WEBVTT - 109: Gunpla 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:03.240 Hey everyone, it's Danny Um. So, if you and I 0:00:03.279 --> 0:00:08.119 recorded this episode early last week, and if you've been 0:00:08.119 --> 0:00:12.039 following us on social media or ever, you know how 0:00:12.039 --> 0:00:15.440 we feel about what is going on and what we're doing. 0:00:16.000 --> 0:00:20.919 But we still felt that this conversation with Cody Ziggler, 0:00:21.079 --> 0:00:23.560 and if you're getting to geek out about gun plat, 0:00:23.680 --> 0:00:28.920 which is like the nerdiest thing that you can be into, um, 0:00:29.160 --> 0:00:34.880 is still necessary and relevant and hopefully welcomed on the Twitter. 0:00:35.440 --> 0:00:38.120 On our Nertificent Twitter page, we will be posting links 0:00:38.159 --> 0:00:41.080 to donations and funds that you can donate to to 0:00:41.240 --> 0:00:47.560 protect and amplify black voices. Black lives Matter. Here's the show. 0:00:57.400 --> 0:01:01.920 How are you doing? Everyone? Cocome to another episode of Nerdificent. 0:01:02.520 --> 0:01:04.960 I am one half of your host if you wa way, 0:01:05.120 --> 0:01:08.480 but sitting across from the digital space for me via 0:01:08.600 --> 0:01:14.120 zoom is Danny Fernandez. I'm here. Yeah, you're here. I 0:01:14.280 --> 0:01:17.760 made it. Get used to it. You know, I could 0:01:17.800 --> 0:01:20.360 be doing it. I could be really busy. My schedule 0:01:20.360 --> 0:01:24.320 could be packed. You don't even know. Yeah, oh yeah, exactly. 0:01:24.560 --> 0:01:28.000 People don't know. I've been doing these zoom calls, been 0:01:28.120 --> 0:01:35.640 streaming podcasting, you know, all the all the EANs. Yeah, 0:01:35.640 --> 0:01:39.880 I've been subscribing all the stuff different YouTube channels. You know, 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:44.319 why are you blushing? Why are you blushing different fans. 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:48.040 I think I think I'm an if there's like a 0:01:48.080 --> 0:01:52.440 power user, uh, I think I'm gonna get it very soon. 0:01:52.640 --> 0:01:55.560 I'm gonna think I'm gonna be a power user, being 0:01:55.600 --> 0:01:58.160 the nerd that I am. I got a bunch of 0:01:58.200 --> 0:02:01.360 badges on Audible that I'm very proud of. I have 0:02:01.480 --> 0:02:04.440 like twelve badges I went in there. You know, I'm competitive. 0:02:05.320 --> 0:02:07.880 It's like one of them was like listening to three 0:02:07.960 --> 0:02:11.640 books in twenty four hours. It was like sick. Nobody 0:02:11.680 --> 0:02:15.040 should be rewarded for this. You love books? No, No, 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:17.640 they're taking it back. They saw that episode of twilight 0:02:17.720 --> 0:02:21.560 Zone and they said, no, books are tight. No for me, 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:24.079 it's because I don't like being alone with my thoughts. 0:02:24.120 --> 0:02:26.600 So I just like, like I said, have Tan France 0:02:26.680 --> 0:02:29.279 just like telling me about his life in the background. 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:32.080 He's like, Hey, how's it going. I'm gonna tell I'm 0:02:32.080 --> 0:02:34.520 gonna talk to you talk that talk, king talk that talk. 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:39.280 Oh well, today we're talking about something that is that 0:02:39.400 --> 0:02:42.640 is that is deep to me, that is that is wonderful. 0:02:43.080 --> 0:02:48.160 Uh deep in my heart been been so moist in it. 0:02:48.280 --> 0:02:51.680 And you know it seems like within this there's been 0:02:51.720 --> 0:02:54.840 warren factions. You know. There there's been lots of haters 0:02:55.120 --> 0:02:58.560 talking about my commitment. Uh and I and I think 0:02:58.680 --> 0:03:01.239 we should bring on a hater to to even talk 0:03:01.280 --> 0:03:05.520 about this. This is a writer of of of do 0:03:05.639 --> 0:03:07.480 or do we say it now? Well? You tweeted it 0:03:07.639 --> 0:03:12.040 writer on she hulk uh podcast producer extraordinaire produced all 0:03:12.160 --> 0:03:15.560 types of your faiths. We're talking about scam goddess we're 0:03:15.600 --> 0:03:21.040 talking about yo? Was this racist, non NonStop smack talker online? 