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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
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Speaker 3 (00:07):
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Speaker 4 (00:54):
Naowai day n alway day always day day dum jump
jump up. Hey, guys, what's going on? You are listening
to this week in geek dot Net. I'm your host,
Mike the Birdman, but I'm not alone as well. Summer
is finally turning in the fall and not a day

(01:17):
too goddamn soon as far as I'm concerned. I'm trained
with my brother from the lovely city of Kitchener, Ontario.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
Canada, Alex the producer.

Speaker 4 (01:26):
Yeah, it is unusually warm out right now, but it's
really cool in the morning, so it's not too bad.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
I took out my ac last week out of the
living room and I was like cause it was raining,
and I'm like, okay, it's now. We're in the in
pretty much in fall, and it's like, I don't want
to keep it in forever. I took it out two
days later it got to be twenty six degrees and
human again, and I've not wanted to be out in
the living room outside of cooking at all. I was
like ready to take out my AC from the bedroom,

(01:55):
and I was like, I'll leave it a day or two.
That thing is staying in there until October now, Like
I have never ever had to keep an AC running
in a bedroom past the second week of September except
for this year.

Speaker 4 (02:07):
I think last year we had our air conditioning into
like second or third week of October. I mean it's warm.
I mean it's not too bad in terms of temperature,
but it's hot in the sun, and I wear hoodies
all the time because it's just easier for me to
transport the year.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
And it's not overly hot, but it is very humid.

Speaker 4 (02:26):
Yeah, it's not great, but hey, I'm usually outside anyway,
so it's usually not too bad. So hey, that means
I get a few more weeks in my wheelchair to
go around and explore, so overall, not too bad.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
Yeah, and me leaving the one in the living room,
I would've had the window open for the most part.
What's been good about that at least as I'm getting
finally fresh air, because not only has it been in longer,
I think I put the ac in an April this
year because it was so odd already.

Speaker 4 (02:54):
Yeah, we had a very warm summer this year, so
I guess enough people talk, yeah, exactly enough of us
talking about the weather. So yeah, as we most often do,
we typically start the show off with a little bit
of news from our personal lives, and this one was
kind of cool. This one I literally found out about
over the weekend. So last year I had a very

(03:18):
cool experience with the WWE and I got a chance
to go see money in the bank down in Toronto. Obviously,
it was a whole kind of rigamarole to get it
to happen. But the reporter who covered it, who's become
a friend of mine, Spencer Turcott, turns out he won
a major award. That was a provincial award, But now

(03:39):
I think he competes against the rest of Canda. I'm
not one hundred percent sure, but it's the radio and television.
It's it's like a local news it's like a it's
like a newscast award. So CTV Kitchener won Best Local
Newscast and they also won Best Feature Story, and that
feature story was me and Cody Rhoads. The story was

(04:00):
called American Nightmare Becomes Canadian Dreams, And yeah, that was
really cool, like Spencer.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
And you know what though, when I saw that it says,
you know, best local newscast, I was thinking, well, there's
Toronto and now there's Kitchen. There's not that many other
local newscasts anymore. That ares thanks Big media for shutting
down most newsrooms. But yeah, but I mean, you know what,
it is nice that it's it's nice that somebody in

(04:29):
Ontario outside of Toronto one because you never really hear
about Ottawa winning because Ottawa, Ottawa has the news, but
it's it's still Toronto's like the anchor station from like
ninety percent of the province, right, and of course there
is London. I joke and I kid, but yeah, like
it is it is nice to see that, you know,
CKCO still gets you know, some recognition now and then

(04:51):
when they put on a you know, a good program.

Speaker 4 (04:53):
Yeah, so that was pretty cool. And now Spencer had
told me he was nominated earlier in the year and
I just kind of would text him every Now I'm like, hey, man,
what's the kind of going on. He's like, yeah, we
don't know yet, but yeah, evidently the award happened over
the weekend and yeah he won. He texted me, and
I've actually been in contact with my friend over at WWE,
the one of the directors of PR. He's like, hey,

(05:15):
that's really awesome. Thanks for letting us know. And he's like, hey,
you should stay in touch.

Speaker 1 (05:20):
I'm like, well, and you know what, that's awesome. But also,
you know, you know that the PR guys, they'll they'll
be they'll send an email or a text over to
Cody and let him know that it made the news
because they they always want to keep track of them,
you know, what each of their superstars are doing. Right.

Speaker 4 (05:35):
Yeah, so that's really cool. So, like, I actually got
a somebody had commented on Reddit on the thread that
I posted like a year ago, and like, I cause
I tend to avoid Reddit outside of like Transformers, lor
Khanna and some Dungeons and dragon shit. I don't go
anywhere where it's weird.

Speaker 1 (05:54):
I will occasionally if I have a weird question that
I want to answer it, I'll just check on Reddit.
Read it was tracked down one time I actually asked something.
They tracked down who the hosts were for WUTV Buffaloes.
Fox twenty nine's when they had that attempt for a
couple of years of trying to copy y TV's PJ program.

Speaker 4 (06:16):
I vaguely remember that the guy's name is.

Speaker 1 (06:18):
Craig something, and they had their own robot television he
talked to that was like kmart version of snit, and
I was like, what the heck is this? I don't
remember anybody was that buffalo. And then a bunch of
Americas popped out and they're like, hello Canadian friend, we
shall help Buffalo natives. Here you go, buddy, And I

(06:39):
was like, oh my god. Read it is amazing. And
then immediately after that, I was like, what's the next
thing I look at? And it was some horrible, murderous
thing popped up in horrible people, and I went, oh, no,
read it is the Internet. Read it is the Internet
is the best description I can give.

Speaker 4 (06:55):
Yeah, Like, sometimes like I'll go on there and look
up weird stuff, or I'll look up, you know, things
relating to stuff I don't want to ask about on
social media, just as like I don't need that drama
or heat and I'll get some interesting responses.

Speaker 1 (07:08):
It is the best site to lurk at or to
have a throwaway account while still maintaining the feeling that
you're not skeevy for asking.

Speaker 4 (07:17):
Yeah. Like, although before I pass it over to you.
So there's a channel that I watch and I think
it's it's obviously on YouTube, but I think his channel's
called The Review. Not very original, but he does this
kind of like a segment and he talks about he'll

(07:38):
talk about five failed cartoons from a certain year.

Speaker 1 (07:42):
Of his stuff on the background when I'm doing emails
and stuff.

Speaker 4 (07:45):
Yeah. So I was watching it literally late one night,
late last week, and I guess, can I.

Speaker 1 (07:51):
Guess what it is? Late late last night or late
last week?

Speaker 4 (07:56):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (07:59):
Was it the one that dinosaurs?

Speaker 4 (08:01):
Yes, I had thought I had hallucinated that as a child.
So there was a show on TV called The Adventures
of t Rex featuring dinosaurs wearing power armor who were
part of a boy band, and I remember looking through that.

Speaker 1 (08:16):
Okay, I had that on. I had a moment where
it felt like my heart stopped because I went, wait,
that's not just a random episode of Denver the last
Dinosaur that I thought existed. It was a whole show.

Speaker 4 (08:31):
Yeah, Like I actually went to the guy's channel and
I posted, like, you've just solved a question I've been
looking for for thirty years, because I can remember the
morning that I saw it. It was a Sunday morning
at my parents' place. I found it on a random
transponder channel, but I went by it too fast, so
I couldn't remember what transponder channel was on. So I
saw like two seconds of it and it just it.

Speaker 1 (08:52):
Was probably like a syndicated channel from Indiana or something.

Speaker 4 (08:56):
Yeah, it was so fucking bizarre, but I'm like, thank
you for solving that, dude, Like, I am so incredibly
grateful to you for putting that little piece of my
mythos to rest.

Speaker 1 (09:08):
So because weirdly it's likely part of like you can
find it on Wikipedia, but have you noticed that if
you try to search, like they'll have categories where it's like,
you know, every eighties or nineties animated program on, you know,
for American television. But you'll go there sometimes the shows
actually won't be in the list, and then you have

(09:28):
to search for the manually, or you'll find it listed
under the production of some other company. But it will
still be great out like they never made a blue
like they never made a proper page for it, and
that I think is one of those shows that if
it's there, it's so buried that you'd have to know
what to look for.

Speaker 4 (09:46):
Yeah, Like I had no idea what this thing was
called for, like I said, literally decades. So when I
found it, I was like, oh my god, it's it's
it's fucking real. So I'm tremendously thankful.

Speaker 1 (09:59):
I quite literally when I was watching it, I was like,
wait a minute. In my head, I thought it was
an episode of Denver the Last Dinosaur where Denver was
having a dream about about those you know what I mean, Like, yeah,
I was, And I was like, why would I ever
ever thought that. It's probably because I saw like one
or two episodes randomly, and I think Denver was on

(10:20):
like you know, if you had Bunny Ears. It was
the kind of thing you picked up on an old
UHF station of wherever. A lot of those syndicated shows
that weren't part of like the major networks or you know,
very early Nickelodeon or YTV, it was so random what
they aired on right like it was it could be

(10:41):
like a station like in a realia year, you know
what I mean, Like it wouldn't be like a regular
major market.

Speaker 4 (10:47):
Yeah, Like, it's just one of those shows that ran
for like sixty five episodes. I think I think it
got a full syndication package. But yeah, I was like,
that's cool, thanks for solving that mystery.

Speaker 1 (10:58):
It's like Beverly Hills teens. So many people remember it
but don't remember what it was exactly.

Speaker 4 (11:03):
Other than that that happened to me this week went
back to volunteering at my local food bank. That was
pretty good. Obviously enjoyed doing that. Obviously lovely drive here
in the morning in Gwelph. I guess a big thing
to mention is tomorrow in Canada is National Truth and
Reconciliation Day for Indigenous people, not a national holiday. Federal

(11:26):
employees get it off but nobody else does. Yeah. Yeah,
basically it's that. And well i'd say it's a holiday
off for postal workers, but they're striking right now.

Speaker 1 (11:40):
Well, okay, this is me being dumb. And also because
it's still a fairly new quote unquote holiday, I was
wondering why like that disability checks went out early.

Speaker 4 (11:53):
Yeah, yeah, exactly so because I was like, why why
is that stuff going on?

Speaker 1 (11:57):
Like it was like my parents, who are who are
you know getting pension? They're like my pension came in early,
and I was like, why would that be. I don't
think it's a holiday stupid me. It is. It's just
that it's it's still not established enough that it's ingrained
in my head.

Speaker 4 (12:10):
Yeah. So tomorrow I'll be going up to Fergus, which
is a town not too far from where I am,
and I'll be participating in ceremony and a conversation with
an indigenous elder, and you know, it should be an
interesting time. I was asked by a local radio station
to participate in an interview. Unfortunately they haven't got stuff together,

(12:33):
so I'm not going to single them out. So hopefully
I'll have a conversation and say, hey, if you're going
to do truth and reconciliation, don't make it last minute.
Please plan ahead. My time is valuable and if you
really care, you would have done this ahead of time.
So that's all I'm gonna say that on that kind
of soapbox. Other than that, though, it's been a good week.

(12:55):
So as of what I'm working on for review right now,
Konami send over a code for Silent Hill. F I'm
playing through that. First impressions, this is fucking weird. It's
Silent Hill, of course it is. It's weird. I like it.
It's different than other Sound Hill games I've played, for sure,
because I haven't played one since, like the sild Hill

(13:17):
to remake a couple of years ago, and the game
that I'm gonna be talking about today you're gonna hear
in the show today, I've been playing ubisoftsen over a
copy of the Star Wars Outlaws Gold Edition for the
Nintendo Switch too, so I'll be talking about that a
little bit later on in the show. So, now that

(13:37):
I've been rambling on for a little bit, what have
you been up to?

Speaker 1 (13:41):
I have been catching up on a lot of the reviews,
Like I had been playing games, and there's a bunch
that sort of came out at the same time, as
as seems to happen, like if you notice things get
grouped together, where a lot of games come out at
the end of August, a lot of games come out
at the beginning of June, a lot of games come
out in like March, and a lot of games come

(14:01):
out in October, and I've had a bunch that I've
been working on. We'll be having a review show later
on this week to cover some of the smaller titles
that we couldn't get in here, but most recently, and
I can say what I've been playing now because some
of them. It's funny when some of them barkers are like,
you can't even say that you've got the game. It's like,
but I wanna. I can say this. I've been playing

(14:23):
Final Fantasy Tactics that came sort of last minute, as
you know, it's it came a few days before it's
officially launched, so I've been playing that. I also have
a lot of RPGs that I played in the last
couple of weeks. But as for this show, I can
say that I've been playing or had been playing Ghost

(14:46):
of Yote that's going to be in this show. We
actually got it fairly early, so I was able to
you know, thankfully, Sony gave it to me early enough
to have the confidence that you know, we were going
to be one of those people that leaks things because
I I can't stand them. Let me get on my soapbox.
I can't stand it when somebody gets a review code early,

(15:06):
and then they leak things that pisses.

Speaker 4 (15:08):
Me off because it hurts all of us well.

Speaker 1 (15:12):
And I'm gonna say this, most games, if you get
them early, don't have their day one patch yet, so
you can't really evaluate what the user experience is going
to be till the patch comes out. A lot of times,
a day one patch does not mean released on the
day day one day one patch means the retail version
of the game, and that usually comes within the last

(15:33):
week or so before a game comes out. Sometimes it's
down to the wire, you know, like really close. But
in this case, I can say this that I received
I think like three game updates while I was playing it,
because we received the game almost a month early. Yeah,
and that's when most other reviewers were probably getting it.
Because I can say this, it is about a sixty

(15:55):
hour game, and that's regardless of what difficulty you play.
If you're going to do I would say, quote unquote
completionist run or mostly completionists, So you know that that's
it is pretty rare to get one a game that early,
and usually when you do, it's in not the greatest condition,
you know, performance wise, that's not the case here, I

(16:15):
can say this right now, the performance is great. So
I've been playing that, but that again, that's a sixty
hour game. I've had the I can say that's now.
I had the the Digitmond Time Stranger RPG. At the
same time, I've had a few other games that we're
going to get reviews out either this week or next
week for and that's pretty much been consuming a lot

(16:40):
of my you know, spare time is if you're juggling
like three games that are sixty hours or more, that's
pretty much what I've been doing for a week.

Speaker 4 (16:47):
Right, Yeah, you're not going outside much.

Speaker 1 (16:51):
No, I've won. I've wanted to go to the movies
and do things and they just haven't worked out. But
I'm I'm going to see what's playing on Friday because
I've been kind of delaying and been kind of lazy
and slow moving. I've got, you know, my diabetic blood
work and stuff that it's supposed to have been done
a few weeks ago, and I'm like, you know what,
it's the lab is right next to the movie theater.

