Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to hear I visit. I wanted your post.
Speaker 1: Danny Carran isn't sitting across with me. They're ready. How's it?
Speaker 1: How's it going? Iffy? Um? This is one of the
Speaker 1: topics that I feel I grew up with, mainly because
Speaker 1: I stole my brother's Jerry Joe's to be with my barbie. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Ken was not cutting it, but she she wanted like
Speaker 1: a burly man, they're fighting for his country. Um. I
Speaker 1: also stole their batman. It was actually the George Clooney batman.
Speaker 1: I believe so interesting. No, maybe those Val Kilmer's I
Speaker 1: can't remember. But I stole their rubber batman and made
Speaker 1: him make out with my barbie. So we're we're covering
Speaker 1: g I Joe Joe American. We can we can't pay
Speaker 1: for the for I don't want to have to invoice.
Speaker 1: I don't want to get like a royalty situation. Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so let's let's talk. We actually had I think we
Speaker 1: had some request for this episode, right, Yeah, we had
Speaker 1: a few people. Yeah, we had it. When we have
Speaker 1: some friends, I think that have There are many many
Speaker 1: A podcast dedicated just to G I j which kind
Speaker 1: of reminds me. I don't know if every because a
Speaker 1: lot of people have hit us up about we said
Speaker 1: this before, but a lot of people have hit U
Speaker 1: up about Dragon ball Z and IFFI and I actually
Speaker 1: had a podcast that was just dedicated to Dragon ball Z,
Speaker 1: and I can tell you when you have a podcast
Speaker 1: it's just dedicated to one thing. It's kind of nice
Speaker 1: that we do what we do now because after after
Speaker 1: talking about it for fifty episodes, you're kind of like, yeah, um,
Speaker 1: but I want to talk about G I Joe's the Yeah,
Speaker 1: I want to get in on it. Um, So so
Speaker 1: what is g I Joe? It is a well, first,
Speaker 1: it started as a line of action figures that was
Speaker 1: produced and owned by the toy company has Bro, which
Speaker 1: I just found out today was Hasn't Filled Brothers really
Speaker 1: that is yes, and shortened to Hasbro, which makes sense.
Speaker 1: Um like Super Mario Bros. The initial product represented four
Speaker 1: of the branches of the U s Armed Forces, So
Speaker 1: that was Action Soldier, which was US Army, Action Sailor,
Speaker 1: which was US Navy Action Pilot, Air Force, Action Marine
Speaker 1: Marine Corps, and later on the Action Nurse. I don't
Speaker 1: know they had an Action Nurse. Yeah, It's so funny
Speaker 1: because I want to assume that it's probably their female
Speaker 1: line that they're like action nurse, but it could be
Speaker 1: the male line, which would be interesting because you know,
Speaker 1: I feel like male nurses never get any love. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you think, let me look at U. No,
Speaker 1: I think you're right it was a woman. Yeah. No,
Speaker 1: that sounds about right based on when g I Joe
Speaker 1: was created. I mean, if Ben Stiller was still made
Speaker 1: fun of it and meet the Fockers, I think that
Speaker 1: we back when g I Joe was created, definitely probably
Speaker 1: wasn't normal. Yeah, seen as so. G I Joe was
Speaker 1: the code name for America's daring, highly trained Special Missions Force.
Speaker 1: Its purpose was to defend human freedom against Cobra, a
Speaker 1: ruthless terrorist organization determined to rule the world. From until
Speaker 1: about Hasbro's g I Joe, a real American hero, was
Speaker 1: one of the driving forces and kids entertainment conquering the
Speaker 1: worlds of comic books, animated televisions, and tiny toy action
Speaker 1: victors and then eventually movies. Yeah. Yeah, So the name
Speaker 1: drived from the usage of G I Joe for the
Speaker 1: generic U. S. Soldier um. So that was actually a
Speaker 1: term So g I is an acronym used to describe
Speaker 1: the soldiers of the United States Army and airmen in
Speaker 1: the United States Army Air Forces, and also a term
Speaker 1: for general items of their equipment. So the term g
Speaker 1: I has been used as government issue or general issue,
Speaker 1: but originally it was used as galvanized iron. Just a
Speaker 1: little back, backstory, a little back So well, let's even
Speaker 1: go further back and talk about just how this whole
Speaker 1: thing got started. So Mantell was killing it with Barbie
Speaker 1: and her accessories, but Hasbro not so much. Uh. In
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty three, has We began development on a military
Speaker 1: theme line of dolls that, like Barbie, could be accessorized
Speaker 1: with the different outfits and equipments. The original strategy called
Speaker 1: for a different figure for each branch of the military,
Speaker 1: but when, like the film called The Story of g I.
Speaker 1: Joe came out, they eventually decided to genericize it and
Speaker 1: have everyone just kind of be their own guy. Yeah.
Speaker 1: It was kind of interesting because, Um, in a G I.
Speaker 1: Joe podcast that I was listening to that we're going
Speaker 1: to link in the footnotes, they were talking about, Um,
Speaker 1: they actually had a professor that has also studied a
Speaker 1: lot of G I. Joe history, but he was talking
Speaker 1: about how a lot of boys were playing with Kendall's
Speaker 1: and apparently that was not allowed or not as heavily liked,
Speaker 1: and so they wanted to capitalize and make a more buff, buff,
Speaker 1: macho man. Yeah, action figure. Um. And actually that's where
Speaker 1: the term action figure came from. It's g I. Joe.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you know that. Yeah, So the
Speaker 1: development of g I. Joe led to the coining of
Speaker 1: the term action figure. The original idea for the action
Speaker 1: figure was developed in nineteen sixty three by Stan Weston,
Speaker 1: who was a Manhattan licensing agent, and Weston actually made
Speaker 1: like these prototypes of the figure and basic like marketing
Speaker 1: materials that showed the sales potential of a military action figure.
Speaker 1: And when he showed these materials to Donald Levine, who
Speaker 1: was a Hasbro executive, Levine told Weston, quote, you will
Speaker 1: make a fortune with these, which he was right, and
Speaker 1: Weston subsequently licensed the entire concept to Hasbro. So this
Speaker 1: is kind of interesting and he likes sit for a
Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars um. Levine, though, is the one who
Speaker 1: has seen as the father of Joe, Like he's kind
Speaker 1: of seen as the father of Gio. But that it
Speaker 1: is interesting because I just want to jump back on
Speaker 1: it being called action figures. I always used to distinguish
Speaker 1: between G I. Joe's and then my action action figures,
Speaker 1: which I think really more yeah, which was more traditionally
Speaker 1: known as an action figure. I looked at G I.
