Speaker 1: Ash, you can't even do newscast And then what does
he do this week? He's like, you know, you have
enough content, you could do a newscast.
Speaker 2: This guy, he's putting us to work from the grave
over here. But this is this is After nine. Welcome
to afron I don't think I've ever introduced this this
show before, but it is gonna be a fun, little
bit different here. I don't know if Travis has ever
missed an episode of After the Nine. So this is
another historic episode happened for books. Really, it's happened for sure.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm gonna never mind.
Speaker 2: Then last comment, Yeah, trying to find it.
Speaker 3: But I'm not alone. Who do I got with me here?
I'm jeez, I'm one of the boys cooking dots are
I'm glad to be one of the boys here with
my boys and uh doing pretty good, doing pretty good.
Speaker 1: I'm the patient zero, Taylor Field.
Speaker 3: Is that all your name?
Speaker 1: The other day or like a couple of weeks ago,
it could have patient zero? Yeah, once your from the
other day, You're never not patient zero.
Speaker 3: He just circles back unless they find another one, like
a one before you.
Speaker 2: That could be the patient god Zilla movie Patient minus one.
Speaker 1: Starting to consider how does that work, Celia, Well, if
you're a patient zero, the next person would that be
patient one or patient two?
Speaker 3: I guess it'd be one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, probably Oneatient zero is technically one, which you're right,
it does feel a little off the count.
Speaker 3: Patient zero is the one that started it, so then
the next one would be like the one that got
it from maybe zero.
Speaker 2: Maybe you can skip one. You can be like, you
can be patient zero and then the next person be
patient too, kind of in the way that like if
you tie in a tournament, how there's like two people
to get fifth and no one gets sixth. Sometimes, you know,
maybe it'd be like that kind of situation. Technically patient
zero is also patient one, and then patient two is
the next.
Speaker 3: Never thought about like the origin of that. I'm gonna
look that up. You need Yeah, I think it just
sound identified as the first carrier of a communicable that's
a wild word, uh disease and an outbreak related cases,
so it would be the first person that gets it.
So then tailored back to your argument, I feel like
it should be like the first patient, not necessarily patient zero,
but I guess it's just a nice.
Speaker 2: Zero just sounds a lot more sci fi and cool
than Patient one, although I doubt that's the reason why
they picked that, because it's not like a sci fi term.
Speaker 3: It's like a human medicine term. I guess I feel
like it sounds like anytime you have zero, like typed out,
not just the not just the number. I feel like
it's sci fi in my mind. Yeah, you know zero.
I feel like that used to be like a Mega
Man character too, like what was the red what was
the red character? Was it zero?
Speaker 4: Zero?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, there you go deep on the Mega Man lore.
Speaker 2: But if anyone hasn't listened after night before, this is
the kind of I mean. This is actually more of
like an Originals type starting to an episode after I
is our Patreon call in show, So if you are
at the Phase two or aboved here, you can join us.
In a few minutes, we're going to send that link out,
which I guess we didn't discuss this, but who's who's
going to send that link out?
Speaker 3: And Patreon, who's got that?
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 1: I scheduled a link to go out, Okay, a few minutes,
so we should be good.
Speaker 3: Cool.
Speaker 2: So once we send that link out, we'll see who's
who's available. On this fine well, Sunday morning for most
of us here in the I guess actually only morning
for us in the Pacific Standard time. Everyone else East
Coast there can be a little early afternoon. And then
we have some people potentially from over the Pond there
that might join us as well. We'll probably talk about
some of the upcoming Christmas plans, probably talk about some
movies that we've been watching, TV shows, lots of things,
lots of things going on.
Speaker 3: But how would you guys? How was your guys weekend?
My weekend has been very, very pleasant, honestly, you know,
it started off with a Christmas party, so I feel
like at work now it's really starting to feel like, okay,
last week's coming up and then Christmas holidays, so things
are slowing down a little bit, like we're kind of planning,
like our end of the week plans next week. Sometimes
it's like okay, holy shit, where am i? Where am
I going out in Cherryville like hours away? Or just
just cleaning up and getting ready for the winter break,
which is very much the vibe right now. So that's nice.
And yeah, I saw Craven on Thursday, and you know,
go check out that review that was hell of a time.
It's just grumpy during that whole event. But after that
and oh, actually, fun funny thing with that Craven event,
that was actually Shaye and I's eight year anniversary as well,
so she ended up working that evening, so of course
we couldn't even spend time together and I'm going to
see Craven and I'm just grumpy. But no, she took
yesterday off Saturday, so we had a fun day together.
We went snowboarding in the morning and the snow was
awesome and it was just it was a great time.
It was Yeah, I think we did I don't know,
like ten or eleven runs and my legs were just
cooking at the end of it. I'm still working on
my getting my stamina up there for the season. But
it's been a good start of this and now or
where like, the snow has been kind of what it
was like at the end of the year last year,
so it's it's a good start. And uh, yeah, I
know we've already been up there, I think every weekend
since what's.
Speaker 2: Your favorite zone on the mountain? Where do you where
do you prefer to?
Speaker 3: My favorite zone? Damn, that's a question I've never been
asked before. I would say, yesterday, I was kind of
venturing off in some other areas, uh, and I liked
the snow, like where I found like there's some areas
that were just untouched and some like trees. And I'm
not really like a Mogli guy, you know, there's just
bumps on the mountain because it's just like Jungle Book.
But okay, that's no, I'm never making jungle Book references.
Speaker 5: I'm sure.
Speaker 3: Let's I say the bear necessities, but the moguls are
just they're just scary because I feel like you can
just fly right off them, and if it's not powdery,
it's just like hard and you'll just like injure yourself.
Whereas when it's actually like really snowy and powdery, it's
just it doesn't really matter if you wipe out. It's
just like a cloud, so you just kind of send it.
And it seems like the Mowgli areas, it's just like
a lot of jumps. So you just always like getting
opportunities to do some crazy stuff.
Speaker 2: And I need to talk to someone about like who
really loves moguls and ask them why.
Speaker 3: Yeah, why is that? Yeah? I don't know, just they
love the technical side of it and like really just
getting that perfect line I would imagine, but it just
feels like years than snowboarders too. Yes, I would one
percent agree with that, But say my favorite zone, I don't.
I don't really know, maybe more central of the mountain.
I haven't done, Like, have you been to Big White?
Do you like know?
Speaker 2: Like reference I mentioned snowboarder for like probably seven years
in a row, kind of took a couple of years
off and then kind of go every once in a while,
but it's been it's been a while since I've been there,
maybe three or four years or something.
Speaker 3: Get all the lads on the mountain down stream my dad,
don't be like like a GoPro thing for the for
the mountains that we can live.
Speaker 2: Stream, that would be fun. I don't even know where
my stuff is. I assume it's at my parents house
somewhere like my board and then I have no idea
where that stuff is. But I've always really liked I
think Black Forest it was like my favorite area, but
definitely I don't know certain runs all over the place,
but I really like that, especially when you're like the
first one there and it's like untouched, like the area
right under the chair lift, like that that little canal
almost it's just pure powder. Like that's I think my
strongest snowboarding memory is like a day where I was
staying overnight at Big White, so it got to be
like the first one out of the mountain, nice, first
one to touch that area. And it was so it
had snow for like, you know, two days straight or something,
so it was just NonStop and that was amazing. That
was like, I don't know, it was just the best
time of my life.
Speaker 3: It was so good. Oh, that's awesome. I had no
idea that even snowboard. That's cool that you have some
some history you've snowboard. I'm pretty much that I have
because this is my second season and I'm digging it.
But you know, last year we went to Black Forest
quite a bit. It's it's kind of separate from the
other areas, so you're kind of like making a gamble
because you're just driving out to that area. It's like, Okay,
I hope it's not super packed or I hope the
snow is good over there. So we usually go to
uh it's called like the Ridge Chair, so they have
the ridge snow Ghost and Plaza, so there's three chairs there,
so it kind of snow Ghosts such a badass name,
and it's a six person chair, so it kind of
really breaks up the crowds, like once it starts getting busy,
there's just so much more filtering through other chairs. So
the lineups really aren't that bad, whereas a lot of
people love Black Forest, but it's just the one chair,
right and it's just a four person chairs. Pretty everybody's there.
It's just it's a big lineup, and no, fortunately I
haven't really seen like big crowd. Shane and I go
like right at opening too, Like we leave at like
seven in the morning to get there like right when
it opens, so usually always get a good parking spot
and then we're pretty much like the first ones on
the mountain, which is really nice. And because we have
season passes, I'm not like, oh, we got to be
here all day, you know, like pack lunches, Like I'm
getting tired, let's leave. It's like not even noon yet,
but yeah, no, it's it's it's been fantastic. I'm so
glad that got into the hobby because Shay like snowboarded
in high school and stuff. So she's she's pretty damn good.
And it's a nice hobby that we can chair together
over the winter month. And yeah, I were renting a
condo from like my birthday week in January, so I'm
very much looking forward to that because we'll be there
during the week, so it won't be really that busy.
It's mostly like Saturdays and Sundays when the weekend warriors
go up, which is me, you know right now, because
I worked during the week. But that's gonna be a
blast because we're just staying right there, you know, go
first thing in the morning, go for a hot tub afterwards.
We got a hot tub in the condo, and it'll
it'll be a good time. And yeah, so that was
my yesterday. We did some snowboarding, came back. I was
so tired. I had like a quick power hap on
the couch and then Shane and I watched a couple
of movies and some more just parks and rec that's
the show we kind of got going.
Speaker 2: Right, are saving those movies for newscast or do you
want to share what you watch?
Speaker 3: I can share them. I can share them. I watched
Four Christmases. I had seen that movie before with you know,
the great Vince Fawn and Reese Witherspoon. I remember like
loving that movie, like I thought, I just felt like
the comedy was like one hundred percent throughout the whole thing,
like it was just working for me. Pretty disappointed, honestly,
this time around, I think like the moments that really
got me, like the first time I saw it in
comedy Wise, they still hit for sure. I kind of
forgot Jon Favreau's in it. He plays like spawns wild.
I don't know if I don't know if he's buff,
but he's definitely plump. I'll give you that term.
Speaker 2: Tight shirts that make him okay, he's super super yeah,
super super tight shirts. But he's supposed to be like
a UFC, you know, wanna be fighter in the movie,
and so he's always just wrestling Vince Vaughn and just
his like his like smug face that he has throughout
the whole film is just hilarious. And it's just so
funny seeing Jon Favreau in these random roles because like
now I just see him as Happy Hogan of course,
and then like the director of like various Marvel things.
But like I totally forgot that, like he's in Friends
as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he dates Courtney Cox for a little while. Throughout
that show.
Speaker 2: He always pops up in things now and I'm like, oh, yeah,
I guess he's like was an for a long time
behind the camera.
Speaker 3: Forgot he was like the chef and in that he's
like he's got like tattoos and stuff, and I'm like,
this is just so strange to see. But and then
of course when he popped up here and he's just
doing a full nailson on Vince Vaughn, he's all tatted
up and he's this badass guy. But yeah, it was
still a good movie. I would definitely pass it, but
like I feel like would give it like a seven,
like maybe seven and a half max like it just
it was a lot lesser throughout the whole film than
I would have expected. But I don't know. I love
Vince Vaughn. I think he's just fantastic in comedy. He's
his one liners are just so good.
Speaker 2: Watching some winding crashers nice, which is what I'm not
really nostalgic for it. I didn't watch it like as
a as a kid and whatnot. Yeah, but it's it's
pretty funny and I just I love Reese Witherspoon.
Speaker 3: I feel like everything I've seen her and us, she's fantastic.
I remember watching like Legally Blonde a lot growing up
with my sister, so just seeing her in those roles,
she's fantastic. So we watched that. I think last time
we were talking about christ movies, I mentioned Frozen was
like a big one for me, and so we watched
Frozen two. I fucking love that movie so much. I'm
just I'm such a sucker for Frozen two, specifically Frozen two.
I feel like Target ruined the first Frozen for me,
where I hated the movie before I had even seen it,
and then I watched them like it's a good movie,
but it's just still like those songs in the seasonal aisle,
like back corner of Target, Like I just remember working
those those areas, and I just hated it. So I
have Frozen two, and then you know, Breaking forth Wall
Dylan and I will be dropping a War of the
Rowe here review in the in the Close Future here,
And that movie really reminded me of certain things from
how It's Moving Castle, which is one of my favorite
movies of all time, Like I truly truly loved that
movie so much and threw that one on last night
and like brought me to tears again. Like it's just
a perfect movie. It is so well made. The music
in it is just so beautiful, the animation is beautiful.
I love so much about that movie. And so yeah,
I watched I think that was the you know, we
did Craven and we found out that a certain Rhino character,
the actor Alessandro played Billy from Jurassic Park three. So, Taylor,
I throw on Jurassic Park three last night and I
watched that whole thing. Wanted you to go.
Speaker 2: Check out his actors.
Speaker 3: Other thing, I really love that movie, Like I I
like it a lot, but I feel like the more
I watch it, the more I just have issues with it,
like just some of the things with the raptors. And
I'm just not a fan of raptors in these like
Jurassic movies.
Speaker 2: Some just as someone who's not seen the movie and Dress.
Speaker 3: Park three, well, like doctor Grant is just obsessed with them,
Like throw it basically the whole Jurassic Park adventure that
he has, and the whole movie is just like it
seems like the raptors have like human like traits to
them to the point where they're just like fucking with
people and like just getting like in their mind as
if it's like a like a human type villain. I
don't know, the dream and like when they're in like
when they go to like the egg Incu bitter area
and like there's no reason for this, but the raptor
is just like pretending to be like a mannequin and
then like just to like mind fuck this person, I guess,
and then she yeah, and then I don't know. I'm
also just not a big fan of raptors overall. I
think they're just idolized too much in these drastic well
there's so many cool dinosaurs out there, and you know,
they don't even they don't even have the accurate portrayal. Right,
there's no feathers on these raptors, and a raptors like
way smaller too than they're supposed to be.
Speaker 1: They weren't way smaller, but they explain that though because
they don't have access to one hundred percent of the genome,
they had to fill in the sequence gaps with that
of other animals.
Speaker 3: So good defense. They don't take it back.
Speaker 2: What's your favorite go to?
Speaker 6: Then?
Speaker 1: Off the top of your head, are you t Rex,
sky Bracyosaurus? Oh for dinosaur, I mean you don't like
the raptors, there's something that's number one.
Speaker 3: It would probably be t Rex, which again is like
that's like an easy one.
Speaker 2: Okay, but raptors are too popular.
