December 14, 2022 • 17 mins
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GUI Nights.
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Welcome to another episode of GUI Nights.
GUI Nights.
Nights.
Oh, oh, oh, oh.
Was that like a Groot ho ho ho ho?
Yeah, that was like a Groot ho ho ho.
That was like a Groot ho ho ho ho.
Oh, oh, oh.
We are Santa.
Mmm.
Yeah.
Mmm.
I mean as we get older, yeah, the bellies get definitely.
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Fair, fair, yeah, yeah.
So back for another GUI Nights.
Woo, yeah.
So we're gonna be, it's gonna be a little bit different.
Still tangential, but we do have a theme we're going with on this episode.
We do have a specific thing we wanna talk about and I wanna get that out right up front.
We are gonna be talking about the Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special.
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Of course we are.
Oh, because it's so much fun.
Like yeah, I mean it did everything that the Star Wars one didn't do.
That's not hard by the way.
Shh.
Oh, and it did some of the things the Star Wars Holiday Special did, but way better.
Like the fucking 1970s animation style that's straight up.
I know, I love the animation.
I love that shit.
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So yeah, we needed to fit this in and we thought it is a great place for it on GUI Nights.
Just to rant and rave about this fun tear jerking surprisingly.
Surprisingly.
Fucking.
Yeah.
Yeah, it was done so well.
But before we dig into that, we're gonna get this panel out of the fucking way.
All the fucking miscreants that are here.
(01:55):
First off, we've got my co-host on From the Mouths of Madness and also the co-host of
Beautiful Disasters and another shit bird that shows up regularly on the GUI podcast.
We got FU Hunter.
What's up bitches?
Local shit bird.
Local shit bird.
Thanks for the love man.
It's holidays, spread the love.
Exactly.
Piece of shit across the table from me.
I've had a lot of eggnog this motherfucker.
This fucking piece of shit.
I like eggnog, I need to get that shit.
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Oh bro, yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
I'm gonna go get that shit.
Get all that life, yes sir.
Yeah.
And.
Somebody that doesn't need to be drinking any eggnog.
I was gonna say.
The motherfucker to my left is the guy who's responsible for all the chicanery.
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Yeah, you're going to die with that on your tombstone.
It's your fault why we do what we do.
It's your fault.
It's going on the tombstone.
On the tombstone, it's my fault.
Yeah, there you go.
Sorry.
Sorry.
Just me shrugging.
Hey.
I am a stinker.
I am his co-host on GUI, he is my co-host on GUI Nights.
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He has a new fucking fire podcast that's gonna start.
Yeah.
Beginning of the year.
Pop cultist.
Pop cultist.
I'm getting excited.
And we need to pump that shit, we need to get that shit going, get the accelerator on
that.
Always excited for new content, new shit, new ideas to come out.
Pop cultist is gonna be so much fun.
Yeah.
And as the internet tends to get really upset about what you like and don't like, this is
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the antidote, it's people celebrating the stuff that they love, whether or not it's
popular and we make a cult out of it.
We figured out how to make something like Ang Lee's Hulk a cult.
Howard the Duck.
Dude, that is a task, but more power to you.
I'm just saying.
So I will be kind of an advisor to the people coming on the show to have them talk about
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why they love the thing and how to use that to trick people into liking it.
Yeah, there you go.
As cults do.
Join the cults.
They trick you.
Trade the Kool-Aid.
They trick you.
Well, there's enough cults in popular culture anyway.
You've got the Star Wars and Marvel cults, you've got the DC cult for sure, the Snyder
verse people.
Yeah.
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So why not give some of that good juice over to the water worlds of it all.
They need some extra love.
He's always going to bring up the worst shit though.
I don't know.
Dennis Hopper was pretty awesome in Waterworld.
That's like saying Dennis Hopper was good in fucking Mario Brothers with fucking John
Luke Gazzamo and Bob Hoskin.
Dennis Hopper was good in Mario Brothers too.
God fucking hell.
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I love that they were able to keep cigarettes dry, but they didn't know that oil was called
oil and called it black stuff.
Yeah.
That's my favorite part of Waterworld.
Yeah.
See?
Anyway.
They forgot the word oil.
I absolutely forgot what I was going to...
