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You know what that sound means? It's another

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episode of Game for a Movie where we ask, are

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you game for a movie? I'm your host, Mike. I'm

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joined by... Andre. Jill. Yes. Did it, friends.

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Good job. Also, that sound means it's a new year.

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It is a new year, yes. And I was going to say,

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it's not just Game for a Movie today. We are

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Game for a Movie TV show video game because we

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are doing the best media of 2021. everything

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that we've taken in we've riddled it down to

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lists um not necessarily in order we're gonna

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go as we go we're gonna loosey -goosey this as

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andre said yeah yeah yeah i like to keep it loose

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you know okay loose man but first to help us

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get a little more loose what are we drinking

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Jill, you are doing the non -alcoholic route,

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so we're going to get you first. We had a fun

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New Year's Eve. Collectively, our group drinks

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seven bottles of champagne. I was determined

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to get rid of the stash of champagne that was

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in our fridge. That's fantastic. We play a game

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of will it saber? I'm not going to saber any

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bottles inside. No champagne. I am drinking it's

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a little behind the season now but a harney incense

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white christmas this is a white tea with almond

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flavors in it and it's quite good almond flavored

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tea sounds pretty awesome i'm not gonna it has

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a lot of things that i like it's a good smelling

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tea too nice andre what are you drinking over

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there um uh so i'm drinking a dogfish head 90

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minutes imperial ipa yeah so um we were visiting

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some relatives and they live within driving distance

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of dogfish head in delaware so i took the opportunity

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to go pick up some beers that i don't normally

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see like dogfish is everywhere but like they'll

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usually it's like the 60 minute and like a handful

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of other ones i went to we took the opportunity

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grab a grab a six pack of a 90 minute ipa which

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i don't usually see in our liquor store shelves

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so right it's a good one so it's more reliable

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and i'm enjoying it yeah we just passed the season

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of uh 120 minute ipa yeah and uh that one that

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one has some good memories for me yeah that stuff

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is potent yeah i am drinking Discount Nachos,

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a double dry hopped IPA from Hoof Hearted Brewing.

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Hoof Hearted Brewing is in Ohio. Claire was just

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recently in Ohio. She brought me a bunch of stuff

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back. She also brought me Rheingeist, but I don't

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have big tall boys of Rheingeist. That's why

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I don't have any on me right now. This Hoof Hearted

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is a tall boy. And it's nachos in a little quarter

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dispenser. Oh, look at that. I love the can.

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Andre, you know what you should have brought?

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Well, we gave it to a person, but you should

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have done the pickle beer. I can't. Oh, God.

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Fine. All right. Let's rattle off our beers of

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2021. I would say that the pickle beer, what

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is it from? Oh, my God. I need to properly credit

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it. Looking it up again. Yes. We happened upon

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a pickle sour. It literally tasted like pickle.

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Pickle brine. Godfish had had a pickle beer apparently

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at one point. In my advent calendar with the

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beer, they had a cucumber sour. That sounds better

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than the pickle sour. Yeah, that was really good.

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crisp and refreshing like i love i love pickles

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don't get me wrong but i don't want to drink

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a beer out of it you know right i don't beer

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ohio we have a video we can share it's uh share

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to mike maybe michael share it to the world oh

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it's urban artifacts urban artifacts christmas

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pickle xmas pickle it was not very christmasy

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themed and i you know hey it it was what it was

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it was it was on the label you know downright

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speechless from this experience yeah right i'm

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i'm gobsmacked by how bizarre it is but i'm gonna

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share the video with to your mic on in our chat

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so you can enjoy it and then i'll if i can find

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a way i'll share it with the world so you can

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see the pickle beer um yeah Probably wouldn't

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make our top list of the year of 2021, but we

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will go over what did. Now, we said media, which

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can be anything in this category. Technically,

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music counts, too, but we're not really a music

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podcast. But if anybody has music, go ahead.

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You can do that, too. We said movies, TV shows,

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video games. That's the clarification. I don't

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know about you. I didn't make this clarification.

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I pick things that exclusively came out in 2021.

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Okay. Okay. So see, I'm already going to be for

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everybody. I'm already going to cheat and it's

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stuff that I consumed in 2021. It's all very

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recent though. That's fair. Cause like season

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two of Ted Lasso was excellent. I left it off

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the list since it came out early. You know what

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I mean? Yes. Oh, wow. You're right. It did come

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out early. Yeah. yeah so that's that's what i'm

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saying is for me anyway i'll make that clarification

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for you guys i'd never said that um so it does

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not matter whenever you watch as long as you

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watched it in 2021 or consumed it in 2021 okay

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i can do that yeah no one thing in particular

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that's coming to mind that definitely did not

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come out in 2021 but i played it in 2021 yes

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technically one of mine splitting hairs too but

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i'll explain when we get there yeah i think i'm

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gonna so i'll go ahead and launch into my first

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one and i'll explain why it gets in on a technicality

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so this is uh wait for clarification this is

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100 things you liked or is this like an honorable

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mention no i mean this is like this is well i

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guess to open up for me when i think of 2021

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in terms of my uh gaming uh you know habits this

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was the year of the ps5 for me so i was lucky

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enough to get a PS5 around February of 2021.

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Cause those things were got, yeah. Mike's giving

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me the bird over the zoom because they're so

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goddamn hard to find. Right. So there was no

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way I was going to be playing a PS5 in 2020,

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you know, I didn't, I didn't, it wasn't able

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to snag the pre -orders. So yeah, February, 2021,

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I, I, I. got ps5 showed up at our doorstep from

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walmart and uh it was awesome it comes with a

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pack -in game that i want to give a shout out

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to called astrobots playroom and i don't think

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people enough people are talking about it because

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it is it's such a not enough people have a ps5

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that's a good point all right you're right but

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like i don't know i feel like people like whatever

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yeah you're absolutely right because not enough

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people have a ps5 but when you get it oh boy

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When you get your hands on one of this. I'm ready

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for Astrobots. Well, so it's such a, it's, it's,

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well, right. Yeah. Like, like what, what, who,

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what the, what the heck is an Astrobot? So it's

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just, it's just a small, like little four hour

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long platformer that. just is a total love letter

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to the playstation like brand and that sounds

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lame as hell but it's it's i find myself being

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super nostalgic for these old games i didn't

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know i had this nostalgia for it really tapped

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into something that i only kind of feel for nintendo

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properties it was kind of when i realized like

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wow like i have you know PlayStation's been a

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part of my life since the PS2 back in the early

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2000s and so that's been a huge part of my childhood

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so basically it's just like little mini platformer

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levels but the whole conceit is that you're this

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little robot guy and you're like exploring different

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parts of the PlayStation 5 itself so you'll go

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to the fans you'll go to the GPU and then like

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you know you'll see other little robots like

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doing poses from famous PlayStation games and

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then you'll find they call them artifacts and

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it's just you know peripherals that Sony's had

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put out for the PlayStation. Like you'll find

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the PS2 Eye toy or like the PlayStation Move

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controllers or like an old PS1 memory card or

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something. And it's just something so fun about

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just, you know, collecting these little trophies

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and having them in this little virtual room where

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you can have this little mini museum of PlayStation

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gadgets. Right. Oh, that's cool. Yeah. I like

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it. It's cute. Hopefully you guys can get a PS5

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soon. I don't know. Hopefully. Chip shortage

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is still hitting rough. So you took me on the

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nostalgia trip. So I will jump into one of my

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honorable mentions. I needed to give an honorable

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mention to this because I've been playing a lot

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lately. Mario Party Superstars. Oh, yeah, that's

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on my I just wrote down some video game ones

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and that's on one of mine. Yeah, that's on my

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list just for pure nostalgia factor. The old

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boards, the old games, like everything about

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it has brought me back. And like I had the N64,

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Mario Party 2, you know, this is definitely right

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up my alley. So it's been a lot of fun to play

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these. So it is on my honorable mention list.

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It wasn't good enough to make the top 10 list.

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Cause I do have a full top 10 list. I agree with

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that. You know, it's great. It's, it's, you know,

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I would not call it. Well, it's telling that

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I completely forgot to put it on my list. I,

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we have it too. And I was like, Oh shit. Yeah.

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Mario party came out. Oh man. They did the right

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thing in that they finally realized they just

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needed to put out the old maps. Yeah, exactly.

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Exactly right. And the games are still fun. And

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I mean, Jill and I have played a couple of rounds,

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but we definitely need to play more of it. Yeah,

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Mario Party 2 is my favorite as well. An honorable

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mention in video game plans that I'll throw out

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is in the same vein, the Mario Golf that came

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out this year. Oh yeah, Mario Golf Super Rush.

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Super Rush? We've never actually played the Super

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Rush. rush well right i know i feel bad like

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it's all the actual golf right i feel like we're

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super boring we're like we're not gonna play

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the dumb super rush mode that no we're gonna

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we're gonna play boring ass golf damn it this

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is why it's an honorable mention because i we

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technically haven't played the full game but

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me and andre get a lot of amusement um playing

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99 or even full 18 rounds of golf especially

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now that they have fixed some of our biggest

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grapes which was mainly that the ai was drunk

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the whole time now you can toggle now you can

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toggle uh difficulty from the ai which makes

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such a big difference and they've added in a

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bunch of courses since the game dropped for free

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which is fantastic and when we were over um in

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ohio for thanksgiving we we played a game of

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golf and his uncle who's a big golf guy but not

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really big in the video games was very into it

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he was riveted so it's really fun for the full

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for the whole family so it's actually on my top

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10 list it is number seven on my list wow nice

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super rush on my list because it's been fun it's

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been a great time i wish you guys would play

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the story because the story is actually a lot

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of fun played some of the story i have yeah i

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i got through like three of the courses i think

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whatever like i got to like the fourth level

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or whatever the fourth home and i was i don't

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know i tapped out but maybe i'll go back to it

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it's a very short story like you're not far from

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the end it's like two or three more courses left

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gotcha so it's really yeah it's not it's not

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like a long story or anything like that um you

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can play through it in pretty much like two three

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days it's never meant to be that long um but

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definitely the multiplayer is the crux of it

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and been a lot of fun yeah yeah So you did an

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honorable, Andre did an actual item. You did

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an honorable mention. Do you want to break into

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your top 10? I can break into my top 10. So I'll

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break into my top 10 with number 10. Number 10,

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Shang -Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. We've

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talked about it on the show before. A lot of

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people have listened to that episode. So I won't

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dive into it because we have talked about it.

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Love the villain. Love this intro story. This

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is one of my favorite solo heroes that we've

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had in a while. And especially with a year that

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had Black Widow, which was very disappointing,

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and Eternals, which was disappointing, which

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we may get into later. This was a very bright

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spot for Marvel. Of course, we're big Marvel

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fans here. So that is my number 10 on my list.

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I feel I need to rewatch it because we were I

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enjoyed it greatly, but I was also pretty blitzed

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when I saw it. And I think I said as much when

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we talked about it on the show. Right. But it

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was it was I had a great time because that was

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kind of the that was we didn't we ended up skipping

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Black Widow. So that was kind of like the first

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superhero movie. Well, I guess first MCU movie

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rather that we watched, you know, post post post

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pandemic or whatever. And it was fun. It was

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fun to be in a Marvel movie, be in the theater,

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watching a Marvel movie, having fun again. It

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was it was great. So you bring that up and I.

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I don't mean to shit on it, but is Black Widow

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the most skippable MCU movie? I don't know because

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I haven't watched it. I would say pretty much.

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I do think from what the rumors I've heard on

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the internet, there are some things that happen

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in Black Widow that may have weight in Hawkeye,

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but we haven't finished Hawkeye and we haven't

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encountered that yet. But I think so. What episode

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are you in in Hawkeye? we're like literally in

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episode three four four yeah four okay we're

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not that far okay out of six we're not we're

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not going to talk about this now but um okay

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yes there are some things that affect it but

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not greatly that's good um yeah there's like

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yeah that it sounds like it is skippable yeah

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yeah right yeah true Jill you have not touched

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an actual item no I have not yeah so um I did

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an honorable mention uh I'll do something that

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for my top 10 that actually came out in 2021

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um this will be the only music item that I'll

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at least talk about um but I have to do it it's

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gonna be uh Taylor Swift's re -release of her

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album Red that came out um right at the end of

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the year um Now I can't even remember if it was

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November or December. Time is a flat circle,

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as they say. But it was great to have it out.

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My Peloton instructors really embraced it because

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now there are all these Taylor Swift rides and

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it's great. And as someone who's kind of late

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to the Taylor Swift game, rediscovering her or

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discovering her older work has been really exciting

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because you kind of get to see her trajectory

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into where she is now. And then hearing her rerecord

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these albums. from an older standpoint because

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she is older it adds new weight to a lot of songs

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um that you know she was singing about when she

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wrote them when she was like 16 17 and now she's

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singing as a 31 year old and you know some stuff

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still sounds like you know what would come out

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of a 16 year old's mind but then others the fact

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that she is older just makes it feel so much

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stronger so that that's my number 10 for best

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thing of 2021 you just reminded me i turned 31

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next month yeah happy early birthday hello darkness

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my old friend no blast what's my age again that's

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what yeah right there you go yeah that's what

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i need to do blast what's my age again oh my

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god oh my gosh andre do you have an actual one

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or do you have an honorable mention you thought

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of well i want to do an honorable mention only

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because i want to talk about this we didn't get

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to talk about it In another episode. And that

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is Zack Snyder's The Justice League. That's an

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honorable mention for me. Yeah, no, right. I

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wouldn't put it in like, oh man, this is one

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of the seminal things I experienced in 2021.

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A touchstone film. Yeah, right. I wouldn't call

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it a touchstone for me, but it does seem like

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a few people see it that way. It's interesting

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seeing all of the widespread of reactions to

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this movie, right? Snyder fans on Twitter. Yeah.

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Oh my gosh. At the top of it, I'm very glad this

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exists. you know i'm i'm happy i saw it and hey

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maybe we'll i'll even watch it again someday

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right yeah um yeah i would definitely watch it

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again like yeah without a question i would it

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was probably the most enjoyable zack snyder dc

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film i've watched so far i like it better than

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man of steel i like definitely like it way better

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than yeah batman v superman so um super cute

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yeah it's uh not good seeing his vision but like

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this the thing is is that this justice league

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I feel like retroactively makes Batman v Superman

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a little better because at least now that you

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can you can call it a trilogy right you can call

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Man of Steel Batman v Superman and Zack Snyder's

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Justice League a cohesive trilogy at this point

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right there's some cohesion there that wasn't

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there before in my opinion um It's still goddamn

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four and a half hours long? Or just four hours?

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It's like almost four, I think. It feels like

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seven. I'm really glad that they broke it up

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into chapters. I think that's the smartest thing

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going for it. You can re -watch this and not

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have to take four hours. And that's how we watched

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it, right? We watched it in two spots. We watched

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it in two as well. I mean, it's still Zack Snyder.

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If you don't like his direction, you're going

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to hate this movie because it is peak Zack Snyder

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in all the pros and cons that entails. But, you

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know, hey, it made me like Ben Affleck's Batman

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a little bit more, which is saying something.

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It made me like Henry Cavill's take on Superman

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a little bit more, which is also saying something.

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It made me remember why I liked Wonder Woman

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after Wonder Woman 1984. I destroyed that. That's

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from 2020. I almost wish that movie came out

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two weeks later so we could shit on it more.

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It was so bad, dude. Holy moly. It's the bottom

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of my DC list. I was talking about it with my

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sister. It's almost poetic how opposite direction

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it went from the first one. Going back to the

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Snyder Cut. like i said it's on my honorable

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mention um yeah it made it actually made me like

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uh cavill as spider -man as a super oh that's

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a timeline probably get to that one too but as

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superman um and affleck as batman it also it

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was good for the redeeming for the flash and

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all of it for victor stone um i feel very bad

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for that actor and how he's been treated yes

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ray fisher but um Yeah, like I would happily

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sit down and watch that one more time. But the

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biggest caveat here is I still don't think that

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would have saved the DC franchise if that movie

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had come out anyway. Like now people want the

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Snyder timeline and I don't think DC is going

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to do it. But better than the Joss Whedon version

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by far. By far. And that's what I was going to

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say is that I'm glad this exists in the fact

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that it is just better than the Whedon version

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by far. And it's not in my honorable mention.

