Transcript
Zuuuuu: on another exciting episode of the animation deliberation podcast we are swinging back to midtown as we're talking about your friendly neighborhood spiderman the first two episodes now available on disney plus and talk about that i much more right do that you no control
J Scoots: Sing along if you know the words. ah ah One, two, three, it's time for animation deliberation. A conversation and a conversation. Oh, wow. I really just messed that up. It's been too long. A conversation and a celebration of our favorite action animated series. Yeah.
Zuuuuu: Yeah, welcome back to another.
J Scoots: I think I tripped myself up because as I was singing it, I was like, I wish I had come up with some kind of rap to like match the hip hop stylings of the theme song of Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider -Man, but I threw myself off.
Zuuuuu: We just have, like, the AD song playing in the background and a rap, like, going...
J Scoots: Yeah, and yeah something like that.
J Scoots: What's going on?
Zuuuuu: I mean, hey, I'm Zuhair, you're Jay Scottie, and I think we're both fans of the theme song to start things off for the show.
J Scoots: I am a fan of the theme song and so many other aspects of the show.
Zuuuuu: Yeah, I mean, just sticking on the song in general, there was a lot of similarities of just kind of how they did X -Men 97, you know, carrying on to like the original design and stuff. So there was a little bit of like trying to throw in the nostalgia of that look into this. So when it kicked into that song, I was like, oh, cool, it has nothing to do with that series, but they're still kind of riding that same thing. And then when they threw like the modern version of it right there, I was just like, OK, yeah, this is really sick. That's this is a great, great opener.
J Scoots: Yeah. And as a recall in episode one, it was like a good five minutes into the episode before we ever even got treated to the intro. Like I think they did the whole establishing sequence with Dr.
Zuuuuu: Yeah.
J Scoots: Strange, which we'll talk about, but, uh, yeah, yeah, just everything you're saying about the theme song, like the stylings, how it's, it's a throwback to like the, uh, almost like not only the sixties visualization that we see, but even like the spider man.
J Scoots: Spiderman, like I think that is from like one of the original animated series until like weave it into the hip hop overtures. Like I am already like looking forward to memorizing as many of the lyrics as I can.
J Scoots: The one line that like continues to stick out to me across both episodes when he said something like, if that's not fair, I'll play the world's smallest violin because I'm also a big Spongebob fan. So I immediately think of Mr.
Zuuuuu: Yeah,
J Scoots: Krabs playing the world's smile smallest violin.
Zuuuuu: yeah I love that.
J Scoots: Yeah.
Zuuuuu: I've been talking about style and stuff. Disney Plus needs to continue to underwhelm me on trailers and promotional material.
J Scoots: Hmm.
J Scoots: Sure.
Zuuuuu: I'm so excited for the acolyte, and it was disappointing.
J Scoots: Hmm.
Zuuuuu: I didn't really care about Skeleton Crew, but I watched it, and it was a lot of fun.
J Scoots: I love skeleton crew.
Zuuuuu: And then when I first saw the trailer for Spider -Man, I was like, this is not what I was expecting. I don't know if I'm going to be able to watch this. Love the first two episodes. So Disney Plus, whatever you're doing to just not have me interested in your trailers, just keep it up because it's working.
J Scoots: Yeah, you and I have talked off air, so I know you haven't watched What If season three, but I watched What If season three, and while I liked it by and large, it's always cool to be playing in the world of What If. I thought it was the weakest season of What If that we've had, and the fact that it was the final season was just kind of disappointing. So kind of to your point, to kind of come off of that slightly underwhelming, slightly disappointing experience, and just something that I had virtually no expectations for like when it came to my my anticipated properties from Marvel and for 2025, the only property that I had like lower on my radar than this is Marvel zombies.
J Scoots: And that's just because we've already kind of seen it across. What if we've had a couple of episodes that dabbled with zombies? And I've said this a lot of places, but I just I feel like zombies are a little overdone. So if you don't have any if you don't have something like super unique or special to say, I'm not super, super interested off the bat.
Zuuuuu: Yeah.
J Scoots: But yeah, this thing
Zuuuuu: It's super zombies.
J Scoots: there I mean the fact that it is the Marvel characters is enough to to get me to watch it because if it was just like Honestly, if it was just an animated show about zombies unless I heard a really good word of mouth I probably wouldn't check it out.
J Scoots: But again, like
Zuuuuu: and
J Scoots: Very little to no expectations going into this thing. and And like you said, it was, I was so impressed with everything across the board with episode one. And I was like, are they going to be able to follow it up with episode two?
J Scoots: And sure enough, they did. So it's, you know, it's early on in the season, but I'm feeling really, really good about the show.
Zuuuuu: Yeah.
J Scoots: And you kind of mentioned X -Men 97 in passing, like, I think this is the most jazzed I've been. for definitely for animation on Disney Plus, but it's the most jazz I think I've been for a Disney Plus show since X -Men 97.
Zuuuuu: Okay.
J Scoots: Yeah.
Zuuuuu: Yeah, i think I think that the bar to hit, which is like top tier animation was the last four episodes of Clone Wars. It is really hard to meet that expectation, but that's a very high bar.
J Scoots: Okay.
Zuuuuu: But yeah, for this show, I guess we can just get into spoilers because the big thing about the story that I really want to talk about is the whole time I was watching this episode, I was not sure if it was connected to like our Earth 616.
J Scoots: Yeah at this point. Sure.
Zuuuuu: This was like our Peter Parker that we know, like our Tom Holland Peter Parker.
J Scoots: Oh sure. Absolutely.
Zuuuuu: And as because I think the initial impression was that like the name was going to be called Freshman Year and it was Tom Holland's Peter Parker.
J Scoots: Correct.
Zuuuuu: And this is just like how we got his powers and yada yada.
J Scoots: Yeah.
Zuuuuu: So I was kind of going back and forth, I was like, is this? Is this not it? And then when he had the scene with the bus, I was like, oh, shoot, that's the scene that Tony Stark shows.
J Scoots: Yeah.
Zuuuuu: in Civil War I was like oh cool this really is that version like that's what we got this is part of it and then like this he finds the DVD player then walks upstairs I was like this is actually it like how does he Tony Stark and then boom Pops and Norman Osborn I was like oh I'm hooked you got me on that I am very excited for all the little twists and turns and nooks and crannies you are about to take me down for this show bring it on that was such a fantastic cliffhanger because that was so giddy leading up to that
J Scoots: Yeah.
J Scoots: For sure.
