WEBVTT - Episode 37: Miles Morales 0:00:09.320 --> 0:00:13.960 Oh right, welcome to nerd if a sent I am 0:00:14.000 --> 0:00:16.959 your host, if you way, sitting across from me is 0:00:17.000 --> 0:00:20.639 not Danny Fernandez, but actually, to the right of me, 0:00:21.560 --> 0:00:24.599 my special guest co host today is a good friend 0:00:24.680 --> 0:00:27.960 of ours. Ed Greer. How are you doing, hey, man? 0:00:28.080 --> 0:00:30.560 If this is really cool to be here. I've listened 0:00:30.600 --> 0:00:34.159 to you guys for a while, and you know, no 0:00:34.200 --> 0:00:37.520 one can replace Danny. I'm just gonna occupy this space 0:00:37.560 --> 0:00:39.599 and time. I like how you entered this as if 0:00:39.640 --> 0:00:41.680 you're going to be a step parent. Like, look, I'm 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:45.320 not here to replace Danny. I'm just you know, I'm 0:00:45.360 --> 0:00:48.800 just here for your dad. I just don't want instant 0:00:48.840 --> 0:00:55.120 hate that it's not Danny, alright, and sitting across from 0:00:55.120 --> 0:00:58.480 me this time is a good friend as well. Aaron Powell, 0:00:58.480 --> 0:01:01.240 how are you doing. I'm good, man, doing good good. 0:01:01.400 --> 0:01:05.520 You have done the most nerdy Prince crossovers I think 0:01:05.640 --> 0:01:08.640 that I've seen ever. Dude, it's it's my thing now. 0:01:09.319 --> 0:01:12.240 People will not not let me dress up as prints, 0:01:12.319 --> 0:01:14.440 so yeah, I kind of have to. Even when I 0:01:14.480 --> 0:01:16.320 try to do other stuff, they say, what are you 0:01:16.360 --> 0:01:18.920 gonna do? Prince again? I'm like, I guess I grew 0:01:18.959 --> 0:01:22.360 out this long beard so I would stop doing princes. Like, 0:01:22.400 --> 0:01:25.920 now we're good, you can still do prints. Yeah, prince 0:01:26.000 --> 0:01:28.039 had a beard at one point. I'm like, yeah, but 0:01:28.120 --> 0:01:29.880 not the costume that I do. We don't care. Just 0:01:29.959 --> 0:01:34.080 do princes and dance and that's all it is. Yeah, 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:37.399 I'm six I'm the tallest prince ever. I'm six one. 0:01:37.520 --> 0:01:39.520 And then I actually have like a little bit of 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:41.680 lift on the boots that I wear, so like, I'm 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:45.240 just like this humongous princes walking around in a giant 0:01:45.240 --> 0:01:48.160 purple coat. You've probably seen me if you've been to 0:01:48.200 --> 0:01:52.680 a comic convention. Yeah, you know, I'm gonna drop where 0:01:52.720 --> 0:01:55.880 you can find both of y'all just at the same time. So, Edgarer, 0:01:55.960 --> 0:01:59.280 you you do the screen shunkys, you know you you 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:01.680 you hop on the screen junkies, and you have your 0:02:01.680 --> 0:02:03.120 own podcast as well. You want to tell us a 0:02:03.160 --> 0:02:06.320 little bit about that. Um. Yeah, it's called nerd Goat Podcast, 0:02:06.360 --> 0:02:08.880 and we've had you and Danny on, which are very 0:02:08.880 --> 0:02:17.639 popular episodes. Dodka, but it's just a dive into people's 0:02:17.680 --> 0:02:20.720 favorite fictional character, and that can be you know, we've 0:02:20.760 --> 0:02:24.919 done Tarzan, We've done Conan, We've done characters from video games, 0:02:24.919 --> 0:02:28.680 Spider Man, the Daredevil's this isn't that we've done Elaine 0:02:28.680 --> 0:02:33.400 Benness from Seinfeld Coat, you know what I'm saying. So 0:02:33.400 --> 0:02:35.600 it's it's not just you know, people who swing on 0:02:35.800 --> 0:02:38.720 webs and bunch people do walls. It's it's certainly whatever 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:41.120 fictional character. And we find that when people come on 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:43.440 and they really get a chance to just go nuts, 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:46.040 you know, you know, your significant other always here's your 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:50.440 dumb screed, whatever you like. It's it's our guest opportunity, 0:02:50.440 --> 0:02:52.679 funny people like yourselves. And I usually I want to 0:02:52.680 --> 0:02:54.280 I want to invite you on it. Right now. I 0:02:54.280 --> 0:02:58.640 will definitely be no, no podcast. I'm shutting it down. 