WEBVTT - She-Hulk Trailer Reactions + Favorite Sick Day Comfort Watches 0:00:00.560 --> 0:00:03.480 Warning, this podcast can take spoilers for Doctor Stranger, the 0:00:03.520 --> 0:00:07.760 Multiverse of Madness, and the Halo series, including the finale, 0:00:08.360 --> 0:00:12.879 so if you haven't caught up with those particular pieces 0:00:12.920 --> 0:00:16.520 of content, make sure to skip those sections of our podcast. 0:00:17.680 --> 0:00:39.680 That's all. Thank you. Hello. My name is Jason Getsepsion 0:00:39.760 --> 0:00:44.880 and I'm currently in the throes of the novel coronavirus 0:00:44.960 --> 0:00:49.080 COVID nineteen, which I tested positive for last weekend and 0:00:49.159 --> 0:00:53.360 have been suffering symptoms of fromout a day before I 0:00:53.360 --> 0:00:56.200 had tested positive for it. All of which is to 0:00:56.280 --> 0:01:00.280 say this is going to be a crazy episode because 0:01:00.320 --> 0:01:05.720 not only am I suffering from the novel coronavirus COVID nineteen, 0:01:06.160 --> 0:01:12.640 but my brilliant co host, the best in the business, folks, 0:01:12.680 --> 0:01:19.320 the number one comics writer, pop historian in the game today, 0:01:20.000 --> 0:01:22.520 Rosie Night, Rosie, how are you? 0:01:23.600 --> 0:01:28.800 I also have novel coronavirus aka COVID nineteen, and somehow 0:01:28.840 --> 0:01:31.520 we didn't get this at the same place. We legitimately 0:01:31.560 --> 0:01:33.959 have not seen each other in public for a long time. 0:01:34.200 --> 0:01:35.320 In real good. 0:01:35.240 --> 0:01:38.600 Point, Rosie, because here's what I have this happened. 0:01:39.640 --> 0:01:44.000 You can read the news and the COVID. 0:01:43.680 --> 0:01:46.360 Is rampant right now, people wear your masks. 0:01:46.640 --> 0:01:50.800 I've been to numerous places over the last you know, 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:53.200 the last week in the zone when I could have 0:01:53.320 --> 0:01:56.200 gotten it, and I was always one of like the 0:01:56.360 --> 0:02:01.320 five percent of people. They're wearing a mask. It ain't 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:06.640 gone away, folks. And this time it's crazy. This is 0:02:06.680 --> 0:02:10.160 my second go round with COVID nineteen the novel Coronavirus. 0:02:10.440 --> 0:02:13.520 The first time I basically just slept for like eighteen 0:02:13.600 --> 0:02:15.760 hours and then like two days later I felt fine. 0:02:16.320 --> 0:02:22.240 This time, like Terminator two or Aliens or Godfather too. 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:26.800 The sequel is much more potent than the original, and 0:02:27.720 --> 0:02:31.080 I feel like I got a fucking house dropped on me. 0:02:31.760 --> 0:02:34.440 How do you feel, Rosie, I would. 0:02:34.200 --> 0:02:37.120 Concur This is not my first time having COVID, seeing 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:41.120 as we all living through a global pandemic in busy cities. 0:02:41.720 --> 0:02:43.400 But this is the worst time. 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:47.840 I have been haunting my house like a fucking sickened ghost. 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:50.840 That I have a FEVA every day. It is like 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:51.720 you said, it is. 0:02:52.000 --> 0:02:57.239 It's truly like the James Cameron's Aliens to Ridley Scott's Alien. 0:02:57.280 --> 0:03:01.320 The first one was like a brain foggy, slow lucid experience. 0:03:01.639 --> 0:03:05.080 This is like space marine shooting you with then with 0:03:05.200 --> 0:03:06.200 a big space gun. 0:03:06.560 --> 0:03:10.600 It's very bad, folks. It's snarley. Don't get it, and 0:03:10.960 --> 0:03:15.720 we say ask be safe and take care of yourselves 0:03:16.200 --> 0:03:20.840 and other people and other people around you who, for 0:03:21.440 --> 0:03:26.120 reasons not having to do with ignorance, perhaps can't get 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:29.959 the numerous vaccines that are out there because of the 0:03:30.000 --> 0:03:33.200 previous metal conditions, the fact that they're compromised, et cetera. 0:03:34.200 --> 0:03:37.360 Those people are living in a state of constant fear, 0:03:38.920 --> 0:03:43.720 and we can, we can, we can make their plight 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:48.040 a little bit less stressful by hopefully getting vaccinated. If 0:03:48.040 --> 0:03:50.520 you're not vaccinated by now, I'm not sure what happened. 0:03:50.880 --> 0:03:54.640 But also just wearing your mask because it's out here, folks, 0:03:55.000 --> 0:03:59.000 it's out here. I saw Paul McCartney at I saw 0:03:59.040 --> 0:04:02.560 Paul McCartney. That's so fi and again one of like 0:04:02.720 --> 0:04:05.160 one of like five percent of the people there who 0:04:05.400 --> 0:04:11.400 was wearing a mask. So it's out it's it's it 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:17.360 is here, folks. And also anecdotally, as this very podcast 0:04:17.400 --> 0:04:23.320 episode recording proves, I've even like when it was pre vaccines, 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:26.240 when when it was like really really really really scary, 0:04:28.240 --> 0:04:30.359 I didn't know this many people like that had it, 0:04:30.720 --> 0:04:33.760 So I know so many people that have it right 0:04:33.800 --> 0:04:36.159 now or had it last week or two weeks ago. 0:04:37.320 --> 0:04:38.679 Yeah, it's going around. 0:04:38.760 --> 0:04:42.200 And and I don't really go out many places or 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:45.479 go and do big socializing things just to protect my 0:04:45.520 --> 0:04:47.480 own health. And I always wear a mask and I 0:04:47.520 --> 0:04:51.000 still got it. So just everybody's getting it. It's it's 0:04:51.240 --> 0:04:54.040 good to just take care. And it's hard right now 0:04:54.080 --> 0:04:56.159 because the way that the numbers are being reported and 0:04:56.200 --> 0:04:57.680 the fact that a lot of people are testing at 0:04:57.680 --> 0:05:00.640 home means we won't necessarily see those numbers in the 0:05:00.680 --> 0:05:02.200 same way we did in other waves. 0:05:02.480 --> 0:05:03.640 So it's just really good. 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:06.760 To follow you got and be thoughtful for your own 0:05:06.839 --> 0:05:10.280 sake and other people's. And because this is very gnolly, 0:05:11.160 --> 0:05:13.679 you don't want to be sittin a sweating like us 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:16.360 talking about I know. 0:05:16.800 --> 0:05:22.000 Well, great, great transition, because let's do that in today's episode. 0:05:22.040 --> 0:05:24.320 In the previously on, we're going to talk about a 0:05:24.320 --> 0:05:29.680 bunch of news from this week, headlined by the the 0:05:29.800 --> 0:05:33.440 she Hulk trailer drops. The delightful She Hulk trailer drop. 0:05:34.400 --> 0:05:37.640 We will talk about the Halo finale and the fact 0:05:37.640 --> 0:05:43.560 that Master Chief popped his cherry he did it and 0:05:44.120 --> 0:05:47.520 people aren't necessarily happy about it. We will talk about 0:05:47.640 --> 0:05:50.200 some other news, and then we will go to the airlock, 0:05:50.240 --> 0:05:53.160 where we will talk about when you're sick and you're 0:05:53.200 --> 0:05:56.120 sitting at home, what do you watch, what do you read, 0:05:56.240 --> 0:05:59.440 what do you do to just kind of comfort you 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:03.159 through it? And that's that's in our air lock section. 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:06.000 Of course, as always, if you want to jump around, 0:06:06.080 --> 0:06:09.680 check out the time stamps in the show notes. First up, 0:06:09.839 --> 0:06:15.080 let's go to the news. The She Hulk trailer. She 0:06:15.279 --> 0:06:21.359 Hulk Attorney a law She's barred, folks, She's a barred 0:06:21.440 --> 0:06:27.240 attorney at New York State. It's Jennifer Walter's cousin of 0:06:27.320 --> 0:06:31.680 our good friend Bruce Banner. The show starring Tatiana Mazlani 0:06:31.720 --> 0:06:35.920 as Jennifer Walters, Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner, Hello, Tim 0:06:36.040 --> 0:06:42.680 Roth as Emil Blonsky, Benedict Wong as Wong, and others. 0:06:43.360 --> 0:06:48.000 Let's talk about this trailer, which is absolutely super super fun, delight. 0:06:48.160 --> 0:06:54.560 Here's my first takeaway. Hulk's arm is fine. Therefore, this 0:06:54.600 --> 0:06:58.320 is pre end game. Therefore we're going to fill in 0:06:58.440 --> 0:07:05.279 the stuff clearly post snap, and that is Bruce Banner's 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:09.160 you know, post Ragnarok journey to becoming Professor Hulk, We're 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:11.320 going to see some of that timeline filled in and 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:14.560 that is super super cool and awesome. 0:07:15.160 --> 0:07:17.240 Yeah, I want to talk about that, because like if 0:07:17.240 --> 0:07:20.000 you if you're not like us and you don't be 0:07:20.120 --> 0:07:21.640 pausing the trailer and everything. 0:07:21.320 --> 0:07:23.160 You might be like, what are you talking about? But 0:07:23.880 --> 0:07:24.400 this is it. 0:07:24.960 --> 0:07:28.400 In Endgame, we met Professor Holk, who explained that he 0:07:28.520 --> 0:07:31.920 was a new version of Banner and Hulk combined. 0:07:31.960 --> 0:07:34.400 He was not a third entity. He was who he is. 0:07:34.520 --> 0:07:39.920 He's he's an intelligent adream and the bridge together exactly. 