Speaker 1: Hello, ladies, gentlemen. We oh sorry, you're in the number
one slot.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I just told you take that back.
Speaker 1: I gotta follow how you operate U. Ladies and gentlemen.
We're here after nine February twenty twenty five edition. It's
gonna be a good time. Some folks are going to
be slowly creeping in the door here as we gotta
get underway. And yeah, I'm gonna be sharing that link
on the Patreon here for our Patreon fan basis tier two,
right Kirkland, Yes, Tier two and higher Tier two. Last
time I did this here five dollars twer Okay, I
did this last time. My Travis got super mad at me.
But it turns out I was right, So I don't
know why you got mad at me. Oh I did
it properly by what by making it sharing the link?
Because he was like, oh, you made it so everyone
can see the link, And I looked and I was like, no,
I made it so not everyone can see the link.
Speaker 2: It was Yeah, he's getting crazy in his old retired age,
that guy. Hm hmm, thank god he's gone.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, the month of February can really you
can mess a guy up.
Speaker 3: A little bit.
Speaker 1: I just had an effect on Travis.
Speaker 2: I agree.
Speaker 1: Anyways, So, uh, what's what's the latest?
Speaker 2: You?
Speaker 1: Uh you tuk looks like you up.
Speaker 2: Yes, I got my my big white merch. That's the
big local ski hill here where we live. For anyone
that doesn't know, I was there since Monday, got back yesterday.
I told you a little bit about it off cast,
but I'll reiterate for anyone that wasn't a part of
that private chat. Uh, yeah, no it was. It was fantastic.
We rented a condo, we had a hot tub there,
just lots of snowboarding. Last day of like actual snowboarding Thursday,
we had a lot of snow and yeah, I was
just feeling pretty wild and reckless. And it's funny when
you have like a lot of snow, it just feels
like like god mode is enabled where you just don't
take fault damage or something like you can just kind
of send it and it's like, well, if I wipe out,
it's just like a cloud of soft snow. So I
went up there with mister Hidalgo himself and our ladies.
So yeah, it was a fun little shindig. My birthday
is on the twenty eighth of January, and then his
birthday is the sixteenth, so it's like it was kind
of a combined birthday weekend. That was the idea of it.
Both of us are turning twenty nine, so getting close
to that big three zero date. It's funny when you
guys are turning thirty, it's like, oh, yeah, well, of
course you guys are older me. You know thirty's coming.
But once I'm getting close tid number, it's like, oh
my gosh, I was always the youngest of the podcast. Yeah,
there's no going back. There absolutely isn't. I'm still a
whole lot of my This was my Champagne birthday year
when I was twenty eight on twenty eight, so I've
been joining it, but no, snowboarding was was lots of
fun and I'm excited to one day go up there
with you, mister Field. Yes, but have you ever watched
New Girl?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 2: Okay, so that was the theme of the birthday weekend
because I don't remember the episode if you remember the episode,
but I think in season one, Schmidt that character is
turning twenty nine, so they're like making a big deal
about his birthday for twenty nine. So we always said
that we're gonna do a twenty ninth birthday for me,
and then we just ended up rolling around to do
a combined birthday weekend for snowboarding, and yeah, that was the theme.
So they the girls made like a bunch of fun
little art and knick knacks. I should show you. Actually,
you remember the douchebag jar for Schmidt. It's like, anytime
you would do something douchebaggy, you would have to put
money into a jar. So if he like hits on
a girl in a really gross way, they're like jar,
then he has to put in money for the douchebag jar.
The girls made us douche bag jars, but they just
filled it with like candy and stuff, so it was
it was kind of fun there. And then, uh yeah,
probably my my favorite gift that I ever got was
a I got a Vikings jersey.
Speaker 1: I saw your photos.
Speaker 2: That's my football team. Yeah, so I was rocking that
on the mountain. Got a lot of compliments on that.
A lot of people loved it. One guy was like, oh,
sorry about your Vikings and I was just like, yeah, yeah,
it's it's still pretty fresh. Said something about like not
being able to catch, and I'm like, dude, come on,
it was all about the throwing, like, come on, the
receivers were doing their job, but you.
Speaker 1: Didn't throw shade back at him, like I'm sorry for
your lame board.
Speaker 2: Sorry, you can't afford a jersey, you and your stupid jacket.
Just push them over. No, that wasn't that wasn't my
reaction there. But no, I was pretty stoked on that.
I was rocking that on the mountain and represent Vikings.
Better luck next year. Out of the playoffs, there was
a couple of big football games on today. It's like
basically three games left of the season, like, whoever wins
this these two games go to the Super Bowl, which
is happening February ninth, so not next week but the
week after. Yeah, it's been. Uh, it's been a wild
first year and me following football, it's been it's been
lots of fun. In the football chats over on the
GV discord, super Bad Mike is doing all of his
movie watching because he came in last, so he used
to watch a bunch of bad movies that we recommend.
I told him to watch The Circle, Taylor, if you
remember that movie with the Great Emma Watson and Finn Wolf.
What's his name, f n one? I can't. I guess
he doesn't have a last names. His name is just
Finn from Star Wars. Yeah, John Boe, he's there. Well
that's the idea, right, because that's his punishment because he
because he lost everything we have to watch or he
used to watch something bad. He's making his way through
that list. But now it's been lots of fun to follow,
and yeah, got really into it. So it's crazy. With
football though, it's like if you follow one team, it's
like one game a week. They might have a buye week,
so maybe they don't play that week, and then the
season is just over and then and then that's just it.
The whole season's done. It's it's a weird, abrupt end.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: I've I've followed many sports in my day, but this
is definitely an odd one. But I've been enjoying it.
Mm hmm, well right on, cool, Well you've had to
this week.
Speaker 1: You've been working, working the Monday to Friday, and you know,
the first week back after a vacation just sucks. This
week felt so long and exhausting. Absolutely can't wait for
next week. I can't wait for next week. God damn,
but no, it's it was. It was okay, it was
you know, it's done. It's the week on Saturday. So
I'm very grateful for that. But yeah, I was in
Disneyland the week before and I was super like, I
was just I was worried for the sake that there
are all these fires going on in Los Angeles. That
just sucks because like West Colowona, we had that massive
brutal fire, so we're no strangers to it in British Columbia,
which again sucks like it's it's a reoccurring thing every
summer and it's not great. And so what happened down
there that was just very, very horrible. And then we
were getting second thoughts thinking maybe we should just cancel
because we don't know what the state of things is
like down there. You don't want to go down there
and be taken up. I don't know they need just
you don't want to be touristing in a place, so
that needs to be focusing on like the locals and
just the sorting everything out, making sure everything's okay. So
we weren't sure, We're repprehensive. I called our hotel, I
made a few other calls around town. It was just
trying to say, Okay, what's the scope of things, and
everyone was like, it's totally fine. Anahein is totally separate
from this, Like the hotel was even like, yeah, there's
no problems here, just come on in. So we went
through with it, and we were very, very worried, but
we went through with it and it was like Anahein
was perfectly fine, like clear Skies, everything was great, and yeah,
we did four days at Disneyland and it was just phenomenal.
It was. It was wonderful. Hell yeah, And we went
with two of our friends and they have a little one,
so we were able to switch off and babysit. So
me and Madison got like four nights or sorry, two
like date nights in the park, so we were just
like bombing off, like hitting all the different rides. So
that was great. And then we did the same for them.
We watched their kids, so they were able to go
off and hit all the rides and stuff. So it
was it was definitely a really really awesome time. And
I'm not going to say I full on crid, but
when I got into Star Wars Galaxy sa I had tears.
I actually I was just like, oh my god, this
is this is it, like you're in Star Wars. This
is the dream right here. It was amazing.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I didn't want to like spoil anything for you, obviously.
I was just like Taylor get Ready, like it's it's
a whole new world that you enter, and it's it's
crazy like even just like like seeing like the Mountain
Range and like it just seems like it goes on forever.
Like they did a really good job with the design.
Speaker 1: They really do and going in at nighttime too, Like
was we I first during the daytime because we hit
a few rides, and then finally I looked at the group.
I was like, okay, like the kids are starting to
nap here, they're in their shoulders. Could we just go
And they're like, yeah, let's do it. So we went
in and yeah, we got the blue milk. We did
all that and the smugglers run. There was like h
five minute away time. There's like nothing, so it's like,
oh my god, like we could do it to me
and Madison, they our friends took se teen and mean
Madison just get at it in there. But we got
to fly it. We did it twice, so we flew
and we did the guns flying. It was definitely an experience.
And then Rise of the Resistance, like, holy crap, what
a Rise of the experience, I'd call it. It was
just absolutely like next level, like holy holy smokes, but yeah,
it was. It was great. And did the Turkey legs.
Turkey legs? We did that twice. That was fantastic. And
I can't print. I never know the name properly, gibrel D.
Is that the name of the chocolate places that really fancy?
Speaker 2: Gibbrel D? Not sure.
Speaker 1: Gibraltar is a mountain. Let's see Sibraltar.
Speaker 2: Let's a map on Overwatch one.
Speaker 1: Gara Delli Geared Delli. So in California Adventure, they have
a Gara Deli shop and it's like the chocolate is
like like eleven out of ten and I didn't they
didn't have any prices on the Sunday board they have
the Sundays and they had like this beautifully looking strawberry
Sunday and then they had the something chocolate that Madison got.
They were twenty bucks each and I did not realize
that until they they got to the cash register.
Speaker 2: I was like, well, there's no price. You're in dat. No,
It's like when you're in a restaurant and you're look
at the menu there's no prices. It's like, oh god,
I don't belong here.
Speaker 1: That's right, that's right. But yeah, all in all, it
was great. I can't wait to uh to go back there.
And but yeah that was good. Yeah, welcome Dylan.
Speaker 5: Well boys, my brain these days these last couple of weeks,
so old boy, it's and something else. I set my
alarm this morning. My god, I get up, do you
after nine? And then I was just packing and then
I was like, let me pull something up on YouTube.
That's how you streaming my oh ship. So that's a
little pea. Yeah, that was good to hear the back
half of your Star Wars Chip trip or Disney World trip,
Disneyland trip, that's the one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, have you been Have you been keeping busy packing?
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's a lot of packing and moving next Friday,
so less than a week away. As you can tell,
my my bookshelf is slowly getting ripped apart here.
Speaker 2: Yes, a lot of games are gone.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but no, I don't I don't think it'll be
too bad of a move. I hired movers that's where.
Speaker 1: I'm out in my life.
Speaker 5: I don't I'm not gonna that's my back out of
a couch and a bed these days, So I'll just
pay the extra money do it that way make it
a bit easier. So yeah, sorry, one at a time,
please first up, Cirk compatser, you're.
Speaker 2: On the ground floor or you on like yes, I okay,
that's nice.
Speaker 5: I'm in the ground floor right now and moving to
another round four play This one's a little awards like
at the back, so youf like go around the house whatever.
But moving into the next place should be pretty easy.
Speaker 2: So nice.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it shouldn't be too bad.
Speaker 1: Do they supply the boxes the movie the hire company?
H or do they just lift things and put them down?
Speaker 5: You can do that, but then like I guess they
would like come to your house with the boxes on
the day, package things up, tape it and then take it.
So it's like you could do that, but then you're
like they charge hourly, right, so that would probably take
an hour?
Speaker 1: Yeah, something they're not rushing.
Speaker 5: They're taking their Yeah, they're like a taxi driver where
they go like all these extra roads that they don't
need to no, I I mean thankfully. My at my work,
like we're always getting shipments and stuff. So I've just
been like slowly siphoning boxes out of there nice and
moving stuff and whatnot. So i could just get a
bunch of boxes that way, and yeah, yeah, it shouldn't
be too bad.
Speaker 1: Nice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, moving's never fun. It's just the whole process of
packing then unpacking. Then I mean you have to like
set up new internet and that's always It always takes
longer than it than it should. Sometimes we did it
like multiple days early, so I like was ready to
go once we moved in. But nice, Yeah, I've for
I like, I think it was Travis that didn't know
you had to do it ahead of time and then
he had to like wait a couple of days. Maybe
maybe have thrown under the bus for no reason he
started Travis, But pretty sure it was him. That's what
we do here. He's he's retired.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I I I signed up for this internet company
called Oxio. So that's not tell Us or Shaw. So
I'm trying to sound a little different, but uh, you know,
it's a little bit cheaper. I think they're kind of
like you know, there's like all those like new phone companies, yeah,
for like insane the good prices and like, I don't know,
maybe their service is good, but they're just trying to
get a bunch of people in the door by offering
like really good service. I think that's kind of what's
going on with this internet. But they have like a
you know, if you're not satisfied for like sixty days,
you get a full refund kind of thing.
Speaker 2: Nice.
Speaker 5: If it sucks, I'll just switch it out. But yeah,
I bought the bought the modem or I guess paid
for already, so they're just sending the modem now to
this place. So I should have it on movie day
and hopefully I can just like plug it in and
set it up. So mm hmm, we'll see. Otherwise I'll
be missing some casts for a little bit as I'll
be without internet, but I don't know how to live
without interne anymore. I'm so dependent on it for yeah, everything,
so I really really hope I get that on the
moving day or like the first couple of days at.
Speaker 2: Least, And like I feel like I don't realize how
much I just rely on data these days as well,
Like man back in the day, like my first not
even a smartphone, probably my BlackBerry or something I had,
Like I was sharing like a hundred mags with my
mom and like I never ever got close to maxing
it out. Like it was just I felt like I
never used it, like definitely never internet searches or anything.
And now I feel like if internet's slow, I just
turn it off. I'm like, well, I'm not waiting for this.
I'm just I got unlimited data. Let's just go. Let's
stream some YouTube on my data. Like that was just
such a thing that was out of out of the
possibilities back in the day. But it's just so easy accessible.
But on that note, Taylor, you have an iPhone sixteen, right,
I really need to update my phone, Like it's my
battery doesn't last the whole day. Now these days, I
gotta I got an upgrade. How do you like your phone?
Speaker 1: I really really like it. I I don't. I don't
use this button too much. They put a button right here,
and it's basically like you click it and it just
goes to like a quick right there. So you can
set the button to go to like a certain app
or something you use frequently, and you just click it
and it just opens it up.
Speaker 5: Right away.
Speaker 1: Again, I don't use it that often. I just I
doesn't know app that I do that with. But there's
a few improvements. The other buttons kind of have some
other configurations. The battery life is a lot better than
my fourteen I think I had before. I usually skip
a gin and go to the next one.
Speaker 2: Twelve. I'm on twelve. I'm pretty backed up like that.
