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The Wait For It Podcast
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The Wait For It Podcast
What Did I Miss? (April 2025 Bonus Episode)
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The hosts from the Super Bracket Bros Cinematic Universe return to discuss April's most interesting pop culture stories and compete in a lively Kahoot game. They explore scientific breakthroughs, gaming controversies, and exciting new entertainment projects with humor and insight.
• Return of the dire wolf after 10,000 years through gene editing by Colossal Biosciences
• Celebrity-funded de-extinction projects raising ethical concerns about playing with nature
• Nintendo's Switch 2 announcement creating fan whiplash with improved hardware but controversial pricing
• $80-90 Mario Kart pricing exemplifying Nintendo's confidence in their market position
• Ryan Coogler drawing inspiration from Puss in Boots: The Last Wish for his new film Sinners
• Bill Hader developing an HBO series about the Jonestown Massacre
• Dropout TV raising prices modestly while grandfathering existing subscribers at lower rates
• Pop culture news roundup covering Val Kilmer's passing, Predator films, and Minecraft theater chaos
• Eric defends his Kahoot crown!
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Podcast Introduction
Speaker 1Welcome to your go-to source for entertainment. Wait for it Gaming. Wait for it Anime.
Speaker 2PLUS ULTRA.
Speaker 1Mr Eric Almighty and Phil the Filipino. Yeah, they've got you covered, and all you gotta do is wait for it.
Speaker 3This is the Wait For it Podcast. Hey, everyone, welcome back to the Wait For it Podcast. I am your co-host, phil Barrera, aka Phil the Filipino.
Speaker 4I'm your other co-host, mr Eric Almighty, and for this edition of what Did I Miss, we had to fill the second part of the equation. First we did the co-hosts Now the actual hosts of some of our favorite podcasts within the Super Bracket Bros cinematic universe and Phil. This is long overdue. Very excited to get into this one.
Speaker 3Yeah, it was only right that we brought in the other halves of the respective shows that were represented a couple of months back, and it was a whole lot of fun. This episode I expect to be a tight 45 minutes. Nobody has any type of flashy story or anything, no game or anything like that. We're actually just going to exchange stock tips and be on our way. I don't know what do adults do? I don't fucking know what do adults talk about? Apr, I don't know Insurance loans, I don't know. I'm just throwing out the most adult words that I possibly can.
Speaker 1Deductible.
Speaker 3Deductible. Yeah, actually, roth IRA. There we go.
Speaker 5Jay Bank.
Speaker 3Pasta Jonathan, Jonathan, yeah.
Speaker 5Bank.
Speaker 3Bank. All right, cool. Well, maybe we're actually off to an even more chaotic start than we were a couple months ago. We'll see how it goes. But, Eric, again very excited to have our guests, so let's just kind of go in order. We'll see how everybody's doing. Emily, game of Growns, how are you doing here tonight? Good to have you here and thanks for coming back on. What did I miss?
Speaker 2Oh, yeah, of course. Thanks for asking. I know Kate had a really great time and, yeah, it's only a matter of time until you get everyone that doesn't. That normally does all the work together and they don't have to do the work, so this is even better.
Speaker 3You have a lot to live up to. Kate cleaned house in Kahoot a couple months ago.
Speaker 2She is my older sister. I don't know if that counts or not, so you will be defending the Game of Thrones crown.
Speaker 3when it comes to Kahoot, Eric, I just thought of this Eventually, because you have to keep changing the artwork for this episode. All six, all six people as guests, for what Did I Miss? We're going to throw that out there eventually so we'll see how that goes.
Speaker 4Please don't dude. I just like I have like three. I rebranded the what Did I Miss thing on Canva and I was like, well, we never have more than four, so I'm going to go with a four-person layout and then, figure it out from there. Now I have like four different layouts for this episode. You never know when we can't get guests, when we only have one person, when we get two, and then now we have three guests, we cannot do a fourth. I will quit. You never know, I will quit.
Speaker 3I will quit Everybody from the Super Bracket Bros Cinematic Universe, every voice actor from Dear Fred and Okatan. We got groups of people to throw in.
Speaker 4Okay, that's fine, we could do that. It's just going to be live streamed and never promoted. Everybody from.
Speaker 3GAM will figure it out. Andrew, friendly neighborhood gamers, how are you doing here tonight? And thanks again for being here once again on what Did I Miss.
Speaker 1Hey, thanks for having me. I'm doing fantastic. I was just thinking if you had everybody from the Super Bracket Bros cinematic universe, it would be kind of like when you plan a Lord of the Rings marathon with your friends and you have to book out the whole day. That would be that recording session. It would have to be the entire day and by hour three I don't think I would have much humor left in me, or stories I can't even imagine.
Speaker 3Maybe I think each team would have to present a story together. I think that's probably how we would have to do it. So maybe just in a really, really busy month, who knows? Jay Davis, super Ragnarok Bros are the. What are you to the Super R Bracket Bros Cinematic Universe? Are you the Tony Stark or are you the Cap? Who is Jay in the Super Bracket Bros Cinematic Universe? Who do you play?
Speaker 5Wow, this is quite the question to start off with.
Speaker 3Also, how are you doing all that shit? Oh yeah, all that bullshit, yeah.
Speaker 5I guess I'm fine. I guess you know, being invited two months after my co-host, I'm not offended at all, by the way, of course. Um, I guess I mean probably nick fury, I like. I mean I like the okay sewing together of our shows, you know, in weird and in interesting ways, and then like conniving and fooling you all into working together. You know I love that.
Speaker 4So that is surprisingly accurate, well, if you kind of think about it.
Speaker 3So jay, jay is like who first between andrew and jay who reached out?
Speaker 4no, well, here's the thing. Jay is so important to the whole universe, but he also disappears for a long period of time and nobody can find him, so it's like perfect it really does work out.
Speaker 5Yeah, no, and and another history lesson. This, I'm sure has been stated many times on various podcasts, but I was the one that saw Andrew's nerdy video game t-shirts from across the room back in pod fest 2020 he can see over everybody else Exactly. He had the vantage point. So I made the first call out for my first superhero there, so I guess Andrew is Robert Downey Jr, you're?
Speaker 3right.
Speaker 1Alright, dr Doom.
Speaker 5How far?
Speaker 3we've come, that's why you didn't see me actually is because I was way too low to the ground and you were just looking straight ahead and I probably walked right underneath you and didn't notice. You know how, in the lost world where the motorcycles are driving through the dreadnoughts, like that was from. Yeah, exactly yeah.
Speaker 5Yeah, we need to go back, find the security footage, and then there's just going to be Phil riding a motorcycle Through this hotel in Orlando, florida.
Speaker 3Oh, there he was. That's crazy. So anyway, I'm very happy to have everybody here. For anyone that's listening to this episode for the first time, what did I miss is a very, very casual just hang out with our friends and we talk about any pop culture stories that you may have missed from the previous month. Full caveat we are recording this on the 24th, so there is a possibility that something comes out and something happens within the next few days, because this episode will release on Monday, the 28th. So who knows? Like I told our guest last time this happened where we recorded a little bit earlier Robert Downey Jr surprised everybody at San Diego Comic-Con. So maybe this is a way for us to manifest something really cool and if that happens, you're welcome. Well, I mean the Robert Downey Jr.
Speaker 1I was going to say are you saying that Robert Downey Jr was really cool?
Speaker 3Some people were excited. Let that Robert Downey.
Speaker 1Jr was really cool. That is it. Some people were excited. Let's revisit that. It's current news. Let's talk about that.
Speaker 3Yeah, actually, let's just rewind a couple months and talk about that. But this is also for the first part of the episode. For the audio-only listeners, that's totally fine. We do play a game at the end and it is suggested you watch over on our YouTube page if you'd like to follow along. But again, totally up to you. I will do my best to visualize the questions. But, eric, anything we need to go over with our guests before the most important part of the episode that everyone was super excited about and did not want to change minutes before we started recording.
Speaker 4Now here's the question. Now here's the question. If we did a, like a die, how would that work?
Speaker 3because I mean, I am open to the idea open to changing things, but not don't tell me to do it right before the episode begins.
Speaker 1I mean, I could die just be like a d10 with a d10, two people per side.
Speaker 3I don't know what that means I got my ass kicked in GURPS, so I do. You know what a dice is? No, whenever I see a dice table.
Speaker 2That means I got my ass kicked in GURPS, so I have no idea what that means. Do you know what a dice is?
Speaker 3No, Whenever I see a dice table at a convention, I walk right on by A D10, what?
Speaker 4and everybody gets assigned a number.
Speaker 3No.
Speaker 4Everybody gets assigned two numbers, right, is that?
Speaker 3how that works. Yes, did I do math.
Speaker 4All right, Phil, I'm going to take over from here.
Speaker 3Okay, cool, yeah, I got this.
Speaker 4I got this Okay cool. So the wheel is what we normally do. You got a little glimpse of it, but if we could find the three people who hate the wheel the most, they would be on this episode, and because of that I think it'd be kind of funny.
Speaker 3Yeah, I mean, it's a Google wheel, like it's not anything special, it's right here. Okay, so how do you assign numbers to somebody? Is that how?
Speaker 4this is gonna work out right here. Yeah, yeah, so uh took teratoma.
Speaker 3By the way, I'm totally distracted by the nfl draft. Right now. We're also recording the nfl draft, so I will give our audience updates. That'll be four days please don't.
Speaker 2Why are we here?
Speaker 3this episode comes out no, please don't, okay.
Choosing Chaos: Ditching The Wheel
Speaker 4Well, this is the best I can do. Yeah, this will work. So for this we are going to use the die and I'll just go based off of what I see on my screen, because it's already randomized. So Emily is going to be one and two.
Speaker 1Wasn't a ten, a one and a zero.
Speaker 4Is there a zero in here?
Speaker 1No, hello.
Speaker 4Do we need a?
Speaker 1ten-sided dice or an eight-sided dice.
Speaker 3No, it's a ten-sided die there's five people, so shouldn't it be ten?
Speaker 5Yes.
Speaker 3Eric had eight up, so he was going to not include himself.
Speaker 2No I had ten up. It's eight on the die.
Speaker 5Phil, leave the dice to the professionals please, that's true, thank you.
Speaker 4Okay, so Emily is one and two. I will be 3 and 4. Phil will be 5 and 6. Andrew will be 7 and 8. Jay will be 9 and 10. Okay, and then we'll reduce the die as we go forward. So then, the next time when someone's already gone, we'll go to the 8, then we'll go to the 6, we go forward. The next time when someone's already gone, we'll go to the eight, then we'll go to the six, the four. I can do math Rolling. We're going to figure this out.
Speaker 1The wheel might be simpler. It might be but you guys asked for this.
Speaker 4How are we doing this now? Are we going to do a drum roll?
Speaker 3Oh yeah, what the hell is this? Oh, I've got one. Hold on Ready.
Speaker 4Here we go. Yeah, let's three, two, one Roll. That die. I love that. I don't like that, okay.
Speaker 5What would you?
Speaker 4guys prefer the drum roll.
Speaker 2I don't want to do a drum roll.
Speaker 5No, I can Roll that die.
Speaker 1Roll that die.
Speaker 4I love that. Okay, that's what we're going to do.
Speaker 5We're going to do the drum roll. Drum roll into roll that die.
Speaker 1Roll that die. Are you guys ready? This is the Patreon part. Right? This is the pre-show. Nope.
Speaker 4We're here. I pulled up the soundboard that we haven't used since the end of year awards. That was in December.
Speaker 3Yeah, will. Awards that was in December. Will you just actually play somebody's end of year awards submission?
Speaker 4I could do that. Would you guys like to hear about Andrew's artist of the year?
Speaker 1The second category that I would like to hear about would be artist of the year.
Speaker 3Okay, I only clear it out at the end of the year. We only use it for that episode, alright I love it.
Speaker 4Let's the end of the year. We only use it for that episode. All right, I love it. Let's change up the formula completely. When you hear the drum roll end, we're going to say roll that, die. Are you guys ready?
Speaker 5Yes.
Speaker 4All right Ready.
Speaker 2Roll that die.
Speaker 4Is it rolling? I clicked it off.
Speaker 5Nine, that's me well, I just want to say thank you to everyone who believed in me for leading this revolution of defeating the wheel, and it's been an honor. I'm so, so happy. Um, now onto my first story. Uh, you guys, probably this is like not a very well-known story, but you might have heard that the vice president of the united States assassinated the Pope this month.
Speaker 3This was fact-checked. Why are you doing this? I think it's.
Speaker 1Where are you going with this? The people need to know. Hey Grok, did that happen?
Speaker 5No, I actually wasn't going to make the joke, but then I was on such a high from having one that died first. So, no, my real story is actually probably something that no one has heard of besides maybe Emily. Actually, I think Emily probably is aware of this, but I'm a recent subscriber to a new kid on the. It's been around for a few years now but it's new to me.
Speaker 5Dropout TV is a fantastic streaming service. It's sort of this amalgamation of comedians that come together, do various shows. It's sort of like a. If you have no frame of reference, you've never heard of Dropout TV. Think about like whose line is it anyway? But like times a hundred. You know they have a ton of different shows, a ton of different styles in which they compete. Compete against each other competes a very strong word for dropout tv um, but it's a wonderful streaming service, um, that is led by awesome people. The number one person is sam reich, who has kind of become this person that I really admire for how he does business and how he talks about things and how he leads his company.
