Speaker 1: Hey, how's it going. Everyone, Welcome to another episode of
Speaker 1: nerd if Ascent Issue Boy if you add the way,
Speaker 1: and sitting across from me in the virtual studio is
Speaker 1: Danny Fernidez. Yeah. We did it, We did it, still
Speaker 1: doing it. Yeah, I hope my neighbors appreciate that. You
Speaker 1: know what, It's so funny because everyone's just like, you know,
Speaker 1: has to live their lives. And when I was walking
Speaker 1: my dog, I could hear someone at nine this morning
Speaker 1: just full blown belting out like singing. You know, in
Speaker 1: l A, we have how many performers and they got to, like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, keep doing their stuff. So like somebody
Speaker 1: was hardcore, like just belting out of their apartment. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: that's It's so funny because that's what I definitely felt,
Speaker 1: because you know, I was doing super Punch at at
Speaker 1: home and I just put up a green screen, just
Speaker 1: go at it. And like typically when I'm in the studio,
Speaker 1: Supermuch is a fairly loud show, like I'm usually yelling
Speaker 1: a lot. They brought my uh, I have like a
Speaker 1: megaphone that I would use intod of mic, but I
Speaker 1: was like, I gotta do all that because it's also
Speaker 1: a late night show, luckily Eastern time late night, but
Speaker 1: it's from eight to eleven my time, eleven till like
Speaker 1: two am their time. Uh So it's so the first
Speaker 1: like night, I like I heard the neighbor like kind
Speaker 1: of like knocking down, you know how they do. I'm
Speaker 1: a bottom neighbor. So they were like stomping um and
Speaker 1: I was like, and I just kind of kept going.
Speaker 1: I was like, well, they are in for it. And
Speaker 1: then luckily they stopped, because if they had the audacity
Speaker 1: to do it now. I was just putting Naomi to
Speaker 1: bed a couple of days ago, and it sounded like
Speaker 1: they were doing like w w e up there? Like
Speaker 1: do you think they were working out? I don't know,
Speaker 1: but I know they have kids too because I I
Speaker 1: hear the like the classic kid neighbor. But yeah, so
Speaker 1: they they're I think like they just got like like
Speaker 1: they must have like when we started it wasn't when Actually, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's true because when I started doing it from home,
Speaker 1: it wasn't they the kids didn't have to stay home yet,
Speaker 1: and now that the kids have to stay home, they
Speaker 1: don't complain because they know their kids are loud as hell.
Speaker 1: So it worked out I have. The neighbor next to
Speaker 1: me has a dog, and I can hear it. Wake
Speaker 1: up everyone, Like I can hear the little scratching, like
Speaker 1: the that only dog, like the weight of the dog,
Speaker 1: like I can just you know, it's very much not
Speaker 1: a cat unless it's like like pound cat. Um. But yeah,
Speaker 1: it's really funny. And my dog, I'm sure that they
Speaker 1: can hear. Luckily, everybody in my apartment complex is animal friendly.
Speaker 1: But Molly, my dog, loves to if she gets a
Speaker 1: little pent up, she'll do this thing where she does
Speaker 1: little tiny sprints from the side of the apartment to
Speaker 1: the other. UM, my sweet little babe. This week, we uh,
Speaker 1: we asked a bunch of y'all to what you wanted
Speaker 1: to ask us. UM. We haven't always done that. We've
Speaker 1: taken you know, started to take more UM letters from
Speaker 1: from our listeners and and this week we opened it
Speaker 1: up to everything. Try to keep it NERD related. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you notice. If you I had to
Speaker 1: add NERD related in my n A, on Insta or else, UM,
Speaker 1: I'm sure would have gotten a different type of d
Speaker 1: m s. But we're going to try to get to
Speaker 1: as many as possible. UM. But first up, I have
Speaker 1: one right off the bat. This is from Anichia sixteen.
Speaker 1: She said, besides the DBZ guys, what other anime guy
Speaker 1: do you think is super hot? I feel like I
Speaker 1: might have mentioned this sometime in the last two weeks,
Speaker 1: but definitely Joe Joe and Joe start. Yeah, yeah, you're
Speaker 1: talking about being beautiful, pretty and he's thick. Yeah, you've
Speaker 1: already heard me compliment how well they capture the the
Speaker 1: the overall body mass for for the for those characters,
Speaker 1: you know, they don't they make sure that you know,
Speaker 1: those boys are swollen. But also he has like big
Speaker 1: beautiful lips too. I just love all the features, Like
Speaker 1: I just love um the effort that was put into
Speaker 1: just the beauty. I just I love it. Um. If
Speaker 1: you do you have a question that you wanted to answer,
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, this one's one of those those fun ones.
Speaker 1: But they but Charles Xavier, which we've you know, on
Speaker 1: another episode established that is his real name, as what
Speaker 1: is our dream impossible crossover like seeing a my Hero
Speaker 1: academic Damia Academy crossover, something along those lines, And my
Speaker 1: impossible one is doing a movie adaptation of the Marvel
Speaker 1: versus d c. I don't think it'll work. That was
Speaker 1: going to be mine. Yeah, it's yeah, because you know,
Speaker 1: the comics are good, and they keep like hinting that
Speaker 1: they might do it in comics again. But I'd love
Speaker 1: to see not only just them just that happened. But
Speaker 1: I hope they play with it and maybe even include
Speaker 1: Deadpool so that we can have a character. And they're
Speaker 1: making fun of some of the people who have been
Speaker 1: on both sides, uh for sure, like some of these
Speaker 1: Google battles that they lost, Um well was it Captain
Speaker 1: Marvel slash Shazam? But um yeah, I I totally agree.
Speaker 1: Maybe this pandemic will bring everyone together and they'll stop
Speaker 1: fighting about who is better. Yeah. I want to see
Speaker 1: that too, just because it's why not. You know, I
Speaker 1: don't know how much longer Mother Earth is going to be.
Speaker 1: You know, we're gonna Mother Earth will can will exist.
Speaker 1: I don't know how much longer we will with all
Speaker 1: all all of the plagues and the and the and
Speaker 1: the flooding and the alive the final Apocalypse signs happening.
Speaker 1: So go ahead and make DC and Marvel come together. Um.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say something dumb like they should fight,
Speaker 1: like global warming or something. But I mean that'd be funny.
Speaker 1: All right, you stand by your stand by your little
Speaker 1: goofy picks. But I've been stuck in this uh it's
Speaker 1: like the Happening. I actually loved the beginning of the happening.
Speaker 1: I thought it was really creepy and then it turned
Speaker 1: out that it was like the Earth trying to kill us,
Speaker 1: and I was like that makes sense. Yeah, oh yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I've there's been so many there's so many uh takes
Speaker 1: on the happening. But I had a group of friends
Speaker 1: that really did like it, and I think, I think, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's a fun twist. But you know, because
Speaker 1: I like what it's the Earth And I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean you're not doing it in a fun way
Speaker 1: where it's a fictional version and not talking about that
Speaker 1: a coronavirus is the re and the Earth is healing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's a fun concept. Um. This is just
Speaker 1: our dumb pitches. Please don't write us, Okay, this is
Speaker 1: from d part Um two. Is there a network of
Speaker 1: nerd creatives of color? Can there be? There's actually several
Speaker 1: there's geeks of color that our friend Dorian created, highly
Speaker 1: recommend following them. They do a lot of amazing coverage.
