Issue #4 -- Stuff Has Been Known To Happen

Jonah and Lucas make a special announcement about the future of the pod! Then they talk about some exciting things Jonah has been up to lately, as well as their movie of the month (Super Mario Galaxy Movie), some TV shows they've been watching, music they've been listening to, and comics they've been reading! All that and maybe a little bit more on this month's issue of Wesley's Pop Culture Club! Thanks for listening!

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SPEAKER_00 0:05

Hello out there. You are listening to Wesley's Pop Culture Club. I am Jonah.

SPEAKER_02 0:12

And I am Lucas.

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And thank you for listening on this wondrous day that we find ourselves on. Yes. Full of wonderment and good stuff. Um this podcast, if this is your first time listening to this podcast, we are uh reviewing pop culture-related items such as movies, music, comic books, TV shows, and books. It's I mean, what else? What else is there?

SPEAKER_02 0:45

That's it. That's the whole thing. That's all of them. That's all of them. Pretty soon, I think we should get into like paintings stuff too.

SPEAKER_00 0:53

That would be cool. Yeah. Yeah, that that that'll all right. We'll have to maybe maybe maybe do that.

SPEAKER_02 0:57

Yeah, we'll we'll revisit that.

SPEAKER_00 0:59

Yeah. So yeah, we do this, uh, we do this monthly as of the moment.

SPEAKER_02 1:05

As of the moment.

SPEAKER_00 1:06

And uh, and so thank you for joining us. Um, we want to thank Maddie Asma for the incredible designs that she has made for our podcast. The really awesome there of Wesley, um, the namesake cat, who our podcast is named after, uh, and we miss him dearly. Uh so thank you, Maddie, for the awesome designs. Thanks, Maddie. Yeah, yeah. And you can find us on we are on YouTube, both video and audio. Uh, we're also on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and uh wherever else you get your podcasts, we are on there. We're on there. We're we're right there in your pocket. So so thank you for joining us.

SPEAKER_02 1:53

Thanks everybody. Um, real quick before we get into some stuff here that we want to talk about, uh, we have uh an important special announcement to make. Yeah, that's right. And this one's good news. So yeah. I like last time. Yeah, yeah. Um, yeah, so we uh Jonah and I have been brainstorming about you know some goals we have for this show and what we want to do. And I think um we've both been kind of thinking about like runtimes and stuff and uh all the stuff we want to get to, and uh at at the risk of losing some of the mojo that we've got between us, that chemistry. I think we've been like trying to edit things down a little bit, and uh it's put a bit of uh we've had to put a bit of restraint on things sometimes, and you know, um uh we don't want to do that. We just want to be able to be talking about whatever we want to talk about, however we want to talk about it. And um, so we came up with a solution, and our solution is that we're going weekly, everybody.

unknown 3:01

Woo!

SPEAKER_02 3:02

We're going weekly with this thing. Nice, man. So that'll be starting in June. We're gonna do we've got a normal episode here in April, normal a normal issue, I should say, and then we will have a normal issue in May, and then starting in June, every Friday, we will come out with a new issue, and so kind of the format will be um we might switch up the order occasionally depending on the month and when movies are coming out or comics are being released, whatever that is. But it seems like we're gonna have we're gonna have one issue about us talking about a movie. We'll have a second issue that will be TV related, whatever we're watching at the time. We'll have a third issue that will be um our albums for the month, and then we will have a fourth issue that deals with comics. And then we were also exploring the idea because not every month has only four Fridays, some of them have five even. So uh what are we gonna do on that fifth Friday? Well, we were thinking maybe we would just kind of chit-chat for a little bit, maybe and see if anybody likes that or wants to listen to that, and um, and then maybe at the end of those we'll play a little game and uh have a have a little um chit-chat and uh goof around a little bit. So that's gonna be our plan moving forward starting in June. Like I said, next next month we'll do the normal one issue in May. Uh and then starting in June, it'll be every Friday. Um so that is our special announcement. Um and uh yeah, oh, also I wanted to touch on going back to the art thing that um that Maddie was nice enough to provide us with. We've released some of that on Instagram and YouTube, and actually, wherever you are listening, our profile picture has been changed. That's thanks to her, and there is more that is as yet unreleased. So keep a lookout on our Instagram, which is at Wesley's Pop Culture Club, and uh you'll see more of that pretty soon. Um yeah, so moving along, Jonah actually has a few things. Jonah's been a a busy beaver lately. I have been, yeah. And he's got a couple of things that uh that he wants to talk about that he's been up to that I think listeners to this pod will find very interesting. So Jonah, take it away.

SPEAKER_00 5:33

Thank you, Lucas.

SPEAKER_02 5:34

Thank you.

SPEAKER_00 5:35

It's good to be here. Um yeah, so I went to C2E2 uh in Chicago two weekends ago. Um so if if you are unfamiliar with that, that is a comic con, a comic convention. Um is that what the con is?

SPEAKER_02 5:52

It's yes. I thought it was like a bunch of con artists scamming people for comics and stuff.

SPEAKER_00 6:00

No, no, no, no, no, no. No, that would make sense, like comic con. Yeah. So you're saying it's short for the word convention. Right. Yes. Yeah. You could like that exists somewhere, yeah, but it it ain't here. Probably a lot of wares. Yes, it exists in a lot of wares. I I I'm not following that exactly, but yeah, it probably does.

SPEAKER_02 6:22

Yeah, it's a tangled web we weave.

SPEAKER_00 6:25

Many it really is. But it's beautiful, damn it. Um yeah, so uh so that was on that was the end of March. It was the 27th through the 29th at McCormick Place. And this is my fourth, I think my fourth Comic Con. They're really fun. Uh there's a like a lot of long lines. So if you've never gone long lines, so be prepared.

SPEAKER_02 6:52

You love long lines.

SPEAKER_00 6:54

I love them, man. Well, actually, I I will sometimes talk with people, so that's kind of fun. So it's a plus. Which is what I did this last time at in one of them. So uh so I got to meet there was a couple people I wanted to meet. Um, so that there's a new Daredevil book that just came out on April 1st. Yes.

SPEAKER_02 7:13

April Fool are you sure that wasn't an April Fool's joke?

SPEAKER_00 7:16

I think I think it was real. Okay. Because they were there. We've both read it. Yeah, we've both read it at this point.

SPEAKER_02 7:24

Okay. But maybe that'll be the only one they do.

SPEAKER_00 7:26

Yeah, like, yeah, exactly. Yeah. Stuff has been known to happen.

SPEAKER_02 7:30

Yeah. So it remains to be seen.

SPEAKER_00 7:33

Exactly. Yeah, I don't I don't know. I don't write this. I don't write it. You know? Life? Any any of it. Oh, okay. Yeah, like the book or life. Oh. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 7:42

The book of life?

SPEAKER_00 7:43

No, not no. Oh, no, no. You should write one of those books. That would be cool. Yeah. Yeah, okay. Yeah. Yeah. Um, no, it was cool. I met Stephanie Phillips, who's the writer of Daredevil, Lee Garbett, who is the uh artist. And then another artist, Rose Besh, who did the cover art for like a specific one that I got. So I got I got that signed. Um, I met Philip Kennedy Johnson, who is, as you may know, is writing the Hulk book that we are reviewing called Inferno Hulk. And so I'm gonna show this signature. Oh man. Look at that, man.

SPEAKER_02 8:21

That's a gorgeous cover and signature.

SPEAKER_00 8:24

It it is. Like, let's go over here too.

SPEAKER_02 8:27

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 8:28

Get in there, find your camera. Yeah, let's get in there, find it, you know. He was so cool. Like, I got to meet him. Uh, I was telling Lucas, like, uh, he's really nice, and yeah, it was just nice to meet him. He's like, Oh, where are you from and stuff? So, and then I also met Brett Bean, who is writing Dork. Dork. Dork. Dork, which is we're we're liking right now. We're both reading that. So, yeah, and then um I'm just trying to think. Oh, other there's they'll have like comic artists, but they'll also have actors, celebrities. So the big celebrities were Elizabeth Olson and like the whole cast of Daredevil. Wow. Yeah. It's was Charlie Cox there again. Yeah, Charlie Cox was there. Wow. Yeah. He was there again. Also, yeah, with yeah, like much of the other cast too for Daredevil. So I didn't go, I wanted to go to that panel, but I was I was just getting caught up in the lines, and I like to hang out in uh in artist alley. Was Vincent D'Anafrio there? He wasn't, he was like the only like major guy. It was like him and then Deborah Ann Wool, who plays Karen.

SPEAKER_04 9:34

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 9:34

Uh or no, no, Deborah Ann Wool. I'm sorry, Deborah Ann Wool, I don't think she was there.

SPEAKER_04 9:39

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 9:39

It was Kristen Ritter who was there.

SPEAKER_04 9:41

Oh, she was there.

SPEAKER_00 9:43

Uh Wilson Bethel was there who plays DJ herself. You're right. Yeah, the Jays. Yeah. Which I've been watching Daredevil, and she has not appeared in episode yet. Okay. And we're already uh, I think we're about to go on to episode five. Okay. But they're building up. There's time. We got some time. Yeah. Yeah. Cool. So um, yeah, I love C Twee too. Like, you just meet a lot of like-minded people who love like the fandom, you know, like there's so many people there. Um I wrote, so I actually looked up, they had a hundred thousand fans for the weekend. Wow. Which and it was a record as well.

SPEAKER_03 10:16

Oh my goodness.

