After a much needed (and very long hiatus), we’re back to update you on what we’ve been geeking out over these days and what we’re simply tapped out on… or rather… geeked out!
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Diego: Welcome back to Geekology 101.
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Diego: My name is Diego.
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Joshua: And my name is Joshua.
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Diego: And yeah, so we left you guys waiting for like a year and a half.
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Joshua: Um.
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Diego: No, not a year and a half.
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Diego: What's it been, like a year and a few months?
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Joshua: A year and a couple months.
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Diego: Yeah, it's been a lot.
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Joshua: Um.
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Diego: Our bad, our bad.
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Diego: But yeah, we know we've, I don't know, I feel like we needed that break to like, you know.
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Joshua: Reconstruct what Geekology is going to be.
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Diego: Right, Josh also needed to like, you know, start approaching puberty and like start sounding more like a man.
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Joshua: I don't sound like a man, though.
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Diego: If we compare the audio from back in the first episode of Geekology 101.
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Diego: You know what?
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Diego: Please play that audio.
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Joshua: So the world of Bendy is basically where you play as this former employee named Henry, and you have to escape basically Bendy, who is this like monster in the game.
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Diego: Yeah, I think you're sounding a little bit more manish these days.
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Joshua: Yeah.
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Diego: Man, a lot has happened during this whole hiatus that we've taken that's been like a year and a few months now.
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Diego: And one of them, of course, is that you have turned 11.
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Joshua: That's true.
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Diego: Yeah, I think that during this whole year, we've gone through quite a bit of changes when it comes to Geekdom and stuff that we're geeking out over has kind of shifted a little bit.
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Joshua: Yeah, definitely it has for me.
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Diego: Yeah, I think that we are geeking out over new things and we're kind of geeked out on a couple of things.
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Diego: It's like a little bit too much already, you know?
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Diego: So we figured, why not make this comeback episode all about that just to catch you guys up on where we are right now, what we're geeking out over, what we're like totally geeked out on, and just to tell you where we're at these days.
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Diego: All right, so first to talk about the stuff that we're just geeked out on.
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Diego: Like, we're tired of a few things.
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Joshua: It's just too much.
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Diego: Yeah.
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Diego: All right, so I think for me during this last year, especially the thing that has become the biggest shift is my excitement overall with the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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Joshua: Yeah.
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Diego: I think that entire time of when the Disney Plus series started coming out and then the, what is it, Phase Four that we're in, it all started playing out.
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Diego: Man, I just, it was just disappointment after disappointment with a nice little thing sprinkled in.
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Joshua: Like every couple of projects, there was just one good thing.
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Diego: Yeah, but overall, I think that the thing that has haunted me most during this entire Phase Four of the MCU has been how disjointed everything feels.
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Diego: Like this is supposed to be the beginning of a new saga, the Multiversal Saga.
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Joshua: And like there's most of the stuff that is in this Multiverse Saga is, it doesn't even have to do with the Multiverse.
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Diego: Yeah.
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Diego: I mean, some of the stuff that does is really good.
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Diego: Like, you know, WandaVision is fantastic and will continue to be fantastic.
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Diego: But then how they treated Wanda in the Multiverse of Madness was kind of questionable.
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Diego: Yeah, and then I like the grounded stuff.
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Diego: Like, I like the Black Widow movie, but honestly, that movie came around like five years too late.
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Diego: Also, I love the Hawkeye series.
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Diego: You know, that was a lot of fun.
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Joshua: It has nothing to do with the Multiverse.
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Diego: Not at all.
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Diego: Falcon and Winter Soldier, that was a fun series.
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Diego: Nothing to do with the Multiverse.
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Diego: Then you've got the, Shang-Chi was really good.
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Joshua: That was a good movie.
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Diego: That was great.
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Joshua: Nothing to do with the Multiverse.
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Diego: Yeah, not at all.
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Diego: And like, I don't feel like there's any puzzles being put together, puzzle pieces being put together to complete a big picture of where it is that this thing is headed.
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Diego: Like, the fact that we know where it's headed, it's headed towards Secret Wars.
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Joshua: Yeah, it's headed with Kang.
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Joshua: Kang has been introduced throughout all of these.
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Joshua: And I guess, like, he is supposed to be the next big bad guy, where he is the big bad guy right now.
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Joshua: But not everything that is coming in in this saga, like, has to do with Kang at all.
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Joshua: Like, a lot of the stuff that is in this multiverse saga is really grounded on Earth.
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Diego: Yeah, yeah.
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Diego: And I don't know, it feels almost like when the time of the multiversal saga does come around, it almost feels like it's going to be forced in, like, forced together.
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Diego: And that's going to suck because we're talking about multiple universes, entire universes that are supposed to be clashing and collapsing in Secret Wars.
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Diego: And I just don't feel like we've gotten a proper enough introduction to any of those.
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Diego: Like, Multiverse of Madness introduces us to that alternate universe, I forget what Earth it was, but where like Charles Xavier was riding in the classic X-Men yellow wheelchair thing.
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Joshua: And John Krasinski was...
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Diego: Was Mr.
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Diego: Fantastic, but now like he's not going to be the Mr.
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Diego: Fantastic for the MCU.
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Diego: So clearly, like, they're like recasting the Fantastic Four, or casting the Fantastic Four for the official entry of those characters into the MCU.
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Joshua: But then is the Fantastic Four really going to have to do with the Multiverse?
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Diego: Well, there's a chance, apparently, that they like rumors go around, you know, they always do.
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Diego: And there's a chance that the Fantastic Four are going to end up being from an alternate Earth.
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Diego: Which would kind of explain why they're not available, like, in the history of the MCU as we know it, right?
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Diego: Because it'd be kind of ridiculous if the Fantastic Four existed in the official MCU, and we've never heard of them.
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Diego: Yeah, that'd be bananas.
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Diego: Like, that wouldn't make sense at all.
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Diego: So, yeah, like, plus there's Jonathan Majors and his whole personal drama, you know?
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Diego: Like, that hasn't really helped out at all, because, like, there's been uncertainty on, like, okay, what the hell is going to happen to Kang now?
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Diego: Like, is Jonathan Majors going to continue being Kang?
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Diego: Are they going to have to recast Kang?
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Diego: And all that stuff is very, I don't know, unsettling, you know, for the future of it.
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Diego: But again, most importantly, it's just that it doesn't feel like pieces are being put together.
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Diego: And then the movies that are trying to move it forward are too much about that.
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Diego: Like Quantumania, for example, that movie was kind of pointless, aside from introducing Kang.
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Joshua: Yeah, aside from, aside from introducing, like, the actual character of Kang.
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Diego: Yeah, like, not even Kang the Conqueror.
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Diego: Yeah, there was really no purpose for that movie.
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Diego: It was, like, some moments were cool, but it was a CGI fest that just felt like, okay, you know, it's, I don't know.
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Joshua: Way too much nanotech.
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Diego: It was weird.
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Diego: And I almost feel like Marvel should learn from the movie Infinity War and, like, be okay with giving a bad guy his own movie.
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Joshua: Yeah.
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Diego: Why not?
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Joshua: You know, like Thanos, he was like that guy in Infinity War.
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Diego: Pretty much.
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Diego: He was like the protagonist of that movie, and it played out very, very well.
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Diego: It was a really good, really good movie.
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Diego: So, yeah, then there's, like, on the Disney Plus series side, like, She-Hulk, She-Hulk was, the more that I think back on that show, the less I like it, the more ridiculous it seemed.
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Diego: I really hate the way that they treated Daredevil in that show.
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Diego: Yeah, that was just like all that, all that happened in that show with Daredevil was, like, introducing him basically as, like, a more lighthearted, more goofy version of Daredevil from the Netflix series.