Speaker 1: Joe's as dolls and action figures. I looked at them
Speaker 1: as action figures because like they had the articulation that
Speaker 1: would allow you to pose them and and so that's
Speaker 1: why I made sense of my brain. But little did
Speaker 1: I know it is just some weird gender politics that
Speaker 1: made them come up a different names because all G
Speaker 1: I joes are are dolls. Yeah. So, but in the
Speaker 1: early nineteen sixties, they didn't think that boys would play
Speaker 1: with quote unquote dolls action figures. U huh, yeah, and
Speaker 1: and uh and since they also had America's Movable Fighting
Speaker 1: Man was the registered trademark of Hasbro and was prominently
Speaker 1: displayed on every box figure package. I did want to
Speaker 1: go back though and say, uh in my research when
Speaker 1: I was looking at Donald Levine, this is just a
Speaker 1: side note. From two thousand and five to two thousand
Speaker 1: and six, Levine designed and manufactured an action figure of
Speaker 1: Osama Bin Laden for the c I a psychological warfare
Speaker 1: program called Devil Eyes. Levine developed a twelve inch life
Speaker 1: you can actually look it up, a twelve inch lifelike
Speaker 1: figure whose face was painted with a material that, when
Speaker 1: he did would peel off to reveal a demon like
Speaker 1: uh face with green eyes and black markings. So when
Speaker 1: asked Inteen about Levine's involvement in the program, his family
Speaker 1: said in a statement, Don Levine was a dedicated patriot
Speaker 1: and proud Korean War veteran. When called on, he was
Speaker 1: honored to assist our country. That was their response when
Speaker 1: they asked him about this Osama Bin Laden doll. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's interesting. Just a side fact here at nerdificent Uh,
Speaker 1: but moving on, moving on, if you do, you want
Speaker 1: to talk to us about the Yeah, so so just
Speaker 1: rounding out. Nineteen sixty four to nineteen six nine was
Speaker 1: known as the Movable Fighting Man years for G I,
Speaker 1: Joe and up next. We have adventure teams. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: have venture teamed. By the late nineteen sixties, in the
Speaker 1: wake of the Vietnam War, Hasbro sought to downplay the
Speaker 1: war theme that had initially defined Joe. The line became
Speaker 1: known as the Adventures of Joe, and in seventy Hasbro
Speaker 1: settled on the name Adventure Team. Adventure Team. You know
Speaker 1: when you were singing the G I Joe song, Um,
Speaker 1: I wanted to say, g I Joe Robots in disguise,
Speaker 1: so many jingles, They're all pretty much the same. But
Speaker 1: I do want to say which we will get to Sunbow,
Speaker 1: Uh produce both of those transformers. Also, I believe my
Speaker 1: Little Pony and g I Joe, So yeah, we'll get
Speaker 1: into the ad the game on lock. So basically to
Speaker 1: coincide with the new direction. Lifelike flocked hair and beard
Speaker 1: and innovation developed in England by Palatoi for the license
Speaker 1: version of Joe Action Man is introduced in nineteen seventy
Speaker 1: and a retooled African American Whoo Whoop Adventurer was also introduced,
Speaker 1: which came in two versions, as did the others in
Speaker 1: the series, bearded or shaven. These were my kendles, Like,
Speaker 1: it's really funny to talk about the introduction of that
Speaker 1: technology as far as like the lifelike hair, do you
Speaker 1: remember that? Did you have? Did you have? I guess
Speaker 1: action figures because I don't know if you had dolls.
Speaker 1: Did you have those that had the the hair, they
Speaker 1: were like plastic see I had I had. My mom
Speaker 1: gave me her old ken dolls, um, which were anatomically
Speaker 1: correct and that kind of interesting. They had a penis,
Speaker 1: like some of them were a little bit of a bump.
Speaker 1: Are we allowed to say that, I don't know, it
Speaker 1: might get bleeped um. I think we could say penises.
Speaker 1: It's it's a normal. But here, this is what we
Speaker 1: talked about in Erica. E She's Sailor Moon episode. Is
Speaker 1: how censored we are in America that we get weird
Speaker 1: about talking about even normal things that people have. Well,
Speaker 1: I was talking about this the other day and here
Speaker 1: goes one of those tangents. But just are concept because
Speaker 1: I feel like it's a constant wave where like sometimes
Speaker 1: we get so obsessed over what kids can see sometimes
Speaker 1: we lean back, But when you think about it, kids
Speaker 1: aren't you know. I'm sure there's psychological evidence that proved
Speaker 1: this one way or the other, but kids don't aren't
Speaker 1: as interested in like sexual things. Like I was talking
Speaker 1: with my buddy when he was talking about when he
Speaker 1: was a kidding, he saw water World and his friends.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I remember seeing it when I was
Speaker 1: a little His parents freaked out because they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: there's brooms in there. Yeah, and he was like what,
Speaker 1: I didn't he And he was like I didn't even
Speaker 1: care at the time because I was trying to see
Speaker 1: the men fighting, you know. On a different tangent side, note,
Speaker 1: my aunt when she first saw a little boy peen,
Speaker 1: she thought they peed from their belly buttons. Your aunt,
Speaker 1: my yeah, my aunt. Moving on. So in nineteen this
Speaker 1: is white people come to this for far outside to
Speaker 1: hear that I used to make my animals smashed their
Speaker 1: genitals and also your tea. Yeah. Yeah, she actually had
Speaker 1: a baby, very young, but um, okay, so but now
Speaker 1: she's a young mom, Like she's younger than all the
Speaker 1: other moms. So there you go. In nineteen seventy four,
Speaker 1: named after the increasingly popular martial art, Hasbro introduced the
Speaker 1: Kung Fu grip. This was a big deal to the
Speaker 1: g I Joe line. Uh. This was another innovation that
Speaker 1: actually was developed in the UK for Action Man, and
Speaker 1: the hands were molded in a softer plastic that allowed
Speaker 1: the fingers to grip objects in a more lifelike fashion. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so so I was gonna say around this time, though
Speaker 1: the line was canceled in nineteen seventy six, Joe had
Speaker 1: become something of a superhero, so they were incorporating fantastic
Speaker 1: elements like chrome plated Bulletman and bionic limbs of Atomic
Speaker 1: Man who battled the Intruders, which is a group of
Speaker 1: caveman from outer space. So they really did kind of
Speaker 1: want to um move away from him just being a
Speaker 1: war yeah, kind of individual, kind of seen as a
Speaker 1: superhero because heroesque. The Vietnam War was not fun and
Speaker 1: I think, you know, and that was also like there
Speaker 1: were a lot of people who were against it, and
Speaker 1: I think trying to distance themselves away from that is
Speaker 1: kind of their idea where they looks like, well know,
Speaker 1: this is a superhero. This isn't like, you know, army propaganda,
Speaker 1: which it kind of was at first. Then we got
Speaker 1: into a real American hero, which is more of the
Speaker 1: G I Joe. I know, I'm familiar with these guys,
Speaker 1: but we'll get into that after these messages. Welcome back, y'all.
Speaker 1: Hope you enjoyed those messages, and we're talking about G I.