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:24.480 People wonder if this man is my friend or my enemy? 0:03:24.520 --> 0:03:26.040 And that's why we call him my friend of me? 0:03:26.320 --> 0:03:29.600 Cody Zigla, Wow, you set me up for such a 0:03:30.760 --> 0:03:32.720 You really set me up to come in here as 0:03:32.720 --> 0:03:37.760 a villain. See, this is why, this is why I 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:39.800 can't mess with you. I'm the number one sweet boy 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:42.160 you come when you're talking all this time? Well you 0:03:42.160 --> 0:03:44.800 you are who knows you as sweet? Because if people 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:47.560 know you only from my reply, thank you Ny Salt 0:03:47.800 --> 0:03:51.600 Salt God spice king over here with the with the 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:55.119 with the spice special zig has to put up with 0:03:55.160 --> 0:03:57.720 me and his d m s being like this guy 0:03:57.800 --> 0:04:03.120 didn't reply to my thirst trap. Look, Zig's out there, 0:04:03.360 --> 0:04:05.840 he's there listening to us. He's there helping us build 0:04:05.840 --> 0:04:09.880 our gun. Plus he's there. You know, I'm nice. I 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:12.000 know that you're just saying these things because you're coming 0:04:12.000 --> 0:04:13.640 from a place of hurt if he but I want 0:04:13.680 --> 0:04:15.440 to know that I see you, King, and I love 0:04:15.520 --> 0:04:18.520 you King, even when you try. Oh this is what 0:04:18.600 --> 0:04:23.320 a reversal revers Kane came with the energy and flipped 0:04:23.360 --> 0:04:28.720 it on me like some straight up uh yeah no. 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:34.200 So you know, you know, we have this delicious, delicious intro. 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:36.760 I wanna I wanna go through and then we'll talk 0:04:36.760 --> 0:04:41.080 about what we're nerding about. But according to William Ashberg 0:04:41.200 --> 0:04:43.840 of The Diplomat and even of the nineteen seventies, if 0:04:43.920 --> 0:04:47.839 someone wanted to discuss popular Japanese culture, undoubtedly the conversation 0:04:47.880 --> 0:04:51.800 would revolve around it's science fiction film icon, Godzilla no 0:04:51.880 --> 0:04:55.520 offense to the flying turtle Gamera and it's loyal legion 0:04:55.520 --> 0:04:59.720 of followers. But Godzilla films not only rule Japanese popular culture, 0:04:59.760 --> 0:05:02.240 but we're shown around the world to much acclaim and 0:05:02.320 --> 0:05:06.440 sometimes good natured Derision Today in two thousand sixteen, when 0:05:06.480 --> 0:05:10.119 one wants to discuss Japanese culture, the topic immediately turns 0:05:10.120 --> 0:05:14.800 to anime, and among the titles, none permeans Japanese society, 0:05:15.120 --> 0:05:20.240 like the franchise mobile suit Gundam. Yeah yeah, that's yeah, 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:27.720 straight up facts, straight up facts. Yeah, you know, we 0:05:27.760 --> 0:05:30.680 had to put some respect on Gundam. You know, uh 0:05:30.720 --> 0:05:33.080 Cody for those none in Zoom wearing all black me, 0:05:33.360 --> 0:05:35.560 I'm showing my love. I'm paying my respects. You know 0:05:35.680 --> 0:05:39.320 where my anniversary guns. Wow, that is a tight that's 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:41.120 a tight shirt. That was I was, I was, I 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:43.520 was real happy with this one. Um, this is one. 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:46.599 The new Gundam came out pretty hard. And then you 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:50.320 know my unique Zaku, which was a good call. Zig 0:05:50.360 --> 0:05:51.960 was the one who said I should probably go for 0:05:52.000 --> 0:05:54.880 the zaku since I have enough Gundoms respect of my 0:05:54.960 --> 0:05:57.760 name king. Yeah, well look, you know I'm gonna give 0:05:57.800 --> 0:06:06.880 credit where credit is due. I can't hear Godzilla without thinking, Yeah, 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:11.359 some folks are like, I cannot believe you said that, 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:14.440 