Speaker 5But specifically this month they fell victim to something that a lot of streaming services have fallen victim to recently and that's having to increase their prices, but they went from an astounding $5.99 to $6.99. And I just want to give them a shout out for being an incredibly affordable streaming service and in a time where they're creating something that's worth, in my opinion, much more than $6.99 a month. They haven't raised their prices for several years this is, you know, since 2022, I think this and I mean with how much the cost of everything has gone up. It's pretty amazing that they've held off for as long as they have, and so this was amongst all of the things that I could have picked this month.
Speaker 5That didn't feel good. The politics of the world are sort of bearing down on my head, especially as it invades entertainment with tariffs and things like that. You have board game companies closing, but Dropout TV is true. It's so much fun, I love it so much and I just want as many people to support as I can. So I wanted to use this platform to shout them out, but unfortunately, they did have to increase their prices, but I mean in the least price gouging way possible. You know, very honest, very transparent through the whole process. So that's my story of the month.
Speaker 2In addition to that, they actually only raised it for new subscribers. Yes, Everyone who was previously subscribed, stays at the $5.99. And it was like a cutoff point until and so they were telling people hey, if you want to not get the higher price, sign up right now, You'll be an old subscriber and it won't increase.
Speaker 5Yeah, no, just all around super consumer friendly, and thanks for that. That totally escaped my brain. So Dropout TV made a little bit of news this month and that was what I wanted to bring to the table.
Speaker 3Hell yeah, I love that. I have not checked out personally Dropout TV, but I have seen, of course, game Changer over on social media and Smarty Pants which is like, because I love PowerPoint parties, like this was made for me, so I very much love that. But yeah, sam, I see a lot of clips as well, of just kind of like behind the scenes stuff of how he operates that show.
Speaker 3And it's just like you can tell so much love and care goes into it. And when you're talking about improv, specifically to give all of those people a um, a platform is awesome and when I know like improv is is kind of look in terms of like in the comedy world sometimes can be kind of looked as like the redheaded stepchild, but like it is so much fun when it's done correctly and when it's done with the right people. So really really love this and y'all have to look into this.
Speaker 1Andrew, what was your knowledge, if any, about Dropout? I just learned that they raise their price if you're a new subscriber.
Speaker 3I've never heard of this before at all, so I one of the people that jay is trying to spread the word to, we'll have to find some good clips and send them your way, because they are, uh, especially a game changer when it's on like it is so good. So, uh, eric, what about you? I know I've definitely sent you Game Changer clips, for sure.
Speaker 4No, game Changer clips are always on my TikTok for sure. So I did not know that this was a thing, like I didn't know it was a subscription service, and I mean at that price, I mean that's not a lot in the grand scheme of things, when you consider Netflix and how much they increase all the time. I love the incentive for existing subscribers. I think that is really really smart. I think more companies should do that, like reward the people that are sticking around and not punishing them. You're going to make enough money with the price increase on your new subscribers. Don't lose your existing base, and I think for what I'm imagining dropout is, in the grand scheme of things, they probably can't afford to lose a whole bunch of existing subscribers to jack their prices up, and a dollar is not really jacking it up, but the way that people feel these days, you know that could really be looked at that way. So I think, out of anything, I just really appreciate that approach because we don't see that almost anywhere else.
Dropout TV: Affordable Entertainment
Speaker 3Also, Brennan is the other one I see on my real life. Eric, all of the Batman episodes are on here.
Speaker 4Okay, well, we might have to. It was everyone from College. Humor, basically.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 3I was just going to say is there a lot of college humor stuff?
Speaker 4okay, yes, absolutely yeah, I think, like again, it's going to start coming down to pricing when it comes to what streaming services you want to keep. So if people are looking for content at a decent price, this is a great place to be. I mean, phil, what is Apple Plus at? Isn't it like $10?
Speaker 3It's definitely gone up. It used to be one of the best priced, but it is no longer that.
Speaker 4Yeah, it's definitely not one of the best, but it's still pretty decent Compared to what I pay for Netflix and never use it.
Speaker 3It's still pretty good, but I think I might pay. I'm getting up there what I pay for Netflix and never use it. It's still pretty good, but I think I I might pay. Yeah, I'm getting up there with Apple TV. It's probably close to probably 15, $20 now, so, and it wasn't that when it started out.
Speaker 4So I could have sworn it was 10, but yeah, no, I mean again. I just wonder what it's going to be in the grand scheme of things, as far as versus the price and when you've got a company like Netflix. Netflix is the big criminal here in my opinion, but Apple has always been the one that stood out to me. Out of all of them. That has been, at least for the quality that you get been the best priced.
Speaker 3Emily, what other? Do you have any other suggestions other than the ones that people have probably seen on social media like Game Changer and Smarty Pants? Any of these other ones that you suggest people check out? Media like Game Changer and?
Speaker 2Smarty Pants, any of these other ones that you suggest people check out. Not really for you, mr I-don't-know-what-a-dice-is, but they have Dimension 20, which has, I would say, revolutionized live, play D&D, and they have probably at least 20 campaigns out there, all of different genres and characters and improvisational artists and everything that. And Brendan Lee Gulligan, along with other GMs, is a great storyteller. So, excuse me. So there's that, gosh. Another one they just did one about food called Gastronauts. About food called Gastronauts, and it's where they take professional chefs and three comedians give them insane tasks like make me a thing that, oh Brennan's was like make me the biggest meal ever, like just like the biggest thing you can make. That tasted good. Or one of them was like I want to eat it like out of a cone or something. It's just like. And these chefs have to do it. You know, because they're in this competition, and then you know, at the end there's a winner.
Speaker 5Yeah, what finally broke the straw, that broke the camel's back for me was seeing the clips of the recent season of Game Changer and seeing the one year later episode that Jacob Wysocki and Vic and Lou had to do. They were given tasks that they had to complete over the course of an entire year and come back and present the results in an entirely different episode to just incredible results. It was overwhelming. Instagram, youtube shorts everywhere I get bits of my reels and TikTok adjacent things, um, and so I I had to. I was like I've seen most of the episode. At this point, um, I just need to support these people and and yeah, it's wonderful, it's wonderful.
Speaker 3Yeah, and the good part of social media too. As someone you know who, who did stand up for a long time, uh, just to be able to put people really, really talented, really funny people out in front in a streaming service is awesome. So I see a lot of these people. I'll see them on Game Changer and then I'll see their stand up clip later and then that's a gateway to get somebody into their show wherever they tour. So, because comics are constantly touring. So if you see somebody on there that you think is funny, chances are, uh, they've got some other channel, they've got a youtube channel, they've got something. They do stand up. So look them up and you know you might be able to see them, uh, in person for sure. So, yeah, I love that story, jay. What great, great way to start. Uh, start out. What did I miss, eric? You want to bring back in this chaos you've created?
Speaker 4I did not create it. I did not create it, so now you say it like we don't already have a plan. Oh God, we already have a plan. What happens now?
Speaker 4No so we use a 10-sided die because we had five people. Now we have four people. So we're going to use the eight-sided die and we are just going to keep the numbers. We're just gonna keep the numbers a hundred percent. Emily's one, two, I'm three, four, you're five, six and you're seven, eight. All right, drum roll and then roll that die, let's go. I already forgot about the drum.
Speaker 5you don't have to do the drum roll, I have to.
Speaker 4Roll that Die. Look at that. All right Throwing the eight out there. Four. That's me, yep Me, no, you have to say it confidently.
Speaker 5Don't show weakness in front of Phil.
Speaker 4That's right, All right guys. So it's actually funny. This was a story I was considering bringing up because I think it's both extremely intriguing and also ridiculous, and the fact that we have Emily here is perfect from Game of Thrones Because, if you didn't know, Time magazine had announced the return of the dire wolf. I did not know, number one, that a dire wolf was even real, so I was very confused. But upon reading the Time article, this is in fact true.
Speaker 4Romulus and Remus are doing what puppies do chasing, tussling, nipping, nuzzling but there's something very un-puppy-like about the snowy, white six-month-olds their size, for starters, they're already measuring about four feet long, tipping the scales at 80 pounds, and they can grow up to six feet and 150 pounds. With these two particular dire wolves they had roamed an American range that extended as far south as Venezuela and as north as Canada, but they've been pretty much extinct for the last 10,000 years. So they've been brought back, and this is all in an effort from a company called Colossal Biosciences that is essentially trying to de-extinct certain animals while also preventing the extinction of animals today. So some of the animals that they're considering bringing back on their wishlist is a woolly mammoth and the dodo bird, also a Tasmanian tiger. So these are all things that are now apparently within reach, with this dire wolf being brought back. And again, I think it's interesting because the whole point that they're doing this for the one of the reasons that they're saying they're doing this is they can also, in their research, prevent the extinction of animals that are near extinction today.
Speaker 4That sounds great, but all I can think of is Jurassic Park, right, Like it feels like we're getting closer to a reality where that movie is not so much fictional. And I'm very curious because we've got a big Jurassic Park fan. The dire wolf itself with Emily and then just all of us in general I think would bring an interesting perspective to this because for real this is like a really cool and awesome achievement for like mankind, but also maybe the start of our extinction. So I'm just curious. You know, just to switch gears, what we're thinking. Phil, I will throw it to you first as the resident Jurassic Park fan.
Speaker 3Yeah, well, we also have Jay here as well, so both of us can very confidently speak about this topic. No, it is very cool, although I will say, as far as, like the woolly mammoth I watched that woolly mammoth documentary in middle school that they were trying to clone the one they found in ice years ago and that never happened. So the fact that this did happen is cool, and I didn't even think about the idea of it helping preserve animals that are on the verge of extinction now. So, yeah, it is really neat. You know you do risk, you know, running down a slippery slope. As much as I would love for it to happen, no, dinosaurs are not coming back, unfortunately. As much as I would love for it to happen. No, dinosaurs are not coming back, unfortunately.
Speaker 3But stuff like this the dodo, tasmanian tiger, stuff like that, you know, animals like that we could maybe see, like, if this continues to, you know, evolve as far as the science and the technology, I think it'd be really, really cool. I'm just anxious to see how large these wolves can get once they are fully grown and what happens next. So the science behind it is really, really cool. But yeah, you know it does. I think some people think it does open up like kind of a morality thing, but also like a lot of these things are gone because we suck. So I think it's really cool and I'd go to like some kind of these things are gone because we suck, so I think it's really cool and I'd go to. I'd go to like some kind of zoo with just extinct animals. That'd be great yeah.
Speaker 4And Emily, what about you? How are your feelings? You got very excited when I brought up the story, so you must've heard of it.
Speaker 2You stole my story.
Speaker 4Oh no, oh sorry. I should have also known that you would have the dire wolf story.
The Return of Dire Wolves
Speaker 2Oh my, God, this is your chance. No, it's fine. I will add on to this because I read the Hollywood Reporter article about it and it was very in-depth and it taught me a lot that I did not know. Number one the picture on the Iron Throne. Did you guys?
Speaker 3know, peter Jackson purchased the Iron.
Speaker 2Throne that they used in Game of Thrones. That's insane to me. I didn't know that, but it tracks. I was just going to say that makes sense. It does. But I was just like, wait, they're not still using it. He just took it. Okay, they're still making shit. He loans it out to them now.
Speaker 2He might. Who can say but yeah, this whole, and it goes really into the company of Colossal Biosciences, which is run by a tech entrepreneur and a Harvard geneticist, but their funding is the Hemsworth brothers, paris Hilton, seth Green, joe Manganiello Like these are celebrity funders, in addition to other people. It's only it's only a four-year-old company and it's just getting really like, the more that I read about it, it just feels really like a PR stunt, cause they there's a quote from one of the guys that says Colossal is the perfect fusion of art, science and magic, and I'm like like what the fuck are you on that? Like I'm sorry, this is bullshit. I I was really excited when I first heard about it, um, but now I'm really kind of concerned, um, and also as far as like the other animals, they said they didn't clone it. They mapped the genome from a really old tooth and skull and so it's the most significant gene editing, but it's not a true clone.
Speaker 2So some people are like are these just designer wolves? It says. In addition, they also cloned two litters of red wolves which are close to being extinct. But yeah, I don't know. And their whole thing is this is new money in conservation. That wasn't. You know, that wasn't put out before, because all these celebrities are a part of it. But also, like it also said that they're like open, sourcing their technology so other people could use it. So I'm just, I'm really, I'm really more concerned. I was really excited about wolf puppies, but now I'm just like maybe this is really bad and we should not be doing this right now. So, yeah, I'm kind of torn, I yeah.
Speaker 4I don't I don't like the open sourcing. I don't want to be able to type in a chat. Gpt, how can I recreate X animal?
Speaker 3yeah, a J Jen didn't want to share its technology. That's the whole reason. Like bio sin was like. That's not great.
Speaker 5No, not great at all no.
Speaker 4Yeah, it's a. It's tough. I do now feel bad, Emily, that I stole your story. Do you have a backup?
Speaker 2I do.
Speaker 4Okay, I'm really glad that everyone came prepared. But yeah, that I do. Okay, I'm really glad that everyone came prepared, but yeah, that was my and Emily's story, phil.