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Diego: And that just sucks.
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Joshua: Like, yeah, I feel like they just did him dirty.
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Diego: Yeah, I was already worried about what they were gonna do bringing, bringing Daredevil into the MCU, coming from that, like, like, awesome Netflix show, which you still haven't seen.
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Diego: And yeah, sure enough, man, like, they, this show looks like it's gonna be a light version, a diet version.
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Diego: The overall cohesiveness of the new, whatchamacallit, the new phase is just not doing it for me, man.
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Diego: I think, I honestly think that Marvel should have quit while they were ahead with the Infinity Saga.
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Diego: I really think that they should have stopped there and figured out a way to fully reboot after that point.
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Joshua: Yeah, like everything from Iron Man, the first Iron Man, all the way up until Endgame.
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Diego: Yeah.
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Joshua: Those, that was like peak comic book cinema.
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Joshua: Yeah, for sure.
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Joshua: I feel like that was Endgame should have definitely been the final movie.
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Joshua: That would have been a perfect movie to wrap everything up.
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Joshua: And then they could have just restarted, or they could have tried working on something new entirely, but...
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Diego: You know what I think they should have done?
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Joshua: What?
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Diego: And anybody who's listened to this podcast from like the beginning knows that I'm always talking about the ultimate Marvel universe in the comics.
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Joshua: Yeah.
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Diego: I am always talking about that thing.
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Diego: And right out here outside the doors of this recording booth, we have my entire comic book collection.
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Diego: It is vast.
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Diego: It's vast.
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Diego: My hard cover is from the ultimate universe.
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Diego: But look, listen, the ultimate universe is its own separate universe, right?
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Diego: Now, if I would have been Kevin Feige, I would have been like Infinity Saga ends 616.
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Diego: Let's restart from scratch with Earth 1616.
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Diego: That's the ultimate universe.
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Diego: Let's restart there from scratch.
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Diego: Everyone gets a fresh start.
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Diego: Brand new Spider-Man.
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Diego: We can get Miles Morales in there.
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Diego: Get the Fantastic Four in there.
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Diego: Bring the X-Men.
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Diego: You could build an entire freaking saga all using the X-Men and the Fantastic Four without even touching the Avengers if you didn't want to.
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Diego: Or bring in new versions of the Avengers.
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Diego: They're all variants, right?
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Joshua: Yeah.
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Diego: Yeah.
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Diego: Tell a whole saga, like three phases worth, just like you did with 616, tell the whole saga of the 1616 universe, and then the next saga is the multiversal saga.
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Joshua: What was, what were the three phases of the 616 universe?
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Diego: I mean, you want me to like break down movie-wise?
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Joshua: No, but like, just what were they called?
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Diego: No, they were all essentially parts of the multiverse, of the Infinity Saga.
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Joshua: Oh, it was always the phases.
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Diego: The phases, like the, you know, batches of movies, basically, yeah.
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Diego: But imagine that.
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Diego: Imagine if they would have just paused 616, told the whole story of 1616, right?
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Diego: And then brand new trilogies, brand new characters, fresh perspectives and all that stuff.
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Diego: You don't have to worry about connecting everything with the 616 world and everything that you've done up to that point, and then cross that crap over, bro.
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Diego: Can you imagine if like Loki, for example, the show Loki would have been introduced as a way of phasing, of crossing these two paths together?
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Diego: Like imagine the story of Loki being told, but what you're seeing is like the coming together of these three universes.
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Joshua: Yeah.
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Diego: And then maybe like multiverse of madness, that the whole purpose of that thing is to explain the whole incursion thing.
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Diego: But now we're not just like on the side of Earth 616 wondering, like, I wonder what else is out there?
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Diego: It's like, no, we've seen both universes.
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Joshua: Yeah.
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Diego: And we know how they're going to come clashing together.
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Diego: And like, we can't wait because it's going to be like, I don't know what, 20 years of cinema history coming, both halves coming together.
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Diego: Imagine a Secret Wars like that.
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Diego: Imagine a multiversal saga like that.
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Joshua: If Marvel had made the MCU in that way, then that, that incursion movie could have been like the biggest one out of all of them.
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Diego: That's something that surpasses Endgame, for a fact.
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Diego: That surpasses Endgame.
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Diego: Instead, what do we have?
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Diego: We have this weird, awkward thing where it's like little pocket worlds that we're being introduced to, and we have no clue yet how all of it is going to come together.
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Diego: And it's, I don't know, man.
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Diego: It just, it's not, it hasn't done it for me.
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Diego: It hasn't been it for me.
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Joshua: And most of the good things in this newer phase are all, like, not related to multiverse.
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Joshua: Like, take Guardians 3, great movie, amazing movie.
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Diego: One of the best from this phase.
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Joshua: But, I mean, nothing to do with the multiverse.
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Joshua: I mean, even though...
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Diego: I can't blame James Gunn though, man.
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Diego: James Gunn is like, he's like, okay, yeah, I'll complete my trilogy, but I'm not gonna help, I'm not gonna make this movie a mess, trying to weave into whatever else you guys have going on with this multiverse crap.
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Diego: But he hadn't paid attention to that at all, man.
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Diego: At all.
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Diego: So I think the MCU is something that I'm kind of geeked out on in a negative way.
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Diego: I, at this point, am not really hyped, I'm not really excited for anything coming out of the MCU.
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Diego: I'm just like, I'll be there, I'll catch it, you know?
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Diego: I'll check it out.
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Diego: But they don't have my buy-in, like they had before.
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Diego: They really don't.
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Diego: Like, I'd rather rewatch the old MCU movies more than what I'm looking forward to, new ones.
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Diego: I think Thor, Love and Thunder, kind of did it for me.
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Diego: I was like, this is nonsense.
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Joshua: I feel like the last MCU movie that really had me insanely, insanely hyped was, I don't even know if you can even call an MCU movie, Spider-Man, No Way Home.
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Joshua: That had me actually geeked out.
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Diego: Yeah, that was epic.
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Diego: I'll tell you, the one movie that I am kind of hyped for is Deadpool 3.
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Diego: Because that one might do for the Fox universe what No Way Home did for the Sony Spider-Man side.
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Joshua: Yeah.
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Diego: It seems like that's what they're going for.
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Diego: And if that's it, but it's going to be confirmed that even Jennifer Garner as Electra is coming back and Ben Affleck as Daredevil is coming back.
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Diego: I'm down for that, bro.
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Diego: I'm so down for that.
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Diego: Just because I grew up with those movies and they mean a lot.
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Diego: It's like that was my Marvel universe before MCU existed.
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Diego: So yeah, we'll see how it all plays out.
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Diego: But yeah, I can't say that I'm as excited.
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Diego: What about you?
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Diego: What's one thing that you're geeked out on?
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Joshua: I think one thing that I am geeked, like a little too much geeked out on is anime.
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Joshua: I was crazy about anime.
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Joshua: I was watching My Hero Academia, which is a good show.
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Diego: We were both watching it.
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Joshua: Yeah, we were.
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Joshua: Attack on Titan, probably my favorite anime.
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Joshua: Maybe second or third favorite.
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Joshua: And then Naruto, Dragon Ball.
00:15:46.635 - 00:15:48.855
Joshua: Yeah, I was watching all that.
00:15:49.875 - 00:15:58.235
Joshua: But I feel like, I don't know, I feel like with these newer animes, there are definitely still good animes being put out.
00:16:01.215 - 00:16:01.735
Diego: Like what?
00:16:01.935 - 00:16:05.995
Joshua: Like, I mean, there's like the live action one piece.