But me, Danny, I fully support that because I will. 0:06:14.160 --> 0:06:17.279 I'm I'm I'm on the unpopular opinion side of I 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:19.599 think that song slapped and there are a lot of 0:06:19.640 --> 0:06:23.800 things we were like an elementary school or middle school, 0:06:23.839 --> 0:06:26.920 like it was tight. Well, classic rockheads want to grow 0:06:26.960 --> 0:06:29.120 and be like I can't believe let Zeppelin shut up, 0:06:31.920 --> 0:06:37.360 come with top five Godzilla bangers. You heard it here? Yeah, 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:41.600 I remember I was doing um Hayleyman's scenes and Mannox 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:44.440 this podcast about Godzilla and they're saying when they revealed 0:06:44.480 --> 0:06:49.040 the Godzilla design from that movie to Tohope, the company 0:06:49.120 --> 0:06:51.280 that does all the Godzilla, they said it was there 0:06:51.360 --> 0:06:55.440 was silence in the room for like five minutes. I mean, 0:06:55.480 --> 0:06:58.520 it's a it's it's a very wild design. Yeah. I 0:06:58.560 --> 0:07:01.400 mean I haven't watched that movie recently, but I've watched 0:07:01.440 --> 0:07:03.400 it like maybe a year or two ago, and like 0:07:04.000 --> 0:07:06.479 all the decisions they make are like the most clichee 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:10.000 American unculture things that you could make in a movie. Well, 0:07:10.040 --> 0:07:13.120 it's so funny because even with my problems with the 0:07:13.240 --> 0:07:17.760 newer Godzilla run, what made it better is the ability 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:20.680 to let go. Is this idea because you know now 0:07:20.760 --> 0:07:24.320 that we're pushing into you know, nerd media being captured 0:07:24.600 --> 0:07:28.560 in in film, they've there has been this understanding of 0:07:28.640 --> 0:07:31.360 being like, Okay, the fans of this like it for 0:07:31.440 --> 0:07:34.360 a reason, will kind of still follow the blueprint, will 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:37.720 still give weird studio notes like completely adding this human 0:07:37.840 --> 0:07:43.200 element to Godzilla, even though because you know, once again 0:07:43.200 --> 0:07:45.640 that same podcast, I said, most Godzilla movies follow like 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:50.040 two simple formats. Either it's Godzilla versus another monster or 0:07:50.160 --> 0:07:54.960 Godzilla versus humanity, and and the Godzilla movies in America 0:07:55.840 --> 0:07:57.880 keep trying to combine those two things, but those are 0:07:57.960 --> 0:08:00.920 two separate movies. If you want this human element, you 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:03.920 have to have it. And the problem too is America 0:08:04.240 --> 0:08:08.360 has a vin Diesel contract with all their movies. For 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:11.360 for for people who do not know what I'm referencing, 0:08:11.520 --> 0:08:14.280 is it's it's a rumor that in Vin Diesel's contract, 0:08:14.320 --> 0:08:17.400 he can never lose a fight if he's in a movie. Uh, 0:08:17.760 --> 0:08:20.240 And that's that's the same thing as in American movies. 0:08:20.360 --> 0:08:22.920 We can never just loose, like we have to win, 0:08:23.280 --> 0:08:25.080 and we have and I mean there's an arguments of 0:08:25.160 --> 0:08:27.800 that where it's like you don't want to be hopeless, 0:08:27.920 --> 0:08:31.240 but like considering that Godzilla is this allegory for the 0:08:31.400 --> 0:08:35.400 atomic bomb, you would see why it is this devastation 0:08:35.640 --> 0:08:38.599 and kind of surviving the devastation and not beating. It 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:41.880 is the the through line of the movie. But I 0:08:41.920 --> 0:08:44.120 mean this is not the Godzilla episode. This is the 0:08:44.280 --> 0:08:47.320 gunplay episode. Not to not to stay on this tangent 0:08:47.440 --> 0:08:50.439 one second longer, though, did you watch shin Godzilla? Did you? 