SPEAKER_00 10:17

So and then I also read that their artist alley. So the art artist alley is like just where all of the comic artists, but also like other art, other media, uh, media, they hang out in this huge area, and that was the largest in the country. Holy Comic Con. Yeah. Wow. It was like it's like A through Z, and each row is like 30 yards long or something. Wow. And it's like nuts. So I walked through most of it, so it was cool.

SPEAKER_02 10:45

That sounds very nice.

SPEAKER_00 10:46

Yeah, it was awesome. It was awesome, man. So that was C2E2, really fun. And then the other thing was yesterday my dad and I went to this awesome thing called theater of the mind.

SPEAKER_01 10:58

Ooh.

SPEAKER_00 10:59

Yeah. If you're on the YouTube, get a good look at this. Look at this. Yeah. Look at that, man. Take a look at that. And there's a cool little I can read this, but yeah, right. Wow. Yeah. So this was a cool freaking thing here. So Okay, so yeah, what exactly is theater of the mind? I'm gonna tell you, Lucas. Oh, me and you right here. So this was done by David Byrne and Mala Goankar. I'm sorry if I mispronouncing your name. David Byrne is the or was the lead man of Talking Heads. Um and so this was really cool. It was like an immersive experience where there are like different rooms, and each room is like a kind of based on a different sense. One of your sent five senses, right? And some would say six senses. But were there ghosts? There was there was not ghosts. Um, yeah. Hate to spoil it. I'm out, I'm not going. Um dude, it was so cool though. Like, uh, I don't want again, I don't want to spoil much, but um just kind of the the theme of it was like things kind of aren't as what you think they are. And also um it talks about memory and how your memories can change over time. Like you might remember something differently than you remembered it two years ago. Okay, and so it kind of follows like it follows a character uh throughout his life, and you go in these different rooms which are different memories, and one of them, like I said, like one of them's kind of based on taste, so you like taste something, another one is based on sight, kind of mess with your sight a little bit. Um and I also liked it because you would go in a group of like 12, like 12 people, right? And you actually like kind of interact with each other and get to know each other like a little bit, and um I just and then there like the character is an actor, like an actual actor, so it kind of feels like a very intimate performance, like the the actor will like talk with you and and stuff like that. And um, so I like kind of intimate performances like that. But it was really fun. It's kind of like basically like art meets like neuroscience.

SPEAKER_04 13:15

Oh wow.

SPEAKER_00 13:16

There's a lot of there's like a lot of research done. There's actually like a QR code they give you with like um further readings and the science explanation of some of the rooms. Oh nice. So I I haven't checked it out yet, but uh it's it's really cool.

SPEAKER_02 13:30

So that sounds very unique and uh artistic and really cool. How long does the whole thing take, would you say?

SPEAKER_00 13:37

Good question. It's 75 minutes.

SPEAKER_02 13:39

Okay. Yeah, great question. And they've got that down. Yeah, it's they've got it like not a second shorter or longer.

SPEAKER_00 13:46

Right on. You know what's funny is that it actually it didn't feel that long at all. Yeah, I can imagine. It was like because your sense of time gets distorted, like for me. Because all of the Is that the sixth sense? That I I've I don't know actually. Yeah, I haven't I thought it had to do with with dead people. Pretty sure it's ghosts. Okay, but yeah. Maybe there's a seventh. Oh man. No. No. Okay, we'll draw the line instead of it. No, no, no, no. It's ghosts. There's not enough room. There's nothing for all of them. Yeah. But yeah, that's that was it. Oh yeah, but um yeah, I was just yeah, saying it goes really fast. Yeah, it only felt like 45 minutes to me.

SPEAKER_02 14:23

It's interesting. Seems like it kind of falls into the theme of things and how uh you spend 75 minutes in there, but it doesn't feel like it. It's almost as though life is just a collection of perceptions on things. Oh my gosh, dude.

SPEAKER_00 14:40

What do you think about that? Yeah, yeah. I think you're correct. Okay. Yeah, I think you're right. Yeah. It was cool because he he was like there was um I don't want to, I guess, spoil it, but it was just kind of talking about you can kind of change your like you can change your story at any time. You can kind of change your mind and you don't have to be stuck right in a way of thinking, but then they kind of they kind of took that kind of deeper idea and did it playful, like kind of messed with it playfully.

SPEAKER_02 15:10

I like it. I have a feeling that um the subject of open-mindedness might come up later in the pod. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 15:19

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 15:20

Uh just a little just dropping a little hint there. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 15:23

Oh, wow. I'm I'm ready to stay tuned. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 15:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 15:27

I'm excited to see.

SPEAKER_02 15:29

All right. Well, shall we move on to our movie of the month? Yes. Yeah. Let's let's go to it. All right. Would you like to introduce this one?

SPEAKER_00 15:39

Yes, I will. Give me one second. Yeah. Um, okay, here we go. Okay, so the movie that we watched was the Super Mario Galaxy movie. That's it. What he said. Woo! What that guy said.

SPEAKER_02 15:58

Yahoo! Yahoo! Yahoo!

SPEAKER_00 16:03

Okay, this was. I made a couple technical notes. It was directed by Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelinek.

SPEAKER_02 16:09

Nice.

SPEAKER_00 16:10

And released on April 1st.

SPEAKER_02 16:12

Nice.

SPEAKER_00 16:12

Oh, that's no fooling you, sir. That was real. Are you sure this was real? Our perceptions have been changed lately. So I because the Daredevil thing, I don't know if that was real.

SPEAKER_02 16:25

And I mean, we went to see it, but could have been like some kind of dream. Well, we maybe we ate too many Goombas.

SPEAKER_00 16:35

Oh, we did make stuffed goombas. We did, yeah. A little while ago. To prepare for to watch the first movie.

SPEAKER_02 16:43

Yeah. Yeah. With uh spaghetti and marionara sauce.

SPEAKER_00 16:47

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 16:49

Which was quite good. Yeah. Oh, that was good. That was a good dinner.

SPEAKER_00 16:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 16:53

So what uh what did you think of this one? I thought this movie was alright. Okay, alright.

SPEAKER_00 17:01

I respect that.

SPEAKER_02 17:02

I will say, um, we neither of us had seen the first one until about a week prior. Um we watched it, and I I'd been hearing good things about the first one for a long time since it came out, pretty much. And I was glad that we finally sat down and and watched it as prep for this one. And I enjoyed that one. I thought it was funny and I felt like it had a decent plot. It was visually fun to look at, you know. I thought this movie retained the visual uh intensity and like um I thought it I thought it looked entertaining and yeah, it was fun to look at, right? Yeah. Um I did not think the plot was fantastic. It felt kind of jumbled and a little bit messy at times. Um overall, I think it was Dece. I think it was a Dece movie.

SPEAKER_00 18:06

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 18:07

What about you, Jonah?

SPEAKER_00 18:08

Yeah, I I agree with that. Um I thought it was Dece. Uh I I mean it's pretty similar thoughts, honestly. Like, I I loved the the colors, like you said. It looks entertaining, it looks awesome. Um I think they kind of made a joke about like I think there was some joke about uh like because the plot kind of felt a little recycled because they kidnap Rosalina, who's another princess, and they and someone makes a joke about like, oh, like we're kidnapping another princess. Yeah. This is kind of funny, it's like self-aware. So so yeah, I uh it felt a little jumbled. Um I yeah, I I I think it was I think it was Dece. Um some of the high points was when Bowser is turning good. Like he's kind of like he's like kind of like being sober, it feels like. Yeah, yeah. He's like, ah, like I'm trying to work on this. And and though there were some really funny, like I laughed out loud. Yeah. Some some of the stuff. Um and then I thought also like when we saw it, it was a pretty full theater, and there were a lot of kids.

SPEAKER_04 19:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 19:24

And a lot of the kids were like liked it, I could tell. Like laughing, and and so I think that that would like if I was a kid, like I would have probably like loved that. Right. You know, so yeah, I would I would kind of I'm gonna add from a technical standpoint. I did a little research. Oh, it okay. So it when I looked yesterday, it has made four hundred and sixty-three million dollars worldwide. Uh, and the budget was one hundred and ten million. Wow. So they are making a huge profit. Okay. And it's the second highest grossing film of the year so far. Okay. Behind behind. Do you know? Yes, a Chinese movie called Pegasus III. Okay, well, we're gonna have to see that. We've got to check that one out. It's like a it's like a racing movie, it looks like. Oh wow. It's like a picture of a guy with and it's it's like a comedy too. So I was like, that's kind of cool. That sounds entertaining.

SPEAKER_02 20:16

Yeah. Interesting. Yeah, I I agree. Um the kids in the theater, I will say, seem to love it. And a lot of the like positive things that I've heard um or had heard before going to see it uh came from people with children of their own. So I feel like it's a really good like family movie. Maybe parents are able to like live vicariously through their children sort of while watching it. Um I think maybe that would have helped a little bit, but we were two 28 plus 28, 29-year-old guys. Yeah, yeah, we're kind of right in that mid-zone. Going to see Mario. But um, no, I mean it's obviously like still had a fun time going to see it. Um, like I said, it was it was visually cool. Um I also liked Bowser's brief redemption arc, um, but I was a I was a little bit disappointed that it got squashed like yeah, pretty much right away. Yeah, um, he was doing really well there for a little bit, and uh it just all went to shit. And also, spoiler alert, spoiler alert for Mario and also anything you know by now. Yeah, yeah. If you're listening to this podcast, this is issue four. You know the drill. Yeah, um, a couple of other things I wanted to touch on. Um I'll start with my high points as well. Um, so yeah, I liked Bowser's brief redemption arc there. Um, I will say the new talent on this movie. So we've we got Chris Pratt, Charlie Day, Anya Taylor Joy, Jack Black all returning. But we also have um a few new faces in the mix, voices, I should say, in the mix. So we've got we've got um Brie Larson as Rosa.

