And welcome to another live at King Kong in Kingman, Arizona.
We're here with our host Andy Rice.
Let's get fried!
Yes, with me today, as always is Austin drove three and a half hours to be here.
His mom made a bunch of adorable little handmade wheat related things that we can't sell to
these children.
Check me out on Rooster Teeth.
With me as always is Mike.
He thinks that hat makes him look way younger than it does.
We try to kill him every episode.
We've given him poison.
We've shot him.
We've stabbed him.
He is invincible.
He's like the Terminator.
He cannot die.
Larson.
Hey everybody.
And with me today is you guys in the audience, a bunch of kids wearing costumes.
Let's give it up for you.
Okay, wow.
So, welcome to Fried Rice Podcast everybody.
A lot of you look like you're still in middle school, high school.
Am I right?
High school.
I'm out of high school.
High school.
You're out of high school and you're 16?
That sounds like the start of a sad story.
Did your parents just abandon you somewhere?
Wait, you're in the foster care system and now you're on your own at 16 dressed like
a ninja?
Are you dressed like a bum?
Is your character a bum?
You look like he's every hero more than a bum.
Why are you so dirty?
Is that part of the cosplay?
That's because it's dirty out where I'm from.
She's a vigilante.
I didn't think we were going to start so dark.
I didn't think the first kid here was going to have a Batman backstory.
That's because you're a Peter Pan.
Oh, okay.
Wow.
That's a family friendly podcast.
We thought we had to be family friendly.
Yeah.
The first kid.
I didn't know the family wasn't going to be friendly.
So today's going to be a little bit weird.
We're going to have some guests just popping in and out throughout this thing.
Let's just get the first one on right now.
It was the first guy that I met when we came up here.
Come on up, buddy.
Let's give a round of applause too.
What was your name again?
Chance.
Spider-Man 29.
Yeah.
All right, Chance.
I bought a print from you earlier.
Let's show everybody.
This thing's awesome.
It's got all of my favorite Spider-Man, including anti-venom, which I just found out more about.
Apparently, Eddie Brock was anti-venom at some point.
I didn't know that.
He was.
He was in the game with 29 and 9.
Edge of Time.
Yeah.
That was the one that had Doc Ock and everything as well.
Yep.
But Edge of Time didn't have the open world web slinging, right?
It was level based and it was kind of crap and that's why nobody really liked it.
Well, Edge of Time is a mixed bag.
It's got a really great story, but the gameplay just doesn't really reflect that.
Oh yeah, the same reason I'm going to watch all the cut scenes to Suicide Squad Kills
the Justice League and I'm never going to play it.
Yeah, exactly.
It's like one of those games that looks awesome.
It's going to have a dope story.
Can't wait.
But it turns out really horrible.
Yeah.
Just like the gameplay where most of the screen is just UI.
Yeah.
Let's say he's starting to get that Marvel and Disney treatment right now.
I'm pretty sure they did that with Gotham Knights too.
Yeah, Gotham Knights looks...
It was pretty bad too.
And Avengers.
We're making games live service.
We won story driven single player war co-op up to four friends.
Spider-Man 2.
Yes, Spider-Man 2 is amazing.
He should make Insomniac make all the games.
This kid right here, despite his tragic backstory, he learned some street smarts and he learned
them good.
So Chance, what is your business called?
Mechs and Magic.
Mechs and Magic?
Yes.
So basically the reason why we called it that is because, well, for part, I'm more of the
robotic side.
I like drawing robots and stuff like that.
I'm a lot angular.
And my wife, she does most of the softer stuff, like anime girls and stuff like that.
But we also do it because it kind of represents that we do a broad range of media and stuff
like that.
So not just anime, but also superheroes, games, stuff like that.
Yeah, I mean I like the Spider-Man one.
Yeah, and you were looking at Harley Quinn.
You had the keychains over there?
Yes.
I actually bought a keychain from him, the Soundwave one.
Soundwave Superior.
Oh, that's dope.
It's holographic too.
Yes, and it's actually really funny.
I love it.
What's your Instagram handle?
So it is Mechs and then N and then Magic.
And for the record, he's saying M-E-C-H-S.
Yes.
It took me a second to be like, are you allowed to call something Mechs and Magic?
M-E-X and Magic.
I was like, but no, yeah, Mechs and Magic.
Yes, got it.
Perfect.
And you have an Instagram, you said?
Yes, that is our Instagram.
We do also have an email and a website, although the website's being moved to a newer thing
because we're also starting another business called the Nerd Vault where we're doing a
little bit more outside of just prints and stuff like that.
We're also selling stuff that we all enjoy, like comics and figures and stuff like that.
So we're kind of branching out on our business venture, but right now the focus is Mechs
and Magic.
Okay, perfect.
Love it.
Let's just get that out before...
Actually, our question for the panelists today is we're reviewing 2001 Planet of the Apes
by Tim Burton.
Well, we're going to be getting more into it later, but give us right now, we have a
rating system.
It is from B being our highest.
It goes to F being pretty bad.
Don't watch it.
But then W is a waste of time.
What would you put Planet of the Apes 2001 Tim Burton?
Is there anything in between?
Because I don't hate the movie, but it's really weird.
You can do pluses and minuses.
Okay, I'll give it an F plus.
Okay.
Wow.
First one out the gate is an F plus.
All right, everybody...
With Marky Mark.
Except Marky Mark.
Marky Mark's all right, you know, besides all this stuff.
And a monkey lady that looks kind of like Michael Jackson.
No, she looks like Sandra Bullock.
Okay, guys.
That's mean.
But now I didn't think about it.
We're trying to get her on the show, Mike.
That ape woman does look a lot like Sandra Bullock.
Yes, look.
All right, well, hey, thank you so much, Chance, for coming on.
We appreciate it.
And check him out at one more time, your Instagram.
Mechs in Magic with an N in the middle.
That's again, M-E-C-H-S.
H, yes.
And Magic with an N. Perfect.
Thanks so much.
We appreciate it.
Awesome.
Happy to be on.
Thank you.
Awesome.
Okay.
And so today we're going to be jumping straight into the movie.
How many of you children have seen 2001 Planet of the Apes?
Of course you have.
You probably watched it through a window standing in the snow outside one of those electronic
shops where all the TVs were.
You couldn't hear what was happening.
You just knew monkeys bad, humans good.
Okay.
I'm just kidding.
But you have a tragic backstory.
I'm worried about you.
Somebody adopt this kid.
Anyone here?
Adoption?
Ready?
I need to adopt him.
He bought it for 20 bucks.
He bought what for 20 bucks?
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Wrong broadcast.
We can wait on Planet of the Apes.
We just witness human trafficking.