Also, one of the hosts on spanked my pitch up and one of the hosts on deeply upsetting.
(04:48):
Yeah.
I do an unnecessary amount of shit.
Do it to yourself.
I tell you this again and again.
gypodcast.com.
That's where I go to keep track of what I'm doing most of the time.
What do I got to edit this week?
Oh shit.
That's what I look like.
Oh, I do that too.
Fuck.
God damn it.
Yeah.
Where's that recording at?
Yeah.
So yeah.
Three times a thing I've heard of.
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Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's...
Yeah.
Well, that's...
So on nights, while we're doing intros, we're going to bring it up again.
We brought it up on last week's episode.
But for those that I'm sure there are some people that strictly want to listen to us,
go crazy on nights.
And for that, we'll talk about it again.
(05:32):
The flagship GUI podcast that going on almost eight years, it'll be a little over seven
and a half years coming at the end of 2023, will be going to more of a limited release
format and moving forward.
Yep.
We decided that it was time.
We're going to be expanding the network and that's going to be taking more time from showrunners
(05:56):
in general to do that.
But the expansion will fit how the network wants to move moving forward.
And so it's a necessary that needs to happen.
And as much as we have cried and had our conversations and lamented and mourned about this, it's a
necessity.
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It needs to happen for the betterment of actually you.
For you.
We're going to be giving you way more content.
Yeah, way more content.
Coming up going forward.
That's the thing.
You can only be so sad.
Yeah, it's very sad and trust me...
It's sad for us because we're just so attached to it, to this, but it is actually a betterment
for you.
And you're going to get more from the GUI network.
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You're going to get more stuff.
The format of the show definitely takes up a lot of time and energy to get, not just
the editing and releasing stuff, but the recording and the planning and all that stuff.
So that energy...
Skeptical and fuck me.
We can literally release three more shows with the energy that's put into just this
one.
Oh yeah.
So that's kind of the idea is that there's room for...
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Spread the energy.
Well, spreading the energy, making room to help create new shows with new showrunners,
get the network kind of expanded a little bit.
So...
It's still going to be geek-centric, but more content.
We've already expanded.
There's so many different little sub-genres and niches that need to be filled in the geek
universe and we still haven't tapped into where we can tap.
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We've got blind spots.
Yeah, exactly.
We can definitely fill up if we get the right people in the right spaces and give time to
mentor and get people set up and ready to roll.
So that's kind of the game plan.
And yeah.
Yeah.
So I'm excited and also utterly fucking terrified of the...
Yeah, but I mean, that's kind of been the run so far is the whole utterly fucking terrified
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thing.
I mean, it's like...
What?
Are you terrified?
Is this going to...
No, but I mean in general, is this going to work?
Hey, remember when I had five shows?
Yeah.
I do.
Five?
Yeah.
Yeah, dude.
Well, you're getting close.
Getting close again.
Yeah.
I know.
Anyway, yeah.
But let's get into...
Oh yeah.
The host of this whole thing.
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Who's that guy?
That guy, this guy over here.
My partner in crime on the network helps me run this whole fucking demented organization
that we have here.
Yes.
As well as my partner in crime on GUI, the main flagship and Knights, the leader of Knights,
Lowdown Brahmageiver.
Yeah.
I'm a cat wrangler.
Wee!
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There we go.
But no, and just to make sure that it's understood, that also means GUI Knights.
We haven't really been clear about that.
We just talked about the flagship.
It is, because GUI Knights was something that we made a necessity outside of how we used
to record, which you've heard us talk about on multiple free plays, where it was two hours
and the last 30 to 40 minutes was a shite show.
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Just a straight shit show.
Remember when we did weekly two hour six person panel show?
Yeah.
This fucking tire fire.
I talk about not having enough time now.
Jesus.
I mean, it was fun, but God, I was also in my early 30s.
Yeah.
So next year this time, can we have a GUI holiday special?
Oh my God, we totally should.
Yeah.
Yeah.
If we can get somebody to animate us, because I think that's the rule.
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You have to have animation.
The intro has to be animated.
Yeah, exactly.
Right?
And it's got to be drawn, animated into the studio, and then it turns to real life.
By then, AI animation will just record us, and then they'll rotoscope it, and it'll be
fine.
