What's Poppin in Pop Culture? The Olympics and San Diego Comic Con!

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Hello and welcome to this very special edition

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of What's Poppin' in Pop Culture, brought

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to you by Conquest Journals and powered by

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Geek Vibes Nation as well. I am KJ. The next

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KJ Today show is coming up next Wednesday

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night, August 7th, but I am joined by our

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entertainment correspondent Tia from Geek

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Vibes Nation because we couldn't wait to

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talk about it. There's so much going on.

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And just San Diego Comic-Con wrapping up

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and trying to digest everything. And then

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we have, you know, the Olympics going on.

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I'm just going to let Tia take it away, because

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really, honestly, the reason we're here is

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because Tia texted me and said, can we do

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a What's Poppin? Because there's just so

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much we need to talk about.

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I definitely bullied KJ into saying we need

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to do this. Sorry, can't wait.

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Oh, no, we need to talk about all the news

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coming out of San Diego Comic-Con. That sounds

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terrible. I know.

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I was like, yes, let's do it. Yes. And I

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mean, the Olympics are going on right now.

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I mean, I don't know about you, but I'm definitely

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someone who enjoys the Olympics. It's like

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the one time I'm into sports.

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OK, yeah. So let's get into it. What's popping,

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Tia, in the Olympics?

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I was trying my best to like get a picture

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that wasn't overly grotesque, because if

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you know what this is about, it's like they

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obviously had some grotesque moments in it.

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So anyway, I'm just going to go on. So the

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story that I want to talk about, I am a huge

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heavy metal fan and the French band Gojira

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made its. Olympic premiere. It made history,

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honestly, as the first metal band to ever

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perform during the opening ceremony. It was

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so awesome. I was sitting there and I was

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like, this is so cool. I don't even know

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who this band is. But now I want to, obviously,

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but it's metal and you have like Maria Antoinette,

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that whole thing. And then all of a sudden

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they're literally like Oh, it was so cool.

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It was so cool. I don't even know that I

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was literally in my living room standing

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up, but headbanging while it was going on.

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That's how cool it was. And I mean, there

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were so many amazing moments to the opening

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ceremony to the Olympic to the Paris Olympics.

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But Gojira being the first heavy metal band

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was so awesome.

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I just loved everything about it. I mean,

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it was so... I mean, it was... It felt a

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little bit like a hot mess at times. We're

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so used to the opening ceremonies being very

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serious and in the stadium and very prestigious.

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And Paris was like, let's party, dudes. It's

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spring break. It felt like the spring break

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opening ceremonies. And I was here for it.

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I was actually nervous because We had my

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family over and my nieces and nephews. This

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was their first opening ceremonies. And I'm

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like, gosh, if it was like Beijing or something

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like that, I mean, those were beautiful.

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But I'm like, I don't know that they're going

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to care. So I had my basement set up for

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them to go down and play games and do whatever.

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And they were watching it. I mean, when they

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started, like, I'm like, wait a second. Every

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country is coming in on a boat.

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I thought that was so cool. That was so cool

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to me. It was like, as you said, it's it's

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very exciting to see all the different countries

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come throughout the stadium, right? And walk

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and leave and everything. But the boats was

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cool. The boats. Yes, those cool touch.

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I do remember at one point I was like, Wait,

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where are they going? There's no statement.

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Are they just doing drive-bys with the country?

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I didn't even think about that, actually.

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Where were the boats heading to?

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Where are the boats going? Did the athletes

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get to get off the boats? Like I had so many

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questions, but it was just, it was so fun.

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It just, I loved it. It was so different

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from anything else. And I know it was a bit,

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disjointed from what we're used to with the

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opening ceremonies, but it's going to be

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when they're outside doing it. It's pouring

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down rain. They're like coordinating so much

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more than what you do when you're in a stadium

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and you have all of the elements under your

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control. I just, I thought it was fabulous.

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I agree. I liked the, so obviously they had

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the a masked person jumping all throughout

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Paris with the torch and everything. And

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I thought they did a good job coordinating,

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obviously, the pre-recorded sections to the

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live sections. That went very well. And Celine

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Dion performed. And when people, even herself,

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thought that she would probably never sing

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live again.

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Yeah, it was huge. Oh, my gosh. It was the

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coolest. I I couldn't even believe it. And

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then when they zoom out. Right. And it makes

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you realize how big the Eiffel Tower is because

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she's got a full stage set up up there and

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they zoom out and you can't even tell she's

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there.