Blink three times in a row if you're in trouble.
Well, that's disheartening.
I'm starting to think these kids are darker than us.
Yeah.
I think that poor girl is being human trafficked by a boy who is outside the system, but also
they were the only ones talking.
So thank God, am I right?
So we're going to jump straight into Planet of the Apes, but with us to talk about Planet
of the Apes is our good friend, the leader of Mojave Comedy.
He is as bald as he is round.
He is as Hawaiian-shirted as he is, loving to talk about micro-nesia, micro-asia.
What's it called?
Micro-nesia.
The good old days, as he calls it.
Today he has his bastard child from Texas.
His daughter he rarely addresses.
Anthony Mitchell!
Come on up here.
Sorry, I only know about you from Legend.
Legend.
How far are we in?
Eight minutes and all my cupcakes are gone.
A bunch of cupcakes like that.
We'll stick around.
Not a single one with a cup.
She thanked me.
She gave me a thank you.
Oh awesome, the two most evil-looking people here stuck around.
Oh, and the quietest.
But you seemed respectful.
Thank you, I appreciate it.
And we'll have you on just one second.
So Anthony, welcome.
How are you?
Thank you Andy, appreciate it.
Did you like your intro?
Yeah, it was what I expected.
Okay.
We're going to talk about Planet of the Apes in just a second, but we're going to have
on a special guest.
Can I get actually, crap, do we have one more chair?
One more chair for Ruben?
Can we just get one more?
I'm in the middle, or I would get it.
Because Anthony is going to be more of a semi-permanent fixture for this.
He's more of a semi-guest.
Awesome.
We are going to have on, and this is to me personally, one of the most exciting guests
to have on Fried Rice Podcast.
I'm not even kidding.
His name is Ruben, what's your last name?
Nahara.
One more time.
Nahara.
N-A-J-E-R-A.
Nahara?
Nahara.
Yes.
Okay.
This is an actual, I'm not even kidding you, an actual Archie Comics writer.
His comic is out front.
I'm going to buy, dude, come on.
This guy works for Archie Comics.
We're talking Archie.
We're talking about the things that I, those little double digests that you see at the
supermarket you don't know I'm talking about, those little Betty and Veronica adventures,
maybe Jughead gets his own Archie, right?
Like Archie Sonic?
Archie.
Wait, Archie and Sonic?
Archie Sonic and Comics?
Is there, is Archie Sonic crossover?
They did actually.
My intro, one of my big intros to comics was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles back then.
Archie used to publish them.
And the person who did the covers for those books, his name was Dave Garcia, and that
is the only creator from my hometown in Pura Valley, El Centro in that area, who actually
got a job in comics.
So that was kind of cool to then later on be writing for Archie, you know?
Yeah.
And then two guys coming from your small town become Archie comic creators.
He's artist side, you're writer side?
Yes.
Okay.
That's amazing.
Yeah, it's pretty random.
Now, can you give the audience, because I'm sure as much as I love Archie, it does drop
off I think after kind of kids grow up a little bit.
Like you have to be kind of a diehard Archie guy to still be following Archie.
But give us a taste of what, first off the issue that you wrote is about, but then also
just in general what Archie's been getting up to because it has been some crazy stuff
lately.
Yeah.
So there's kind of like a darker side to Archie.
They kind of got me on the lighter side.
So I ran like the fun stuff, like the superhero Archie stuff.
You know, like right now I think like there's like a hot rod issue where like racing is
going to come out.
So I'm on that side of Archie.
But then there's like the horror side of Archie, which is like Sabrina and like Vampironic
and like all these other, yeah, there's like a whole thing.
Like Jughead's a werewolf for now.
Exactly, yeah.
So there's two sides to the Archie stuff.
So they got me like on the happier lighter side of it, which is fun.
Which is the Archie that I grew up with.
Yeah, it's pretty much close to that.
I mean I even remember my parents buying me those big trade paperbacks that collected
all the 50s and 60s and 70s and 80s Archies.
And like you just seeing it grow up, but seeing like it's like a Simpsons almost where it's
like the technology ages, but they still are up to the same lighthearted shenanigans.
No one gets hurt.
No one is trying to hurt like anybody.
Right?
Yeah.
And it's, I love it.
And lighthearted Archie, to be honest, is my favorite Archie.
That's the way it started.
Is it the same superhero Archie that is from the past?
Like the same team?
It's pure heart is the Archie as Superman, right?
The story that I wrote in the best Archie comic ever that we have outside at my booth,
that is basically Betty and Veronica as super agents, super spies.
And so usually like they conflict and battle with each other a lot, you know what I mean?
Fighting for Archie or whoever it may be.
In my story, they work together.
If they don't work together, they can't succeed.
I love when they work together.
Does Cheryl make an appearance as an alternate spy?
I didn't get to write Cheryl in.
I worked with Betty, Veronica, and then I snuck Archie in a little bit.
And then the editor was like, you know what, I like that.
You can use them more.
So then I got to use Archie in the whole story.
Oh, that's dope.
And then I got to create a villain in that book.
We call Big Carp.
And he's kind of like, if you know, Kingpin from Spider-Man, it's like Kingpin, but in
like a different version, but it's like a Archie Kingpin.
So he's not running a less evil.
He's not running a drug scene.
He's probably running like a illegal chocolate fountain shop business where it's like, it's
like you go in and you're sitting in your chocolate soda, it's a little bit more expensive
than it should be.
All the toppings are mine.
He charges extra for toppings.
Yeah.
In the story, the funny pun is like my story in that it's called operatives and it takes
place in an opera.
Oh, I like that.
But they're super agent spies.
So there's that whole thing.
I love puns.
I based my entire podcast around the word, my last name being Rice.
So I'm a big pun fan.
Awesome.
Do you have an Instagram?
Give us your shout out, your info.
Yeah.
It's just my name, Ruben Nahara, R-U-B-E-N-N-A-J-E-R-A on all social platforms, RubenNahara.com.
And yeah, aside from the Archie book, I just launched my own original IP.
It's called Cala Guerra.
And that's going to come out, that's going to debut actually at the San Diego Comic Con.
It'll be in stores worldwide in July.
And it's my first original IP because although I get hired to write comics for different
companies, this one's my story.
So that will come, whatever.
That one is the cover art is by Tehany Far, who recently did a cover for James Tynion,
who does like something is killing the children.
He does, what's the other big one he does?
Batman.
He was on Batman.
She did the covers for him on stuff on a book called World Tree for Image.
She's my cover artist on Cala Guerra and my interior artist, they call him El Cartoon.
And he's from Tijuana.
So my whole team.
You know El Cartoon's been drawing some good comics.
Yeah, he's good.