Speaker 1: He's really built a huge platform. Um Nerds of Color
Speaker 1: is another great one that is out there. Um. I
Speaker 1: think I follow Black Heroes Matter, which is another great one. Uh,
Speaker 1: there's so many. I mean really just go on you know,
Speaker 1: on Twitter and Instagram and like finding these spaces. Um,
Speaker 1: but there's a lot of meetups they'll do, uh just dope,
Speaker 1: you know, they tweet out dope job opportunities that they
Speaker 1: run across. I think there's also writers of Color. If
Speaker 1: you're a writer, Writers of Color on Twitter is great.
Speaker 1: They're constantly tweeting out different job openings from different places.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, no, that's I think. Yeah, I think you're right.
Speaker 1: There's tons of resources and you know, uh, the w
Speaker 1: g a's website has uh, you know, resources for things
Speaker 1: like that. You'd be surprised, you know, not not being like, oh,
Speaker 1: just just just google, but like you honestly would be
Speaker 1: surprised if you just look up if you google things
Speaker 1: like Diversity's Fellowship to virtually diversity Scholarship, and there's uh
Speaker 1: and even if you aren't a person of color. Because
Speaker 1: I know this will be a follow up upon hearing this,
Speaker 1: if you just look up Writer's Fellowship new writer entry
Speaker 1: level Fellowships. Uh, there's also options there too. Taking it
Speaker 1: from that dope question back to some nerdy debates, Uh,
Speaker 1: mc dasty with a spicy opening before the questioning, Uh,
Speaker 1: the m c U is currently better than the d
Speaker 1: c E. I avoided that question there there there there
Speaker 1: are people with Batman avatars on Twitter who would come
Speaker 1: at you if you said that. But uh, you know
Speaker 1: I agree. Uh. But do you think it's because the
Speaker 1: executives that Marvel are fans? I actually don't think it's
Speaker 1: necessarily that. I've said this many times and many again,
Speaker 1: which is the they Marvel figured out the formula of
Speaker 1: not trying to make a superhero movie. They just make
Speaker 1: a specific genre of movie that happens to involve superheroes.
Speaker 1: And the reason I know that's true is because the
Speaker 1: DC movies that work are the ones that do that.
Speaker 1: Wonder Woman is a war movie, but it happens to
Speaker 1: involve superheroes. Shazam is a coming of age movie that
Speaker 1: happens to involve superheroes. Uh, even Aquaman. You know that
Speaker 1: that one is a a royal, a royal exchange of
Speaker 1: power movie. Uh. But almost I'd almost call it a
Speaker 1: fairy tale, you know. I almost say Aquaman has like
Speaker 1: a fairy tale spin on it. And I think that's
Speaker 1: why some people love it and some people don't, because
Speaker 1: if you really kind of if you take well Man
Speaker 1: the hero out of it and like changed it to
Speaker 1: Prince of Atlantis, like that's a that's a fairy tale story,
Speaker 1: and you have people who are down for that, and
Speaker 1: you have people who are actively against that and try
Speaker 1: and use every every chance they can to talk about
Speaker 1: how much they think Disney is whacked because they're as
Speaker 1: fun as a wet rag on a hot day. Well,
Speaker 1: that's actually pretty fun a wet rag on a cold day. Well,
Speaker 1: what I was going to say, because I know you're
Speaker 1: talking specifically about the d C EU, and I guess,
Speaker 1: kind of going off of what you said, if he
Speaker 1: is that, I think d C does a really great
Speaker 1: job of their standalone films and so they're really different.
Speaker 1: Marvel has has a way of like bringing all of
Speaker 1: these stories obviously that we saw in Endgame, an Infinity
Speaker 1: War and Endgame, and even in Spider Man, which is
Speaker 1: not owned um, which is not on Disney Plus because
Speaker 1: it's Sony um, but uh, they bring all these stories together,
Speaker 1: and I feel like d C is actually, like the
Speaker 1: ones that you named are really great stand alone ones, um,
Speaker 1: and I personally feel like they've done a really great
Speaker 1: job over the past couple of years of doing that,
Speaker 1: even um with Joker, which you know, was I think
Speaker 1: nominated for an Academy Award. I don't know, I don't
Speaker 1: pay attention to award them, but I'm asking. I know
Speaker 1: he's asking specifically about the DC, like all the Justice
Speaker 1: League blah bah blah like all that. But I do
Speaker 1: want to say d C as a as a company,
Speaker 1: I think has done a good job with those stand
Speaker 1: alone origin story that's like their bread and butter, and
Speaker 1: that's they do a really good job of those. And
Speaker 1: so I think it's kind of just comparing two completely
Speaker 1: different things. Now. It's not like I'm saying that Marvel
Speaker 1: doesn't have those origin stories, because they do. I just
Speaker 1: think that these are such different franchises. I mean, one
Speaker 1: of my favorite superhero movies of all time is Wonder Woman.
Speaker 1: I think that that that movie is just so flawless
Speaker 1: to me. So saying you know that these films, I
Speaker 1: don't even know if I would compare that film. I
Speaker 1: guess it gets compared to um Captain America, But I
Speaker 1: don't like actually comparing these franchises a lot. Like we
Speaker 1: have another question that Star Wars and Star Trek, which
Speaker 1: is like even more different than these. At least these
Speaker 1: two are somewhat comparable Marvel in d C movies, whereas
Speaker 1: Star Wars and Star Trek you're like now talking about
Speaker 1: like a film franchise. Well, I guess they're both film
Speaker 1: franchises now, but like just totally different. And I actually
Speaker 1: don't like comparing these, So I'm I'm in the minority
Speaker 1: where I feel like they've both done a good job.
Speaker 1: It's just they have some flops, like both of them,
Speaker 1: maybe one has really bad flops. But um yeah, but
Speaker 1: DC Stay and Alone origin stories are pretty magnificent. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, do you have another question you want to
Speaker 1: jump into since I asked them? Yes, Sorry, that was
Speaker 1: a really long one. Um. Also I tried to I
Speaker 1: try to not upset anybody that I'm auditioning forever, so
Speaker 1: I see the beauty in both of the franchises. Um,
Speaker 1: here we go. If he This is from C. Kevin Bight.
Speaker 1: Four favorite Saturday Morning cartoons growing up. For me, I
Speaker 1: grew up in the specific end of nineties beginning of
Speaker 1: Adds ABC morning cartoon that was Recess Pepper and um
Speaker 1: what else was in that block? The Adventures of Winnie
Speaker 1: the Boo. I do remember that. Um yeah, so that
Speaker 1: was my specific Saturday morning cartoons. I also think Wayne
Speaker 1: Head was Saturday Morning. Did you ever watch that? I
Speaker 1: don't thought. Okay, yeah that was solid Wayne Wayne Head
Speaker 1: was really good. So those were my specific Saturday ones.
Speaker 1: M yeah, No, for me, it was it was clear
Speaker 1: I had that. I was in that four Kids anime block,
Speaker 1: Anime training Wheels, so Ugio, Pokemon, all that stuff I was.