(17:14):
So I'm gonna plan when I have some free time.
Either at the end of this week, we'll see what's
out and I'll go get my blood work done and
then go over and see some sort of movie, because
there have been a few that have come out that
I've wanted to see, just haven't gotten really around to it.
I don't know if I mentioned it on the show,
but obviously I saw Toxic Avenger. Trying to think, what

(17:34):
else did I see? Recently?

Speaker 4 (17:37):
The Long Walk?

Speaker 1 (17:37):
Yet No, I had to cancel a trip for that
because I wasn't feeling the greatest. I do want to
see it. I did see the Demons Layer movie that
was good, that was fully packed, and that's pretty much
been it as far as you know, going out and
doing stuff. I've gone to visit family, back and forth
to my mom's to help her out still because it's

(17:58):
gonna be a few more weeks so she can do
like heavy lifting of anything. And that's pretty much been it.

Speaker 5 (18:03):
Man.

Speaker 1 (18:03):
It's been like a lot of juggling games and review
items in that and and having a good time obviously,
but like I get a little burnt out. So I
took the last like two days and did nothing, and
I mean like nothing. I was like, I'm going to
sleep when I feel like I'm tired. I'm I'm gonna
reset my brain so that I'm not in full game mode,
because I already know that come October November, we're gonna

(18:25):
be busy again.

Speaker 4 (18:27):
Yeah. So yeah, we got a lot of cool stuff
to talk about in the show. Like I said, Alex
as Ghost of Yota, we also have something else coming
up to us in this show. I can't remember what
review I'm gonna put here outside of Star Wars Outlaws,
so I'll remember when I'm editing this show. Well it's radio.

Speaker 1 (18:44):
Well, I can probably tell you what we've got going
in here, because you've had a bunch of You've been
a busy boy when it comes to reviews over the
last little bit, so I know we have plenty of
stuff coming for you. But as far as in the show,
like I said, Ghost to Yota is sort of the
bigger release definitely, as far as like big News goes.

(19:06):
As far as you've got, you said the Star Wars Outlaws, right, yep.
So you've got Star Wars Outlaws and you got that,
and your other review is a Shark Vacuum.

Speaker 4 (19:19):
Oh yeah, our good friends over at Shark Ninja sent
over something which again is pretty neat. So we're gonna
talk about that. Plus we've got ghosts of Yota. Plus
we do have some breaking news. Alex doesn't even know
what I'm talking about yet, but we'll break that news
because not a lot is known about it, but it's
coming officially from the Walt Disney Company and twentieth Century Fox,
and what I can tell so looks good. Anyway, I'll

(19:40):
break that news to you right after this. But this
is going to be my review of Star Wars Outlaws
on the Nintendo Switch to We'll be back gutch right
after this. Only on this weekend geek dot.

Speaker 2 (19:52):
Net k vess the underworld's favorite news scoundrel.

Speaker 6 (19:58):
It is your one shot, a safe filled with one
hundred and fifty seven million credits, and I can get
you inside.

Speaker 4 (20:09):
Get him? How about getting out this job? It's a
death web. Hey guys, this is Mike the bird Man here.
I'm here to talk about something we got sent from
our friends over at Ubisoft. They sent over a review
copy of Star Wars Outlaws on the Nintendo Switch. Now,

(20:31):
Alex and I both took a look at this game
last year, so I'm not gonna bore you with the details. TLDR.
You play a criminal, but you're a nice person at
the end of the day named Kves. You have your
cute little kind of a your dog thing named Nix,
and you're trying to make your way through the Star
Wars galaxy with the criminal underworld. The game is set

(20:52):
between I want to say, like Empire and Jedi. It's
honestly pretty kick ass. I really really really enjoy it.
Storyline wise, it's pretty off. Now, this is a port
of a game that came out on Xbox Series X,
PC and PlayStation five. I played the Xbox Series X
version last year and I had a really good time

(21:12):
with it. Now, what does this mean for the Nintendo
Switch to version? As this is a port of a
game that was running on superior hardware. I actually didn't
notice a lot of difference, Like, I'm not one of
those Oh it didn't run at sixty frames a second,
Oh my god, sacrifice it to the Starlac bit. No, honestly,
it worked pretty good. I didn't have any major complaints. Plus,

(21:36):
you're getting all of the DLC for the game, except
for the digital art book, and like some of the
cosmetic stuff, that's not really gonna make a difference. If
you mean, if you want to drop the couple bucks
on it. Yeah, sure, I guess why not, but you
don't need to. It's honestly not really kind of worth it,
I'd say for a Switch two port. I think it's
really good, probably one of the better games I've played

(21:58):
on the Switch to. Kind of makes me wonder what
CD Project Red's Cyberpunk would be like on the Switch too,
so maybe I'll have to pick that up at some point.
But no, Star Wars Outlaws feels pretty good. It's a
different game than it was like a year ago, Like
they've done a lot of patches to address things like

(22:19):
the stealth missions, which were ultimately a huge pain in
the ass. Plus some of the gunplays been changed up.
I feel like speeder Bike feels a little bit tighter.
That was my biggest complaint when I played this game
last year. But just it feels better or I've gotten better.
Maybe I just prefer the switch To's Pro controller to
my Xbox Series X I don't quite remember. But no, seriously,

(22:42):
this is a pretty solid part. If you don't have
this game on like any other console, Yeah, I think
this is a pretty solid pickup for your library. So
if you've ever wanted to not wheeld a lightsaber for
a change, but instead going blasters blasting and if you
like you using a cute little alien guy to help

(23:02):
rob people. Trust me, it's more fun than what it sounds.
Then seriously, I think you should pick up Star Wars
Outlaws for the Nintendo switch to. I think it's a
fantastic port and definitely worth your time to travel to
a galaxy far far away.

Speaker 2 (23:17):
You want to live, get in with the underworld's most
dangerous syndicates, and pull off the greatest heist the outer
rim as.

Speaker 4 (23:30):
I've ever seen. Amen.

Speaker 7 (23:43):
The Prime Minister of Sweden visited Washington today and.

Speaker 1 (23:46):
My tiny little nipples went to France. Gossip, rumors, panic
in the streets.

Speaker 8 (23:51):
We're lucky this weekend Geek New.

Speaker 4 (23:55):
Welcome back to this weekend Geek. You just heard me.
As you can guess, I'm He's Alex. It's now time
to break us into the nerd news network only on
this weekkeeek dot net so literally happening moments ago. As
of this recording, Variety dot Com, along with multiple outlets,
is reporting that the Simpsons movie sequel has been announced
for summer twenty twenty seven as release day as the

(24:19):
release date sorry. According to a Variety dough, Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa,
and Maggie will return to the big screen in twenty
twenty seven. The Simpsons two, officially in the works at
Disney's twentieth Century, is slated to release in theaters in
July twenty three, twenty twenty seven. In the film has
taken the place of an untitled Marvel project, which was

(24:39):
removed from the studio schedule. Disney in twentieth Century haven't
confirmed any plot details, but shared the poster on Instagram,
which featured the signature pink donut and the tagline, Homer's
coming back for seconds?

Speaker 1 (24:53):
Do we get another radio game where we hear him
go double jump over and over again.

Speaker 4 (24:58):
See. I I want to believe they're doing this in
good faith. I don't think they are.

Speaker 1 (25:05):
I think this is a matter of them going, oh,
there's a few things. I think the good faith argument is.
I think this. I don't know if this will end
the series, but I think they're thinking far enough ahead.
You know in two years time, you know, the actors
are getting older, some of them are starting to pass
away or possibly retire and not be able to do

(25:25):
the voices. If they don't do it to coincide with
what would be close to the fortieth anniversary. I don't
know if they could. I don't know if it's they
couldn't plan again for another major milestone because their choices
are in two years or probably in five years, and
there's no guarantee in five years that it'll be viable
to do. So I'm just checking right now. I know

(25:48):
the Simpsons started in eighty eight, the original like the
main show, right but or sorry, eighty nine? It was
December eighty nine. But what I'm trying to see is
when did the Tracy Ollman stuff start with them? Maybe
the Simpsons franchise, the Simpsons shorts started in eighty seven,

(26:11):
so it would be the fortieth anniversary of what, so
that don't be surprised if that plays a part into it. Again,
I don't know they already filmed, was it? Last year?
They made one of the best episodes they've made in
probably fifteen years, and that was they made the series
finale where they showed off and it's not The goal

(26:32):
is to not retcon it with a different ending. The
idea was here is the arc. We're going to have
to finish the storylines of all the characters. They're going
to have closure, and whenever we choose to actually end
the show, we're going to refer you to this episode
as the actual finale, which is an interesting idea to
do with a show that you don't know when it's

(26:53):
going to end, So it could be the final thing
that they make, or it could be just a celebration
of forty years. But it's very clear now if it's
summer of twenty twenty seven, it's being used as the
fortieth anniversary special.

Speaker 4 (27:06):
Yeah. Now I'm a lot more cynical about this because
Disney and ABC, I don't need to tell you, they've
had some problems in recent weeks. I don't think it's
coincidence that we got the Mandalorian and Grogu trailer last week,
and I don't think the timing for this is coincidence either. Now,

(27:27):
obviously things between ABC and Next Star Sinclair and all
that nonsense has been more or less settled, but still
fallout is still happening. I do see this as a
little bit of goodwill damage control, but still I'm gonna
hope I'm not right, But it's a little hard not

(27:49):
to read between the lines. Considering what's happening in the
news over the last few weeks, and that's all I'm
really gonna kind of say about it.

Speaker 1 (27:55):
What I would wonder is how much of this is
to do with this, is to do with that, and
how much of this is to do with whatever disastrous
project they had to pull.

Speaker 4 (28:08):
My guess is it's probably the Blade movie, because that's
been in development hell for like since two thousand and ninety.

Speaker 1 (28:13):
That is what I'm thinking. Like, if it's not, people
are automatically going to assume, oh, they pulled an animated project. No,
they are never gonna pull an animated project because animated projects,
unless it's a Pixar movie that costs one hundred million dollars,
there is no animated Marvel project that has cost anywhere
near what a theatrical budget usually is.

Speaker 4 (28:35):
But say, yeah, I mean yeah, I mean unless I
did like theatrical X Men ninety seven, which will never happen.

Speaker 1 (28:42):
Which and it wouldn't be that like it would they
a pure proper three D animated movie. Theatrically, they are
never gonna pull it. They will find a way to
make it work. So it would have to have been
a two D animated movie and like zombies or something,
and they're not gonna pull They're just gonna throw it.
They're going to lower the budget, pull it from theatrical run,

(29:04):
and throw it on on streaming. Yeah, so for them
to have pulled something, it has to be a live
action and they're already going full steam ahead with what
is it like? Fantastic for it did well? I think
it did okay.

Speaker 4 (29:19):
It had a disappointing return, mostly because it suffered an
eighty percent drop off in its second week.

Speaker 1 (29:25):
It also it's because Superman was doing well well.

Speaker 4 (29:29):
I mean, this is a discussion maybe for me and JT,
but very quickly the superhero fatigue I think is somewhat
real and somewhat not because Superman did good numbers but
it didn't do Aquaman numbers. Because we're used to having
these billion dollar superhero movies and it hasn't happened in

(29:50):
a while.

Speaker 1 (29:51):
And thee Them momentum essentially ended, not an endgame momentum,
ended with Spider Man Way.

Speaker 4 (30:00):
Home, Yeah, which was arguably the last really good to
it Now people like Thunderbolts, but it needed to make
five hundred million to break even with all the marketing
and all the promotional there have been.

Speaker 1 (30:11):
It's not to say there haven't been good movies, but
the momentum the we during the pandemic, we actually received
closure with Spider Man. Yeah, and because like that and
that was we got closure. And it's not just that
we got closure. We got between Spider Man and Deadpool

(30:32):
and Wolverine. We got closure millennials and younger Gen X
and older millennials and even it's into the younger millennials
got the closure of what they have been wanting and
seeing for essentially twenty twenty four years or so, right,

(30:53):
Like we we got to see the full arc of
what we've wanted to see from the X Men and Wolverine,
and we got to see you know, because you're a
little older, But for me, Spider Man came out when
I was like fifteen or fourteen.

Speaker 4 (31:09):
Yeah, Spider Man was like a date movie for me
and my girlfriend at the time.

Speaker 1 (31:14):
So and X Men came out when I was thirteen yep.
So like for me, like that's I was the prime
age and I got to see, you know, I'm getting
close to middle age and I finally got to see
the closure of everything, or at least, you know, It
doesn't mean we weren't left wanting more, but I feel
like that was the momentum, and also just the quality

(31:36):
and the heart involved was more. Those movies didn't have
a lot of the special effects issues that you know,
other Marvel and DC movies have had either way too
much poor quality special effects because they're rushed or trying
to do too much with it, or looked muddy and

(31:59):
washed out like all the Snyder stuff like there. It's
hard to strike the balance of you know, everything, and
those movies did they all They struck it perfectly essentially,
And I feel like whatever they're working on is probably
it's probably Blade got pulled, because they've been very quiet,

(32:20):
very quiet on that to the point where they they
weren't even like they've been quiet even with the Arcane
video game. You know that they're making that Blade video game, right,
Why has there been nothing else about that in like
a year?

Speaker 4 (32:38):
Yeah, I mean to swing this background to the Simpsons
for a second. Yeah, when you think about other projects
that could be done from the stable of the animation studios,
I'm not surprised we didn't get a Bob's Burger's movie
again because the first one, I'll be honest with you,
I didn't much care for I don't think there's enough

(33:02):
steam in as much as American Dad is funny. No,
I don't see anything happening with Family Guy theatrically anyway.

Speaker 1 (33:11):
Streaming Family Guy one would only work in so much
as if it was a Family Guy American Dad crossover movie,
specifically to spoof when the Jetsons met the Flintstones.

Speaker 4 (33:27):
I I could see that. I could see that, and
I think, but.

Speaker 1 (33:30):
I don't feel. I don't feel it would be theatrical.
I think that would be a big Hulu event.

Speaker 4 (33:35):
Yeah, which which now that Hulu doesn't effectively exist, it'd
be like or Disney plus plus.

Speaker 1 (33:41):
Yeah, it would only work. I think if it was
a Cavali. You know how they did the crossover with
the Simpsons on regular TV years ago. It would work
if it was a Hey, here's the joke. It's all
of the old Fox shows banding together for a big movie,
and the idea is to get Disney's attention.

Speaker 4 (34:02):
See. I think that'd be pretty funny to have like
Napoleon Dynamited, Alan Gregory and all these obscure, shitty shows.

Speaker 1 (34:10):
It was just like like it would be like like
John Lovets The Critic, and it would be all of
the show, all of the adult animated shows, Duckman and
like everything that was produced. Was that Oratory? Was that Warner? Maybe?
I think that was upn So yeah, up basically any
of the shows that Fox put on the Critic. There

(34:33):
were a couple others that were on there maybe like
The Tick or something and it, but it would have
to be all the ones that they own and that
maybe appeared on The Simpsons or whatever. All the nineties
and early two thousands, Cleveland show, all this stuff. You
have all of them and there, and the joke behind
it is they all realize they're that they're irrelevant, being

(34:53):
you know, brushed under the rug by Disney, and they
have to make a movie together to make money, you know,
save our ip. Essentially the movie you know sort of
like like how uh like Rescue Rangers kind of was.