I'm still rocking that back so the background, I can't
see the image in the back. But yes, I love it.
Speaker 1: I mean, aside from that, there is not really a
huge amount of differences. Just the battery life is better,
it's faster. And one thing that was cool was previously,
because I always buy unlocked, I had a SIM card
in my old phone. Put into the new unlocked phone,
you're good to go. But with this, when it migrated
my phone thirteen into this, it asked if I wanted
to go with like a digital SIM card so it
could just electronically transfer over, and thought, well, that's kind
of cool. I ended up doing it, and maybe I
shouldn't have because you can still put the physical SIM
card in there. I didn't simcard digitally transferred in and
so I guess you can't go backwards obviously, because you
have to be able to transfer it, and not all
modern phoonks can do that. So hopefully it becomes more
of a a thing. But I guess I'm for now
or forever locked to Apple.
Speaker 2: Could committed here, that's funny.
Speaker 5: Well maybe we should bring in Charlie Randell here and
start off with Charlie the phone. Do you got you
got a good recommendation for Kirkland? What's going on here?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I actually just got the new sixteen as well now,
and I am a big fan of the camera button.
I've actually been using it a lot. My hands are
like super greasy at work sometimes, so I gotta take
a lot of pictures of like wiring and stuff so
you can just pop out, click the button once and
then you're good to go.
Speaker 5: That sounds like, yeah, what do you sir?
Speaker 4: I'm a mill rate and mckis so the work work
on repair machines and stuff.
Speaker 2: Nice. Yes, yeah, very similar type of use for my phone.
I'm an electrician, so I have to take photos of
my own wiring and just stuff that we do for
inspections and whatnot. And man, I was like sometimes in
the summer, like working in addicts and stuff. It gets
so hot in there. My phone it actually just refused
to take photos. I never saw this before, but it
just came out and said phone is too hot to
use the camera, So like try again later. I'm like, okay,
I either need to just carry a camera with me
now for work or just upgrade my phone. And I've
been I've been holding off for so long. I feel
like this is the longest I've ever held off for
a phone. But yeah, I definitely need to upgrade it.
But I need to play around with that camera button
because you know, I'm taking a lot of photos and
my hands are not always clean at work.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, that's the best. That's the best use for
it I find. But yeah, it's pretty pretty. So you
have the twelve you set twelve pros.
Speaker 2: Okay, so it's not super basic, Okay, Okay, it's got
some good hardware.
Speaker 4: But like, if you think about it, it's not that old.
But man, Apple, just like the phones just go downhill
so fast, the battery they get so slow.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, especially when I'm sad, especially when I updated
the new iOS. That was like the biggest noticeable difference
of just my bardy was tanking super leggy now like
pulling up certain apps if I have like a lot
in the background. But yeah, I also thought I had
like the fourteen until I like really went to the
settings and look, I'm like, oh man, I'm actually like
really far behind.
Speaker 1: But it's set up to push you to upgrade, you know.
Speaker 2: Well that's the thing, right, Like the software gets improved,
but the hardware in the phone doesn't, so then when
you get more updates, it just gets It's like my
computer right now, like fuck, six years ago, this thing
was awesome, but no, haven't upgraded any hardware.
Speaker 5: Since you're struggling to do email these days. That's how
it's getting. It's pretty much a podcast machine.
Speaker 4: Are you moving far away, Dylan? I heard heard you're
about to move.
Speaker 5: I'm not moving too far. It's like, I don't know,
maybe a twenty minute drive from where I am currently
technically different city, because that's how Vancouver works. There's like
six cities that are all like right next to each other.
But I've lived kind of in that area before, so
it should be pretty good. It's like the main thing
for me is that it's like a five minute walk
from the climbing gym, living good. I'm gonna be going
like probably twice as much as I am now. I
just walk there or bike there, So I think mental
health that'll be really good.
Speaker 4: I'll just be it's pretty sweet.
Speaker 5: I'll be so active, so that'll be good.
Speaker 4: You got like a yearly membership, I'm assuming or something
like that.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I'm locked in and it's not cheap. They
they charge a good money for this place because they
kind of have a monopoly here in Vancouver. So I'm
paying good money. But you get access to like all
their different locations since they have like four or five
of them.
Speaker 2: So hmm.
Speaker 5: Yeah, at least can get some good variety for that
for that cost.
Speaker 4: Nice.
Speaker 2: Yeah that's another person.
Speaker 5: Hey, O April morning, how you doing. How are you
doing good? We're just talking about phones. What kind of
phone do you got?
Speaker 6: Maybe thirteen Mini iPhone.
Speaker 4: Thirteen MANI Mini, a little one. Yeah, my brother is
a fan of the minis too. I've yeah, I've never
understood it, but.
Speaker 5: Touch kind of south in my pocket. Yeah, I didn't
know they even made the minis. That's so cool. I
feel like they should make now, Yeah, they should. I
think they should. They should go back like the nano size.
They should make an iPhone that's the size of a
nanohole A little bit.
Speaker 2: I know, I forgot about that thing.
Speaker 4: It's only kind of like the watch.
Speaker 5: That's kind of like the apple You're right, right, so
small that fits on your wrist.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 1: What's the latest, April, What have you been watching?
Speaker 6: It's just getting ready to watch all the Oscar movies.
I guess that I haven't seen so nice.
Speaker 2: September five in there. I've seen that movie.
Speaker 6: I saw it, same mystery movie that you did, so
oh perfect. I always go to those.
Speaker 5: What was that? Was that nominated for something?
Speaker 6: Screenplay or something?
Speaker 1: I think I don't.
Speaker 2: Even know if it was actually nominated. I just remember
when I went and saw it. Travis is like, oh,
this is probably going to be like best Screenplay type film.
I don't know how the He.
Speaker 1: Also said this is probably going to be Sonic three, So.
Speaker 2: He said a lot, he said a lot. Yeah, the
one I meant to watch actually as The Brutalizer, but
we didn't get it here in our in our area.
Speaker 5: Brutalist Ian.
Speaker 2: Yeah, is that like a state of the movie The Brutalizer?
Very different topically?
Speaker 6: Yeah, but I just got it this weekend, so it Sunday.
Speaker 2: Nice. Yeah, I still want to see that.
Speaker 5: Welcome Mike. How you doing today?
Speaker 3: Hell doing good? Doing good you guys?
Speaker 4: Heyo, so far, so good.
Speaker 5: How's everyone feeling about this brutalist Ai? I want to
hear some thoughts from the round table, if anyone's got
some thoughts on this brutist? AI said, have you heard
of the the AI controversy of me? All right, so
here's my I pulled the tailor this week. I was
reading the headlines. I was not reading the article. But
sometimes the brutalist used AI for a couple of things
that used AI to generate, like the structure of buildings,
like architecture and things I don't know in what context.
But then they also use AI to like correct the
pronunciation of like Hungarian vowels. I guess is like the
specific detail. So I don't know if I'm guessing that
like Adrian Brody like speaks Hungarian in the movie, I guess.
And then maybe they use AI to like, he messed
up how you pronounced an o or something, and so
they use AI to like pretty much edit that I guess,
So that I don't know, am I anyone want to
correct me, Like, am I off base or is that
somewhat correct?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 6: I think that's right.
Speaker 4: The only the only time I've heard about it is
on I think you guys talked about a little last episode. Yeah,
that's kind of kind of weird. I definitely want to
see it, I think, and see what that's all about,
if you can notice it or anything. I feel like,
I don't know, at least it's not like a huge
use of AI. It seems slightly minimal, so I don't know.
Maybe it's more of like just a tool to tweak
things like that opposed to like full on like creating stuff.
So yeah, I guess we'll see, Yes, we we'll see. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's just like I feel like, I the architecture
part of it, like that's shitty, like just wire an
architect or someone to like do these designs. Why are
we using AI for that? The voice part is the
one that like, and I don't fully understand it or
the context of it, but I gets to me that
just sounds like an editing thing, almost like you would
use in like a software or something, rather than like AI,
and like the evil villainy way that we talk about it,
and it's like I like people are talking like, oh,
should he should it disqualify him from like a like
in the oscars and voting and stuff, and like maybe
that's the case, but like I don't know that just
to me sounds like a quality of Life DLC update
for like the Hungarian audience, Like I don't think a
single person in Hollywood is going to change their vote
because they're like, oh, he pronounced that oh correctly, Like
they're not gonna They're not gonna notice or know the difference.
And like I guess I wonder where the line is,
Like was it every single word that was corrected with AI?
Is it like one word? Is it ten words? Like
where do we draw the line of Like this is
too much AI? So that one I think I maybe
need to get the full context of it to like
come down on. But that one seems less egregious than
the architecture design thing that that really grinds my gears.
I guess.
Speaker 2: I feel like I don't even fully understand what this
means like until I actually see it, you know, like
is it gonnabe? Something's really noticeable for like the speech
aspect to it, It's definitely something I never would have
known if you didn't tell me going into it, unless
it's like really stands out. You know, you get some
like AI images where you just know for a fact. Yeah,
I feel like those AI videos too. They've been just
getting some of my family members, my parents or whatever,
are like I don't know, just someone will like do
you see this crazy video? And I'm like, oh my god, man,
like no, we got to train the older generation on
how to identify some of these AI images like just just.
Speaker 5: Surta me, man, I get it's getting really good that
I get. I miss it sometimes too, I.
Speaker 2: Definitely get like get a double take sometimes, but yeah,
I know, I feel like they're just getting maybe better.
I guess. So yeah, they're they're getting certain. I mean, yeah,
I guess I do get got sometimes. Taylor Field, we'll
see when we watch the show if that's actually is
a scene that happens. I'm a hold on, Well, no, hope.
Speaker 1: You know, with the AI use on generating these backgrounds
or the architecture whatnot, that is unfortunate. There's definitely I'm
sure many artists out there looking to get a get
an extra dollar to help do something like that for
their portfolio, but to use it for a dialect. Oh,
it opens up the doorway for many other actors to
take on many different roles because you know, maybe they
don't have that certain kind of accent that they could
utilize for this character. But this helps get them that
that gig. The downside is maybe that also removes the
option or the ability for someone else who specializes or
like has really nailed that accent and wants to come
in and do it, because oh, well, we could just
get anyone, We get Florence Pugh in this role and
just give her like a Japanese accent or something like that. Like,
it's just they could do anything now. And I think
that that is there's pros and cons to it. I
see what they're going with. But again, Adrian Brodie, he
could already I guess he already could speak Hungarian, and
so they just wanted to really emphasize and not well enough. No,
I can't remember what I read where I read in
one of the articles, but I think it was just
a very old school like dialect that they wanted to
really refine. And even though he could speak it and
he had that accent, they wanted to really just get
it there, and I mean, I'm not Hungarian, So I mean,
who are they really appealing to all the Hungarians in
the world. If the Hungarians want to be represented with
that accurate accent and AI needed to be used, then sure.
Otherwise I feel like it's just the director who's like, yeah,
I wanted to just be true to that Hungarian accent
for his own benefit. I mean this with all the
respect in my heart. I'm just a Canadian and if
you put this guy with this Hungarian accent, I'm not
gonna know how, Like is that fifty percent Hungarian accent
one hundred percent? It's gonna sound Hungarian to me, and
that's good enough for me. Like this is let's just
watch the movie. But I can respect people's creative vision
and their accuracy.
Speaker 5: I'd love to see a side by side and the
way that we like got the initial trailer for Sonic
and everyone's like this sucks, and then they went back
and like redid the animation and we can like look
at the side by side now, like here's what Sonic.
I would love to hear just like a few sentences,
like the examples where they used the AI and just
like how did he pronounce it versus what is the difference,
How subtle is it? Is it completely different? And then
it's good. I'm sure that, like if it's the big
movie that's getting a lot of buzz, I'm sure it
doesn't sound awful, like I'm sure they made it like
pretty seamless. And that's just once again how I feel
like it's maybe more of like an editing something you
do with an editing Like I feel like editing software
already has things like that, like built in where you
can like adjust things, and I don't know, it automates
a lot of the process, so it's it's weird where
that line is is drawn sometimes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Mike, I realized we didn't ask what kind of
phone do you have?
Speaker 3: Oh? I have an iPhone fifteen Max. Yeah, oh, a.
Speaker 2: Little big boy, the big screen the iPad, I.
Speaker 3: Figured because I watched a lot of videos on it.
So it was when I got in for the DL
I got it was only like I think, like seven
or eight bucks more a month.
Speaker 2: So I took that one. I think I am going
to do that one honestly, just because like it's it
might be an issue putting it in my pocket, I
mean at work, I'm usually wearing like a tool pouch
thing and I just put my phone in that anyways.
But I'd like to watch videos as well. And I
feel like the phone I had before this, I think
it was the iPhone eight Max, like it was the
bigger one. I went down to the smaller size just
for convenience to put it in my pocket, but like
I'm gonna go back. I like to just switch it
up sometimes.
Speaker 3: But also I have like bad eyesight, so that that
helps to see like just reading stuff more better.
Speaker 2: So there you go. Do you have the text like
bigger as well?
Speaker 3: So it's just massive, well not completely cranked up, because
when it's too cranked up, it messes with the layout
of everything as big as it can be while still
staying regular, And.
Speaker 2: A single word doesn't fit on there. You have to
like get the hyphen in there.
Speaker 3: I starts scrolling for one sentence.
Speaker 2: Right on. So what type of phone do you have?
I don't think we asked you. I have a Google
Pixel seven O, the G phone.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I've switched around, like I think my first one
was that BlackBerry flip phone, which I think Kirklan you
probably had like the same one. Then I had iPhone.
Then I had like Samsung Android and then Google Pixel now,
which they're all kind of the same thing. I mean,
I guess like iPhone obviously has like the different interface
and whatnot. I like the phone. It's a good phone.
The only thing that I have major beef with, which
I did not realize, is that, like you know, the
phone has, however, many gigabytes of space on it by default,
but like if you are taking pictures or videos like it,
since it's a Google phone, it only like connects to
your like Google drive space whatever. So even if I
have seventy gigs of free space on my phone, it
will not let me take a picture if my like
drive is full, so I had to like pay for
extra space. I'm like, I, this is the scummiest, grimiest
thing to like nickel and dime me for more money,
and it drives me nuts. But I you know, the
guy who sold me the phone didn't tell me that
this is an opposite of feature, like a downside to it,
so I honestly might not have gone with it. If
I knew about that, I would have gone somewhere else
because that's just annoying. But otherwise it's it's totally totally
good for it's new ish, so it's you know, runs
well and doesn't have any issues. Plays Marvel Snap even
though I haven't done that in a few months. But yeah,
what else does the guy need, you know, picking pictures?