Speaker 1: I was drinking into my veins. I was trying to
Speaker 1: like play Ugo against the players as the match went on,
Speaker 1: which is if you don't know physically impossible, you cannot
Speaker 1: do it. Uh Like. I was straight up, um like
Speaker 1: had my deck and went. But the thing is is,
Speaker 1: like it's impossible because they can't react to the moves
Speaker 1: you're you're making and you can't and they're not attacking
Speaker 1: your specific car you know, cards either. But I tried
Speaker 1: with my hardest to do that because I was so
Speaker 1: into that whole that holes the series. I I loved it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Pokemon Saturday Morning was also my jam definitely. This is
Speaker 1: this is so funny. Um, this this is interesting because
Speaker 1: I'm curious to your thoughts because, uh, you know, I
Speaker 1: think we've we've both been married before and we both
Speaker 1: have thoughts of relationships and all that. But the question
Speaker 1: is should you marry a non nerd? And you know,
Speaker 1: there's there's two knee jerk reactions, one being like yeah,
Speaker 1: of course and one being like no. And I think
Speaker 1: there's two immediate reactions yes and the other is no, yeah,
Speaker 1: because because I feel both ways. But like, more specifically,
Speaker 1: I think it's just how they treat your nerd dumb
Speaker 1: Like do they do they look at it as like, oh,
Speaker 1: you're doing something childish? Do they look down on it?
Speaker 1: Do they not? You know, I've I've there's been relationships
Speaker 1: where it's hard because you know, uh, if you've you know,
Speaker 1: play video games to make money, it seems like you're
Speaker 1: just playing video games and and and even though you
Speaker 1: are working. You know, it's it's real funny in this
Speaker 1: industry because like you're going like if you go into
Speaker 1: a comedy festival, it looks like you're just going to
Speaker 1: a different uh state city just a party and drink
Speaker 1: and and goof off, and you're kind of doing that,
Speaker 1: but that's part of the job. You're also like networking
Speaker 1: building relationship with other comics when if so, if they
Speaker 1: can't see you doing those things, and this is more specific,
Speaker 1: like if if it's your career, uh, then then that's
Speaker 1: gonna be hard. But also just like if they can't
Speaker 1: understand that that's why you like it, or they can't
Speaker 1: give it a chance because obviously, yeah, there's gonna be
Speaker 1: sometimes that you want to sit down together and watch
Speaker 1: something and if they can't watch, you know, something nerdy
Speaker 1: with you because they're just like so adverse to it,
Speaker 1: that's gonna put a strain on your relationship. For me, though,
Speaker 1: my knee jerk is, what do you mean non nerdy?
Speaker 1: Because I feel like a lot of people have like
Speaker 1: this haughty opinion, like they hold themselves really in high
Speaker 1: esteem for being into like anime or comic books or
Speaker 1: video games. When you can be nerdy about a lot
Speaker 1: of things, like if I think of my little brother,
Speaker 1: he works on cars, that is a world that I
Speaker 1: do not care about, but like that's nerdy to me
Speaker 1: to know all that stuff. There's people that are super
Speaker 1: into science, and um, I consider even stuff like my
Speaker 1: friends are super nerdy about makeup. Makeup artists are insane,
Speaker 1: like they know types of brushes, color palettes, like they
Speaker 1: can do special effects work like that to me is nerdy.
Speaker 1: So I think I would also broaden what you consider
Speaker 1: nerdy and do you care about their interests that they're into.
Speaker 1: My ex mark ellis that we have had on here
Speaker 1: is the biggest sports nerd I have ever met in
Speaker 1: my life. He can tell you every Super Bowl. He
Speaker 1: can tell you stats of players that played in the eighties,
Speaker 1: Like that is his thing and it comes in handy
Speaker 1: because he does stuff for like ESPN. But that's really
Speaker 1: nerdy as hell. He has a ton of baseball cards
Speaker 1: that he collects, like he also has Magic the Gathering cards,
Speaker 1: So like those are two different types of nerdy. So
Speaker 1: I would just say I feel like this this question
Speaker 1: gets lotted at women a lot for being not nerds,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, but they're nerds about different types of
Speaker 1: things and they and they know those things really well,
Speaker 1: and so that to me is just I guess that's
Speaker 1: my knee jerk. Is like just because they're not into
Speaker 1: the specific things you are. As long as you guys
Speaker 1: respect each other, it might be an opportunity. Another thing
Speaker 1: about Mark was he was a huge rock and roll nerd,
Speaker 1: like same thing. Knew all this stuff and I in
Speaker 1: an attempt to get to know him better because I didn't.
Speaker 1: He was eight to ten years older than me, so
Speaker 1: he came from a different generation than I did. Uh.
Speaker 1: He was very much an eighties kid, and so I
Speaker 1: listened to Duff mccagan's Guns and Roses audio biography, which
Speaker 1: I found fascinating because it's not a world I'm from,
Speaker 1: and I thought that was really cool. So listening to
Speaker 1: like the backstory on Pearl jam or Van Halen, I'm like,
Speaker 1: I do not know the this world, and I find
Speaker 1: this really cool. He doesn't watch a lick of anime,
Speaker 1: so that was like something I was trying to introduce
Speaker 1: him to. But I think, as long as you're like, hey,
Speaker 1: this is really neat, I want to get to know
Speaker 1: your world. I think as long as y'all can be
Speaker 1: respectful of each other in your interests, because I mean,
Speaker 1: if your person is not into anything that's kind of
Speaker 1: weird and a red flag and are they a mannequin um,
Speaker 1: But I bet they're into something that they know really well.
Speaker 1: So yeah, okay, so me next, maybe this one. This
Speaker 1: is from D M. Coop. What movie do you wish
Speaker 1: was in theaters the day they open back up? And
Speaker 1: I'm going to take that as something that has been
Speaker 1: in theaters in the past and or is coming out.
Speaker 1: So for me, what do I want to see in
Speaker 1: theaters again? You know what? I actually would not mind
Speaker 1: seeing Into the Spider Verse in theaters again in imax.
Speaker 1: I think that would be really dope. I wouldn't mind
Speaker 1: if when theaters open backed up, they just were like
Speaker 1: rewarded people by showing it. A Yeah, that would be fun.
Speaker 1: I I look forward to the double feature that's definitely
Speaker 1: gonna have happened when the sequel eventually comes out, because,
Speaker 1: like I said, I missed seeing it in theaters. It
Speaker 1: was just one of those That's the funny thing with movies,
Speaker 1: and that's the funny thing with uh. Also, just how
Speaker 1: we um how we me meaning you and us and
Speaker 1: people in our industry just are all have so much
Speaker 1: media to digest that sometimes it'll just pass you up
Speaker 1: and like I don't I don't make it any easier
Speaker 1: by also being like deep into video games and streaming
Speaker 1: so that I just have so little time, which is
Speaker 1: why it's been fun going through the backlogs and uh
Speaker 1: in Quarantine and just like also buying, uh just deep
Speaker 1: blue rays of stuff that that there's something to blind
Speaker 1: buying where it's like I haven't seen it. I know
Speaker 1: I'm probably gonna like it, but it would be funny
Speaker 1: if I did. And I have this blue ray. Um.