Speaker 4 (35:07):
Yeah, you know what might work. I would love to
see it happen because the reboot surprise the hell out
of me. King of the Hill, and if you made
that a serious family dramedy comedy movie, like you know,
basically keep the same writing that King of the Hill
is really known for. If you did, and the event

(35:28):
would be Bobby's wedding to fuck Connie. That might be interesting.

Speaker 1 (35:36):
If they do that, because I, as a kid, didn't
really get it. Like, to me, that show was boring
when I was a kid, because again I was I
was too like when I was I was the age
when that show started. I was Bobby's age, and that
was not really a show for me. I was like,
this show is kind of slow. It's not like The Simpsons.

(35:57):
I'm not laughing, you know, I mean, it's not South Park.
I'm not giggling because it's naughty. And it became the
show that when it was off the air after so
many years, I was watching occasionally in reruns. It got memified,
lots of clips on YouTube, and I started to appreciate
it much much more. Is it's much more of an
adult comedy than you know what, quote unquote The Simpsons

(36:20):
is supposed to be. It's an adult animated show. No,
it really is a you could film it as a
live action thing because it's basically a proper sitcom or
dramaedy just happens to be animated and it's made for
mature adults. And I went back now and watched a
bunch of episodes, and when the new season came out,
I watched it and I was like, this is the

(36:42):
first time that a show is returned. And I will
say this, Futurama did and has had a pretty consistent run.
When they've brought it back, It's still funny. It's not
maybe quite as funny as it was in when they
did the couple TV movies that brought it back the
first time that it's funny. This new third time they
brought it back, it's still funny, but not the same.

(37:04):
This feels like they never stopped writing it. Yeah, like
it was that it was that spot on. But that
being said, you know what would work then instead of
the jetson Z sort of thing. It would work if
it was the anchor of it was Futurama and you

(37:29):
have Farnsworth come out and make his his uh Farnsworth
reality blah blah blah blah blah, and it's basically he
breaks the multiverse and and the joke can be again,
you know, like this is a multiverse thing again. He
breaks the multiverse and all the characters from all the
different Fox shows end up having to be missmashed and

(37:49):
they have to figure out a way to put themselves
back together.

Speaker 4 (37:54):
I mean, I I hope the Simpson this movie when
it comes out, is success successful. My guess is we'll
see a trailer probably Christmas twenty twenty six. That's when
we'll see our.

Speaker 1 (38:07):
First either that or if Disney decides to do what
is It? What's There? Did they do that event this
year that they usually do d.

Speaker 4 (38:15):
D twenty three? There was some kind of celebration, but no,
I think I know.

Speaker 1 (38:21):
A comic con but I don't think they did anything. Now.
My biggest concern is is Marge going to be able
to do the voice? Because you've heard her in the
last like four or five years. She's having a hard
time doing the voice. It's not noting against her, it's
just that's a very gravelly voice to do when you're
like in your late seventies or something or whatever.

Speaker 4 (38:40):
She is, right, Yeah, Like, honestly, it wouldn't surprise me
if the vo is already written and it's already recorded
and they're just waiting to animate it.

Speaker 1 (38:49):
That is usually they you know, they do the voices
to the animation, but with a movie of this caliber,
they could easily do the voices and then do the animation.

Speaker 4 (38:57):
Yeah, like it wouldn't surprise me. So we're gonna move
on to our next story. This one comes courtesy of
Bloody Disgusting dot Com. We first saw this, i want
to say, during the PlayStation State of Play a little
while ago, but we finally got an extended look at
this Halloween. The game stocks consoles and PC's next September, so,
according to Blaye discussing the countdown is on for illphonic

(39:19):
and gun interactives Halloween. During the Sony State of Play,
the team's announced that the Asymmetric stealth horror game will
launch on PlayStation five, Xbox Series, PCVA, Steam, Epic Game
Store on September eighth, twenty twenty six. Alongside the release
of announcement a brand new gameplay trailer which can view
blow which I'll talk about. It says death comes to

(39:40):
Haddenfield and Halloween, a chilling tribute to the iconic John
Carpenter classic film Survive or Slay Across Tenth Streets and
dark Corners of Haddenfield and this asymmetrical horror sandbox taking
on the role of either a desperate civilian or the
infamous Michael Myers himself in each high stakes cat and
mouse match, every decision means life or death. As a civilian,
protect the townsfolk by guiding them to safety, scavenging for

(40:03):
weapons and supplies, and finding a phone to call the
police before it's too late. Dangel looks around every corner.
Survival depends on strategy, teamwork, and quick thinking. Meanwhile, Michael
Meyers stalks the show is using terrifying abilities like shape
jump to move unseen across the map and strike without
warning in a heart pealing experience quote. Our goal is
to push the whore experience to the next level with

(40:24):
single and multiplayer modes so the players can get the
most out of the game, said Jarrett gets in CEO
of Illphonic, Whether they become the Boogeyman or fight to
protect Michael Myers victims, Halloween promises an unforgettable battle of
fear in Survivals. In addition, the game will feature a
motion capture from the one or from the original Michael
Myers himself, Nick Castle, this is Friday the thirteenth three

(40:46):
skinned now me and Liam a very close front of
the show and pretty much family. We were looking at this,
We're like, how is this not Friday the thirteenth. Maybe
they've taken a couple of notes from Predator Hunting Ground
and the Texas Chainsaw mask or game. But when we

(41:07):
saw the shape shift ability, like that's the Jason Teleport,
who gives a shit? Now it looks cool. I'm not
gonna deny this.

Speaker 1 (41:18):
Those styles of games are basically dead to me because
they only last six months, and then after that they're
dead because they're fads, like they're the worst.

Speaker 4 (41:26):
Facts, I would argue. I would argue that mostly because
I spent a lot of time in the Friday of
the Thirteenth community. The problem with the Friday with the
problem sorry, the problem with the Halloween franchise one because
I know you're not much of a horror movie guy,
so allow me to lord dump for just a few minutes.

Speaker 1 (41:42):
Wasn't there a Texas Chainsaw one that was garbage too?

Speaker 4 (41:46):
Yeah, and that died very quickly, mostly because there was
a lack of maps and the killers outside of the
established core from the family. They introduced a few new people,
but nobody gave a shit. The problem with this one,
I think is it's hadden Field Okay, cool, great, I
get it. There's gonna be some iconic locations like the

(42:07):
Myers House, Loris Strode's House and all the other survivors
from the first movie. But unless the map reconfigures itself
and those locations are static, Okay, cool, I get it. Sure,
what other maps do you have? I mean, maybe the
hospital from number two, maybe Haddenfield as a town from

(42:29):
four and five, maybe the farmhouse like Sheriff Bracket's house
or something like. There's just there's just not a lot there.
And if it's only Nick Castle doing the motion capture.
Nick Castle came back for the last set of Halloween
movies and.

Speaker 1 (42:46):
Hmmm, I'm not house in in the one with buster rhymes.

Speaker 4 (42:52):
Yeah, there's that too. I mean, like I just there's
just not a depth of the franchise there.

Speaker 1 (42:59):
And Killer Clowns from Outer Space game like this too.

Speaker 4 (43:02):
There was, and that game died very very quickly because
again cool idea to basein ip off of, but not
at sixty dollars.

Speaker 1 (43:09):
The only one that works for me is Nightmare on
Elm Street because you can just you could have a
randomly generated mass, because you can argue that it's the
dream world shaping around you.

Speaker 4 (43:20):
Yeah, and Dead by Daylight has got a huge community.
Their maps are different. You get a huge variety of
killers and survivors, and that community is hardcore. Friday the
thirteenth we got a variety of different maps, but we
also had a variety of different Jasons and survivors. From
this one, they've only shown us Nick Castle. Again, I'm

(43:41):
not harping on on the Guy, but for Friday the thirteenth,
we had so many different Jason's. We had Caine hat
Or Jason, we had Savini Jason, the early Jason's, we
had sack Head, we got the early Mask, we got
the one from Part four Zombie Jason. We even had
the fake Jason in Row who is the ambulance driver.

(44:02):
And again, so many different maps. And they were even
planning to do a map on the Grendel spaceship from
Jason X, and had that game continued, we probably would
have got a map from the two thousand and nine
reboot as well. So again, Friday the thirteenth has a
lot more lore in an interest in and I said,
I'm not against this because I know the a cod

(44:22):
family who runs a lot of the Halloween stuff. They're
very protective of the IP. So if I was gonna
trust any developer to do it, I would gun Media
and illphonic.

Speaker 1 (44:35):
It won't last more than six months. I'm telling you
right now. It's it's unfortunate, but it's there. This game
style is more of a flash in the pan than
any other live service game. It's been proven over and
over again it doesn't work. There's room for maybe one

(44:55):
or two games. I guess the one that you mentioned
was dead by a day. Like, you're not gonna get
Nicholas Cage in this, Yeah, no, you know, you don't.
You know you're gonna get You're gonna get Paul Rudd
as like a meme cameo and it will last for
two weeks.

Speaker 4 (45:11):
And you and I'm honestly surprised. Jamie Lee Curtis hasn't
signed off on this yet.

Speaker 1 (45:17):
No, she won't sign She won't sign off on I
mean if they pay money.

Speaker 4 (45:20):
And yet she'll do fucking border Lands.

Speaker 1 (45:23):
But uh, the Borderlands paid on a hell of a
lot more money than this is gonna pay her.

Speaker 4 (45:27):
Yeah. Like, it's like I said, I would love for
this to be successful, but again, Camp Crystal Lake is
a lot more interesting than Haddenfield Now. Friday the thirteenth
had a vibrant community. It also had the virtual cabin.
Now they do mention single player in this, so maybe
you play through the movies because Friday the thirteenth introduced

(45:49):
a single player campaign later and it was fun, but
once you beat it whatever, right, So, and one of
the big problems with Friday the thirteenth, it's hopefully gun
media will fucking learn this time, is make your game
playable offline, because you've because of a frid of the
thirteenth right now, you can still play the game offline, yes,

(46:12):
but you can't connect to the servers, which means your data,
which says, all your unlocks, all your whatever, you can't access.
So you can play the bass game with about three characters.
It's bullshit. And all they could do is they could
literally throw it a path, say hey, we're unlocking everything offline.
Have fun. They didn't do that. Major oversight. So I've

(46:36):
got some concerns with this, but we'll wait and see.
I'm sure we'll see much more in the next six
to seven months. But anyway, next story a little bit happier. Uh.
This one comes courtesy of superhero Hype dot Com. Let's
get continuing with Marvel News X Men ninety seven and
Marvel's hit Spider Man show. Are I get exciting release plans?

(46:57):
Brad Winderbaum, the Heart, the Sorry, the Heart, the head
of Streaming, television and Animation at Marvel Studios, provided details
about the release plans of future seasons of X Men
ninety seven, Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider Man and Marvel Zombies.
The first show premiered on Disney Plus on March twenty,
twenty twenty four, while the second series came out on
January twenty nine, twenty twenty five. The sophomore season of

(47:18):
both shows are expected to debut in twenty twenty six.
As for Marvel Zombies, it started streaming with all four
episodes on September twenty fourth, twenty twenty five, which I
just watched. New seasons of X Men ninety seven and
Your Friendly Neighborhood spider Man are to release every year.
Winderbaum stated during a new interview with Discussing Film that
Marvel intends to release new seasons of its animated shows annually.

(47:39):
When asked about what strategy fans can expect going forward
on the animation side, the executive responded, what's exciting about
the next few years that we're going to get subsequent
seasons of X Men ninety seven and Your Friendly Neighborhood
Spider Man on an annual cadence. Winderbomb elaborated, so every
year there will be a new season and we can
map out longer arc to those stories. Given that the
third season of both shows are currently in development, that

(48:01):
means they can come out in twenty twenty seven. Winder
Bomb's common also indicates that these shows can go beyond
season three. This is the first time winderbaumb I've spoken
about the annual release part, he told Collider in February
of twenty twenty five X Men ninety seven In Your
Friendly Neighborhood Spider Man, we're quote top priorities and trying
to get a good place where we can reliably have
very strong seasons every year. In the same interview with

(48:23):
discussing film, winder Bomb reflected on how Marvel Zombies, the
studio's latest release, fits the above mentioned really said, he
replied a single standalone epic adventure that Brian Andrews wanted
to make of. I mean, the laura is very rich.
There are stories we can talk about all the time.
We know where they are. They just didn't align with
this particular story. Winderbaumb proceeded to promise that if the

(48:44):
show draws enough viewership, more seasons will likely happen. I
really liked Marvel Zombies. It's endings a little weird if
that's all we get, okay, I.

Speaker 1 (48:58):
Want more like what I saw watch it. I don't
have any interesting I don't have any interest.

Speaker 4 (49:04):
In but I read the book, so that was part
of my thing.

Speaker 1 (49:08):
What If with such a bad animation style that I
won't watch anything that they put out see.

Speaker 4 (49:13):
I didn't mind it, but I'm.

Speaker 1 (49:15):
Horrible, very It reminds me of those horrible, goddamn DVD
motion comics.

Speaker 4 (49:22):
I don't know. I'm a lot more forgiving because I
really enjoyed What If. At least season one. Season two
there were some good episode. Season three was very inconsistent.

Speaker 1 (49:31):
The voice acting is horrible, horrible. They get the real
people from the movies and then they're like, hey, we
don't give you any directions so you can sound all
hokey and terrible. I don't know. It pissed me off
so much. I'm sorry.

Speaker 4 (49:45):
I would disagree because I think certain episodes were really
well directed. In other ones, yes, I am not afraid
to say, you are right.

Speaker 1 (49:51):
What's her name? Agent Carter is terrible?

Speaker 4 (49:54):
Haley a well. Out of all the episodes she was in,
I think I liked about maybe two of them.

Speaker 1 (50:01):
That's it's it's not that's not me against the actress herself,
it's the direction was bad. Like ooh, it's the pandemic.
Other shows had were recorded during the pandemic and they
didn't have this trouble. Sorry, I'm sorry, Yeah, that's okay.

Speaker 4 (50:16):
I mean with like Marvel Zombies, I like the fact
that it relied a lot on Miss Marvel and Sean Chi.
The guy who played Blade. It's not Marshall. I can't
pronounce his name, but it wasn't him. It was another dude.
And they got everybody to do their roles, which I
think was really fantastic. David Harbor did not need to

(50:37):
go this hard as Red Guardian, and he did a
really good job. They got the guy who played Baron
Zimo back again. Cool idea like even Elizabeth Olsen came
back as Wanda. I was like, this is cool. I
like it. This is what I wanted from a Marvel
Zombies live action would have been awesome. Not gonna happen,
but it would have been cool. So if we get

(51:00):
a season two, I hope they take their time and
do it, because the way season one ends it's very
much what But if that's all we get, and if
it's a one and done, sure, I know Marvel is
going to start to slow down doing annual stuff. So
we might get one live action show a year, as
we just mentioned, we'll get one or two seasons of

(51:21):
animated stuff. So x Men and Spider Man. I think
that's awesome. I really hope at some point there's a
discussion about Spider Man ninety eight or something, just to
bring back you know, Dan Gilvezan and all those people
who did all the work on that. I think that
was Dan Gilzan, I can't remember.

