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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Enjoy the music we love without destroying your hearing. One
of the most pop podcast nerds podcast the features members
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of your favorite bands as we explore their love of
pop culture. I'm Roshaun Matt and this week I'm joined
by Wrath and JP of Cold Steel. Welcome to the show.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Thank you having this food, thank you.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
So stoked to have you guys on here. I'm ready
to see what you guys are into pop culture wise.
That's always the most exciting thing for me in this
show is being able to sit back and take what
you guys are into because I have no idea, and
that makes it so much more exciting for me.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
We'll tell you we saw that you offered the podcast
to throw to me on it, which, first off, thank you.
This is awesome platform. I've been listening on and off
for years, so awesome never on. But me and a
rap were like, okay, but what are we going to
talk about it? And then wrap It's just like okay,
(01:55):
I'm gonna figure this out. Hits me up the next
days like A have a list of every movie I've
watched ever and then five I think, so, what's the part,
Like if I can send you, I'll send you it.
But like, that's why this is our first podcast. Give
us grace. But we are here to have fun. Yeah,
we're just so happy to be here.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Amazing, that's all this is all this is here for
is to have fun and to be able to like
talk about the stuff that we love while interjecting with
the coesion that is music that has brought us in.
It's a it's a it's a beautiful, beautiful thing. And now,
whether a first time listener or you've been tuning in,
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us and also media at metal Core Nerds. Now, before
again the pop culture talk, We're gonna kick off the
show like we do every week with the Metal Core
Nerds Song of the Week, and the song of the
week this week is from the band A Sense of Purpose.
This is their latest single, The Wounds We share.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Jey Brat, that's a bright guys, that's our side story,
man our stuff, Bay side show, A fry.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
So fell fry.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Why fill.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
To so So.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Stone to the state the son No s so lot
sid s s shot so look s son like sid So.
Speaker 6 (04:51):
Time so lot sun not sun sun shot, so said,
so said sid.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
So.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
I got.
Speaker 7 (05:30):
So that I so.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Try, I said, I So, I said, I said the
loud chester.
Speaker 6 (05:53):
So So.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Sad so sad.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Again.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
That was a sense of purpose with their latest single,
The Wounds We Share. That is the title track off
their new EP, which you can go check out right now.
So if you like we heard of that single, make
sure you go check out the rest of the EP.
If for more music recommendations, you can check out the
Metal Corner Its pull the Spotify playlist. You can find
the drug links of the show notes below. I add
to it every single day, so if you're looking for
some new music, maybe find some bands you've never heard
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of before that you might like.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
So go check it out.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Since I've kind of revamped the show and changed it
in the last few months, the main thing I start
the episode on is diving deep into how the guests
got into pop culture, like what made them fall in
love with TV in movies? So JP will go to
you first, what is your pop culture organ story very early.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
I think I've lived in five years old. The first
thing I remember watching myself was well, obviously as a kid,
you know, you watch your cartoons, you watch your sponge Bob,
your account Chicken, like the classics and yeah, now considered
(07:26):
a vintage. But I remember the first time we went
to the movie theater. I was five, and it was
the French Slow Christmas and Game Over. Like, movie theater
experiences are just so like essential, and so it brings
something different to my heart while I watch a movie
(07:47):
in theaters compared to you know, watching your netflixes and
all that. So that was like the start of me
loving movies. But like you know, I'm not the most
specific person. I'm not gonna tell you each person that
was in a movie or something like that, unless it's
like Firs of being a Wallflower that was like my
(08:07):
emo movie that like would hurt my heart the real
first time on my own accord. But yeah, no, I
love movies when it comes to TV late, like when
it was first starting, it was definitely like Cartoon Network Nickelodeon,
and then Eddie is like one of the greatest cartoons ever.
Pungebob is godd Like there's no debate that could be
(08:31):
brought to that. And then my brother was a huge
comic guy, so he had like the graphic novels for Visa, Vendetta, Watchman, Batman,
cat Woman and all that sort of stuff. So like, yeah,
I have a broad spectrum of stuff that I've ended
up loving. So yeah, I'm very broad. I'm not picky
(08:53):
about stuff I watch unless it's like dolls. No you
all you know?
Speaker 1 (09:01):
With dolls, I.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
I went, I went to therapy about it. There.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
It was a short thing.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
I went. I needed it, dude. It was just like
I would have nightmares about dolls. Man. It was like
no toy soldier, No, no, no, that was fine, but
like Chunky and my dad woke me up with Chucky
in my face.
Speaker 8 (09:23):
It was traumatized, traumatized. It was done from the get go, man.
So yeah, I got a doll like that. Man, though,
like I love horror, I love my comics. I love
four movies, comedy like.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
All that, you know.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Damn, Okay, no dolls noted noted noted on the no dolls. Okay,
you mentioned SpongeBob. Have you guys gotten the Bikini Bottom
album treatment yet?
Speaker 6 (09:53):
No?
Speaker 2 (09:53):
No, I want that do you know what that is.
So there's somebody on Instagram or Facebook that pitch albums
and has them restylized to be in like Bikini Bottom,
so to be like random characters or teams or like
actually SpongeBob like in the covers of these things. One
day that you know, that's the mate it moment.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
By the way, Yes, that would be one that right
now that's gonna happen. To make that happen, because that
is that's a pinnacle moment. That's that's like you're like, oh,
we've made it, We're here. Yes, raft What about you?
What was the catalyst for you getting into TV movies?
Speaker 9 (10:38):
So pretty much like JP said, you know, you kind
of grow up with all the cartoons all that good stuff.
Another thing for like pop culture, I guess was my
dad was. My dad and my my uncle are super
heavily into pac Man. Like one quarter would last an
hour or two maybe, so we had to say a
genesis and they would constantly just be going back and
forth on it growing up and like getting on later
(11:01):
into life. I was like, oh, you know, like this
game looks really fun. Started playing that a bunch. He
also then took me to see Daredevil in the movie
theaters with Ben Affleck and Colin Curll, and that was
top tier at that moment.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
I was like, what, this guy who's blind is just
fighting crying.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
What the hell is going on?
Speaker 9 (11:19):
And like Jap kind of said, you know, it's like
when you're in the movie theater, you really dive into
the experience and are like merged into what's happening in
front of you. Really but yeah, and then later on
in life, I started picking a pick like I would
always watch like Comedy Central and there would be a
bunch of comedy movies just streaming on there, like Tommy Boy,
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Black Sheep, a lot of Chris Barley stuff at the time,
and those were like always to go to at that moment.
And then you know, you get into like the whole
horror genre and everything, and unfortunately for JP, but I
love Chucky and the Bride of Chucky and the Seda Chucky.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
That was my ship back then.
Speaker 9 (11:56):
I wasn't a little scared, but I was like, this
is this is tolerable. I thowt Thirteen Ghosts later on
and I was like, don't you ever put that shit
on my TV?
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Again?
Speaker 7 (12:06):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Gone, you couldn't find me if that was ongirl go
no game open?
Speaker 1 (12:15):
That was.
Speaker 9 (12:17):
But yeah, and then I kind of started getting more
indulged from there on out with just kind of like
browsing through different genres of like because like I said,
I told you like I was like heavily into comedy
movies and then came the dramas m dramas before and
everything else with it, and then you kind of like
start to branch out and develop what you really like personally.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
So that was really nice.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
So have you revisited that Daredevil since you were younger? No?
Speaker 2 (12:45):
No, we were actually just talking about it is something it.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Is something that's accurate. It is something I would say,
don't yeah that keep that memory cherished to you and
you don't ever watch it.
Speaker 9 (13:02):
That's what happened to be with this one movie what
is it called, I'm blanking on it. But it's like
if you die in the game, you die in real life.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
There's so much alive stay alive, I think for staying alive.
Speaker 10 (13:17):
But yeah, I saw even the movie theaters and I
was like, oh my god, this is such a cool concept.
Oh my goodness, I love this movie. And I tried
to revisit it and I was like, you know, I
want to I want to be in that nostalgic mode.
And five minutes and I was like, I can't. This
is a little too corny. Yeah, then definitely don't watch it.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Definitely do not, do not even try. Have you watched
the like the Charlie Cox version that that was started
on Netflix when I was continued in the MCU. If
you watch that version, Oh.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Need to watch me? Watch that. Jessica Jones. Oh yeah, dude, Christmas.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Yeah, Jessica Jones Season one, Top ten top.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
It's so exciting that because that all existed, it happened.
It was great when it was on Netflix, but then
when it got canceled and then Disney bought all that stuff,
the fact that now it's just continuing on like a
decade later is the coolest thing. Now Christian Rider's back,
It's it's so rad. I'm so stoked. I I will
bet money that both Finn Jones and My Culture are
(14:27):
also in season two, and I just think they're kind
of holding back that the Christian Rider was probably announcement
to be like, yeah, don't worry, like we'll get you
a little like little taste. Yeah, but it's so it's
so cool. And John Berthall's Punisher, which he has introduced
in Daredevil season two, is so insanely incredible. It's it's
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it's just like it's grounded, it's dark. It is so good.
Definitely watch those.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
That is weren't the subscription of Disney alone, Like, yeah,
you're gonna watch Punisher and be like, I'm want to
be the soundtrack for that more man like the Station
Police fat like first Punisher and that was the movie
was super.
Speaker 5 (15:15):
Oh yeah and that was by the way, yeah man,
So I can only imagine how the show because they
developed it so many later.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
That maybe another Daredevil moment. But what the movie with
Thomas Jane right, Yeah, probably the poily water scene definitely
holds up past that thing. But there's a whole scene
where he like it.
