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ET! THROWBACK: The Oddball Italian Spider-Man and MCU's Black Widow Meet Video Games and Marvel Trivia Madness
Ever wondered how a game like Steep manages to simultaneously dazzle and disappoint with its open-world winter sports adventure? We're breaking it down, alongside our harrowing and often comedic struggles in the backyard wilderness of Grounded, where the spiders are a little too realistic for comfort. But fear not, we're considering turning our screams into streams for your viewing pleasure. Plus, we're sharing the latest and greatest in entertainment news, including a peek at Gareth Evans' upcoming film 'Havoc' and the hilarious misadventures of Jeremy Clarkson's farming escapades.
Finally, it's time to put our Marvel mettle to the test with a head-to-head trivia challenge that spans the MCU and comic book lore. From Thor's Gatekeeper to Smart Hulk's transformation, we're firing off questions faster than Iron Man's repulsors. As we wrap up, we reflect on a year of podcasting - the highs, the lows, and the joy of building a community. We're inviting you, yes you, to jump into the conversation and become a part of the family we're forging here. So, what are you waiting for? Join us for this thrill-filled episode that promises laughs, insights, and a whole lot of heart.
Could you design a video game?
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Ever wondered how a game like Steep manages to simultaneously dazzle and disappoint with its open-world winter sports adventure? We're breaking it down, alongside our harrowing and often comedic struggles in the backyard wilderness of Grounded, where the spiders are a little too realistic for comfort. But fear not, we're considering turning our screams into streams for your viewing pleasure. Plus, we're sharing the latest and greatest in entertainment news, including a peek at Gareth Evans' upcoming film 'Havoc' and the hilarious misadventures of Jeremy Clarkson's farming escapades.
Finally, it's time to put our Marvel mettle to the test with a head-to-head trivia challenge that spans the MCU and comic book lore. From Thor's Gatekeeper to Smart Hulk's transformation, we're firing off questions faster than Iron Man's repulsors. As we wrap up, we reflect on a year of podcasting - the highs, the lows, and the joy of building a community. We're inviting you, yes you, to jump into the conversation and become a part of the family we're forging here. So, what are you waiting for? Join us for this thrill-filled episode that promises laughs, insights, and a whole lot of heart.
Could you design a video game?
Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify
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Speaker 2:Hi, I'm Witt. This episode is sponsored by Mountain Dew and Pepsi. All things caffeinated.
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Speaker 2:It's doing all right.
Speaker 3:I got to add. I put those on there, but I've been busy. He's been busy not sleeping, he's been busy doing stuffing and things. So last episode of Trivia I emceed and Mitch and Hayden competed against each other in general video game knowledge, which we found Mitch knows nothing and Hayden knew a surprising amount, despite the fact it just evolved into just blurting out stuff until somebody got it right, it worked.
Speaker 1:It was a solid strategy stuff. Until somebody got it right, it worked, it was a solid strategy. So you got punished, mitch. What did you have to watch?
Speaker 2:The Italian Spider-Man. I'll go ahead and start. It is the worst punishment I've had. Yes, this beat cats. This beat cats because there's no rhyme or reason for anything that's happening. At least cats had a plot. Yeah, all he does in this movie. He runs around, there's some kind of asteroid that they use a needle to inject and like pull something out of an asteroid, and then this bad guy's trying to get it, but like there's no resolution, I don't know what happened.
Speaker 1:Okay, how long is this movie first off?
Speaker 2:It's technically a short film and it's 41 or 42 minutes?
Speaker 1:What year did this movie come out?
Speaker 2:It looks like the 60s or 70s.
Speaker 3:It does, but it came out in 2007.
Speaker 1:What continent made this movie?
Speaker 2:Well, it is Italian Spider-Man, so obviously it was made in Australia, okay.
Speaker 1:Aren't they speaking Spanish, or something like that, the whole time? I think so. They're just all over the place. Does this have anything to do with the Marvel Cinematic Universe?
Speaker 2:No, the only thing even close to spider related is he has a spider on his shirt drawn with a sharp yeah maybe with a sharpie marker at any point does he sling webs? No, he flies, he teleports evidently he's got super strength.
Speaker 3:Yeah, he batters women yeah, the entire movie.
Speaker 2:He can't be bothered to put down his cigarette.
Speaker 1:Like he's fighting off snakes with one hand while he's holding the cigarette up with the other I uh, when when mitch put this punishment on, I saw like I looked up, saw like 30 seconds and he's fighting some dude who just burst into snakes for no reason, I was like well, I'm done, that's enough of that still, one of the funniest parts is like he's getting chased out of his apartment which he woke up in like the middle of like four women, for whatever reason.
Speaker 2:It is in his mask and with a cigarette in his hand, he's a tiny.
Speaker 2:Spider-Man. He goes to his kitchen, he opens the door of the refrigerator and just pulls a live chicken out of his refrigerator and then he squeezes the chicken and gets an egg and he doesn't like that. So he squeezes the chicken again and gets a carton of cigarettes and then he holds them up like it's a commercial and he smokes one. It says whatever the name of the brand was, but I was like why is there a chicken hatching cartons of? Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 3:I saw a little bit of this like a Supercut video, and he's at the lab or whatever, and the guy duplicates the mouse with the injection and then duplicates his assistant, yeah, and then he puts the mouse in a sock and beats it with a shoe and he pulls out a gun and shoots the other assistant.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he doesn't just give a beat, he kills the mouse and just pulls a gun out, cocks it pow.
Speaker 3:And then a woman shows up with a drink for him and he turns around to punch her in the face and he just goes oh, thank you. And he goes my place, savage. She's like, oh thank you, italian Spider-Man. And she just walks away and I'm like what is this movie?
Speaker 2:And then he tells it was actually the other guy, like the doctor's daughter or something like that, and he's like, hey, he punches the other one in the face.