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:02.079 But honestly said Bargo. But anyway, yeah, so that's that's 0:03:02.120 --> 0:03:04.360 what we do. Me and my man Ron Swallow, We 0:03:04.480 --> 0:03:07.080 just we just let somebody vent on their favorite fictional 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:09.960 character and we kind of James lifting it up. Yeah, yeah, no, 0:03:10.000 --> 0:03:12.440 I think it's a great concept and it was really 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:15.320 fun to be on. Uh, you know, Elaine isn't as 0:03:15.400 --> 0:03:19.160 weird to me as someone whose favorite character is Tarzan. 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:24.280 Little Tarzan had stands like that. That was wow. Okay, 0:03:24.440 --> 0:03:26.440 And and sometimes We'll have people who will have like 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:29.400 they won't have this giant comprehensive like, oh I know 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:32.120 everything about this character, but they're like a certain iteration 0:03:32.120 --> 0:03:34.560 of them, Like she liked the Johnny White Miller Swimming 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:37.040 Tarzan movies. Yeah, you know, from back in the days, 0:03:37.040 --> 0:03:39.000 because the best back when she was like, you know, 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:40.760 her grandpa wau show him to her and stuff like that. 0:03:41.040 --> 0:03:42.880 So we get to see why people connected with some 0:03:42.880 --> 0:03:45.200 of these characters. Rather than just nerd out and standing 0:03:45.200 --> 0:03:47.000 out about the character and doing some roll call of 0:03:47.040 --> 0:03:49.280 their feats or whatever, it ends up being a deep 0:03:49.280 --> 0:03:51.280 dive into the personality of the person, which is I 0:03:51.280 --> 0:03:53.480 think the special part about the show. It sounds like 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:56.520 you are qualify your resume stacks up to be a 0:03:56.520 --> 0:04:00.320 co host and I'm gonna turnover to Aaron. And you know, 0:04:00.600 --> 0:04:04.040 you have quite a few podcasts. I have to, I 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:06.480 have to, and I guess on a lot of others. 0:04:06.600 --> 0:04:08.320 Um I did a couple of guest spots this week, 0:04:08.360 --> 0:04:11.840 and I got a couple more later on my podcast, though, uh, 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:14.880 the two of them are. Aaron explains the universe, which 0:04:15.160 --> 0:04:17.799 um it started off with just me giving dating advice 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:20.039 and like talking about like dating mishaps I've had in 0:04:20.040 --> 0:04:24.000 the past two Now I talk more about like social issues, um, 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:27.120 things going on in the world just and I'll ramble 0:04:27.200 --> 0:04:29.240 about a lot of other stuff too, but I always 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:32.080 bring it back to Daton somehow. My other podcast, which 0:04:32.120 --> 0:04:34.720 is on hiatus until I find a different format for 0:04:34.880 --> 0:04:39.200 I want to do video for It's called Stupid Movie Tuesday. Tuesday. 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:41.760 Stupid Movie Tuesday is when I watched a movie either 0:04:41.839 --> 0:04:44.720 new or old, and I give my honest review on it. 0:04:45.200 --> 0:04:47.599 The episode that a lot of people like is my 0:04:47.640 --> 0:04:51.480 Suicide Squad one, And then the one people like because 0:04:51.560 --> 0:04:55.160 I'm just so angry about it was, um, Gods of Egypt. 