Does that mean we have to have a guest star that sings also during our episode?
We have friends that have been on that sing.
That's just Amy Bogard.
She's a theater kid.
Just have her come in, and you're like, now you got to sing a song.
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Sorry.
You can come in and do something from Guys and Dolls, and then you'll be good to go.
I'm down for that.
But seriously, I just want to make sure that people understand that that does also involve
GUI nights.
So everything related to the original show, it's going to go a little bit slower there,
a little sporadic releases.
We'll get back together for big things, and just for catching up, we're going to be the
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nexus of the... still the nexus and the heart of the...
Big announcements of live events that we're doing.
New shows.
New shows.
New announcements.
So we dropped.
Yep.
Yep.
Yep.
So definitely stay subscribed.
There will still be releases.
Just be ready that you won't see it weekly.
That's the big thing.
All right.
Onto the fun conversation.
Onto the fucking fun conversation that is the Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special.
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God damn it.
I didn't know what they were going to do, and they were very good at being titled about
this.
They just said, hey, it's coming out.
And then as soon as I heard Kevin Bacon, I was like, no fucking way, man.
No fucking way.
And then yeah, we get lots of Kevin Bacon.
I was prepared for that.
Where I wasn't prepared is when it starts up.
Yeah, you were prepared for Kevin Bacon.
Well, I saw the trailer.
I mean, I'm saying...
See, I didn't watch the trailer.
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Oh, same here.
You motherfuckers like to always fucking watch shit.
But even the trailer watchers weren't expecting it starting opening with that fucking classic
animation of heavy metal fucking...
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Even the Boba Fett animated part of the Star Wars Holiday... or Christmas special.
And fucking... you got fucking, I hate Christmas.
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Like what, bro?
Come on, man.
It's just...
But that called me off-
Angry as fuck.
That called me off guard.
That's where I was like, okay, I know what they're doing now.
That's fucking awesome.
Yeah, I specifically... certain things I specifically... especially when it's only
40 minutes, I just don't watch the trailer.
Yeah.
Because it's... why?
There's no need to.
Yeah.
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I knew it's James Gunn.
He comes from the trauma punk kind of ethos thing.
I'm like, I guarantee you the fairy tale of New York by a fucking dude from The Pogues
is gonna be in this.
And that's the first fucking Christmas song that you hear in this special is a fairy tale
of New York, which is one of my personal favorites.
And I also thought they're gonna cut it right before the problematic line in that.
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Which they did.
Which they did.
Yeah.
Well, speaking of the music, can we say that we have at least four new songs that are gonna
go on holiday rotation now from this fucking special?
That was the big surprise for me is that I know that James Gunn not only is a huge fan
of the old 97s, but tries to put them in stuff and I think is friends with them as well.
And so when this band that finds old earth instruments comes together and starts singing-
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They're living in nowhere now, people.
That's where they're at.
Yeah, they're living in nowhere.
I'm like, this sound... they clearly got the old 97s to do the singing part for these
characters and then go, wait.
Yeah.
No, that's them.
That's literally the old 97s are in.
And that song is fucking awesome.
Fucking hilarious, dude.
It's so fucking funny.
And then-
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And catchy as shit.
Right?
Yeah.
I mean, it's a Christmas... through and through, it's a Christmas song.
Yeah.
Like the feeling and-
I don't know what Christmas is, but Christmas time is here.
It's fucking great.
Something about missle in your toes.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's awesome.
And then Drax and Mantis get this idea, which I'm glad we've got a team up between those
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two.
They're completely oblivious to everything characters, say, oh yeah, let's go get Kevin
Bacon and that's going to be Star-Lord's gift.
Because they're the most kind of innocent, misinterpreting-
They're children.
They're big children.
Yeah.
And both of them, they bounce off of each other.
We should bring him a human.
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Yeah.
That's fine.
Though it sounds good to each other.
Total sense.
Yeah.
It's like it's always sunny where everybody has a bad idea, but nobody tells each other
it's a bad idea.
But then they're like, perfect, let's do it.
Yeah.
And that's what they do.
They go to old California and pick up old Kevin Bacon.
No, on this though, we're also hitting marks where we're getting information that is setting
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up Guardians 3.
