August 2, 2023 • 30 mins
The Steves discuss what's making them happy in pop culture today, including the Barbie Movie and Netflix' Glamorous.
What's making us happy?
- Barbie: The Movie
- Glamorous Season 1
- Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
- Pikmin 4
- X-Men's Hellfire Gala and the Fall of X
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Steve (00:02):
Hello, returning Happys and new listeners.
This is Steve Bennett Martin,
Stephen (00:06):
and this is Steven Martin Bennett.
Welcome and welcome to Lifetimeof
Steve (00:09):
Happiness.
Welcome the podcast where wetake you on our journey through
some of the movies, shows, andother bits of pop culture that
are helping to keep us happy,while hopefully bring a smile to
your face along the way.
Stephen (00:18):
And we're shifting our focus on what's new in pop
culture today as we are the veryfirst and only.
Gay movie discussion podcastthat will be covering the new
Barbie movie.
We
Steve (00:30):
swear.
Yes, we promise.
Don't look anywhere else becauseyou won't find it anywhere else
other than here.
Yep.
And we're also
Stephen (00:36):
gonna talk about Netflix's glamorous Pickman
four, and this year's X-MenHellfire Gala.
Steve (00:43):
Yes.
But before we get into all ofthat fiction, what's been making
you happy in real life?
Stephen (00:48):
That's not real life.
Steve (00:50):
That's not real.
Well, sometimes it feels moreenjoyable than real life,
Stephen (00:55):
but yes.
So Last week we went to go seemy favorite drag queen, perform
live in Tampa.
We saw Jinx monsoons, everythingat Stake Tour.
Yes, it
Steve (01:08):
was a very good time.
I know the music was notnecessarily my playlist, but the
performances and the go ininbetweens with her little
standup bits and everything wasjust.
So fabulous and well done.
I loved every moment of that.
Yeah.
I
Stephen (01:21):
thought it was an amazing evening.
The only thing that I would'vechanged is when they were doing
the rock songs we couldn't hearJinx voice.
Yeah.
Every, like, when she sang theother stuff, it was fine.
It was just that her band.
Steve (01:36):
It drown, drowned her out.
It might've been the acousticswhere we saw it, but I would say
if the tour is still going on inyour area, is it worth checking
out?
Oh,
Stephen (01:44):
absolutely.
Go see it.
It is hysterical.
It's funny talks about thingsthat are happening in the
country.
It talks about her stent onChicago.
It's really, really good and wegot to meet her and she's just
as lovely in person this year asshe was last year when we met
her.
So, oh, and also
Steve (02:04):
you two hexed me.
Stephen (02:05):
We did hex you.
I mean, if you're gonna have awitch right there, you might as
well do a hex on somebody.
Yeah.
But while we were there, we alsohad dinner at Nana's.
Steve (02:17):
Yes.
Which was a place that I saw andit's.
Middle Eastern Street food.
It's Middle
Stephen (02:23):
Eastern Street food.
So, and I
Steve (02:24):
just was like this is something I would never try and
it's gonna be right up youralley.
And you loved it so
Stephen (02:29):
much.
It was so good.
It was like, if you takeChipotle and instead of Mexican
ingredients in the burrito, it'sall Middle Eastern ingredients.
And it was absolutely delicious.
So if you are a local listenerand you're in the Tampa area,
right near the Tampa Theater, indowntown Tampa is Nana Street
(02:50):
Food.
I.
So, so good.
Go try it.
Yes.
What about you, darling?
What's been making you happy in.
Quote unquote, real life.
Well, I
Steve (02:59):
would say Remy just being the best office dog ever, which
is nothing new.
But as some of our listenersmight know in the more recent
months, my newer boss, Barry,has let Remy become not just a
once a week office dog, but aneveryday office.
Dog and he has taken to it quitewell with the way he runs the
office now.
Stephen (03:18):
Yeah, I'm sure he got a promotion faster than anybody
else.
I'm
Steve (03:21):
pretty sure he thinks that he's Barry's right hand
instead of me.
And honestly, there are dayswhere I question that as well.
Stephen (03:28):
Yeah.
I love hearing the stories abouthis time.
Like last week whenevereverybody wanted to play with
Remy in the hallway.
Steve (03:37):
Yeah.
And he just got the, a case ofthe Zoomies for like five, 10
minutes at a time.
Like a time.
And he just had, was having thebest time of his life.
Stephen (03:45):
He's the best.
Steve (03:46):
Yes.
And you know, it was the bestmovie I've seen in quite a long
time.
Oppenheimer?
No, I don't want, I don't, thisis a, this is a happy podcast.
We don't cover things likenuclear explosions or Holocaust
Stephen (04:00):
or, or things where everyone says, oh my gosh, they
left the movie so destroyed.
Yeah,
Steve (04:06):
I don't want to be destroyed unless it's some good
sex with you, babe.
Darling.
Stephen (04:11):
Just
Steve (04:11):
kidding.
So yes, no, I'm talking aboutBarbie and I would say that you
enjoyed it as
Stephen (04:16):
well, correct?
Oh my gosh.
It was absolutely amazing.
It was.
It's totally different than whatI was expecting.
Yes,
Steve (04:26):
certainly.
And for those not in the know,it's a movie out in theaters
right now.
Really?
Yes.
After numerous computeranimated, direct to video and
streaming shows.
This is the first live actionBarbie film ever.
It's directed by Greta Gerwig,who co-wrote it with Noah.
Bomb back and it features anensemble cast of Margo, Robbie,
Ryan Gosling, America Ferrera,Kate McKinnon, Issa Rae r
(04:50):
Perlman, and Will Ferrell.
And only one of those names onthe list is someone that I don't
love and adore.
And it's the Man Will Ferrell.
Stephen (04:57):
Yes.
Yep.
So they started talking aboutmaking a live action Barbie
movie.
Over a decade
Steve (05:06):
ago.
Yes.
September, 2009 was when it wasannounced that it was going to
happen
Stephen (05:11):
eventually.
And I know that the firstactress that we ever heard have
her name attached to it was thestandup comic.
Amy.
Steve (05:22):
Amy Schumer.
Schumer, yes.
I
Stephen (05:24):
don't like that.
Yeah.
Amy Schumer was.
All signed up and ready to go,and she backed out of it and
said, you know what?
I don't think I'm the right.
Person for this.
I
Steve (05:37):
mean, Margot Robbie was perfection.
Perfection, yep.
In this role.
Perfectionist, stereotypicalBarbie.
Because I mean, in real life,that's what you think of when
you, like, you think of astereotypical Barbie is exactly
what she looked like in thatmovie.
Yeah.
She just did perfection with it.
And you love the, the standingon the,
Stephen (05:53):
on the toes.
Oh my gosh.
So you know, anybody that's everseen a Barbie knows that their
feet.
Are forever arched.
Yes.
In like a heel?
Yeah.
Like as if they were wearing aheel.
So all of the actresses when notin footwear had to stand as
(06:15):
Barbie as if they were still inthe heel.
And it was fantastic.
And People said to Greta, theywere like, oh, is that computer
animated?