0:04:56.400 --> 0:04:58.440 I didn't even make it through the whole movie. I 0:04:58.480 --> 0:05:01.360 watched that one live as I did it, and like, 0:05:01.560 --> 0:05:03.359 if you want to hear there's not a lot of 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:05.960 cursing on this podcast that I'm on right now, but 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:08.120 if you want to hear somebody curse and find the 0:05:08.160 --> 0:05:11.159 Stupid Movie Tuesday where I'm doing Gods of Egypt, you 0:05:11.160 --> 0:05:14.919 will see me at my absolute angriest. It's like driving 0:05:14.920 --> 0:05:18.440 on the four oh five angry. That's a regional reference 0:05:20.080 --> 0:05:24.000 is not gonna get but it's whatever freeway is in 0:05:24.040 --> 0:05:29.039 your town that you hate. That's what it was. You 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:32.360 didn't like those Irish Egyptian gods. No, not at all 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:36.960 because like that like my family like from Egypt. So 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:39.239 like when I watched it, I was like, wait a minute, wait, 0:05:39.240 --> 0:05:42.080 wait wait, this is this is this is not right 0:05:42.160 --> 0:05:45.040 at all, And like just just on a mythology standpoint, 0:05:45.080 --> 0:05:47.920 I'm like, this is terrible. Jamie Lanister, the actor who 0:05:47.960 --> 0:05:50.960 plays him, because I can't pronounce his actual name, uh, 0:05:51.080 --> 0:05:56.679 he played Horace in that movie. Yeah, Jamie, Jamie Lanister 0:05:56.760 --> 0:05:59.200 playing don't don't, don't spoil it, let him let him 0:05:59.240 --> 0:06:02.080 go see that, will see it, go see it. Sigourney 0:06:02.160 --> 0:06:05.680 Weavers in it for some reason. Whatever Sigourney Weavers might 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:07.960 forever cross, she can be in whatever movie. She can 0:06:07.960 --> 0:06:11.200 be in Black Panther. Honestly, there was there was an 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:14.040 actor in Black Panther that was in Gods of Egypt two. 0:06:14.320 --> 0:06:20.000 He was he was ban he was taught. Yeah, okay. 0:06:20.360 --> 0:06:23.640 Vin Chadwick Boseman head basically was like, I guess he 0:06:23.680 --> 0:06:26.479 needs to pay rent that mother book Black Panther yet 0:06:28.880 --> 0:06:33.240 al right, Well, speaking of Black Panther and black superheroes 0:06:34.000 --> 0:06:37.120 segue of the year. Mons Morales is who we're here 0:06:37.160 --> 0:06:40.719 to talk about. Morales is fun. We're gonna get into 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:43.200 the deeds and the in the beginning of it, but 0:06:43.279 --> 0:06:47.719 Mons Morales is cool in the sense that I remember 0:06:47.960 --> 0:06:50.960 when he came on the scene. I remember, I think 0:06:51.200 --> 0:06:55.000 everyone in this room remembers it, and I remember when 0:06:55.040 --> 0:06:58.479 he first came in being unimpressed, uh not by the 0:06:58.560 --> 0:07:04.440 character itself, but on the well for for the nonversed fans, 0:07:04.480 --> 0:07:07.640 I'll like walk it back and explain everything I'm mentioning, 0:07:08.080 --> 0:07:11.280 but the fact that he existed in the Ultimate Universe 0:07:11.320 --> 0:07:14.440 and not six one six, so that I was like, Okay, 0:07:14.480 --> 0:07:17.440 y'all doing it, but you're not really doing it and 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:19.160 what that means for those who might not know the 0:07:19.160 --> 0:07:22.200 difference between the six one six universe and the Ultimate Universe, 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:26.240 Marvel established that there's multiple universes and the six one 0:07:26.320 --> 0:07:29.600 six universe is basically the main canon everything that dates 0:07:29.640 --> 0:07:33.760 back to Marvel that you basically know and love, and 0:07:33.960 --> 0:07:37.560 Ultimate universes where all the Ultimate comics were from Ultimate 0:07:37.600 --> 0:07:40.040 Spider Man, l X Men, Ultimate Avengers, and they used 0:07:40.080 --> 0:07:42.640 to be separate. There was a weird moment of time 0:07:43.320 --> 0:07:47.000 when all the drawings in the Ultimate comics looked like 0:07:47.040 --> 0:07:50.360 everyone who ended up being cast in the movies. You know, 0:07:50.440 --> 0:07:56.160 Wolverine looked like Hugh jackman Um Samuel Jackson got the 0:07:56.320 --> 0:08:00.360 job to because them like that. They like the Nick 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:03.800 Fury and the Latimate Universe came first, didn't didn't quite 0:08:03.800 --> 