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:42.040 And he's looking hunky and I'm sure some people on 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:43.080 the internet are calling. 0:07:42.960 --> 0:07:47.760 Him Daddy Jeez. And then at the end of. 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:51.119 Shang Chi, we saw Bruce Banner in his human form. 0:07:51.360 --> 0:07:54.280 We had a sling on his arm because in Endgame 0:07:54.320 --> 0:07:58.200 we saw him, we saw Holk wheeled the Infinity Gauntlet 0:07:58.240 --> 0:08:01.040 and do the snap and it really messed up his arm. 0:08:01.360 --> 0:08:03.880 So in the modern continuity, we know that Bruce is 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:06.040 back in his normal human body and he has an 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:10.480 arm sling in this trailer is Jason so smartly noticed 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:13.480 he is Professor Holk and his arms are looking fine. 0:08:13.960 --> 0:08:16.200 So it is very very likely that. 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:20.440 This is going to be in that period between Infinity 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:22.760 War and Endgame, which is something we have yet to see. 0:08:23.120 --> 0:08:26.080 Another thing we're gonna see. I think we can deduce 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:31.120 from this wonderful again trailer. There's the part of the 0:08:31.160 --> 0:08:35.080 trailer in which you know, one of the heads of 0:08:35.120 --> 0:08:37.480 the law firm that Jennifer works for says, hey, we 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:42.120 want to start a superhero division, which is directly a 0:08:42.480 --> 0:08:50.520 very much a comics thing. Like Jennifer's specialty is powered incidents, 0:08:50.880 --> 0:08:56.280 you know, cases involving or related to people with powers. 0:08:57.800 --> 0:09:04.559 And we remember from Shang Xi right that that Emil Blonski, 0:09:04.840 --> 0:09:11.680 the Abomination in his comics accurate form, was doing fights 0:09:11.720 --> 0:09:14.800 for money against Wong and we're like, holy shit, wasn't 0:09:14.840 --> 0:09:17.640 he like in jail? Wasn't he in Super People Jail? 0:09:18.200 --> 0:09:21.319 And we see him in this trailer when when the 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:24.280 the you know, one of the law partners mentions, hey, 0:09:24.280 --> 0:09:28.280 we want to start superhero a superpowered person's division. I 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:31.440 think this is how he gets out. I think I 0:09:31.440 --> 0:09:35.680 think Jennifer, and honestly rightly so, I think you would 0:09:35.679 --> 0:09:37.600 make the argument that, like, hey, we can't hold this 0:09:37.679 --> 0:09:44.120 guy forever like it's actually, yes, he's theoretically a weapon 0:09:44.120 --> 0:09:47.400 of mass destruction, but there's other powered people out there 0:09:47.440 --> 0:09:53.120 now who are also similarly powerful. And what what does 0:09:53.160 --> 0:09:55.400 it mean legally that we can just like hold this 0:09:55.480 --> 0:10:01.160 guy ad infinitum. And I think that's how Emil Blanski 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:05.640 gets his freedom or whatever whatever status he has by 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:07.560 shang Chi, where he's able to come and go at will. 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:08.679 Yeah, I think you're right. 0:10:08.720 --> 0:10:11.080 Also, I think that the cell that we see in 0:10:11.120 --> 0:10:15.480 this trailer, that that we see Jennifer in when she's 0:10:15.760 --> 0:10:19.040 testing her Hulk powers, that looks very similar to where 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:21.120 we see Abomination walk back. 0:10:20.920 --> 0:10:22.920 Into during shang Chi. 0:10:23.200 --> 0:10:26.720 So I think that I think that Bruce, whatever part 0:10:26.720 --> 0:10:29.600 of Bruce's life this is, it's going to be important 0:10:29.720 --> 0:10:33.760 and foundational to the notion of whatever's going on in 0:10:33.800 --> 0:10:37.320 the current continuity. We know that Sword was set up, 0:10:38.480 --> 0:10:40.800 you know, within this there was that was a really 0:10:40.840 --> 0:10:43.880 big time for Sword after and we found out about 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:45.520 all the plans that they were making because of what 0:10:45.520 --> 0:10:48.160 had happened because of the blips. So it wouldn't surprise 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:50.160 me if some of the things that we thought we 0:10:50.160 --> 0:10:52.360 were going to see or we thought we were seeing 0:10:52.440 --> 0:10:55.079 being established with shang Chi like Dark Avengers, et cetera. 0:10:55.840 --> 0:10:58.640 If those things might have already been in the works 0:10:59.000 --> 0:11:01.040 during this five years, and am we going to kind 0:11:01.040 --> 0:11:03.480 of retroactively learn about them and see how they could 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:06.719 come into play in the y to MCU, what. 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:08.400 Else do we see? Let's talk about this. So we 0:11:08.440 --> 0:11:11.439 see in the opening shots, we see a car tumbling 0:11:11.440 --> 0:11:15.800 down the hill. Now, in the comics, Jennifer gets her 0:11:15.840 --> 0:11:21.199 powers because she needs a blood transfusion from know she 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:23.320 has a particular blood type, and so they go to 0:11:23.360 --> 0:11:26.120 a relative, and of course Bruce Banner is the relative, 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:33.960 and the side effect of him donating blood to his 0:11:34.120 --> 0:11:37.880 cousin is that the gamma radiation in his blood also 0:11:38.440 --> 0:11:42.400 gets into Jen's body and she reacts in a very 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:45.000 similar way to Bruce and becomes the shields. Now, in 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:51.680 the comics, it's gangsters shoot her because of her legal 0:11:51.720 --> 0:11:56.480 activities and she requires this blood transfusions. I think it's 0:11:56.520 --> 0:11:58.240 going to be I think clearly it's going to be 0:11:58.280 --> 0:12:03.960 an accident rather than gangs, which anyway is like I 0:12:03.960 --> 0:12:07.920 think Punisher like debut like two years before that, so 0:12:07.960 --> 0:12:10.720 it's like they just like reused the Punisher's origin. 0:12:11.160 --> 0:12:15.600 Like everyone's family's being killed by gangsters. 0:12:17.200 --> 0:12:18.920 No, I think you're right in something. 0:12:18.960 --> 0:12:22.160 That our super producer Sauw was saying when we were 0:12:22.160 --> 0:12:25.079 prepping for this episode was like Hawk Eyed did something 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:28.839 really interesting where it tied Kate Bishop's origin and her 0:12:28.920 --> 0:12:33.000 tragic backstory directly into events of the MCU, And that 0:12:33.160 --> 0:12:35.200 definitely feels like something we could see here. 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:35.840 But from the. 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:38.160 Tone of the show, which is like very eighties and 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:41.199 funny and kind of like feels a bit more lighthearted 0:12:41.240 --> 0:12:43.280 than a lot of the other stuff we've gotten, I 0:12:43.280 --> 0:12:45.400 wouldn't be surprised to see them play with that kind 0:12:45.440 --> 0:12:50.040 of fan favorite conversation about like collateral damage, which is 0:12:50.040 --> 0:12:52.520 like not something we've really seen very much. They touched 0:12:52.520 --> 0:12:54.599 on it in the Netflix stuff, But I wouldn't be 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:58.760 surprised if her accident was like something got thrown and 0:12:58.920 --> 0:13:01.920 hit a wall and then it fell on her. 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:04.320 During an event just happened or something exactly. 0:13:04.400 --> 0:13:05.079 It's like the. 0:13:05.080 --> 0:13:08.360 Snap an ice cream van had a guy who wasn't driving, 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:11.800 and I just think, like, this show seems to be 0:13:12.000 --> 0:13:14.720 going into that humor and it's it's if it's gonna 0:13:14.720 --> 0:13:17.440 be like the comics. She's always been a very meta 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:21.360 fourth wall breaking character. So to have a little bit 0:13:21.360 --> 0:13:23.480 of that conversation with the audience and say, well, this 0:13:23.520 --> 0:13:25.200 is kind of what it's like for normal people who 0:13:25.280 --> 0:13:28.520 live in the MCU. You might not even end up 0:13:28.559 --> 0:13:30.720 being normal because your cousin's got gamma blood. 0:13:33.080 --> 0:13:37.040 Let's talk about one of the real surprises in this trailer, 0:13:37.080 --> 0:13:41.360 which is the very very brief shot of Frogmen from 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:43.319 I did not know this was gonna happen. 0:13:43.360 --> 0:13:46.000 I cannot believe this happened. I am sure. 0:13:47.040 --> 0:13:50.520 Tell us who tell us about Frogman. Frogman, very very 0:13:50.679 --> 0:13:55.800 minor character that I maintain was at least in some 0:13:56.120 --> 0:14:02.600 form a like esthetic influence on the Teenage Mutant Ninja journals. 