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It's not in my top 10. But it is definitely,

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I would say, in my top 20 of the year, probably,

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if I were to go that far, just because it is

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so much better. And it is something that I would

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watch again. And if you're in the top 20 of any

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year. that's not a bad year for you you know

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like a bad look for you so um i don't have it

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in my honorable mention because i stopped at

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six because i could have probably kept going

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forever um hell last night yeah last night so

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didn't even make my honorable mention i thought

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that movie was beautiful so besides besides the

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end but that's a different story for a different

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time we've talked about that i'm trying to not

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talk about things that we've actually talked

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about already because We don't need to talk about

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it anymore. This is why it's on my list. Here's

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the reasoning. Boom. Done. Okay. Do you want

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me to get a few off my list? Yes. Go for it.

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I'm crossing out things as we talk about them

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so I don't retread. Number nine is a two -parter,

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but it just works together. I think this is also

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why it fell to number nine. I think if it was

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just part one, it probably would have slipped

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higher. But part one and part two of Batman The

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Long Halloween, the animated movie, I thought

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it was excellent. I thought part two was not

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as good as part one, but it was still excellent.

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So that's why I say it fell to nine. I think

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if it was just part one, it probably would have

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gone four or five on my list. Okay. But I'm finally

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so glad to see The Long Halloween has been animated

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and made into a movie. Yeah. I'm sticking on

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the animation number eight for me. was the mitchells

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versus the machines i finally saw it and it's

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so good it is such a delightful movie like it

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is just such a delight i absolutely loved it

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um everything about it was great it actually

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i did like five lists before i actually sat down

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and looked at movies and completely forgot i

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saw it this year and once i saw it i was like

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no this needs to make it on the list yeah then

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i have one more animated uh thing before i turn

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it to somebody else i'm just getting off my list

00:21:51.509 --> 00:21:53.690
like checking things off yeah yeah obviously

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seven i said was already mario golf super rush

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number six on my list invincible the tv series

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yes we have that as well yeah it's on another

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comic book series that i read that i absolutely

00:22:06.920 --> 00:22:10.380
love to see i remember i was like kind of like

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what is like because they were showing out or

00:22:12.579 --> 00:22:14.579
they were they they literally were just advertising

00:22:14.579 --> 00:22:17.400
it on twitter or whatever and you literally said

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to on the side like no like be excited for this

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this is this is gonna be really good and literally

00:22:22.660 --> 00:22:25.259
okay so you may hear me getting out of my chair

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uh we found my old book collection Oh, hell yeah.

00:22:30.059 --> 00:22:34.940
I have old Compendium. The Ultimate Collection.

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So this is volume two. I have volume one somewhere

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as well. This was just right on top, so it was

00:22:40.980 --> 00:22:42.900
easy for me to grab. I have like one, two, three,

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and four. Wow. So how far did this season go

00:22:47.880 --> 00:22:51.720
in terms of those books? So I think there's eight

00:22:51.720 --> 00:22:55.599
total of the Ultimate Collections. So if it was

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like this big. It's probably like that big. Oh

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my gosh. Okay. Yeah. It covered probably three,

00:23:01.910 --> 00:23:06.190
four comic book lines and there was like 64,

00:23:06.190 --> 00:23:11.710
65 storylines. Wow. Or 64 like comics, you know?

00:23:11.750 --> 00:23:15.730
Yeah. So there's still a lot of material to work

00:23:15.730 --> 00:23:20.450
through. I would probably say it's going to be

00:23:20.450 --> 00:23:25.480
like three or four seasons at least. OK, that's

00:23:25.480 --> 00:23:28.079
exciting. That's really exciting. Yeah. Yeah.

00:23:28.160 --> 00:23:31.380
I mean, this show is just so solid. Like, I don't

00:23:31.380 --> 00:23:34.900
know. The voice acting just alone is great. I

00:23:34.900 --> 00:23:37.140
mean, J .K. Simmons, not enough good things can

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be said about that man. He is just great as Omni

00:23:38.900 --> 00:23:42.509
-Man. And I don't know, I feel like I can't really

00:23:42.509 --> 00:23:45.089
talk about spoilers because I don't, well, I

00:23:45.089 --> 00:23:47.210
think it got a lot of buzz and I know that they

00:23:47.210 --> 00:23:48.589
got renewed for a season. I feel like people

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are, I think it got the attention it rightly

00:23:51.369 --> 00:23:54.150
deserved. Yeah, there's memes out there now of

00:23:54.150 --> 00:23:56.269
the end. Yes, that's true. Although I will say

00:23:56.269 --> 00:23:59.029
the memes spoiled the ending a little bit, right?

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Like, you know, but yeah, they were so good.

00:24:03.009 --> 00:24:05.569
Think Mark. Yeah, think Mark, think. Yeah, exactly.

00:24:05.910 --> 00:24:10.630
Yeah. oh that was a fun watch a really fun watch

00:24:10.630 --> 00:24:13.029
yeah i'm excited to see more that's why i wanted

00:24:13.029 --> 00:24:14.970
to include it on this i felt like i just did

00:24:14.970 --> 00:24:19.049
a ton of uh animated and it wasn't my intention

00:24:19.049 --> 00:24:20.890
that they would all be at the bottom of my top

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10 well usually we're the animator we're the

00:24:23.170 --> 00:24:26.210
animators over here right so i'm glad i'm glad

00:24:26.210 --> 00:24:28.650
you're you're uh you know you got some animation

00:24:28.650 --> 00:24:32.000
representation on there Exactly. No, I love animated

00:24:32.000 --> 00:24:34.579
stuff. It's not like I don't. So it's just, it's

00:24:34.579 --> 00:24:37.079
amazing to me that I have three things on my

00:24:37.079 --> 00:24:40.319
top 10 list of 2021 that are animated. I mean,

00:24:40.339 --> 00:24:43.579
my top either two, number one or number two item

00:24:43.579 --> 00:24:45.759
is an animated thing. Just revealing that right

00:24:45.759 --> 00:24:47.740
now. And I don't even have an order for my list.

00:24:48.799 --> 00:24:52.359
Yeah, right. But I have a very clear favorite

00:24:52.359 --> 00:24:54.880
that I'll save to the end so I can gush about

00:24:54.880 --> 00:24:57.819
it. But yeah. um i think jill knows what it is

00:24:57.819 --> 00:24:59.720
but yeah i mean i think you and i are aligned

00:24:59.720 --> 00:25:03.140
on what it is uh yeah okay i think you're also

00:25:03.140 --> 00:25:04.839
going to be able to guess what my number one

00:25:04.839 --> 00:25:07.279
is but i'm not going to reveal that until later

00:25:07.279 --> 00:25:09.720
so okay all right all right wow i love it we're

00:25:09.720 --> 00:25:12.000
we're we're we're we're we're keeping you in

00:25:12.000 --> 00:25:13.759
suspense over here you know you gotta you gotta

00:25:13.759 --> 00:25:16.200
keeping in suspense now actually seems like a

00:25:16.200 --> 00:25:18.140
great time let's take a quick commercial break

00:25:18.140 --> 00:25:22.019
and okay more of andre and jill's lists uh just

00:25:22.019 --> 00:25:23.759
because we need to get these breaks in as well

00:25:23.759 --> 00:25:33.750
yeah And we're back. Hell yeah. So we kept in

00:25:33.750 --> 00:25:35.869
suspense long enough. Jill, you were just about

00:25:35.869 --> 00:25:39.910
to say, what do you got? So I'll come back around

00:25:39.910 --> 00:25:42.710
to some animated things that I have on my not

00:25:42.710 --> 00:25:47.829
organized list at all. But my number nine and

00:25:47.829 --> 00:25:50.309
eight, I'm going to kind of cheat and put them

00:25:50.309 --> 00:25:52.769
together and kind of slightly count them apart.

00:25:53.609 --> 00:25:57.730
is uh the mcu tv series uh specifically wandavision

00:25:57.730 --> 00:26:00.809
and loki with a nice little honorable mention

00:26:00.809 --> 00:26:04.210
oh man you're really gonna do falcon oh oh you're

00:26:04.210 --> 00:26:05.890
gonna do falcon the winter soldier like that

00:26:05.890 --> 00:26:07.529
you're gonna put falcon winter soldier below

00:26:07.529 --> 00:26:11.190
what if no i'm not i mean what if gets an honor

00:26:11.190 --> 00:26:14.910
what if gets an honorable mention because i stuck

00:26:14.910 --> 00:26:17.789
with the soldier get nothing you know nothing

00:26:17.789 --> 00:26:24.440
you lose falcon and the winter soldier is fine

00:26:24.440 --> 00:26:28.900
oh i was not i don't want to say great it's good

00:26:28.900 --> 00:26:32.859
i enjoyed it suffers this is turning into a completely

00:26:32.859 --> 00:26:35.319
different conversation falcon in the winter suffers

00:26:35.319 --> 00:26:38.240
the biggest problem of they wasted the very first

00:26:38.240 --> 00:26:40.839
episode and it's already a short series so why

00:26:40.839 --> 00:26:44.519
did you do that and then once you hit episode

00:26:44.519 --> 00:26:47.259
three which is where zemo shows up that's when

00:26:47.259 --> 00:26:50.289
it starts its upward climb and it's great Until

00:26:50.289 --> 00:26:52.130
you remember that there's all these other side

00:26:52.130 --> 00:26:54.009
characters that need to be pulled in and the

00:26:54.009 --> 00:26:57.509
villain, main villain, the extremist girl, that

00:26:57.509 --> 00:27:00.170
was kind of an eye roll. So it's like parts of

00:27:00.170 --> 00:27:02.470
it were good. Lots of parts of it were not so

00:27:02.470 --> 00:27:06.650
good. Hats off to Captain America, John Walker.

00:27:06.950 --> 00:27:08.930
I was about to say John Walker. John Walker.

00:27:09.190 --> 00:27:13.990
I hate him, but I love him. More with Wyatt.

00:27:16.139 --> 00:27:19.400
Wyatt Russell. Yeah, Wyatt Russell. More with

00:27:19.400 --> 00:27:23.759
him. Yeah. I absolutely love Wyatt Russell and

00:27:23.759 --> 00:27:26.059
he's great in that role, but it's funny to me

00:27:26.059 --> 00:27:28.819
that I actually think Falcon and Winter Soldier

00:27:28.819 --> 00:27:31.960
had the best ending episode of all of them. Yes,

00:27:31.960 --> 00:27:33.940
I would agree. Right. It ended really strongly,

00:27:34.160 --> 00:27:37.019
but it started weak. But it's the worst of the

00:27:37.019 --> 00:27:39.519
series. Yeah. Besides, I don't know. I didn't

00:27:39.519 --> 00:27:44.279
really like What If. I stuck with it and I liked

00:27:44.920 --> 00:27:47.019
How it ultimately ended. Which is why it's getting

00:27:47.019 --> 00:27:49.160
the honorable mention. But WandaVision and Loki

00:27:49.160 --> 00:27:54.039
to me are the. the peak MCU series of the year.

00:27:54.299 --> 00:27:56.339
Hawkeye I am leaving off primarily just because

00:27:56.339 --> 00:27:58.200
we have not finished it so it's not fair for

00:27:58.200 --> 00:28:00.940
me to really rank it but WandaVision and Loki

00:28:00.940 --> 00:28:03.079
just very high up there. I like them for very

00:28:03.079 --> 00:28:05.200
different reasons. I can't really decide which

00:28:05.200 --> 00:28:08.039
one I like more. Most of the time it is WandaVision

00:28:08.039 --> 00:28:10.099
because I like those characters a lot and seeing

00:28:10.099 --> 00:28:13.400
them do different things in going through the

00:28:13.400 --> 00:28:17.099
different eras of TV is so cool but the ending

00:28:17.099 --> 00:28:20.519
is a bit of a wet fart. Loki on the other hand

00:28:21.079 --> 00:28:24.259
really loved the setup the characters the atmosphere

00:28:24.259 --> 00:28:27.460
the mystery what's gonna what season two might

00:28:27.460 --> 00:28:30.740
possibly be but at the same time it's 11 it's

00:28:30.740 --> 00:28:33.400
been like what 11 12 years of loki so it's like

00:28:33.400 --> 00:28:36.460
this is really cool bring in i want to see more

00:28:36.460 --> 00:28:38.819
characters interact with loki who i haven't seen

00:28:38.819 --> 00:28:41.920
before or i want to see what's next and please

00:28:41.920 --> 00:28:45.279
bring back owen wilson yes please die if owen

00:28:45.279 --> 00:28:48.019
wilson does not come back um but those are my

00:28:48.839 --> 00:28:52.339
eight and nine and eight eight nine duking it

00:28:52.339 --> 00:28:54.640
out up there okay thank you marvel for those

00:28:54.640 --> 00:28:57.019
tv series yeah it was a lot of fun what honestly

00:28:57.019 --> 00:28:59.960
being watching all those tv series throughout

00:28:59.960 --> 00:29:02.500
the year like i i never i expected that i would

00:29:02.500 --> 00:29:05.619
have had been i feel like i got mcu'd out when

00:29:05.619 --> 00:29:07.500
what if came out right because we watched it

00:29:07.500 --> 00:29:09.240
and it didn't hit those first episodes for me

00:29:09.240 --> 00:29:11.799
so i you know stopped you know i stopped after

00:29:11.799 --> 00:29:15.160
cha -cha and i was like okay like this is supposed

00:29:15.160 --> 00:29:17.160
to be the good one and i was like okay like i

00:29:17.160 --> 00:29:19.839
think i'm good yeah right but it's been it's

00:29:19.839 --> 00:29:22.180
been fun to kind of have these little sides they're

00:29:22.180 --> 00:29:24.819
not even side stories loki i most certainly isn't

00:29:24.819 --> 00:29:27.579
a side story at this point um but it's been fun

00:29:27.579 --> 00:29:29.940
watching it in a new format um well that's why

00:29:29.940 --> 00:29:32.240
i'm interested in hearing your opinion after

00:29:32.240 --> 00:29:34.920
you finished hawkeye yeah because hawkeye definitely

00:29:34.920 --> 00:29:38.650
feels like a side story but in a good way sure

00:29:38.650 --> 00:29:41.430
like it's lower stakes well to the to that to

00:29:41.430 --> 00:29:43.890
that point right like so falcon winter soldier

00:29:43.890 --> 00:29:46.329
and so those first three shows falcon winter

00:29:46.329 --> 00:29:48.809
soldier loki and wandavision those felt like

00:29:48.809 --> 00:29:50.950
appointment they call like they phrase it's like

00:29:50.950 --> 00:29:53.150
appointment tv where it's like you had to tune

00:29:53.150 --> 00:29:54.589
in this week or else you're gonna get spoiled

00:29:54.589 --> 00:29:57.349
on social media oh my gosh what's gonna happen

00:29:57.349 --> 00:29:59.869
and i never ran into that with with hawkeye which

00:29:59.869 --> 00:30:02.680
is why we're only halfway through it but not

00:30:02.680 --> 00:30:04.079
in a bad way, right? Like we're enjoying it.

00:30:04.099 --> 00:30:06.019
It's just that, you know, Loki, especially I

00:30:06.019 --> 00:30:07.960
think, and this is why it's kind of my, the favorite

00:30:07.960 --> 00:30:10.700
is that was going to happen immediately. Yeah.

00:30:10.799 --> 00:30:13.460
Yeah. Like I knew about Gator Loki before I actually

00:30:13.460 --> 00:30:16.920
saw the, yeah, it was just kind of fun being

00:30:16.920 --> 00:30:19.579
part of that discourse in real time. Something

00:30:19.579 --> 00:30:22.339
that all of this makes me think about in food

00:30:22.339 --> 00:30:26.299
for thought is whenever it comes time to do another

00:30:26.299 --> 00:30:30.690
Marvel rewatch, what does that include? Because

00:30:30.690 --> 00:30:33.170
up to Endgame, it's obviously just the movies.

00:30:33.529 --> 00:30:37.210
But when you get to the next big team -up movie,

00:30:37.470 --> 00:30:40.369
be it Avengers 2 .0, whatever they're going to

00:30:40.369 --> 00:30:43.369
call it, what do you do to prepare for that?