Speaker 1: But like I've had to, I've been doing a lot
Speaker 1: of purchasing because since I can't leave, all I do
Speaker 1: is spend money. Um And I got the whole Higho
Speaker 1: Miyazaki collection and uh so because before that I only
Speaker 1: saw Ponio. So now I've seen kikiS Delivery Service and
Speaker 1: my neighbor doctor Row and I'm gonna check out like
Speaker 1: Spirited Away Princess Mononoke, which you know, I'm probably gonna
Speaker 1: make Naomi sit that one out. It seems like it's
Speaker 1: a little too intense for her. Um. But some of these,
Speaker 1: like I'd love to go back and see some of
Speaker 1: those in theaters, and like some of the older film
Speaker 1: things too, because there's something like the Egyptian they'll to
Speaker 1: play like reprint of film stuff, and you know that's
Speaker 1: that's always dope. I'm trying to go through the top
Speaker 1: I can't remember which it might be Rotten Tomatoes, but
Speaker 1: it's like the top one hundred horror films so that
Speaker 1: I can officially step into even though I'm a horror baby,
Speaker 1: I want to officially be horror queen. And and like
Speaker 1: some of those are like so old really we're talking
Speaker 1: like some of them are non speaking, They're like silent films.
Speaker 1: But um, I find that fascinating, like you said, like
Speaker 1: going back and watching like black and white films and
Speaker 1: stuff too. I need to get on that game. Oh yeah, no,
Speaker 1: that's the that's a that's something I've been trying to
Speaker 1: do more because you know, with who shot you, I'm
Speaker 1: just so used to doing these like um the you know,
Speaker 1: these like contemporary films. But talking with Dre and Alonso
Speaker 1: who like her, you know Drea who like she you know,
Speaker 1: programs film festivals, and Alonso, who has been like a
Speaker 1: movie fan, we're doing this thing called, uh this is
Speaker 1: your movie life when we talk about our favorite films
Speaker 1: at different points of our life. And like Alonso has
Speaker 1: always been like a movie fan you know, like he's
Speaker 1: talking about all these like steamed movies that he was
Speaker 1: into like when he was like twelve. Yeah. Yeah, Um,
Speaker 1: we have to take a really quick break and then
Speaker 1: we're going to hop back into more of your questions
Speaker 1: right after this, and we are back still taking your questions.
Speaker 1: If you have another one for us, yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 1: have one loaded up which I'm I have to talk
Speaker 1: to this question because I have uh their their battle
Speaker 1: cry tattooed on me, which was who would you cast as?
Speaker 1: Nay More? And that is a good one. I never
Speaker 1: really do much fan casting because I feel like when
Speaker 1: you get deep into that type of stuff is how
Speaker 1: you see someone, uh you know, you have someone casted
Speaker 1: and like you freak out because they don't look like
Speaker 1: how you pictured them because you spent um, you spent
Speaker 1: so much time thinking that this would be the perfect
Speaker 1: look I'm looking. So I looked up actors who are
Speaker 1: in their thirties to like get my eyes going, and
Speaker 1: it's so funny the stark and like actors who you're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: they're they're in their thirties. That's why I would picture
Speaker 1: and then like parks see you June who Sue June
Speaker 1: who I'm like, no, you're you're in your thirties, but
Speaker 1: you could still play twenty uh and you you know
Speaker 1: he got who else there was? There's Hughan Been also
Speaker 1: like if I think for for most people of color,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna look have to look in the forties section.
Speaker 1: But something that excited me is like a like Daniel
Speaker 1: Radcliffe a because I'm thinking because he's like, like, tell
Speaker 1: me if this makes sense to you, this this word
Speaker 1: I'm about to create, which is they have to be
Speaker 1: like hate hot, like they have to be hot, but
Speaker 1: not so hot that you're like on their side, like
Speaker 1: hot and you hate them, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Like so like me like yeah, but not almost villainous,
Speaker 1: like because he since he's like this anti hero, it's
Speaker 1: almost like you you like you you you you you
Speaker 1: can't you don't trust him, but you're like, damn, you're
Speaker 1: hot because his whole thing is you know, he is
Speaker 1: like this attractive king. He is like very entitled, but
Speaker 1: he's like very proud and he has are you not
Speaker 1: literally describing Michael B. Jordan as kill Monger? I mean yeah,
Speaker 1: But here's the thing is I if I'm going to
Speaker 1: switch up casting and not do kill Monger, which you
Speaker 1: are right, Uh, Michael B. Jordan has kill Monger. I
Speaker 1: see that. That's uh, that is that is a good
Speaker 1: one because he was never a villain in my eyes. Uh,
Speaker 1: but he was like but you could see that you
Speaker 1: can't necessarily trust. Yeah. Yeah. So so I'm so, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm looking and I'm thinking, and I would like it
Speaker 1: to either be um. I mean, it could be whoever
Speaker 1: they find to play him, like I I don't care,
Speaker 1: but he is he's like white presenting. But I think
Speaker 1: also would be interesting if they went with an Asian
Speaker 1: American actor or an Asian actor. He doesn't look white
Speaker 1: presenting in a lot of the panels I'm looking at.
Speaker 1: In fact, most of the casting is of Asian actors,
Speaker 1: but he looks Afro Asian and many of these well
Speaker 1: that's because you know, they use a lot of Afro
Speaker 1: features to make superhero bodies. But you know that's a
Speaker 1: different You're right, you're you You're so true. Like he
Speaker 1: definitely has because he also has like the eyebrows that
Speaker 1: they would use when they would make racist Asian like
Speaker 1: his like early stuff when his eyebrowser hyper arched. I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's almost like a food man shoe ask But yeah,
Speaker 1: you're right, Um, he's just this man is a person
Speaker 1: of color. I think I'm gonna I think I'm gonna
Speaker 1: take it back. I'm gonna go with you. Nay More
Speaker 1: is a thousand percent Asian, which makes sense because that
Speaker 1: was just my first in my head, I was looking
Speaker 1: for Asian men, so maybe yes, sublimity I always knew,
Speaker 1: but you know, I fell into the trap of like
Speaker 1: unless they explicitly state the person, because you know that
Speaker 1: you can't have a person of color in a comic
Speaker 1: without them having some heavy arm. Uh well, in that regard,
Speaker 1: I mean, I think that he could look old enough
Speaker 1: and he just finished combat. But Louis tan Oh good casting.
Speaker 1: He definitely is hot, but you don't trust like the untrusted,
Speaker 1: you know, like he could play a villain, orda hero
Speaker 1: or in between antihero. So we're thinking of you. My
Speaker 1: question is from Star Killer seventeen o one. They say,
Speaker 1: what's your favorite episode of the Twilight Zone? So mine
Speaker 1: has actually changed a lot, which I love. I feel
Speaker 1: like each year I try to have like a new
Speaker 1: one that I'm in love with, even though I've seen
Speaker 1: them all. I think they've changed depending on the situations
Speaker 1: that I'm going through in my life. Slash the World
Speaker 1: UM for for the longest time, my favorite episode was
Speaker 1: The Midnight Sun, which feels relevant. It's where this painter
Speaker 1: it's the end of the world. It's the last day
Speaker 1: on Earth actually, and and the Earth is moving closer
Speaker 1: to the sun UM and so all of her paintings
Speaker 1: are melting. It's like, what is it like to live
Speaker 1: the last day on Earth? UM has a twist ending,
Speaker 1: of course, as they all do. Then my favorite changed
Speaker 1: to The Howling Man as I got into my peak
Speaker 1: horror because it has so many horror elements. It's like
Speaker 1: black well, they're all black and white, but it's black
Speaker 1: and white at night it's raining. You run into this cult.