Speaker 3: T Rex come on very true, very good accurate counter However,
I feel like just the look and like size of
them is just so iconic throughout all of the Jurassic
Park movies as well as the Dress Park ride. If
you size accurate on probably not, probably not, but you
know when you're on like the dressic ride like Roll
Roll Dress Park roller coaster, and you're going to that
one section and the t rex head just comes down,
like that's just a core nostalgic memory for me as
a as a wee young lad. And I don't know,
I just think like they represent a great like just
monster like in fiction as well. So like when you
when I think of like a big bag monster, like
you know, something huge with a big mouth, sharp teeth,
that's usually what I would think of, and t Rex
is just like a great representation of that. And I
don't know, I feel like they don't really overstay their
welcome like raptors do. Again, I'm getting a little nitty
nitty picky here with with the raptor hate. But uh,
it would probably be t Rex. But Taylor, what's the
dinosaur with like the hard shell and they got like
basically the club on the tail.
Speaker 1: That was always my favorite. You see it briefly in
Jurassic Park three eating.
Speaker 3: And then Jurassic Park two they have like it's not
that one, but they have something similar where it's like
a spiked tail, but it's not like a Stegosaurus Stegosaurus. Yeah, yeah,
but uh yeah, I don't know, the big club tails.
Those are always my favorite as a kid. I don't
know what it was. I just seemed like a great
like kit, you know that they had to quit it
to weapon. Yeah, they got good armor. It's like a
Paladin build, like they probably got some holy damage with
they swing their tails. So those are always my favorite.
But I would like, yeah, almost like reluctantly admit t
Rex would be my favorite just because it was so iconic.
But yeah, I mean, I'm a raptors. They're kind of relatable.
Speaker 2: I feel like a raptor I can understand that as
being a real thing. Whereas like a t rex, bronche
of Saurus, all these, I'm like, there's no way that
was real enough. Of course it is. I'm not like
some flatters denire, but I'm just saying it's like, man,
I can't believe that those were real things that roam
the planets and maybe walked where I'm sitting right now
one day. But raptors, I'm like, yeah, okay, it's kind
of just like a freaky bird. I can I can
understand how that was cruising around. So maybe maybe for
it feels more realistic or something. But I love the
good raptor. I might be the boring velociraptor guys my
as my go to. But Taylor, you probably have like
your top five all charted out in your mind.
Speaker 3: I should.
Speaker 1: I'm a raptor guy. I'm a t rex guy when
I was a little kid, and that Spinosaurus and dress
Puck three just like acts as the t rex, like
oh there's a new king in town, holy shit, And
I was all for that. Mosesare as well. Love the
mosesesare you know.
Speaker 2: Look these up, man, I don't know these them. I
like going to, oh, that's just like a crocdile but
without legs that swims around.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just a giant underwater?
Speaker 3: Is that the one in Jurassic World?
Speaker 1: Yes? Please you sor it's pretty cool. That's like a
lackness swuster. But I'm I'm definitely like I love myself
a t rex and a velociraptor, and I love how
they just kind of blew it out of the water
with the velociraptors intelligence and dress Park three. Like doctor
Grant's like what did he say? I'll try and quote it,
like raptors instead of humans would have been the dominant
species on this pot, like.
Speaker 3: The boldest statement. See that's the thing too, where it's
like it's almost national treasure level, where like I love
Alan Grant, you know, like like what's the actor's named
Neil Neil something? Taylor Taylor Field helped me out. What's
what's the actor's name, Sam Neil? Sam Neil? There you go, uh,
Like I love that character, but in the movie he's
almost like Ben Gates for me, where it's just he's
so obsessed, Like Ben Gates is so obsessed with history.
He's like so patriotic of like just the founding Fathers
and everything. It's just it's almost like like religious to him,
like like it just seems like so extreme and then
it sames. It feels the exact same with doctor Grant
and raptors, where he's just he's just so passionate about
them and like like they'll be running away. They captured
the one raptor in the cage, and then he's running
and he just stops and turns. He's like he's calling
for help, and he just instantly like knows everything that
the raptors are doing. It's just goofy for me.
Speaker 2: Well, we got our we got our first caller here, Mike,
how's it going? And what is your favorite dinosaur? Do
you have an answer that question?
Speaker 3: Or you a dinosaur disbeliever? Like, yeah, what's your what's
your raptors?
Speaker 2: We're throwing all the questions as well.
Speaker 7: Definitely believe in them, that's for sure as far as
my favorite.
Speaker 8: Yet.
Speaker 7: You know, when I was a kid, it used to
be like, you know, the t rex and the usual answers,
but now kind of like a pterodactyl, okay, fly a
lot more mobile. They're they're pretty vicious, harder to depend down.
I feel like they don't get as much attention as.
Speaker 2: The Yeah, I feel like we don't talk about other
flying dinosaurs, like I'm sure there's a ton, but we
only ever hear about those pterodactyls, right.
Speaker 3: I'm sure there was yeah, plenty, plenty of them, and
that was the big like misconception because the Drafts Park
movies is like they had it, you know, maybe not.
The most accurate depiction of what they actually look like
is like they're very similar to birds and had feathers,
so like there'd probably be plenty you have different flyers,
right if they're directly related to that. But no, it's
a good point because I only ever think of pterodactyl
as a flyer when it comes maybe like does dress
Park have like smaller ones, because you know they have
like the small raptor looking things. I imagine they have
like smaller bird likes or bat equivalent flyers, but they're.
Speaker 2: Probably doing like the background or something I would imagine, yeah,
flying around, but nondescript. I can't think of a plot
point around one though.
Speaker 3: No, definitely not. Yeah pterodactyl good pick though, and they're
you know, good representation Dress Park three, So I'll shout
them out there before time.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's a classic. How's your weekend going, Mike.
Speaker 7: Oh pretty good, pretty good, And had a family dinner
last night and just bracing myself for a busy Christmas
time schedule.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, are you staying close to your home? Are
you traveling somewhere?
Speaker 7: Usually we all, my whole family, we have a condo
up north, so we head up there and spend as
long as we can just chilling out in a condo
watching movies and stuff, going out, you know, enjoying the weather.
Speaker 3: So it sounds like a psychological experiment. Sometimes it's like, yeah,
we just try and outlast each other. Just what happens.
Speaker 7: That'sually what it turns into.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's only one turkey that everyone's like fighting for
to you know, stay stay full.
Speaker 7: I think, what are we doing a ham this year?
Speaker 4: Not sure?
Speaker 3: Okay, it's a little different. And you mentioned north, Like
how north are you going? Are you going to?
Speaker 7: Like, it's a place over here called mont Haamla. It's
about an hour and a half two hour drive from here,
depending on the traffic, And uh, yeah, you have a
place up there, So I go up there a couple
of times a year, and more specially during Christmas when
you get all the snow activities.
Speaker 5: It's nice.
Speaker 7: It's really nice up there. Yeah, a little village, all decorations.
I feel like maybe you guys have a different where
you are, but in my neighborhoods, especially in the past
couple of years, and notice a noticeable decline in like
Christmas lights and decorations and stuff. So it's nice to
go somewhere where you could like be in that atmosphere.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a good point. I feel like there's certain
neighborhoods like over here we're just go all out. It's
like every house except one is just like incredibly lit
up and just just full. Uh. I don't know. The
extra Like the technology of Christmas lights too, is just
like so much better than it used to be. Like
you get like the projector's screen sometimes like there's just
like wacky waving inflatable arm like snowmen. Sometimes, like it's
just it's so much more extreme than it used to be.
I feel like when I was a kid, where it
was just like you have the string of lights, half
of them aren't aren't actually on because of course they're
like wired and serious, so one is dead and then
the whole strings just not working. But yeah, it's it's been.
I don't want to say it's declining because I still
do see a lot of it, but it is in
those specific neighborhoods where they go all out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like it's pretty good round my house.
And it's hard to say on the history of it
because I've only lived here for I guess it'd be
nice the second Christmas time here, but.
Speaker 3: It's pretty good.
Speaker 2: People are pretty pretty into it. There's of course the
one guy's house. Yeah, he has like I don't know,
ten different inflatable things. Yeah, that's like around Halloween and Christmas,
so there's always like it's either the Giant Spider or just.
Speaker 3: Like the family of snow people out front.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I feel I feel like it's it's very
festive here. It's nice to walk around at night, which yeah,
I feel like I haven't done much recently, but just
the night went for nice nighttime walking. Really got to
take it all in and a lot of these houses
really go all out, just like right next door and stuff.
Speaker 3: So it's pretty it's pretty nice to see. It's fun.
Speaker 2: You probably don't have snow, No, I haven't seen any
snow yet this year.
Speaker 7: Yeah, A few people I've talked to.
Speaker 1: They're kind of transitioning from doing like the lights up
at Christmas, taking them down and back and forth every
year to just doing permanent lights where they hook them
up and then you just change them to whatever for
Halloween and they sink to your phone and smart because
the technology, like you said, Kirkling, it's so much more advanced.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So to take them down and put them up.
That was my childhood.
Speaker 7: That's the joke is that people will put the lights up,
then they forget to well, they don't want it to
come down until like the snow meltsy at Christmas, slights
until March.
Speaker 5: See.
Speaker 3: That was that was my father and I's argument where
we put the lights up once in the house that
I grew up in, and then it snowed, and then
that was like the year that the snow actually stayed
like quite a long time, like it probably like melted,
and then like a random time like late February, it
just like snowed again, and it's like Okay, by the
time it's melted again, it's springtime. Now it's I don't
really want to get on the ladder. It's like okay,
well we're only like a handful of months from Christmas,
let's just let's just leave these up, right, like we
weren't turning them on until those festive times, but just
in the mind trying to make the argument of like what,
what really is the reason why I should get on
this ladder and take all these lights down put them
away when I'm gonna have to do the exact same
thing again, and then we had Christmas lights up every
year after that point and probably.
Speaker 5: And then eventually we just rip you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, where he's like, I'm not doing this everya I'm
just gonna leave them up there. Yeah, I'm sure they'll
be fine, and then we'll just plug them in again
when it when it hits I don't know, December, mid November,
whatever it is exactly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's the way to do it.
Speaker 2: So, Mike, when you go up with your family, do
you guys have any like is there a movie that
you watch every year? Or is there like certain activities
or games that you always play, like tradition?
Speaker 7: Uh, yeah, a lot of traditions. Usually we put up
the Christmas tree up there. We have like it's at home,
we have our plastic tree and over there it's a
natural tree. We always put that up while we watch ELF,
and we usually watch National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation on the
twenty third, and then the twenty fourth, me and my
dad we watch It's a Wonderful Life.
Speaker 3: Wow. I love that this is charted out to the day.
That is amazing.
Speaker 2: My family is much more chaotic when it's like when
do we have time to put on Home Loan or
like whatever movie we want to watch.
Speaker 3: But I like that. That's that's perfect.
Speaker 7: That was pretty much my top thre right there, top
three Christmas movies. So it's like a nice little crescendo
to the day itself.
Speaker 6: Nice.
Speaker 3: It's still haven't seen It's a Wonderful Life, like ever maybe,
like I thought like a glimpse of it on TV
at one point, but no, I've definitely never seen that movie.
Maybe you should do this season because I've been I've
been slacking on the Christmas movie watch. I feel like
I'm jamming them in now, Like I just mentioned that,
like I did my staff Christmas party, but like until then,
it kind of felt like Christmas was still like quite
a ways away, and I was like, oh my god,
that's right here, So start starting to get through the
list slowly, but maybe that'll be one off to throw on.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I don't think warning. It starts off a bit slow,
but it's a it's a good build up and it
all builds to a really good emotional ending. Like even
me the first time I watched him, my dad was like, oh,
you'll like it. It's black and white, but it's it's
a good story, and I'm like, Okay, I'm not sure
about this for the first hour, and that last like
hour half hour it really hits yard.
Speaker 1: That it is a good movie. That one thing, Mike
that happens. I'm not going to say it's spoil it,
but like it's one thing with.
Speaker 3: Potter and Potters yeah, I'm sure.
Speaker 1: I don't know how to allude to it without spoiling it,
but it's just one thing where.
Speaker 7: It really bad thing he does.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you know, guy drops something or something like that,
and it's like, oh, that's the worst, absolutely so shady
thing to do.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, despicable villain. Probably one of the worst villains
in any Christmas movie. That Potter.
Speaker 3: Wow, now I'm really intrigued. No, I gotta get in there.
That's good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was that was a good way to sell it.
Some controversy happens in this movie. Me and MUDs watched
the original Grinch last night, like the animated one from whatever,
the fifties, whatever it was. I have not watched that
in so long, and that was really funny to go
back to and just one like seeing the quality of
the animation, and you could like, now that we've reviewed
so many things, I can kind of see like, oh yeah,
I can. I can see like the tricks they're doing here,
like repeating frames and things like that. But then also
just like some of the dialogue and like.
Speaker 3: The lines and the rhymes in that movie were pretty wild.
Speaker 2: Like I just not what I remembered because as a kid,
I feel like a lot of that just went over
my head. But that was it was fun to go
back to.
Speaker 3: Me. That's the easiest one to watch because it's like
half an hour long.
Speaker 2: So it's like, if you can't you don't have time
for Christmas stuff, just throw on the original Grinch.
Speaker 7: All those like nineteen fifties and sixties like Claymation, like
Rudolph and or even someone that you don't hear talk
a lot about, but they're really well made, like Santa
Claus's come to town or Jack frosts.
Speaker 2: It's uh, speaking of Jack Ross. We got Carl here.
How's it going, Carl?
Speaker 5: How's it going? Folks? I'm just out of the show
and around Dan quickly because I've seen the link pop up?
Speaker 3: So, oh are you looking good? You can smelling a
bottom here?
Speaker 5: Smelling rotting?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 3: I smelled something?
Speaker 2: How you doing? I feel like you weren't here last month,
or maybe I missed you, whatever it was, but it's
good to see how you've been.
Speaker 3: All good?
Speaker 5: I missed last month. It's been busy period. I've I
seen romlins as Travis finally left the building because it happened.
Speaker 2: We got rid finally we we couldn't handle.
Speaker 5: Yeah, about time. This podcast is far better.
Speaker 3: Fight him? Oh good to hear like he's still lourking.
Though still lurking, you can't he never truly leaves.
Speaker 5: I don't know why this keeps glitching your Travis.
Speaker 3: Honestly, Travis is hacking into your Yeah, I.
Speaker 5: Don't know why. It's like I did a speed test
before you come on and it's not great, but it's
still goodding off the stream, it's weird.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean your camera looks when it's not frozen.
It looks very clean and high frame right and all
that and.
Speaker 5: A nice comera found m H Studio.
Speaker 2: We're just talking about Christmas stuff, Carl. You have any
Christmas or holiday plans this year? Anything interesting going on?
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 5: It was on Thursday night for we Christmas Night Night.
But it was awful, Probably the worst night I've had
in a long time. Just a friend got too drunk
and the night was just over by nine pm. It's
just like, let's go. But that's yeah. No big plans.
A lot of movie watching as usual. Nice and then
I cook dinner because I'm the boss.
Speaker 2: I've any of you seen me? And Mud we put
on this new one called Deer Santa. It's like the
Jack Black playing Santa.
