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The Wait For It Podcast
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What Did I Miss? (June 2025 Bonus Episode)
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Longtime friend Erin, who works as Community Manager for 2K Games on Borderlands, joins us for a special reunion episode filled with nostalgia, cryptid sightings, and Hollywood career revelations.
• Harold and Kumar are getting a new sequel with original stars John Cho and Kal Penn expected to return
• Discussing whether early 2000s stoner comedies can successfully translate to today's entertainment landscape
• Erin shares bizarre cryptid sightings including an alien on a doorbell camera and a potential Bigfoot in New Hampshire
• Will Smith revealed he rejected Christopher Nolan's Inception in addition to The Matrix and Django Unchained
• Examining Hollywood's trend of producing sequels to films from 15+ years ago rather than complete reboots
• Reminiscing about our early content creation days
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Podcast Introduction & Special Guest Reunion
Speaker 1Welcome to your go-to source for entertainment. Wait for it.
Speaker 2Gaming. Wait for it, anime.
Speaker 3PLUS ULTRA.
Speaker 1Mr Eric Almighty and Phil the Filipino.
Speaker 2Yeah, they've got you covered, and all you gotta do is wait for it. This 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 1And I am your other co-host, mr Eric Almighty, and for this monthly edition, our bonus episode. What Did I Miss? We brought in the most special of special guests. We went back like 15 plus years to make this happen. We're going back in time with a longtime friend and Phil. I'm excited to get into this one for that reason.
Speaker 2Yeah, making their first appearance on the podcast since 2019. What was the name of that episode, eric? It was Cartoon Conspiracies With Researcher, with Researcher Aaron.
Speaker 1Why did we give her that tag, was she?
Speaker 3researching, because I was doing research.
Speaker 1No, yeah because she was sending us research very early on, like a ton of stuff. We had a payroll. That's crazy.
Speaker 2Like a true CEO. Yeah, no dental.
Speaker 1Oh, that's right, we did offer dental yeah.
Speaker 3And my lower teeth are still jacked.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah well.
Speaker 3Yeah, about that.
Speaker 1Thanks, yeah, no.
Speaker 2You were yeah, thanks. Yeah, let's see I actually have hold on MCU scores. I have stuff about the Titanic. Yeah, love Pass Endgame. Thomas the Train this one's called the Scoop. What's this one about?
Speaker 1it's an unfortunate film, not a great ice cream pivot, pivot.
Speaker 2I was just trying to see what notes were sent over. So anyway, aaron, it is so good to see you. You have been to, you've been up to so much. It's been really great getting to catch up with you and see where life has taken you. So if you want to introduce yourself and what you do and what you're working on, because it's pretty cool, I mean it's alright it's okay, it's classified.
Speaker 3No, hey, hi everybody. I'm Aaron, because it's pretty cool, I mean it's all right, it's fine, it's okay, it's classified. No, hey, hi everybody. I'm Erin. I almost gave my stream tag like I was introducing myself in a stream. No, I mean, yeah, if you want, it's ErinMyLaundry on Twitch, follow me. But yeah, I most importantly am, importantly, am like one of phil and eric's most important, earliest, most loyal friends.
Speaker 1Um the things I have seen, the memories, also classified, I won't be talking I was gonna say, you know, if you're under an.
Speaker 2NDA.
Speaker 3Yeah, join their Patreon and maybe we'll talk.
Speaker 1You might get a clue. You know we talked a lot of Yanni, though, so I'm not sure there was anything about him.
Speaker 3Chronicles of Eric reboot. No see, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1Never mind.
Speaker 2We can shout out to MySpace which, luckily those videos are not accessible.
Speaker 1Oh Is Craps not on there?
Speaker 2Craps not on there. Craps is on Facebook, unfortunately.
Speaker 1I should probably delete those. I was going to say Chronicles of Eric I was actually still kind of proud of, but Craps might be outdated.
Speaker 2I think Craps 1 and 2 are fine.
Speaker 1We didn't like the third one, but problematically, I think they're not great. We have to probably explain craps.
Speaker 2We just keep saying craps and no one knows what we're talking about yeah so. So there I used to be, and I still kind of am a big fan of the ghost hunters tv show. It's not around anymore, but their name for their group was taps, the transatlantic paranormal society. They were based out of new england and our thing thing was we made an alternate version called Craps, where we would find bad rappers and just beat the shit out of them. Wasn't?
Speaker 3that Was Brock in that one Brock is in it.
Speaker 1Guys, I found them so fast.
Speaker 3Oh, my God yeah we might have fast. Yeah, they're on.
Speaker 2Facebook yeah we might have to Hell. Yeah, I'll private them, so we can at least still watch them.
Speaker 1Yeah, that's incredible. Oh my God, I'm so scared.
Speaker 2The first rapper we did was Soulja Boy, yeah. The second one was Kevin Federline and then the third one was DJ Khaled, which is where we like lost it. Like for the first two I think we had something going but kept, but DJ Khaled who was also played by Brock with a pillow under his shirt. That was the cosplay. That was the cosplay.
Speaker 1That one wasn't good, no, that one, that was that one. We realized maybe we shouldn't be doing, we shouldn't be doing, we shouldn't be doing this.
Speaker 2I will say they are. We were ahead of our time in terms of content creation, but it just wasn't the right content creation, no for sure uh, the ones on facebook do not have audio though, so I don't know what happened. Oh, yeah, it may have just been like removed over time if there was something in there. Oh, you know why? Because I there's like copyrighted music in that.
Speaker 1So they removed it.
Speaker 2Remember there's a cutaway to soldier boys, so that's probably a hundred percent. So I wish I had had the wherewithal to back these up over the years, but it just never happened. Oh my gosh. So that's what craps is. There's some way for a podcast lore that you weren't ready for. He didn't know that you were going to get. So, um, but yeah, uh. Also, in terms of whatever projects you're working on, do you, did you want to share that? Is it classified?
Speaker 3I don't know what you want to tell people, I mean, I'm wearing the hoodie no, that's true I work for 2k games as the community manager, so right now I'm working on uh, all things, borderlands, borderlands 4, risk of rain and any other projects that come my way which are classified.
Speaker 2Yep, yep, so lots of really cool stuff. I'm excited for Borderlands 4. I really liked 3, even though, like community-wise, I know people were pretty mixed on it, but it's the only one I've ever beaten because.
Speaker 2I played through it with our buddy Josh, but I enjoyed 3, so I think people are a lot of. As far as content creators, the response from the most recent playtests have been really positive, so that's really good and it looks fun. I mean just trying to figure out what. I think trying to figure out what the Borderlands community wants shouldn't be too difficult. You can tell me if I'm wrong, but you see what worked in 1 and 2 and then implement that and just make it not like the movie.
Speaker 3What do you mean?
Speaker 1It sounds easy. It sounds so easy, but yeah it was really.
Speaker 3The game is really fun. I've played it a lot and we had an event recently in LA where a bunch of creators came out and played it. And we had an event recently in LA where a bunch of creators came out and played it and we did a lot of community listening.
Speaker 3We weren't invited, but it's fine so we had a lot of community listening, a lot of feedback back to the devs and, yeah, it's going to be awesome. You're going to feel really fucking bad when you see that one of the guns is named after you, so whatever.
Speaker 2Oh, the Wait For it gun. Wait For it gun, the craps gun.
Speaker 3Yeah, it takes like 15 seconds to reload, oh man.
Speaker 2Really cool stuff. I'm very excited to have you here on this episode, thanks. I tried to make it a whole reunion and bring Phyllyn in from Read it and Reap also my sister, but she was just busy, so we'll try again in the future. But for those of you that are new to the podcast and you've never listened to an episode ever, this is not typically how things go. We're pretty structured around here. We're pretty proud of that. But what did I miss is our monthly bonus episode where we bring in guests and we each share a pop culture story. What, what happened, eric?
Revisiting Craps: Nostalgic Look at Early Content
Speaker 1I accidentally clicked on it. The audio is there and it was the cut to soldier boy it just the audio is there. It says the video has no sound.
Speaker 3We might, I might have to play this in the post show.
Speaker 1The quality is so bad.
Speaker 2Yeah, I had like a really it was like filmed on a really shitty 2000s camera.
Speaker 3Yeah, I think I might still have the camera. You probably still have the camera.
Speaker 2Probably.
Speaker 1Yeah, I think.
Speaker 3I might still have it. Yeah, I apologize.
Speaker 1I tried to keep it together. I heard the audio and then it went Soulja Boy up in the air, yeah.
Speaker 2It was a time. Anyway, as I was saying, what Did I Miss is an episode where we bring in our friends, fellow creators, and we each share a pop culture story from the previous month because you may have missed something here in the month of June and we'll each share a story. We'll go over kind of a Discord roundup where we're posting pop culture news throughout the entire month, so we'll recap that and then we'll play a fun game. Eric will be trying to defend his crown against Aaron. This month he's won a couple times as far as Kahoot goes, so we'll see how it goes this time around. But other than that, Eric, is there anything else that we need to go over, other than bringing in the most important part of this episode? Three people Doesn't matter. We still need to bring in, of course, the wheel of destiny.