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No, no. She was just a little blip.

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Yeah. Yeah. And I mean, Lady Gaga just having

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a blast doing her thing. I loved every second

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of it.

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I thought it was a great opening. Again,

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as you said, it was maybe at parts a little

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disjointed, but fun, right? Something different.

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Yes, for sure. Yeah, it was very cool.

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Are you watching?

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Are you watching the games? So I'm not watching

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every single game, but I'm my favorites are

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watching gymnastics. Obviously, Simone Biles

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is dominating everything. I like the swimming.

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I've enjoyed racing, not race, you know,

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track and everything. So I try to watch where

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I can. The men's US gymnastics team is doing

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phenomenal right now. And that makes me really

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happy. I did gymnastics when I was younger.

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So I guess, yeah, so I'm just really interested

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in that.

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Oh, I love the gymnastics. Listen, I am a

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bit older than you. And I mean, like my first

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memories of the Olympics is the US gymnastics

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team and Mary Lou Retton. And she was like

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a little tiny thing. And I was like, Oh,

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I'm gonna, I'm gonna be a gymnast. You know,

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she was inspiring. I was not coordinated

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enough to be a gymnast. Not one bit. But

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yeah, I enjoy that part. I'm not going to

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hide the fact that I think the Winter Olympics

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are far superior.

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Yes, 100 percent. Just because they have

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ice skating, that makes it 100 percent superior

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to me.

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I mean, the ice skating and all of the I

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mean, all of the skiing, like they're just

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like it's almost the extreme games without

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saying it's extreme games. Right. Like it.

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I mean, it's pretty amazing. And then you've

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got the curling. I'm from Wisconsin, which

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is like the world capital of curling. And

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it's just like so random that we're all enthralled

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with people with a broom on the ice.

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When we first saw that, I remember like years

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and years ago, obviously my mom would be

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like, I could do this. I mean, anyone who's

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into curling, please don't get at us right

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now. Okay. Someone's going to be like, you

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don't understand. It's a very intensive sport.

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My family will come after you, Tia.

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I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I couldn't do any of

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it, so.

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Hi, Michelle, by the way. Hi, Michelle. Paul

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says he is a curling fan. Michelle, thanks

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for the update. Men's team got bronze today,

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their first medal in 16 years. That is awesome.

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Yeah, I mean, I could talk about the Olympics

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forever, but I know that that's not real.

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Everybody's like in the comments is like,

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can we talk about San Diego Comic Con, please?

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Because that's basically what I told them

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we were here for. All right, what's up next

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here?

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All right, so obviously San Diego comic-con

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was this past weekend I mean there was a

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plethora of amazing news that came out I

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can't even begin to cover every single little

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thing I mean from the tiny but mighty Winona

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Earp vengeance the new upcoming 90-minute

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special on to be getting a trailer and Uh,

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to the penguin getting a update. Uh, but

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my thing is that I want to talk about obviously

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is the boys had a panel, which obviously

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season four just ended. The boys had a panel

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and during the panel, it was confirmed that

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Jensen Ackles obviously will be returning

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for season five, but he will be a series

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lead. And not only that, but they are doing

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a prequel show called Vought Rising that

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will have Jensen Ackles and Aya Cash return.

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Aya Cash played Stormfront in, I believe

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it was season two now that I remember, season

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two of The Boys. And it's going to take place

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in the 1950s. And it makes sense because

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there's a scene in season three of The Boys

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where Soldier Boy talks about being with,

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I forget the whole name, but it was the soup

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named Liberty, who was Stormfront. So clearly

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those two had a relationship, so we're gonna

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see some sort of craziness and vault uprising,

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or vault rising, I apologize. But Jensen

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Ackles is amazing, as he said, you can't

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get rid of him, and we don't want to. um

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and soldier boy is unhinged and unfiltered

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and storm front is a really crazy character

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so it's gonna be insane with the two of them

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yeah i

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So listen, I was in a place where I was like,

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especially, and I do, I love the boys, but

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oh my gosh, I mean, the absurdity of it all,

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some of the violence and the uncomfortableness

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that this show makes you feel, I was kind

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of in a place where I'm like, I can do this

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for one more season. I'm going to do this

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for one more season. And they're like, surprise,

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Jensen Ackles, prequel. You're going to keep

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doing this. And I was like, yeah, I am. You're

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right.