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:05.560 I yeah claim that I have no evidence for that, 0:14:06.600 --> 0:14:07.640 but I claim. 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:09.960 That the truth is that all those I mean, TMNT 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:13.600 is like one of my favorite topics, and all of 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:16.400 those comics, the original Black and White Stuff, which is 0:14:16.520 --> 0:14:21.480 very dark and very funny, was an absolute response to 0:14:21.840 --> 0:14:24.560 Marvel and DC and big superhero comics. So that would 0:14:24.560 --> 0:14:26.920 make a lot of sense, especially when you think about 0:14:26.960 --> 0:14:30.480 the fact that, like in Teenage Mutant Ninja titles, for example, 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:34.680 the bad group is called it's called the foot Clan 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:36.320 instead of the Hand you know, and. 0:14:36.240 --> 0:14:38.480 Stuff like that. So it's very It was like a self. 0:14:38.280 --> 0:14:40.960 Published kind of shit post comic, and I love that 0:14:41.000 --> 0:14:44.760 it became this team this like Kid's powerhouse. But yes, Frogman, 0:14:46.080 --> 0:14:48.120 it is with a hyphen like spider Man, so don't 0:14:48.120 --> 0:14:50.480 spell it wrong or else the comic fans might get 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:51.200 upset with you. 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:52.520 Created by JM. D. 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:55.520 Matteas and Kerry Gamil from a Marvel Team Up issue 0:14:55.560 --> 0:14:58.920 Marvel Team Up one one June nineteen eighty two, which I. 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:00.360 Believe those were fun man. 0:15:00.920 --> 0:15:04.480 Yeah, and that puts it between that. I think that 0:15:04.520 --> 0:15:06.640 puts it before the first yeah, two years before the 0:15:06.680 --> 0:15:08.720 first Ninja title's comics, That's what I'm saying. 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:14.880 And also like Eugene, the frog Man's Eugene identity, Eugene's 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:18.720 like fifteen. This is why I claim that Frogman is 0:15:18.720 --> 0:15:20.760 an influence onto you. But like again, I have no 0:15:21.200 --> 0:15:22.080 I'm saying that. 0:15:22.280 --> 0:15:26.160 Kevin Eastman on it to talk about this local legend. Yeah, 0:15:26.240 --> 0:15:29.440 so yes, his mother is called Rosie. Shout out to me. Yeah, 0:15:29.480 --> 0:15:33.120 and he basically makes like he is like a kid 0:15:33.160 --> 0:15:36.560 who wants to be a villain, and it is like 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:40.400 really weird and strange, and he could definitely one of 0:15:40.400 --> 0:15:43.200 those weird characters from the seventies and eighties where you're just. 0:15:43.160 --> 0:15:45.360 Like, how did this get in there? 0:15:45.600 --> 0:15:49.480 Yeah, like he actually payspot pete, like the kind of 0:15:49.600 --> 0:15:51.560 level character I have to say. 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:54.720 This actually, and basically he is, like. 0:15:56.400 --> 0:15:58.520 He's one of those characters who's so out there and 0:15:58.560 --> 0:16:01.880 weird if you're a comic book occasionally, if you're like, 0:16:02.040 --> 0:16:03.720 if like me and Jason got to write a comic, 0:16:03.760 --> 0:16:04.760 we would be pulling these. 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:06.960 Weird characters that we love. So he pops up. 0:16:06.880 --> 0:16:10.600 Like he's in Secret Invasion, you know, as a scroll 0:16:10.800 --> 0:16:12.760 he's he's in like you see these. 0:16:12.640 --> 0:16:18.920 Different crazy by the way, hilarious pull in Secret Invasion the. 0:16:20.200 --> 0:16:24.800 Scroll and then like, I mean, he's definitely I think 0:16:24.880 --> 0:16:26.000 there's there's character. 0:16:26.200 --> 0:16:27.320 There's creators now. 0:16:27.200 --> 0:16:30.320 Who remember him fondly because he pops up a lot, and. 0:16:30.240 --> 0:16:30.960 To see him here. 0:16:31.120 --> 0:16:34.360 They they do a really good job kind of recontextualizing 0:16:34.360 --> 0:16:39.200 the costume, which in the comics is like very cartoony. 0:16:39.280 --> 0:16:41.880 In in the trailer, as we see it, it looks 0:16:41.920 --> 0:16:44.600 kind of like a Super Sentai costume, like a like 0:16:44.640 --> 0:16:49.920 a Power Rangers costume. Meets Vigilante from the recently released 0:16:49.960 --> 0:16:52.240 peace Maker show that we talked a lot about, So 0:16:52.320 --> 0:16:55.800 I'm very interested to see my gut says he will 0:16:55.840 --> 0:16:58.760 be someone that she represents. That seems to be the 0:16:58.800 --> 0:17:02.000 only way to easily ul him into the show unless 0:17:02.200 --> 0:17:05.080 he is actually secretly the villain and Titania is like 0:17:05.440 --> 0:17:07.080 gonna be an ally instead. 0:17:07.560 --> 0:17:11.280 I'm glad you mentioned Titania Uh played by Jimmy La Jamil. 0:17:11.800 --> 0:17:15.399 She is we assume, gonna be the big bad of 0:17:15.440 --> 0:17:20.560 the series and is a frequent foil for she Hulk 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:27.600 over the years. Now, Titana in the comics gets her 0:17:28.040 --> 0:17:29.359 powers from Doctor DOOMO it. 0:17:29.240 --> 0:17:31.399 Will be dun dunn dunt dun duh. 0:17:31.480 --> 0:17:35.320 It will be absolutely I fascinated to know where she 0:17:35.359 --> 0:17:36.840 gets her powers this time. 0:17:37.160 --> 0:17:37.360 Yeah. 0:17:37.520 --> 0:17:42.320 Also in the comics, one more connection with the Well. 0:17:42.320 --> 0:17:44.600 First of all, She Hulk was a member of the 0:17:44.640 --> 0:17:49.600 Fantastic Four, so there's that. And then also she Hulk 0:17:50.840 --> 0:18:00.560 represented Doctor Doom's son in his attempt to basically flea 0:18:00.680 --> 0:18:04.359 lat Varia and become an American citizen. So there are 0:18:04.400 --> 0:18:09.480 a lot of really cool Doctor Doom connections and it 0:18:09.640 --> 0:18:12.840 just feels like I once again we're inching inching towards 0:18:13.000 --> 0:18:20.800 a Fantastic four canonical debut. The fact that we saw 0:18:20.880 --> 0:18:24.160 John Krasinski as Richard's nonwithstanding. 0:18:24.119 --> 0:18:26.000 Yeah, no, I totally agree. I think it's a really 0:18:26.040 --> 0:18:29.240 interesting poll. Obviously, she is like a really famous shock villain, 0:18:29.280 --> 0:18:31.120 and it makes sense because they're obviously going for kind 0:18:31.119 --> 0:18:33.920 of like an Ali McBeal vibe, so it makes sense 0:18:33.960 --> 0:18:37.199 to give her like a female antagonist. But I wouldn't 0:18:37.200 --> 0:18:41.560 be surprised if we saw some kind of implication of 0:18:41.560 --> 0:18:42.960 like a powerbroker. 0:18:42.400 --> 0:18:44.240 Sort like where did she get this power? 0:18:44.640 --> 0:18:44.880 Great? 0:18:45.119 --> 0:18:46.000 How could she get it? 0:18:46.080 --> 0:18:48.040 Also in the comics, like even though it's kind of 0:18:48.080 --> 0:18:53.359 a wacky origin during the Secret Wars stuff that I 0:18:53.359 --> 0:18:57.360 think it's Secret Wars three where she's introduced, it's actually 0:18:57.440 --> 0:19:00.119 like bad she does get tested on and has is 0:19:00.200 --> 0:19:03.199 kind of what could definitely be be written as like 0:19:03.240 --> 0:19:05.920 a tragic backstory or a reason to be pissed off 0:19:05.920 --> 0:19:08.360 at people, or reason to kind of want to become 0:19:08.400 --> 0:19:10.400 a villain. So I think there's interesting stuff to dig 0:19:10.440 --> 0:19:15.480 into there, and I think it's really interesting that in 0:19:15.520 --> 0:19:18.560 this the first trailer for the show, it's just this 0:19:18.680 --> 0:19:21.359 kind of like glimpse of a fight. So I'm really 0:19:21.359 --> 0:19:23.439 interested to see where they go because I feel like 0:19:24.840 --> 0:19:28.240 the MCU is definitely blurring the lines between like good 0:19:28.240 --> 0:19:31.000 guys and bad guys and kind of that gray area 0:19:31.040 --> 0:19:35.200 between Ally and antagonist, and I think that relationship could 0:19:35.200 --> 0:19:38.199 be prime for that. And the fact that Wong is 0:19:38.240 --> 0:19:41.719 going to be in this show and we know that 0:19:41.800 --> 0:19:44.200 he is connected to a nomination, He's connected to whatever 0:19:44.240 --> 0:19:46.120 this secret team he's kind of trying to put together. 0:19:46.160 --> 0:19:48.200 He's like the new Phase four Nick Fury, which I like. 0:19:48.320 --> 0:19:50.600 I love that at some point we should discuss the 0:19:50.600 --> 0:19:56.359 fact that comic Swang currently is great. Movie Wong is 0:19:57.040 --> 0:20:01.240 orders of magnitude the best Wong. It's not even close 0:20:01.640 --> 0:20:03.480 to how cool, how much cooler. 0:20:03.200 --> 0:20:05.119 He is in the movies then in the and I 0:20:05.160 --> 0:20:08.400 think you can absolutely one Benedict Wong shout out that's 0:20:08.480 --> 0:20:10.720 like all you great, like you're killing it. And I 0:20:10.760 --> 0:20:14.359 think that you can't understate his impact on why the 0:20:14.400 --> 0:20:17.919 comic book Wong is better, because like these movies and 0:20:18.119 --> 0:20:20.679 comics are so intertwined, and when you have such a 0:20:20.760 --> 0:20:27.600 brilliant in depth, like thoughtful, funny, silly, strong, brilliant character, 0:20:27.640 --> 0:20:30.679 and I know that some people were definitely also like 0:20:30.760 --> 0:20:34.160 becoming like thirsty for Wong after Doctor Strange too. 0:20:34.520 --> 0:20:35.560 I've seen the internet. 