And that's what I was not expecting is that we're actually finding-
Or the Mantis and Star-Lord's-
Not just Mantis and Star-Lord, but the fact that it brings up that they took over Nowhere.
They bought Nowhere from the collector.
That's their home base now, which is in the comics.
But now that's their spot.
That's their joint is Nowhere.
That's where they kind of set their base of operations.
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And they've built this community and they've nurtured it to make it a home.
So that's a really important plot point to the story of Guardians is now they have literally
a home base.
They have a spot that's their joint.
Because we haven't seen Guardians in their own thing since 2019.
Was it 2019 or 2018 when Guardians 2 came out?
Fuck.
Yeah, right?
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I don't know.
I think it was before that, man.
I want to say it was 2018.
So yeah, we're not going to see them until next year, so that's five years.
That's just outside of the Infinity War endgame.
Five years without just a strict Guardians of the Galaxy.
I was saying they showed up at Thor, but that's...
Again, same.
Yeah.
Come on, man.
And do we need to talk about that?
No, no.
OK.
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You brought it up, you fuckface.
Well, because they technically make an appearance.
But again, we haven't gotten like their specific story in so long that that was actually a necessity,
I feel like.
It helped alleviate some of the intro they're going to have to do on part three.
Well, I feel like they also really helped quell that character being as kind of like
jokey, goofy, dorky kind of character as much as he is like dumb, funny, idiot character
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that can get old very quickly.
So to find him in this like listless place where he's a little broken, he lost...
But he's also running shit.
So he's got this...
He's running shit.
He's busy.
He's got stuff to distract him, but he's sad.
He lost the love of his life.
He doesn't know if he's ever going to see her again.
He's listless and it gives another dimension to that character that we've not seen before.
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There's been glimmers of that when talking about his mother and his family and stuff,
but you don't really see him in a really broken place before.
That's true.
He covers that with humor and this, there's no covering it.
He's sad.
Yeah.
I mean, everybody he's pretty much loved is gone and it's Christmas time.
Like that's kind of the...
I mean, you have your animated beginning, but besides that, you know his mom and then
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you know Kumer.
It's like everybody he's cared for is nowhere around and it's Christmas time.
And you see how he never stopped loving Christmas even though he wasn't allowed to initially.
And then you realize that no, it was a secret between him and Yondu.
I love that...
That they kept Christmas going, right?
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The human in space is told not to like Christmas, so he's like, I kind of like Christmas.
And the rest of us have to deal with the stressed out parents that are trying to push Christmas
on us.
I don't like to get in the Christmas spirit.
I don't like this sweater.
Shut up and be nice to your aunt.
And just like pushing it on us, which for me, made me not as appreciative of Christmas.
And see, that's the thing.
Like that's one thing I think that they latched onto and what like I, me personally, have
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had to not let taint is that...
It's tough.
It's not...
I'm not saying it's fucking easy.
I'm like, this special literally latched onto the idea that spirit people talk about where
it's not about the sweater.
It's not about the fucking getting the pictures and all this shit.
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It's not about the metal arms that we get.
No.
Although Rocket finally...
How did that fucking...
It kind of is about the metal arm.
Where's that story?
Where's the story of how he got the fucking arm?
Holy shit.
I just see Nebula like just kind of like fucking wink and I'm like, what the fuck did you do?
I think she fucked the Winter Soldier.
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And then like while he was passed out because you know she rides that shit hard.
Because she...
Bucky has the arm at the end of fucking Winter Soldier.
What happens in between?
I bring Nebula, takes a stroll over to the good old earth and then finds Winter Soldier.
Tara.
It's called Tara.
Oh, Tara.
Sorry, Tara.
And then she...
God damn it.
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Man, that was Aliubus.
Yeah, I know.
I know.
I was on purpose.
God damn it.
And just like Robot rides that shit real hard.
When he's passed out, she takes his arm and he probably had to take the arm off for a
maneuver of some type.
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Parental discretion is advised.
GUI Nights.
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Welcome to another episode of GUI Nights.
GUI Nights.
Nights.
Oh, oh, oh, oh.
Was that like a Groot ho ho ho ho?
Yeah, that was like a Groot ho ho ho.