She goes, Nope.
All the actresses did thatthemselves.
That
Steve (06:26):
is awesome.
But yeah, Margo Robbie's beendivine in all the movies we've
seen.
You loved her in I Tanya.
Stephen (06:31):
Oh my gosh.
She was amazing as my favoritefigure skater.
Tanya Harding.
Yes.
Steve (06:36):
Her performances is Harley Quinn have been enough to
watch the DC movies with her
Stephen (06:41):
in them.
Yep.
She was fantastic.
In Once Upon In Time inHollywood.
And we also loved her inBombshell.
Yes.
Steve (06:51):
And Ryan Gosling.
Stephen (06:53):
We think he's just fantastic.
My favorite role for him iscrazy, stupid
Steve (06:57):
love.
Yes.
He is very good in that.
And Kate McKinnon was hystericaland brilliant and fabulous and
as always, weird as
Stephen (07:04):
always.
Yeah.
Like she made s n l funny for somany years and I'm so glad that
she's getting to branch out anddo other things like Like the
2016 Ghostbusters.
She was amazing.
America Ferrera is anunderappreciated actress, but
anyone who like me watched UglyBetty knows how amazing of an
(07:27):
actress she really is, and shegives such a wonderful
performance in this and add suchamazing depth.
Steve (07:38):
Yes, certainly.
And it was released on July 21stwith a budget of around 128 to
$145 million.
And as of today, which isTuesday, August 1st, it has had
a box office of$795.7 million.
That's just a couple weeks in.
Stephen (07:59):
Yeah, that's gonna hit a billion rather quickly.
We actually Had things going onthe weekend it came out, so we
weren't able to see it and thenwe were like, oh, we'll go see
it during the week.
Nope, no tickets.
It was fulled out all week like
Steve (08:15):
ever.
I, this was beyond a ventureslevel type of, Movies packed on.
Yeah.
Random times and seat to seat.
But yeah, I loved how manypeople were dressing up pink in
it.
Yes.
I just love how it, this movie'sbecome like hit pop culture in
such a heavy way that youwouldn't think the word Barbie
does, but especially like seeingthe number of people on my
Instagram feeds and things thathave the severe love and
(08:39):
obsession for Barbie, thatthey've kept secret all this
time and all of a sudden findingout they're collectors with like
all the vintage ones mentionedin the movie, in their closet
somewhere.
I.
It's just, I didn't realize howqueer Barbie
Stephen (08:51):
was, so I only had like one or two Barbies growing up.
One I remember she had this pinklike wrap jacket with a white
fur trim.
And When you press something onher back, it made kissy noises.
(09:14):
Yeah, I think.
And so I don't remember whatBarbie that was and I had a Ken.
But when it came to dolls, I wasactually more of a gem in the
holograms kid.
Steve (09:22):
I believe you on that.
But yes.
What did you think of the movieoverall?
So
Stephen (09:27):
I expected it to be campy and fun with a little
darker humor that we saw in thetrailer.
I was not prepared for it to goas deep as it went, as it held
up a mirror to society.
Yes, it was unreal.
The different topics that theyapproach.
(09:48):
I love how Barbie land is a realplace.
Yes,
Steve (09:52):
it certainly is.
And I love that no one reallyquestioned it too hard, how you
get there.
Stephen (09:56):
Nope.
And that The things that werehappening to Barbie mm-hmm.
Spoiler alert were becausesomeone was playing with her
differently in the real world.
So they acknowledge that theBarbies and Barbie land are
dolls being played with in thereal world.
And like weird Barbie.
(10:18):
So my cousin Lydia growing up,she had all kinds of Barbies.
Yeah.
And My cousin Tim, her brother,cut off all of one Barbie's hair
until it was real short and thenkind of took a little bit of a
lighter to the hair and things.
So, and you know, they alwaysend up getting like marker or
(10:41):
pin on them and things.
So like, Everybody did have
Steve (10:45):
a weird barbie.
Everyone did have a weirdBarbie.
Yes.
And was, the movie was just socolorful.
Not just the pink, but just thevibrancy of all of the colors I
think was really well done.
And just the imagination behindit all.
So
Stephen (10:57):
all of Barbie land, they actually built, that wasn't
like the background c g I andthings.
Yeah.
But all the houses and thingswere built.
There was actually a temporaryshortage of pink paint in the
world because of how much pinkpaint they used on the movie.
That is awesome, Ken.
Discovering the patriarchy.
Steve (11:17):
Yes.
As much as you are not a hugefan of the patriarchy, you loved
the way that they
Stephen (11:22):
tackled this, it was really funny because, you know,
It's Barbie.
Yeah.
Like it's, it's
Steve (11:28):
Barbie.
She and it's
Stephen (11:30):
Barbie and Ken.
Yeah.
And Ken is always anafterthought.
And so Barbie's the mostimportant.
Like Ken doesn't really have alot of jobs in Barbie world.
He's, Barbie has all the jobs.
Yeah.
Steve (11:41):
He's the king of
Stephen (11:43):
beach.
Yeah.
And so he goes into the realworld and finds out that.
And would they both find outthat women don't run everything
in the real world and all of asudden Ken discovers that men.
Have more of the power andthat's
Steve (11:58):
how you get into that whole controversial, or like the
whole discussion about thepatriarchy and what it means to
be a woman and what it means tobe a man.
And I really love the way thatit was all handled
Stephen (12:06):
very well.
It really was.
And I want to see it
Steve (12:10):
again.
Yes.
Well, I'm sure we'll buy it whenit comes out.
Yep.
Yes.
And we also loved another veryqueer show.
Yes.
Stephen (12:18):
It was glamorous.
Yes.
From Netflix.
Steve (12:20):
Yes.
A comedy drama, Netflix seriescreated by Jordan Nino and
starring Kim Catrell and MissBenny.
It was released on June 22nd andthis year, and it follows Marco,
a young makeup enthusiast beinghired as a second assistant for
the beauty mogul.
Madison Addison.
Madeline Addison.
That's a tongue twister.
Why did the show make you so
Stephen (12:41):
happy?
Oh, I mean, so.
You know that I've read thebook, devil Wears Prada.
We've seen the movie Devil WearsPrada.
I loved all of it.
This is Devil Wear's PradaWithout Being Mean.
Yes, Kim.
Steve (12:58):
Kim Cattrall did a great job being that nice version, a
Stephen (13:01):
nice version of Miranda Priestly, like it's very clearly
a takeoff on Devil Ware's Prada.
But without as many.
Bad characters.
Yes.
And it just like the colors andthe show and the people and the
fun that they had and theinteractions, it's just a happy,
(13:24):
happy show.
Steve (13:25):
It definitely is a very happy show.
I mean, I love just having this,Benny being the, you know, with
being the role of Marco, thisqueer character that.
I wish I saw growing up I wasnever necessarily as queer, as
gay or as flamboyant, but I wishthat I knew that people like
that could exist in a worldwhere they're embraced and loved
like this.
Stephen (13:45):
This is the first big queer character that was not
made accessible for the masses.
It was not straight washed to bemore acceptable.
Yes.