0:08:07.560 work out for Eminem and wanted no, not at all, 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:09.920 and and basically the thing that but you know what, 0:08:10.040 --> 0:08:12.280 the thing that I liked about the Ultimate Universe in 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:15.720 the first few years was they did seem to take 0:08:15.760 --> 0:08:18.560 it like just that tiny They turned up the realism 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:21.800 dial just a little bit, and then they leaned on 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:26.160 that mug and it went then exactly. The Ultimate Universe 0:08:26.680 --> 0:08:30.320 was great when it first started. By the time Miles 0:08:30.400 --> 0:08:32.760 was getting into it, though, it was not falling off 0:08:32.800 --> 0:08:34.720 because like when Miles got into it, and then I 0:08:34.760 --> 0:08:37.400 think we'll get into this later. At some point Captain 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:42.240 America took over America. Uh, they split it up. At 0:08:42.280 --> 0:08:46.679 some point, Peter Parker was dead. The X Men, it 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:49.480 was just off the rails. It was like X Men 0:08:49.559 --> 0:08:52.560 three bad when it came back to Like the X Men. Also, 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:54.720 I'm a pause and because I like to kind of 0:08:54.760 --> 0:08:57.640 make it a little inclusive for the nerds who might 0:08:57.679 --> 0:09:00.280 not have that deep knowledge. The reason I said didn't 0:09:00.320 --> 0:09:03.280 work out for Eminem is if you read the original 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:08.000 Wanted comic, he's drawn like Eminem because they drew the 0:09:08.040 --> 0:09:10.360 comic in the way that they drew it with how 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:12.560 they would want it to be cast in the movie. 0:09:12.600 --> 0:09:14.679 They drew it anticipate in the movie coming out, so 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:17.960 they drew it to have certain people get cast for it. 0:09:18.000 --> 0:09:20.480 Like if you read The Boys, Um, there's a character 0:09:20.520 --> 0:09:23.559 who looks exactly like Simon Peg in there. Oh yeah, 0:09:23.640 --> 0:09:26.280 and he wrote the foreword to like one of the 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:29.800 training paperbacks. Yeah. And if unfortunately it's he's too old 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:33.480 to play it now? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't know 0:09:33.520 --> 0:09:36.040 if I can whatever, it's it's past and they already 0:09:36.080 --> 0:09:40.440 cast him. But I auditioned for Mother's Milk. Yeah, I was, Yeah, 0:09:40.480 --> 0:09:43.320 and I request that one, but I'm too young, like 0:09:43.400 --> 0:09:46.640 Mother's Milk is an older character. But I was like, 0:09:46.720 --> 0:09:48.520 I just want, like I'm getting to the point where 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:51.280 I've I've I've been taking some swing out a few superheroes, 0:09:51.320 --> 0:09:53.360 and to me, I'm just happy that I'm taking them swing. 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:57.920 Most recent notable audition that I did was for Ronnie 0:09:57.960 --> 0:10:03.320 de Vo for the New Audition movie. Because I'm tall, 0:10:03.520 --> 0:10:06.160 I'm light skinning, I can dance. I was like, I 0:10:06.280 --> 0:10:10.360 want to do Ronnie the Vote, And obviously I didn't 0:10:10.360 --> 0:10:12.679 get it, but there was a part of me that 0:10:12.679 --> 0:10:13.880 I was going to say, how did that go? And 0:10:13.880 --> 0:10:16.040 I was like, well, the movie can the movies out? 