SPEAKER_05 22:00

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 22:00

That's cool. We've got Benny Safty showing up as Bowser Jr. And um Donald Glover was Yoshi. Oh, yeah. Which was really cool. That was really cool. Um, so there was some uh oh and also Glenn Powell. Oh yeah, Star Fox. Um, which was cool. Um, I was not familiar with that character. Um but yeah we've talked about Glenn Powell on this podcast. This is his second appearance in a movie that we have discussed so far in just three months.

SPEAKER_00 22:33

So pretty crazy. Something going on there. Something going on.

SPEAKER_02 22:37

It's almost like he's a big deal right now or something. I don't know. Yeah, I don't pay attention. No. Um I will say so the end fight. Oh, yeah. I really enjoyed the end fight. Um this so basically what happens is Rosalina is kidnapped. Bowser is set free, basically, and joins up with Bowser Jr. And they have Rosalina, and they're trying to take over the galaxy, pretty much, with from their planet, from Bowser Planet, um, which has this like doomsday weapon kind of thing. And so Mario goes in with Peach, and Luigi and Yoshi go in separately, and they kind of split up, and they're trying to get Rosalina back and stop Bowser and Bowser Jr. And at one point Mario is fighting Bowser on a bridge, and Mario does like a flip over him and goes to one end of the bridge and cuts the chain on the bridge, and the bridge is over a bunch of lava, right? And Mario, like, I feel like you can see him kind of think about it for a second, and then he cuts the chain on the bridge and sends Bowser plummeting into the lava. Mario tried to kill that guy. He tried to commit murder.

SPEAKER_00 24:04

Yeah, I'm glad you're calling him out on that.

SPEAKER_02 24:06

Yeah, I need to address this.

SPEAKER_00 24:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 24:08

Um, from the moment I saw it, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 24:10

I was like, this is that was crazy. That was honestly like surprising because I was like, wow, they actually went there. Yeah, they did, they decided to.

SPEAKER_02 24:19

And I thought this was the beginning of a really cool sequence. Um, because honestly, like as much as I have to call that out, I thought it was pretty badass that he did that.

SPEAKER_00 24:28

Oh, yeah, it was awesome.

SPEAKER_02 24:29

And then right after that, Bowser comes back as the Lord of Bones. So, like, all his skin has been melted off him, and he's just the skeleton of Bowser, and he also breathes fire, um, which was awesome. And then you have this pretty elaborate fight sequence between Mario and Bowser. Um, and Peach is trying to save Rosalina. I forgot what happened to Luigi and Yoshi, but they got distracted. They were off stealing boxes, the question mark boxes. Oh, yeah, and they got those power-ups. Yes, yeah. So eventually Luigi and Yoshi come back in the fight at the perfect time to save Mario. Um, and somehow Mr. Game and Watch shows up and does a uh an amazing KO on Bowser. And uh he bashes his head in with a hammer, and Bowser becomes like pieces of skeleton, and then there is Bowser Jr. summons a giant dragon that then immediately kills or eats him, and Game Watch gets his head like cut off. Okay, and then Mario swoops into the dragon and saves Bowser Jr. This all happened in like five minutes. Yeah, it was a pretty crazy sequence that I I did quite enjoy near the end of the movie. Um, so that was a positive for me. I like that. Um I thought, what is Glenn Powell's character's name? Uh Fox McLeod. Fox McLeod, okay. I thought he was pretty cool. Um again, I didn't didn't know anything about him, but he showed up and Jonah was like, is that Glenn Powell? Yeah. I was like, I think it is. Um so I thought that was cool. I will say, in the vein of cameos, this movie has a lot of appearances from smaller characters in the Mario universe. And it feels like they don't do a lot with any of them. Yes. Like with with most of them, I should say. Um like Birdo makes an appearance and doesn't have any lines at all. Um we saw Monty Mole, we saw Mega Blooper, but they're all just kind of there to be there, you know? So in that way, it was like kind of it felt a little bit fan service-y or cash grabby kind of to me. Right. Which is gonna happen. Yeah. Um that was not something I wasn't expecting, but um just commenting on it. Um, and then also the last thing I wanted to say was I really thought Rosalina would have more to do in this movie. Like based on the trailer, the trailer made her look so badass because it was just that scene near the beginning where she fights Bowser Jr.'s like giant machine and she kicks ass. Yeah, like it goes so hard. Yeah, and then right after that, she actually loses that fight. Yeah, like the trailer just showed the beginning half of it, and then she ends up getting captured, and she kind of becomes the damsel in distress for the rest of the movie and doesn't have a lot of screen time after that, yeah. Which was a little bit disappointing. Um felt like they could have given her more to do, and uh but overall I still say this movie was dece.

SPEAKER_00 27:47

Okay. Yeah. Interesting uh point on Rosalina there.

SPEAKER_02 27:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 27:51

Um I thought, yeah, I think the that may have because I I feel like in this podcast it's cool, it helps me articulate like why I like or don't like something that's an art form, which is kind of hard to do, at least for me, like at first. Yeah, you know what I'm saying? And I think maybe why I didn't like it as much is like you said, there were a lot of uh cameos which were awesome, but like you could just tell, like it was literally like because yeah, they had they had some other ones as well, like Pikmin were in it for like a second.

SPEAKER_04 28:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 28:24

And and yeah, you could kind of just tell it was like, oh man. Um so yeah, I think I think that was that was like I don't know, it was like eh, it was okay. Yeah. But yeah. But I yeah, I thought, yeah, it was it was fun. Um I think I think I'm good on that one.

SPEAKER_02 28:46

Okay, yeah, I think so too. Yeah. Um okay, so for next month, we have locked in our May movie. Do you want me to do it or do you want to do it? I'll do the drum drum roll. Okay. Okay. We are going to see Devil Wears Prada 2. That's right. Woo! Jonah and Lucas are coming to your local movie theater. We're gonna go see it in every theater.

SPEAKER_00 29:13

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 29:14

On May 1st. We're going to everyone. We're going to all of them. We're going to watch this movie and then we're going to talk about it at length. Yeah, we are. So watch out for that. So that'll be our May movie. Um, and then, like I said, after that, after Oh, excuse me. Oh, it was horrifying.

SPEAKER_05 29:36

Whoa!

SPEAKER_02 29:38

No, I'm good. You're good? Okay. Um, after that, we will start releasing episodes weekly in June. Yeah. Um, so this one will obviously come out on the last Friday of April. I'm not gonna look up the date, I don't care that much. And then the next one will come out the last Friday of May, and then it'll be every Friday from then on. Oh man. Until the world ends. Wow. That's a promise. From me to you, listener.

SPEAKER_00 30:06

I hope that doesn't happen for a long time. It won't. Yeah. Not on my watch. Yeah. Good. We're gonna be we'll be set then. We got a couple hundred years probably in the belt. Something like that. Yeah. Hopefully. I would say roughly. Roughly, yeah. Couple hundred years. Under the belt.

SPEAKER_02 30:22

In the belt. In the belt. Yeah, it's in inside the belt. In it's like a utility belt. Yeah. Okay. Like a tool. Yeah, exactly. Sort of. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 30:30

It's got a couple years floating in there. Cool. So yeah, I think we're we're ready for that.

SPEAKER_02 30:34

We're gonna make it happen.

SPEAKER_00 30:35

Yeah. I'm excited. I'm gonna say I have not seen the first one. Right. Um, but I I'm just I'm hopping in. Are you buckle up? Should we try and make that happen beforehand? Or are you just I'm okay with not doing it? Because that'd be kind of funny. It's like yeah, it's like coming in to like a comic book comic book issue, like issue 30.

SPEAKER_04 30:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 30:56

Or something. Yeah. Um, I'm okay with not doing it. I'll catch you up. Okay, yeah. I'll catch you.

SPEAKER_02 31:03

All right. Well, we're gonna move on. We're gonna do a quick segment on on television, and then we're gonna briefly check in on Lucas's book corner, and then we are going to take a break. Okay. So uh I'll turn it over to you right away. Jonah, what have you been watching on on the the the small screen? The small screen? Yeah, yeah. On your phone.

SPEAKER_00 31:24

Yeah, I only tablet. That's how I watch everything is on my phone. You watch it in YouTube Shorts, right? Yeah. One minute at a time. That's how I watched my TV shows. Um, it's way more efficient. It is because I can just watch it and then I can go do something else. Yeah. And I can come back, and it's like it only takes a minute. Right. So it's actually like quicker. Yeah. It's less deep.

SPEAKER_02 31:44

You can kind of stop wherever. There's perfect stopping points every 60 seconds in whatever you're watching.

SPEAKER_00 31:50

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 31:50

Yeah. See, that's a thing that they don't tell you.

SPEAKER_00 31:52

People don't realize I didn't wasn't told that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 31:55

We're out here performing a public service. Yes. Letting people know you can stop watching whatever you're watching every sixty seconds. Yeah. And it'll be a great cutoff.

SPEAKER_00 32:05

It it was actually made like a lot of the shows are made that way. It's formulaic. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Well, yeah. Yeah, that's how they gotta do it, right?

SPEAKER_03 32:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 32:13

So, but I'm I am watching the Scrubs revival right now. There's ghosts in it. Oh The Sixth Sense. Sixth Sense. Nice. Yeah. Uh yeah. So I uh I just like I like the show. I it's just a good it's a feel-good show, it's thought-provoking, it's really funny. Um the first the first series, so this is technically season 10. Right.