That's exciting.
He did the interiors on that book.
That comes out in July at basically every comic book store in the world that can carry
comic books can have the book in the store because it's carried through Diamond comic
distributors, which distributes to everybody.
Awesome.
Hey, well thank you so much for coming on.
It's a dream to meet someone that worked on Archie.
This is like very, very cool.
And in order to be here, and I love Kingman, this is my first time in Kingman actually,
and I've had fun.
Oh, awesome.
And I know that all of us are going to get some barbecue at that pizza barbecue joint
after.
Nice.
So maybe meet us over there.
But I'm going to buy a couple issues of your stuff on the way out.
Let's give up Ruben.
An actual Archie creator.
Thank you so much.
Thank you for having me here.
Thank you very much.
Oh yeah, sorry.
By the way, we're doing this.
Ruben, real quick.
Planet of the Apes 2001.
Our rating system is B being the highest, W being the lowest.
And there's a gap from F to W. The new movie that's coming out?
No, 2001.
Marky Mark.
The last one with costumes.
Oh, shoot.
I'm trying to think if I've seen that one.
Tim Burton?
Marky Wahlberg?
Yes, okay, I did see that one.
Yeah, you did.
You don't have to watch it again.
Yeah, you do have, but they blocked it out.
Yeah, you should try and block it out, yes.
Okay, so what do I get aside on it?
It's B through F or W if it's a waste of time.
Oh, it's definitely not a waste of time.
I agree.
I collect actual props, movie props.
So I like the visual aspect of that.
And that was live, yeah.
Yeah, I actually have real ninja drill props.
I got Kevin Eastman's, from the first movie, the Leonardo.
I have the real Leonardo.
Oh, cool.
The full outfit?
The full outfit, yeah.
Like a life size?
Yeah.
Holy cow.
How often do you put it on, put some vanilla ice on, and then just...
Yeah, right now it's in a crate.
Because I have the, we're going to be trying to move pretty soon.
Sure.
But it's pretty awesome.
Yeah.
Yeah, but B through F or W for that one.
You can use pluses and minuses too, yeah, if you're on the fence.
B through F, let's see.
I'll give it like a C.
A C, perfect.
I'll give it a C.
That's good.
Yeah.
Perfect, awesome.
Thanks so much.
Appreciate it.
Thanks so much.
All right, we're going to go in order, so we're going to, then you guys.
Okay, Alan, you want to come on up?
Sure.
Everybody, let's give it up to Alan, what's your last name again?
Long.
Long, and he's the creator of The Little Elephant.
Who Couldn't Sit Still.
Oh, Who Couldn't Sit Still.
But I thought it was Ellie the Elephant.
Yeah, so I have a second book.
Oh.
It's the newer one.
It's called Ellie the Elephant Goes to School.
Let's get into it, yeah.
So this is another original author.
He created the Ellie the Elephant series, the Elephant, the Little Elephant series it
looks like, right?
Yeah.
And these are adorable little kids books.
Like, show, keep, I mean, you get the whole time, you got to keep flipping through this
thing, you got to show everybody here.
So tell us, tell us, tell us first off, how did you get started with this?
What was the inspiration behind it?
How long have you been doing it?
Okay, so I am right now a second grade teacher.
Used to be a third grade teacher.
Last year I had a student in my class who had ADHD, and I've realized a lot of kids
don't understand others with ADHD and understand how they learn or how they struggle.
I've also realized a lot of adults don't understand it either, because it's so much easier for
a teacher to yell at a kid and punish a kid than actually work with them and understand
them.
And that's what I wanted to do and what I wanted to change.
So I created these books really to kind of open up the eyes of other kids of what their
friends are maybe struggling with in the classroom.
Yeah.
So.
I bet it could work in other, I bet I could use it to deal with these kids.
Yeah.
I could read a little bit of Ellie the Elephant to deal with these monsters over here.
I don't think it's ADHD, I think it's just dementia and homelessness.
I don't know what the homeless one today.
Well, okay, I mean the beard.
But I'm just kidding.
But okay, that's a, I mean I love the backstory of that.
And then, and her name was Ellie the girl?
No.
Oh, but you named the elephant Ellie.
Well yeah, because Ellie the Elephant, that just sounds great, right?
That's just, it works.
Yeah.
And so it's Ellie the Elephant goes to school.
Yes.
And that's her with ADHD going to school?
Yeah, and you kind of see like the angry teacher and her like crawling on the floor, rolling
around the classroom, and the teacher getting upset.
And then you see a coach come in, a behavior coach come in and work with her and teach
her techniques.
And through the story of the book, you're kind of seeing the techniques going through.
So then kids who are reading it will also learn some new techniques that may help them
in the classroom or at home.
And you teach where?
Here?
In Kingman?
I teach for Kingman Unified School District, but I actually work in Dolan Springs at Mel
Tipton Elementary.
Wow.
Hey, very cool.
Very cool.
What is your Instagram?
How do people find these books online?
So I have a website.
It's alanlong.square.site.
I also have a TikTok, alanlong28, that people can follow and see.
I'm working on a third book right now.
So in the second book, Ellie meets a friend who has autism.
So then my third book is going to be about that friend who has autism and how she struggles
and how she can work through autism.
Yeah.
Yeah, I mean, that kind of matches this like dementia, homelessness, and I kind of have
a little bit of autism.
So you got to book one time.
So that's what it gets me to work for.
You're sort of just writing the Fried Rice podcast as a children's book.
I'd like to be a...
I'll be the model for the elephant.
I'm obviously a bear.
If you were going to throw it in, I would be Bear in the Big Blue House meets Ted Cruz.
Yeah, once I said it, you all see it now, don't you?
The Ted Cruz.
I'll say that.
Yeah.
Okay, so wonderful.
And we're obviously talking about 2001 Planet of the Apes today.
Tim Burton, right?
Have you seen it?
So I was probably five when that came out.
So probably the best age, honestly, to watch Planet of the Apes.
It would terrify you, but at the same time mystify you, and the costumes are amazing.
Just ballpark.
You hear Tim Burton, you hear Planet of the Apes remake.
What do you feel?
I'm going to go with a B.
Oh, yes.
Yes?
Yeah.
Out of nowhere, Alan Warrant with a B. One of the higher scores today, I'm sure, for
2001 Planet of the Apes.
I'm sure it's good.
Yeah, I'm sure it is.
Your parents loved it.
Your parents loved it, yes.
Maybe after watching it, you can do Ellie the Elephant Goes and Sees, a terrible remake,
the book.
I can't wait.
Go watch a Bad Bar remake.
Which one?
Bad Bar.
Bad Bar remake.
But yeah, I love your book series.
It's great.