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:18.760 The movies out already? That was funny when you do 0:10:18.800 --> 0:10:20.839 tell people you auditioned for something that's out there, like 0:10:20.880 --> 0:10:26.600 how well it well, they cast me as an orc, 0:10:27.480 --> 0:10:30.520 don't worry about it. But it's funny that you guys 0:10:30.520 --> 0:10:33.440 were talking about the movie connection because one of the 0:10:33.480 --> 0:10:37.240 things about the Ultimates and specific was that was, honestly, 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:39.360 if you really look back on it, that was them 0:10:39.400 --> 0:10:41.959 giving Mark Miller a chance to shape what was going 0:10:42.000 --> 0:10:44.680 to be their cinematic universe. They're They're iron Man is 0:10:44.800 --> 0:10:46.920 very much like the like the Tony start that we 0:10:47.000 --> 0:10:49.240 got in the movies. They're They're Keptain America is a 0:10:49.240 --> 0:10:51.280 little hyped up. He can like throw a volts wag 0:10:51.320 --> 0:10:52.920 instead of just chomp out of the way of one. 0:10:53.640 --> 0:10:55.440 You know what I'm saying. The six one says kept 0:10:55.480 --> 0:10:58.160 America to jump out the way the ultimate line, He'll 0:10:58.200 --> 0:11:00.560 kick ahole of your fucialize. You know what I'm saying. 0:11:00.720 --> 0:11:03.520 He don't care they made Wolverine a little taller. Well yeah, 0:11:03.760 --> 0:11:05.280 they tried to do a lot of stuff, so but 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:07.760 basically then they started like even they had things like 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:09.719 Captain America when he first woke up and he saw 0:11:09.920 --> 0:11:12.360 Nick Fury, he was like, ain't no high ranking back 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:15.720 right now? That was that That made me in a 0:11:15.800 --> 0:11:18.320 strange way. It made me feel good when he did that, 0:11:18.400 --> 0:11:21.320 because Captain America six won six. His real superpower is 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:24.040 not being completely racist as a product of the of 0:11:24.120 --> 0:11:27.160 the forties, you know, like think about it. He's not 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:30.040 racist at all, And like a little bit of that 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:34.200 bothers me a little bit because because like you hear first, 0:11:34.240 --> 0:11:38.520 Aaron really wants to No, no, I don't want him 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:40.520 to be I just want him to be more realistic 0:11:40.559 --> 0:11:43.160 in the case, like he doesn't have to be like 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:47.480 like deviate ly likely racist, but like just subtle stuff 0:11:47.520 --> 0:11:50.000 like oh, there's a woman on the team, or like, 0:11:50.240 --> 0:11:56.000 you know, there's a negro, what's this? That was always 0:11:56.040 --> 0:11:58.080 my beef with Captain America when they was like, yo, 0:11:58.360 --> 0:12:01.480 this dude's ill as mill Terry leader. So when he 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:05.640 comes to let's say or two thousand, he's going to 0:12:05.679 --> 0:12:07.480 be the dude who knows who's up on it. He's like, yeah, 0:12:07.520 --> 0:12:09.200 we need to get some of those Sherman tanks. We 0:12:09.200 --> 0:12:12.920 don't even use Sherman tanks. We have evolved. We need 0:12:12.960 --> 0:12:16.040 to get some of those M fourteen rifles, like exactly 0:12:16.440 --> 0:12:23.960 fragmentation grenade. Well, we don't even pilot our whole stuff. 0:12:26.320 --> 0:12:27.959 So towards the end of the ultimate line that when 0:12:27.960 --> 0:12:29.880 they turned the violence up to eleven and they started 0:12:29.960 --> 0:12:32.440 killing off stuff. I do believe though, for a segment 0:12:32.480 --> 0:12:35.160 of people. I think that Myles Royllis did kind of 0:12:35.440 --> 0:12:38.200 resuscitate for certain people because I came and read the 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:41.560 whole run way afterwards, and I was kind of moved 0:12:41.640 --> 0:12:43.600 at how they had kind of set him up with 0:12:43.600 --> 0:12:46.360 his own uncle Ben's story of him thinking he could 0:12:46.400 --> 0:12:49.679 have helped. He gets his powers well before Spider Man 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:52.800 is dead, but he chooses to not use them because 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:54.720 he doesn't think that life is for him, and his 0:12:54.800 --> 0:12:57.080 dad and stuff pressure him to be like, yeah, had 0:12:57.120 --> 0:12:59.760 some issues like because like his dad went to jail. 