00:30:43.569 --> 00:30:45.789
Do you watch all the movies and all the TV shows?

00:30:45.910 --> 00:30:47.809
Or do you just start with where Endgame left

00:30:47.809 --> 00:30:51.329
off and just... the TV shows and the movies,

00:30:51.509 --> 00:30:54.309
or does it depend on who you know is in the movie?

00:30:54.829 --> 00:30:57.509
It's very interesting now. I think the MCU is

00:30:57.509 --> 00:31:00.089
reaching a point where I think you just are going

00:31:00.089 --> 00:31:02.470
to have to interact with the parts that interest

00:31:02.470 --> 00:31:06.950
you. You can choose. Yes, you can be the Uber

00:31:06.950 --> 00:31:09.890
fan and follow everything, but I think it's no

00:31:09.890 --> 00:31:12.230
longer... With the rate that they're putting

00:31:12.230 --> 00:31:16.210
out content... I'm not going to say it's unsustainable,

00:31:16.269 --> 00:31:17.769
but it's more like I don't think they're designing

00:31:17.769 --> 00:31:19.869
it in such a way where you have to watch everything

00:31:19.869 --> 00:31:22.650
to understand. You have to be caught up on everything.

00:31:22.849 --> 00:31:24.809
I don't think there will ever be an endgame kind

00:31:24.809 --> 00:31:27.190
of movie where you need to have watched all the

00:31:27.190 --> 00:31:30.569
other MCU films before it to get the full experience

00:31:30.569 --> 00:31:32.029
out of it. I just don't think that's going to

00:31:32.029 --> 00:31:34.690
happen. I'm going to close out this list with

00:31:34.690 --> 00:31:37.269
this little note because this is the only opportunity

00:31:37.269 --> 00:31:39.329
I'm going to have to bring it up. I finally got

00:31:39.329 --> 00:31:41.769
to watch Lovecraft Country this past week and

00:31:41.769 --> 00:31:45.650
a half. Hats off to Jonathan Majors. Very excited

00:31:45.650 --> 00:31:49.509
to have him now in the MCU as, spoiler alert,

00:31:49.750 --> 00:31:52.750
as Commander Kang. Can't wait to see what else

00:31:52.750 --> 00:31:54.670
you're going to do because you're a great actor.

00:31:54.869 --> 00:31:56.549
You could have phrased it as the one who watches.

00:31:56.829 --> 00:32:00.529
The one who watches. No, it's the one who remains.

00:32:00.869 --> 00:32:04.809
The one who remains. Yeah, Kang the Conqueror.

00:32:05.609 --> 00:32:08.289
What were you calling him? Captain Kang? Captain

00:32:08.289 --> 00:32:12.230
Kang, I said last time. Regardless, it's great

00:32:12.230 --> 00:32:16.890
to have him in Marvel MCU land. Looking forward

00:32:16.890 --> 00:32:21.089
to seeing what else he brings in. It's been too

00:32:21.089 --> 00:32:22.930
long since we talked about video games, so I

00:32:22.930 --> 00:32:27.930
want to talk about a video game. I got to give

00:32:27.930 --> 00:32:29.390
a shout out to, and this is probably one of my

00:32:29.390 --> 00:32:32.809
top five things this year, and it's a PS5 game.

00:32:32.910 --> 00:32:36.519
It's Returnal. Mike, are you familiar? I know

00:32:36.519 --> 00:32:39.680
Jill had to sit there. Jill had to live through

00:32:39.680 --> 00:32:42.480
this. I was obsessed with this game. Have you

00:32:42.480 --> 00:32:44.240
heard anything about this, Mike? I have not,

00:32:44.299 --> 00:32:46.619
no. Okay, so Returnal. It's a PS5 exclusive,

00:32:46.799 --> 00:32:50.380
so once you get one, get this for sure. It is

00:32:50.380 --> 00:32:54.420
a roguelike shooter made by the guys who made,

00:32:54.720 --> 00:32:56.960
oh my gosh, they're called Housemarque Studios.

00:32:57.079 --> 00:33:00.099
They made Rezogun. They're really good at making

00:33:00.099 --> 00:33:02.400
arcade -y like games. They really have that.

00:33:02.960 --> 00:33:05.859
that feeling of like so like just they all the

00:33:05.859 --> 00:33:07.279
games they've made so far are pretty relatively

00:33:07.279 --> 00:33:10.559
simple high score shooting games okay so they

00:33:10.559 --> 00:33:12.920
have that that kind of feel down that kind of

00:33:12.920 --> 00:33:15.660
visceral like i just want to get you know they

00:33:15.660 --> 00:33:18.660
have that kind of gameplay game feel down um

00:33:18.660 --> 00:33:21.400
and they applied it brilliantly to this roguelike

00:33:21.400 --> 00:33:24.799
sci -fi horror shooter that is brutally difficult

00:33:24.799 --> 00:33:28.000
um it's a time it's you but the whole premise

00:33:28.000 --> 00:33:31.400
is that you're an astronaut uh selene and uh

00:33:32.240 --> 00:33:34.819
sci -fi future and you crash land you follow

00:33:34.819 --> 00:33:37.900
a signal to this uh remote planet called atropos

00:33:37.900 --> 00:33:40.819
and you crash land on it and you're all alone

00:33:40.819 --> 00:33:44.059
your ship is gone and basically you all you have

00:33:44.059 --> 00:33:47.460
is your pistol and every time you die you immediately

00:33:47.460 --> 00:33:50.660
wake back up in the middle of this you know barren

00:33:50.660 --> 00:33:54.579
uh wasteland uh alien world and you have to start

00:33:54.579 --> 00:33:58.119
the loop again um and you kind of will pick up

00:33:58.119 --> 00:34:00.019
you'll see your court you're like you'll see

00:34:00.019 --> 00:34:02.440
corpses of selene on other dead runs and you

00:34:02.440 --> 00:34:05.420
pick up logs of her and she'll uh you kind of

00:34:05.420 --> 00:34:07.740
like like experience her mind kind of slowly

00:34:07.740 --> 00:34:11.300
unraveling due to the time loop um and it's just

00:34:11.300 --> 00:34:13.400
it's it's it's totally my aesthetic it's kind

00:34:13.400 --> 00:34:16.199
of like a sci -fi meets lovecraft you know all

00:34:16.199 --> 00:34:18.719
the all the aliens are really weird and nasty

00:34:18.719 --> 00:34:21.429
looking and You got these awesome sci -fi weapons

00:34:21.429 --> 00:34:23.829
that feel really good to shoot. It feels really

00:34:23.829 --> 00:34:26.389
good to move around that game. It is brutally,

00:34:26.409 --> 00:34:29.449
brutally difficult though. Like you will, you

00:34:29.449 --> 00:34:31.809
will die and you'll lose like an hour, hours

00:34:31.809 --> 00:34:34.809
of progress at times. It's just soul crushing,

00:34:34.849 --> 00:34:37.070
but it's part of the experience. I don't know.

00:34:37.090 --> 00:34:40.170
It's so good. I like death loops and stuff like

00:34:40.170 --> 00:34:42.869
that too. Like Groundhog Day and Happy Death

00:34:42.869 --> 00:34:45.820
Day and stuff like that. I do like those. this

00:34:45.820 --> 00:34:48.239
this definitely for video games this felt like

00:34:48.239 --> 00:34:50.340
the year of the time loop because there was this

00:34:50.340 --> 00:34:53.719
game returnal there was death loop um 12 minutes

00:34:53.719 --> 00:34:57.239
was a game where you had a world outer wilds

00:34:57.239 --> 00:34:59.599
had a dlc uh there's the forgotten city that

00:34:59.599 --> 00:35:01.559
had a time loop this was probably my favorite

00:35:01.559 --> 00:35:04.320
like minute two was the minute minute was not

00:35:04.320 --> 00:35:07.840
this year but it came out last year yeah yeah

00:35:09.110 --> 00:35:13.110
This is definitely my favorite of those time

00:35:13.110 --> 00:35:18.480
loop games. It's really just... It's a really

00:35:18.480 --> 00:35:20.440
brutal, difficult experience, but it's a super

00:35:20.440 --> 00:35:22.280
memorable one, and it draws a lot of inspiration

00:35:22.280 --> 00:35:25.239
from all my favorite stuff. So, yeah, I would

00:35:25.239 --> 00:35:27.099
highly recommend checking it out if you can.

00:35:27.820 --> 00:35:30.380
The one small shout -out, and I didn't shout

00:35:30.380 --> 00:35:34.019
this out in Astro, but the game makes excellent

00:35:34.019 --> 00:35:36.739
use of the PS5's DualSense controller, and that's

00:35:36.739 --> 00:35:38.960
just, it has very fancy rumble, which doesn't

00:35:38.960 --> 00:35:40.380
sound great on paper, but when you're holding

00:35:40.380 --> 00:35:42.880
the controller, they flex on you right away because

00:35:42.880 --> 00:35:46.739
you wake up in basically a rainy alien rainforest

00:35:46.739 --> 00:35:49.000
that you can feel the droplets on the helmet

00:35:49.000 --> 00:35:51.119
like on the controller like they haven't that

00:35:51.119 --> 00:35:53.539
precise it just feels good to shoot guns in that

00:35:53.539 --> 00:35:55.420
game it's awesome i i can't remember it enough

00:35:55.420 --> 00:36:00.800
um yeah returnal so i have four i guess related

00:36:00.800 --> 00:36:03.760
things then okay honorable mention i have a video

00:36:03.760 --> 00:36:09.139
game hitman 3 hitman 3 hitman 3 and like hitman

00:36:09.139 --> 00:36:11.739
just has me now whenever they release something

00:36:11.739 --> 00:36:15.639
they just have me now agent 47 agent 47 i love

00:36:15.639 --> 00:36:19.190
it um Also on my honorable mention list, I have

00:36:19.190 --> 00:36:22.349
Loki and then Hawkeye. Because I do like Hawkeye

00:36:22.349 --> 00:36:25.429
better than Loki. And then going to my real list,

00:36:25.610 --> 00:36:29.590
number five, WandaVision. WandaVision is your

00:36:29.590 --> 00:36:32.710
favorite out of all of them. WandaVision is so

00:36:32.710 --> 00:36:35.969
creative. Yes. It started off so strong. It did

00:36:35.969 --> 00:36:40.670
not. But the start was so amazing to me. And

00:36:40.670 --> 00:36:44.590
then just the feeling of the Marvel community

00:36:44.590 --> 00:36:48.119
online. With this show, since it was like the

00:36:48.119 --> 00:36:51.539
first one, you know, and that was so much fun

00:36:51.539 --> 00:36:54.820
to be a part of from the beginning. So that's

00:36:54.820 --> 00:36:57.000
why it's so high is because of the experience

00:36:57.000 --> 00:37:01.760
for me. Loki was fine. I loved Loki. Hawkeye,

00:37:01.800 --> 00:37:05.510
I edge it like slightly above. And then going

00:37:05.510 --> 00:37:08.030
back, Hitman 3 was on my honorable mention list

00:37:08.030 --> 00:37:11.030
because Hitman is just so much fun to dress up,

00:37:11.130 --> 00:37:13.670
figure out all these different missions and different

00:37:13.670 --> 00:37:16.409
ways and everything like that. It's just always

00:37:16.409 --> 00:37:21.949
fun. Even to watch others play. It's just a blast.

00:37:22.230 --> 00:37:24.269
Yeah, I mean, if Hitman's one of those games

00:37:24.269 --> 00:37:25.769
where I've watched it way more than I've played

00:37:25.769 --> 00:37:27.610
it to that point, it's so much fun to watch.

00:37:27.670 --> 00:37:31.409
Just people try to scramble to like, you know,

00:37:31.449 --> 00:37:35.159
it's such a. man those so that new this new trilogy

00:37:35.159 --> 00:37:37.219
hitman one two and three they just their tone

00:37:37.219 --> 00:37:39.800
is so perfect because it's just the right amount

00:37:39.800 --> 00:37:42.880
of ridiculous but also agent 47 is so self -serious

00:37:42.880 --> 00:37:46.420
that it just plays so goddamn well like you're

00:37:46.420 --> 00:37:48.079
literally like throwing like you know you're

00:37:48.079 --> 00:37:49.900
dressed up as a sushi chef like throwing dead

00:37:49.900 --> 00:37:52.280
fish at people to knock them out or something

00:37:52.280 --> 00:37:55.980
or like new berlin level is literally a nightclub

00:37:55.980 --> 00:37:59.340
where you like are just making people take bad

00:37:59.340 --> 00:38:03.239
acid and stuff like yeah right you're a dj and

00:38:03.239 --> 00:38:07.380
you make the the booth explode to kill somebody

00:38:07.380 --> 00:38:10.460
like yeah and there's a new one they have like

00:38:10.460 --> 00:38:12.340
that basically a knives out level right where

00:38:12.340 --> 00:38:15.159
you get to you get to impersonate yeah it's a

00:38:15.159 --> 00:38:16.860
murder mystery and you get to impersonate the

00:38:16.860 --> 00:38:19.119
detective but then you get to kill one of your

00:38:19.119 --> 00:38:20.820
targets as part of the murder mystery so you

00:38:20.820 --> 00:38:22.039
can just kill them while you're investigating

00:38:22.039 --> 00:38:25.760
the murder it's so good people it's amazing yeah

00:38:25.760 --> 00:38:29.019
it's just so well done Yeah. So that's on my

00:38:29.019 --> 00:38:33.039
honorable mention as well. Just to relate that

00:38:33.039 --> 00:38:35.340
to everything we've talked about so far. Yeah.

00:38:38.099 --> 00:38:42.179
Jill, you got some others. I do. So from my list.

00:38:42.199 --> 00:38:46.059
So I think this would be number seven. And I

00:38:46.059 --> 00:38:47.699
got an honorable mention to come along with this.

00:38:47.780 --> 00:38:52.000
So number seven for me is from Amazon Prime Clarkson's

00:38:52.000 --> 00:38:55.460
Farm. This was I talked about this on the show

00:38:55.460 --> 00:39:00.139
over the summer, but this was a documentary series

00:39:00.139 --> 00:39:04.900
following a grand tour slash Top Gear host Jeremy

00:39:04.900 --> 00:39:09.190
Clarkson as he. builds and works on this farm

00:39:09.190 --> 00:39:13.150
he owns in the cults waltz region of the uk or

00:39:13.150 --> 00:39:16.570
england um and it's you know it's him shouting

00:39:16.570 --> 00:39:19.469
at farming machinery and not understanding why

00:39:19.469 --> 00:39:23.349
he cannot go fast and use heavy power to make

00:39:23.349 --> 00:39:26.510
things happen for him because of course that's

00:39:26.510 --> 00:39:30.210
not gonna work um it's hilarious i love it everyone

00:39:30.210 --> 00:39:32.989
gives him shit about buying a lamborghini tractor

00:39:32.989 --> 00:39:36.420
because he only bought it because it's a freaking

00:39:36.420 --> 00:39:39.340
lambo and it's massive and he can't park it in

00:39:39.340 --> 00:39:43.360
his farm barn thing and he makes messes and explodes

00:39:43.360 --> 00:39:46.940
things and then dedicates an entire episode about

00:39:46.940 --> 00:39:49.980
how i'm gonna help the the environment and all

00:39:49.980 --> 00:39:52.039
the local animals and he does some like really

00:39:52.039 --> 00:39:55.219
nice sweet things he tries to build a pond makes

00:39:55.219 --> 00:39:59.250
a mess he tries to build nests for birds makes

00:39:59.250 --> 00:40:03.090
a mess about that um he gets bees he makes honey

00:40:03.090 --> 00:40:05.449
that kind of works out for him although he gets

00:40:05.449 --> 00:40:08.969
stung on the ass um it's great it's it's hilarious

00:40:08.969 --> 00:40:11.349
and if you're already a fan of jeremy clarkson

00:40:11.349 --> 00:40:13.090
from his other work then you're definitely going

00:40:13.090 --> 00:40:16.050
to enjoy this so that's the side on the tag on

00:40:16.050 --> 00:40:19.210
item for honorable mention is the grand tours

00:40:19.210 --> 00:40:23.469
lockdown series that came out um in 2021 as well

00:40:23.469 --> 00:40:25.889
there's a couple episodes that go into it but

00:40:25.889 --> 00:40:28.230
the one that really stuck out to me was i think

00:40:28.230 --> 00:40:31.429
think episode three where they are trying to

00:40:31.429 --> 00:40:34.269
figure out why american muscle cars never caught

00:40:34.269 --> 00:40:39.630
on in um in the uk so they drive cars from the

00:40:39.630 --> 00:40:43.750
1970s uh to nowhere land in i think outside of

00:40:43.750 --> 00:40:47.710
scotland um and at one point one segment they

00:40:47.710 --> 00:40:51.409
uh shit on the pontiac aztec because the the

00:40:51.409 --> 00:40:53.469
challenge is to figure out what is the worst

00:40:53.469 --> 00:40:57.519
car american car ever made um and so they have

00:40:57.519 --> 00:40:59.300
a couple of cars all american they also have

00:40:59.300 --> 00:41:02.440
some uh russian cars and the way to determine

00:41:02.440 --> 00:41:06.380
the worst car is the car that dies the first

00:41:06.380 --> 00:41:08.719
the first car to die and the first car that dies

00:41:08.719 --> 00:41:10.519
is they're bashing it into each other is the

00:41:10.519 --> 00:41:13.719
aztec and i grew up with an aztec my dad loved

00:41:13.719 --> 00:41:16.079
his i loved it i would have inherited that car

00:41:17.070 --> 00:41:21.769
Walter White made it cool. So watching Jeremy,

00:41:21.969 --> 00:41:25.469
Richard, and James just shit on that car was

00:41:25.469 --> 00:41:32.210
so funny. Honorable mention to Lockdown. Andre,

00:41:32.369 --> 00:41:34.869
you got something else for us? Uh, yeah, sure.