Speaker 2Yeah, so here's how this is going to work. You know what Eric feels about the wheel. It's the same way Elmo feels about Rocco. Oh, rocco Rocco, really, who bought Rocco? It's Rocco Rocco who bought Rocco.
Speaker 1I thought you bought him, so yeah. So why are we feeding a rock? Why are we spinning the wheel? Well, we don't really know. That's just how it goes. There are three names on here and to determine who's going to go first, we are going to count down 3, 2, 1, and by we I mean I am going to count down 3, 2, 1. And then we are going to count down three, two, one, and by we I mean I am going to count down three, two, one. And then we are going to say in that cadence spin that wheel. Three, two, one, spin that wheel. We're going to try to do that at the same time. We're going to try to do it successfully. We'll see how it goes. I will say the pressure's on Aaron.
Speaker 2Cause last episode we like we went four for four for the first time. Yeah, it was probably the best we have ever done. I want that goose egg.
Speaker 1It'd be great if our synergy lasted over the years and we could just jump back into it. Do you have any questions about how this is going to go?
Speaker 3So you're going to spin the wheel and then we're going to say three, two, one, spin that wheel.
Speaker 1You did it. I'm a little concerned now. I'm a little concerned, we're gonna say three, two, one. Okay, just making sure. Okay, Because you'd be surprised why I have to do this instruction. You'd be shocked. So we're gonna go. We're gonna go If you guys are ready. Are you gonna be mad if I get it wrong Around the Well now? It'll only be three times, so around the third time maybe, okay.
Speaker 3Excellent, it'll be fine.
Speaker 1Chill, chill, alright. Three, two, one, spin that wheel. Okay, she got really excited and I'm okay with it. I'm okay with it, I understand.
Speaker 2Oh, okay.
Speaker 1I don't know that.
Speaker 2I've ever gone first. I don't know yeah that might be a first. Well, now I don't know what story to start.
Speaker 1Yeah, you don't like it do you. You don't like it, it's not a fun place to be. I will say, this month I think I have a story that I don't think anyone's really gonna cover, so I feel pretty good about it and it can go two different ways.
Speaker 2one of my stories was kind of like just an overall blanket story, but so I'll just do this one. Uh, in the interest of the early 2000s, let's talk about har, harold and Kumar. How about that? Let's do that story. That's crazy Because Harold and Kumar is getting a new sequel, as Cobra Kai creators inked a deal to write and direct Harold and Kumar, according to the Hollywood Reporter, are going to get some burgers and buzz one more time.
Speaker 2John Hurwitz, hayden Schlossberg and Josh Heald, the creators behind the worldwide Netflix sensation Cobra Kai, have closed in on a deal to write and direct a new installment of Harold and Kumar, the buddy stoner comedy movie, of course, from the early 2000s. They will also, as I mentioned, direct the feature, which is being developed by Lionsgate. Lionsgate owned Mandate Pictures. It's a full circle moment for the gentlemen, as their Hollywood career got high thanks to writing the original movie, 2004's Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, and then making the directorial debut with the 2008 Escape to Guantanamo Bay. John Cho and Cal Penn, who played the title characters, are expected to return, although the deals have not been made with the actors quite yet. Neil Patrick Harris, who is also a key component of the cast, and his involvement as of right now is unclear.
Speaker 2So we have had conversations kind of in the past, eric, about man. It'd be like how could they release some of these comedies that from from like our, our child childhood, our teen years and and like make them not overly corny, still make them fun and not be punching down, you know, and I think that's going to be very interesting. I will say I do trust John Cho and Cal Penn. They've stayed at least on the right side of things throughout all of these years, unlike some of the other people from our for movies from our youth. So, Erin, I'll throw it to you first. What is your, your kind of knowledge about the Harold and Kumar series? Do you think this can work in 2020, whatever it is, when this comes out, and do you think there is a place, like, for this type of like kind of like raunchy, fun comedy in current day?
Speaker 3I mean I'm going to sound so old, but like as a mom, like what? What? Like we're all parents like, is it? My gut reaction is the way that they're gonna try to make this relevant is it's gonna be Harold and Kumar's kids and it's gonna be like we're gonna do vape, like I don't know what's good I I have. No, I don't know. I think there's something special about mid-2000s stoner comedies where a lot of the shenanigans that you got into or that they would get into just don't really happen now. Like it's not really something that Are kids these days going to 7-Elevens and buying all the snacks?
Speaker 2No, not at all, they just smoke at home. Yeah, they have it delivered and smoke at home.
Speaker 3Do you think it's going to be? Actually, it's not Harold and Kumar, it's actually the adventure, the misadventures of the, the DoorDash delivery driver. That'd be kind of funny, yeah.
Speaker 1Maybe they start the order from DoorDash. Don't get the DoorDash, then have to go to White.
Speaker 3Castle, yeah, or they have to like find oh, that'd be great Like the DoorDash guy is like I'm here and they look outside and they're like I don't see you and it's like an alternate dimension.
Speaker 2It's like an old address. It's like their old address at the apartment. Oh, it could be the old address.
Speaker 1It could also be the door dasher drops off the White Castle but then also accidentally picks up one of their kids and kidnaps them and brings them back to the White Castle, and they got to go get them in exchange for the White Castle. I don't know man, I don't know man, I don't know. I think. I'm on drugs right now I'm going to spaz out.
Speaker 3I'm stuck in this box.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Harold and Kumar's Return & Stoner Comedies
Speaker 2I agree with you Like there is a remember how I'm going to take a sharp left here. Remember how Cal Penn left House a really good, high paying job to to join the Obama administration and then within the year his department shut down. I really want to find out, like, how he handled all that Cause I would like to hear his story. But yeah, he was a good character on house too. He got a recurring role, all that stuff so. But you are right, like those stoner comedies like pineapple express, uh, stoner comedies like pineapple express, uh, grandma's boy, how high dude, where's my car? Um, jay and silent bob, super bad to it. Super troopers, like all these movies like couldn't really come out today and and also they wouldn't necessarily be, they wouldn't even really be funny. I think maybe the ones that have actually I don't know if any of these have held up very well in terms of the content.
Speaker 3I don't think a lot of them have yeah.
Speaker 2Harold and Kumar go to White Castle is really racist, but it is a funny racist.
Speaker 3As an Asian, I'll just say it is a funny racist movie it doesn't punch down because it's not the people that are making the jokes are people of color, so so it's not like.
Speaker 2Remember the guys that were driving around in the trucks that kept drinking energy drinks, and they were skateboarders and they were like extreme. I'm going to watch Harold and Kumar go to White Castle.
Speaker 3Hold on, I feel like I'm not going to like it as much as I did back when I first came out. I just came out, I just I don't think I'm going to appreciate it now the way I liked it then, which is sad.
Speaker 2What do you think, Eric? Also, did you see Guantanamo Bay? Or Harold and Kumar Christmas?
Speaker 1No, I cannot say that I've seen either of those classic gems. I've seen Guantanamo Bay. It's pretty funny. Honestly, I cannot say that I've seen either of those classic gems.
Speaker 2I've seen Guantanamo Bay. It's pretty funny.
Speaker 1Honestly, I've seen Harold and Kumar, I've seen the White Castle one, but it didn't mean that much to me, so this news isn't exciting. I think what this news sparks as far as a conversation for me is not necessarily can this movie work post 2025? Because I don't know that it can. Um, I think I think the comedy it it kind of ties into what I'm actually feeling, which is that like we're just getting to the point where these movies that came out 15 plus years ago, so like when we were in high school, they're coming out with sequels now for that nostalgia bait, so like the comedy. It's not that it couldn't work, but it almost feels forced because they're going for the nostalgia and like I'm like looking, and I don't know if this like just started in the past 10 years, but just looking at the last decade, right, um, they came out with a dumb and dumber two, uh, zoolander two. They had another beverly hills cop movie with eddie murphy come out last year space jam, uh, a few years what's it?
Speaker 2what's that that's about to come out? Um, the one with leslie nielsen, what's that? Uh, uh, the naked gun rebooting naked gun.
Speaker 1Yeah, well so here's Movies that came out in like the 80s, it seems like, or even early 90s, are getting rebooted. But movies that came out in the 90s slash early 2000s are getting sequels and I don't know when that started that trend. It looks like in the last decade they started to pop up. I feel like Dumb and Dumber started it Maybe.
Speaker 2Well, dumb and Dumber, what two? Yeah, dumb and Dumber-er. The prequel I don't count as part of it.
Speaker 1Oh, you're talking about Dumb and Dumber-er.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1But that came out pretty quickly.
Speaker 2No, yeah, so Dumb and Dumber 2, or whatever it was called. That came out way later and I think that might have been the start, they're also rebooting Scary Movie. We talked about that a couple of times ago.
Speaker 1Oh, no, yeah, it's unfortunate.
Speaker 3That's really sad. I will say though, if the Harold and Kumar universe is all canonical. I would want this sequel to also have Danny Trejo in it. Because Danny Trejo was it? Because Danny Trejo was in a very uh, harold and Kimura Christmas or whatever.
Speaker 2Yeah he's, he plays himself.
Speaker 3No, he plays the father-in-law to Harold's character. So, yeah, he's Harold's father-in-law, so that would be amazing to have grandpa machete uh in in the in the sequel.