J Scoots: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
J Scoots: yeah And the buildup to that reveal was just so perfect because like even in like the the opening sequences, just like seeing Aunt May, but it's a version of Aunt May, it's like, but you're kind of going for a Marisa Tomei thing there. If you want to say that's but Marisa Tomei, I'll believe you. But then when we had Dr. Strange come in and the voice actor was not Benedict Cumberbatch, but he was clearly doing his best Benedict Cumberbatch. He sounded a lot like him. So I was like, okay, they're making a concerted effort to make this guy sound like,
J Scoots: bit of a Cumberbatch and then there was the, yeah, there was the Iron Man like mirror decoration.
Zuuuuu: It's like started to sound like him and then it was just like more whimsical.
J Scoots: I was like, okay, so the Avengers exist within this world. But then to your point, when we had that first bus stop, I wasn't as confident as you. I was like, ooh. is that, that looks a lot like that phone footage that we saw in Civil War, but I wasn't 100 % sure.
J Scoots: then, yeah, everything from when he found the DVD player and the the Alt -J song kicks in. That's when it solidified it for me, because that is the same exact song that they use in the Civil War sequence.
J Scoots: It's Left Hand Free by Alt -J, which is a great song.
Zuuuuu: Oh, OK.
J Scoots: Yeah. With your left hand free yeah and your right hand, hmm.
Zuuuuu: Oh, yeah, fan fantastic sequence and fantastically to bring up that episode.
J Scoots: Yeah.
Zuuuuu: I actually I happened to watch Across the Spider -Verse last week just because I hadn't seen it in a while and I had an evening of myself.
J Scoots: Yeah. Oh, nice.
Zuuuuu: So I was like i haven't seen this since the theaters. like I need to watch it again. And it was really interesting that also in that movie, the spider was from a different universe. Like he wasn't supposed to be there.
Zuuuuu: So I'm just like, how does that connect to what's going on here?
J Scoots: Well, the fact that the spider got away, it crawled away onto somebody's backpack and we didn't get to see whose backpack that was.
Zuuuuu: Yeah.
J Scoots: So I'm wondering, was that, was that miles Morales or is that going to be the connective tissue to miles Morales or another web slinger?
Zuuuuu: Yeah, that's true.
J Scoots: I think Cindy moon is like a popular fan character these days as well.
Zuuuuu: That's going to be interesting. If it I kind of don't want it to be miles because I want that age gap, I guess, like for them to be kind of the same age and.
J Scoots: Sure.
Zuuuuu: For like him and Peter to be at the same age, I guess that makes feelings about that, huh?
J Scoots: It'd be a different take. It'd be a different take on it.
Zuuuuu: Yeah, true.
J Scoots: Yeah.
Zuuuuu: And then there was that one version of Spider -Man, it's like he actually had like six arms like his two legs. It could be that guy.
J Scoots: Yeah, a man's spider. Yeah.
Zuuuuu: And then we had the symbiote alien, which is really cool to see just a different. version of that Okay, you know the credits are just set aliens symbios I was like, I guess it's just like yeah everyone leave it to your imagination type of thing.
J Scoots: Yeah, i my initial takeaway, I was like, that kind of looks like Sabertooth. If Sabertooth got a a symbiote, but then I saw other people saying, Craven. I'm like, oh yeah, yeah, I could see that for sure too. But yeah. Well, sure.
J Scoots: For sure, for sure. But I don't want to move entirely away from what what you bring up. I mean, the influence from Spider -Verse is so clear. ah ah it's It's a different animation style, but I feel like even with like some of the the way the frames connect to each other and the stylization of the the action is clearly so evocative of across the Spider -Verse.
Zuuuuu: I
J Scoots: But then, again, with the hip hop influences and just stop the web singing, the web swinging and the way they choose to place the camera and follow him through the city just feels really, really cinematic to me.
Zuuuuu: Hmm. Yeah, I kind of got some a little bit of throwback code Lyoko vibes on the way that it was animated.
J Scoots: Oh yeah.
Zuuuuu: The way that was just kind of like that floating look and like everything like unnecessarily had to move.
J Scoots: I haven't thought about that and in so long.
Zuuuuu: I was like, this is interesting.
J Scoots: I think I watched like the first two or three episodes.
Zuuuuu: Yeah, i don't I don't know why that was the one that always...
J Scoots: Yeah.
Zuuuuu: I think that's just kind of like my go -to for that style. Like, whenever things move like that, my head just always goes to Kill Dioko.
J Scoots: Sure.
J Scoots: and Okay.
Zuuuuu: I mean, at first, because I was talking to Sarah Day about it because we were doing like the fantasy point stuff, and I was like, you can't compare the two.
J Scoots: Okay.
J Scoots: Right.
Zuuuuu: Like, one's, you know, this movie by these two people and it's, you know, going off of this and it's very unique. Like, how do you compare?
J Scoots: right
Zuuuuu: Like, This is trying to stick with the, you know, what if style or the 97 style or whatever Disney Plus just wants to do. It's like, yes, it's touching on comic, but it's a different type of comic book. But now that you bring it up, I guess I can see a little bit more similarities in what I was initially giving credit for.
J Scoots: Yeah, yeah, I mean, it's not gratuitous. I don't feel like it's like, I saw some people on social social media posts like, you know, can we have Spider -Verse? We have Spider -Verse at home.
J Scoots: They're like, this is Spider -Verse at home. I don't think that's fair. I think there's just, there's some influence there that I appreciate.
Zuuuuu: Now, yeah.
J Scoots: but
Zuuuuu: Yeah.
J Scoots: And I know we want to talk more about the narrative and the characters, and I'm i'm dying to get there too. But you mentioned, again, in passing Clone Wars.
Zuuuuu: Mm.
J Scoots: And I'm not the most versed in Clone Wars, but I have been exposed to the Bad Batch episodes. That was kind of my entry point to Bad Batch. And for anybody that's been listening to the show and listened to ah any any of our Bad Batch coverage, we know how you know how celebratory we were of the the art style.
J Scoots: and It's different, but the same in the sense that one of the things I loved about this art style is, like again, the trailers did not make it super obvious because everything was like zipping by so fast. But when you actually like pause or have some of the slower scenes, just like we said it about other shows, but I really feel about this one. like You could pause it at any point in time. I would take that, frame it, put it on my wall because they they do such a good job of making it look like a comic book panel. But the other thing they're doing is there are different textures happening. So what's happening on the background is different than if you look at like Peter's skin, it almost looks like it's made from like a different paper. And I just love that subtle thing. Like it is a fairly simple, simplistic art style, but doing that little, little, those little flourishes to give it some extra depth and character go a long way.