Speaker 1Andrew, which animal do you want to see brought back from extinction? I mean, if they went extinct, then I guess that was just where they were supposed to go. It is what it is. Everybody. It is what it is. Yeah, everybody's worried that like uh ai is gonna take us into the like terminator future, but we're all excited about going into the jurassic park future. Like I don't, I don't know this I'd much rather die via t-rex than than a robot than robot yeah, I mean yeah, next it'll be umbrella corp.
Speaker 1we'll see which one like rises to the top first. I mean like eric, when I first read the headline I thought it was interesting and cool, but then I didn't go as deep as emily did with, like, her research, but it was still kind of that. There was just that underlying feeling of is this good like? And then when you started mentioning like celebrity funded and stuff like that, it was like, uh, I don't know about this. I mean, should we be? I mean Dr Frankenstein creating life Like none of these stories end well, so one of those Hemsworth brothers definitely has a dire wolf at home right now.
Speaker 3Right, it's definitely Chris.
Speaker 2It's it they joined for the Tasmanian tiger. Ah, that makes sense. They want that one, they're Australian.
Speaker 5Obviously yes.
Speaker 4Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3Interesting.
Speaker 4Yeah, I mean I'd spend that type of money.
Speaker 1I'd spend that type of money.
Speaker 5I don't know, what do you want?
Speaker 4It'd have to be something really cool, though I'm sure there's a really cool extinct animal that would come to mind.
Speaker 1Eric's like chat GPT really cool. Extinct animal.
Speaker 4Yeah, really Cool. I believe the last time we talked we did confirm it does kill an animal when I chat GPT.
Speaker 1So that's unfortunate. Yeah, so one life for another Chat, gpt.
Speaker 3Why don't you just Google it and someone will have a list?
Speaker 4No, I was Googling. Google just brings up the.
Speaker 1AI results anyway, that's true, woolly.
Speaker 4Mammoth Dodo Yatai. Listen the first three on this list of top 25 most interesting are.
Speaker 3Woolly.
Speaker 4Mammoth Dodo. Tasmanian Tiger Megalodon.
Speaker 3Yeah, Megalodon will be dope.
Speaker 4It's a.
Speaker 1Megalodon.
Speaker 4Sabertooth is seven. Oh, I don't like this one All right, let's scrap this episode.
Speaker 3Let's tier list extinct animals actually.
Speaker 4No, yeah, I don't think I care this much about animals. Let's bring back like.
Speaker 5No, what was that? Say that again.
Speaker 4There's like a really big tortoise here. No, no, no.
Speaker 5What was that sentence? You said I don't really care about animals. Is that what you said?
Speaker 4Yes, I might have said that, okay, I just want to confirm this is recording right.
Speaker 5It is what it is, Pete is going to show up at Bold Mastery now.
Speaker 3Thanks a lot.
Speaker 4It is what it is. I Thanks a lot. It is what it is. I'm sorry, anyway, dice Dice time.
Speaker 3Which extinct animal could roll dice the best?
Speaker 4Let's move on. We are now going to move over to the six-sided die.
Speaker 3What's my number now? Okay, chill.
Speaker 4Emily's one and two, you are now three and four what? And Andrew will be five and six. So let's get ready.
Speaker 1That was the wrong drum. It was the right drum for the time, oh, okay.
Speaker 4Now it will be. Hold on, we don't have enough laughing. There we go.
Speaker 3We'll get more podcasts to record in front of a live studio.
Speaker 1So how many people listened to these episodes just out of curiosity?
Speaker 4They stopped right about now We've got a drumroll. Remember we were going to just do the wheel as a reminder to the audience.
Speaker 1Yeah, Eric is punishing Jay right now.
Speaker 4All three of you.
Speaker 1I love it.
Speaker 2You all asked for the wheel to be gone.
Speaker 4I just voted. That's true. Alright, drumroll, guys Roll. Did you guys forget step five?
Speaker 1it's andrew oh man, I guess I should look up a story real quick probably you also took my dire wolf story oh, I hope you guys have backups.
Speaker 4I really didn't think anybody was going to pick that one.
Speaker 1So I come from the gaming world, so most of mine are gaming related, and the biggest news story of this month was obviously the last of us getting released again Another version specifically for Phil. He's one of the only people that's probably going to buy it, so we have to we definitely have to bring that up, but no, that that's not my main story I have. I honestly thought we would talk about the switch to before it got to me, so I don't know if I want to use that story, but we got all the switch to information this month, so I suppose that would be a good story to talk about. They announced the release date for it. They announced the price. They announced that Mario Kart was going to be $80 or $90 if you want a physical version. They announced that certain games would be getting updated versions on the new Switch, like the Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom are both getting updated versions, which you get for free if you pay for their online service. But then other games like Kirby and the Forgotten Lands are getting additional content and stuff, and Mario Party Jamboree is getting a whole bunch of new minigames that work with the mouse functionality and the, the joy cons and stuff like that, and so those are going to cost more money. So it was a really interesting kind of whiplash effect, I feel like across the gaming community, because we've been waiting for the switch to to be officially announced for six years I feel like I've been hearing rumors about it since 2019 at least and then they did like the switch oled, and then they did, or they did the like switch light, then they did the switch oled, and then so we're finally getting the official announcement.
Speaker 1It looks cool. It's bigger. The joy cons seem like they're going to be a little bit nicer. They connect in a really cool way like tech. Technologically the device looks cool, looks like a nice upgrade. I mean it the screen is not led or it's not oled, but it's really nice and it it runs at uh, like 60 frames, it's 1080p like. Overall just seems like a really nice piece of hardware. Then they start announcing the games and the things that are going to be like updated for the new version. Then they announce the like tech demo that is going to cost money and then the information directly from nintendo in their presentation ends and we start to like get this trickle of all of the stuff coming after it about the price of games, the fact that some games are just going to be digital codes on the card, like all of the kind of bad news came in after the direct itself had ended and so it was like this really weird whiplash effect to watch in real time of like peak excitement turned into kind of like peak outrage within an afternoon.
Speaker 1And I'm still torn about the switch too, like I didn't today, I think. Today pre-orders in america went live. I didn't try to fight for one. I don't know that I'll get one day one. I feel like the console itself is priced pretty fairly for what it is, but it's the stuff around it that is a little bit more egregious. Um, but they also announced a new from software game that's exclusive to this console. So that makes me more torn. Like I kind of have to get this console, but then it's not like a true From Software game, it's like a multiplayer extraction kind of game. So do I really need to? So it was really just.
Speaker 1It's a big story that could probably be broken out into like multiple little stories, but it's definitely something in the gaming world. It was probably the biggest thing that happened this month. I mean, like Phil said, we'll probably get some massive earth shattering news once we stop recording. But at the time of recording the switch to official announcement I mean it's coming this year all that kind of stuff was a big deal. And then there was just a lot of discussion around the decisions that nintendo made, because they they came out and they said that they're going to charge that extreme like price hike for mario kart, which everybody knows. Like if you buy a nintendo console you have to buy the mario kart to go with it. It's like it has like the number one attach rate to any of their consoles, especially the Switch. But then they've also come out and said like well, some other games aren't going to be that price. Like we're going to try to, we're going to evaluate this on a game by game basis.
Speaker 1But Nintendo is notorious for never letting their games go on sale. So it's just this whole big like a lot of people have brought up. You know the state of politics and tariffs and all that stuff right now. But at the end of the day I'm pretty sure if the world was as calm as could be, nintendo would still be doing this because they know they can get away with it. They're the company that released three of their most popular Mario games in a collection for like a three month period and then pulled them from shelves. So I don't think you can blame this on the state of the world.
Switch 2 Announcement Controversy
Speaker 1I think this is 100% Nintendo doing Nintendo things because they know they can get away with it and they know that they're like they're not only their die-hard fan base but also just the kind of niche community like slice of gaming that they serve. They're like kids and families and not so hardcore gamers. Like they're gonna kind of do it either way. But I'm curious to see how, like if this has any sort of negative effect on them as a company and if it trickles out into the rest of the industry, like if we start seeing ubisoft try to put 90 price tags on their base games and then like nobody's gonna buy those games at launch because they go on sale in six months anyways. So it's just a really interesting like it's been an interesting couple of years in gaming anyways with prices and live service and just it feels like we're very much in a transition period where the gaming industry is trying to like restructure and figure itself out post-covid and now nintendo has just kind of thrown another wrench into all of that, and so that that is the the news story.
Speaker 1Like I pulled the ign article but like I haven't even looked at it. This is just all kind of my own personal thoughts and things that I've been thinking about since they've, since this happened, which was, I don't know, pretty early in in april at this point it's been a few weeks, so I'm curious to hear what you guys think about all this. Like, obviously, my co-host and I we've talked about this on our show, because that's what we talk about, but I haven't talked with any of you about it, so yeah, let's throw it over to jay first.
Speaker 3Jay, what do you think, um, in terms of what's going on with the switch 2? Did you have any uh desire to try and snag one here today, or are you keen to wait? And yeah, and also, what do you think about? You know some of the other stuff that andrew mentioned there too yeah.
Speaker 5So this is like this is episode worthy topic, which why you did an episode on it. So like there's a ton to like digest here. Um, also, with my personal investment, which is absolutely none, um, I lightly considered it. Um, but that might. But my current switch works fine. My current switch fills the role of a slay the spire machine, um, just fine.
Speaker 5Um, like I, I like, and I played tears of the kingdom on it and like that. It still worked great and I haven't finished it yet. So, like I, I have nintendo things to like go back to when I crave them, and I have a handheld device that works really well. Currently, um, one of the joy cons doesn't work the best, so, but anyways, moving on from that, moving on to the, the switch to, I do agree with Andrew that I do think that this is just Nintendo doing Nintendo things. If anything, like the fact that it's not more money is proof of how resistant nintendo is to the rest of the world. You know, because, like the playstation shit, I don't think sony could do the same thing nintendo is doing right now with a new playstation right you say that, but what did they charge for the ps4 or the ps5 pro?
Speaker 1like I don't know that anybody bought it, but it was ridiculous no, well, that's what that's.
Speaker 5What I'm saying is that if the World Affairs were happening and they were announcing the PS6 and it was going to be $500, it would be $700 because of how the world is today. That's what I'm getting at. I think Nintendo's in a unique position to be able to withstand this. They've been a company for 100 years now for an extraordinarily long amount of time pre-video games and so they can do whatever they want. They can test the market however they see fit.
Speaker 5I don't like it. I'm not a fan. I would love to play the new Mario Kart game, but chances are I'm never going to on my own Switch. You know like I will go and like if somebody else happens to own it, or maybe, you know, in five years, like the, I can rent it from the library. That is my only opportunity to play this game realistically. So it's just not a priority for me. Like there's a ton of other things that I'm going be like that I'm gonna spend my money on first, and you know it, it sucks, but I mean, it's it's. I can blame nintendo because they're being like power, hungry, money, grubby company. Um, you know, I know like they have to make a profit. But but by God, they've made so much goddamn money already. You really, this is what you're doing, so it makes me upset when I think about it, but I don't think about it because I'm not going to buy it. So that's where I'm at.
Speaker 3Yeah, same here. I don't have any invested interest in the Switch. I sold my Switch like a year ago because it was just collecting dust and I also I did have Mario Kart, but I don't know when I bought it. I think again it just kind of sprouts out of somewhere or Amazon orders it on its own and then it shows up at your doorstep and you still have to pay for it. So, because I definitely didn't play Mario Kart for my Switch.
Speaker 3So the only things that could that would interest me in getting a Switch 2 are if the new Pokemon game is good and a new Animal Crossing, and neither one of those things are a given. I mean, animal Crossing is why I got the Switch Lite and then when I got the regular Switch, I really didn't play it too much and honestly, with being more invested in PC gaming than ever, I'd much rather get a Steam Deck. If I were going to get a handheld, I would just pay maybe $100 more for an OLED Steam Deck as opposed to getting a Switch. So yeah, I echo everything you guys just said. No matter what would be going on in the world, nintendo would be doing this. It's even more evidence that GTA 6 is probably going to be $100, and Ubisoft is going to try and do this with some sort of game Watch Dogs 4, far Cry 9, I don't even know what they're on. It's going to be like some kind of ultimate edition. They're going to put all the Watch Dogs games together for $150 or some nonsense like that. It's going to be ridiculous.
Speaker 3So, eric, I know you guys have a Switch and you're a little bit newer to Switch ownership, but it's more so with your son, and I don't think you really ever touch that thing. So, switch, I will say our buddy Jay, my co-host over at Touchdown Jaguars, he got one. He got a pre-order in pretty easily too, so he got one, but he is very much a Nintendo gamer. So, yeah, how are you feeling about all this? And is a Switch 2 in play in your house? You know, it seems like your son is pretty content on the PS4 right now.
Speaker 4So you know, don't think you need switch 2. No, and I just moved, uh, I just moved my xbox into his room, the series s that I don't play, because now I play game pass on my pc. It very which we'll talk about the craziness of game pass in general uh, and didn't make the cut, but this month has they've been on fire and I think it's just more of a reason to not want the switch. To be completely honest, we have a switch light but he barely plays it. He just does not play. He'd prefer his tablet, uh, as far as doing something like, just like right there on the couch or something.