00:16:07.175 - 00:16:08.395
Diego: Can you count that as an anime?
00:16:08.415 - 00:16:08.655
Joshua: No.
00:16:08.975 - 00:16:10.835
Joshua: But I mean, like, there's the bleach.
00:16:11.075 - 00:16:13.595
Joshua: There's a new bleach type season and stuff.
00:16:14.355 - 00:16:15.215
Joshua: There's still anime.
00:16:15.235 - 00:16:16.655
Joshua: I don't know what happened.
00:16:16.675 - 00:16:18.735
Joshua: It's just something that clicked.
00:16:18.895 - 00:16:21.795
Joshua: Like, I'm still interested in those worlds.
00:16:21.795 - 00:16:29.975
Joshua: But I feel like Attack on Titan, they dropped like an hour special of an episode, and then they just like stopped.
00:16:29.995 - 00:16:35.075
Joshua: Like, there's nothing new has gotten, has came out from Attack on Titan since that came out.
00:16:35.235 - 00:16:35.615
Diego: Yeah.
00:16:35.695 - 00:16:37.135
Joshua: And it's like really weird.
00:16:37.155 - 00:16:40.355
Diego: I'll tell you, I was really obsessed with the anime, Fortnite.
00:16:41.195 - 00:16:42.675
Joshua: Fortnite collaborates with anime.
00:16:44.335 - 00:16:44.675
Joshua: Yeah.
00:16:44.715 - 00:16:47.535
Joshua: I mean, Jyudichu Kaisen, they just collaborated with that anime.
00:16:47.555 - 00:16:47.755
Joshua: Yeah.
00:16:47.915 - 00:16:49.455
Joshua: That is a good anime.
00:16:49.755 - 00:16:53.975
Joshua: But I don't know, I feel like anime is just not as interesting to me anymore.
00:16:54.095 - 00:16:59.715
Diego: Yeah, I guess, I think it had reached a zenith of trendiness.
00:17:00.175 - 00:17:04.255
Diego: I feel like people who had nothing to do with anime were suddenly all about anime.
00:17:04.255 - 00:17:04.695
Joshua: Yeah.
00:17:04.955 - 00:17:09.355
Diego: And I think that just like any other trend in pop culture, it just kind of came and went.
00:17:09.795 - 00:17:14.395
Diego: Mind you, there's still plenty of die-hard anime fans who catch whatever comes out.
00:17:14.635 - 00:17:15.635
Joshua: I think anime.
00:17:15.655 - 00:17:16.675
Diego: But I've never been that.
00:17:17.015 - 00:17:23.135
Diego: I did Knights of the Zodiac, I did Dragon Ball, and a few here and there throughout the years.
00:17:23.155 - 00:17:28.435
Diego: But I've never been a die-hard anime fan, so I can't even claim to be one of those people.
00:17:28.595 - 00:17:35.175
Joshua: And I think that anime is some of the best anime, like moving animation that we have.
00:17:35.195 - 00:17:35.935
Diego: No doubt, yeah.
00:17:35.935 - 00:17:41.675
Joshua: Like stuff like Naruto, stuff like Hunter x Hunter, stuff like Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, Attack on Titan.
00:17:41.955 - 00:17:44.375
Joshua: That is actual good...
00:17:45.015 - 00:17:47.775
Joshua: Like, it's good cinema.
00:17:49.255 - 00:18:01.515
Joshua: Yeah, but I don't know, it's just something about the direction that it's going in, that I can't really say that as much of an anime fan as it was back then.
00:18:02.595 - 00:18:09.055
Diego: Another thing that I'm personally tapped out on is like, and I think the majority of the world is, is the DC movies.
00:18:09.075 - 00:18:14.015
Diego: Like, man, DC has had a rough ride when it comes to movies.
00:18:14.495 - 00:18:21.435
Diego: And it's weird to me that like now you've got James Gunn taking over the creative direction of the DC universe.
00:18:22.655 - 00:18:37.335
Diego: And still, even with like all these plans that they've announced, the gods and monsters phase of movies and all that stuff, like they still can't get people excited because they can't freaking let go of the Snyderverse characters and actors in movies.
00:18:37.435 - 00:18:44.815
Joshua: Like they keep saying that, oh, this movie is going to tie in great to the new franchise.
00:18:44.835 - 00:18:47.155
Joshua: Like they said, the Flash, oh, it's going to restart.
00:18:47.655 - 00:18:48.515
Joshua: And then it didn't.
00:18:49.415 - 00:18:51.315
Joshua: It just got rid of the Flash.
00:18:51.675 - 00:18:58.315
Joshua: And then they said, oh, Blue Beetle is going to tie in great, which I guess there's not anything that actually ties into the Snyderverse.
00:18:58.595 - 00:19:01.335
Joshua: There's nothing that shows that it's in the new universe.
00:19:01.355 - 00:19:01.735
Diego: Not at all.
00:19:01.755 - 00:19:07.535
Diego: Poor Blue Beetle, it got stuck in this weird limbo where it probably shouldn't have come out.
00:19:07.555 - 00:19:11.015
Diego: They probably should have shelved it, like that background movie.
00:19:11.195 - 00:19:13.375
Joshua: I mean, it was a good movie.
00:19:13.595 - 00:19:14.115
Diego: It was.
00:19:14.135 - 00:19:16.435
Diego: Yeah, it was a good superhero origin movie.
00:19:16.455 - 00:19:17.995
Diego: It wasn't extraordinary.
00:19:18.015 - 00:19:19.255
Diego: It wasn't anything huge.
00:19:19.275 - 00:19:23.435
Diego: But as far as superhero origin movies, it did its job and it did it well.
00:19:23.455 - 00:19:23.995
Diego: It was cool.
00:19:24.015 - 00:19:26.575
Diego: The perspective of Latin American characters was really cool.
00:19:28.175 - 00:19:31.315
Diego: Overall, like the fighting, all that stuff was really neat.
00:19:31.875 - 00:19:35.655
Diego: But it's again, stuck in this weird limbo.
00:19:35.675 - 00:19:38.915
Diego: Like Shazam is apparently going to continue on into the DCU.
00:19:39.375 - 00:19:42.435
Diego: And like, who knows what's going to happen with this Aquaman 2 movie?
00:19:42.455 - 00:19:51.515
Diego: Like, we don't know what that's set in the previous universe or like the new universe, because the end of the Flash set up that the there is an Aquaman played by Jason Momoa in this new universe.
00:19:52.535 - 00:20:02.455
Joshua: And then in the Flash, the universe that Jason Momoa is playing Aquaman in at the end, George Clooney is Batman.
00:20:02.535 - 00:20:06.895
Joshua: I'm like, bro, I feel like he's just like so disjointed.
00:20:07.215 - 00:20:10.595
Diego: Yo, look, I think Ezra Miller kind of messed everything up.
00:20:10.815 - 00:20:23.475
Diego: I think that what they ended up doing was throwing him into some obscure part of the multiverse so that like they could say like, OK, this character kind of ran his course, and he has a future there in that universe, but we're never visiting that universe again.
00:20:23.675 - 00:20:26.735
Diego: Because who wants to go to a universe where George Clooney is Batman?
00:20:26.755 - 00:20:27.035
Joshua: You know?
00:20:27.155 - 00:20:27.675
Joshua: Yeah.
00:20:27.695 - 00:20:28.695
Diego: Yeah, not going to happen.
00:20:28.715 - 00:20:42.495
Diego: So, yeah, you know, it's like I really wish that they would have just stopped, made a pause for like two, three years, let people just detox from all the craziness of the Snyderverse.
00:20:43.215 - 00:20:45.355
Diego: And then the Snyderverse should have ended.