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:54.719 Did you have it right here in my DVD, my 0:08:54.800 --> 0:08:57.880 Blu ray. I think I think what I enjoyed most 0:08:57.880 --> 0:09:00.079 about that one is that like Godzilla was true be 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:02.640 frightening again because it was such they take such a 0:09:02.760 --> 0:09:06.800 like biological approach to like making it work. But also 0:09:07.000 --> 0:09:09.120 the way that the human element for that movie was 0:09:09.200 --> 0:09:11.760 just the bureaucracy of being in government was such a 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:16.199 very funny. It's such a funny, unique perspective to take on. 0:09:16.320 --> 0:09:18.319 Like usually what you see is like it's a it's 0:09:18.520 --> 0:09:21.599 like a guy and his family trying to come together. Yeah. No, 0:09:21.760 --> 0:09:24.800 it's just like ways and ways of Japanese bureaucracy and 0:09:25.200 --> 0:09:29.319 politicians trying to like trying to grasp the situation that 0:09:29.400 --> 0:09:33.040 they're wholy have their depths on. Very funny and also 0:09:33.160 --> 0:09:35.959 like that inning was just terrifying and frightening. Also just 0:09:36.080 --> 0:09:39.880 how they view us, which is hilarious. Like Americans, I'm 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:43.040 always like please drag us. Please just continue to drag us. 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:46.200 We deserve it. There's just one funny part where they 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:48.400 they have like a map like these are the places 0:09:48.480 --> 0:09:51.480 like that they're gonna bomb, like Japan, like this Japanese city, 0:09:51.559 --> 0:09:53.400 and like they have like an American map, and it's 0:09:53.440 --> 0:09:55.360 just like all of the city is just blown up 0:09:55.480 --> 0:09:57.559 like on the American map. Like they're waving to just 0:09:57.760 --> 0:10:03.000 blow up everything. That that sounds about right, uh, but 0:10:03.160 --> 0:10:06.720 a mobile suit. Gundam was developed by animator Yoshi Yoshi, 0:10:06.800 --> 0:10:10.280 Yuki Tomino and a changing group of Sunrise creators and 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:15.160 with the collective pseudonym of the series. Was originally entitled 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:19.840 Freedom Fighter, gun Boy or gun Boy for the robots 0:10:19.920 --> 0:10:25.200 gun with boys the primary target demographic. The team combined 0:10:25.360 --> 0:10:27.800 the English word gun with the last syllable of the 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:32.160 world word freedom to form the portmanteau Gundam, and Tomino 0:10:32.280 --> 0:10:35.040 changed it to Gundam because it was spelled gun d 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:37.079 o m uh, and they changed it to d a 0:10:37.280 --> 0:10:40.360 m suggesting a unit wielding a gun powerful enough to 0:10:40.400 --> 0:10:44.240 hold back enemies like a hydraulic dam holding back water. 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:48.360 And I think that was a great, great, great switch up. 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:50.480 I don't know how I would feel telling people like 0:10:50.600 --> 0:10:54.360 you gotta come check out my gun boys. There's no 0:10:54.559 --> 0:10:57.840 way that there isn't a kid in Bama whose name 0:10:57.960 --> 0:11:02.840 is gun Boy Numboy, come over here, pick up his uh. 0:11:04.520 --> 0:11:07.240 But yeah, but you know we're gonna get deep into 0:11:07.880 --> 0:11:11.199 into Gundamn. It's history and all that. But but this 0:11:11.400 --> 0:11:13.840 is about gun Plow. But you can't have gun Plow 0:11:13.880 --> 0:11:16.640 without talking about Gundam. And we'll do Gundam is, so 0:11:17.800 --> 0:11:22.040 you can't do a Gundam episode. You have to choose, yeah, 0:11:22.120 --> 0:11:24.800 because you know definitely gonna hit Iron Blooded Orphans, but 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:27.760 then we gotta hit you see, everyone's like you see 0:11:28.080 --> 0:11:31.880 if you keep you you see, there's some good stuff 0:11:31.920 --> 0:11:33.679 in there. Man. Oh yeah, No, I know there's some 0:11:33.760 --> 0:11:37.000 good stuff. I've been every it's so funny. You would 0:11:37.080 --> 0:11:39.839 think that, and this is a great transition into what 0:11:39.960 --> 0:11:42.319 we're nerding about right now. But you would think that 0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:45.040 with so much more time, it'd be easier to ingest 0:11:45.160 --> 0:11:49.280 more anime. But it's it's just no, I just find 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:53.960 more dumb stuff to get into. Yeah, I finished the series. 