And this is a big show where.
They don't hide from any topicabout queerness and things.
(14:05):
And I was like, yeah, you'reright.
This needs to be something thatmore queer teenagers can see no
matter where you fall in theLGBTQI A plus spectrum, Marco
and.
The other characters, even Ben.
Ben, absolutely.
And Chad, there's room for Chad
Steve (14:26):
too.
There's room for Chad who I wasall prepared to hate, but just
by the end he just warms yourheart because I know he's had
his own struggles.
Stephen (14:33):
They all had really great character.
Arcs the one that I was not asimpressed with.
Their character Arc.
Venetia Venetia.
Steve (14:42):
Like same.
Yeah.
But every series needs a kind ofvillain, I guess.
Stephen (14:46):
And that would be Venetia like.
F 100% Michael, who Sue Rosenhas been it's nice to see gay
geeks represented on tv.
Yes.
It doesn't all have to be gaysobsessed with fashion and
celebrities.
Sometimes gays are obsessed withsci-fi and that's okay too.
Yes.
Steve (15:06):
And what I also loved is, as much as I'm excited to see
where the journey for Marco goesfrom here, having his mother
Julia in the first season andhaving that relationship I feel
also really helped kind ofbalance the work life that we
got to see him having.
Absolutely.
Stephen (15:21):
And, and Marco wasn't one of those lead characters
where everything they do.
Is right and we're supposed tobe behind them.
There were definitely episodeswhere we're like, Marco, no, no,
no, no,
Steve (15:36):
no girl.
No.
Especially when it came to Ben.
Stephen (15:38):
Absolutely.
No there.
These are some life lessons andyou need to learn how to
apologize.
Steve (15:43):
Yes.
Like that type of stuff.
Those things we've all donebefore.
Yeah.
And this is probably entry 37 inour podcast, but how is Zelda
Tears of the Kingdom going foryou?
My life.
So
Stephen (15:55):
we are still trucking along in high rule.
It's been almost three fullmonths of me playing no other
game, but tears of the kingdom.
I'm still loving it.
Yes.
I still have so much left todiscover.
I completed the depths otherthan Gannon.
Mm-hmm.
Which I'm leaving till the end.
(16:16):
I have three completelyunexplored portions of the
Overworld map still.
I just got the master sword.
Mm-hmm.
I'm still loving it.
All this game is more than Icould have honestly hoped for
from a Legend of Zelda game, letalone a sequel.
I know.
It was very good.
Knowing that it's roughly thebreath of the wild area.
(16:38):
And then they were like, no, no,no, no, no.
We promise it's all gonna bebrand new.
And it was, yes, like, and likeI know that I'm playing at very.
O C, D and Completionist.
Yes, but I'm still looking at itgoing, how did you finish it in
a month?
I don't.
I know.
And I'm
Steve (16:57):
see, and I finished it with the map at the end, telling
me that I explored 60 somethingpercent of it.
I'm very excited to see how yourpercentage is compared to mine,
because if you get there and itsays something like 72%, I'm
gonna be like, that was notworth the payoff.
Stephen (17:12):
I will still, I, I know I'll be shocked if it's only
72%.
Yeah.
But I will still say that it'sworth the payoff because nothing
in me Yeah.
Is even ready for it to be done.
Like Excellent.
I think most likely by the endof August I'll be like, I'm
almost done.
Yeah.
(17:32):
But you have been playing one ofmy favorite series all the way
through and you just Startfinished the newest entry.
Yes.
Piman
Steve (17:42):
four Piman is a realtime strategy and puzzle video game
series created by Nintendo.
Shige.
Miyamoto and Piman themselvesare a hoard of plant-like
creatures that you collect tocollect objects and destroy
enemies like murder the planet'sspecies that normally murder
you.
Them.
Yep.
(18:02):
And just turn the world upsidedown on its head so that they
can help you collect juice ortreasure or plants or whatever
it is you need in
Stephen (18:07):
that game.
Yeah, and it's such a funseries.
For anyone that's not played it,you are you, no matter which
version of it is.
You are an interstellar explorerthat crash lands on a planet and
something happens where youeither have to find your missing
crew mates, repair your ship.
(18:29):
Both a mix of, yeah, a mix ofeverything.
Mix all of that.
And so you discover thesepickman that are going to help
you along the way becausePickman for being their size are
strong like ants and spiders,you know?
Yeah.
Being able to lift more thantheir weight.
So they're helping you collectfruit to make juice because your
(18:50):
species can subsist off of purefruit juice.
Or collecting treasures,collecting parts of your ship
and each game has gottenprogressively be better, whether
it's the game itself quality oflife, improvements, graphics,
especially.
What has been your favorite partof four?
Steve (19:13):
It's all of the, the extras and they kind of took all
the lessons that they learned.
They have the time crunch of oneas an optional side story.
After you beat the game, theyhave the dungeons that you call,
you know, caves or depths thatyou explore from two that made
that so iconic.
Mm-hmm.
It has.
The auto lock, which makes thegame so much more variable for
(19:36):
me.
I know people are like, I hateauto lock'cause it makes it
easy.
And I'm like, you don't need tospend like half the challenge
shouldn't be getting the controlto hit what you want it to hit.
Right?
And so I've just enjoyed all ofthat.
They've turned it into like acollect on where there's so many
different things to collect andbuild and people to save and
things to do.
Then I've just loved it.
I beat it through it.
Entirely once, and I'm near theend of beating it a hundred
(20:00):
percent without having a singlepickman die.
Stephen (20:02):
That's incredible.
Like I, so anybody that hasplayed it before knows this, but
if you haven't, so at the end ofthe day that in previous Pickman
games and also part of this, youcannot stay on the ground
because of.
Fierce creatures that will comeout after dark.
(20:23):
So you need to get the pickmanoff the ground and you need to
go back up into orbit or you'lldie.
And watching the pickman thatyou weren't able to get back to
their ship.
Before nightfall was always so
Steve (20:43):
soul ing and I'm watching them get eaten as they cry out.
Yes.
And die.
And you see their little ghostsgo up to the
Stephen (20:49):
heavens.
It kills me every time.
So you being able to do a runwhere no pigment of died, I'm
like, that's the dream.
I am their savior's.
The That's the dream.
Steve (21:00):
Yes.
Speaking of dreams, how is thedream of cocoa working on our
X-Men comics?
Stephen (21:05):
So yes.
For the past couple years, theX-men have been living on the
island that walks like a mancocoa instead of at the Xavier
Institute.
And they've had their owncountry, they are citizens of
cocoa.
They, they have, you know, theywere trying to live on their own
(21:27):
so that they're not as fearedand hated and persecuted.
They gave back to humanity.
And it did not work.
It has not worked because humansare like, no, we didn't want you
in our area, but we didn't wantyou to have your own area
either.
And anybody that is a minorityor an other, Knows.
Knows exactly what that's
Steve (21:48):
like.
Yes.
And so they've been teasing thefall of X for quite some time.
I know it was announced back inApril.
Promising devastating events atthis year's Hellfire gala that
will change our favorite mutantslives forever.