00:20:45.375 - 00:20:48.415
Diego: Honestly, it should have ended with the Snyder cut.
00:20:48.675 - 00:20:49.195
Diego: That's it.
00:20:49.495 - 00:20:50.315
Diego: That's it.
00:20:50.335 - 00:20:52.255
Diego: That should have been the end of the Snyderverse.
00:20:52.735 - 00:20:54.275
Diego: Let it all be put to rest.
00:20:54.295 - 00:20:59.215
Diego: But like instead, even Wonder Woman, even Gal Gadot says that she's going to be involved in the Wonder Woman.
00:20:59.235 - 00:21:03.575
Joshua: Like, it's really weird that there are actors carrying on.
00:21:03.595 - 00:21:07.175
Joshua: Yeah, like there's going to be a different Batman, Batman actor.
00:21:07.175 - 00:21:10.155
Diego: Like, how do you pair the new Superman guy, right?
00:21:10.175 - 00:21:12.855
Diego: The new actor who is like a pretty young dude and everything.
00:21:13.155 - 00:21:15.195
Diego: How do you pair him with Gal Gadot, Wonder Woman?
00:21:15.555 - 00:21:16.695
Joshua: I don't think...
00:21:16.755 - 00:21:18.575
Diego: Even with Jason Momoa, Aquaman.
00:21:18.595 - 00:21:20.975
Diego: Like, no, it's weird, man.
00:21:20.995 - 00:21:24.715
Joshua: Like, it's weird just seeing new characters.
00:21:24.735 - 00:21:34.875
Joshua: We're seeing new actors with actors from the past universe that aren't from the old universe, but are still the same.
00:21:35.035 - 00:21:38.275
Diego: I think they're messing themselves up, DC, by doing that.
00:21:39.295 - 00:21:42.815
Diego: It's kind of like, honestly, it's like more of the multiversal curse of DC.
00:21:43.935 - 00:21:46.195
Diego: It's the same crap that they got going on in the comics.
00:21:46.335 - 00:21:48.855
Diego: It's always some multiversal crap happening.
00:21:49.255 - 00:21:54.435
Diego: There's constantly characters jumping from one universe to the next, and it's annoying.
00:21:54.455 - 00:21:55.955
Diego: It gets really annoying old after a while.
00:21:55.975 - 00:22:00.195
Diego: So I am geeked out on the DC universe.
00:22:01.135 - 00:22:03.975
Diego: Again, like the Marvel, like the MCU, I'll be there.
00:22:04.295 - 00:22:16.155
Diego: But, you know, and I think that that is part of what has made me prefer to stay away from too much visual content, too much like video content.
00:22:16.255 - 00:22:22.255
Diego: I prefer the more obscure superhero stuff, like The Boys or like Invincible.
00:22:22.795 - 00:22:24.155
Diego: I prefer stuff like that.
00:22:24.195 - 00:22:30.215
Diego: And aside from that, I've just been like really keeping my head stuck into graphic novels and comics a lot recently.
00:22:30.235 - 00:22:32.615
Diego: Like my hardcover collection has grown.
00:22:32.915 - 00:22:37.055
Joshua: You are reading a lot of comics, but I mean Batman comics.
00:22:38.535 - 00:22:40.915
Diego: My Batman hardcover collection is legit, man.
00:22:41.035 - 00:22:41.955
Diego: That thing is huge.
00:22:42.115 - 00:22:44.035
Diego: And honestly, I've been reading ongoing.
00:22:44.055 - 00:22:47.335
Diego: They spawn Predator, Alien, Big Game.
00:22:47.355 - 00:22:50.995
Diego: I've been reading, what else?
00:22:50.995 - 00:22:52.435
Diego: The Vigil from DC.
00:22:52.455 - 00:22:52.875
Diego: Really cool.
00:22:52.895 - 00:22:54.915
Diego: It was like an Indian based superhero team.
00:22:54.935 - 00:23:00.535
Diego: Brand new characters, completely new characters, new stories, nothing necessarily tied into the major universe.
00:23:00.555 - 00:23:02.775
Joshua: Those are the guys that out red hooded Red Hood, right?
00:23:02.795 - 00:23:04.095
Diego: Yeah, yeah, yeah, those guys.
00:23:04.615 - 00:23:12.575
Diego: I saw them during the Lazarus Lazarus Planet event in the comics, and I was like, oh, I need to check more about these guys.
00:23:12.595 - 00:23:17.275
Diego: So as soon as they announced the Vigil comic series, I was like, yeah, I'm jumping on that.
00:23:17.555 - 00:23:19.875
Diego: And then there's some horror stuff that's happening in Marvel.
00:23:19.895 - 00:23:24.615
Diego: Like the Incredible Hulk has a run happening that is all horror themed.
00:23:24.635 - 00:23:37.495
Joshua: Yeah, and you said it's like when he transformed, it's like the Hulk is like bursting out of his body, and the skin is like tearing out, ripping Bruce Banner apart to become the Hulk.
00:23:37.515 - 00:23:39.815
Joshua: It like kills him every single time he transforms.
00:23:39.835 - 00:23:41.175
Diego: Yeah, it's really visceral.
00:23:41.175 - 00:23:44.935
Diego: I'm also reading the Blade series, this new Blade series in the comics that started up.
00:23:45.255 - 00:23:47.295
Diego: Blade, of course, is like all horror themed, you know?
00:23:49.135 - 00:23:49.515
Diego: What else?
00:23:49.535 - 00:23:54.935
Diego: Miles Morales just got suddenly a horror twist in the comics.
00:23:54.935 - 00:24:00.535
Diego: Yeah, Blade showed up at the end of the latest issue telling him that, like, because he encountered a vampire.
00:24:02.115 - 00:24:05.015
Diego: Yeah, and his spidey sense is going nuts.
00:24:05.035 - 00:24:07.435
Diego: And I think that something supernatural has to do with that.
00:24:07.455 - 00:24:09.795
Diego: So Blade showed up, Blade and his daughter, Bloodline.
00:24:10.455 - 00:24:14.795
Diego: And apparently, they're going to, like, you know, team up with them to do something in this latest series.
00:24:15.475 - 00:24:17.475
Diego: So yeah, horror is the name of the game, man.
00:24:17.495 - 00:24:20.975
Diego: DC also just wrapped up this thing called the Nightmares series.
00:24:23.615 - 00:24:24.795
Diego: Yeah, of course.
00:24:26.575 - 00:24:27.995
Diego: And that was really cool.
00:24:28.015 - 00:24:34.195
Diego: That was like this new villain called Insomnia, who basically put all of the heroes in the world into this deep sleep.
00:24:34.275 - 00:24:42.835
Diego: And like they he made them face their worst fears and their nightmares and all the while trying to like take control of the world and the outside world and the real world.
00:24:42.955 - 00:24:43.295
Joshua: Yeah.
00:24:43.435 - 00:24:45.595
Diego: And so like Deadman had to possess Batman.
00:24:45.615 - 00:24:46.795
Joshua: Is that main continuity?
00:24:47.215 - 00:24:49.695
Diego: Yeah, yeah, definitely main continuity.
00:24:49.715 - 00:24:50.535
Diego: That was really cool.
00:24:50.555 - 00:24:53.395
Diego: So it's like horror is really big in comics right now.
00:24:53.415 - 00:24:54.955
Diego: Yeah, it's huge, huge, huge.
00:24:54.955 - 00:24:58.755
Diego: All the independent comics like my god, the horror themes are really, really deep.
00:24:58.815 - 00:25:02.455
Joshua: I mean, even stuff that isn't main continuity, like you have deceased.