Speaker 1:For no reason, yeah, just wow, and then you got the guy that goes like shaking his head with his mouth wide open. Yeah, I don't know if you've seen that meme with like the white guy with long curly hair that opens the door and he gets super surprised. It was like 30 seconds of him doing that and it was like 30 seconds of him doing that.
Speaker 2:And then at some point the bad guy gets the asteroid stuff and they have a surf competition to get it back and Italian Spider-Man starts losing because the other guy like blows some kind of whistle or something and these two girls jump out of the water onto the surfboard and like fight it with him. He knocks them off. He pulls out a conch shell and blows into it and penguins show up and knock the bad guy off.
Speaker 3:Blow the conch of justice. I don't understand.
Speaker 1:So in your mind, can you rationalize how somebody conceived this movie?
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:Like it's something Like some Italian guy who has heard briefly of Spider-Man in a passing bar. Somebody like hunt him down.
Speaker 2:But there's nothing even remotely Spider-Man-esque about it, other than the spider on his shirt.
Speaker 1:It was like tell me a Spider-Man story.
Speaker 2:And this guy was like ah, Because he's wearing like a little like Lone Ranger kind of mask. Yeah, he's got this big mustache and he just carries a cigarette around everywhere.
Speaker 3:I don't know, I just like how they do cuts to the spider on his chest, him with a mask and then his mustache. He gets his own little cutaway.
Speaker 2:There's another part of the movie where the bad guys are chasing him to the roof of this building. And he gets to the roof and you can obviously tell it's a dummy because its arms are down by its side, and he jumps and then it goes to a scene of just like the dummy head first off the side of the building.
Speaker 1:Like the fugitive.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there's no rhyme or reason for anything that's happening and it ends. The bad guy gets super big, like above buildings and like walking around and stuff.
Speaker 3:Like power injuries.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and then the Italian Spider-Man goes, smokes a cigarette and it ends it's like so.
Speaker 3:Well, they had to leave it open for a sequel. I guess Italian Spider-Man 2.
Speaker 2:It was so tough More mustache. Somalian Spider-Man, and it didn't help that there is no English version. It's all read it as you go.
Speaker 1:I don't speak English in Australia. We all know this. No, all right. So you gave Cats a what A two, which was, up to this point, the worst rated movie on the podcast. What do you rate this?
Speaker 2:A one.
Speaker 1:A one is officially the lowest. This is saying that these people who made this movie should go to prison.
Speaker 2:They should. There's no reason to have made this. It has no real plot. The actors are horrible. Just throw this dummy off the side of the building, that's. That's your special effect do they like?
Speaker 3:try to be serious about this movie no well, I don't know.
Speaker 1:I I don't even think you can understand a mood for this movie. It's just there was chaos.
Speaker 1:They had one scene like he's walking down the hall and there's these snakes that are obviously hanging by wires, because you can see the wires and they're just like the little rubber toy snakes it's like if somebody went to wikipedia and typed in spider-man and just clicked on the first link that popped up on each page doesn't matter what it is and they developed a plot for a movie after all that stuff you know I guarantee in the next 30 seconds we could take a phone and make a better or at least equal to video.
Speaker 1:Right now. That's impressive, I'm just saying so. This is the new standard. Is it Italian Spider-Man bad? That's what we're going to say from now on.
Speaker 2:It was just. There's no rhyme or reason for anything that was happening. I mean, it was funny because it was dumb. It was worse than samurai cop dumb wow I mean, but does this really take cats?
Speaker 3:because cats was a full feature-length film released in theaters. Like they spent millions of dollars and this is, like you know, a serious production. This is a short movie of a fat dude with a mustache.
Speaker 2:They brought it down, it got made. They spent money to make this. That's all I I care.
Speaker 1:Wow, that's moderately impressive. I feel bad for Mitch. He's gotten the brunt of the worst punishments.
Speaker 3:He has.
Speaker 1:So all right, well, let's move on. Who would like to go first? You, All right, I watched a movie.
Speaker 3:What movie.
Speaker 1:The Black Widow, it just came out, did yep um I thought you don't know what I thought you were reviewing.
Speaker 3:Uh, tomorrow war, yeah, nah nah it sucked don't watch it review done.
Speaker 1:I didn't like it, um, but the black widow I actually did like a lot. I had low expectations because this was one of the Corona films that got delayed.
Speaker 3:Delayed.
Speaker 1:They acted like this wasn't that important compared to the MCU and it really kind of wasn't, but the story itself was actually really good. The ratings overall Rotten Tomatoes gave it an 81. At this point, IGN a 7, Metacritic's a 68.
Speaker 2:I give it a 9 I think that.
Speaker 1:I think that if the MCU were to do a Jason Bourne type movie but then improve upon all the stupid stuff that happens in Jason Bourne, this would be it. It's definitely the darkest and grittiest of all the MCU movies up to this point, in my opinion. Um, I can't reveal too much about why that it would be so dark and gritty, but there's some visceral scenes, lots of broken bones. Um, you know, the fighting is very brutal. The thing that always pissed me off about jason bourne is they'll be stabbing each other with pins and you-up magazines and the camera's just like.
Speaker 3:Shaky cam.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's like Michael J Fox is the cinematographer or something like that, but for this it was very well shot, very still cameras that moved with the flow of action. The choreography was one of the best choreographed films I've seen in a long time. Kate McCarron, I think, is the director and she's done, more or less, from what I understand, movies about family drama and stuff which kind of plays into this movie, despite I don't know what her history is with action movies and whatnot. But either she gave somebody full reign who had great experience with fight choreography or whatever, or she just nailed it Because the beats between action and the beats between the drama were really well done. When the drama got intense they had very appropriate interruptions that burst into action and stuff like that. So I definitely very much enjoyed it. Um, to summarize it, it takes place right after civil war, captain america, civil war, and black widow uh is on the run and she's trying to be in hiding when she gets attacked by somebody from her past in a way and um the.