And we woke up very early.
To read it, was it worth
Stephen (22:05):
the, the buildup?
So the buildup, they've beendefinitely sprinkling it in
overtime with such things asBetsy Braddock, captain Britain
being unwelcome in the UKanymore.
Orcas, the human rightsorganization gaining more
traction.
Felon, one of the villains,taking the moon of Rocco,
(22:25):
formerly known as Mars.
Moira, who helped found cocoa isnow with.
Orcas.
We have some Nazi mutant twinsthat have been breaking into the
depths of cocoa to help
Steve (22:37):
orcas, multiple sinisters still
Stephen (22:39):
running around and things just keep inching closer
and closer to our belovedmutants, and they keep winning
and.
I know it makes for good story,but I'm like, damnit, can't the
mutants have a win?
I know.
Steve (22:54):
Well, they promised devastating did they
Stephen (22:56):
deliver?
So it was devastating for sure.
It was a punch in the gut and akick to the teeth from Nimrod's
entrance.
Yes.
Whoa.
Steve (23:05):
That panel.
And I saw it and I knew you werecoming up to it'cause you were
commanded on the new team.
And I was like, I'm gonna watchhis face.
Stephen (23:13):
Oh.
So we're not gonna say, in caseyou haven't read it.
To the last panel of the bookwhere Charles's job is no longer
beach.
It is no longer beach.
Nope.
It was one thing after another.
Orcas had been planning for eachmutant on the island and all the
scenarios and all of ourmutants, while always vigilant,
(23:34):
we're not prepared for thislevel of precision attack by the
humans like they thought outevery scenario.
And our mutants were notprepared.
So, question for you.
Yes.
After they were able to stop theinitial attack, gene was my
gene.
(23:54):
She was ready to do a fullpersonality wipe of all the
humans on the planet to makethem not hate mutants.
In your opinion, would that havebeen too far?
Or after everything that hasbeen happened to mutant since
they came on the scene, is it aforgivable and necessary
(24:18):
transgression at this point?
I.
Steve (24:21):
I would say that it definitely is a transgression
Yeah.
That I would forgive her for.
I mean, characters have doneworse than stupider things.
Yeah.
However, it's not something thatyour gene would do.
No, she,
Stephen (24:33):
but if that's what makes Gene, she was very angry.
Yeah.
Steve (24:36):
But I mean, if I had gene's, powers, I might do that,
but that's also why I don't havejean's.
Powers.
Stephen (24:42):
Yeah.
So she was going totelepathically.
Take away their
Steve (24:47):
hate.
Yes.
Which would be awesome if like,if, if while she's there, she
could just do that for all theminorities and everything and
just make the whole world abetter place with no hate.
I don't see, like,
Stephen (24:57):
hate is learned.
We know that.
Yes.
You don't, you're not
Steve (25:00):
born hating, so you're, you're just basically helping
unprogram what your horribleparents did to you
Stephen (25:05):
and the world at large.
And talking heads on the news,like, I, I, you know, I see that
and I'm like, oh.
Yeah, but then I'm also like,well if she can do that, then
what is stopping anybody elsefrom taking everybody else's
agency?
Like it's a double-edged sword.
(25:26):
It's definitely a deepdiscussion.
It didn't end up happeningbecause of Moira McTaggart a
Moira X.
But yeah, it's definitelysomething to think about and.
Mm.
So we're coming into what thefall of X is gonna be and here's
(25:47):
some things that I am interestedin seeing.
Obvious, obviously.
I mean, there's only up fromhere.
Yeah.
It can only get better.
Yeah.
One would hope so.
Jing Great ends.
In a very interesting way.
So it doesn't look
Steve (26:03):
good for Gina at the end of this.
It doesn't look, but we alsoknow that she has a series
coming out, so, so we know
Stephen (26:08):
that yeah, it's gonna go somewhere that isn't where
the Hellfire gala ended starfire is now a mole, A mole with
orcas in, orcas with, but jean'sthe only one that knows she's a
mole.
And while Jean is in the whitehot room, Everyone else thinks
that Angelic is a traitor, whichgoes into her character because
(26:32):
of her time with the Avengers,all the mutants considered her a
cop.
Yeah, so because she's neverbeen pro mutant until the last
year, I.
Steve (26:40):
Yes.
And the tables have turned onour little Miss Kate, who would
never be able to use the cogates, but now she can.
And
Stephen (26:47):
she's the only one that can.
And what does that mean?
I have no idea, but I'minterested to
Steve (26:51):
learn.
They're also making a hell of athing about Miss Marvel now
being the first ever mutant inhuman hybrid.
Yes.
Now,'cause one brand is failing,bring her to
Stephen (26:59):
the other one.
Well, we all know that whenKamala Khan, Ms.
Marvel was created over a decadeago, they originally wanted to
make her a mutant and they knewthat this was gonna be a popular
character and they were reallytrying to push the, in humans
instead of the mutants.
So they changed it to make inhumans more popular.
(27:21):
Now we have seen in the M C U TVshow Kamala Khans a mutant.
So it's gonna be interesting tosee on here.
How they handle the mutant inhuman hybrid.
And also does she have a mutantpower?
Because we know her in beginningand that's a word.
Is her inhuman power, does shehave a mutant power or
Steve (27:45):
do I know what her mutant power is?
What?
It's the light
Stephen (27:48):
disks.
Oh, from the show?
Yeah.
That's smart.
I like that.
Okay.
I think that could be fun toOrca said, You have to no more
human or mutants on the planet,or we start killing humans as
retribution.
Charles sent them all throughCoro and Gates.
(28:08):
I.
We don't know where they went.
They didn't go to ar Rocco.
Yeah.
So where do you think they
Steve (28:13):
went?
I mean, they're saying thatCharles killed them all, so I
don't think he did.
I don't think he did.
But it's possible.
Who knows?
I doubt that it just likespliced them out of existence.
They're probably in some orcaprison that I, I think billions
of people
Stephen (28:25):
now.
Orus Prison or some other likepocket reality.
Yeah.
Maybe that's what MotherRighteous was doing.
Yeah.
Who knows?
Will Xavier learn a lesson fromall this?
He never does.
And we know from the crossoverthat we had recently with the
Avengers and the X-Men.
(28:46):
Yeah.
And the externals that Storm andArco have one hour of Nuss
power.
Do they use it to take takeoutorcas or did they keep it in
their pocket for some time inthe future?
I would
Steve (29:00):
use it for orcas.
But again, I know that's kind ofagainst their whole, like don't
kill humans philosophy.
Stephen (29:05):
I think at this point we should change that being one
of the rules of gco.
Yes.
But it's
Steve (29:15):
gonna be, but if you all think of anything we talked
about on this
Stephen (29:18):
episode, let us know.
Let us know.
Anything you would like us tocover.
We're always up for suggestionsand recommendations like, Let us
know something that you enjoyed.
You're like, oh, I wanna hearyour thoughts on this.
We'd love to talk about it.
Steve (29:32):
Yeah, you can do that by emailing us at Happy Life
pod@gmail.com, or
Stephen (29:36):
you can get in touch with us on the socials, whether
that is Facebook, Instagram, orTwitter at Happy Life Pod.