00:25:02.655 - 00:25:05.295
Joshua: Yeah, yeah, that's a really good series.
00:25:05.315 - 00:25:06.035
Diego: Heck yeah, man.
00:25:06.055 - 00:25:06.735
Diego: It just ended.
00:25:06.755 - 00:25:08.435
Diego: The last chapter was released.
00:25:08.635 - 00:25:10.475
Diego: These were the undead gods.
00:25:11.015 - 00:25:13.435
Diego: Yeah, I got the hardcover and I've been meaning to read it.
00:25:13.455 - 00:25:18.655
Diego: That's like going to be that's going to be the ending to like one of my favorite DC series ever, man.
00:25:18.795 - 00:25:20.135
Diego: That is such a great thing.
00:25:20.155 - 00:25:22.975
Diego: And for those of you who don't know, deceased, it's like deceased.
00:25:24.595 - 00:25:28.575
Diego: It's basically a DC Comics version of the zombie outbreak.
00:25:28.795 - 00:25:29.655
Joshua: Yeah.
00:25:29.675 - 00:25:30.395
Diego: And it's really cool.
00:25:30.415 - 00:25:31.355
Diego: It's pretty cool.
00:25:31.375 - 00:25:35.555
Diego: It's original and like tailored to like the lore of the of the DC universe.
00:25:35.575 - 00:25:36.215
Joshua: It's really neat.
00:25:36.235 - 00:25:39.515
Joshua: The virus is started by like Darkseid.
00:25:39.535 - 00:25:40.195
Joshua: It's really cool.
00:25:40.195 - 00:25:41.255
Diego: Yeah.
00:25:41.275 - 00:25:43.415
Diego: Marvel is bringing back Marvel zombies, actually.
00:25:43.435 - 00:25:43.935
Joshua: Oh, really?
00:25:44.075 - 00:25:49.655
Diego: It's almost like a retelling of Marvel zombies, but it's going to be all in black, red and white only.
00:25:50.435 - 00:25:51.775
Diego: Yeah, I'm looking forward to that.
00:25:51.795 - 00:25:52.335
Diego: It should be pretty cool.
00:25:53.555 - 00:25:58.595
Diego: Also got like this crossover comic between Wolverine and Ghost Rider that I want to check out.
00:25:58.615 - 00:26:01.375
Diego: It's called Weapons of Vengeance that just started.
00:26:01.395 - 00:26:03.015
Diego: I got issue number one that I got to check out.
00:26:03.555 - 00:26:09.315
Diego: But this is a good opportunity actually to shift over into the stuff that we are actually geeking out now.
00:26:10.475 - 00:26:13.675
Diego: So for me, of course, like I just mentioned, comics is one of them.
00:26:13.695 - 00:26:15.195
Joshua: Yeah, you're really big on comics.
00:26:15.215 - 00:26:25.815
Diego: Yeah, I've been definitely like getting lost in that world a lot more than I have been in like shows or series or whatever.
00:26:25.835 - 00:26:27.175
Diego: I'm still catching stuff.
00:26:29.095 - 00:26:32.375
Diego: Andor on the Star Wars side was excellent.
00:26:32.495 - 00:26:35.835
Diego: One of the best Star Wars anythings that I've seen in live action.
00:26:35.975 - 00:26:37.235
Diego: Very, very good series.
00:26:38.015 - 00:26:39.475
Diego: Really looking forward to season two.
00:26:40.275 - 00:26:46.215
Diego: Presumably, that should be the end of that because of course his fate, we know it from Star Wars Rogue One.
00:26:47.395 - 00:26:48.875
Diego: And I'm watching Ahsoka right now.
00:26:48.895 - 00:26:58.115
Diego: And for those of us who sat through the Clone Wars cartoon series and the Rebels cartoon series, that show is like, it's fanfare.
00:26:58.135 - 00:27:01.055
Diego: You know, it's, sorry, what is it called?
00:27:01.355 - 00:27:03.115
Joshua: Like fan service.
00:27:03.415 - 00:27:05.095
Diego: It's complete fan service, man.
00:27:05.215 - 00:27:10.435
Diego: It is seeing the Clone Wars, like literally had like a live action flashback of the Clone Wars.
00:27:10.735 - 00:27:11.115
Joshua: Really?
00:27:11.135 - 00:27:11.495
Diego: Yeah.
00:27:11.515 - 00:27:12.415
Diego: And that was really cool.
00:27:12.435 - 00:27:18.615
Diego: We got to see like Anakin and Ahsoka younger, dressed just like they did in the cartoon series.
00:27:18.695 - 00:27:19.215
Diego: Really, really cool.
00:27:20.435 - 00:27:20.735
Diego: Yeah.
00:27:21.415 - 00:27:21.895
Diego: Oh, yeah.
00:27:21.915 - 00:27:22.735
Diego: He came back, man.
00:27:22.855 - 00:27:23.495
Diego: He came back.
00:27:23.655 - 00:27:29.235
Diego: He had a little duel in the World Between Worlds, which is this thing that was shown in the Rebels cartoon show.
00:27:30.415 - 00:27:30.715
Diego: Yeah.
00:27:30.835 - 00:27:31.875
Diego: So far, it's been fun.
00:27:32.275 - 00:27:35.435
Diego: That is absolutely like a show made for fans.
00:27:35.495 - 00:27:38.155
Diego: Like Dave Filoni is directing it, writing it.
00:27:38.175 - 00:27:42.335
Diego: That is Dave Filoni's love letter to fans who have followed his work in animation.
00:27:43.855 - 00:27:45.455
Diego: And I am like delighted.
00:27:45.455 - 00:27:48.875
Diego: But I know for general audiences, I don't know, it may not be like all that.
00:27:48.895 - 00:27:53.055
Joshua: I feel like Star Wars is something that is taking a step in the right direction.
00:27:53.255 - 00:27:53.795
Diego: You think so?
00:27:54.075 - 00:28:03.815
Joshua: Yeah, I feel like, I mean, people were hoping that they would take a break from movies after The Last Skywalker.
00:28:04.275 - 00:28:04.675
Diego: Oh, yeah.
00:28:04.795 - 00:28:05.435
Joshua: And they did.
00:28:06.435 - 00:28:11.595
Joshua: And everything that has come out between that period has been really good.
00:28:12.055 - 00:28:13.375
Diego: Yeah, for the most part.
00:28:13.415 - 00:28:16.515
Diego: I think Bando seasons one and two were really good.
00:28:16.535 - 00:28:17.655
Joshua: Season three was...
00:28:19.035 - 00:28:20.215
Joshua: The end got really good.
00:28:20.295 - 00:28:21.135
Diego: I guess, yeah.
00:28:21.195 - 00:28:27.275
Diego: Book of Boba Fett was fun, but it felt more like an extension of the Mando show.
00:28:27.495 - 00:28:30.215
Diego: Ahsoka has been cool so far.
00:28:30.215 - 00:28:31.875
Diego: Again, Andor is fantastic.
00:28:31.895 - 00:28:33.635
Diego: It's the best of the Star Wars shows, in my opinion.
00:28:33.655 - 00:28:35.435
Diego: Kenobi, for me, was really fun.
00:28:35.715 - 00:28:36.075
Joshua: Yeah.
00:28:36.135 - 00:28:37.815
Diego: I thought it was a really, really good show.
00:28:38.995 - 00:28:43.335
Joshua: They're gonna finish up the Mando series with the movie?
00:28:43.695 - 00:28:44.555
Diego: Well, everything.
00:28:44.895 - 00:28:51.255
Diego: It seems like where they're going is that this whole Disney Plus series world is gonna conclude basically in the film.