0:11:54.520 --> 0:11:58.040 I finished. You ever watch Parasite The Maximum? Oh? It's 0:11:58.120 --> 0:12:00.800 on Netflix. I just started it. Yeah, I did that 0:12:00.880 --> 0:12:03.800 on Netflix like last week, and it's the first anime 0:12:03.920 --> 0:12:06.280 series I've finished, I think in like a year. It's 0:12:06.360 --> 0:12:10.719 like it's like episodes, like twenty episodes in and out, 0:12:10.800 --> 0:12:12.240 and like I just had it on the background for 0:12:12.400 --> 0:12:14.719 like three or four days. Like it's really honestly the 0:12:14.760 --> 0:12:17.360 first series I've finished in a very long time. I 0:12:17.400 --> 0:12:20.679 Mean there's just so every anime that someone wants to 0:12:20.760 --> 0:12:23.920 suggest to you as like to three episodes and you're like, yeah, 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:27.360 short boys, Yeah, give me, give me them short boys. 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:30.800 That's why I like that. My favorite is Gorn log 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:33.960 On because that's twenty sins. It's twenty six and you're done. 0:12:34.160 --> 0:12:35.719 You know. If I tell somebody, yo, you gotta check 0:12:35.720 --> 0:12:38.560 out dB Z, they're gonna look at that episode listen 0:12:38.559 --> 0:12:41.720 to be like sir, but I'll tell you check out Gundam. 0:12:42.120 --> 0:12:44.480 I mean going log On, You're gonna check that out. 0:12:45.200 --> 0:12:47.800 The same thing. No, I was gonna say. Somebody on 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:50.560 Twitter was asking like, hey, I want to get into anime, 0:12:50.760 --> 0:12:52.840 and I kid you not. There was people that would 0:12:52.920 --> 0:12:55.839 list like six different series like you gotta do one piece, 0:12:56.280 --> 0:12:58.640 gotta do one piece, gotta do attack On, And I'm 0:12:58.640 --> 0:13:01.600 like Hunter Hunter. I was like, literally, just give the man, 0:13:01.840 --> 0:13:05.839 like a movie or something did start with. I was like, 0:13:05.880 --> 0:13:08.400 I love, I responded, I said, I as an anime fan. 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:09.880 I was like, I love the people that think that 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:12.839 you're gonna watch your He's also a showrunner and like 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:16.319 TV create. I'm like, these people are busy. Like I 0:13:16.520 --> 0:13:18.040 was like, I love the idea that you're going to 0:13:18.120 --> 0:13:22.160 watch six series that each have two hundred episodes. I 0:13:22.200 --> 0:13:24.400 mean that, yeah, yeah, I mean Hunter Hunter I think 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:26.680 comes in at to something and that at this point 0:13:26.720 --> 0:13:29.079 in my life, the Hunter Hunters of them all seem 0:13:29.200 --> 0:13:32.959 way more digestible because you have people people are begging 0:13:33.040 --> 0:13:34.679 me to check out one Piece, some like it is 0:13:35.720 --> 0:13:41.599 on its nine hundred episode. I will start Naomi on 0:13:41.720 --> 0:13:44.120 one Piece so she can finish it when she graduates 0:13:44.200 --> 0:13:47.320 high school. That's like Simpson's numbers. It's like it's too 0:13:47.400 --> 0:13:49.000 much for my system at these days. I mean, like, 0:13:49.520 --> 0:13:52.880 I think Hunter Hunter was like the last long series 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:56.280 I was able to like watch and like stay president, 0:13:56.840 --> 0:13:58.959 but like that was like three years three or four 0:13:59.000 --> 0:14:01.400 years ago, when I like the sunder Owner, like the 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:04.720 idea of starting a series that has more than thirty episodes, right, 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:08.559 now fills me with such uh dread. Well. That's why 