Speaker 2So I'm fine with that you know me, eric, like I'll definitely see this. Um, you know I'm a sucker for just a movie that hopefully is a fun time. But you know we'll see like a like scary movie. I don't have any. I I don't think that's going to be good at all. I don't think it's. It'll be possible for them not to make it just extremely cringe and extremely corny, especially with today's horror movies. What horror movies are a shoo-in to be mocked in the new scary movie series? Probably all of the Jordan Peele films. What a hereditary. What are those movies now that they're going to try and make fun of?
Speaker 3Do you think they'll put in the ones that are like funny on purpose?
Speaker 2like hard eyes and megan yeah, maybe, yeah, so I don't know but yeah, I just don't think like, um, it is a tough ass to like try and reinvent these movies all this time later. But you know, if they got it, obviously it's going to fully depend on writing, so we'll we'll see how that goes. But yeah, new Harold and Kumar on the way, guys. So we'll see and I will definitely be keeping an eye on that. Finally, all right, eric. Well, all right, the two E's you. Finally, alright, eric. Alright the two E's.
Speaker 1We got the two E's left, so we're gonna go 3, 2, 1.
Speaker 2Oh, we were P for a little bit.
Speaker 1Yeah or E or E. Well, you know what I say, Phil.
Speaker 3BRD Nope.
Speaker 1PP, that's my new bathroom saying anyway, moving on, we're going to count down, yep, we're going to say it, yep, and we're going to do it. Yes, let's see who comes next. All right, three, two, one Spin the wheel. Spin that wheel. I couldn't even say it.
Speaker 2Aaron, aaron wheel, I couldn't even say it. Aaron, aaron. Yeah, all right, my turn, you ready all right, what?
Speaker 3what do you got here and what did we miss? In june, I bring you two short stories from and the reason I say two is because they're literally two paragraphs each. Uh, from the reputable, incomparable. It's a crime. It's not in the Library of Congress. Coast to Coast. What did you miss? You missed Bigfoot, bigfoot and you missed an alien sighting. So, here we go, ready, make a new wheel. We're gonna find out Pick, put or alien.
Speaker 1If they're both two paragraphs, do them you got them?
Speaker 3Yeah, no, I got it. Okay. So one takes place in. Let's go to. I was just in California. Let's go back to California. This was from two days ago.
Speaker 3An odd piece of doorbell camera footage from California shows a strange figure resembling an alien creeping down the driveway of a house. The weird video was reportedly captured earlier this month at a residence in Compton. It was subsequently shared on social media by bewildered homeowner Jessica Ortiz. In the footage featured above, which I will share a screenshot, a diminutive figure that seems to sport a bulbous head, reminiscent of a gray alien, suddenly beside the front porch. It quickly shuffles along the driveway before vanishing from sight Moments later. A curious cacophony of sounds can be heard, presumably caused by the presence of the eerie interloper.
Speaker 3Okay, this is great journalism, shedding some additional light on the mystifying footage. Ortiz told YouTuber Hidden Underbelly that the sound at the end of the video was that of her back gate. However, motion sensor cameras in the rear of the house did not detect the creepy visitor. Interestingly, ortiz indicated that quote my aunt lives next door and she said at about 12.45 am she heard three loud bangs on the roof of her house and an unsettling scratching sound that caused her to flee the room to her room and pray To that end. The bizarre footage was understandably sparked considerable speculation online, with many viewers positing that the peculiar figure could have been an otherworldly visitor. More skeptical observers, however, argued that the alien may have simply been a person sneaking around Ortiz's home while wearing baggy clothing that concealed their identity. What do you make of the eyebrow raising doorbell footage? And then it tells you to go talk about it on the Coast to Coast Facebook page. But do that at your own risk.
Speaker 2Is this. It Is this the right video.
Speaker 3Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 2Alright, Eric, you ready Now. If you look to the right hand side.
Speaker 3you'll see it, this is a real, uh real signs moment here, folks.
Speaker 2There, it is there, it is there it is?
Speaker 3It's the alien from American Dad, it's Roger. Oh my God.
Speaker 2I wish our friend Ivan was here. He loves Roger. Okay, there it is. You know what my favorite? I'm not the biggest fan of american dad, but my favorite ongoing gag in that show is when they go to do anything like with with a new character and it's always just roger in a costume. It's the best, one of the best, ongoing gags in animation. Um, and that's definitely what it looks like here yeah, so there goes.
Speaker 3there it goes. Yeah, what do we think? What do we think? Does that pose a threat to?
Speaker 1us? Are we sure? Earthlings, are we sure that's not like a naked raccoon or something like that? Like, are we sure, a naked raccoon?
Speaker 3I don't know.
Speaker 1It's walking on two legs A naked raccoon that learned to walk Do rac.
Speaker 2Naked raccoons wear clothes generally around you.
Speaker 3A naked raccoon learning to walk is more terrifying than an alien.
Speaker 2I would say that's scarier.
Speaker 1A naked raccoon that learns to walk. What are the chances?
Speaker 3A naked raccoon is wild, that's insane.
Cryptid Sightings: Aliens and Bigfoot Reports
Speaker 3Well, speaking of bipedal, I'll just go right into this next one. So this is a Bigfoot photographed in New Hampshire, so I'll just post this in chat for you. In Riverside, so a couple hiking. This is not, this is just a photo, so you don't have to post the video. A couple hiking in New Hampshire snapped a photo of a mysterious creature that some suspect could be a juvenile Sasquatch Little baby boy. Sasquatch little baby boy.
Speaker 3The interesting picture featured in the video above was reportedly snapped by a witness who encountered the animal as he and his wife were near a stream on Mount Washington's Aminousik Ravine Trail. We thought it was a bear drinking and I took a photograph. He recalled. When it heard us it ran away on two legs. The bipedal nature of the beast understandably startled the pair and prompted them to make their own hasty exit from the scene. Watch out, it could be a naked raccoon. The picture from the couple's brief encounter with the suspected Sasquatch is rather remarkable, as the creature appears to be a small primate reaching down into the stream. That said, the lack of perspective and the almost cinematic nature of the image will undoubtedly leave skeptical viewers wondering if the too-good-to-be-true photo might be a well-crafted hoax.
Speaker 2Are you sure this is the right link? This is a video.
Speaker 1No, there's a still image in it. It's a still image in that. Oh, I kept going through it.
Speaker 2Oh, okay, I kept going through it and there was another video in it.
Speaker 3Yeah, it's like an eight-minute long video, so don't worry about that, but the image is there in the thumbnail. There it is. It's a raccoon.
Speaker 1It's a furry raccoon.
Speaker 2I'll be honest, it looks, I mean, obviously, bigfoot. We, you know a lot of people do think Bigfoot is some sort of like unidentified primate, because this looks like just a chimpanzee, which gives me, you know what's? The planet of the apes, vibes, and I hate it. So if this is a chimpanzee out in the new hampshire wild, shoot it immediately, please, uh, because we don't need that to happen.
Speaker 3So this is my worst nightmare yeah, what if it is a chimpanzee?
Speaker 1that's worse. That might be worse, that might be worse. Listen, I'm just saying I think these are interesting, but this is we're in 2025 right now, wondering if if anything's ai or real, like I think I think. I think I can't even tell what's real or not at this point. Oh, you think that's? You think that's ai? Listen, I don't know. I'm just saying we have the technology where I should be able to finally see it, yeah, and now I can't even tell what's real or not.
Speaker 3So it's a weird place to be. What I will do for you, Eric, is I will join MUFON and I'll get access to these classified documents.
Speaker 2And I'll tell you if they're real.
Speaker 3Yeah, okay, I'll tell you. Yeah, we'll go to a meeting together, hell yeah. Just like slide Can you guys just show it up to a Mufon meeting, like sup guys, what's going on?
Speaker 2Wait for a podcast.
Speaker 3You're here to see the aliens.
Speaker 1I'd like to meet you at a Actually can we reach out to them?
Speaker 2Eric, we're going to expand our conventions into the UFO community.
Speaker 1I don't think so, to meet me in like a random diner in a trench coat and be like. Here's the files.
Speaker 3And then just show me.
Speaker 1And then I look at it and I'm like this still looks like a raccoon.
Speaker 3Aaron, this is just a generative AI picture of a cartoon raccoon wearing a coat.
Speaker 1Missed a window. Missed a window, yeah.
Speaker 2Yeah, it's tough out here, when do you? Land on aliens in Bigfootic, which you're, because you know that I'm the cryptid guy.
Speaker 1So yeah, that's what I was saying. It was like I. I feel like it's 2025, so, like at this point, I feel like we should have captured a pretty clear image at this point, not wondering if it's a raccoon or a chimpanzee, like I, I think.
Speaker 2Well, ufos slash aliens that.
Speaker 2I mean, that's been acknowledged, like that exists. Is it a gray bipedal Roger-looking thing? Probably not. We don't know what it really looks like, but all that communication has happened. Bigfoot is a different story. I mean, I personally love Bigfoot, I love the lore and everything, but, like you said, said it's 2025, this motherfucker. I mean, we are still finding like new stuff in the Amazon every week, so it's possible. But I would say, like, in terms of ranking cryptids, bigfoot is higher on the list because it could just be easy for some sort of small community of apes to exist somewhere. I don't know about New Hampshire, but I don't know.