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I'll keep doing it. And I mean, you do also

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have Gen V. I don't know if you've actually

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watched Gen V yet.

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we have not it was of course as soon as we

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finished uh the boys no spoilers uh we it

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came up as like the next suggested thing

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to watch and i was like oh tia watched that

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you said it was pretty good right yeah i

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think it's a good show to kind of it was

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especially when it came out it was before

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season four of the boys and it was a good

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show to tie you over

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Um, until it wasn't necessary to see, uh,

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the two characters that was in the boys,

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right? The two college aged kids. I mean,

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they show up obviously in Gen V. It, it wasn't

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say as good as the boys, but it definitely

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will tie you over. Season two will be interesting.

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Um, but, but yeah, you still have more of

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the boys content KJ. So.

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There was part of me that was like, you know

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what, you can get through this and you won't

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have to cringe anymore. And then I was like,

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oh my gosh, because I just keep thinking

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like. What else can they do? Like, but I

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don't wanna think about what else they can

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do.

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It's gonna get crazy. If you don't know,

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The Boys is based on a comic series and which

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is even wilder than the show, if you could

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believe it or not. And everyone online who

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has read the comics say what the finale of

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season four is obviously leading up to in

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season five. No spoilers, obviously you could

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always Wikipedia it. But the one thing also

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I wanted to say was there was an article

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where Jared Padalecki had said that he obviously

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would be very open to joining the boys because

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the boys is created by Eric Kripke. who creates

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Supernatural. It's too soon, obviously, if

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there's any sort of confirmation of Jared

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Padalecki is actually gonna be in season

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five of The Boys, but with them now doing

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a prequel show, I think that would actually

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be a very good opportunity to bring him in

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and have a reunion between Jensen Ackles

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and Jared Padalecki.

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Yeah. Oh, man. I just, I don't want them

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doing disgusting things. not like I did not

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watch the Winchester brothers do too many.

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Oh well what they had poor Rob Benedict doing

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in season four.

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I was like no I literally was I was looking

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at at at patches and not at the TV. And I

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was like, tell me I cannot watch him do this.

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I cannot watch Rob Benedict do this. Like,

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tell me when it's over. I cannot. And I would

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like, look. Oh, my God. And he's like, I'll

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tell you when it's over.

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It went on a little too long. I'll say that.

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It really did. It really did. Oh, man. But

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it's very exciting that, again, Jensen Ackles

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will be returning. We're getting a prequel.

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And it was just cool seeing the cast of the

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boys on stage at San Diego Comic-Con. But

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obviously, that's not the real big story

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that we want to talk about.

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The biggest story. Sorry, DC, no news for

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you.

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It just continues perpetuating our distaste

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for DC. Although I will say, I'm very, very

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excited for James Gunn's upcoming DC Universe.

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I just have to throw it out before we get

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to it. But back to Marvel. OK, let's get

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back to Marvel. Back to Marvel. So as you

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can see here, the big thing is I'm not even

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going to sugarcoat it. It was announced that

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Robert Downey Jr. will return to the MCU,

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but he will not be playing Tony Stark. Instead,

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he will be playing Doctor Doom. On top of

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that, they brought back the Russo brothers,

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who if you didn't realize the Russo brothers

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directed all of the best films in the MCU,

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and they are coming back to direct two upcoming

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Avengers movies. They essentially confirmed

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that the Kang storyline is dead in the water.

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That's done. And they're bringing back RDJ

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as Doctor Doom, which is insane. I mean,

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listen, like. So part of me at first didn't

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necessarily know how to feel about it. Obviously,

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it's amazing getting Robert Downey Jr. back,

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and I think getting the Russo brothers was

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amazing to hear. For sure. How they're going.

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how they're going to do it when obviously

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we know rdj as tony stark but let's just

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see where they go with it um a lot of people

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online wanted killian murphy to play dr doom

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which would have been cool um yeah honestly

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i had thought

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Just by the way they were, what I was reading,

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that was just going to be a done deal. I

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was a little bit taken aback when the mask

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came off. And it was Robert Downey Jr. Oh,

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I mean, cool, but that's not who I thought

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was going to be there.

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Part of me, and I saw this online, maybe

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they're going to do a bait and switch, right?