00:28:51.275 - 00:28:53.735
Joshua: Like Ahsoka, Boba Fett, Mando, all of that?
00:28:53.835 - 00:28:58.455
Diego: I think all these people are gonna have to team up and come together in some Avengers type way to...
00:28:59.835 - 00:29:01.575
Diego: Probably against Thrawn.
00:29:01.635 - 00:29:02.035
Joshua: Yeah.
00:29:02.235 - 00:29:03.115
Diego: Would be my guess.
00:29:04.015 - 00:29:08.935
Diego: So I don't think that Ahsoka, this series is gonna end with Thrawn being defeated.
00:29:09.875 - 00:29:12.695
Joshua: Have we seen Thrawn in the show?
00:29:12.715 - 00:29:13.255
Diego: In Rebels.
00:29:13.275 - 00:29:14.435
Joshua: No, not yet.
00:29:15.355 - 00:29:15.815
Diego: Not yet.
00:29:16.015 - 00:29:16.695
Diego: Only by name.
00:29:18.115 - 00:29:19.215
Diego: But they already...
00:29:19.235 - 00:29:26.355
Diego: I mean, spoiler alert, if you're watching the Ahsoka series and haven't gone to the latest episode, they're already like over...
00:29:27.355 - 00:29:36.035
Diego: They travel over to whatever alternate other galaxy it is that Thrawn was taken to by Ezra Bridger in the Rebels cartoon series.
00:29:36.575 - 00:29:38.515
Diego: And so they're there.
00:29:39.235 - 00:29:40.235
Diego: So they reach them.
00:29:40.355 - 00:29:41.295
Diego: We just haven't seen them yet.
00:29:41.855 - 00:29:42.255
Diego: We'll see.
00:29:42.295 - 00:29:42.875
Diego: We'll find out.
00:29:44.135 - 00:29:44.915
Diego: All right.
00:29:44.935 - 00:29:46.015
Diego: What are you geeking out on, man?
00:29:46.395 - 00:29:49.135
Joshua: What I'm geeking out on right now is music.
00:29:49.275 - 00:29:49.915
Diego: Oh, yes, you are.
00:29:50.075 - 00:29:52.755
Joshua: I've been in the past couple months.
00:29:52.815 - 00:29:54.195
Diego: This guy loves trap music.
00:29:55.555 - 00:29:56.015
Joshua: All right.
00:29:56.515 - 00:29:57.635
Diego: Such a trap music fan.
00:29:59.635 - 00:29:59.895
Joshua: No.
00:30:00.415 - 00:30:06.415
Joshua: But I've been in the past couple of months, I've been looking at a bunch of different music genres.
00:30:06.955 - 00:30:10.315
Joshua: I really like R&B, hip hop.
00:30:10.335 - 00:30:12.235
Joshua: I like rock.
00:30:12.755 - 00:30:19.415
Joshua: I like a lot of music, and I've been listening to albums.
00:30:20.075 - 00:30:32.435
Joshua: I've never really listened to any albums before these past couple of months, and I've been listening to entire albums, really appreciating how the music sounds and the message of the music.
00:30:32.535 - 00:30:32.955
Diego: Yeah.
00:30:32.975 - 00:30:40.555
Diego: I've seen you paying attention to lyrics and the flow and composition of songs, the music itself, melodies, and all that stuff.
00:30:40.575 - 00:30:46.135
Diego: It seems like you're really developing a passion for music as an art form.
00:30:46.255 - 00:30:46.615
Joshua: Yeah.
00:30:46.635 - 00:30:54.275
Diego: And I was telling you the other day that coincidentally, it's right around your age, right around 11, that I started paying attention to music really for the first time.
00:30:55.295 - 00:30:58.435
Diego: And I ended up falling in love with hip hop right around that time period.
00:30:58.455 - 00:31:01.995
Diego: And again, coincidentally, it seems like you are too, man.
00:31:02.895 - 00:31:04.675
Diego: And I've never pushed you towards that.
00:31:04.855 - 00:31:05.235
Joshua: Yeah.
00:31:05.515 - 00:31:05.795
Diego: Right?
00:31:05.815 - 00:31:08.455
Diego: Like I've never shoved the hip hop in your face or anything.
00:31:09.075 - 00:31:10.735
Diego: You've seen it, you've heard it, obviously.
00:31:10.755 - 00:31:11.795
Diego: Like I'm always playing it.
00:31:11.815 - 00:31:15.335
Diego: But yeah, it seems like you just kind of developed your own thing for it.
00:31:15.615 - 00:31:15.915
Joshua: Yeah.
00:31:16.235 - 00:31:19.055
Joshua: I mean, I just, I love how it sounds.
00:31:19.175 - 00:31:20.815
Joshua: I love the sound of the music.
00:31:20.835 - 00:31:22.955
Joshua: I just, I love that type of music.
00:31:23.455 - 00:31:24.715
Diego: Yeah.
00:31:24.735 - 00:31:30.415
Diego: We already, we talked about at some point in the near future, like taking a trip to New York City.
00:31:30.515 - 00:31:36.655
Joshua: To like visit the historical, like landmarks of, is that the right word?
00:31:36.675 - 00:31:37.155
Joshua: Landmarks?
00:31:37.595 - 00:31:40.755
Diego: Probably just historical places where like hip hop was born.
00:31:41.635 - 00:31:44.535
Diego: Granted, a lot of that happened like in the projects and in the ghetto.
00:31:53.275 - 00:31:56.855
Joshua: Like places where like the Wu-Tang Clan came from, places like that.
00:31:57.015 - 00:31:57.315
Diego: Yeah.
00:31:57.635 - 00:32:05.115
Diego: And yeah, but we'll do some sort of recording, like video recording and stuff while we're there so that we can put it up on our YouTube channel.
00:32:07.035 - 00:32:13.235
Diego: For me, one of the things that I geeked out on very recently was like horror movies.
00:32:13.255 - 00:32:23.115
Diego: And I've loved horror for like a long time, but I've been meaning to for a very long time to check out Shudder, the streaming service that's all like horror focused.
00:32:23.855 - 00:32:24.395
Diego: And I did.
00:32:24.415 - 00:32:27.135
Diego: I was subscribed for like two, three months recently.
00:32:27.375 - 00:32:33.715
Diego: And oh my God, I saw so many, so many Shudder horror movies and series.
00:32:33.775 - 00:32:37.655
Diego: And there was like a lot of misses in there, but definitely a lot of wins.
00:32:37.675 - 00:32:47.235
Diego: Like there's some really, really good content, clever, original content, all done by like independent people, independent movie makers and stuff.
00:32:48.195 - 00:32:51.915
Diego: Not a lot of those movies really make it onto theaters or anything like that.
00:32:52.275 - 00:32:54.955
Diego: So it's really for like diehard horror fans.
00:32:55.175 - 00:32:56.415
Diego: And that was a lot of fun.
00:32:56.435 - 00:33:06.195
Diego: So like if you're into horror and you want to just kind of like delight yourself, seeing stuff that you probably won't see in the theater or that you're not going to hear people talking about in the mainstream, check out Shudder.
00:33:06.255 - 00:33:18.635
Diego: There's tons and tons of content in there, like all flavors of horror, anything from like body horror to slasher films to found footage stuff to the more spiritual demonic stuff, all sorts of stuff.
00:33:18.715 - 00:33:19.655
Diego: It's really a lot of fun.
00:33:19.695 - 00:33:22.375
Joshua: Yeah, I watched a couple episodes of some show.
00:33:22.555 - 00:33:24.175
Diego: Like an anthology type show, right?
00:33:24.195 - 00:33:25.595
Joshua: Yeah, and it was really interesting.