Speaker 1 (51:41):
But either way, Spider Man, Radioactive spider Man. So, oh,
are you trying to tell me that Spider Man Unlimited
wasn't the next season like they lied to us about
in the goddamn TV. Oh, it's the next thing. Why
does it look terrible? And why was the story's terrible?
Why was everything terrible? And it's supposed to be the
next sea And yeah, I mean, didn't they do some

(52:02):
sort of bullshit like when when they're like because at
the end, the cliffhanger was Madam Webbs like, we're gonna
find the real Mary Jane or your Mary Jane. Yeah,
and then and then it just jumps forward. It's like
the explanation was he found her and now he's in space.

Speaker 4 (52:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (52:20):
Yeah, in the interim break, he found her. They lived
happily ever after, but now he got sucked into space
and you're like what, but what but yeah.

Speaker 4 (52:28):
And now and now Venom and Carnage are working together
and you're like, wait what, But yeah.

Speaker 1 (52:33):
It was. It was more jarring than Beast Wars into
Beast Machines, and that at least had a story behind
why it happened the way it did.

Speaker 4 (52:41):
Yeah. Like again, I want Marvel Animation to be on
the same level as the DC animated stuff. I mean,
Creature Commandos. It's it's an okay show. I mean, hey,
we have a robot killing Nazis. I'm down with that.

Speaker 1 (52:57):
Marvel that doesn't have a Bruce tim.

Speaker 4 (52:59):
Yeah, like they need someone who knows how to make
these things or or a Paul Deaney who knows like, Okay, yeah,
here's the story we're gonna tell. Even if they're Marvel elsewhere,
if they did a series of what ifs, or if
they straight adapted storylines and used actors from the show,
Like if I could get this is my dream project,

(53:23):
it's not gonna happen, but if I could get maximum
Carnage on slought a lot of nineties shit here just
so we're crystal clear, or maybe even House of m Avengers.
Academy would be a fucking wicked mini series. By the way,
it's really fucking brutal, but it'd be really cool. But yeah,

(53:46):
like that's I wish Marvel did smaller movies like DC does.
They're like, they're like an easy eighty ninety minutes. You're
in and out. They could kill people. You can bring
in the voice casts of whatever shows you want, like
Hell Jensen Eccles is a fuck you want.

Speaker 1 (54:01):
To you want to pull people in two because it's
obviously that they want more people to be on Disney
Plus and they're merging Hulu. They want like I mean,
for us in Canada we never had Hulu so and
and in the States, uh, they I think they're putting
it under the Star banner like we had the the
Fox stuff was under the Star banner. Here but now

(54:23):
everything's sort of merged. Everything is basically Disney Plus and
it's just all sectioned off by if you want mature
content or not for the account, but if you want
to pull in people that are actually going to pay,
you have to have things that aren't just for kids
and not things that are just small. You need to
do a max line. Punish your max You need to

(54:45):
do Nick Fury. You want to do some animated stuff,
you do the Creature Commando's thing. You make it mature,
and you have it, and you have it under the
max line.

Speaker 4 (54:57):
I mean, honestly, to follow your line thinking here, I
guarantee you they would have a sub significant jump in
subscribers if they said, hey, guys, we're gonna do Marvel
Presents Marvel Zombies Live Action ninety minutes. And you just
adapt the first day of the of the Apocalypse, like

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you could even literally adapt. The comics had a prequel,
I think it was called Dead Days, which happens when
the Century comes to Earth and brings the zombie virus
with him or whatever, and you see Wolverine go fucking crazy,
you see Spider Man eat Mary Jane. You see what
happens when or when Colonel America goes crazy. If you

(55:44):
adapted that into one ninety minute movie, you would get
so many people coming on, even if it was just
for one month, they'd be like, holy shit, that would
fucking sell. That would sell it because you know Disney
can do the special effects. You know people would pay
to see this. As much as I think Werewolf by
Night's cool, that's not driving subscribers. Man, thing, I don't care.

(56:09):
And I hate saying that because I think that's such
a cool idea. But no, I want Marvel Zombies. I
want the R rated stuff. I want Punisher War Journal. Hell,
you give me a little mini Thomas Jane movie, that'd
be cool. But John Berthall is punishing now. But you
get what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (56:25):
I think you heard my doorbell ring.

Speaker 4 (56:28):
I think you did, so yeah, Like that's all I
really got to say about that. But just like, God,
damn it, Marvel, you can do so much better. I
know you can. I like Marvel Zombies, I want more,
but I want to see more from other corners of
the Marvel universe. Just try making little mini movies like
DC does, and I guarantee you, if you do it right,

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you'll be surprised anyway, This one kind of took me
by surprise. So this one comes courtesy of Collider dot com.
Former WWE wrestlers coming firms in talks to play Jason
Vorhees in the Friday of the Thirteenth revival. No genre
does franchising quite like horror. For nearly three decades of
scream to the resurgence, if I know what you did

(57:11):
last summer, your favorite monsters and killers are never really dead,
they're just taking a hiatus. But for more than fifteen
years since the last time we spotted the masheitte wielding
psychopath Jason Vorhees, fans are beginning to wonder if the
Friday of the Thirteenth franchise will ever come back to
the big screen. With Peacocky in a twenty four hard
at Work, the prequel series, Crystal Lake, the hockey goalie
wearing mask wearing slasher, is finally part of the of

(57:32):
the conversation again, and thanks to one of the stars
of the upcoming Deaf Gasm to Gormgeddon, we have a
promising update the share in support of Deaf Gasm to
Gorm mcgeddon's world premier at Fantastic fests. Collider's Perry nem
Off sat down the chat with the project's director, Jason
Lee Howden, and two of its stars, Kimberly Crossman and

(57:53):
Adam Sheer. The latter was the Blood Filled Serves as
his latest tenure to this into cinematic projects, having previously
performed under the moniker Braunz Strohman in the WWE. Now
gaining wider notoriety as an actor, Sheer says He's says
he has plans to not only continue as Hollywood takeover,
but as incredibly hopeful he'll be the next actor to

(58:15):
put the mask on of Jason Vorhees and wreak havoc
on unsuspecting teens. After being asked by meme Off, which
I kind of core franchise he'd like to be a
part of, Shear said, or sorry. Sheer didn't hesitate, quickly responding, oh,
Friday of the thirteenth Jason and that he would quote
gladly shave his beard off to play that character, breathing
hope into a long gone franchise favorite and teasing there
may variable There may very well be something already in

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the works that just hasn't made it to the light
of day It. Sheer added, there may have been some
talks about me with people that I know and my agency.
If we could ever get to if we could ever
get everybody back on the same page and allow things
to work, I might be the next Vorhe's before he
continues his talks with the powers that be behind the
Fright of the thirteenth franchise, Sheer will appear as a

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security guard Deafasm Too Gorm mcgeddon follow in the immense
popular of the twenty fifteen film Deaf Gasm. Hawden went
back to the drawing board, and that's basically all it is.
I don't like the scale of Stroman for Jason. I'd
rather they bring back the one from two thousand and nine.

Speaker 1 (59:20):
I don't think he's supposed to be like ten feet tall.

Speaker 4 (59:23):
Yeah he's not. He's not the mountain from Game of Thrones.
I'd rather they like Derek Miers from Freddy versus Jason.
He's still working.

Speaker 1 (59:32):
Unless it's supposed to be like Nanobot Jason.

Speaker 4 (59:38):
You know what, he wouldn't play a bad uber Jason. Yeah,
you actually make a really good point there.

Speaker 1 (59:42):
You know what else?

Speaker 4 (59:43):
You know who?

Speaker 1 (59:44):
He'd be good as true if they make another live
actually be Super Shredder.

Speaker 4 (59:50):
Yeah, actually that'd be kind of great.

Speaker 1 (59:51):
I mean Kevin Nash was Super Shredder and he and
like was almost all of his footage was cut except
for the part where he's just under the dock.

Speaker 4 (01:00:00):
Yeah, which fucking sucks because.

Speaker 1 (01:00:02):
I think I think there was like five minutes a
footage of him and then they just cut it down
to like ninety seconds.

Speaker 4 (01:00:07):
Oh yeah, Like it's it's a real tragedy. Like some
of these actors who have this gigantic physicality don't get
a chance to do much. I mean, like even the
guy who plays the Mountain Uh from Game of Thrones,
you know who, he would be awesome as. Again, going back.

Speaker 1 (01:00:22):
To Marvel Lurch if he was on steroids, now.

Speaker 4 (01:00:26):
I'm thinking the Juggernaut or Colossus because he's so goddamn huge, rather.

Speaker 1 (01:00:33):
Than you know what, the sure would be better as
the Juggernaut. I think than Vinnie Jones was of.

Speaker 4 (01:00:42):
God Yeah, which is like the Juggernaut.

Speaker 1 (01:00:45):
Because the Juggernaut needs to have a he doesn't have
to have like un goodly gigantic arms or like fake
arms that put in that, but he has the barrel chest. Yeah,
and he's he's like a b He looks like a
big dumb farm boy football player. Yeah, and that's what
this guy looks like, a big farm you know, homegrown

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farm boy.

Speaker 4 (01:01:06):
Like when I picture a Jason Vorhees and I know
it's nostalgia speaking, Caine Hadder is obviously my Jason. But
even when you think there was an actor in front
of the Thirteenth Part six c J. Graham, I picture tall, powerful,
built like a hockey player, but not a football player.

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Do you kind of get what I mean?

Speaker 1 (01:01:31):
You know, I say that you know who was the
right body size before he got a little too overweight?
Who Vincent Dinofrio in uh in Men in Black.

Speaker 4 (01:01:44):
I could see I don't know if i'd see him
as a Jason type. I could see him working in
a hell racer type.

Speaker 1 (01:01:51):
But he had the right body composition.

Speaker 4 (01:01:55):
Yeah, movie where like he was built and powerful but
not overwhelming.

Speaker 1 (01:01:59):
He has he's had a stronger upper body, but he
wasn't like the pot belly that he sort of got
later on. I mean, he's brilliant as Wilson Fisk.

Speaker 4 (01:02:06):
Now right, Oh yeah, he's amazing.

Speaker 1 (01:02:08):
He grew into the role, but like somebody, you know,
who would make a good juggernaut. Who the other wrestler,
the one that does the worm? Have you the heavy
set guy that was with what's her name?

Speaker 3 (01:02:25):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (01:02:26):
Yes, okay, okay, okay, think about bitch. No, just just
just the way he walks around and does like the
arms flexing and hot, like the physicality that's very put
the big helmet on him. That's the juggernaut.

Speaker 4 (01:02:41):
Oh yeah, I mean it's weird casting wrestlers in certain roles.
Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Like I still don't
know how to feel about Jason Momoa as Blanca.

Speaker 1 (01:02:53):
It's gonna be terrible, but it's gonna be an entertainer.

Speaker 4 (01:02:56):
I mean it's gonna be.

Speaker 1 (01:02:57):
It would be much better if they cast like and
I'm not saying you have to cast based on the
country of origin, but there's something If he's supposed to
be like a Cappawetta fighter slash up thing that they've done,
a Brazilian actor might work better, seeing as that's where's
supposed to be from, right.

Speaker 4 (01:03:18):
Yeah, Like I think fifty cent as Balrong is fucking
brilliant casting, even Cody Rose's guile brilliant casting. Jon the
only one where I'm like, that's a little weird.

Speaker 1 (01:03:30):
Cody's gonna Cody's gonna bug me because he's gonna have
his lisp. And it's like Gyle's supposed to be very
American macho sounding, and he doesn't have He does not
have even without the lisp, by a kid, he doesn't
have a macho voice. Yeah, I mean, so it's gonna
be it's gonna be a little soft spokany more than
I would would have wanted. Like I'm trying to think

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who would have had a really good guile voice.

Speaker 4 (01:03:56):
Hmmm, I'm trying to think of Dug you do a
w W.

Speaker 1 (01:04:02):
He's too flashy. Ziggler wouldn't have worked. He's too Ziggler.
Would have worked as Ken years ago.

Speaker 4 (01:04:07):
Yeah, he would have been a wicked Ken or even like, honestly,
as much as he's the joke character that I already
cast him, he wouldn't be a terrible Dan because he's funny.

Speaker 1 (01:04:18):
Yes, Dias, you know, stop the bleach blonde give him
or even if it's not like a permanent dye job,
Diya's hair brown and as Dan held, Yeah he would.
He would work as Dan because it's it's the goofiness.
I think some of the casting is a little off,
but in the fun kind of offway. Like, I fully

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expect the movie is gonna be terrible, but I fully
expect that I'm gonna have a great time and terrible
in a better way than Annihilation.

Speaker 4 (01:04:45):
Yeah, Like, it's gonna be interesting to see how this
all goes down. Like, I'm sure we'll cover this on.

Speaker 1 (01:04:50):
Luc Can because the last movie was terrible. Yeah, yeah, no, no,
the other one, that other Mortal Kombat was terrible.

Speaker 4 (01:04:58):
Oh no, no, no, no, no, I'm talking about Street. Yeah.
Actually I like twenty twelve. And this is what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (01:05:05):
I'm talking about just in general fighting movies that have
come out, right, they've all been terrible recently.

Speaker 4 (01:05:10):
Yeah, the only good fighting game movie is Mortal Kombat
twenty twenty one. And even still, why do I care
about Cole Young? I want Scorpion and sub Zero. I
want Johnny Cage And obviously they're trying to course correct
with Mortal Kombat too well.

Speaker 1 (01:05:26):
And I mean, the best casting, the best casting of
wrestlers in fighting movie is not what you would expect. Yeah,
it's it's it's when Kevin Nash is in DA.

Speaker 4 (01:05:39):
Yeah, and I don't disagree with that.

Speaker 1 (01:05:41):
And that's and that's because the character he played was
who he played so and So's father in the end
of the game. I forget, I'm drawing a blank, but
I believe that character was based on his model, Like
what would he look like in WCW. Yeah, So, I
mean it's like the character was based on him.

Speaker 4 (01:06:00):
So I'm like, honestly kind of surprised no one's taking
a shot at doing a soul caliber movie animated would
be really cool because then you could do the ridiculous
things like Nightmare and Voldo.

Speaker 1 (01:06:11):
It's because of the weapons. Maybe it's too difficult to
do the costumes.

Speaker 4 (01:06:14):
It's probably because you look at Voldo or Ivy. Ivy
is basically a walking fetish, which, again, cool weapon, but
it doesn't want killer instinct.