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They have RDJ come in, he plays Dr. Doom

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for a movie, but maybe he's not like the

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actual Dr. Doom. And then like, so I don't

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know, let's see what happens with it, right?

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He's not going to be a variant Dr. Doom.

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I know we got we got to bring to me. This

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is how I feel about it, because we were talking

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about this a little beforehand, right, where

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we don't want to be in the whole wheelhouse

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of the MCU is dead. Right. But, you know,

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you're like, obviously things are a little

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up in the air. Kevin Feige was like, how

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do we get this back? We got Deadpool out.

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Call up the Russo brothers. Call up Robert

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Downey Jr. Let's get this back on track.

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Yes. Yes. I, I did. I love it. And I think,

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you know, It's such a complex character.

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And I just watched, honestly, while we were,

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I went to see Deadpool and Wolverine this

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morning. Fantastic. Amazing. But we were,

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I went back and watched the X-Men movies

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this weekend. We kind of had those on and

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then had the Fantastic Four on. last night

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because there was some, you know, news about

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the Fantastic Four as well. And they put

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out some footage, which was awesome. And,

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you know, I enjoyed those Fantastic Four

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movies. I know a lot of people didn't and

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they thought they were a little too on the

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cheesy side. I don't mind if that's how they

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want to make things. I'm good with a little

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comic cheese once in a while. But I thought

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the representation of Dr. Doom was perfectly

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fine in the Fantastic Four. But this Robert

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Downey Jr. taking on the character is going

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to, I mean, I think He will make us forget

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he was Iron Man. This is not going to be

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a comparison. This is going to be him showing

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just how incredible of an actor he is.

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And I honestly think it's if Robert Downey

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Jr. was going to come back into the superhero

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genre, I think this is a good way for him

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to do so because and now don't get me wrong,

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right? But obviously Robert Downey Jr. is

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getting older, so maybe there would be some

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physical limitations to continuing playing

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Iron Man. Doctor Doom is a lot more, you

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know, meticulous, you know, and all that

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stuff. I think it's a better sort of position

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for him. And I agree with you, KJ. I rewatched

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those original Fantastic Four movies a couple

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of years ago. They're great. I still like

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them. And Dr. Doom was great in it. So I

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forget that actor, but he was great.

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Yeah, I totally can't think of his name,

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which I feel bad about, but I enjoyed how

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he portrayed Dr. Doom. You know, I love a

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little Johnny Storm in my life. So I go back

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to those movies. It was interesting because

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basically my nieces and nephews were over

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all weekend. And I put those on. And you

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know, sometimes when you put movies on and

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you want them to watch it, you're like, oh,

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we're going to watch this movie because I

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love it so much and you're going to love

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it so much. And they were all just playing

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on their devices. And I was like, I'm just

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I'm going to put the fantastic four on. It

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was probably about halfway through Rise of

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the Silver Surfer and my youngest nephew

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said, What is this? This is pretty cool.

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I was like, oh, yes, that's so. So he was

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like, next time we come over, can we watch

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these on the like, watch them on the big

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screens we have? It's not a movie theater.

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It sounds really fancy. It's just a projector

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with a futon in our basement. But he was

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like, can we watch these in the movie theater

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next time? And I was like, dude, I'm never

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going to say no to watching the Fantastic

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Four.

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I love it. I love it. And I'm very excited

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for the upcoming Fantastic Four project.

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Great cast all around. I've never seen the

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2015 version of Fantastic Four. I hear not

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great things about it. Obviously, you must

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judge yourself. But yeah, so I'm just looking

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forward to the new one.

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I started watching it, and honestly, I was

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like, I'm just going to give this a fair

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shake. And I was eight minutes into it, and

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I was like, nope. Oh, that's not good. I

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was like, nope. This is going to be as bad

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as everybody said. I can't. I can't do it.

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And it's too bad because I thought that cast

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was great, too.

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You know, it's a it's a great cast. It's

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just bad writing, bad direction. I mean,

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there's a ton of things like look at Ryan

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Reynolds, great actor that freaking Green

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Lantern movie. Not great. Forget his first

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outing as Deadpool in Wolverine 3, I think

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it was. Was that Origins Origins? I'm sorry.

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Yes, you're right. That was terrible. That

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was so bad.