Speaker 4But yeah, he's been getting into a lot of different things, uh, right now, uh, which has been really cool to see. And I think the switch I don't know it just it just doesn't have the appeal for me and my family right now, and specifically just for me. I don't know, I just haven't had that appeal in a while. It seems like the most fun with other people and I'm just never in that situation like in person with other people. If I'm gonna be playing with people, I'd rather play repo or have some fun on rivals the once every three months that we get on.
Speaker 1You know stuff like that hey, that's, we're still playing.
Speaker 4Some of us are still playing I saw you on earlier today I was like oh he's he's just putting in some rivals time, uh. So yeah, no, I mean, again, I'd rather, I'd much rather do that with friends than try to play anything on the switch, and that's just because, again, some people might have that, that, that comfortability with the platform and the content. I was never a big Pokemon guy. I liked Pokemon, you know. But you know, after about Gen three, it's like OK, how many more are we going to get Right? Like it just feels like it's more of the same and I just, I don't know, it just wasn't that good that I had to keep up with it. But if it's been something you kept up with, like I get it.
Speaker 4They've got games coming down the pipeline. The donkey kong game looks really, really good, like as far as mechanics, seems like it's astro bot ish, in the sense that I think it's going to be better than what people would probably expect because it might have some like fun gameplay that is just really addicting and that people aren't necessarily. Maybe they're taking it for granted, but other than that, like everything else is pretty standard from the Nintendo front for me, and it just felt I guess that just feels boring Maybe that's the wrong word, but yeah, it felt bored with the announcements.
Speaker 1Well, the thing about Nintendo games is like, yeah, you can't really get them anywhere. Like Astro Bot is probably one of the biggest competitors we've seen recently as far. Just like whimsical fun, like that childlike wonder of playing a game. Usually, to get that it's like you have to play a Mario game or some sort of Nintendo franchise Like that Donkey Kong get that. It's like you have to play a mario game or you know some sort of nintendo franchise like that donkey kong game looks awesome. And as soon as they announce a new mainline zelda game I will be buying the switch too. Like there's this, because I can't. I mean, I guess I could play that somewhere else if I wanted to. There are ways, but there's really nowhere else to play these games other than and that's why they get away with what they're doing they know that everybody wants to play the new mario kart, so we can just charge whatever we want for it yeah, I'd agree.
Speaker 4I'd agree with the the price thing as well, that, uh, that both you and jay had said like it's nintendo being nintendo, but I mean they put themselves in a position to do so. I was streaming earlier and somebody brought up uh asked me if I was doing the Switch, and my response was the same tonight and they were just talking a little bit about it. And I really think that when it comes down to the Switch, like it's great and all, but like it seems like they have an existing consumer base that they can count on and they're not really trying to do outreach base that they can count on and they're not really trying to do outreach, so they can hike up those prices to the people that they have lured in to their product over these years, where I don't know when it's like Game Pass or PlayStation or anything else, everything else seems to go the opposite direction. Like let's bring new people in. Nintendo feels like they're kind of gatekeeping a little bit.
Speaker 1I compare the hardcore Nintendo fans to Disney adults. There's like the similar behavior there where it's like I can see that they just are like that is just kind of part of their identity and so they might get a little bit frustrated with Nintendo for a while, but they're always going to come back.
Speaker 4They see those Mickey ears. They're like I got to get them, Yep. I have to get those Mickey ears. I don't have them.
Speaker 3Emily, is the Switch 2 going to show up in your household within any point in time? What would get you to? What would be enticing to you to get one?
Speaker 2I did see. I thought so. Currently, no, I'm not, I'm not pre-ordering one, I don't have one on the way, Um, but I thought the game list was interesting, but more than a Mario Kart, I'm looking for a Super Smash Brothers, honestly. And then also, um, I want to see how Pokemon goes, so I'd say, maybe within the next year. Also, my daughter did just turn four, so, and she likes to watch my husband play. Her favorite thing to watch is him playing Fall Guys oh my gosh, she thinks it's hilarious. But so I'm hoping to maybe and I might honestly ask Andrew about this later See what the steps are into, like getting her maybe to actually play something.
Speaker 2Her hands are kind of tiny, so dexterity and stuff, but I feel like that is kind of a good console to start with. But I have not been playing my Switch probably within the last year or so. Nothing has really pulled me in. I've kind of set it aside for a while too, since I don't know I was playing some indie stuff, but then, after the last Pokemon, I really haven't been playing it a lot. So, yeah, eventually, I know I will probably get it, but not immediately. And yep, lost the train of thought. Yep, that's all.
Speaker 3Yeah, it's just something that's. Who knows. Again, if those games that I mentioned, if those pop up, then maybe that will entice me. But right now, is it $500 for the? Is it $550 without Mario Kart? No, I think it's $450 and $500 with Mario Kart. Now five. What was it 500 for the? Is it 550?
Speaker 1for without this, without the, without mario kart, no, I think it's 450 and 550 with mario kart, yeah yeah, and like, like you said, eric, I mean mario kart.
Speaker 3It's not a game I'm gonna play on my own and I'm not hosting enough right now to where to have people over and warrant buying mario kart or anything like that, and that's probably why I got it the first time around and we never played it. So we'll end up like at a bar that has a Mario Kart or at another party or you know, with some friends that have Mario Kart on or something like that. But it's never. I've never like man. I wish I could get in some Mario Kart time solo.
Speaker 4That's not my thing, yeah, and we talked about this on the episode for Slay the Spire that just released on the podcast. And we talked about going back to our Foresight episode when Jay brought up like you don't really like play handheld games, like that's not a thing you enjoy, and I was like, not really. Since that conversation I have now played several games that I would fit under that description where it's like, yeah, I would If I had my Switch. I would do if I, if I wanted to get a switch, I would do that. But to Phil's point, like I wouldn't need a switch, I could just get like a steam deck. Like I wouldn't get Nintendo games for the switch.
Speaker 4I just feel like they're at their best party games and, from a single player experience, it's a franchise that you love. And I just don't love any of the franchises. I'm not a zelda guy, I'm not a metroid guy, none of it. None of it. All the big hitters, the little hitters, you know. Yeah, I liked luigi's mansion. I don't want to play every Luigi's Mansion that comes out.
Speaker 1You seem like a Gooigi guy, you know what Listen.
Speaker 5Listen, I like the off-brand ones.
Speaker 4Okay, that's just what it is.
Speaker 3What's the off-brand Luigi's Mansion?
Speaker 4I don't know. I don't know. We're going to find out.
Speaker 3But yeah, I mean, let us know, did you guys anybody listening? Did you guys stand in a virtual line or a physical line? Some people actually went to GameStops and pre-ordered those. Some GameStops got them, so we'll see. But yeah, great story, andrew, and yeah, eric, let's bring up this chaos. I think I got it.
Speaker 4Okay, so you tell me what's going to happen next. I'm number five, no.
Speaker 5I'm going to scream.
Speaker 4Phil, now Okay.
Speaker 3I'm 11 through 20.
Speaker 4Now we're on the four-sided die. Okay, now we're on the four-sided die. Emily is one and two, you are three and four. There is no five.
Speaker 3Okay.
Speaker 4I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna drumroll you. And then we're all gonna say roll that die.
Speaker 3I am Alright Again. You don't need the drum roll.
Speaker 5Roll.
Speaker 3Die. This is significantly worse. No 100%.
Speaker 4Phil, it is yours. It is yours.
Speaker 1I guess we're saving the best for last.
Speaker 3All right direwolves.
Speaker 3A second direwolf story would be crazy. But yeah, my story isn't necessarily like a pop culture story I mean it is but it's just also an opportunity to talk about what's probably my favorite movie of the year which just came out, and it is Sinners. And Ryan Coogler knows ball you guys, because Puss in Boots the Last Wish isn't just creating take a shot isn't just creating an existential crisis for viewers, for Ryan Coogler, it's giving him inspiration for his next movie. If only all of us could see a movie about a cat contemplating his existence through Coogler's eyes. On the Get Wrecked podcast, coogler shared with the host that the latest Puss in Boots adventure became a key element in his upcoming film, sinners, which is now out. At the time of this recording, he said, quote think about the villain, think about his defining features, think about his demeanor. Puss in Boots' big villain had piercing red eyes and there's a lot of similar themes in Sinners as well, and I just really geeked out over this headline and I saw the clip of him talking about it, because that movie is very popular amongst a few of us here with Puss in Boots the Last Wish, and Sinners just came out here recently in theaters and it is fantastic.
Speaker 3Eric, I know you reviewed it. I had not given it like a review or anything over on, like our Discord or anything, but I gave it a five out of five on letterbox. It is my favorite movie of the year. Um, the performances are outstanding. So I wanted to talk about, uh, you know ryan coogler, um being obviously a a great knower of film when he's talking about puss in boots, the last wish. But also, if you guys have not seen it, I know a lot of. You know some of y'all don't go to the movies as much as Eric and I do, but are you going to see Sinners, whether it be in theaters or when it hits streaming? Emily, I know you don't get to go to the movies as much We've talked about that in the past but you try and get to stuff that's on streaming as. Are you a fan of something like this when it comes to a new horror franchise, or what do you know about?
Speaker 2the movie at all. I'm going to be honest I just heard about this movie this week and I have not had time to look up any sort of synopsis, so I have no fucking clue what it's about.
Speaker 3Do you want a synopsis or do you want to go in blind if you do watch it later?
Speaker 2Did you say it's horror? Yes, then I. If you do watch it later. Did you say it's horror, yes, then I will absolutely not watch it.
Speaker 1Okay, so you can tell me anything okay, we'll skip emily and true what a person to jump to, because I also don't go to the movies very often and, uh, don't like horror. I also, just in general, don't really keep up with TV and movies as much. These days, it's like any of my kind of free, relaxed time is like gaming most of the time.
Speaker 1So even if it was a movie I was like semi-interested in, I still probably wouldn't have seen it. When you were talking I honestly for a minute thought it was just like a string of wait for it, like memes and like catchphrases and words, just all kind of strung together. I was like what is he saying? What is phil talking about?
Speaker 4I've heard these words yeah what are they?
Speaker 1I was I was just waiting, like you kept mentioning puss in boots. He's gonna bring up the rock at some point, like what?
Speaker 4it's so funny because it's like when you're around someone who speaks a different language, you don't know what they're saying, but after a certain amount of time.
Speaker 1You're like wait a second Black Adam. What are we doing here?
Speaker 3What are we?
Speaker 1doing here.
Speaker 3Well, I really picked the story for Jay and Eric. So, jay, are you going to see Sinners 1? And also, I just thought it was really cool that ryan coogler, uh, was also a big fan of pussy. Boost the last wish.
Speaker 5No, I, I, I love the shout um from from ryan coogler for the last wish. I'm also a big, big lover of that movie, um, and so I I'm probably not going to go see this one in in theaters because the the theater budget's a little tight these days, and when the theater budget isn't tight, you know $8 Tuesdays or whatever, that's when everybody else goes, because everybody else's budget is tight too, so I don't like going to a full theater.
Speaker 5I'm picky that way, so I'm happy to wait for this one to come to streaming, but I am looking forward to it. I love I've really enjoyed everything else that Ryan Coogler has done, so I'm looking forward to what he's got next for me.
Speaker 3I'll say this too, eric, before I throw it over to you as far as sitters, because you know that I don't really watch a lot of horror, really kind of, in theaters. I usually wait so I can watch it at home, but this one there's really not the only. I really only jumped in the rattlesnake part, which was stupid because it's in the fucking trailer, so I should have known that it was coming, but it did startle me because it was so loud when it happened in the theater. But in terms of like, uh, in terms of like jump scare horror, it doesn't do any of that. Uh, because Ryan Coogler is too good of a director to rely on jump scares, so he doesn't have to do any of that. Um, and it really it is very gory. So if that's not your thing, that's definitely going to be, uh, a trigger warning for people.
Speaker 3But, uh, I mean, I've been a big fan of Michael B Jordan for so long. I don't know who taught Haley Steinfeld to talk like that, but Josh Allen's probably. Like, what the fuck is going on? Who is this woman that I'm marrying? But she is also fantastic. But, yeah, performances all around in that film were great and, eric, I definitely want to see it again and I wish so bad that we could see it in IMAX 70mm. I don't know if there's one of those theaters in Orlando or Tampa, but I don't think I traveled to Tampa, but I would travel to Orlando and I still don't think there's one of those over there either, which is a huge bummer.
Speaker 4Yeah, I mean just seeing IMAX in general, let alone 70 millimeter is a whole different and not just the IMAX, real IMAX.
Speaker 4Yeah, real IMAX. Yeah, that's a whole different discussion. But yeah, I gave sinners a four out of five, but I'm very, very clear that on a second rewatch and I do plan on rewatching this film by the end of the year uh, I could easily see that jumping to a four and a half. Uh, it's, it's a very good, uh, very good movie. Ryan Coogler is in his bag right now with filmmaking. Michael B Jordan Perfect that they're the Leo and Scorsese right now that's going on in Hollywood. So I think they've got a good thing going together their chemistry. It's very interesting to see the movie, how it played out, because it does feel like the, because he plays twin brothers, michael B Jordan, it does kind of feel like it's like the fourth time that's happened this year.