Speaker 1: G O today on Nificent even a nice, light and spicy.
Speaker 1: If you're just tuning in, which you shouldn't be because
Speaker 1: this is a podcast and not a live radio show,
Speaker 1: you you should know that Danny dropped a fun fact.
Speaker 1: I'm probably gonna be thinking about that of the rest
Speaker 1: of the week. Really, why be funny? Yeah, it's such
Speaker 1: a funny image because I can see how that happened,
Speaker 1: and it's just like so funny. We're just like, oh,
Speaker 1: I can't really see anything, but I see it coming
Speaker 1: out the belly button. Yeah, that's boy. I want to
Speaker 1: also pee from my belly button. Yeah, probably well for women, Yes, Iffy,
Speaker 1: it's annoying. I'm in a one piece right now and
Speaker 1: I have to take this whole thing off to p Anyways,
Speaker 1: moving on to Yeah, I would say if this was
Speaker 1: a Golden Age, I would name it the Golden Age,
Speaker 1: which is a real American heroin. I would say, I mean,
Speaker 1: there's obviously a lot of people who grew up with
Speaker 1: the toys and that was their first introduction, a lot
Speaker 1: of die hards actually for the comics and the and
Speaker 1: the toys, but the like we've talked about before in
Speaker 1: our Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle one, you know, lot of
Speaker 1: these shows are used to push A lot of the
Speaker 1: animated shows were used to push the toy sales. And
Speaker 1: so I don't know if G I. Joe would be
Speaker 1: as big as it is without a real American hero.
Speaker 1: The year was and it saw the highly successful relaunch
Speaker 1: of the G I. Joe product line in a smaller
Speaker 1: three point seven five inch scale. So that scale was
Speaker 1: the same one that was used by Kenner's Star Wars
Speaker 1: figures and Micronauts, which were also really popular. Um, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: And this relaunch pioneered several tactics in toy marketing, combining
Speaker 1: traditional advertising with an animated television miniseries and an ongoing
Speaker 1: comic book. The decision to use a smaller three point
Speaker 1: scale for the figures also made it possible for Hasbro
Speaker 1: to produce a variety of matching vehicles and play sets
Speaker 1: that further expanded the appeal and commercial potential of the line.
Speaker 1: So this is the yeah, this is more the G
Speaker 1: I the cheesy g I Joe. We remember that we
Speaker 1: have the smaller toys, and I remember the Star Wars
Speaker 1: toys to like, it was like, this is like the
Speaker 1: action figure action figures that I was referencing because I
Speaker 1: realized before I just repeated action figures, so people could
Speaker 1: have been like, what did if you mean by that,
Speaker 1: I mean like these scale action figures. Yeah. We also
Speaker 1: had G I. Joe posters, t shirts, video games, board games,
Speaker 1: and kites and kites both toy and lamp in. Hobby
Speaker 1: World magazines ranked G I. Joe as the top selling
Speaker 1: American toy. Yeah, and because the Enemy toys had never
Speaker 1: sold well in the past, Hasbro actually didn't even consider
Speaker 1: to bring them back for the G I. Joe. But
Speaker 1: then Larry Hamma, who was writing the Marvel comic book series,
Speaker 1: insisted that these guys can't just march around and go
Speaker 1: on maneuvers or whatnot. They have to be battling some things,
Speaker 1: you know, like a threat. That's a direct quote Froom.
Speaker 1: And it was Marvel's writer Archie Goodwin that suggested terrorist
Speaker 1: organization named Cobra, and inspired by the name, inspired by
Speaker 1: the name, Ron Rudette developed the design for the Enemies
Speaker 1: now iconic logo. Yeah. And, according to Jim Shooter, who
Speaker 1: at one point was Marvel's editor in chief, later villains
Speaker 1: became of their volume. So of the toys, isn't that crazy? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're kind of right, though, I can't think of other
Speaker 1: villains maybe now, but I can't think of toys where
Speaker 1: the villain sold as well as this, you know, I can't. Well,
Speaker 1: they look so cool, you know, they do. And it
Speaker 1: was really interesting because a lot of people are like, well,
Speaker 1: Cobra and Marvel was also working, you know, with Hydra.
Speaker 1: That to me is kind of obviously they don't like
Speaker 1: overlap at all in the comics, but that was kind
Speaker 1: of there. They're kind of really similar. They're kind of
Speaker 1: really similar. So yes, we have g I Joe a
Speaker 1: real American hero. Um also known as Action Force in
Speaker 1: the UK uh In It was a half hour American
Speaker 1: animated television series that was created by Ron Friedman. It
Speaker 1: was based on the toy line from Hasbro and the
Speaker 1: comic book series from Marvel Comics. The cartoon had its
Speaker 1: beginning with two five part mini series in nine three
Speaker 1: and nine four. Then it became a regular series that
Speaker 1: ran in syndication from to Night six. Yeah, and they
Speaker 1: took these cartoons pretty seriously, like the producers didn't want
Speaker 1: just like anyone who'd written a Saturday morning cartoon. Uh So,
Speaker 1: Ron Freeman, who had worked on all in the family,
Speaker 1: Star Ski and Hutch and Fantasy Island was recruited to
Speaker 1: write the first fifteen episodes of G I. Joe. And
Speaker 1: then other people were Marvel Wolfman who wrote the New
Speaker 1: teen Titans. You had Danny O'Neill who wrote Batman, Steve
Speaker 1: Gruber who was the co creator of Howard the Duck.
Speaker 1: So like they it wasn't like, I feel like not
Speaker 1: to kind of jam on teenage meaning Ninja Turtles, But
Speaker 1: when we were describing that, it just seemed like it
Speaker 1: was a couple of toy dudes again, like all right,
Speaker 1: let's do this, like know with G I. Joe there,
Speaker 1: like let's find some some big dogs. Well, it's kind
Speaker 1: of fascinating if we were compared to Teenage Mutan Ninja Turtles,
Speaker 1: because that was so much more lighthearted. Um. And if
Speaker 1: you think of when we talked about like some of
Speaker 1: their catchphrases that were created by the toy company, um
Speaker 1: like how a bung that wasn't created by them, but
Speaker 1: that was instilled by them. And then um, heroes and
Speaker 1: a half shell was something else that they had come
Speaker 1: up with in them being like pizza loving and stuff.
Speaker 1: So um, yeah, this it is kind of interesting apparel,
Speaker 1: like to look at how different these two ended up becoming.
Speaker 1: UM and maybe partly because G I. Joe is rooted
Speaker 1: in war, you know, like there's no way to get
Speaker 1: around that, as much as they did try to make
Speaker 1: them kind of superhero esque UM. But also another fun
Speaker 1: fact that has to do with other cartoons in the era.