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We actually we skipped over that when we

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were doing our X-Men rewatch. I was like,

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we're not doing Origins. Oh man. But yeah,

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I think Fantastic Four is just, that is sort

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of my shining light. Whatever the MCU is

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doing, it's fine. Just give us a really great

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Fantastic Four. Right, like that's where

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I'm at.

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I'm very confident in Kevin Feige right now.

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The new Captain America movie looks great.

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They introduced Thunderbolts. I like the

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Black Widow movie. It got a lot of bad reviews.

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I did too! I liked it a lot. David Harbour

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showed up to San Diego Comic-Con in a new

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Red Guardian costume. I thought it looked

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great. Oh, did he? Yeah, you got to look

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it up. It looks great. So Thunderbolt looks

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great. It just it all looks great. I'm happy.

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I'm a happy MCU fan again.

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Without spoiling anything, it was the Deadpool

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Wolverine movie. It was I mean, it was Deadpool

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in the MCU. And it was, I mean, you had to

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like kind of like sit back and be like, this

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is an MCU movie about Deadpool and Wolverine's

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here too. Like, how cool is this?

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It feels like a dream come true because for

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so long of the MCU, Fox's Marvel was a way,

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like toys that you couldn't play with, right?

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And now we can, and it's just like, oh,

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so happy well and they did a they did a really

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fine job with you know giving a nice nod

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to what was with fox you know not knocking

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it like it's just like here we are and now

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we get to do all these cool things so it

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was uh it was fun i thought that um that

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The cameos, because I had heard, and I'm

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not going to spoil anything, because one

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of them got spoiled for me, and I was super

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bummed about that. But it paced well. I mean,

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of course, it's ridiculous. And you could

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probably break down the plot and be like,

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oh, it wasn't really much of a plot. I mean,

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there are holes. It's fine. But I thought

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the people that they put in it had a reason

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to be there, not just like, oh, we're going

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to throw this person in too, and oh, wow,

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that for a second. I felt like they cast

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it thoughtfully to introduce Deadpool into

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the MCU. So that is all I will say about

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that. I already told Patches that I need

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to see it again because there are so, Tia,

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there are so many one-liners and just little

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quips and like there's, you just can't, you

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can't take it all in because it's happening

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and you're still taking in the fact that

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you're watching Deadpool in the MCU but there's

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still all of that witty dialogue and funny

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quips and It's a it's a second watch kind

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of movie in the theater.

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I'm very excited. My mom and I are going

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to go see it a few weeks from now. And I

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just can't get over the fact that Kevin Feige

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is like, yep, let's have an R rated Marvel

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movie. Let's just do it at this point. I

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mean, let's go.

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I'm telling you. Yeah. And he I mean, he

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let them do what they needed to do.

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That's good. That's good. I'm very excited.

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I'm very excited to see this movie. This

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whole San Diego Comic Con with the Marvel

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panels really kind of just renewed my joy

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for Marvel. So very, very pumped.

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I felt like overall, this was just a really

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big, I mean, San Diego Comic-Con's always

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big, but I feel like the last couple of years,

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the news coming out of it was kind of so-so,

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like, okay, I guess that's good. And this,

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I don't even know, props to all of you over

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at Geek Vibes Nation, because I don't even

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understand how you were keeping up with everything.

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I have to give a huge shout out to Jeremy

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and also Gaius and who were there at San

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Diego Comic-Con. And then also Kanan. Anytime

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you're on our GeekFivesNation Twitter, that's

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him posting it. Everything. They did an amazing

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job covering everything. I'm super stoked.

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And if I could do a little plug, we soon

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will be dropping. Jeremy was able to speak

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to the star of the new Hellboy movie. So

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that interview will be posting soon to our

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YouTube channel.

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Very nice. Yay. I am excited. And we can

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also plug the Borderlands interview.

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I was like, let's do this and everything.

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And my brain isn't even there. But yes, because

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you got to speak with Benjamin Byron Davis,

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which is the coolest thing. So go ahead,

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KJ. Yeah.

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You know, and Ben, as he said, I could call

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him Ben. He's also been in Guardians of the

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Galaxy and he is the voice of Dutch for Red

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Dead Redemption. So there were so many cool

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things that we got to talk about. I'm gonna

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play some clips on the KJ Today Show, which

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is the next one is next Wednesday night.