Speaker 1:The first five minutes of the film is actually a prequel to 1995. Um, where you kind of see where she is as a kid and why she became what she is. So to you know for a character that was kind of integral to the MCU, that didn't really have a background or need a background, you're kind of like why do I care? In the beginning, and then at the end of the movie you're like okay, I'm glad that I watched that, I'm glad that I learned about this character and to see where they're going with it, there is an after credits. That's probably the only thing that's important to the MCU. Everything else wasn't necessarily important.
Speaker 2:I mean it introduced a couple of characters that they could use later on throughout the movie.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but the only thing that actually ties anything to the MCU is, I would say, the after credits. Yeah, but anyways. So Rachel Weisz is in it, Dan Harbour. And what is her name? The blonde girl? I cannot remember.
Speaker 3:Ah yes, the blonde girl Scarlett Johansson.
Speaker 1:No, scarlett Johansson is kind of weird that she plays like a main character for the first of the Black Widow movies but she still doesn't really feel like a main character. She still feels kind of like a supporting actor. Florence Pugh she's in it and I can't really explain what she is Without revealing too much. Yeah, I don't know if it's in the trailer or not. She's got a personal connection from a childhood.
Speaker 2:I can't remember if I just know what it is or if it was revealed in the trailer.
Speaker 1:To Black Widow.
Speaker 2:Her name is Yelena Belova.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and you think that she's going to be just some annoying character, but she's actually. She kind of steals the show. She was definitely my favorite character in the entire movie. I liked her attitude and her kind of wit and charm. One of the things and I don't really know how to talk about this that kind of floored me a little bit from this movie, because when I watch film, uh, I think a lot about where camera placement is. I think about, okay, they're purposely putting the camera, so we're eyes are first looking at this thing. Okay, so for a reason and a lot of it was that Scarlett Johansson's. But you know, and I'm wondering, because this is a, this is a film that's very much in the fame of feminism and and girl power and whatnot. It didn't go over the top, it wasn't in your face about it. Actually, they kind of did it from an aspect of, like, women are underestimated.
Speaker 2:For these reasons, Well, it gave a reason for those girls to be underestimated, yeah.
Speaker 1:And they did a really good, tasteful way of doing that and I wonder if that's why we kept looking at women objectively throughout the movie in that aspect, especially Scarlett Johansson, with it being a female director and I'm getting too much into film theory about this, but with it being a female director and the idea of what is considered the male gaze like a male predominantly made movie is constantly objectifying women. I've said it before, but essentially when men are shot into a camera, they usually do it from the belly line up. Okay, women are always from the bust up. You know from like today still In most movies. You know back to the ever since women were appearing on camera because men like to shoot women objectively.
Speaker 1:Whether they consciously do it or not, it's just a thing that they do. The fact that a female director did it, you know, I wonder if she's trying to bring a consciousness to that kind of aspect. You know, like almost like black widow would want to be objectified because that's her way of taking advantage of you in a weird way. I don't know, maybe I'm thinking too much into it, but it's still very strange that I did not expect to see butt shots in a Black Widow movie. But, like I said, it was definitely a more grittier, visceral for the MCU, very dark, and the underlying context of the plot and why Black Widow is on her adventure is the darkest thing in the MCU yet.
Speaker 2:And I think it plays like what you were talking about, plays a lot into who the character is, because that's what her if you've ever seen the movie Red Sparrow.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Basically, that story is kind of what her origin story was like in the comics.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that was always my concern, because when I saw Red Sparrow and I knew Black Widow was coming out, I was like, are they just going to do the Marvel movie of that? But the whole Red Sparrow movie was what's Her Face from the Hunger Games, jennifer Lawrence, yeah, and like how she became this Russian spy or whatever. They kind of briefed over that and just like an opening credit montage, which was done to a really cool Nirvana cover song, by the way. But anyways, yeah, I like the way that they did it. They were very tasteful about the dark stuff.
Speaker 1:They didn't make you feel gross or guilty or whatever Like how dare you watch, yeah, and so, yeah, it's definitely going to be a challenge for some kids, like if your 7-year-old kid is just getting into the MCU and they're all caught up. I don't know if this movie is for them or not, but I enjoyed it as an adult. So, like I said, I give it a 9. And people who don't understand the MCU this might be a good movie just to watch standalone, outside of it.
Speaker 3:So, yeah. What would you?
Speaker 1:rate it A nine.
Speaker 3:Nine out of ten. Yes, that's one of the higher rated movies.
Speaker 1:Yep, it's one of the movies I've enjoyed the most this year. I can't think of another movie that I was really happy with. I think the last movie I enjoyed this much was surprisingly was that Rabbit movie.
Speaker 2:Jojo Rabbit. Yeah, Jojo Rabbit Was Scarlett Johansson.
Speaker 1:That's true, she wasn't. She's knocking it out of the park. Whatever she's doing, she's doing great Alright. That's it for my news I have. Do you know who Gareth Edwards is?
Speaker 3:No, I've heard the name.
Speaker 1:He did the Raid. Oh, okay, he's got a movie coming out on netflix. It's actually his second movie, but I don't know if you ever watched. Uh, it's something to do with. It's called the apostle on netflix. That was what he did before that's a horror movie, isn't it?
Speaker 1:I don't know, I think it is, but uh, pilgrims and stuff this g Gareth Evans movie coming on Netflix is called Havoc, starring Tom Hardy, and it will follow a detective in the aftermath of a drug deal that went bad, on the hunt through an illicit underworld for a politician's son in need of rescuing, while also investigating corruption in the city. So Gareth Evans is more of a kind of a of a, I'd say an action kind of brawling director yeah, if you're talking about the raid, yeah and that's kind of where he got his upstart into the film world.
Speaker 1:Um, he did a tv show called gangs of london. Uh, I haven't reviewed it or seen it yet, but I I want to. Um, and I hear it's a lot kind of like you know, smarmy, you know British people beating the crap out of each other.
Speaker 1:But this seems more like a noir and I would enjoy that and I think that his cinematography and the way that he kind of understands the story through the context of the camera, I could see that happening. But I don't know if he could do it for long, extended beats of time without, you know, interrupting moments of action. So we'll see what happens. No clue on when that's going to come out. They just signed Okay, so that is my news. Who's next?