Speaker 9 (15:39):
Goes onto like I think the peering's getting shot at
and his cars like I should sick cars all decked
out and he's like, yeah, I watch the show, watch
the show. I promise you'll get it.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
You'll get especially since he said they like he was
introduced the dude like they're all in.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Yeah, it's it's stuff, very very good stuff. The mcun
made a really smart decision with not recasting them all
and just continuing it on in a way that feels
like fresh, but there's still all that storied past and
everything too. Like the new version, you could you could
honestly jump right in and they kind of lay out
everything for you. But there's definitely there's definitely some things
(16:19):
you'll kind of be like, oh, I don't get the
full context of this. It's like, yeah, because there was
three seasons of a series before, you know, it's one
of those things where you would get more out of
it if you have watched it, but you can definitely
watch it without it, but I would recommend just watching
all of it. I rewatched all of Daredevil's one through
three before the new season came out, and it definitely
holds up. It is so so, so so good. It's
(16:42):
funny because like I did the same thing because like
obviously I grew up when Tom maguire Spider Man was
coming out, you know, the X Men were coming out
and revisiting like Spider Man. One I don't think is
that it's like a very fine movie, especially in the
eyes of knowing what superhero movies are now. Yeah, You're
I was like, I was like, this movie is like
(17:03):
when people are like, yeah, Raymi movies are the best
Speramn movies, I'm like, Speraman two's up there, but the
rest of them definitely not the same. With X Men one,
I was like, this movie is not good. This movie
is not X two still pretty solid. Yeah, the problem
with those movies is obviously, Hugh Jackman's a great wolfing
(17:23):
and they center the franchise around him because he became
like the standout star of them. But they are not
good X Men movies. They're they're pretty solid X Men
and cast movies, but they are nice then movies, and
that's like the issue with that. But if you want
some X Men stuff, watch X Men ninety seven because
that shit fucking.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Oh dude, oh, it's like a perfect extension of the cartoon,
perfect extension like the original cartoon. Like the video games,
I was playing a chucky cheese X Men yep, that man,
Like that's I think everything they've been doing on Marvel
(18:03):
has been very, very impressive. I think the Punisher, like
we're not gonna talk about hinding Fast, but that whole
Defender's idea was like when it comes to show media
on Netflix.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
That was the game Changerous Punisher is a big year.
Next year, Dared worn against Sason two, he gets his
own special on Disney Plus, and then he's in Spider
Man Big. So it's gonna be we Got, we Got.
(18:40):
I'm gonna hold you see that. I'm gonna hold you
to the Defenders versus.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Watch at my house out of stream.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
This is content right here.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Now.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
We know where you guys started in your dream, but
I want to know you guys are watching now. What
have you currently been watching, Whether it's last few weeks,
last few months, even this year entirely for TV and movies,
there's been a lot. So many people are like, you know,
I don't think there's I don't think it's impossible to
run out of things to watch at this point. Even
as me as someone who consumes a lot of things
all the time, there's still things on my list that
(19:19):
I need to watch constantly always. It's a never ending
battle that will never be satisfied, and I kind of
like it that way. But rafflestar with you, what have
you been watching recently? Oh?
Speaker 9 (19:30):
Man, mine's a little not me, but it's more in
the past, I guess because I'm like I just loved
like the whole reality show aspect of like the two
thousands and shit. So like I've been like I've been
going back to the Jersey Shore Originals like season one
and on, like, oh are my fucking favorite bro I used.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
To love Hilarious so much. I like loved inco Master,
even though the first few seasons the tattoos are so
not even good, like the tattoos, no shade to anyone
who's at Tattooers in the first season making matters. I
remember being right, these guys aren't even good, Like where
did you get these people? Like, what the hell is
going on?
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (20:16):
I just finished up the studio that was Let's Go.
You already know is phenomenal. Yeah, yeah, they do so
much with.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
What they.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
I've never seen anything like that in my life. Ben
and I expected to come from Ben Stiller, like writing.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Well, he's he directs it, he doesn't write it. I
know he's right, Okay, I think he's a producer as well,
so I think he is creatively involved. Yeah, he's he's
he's kind of It was like the big name attached
to it when it first came out, But Dan Erickson
is the guy who came up the idea and is
like the main writer of the show. He really hasn't
done much other than that, to be honest, it's kind
(21:01):
of wild that he just came out and is doing this.
I think there's like this crazy story of how he
was just like a normal dude and then you know
he came up with the idea for like the biggest
show on TV right now.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Yeah, I heard that.
Speaker 9 (21:13):
He was like He's like, yeah, I'm not even if
I could just like not remember going home pretty much,
or like not remember going to work and not having
to deal with it.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
And then he's like as soon as they walk out,
and then he put the.
Speaker 9 (21:27):
Paper and clo Wow, Like what a big concept. I
gotta look I gotta look that up. I gotta give
that show proper diligence.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Proper.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Yeah. They have a really cool podcast that Ben Stiller
and Adam Scott host and they do it like episode
by episode, and they usually have a guest from someone
who was on the show or worked on the show
or or something of that nature, and they go upisode
by episode and give like really behind the scene look
looks at like how they made the episode and everything
like that. It's if you want to dive super deep,
(21:59):
that's definitely, that's definitely what you do that. I haven't
listened to all of them, but I've listened to a
few of them, and they're they're very very cool. Like
they have the guy on who did the score and
they talk about how they first like started crafting that
idea of the score and stuff like that. It's it's
really really really cool what they do on that podcast.
(22:19):
I mean, I love things like that. Like obviously, like
I wouldn't do a thing like this if I wasn't
into finding out how like the nuts and bolts of
of how this stuff works. But that one's a very
very cool if you're like super into that show, like
like that's the thing to definitely to definitely watch you.
I I that's my favorite show of the year. And
I've watched so many shows this year.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
And that and that.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
And that came out in the beginning of the year
and nothing is stopped it.
Speaker 9 (22:49):
That's why I had to jump to the studio because
like that ended up in the studio like started like
right after and I was like, WHOA, thank god, something
that saved me from the depths of depression from it
ending on the craziest.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Yeah, that's a different kind of anxiety the Studio gives you,
but it's it's mostly comedic anxiety.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Yes, So for those who haven't watched it, what you're
missing out on the end is that I'm not gonna.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
That just gave me.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
That was good. That was really good. What I love
about The Studio is that seth Rogen's character. Every episode
you're like, what the fuck are you doing? Just stop
doing what you're like, just stop, just stop being you.
You're like the worst. But that that show is great.
It's it's funny because it's like I feel like I
didn't love it as much as a lot of people
(23:37):
loved it. Not saying I didn't love it, but like
a lot of people gave it like super high. It
deserves high praise, but it's kind of in the the
top middle of my rankings of show of the year.
Not to say that it's not good. I think that
show is amazing and like actually super well crafted. But
it's a show I watched and I was like, if
they made endless seasons of this, I would be there
(23:58):
for every season, every single season, Like, please make like
twenty seasons of this show because it's just so fun
and so like it. It is like a and it's
like a fresh take on stuff, like even like meta
commentary stuff which happens kind of in everything, especially nowadays,
Like meta commentary is a very big thing that people
like to capitalize on, and that something about like insider
(24:22):
Hollywood stuff can be a very niche thing that might
not appeal to the mass audiences. But then it, you know,
swept at the Emmys, like obviously it was a massive hit.
And I truly think that Seth Rogan thought this would
not be like one of his most successful ventures. It
was something I think he really just wanted to do
and it seemed like it was, yeah, like a super
(24:43):
passion project. And you know like he did it with
all of his friends and got some of the most
crazy cameos and like cameos of people being themselves, not
even like acting, well some people are acting as themselves,
but you know what I mean, Like having Martin source
s CAZy get a guesting acting nom acting as himself
is crazy.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
His idea for the movie, and then you have to
like show this essentially like he's like I think I
just showed Martin Scor's last film ever.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
It's so funny because like the conversation of that too
of like kool Aid being like a Jonestown story. I'm
like I would watch that movie and then then being like,
kool Aid's not gonna be down for this. Kool Aid
is like the villain of the story. It's so good.
It's like it's incredible stuff.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
It's about it that's gonna make those millions, right, Like.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Yeah, obviously every episode is kind of a singular thing,
but the kool Aid thing is like the ongoing plotline
of that of season one, and just seeing the like
how that progresses is also amazing. I definitely think that
movie is gonna it's so funny seeing things happen in
real life and people just being like, this is an
episode of the Studio and it happens quite often unfortunately,
(26:01):
but you know what it is, it is what it is.
It's it's pretty funny. It's pretty pretty funny.
Speaker 9 (26:06):
Like this where they go to like the Golden Globes
or like the Emmys and his friend is just getting
like all the nomine or like just getting all the
praise and things. He's not even anybody important in there,
Like he's like Seth Rogan is the director who directed
all these movies, and instead of the praise going to him,
it's going to his friend's house.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
So everybody who gets the Golden glob is like, you
know what I want to think?
Speaker 1 (26:29):
So Separsine, someone asked him too, and they're like, why
didn't you think South Celepristine and your acceptance speeches because
he did like five acceptance speeches that because they won
so much. And then he had like a really good answer.
He's like, that would take away from the bit of
the show. But then Apple, I don't know if they've
made an actual billboard or if it was just like
an online thing, but it was a billboard and like
the classic Apple, like all Black and like the clean
(26:53):
fought And I said thank you, cell Saproscine after they
won all those Emmys, and I was like, that's amazing. Raff.
Is there anything else you've been watching?
Speaker 2 (27:00):
More current too? That's pretty much it. I got caught
up on the U series and that was.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
I just finished season three after like I think I
watched season one, season two like as I came out
and then just stopped watching because I think I always
fall behind on Netflix stuff because I hate how Netflix
does things. I hate binge drops and I just forget
about it, you know, and then people talk about it
for like a second, and then it's gone and then
no one ever talks about it again, and I usually
(27:28):
forget about it unless it's like a big series or
a series I really like, so that when I fell off,
but then recently I went and watched finish season three.
Season three is pretty wild. That the one was love right,
so when we're yeah, him and Love moved to like Suburbia.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Yeh, that one was crazy and the whole ending from that.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
It's so funny because usually when I'm watching like TV,
my wife's like reading or doing something else. But lately
there's stuff that I'll put on that I like, I
know she'll get hooked into if I put it on
ye that I was watching, and she's like, damn it,
I'm invested.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Happen with me. My roommate at the time was binge
watching it on the couch and I was like coming
back and forth in the living room and outside and everything,
and I.
Speaker 9 (28:11):
Like stopped and I got hooked at one scene and
I'm like admiring, Like he's like, Okay. At first, I
didn't like how they do the whole swirld aspect around
the person to really focus in on the person.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
But on my line, it drew me. Yeah, and then
I got hooked and I was like, damn, what is
this again? Yeah? I don't have that.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Yeah, it's it's hard because it's it's the classic case
of kind of everyone involved is terrible human beings. I mean,
obviously the main character is kind of like a social
pathical murder murderer, so obviously, but he has this weird,
like redeeming likable quality to him where you're kind of like,
just like I kind of like I kind of like
(28:56):
this guy, but I don't. It's it's such a wild
you like, yeah, like what the are you doing? He's
also a creep and a psychopath and and awful.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Yeah, that was my thing. I only watched two episodes
and I was like that, dude's weird.