Speaker 4Yeah, but it also feels like one of those roles who else did this? This year there's been four films it's like a trope that won't go away. It's done very well. Michael B Jordan's great, but it does feel like one of those spots was supposed to be Jonathan Majors, so it very much feels like that's what they were going for. If you know, he wasn't in shambles right now, but I digress. Sinners great, great film. I really, really enjoyed it, I think the less you know about it.
Speaker 3He was the other one, phil, don't bring up Mickey 17.
Speaker 4We don't have to talk about.
Speaker 5Mickey 17. Wait, did you not like Mickey 17?
Speaker 4It was okay. Oh, phil, we both gave it a three right. Yeah, three out of five, yeah.
Speaker 3It's fine.
Speaker 4To pivot really quick. I will tell you it wasn't because of Robert Pattinson. No, I personally think the Mark Ruffalo character sucks. I don't like it. I just don't like the parody of it. I understand that. That's like the whole point. I thought it was a little too over the top and fucking good.
Speaker 3Oh, Jay gave it a four and a half.
Speaker 4Oh yeah, no, 100% not. Is that your first Bong Joon-ho movie?
Speaker 5No, it is not. No, okay, yeah, now I don't understand oh, okay, yeah, I um. Now I don't understand. I was gonna let you go, you're gonna let me go. I was like, oh, that's your first one, that's okay, this is my. This is my favorite bong chun ho movie. I would. I would say that's crazy.
Speaker 5Yeah, oh wow I don't think I also. This is probably. This is the only movie I've seen in the theater in the last six months, so I think that probably had a lot to do with it because, like I, like, haven't spent. And I think that probably had a lot to do with it because, like I, like, haven't spent. And I think that had a big effect on it because it was on the big screen. I know you guys see every new movie in the theaters, so, like, it's a baseline but, like cause, I love being in a full theater.
Speaker 5Yeah, no there was two other people in the theater when I watched Mickey 17. It was Mickey 17. It was the ideal experience for me. Um no, I thought it was great. I thought Mark Ruffalo was hilarious.
Speaker 4I was, I was so on board, yeah, no, if you love that, if you love the character and the performance, I mean it makes it makes a ton of sense. Uh, it just did not work for me. I also thought the movie was a little bit of a mess, which kind of explains why they pushed it back so much, and that was concerning, because this movie had been pushed back, phil, for like years, right Like with S like several times, and it was concerning. I think, again, some of the themes are a little too on the nose. I also very much got Okja vibes from it, like as far as the theme.
Speaker 4So I hadn't watched Snowpiercer, but I heard it was very similar to that. So it just kind of felt like a rehashing of films he's done better and I don't know for that reason it just didn't hit for me. But I wanted to like it. I went in excited and I walked out just a little underwhelmed.
Speaker 5Alright. Well, it was nice being friends with you, eric.
Speaker 4Okay, or watch Sinners, because Sinners is really good objectively and you'll probably love it.
Speaker 5I'm going to give it three stars out of spite, but yeah, okay.
Speaker 4Okay.
Speaker 3That was Eric that just went on a Mickey 17.
Speaker 4Yeah, but Phil didn't like it either.
Speaker 3I gave it a three, and my three is not the same as your three.
Speaker 4No, no, we don't like threes.
Speaker 3You don't like threes? Okay. I thought, Mickey 17 was fine. Roll the fucking dice.
Speaker 4Okay, well, yeah, no. So, emily, I know you're confused, but he is in fact right. We do have to roll the dice like we would roll the wheel.
Speaker 3So what? To roll the dice like we would roll the wheel. So what I'm gonna do here because you know this makes sense I'm gonna just do a d20. Right, we're gonna. We're gonna roll this in a minute. Give us a one number.
Speaker 4You me, andrew and jay, and if we, and if it's on our number, we get to go again and emily. Okay, how about this? How about? How about let's Hold on? This would be really funny, this would be really funny. So Emily can get anything, but if she gets a one, if she gets a one, she can't do her story. She'll just leave the recording.
Speaker 2I will absolutely leave.
Speaker 4We'll say if she gets a 20, she'll have some type of cheating ability in the Kahoot game. There we go.
Speaker 2All right, drumroll guys. You're rolling. For me, though, google's rolling. Roll that guy.
Speaker 1Drumroll is so loud. The drumroll got louder.
Speaker 4Yeah, I don't know why it's so loud, but it is what it is. You got 10, which doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things. So, Emily, your turn.
Speaker 2Great, I feel awesome being here now. I feel really wanted. I have two stories, I guess, trying to think what would be more interesting, I'll go with the one, the first one. So I just did a little, you know, deep dive search last night and I found out that Bill Hader, who I absolutely adore and love, is developing a series with HBO about the Jonestown Massacre. With HBO about the Jonestown Massacre and I, for whatever reason, I'm not one of those typical white women where I love all the murder podcasts. I never really got into that.
Speaker 5Like.
Speaker 2Dylan. Yeah, I don't know much about the Jonestown Massacre so I had to look it up a little bit. I don't know much about the Jonestown Massacre so I had to look it up a little bit. But he will co-write and co-showrun the series and it's also he's probably going to direct and possibly star in it. I don't honestly know how much information is known, but overall, in 1978, preacher Jim Jones moved his congregation to Guyana in the Caribbean, called the People's Temple Agricultural Project resulted in the shooting of a congressman and the murder-suicide of over 900 people via poison. So pretty dark, but I mean kind of goes along with. I Love Barry. Bill Hader is amazing in so many ways and so if he is developing something like this I will probably watch it, so I'm excited.
Speaker 3Yeah, I shared this in the Discord the other day. Eric, I have not seen Barry. It is on my, it has been sitting in my queue forever and I know I'm going to fall in love with that show. I just haven't done it. But Bill Hader is one of my favorites and, uh, if he is involved with this then it's gonna be outstanding, so I cannot wait for this. Uh, jay, sound, just based off of your body language. It sounds like maybe you've watched Barry and are also a fan of Bill Hader's as well.
Speaker 5I did. I'm halfway through Barry. I did fall off of it. I'm very much looking forward to coming back to it at some point. I do. I love Hater quite a bit. He's very enjoyable whenever he's on screen. I just watched an old not that old 2009 film called Adventureland that he was in for the first time ever and it was so funny. But yes, I saw this come through on the Discord. I'm looking forward to it because I think that he's just he. He he's brilliant in such like interesting and hilarious ways. I admire his comedy a lot. So, yeah, I'll absolutely give this a go when it comes out comedy a lot, um.
Speaker 3So yeah, I'll absolutely give this a go when it comes out. Andrew, I know you also are not, uh, really a true crime person, uh, but know anything of bill hader's work. Are you familiar with anything he's been in, or are you a fan and are you gonna watch the jonestown hbo series?
Speaker 1I mean, I'll let you all hear my voice. You probably could have skipped over me for this one. Wasn't he the last man on Earth? Wasn't that him?
Speaker 4No, you're thinking of Will Forte.
Speaker 1Then yes, I have no idea who we're talking about.
Speaker 3I'm probably not going to watch this show. Bill Hader is one of the cops in Superbad. That's not Seth Rogen.
Speaker 4That's such a specific goal.
Speaker 3I just figured Superbad would be it. Okay, I'm trying to think of what else I mean. He was on SNL.
Speaker 1Yeah, I recognize him from SNL. I guess I thought he was the guy in Last man on.
Speaker 4Earth. You would know him by his face.
Bill Hader's Jonestown HBO Series
Speaker 1No, yeah, I know who he is, I recognize him and I think a lot of his like I see a lot of clips of his him and I think a lot of his like. I see a lot of clips of his like we were talking about earlier on social media and stuff like I see a lot of SNL clips and things like that that he's in. He was in Tropic Thunder, which I, you know, love that movie. He was in Hot Rod, apparently, which I know I've seen but don't remember of most importantly, of course, eric.
Speaker 3He is in Night at the Museum Battle at the Smithsonian. He is outstanding.
Speaker 4I thought for sure you were gonna say forgetting sarah marshall there. Well, that too I love forgetting sarah marshall, a great movie.
Speaker 3He's also in year one, which is a movie that she's one of the movies that's come out, so yeah, no one of the movies of all time one of the movies. That's one of them.
Speaker 1He was in sausage party. I've seen that that one left a lasting impact on me, so I know of him. I think he's entertaining. I've enjoyed him in the movies that I've seen. I don't really know much about this upcoming project and maybe if it's something that my wife puts on, I'll end up sitting down and watching it with her, but it's probably not something that I would seek out myself.
Speaker 3And comedic actors are typically fantastic when it comes to dramatic roles as well.
Speaker 1So yeah, cause they're hiding behind the jokes.
Speaker 3Oh yeah, absolutely At a comedy club, in the green room at a comedy club is just pure sadness, I just see. So you guys know Eric, you also are not a true crime guy, but you are a fan of Bill Hader and I know Barry is something we have circled both of us for years now. But any interest in this new project Because, again, anytime his name is attached to something I pay attention.
Speaker 4I've got to add Barry to the late to the party list, which is growing. So a lot of stuff that we need to catch up on and that would be a fun episode because we like Bill Hader. We like Bill Hader except in it, chapter Two, which is one of the worst films that have ever been made. So that's unfortunate. But yeah, outside of that he's been and he wasn't the problem there. That movie was just really really bad.
Speaker 4His performances have always been really good, whether they're comedic, dramatic, like anytime I've seen him on screen it's always been a plus and it just seems like behind the camera and behind the scenes he's really starting to make an impact, which is really interesting. So the news itself is interesting, even if the genre or the topic is not something I'm familiar with or not necessarily like biting at immediately. I think I could get interested with the trailer and the premise itself, but I would definitely have to wait to see a visual just off of the topic alone, like it sounds like something that would be made into a show or movie. That sounds pretty dramatic. That's a lot of dead people.
Speaker 3I'm surprised it hasn't already. There are Jonestown what's the word I'm looking for? There are Jonestown, shows correct.
Speaker 2It said there was a movie that was supposed to be done with Leonardo, but I think it got like nixed or something like that.
Speaker 3Yeah, but yeah, jonestown in general, eric, if you're not familiar, is like one of those major stories. Any true crime podcast has covered Jonestown, so it is up there. So, but yeah, again, bill Hader, fantastic, super talented, so definitely going to be keeping an eye on this one for sure. But, eric, this is the part of the episode where we go around and see if anybody just wants to throw out either some extra stories just really quick that they would like to mention, and we can kind of go from there. You usually handle that roundtable if you'd like to go around the circle or however you want to do it.
Speaker 4Yeah, yeah yeah, so I'll do the Discord roundup at the end, which, if you're not a part of our Discord, we have a pop culture news channel and this month was extremely busy. I actually had to condense the stories and pick the ones that I thought were some of the biggest ones, because this month had a lot of stuff going on more recently here, some of the casting of the Hunger Games, the new movie for Sunrise of the Reaping, so there's a lot of stuff going on in that channel. Check it out, but I think this will be a great time. Just some quick hitters if you want to let us know what your didn't make the cut stories were, and then we'll just kind of go around and see if anybody has any commentary before I throw several stories out from our Discord and we'll start off with Jay. Jay, do you have any stories that didn't make the cut that you want to throw out there?
Speaker 5So one thing, that kind of circles, minorly circles back to the Jonestown thing. Has anybody seen the studio coming out on Apple TV?
Speaker 4No, I want to see it really bad With Seth Rogen.
Speaker 5Yes, with Seth Rogen there's a Jonestown comes up in a very funniest way. Jonestown can come up in the series. So, um, but I have watched the first couple episodes. It's a new series coming out, and so that was going to be the one one that I brought up as a new series in April. That I'm really enjoying so far and I would highly recommend.
Speaker 5If you're an Apple TV subscriber, um, my other did not make the cut. Um, that, I think maybe only remotely applies to eric. Here is going to be a new real-time strategy game that came out just a couple days ago called tempest rising, um, made by a lot of the people that used to work on the old command and conquer games that have since left left ea, um, because they're a terrible company and they got together and they made a very Command Conquer-like game. Basically, this is like borderline IP theft. It's extremely close, but it came out just a couple days ago. I am very much planning on playing it, but I'm very excited for it. They even got the guy who made the music for all the old Command Conquer games as well to come back and do the music too, so very pumped for Tempest Rising.
Speaker 3You and Jay played Command Conquer a couple weeks ago. How did that go for you?
Speaker 4Well, so you know what I'm still learning. I'm still learning the ropes again, because it's been a while since I played last. I would like to think that it went well with that being. You know, considered uh, but no, this uh, tempest rising looked really cool. I did not know, it already came out just like a couple days ago, yeah like a couple days ago.
Speaker 4Yeah, I mean this looks sick with the updated graphics and everything. I mean I'd be very curious, let me know if this is something that's worth it, because I mean I will jump on board and play it. Uh, this month has been very eye-opening to all the games that I'm trying to play, so for that reason I'm not jumping yet. But if you I mean if you give it your stamp of approval and it's got that command and conquer flair, like it just seems like this this game is okay. Fine, we'll do it ourselves.
Speaker 2If you don't want to give us new Command Conquer content.
