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The ZONE Podcast: Nerdy News and Reviews
Nerdy News Special #20: High-Budget Animations, Game Awards and Elon Musk Buying Hasbro?!
What if your favorite anime worlds are more connected than you think? Join us on The Zone Podcast's 20th Nerdy News Special as hosts Jet Black Xtreme, Talos Gundam, and Professor Tuck, aka the Chocolate Covered Incredible, unravel this mind-bending theory and much more. We celebrate a milestone episode with blockbuster movie announcements, like Miles Morales swinging into the MCU and Denzel Washington joining Black Panther 3—a tribute to Chadwick Boseman's legacy. Plus, Disney's giving us Ice Age 6 in 2026, and Tuck urges everyone to back Solo Leveling's cinematic debut to ensure many more epic adventures.
Our television segment is packed with groundbreaking updates, from Arcane's staggering $250 million status as the priciest animated series to the thrilling shared universe theory linking Space Dandy, Cowboy Bebop, and Samurai Champloo. We're buzzing about Andor's second season, fresh casting news for Wednesday, and a Tomb Raider series reboot. Dive into the intricate anime worlds with us as we discuss Beastars’ final season, Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun, and the potential of the Mass Effect adaptation—characters, storylines, and all the nerdy speculations included.
Get ready for a ride through the bustling world of pop culture and gaming. We dissect the allure of villains like Magneto while pondering the controversial Game of the Year contenders. Our discussion spans from Elden Ring's DLC to the exciting rumors of a Demon Slayer and Fortnite crossover. In the music and celebrity world, we debate Kendrick Lamar's strategic genius and Drake's hypothetical industry challenges, all while critiquing Elon Musk's monopolizing tendencies and the IRL streaming debacle led by Johnny Somali. Expect humor, fierce opinions, and a whole lot of nerdy excitement.
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what up nerds? It's time for another nerdy news special on the zone podcast. I'm your host, jeff blackestream, and joining me today is talo and professor tuck, who decided to call himself the chocolate cover, incredible. And this one's gonna be kind of a special one because not only is this the 20th nerdy news special, but also we're going to have a new category in the nerdy news special and it's going to be some other things going on, but for the most part we're going to try to keep it relatively shorter than usual in some areas. But there's a little bit of everything going on this time around um happening in november, so let's just go ahead and talk about the highlights of it. Let's get into movies. Oh, one more thing. From now on, assume that the first thing I talk about is the best news story that flew in my radar, like if y'all got anything else. Um, tell us, tell y'all got anything else y'all want to add on. Feel free after I talk about it. But first thing is pretty much like what I think is like the best one that came across my information searching, you know. Anyways, let's get into it.
Speaker 1:Movies, pop story of movies. Kevin feige states that miles morales will be in the live action mcu after spider verse 3. Uh, denzel washington has been confirmed to appear in black panther and at the 23 Brazil Disney announced Ice Age 6 will debut in theater in 2026. Now, like I said, pretty short for a movie. Honestly, not a whole lot that came up in my opinion.
Speaker 1:But the main thing was we were been talking about how Miles Morales was going to end up showing up in the MCU eventually, and I was saying so ever since with Spider-Man no Way Home, with Electro talking about oh, I thought you were a black guy, no, I'm a white guy. Oh well, I'm sure there's going to be a black Spider-Man eventually. And I was like, yeah, that's like a little witty word, y'all know. Yeah, that was like a little wind towards you, y'all know. I kind of knew the whole time. But I also kind of knew that after Spider-Verse 3, it's going to happen eventually.
Speaker 1:I guess I'm feeling kind of vindicated that Kevin Feige himself said that's going to happen. So I'm pretty much feeling good about that. I'm pretty much feeling good about that. I do like Denzel Washington being part of Black Panther 3, mainly because that's something that Chadwick Boseman wanted ever since the first one. So I like that. That fulfillment is being fulfilled and I don't really care for Ice aging much anymore, like I'm kind of surprised it's still doing it, to be perfectly honest. But how about y'all Talos Tuck, how y'all feeling about movie news, if y'all have anything else to add on to it?
Speaker 3:I'm like Tuck, I'm like the professor Go on, go first, Go ahead Price, Go ahead you know, as all of the professors before me.
Speaker 2:Let me just state I want everybody within hearing distance of this podcast to understand that it's not listed on our docket. But I want everybody to know Friday, December 6th go see Solo Leveling movie. I'm trying to tell you, go check it out, go check it out, I want another.