Speaker 3:Me. Go ahead TV, so I watched Clarkson's Farm, which is now the trifecta of the traditional Top Gear hosts offshoot television shows James. May had his cooking show, richard Hammond had his like Stuntman show, which wasn't apparently that good, and Jeremy Clarkson decided I want to do a farming show. And everybody's like why? And he's like because I'm Jeremy Clarkson.
Speaker 2:I do what I want.
Speaker 3:So the premise of the show is he owns a bunch of land like almost 500 acres worth.
Speaker 3:It's got all that little squared off hedgerows and nonsense, and I guess the guy who runs the day-to-day operations of the farm and keeping up with everything he's retiring. So Jeremy Clarkson's like I'll do it myself. What could possibly go wrong? Literally everything. Yeah, like he does all this farming, he buys a tractor and it's a lamborghini tractor just because he power and he like goes like this whole bit where he like tills all this earth.
Speaker 3:He hires this like 21 year old kid who like been farming for his whole life and like lived around around there and helped work on parts of his land and he has a map of the little farm sections and he's just like well, what's this one? And he's pointing at the map and the guy's like it's this one. He's like it's surrounded by these and if you go this way, it's this and he's just rattling them all off and he's like but the whole show, dude, gives jeremy clarkson the business every second and he actually did like an interview where he's like oh no, I was genuinely mad half the time, like jeremy would have something up, probably for comedic effect. And they're like this 21 year old kid be like what the hell are you doing you stupid, toss it. You're yelling at him. In british nonsense it's like am I being yelled at? He's being polite, but he's also being condescending, like you.
Speaker 3:I don't know what you're talking about he does this farming and he's like oh yeah, we have to have X amount of stuff planted and ready by this date. And he's like and Jared goes, and then it started raining and it didn't stop and they actually had the worst rain ever in like 200 years, Like for farming. He's like all right, so he gets sheep. And he's like measuring like a sheep's scrotum. And I don't know if you've seen this. I did because of the show. These things are the size of grapefruits.
Speaker 2:I'm like, how do you walk?
Speaker 3:And like it's massive, like I stopped focusing on the Crap, that's a big ball sack.
Speaker 1:Why was he measuring that?
Speaker 3:Apparently, because he buys all these female sheep and he rents the two male sheep to come and do stuff to the female sheep and he names them Leonardo and Dante or something and the guy's like oh yeah, we got to measure, make sure you know they're like loaded, I don't know, that was a thing you just measure him to see me either. So he has like a measuring tape like around this sheep's nuts and jerry's. Just like I've never fondled anything this huge before, he's like I can't even focus. It's pretty funny.
Speaker 1:How many episodes is it?
Speaker 3:It's a whole season. They did get approved to try to do a second season. He's been trying to do this show since like 2019.
Speaker 1:Yeah, all right, so they're not doing Top Gear anymore.
Speaker 3:Well, no, they've gotten fired and the other two resigned from Top Gear. That was like 2015.
Speaker 2:Or not.
Speaker 3:Top.
Speaker 1:Gear, that was like 2015. Yeah, not Top Gear. The.
Speaker 3:Grand Tour. They're not doing that anymore. They're trying to come back, okay. That's also been in TV news. They're trying to come back with Grand Tour Season 4.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think it would be 4, unless they count the specials they did as a season.
Speaker 3:Okay, no, I wouldn't count the specials, but they're trying to come back and do that. But Jeremy's got his farming show, james has his cooking show, richard's like stuntman show which is like out of everybody on Top Gear, you are the least qualified person to be a stuntman, mr. I've died like six times.
Speaker 1:What does he do as a stuntman? I didn't watch it.
Speaker 3:I saw the reviews. It's just like I mean, we watched it because it was Richard Hammond, but it's not a good show.
Speaker 1:Is it like Steven Seagal, pretending to be a cop, just like?
Speaker 2:oh, no, no, this is bad.
Speaker 3:This is bad You're breaking the law, not in my town, not actually doing anything. No, but it's I. No, but it's a. I would give Jerry. It's a. This is the. He's the second best spinoff TV show. Okay, james May's cooking show was just hilarious. I could watch James May cut grass. It's just, you watch the movie, you're just like God, you're entertaining.
Speaker 1:I don't know what it is.
Speaker 3:I'd give this a 7 out of 10. It's a fun one On Amazon. Yeah, it's on Amazon Prime. You have to be a fan of these three dudes to appreciate their spinoff shows. Yeah, Because otherwise you're just like why am I watching this old-ismatic gorilla attempt to farm?
Speaker 1:Yeah, for entertainment. It'd be like watching Mitch trying to farm. Hi, hi, hi, hi, hi Hi. Hi All right, so what news have you for us?
Speaker 3:So Silverhawks, the classic 80s television show, that's legit on my punishment list. Oh yeah. I've seen that before Is being reanimated by the Nacelle Company.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the famous Nacelle Company.
Speaker 3:Yeah, everybody's heard of them. That's why I knew how to pronounce it right the first time, without sounding unsure, I think from the article that I read.
Speaker 2:They're the ones that helped make the original show as well.
Speaker 1:I think from the article that I read, they're the ones that helped make the original show as well. They also mount the engines on the Enterprise, which is true.
Speaker 2:Apparently the original one was developed by Rankin and Bass and released in 1986.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I used to watch that when.
Speaker 3:I was little Rankin and Bass we've talked about that before they did the Lord of the Rings cartoon.
Speaker 1:Did you rotoscope? Is that how they do their animation predominantly? Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 2:This looked a lot like GI Joe and stuff as far as the original.
Speaker 1:So they do the slate of, they have a character in a pose and they just cycle out the slate, kind of like Johnny Quest and all those.
Speaker 3:But I'm looking at a still of these people and I'm like they're robots with human faces. And that guy has a guitar and a cowboy hat and some dude has an eagle on his arm.