Zuuuuu: Yeah, like those cool covers that have like the embossing where it's like glossy on matte type of thing.
J Scoots: Mm hmm. Exactly. Exactly.
Zuuuuu: Yeah.
J Scoots: Yeah.
Zuuuuu: Yeah, I like the I like the comparison because it it seems like Disney Plus has their style of animation and there's just like touch ups to the theme of it where Bad Batch was like honoring the Clone Wars look, but they made it very like realistic as they could with a brushstroke type touch to it.
J Scoots: Sure.
Zuuuuu: And obviously this is kind of like the same style, but it has more of that comic book look to it.
J Scoots: Absolutely.
Zuuuuu: As you know, it's more spotty, it's more etched, it's It looks really good. It looks really good.
J Scoots: Yeah. I think I prefer this art style to what if.
J Scoots: Like what if it's novel and accomplishes what it's trying to do. It looks like the people from the movies and everything like that. And I think what works for it really well is that it has like a dreamlike quality, like with the rim lighting, it's always overexposed.
Zuuuuu: Yeah.
J Scoots: So you're like, it always feels a little dreamlike. So that works for what if, but I think after the three seasons, that's kind of like, I kind of wish they kind of would have gone like a Star Wars vision route with this.
J Scoots: So I could have seen different art styles,
Zuuuuu: yeah maybe some that like cater to whatever the theme of the episode was a little more yeah i could see that and another show i'm behind on and ninth jedi dude just it set the bar so high why watch more and ruin it give me more of night jedi
J Scoots: Sure. Yeah. Yeah. That'd be cool. Yeah. It's all good though.
J Scoots: Yeah, please. right. So where where do you want to start as far as characters go? I mean, obviously Peter is our main character. What do you, what do you think about this version of Peter?
Zuuuuu: He's fun. I mean, I think he's I think he's capturing what we love about the Tom Holland one.
J Scoots: Yeah.
Zuuuuu: Obviously, it's like a younger version of him. And he's got the the sassy corpiness to um Like he's still shy to talk to girls and stuff. But the way that he wasn't scared to step in and help somebody out even before he got his powers was really admirable.
Zuuuuu: And it just kind of shows a lot to his character. The love that he has for me like there was a very emotional scene in the car and everything just talking about his appreciation of everything That was just really well done and So yeah, I think I think they're doing a great job of in capturing with him you like about our our Tom Holland Peter Parker
J Scoots: Yeah.
J Scoots: Yeah, I agree. And I love the fact that it's we've seen little bits of it from the Tom Holland version, but we haven't had too many opportunities too. But this Peter is dorky. like you know He kind of like makes a fool of himself, calling himself P .D. Parker, which we saw in the trailer. but getting the context of like with when he does like the Parker out deuces and like, you know, his other interns are just like, actually, I love that whole sequence how Asha from Wakanda became increasingly concerned that he was an arsonist.
Zuuuuu: I just really like fire. Can we just keep that on for a little bit?
J Scoots: Yeah, yeah. And he I can't think of any off the top of my head, but he he also had some great quips with that ah villain butane. so
Zuuuuu: I can't remember any either.
J Scoots: I think you did something like that's a really hot take. It's time for you to cool off and did the fireworks, which you know is, you know, maybe some people roll their eyes up, but that's always been, I liked that version of Peter. I liked the version of Peter.
Zuuuuu: Yeah.
J Scoots: That's not afraid to make the jokes that don't always land.
Zuuuuu: That's what I loved about Amazing Spider -Man. Like, he didn't do a great Peter Parker, but his Spider -Man and the commentary just during everything was awesome.
J Scoots: Hmm.
J Scoots: I'd argue he he may be the Spider -Man with the best quips. He's not my favorite Spider -Man, but he might be the best quipper for sure.
Zuuuuu: Yeah.
Zuuuuu: Yeah, yeah, definitely.
J Scoots: Oh.
Zuuuuu: And of course, you know, Peter B. Parker does a fantastic job, too.
J Scoots: Ooh, yeah, yeah, yeah. that's it Yeah, the composition gets stiff there for sure.
Zuuuuu: but it's It's hard to beat Nick Miller for commentary.
J Scoots: Nick Johnson, what's his name?
Zuuuuu: Jake Johnson plays Nick Miller and Hamish.
J Scoots: Oh, that's right. i was I was like, the wires were getting crossed for me too.
Zuuuuu: new girl.
J Scoots: I was like, wait, is it? Yeah. I was like, Nick Johnson, Jake Johnson. That's fine. Good call. All right.
Zuuuuu: He's always, he's always Nick Miller before he's Jake Johnson. to me
J Scoots: Yeah. And how we were kind of talking at up top how like this really does, like from its inception, it was kind of built to be an origin story for our MCU version of Peter. like This really does feel like it's just like that verse, but one or two steps removed for one reason or another. And I really like the the fact that that affords the opportunity for Peter to have a new best friend.
J Scoots: So like, we know Harry's been his best friend and many, many iterations.
Zuuuuu: Yeah.
J Scoots: It was cool to see Ned given that opportunity ah in in the MCU trilogy, but yeah, I'm instantly really digging his his dynamic with Nico.
Zuuuuu: Yeah, he's got like a little friend group actually brewing as well, like Lonnie wanting to ask to be his partner and the past relationship of, you know, being neighbors with Pearl and stuff.
Zuuuuu: So the fact that there's like multiple people that he's like bouncing between and then different interactions that we get to see. And then even with the other interns, too, like he's got this whole he's got multiple circles that we get to see him flop in between, which is it's it's a nice change of pace.
J Scoots: Hmm.
J Scoots: Yeah, yeah. Now, between his friends like Nico and Lonnie and some of the other interns at Oscorp, as well as his mentor, doc Dr. Carla Connors, there are a lot of names there.
J Scoots: Do any of them pop or register with you as as comic book characters or potential comic book characters? Because there's a few in there for sure.
Zuuuuu: No, except for the Osborne's and Connor's.
J Scoots: Okay, well, Nico, she is Nico Minoro, who is one of the runaways. She's like the offspring of like someone that is in Dr.
Zuuuuu: Okay.
J Scoots: Strange's sphere, like one of his acolytes that that went bad for one reason or another.
Zuuuuu: OK, so that'll be an interesting thing that I could possibly tackle in the.
J Scoots: Well, it's it's again, like she feels like she's kind of like our Ned in this world. So the fact that Ned goes on that journey down down the road and you know starts to dabble in mysticism, it's kind of cool that there's that correlation there.
Zuuuuu: Yeah.
J Scoots: and
Zuuuuu: Was she in the live action?