Speaker 2:Yeah, go check it out. I want another movie to drop. So we need all full support because I want to see another movie after this, because I need to see how this. You know that might be a spoiler, but I digress. I've been doing some deep diving thanks to Talos telling me, so I've been reading and I know too much information now. So I want everybody to go and support this movie. I can't wait to see Miles Morales live action. That's going to be dope. I'm curious as to what actor will portray Miles. That's going to be kind of interesting.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because he got to look like the animated version, at least a little bit yeah.
Speaker 2:Half black, half Hispanicic.
Speaker 1:The hair gotta be perfect like I don't know all I'm saying is, like you know how he was traveling through multiple universes. So I'm thinking like you know. That's the funny thing, because I don't think like ever since multiverse of Madness, the fact that they've been playing with the multiverse, I wouldn't be surprised if whoever got animated first, if there was the only animated version of that character in the MCU, that eventually they'll cross over into the live action eventually.
Speaker 2:Because in the last one he did cross over into a live action eventually. Yeah, because in the last one he did crossover into a live action. I mean, he was still cartoon, but you know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was like a brief moment so I'm going to put it past it. We just got to figure out who's going to be the right guy for that.
Speaker 2:See, honestly that's why I said that it was what's now. You got anybody you like for the role. That's the thing.
Speaker 1:I can't really think of anybody right now, but all I know for sure is that, say what you will, but um marvel studios had the right idea picking up tom holland as um peter parker, because at least with him tom ho, tom Holland is young enough to do Spider-Man for a long run. So that's the same thing you gotta do with Miles Morales. You gotta find someone that's like I wanna say early 20s to keep doing Miles Morales for at least like three to six films. Like at least three for sure. But knowing Marvel, they'll probably stretch it up to six films. At least three for sure. But knowing Marvel, they'll probably stretch it out to six. You know three solo and some Avengers or some sort of crossover, like cameo, some type shit, but three to six Talos. You had anything else, anything you want to add on to all this.
Speaker 3:Alright. So In truth, to the Miles Morales thing, I ain't finna call no names. You know who you are. We know it's been delayed.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:I don't, don't, don't, don't make you.
Speaker 1:I mean I kinda knew like hey man y'all talking about, oh, it's gonna have that uptime, but like less than a year, nah, no way, I'm sorry, it's gonna get delayed.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that was crazy. But I'm just saying, outside of that, outside of that, look here, I can't wait If they find the right Miles Morales for this, you know, for the MCU. Hey, that's what's up. But that also already kind of snitches and tells everybody what the fuck is going to be happening, because that means we got another Civil War 2 coming.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I mean dang. That's a funny thing because when you really think about it with comic book lore like Secret Wars can't happen without Miles Morales, so he's like a central character in that, so like he's gonna have to show up like a central character in that he's going to have to show up. Hold on, that is the funny thing, because is he going to show up during season? You know what? I need a drink. I need a drink.
Speaker 3:All right. Now, outside of that, the major concern that I well, the major concern that I well, the major one that I relatively have on my docket for the hype, is for Denzel, or Denzel, or Denzel as he likes to. You know, have his name pronounced and we pronounce it Denzel, my bad. But outside of that, for him to be confirmed for Black Panther 3, alright, there's way too many speculations out as to what he's going to, what role he's going to take, and what they're saying is that he's going to be somewhat playing, I want to say, t'challa's father as a younger, a young, kind of a younger, younger. You know, that's, that's one thing. That's one thing they're trying to say. Now, if that is the case, and we're getting you know T'Chaka's backstory, okay, now we finna see some shit. That means that, you know, we finna get some odd night gritty story on Wakanda because, once again, folks before T'Challa, t'chaka and all of them you know his father and the ancestors before him.
Speaker 3:You know these people did some stuff and want to be known that. Yeah, hey, it might put the Wakandas in the light. Y'all ain't never seen them before. However, combo, it flushes them out and I like it. I like it a lot. Now the other thing, true go ahead.