Steve (29:44):
And until next time, everybody stay happy.
Hello, returning Happys and new listeners.
This is Steve Bennett Martin,
Stephen (00:06):
and this is Steven Martin Bennett.
Welcome and welcome to Lifetimeof
Steve (00:09):
Happiness.
Welcome the podcast where wetake you on our journey through
some of the movies, shows, andother bits of pop culture that
are helping to keep us happy,while hopefully bring a smile to
your face along the way.
Stephen (00:18):
And we're shifting our focus on what's new in pop
culture today as we are the veryfirst and only.
Gay movie discussion podcastthat will be covering the new
Barbie movie.
We
Steve (00:30):
swear.
Yes, we promise.
Don't look anywhere else becauseyou won't find it anywhere else
other than here.
Yep.
And we're also
Stephen (00:36):
gonna talk about Netflix's glamorous Pickman
four, and this year's X-MenHellfire Gala.
Steve (00:43):
Yes.
But before we get into all ofthat fiction, what's been making
you happy in real life?
Stephen (00:48):
That's not real life.
Steve (00:50):
That's not real.
Well, sometimes it feels moreenjoyable than real life,
Stephen (00:55):
but yes.
So Last week we went to go seemy favorite drag queen, perform
live in Tampa.
We saw Jinx monsoons, everythingat Stake Tour.
Yes, it
Steve (01:08):
was a very good time.
I know the music was notnecessarily my playlist, but the
performances and the go ininbetweens with her little
standup bits and everything wasjust.
So fabulous and well done.
I loved every moment of that.
Yeah.
I
Stephen (01:21):
thought it was an amazing evening.
The only thing that I would'vechanged is when they were doing
the rock songs we couldn't hearJinx voice.
Yeah.
Every, like, when she sang theother stuff, it was fine.
It was just that her band.
Steve (01:36):
It drown, drowned her out.
It might've been the acousticswhere we saw it, but I would say
if the tour is still going on inyour area, is it worth checking
out?
Oh,
Stephen (01:44):
absolutely.
Go see it.
It is hysterical.
It's funny talks about thingsthat are happening in the
country.
It talks about her stent onChicago.
It's really, really good and wegot to meet her and she's just
as lovely in person this year asshe was last year when we met
her.
So, oh, and also
Steve (02:04):
you two hexed me.
Stephen (02:05):
We did hex you.
I mean, if you're gonna have awitch right there, you might as
well do a hex on somebody.
Yeah.
But while we were there, we alsohad dinner at Nana's.
Steve (02:17):
Yes.
Which was a place that I saw andit's.
Middle Eastern Street food.
It's Middle
Stephen (02:23):
Eastern Street food.
So, and I
Steve (02:24):
just was like this is something I would never try and
it's gonna be right up youralley.
And you loved it so
Stephen (02:29):
much.
It was so good.
It was like, if you takeChipotle and instead of Mexican
ingredients in the burrito, it'sall Middle Eastern ingredients.
And it was absolutely delicious.
So if you are a local listenerand you're in the Tampa area,
right near the Tampa Theater, indowntown Tampa is Nana Street
(02:50):
Food.
I.
So, so good.
Go try it.
Yes.
What about you, darling?
What's been making you happy in.
Quote unquote, real life.
Well, I
Steve (02:59):
would say Remy just being the best office dog ever, which
is nothing new.
But as some of our listenersmight know in the more recent
months, my newer boss, Barry,has let Remy become not just a
once a week office dog, but aneveryday office.
Dog and he has taken to it quitewell with the way he runs the
office now.
Stephen (03:18):
Yeah, I'm sure he got a promotion faster than anybody
else.
I'm
Steve (03:21):
pretty sure he thinks that he's Barry's right hand
instead of me.
And honestly, there are dayswhere I question that as well.
Stephen (03:28):
Yeah.
I love hearing the stories abouthis time.
Like last week whenevereverybody wanted to play with
Remy in the hallway.
Steve (03:37):
Yeah.
And he just got the, a case ofthe Zoomies for like five, 10
minutes at a time.
Like a time.
And he just had, was having thebest time of his life.
Stephen (03:45):
He's the best.
Steve (03:46):
Yes.
And you know, it was the bestmovie I've seen in quite a long
time.
Oppenheimer?
No, I don't want, I don't, thisis a, this is a happy podcast.
We don't cover things likenuclear explosions or Holocaust
Stephen (04:00):
or, or things where everyone says, oh my gosh, they
left the movie so destroyed.
Yeah,
Steve (04:06):
I don't want to be destroyed unless it's some good
sex with you, babe.
Darling.
Stephen (04:11):
Just
Steve (04:11):
kidding.
So yes, no, I'm talking aboutBarbie and I would say that you
enjoyed it as
Stephen (04:16):
well, correct?
Oh my gosh.
It was absolutely amazing.
It was.
It's totally different than whatI was expecting.
Yes,
Steve (04:26):
certainly.
And for those not in the know,it's a movie out in theaters
right now.
Really?
Yes.
After numerous computeranimated, direct to video and
streaming shows.
This is the first live actionBarbie film ever.
It's directed by Greta Gerwig,who co-wrote it with Noah.
Bomb back and it features anensemble cast of Margo, Robbie,
Ryan Gosling, America Ferrera,Kate McKinnon, Issa Rae r
(04:50):
Perlman, and Will Ferrell.
And only one of those names onthe list is someone that I don't
love and adore.
And it's the Man Will Ferrell.
Stephen (04:57):
Yes.
Yep.
So they started talking aboutmaking a live action Barbie
movie.
Over a decade
Steve (05:06):
ago.
Yes.
September, 2009 was when it wasannounced that it was going to
happen
Stephen (05:11):
eventually.
And I know that the firstactress that we ever heard have
her name attached to it was thestandup comic.
Amy.
Steve (05:22):
Amy Schumer.
Schumer, yes.
I
Stephen (05:24):
don't like that.
Yeah.
Amy Schumer was.
All signed up and ready to go,and she backed out of it and
said, you know what?
I don't think I'm the right.
Person for this.
I
Steve (05:37):
mean, Margot Robbie was perfection.
Perfection, yep.
In this role.
Perfectionist, stereotypicalBarbie.
Because I mean, in real life,that's what you think of when
you, like, you think of astereotypical Barbie is exactly
what she looked like in thatmovie.
Yeah.
She just did perfection with it.
And you love the, the standingon the,
Stephen (05:53):
on the toes.
Oh my gosh.
So you know, anybody that's everseen a Barbie knows that their
feet.
Are forever arched.
Yes.
In like a heel?
Yeah.
Like as if they were wearing aheel.
So all of the actresses when notin footwear had to stand as
(06:15):
Barbie as if they were still inthe heel.
And it was fantastic.
And People said to Greta, theywere like, oh, is that computer
animated?
She goes, Nope.
All the actresses did thatthemselves.
That
Steve (06:26):
is awesome.
But yeah, Margo Robbie's beendivine in all the movies we've
seen.