Thank you.
If you're out there, if you're a parent, if you have kids, especially if they have ADHD,
even if you have a kid who doesn't, this would be a great way for them to learn how to interact
with students and friends who might.
We might have these kind of neuro, is it neurotypical or non?
Neurodivergent.
Neurodivergent, thank you so much.
Neurodivergent kind of disorder.
Disorder.
Yeah, disorder.
I don't even like using the word disorder.
Let's get those to all the teachers.
I think ADHD people are some of the smartest humans I've ever met in my life.
Usually.
There's so much going on in their head.
It's hard to keep them focused, but I don't think, yeah, it's kind of an unchained sort
of brilliance, that beautiful mind kind of thing.
I'm not sure if you guys have seen the new Matilda movie on Netflix, the musical?
Yes, exactly.
Have you seen the new Matilda movie on Netflix, the musical?
No, but I've seen that one dance number cut to Slipknot and other death metal where they're
just coming down the hallway.
That's dope.
But I haven't seen the actual Matilda.
When I do school visits and author visits at schools, I use music video as a kind of
to give kids a little example of what goes on in an ADHD kid's head and quiet is the
name of the song.
You look up that music video.
From Matilda?
Yeah.
Quiet from Matilda.
Yeah, you can actually see all this stuff going on in her head and that just reminds
me of an ADHD kid.
But not coming out.
Perfect.
And then you have an awesome video called Quiet.
Did you ever say that?
Bjork.
Oh, actually, you have Bjork.
Quiet.
Anything Bjork does is an visual masterpiece.
Unless she's punching a camera person in the face.
But anyway, thank you so much, Alan, for coming on.
We really appreciate it.
I'll meet up with you afterwards.
Thanks for coming on.
All right, we're going to have our next guest on.
These dudes are dope.
They were on last time.
They gave me a Beskar brick, they're our 3D printing friends.
My favorite piece that I have in my apartment right now is the little 3D baby group that
I got from them last time that they custom built for me.
I absolutely love it.
Their table is decked out today.
Their table is decked out.
Is that your guy?
Yeah.
Oh, you should have told me.
He's got the Imperial Star Destroyer.
I want to say 1-1000th scale.
I know that that's...
1-16th hundred.
What is it?
1-16th hundred.
Honestly?
Yes.
It's three foot.
Wait, if you put 1-16th hundred of those together, you have an actual Imperial 10-6.
Oh, crap.
All right.
Very cool.
Let's give us your names again.
I'm so sorry.
I'm Josh.
Daniel and Josh, what's the name of your business?
Dark Ion Printing.
Yes.
We had you guys on last time.
What are you guys working on?
You guys have a whole bigger operation.
You guys are pumping out way more stuff.
Last year, we had maybe three or four printers running.
We were focused mostly on comic book characters and some anime stuff.
We've since doubled our production capabilities and we're moving into more video game characters
and motion picture stuff, like for instance Star Wars.
It's actually been a really good year for us.
Heck yeah, dude.
I asked you this last time.
I think we asked what your most intricate piece that you guys were working on was.
Oh, that got rescheduled this time around.
Okay, so I'm sure it's something different this time.
It's actually out on the table.
Our biggest piece now to date and in mass detail is actually the Imperial Starkestory.
It's beautiful.
Yeah, that model includes over 800 pieces for just that three foot model.
How long would it take to paint that?
Painting actually is fairly simple once it's assembled.
Once it's assembled.
I know, the actual printing time and assembly time with all of the custom modifications
we had to do to get it all actually assembled was about three months.
The painting, most of it is just kind of an off-white color when it's finally painted.
With minor airbrushing and stuff, maybe 20 hours worth of painting.
Worth it?
Oh yeah.
Were you guys going to put that on display or are you selling it?
Everything's for sale.
I mean, if someone came up with the right number, we'd probably sell it.
Don't look at me.
I don't got the right number.
The price is right.
Right, if the price was right.
And he's like $5 and some Domino's candy.
We are thinking about upscaling and attempting the Death Star 2.
The open, the mid-construction Death Star 2.
But fully operational.
As far as scale, we're looking at like two and a half to three feet for that as well.
So I don't know what the time scale is going to be on that one.
That one might end up being the six month to a year project.
Worth it.
Right?
Yeah, that would be nice.
Hang in from the next Comic Con.
Right, just hang in from the ceiling.
I look forward to it.
We're running a little short on time so I've got to kind of wrap this up.
Just one more plug for your business.
How to find you guys online.
It's darkionprinting.com is our website.
We are also on Discord, just Darkion by itself.
And yeah, hit us up.
Let us know what you're looking for.
Planet of the Apes, 2001.
Planet of the Apes.
Tim Burton.
Start, our scale starts with B to F.
With Marky Mark.
B to F.
And the monkey bark.
And Sandra Bullock.
You can plus some of mine.
Sorry, go ahead.
For me personally.
Sandra Bullock.
I'd say C minus.
C minus?
I'd go about that.
It's worth a watch.
It's worth a watch but they've done better.
Awesome.
Hey, let's give it up for Darkion Printing.
Thank you so much for coming.
Thanks guys, we appreciate it.
What's your name?
Naturally.
That's a card.
I was walking through and I saw the bottles and it just caught my eye.
So I was like, all right, this guy automatically gets it.
BottleMagic.com.
What's BottleMagic.com?
BottleMagic.com is basically this.
Oh, what?
Yeah, check that out.
That is a deck of cards.
That is a brand new deck of cards still sealed with the cellophane wrapping on that I put
into the bottle through the one inch neck.
I am one of only 24 people in the world that know how to do this art form.
It seems impossible.
Everybody wants to ask how.
Everyone does ask.
That art form was actually started by a gentleman by the name of Harry Eng.
Harry Eng used to put all kinds of things into bottles and he died when he was 60 years
old and I am a former professional magician of 30 years.
What happened was that when he passed away they wrote an article about him in a magic
magazine and I read it.
Not only was this interesting but the way this guy thought was just incredible.
I just thought this is the most amazing person I've never met, never even knew even existed.
But after I read the article I said I've got to learn how to do this art form.
The problem is this is back in 1996 at the beginning of the internet and there were only
12 people in the entire world that even knew how to do some of that stuff.
And Harry took all of his secrets with him to the grave.
So me, I spent three and a half years trying to figure out how to do that.
And I broke hundreds of bottles and ruined hundreds upon hundreds of decks of cards until
I finally figured it out.
And now I've been doing this for over 20 years and now I'm considered one of the top three
in the world for doing this.
I mean I figured it out.
I know how to do it.
You do?
Yeah.
Okay.
You get a deck of playing cards, you chop it up into about 10,000 pieces.