Speaker 1: You have this howling Man that they actually did. They
Speaker 1: mixed the sounds of They did a man that was
Speaker 1: howling and it didn't sound right, and they took like
Speaker 1: a wolf that was howleing and it didn't sound right.
Speaker 1: So they combined the two of them to get the
Speaker 1: sound that you hear with the Howling Man. And I
Speaker 1: just love all of the tropes, the horror tropes that
Speaker 1: are in it, But currently I would say my favorite
Speaker 1: is the after Hours. I love the After Hours. I
Speaker 1: could watch it again and again. Um, it's I don't
Speaker 1: even want to give it away. Just go and watch it.
Speaker 1: I don't even want to tell you if you should
Speaker 1: watch it tonight. Um, I don't want to give anything
Speaker 1: about it away. Fantastic. I love it. It's creepy as hell.
Speaker 1: Watch the after Hours of the original Twilight Zone. Oh yeah, um,
Speaker 1: I will say, uh, just on that, just before we
Speaker 1: move on. Uh. I wanted to ask you, since you're
Speaker 1: such a horror stand have you been dipping in and
Speaker 1: seeing how these TikTok kids are really getting into making
Speaker 1: these horror TikTok's. I feel like I've only seen a
Speaker 1: couple of them because I feel like I'm in the comedy.
Speaker 1: I don't have a TikTok neither. I've seen like the
Speaker 1: sci fi one, especially that guy that did the one
Speaker 1: about questers that like everybody that's gone vible, I think
Speaker 1: even uh Leonard I forgot his last name, but the
Speaker 1: creator of the Blacklist, he like was like, how can
Speaker 1: I get in touch with this kid? Yea, Um, but anyways, no,
Speaker 1: I haven't. Yeah, there's there's a few one that's been
Speaker 1: popping up on my feet unfortunately, and they've they've been
Speaker 1: pretty good. He's like, I've been really I like what
Speaker 1: these kids because there is something to like the using
Speaker 1: a short time frame to make a horror and established
Speaker 1: like a you know everything you need. There was one
Speaker 1: where like this kid he's like he like gets woken
Speaker 1: up in the middle of the night. He's like, hey, bro,
Speaker 1: you're gonna hop in the party and he's like, what
Speaker 1: are you talking about. He's like, bro, yeah, you're hopping
Speaker 1: on parties. Like, dude, I'm sleep. He's like, it says
Speaker 1: your online and I'm watching this. The only reason I'm
Speaker 1: watching this is thinking it was going to be a
Speaker 1: comedy thing of like like and his girlfriend's playing or something.
Speaker 1: But he's like he's like he's like, no, dude, I'm not.
Speaker 1: And he like looks in his living room and there's
Speaker 1: like you just see the profile of someone playing the
Speaker 1: game and he's like staring and then like he just
Speaker 1: the face turns around and it's like a creepy face, Like, um,
Speaker 1: this this one I did. I will say, I'm talking
Speaker 1: like the face gonna use the little work I did.
Speaker 1: Put my phone super far away from I send you
Speaker 1: if I send you the lights Out short while you
Speaker 1: watch it, I've seen I've seen the lights Out short.
Speaker 1: That's the first one. That's why I don't trust stuff on.
Speaker 1: The lights Out is terrifying. With other shorts, which which yeah,
Speaker 1: depending on I heard it too. It's one of my
Speaker 1: favorite shorts on you. I haven't seen that one. Did
Speaker 1: you see it? No? No, no, I haven't seen that.
Speaker 1: I heard it too. And then there's another one I
Speaker 1: will find um that's about a used are more that's
Speaker 1: uh haunted that like I keep trying to throw it
Speaker 1: away and people keep picking it up and then like
Speaker 1: chucking it once people realize its haunted, saying yeah, because
Speaker 1: I already showed you. Yeah, because because I already showed
Speaker 1: you the playmation one because that was when Luce was
Speaker 1: on and we all watched those. But yeah, I'm I'm in.
Speaker 1: I'll here's the thing. I hate it, but I love
Speaker 1: it always like love it. And if it's short, it's
Speaker 1: short enough for me to experience and get out of there,
Speaker 1: get out and just be be gone. There's a little
Speaker 1: girl in the I heard it too. Yeah, I remember,
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. Sometimes I'll be playing games and she
Speaker 1: um and she's like, I'll be so focused that I
Speaker 1: forget that I'm at home with her because she'll be
Speaker 1: in her room playing or whatever. And then she'll come
Speaker 1: and like grab me because she will want my attention
Speaker 1: and it will freak the freaking frick out of me.
Speaker 1: And like this is so far like it's been like
Speaker 1: like I haven't scared the life out of her from
Speaker 1: me jumping. I almost think she gets a pleasure out
Speaker 1: of it because she has yet to be like to
Speaker 1: be like oops, I'm going to do this or uh,
Speaker 1: because I'll also do a real good job of like
Speaker 1: like hugging her and stuff and be like, oh no,
Speaker 1: it wasn't you out scared? Oh wait, I have one more. Sorry.
Speaker 1: There's also one called The Smiling Man that I love.
Speaker 1: Two am Smiling Man. It's about a guy that's walking
Speaker 1: home and he sees a man that keeps smiling that's
Speaker 1: following him. What it's like to be a woman moving on?
Speaker 1: This one was interesting. I really liked it. This one's
Speaker 1: from Jess Cunningham, who asked, is there a hobby or
Speaker 1: anything you always thought would be cool to try or
Speaker 1: get really into but haven't yet? Um, and if if
Speaker 1: this was asked a few months ago, I would have
Speaker 1: said Gundams because I was really into it. I was
Speaker 1: just talking about this on another podcast. How like, there
Speaker 1: are so many things I was really into when I
Speaker 1: was younger than my parents didn't want to pay for,
Speaker 1: and now or not that I was into that I
Speaker 1: wanted to get into but my parents didn't want to
Speaker 1: pay for. But now I do have the money. But
Speaker 1: if i'm if, i'm I'm answering you now, so I
Speaker 1: don't cop out of that question. It's going to be
Speaker 1: three D printing. I really want to get into three
Speaker 1: D printing. That's so dope. Um, I really want to
Speaker 1: do that too. When when Disney didn't have any of
Speaker 1: the baby Yoda, you know, toys because they wanted to
Speaker 1: keep them a secret for a good reason. Um, I
Speaker 1: think everyone was like, oh, they dropped the ball, and like, no,
Speaker 1: they kept the ball. Like I know they've lost like
Speaker 1: a billion in in merch, but like I think Jon
Speaker 1: Favreau asking them, please don't make models of this because
Speaker 1: it'll get leaked and it will spoil the show, the
Speaker 1: fun of the show. Um, so that's why you couldn't
Speaker 1: get toys for the first year of the show being out.