That was like a Groot ho ho ho ho.
Oh, oh, oh.
We are Santa.
Mmm.
Yeah.
Mmm.
I mean as we get older, yeah, the bellies get definitely.
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Fair, fair, yeah, yeah.
So back for another GUI Nights.
Woo, yeah.
So we're gonna be, it's gonna be a little bit different.
Still tangential, but we do have a theme we're going with on this episode.
We do have a specific thing we wanna talk about and I wanna get that out right up front.
We are gonna be talking about the Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special.
(01:10):
Of course we are.
Oh, because it's so much fun.
Like yeah, I mean it did everything that the Star Wars one didn't do.
That's not hard by the way.
Shh.
Oh, and it did some of the things the Star Wars Holiday Special did, but way better.
Like the fucking 1970s animation style that's straight up.
I know, I love the animation.
I love that shit.
(01:32):
So yeah, we needed to fit this in and we thought it is a great place for it on GUI Nights.
Just to rant and rave about this fun tear jerking surprisingly.
Surprisingly.
Fucking.
Yeah.
Yeah, it was done so well.
But before we dig into that, we're gonna get this panel out of the fucking way.
All the fucking miscreants that are here.
(01:55):
First off, we've got my co-host on From the Mouths of Madness and also the co-host of
Beautiful Disasters and another shit bird that shows up regularly on the GUI podcast.
We got FU Hunter.
What's up bitches?
Local shit bird.
Local shit bird.
Thanks for the love man.
It's holidays, spread the love.
Exactly.
Piece of shit across the table from me.
I've had a lot of eggnog this motherfucker.
This fucking piece of shit.
I like eggnog, I need to get that shit.
(02:15):
Oh bro, yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
I'm gonna go get that shit.
Get all that life, yes sir.
Yeah.
And.
Somebody that doesn't need to be drinking any eggnog.
I was gonna say.
The motherfucker to my left is the guy who's responsible for all the chicanery.
(02:39):
Yeah, you're going to die with that on your tombstone.
It's your fault why we do what we do.
It's your fault.
It's going on the tombstone.
On the tombstone, it's my fault.
Yeah, there you go.
Sorry.
Sorry.
Just me shrugging.
Hey.
I am a stinker.
I am his co-host on GUI, he is my co-host on GUI Nights.
(02:59):
He has a new fucking fire podcast that's gonna start.
Yeah.
Beginning of the year.
Pop cultist.
Pop cultist.
I'm getting excited.
And we need to pump that shit, we need to get that shit going, get the accelerator on
that.
Always excited for new content, new shit, new ideas to come out.
Pop cultist is gonna be so much fun.
Yeah.
And as the internet tends to get really upset about what you like and don't like, this is
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the antidote, it's people celebrating the stuff that they love, whether or not it's
popular and we make a cult out of it.
We figured out how to make something like Ang Lee's Hulk a cult.
Howard the Duck.
Dude, that is a task, but more power to you.
I'm just saying.
So I will be kind of an advisor to the people coming on the show to have them talk about
(03:47):
why they love the thing and how to use that to trick people into liking it.
Yeah, there you go.
As cults do.
Join the cults.
They trick you.
Trade the Kool-Aid.
They trick you.
Well, there's enough cults in popular culture anyway.
You've got the Star Wars and Marvel cults, you've got the DC cult for sure, the Snyder
verse people.
Yeah.
(04:08):
So why not give some of that good juice over to the water worlds of it all.
They need some extra love.
He's always going to bring up the worst shit though.
I don't know.
Dennis Hopper was pretty awesome in Waterworld.
That's like saying Dennis Hopper was good in fucking Mario Brothers with fucking John
Luke Gazzamo and Bob Hoskin.
Dennis Hopper was good in Mario Brothers too.
God fucking hell.
(04:28):
I love that they were able to keep cigarettes dry, but they didn't know that oil was called
oil and called it black stuff.
Yeah.
That's my favorite part of Waterworld.
Yeah.
See?
Anyway.
They forgot the word oil.
I absolutely forgot what I was going to...
Also, one of the hosts on spanked my pitch up and one of the hosts on deeply upsetting.
(04:48):
Yeah.
I do an unnecessary amount of shit.