Speaker 4: Loved it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I had a really good time with it. The
premise of this movie, for anyone hasn't seen it, is
that a kid is writing his letter to Santa. But
as you know, as we all joke, as a kidd,
he misspells Santa as Satan, and so he summons Jack
Black as like a Satan like figure, like pretendsing Santa
for some of the movie, and then it you know,
I won't spoil what happens in the second half of it. Uh,
you got to be a Jack Black fan to enjoy
this movie, for sure. But as a big Jack Black fan,
me and MUDs had a really good time watching and
the kid actor in it, he was really, really funny.
I was really impressed by by him. I don't know
what you thought of him, Carl, but yeah, I really
really enjoyed Itah.
Speaker 5: I was kind of just looking for something to watch
when we free it on, and that just probably my
foot is gonna be enough because a couple of Jack
Black movies recently haven't been great. It seems like he's
just doing everything. He kind of gets some extra door
at the moment, which you know, fair play, why not?
But this, no, I quite enjoyed it. It was quite
fun to the point where it's I like, my son's fourteen,
did I have let him watch Bad Santa? Because I
was just watching that as like a PG almost PG
version version of Bad Santa. But when they we go
do that, I think.
Speaker 3: I saw that younger than that. I was a little
too young.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So.
Speaker 5: Although ys he loves Sonic and stuff and still on
his lego, I'm like, dude, can you hurry up puberty.
Yet you're at that, you're at that borderline age where
it's not cool no more.
Speaker 3: I mean I've gone full circle.
Speaker 2: I'm not playing with Lego again me and but just
got a new like Lego Viking set which we've been
building over over the holidays, which has been really nice.
Speaker 5: No, he's too obsessedful Lego. Like he's he picks us
exams over here. You have to pick with exalms you
want to do. So he does that next year and
he's like, I don't care. I just want to go
and work in the Lego Discovery store so he can
be a Lego master. What happens if you don't get
that one job? Like, that's just what I want. So
he's good. I am awful. I think he built the Tetanic.
I think he was like year or nine and he
built the full giant size Tetanic one.
Speaker 2: Has he ever made creations of his own if he
aspires to be?
Speaker 5: Oh yeah yeah? Actually last year it was like a
Pride Follower moment. He was doing like he does stop
motion of his Lego and TikTok and Lego videos back
in the day. Yeah, he was doing that. And then
the company reached out and asked him to come along
to we're doing like some big weekend, and they paid
him to come along and teach other kids.
Speaker 2: I never got that far in my lego stop career.
Speaker 5: I was the one who had to drive him there,
help him set them up, and teach him how to
teach other people. I got no money. But yeah, whatever
the grudges.
Speaker 2: That's you're very supportive. I think that's very sweet.
Speaker 5: Okay, Yeah, it was a good weekend. I was probably
like to see him getting stuck in there and everybody
loving his work. So I don't think he does as
much nigh because it is time consuming. I think he
spent like I think he did like a full week
just to make fifteen seconds of like a sonic thing
he was making, like a stop motion yeah, stop motion,
yea yeah, stop most.
Speaker 2: Time time consuming for sure. Well, if you're if you're
a perfectionist about it. Me and my friends when we
would make stop motion videos, we didn't care too much
about the quality, so we weren't, you know, redoing things,
or we were just kind of flying by the seat
of our pantcy or it would take us.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well I know the basics obviously, from video editing
and making. But I couldn't be bothered with that. It's
too too fatally.
Speaker 7: Parks and gaging character does it. Then he only has
like ten seconds of footage and he thought.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah movie, Oh yeah, really, I just saw that episode.
I laughed so hard every time I see it. And
then he like realizes, He's like, that's it.
Speaker 7: I worked on this for two weeks.
Speaker 3: That's amazing, Taylor.
Speaker 2: Did you ever do anything like that with Lego, like
make stop motion videos or anything like that.
Speaker 1: Bionicles made it very accessible, So I did do a
couple but nothing crazy. It's just bionicles walking along like
a side of a little cliff face or something like
a fence or whatnot. So stuff like that, which is
a lot of two weeks. Yeah, very very simple things.
But because of their joints and whatnot, they're superposable, right,
so you can really make the movements quickly, as opposed
to sometimes other figurines, I guess, but that.
Speaker 3: Was a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: I never really really got into that. Gig My cousin did.
He really really got into that, along with our YouTube
show that we did a long long time ago. But yeah,
there was there's definitely a fun thing. I was looking
up how much Lego master builders earned and some people
were saying like around like forty thousand a year in salaries.
Others are saying like sixty thousand a year in salary.
So that's not too bad. And if you're doing what
you really really enjoy I mean, I mean still getting
enough to get by.
Speaker 7: That's what exactly is the job. Though you like make
a it's like a sculptor, or you make a model,
an aty seller or how has has the revenue?
Speaker 3: You need an engineering degree to do that sort of
things to just like.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I sent to me. It kind of used to
at least go to some kind of maths or some
kind of degree. It's like, no, I just want to
work in the Lego Discovery sent the resentm Grandma's vice
and only that place and nowhere else. And it didn't help.
When we were there in the summer. Did the guy say, oh,
I didn't do my exam so I just got a
job here. And I'm a like, oh yeah.
Speaker 3: Bad influence some kids most like weed or something.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I never even though I was very passionate with that stuff,
I never looked into what the career career prospects would
have been. But I remember like being really inspired. I
just like playing the Lego Star Wars games. I me
my friends would like make levels and would like set
up levels for each other in living room, Like you
have to go from the cat climber down to the
coffee table and then you got to like build this
car to get across this thing.
Speaker 3: Whatever.
Speaker 2: Good times, you know, the kid child imaginations, the crazy.
Speaker 7: Time connects for more. My thing.
Speaker 5: Oh man, I had like plastic ones.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's like these like things, these like little plastic
joints you have to like clip in and it makes
like cool shapes and cars and came with motors.
Speaker 3: Dude, motors. Yeah, I had like a full like massive.
It's it's basically like a mech suit one like what
you would expect from what the hell what's that movie called?
It's basically it's basically battleship. But what was it?
Speaker 6: Say?
Speaker 3: I thought, grim That's literally what I was going for.
So it's like similar to that where it comes with motors.
It even came with like almost nerve darts that you
would like shoot out of it.
Speaker 1: You climb into it and like walking around.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, no, I took out my No, definitely not.
I want to say, it's like, I don't know it
it's a bad reference, but like probably like it felt
like thirty inches honestly, like like that size, which is,
you know, it's bigger than your than your classic Lego piece.
So I imagine that would have been like a couple
hundred bucks too, which is all the movie pieces and everything.
Speaker 7: But it looked like skeleton, so it was all shaped
and everything.
Speaker 3: That's so funny. I literally completely forgot about connects until
you just said that, Mic, So you just opened up
a whole memory bank for memory. Yeah. No, connects were
connects were legit? Man, Thanks were awesome.
Speaker 1: Were there any Playmobile fans.
Speaker 3: At a younger age? I was into the Playmobile a
little bit. You know.
Speaker 1: They actually did a movie of the official Playmobile movie.
Speaker 7: I'm pretty sure it was theatrical with Daniel Radcliffe.
Speaker 1: Right, yes, And Mary Elizabeth Winds said, is in there too?
Speaker 3: What a cast? Oh my god, that's great.
Speaker 7: They were really trying to ride that Lego movie train.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, oh yeah, that would have been right after
that stuff. That makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 3: Oh man, I remember playmobiles. Now that's actually crazy. I
never had Playmobile, but I just remember going to a
friend's house and they had like a pirate ship, and.
Speaker 2: I don't think I ever got like a new one.
I think it was just like random garage sale or
hand me down, like just the random sets.
Speaker 3: Never had like juice on it or something not Pristine's condition.
Speaker 7: We Fisher Price like they had the giant pirate ships,
or like AIV had the medieval castle.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I have that castle. Yeah, it's iconic. So I
were just talking about like just making stop motion. I
feel like that was just such an era because like
definitely me and my friends usually that too. There was
a website I think it was called like Knox Videos
where it was or it might have been like on
another website, but anyways, it was just like a claymation
series that people like doing stuff like that and then
just loved it so much that me and my friends
started making some. And I'm pretty sure I had a
video that was like less than ten seconds and like
literally like I forgot to pause it at some point.
One of the shots is like me in there like manipulating.
Got to stop.
Speaker 2: Stop motion needs a couple of hand frames. You gotta
have it.
Speaker 3: It's like I swear I paused it, like what the hell?
But uh, yeah, no, I I think it was like
less than ten seconds. I'm like, I can't do this.
This has taken away too long. And I'm like I
haven't even done voices over or any or music or anything.
Speaker 5: Like my fing is just so much easier because he's
got a knap. I think it was like tampons or
tam bucks whatever, And it's amazing. It's so easy to
ease and it's just like take a picture of your phone,
go ahead and me taken our picture. It's just great.
Speaker 3: That's cool.
Speaker 5: Odd music? Do you voice overs all themong goo nice?
Speaker 3: I had to use the old cam quarder like with
the yeah.
Speaker 2: I And I don't know if you guys remember the
movie Kubo and the Two Strings from a few years ago.
I was just obsessed with and I feel like, yeah,
we never got a sequel.
Speaker 3: Like that movie is just too much work.
Speaker 2: I remember seeing some of the behind the scenes and
just being like amazed at I don't know just the
scale of everything that took. Just that like a c
like one scene would take so much work.
Speaker 3: It is so cool.
Speaker 5: It's the same tone of these guys have walls and
Grandma over there to is.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, definitely.
Speaker 2: I know you hate Travis and all, but he's a
big Wallace head.
Speaker 3: He would be a massive championip.
Speaker 5: Like yeah, when you see like how long it takes
him to mick that music?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, I just had to sing your echo cancelation off.
Speaker 3: But you're sound good? Now, how's it going good?
Speaker 8: I had to run in for this Lego stop Motion
talk because that was a huge like I made to
I had a whole website and YouTube channel.
Speaker 2: Oh man, are your YouTube videos still out there?
Speaker 6: It's probably still out there. Let me see.
Speaker 2: I think I don't know if many of my stop
motion videos or other because me and my friends would
just we would just use copyrighted music without a second thought.
Speaker 3: A lot of those videos got taken down.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 8: When I first started doing it, it was just like
a random camera and I would just do it like
the frame by just like picture.
Speaker 6: But then at one point Lego.
Speaker 8: Released like like a stop motion app where it was like.
Speaker 6: It had like it had like.
Speaker 8: A very simple like iMovie type editor like in there,
and then that's what I would use for like the videos.
Speaker 6: That's amazing, But yeah, I had to run in for
for this.
Speaker 8: Let me see if I can, if I can find
this this channel, I know it's out there, Like I know,
I didn't delete it at the very least on ceit.
Speaker 5: He just got beat by United. Oh yeah, football fans
right there.
Speaker 3: I haven't even been following the league much, but I
just feel like anytime I see Man City lose, I
just get happy certain teams like that. Yeah, uh, Carl.
Speaker 2: Since we haven't talked about what any movie or TV
show highlights from the.
Speaker 5: Last Actually last Amy and my son we watched I
already seen it, but we rewatched Transformers one. Oh theom movie.
So Transformers one. I loved a few gripes with it.
I don't like how Megatron just cheat for anybody out there. Actually,
if you don't spoiler and that.
Speaker 2: Ship you're talking about the animated I thought you're talking
about like animated one.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you're talking about the Transformers.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, the animated one.
Speaker 2: I totally forgot that came out, but no, I have not.
Speaker 5: It's really good. Well I'll loant un spoil it, but
well we all know Megatron is a bad guy. But
I just I don't like the twist at the end.
I quickly he changed.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, but.
Speaker 5: Or now I think it's probably one of the best
Transformers things done.
Speaker 3: Nice. I definitely want to watch it. I really like
the trailers, but for whatever reason, just started the cracks. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that animation is great on even the cast, so
good good an anthetom. I enjoyed it, actually I did.
I don't know. I can see why people won't like it,
but I've enjoyed the whole the whole trilogy, to be honest.
It's just it's just solid sex the whole way across.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's solid sex.
Speaker 2: You don't think about it too hard, you can have.
Speaker 5: Yeah, like you know, it's just a it's a fun time,
like you know. It depends what you're wanting from your phantom.
But I didn't expect much.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I did hear that.
Speaker 2: Did you hear that they're ending the Sony Verse with Craven?
Speaker 3: Craven's the end?
Speaker 5: Oh well, I was gonna try and watch it, and
the scene refuse were quite bad, and so I'm like, eh,
I seen an article I think seen on your own
say it was the worst grounten Tomato scores yet of
all the movies.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I if you like Venom, though, I think you might
have a good time with it. Like if you I
ve you're into those movies, I think you should maybe
don't go to the theater, don't spend your harder money
on it.
Speaker 3: But when it hits streamy, yeah, you probably.
Speaker 5: Think it's more just the I like the Tom Hardy part,
just like the MTD Galler, that kind of back and forth.
Enjoyed that more than actual the rest of the movie. Boost.
But Craven, I've seen the trailer and it didn't too
much for me.
Speaker 3: Did you ever see Pope's Exorcists with Russell Crows?
Speaker 5: Was called awful?
Speaker 3: He's basically the same character in Craven.
Speaker 5: Wait hold on, He's like he's still to you And
I didn't realize this Russell who has two exorcist type yes?
Is that right? Yeah? Which one is the one where
he gets like a whole big thing at the end
and it's like Hell's coming off free.
Speaker 7: I have not seen the one he did this year,
but I don't remember the Pope's Exorcist having that big.
Speaker 8: Remember the having like like I saw it a while ago,
so but I remember there was something like he fought
some sort of big. Yeah, I feel like that's not
what I remember most about the movie though.
Speaker 7: I remember mostly the kid that got possessed from that.
Speaker 8: Movie, and I remember it being a weird like it
was like a Buddy cock Priest movie.
Speaker 6: That's that's what I really enjoyed it. I thought.
Speaker 8: I thought it was like I was like expecting like
a super serious movie. But between that and like the kid,
like I thought it was a really fun movie.
Speaker 6: Like it's just like a like, this is not what
I was expecting.
Speaker 8: And it ends with like the them finally, like they
have like a secret demon Headquarterer.
Speaker 6: It's like under the Aramatic. Yeah, it's like Shields but
for for demons.
Speaker 8: And they have like a map of all the haunted
places in the world, and they're like, we're gonna send
you out on a mission to take out these demons
around the world.
Speaker 3: It's like that song at the end of Transformers, you
know that meme that keeps coming up where it like
rolls credits. He like looks back.
Speaker 7: Like Russell Croull. He's always trying to insert himself to
one of these big universes. He was the guy that
they put like the anchor for the Mummy and that
the failed Dark Universe.
Speaker 8: Here was the Doctor Jekyl and mister Hunt right, I
don't even know.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think he was. He was supposed to be
like the Nick Fury of that universe.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, yeah they stop those first stop and next.
I really enjoyed the feasible when they did. I thought
they were gonna do a few more, but I guess
they're not.