SPEAKER_02 32:39

Okay, so we talked about this on last issue.

SPEAKER_00 32:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 32:44

And because I was wondering if it was called the Scrubs Reboot or Scrubs the Return or Scrubs the movie, the series. And it is still just Scrubs, but it has its own page on everything.

SPEAKER_00 33:00

Like, like what do you mean by everything?

SPEAKER_02 33:01

Like technically it's season one. Really? Yeah, but you're right. This it would be the tenth season you're saying? Yeah. Oh, okay. It's just called Scrubs. Right, but it's like Scrubs 2026 or whatever.

SPEAKER_00 33:14

So okay, interesting. Interesting. Okay. Yeah, I I was um because I didn't I was so the original one came out in 2001. And then it ran from 01 to 09.

SPEAKER_04 33:25

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 33:25

And I was like, oh my gosh. Because I had watched like a little bit of it back then, and it was really funny. And I yeah, like I kind of said last time, like I think they're doing it well, uh uh doing this well because they're still paying homage to the original. They'll like literally sometimes show clips from the original uh series, yeah. Um, like, but it's it's done in a nice way, and then there's still like they're creating new stories, they have new characters, there's like a lot of new interns at the hospital. Um, and then they still have the like the majority of the original cast is there, and the chemistry between JD and Turk, the two guys, is awesome, they're so funny. And yeah, I think it's just a fun show. It's only like a half hour, like it's just a quick comedy. Um and it also looked up some little analytics. Oh so the premiere episode of this this new season had about a little over eleven million viewers across different platforms in the in the sorry in the five days following the premiere date.

SPEAKER_04 34:34

Wow.

SPEAKER_00 34:34

And Disney announced that Um that it made the most okay, it was the most streamed comedy episode and most streamed series premiere in more than a year. Oh, wow. For anything on Disney Plus. Okay. But it's also on Hulu too, but it's like I think there's a Disney affiliation there. So I was like, okay, wow. So it's kind of making an impact. Right. And I was kind of looking at those numbers. I was like looking on the Wikipedia, the different seasons of Scrubs, and like that 11 million number, it was like kind of like seasons one and two was around there, I believe. And then it kind of went like I think to like five million or something. So so basically it sounds like people are liking this. Cool. At least that premiere.

SPEAKER_04 35:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 35:21

Um but yeah, also it in in the original run, it won two Emmys Emmys for Outstanding Comedy series, and it even won a Peabody Award in 06. Wow. Which is pretty impressive. Like these ones are kind of hard to get. So I don't have one. Wow. Yeah, not yet. You don't. Not yet. But you got something. I know you got something going there. I got something going. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 35:45

I got something in the works. Okay, alright. I'm gonna get that Peabody.

SPEAKER_00 35:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 35:49

But yeah, that's the show.

SPEAKER_00 35:50

That's that's what I've been watching.

SPEAKER_02 35:52

I like it, I like it. I did mention that I would try to watch some uh last issue, and I have partially succeeded. I watched roughly one and one-third episodes. Um not for lack of effort.

SPEAKER_00 36:06

Okay, oh, okay, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 36:07

I did try. Um but yeah, I'm liking I'm liking it so far. I like how it's uh I like how wholesome it is. I feel like usually I go for more like irreverent kind of nonsensical comedy. But um it's nice to throw a little throw a little wrench in the cogs every once in a while. And uh having not watched any of the original ever, um just jumping in kind of Devil Wears Prada 2-ish. Yes. Um I I am enjoying it. So I'm excited to dive in a little deeper this next month. And hopefully I'll be will it be done by the time we record next? Because it's they ate out.

SPEAKER_00 36:46

That's a good question. I haven't looked at how many episodes will be in a season. Yeah.

unknown 36:50

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 36:50

That's a good question.

SPEAKER_02 36:51

Well, hopefully I'll be caught up to wherever they're at by then. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 36:56

Um, cool. What about what about you, man? What do you got cooking over there?

SPEAKER_02 37:01

I will say, um, I have been watching some TV, but I've been slacking a little bit. Well, sort of. Rachel and I have been watching a lot of RuPaul's drag race. Oh yeah. And that's taken up a lot of my time. Um, which I'm I am happy about that. I'm I'm okay with that choice. Um aside from that, we've been watching Rooster on HBO with Steve Carell. And uh I'm really enjoying that so far. I think the more it comes out, like the more that they release, the more I become invested in it. Um yeah, it's it's been very funny. I wasn't really sure what to expect, but I'm laughing a lot. I'm enjoying my time in in the rooster universe. Um yeah. Um other than that, um I'm planning on diving in on that Darth Maul show pretty soon. I think they only have released like two episodes so far. Okay. Um and then officially we can make the announcement, I think, that next month my wife Rachel will be joining us to talk about Primal. Now that it's been over for a little bit, we've we've had time to collect our thoughts. We're gonna dive in on Primal. We're gonna let everybody know what we thought of the series overall and season three specifically. So um nice. Yeah, I mean uh that's that's pretty much it though, TV wise. Not not too many uh not too many developments from from me.

SPEAKER_00 38:41

Okay. Yeah. That sounds that sounds pretty uh pretty nice. Yeah. The things you got cooking over there.

SPEAKER_02 38:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 38:47

It's gonna be a good pie. Yeah, it'll be a nice pie. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 38:51

You uh you got anything else you wanted to touch on?

SPEAKER_00 38:55

Um I'll just I'll just kind of say I've I've also been watching um the new Daredevil season, yeah, which I really like. Um like the newest episode was really good. It was episode four. So that's been amazing. And then I'll also watch a little Abbott Ellen Abbott Elementary, because like Wednesday it's like Scrubs at 7, Abbott at 7 30.

SPEAKER_04 39:18

Okay, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 39:18

And it's just another good wholesome really that one made me laugh a little bit more this last week. Really? Than Scrubs. Yes. So there's I just really like that show. It's like about some uh teachers in I think it's in Philadelphia um at a school, and just like I've been there. You've been to Philadelphia?

SPEAKER_02 39:38

I've been to Philadelphia.

SPEAKER_00 39:39

Really? Yep. What were you doing there?

SPEAKER_02 39:42

I was going to an emergency eye doctor.

SPEAKER_00 39:46

We don't have to get into it. Wow. Oh my god, that's there's so many questions about that, but we'll just pack it away for a little bit. Yeah, well, I'll tell you off mic. Okay, all right, yeah. Good. Thank you. Thank you.

SPEAKER_02 39:58

But I have been there.

SPEAKER_00 40:00

Oh gosh. Yeah, yeah, shoot.

SPEAKER_02 40:02

Check it off the list.

SPEAKER_00 40:03

Yeah, I haven't been there yet, so I think I have to injure my eye to get there, but yeah, but I don't want to do that. It's just part of the deal. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, I think that's been it for oh, also uh Reservation Dogs.

SPEAKER_04 40:17

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 40:17

Is I love that show. I it's amazing. It's on Hulu as well. Nice. So I'd be like, You got the Hulu hookups. Yeah, Hulu is kind of like going off. I mean, I mean, I guess that one's a little older, but yeah, Hulu. I only have like the Hulu and Disney Plus bundle. Yeah. You know, it's like it looks like this kind of okay. It's like that. And um I try to get my money's worth on just that. Sure. But I know I am like obviously I'm missing on a lot of other good ones, which I want to watch Ted Lasso.

SPEAKER_02 40:51

Oh yeah. There's stuff everywhere. Yeah. You know, and that's a metaphor for life.

SPEAKER_00 40:58

Yeah, there is stuff everywhere. In all of the wares. Yeah. You know, like some over there, some over on the side, too, you know. Some up there. Yeah, some up there. So right up there. Hey there.

SPEAKER_02 41:17

Alright. That's been TV. Nice. Um, so we're gonna move on here. Before we take a quick break, I'm just gonna touch on real quick what I've been reading. Um, because I think I I think I forgot to mention it last issue. Um, but I'm getting real excited for this Christopher Nolan Odyssey movie that's coming out in July. So I'm going I'm diving headfirst into the Iliad, um which is the sort of the precursor to the events of the Odyssey. Um deals with the events of like the last it's like the last two weeks or something in the Trojan War, and then the Odyssey is like their return home after the Trojan War. Um I have not made too much headway yet. Um just been pretty busy, but this is technically my um we're recording pretty early in April. Yeah. This is still gonna come out on the last Friday, but right now it's the 12th, so um I haven't made too much headway, but I've enjoyed it so far. Um yeah, so stay tuned on that one. Um I should have more to say next month. Okay, wow. Little little bit of a cliffhanger. A little bit, yeah. Like you know what I'm saying? Yeah. I'm not gonna dive. Yeah, you know you gotta leave him wanting more, yeah, you know.

SPEAKER_00 42:42

So I see you. Yeah, you know what you're doing. Okay, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 42:46

I mean, I try.

SPEAKER_00 42:48

Yeah. Well done.

SPEAKER_02 42:50

Thank you, Dad. Dad?

unknown 42:53

Huh? Right.

SPEAKER_02 42:57

So I'm just like him. My name is Stuart. Oh. That's not my dad at all. Oh shoot, okay. That is not my dad. Okay, all right. Whoops. All right. That's all right, yeah. We'll come back. Okay. Um speaking of which, we're gonna take a quick break. Okay. And then we will come back. And then we're gonna talk music and comics. Wow. So both of them? Uh yeah. Okay, all right. Yep.