You take little tweezers and then you rebuild it with glue.
That would be nice to see.
The only problem is if you look on the side there you'll actually there's a window there
that shows you all the cards are in there in perfect order.
In fact a funny story is I actually had a gentleman, this is the easiest bottle I do.
I do things where I've taken apple cider gallon jugs and I put pairs of Converse gin shoes
inside.
I have one that I got challenged on from a guy out of New York who sent me a picture
and said can you do this?
And I said I don't know.
I spent nine months and I figured it out.
But I ended up taking a Behringer wine bottle, emptying out the wine, put the cork back in.
But now inside of the bottle is the cork screw being twisted up into the cork.
Oh that's crazy.
All of those type of bottles are all on my website.
I got you figured out though.
Thanksgiving, Turducken's.
So this is, I've been doing these for about 20 years.
The newest art form that I just started three years ago is this.
And this is where you take decks of cards, in this case theory 11.
I wish we were a visual podcast.
We sort of are.
And I turn them into 3D, turn it over.
Turn it around.
That's what I do.
I cut 52 cards individually with just a, that's pretty cool.
That's 52 cards and what I do is I take an exacto knife and I will literally sit there
and cut 52 cards individually, stack them on top of each other.
They get more and more detailed as you go along.
And then once they're all done, they look like that.
That's really cool.
The interesting thing is that there are some other people that do this kind of work but
the only difference is that I do is that if you were to take a look here, I am the only
one that after they're cut, they're still sealed with the cellophane wrapping on.
And I am the only one that does that.
So these are the two new things.
And what happened was that this is my first Comic Con with these bottles and I actually
had a gentleman who sent me one of these in a Spider-Man deck and he asked me to cut it
for him.
He found my website, cut it for him, sent it back to him and said, how do you like it?
And he's like, this is the greatest thing I've ever seen.
I'm putting it into my room with all my other Spider-Man collectibles.
So he wanted that in there and he says, I'm big into Comic Con.
I would suggest that you take this stuff and build up your collection.
So now I have about 13 different pop culture decks.
James Bond, Avengers, Stranger Things, Star Wars, Dark Knight, Spider-Man, Black Panther,
all of those.
Very good place to bring them to.
So I brought them here and I thought, I'll try and see if this is a new audience of what
people like it or not.
So I showed the work and they liked it so I brought it here and then I also sent my
artwork to the Fan Fusion in Phoenix and to the Comic Con in Tucson.
And I just heard back from both of them and they both said, you're definitely going to
come here.
And so I got accepted.
So I went from never even going to a Comic Con to now going to three this year.
Give us a shout out for your business.
My business is called Bottle Magic and the website is called Bottlemagic.com.
Perfect.
And people can, they can buy these things from you online.
They can custom, it sounds like they can commission you to do custom ones.
Oh yeah, I've had lots of people commission me to put certain things in the bottle.
There are certain limitations.
Sure.
But it sounds like you're willing to put years of your actual life into going how to overcome
those limitations.
It's one of those things.
I'm almost, I want to challenge you on something.
That's impressive, isn't it?
That's impressive.
And then just for the people listening at home, which is everybody, again, I mean this
is, it's hard to explain how cool it is visually, but that is a, it's a pack of cards, a double
oh seven really cool, like nice looking gold packet cards still in the wrapper inside of
like a Snapple bottle.
It kind of looks like, like the size.
It's a barbecue sauce.
Oh, barbecue sauce.
See, there are actually four rules to this art form because the first thing that everyone
says is, oh, well you cut the bottle.
Well, if I cut the bottle, first of all, you would see the line where it is because of
glass when it's cut always has a frosted line.
Okay.
So first, that's the first thing.
Secondly is that if you cut it, anyone can do that, you know, but there are actually
certain rules as art form.
The number one rule is that every bottle has to be a bottle that you can buy at your grocery
store.
Okay.
Number two is that the bottle cannot be heated, cooled, cut or manipulated in any way, shape
or form.
Okay.
The third rule is that every item that goes into the bottle has to go in through the neck
of the bottle.
And here's the kicker, the fourth rule is that every single item once inside has to
be perfectly usable.
In other words, if you were to break that bottle, you could undo the cellophane, take
the sticker off, pull the cards out and every single card would be in there in perfect mint
condition including the jokers and advertising cards and you can play cards for as long as
you want it.
That's amazing.
So, yeah, very cool.
Before you leave, we're going to get your opinion on Planet of the Apes 2001 Tim Burton.
B through F or W?
I've seen it once.
Okay.
And I give it a D.
Is it as deep?
Hey, thanks so much for coming on.
We really appreciate it.
Everybody, let's give it up for Bottle Magic.
That was very cool.
I'm going to check out your booth.
I want to go look at all the rest of the stuff after this.
We have a lot of stuff in common.
We got Big Mike certified himself.
We have the guy that put on this entire event coming in at the last minute.
Let's give it up for Big Mike certified.
We wouldn't be here today without him.
Let's give it up.
What's up, family?
How you guys doing?
Good.
Hey, thanks for coming on our podcast this time.
I'm digging the guns you got hanging around your neck.
Oh, yeah.
Our emotional support nuns.
They come in little baggies and everything.
That is hilarious.
Awesome.
Austin's mom made them and we haven't sold any yet, but they're adorable.
I'll take a gram.
Perfect.
We're almost out of time here.
I guess we didn't really have much time to... Give us some shout outs.
We got all the time we want, to be honest.
I was going to say, it's Big Mike here right now.
What we have is we've got so many kids here ready for the cosplay contest that this venue
is just not big enough to where they're congregating in the bathrooms and they're filling up every
nook and cranny.
I've moved the manga drawing that was going to be here out to the main stage so that when
we're done, they're going to basically use this as cosplay prep.
Got it.
We can maybe give you a few more minutes.
We're good.
Okay.
Well, then awesome.
They don't even know that we're doing that.
We're just going to start announcing it in a few minutes.
We're good to go.
Okay.
Perfect.
Well, awesome.
My IP is exposed.
What does that mean?
Don't worry about it.
All right.
Not right now.
Okay.
Not right now.
Okay.
This is the second King Kong.
First one was in November 2023.
September.
Oh, September.
Now we're March 2024.
Both of these have been freaking awesome.
I had so much fun at the last one and this one seems like even better.
It seems like the...
I think we're learning.
I think we're learning because last time what tweaks that we needed for security, for trash,
for all the basic stuff that me being a big...
I'm just lost over.
I'm like, make sure we got storm troopers.
Make sure you got it.
You know what I mean?
We need comic books.
It's a comic con.
Where's the comic book?
That stuff.