You loved her in I Tanya.
Stephen (06:31):
Oh my gosh.
She was amazing as my favoritefigure skater.
Tanya Harding.
Yes.
Steve (06:36):
Her performances is Harley Quinn have been enough to
watch the DC movies with her
Stephen (06:41):
in them.
Yep.
She was fantastic.
In Once Upon In Time inHollywood.
And we also loved her inBombshell.
Yes.
Steve (06:51):
And Ryan Gosling.
Stephen (06:53):
We think he's just fantastic.
My favorite role for him iscrazy, stupid
Steve (06:57):
love.
Yes.
He is very good in that.
And Kate McKinnon was hystericaland brilliant and fabulous and
as always, weird as
Stephen (07:04):
always.
Yeah.
Like she made s n l funny for somany years and I'm so glad that
she's getting to branch out anddo other things like Like the
2016 Ghostbusters.
She was amazing.
America Ferrera is anunderappreciated actress, but
anyone who like me watched UglyBetty knows how amazing of an
(07:27):
actress she really is, and shegives such a wonderful
performance in this and add suchamazing depth.
Steve (07:38):
Yes, certainly.
And it was released on July 21stwith a budget of around 128 to
$145 million.
And as of today, which isTuesday, August 1st, it has had
a box office of$795.7 million.
That's just a couple weeks in.
Stephen (07:59):
Yeah, that's gonna hit a billion rather quickly.
We actually Had things going onthe weekend it came out, so we
weren't able to see it and thenwe were like, oh, we'll go see
it during the week.
Nope, no tickets.
It was fulled out all week like
Steve (08:15):
ever.
I, this was beyond a ventureslevel type of, Movies packed on.
Yeah.
Random times and seat to seat.
But yeah, I loved how manypeople were dressing up pink in
it.
Yes.
I just love how it, this movie'sbecome like hit pop culture in
such a heavy way that youwouldn't think the word Barbie
does, but especially like seeingthe number of people on my
Instagram feeds and things thathave the severe love and
(08:39):
obsession for Barbie, thatthey've kept secret all this
time and all of a sudden findingout they're collectors with like
all the vintage ones mentionedin the movie, in their closet
somewhere.
I.
It's just, I didn't realize howqueer Barbie
Stephen (08:51):
was, so I only had like one or two Barbies growing up.
One I remember she had this pinklike wrap jacket with a white
fur trim.
And When you press something onher back, it made kissy noises.
(09:14):
Yeah, I think.
And so I don't remember whatBarbie that was and I had a Ken.
But when it came to dolls, I wasactually more of a gem in the
holograms kid.
Steve (09:22):
I believe you on that.
But yes.
What did you think of the movieoverall?
So
Stephen (09:27):
I expected it to be campy and fun with a little
darker humor that we saw in thetrailer.
I was not prepared for it to goas deep as it went, as it held
up a mirror to society.
Yes, it was unreal.
The different topics that theyapproach.
(09:48):
I love how Barbie land is a realplace.
Yes,
Steve (09:52):
it certainly is.
And I love that no one reallyquestioned it too hard, how you
get there.
Stephen (09:56):
Nope.
And that The things that werehappening to Barbie mm-hmm.
Spoiler alert were becausesomeone was playing with her
differently in the real world.
So they acknowledge that theBarbies and Barbie land are
dolls being played with in thereal world.
And like weird Barbie.
(10:18):
So my cousin Lydia growing up,she had all kinds of Barbies.
Yeah.
And My cousin Tim, her brother,cut off all of one Barbie's hair
until it was real short and thenkind of took a little bit of a
lighter to the hair and things.
So, and you know, they alwaysend up getting like marker or
(10:41):
pin on them and things.
So like, Everybody did have
Steve (10:45):
a weird barbie.
Everyone did have a weirdBarbie.
Yes.
And was, the movie was just socolorful.
Not just the pink, but just thevibrancy of all of the colors I
think was really well done.
And just the imagination behindit all.
So
Stephen (10:57):
all of Barbie land, they actually built, that wasn't
like the background c g I andthings.
Yeah.
But all the houses and thingswere built.
There was actually a temporaryshortage of pink paint in the
world because of how much pinkpaint they used on the movie.
That is awesome, Ken.
Discovering the patriarchy.
Steve (11:17):
Yes.
As much as you are not a hugefan of the patriarchy, you loved
the way that they
Stephen (11:22):
tackled this, it was really funny because, you know,
It's Barbie.
Yeah.
Like it's, it's
Steve (11:28):
Barbie.
She and it's
Stephen (11:30):
Barbie and Ken.
Yeah.
And Ken is always anafterthought.
And so Barbie's the mostimportant.
Like Ken doesn't really have alot of jobs in Barbie world.
He's, Barbie has all the jobs.
Yeah.
Steve (11:41):
He's the king of
Stephen (11:43):
beach.
Yeah.
And so he goes into the realworld and finds out that.
And would they both find outthat women don't run everything
in the real world and all of asudden Ken discovers that men.
Have more of the power andthat's
Steve (11:58):
how you get into that whole controversial, or like the
whole discussion about thepatriarchy and what it means to
be a woman and what it means tobe a man.
And I really love the way thatit was all handled
Stephen (12:06):
very well.
It really was.
And I want to see it
Steve (12:10):
again.
Yes.
Well, I'm sure we'll buy it whenit comes out.
Yep.
Yes.
And we also loved another veryqueer show.
Yes.
Stephen (12:18):
It was glamorous.
Yes.
From Netflix.
Steve (12:20):
Yes.
A comedy drama, Netflix seriescreated by Jordan Nino and
starring Kim Catrell and MissBenny.
It was released on June 22nd andthis year, and it follows Marco,
a young makeup enthusiast beinghired as a second assistant for
the beauty mogul.
Madison Addison.
Madeline Addison.
That's a tongue twister.
Why did the show make you so
Stephen (12:41):
happy?
Oh, I mean, so.
You know that I've read thebook, devil Wears Prada.
We've seen the movie Devil WearsPrada.
I loved all of it.
This is Devil Wear's PradaWithout Being Mean.
Yes, Kim.
Steve (12:58):
Kim Cattrall did a great job being that nice version, a
Stephen (13:01):
nice version of Miranda Priestly, like it's very clearly
a takeoff on Devil Ware's Prada.
But without as many.
Bad characters.
Yes.
And it just like the colors andthe show and the people and the
fun that they had and theinteractions, it's just a happy,
(13:24):
happy show.
Steve (13:25):
It definitely is a very happy show.
I mean, I love just having this,Benny being the, you know, with
being the role of Marco, thisqueer character that.
I wish I saw growing up I wasnever necessarily as queer, as
gay or as flamboyant, but I wishthat I knew that people like
that could exist in a worldwhere they're embraced and loved
like this.
Stephen (13:45):
This is the first big queer character that was not
made accessible for the masses.
It was not straight washed to bemore acceptable.
Yes.
And this is a big show where.
They don't hide from any topicabout queerness and things.
(14:05):
And I was like, yeah, you'reright.