Speaker 1Or a small community of people that dress up like apes. I mean, look at West Virginia, dude.
Speaker 2Look at West Virginia, like how many people just live out in the woods or in the Appalachian, appalachian, appalachian, I don't know.
Speaker 1Three months later, heavy hair growth. It could be anybody.
Speaker 3Also think about, like, what does Jessica Ortiz have in her driveway that would like entice a gray alien to walk up that driveway? Like, why her? What is she missing?
Speaker 2Yeah, it really hardly ever is Unlimited like Red Bull or something in her fridge.
Speaker 2I watch one of my favorite shows that me and Liz watch all the time. It's on HBO. It's called Paranormal Caught on Camera and I always skip the UFO sightings because they're all just lights in the sky. It's all the same video over and over again, but every once in a while there is like an alien sighting or like an alien on the ground, and it's never somebody who's like Harvard law professor sees alien in their front yard and captures video. It's never that person. So you know, we got to figure out why they're targeting certain people. Maybe they know to target like the people that they know no one would ever believe.
Speaker 2So they're like, oh yeah let's show ourselves to these people, because no one's going to believe them.
Speaker 3So I did hear, I did hear a thing on another podcast about like speculation as to like why and a lot of it also has to do with location, like um, air pollution, light pollution, things like that and if you're going out in the backwoods in west virginia you're not getting a whole lot of light pollution, which is probably I don't know better for For stars, Whenever I go outside.
Speaker 2Whenever I go out into the like I'm driving through like the middle of nowhere Florida and I see stars. I'm like what, what is that?
Speaker 3What? What are those? They're here.
Speaker 2Yeah, or when we went out to California.
Speaker 3Somebody get Mufon on the phone.
Speaker 2Yeah he's I phone, yeah he's, I'm gonna call, move on. But all that stuff is fascinating to me. Still, um, shout out, rip to uh the x files and my dark cryptid fantasy. All right, but, eric, uh, we have what. We have some more work to do we do um.
Speaker 1So you may be wondering why is the wheel back up? Well, we could just let me go with mine, but we can't do that. We have to have one more opportunity to spin that wheel. So yeah, we gotta lock in.
Speaker 3I'm not missing this up, Alright, three, two one, one Spin Fucking, damn it man.
Speaker 2Not only did you mess up the cadence, you also said one on your own.
Speaker 1That's my thing. Yeah, it's literally my whole.
Speaker 3thing. Eric won, eric, you won.
Speaker 2We got blue. Eric, you're the winner, did we? Win, that's really the question Did any of us really?
Will Smith's Rejected Roles in Major Films
Speaker 1win. Here is my story that I'm going to cover. So my story is about Will Smith actually, who's been going around and basically doing this whole tour between music and interviews and just basically making everybody forget about the slap heard around the world. And with Will Smith he actually had famously, infamously revealed that he passed on the role for the Matrix. But what some people have learned, including myself, is that he also rejected Christopher Nolan's Inception. He has never said this publicly and this finally came out where he said Chris Nolan brought me Inception. I didn't get it. I never said that out loud.
Speaker 1Now that I think about it, it's those movies that go into alternate realities. They don't pitch well, but I'm hurt by that one and the Matrix. Apparently, the reports are that the role had initially been offered to Brad Pitt, potentially then Will Smith, before landing on Leonardo DiCaprio. I think that's pretty crazy that Leo is the third wheel there, but I couldn't imagine that movie any other way. I know me and Phil are big fans of that movie and, aaron, whether or not you've seen that, my big question is if you've seen it, what do you think about this? What type of fucking movie would this be with Will Smith in the role and if you haven't seen it, are there any movies out there that you've heard about? Some of these like wish washy castings that you wish came, you know, came true.
Speaker 3Well, I did see it. I'm pretty sure Inception was the last movie I watched before I went into the military, which I don't know what I have to think about that.
Speaker 2Your lore is crazy. I forgot about that Will.
Speaker 3Smith. I forgot about that six years of my life. Me too. Will Smith in Inception does not seem right to me, but then I have to think like, but he was really good in I Am Legend, Like that was a good, serious role for him. I don't think he would have been the right fit for Inception at all. I think the way it was cast with who it was cast with, like Elliot Page, was awesome in it. What's the French woman's name? She's so pretty.
Speaker 2I love her. She was really good in it.
Speaker 3Yeah, her name. She's wonderful Marion.
Speaker 2Coutillard, how do you pronounce her last name? Coutillard?
Speaker 3Coutillard, how do you pronounce her last name Coutillard Coutillard. This is tough.
Speaker 2Marion was great yeah.
Speaker 3Marion was awesome. I just really loved it. I also really loved, in that same vein, leonardo DiCaprio. I forget if Shutter Island came after Inception. Leonardo DiCaprio, I forget if Shutter Island came after Inception, but I would be curious to know if he would have landed that role had he not gotten Inception, because that was a fucking great movie and I think that I think that if it was Will Smith instead, can you imagine like Will Smith and Shutter Island maybe?
Speaker 1fucking again, also a different movie. Both of those movies came out in 2010. Inception and Shutter Island Interesting.
Speaker 2So Leo was having a hell of a year that year and then had to wait until the.
Speaker 1Bear movie to get an Oscar Crazy.
Speaker 2And don't forget that Will Smith also turned down the Matrix and Django Unchained.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, not very good as far as some of those big like, especially considering he was an independent same and in black. But thank God he did that movie After Earth, that M Night Shyamalan movie, I believe it was.
Speaker 2Oh yeah, that was the one with his son, right, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3Such a good movie.
Speaker 2Oh yeah, that was the one with his son, right, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3Such a good movie. I think that if he was in Django Unchained, Django Unchained would have been like Wild Wild West.
Speaker 2Some dancing yeah.
Speaker 3I think it would have been too. I don't know when I see. I know he's capable like Pursuit of Happiness and stuff. He's capable of having some really good, serious roles. But to me is just, I go to the corniest version I can of these movies. I'm like that's what will smith would bring to the table.
Speaker 2But I'm sure he would have done fine. That's what he won for, right. He won for king.
Speaker 1Yeah, the year of the slap, yeah I've uh, oh, did he win for that? Yeah, no because, uh, no. Did he win for emancipation? No, no because no. Did he win for Emancipation? No, that doesn't sound right.
Speaker 2I'm pretty sure. No, it was King Richard. It was King Richard King.
Speaker 1Richard, I think he was promoting it at that time. But yeah, I'm wondering what the rap would have been for Django Unchained, no, it might have been cool.
Speaker 3It might have been, it just would have been a different kind of goofy, Also Leonardo DiCaprio's in that one too.
Speaker 2This is a weird coincidence, yeah yeah, have you guys also heard any of his new music? Because it's not good.
Speaker 3Oh, please, the video of him with the food there and he's talking about chewing. He's taking off more than he can chew and then chewing it. Yeah, that's usually how it works.
Speaker 1I haven't seen it.
Speaker 2I'm not talking about the girls' ones, the girls' ones are pretty bad, although I will say this was going around on Twitter. That song it's a tempo issue, because if you adjust the tempo it's actually not bad, but it's so slow paced. I'll send you guys some of them because it's like okay, this would be okay, but the way that it's released now is not good.
Speaker 3Yeah, yeah, yeah. The freestyle video is pretty, it's the lunch break freestyle. It just feels like a midlife.
Speaker 1Does he bring up the slap in? It, yeah, it feels like a midlife crisis happening before our eyes. He's also cursing now, which I don't ever really care about that. But when your whole brand has been, I don't curse in my raps, and now you're just doing it again. You want us to just forget the slap, forget that. That's your brand. It's just like really weird behavior. But I mean, listen, being married to Jada will do that. Listen, being married to Jada will do that.
Speaker 3I think that I've noticed a lot of people that are like older Gen X and boomers are starting to have like identity crises where they're starting to realize that they're becoming irrelevant. Like celebrities, especially, they're starting to realize they're becoming irrelevant and the things that they say and like and the things that they once believed in are becoming irrelevant. So they're like grasping at, sort of like trying to remain cool with the kids and it's just, it's like embarrassing dad energy Like yeah, that's a good way to describe it honestly.
Speaker 1Yeah, and that actually tracks for Will Smith, specifically, specifically.
Speaker 3that's exactly what yeah, yeah, like you see, like you know, like brett michaels trying to like make a comeback and axl rose is still performing incoherently, and it's just like, what are you doing? It's okay to retire. Like you can find a new hobby do we have?
Speaker 2what's the last? I mean, I didn't see king richard, but what in his filmography like, what are those as of like late, are his big hits? You know, like I can't, I'm trying to remember, google it what the last will smith movie like I really enjoyed, was I mean you like, you like there was a performance in bad boys. Did you like his performance in Bad Boys?
Speaker 1Yeah, Does that not count?
Speaker 2Oh yeah, Bad Boys is fine, yeah, bad Boys, I think, is like a phone-it-in role Not that he phoned it in, but he can just do that whenever he needs to.
Speaker 3See, I'm looking at his filmography. He has really good serious roles, really good serious roles Seven Pounds even I Robot was really good I.
Speaker 2Am Legend. I like I Robot. I think I Robot is.
Speaker 3Pursuit of Happiness, emancipation, aladdin.