J Scoots: She was in Runaways, which was on Hulu, which is the you know like the canon status is a little dubious there.
Zuuuuu: Yeah.
Zuuuuu: Yeah, I watched Cloak and Dagger, I never made my way around to
J Scoots: yeah
Zuuuuu: That was a
J Scoots: I saw Runaways season one, but i didn't I didn't stick with it after that, but I didn't i didn't watch Cloak and Dagger.
Zuuuuu: good one.
J Scoots: What was it?
Zuuuuu: That was actually enjoyable.
J Scoots: Lani. Actually, I won't tell you who Lani is, because I don't want to spoil it for you, but I think yeah a lot of Spider -Man fans know who he is just based on the name, but the fact that we got to see his home life
Zuuuuu: Okay.
Zuuuuu: There.
J Scoots: And what a good guy he is in some of his his family struggles there. I think they're setting him up to be a really tragic character.
Zuuuuu: Yeah, it was like, how are you going to ruin this for me?
J Scoots: And I'm worried.
Zuuuuu: What's going to happen to him that I'm just going to want to cry and ask God why, why, why, why him?
J Scoots: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The other big one though is his fellow intern, Amadeus Cho, who is the totally awesome Hulk.
Zuuuuu: Oh, okay.
J Scoots: Yeah, yeah, so.
Zuuuuu: Once I heard. show i was wondering if it was that other gamma scientist that uh banner works with oh okay that's cool at least i'll put that together
J Scoots: Well, yeah, he's he's yeah, he's the son of Helen Cho who appeared in Age of Ultron. Yeah.
J Scoots: Yeah, and it's I'm going to reveal myself to be the true MCU nerd that I am right now. But that's been one of those characters that they've always kind of been dancing around with. But the the continuity gets a little murky because all the way back in the Incredible Hulk 2008, Martin Starr, who would go on to appear in the Spider -Man movies as his his teacher,
J Scoots: Uh, he was actually in that scene. You only see him for a second, but like banners going into the lab and there's a guy that he gives pizza and the guy he's just like, Oh yeah, thanks.
Zuuuuu: Yeah.
J Scoots: And he has credited his Amadeus Cho, but clearly not the case.
Zuuuuu: Yeah, when, when we made him a draftable character in fantasy, for this year, I actually put like what everyone's first appearance was.
J Scoots: Oh, okay. Yeah.
Zuuuuu: So on the roster, you can see that his first appearance was incredible Hulk.
J Scoots: Nice. I dig it. I dig it.
Zuuuuu: Yeah, it's a That's cool that there's a lot of characters that are gonna have, I guess, a lot of character growth. I mean, do we know how long the series is supposed to be?
J Scoots: I think it's already been renewed. I think, I wanna say three seasons, don't quote me on it, but three seasons is what's kinda coming to mind, so I think it, oh yeah, this one's gonna be 10 episodes.
Zuuuuu: I guess, do we know how long the season's gonna be?
Zuuuuu: Okay, that tracks.
J Scoots: we We got the first two this time, they're gonna do three next week, three the following week, and then the final two. So yeah, it'll be 10 episodes across four weeks.
Zuuuuu: Interesting.
J Scoots: Yeah, very interesting strategy.
Zuuuuu: I like that.
J Scoots: Yeah, i don't i don't I'm not gonna knock it. i'm I'm down for them experimenting, try something different, yeah.
Zuuuuu: It makes you.
Zuuuuu: Yeah, because they did a good job with the cliffhangers. It's a decent amount of actions. you I was wondering, like, why not just have like one hour episodes or something, but I guess it's a nice way to make it digestible.
J Scoots: I like breaking it up and I do think releasing the first two together was wise because as much as I like the premiere,
Zuuuuu: Mm hmm.
J Scoots: I was itching for a little bit more, especially with that that cliffhanger, like seeing you know Norman there.
Zuuuuu: Yeah.
J Scoots: So yeah, I think it's a good strategy. It'll be interesting to have to see how it plays in the long run and what kind of conversation there is around this one, because you know again, we are apologists for animation here, but we acknowledge not everybody is down for animation.
J Scoots: And even with that, I feel like yeah We both kind of admitted it. I feel like this show is just low on people's radar. So with the positive reception, because I am seeing a lot of positive reception, I'm hoping that's enough to kind of drive the awareness and the conversation and see if the people turn out in droves over the next few weeks to to show.
J Scoots: Because I mean, I felt i felt obligated. like I don't post on social media too, too often. But I had to say, had to say like do not sleep on this show.
Zuuuuu: I saw.
J Scoots: Go so check this show out. Let's make sure it gets the viewership that it's supposed to.
Zuuuuu: Yeah, strain a pan of chat on Facebook for anybody that wants to.
J Scoots: That's right.
Zuuuuu: having a conversation with Scoots on that. Encourage him to want to say things like that more. um Yeah, I'll call my shot on that and say that it's gonna be after the season is over.
Zuuuuu: I think that's when big MCU fans are gonna be talking about it.
J Scoots: Yeah, for sure.
Zuuuuu: Captain America will be out at that point. So there's gonna be more MCU chatter. There's gonna be more hunger for more stuff, assuming it's you know the MCU standard. And I think that's what's gonna be like You know people waiting at line of grab power.
Zuuuuu: Oh, did you see that spider -man show yet? Yeah, all the episodes are out I think I think around Captain America time was what's really gonna push people to want to come in and start watching that or maybe as they're doing their Captain America rewatches on Disney Plus I'll see it as an option, but i'm I'm sensing more towards end of season than People really pushing it from the first two episodes Yeah
J Scoots: Yeah.
J Scoots: Let's hope so. Yeah, that's fine. As long as people watch it, however you want to do it, just watch it.
Zuuuuu: Watch it and let us know what you think of it. Oh my God, my voice is done for the day.
J Scoots: I thought you were doing a voice.
Zuuuuu: Excuse me. Good God.
J Scoots: I thought you were doing an impression there for a second.
Zuuuuu: No.
J Scoots: You all right?
Zuuuuu: Yeah, I guess.
Zuuuuu: Four or four five solid weeks of Commander's football has just like destroyed my voice.
J Scoots: Oh, yeah.
Zuuuuu: And yeah, I mean, I don't have to worry about it anymore, but it still hasn't fully recovered yet.
J Scoots: And you you just.
J Scoots: Oh, sure. Sure.
Zuuuuu: And this is my second podcast back to back today after working all day too.
J Scoots: I was going to bring that up. Yeah. Yeah. You're you're a trooper for that one. All right. Uh, was there anything else you wanted to bring up about your friendly neighborhood Spider -Man or can we move on to some DC?