This needs to be something thatmore queer teenagers can see no
matter where you fall in theLGBTQI A plus spectrum, Marco
and.
The other characters, even Ben.
Ben, absolutely.
And Chad, there's room for Chad
Steve (14:26):
too.
There's room for Chad who I wasall prepared to hate, but just
by the end he just warms yourheart because I know he's had
his own struggles.
Stephen (14:33):
They all had really great character.
Arcs the one that I was not asimpressed with.
Their character Arc.
Venetia Venetia.
Steve (14:42):
Like same.
Yeah.
But every series needs a kind ofvillain, I guess.
Stephen (14:46):
And that would be Venetia like.
F 100% Michael, who Sue Rosenhas been it's nice to see gay
geeks represented on tv.
Yes.
It doesn't all have to be gaysobsessed with fashion and
celebrities.
Sometimes gays are obsessed withsci-fi and that's okay too.
Yes.
Steve (15:06):
And what I also loved is, as much as I'm excited to see
where the journey for Marco goesfrom here, having his mother
Julia in the first season andhaving that relationship I feel
also really helped kind ofbalance the work life that we
got to see him having.
Absolutely.
Stephen (15:21):
And, and Marco wasn't one of those lead characters
where everything they do.
Is right and we're supposed tobe behind them.
There were definitely episodeswhere we're like, Marco, no, no,
no, no,
Steve (15:36):
no girl.
No.
Especially when it came to Ben.
Stephen (15:38):
Absolutely.
No there.
These are some life lessons andyou need to learn how to
apologize.
Steve (15:43):
Yes.
Like that type of stuff.
Those things we've all donebefore.
Yeah.
And this is probably entry 37 inour podcast, but how is Zelda
Tears of the Kingdom going foryou?
My life.
So
Stephen (15:55):
we are still trucking along in high rule.
It's been almost three fullmonths of me playing no other
game, but tears of the kingdom.
I'm still loving it.
Yes.
I still have so much left todiscover.
I completed the depths otherthan Gannon.
Mm-hmm.
Which I'm leaving till the end.
(16:16):
I have three completelyunexplored portions of the
Overworld map still.
I just got the master sword.
Mm-hmm.
I'm still loving it.
All this game is more than Icould have honestly hoped for
from a Legend of Zelda game, letalone a sequel.
I know.
It was very good.
Knowing that it's roughly thebreath of the wild area.
(16:38):
And then they were like, no, no,no, no, no.
We promise it's all gonna bebrand new.
And it was, yes, like, and likeI know that I'm playing at very.
O C, D and Completionist.
Yes, but I'm still looking at itgoing, how did you finish it in
a month?
I don't.
I know.
And I'm
Steve (16:57):
see, and I finished it with the map at the end, telling
me that I explored 60 somethingpercent of it.
I'm very excited to see how yourpercentage is compared to mine,
because if you get there and itsays something like 72%, I'm
gonna be like, that was notworth the payoff.
Stephen (17:12):
I will still, I, I know I'll be shocked if it's only
72%.
Yeah.
But I will still say that it'sworth the payoff because nothing
in me Yeah.
Is even ready for it to be done.
Like Excellent.
I think most likely by the endof August I'll be like, I'm
almost done.
Yeah.
(17:32):
But you have been playing one ofmy favorite series all the way
through and you just Startfinished the newest entry.
Yes.
Piman
Steve (17:42):
four Piman is a realtime strategy and puzzle video game
series created by Nintendo.
Shige.
Miyamoto and Piman themselvesare a hoard of plant-like
creatures that you collect tocollect objects and destroy
enemies like murder the planet'sspecies that normally murder
you.
Them.
Yep.
(18:02):
And just turn the world upsidedown on its head so that they
can help you collect juice ortreasure or plants or whatever
it is you need in
Stephen (18:07):
that game.
Yeah, and it's such a funseries.
For anyone that's not played it,you are you, no matter which
version of it is.
You are an interstellar explorerthat crash lands on a planet and
something happens where youeither have to find your missing
crew mates, repair your ship.
(18:29):
Both a mix of, yeah, a mix ofeverything.
Mix all of that.
And so you discover thesepickman that are going to help
you along the way becausePickman for being their size are
strong like ants and spiders,you know?
Yeah.
Being able to lift more thantheir weight.
So they're helping you collectfruit to make juice because your
(18:50):
species can subsist off of purefruit juice.
Or collecting treasures,collecting parts of your ship
and each game has gottenprogressively be better, whether
it's the game itself quality oflife, improvements, graphics,
especially.
What has been your favorite partof four?
Steve (19:13):
It's all of the, the extras and they kind of took all
the lessons that they learned.
They have the time crunch of oneas an optional side story.
After you beat the game, theyhave the dungeons that you call,
you know, caves or depths thatyou explore from two that made
that so iconic.
Mm-hmm.
It has.
The auto lock, which makes thegame so much more variable for
(19:36):
me.
I know people are like, I hateauto lock'cause it makes it
easy.
And I'm like, you don't need tospend like half the challenge
shouldn't be getting the controlto hit what you want it to hit.
Right?
And so I've just enjoyed all ofthat.
They've turned it into like acollect on where there's so many
different things to collect andbuild and people to save and
things to do.
Then I've just loved it.
I beat it through it.
Entirely once, and I'm near theend of beating it a hundred
(20:00):
percent without having a singlepickman die.
Stephen (20:02):
That's incredible.
Like I, so anybody that hasplayed it before knows this, but
if you haven't, so at the end ofthe day that in previous Pickman
games and also part of this, youcannot stay on the ground
because of.
Fierce creatures that will comeout after dark.
(20:23):
So you need to get the pickmanoff the ground and you need to
go back up into orbit or you'lldie.
And watching the pickman thatyou weren't able to get back to
their ship.
Before nightfall was always so
Steve (20:43):
soul ing and I'm watching them get eaten as they cry out.
Yes.
And die.
And you see their little ghostsgo up to the
Stephen (20:49):
heavens.
It kills me every time.
So you being able to do a runwhere no pigment of died, I'm
like, that's the dream.
I am their savior's.
The That's the dream.
Steve (21:00):
Yes.
Speaking of dreams, how is thedream of cocoa working on our
X-Men comics?
Stephen (21:05):
So yes.
For the past couple years, theX-men have been living on the
island that walks like a mancocoa instead of at the Xavier
Institute.
And they've had their owncountry, they are citizens of
cocoa.
They, they have, you know, theywere trying to live on their own
(21:27):
so that they're not as fearedand hated and persecuted.
They gave back to humanity.
And it did not work.
It has not worked because humansare like, no, we didn't want you
in our area, but we didn't wantyou to have your own area
either.
And anybody that is a minorityor an other, Knows.
Knows exactly what that's
Steve (21:48):
like.
Yes.
And so they've been teasing thefall of X for quite some time.
I know it was announced back inApril.
Promising devastating events atthis year's Hellfire gala that
will change our favorite mutantslives forever.
And we woke up very early.
To read it, was it worth
Stephen (22:05):
the, the buildup?