SPEAKER_00 43:24

At the same time, at the same time.

SPEAKER_02 43:27

Do you have time?

SPEAKER_00 43:28

I think I got I got some Yeah, I got a couple minutes left. Okay. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 43:34

We could probably do that. We could probably make that work.

unknown 43:36

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 43:37

All right. Stay tuned. We'll be right back. Bye. Bye. And we are back. Hope everybody's doing well.

SPEAKER_00 43:47

Jonah, how was your break? It was really good. I finished uh part of my chicken wrap.

SPEAKER_02 43:52

Wow. Yeah. That's cool. It was really good. Tasty. Yeah. How was yours, man? It was good. Good. It was good.

unknown 43:59

Good.

SPEAKER_02 44:00

Finished part of my chicken rap as well.

SPEAKER_00 44:03

Wow.

SPEAKER_02 44:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 44:05

It's a chicken wrap kind of a Sunday.

SPEAKER_02 44:07

Well, I was mine was an RAP. I was writing, I've been writing a rap for a chicken. Oh, cool. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 44:14

I thought you were doing that.

SPEAKER_02 44:15

It's like a lot of onomatopoeia, a lot of like that kind of thing.

SPEAKER_00 44:20

Oh, nice. Yeah. Do you have any more to it that you can share?

SPEAKER_02 44:24

Mm-mm.

SPEAKER_00 44:24

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_02 44:25

Nope.

SPEAKER_00 44:26

Dang it. Yeah. Maybe, maybe later?

SPEAKER_02 44:29

Yeah. I mean, it kind of starts like, my name is Chicken, and I'm here to say it's fun to rap in a chicken way. Oh, cool. And it's pretty much like the last after that. It's like six minutes, and a lot of it's just kind of noises after that. It's a lot of uh wow.

SPEAKER_00 44:47

Okay. It sounds really good so far. Thanks. Yeah. Thanks. Like, like I'm I'm in.

SPEAKER_02 44:54

I'm excited to put it out and see what people think. So yeah, you can look forward to that. Yeah, I will. Alright. Well, post break, um, we're gonna get into some music here. Nice. Did you have a preference as to where we start? Did you want to start or you want me to?

SPEAKER_00 45:16

Um you can start if you if you wanted to, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 45:19

Let's do it. Okay. Alright. So every issue we bring in an album each that we want to talk about. The album that I have chosen for this issue is Volume Two by Angine de Poitrine. I hope I'm pronouncing that correctly. I'm pretty sure I am. Um but I'll hear about it from someone if not. Yeah. Um so volume two is this outfit's uh second album following volume one. I gotta say, I'm a little I'm bummed out because volume one is let me see if I have this right. Volume one, I believe, is the let's see here. So volume one is the number one. Okay. Vol.1. Volume two, VOL dot Roman numeral two.

SPEAKER_00 46:30

That's gonna be a really big problem with me.

SPEAKER_02 46:33

Yeah. Yeah. So that's already taken my number rating down. From what if we're starting at a 10, now we're at highest possible is a nine. Yeah. Um, so that's just kind of where we're starting out here. Um man. Anyways, this is a duo from Sangenay, Quebec. Not sure if that's how you pronounce that either, but yeah, um it is. Okay. All right. Um, they are a French-Canadian duo. Um, like I said, this is their second LP. Um, this was released on April 3rd, so fairly recent. Oh yeah. Um, it's six tracks long and it's about 37 minutes. It is self-released. Um I'm gonna try to kind of explain this band here. So, because it can be there's a lot going on here.

SPEAKER_00 47:33

It's kind of like a little crash course.

SPEAKER_02 47:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 47:35

It's one of those kind of deals.

SPEAKER_02 47:37

Yeah, yeah. I'm gonna try and do that.

SPEAKER_00 47:39

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 47:40

Um basically, we've got two fellows in this band. We've got a guitarist and a drummer. Okay, and they go by stage names. So the drummer is Clec de Poitrine, and the guitarist is Kn de Poitrine. Which is Can you spell that for me? K-H-N de Poitrine. Um, also, I should say Angine de Poitrine is the French translation for angina pectoris, which is uh chest pain reported by those with uh heart problems. It's like when your heart's not getting enough blood or oxygen. Yeah. Wow. Um, and I would say the music kind of reflects that. Music makes me kind of anxious. Yeah, it's like kind of painful. Yeah. It's that's really hard to deal with and uh really intricate uh problems. Um so this is kind of like uh microtonal math rock sweetness, I would say. Um basically the guitarist also they they wear these really like elaborate costumes that are very fun to look at. It's really fun to watch them play. Um and the guitarist has a double-necked microtonal guitar. So up top he has a regular like six-string uh with microtones, and I'll get into microtones in a second here. Um and then on the bottom is his microtonal bass. And uh one one second.

SPEAKER_00 49:19

I accidentally just knocked this over.

SPEAKER_02 49:22

Oh no.

SPEAKER_00 49:23

We got YouTube problems.

SPEAKER_02 49:27

We're back. I'll go check it out. I'm gonna vamp while Jonah does uh checks the the video here. Oh, he's back. I'm done. Okay. Um so uh basically what's happening here is the guitarist will lay down a riff, and the drummer will get to work, and then they will loop riffs, and then he'll lay something down on uh the bass or the guitar, whichever. Um, and then they kind of just jam. Uh it's pretty much entirely instrumental. Um, there are some lyrics here and there, um, but they're more it's less about like vocal melody and more about just kind of like goofy sort of delivery. Um I found these fellows on KEXP, which is uh Joan and I are both fans of their this, they're a Seattle radio station, and they put out uh a lot of YouTube videos, and I wanted to give some context for these guys because they have been exploding online recently. Yeah, and um it's owed in large part, I think, to their KEXP. It seems to be how a lot of people are finding them. So for reference, KEXP has put out like I think over 20,000 videos on YouTube, and in just two months they've become the 17th most watched KEXP video of all time. Um and it is it's crazy. And the uh most of the other videos, I'd say like the average age of those videos is like 10 years or more, probably. And so for all of this to happen in just two months is pretty pretty intense and really cool for them. Um so yeah, I found I stumbled upon their KEXP and I was like, what's all I'd been hearing sort of some buzz around them, and um I figured I would check it out, and uh I have not looked back. Um so yeah, they like I said before, they use microtones. Um so for those who may be unfamiliar with what microtones are, um, you see them a lot in Eastern music more, um more like Persian and like uh countries in Asia. Um microtones are basically like if you think of the notes on a guitar, there's like there's 12 notes in a normal like per octave on a guitar. So you'd go from like A to G sharp and then back to A, and that's 12 half steps, they call them. So microtones make use of the space between those notes, they add an extra fret. So instead of it being like what they call 12 tet, it's now 24 tet. So there's double the amount of notes. Um, and it kind of gives it more of that eastern sound that I think our western ears can be like kind of unaccustomed to. And I think when we hear it, it kind of sounds like you can tell there's something different. Uh it almost sounds like they're hitting like out-of-tune notes sort of on purpose and just working with it. Um and it it makes a really makes for a really cool sound, and these guys do it in such an effortlessly cool way, um, that really enables them to go places that a lot of bands that I feel like are um popular are not doing. So that was a big draw for me. I'm I've talked about excuse me, I've talked about um King Gizzard on this pod before. They're a big um one of my one of my favorite bands, and they've done some exploration in microtonal tuning. Uh they have three full-length LPs that are all microtonal songs. So anytime I see microtones, I get excited. So that was a big draw for me here as well. And um then dove in on their first LP, volume one, and uh really liked what I heard, and then um waited for a little bit for this one to come out, and um yeah, now I'm I'm I'm I've listened to it so many times, and I I really like it. Um overall it's just great, it's got elements of kind of doom metal, um, also just really fast, like I said, math rock kind of grooves. Um there's also a little bit of like even disco stuff going on here and there, more dancey stuff. Um and then uh yeah, and I'll get into more of that later, but I'm curious as to what you, Jonah, thought of this album.

SPEAKER_00 54:21

Oh, I love this album. Nice, yeah. It was like like you were saying, it's really easily, easy to keep playing it. Uh there's something about for me instrumentals that I love. I love instrumental albums and just music like that, but um I was I was hooked pretty much on the first song. Like I was hooked instantly. Okay, nice that first song Fab Fabianek. Yeah, Fabianek. Fabiank. Fabiank.

SPEAKER_02 54:50

That's nice.

SPEAKER_00 54:52

We're just guessing. You're like accustomed to the this language though, yeah, yeah, yeah. Which we learned is probably a made-up language.

SPEAKER_02 54:59

It does seem like that one might be like a name that they're goofing around with. Um but yeah, it seems like a lot of they've made up a lot of words for the names of their songs.

SPEAKER_00 55:10

Yeah, I uh yeah, I just it's hard to kind of put into words. Um I like talking with you about it like and talking about the microtones because when I first listened to it, I didn't I knew there was something kind of different happening, but I didn't know like why. Um I this these guys are really cool, they're really talented. I watched part of that KEXP video, nice, and like you said, they make it look effortless. Like also, they're they're wearing uh like you said, they're wearing costumes, but they have like these kind of head pieces on too. I I think you mentioned that but like their eyes are kind of covered up like the like Cleck the drummer, like you can see his eyeballs, yeah, and it's kind of funny, but like it's very like a tiny window, yeah. And then is it Kun? Kun, I think the guitarist. The other dude, like he has like holes for his eyes, and then there's like dollar signs, yeah. Yeah, and I'm like, how is how is this person seeing what he's doing? Yeah, and uh there's a really interesting like because then I I became really interested and I was like, are these guys always in character? Like, what is there an interview? I wanted to see an interview. Oh yeah. So I looked up an interview and it was called like this interview with Angine de Poitrine is weirder than you would expect. And I was like, Alright, I'm gonna watch this. So then I watched it and it was just them making sounds that are in like the songs, so they're like and just weird stuff. And it was like people in the background are laughing. Oh, and then there's subtitles that is nice that is like uh which is funny. So it's translating. Um, and I was like, all right, but but is there an interview with these people that we can learn about them? And I did find one where it's a written interview.