Zuuuuu: When they were doing the live stream went in the alley scene, there was one part that said, you got beat up by a guy wearing hockey pads and I lost it.
J Scoots: Mm -hmm.
J Scoots: Nice.
Zuuuuu: I was laughing so hard at that from the Dark Knight reference.
J Scoots: Nice.
J Scoots: Oh yeah, yeah, that's great. Yeah, I'm gonna have to go back and like try to zoom in on some of those comments because I can't remember off any off the top of my head, but i I do remember some being particularly funny.
J Scoots: I'm actually glad you bring that scene up because as much as I was loving the show up until that point, there was a moment when those, you know there's they were like teens, but like they were like bloodthirsty.
J Scoots: like They wanted to, like they seemed like they wanted to kill Harry. like It was...
Zuuuuu: I was trying to convince myself it was like tracksuit mafia or something.
J Scoots: Oh, okay.
Zuuuuu: It's just the way that one dude was dressed.
J Scoots: I like that. I actually really like that. I hope he is like a a tracksuit mafia recruit. And like, that's why he was so cold blooded. But I was like, if these are high school kids, like I was expecting when Harry tried to jump over the car and it was like landed himself in traffic, I thought they were all going to be like horrified and be thankful that Spider -Man saved him But no, they like like come after him with bricks and pipes.
Zuuuuu: Yeah.
J Scoots: So there was some chatter when the trailer came out. They're like, ooh, it looks like Spider -Man is perpetrating some like intense violence against people his own age. I'm like, no, they deserve this.
Zuuuuu: Yeah. I mean, it was also like, did they know he was Harry and that's why they were pushing him so much or like.
J Scoots: Yeah, I think he's, yeah, based on what we saw with Peter's reaction to Norman.
Zuuuuu: I don't know.
J Scoots: And then I think there was a sequence where somebody was flipping on the TV and it was clear that like Harry was like on something like a red carpet or like TMZ or some kind of tabloid.
Zuuuuu: Yeah.
J Scoots: So I do think he's like, has that level of recognition, recognition.
Zuuuuu: That tracks. He was like, I don't carry cash on me, but I can Venmo you right now.
J Scoots: But it didn't seem like Peter. It didn't seem like Peter recognized him though.
Zuuuuu: Yeah, I don't know if he was maybe lost from the moment or.
J Scoots: Yeah, huh.
Zuuuuu: Yeah, I know.
J Scoots: Actually, it's probably a good thing because if they are going to have a friendship, that's probably something he would value as someone that doesn't associate him with the the limelight like that.
Zuuuuu: Yeah.
Zuuuuu: And how conflicted because he like flipped out when he saw Norman.
J Scoots: But.
J Scoots: Mm hmm.
Zuuuuu: and recognize him instantly.
J Scoots: Mm hmm.
Zuuuuu: Yeah, that'll that'll be interesting to see how that goes forward.
J Scoots: Yeah, yeah.
Zuuuuu: But maybe it was just two really malicious kids that were messing with the wrong guy.
Zuuuuu: But the fact that he was like, ah let me tell you what a concussion feels like, and I was like, the brick would have done that. I do not think you could punch harder than you can throw a brick at someone's head.
J Scoots: I hope not.
Zuuuuu: two And you saw that didn't work.
J Scoots: Right.
Zuuuuu: it's but's It's not Spider -Guy, it's Spider -Man, Spider -Man.
J Scoots: Goons.
Zuuuuu: I get a free pizza?
Zuuuuu: I think that's all the lines I got now. I'm sure I'll remember more as soon as we wrap up.
J Scoots: Oh, yeah, for sure. All right. Shall we talk about creature commandos?
Zuuuuu: Yeah, let's flip over to the DC side of things.
J Scoots: Cool, cool. So I think the last time we talked, uh, we had seen through episode four, correct?
Zuuuuu: yep
J Scoots: Okay. So I think, I think when we talked about it, I thought we had four more to go because I did not realize that it was seven episodes until it was like the last week.
Zuuuuu: and Yeah.
J Scoots: I was, I became very sad that that was going to be robbed of one last week of creature commandos.
Zuuuuu: Yeah.
J Scoots: Yeah.
Zuuuuu: I mean, he used to have plenty to be sad about because spoilers for Creature Commando like killed off so And there's so much that they complain about like these, you know, comic book and Disney properties where it's like, it's it's one of the reasons I fell out of X -Men 97 is because it felt like there was no stakes.
J Scoots: Yeah.
Zuuuuu: It's like, they're dead. They're not dead. They lost their powers. They had their powers.
J Scoots: Hmm.
Zuuuuu: They're hurt. They're okay. And now it's like, oh man, they're actually dead? What do you mean you actually killed them off? What do you mean if we have a season 2 it's going to be a different team?
J Scoots: Yeah.
Zuuuuu: What the heck? It's like you gave me these deep backstories like James Scottie did a fantastic job at making me connected to every single one of these people and you killed half of them?
Zuuuuu: What the heck? but
J Scoots: Yeah. And the Nina one just hurts so bad because her death was just so unnecessary.
Zuuuuu: There's so many!
J Scoots: Like as we saw the backstories for all these people, like they all, they were victims, but they had all done things to earn their place on the creature commandos and their place within Belle Reeve and Nina Hatton.
J Scoots: She'd never hurt anybody.
Zuuuuu: Yeah.
J Scoots: She was just always
Zuuuuu: Scene of the monster.
J Scoots: the victim of you know scrutiny and persecution and just harassment. And it was just tragic to see her go through that the whole time you're hoping that she'll get some glimmer of hope, some glimmer of redemption, some form of family.
J Scoots: And no, she gets killed in cold blood for nothing.
Zuuuuu: Yeah.
Zuuuuu: And we had to see it for so long, too.
J Scoots: Yeah.
Zuuuuu: It was just... Everything about that that reinvasion was like I don't like this like it was like it was obviously really well done But it's just like I don't like this
J Scoots: Mm -hmm. Yeah. Yeah. What'd you think about Dr. Phosphorus' backstory? Because that was our first look at the much -discussed Batman who made a little cameo there.
Zuuuuu: Yeah, that was another one where it was just like, man, he did not deserve to be here. Like, this is really rough for him. And this is such a bad story. Like all these guys were just effed so hard on their lives. But again, just really well done it. Like the fact that you have to rank everyone's tragedy stories is really impressive. But it's it just stands to you know give a taste of possibly what this DC universe could be like.