So the buildup, they've beendefinitely sprinkling it in
overtime with such things asBetsy Braddock, captain Britain
being unwelcome in the UKanymore.
Orcas, the human rightsorganization gaining more
traction.
Felon, one of the villains,taking the moon of Rocco,
(22:25):
formerly known as Mars.
Moira, who helped found cocoa isnow with.
Orcas.
We have some Nazi mutant twinsthat have been breaking into the
depths of cocoa to help
Steve (22:37):
orcas, multiple sinisters still
Stephen (22:39):
running around and things just keep inching closer
and closer to our belovedmutants, and they keep winning
and.
I know it makes for good story,but I'm like, damnit, can't the
mutants have a win?
I know.
Steve (22:54):
Well, they promised devastating did they
Stephen (22:56):
deliver?
So it was devastating for sure.
It was a punch in the gut and akick to the teeth from Nimrod's
entrance.
Yes.
Whoa.
Steve (23:05):
That panel.
And I saw it and I knew you werecoming up to it'cause you were
commanded on the new team.
And I was like, I'm gonna watchhis face.
Stephen (23:13):
Oh.
So we're not gonna say, in caseyou haven't read it.
To the last panel of the bookwhere Charles's job is no longer
beach.
It is no longer beach.
Nope.
It was one thing after another.
Orcas had been planning for eachmutant on the island and all the
scenarios and all of ourmutants, while always vigilant,
(23:34):
we're not prepared for thislevel of precision attack by the
humans like they thought outevery scenario.
And our mutants were notprepared.
So, question for you.
Yes.
After they were able to stop theinitial attack, gene was my
gene.
(23:54):
She was ready to do a fullpersonality wipe of all the
humans on the planet to makethem not hate mutants.
In your opinion, would that havebeen too far?
Or after everything that hasbeen happened to mutant since
they came on the scene, is it aforgivable and necessary
(24:18):
transgression at this point?
I.
Steve (24:21):
I would say that it definitely is a transgression
Yeah.
That I would forgive her for.
I mean, characters have doneworse than stupider things.
Yeah.
However, it's not something thatyour gene would do.
No, she,
Stephen (24:33):
but if that's what makes Gene, she was very angry.
Yeah.
Steve (24:36):
But I mean, if I had gene's, powers, I might do that,
but that's also why I don't havejean's.
Powers.
Stephen (24:42):
Yeah.
So she was going totelepathically.
Take away their
Steve (24:47):
hate.
Yes.
Which would be awesome if like,if, if while she's there, she
could just do that for all theminorities and everything and
just make the whole world abetter place with no hate.
I don't see, like,
Stephen (24:57):
hate is learned.
We know that.
Yes.
You don't, you're not
Steve (25:00):
born hating, so you're, you're just basically helping
unprogram what your horribleparents did to you
Stephen (25:05):
and the world at large.
And talking heads on the news,like, I, I, you know, I see that
and I'm like, oh.
Yeah, but then I'm also like,well if she can do that, then
what is stopping anybody elsefrom taking everybody else's
agency?
Like it's a double-edged sword.
(25:26):
It's definitely a deepdiscussion.
It didn't end up happeningbecause of Moira McTaggart a
Moira X.
But yeah, it's definitelysomething to think about and.
Mm.
So we're coming into what thefall of X is gonna be and here's
(25:47):
some things that I am interestedin seeing.
Obvious, obviously.
I mean, there's only up fromhere.
Yeah.
It can only get better.
Yeah.
One would hope so.
Jing Great ends.
In a very interesting way.
So it doesn't look
Steve (26:03):
good for Gina at the end of this.
It doesn't look, but we alsoknow that she has a series
coming out, so, so we know
Stephen (26:08):
that yeah, it's gonna go somewhere that isn't where
the Hellfire gala ended starfire is now a mole, A mole with
orcas in, orcas with, but jean'sthe only one that knows she's a
mole.
And while Jean is in the whitehot room, Everyone else thinks
that Angelic is a traitor, whichgoes into her character because
(26:32):
of her time with the Avengers,all the mutants considered her a
cop.
Yeah, so because she's neverbeen pro mutant until the last
year, I.
Steve (26:40):
Yes.
And the tables have turned onour little Miss Kate, who would
never be able to use the cogates, but now she can.
And
Stephen (26:47):
she's the only one that can.
And what does that mean?
I have no idea, but I'minterested to
Steve (26:51):
learn.
They're also making a hell of athing about Miss Marvel now
being the first ever mutant inhuman hybrid.
Yes.
Now,'cause one brand is failing,bring her to
Stephen (26:59):
the other one.
Well, we all know that whenKamala Khan, Ms.
Marvel was created over a decadeago, they originally wanted to
make her a mutant and they knewthat this was gonna be a popular
character and they were reallytrying to push the, in humans
instead of the mutants.
So they changed it to make inhumans more popular.
(27:21):
Now we have seen in the M C U TVshow Kamala Khans a mutant.
So it's gonna be interesting tosee on here.
How they handle the mutant inhuman hybrid.
And also does she have a mutantpower?
Because we know her in beginningand that's a word.
Is her inhuman power, does shehave a mutant power or
Steve (27:45):
do I know what her mutant power is?
What?
It's the light
Stephen (27:48):
disks.
Oh, from the show?
Yeah.
That's smart.
I like that.
Okay.
I think that could be fun toOrca said, You have to no more
human or mutants on the planet,or we start killing humans as
retribution.
Charles sent them all throughCoro and Gates.
(28:08):
I.
We don't know where they went.
They didn't go to ar Rocco.
Yeah.
So where do you think they
Steve (28:13):
went?
I mean, they're saying thatCharles killed them all, so I
don't think he did.
I don't think he did.
But it's possible.
Who knows?
I doubt that it just likespliced them out of existence.
They're probably in some orcaprison that I, I think billions
of people
Stephen (28:25):
now.
Orus Prison or some other likepocket reality.
Yeah.
Maybe that's what MotherRighteous was doing.
Yeah.
Who knows?
Will Xavier learn a lesson fromall this?
He never does.
And we know from the crossoverthat we had recently with the
Avengers and the X-Men.
(28:46):
Yeah.
And the externals that Storm andArco have one hour of Nuss
power.
Do they use it to take takeoutorcas or did they keep it in
their pocket for some time inthe future?
I would
Steve (29:00):
use it for orcas.
But again, I know that's kind ofagainst their whole, like don't
kill humans philosophy.
Stephen (29:05):
I think at this point we should change that being one
of the rules of gco.
Yes.
But it's
Steve (29:15):
gonna be, but if you all think of anything we talked
about on this
Stephen (29:18):
episode, let us know.
Let us know.
Anything you would like us tocover.
We're always up for suggestionsand recommendations like, Let us
know something that you enjoyed.
You're like, oh, I wanna hearyour thoughts on this.
We'd love to talk about it.
Steve (29:32):
Yeah, you can do that by emailing us at Happy Life
pod@gmail.com, or
Stephen (29:36):
you can get in touch with us on the socials, whether
that is Facebook, Instagram, orTwitter at Happy Life Pod.
Steve (29:44):
And until next time, everybody stay happy.
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