Yeah, so the other little thingies that we needed to have in place, we've been able to
upgrade this time.
I feel like moving forward we've run into a couple of things even from this con.
As we go this thing is just going to evolve.
We're talking about closing streets next time and spilling food trucks out the front, putting
more vendors with tents out back.
Because MCC is next to us, they've got a really cool building that almost can be like an auxiliary
second building that we can use.
That'd be cool.
Because we're just going to need it.
Yeah.
Dude, that's...
We're growing fast.
I mean, it's great having a comic con nearby.
It's awesome.
There's nothing else like this in the area.
Where am I going to be able to go and buy prints of comic book stuff?
Walmart sells, I think, packs of random comics maybe.
I think they sort of have...
You could buy a pack for 10 bucks.
You can get three or four comics of just varying degrees of whatever.
Here you can get some cool ones.
Right.
I have my toy shop that's in town, I have the only toy shop in town.
Oh, give a shout out.
It's Big Mike's Toy Reunion.
It's over next to the movie theater on Stockton Hill Road, 4055 Stockton Hill Road.
It's right in front of Brendan Theaters.
It's a total vintage store, retro store, but we do have boxes of comics.
We do got pretty much anything of your geeky fandom that you would want and probably stuff
you didn't even know that you were running.
Beers are like, wait a minute.
I had that when I was a kid.
So I literally put on the front window, I had that.
We hear it so often that when people come in.
Then we also buy toys from people locally.
Then we're always shipping them out.
So like toyreunion.com, people can window shop.
Or if they're not here, they can just shop shop.
Toyreunion.com.
Yeah, it's just...
I know that this community is smaller, I guess, compared to a lot of places.
So many kids were coming in the shop saying that this is amazing, that this little shop
existed, that they didn't have anything like this around them.
Video games and all.
All the retro consoles.
You know what I mean?
So as they're getting into these things or people are getting back into these things,
the fact that they can't get their hands on it other than going to eBay or whatever, maybe
looking out at a swap meet once in a while.
But to have something like that, there was all this energy behind it.
And I know at one point, I was just mad, I wanted to go to Comic-Con, but I was so busy
I couldn't leave to go to Vegas or go to Phoenix or whatever.
I was like, well, why don't we just do one ourselves?
And literally, I threw a...
Me and my kids celebrate May the 4th, like it's Christmas.
Because for 10 years now, we basically get together no matter where we're at, what we're
doing.
And we create all these weird Star Wars dishes and stuff.
And I literally like this thing.
So last year, we threw a party at the shop and we invited people and we catered in all
kind of crazy, everything we could get at Galaxy's Edge, basically Disneyland.
We catered in and made ourselves.
And after that night, there was just so much kind of energy.
I woke up the next day and go, I'm just doing it.
Came down, rented the space and then just put out a message on Facebook.
Hey, anybody vendor, any artists?
I'll give you your spot for free.
I just want you to come and show your art and show your love.
And it's been blowing up ever since.
You know what I mean?
And now, again, I've got a list of vendors who want to be here, but I'm just like, I
have no space.
So that's why we're going to have to expand.
Yeah.
Do you know when the next one's going to be?
It's going to be...
So strategically, I've planned these because of the size of the community and the kids
who want to be here, big kids too, is spring break, fall break.
The middle of spring break, middle of fall break.
So basically it's going to be mid-March all the time and probably end of September all
the time, just to kind of do that.
I like that.
I like the consistency of it because then people know to look forward to it.
They plan for it.
It's like, at least I know September is coming up.
It's going to be the winter break one.
Exactly.
Yeah.
I like that a lot.
And that consistency is why I feel like they just need.
Again, and I've had so many kids since we've done them twice that have come up and like
I never thought I was going to get to go to a Comic Con because it's not like this is
a very affluent, wealthy area, I guess, trying to put it in a cute way.
And the fact is there's not a lot of extra money to go drop 500 to go to Vegas, a thousand,
thousands to go to San Diego.
Oh yeah.
You know what I mean?
I've thought about that the other day and I thought San Diego Comic Con, yes, that's
where all the big announcements are made.
That's where you got the boots, but at the same time you're going to wait literally most
of your time there in lines.
It's a two.
You want to get into Hall H, you're spending a thousand bucks just standing in line all
day.
Exactly.
But you come here to Kingman Comic Con.
Sorry.
You come here to Kingman Comic Con and not only can you visit each and every single booth,
but you can do it.
You can get to know each and every vendor.
And the vendors here are happy to talk with us.
They're happy to share their love of what's going on.
We've had now every time we come here, we get vendors to come up here and each one of
us passionately do.
We got to meet a real life Archie creator today.
NAR.
NAR used to skate with Tony Hawk.
What?
We didn't even get into that.
With the Ruben guy?
Yes.
No way.
Ruben Najero skated with Tony Hawk at the beginning of his pro career.
He then went on to skate with other brands.
He's had his own shoe line.
He's had a super huge successful power bar, like energy bar.
Blake Griffin was one side of the power bars of the book and he was the skater side of
the power bar and they both kind of like competed.
So millions of these power bars.
He then went on to become a stuntman in Hollywood and has been a stuntman in Hollywood for a
long period of time.
And then he's now Archie is like a piece of what he does.
He's worked on Spider-Man.
He's worked on a bunch of other comics as well.
That uh.
What the hell man?
I had this guy on here and all we talked about was Archie?
Him and his girlfriend even got a kids book that they wrote.
She illustrated.
He wrote it.
And uh yeah.
So there's that dude's multifaceted as can be.
Multifaceted as hell yeah.
Amazing.
And to get him here is wild.
And for him to have all that skill set.
I literally went through his whole table.
I bought like all the books.
I said can you sign them all for me?
So I literally have like all the books.
Yeah I'm definitely.
As a matter of fact, if you're out there, Ruben Najero, nicknames are NAR.
Find an issue of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles number 100.
You'll see that the turtles are all doing big.
In the background on the bottom right corner, there's uh.
You'll see uh Mondo Gecko skating.
Next to Mondo Gecko skating is NAR.
He's on the cover of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles number 100.
What?
A little character of him on the corner.
He was being very shy.
Yo.
Not to mention he has his own podcast.
And he recently interviewed the Honky Tonk Man from WWF Days back in the day.
He's interviewed quite a few.
It's one of those moments where it's like I feel bad.
I feel like I should have had him on the whole time.
I just talked to him.
This amazing.
Well hey, but now we can.
We've had a real life celebrity on here.
I guess.
Archie right?
Wink wink.
You're really.
If you guys are Archie fans, great.
We had on the guy that's worked on Spider-Man.
He's skating with Tony Hawk.
He's a stunt man.
Holy crap.