Speaker 1: But um, a lot of people turned to three D printing,
Speaker 1: to print yoda, um little figurines that that you could
Speaker 1: get on Etsy and whatnot. I don't know this one.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to think on I have to think
Speaker 1: of out this. I'm glad you answered. I don't know.
Speaker 1: My initial reaction was like hair, I wanted to try
Speaker 1: so I cannot French braid for like the life of me,
Speaker 1: I always have to have whenever you see me, like
Speaker 1: at Panels. It's by the way, this is my comic
Speaker 1: Con even though we're not having comic Con this year.
Speaker 1: This is my comic Con secret because people will be like,
Speaker 1: how do you look so good even though everyone's sweaty
Speaker 1: and blah blah blah. I literally will um get my
Speaker 1: hair like French braided or something to from to keep
Speaker 1: it from being uh sweaty and gross. Um. My next
Speaker 1: question is from Alicia Perez. She says, what are your
Speaker 1: opinions on our rated Superhero content Harley Quinn, cartoon logan,
Speaker 1: et cetera. What in quotes kids content would you want
Speaker 1: to see our rated version of Superhero? Otherwise I think
Speaker 1: Avatar the last Airbender would be interesting if it was
Speaker 1: a dark adult war series. Now I don't necessarily disagree
Speaker 1: with that, but to me, Avatar the Last Airbender is
Speaker 1: already has so many adult theme that I think it
Speaker 1: functions as both. Um. I don't know if it needs
Speaker 1: to have the things that we count as adult as
Speaker 1: far as like cursing, sex, like and you know, I'm
Speaker 1: all for those things. I just think that it can.
Speaker 1: I think that it's already at a level where it
Speaker 1: attracts adult viewers just because of how mature it is
Speaker 1: now hardly I definitely couldn't show to my four year
Speaker 1: old niece, But I love it, Like that's how that
Speaker 1: character would exist in this world, in this real world
Speaker 1: UM where she's joking about having HPV or she you know,
Speaker 1: UM has guys and women that she hooks up with,
Speaker 1: and so I like that a lot. I don't know
Speaker 1: if I need all of my like with Deadpool and
Speaker 1: and Logan, like I actually like us moving into the
Speaker 1: R rated space, but I don't know if I need everything,
Speaker 1: Like I don't know if I need to see Wonder
Speaker 1: Woman R rated. Um. So, so I think it works
Speaker 1: best with the comedic characters in my opinion because it
Speaker 1: allows them to actually like joke about a lot of
Speaker 1: those adult things. Um, speaking of horror, I could see
Speaker 1: some of these, um, some of these franchises that might
Speaker 1: take on like a scarier note being gorrier, and that's why.
Speaker 1: But at times, I also don't know if that's necessary,
Speaker 1: Like like Joker was super violent and so that's why,
Speaker 1: among other reasons, it needed and R rating. But I
Speaker 1: don't I just don't know if there are a lot
Speaker 1: of properties that necessarily need that, unless you're like Game
Speaker 1: of Thrones where you're like needing to show someone's dick,
Speaker 1: I mean and in need. I'm gonna go ahead and
Speaker 1: put in quotes. Here's the thing. I'm glad like they
Speaker 1: should have shown more to be and I think like
Speaker 1: Euphoria made up for that. I don't know, the boobs.
Speaker 1: The naked women to naked men ratio has been off
Speaker 1: since the beginning of film, So I'm both for showing more, um,
Speaker 1: male identifying bodies, but I also don't know, like you said,
Speaker 1: what's necessary. So yeah, yeah, I mean i'd say I
Speaker 1: say any any look, if you want to go ahead
Speaker 1: and do that, go ahead and do that. But I think, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it is important too, Yeah, equally show it
Speaker 1: because also just um, you know, it's it's it's it's
Speaker 1: an interesting way to think about it because it's a
Speaker 1: fun thing to that I get to think about both
Speaker 1: as a consumer and a performer. But I just imagine
Speaker 1: it would just be weird knowing my co stars are
Speaker 1: always getting naked, and then I'm just like, I don't
Speaker 1: have to worry about that. I'd be like, all right,
Speaker 1: that just you know, and then you know, nine tones
Speaker 1: out of ten they're watching me less than me. You know,
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, I think somewhere necessary, and I think
Speaker 1: I guess some are like I'm glad that we're moving
Speaker 1: into that space. And now I guess superhero franchises were
Speaker 1: seen as kids stuff, maybe like two decades ago, but
Speaker 1: I feel like, you know, the last fifteen years, it
Speaker 1: really hasn't been. In my opinion, um, they kind of
Speaker 1: gotten snatched away from kids, and now kids debatable. Whether
Speaker 1: you could bring a child to end game. Definitely couldn't
Speaker 1: bring my knees, but like, you know, maybe twelve and up.
Speaker 1: I don't know, there's a lot of things scared kids,
Speaker 1: Like it's not even necessarily the like some of my
Speaker 1: friends that have kids that are even like ten or eleven,
Speaker 1: they still get scared about villains and people being lit
Speaker 1: on fire and things like that. So yeah, thank you
Speaker 1: for that question, Alicia. We are going to take a
Speaker 1: really quick break and then we'll hop back into more
Speaker 1: questions right after this. We are back. We're still taking
Speaker 1: your questions, your NERD related questions. Although if I did
Speaker 1: say people could ask us relationship advice, but we might
Speaker 1: make it worse. So I feel that nobody actually yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: if you actually asked the to divorce people relationship advice
Speaker 1: at your own risk a question. But yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 1: was looking at this. This one was interesting. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do let's let's mix it up because I'm trying to
Speaker 1: look because there are a lot of like hero things
Speaker 1: and this one's good. I just want to mix it up.
Speaker 1: I don't want to always just be like best hero.
Speaker 1: Not not knocking your best hero stuff, but you know, variety,
Speaker 1: diversity what we want in Hollywood and podcast topics. Also
Speaker 1: shout out to whoever screenshot this. I do actually know.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna put a superproducer on blast, but these
Speaker 1: are a lot tabs open. Uh, what inspires both of
Speaker 1: you what drives you to keep going towards the things
Speaker 1: you love. That's a really good question from Lanky Kong
Speaker 1: on Twitter. I'll let Danny kick this off because I
Speaker 1: feel like I'm like, what inspires me? What you know?