J Scoots: Yeah, yeah. And you're right. Yeah, Dr. Phosphorus, his story was so, so tragic. But it worked for me. It made sense that like that he's been a clown this whole time, like what drove him.
J Scoots: And he's not I mean, he's not the joker when I say a clown, but he's clearly very sadistic and sardonic and sarcastic.
Zuuuuu: Mmhmm.
J Scoots: So to get to see what drove him to that was was riveting.
Zuuuuu: Yeah.
J Scoots: and So be a little on the lighter side. One of the things I appreciated about is his backstory, the montage when he finally did embrace the life of crime after inheriting that crime family is it always stood out to me in episode one when they're in public stand and they just kind of have a moments of reprieve somewhere in the background. You see Dr. Phosphorus doing like a synchronized dance with some of the paul Polokstan soldiers and it seems like that's just something he likes to do because when he's a crime boss, it's something he mandates.
Zuuuuu: yeah
J Scoots: They have to like line dance with him in synchronization.
Zuuuuu: Yes, that was that was a very interesting bit.
J Scoots: I love stupid things like that.
Zuuuuu: Yeah, man, I was I was really happy with that. I mean, I wasn't happy with the outcome, but overall, I was very, very happy with that show.
J Scoots: Hmm.
J Scoots: Yeah, yeah. And you talked about i mean characters getting killed off. And I mean, one of those characters is the princess, obviously. But that needed to happen. After the loss we had with Nina, there was nothing more satisfying than and having that happen.
Zuuuuu: Yeah.
Zuuuuu: Yeah, it was just one of those things. It's like, man, what did we get out of this? Like, what was all of this for?
J Scoots: Yeah. Well, I think it clearly probably sets up
J Scoots: the United States to probably be in some kind of conflict with Paul Extan.
Zuuuuu: Yeah.
J Scoots: So I wonder if that'll be teased in Superman, even if it's just like a scene where he goes to to that country and it's just mentioned in passing or something like that. But we do have a season two.
Zuuuuu: Sounds like I'm confused. So this is connected?
J Scoots: What's up?
Zuuuuu: All this is connected?
J Scoots: Apparently that's, yeah, it's still dubious, but you know, if we're going to take James Gunn as at gospel, his word is gospel. Yeah. Cause I go back to season four, we talked about, or not season four, episode four, we talked about it on the last cast.
J Scoots: You did have that vision where you saw, it was clearly the the corn sweat version of, of Superman on the crucifix there.
Zuuuuu: Yeah.
J Scoots: So yeah. Yeah.
Zuuuuu: Is this like the, is this like their Daredevil where it's like they just, they have stuff that works and they can figure out ways to kind of put it back into everything, but.
J Scoots: Yep.
J Scoots: Yeah, I think so.
Zuuuuu: Okay. It's just weird because like they found ways to connect it to the David Ayer Suicide Squad. So they're going that far but back with it.
J Scoots: Be a little more specific.
Zuuuuu: because James Gunn's live action Suicide Squad was a sequel to that.
J Scoots: Oh, it's connected to that one. Okay, okay, yeah.
Zuuuuu: And then this anime, that's what's confusing me.
J Scoots: Yeah.
Zuuuuu: And then this animation is a sequel to James Gunn's live action. So that's where I'm like, am I just thinking too much into it or?
J Scoots: Uh, I'm not going to give you crap for thinking too much into it because it's totally reasonable, but ultimately yes, that's what it comes down to.
Zuuuuu: Yeah.
J Scoots: And it's like, I don't begrudge you at all if you take issue with it, but I just somewhere down the line, I was just able to like compartmentalize and say, and honestly, it's because it's probably because I hate that 2016 movie as much as I do.
J Scoots: It's just like, I do not want that.
Zuuuuu: yeah
J Scoots: like And I, love and I love James Gunn version of the Suicide Squad so much, even though it was the same Amanda Waller and you had, uh,
Zuuuuu: Yeah.
J Scoots: Joel Kinnaman returning and even, uh, Margot Robbie is Harley Quinn and somehow it works.
Zuuuuu: Mm hmm.
J Scoots: So yeah.
Zuuuuu: Yeah, let me like, I'm not gonna.
J Scoots: right.
Zuuuuu: I guess I'm not going to hold it against them in any way if they find a way to connect it.
Zuuuuu: It's just something I've thought about.
J Scoots: Yeah. And yeah.
Zuuuuu: And if they retcon it, or if they're just like, don't worry about it it. Like what we want to work for this is work for it. They'd be like, cool, whatever. But for now I'm just in that. Hmm. I'm intrigued with where this is going.
J Scoots: Yeah, if it means we get to keep John Cena's peacemaker around, I think that's the the biggest selling point for me.
Zuuuuu: Which I still haven't seen.
J Scoots: So, but yeah, I guess I mentioned, you know, maybe Paul Eckstine will be a factor in Superman, but there also exists the possibility and we know a season two is on the way. So maybe they don't even touch it. They just wait for that in season two.
Zuuuuu: yeah
J Scoots: One of the things that we haven't touched on that I absolutely loved about the finale though, and I kind of almost predicted it.
Zuuuuu: Yeah.
J Scoots: It didn't go down exactly like that, but the fact that Frankenstein had been making this long journey to reunite with the bride for as long as he had, and it was over so quickly. It was so good.
Zuuuuu: like How are we killing all these people off? here really Oh, that's right.
J Scoots: Oh, he's not dead. He had a little, he had a post credits stinger with the the old lady.
Zuuuuu: They didn't have the
Zuuuuu: That's right, that's right.
J Scoots: Yeah. Yeah.
Zuuuuu: Yeah.
J Scoots: So, I mean, there are, there are a few characters that seem like they're certainly like sidelines, like Rick Flag senior, but he's not dead. Clayface is the one that I'm curious about. I was like, surely Clayface isn't dead, but they went back to that crime scene like days later and Clayface is still spewed all over the place.
Zuuuuu: He's playing dead.
J Scoots: So he might be dead. There might there might be multiple versions of Clayface.
Zuuuuu: It's like his brain is in one part of that gulp and they're just waiting for someone to like pile it together so like the nerves connect or something.
J Scoots: Oh, I like that. I like that. That's a good theory.
Zuuuuu: That'll be my head cannon for it.
J Scoots: Yeah.
Zuuuuu: He's just sitting there like, guys, someone move move me.
J Scoots: Yeah.
Zuuuuu: It's like when the robot loses its head and like the body is just kind of like moving around.
J Scoots: yeah
J Scoots: Yeah. Right. Exactly. Exactly. Yeah. It wasn't until his medulla unblancata was connected. Sorry. That was a water boy reference.