Speaker 7: Well, there's the Wolf Man coming out in January, but
that those weren't like connected. They tried to do it
with the Mummy and then they like cast a bunch
of actors to play different roles. They had the infamous
set picture of all them together, but they never Yeah,
but they never went forward with any of that.
Speaker 8: Because I think that set photo is even like before
The Mummy even released, Like that must have been like
a comic con type photo.
Speaker 6: I think it was.
Speaker 3: So what was like the relation Invisible Man? Sorry, was
it just like saying I.
Speaker 6: Mean it's just like Universal owns the Okay?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah like Thisbeth, I guess.
Speaker 7: Yeah, they're all one offs now, they're not the in
the universe.
Speaker 3: What a great movie though, making a Dark Universe land
at this new Universal like Epic Universe. Yeah, I'm hopefully
going to that in twenty twenty Universe.
Speaker 6: The Universe.
Speaker 8: It's just like Universal Classic Monsters, but they're using the
whole like.
Speaker 6: Like the Dark Universe logo that they literally only.
Speaker 3: Use one time, so funny. That is a weird choice.
I'll be taking photos in front of that, that's for sure.
Speaker 8: It's just like the log It's just like it's just
like the Universal logo, but like in black and white.
Speaker 6: It's like a dark universe.
Speaker 2: That could be really cool though, just like year round
haunted houses and yeah, it's pretty cool.
Speaker 8: It's like having like I assume like just like the
Halloween horn Nights vibe, but like for a land just
like the whole year. Like that's a good idea because
people go to that, which is like packed for Halloween
horror nights every year. So yeah, it's gonna have like
a horror area and just like the park.
Speaker 3: That's cool. Yeah, we're mostly going for How to Train
Your Dragon, but you know, might stop.
Speaker 6: I've been waiting.
Speaker 8: For that that Mario land for like oh yeah, like
I'm not gonna go to the California one because they're
building it here. It's just been waiting for like years
and years are to build this this place. They started
building it like the week before, like the lockdown, COVID
lockdown was just like delayed for like an extra year
or two.
Speaker 2: Nice, And now the Donkey Kong expansion, the deal.
Speaker 8: See it's like, yeah, it's already, it's already done, right,
And yeah, I think it's I think this is the
one that's going to open first. I think, like for
for here, since they started building it when the other
ones were already like sorted done. This one is just
like they built at the same time, but for the
other ones, it's like an expansion that they're adding to it, right.
Speaker 3: Hell yeah, I might stop by that one going to
Japan this year in like November, so it might be
going the Nintendo one will well, the pick and choes
are because there's a lot of money that you can
be spending in those areas and a lot of stuff
to see, so we'll be picking and choose, but hopefully
for like two weeks. Yeah, that was the one, like
the trip we're supposed to go in twenty twenty and
then COVID happened, so that shut down that trip pretty
damn quick. But yeah, very excited.
Speaker 6: Well, me and my family were supposed to go to
like France and your.
Speaker 8: Up like literally the week well, same thing, like literally
the week of because I was like around.
Speaker 6: Like spring break time.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and we decided like not to go on like
two days notice. And yeah, if we had gone, we
probably would have been stuck there for like three months.
Speaker 6: That's what happened that all those people left.
Speaker 8: For like spring break, because it was literally like like
that Thursday was like oh, like there's a few cases
in the US, and like by Saturday, it was already
like yeah, like completely locked down.
Speaker 5: Like did you get to stay in Disneyland if you
went there on holiday? Go anywhere else? Are just gonna
stay here.
Speaker 3: I'd been expensive to have it booked for free passes,
that'd be amazing.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I have it pooked. I just poked it for
him my daughter to go to in March for Dineyland
pars nice nice tool.
Speaker 3: That's awesome.
Speaker 2: I guess being about more recent movies or shows, Mike,
what have you been any any highlights? I don't think
you've talked about Wicket on cast, so feel free if
you want talk about that more.
Speaker 7: But no, no, I'm not gonna go on. I know
I've been a little intense on it, but the on
break for now. We'll come back to it at part
two next year. But as far as a show goes,
I'm really loving Creature Commandos. I was skeptical about it
at first. I'm like, Okay, let's see where it goes.
It kind of looks like basically just the Suicide Squad
Part two, which you know, I like the Suicide Squads.
That's a good thing. But I can see James Gunn
has like a very like he has a rhythm to
his writing that you can see if you look deep
at Okay, yeah, you can see the patterns, but damn
it if it doesn't just work so well. He has
this like ability to give you these characters and just
find the soft, gooey parts of them and to make
you fall in love with them. And this week's episode
with the Gi Robot that just.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I was wondering why I was going so hard
on Gi Robot man. That made sense.
Speaker 8: Start watching it, even though I'm a huge James Gunn fan.
Speaker 6: By probably I'm gonna start saying because I have heard
really good things about it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I like wish I was in a situation
where I could just you know, watch episodes back to
back because I am liking it so much, so I'm
really not a fan of like the week to week
Releasepecially it's only like twenty two minutes, and that's including credits,
so you get like ten minutes of something and then
you look, you pause, it's like, oh no, we're I'm
already done here. So I wish the episodes were longer,
but I guess it's just a positive, right, because.
Speaker 7: They're very jam packed twenty two minutes. Like when you
especially when you think of some of the Disney Plus
shows where they can't complain is ah, they're only thirty minutes.
That can do much, And it's like that's not really true.
You can do a lot with even a short amount
of time. It's just about how you execute.
Speaker 6: It just depends like what you're used to.
Speaker 8: Like when I was well, I the thing I did
do I binge watched like all the Penguin Like I waited,
like I had spoilers muted and everything and just waited
for all the episodes to be out and then I
just went through them. And yeah, that was like when
you're used to like all those being like one hour
episodes when I got I think it's the second to
last one that's like forty minutes.
Speaker 3: All like that.
Speaker 8: Yeah, if I need, I need to watch the finale
right now. But oh yeah Penguin, So yeah, I really
loved that was really good.
Speaker 5: Yeah, alright, was bregnant. That surprised me how good it
wasn't it was fifty to fifty on the Botman, But yeah,
that's brought me Ryan.
Speaker 7: That's a common thing I've heard is a lot of
people who weren't huge fans of the Batman. They Penguin
completely brought him around on it. That seems to be
the thing that is unified.
Speaker 8: It's a really good job of just like building out
this world like without needing to have it be centered
around Batman, just like all the stuff around Gotham that
just adds so much details to the whole city of it.
Speaker 6: I thought it was really cool totally.
Speaker 7: Especially it's good news for DC because they did not
have the best year last year, and even with their
movies this year with Joker two is not the greatest.
But as far as their TV output, it's some good stuff.
Speaker 8: They're gonna get some definitely nominations, but maybe even like
Emmy wins and stuff, or I mean probably for makeup
for the penguin. I think I can already predict they're
probably gonna.
Speaker 3: Win that foot when they show that foot. God damn
just singed in my brain.
Speaker 7: I think Kristi Miliotti should be a lot too for best.
I'm not sure if she's in the Golden Globes. I
think she's a supporting actress, but to me, she should
be best actress for when it comes to time, she's
oh fantastic in the show.
Speaker 2: Must be a screen time screen time thing. I was
just looking up Joker. The final box office at least
right now is two hundred million for Joker too, so
definitely a steep, steep drop off from that first one.
Speaker 3: I don't even know what the.
Speaker 2: Budget was, but I feel like it's yeah, that's did
you watch it? I still have not seen.
Speaker 3: Joking neither, so it's on streaming and I just scored
watch Jurassic Party three again. Yeah, literally, that's what happened.
Speaker 7: I can't think of a time in recent memory where
I had such hype for a movie that deflated so
quickly Right before y I was all set to go
see it in the theater. And then all the reactions
came out and I was like, oh man, maybe wait
for this one.
Speaker 8: I really watch my my stop motions here. If screen share,
please go for it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, this one isn't from like when I was like
a kid.
Speaker 8: This one's like from like middle school ish, like end
of middle school for like a project. But I had
my my skills that I'd learned since I was a
kid to do it. So let me see if I
can screen share this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, screen I love stop motion.
Speaker 2: It's been a while since I've indulged, but it's still
just let.
Speaker 6: Me just see if I can do it.
Speaker 1: If it doesn't work, you could drop it in the
private chat. And then one of great screen sounds.
Speaker 6: Like the well see what this is?
Speaker 8: Probably the volume might be loud because it's Back to
the Future music.
Speaker 3: Turn the volume off.
Speaker 2: Can we just just watch without the sounds.
Speaker 8: It's just like just imagine the the score from Back
to the fact. It's yeah, can you see that there?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 3: There we go? Okay, oh wow, wow, hammer angles and everything.
Speaker 6: This was my my amazing shot here. M m hmm.
Speaker 3: Creative. That was really good. That was awesome.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't see any hands or anything. I love
that zoom in on his face for the reaction there.
They really get the expressions down on the Lego face.
Speaker 6: Yeah, they have two faces, but they're both they're a
go there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I really like the lightning effect. That was fantastic.
Speaker 1: So what's what's the production time for that? Do you
remember what was the budget?
Speaker 8: Yeah, there was definitely like I think at least like
a whole weekend. I think because I remember the whole
like backdrop like because that was like a like a
cardboard box with like three sides and then me like
printed out the like city street stuff.
Speaker 6: So that was definitely what took the longest.
Speaker 8: And then I remember like for the stop motion itself,
I think each shot, well you could see a couple
that were like pretty blurry. I think those were just
like one taken and it's good, like yep, looks good, Yeah,
it looks good, and just keep going through it. So
I'd say definitely like a minimum like a couple hours
and yeah, like a whole weekend for the whole whole
build there. And I already had the Lego set at
least built, so that was an issue there.
Speaker 6: You have to do a sequel.
Speaker 1: There's two other parts to that, yeah, the Western Yeah, yeah,
the Flying Train.
Speaker 8: I'd have to find some of my because I found
like the YouTube channel, because I had like a YouTube
channel that had like a few stuff, and I had
like a whole website that a bunch of stuff. I
can't think the website might have like gone down because
I don't think.
Speaker 6: To keep that up or something. So, but the videos
are placed around around somewhere that.
Speaker 3: I remember doing, like having the background set up. I
like what you did. They were like right drawing on it.
Speaker 2: Remember, we would just like stick I don't know, pictures
of other things on there to make it look like
effects were going on. Yeah, it's a great art stop motion.
Speaker 3: It is glad to see. I'm not dying either, you know.
Speaker 8: So that was definitely like the Lego movie. When that
was releasing, that was like my most typed movie of
all time. Like I remember like at like my Grandma's house,
just like going on the computer and just like rewatching
the trailer like a hundred times because I was so
excited for it, and I definitely remember loving it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there were a few things that like just missed
me on the age element like that. That movie came
out just a bit too late for me, where if
I was like a few years younger, that would have
definitely been my have in my life. But I remember
even like they would finally released like Lord of the
Rings Lego like all these years after I was done
playing like the Man, I would have spent so much
money that I didn't have.
Speaker 8: That's why I do all these huge like a collectors versions.
Speaker 6: Now you can get like the like, you can get
these massive.
Speaker 3: Man I had the Baradur in my cart. I'm like, ah,
seven hundred Canadian for this and we'll see. Afternoon was
similar Withdell.
Speaker 2: I was like, yeah, really, I gotta do this. I
gotta do this, but eventually held back.
Speaker 3: I came with the mouth of Sarn though it came
with the mouth of Sourn. It came with sour on himself.
Like there was some like orcs. There was a bunch
of different figurines.
Speaker 8: I haven't been I have like the whole Lego office
in a box like.
Speaker 6: Right here yet.
Speaker 3: But that was a cool set. Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 8: You look at these collectors, then there's some crazy and
like the Millennium Falcon, like every time you can you
think they can't do a bigger and more detailed. One
will drop like a two thousand dollars like twenty feet
version or whatever.
Speaker 3: With working plumbing in it, and it's like, what the
hell is this?
Speaker 7: You probably you're an adult, is that you have the
money to buy it? But then yeah, you're lacking is
the space?
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, that's why I haven't built the office one yet.
And I'm like, where would I even put this? Like
I have nowhere to put this?
Speaker 3: Very true. What have you been watching recently?
Speaker 2: You mentioned Penguin and stuff, but any other highlights movies
or TV wise, I haven't.
Speaker 8: Seen that many movies recently. I saw Milana too. I
saw it in I saw it in forty X. That
was definitely an experience.
Speaker 3: Wow, what entails? What does that?
Speaker 7: Forty X?
Speaker 3: Water splashing?
Speaker 6: You have a smell all the stuff.
Speaker 8: There's the wind like there's huge fans like on the sides.
Speaker 6: Of the theater that like blow wind, and your.
Speaker 8: Seat moves like like a roller coaster like with depending
on the shots, it has water, it has smoke like
at certain parts, like like on the sides of the
screen would shoot out like like smoke machines. There's obviously
like like the vibrating seats and moving around. Uh no
smells though, I don't think there are any.
Speaker 6: Smells, but but yeah, it was definitely an experience.
Speaker 2: What's going on over there? Sorry, you got some parallels
up front?
Speaker 3: What's going on?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Can you hear that? There's like a Christmas like a
parade the road light and there's like foam coming out
to the back of it. Oh aroundom Ford X experience,
I thought I was hearing things. They're playing something Somewhere's
that's coming from.
Speaker 3: Waiting for Santa to just kick down the war behind.
Speaker 5: All these kids just in the back, just singing away.
Speaker 2: Okay, Now, I suppose how much does that change your
experience of the movie because a funny gimmick. Does it
add to the movie at all? Does it take it away?
Speaker 3: Distracted?
Speaker 7: What's the price? I'm curious.
Speaker 6: I don't remember exactly.
Speaker 8: I think it was about like IMAX type price because
the screen is just like a normal size screen. I
feel like, like maybe a little bit bigger, but definitely
the cost, that's like the the experience. Luckily I didn't
buy any popcorn or anything, because I don't think I
could have because the person next to me was not
having a good time trying to eat their hot dog.
Speaker 7: The wind is blowing.
Speaker 8: No, yeah, it's like I don't know how you could
like maybe a drink. You're gonna be okay with that
because that was the cup holder there. But like if
you have like your tone of popcorn, like I think
you'd fall.
Speaker 7: How strong is the wind because the's gonna start flying
out of buckets.
Speaker 8: And like the thing is like with the moving like
the chair and stuff. Like after every like intense sequence,
I would have to like readjust to me sitting down
because like i'd be like almost all the way out
of my seat. So I think, like you're not holding on,
like you could be like falling out of these fat
Oh my god.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I feel like, no, like roller coasters are
cool and all, but no one wants to be on
like a one and a half half hour, like two
hours roller coaster.
Speaker 8: If this is movie had been like any longer, because
I think it's probably only like eighty ninety ish minutes.
Speaker 6: I could have took it.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, three and a half hours of Avatar two
like that?
Speaker 3: Oh god, person, Oh my god.
Speaker 2: What's that girl?