Nothing else true, you know the geek first discord, That's
all I need.
Speaker 3: The biggest upgrade when I changed my phones, I had,
I got the same one before this. I got Swim
this year, and before that, I had the same one
since like twenty sixteen, twenty seventeen, And the biggest ugride
to me was just the space, like not having to
delete things just to find room to add more pictures
or dew with more stuff on it. So I went
from like sixty four gigs to one hundred and twenty eight.
It's a big difference.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, that's huge.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I find they even do that a little bit with
the the Apple like the iCloud space, like you're mentioning.
With the Google Drive like they they're pretty chintzy with
that too. They give you like five or ten gigs
that runs out like super quick, and now I gotta
pay like a dollar it's like a dollar fifty a month,
but it's still kind of an extra cost just to
hold stuff on there.
Speaker 2: It would that's a pain I paid for that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it almost up too fast.
Speaker 4: They almost force you to.
Speaker 2: Well, it's like it's not like you said, you get
like five gigs and then it's like, I don't know,
I think I think mine's like five bucks or something,
and then you go from five gigs like one hundred
and something. Yeah, it's just such a massive jump where
it's like, well, shit, I have take a lot of
photos for work, so it fills up like instantly on
my on my phone.
Speaker 5: But I'm like, I only need to be cause I
guess the convenience of that is that you can then
just any picture you take of your phone it's instantly
like also on your computer. I feel like I only
ever need to look at that picture on my computer,
like maybe twice a year or so, Like I don't
really want that picture. I'd rather just like if I
need it, I'll just email it to myself or something
inconvenient like that. So it's annoying that you can't just
like put it on your literal hard drive space, like
it seems really counterintuitive, but they're making money, so they're
gonna keep doing it. And it's gonna get even worse
and worse.
Speaker 1: I used to think like one hundred and twenty eight
gigs was something like to rave and rant about, and
that's what I was doing with all my phones. But
my sixteen, I just thought, Okay, two hundred and fifty six,
that's where I'm gonna go. And so I did with that,
and it's it's a lot nice throwing mic onto the US.
They're saying twenty eight it's not good enough. We know
like it was.
Speaker 5: For the longest time, I thought it was, well, you
got five pictures on your phone, Mike down the whole
season of Netflix.
Speaker 1: Showing I'll just say, I my my kid having a
kid at at least like probably like sixty gigs worth
of photos on my bloody phone, videos and everything. It's
brutal and I can't I can't delete it, like taking
on my gigs.
Speaker 4: That man, Kirkland. I was a little upset not to
hear you on the The Wolfman review. I feel like,
for a week, get you're getting Taylor on it. And
then I opened up the review and it was just Taylor.
I was like, thank you for bringing that.
Speaker 1: What happened to me?
Speaker 2: I was promoting the ship out of the review. But
you mean you heard the buzz and oh it was funny.
Taylor and I we spoke because he got back. I
think it was Friday. Movie came out Friday. We did
a Dexter review Friday, and then it was like, okay,
well watch on the weekend, maybe review it Sunday. That
was our plan. Completely forgot about that discussion. But by
the time the weekend went on, I was like doing
a lot of packing and stuff for my ski trip
and then just like a lot of grocery shopping on Sunday,
and then Taylor messaged me. Was it Sunday? Taylor? I
can't even remember now.
Speaker 1: I think it was like early are you gonna watch
the movie?
Speaker 2: I watched it?
Speaker 1: Are we doing it?
Speaker 2: And I'm like, oh shit, it's like afternoon on a
Sunday right now football is on. I'm like, I don't
know if I'm gonna go out to see that movie, Taylor.
And then of course I was gonna be gone all week,
so I wasn't gonna have a chance. But thank you
Taylor for taking this.
Speaker 1: I had to because you were meeting up for Dexter
review Friday, and then you're like, oh, Taylor, Yeah, LOOKI
I was pumping this out all.
Speaker 2: The week for the last two weeks. You better be
doing it.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 5: The opposite happened to me with Taylor when he bailed
on WONK and we still haven't done that review. So
I guess it's all balancing out.
Speaker 3: That happened eventually retro for Walker two.
Speaker 5: So now I just need to bail on Kirkland for
a two man review and circle it'll be a triangle.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so fun, and then we all bail on Travis
for a review. I guess that's yeah, that would work.
Speaker 5: That'd be cool.
Speaker 1: Nothing important. We'll be here for Captain America. I think
we're all we all got our tickets, now, did you
get yours?
Speaker 2: Cairclin definitely honest, So remind me closer to.
Speaker 1: Are you guys all excited for it? You got tickets yet?
Speaker 4: I have not got tickets yet, but I'm I'm I'm
excited for it. Ish we'll see. No, I think it
does look a little more like that Winter Soldier vibe,
which I am I am excited for, so we'll we'll
see how it goes. But I'm gonna watch it regardless,
So I'm I'm I'm open. I'm I'm pretty open. I'm
not going in with the highest expectations, but sometimes that
can be a good thing. So mm hmmm, what.
Speaker 1: About you, April.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't have my tickets yet. I won't have
to get my tickets till the week of, so I
don't need to buy it. Moss earily, but Liam Joey
excited to see it, so we'll be going to see
it that night it opens.
Speaker 1: Cool, how about you, Mike.
Speaker 3: Uh, I'm probably gonna see it in a theater. I'm
not gonna like rush out to see it opening weekend.
When you think about the Captain America movies, they're like
the wildest like franchise if you're if you're just watching
them linearly from one to two to three to four, Like,
I don't know how you follow that, Like there is
no like con you have to watch so much stuff
in between. And this fourth one, the thing that's really like,
I don't know how it's gonna work is how they're
gonna merge the Hulk stuff into it? Right, So I
and I don't when I watch the trailers, I don't
feel like I get like, like, what's the plot to
this thing. I just feel like it's a bunch of
of of disparate things that are being stitched together.
Speaker 2: So I'm hoping to get a few that's the plot, but.
Speaker 3: I'm hoping it feels more like all. It feels like
a good story when when I watch it. But I
am I am not the biggest Winter Soldier fan like
a lot of people are. It's it's lower on my list,
but no, I I I'm excited enough.
Speaker 4: To put that way cool.
Speaker 1: You make a good point with the Hawk stuff, and
I've been trying to wrap my head around that. With
the trailers, like it just feels like it's out of
left field where it comes into play. I don't know
how it's going to be tossed in there, because I
feel like it's primarily like an eternal's heavy kind of
thing with the celestial and then you got I mean
Falcon dealing with his own his own tribulations, I guess
as Captain America. It just it just it just feels
weird where Red Hawk kind of comes into play, Like
are we going to see a Bruce Banner in here?
Is there going to be a she Hulk? Like what's
what's going to be the kind of plot for.
Speaker 4: That, didn't I had a man team in there for
the first time. I guess, so that should be interesting.
Speaker 1: Right, that's true, Right, that's the celestial right, that's their
harvesting off of his body.
Speaker 4: Isn't that What I did not know that that that
could make sense, That could make a lot of sense.
Speaker 2: Turnals is finally having some significance in them.
Speaker 5: There you go other than poster in the background.
Speaker 2: Yeah, how did I forget?
Speaker 3: How much screen time do you think Harrison Ford is
going to have in total? Because that's another question I had,
like is he gonna be a main character or is
he like going to pop in for like two scenes
and then Red Hulk at the end count Red Hulk.
Speaker 6: Like just Harrison Ford, I think you have like two scenes?
Speaker 5: Two scenes?
Speaker 3: Wow, that's what I'm leaving towards.
Speaker 5: I'll go four to five scenes, maybe maybe four scenes.
Speaker 2: On the high end, I'll say eleven minutes. I'm gonna
go minutes. You guys are going scenes.
Speaker 5: I'm like, well, what's gonna happen with the end of him, Like,
is he gonna get unread Hulk a fight and then
we're gonna get in that scene of him like dying
there or is he gonna go back to normal and
then he just walks away because maybe, like, are you
guys factoring that into your scene count that he might
come back to regular version at the end.
Speaker 3: Well, have you ever seen anyone like once they have
the ability to become a hulk like not be able
to anymore. I think he doesn't die. That's going to
be like a permanent part of him.
Speaker 5: Yeah, all right, But Bruce Banner, you know, he's kind
of go back and forth sometimes depending on where he's
at in his arc.
Speaker 3: He's got going on for him than Harrison Ford's character.
Speaker 1: Does in this movie.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's weird. Then he got Gean Carlo too. I
know he's gonna be like the secret villain or something.
The guy from from.
Speaker 3: The original Incredible Hulks gonna be in there too. That
was a lot of.
Speaker 1: So with Red Hawk, I did not realize this. So
he doesn't get more stronger the more matter he gets
like Bruce's Hawk, but he can uh, Ross can transform
into the Red Hulk and back whenever he chooses, which
is very interesting. So he chooses to at this Yeah
she Hawk too, Yeah, yeah, so they both can do it.
He can do it at this presidential meeting or whatever.
Speaker 4: He star.
Speaker 1: Well Scars starts like that.
Speaker 4: No, No, we don't know about Scar.
Speaker 5: I think he was born like that.
Speaker 4: That's interesting. Yeah, I think that scene of him like
at that kind of announcement or whatever. I think that's
kind of going to be his first transformation. So yeah,
I'm I don't know why he would do that on purpose,
but maybe maybe he does.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I guess it's not because he gets mad, as
Taylor just said, so is it some other emotion. Maybe
gets really sad, he turns into the Red Hulk or
something like that.
Speaker 1: I think he's going to get shot.
Speaker 3: Oh, like a defense mechanism.
Speaker 4: I like it.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I never would have predicted that, but that actually
makes the most sense out of any possibility. I had
thought it was just a power move, like check this out, guys,
I'm your president. Oh gosh, yeah, I have very little
hype for that movie. Actually, I just realized I kind
of forgot it was It was kind of honestly, I like,
I've been, you know, on the mountain, kind of not
thinking about MCU stuff as of late. But I had
to like remind myself, this is this is what a
Valentine's Day released too. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's interesting. But
Madam last Year right, yeah, oh, Madam Webb, Well.
Speaker 5: I forgot about that.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: It's the end credits that get me, probably more excited
than the actual movie itself, because I just think, as
long as not something comedic, but like, hey, is this
gonna have some kind of like X Men thing or
something that's going to tie in something exciting, like what
what cameo character that we don't see in the movie
They're going to bring in here, like a sun Chiegan
a Waltz in there, Like I don't know.
Speaker 5: I'll say no X Men, I'll say that not to
ruin your hype, but I don't see that happening.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I would be happy if it's like something simple like
Sebastian stand coming in and that leading into the thunderbolts.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the most likeliest more likely.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, that's very likely.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I like that little fucking Winter Soldier union in like
a three second scene.
Speaker 1: There you go. If not him, then even what's her name,
Jill Valentine? Is that her name? Like Valentina like that
as Ross.
Speaker 5: I think Jill Valentine is from another.
Speaker 2: Whoops.
Speaker 1: On the brain right now.
Speaker 5: Jill Valentina, that's so good. Yeah, I don't know. I
I think yeah, I think that. I didn't really think
about that yet because we have an other predictions. But
I do think that movie will have a juicy post
credit compared to some other ones we've had recently. Perhaps
I don't remember what the last one we had was
there something deadpoo? What even happened? I can't remember.
Speaker 1: Dead was the comedic? Uh like, don't quote me on
the or quote you can quote me on that. Where
wasn't it Chris Evans was yeah right, George right, Yeah,
that was a good one.
Speaker 4: That That was a funny one. That was a funny one.
Do you guys think this movie is gonna do well?
Speaker 2: No, I don't. I really don't. I feel like I'm
usually super optimistic with this, but I just like, rewatched
the trailer, I don't know, a month or so ago,
and I'm like something something about this. You just feel
like this is gonna really underperform and be a bit
of an eye opening moment for Marvel. But we'll see,
because he's Captain Marvel Movie. Wow, Captain Marvel Movies' Captain
American Movies they like almost feel like an Avengers movie
to me because it is just like such a head
flagship of that team. I feel like this should really
be setting up like a key member of the new
Avengers roster here. But I don't know, just just something
about it. I feel like not a lot of people
are gonna be getting out to see it, but hopefully
I'm I'm wrong in that sense.
Speaker 5: It'll do fine. It'll make its money back for sure,
but I don't think it's gonna be huge, heavy hit
or definitely not a billion dollar movie. But I don't
think it's gonna boll either, So just like a moderate success. Perhaps.
I wonder how much the Harrison Ford angle pulls people in.
I mean, we saw with Indiana Jones last year.
Speaker 3: I didn't really Yeah, they exactly held there and that
he was the main act for that one.
Speaker 5: Yeah, But but I guess if we're to believe the
one hundred and eighty million dollar budget for Cap four,
there's a lot.
Speaker 3: Less to make up for than the Indiana Jones, So
that helps.
Speaker 5: I mean, that's still a pretty huge budget, I guess,
but yeah, we'll see what happens.
Speaker 3: People were speckling all the reshoots it was like closer
to three hundred million, and I still think it's it's
a bit more than one hundred and eighty, but.
Speaker 1: It's under Deadpool and Wolverine because I had a two
hundred million budget. If this is to be one hundred
and eighty, I was just looking at the past to
the first first Avenger box office three hundred and seventy million,
Winter Soldier seven hund and fourteen million, then Civil War
one point one billion, So I mean that trajectory, this
should do.
Speaker 2: Well, right the Civil Wars kind of a million.
Speaker 5: For some reason, something's telling me it's not gonna be
like that. That would be crazy, though. If it climbed
another four hundred over over the last one one point
five billion, and the trajectory that we're looking at, that's
a big number dealing.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna say four hundred million. I think that sounds
like a Yeah.
Speaker 4: I could say four or five hundred, five hundred max.
Speaker 2: Yeah, th eighty. That's the number I'm going to pitch.
Speaker 5: Wow, Okay, I think you guys are all lower than
I would be, but I'm gonna save my number for
our official predictions.
Speaker 1: Guest, I'll say five hundred minimum. I don't think it'll
be below, but I wouldn't be surprised. I think it's
gonna hit five hundred though for sure.
Speaker 2: It's gonna hit for sure, but you wouldn't be surprised
because lower.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised, but it's gonna I think the
Harrison Ford that name has some has something to it.
It's gonna bring in some some people.
Speaker 2: Dalla Destiny Taylor, don't forget about that. That's his name.
Basically on there, that is his name.
Speaker 1: But do people hate on Harrison Ford?