Speaker 1: I was thinking about this, Um. I had shared a
Speaker 1: quote from America Ferrera today that was kind of like
Speaker 1: it talks about like rocking the boat, which I feel
Speaker 1: unfortunately a lot of us get. UM. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I feel like if he and I speak as well
Speaker 1: as our friends, speak up a lot about the need
Speaker 1: for representation, and sometimes you can be seen as difficult
Speaker 1: for doing that. And I'm kind of in a space
Speaker 1: where I'm just like, I don't even know if I
Speaker 1: care anymore. Like I'm making my own shows, I'm doing,
Speaker 1: I'm writing my own stuff. Like there are people that
Speaker 1: aren't going to want to work with me because I'm
Speaker 1: loud about things that I think are injustices, and I'm
Speaker 1: kind of over it. I'm like, I'm going to make
Speaker 1: a name for myself with or without them. So what
Speaker 1: me going is the sheer amount of stories that are
Speaker 1: still left to be told. Like I was even thinking
Speaker 1: of this. I know we talked about this last episode
Speaker 1: Iffy but with Henified, where people were like, well, this
Speaker 1: isn't my Mexican experience, and I was just like, then,
Speaker 1: then tell that story. Like it's it's great that we
Speaker 1: are not a monolith. Like my Cuban friends can tell
Speaker 1: their story and it doesn't have to be my story,
Speaker 1: and my Colombian friends can tell their story and it
Speaker 1: doesn't have to be my story. We have so many
Speaker 1: stories to tell. And I actually had a meeting with
Speaker 1: this producer yesterday, um and I was telling him, you
Speaker 1: know the thing about animation, because I'm now diving into animation,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, the thing that's nice about it is
Speaker 1: it doesn't necessarily ask people of color to live through
Speaker 1: to live their trauma. Again, I feel like a lot
Speaker 1: of our stories on television and film were asked to
Speaker 1: constantly show our pain. And I feel like a lot
Speaker 1: of shows that have POC and animated spaces it's like
Speaker 1: they're fighting this villain or they're trying to repair their spaceship,
Speaker 1: and like it's not dealing with a hate crime. And
Speaker 1: I was like, I kind of like that, like that's
Speaker 1: a story that I also want to tell. And granted
Speaker 1: I wrote in the Good immigrant I wrote in this book,
Speaker 1: and I talked about my experience and my family's experience
Speaker 1: in America, and I think that that's a necessary story
Speaker 1: to tell. But is that the only story I want
Speaker 1: to tell? No? Sometimes I just want to tell a
Speaker 1: story about kids fighting dinosaurs or aliens or you know,
Speaker 1: worried about who they're going to take to prom and
Speaker 1: not necessarily the awful things that happen in this world.
Speaker 1: And that's what I love about sci fi too, because
Speaker 1: it's like, well, they don't have to exist in this
Speaker 1: America and in this planet and in this this current
Speaker 1: state of the world, Like they can exist on a
Speaker 1: different planet that doesn't deal with this. And so I
Speaker 1: guess I would say that's what keeps me going is
Speaker 1: like the sheer amount of stories that have yet to
Speaker 1: be told and the people that have yet to really
Speaker 1: feel themselves seen um in this space. Yeah, yeah, No,
Speaker 1: I I to go back to that hintified thing. I
Speaker 1: will say that it's right on point because I was
Speaker 1: just talking about all of this now with the show
Speaker 1: Black af uh you know, which has Rashida Jones who
Speaker 1: uh you know, if you if you were a parking
Speaker 1: parks and rec stand, like me, you would have known
Speaker 1: years ago that she is black. She's the daughter of
Speaker 1: Quincy Jones, one of the most notable black people of
Speaker 1: all time. Her sister was was Tupac's fiance and last
Speaker 1: girlfriend before he left this earth. But seeing her on
Speaker 1: the show Black a f has caused some people on
Speaker 1: Twitter to start, um, just kind of going after this person.
Speaker 1: And then also just Kenya at home because this is
Speaker 1: the black experiments in this and that whatever. I did
Speaker 1: a tweet about it, but I think I like Dwayne's
Speaker 1: tweet that he did this morning better, which was, imagine
Speaker 1: a world where Hollywood had a bunch of different quote
Speaker 1: unquote Black shows, and we didn't have to try and
Speaker 1: see ourselves in every single black show due to the
Speaker 1: lack of representation. What if that show could just be
Speaker 1: a singular Black experience and point of view. Wow, what
Speaker 1: a fantasy and um, and then he followed it up
Speaker 1: with I guess I'm not in the mood to blame
Speaker 1: black people for a problem that was created, is uberated
Speaker 1: and sustained by white Hollywood, which, um, which, yeah, that's
Speaker 1: that's exactly the thing in hintified and honestly, the thing
Speaker 1: would fresh off the boat and honestly, the thing when
Speaker 1: there's gonna be uh, you know, a South Asian sitcom,
Speaker 1: in Indian sitcom. Any any show that has a group
Speaker 1: of that focuses on a person of color has this
Speaker 1: weight to hold. And if it's not the perfect representation
Speaker 1: of what everyone on Twitter wants to see on TV
Speaker 1: featuring themselves, they start to get ding for it and
Speaker 1: and it and it, and it sucks. It really sucks.
Speaker 1: And really because like, here's one thing. If you don't
Speaker 1: like the show, just because you don't like the show,
Speaker 1: look good, sounds good, go ahead, there's no problem with that.
Speaker 1: But if you're saying you don't like the show because
Speaker 1: of this person not being black enough, which is just
Speaker 1: offensive in itself, because yes, there are like privileges to
Speaker 1: being you know, white, passing, white presenting and things like that.
Speaker 1: And that's a different conversation and that's definitely not a
Speaker 1: metric I want you to judge a show on, but
Speaker 1: to like to when you start using the language of
Speaker 1: black enough and what makes black, that's when you step
Speaker 1: out a line you can say that you know they've
Speaker 1: experienced privileges and they might not know this that in
Speaker 1: the third and have those separate combos. But but there's
Speaker 1: no such thing as being black enough, because what is
Speaker 1: that metric? It's it's a BS metric that's used to
Speaker 1: divide and should not be ever used to complain about someone.
Speaker 1: Uh did you see that? Uh? I think I tweeted
Speaker 1: last week that was essentially executives that always say they
Speaker 1: want to have the authentic Latino experience, Like they just
Speaker 1: keep saying authentic, that's their word, and like, what does
Speaker 1: that mean to you? To me? That mean when you
Speaker 1: keep saying it like that, I'm like, Okay, so you
Speaker 1: want the speedy Gonzalez, the Ricky Ricardo, the like, And
Speaker 1: I'm like, those are such heightened, the most heightened versions
Speaker 1: of us. Like you know, Grant, I have a sombrero
Speaker 1: that's hanging up in my as art in my living room.
Speaker 1: But it's like that that's not There is a millennial
Speaker 1: Latino experience that a lot of us we don't we
Speaker 1: weren't born in our parents are a grandparents country, and
Speaker 1: we don't necessarily fit in here, we don't necessarily fit
Speaker 1: in anywhere. We fit in in our own little community,
Speaker 1: but that is still authentic, And to me, I'm like,
Speaker 1: how can this not be authentic when this is literally
Speaker 1: our story. But it was just, like I was saying
Speaker 1: with Tentified, I'm like, that is their story and it
Speaker 1: feels pretty freaking authentic. But it's not going to be
Speaker 1: everyone's story. And that's great because then you can go
Speaker 1: and tell your own story. But to me, it's just
Speaker 1: that like are you Latino enough? Are you black enough?
Speaker 1: Is this authentic enough? It's like, well that's not that's so,
Speaker 1: like you said, problematic and frustrating. And I feel like
Speaker 1: a lot of white stories don't get that at all.