0:20:35.920 --> 0:20:38.560 I never feeling it like he had a new outfit, 0:20:38.640 --> 0:20:41.520 he was looking good and like I just yeah, I 0:20:41.560 --> 0:20:44.040 love it and I love that it's up the game. 0:20:44.440 --> 0:20:49.720 I mean, honestly, they've done a really great job recontextualizing 0:20:49.760 --> 0:20:52.960 that orientalist aspect. Yes, so it's so key to like 0:20:53.000 --> 0:20:54.480 the older Doctor Strange stuff. 0:20:55.240 --> 0:20:57.240 There might be some of our listeners out there like, oh, 0:20:57.440 --> 0:21:00.280 she I love the trailer. I'm getting into comic. What 0:21:00.320 --> 0:21:06.560 can I read? It's super super easy read Dan Slott's 0:21:07.240 --> 0:21:14.160 She Hulk The Complete Collection. This is story by Dan Slot, 0:21:15.200 --> 0:21:20.120 Audi ground Off on cover art, also Paul Peltier and 0:21:20.240 --> 0:21:24.080 Scott Collins on art. It kind of like set the 0:21:24.119 --> 0:21:28.960 modern tone for She Hulk as a character in the 0:21:30.160 --> 0:21:36.000 early two thousands, as this kind of like one time 0:21:37.000 --> 0:21:42.400 shy lawyer who has become this very like super confident, 0:21:42.840 --> 0:21:47.480 hard charging work, hard play hard character who's like who 0:21:47.560 --> 0:21:50.960 is in a lot of ways like a focus point 0:21:51.080 --> 0:21:54.399 for the female superhero community, Like she has so many 0:21:54.440 --> 0:22:00.959 friends across the female superhero community, which is part of 0:22:01.000 --> 0:22:05.560 what makes that that collection so fun. Is just like, Yeah, 0:22:05.840 --> 0:22:07.960 I've said this many times. I'm a big fan of 0:22:07.960 --> 0:22:11.600 like superheroes just hang out stories, and there's so many 0:22:11.640 --> 0:22:14.879 scenes in that collection where it's just like Jen just 0:22:14.920 --> 0:22:17.360 hanging out with her friends. 0:22:17.520 --> 0:22:18.560 Also because she's one of. 0:22:18.480 --> 0:22:20.879 The few, she's one of like the few heroes aside 0:22:20.880 --> 0:22:23.760 from like the Fantastic Four, So she's gonna be one 0:22:23.800 --> 0:22:25.840 of the first MCU heroes who has like a full 0:22:25.880 --> 0:22:29.120 time job. She's not just like bumming around like somehow 0:22:29.160 --> 0:22:30.800 not getting paid for being an avenger. 0:22:30.920 --> 0:22:32.480 She has like a full time job. 0:22:32.560 --> 0:22:34.760 So that leads to a lot of funny kind of 0:22:34.800 --> 0:22:38.440 slice of life sitting around stuff. And I mean in 0:22:38.440 --> 0:22:42.359 that Dance Loot collection, Titania is like a major antagonist. 0:22:42.480 --> 0:22:44.040 So you're looking for there you have. 0:22:45.080 --> 0:22:48.200 The new poster that they just released is almost certainly 0:22:48.280 --> 0:22:50.440 based on one of Greg Horn's covers, which is actually 0:22:50.480 --> 0:22:53.399 the back of the collection, which is her kind of 0:22:53.480 --> 0:22:55.959 striding up these stairs, you know, and and the and 0:22:56.040 --> 0:22:59.520 the the visualization that they've gone for as Tatiana as 0:22:59.560 --> 0:23:02.960 she is very much that Greg Horn kind of vibe. 0:23:03.000 --> 0:23:05.840 She's she's big, but she's like shape plea and she's 0:23:05.920 --> 0:23:10.479 kind of athletic and so it's very interesting to see that. 0:23:10.920 --> 0:23:13.199 So there's that. So there's the Shell collect her by 0:23:13.240 --> 0:23:17.520 Dan Slot Complete Collection. This collects like she hoped one 0:23:17.560 --> 0:23:19.680 to twelve and I think a couple maybe an annual 0:23:19.760 --> 0:23:23.840 or something like that, and then she hulked the complete collection. 0:23:24.640 --> 0:23:29.159 A more recent a more recent collection by Charles Sewell, 0:23:29.720 --> 0:23:35.240 Javier Plito and Munsa of Vicente, And that one is 0:23:35.320 --> 0:23:39.240 just super super funny. Charles Sewell was a lawyer, so 0:23:39.280 --> 0:23:45.159 he's got all the lingo down and it's That's another 0:23:45.200 --> 0:23:46.160 one where it's like. 0:23:47.040 --> 0:23:50.040 Jen hanging out with Hellcat, you know, like Jena, like. 0:23:50.359 --> 0:23:52.840 Her friendship with Patsy is so great and I do 0:23:52.880 --> 0:23:55.760 I love it. That's gonna be something that plays. 0:23:55.400 --> 0:23:58.960 In That's okay, So I have a prediction. I'm gonna 0:23:58.960 --> 0:24:01.600 be We know, our listeners know how much we love 0:24:01.640 --> 0:24:03.680 to make predictions and we don't care if they're wrong. 0:24:03.760 --> 0:24:04.560 We just love to do it. 0:24:04.640 --> 0:24:05.480 Yeah, it's just fun. 0:24:06.040 --> 0:24:12.600 Here's so much of like the texture of Jennifer Walter 0:24:12.800 --> 0:24:17.000 stories is about the role she plays in the broader 0:24:17.080 --> 0:24:22.720 superhero community and her friendship and bonds with various figures 0:24:22.720 --> 0:24:25.560 throughout the female superhero community. I think we're going to 0:24:25.600 --> 0:24:28.840 see more than frogmen debut. I think we might see others. 0:24:29.200 --> 0:24:32.719 I think we might because, like, if you think about 0:24:32.720 --> 0:24:37.240 it superhero division, I get that there's a lot of like, 0:24:38.400 --> 0:24:42.119 you know, property damage and loss of life from the 0:24:42.200 --> 0:24:47.600 various superhero incidents around the world. Who could forget Hulk 0:24:48.640 --> 0:24:52.520 fucking up Harlem and every place he goes, you know, 0:24:52.680 --> 0:24:55.480 But there's when you talk about the community, it's not 0:24:55.520 --> 0:24:57.840 like there's that many, you know, like, there's not that 0:24:58.000 --> 0:25:01.600 many folks that she could rep. She could represent uh, 0:25:02.200 --> 0:25:05.320 you know, Bruce Banner in the various lawsuits that are 0:25:05.359 --> 0:25:12.040 probably lodged against him for destroying you know, uh, Betty's College, Harlem, 0:25:12.119 --> 0:25:18.880 et cetera. There's uh yeah, but there's not that many 0:25:19.080 --> 0:25:22.080 she yet. She could get ant Man like his charges dropped, 0:25:23.680 --> 0:25:24.160 et cetera. 0:25:24.280 --> 0:25:28.200 But there's not like that many. There's really not that. 0:25:28.200 --> 0:25:32.600 Many superheroes yet. So I do wonder if we might 0:25:32.720 --> 0:25:36.840 not if the Frogman drop isn't a signal that hey, 0:25:37.520 --> 0:25:44.639 all those like really really fun, rarely used minor minor 0:25:45.160 --> 0:25:49.520 minor Marvel characters, we might see some of them pop 0:25:49.640 --> 0:25:50.040 up here. 0:25:50.800 --> 0:25:52.800 Yeah, I think that you're right, and I also think 0:25:52.840 --> 0:25:56.679 this is going to continue the Hawkeye tradition, not just 0:25:56.760 --> 0:26:05.159 in tone, but in branding and reshaping the Netflix Marvel 0:26:05.200 --> 0:26:07.679 shows as something for. 0:26:07.760 --> 0:26:08.560 The main MCU. 0:26:08.600 --> 0:26:10.560 It's quite likely we might see Matt Murdock here. He 0:26:10.680 --> 0:26:13.080 too is a lawyer, and him and Jennifer have worked 0:26:13.080 --> 0:26:15.840 alongside each other and something else that you just made 0:26:15.880 --> 0:26:19.960 me realize when we're talking about this. It could work 0:26:20.800 --> 0:26:23.560 as it could work in the same way the Netflix 0:26:23.560 --> 0:26:26.080 shows worked, which is when you actually watch those shows, 0:26:26.080 --> 0:26:30.679 they introduced so many comic book characters because they needed 0:26:30.720 --> 0:26:35.080 like a living community like Luke Cage, so many characters, 0:26:35.440 --> 0:26:38.800 and no MCU show has really done that. Hawkeye used 0:26:38.880 --> 0:26:42.840 names of characters, but it wasn't actually they didn't become 0:26:42.880 --> 0:26:45.800 those characters as we knew them. She could be a 0:26:45.840 --> 0:26:49.280 way of introducing a new I mean, if they wanted 0:26:49.320 --> 0:26:50.840 to do it like a procedural, you could have a 0:26:50.880 --> 0:26:54.320 new character that she's looking after every week, you know, 0:26:54.640 --> 0:26:56.480 and it would be a way to build out that community. 0:26:56.840 --> 0:27:01.800 It would be very funny, kind of funny. And some 0:27:01.880 --> 0:27:03.560 of them, you know, you have her defending a hero, 0:27:03.720 --> 0:27:06.000 you have her defending a villain, you have a kind 0:27:06.040 --> 0:27:09.600 of building that moral compass and like that the Charles 0:27:09.600 --> 0:27:12.679 Saul run that you were talking about with Havia as 0:27:12.680 --> 0:27:15.919 amazing art, Like that's the one where she defends the 0:27:15.920 --> 0:27:19.640 son of Doctor Doom and she and Captain America. Yes, 0:27:19.880 --> 0:27:22.840 you know, so there's all different kinds of ways that 0:27:22.880 --> 0:27:28.240 you can explore that. And I think that looking to 0:27:28.280 --> 0:27:31.240 those two, this one has her face down with Matt Murdoch, 0:27:31.359 --> 0:27:34.280 like Deadpool is in this, and there's a holiday party, 0:27:34.320 --> 0:27:39.120 so you get that fun space. I just think this 0:27:39.280 --> 0:27:43.480 could be a launch pad for building out those weirder, 0:27:44.000 --> 0:27:45.760 smaller superhero roles. 0:27:46.400 --> 0:27:51.080 Yeah, and again I wonder if we it'd be cool 0:27:51.160 --> 0:27:53.199 to get a hellcare drop in this. Hellcat one of 0:27:53.240 --> 0:27:56.720 the oldest Marvel character. I mean, going back to the forties, 0:27:56.760 --> 0:28:02.080 like this is like as like fucking Marvel fashion. 0:28:02.240 --> 0:28:05.199 Fashion cocks really incredible times. 