Speaker 4: Do they hate the movie?
Speaker 5: I think they just didn't care about it.
Speaker 1: Rather than that's a ballid answer.
Speaker 3: I think it was people like not wanting to see
Harrison Ford that old play the character. That was probably
a factor that combined with Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
not being very well liked.
Speaker 5: So everyone only wants Troy Baker's Indiana Jones now they're
they're sick of Harrison Ford in that role. They just
want the Machine Game sequel.
Speaker 2: They want an AI Harrison Ford please.
Speaker 4: I definitely think picky with these like legacy sequels like
these very like The Matrix and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: But then you have some that really off and some
that don't like Beal just Bield just did extremely well
for what it was.
Speaker 2: Gen Ortega though, that's a big it's a big star. Well,
I guess Harrison Ford's pretty big. He's old, he's old
and crusty.
Speaker 5: These days, zoomers don't know who Harrison Ford is.
Speaker 3: I love though, how he's just popping up in like
random play like the Game Awards. What is he like?
What is he doing there? Doesn't even know what he's doing.
I got but you know't regard that old go there.
I minded that.
Speaker 2: He went out on the wrong stage. He thought he
was somewhere else.
Speaker 5: Probably got a nice paycheck. I that was so funny
him like whatever he was doing with the teleprompter there,
that was hilarious. I loved I loved him up on stage.
That was so funny.
Speaker 4: What else?
Speaker 5: What are you guys actually excited for? Because it sounds
like lukewarm would be the description of Captain America. But
what else is coming out? Or has anything come out
this year yet that you guys have seen that's interesting
or good? I feel like I haven't seen three.
Speaker 6: Yes, yeah, I saw that last night.
Speaker 4: Really enjoyed that, enjoyed it a lot more than I
was expecting to.
Speaker 1: Yea, it was a lot different.
Speaker 4: Yeah, wolf Man, I was I was lukewarm on wolf Man.
It was it was good, but I didn't love it.
And then one of them days with Keiki Palmer, Uh
that comedy. I'm not a huge comedy guy, but that
that movie was awesome.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it was really good.
Speaker 2: I like that.
Speaker 4: I really really enjoyed that movie.
Speaker 1: Was presence like a a horror or was it more
like a drama?
Speaker 4: Just yeah, drama, I'd say, yeah.
Speaker 6: It was definitely more of a drama. The marketing is
for that movie is not doing it new papers.
Speaker 4: No, I think they kind of marketed as more of
a horror. But yeah, it's just more of an entity
just following this family and kind of the drama that's
happening with them. But it's a it's a really good story.
And yeah, like I it ended and I had like
some some chills, like it was. It was a really
it was a really good movie.
Speaker 5: Look like The Rock Okay, super super short.
Speaker 4: It was like an hour twenty I think it was.
It was like a crazy short movie, one of the
shortest ones I've seen in theaters.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it fel ripped off you wanted some money back?
Speaker 4: Oh, I was leaving in these these these girls are like, oh,
I hope we can get a refund from that. I
don't think they knew what they were expecting going into
that movie. But yeah, no companion next week. I'm excited
for too, the the jack Quade and I forget who
else is in jack Quads and kind of this weird one,
the Careers of Barbarying.
Speaker 3: I feel like I didn't hear anything about that movie
until like last week, and now I'm a lot of
people really.
Speaker 4: It's yeah, yeah, I forget when when I saw the
first trailer. But that one I think is gonna be
gonna be a pretty pretty wacky whacky.
Speaker 6: Yeah, looks like a good time. I'm hoping it's the
Mystery Movie tomorrow or Monday, so we'll see.
Speaker 3: Jack quit also has that other movie where he can't
feel pain.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah Nova Ken, Yeah yeah that one.
Speaker 4: That one looks pretty crazy. And then yeah, not a
new movie, but tomorrow I'm going to see Return of
the King, uh with with a live orchestra playing the score.
As so super excited for that. I've been rewatching them
and listening to you guys retrospectives and stuff this week.
So that's been uh, that's been a good time. So yeah,
I can't wait to can't wait to. It's a good
one to kind of finish it off. Yoh yeah, I'm
I'm curious how they're gonna do do the score and stuff,
like even they they have a lot of like I
don't know, like weird sounds that aren't really like instrumental,
Like I don't know, like a lot of like chants
and stuff. I don't know. Oh yeah, like like in
the score, and I'm curious, like is there gonna be
like people to the side like chanting or like usually
there's they were doing it. Yeah, I'm curious how they're
gonna do it. But yeah, I'm super super excited.
Speaker 5: Little audience integration on that they'll get you guys.
Speaker 1: I did the Jurassic Park one here nice because they
had like they had the concert in there and they
I realized that in Vancouver they do it consistently, like
they've done it for a few Marvel movies. They've done
other like Back to the Future in Nina Jones and
so I just did the Jurassic Park that's my favorite movie.
But you do get the chills when they're just they're
they're playing those themes and it's like, oh my god,
and man, Return of the King. That's gonna be a
damn good time. Holy smokes. When you get like the
right of the or hear them, Oh no, I can't
even imagine in that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, that was I'm definitely excited for that. Same
with like Interstellar, like I never got I never saw
that in theaters, but seeing that in Imax, like that,
that really gave me chills. It's not quite the same
as an orchestra, but that was that was incredible too.
I don't know if anyone had a chance to see
that in.
Speaker 6: Imax, but yeah, it was my first time seeing it too.
And that's so.
Speaker 4: Good, so good.
Speaker 2: It really there.
Speaker 4: It was so loud, it was like a little overly
loud at times. They definitely cranked the speakers up to
one hundred.
Speaker 5: But it's classic doing that the live orchestras.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: Shane and I were gonna go see Avatar the Last Airbender.
Uh like the live orchestra and just I love the movie.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: The movie cartoon like a couple of episodes are like
just one episode.
Speaker 2: I think it's just like like they go through like
various like themes and like famous songs from the show,
and then they'll just show like scenes. I guess I've
never been to like a live I did.
Speaker 3: That with Robin Jawattie came here to do the Game
of Thrones. Okay, course, so they had like seen like
the score the scenes would play.
Speaker 2: There was like a clitic scenes they had.
Speaker 3: Like they had an in memoriam section where all the
characters that died were like on screen and the states
of their death.
Speaker 2: That's a lot of characters have gone through. Imagine not
like seeing the whole show too, just get spoiled on
everything through that just comes out with bagpipes.
Speaker 3: It was like right after the show ended too. So
if you were to know, you were probably if you're
if you're only the like what kind of person would
go there unless you just like stumble on a ticket like, oh,
I haven't seen the show, but I'll go to Orchestra
play it live?
Speaker 2: Yeah for sure.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's that's fair. Are you guys into the Spider Man? Like,
is anyone reviewing the Spider Man Show next week? The animated?
Oh yeah, I think that's next week?
Speaker 5: It is.
Speaker 4: I'm also, yeah, I'm excited for that. It's been seeing
a lot of people bashing the animation and stuff this week,
which is kind of sad, but I mean I get it.
I get it.
Speaker 2: Everybody gets an opinion, right, I'm I'm very nipiggy when
it comes to animation, so, like I was kind of
you see.
Speaker 4: The background characters, and everyone's fast.
Speaker 2: I've seen shows with birth animation and just the story
usually gets me in and then I just look past
it and I just don't really notice it anymore. But
I actually like it to an extent with the like
the Spider Man costumes and everything, Like I like, I
don't even know what type of aesthetic you would call it,
but it's like a comic bookie Matt look for his
suits and everything. So I think it looks pretty cool.
Of course, we'll wait and see what I think for
a full episode, but a whole enough, A whole enough,
my my my criticism. Still, I actually see it.
Speaker 4: That's fair getting Charlie Cox back in there too.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, we'll see. I forgot about that. Yeah, I'm
not really that excited for the show, but hopefully after
because the first week is two episodes, right.
Speaker 3: It's two episode batches. I think everyone two.
Speaker 6: And then the rest of them are three at a time.
Speaker 5: I think, oh, hell yeah, that actually gets me a
lot more excited. That'll be Sometimes the animated shows week
to week, each episode is like there so short, Yeah,
there's not a lot here, so that that's that's really exciting. Actually, yeah,
I'm sure after because yeah, I'll go pretty quick after
a week or two. You'll be pretty deep in it
at that point, so I'm sure I'll fall into it
and enjoy it. There are some particular elements I'm enjoying,
but I'm also not loving the animation necessarily. But I
also kind of hate the what if animation style. I'm
just not really digging what the current mc is doing
when it comes to animation in general. I guess obviously
compared it to the other Spider Man movies, it's just
not even close in terms of just like a style,
not even obviously quality or budget and all that, but
just the style of it.
Speaker 3: So I feel like it's it's kind of like a
victim of expectations. I feel like people were expecting it
to be when they announced that it was going to
be a part of the MCU. People put like an
importance on it that I don't think it's going to have.
I think ultimately it's gonna end up being more like
similar to the Spider Man animated shows we had like
in the two thousands and tens, like on on Cartoon Network,
and like I don't know what the names of them,
but yeah, just like a more more kid centered animated
shows what I look, I think they're going for.
Speaker 5: And especially after Deserve good animation too, you know that's true.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 3: Especially after XPEN ninety seven, people's expectations are even higher,
so you have this following that.
Speaker 2: It's yeah, well, plus we've gotten like Vox Mac in
the last year, you know, Arcane, Like that's definitely not
that's the best looking animation you can get.
Speaker 5: The bar is pretty high these days for sure.
Speaker 3: Mostly I think to me, DC they're really the ones
that are owning the animation space. I mean, just in
the past year alone, you've got Creature Commandos, You've got
Batman Keeps Crusader. The Harley Quinn Show is still pretty great. Uh,
the spinoff kite Man. Uh, pretty much all the Enemies
stuff is really really good.
Speaker 4: I haven't dug into those yet. Yeah, I was excited
to watch kite Man. Then I kind of I didn't
hear much about it and I totally forgot about it.
Speaker 3: That's it's it's solid. It's it's not as good as
Harley Quinn, but it's still it's good for I'll give it.
Speaker 4: I'll give it a watch for sure.
Speaker 2: Where's that one streaming? Just probably the Max?
Speaker 4: Yeah, which for.
Speaker 3: Us is any particular pick? Crave, Neflix, Amazon, through Prime.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: For some reason, Creature Commandos was so hard to find
in Canada. I was so pissed off with that. That
was that was not a fun time tracking those down.
Speaker 2: Taylor and I had to go to some greasy back
alley to get ours.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it just wasn't crave. That's crazy, is that for
that show? That show is good, very good, Yeah, very
I liked it a lot, good kickoff for the d C.
What are they calling you, du.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Yeah, it had some it's had some cool ties there,
some stuff they're setting up some Yeah, they had a
lot of the cities in there, and they did some
world building in there. But but like we were saying
with the like the Weekly, I think that it really
suffered from that, like the only Yeah, twenty twenty minutes. Like,
but I think, like if you're to ever watch it, Dylan,
I don't know if you if you ever watch it,
but to do it in like a couple of sittings
would be definitely a lot better because actually it does
feel like a like a movie that's just split into
twenty minute chunks. Yes, yes, with the.
Speaker 3: Flashbacks acting as like the separation between them, but that's
where like the main storyline goes. It really just goes
from beginning to end without much much pause.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we'll see. I don't even I don't know how
much of these DC movies I'll be, like even the
DCU in general, I don't know how much I'm gonna
be into it, Like I I don't even know what
I'm gonna see Superman. Oh wow, so you're not a
big DC guy.
Speaker 3: I was always curious about that. I feel, what is
it about DC that that it doesn't quite suit your
fancy as much as Marvel?
Speaker 5: I think I didn't grow up with it as much,
so maybe that's part of it. Like I think the
first Batman movie I watched was like in the geek
first era, Like I just never interacted with Batman and
growing up at all, him being the main one. I've
never cared much for Superman. I don't know what it is.
It's just something about the tone, the vibe, the visual style.
I don't know. It just it just doesn't work with
me in the same way that that Marvel does. And
I can definitely see the pros and cons of it,
but I don't know. I don't know why. DC has
just never really done it for me, any know. There
are things that stand out, like James gunn Suicide Squad
was really good, and you know, the First Joker was
really good, of course, but I don't know, just DC
as a whole has never really been my cup of tea.
I'm not really sure why.
Speaker 4: You didn't watch peace Maker? Did you?
Speaker 5: I have not watched peace Maker.
Speaker 4: That's a good sign. That's a good sign.
Speaker 1: What was the last DC project you watched, dill On?
Was it Lit Snyder's Justice Leek? I have not seen
Snyder's I thought you watched that.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, that's what you're gonna do for us.
Speaker 5: I would if I watched the movie and hated it,
why would I watch it again?
Speaker 3: Because they fixed it till they made it be Oh yeah,
Zach Stedder's Justice League and Josui's Justice League are like
completely different movies. Like, to me, when's a pen at
of ten and one's a one out of ten?
Speaker 5: Hey, I get it. But at the same time, that
whole concept of here's a shitty movie and we're gonna
fix it at that, we're gonna add some DLC to it,
and now you watch it again.
Speaker 1: No, No, something.
Speaker 4: Good twice as long.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I think the last thing I watched was it wouldn't
have Batman. I must have seen something since Batman because
that was like seven years ago.
Speaker 4: And have Flash.
Speaker 2: You didn't do Joker too, did you? No?
Speaker 5: I still have not seen Joker too. I haven't seen Flash.
Not watch Penguin.
Speaker 2: Oh Man, it might have been a Batman.
Speaker 3: It might be.
Speaker 5: Batman because I yeah, definitely didn't see the Shazam that
came out Black Adam. I have not seen Black Adam,
have not seen Aquaman two. I think it is Batman.
Speaker 2: So it's been you don't even know what's going on
with James gun DC.
Speaker 5: Then, I mean I'm on enough newscasts.
Speaker 3: If you liked these Suicide Squad, that's a good start
because that's basically the foundation for where I mean Creature
Commandos is Batman. No, that was before. That was a
year before.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm sure there's I mean creature Commandos that I
probably enjoy. So I don't know, we'll see you.
Speaker 2: I think you like Kate Crusader as well. It's uh,
that's just quality. It's it's fantastic.
Speaker 5: What do you what would you compare it to? Well,
what I.
Speaker 2: Compare it to. I mean it reminds me of the
Batman show from Back of the Day Batman and Imdi series,
but it's basically the same thing, so different era.