Speaker 1 (01:06:23):
Killer Instinct would be interesting.

Speaker 4 (01:06:25):
I would Killer Insick would make a really cool limited
animated series.

Speaker 1 (01:06:30):
Tecond Movie was Techan movie was weird?

Speaker 4 (01:06:34):
I mean having Shang Sung as Peachi that was certainly
a choice.

Speaker 1 (01:06:39):
It wasn't It wasn't bad casting, but again, you know what,
it was a little too late for It was quite
clear that Hayachi outside of the crazy hair. The way
his character was designed, he was supposed to be, uh,
Sunny Cheapa. Yeah, he was supposed to be Sonny Cheapa,
the street Fighter from the original Street Fighter movies. Uh,
if you know you gave him the rate mustache and

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everything that the hair spiky out at the sides like
Krusty the clown. That was added, But the way he
moved was basically how Sunny Cheeba moved in the Street
Fighter movies.

Speaker 4 (01:07:10):
Yeah. I mean, like, I really want good casting when
you're gonna do this horrors.

Speaker 1 (01:07:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:07:19):
Yeah, it's like again, I don't see you as Jason.
That's cool. Kane Hodder was big and bulky and it
worked because he had the physical like there's it's gonna
be weird. But you look at some of the way
horror actors move when when they perform, and there are
a couple that I can think of that really embody

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the character without saying a whole lot. The guy who
plays Art the Clown, David Thornton, he moves a certain way.
He's very weird. Not insulting me, but he's very weird
in how he moves physically, and it works. Kane Hodder
has that breathing down where he just he turns his
head and looks at you, and the crowd goes fucking wild.
Robert England has a very specific mannerisms as Freddy Douglas

(01:08:05):
Bradley as Pinhead, Right, I mean, I mean even to
a certain extent, and you dive off as the wish
Master like to play a horror movie character. A lot
of it is not conveyed through dialogue, so it's a
lot of physical acting. I'm not saying Sheer can't do it,
but I don't see it.

Speaker 1 (01:08:24):
Hear me out, Okay, instead of like gigantic, hulking Friday
the Thirteenth, you know, villain instead of bloated, you know,
carcass come to life.

Speaker 4 (01:08:39):
Villain, zombie Jason.

Speaker 1 (01:08:41):
Yeah, why don't they go with you know how character?
You know, look, you had the prosthetics and that in
the first movie when he comes out of the water.
It's just a skinny kid. Right, We're okay, we're casting,
but you know what might work and it be that
a left field, okay. Jim Parsons Sheldon from The Big

(01:09:02):
Bang Theory.

Speaker 4 (01:09:05):
As an early growing up Jason or.

Speaker 1 (01:09:08):
No has come back from the dead. Jason, I don't
see it unexpected? Why does it always have to be
a giant, hulking thing because he's not. He was a
scrawny kid. That was that was drownded.

Speaker 4 (01:09:23):
I could see Parsons working in a different frame. Actually,
you know what the problem is. This is gonna sound weird,
but you'll understand it. What I mean. Parsons has a
very recognizable face. Right.

Speaker 1 (01:09:38):
Oh, that's the thing I'm saying. You know, where's the
mask the whole time and when it's off prosthetics to
make him look deformed?

Speaker 4 (01:09:45):
See, I think he wouldn't wouldn't be terrible. Ooh, okay,
unexpected casting, hear me out. Sticking with your idea of
Jim Parsons. Make him the new wish Master. Okay, that
works because because he can be that evil, subtle actor
and again.

Speaker 1 (01:10:04):
Fulk as Jason.

Speaker 4 (01:10:06):
Well, it's you know what's weird. I seem to recall
there was a conversation about mccullay culkin getting in in
the horror movies recently. I can't remember where I heard that.

Speaker 1 (01:10:14):
I know he owns either owns or co owns the
toe Jam and Earl franchise.

Speaker 4 (01:10:20):
Yeah, which is again just freaking wild. But yeah, I
mean again, I wish this guy all the luck in
the world. If you get cast as a new Jason
I heard. I hope that changed that fucking mad.

Speaker 1 (01:10:31):
If if this was a Michael Bay movie, still he
would be cast because it's just how he how he casts.
But I think all bets are off now because Hollywood
actors are starting like the ones that are getting older
are doing more and more. Don't forget Ethan Hawk now
is a horror franchise star.

Speaker 4 (01:10:48):
Yeah, I mean the Black Phone surprised the shit out
of me.

Speaker 1 (01:10:53):
So I see, like Jude Law or somebody doesn't want
to just jump into that. You never know he's going
to do it. Oh, there's no expectation that you have
to do a bazillion films.

Speaker 4 (01:11:02):
You know what, Jude Law would be a fucking wicked pinhead. Yeah, yeah,
like that would be amazing. I mean, when Douglas Bradley
passes on, I don't think Jude Law would be a
terrible thing. Or you know what if you want that
long No, maybe, I don't know. Have you ever seen

(01:11:22):
the Phantasm movies.

Speaker 1 (01:11:24):
I was just thinking of Fantasm and that he might
work with that.

Speaker 4 (01:11:27):
Yeah, but say as the tall Man. If you really
what was what was the one.

Speaker 1 (01:11:32):
With the what was the one with the guy? Was
it Warlock or.

Speaker 4 (01:11:36):
Yeah, yeah, Warlock.

Speaker 1 (01:11:40):
Or mish wish Master or something.

Speaker 4 (01:11:42):
Wisch Master was Andrew Divoff.

Speaker 1 (01:11:44):
Okay, so so it's the world. Yeah, the the Julian said,
he that's what Jude Lack could do.

Speaker 4 (01:11:49):
I could see that. I really could. I think that'd
be really fun. Which I also found out because I
remember you and I were talking about this and me
and Liam just watched this movie a little while ago.
We watched a movie called Witchboard, which is basically evil
Ouiji Board. Turns out there was a remake that came

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out this year and it only made two hundred and
forty five thousand that at the box office.

Speaker 1 (01:12:16):
Oh fantastic.

Speaker 4 (01:12:17):
Yeah, I must see this anyway, last story, and this
story broke this morning, which I remember my phone blowing up.
I was like, wait what. So according to Games Industry Dot,
BIS and many other outlets, EA to be acquired by
public investment fund silver Lake and Affinity Partners for fifty

(01:12:37):
five billion dollars as an update to the story, transaction
is expected to close in Q one, twenty twenty seven.
Andrew Wilson to remain on as CEO. Electronic Arts is
confirmed it is entering an agreement to be acquired by
a group of investors comprised of Saudi Arabia's Public Investment

(01:12:57):
Fund SO, Piflake and Affinity Partners. The investment group will
require one hundred percent of the developer, with PIF rolling
its existing stake in the company. As part of the acquisition,
EA stockholders will receive a two hundred dollars per share
in cash. The transaction will be funded in cash and PIF, Silver,
Lake and Affinity Partners. This includes PIF's existing stake in EA.

(01:13:22):
Quote constructing an equity investment of approximately thirty six billion
and twenty billion dollars of debt, eighteen billion of which
is expected to be funded at close. EA's acquisition is
the quote largest all cash sponsor to take private investment
in history and is expected to close during Q one
fiscal year twenty twenty seven.

Speaker 1 (01:13:40):
Are creative as the Microsoft acquisitions were not cash.

Speaker 4 (01:13:44):
Yeah, our creative and passionate teams that EA have delivered
extraordinary experiences for hundreds of millions of fans, built some
of the world's most iconic ip and created significant value
for our business at EA CEO Andrew Wilson, who remains
head of the company, quote, looking at we will continue
to push the boundaries of entertainment, sports and technology, unlocking
new opportunities. Together with our partners, we will create transformative

(01:14:07):
experiences to inspire generations to come. I am more energized
than ever about the future we are building. So Affinity Partners,
very briefly, is one of the investment firms that Jared
Kushner is involved. That that's a name that sounds familiar
to some of you. That's somebody in Trump's orbit. Not great.

(01:14:28):
I'm not going to jump down the conspiracy rabbit hole
with this, but.

Speaker 1 (01:14:33):
Now I can tell you exactly what this is. It's
been quite open and transparent pretty much. The Prince, the
Saudi Prince, I forget his name, the one that was
very involved in getting WWE to go over there.

Speaker 4 (01:14:47):
Yeah, I say, yeah, it's the WWE GA.

Speaker 1 (01:14:49):
It's I forget the name of the program, but it's
like it's like Saudi twenty thirty or twenty thirty five
or whatever it is. It's the program that they have
that's like a ten to twenty year program to modernize
their country. To change the public perception of Saudi Arabia
from that of being a very restrictive, religiously ruled country

(01:15:11):
into being more of a tourist destination because they know
they're going to run out of oil. So the idea is, hey,
in one hundred years, we won't have any oil or
people won't be relying on oil. It's just and anybody
wants to argue that we are running out, it's just
it's going to happen in the next one hundred years.
And their thought as well, we can't be caught with nothing.
So they want to become the tourist destination for the

(01:15:33):
world more so than anywhere, and that is why they're
trying to get into sports. They own. They own S
and K. You know, famously one of the one of
I would say, yeah, one of the three big like
one of the it's one of the four big arcade
companies of the seventies, eighties and nineties, the others being Atari,

(01:15:55):
mid Atari slash Midway depending on who was on top,
uh Sega and uh Namco meaning the others. But S
and K was S and K was arguably the biggest
of them in the nineties. Them and Sega were the
last two big ones left and they bought them. They
also own a bunch of esports stuff leagues. I think

(01:16:16):
that they're trying to get into.

Speaker 4 (01:16:18):
Ya Legends is what I can immediately think of, and they.

Speaker 1 (01:16:22):
Are in the process of getting I think it's not
next year, it might be the year afters WrestleMania, which
is a big deal because they spent I think all
cash to get it. Because it's going to air at
like two in the morning in the in the West nobody,
but they don't care because they got like one hundred
million dollars to put it on there or something ridiculous
like that. There is rumors going around that they're they're

(01:16:44):
courting to they're basically trying to prop up t KO,
which is WW and UFC to sell completely to the Saudi's.
They they had made plays to try to purchase teams
and or entire leagues of sports like NBA, NFL and
a lot. They can't afford the NFL, they can't afford FIFA,
and they can't they could technically maybe afford NHL the

(01:17:07):
whole thing, because the market cap would mean that they
could spend you know, fifty or one hundred million dollars.
But it's kind of hard to transplant hockey as a
cultural thing to their own country. A little easier with basketball,
a little easier. O. But they've tried that stuff and
it doesn't work. But golf, remember, they built an entire
golf league that pays double or triple what the previous

(01:17:29):
masters does. So and they've got I think they got
Tiger Woods, and they got somebody else going like they're
they are buying up sports and buying up things to
be recreational, building up their infrastructure there, that's what they're doing.
And they had they're swooping in to take over or
purchase companies that were either previously owned by like Embracer

(01:17:51):
or previously had Chinese investments like ten Cent and all
that stuff. Remember that that was the big thing the
last five ten years was all the Chinese companies being
buy up things. Right. Well, now that that's that the
Chinese government has scaled back on that and other companies
have become more risk adverse when it comes to China.
They're swooping in. So it's been they've been very open

(01:18:13):
that that that their plan is to get these things,
you know, own as big of a pie as they can.
So EA was the last of the very large independent
gaming companies in America.

Speaker 4 (01:18:27):
Yeah, like you know, and if you and they hold
a lot of powerful ip too. They hold Yes, Apex, Leugends,
they hold Madden, they hold Battlefield, they hold the Sims.

Speaker 1 (01:18:39):
And you could argue, okay, Atari's the oldest, but they
fail apart. They've been split apart a million times and
they've got their own niche going now with the current
owners being the retro company. But they are a fraction,
like they went from being essentially ninety percent of the
market to like one percent, yeah, if not less. But
if you go, the two oldest large gaming companies were

(01:19:04):
Activision and EA. An Activision merged with Vivendi. Was that
like fifteen years ago, yep, something like that ten fifteen
years ago, and then now obviously Microsoft bought them. And
because EA goes back to eighty two, like they started
not just as like gaming software. They were like a
you know, PC software company, And that's what made them

(01:19:24):
a little more unique was that they sort of had
their fingers and more pies than a lot of other
gaming companies at the time. So most of the other
big quote unquote gaming companies came to rise and power
with the NES or with the Supernintendo era in general.
Like timing wise, you know, late eighties, early nineties, EA
was already well established at that point and they had

(01:19:47):
survived obviously on their live service games and then the
yearly titles and then they had some bigger stuff. What
this means is more so than most of the other IPS,
like you know, Battlefield and everything, the Saudis want this
for the sports games. They if they can't own the
actual leagues, they want to control the games from the leagues,

(01:20:11):
especially FIFA or like not not called FIFA anywhere, was
it e a f C because they didn't get the rights.

Speaker 4 (01:20:18):
Plus they have the USC license too.

Speaker 1 (01:20:21):
Do not be surprised if the EA now regains the
FIFA license because the Saudis are willing to throw a
lot more money around. They're willing to lose money on
the upfront and if they can get the license, get
the names because they want to establish If you think
of X Sports League, if you think of Madden, you're

(01:20:44):
also thinking of Saudi Arabia even if they don't own
the leagues. Yeah, so it's like it's a long game
that that's essentially in my opinion what I see them
going for. I hope this also means that they will
leave a little more autonomy and because their purse strings

(01:21:05):
are significantly bigger. Remember the Saudi Fund is like one
point seven trillion dollars that they have in wealth set aside.
So I hope this means mass Effect actually gets the
budget it needs.

Speaker 4 (01:21:19):
Yeah, Like, ultimately, I just need it to happen. I
just don't want anything negative. Hold on, Blair, what the
hell do you hold on? Blair's trying to talk to
me and not the greatest time. I'll deal with this later,
don't worry.

Speaker 1 (01:21:34):
It's cool.

Speaker 4 (01:21:35):
I see it. Awesome, Thank you. Sorry, sorry, sorry, guys,
that's the magic of radio.

Speaker 1 (01:21:40):
You know. Hey, I have my doorbell ring and it
was loud and I don't know what it is. I'm
assuming it's a package for me, so I will check
that later.

Speaker 4 (01:21:47):
But yeah, so that's all we got for news this week.
Now we're gonna launch into a longer review, but it's
obviously this is the crown jewel if you will in
this show, and this is gonna be Alex's review of
Ghost of Yota, which will be available on October second.
I'm gonna be buying my copy, you lucky son of
a bitch, so I'm looking forward to it. So anyway, guys, Yes,

(01:22:10):
this is gonna be Alex's review of Ghost of Yote,
available exclusively on the PlayStation five. We'll be back guys
right after this, only on this Weeking geek dot Net.

Speaker 7 (01:22:27):
I will find every last member of the Yota six
and I will bring you peace.

Speaker 2 (01:22:34):
I swear it.

Speaker 7 (01:22:52):
Creatures such as you and I cannot resist the call
of revenge. He found something new to the four.