0:28:05.200 --> 0:28:08.520 People forget those old days when women were seen as 0:28:08.560 --> 0:28:10.960 a as a truly large part half of the market. 0:28:11.040 --> 0:28:13.240 So they had romance comics, they had fashion comics, and 0:28:13.240 --> 0:28:16.480 that's where Patsy Walker, who became Patsy Walker Hellcat came from. 0:28:17.040 --> 0:28:20.639 And she was in the Jessica Jones show in a 0:28:20.920 --> 0:28:25.639 kind of reimagined version, But this version of she Hulks 0:28:25.640 --> 0:28:29.399 seems like a better place to to bring in a 0:28:29.400 --> 0:28:31.640 different version of her. There was a she Cat. There 0:28:31.680 --> 0:28:34.399 was a hell Cat comic with incredible art by Brittany 0:28:34.400 --> 0:28:38.800 Williams a few years ago, and that was very much 0:28:38.920 --> 0:28:42.239 like Sheahawks having a party at the office and like, 0:28:42.280 --> 0:28:44.440 look at all these different characters who are here, and 0:28:44.800 --> 0:28:46.360 oh no, who are you gonna have to defend? 0:28:46.440 --> 0:28:46.960 Is it gonna be? 0:28:46.960 --> 0:28:50.000 Like? That's what I love about Seahawks stories. And that's 0:28:50.040 --> 0:28:52.360 why I hope, and that's why I sit because it 0:28:52.440 --> 0:28:54.440 is really such an important part of the texture and 0:28:54.480 --> 0:28:59.800 fuels Jennifer Walter stories, and so you know, selfishly, I 0:28:59.880 --> 0:29:02.080 just hope we see a lot of I think. 0:29:01.960 --> 0:29:05.080 The tone of the trailer up it hints at that. 0:29:05.240 --> 0:29:07.880 It hints like her and Bruce in the bar. There's 0:29:07.960 --> 0:29:10.600 like a comedy and she obviously a climate just like 0:29:10.640 --> 0:29:13.479 in the comic. She acclimates very well to being in 0:29:13.520 --> 0:29:16.680 her She hoped form because that's how she chooses to be. Yeah, 0:29:16.720 --> 0:29:18.920 and it looks like from the trailer that's going to 0:29:18.960 --> 0:29:20.480 be the case for most of the show. 0:29:21.960 --> 0:29:24.960 Well, we can't wait for this one up next. Let's 0:29:25.600 --> 0:29:31.320 welcome in our super producer Chris to talk about the 0:29:31.360 --> 0:29:36.080 Halo series and the finale of the Halo series, which 0:29:36.120 --> 0:29:41.320 recently aired on Paramount Plus. Chris, there, tell us about Halo. 0:29:43.120 --> 0:29:46.200 I have to say, overall, it was a little bit disappointing. 0:29:46.600 --> 0:29:49.760 I know, we were all pretty optimistic after the first episode, like, okay, 0:29:49.760 --> 0:29:54.720 the covenentary here they're teasing, like the conflicts with the colonies, 0:29:54.880 --> 0:29:56.440 the unsc are, the kind of the. 0:29:56.360 --> 0:29:58.720 Bad guys, Like there is potential. 0:29:59.560 --> 0:30:01.120 And I have to say that in the whole series, 0:30:01.160 --> 0:30:04.040 about twenty minutes like really good Halo stuff in there. 0:30:04.400 --> 0:30:06.320 But those twenty minutes, I have to say, are really good. 0:30:06.840 --> 0:30:11.400 I here is my takeaway. I haven't watched the finale yet, 0:30:11.440 --> 0:30:14.960 but I've watched like the first five episodes. My takeaway 0:30:15.000 --> 0:30:19.280 is that very very clearly eighty percent of the budget 0:30:19.320 --> 0:30:25.960 went to the pilot and then yeah, immediately thereafter, it 0:30:26.160 --> 0:30:30.040 fucking falls off in terms of like scope, in terms 0:30:30.080 --> 0:30:33.400 of what they're and and the storytelling kind of takes 0:30:33.400 --> 0:30:38.200 a hit after that. So when you say not a 0:30:38.200 --> 0:30:40.480 lot of quote unquote Halo stuff, what do you what 0:30:40.520 --> 0:30:41.320 do you? What do you mean? 0:30:42.040 --> 0:30:44.520 Like, you know, I think there's always a question of 0:30:44.560 --> 0:30:47.400 why even adapt, Like what more can you really gain 0:30:47.440 --> 0:30:50.040 out of doing a film when the games are pretty cinematic. 0:30:50.080 --> 0:30:51.720 I think the one big thing you can do is 0:30:51.760 --> 0:30:56.680 you can show just what incredible soldiers and fighters and 0:30:56.720 --> 0:30:59.360 like combatants everyone is, all these Spartans are. That's more 0:30:59.400 --> 0:31:02.800 than just a first person POV holding a gun. You know, 0:31:02.960 --> 0:31:07.440 like these fights should look you know, crazy, you know, 0:31:07.680 --> 0:31:09.480 I mean, like maybe not quite the Raid, which is like, 0:31:09.520 --> 0:31:12.600 you know, we talked about like what is actually. 0:31:12.160 --> 0:31:14.280 The TV show tried to look like the Raid? That 0:31:14.280 --> 0:31:15.080 would make me very. 0:31:15.800 --> 0:31:17.720 Yeah, just like let's see, like let's really see like 0:31:17.720 --> 0:31:20.600 great fight choreography, and the first episode to get a 0:31:20.600 --> 0:31:23.000 bit of that, as you do in five. Then the finale, 0:31:23.080 --> 0:31:26.240 like finale, you finally get you know, Silver Team, the 0:31:26.280 --> 0:31:29.840 four Spartans going up against this massive wave of Covenant 0:31:29.840 --> 0:31:32.560 you know, almost feels like like the firefight situation on 0:31:32.720 --> 0:31:35.960 like ODST like Horde mode, Hord mode exactly, yeah, like 0:31:36.000 --> 0:31:37.840 and it's honestly like, the fight's really good, and they 0:31:37.840 --> 0:31:40.600 finally bring in a little bit of the Halo theme, 0:31:40.680 --> 0:31:42.680 which I think is just like one of the coolest themes. 0:31:42.680 --> 0:31:45.680 I absolutely love it so much. And it's it's really 0:31:45.760 --> 0:31:48.480 really fun And yeah, Jason, your point, you feel like, oh, 0:31:48.520 --> 0:31:50.240 this is where they spent all the budget was like 0:31:50.240 --> 0:31:53.840 on these like three really big epic fight sequences. You know, 0:31:53.880 --> 0:31:56.520 in episode five, we see I think it's John, we 0:31:56.520 --> 0:31:58.040 see one of the Spartans like jump on top of 0:31:58.040 --> 0:32:00.000 a bansheet. Right, It's like, okay, like this is point 0:32:00.000 --> 0:32:01.760 except from the game that's really un exciting. 0:32:02.880 --> 0:32:06.080 You know for those that have read those books, you. 0:32:06.080 --> 0:32:08.120 Know, the Eric Nyland novels, which you've talked about, there's 0:32:08.160 --> 0:32:10.520 a lot of really great lore in there, and they 0:32:10.560 --> 0:32:13.920 just kind of jettisoned all of that. Like I really 0:32:14.000 --> 0:32:17.640 wanted to see the Spartans as a kind of family, yea. 0:32:17.720 --> 0:32:19.880 Like one of the tragedies of reading those books is whenever. 0:32:19.680 --> 0:32:21.400 They lose one of their soldiers, like you know, they're 0:32:21.480 --> 0:32:24.520 kind of programmed to be emotionally uneffective. 0:32:24.560 --> 0:32:26.000 You can tell it hurts them when they lose one 0:32:26.040 --> 0:32:26.560 of their own. 0:32:27.240 --> 0:32:29.520 And they didn't really go there either, Like that could 0:32:29.560 --> 0:32:30.880 have been a really great heart of the story, and 0:32:30.880 --> 0:32:32.840 I feel like they kind of skirted around that for 0:32:32.960 --> 0:32:35.560 just a lot of really generic and room conversations. 0:32:35.680 --> 0:32:40.000 Something else that is kind of not haloy is. Master 0:32:40.160 --> 0:32:41.600 Chief got his dick wet. 0:32:42.960 --> 0:32:46.920 Master Chief the cherry, the cherry got popped. 0:32:47.560 --> 0:32:50.040 He got out of his armor and got into something 0:32:50.640 --> 0:32:51.760 a lot more comfortable. 0:32:52.720 --> 0:32:55.680 And the reason that fans. 0:32:55.400 --> 0:32:57.560 Are upset, like hardcore, you know, the fans who have 0:32:57.600 --> 0:33:00.120 read the books and are up on the lore is 0:33:00.120 --> 0:33:03.680 is part of the Spartan The Spartan training program is 0:33:03.680 --> 0:33:06.440 fucking brutal. Like when you read the Nyland books, you're like, 0:33:06.520 --> 0:33:09.600 holy shit, this is terrible they did. It's terrible what 0:33:09.640 --> 0:33:11.520 they did to these kids to train them to be 0:33:11.600 --> 0:33:17.760 these uh super soldiers. And part of that is they 0:33:19.000 --> 0:33:24.440 injected them with various steroids and drugs. And part of 0:33:24.480 --> 0:33:31.680 that medical regimen was, uh that their sex drive was 0:33:32.200 --> 0:33:36.160 you know, medicinally depressed. It was like basically like lowered 0:33:36.200 --> 0:33:40.440 to nothing because they didn't want Spartans having any kind 0:33:40.480 --> 0:33:43.680 of like emotional and or physical connection to anyone. They 0:33:43.760 --> 0:33:49.880 just wanted them to be like killing machines and uh. 0:33:50.440 --> 0:33:53.760 And then guess what master Chief had sex the show? 0:33:54.280 --> 0:33:59.200 How was it? Did you did you were you? Were 0:33:59.280 --> 0:34:04.160 you upset by it as a Halo fan? And how 0:34:04.280 --> 0:34:07.280 is you know what did we see what happened there. 0:34:07.920 --> 0:34:10.640 I mean, I it felt a little bit out of character, 0:34:10.680 --> 0:34:11.960 but I wasn't upset about it. I'm like, Okay, I 0:34:11.960 --> 0:34:12.600 get what they're doing. 0:34:12.880 --> 0:34:13.080 You know. 0:34:13.160 --> 0:34:14.600 They's like, Okay, I get what they're trying to do here. 0:34:14.600 --> 0:34:16.319 They're trying to give him a romance with this other 0:34:16.400 --> 0:34:19.479 character McKee. You know, I'm never going to complain about 0:34:19.480 --> 0:34:21.840 Pablo Schreiver being naked, which is a few times in 0:34:21.880 --> 0:34:27.160 this year congratulation, looking great, looking absolutely. 0:34:28.280 --> 0:34:31.080 Happy to see a bum Yeah. 0:34:30.680 --> 0:34:33.040 As was I like, there's something you're too except as budshots, 0:34:33.040 --> 0:34:35.520 they're fantastic. So from that respect, I've like, okay, I'm 0:34:35.560 --> 0:34:38.160 on board with this. It definitely didn't make me upset. 