00:41:35.030 --> 00:41:37.409
Let's see. I am going to pivot away from video

00:41:37.409 --> 00:41:39.510
games and instead talk about a TV show about

00:41:39.510 --> 00:41:42.530
a video game. Um, arcane, we got to give a shout

00:41:42.530 --> 00:41:46.030
out to Jill and I just finished it, uh, about

00:41:46.030 --> 00:41:49.590
a few days ago. Um, and this is kind of the surprise

00:41:49.590 --> 00:41:51.949
of the year for me. Cause I mean, I had no, I'm

00:41:51.949 --> 00:41:54.030
not a league legends. So yes, we talked about

00:41:54.030 --> 00:41:56.289
it very briefly for a little bit. So, uh, our

00:41:56.289 --> 00:41:58.070
last episode, so I'll keep this short. I'm not

00:41:58.070 --> 00:41:59.849
a league legends guy at all. Had no idea the

00:41:59.849 --> 00:42:01.650
show was a thing until everyone started talking

00:42:01.650 --> 00:42:04.159
about it. And I begrudge. kind of we will we

00:42:04.159 --> 00:42:05.559
kind of want we don't have progression but we're

00:42:05.559 --> 00:42:06.760
like all right cool we should check this out

00:42:06.760 --> 00:42:10.179
and it was great i highly recommend it uh you

00:42:10.179 --> 00:42:11.800
don't need to know anything about league of legends

00:42:11.800 --> 00:42:15.150
beforehand to watch this show um it's just such

00:42:15.150 --> 00:42:18.650
a it's a really well animated you know series

00:42:18.650 --> 00:42:20.829
i guess right not much more else to say about

00:42:20.829 --> 00:42:23.250
it um excited for season two which i've already

00:42:23.250 --> 00:42:25.630
confirmed and it's maybe more invested in the

00:42:25.630 --> 00:42:28.530
league of legends larger universe it's a really

00:42:28.530 --> 00:42:31.150
good commercial for the game i guess it's good

00:42:31.150 --> 00:42:32.750
enough that i was like man i kind of want to

00:42:32.750 --> 00:42:38.179
play league but i haven't yet so we'll uh Highly

00:42:38.179 --> 00:42:39.960
recommend that. You don't need to be into games

00:42:39.960 --> 00:42:41.500
at all. It's just a really well written show

00:42:41.500 --> 00:42:46.619
with fleshed out characters and it's really gorgeous

00:42:46.619 --> 00:42:52.239
to look at too. Two thumbs up. I'm surprised

00:42:52.239 --> 00:42:56.099
you mentioned that so soon. It's really good.

00:42:56.559 --> 00:43:00.599
That's all I'll say right now. Alright. I have

00:43:00.599 --> 00:43:04.219
two honorable mentions and I'll share my number

00:43:04.219 --> 00:43:08.619
four and then The top three after that. How are

00:43:08.619 --> 00:43:11.360
we already at top three for you? How am I so

00:43:11.360 --> 00:43:16.920
behind? I'm sitting at number six. I'm not going

00:43:16.920 --> 00:43:20.099
to have to stop. Literally, what I'm doing is

00:43:20.099 --> 00:43:22.719
revealing three at a time. Catch up if you want

00:43:22.719 --> 00:43:26.579
to. I'll buckle up that. I'm ready. Let's go.

00:43:27.000 --> 00:43:32.440
You first. The two honorable mentions I have

00:43:32.440 --> 00:43:35.929
that are remaining. One is Mortal Kombat because

00:43:35.929 --> 00:43:38.329
I'm so happy that Mortal Kombat is back. And

00:43:38.329 --> 00:43:40.650
I love this one. I thought it was very, very

00:43:40.650 --> 00:43:43.230
good. It was better than the original, which

00:43:43.230 --> 00:43:46.670
I still have a soft spot for the original. Yeah,

00:43:46.869 --> 00:43:51.090
I know. It's probably on your worst list. I don't

00:43:51.090 --> 00:43:53.550
care. It's not on my worst list. Definitely not

00:43:53.550 --> 00:43:56.489
on my worst list. Okay. All right. The other

00:43:56.489 --> 00:43:58.510
one I have on my honorable mention, it did not

00:43:58.510 --> 00:44:02.179
crack the top 10. But it is a return to form

00:44:02.179 --> 00:44:05.960
for a series that I'm glad is there. The Suicide

00:44:05.960 --> 00:44:10.219
Squad. We haven't seen this one yet. Oh, yeah.

00:44:10.239 --> 00:44:13.079
I haven't seen any of it. It is one of the first

00:44:13.079 --> 00:44:16.420
movies we went back to the theaters for, even

00:44:16.420 --> 00:44:19.460
though it was on HBO Max the same day. We decided

00:44:19.460 --> 00:44:24.719
that I decided it. Claire went with me, basically

00:44:24.719 --> 00:44:26.760
said, you know what? I'm just going to go to

00:44:26.760 --> 00:44:28.400
the theaters because this is what I want to see

00:44:28.400 --> 00:44:31.500
in theaters. So the Suicide Squad, much better

00:44:31.500 --> 00:44:35.239
than Suicide Squad. That's not confusing at all.

00:44:35.420 --> 00:44:38.219
Yeah, right. Exactly. James Gunn, of course,

00:44:38.219 --> 00:44:40.760
all the characters are excellent, including the

00:44:40.760 --> 00:44:45.840
new ones. Really enjoyed it. The fact that it's

00:44:45.840 --> 00:44:50.099
a freaking starfish is the main bad. It's incredible.

00:44:51.500 --> 00:44:55.059
And so it didn't crack the top 10, but I'm very

00:44:55.059 --> 00:44:58.130
glad to see it's still alive and kicking. So

00:44:58.130 --> 00:45:00.469
that is the end of my honorable mention list.

00:45:02.130 --> 00:45:04.949
Do I do number four or do I wait for you? Because

00:45:04.949 --> 00:45:07.429
I'm happy to wait. If you're cool waiting, let

00:45:07.429 --> 00:45:11.730
me throw some honorable mentions. This is going

00:45:11.730 --> 00:45:15.090
to be so unorganized. I'm going to start with

00:45:15.090 --> 00:45:17.110
some honorable mentions and then I'll go to numbers

00:45:17.110 --> 00:45:21.050
four and five in my top list. So honorable mentions

00:45:21.050 --> 00:45:24.489
that I want to throw out. Mortal Kombat is one

00:45:24.489 --> 00:45:29.070
of them. I really liked most of Mortal Kombat

00:45:29.070 --> 00:45:33.349
except for the main character. Yes. Fair. Cold

00:45:33.349 --> 00:45:37.269
sucks ass. The big bugaboo here is there's no

00:45:37.269 --> 00:45:39.650
freaking Mortal Kombat in this movie, so it shouldn't

00:45:39.650 --> 00:45:42.550
actually be called Mortal Kombat. There are people

00:45:42.550 --> 00:45:47.559
that died. Mortal Kombat is literally... the

00:45:47.559 --> 00:45:49.699
tournament, and there is no tournament. They're

00:45:49.699 --> 00:45:52.480
training for the tournament. So that's why it

00:45:52.480 --> 00:45:54.340
shouldn't be called Mortal Kombat. It should

00:45:54.340 --> 00:45:56.760
be called something else, and then at the end,

00:45:56.780 --> 00:45:59.280
they hit you with a fist to the face and be like,

00:45:59.380 --> 00:46:02.980
tune in next time for Mortal Kombat. The actual

00:46:02.980 --> 00:46:05.840
tournament. Alright, fine. So Audible mentions

00:46:05.840 --> 00:46:09.880
Mortal Kombat. Another Audible mention is a TV

00:46:09.880 --> 00:46:14.099
series. This is something that Andre and I...

00:46:14.329 --> 00:46:16.349
threw on to watch while we ate dinner and did

00:46:16.349 --> 00:46:18.489
not expect to get very invested and then my god

00:46:18.489 --> 00:46:22.670
did we crime scene kitchen yeah crime scene kitchen

00:46:22.670 --> 00:46:26.150
brought unexpected joy it did yes it was a nice

00:46:26.150 --> 00:46:27.909
it was a fun few months and we were tuning in

00:46:27.909 --> 00:46:31.349
every week you know we enjoy trying to figure

00:46:31.349 --> 00:46:34.789
out the clues ourselves and whether or not we

00:46:34.789 --> 00:46:37.110
would have missed some obvious things like some

00:46:37.110 --> 00:46:39.789
contestants definitely were just not paying attention

00:46:39.789 --> 00:46:43.630
um so those are two honorable mentions and then

00:46:44.820 --> 00:46:51.380
Now we're in the best of list. Number six is...

00:46:51.380 --> 00:46:56.639
If you couldn't tell, she's organizing this on

00:46:56.639 --> 00:46:59.519
the spot. No, I'm just scrolling through. I'm

00:46:59.519 --> 00:47:02.079
going through my list. I'm already trimming out

00:47:02.079 --> 00:47:04.559
stuff because I feel like I have to get to my

00:47:04.559 --> 00:47:09.699
top three. Number six is In the Heights. I love

00:47:09.699 --> 00:47:16.889
a music... music movie music music movie musical

00:47:16.889 --> 00:47:21.329
oh my god it was for you to say not at all you

00:47:21.329 --> 00:47:25.510
can just edit that out i love a post i love a

00:47:25.510 --> 00:47:29.769
movie musical There it is. There it is. Based

00:47:29.769 --> 00:47:32.170
off of Lin -Manuel Miranda's first Tony Award

00:47:32.170 --> 00:47:35.309
winning musical, In the Heights was vibrant,

00:47:35.630 --> 00:47:38.449
well acted, well choreographed. I watched it

00:47:38.449 --> 00:47:40.090
at home. I did not go to the theaters to see

00:47:40.090 --> 00:47:42.510
this. But if you want a film that kind of just

00:47:42.510 --> 00:47:46.360
is summer on the screen. In the Heights is that.

00:47:46.739 --> 00:47:49.820
I really had a great time watching it. I've listened

00:47:49.820 --> 00:47:51.840
to the soundtrack from both the show and the

00:47:51.840 --> 00:47:54.179
movie multiple times. I've done a Peloton ride

00:47:54.179 --> 00:47:57.800
to the music. I didn't realize this was sponsored

00:47:57.800 --> 00:48:01.039
by Peloton. I love my Peloton. Our lives are

00:48:01.039 --> 00:48:03.059
sponsored by Peloton at this point. I love Peloton.

00:48:04.739 --> 00:48:08.039
When I'm on the Peloton, I go into this fugue

00:48:08.039 --> 00:48:10.679
state where I'm just thinking about other things.

00:48:10.820 --> 00:48:15.769
It's wonderful. That's my number six. And then

00:48:15.769 --> 00:48:19.909
number five is a book. We're getting one piece

00:48:19.909 --> 00:48:23.269
of literature on here, and that is Andy Weir's,

00:48:23.389 --> 00:48:25.809
I believe it's his third novel, Project Hail

00:48:25.809 --> 00:48:29.409
Mary. This is the same author who wrote The Martian,

00:48:29.469 --> 00:48:31.949
which was made into a small little movie a couple

00:48:31.949 --> 00:48:34.869
years ago with a no -name actor named Matt Damon.

00:48:35.869 --> 00:48:39.429
Maybe you've heard of him. Project Hail Mary,

00:48:39.650 --> 00:48:42.809
I would say, is not as good personally as The

00:48:42.809 --> 00:48:45.510
Martian, both the book and the movie, but I really

00:48:45.510 --> 00:48:49.280
enjoyed reading it. I don't want there's a lot

00:48:49.280 --> 00:48:51.400
going on in it, so I don't want to spoil too

00:48:51.400 --> 00:48:54.679
much. But the basic premise is an astronaut wakes

00:48:54.679 --> 00:48:58.079
up on a ship, but he doesn't remember why he's

00:48:58.079 --> 00:49:00.079
there, doesn't know what he's supposed to do

00:49:00.079 --> 00:49:03.800
or even how he got there. And the book is him

00:49:03.800 --> 00:49:06.760
remembering the situations that brought him to

00:49:06.760 --> 00:49:09.920
this moment and then what he has to do. after

00:49:09.920 --> 00:49:12.920
what the actual mission is um and i found it

00:49:12.920 --> 00:49:15.320
to be a really great read and i'm happy i got

00:49:15.320 --> 00:49:17.119
a copy from the library so if you don't feel

00:49:17.119 --> 00:49:19.559
like buying a book use your local library library

00:49:19.559 --> 00:49:23.659
yeah so those are now we're caught up okay so

00:49:23.659 --> 00:49:25.960
we're caught okay i gotta rattle off some honorable

00:49:25.960 --> 00:49:27.760
mentions then these are going to be mostly games

00:49:27.760 --> 00:49:30.079
but whatever um honorable mentions to a gretzico

00:49:30.079 --> 00:49:32.900
season Four that we're on. We're about to finish

00:49:32.900 --> 00:49:36.199
it out now. I highly recommend Regrets Go. It's

00:49:36.199 --> 00:49:39.739
Hello Kitty meets an office office space. It's

00:49:39.739 --> 00:49:43.519
so good. It's on. Mike is very confused. It's

00:49:43.519 --> 00:49:46.019
a it's a long running anime series. Netflix has

00:49:46.019 --> 00:49:48.559
it. I think I know it, but I've talked about

00:49:48.559 --> 00:49:51.440
it before. It's Hello Kitty plus office space.

00:49:51.599 --> 00:49:53.539
That's an interesting combination. So Hello Kitty

00:49:53.539 --> 00:49:58.360
herself is not a red panda. Yeah. Yeah. It's

00:49:58.360 --> 00:50:00.530
done by the studio who makes Hello Kitty. Right.

00:50:00.590 --> 00:50:02.289
So it's in that it's very much in that vein,

00:50:02.389 --> 00:50:05.329
all talking animals. But it's it's an adult office

00:50:05.329 --> 00:50:07.210
comedy instead of whatever the heck a little

00:50:07.210 --> 00:50:08.469
kitty is. I actually don't watch Hello Kitty.

00:50:08.570 --> 00:50:12.550
So little girl that wears a kitty outfit. Yes.

00:50:12.829 --> 00:50:16.030
Yeah. Shin Megami Tensei five. We talked about

00:50:16.030 --> 00:50:19.329
it, I think, last couple of weeks ago. But that's

00:50:19.329 --> 00:50:24.010
been great. Let's see. Ratchet and Clank on Ratchet

00:50:24.010 --> 00:50:28.599
and Clank. Rift Apart was a fantastic game. Also,

00:50:28.659 --> 00:50:31.159
I recommend whenever you get your PS5 to just

00:50:31.159 --> 00:50:33.579
check that out. It's basically like a playable

00:50:33.579 --> 00:50:35.539
Pixar movie at this point. It's insane. I was

00:50:35.539 --> 00:50:37.599
giving shit to Peloton, but really we're sponsored

00:50:37.599 --> 00:50:39.420
by PS5. We're sponsored by Sony PlayStation.