Speaker 1:I was going to add on to keep in mind that eyes of Wakanda is still going to be a thing, so that could be a good tie-in to that, to where, okay, if it's going to still be like this anthology series about Wakanda, I kind of want to see them dive into the history of Wakanda as well. So that way it will be more like a I don't know which one's going to come first Like, hold on, I see what kinda is like definitely gonna happen. Like, uh, to next year, because you can forget about it by the end of this year. Like that's not gonna happen, nothing's gonna happen Marvel-wise for the rest of the year, but next year definitely. Uh, ironheart, excuse me, I'm sorry, I've been drinking Ironheart, excuse me, I'm sorry, I've been drinking Ironheart Getting her suit from the Wakandans.
Speaker 1:If you've seen the second Black Panther movie, hold on, give me one moment. Here's Gil Right now. Give me one moment, get her in here. Uh. But yeah, uh, eyes of wakanda, that's gonna definitely happen next year. I don't know when black panther 3 is gonna happen for sure, but if eyes what kind of happened before, then, then yeah, eyes will kind of would be more like a springboard to that third film to where let's dive into the history just a little bit in the series. Then that would springboard black panther even more when that comes out. So that kind of warm up slow cook that I'll dig. I'll watch that. Oh, what up, mirror jane, welcome to the zone podcast. How you doing, how you doing, I'll watch that. What up, mirror Jane, welcome to the Zone Podcast. How you doing, how you doing.
Speaker 4:Good, good good.
Speaker 1:Good, good, you didn't miss much. We were just talking about how Kevin Feige confirmed that Miles Morales is going to have a live action appearance after Spider-Verse 3. Miles Morales is going to have a live action appearance after Spider-Verse 3. Denzel Washington is going to be in Black Panther 3 at Chatwick. Both men want it and I say 6 is apparently going to happen. I don't know why, but it is you got anything to add on Nope this time around it. It's gonna be pretty short, so there you go.
Speaker 3:There you have it, if nobody else tells you anything you want to add on so, like I said, as far as it goes right, like my major thing out of this was, hey, you know, the Black Panther 3 speculation and everything else Other than that. Now I am happy for Ice Age 6. I mean, I'm relatively happy, but at the same time I'm also like, hey, yeah, you know you could have let them go, like you could have stopped it and it would have been alright. I mean that's the thing.
Speaker 1:I don't hate it, it just feels the same, like how I feel about Fast and Furious Pirates of the Caribbean. I'm like do we need more of this With Toy Story? Do we need more? Do we really need more?
Speaker 3:You like that part, but I feel you on it.
Speaker 1:It's just, hey, it is what it is, so if nothing else, let's just go ahead and get into television, uh, a little bit more, as per usual with television, but I swear to god I'll speed right through this top story of television arcane. Let's talk about arcane real quick. How Arcane has been reported costing $250 million, becoming the most expensive animated series ever, and the co-creator, christian Link, has confirmed that. Three new League of Legends shows are in development and the next one is in development for over a year now. Uh, these three spin-offs are going to take place in demacia, ionia and noxus. Now pause right there. First of all, let me just say I we called it when kokugatsu playboy and I did the review on arcane. We fucking called that it's gonna be at least demacia, ionia and nox is gonna be the next three. Look well, not the very next three, but they gotta do at least these three like Regions, excuse me. Second of all, $250 million to make this. Now, you see there. You see there, if you want very good animation, it costs money and I dare say, after watching season two, it is worth Every goddamn penny Keeping it going. With the television news Bleach, thousand Year Blood War Is going to be a part 4 and it is currently in production and will be released next year. Prime Video's Secret Level, which is inspired by Dungeons Dragons, will premiere on December 10th.
Speaker 1:Amazon MGM Studios has finally begun its development on the Mass Effect TV show announced back in 2021, with Daniel Casey, the writer of Fast and Furious 9, set to write and executive produce To the Fairytale fans. Check this out. There's going to be a new series by Hiro Mashima, and Marvel brings a new TV anime called Farmaja. It's going to premiere on January 10th 2025. D23 Brazil also confirmed that Lucasfilm is going to do Andor Season 2. That's going to premiere on April 22nd 2025.
Speaker 1:Macaulay Culkin you remember Macaulay from Home Alone. He's going to be joining the fall tv series in season two. Uh, surprisingly enough lately, lady gaga is gonna be in uh, season two of wednesday. Okay, I, okay, uh. Sophie turner, if you remember her from uh being santa from game of thrones or uh, or Jean Grey from the reboot X-Men movies yeah, she's going to be the lead role for the new Tomb Raider show coming up, or at least she's been eyed for.