SPEAKER_02 57:04

Yeah, I think I've seen I think I've seen this one.

SPEAKER_00 57:07

Yeah, yeah. And there was an interesting thing where like they said, I think they said the costumes were like just for fun at first, just like kind of whatever. But now they said it helps separate their stage presence versus their private lives. Yeah. And they can remain anonymous.

SPEAKER_02 57:25

Yeah, it does, it seems to be their preference just to be kind of these unknown guys who are doing this thing. But um, I read something, I'm not sure if it was in that one or just part of their Wikipedia page or what, but apparently they were playing clubs in Quebec where there was a one show per week um like mandate or something like that, or you couldn't play back-to-back weeks at the same clubs, and so they would do one show in costume and then come back and do one as themselves to like kind of circumvent that. Um not sure if that's true, but if it is, that's pretty cool. Pretty cool little origin story for the costumes because they are very fun and um yeah, super interesting and fun to look at. It's kind of they kind of have like like Jonah was telling me his dad said they kind of remind him of like Devo. Yes. Um there's a little bit of that, it's kind of mixed with like the microtonality of like King Gizzard and some other bands, and um and sort of like primacy base and yeah, like the stage presence is like Daft Punk, Devo, Bucket Head, kind of like just insanity. All these things um kind of coalesce into a really cohesive unit of a of a duo.

SPEAKER_00 58:39

They they have like a from a brand standpoint, they have a really interesting brand, and like like it's very I think we're talking about it's like high concept, where it's like and we were kind of talking about this, this may lead into why they've been blowing up because of the spectacle. Yeah, they're so like their costumes and they're like color-coding everything. It's kind of it's kind of white stripes-y, yeah, but it's different. Um and so just kind of the spectacle and the like weirdness of it all is what's like hooking people, but also like definitely for me, there's the skill is unbelievable. Yeah, and that's what's also drawing uh people in. Um, I wanted to mention that the drummer's outfit reminded me of a brewer's racing sausage. Oh wow, yeah. Instantly I thought that. Yeah, like it's like a it's like top heavy, yeah, and it's like a cone head, and he's got like a nose that's like flopping. Yeah, I think this is amazing.

SPEAKER_02 59:38

One of the comments on that KEXP video, someone said, When the nose is flopping, the drums are rocking.

SPEAKER_00 59:45

We were discussing that comment section is really funny.

SPEAKER_03 59:49

It's so good.

SPEAKER_00 59:49

There was one too, I didn't get to mention. It was like something about oh, I can't remember it.

SPEAKER_02 59:55

It was something about a triangle because there's like a lot of triangles, they do the triangle and they go like this, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:01

And oh man. I can't remember what it was, but it was really funny.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:07

Some of the triangle. Yeah, yeah, they're great. Um, I really like the song Oops. I had heard the first three songs because that's kind of what makes up the KEXP video. So Ootsp was the first one that was new to me on the album. It starts like it starts almost like polka. Um then kind of transitions into like Doom Polka later on. So it's just really fun. Like the their progressions are really cool. Um, and it's just great uh all around. Yeah, I will say, um, I got a microtonal Doom Polka, not on my 2026 bingo card. Is that funny?

SPEAKER_00 1:00:54

That is funny to say that is funny to say because it's nobody would have expected that. Right.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:00

Yeah, yeah, completely out of left field. Their whole thing is just awesome. And uh I am actively trying to figure out how I can see them live. So hopefully they come near us soon and it's uh doesn't sell out in two seconds.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:17

Well, did you say that they're are they playing with King Gizzard?

SPEAKER_02 1:01:20

Yeah, they're gonna play at King Gizzard's uh festival in Colorado in August. Yeah. I should say I hope for them that it does sell out because you know that'd be good for them. They're yeah, they're having their moment, and uh I love to see that. But I hope that I can contribute to that selling out for sure. Um all right, yeah, that's uh definitely check those guys out. That's that's really all I've got there. Um shall we move on?

SPEAKER_00 1:01:46

Let's let's move on, man. Let's do it. Yeah. Um okay, my album pick, my album pick right now, I'm gonna go right in here, was The Prize Fighter by Mumford and Sons. Oh my goodness. Oh so this one was released February 20th of this year. It is a few months in the past, but we're gonna let it we're gonna let it slide, I think. We'll let it slide right under the rug. It's still new. Yeah. Uh that one is 14 songs, about 50 minutes. This is the sixth album by Mumford and Sons. Um Okay, it was just it was like in association with Island Records and the group's label Gentleman of the Road. Yes, which is kind of cool. Uh it was produced by Aaron Desner of The National, yes, who has been really busy with help like involved with a ton of artists in the past couple years. And so when I was reading through like this collab list, which is awesome. Oh, yeah, but like, dude, they're going off right now.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:57

But they're really getting into like this indie realm. And because Mumford and Sons, for me, um uh, you know, you know, a lot and most folks know Little Lion Man. Right. It's a good track, uh-huh. It's a great track, yeah. And we've been known to do that at karaoke, yes, yeah, in a slightly different version. A little bit, yeah. Yeah. Um I think that they kind of kind of got pigeonholed into this one sound. Right. Banjoe folk, kind of the stomp clap, sort of. Exactly. Yes. Uh because that was on their first album, that song, the second album was to me like a little bit more, a little bit more deep, a little more refined, uh, a little different than the first album, but still had like the same elements. Like, you know, Snop Clap banjo as well. Um then they did an electric album called Wilder Mind in 2015, which I remember buying that at the time. And I really liked like a couple tracks on the album, like I thought it was pretty decent. I didn't listen to the album after that. Um But then they so then they just released an album last year called Rushmere, and then they released this album. So in between, it was like there was a seven-year gap between their fourth album called Delta and then Rushmere. And in that time, their the lead guitarist and a founding member named Winston Marshall left the band. Okay. I kind of wanted to touch on this. He left it in 2021. Um and that was it looked like for some kind of controversy kind of stuff. Oh yeah. Um, which was kind of interesting. Um kind of some political stuff. So, but he left and um it seems like there's a turnaround happening in the band because like I don't know, just seeing because I like I said I've liked Mumford for a while, but like looking at like videos of lead singer Marcus Mumford, like he like he looks like he's like lost weight, and he like looks like he's doing really well. And he just seems like he's doing better. And um there was like I looked at a couple interviews, um, so we're one of one of them with Marcus Mumford, where he was saying, For the first time in a while, I was writing a lyric and not thinking about how anyone would respond to it. I was only thinking about how it felt to me, which is the most similar to the first record.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:41

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:42

And he also wrote, Um, in just ten days, we we had written more songs than we had in the last seven years combined.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:53

I saw that one. Isn't that nuts? That's crazy.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:55

Also, this album, this prize fighter album, was made before. The release of the previous album. Okay. So it's like they just had all of this like explosion of activity. And to be honest, like this album and Rushmere are my probably my favorite albums of theirs. Nice. Because it seems more like balanced and it has their banjo and folk elements, but it has like really interesting songwriting. Well, I mean the other albums had great lyrics too, but um it seems like this album, kind of bringing the focus back to this, it was like very hopeful to me. Yeah, a lot of positive messages and sounds. Um going back to the collabs, though, like yeah, let's do it. It was incredible. So you got Chris Stapleton, Jose, uh Brandy Carlisle, Justin Vernon, the JV, the JV himself, right? Uh Gigi Perez, Gracie Abrams, Aaron Desner.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:58

I think I think that's am I am I missing anyone else?

SPEAKER_02 1:07:01

So vocals-wise, I don't think so. I think you got it. Yeah. Um, I was doing a deep dive on the personnel section of the album's Wikipedia page. Okay, nice. And instrumentally, there are so many people on this album. Really? It's crazy. So Aaron Desner is all over the album. I'm gonna go in here. Go ahead. Yes, dive, man. We got James McAllister, longtime Sufjan collaborator, Sufjan Stevens. Okay, I believe he might be a drummer for him. Benjamin Lands and Kyle Resnick of Beirut. Oh, come on. Rob Moose, who has also worked with Sufjan, as well as Phoebe Bridgers, Brittany Howard, Boni Vare, Josh Kaufman of Muzz and Bonnie Light Horseman, JT Bates of Face Candy from St. Paul, Matt Meneffey of Mountain Heart, Amelia Meath from Sylvan Esso, Andrew Barr of Bar Brothers in the Slip, Touring Drummer from Mumford, and also Feist.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:04

Oh my gosh, you gotta be kidding me.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:07

So these are just some of the people that are are on here, um, which is just wild. And then yeah, you've got some of them also co-wrote. Um I know Phineas is on there. Oh, I think you you may have mentioned him. Um yeah, it's just so many. That's like a that's an insanely stacked album.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:27