0:34:38.160 --> 0:34:40.359 It just felt a little bit, i don't know, kind 0:34:40.360 --> 0:34:42.400 of unnecessary. It definite felt a little bit out of character. 0:34:42.440 --> 0:34:44.440 And it's like, it's not going to make me angry 0:34:44.440 --> 0:34:46.080 that they change things. Like this part of an adaptation, 0:34:46.120 --> 0:34:48.360 you gotta change things. But I didn't think it necessarily 0:34:48.400 --> 0:34:49.720 added a lot to the story. 0:34:49.760 --> 0:34:51.479 It sounds like it's actually a bit of a missed 0:34:51.520 --> 0:34:54.520 opportunity because that's such a tragic and kind of brutal 0:34:54.560 --> 0:34:56.479 bit of law that they could have done a scene 0:34:56.480 --> 0:34:58.960 where it's like an intimacy scene that isn't to do 0:34:59.040 --> 0:35:01.720 with fucking, and that could have been like a really 0:35:01.800 --> 0:35:05.560 interesting and motive way to explore like that side of 0:35:05.600 --> 0:35:06.680 the past, and that. 0:35:07.000 --> 0:35:09.600 Kind of actually a great Yeah, it's actually a really 0:35:09.640 --> 0:35:14.279 great and tragic plot device where it's like you know, 0:35:14.360 --> 0:35:17.759 he he can't like, yeah, he can't do that. You 0:35:17.760 --> 0:35:20.239 find other ways of being intimate like that. 0:35:20.440 --> 0:35:23.399 I think that's a shape that kind of like it's 0:35:23.480 --> 0:35:25.799 I really like the first couple of episodes, I felt 0:35:25.800 --> 0:35:29.080 like it was like really ambitious, weird sci fi storytelling. 0:35:29.760 --> 0:35:31.319 But I just think it's a shame because I think 0:35:31.360 --> 0:35:34.160 like if you can't keep that going for those little 0:35:35.400 --> 0:35:40.480 moments when you could do something that's really like emotionally 0:35:41.400 --> 0:35:43.959 powerful like that, then it you. 0:35:43.880 --> 0:35:46.480 Know, does it hit basically like you said, did it 0:35:46.600 --> 0:35:46.960 left you? 0:35:46.840 --> 0:35:49.200 You watched it and you were like, eh, nice. 0:35:48.960 --> 0:35:51.560 To see it, but like yeah, it just felt generic, 0:35:51.800 --> 0:35:52.000 you know. 0:35:52.080 --> 0:35:54.120 And I think that was the big disappointment this the 0:35:54.200 --> 0:35:56.480 series is that for me, Halo's never felt generic. It's 0:35:56.480 --> 0:35:59.040 always been kind of special, and like the Master Chief, 0:35:59.040 --> 0:36:01.160 despite being kind of like kind of a. 0:36:00.880 --> 0:36:03.160 Blank canvas, has always felt special. Too, and this was 0:36:03.200 --> 0:36:03.600 just like. 0:36:03.680 --> 0:36:06.480 Eh, is there anything that you would want to see 0:36:06.520 --> 0:36:09.440 them do in like a second season that would redeem 0:36:09.440 --> 0:36:12.279 it or like interesting exploring. 0:36:13.160 --> 0:36:15.360 I'm not like totally writing it off, you know, like 0:36:15.480 --> 0:36:17.120 every series takes a little bit of time to get 0:36:17.160 --> 0:36:20.360 its footing, and if they are going to push it 0:36:20.400 --> 0:36:22.400 more towards like those sort of battle sequences like we 0:36:22.400 --> 0:36:25.759 saw here, maybe fewer episodes, bigger scope and scale, more 0:36:25.800 --> 0:36:27.840 fight with the Covenant, which requires more budget than I 0:36:27.840 --> 0:36:30.799 actually think there is some potential here. It's like there 0:36:30.880 --> 0:36:32.839 was just enough here for me to want to keep 0:36:32.840 --> 0:36:35.480 going and be a little bit disappointed. But I would say, like, 0:36:36.120 --> 0:36:38.120 you know, I can't say it's any better than any 0:36:38.239 --> 0:36:40.240 other Halo thing. They can't be like, hey, like dedicated 0:36:40.360 --> 0:36:41.840 nine hours this thing instead of reading one of the 0:36:41.880 --> 0:36:44.160 books or playing one of the games. But I think 0:36:44.160 --> 0:36:46.960 in a second season, with a bit more money, we 0:36:47.000 --> 0:36:49.200 can see more of like that big scale comming because 0:36:49.239 --> 0:36:52.360 the Covenant are barely in it, unfortunately, And I was 0:36:52.360 --> 0:36:56.000 hoping that the villains were too expense too expensive, and 0:36:56.040 --> 0:36:58.600 it was good, like honestly, yeah, the Covenant looked good 0:36:58.600 --> 0:37:00.480 when they bring him in there, you know, and they 0:37:00.480 --> 0:37:02.160 bring in little nods the game, like you know, we 0:37:02.200 --> 0:37:04.040 see them like initially stealthily take out a bunch of 0:37:04.080 --> 0:37:05.879 grunts by hitting them the head, Like Okay, we've all 0:37:05.880 --> 0:37:09.280 done this, we're going so I think maybe a little 0:37:09.280 --> 0:37:11.240 bit more of that and I could be on board. 0:37:11.560 --> 0:37:14.759 Well, I'm actually looking forward to catching up on this. 0:37:14.840 --> 0:37:17.000 Maybe that's one of the things I do in the 0:37:17.040 --> 0:37:23.280 throes of COVID nineteen, the novel coronavirus. Up next the airlock, 0:37:23.320 --> 0:37:27.840 where we'll tell you about what we do when we're sick. 0:37:41.960 --> 0:37:44.800 Welcome to the airlock. Stay on the other side of it, folks, 0:37:44.880 --> 0:37:50.799 because because your hosts today Rosie and I have been 0:37:50.840 --> 0:37:54.640 stricken with the novel coronavirus COVID nineteen, and so you're 0:37:54.640 --> 0:37:55.960 gonna want to stay on the other side of that 0:37:56.000 --> 0:37:59.040 airlock so that you don't catch it. And today in 0:37:59.080 --> 0:38:01.839 the airlock, we're going to talk about the things that 0:38:01.880 --> 0:38:07.279 we as a team super producers Chris and Saul, Hey, 0:38:07.400 --> 0:38:10.960 Rosie and I do when we're sick. What do we watch, 0:38:11.200 --> 0:38:14.960 what do we do, what do we read? What are 0:38:15.000 --> 0:38:20.239 the things that comfort us and get us through this? 0:38:20.239 --> 0:38:24.600 This really horrific fucking feeling that we're feeling right now, Rosie, 0:38:24.680 --> 0:38:26.440 let's start with you. What are you been doing in 0:38:26.480 --> 0:38:28.840 the time? By the way, let me let's just start 0:38:28.840 --> 0:38:34.680 with this. I texted on Monday like, hey, I have COVID, Like, 0:38:34.800 --> 0:38:37.719 let's cancel the pre pro meeting. YadA, YadA, YadA. And 0:38:37.719 --> 0:38:41.239 you're like, I'm glad that you tell It's funny you 0:38:41.280 --> 0:38:44.959 should text right now because I too have COVID, And yes, 0:38:45.080 --> 0:38:50.120 let's definitely push the meeting. So when did you When 0:38:50.160 --> 0:38:51.839 did you start feeling it? And what have you been 0:38:51.840 --> 0:38:52.600 doing since then? 0:38:53.080 --> 0:39:00.160 Like Thursday ish and then Friday was really the the day. 0:39:00.520 --> 0:39:03.520 But it's just it's only gone worse, baby, It's only 0:39:03.560 --> 0:39:04.120 gotten worse. 0:39:04.160 --> 0:39:08.359 So I'm I have been. I luckily I had actually just. 0:39:08.400 --> 0:39:12.600 Incidentally kind of like taken some time off to like 0:39:12.640 --> 0:39:14.880 I was like, I'm gonna do some writing, I'm gonna 0:39:14.880 --> 0:39:16.520 like do some stuff. 0:39:16.640 --> 0:39:18.920 I had my mom visit and and then. 0:39:18.840 --> 0:39:21.359 Lo and behold, it just ended up working out because 0:39:21.400 --> 0:39:23.080 it meant I could just not I could just lay 0:39:23.120 --> 0:39:27.000 around and and and rest. And one of the things 0:39:27.000 --> 0:39:29.959 that I did that was very comforting that we haven't 0:39:30.000 --> 0:39:33.480 talked about yet. Somehow that is easily up there with 0:39:33.520 --> 0:39:34.600 like my favorite shows. 0:39:34.360 --> 0:39:36.759 Of the year was I finished Our Flagman's Death. 0:39:37.719 --> 0:39:38.480 It's a great show. 0:39:38.560 --> 0:39:39.240 Yeah, I've been. 0:39:39.160 --> 0:39:41.880 Saving like the last two episodes because. 0:39:41.680 --> 0:39:43.120 I didn't want it to be finished. 0:39:43.280 --> 0:39:46.560 Don't spoil the finale because there is some really great 0:39:47.400 --> 0:39:49.120 The finale has some great stuff. 0:39:49.360 --> 0:39:52.080 Yeah, I'm just gonna I'm not even gonna really spoil anything. 0:39:52.080 --> 0:39:53.600 I'm just gonna tell you why it's good and you 0:39:53.600 --> 0:39:54.200 should watch it. 0:39:54.280 --> 0:39:59.120 So it's it's the much lauded Taiko w t t 0:39:59.320 --> 0:40:04.800 produce starring Pirate show and it is just like, along 0:40:04.800 --> 0:40:07.200 with Abbott Elementary, another one of my favorite shows of 0:40:07.200 --> 0:40:07.520 the year. 0:40:07.560 --> 0:40:08.920 It is like the. 0:40:08.560 --> 0:40:15.560 Funniest, like kindest, sweetest, weirdest show, and the cast is 0:40:15.600 --> 0:40:20.080 incredible and the writing is funny, and it's just like 0:40:20.080 --> 0:40:22.920 one of those half hour comedies where you're just like, damn, 0:40:22.960 --> 0:40:25.440 I wish I had made this because it is like 0:40:25.560 --> 0:40:29.640 so so surprising, but it's also very cozy. It has 0:40:29.719 --> 0:40:33.359 like I was sending around everyone who was like saying 0:40:33.440 --> 0:40:35.680 that they enjoyed it. I was like, there's this old 0:40:35.719 --> 0:40:40.120 English tradition of like weird musical kids shows, and one 0:40:40.160 --> 0:40:42.399 of them was called Maid Marian and her merry Men, 0:40:43.000 --> 0:40:44.480 and it was done by the guys who made Black 0:40:44.520 --> 0:40:46.120 at Her And when I was a kid, like I 0:40:46.200 --> 0:40:48.279 always think about that, And the opening of the first 0:40:48.280 --> 0:40:51.160 show is this guy singing like a reggae song about 0:40:51.320 --> 0:40:53.560 like mud and how how terrible it is to be 0:40:53.600 --> 0:40:58.000 a peasant in like Britain. And this show has that 0:40:58.160 --> 0:41:02.080 same like weird Britainish musical kids show energy, like it 0:41:02.120 --> 0:41:05.240 has some it is for adults, like, it's got some violence, 0:41:05.280 --> 0:41:08.200 but but generally you're just like, this is like a 0:41:08.239 --> 0:41:13.440 really funny kids show but made for people my age. 0:41:13.760 --> 0:41:18.040 It's surprisingly wholesome. Oh it's whole for being pirates. Yeah, like, oh, 0:41:18.160 --> 0:41:19.720 this is actually like really nice. 0:41:20.640 --> 0:41:23.120 Saul, what are you? What do you? What do you watch? 