00:50:39.460 --> 00:50:43.019
Peloton and PS. Notice I'm talking about all

00:50:43.019 --> 00:50:45.380
these to get through that when really Sony would

00:50:45.380 --> 00:50:47.679
definitely not pay me to talk about one of my

00:50:47.679 --> 00:50:52.369
top. four things um and then death store um is

00:50:52.369 --> 00:50:54.570
a small is an indie game it's kind of like a

00:50:54.570 --> 00:50:57.889
zelda uh dark souls kind of kind of game you

00:50:57.889 --> 00:51:01.050
play as a cute little uh a cute little raven

00:51:01.050 --> 00:51:03.869
that has a little sword and a bow and your whole

00:51:03.869 --> 00:51:07.769
it's it's it's uh isometric it's it's a fun little

00:51:07.769 --> 00:51:10.869
zelda zelda game um with really fun characters

00:51:10.869 --> 00:51:13.610
and really great music uh highly recommend just

00:51:13.610 --> 00:51:17.070
a fun little experience um okay we got to talk

00:51:17.070 --> 00:51:22.260
about Dune, guys. Did you watch Dune, Mike? Nope.

00:51:24.899 --> 00:51:27.099
Well, we can't be friends anymore. Well, right.

00:51:27.239 --> 00:51:28.639
Well, now I kind of just like, well, what do

00:51:28.639 --> 00:51:30.440
I say? He just took the wins out of his stale.

00:51:30.500 --> 00:51:33.639
I know. So, I mean, it tells you how much, how

00:51:33.639 --> 00:51:35.780
excited I was for this movie. I'm a Denny Villeneuve.

00:51:35.780 --> 00:51:37.760
It tells you how little I was excited about this

00:51:37.760 --> 00:51:41.099
movie. So I haven't read the books. I have not

00:51:41.099 --> 00:51:43.719
read any single page of the Dune series, but

00:51:43.719 --> 00:51:46.820
I am a Denny Villeneuve stan, okay? Blade Runner

00:51:46.820 --> 00:51:50.000
2049 is one of my favorite movies ever. And I

00:51:50.000 --> 00:51:51.880
mean, the guy, like this guy just doesn't miss,

00:51:52.019 --> 00:51:54.820
honestly. He hasn't put out a bit of movie. don't

00:51:54.820 --> 00:51:59.480
like. Go ahead and spoil it. What's that? Go

00:51:59.480 --> 00:52:03.420
ahead and spoil it. There's not much to spoil.

00:52:03.719 --> 00:52:06.320
I say one of the weaker parts of this movie is

00:52:06.320 --> 00:52:08.900
the narrative itself, which sounds damning, but

00:52:08.900 --> 00:52:11.579
if I just gave you a Wikipedia summary of the

00:52:11.579 --> 00:52:12.840
things that happened in this movie... This is

00:52:12.840 --> 00:52:16.500
on your top list? This is on your top list? Yeah,

00:52:16.500 --> 00:52:19.199
this is on my top list. Get your damn in the

00:52:19.199 --> 00:52:21.800
story. Well, no, the story is not bad. Danny

00:52:21.800 --> 00:52:24.579
didn't write the story. Well, that and then also

00:52:24.579 --> 00:52:27.820
like. All I'm saying is that if I gave you a

00:52:27.820 --> 00:52:30.579
Wikipedia summary of the things that happens

00:52:30.579 --> 00:52:33.360
in the plot of this movie, this specific movie,

00:52:33.440 --> 00:52:35.019
because it is just the first half of the book,

00:52:35.179 --> 00:52:38.599
you'd be like, okay, sure, whatever. But it is

00:52:38.599 --> 00:52:42.760
an audio -visual experience, my guy. We went

00:52:42.760 --> 00:52:45.679
to go see this in IMAX. It was awesome. I would

00:52:45.679 --> 00:52:47.079
actually say what more important part is the

00:52:47.079 --> 00:52:49.699
audio. If you ever watch this movie, I would

00:52:49.699 --> 00:52:51.480
say put on headphones or watch it with a good

00:52:51.480 --> 00:52:54.510
sound system or something. because the sound

00:52:54.510 --> 00:52:59.110
is just, oh, like Denny has, so he just knows

00:52:59.110 --> 00:53:04.429
how to give the viewer a sense of scale for all

00:53:04.429 --> 00:53:07.590
of these crazy giant ass sci -fi ships, these

00:53:07.590 --> 00:53:11.769
battles, the giant sandworm. Oh my God. It really,

00:53:11.769 --> 00:53:13.429
he really does a good job of pulling you into

00:53:13.429 --> 00:53:15.469
this world of Arrakis and making you feel like

00:53:15.469 --> 00:53:19.010
you are there. in a new in a different sci -fi

00:53:19.010 --> 00:53:21.650
reality almost right all like all these characters

00:53:21.650 --> 00:53:23.710
all these political this political intrigue it

00:53:23.710 --> 00:53:26.550
just draws you in and he just knows exactly how

00:53:26.550 --> 00:53:30.030
to frame a scene to just make you want to watch

00:53:30.030 --> 00:53:32.690
more on the edge of your seat i love this movie

00:53:32.690 --> 00:53:36.090
it was a visual masterpiece i am so pumped that

00:53:36.090 --> 00:53:39.630
they are making a second one and potentially

00:53:39.630 --> 00:53:41.849
more because it would be it would be significantly

00:53:41.849 --> 00:53:45.039
harder to recommend If we didn't like we watch

00:53:45.039 --> 00:53:46.860
this knowing there is going to be a follow up.

00:53:46.880 --> 00:53:50.159
Right. And the movie opens with Dune part one.

00:53:50.539 --> 00:53:53.460
Right. If they didn't get a part two, that would

00:53:53.460 --> 00:53:55.219
simply put a damper on things because this kind

00:53:55.219 --> 00:53:57.599
of this movie ends right as the story is kind

00:53:57.599 --> 00:54:01.159
of ramping up. Right. And yeah, I mean, honestly,

00:54:01.239 --> 00:54:03.699
just. everybody it's a star -studded cast and

00:54:03.699 --> 00:54:05.780
they're all bought in you know like no one's

00:54:05.780 --> 00:54:08.340
phoning it in even timothy chalamet's not not

00:54:08.340 --> 00:54:10.780
not phoning it and i think he's fine i just don't

00:54:10.780 --> 00:54:12.559
think paul atreides is very interesting as a

00:54:12.559 --> 00:54:14.659
character he's not written he's not written to

00:54:14.659 --> 00:54:17.360
be interesting exactly right um so it's not his

00:54:17.360 --> 00:54:21.199
fault i guess but um yeah i mean i just i loved

00:54:21.199 --> 00:54:22.559
the way this movie looks i love this way this

00:54:22.559 --> 00:54:25.239
movie sounds um and it just it definitely serves

00:54:25.239 --> 00:54:28.539
being on the big screen with a really great sound

00:54:28.539 --> 00:54:31.659
system. So it's one of my favorite experiences

00:54:31.659 --> 00:54:34.380
of this year and I will equally enjoy it again.

00:54:34.519 --> 00:54:36.800
And, and probably the plan is I'm going to read

00:54:36.800 --> 00:54:39.360
the book next year, the full first book, and

00:54:39.360 --> 00:54:42.579
then the Dune two or whatever Dune part two is

00:54:42.579 --> 00:54:45.860
set for 2023 at this point. So, yeah. You're

00:54:45.860 --> 00:54:48.519
better than me. I planned on reading a book a

00:54:48.519 --> 00:54:50.539
month this year. Guess how many books I got done

00:54:50.539 --> 00:54:56.940
this year. One. Do you want some book recommendations?

00:54:57.920 --> 00:55:00.400
2021 was the year I rediscovered reading. I just

00:55:00.400 --> 00:55:02.920
don't read. I don't know how to read either,

00:55:02.980 --> 00:55:05.039
man. You just got to find the thing that like,

00:55:05.079 --> 00:55:07.539
you know, try Project Hail Mary. It was very

00:55:07.539 --> 00:55:13.739
good. All right. All right. I'm going to do four

00:55:13.739 --> 00:55:17.099
and three. Okay. Four and three on my list. Top

00:55:17.099 --> 00:55:21.650
10. Summer of Soul, number four. which was to

00:55:21.650 --> 00:55:24.929
see that i wanted to yeah it's so recommend it

00:55:24.929 --> 00:55:30.610
it's um the uh harlem culture festival it is

00:55:30.610 --> 00:55:34.250
the unaired footage that was basically hidden

00:55:34.250 --> 00:55:37.030
away forever questlove got his hands on it he

00:55:37.030 --> 00:55:40.110
directed it majority of it's just a concert of

00:55:40.110 --> 00:55:44.010
just music that you can just groove to sure uh

00:55:44.010 --> 00:55:47.610
the rest is social commentary on the time And

00:55:47.610 --> 00:55:49.630
one of the lines that still sticks with me today

00:55:49.630 --> 00:55:52.210
that I hope you guys will watch it and enjoy.

00:55:53.349 --> 00:55:56.309
They asked people at this festival, because it

00:55:56.309 --> 00:55:58.070
was right around the time of the moon landing,

00:55:58.289 --> 00:56:01.090
how do you feel about the moon landing? And the

00:56:01.090 --> 00:56:04.610
one guy goes, why do I care about rich people

00:56:04.610 --> 00:56:07.960
going to space? We've got problems here. It still

00:56:07.960 --> 00:56:11.480
resonates today, especially with Elon Musk flying

00:56:11.480 --> 00:56:13.920
Michael Strahan to space for no reason other

00:56:13.920 --> 00:56:16.880
than he can say he went to space and blah, blah,

00:56:16.920 --> 00:56:20.840
blah. It's such a good line. Such a good movie.

00:56:21.360 --> 00:56:24.199
Highly recommend. And number three, we didn't

00:56:24.199 --> 00:56:26.199
really get the chance to talk to it about it

00:56:26.199 --> 00:56:27.980
because you guys still haven't seen it. I don't

00:56:27.980 --> 00:56:32.150
think, but it's TV show. Squid Game. Yes. We

00:56:32.150 --> 00:56:37.829
have not seen it. Squid Game is so good. It is

00:56:37.829 --> 00:56:40.849
my caveat for this list. I said that I had a

00:56:40.849 --> 00:56:43.750
caveat for it. Technically speaking, it came

00:56:43.750 --> 00:56:46.190
out in 2020, but it didn't come to the States

00:56:46.190 --> 00:56:50.150
until 2021. Okay, got it. Right. I mean, there's

00:56:50.150 --> 00:56:53.190
no way of, yeah. America at large experienced

00:56:53.190 --> 00:56:55.769
this show in 2021, right? Exactly. It became

00:56:55.769 --> 00:56:58.230
a phenomenon in America in 2021. So I think it

00:56:58.230 --> 00:57:01.949
counts. Highly recommend it. It is outstanding.

00:57:02.329 --> 00:57:04.829
I'm surprised you guys still have avoided spoilers

00:57:04.829 --> 00:57:08.070
because I feel like it's everywhere now. But

00:57:08.070 --> 00:57:12.389
Squid Game is excellent. Highly recommend. If

00:57:12.389 --> 00:57:15.710
you haven't seen it yet, watch it with subtitles.

00:57:16.070 --> 00:57:18.789
Do not watch it dubbed. It annoyed me dubbed.

00:57:19.010 --> 00:57:21.230
And I didn't realize I had it first originally

00:57:21.230 --> 00:57:23.690
dubbed. But I went back to subtitles. Highly

00:57:23.690 --> 00:57:27.079
recommend it. You just need to read it. It's

00:57:27.079 --> 00:57:31.179
a thin little line. That's it. So yeah, that's

00:57:31.179 --> 00:57:35.440
my soapbox for that. Yeah. Cool. All right. I

00:57:35.440 --> 00:57:41.340
will do my four and three. Yeah, definitely four

00:57:41.340 --> 00:57:43.099
and three, but some more honorable mentions.

00:57:43.239 --> 00:57:48.159
Hooray. So some honorable mentions that I have

00:57:48.159 --> 00:57:50.860
things I enjoyed. Muppets Haunted Mansion. I

00:57:50.860 --> 00:57:53.119
talked about this on a Halloween podcast that

00:57:53.119 --> 00:57:56.670
we did. So fun. And Will Arnett is so great to

00:57:56.670 --> 00:57:59.389
see, even though he cannot sing. I'm sorry, Will.

00:58:00.230 --> 00:58:03.090
Don't become a singer. He just got a role in

00:58:03.090 --> 00:58:06.130
a movie replacing Armie Hammer. He did? I thought

00:58:06.130 --> 00:58:07.989
that was somebody else. Oh, yes. No, that's Will

00:58:07.989 --> 00:58:11.329
Arnett. No, no, no, no, no. Good for you, Will.

00:58:12.050 --> 00:58:14.789
Replacing Armie Hammer in a Taika Waititi film

00:58:14.789 --> 00:58:18.110
because, you know, Armie Hammer is a cannibal.

00:58:18.269 --> 00:58:20.630
Yeah. Next goal wins. That's the movie. Next

00:58:20.630 --> 00:58:23.150
goal wins. That's it. Yeah. Well, this actually

00:58:23.150 --> 00:58:24.789
is a really nice segue into another honorable

00:58:24.789 --> 00:58:26.610
mention, which is actually for another podcast

00:58:26.610 --> 00:58:30.949
with Will Arnett. It's Smart List. Will Arnett,

00:58:31.210 --> 00:58:34.989
Sean Hayes, and Jason Bateman. Just three friends

00:58:34.989 --> 00:58:37.610
talking to other celebrity friends of theirs

00:58:37.610 --> 00:58:41.690
or gushing over their own superstar crushes,

00:58:41.690 --> 00:58:44.889
which include Ken Burns. If you have not heard

00:58:44.889 --> 00:58:47.449
of this podcast, it's fantastic. There are quite

00:58:47.449 --> 00:58:49.409
a few commercials, but you can just skip right

00:58:49.409 --> 00:58:51.610
through them. Don't say that. You're not allowed

00:58:51.610 --> 00:58:54.309
to say that. Don't say that. I did. We have commercials.

00:58:54.670 --> 00:58:57.690
Don't do it. Yeah, what the fuck? Get us money.

00:58:58.130 --> 00:59:02.070
Arliss just has so many of them. It's like five

00:59:02.070 --> 00:59:03.469
minutes. They're loaded up. They're loaded up.

00:59:03.489 --> 00:59:05.650
They're loaded up, but it's a really great listen.

00:59:06.130 --> 00:59:08.650
This one might be loaded up too. Yeah, right.

00:59:08.730 --> 00:59:11.550
I was about to say, we shouldn't be complaining

00:59:11.550 --> 00:59:13.429
about buying us lots of commercials. Well, I

00:59:13.429 --> 00:59:17.349
did it anyway. Okay. And then the final honorable

00:59:17.349 --> 00:59:24.469
mention is Luca. yes gorgeous pixar film loved

00:59:24.469 --> 00:59:27.010
the story loved the characters i want to live

00:59:27.010 --> 00:59:29.469
in this fictional slice of italy that they have

00:59:29.469 --> 00:59:33.130
created um also a really great example if you

00:59:33.130 --> 00:59:36.329
just want like summer in a film luca's got it

00:59:36.329 --> 00:59:40.110
for you as for my number four and five um number

00:59:40.110 --> 00:59:43.510
no four and three number four is a documentary

00:59:43.510 --> 00:59:46.869
that recently came on to hbo max it's street

00:59:46.869 --> 00:59:49.630
gang how we got to sesame street which is actually

00:59:49.630 --> 00:59:52.030
based on a book i read a couple years ago and

00:59:52.030 --> 00:59:54.590
if the name doesn't check that out yeah the name

00:59:54.590 --> 00:59:56.949
doesn't uh give it away it is about the creation

00:59:56.949 --> 01:00:01.389
of sesame street in 1969 and how it's continued

01:00:01.389 --> 01:00:05.360
on with its legacy and what it did which that

01:00:05.360 --> 01:00:08.599
was so innovative at the time and what it continues

01:00:08.599 --> 01:00:12.280
to do. Everybody knows I love puppets. So of

01:00:12.280 --> 01:00:16.539
course I had to catch this. And then number three

01:00:16.539 --> 01:00:19.239
is, I guess, slightly cheating because we haven't

01:00:19.239 --> 01:00:23.590
finished it, but. It's Peter Jackson's Get Back

01:00:23.590 --> 01:00:27.630
three -part documentary on the Beatles when they

01:00:27.630 --> 01:00:30.929
came together to record the album that would

01:00:30.929 --> 01:00:34.489
become Let It Be. And then later they will record

01:00:34.489 --> 01:00:37.369
what will become Abbey Road. I'm a Beatles fan.