And like so many different genres and like levels of kind of popularity, and that's amazing. I feel like the best albums to me are the ones that are collabed with different diverse voices, yeah. And that is a great example right there. Um, dude, that's super cool. I really like so my favorite track is Rubber Band Man. Nice, it's getting like a ton of airplay, like an XRT um, and just a ton of around like the whole area for like many months. Um but that I found out was written by Brandy Carlisle, and I I love Brandy Carlisle, like I've played some of her songs on guitar, and uh just she's incredible. Um but that song was interesting because it's like it had like when I first heard it, it was like it doesn't feel like a generic song structure, like it there's something about it that feels more flowy. Okay, like the verse flows into the chorus, and it it just seems it's like kind of more different from a song that Mumford would do. So that I just love that song. Um and they also liked here, yeah. My second favorite, yeah, with uh with the old Stapleton man. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:40

Chris himself. I I read that um they Marcus Mumford was on Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, and um he said that they all thought that he would be perfect for the song Chris Stapleton because he described as and it's interesting because it is a very uplifting album, yeah, but he described that song as kind of a cowboy suicide note. Yes, I had read about this. Yeah, yeah. He just thought that Chris Stapleton would be perfect for that because he is the cowboy. What is that what does that phrase mean? Well, I mean, if you look at the lyrics of that song, it is kind of like uh it kind of has like a hopeful tinge to it. Yeah, but it is kind of like it feels like a farewell sort of yes, it's kind of depressing and yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:30

Yeah, it it is, yeah, it's like sentimental.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:33

Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:34

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:35

Um I wanted to also touch on rubber band man because I really like that song too. Um I like this is where I was saying we might talk about open-mindedness again. Okay, because I feel like the whole theme of that song is kind of uh, you know, like the the rubber band man like remaining flexible and open-minded to the ideas of others. Like you might disagree with somebody, but that's still a person, like you can still see eye to eye with them on some level, kind of. Um, and there was actually a particular lyric in Hosier's verse.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:11

Oh, I wrote down the same thing.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:12

Which I think is this is the second verse. Um and he says, Don't hold to yourself with hard mortar and stone. Um, this reminded me of Jonah and I are both big fans of Fleet Foxes.

SPEAKER_03 1:11:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:29

And uh it reminded me of this line in their song Third of May, where Robin says, Life unfolds in pools of gold. I am only owed this shape if I make a line to hold. To be held within oneself is death like. And on the genius page for that song, he's actually annotated it like himself. Yeah, and uh he says, like his interpretation of it is um, every day alive is a gift. With that gift comes the responsibility to transcend solipsism, solipsism, and offer connection beyond yourself, uh, which I thought was like is kind of in the same vein as rubber band man and a really like uplifting uh message. Like I feel like the I think here is a hopeful sounding song with kind of sad lyrics, and then I think like from that point on, kind of the album takes on like a more purely positive kind of vibe. Like, yeah. Interesting. Um interesting point. Yeah, so I really like that. I don't that's my brain went there with that.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:39

That's a cool that's a cool reference, man.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:42

What did yeah, what did you what did you think kind of overall? I like this album, yeah. I think I'm guilty of being one of those people who kind of pigeonholed them into just that sort of stomp clap, kind of safe, um radio friendly, like pop folk sort of. Um so again, this was one that I probably would have not listened to if if left to my own devices, but thankfully I have you to suggest things to me. And uh I actually, yeah, the more I listened to it, the more I got into it. Um I really like the banjo song. Um, I think that's a great song. It's super positive again. Um kind of continues that theme of like reaching out to others and leaning on other people um when you're going through hard times. Um also in that song, in the second verse, Marcus Mumford describes the light as rosy fingered, which is apparently a common epithet used by Homer in both the Iliad and the Odyssey to describe the dawn.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:47

Whoa, yeah, that's awesome, man.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:49

Well connection there. Um to Lucas's book corner. Yes. Um, yeah. I also I thought the title track was a really great song. I know I think that's the one that's at least one of the ones that's co-written by Justin Vernon. And you I think you said, is that the one he does the background vocals on, too? Yeah, yeah. Um that one was really cool. I kind of like the the switch up at the end, is really cool. It kind of builds to like this cool ending. Um and yeah, I thought uh really good stuff overall. I really like all the features. Everybody sounds great, especially Gigi Perez and and Gracie Abrams near the end of the album. It's just their voices are just going off. Yeah, it sounds so good.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:33

Yeah, it sounds amazing.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:35

Yeah, that was I think it was uh yeah, it was just a fun, it was just a fun album. I hope it does it does well. I was looking, I think they're doing kind of like a stadium tour.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:46

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:46

Because like I looked near us, they're playing at Wrigley Field. Wow. They're playing at Wrigley Field, yeah, and then they're also playing at the Cole Center in Madison. So like kind of some bigger venues.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:57

Making it happen. Yeah. I like it. Well, should we wrap up the music segment of our podcast here? I think that's a wrap on that. Alright. We are moving on to comics.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:15

Comics. Alright, let's do it. Let's hit it. Okay, so in the first one, wanna do Batman? Yeah, let's do it. Okay, so we got Absolute Batman number 18.

SPEAKER_05 1:15:30

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:31

We're gonna cover. Yeah, I got a variant cover. Nice. Yeah. So this is okay, so this is published by DC Comics, written by Scott Snyder, art by Eric Kanette, who I late, I learned he was at Comic-Con also.

unknown 1:15:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:48

Wow. I didn't I didn't get to get his autograph, but uh um, so in this one, in this one, a whole bunch of crap goes down.

SPEAKER_02 1:15:59

Yeah, this is happening at at one time.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:02

Yeah, I'll say at a kind of zoomed-out level. Basically, he defeats Ivy. Okay, he defeats her, and then um Waylon is a person again, right? He's like Hulk-sized, he's huge. Seems huge. Yeah, yeah. He's huge. Also, Martha is maybe dead. Maybe, yeah. Like, I think she is. You think she is? I I kinda I kind of want them. I like when people actually die in comics. Yeah. But like, because like there was the gunshot that went off, and then that last panel where he's on on the rooftop. Yeah, and he deletes the the voicemail without listening to it. Yes, yeah. And it's like, what if that was the last message from her ever? What are your thoughts on this?

SPEAKER_02 1:16:53

I like this one, yeah. I I think for me, with what's go been going on in these last two issues, the most interesting parts to me are outside of the Batman and Ivy confrontation. I'm really interested in what's going on with Martha. Same. Um I think it also would be hard as hell if they killed her. I think that would be sick. It would be sick, yeah. Um, I also just like the way comics work and the cynic in me, I feel like it's probably a misdirect because all we saw was the gun go off, you know. Yes. Um, I think it would have been if she is dead, it may have been more impactful if we saw that happen, you know?

SPEAKER_00 1:17:34

Yeah, you're yeah, that's probably true.

SPEAKER_02 1:17:35

So I feel like I feel like we might be getting April Fool's tier. Um but um yeah, and then like there's some stuff with um Alfred has now been reassigned to to take down Batman, um, which is pretty antithetical to what he's been doing so far, which is yeah, sort of providing reconnaissance for him and helping him. And um we had a we had a Harley Quinn appearance, um, we had a Dick Grayson appearance. Dick Grayson appears to be leaning towards doing something about Batman.

SPEAKER_00 1:18:11

Yeah, I'm really excited about that.

SPEAKER_02 1:18:12

Um yeah, so hopefully we get to see something in regards to that pretty soon. Um I found those to be like the most compelling elements to me. I think the Ivy stuff is cool, yeah. Um, but I think it's like not the most climactic thing. And again, only two issues for this little arc here, so um I think more badassery to come on the on this book.

SPEAKER_00 1:18:42

I think that they've set the bar so high. Yeah with that Bane arc and that first arc, it's like I mean, we're we gotta we gotta keep pushing it. Yeah, we gotta keep hitting it. Yeah. Yeah, I I think that I also am really interested in the uh like the exterior stuff happening with Batman, like the same characters they mentioned, those side characters. I'm really interested with Dick Grayson, uh, with Waylon with his like his friend group. Right. Also Martha, you know, that's interesting with the court of owls. Um I yeah, I liked I liked this issue too. It was it was um like a kind of a nice climactic ending to the like you said, the Ivy arc. I think the for me the biggest takeaway was like Batman has made a decision to be like darker, yeah. Because there's some talks happening with him and um Jim Gordon about like these guys that you're working that you're fighting against, because Jim knows he's Batman, and he's like, these guys are really dark, and he's like, Yeah, I know, and he's like, I don't know what to do about that, and he's made a decision to like become darker, right? And so, um like that the main example was like he figures out how to destroy Ivy by destroying her human heart, right? And and then Barbara's like, Whoa, like you just did that, yeah, and he's like, Yeah, I did.

SPEAKER_02 1:20:07

He offers her a way out and says he won't kill her. Yeah, she takes the way out and he still destroys her heart. Exactly, which is insane.

SPEAKER_00 1:20:16

Um, yeah, wow, pretty badass. He did that, and then even perhaps more dark is he deletes his mom's message when they're uh when he's on top of the building there. Because we and at that point it's like we don't know if he's dead, you know. Right, but um, yeah, so that was kind of the biggest takeaway for me. Yeah, is he's made this decision.

SPEAKER_02 1:20:38

Yeah, I'm excited to see what that means going forward.

SPEAKER_00 1:20:40

Yeah, me too. Me too.

SPEAKER_02 1:20:43

All right, all right, moving along.

SPEAKER_00 1:20:44

Let's do it.

SPEAKER_02 1:20:48

Yeah, let's do Hulk.

SPEAKER_00 1:20:49

Oh yeah, that's that's the order, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:20:50

I was trying to remember. Let's do it. All right. Next up we got Infernal Hulk number five.