Speaker 5: I was on looking at picking Sonic tickets this morning. Yeah,
and I seen one of the cinemas had the forty
X and I was gonna pick it, and I said
the something do you want to go see it? Forty
X sent them what it was. He's like, no, I'll
be too distracted. I want to focus on the movie.
Speaker 3: I like the Sonic. It was like a wind blast too,
like when you, yeah.
Speaker 5: I've seen I've seen Spider Man, the First Spider Man
the Way Home I think it was, and two D
X and it wasn't the fun because it kind of
like there's screens up the side, love you and I
didn't get it and it wasn't worth double the price.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's the thing. It's it's it's always neat, but
it's never worth the extra price that you could just
get the screen with.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was the same thing with like me and
like three D movies, Like I don't like three D
movies at all, Like they're just they just seem gimmicky
and I feel like I'm missing aspects of the movie
because of what's going on, right, Like it's just it's
blurrier or in that case, and.
Speaker 5: When you wear glasses, it's almost oh yeah.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I actually with the glasses, I actually I had
put in my best three D experience. Like I thought
the glasses were like a good enough size because usually
the thing that's annoying for me with glasses is just
like if they're like the exact same size as your
normal glasses, you can't really like put them over it without.
Speaker 6: It getting like stuck or just being annoying. But these
are like extra, these.
Speaker 8: Are like double the normal size, so I could put
them like very like over it, and I.
Speaker 6: Was final with that.
Speaker 8: So that was what I was like not wanting, like
what I was not excited for because I usually don't
watch three D because I have glasses. But that was
actually probably the good part of it, Like I didn't
have a bad experience at least regarding the glasses.
Speaker 2: Say, if they never had a solution for that, like
what percentage of the population wears glasses, like probably a
pretty big chunk, so I feel like they need it's
put on there.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I heard I heard rumors that James Cameron that
was supposed to be like his next big thing with
the avatars was find a.
Speaker 1: Way to do three D with he just puts anyone
inside your glasses, just three D.
Speaker 3: If anyone can, it's him.
Speaker 5: He's the just put this.
Speaker 2: Micro chip in the back of your head and then
enjoy the movie.
Speaker 1: What does it tell he knows how the brain works,
isn't that a Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, he can understand how the brain. Yeah, he just
has some understanding brain. Clay, how's it going. You're in
the vehicle again?
Speaker 4: I am. I'm parked right now.
Speaker 9: I just got out of I just got out of
my Interstellar showing.
Speaker 4: Oh and man, I loved it.
Speaker 9: I had twenty fourteen and I remember hating it. I
don't know why. I mean, there were a couple of
things I bumped up against this time, but man, it
was so cool.
Speaker 4: I had a great time.
Speaker 3: Nice, that's awesome you.
Speaker 7: Actually watch it again? Things, that was just like you
the first time I saw a huge fan.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I remember being frustrated with the ending.
Speaker 9: I thought that was pretty good this time, other than
like a little bit of overacting by McConaughey. But uh yeah, No,
it hits and it was emotional and it Yeah, it
worked for me. I think I think it might be
my new favorite Mister for Nolan movie. And I'm not
as high on it. I know a lot of people are,
but I love this one. I thought it was great.
Speaker 8: I think seeing Annie Christopher Nolan movie like in theaters
just like bumps it up. Like I saw like Knight
Rises in theaters last year and I was like, this
is the greatest movie ever made.
Speaker 4: That's cool.
Speaker 3: How are all you guys doing doing good? Good?
Speaker 9: What's up with the fantasy football right now? I haven't
checked any of the scores?
Speaker 3: You're you're close to Travis, but he's he's up ahead
on you right now.
Speaker 4: Shoot, but.
Speaker 3: It's still literally yes, all right, all right, cool, still
worry about it.
Speaker 9: Yeah, big big Lions game later for me, and then
just a bunch of games on today and yeah, we'll
see what happ playoffs for fantasy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so depending on how this this week goes to other,
Clay against me next round or Travis against me next round.
I think Clee beat me last time, so he's got
did that?
Speaker 4: Okay? Okay, what were you guys? What were you guys
talking about before I showed up?
Speaker 3: What were we talking? Stop motion? Do you have any
stop motion memories that were you a stop motion director
and you're.
Speaker 4: Like like made one as a kid?
Speaker 3: Yeah people here, yeah, there you go.
Speaker 9: Yeah, no, I definitely I remember that. Yeah, that was fun.
I think I had a whole phase of that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's awesome. You have a website like.
Speaker 4: Well, what was what was the website?
Speaker 8: It used to be called like Bricky Challenge, but I
think it's been taken down because I don't think I
ever paid like it was like on Wix or something
like that they ever kept paying for definitely going down.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, what were your videos about claying? Like were
yours with Lego as well?
Speaker 3: Were they something?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I definitely remember.
Speaker 9: I definitely remember trying to make some Lego I want
to say, like an Indiana Jones thing. So clearly I
still watching twenty times a year, but uh, probably.
Speaker 3: Like a lot of dialogue in it, like Tarantina level dialogue,
a lot of action.
Speaker 4: It's just I think minimum.
Speaker 5: I think it was all action.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, yeah, that's fun. How about how about you guys?
What was what would you do stop motion with other
than Lego? Oh? I guess like.
Speaker 3: Clamations clamation was what I did?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, interesting.
Speaker 2: I had I had one where my uh, you guys,
this funny timing because I just watched the original Grinch again,
as I mentioned the same when the Grinches like like
sliding around the ground like a snake around the living
room of the house.
Speaker 3: My we did one where my friend was doing that.
Speaker 2: He was just like we were doing the shots and
him just like rolling around, going up the stairs, going
around the living room, climbing up on the couch as
he was just like planking. Pretty this is before planking
was the thing, I think, but he was just like
crawling around the whole house like that. And I remember
some of it, like the steps from the basement upstairs
are like really rough stairs with like a like a
thick metal bar on the edge of them. I remember
his face just getting like messed up doing this animation.
So that was one of the live action ones that
me and my my friends did. We we tried to
you know, blend it. We had some lego, had some
live action. We tried to do all sorts of crazy things.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've seen a fewer people do like the broomstick
riding where they put the room between their legs and
they jumped so their legs are like horizontal, completely horizontal,
and so they just keep doing shots and it looks
like they're flying on a broom across the room.
Speaker 4: So interesting.
Speaker 3: I think that's how they filmed Harry Potter, Right they did.
Speaker 2: That's exactly stop motion for the big budget cuts.
Speaker 9: Did did anybody have any fun holiday stuff going on
this weekend?
Speaker 4: Did I already miss out on that conversation?
Speaker 3: Not much this weekend. We didn't hear from everyone on that.
Speaker 1: But I don't know, what do you?
Speaker 4: Yeah, No, I don't know.
Speaker 9: Just small with friends who are going to be out
of town over the next couple of weeks. We just
got together and uh one of the one of my
best friends, I me and his girlfriend. We went over
to their apartment. They did a big brunch, so that
was fun. And then uh yeah, just family in a
couple of weeks and uh yeah, how about you guys.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for me, it's gonna be pretty uh low key year,
just going over to my sister's house. My parents are
coming over, and it's just gonna be very, very chill.
Speaker 3: It's very just.
Speaker 2: Fun with my niece and nephew heard two and four.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: That's just how I enjoy Christmas the most these days,
like seeing them kind of have those those first Christmas
memories or moments, and uh yeah, just's just gonna be
a fun, low key year and nothing too crazy going on, Taylor,
you have a certain look on your face like something
something crazy has happening.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, I just I'm intently listening to you or
I'm getting blood loss to my brain or one.
Speaker 6: Of the two.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Taylor, right before the corn is like, by the way, guys,
I've just an awful headache.
Speaker 1: It's actually a sinus infection with pink all the same time.
Speaker 5: So it's.
Speaker 1: Perks of being dad, you know, It's all good. We
had like a big Christmas weekend lined up, like my
Christmas work party was Friday, then yesterday it was Christmas
at my brother's place, and today is Christmas party at
our friends. And it's totally just axed and reshuffled everything
around because I've just been like, like you said, Kirkland,
stayoed in, just not doing good. Warm tongue just fitting
and sweeten out things into his ear.
Speaker 2: The work thing you obviously would would miss, but the
other things are able to reschedule and and still.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, we rescheduled my brother because as as I
called him on the phone, he's like, oh, Taylor, you
don't sound good. I'm like, oh yeah, I'm not doing
too good.
Speaker 3: So I had to.
Speaker 1: I had to get up yesterday and go to walk
and clinic. So I got up and I was out
there at like seven am. They opened at nine. I
was there two hours early because the reviews on Google
said you need to be there at least an hour
and a half because people will line up and you
won't get in. So I was first in line. I
weigh there two hours in the freaking cold, and I
got to see that doctor right at nine o'clock and
the guy he gave me my prescription. So I'm hopped
up on a Moxa cilin and nasal sprays.
Speaker 3: And was there a line by the time nine am hit?
Speaker 7: Yes?
Speaker 1: So when I got there ten minutes past and there's
already twenty people at the door, I was like, this
is crazy, insane more people.
Speaker 4: Yeah, a Moxa is still like the pink bubble gummy
you won, right.
Speaker 1: I mean the pills are yellow and red and I
don't really.
Speaker 4: Like any Yeah, it as a kid like that weird
bubble gummy liquid.
Speaker 1: Are you talking about real candy or the drug?
Speaker 9: Like it gave me having like having a moxi selling
and it was it was like pink bubble gum flavor.
Speaker 3: They probably had like for kids, because usually kids don't
take like a big pill because like the mox of
ceiling pills are pretty pretty large a tailor.
Speaker 1: Like horse pills.
Speaker 3: Yeah, pretty much like any cylin pill, like a penicillin
are like that large.
Speaker 9: Okay, Yeah, I avoid it all costs. If I can't,
I get spooked. But uh, interesting, I'd get vaccinated, so
I guess I should. Probably that's the least tested of all.
Speaker 1: These I've had this kind of It's been like a month, right,
I had it and then I kind of got a
little bit better, and then it just hit me real
bad this past week, and I'm just thinking, like, man,
if I'm gonna get sick, this is the time to
do it now because we're going to Disneyland in January
and so I don't want to be.
Speaker 7: Sick at all for that.
Speaker 3: So hopefully this was pretty suck.
Speaker 7: You put those in and you have water coming out
of your nose and weird like.
Speaker 2: The forty X experience just on to to it's the
same thing. So one, uh, Clay, any anything you've seen
recently movies or TV shows that that are standing out
to you.
Speaker 9: Oh, if I I can't remember off the top of
my head. I've got kind of a weird answer, but uh,
I don't know. I was I was talking to Mike
about that musical in the group chat that I really liked,
and rewatching. I watched Lethal Weapon because it's Christmas. But
more so than anything, I'm so excited to hear your
guys Indiana Jones video game thoughts because I played a
little bit of that last weekend and then I'm seeing
my brother again later tonight after the Lions game, and
I think we're going to play through another hour or so,
and then next weekend we're really going to dive into
it and.
Speaker 4: Try to crap. So I'm very excited for your guys review.
And I guess that's been my favorite thing I've done recently.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I think I'm pretty deep in it,
but I would be surprised if I'm not near the end,
just based on like the amount of places I've been
to at this point. Without spoiling too much, but yeah,
I'm excited for that conversation on Monday.
Speaker 3: That'll be fun. Anyone else in the call plane other
than me, Taylor.
Speaker 5: And Clay, Nope, I'm just proud.
Speaker 7: I'm waiting for because I don't have an xt box.
I'm waiting for the PlayStation version next year. But I'm
so happy to see the good reviews because a game
like that, a license game, it could really go one
of two ways, and it looks like luckily.
Speaker 4: It's it's in a good direction.
Speaker 3: So that's all. Yeah, Yeah, I'm excited for the PlayStation release.
Speaker 5: Is it on the Game's Pass?
Speaker 3: It is on game Pass?
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay.
Speaker 3: On the games Boss said on that Game's Pass one
and only.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you should check it out for sure.
Speaker 5: I haven't been planned many games recently. I signed out
the games Past a couple months to go to play
called still haven't even gotten the air. Wow, it's awful.
Not good enough.
Speaker 7: I think it was gonna be happy to hear this.
I I fed back into an old, old addiction of
mine when it comes to games. I thought I would
swear it off, but I'm I'm back to playing Assassin's Creed.
Speaker 3: I thought you were about to say RuneScape.
Speaker 7: Yes, No, it's because I I was a huge Assassin's
Creed fan growing up, all the original games up until
they kind of change it up to the more RPG
style where it's I call them the question mark games,
where it's basically just you have a map ful of
question marks and you're going from one place when they're
doing tasks.
Speaker 2: Just following the compass, then actually following what's on screen exactly.
Speaker 7: And because Assassin's Creed, the parkour is like you can
like climb up pretty much anything you want, even if
there's no like clear handholds, You're you're basically just you
got the set marker and you just could just run
through a straight line and climb up anything you want.
So there's not really any like pathing to it. But
you know, I'm playing Odesty now, so I'm I'm back
into it and I'm I'm loving and hating it at
the same time.
Speaker 1: Odesty was one that I never never really could connect
with the story and those characters very well.
Speaker 3: That was Origin.
Speaker 1: That was the Yeah, the Greek one. Yeah it's Ahaus, Yes,
but I I think did they start up with the origins.
Speaker 3: I think they did.
Speaker 5: Yea.
Speaker 1: Odesty did it too, where you could have that like
learning mode where you just walk around and you get
to learn about all they that's cool, cool mm hmm.
Speaker 3: Super cool. I didn't know about that. Man, I watched
Pirates movies recently because those are just always fantastic and
just got me like inspired for that era. So Warhammer,
I was playing a Pirate campaign, I was playing Total
War Napoleon and like just all that stuff. So then
it really made me want to play Assassin's Creed three
because on PlayStation Plus they have like all the Ubisoft titles,
so of course all these sas screens games are in there,
and man, I was like really disappointed for how fucking
long it takes to just get going in that game.
Like the intro of that game, it feels like it
takes an eternity and if you never played it, you
know minor spoilers. You don't play as like the main
assassin at the start, and it takes so long to
get going. And I didn't even get to play as
the main character. Like I literally just tapered off from
the game because I was so annoyed with super long
cut scenes, like you could skip most of them, but
still I was just like a lot of fetch quests
and I like, I just I just wanted to get
the assassin's garb and actually play with the character. And
I played through it as a kid, but it was
just it was tough to like revisit it, and I
definitely was like feeling a bit of an assassin's creed
like Itch, but I feel like just playing that one,
I'm like, man, I don't think I could play like
the old ones again, Like they just they're really slow
from maybe what I initially remember them being.
Speaker 5: I was like, ib a red Dad and a game
it is, but I I just there's one point I
was walking beside this guy on a horror I fell asleep.
Speaker 3: That's just so slow first, the second, on, the second.
Speaker 5: One, the last one. Yeah, yeah, I like Deliellard, you know,
previous games, but it's just like this is awful.