0:41:23.280 --> 0:41:24.960 What is your go to when you're sick? 0:41:25.320 --> 0:41:27.480 It's a good question. I think my go to when 0:41:27.480 --> 0:41:30.960 I'm sick is probably like, I want something really comforting 0:41:31.000 --> 0:41:34.880 and comfortable, nothing like complicated. I want to minimize complexity, 0:41:35.480 --> 0:41:37.520 and I want, I mean, like the familiar. It is 0:41:37.520 --> 0:41:39.719 hard to beat, Like, I want something relatively familiar, so 0:41:39.719 --> 0:41:43.120 I'll often rewatch. I gotta say, when I was a kid, 0:41:43.160 --> 0:41:45.480 and this is actually still true, my mom would take 0:41:45.480 --> 0:41:47.000 me to work with her when I was really sick, 0:41:47.040 --> 0:41:49.320 and I would just sit in her office and watch 0:41:49.360 --> 0:41:52.760 on her Like other computer watch movies, The Ocean's Trilogy 0:41:53.320 --> 0:41:54.680 would be something I. 0:41:54.600 --> 0:41:57.760 Watch Ultimate comfort Watch. 0:41:58.040 --> 0:41:59.360 Yeah, like that's a great one. 0:41:59.560 --> 0:42:02.600 Watching Brad Pitt and especially Brad Pitt. I love Brad Pitt, 0:42:02.640 --> 0:42:04.440 But watching brad Pitt and Clooney just like sort of 0:42:04.480 --> 0:42:08.400 like stylishly solve problems and like do it with no 0:42:08.520 --> 0:42:11.799 issues at all. It's just like very pleasing. I'm like this, 0:42:12.320 --> 0:42:14.920 it's complicated, but it's so not complicated. They make it 0:42:14.960 --> 0:42:16.279 too easy. That's what I want life to be. 0:42:16.400 --> 0:42:20.319 Like this stakes the high but love watch it and 0:42:20.360 --> 0:42:23.080 you're like they're stealing a lot, but this is not stressful. 0:42:23.120 --> 0:42:25.799 This is relaxing. I'm glad to be involved in this. 0:42:26.520 --> 0:42:29.280 Yeah, I'm like, this is good. One hundred million dollars. 0:42:29.480 --> 0:42:30.040 I want that. 0:42:30.200 --> 0:42:31.720 This is great. If only, if only. 0:42:31.600 --> 0:42:34.480 This could be so easy? 0:42:35.239 --> 0:42:38.400 Chris, what is your go to sick content? 0:42:39.280 --> 0:42:42.440 I think if I'm sick, probably the first movie I 0:42:42.440 --> 0:42:44.040 put on is probably the movie I've seen the most 0:42:44.040 --> 0:42:47.000 of my entire life, which is The Great Mouse Detective, Like. 0:42:46.920 --> 0:42:52.759 The Respect to Basil. That's the one I. 0:42:52.680 --> 0:42:55.680 Mean, yeah, you know, and and Vincent Price's Radigan is 0:42:55.719 --> 0:42:58.920 like one of the all time great camp villains. And 0:42:59.400 --> 0:43:02.920 I've watched the movie probably three or four times a year. 0:43:02.960 --> 0:43:04.520 I ever just like feeling like a little bit like 0:43:04.600 --> 0:43:05.680 hungover or sick whatever. 0:43:05.680 --> 0:43:06.600 Ikay thrown that on. 0:43:07.880 --> 0:43:10.400 And when I actually I had COVID back in October 0:43:10.480 --> 0:43:13.279 twenty twenty, you know, pre vaccine, when it was like 0:43:13.440 --> 0:43:15.239 you can't go anywhere, do anything, you don't know how 0:43:15.239 --> 0:43:17.479 long you're gonna be six. I basically quarantined for three 0:43:17.520 --> 0:43:20.200 weeks more or less, and I caught up in a 0:43:20.239 --> 0:43:24.480 lot of Batman comics. I reread the Cataclysm in No 0:43:24.600 --> 0:43:27.719 Man's Lam arc, but I went and tracked down like 0:43:27.760 --> 0:43:29.840 all the side issues that were included in like the 0:43:30.160 --> 0:43:33.440 trade collective versions that I had in the nineties, you know, 0:43:33.520 --> 0:43:36.480 thank you for was it DC Infinity or whatever? 0:43:36.880 --> 0:43:40.840 That was fantastic, And then I started, yeah, but it is, yeah, no, 0:43:41.200 --> 0:43:42.080 it was really excellent. 0:43:42.120 --> 0:43:43.520 I caught up on a lot of comics, and then 0:43:43.520 --> 0:43:45.120 the other thing I did was I got back into 0:43:46.040 --> 0:43:49.560 building custom lego sets I hadn't done in probably like 0:43:49.600 --> 0:43:51.879 a decade or so, and I just had a bunch 0:43:51.920 --> 0:43:53.680 of pieces line around, and so for the first time 0:43:53.680 --> 0:43:55.360 in a long time, I built like a little custom 0:43:55.400 --> 0:43:57.640 batmobile and a little tumbler, and I was like, Oh, 0:43:57.719 --> 0:43:59.719 I'm actually really really proud of how these came out. 0:44:00.000 --> 0:44:02.040 This is pretty great. Yeah, I just like sat my 0:44:02.080 --> 0:44:04.160 apartment for three weeks and buil Legos and red comics 0:44:04.200 --> 0:44:05.080 and it was sound. 0:44:05.160 --> 0:44:08.320 Honestly it was. It was part of me. Part of 0:44:08.360 --> 0:44:11.239 me kind of misses it now at this point that 0:44:11.239 --> 0:44:11.920 that era. 0:44:11.920 --> 0:44:15.040 Of like weird Disney movies from like what they were 0:44:15.040 --> 0:44:17.560 seeing as like a flop era, they definitely come to me. 0:44:17.600 --> 0:44:19.880 Like one of my ultimate ones is The Black Cauldron. 0:44:20.440 --> 0:44:25.279 I watched that culture and and it's so scary and 0:44:25.400 --> 0:44:29.960 weird and like just off key, but it's so comforting. 0:44:30.320 --> 0:44:34.600 And that definitely like that Basso Mass Detective. Like Disney 0:44:34.640 --> 0:44:36.920 Plus in that way has kind of been a blessing 0:44:36.920 --> 0:44:38.719 and a curse because they have they have all those 0:44:38.800 --> 0:44:41.480 a lot of those vaulted movies, but they also used 0:44:41.520 --> 0:44:43.800 to just be free to rent from the library services 0:44:43.800 --> 0:44:47.359 because like nobody wanted them, but it's easier to find 0:44:47.360 --> 0:44:48.320 them on Disney Plus. 0:44:48.480 --> 0:44:49.919 Yeah, I know, that's that's a great call. 0:44:50.640 --> 0:44:53.680 They were dark too, like a black. 0:44:53.440 --> 0:44:55.400 Coldin is like legitimately terrifying. 0:44:55.960 --> 0:44:57.799 Yeah, like it freaked me out, Like it's still to 0:44:57.800 --> 0:44:59.400 this day, Like there's a part of my brain that 0:44:59.440 --> 0:45:01.640 like shivers little bit whenever Fidget busts to the window, 0:45:01.680 --> 0:45:03.680 Like I should still be scared by this all these 0:45:03.719 --> 0:45:04.239 years later. 0:45:04.400 --> 0:45:06.319 Yeah, they're like they're dark and cool. I really like 0:45:06.320 --> 0:45:08.520 that era. Actually the one for me like that was 0:45:08.600 --> 0:45:09.200 Page Master. 0:45:09.320 --> 0:45:10.000 Oh my god. 0:45:10.360 --> 0:45:14.520 Yeah yeah, yeah so scary. 0:45:14.680 --> 0:45:17.600 The mister Hyde was so scary to me, Like just 0:45:17.640 --> 0:45:20.040 like the I don't know all of the streaky, but 0:45:20.080 --> 0:45:21.960 like you just kind of like want more of it. 0:45:21.960 --> 0:45:23.600 It feels like a version of a fever a little bit, 0:45:23.640 --> 0:45:25.480 like let me just try to like get get the 0:45:25.520 --> 0:45:26.279 bad stuff out. 0:45:26.480 --> 0:45:26.719 Dude. 0:45:26.800 --> 0:45:30.200 Joe Johnston, he's a pretty legit Comfort Watchers director actually, 0:45:30.239 --> 0:45:34.239 because he directed Rocketeer and now brilliant Rocketeer. 0:45:35.160 --> 0:45:40.120 Shouts to Rocketeer right shouts a. Shouts to Jennifer Connelly, 0:45:40.440 --> 0:45:47.000 my always my first wife is fantastic in The Rocketeer, 0:45:47.080 --> 0:45:50.120 A movie that should have been like a hit but 0:45:50.320 --> 0:45:50.839 wasn't a hit. 0:45:51.360 --> 0:45:53.720 Fun movie, really fun, super fun. 0:45:53.840 --> 0:45:57.560 There's no way Captain America exists the First Avenger directed 0:45:57.560 --> 0:45:57.879 by him. 0:45:57.880 --> 0:46:00.600 If that movie didn't exist, Hey, right, yeah. 0:46:00.800 --> 0:46:07.320 He's completely I've been rewatching it, like I've rewatched The 0:46:07.440 --> 0:46:15.799 Succession season two episode turn Haven, today, episodes of television, 0:46:17.840 --> 0:46:19.640 and I've been reading a lot. But I think that 0:46:21.080 --> 0:46:23.200 I've been like catching up on a lot of TV. 0:46:23.560 --> 0:46:26.359 And one of the shows that I'm really enjoying right 0:46:26.400 --> 0:46:28.920 now is killing it on Peacock. 