Speaker 1Well, you know what it is? Serious roles. He was an executive producer on Cobra Kai. That's so weird. Okay, you know what?
Speaker 2it is. I didn't notice this.
Speaker 1So there was like a huge jump, a huge, huge jump in his filmography. I believe from oh no, he had Suicide Squad. I was like that after Earth movie came in 2013.
Speaker 2Oh yeah, Suicide Squad.
Speaker 1Yeah, then he had Suicide Squad Focus. What are we? Some kind of Suicide?
Speaker 2Squad.
Speaker 1Bright, which wasn't very great. He did do Aladdin, which again I personally think he saved that movie. I mean, that was 2019.
Speaker 3Was he in Secret Life of Bees? I don't remember him in that and it says that he was in it.
Speaker 1That's weird. If you're pulling up IMDb, you might have to just set it to actor though.
Speaker 2Spies in Disguise that might be why?
Speaker 3Because he might have been like a producer. Don't bring up Spies in Disguise.
Speaker 1Late to the Party. Late to the Party.
Speaker 2Spies in Disguise.
Speaker 1Bad Boys for Life is 2020.
Speaker 3Remember Hitch. Hitch is great, I love.
Speaker 2Hitch.
Speaker 3I love Hitch. Hitch is so goofy I.
Speaker 2I feel like he's in his element in Hitch.
Speaker 3That is one of my favorite Wildcats, hitch 2 needs to happen.
Speaker 2I thought there was a Hitch 2 with somebody else.
Speaker 1No.
Speaker 2Maybe we don't have to Do we really want to see Kevin James in 2025?.
Speaker 1I don't think so Respectfully.
Speaker 3Respectfully. What's he looking like, kevin James? What do you think? Kevin james?
Speaker 1looks like 15 years or 20 years later oh, he looks fine yeah, he looks like kevin james, just older he looks exactly exactly did I make it sound like he was like some hideous monster?
Speaker 2now, I didn't mean that, I just meant, you know, we I mean we got enough mall cops that I think I I kind of got tired of seeing kevin james, that's all back in february 2025, there was reported by Yahoo Entertainment that a Hitch 2 was being developed by Will and the original director was not involved and it was going to yeah, but so again, this is another thing after that.
Speaker 1This is another example of like sequels coming out 15 years later. Like that seems to be the trend Is Disney live actions or live actions of animations, reboots, and now we're going 15 plus years into sequels.
Speaker 3Also, Kevin James looks like Joe Rogan now. That's definitely unfortunate.
Speaker 1Maybe he is Joe Rogan.
Speaker 3It might be. I just sent a picture in the chat about it.
Speaker 1He did. Kevin James did do that MMA movie. He did.
Speaker 2He did he's looking like yeah, and also, what would the, what would the the story be?
Speaker 3for H2?.
Gaming News and Summer Game Fest Updates
Speaker 2Like.
Speaker 3They're kids, his whole thing.
Speaker 2No, you're just going to add kids. She keeps whole thing. No, you're just going to add kids?
Speaker 1She keeps saying that, but it's actually accurate.
Speaker 3It's so accurate, like Freaky Friday that's coming out or just came out. Freaky Friday is another great example.
Speaker 1That looks fucking awful.
Speaker 2Yeah, I did have hopes that Materialists would be kind of like Hitch and it is not.
Speaker 3Yeah, I heard that wasn't great either. You were really high on that too.
Speaker 2I was, but Dakota Johnson is terrible. She is maybe the worst of the worst Nepo babies in Hollywood because she is so untalented.
Speaker 3I don't think she's bad. I think the parts that are written for her are bad. I think that all of the stuff Is there.
Speaker 1a good Dakota Johnson performance I was going to say I've also seen her in a lot of interviews and she gives off the same energy. I think she's just playing herself. I don't think so.
Speaker 3I think she's good.
Speaker 2The only good thing she's done. Her best performance was on the Ellen show. That good the only good thing she's done. Her best performance was on the Ellen show.
Speaker 3That got rid of Ellen. That was her best performance. No, she did another interview where she cried on command. It was very sweet.
Speaker 2I cried on command when I left Materialist, so her and I are in this together, yeah.
Speaker 3I like her, I think she's lovely. I think that all of the shit that she's been in, the parts that are written for her, just suck yeah. Where there's smoke, there's fire. What it might just be her. Oh my god.
Speaker 2But yeah what was this original story about Will Smith.
Speaker 1We actually were pretty. We just got to hear from Hitch. Yeah, we were okay. We're still on track.
Speaker 3She was in Suspiria, by the way. That was a really good. She was great in that you made that up.
Speaker 2I don't know what that is.
Speaker 3No, I didn't, it sounds suspicious. It's a movie Came out in 2018. She was good in it. It's a remake with tilda, with tilda swinton, oh, and mia, and mia goth is in it too tilda swinton, the the asian uh character from dr strange.
Speaker 2Oh no, whoops, but not tilda uh.
Speaker 3Oh, no, whoops.
Speaker 2But Not Tilda. Those are our stories for this month. We usually take this time to go over any stories that just missed the cut or any alternate stories that we had. Erin, did you have anything else that you were thinking about presenting, or were those the only two?
Speaker 1It is okay. If that's all you have. Yeah, if you don't, that's fine, that's totally fine. This is like a bonus, like we're going to throw them out really quick and mention them, so anything you got oh, I had a oh yeah. Okay, toss them out.
Speaker 3New York City was full of bees last week. Not the bees? Yeah, the bees. There were so many bees that they were creating little tornadoes in the city.
Speaker 2I did hear about that. That's crazy, yeah, that was one of my stories.
Speaker 3Yeah, Mine was mostly just fucking goofy shit that you know. I love that.
Speaker 1Did you see any of the bees? I mean, that story is terrible.
Speaker 3I didn't. I stayed home because it's too hot. It was 100 degrees, so I didn't go into the office.
Speaker 1Anybody else want to watch a bee movie right now? We were talking about that the other night.
Speaker 2Phil movie right now we were talking about that the other night.
Speaker 1Oh, you mean like this bee is ruining my life. Why is?
Speaker 3it always on yogurt night. Actually, yes, I do Morty Jerry Seinfeld, yeah, I love it.
Speaker 2He's the only that's. The only character that's sane in that entire movie is Patrick Warburton, and everyone is just shitting on him. It's great. So my only the only other story I was going to go over. Like I said, it was kind of just a comprehensive list of all the games that were talked about or announced for Summer Games Fest. So again, it wasn't really a story per se, but stuff like Resident Evil, um, the new, like the Liza P uh DLC that came out. The new Wu-Tang game looks pretty cool. Um, what else was on here? Ark Raiders looks interesting.
Speaker 2The Hitman World of Assassination video that showed that there's also going to be. Oh, I'm sorry, that showed that there's also going to be. Oh, I'm sorry, the people that made Hitman are making a 007 game, which I think could be interesting. There supposedly is going to be. What was it here? Where did it go? Oh, have you guys seen that game that was announced called Ill, where it's just like these disgusting creatures and it has like the little baby? Yeah, that game looks gross. Man, I'll definitely watch somebody play it, but like that game looks disgusting.
Speaker 3I'll play it.
Speaker 2There you go. Please stream it so we can watch. Okay, yeah, just stuff that was announced at Summer Games Fest that I was going to go over a new Sonic Racing game. What was it? What?
Speaker 3did you buy on the Steam sale?
Speaker 2I only bought two games I bought. I bought what's it called Sleeping Dogs and I bought one more, but I don't know what it is. Looking at this, looking at my library, that's probably that's kind of a problem.
Speaker 1Yeah, I was like you bought a game. You didn't know what it was. Oh, a game about digging a hole is a dollar off, I gotta get that.
Speaker 2I already bought it. I bought it like two weeks ago.
Speaker 1I figure we'll probably end up playing it. Yeah, yeah, now I'm going through my Steam.
Speaker 2It's single player, it's only one player.
Speaker 3Oh is it. Take two holes. I told Aaron to get peak, so I'll get peak Also in case your listeners want to know. Borderlands 3 is 95% off.
Speaker 1Nice.
Speaker 2Yeah, it's like $3. I got Borderlands 2 for free a couple weeks ago, so yeah. Yeah, but that was it. Um. There was a jurassic world revolution. 3 obviously was the big one. For me, that was the one I'm most excited for. We got new footage of mafia, the old country, um hell yeah wild gate looks interesting. There is a split gate too. That people weren't very happy about, so that is interesting. Um the resident evil, I think a new what was it called? Silent Hill game was announced as well.
Speaker 3Mafia the Old Country. Those are people I work with too, and they are super awesome. I can't wait for that game.
Speaker 2I love the Mafia games. Mafia 3 was a little disappointing, but I still played straight through it within the course of a couple of weeks. But I mean, as far as storytelling goes, the Mafia games are top tier. So yeah, just I just wanted to see if there are any games that stood out for everybody. But that was my only other story, Eric.