Speaker 1: They just get to make whatever story they want, and
Speaker 1: unfortunately we have When we make stuff, it has to
Speaker 1: be for the entirety of our community. And like Dwayne
Speaker 1: was saying, I'm just kind of over that. Yeah exactly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was that was great. But the question, uh that
Speaker 1: that I'm trying. I guess I'm going to take my
Speaker 1: turn asking the question, which was what drives, inspires and
Speaker 1: drives me? Uh? And I think it all comes down to, honestly,
Speaker 1: like every little dope uh interaction, every nice thing that's
Speaker 1: said to me, all that you know stuff, because I
Speaker 1: can this lee like there are a lot of fun, cool,
Speaker 1: little accolades and things you can get working in this
Speaker 1: industry and stuff, and I can kind of care less
Speaker 1: of that about that stuff. My I think my biggest
Speaker 1: drive and hope is to try and um, I guess
Speaker 1: just to try and yet just just being like if
Speaker 1: I think I described myself as this other day where
Speaker 1: it's like if I never end up on some like
Speaker 1: comedians to look out for list or best this or
Speaker 1: that list, but at the end of the day my
Speaker 1: name comes up and someone's like, Oh, he's solid, he's great,
Speaker 1: he's he he kills it. Like that's more important to me.
Speaker 1: And I think just what inspires me is being surrounded
Speaker 1: by all my creative friends and seeing us all kind
Speaker 1: of start to grow and succeed and in my peers
Speaker 1: just kind of just really um pop out, you know
Speaker 1: it is it like it inspires me because it's only
Speaker 1: a matter of time. Like I think a lot of
Speaker 1: people and I all aways say this and this is
Speaker 1: actually I don't really say this because it's something I
Speaker 1: more so say describing someone specific and trying to um,
Speaker 1: trying trying to like make a point of someone, but
Speaker 1: essentially you're never gonna make it in this industry. Um,
Speaker 1: and I think most industries is if you can't be
Speaker 1: happy to see your peers and friends succeed. I see
Speaker 1: so many people get like bitter or get like upset
Speaker 1: of like, wi isn't it them instead of being like, look,
Speaker 1: a rising tide raises all ships, and people feel that energy.
Speaker 1: People feel the energy of you being jealous of them.
Speaker 1: And so if you're being jealous of when they get something,
Speaker 1: I doubt when they have the opportunity to like give
Speaker 1: like help you out, they're gonna want to do that
Speaker 1: because they're gonna remember times like that. So I think
Speaker 1: there's generally two ways you can go about it. You
Speaker 1: can be genuinely excited and hyped when you see your
Speaker 1: friends getting it, or you can just be uh bitter
Speaker 1: about it and then wonder why no one likes being
Speaker 1: around you because all you do is complained about how
Speaker 1: someone got something when you should have. And trust me,
Speaker 1: if he is not lying that people remember that. Like
Speaker 1: they're a handful of people that we follow who do
Speaker 1: that and they just can't get stuff. It's like a
Speaker 1: it's like a vicious cycle because they're so bitter and
Speaker 1: they're constantly like why not me, So that nobody wants
Speaker 1: to recommend them, so it continues to be not them.
Speaker 1: It's just wild. Um I think maybe we have time
Speaker 1: to do Yeah, and it on a light note. Great. Um,
Speaker 1: so this question, would you rather see a DBZ live
Speaker 1: action series with kid Goku or teen adult Goku? Dang it?
Speaker 1: I thought that this question was teen adult Gohan and
Speaker 1: I was like, are you kidding me? I'm going to
Speaker 1: change the question for that. Um I would die. I
Speaker 1: would die if we got like a c W like
Speaker 1: their little high school slash college series, but instead it
Speaker 1: was Gohan. Remember when he was going to Orange Star
Speaker 1: High School and like on the cusp of dating Fidel
Speaker 1: but like not quite and he was like, you know,
Speaker 1: still having to save the world even though Mr Satan
Speaker 1: was still taking credit for it. But um, I would
Speaker 1: die to see his daily life. I am such a
Speaker 1: prodiction slice of life type of girl. Um Ah, we
Speaker 1: need to pitch this Goku. I don't want to see
Speaker 1: tin adult Goku. Um. I love the guy, but he's clueless.
Speaker 1: I want the spice because you know Gohan, he's not
Speaker 1: as naive as his dad. I want to see his
Speaker 1: spicy dating life. Um. But also like trying to make
Speaker 1: it to his exams and and the little baseball team
Speaker 1: he was on. Oh I would die, He Danny would die,
Speaker 1: and me teenage Danny would die. So c W please
Speaker 1: go ahead and make that. Yes, please, Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: that's the perfect note to end on Where can people
Speaker 1: find you now, Danny? I'm still at miss Danny Fernandez
Speaker 1: on all the things. Um, if you're not following me
Speaker 1: on Instagram, follow me on there. I am trying to
Speaker 1: post my dog and people ask me. I don't know,
Speaker 1: people ask me stuff about like my feet. I don't
Speaker 1: post as much in my feet as I do on
Speaker 1: my Insta stories. So if you want to keep up
Speaker 1: with my life, I haven't gotten a TikTok yet, but
Speaker 1: I just finished. I just wrapped writing on this Netflix show,
Speaker 1: so who knows. Now I feel scared with the amount
Speaker 1: of time I'm going to have on my hands to
Speaker 1: do a lot of first traps and possibly TikTok videos.
Speaker 1: One of the things I was going to say is
Speaker 1: I was writing on a show. The show I was
Speaker 1: writing on is show run by Julie Pleck, and she
Speaker 1: does she created a bunch of those c W shows.
Speaker 1: So you using Vampire Die Area US and like all
Speaker 1: of those, so I feel I should slide that to her.
Speaker 1: She'd be like, why why would I do this? I'd like,
Speaker 1: let me just give you the treatment. Yeah, I would
Speaker 1: be like, look, look you see how hot these people are,
Speaker 1: Like in in the sheer Amount, I would show her
Speaker 1: like one of those Facebook DBZ pages that has like
Speaker 1: a hundred million or whatever people. I'm gonna slide it
Speaker 1: to Julie. What about and you know me right now,
Speaker 1: you can catch me at if d's on Twitch. I've
Speaker 1: super punches on Hiatus. So that's that's pretty much off
Speaker 1: for a little bit. But we'll be back May fourth,
Speaker 1: so tune in then. But until then playing, we've been
Speaker 1: playing Final Fantasy Remake, getting the Discord, Discord, dot g
Speaker 1: G Sports, Slash Salt Squad. There's been a just so
Speaker 1: many different things I just wanna talk about. That's been great.
Speaker 1: That's been hopping in the Discord. I mean, in the
Speaker 1: Anime Club, people have been going crazy over be Star.
Speaker 1: I think that I'm gonna make that the official thing
Speaker 1: that we're watching through together. I mean, people have been
Speaker 1: helping out just in the real blank of phase, you know,
Speaker 1: which is good for people to vent let off and
Speaker 1: kind of like, you know, get get get uh the
Speaker 1: the the sadness off their chests since you know, things
Speaker 1: suck right now, people sharing like different things. Good good gaming,
Speaker 1: as you can imagine, is popping off like crazy people
Speaker 1: getting into Valerie and all that stuff. So yeah, we're
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