Speaker 1:Part one of Beastars. You remember Beastars, with the wolf and the bunny girl and going to school and all that. Its final season begins Decembercember 5th on netflix. It's part one of the final season. That's kind of pissing me off. By the way, we'll have that kind of piece in it, like kind of taking apart the final seasons, where, like let's just spread it out a little bit, like you. I'm like come on, come on, welcome to demon school Irumakun. Season 4 is in production. I kind of wish Kogagatsu was on for this one because I know how much he liked that anime, but I'll let him know when it is good and last but not least oh, this is the big one.
Speaker 1:This is the one where I kind of wish Sibby Phantom was on for this one. So in a recent review Interview excuse me, sorry, I've been drinking, I didn't mention that before Shinichiro Watanabe Revealed that all his anime works Cowboy, bebop, face, dandy, samurai, champloo, carol and Tuesday, and revealed that all his anime works cowboy, be boss, face, dandy, samurai, shampoo, carol and to the and Lazarus share the same universe. Wow, like I know said we mentioned it. I know some folks were mentioning, but I'm like you know what I? I can live with that. So that was about it. For television news. Opening up to the panel, let's start with Mira Jane, since she's now joining us. How you feeling about television news?
Speaker 4:so I'm excited for mass effect yes yes, yes, yes, because I'm wondering what love story we gonna get. I can't wait to see. Oh, I can't wait to see who's gonna be shepherd. Oh, my god, I just don't know where they're gonna go. And, like I've played mass effect for years, years, years now at this point, and it's something that I just constantly end up going back to. So I'm super excited. I can't wait because Shepard gotta be fine. He can't just be no average looking dude. He gotta be fine.
Speaker 1:Do you wanna review the games next year?
Speaker 4:Ooh.
Speaker 1:I mean, we didn't do it yet, so we might as well. Ooh, yes, yes, I would love to recommend it.
Speaker 4:Yes, that'd be fun. I mean, we didn't do it yet, so we might as well.
Speaker 1:Ooh, yes, I would love to recommend it.
Speaker 4:That'd be fun, I think. Just look up Tally. That's all I'm gonna say, cause that's the love story that we need. If it ain't Tally, I don't know, but it gotta be Tally anyway. The other thing that makes me super excited is the fact that I did not think that space dandy shared the same universe as cowboy bebop and samurai shampoo, like I knew cowboy be about the samurai shampoo and carolyn tuesday, and I knew lazarus.
Speaker 1:But now I gotta go back and rewatch space because it makes me think, okay, I can kind of believe it, but it gotta be like different time eras, uh, it gotta be different, like corners of the universe where I'm like, okay, like no fucking way, this all happened at once, though, like you know.
Speaker 4:Like I'm also going to go back and rewatch all the episodes where they're on Earth in Cowboy Bebop to see if there's any semblance of Samurai Champloo.
Speaker 1:Oh, man, you know what? And we already did talk about Cowboy Bebop, didn't we shit? We did, I mean well, hold on which one we did. I know we did Samurai Champloo. I know we did we didn't do Space, danny, yet oh, okay we didn't do Carol, and Tuesday we didn't do Lazarus yet. So we still got plenty of excuses To dive into those theories.
Speaker 4:Okay, okay, so, and I guess the last thing I'm excited about is Seeing Macaulay Culkin back on screen Like that. That wasn't on my, that wasn't on my bingo card this year. That was definitely Not on my bingo card this year.
Speaker 1:That was definitely not on my bingo card um, actually, you know, I kind of am glad that he is doing um kind of more work. Like I. It was kind of crazy how like I remember him in the home alone movies and I was kind of hoping that he was going to do more things. But you know, I also understand that he was kind of going through a phase. But then again I'm like he married Brenda Song. I'm like they're doing pretty good together.
Speaker 4:They are. They're so cute together. Have you seen your little baby? It's so adorable.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I did Like yeah.
Speaker 4:I'm happy for him. Okay, I do have to give it a shot.
Speaker 1:I have to give it a shot. I'm not happy for him.
Speaker 2:Oh no, oh, I can. Only I know why you're not happy for him.
Speaker 1:You damn right. Is it what I think it is?
Speaker 2:She was one of my baby mamas. Do it Just. She was one of my OG baby mamas too.
Speaker 1:I mean, I get it, but you gotta let that go bro, you gotta let that go, bro.
Speaker 4:No, no, no, she was way out of your league, like I ain't gonna lie. There was some you may have had a chance, but she was never.