Speaker 1 (01:23:12):
Alex the producer here and I have been given a
review code from Sony Entertainment Canada for Ghost of Yota,
the sequel to Ghost of Tsushima, which we believe Bourban
and I both reviewed. Was it five years ago now?
It was the last major game from the first party
Sony titles that I reviewed before the launch of the

(01:23:35):
PS five, And then again they sent a review code
for the PS five version of that, which was basically
just taking advantage of slightly better resolutions and then faster
loading times and YadA YadA, and obviously it was like
just putting icing on top of an already really good cake.
With Ghost of Yota, it's been highly anticipated because there

(01:23:58):
hasn't been a lot of Sony first party titles outside
of like what I would consider the launch quote unquote
window of the first year year and a half of
big anticipated titles that were PS five. Also, a lot
of those titles, for the most part, were there was
that transition period and it's still somewhat going on where
they were PS four and PS five releases, so they

(01:24:21):
weren't like super targeting the most you know, higher end hardware.
And obviously since then we've had the PS five Pro
come out, nobody on our team actually has one basically
because of the financials and the price point in general.
You know, eventually we probably will get one, but who knows.

(01:24:41):
PS six might be out before then. Now, my my
younger brother does have a PS five Pro, so I
was able to borrow temporarily his his pro to play
the yot just to see, you know, some of the
more enhanced features that are available there that I don't
get on my base system. But I only played that

(01:25:04):
basically for a day with my account, and then after
that I deleted it from there and played the rest
of it on the baseline because that's where the vast
majority of people are going to be playing it, and
I can say it doesn't really matter if you have
a PS five Pro or a standard edition, you are
going to get a really good experience on either the
big enhancements as far as from what I can see,

(01:25:25):
and we're not super duper technical. If you want somebody
like that you're going after like a Digital founder, you're
something to do a deep dive into the technicalities of it.
But the main differences are it seems to lock to
a higher internal resolution as well as unlocking a mode
that does rate tracing plus, which is more enhanced rate tracing,
but lowers the resolution slightly, not noticeably so to the

(01:25:48):
point where things get less detailed to the naked eye.
It's just more of a focused attempt using the PSSR
upscaling and stuff, and still locks to you know, a
pretty solid frame rate I believe sixty fps for that. Now,
as far as the baseline system, which is where the
majority of this review is going to be, you ended

(01:26:11):
up with three modes. It defaults to their fidelity mode,
which is it just says, you know, targeting a higher
resolution at a thirty fps frame rate, And to be honest,
this kind of game the Samurai game. It works fine
like that. It's not something that you need to have,
you need, you know, in quotes, to have sixty fps

(01:26:33):
for but I did play around with all three modes.
That's the main mode, which I'm going to assume targets
the higher resolution, just at a lower frame rate. The
middle mode is the performance mode, which is the sixty
fps mode on the base console, and well, looks cool,
it's gonna sound weird, and it's probably just my opinion.

(01:26:54):
I didn't like the sixty fps mode. I almost felt
like it moved too quickly. And to me, that's because
I view these games as like a living movie, a
living cinematic experience, and some people may call bs on that,
but that's just me, and I find that the lower
frame rate lends itself to more of the cinematic feel,

(01:27:17):
and that is fine because it's not like you're constantly
having twitch gameplay with this. Yeah, there's some intense fights,
but it still feels more tuned to like a cinematic
event and not like this isn't like a Devil May
Cry type of game. And then the third option, which
is where I ended up setting it for most of
the game, is the ratetracing mode, and that is thirty fps.

(01:27:39):
Again slightly lower resolution, but you get rate traced lighting,
which is dramatically better. It ends up looking like in
interior shots and everything, it just looks more natural. It
was hard for me to notice at first, but you
can swap on the fly, and where you really notice
it is when you have different times of day or

(01:28:00):
whether effect's going on, and it just basically left it there.
There's also a few different visual modes you can set
on based on different Japanese famous directors. As the Currosawer
mode returns, which here's what my thought is, I would
think playing it in the fidelity mode with Curros mode

(01:28:21):
on would be a good pairing with the other modes
of I can't remember the director's names, but the one
director is the I forget his name, but I think
he it's the most is it the Cowboy Bebop guy?
It might be sorry if I'm wrong, but that mode

(01:28:43):
has like a unique soundtrack that is more like low
fly beats with mixed with it, which is pretty sweet.
That mode you can probably sort of pairrot with with
any frame rate or anything. I ended up choosing the
McKay mode, which is to catch McKay style where it
zooms in the field of view a little bit and

(01:29:05):
even give you a warning that some things may happen
from the sides that you won't see an indication of
unless you turn on accessibility mode. I went through the
accessibility settings, as with all Sony Studios titles, great accessibility
mode options. You can granularly change all the difficulty settings
you want, all the visual settings to help people there

(01:29:26):
if you've got issues with dexterity or other, you know,
physical disabilities for controller schemes. You can customize anything you want.
So I ended up probably going with a mostly custom setting.
So it's a little bit easy, a little bit hard,
a little bit of this, a little bit of that,
and that's great, and turning that mode on it may
be a placebo effect, but because of the slightly narrower

(01:29:48):
field of view and you're a little closer in, I
felt that putting there with the rate tracing mode on,
you know, it was a good combination because there were
zero chances or less chances for it to have frame
rate stuttering or anything. And for the most part I
encountered zero frame rate drops. It was just like Lock thirty.

(01:30:09):
The whole time with rate tracing on, no issues, didn't
matter how many things were happening on screen. And I
know that in the base mode without the director's modes on,
there are some spots people are saying that, you know,
with lots of crowded things happening, you could get a
frame rate dropper two, but with a McKay mode on,
I didn't encounter that at all. It also increases the
mud and blood spurting and damage and everything, so that

(01:30:31):
was a little more my style. I like that. That
was pretty freaking sweet audio wise, absolutely fantastic as to
be expected. That could almost have a whole discussion in itself.
We might end up having to do that with the
other guys once they've caught up. But as far as gameplay,
this is where I want to stress that it's not

(01:30:51):
just more of the same. You know, this isn't just
Tsushima again. It is an enhancement in pretty much every way.
The storytelling is which more organic. You just sort of
flow along. You don't ever feel aimless. You'll find something
to do along the way and that leads to another thing,
that leads to another thing, leads to another thing. It's
not like a bazillion things on the map that you

(01:31:12):
have to feel like you're checking off on a list.
It's just you sort of organically find your way around.
I ended up still doing most of the things off
the Meeaten Path before doing the main missions, and it
never felt like it was tedious or it never felt
like like I was just like, okay, another one older,
I gotta get more. There's less like splattered stuff to

(01:31:34):
do on the map and more targeted things, but that
you discover them naturally, so they things just don't like
fill a map. You don't like find a point to
look around, like Assassin's Creed or something, and there's, oh,
here's a bunch of point of interest items. You talk
to people that are walking along the streets, you encounter
NPCs within the little towns, and when you talk to them,
they'll say, hey, you know, I saw a fox over there,

(01:31:57):
and it'll give you a piece of a map, or
you can perch is a map from a cartographer and
you have to line it up on the main map
itself and you're like, well, this looks like this area,
and if you find the right spot at slots in
and then it goes here's your point of interest. You
can naturally find them on their own, and if you
do and find them on their own, then those encounters

(01:32:17):
with the NPCs to give you the items or with
the cartographer won't show up, So there is no like overlap.
It does track in the back end what you're doing
and how you're doing it, but the main point of
this game is you're going after the Ota six, and
you know, without spoiling anything, how you encounter them is

(01:32:38):
broken up into a few ways. It's not like in Sushima,
where it was there were clearly defined chapters and acts
that you had to do in a specific order. This
is much more open to you in that you're given
sort of three pathways to choose. After the introduction of
the game, I went with what I felt was natural
to me, and after doing it, I went, oh, wait

(01:33:00):
a minute, I could have done it in a different order,
and it would have given me a very different feel
to the game because I would have either unlocked weapons
or things differently and have been able to apply them differently. Also,
depending on who you beat and Theta six first, some
cut scenes later on may be slightly different because they
will reference certain people that you encountered and maybe which

(01:33:25):
characters you killed, so kill one of them, and then
in a cut scene they'll say, did you hear about
what happened to so and so? And I feel like
if depending on the order you do, you'll get different results.
That way, there is still a definitive thing that you
have to do a few things before moving on to
what I would consider the final chapter, but it's more

(01:33:45):
organic how you get to that than you would naturally
have thought. It's very well put together. Fast travel is
super quick, just like it was in the original game,
and obviously faster because it's targeting PS five as the
base console. As far as the voice acting is as good,
if not better than in the first game. The little
lore drips here and there, the historical accuracies just as

(01:34:09):
on point as it was previously. I feel the direction
of the cut scenes is a little different. The best
way I can describe this game outside of just feeling great,
being a really good open world game, something that I
think a lot of people are going to love, especially
for like we're getting closer to the Christmas and holiday season.
It's going to be on a lot of people's lists.
It really does show off the amazing features of the

(01:34:30):
the PS five itself, and just you know, congratulations to
the crew. I don't really have anything bad to say.
What I will say is Ghosts of Tsushima felt like
you were playing through a movie, and Ghosts of Yota
feels like you're playing through a television show in how
it's structured and just how much more there is to
the story and how much more compelling it is. Both

(01:34:52):
great games. Highly recommend. If you haven't played Sushima, play it.
You don't have to have played it to play Yota,
but I do recommend it. Yah is fantastic. I would
check it out.

Speaker 4 (01:35:02):
Oh crazy, don't mind it, but do human sacrifice, dogs
and cats living together. Hey guys, welcome back to this
weekn geek dot net awesome review of Ghost of Yotai.
I'm definitely looking forward to picking this up on October second,
and that's gonna be my birthday game because that's what
I'm gonna be playing because Terminator got delayed till November,

(01:35:25):
so shit, but I also have Mortal Kombat. This month's
gonna be very expensive and I hate it anyway. Moving on,
all right. Our first story comes courtesyf vice dot com.
Attack Squirrel is on the loose in California and has
sent at least two people to the emergency room. In
the suburb of San Rafael, California, residents are now dodging

(01:35:47):
a rogue squirrel that has already sent two people to
the hospital. This fuzzy little anger missile has launched a
full scale assault on at least five unsuspecting locals. Two victim,
Joan he Black and Isabelle Compoy, ended up in the
er after being ambushed. He Black was just out for
a walk when the squirrel clamped onto her leg. Campoid's

(01:36:08):
attack was even more like a squirrel attack you'd see
in a movie. The squirrel jumped straight for her face
before landing on her arm and tearing it up. According
to mare and humane and wildcare experts, this particular scrol
is likely raged by the very thing human thinks it
would make it happy, Humans feeding wildlife, and once hand
fed squirrel, now left to fend for itself, became a

(01:36:28):
one squirrel wrecking crew of misplaced trust and expresses itself
as unbridled rage. So now it has been programmed you
basically view humans as walking vending machines that don't vend food.
It gets angry, it starts biting and scratching. Vanessa Potter
from Wildcare told ABC News that quote, if they associate
people with food, they're not afraid of them. Porter wents

(01:36:50):
on to say, when squirrels go looking for food and
they can't find any, they get frustrated and become territorial
of their space. Here we have a situation where a
squirrel views a human as a potential food, and when
one approaches with that food, they lose their mind and
fly into a blind, white, hot fury. Your first instick
when you hear about a wild animal going nuts on
people to think of is the think of rabies immediately. Thankfully,

(01:37:11):
experts say that the squirrel is very unlikely to have rabies,
But that's a small comfort to people who had to
go to the hospital because they were beaten to a
pulp by a glorified rat. Flyers have gone up around
the Lucas Valley neighborhood warning of a quote very mean
and squirrel that comes out of nowhere, and attacks have
reportedly stopped since mid September. Maren Humane is on standby

(01:37:33):
to trap and remove the animal if it resurfaces. If
there's a lesson to be learned here, it's to not
feed squirrels. Under any circumstances, you think you're gonna get
a snow White like scenario with a cute critters of
the forest greet you. In reality, you're just creating an
attic that will try to kill you if you don't
come bearing gifts. Now you've heard me show about me

(01:37:54):
being indigenous Cinderella's snow White, I have. I've ever had
the squirrels become aggressive towards me, although this summer I
haven't been down in the park as much to feed them,
so I really we mom is a lot. Yeah, and
well it's weird because I can tell you from personal experience,
squirrels and chipmunks know who I am. And this is

(01:38:17):
gonna sound really weird, like I'm not I'm not schizophrenic here,
But the squirrels and the chipmunks know the sound of
my wheelchair. They hear the motor and they follow me.
And when I can, I'll toss nuts out to them.
Now that the falls here and I can spend a
little bit more time in the park, yeah, I'll probably
feed them a bunch. And I know I just read
a story that says, don't fucking do it.

Speaker 1 (01:38:37):
But you're the piper of tree rats.

Speaker 4 (01:38:41):
I am. I am the vermin king of Gwelph, But
that's insane. I mean, now, when I was a kid,
I did see one particular squirrel attack a friend of mine.
A squirrel had landed, a black squirrel had jumped out
of a tree and landed on top of a friend
of mine, on top of his hoodie or his hood

(01:39:03):
of his jacket during the winter, and he flailed and
like threw like a pizza slice. It was about as
cartoity ridiculous as you can imagine. That's the only time
I've ever seen a squirrel attack, and even that I
think it just fell out of a tree. But more
often than not my experience as a squirrel, they'll eat
right out of my hand. This is gonna sound really

(01:39:25):
fucked up and sad, but I really treasure this moment.
I was having a really bad day about a year ago,
maybe maybe a year and a half ago, in this
pregnant squirrel where it called squirrel Mama sat down with
me at the picnic table at the local park that's
wheelchair accessible, and we just passed nuts and had lunch

(01:39:46):
together over the course of like an hour, and the
scroirrel just hung out with me, and it was the
cutest thing I'd ever experienced. And then this squirrel knew
who I was, and whenever I come down to the park,
it would sit right on the table beside me and
just hang out. I've had chipmunks crawl onto my footboard
of my wheelchair. I've had birds land on me and

(01:40:09):
not seem afraid. So I'm not gonna say I have
strange shaman powers.

Speaker 1 (01:40:15):
But you keep getting deeper and deeper into the mystical
as you say this. I'm not saying that I have
the powers of a god.

Speaker 4 (01:40:24):
But yes, my load superpowers. I could command small rodents
and you.

Speaker 1 (01:40:31):
Can't command them, you can charm them. That's even worse.

Speaker 4 (01:40:36):
I am from the Fay wild. Yes, it's so ridiculous.
So I guess long story short, be careful of feeding
wild animals. I mean, you wouldn't feed a skunk right yet.

Speaker 1 (01:40:49):
I've you've steal a DVD, would you?

Speaker 4 (01:40:52):
Yeah, you wouldn't fed a skunk, would you. Yeah. It's like.