Do it to yourself.
I tell you this again and again.
gypodcast.com.
That's where I go to keep track of what I'm doing most of the time.
What do I got to edit this week?
Oh shit.
That's what I look like.
Oh, I do that too.
Fuck.
God damn it.
Yeah.
Where's that recording at?
Yeah.
So yeah.
Three times a thing I've heard of.
(05:12):
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's...
Yeah.
Well, that's...
So on nights, while we're doing intros, we're going to bring it up again.
We brought it up on last week's episode.
But for those that I'm sure there are some people that strictly want to listen to us,
go crazy on nights.
And for that, we'll talk about it again.
(05:32):
The flagship GUI podcast that going on almost eight years, it'll be a little over seven
and a half years coming at the end of 2023, will be going to more of a limited release
format and moving forward.
Yep.
We decided that it was time.
We're going to be expanding the network and that's going to be taking more time from showrunners
(05:56):
in general to do that.
But the expansion will fit how the network wants to move moving forward.
And so it's a necessary that needs to happen.
And as much as we have cried and had our conversations and lamented and mourned about this, it's a
necessity.
(06:17):
It needs to happen for the betterment of actually you.
For you.
We're going to be giving you way more content.
Yeah, way more content.
Coming up going forward.
That's the thing.
You can only be so sad.
Yeah, it's very sad and trust me...
It's sad for us because we're just so attached to it, to this, but it is actually a betterment
for you.
And you're going to get more from the GUI network.
(06:37):
You're going to get more stuff.
The format of the show definitely takes up a lot of time and energy to get, not just
the editing and releasing stuff, but the recording and the planning and all that stuff.
So that energy...
Skeptical and fuck me.
We can literally release three more shows with the energy that's put into just this
one.
Oh yeah.
So that's kind of the idea is that there's room for...
(06:59):
Spread the energy.
Well, spreading the energy, making room to help create new shows with new showrunners,
get the network kind of expanded a little bit.
So...
It's still going to be geek-centric, but more content.
We've already expanded.
There's so many different little sub-genres and niches that need to be filled in the geek
universe and we still haven't tapped into where we can tap.
(07:21):
We've got blind spots.
Yeah, exactly.
We can definitely fill up if we get the right people in the right spaces and give time to
mentor and get people set up and ready to roll.
So that's kind of the game plan.
And yeah.
Yeah.
So I'm excited and also utterly fucking terrified of the...
Yeah, but I mean, that's kind of been the run so far is the whole utterly fucking terrified
(07:43):
thing.
I mean, it's like...
What?
Are you terrified?
Is this going to...
No, but I mean in general, is this going to work?
Hey, remember when I had five shows?
Yeah.
I do.
Five?
Yeah.
Yeah, dude.
Well, you're getting close.
Getting close again.
Yeah.
I know.
Anyway, yeah.
But let's get into...
Oh yeah.
The host of this whole thing.
(08:05):
Who's that guy?
That guy, this guy over here.
My partner in crime on the network helps me run this whole fucking demented organization
that we have here.
Yes.
As well as my partner in crime on GUI, the main flagship and Knights, the leader of Knights,
Lowdown Brahmageiver.
Yeah.
I'm a cat wrangler.
Wee!
(08:25):
There we go.
But no, and just to make sure that it's understood, that also means GUI Knights.
We haven't really been clear about that.
We just talked about the flagship.
It is, because GUI Knights was something that we made a necessity outside of how we used
to record, which you've heard us talk about on multiple free plays, where it was two hours
and the last 30 to 40 minutes was a shite show.
(08:46):
Just a straight shit show.
Remember when we did weekly two hour six person panel show?
Yeah.
This fucking tire fire.
I talk about not having enough time now.
Jesus.
I mean, it was fun, but God, I was also in my early 30s.
Yeah.
So next year this time, can we have a GUI holiday special?
Oh my God, we totally should.
Yeah.
Yeah.
If we can get somebody to animate us, because I think that's the rule.
(09:07):
You have to have animation.
The intro has to be animated.
Yeah, exactly.
Right?
And it's got to be drawn, animated into the studio, and then it turns to real life.
By then, AI animation will just record us, and then they'll rotoscope it, and it'll be
fine.