Speaker 2:It don't matter if she out of my league or not. She still a baby mama. Some of my baby mamas out of my league. But I mean, it is what it is.
Speaker 4:Speaking of babies, my best friend had a newborn baby. He's a daddy, and guess what? He named his son.
Speaker 2:What.
Speaker 4:Noctis. No fucking way he named his baby boy Noctis League of Legends character, final Fantasy character. So I have to give a shout out to baby boy Noctis, cause now he get his own show. Ayyy character, final dancing character. So I have to give a shout out to Baby Boy Noctis, because now he get his own show. Oh my God.
Speaker 1:I guess we're really living in that era to where we're now going to have a whole bunch of kids that are going to be named after characters that we are familiar with. I'm like, oh yeah, I think I'm going to be good friends with your parents Bro, bro, bro, bro.
Speaker 4:I couldn't believe it when he told me I was super excited, so I just have to give a shout out Congratulations.
Speaker 1:I'd be like hey man, introduce me to your parents. I need to meet your parents.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I want to just name a girl, khaleesi.
Speaker 1:That yeah, I wanted to name a girl Khaleesi. That'd be dope. That's a good name. I mean you can slide with Khaleesi, though that sounds like that could be somebody's name.
Speaker 4:It, do, it do, if I ever had.
Speaker 2:If I had twins, it'd be Cal and Khaleesi.
Speaker 1:Yeah, see, I don't think Cal and Khaleesi should be the name.
Speaker 2:Why.
Speaker 4:They twins, though I don't think Cal and Khaleesi should be the name.
Speaker 2:Wow, they're twins though, but we're friends though.
Speaker 1:Okay, good, lord Alright.
Speaker 4:That was it. Oh wait, wait, that was in your blood war.
Speaker 1:Oh god, Y'all talked about Bleach earlier and I'm so sad. Yeah, only the first four seasons, so we didn't. It's debatable, but I say that we didn't get to the best part yet. But with the Oroncar and Hueco Mundo, oh yeah, that's going to be next week, okay.
Speaker 4:Okay, okay, so I got. Okay, I got that week. But okay, okay, okay, so I got. Okay, I got time, thank god. Yeah, but yeah, a thousand year blood war, super excited, super stoked. Oh, my god, I'm ready to finish this though. Is anybody ready to finish this? Is it just me?
Speaker 1:I am because? No, because, see, I was ready to finish it when there was, when I was assuming that it's going to be three parts. Right Now that I'm hearing that there's a fourth part, I'm like, okay, I'm all for it. But that just means that we're going to have to wait longer to talk about the whole thing. But I'm all for it.
Speaker 4:I'm just ready for it to be over. I ain't going to lie, I'm excited for it, but I'm done. I'm also done at this point Like, okay, let's just get to the end, Because that last season I just wanted to end now. All right, but that's all I got to say oh, Talos, I miss you, I miss you, Talos. Of course, I miss you too.
Speaker 1:I don't know about Tuck.
Speaker 2:Wow.
Speaker 1:I see what it is Speaking of, Tuck how you feeling about television news.
Speaker 2:Now, this is going to be wildly unaccepted. But let me tell you I do not rock with Sophie Turner At all At all, and she know why she did. She did too much of a good job making me hate her as soon as I just can stand her. I hate to see her face. Every time I see her face I get mad, just like old buddy that played Tariq in Power or Ghost, Like yo, I hate his face too. Like bro, I cannot. But yeah, anything, sophie Turner, I'm not gonna rock with you.
Speaker 3:Know what's crazy.
Speaker 1:I was thinking about between Power and Empire and whatnot. I was thinking like should we review those in like February, Like maybe late February?
Speaker 2:I would yeah, and the music though. Oh, my God, the music. Let's talk about that. The music in both of them and Star. I love their music, but I still listen to all of them Was Star.
Speaker 1:I love their music, but I still listen to all of them. Was there anything else?
Speaker 2:No, I just wanted to say how much of a hater I was with Sophie Turnip. And I'm really excited for Ira McKinsey because that is just, it's one of my comfort shows and I really like it. It's something about characters that are pure of heart that I really love. I really like it. It's something about characters that are pure heart that I really love.
Speaker 1:Hello, the floor is yours now. How you feeling about television news.