Speaker 7 (29:14):
The main character, you know that three even I'm good
for now, I will think, yes, it went for five,
so kind of like yeah, five.
Speaker 9 (29:27):
Kind of like a dexter in a tense where you're like, oh,
I didn't know what's gonna happen, but you're like, how
does he go through with this?
Speaker 2 (29:34):
How does how does he get out of this as well.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
It definitely is very similar to Dexter, but Dexter at
least has like a moral center and this love this guy, JP,
What do you what have you been watching?
Speaker 2 (29:50):
I'm in a couple of different quadrants lately. So okay,
you brought up the studio and Severance, and I think
the closest thing in that realm I was watching was Adolescence.
That show, it's like a three or four part show.
I think it's a kid that gets rested in the
(30:10):
first episode. Basically they want so many Emmy's each each
episode is one shot and yeah, one thing, one thing,
and it is brilliantly produced. The acting from I forget
the young kid, but yeah, first thing he's properly in
(30:33):
and he's like it was daunting because it speaks a
lot to like a toxic masculinity and trying to have
that represented towards you, in their case, their child and realizing, oh,
this person actually committed one of the worst crimes they
can possibly commit, was trying to lie to get out
(30:54):
of it, and then gets caught on the film and
then you see the moment of the father finding out
farther his kid is a criminal and it's just like
distraught beyond beliefs that still gives him his love. It
still gives inim love still like tries and nurture, Yeah,
get nurtured through the jail system and all that and
(31:16):
the way everything's portrayed, that show was immaculate. So that's
like my favorite show. I want to make sure I
mentioned that show because it's.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Crazy because the parts are like forty five minutes long,
and yeah, one take, it's crazy.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
The thing.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
The opening scene is the police coming into the house
and arresting this kid. That's the opening scene. And it
follows like the cops coming in the door, going up
the stairs, the parents being like what the hell is
going on? It's like and that's not giving anything away.
That's like literally the opening scene first and it's and
it's crazy how that And it's not like single I
think the second episode might be a single location. It's
(31:54):
like him and the Him. It's like the boy and
like a behavioral therapist I think. And that's like kind
of single location. But a lot of them they like
they go in cars and they go to places and
stuff and all one take, Like it's crazy because the
studio almost every episode is shot in one take too.
Seth Rogan has kind of talked about that. He's like
(32:14):
the editing's really easy because he's like, there's not many edits.
It's everything's kind of like in chunks of one takes.
Like those are like half hour episodes and not all
of them are one take. I think that the one,
the one called the Ononer, is shot in one take,
but these are like kind of like mini movies all
shot in a single take. And that's because if you
think about it, if one person is off, if one
(32:36):
kind of like moving part is off, you got to
start over from square one. So like imagine getting like
ninety five percent of the way and then like messing
up and going That's like that's.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
The stress of that.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
I cannot fathom. It's it's crazy, But that's a that's
a great great show.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
Great show that one when.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
A lot of stuff got a lot of acclaim and
it's all very warranted.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
And definitely and I I could only mention one more
thing about it, because the main guy is Steven Graham. Graham, yes,
Stephen Graham. He is from Liverpool, and I'm a soccer guy,
so football soccer guy. I've been watching Liverpool for a decade.
(33:22):
We I consider them the best team in the world
now and if there's a TV on my screen, I'm
probably watching Liverpool. I know sports aren't necessari that it's
kind of it, but if I started, I'm not getting
the jersey again. I wanted to go to Jersey right
over here, but like it's because I'm a flag of
(33:43):
another team because they came here for preseason in Tampa,
that's all. But it's like I represent one team, one
team only Liverpool. It is like ritualistic in England, you know.
Speaker 8 (33:53):
What I mean.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
I will not so, but I want to bring to Liverpool.
That is like outside of music, that's the one passion.
Like the next passion I have is football and watching
Liverpool play, like understanding the coach's tactics behind each player
that he utilized field like I didn't expect it to
(34:16):
hit me the way that I did when I was younger.
Like just watching like the Sidemen on YouTube, you know
what I mean, just them playing face and videos and
helping impacts and then me falling in love with the
sport way more than anything in America. Like I didn't
just pay it at all, but yeah, best in the World.
So there's those two and then really back in a
(34:39):
it shows based on video games. So the main two
that I watched recently were Halo and Splinter Cell Depth Watch.
So Halo I tried watching it when it first came
out of Paramount, but then the first episode you see
Messa Chiefs.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
I remember, I remember people being very upset about it.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
It's a subscription, like I put, that's sacrilege. I grew
up playing Halo. Like I almost failed out of high
school for playing Halo in my computer class. Straight up.
I had to do night school. I had to do
five different classes on top of my regular classes because
I love Jlo too. That is like video Yeah, and
(35:26):
you can't start a show of Halo and show Master
Chiefs Stace. It is sacrilege. That's why I don't like
the Manian Man. Don't get me started. But that's the
way you should have done it.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
That's what I'm saying. It's like I can get being
like scared or something, but the Mandalorian literally had PA
when Patri Mescott first begin man learn he wasn't as
big as he is now obviously, but he's taking his
helmet off like twice in like three seasons for like
a scene, like a scene, you know what I mean,
Like no, and I think the dude took a comet
(36:00):
off like multiple times, like a lot.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
Play around the amount of times on Pedro took the
helmet off. That's the amount of times home Boy puts
the helmet on. From after Gi you don't fight enough.
They fights more with the thing. So it's just like
you're not supposed to know, bro, I'm not supposed to
know the guy behind the helmet ever ever. And then yes,
(36:24):
but then basically it came onto the Netflix like this month,
so I was like, Okay, I'm gonna give it. It's great.
I'm gonna try it because it's Halo Universe. I love it.
I played almost every one of them. I have to
give it a chance. And it's okay. Yes, they do
the Arbiter dirty in the last season they put up
(36:46):
because the Arbiter is supposed to be so sick from
Halo three, you know what I mean, Like he's supposed
to be in depth, a proper character that he just
gets his ass whip and then they just go and
find a terminal I guess at the end. And I'm
just like everything in between just let me know that,
like within one vision, within two seasons and just everything
(37:08):
in between, just say hit the same. So I was like, yeah,
you know. On the other hand, Split Yourself death Watch
is really good. It's it's an animating right, yeah, yes,
and it's super good. It's like twenty thirty minute episodes.
You watch it quick like a date to lots of season.
They just announced the second one. But yeah, I used
(37:30):
to play like splay yourself back in the day with
my family, and I remember, like just before freshman year,
we went up to New York to visit at the
Man Cast in my family, like my boy's Realthy and
Elijah and all that. I just want on a tangent anyway, Yeah,
that's all we did. We would play splay our Cells
the whole time, and I just remember, like you would
(37:51):
see the lighting system in those games and just be
blown away. Back in the day, Like in two thousand
and eight, they're doing visuals for video games that would
come out today and would have hit just the same. Yeah,
perfect video game visuals for Stealth Combat and the show
the action in it and the way they portray of
(38:14):
the actual splinter cell process. So simple, so good. Loved it.
They put a simple story, which isn't perfect in my eyes,
but I thought it was very much worth watching and
very entertaining, So yeah, I wanted to bring that.
Speaker 1 (38:29):
The trailer for that one looked really cool. I've never
played splinter Cell at all, but I was like, Oh,
that's that's cool. It's a cool trailer. It's it's hard
because it's like video game adaptations have gone comes such
a long way, even in the last few years, you know,
even with live action ones like with like.
Speaker 2 (38:45):
Fallout or The Last of Us Wanted the Last of.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
Us, you know, So it's it's cool to see that
kind of keeping like that move that wave to keep
moving in a positive momentum, because there's definitely some that
are not good even still coming out. So it's it's
cool to see some because like a lot of Netflix
anime stuff, I feel like, is it's hard to say underrated,
(39:10):
because some, like a lot of their original anime and
stuff are massive. But like I remember, like they had
it was like Terminator zero came out last year or
the year before.
Speaker 2 (39:19):
Yes, yes, And we watched that at the Airbnb while
we're recording the full length record literally watching that. Whoa immaculate,
so good.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
I was so shocked. I was like, this, this will
be cool, right, I was like, this will be cool.
And I watched it. I was like, whoa, this is.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
So much further than my expectations for they.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
I think they they did with that franchise has been
trying to do, I think for far too long, and
they finally did it in a way. That and the
guy who the guy who wrote that is the guy
who co wrote The Batman Part two, which I'm like, let's.
Speaker 2 (40:01):
Go oh, because that first Batman was a header. Robert
Pattinson's Batman is.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
A great, pretty good ship, very very very very good ship.
There's a show I need to talk about. So I
got to see the first five episodes of it. Welcome
to darry Early.
Speaker 2 (40:21):
That's Sick and the Blood, like the first Advertiser.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
Yeah, I think like the first actual trailer just came out,
and this series rules in the kind of I don't.
I don't think. There's there's no so, there's no like
stuff it's being adapted from. It's like it's like a
news story or adding more to the story, I guess,
is way more to put it. It takes place mostly
in nineteen sixty two, but there is some points that
(40:51):
take place in nineteen oh eight, and there's some references
to some stuff that happened in nineteen thirty five, which
obviously is that twenty seven year gap when Pennywise comes
and you know, like unleash's hell on this poor little
New England town. I will say the pilot of this
series is one of the most impressive pilots I've seen
(41:13):
all year. It it just like it and the thing
about it is nothing. The opening scene is wild, but
after that it kind of takes its time to kind
of like flesh out this new cast of characters where
they are in the time and place of Dairy and
but within that like kind of slow burn it has
(41:34):
in each episode, it has like pure nightmare fuel of
penny Wise taking over these characters and the creativity of
how they've done it with this series compared to like
the movies, which I think those Chapter one and Chapter
two are awesome, but what they bring in this series
is so wild and gross and awesome, and I'm really
(41:58):
stoked to see how it ends because I think it's
really great. It adds so much lore to why penny
Wise is penny Wise and there's like this subplot with
the military that I did not think would work, but
as it goes along, it really ties in together. It
really nice, and just the lore of how this all
(42:20):
came about is so sick, and I was really impressed
with the world building it does and the storytelling it does,
and like obviously it's like and it starts off kind
of like the movie a kid goes missing. A group
of kids get together and try to figure out why
this kid went missing, and they all start having these visions,
but it still feels new and fresh and like they're
(42:40):
adding a different spin to it, a different flare to it.