Speaker 3: I suppose more crime focused, like uh, mobster stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I just love like the switch arounds too that
they did with certain characters, like how they they gender
swapped Penguin. I thought that was really unique, and the
different style they had for Harley, it.
Speaker 4: Was just she was she was awesome.
Speaker 2: It was just really cool because it's it's not like
they're trying to redo something that done in the past,
Like it just felt really original and the time era
of it just felt like that time era fits Batman
so well that I'm like, man, I actually want more
of this versus like more modern tech that they have,
just because I'm so used to it now, like we've
had so many versions of that, Like even even the
Keaton Batman's like he's got he's got high tech, right,
you know, air quotes for for what the the everyday
man would have. But I don't know, I just there's
something about it.
Speaker 3: I liked how like it would be like very serious
and like grounded in one moment, and then the next
episode there would just flat out be a ghost in it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, exactly. I was waiting for Scooby Do reveal,
but it's like, oh wow, there's just ghosts in this universe.
Speaker 3: This is crazy, which is cool because that's like what
the DC universe is Batman. He is more grounded, but
then also he interacts with the supernatural stuff. And that's like,
as much as I love Matt Reeves's Batman stuff, I
am a kind of a big getting tired of Batman
movies always being the grounded, realistic stuff. And that's why
I'm really excited that we're gonna have two Batman's going
on separately. So the Matt Reeve stuff is going to
be the more grounded aspect, and the James Gunns DCU
stuff is going to be him interacting with more of
the fantastical elements.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's cool, That's yeah, a good point.
Speaker 4: I think that's going to confuse people a little. I've
already I've already heard people like I've I've told someone
that and they're like, oh, like I'm I'm not even
like I'm done, Like I'm already confused kind of thing,
Like they're already confused with the Batman and then like
this new reboot happening and like he's not going to
be a part of it.
Speaker 3: And the Flash did not help with that too. Yeah,
that that movie. That was the worst possible time to
release that movie. What it was trying to do, it
was trying to like bring back the old stuff but
also finish the chapter, be the bridge between that and
the new stuff. And I think all of it and
there was a reason it didn't like do super well
is because everyone saw it and I was like, I'm
I'm not very interested in everything that's going on there.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I think it was also just not the best movie either.
I don't think that helped.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think as long as they because this is
why I continue to get worried when they all these
Batman delays for the Reeves one. I mean one, just like,
give me the freaking movie already, because that's the one
DC thing I'm actually excited for and interested in. Then
also like the more they delay, the closer it'll get
to the James gunn Era Batman stuff, and I feel
like they really need to do a good job of
separating that. Like I don't even like the calendar. I
think those movies are like pretty close to each other
right now in terms of where they're supposed to come out,
and I think that would be an issue. But if
they have like a couple of year break in between
each one, I'm sure the ga I mean, they're not
gonna understand it. They're not gonna be able to follow
everything that's going on, but they'll all these understand that
it's something different, and they won't like, oh I already
saw Batman, Why would I go see this other one
or the same one again? You know?
Speaker 4: And absolutely that's very fair, very fair awesome.
Speaker 3: With Batman, you got a lot of different versions, and
you could only do so many before people start to
get a bit tired of it. And that's something I'm
really curious about with the upcoming Fantastic Four movie, where
you had already three different crack it with varying results
of quality, none of them particularly great. So is I
going to tire people out when they see this new
one and say, oh, yeah, I saw that before and
I didn't like it, Or are they going to think, oh,
this time they're going to do it right.
Speaker 5: I mean, at least the most recent one, no one
saw that, so maybe maybe at the very least they
haven't seen it since the early two thousands in that era,
so maybe they'll be a little more receptive to it.
And hopefully the people behind it stands for something, you know,
like casting really great actors and getting you know, the
WandaVision guy to direct it and write it like that
seems hopefully like we're set up for success there. Hopefully
that takes off. And I'm still looking for that touchstone
of like loving Fantastic Four. It was going fun going
through those retros, but you know, they're not great movies
by any means. If it's some fun to be had
in those early two thousands ones, but I don't know,
I'm feeling more hopeful for this one. I know it
is really close to Superman. A lot of people are
kind of airing on the side of like Superman is
going to be the big hit, but like, I think
it's gonna have two hits within a month long period, happens, it's.
Speaker 4: True, Yeah, for sure. I think it's definitely gonna talk
like really delve into all that cosmic stuff too. That
those first ones really didn't go into.
Speaker 5: That, right, like yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: Just little hints. But that family is like, yeah, known
for all its cosmic adventures and stuff like that. So
and the thing like everything really looks like it's like
ripped right off the page. So I think that's gonna
definitely separate it quite a bit. Then then the first
one is that, Yeah, I'm Summer is gonna be a
fun time, really good time for comic book movies.
Speaker 5: I think, yeah, because we've got Thunderbolts in August.
Speaker 4: Maybe that.
Speaker 5: So soon Agust. I think it was supposed to be
last August. Is why I'm thinking about it that way
or something. But that's awesome. Yeah, we're gonna have a good,
good run of stuff there.
Speaker 3: Really excited for Thunderbolts.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's that's definitely gonna be a good one.
Speaker 5: Mm hmm. Yeah, well I guess we're I guess I
kind of shared my DC thoughts. But how are you
guys feeling about things you're looking forward to? Uh, what's
coming up here? Superman kicking it off in the in
the big way.
Speaker 4: Definitely, Definitely. I've I've always been more DC guy. I'm
I I love both, but Green Lantern is my favorite
property in all of comics and and all this property.
Speaker 5: So yeah, lantern is calls you, I think just.
Speaker 4: The world itself, like just Green Lantern like it. The
lore of it, I think is like a whole universe
onto itself, like like it's who's your.
Speaker 3: Top top green lantern?
Speaker 4: I like Kyle Kyle. Yeah, from the nineties, that was
like kind of just the first mostly the first d
C stuff I I was into. And then I was
just so surprised about the just the world they would
build and all these different lanterns coming in and there's.
Speaker 3: Some really deep and rich lord there that they could mine.
I mean that's the Green Lantern TV series is perfect
because they have a lot of time to really delve
into all that stuff. They're already they are in fact
that they already have different Green lanterns already existing. It
means you could bring in new ones. I'm hoping, is
my favorite Green Lantern is just the cruise and she
comes in a lot later, so I'm hoping maybe like
she's too season three, they'll be able to bring her
into it.
Speaker 4: She she's great, and I love how it has like
it does have little ties to like all these DC planets,
and like it really starts with the cosmic stuff in
in d C and it connects with all so many
DC planets because they're they're like space cops, right, so
they've they've been all over the galaxy protecting all sorts
of different all these different planets. So I think that'll
that'll start expanding the world pretty pretty quickly, which is cool.
But yeah, they just cast an Estro fantastic. I've never
heard of that guy, but I've heard he's great, so yeah,
I'm excited. Have you seen him in anything, Mike, Yeah,
I saw him in the show Banshee.
Speaker 3: He played like the main villain, like this amish crime boss,
and he is intimidating and crazy, and I think he
would be the perfect choice for It's It's kind of
guy that I would have never thought of his name
in a thousand years if if I tried. But when
they said I was like, oh, it just clicked in,
and now I can't think of anyone better.
Speaker 4: Yeah, honestly think the art too, like Green Lantern like
has some of the best like looking like just so
many colors and.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, the coloring on him is really greatful.
Speaker 4: Is insane. Definitely some of my favorite looking comics I've
I've ever read, Like The John's Era has like so
many good different artists on there, So I yeah, I'll
just yeah, I love pretty much everything about it, and
I just I just go with it, go with it. Awesome, Yeah,
I did. I did want to ask Kirkland too. I know,
I know he's gone, but I wanted to ask him
about Death Stranding. I just started playing that for the
first time and I love, I love it, But man,
like something to me about the gameplay. I can't I
can't get into the gameplay that much. I love the
story so much, which is frustrating, but like, I don't
know if you can tell me, but like, is is
the whole game just trying to like stabilize yourself while
while walking?
Speaker 5: Yep? I mean it's you know, it was a very
divisive game when it first came out, and I totally
understand why. But I absolutely love the mechanics in that game.
I think it's so interesting. Yeah, I mean, you do
eventually get to a point where you're doing I mean
a lot of it is kind of up to how
you want to go through things, so you can like
steal through a sequence or do in combat in the
same way like Middle Gear has that same sort of situation,
and so that later on they'll do definitely be more
opportunities for combat with like actual guns and weapons and things,
but even then that's never really the main thing of
what you're doing. It is always yeah, ninety percent of
it is just like delivering these packages and whatnot. So
how how deep in it are you? You know, how
many hours?
Speaker 7: Roughly I'd say six Okay, yeah, from what I remember,
Like the game opens with like a two to three
hour long like cut scene pretty much right like the
first two or three hours, Like you're not really playing much,
so you're still very early on and hopefully hopefully my
favorite stuff.
Speaker 4: That's my favorite stuff, honestly.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the story is super super fun and and weird
and interesting obviously great actors and all that, but hopefully,
like with the gameplay, just as more mechanics get introduced
to you, because it starts out pretty basic, and also
your characters really weak and you have like no equipment
and whatnot. But hopefully as you kind of get along
and it'll get more interesting, as locations get more interesting.
But yeah, there's definitely a ton of layers on how
they kind of evolve that basic gameplay of what is
ultimately just like yeah, holding onto your backpack and trying
not to fall over. But it they layer it as
much as you can possibly layer that idea, and that's
why I'm also so curious what the sequel is going
to do in terms of gameplay, how much it's going
to revolutionize it. But yeah, I love that game. But
I can definitely understand why you're having some friction with
the with the gameplay, but it's not.
Speaker 4: The stories keeping. The story is super super interesting that
the whole world. And I'm definitely excited for that movie
big time. Who knows when that's coming out.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I kind of forgot that that was the thing.
There's so many just PlayStation movies and TV shows.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I just got a got an anime announced.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they randomly announced, like Pacific Drives getting a show Horizon, Yeah,
near Pacific Drive. Yeah, I mean that's not.
Speaker 3: Even trying to make that Horizon one for a long time.
They're really trying to make that that serious. Yeah, a
big thing.
Speaker 5: We'll see because they I mean, they just canceled the
Horizon like MMO live service thing like days ago, so
maybe who knows if they are still going to double
down on that, But I don't know. I'm curious to
see how many of these things come out, because obviously
we already got like uncharted in Last of Us. But
I'm yeah, I'm curious to see how many more of
these things actually come to be, or if they just
end up canceling them. I don't know where the budgets
for those things come from, if it's shared with the
gaming division, or if they kind of to balance it out.
Speaker 3: But they got a new show winner for the God
of War show, and it's making me a lot more
excited for it. It's Ronald y Moore, the guy who did
Battlestar Galactica, Outlander for All Mankind, and so this is
a top quality guy, so hopefully he'll be able to.
Speaker 4: Bring some some good stuff.
Speaker 3: It's just like, how are they going to work with
a budget that's the yeah rock.
Speaker 4: In there, you know, the rock there, No, please.
Speaker 5: Please, I'm hoping. I'm sure the new the Sorry is
it a movie or TV show for God of Wars
you said, yeah, I'm sure. That'll be kind of based
off the God of War twenty eighteen sort of era,
the storyline.
Speaker 3: Rather than the form. When I hear it's gonna be,
that's gonna be the main through line with flashbacks to
the stuff that.
Speaker 5: Happened the first three gotcha, So hopefully that can keep
the budget and check. Obviously those games get pretty wild too,
but they're at least a little bit more grounded than
the old games.
Speaker 3: I mean a little You get into some pretty crazy stuff.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but at least you're just trudging along talking to
people walking through the snow, rather than just like climbing
one hundred foot tall demons in hell and whatnot?
Speaker 4: Fair enough? Yeah, anyone getting a switch to.
Speaker 5: Probably Yeah? Yeah, yeah, probably.
Speaker 4: Really Eh, Okay, I don't know if.
Speaker 1: I will day one, but maybe the first week we'll see.
Speaker 3: I thought you're worried for a price drop.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's the thing is, like, I don't think the
price will ever really drop on it, Like maybe maybe
you'll get fifty dollars off on like Black Friday three
years later, so I'm like, I might as well just
get out launch, but we'll see what the games are.
If it's only Mario Kart, maybe I could wait. But
if there's other things and I could see myself getting
in their day one.
Speaker 4: Yeah that's fair. Once a Zelda drops, I'm definitely I'm
definitely gonna get in there. But yeah, hopefully hopefully that's
a little bit. I think I bought my switch two
years ago now, so hopefully.
Speaker 5: Okay, so you're kind of a new switch owner.
Speaker 4: Even, yes, yes, i am. I just got it for
just out for Breath or Tears of the Kingdom. I
played that first, and then Breath of.
Speaker 3: The Breath of the World.
Speaker 5: What was that like?
Speaker 4: Interesting? I loved it. I loved it, actually, Yeah, brother,
while a little more basic mechanics, but it was still
different enough that I definitely enjoyed it. And Tiers of
the Kingdom I found, like, definitely you can travel around
a lot faster and a lot quicker. So I wasn't
on the ground as much as I could have been,
but Breath of Wild kind of forced me to kind
of just go on the ground a little more. Obviously.
Besides the fast travels and stuff. I tried not to.
I tried not to, but everyone's going to, you know, so,
but yeah, so.
Speaker 2: Are you big Zelda head? Like, what's your favorite Zelda game.
Speaker 4: I just recently got into it. I've been loving I've
actually been playing wind Waker recently too, which is my favorite,
which has been a blast. It has been a blast.
Speaker 2: To this day.
Speaker 4: That's my absolutely love. Been loving that. But yeah, Tiers
of the Kingdom and Breath of While it's hard to
it's hard to top those, you know, especially those were
kind of the first. Those were the first ones I played.
But I love Links of Wink Awakening as well, and
this new one as well. It's been has been a
lot of fun. Echoes Echoes of Wisdom. Yeah, I've been loving,
been loving that game too, So I took a little
break on that.
Speaker 5: But no, that was Have you been on the Zelda
grind I have. They're not short games either, I.
Speaker 3: Know I've been.
Speaker 4: Yeah, those are pretty much the main Those are kind
of the only ones I've been playing on the switch. Really,
I haven't played much else. I've tried some of the
Mario games. I couldn't get into Odyssey.
Speaker 5: I don't know same boat. I don't really like.
Speaker 4: I couldn't get it. The completionists in me, like in
those small levels, like I was just going insane, just
like going around the same little area a bunch of
times trying to find the collectibles. I'm like, no, I
just can't do this. I can't do this.