Speaker 2:Essentially they're like the Falcon from Falcon and Winter Soldier. That's like their powers.
Speaker 3:Yeah, protect the citizens of the galaxy of limbo.
Speaker 1:That sounds like a terrible galaxy to be in.
Speaker 3:Yeah, which is overran by a mob led by a man called Mondstar. Mondstar and it's like that was Somebody got paid for thinking that.
Speaker 1:Yeah Well, it's no better than He-Man, he-man.
Speaker 3:So there's that, and then my movie news is the Godzilla vs Kong. Director, adam Wingard, is to helm a Thundercats movie for Warner Brothers.
Speaker 1:That's probably not going to happen, and if it does, it'll probably suck.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, I'm sure it will, so no idea when that show's coming out. If you liked that show in the 80s and when you watched it, it's probably going to still be bad. But hey, you might like it.
Speaker 1:We'll see. I feel like there's other things of nostalgia people could probably get into, Like Gargoyles.
Speaker 3:I was going to say Gargoyles would be a great thing to reboot. That would be awesome. Make it like an adult show.
Speaker 1:I'm like halfway through season two watching with my kids and I'm like this show transcends the times. Me and my children enjoying this show together.
Speaker 3:Swat Cats, swat Cats.
Speaker 2:This show is awesome yeah it is Quite exquisite, mitch, alright. Well, I had video games, yes, and I had kind of a lackluster game called Steep. It's like a, I guess, kind of winter games kind of thing where you can do you can ski, snowboard, wingsuit and paraglide, which I mean. It has got a nine out of ten on steam by the critics and stuff because they just applauded its graphics and its open worldness and everything for a winter olympics game, like what you can go to the concession stand, it's.
Speaker 2:It's really, I mean it's fun for like 15 minutes and then it's like all right what else?
Speaker 1:so if you like winter sports, yeah, real life, maybe you can play it If you're one of that niche group who enjoys winter sports.
Speaker 2:It does look like. I mean, as far as visually it looks amazing Because you're skiing on the Alps and stuff like that, and it's all like it says open world to where you just pick yourself up, put yourself at the top of a mountain and then you just free ski down or hang, glide down or whatever you want to do. It's really pretty and everything. But once you've done it it's like all right now. What? Because you can do tricks and stuff when you do flips off of little ramps and things, but you're pretty limited.
Speaker 2:If you crash into a tree. Do you get special bonus points for breaking all your bones? No, you just hit.
Speaker 3:Everything turns red and you fall Aw.
Speaker 2:So I don't know. It was very limited in what you could do, so I don't understand why it was rated high. I'd give it a 5 out of 10. It's, you know, it was kind of boring after the first few minutes.
Speaker 1:Wow. So, we could also do a group game review Of that. No of Grounded. Oh well, I think we should do a special about that. I have plans, tom, oh no.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:No, and I think that we should record it.
Speaker 2:But I will say this oh then I guess I gotta re-download it, yeah.
Speaker 1:I will say this. We played a game called Grounded.
Speaker 3:It's a free game on Game Pass. It's Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.
Speaker 1:Minecraft. Right, it's a sandboxing, crafting survival game, but you're terrorized by giant spiders which we found out Tom is deathly afraid of, which is great. So I mean, I'm not a fan of spiders. I will run and scream like the best of them, but I won't run literally out of my room ripping my headset. I didn't run out of the room, I was still sitting in the chair. I thought you died.
Speaker 3:I was like what happened. All I heard was just here's what happened. I'm running in the darkness of like the twilight of night, trying to make it back to the base we had built before the sun went completely down. I couldn't see a damn thing because I didn't have any torches and I'm running.
Speaker 3:I'm like, all right, everything's good, everything's good, everything's good. I'm almost there. I'm like almost there. I'm like that's right over this hill. And then, and the spider, like mandibles and eyes, come out of nowhere across my screen at like lightning speed and like I was so startled, I threw my controller, swatted my own headset. My chair was facing a different direction. I was like ah, and I was grabbing my chest like, oh, my heart had stopped.
Speaker 1:I almost pulled a gun on my television.
Speaker 3:It was pretty hilarious and I went to pick up my headset, regaining my composure and my heart racing at 200 beats per minute, and all I just hear is hayden going laughing in the headset and I put my you know, flip the mic back on. He just goes, did you die?
Speaker 1:so I immediately saw the internet points flashing in my head once I that incident played out. So I was like we gotta get this on twitch something. Three grown men just screaming at spiders and stuff in this kid's video game.
Speaker 3:Or the super ant that attacked us. You made it inside.
Speaker 1:My daughter played the game and she's played Minecraft for years, so she just immediately picked it up and, like, excelled beyond belief and is murdering. She's a spider, you know, massacrist.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we just figured out how to put a roof on a house so but it is quite, it's super high, uh, high definition.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you can tell it's got the ray tracing and everything involved in that, um, and it's quite a surreal experience because you're, you know you're tiny and you feel you feel you know not particularly tiny because you're moving like a human or whatever, until you see the giant stalks of grass bending like there's a Tyrannosaurus Rex coming through.
Speaker 3:And it's a wolf spider, or?
Speaker 1:a ladybug.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:You know, you're like what is that, you know? So it's kind of a strange experience, but I thought it was fun and I think that we could definitely have some fun playing it.
Speaker 3:I enjoyed playing the other night when me and Mitch were at the house building the third and fourth floor to the apartment and all you hear is Hayden running around in the background. He goes ah, ah ah, no, yeah, what's going on there, the spiders?
Speaker 1:They're smart man. One chased me into another one, you know or he goes down and goes.
Speaker 2:Can somebody come get me and?
Speaker 3:I'm like building the house. I'm like no.
Speaker 2:Tom won't leave, we'll find a way to make him leave a spider showed up, me and Tom just shut the doors where we were at and hid me and Mitch come back and Tom's got an apron on.
Speaker 1:He's like welcome home honeys.
Speaker 2:He's not leaving.