Speaker 1OK, yeah, no, I mean game wise, it's, it's. It's getting pretty crazy as far as announcements going into next year, going into the rest of this year. We've been talking about Game pass being sick as hell. Rematch just came out and we've been having a blast with that. You mentioned peak, which, uh, super fun, can't wait to play that again. Uh, the only thing, gaming wise, I was going to tie into that was that the, the xbox ally handhelds were announced. Uh, they're expected holiday 2025. Yeah, I mean, I like the idea because, like, I've been considering getting a steam deck because, like I play so many games that are perfect for that, like I would love to play slay the spy or apolocho, like on the couch. Honestly, it would be kind of great. So, um, I've been considering it and like, hearing this is pretty cool. Is it tied to silk song? We don't know.
Speaker 1But, uh, again, we've at least got the footage this year that's what you keep saying, but we at least got some type of footage and they're they're adamant it's coming out this year. So I, uh, I don't know, but, aaron, yeah, any games on the horizon for you or anything you're looking at? Before I go through my, my discord round up here.
Speaker 3I mean, I've been crushing Palia recently Got into that I've been seeing a lot of streams on that.
Speaker 3Yeah, it's nice. It's a really nice low stakes game. It's one of the ones where I'm actually comfortable with not buying anything additional. I'm cool with sticking to the base game. Other than that, peak Schedule 1 is. I fucking love Schedule 1. That game is so fun. I hope it wins at the game awards for best indie. I hope it gets nominated. Um, let's see through my list. I was doing another balder's gate run. That was fun. Drive beyond horizons is also real goofy, uh, guilty of sock is real. Is real.
Speaker 1Yeah, we considered that one, Phil, we just never got to it.
Speaker 3It's good. It's a little more structured than the other, like goofy co-op games, but it's still really good.
Speaker 2Is Drive Beyond Horizons, the one where you have to collect parts for your car. Yeah, it's good. Yeah, I've been seeing it on social media. I was like this looks kind of fun. Yeah, yeah, it's good. I've been seeing it on social media.
Speaker 3I was like this looks kind of fun. Yeah, it's really good, it's fun to play. I sort of I could like get a couple hours, just throw away a couple hours of my life playing that game happily, and it's fun. It's a little. The physics are a little wonky, which is amazing. There's aliens in it.
Speaker 2Yeah yeah, I've seen that pop up on my um algorithm a couple times. I do have sad news to deliver that pool cleaning simulator is not very good. It's very janky and I ultimately decided it was not playable, so sorry to disappoint everybody about the simulator well, now I'm just fucking.
Speaker 3That's ruined my whole year oh, jurassic World.
Speaker 1Evolution is three bucks. Yeah, three dollars so whole year. Oh, jurassic World.
Kahoot Trivia Competition
Speaker 2Evolution is three bucks. Yeah, three dollars. So if you haven't played, Jurassic World Evolution 2, which was the Game Room when it Happens episode this month. You can get it for three dollars.
Speaker 1A 95% discount is crazy to me.
Speaker 2But you know, what here we? Are Era. Ghost Recon Breakpoint is on sale.
Speaker 1You keep bringing that up really casually and it's scaring me.
Speaker 3I'm really into GTFO Also. That's a really fun one.
Speaker 2Yeah, I've seen a bit of that. I will try Storage Hunter Simulator soon, so hopefully that will make up for the pool cleaning simulator.
Speaker 3Have you played Branch Simulator?
Speaker 2I have. We played it for a little bit. It's just, it's fine, you know, it's good.
Speaker 3It's good. I kind of lost interest. Yeah.
Speaker 2I think just because like Schedule 1 kind of fulfills that farming aspect of it. I don't really need to play.
Speaker 3Branch.
Speaker 2Simulator.
Speaker 3Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2But I really got into TCG Card Stop Simulator early in the year but pretty much all of the Pokemon mods have been shut down so I stopped playing it.
Speaker 3It was only a matter of time. Have you played Pokemon? Infinite Fusion.
Speaker 2I don't know what that is. What's that? Oh my god.
Speaker 3I feel like that would be right up your alley. It's a Pokemon game, but you could fuse your Pokemons together.
Speaker 2Oh, I have seen people playing this yeah.
Speaker 3Yeah, I need to. It's really fun to watch people play.
Speaker 2I need to look into that. So but yeah, eric, I think that's. This cursed Bidoof is crazy. Oh my god, this Bidoof is so swole. Holy sh oh. Oh my god, this Bidoof is so swole. It's a Machamp, but it has Bidoof's head.
Speaker 3Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2You know what game we should play Is Date Everything. I saw that Everyone, literally every voice actor you've ever heard of, is in that game.
Speaker 3It's so crazy, it's so fun, it's really fun.
Speaker 2I think because Robbie Damon is a producer on it, so that's probably why they're all on there.
Speaker 3Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2It's a really good game.
Speaker 3I think that's also going to get the get an award there is a incredible. Speaking of Fusion, my favorite Fusion from that game is a Squirrelix and a Trubbish. It's that bad boy right there in chat. You're welcome.
Speaker 2Let's see here what image are you about to see? What the hell is that? It's a Squirrelix. It's a little turd.
Speaker 3Yeah, it's a little cotton candy poop.
Speaker 2Crazy For those of you, you for the audio only, or here for the YouTube audience. I'll just share this really quick.
Speaker 3The best one, though, is a Magikarp and a Trubbish. Do you want to guess what it looks like?
Speaker 2Here is the Bidoof with the Machamp body. That's pretty good.
Speaker 3This is the Magikarp and the Trubbish is. The Trubbish is in the shape. That's pretty good. The uh, the magic carp in the Trubbish is the Trubbish is in the shape of a paper, of a plastic bag, and the magic carp is swimming in the plastic bag. Yeah, that's so good they have a freaking uh swirl what's it called in the plastic bag too.
Speaker 2That's so funny that's so good, okay.
Speaker 1Well, eric, you should probably go to the the roundup before and since we're we're actively using the uh, the riverside chat, I'll actually use that to the benefit, because there's usually so much news that okay, gets hard.
Speaker 2Okay, I was going to type it out, but you can if you want.
Speaker 1Oh, either way. Either way, I was just going to post them one by one. The Discord roundup is going to be pop culture stories that have come through Discord, through our pop culture news channel, and here are some of the highlights from this past month that we didn't get into. On this episode uh, blumhouse, blumhouse, blumhouse, blumhouse is acquiring the rights to Saw from Twisted Pictures. So if you're into the Saw franchise, a little bit of news there. Jon Bernthal is joining Tom Holland in Spider-Man Brand New Day, per the Hollywood Reporter. Uh, are we gonna see Daredevil there? It feels likely. So super exciting news. Sad news Ultraman Rising. We love that movie.
Speaker 1On Netflix it is not getting a sequel. The reasons are unknown and I am heartbroken. But for those of you guys that are enjoying the casting news for Street Fighter, there's announcements from Roman Reigns to Jason Momoa. A lot of big names and also interesting names. 50 Cent, andrew Schultz, I think, got announced today. It's like a weird like smorgasbord of a cast. Johnny Knoxville is going to be the host of the Fear Factor reboot on Fox. Uh, I believe this is not the first time they rebooted this, if I recall correctly. I think this will be interesting to see what happens. The Spider-Man original trilogy is going to be returning to theaters. Uh, they're going to be doing a run end of September of this year and an encore at the start of October of this year and an encore at the start of October. Lilo and Stitch 2 is getting a live action, and a sequel.
Speaker 1And, yeah, you already know how we feel about Lilo and Stitch, the Disney live actions. We're not heading in the right direction any longer. And finally, today, news about Matt Reeves sharing a photo of a script for the Batman Part 2. How much proof is this really? I don't think this movie exists, in the way that Silksong doesn't exist. So those are all my stories, phil. I'll throw it to you first, if you just want to go down the line with quick thoughts, and then, aaron, you can chime in to any of these stories that interest you at all. So, phil, run them down.
Speaker 2Yeah, a Blumhouse acquiring Saw, that's cool. I'm not going to. I don't watch Saw movies but I think that's a good thing for the series. Jon Bernthal in Spider-Man makes a whole lot of sense. Like you said, daredevil will be there. I wouldn't be surprised if we saw the Defenders in just all of them. Ultraman Rising that was news that we actually missed from a few months back. It's a bummer that it's not getting a sequel. We'll see what happens there. The Street Fighter cast is interesting. That's probably a movie I will most likely skip, but yeah, some big names attached to it.
Speaker 3Not a movie, it's a video game.
Speaker 2What no? They're making a Street Fighter movie. Oh shit, okay, I thought what no it's no.
Speaker 3No, they're making a street fighter movie. Oh shit, okay, I thought they were.
Speaker 2Yeah, dumbass uh, johnny knoxville hosting fear factor makes a lot of sense. I can't imagine what they're gonna have people do. Uh, the spider-man trilogy returning to theaters. Definitely want to see one and two. Well, you know what I'll see? I want to see emo Spider-Man dance down the street.
Speaker 3You want to see the dance on Spider-Man.
Speaker 2Lilo and Stitch. Live action sequel. Great job everybody. We're in hell. Eric, you were part of that, so good job. I got a kid.
Speaker 1I don't know what to say. That's Fear Factor, episode one.
Speaker 3They're going to make us watch it, just watching Lilo and Stitch 2.
Speaker 2And then the Batman part two. Even James Gunn is like it's coming, it's never going to happen.
Speaker 3It's going to take time.