Speaker 4Fine, so I'm totally down with that. Andrew, Emily, Phil, anybody want to chime in on either the studio or Tempest Rising? You do not have to chime in the studio is definitely on my watch list.
Speaker 3I mentioned it in the Foresight episode, so I can't wait to watch it. Cool, cool, all right, definitely on my watch list. I mentioned it in the Foresight episode so I can't wait to watch it.
Speaker 4Cool Alright, phil, did you have any? Didn't make the cut.
Speaker 3Yeah, just really quick. Pacific Rim TV series has been greenlit for Amazon. Hopefully they make up for the terrible sequel and just accept that that is not canon. There's a Toys R Us live action movie coming out for some reason, so we'll see what happens. And then this isn't a story, but I just have to mention that I've been listening to Good Hang with Amy Poehler, which is her new podcast, and I've listened to two episodes. I've listened to the Martin Short episode and the Katherine Hahn episode and I was smiling for 45 minutes straight. She is so good at hosting this podcast and it just seems like all of her guests so far are just so happy to be with her that that energy crosses over to them. So definitely check that out. It is outstanding and it's a good podcast to mix in amongst all the murder and paranormal shit that I listen to.
Speaker 4It's a good palate cleanser, that's all I have glad, I'm glad you had a celebrity podcast that you actually enjoy, I know, since we, I'll tell you the katherine hond episode.
Speaker 3They just pretty much talk about parks and rec for the first 20 minutes. So if you were a fan of that show, go go check that out. It's so good I figure there's.
Speaker 4There's quite a lot of that. So the aimer, uh amy puller podcast, uh R Us movie no clue what the hell that would even look like, but I guess the studio or the company that's involved with that also got involved with Sonic, so maybe there's some hope for it. I can't imagine that movie ends in a happy ending, right. And then the Pacific Rim television show on Amazon. Good for you, man, good for you Emily. Andrew Jay, anybody want to chime in with something on any of those three? Didn't make the cuts.
Speaker 5Pacific Rim. Hell yeah, toys R Us. I don't care, I can't even remember. The third thing, the podcast. It was the Amy Poehler podcast. I don't. I also don't care. I mean, it's another celebrity podcast. So I mean, I get that, it's cool. I just can't.
Speaker 4It's like some of us are trying to run our own podcasts and we're not celebrities. Let us have it. Yeah, I feel like whenever one celebrity gets one we need to remove another.
Speaker 3It needs to be that kind of system.
Speaker 5Yeah, where we get rid of somebody else, there needs to be a rotation.
Speaker 4Zach Braff. There can only be so much. Andrew, emily, anybody want to chime in Pacific Rim, toys R Us movie, amy Puller podcast. No, they're like yeah, no, we heard movies and TV. We said nope, emily, it's your turn, didn't make the cut. Do you have anything for?
Discord News Roundup
Speaker 2us? I do, and it's actually about a TV show.
Speaker 4Oh wow, okay.
Speaker 2Yeah, and I knew nothing about this, but it popped up and I was like I'm sorry, what the fuck is this? So apparently there is going to be a gender swapped TV show version of the movie Holes Sorry, the book Holes. Did anyone know that?
Speaker 1No.
Speaker 2I had heard about it.
Speaker 1I had seen some headlines. Oh my god.
Speaker 2So they've got, and it's been a long time. It's a great book. Excuse me, why am I saying that it's a great book, but it's been a while since I've read it, because they cast Greg Kinnear as the warden, who was originally played by Sigourney Weaver, and the counselor that was called Mr Sir, played by John Voight, is now going to be played by Aidy Bryant, and they have a woman named Shay Rudolph who is playing Haley instead of Stanley, and it's all. Why are we doing this? Why are we doing this? I don't. I'm so mad. I don't understand. Nobody asked for this. There are other things out there. What's happening?
Speaker 4Yeah, it's.
Speaker 3There's other ways to adapt holes. If you really wanted to, I mean you could.
Speaker 4It's going to be a Disney Plus show. Yeah, read the book. It looks like it might be a show because it says pilot it's a. Tv show.
Speaker 2Yeah, TV show.
Speaker 4That is crazy.
Speaker 2Yeah, that doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 1This will do well. I'm predicting that this will do very well.
Speaker 4It's going to be very successful. Big fans of Genders and all the swaps.
Speaker 2Sure, but why no? I didn't know this was a Okay. Yep, just read that yesterday.
Speaker 4I was reading the comments on Reddit.
Speaker 3I'm sure those are solid.
Speaker 4I guess one of the characters' name is Sissy and this person said I couldn't remember who Sissy was in the book, so I did a quick Google search for Sissy holes. I don't know what I was expecting.
Speaker 5Yeah, that's Sorry, I had to get that out or it was me the rest of the episode. That's Sorry, I had to get that out it was me.
Speaker 4The rest of the episode.
Speaker 3That was all, andrew. Do you have any? Didn't make the cuts.
Speaker 1Yeah, I do. The first didn't make the cut was that the Oblivion remaster just dropped on Tuesday. They announced it, they confirmed it was real and then they said now go play it. It's a Game Pass game and it came to PlayStation and PC and on PlayStation and PC it's not like a full $70 price point, it's like $50 or like $60 for the Deluxe Edition. I thought that was pretty cool, a good win for for bethesda. I downloaded it. I played out of like the tutorial intro area. It looks great. It retains a lot of the same charm and jank that the original had, so looking forward to playing more of that when games kind of settle down. We're in a bit of a hot period right now with game releases.
Speaker 1My other story was that Skull Bones is adding land combat. So Skull Bones the quadruple, a pirate game from Ubisoft that was spun off of Assassin's creed 4, black flag, that was only ship combat live service game didn't do well at all. Not only is it still being like updated and maintained by ubisoft, like they're still putting content in this game, but they're adding land combat, which is like the most like people are like why? Why is it only ships? We want to play as the pirate. Well, they're doing that. Apparently. I didn't actually like watch any. I didn't watch the trailer or anything.
Speaker 1I read the article, um, but also this is kind of similar. It reminded me of what they did with star wars outlaws, where they hired a new game director for that game after it came out and then they they kept putting like they're putting new content, they're updating it, fixing all the things people didn't like. And so on the one hand there's like the cynical part of me that's like why are you even doing this, ubisoft? Why bother? But on the other hand it's like, well, isn't this kind of what we want? We want these companies to take ownership of their poor decisions and their rushed games and the the crap that they put out. And now they're like trying to fix them and make them better.
Speaker 1I mean, I don't know what this land combat looks like. Once I see it, there's a good chance that I may download this game and just at least check it out, cause I'm sure I can get it for pretty cheap or potentially on game pass in the next who knows how long. So I just stumbled upon that article prepping for this episode. I hadn't actually heard about it before that and I thought it was really interesting that ubisoft is like putting forth the effort, especially in the state of that company right now, to like, add these major features and like mechanics to a game that, as far as I knew, was a meme and was dead. So that was my honorable mentions.
Speaker 4Yeah, I mean good ones. Yeah, I mean good ones. Um, the the game pass comment I was going to make for didn't make the cut was the oblivion remastered, which is definitely a remake. It is definitely a remake.
Speaker 4Uh, based off of what I've heard and what I've seen, visually, for sure, yeah visually, yeah, and they've done some things with the combat to make it more skyrim ish, yeah, although I think the combat's probably going to be the weakest part of the game, as it was in the original is what it sounds like. But Game Pass getting that Blueprints also being on, game Pass, which is an early game of the year contender in a lot of people's eyes, and up until Claire Obscure, I think, was like pretty much the highest rated game this year. And then Claire Obscure. Expedition 33, which looks to be a banger I only got through, was like pretty much the highest rated game this year. And then clear, obscure expedition 33, which looks to be a banger. I only got through the prologue. I can definitely see some of the appeal when it comes to the uniqueness of the combat.
Speaker 4Uh, game pass is cooking. Game pass is cooking right now after quite a while of really arguably not being worth it. Uh, it is. It is taking a turn this year, it seems like. And then for Skull Bones, like them, making those updates was for people like Andrew, like the guy that's going to be like. I might check it out, I might give it a shot. I know what it was for. I get it. I get it, but like I'm never going to touch that game, I want the Black Flag remaster that we kept hearing about.
Speaker 3They're going to drop that Black Flag remaster. They're going to be like hey, you guys having fun playing on land in Sea of Thieves, Guess what's here and they're going to drop the Black Flag remake in September. Yeah, we know, you know what they're doing.
Speaker 4But anyone else want to make a comment or add commentary to any of the Game Pass news, especially around Elder Scrolls Oblivion being remastered or Skull Bones?
Speaker 5Yeah, no, the Skull Bones thing is actually pretty interesting. It reminds me. The only story I can think of that is similar is no Man's Sky. That's the game that I always think about, that clawed its way back to life after such like a terrible launch, and so, like it's proven that it can be done, and so I imagine that the people that are working on this game may just feel passionately enough that they wanted to get it done. Or maybe Ubisoft is like we can't fail, otherwise the company's gonna go down. So make this game better, please. Like. I don't know which one it is, but it's very interesting. I'll be watching it because, like that's, yeah, it'll be a proof of concept to see if it can be done by big companies like Ubisoft.
Speaker 4Yeah, all right guys. Well, you took several of my stories, which is great, because now my Discord roundup will be even shorter. I've got a handful still, though, and this is again still only a snippet of what people are posting in our Discord for the news in April. We're going to start off on a somber note. Val Kilmer died at 65. The star you may know him in Batman, as Batman in Top Gun in Tombstone, so definitely just an honorable RIP. A legend gone.
Speaker 4Then taking a turn, I don't know how you transition after that one. You guys may have heard about all the Minecraft theaters that had more than enough energy from its audience, throwing popcorn and sodas and screaming chicken jockey. Well, there were several incidents where the police had to get involved. So welcome to movie theater going experience in 2025. Both Predator films that are coming out this year look really, really good and it looks to be another revival of the franchise after a successful iteration called Prey in the last couple years. Predator Killer of Killers is an animated film and then Predator Badlands is coming out later this year, and both of these look really, really interesting, so if you're a fan of that franchise might have some good commentary there. Disney paused development on the live-action Tangled interesting, so if you're a fan of that franchise might have some good commentary there. Disney pause development on the live action tangled.
Speaker 4After the snow white movie flop, thank god, fucking surprise, surprise, uh, robert pattinson is being eyed to star in dune 3. I'm a big dune head so I thought that was notable. Loved, uh, robert pattinson in Mickey 17, although I didn't love the movie, sorry. Jay Sony is tasked with releasing the Chainsaw man movie in US theaters on October 29th. So for our anime heads, very exciting stuff. My boy getting a movie right there. The King of the Hill show is getting a revival series that's's releasing this summer on Hulu. Seems completely unnecessary, but I know some people are going to be excited about it Bobby according to high profile apex legend leakers, titanfall three is rumored to release next year.
Speaker 4I'll believe it when I see it, but God damn it. Finally we need it. And the final did make the cut from our discord. Uh, the first glimpses of Epic universe are making their way out and it looks crazy. Uh, universal Orlando officially opens the third and newest theme park on May 22nd. But a lot of the early uh looks at it have been getting a lot of attention. So, val Kilmer in memoriam, chicken jockey movie, theater experiences everything predator, the tangled remake, robert Pattinson, dune three, chainsaw man movie, king of the hill revival, titanfall three and epic universe. Does anyone want to add any commentary? Andrew, I'll throw it to you to start.
Speaker 1That was such a long list.
Speaker 4It was. It's the worst part of the episode I saw.
Speaker 1Jack Black also appeared in some theaters for the Minecraft movie, which I thought was interesting. It'd be kind of fun to see Jack Black in your theater. It reminds me of the Rick and Morty thing with theel on sauce where, like, the fandom just turned into complete idiots. Uh, titanfall 3. You said that and I kind of forgot everything else that you mentioned, because if we could get a titanfall 3 like that might just make the world whole again, like that alone yeah, titanfall 2 is such an amazing.
Speaker 1It was like the best first person shooter multiplayer that I think I've ever played, and then it had a stellar like campaign amazing campaign alongside it. So I don't I mean, I still have faith in respawn. They still have been making good games. Um, I don't have a lot of faith in ea, but, yeah, titanfall 3, that would be fantastic.
Speaker 4Oh yeah, emily, any of those stories, literally any of them that caught your attention, that you wanted to talk about.
Speaker 2That was a lot.
Speaker 1No more Disney remakes. That's what you wanted to say.
Speaker 4How disappointed are you in the Tangled? Live action not happening.
Speaker 2I don't even know who was cast in, it Doesn't matter.
Speaker 3I don't think they had started yet. I don't think they started.
Speaker 2Okay, then I don't know. I mean, they have not been stellar. My little anecdote is my daughter keeps wanting to go see the Minecraft movie because she knows that her dad plays Minecraft, and I'm like that is not for you, you are four. So I keep having to tell her she can't go see it and she doesn't like hearing that. So that's, whenever I see the Minecraft movie I'm like she can't see that yet.
Speaker 3So that's all I got Counterpoint.
Speaker 2if she's four, you can just put on minecraft youtube video and tell her it's the minecraft I mean. Well, I don't know. She's pretty smart, she can read already um, and she remembers everything I say, yeah, I'm good, because I don't know what people put in there. You know like I don't trust YouTube for my four-year-old, who, you know, is like a parrot, so no.