Speaker 3:Alright, let's get to it. Let's get to the mean potatoes real quick. So, first and foremost, shout out to Arcane because hey, y'all trying to get people back in the League of Legends, I mean.
Speaker 1:I like the show, but you're not going to make me play the game.
Speaker 3:Look, look, hey, I mean once again, for those of us that are in the know, we're not going to play the game Because, you know, like I said, the community got to get better first. Like game was already good. If the community was way better I'd play. But no, but yes, like you, getting people to play the game by all means, that should mean that maybe, just maybe, the community will get better. But it's time will tell. But congratulations to them on it. Like, most definitely I'm happy for it. The fact that it was $250 million, first and foremost, like you know, hey, that says a lot. But now I'm going to take a shot at the people who should have been doing this type of thing DC.
Speaker 3:I'm talking about you Y'all supposed to be the kings, matter of fact, correct? Not the kings. The kings, y'all supposed to be the kings when it comes to animating. Why y'all ain't spending this budget? I know y'all putting out some good stuff, don't get me wrong, but why y'all ain't putting in this budget? I know y'all putting out some good stuff, don't?
Speaker 2:get me wrong.
Speaker 3:But why y'all putting this budget IE once again, Batman Beyond, but I digress, I'm still. Anyway, Bleach. Thousand Year Blood War. It hits everywhere. It has not killed me yet. Like we said before, like I said again, there's a reason they are in the big three and there's a reason that legit. You know, hey, the big three is the big three. Like I'm happy for it, I love it, I love it awesomely. Now, secret level I will be watching that because I have Prime. I'm going to be, I'm going to take a peek at it. You know be like that kind of deal, so I'm going to take a peek at it, Just see how it looks. Believe me as a person who is a DM, I promise you trash.
Speaker 3:If it's trash, I'm going to be on it so much so y'all going to have to bring it.
Speaker 1:Hold on. Were you on the review for Box Machina Season 3? No, I was not Okay, let me just say when you're right, you're right. I feel like Box Machina with that Season 3? Oh, oh, okay, I see where y'all going with all this, like okay.
Speaker 2:Okay, I got y'all, y'all going with all this Like okay, okay, I got y'all Probably be the y'all gonna be all right.
Speaker 1:As long as y'all keep going with Fox Mocking and Ari Ari, you know y'all gotta see the bro on the way. So I'm like all right, all right, I see you, Fox Mocking, I see you now.
Speaker 3:Basically, so all right, Now for the Mass Effect. I'm hoping they do Mass Effect right. I'm with Mira J on this. They have to make Shepard the pretty boy. Because that's how he plays out in the game. I mean, yes, we know it's a choose-your-own-damn-eventure game, it is the best choose-your-own-damn-eventure game out there, but at the same time everybody goes with the love life for Shepard. So Shepard has to be. Quote, unquote the pretty boy. You know what?
Speaker 1:Hot take, real quick Hot take. Y'all want to have women to be more into, like these gaming things, these gaming, comic book adaptation type things right Y'all talking about, oh, let's have like strong female leads. Hold on Like nothing against that. But I got a crazy idea for y'all. What if I told you those women just might want a pretty boy who's competent?
Speaker 4:First of all, that's not a crazy idea. You right level, goddamn knows. Okay, I just gotta let you know.
Speaker 1:No, no, no no, that's funny thing is like people with common sense wouldn't call that crazy. But you gotta keep in mind common sense, it's not common says the shomaru lover.
Speaker 3:But I digress.
Speaker 4:All right, go ahead first of all first of all, we're not gonna talk about why I love shomaru we just, we just gonna leave, that we're gonna leave that right there. We're gonna leave that right there. We going to leave that right there.
Speaker 3:I mean, don't worry, I understand. You see the professor out here, aka, since he just wanted to call himself one of the most slickest, you know slickest comics hey yo, MJ, you should have been on the Bleach Review.
Speaker 1:It's like, don't feel bad about being T'Choma rule over because apparently talos is the isa supporter talos is not.
Speaker 3:I support talos. Just know what isa does and isa be and why isa be what he did are you a? Sympathizer. Am I a sympathizer? Am I a sympathizer with isa? No, but do I like villains that actually make sense? Yes, because all good villains actually have a good reason for what they have done. Once again, we take the point of Magneto, we take the point of literally.
Speaker 2:Thanos.
Speaker 3:No, Thanos did not have a good reason. I will not sit here and say Thanos had a good reason.