And he's like Archie's all I need to know.
And then in September you had Sloppy Robbie.
Sloppy Robbie from Sloppy's World.
Was it Sloppy's World?
Sloppy's World on Netflix.
So he was here last time.
We unfortunately didn't get him on the show.
He was in the room.
But we had too many guests rolling through.
So it just didn't work out.
Yeah, he just celebrated his tenure, his location, a generation cooldown in Tucson.
So he just had his tenure.
And he went full McDonald's.
Like he went merch and everything on what he did.
He created a whole big thing.
I don't know where he's at in the world right now.
But that was the last thing he did in late January.
And I didn't bug him this time because I know he was so busy.
But I'm going to see if we can get him in next time.
I dig the dude.
He's fun.
We're kindred spirits.
We've got similar shops.
He's got more vintage-y clothes and stuff like that.
He hung out with us a little bit before the pod.
Yeah, he's a cool guy.
He's done some cool stuff.
So since we have a few more minutes, we were going to talk about Tim Burton's Planet of
the Apes 2001 a little bit and give a kind of like a mini review.
How much do you remember that movie?
Enough?
I've got my score.
Okay, he's got his score at least.
I've got my grade.
Okay, give us your grade at least.
Are you ready?
It's B through F and the W being a waste of time.
So I'm going to say F for forgettable.
Oh wow, straight up F.
Yeah, because I grew up on the 70s versions.
And while it is a little corny, quirky, whatever, I still dug it.
I feel like what they've done with the new stuff, at least I'm getting heart.
Like I feel like that was just like a, I don't know, a jump shot.
Just like this factory produced.
Really?
You got that vibe?
I just felt like it.
Again, forgettable.
Yeah.
You know what?
I thought that maybe it was.
I have one of the Gorillaz busts in my shop.
I've had it since we opened the door.
I don't think a human being other than me has touched that thing.
It started like a $50 value.
I'm probably willing to give it to the first person that comes in door and touches it.
That's how Andy dates.
So I don't know.
Again, it just, yeah, forgettable.
Ah man.
Paul Giamatti has never been hotter than that movie.
It's one of his better roles.
Oh, he hates.
Come on, he was in private parts.
I'm going to say this.
I made some notes for Planet of the Apes.
We don't know a lot of times.
So let's just hit the highlights here.
I will say this takes place five years from now.
So 2029 is when we're fully blown in space.
We are sending chimps and monkeys out on routine just space missions.
And then another thing I'd like to point out is right in the beginning, Mark Wahlberg,
when he's leaving and he steals the pod, he takes a space helmet, just kind of does one
of those and starts flying off.
Doesn't attach it to anything.
It's about as useful as this helmet Austin has on his head.
And then when he crashes and he's underwater, you would think, oh, this is going to help
him.
But it's just encumbered him.
He has to take off this helmet, which served no purpose whatsoever, and throw it away.
I did not like that.
When I saw that Warriors of Virtue was on Tubi, and that's all I thought about for a
few minutes, because remember that one?
No.
Warriors of Virtue.
Give me just anybody who knows what Warriors of Virtue is.
Anybody in the audience.
I believe that was Keith.
Yes.
Wasn't it that weird kangaroo?
Yes, it was, my man.
What's your name?
Keith.
Keith, you're my favorite.
Do we have a prize?
Do we have any prizes?
You can give them that.
No, I can't.
Wow.
This is mine.
Why was that?
No, that was a gift.
You know what?
No prizes, my guy.
Sorry.
But yes, it is a-
Wait, I have a picture of Sandra Bullock as a champ.
Okay.
There you go.
Helen Bone Carter looked exactly like Sandra Bullock.
It's a little sticky, but it's awesome.
Okay, this is family friendly.
There's children present.
Dude, he eats jam all the time.
Anyway, Warriors of Virtue is, they had Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and those movies were
successful so they thought, why not that, but Kangaroo Warriors?
It's four mystical kangaroo warrior ninjas in full outfits like they had in Ninja Turtles
and it is a bad movie, but I loved it.
We're going to watch it at some point.
We usually vote for movies and it's democratic, but I'm going to force at some point Warriors
of Virtue onto this podcast.
I just want you to know that.
Anyway, I put the costumes are amazing in this movie.
I don't know, I mean everyone craps on them.
I think they're so good.
Here's what you crapped on.
It's not the costume.
It's the fact that there's an ape in a costume that's pretty good right there and then there's
a perfect CGI behind it.
Wait, did they use-
Yes, there's mixed CGI.
Were they using CGI in this?
When they stormed that camp and that one gorilla yelled, you could tell CGI mouth on a practical
effect.
Yeah, and when there's groups, there's CGI.
They did Fade really good.
Fade was really convincing.
Dude, General Fade, Tim Roth is terrifying in this movie.
He is, I mean I would not, of all, almost of all characters in movie history, he'd be
the one I'd be most uncomfortable with in a room.
I feel like I could talk to Darth Vader unless he's got a reason to be mad at me.
There's no reason, we'd be able to talk.
I'd be like, what's up, dog?
Let's talk.
I like the dark side.
You like the dark side.
We're good.
He killed his two best men with Beyblades.
They're like, we found this crashed ship and he pulls out Beyblades and just kills him.
Yeah, that's what I'm talking about.
General Roth is terrifying.
He's terrifying.
Oh look, we got a Planet of the Apes fan right there.
You a big Planet of the Apes guy?
I should use Donkey Kong.
Are you Donkey Kong?
Okay, well.
Feels enough.
Oh yeah, Warriors of Virtue.
Pass around your phone, let everyone see what the...
Pass around your phone.
No, no, I just, I put that, I like how all the apes, regardless of their type, I guess,
because you have like the big ones, you have like the General Roth kind.
You have the champs and the...
The General Wraith, what's his name?
Fade.
I said Roth because of Tim Roth.
Oh, you're saying Wraith.
No, but all of the monkeys, all the apes, regardless of what type they are, doesn't
matter your...
No, that's not true.
Your station.
No, the guerrillas are all soldiers.
Oh, this guy's on a mission.
You didn't tell us you were Secret Service, bro.
Andy, you know how sad it is?
I own the DVD.
They have behind the scenes features on the DVD.
They talked about how the cast segregated at lunchtimes into their...
Wait, but I also heard the same thing about the...
The original one.
The original one too.
The orangutans, guerrillas, and...
Yeah, so isn't that crazy?
Think about this.
You're an orangutan, you show up to work, and you go to lunch break, and all you want
to do is hang around with the other orangutans you don't like.
I guess it would make...
That doesn't make perfect sense.
It does kind of make sense.
Like all the...
Charleston Heston.
Charlton.
Charlton Heston, when he...