Speaker 1:He's not leaving for the life of it Not until the last time I know what happened the last time.
Speaker 3:It's dangerous out there.
Speaker 1:We'll find a way to make him leave. But yeah, that's a fun game, free on Game Pass. It's not huge. If you suffer from arachnophobia? Don't play it. They have an arachnophobia scale on it. You can turn it down.
Speaker 3:I did find out, mine was actually at the maximum setting.
Speaker 1:I don't understand Because at the maximum setting they look like two balls.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I have to adjust it back, Mine. I guess I had to flip it, so mine looked real.
Speaker 2:I do have some news.
Speaker 3:Go ahead.
Speaker 2:Well, I say I have some news because I couldn't find a whole lot of interesting stuff for this week, but there is a new Fable game that will be coming out.
Speaker 1:Oh really.
Speaker 2:And they said it's going to be out before Elder Scrolls VI ever comes out.
Speaker 1:Well, that could be the next 15 years.
Speaker 3:I'm pretty sure me dying of old age will happen before Elder Scrolls VI.
Speaker 2:But supposedly the new Fable game. They're working on it right now. It doesn't have a release date yet, but they're working on that. Cold War is getting a new Zombies mode and map on July 15th. That'll be good. Red Dead and Destiny are both getting new content this month. There's a new Assassin's Creed game that's been confirmed they haven't revealed exactly what the scenario time period will be for sure and there's a new Switch that has come out.
Speaker 3:It's kind of meh. Is it the Switch Lite? No, it's the Pro.
Speaker 1:OLED, I think, is what it's called.
Speaker 2:There's not really a big difference.
Speaker 1:It has an Ethernet port. It's like an inch bigger and the sound is upgraded.
Speaker 3:What about video definition? Because I think the handheld is what? 720?
Speaker 1:There's nothing visually different about it, except that it's bigger. However, the little stupid kick leg in the back. Now it's a whole plate. So there you go. That's quite an improvement.
Speaker 2:Upgrades yeah, that's about it.
Speaker 1:Fable that game has been. They've been talking about a Fable game coming out forever. I know that Lionhead Studios that made the original one they kind of went under and I think that's been tossed around. I know Microsoft still owns it, so it would be an Xbox exclusive.
Speaker 3:I think I didn't play Fable 1. I played Fable 2 and 3.
Speaker 1:Fable 1 was the best one as far as like story and setting and stuff. That was the best one. 2 and 3 were just cash grabs. I don't know. Yeah so, but it'll be interesting to see what they can think to do to reinvent the wheel for the Fable games. You know those were the original games that you could be good or bad.
Speaker 3:Right, it was up to you.
Speaker 1:But your decisions impacted everything you know Like. It was up to you, but your decisions impacted everything.
Speaker 3:How people interacted to you Right.
Speaker 1:It was because you literally physically changed.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I had horns sticking out of my head. My eyes were black and red.
Speaker 2:So you're saying you were evil? Yeah, I was like a.
Speaker 3:Sith.
Speaker 1:Lord, I was a good character. I've never played it. They were fun. I think they've remade the graphics free on Game Pass for Fable 1. Yeah, it's on there. It'd be a fun download. So, yeah, I can't think of, oh, battlefield they talked about. They're going to put in some classic maps in Battlefield on launch day because I know so many of their classic maps. I don't know. I think that there's some diehard Battlefield fans that'll probably be appreciative that I couldn't remember any of them, but there's a thing.
Speaker 1:And stuff, yep, okay, well, shall we move on to the exciting portion of our endeavor here.
Speaker 2:I've got to end Tom's streak.
Speaker 3:This will probably be the one I would be willing to bet.
Speaker 2:I don't know. It's about the movies. You've seen the movies?
Speaker 1:Yeah, so here's the deal. I'm doing MCU trivia in honor of Black Widow and Italian Spider-Man, so that means that the trivia that I'm getting is straight from the movies. Okay, everything, every bit of information has been talked about or at least mentioned in passing like one-liners or whatever in the movies, or title card or whatever.
Speaker 3:So I haven't seen several of the MCU movies. Oh, that's unfortunate, it is. It really is.
Speaker 1:So I'll do 20 questions and then I have a tie-break question. Just in case we could do a double or nothing.
Speaker 3:Get your scorecard ready, sir.
Speaker 2:If I'm winning, heck no If I'm losing.
Speaker 1:Sure, alrighty. The first question who in Thor is known as the Gatekeeper Tom?
Speaker 3:I just totally blocked out, oh uh.
Speaker 2:Can I guess?
Speaker 1:Three, two, one Mitch.
Speaker 3:Heimdall yes, I was like Heim-something. I was like what the hell?
Speaker 1:is it?
Speaker 3:It's Heim-something.
Speaker 1:What is Heimdall? Yes, I was like Heim, something I was like what the hell is it?
Speaker 2:It's Heim something. What is Heimdall's sword's name? Big sword Oathbreaker? No, oh, couldn't remember.
Speaker 1:I don't know Oathbreaker's from like Game of Thrones, I'm just throwing something out that sounded Norse. Nobody's nothing. I don't remember it's called Ho Fund. Okay.
Speaker 3:Oh, all right All right.
Speaker 1:How many months did Bruce Banner spend in gamma radiation to be intelligent Hulk?
Speaker 2:Six.
Speaker 1:No, I don't know.
Speaker 3:Twelve no Eight, no Three, no Ten, no Nine, no Seven, no Three.
Speaker 2:No Ten.
Speaker 3:No Nine, no Seven, no Eleven, no.
Speaker 2:I don't know.
Speaker 3:One no Two.
Speaker 2:No 24. No.
Speaker 1:Four no 22.
Speaker 3:No 36. No 26.
Speaker 1:All right, one more guess. One more guess apiece. I'll give you a hint it's higher than 15, 17, no, 16, no, it is 18, 18 months. All right, what did thaddeus ross commission a hulk to do which caused him to become the hulk? What did thaddeus ross commission hulk to do which caused him to become the hulk? This is to the mcu, not the comics.