Speaker 3: Simulator.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, wake up my planes upside down?
Speaker 3: What happened I?
Speaker 9: On Friday night? I jumped back into Ghost of Tushima.
I think I'm in like that can act. I think
I'm like, I want to say, I'm three quarters of
the way done with it, but it still looks like
there's so much more map to go, So maybe I'm
not as close a certain Without spoiling anything, maybe you
can tell me how far I am through the game.
For those of you that have played it, a certain
character just got his head chopped off in a very
dramatic fashion.
Speaker 6: Geez.
Speaker 3: I feel like when that happens is really really at
the start, so I can't imagine that area, Like literally
the intro mission, like a character gets decapitated.
Speaker 4: Me and this other guy are tied up together on posts,
and then did.
Speaker 7: You get to a snowy area yet?
Speaker 9: I'm trying not to spoil anything, but I feel like
the way through the game, like we we're about to
do like a really big battle. It gave me the
indicator it said like, this is about to be a
really long mission. Are you sure you want to start it?
I'm like, I'm gonna say that.
Speaker 2: That sounds like the way, Yeah, it sounds like an
act ending mission or some thing.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Question, have you have you been to? Have you been
to a snowy section yet? Have you made to this?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 4: No, I am not sorry, So then you're not.
Speaker 7: You're not in the last act.
Speaker 2: But the last act is much shorter than the one
end too, so once you get to that point, you
should be pretty pretty close to the end.
Speaker 7: But then there's the Ikey Island DLC.
Speaker 9: Right, I want to play all the DLC, but I'm
also super excited to jump into Uh, what's that other
game called death Stranding?
Speaker 4: I've got that all. It just looks so cool.
Speaker 2: That seems like a Clay I don't I don't really
know what kind of games you normally play, so I
don't know if it seems like a Clay game. But
in terms of the story, I think I think you'll
find that story and obviously the performance is all that
really interesting.
Speaker 4: Interesting with that one. The story looks so cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would say that's definitely not a Carl game, though.
I feel like Carl will be fall asleep halfway walking
down mountain with all your packages, and you want double
in fall asleep.
Speaker 5: And the weird thing is I play such boring games
like I like some RTS games like I could see
some people Falling's no Watch and those, but I don't know.
Speaker 2: RTS games have like the highest a PM of any game,
Like you're clicking everywhere.
Speaker 5: I think, yeah, I'll spend like six seven hours on that.
Speaker 3: But I'm definitely one of those players.
Speaker 2: When I play in any arts game, I'm just constantly
right clicking, even if it's doing nothing.
Speaker 3: I'm just clicking on the ground just to click. Play man,
They're tracking it.
Speaker 2: What's that, Carl?
Speaker 5: Have you played We are Billions?
Speaker 3: We are billions?
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a zombie RTS game. That's great. Yeah, get
on it, you'll love it.
Speaker 3: Do you mean they are billions? They are a billions?
Speaker 5: They are Sorry, we are.
Speaker 2: But that's Carls like, I'm in it. I am one
of the I am one of them.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'll put some on my wishless sounds cool, that's really.
Speaker 5: It's really good. It's quite hard.
Speaker 2: It's surprising, steampunk strategy, post apocalyptic. You got an infected
zombie situation.
Speaker 3: Okay, this looks I never heard about.
Speaker 5: You can you can spend ages building your basis and
like one saw me gets free attacks one of your feet,
like your next minute, boom, everything's just done done and
your panic modes on Ryan, it's just chaos.
Speaker 7: More recent game where it's more old.
Speaker 5: No, it's been a couple of years.
Speaker 2: And I find it looks like, yeah, this looks really cool.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna definitely wishless that and replanned Dyno Crisis that
can back out on the PS plus.
Speaker 2: Okay, Dino crisis.
Speaker 5: Crisis Crisis is like an old Resident Evil type game. Yeah,
that kind of style. So it's not even the remaster.
I think they've just released it as it is. But
I love that.
Speaker 7: I know a lot of a lot of people are
clamoring for an HD remake of that, like.
Speaker 5: They yeah, everybody, every time you see something else like
do Dino Crisis. I'm surprised Taylor hasn't played it though.
Speaker 6: Oh.
Speaker 1: I think I've played it on like an arcade machine
at the theater back a decade or so ago. I
feel like that's one of those games.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, yeah, with the plastic guns. The plastic guns.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's the extent of my experience with it though.
Speaker 3: That's funny. I saw this on like the PlayStation Classics catalog,
so I was just perusing through that, so maybe'll have
to booth this up. There's a couple of gait at it.
I think there's two.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think that there's two or three of them.
I only ever played the first one. That was great.
Speaker 9: Nice is that Dino Crisis game with the plastic guns
at the arcade related to Time Crisis.
Speaker 5: I just go say, I think you're freaking Time Crisis exactly.
Speaker 7: Yeah, both there though, I think there were two versions
of them.
Speaker 5: No Dino Cristians can really play with a gun. It's
like it's very resident evil. You have to grind and situation. Yeah,
for a person you've got gone, you have to get drama.
You could plant Stadi and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: So they're not the same universe, really different ips.
Speaker 5: Different crisis, just crisis.
Speaker 3: They're speaking of the universes.
Speaker 5: Actually, did anybody watched Superman and Loss?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 7: I watched the first season and a bit of the second,
but I fell off and I've been meaning to get
back to it.
Speaker 5: Though, do you want? It's probably the best ending I
have seen two show, that's right, Yeah, and I won't
run it especially and the whole row first has probably
been the best ending. Well that's not hard to beat,
but okay, I thought it was probably well the reason
I think it done. It was a better show as well,
because when he had twelve fourteen episodes a season, I
think it's easier.
Speaker 7: Did you watch it? Because one of my favorites that
came out towards the end that I feel like when
completely under the radar for most people was Stargirl.
Speaker 5: I love Stargirl.
Speaker 7: I love yeah, Okay, yeah, I love it all. That
was my favorite. CW DC and.
Speaker 5: There was a week that weak, but it was still overall,
but the whole show was good.
Speaker 7: And again thirteen episode seasons, Yeah, that's a good no,
just like nowadays a lot of shows, they're either too
few episodes of the season or there's too many, like
ten to thirteen.
Speaker 3: That's like the Golden Mark Creature Commando is way too short.
Seven episodes, Mike, that's all we get, twenty two episode
or twenty two minute episodes. That's actually wild. I wonder
why they did that.
Speaker 7: I'm pretty sure he wrote as a movie script and
he just chopped it up into seven episode slices.
Speaker 5: I'm messas comen. I think I was a couple of
days ago and I was watching the second episode where
the two of them get it on. She's like, what
kind of weird porny you watch this anime porn? Yeah,
she's always slagging for watching the cartoons.
Speaker 7: Watch that Fox Mucktet's way worse than that Fox.
Speaker 5: Fox mock Gonna that's my mom. Scandler, Yes, man after
my own heart, Sorry not Scandler.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's I think that's the best animated
show I've ever seen in my life. Like it is
just so well made. Every episode. It's just such a banger.
They do such job. Yeah, and they do such a
good job with every character, Like there's a big cast,
but they it's not like one person is really lacking,
Like they have all their own arcs.
Speaker 7: And it's just you listen to the critical role podcasts
that it's based on.
Speaker 3: I started after I think the first or second season,
because I was just whenever, you know, without spoilers, like
the VEX or vax thing happened, like I can't remember
which one is which because their names are so close
to each other. But but yeah, with like the Goddess Lady,
it was just that that episode Cliffhanger was so good.
Speaker 7: But yeah, this year in general has been a pretty
great year for TV animation. You had a Batman, Creek Crusader,
you had Arcane had I still have not finished it.
Speaker 5: I haven't watched it yet.
Speaker 7: Okay, I wasn't. I wasn't a huge fan of the
first three the first act, but I hear it gets
a lot better in the second and third.
Speaker 3: So it's funny. I like had issues with the second
season for the most part until the ending, A lot
more satisfied with it overall. But I still like season
one more than what they season two because the.
Speaker 7: Season the second season, I feel like they are leaning
a lot into building like a bunch of stuff for
spin offs, with the political stuff and the different nations,
so it feels like that I wish they spend more
time with the core characters, but I hear that's how
it ends.
Speaker 3: So because I think I like the character stuff more
in the first season because they're just going through a
lot more growth, I would imagine, because they're you know,
we we lads versus when they're older. But makes sense.
It's still incredibly made and probably the best looking animated
thing of.
Speaker 7: Every Yeah, phenomenal.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I still have only seen the first episode of season two,
but it's like, man, I don't remember anything. I don't
know any of these people are except for like the
main two or three. So yeah, I felt like I
was like, where's my Netflix recap for like, here's what
happened in season one?
Speaker 4: Season?
Speaker 2: I know, I feel like I need to go watch
I don't really want to watch the first season again
because it takes all the time, but I might just
go check out like a YouTube recap of the first
season and then continue with the series because I'm a
little lost on some of the Like I'm starting to
it's starting to come back a little bit, but I
feel like I'm not going to get as much of
that deep connections of what's going on if I'm not yeah,
remembering how all these characters interacted or who's met.
Speaker 3: Or who hasn't that kind of stuff. I got into
it at like the perfect time because I started like
season one, like as season two finishing, and I was
like six, I was off work, so I was just
like binging it like crazy, and then yeah, it was.
It's great, a good show.
Speaker 5: Actually, if anybody's seen it yet, was it kite Mam?
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's pretty good. It's like spin off to the
Harley Quinn animated show.
Speaker 6: Was great.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's so funny.
Speaker 4: Who scraped together a budget for Kite Man?
Speaker 3: I don't know, but honestly it works. That's hilarious.
Speaker 7: Yeah, And like Stephanie Sue is one of the the
voice of Glider in that another show has a pretty
good voice guest.
Speaker 2: And someone having draft because that that could be like
an interesting low key pick there, I don't think.
Speaker 3: So.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's true for a lot of those animated shows
this year there could be some hidden hidden picks there somewhere.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the Double Jack Draft. Has anyone watched Secret Level yet?
Speaker 4: That?
Speaker 3: Like Amazon? Yes, thing, I didn't know, you think, Carl.
Speaker 2: The first half of it came out right, Carl, like
they did like two there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was wondering.
Speaker 5: I think I was really late and I was watching
it sort of half watching it, and it's what I
thought it was going to be going in. I thought
they were like going to be linked or something, but
it just seems to be like we want off some guessing. Yeah,
I think that's yeah, but it looks at me, isn't.
Then they're short durning like ten twelve minutes. There's one
with Cana Reeves and I was just like, wow, it
is so good. Nice.
Speaker 3: What was that Armored Cord is the one that he's in.
Speaker 5: I can't remember. I didn't recognize a lot of the games.
I think there's maybe one game I remember.
Speaker 7: There was a pretty reckon wild Picks that I don't
know how they they made the choices for that.
Speaker 2: Who like submitted but money I think like even like
Concord had an episode which is now a game that
is unplayable, So it's pretty funny that actually I want
to watch I need to go check.
Speaker 5: There was a guy and I'm not sure if it
was Swartznegger or not, but it signed it like I'm
at two in the morning.
Speaker 3: I was like, is this Arnold his best impression?
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I still haven't checked it out because I saw that
the Splunky episode is not in that first batch of episodes,
but like the second that drops, I'm instantly gonna watch that.
Speaker 5: In fact, they just just giggled it and it's Arnold
Swartznegger and cool.
Speaker 3: Does it tell you what.
Speaker 5: King Alstrom? So whatever game that is, the game is
called King Alstrom, well has characters called King Elstrom, but
I don't know what the game is called.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to find that a medieval set.
Speaker 5: I'm guessing yeah, armor, No, it's arm Court.
Speaker 9: Looking up, guys, while you're looking that up, I'm sorry
to be rude, but I think I do have to
take off.
Speaker 4: I got to run some errands before the Lions game.
Speaker 3: Well, glad you could make it for a little bit, Clay.
It's nice to chat.
Speaker 2: Have a good holiday season, and hopefully we can talk
to you again in January. And then you know, on
the Discord every day as we normally.
Speaker 4: Sounds good.
Speaker 9: Yeah, everybody have a good holiday and thanks for having
me and uh yeah, I'll give some more interstellar thoughts
at some point, but please talking to.
Speaker 6: Clay.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Travis.
Speaker 5: One, it was episode three New World, the one some
future world interesting.
Speaker 3: Oh that's the Amazon m Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there are some weird games in there that definitely
feel like, yeah, they just forked over.
Speaker 5: But pock malm was facked up. That was a weird one.
That actually right, Yeah, I was like, okay, this is weird.
Speaker 7: They actually, you know, like that that they awards like
a game like Dark Labyrinth or Dark Maze or something, which.
Speaker 5: Really where that comes from.
Speaker 3: It's like a soul light game.
Speaker 2: But packed man, it's actually like a Metroid Vanya, like
a dark Metroid Vaney or Something's really weird. I don't
know if you've seen that trailer yet, but checked it out.
Speaker 3: It really odd.
Speaker 5: There's no Gama Tournament it was. It was a good
episode to episode four. I really like that.
Speaker 3: That's cool.
Speaker 2: I meant, Unreal Tournament back in the day was such
an interesting and weird, cool game, and I feel like
it's one I haven't thought about in like fifteen years.
Speaker 3: But yeah, that game was so interesting back in the day.
Speaker 5: Oh, it was my first introduction to like multiplayer ship
them up. Like I remember, the internet was just dark
and you could go on like you can play long
games and local places and go online.
Speaker 3: That was one of those games that whoever had done
it on like our school computer, somebody had like put
that on the server, like on the school server, so
like you know, your friends knew about it. So then
you'd go to the one serve whenever you'd have the
laptops out, and then we would just all be playing
like Unreal tournament. We should be working on projects making
it super especially we're like, oh you got me, you shot,
Like it's just like so obvious that we're not doing work.
But for that, Yeah, shouts out to whoever the hacker
people where they did that.
Speaker 2: It's a funny game to pay for the for the
one that they got loaded up there. Yeah, tournament. I
just wanted other people to play it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was good. I remember.
Speaker 3: What time is it for you, Carl, I'm curious. I can't.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's early for me.
Speaker 3: Nice. That's pretty good.
Speaker 5: I'm thankful. I'm not hungover. Can I have retirement again?
This year, I'm playing football.
Speaker 3: Oh had a boy samina?
Speaker 5: Oh non accessant? That was away. I pulled like two
stone on this year and I can back and think
it done two training sessions and then like sort of
just five a side, and then I did one full
of training Like can you play on Saturday for us?
And thirty nine this year or forty next year? So
I'm like, okay, so started, good game. We wont ten two,
So there you go.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what position are you on?
Speaker 5: Top? I mean centerment fitted for a bit and oh
my god, playing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that takes the most cardio.
Speaker 5: I know, even when I've got plenty of blubber on,
I still got a good engine. I think that's what
it is.
Speaker 3: I just hit it losing like an old Diesel truck,
you know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I go so much steady, so I just keep
going like although it may not catch you, but I
just keep going.