I forgot the name of the actress who played the female ape in that movie, in the first
one, but when the actress minus her makeup came up to him one day, and she was like,
hey, how's it going?
He was like, I don't know you, because he'd never seen her outside of makeup.
Outside of makeup.
We've got a line cut of her.
But yeah, it is...
No, no, but if you look at the hierarchy of the commanding structure, it's like if a small
ape like General Ra...
Rafe?
What's his name?
Raph.
Fade.
God, thank you.
Sorry.
General Fade can become general, but then you have that...
The senators are all different types.
They're dating different types.
It just seems like a very mixed culture.
I don't think that there's a lot of segregation amongst apes, which I like.
I know that they're very anti-human, but I would be a little anti whatever the heck pets
that we had started rising up.
If dogs all the sudden started talking and then started saying, hey, you're treating
us unfairly, I say we start taking out all smart dogs.
Any dog starts talking, I say we take them out, we put them to sleep, and we move on,
because that...
We don't want that.
I saw you get upset with that little girl.
Why are you...
I'm not upset.
I'm just thinking it's funny.
That's a weird way.
Again, darkest children audience of all time.
This is not a dog.
What is that?
It's a fox.
What is a fennec fox?
It's a fox.
It's a type of fox.
It's like a snow fox.
Fennec fox.
It's like a snow fox, right?
She's really standing up to you, Andy.
Yeah, idiot.
They have the giant ears.
Is that from a show or an anime?
No, it's my original character.
Oh.
She made it up.
That's...
Okay, yeah, I see it.
Yeah.
So you just did your own thing.
Very cool.
I put on every week to explain things to Andy with your phone.
Yeah.
Producer credit.
Yeah.
I'm fast enough to get into it, but...
I don't know.
I don't know what anyone's dressed...
What are you dressed up as?
Malcolm Reynolds.
Malcolm Reynolds from...
Firefly?
Great Forno bonnet?
Oh, wow.
See, no.
Once you took the bonnet off, I see it.
Because of the jacket, you're a brown coat, but you're a filthy brown coat.
Hey, I'm pro.
I'm pro whatever the anti-brown coat people are.
I am for structured, big government when it comes to space travel.
You can't have these backwards planets just operating like it's the Wild Wild West.
That's what the black...
You're pro black market.
You see what happens when you're the ace.
You're a criminal.
You routinely smuggle things around.
You have a high tech government project.
That girl, River Fiend, or River...
Yeah.
River Fiend.
Whatever her name is.
She's a good friend of mine.
She's a...
She's a government property, my dude.
You're stealing.
Yeah, property, bro.
That isn't my people or property.
I'm not going to argue that people can be property.
That's not my stance I'm going to take today.
It never is my stance I'm going to take today.
Breon, I would never in my life take that stance.
But I will say that she's got powers or whatever.
That should be studied.
That could help people in the future.
It's selfish for them to keep her from the government.
You think the scientists were routinely torturing her every day?
No.
They were working on her and doing experiments.
That helps the future, you dirty brown coat.
Did Miranda help the future?
Which one's Miranda again?
Miranda, you mean the ones exterminated?
Why did they exterminate them?
What was their reason?
To test a new form of mind controlling gas.
Man, mind controlling gas.
Not a great thing for a government to have.
We're going down a phoenix bottom line.
So we're going to a big government, Darth Vader, mind control.
Your science today are a little messed up.
Let's get back to the...
I bet they worked at Cracker Barrel.
I was going to ask for more business.
I can't tell if Samos is a good guy or a bad guy.
Samos?
Samos, the main chimp, the regular chimp that disappears in the beginning and then shows
up at the end.
No, that's not Samos.
That's Percules.
It's Simeon only.
Simeon is a perc... or Percules or whatever, perculator.
The monkey that Mark Wahlberg is friends with in the beginning.
How did you miss that in the movie?
He goes into a separate wormhole that shoots him out, I guess, a few days later, like a
week later whenever he gets there.
But the main ship got sent through the wormhole and crashed hundreds of years earlier.
And one of the apes from that place started rallying the other apes.
His name was Simos.
He was saying Simos relative though.
He killed all the humans with the other apes.
Yet they say it in the broadcast.
I missed it with those.
Simos came from that sign that said Simeon and Rylets only or something.
Their god has named that because of...
But it was...
No, no, no.
She says in the broadcast, one of the chimps named Simos is taking over the other chimps.
Yeah, I thought it was the one, Mark Wahlberg.
I got all confused with the time travel.
He goes back to Earth, it's taken over.
Did he go to another timeline?
Fade somehow came, took over?
I just did...
I missed that.
Banana's friend pan, Arthade, was the...
His whole family was bad from back there.
That's the whole...
In the movie at the end, they talk about how it was all his relatives that did all that.
He descends from that evil ape.
Yeah.
Do you have to go?
Okay.
Get ready for the cosplay contest.
Cool.
Hey, thanks so much.
Let's give it up for Big Mike Certified.
He ran this whole thing.
Let's give it up for him.
You guys have a few minutes because they need to use this room to get ready.
We're wrapping this up right now.
Five, five-ish minutes.
Okay.
I have some monkey-related pawns.
Okay.
Monkey pawns.
We're doing monkey pawns.
Monkey Mark in the monkey bunch.
Monkey Mark came a long way from Boogie Nights, didn't he?
No, A Clockwork Orangutan, The Great Ape Gatsby, Ape in Silent Baboon Strikeback.
I worked hard on these guys.
Optimus Prime 8, The Lion King Kong, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Chimpanzees.
The Banana Identity.
All right.
That's it.
I'm done.
Okay.
Thank you for those.
I think the most stark thing, I'm willing to believe in time travel, space travel five
years from now involving apes, space helmets that just sort of work, but I draw the line
at the end of that tunnel that they come out of being ape-shaped made of stone because
there's no natural ape-shaped croppings anywhere in the world or on any natural, and there's
even ape mountains in the background.
We're running out of time.
Let's do ratings.
Or that machine and the wire still working after a thousand years.
Yeah, exactly.
Anthony, what's your rating?
B through F. F for Anthony.
Mike.
D for Mike.
B plus.
Why?
Yeah, why?
I don't know.
It was good.
I was nostalgic for the movie.
I watched it a long time ago when I was a kid, and now rewatching it just made me enjoy it
more.
I'm going to give you a C plus for me.
Don't you put that on me.
We're losing control.
This has been Fried Rice Podcast.
With me as always has been Anthony Mitchell, Mike Larson, Austin Farrell, the audience,
you guys.
And I've been your host, Andy Rice.
Thank you so much for joining us.
We've been fried.
I miss that.
Great.
Have a good night.
Bye.