Zuuuuu: Gotcha.
J Scoots: All right.
Zuuuuu: Bender, that's what I was thinking of. He's just having a bender moment.
J Scoots: Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Zuuuuu: Drama.
J Scoots: Bite my shiny metal. I'll leave it at that.
Zuuuuu: Bite my mushy clay.
J Scoots: Anything else on Creature Commandos?
Zuuuuu: No, I was really happy with it and I hope we get more, whether it's that dark or not, I just hope we get more DC animation.
J Scoots: Oh yeah, me too.
Zuuuuu: Because I just I love that style.
J Scoots: Yeah, me too.
J Scoots: Even the gore, especially the gore.
Zuuuuu: Oh, yeah, can't get enough the gore.
J Scoots: Well, speaking of gore, we'll probably wrap up in the next few minutes here, but as we're just kind of, you know, we're not doing as episodes as frequently these days, so kind of use the opportunity to check in a little bit.
Zuuuuu: We are pro gore.
J Scoots: What are some other things you've been watching?
Zuuuuu: so I finished Arkane season two and just an incredibly beautiful show.
J Scoots: Mm hmm.
Zuuuuu: There was a part of me that was bummed that it was only going to be two seasons. And there was without, you know, spoiling anything, there was just so much, of attention that was being given to other characters and like all the storylines started to brain shot a little too much for my liking.
J Scoots: Mm hmm.
Zuuuuu: So then I got to the point where I was like, okay, season, or two seasons was like perfect for this. You really don't need to give me more than that. But just the, it's just fricking cinematic masterpiece, dude.
Zuuuuu: Like just to build up to some of the themes and how they incorporate the music. And it's, it's just awesome. Absolutely awesome.
J Scoots: Yeah, that's the reminder I need to go back and watch season two because with the Netflix price hike, I'm more tempted than ever to to drop Netflix because I do like it.
Zuuuuu: Yeah.
J Scoots: It's got some great things, but it's just the streaming service that I've accessed the least often. and And that's been the case for years. What you got?
Zuuuuu: You can always get Blu -rays.
J Scoots: Yeah, yeah, yeah definitely.
Zuuuuu: Or buy like digital copies or something.
J Scoots: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. If push comes to shove, I certainly will. Uh, okay. And then, uh, a couple of enemies. I know you've started, I myself have started, uh, solo leveling, but I've only done the first episode thus far.
J Scoots: And that was a ah ah recommendation from Jeff Randall. So I think, uh,
Zuuuuu: Yeah, that's one that me and BBK have had on our list for a while because that was the one that I was going to start.
J Scoots: okay. Mm -hmm.
Zuuuuu: And then he started Kaiju number eight instead. So I was like, you jerk.
J Scoots: Hmm.
Zuuuuu: So then I had to go watch that. And then when I got to shock with something else, that's when he started so lovely. I was like, can you please collaborate with me more on our list? Like, stop flipping on the ones that we said we were going to say you said we're going to do this.
Zuuuuu: Why did you go over here? yeah Um, so I finally started solo leveling because again just reaction made me want to do it in season two has been out They even did like the demon slayer thing where they played like the first few episodes in theaters uh, so the fact that the popularity has you know grown that much definitely made me want to uh Watch it sooner than later and because we actually had snow days last week.
J Scoots: Hm. Oh yeah, yeah.
Zuuuuu: So it helped Uh, and during that snow day me and my roommate binged all of dan to dan and oh my god turbo granny is all I will say but if you thought
J Scoots: Nah.
J Scoots: nice Nice. Yeah.
Zuuuuu: If you thought Creature Commando was rated R, holy crap, this is what it is.
J Scoots: Yeah, I've only watched the intro to Dan Da Dan, but that's the one like, I'm liking solo leveling, but that's the one that I'm like, ooh, this has got the gore plus the stylization that I like so much.
Zuuuuu: It's a bop.
J Scoots: It looks wild.
Zuuuuu: Yeah, when you can't decide between aliens and ghosts, so you mix them together, it's...
J Scoots: Yeah.
J Scoots: Ooh, I like it.
Zuuuuu: It's something.
J Scoots: Kind of like Dead Space a little bit. They were played.
Zuuuuu: Hmm.
J Scoots: I played the remake over the summer and that kind of kick -started a whole survival horror game, I wouldn't say marathon, but like most of the games I played were of that ilk.
Zuuuuu: All right.
J Scoots: And it's funny because I've always been a fan of horror movies, but the,
J Scoots: It didn't translate to games for me for the longest time, because I remember playing Ocarina time when I was a kid. and the Did you ever play that one? I know, I'm a little...
Zuuuuu: I just haven't played a single Zelda game.
J Scoots: What? and Not a single one? shit.
Zuuuuu: Not a single one.
J Scoots: All right. So this is lost on you, but I'm sure there are some listeners that will be able to relate with me. Uh, there are enemy types called the wall masters and basically you enter a room and then slowly, but surely a shadow will start to envelop your character. And then out of nowhere, a hand just drops down and grabs you and takes you all the way to the beginning of the temple. And as like an eight, nine year old, 10 year old,
J Scoots: a Bear in mind, graphics were not as good back in those days, but I was afraid to go to the bathroom. I would have to look up at the ceiling to make sure there wasn't a wall master about to drop down and get me.
Zuuuuu: nightmare fuel just walk around with like a flashlight with no shadows anywhere that's funny
J Scoots: Pretty much. pretty much
J Scoots: yeah oh I did watch the first couple of episodes of Spy Family, season two. Yeah.
Zuuuuu: Okay, as I've seen the first two.
J Scoots: yeah
Zuuuuu: I don't know what made me drop off on it, but was Bond was scared of the mom's food and the mom's cooking?
J Scoots: Oh, there's a lot of stuff to watch.
J Scoots: was i think I think that might have been one of the many episodes. I think they did like a couple of like shorter, so some of them are like a full 20 minutes and then some of them are 15.
Zuuuuu: Maybe that's what I saw then.
J Scoots: I think that was one of the 15 minute ones, yeah.
Zuuuuu: gachat Gotcha.
J Scoots: It was because yeah because they did when you first started saying it, they did the episode of Bond Man, where it was basically you were just watching an episode of Bond Man with Anya.
Zuuuuu: I wonder if I saw that.
J Scoots: and i Okay, yeah, I think they did those two next to each other because at the end of it, like Lloyd's just like, ugh, this guy's terrible.
Zuuuuu: Yeah man, now that football is over I can and get time back to watching shows.
J Scoots: Foosball. Nope, nope. Hopefully we get some good trailers.