01:00:37.610 --> 01:00:40.909
Really enjoyed the first, saw all part one, saw

01:00:40.909 --> 01:00:43.989
half of part two. It's really fantastic. If you

01:00:43.989 --> 01:00:46.269
are a Beatles fan, this is a must watch. If you

01:00:46.269 --> 01:00:49.050
are curious about the Beatles, you're going to

01:00:49.050 --> 01:00:51.050
watch some really great moments where they create

01:00:51.050 --> 01:00:53.030
songs that are going to become some of the best

01:00:53.030 --> 01:00:55.250
things they've ever written. There is some parts

01:00:55.250 --> 01:00:57.210
where it's like they're just kind of fiddle faddling

01:00:57.210 --> 01:01:01.969
around and having fun. But it really turns what

01:01:01.969 --> 01:01:04.550
we thought we knew about this period in the Beatles

01:01:04.550 --> 01:01:09.110
era around on its head. There was a documentary

01:01:09.110 --> 01:01:13.429
called Let It Be. or yeah let it be that really

01:01:13.429 --> 01:01:17.110
it twisted what the narrative actually is so

01:01:17.110 --> 01:01:20.329
this kind of sets a straighter story um and you

01:01:20.329 --> 01:01:22.289
know yoko didn't deserve all that hate who knew

01:01:22.289 --> 01:01:28.409
who knew it wasn't it wasn't just yoko nope i

01:01:28.409 --> 01:01:32.269
mean yoko but not really all right who's who's

01:01:32.269 --> 01:01:36.130
up you it would be you okay all right cool cool

01:01:36.130 --> 01:01:38.909
all right so this is a shout out this is this

01:01:38.909 --> 01:01:40.269
is not an honorable mention this is probably

01:01:40.269 --> 01:01:42.869
actually one of my top five maybe even top three

01:01:42.869 --> 01:01:46.650
um but we had a whole episode for my part of

01:01:46.650 --> 01:01:48.130
it already and that's the green knight this is

01:01:48.130 --> 01:01:50.809
probably this is probably my favorite movie i

01:01:50.809 --> 01:01:53.449
watched this year i'm not gonna lie um and i'm

01:01:53.449 --> 01:01:56.110
not gonna expand on it too much because i kind

01:01:56.110 --> 01:01:58.989
of hold to what i said in our previous podcast

01:01:58.989 --> 01:02:00.889
where we spent i probably spent like 20 -ish

01:02:00.889 --> 01:02:02.960
minutes talking about it but Yeah, I'm still

01:02:02.960 --> 01:02:04.480
thinking about it. I need to watch it again.

01:02:05.679 --> 01:02:09.239
This is definitely it's probably because I wasn't

01:02:09.239 --> 01:02:11.059
anticipating it, if that makes sense. Right.

01:02:11.119 --> 01:02:14.019
Like Dune, I knew I was going to like, you know,

01:02:14.019 --> 01:02:16.260
and I mean, even the Spider -Man, which will

01:02:16.260 --> 01:02:18.099
come up in a little bit. I knew I was going to

01:02:18.099 --> 01:02:21.679
like this. This is definitely a different movie

01:02:21.679 --> 01:02:25.500
than what I'm used to watching. But it really

01:02:25.500 --> 01:02:27.760
drew me in. I'm still thinking about it. And

01:02:27.760 --> 01:02:31.389
it's yeah, I want it. it's such a fascinating

01:02:31.389 --> 01:02:36.429
take on this old medieval tale, right? Gotta,

01:02:36.469 --> 01:02:39.030
I want to rewatch it again. So yeah. Shout out

01:02:39.030 --> 01:02:46.789
screen night. Hell yeah. Let's see. Hell yeah.

01:02:47.630 --> 01:02:51.289
Okay. So probably my second favorite game that

01:02:51.289 --> 01:02:52.949
I've played this year. I don't know. It's tough

01:02:52.949 --> 01:02:55.909
to say top three game for sure. um it's halo

01:02:55.909 --> 01:02:58.809
infinite um i was shocked by how much that's

01:02:58.809 --> 01:03:00.809
impressive since you only recently really got

01:03:00.809 --> 01:03:03.510
i know and that's that's why i'm like qualifying

01:03:03.510 --> 01:03:05.289
it because it's definitely recency biased this

01:03:05.289 --> 01:03:07.530
game and it's multiplayer came out only a month

01:03:07.530 --> 01:03:11.889
ago so pretty late into 2020 right 2021, yes.

01:03:12.130 --> 01:03:14.630
And I wasn't even really all that excited for

01:03:14.630 --> 01:03:16.289
it. It wasn't like I was like, oh, man, Halo's

01:03:16.289 --> 01:03:17.590
going to come out. I'm going to be so pumped

01:03:17.590 --> 01:03:20.070
for it. They shadow dropped the multiplayer,

01:03:20.369 --> 01:03:22.230
you know, three weeks early. And I was like,

01:03:22.289 --> 01:03:24.769
sure, yeah, it's free. I'll download it. And,

01:03:24.789 --> 01:03:27.090
you know, that scene in Ratatouille where Ego

01:03:27.090 --> 01:03:29.670
has, is that the critic's name? Yeah, it's Ego.

01:03:30.329 --> 01:03:33.630
And he gets instantly transported back to his

01:03:33.630 --> 01:03:36.039
childhood. That was me playing Halo Infinite.

01:03:36.219 --> 01:03:39.000
I immediately felt like it was 2007 again, and

01:03:39.000 --> 01:03:42.500
I was booting up Halo 3 for the first time, and

01:03:42.500 --> 01:03:44.739
I just felt right back into it. I had been addicted

01:03:44.739 --> 01:03:47.340
to this multiplayer for weeks, still can attest.

01:03:48.800 --> 01:03:50.579
And I'm just chewing through the campaign now.

01:03:50.679 --> 01:03:52.260
And there are, I have issues with it. I have

01:03:52.260 --> 01:03:55.119
qualms with it, but this is the first time I

01:03:55.119 --> 01:03:58.159
felt like I've really enjoyed a Halo game since

01:03:58.159 --> 01:04:01.039
Halo Reach. And like, what, that was like 2010.

01:04:01.539 --> 01:04:04.840
And it's just, it's comfort food for me. It's

01:04:04.840 --> 01:04:08.480
video game comfort food. The game, the Halo,

01:04:08.539 --> 01:04:11.119
it's on PC and Xbox. If you have access to it,

01:04:11.139 --> 01:04:13.079
the multiplayer is free to play. It's so easy

01:04:13.079 --> 01:04:16.059
to recommend that. Sony's at your door. they're

01:04:16.059 --> 01:04:18.760
i know right now they're pulling my my shadow

01:04:18.760 --> 01:04:24.139
sponsor now yeah right and uh it it really does

01:04:24.139 --> 01:04:27.000
feel like a great return to form i think the

01:04:27.000 --> 01:04:29.619
actual narrative of the the campaign so far seems

01:04:29.619 --> 01:04:33.579
kind of weak but and and the whole campaign is

01:04:33.579 --> 01:04:36.400
open world quote unquote now but the world itself

01:04:36.400 --> 01:04:38.300
is a little smaller than you think so it's not

01:04:38.300 --> 01:04:39.940
like hey like people were like oh it's like halo

01:04:39.940 --> 01:04:42.380
meets zelda breath of the wild i'm like no it's

01:04:42.380 --> 01:04:46.059
it's not that but it's still it's still a really

01:04:46.059 --> 01:04:49.880
they 343 industries finally nailed the halo the

01:04:49.880 --> 01:04:53.840
32nd gameplay loop the fun gameplay loop of just

01:04:53.840 --> 01:04:55.880
going around shooting aliens picking up power

01:04:55.880 --> 01:05:00.380
weapons and wreaking havoc um and it's it it

01:05:00.380 --> 01:05:03.179
feels good to be playing a good halo game again

01:05:03.179 --> 01:05:06.760
so that's good to hear my big entry in the top

01:05:06.760 --> 01:05:10.429
three probably yep okay All right. I'm going

01:05:10.429 --> 01:05:12.030
to do my number two and then we'll go around

01:05:12.030 --> 01:05:14.429
and do our number one. Well, I'll do our number

01:05:14.429 --> 01:05:16.190
two and then we'll do our number one. I still

01:05:16.190 --> 01:05:18.849
have to do my number three. No, I did four and

01:05:18.849 --> 01:05:20.789
five. Five and four. You did four and three.

01:05:21.130 --> 01:05:24.050
I thought I did five. What was my five? I don't

01:05:24.050 --> 01:05:26.610
know. Okay. Well, I'll say a third. I'll say

01:05:26.610 --> 01:05:29.849
an extra thing just to be thorough. Okay. My

01:05:29.849 --> 01:05:32.170
number two, because it's no surprise what my

01:05:32.170 --> 01:05:35.880
number one is. My number two. is spider -man

01:05:35.880 --> 01:05:39.179
no way home and that's my number three so we're

01:05:39.179 --> 01:05:42.679
overlapping let's go yeah i thought you had your

01:05:42.679 --> 01:05:46.199
three already too no he's not even counting i

01:05:46.199 --> 01:05:48.500
don't even know i kept it i kept spider -man

01:05:48.500 --> 01:05:49.679
for last because i thought you were going to

01:05:49.679 --> 01:05:52.019
bring it up later so i didn't i was like i was

01:05:52.019 --> 01:05:53.699
just going through my list checking stuff off

01:05:53.699 --> 01:05:55.420
and i was like okay release spider -man open

01:05:55.420 --> 01:05:57.360
in case mike wants to bring it up later so spider

01:05:57.360 --> 01:06:00.239
-man is in my top spider -man is in my top three

01:06:00.239 --> 01:06:03.940
the spider -man spider -man no way home is number

01:06:03.940 --> 01:06:07.500
two for me okay so at the top are we spoiling

01:06:07.500 --> 01:06:09.239
this i don't know if there's a way to talk about

01:06:09.239 --> 01:06:12.519
this not spoiling it go ahead No, no, no. I mean,

01:06:12.559 --> 01:06:14.760
like, like, like, I want to. I think that's an

01:06:14.760 --> 01:06:16.699
OK to go ahead to spoil it. We're going to spoil

01:06:16.699 --> 01:06:18.519
it. Well, I'm just warning. Dive right in, baby.

01:06:18.860 --> 01:06:20.019
Dive right in. We're going to warn everybody.

01:06:20.159 --> 01:06:22.380
We're going to warn everybody. I mean, at this

01:06:22.380 --> 01:06:24.739
point. It's the best of the year list. They're

01:06:24.739 --> 01:06:27.659
spoilers, y 'all. Yeah, OK. You knew what you

01:06:27.659 --> 01:06:29.699
were getting into when you clicked this. OK,

01:06:29.699 --> 01:06:31.519
fine. All right. You pretty much knew what you

01:06:31.519 --> 01:06:33.380
were getting into when you saw this movie because

01:06:33.380 --> 01:06:36.570
you knew. what was a possibility. Yes. Right.

01:06:36.710 --> 01:06:38.750
The very obvious. If you have any imagination,

01:06:38.869 --> 01:06:42.230
you probably know what happened. Yes. Getting

01:06:42.230 --> 01:06:45.230
the band back together again. This is absolutely

01:06:45.230 --> 01:06:48.869
Spider -Man end game, you know, and I'm here

01:06:48.869 --> 01:06:51.670
for it. I really enjoyed it. Into the Spider

01:06:51.670 --> 01:06:55.030
-Verse, but live action. Yeah. So the rumor is

01:06:55.030 --> 01:06:58.050
that Tobey Maguire is in Multiverse of Madness,

01:06:58.150 --> 01:07:01.210
and I really hope not. What about Andrew Garfield?

01:07:01.429 --> 01:07:03.809
He was the more entertaining Spider -Man. I feel

01:07:03.809 --> 01:07:05.369
like the rumor that started is because it's Sam

01:07:05.369 --> 01:07:07.949
Raimi, right? So it's like, of course, they're

01:07:07.949 --> 01:07:09.949
playing to the idea of like, yeah, come back

01:07:09.949 --> 01:07:12.349
and be in my movie, my MCU movie. And Bruce Campbell's

01:07:12.349 --> 01:07:13.909
supposed to be in it. He better be in it. That

01:07:13.909 --> 01:07:15.670
would be great. I want Bruce Campbell. I would

01:07:15.670 --> 01:07:17.510
hope that Bruce Campbell would be in it because

01:07:17.510 --> 01:07:19.409
of Sam Raimi and everything like that, but I

01:07:19.409 --> 01:07:23.030
just don't know. Don't know. Yeah, because there's

01:07:23.030 --> 01:07:25.250
so much stuff with this one that is now laid

01:07:25.250 --> 01:07:29.400
out for you, kind of. I don't know. there's a

01:07:29.400 --> 01:07:31.440
lot that has to be covered in this movie and

01:07:31.440 --> 01:07:34.360
to try to get a bruce campbell cameo i mean you

01:07:34.360 --> 01:07:37.300
could do it you could pull it off but it's a

01:07:37.300 --> 01:07:39.980
lot all right so we're talking about multiverse

01:07:39.980 --> 01:07:42.380
of madness let's talk about let's talk about

01:07:42.380 --> 01:07:46.239
yeah um i'm glad to see the spider -man back

01:07:46.239 --> 01:07:49.340
together yeah Andrew Garfield, Tobey Maguire,

01:07:49.440 --> 01:07:53.820
all of them. The Garfield redemption arc. Oh,

01:07:53.820 --> 01:07:55.739
it definitely was the Garfield redemption movie.

01:07:55.940 --> 01:07:57.800
Not that I've seen Amazing Spider -Man 1 and

01:07:57.800 --> 01:08:01.119
2. Oh, boy. We're planning on watching. What's

01:08:01.119 --> 01:08:03.590
that? I don't think he needs redemption. I think

01:08:03.590 --> 01:08:06.090
the movies need redemption, but Andrew Garfield

01:08:06.090 --> 01:08:09.389
doesn't need redemption. He needs a hug. That's

01:08:09.389 --> 01:08:12.170
what that means. He needs to be told it's not

01:08:12.170 --> 01:08:15.610
his fault. It's okay. Because clearly no one's

01:08:15.610 --> 01:08:18.390
telling him that. I loved Andrew Garfield. I

01:08:18.390 --> 01:08:20.310
thought he was great as Spider -Man, even though

01:08:20.310 --> 01:08:23.470
the movies sucked. My umbrage with the first

01:08:23.470 --> 01:08:25.369
one, and I don't think he played it poorly, I

01:08:25.369 --> 01:08:26.770
just think it was the way it was written, is

01:08:26.770 --> 01:08:29.689
that his his his peter parker is too cool for

01:08:29.689 --> 01:08:31.630
school for me in the first one i think it's closer

01:08:31.630 --> 01:08:34.710
i think once we see him in amazing spider -man

01:08:34.710 --> 01:08:36.970
2 where he's the more seasoned peter parker that

01:08:36.970 --> 01:08:38.930
makes a little more sense but in seat in in the

01:08:38.930 --> 01:08:40.949
first movie i didn't like his peter parker as

01:08:40.949 --> 01:08:44.090
much you know fair you know and he was cool acted

01:08:44.090 --> 01:08:47.390
you know no well exactly that's what i'm saying

01:08:47.390 --> 01:08:50.970
is it's the writing so yes again i think andrew

01:08:50.970 --> 01:08:53.949
garfield did fine yeah um the villains were great

01:08:54.409 --> 01:08:57.189
um the fact that alfred molina even said that

01:08:57.189 --> 01:08:59.470
he just did this for a paycheck he still was

01:08:59.470 --> 01:09:00.930
one of my favorite parts of this whole thing

01:09:00.930 --> 01:09:06.550
um yeah i need to address something on the podcast

01:09:06.550 --> 01:09:11.750
what episode two of the podcast we're going way

01:09:11.750 --> 01:09:14.810
back all right i wasn't even around this is yes

01:09:14.810 --> 01:09:20.310
this is pre -jill wow i said andre do you remember

01:09:20.310 --> 01:09:23.729
life before me i was about to say wow i was single

01:09:23.729 --> 01:09:26.729
and ready to mingle back then huh wow wow anyways

01:09:26.729 --> 01:09:30.550
this is pretty chill i said after seeing aquaman

01:09:30.550 --> 01:09:35.489
that willem dafoe needed to stop acting oh no

01:09:35.489 --> 01:09:38.250
wow that must have been before you saw lighthouse

01:09:38.250 --> 01:09:40.510
too yes right that was before lighthouse came

01:09:40.510 --> 01:09:44.550
out too yes because in aquaman he was just hokey

01:09:44.550 --> 01:09:48.869
and over the top and annoying I take it all back.