Does that mean we have to have a guest star that sings also during our episode?
We have friends that have been on that sing.
That's just Amy Bogard.
She's a theater kid.
Just have her come in, and you're like, now you got to sing a song.
(09:30):
Sorry.
You can come in and do something from Guys and Dolls, and then you'll be good to go.
I'm down for that.
But seriously, I just want to make sure that people understand that that does also involve
GUI nights.
So everything related to the original show, it's going to go a little bit slower there,
a little sporadic releases.
We'll get back together for big things, and just for catching up, we're going to be the
(09:53):
nexus of the... still the nexus and the heart of the...
Big announcements of live events that we're doing.
New shows.
New shows.
New announcements.
So we dropped.
Yep.
Yep.
Yep.
So definitely stay subscribed.
There will still be releases.
Just be ready that you won't see it weekly.
That's the big thing.
All right.
Onto the fun conversation.
Onto the fucking fun conversation that is the Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special.
(10:17):
God damn it.
I didn't know what they were going to do, and they were very good at being titled about
this.
They just said, hey, it's coming out.
And then as soon as I heard Kevin Bacon, I was like, no fucking way, man.
No fucking way.
And then yeah, we get lots of Kevin Bacon.
I was prepared for that.
Where I wasn't prepared is when it starts up.
Yeah, you were prepared for Kevin Bacon.
Well, I saw the trailer.
I mean, I'm saying...
See, I didn't watch the trailer.
(10:37):
Oh, same here.
You motherfuckers like to always fucking watch shit.
But even the trailer watchers weren't expecting it starting opening with that fucking classic
animation of heavy metal fucking...
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Even the Boba Fett animated part of the Star Wars Holiday... or Christmas special.
And fucking... you got fucking, I hate Christmas.
(10:57):
Like what, bro?
Come on, man.
It's just...
But that called me off-
Angry as fuck.
That called me off guard.
That's where I was like, okay, I know what they're doing now.
That's fucking awesome.
Yeah, I specifically... certain things I specifically... especially when it's only
40 minutes, I just don't watch the trailer.
Yeah.
Because it's... why?
There's no need to.
Yeah.
(11:18):
I knew it's James Gunn.
He comes from the trauma punk kind of ethos thing.
I'm like, I guarantee you the fairy tale of New York by a fucking dude from The Pogues
is gonna be in this.
And that's the first fucking Christmas song that you hear in this special is a fairy tale
of New York, which is one of my personal favorites.
And I also thought they're gonna cut it right before the problematic line in that.
(11:42):
Which they did.
Which they did.
Yeah.
Well, speaking of the music, can we say that we have at least four new songs that are gonna
go on holiday rotation now from this fucking special?
That was the big surprise for me is that I know that James Gunn not only is a huge fan
of the old 97s, but tries to put them in stuff and I think is friends with them as well.
And so when this band that finds old earth instruments comes together and starts singing-
(12:04):
They're living in nowhere now, people.
That's where they're at.
Yeah, they're living in nowhere.
I'm like, this sound... they clearly got the old 97s to do the singing part for these
characters and then go, wait.
Yeah.
No, that's them.
That's literally the old 97s are in.
And that song is fucking awesome.
Fucking hilarious, dude.
It's so fucking funny.
And then-
(12:25):
And catchy as shit.
Right?
Yeah.
I mean, it's a Christmas... through and through, it's a Christmas song.
Yeah.
Like the feeling and-
I don't know what Christmas is, but Christmas time is here.
It's fucking great.
Something about missle in your toes.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's awesome.
And then Drax and Mantis get this idea, which I'm glad we've got a team up between those
(12:45):
two.
They're completely oblivious to everything characters, say, oh yeah, let's go get Kevin
Bacon and that's going to be Star-Lord's gift.
Because they're the most kind of innocent, misinterpreting-
They're children.
They're big children.
Yeah.
And both of them, they bounce off of each other.
We should bring him a human.
(13:06):
Yeah.
That's fine.
Though it sounds good to each other.
Total sense.
Yeah.
It's like it's always sunny where everybody has a bad idea, but nobody tells each other
it's a bad idea.
But then they're like, perfect, let's do it.
Yeah.
And that's what they do.