Speaker 3:Go ahead, replicate the super soldiers here.
Speaker 1:You got it, tom. Okay, smart man, all right. Where was Steve Rogers born? Brooklyn Mitch got it. Where was Peter Parker born?
Speaker 3:Queens.
Speaker 2:I just didn't get the question quick enough. I was like dang.
Speaker 1:All right, so the main Earth in the Marvel comics is Earth 616.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, I thought that was going to be the question. What's your answer, mitch?
Speaker 1:What is the Earth for the MCU Tom Earth Prime? No, no.
Speaker 2:One no 212.
Speaker 1:All right, you're not going to get this one. It is Earth 199999.
Speaker 2:Oh wow, yeah, obviously.
Speaker 1:Damn, I don't know. There's a specific number for the Earth.
Speaker 2:I didn't either.
Speaker 1:What was Captain Marvel known as predominantly throughout her movie?
Speaker 2:Carol Danvers no Miss Marvel, no Miss Marvel.
Speaker 1:No, miss Marvel's name in Captain Marvel.
Speaker 2:Well, that was in the comics, she was originally that I haven't seen Captain Marvel.
Speaker 3:Tent Trouble.
Speaker 1:No, I go once.
Speaker 3:Not twice, I don't know Fears.
Speaker 2:Never heard of it.
Speaker 1:It's because her dog tag got blown up and that was the only thing that was recovered was the last half of the dog tag. I've never seen it.
Speaker 3:That's the one Marvel movie I've never seen. I didn't watch that one.
Speaker 1:That costs you guys a question. Who does the voice of Rocket Raccoon?
Speaker 2:Bradley Cooper.
Speaker 1:You got it.
Speaker 2:Faster.
Speaker 1:Mitch 3, Tom 2. What are?
Speaker 3:the four words groot has said in his entire existence tom, I am groot friend.
Speaker 2:No, I am groot and we are grootot.
Speaker 3:Ah, yes, ah, that's right, he goes. We Okay the one time.
Speaker 1:All right, what is?
Speaker 3:Gamora's species. I don't remember, I don't know All right, it's called Zeho Berry. Okay, oh, yeah, damn.
Speaker 1:Yeah, come on, you guys knew this. Oh, I forgot about that. All right, peter Dinklage plays what the Forgemaker? Okay.
Speaker 2:I thought that was like his title, sorry.
Speaker 1:A giant dwarf. What's his name?
Speaker 2:I thought he was Forgemaker or something like that.
Speaker 1:He has a name. I know, but I thought that was like his title, so I don't remember Going once. No, I don't remember Going once. No, I don't remember.
Speaker 3:Going twice. E-tree, okay, no.
Speaker 1:All right, where is the?
Speaker 2:Power Stone located when Thanos acquires it? Mitch, I know the planet, I just can't remember the name. I know it's with the Nova Corps. I don't remember the name of the planet.
Speaker 3:Xandar, you got it.
Speaker 2:As soon as you said it I was like, yeah, that's it. I knew that. I was like I know this, I know it was with the Nova Corps, but I couldn't remember.
Speaker 1:Tom three, mitch four who plays the character Stakar? Who's Stakar?
Speaker 3:Jeff Goldblum.
Speaker 2:Wrong, damn it. Who's Stakar? What does he look like? I don't know. How am I supposed to know?
Speaker 1:If I tell you how he looks like, it'll give you the character, the name I'm giving you. All the name I'll give you, alright.
Speaker 3:What movie.
Speaker 1:He's in.
Speaker 2:Sylvester Stallone you got it, damn it. I thought that too.
Speaker 1:I was like hmm, all right. Who was the butler for the Starks?
Speaker 2:Jarvis.
Speaker 1:Yes, all right. What was Tony's mother's name? Mrs Stark, you're not wrong, but it's not the answer. I name Mrs Stark, you're not wrong, but it's not the answer. I'm looking for Martha, nope, sarah, no, okay, maria, okay, maria, all right. What character did Jeff Bridges play?
Speaker 3:General Ross.
Speaker 2:I know he was the Hulk's dad.
Speaker 3:The Hulk's dad, I know.
Speaker 2:I know.
Speaker 3:I know what Obadiah Stane. You got it.
Speaker 2:Oh wait, no, no, no. Yeah, I was thinking the wrong one. I was thinking of Nick Nolte. Never mind, that's a fun name.
Speaker 1:No, no, no. Yeah, I was thinking the wrong one. I was thinking of Nick Nolte. Never mind, that's a fun name Uber Dice.
Speaker 2:Day. That's right. I was thinking of Nick Nolte. From the first Hulk you sound like a bad guy.
Speaker 1:What is Jon Favreau's character's name? Happy, happy.
Speaker 3:I know Hogan.
Speaker 1:You got it All right. The score is Mitch 6, Tom 5. Which Infinity Stone does Thanos collect on the back of his hand?
Speaker 3:Five the Reality Stone Wrong.
Speaker 2:Soul Stone Wrong. Okay, what stone.
Speaker 3:Wrong the soul stone Wrong.
Speaker 2:Okay, what the mind stone? Yes, yeah, I was like damn it.
Speaker 3:I was like it's the yellow one.
Speaker 2:Since you reset it. I was impressed.
Speaker 3:I was going to. Technically, four of them, or five of them, were on the back of his hand.
Speaker 2:Well, I was thinking. I couldn't remember if it was the. I was picturing a big round. I knew it was yellow, but I couldn't remember if it was the mind or the soul stones. I was like it's got to be the other one, then All right.
Speaker 1:Well, mitch, you have officially won.
Speaker 3:Oh, what is?
Speaker 1:it. I have. Well, he has officially won. There's two questions, including the double or nothing. So if you get this question, it would be Mitch seven, you, six, you know, we'll see what happens. So here we go. The last question what?
Speaker 2:armor mark. Did Tony Stark die in 51?
Speaker 1:Wrong 52?