01:09:49.710 --> 01:09:54.210
Forgive me, Willem. Forgive me, Willem Dafoe.

01:09:54.430 --> 01:09:57.670
He fucking nailed it, man. And it's clear that

01:09:57.670 --> 01:10:00.090
he's having such a blast playing that role again.

01:10:00.189 --> 01:10:02.869
Oh, my God. He was so happy to play that role.

01:10:03.310 --> 01:10:07.590
So I take it back, Willem Dafoe. I still think

01:10:07.590 --> 01:10:10.930
you were not great in Aquaman, but I don't think

01:10:10.930 --> 01:10:14.050
you need to retire from acting anymore. that's

01:10:14.050 --> 01:10:17.930
good so no this this movie it's hard to like

01:10:17.930 --> 01:10:20.869
i don't know if i could call it a capital g m

01:10:20.869 --> 01:10:24.550
good movie or whatever but like my my smile i

01:10:24.550 --> 01:10:27.289
i was smiling the whole time watching this movie

01:10:27.289 --> 01:10:29.869
it was such a fun experience and wait you you

01:10:29.869 --> 01:10:32.369
smiled when it may die you monster yes i was

01:10:32.369 --> 01:10:37.130
wrong with you i was cackling will finally die

01:10:41.590 --> 01:10:44.109
But yeah, it was just such a fun, fun, fun watch.

01:10:44.390 --> 01:10:46.750
Yes, I'm very glad I went and saw this in theaters.

01:10:48.210 --> 01:10:50.430
Spider -Man No Way Home, highly recommend if

01:10:50.430 --> 01:10:52.449
you haven't seen it yet, but now you know everything.

01:10:52.890 --> 01:10:54.989
I'm going to jump in on this just because I also

01:10:54.989 --> 01:10:57.510
have Spider -Man in my top three. I really enjoyed

01:10:57.510 --> 01:11:00.649
it. It's not a perfect film. There are a few

01:11:00.649 --> 01:11:03.149
characters that, villain characters from the

01:11:03.149 --> 01:11:04.829
past films that got pulled in that are effectively

01:11:04.829 --> 01:11:08.600
useless. I'm looking at you, Sandman. Well, sorry,

01:11:08.699 --> 01:11:10.600
yeah, Sandman, I don't, did they actually not

01:11:10.600 --> 01:11:13.279
get the guy to play, I forget who's the actor.

01:11:13.460 --> 01:11:15.859
I think that was him. No, that was him. But they

01:11:15.859 --> 01:11:18.079
probably, they voiced, I think they got him in

01:11:18.079 --> 01:11:19.520
the booth, so they probably got him for four

01:11:19.520 --> 01:11:21.539
hours or whatever. No, but he physically shows

01:11:21.539 --> 01:11:23.460
up. But he physically shows up in the stock footage,

01:11:23.720 --> 01:11:26.119
though, isn't it? I didn't think it was stock

01:11:26.119 --> 01:11:27.840
footage. I could have sworn it was stock footage,

01:11:27.920 --> 01:11:30.619
like, because you only see him, you know. No,

01:11:30.619 --> 01:11:34.720
they had to de -age him. Ah, maybe. No, no, no.

01:11:34.840 --> 01:11:37.100
So, like, okay, with Sandman. he's obviously

01:11:37.100 --> 01:11:39.380
he's he's he's sandy the whole time right so

01:11:39.380 --> 01:11:42.680
he's all cgi sandy sandy well but you know what

01:11:42.680 --> 01:11:45.100
i mean though like he's not you know but he only

01:11:45.100 --> 01:11:47.579
when he's quote unquote cured at the end and

01:11:47.579 --> 01:11:50.380
he's in the statue of liberty like you know like

01:11:50.380 --> 01:11:52.359
he looks out and that's the only thing you see

01:11:52.359 --> 01:11:54.739
of him you know i'm pretty sure that real that

01:11:54.739 --> 01:11:57.119
that footage of him was stock stock if it was

01:11:57.119 --> 01:12:00.180
it further reinforces why he was superfluous

01:12:00.180 --> 01:12:02.340
to this movie yeah right yeah all right that's

01:12:02.340 --> 01:12:08.329
fair um My thing with him was I thought he was

01:12:08.329 --> 01:12:13.149
real, but the problem is they wanted him to look

01:12:13.149 --> 01:12:17.810
like old him, so they had to de -age him. Okay.

01:12:18.489 --> 01:12:20.909
Well, they were de -aging. They de -aged Molina

01:12:20.909 --> 01:12:24.409
and Dafoe, right? Both of them. Yeah, it's still

01:12:24.409 --> 01:12:26.329
Thomas Hayden Church. He's put on a lot of weight,

01:12:26.350 --> 01:12:28.939
too. Oh, has he? Okay, got it. Yeah, and he also

01:12:28.939 --> 01:12:32.439
has a beard. So maybe it was stock photo of his

01:12:32.439 --> 01:12:34.579
footage of his old face. That's what I'm saying.

01:12:34.880 --> 01:12:38.960
If they de -aged him, then yeah, they used some

01:12:38.960 --> 01:12:42.340
technology of stock footage. But that aside,

01:12:42.659 --> 01:12:45.420
I really enjoyed, I really enjoyed, we all enjoyed

01:12:45.420 --> 01:12:47.239
No Way Home. I'm very excited to see what this

01:12:47.239 --> 01:12:50.859
means for Spider -Man, Tom Holland's Spider -Man.

01:12:51.119 --> 01:12:54.720
Very confused about how this works with Venom.

01:12:55.369 --> 01:12:57.590
let there be carnage because i have not seen

01:12:57.590 --> 01:13:00.369
any of them but uh one of the post -credit scenes

01:13:00.369 --> 01:13:03.210
shows tom hardy's uh eddie brock watching on

01:13:03.210 --> 01:13:06.789
tv and he gets snapped back to i guess his his

01:13:06.789 --> 01:13:09.229
uh dimension but he leaves a little bit of the

01:13:09.229 --> 01:13:13.090
symbiote so are they never is that it for eddie

01:13:13.090 --> 01:13:15.029
brock are we ever going to see tom holland and

01:13:15.029 --> 01:13:17.149
eddie brock together how does that fit in what

01:13:17.149 --> 01:13:20.090
about morbius the vampire who's not dracula i

01:13:20.090 --> 01:13:23.220
don't know also has the vulture Yeah, so many

01:13:23.220 --> 01:13:26.380
questions. I'm excited to see where this goes,

01:13:26.520 --> 01:13:29.760
but my head hurts thinking about it. It's very

01:13:29.760 --> 01:13:33.180
screwy. Also, one final thing about No Way Home.

01:13:33.340 --> 01:13:35.460
Peter Parker, you only applied to three colleges.

01:13:35.539 --> 01:13:38.779
What the fuck is wrong with you? Who does that?

01:13:39.460 --> 01:13:43.260
I applied to eight. I was a theater major and

01:13:43.260 --> 01:13:45.319
they told me to apply to 10 to 12 to maybe get

01:13:45.319 --> 01:13:47.300
one or two because I also had to audition for

01:13:47.300 --> 01:13:51.939
the program. So I applied to 14. but that's even

01:13:51.939 --> 01:13:54.239
that's like a very like in your case that's a

01:13:54.239 --> 01:13:56.920
very specific program we don't for peter harger

01:13:56.920 --> 01:13:59.100
like i feel like he was just like i know i want

01:13:59.100 --> 01:14:00.619
to go to mit because that's where my friends

01:14:00.619 --> 01:14:03.199
want to go to and then let's throw in two other

01:14:03.199 --> 01:14:06.119
baby like two other possibly ivy leagues i don't

01:14:06.119 --> 01:14:09.159
remember if we saw the names but you don't apply

01:14:09.159 --> 01:14:11.800
for three just to three schools come on but it's

01:14:11.800 --> 01:14:13.779
so weird now because like in the comics in the

01:14:13.779 --> 01:14:16.960
video game he went to empire state just because

01:14:16.960 --> 01:14:19.640
it was like a real It was a fake college in New

01:14:19.640 --> 01:14:22.520
York. It's basically NYU, but they didn't want

01:14:22.520 --> 01:14:25.500
to pay them to have it in there. So it just throws

01:14:25.500 --> 01:14:29.060
me off now that he goes to MIT. MIT, yeah. Yeah,

01:14:29.100 --> 01:14:32.779
whatever. Spider -Man, two thumbs up. What's

01:14:32.779 --> 01:14:35.539
your number two? If you didn't do number three,

01:14:35.680 --> 01:14:37.539
you said it was in your top three. It's in my

01:14:37.539 --> 01:14:42.279
top three. So my number two is going to be Arcane.

01:14:42.939 --> 01:14:46.640
okay wow it was mentioned it was mentioned by

01:14:46.640 --> 01:14:49.479
andre already i loved arcane i love the way it

01:14:49.479 --> 01:14:51.880
looked i love the way it sounded i liked the

01:14:51.880 --> 01:14:55.239
just the plot was really good they diverted a

01:14:55.239 --> 01:14:59.680
lot of possibilities i was like wow yeah yeah

01:14:59.680 --> 01:15:03.039
no i love it yeah that makes sense great um and

01:15:03.039 --> 01:15:04.979
then i'll give an honorable mention to a video

01:15:04.979 --> 01:15:07.340
game that definitely did not come out in 2021

01:15:07.340 --> 01:15:13.770
or possibly in the 2020s at all um and uh but

01:15:13.770 --> 01:15:17.090
i i played it this in 2021 and i freaking loved

01:15:17.090 --> 01:15:20.670
it and that is xenoblade chronicles oh nice yeah

01:15:20.670 --> 01:15:23.289
i think it came out in 2009 originally but it

01:15:23.289 --> 01:15:25.609
did and then the remaster which you played came

01:15:25.609 --> 01:15:28.939
out in 2020 um there you go close enough yeah

01:15:28.939 --> 01:15:31.060
my roommate played that in college i remember

01:15:31.060 --> 01:15:34.939
that so good i have a poster now that is of guar

01:15:34.939 --> 01:15:37.760
planes which is not my favorite place in xenoblade

01:15:37.760 --> 01:15:39.880
but you know what they had man it's what they

01:15:39.880 --> 01:15:43.760
have man and it was you like japanese rpgs and

01:15:43.760 --> 01:15:45.920
you haven't checked this one out it's great it's

01:15:45.920 --> 01:15:48.720
fully voice acted by a british cast um future

01:15:48.720 --> 01:15:52.420
doctor who companion um jenna not jenna coleman

01:15:52.420 --> 01:15:57.680
um no it is jenna coleman uh she's in it I was

01:15:57.680 --> 01:16:03.119
like, I don't want to get her confused with another

01:16:03.119 --> 01:16:05.380
British. Right. And then like, it's, it's a small

01:16:05.380 --> 01:16:06.979
change, but the reason it's an all British cash

01:16:06.979 --> 01:16:10.300
is because, so this is a Nintendo property. It's

01:16:10.300 --> 01:16:13.920
like a second party. Nintendo owns like distributing

01:16:13.920 --> 01:16:16.779
rights to the studio. And so Nintendo of America,

01:16:16.859 --> 01:16:19.180
when the game first came out, they didn't pick

01:16:19.180 --> 01:16:20.859
it up. Right. They thought this isn't going to

01:16:20.859 --> 01:16:22.420
do well enough in America. We're not going to

01:16:22.420 --> 01:16:25.239
bother localizing it. but Nintendo of Europe

01:16:25.239 --> 01:16:27.500
picked it up instead. So all the voices they

01:16:27.500 --> 01:16:29.159
brought in were ones they had in -house, which

01:16:29.159 --> 01:16:31.680
were all British. So it's just such, it's a cool

01:16:31.680 --> 01:16:34.739
RPG because you hear voices in this anime game

01:16:34.739 --> 01:16:37.220
that you don't usually hear because they don't

01:16:37.220 --> 01:16:39.079
go by the old standbys. Not that the old standbys

01:16:39.079 --> 01:16:41.180
are bad. I like hearing those voices too, but

01:16:41.180 --> 01:16:44.399
it gives Xenoblade Chronicles 1 a very unique

01:16:44.399 --> 01:16:47.529
flavor on the dub. And it's a great game. Like

01:16:47.529 --> 01:16:51.109
Jill said, it takes a game of high quality for

01:16:51.109 --> 01:16:52.689
somebody to stick with it for, I don't know,

01:16:52.729 --> 01:16:54.850
you probably played it close to 90 -ish hours,

01:16:54.970 --> 01:16:57.649
Jill? I can tell you right now. I have my switcher

01:16:57.649 --> 01:16:59.909
in front of me. I didn't want to say Olivia Colman

01:16:59.909 --> 01:17:06.170
because sometimes I flip the names. I think I

01:17:06.170 --> 01:17:11.409
sunk over 120 hours into it. It's a long game.

01:17:11.710 --> 01:17:14.770
120 hours well spent, though. I really enjoyed

01:17:14.770 --> 01:17:18.739
it. um so that's my number two arcane is my official

01:17:18.739 --> 01:17:22.119
number two so if you want to wrap it around back

01:17:22.119 --> 01:17:25.779
to andre what's your number one all right mike

01:17:25.779 --> 01:17:29.560
wait did you go andre number two my number two

01:17:29.560 --> 01:17:32.520
was well my number two slash three was halo and

01:17:32.520 --> 01:17:35.020
uh and spider -man i'm not gonna lie right so

01:17:35.020 --> 01:17:39.039
i'm down to one final thing right okay do you

01:17:39.039 --> 01:17:43.100
want to start us or do i fire it off I have one

01:17:43.100 --> 01:17:44.899
final good thing, and then I've got a list of

01:17:44.899 --> 01:17:47.500
not honorable mentions. Mine's very anticlimactic

01:17:47.500 --> 01:17:50.220
for my number one. It sounds like I'm going to

01:17:50.220 --> 01:17:52.140
do my number one. Do I do my number one? Do it.