Speaker 1: So in the G I. Joe movie, there's a scene
Speaker 1: where Duke the leader kind of takes a staff to
Speaker 1: his heart and dies on screen, and like, you know, uh,
Speaker 1: the fellow Joe's like, uh, Scarlett and Hawk, they're crying.
Speaker 1: And at the end of the film, Duke's half brother, Falcon,
Speaker 1: he was looking to the heavens and says thanks big brothers.
Speaker 1: But UM producers ended up panicking and added dialogue to
Speaker 1: explain that Duke was actually just in a coma from
Speaker 1: which he later had a miraculous victory, and the reason
Speaker 1: was because kids were traumatized by Optimist Primes death in
Speaker 1: the Transformers movie, so they so they scrambled and really
Speaker 1: only only only like a decade later would we have
Speaker 1: the horrific death of Mufassa at the hand of thousands
Speaker 1: of willed de bees. Um. I mean Disney doesn't care
Speaker 1: at all. No, Apparently Sunbow is over here trying to
Speaker 1: protect children and Disney is trying to ruin everyone's life. Well,
Speaker 1: technically they kind of work because they were going to
Speaker 1: kill off Duke and Optimist Prime and only build because
Speaker 1: they saw the consequences of their actions. Wow. Wow. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: Disney does not care. No, Disney's like Bambi, Yes, exactly.
Speaker 1: Bambies was quicker, though faster. They really like dragged that out.
Speaker 1: His death scene was like ten minutes and then it
Speaker 1: was him like, you know, struggling. Okay, moving on, but yeah,
Speaker 1: So GJ was promoted to a full series in and
Speaker 1: the season began with a third Freedman penned five part adventure,
Speaker 1: The Pyramid of Darkness, and that story sees most of
Speaker 1: the existing cast from the two previous mini series held
Speaker 1: Captive by Cobra, and then a second season of thirty
Speaker 1: episodes followed in nineteen eight six, beginning with the fourth
Speaker 1: five part story Arise, Serpenter Rise, in which Cobra scientists
Speaker 1: doctor mind Bender, inspired by a dream, uses the DNA
Speaker 1: of histories, ruthless conquerors, and rulers to genetically engineer Serpenter,
Speaker 1: who usurps Cobra Commander's place as leader of Cobra Serpenter.
Speaker 1: So then in this mini series introduced a new nine
Speaker 1: range of toys into the story, who were at the
Speaker 1: center of most stories across the rest of the season.
Speaker 1: In particular, the mini series debut former WWF and then
Speaker 1: current a W a professional wrestler Sergeant Slaughter as a
Speaker 1: member of the G I Joe, who was played by himself.
Speaker 1: And I remember this because that was like the cool thing,
Speaker 1: and for the season, Buzz Dixon replaced Steve Gerber as
Speaker 1: story editor. That's just some behind the scenes Hollywood facts.
Speaker 1: I think people are still tripping off the Sergeant Slaughter
Speaker 1: or your nostalgis kicking in because you remember that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was gonna say so. G I. Joe was a
Speaker 1: co production between Marvel Productions and Sunbow Productions, and Somebo's
Speaker 1: staff would write the scripts based on the character and
Speaker 1: vehicle designs provided by Hasbro. Again behind the curtain, which
Speaker 1: I guess you can see. Um, I haven't had the
Speaker 1: time to sit down because I didn't realize it was
Speaker 1: multiple episodes, but um, the toys that made us that,
Speaker 1: you know that series on Netflix? Oh yeah, Um, I
Speaker 1: know that they have one on this so, um, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's something some more. It's some extracurricular activity if you, yeah,
Speaker 1: go check it out. But also you can see that basically, um,
Speaker 1: a lot of our nostalgic stuff comes from selling toys.
Speaker 1: So they would write the scripts based on the character
Speaker 1: and vehicle designs provided by Hasbro, while the artists at
Speaker 1: Marvel Productions would draw storyboards based on the scripts and
Speaker 1: record voiceovers the animation. Though this is really fascinating. The
Speaker 1: animation was outsourced to our friends at Toy in Japan,
Speaker 1: who worked on all episodes as well as the movie. Well,
Speaker 1: I want to talk about Marvel because there's a fun
Speaker 1: thing that was kind of cool that never really happened.
Speaker 1: So at the same time that Hasbro was developing its
Speaker 1: three inch Real American Hero toy line, Marvel Comics editor
Speaker 1: and freelance writer Larry Hamma, who we were talking about earlier,
Speaker 1: was pitching a series called The Fury for which was
Speaker 1: made up of an elite squad of soldiers and uh,
Speaker 1: the lead was like Nick Fury's son. And when Hama
Speaker 1: was signed on right g I Joe, he ended up
Speaker 1: dropping the Fury Force and transposed like several of the
Speaker 1: characters from that into the real American hero lineup. But
Speaker 1: I mean that that would have been a fun world
Speaker 1: that because it seems like Marvel and G I. Joe's
Speaker 1: were kind of living that same kind of timeline, but
Speaker 1: it just kind of never fully committed to it. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Toy had worked on the movie as well. So speaking
Speaker 1: of the G I. Joe. Yeah, so it was a
Speaker 1: feature league film version of the series that was intended
Speaker 1: to be released theatrically followed by the Transformers movie. However,
Speaker 1: the movie encountered unexpected production delays, which allowed the Transformers
Speaker 1: feature to be released first and ruined it for everybody.
Speaker 1: Because the poor box office performance of the trans Formers
Speaker 1: and My Little Pony films, which were both done by Sunbow, Um,
Speaker 1: G I. Joe was then sent to direct to video status. Um.
Speaker 1: It was released on VHS on A and was later
Speaker 1: split into a five part mini series for television syndication.
Speaker 1: But um, it could have been in the theaters. I know,
Speaker 1: you could have watched it on the big screen, but
Speaker 1: the like like I said, Transformers seemed to ruin the
Speaker 1: movie more ways than one. Yeah, So, if you do
Speaker 1: want to talk about the movie a little bit. Yeah. So,
Speaker 1: the movie follows up the events of season two, revealing
Speaker 1: that Cobra Commander is actually an agent of a secret
Speaker 1: civilization known as Cobra Lat led by a half serpent
Speaker 1: humanoid named Globulus. The same organization is also revealed to
Speaker 1: have had a hand in the creation of Serpenteur, as
Speaker 1: the dream that inspired Dr Mindbender to create him was
Speaker 1: actually a subconscious suggestion implanted into him by one of
Speaker 1: Globulus's bugs. In addition to Cobra Law, two new sub
Speaker 1: teams were introduced within the Joe Team, the Raw Hides
Speaker 1: and the Renegade Renegade, both composed of characters introduced during
Speaker 1: the toy Lines lineup. Remember the Renegades because those dudes
Speaker 1: were fighting people from space? Yeah? Um, And then sadly
Speaker 1: we have a cancelation. So Marvel Productions continued to produce
Speaker 1: animated commercials for the toy line and comic books, which
Speaker 1: also featured a new theme song with the lyrics Nobody
Speaker 1: Beats g I Joe after g I Joe the movie,
Speaker 1: which was intended to set up season three. However, the
Speaker 1: company never got around to produce a third season, as
Speaker 1: they end up losing the license to competing animation company
Speaker 1: Dick d i C. During pre production. Uh here's another
Speaker 1: weird interesting fact. But Rocky Balboa almost became a G I. Joe.