And it definitely tackles like race, like obviously in the
time in the nineteen sixties, and they tackle that pretty
head on, which I think is important. And there's definitely
because the whole thing with Stephen King books is they
all exist in the same universe, and there's definitely some things.
If you're a big Stephen King fan, you're like, oh, okay,
(43:05):
that's cool, and it's stuff that you don't even realize
until it kind of fleshes out and you're like, oh, wait,
that's why this is happening. Holy shit. So definitely watch
this series when it comes out comes out October twenty six,
after Task is over. That's I think when this airs.
I think the first episode will be out, So definitely
(43:26):
check out it. Welcome to Darry if you're an IT fan,
if you're a horror fan. And a good thing about
this too is even if you haven't watched the movies,
you can go in and watch this and be able
to enjoy everything that goes along and then even watch
the movies after or if you have watched the movies,
there's a lot of stuff that's going to be definitely
familiar to you that you're like, oh, that's how that connects. Cool.
(43:46):
So prequel things can be very hit or miss, you know,
and a lot of them can feel pointless or not needed.
But this one is definitely doing the work to make
it feel like it was a story that should be
told rather than just like a thing to be made.
And the last thing I'll say about it, there's a
lot of series, especially nowadays in the streaming era, where
(44:09):
you know, a lot of seasons went to like six
episodes or eight episodes or whatever. At the end episode five,
I feel like, wow, we're in such a good spot.
A little halfway through, Like if there was like even
one more episode, I feel like they could probably flesh
everything out. But the fact that there's three episodes left,
I'm even more excited to see how it culminates because
it definitely didn't end in a keynote, but like, where
(44:30):
we are at and the story is way further along
than I anticipated, especially in like watching a lot of
series nowadays, it feels like a really fleshed out story
that was broken up into key moments. So big kudos
to the team behind it. Welcome to Darry. It's really
really dope and I highly recommend it when it comes out.
Speaker 9 (44:54):
Character development and the storytelling behind it was kind of
like a slow really filled up those people in the
moments and the a combination of things that happened to
them to get to that point. That's really nice that,
like you said, it is like I can appreciate the
slow brands because you do need those like character development
and like understanding of who the character is, where they
came from the background, et cetera. So to like hear
(45:17):
that part too, where it's like, oh, yeah, we're so
much more further ahead than I thought we would be
at just episode five is so sick to hear.
Speaker 1 (45:25):
Yeah, and they don't. They don't overuse penny Wise at all.
And the big thing about penny Wise is he's like
an alien creatures that land on Earth and feeds on fear.
And he's a shape shifting alien. That's like his whole thing.
And I know in the books he like shape shifts
into like a lot of famous like monster creatures like
(45:47):
Dracula and Frankanstein stuff like that. Obviously they can't do
that because of rights. They could do versions of it, probably,
but this show does definitely lean into like using different
forms to scare the person in particular, Like I said,
there's a few things like I'm waiting to get tied up,
but like there's a lot of time to tie those up,
(46:08):
which is which is really really cool, very very cool series.
On the other side, though, I watched this movie on
Apple TV Plus called All of You, and I remember
the trailer coming out and me being really stoked because
Brett Goldstein is one of the stars of the movie
and then as I'm as it comes up, I saw
that he co wrote it, which he If you don't
(46:30):
know Brett Goldstein, he is Roy Kent and Ted Lasso.
He was also a writer on ted Lesso, and he
was a writer on Shrinking, and he also is a
character in Shrinking as well. But he's like a very
good comedic and dramatic writer and a great great actor.
And Amogan Poots is also in this movie. Yeah, she's
been in like that awkward movie, which is kind of
(46:52):
like it's wild because that movie has to be like
ten to fifteen years old, which is crazy. But like
Miles tell her, aboul Be Jordan r On that before
they were like super super big. It's a great, great movie.
If you haven't watched that moment, definitely watched that. But
so and the premise of it is that there's this
new technology that will help you find your soulmate. So
like a lot of people in the world are doing
(47:13):
this to find their soulmate. They get together whatever, and
it opens with Bratz Goldtein's character taking Imogan Poots their
best friends, and he pays for her to get this thing,
and you can tell that there's kind of like that
it's like that classic best friend story, but you know,
like they're in love with each other, but she gets
a soul maate that someone else she marries that soul
(47:33):
maate and the interesting plot device it does is it
keeps jumping forward in time, so you kind of have
to like catch up to where they are in their
lives and eventually, obviously they get together, but the circumstances
of how they get together A Moogan Poot's character in
the movie I absolutely hate. I think she is an
awful human being, and that's what ruined the hireary for me,
(47:56):
because I was like, this doesn't work because she sucks.
Speaker 2 (47:59):
She Yeah, that makes them good. Last of Us too,
that's like that.
Speaker 1 (48:06):
But with the Last of Us two, there's a relatability
to you understand certain things they.
Speaker 2 (48:10):
Does not have that you don't have. That in that
I guess dam no.
Speaker 1 (48:16):
So it was a big bummer because I'm like a
massive Berg Goldstein fan, and me seeing in the opening
credits like, oh he co wrote it, I was like,
let's go. This movie is going to destroy me. And
then it ended. I'm like, cool, it was?
Speaker 9 (48:30):
It was.
Speaker 1 (48:31):
It was probably I've watched around fifty movies.
Speaker 2 (48:33):
From this year.
Speaker 1 (48:34):
It was one of the most disappointing movies I watched
all year, which is crazy because Apple TV TV shows
are almost like nine times ten Killer the movies, though
mostly bad. Codo was great. F One that came out
this year, which was also a Warner Brothers movie, was incredible.
They have some winners in there, for sure, but a
(48:54):
lot of them are yeah yeah, which I think that's
a well. F One is different because I was theatrical
released too. But a lot of streaming movies have a
negative connotation, and that's for a reason because most of
them are pretty bad, and this movie fits in that.
It like, this movie could have easily about on Netflix
and like one of the most like you know, just
(49:15):
forgettable Netflix movies, which are most of them, and this
could have fitten in there, And I was like yes,
And it's crazy because that same plot device is. It
was a book that was made into a Netflix series
called One Day, and each episode is a day and
a year in the lives of two characters. And I
(49:36):
love that story device. I love when something thrusts you
into a story and you kind of need to put
the pieces together as things go along. Like I love that.
It's very engaging and I find it so interesting and
a lot of TV shows do that anyway, Like if
you think of Breaking Bad, you think that the Sopranos
they just throw you into this world and then everything
fills in around it as things go. I love it.
I love it so much. Too many people complain about
(49:57):
that nowadays, and I'm like, that's good TV.
Speaker 2 (49:59):
Shut up in the world, like you're saying, like I
don't want I don't want to be spoon fed the
ship like.
Speaker 1 (50:05):
Ye bingo one hundred percent, And that show did it
so much better because it's it's it's very similar thing.
It doesn't have the same premise, but it's it's very
much like the Friends into Lovers trope, but the way
they do it in that series is beautifully and each
episode you kind of like have to catch up where
they are in their lives and that's like super exciting
and it sucks you in in such a dope way.
(50:27):
And as that was happening in the movie, I'm like, oh,
this is like one day, this is gonna be awesome.
Let's go. And then as things go along, I'm like,
you guys suck stop just seeing And it's Brett Goldteon's character,
like I feel bad for him, but I'm also like,
you're perpetuating this terrible ship at the same time, and
it's like you just keep falling for it, and then
when he finally stands up for himself, I'm like, cool.
Speaker 2 (50:49):
Years later, dog, you're a couple of episodes too late.
Speaker 1 (50:54):
Yeah, so I'm not gonna recommend that one for for people.
Let's say save your time.
Speaker 2 (50:59):
Yeah, you should watch bred Goldstein to his saying whether
it's or stand up, he's not going a very good
stand up to. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (51:10):
Yeah, I definitely watched Ted Lasso or Shrinking. I love
Ted Lasso, Ted Lasso Believer until the day I die.
I'm so sked just coming back gone. But I think
Shrinking is the better show, which is funny because it's
the same team. The same team.
Speaker 2 (51:28):
You can't have Jason Siegel and not expect perfection, especially.
Speaker 1 (51:34):
With man it is and I'm this is not Hyperpole.
It is Harrison Ford at his best.
Speaker 2 (51:46):
It's all that.
Speaker 1 (51:47):
I told that to a friend and he laughed at me.
He was like, oh, it's Han Solo at his best.
And then months later he texted me and he's like,
you're right.
Speaker 9 (51:56):
He is not.
Speaker 1 (51:58):
He is not the guy to admit he's and he
was like, you were right, you.
Speaker 2 (52:03):
Have a ball. He had to see it. I cannot
tell you the amount.
Speaker 7 (52:11):
That show.
Speaker 2 (52:13):
Yeah, it's perfect, and so it's a perfect ode to
therapy and just the proper utilization of it and the
improper ways. Definitely the improper way.
Speaker 1 (52:23):
Yes, yes, yes, nailed it, one hundred percent nailed it.
J Ra, thank you so much for doing this. It
was an amazing chance. You guys, You guys are awesome.
Speaker 2 (52:32):
Thank you for having us.
Speaker 1 (52:34):
Welcome back anytime, seriously, the invite is always there. I
love having people return to the show. It's one of
my favorite things. But before we get out of here,
please let the people know where they can find Cold Steel.
What you guys got going on? Love notes, that camera,
that camera, that camera.
Speaker 2 (52:49):
Instagram is the best way to keep contact with us.
It is Cold Steel Band sl We just announced our
album release tour for our debut release on spine Farm,
which is Disciplined Punished, So we will be going down
well up and down the East coast in November. We'll
have an abun release show November eighth, which is the
(53:10):
day after the album comes out November seven, So we're
winning Punished November seventh. Baby, that is our life blood.
It's the thing we've been working on for two years.
Our other guitar one of our the guitarist Ratthey Carbonell
that came with us with the core of it, and
we kind of shape the rest of the album together.
(53:31):
And I think it's a really good image of the
six of us combining for the first proper time on
the full length record with Arthurizik, who is the metal
and hardcore genius. If you ever listen of Blood Incantation
or Cold World, you need to catch up. Yeah, Eternal Champion,
please catch up, Please catch up, Arthur Rizik. I will
(53:54):
rag for the man forever. December, we're doing four days
in Florida with Obituary, which feels so right because Death
Metal Tampa doing four days with them. We are so
grateful that we get to do anything like that and
to do anything like this. So we're grateful to be
on your platform and we're coming back. I'm not taking
(54:16):
note for an answer your thing bink? Yeah right three.