00:33:25.675 - 00:33:28.835
Diego: Yeah, there's something like cool concepts there, for sure.
00:33:29.875 - 00:33:30.275
Diego: What else?
00:33:30.295 - 00:33:31.315
Diego: What else are you geeking out on?
00:33:32.175 - 00:33:35.415
Joshua: I think I've been geeking out on video games.
00:33:35.435 - 00:33:36.835
Joshua: I've been playing a lot of video games recently.
00:33:38.375 - 00:33:42.415
Joshua: I finished one of my favorite video games ever, Red Dead Redemption 2, recently.
00:33:43.455 - 00:33:49.795
Joshua: I think it is one of the best stories in a video game ever.
00:33:51.395 - 00:33:53.155
Joshua: It's like so impactful.
00:33:53.175 - 00:33:54.115
Joshua: It's so meaningful.
00:33:54.135 - 00:33:56.375
Joshua: You get really attached to the characters in that story.
00:33:56.395 - 00:34:05.155
Joshua: I've also been playing, like, I've been playing Assassin's Creed 2, which I love that series.
00:34:05.195 - 00:34:07.375
Joshua: I'm really excited for the new game to come out.
00:34:07.595 - 00:34:08.555
Diego: Yeah, Mirage.
00:34:09.175 - 00:34:17.135
Diego: Which we just found out that is actually going to be released, the first full, like, console version of an Assassin's Creed game to be released on mobile.
00:34:17.335 - 00:34:19.475
Diego: It's going to be released on the iPhone 15.
00:34:19.495 - 00:34:20.215
Diego: It's pretty crazy.
00:34:20.615 - 00:34:26.535
Diego: Along with, like, the last two Resident Evil games, like, console versions of them, that's going to be interesting.
00:34:26.555 - 00:34:33.675
Diego: I'm planning on hopping into the iPhone 15, so I'll definitely check out Mirage on there, to see what the experience is like.
00:34:34.175 - 00:34:41.335
Diego: I'm really curious to see if they're actually going to give, like, an ability to control it just on the phone, or if you're going to have to connect a PS controller to it.
00:34:41.495 - 00:34:42.475
Joshua: I don't think...
00:34:42.815 - 00:34:43.715
Diego: How could you, right?
00:34:43.735 - 00:34:45.955
Diego: Like, how could you not use a full controller?
00:34:46.235 - 00:34:53.415
Joshua: Yeah, it would be really hard, honestly, to do everything that you have to do in those types of games, Resident Evil games.
00:34:53.695 - 00:35:04.235
Diego: Unless they, like, work their butts off to create, like, a very customized UI, you know, on screen, on the phone screen.
00:35:04.255 - 00:35:06.515
Diego: Like, yeah, I figured you would need a controller.
00:35:06.555 - 00:35:07.295
Diego: But we'll see.
00:35:07.315 - 00:35:07.915
Diego: I'll check that out.
00:35:08.235 - 00:35:10.815
Diego: We're also, like, getting ready to hop on PS5, too.
00:35:10.835 - 00:35:16.315
Joshua: Yeah, we're gonna, like, for Christmas, we're gonna be gifting ourselves a PlayStation 5.
00:35:17.595 - 00:35:22.195
Joshua: There are a lot of games that we've been wanting to get that are only on PlayStation 5.
00:35:22.615 - 00:35:27.295
Joshua: Spider-Man 2, Mortal Kombat 1, some games that I want that are on PlayStation 5.
00:35:27.355 - 00:35:28.195
Diego: What games do you want?
00:35:28.635 - 00:35:30.395
Joshua: Ratchet and Clank, Rift Apart.
00:35:30.415 - 00:35:32.295
Diego: Oh, yeah, that was one of the first ones that came out with the console.
00:35:32.315 - 00:35:35.455
Joshua: I don't know why they've released that only on PlayStation 5 so early.
00:35:35.475 - 00:35:38.535
Diego: Very weird, especially when they were releasing, like, other games on...
00:35:38.755 - 00:35:43.435
Diego: Oh, I think it had to do with, like, some sort of game functionality that couldn't be done, I guess.
00:35:44.835 - 00:35:48.055
Diego: But yeah, for me, Mortal Kombat 1 is one of the big ones.
00:35:48.835 - 00:35:55.215
Diego: Like, since they announced that they weren't gonna do that for PS4 and PS5, I was like, oh, no, yeah, I think it's time.
00:35:55.915 - 00:36:04.095
Diego: They're probably gonna, such a big platform game, they're probably gonna start getting ready to, like, go exclusive with PS5 moving forward.
00:36:04.115 - 00:36:05.755
Diego: So I think it's time.
00:36:05.855 - 00:36:08.615
Diego: I mean, we've used the heck out of the PS4, man.
00:36:08.635 - 00:36:09.255
Joshua: Definitely.
00:36:09.555 - 00:36:10.675
Diego: That's an epic console.
00:36:11.115 - 00:36:11.915
Diego: It's been good to us.
00:36:11.955 - 00:36:16.335
Joshua: Like, our controllers, like, literally one of our controllers, like, basically doesn't work anymore.
00:36:16.415 - 00:36:16.735
Diego: Yeah.
00:36:16.915 - 00:36:22.175
Joshua: So we, I think it's definitely time for us to reward ourselves with the new console.
00:36:22.195 - 00:36:23.195
Diego: Yes, we've been good boys.
00:36:24.295 - 00:36:30.155
Diego: Also, a lot of our digital games will be able to be playable on PS5.
00:36:30.175 - 00:36:39.495
Joshua: Because if we get, which we are going to, get a digital only version of the PlayStation 5, then we'll be able to port all of our PlayStation 4 games onto it.
00:36:39.515 - 00:36:40.415
Diego: Yeah, that's pretty cool.
00:36:40.435 - 00:36:49.195
Diego: That's good, because I got to finish God of War 2, I got to play Ragnarok, I got to finish, I got to play The Last of Us 2, just so I haven't played.
00:36:49.435 - 00:36:55.975
Diego: I do eventually want to play Ghost of Fushima, and I want to play eventually Dead Red Redemption, because I feel like I will fail you as a father if I don't.
00:36:55.995 - 00:36:57.755
Joshua: Yeah, I'm probably going to disown you.
00:36:57.795 - 00:37:01.435
Diego: Yeah, and that other game, I want to, I want to play to Fuji, Tofu, Jifu?
00:37:02.635 - 00:37:03.335
Diego: Sifu, Sifu.
00:37:04.655 - 00:37:06.435
Diego: Yeah, I want to play that Sifu game.
00:37:07.815 - 00:37:10.415
Diego: Is that where you got to eat sushi quick or otherwise you age?
00:37:10.475 - 00:37:11.115
Diego: Is that what it is?
00:37:11.515 - 00:37:14.035
Diego: You get older if you don't eat the sushi quick, the seafood?
00:37:15.395 - 00:37:15.795
Joshua: Yeah.
00:37:17.315 - 00:37:23.775
Diego: As you can see, my dad joke humor has only gotten stronger and stronger throughout this last year.
00:37:25.195 - 00:37:25.655
Diego: Yeah.
00:37:26.015 - 00:37:29.735
Diego: Speaking of video games, one thing that I'm definitely geeking out on right now is Fortnite.
00:37:29.755 - 00:37:30.855
Diego: I caught the fever again.
00:37:30.875 - 00:37:35.055
Joshua: Yeah, like every couple of months, he catches a Fortnite fever.
00:37:35.075 - 00:37:36.235
Diego: It's not a couple of months.
00:37:36.315 - 00:37:37.635
Diego: This one was a long break.