Speaker 3: Ten ten that's a lot of points. Everything.
Speaker 2: You guys kind of popped off there for a second.
I thought you were actually like football, and I was like,
that's not a lot of points. I'm like, oh, you mean, like,
oh yes, football, football, Yeah, that's a lot.
Speaker 3: I seen actually double digit I've.
Speaker 5: Seen this sketch the other day and I meant to
put it in the Dicord grip. I think it must
be ann album where we're talking about like and thanksgiving
herself and they're like, Yeah, we're gonna we're gonna get
a game and we're gonna call football, but we'll only
use our hands. I'm like, yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Travis isn't here to defend his American football. Speaking
of SNL, do you guys, do you guys watch SNL? Carl,
you ANSNL guy, Mike.
Speaker 5: No, I watched the movie. I want I don't want
to want to actually watch the first episode of SNL
because of that movie. It just come out and that
was it. I watched it and watched it.
Speaker 7: I used to watch it a lot when I was
in like high school in college, but I kind of
dropped off. I watched a few episodes or sketches that
we usually depending on who the host is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that makes sense. You watched the movie, Carl, the
new movie?
Speaker 5: You said, Yeah, I was really good.
Speaker 3: Nice.
Speaker 5: I cast the wives of what they did really well
from what I know if the characters anyways, right, Yeah,
I heard.
Speaker 2: Some kind of mixed things on it. That's good to
hear that you liked it. I definitely want to check
it out at some point. Might be one I watched
with the family over the holidays because we're all big
SNL people. I remember having just like stacks of like
the best of DVDs all the kids, So I feel
like I never even really watched the episodes. We would
just watch like the I'd watch the Will Ferrell Best
of like over he had like seven discs, like because
there's been so many skids. But yeah, that's where I
feel like a lot of my SNL love comes from,
like that specific era of maybe like the late nineties,
people in that era or something like that.
Speaker 5: Well the way that's you know, if the film didn't
get enough job to make me want to go and
watch the original episode that it was based on, yeah
that's a close job. So yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel like growing up when we had like
cable or whatever, like when it would be on, like
we would watch it as a family. But my like
most memories I have with SNL are those best of DVDs.
I even feel like early like Netflix days, like when
I like just got Netflix, like they had those on
on it. Whether it was like right the Jimmy Fallon
one or the Will Farrell one. Will Ferrell Yeah, like
you said, it had like multiple parts to it, and
those were just so good. I love them so much.
Bill Hayter, Yeah, he's the he's my friend. Yeah, he's
He's fantastic.
Speaker 5: Yeah. I didn't realize Jimmy Fallon was on there until
like probably a couple of months ago. Seen around them.
Speaker 3: He was like with Justin Timberlake a lot. I feel
as well, like they talk show. Yeah, that was my favorite.
He's so he's such a good musician like anyone that
he was like singing and like playing songs on I
just they worked for me. So that was like what
made me a Jimmy Fallon fan. I feel that. And
and Taxi that movie of Queen lat Yeah, that's a
deep cut. I was not watched in a long time.
I assume it doesn't hold up, but maybe it doesn't.
I was curious a couple of years ago.
Speaker 2: I was like, I wish I didn't do this, but
leave it to that childhood nostalgia.
Speaker 7: I like the other well, I feel like every SNL actor,
they always get like there one chance to make up. Yeah,
and either really hits or it doesn't hit at all.
You never see them again in a movie, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Me and just watched Office Christmas Party, which I had
never heard of until yesterday, which has like who's in that?
Jay and Bateman and Kim Kinnon that Yeah, Kim McKinnon's
on that, and then Vanessa Bayer so like has a
couple like SNL people in it.
Speaker 3: So it was all right.
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's a what I'm gonna rewatch
every year, but yeah, I feel like my favorite, like, yeah,
Will Ferrell was a classic, the Molly Shannon one, like
Chris Farley and David's Bade those ones were really good.
Chris Catan I loved hit like all of his skits
because he just does the freakish, weird stuff. Like I
don't know so many of those DVDs and I haven't
watched those in a long time, but I'm sure those
hopefully still hold up pretty well.
Speaker 3: Oh sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And then I watch like sometimes same as you, Mike,
like depending on like if there's a really interesting guest
that I want to see on there then and then
if we're like the way I watch it.
Speaker 3: I don't even know.
Speaker 2: It's like on Global TV app that you can like
just watch someone on there, but they like cut out
certain things, and so they always cut out all the
musical performances, so I never see any of those.
Speaker 3: I only ever see just like some skits, like they
trim it down a lot. I don't know what. I
don't know why or how they choose to do that.
Speaker 7: And just like us in Canada is hard because they're
reading so hard.
Speaker 3: Yeah, d yeah, can we wor us or whatever. I
don't think I've seen like a full SNL episode in
like a really long time for that reason, like I
only because I don't have cable or anything like, yeah,
I don't think it's streaming well. Actually I just saw
on Crave they have like three seasons of SNL on there.
It's like season forty one, forty two, forty maybe, I'm
not sure. I was hoping there would be more because
I wanted to like go through and actually see like
watch some guests that I was on YouTube. It's just
tough on I don't know if it's just in Canada.
Speaker 7: But you can find the older sketches on YouTube, Okay,
the newer stuff is it's really really hard to.
Speaker 2: A lot of things you click on it not available
in your country, that kind of thing.
Speaker 3: So, like, what season on now? Like, are the ones
on Crave fairly recent?
Speaker 7: I think it's forty eight or forty nine they're on that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're closing in on fifty.
Speaker 3: I think, yeah, it's a weird number.
Speaker 7: Then that we have a couple of full episodes like
for the election run up, and I barely recognized I
actually I think I recognized like two names in the
cast at this point.
Speaker 3: Keenan Thompson, like he's still around.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think he'll ever be beat in terms
of record because I don't think he's going anywhere anytime
soon either.
Speaker 3: So he's just just locked in.
Speaker 2: But yeah, there's some really good people on there now,
and it's funny even like watching a few years ago
versus now, there is like it's always crazy how many
new people there is. But I think the current rosters
like very good. I think the episodes I've watched recently,
you've had some really funny skits on there. I feel
like everyone's always very nostalgic for like a specific era
of vestin like, oh that's not the same, it was
so better here and there. But like every generation I
feel like has that period of time for them, and
maybe there was some off years where they weren't getting
it right or some of the writing was bad or
something like that. But I don't know, I feel like
there's something to enjoy with all the eras if you
just there's always some good people in there, some favorites.
Speaker 7: So yeah, there's a reason still on the air after
fifty years.
Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely true. Still get talk of the town. Well,
what else?
Speaker 2: Any any other movies or shows people want to talk about?
Any holiday things coming up?
Speaker 3: I was watching September five, anybody after that solo review?
Speaker 7: Yeah, great review.
Speaker 3: It's a really well made movie.
Speaker 2: And yeah, is that gonna be your golden Gieks pick
for all all of us to watch Kirkland?
Speaker 3: Probably not? Probably not. I feel like there's just it's
been a pretty good year for movies, and I don't know,
I I I feel like I gotta start watching like
a bunch, you know, Like, of course we have our
movies we can pitch, but I feel like there's some
some big hitters that will be even movies to rewatch,
Like I definitely want to rewatch Long Legs. Getting getting
ready for.
Speaker 7: I recommend a heretic if you guys, haven't watched that
that could be Yeah, I've watched it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's gonna watch it. Johanna film stuck in my
head this whole year when I think of just movies
that freaking Winny the Peo one you made us watch.
I missed that one, honestly, Like, I don't know why,
but I enjoyed that far more than I should have
because it was got awful.
Speaker 3: But yet that was super fun.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, thumb, that was weird. It's a weird one.
Speaker 7: I feel like I only half watched it because I
was only half paying attention while we were talking during it.
But I don't Also, I don't want to actually rewatch
it again to get the full plot because I feel
like it's it could only goes further down in my estimation.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that was That was a movie only fun
to watch with a group of friends.
Speaker 5: So you just watch it on your own.
Speaker 3: You might have a couple of good moments.
Speaker 2: But otherwise it'd be kind of a movie watching with
your phone in your hands the whole time, like looking
up other stuff online.
Speaker 7: So I watched Madam Webb this week, and I feel
like this could have been a fun movie to make fun.
Speaker 2: Of But yeah, was that your first time?
Speaker 3: Did you not watch it? No?
Speaker 4: No for you?
Speaker 7: After I put that thing off as long as I could,
and finally I was like, all right, well man, my
bottom was it was awful. I I I would put
it a slightly above Venom two, if only because I
feel like that movie had the biggest waste of potential
in the whole Sony universe. But as far as the
actual like filmmaking, the horrible ad r, the the the
everything evolving around that villain was was just just terrible awful.
The actor was.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you see, I'm guessing you've seen every old Sony
verse stuff now except for Craven.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, Craven.
Speaker 2: And so with Madam Web, is that like at the
bottom or is it better than Morbius at least? Like
what where would you put I'm get like, I feel
like Venom those ones at least float I still haven't
seen Venom two, but I assume they at least float
up of Morbius and Madame Web for people in.
Speaker 7: The roll Again, Venom two is probably a better made
movie than Morbius and Madam Webb, But because I mean,
you had Carnage versus Venom and the waste of potential
with that to me was just unforgivable. So that's the bottom.
Then Madam Web, then Morbius, and then Venom would Venom
one would probably be the best, but I'm I think
I'm seeing that one and Rose tinted glasses too, because
I saw it with one of my friends who was
really really hyper into it, so that kind of elevated it. Also, Yeah, Craven,
I don't know. I feel like I feel like that
might fall somewhere in the middle. I could see that
being like either second or third best, but I'll find
out a month or so.
Speaker 3: Yeah, not to remind me, was the villain Ezekiel Sims?
Does he like powers? We're bringing this up on the crest.
Speaker 7: I guess he was climbing up walls. He basically had
Spider Man powers, except you just couldn't they have the
budget to make it like full just like climbing onto
the subway roof and leaping.
Speaker 3: He had the ability to throw his voice and do
the ad R.
Speaker 7: He had a dr He had the ability to change
undetermined accents.
Speaker 8: On the fly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's so funny. Yeah, because I really cannot remember
like anything from that movie.
Speaker 7: Madam scall was that it was Uncle Ben.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh yeah, Adam Scott.
Speaker 7: Something crazy great cast just wasted on that there was
oh the actress that played like Ezekiel's like uh in
the chair.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I still because she never had like a conclusion, right,
like they just.
Speaker 3: I don't ever mention what that means.
Speaker 7: They don't I mention where she came from, why she
was there, and then.
Speaker 3: If she made it out at the end, like is
she just good?
Speaker 6: Now?
Speaker 2: I guess like she wasn't gonna get traced for any
of it, so we'll never know. We got Maddie in
the chat. Sorry, I couldn't make it.
Speaker 6: Boys.
Speaker 2: I've been with the parents this afternoon, and nice to
see you guys. Can wait to listen later. Thanks for
stopping by, Mattie. Of course after that it is not
the same without you, but I'm.
Speaker 3: Glad you could stop by. Say hello. We'll talk to
you in the next next episode, I'm sure better like
next year as well. In Fantasy, he's he's going to
against mic actually.
Speaker 7: From the concept, fighting it out for the bottom spot.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's pretty close. Actually, you know, Maddie's got
the four point advantage right now.
Speaker 7: But I haven't even checked. I know two of my
top guys were injured, so I don't.
Speaker 5: I just did not chuck to pick your team for you.
Speaker 7: I well, I went by the the app what it
told me because I knew I knew literally nothing coming
into this. I feel like if we do it again
next year, I can have a better basis of it,
information to go off of. Yeah, correctly, you weren't that
knowledge of either before this started. You're doing You're doing very.
Speaker 3: Well, So yeah, I was like you, I my YouTube algorithms,
like before the season start was just all fantasy football.
I feel like I was. I was doing some some
digging and research there. But I feel like I just
also got really lucky with the like the draft order,
because I was third pick, so like the swing around
ended up being like really good for some players that
came up and some players that I didn't really prioritize
early on in the draft, or like some of my
best performers, like my notoriously my numb one pick this
year is just awful. It's just it's just been getting
me no points. But so my lower picks have been
doing really good. So definitely some luck involved, and it's
been fun. It's been fun just following it.
Speaker 2: Is there no opportunity to like change or edit your
roster or is it like oh, day one, you pick
your roster and you're locked in, you lan, but.
Speaker 7: You have a smaller choice because I would picked the
top people, So you gotta be quick on that.
Speaker 2: But in your case, Mike, you said two of your
players are injured. Can you not like at least pick
some other people who might not give you tons points
but given more than zero.
Speaker 7: Yeah, But but sometimes the thing is is they'll either
they'll say they're out and then you can switch them,
or they'll be questionable, and so then you're not sure
if they're gonna play or not. You got to wait
till the last minute, and if it turns out that
that they're out, then yeah, you're yeah, no.
Speaker 3: It's it's been fun though. It's been fun just ship
talking in the in the NFL chats, and uh, I mean,
I've been pretty lucky. I'm in first place right now,
so I gotta buy in the first school playoffs. But
you are?
Speaker 2: I thought I thought you guys are talking about Clay
and Travis are battling it out to find out who.
Speaker 3: They're battling out to see who plays me. So it's
like first round of playoffs. So I got to buy
through the first week and then I, uh yeah, I'm waiting.
I'm on my throne, like just black Panther waiting for
the challenge, me for the for the throne. But uh yeah, no,
it's been it's been interesting and it went quite quick too,
Like I must say, I feel like we just did
the draft and then now it's it's almost over.
Speaker 7: I think it was you and me that one week
because I remember that that that from his day where
I saw a wiki eater and then after Wicked it
came out and I was in the lead and I thought,
oh I got oh yeah, bag, he's only got one
guy left. How many points could he do? And I
come out of glad. You're he got forty five points.
Speaker 3: Yes, he broke. He broke like a record for like
the most points and in a single game. It was
it was crazy. You got super lucky. But I mean,
at least you enjoyed the theater experience. You know, it's
off in the blow it sucked if you came out
you hated the movie. And then that happens just a
slap in the face. Yeah.
Speaker 7: Nice.
Speaker 3: Anyone else joining football next year? No? Probably not a little.
Speaker 7: I understand you guys.
Speaker 5: It's too slow for me. I've tried to watch, Like,
I love American football and movies.
Speaker 3: But some good movies.
Speaker 5: There's some really good yeah, like and you know, Riddy
is one of my favorite films of all time. But
could I watch an actual game? Too many breaks? That's
with Mark Wahlberg, right Invincible?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Oh I love that one hasn't been a good one.
Remember the Titans?
Speaker 3: Remember the Titans?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I think that's my favorite one.
Speaker 5: Classic.
Speaker 3: I don't know any of these. It's Disney movie, go
watch it later. Denzel Washington was the last great Sprank
Gosling's in there. Actually he's a young guy. Really, I
don't Yeah.