By the way, I can't be.
Speaker 1 (54:32):
Amazing, guys. I will link everything down below so you
can go support Cold Steal. If they're coming near you
go see them. I'm sure this is the beginning of
what's going to be a lot of cool things for
you guys. So congrats on the new album I'm Stoked.
Here more of it, and if you want support the
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(54:56):
you as
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of your favorite bands as we explore their love of
pop culture. I'm Roshaun Matt and this week I'm joined
by Wrath and JP of Cold Steel. Welcome to the show.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Thank you having this food, thank you.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
So stoked to have you guys on here. I'm ready
to see what you guys are into pop culture wise.
That's always the most exciting thing for me in this
show is being able to sit back and take what
you guys are into because I have no idea, and
that makes it so much more exciting for me.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
We'll tell you we saw that you offered the podcast
to throw to me on it, which, first off, thank you.
This is awesome platform. I've been listening on and off
for years, so awesome never on. But me and a
rap were like, okay, but what are we going to
talk about it? And then wrap It's just like okay,
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I'm gonna figure this out. Hits me up the next
days like A have a list of every movie I've
watched ever and then five I think, so, what's the part,
Like if I can send you, I'll send you it.
But like, that's why this is our first podcast. Give
us grace. But we are here to have fun. Yeah,
we're just so happy to be here.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Amazing, that's all this is all this is here for
is to have fun and to be able to like
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again the pop culture talk, We're gonna kick off the
show like we do every week with the Metal Core
Nerds Song of the Week, and the song of the
week this week is from the band A Sense of Purpose.
This is their latest single, The Wounds We share.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Jey Brat, that's a bright guys, that's our side story,
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Speaker 4 (03:45):
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So So.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Sad so sad.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Again.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
That was a sense of purpose with their latest single,
The Wounds We Share. That is the title track off
their new EP, which you can go check out right now.
So if you like we heard of that single, make
sure you go check out the rest of the EP.
If for more music recommendations, you can check out the
Metal Corner Its pull the Spotify playlist. You can find
the drug links of the show notes below. I add
to it every single day, so if you're looking for
some new music, maybe find some bands you've never heard
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of before that you might like.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
So go check it out.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Since I've kind of revamped the show and changed it
in the last few months, the main thing I start
the episode on is diving deep into how the guests
got into pop culture, like what made them fall in
love with TV in movies? So JP will go to
you first, what is your pop culture organ story very early.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
I think I've lived in five years old. The first
thing I remember watching myself was well, obviously as a kid,
you know, you watch your cartoons, you watch your sponge Bob,
your account Chicken, like the classics and yeah, now considered
(07:26):
a vintage. But I remember the first time we went
to the movie theater. I was five, and it was
the French Slow Christmas and Game Over. Like, movie theater
experiences are just so like essential, and so it brings
something different to my heart while I watch a movie
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in theaters compared to you know, watching your netflixes and
all that. So that was like the start of me
loving movies. But like you know, I'm not the most
specific person. I'm not gonna tell you each person that
was in a movie or something like that, unless it's
like Firs of being a Wallflower that was like my
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emo movie that like would hurt my heart the real
first time on my own accord. But yeah, no, I
love movies when it comes to TV late, like when
it was first starting, it was definitely like Cartoon Network Nickelodeon,
and then Eddie is like one of the greatest cartoons ever.
Pungebob is godd Like there's no debate that could be
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brought to that. And then my brother was a huge
comic guy, so he had like the graphic novels for Visa, Vendetta, Watchman, Batman,
cat Woman and all that sort of stuff. So like, yeah,
I have a broad spectrum of stuff that I've ended
up loving. So yeah, I'm very broad. I'm not picky
(08:53):
about stuff I watch unless it's like dolls. No you
all you know?
Speaker 1 (09:01):
With dolls, I.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
I went, I went to therapy about it. There.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
It was a short thing.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
I went. I needed it, dude. It was just like
I would have nightmares about dolls. Man. It was like
no toy soldier, No, no, no, that was fine, but
like Chunky and my dad woke me up with Chucky
in my face.
Speaker 8 (09:23):
It was traumatized, traumatized. It was done from the get go, man.
So yeah, I got a doll like that. Man, though,
like I love horror, I love my comics. I love
four movies, comedy like.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
All that, you know.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Damn, Okay, no dolls noted noted noted on the no dolls. Okay,
you mentioned SpongeBob. Have you guys gotten the Bikini Bottom
album treatment yet?
Speaker 6 (09:53):
No?
Speaker 2 (09:53):
No, I want that do you know what that is.
So there's somebody on Instagram or Facebook that pitch albums
and has them restylized to be in like Bikini Bottom,
so to be like random characters or teams or like
actually SpongeBob like in the covers of these things. One
day that you know, that's the mate it moment.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
By the way, Yes, that would be one that right
now that's gonna happen. To make that happen, because that
is that's a pinnacle moment. That's that's like you're like, oh,
we've made it, We're here. Yes, raft What about you?
What was the catalyst for you getting into TV movies?
Speaker 9 (10:38):
So pretty much like JP said, you know, you kind
of grow up with all the cartoons all that good stuff.
Another thing for like pop culture, I guess was my
dad was. My dad and my my uncle are super
heavily into pac Man. Like one quarter would last an
hour or two maybe, so we had to say a
genesis and they would constantly just be going back and
forth on it growing up and like getting on later
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into life. I was like, oh, you know, like this
game looks really fun. Started playing that a bunch. He
also then took me to see Daredevil in the movie
theaters with Ben Affleck and Colin Curll, and that was
top tier at that moment.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
I was like, what, this guy who's blind is just
fighting crying.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
What the hell is going on?
Speaker 9 (11:19):
And like Jap kind of said, you know, it's like
when you're in the movie theater, you really dive into
the experience and are like merged into what's happening in
front of you. Really but yeah, and then later on
in life, I started picking a pick like I would
always watch like Comedy Central and there would be a
bunch of comedy movies just streaming on there, like Tommy Boy,
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Black Sheep, a lot of Chris Barley stuff at the time,
and those were like always to go to at that moment.
And then you know, you get into like the whole
horror genre and everything, and unfortunately for JP, but I
love Chucky and the Bride of Chucky and the Seda Chucky.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
That was my ship back then.
Speaker 9 (11:56):
I wasn't a little scared, but I was like, this
is this is tolerable. I thowt Thirteen Ghosts later on
and I was like, don't you ever put that shit
on my TV?
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Again?
Speaker 7 (12:06):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Gone, you couldn't find me if that was ongirl go
no game open?
Speaker 1 (12:15):
That was.
Speaker 9 (12:17):
But yeah, and then I kind of started getting more
indulged from there on out with just kind of like
browsing through different genres of like because like I said,
I told you like I was like heavily into comedy
movies and then came the dramas m dramas before and
everything else with it, and then you kind of like
start to branch out and develop what you really like personally.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
So that was really nice.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
So have you revisited that Daredevil since you were younger? No?
Speaker 2 (12:45):
No, we were actually just talking about it is something it.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Is something that's accurate. It is something I would say,
don't yeah that keep that memory cherished to you and
you don't ever watch it.
Speaker 9 (13:02):
That's what happened to be with this one movie what
is it called, I'm blanking on it. But it's like
if you die in the game, you die in real life.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
There's so much alive stay alive, I think for staying alive.
Speaker 10 (13:17):
But yeah, I saw even the movie theaters and I
was like, oh my god, this is such a cool concept.
Oh my goodness, I love this movie. And I tried
to revisit it and I was like, you know, I
want to I want to be in that nostalgic mode.
And five minutes and I was like, I can't. This
is a little too corny. Yeah, then definitely don't watch it.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Definitely do not, do not even try. Have you watched
the like the Charlie Cox version that that was started
on Netflix when I was continued in the MCU. If
you watch that version, Oh.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Need to watch me? Watch that. Jessica Jones. Oh yeah, dude, Christmas.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Yeah, Jessica Jones Season one, Top ten top.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
It's so exciting that because that all existed, it happened.
It was great when it was on Netflix, but then
when it got canceled and then Disney bought all that stuff,
the fact that now it's just continuing on like a
decade later is the coolest thing. Now Christian Rider's back,
It's it's so rad. I'm so stoked. I I will
bet money that both Finn Jones and My Culture are
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also in season two, and I just think they're kind
of holding back that the Christian Rider was probably announcement
to be like, yeah, don't worry, like we'll get you
a little like little taste. Yeah, but it's so it's
so cool. And John Berthall's Punisher, which he has introduced
in Daredevil season two, is so insanely incredible. It's it's
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it's just like it's grounded, it's dark. It is so good.
Definitely watch those.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
That is weren't the subscription of Disney alone, Like, yeah,
you're gonna watch Punisher and be like, I'm want to
be the soundtrack for that more man like the Station
Police fat like first Punisher and that was the movie
was super.
Speaker 5 (15:15):
Oh yeah and that was by the way, yeah man,
So I can only imagine how the show because they
developed it so many later.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
That maybe another Daredevil moment. But what the movie with
Thomas Jane right, Yeah, probably the poily water scene definitely
holds up past that thing. But there's a whole scene
where he like it.
Speaker 9 (15:39):
Goes onto like I think the peering's getting shot at
and his cars like I should sick cars all decked
out and he's like, yeah, I watch the show, watch
the show. I promise you'll get it.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
You'll get especially since he said they like he was
introduced the dude like they're all in.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Yeah, it's it's stuff, very very good stuff. The mcun
made a really smart decision with not recasting them all
and just continuing it on in a way that feels
like fresh, but there's still all that storied past and
everything too. Like the new version, you could you could
honestly jump right in and they kind of lay out
everything for you. But there's definitely there's definitely some things
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you'll kind of be like, oh, I don't get the
full context of this. It's like, yeah, because there was
three seasons of a series before, you know, it's one
of those things where you would get more out of
it if you have watched it, but you can definitely
watch it without it, but I would recommend just watching
all of it. I rewatched all of Daredevil's one through
three before the new season came out, and it definitely
holds up. It is so so, so so good. It's
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funny because like I did the same thing because like
obviously I grew up when Tom maguire Spider Man was
coming out, you know, the X Men were coming out
and revisiting like Spider Man. One I don't think is
that it's like a very fine movie, especially in the
eyes of knowing what superhero movies are now. Yeah, You're
I was like, I was like, this movie is like
(17:03):
when people are like, yeah, Raymi movies are the best
Speramn movies, I'm like, Speraman two's up there, but the
rest of them definitely not the same. With X Men one,
I was like, this movie is not good. This movie
is not X two still pretty solid. Yeah, the problem
with those movies is obviously, Hugh Jackman's a great wolfing
(17:23):
and they center the franchise around him because he became
like the standout star of them. But they are not
good X Men movies. They're they're pretty solid X Men
and cast movies, but they are nice then movies, and
that's like the issue with that. But if you want
some X Men stuff, watch X Men ninety seven because
that shit fucking.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Oh dude, oh, it's like a perfect extension of the cartoon,
perfect extension like the original cartoon. Like the video games,
I was playing a chucky cheese X Men yep, that man,
Like that's I think everything they've been doing on Marvel
(18:03):
has been very, very impressive. I think the Punisher, like
we're not gonna talk about hinding Fast, but that whole
Defender's idea was like when it comes to show media
on Netflix.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
That was the game Changerous Punisher is a big year.