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:03.360 His uncle who's very close to jail, also and he 0:13:03.480 --> 0:13:05.559 was like, well, what if being a criminal is like 0:13:06.000 --> 0:13:08.520 genetic or something like that. He had those he was 0:13:08.559 --> 0:13:10.840 just a young kid. He got his powers. Peter got 0:13:10.840 --> 0:13:14.240 his powers at fifteen. That's always been whatever universe, He's 0:13:14.240 --> 0:13:17.480 always fifteen. Miles got his at thirteen, which is it 0:13:17.520 --> 0:13:20.560 really makes it makes those two years make a big difference. 0:13:20.559 --> 0:13:23.720 And he was always like, well, you know, my dad 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:27.000 and my uncle like idolized them and stuff. You know, 0:13:27.080 --> 0:13:30.000 but they went down this wrong path. My father shaped up, 0:13:30.040 --> 0:13:32.760 but you know, you know his uncle, his uncle still 0:13:32.800 --> 0:13:35.920 kind of a criminal. He's the Prowler, Prowler of the 0:13:35.960 --> 0:13:38.520 Ultimate Universe. It was a high tech thief he steal, 0:13:38.880 --> 0:13:41.280 which is how Miles because his powers. The Prowler is 0:13:41.320 --> 0:13:45.079 stealing some stuff from Oscorp. One of the Spiders, number 0:13:45.080 --> 0:13:47.440 forty two for Jackie Robinson. I guess I don't know. 0:13:47.640 --> 0:13:51.760 I think so honestly, I honestly, I will say they 0:13:51.960 --> 0:13:55.480 have made like nice little references like that, Like, for example, 0:13:56.280 --> 0:13:58.040 I bring this up a lot. One of my favorite 0:13:58.080 --> 0:14:01.400 black Panther runs the most Dangerous Man Alive. When he 0:14:01.559 --> 0:14:06.280 is in Hell's kitchen, he's there as Mr Okonko, which 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:09.000 is the one of the main characters and Things Fall 0:14:09.040 --> 0:14:15.240 Apart a Nigerian uh novel, which is really great. Um 0:14:15.280 --> 0:14:17.480 I read that in high school. Yeah, I did too. 0:14:17.880 --> 0:14:19.720 I only got aware of it when out the roots 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:23.200 to the album. You're like, all right, cool, I did 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:25.760 it too because I had this English assignment which like 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:27.120 looking like I was like, oh, that was a pretty 0:14:27.200 --> 0:14:29.280 tight one. It was like you they wanted you to 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:32.800 read a story written by author from your you know, 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:37.680 heritage nationality, So Ginua Chebe is Nigerian Ebo And I 0:14:37.720 --> 0:14:40.240 was like, oh, no brainer. And my dad was so hyped, 0:14:40.280 --> 0:14:41.640 and it was like the first time I've seen him 0:14:41.680 --> 0:14:44.680 like real excited about something I was doing. And then 0:14:44.680 --> 0:14:46.280 the next day you told him you'd be a stand 0:14:46.360 --> 0:14:49.520 up comedian and he was. And then I look at 0:14:49.520 --> 0:14:52.160 this jack of buzz tattoo, right yeah, yeah, yeah, he 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:56.080 like throw away like the lab code he had things. Doctor, 0:14:57.240 --> 0:14:59.760 just who frumpled it up? Like how Spider Man be 0:14:59.840 --> 0:15:05.040 leave in his uniform? He walked away in the rain, Doctor, 0:15:05.080 --> 0:15:11.360 No more. So, let's jump into this deep dive real quick, 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:13.320 just to get the first bit out of the way 0:15:13.360 --> 0:15:17.080 before the break. Miles Moronles is a fictional comic book Superhero, 0:15:17.160 --> 0:15:21.040 appearing in publications by the American publisher Marvel Comics. We 0:15:21.080 --> 0:15:24.680 all know Marvel, as Crystal calls them, and it actually 0:15:24.680 --> 0:15:29.240 cracks me up. I love that she's calls him Marvel character. Yeah, 0:15:30.680 --> 0:15:33.520 as one of the characters known as Spider Man. The 0:15:33.600 --> 0:15:36.360 character was created in two thousand eleven by writer Brian 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:40.000 Michael Bindis and artist Sarah Picelli, with Bndess