00:37:37.655 - 00:37:38.635
Joshua: It was, it was.
00:37:38.775 - 00:37:40.455
Diego: It was like, I think over a year.
00:37:40.555 - 00:37:42.835
Joshua: Yeah, and then you went hard on Fortnite.
00:37:42.835 - 00:37:48.695
Joshua: Like when I'm playing a game and then I get off for one millisecond.
00:37:48.715 - 00:37:50.475
Diego: Just to go pee or something.
00:37:50.495 - 00:37:52.115
Joshua: He takes a controller.
00:37:52.115 - 00:37:52.715
Diego: I'm taking over.
00:37:52.735 - 00:37:53.535
Joshua: Goes on Fortnite.
00:37:53.555 - 00:37:57.375
Diego: Yeah, I will sporadically find opportunities to go on Fortnite.
00:37:57.395 - 00:37:57.935
Diego: I don't know, man.
00:37:57.955 - 00:37:59.195
Diego: I just caught the fever again.
00:37:59.215 - 00:38:01.455
Diego: This new season is pretty fun, to be honest.
00:38:02.215 - 00:38:04.555
Diego: I think it's the most fun season in a while.
00:38:05.275 - 00:38:10.795
Diego: And yeah, I'm having a hell of a time, and I'm pwning some folks.
00:38:11.735 - 00:38:12.175
Joshua: You are.
00:38:12.375 - 00:38:12.775
Diego: Pwning.
00:38:12.815 - 00:38:13.795
Diego: Is that a word anymore?
00:38:13.815 - 00:38:14.915
Diego: That's not a word anymore.
00:38:14.935 - 00:38:15.515
Diego: Pwning is not a word.
00:38:15.535 - 00:38:16.615
Joshua: I don't think it was ever a word.
00:38:16.835 - 00:38:18.935
Diego: It was a word at a time.
00:38:20.135 - 00:38:21.475
Joshua: Yeah, let's just go with that.
00:38:22.575 - 00:38:23.935
Diego: Anything else that we're geeking out on?
00:38:25.395 - 00:38:27.515
Diego: What else are we on and on about?
00:38:29.115 - 00:38:32.015
Diego: I've definitely been geeking out on Apple TV Plus shows.
00:38:32.115 - 00:38:33.295
Diego: I know you haven't with us.
00:38:33.315 - 00:38:34.015
Diego: Oh, no, Silo.
00:38:35.395 - 00:38:36.215
Joshua: I like that show.
00:38:36.235 - 00:38:37.015
Diego: There you go.
00:38:37.035 - 00:38:38.715
Diego: You got a taste of Apple TV Plus, too.
00:38:38.735 - 00:38:46.995
Diego: Man, yo, Apple, if you have not seen Apple TV Plus TV, honestly, they have so many good shows.
00:38:47.095 - 00:38:58.195
Diego: I mean, everything from like Ted Lasso to The Morning Show, to Invasion, to The Silo, to, what is this, For All Mankind.
00:38:58.215 - 00:39:03.855
Diego: Like, they have so many hit shows, some like mini series, some movies even.
00:39:05.735 - 00:39:14.435
Diego: Apple is giving movie makers and show makers a lot of creative freedom, and so there's a lot of very original stuff being put out on Apple TV Plus.
00:39:14.955 - 00:39:16.415
Diego: Do not sleep on it.
00:39:16.435 - 00:39:20.775
Diego: I'm telling you, check it out if you get a chance at some of the best television that I've seen in years.
00:39:21.035 - 00:39:22.055
Diego: It's really, really good.
00:39:22.075 - 00:39:24.995
Diego: So I've definitely been geeking out on that.
00:39:25.415 - 00:39:26.855
Diego: Tell you what I'm ready to geek out on.
00:39:28.515 - 00:39:30.035
Diego: Some more Geekology 101.
00:39:30.315 - 00:39:31.135
Joshua: Yeah.
00:39:31.595 - 00:39:33.835
Diego: Hey, we are happy to be back.
00:39:34.055 - 00:39:35.735
Diego: It's been way too long.
00:39:36.355 - 00:39:40.255
Diego: I feel like it's been a back and forth process these months.
00:39:40.275 - 00:39:50.215
Diego: I felt the itch sometimes to come back, but we were planning on coming back with video versions of our episodes, and that was holding me back for a while because we needed a better setup.
00:39:51.155 - 00:39:53.755
Diego: And then it just dawned on us, why are we waiting?
00:39:53.775 - 00:39:59.275
Diego: Let's just come back in audio form like we were before and create separate content and video for a YouTube channel.
00:39:59.975 - 00:40:04.095
Diego: So for those of you who have stuck around, we've seen the listens coming in, man.
00:40:04.115 - 00:40:13.615
Diego: Like, you know, there's been weeks when it's like, you know, I don't know, 250, 300 listens out of nowhere, and you guys are continuing to enjoy the show.
00:40:13.635 - 00:40:15.435
Diego: So thank you so much for your loyalty.
00:40:16.435 - 00:40:22.255
Diego: Each episode is gonna be kind of like a freeform conversation on a particular topic, just like we always do.
00:40:22.715 - 00:40:29.735
Diego: And then we'll do commentary on whatever stuff we're watching, reviews that we wanna give on movies and stuff over at a YouTube channel.
00:40:29.775 - 00:40:30.495
Diego: Yeah.
00:40:30.515 - 00:40:31.315
Diego: So you can check that out.
00:40:31.335 - 00:40:35.295
Diego: We're gonna be doing YouTube shorts and some other videos that are a little bit more longer format.
00:40:35.975 - 00:40:40.395
Diego: But the Geekology 101 podcast feed is gonna come back to life.
00:40:40.415 - 00:40:42.155
Diego: We're gonna start putting out episodes again.
00:40:42.655 - 00:40:45.135
Diego: And we're really looking forward to geeking out with you guys.
00:40:45.755 - 00:40:47.055
Diego: And yeah, we're back, baby.
00:40:47.275 - 00:40:47.735
Joshua: We are.
00:40:47.795 - 00:40:49.835
Diego: Geekology 101 coming at you.
00:40:50.155 - 00:40:51.895
Joshua: In 3, 2, 1.
00:40:58.390 - 00:41:02.570
Diego: Thank you for listening to this comeback episode of Geekology 101.
00:41:02.590 - 00:41:06.810
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00:41:06.830 - 00:41:09.510
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00:41:09.890 - 00:41:14.470
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00:41:14.810 - 00:41:19.410
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00:41:19.830 - 00:41:26.770
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00:41:27.090 - 00:41:38.890
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00:41:39.050 - 00:41:40.410
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00:41:40.470 - 00:41:41.690
Diego: Thanks for sticking with us.
00:41:42.070 - 00:41:43.670
Diego: We will catch you in the next episode.
00:41:45.350 - 00:41:58.710
Diego: Also, if you're new to the show, just if there's one episode that you're going to check out from our entire 184 episode library, you're going to want to go all the way to the beginning and look for Joshua's review of Flash TV series.
00:41:58.730 - 00:41:59.670
Joshua: Don't listen to him.
00:41:59.690 - 00:42:01.550
Diego: You need to listen to that episode.
00:42:01.570 - 00:42:02.090
Joshua: No, you don't.
00:42:02.110 - 00:42:04.790
Diego: That is the most adorable thing ever.
00:42:04.810 - 00:42:06.390
Diego: It's also the most depressive thing ever.
00:42:06.410 - 00:42:08.590
Diego: I don't know why you have sounded so depressed.
00:42:08.610 - 00:42:09.350
Joshua: I don't know you.
00:42:09.450 - 00:42:10.830
Diego: Check out that episode.