Next year, Dared worn against Sason two, he gets his
own special on Disney Plus, and then he's in Spider
Man Big. So it's gonna be we Got, we Got.
(18:40):
I'm gonna hold you see that. I'm gonna hold you
to the Defenders versus.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Watch at my house out of stream.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
This is content right here.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Now.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
We know where you guys started in your dream, but
I want to know you guys are watching now. What
have you currently been watching, Whether it's last few weeks,
last few months, even this year entirely for TV and movies,
there's been a lot. So many people are like, you know,
I don't think there's I don't think it's impossible to
run out of things to watch at this point. Even
as me as someone who consumes a lot of things
all the time, there's still things on my list that
(19:19):
I need to watch constantly always. It's a never ending
battle that will never be satisfied, and I kind of
like it that way. But rafflestar with you, what have
you been watching recently? Oh?
Speaker 9 (19:30):
Man, mine's a little not me, but it's more in
the past, I guess because I'm like I just loved
like the whole reality show aspect of like the two
thousands and shit. So like I've been like I've been
going back to the Jersey Shore Originals like season one
and on, like, oh are my fucking favorite bro I used.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
To love Hilarious so much. I like loved inco Master,
even though the first few seasons the tattoos are so
not even good, like the tattoos, no shade to anyone
who's at Tattooers in the first season making matters. I
remember being right, these guys aren't even good, Like where
did you get these people? Like, what the hell is
going on?
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (20:16):
I just finished up the studio that was Let's Go.
You already know is phenomenal. Yeah, yeah, they do so
much with.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
What they.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
I've never seen anything like that in my life. Ben
and I expected to come from Ben Stiller, like writing.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Well, he's he directs it, he doesn't write it. I
know he's right, Okay, I think he's a producer as well,
so I think he is creatively involved. Yeah, he's he's
he's kind of It was like the big name attached
to it when it first came out, But Dan Erickson
is the guy who came up the idea and is
like the main writer of the show. He really hasn't
done much other than that, to be honest, it's kind
(21:01):
of wild that he just came out and is doing this.
I think there's like this crazy story of how he
was just like a normal dude and then you know
he came up with the idea for like the biggest
show on TV right now.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Yeah, I heard that.
Speaker 9 (21:13):
He was like He's like, yeah, I'm not even if
I could just like not remember going home pretty much,
or like not remember going to work and not having
to deal with it.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
And then he's like as soon as they walk out,
and then he put the.
Speaker 9 (21:27):
Paper and clo Wow, Like what a big concept. I
gotta look I gotta look that up. I gotta give
that show proper diligence.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Proper.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Yeah. They have a really cool podcast that Ben Stiller
and Adam Scott host and they do it like episode
by episode, and they usually have a guest from someone
who was on the show or worked on the show
or or something of that nature, and they go upisode
by episode and give like really behind the scene look
looks at like how they made the episode and everything
like that. It's if you want to dive super deep,
(21:59):
that's definitely, that's definitely what you do that. I haven't
listened to all of them, but I've listened to a
few of them, and they're they're very very cool. Like
they have the guy on who did the score and
they talk about how they first like started crafting that
idea of the score and stuff like that. It's it's
really really really cool what they do on that podcast.
(22:19):
I mean, I love things like that. Like obviously, like
I wouldn't do a thing like this if I wasn't
into finding out how like the nuts and bolts of
of how this stuff works. But that one's a very
very cool if you're like super into that show, like
like that's the thing to definitely to definitely watch you.
I I that's my favorite show of the year. And
I've watched so many shows this year.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
And that and that.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
And that came out in the beginning of the year
and nothing is stopped it.
Speaker 9 (22:49):
That's why I had to jump to the studio because
like that ended up in the studio like started like
right after and I was like, WHOA, thank god, something
that saved me from the depths of depression from it
ending on the craziest.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Yeah, that's a different kind of anxiety the Studio gives you,
but it's it's mostly comedic anxiety.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Yes, So for those who haven't watched it, what you're
missing out on the end is that I'm not gonna.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
That just gave me.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
That was good. That was really good. What I love
about The Studio is that seth Rogen's character. Every episode
you're like, what the fuck are you doing? Just stop
doing what you're like, just stop, just stop being you.
You're like the worst. But that that show is great.
It's it's funny because it's like I feel like I
didn't love it as much as a lot of people
(23:37):
loved it. Not saying I didn't love it, but like
a lot of people gave it like super high. It
deserves high praise, but it's kind of in the the
top middle of my rankings of show of the year.
Not to say that it's not good. I think that
show is amazing and like actually super well crafted. But
it's a show I watched and I was like, if
they made endless seasons of this, I would be there
(23:58):
for every season, every single season, Like, please make like
twenty seasons of this show because it's just so fun
and so like it. It is like a and it's
like a fresh take on stuff, like even like meta
commentary stuff which happens kind of in everything, especially nowadays,
Like meta commentary is a very big thing that people
like to capitalize on, and that something about like insider
(24:22):
Hollywood stuff can be a very niche thing that might
not appeal to the mass audiences. But then it, you know,
swept at the Emmys, like obviously it was a massive hit.
And I truly think that Seth Rogan thought this would
not be like one of his most successful ventures. It
was something I think he really just wanted to do
and it seemed like it was, yeah, like a super
(24:43):
passion project. And you know like he did it with
all of his friends and got some of the most
crazy cameos and like cameos of people being themselves, not
even like acting, well some people are acting as themselves,
but you know what I mean, Like having Martin source
s CAZy get a guesting acting nom acting as himself
is crazy.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
His idea for the movie, and then you have to
like show this essentially like he's like I think I
just showed Martin Scor's last film ever.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
It's so funny because like the conversation of that too
of like kool Aid being like a Jonestown story. I'm
like I would watch that movie and then then being like,
kool Aid's not gonna be down for this. Kool Aid
is like the villain of the story. It's so good.
It's like it's incredible stuff.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
It's about it that's gonna make those millions, right, Like.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Yeah, obviously every episode is kind of a singular thing,
but the kool Aid thing is like the ongoing plotline
of that of season one, and just seeing the like
how that progresses is also amazing. I definitely think that
movie is gonna it's so funny seeing things happen in
real life and people just being like, this is an
episode of the Studio and it happens quite often unfortunately,
(26:01):
but you know what it is, it is what it is.
It's it's pretty funny. It's pretty pretty funny.
Speaker 9 (26:06):
Like this where they go to like the Golden Globes
or like the Emmys and his friend is just getting
like all the nomine or like just getting all the
praise and things. He's not even anybody important in there,
Like he's like Seth Rogan is the director who directed
all these movies, and instead of the praise going to him,
it's going to his friend's house.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
So everybody who gets the Golden glob is like, you
know what I want to think?
Speaker 1 (26:29):
So Separsine, someone asked him too, and they're like, why
didn't you think South Celepristine and your acceptance speeches because
he did like five acceptance speeches that because they won
so much. And then he had like a really good answer.
He's like, that would take away from the bit of
the show. But then Apple, I don't know if they've
made an actual billboard or if it was just like
an online thing, but it was a billboard and like
the classic Apple, like all Black and like the clean
(26:53):
fought And I said thank you, cell Saproscine after they
won all those Emmys, and I was like, that's amazing. Raff.
Is there anything else you've been watching?
Speaker 2 (27:00):
More current too? That's pretty much it. I got caught
up on the U series and that was.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
I just finished season three after like I think I
watched season one, season two like as I came out
and then just stopped watching because I think I always
fall behind on Netflix stuff because I hate how Netflix
does things. I hate binge drops and I just forget
about it, you know, and then people talk about it
for like a second, and then it's gone and then
no one ever talks about it again, and I usually
(27:28):
forget about it unless it's like a big series or
a series I really like, so that when I fell off,
but then recently I went and watched finish season three.
Season three is pretty wild. That the one was love right,
so when we're yeah, him and Love moved to like Suburbia.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Yeh, that one was crazy and the whole ending from that.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
It's so funny because usually when I'm watching like TV,
my wife's like reading or doing something else. But lately
there's stuff that I'll put on that I like, I
know she'll get hooked into if I put it on
ye that I was watching, and she's like, damn it,
I'm invested.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Happen with me. My roommate at the time was binge
watching it on the couch and I was like coming
back and forth in the living room and outside and everything,
and I.
Speaker 9 (28:11):
Like stopped and I got hooked at one scene and
I'm like admiring, Like he's like, Okay. At first, I
didn't like how they do the whole swirld aspect around
the person to really focus in on the person.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
But on my line, it drew me. Yeah, and then
I got hooked and I was like, damn, what is
this again? Yeah? I don't have that.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Yeah, it's it's hard because it's it's the classic case
of kind of everyone involved is terrible human beings. I mean,
obviously the main character is kind of like a social
pathical murder murderer, so obviously, but he has this weird,
like redeeming likable quality to him where you're kind of like,
just like I kind of like I kind of like
(28:56):
this guy, but I don't. It's it's such a wild
you like, yeah, like what the are you doing? He's
also a creep and a psychopath and and awful.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Yeah, that was my thing. I only watched two episodes
and I was like that, dude's weird.
Speaker 7 (29:14):
The main character, you know that three even I'm good
for now, I will think, yes, it went for five,
so kind of like yeah, five.
Speaker 9 (29:27):
Kind of like a dexter in a tense where you're like, oh,
I didn't know what's gonna happen, but you're like, how
does he go through with this?
Speaker 2 (29:34):
How does how does he get out of this as well.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
It definitely is very similar to Dexter, but Dexter at
least has like a moral center and this love this guy, JP,
What do you what have you been watching?