Speaker 1: If you can find a copy of Super Mario three
D All Stars for Switch All Stars, yeah, that's got
sixty four Sunshine and Galaxy, I think you'd have a
blast with that.
Speaker 4: I did play Galaxy on Galaxy. Yeah, I played that
on Weed. That was Yeah, that was an absolute blast.
And uh yeah, Kirkling, you missed our little talk about
death stranding. I just just started getting into that too.
I can't get into the gameplay, man, I just I can't.
Like the story is so good, but yeah, I just
I'm waiting for something. I'm waiting for something to expand
waiting to get a gun or something.
Speaker 2: I mean, it happens, it comes later on. I will say,
like I feel like managing your balance, it becomes a
lot less of like something that's like the main focus.
Like you get certain things to just make it so
you don't have to just hold the triggers going on out,
you know, so like maybe the gameplay shifts a little
bit in that sense, but like definitely you get access
to some sort of weaponry later on, so it makes
it a little bit.
Speaker 5: More of a Yeah, I can make grenades with your
poop pretty much, right, You go in your room and
you like make blood blood bullets.
Speaker 2: That's right, April, you heard that right, But.
Speaker 5: Got to use every part of your part of your body.
Speaker 2: It's pretty It's a patriot, man, They're they're valuable.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 2: I I actually haven't played it since I have been
at that Tar Ocean thing. I won't say anymore for
for spoiler sakes, but uh yeah, I I totally get
the game play.
Speaker 3: Though.
Speaker 2: I've recommended to a lot of friends and they're like, man,
like I'm really just curious what's going on with the story,
but like I just fucking hate falling down those hills
and losing all my packages and losing bout and like, yeah,
I get it. It's it's a walking it's a walking
sim Yeah.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna finish it, though. I finish it, though, I'm
hoping to get into the second one too, assuming it's
gonna be more of the same, but yeah, it's yeah,
the story is just too good. Yeah, I'm gonna power through.
Speaker 2: I imagine it would be like the same thing for
like Breath Awakening to like Tears of the Kingdom, where
it's just like more elevated mechanics, but like the Bear,
what you're doing is the same, which I'm down for
because I I, I mean, I agree to just love
the gameplay and everything about that game, but I mean
it took me some time. I feel like from the
time that I first played the game to where I
was at now, like, what is that five plus years?
So maybe the same thing will happen to you. You'll
just you'll, uh well, I guess Distraining two is coming
out soon, so you have a little bit more of
a time urgency for you this year.
Speaker 3: I think I don't think it was confirmed this year.
Speaker 5: Next year for sure, Okay, I think it's this year.
Speaker 2: Hitdeo was at Disneyland. What did you say, Taylor? Did
you run into him?
Speaker 1: Oh? I missed him by a week. It's a Galaxy's Edge.
Speaker 2: Can't believe it.
Speaker 4: You get you can get a Lightsaber tailor. I did
do the Lightsaber experience.
Speaker 2: I was transporting it back. You were curious, you're asking
me some questions.
Speaker 5: Yeap.
Speaker 1: My friend that I was with, he did he paid
the seventy for shipping, and I just I trusted you wholeheartedly.
I was like, I'm I'm putting all my faith in
what you said. And so I took the hilt off,
put that in my carry on. And then because we
had a checked bag, we had two personal items two
carry ons, so I thought, Okay, my personal item is
small enough, I condense that into the check bag. So
then my hilt was in the carry on, and then
my personal item was just the case with the light
up part in there, but it was really nothing. And yeah,
when I when I got to the airport, the security
guys were like, may the forest be with you? I
saw And then when I got through the TSA like
the security like X ray whatever, like, oh that's a lightsaber.
I'm like yeah. They're like okay, okay, cool. And when
I got onto the plane, I was like what do
I do with this just to just stay here? Does
it go in the overhead And the lady's like what
is it? They're like, oh, it's a lightsaber. Because west
Jet doesn't know they they don't get it all would
like I imagine they thought the first time they flew
out of LA. Yeah, so they just they put it
up in the overhead, and then on my transfer flight,
I just put it up myself because I knew going down.
Speaker 2: I was taking no chances. I like had that on
my person at all times. I think I managed to
like fit it underneath like by your feet. But I'm like,
I'm not letting anyone touch this. This is my weapon.
You know. I built this myself. Yeah, it's it's going
with me. So I've got it worked out for you
because I would have felt horrible if I told you
all this, Like, don't worry.
Speaker 1: I trusted you because you you kind of you were
on the same adventure I was last year. Yeah, what
is your looking like, Taylor? Mine is dark side. I
mean I can pull it out of the case right
now if you want to see it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, whip it out.
Speaker 1: Let me grab it.
Speaker 2: Whip that thing out. Nice.
Speaker 5: How big is this case? It sounds like it's a
whole lightsaber size lightsaber side, But why would you not
have the lightsaber in the case.
Speaker 2: Well, so it's like a little bit big to have
the at least from from my design of the hilt.
It's a little bit too big to have like that
with the the blade portion.
Speaker 5: I guess, tell me the thing you bought doesn't fit
in the case that it comes.
Speaker 2: In, because I have like cool full airs online, so
it just sounds like you don't buy it for the case.
They're Dylan, Oh very nice.
Speaker 4: Nice.
Speaker 1: Now I saw the they have the four different types
you can pick. I saw the higher Republic. I thought, man,
that's pretty refined. I like the gold trimmings on there.
But I thought, no, I want to go in and
justus dark side. Oh yeah, and so I I think
it's it's great. I went with a purple purple Kyber
crystal though, oh yeah, I built it and that was
great nice, And then I bought a red one afterwards,
and I got the Kylo ren one, which is cool.
But again with the Holo chron I know you got
yours there, Kirk.
Speaker 2: Looks different than mine. Really, your looks way cooler than mine.
Mine's like the cheap version. So then you definitely got
like the two point Oh.
Speaker 1: I think, oh yeah, yeah, this is the sith one
the two point Oh, so does yours goold? Different colors
are only red? Well, it goes red because when I
put the purple crystal in here, it goes purple.
Speaker 2: That's cool. I have my red crystal in here right now.
Speaker 1: You have the red crystal in there.
Speaker 2: Okay, oh actually no, I think it does go purple.
Let's let's see it right now.
Speaker 5: It makes a little soundscape too, and it does.
Speaker 2: The lighting is terrible right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I like talks to you. You get voices to get
with purple? Do you get Palpatine because that's what it's
still Palpatine.
Speaker 2: But it's like the scenes from when Mace Windu like
confronts him, so like he's there, it's just you don't
hear from him.
Speaker 1: Okay, I got like a for me. It's a few
like his return of the Jedi lines and he's just
he's talking ship and smack, and I love it.
Speaker 2: You're nothing, Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1: But it's it's just that's such a cool experience. You're
all standing there, and they were just thankfully a fairly
large group, so you know, you just you hold up
your sabers together and it's, oh yeah, I'm fucking immortal
right now.
Speaker 2: Just start going after people claiming lightsabers like grievous.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's a fun time. I would do it again,
but I don't. I don't need to for a.
Speaker 2: While, so it ain't cheap. So yeah, now they do
a good job with it. Yeah.
Speaker 6: We went last year to disney World, not Disneyland, but
I told him he could do a lightsaber or adroid
because I couldn't afford both, and he got a droid.
Speaker 2: So nice. Okay, my nephew did the same little thing. Yeah,
what can.
Speaker 4: You do with the droid? Like drive him around or something.
Speaker 6: Yeah, they're remote control and they make noises.
Speaker 2: And I didn't even know there was an option. And
then I like kind of saw the price point when
I was there, and I'm like, no, I cannot justify
it's basically the same price. And I don't know like Canadian,
like Taylor, what was the what was the lightsaber price?
I can't remember. I feel like mine was around three
hundred dollars.
Speaker 1: It was two hundred American ish and then yeah, so
Canadian be like three four hundred bucks. But the shitty
thing about that is that's a switch too right there,
going down there the whole time was telling my wife like, oh,
you know, the cane dollar, it's much lower than than sorry,
the America dollars lower than the Canadian so like when
we go down there, like after things will like it
should be cheaper and more reasonable. When we got down there,
a lot of things like for Starbucks, for example, and
I get it because you're in Disneyland, so it's turiarsty
and the prices are up. But it was like a
Grande or a Venti price was the same, if not
more expensive than a Canadian dollar version. Here at our Starbucks,
I'm thinking, what the flying fuck, that's ridiculous. Wow, it's brutal.
So they know what they're doing taking everyone's dollars down there.
Speaker 2: You know what they're doing.
Speaker 5: Making cash for sure, that's awesome.
Speaker 2: Sorry, I just want to.
Speaker 4: Taylor, what's that You're there for a couple of days?
Four days, four days, four days.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we that was just our Our main goal was
to hit up just Disneyland. We thought about doing Universal,
but we thought, ah, with our kids, it'll be tricky
to kind of get out there because it'll be like
an hour long drive. We're like a ten minute walk
from Disneyland for our hotel. So it was it worked
out pretty good. And I mean the first few days
we hit all the rides we wanted to and then
the third and fourth day was just taking our time,
redoing rides, having fun and all that stuff.
Speaker 2: So, yeah, Taylor, I was mentioning to you. I think
I don't even know if it was on this or
if it was before we went live, But does anyone
here see New Girl?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 2: So are you familiar with the Are you familiar with
the douchebag jar? Mister Mike, Yes, I am so.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 2: I So we had like I was skiing on the
week well, yeah, during the week and the theme was
twenty ninth birthday, so it was very New Girl themed.
And then this was one of my birthday gifts, my
douchebag jar and a little photo of me and it's
just candy in it. There's no money in it. But uh,
that was the whole theme of the weekend, was just
like New Girl quotes and things like that.
Speaker 5: Context of that in the in the show, he just.
Speaker 2: Says very douchebaggy thing. Anytime he does that, it's like
a penalty. He's gotta put my own douchebag jar, gotcha? Yeah,
good old Schmidt. But your birthday it was fantastic. I
was snowboarding all week. We were into a condo up
in the mountain, and yeah, it was lots of lots
of fun. The snow yesterday was the best snow I've
ever had snowboarding ever. And it was a Thursday, so
like no one was there, so I had like the
whole mountain to myself, so it was it was really fun.
It was. It was actually pretty crazy cause kind of
near the end of the day, like our last run
we were doing like we were going like right to
the top, just maximize like the amount of time we
have going down, and it was like snowing like crazy,
like just lots of lots of fresh powder.
Speaker 5: Dylan, it literally felt.
Speaker 2: Like death stranding when you get into the snowy mountains
and it's a white out. That's literally how it felt
when I was going up the t bar right to
the top, like I couldn't see anything around me, Like
it was actually disorienting because you like you couldn't tell
it you were moving. Really, I just had like my
buddy in front of me and like that, it like
I couldn't see anything other than him, and I'm like,
i feel like I'm in Jurassic Park three right now
when they're when they're doing like the parasaline thing and
then just I'm gonna look back and someone's just gone,
you know, they're just taken by some dinosaurs. Like it
was really freaky. But yeah, it was a cool, cool time. Nonetheless,
no major injuries. I'm very sore today from just snowboarding
all week and a couple of wipeouts here and there.
My neck's really tight. Can't really shoulder check right now.
Speaker 5: But that's like twenty ninth birthday vibes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. No major injuries though, so that was the
goal of the trip. No broken bones.
Speaker 5: That's great, man, Like just snowboarding it on a perfect
day like that. Oh, got your headphones in, you got
like the perfect music playing. It's it's truly one of
the peak feelings that a human being can have.
Speaker 2: I think that's how it felt. It feels spiritual, honestly,
just you in the mountain.
Speaker 4: What day was your birthday on?
Speaker 2: It's this Tuesday, coming up, the twentyeighth, So yeah, my
buddy's birthda was the sixteenth, mine was the twentieth. So
we kind of just split in the middle.
Speaker 4: It's a good way to do it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So I'm gonna work on my birth thing, which
is never great, but whatever. Yeah, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: So what happens when you turned twenty nine?
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll go for dinner. You know Kelly O's usually
has their their free birthdays. Maybe we'll do that.
Speaker 1: Uh, Dylan, you mentioned that's the price of a switch.
I was curious to kind of circle back to this.
What do you guys think the price of a switch
will be? Because the the first one was at launch
ninety nine and USD which is like.
Speaker 4: Four something, Yeah, ninety nine.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they I guess they'll bump it up by because
they never never dropped it, did.
Speaker 3: They do they know when the lad screen came out.
Speaker 5: I think they just maybe like when they released the
switch light, that was like their lower price model if
you just want the handheld one.
Speaker 2: But it never dropped, like it just started.
Speaker 5: I don't remembering to drop. And I think the old
was more expensive because it had the Oh okay, they
just that one, or maybe you're right, maybe they made
that the new price and then they dropped the HM.
Speaker 3: The new one's not gonna have the old that's gonna
have the normal screen.
Speaker 5: Probably Yeah, I'm guessing it'll be an extra fifty or
one hundred over what the last one was probably a hundred,
I guess, yeah, or maybe one hundred and fifty or
three hundred and Canadian dollars when you do that savage
conversion rate.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, it's gonna be expensive. I'm gonna hopefully do
the same thing I did this time around, just get
on a Facebook marketplace, you know, with the game with
an STU card in there. Two ninety nine easy, easy price.
Speaker 5: I had to wait a couple of years for that
to happen.
Speaker 3: But uh yeah, first, okay, no, no, no, you First,
I was gonna ask, what's everyone's most anticipated game of
the year.
Speaker 5: Size. Yeah, if he hits, then it's gotta be gta, right.
I think other than that, it either is destran any
much once again, if that's not confirmed in you know,
it's not confirmed, it might just be Civilization in like
two weeks. So I'm pretty happy that like coming out soon,
and I'm already planning, like, okay, when that comes out,
I'm gonna try and play like thirty hours of it
in one weekend, like I feel. I'm just gonna that's
all I'm gonna do for days on end. So I'm
I'm pretty excited for SIEV seven. It's been a it's
been a bit, so that might be top dog for me.
Speaker 2: I can't remember what I chose as mine. We just
did a cast on this.
Speaker 4: I can't remember what I chose either number one, Ghost
of Sushima for the Ghosts of Yo Tai. Yes, oh yeah,
you would say probably and probably for me. I just
played that the first game maybe a year ago, less
than a year ago, and I absolutely loved it. Yeah,
it's probably my favorite PlayStation exclusive. I'd say besides Spider Man,
maybe Spider Man and Ghosts.
Speaker 3: That's a tough choice. It's like spider Man, Ghosts of Sushima,
Got a War, and Last of Us are like some
of the most top quality games.