Speaker 2:He was right though.
Speaker 1:No, no, hold on. He wanted Grim Reaper pussy, but he was getting cussed by both Agatha and Deadpool.
Speaker 3:So legitimately, like I can't say Thanos had a good reason, even though I liked him, yes, but Thanos did not have a good reason for that. But see, like I said, magneto, magneto had good reason.
Speaker 2:He had a hell of a good reason.
Speaker 3:Doom has good reasons. Doom no, doom is not trying to destroy the world. In his words, doom wants to make the world a better place for it. Doom- Doom.
Speaker 1:Doom is basically high evolutionary, but he actually succeeded in taking over the world.
Speaker 3:And if you go based off it, you'd be like, oh you know, but Doom was not a good taken over the world. And if you go based off of it, you'd be like, oh you know, but Doom was not a good fit for the world. Look at Latveria. Before Doom took over his own home country, right Before it took over his own home country, they were poor, impoverished people. Doom took over his own home country, he may still have been a dictator, but guess what? Oh, they loved him. They had food to eat, not just stuck with one meal, no, they had multiple different foods to eat. Them people prospered. That's why, legit, when folks went to that country, they were like why are y'all defending this man? Because this man got us out the mud, so we gonna stand. Because this man got us out the mud, so we gonna stand with the man that got us out the mud. So, like I said, you know that's that. But back to it, right?
Speaker 2:He's a good man, Savannah A good man.
Speaker 3:Now going back to it right, far Magia. I gotta see this Once again. This is another one that's going to be that hey, don't fuck up. You got great, you're getting great notice right now. Don't fuck up. All right, these next three For my call itkin Lady Gaga and Sophie Turner. Right, cool, item three. Truthfully, I'm only happy, for I'm relatively wanting to see Lady Gaga. Okay, I couldn't because I fuck with the Wednesday TV series. So I'm ready to see Lady Gaga. I want to see how she works Within the story. Sophie Turner Um, and Sophie Turner gets this. I'm ready to see Lady Gaga. I want to see how she works within this story. Sophie Turner Sophie Turner gets this lead role for Tomb Raider. Hey, you better do Lara Croft so goddamn well, because if you don't, you're a fuck. And Carly Calkin, carly Calkin, all right, I know this is making a joke, but I don't really care.
Speaker 1:Hey, you got. You got the former crackhead. I was trying to be nice about it, but okay, we're going there.
Speaker 3:All the same, like you got former crackhead in a post-apocalyptic show, congratulations. Hey, that just makes it where you got a D1. Well, no, you ain't got a D1 crackshot.
Speaker 1:What do they call those people too? They call them something in the ball universe like the ball-out equivalent of crackheads.
Speaker 4:What do they call those again Idiots?
Speaker 2:He is not a crackhead, ladies and gentlemen. He's a cokehead. There's a difference once again my auntie was on crack for 20 years. She was perfectly fine coke, you know. You elevate to something else.
Speaker 3:I digress. Oh, he stars. Yeah, I can't wait. I hope they do this right to end it out. Please end up Beastars in the correct manner.
Speaker 3:Welcome to Demon School of Rummikub. If you have not caught up on it, catch up on your time, folks. This is relatively a good anime. Now for the meat potatoes that I will. Well, one of them that I want to get to because I got I got bone to pick.
Speaker 3:All right, jb, I got a bone to pick with you about one topic later on down this line that I'm going to fuss and cuss about, I oh, oh, when I saw this up here, I want you to know I'm highly, I'm highly violent because of that, but we'll get to it.
Speaker 3:Um, the fact that all of these, all of these worlds, all, all these worlds are connected in the same universe cowboy bebop, space dance, chamarite, shampoo, carol and tuesday and laver the fact that all of them are within the same universe well, yeah, within the same universe. Now you just multiverse, but within the same universe. I already knew this. I don't know how some of y'all didn't know, but it's just the way, especially with Cowboy Bebop, space, danny and Samurai Champloo, the way they come off, the way they come off right. I already knew that those three were definitely within the same universe. Now, carolyn, tuesday and Lazarus, I would have been like if they told me, yeah, they weren't enough. I could possibly believe it too, but the first three, especially Cowboy Bebop and Space Danger, oh no, we know they're sitting there. I wouldn't be surprised if it gets told later on that, hey, outlaw Star is also within that same universe.
Speaker 4:I'm going to cry.