0:46:29.640 --> 0:46:31.680 Oh yeah, the Craig Robinson Show. 0:46:33.600 --> 0:46:38.320 It stars Craig Robinson, created by Luke del Tredici and 0:46:38.400 --> 0:46:44.960 Dan Gore, and it is Craig Robinson is a like 0:46:45.200 --> 0:46:52.759 down on his luck dude who enters a like a 0:46:52.920 --> 0:46:59.000 Boa constrictor catching contest in the Everglades. Now, because like 0:47:00.400 --> 0:47:02.719 the setup here is that I'm sure we've all read 0:47:02.719 --> 0:47:05.640 these stories where like people who couldn't handle their snakes 0:47:06.080 --> 0:47:08.439 in the in the you know, Everglade region, they would 0:47:08.440 --> 0:47:10.759 just like let them go into like the swamps and shit, 0:47:11.440 --> 0:47:14.680 and now they're like a threat to the environment and 0:47:14.800 --> 0:47:18.160 so they have to be caught. And so there's like 0:47:18.200 --> 0:47:25.000 this twenty thousand dollars contest for whoever catches the most 0:47:25.040 --> 0:47:29.960 snakes in the swamps. And of course, like that is 0:47:30.000 --> 0:47:34.000 the exact amount of money that Craig Robinson's character needs 0:47:34.600 --> 0:47:38.759 to get out of the jam he's in. And it's like, 0:47:40.640 --> 0:47:44.239 first of all, the cast is great. Craig Robinson as 0:47:44.560 --> 0:47:48.719 Craig He's Craig Robinson has reached the Tony Danza. All 0:47:48.800 --> 0:47:52.680 my characters are named my name level of like TV 0:47:52.800 --> 0:47:56.960 acticts the Pizza Hut money. Yeah, Claudio Darity as Gillian, 0:47:57.000 --> 0:48:01.320 who I just chat from our Wagman's death and love 0:48:01.400 --> 0:48:04.480 and from other things. She's just like fantastic and so funny. 0:48:05.160 --> 0:48:08.200 Lily Sullivan from The Righteous Gemstones and season one of 0:48:08.400 --> 0:48:12.440 I think you should leave. Uh. Tim Heidecker as like 0:48:14.280 --> 0:48:19.560 as like Tom Cruise's character from Magnolia. Like, it's so 0:48:20.719 --> 0:48:23.239 the casting is really great, And first of all, I 0:48:23.320 --> 0:48:25.680 was not aware on Peacock that you could curse and shit, 0:48:25.760 --> 0:48:29.040 So there's like a lot it's like adult, but it 0:48:29.080 --> 0:48:34.560 also deals with like it's a show about people on 0:48:34.640 --> 0:48:38.600 the lowest rungs of the socioeconomic gladder who've been left 0:48:38.640 --> 0:48:43.480 behind by capitalism and who are just like trying to 0:48:43.640 --> 0:48:48.680 get by. And part of the way, part of the 0:48:48.800 --> 0:48:51.640 journey of the show is, you know, along with all 0:48:51.640 --> 0:48:54.040 the snake catching and all of like hilarity and wild 0:48:54.080 --> 0:48:56.239 stuff that happens. Is like they all kind of like 0:48:56.360 --> 0:48:59.839 bond together into this community as a way to get by. 0:48:59.840 --> 0:49:02.359 It's just a really really funny show. It's really fun. 0:49:02.680 --> 0:49:07.879 I'm enjoying it. It's not like anything else that's out 0:49:07.920 --> 0:49:10.880 there in the same way that Abbot and in Our 0:49:10.920 --> 0:49:15.279 Flag Means death feel really singular and unique killing. It 0:49:15.280 --> 0:49:17.600 feels like that really fun showing. 0:49:18.719 --> 0:49:19.400 I love that. 0:49:19.400 --> 0:49:21.359 That's what streaming has given us now, is you can 0:49:21.400 --> 0:49:23.480 go super niche like that and just produce like a 0:49:23.520 --> 0:49:26.200 short ten episode series. It's like for a very ci 0:49:26.480 --> 0:49:28.960 audience that discover and love it and it can just 0:49:29.040 --> 0:49:31.560 exist and be awesome and not have to be twenty 0:49:31.560 --> 0:49:33.600 two episodes and appeal to everybody all the time. 0:49:33.920 --> 0:49:36.280 Yeah, And I really like that, Like these Found family 0:49:36.360 --> 0:49:39.840 stories are becoming like such a trope now, and I 0:49:39.840 --> 0:49:42.680 think it's because like people our age grew up with, 0:49:42.719 --> 0:49:45.040 like some of the ultimate Found families, you know, like 0:49:45.120 --> 0:49:48.120 the X Men and stuff like that, And I I 0:49:48.239 --> 0:49:50.880 just it makes me really happy to see shows that 0:49:50.920 --> 0:49:54.200 are being made at a prestige TV level where that 0:49:54.640 --> 0:49:58.880 discovery of community for whatever reason whether it's socio economic 0:49:59.000 --> 0:50:01.920 or sexuality or just living like on the outside of society. 0:50:02.280 --> 0:50:05.200 That's become such a cool part of TV now, and 0:50:05.239 --> 0:50:07.560 that's definitely like one of my comfort tropes. 0:50:08.160 --> 0:50:09.640 So it's really nice to. 0:50:09.560 --> 0:50:12.479 See Guardians the Galaxy. I watch that movie all the time. 0:50:12.600 --> 0:50:14.520 Another Ultimate Found Family movie. 0:50:14.640 --> 0:50:16.680 That's a great one. I will go on Disney Plus 0:50:16.760 --> 0:50:19.800 and just watch scenes from Marvel movies way too much, 0:50:19.920 --> 0:50:21.640 Like even when I'm not sick, I do that all 0:50:21.640 --> 0:50:23.920 the time. I really do that all the time. And 0:50:23.960 --> 0:50:26.719 it's it's sad, and I don't like to talk about it, 0:50:26.760 --> 0:50:28.920 but I do. I do that constantly. 0:50:29.160 --> 0:50:32.600 I do Captain America picking up Thor's hammer. 0:50:33.120 --> 0:50:35.879 That's like but once a week probably, And. 0:50:37.360 --> 0:50:39.680 Like listen, one of the greatest scenes in the entire 0:50:39.840 --> 0:50:45.440 MCU is the before as Ultron is like knitting his 0:50:45.560 --> 0:50:47.800 consciousness together, and they're all and the rest of the 0:50:47.840 --> 0:50:50.840 Avengers are just like partying on at Stark Tower. The 0:50:51.560 --> 0:50:57.320 iOS just like hanging out, and that is like so fun. 0:50:57.480 --> 0:51:01.240 That is such a fun scene. Everybody drinking like Thor's 0:51:01.520 --> 0:51:06.920 thousand year old dorog, you know, seeing who could pick 0:51:06.960 --> 0:51:14.480 up Thort's hammer, roasting Roadie for being like a Kmart superhero. 0:51:15.560 --> 0:51:17.560 Like that. Some So that's the good stuff. 0:51:17.680 --> 0:51:19.840 And I love Black Widow's response like, oh, that's not 0:51:19.880 --> 0:51:20.840 a question I any answered. 0:51:21.120 --> 0:51:23.320 It's like, oh, yeah, that's that's perfect for her character. 0:51:23.840 --> 0:51:25.560 It's like, no, I don't want to know. 0:51:25.760 --> 0:51:29.759 Well, listen, hopefully this will be over soon, Rosie. 0:51:30.480 --> 0:51:31.279 I believe in us. 0:51:31.560 --> 0:51:34.520 You've you've been dealing with since Thursday. I've been dealing 0:51:34.520 --> 0:51:38.800 it with since Saturday. Although, as I told my primary 0:51:38.840 --> 0:51:44.640 care doctor, because I'm lucky enough to have health insurance 0:51:44.840 --> 0:51:46.759 and I think that's the thing that everybody in this 0:51:46.840 --> 0:51:51.200 country should just have. Yes, definitely, there was like a 0:51:51.680 --> 0:51:55.000 two to three maybe four day period where it was like, 0:51:56.320 --> 0:51:59.960 oh man, my allergies are bad. So you know, like 0:52:00.080 --> 0:52:02.359 it's hard to yeah, it's hard to say, it's hard 0:52:02.400 --> 0:52:04.719 to know, but I'm going to say Saturday, and so 0:52:04.840 --> 0:52:08.920 hopefully this is over soon. I know that there. I 0:52:08.960 --> 0:52:11.480 know that there's probably some people yelling at their speakers 0:52:11.560 --> 0:52:14.160 right now. Get that anti viral pa Sloffett or whatever 0:52:14.200 --> 0:52:17.160 it's called. I tried, let me tell you, folks, I tried. 0:52:17.600 --> 0:52:20.040 I did. I was like, hey, what about that anti viral. 0:52:20.120 --> 0:52:21.920 I've been hearing about and they didn't want to give 0:52:21.920 --> 0:52:24.080 it to me because I guess my symptoms aren't bad enough, 0:52:24.120 --> 0:52:27.280 and I respect it. There's probably people who really really 0:52:27.320 --> 0:52:30.640 require it. They are giving that out for anybody in 0:52:30.680 --> 0:52:33.320 New York. I believe that's free. If you get that prescribed, 0:52:33.360 --> 0:52:34.920 you can get that for free. I guess they just 0:52:34.960 --> 0:52:35.759 have a lot of it over there. 0:52:35.800 --> 0:52:37.440 That's amazing in New York's sitience. 0:52:39.200 --> 0:52:42.120 But hopefully this will be over soon and we'll be 0:52:42.200 --> 0:52:46.839 back with you by our next episode, fully whole and 0:52:46.920 --> 0:52:53.840 well and certainly finished with our journey to full recovery. 0:52:54.360 --> 0:53:07.400 Up next the outro, It's a big thank you to 0:53:07.640 --> 0:53:11.400 Rosie Night. Chris Lord and Saw Roumin are super producers 0:53:11.400 --> 0:53:14.800 for joining us and helping us carry through the episode 0:53:14.840 --> 0:53:17.240 on X ray vision as Rosie and I are dealing 0:53:17.280 --> 0:53:22.600 with reduced lung capacity. Rosie, what do you have to plug? 0:53:23.080 --> 0:53:26.600 Well, depending on how I'm feeling this weekend, I may 0:53:26.680 --> 0:53:29.080 or may not be there, but do remember that there 0:53:29.160 --> 0:53:32.640 is an amazing Transformers Day event at Pop Fiction in 0:53:32.680 --> 0:53:34.680 Long Beach, which is my local comic shop. 0:53:34.880 --> 0:53:36.759 It's gonna be a ton of cool artists there. 0:53:36.800 --> 0:53:40.919 You can get some brad Transformers comics on sale. Even 0:53:40.960 --> 0:53:42.400 if I'm not there, I'll make sure some of my 0:53:42.520 --> 0:53:45.040 zines and stuff are there that you can pick up, 0:53:45.120 --> 0:53:47.480 and it will just be a really good time. I 0:53:47.600 --> 0:53:50.160 dream that I will be well, but it feels like 0:53:50.200 --> 0:53:52.840 I will never be well, so I'm not promising anything. 0:53:52.920 --> 0:53:54.000 Oh, we're gonna get there. 0:53:54.120 --> 0:53:56.200 We're gonna do it. We can do it, and we 0:53:56.239 --> 0:54:01.319 can do it, folks, don't forget to check out our 0:54:01.360 --> 0:54:04.400 videos on Cultured YouTube channel and the show notes for 0:54:04.480 --> 0:54:06.600 the listener's Guide to X ray Vision, where we provide 0:54:06.640 --> 0:54:09.520 more details about the stuff we talk about on each episode, 0:54:09.600 --> 0:54:12.799 including this one. Our next episode will be on May 0:54:12.840 --> 0:54:15.680 twenty seventh, by which time we hope to be fully 0:54:15.719 --> 0:54:20.360 whole and well and our body's free of the novel 0:54:20.400 --> 0:54:24.080 coronavirus COVID nineteen. 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