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:12.600 I like doing Ginama because that one's like a three 0:14:12.720 --> 0:14:15.960 hundred boy, but it's like it's it's imagined like an 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:18.920 anime version of It's always sunny, like it's just these 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:21.400 three like and it will still have the anime elements, 0:14:21.640 --> 0:14:24.400 but since every episode is so self contained, you can 0:14:24.520 --> 0:14:26.760 just kind of take it piece by piece, you know, 0:14:26.880 --> 0:14:29.800 you don't have to sit down, because that's that's the trap, 0:14:29.960 --> 0:14:31.880 right is Like you watch and you get trapped in 0:14:31.920 --> 0:14:33.360 an arc and you're like, I gotta see how this 0:14:33.560 --> 0:14:35.840 wraps up, and then you're like, all right, cool, and 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:37.200 then at the end of that arc they hit you 0:14:37.240 --> 0:14:42.200 with a cliffhanger. You're like, next, I will say. I 0:14:42.200 --> 0:14:44.680 think that's the thing that I also appreciate about most 0:14:44.720 --> 0:14:47.120 of the Gundham series is that they're not really longer 0:14:47.200 --> 0:14:49.960 than like twenty six I think even think the original 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:51.880 Room was like forty episodes or something like that, like 0:14:52.480 --> 0:14:55.440 you Can, you Can. They're pretty digestible, especially like the 0:14:55.560 --> 0:14:57.920 series that I like, they're always they were like ov A, 0:14:58.040 --> 0:15:01.040 so like none of them went more than twelve episodes. 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:04.000 What are y'all geeking out? About Okay, alright, So like, um, 0:15:05.240 --> 0:15:09.240 I'm restarting Avatar Glass Airbender. I watched the I re 0:15:09.320 --> 0:15:12.400 watched the pilot like I think two or three days ago, 0:15:12.400 --> 0:15:13.920 and I was like, oh boy, I'm back in it. 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:16.280 I'm I'm about to be sucked back into this world. 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:18.520 And I know I'm gonna we watch the Legend of 0:15:18.560 --> 0:15:21.520 Chord too. It's like, I'm that's my main thing. Also, 0:15:22.240 --> 0:15:24.800 I've you know, this is the episode that we're talking about, 0:15:24.840 --> 0:15:27.280 but like gun Plaw, like I have been so into 0:15:27.320 --> 0:15:30.400 model making over the past seventy four days however long 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:33.680 we've been in Quarantine. That's been like my there's been 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:35.840 like my two main geeky things I'm getting back into. 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:41.320 And also video gaming, like I've like I uh, there's 0:15:41.360 --> 0:15:43.520 this game called Predator Hunting Grounds that just came out 0:15:44.040 --> 0:15:46.080 a couple of weeks ago, and me and a couple 0:15:46.080 --> 0:15:48.320 of friends have been playing that game, and like I 0:15:48.400 --> 0:15:53.040 have been rediving back into just the Predator franchise, like 0:15:53.600 --> 0:15:58.120 I did like the Seven Days Stars free trial on 0:15:58.200 --> 0:16:00.800 Amazon Prime just to like watch Predator one and two, 0:16:00.880 --> 0:16:02.840 and like now I'm jumping over to HBO to see 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:06.600 if they have like uh, like Predators from Robert Rodriguez 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:09.080 and the Predators. Like there's been like my three main 0:16:09.160 --> 0:16:12.040 geeky franchises that I've been like doing deep dives back 0:16:12.080 --> 0:16:16.760 into love it. For me, this is relevant for all 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:21.200 of us. Is uh Space Force dropped this weekend when 0:16:21.240 --> 0:16:24.400 this come out, and uh, some of our really great 0:16:24.440 --> 0:16:26.640 friends are in it. They I got to watch an 0:16:26.680 --> 0:16:30.080 early Uh I got to watch it last week and 0:16:30.360 --> 0:16:37.440 it's hilarious. Our friend Tawny, isn't it? Yes, my friend 0:16:37.600 --> 0:16:40.600 Roy Wood Jr. Which I literally screamed and I was like, 0:16:40.760 --> 0:16:43.040 that's my friend. And I like took pictures of him 0:16:43.080 --> 0:16:45.120 with Steve Correll and I sent it to him and 0:16:45.200 --> 0:16:46.880 he was like, how did you get a screener? And 0:16:46.920 --> 0:16:50.840 I didn't get a screener. I was like, Tonny, put 0:16:50.920 --> 0:16:55.920 my name in Ben Schwartz, who I adore. It's really great. 