Speaker 2 (29:50):
I'm in a couple of different quadrants lately. So okay,
you brought up the studio and Severance, and I think
the closest thing in that realm I was watching was Adolescence.
That show, it's like a three or four part show.
I think it's a kid that gets rested in the
(30:10):
first episode. Basically they want so many Emmy's each each
episode is one shot and yeah, one thing, one thing,
and it is brilliantly produced. The acting from I forget
the young kid, but yeah, first thing he's properly in
(30:33):
and he's like it was daunting because it speaks a
lot to like a toxic masculinity and trying to have
that represented towards you, in their case, their child and realizing, oh,
this person actually committed one of the worst crimes they
can possibly commit, was trying to lie to get out
(30:54):
of it, and then gets caught on the film and
then you see the moment of the father finding out
farther his kid is a criminal and it's just like
distraught beyond beliefs that still gives him his love. It
still gives inim love still like tries and nurture, Yeah,
get nurtured through the jail system and all that and
(31:16):
the way everything's portrayed, that show was immaculate. So that's
like my favorite show. I want to make sure I
mentioned that show because it's.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Crazy because the parts are like forty five minutes long,
and yeah, one take, it's crazy.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
The thing.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
The opening scene is the police coming into the house
and arresting this kid. That's the opening scene. And it
follows like the cops coming in the door, going up
the stairs, the parents being like what the hell is
going on? It's like and that's not giving anything away.
That's like literally the opening scene first and it's and
it's crazy how that And it's not like single I
think the second episode might be a single location. It's
(31:54):
like him and the Him. It's like the boy and
like a behavioral therapist I think. And that's like kind
of single location. But a lot of them they like
they go in cars and they go to places and
stuff and all one take, Like it's crazy because the
studio almost every episode is shot in one take too.
Seth Rogan has kind of talked about that. He's like
(32:14):
the editing's really easy because he's like, there's not many edits.
It's everything's kind of like in chunks of one takes.
Like those are like half hour episodes and not all
of them are one take. I think that the one,
the one called the Ononer, is shot in one take,
but these are like kind of like mini movies all
shot in a single take. And that's because if you
think about it, if one person is off, if one
(32:36):
kind of like moving part is off, you got to
start over from square one. So like imagine getting like
ninety five percent of the way and then like messing
up and going That's like that's.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
The stress of that.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
I cannot fathom. It's it's crazy, But that's a that's
a great great show.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
Great show that one when.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
A lot of stuff got a lot of acclaim and
it's all very warranted.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
And definitely and I I could only mention one more
thing about it, because the main guy is Steven Graham. Graham, yes,
Stephen Graham. He is from Liverpool, and I'm a soccer guy,
so football soccer guy. I've been watching Liverpool for a decade.
(33:22):
We I consider them the best team in the world
now and if there's a TV on my screen, I'm
probably watching Liverpool. I know sports aren't necessari that it's
kind of it, but if I started, I'm not getting
the jersey again. I wanted to go to Jersey right
over here, but like it's because I'm a flag of
(33:43):
another team because they came here for preseason in Tampa,
that's all. But it's like I represent one team, one
team only Liverpool. It is like ritualistic in England, you know.
Speaker 8 (33:53):
What I mean.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
I will not so, but I want to bring to Liverpool.
That is like outside of music, that's the one passion.
Like the next passion I have is football and watching
Liverpool play, like understanding the coach's tactics behind each player
that he utilized field like I didn't expect it to
(34:16):
hit me the way that I did when I was younger.
Like just watching like the Sidemen on YouTube, you know
what I mean, just them playing face and videos and
helping impacts and then me falling in love with the
sport way more than anything in America. Like I didn't
just pay it at all, but yeah, best in the World.
So there's those two and then really back in a
(34:39):
it shows based on video games. So the main two
that I watched recently were Halo and Splinter Cell Depth Watch.
So Halo I tried watching it when it first came
out of Paramount, but then the first episode you see
Messa Chiefs.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
I remember, I remember people being very upset about it.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
It's a subscription, like I put, that's sacrilege. I grew
up playing Halo. Like I almost failed out of high
school for playing Halo in my computer class. Straight up.
I had to do night school. I had to do
five different classes on top of my regular classes because
I love Jlo too. That is like video Yeah, and
(35:26):
you can't start a show of Halo and show Master
Chiefs Stace. It is sacrilege. That's why I don't like
the Manian Man. Don't get me started. But that's the
way you should have done it.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
That's what I'm saying. It's like I can get being
like scared or something, but the Mandalorian literally had PA
when Patri Mescott first begin man learn he wasn't as
big as he is now obviously, but he's taking his
helmet off like twice in like three seasons for like
a scene, like a scene, you know what I mean,
Like no, and I think the dude took a comet
(36:00):
off like multiple times, like a lot.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
Play around the amount of times on Pedro took the
helmet off. That's the amount of times home Boy puts
the helmet on. From after Gi you don't fight enough.
They fights more with the thing. So it's just like
you're not supposed to know, bro, I'm not supposed to
know the guy behind the helmet ever ever. And then yes,
(36:24):
but then basically it came onto the Netflix like this month,
so I was like, Okay, I'm gonna give it. It's great.
I'm gonna try it because it's Halo Universe. I love it.
I played almost every one of them. I have to
give it a chance. And it's okay. Yes, they do
the Arbiter dirty in the last season they put up
(36:46):
because the Arbiter is supposed to be so sick from
Halo three, you know what I mean, Like he's supposed
to be in depth, a proper character that he just
gets his ass whip and then they just go and
find a terminal I guess at the end. And I'm
just like everything in between just let me know that,
like within one vision, within two seasons and just everything
(37:08):
in between, just say hit the same. So I was like, yeah,
you know. On the other hand, Split Yourself death Watch
is really good. It's it's an animating right, yeah, yes,
and it's super good. It's like twenty thirty minute episodes.
You watch it quick like a date to lots of season.
They just announced the second one. But yeah, I used
(37:30):
to play like splay yourself back in the day with
my family, and I remember, like just before freshman year,
we went up to New York to visit at the
Man Cast in my family, like my boy's Realthy and
Elijah and all that. I just want on a tangent anyway, Yeah,
that's all we did. We would play splay our Cells
the whole time, and I just remember, like you would
(37:51):
see the lighting system in those games and just be
blown away. Back in the day, Like in two thousand
and eight, they're doing visuals for video games that would
come out today and would have hit just the same. Yeah,
perfect video game visuals for Stealth Combat and the show
the action in it and the way they portray of
(38:14):
the actual splinter cell process. So simple, so good. Loved it.
They put a simple story, which isn't perfect in my eyes,
but I thought it was very much worth watching and
very entertaining, So yeah, I wanted to bring that.
Speaker 1 (38:29):
The trailer for that one looked really cool. I've never
played splinter Cell at all, but I was like, Oh,
that's that's cool. It's a cool trailer. It's it's hard
because it's like video game adaptations have gone comes such
a long way, even in the last few years, you know,
even with live action ones like with like.
Speaker 2 (38:45):
Fallout or The Last of Us Wanted the Last of.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
Us, you know, So it's it's cool to see that
kind of keeping like that move that wave to keep
moving in a positive momentum, because there's definitely some that
are not good even still coming out. So it's it's
cool to see some because like a lot of Netflix
anime stuff, I feel like, is it's hard to say underrated,
(39:10):
because some, like a lot of their original anime and
stuff are massive. But like I remember, like they had
it was like Terminator zero came out last year or
the year before.
Speaker 2 (39:19):
Yes, yes, And we watched that at the Airbnb while
we're recording the full length record literally watching that. Whoa immaculate,
so good.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
I was so shocked. I was like, this, this will
be cool, right, I was like, this will be cool.
And I watched it. I was like, whoa, this is.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
So much further than my expectations for they.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
I think they they did with that franchise has been
trying to do, I think for far too long, and
they finally did it in a way. That and the
guy who the guy who wrote that is the guy
who co wrote The Batman Part two, which I'm like, let's.
Speaker 2 (40:01):
Go oh, because that first Batman was a header. Robert
Pattinson's Batman is.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
A great, pretty good ship, very very very very good ship.
There's a show I need to talk about. So I
got to see the first five episodes of it. Welcome
to darry Early.
Speaker 2 (40:21):
That's Sick and the Blood, like the first Advertiser.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
Yeah, I think like the first actual trailer just came out,
and this series rules in the kind of I don't.
I don't think. There's there's no so, there's no like
stuff it's being adapted from. It's like it's like a
news story or adding more to the story, I guess,
is way more to put it. It takes place mostly
in nineteen sixty two, but there is some points that
(40:51):
take place in nineteen oh eight, and there's some references
to some stuff that happened in nineteen thirty five, which
obviously is that twenty seven year gap when Pennywise comes
and you know, like unleash's hell on this poor little
New England town. I will say the pilot of this
series is one of the most impressive pilots I've seen
(41:13):
all year. It it just like it and the thing
about it is nothing. The opening scene is wild, but
after that it kind of takes its time to kind
of like flesh out this new cast of characters where
they are in the time and place of Dairy and
but within that like kind of slow burn it has
(41:34):
in each episode, it has like pure nightmare fuel of
penny Wise taking over these characters and the creativity of
how they've done it with this series compared to like
the movies, which I think those Chapter one and Chapter
two are awesome, but what they bring in this series
is so wild and gross and awesome, and I'm really
(41:58):
stoked to see how it ends because I think it's
really great. It adds so much lore to why penny
Wise is penny Wise and there's like this subplot with
the military that I did not think would work, but
as it goes along, it really ties in together. It
really nice, and just the lore of how this all
(42:20):
came about is so sick, and I was really impressed
with the world building it does and the storytelling it does,
and like obviously it's like and it starts off kind
of like the movie a kid goes missing. A group
of kids get together and try to figure out why
this kid went missing, and they all start having these visions,
but it still feels new and fresh and like they're
(42:40):
adding a different spin to it, a different flare to it.
And it definitely tackles like race, like obviously in the
time in the nineteen sixties, and they tackle that pretty
head on, which I think is important. And there's definitely
because the whole thing with Stephen King books is they
all exist in the same universe, and there's definitely some things.
If you're a big Stephen King fan, you're like, oh, okay,
(43:05):
that's cool, and it's stuff that you don't even realize
until it kind of fleshes out and you're like, oh, wait,
that's why this is happening. Holy shit. So definitely watch
this series when it comes out comes out October twenty six,
after Task is over. That's I think when this airs.