Speaker 1 (01:40:58):
To do the song bomb Dan Dumball, stupid anti anti
piracy song from twenty five years ago.

Speaker 4 (01:41:08):
But yeah, it's like it's crazy. I mean, hopefully these
people didn't get chewed up too bad. But those squirrels
have wicked teeth, they really do. So yeah, I guess
moral of the story here, be careful what animals you
do feed. I mean, obviously you shouldn't be doing it.
It's just you are interacting with a wild animal. But again,
I just gave you my experience that's so positive, and

(01:41:30):
it's so conflicting to say that because I said I
love my squirrel friends. I love my bird friends. But
at the same time, I'd rather not have my eyes
claught out by mister blue jay. So I don't know
what the I don't know what my moral of the
story is, but listen to vice dot com and don't
feed the white hot fury of the attack squirrels. Not

(01:41:51):
all of us are squirrel Girl from Marvel. Moving on
to our next story, This comes from a courtesy of
one oh seven five cool FM dot com. Teacher assistant
arrested for spraying poop spray. This is something you and

(01:42:11):
I would have definitely done, because we're evil people. This
is not the kind of school supply anyone had in mind.
A teacher's assistant in South Carolina has been arrested after
pulling a prank that literally stank. The prank Alexander Lewis
see It's always you people, thirty two, is working at
West Florence High School when he decided to unleash poop Spray, Yes,

(01:42:34):
a bottle product designed to smell like well, you know.
He ordered it online and sprayed it around the school
to mimic the smell of feces. Mission accomplished when things
got messy. The prank wasn't a one time guy. The
investigators believe Lewis sprayed it multiple times between August twenty
fifth and September nineteenth. The smell got so bad that
students complained they couldn't concentrate, and some even reported queasiness, headaches,

(01:42:56):
and nausea. Not exactly a laugh riot the bill. The
school district ended up on the hook for nearly fifty
five thousand dollars in damages that covered inspection costs and
repairs to the air conditioning system that had sucked in
the smell. Imagine explaining that line item to a school
board meeting. Pranks are one thing, but when your joke

(01:43:18):
sends kids to the nurse's office and cost tens of
thousands of dollars, the punch line's probably not worth it.
In the end, Lewis was arrested and charged with disturbing
the school. Moral of the story, maybe just stick to
the fart jokes and not industrial strength poop spray. I
always found it really weird how they sell stuff like
that and you can get it in literally industrial size containers,

(01:43:40):
like I know. One engineer on YouTube, Mark Rober did
the Amazon porch pirate thief fart spray alarm alarm thing,
And again, that's punishing a porch pilot pirate. They're already
committing a crime. I don't feel too bad about that

(01:44:01):
particular instance. But spraying fart spray in a school that
often once, okay, that's a gag. Twice okay, maybe that's
a pattern. But from the nineteenth till the whatever date
that was, Like, that's that's insanity because that's not funny,

(01:44:21):
like how funny? Like haha, it smells like shit. I
don't get it. I mean, and even looking at that,
I had some dark fucking thoughts. I really did. I'm thinking,
where could I deploy fart spray where it caused the
maximum amount of damage and really fuck up someone's day.
I'm not gonna share these thoughts in the public lest

(01:44:43):
they ever heard.

Speaker 1 (01:44:43):
I mean, when I'm thinking back in my days of
high school, that's an easy thing. You do it. You
deploy it in the cafeteria at lunchtime around the tables
where girls are at so it has maximum dispersal and screaming.

Speaker 4 (01:44:56):
Well, like you, Well, it's funny because it's like when
you and I were in high school, and I know
there's about a ten year difference between us, but the
timing still makes sense.

Speaker 1 (01:45:05):
Well, yeah, but like a five or six year at least,
like our overlap would have been, like you were in
oac age and I would have been in grade nine maybe, yeah,
because like you were born to what eighty one, Yeah,
eighty one. I'll be forty four. I mean, I mean
and I'm eighty seven, So like I started high school
in the September of one and you were graduating then.

Speaker 4 (01:45:25):
Yeah, Cause, like way back when, if you wanted to
buy these little fart canisters, they were these little glass
tubes you threw on the ground and shattered like a
fucking Batman pellet or something like that. But now you
can literally go on Amazon and type in poop spray.
You can get a variety of wonderful aromas and they're
literally aerosolized, so you can easily deploy this shit. And like,

(01:45:49):
I've seen people drop this in cars. I've seen people
drop it in like office buildings. I've just I've seen
ridiculous places where this stuff gets deployed. And for example,
to pop up my soapbox from minute. People with environmental
sense sensitivities, this could be real fucking bad news. And again,

(01:46:10):
I get it, it's funny in concept, but maybe not
an execution considering now and now that we're in a
post and again I use that term remarkably lightly post
COVID world. Not everyone's wearing a mask, not everyone has
the filters and all this shit, So this could have
gone real sideways. I mean, like, if this guy wanted

(01:46:30):
to cause them troubles, maybe spray one room, maybe go
to the music room or something. Right, maybe spray like
a couple of chairs or something. Again, stuff that could
easily be removed and you could identify the smell and
you can easily target it. But it sounds like this
guy was literally carpet bombing the entire school with this shit. Yeah,
a thousand dollars, Like that's like somebody's gonna be making

(01:46:53):
an awesome payday as an HVAC repair man that day, right, Like,
that's that's placing equipment, that's that's that is fun.

Speaker 1 (01:47:04):
And also I think punishments are much harsher now than
they used to be for things like this.

Speaker 4 (01:47:10):
Yeah, because I know, for example, this is gonna sound weird,
but I was talking with a police officer friend of
mine and I was asking and I was asking questions about, well,
how are Canadian laws when it comes to pepper spray,
bear spray, and dog spray when deployed against a person,
Because you know, in the United States, yeah, you can
carry mace, you can carry all this crap. In Canada,

(01:47:32):
you could carry dog spray or coyote spray reasonably, but
you can't use it on a person because then the
charge you get is called dispersal of a noxious substance
or something. But I remember the phrase noxious substance specifically
in the charge. So that's something that's not gonna go

(01:47:54):
well for you. It's one thing if you spray a
dog or if you spray a person that's attacking you,
the law may not necessarily look favorably upon you, but
they'll understand.

Speaker 1 (01:48:04):
If you're protecting yourself. Yeah, it is not just that
it's less lethal, it's not permanently harmful, you know what
I mean like that, Like I'm thinking, like you bring
things to school like you. I don't think kids now
can relate to when like when we were kids that
were already wasn't even popular, or doing the cherry bombing

(01:48:25):
of toilets, which I never understood the point now that
stuff when I was a kid in the early nineties,
that was still happening in high schools, like that was
still not common. I would say maybe once every couple
years there. Oh no, actually not even once a year.
There was a cherry bomb at most schools I think,

(01:48:46):
and it was usually a toilet or a firecracker in
the in one of the garbages we had that actually
happen in either my middle school or my high school,
like where there was a small fire because somebody a
firecracker and lit the tissue papers in the garbage on
fire and they just weren't thinking they thought it would
make the noise. They didn't realize that it was enough

(01:49:07):
of a spark to light it up. So like that
stuff happened the chair or like the kind of hazing
people would do. You remember now that's mostly a Canadian thing.
In the nineties, I remember pushing a looney or a
tuny with your nose while somebody wheelbarrowed the kids. No,
you don't remember people doing that. They go around the
track outside, they put a tuney or a looney on

(01:49:28):
the ground and they push the kid's nose on it.
Like the grade twelve or thirteen kids would have the
kids ankles up in the air and they'd have to
push it with their nose. Okay, yeah it was not great. Yeah,
we had a lot of bullying.

Speaker 4 (01:49:41):
Yeah that was not.

Speaker 1 (01:49:43):
Great, or or you know, making kids like lick the
toilet seat bowl, a whole bunch of pretty not great stuff.
But again, like it was like the bullying thing was like, hey,
you're getting suspended for a day. Like nowadays, there's a
lot a lot more. I rode a fake gun to
school to shoot a movie. I didn't tell anybody.

Speaker 4 (01:50:02):
Yeah that happened. Now you're probably not coming home.

Speaker 1 (01:50:07):
It was a dirty, hairy magnum cap gun that I
took the orange tip and painted black to make it
look more real for the movie, and I took it
to school in my backpack. I'm like, I can't really
take this out or I'll get in trouble. This is
two thousand and five or five or six.

Speaker 4 (01:50:21):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (01:50:22):
Teachers like Alex, if you get that, you might the
cops might come. You might be in trouble. And he's like,
don't don't. He goes, Oh, oh my god. I can't
believe it. Because we filmed the movie and then I
didn't show up when they showed the school. He goes,
but they he didn't see it. The teacher at the
time they aired it to the whole school, like seventeen
hundred people and they're like, wait, that's one of the
classrooms and the guy's got a gun. It was a

(01:50:47):
The argument was I didn't get in trouble because I
was graduating, and they're like, ah, he's gonna be gone,
and I was like, well, it was just a fake gun.
But regardless, if you fast forward twenty years, they would
have had the swat team.

Speaker 4 (01:50:58):
There say yeah, like you could, uh well not so
like time.

Speaker 1 (01:51:04):
So like the pranks and stuff that you could get
away with back then, not that you could bring a
gun and get away. Like I knew I had to
hide it, but like kids wouldn't even think of doing
these things anymore. So like when I see something like this,
or it's like like noxious sprays and that's become a thing.
You notice that, like noxious sprays at movie theaters and
different places you see in the news, Like it's I

(01:51:26):
don't know why that's become a thing now, but it
just sort of it sort of is. But like I
don't get it. I don't I don't get the idea
behind the poop spray stuff.

Speaker 4 (01:51:39):
Yeah, Like it's just it's it's asking for trouble. It's disgusting,
it's and I.

Speaker 1 (01:51:45):
Don't need to poop spray. If I just let one rip,
I can clear a room anyway.

Speaker 4 (01:51:48):
So like you are a tear of any public, wash
your it.

Speaker 1 (01:51:55):
Yes, I will not to get into any of those stories,
but I will say a story that when we were
going into lock down. You remember when the pandemic was hitting,
we were going into lockdown. We knew there was going
to be a lockdown. We did a visit before that
where I hung out at your place. We had some
friends over to eat something because we're like, hey, looks
like next week we're shutting down everything. And right before
we left I stood in front of a fan farted

(01:52:15):
like a four second fart right into it, blew right
into your face. You're gagging, And I said, it's something
to remember me for the next couple of months. I
remember that, and Tristan for Former Game Player on our
shows almost fell to the ground with laughter and then said,
oh my god, I have to leave.

Speaker 4 (01:52:38):
It was pretty freaking amusing. All right. Our last story
this week is something that I oddly have known about
for quite some time. But it seems like the chase
is over. But I suspect there'll be many copycats of this. So,
according to Fox ten in Phoenix, penis Man Graffini's graffiti
Graffiti's suspect arrested by.

Speaker 1 (01:52:59):
Graffiti what is that?

Speaker 7 (01:53:01):
Is?

Speaker 1 (01:53:01):
That? Is it graffiti on a penis or a penis
used to make graffiti?

Speaker 4 (01:53:06):
So according to Tempe Police, they say they have arrested
the person they believe is responsible for numerous or sorry
for a number of graffiti that feature the words penis man.
What we know? Per statement release on September twenty six,
thirty six year old Tanner Belange was taken into custody
on September twenty fifth in Phoenix. The backstory. Investigators say

(01:53:28):
over the past several months, they have received multiple reports
of the phrase penis man spray painted on buildings in Tempe.
Many of the incidents were not captured on video surveillance
red a portion of the statement. Following a detailed investigation,
detectives confirm Blange is involvement in at least two of
the cases. What they're saying, graffiti is not a harmless

(01:53:49):
at It costs property owners money, and hurts local businesses
and after, and affects the look and feel of our
Neighborhood's read a portion of the Tempe police statement on
Bolange's arrest. What's next. Blange, according to police, admitted to
committing their graffiti. He's accused of two counts of criminal
damage and connection with incidents that happened near Rural Road

(01:54:11):
and Abate Boulevard in July and August of twenty twenty five. Now,
the story of Penis Man goes back a lot longer,
Like I'm thinking years, we're literally this town in Arizona,
Tempe and Phoenix were literally there was like so many
tags of just penis man, just written on as many

(01:54:34):
things as you can possibly think of, And there was
a lot of copycats as well too. It's just kind
of weird. Just the idea of this average thirty six
year old dude just going out in the dead of
night and just writing Penis Man. I just it's so
weird that I'm like, that's really strange. I've got to
talk about this.

Speaker 1 (01:54:54):
So we've had fly what is the equivalent of Bartison's
an el Bartow.

Speaker 4 (01:55:00):
Yeah, exactly, that's what this is. This is literally Alberto
but he said Penis Man, which there was. I mean,
in terms of notable graffiti. I think I told the
story on the show years back.

Speaker 1 (01:55:13):
There's there's there's Bankski doing banks doing the the amazing
street art that gets cut out of the walls and
then sold for millions of dollars and Penis Man.

Speaker 4 (01:55:26):
It's so ridiculous, and it's like it's almost the copycat crime.
I hope more people do just for funsies, Like just right, well.

Speaker 1 (01:55:35):
I want Penis Man where it's it's with an exclamation point.
I want Penis Man, where it's penis apostrophe man. I
want Penis colon man. I want every flavor that sounds bad. Wait,
sorry that sounds bad.

Speaker 4 (01:55:49):
I didn't mean.

Speaker 1 (01:55:50):
I want every Penis flavor.

Speaker 4 (01:55:52):
I want Penis Man, question mark, I mean I want
weirdness or I want a vagina woman?

Speaker 1 (01:55:59):
Or is I want Penis Man? But the s is
that s that every kid drew on their notebook, you know,
the diamond s.

Speaker 4 (01:56:08):
Yep, Like it's so amazing, and like you see so
many talented graffiti artists out there, this is literally does
someone with a black kid is paby just read a
Penis man on something? But the most notable piece of
graffiti that I was aware.

Speaker 1 (01:56:25):
Of, it's gotta be. It's not gonna be somebody our age,
you know, it's gonna be at this point when they
arrest the person, the person is gonna be like mid
fifties gen X and was like, I wanted to do
this since the late seventies, early eighties, so basically some
grandpa because we don't think of gen X's grandpa, but
gen X is grandpa now.

Speaker 4 (01:56:46):
Yep, It's true. When I was living in Orangeville, which
is a town probably like an hour away from from
where I'm currently living, there was a dumpster that was
on four Square, which used to be an app where
you could check into a location, so like a restaurant,
a hotel whatever. But there was a dumpster that somehow
made it onto four square and if you claimed it,

(01:57:11):
you could become the mayor of this, so you'd be
like the mayor of Pizza Hut, the mayor of I
don't know, so and So's realty whatever. But I was
in a feud with the entire town of Orangeville to
to see who could be the king of the slut dumpster.
And you said literally it was the word slut on

(01:57:34):
it written and really sloppy white spray paints, and it
was such a point of pride. I'm like, I am
the king.