Speaker 1: But what the found out? So they were doing a
Speaker 1: four issue mini series that started in December of n
Speaker 1: six that listed all of the various G I. Joe operatives,
Speaker 1: Cobra agents, and vehicles that made up the universe, and
Speaker 1: the second issue of the series, Rocky Boubo was uh
Speaker 1: erroneously listed as a member of the Joe's because the
Speaker 1: reason this happened was negotiations had been taken place to
Speaker 1: license the character but had subsequently fallen through. But he
Speaker 1: still was listed anyway, so it was like a teaser
Speaker 1: of what could have been. Like can you imagine? The
Speaker 1: picture is so funny too, because he has boxing glosses
Speaker 1: like that, but they all have guns and lasers. What
Speaker 1: were you gonna do? Yeah? I guess that doesn't make sense.
Speaker 1: I think Sylvester stall alone makes more sense. Like just him,
Speaker 1: he already looks like what tell them Brambo. Yeah. So
Speaker 1: let's talk a little bit about Dick's involvement with the
Speaker 1: G I. Joe series. So their series premiered in nine
Speaker 1: nine with a five part mini series titled Operation Dragonfire.
Speaker 1: It was turned into a regular series that aired from
Speaker 1: two and lasting two season for a total of forty
Speaker 1: four episodes. UM Sunbow would later return to the G
Speaker 1: I Joe franchise UM and they co produced the pilot
Speaker 1: Sergeant Savage and His Screaming Eagles UM and G I
Speaker 1: Joe G I Joe Extreme TV series, which aired from
Speaker 1: There was actually a lot. There's a lot more, I
Speaker 1: think than people realize because people normally just equate it
Speaker 1: to the smaller series. But it continued on. The Screaming
Speaker 1: Eagles pilot also had characters from the Real American hero
Speaker 1: series which was Hawk Doc Lady j as well as
Speaker 1: Cobra Commander himself. Yeah, but otherwise it focused on new
Speaker 1: heroes and villains. And just for those of my wondering, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Dick Enterprises is Diffusion Information and Communications and it was
Speaker 1: a French company and there there are there incredible slogan
Speaker 1: which is a D percent true is the incredible world
Speaker 1: of Dick. Wait, could we be saying it wrong? If
Speaker 1: he is it? D I c Like, what how is
Speaker 1: I don't know? D c um, there's already a d C. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so there it is. I guess people probably call it
Speaker 1: D I C. Maybe I don't know. Let's talk about
Speaker 1: the g I Jo's p S A. I am so
Speaker 1: excited about this, yeah, because this was I think one
Speaker 1: of the biggest things that g JO were known for.
Speaker 1: A series of p s a s were produced, starting
Speaker 1: the characters from g JO from seven. Each p S
Speaker 1: A public service announcements for those who might not know,
Speaker 1: and it was one of the trouble kids spouting now
Speaker 1: I know the more you know, yeah, and now they
Speaker 1: know the future. Joe would then follow it up with
Speaker 1: the infamous catchphrase and knowing is half the battle. There
Speaker 1: were thirty five p s a s per each with
Speaker 1: a different lesson to be learned. Uh, let's let's try
Speaker 1: and run down these as fast as a kid. What okay? Okay?
Speaker 1: You you take one, I'll take running away isn't the answer?
Speaker 1: Featuring Shipwreck? Are you okay? Don't do what a stranger
Speaker 1: says with wild Bill? How to tread water featuring Torpedo,
Speaker 1: What to do if you catch on fire featuring Spirit
Speaker 1: Being a handicap doesn't make one helpless featuring Spirit Be
Speaker 1: careful around frozen ponds and Lakes featuring snow Job. Taking
Speaker 1: something that isn't yours just asn't right featuring Shipwreck. You'll
Speaker 1: never learn without trying featuring Scarlet. Don't go near down
Speaker 1: power lines featuring Roadblock. Oh I love that one, um.
Speaker 1: Don't give strangers your address featuring Roadblock. Have your eyes
Speaker 1: tested featuring Don't get in anything that could close and
Speaker 1: trap you featuring Rocondo. Anything worth doing is worth planning
Speaker 1: featuring Quick Kick. Don't pet strange animals featuring Much Your
Speaker 1: Proper Protection Out in the Sun featuring leather Neck. Stop
Speaker 1: and think before you act. I mean that's just good
Speaker 1: for anyone featuring Lady Jay Obey railroad crossings featuring Hawk,
Speaker 1: Don't judge people until you give them chance featuring gung Ho.
Speaker 1: How do stop a nosebleed? Featuring Footloose And That's that's helpful.
Speaker 1: Teamwork helps you win, not arguments featuring Flint. It's better
Speaker 1: to tell the truth featuring Flint. Put reflectors on your
Speaker 1: bikes featuring Dusty. Never take medicine without adult supervisions featuring
Speaker 1: Doc Have proper ventilation when painting? Why is your child
Speaker 1: painting your bedroom? Featuring dial Tone. Don't Swim during a
Speaker 1: thunderstorm featuring Always wear a life jacket when boating featuring
Speaker 1: Deep six Instead of fighting, find a better way featuring Cutter.
Speaker 1: Don't call the fire department from a burning building featuring Blowtorch.
Speaker 1: Very very yeah, that's to go together. What to do
Speaker 1: when You're lost featuring Alpine. Don't pull the fire alarm
Speaker 1: unless there's a fire featuring Barbecue. What to do if
Speaker 1: your house is on fire featuring Barbecue, Well, I already
Speaker 1: know not to call the fire department. Love that one, Okay.
Speaker 1: What to do if someone passes out featuring Airtight, Eat
Speaker 1: the right foods featuring Lifeline, Wear a helmet for protection
Speaker 1: featuring cross Country and beach Head. Listen to yourself featuring Flint. Oh.
Speaker 1: Those were a lot, and they ranged from like helpful
Speaker 1: to what um so I want to say? How I
Speaker 1: was introduced to them was from the parodies which are
Speaker 1: pretty popular and infamous on the Internet and Treat Yourself
Speaker 1: truly So. In two thousand three, Eric Fenzler created parodies
Speaker 1: of twenty five of the p S A s which
Speaker 1: were hosted on The Bomb's World, prompting to take down
Speaker 1: notice from Hasbro in two thousand and four, but They
Speaker 1: have since been uploaded in various ways. UM, my favorite
Speaker 1: is pork Chop Sandwiches, which you can google G I
Speaker 1: Joe pork Chop Sandwiches. Yeah, I have it right here.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, god, did that smell good? Detected? Did you know?