They go to old California and pick up old Kevin Bacon.
No, on this though, we're also hitting marks where we're getting information that is setting
(13:26):
up Guardians 3.
And that's what I was not expecting is that we're actually finding-
Or the Mantis and Star-Lord's-
Not just Mantis and Star-Lord, but the fact that it brings up that they took over Nowhere.
They bought Nowhere from the collector.
That's their home base now, which is in the comics.
But now that's their spot.
That's their joint is Nowhere.
That's where they kind of set their base of operations.
(13:46):
And they've built this community and they've nurtured it to make it a home.
So that's a really important plot point to the story of Guardians is now they have literally
a home base.
They have a spot that's their joint.
Because we haven't seen Guardians in their own thing since 2019.
Was it 2019 or 2018 when Guardians 2 came out?
Fuck.
Yeah, right?
(14:07):
I don't know.
I think it was before that, man.
I want to say it was 2018.
So yeah, we're not going to see them until next year, so that's five years.
That's just outside of the Infinity War endgame.
Five years without just a strict Guardians of the Galaxy.
I was saying they showed up at Thor, but that's...
Again, same.
Yeah.
Come on, man.
And do we need to talk about that?
No, no.
OK.
(14:28):
You brought it up, you fuckface.
Well, because they technically make an appearance.
But again, we haven't gotten like their specific story in so long that that was actually a necessity,
I feel like.
It helped alleviate some of the intro they're going to have to do on part three.
Well, I feel like they also really helped quell that character being as kind of like
jokey, goofy, dorky kind of character as much as he is like dumb, funny, idiot character
(14:55):
that can get old very quickly.
So to find him in this like listless place where he's a little broken, he lost...
But he's also running shit.
So he's got this...
He's running shit.
He's busy.
He's got stuff to distract him, but he's sad.
He lost the love of his life.
He doesn't know if he's ever going to see her again.
He's listless and it gives another dimension to that character that we've not seen before.
(15:15):
There's been glimmers of that when talking about his mother and his family and stuff,
but you don't really see him in a really broken place before.
That's true.
He covers that with humor and this, there's no covering it.
He's sad.
Yeah.
I mean, everybody he's pretty much loved is gone and it's Christmas time.
Like that's kind of the...
I mean, you have your animated beginning, but besides that, you know his mom and then
(15:37):
you know Kumer.
It's like everybody he's cared for is nowhere around and it's Christmas time.
And you see how he never stopped loving Christmas even though he wasn't allowed to initially.
And then you realize that no, it was a secret between him and Yondu.
I love that...
That they kept Christmas going, right?
(15:57):
The human in space is told not to like Christmas, so he's like, I kind of like Christmas.
And the rest of us have to deal with the stressed out parents that are trying to push Christmas
on us.
I don't like to get in the Christmas spirit.
I don't like this sweater.
Shut up and be nice to your aunt.
And just like pushing it on us, which for me, made me not as appreciative of Christmas.
And see, that's the thing.
Like that's one thing I think that they latched onto and what like I, me personally, have
(16:23):
had to not let taint is that...
It's tough.
It's not...
I'm not saying it's fucking easy.
I'm like, this special literally latched onto the idea that spirit people talk about where
it's not about the sweater.
It's not about the fucking getting the pictures and all this shit.
(16:45):
It's not about the metal arms that we get.
No.
Although Rocket finally...
How did that fucking...
It kind of is about the metal arm.
Where's that story?
Where's the story of how he got the fucking arm?
Holy shit.
I just see Nebula like just kind of like fucking wink and I'm like, what the fuck did you do?
I think she fucked the Winter Soldier.
(17:06):
And then like while he was passed out because you know she rides that shit hard.
Because she...
Bucky has the arm at the end of fucking Winter Soldier.
What happens in between?
I bring Nebula, takes a stroll over to the good old earth and then finds Winter Soldier.
Tara.
It's called Tara.
Oh, Tara.
Sorry, Tara.
And then she...
God damn it.
(17:28):
Man, that was Aliubus.
Yeah, I know.
I know.
I was on purpose.
God damn it.
And just like Robot rides that shit real hard.
When he's passed out, she takes his arm and he probably had to take the arm off for a
maneuver of some type.
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