Speaker 7: Hayden Pannetier was in the Remember.
Speaker 3: She's like a little girl.
Speaker 5: Yeah, she plays a daughter.
Speaker 3: M hm. Also random movie poll. You just reminded me
of Hayden Penetier. Anybody see I think it's called Racing Stripes.
It was but like a racing horse, but it was
a zebra.
Speaker 7: That was a Frankie MS voice Frank Yeah, and there was.
Speaker 2: Like two fly Do you remember this movie? He's got
like a notch mask on for some reason. Look at
the box are.
Speaker 3: Here, because I think he like needs blinders or something
because he gets like distracted. Oh is it not that
they're trying to hide that he is a zebra. I
don't really remember the premise.
Speaker 2: No, I don't think they had that fact he's allowed
to compete even though he's a zebra.
Speaker 3: I think it's like, yeah, a part of the story,
like he can't race, he's just a zebra. But it
shows them, right, not.
Speaker 7: The better of Frankie Unis. I'll take a Cody Banks.
Speaker 3: Above David Spade. Isn't the Snoop dogs in that movie too? Apparently? Yeah,
they're the flies right at least there's like two flies
that talked to the to the zebra and they're hilarious
like this was live action to Yeah it was live action. Yeah, Wow,
it's fantastic. That was like one of those movies I
had in like the mini van growing up, so I
just watched it all the time, Like, doesn't matter if
we're going to the grocery store, I'm throwing on racing stripes. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I remember having like a little portable DVD player that
i'd use on the trips to Clone to Vancouver, and
I was always like, what am I gonna What am
I gonna throw in the bag this time?
Speaker 3: What am I bringing along for the ride?
Speaker 5: Was Botman and Scooby d is what my wee boy watched, the.
Speaker 7: Live action Scooby Doo.
Speaker 5: No, no, it was the pomous anonymous short fella like
mom the Scooby Gang. Yeah, it was crossover. Yeah.
Speaker 8: One of my friends like and so would have a
mini van and like anytime I was in there, it
would always be Scooby Doo, like the What's playing on
the TV?
Speaker 3: Like comes with the Models? Yeah, crazy. Yeah, I had
a pretty good selection. I had mean Girls, The Mummy
the first one, nice Liar Liar for some random reason.
And uh, honestly, I feel like a Scooby Doo movie
now now that you say that, like, I feel like
it just awoke in something like cyber space.
Speaker 5: Remember that one that.
Speaker 6: Was Scooby Doo movie included.
Speaker 3: It's the stock.
Speaker 5: I love the two live action Scooby dis ever created.
Speaker 3: Oh they're fantastic.
Speaker 6: Yeah, some of the best cast thing ever.
Speaker 5: Just the perfect Shaggy.
Speaker 7: Written by James Gunn his first Uh really I think, Yeah, first,
like non trauma, super low budget screenplay.
Speaker 3: Nice, It's a great place to start.
Speaker 7: I remember Scooby Do. That the one I remember the
most when I was a kid. That was the Zombie
Island animated movie that that thing actually terrified me when
I was a kid.
Speaker 3: I do remember that. I think it's Cyberspace was the
one that terrified me because it was just like the
AI creature essentially, like just locking people in bathrooms. And
then of course I'm just thinking that's gonna happen every
time that I'm gonna go into the bathrooms. It was
like a murderer too. Like it wasn't just like Okay,
this guy is like cause and ship like you straight
up like a murder person.
Speaker 7: So it went hard with the movies. The movies it was.
It was always like a real threat. It wasn't just
old man Jenkins, like.
Speaker 2: The Phantom virus apparently. Yeah, yeah, I don't think I
ever saw that one. Cyberspace yeah, actually called cyber Chase.
Speaker 5: I believe.
Speaker 3: Okay, there you go. Better name to break it to you.
Speaker 2: But this looks very early two thousands. It's got like
the font of like Lizzie MacGuire, dude and were.
Speaker 6: They releasing like these Scooby moods. I feel like, as.
Speaker 7: Like minimum, I always almost always see the trailers for
them playing before, like bigger movies that had them on
their their DVD or vhs, but I don't think I
saw most of them. I stopped after Zombie Island. You
can't top that.
Speaker 5: Oh I did not realize this. He's played on this game,
Soul Reaver, and he's ever played that.
Speaker 3: So Soul Reaver, man.
Speaker 5: I just seen. I'm just on looking at stuff and
I have seen Soul Reaver one and two has been
the remaster. Yeah, yeah, so I'm gonna be getting on that.
Speaker 3: Right, Oh yeah, Legacy of Kane, right, yeah.
Speaker 2: No, I've not played these, but I remember I watched
like a YouTube video and like breaking down that series
recently and it seemed really messy but interesting at the
same time, Like they.
Speaker 7: Heard the involved a box pushing. That's that's the thing
I credit most about them. It was like it was
a revolutionary at the time because it was like, oh, look,
you can push this through this rendered three D box
back in the year nineteen ninety nine.
Speaker 2: Crystal Dynamics developed those those ones, So that's it's cool
historical piece for them.
Speaker 7: They're still rebuilding their reputation after the Avengers game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll see what happens next.
Speaker 2: I guess they're kind of working on what's it called
Perfect Dark right now, see how that goes.
Speaker 7: Okay, it should make more of those two Rader games.
Speaker 5: I like those.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's a different owner now for Tom Raiders.
So who knows what's what's going to be the next
one there?
Speaker 3: What was the last one?
Speaker 5: Also?
Speaker 7: Oh? I think it was Shadow of the Tomb Raider.
I came out in twenty seventeen.
Speaker 3: It's been a while. Damn, that's been a while.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I've got an oid game for your list. You're
not on Thump Pire of the Mosco. Read Bloodlines to you.
Speaker 3: This email one you like it.
Speaker 5: I played the life out of that first game. I'll
love that. I was playing it actually about six months ago. Again,
I find a remastered version online and so I'm so
looking forward to.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that one looks it looks cool, very mouthful of
the title, kind of a rough title.
Speaker 5: But Masquerade the Bloodlines.
Speaker 3: It's like where does it starting in?
Speaker 5: It's just great like the first game, like you were
a looted, like different missions there was one I remember planning,
and that's like Hunted Asylum and it was proper freaky
back then anyway, mm hmm. But like you have, if
you got injured, you had to go and find someone,
try tould just them depend on what skill levels you
had as a fumpire, let them you if you get
damned to like you suck their blood or else you
could take them around the dark alleyway and just suck
it anyway, right, and that's how you got your help
back up.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 7: That reminds me of a game called the game called Vampire.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I remember really interested in that one, like I.
Speaker 5: Got it was awful. I thought, a faking happy days,
it's going to be similar to this game, and it
was just it wasn't.
Speaker 3: That's so funny, Like what was that bad about it?
Speaker 7: It was the combat was not the best.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, And it was just kind of sort of
like a fright platform. You can on even go one
way in it all the time, really RPG, and they.
Speaker 3: Were really selling it on the gimmick, Yeah, yeah, really
selling it, Like I love the trailer, I love the gameplay,
everything about it. And then for whatever I just didn't
get it when it came out.
Speaker 8: And then I only heard Bathroom look like the reviews
and it looks like it had like sort of like
it was like over hyped, Like a lot of reviews
were like it was okay, Like I'm seeing a lot
of like three point five out of five or like
six and seven.
Speaker 7: Yeah, because it was a really good premise the whole like, Okay,
you have all these NPC characters who have their own
side quests and then you got to choose which one
to to kill and feed on and that gives you XP.
But if you choose to play the game as a
nice guy and save everyone, you're gonna be less powerful. Stuff.
But at a certain points, like yeah, you gotta kill
playing and they made some of the characters like really
like obviously evil, so they were like, yeah, this is
the guy you can you can get your XP. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I remember loving those trailers and then when it came
out seeing everyone talk about it, I'm like, eh, I'll
put on the back law.
Speaker 3: Can probably never.
Speaker 7: Play one of one of those kind of games, probably,
especially there's so much like a couple.
Speaker 6: Of dollars on like Steam. Sure it's probably on sale
right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, probably.
Speaker 2: I feel like I don't have like a great vampire
game that I've loved in my life. I feel like
it leads to there's some interesting mechanics around. But even
like the Elder Scrolls games, you can like get vampirism,
but then it was always.
Speaker 3: Like you can't go out. It was always a depot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like you're super strong, but you have to like
really limited and that you can only go out at
certain times of day or like you like kind of
have your tear. Like the longer you take to feed,
like the stronger you get, but then the more you
get fed up by the sun and other things like that.
So it's an interesting mechanic, but it's like I don't
really want to deal with that, like I just use
my my default character. But I know there's a lot
of room for like cool mechanics around that kind of thing.
Speaker 7: Have you heard of a game that came out to
PlayStation two eras it's a vampire game, but the vampire
Parkson not like super important to it. But it was
called dark Watch.
Speaker 3: Oh that doesn't heard the name of it.
Speaker 7: It was like a first person shooter. It was like
a a dark Western where you played this like Cowboy
named Jericho Cross and even Vampire.
Speaker 6: I'm looking at it looks like the most PS two games.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, the box looks AI generated even though it came
out in two thousand and five.
Speaker 3: That's insane.
Speaker 7: I love I Wow, Okay, I love the strong word.
But I really enjoyed playing like I rented it from
Blockbuster and I played for like a whole week, and
I was obsessed with it for that week.
Speaker 3: Man, I gotta amazing. You guys are giving me some
good some good games to check out here.
Speaker 7: Dark Watch, I'd love a remaster of that because.
Speaker 3: I don't know why you would, but it's very Van Helsing.
Speaker 7: Yes exactly. I think it came out like right around
that time. It was trying to do like Van Helsing
with like the gameplay of Halo.
Speaker 3: It was basically the pitch.
Speaker 2: And you know what's sad about that that studio Now
all they do is make Call of Duty games. They're
just like a support team for Call of Duty. You know,
it's too bad.
Speaker 7: Yeah, a lot of studios are are like that.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: True.
Speaker 2: They made the Deadpool game in twenty thirteen apparently, and
then just Call Duty worked on Destiny a little bit crazy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a that's an interesting one. The vampire genre,
it's very limited. When I have to check out Carls Games, it.
Speaker 2: Sounds like there is a lot of stuff there, it's
just none of its related.
Speaker 5: Well that fun part of the mascarim on. It's like
fifteen pounds that as over in Canadian bucks, but a
hundred bucks on Steam. But what I always meant by
Steam Oxley you have to go and download a separate
packs that Steam doesn't give you to play the game.
And when there's eleven it seems so silly. Yeah, that's
but it's easy to do. But I was playing there
a couple of months ago.
Speaker 3: It was so good, funny enough. I feel like my
favorite vampire game I ever played was you know, the
game Plague Inc. They had like a DLC where instead
of infecting people, you just turn them into vampires, and
I just played the ship out of that one.
Speaker 2: They even had like a zombie one as well. There's
some good DLCs. Does that change anything or is it
just like a skin?
Speaker 3: It's just like the powers, I guess like, yeah, yeah,
you're just the way that you're spreading the plague. It's
it's pretty much the exact same core mechanics it's just
different imagery, but that's funny.
Speaker 2: Well, maybe the Blade game will be I mean, I
have high hopes for the playing because it made by Arcane,
so my favorites making a Bladian that could be really cool.
I don't know how much they'll dig into the vampire
like mechanics around that.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 7: See, but do you think it's gonna be a first
person game or a third person game?
Speaker 2: I think they've confirmed that it's third person.
Speaker 1: Okay, I don't have to google ass yeah which to
get them. They've stuff from from rad Fall. Say oh,
let's bring over some stuff from that.
Speaker 5: Ah. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I don't think they will be.
Speaker 7: Then the isn't like Arcanes split into like two different
factions now and like the one faction made made red
Fall and the other one is making a Blade.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was the case.
Speaker 2: And then after they released red Fall, Xbox closed the studio,
so they that Arcane is no longer existing. Unfortunate, but
we still have Arcane leone who yeah made Dishonored two
and Death Loop and now they're working on working on Blade.
So good trajectory there in terms of games they've made previously.
Speaker 3: I think so yeah, high hopes for that one.
Speaker 5: The chiller is just the kind of cinematic actual right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's no gameplay yet.
Speaker 2: It probably won't come out for another couple of years,
I would imagine, but I guess definitely was like what
twenty twenty was it, Kirkland?
Speaker 3: Was it that long ago? Now? So maybe it's.
Speaker 2: Sooner than we think because they didn't have any dealc
they had like small updates.
Speaker 6: For first PS five games.
Speaker 2: You're right, it was a launch launch window thing, right,
that's twenty that was a.
Speaker 5: PS sexy ann Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean that one will be I guess exclusive Xbox
for a bit, but then presumably it'll come to PlayStation
down the road.
Speaker 7: I think, Christ when you think about it, we're already
more than halfway through this current console cycle with the
PS five.
Speaker 3: Yeah. H we'll see.
Speaker 2: We'll see if they launch it on this standard timeline
or if they kick it back. I mean, Xbox might
not even make another console for a while. They just
they're just putting their stuff on other things.
Speaker 5: Now. I think everything will just go streaming, whyse Yeah,
I think probably get one more console and I will
be it maybe. Yeah.
Speaker 8: I don't think the game streaming has really gone as
like huge as people.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but it's only going to get better over time.
Speaker 7: Yeah, but right now the internet infrastructure is it's not
the best for that too.
Speaker 6: And consider Stadia ahead of its time.
Speaker 2: Really there were ten years too early perhaps for that.
Speaker 6: They'll bring it back, the ps vita, you know, they
were ahead of the switch.
Speaker 7: So yeah, they're talking about bringing back another PlayStation portable device.
Speaker 3: Hopefully something different than the portal. Yeah, it's not what
I'm looking for.
Speaker 7: That's basically just a second screen with the it's pretty
much a we U tablet, Like, what are we doing
over here?
Speaker 2: Well, speaking of the PlayStation portal, maybe that's a great
portal too. End this episodisode. Uh, this is a really
fun discussion, guys. This went all sorts of random places
that we werena stop motion talking.
Speaker 3: About the holidays.
Speaker 2: We got to watch one of s pub's feature films
like this. This is a really a great episode. Thank
you to Clay who's with us for a bit there.
Thank you guys for joining us. Have a great holiday.
I mean, we'll be talking to you all in the
in the discord. Except for Carl, you know, he's not
not in there much. He just comes in there talking
about sober Kai and then he pieces out.
Speaker 5: If somebody I am on probably Discord more than anybody,
because I have me on Discord and that's the problem.
So I'm on it constantly. But yeah, I just never
over in their check and so somebody tigers me, I'll
get it.
Speaker 2: Yes, if anyone wants to hear from Carl, just tag
them in the.
Speaker 5: Discord, just if it's anything to do with fond Part
Games or Copra Kai. Yeah, very good.
Speaker 2: Thank you everyone for joining us, and yeah, we'll see
you again next month for ralphter nine, have a good one.
Speaker 3: Bye bye.