Speaker 4That's fair. That's fair, phil. Well, actually, jay, actually, phil Phil, phil Phil. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I was thinking because you like to go down and just go, yes, no, I was thinking because you like to go down and just go. Yes, no.
Speaker 1And I was like maybe I should let Jay go, but maybe it'll help.
Speaker 4Yeah, phil, you like to go down, you do a good recap.
Speaker 3I'm a giver.
Speaker 4Val Kilmer. Sorry, that was a crazy comment. Sissy holes, sorry. I'm leaving, no sorry, right now.
Speaker 3No, we still got the game. Really glad that we finally, that we finally watched the top gun movies last year and that scene in top gun maverick was making the rounds with val kilmer and it is great did you guys watch willow?
Speaker 1has anybody seen willow? It was a great val kilmer role yeah, I've seen.
Speaker 3It was a long time ago but yeah, I've seen've seen Willow. Yeah, the Minecraft movie, madness Tangled, snow White Shout out to my girl, rachel Zegler, she did it inside. Ancient Got those movies cancelled. Dune 3, robert Pattinson Sweet Chainsaw man movie coming out. Awesome, king of the Hill revival Fuck yeah. Titanfall 3. Fuck yeah. And Epic Universe uh, I don't think it's gonna be as hard to get in. I saw tickets available on groupon the other day, so maybe we can go to epic universe sooner than we thought okay, are we?
Speaker 4are we gonna set uh plans? Are we gonna do this?
Speaker 3co-host party at epic. Some of the rides look pretty cool. Uh, that hotel is nuts.
Speaker 4Yeah, I mean, some of us won't be able to afford podcasting.
Kahoot Pop Culture Trivia Game
Speaker 3moving forward, not the hotel for sure, but I can make Epic Universe work. But it looks great. Shout out to some of the people we know. I don't know if we're allowed to say that they went, though, but some of the people we know went to Epic Universe.
Speaker 4You pretty much recapped everything. What about the Prey stuff?
Speaker 3Oh, yeah, Prey the Predator stuff that you've been seeing. Yeah, the animation looks incredible, so I love that we're at a point now where a lot of these big name IPs are comfortable putting out animated stuff, because it's just getting better and better.
Speaker 4So, yeah, yeah and Jay, that was a little recap.
Speaker 5Anything out of that that you wanted to uh to chime in on yeah, pretty much predator. Hell. Yeah, I like prey, I'm excited for good predator movies again. Um, after the disgrace that we went through um a decade ago or whatever that was, um robert pattinson and dune fits, I'm excited titanfall 3 to happen. Don't get your hopes up, stop it.
Speaker 1Jay, stop it right now. Let us have this, Jay.
Speaker 5I'm so sorry everybody. I'm so sorry, but I will be glad. I will be so happy to be so wrong someday. But yeah, not keeping my hopes up.
Speaker 4Damn. That's understandable, jay. I was curious what did you unplug? Are you pretending to use the headphones on your head? I've been wondering for like an hour and a half, so I just thought I'd ask. These are wireless headphones.
Speaker 5These can plug into my headphones and into my computer, but I need to futz with things while I podcast, and so this is my object of choice um yeah, I was just asking, that's all.
Speaker 4I was like what did he unplug? Yeah it came out of nowhere for me, sorry I I also have problems. Phil take over. I don't know what that was about.
Speaker 3I wasn't paying attention for a little bit. I don't know what that was about. I wasn't paying attention for a little bit.
Speaker 4I don't know. I didn't know how to transition. I'm sorry For the audio-only audience.
Speaker 3This is a good time to transition over to YouTube, if you'd like a visual representation of the questions last time around, I think. Well, last time all of you were on, we were doing Jeopardy, but we started switching it up to Kahoot and it's been a lot of fun. This will be the third go around, since I knew this was going to be a longer episode.
Speaker 3There's only 15 questions, but we'll see how it goes the first time around, kate, as I Kate dominated for representing for Game of Growns, eric won last month, so let's see how competitors do this time around Sissy Holes. I wonder who Sissy Holes could be, since everyone else is just going with their name.
Speaker 4Oh, hold on, I think I got to go back. What was the name that I chose last time?
Speaker 3I forgot. It's too late now I'm going to exit. I forgot the name. I know that you were the eagle, though what were you last time Start?
Speaker 4fresh. I'm going to tell you right now. You're going to pull up the episode? Yeah, I got to, because didn't I go on like a generational run you?
Speaker 3did do pretty well, so I would understand if you feel like you need to defend your crown with that with the same name.
Speaker 1He was just embarrassed by sissy holes.
Speaker 3Yeah, he didn't want to commit fully.
Speaker 4I mean a little bit.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 4Explain how the game works.
Speaker 1Emily's never coming back after this.
Speaker 3For those of you that do not know, has everybody here done a Kahoot?
Speaker 1I have done one Kahoot, I've Kahooted.
Speaker 3Okay, I have not there are going to be a few different types of questions here, so there's going to be multiple choice. There'll be ones where you type in your answer. There'll be ones called a slider, where there will be a moving scale that you will adjust on. Oh, benedict Eagle, okay, that you will adjust on. I can't remember why that came up, but there'll be a slider on your phone that will adjust. So, say, like, the question is how many Jurassic Park slash world movies there are, and it'll be somewhere between five and 15, and you'll just move your slider along on your and it'll be somewhere between five and 15. And you'll just move your slider along on your phone. There'll be one question where you have to pin your answer on a photo and that you'll see it's pretty self-exclamatory. And then the last one is true or false. So 15 questions you get, the more of the quicker you answer, the more points you get. And then so you are encouraged to answer quickly.
Speaker 3I'm pretty sure all of them. You have 30 seconds to answer, oh, and then there's one more game where you put things in order. So you'll put things so, for example, when did this movie come out? And you'll put the instructions will be listed on the screen. So Eric's favorite game is Slider. So there's nine of those this month. Oh, eric's favorite game is Slider.
Speaker 5So there's nine of those this month.
Speaker 4Oh, great, awesome. There's that, alright, everybody here, I'm also 1-0 as Benedict Eagle, so no pressure, that is true.
Speaker 3And this specific bird and wig. So let's see how it goes. Alright, let's get started. These are all pop culture questions. A Kahoot by the Wait For it podcast. What did I miss? April 2025. Here we go. Question number one is multiple choice. It's a quiz. What is the name of the dragon species that Toothless belongs to in how to Train your Dragon? Is it Night Terror, night Shade Night, fury Night?
Speaker 5Stalker. A bit too swift. How dare you accuse me of that Kahoot?
Speaker 3I should have put this on my other screen because I can't see you guys. Alright Night, fury, everybody got that right. Good job, let's see. Let's check the scoreboard, okay, andrew took some time there. At least you got it right.
Speaker 4Oh, sissy Holes is at zero. Oh, that's right, I forgot I can't move the whole.
Speaker 3I can't move just this over.
Speaker 4I gotta move the whole thing yeah, you don't need to see us.
Speaker 1It'll be fine, they're remaking how to Train your Dragon. There we go. They're doing a live action for that too why?
Speaker 3Why we don't need to talk about that. Okay, let me close this out, all right.
Speaker 1Next question we have a true or false?
Speaker 3The Witcher 3 is the Last of Us, part 2 so, but it was it was a really excellent game.
Speaker 5Yeah, part 2 is what I thought it was going to be. I was like what game can actually beat it? I was like, yeah, yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 3All right, let's check the scoreboard. Oh, Sissy Holes is still in here. I didn't even notice that. Yeah, I caught that out. I was like whoops.
Speaker 4It's fine. It better though.
Speaker 3Alright Benedict. Eagle moves into the lead. Okay, next question, just type out the answer. What movie is this? A photo will slowly reveal itself. Fuck. So, for those of you listening, there is a picture slowly revealing itself on the screen.
Speaker 2What the fuck is this? What is that it's so pixelated? What is that? What the fuck is this? What is that it's so pixelated? What is that? What are you?
Speaker 1I don't know if I'll know this at all.
Speaker 3What is happening right?
Speaker 2now, what the fuck is this?
Speaker 5Oh fuck, I think I spelled it wrong.
Speaker 4I had to make sure I spelled it right Fuck.
Speaker 2I don't know, cloverfield.
Speaker 5Cloverfield oh, I got it.
Speaker 3Cloverfield Yep, yep, yep.
Speaker 5Did Eric type it faster than me.
Speaker 2Great, try, I put nothing, oh wow.
Speaker 3You got it faster Into the lead. Next one we have a puzzle. Put them in order.
Speaker 4Place these Game of Thrones debts in order.
Speaker 3There's like no pressure wait, so is top sooner top is the most is the first one, and then bottom is the you got a minute so you got some time for this one holy shit, I forgot all these characters place these game of thrones deaths in order no no, no, no.
Speaker 2okay characters Place these games in order no no, no, no, no no no Okay. I think I got it. Yes, it was over here oh.
Speaker 1Oh, yes, maybe.
Speaker 5Oh God, if I got it wrong.
Speaker 1Maybe, yes, I think, I don't know.
Speaker 3All right, three of you got it right.
Speaker 5I don't know how to pronounce most of these names. If I got it wrong, maybe. Yes, I think I don't know.
Speaker 3All right, three of you got it right. I don't know how to pronounce both of these names, so I'm not going to Shout out to.
Speaker 5Kate, who helped me out with this list.
Speaker 4That's great. I figured that out through only three seasons of Game of Thrones, so that was great.
Speaker 3I sent her a list of deaths.
Speaker 4Did you text her? I did on.
Speaker 3Instagram and I was like hey, can you pick four characters?
Speaker 2Help, that's good. Oh my God, there you go. Thanks, gabe.
Speaker 3Yeah, all right, let's check the scoreboard. Well, we got some movement, okay, jay.
Speaker 4All right, I'll take it In first Emily moves into third Struggling, also copying my whole fucking flow.
Speaker 3All right, next question we have a slider, eric's favorite how many episodes?
Speaker 2of.
Speaker 3Friends are there Between 200 and 250. How many episodes? You do also get points for being close, so you have to be within a couple of the actual answers. So how many episodes of Friends?
Speaker 4are there. I hate this. I hate it.
Speaker 1Let's see.
Speaker 3Ten seconds. One more answer, andrew.
Speaker 2Kate did a lot of guessing on hers.
Speaker 3Yeah, she was really good at Slider Right, I think that was.
Speaker 2yeah, she was like yeah, she was, yeah, oh no.
Speaker 3Answer streak lost. Oh, someone almost got it, someone was almost close.
Speaker 2I was really close, yeah, I went on the lower end.
Speaker 3Alright, no movement there On the Slider, that's okay. I hate the Slider Pin. Okay, I hate the slider Pin.
Speaker 4Answer which one of these Animal Crossing characters is named Lily. How the fuck am I supposed to know, Lily dude.
Speaker 3Which one of these Animal Crossing characters is named Lily? It's gotta be right, who looks like a lily.
Speaker 4You? Yeah, None of them, Jay.
Speaker 1I feel like we're on the same wavelength it's gotta be, I see what is the deer's name. Why is it not submitting? Damn it. I hit that button way earlier.
Speaker 3I only see three. Oh, it's down there in the bottom left. Okay, well, two of you got it right.
Speaker 1Oh well, lily pad Frog.
Speaker 3Oh fuck, there's gonna be Hell yeah, frog, Frog, oh fuck.
Speaker 5There's going to be a Fast and Furious question Are you serious yeah he does it every time.
Speaker 2I fucking just remembered it's this format too.
Speaker 4I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 3I meant to study.
Speaker 5Fuck you.
Speaker 3All right, Jay's still in the lead. Andrew moves back into third Benedict Eagle. We have a quiz In Wreck-It Ralph. What's the name of the car? Racing game where Ralph meets Vanellope. Is it Sugar Rush, sweet Speedway, candy Cart Kingdom or Rainbow Racers?
Speaker 2Oh, this is a guess.
Speaker 1Thank you, phil, thank you oh.
Speaker 3There you go, Sugar rush. Everybody got that right, so we should see some points added to everybody. Jay's still in the lead pulling away a little bit. Benedict, gotta get this together. Type your answer. No, who's that Pokemon? Hell yeah.
Speaker 1Hope it's Pikachu.
Speaker 3Oh shit, this is only 30 seconds. That's that Pokemon. Hell, yeah, hope it's Pikachu. Oh shit, this is only 30 seconds.
Speaker 4That's my bad. I don't know if that's how you spell it.
Speaker 1Yeah, do they care about spelling?
Speaker 4I just went in yeah, they do. Let's see Not.
Speaker 3Ekans, not Ekans, let's go.
Speaker 4Marabok Isn't Ekans? The one before it, yes, and it's not how you spell it?
Speaker 2Yeah, it's not, it's snake backwards.
Speaker 5This is just cobra backwards. It's great.
Speaker 1I've played one Pokemon game and it was on Game Boy.
Speaker 2It was on Game Boy, game Boy Color.
Speaker 1Yeah, but I'm saying how am I supposed to remember that?
Speaker 2Team Rocket used it.
Speaker 3Alright, next question True or false? Ochako Uraraka's quirk allows her to create objects from her body fat, as long as she knows the molecular structure. True or false? Sure Fail it.