I think the first episode will be out, So definitely
(43:26):
check out it. Welcome to Darry if you're an IT fan,
if you're a horror fan. And a good thing about
this too is even if you haven't watched the movies,
you can go in and watch this and be able
to enjoy everything that goes along and then even watch
the movies after or if you have watched the movies,
there's a lot of stuff that's going to be definitely
familiar to you that you're like, oh, that's how that connects. Cool.
(43:46):
So prequel things can be very hit or miss, you know,
and a lot of them can feel pointless or not needed.
But this one is definitely doing the work to make
it feel like it was a story that should be
told rather than just like a thing to be made.
And the last thing I'll say about it, there's a
lot of series, especially nowadays in the streaming era, where
(44:09):
you know, a lot of seasons went to like six
episodes or eight episodes or whatever. At the end episode five,
I feel like, wow, we're in such a good spot.
A little halfway through, Like if there was like even
one more episode, I feel like they could probably flesh
everything out. But the fact that there's three episodes left,
I'm even more excited to see how it culminates because
it definitely didn't end in a keynote, but like, where
(44:30):
we are at and the story is way further along
than I anticipated, especially in like watching a lot of
series nowadays, it feels like a really fleshed out story
that was broken up into key moments. So big kudos
to the team behind it. Welcome to Darry. It's really
really dope and I highly recommend it when it comes out.
Speaker 9 (44:54):
Character development and the storytelling behind it was kind of
like a slow really filled up those people in the
moments and the a combination of things that happened to
them to get to that point. That's really nice that,
like you said, it is like I can appreciate the
slow brands because you do need those like character development
and like understanding of who the character is, where they
came from the background, et cetera. So to like hear
(45:17):
that part too, where it's like, oh, yeah, we're so
much more further ahead than I thought we would be
at just episode five is so sick to hear.
Speaker 1 (45:25):
Yeah, and they don't. They don't overuse penny Wise at all.
And the big thing about penny Wise is he's like
an alien creatures that land on Earth and feeds on fear.
And he's a shape shifting alien. That's like his whole thing.
And I know in the books he like shape shifts
into like a lot of famous like monster creatures like
(45:47):
Dracula and Frankanstein stuff like that. Obviously they can't do
that because of rights. They could do versions of it, probably,
but this show does definitely lean into like using different
forms to scare the person in particular, Like I said,
there's a few things like I'm waiting to get tied up,
but like there's a lot of time to tie those up,
(46:08):
which is which is really really cool, very very cool series.
On the other side, though, I watched this movie on
Apple TV Plus called All of You, and I remember
the trailer coming out and me being really stoked because
Brett Goldstein is one of the stars of the movie
and then as I'm as it comes up, I saw
that he co wrote it, which he If you don't
(46:30):
know Brett Goldstein, he is Roy Kent and Ted Lasso.
He was also a writer on ted Lesso, and he
was a writer on Shrinking, and he also is a
character in Shrinking as well. But he's like a very
good comedic and dramatic writer and a great great actor.
And Amogan Poots is also in this movie. Yeah, she's
been in like that awkward movie, which is kind of
(46:52):
like it's wild because that movie has to be like
ten to fifteen years old, which is crazy. But like
Miles tell her, aboul Be Jordan r On that before
they were like super super big. It's a great, great movie.
If you haven't watched that moment, definitely watched that. But
so and the premise of it is that there's this
new technology that will help you find your soulmate. So
like a lot of people in the world are doing
(47:13):
this to find their soulmate. They get together whatever, and
it opens with Bratz Goldtein's character taking Imogan Poots their
best friends, and he pays for her to get this thing,
and you can tell that there's kind of like that
it's like that classic best friend story, but you know,
like they're in love with each other, but she gets
a soul maate that someone else she marries that soul
(47:33):
maate and the interesting plot device it does is it
keeps jumping forward in time, so you kind of have
to like catch up to where they are in their
lives and eventually, obviously they get together, but the circumstances
of how they get together A Moogan Poot's character in
the movie I absolutely hate. I think she is an
awful human being, and that's what ruined the hireary for me,
(47:56):
because I was like, this doesn't work because she sucks.
Speaker 2 (47:59):
She Yeah, that makes them good. Last of Us too,
that's like that.
Speaker 1 (48:06):
But with the Last of Us two, there's a relatability
to you understand certain things they.
Speaker 2 (48:10):
Does not have that you don't have. That in that
I guess dam no.
Speaker 1 (48:16):
So it was a big bummer because I'm like a
massive Berg Goldstein fan, and me seeing in the opening
credits like, oh he co wrote it, I was like,
let's go. This movie is going to destroy me. And
then it ended. I'm like, cool, it was?
Speaker 9 (48:30):
It was.
Speaker 1 (48:31):
It was probably I've watched around fifty movies.
Speaker 2 (48:33):
From this year.
Speaker 1 (48:34):
It was one of the most disappointing movies I watched
all year, which is crazy because Apple TV TV shows
are almost like nine times ten Killer the movies, though
mostly bad. Codo was great. F One that came out
this year, which was also a Warner Brothers movie, was incredible.
They have some winners in there, for sure, but a
(48:54):
lot of them are yeah yeah, which I think that's
a well. F One is different because I was theatrical
released too. But a lot of streaming movies have a
negative connotation, and that's for a reason because most of
them are pretty bad, and this movie fits in that.
It like, this movie could have easily about on Netflix
and like one of the most like you know, just
(49:15):
forgettable Netflix movies, which are most of them, and this
could have fitten in there, And I was like yes,
And it's crazy because that same plot device is. It
was a book that was made into a Netflix series
called One Day, and each episode is a day and
a year in the lives of two characters. And I
(49:36):
love that story device. I love when something thrusts you
into a story and you kind of need to put
the pieces together as things go along. Like I love that.
It's very engaging and I find it so interesting and
a lot of TV shows do that anyway, Like if
you think of Breaking Bad, you think that the Sopranos
they just throw you into this world and then everything
fills in around it as things go. I love it.
I love it so much. Too many people complain about
(49:57):
that nowadays, and I'm like, that's good TV.
Speaker 2 (49:59):
Shut up in the world, like you're saying, like I
don't want I don't want to be spoon fed the
ship like.
Speaker 1 (50:05):
Ye bingo one hundred percent, And that show did it
so much better because it's it's it's very similar thing.
It doesn't have the same premise, but it's it's very
much like the Friends into Lovers trope, but the way
they do it in that series is beautifully and each
episode you kind of like have to catch up where
they are in their lives and that's like super exciting
and it sucks you in in such a dope way.
(50:27):
And as that was happening in the movie, I'm like, oh,
this is like one day, this is gonna be awesome.
Let's go. And then as things go along, I'm like,
you guys suck stop just seeing And it's Brett Goldteon's character,
like I feel bad for him, but I'm also like,
you're perpetuating this terrible ship at the same time, and
it's like you just keep falling for it, and then
when he finally stands up for himself, I'm like, cool.
Speaker 2 (50:49):
Years later, dog, you're a couple of episodes too late.
Speaker 1 (50:54):
Yeah, so I'm not gonna recommend that one for for people.
Let's say save your time.
Speaker 2 (50:59):
Yeah, you should watch bred Goldstein to his saying whether
it's or stand up, he's not going a very good
stand up to. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (51:10):
Yeah, I definitely watched Ted Lasso or Shrinking. I love
Ted Lasso, Ted Lasso Believer until the day I die.
I'm so sked just coming back gone. But I think
Shrinking is the better show, which is funny because it's
the same team. The same team.
Speaker 2 (51:28):
You can't have Jason Siegel and not expect perfection, especially.
Speaker 1 (51:34):
With man it is and I'm this is not Hyperpole.
It is Harrison Ford at his best.
Speaker 2 (51:46):
It's all that.
Speaker 1 (51:47):
I told that to a friend and he laughed at me.
He was like, oh, it's Han Solo at his best.
And then months later he texted me and he's like,
you're right.
Speaker 9 (51:56):
He is not.
Speaker 1 (51:58):
He is not the guy to admit he's and he
was like, you were right, you.
Speaker 2 (52:03):
Have a ball. He had to see it. I cannot
tell you the amount.
Speaker 7 (52:11):
That show.
Speaker 2 (52:13):
Yeah, it's perfect, and so it's a perfect ode to
therapy and just the proper utilization of it and the
improper ways. Definitely the improper way.
Speaker 1 (52:23):
Yes, yes, yes, nailed it, one hundred percent nailed it.
J Ra, thank you so much for doing this. It
was an amazing chance. You guys, You guys are awesome.
Speaker 2 (52:32):
Thank you for having us.
Speaker 1 (52:34):
Welcome back anytime, seriously, the invite is always there. I
love having people return to the show. It's one of
my favorite things. But before we get out of here,
please let the people know where they can find Cold Steel.
What you guys got going on? Love notes, that camera,
that camera, that camera.
Speaker 2 (52:49):
Instagram is the best way to keep contact with us.
It is Cold Steel Band sl We just announced our
album release tour for our debut release on spine Farm,
which is Disciplined Punished, So we will be going down
well up and down the East coast in November. We'll
have an abun release show November eighth, which is the
(53:10):
day after the album comes out November seven, So we're
winning Punished November seventh. Baby, that is our life blood.
It's the thing we've been working on for two years.
Our other guitar one of our the guitarist Ratthey Carbonell
that came with us with the core of it, and
we kind of shape the rest of the album together.
(53:31):
And I think it's a really good image of the
six of us combining for the first proper time on
the full length record with Arthurizik, who is the metal
and hardcore genius. If you ever listen of Blood Incantation
or Cold World, you need to catch up. Yeah, Eternal Champion,
please catch up, Please catch up, Arthur Rizik. I will
(53:54):
rag for the man forever. December, we're doing four days
in Florida with Obituary, which feels so right because Death
Metal Tampa doing four days with them. We are so
grateful that we get to do anything like that and
to do anything like this. So we're grateful to be
on your platform and we're coming back. I'm not taking
(54:16):
note for an answer your thing bink? Yeah right three.
By the way, I can't be.
Speaker 1 (54:32):
Amazing, guys. I will link everything down below so you
can go support Cold Steal. If they're coming near you
go see them. I'm sure this is the beginning of
what's going to be a lot of cool things for
you guys. So congrats on the new album I'm Stoked.
Here more of it, and if you want support the
podcast going out of Here dot com, you can find
all our links there in one easy place. And if
you want to follow me on our personal accounts, just
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(54:56):
you as
Speaker 6 (55:23):
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