SPEAKER_00 1:20:58

Oh, I see. I only I don't have one this time, so Lucas is it. Oh, yeah, I got you.

SPEAKER_02 1:21:05

Okay. Um, so this is a Marvel comic, and we've got the aforementioned Philip Kennedy Johnson at the helm writing this one, who Jonah met and got an autograph from. Um This particular issue is penciled by Kev Walker, inked by Cam Smith, colored by Matthew Wilson, and lettered by VC's Corey Pettit. And Nick Klein did the cover that I just showed. Um, yeah, Jonah, uh, how are how are you holding up with internal hope?

SPEAKER_00 1:21:39

That's a great way to ask that question. Dude, this this issue went off. This was awesome. Yeah. Uh ton of stuff went down. Um I like how like at the end of each of these issues, it's like next up, this completely different side plot that we haven't touched on in like three issues. Right. So they keep they're going in like four different directions, um, which I think is really exciting. I thought the battles in this issue, like the main battle between Inferno Hulk and the One Above All, who it looks like is not actually the one above all, it's like a servant, yeah, like a robot that they sent down. Yeah. Uh was just epic as heck. Like just super epic, pretty gory. Um, that part was sick, and then at the end, where it's like you're with Bruce Um and uh Betty, it's Betty, right? Is her name? Yeah. Bruce, yeah, Bruce and Betty. And then there's like their co-worker or yeah, their coworker's son, you know, was killed in a previous issue. Right. And he's like come back like kind of as Infernal Hulk type. Like he's not Infernal Hulk, but he um He's been like zombified as part of Hulk's army. Yeah, exactly. And so there's like a battle there. Um I thought that the takeaway is like Hulk or uh Bruce Banner is like I can't avoid this, I have to return to being or helping, either being the Hulk or joining Avengers. Yeah. So I thought overall this is a really good issue. What about you?

SPEAKER_02 1:23:18

Same, yeah. I particularly the action was this was a loaded, a loaded issue. Um that fight scene between that sort of vessel of the one above all and and infernal Hulk was just crazy, and that takes up kind of the bulk of the Hulk issue, if you will. The Hulk bulk. The Hulk bulk. Um yeah, I thought that was great. Um, really cool. I like uh that they they go like through the earth while they're fighting, they come out the other side, and then they fly up to the moon, and then a Hulk proceeds to like rip this thing apart. And then Tony Stark, who's been watching, comes back down and they're like, Hey Tony, did it go our way? And he's like, No, no, it did not. Um, that was awesome, really cool stuff. And the art is as usual popping off on this issue, and then yeah, I think the aside from that, the big takeaway is like you said, Bruce has now made a decision, like, okay, I'm gonna I have to do something about this. It's it I can't hide from this thing anymore. Nowhere is safe. Like, I I don't get to have a normal life. Um so yeah, kind of both of these first two we have characters making pivotal decisions on the last page to like sort of turn things around. True. Um so yeah, I I liked this one. I thought this was probably one of my favorite ones of the five that have come out so far. Um I am excited to see where they go from here.

SPEAKER_00 1:24:54

Excellent. Yeah, yeah, me too. Up next it says is the the live assault on the living city. Right. So we had to kind of revisit what that was. Goligothia.

SPEAKER_02 1:25:04

Yes. I don't think we've seen since that first issue. Yeah. Cool.

SPEAKER_00 1:25:10

Okay. Alright. All right, moving along. Yeah, so last up for the comic section is Captain America number eight. Number eight. Yes. And this is also published by Marvel Comics, written by Chip Zidarski, and the art is by J Oh yeah, it says Jan Basildua. Right. Different artists coming in. The helm. Um yes, so this a lot, kind of a lot happens in this issue. Mainly, Captain America discovers what salvation is really doing. Yeah. And he has a pit of dead people. He's just been killing off citizens and throwing them in this big pit. Yeah. And Cap is pretty unhappy about that.

SPEAKER_02 1:26:03

Yeah, he seems he seems not thrilled. Yeah, he's I'll say.

SPEAKER_00 1:26:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:26:10

Maybe even a little angry about it.

SPEAKER_00 1:26:13

A little bit What was a great save. Thank you.

SPEAKER_02 1:26:17

Oh my god. Um, yeah, I would say he's um displeased about what's going on here.

SPEAKER_00 1:26:25

And, you know, Salvation should have taken our advice a couple issues ago when he said, or when we were saying, you know, you know, he needs to know who he's going up against. Yeah. Because he's probably about to get wrecked coming up soon here.

SPEAKER_02 1:26:40

Not looking good for salvation. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:26:42

So what are your thoughts on this one?

SPEAKER_02 1:26:45

Um, I like this issue. Yeah, I thought, um, like you said, um kind of a decent amount happening here. Um we know that Alina von Doom is Doom's cousin. Yes. Um, but she's afraid to come out with it because people are obviously afraid of the name Doom Doom in Latviria. Um and she is trying to team up with one of the other factions uh vying for control of Latviria. So it seems like it's now these two kind of pitted against salvation and his his um I forget which which one does he belong to. He is the leader of the true Latvirians. Okay. Um yeah, I think uh uh they kind of go with Cap on this wild goose chase for a list of location of l the locations of weapons of mass destruction, which is why Cap is there in the first place um to kind of regain control of these things and calm things down. Uh and uh lo and behold, they get to where they're supposed to be. Cap finds out that. Uh Mara and Melor have tricked him, and what they were actually looking for is a list of dead people so that they can give closure to families of these people. Um, which is also important. Yeah. I mean, good on them. That's not a totally evil, you know, lie. Um, but on in doing so, Cap discovers uh, like you said, what what salvation has really been up to and he gets quite angry about it. And uh I really like the end. Um actually, this is another one that kind of ends with another character making a pivotal decision here. He he gets on the horn with Nick Fury and tells him what's going on, and Nick's like, oh yeah, we kind of expected that might be the case. Uh yada yada. I'll I'll let the UN know, and once they ratify like everything, we'll see what we can do. And Cap's like, no, no, no. We're dealing with this right now. And I think he says, and God help you if you stand in my way. Yes. I wrote that down too. So badass. So badass. Um you love seeing Cap with some major conviction, which he always has, but when it comes out in in certain ways, it's it's a big payoff. And yeah, I like this issue. I'm excited. I think um if they follow the same format as the first arc, we've got two more in Doom's Shadow. This is part three, and I believe there were five in the first part. So um interested to see and then Armageddon starts in July. I think it's June. June? It's one of those two, yeah. So we've got uh we got some work to do here to get things to set the stage, I think.

SPEAKER_00 1:29:43

Wow, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:29:44

So I'm excited to see where Chip takes it.

SPEAKER_00 1:29:46

Totally, yeah. That's gonna be awesome, man. Yeah, yeah, I I totally agree with you. Um, yeah, that that last page is just totally awesome.

SPEAKER_05 1:29:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:29:57

Um yeah, anytime I wrote that he was very resolute, so like in like you said, in his conviction, anytime you can see him just yeah, making like really standing up for what is right, yeah, and not letting anybody get in his way. So it we can like it just feels like a really cool battle is about to happen. And yeah, I remember being pretty excited reading this, like, especially when he comes out of the pit and he's got like smoke on him.

SPEAKER_02 1:30:25

Yeah, that was a sick, super cool, very cool drawing, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:30:29

Yeah, really cool drawing. Uh yeah, I think I said that was really cool. And then there was like a page or two, they're doing they're sprinkling in some Ross stuff, yeah, some red Hulk stuff. And so my thought was there's a page on where he's with like his like squadron, and um, and they're like basically like we're gonna help you with whatever, General Ross. And he's like, Good. Yeah, I have some big, bold plans, yes, and then it shows a picture of a Hulk, and I'm like, are we about to have a room full of Hulks right now? A room full of Hulks? Yes, you can't fit them. They're not gonna fit it. You need a bigger room, yeah. It's like a conference room they're in. You know what I mean? They're just talking about plans. And dude, but like, what are you what are you thinking with that? Like, you did you think about that? I did, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:31:20

I as predicted, I don't think we're done with General Ross. Yeah, exactly. I don't think he's going away. Um, that's kind of what I got out of it too. Um, because I mean this is set in the same this and Infernal Hulk are both 616, right? Yes. So I mean like they're looking at a picture of Bruce Banner Hulk, but obviously he's not part of Hulk right now, and Hulk is off doing his own thing, being a bad hombre. Yeah. So it seems like the the idea that came into my mind was that yeah, somehow we're gonna have a room full of Hulks, I think.

SPEAKER_00 1:31:59

Man, this is gonna be pretty awesome. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:32:02

Yeah. Sick. It's leading up to something for sure. Some kind of epic showdown or another. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:32:10

Um yeah, I think yeah, overall, I like this issue a lot. Yeah. It was pretty sweet.

SPEAKER_04 1:32:15

It's a good one.

SPEAKER_02 1:32:17

All right, y'all. Well, I think we're gonna wrap it up here. Um thank you all for listening. Um, Jonah, did you have anything you want to add before I send us out?

SPEAKER_00 1:32:30

Uh I just say thanks as well. Uh thanks again, Maddie, for the designs. And um hope everybody's doing well.

SPEAKER_02 1:32:38

Yeah, definitely. Yeah, shout out to Maddie. Um we're gonna be watching Devilwears Prada 2 for next month. Um and then after the month of May, look for us every Friday. We'll be out here. That's getting it done. Oh, yeah.

unknown 1:32:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:32:55

Alright, y'all. Thanks for listening. Uh, everybody, have a good month. We'll see you soon. Bye. Bye.