Speaker 2Sure, sure man. Robert Pattinson is doing a million things. He's a huge star, so he needs to keep adding new accents and voices to his repertoire. So he's done Batman. He doesn't need to go back to Batman so we'll see what happens, but, aaron, did you have anything to add for any of these? You can pick and choose if you'd like.
Speaker 3I mean just that live action Lilo and Stitch. I think we're kind of lost in Disney live actions. We've lost our way, so I don't know what else. We can't scare Gen Alpha anymore, so Fear Factor is not going to do it. What are they going to do? You have to.
Speaker 1I don't even. I can't even think of something. Put your phone down for 10 minutes.
Speaker 3That sounds like a boomer thing to say Eric, I'm not going to lie, I'm sorry, go outside and touch grass. Back in my day we had a Nokia. What?
Speaker 2was your phone. We're looking up our old phones before you join K10 Royale.
Speaker 3Listen, I'm just going to be honest with you.
Speaker 1The phone with the slide-out keyboard is still top-notch. I don't know what to tell you.
Speaker 2I think it's a great design. I'm kind of sad we went away from the actual keyboard. I don't know if people feel the same way, but I like the physical keyboard.
Speaker 1Nothing beats the click clacking of the keyboard. It's the best, it's absolutely the best. But yeah, lilo and Stitch was probably just like the most disheartening news because you know they obviously went the other direction after Snow White and then immediately is like oh no, these people make money.
Speaker 2Yeah, these are good again.
Speaker 3Pretty tough, do you guys remember?
Speaker 2ringback tones.
Speaker 3Oh my god, I just tried to explain ringback tones to my kid. That was a thing. Yeah, I had a few of those Please enjoy this ringback tone while your party is reached.
Speaker 2Soldier boy video.
Speaker 3Amazing.
Speaker 2But any of those other ones? You want to chime in on Erin, or are we good?
Speaker 3I'm good Cool.
Speaker 2Well, there you go, guys. So for the podcast audio audience only. This is typically where we suggest that you switch over to the YouTube page, because there is a visual element to the game that we're playing. So, Erin, if you're not familiar with Kahoot, I'll go over it with you here in just a moment. You just need your phones. Here is the pin.
Speaker 3I'm there.
Speaker 2All right, do you want to be the little kitty cat with hearts, or are you going to change it?
Speaker 3B-R-B-P-P. I love that.
Speaker 1B-R-B-P-P. Yeah, I had to use the threes because Kahoot didn't like it.
Speaker 3I'm going to do the wolf because I'm in the alpha.
Speaker 2Makes sense.
Speaker 3It gives makes sense here, gives off beta energy with that binky. Yeah, little baby binky, I don't know yet you look like the Teletubbies baby oh yeah, there we go the sun thank you, thanks for appreciating that.
Speaker 2You're welcome. Alright, so once again, for the audio only audience, you can, of course, stick around, but it is recommended to head on over to YouTube so you can see the questions. I'm still going to read them out. It's not like I'll be like here's the next question and it's going to be silent for 30 seconds. I will read them out and describe it for you. But yeah, Eric, are you ready to defend your crown? You only have to beat one person this month. How are you feeling?
Speaker 1Feeling good, got my person, my son baby.
Speaker 2You want to tell people your name, my.
Speaker 1BRBPP, brbpp.
Speaker 2You know, you need to change your Twitch stuff now to be right back to BRBPP. That's adorable.
Speaker 2Oh fuck yeah, don't tempt me. Aaron, have you ever done Kahoot? Nope, ok, so it's basically. It's basically just trivia. There's a couple of different questions you'll see in here. One of them is just a simple multiple choice. One of them you will type in your answer on your phone. One of them is true or false. There is one that Eric Eric's favorite is the slider where you will slide your phone to a certain number on your phone. You'll see it when it'll make sense.
Speaker 2Spoiler alert when you see it, and then there's a pin it or something where you will place a pin on a photo of what you think. The answer is it's very, very simple. So you'll see it. There's only 10 questions, since there's two of you. Why are you both? The sun with the pinky God, and also for the questions? You'll just need to look at the screen, but you'll answer on your phone, okay, other than that, everybody ready to go?
Speaker 3Spin that wheel.
Speaker 2No, no wheel here, sorry, alright, the first question. This is a kahoot, of course, presented by the wait for a podcast. What did I miss? June 2025. First question as always, is a multiple choice it still says loading for me, uh-oh oh, now it says ready.
Speaker 3Question one which of?
Speaker 2these games was not a platinum seller on steam in 2024? Which of these games was not a platinum seller on Steam in 2024? Which of these games was not a platinum seller on Steam in 2024? Call of Duty, black Ops 6, fc Okay, everybody answered FC 25, warhammer and Black Myth. Wukong, you both got it wrong. It was FC 25, which is FIFA.
Speaker 1We're not even real gamers.
Speaker 2Yeah, I figured FIFA would throw people off because people love the FIFA.
Speaker 3I thought that was like the right one, or I thought that did 1-1.
Speaker 2It was a gold seller, but not platinum. Alright, let's go to the scoreboard 0-0. Yes, yes, let's see how this goes. Next question is type the answer. The islands in the Jurassic Park universe are also referred to as the blank deaths. I'll give you guys a hint. It's a number. I gave you a map as well to give you a hint.
Speaker 1I hope someone how did neither one of you get? Was that not Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on? Was that not six islands?
Speaker 2Hold on One, two, three, four, five.
Speaker 1Six oh, this is the whole, yeah, yeah, yeah. One, two, three, four, five oh, this is the whole. Yeah, yeah, yeah, one two, three, four, five.
Speaker 2This is yeah, yes, I'm going to get this.
Speaker 1Yeah, that was confusing, I'm going to win, yeah. It didn't feel right either, which was why I was like that was a pretty on-the-nose hint.
Speaker 2All right, zero, zero.
Speaker 1This is the worst. This might be the lowest scoring.
Speaker 2There's only eight questions left too, so this might be one of the lowest. All right Puzzle. Put these in order. Place these WWE superstars in order of the most to least amount of world title reigns. Give me most options are most to least rock Randy Orton edge and the undertaker.
Speaker 3Okay.
Speaker 2So who has the most?
Speaker 3Don't wait, don't say that loud. And who has the least? Actually, no, I can meet myself.
Speaker 2Yeah, you guys got some time here. These numbers kind of surprised me. Oh, you both got it wrong. Yeah, I took a risk on the Rock and Taker I wasn't sure.
Speaker 1Yeah, the both got it wrong. Yeah, I took a risk on the Rock and Taker I wasn't sure.
Speaker 2Yeah, the Undertaker has the least amount on this list, with only seven, which was shocking. Of course, randy Orton at the top Edge, the Rock, and then the Undertaker, I think the Rock is nine, edge is around 12 and then Randy Orton, of course, is at 14.
Speaker 3Tied with Triple.
Speaker 2H.
Speaker 1Oh, good for him, All right let's go to the scoreboard.
Speaker 3We're doing great. Zero to zero. It's zero, zero.
Speaker 2It's anybody's game at this point it is still very close All tied up. Going into the fourth question, let's see Slider, eric's favorite. God damn it, man. How many playable characters are currently available in Marvel Rivals?
Speaker 1Oh my god, I haven't played this fucking game.
Speaker 2Somewhere between 35 and 50. You will get points for being close as well. How many characters can you currently play, as in Marvel Rivals? I don't fucking know. Alright, alright, damn. The answer is 39. Who put 38? Me, you'll get points for that. There you go.
Speaker 1I'll take the petty points, spin that wheel.
Speaker 2Get some points for that. Alright, eric, on the board with 154. Landslide, all right. Next question, I think, is oh, pin the answer, eric. Which one of these Fast and the. Furious characters is named Elena. Who the fuck is, Elena no no, which one of these Fast and the Furious characters is named Elena Did?
Speaker 3I get it, did I get it, did I get it.
Speaker 2No, oh, somebody got it right. Who did?
Speaker 1Yeah, it was me. Damn it, man. That's Eric's favorite recurring question. I get it wrong every time. The last time I got it right, but that was pure luck.
Speaker 2One of these months I will bring back Jeopardy and there will be just a Fast and the Furious category. I hope you're prepared.
Speaker 1I will exit, I will leave, I love that Scoreboard.
Speaker 2Aaron is on the board Takes the lead Damn.
Speaker 3How's that crown feel?
Speaker 2All right Halfway through. How's that crown feel Alright Halfway through, that's?
Speaker 1a lot of points.
Speaker 2This should be a quiz. Okay, we have a quiz. What's the name of the corporation in Borderlands that is responsible for manufacturing Claptrap? Is it the Jacobs, Malawan, Iridion or Hyperion who manufactured Claptrap in the Borderlands franchise? All right, One person got it right.
Speaker 1I hope it was who do you think it wasn't me Wasn't?
Speaker 2me, the correct answer is Hyperion. Shout out to our boy Claptrap Aaron, taking a commanding lead, hell yeah. All right question seven I think okay, true or false, in hey Arnold. Arnold's iconic bedroom is located in the basement of his grandparents' boarding house, True or false? Where is Okay? Well, one of you got that wrong somehow, Eric there's a skylight.
Speaker 1Oh, it's in the attic. Huh, there's a skylight. Oh, it's in the attic. Huh, there's a skylight in the apartment. I'm not having a good time.