Speaker 2:31.
Speaker 3:Nope 48. No 48.
Speaker 1:No, I don't know. I'll give you two questions. All right, one question apiece. Just call out a number 28.
Speaker 3:Wrong 64.
Speaker 1:The answer is 85.
Speaker 2:I knew it was up there, but I didn't know it was that far up there.
Speaker 1:That's the Mark Arm armor that Tony died in. So the final score is Mitch 7, Tom 5. Do we want to do a double or nothing?
Speaker 2:No, why would I want to do double or nothing?
Speaker 3:I mean I do.
Speaker 1:I'm sure you do. I tell you what I'm trying to think of a way to make this interesting.
Speaker 2:Well, we can do like we did last time If I get it wrong, I get a punishment. If he gets it wrong, or if I get it right, he gets two punishments.
Speaker 1:I'll do that. It's up to him.
Speaker 3:These are dicey. Okay, what kind of punishments are we talking here? Just your normal movie or TV show or whatever? All right, I'll gamble. Sick of content.
Speaker 1:Who can tell me where each infinity stone is located? Originally in the MCU.
Speaker 2:I can't even do that.
Speaker 3:Time.
Speaker 2:I don't know the names of the planets.
Speaker 3:The Tesseract is what the reality stone.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 3:There's so many stones.
Speaker 1:I tell you what. How about you tell me the movie that each Infinity Stone premiered in?
Speaker 2:Okay, the reality stone was in Thor, the Dark World. Okay, the power stone was in Guardians of the Galaxy 1. Yes, the soul stone was in Infinity War. Yes, the Time Stone was in Doctor Strange yes, what does that leave out? The Mind Stone was in Age of Ultron. Yes, let's see. And then the Space one was in Avengers with Loki. How many is that?
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 3:Well, the last one, the blue one in the Tesseract, that's in Captain America, the first adventure.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's right, Because it's hidden in Norway.
Speaker 1:Yes, right, so All right.
Speaker 3:Well, even still, mitch got five out of six well, he just kept going and I was like I feel rude if I interrupted, I knew something, because I had to guess. All of them, all right we'll just call it nil.
Speaker 1:You just get the one punishment. All right, how about that?
Speaker 3:all right, I'll just take the one and it's answer this scam likely phone call I wouldn't do that so what have you to punish tom with?
Speaker 1:make it a good, it's been a long time since he's been punished. Let's pull it up here. See if you can find like Italian Spider-Man 2.
Speaker 3:More Italian, more spider, more man, more mustache.
Speaker 1:Italian Spider-Man links up with Austrian Wolverine.
Speaker 2:Jeffrey Epstein. Oh, of course we have a commercial. Why wouldn't?
Speaker 3:we, jeffrey Epstein, didn't kill himself.
Speaker 2:Then he was found dead in his jail cell. I've been holding on to this one for a while.
Speaker 1:Home of Indie Tour.
Speaker 3:I'm already not liking this.
Speaker 1:You don't like movies from Wild Eyes.
Speaker 3:Is this the whole movie? Well, it was supposed to be a trailer Mitch, I'm not watching the whole film now.
Speaker 2:Hold on, hold on. Is this a watch party? There we go, it's a 2019 film Wild Eye Productions.
Speaker 1:He's fighting people in white tighties. They're ninjas. That's awesome, damn.
Speaker 2:They followed ninjas, that's awesome Damn.
Speaker 1:Look how serious he is. The Velocity.
Speaker 3:The Velocity.
Speaker 1:How long has it been since your last confession?
Speaker 2:It's been about three years I do drugs.
Speaker 1:Three years Sell drugs, murder people. I like how he has to remember that does he turn into a raptor?
Speaker 3:he does what is this?
Speaker 2:the Velocipastor. Nom nom nom nom, nom nom alright, that's good.
Speaker 1:So it's obviously a gag film, I mean oh yeah, this is right up my alley you're not punishing Tom. You need to find something like Lord of the Rings and then destroy it for him. The Russian cut of Lord of the Rings. All right? Well, I don't know, we got 10 minutes left. Mitch, you want to regale the audience with a song and dance? No, no, no, no. Talk to us on our social media, Please, for the love of God.
Speaker 3:Do something.
Speaker 1:This is what happens when we have to come up with our own content. We all have full-time jobs and then some.
Speaker 2:Full-time jobs, and we've been doing this for a year.
Speaker 3:The tank's running dry Over a year. It's like you guys are supposed to help a little bit. Yeah, not just take and take and take.
Speaker 1:I mean, if you, if you like the the trivia stuff, we could spend more time with the show dedicated to trivia. Unless you know, talk about news and stuff, but you know, people I get from the personal interactions, the face-to-face interactions, that people who listen to the podcast because they don't everybody's too lazy to talk on the internet. They tell me that they like a little bit of everything. So you know, I don't really know what the answer is here.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Just scrolling through the page, it's like, seen by like 2,000 people, one like it's like swine, yeah.
Speaker 1:Just go on the interwebs and communicate, click on stuff, you know. I mean, we've even tried offering gift cards, money, all sorts of stuff what do you want, somebody? Once participated, did the thing to get the gift card and then didn't even give us the address. They just disappeared off the face of the earth.
Speaker 2:Yeah, to give them the gift card. I tried to contact them and they just never responded back.
Speaker 1:I'm like all right, yeah. So I mean.
Speaker 3:I don't understand these people.
Speaker 1:It's strange, you know, I get just half. If it's just a matter of internet points, cool, we'll say that this guy is the coolest guy on the internet.
Speaker 3:You're number one.
Speaker 1:So you're number one. So that way you don't have to give us addresses like Smitty Werberman Jensen, he was number one alright. Well, I guess we'll just wrap it up here. So goodbye from Mitch goodbye, mitch goodbye from Tom goodbye, tom and goodbye from me, hayden goodbye on our hands and knees.
Speaker 2:Can you spare some change? Why?
Speaker 3:can't I subscribe anything carrier pigeon.