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So we have the kind of nerdy girls coming

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up this Wednesday. And then next Wednesday,

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the 7th, will be the full KJ Today show with

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Tia. If you haven't heard, she's joined as

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a regular cast member of KJ Today. So I'm

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going to play some clips back from the Benjamin

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Byron Davis interview. But if you want to

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go watch it right now, honestly, he's just

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like, a delightful person and super great

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energy. And he was so excited and fun to

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talk to about, you know, creating creating

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Dutch for Red Dead Redemption and then having

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it become a fan favorite and then being on

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the other side of this fan favorite video

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game and having the pressure of having to

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play a character that people already love.

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It was an interesting, you know, different

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take on on, you know, coming from one video

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game to the other video game. But that is

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streaming now on GeekVibesNation YouTube.

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So subscribe to us here on KJ Today. Go subscribe

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to GeekVibesNation, because they're covering

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everything. I just get to hop in and help

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out once in a while.

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You do an amazing job, KG. You also got to

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speak with Meg Donnelly from the Crisis on

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Infinite Earths Part Three, as well as Butch

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Vuchik, which was awesome. And then we have

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a few other of those interviews coming out

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as well.

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Oh my gosh, I got to spend my whole afternoon

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talking about the Justice League crisis on

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infinite Earth was awesome.

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See DC.

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We talk about DC We do and you know, I did

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watch I didn't finish it, but I did watch

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some of that trilogy and it is pretty cool

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like I you know, I think that We, you know,

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we just we want the DC movies to be on the

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level that everything else is, you know,

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that the TV shows. I know, you know, there

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was the Superman and Lois panel at San Diego.

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And that, I mean, is going to be so emotional

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that that's the end, like that's the end

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of the Arrowverse. When that show ends, there

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is no more Arrowverse on like it's done.

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That's sad to think about. But yeah. Um,

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the, the actor who played, I forget his name,

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Tyler something, I think, um, yeah, I mean,

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he played a great Superman. I think that

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that needs to be recognized when we're thinking

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about great live action Superman.

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yes well and if you haven't watched superman

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and lois i'm not a big superman fan i don't

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hate superman but i just think the storyline

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is is kind of weak and we've been over that

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like oh no this rock is not oh we've stopped

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you um but uh tyler hecklin playing the role

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of Superman as a father to two teenage boys,

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that's his kryptonite. It was done so well.

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So if you haven't, because I know a lot of

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people, I did too, kind of like the Arrowverse

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got kind of big. And I think the Flash maybe

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went a few seasons longer than it needed

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to.

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It's just like four seasons longer. Yeah.

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kind of convoluted but Superman and Lois

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you could watch on its own and it was a really

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really great story of Superman and I'm gonna

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be really sad to see it go.

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Oh well I know well at least it got five

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seasons um and yeah I mean I I've never watched

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it before but I'd be inclined to check it

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out one day.

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I recommend it. And then one last thing out

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of San Diego, if you are a Doctor Who fan

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and you did not see it, they did. I was surprised

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at how much footage they actually released

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from the Christmas special. It's a nice amount

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of footage is going to give you a tease from

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what you can expect from the Christmas special.

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It looks fantastic. It looks like it's going

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to be so much fun. And then they also announced

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the the spinoff, which we'll talk more about

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this in the kind of nerdy girls on Wednesday.

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I just got to say, like of all of of all

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of the villains, aliens that they could have

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picked to do a spinoff for Doctor Who, this

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is my least favorite. Oh, no. I'm having

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a really hard time being excited about it.

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Oh, that's awful. I was like, wait, that's

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the spinoff?

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OK. It's like you better do something really

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good to sell me on this, all right?

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Yes, yes, for sure. Well, thank you, Tia,

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for popping in and giving us an extended

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version of what's popping and not making

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us wait until next week to talk about all

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the fun stuff. I do have any interviews or

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anything else coming this week that we need

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to let people know about.

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I've been a little quiet on the interview

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front, so nothing for me right now. I'm a

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little bit more working behind the scenes

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and editing people's interviews and getting

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them out. So, uh, but hopefully soon I'll

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let the professionals get to it.

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All right, well, we will chat again on Wednesday,

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All Things Kinda Nerdy. The Kinda Nerdy Girls

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will be live on the KJ Today YouTube channel.

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And again, please make sure you head over

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to Geek Vibes Nation if you haven't already

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and subscribe to their YouTube and follow

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them on all of the social media places. Bye,

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Tia.