Speaker 5: I've fair really good picks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, dust Stranding there, Mike, but uhcent list.
Speaker 3: Maybe one day.
Speaker 2: I think DEAs Stranian was actually my number one because
I was I think that was one that was my peak.
That was my peak. Like I think when we did
that cast, I was like in my sixteenth hour of
like non stop going on de Strandings. Yeah, yeah, I
think that was my pick.
Speaker 3: I'm really looking forward to that after the Xbox showcase
that Claire Obscura Expedition three.
Speaker 5: The game looks insane.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, especially for like such a small team and
bringing back turn based RPGs. That's that's really my jam.
Speaker 5: So I'm skeptical that it is actually as good as
it looks, because that's.
Speaker 3: Just I think it's going to be really really short.
It's going to be the uh oh drawn back Yeah,
like seven or ten to ten hours.
Speaker 5: Wow, Okay, that'd be wild for like an RPG like that.
We'll see.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Because it's also at a reduced price. I think it's
only like fifty bucks.
Speaker 5: Mmmm huh.
Speaker 2: That's fine.
Speaker 3: So it's a good experience. I mean, I'm a little
sick of playing these giant hundred hour games. So if
it's a really really great compact experience, I'm more than happy.
Speaker 5: I mean, they were talking about having a world map.
Do you even need a world map? If your game's
only eight hours long.
Speaker 3: It's not full of full of just empty space, then yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the Assassin's Creed for you, Taylor.
Speaker 1: You know, I think I I I don't think I
put it on my my number one. I feel like
I put GT, but I can't remember what I chose
for that cast. But I've seen some things lately for
Assassin's Creed that have really caught me off guard, And
I just mentioned it to Dylan, like the building feature
of the game where you're building like your village and
you actually get to choose where you're placing things, like
really really cool. They've added a whole like a build
sim I guess, is what you call it into it. Yeah,
there's there's a lot of things that they've really just
been implanting into the game. And I think I read
too recently the delays were due to them just finding
some of the parkour mechanics, I believe. So, yeah, that's fine.
They're really they're really fine tuning this, and I don't
blame them because this is this has definitely been the
one that everyone's been waiting for, right, They've been asking
for this for a long time, so you gotta nail it.
Speaker 5: There were just some previews. I didn't actually read any
of them yet, but I don't did you see any
of those tailor were people talking fondly of it? He
didn't see that yet.
Speaker 1: I didn't see that known anyone talking poorly.
Speaker 5: I didn't read the articles yet.
Speaker 3: I watched a couple of videos. From what I saw
if you're an Assassin's Creed fan, it's looking really good.
But if you're not a fan of what they've been
doing more recently, it's probably gonna land the same. They
they've changed some things around, Like there's not gonna be
like the eagle system where you like have the eagle
that flies and like Ping's things. That's gonna be gone.
There's gonna be the dual character system. From what I
hear is the one character is going to be more
like Ninja focus or sneaking around and using that kind
of techniques, and the other character is more the a samurai,
so he's one of the hand to hand well on
hand hand like on the ground fighter with that.
Speaker 1: And oh sorry, go ahead, didn't they do that before
with the London one? They did have that duel and
I really liked it. It was a lot of fun.
I really aggressed it in them after work in my
nine to five, I had to really just let it out.
It's just I thought it was a really cool mechanic
that they put in there. But so when you say
they're doing away with the eagle feature, are they replacing
that with like the old school method where you just
use your egle vision directly out of your character instead
of having an eagle fly around.
Speaker 3: There was going to be egle vision, but it's not
going to be as they wanted to make make it
feel more natural, like they're also like really reducing the
the more fantasy elements, so they introduced in the past
ones like in Odyssey and that's that's fair.
Speaker 1: Got very I felt like it was overpowered just you
could highlight every enemy inside the castle fly around.
Speaker 2: It was like it was like the same mechanic with
the drone, right, but they have an eagle, so it
felt a little weird, but it wasn't combat.
Speaker 3: You basically had superpowers instead of of the more the
tool stuff. So they're gonna bring that back, have like
the smoke bombs and all that stuff.
Speaker 5: I feel like it for any game that you can
mark enemy, Like after a few hours, I'm like, I
don't want to do this anymore. I'm just gonna improvise
when I get to the level. I don't want to
spend ten minutes walking around their perimeter just highlighting everyone
that could exist in there.
Speaker 2: Soft games manner other titles.
Speaker 5: That's true, April, you said you're going to get a
switch to right, did I hear you say that right there. Yeah,
probably what is the what's the selling point for you? There?
Are you just gonna get it no matter what? Or
is there a certain thing you're excited about.
Speaker 6: No, I just like to have the fancy new thing.
Speaker 2: Just look at it, don't even play it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, no, I'll play stuff on it. I just there's
nothing specific. The only thing I'm looking forward to specifically
is Fable eventually.
Speaker 5: So hell yeah maybe next year, maybe late this year.
Speaker 6: Yeah, maybe someday, someday they'll be aw.
Speaker 3: I just really want to see some gameplay finally.
Speaker 5: Yeah, hopefully this summer will get gameplay. I think that
would make sense. Figure. Did they have a trailer last
year for that at their showcase? Can't remember, but.
Speaker 3: Probably something cinematic.
Speaker 2: Just the Elder Scrolls six reveal, same sort of thing,
you know, just just the title.
Speaker 5: God remind me. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Do you ever go back and look at the I
did this the other day. You go to the Elder
six Elder Scroll six trailer reveal and look at the comments,
and it's freaking hilarious. The recent comments. I'm just gonna
like it.
Speaker 2: Pull up a couple of comments.
Speaker 5: Well, yeah, the thing that was going around. Is that
like that trailer is now longer. It was a farther
far enough way that was longer than the time between
Skyrim and that trailer coming out. Yeah, which is insane.
Speaker 3: I hear that fact, and it might might which probably
not gonna come out for another two or three years
at least.
Speaker 8: So oh yeah, yeah, let's see here comments all right, Oh,
this is a good one.
Speaker 1: One month ago in chronological order, this trailer gets released
twenty eighteen. My daughter is born December twenty eighteen. I
rewatched the trailer again in twenty twenty four. My daughter
starts elementary school in twenty twenty five. Still know I'll
or school six. Oh, this is like releasing a teaser
fromorrow to nineteen eighty five. Todd Howard provides us the
most immersive experience from Bethesa, but making us elders as
we scroll through the comments. Yeah, people just got savage.
It's it's so funny. Oh, this trailer deserves a remaster.
Speaker 5: That's a good one.
Speaker 3: I know what I'm saying. I was a Kingdom Hearts
fan that waited fourteen years for Kingdom Hearts three. I
was literally like in grade school when the second one
came out, and I was working when the third one
came out. Welcome to the Club.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's true. It's rough out there. I was. There
were so many rumors this week that one of the
things Xbox was gonna announce was Elder Girls Oblivion remaster,
and they didn't, And I was I believe too much
in that rumor because there was so many different sorts
is pointing at it and so many hints uh, And
then it didn't end up happening. So hopefully that still exists,
because I would like to see that.
Speaker 3: But I think it is. I think it is.
Speaker 5: Do you though, do you actually think it's real.
Speaker 3: I've heard rumblings.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I have too. I've heard these rumblings before. We'll see.
That'd be interesting. Apparently it's like not in their engine.
It's in like Unreal Engine five, which would be that
seems like a huge job then to like port that
game to a whole new engine, because because the games
have always been in their own their own engine, so
that would be wild, but.
Speaker 3: Especially since they've already confirmed that Elder Scirl uh seven
or is it six or seven? The new one really
seven before six?
Speaker 4: At this point?
Speaker 3: Bro, Yeah, that one is still going to be in
their uh, in their native engine.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, so we'll see how that goes, because it
seems like Starfield was struggling with something that engine to
something extent. But who knows.
Speaker 3: All these elder scirls you already have, like the I
mean it's fourteen years old at this point, but you
have still the basic elements to work with there. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of the world building stuff too, right,
like the same like in game books, those are across
all the titles, so real copy paste get so long.
Speaker 5: Yeah, hopefully we get something soon. I mean now that
Starfield's out and the DLCs out, like in theory, then the
next year or two we should get more information another trailer.
But yeah, I still think that game is pretty far away,
which is sad to say.
Speaker 2: Maybe at least a title like dedicate like a province, right, yeah.
Speaker 5: I mean that would give us a lot to chew
on for sure, even though there's already a lot of
like it seems like high is going to be the situation.
Speaker 2: But I feel like, yeah, like that's been the speculation.
Everyone's like dissecting on like where it's going to be.
But like those conversations were had a month after that
trailer came out. You can only really like theorize so
much for what they gave us.
Speaker 5: Yeah, definitely. Yeah, any other hype games anyone looking forward.
Speaker 1: To this year?
Speaker 5: April April? I don't. I don't know if we've ever
talked about video games with you, but like, what do
you what games do you play? Or is it playing stuff?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 6: I mean he plays everything a ton, He's playing Minecraft
every day, I'm sure. But so, I really played a
lot of Starfield. I was the last big game I played.
Just finished Cat Cafe Manager. I like Cozy games, Little Kiddie,
Big City before that.
Speaker 5: That was fine.
Speaker 1: That was fun.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that was a good one. Yeah. So did you
play Stray because you're into these cat games.
Speaker 6: I haven't played Stray.
Speaker 5: I lost Cozy for sure yet.
Speaker 1: It's on my list.
Speaker 6: I just haven't got around to it.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Nice, I don't know.
Speaker 4: It makes ever a lot of the twenty twenty six games,
for sure. The Witcher. I love that trailer. Super excited
for the Witcher and waiting on this wonder Woman game. Man,
it's oh yeah, I will come out one day and
maybe hopefully Yeah. Yeah, and Wolverine obviously Wolverine that one's Uh, that.
Speaker 3: Doom game look pretty good too, Doom Dark Ages. I'm
not a big Doom guy, but because it's a little
too fast for me. But the way they explained this one,
how it's going to be more slow paced and more
you standing around, makes me very very interesting.
Speaker 5: They're like, you used to run and jump and now
you stand still. Like interesting way to market the game.
Speaker 3: But okay, I'm too old to the fast paced.
Speaker 5: It's for the people who love this series back in
the eighties, nineties, whatever. They're too old for the twitch,
the twitch gameplay of it.
Speaker 3: That's just the aesthetic of it. The heavy metal fantasy
medieval period looks awesome.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's pretty cool. Yeah. I wonder what PlayStation will
do this year because they've been a little quiet. I mean,
desk Randing could be one ghost, I guess they have.
Do you guys think Wolverine's coming out this year? Is
that seemed not too soon?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 4: Definitely not unfortunately now.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 5: I mean when we got those leaks though, like the
game it was cooking. Yeah, it did, but that was
like a year or two ago, now right, I feel.
Speaker 4: Like, no word on it is not a good thing.
But yeah, no, it's uh, it did. It did look
close like it.
Speaker 5: But Insomniac just somehow it turns these games out. I
don't know how they do it, but yeah, I don't
know if they were hit with any of the PlayStation layoffs.
I don't remember if they were.
Speaker 3: But it's interesting because I know the Spider Man two
apparently had like a really really big budget and like
it's still like good, very well, but for the budget
that it had, it was it was like it just me.
It wasn't It wasn't like as big of a profit
as the first one.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I guess part of that is just like how
many people had PS fives versus how many people had
PS fours when that first one came out.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 5: There's so many, so much deeper in the PS four's
life cycle, So maybe that's part of it. I'm sure
you'll just look at a lot of people and it's
it's because it's coming to PC this month, I think, right,
So I'm sure it'll make a huge chunk of change
when when it hits Steam coming up here.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's yeah, that's very true. I don't think they're
coming out with that Venom game or anything. Anymore. I
don't know if we've heard anymore about that.
Speaker 5: I think it maybe still exists, but I don't know.
I don't know.
Speaker 4: I hope.
Speaker 3: So it did kind of feel like, like, based on
those leaks that they were spreading themselves a bit thin,
like doing the Wolverine game, they had the X Men games,
they had the the Venom game.
Speaker 5: I really liked their strategy thing is officially canceled. Oh
it is, okay, I know, I think, I mean it
was never really announced, right, but I think there's a
fox that it's like not happening, But I mean, I
don't know. In twenty twenty, they released two games. They
released Miles Morales n Ratchet or maybe Ratchet was like
early twenty twenty one, and then Spider Man two and
what was it, twenty twenty three. Yeah, so that's already
insane output, just given that Spider Man the first one
came on twenty eighteen, like that's twenty eighteen, pretty.
Speaker 3: And they had those episodic dealcs, which I really liked.
I love the idea of here's the main game, and
then like every year or so you're going to have
just like a little like three hour experience that that
seemed really cool. It felt like you were getting a
new issue of a comic and it was continuing. That's
the kind of like live service game I want, where
it's like, here's more story content, but like really really
focusing on that, not just like little trip fees of
stuff to make you pay extra cash for skins every month.
Speaker 5: Yeah, some of themes are still getting right, Like Midnight
sund Is fantastic. Yeah, every like three or four months,
here's like another few hours of game play, new character.
I loved coming back revisiting that game.
Speaker 1: You know, Halo four Infinite they did something like that
where every few weeks it was spartan ops. You'd beat
the main game, you got your multiplayer and all that,
but then you get this story expansion kind of thing
where it felt like episodes to a TV show. You
get it, say, every week, you get a batch of
like four new missions, you get all new cut scenes.
You're expending the story and continuing on, and after like
a few months goes by, it's like, okay, you've done
like this whole season of Spartan Ops. And then I
don't even know if like the next next year they
would put out another season of spartan ops continuing it like,
and that's kind of a cool way to keep things going.
So I totally agree.
Speaker 3: Could you go back and replay the ones that you
weren't there for or is it only just the ones
that are I.
Speaker 1: Think I think you could go back and play the
ones that you didn't play a yet if you missed
any yeah, because they were out. They were out, so
you could just they were like mission selects basically at that.
Speaker 5: Oh sorry, you said there was Halo four that had that.
Speaker 1: It was Halo four that did that. I don't think
they did it ever again for any of the other titles.
That was the one and done.