01:17:52.319 --> 01:17:56.500
My favorite thing that I consumed this year is

01:17:56.500 --> 01:18:00.699
Metroid Dread for the Nintendo Switch. I'm still

01:18:00.699 --> 01:18:03.119
very early in the process, but it's been a blast

01:18:03.119 --> 01:18:06.050
so far. Oh, you have it. You got it. yes we talked

01:18:06.050 --> 01:18:07.909
about this last episode oh that's right we did

01:18:07.909 --> 01:18:11.090
yes okay cool right oh my god yeah metroid dread

01:18:11.090 --> 01:18:13.670
is my game of the year for 2021 that's awesome

01:18:13.670 --> 01:18:18.069
um i love this i love metroid as a series since

01:18:18.069 --> 01:18:20.649
i'm like i grew up with it it's it's it's right

01:18:20.649 --> 01:18:22.630
there next to zelda for me in terms of my favorite

01:18:22.630 --> 01:18:26.109
nintendo series and this is so metroid dread

01:18:26.109 --> 01:18:31.340
is the first wholly new metroid game in uh 2d

01:18:31.340 --> 01:18:34.699
metroid game in 19 years right so yeah all the

01:18:34.699 --> 01:18:37.260
other 2d game like the last 2d game we got was

01:18:37.260 --> 01:18:40.060
a remake of metroid 2 samus returns which is

01:18:40.060 --> 01:18:42.640
also fine it was good or it was good on the 3ds

01:18:42.640 --> 01:18:45.180
that was a fun game i really liked that too the

01:18:45.180 --> 01:18:48.579
this is maybe the same studio uh and it feels

01:18:48.579 --> 01:18:51.939
like just what they really want like like it

01:18:51.939 --> 01:18:54.180
feels unshackled by the constraints of the 3ds

01:18:54.180 --> 01:18:57.739
it's it's it's everything samus returns was but

01:18:57.739 --> 01:19:01.380
just 100 better um samus as a character is super

01:19:01.380 --> 01:19:04.359
fun to inhabit she totally lets you live out

01:19:04.359 --> 01:19:06.979
the power fantasy of exploring the salient world

01:19:06.979 --> 01:19:10.539
finding cool upgrades facing super tough bosses

01:19:10.539 --> 01:19:12.859
using those upgrades in creative and unique ways

01:19:12.859 --> 01:19:14.899
that make you feel like this ultimate badass

01:19:15.739 --> 01:19:18.939
uh it just it feels great to play the story itself

01:19:18.939 --> 01:19:21.520
is whatever it's fine there whatever but like

01:19:21.520 --> 01:19:23.960
the cut scenes are fun you get to see samus totally

01:19:23.960 --> 01:19:27.779
kick ass and um yeah i don't know i would say

01:19:27.779 --> 01:19:30.399
the only small disappointing thing about this

01:19:30.399 --> 01:19:33.649
is that the music isn't at the supreme awesome

01:19:33.649 --> 01:19:36.409
level of the other series like they're like most

01:19:36.409 --> 01:19:37.829
of the other Metroid games I can listen to their

01:19:37.829 --> 01:19:40.050
soundtrack like all the time I have those tunes

01:19:40.050 --> 01:19:43.729
burned into my brain Metroid Dreads music didn't

01:19:43.729 --> 01:19:45.550
quite reach that level for me but everything

01:19:45.550 --> 01:19:48.229
else about it the gameplay the the visuals the

01:19:48.229 --> 01:19:51.789
just the exploration all the new items it it

01:19:51.789 --> 01:19:55.390
was such a blast to play it feels great to have

01:19:55.390 --> 01:19:58.779
Metroid It echoes a lot of similar thoughts that

01:19:58.779 --> 01:20:00.260
I have with Halo, where it feels good playing

01:20:00.260 --> 01:20:02.500
an old series again, but all the more because

01:20:02.500 --> 01:20:04.420
it sounds like this game is selling really well,

01:20:04.539 --> 01:20:07.380
and Metroid historically has not done the greatest,

01:20:07.579 --> 01:20:11.680
which is why it's been 19 years since there's

01:20:11.680 --> 01:20:15.180
been a new Metroid game, or 2D Metroid. 2D Metroid,

01:20:15.359 --> 01:20:20.680
yeah. Yeah, I don't know. It's probably my second

01:20:20.680 --> 01:20:23.180
favorite Metroid game next to Metroid Prime 2,

01:20:23.340 --> 01:20:25.760
and it's just... i can't recommend this game

01:20:25.760 --> 01:20:28.060
enough it it sounds like i don't have much to

01:20:28.060 --> 01:20:29.439
say about it because there's really not much

01:20:29.439 --> 01:20:33.159
i don't like about it it's yeah it was it was

01:20:33.159 --> 01:20:35.659
and it's such a it's a tight 10 hour experience

01:20:35.659 --> 01:20:38.100
you know it didn't feel bloated i didn't usually

01:20:38.100 --> 01:20:40.420
honestly i play a lot of video games i get tired

01:20:40.420 --> 01:20:42.859
of by about like i get tired playing them and

01:20:42.859 --> 01:20:44.699
i never really beat them even though i enjoy

01:20:44.699 --> 01:20:48.180
them you just committed to red dead i know right

01:20:48.180 --> 01:20:50.439
yeah because i hired a redemption 2 again and

01:20:50.439 --> 01:20:52.279
that's an example of that right where that's

01:20:52.279 --> 01:20:53.960
that's a really good game i bought it when it

01:20:53.960 --> 01:20:57.380
came out got probably seven or like three -fourths

01:20:57.380 --> 01:20:59.319
of the way through it dropped it i just downloaded

01:20:59.319 --> 01:21:01.079
it again started up again i have no idea if i'm

01:21:01.079 --> 01:21:02.770
ever going to beat it but Metroid is not one

01:21:02.770 --> 01:21:04.789
of those games. I beat that game twice in like

01:21:04.789 --> 01:21:06.670
two weeks, basically. I love that game so much.

01:21:06.810 --> 01:21:10.289
There we go. Favorite thing of 2021. Done. All

01:21:10.289 --> 01:21:13.270
right. My favorite thing of 2021, shocker to

01:21:13.270 --> 01:21:18.890
everyone, is Pig. Pig. It's a cage movie. It

01:21:18.890 --> 01:21:22.090
still resonates with me. It was so freaking good.

01:21:22.910 --> 01:21:25.789
Just his understated performance, because I expected

01:21:25.789 --> 01:21:28.470
ultraviolence, like I said on our previous episode.

01:21:28.590 --> 01:21:30.430
I don't need to dive into it anymore because

01:21:30.430 --> 01:21:34.329
I've said it all before. But Pig still resonates

01:21:34.329 --> 01:21:36.909
with me. I hope he gets a nomination for best

01:21:36.909 --> 01:21:40.909
actor because he truly deserves it. This is Nick

01:21:40.909 --> 01:21:42.189
Cage, by the way, in case you haven't known.

01:21:42.350 --> 01:21:44.729
Yes, Nick Cage. And then Alex Wolfe, if he gets

01:21:44.729 --> 01:21:46.949
a supporting actor, I wouldn't be shocked. But

01:21:46.949 --> 01:21:50.050
at the same time, yeah, both of them were excellent

01:21:50.050 --> 01:21:53.300
in this. But Nick Cage deserves a Best Actor

01:21:53.300 --> 01:21:57.579
nominee for sure. Even if he doesn't win, he

01:21:57.579 --> 01:22:00.359
deserves a Best Actor nomination at least. So

01:22:00.359 --> 01:22:04.920
that is my number one of 2021. Is this on anywhere,

01:22:05.140 --> 01:22:08.260
Pig? It is now on Hulu. It's on Hulu? Yes, it

01:22:08.260 --> 01:22:13.380
is now on Hulu since December. Okay. All right,

01:22:13.399 --> 01:22:17.199
I'll watch it. Yeah, so highly recommend. Awesome.

01:22:20.149 --> 01:22:22.930
so for my number one I'm going to do an honorable

01:22:22.930 --> 01:22:27.630
mention Green Knight is very loved that film

01:22:27.630 --> 01:22:30.430
very happy I got to see that in a theater but

01:22:30.430 --> 01:22:32.050
since it was already mentioned I'll do something

01:22:32.050 --> 01:22:35.729
that has not and that's Ted Lasso season two

01:22:35.729 --> 01:22:38.069
and it was a little cheating because I think

01:22:38.069 --> 01:22:42.829
it came out right at the end of 2020 the show

01:22:42.829 --> 01:22:46.369
came out in 2020 the season was this season was

01:22:46.369 --> 01:22:49.770
the good so yeah then my memory of the timeline

01:22:49.770 --> 01:22:51.829
so yeah the first season dropped in 2020 and

01:22:51.829 --> 01:22:53.770
it was like a slice of heaven and amidst the

01:22:53.770 --> 01:22:56.829
darkness and then season two came out this year

01:22:56.829 --> 01:23:00.310
over the summer i believe and it was great uh

01:23:00.310 --> 01:23:02.890
there was only september was the christmas episode

01:23:02.890 --> 01:23:06.369
yeah but i think it started in june i think the

01:23:06.369 --> 01:23:09.930
first the second august or september they did

01:23:09.930 --> 01:23:12.600
the christmas episode and it was like A Christmas

01:23:12.600 --> 01:23:15.239
episode in August or September? Okay. Why not?

01:23:15.319 --> 01:23:18.909
Christmas in July or August in this case. Yeah.

01:23:18.970 --> 01:23:22.170
So with the exception of possibly one episode

01:23:22.170 --> 01:23:24.130
that I actually really, really like, this is

01:23:24.130 --> 01:23:26.029
a really tight season with a great overarching

01:23:26.029 --> 01:23:29.489
story for multiple characters that has a really

01:23:29.489 --> 01:23:33.229
great payoff in the final episode. The one episode

01:23:33.229 --> 01:23:36.729
that's not as good actually follows one character,

01:23:36.890 --> 01:23:40.010
Coach Beard, pretty much exclusively. And a lot

01:23:40.010 --> 01:23:42.869
of people didn't like it because it was very

01:23:42.869 --> 01:23:47.569
different and weird. I actually loved it. I was

01:23:47.569 --> 01:23:51.310
in the weird camp. I thought it was delightfully

01:23:51.310 --> 01:23:54.130
weird and I think it sheds a lot of insight into

01:23:54.130 --> 01:23:57.510
his character and I hope we get more. I don't

01:23:57.510 --> 01:23:59.609
want that to be the one -off where it's like

01:23:59.609 --> 01:24:02.210
we see him be vulnerable and all of that and

01:24:02.210 --> 01:24:04.050
recognize that there are problems around him

01:24:04.050 --> 01:24:06.170
and then from here on out, well, we dealt with

01:24:06.170 --> 01:24:08.510
it. He's got his own things. It's kept under

01:24:08.510 --> 01:24:12.149
the beard. We'll never see it again. all the

01:24:12.149 --> 01:24:14.689
characters just having them around made some

01:24:14.689 --> 01:24:17.710
very stressful points of 20 of the later part

01:24:17.710 --> 01:24:21.029
of 2021 feel better. I just, I look forward to

01:24:21.029 --> 01:24:23.250
seeing more. I think they only have one more

01:24:23.250 --> 01:24:27.810
season left in their contract. I have. I personally

01:24:27.810 --> 01:24:30.569
want them to do like a Ted Lasso -esque anthology

01:24:30.569 --> 01:24:33.630
series where once Ted Lasso ends, they wait a

01:24:33.630 --> 01:24:36.050
year or two and then they do another fish out

01:24:36.050 --> 01:24:39.829
of water story. Maybe a British coach who does

01:24:39.829 --> 01:24:41.810
like cricket comes over to the United States

01:24:41.810 --> 01:24:44.310
and has to coach a basketball team. Something

01:24:44.310 --> 01:24:46.850
like that. I don't know. You have baseball right

01:24:46.850 --> 01:24:48.270
there. I was about to say baseball would be the

01:24:48.270 --> 01:24:50.949
closer analog. I want the basketball stories.

01:24:51.229 --> 01:24:58.119
All right. I'm digging my heels in. um but yeah

01:24:58.119 --> 01:25:01.779
ted lasso season two is my number one thing um

01:25:01.779 --> 01:25:06.319
of 2021 i do have a list of like dishonorable

01:25:06.319 --> 01:25:09.039
mentions i don't know if this is the time but

01:25:09.039 --> 01:25:12.060
uh let's go quick but yeah let's get it let's

01:25:12.060 --> 01:25:15.119
dishonorable mentions 2021 dishonorable mentions

01:25:15.119 --> 01:25:16.619
with the quick caveat that it doesn't necessarily

01:25:16.619 --> 01:25:19.119
mean that they are hot garbage it means i was

01:25:19.119 --> 01:25:22.779
disappointed in them so here we go Eternals.

01:25:22.800 --> 01:25:26.239
We've talked about it. Yes. Sad Face. Army of

01:25:26.239 --> 01:25:29.819
the Dead. I like parts of it, but then it just

01:25:29.819 --> 01:25:32.560
kept going and going and going. I don't think

01:25:32.560 --> 01:25:34.640
I was negative enough on it. That movie soured

01:25:34.640 --> 01:25:38.140
on me over the months. That movie is too long

01:25:38.140 --> 01:25:41.300
with too many characters, but it peaks. very

01:25:41.300 --> 01:25:44.680
early very early yes as in as in just watch it

01:25:44.680 --> 01:25:46.500
watch the watch the opening credits yeah wait

01:25:46.500 --> 01:25:49.220
as soon as the title drops you can stop watching

01:25:49.220 --> 01:25:53.180
no as soon as they get into las vegas stop okay

01:25:53.180 --> 01:25:55.340
sure okay you gotta get the part where they have

01:25:55.340 --> 01:25:57.239
like the vision of like how it's gonna go perfectly

01:25:57.239 --> 01:25:59.119
yeah that's hilarious you're right you're right

01:25:59.119 --> 01:26:01.520
um and then finally and it really pains me to

01:26:01.520 --> 01:26:05.880
say this is cowboy bebop live action yeah i still

01:26:05.880 --> 01:26:09.119
i'm still going working my way through it I'm

01:26:09.119 --> 01:26:11.340
enjoying the actors. I'm enjoying the visuals.

01:26:11.979 --> 01:26:14.079
There's a lot of passion put into this. It's

01:26:14.079 --> 01:26:18.460
the writing. It just didn't work at all. It's

01:26:18.460 --> 01:26:21.199
unfortunate. I'm sad that they're at least not

01:26:21.199 --> 01:26:22.859
going to get that they can't even finish out

01:26:22.859 --> 01:26:24.739
what they were going to do. It's going to end.

01:26:24.840 --> 01:26:27.239
Season one is it. But hey, you know what? Emily

01:26:27.239 --> 01:26:29.899
Paris got a second season. Now they've pissed

01:26:29.899 --> 01:26:32.979
off an entire country. Good on you, Netflix.

01:26:33.239 --> 01:26:36.140
You really picked the right horse there. So that's

01:26:36.140 --> 01:26:38.659
my dishonorable mentions list. Andre, do you

01:26:38.659 --> 01:26:40.659
have quick dishonorable mentions? No, I mean,

01:26:40.680 --> 01:26:42.720
honestly, Jill hit most of those because we watched

01:26:42.720 --> 01:26:45.000
a lot of things together. So, yeah, honestly,

01:26:45.260 --> 01:26:48.359
I did know what Jill said. Yeah, I agree with

01:26:48.359 --> 01:26:50.159
Army of the Dead being a dishonorable mention.

01:26:50.279 --> 01:26:53.180
I also have to include Space Jam 2, a new legacy.

01:26:53.279 --> 01:26:54.680
I didn't even write that on my list. I forgot

01:26:54.680 --> 01:26:56.239
about that movie because I missed it. Locked

01:26:56.239 --> 01:27:00.720
it out. Hey, man, I mean, if there's anybody

01:27:00.720 --> 01:27:03.119
on this planet that would have liked Space Jam

01:27:03.119 --> 01:27:05.159
2, it probably would have been me. i'm a big

01:27:05.159 --> 01:27:07.260
lebron guy i'm really happy i didn't get you

01:27:07.260 --> 01:27:10.220
any space jam 2 themed stuff for christmas it

01:27:10.220 --> 01:27:13.319
was not good and i mean you know mitchell and

01:27:13.319 --> 01:27:15.859
i talked about this it the worst thing that movie

01:27:15.859 --> 01:27:18.800
did was it made it literally like the whole main

01:27:18.800 --> 01:27:21.899
conflict it revolves around lebron being a bad

01:27:21.899 --> 01:27:25.079
dad which makes no sense like it's counter to

01:27:25.079 --> 01:27:29.420
his public image at least right so Yikes. Well,

01:27:29.500 --> 01:27:31.979
that'll do it for this episode of the best and

01:27:31.979 --> 01:27:34.840
a little bit of the worst of 2021 for media.

01:27:35.199 --> 01:27:37.159
I have been your host, Mike. I have been joined

01:27:37.159 --> 01:27:41.159
by Andre and Jill. We'll see you for many adventures

01:27:41.159 --> 01:27:44.460
in 2022 for game for a movie where we ask, are

01:27:44.460 --> 01:27:47.380
you game for a movie? Bye. Cheers. Bye.