Speaker 1: Going and you tell me do things I don't running?
Speaker 1: I know? Yeah, audibly you're probably like, what just happened?
Speaker 1: But if you watch it, it's just insane. It's so funny,
Speaker 1: and they made several of them, and other people have
Speaker 1: made parodies as well, but I think, um, eric Is
Speaker 1: Fendler is the one who's most notorious for it. Fendler Film. Um,
Speaker 1: and uh, the first part of that we couldn't play
Speaker 1: because it had a lot of the effort in it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just that that's our I guess our warning for you
Speaker 1: is it curses a lot. Yeah. But yeah, I wanted
Speaker 1: to say we should talk about the characters of G
Speaker 1: I Joe because we didn't even really get into the
Speaker 1: different Joes and Cobra's. Yeah, we mentioned Duke and that's
Speaker 1: about it. Well, we did say all of those featuring
Speaker 1: those p s a sum but we'll get into actually
Speaker 1: the top ten Joes and Cobra's right after the break
Speaker 1: and we are back. So yeah, I g M put
Speaker 1: together this nice and handy list of the top ten
Speaker 1: Joes and Cobras, which is more informative and better than
Speaker 1: reading just all of them. There's too many. I was
Speaker 1: going to say that, and I know that we're going
Speaker 1: to leave out somebody's favorite. So instead of writing us, right,
Speaker 1: I g N. No, instead of write us, send a
Speaker 1: picture and tell us why you're the favorite, and then
Speaker 1: I'll retweet and let you know if I agree if
Speaker 1: that should be the best one. Yeah, do that, because
Speaker 1: I was going to say, there's just there's so many.
Speaker 1: There's there's They added a whole bunch like a hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty or something really yeah, uh huh yeah, like characters. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So our friends at I g N made a nice
Speaker 1: little top ten. It's actually top five. It's top five
Speaker 1: Joe's and top five Cobras. Uh. So starting out at
Speaker 1: number five for them is Gung Ho. Yeah, who's It
Speaker 1: seems like he is a you know, just what you
Speaker 1: would expect at the Times version of Asian American warrior. Yeah,
Speaker 1: except for he grew up in Louisiana. He honed his
Speaker 1: skills in bare knuckle boxing and knife fighting at an
Speaker 1: early age. As we all. Uh, those skills, along with
Speaker 1: his exposure to the human bias of Louisiana. I love
Speaker 1: that this is in his backstory, made him a perfect
Speaker 1: candidate to join the Marines and fight in Vietnam. So
Speaker 1: befitting his loud, colorful personality, Gung Ho loves carrying a
Speaker 1: grenade launcher and lane waste to Cobra's forces. Um, so
Speaker 1: he's basically wearing all he's wearing kneepads. That's fascinating. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's good. And you know he has the It almost
Speaker 1: looks like the Marines. Yeah, he has the marine. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's part of the Marines. He has a tattooed on
Speaker 1: his chest just so people know. And he kind of
Speaker 1: has the handibore mustache. Yeah, yeah, you know, it's great. Uh,
Speaker 1: he's very interesting. Y'all might have remembered this name, which
Speaker 1: is uh Roadblock and uh and it seems like he
Speaker 1: came from the Marvel comics series and apparently he had
Speaker 1: a foul temper there. In the sun Bow animated series,
Speaker 1: Roadblock became like a more jovial figure and he's developing
Speaker 1: a tendency to speak in rhyme, while also emerging as
Speaker 1: one of the great leader figures among the shows. It's
Speaker 1: also important to note that Roadblock is black, so you
Speaker 1: know he's easier wrapping Joe apparently. I would love it
Speaker 1: if somebody out in war is speaking in rhymes and
Speaker 1: the Rock played him in G I Joe Retaliation. There
Speaker 1: we go, moving on to three. Her code name is
Speaker 1: Scarlet in her civilian surname is O'Hara, and uh yeah,
Speaker 1: she has good looks, fiery personality, and the fact that
Speaker 1: she's one of the few female Jos. She has a
Speaker 1: law degree and specializes in a number of firearms, though
Speaker 1: her preferred weapon is the crossbow, and she also is
Speaker 1: a eight martial artists. I feel like, yeah, if you're
Speaker 1: a G I. Joe, you gotta know a little little.
Speaker 1: I mean some of them you could have just weapons, yea.
Speaker 1: And she also, if you don't remember, she was the
Speaker 1: you'll never learn without trying p s a h. And
Speaker 1: we got our man's Duke, who is basically the leader
Speaker 1: of the G I. Joe, the one we were talking
Speaker 1: about who was supposed to lose his life um, but
Speaker 1: due to the death of Optimus Primes, it didn't Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: Chan and Tatum basically played him in the Rise of Cobra,
Speaker 1: and you know, he actually was able to reprise the
Speaker 1: role in Retaliation as well, So it's cool. Do people
Speaker 1: like those films? I don't know, because they kept getting
Speaker 1: sequels like I want to be like what but yeah, no,
Speaker 1: they kept getting sequels like Transformers, which which I enjoyed
Speaker 1: and you didn't. He didn't even watch it. I don't think.
Speaker 1: I still haven't watched a will transform Uhjo Retaliation the
Speaker 1: budget was a hundred and fifty five million and it
Speaker 1: made three hundred and seventy five So yeah, I guess
Speaker 1: they're Yeah, they're pretty successful. Moving on, who do you
Speaker 1: think number one? Who would you say would be number one? Uh?
Speaker 1: For the Jo's Honestly, I have no clue it is. Oh. Yes,
Speaker 1: Snake Guys was everyone's favorite. And I know this because
Speaker 1: he was a ninja and like when the Jo movies
Speaker 1: came out, my like little brother and little cousin were
Speaker 1: of age and they both were on Snake Guy's head. Tough. Yes,
Speaker 1: So the black Clad Ninja is a man of very
Speaker 1: few words. He never speaks, is that truly never sneake?
Speaker 1: He never speaks with various versions of the mythology, deferring
Speaker 1: as to whether that's a self in pose limitation or
Speaker 1: result of damage vocal cords. It's fascinating. Yeah, but he's
Speaker 1: an unparalleled fighter, master of many weapons. He preferred is
Speaker 1: to stick to his trusty Katana whenever possible. His pet
Speaker 1: wolf Timber is always ready to assist him in battle. Um.
Speaker 1: He has a deep seated rivalry with storm Shadow Dope suit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the suits dope. Storm Shadow is kind of in like
Speaker 1: all white. So it's like the perfect Yan and Yang.
Speaker 1: It truly is. But that is their top five, Joe's Now,
Speaker 1: let's talk about what's really cool, which is the Cobras.