Speaker 1That is false. Damn it, whatever you weebs.
Speaker 3Eric knows that that is Momo's quirk, not Ruckus. Also, jay, I think.
Speaker 2Are these words?
Speaker 5Surprisingly yes, yeah.
Speaker 4Where's the Puss in Boots?
Speaker 3question All right. Puzzle. Put them in order. Place these McDonald's menu items in order of their release date, from oldest to most recent Insane.
Speaker 5McDonald's menu items in order of their release date from oldest to most recent.
Speaker 3For those of you listening, the items on the screen are Chicken McNuggets, the Big Mac McFlurry and the Egg McMuffin. So our contestants are putting them in release date order. And now I'm hungry.
Speaker 5Yeah, no, absolute guess, absolute guess.
Speaker 3The Big Mac was first, then the McMuffin and then the nuggets.
Speaker 1I just had the middle ones out of order.
Speaker 5So did I. I mixed up the same exact two. Yeah, I did too.
Speaker 3I thought that the McNuggets would have come first, but nope.
Speaker 4That Egg.
Speaker 3McMuffin. That's from McDonald's website too, if anybody wants to.
Speaker 4I love an Egg McMuffin.
Speaker 1I did look it up.
Speaker 3Alright, no movement. There Got five more questions. Pin the answer. Which of these Fast and the Furious characters?
Speaker 5is named Jacob. Which one of these Fast and the Furious?
Speaker 3characters is named Jacob. Which one of these Fast and the Furious characters is named Jacob?
Speaker 5I knew it was coming.
Speaker 2Who the fuck are these people? Who looks like a Jacob with a K?
Speaker 5Oh no.
Speaker 1You do, jacob Statham.
Speaker 2No, do you, Jacob Statham.
Speaker 4Jacob with a K All right. Did anybody get rid of him? No, do you, jacob Statham. Jacob with a K All right. Do anybody get?
Speaker 3rid of him. No, we still Fuck this.
Speaker 1I literally want Jacob Statham.
Speaker 3We are 0 for 3 on the Fast and the Furious question.
Speaker 1Where is he?
Speaker 4John.
Speaker 3Cena.
Speaker 1It's.
Speaker 3John.
Speaker 4Cena. Oh my god dude.
Speaker 1I haven't seen his movie. I've seen none of it, I fell off a six, I think.
Speaker 3Will the Fast and the Furious question return next month?
Speaker 1You'll just have to wait and see. It honestly took me until just now to find John Cena in the launch.
Speaker 4I still don't see him.
Speaker 3Boop, All right. Next question no movement. There we have a slider oh my this is like the trifecta. How many mid and post credit scenes have there been in the MCU as of today's date. So that does include definitely kept up with those that does include daredevil oh my god what oh that?
Speaker 1yeah, right, that's out, I knew that between 75 and 100. Big old guess right here.
Speaker 3Yep, all right, let's see. I think some people are going to be close.
Speaker 5Oh, no, all right.
Speaker 1Wait, what the fuck is this?
Speaker 3Who got 84?
Speaker 4That's crazy oh man. I hate this this I was like.
Speaker 1I literally.
Speaker 2That was that. Didn't like being teased.
Speaker 5Holy crap.
Speaker 3Building a lead with only three questions left.
Speaker 4Benedict Eagle can't go out like this.
Speaker 3Next question. We have a quiz. Which Assassin's Creed game features the first female protagonist in the series? Oh, come on. Is it Assassin's Creed Syndicate, assassin's Creed Odyssey, assassin's Creed Revelations or Assassin's Creed 3 Liberation?
Speaker 5I know this one does, so I think I got to go yeah.
Speaker 3First female protagonist in the series.
Speaker 5First up this night.
Speaker 3Two people got it right. Liberation. Who got Liberation? Oh?
Speaker 4shit. Assassin's Creed 3?.
Speaker 1Wait, Assassin's Creed 3 wasn't. It was a handheld game based off of the world of Assassin's Creed 3 that they then ported to consoles. Thank you.
Speaker 5Oh, there you go. I appreciate the explanation. I was like that wasn't Assassin's Creed 3.
Speaker 1You played as Aveline in the swamps of the south.
Speaker 3Aveline Assassin's Creed content coming soon. Stay tuned.
Speaker 4Plug for next month.
Speaker 3Alright, catching up.
Speaker 5You didn't move at all, damn it.
Speaker 3Alright. Question number 14 to 15. Type the answer. What is the name of this Rugrats character. I only need the first name. What? Is the name of this Rugrats character.
Speaker 4I forgot how to spell his name.
Speaker 1It's Tommy.
Speaker 3T-O-N-N-Y. I know that's not true. That would be Angelica.
Speaker 5Is this for the actual millennials? Here it's Tommy. I know that's not true that would be Angelica.
Speaker 2Is this for the actual millennials?
Speaker 5here. I don't know his name.
Speaker 3Let's go, come on, this is my chance.
Speaker 4Uh-oh.
Speaker 3How fast did Eric put this answer?
Speaker 5in His name is.
Speaker 1Ginger, I think I spelled it wrong.
Speaker 3I put in two acceptable names.
Speaker 4Oh, thank God. Which one is it?
Speaker 3IE. I didn't know that. I thought it was C-H-E-C-K-Y but, I, did put both because I knew people would put Y, so that's okay. Cool, I got so scared. I got everybody covered Okay.
Speaker 1Chuckie.
Speaker 3Finster, afraid of everything, all right.
Speaker 2Okay, about a thousand away, amazing. Yeah, it's not great, but it's better.
Speaker 3There is a fight for third place. Let's see what happens here. I don't know that you can get a thousand points. I don't even. What is the last question. I think it's a quiz. I'm pretty sure it's a quiz.
Speaker 4Can Jay get negative?
Speaker 3No, it's not Change the rules, yep, just a quiz. Which of these characters is not one of the three main protagonists in Grand Theft Auto V? Franklin Clinton, michael DeSanta, tommy Vercetti or Trevor Phillips? Who is not one of the main characters in GTA V?
Speaker 5I'm getting negative points on that.
Speaker 2Definitely watched my husband play this sometimes.
Speaker 1I lived in this game for at least a couple years.
Speaker 2Sure, alright, you've got to be kidding me, look at that, emily's killing it with the guesses.
Speaker 1Alright, let's take the podium. Third place, Andrew 5,814.
Speaker 3Second place Benedict Eagle Unable to defend his crown. It was close and in first place with 8,976, about 1,000 more than second place is Jay.
Speaker 5Okay, you don't have to ask no, I think it's important.
Speaker 3It's a massive gap between first and second. That's crazy.
Speaker 1My favorite part is that Sissy Holes was around for the whole thing, the whole thing yep.
Speaker 3You did a great job, Alright, everybody. Give yourselves a round of applause. Great job by everybody. Alright, and there it is. There's Kahoot. Thanks for playing, everybody. You're welcome Again the Fast and the Furious question. Who saw that coming?
Speaker 5I did and I forgot to study. I forgot to study.
Speaker 3I'm going to change it up next time. Different, fast and the Furious characters, those are all main characters.
Speaker 4I can go very obscure, I'll make my own list, the next one he's going to be like, pinpoint this make and model of the vehicle that has shown up in the Fast and the Furious movies.
Speaker 3I can figure something out. I'm going to put in a Fast and the Furious question, every single. I'm just going to change it up from the pin. Your answer to just a Fast and the Furious question.
Speaker 4If I get a slider, fast and Furious question, I will fucking, I will sock you. The next time I see you I'll think of them.
Speaker 3But Emily, Andrew, Jay, thank you all so much for coming on this episode and allowing us to even up the odds as far as the Super Racket Bros Cinematic Universe. What Did I Miss Is Go. Please let our audience know what everybody is up to. We'll start with Jay, as we are in the cusp of Super Racket Bros returning. Please let everybody know what you're up to and when and where we can find it.
Speaker 5Yeah, absolutely. You can find me anywhere. You find podcasts. So that's going to spotify apple etc. Um, super bracket bros, we're working on season seven. Season seven is going to be all street level fighters. I didn't even I mean we had a street level tournament, but we're going no weapons, this is all martial artists. So think your favorite fighting game, street fighter tekken. Think your favorite kung fu movies, wuxia movies, things like that. Those are the characters that we're pulling from. We're going to be pitting them against each other and finding out who is the best of the best of the 16 fighters. The 16 are set.
Speaker 5The first episode, the sort of preview episode, will be coming out somewhere around mid-May. So stay tuned to the Super Bracket Bros feed for that. We would love to have you come over and give us a listen. You'll hear very many familiar voices. So if you enjoy the WayForward podcast, I think you'll enjoy Super Bracket Bros Always a great time. But thank you guys so much for having me on again and I'm happy to walk away not only a jeopardy winner but a kahoot winner and end the reign of benedict eagle. Um, so I so happy and we. We killed the wheel for one episode at least, and that's. I'm more excited about that at the end of this.
Speaker 3I'm gonna put in a credit where the wheel will return at the end of it. So yeah, I can't wait as far as that. And yeah, sorry, roman Reigns was a tool during the week of WrestleMania.
Speaker 5We had to pivot. Yes, yeah, I was about to post the poll to figure out what the seating was going to be 1 through 16. I had Roman Reigns in there and then he was like I think Trump's an all right guy. I was like you're out of here, brother, you're fucking out of here.
Speaker 3Um yeah yeah, good times, good stuff, andrew. Uh, what's going on on your end and with friendly neighborhood gamers?
Speaker 1Uh well, let's see. If you like video game talk, then we've got that for you. We have a podcast and we have had everybody on this show on our podcast to talk about their gaming history and lives and preferences, so you can definitely go check those episodes out. We also have a youtube channel where we've been trying to branch out with the content that we do over there as far as breaking out like segments from some of our podcast episodes trying to preview upcoming games, review, um, lesser known, smaller kind of indie titles, getting review codes ahead of launch, that kind of thing, um. So if you enjoy video game conversations, we've got that for you.
Speaker 1Like Phil alluded to a little bit earlier, we have some assassin's creed content in the planning phase currently, but it's just been a crazy time for video games right now, so we are still working on getting that recorded, but there's already been a few wait for it crossovers and collaborations this year already, so definitely go check those out if you're looking for a place to start coming from this show. And and yeah, thank you guys for having me. This has been a ton of fun.
Speaker 3Absolutely Can't wait for those episodes to come out. Emily, unfortunately we don't get to collab a whole lot, so whenever you and Cade get to come on, it is just so much fun, so we are so happy you're here today. I know Game of Thrones just had a milestone.
Speaker 2So what's going on over there with y'all and where can our audience find you? No, thank you. It's always nice to even though it's kind of one-sided at this point, to hang out. So, yeah, kind of weird this Tuesday, as of recording, the last canon episode of Game of Thrones has released.
Show Wrap-Up and Goodbyes
Speaker 2It's a podcast where I had never seen Game of Thrones and I was fairly spoiler free and decided what the hell, I'll make a podcast about watching it and for the first time and whatever. And so my sister Kate joined on Rotterdam season three as a quote unquote expert and so, yeah, we did all of Game of Thrones that ended last year. And then we decided to do Dragon House, the two seasons that are out, and we just did the season finale with Jay on Tuesday. It released on Tuesday and so we're kind of up in the year. We'll probably do one like recap, final bonus episode just to talk about everything.
Speaker 2Now that we can look at anything, it's amazing to be spoiler free. I'm kind of numb right now because I don't know, like, what to do. We do have a plan for another podcast because there is currently nothing else Game of Thrones out there to do, but we're probably going to take the summer off, but if you guys want to do Game of Thrones things, it's called Game of Growns. We've been doing it since 2019. And yeah, so that's all we've got right now. But if you follow, you know, the Instagram, or mostly the Instagram, honestly, game of Growns pod. When Kate and I start working on the next one, that will be also where we post it, so you guys can see what we're up to as well.
Speaker 3Yep, and, as always, everything will be in the show notes of this episode, so you can find everybody that you've heard here today. The last bit of news, eric, that just dropped is Sidney Sweeney will be in the Split Fiction movie, which is a story I covered last month over on what I Missed. So how fitting is it that that dropped here this evening.
Speaker 4That's like breaking news in the Discord that movie's going to be outstanding.
Speaker 3Can't wait to see it.
Speaker 4Did we know that John Chu was directing it?
Speaker 3I don't think we did no, and John Chu from Wicked and, of course, in the Heights, is directing.
Speaker 3So, yeah, anyway, like I said, you can find all of our friends in the show notes of this episode. Please make sure you continue to support and check out everybody in the Super Racket Bros Cinematic Universe and also head on over to Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Leave those five-star reviews. It is so very helpful to everybody and in terms of algorithm and all that behind the scenes stuff that we don't really truly understand but we pretend to. But also make sure you follow us over on social media for the way for a podcast, that includes Instagram tick tock, our, our growing discord page. We post now on YouTube as well, and we're streaming a bunch on Twitch Now. Usually those are scheduled, but we've been popping on from time to time as far as some surprise streams as well. So if you find yourself wanting to maybe get a little bit more from the podcast, if you are in the position to do so, eric will let you know a little bit more about that before we head out for the evening.
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