0:16:56.320 --> 0:16:59.920 Um obviously making fun of the whole idea of Space four, 0:17:00.280 --> 0:17:02.560 but a lot of good people that worked on this, 0:17:02.720 --> 0:17:05.159 so definitely check it out. That is what I'm geeking 0:17:05.200 --> 0:17:08.480 out about this week. And what about you, iffy Ah? Yeah. No. 0:17:08.880 --> 0:17:11.440 What what I'm thinking out about this week is the 0:17:11.560 --> 0:17:13.440 show that I've kind of jumped on I don't know 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:15.840 if I talked about it on here yet, but I've 0:17:15.960 --> 0:17:20.040 really been enjoying it, which has been um good old 0:17:20.280 --> 0:17:24.760 uh Tower of God, which is a crunchy role original 0:17:25.240 --> 0:17:28.560 based off of a web tunes uh comic, and it's 0:17:28.640 --> 0:17:31.399 it's been good like after you know, it had like 0:17:31.680 --> 0:17:33.800 I had that startup being like, Okay, let's see what 0:17:33.920 --> 0:17:37.359 this web tunes anime guy, and now I'm like locked in. 0:17:37.600 --> 0:17:40.680 They have lots of fun characters, very diverse, you know. 0:17:41.119 --> 0:17:43.480 You know, it's funny when people just go and make 0:17:43.560 --> 0:17:48.600 their animals how diverse it can get. But uh, but yeah, 0:17:48.640 --> 0:17:51.600 I'm I'm truly enjoying it. And outside of that, Valeriane, 0:17:51.640 --> 0:17:54.959 I've been playing lots of Valeriane, which if you if 0:17:55.000 --> 0:17:57.439 you don't know what it is, it's like counter Strike 0:17:57.680 --> 0:18:02.120 meets Overwatch. Very fun game, very frustrating game, as many 0:18:02.240 --> 0:18:06.399 teammates competitive games are. But that's been it, and you know, 0:18:07.040 --> 0:18:10.960 getting back into my workout regiment too, I did some yoga, 0:18:11.359 --> 0:18:14.520 you know, that was yo. Doing These yoga videos though, 0:18:14.840 --> 0:18:17.239 are always so funny because it always starts off being 0:18:17.320 --> 0:18:19.560 like okay, okay, cool, and then they'll just crank it 0:18:19.640 --> 0:18:22.639 to ninety with hard and and not even like not 0:18:22.800 --> 0:18:25.080 even like guide. You be like, okay, it's gonna get 0:18:25.080 --> 0:18:27.240 advanced of like okay, now we're gonna do this next pose, 0:18:27.280 --> 0:18:29.760 and then it's like the legs behind the head. I'm wait, wait, wait, 0:18:29.800 --> 0:18:31.960 what do we get to that I clicked? But yoga 0:18:31.960 --> 0:18:36.360 from beginners you I'm not beginning there. It's so I've 0:18:36.400 --> 0:18:39.280 never done out right yoga. They used to do it 0:18:39.320 --> 0:18:41.400 when I did, like karate and jiu jitsu, we would 0:18:41.440 --> 0:18:43.720 use it as like warm up and stuff. And honestly, 0:18:43.840 --> 0:18:46.520 nine times I'll attend yoga was way harder than anything 0:18:46.600 --> 0:18:49.680 we ever ended up doing in the and the actual classes. 0:18:50.080 --> 0:18:53.000 Oh yeah, oh man, people don't understand. They think that 0:18:53.080 --> 0:18:55.760 you need to have external weight, but just holding your 0:18:55.800 --> 0:18:58.159 body weight in your arms out in a pose and 0:18:58.200 --> 0:19:01.240 a squat positions like doing a wall essentially in a 0:19:01.359 --> 0:19:05.520 squat like position for two minutes sometimes is how long? 0:19:05.680 --> 0:19:07.720 Or you know, they'll even do it longer. We'll just 0:19:08.000 --> 0:19:12.680 burn your muscle like it just burns. Alright, well, let's 0:19:12.760 --> 0:19:16.040 jump right into it. So uh so we're talking about 0:19:16.080 --> 0:19:19.040 gun plaow today. H and gun play is short for 0:19:19.400 --> 0:19:25.040 gundam plastic models UH or Gundam plastic model UH and 0:19:25.320 --> 0:19:29.159 UH mobile suit. Gundam debuted in nineteen seventy nine, and 0:19:29.240 --> 0:19:33.479 the first gun play kits Uh, which came in at 0:19:33.640 --> 0:19:36.440 nineteen eighties, So like right