Was this ride in our car? Because I feel like we're re-experiencing this. Oh, experiencing this again.

SPEAKER_03 1:44:00

Oh shit. And then a little bit going on this week. Uh, movies.

SPEAKER_04 1:44:04

Uh secret movie tomorrow.

SPEAKER_03 1:44:06

Yep.

SPEAKER_04 1:44:07

And then Tuesday, I have we have Wuthering Heights because Crime 101 and the other one that I was I can't remember. I didn't remember the first time. Uh aren't available. Oh, uh good luck, have fun done. Yeah. Those two aren't available at a decent time that works for us. So we're gonna do Wuthering Heights on Tuesday. We got the secret movie on Monday, and then we'll watch the other two predictions schedules for a Monday movie. Yeah, Jack actually had one. Uh it's the one with Glenn Powell.

SPEAKER_00 1:44:38

Yes.

SPEAKER_04 1:44:39

How to make it 28 million, yeah. Or the basically trying to kill off all the relatives so you're next in line for the inheritance. Yeah. Looks like a fun one.

SPEAKER_00 1:44:49

Based on when it comes out, runtime, the regal posted for it, that is what we're leaning towards.

SPEAKER_04 1:44:57

Yep, I'll conf as usual. I'll confirm it tomorrow at around 7. Oh, I guess it's 6.20 your time, uh, when the movie actually starts and get through all the previews. But and then, yeah, and then like I said, Tuesday movie and then nothing for a bit, unless they change the times for Tuesday movies, and we can go watch Crime 101 um and have fun. And then next week on Thursday or Friday, probably Friday, because I'm cheap, uh Scream comes out, and I know that one I can go by myself. Because somebody that can't handle scary movies too too too well. So I'll probably catch a Friday matinee uh of Scream 7 next week.

SPEAKER_03 1:45:34

And then then I think it's quiet in the theater flex. I've taken that already myself on Saturday. Yeah. Jack has tickets for five days in a row.

SPEAKER_00 1:45:46

Right? Well, I have tickets for Scream already, and then the next weekend I got hoppers already.

SPEAKER_04 1:45:53

I did not buy hoppers yet, but I'm probably going to we're we're probably gonna take uh Old Girls Little One to go watch that. Uh it looks good. I mean I know it's Avatar, but I still want to watch it.

SPEAKER_03 1:46:05

It'll be good. Mm-hmm. It looks it. It's Pixar. Pixar's good. Mostly. Mostly. Usually. But and the rest of it, obviously, the rest of my week is Olympics.

SPEAKER_04 1:46:21

I've watched Olympics, a couple of movies. Browse, browse the job, brow browse the job site, see us an office job. Hopefully in town. I I haven't worked in Boulder since 2016. Um it'd be nice to find a job in town for for the first time in 10 years.

SPEAKER_03 1:46:40

So we'll see. Oh shit. I just found a bunch of Canada cheating memes. That is hilarious.

SPEAKER_04 1:46:49

Drop them in the chat.

SPEAKER_00 1:46:50

Yeah, yeah, I guess I know what my text message is.

SPEAKER_04 1:46:53

I I I expect my phone to be blown up the next couple days.

SPEAKER_00 1:47:00

Of one of Darth Vader talking to Leia, pushing the instead of Leia there, he's pushing the the stone. You are a part of the Rebel Alliance.

SPEAKER_03 1:47:15

Oh wow. That that side shot is fantastic. Yeah, it totally shows him pushing the frickin' stone.

SPEAKER_04 1:47:25

Well, technically it shows him touch shows him touching the stone. We don't know that he actually pushed it. The video, if it shows a forward action, you know, the piston action, then okay, fine.

SPEAKER_02 1:47:37

Right.

SPEAKER_03 1:47:40

Yeah, that's that's some crazy shit. You're gonna go off on Sweden and do this shit yourself? Like I said, stick to hockey Canada. Calling it boob geek.

SPEAKER_04 1:48:06

We we I think we jumped a chart at an hour forty seven.

SPEAKER_03 1:48:19

Oh no. That's so bad. Not too funny. Okay. Welcome back everybody. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:48:36

Yep. We should be good for a couple weeks. Should be. Should be. I mean, I got spring break coming up, and that means that I gotta take my mom up north. But that's not until like the 14th. So you have us for another couple months. Um next week is season finale. It'll be the last episode of season two of this lovely podcast. We'll be embarking upon season three.

SPEAKER_03 1:49:08

Look at that.

SPEAKER_04 1:49:10

Mm-hmm. I think we have enough episodes to be in syndication now.

SPEAKER_00 1:49:14

Yeah. That was the goal, right? We're good now.

SPEAKER_04 1:49:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:49:18

Where's TBS at? Somebody call TBS. Let's go.

SPEAKER_04 1:49:22

Bring back Nick and Knight. Just do it for podcasts. We're gonna be able to do that.

SPEAKER_00 1:49:27

We're gonna be on Me TV. Alright, boys. Well, have yourselves a good week. Uh and uh thanks for listening. Like, subscribe, all that stuff.

SPEAKER_04 1:49:38

Like, like and subscribe. It's it's uh werewolf.

SPEAKER_00 1:49:41

Uh it's uh it's a lichen, so it's our new werewolf newsletter.

SPEAKER_04 1:49:47

It's our new werewolf, yeah. Like and subscribe.

SPEAKER_00 1:49:55

Yeah, fuck those guys.

SPEAKER_04 1:49:56

Although Dracula was pretty good.

SPEAKER_00 1:49:58

It was alright. Alright, boys. Have yourselves a good way. Catch you next Sunday. Cheers.

SPEAKER_04 1:50:03

Enjoy, enjoy not working tomorrow for one of you.

SPEAKER_00 1:50:07

Oh, me too. Shit. I get double I get paid tomorrow even though I'm not at work, so you're making me real jealous right now.

SPEAKER_03 1:50:18

I mean you could share some of that paycheck. Y'all y'all socialists, where you at? Right? And cut. Hey, you're right. You're right.