and marvel 0:15:40.080 --> 0:15:44.080 then editor in chief Axel Alonzo, drawing inspiration from both 0:15:44.160 --> 0:15:47.920 then U S President Barack Obama and American actor rapper 0:15:48.000 --> 0:15:50.240 Donald Glover. I feel like they add Barack just to 0:15:50.280 --> 0:15:53.240 make it sound like it has more more. It's really 0:15:53.560 --> 0:15:59.480 like it Donald Glover because like Barack was president, was there, 0:15:59.680 --> 0:16:03.360 and like when the mixing and and and the whole 0:16:03.440 --> 0:16:06.920 idea was bubbling, it was Donald Glover. Like, it's funny 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:09.320 that they add Barack there. I think it's kind of corny. 0:16:09.400 --> 0:16:13.840 But it was after a It really at that time 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:16.720 everything black and positive had something to do with BARACKO. 0:16:18.960 --> 0:16:24.720 But it was oh a year, so I'd say, yeah, 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:27.680 it really was Donald Glover. And you know, if you 0:16:28.000 --> 0:16:30.160 wonder why, he's like, why do they sound so sure? 0:16:30.560 --> 0:16:33.400 The fuse was lit after Donald Glover in an interview, 0:16:33.640 --> 0:16:37.040 said how one time he mentioned that he would love 0:16:37.080 --> 0:16:40.200 to play Spider Man and he just was targeted by 0:16:40.360 --> 0:16:42.640 racist trolls. And you can tell it was two thousand 0:16:42.720 --> 0:16:45.760 eleven because this was such a new idea to be 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:51.480 rais who would think that people in two thousand eleven 0:16:51.920 --> 0:16:54.320 and this day and age would be racist on the internet. 0:16:54.880 --> 0:16:56.520 But but like it was that was the big thing. 0:16:56.520 --> 0:16:59.040 It was like he was like every day, you know, uh, 0:16:59.080 --> 0:17:00.720 you know, I went on line and I would just 0:17:00.760 --> 0:17:03.720 be you know, it's like you'd never be Spider Man. Inward, 0:17:04.000 --> 0:17:06.840 it is that. And he said that that didn't get 0:17:06.880 --> 0:17:09.720 to him. What really got to him was one guy 0:17:09.800 --> 0:17:14.440 who like tried to come at him and was like, hey, look, Donald, 0:17:14.520 --> 0:17:17.520 the reason that you know there would never be a 0:17:17.560 --> 0:17:20.000 black Spider Man is because you know, there aren't any 0:17:20.040 --> 0:17:22.520 black kids like that. And he was like that got 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:25.159 to him more than just the blatant racism, because like, 0:17:25.280 --> 0:17:28.560 someone really doesn't believe that there could be a kid 0:17:28.560 --> 0:17:32.320 in New York who doesn't have a father and had 0:17:32.359 --> 0:17:36.640 an uncle die, who is really in a science like 0:17:36.880 --> 0:17:39.760 and I and I oftentimes repeat that with on paper, 0:17:39.880 --> 0:17:43.280 that's a black character. Like you'd be like, that's ah, 0:17:43.359 --> 0:17:47.119 that's that's uh Patrece Parker. Right, if you told me 0:17:47.200 --> 0:17:50.000 that and told me about if you pitched that character 0:17:50.040 --> 0:17:52.520 with my eyes closed, you said no, father, like sadly, 0:17:52.560 --> 0:17:55.080 I was saying, okay, yeah, I mean, well, it's funny 0:17:55.119 --> 0:17:57.960 because it is. Not to harp on this fact, but 0:17:58.040 --> 0:18:01.080 it's a common star type. But lots of times when 0:18:01.160 --> 0:18:05.240 stereotypes like that work in the favor of like lending 0:18:05.600 --> 0:18:09.639 a new character, people like oh no that no, no, no, no, 0:18:09.880 --> 0:18:11.640 like it's it's used to put us down. But when 0:18:11.640 --> 0:18:14.719 it's like, oh no, this Peter Parker kid, actually you 0:18:14.720 --> 0:18:17.680 know that that is like something right we can kind 0:18:17.680 --> 0:18:21.720 of relate to. It's like, no, no, that's ours. But overall, though, 0:18:21.760 --> 0:18:24.359 I think the way that they introduced smiles, I think 0:18:24.400 --> 0:18:28.760 they try really hard to give him parents, you know 0:18:28.800 --> 0:18:31.399 what I'm saying, which I really liked, and get him 0:18:31.400 --> 0:18:34.320 into like charter school and stuff like that, because that 0:18:34.440 --> 0:18:37.080 weighs heavily on him. Like you're thirteen years old, you 0:18:37.160 --> 0:18:39.239 got bit by a day in Spider and you got 0:18:39.240 --> 0:18:40.920 all these weird powers and all the stuff, but you're 0:18:40.960 --> 0:18:42.400 just trying to keep your head down and make sure 0:18:42.400 --> 0:18:45.160 you don't get kicked out of the school. I literally 0:18:45.200 --> 0:18:48.240 on some real stuff. I cried when I read the 0:18:48.280 --> 0:18:50.840 issue where he gets into the school and his parents 0:18:50.840 --> 0:18:53.560 are super happy that he's going to actually have a 0:18:53.600 --> 0:18:55.000 future and stuff. He's not gonna have to go down 0:18:55.040 --> 0:18:56.800 the path his dad, David, is gonna have to do 0:18:56.840 --> 0:18:58.639 whatever his mom was doing, because this mom seem to 0:18:58.640 --> 0:19:00.879 be accomplished woman. But the bottom line as it's easier 0:19:00.880 --> 0:19:03.280 for women of color a lot of the time. Obviously 0:19:03.280 --> 0:19:05.400 they have thrown travails, but a dude of color looks 0:19:05.400 --> 0:19:07.119 like a lion in the office of a lot of people, 0:19:07.400 --> 0:19:09.320 you know what I mean. So like his brother, and 0:19:09.720 --> 0:19:11.679 they find out later his dad went to shield and 0:19:11.680 --> 0:19:13.520 did all this stuff after his criminal pass. So it's 0:19:13.560 --> 0:19:16.640 like he's hiding a dope secret agent thing from his kid, 0:19:16.720 --> 0:19:19.000 not just any sort of criminality. He's hiding it in 0:19:19.040 --> 0:19:21.160 the form of like, oh, I'll just make you I'll 0:19:21.200 --> 0:19:22.479 just let you think I used to be a criminal, 0:19:22.520 --> 0:19:25.040 but actually I used to save the world, like every Tuesday. 0:19:25.280 --> 0:19:26.600 But he doesn't want it. He wants a kid to 0:19:26.600 --> 0:19:30.040 be a regular kid. It's something that Peter Parker never 0:19:30.040 --> 0:19:33.360 really got you know, he actually, like Peter just went 0:19:33.600 --> 0:19:35.600 head on and being a superhero and stuff. But Myles 0:19:35.680 --> 0:19:37.400 is like, look, I had these pots for a couple 0:19:37.440 --> 0:19:38.720 of years. I kind of just want to be a 0:19:38.720 --> 0:19:41.480 regular kid, because it's like, I've seen how dangerous being 0:19:41.480 --> 0:19:43.760 a superhero can be, with like everything going on in 0:19:43.760 --> 0:19:46.080 the Ultimate you know, that's the crux of the Spider 0:19:46.080 --> 0:19:49.080 Man mythos, And I feel like that's why it's so 0:19:49.200 --> 0:19:52.760 relatable to a lot of nerds and want so many 0:19:52.800 --> 0:19:56.800 people because everyone can think of being overwhelmed in school 0:19:56.960 --> 0:20:01.400 trying to balance everything, so to imagine also having superpowers, 0:20:01.440 --> 0:20:04.840 as cool as that be, you can plainly see that, like, 0:20:04.920 --> 0:20:06.840 imagine that a kid. Who are you going to relate 0:20:06.840 --> 0:20:09.600 more to the billionaire who used his billions to make 0:20:09.600 --> 0:20:13.520 a dope suit, the guy who got blasted with science 0:20:13.560 --> 0:20:16.119 and turns into her East, or this kid who's just 0:20:16.160 --> 0:20:19.120 trying to make it all work. Like that's that's just 0:20:19.200 --> 0:20:21.040 hands down one of the reasons I can relate to 0:20:21.040 --> 0:20:22.840 the kid who can make it all work, because those 0:20:22.880 --> 0:20:25.199 other two things would get me to die. You know, 0:20:26.119 --> 0:20:28.600 there's no bomb that's gonna explode around you and you're 0:20:28.640 --> 0:20:32.879 gonna get magic at all, You're gonna die. But in 0:20:32.920 --> 0:20:35.600 the back of your head and you're like, I hope, yeah, 0:20:36.040 --> 0:20:38.560 I still want my mutant powers to manifest, Like to 0:20:38.640 --> 0:20:42.159 this day, to just take out the radiation smock, you 0:20:42.160 --> 0:20:44.159 have to make a fist and just want cloths to 0:20:44.200 --> 0:20:47.240 pop out and stuff like that. I mean, that's kind 0:20:47.240 --> 0:20:50.160 of why I love my hero academia so much, because 0:20:50.160 --> 0:20:52.480 that's my biggest fears that powers do exist and I 0:20:52.600 --> 0:20:56.800 just don't have them, just like oh you're part yeah, 0:20:57.480 --> 0:21:01.639