Speaker 2You know, I did think this was an easy one. He looks through the clouds, he climbs into the roof from his room. Okay, I'm sorry this one might have gotten away from you, eric.
Speaker 1Yeah, I'm having a hard time uh score update.
Speaker 2For the audio only audience, it is 2638 to 154 my one answer getting really established in the slider is crazy because you took, because it took a while. I hate you All. Right. Next question Type the answer. What is the first name of this person? An image will slowly reveal itself.
Speaker 3First name. That's not correct. Oh oh, that's a crazy poll, that's a crazy pull, that's a crazy pull.
Speaker 2I was like I thought about asking for the full name. I was like no, guerrero could be a little difficult to spell. I'll just ask for the first name so for those of you that are just listening, that was Chavo Guerrero that showed up on our screen. There is also a WaitForward podcast lore for Chavo Guerrero. Should we explain that now or after? Kahoot? Do it right now, dude. You might as well just do it now. So back in what was it 2005? 7.
Speaker 3One Night Stand.
Speaker 2Oh 7? Oh yeah, 2007. Wwe One Night Stand. Oh seven, oh yeah, 2007,. Wwe One Night Stand came to Jacksonville and the three of us went. It was a blast Core memory, lots of fun.
Speaker 2And afterwards we went to Steak and Shake, over by the Avenues Mall, for those of you that are in Jacksonville. And as we walk in, a man walks up and grabs himself a menu and I just at him and I turn around to these two and I go guys, that's chavo guerrero, chavo guerrero, wrestler, of course, of the guerrero family. And then we get seated and they are you know how for those of you that have been to steak and shake, it has like the windows so that the booths are like right next to each other and we get set sat right next to him. Um, didn't didn't build up the courage to say hello or ask for an autograph or a picture or anything like that, but we did steal his fork that he used to eat his meal. Hold on, hold on. Okay, I did not. You did not build up the courage. Not necessarily a we.
Speaker 3You did not build up the courage. You held up the autograph book, that's true to the people across from us and said is that him? And they said yeah, and then you said you got too scared so I went up I did so sweet and I asked for an autograph and then you guys came, he autographed your book. Oh, he did, he did. Yeah, I do have the autograph.
Speaker 2That's right, I do have the autograph. And he was so nice. And then you guys came up and you were like I love you so much. Man, he autographed your book. Oh, he did. He did, yeah, I do have the autograph. That's right, I do have the autograph. I forgot about that. I don't have that book anymore. And then you guys came up and you were like I love you so much, man, you're the best and then we stole his fork.
Speaker 1Well, you did, or Eric? Yes, one of you two did, yeah, which what we did with that?
Speaker 3fork. We had it for a few weeks. We ate lava cake with it.
Speaker 2But we cleaned it right? No, we cleaned it, we did wash it. No, we didn't.
Speaker 1No, we didn't there's no way I ate off that fork and it was not clean.
Speaker 3There's no way. No, because your dad Phil put it in the washing dishwasher because we couldn't figure out which fork it was.
Speaker 2And then it just got mixed into all the others.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 3Then we just used a regular fork.
Speaker 2But we ate lava cake with it. Yeah, shout out to Chili's. All right, all right. Next question let's see if Eric can mount a comeback here. Let's go to the scoreboard. All right, not looking good. Eric is leading 3,329 to 945. Can Eric get into the thousands range? With these last two questions, I'm sure it's going to go fine. Puzzle Place these 2024 films in order of highest to lowest worldwide gross.
Speaker 3I don't think I'm going to get this.
Speaker 2So which of these films made the most money? The options are Mufasa, the Lion King Story I missed a word there Godzilla X-Kong, the New Empire, despicable Me 4, and Kung Fu Panda 4. Got a couple of 4s came out.
Speaker 3I'm going to do this. I don't know if this is right. Who made the?
Speaker 2most money. Who made the least money? No, made the least money. No, alright, no one got that right. It was Despicable Me 4, which was very surprising, mufasa, godzilla, x-con and.
Speaker 3I flipped the first two. I should have put Despicable Me 4 at number one.
Speaker 2Yes, despicable Me still makes crazy money, man, it is a People.
Speaker 3Love those minions, dude, as you can see on Facebook Like the Tweety Bird of our generation.
Speaker 2Yeah, alright, no points there. Eric, I don't know what the math is, but I think you need about 2200 points here.
Speaker 1And you need Aaron to get it wrong. We can make that happen.
Podcast Wrap-Up and Farewells
Speaker 2Yeah, so the last question, pin your answer which one of these 10? Characters is named sassy there's no way. There's no way, there's a whole new one all right, somebody got it right, it wasn't me.
Speaker 1She looks sassy.
Speaker 2This one's sassy right here. That's May that you selected, eric, so maybe you want to put that away?
Speaker 1May is sassy. That was the other seven eighths of Ted Lasso. I hadn't seen on TikTok yet. Yeah, you just missed that one.
Speaker 2All right, let's check the scoreboard. No one was in third place. Second place, ericbrbpp, and in first place with 4,246 points is Aaron. Wait, did you change? Did you? Did you change out of the pacifier? Can you change?
Speaker 1at any point no, no, it changed. Right before we started I had the pacifier oh no, I did too at one point.
Speaker 2We did we did.
Speaker 1I changed it right before we started yeah, I'm just a child, so this wasn't really fair. I'm just a little baby, I'm just a.
Speaker 2I'm just a little baby, I'm just a baby, I'm just a little baby. Well, there we have it, folks, kahoot, eric, rough time, rough time there.
Speaker 3I'll send you my address so you can send me the crown, yeah.
Speaker 2I got you. I got you the title belt. Actually, Eric, do you have it near you? Show Aaron the yeah a belt. Hold on, you're gonna.
Speaker 3Give him a moment to weep.
Speaker 2I should get some sleep. Oh shit, you have to send that to Aaron. Oh, he doesn't have his headphones on.
Speaker 1You gotta send that to Aaron. We're on it. We're on it.
Speaker 3Oh my God yeah, really cool. Shout out to Stefan. I're on it, we're on it. Oh my god yeah.
Speaker 2Really cool. Shout out to Stefan.
Speaker 3I'll wear it to the office.
Speaker 2There you go. There you go. Well, Aaron, thank you so much for joining us and partaking in the madness. That is what Did I Miss. We hope you'll come back if you had a good time, Like we said we want to. When there's more people, it adds to the chaos of the episode and Kahoot as well. Is there anything you want to plug, like anything you're working on or just anything else you want to let people know? And if you want to share again your socials, go for it before we wrap up.
Speaker 3I mean play Borderlands 4, everybody Pre-order it, play it. Borderlands 4, everybody Pre-order it, play it. Give it a good review.
Speaker 2My job's on the line, please, please.
Speaker 3Please play the game.
Speaker 2Please play the game. Yeah, and we'll make sure that all your social links, as far as Twitch and stuff like that, are in the show notes of the episode and, yeah, we're excited to see the game Again. Aestheticallyically looks great. The gameplay, from everything I've seen from the previews, looks like a lot of fun.
Speaker 1So is that why you counterpicked it in our league?
Speaker 2Phil, yeah, I well you know I also counterpicked what's it called Death Stranding 2, and now my season's over, so I'm not even sure probably so yeah, but for those of you that are still here, if you want to keep up with the way for a podcast, just click the link tree link in the show notes of this and every single episode. You'll find all the episodes for the month of june. July is going to be packed. We are also officially for those of you that listen to this episode before it happens are going to be at infinity con in tallahassee, florida, june 12th and the 13th. So come down or come over or whichever direction you need to go, and hang out with us at Infinity Con. Shout out to them for having us.
Speaker 2Make sure to keep up with us on social media Instagram, tiktok, our thriving Discord channel, which has been a whole lot of fun interacting with everybody. We are on Twitch quite a bit, having a whole lot of fun over there and, of course, follow Eric and I's personal pages to help us grow as I navigate voice acting and voiceover. And then Eric continues to put out content each and every single day, working very, very hard. So we appreciate all of the support. Head on over to Apple Podcasts, spotify, youtube, like, share, subscribe, thumbs up. All that stuff is very beneficial. We thank you so much, but if you find yourself wanting to join the Weight Watchers, get these episodes early and also get some additional perks. Eric will let you know about that before wrapping us up for the evening.
Speaker 1Yeah. So, of course, all the free stuff is much appreciated, but if you want to go the extra mile and go beyond, you can go to Patreon, where patrons of the show Briar T3, Kato, Vintage, Macaroni, Corey from the World is my Burrito and Nick Casparo, the author of the Vidularium series, are supporting us monthly on that platform in exchange for behind-the-scenes access and early access to episodes like this one. So make sure to support us there. That's the main way you can definitely do that, Above all the free stuff that Phil mentioned. Joining our Discord, being a part of the community, engaging with our content and our episodes all of that stuff goes a long way as well, and we appreciate you for giving this episode a listen.
Speaker 1With all that being said, my name is Mr Eric Almighty. That is my co-host. Phil the Filipino and Erin, aka Erin my Laundry. Make host Phil the Filipino and Erin, aka Erin my Laundry. Make sure to support her. Check her out. Check out more episodes of the podcast. We release new episodes every Wednesday and all you gotta do is wait for it damn it this is the wait for it podcast.
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