Zuuuuu: We'll find out as a we sit down for Captain America soon. Did you get your tickets?
J Scoots: Oh yeah. I've had my ticket since day one.
Zuuuuu: Nice. Yeah, the second that that popped up, I'm like, me, me, me.
J Scoots: o Yeah.
Zuuuuu: I always get eight tickets and get everyone to Venmo me later.
J Scoots: I'll see it Thursday night and then I'll probably want to see it once more before the opening weekend it is over. Maybe Saturday, and more likely Sunday.
Zuuuuu: Gotcha. Probably get a watch in for fantasy heroes. and Go meet up with Saturday and double -check the points, because that'll just be too like locked into actually watching the movie the first time.
J Scoots: Oh, yeah. You gotta, you gotta to do that for yourself.
Zuuuuu: Yeah.
J Scoots: Yeah.
Zuuuuu: It was funny when we watched Deadpool and Wolverine for the second time, because we actually had the theater to ourselves. So we just like kicked up our feet and had our notebooks.
J Scoots: Wow.
Zuuuuu: You're like, all right, there's that person. and There's that thing. and Get points for this. and Let's get that. up So it's just like, if we could have that situation again, that'd be fantastic.
J Scoots: This is going to sound so contrived and so petty of me, but I envy you for that experience because one of my bucket list items has been to have a theater to myself, just to like go to a movie and just have nobody else show up.
Zuuuuu: Mm.
J Scoots: But I live in California and the likelihood of that happening. There's so many times I thought it was going to happen. Like I went to see the Benedict Cumberbatch version of The Grinch at like 10 o 'clock at night.
Zuuuuu: yeah
J Scoots: like oh oh yeah And i like five minutes before the movie starts, a family rolls in.
Zuuuuu: No.
J Scoots: And then, yeah, I won't go into all the specifics, but it's been like, I've come so close so many times that one person just has to come in for one reason or another. i'm Like, ah you don't realize how you're ruining this for me.
Zuuuuu: One of my favorite experiences was Boy and the Heron.
J Scoots: Okay.
Zuuuuu: So there was one to say six or seven of us that were going and we switched to the 11 o 'clock showing because that was the only one that worked for one of my friends.
J Scoots: Okay.
Zuuuuu: And then he bailed at the last minute.
J Scoots: Hmm.
Zuuuuu: so we were like, man, like we wanted to like watch this earlier and get to bed on time. Now it's like 11 o 'clock.
J Scoots: Right.
Zuuuuu: We ended up having the theater to ourselves. So we were just like, you know, making comments and cracking jokes and just having a good time. And we have, I have this tradition since college of every time I go to the movies, I take a selfie in front of the movie poster, uh, with everybody I was there with.
J Scoots: Nice.
J Scoots: Oh yeah. Yeah, I noticed you did that. Yeah.
Zuuuuu: And there was no boring The Heron poster. So we waited for the Studio Ghibli title screen to come up.
J Scoots: Oh, cool.
Zuuuuu: So we did a couple of practice shots to make sure I could like get the you know camera settings and all that straight because it adjusts. So we like we were like, hit our cues and everything.
J Scoots: Yeah.
Zuuuuu: And as soon as it popped up, like I ran after the third row. No, I was already sitting in the third row. So I just turned around and took the picture with everybody. I was like, cool. There's our there's our poster shot.
J Scoots: Right on, right on. Glad you got to do that. right. Uh, what are you looking forward to? What's on your radar? I mean, obviously you're going to continue your solo leveling watch.
J Scoots: it It sounds like anything else on your radar.
Zuuuuu: but Yes, definitely season 2 of that. he put me on the spot. I can't really even think of anything right now.
J Scoots: I'm just, yeah that's all right. That's all right. Yeah. If you don't, if nothing comes to mind, nothing comes to mind. I'm trying to think.
Zuuuuu: Yeah, that's coming to mind.
J Scoots: I'm trying to think for myself. I mean, obviously I want to continue to watch my friendly neighborhood spy. Oh, invincible season three. Uh, do you see the voice cast for that?
Zuuuuu: Oh, I don't know what was on the radar. Uh -uh.
J Scoots: The, once again, they're getting a stacked voice cast just off the top of my head. Simu Liu, Jolo Meridwainio, who was in blue beetle, Aaron Paul.
Zuuuuu: nice Nice. Okay.
J Scoots: So I said it on multiverse news, but I bet you know some of these guys are surprised that they're coming to play in the world of Invincible before they get to play in the comic book worlds that they started in.
Zuuuuu: That's funny.
J Scoots: yeah ye yeah All right, anything else?
Zuuuuu: Poor Similo, put him back in marble.
Zuuuuu: I really hate that I can't think of anything I'm excited for. It's okay. My brain just needs a transition.
J Scoots: No worries. No worries.
Zuuuuu: Yeah.
J Scoots: All right. Well, on that note, we're probably going to start to mosey on out of here. What do you want to let the people know about?
Zuuuuu: Yeah. The last couple of, I mean, my recurring appearance on three, two, three with Reed Murphy is going to start to dwindle down after the Superbowl. So yeah, just catch me while i'm I'm sure I'll come back for pop culture stuff as that hops up. but Aside from that, yeah, check out Upright Exposures on Instagram. That's my business shooting real estate photography. It's obviously getting followers and likes and stuff. is It is a huge help and it doesn't cost anyone anything to help a brother out. So check that out.
J Scoots: do it to it. As for me, you can check me out on multiverse news. That's where we talk about the latest and greatest in the world of TV and movie news for our favorite fictional universes. And then I've been on always watching the show where we talk about whatever geeky and genre television shows we want to. I've been kind of a mainstay there for the last few weeks between silo season two and now severance season two, which I got to say, if you're not watching,
J Scoots: Drop everything. I mean, finish this podcast and then, and then go watch severance seasoned.
Zuuuuu: I've watched half of the second episode.
J Scoots: How could you stop at half?
Zuuuuu: Work.
J Scoots: Okay. Fair enough. If only you could sever yourself so that you would, you didn't have to worry about it.
Zuuuuu: Share it. No, I would have to clone myself with how spontaneous work is.
J Scoots: And then.
J Scoots: Yeah. Yeah. And then not to be too long winded with my plugs, but, uh, we did have the Oscar nominations recently announced. So on benders assemble, we will, uh, we're very quickly trying to scramble to, to cover those best picture nominations.
J Scoots: So look forward to that on the benders assemble fee.
Zuuuuu: Cool.
J Scoots: All righty. That'll do it. Thank you for tuning in. That's T double O N I N.
Zuuuuu: And as always, stay well.