Speaker 5: It was not a success, I guess. Yeah, thang, that's
too bad.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Well with the PlayStation, I mean, you say they're quiet,
but they're doing a lot of reshuffling now, canceling all
those life service games they canceled. They got a War one,
which I'm happy about because I think that is the
worst thing happening in the game industry right now, is
all these life service games. And I'm hoping we're finally
turning a corner on that and we're gonna go back
to the good old fashioned single player games. I mean
that's what I like.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we'll see. I mean I wonder how much that's
gonna affect like when these games will come out, because
if they were still working on these games until like
a couple of weeks ago, not still like three or
four years of development, that's now just kind of thrown
in the trash. Are going to start from scratch if
they only have one team internally at a studio like
Bend These Days Gone in twenty nineteen, that game got
canceled like last week, Like okay, is there gonna be
another five years before their next game comes out then,
because they have to start from scratch, Like that's insane
to have ten years of no output from a from
a studio like that.
Speaker 3: Well, Naughty Dog, they were working on that last of
US one and then they had Intergalactic going on in
the background. But there must be like one of the
biggest ones they have.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, who even knows how far Integalactic is, right,
it might be because it was just a cinematic right,
and like it looked a little gameplay, but it wasn't
actual gameplay, So that game might just be like four
years away. Who knows, We shall.
Speaker 3: See, awkward silence.
Speaker 5: Yeah, what else? Anything else on people's minds?
Speaker 1: Big New Year's plans were a new Year now? Yeah,
New Years next year? What's everyone looking forward to? Big
trips around the corner, biggest ben.
Speaker 4: It's a good one. I'm going to my sister. You're
going to Japan, kirk November. Oh booked.
Speaker 2: I was supposed to go in twenty twenty. Everything was
booked and then COVID happened and then canceled everything.
Speaker 5: So this is that COVID.
Speaker 2: This is that trip that was supposed to happen. I
have it like booked too much between then, but we
have our flights book so it's happening on the calendar.
Speaker 1: That's like those dates are official on our.
Speaker 2: I think I tweaked them. They might be a day
or two off.
Speaker 1: I mentioned the sixth. Oh, you're going the twenty fourth
to the sixth.
Speaker 2: So yeah, as of right now, I'm not going to
be there for the Extra Life.
Speaker 1: Chatre because you put and I mentioned it to Travis
and he's like, what is this tentative?
Speaker 2: Like that?
Speaker 1: And I was like socked. Kirkland, like what's that?
Speaker 2: Retired man? Sleep? Like Jesus, he needs to focus on
my calendar.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's so funny. Yeah, going to London. Yeah, I'm
going to London for the first time. My sister she's
over there doing physiotherapy school.
Speaker 5: In Ontario or England.
Speaker 3: Yeah, London, England.
Speaker 2: Yeah, London, Ontario.
Speaker 4: I know, I get that all the time. But yeah,
going over there. So that's exciting. But it's been really
busy lately. Just bought my first house too.
Speaker 2: So thank you.
Speaker 4: So yeah, getting getting all that paperwork settled and getting
ready to move in soon within the next few weeks.
So that's it's going to be a big one. But yeah,
it's excited for sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's very stressful.
Speaker 4: I know, I didn't realize how much paperwork went into
it until until I started it. But I guess you
gotta got to learn somehow, right, So yeah, that should
be cool. I got a hute and got like a
nice big shop kind of on the side, like a
workshop too. So my brother's a welder, so he's gonna
you're gonna have a lot of welding stuff in there too.
Speaker 2: So yeah, it's that's awesome.
Speaker 4: That should be cool. Man.
Speaker 6: We are going to Salem, Massachusetts for Halloween this year.
Spooky Yearly vacation.
Speaker 4: Your yearly vacation.
Speaker 6: You said, well, we take a big one vacation a year.
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 6: It will be my first time going.
Speaker 5: So what do they do something special? What's going on
there there?
Speaker 2: Witches? The witches are what does the city do.
Speaker 5: It's not like there's a witch hunt.
Speaker 6: Yes, we're gonna go hunt witches. No, they do a
big Halloween celebration every year, and then we're gonna go
do all the tours, you know, the like the pocus
Pocus tour and this history tour.
Speaker 5: That's a great idea.
Speaker 4: Yeah, isn't Halloween like from around that area? It could
be wrong.
Speaker 5: I'm not sure. I've never thought.
Speaker 4: I don't know where how we came from, but I
thought I heard it's somewhere around He goes way back
to got an old Harvest festival. Old Harvest Festival.
Speaker 1: Makes sense with the original Hayne, the festival of sam
Hayne among the Celts of ancient Britain and Ireland, Ireland Irish.
Speaker 2: Who settled in Salem.
Speaker 3: When they hunt, they have some really good spooky.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's that'll be a good time to go. It'll
be busy there during that time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sure.
Speaker 4: That's awesome.
Speaker 3: How about that?
Speaker 5: Does any of that stuff fall in the Cryptid Clues
era Taylor? Have you talked about any like Salem Salem
stuff or is that a little out of the wheelhouse.
Speaker 1: Oh, I don't know if I've really touched point on
a lot of that. I don't think I've really touched
upon witches.
Speaker 5: Some witches are like cryptids, like the creepy like.
Speaker 1: I would have to I'd have to go through some
of my notes because there is a little bit that
touches on that. But believe it or not, Like I mean,
dog Man kind of fits in that kind of trifect
I say it, which is, vampires and werewolves are kind
of like the three I have in my mind. And
I've done a lot of werewolf dog my kind of stuff,
which is I don't think I've really done a lot,
but vampires, that's the kind of thing that I feel
like in real life is not a lot of kind
of stuff on it. It's mostly just been like televised
and like media like.
Speaker 5: Well not was a biopic, right, so that should be.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's hard to find and I tried my
best to not kind of go down the route of
things that are kind of like a media and whatever
that's been like like spinned into whatever it is, into
these franchises. I try to go to the original source,
and so for me, the original source is thinking like, oh,
wasn't there like a guy that was like flawed or
the Impaler or something like that that has kind of
like this tale that has like Dracula and that like
connected with it. I don't know, It's been a while
since I looked into that, so I haven't looked at
into it. Same with zombies. I haven't really liked into
zombies that much because I feel like that's a whole
other worms, not really cryptids.
Speaker 3: But have you ever listened to the podcast lore No No?
Speaker 5: I haven't.
Speaker 1: I haven't even heard of it.
Speaker 3: I would highly recommend. It's basically every week he goes
through like an old like a piece of like folklore
that has to do with like like witches or vampires, werewolves,
and he explores how that fits into like real people,
real events. It digs into like some of the documents
of that of people who lived at that time. It's
like for the witches stuff. He goes through like certain
cases where women were accused of witchcraft and how that
affected the town around them. It's very very interesting.
Speaker 1: Is this the one Aaron May? Okay, yeah, I'll add
it to my list.
Speaker 3: They even made an Amazon show based on it.
Speaker 5: Oh nice, damn, where's the Cryptid Clues at Amazon show?
That's what I want?
Speaker 1: I think. You know, we're just a YouTube show for now.
We'll eventually get to heyl.
Speaker 5: If you were given a if Amazon comes to you
and gives you an Amazon budget to make make a show,
what would you do something with that? It would be show.
Speaker 1: I would be I'd be going out into the woods,
uh more full time and I would be doing some
things out there. Yeah, let me tell you, I've only
done one experience. I don't know what you said, I've
We've me and Ruben, we've only done one excursion. We
went out and pulled an all nighter and we went
out into the woods. We drove way way out. I
can't even remember where it was. It was way up north.
Uh it's like a three hour drive up there, went
all the way down these old logging roads just for
the hell of it to see what would happen. And uh,
everyone everyone, it's very different for everyone when you go
out into the woods, you know, like some people go
frontline camping, backwards camping, and you go hiking whatever. At
the end of the day, it is what it is.
But when when you look into like these certain things,
whether you believe them or not is a key factor.
I believe in some of these things, and that made
it a lot more scarier for me. But if you
go out there and you don't believe in these things, yeah, sure,
it's just a bear, a cougar. You don't have to
worry about much. When I'm out there, we're out there
in the dart and like it's it's it's really freaking
freaky to be out there and you know no one
else there should be no one else around. And the
thought too, I mean the stories that you you read
and you look at and then you're in the situation
where you're very very remote and you know no one
else is around, and if you see something, what do
you do in the situation? In the back of your mind,
you I believe in in Bigfoot for sure, but then
you think, like, well, what happens if you really do
see it? You see something, and I imagine like everyone
that is in this position where you know you're brought
up in society. You gotta, you know, work hard nine
to five at day to day. But then what happens
if you do see something that you know shouldn't really
be there, Like it could be a ghost, it could
be anything. Even if you see like a UFO move
around whatever, Like you don't have that explanation for it,
because there really isn't one that we can look at,
and so like what do you do at that point?
It's just it's total game changer. Or I think that's
the thing that scares me the most is seeing something
that really shouldn't be alive, at least from over Taylor.
Speaker 2: When I was I was describing my my t bar
experience when it was just like a total white out
back of my mind, I'm like, this is where Yetti
just comes out of fucking nowhere and just grabs me
and nobody ever sees me again, and like my friend
can't even explain what just happened because he looked one
way and I'm there and then just big YETI grabbed me.
It was in the back of my mind. I'm not
gonna say I'm like, hear those noises, you know, I'm
usually even when it comes to like ghosts and stuff.
I'm like, well, if I see it, I'll believe it.
Until then, I'm just gonna be skeptic that it's it's
not really a thing. But I don't ever want that
day to come where like I actually see something, you know,
So maybe part of me is like, oh, I guess
I do believe in some some some sense of the matter.
Speaker 1: And that's the thing. When I was out there with Reuben,
we're pretty much telling ourselves like, man, I don't want
to see something right now. I really don't because you're there,
you're alone, it's quiet, it's dark, you can't see anything.
But yeah, like nothing, I'll cut to the chase. Nothing happened.
It was just treaky being there and you're at the
end of the day. Your imagination is probably the worst
enemy that you're gonna have in those situations. But if
I have my own Amazon show, I would go out there.
I've been to a few uh like conferences where people
talk about sasquatch, like their experiences and whatnot, and so
there's a few ideas I think I would implement if
I went back out there, I'd refine the process a
little bit more and see what would happen.
Speaker 5: Someday, someday. I'm still pissed at Reuben for his other
sasquatch story where he found a footprint and like didn't
take a picture of it and all this stuff. I'm like,
this guy's crazy. I hate this guy.
Speaker 1: I got pissed at him for that. Yeah. One one rule, man,
come on.
Speaker 5: Yeah, god damn the one rule.
Speaker 1: One rule.
Speaker 5: He needed his iPhone sixteen with the easy camera button.
That's right, probably tied back to the first came.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, this phone is too.
Speaker 5: Hot to you.
Speaker 4: Gosh, was it cold there when you're snowboarding? Snowboarding up there?
Kirkling like, how cold is it for you guys? Right now?
Speaker 2: It wasn't that cold? I think. I think like at
the base of the hill, like like in the village,
it was like minus eleven degrees celsius so translates to
fairness pretty so I don't know what that is, but yeah,
like at the top it would have been really cold.
It was mostly like when you're on the very top,
because then you like get over the ridge of the
mountain and then the wind just comes through and cuts
and I had like a like a like a mask
covering and it was just like hard and solid from
just like being frozen by the time I got to
the top, but by the time I get down, Like
I usually get really hot when I'm on my way down,
so I really don't wear that many layers. So yeah,
it wasn't the coldest day I've ever had. Like my
toes weren't frozen. That's usually when I it's usually when
I know when I'm I'm really cold. My my hands
and my toes are just not warming up on the
way down. Uh. Yeah, that's what was It's about having
a condo player. It's like, Wow, I'm just gonna go
maybe soaking the hotel for a little bit, get warm,
and then go back.
Speaker 5: Up later on dream.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this is the trem Yeah, it's been brutal near
Toronto this whole week. It's been minus thirty Oh jeez. Yeah,
it was just without the wind chill. So yeah, it's
been Uh, it's been pretty tough. It's supposed to warm
up next week.
Speaker 2: But man, yeah, that's brilliant.
Speaker 4: I've had enough. I've had enough.
Speaker 2: There's some sun in the forecast for next week and
I work outside, so that makes me happy.
Speaker 4: All working outside. Oh man, that would be tough. Do
you always work outside or it just depends.
Speaker 2: On Uh, it's like fifty to fifty, Like I do
inside work, but it's I'm going to be outside at
some point in time, guaranteed. Yeah. Sometimes I get lucky
and I'm just inside someone's kitchen or something working out
their panel, and I'm nice and warm.
Speaker 3: But to stay inside, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2: Usually playing around it, right, like if I have to
go on a roof, I'm not gonna do that when
it's snowy.
Speaker 1: So very fair, great nice.
Speaker 5: That seems like a great place to call it for
the day, unless you want us? Is the final final comments?
Speaker 3: Not particularly holding? All good?
Speaker 4: And go watch the Two Towers?
Speaker 2: Yeah, boy, congratulations, Dylan's gonna go watch Zack Snyder's Justice
League four.
Speaker 4: It's a packing movie to have binge.
Speaker 5: Watch Creature Commanders, but I can't find it apparently in Canada,
so ah.
Speaker 3: Dang, Kirkland, what are your what are your final picks
for the games? Who you think is making it to
the Oh?
Speaker 2: I think my picks were Chiefs because you can never
you can never bet against them, and then Commanders because
I'm very Daniels fun.
Speaker 4: I want to see Yeah, I want to insane.
Speaker 2: And I I didn't think I was like a Philly
hater until the season went on, and I'm like, I
get it now, I get why everybody hates Philly.
Speaker 3: So you have the exactly opposite. I think it's going
to be the Eagles and the Bills.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, I mean Josh Allen that was your number
one pick in the draft, So.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's my guy.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I just found out now that he is engaged to
Hailey Steinfeld.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, the man is perfect taste in women, so I
mean even more.
Speaker 2: I had no idea they're even dating, and then I
saw that that reveal happened, they got engaged, and then
he continued to like have the best couple of weeks
of his life. So yeah, that proposal, buff, Yeah he
had the I'm Marriyan Hailey Steinfeld buff active for those for.
Speaker 3: The Super Bowl.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would like I would love to see it
happen because I just kind of want to see the
Chiefs loose because they're just they're the team to be,
so therefore they're the they're the bad guys in my eyes.
Speaker 3: Could you imagine if they weren't in the same division,
but the Chiefs versus the Bills, Steinfeld versus Swift.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's put my money on Swift. She's got more
of a fan base, but yeah, a little bit. It's
gonna be spicy right on. Okay, thanks for coming everyone.
Speaker 4: Yeah, good seeing you guys.
Speaker 5: Yeah, thanks for joining you guys. We'll see you next month.
Speaker 2: Have a good rest of your weekend.
Speaker 4: Yep.