around it was. It's so 0:19:36.640 --> 0:19:40.719 interesting because that's not uncommon for it to be like, Okay, 0:19:41.200 --> 0:19:43.080 here's a show, here's some toys, but they're like, no, 0:19:43.600 --> 0:19:49.760 here's some toys you can build um and uh and 0:19:49.960 --> 0:19:52.680 and the show was canceled. It was wild because the 0:19:52.720 --> 0:19:55.840 show was canceled after forty three episode. So the show 0:19:56.000 --> 0:19:58.240 was pretty much the show was far ahead of its time. 0:19:58.280 --> 0:20:01.320 And you know, just to do a brief kind of 0:20:02.320 --> 0:20:07.840 overarching synopsis of Gundam because pretty much every Gundam follows 0:20:07.920 --> 0:20:12.560 this formula to some degree. It's usually a political war 0:20:12.720 --> 0:20:16.359 drama like that is essentially what all Gundams are usually 0:20:16.440 --> 0:20:20.360 having to do with UH colonies versus earth bound. One 0:20:20.520 --> 0:20:23.280 is being oppressed by the other, and the Gundams are 0:20:23.359 --> 0:20:26.639 what they used to fight this oppression uh and and 0:20:26.800 --> 0:20:28.800 so I think, yeah, that might have been too deep 0:20:28.840 --> 0:20:31.840 for the eighties, but come around the nineties, we already 0:20:31.840 --> 0:20:36.040 in every which shape and form of that. Yeah, I 0:20:36.119 --> 0:20:38.040 mean this the show like that I watched. I we 0:20:38.119 --> 0:20:41.280 watched the pilot recently, and it is such like I 0:20:41.320 --> 0:20:43.960 couldn't imagine being like a ten year old kid watching 0:20:44.080 --> 0:20:46.480 for the first time, because like in the first episode, 0:20:46.840 --> 0:20:49.080 like this, one of the main characters families just gets 0:20:49.160 --> 0:20:52.040 exploded by like a random rocket and then like the 0:20:52.160 --> 0:20:55.040 main character's dad gets sucked out into the space and dies, 0:20:55.119 --> 0:20:57.719 and you're like, I'm supposed to like watch forty more 0:20:57.760 --> 0:21:03.320 episodes of this, this drama, this Game of Thrones with robots. Well, 0:21:03.359 --> 0:21:06.280 I remember when Gundam Wing was on too Nami and 0:21:06.400 --> 0:21:10.639 I just was like, um, cool, transformers, Like that's what 0:21:10.800 --> 0:21:13.600 I think I ever took anything away. I don't think 0:21:13.640 --> 0:21:16.080 I ever thought more about it when I was like 0:21:16.200 --> 0:21:18.800 in middle school. Oh yeah, no, you're You're totally right. 0:21:18.880 --> 0:21:20.919 I think on the surface, if you watch it, especially 0:21:20.960 --> 0:21:24.439 the way it was being advertised onto Nami, where it's 0:21:24.520 --> 0:21:28.920 like Gundam Wing these Gundhams are fighting each other and 0:21:29.119 --> 0:21:31.840 so it's really focusing on the action, but it takes 0:21:31.880 --> 0:21:33.440 a while. And I think that's why it took so 0:21:33.560 --> 0:21:35.760 long for me to get sucked in, because this is 0:21:35.840 --> 0:21:39.000 like teen dbz Ifee and I remember sitting down from 0:21:39.040 --> 0:21:41.200 Gundam wing, I'm like, they're doing a lot and fun 0:21:41.280 --> 0:21:43.119 and funny coming from a DBZ fan, but I'm like, 0:21:43.240 --> 0:21:44.760 you're doing a lot of talking and not a lot 0:21:44.840 --> 0:21:48.679 of fighting. So I'm a cop out. Ye, Like, at 0:21:48.720 --> 0:21:51.760 least at least my guys start fighting then talk and 0:21:51.880 --> 0:21:55.560 then they finished the fight. At least they charged with yeah, 0:21:56.440 --> 0:21:58.280 like I know the fights about to happen, where like 0:21:58.400 --> 0:22:01.840 there was just political discussion going on, just talking about 0:22:01.880 --> 0:22:06.200 the history of the relationships, and You're just like, yeah, no, 0:22:06.320 --> 0:22:09.239 I'm I thought they said this was robots fighting. Uh 0:22:09.359 --> 0:22:11.760 so we're talking a lot about royal bloodlines in this 0:22:11.880 --> 0:22:15.440 TV show, can we get? But what's interesting about Gundam, 0:22:15.480 --> 0:22:17.920 which I which is the fun conversation to have about 0:22:18.000 --> 0:22:21.080 Gundam as a whole is like it is like synonymous 0:22:21.160 --> 0:22:24.240 to anime in general, Like you can't really think about 0:22:24.320 --> 0:22:27.919 anime without thinking of Gundham's. I would even post as 0:22:27.920 --> 0:22:30.600