Speaker 1 (01:57:41):
What I thought you were the toilet king of something
or other? No?

Speaker 4 (01:57:46):
Uh, that was short What the fuck? How did that
phrase go? Short Bus is is the mongoose king? Yes?
And I wrote that across bathrooms between Hamilton, Ontario and Dallas,
Texas in two thousand and eight, and I must have
wrote down as.

Speaker 1 (01:58:04):
It's quite the good feet when you get all the
way down to Dallas, because it's like you've covered three
thousand miles.

Speaker 4 (01:58:10):
I was just like, this is I'm good.

Speaker 1 (01:58:13):
Wow, I think I know who Short Buss is. But
but we don't have to say it on air.

Speaker 4 (01:58:18):
Yeah, basically the long story short, this was a kid
who picked up a rather unfortunate nickname at the time.
I totally misbehavior now and it's not.

Speaker 1 (01:58:28):
But no, but aren't you, like, aren't you like some
sort of king of some toilet thing yourself or something?

Speaker 4 (01:58:34):
No, I was.

Speaker 1 (01:58:36):
I was Birdman, the king of something or other.

Speaker 4 (01:58:39):
Oh, I was the bird king of La Manta, just
because it sounded really weird when I was in college.
But yeah, like we had a lot of nicknames that
were not always completely PC, but it was never meant
in complete malice. It was more just because it was goofy.
And the mongoose king came out of like I think

(01:59:00):
I was just watching a documented I was like, mongooses
are weird, and I'm like, all right, that man is
the king of the mongooses, and uh yeah, it's pretty ridiculous.
There's some stuff I'll have to tell you, like off, yeah, but.

Speaker 1 (01:59:14):
Just because you don't necessarily want to proliferate it. But
it's funny to look back at it sometimes on how
inconsiderate we were as kids.

Speaker 4 (01:59:23):
Oh yeah, and like again, just the idea of a
thirty six year old man got arrested for Penis Man.
And it's just it's the thing.

Speaker 1 (01:59:32):
Ever, it's this thirty six. I don't believe that's the
Penis Man.

Speaker 4 (01:59:36):
Oh yeah, Like it must be somebody older or.

Speaker 1 (01:59:38):
Like I am, Like, he's not somebody my age. I
swear I think the that's who's the real Penis Man.
That's the that's the question. I think the Penis Man
is like fifty two.

Speaker 4 (01:59:51):
Yeah, it's like it's gonna be something weird because I guess.

Speaker 1 (01:59:55):
This might be We're going to keep up on this,
this might be the son of Penis Man.

Speaker 4 (01:59:59):
Like, it wouldn't surprise me if you get a lot
more copycats, especially as time goes on, because there's always
an event that happens in a town that just.

Speaker 1 (02:00:08):
I'm the Penis Man. No, I'm the penis Man. Arrest me. No,
I'm the penis Man. Oh, captain, my captain.

Speaker 4 (02:00:17):
It's so ridiculous. But anyway, guys, that's what we are
going to conclude on for this edition of this weekend
geek dot Net, And we're gonna listen to one of
my reviews. Right, take a look at something that can't
be used to clean up graffiti, but can help clean
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(02:00:37):
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my wife did the review for me on this as
she does most of the cleaning of the apartment, and
she writes as someone who's ridiculously hard on vacuums, this
upright corded vacuum has seriously impressed her. We have too

(02:00:59):
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in literally everywhere. This vacuum has made the carpets feel
and look so much nicer. It got all the fluffballs
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(02:01:19):
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(02:01:42):
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the capacity for long cleaning sessions with fewer interruptions to
empty the dust up. It has this anti allergen complete
seal technology and a HEPA grade filter the trap dust
and algens inside the vacuum cleaner, so this is pretty
cool for allergy people as well. We have one of

(02:02:04):
these Shark Ninja air purifiers at the same time, so
with this complete basically system working in this house, it's
surprisingly very cool as my wife is mildly allergic to
the cats. So having this and the great suction of
the vacuums, we're getting like ninety nine point nine percenter
the hair in here, so it's a huge difference, and

(02:02:26):
considering there's less dust in the air. My transformers are
very thankful for this, and it's also a pretty good
price point for a floor vacuum cleaner that also does
carpets and hardwood and tile honestly pretty sick. Trust me,
if you're moving into a dorm for the first time,
moving into a first apartment, this is probably a pretty
awesome vacuum cleaner that you should definitely check out. So

(02:02:47):
big thanks to and that has been yet another wonderful
edition of this week in Geek in the Bag. Feels
nice to be back on the regular reporting some interesting news,
got going into some very long form discussion week plus
again having a wonderful review of Ghost of Yotai, Star
Wars Outlaws, and a thing that might be very useful

(02:03:08):
if you live with messy people, and especially considering you
know some of you are in your first year dorm
rooms for the first time, maybe your first apartment, or hey,
now that fall's coming around, maybe it's time to clean
up your apartment take up the air conditioner, though not
for us at least for another few weeks.

Speaker 1 (02:03:25):
Don't forget, clienses don't last nearly as long as they
used to, right, so you know, maybe it's been five years.
It's time to get something new.

Speaker 4 (02:03:33):
Yeah, exactly, so I know. I am recording some stuff
with the boys this week. We're gonna try and record
the last half of our Resident Evil special We're doing
movies four, five, and six, and then we're gonna do
a ranking episode. I'm recording on Wednesday with on Rique

(02:03:54):
and James Rawl. We're going to be doing our memories
of Halloween, what makes it special to what are some
of the good memories. We have a lot more laid
back this year, just because everybody's busy and we haven't
really talked about what makes Halloween fun for us and for.

Speaker 1 (02:04:10):
Me, it's a good hangout session, I think, Yeah, like
a formal show.

Speaker 4 (02:04:14):
Yeah, exactly. And you'll find out because I know I've
told the story on the show a couple times, but
you'll find out why I put up my Christmas tree
on Halloween and why it's a very important tradition that
I carry forward now. So that'll be some a little
bit of a preview. And I know we're recording Me
and Aaron and Alex are recording more Future Imperfects. We're
doing kind of an Evergreen series, which has been really cool.

(02:04:37):
We're looking at the Star Trek movie franchise from all
the way to the motion picture, all the way to
the end of unfortunately section thirty one, So we're gonna
be looking at all these if you.

Speaker 1 (02:04:49):
Can make me watch that again. I got like I
watched it at one and a half time speed, and
like I felt, I felt my organs failing, I felt
my body getting sick.

Speaker 4 (02:05:06):
So I'm hoping I can find like what I remember
when I watched it the first time. I found some
interesting stuff in it. But the problemse it gets glazed
over so fast, it's like, can you hang on that
for like two minutes? Like, don't move me one lie.

Speaker 1 (02:05:20):
I had a better budget and we're better written.

Speaker 4 (02:05:23):
Oddly enough, uh so, yeah, we got that cooking. I
know we're gonna do some fun stuff between me and
Aaron and Alex for Halloween stuff and then yeah, JT's
finally going to be coming back. Unfortunately that has been
pushed back because of a Canada Post strike. I was
literally going to send them a pair of headphones when
Canada Posts announced the strike, and.

Speaker 1 (02:05:45):
When when a courier will cost twice the cost of
the headphone.

Speaker 4 (02:05:49):
Yeah, it's like, you know what, maybe I'm just gonna
amazon you a shitty pair because I'd love to get
jat back up the show.

Speaker 1 (02:05:55):
It's not a bad idea if if we can get
you know, a backup pair to him then he can
just hold on to when a good pair shows up.

Speaker 4 (02:06:02):
Yeah, it's just like it's I get why canapost is fighting.
I do, but it's so.

Speaker 1 (02:06:09):
I don't want. I not that I don't support unions.
I don't support based on the transparent numbers that have
been released, it's an unsustainable business and they'd be bankrupt
within another year. So like, like literally this is a
situation where the union is fighting for something they can't
possibly get. It's not it's literally impossible to pay what

(02:06:30):
they want because they're the only way to pay it
is to raise taxes to then cover their raises and
then cover the losses. It can't, it really can't. You're
you're trying to. They're trying to raise their money. They're
trying to raise their their their compensation plus get protections
for the amount of hours they have and the people

(02:06:50):
they have for a business that doesn't exist anymore. We
are not a country that does ninety percent lettermail. We're
a country that does like twenty percent letters mail and
everything else is digital. And they just haven't updated their
their terms of service for how they employ people. It's unfortunate,
Like you can't make people mail more than what they

(02:07:11):
already are. Yeah, so that's the problem. And I feel
bad because, like it's not the worker's fault. It's also
in this case, not the corporation's fault. It's the entire
like the business has changed, like the world business has changed,
and they have to find a way to update it
without being stubborn. So we'll see how it goes. I
feel I feel bad for everybody involved because nobody wins

(02:07:33):
in the situation right now.

Speaker 4 (02:07:35):
Yeah, and especially if you rely on the mail to
get checks, as me and Alex are both on disabilities.

Speaker 1 (02:07:41):
And they did confirm there are two things that are
still running. They are delivering Social assistance disability checks as
well as old age security like all these security checks
if you're not already on direct deposit. Uh, and they
are any live animals that were already within the system.

Speaker 4 (02:08:04):
Yeah. So hopefully things get sorted out, but I'm not optimistic.

Speaker 1 (02:08:09):
But anyway, and I'll say this quickly, the thing that
they want to implement is they want to move to
only basically delivering the mail every three days instead of
Monday to Friday, and then maybe also having like Saturday
service so it would be like every other day mail.
And then also no, neither am I they want to

(02:08:29):
increase the lettermail delivery from a guarantee of one to
three days to three to seven. That's fine for the mail.
Nobody uses the mail for anything critical. If you're sending
something critical, you send it via part like because this
is not affecting we'll say this does not affect like
the mail delivery to your homes is not affecting the

(02:08:51):
courier delivery. So if you needed to say, like have
a document signed legally and they needed to Express post
that to you, they're not fighting to change that. Like
Express Post day one that goes through the parcel service,
that delivery standard would still stand. It's just regular lettermail.
And then like ground post, they want to switch it
so that everything is sent by ground. The other thing

(02:09:13):
is they want to remove it to house delivery, so
it would only go to like community mailboxes at the
end of your street. But that wouldn't affect your wry
because it doesn't include apartments. Apartments would still be delivered to,
it's just they don't want to go to individual houses.
And then they said for rural areas, there's an argument
about us, like, well, if you're only getting one letter

(02:09:35):
to like this little rural town a week, why are
you still having to make sure that they guarantee the service,
you know what I mean? Like, if you're only going
to that town maybe three times a month to deliver
in the middle of nowhere already, why do you have
to have the guarantee that that at a short notice
you'd have to go there, you know what I mean?

(02:09:55):
It makes more sense to collate it all together. But anyway,
there's little things like that, that's what they're fighting over.
And then of course you know staffing and all that.
But I think it'll work out. I just hope the
strike doesn't go on for more than let's say, this week,
because if we get into another situation where it goes
on for a month like last year. Now it's not

(02:10:16):
as close to Christmas as last year. If this happens,
they will lose every bit of support they have and
the government might feel emboldened enough that they can union
bust because last time, when we dragged onto the fourth
week as we were getting close to Christmas, the public
perception was it wasn't at the point where they were

(02:10:40):
spitting on the strikers, but it was getting close to
them saying fuck you to Canada Post like to the workers.
And I don't know if the union is blind to it,
but they're in a very weird position now where I
don't think the public is in their favor overall. Yeah,

(02:11:00):
so we'll have to see where this goes. Hopefully it
gets it resolved quickly, because you know, we've got stuff
in the mail. A lot of our stuff that we
get for review comes via career, but some stuff doesn't.
And as we get closer into you know, if this
drags on for more than a month, we're entering at
holiday season territory where it'll be backed up.

Speaker 4 (02:11:16):
Oh good, so we can look forward to having review
stuff show up in March again.

Speaker 1 (02:11:20):
Yeah, which I literally had movies that were supposed to
have reviews out in the end of November didn't arrive
till the beginning of February.

Speaker 4 (02:11:29):
I mailed stuff for Christmas at the end of November.
It didn't arrive at my friend's place till April, and.

Speaker 1 (02:11:35):
I have a halfway I have Oh yeah, I mailed
I had mailed the card to my grandmother in Ajax
and what would normally be at the most about a
seven day you know thing depending on how packed it was.
It took two and a half months. Wow. And I
could have literally walked of my own volition there in

(02:11:59):
that time. Insight, you know, like a two hour drive,
but like I could have walked and camped on the
road in half that time.

Speaker 4 (02:12:08):
That's insane stuff. But anyway, guys, and we're not going
to bore you with more Union talk, but we will
be back next week with another exciting show. I know
Alex has a review show planned for later on this week.

Speaker 1 (02:12:18):
I do have, yes, yes, I can say right now.
The rest of the scheduling for this week is we
have an Earth Versus soup coming on the Hunchback of
the of the Morgue from nineteen seventy two. That's from
Aaron and Darlinge. We also have a review show where
a bunch of different indie titles a few things from

(02:12:39):
you as well. I would say the larger review in
there is I have the new Final Fantasy Tactics. It
just wouldn't be able to slot it in with the
show this week. And then this coming Sunday and every
Sunday leading up into Halloween, we have our Halloween specials.
Our Spooky Season specials. The first one this weekend is

(02:13:00):
going to be a loose cannon on the Night of
the Living Dead nineteen sixty eight nineteen ninety movies that
we talked about earlier this year. In anticipation, we planned
for this, and then the following week we are going
to have a Future Imperfect on the Blob and Beware

(02:13:20):
the Blob. And then we've got obviously more stuff coming
as you're saying, but that is what's coming this week,
and then of course all of our regular programming.

Speaker 4 (02:13:27):
Yeah, so look forward to that. I should have some
spooky Halloween movie reviews coming up hopefully soon. I am
expecting the Nightmare and elm Street four K collection coming
from Warner Bros.

Speaker 1 (02:13:37):
That'll be interesting.

Speaker 4 (02:13:38):
Yeah, I'm very excited for that. I should see that
probably this week, if not next week, because I know
some people.

Speaker 1 (02:13:43):
Fingers crossed this FedEx or ups. Yeah, fuck I hope.

Speaker 4 (02:13:47):
So anyway, guys, a lot of good stuff to come
up on the show. So we are gonna get at here.
I've got commercials to record, So until next time, we have.

Speaker 5 (02:13:55):
Been Alex the Producer, I've been Mike the Birdman saying
be thanks to each other, please observe truth and reconciliation
day tomorrow, learn a little bit about the indigenous people
of Canada or in your own country.

Speaker 4 (02:14:08):
You would be doing me a huge solid and I
would definitely appreciate it. So until next time, folks, We'll
catch you next week. Right here on this Weekend geek
dot Net. At no point in your rambling incoherent response
were you even close to anything that could be considered
a rational thought.

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