Speaker 1: I mean everyone likes the villains. Yeah, I like, as
Speaker 1: I've grown up, I've kind of now I prefer Scar.
Speaker 1: I prefer Scar over Maleficent. I think that they have
Speaker 1: and kill Monger in Thanos. I think they have good
Speaker 1: points to make. Um, well, they're Number five is Zartan
Speaker 1: and he was one of the major recurring villains in
Speaker 1: the sun Bow animated series, and he frequently worked alongside
Speaker 1: the Dreadknocks, a colorful biker gang with a high membership turnover,
Speaker 1: and he has like disguised and espionage skills and apparently
Speaker 1: runs in his family. And he works with his twin siblings,
Speaker 1: Zarana and Zander. So it's Zartan, Zarana Zander and he
Speaker 1: has a daughter named Zanya. Wait wait wait, so but
Speaker 1: his name is Zartan. But that's their last name? Oh
Speaker 1: is it? Um? Yeah? Who else? There's a couple of
Speaker 1: other characters like that. That's really funny. I can't think
Speaker 1: of it. But a couple of other characters like their
Speaker 1: last name their their name is also their last name.
Speaker 1: UM number four. Surprisingly at number four is Cobra Commander,
Speaker 1: probably one of the most famous Cobras. I got belive it.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's why how number far um? He has the
Speaker 1: same mystery factor working for him that benefits snake guys.
Speaker 1: Little is known about his past before becoming an international
Speaker 1: super terrorist. He's very diligent about hiding his face, tending
Speaker 1: to wear his signature helmet or hood even while sleeping.
Speaker 1: That's how dedicated he is. According to the Marvel comic series,
Speaker 1: he was a failing used our salesman that would turn
Speaker 1: anyone evil. I love it, who was spurned to evil
Speaker 1: by the death of his brother. But it also the
Speaker 1: car sales. I feel like that was the major thing.
Speaker 1: The death of his brother kind of sucks, but also
Speaker 1: the death of his soul. Every day, sitting every day
Speaker 1: he's been trying to sell it for the past five years. Yeah,
Speaker 1: every day someone trying to haggle him down on his
Speaker 1: price as he sits there and there and sits there
Speaker 1: and gets their curing coffee that Cobra commanded. Number four.
Speaker 1: Number three is the Baroness who's early early crushes. Look
Speaker 1: at that, we look, that's like looking in the mirror
Speaker 1: if you look at that all the just let black leather, glasses,
Speaker 1: black hair. She's great, Oh my gosh, and she yeah.
Speaker 1: So basically she was booed up with Destro. That was
Speaker 1: the one thing she also with which was cool for
Speaker 1: me because it's like, look, I'm thicker than deshtrows. So
Speaker 1: you know, anytime you want to upgrade Baroness, let your
Speaker 1: boy know. Um. And then Rise of Cobra the movie
Speaker 1: tried to shake up the formula by making Baroness a
Speaker 1: former love interest of Dukes, but uh, I guess in
Speaker 1: the sequel they just never address it. Yeah, she has
Speaker 1: one of the distinction of being one of the few
Speaker 1: g I Joe characters to debut first in the Marvel
Speaker 1: comics rather than the toy line or the animated series. Um,
Speaker 1: and that's kind of like Harlequin. Yeah, and I guess
Speaker 1: it was not in a good way, And it was
Speaker 1: mainly because the toy companies are kind of reluctant to
Speaker 1: make female figures and action thing that's in the past.
Speaker 1: Oh wait, still have that issue a day. But yeah,
Speaker 1: just to clarify, Harlequinn was debuted in the Batman animated series,
Speaker 1: not the comic books, and she was so popular that
Speaker 1: they made her a character who is now synonymous with Joker. Truly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she has her own Have you seen Batman and Harley Quinn? No,
Speaker 1: it's good animated. I watched it on the airplane, and
Speaker 1: I'm sure you know we I would like to think
Speaker 1: that grown adults are like, okay, with the fact that
Speaker 1: you know, other grown adults watched cartoons on the airplane,
Speaker 1: but that was what I was choosing to do with
Speaker 1: my time. Moving on a number two, Destro, who was
Speaker 1: placed higher than Cobra Commander, very fascinating. I think he
Speaker 1: was cooler because he had the baroness, you know. Oh,
Speaker 1: so she like leveled him up. Um. Destro was once
Speaker 1: layered James mccollan, Destro the twenty four Wow, the Scottish
Speaker 1: nobleman carried on his family's long tradition. I love the
Speaker 1: backstories of these on his family's long tradition of selling
Speaker 1: advanced weapons and profiting from the wars of other nations.
Speaker 1: Destro is the leader of Mars, a manufacturer responsible for
Speaker 1: providing Cobra with many of its doomsday devices and other weaponry. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and his signature, he has a signature steel mask is
Speaker 1: worn as a homage yeah to his ancestor, who was
Speaker 1: forced to wear an iron mask for selling weapons to
Speaker 1: both sides of a conflict. It's fascinating. This is really
Speaker 1: in depth for a quote unquote child's children's series. They
Speaker 1: get in deep, they get in super deep um, although
Speaker 1: in some versions of the mask is seen as a
Speaker 1: protected device that hides his scarred face or, in the
Speaker 1: case of I Dw's current comics, prevents his energy based
Speaker 1: body from um dissipating. Oh nice, I didn't know that
Speaker 1: about him. Yeah. Well, uh. Number one is they follow
Speaker 1: the same suit with villains is storm Shadow, which is
Speaker 1: Snake Eyes enemy and uh I gn basically describes it
Speaker 1: this way. If Snake Eyes is the Wolverine of the
Speaker 1: Joe universe, than storm Shadow is definitely his saber too.
Speaker 1: To have a long history that dates back well before
Speaker 1: the days of GIAI, Joe and Cobra that the details changed.
Speaker 1: The gist of their feud is that storm Shadow view
Speaker 1: Snake Eyes as an outsider, unworthy of clan or a Chicago.
Speaker 1: In many versions of the Joe Verse, one of these
Speaker 1: ninjas hold the other responsible for the death of their master.
Speaker 1: There are many clashes in the comics, movies where he's
Speaker 1: played by Byong Hung Le, and animated projects frequently number
Speaker 1: among the most memorable CHII Joe moments of all, of course,
Speaker 1: because everyone loves ninjas. I was going to say not included,
Speaker 1: but I did want to mention Dr Mindbender, mad scientist
Speaker 1: and former dentist. I really love this. We have a
Speaker 1: used car salesman, we have a dentist, and both of
Speaker 1: these both of these occupations would make people evil, truly.
Speaker 1: He created several mind control devices, uh and was also
Speaker 1: an expert in genetic manipulation. So he is the responsible
Speaker 1: for the creation of Serpenter and Cobra Bat. Yeah, as
Speaker 1: well as perfecting the brain wave scanner so it looks
Speaker 1: like Back in two thirteen, reports surface that there would
Speaker 1: be a third Gijo film and it would likely be
Speaker 1: in three D. Studio announced Chew would return to direct
Speaker 1: the film. Then one at San Diego Comic Count of
Speaker 1: two thousand and thirteen, they you talked about bringing back
Speaker 1: Scarlett in the next film, and then the writers of
Speaker 1: the second film, we're bringing talking about bringing back Baroness
Speaker 1: and there's all these talk, and then September of the
Speaker 1: same year, she was confirmed to direct the film, along
Speaker 1: with the writer Evan Dherty who wrote Snow White and
Speaker 1: The Huntsman, Divergent, Teenage Muant Ninja Turtles, and then uh,
Speaker 1: then it goes on, and then it seems like nothing happened.
Speaker 1: Then they hired writers, hired writers, hired writers. Uh. Then
Speaker 1: in two thousand seventeen January of last year, Crusoe stated
Speaker 1: that the script for the crossover movie is now being written,
Speaker 1: and in May two thousand seventeen, The Rock Dwayne Johnson
Speaker 1: stated that if the opportunity rises, he might appear in
Speaker 1: any future Joe films, And then The Hollywood Reporter has
Speaker 1: reported that Paramount announced the film would be released in
Speaker 1: March of So this is all the way since two thousand,
Speaker 1: thirteen twenty and it seems like it's going to be
Speaker 1: a crossover film with I Believe Terminator, I mean Transformers
Speaker 1: and what did I say Terminating. They have G I
Speaker 1: Joe The Rise of Cobra, which came out in two
Speaker 1: thousand nine, then G I Joe Retaliation which came out,
Speaker 1: and now G I Joe Ever Vigilant is the current
Speaker 1: name that will be coming out in It has a
Speaker 1: projected release date of March, and then it says they
Speaker 1: have an untitled Snake Eyes film to be announced. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it seems like they just announced that in um in
Speaker 1: May of this year. So we're getting more G I Joe.
Speaker 1: But it's taken a while. So that's the future of
Speaker 1: G I Joe. It's coming, it's just taken a minute.
Speaker 1: That's going to be insane, just hands down. I don't
Speaker 1: see how those two worlds can come together and not
Speaker 1: be insane. But I'm very curious to watch it happen.
Speaker 1: I guess I have to watch the other G I
Speaker 1: Joe's to really go. But there has been huge gaps
Speaker 1: between it because Rise of Cobra. The first Gijo film
Speaker 1: came out in two thousand nine. Yeah, and then G I.
Speaker 1: Joe Retaliation came out in two thousand thirteen. That's a
Speaker 1: full four years later. And now we're going to get
Speaker 1: Ever Vigilant seven years later. Yeah. And I also wanted
Speaker 1: to say that Crusoe had worked on the Triple X
Speaker 1: film he directed the Return of Xander Cage. He said
Speaker 1: that with such like, no, I don't I haven't watched
Speaker 1: a lot of those. I think I watched the first one.
Speaker 1: I haven't watched a lot of the G I. Joe
Speaker 1: films either, So I guess let us know if we
Speaker 1: should watch them. I don't know. Yeah, this came out,
Speaker 1: the first one came out in two thousand nine. Liked them.
Speaker 1: I was three years out of high school. I probably
Speaker 1: thought it was way too advance for that. Like, sorry, y'all,
Speaker 1: I can't watch G I. Joe. I have to go
Speaker 1: watch Bible Black. Sorry, way too mature for these games. Well,
Speaker 1: there's so many I feel like that are like that
Speaker 1: are in this vein that I just kind of end up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: not watching all of that. Plus, when you think of
Speaker 1: the amount of actual um DC Marvel films that we
Speaker 1: have and superhero films. It's kind of a lot to watch.
Speaker 1: I have way behind on DC, like d C. I
Speaker 1: have been seeing Suicide Squad. I haven't seen Justice League.
Speaker 1: The last DC movie I watched was wonder Woman. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would say those were the other two that came out.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm very excited, very excited to see wonder Woman
Speaker 1: UM eighty four and also Flashpoint. I forgot Aquaman is
Speaker 1: coming out. Um. I always forget that he was introduced
Speaker 1: in the Justice No, I forget because he's just Jason
Speaker 1: Momoa is Jason Momoa. Like it seems like he's always
Speaker 1: been with us. It seems like he's been Aquaman for
Speaker 1: the last like five years at least or ten years. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's how it feels. It just feels like, no, that's him, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we know him. But these other like but who's this
Speaker 1: as a Miller person? And who was the actor that
Speaker 1: played Cyborg? Um? Oh, Ray Fisher, Ray Fisher who played Cyborg? Yeah,
Speaker 1: and so those are newer to me, and probably also
Speaker 1: because they don't necessarily have the film um or TV
Speaker 1: legacy that I feel like Mamoa does just because he's older. Um.
Speaker 1: But yeah, but somebody did correct us in our I
Speaker 1: forgot which episode it was, but we were talking about
Speaker 1: the introduction of those characters and someone reminded us that
Speaker 1: Aquaman was also introduced in that but I totally forgot. Also,
Speaker 1: while we're adding addendums to things, some uh, we got
Speaker 1: a message because we called Hunter x Hunter Hunter x
Speaker 1: Hunter and anime fans believe it should be called Hunter Hunter. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but Erica also calls it Hunter x Hunter, and I've
Speaker 1: feel like she's in the anime community and also Japanese American. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so so yeah, some people said that you called it
Speaker 1: hunter by Hunter and sometimes and people say Hunter x.
Speaker 1: It seems like you know who cares just watch it
Speaker 1: and support the show. But you know, there you go.
Speaker 1: You got it all right. Um, I think we got
Speaker 1: to get out of here, so let's just wrap it up.
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Speaker 1: someone has the Captain America meme, you know the meme
Speaker 1: of him sitting down at the chair um and someone said,
Speaker 1: so you pronounced the X and Hunter x hunter and
Speaker 1: then they follow and it has like eighteen thou likes,
Speaker 1: but they followed it up with might I add I
Speaker 1: personally don't care if you say some Hunter hunter or
Speaker 1: Hunter x hunter or even you you hacka show part two.
Speaker 1: This tweet is all in good fun as it should be.
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Speaker 1: known as. Yeah. Here's my shout out Heels Angels with
Speaker 1: the Z thanks for that sub from the Nerd Fam.
Speaker 1: Hannah Bataki, you came through, gave me that love. Thank
Speaker 1: you so much. And I'm gonna give Sam Hi five
Speaker 1: a shout out. I don't remember him that specifically saying
Speaker 1: whether or not he was a NERD fan, but I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give him a shout out because I feel like
Speaker 1: the last few subs I have been Nerd Fam Tank
Speaker 1: Chootsu you came through, Hondo Gray Nicole is spelled k
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Speaker 1: them for them subs, it really means a lot to me.
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