Speaker 3:I wouldn't be surprised, because if all stars in the same universe, guess what that means, I want y'all to know something Certain shit that happened within the same time. At the same time, i'ma be around with you as a fan. I'ma be like you telling me you could've had Mike Goldie and saved these motherfuckers. I'm mad, but that is my thing as a person who looks at it from that same point of view. I get it. You know, hey, folks get stuck doing missions and whatnot that they can help out, and I don't. But the crossover for this would have been so fucking lovely. Yeah, this was around that time, during the era when Toonami was great and Toonami was always hitting that, hey, folks was like you know what? Crossovers should be a thing. Crossovers, more crossovers should be a thing.
Speaker 1:I was still losing my shit when that one crossover with the couple From Bacchanal was showing up In Durarara.
Speaker 3:Hey, hey hey, but I'm not gonna front you. I'm not gonna front you, and this is just me. I'ma leave this on so we can get to the next section. Um, if they had a crossover Of Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo and I want folks to understand, yes, they could have. Why? Because you could have brought Spike. You could have brought Spike. They can always do a movie you could have brought all of them to the future. Basically, you could have brought everybody that's in Samurai Champloo all the way up to the future. You could have brought them to the future. Why? Because, oh, look, hey, we fighting shit. Somehow we get dropped from what. This is not our universe. Ah, yes, bring swords to this bullshit. Let them see that. Hey, let them see what happens to their quote unquote descendants.
Speaker 1:I mean they already got the whole thing about space samurais being in there, so I'm like, hey, there's some space samurais right here.
Speaker 3:It could work. But other than that, yes, I knew that they were in the same universe. Oh, believe me, without even the recent interview, I knew that they were in the same universe, like at least three of them. I knew three of them were in the same universe. Yeah, like at least three of them. I knew three of them were in the same universe. It's just Lazarus I don't really remember watching like that and Carolyn Tuesday I have to go back and run to be looking but it was just I can believe the first three, though, yeah.
Speaker 3:The first three yeah.
Speaker 1:Was that all for television news? That's it. That's it all. Right time for the news for sports category. Excuse me, uh, just a little short. Uh, if y'all had anything else y'all want to add on, we'll add it on at the end of it, but outside of that we'll try to do better on sports going forward Because, honestly, if it's not like a major sports event, like the NBA Finals or the Super Bowl or whatnot, chances are I'm living under a rock when it comes to these things. But these two things that happen definitely Hold on, hold on.
Speaker 3:I just thought about something real quick, oh go ahead.
Speaker 3:Excuse me, hi, before we leave TV. Before we leave TV, for those of y'all that know Chee-chai, you have a dream Chee-chai, chee-chai, ladies and gentlemen, and the day I know it catches flack Because of the way this is. Right now, however, for Mr Mantis Shrimp to be revealed, and that mother came out there swinging. If you have not watched Dan the Dan, go watch it. I do not recommend this for little kids, because this is not a little kid's anime oh no, oh, no, oh no, Like it gets raunchy.
Speaker 3:Like, this is not a little kid's anime. And if you're not a fan of Berserk, you're not a fan of Guts and like that, whatnot. You're not how it was, because Berserk caught black for a couple scenes and y'all know why. But if you're not fans of those types of animes, don't watch it. This ain't for you.
Speaker 1:Bruh, like Dan to Dan, is so fucking goofy. I'm like I was going to wait until like later into December when the 12th episode airs, and then all right, but like 12th episode is out, let's go ahead and put out the review. I and then alright, but like 12 episodes out, let's go ahead and put out the review. I want to talk about it like immediately, but I was just going to wait until then.
Speaker 3:But like, yeah, like, then it goes crazy. The fact that I'm just saying the fact that Mr Mantis is here and your boy did not disappoint when he ooh, ooh, ooh, I swear to God and I'm going to say it like this, and I'm gonna say it like this if my blood just had been a hair step shorter on jumping. If you have a hair step shorter on jumping back, your blood was gone. I'm that, I'm good. I just want to make sure those are in there gotcha, gotcha.
Speaker 1:Uh, like I said before, uh, sports news is gonna be a little short, but like there were just two things I just couldn't let slide like I gotta talk about it. So it was like the perfect excuse to have a sports category in nerdy news. For starters, jake paul versus mike tyson, first of all, like good luck if you actually watch the whole fight without all that buffering. Second of all, people were saying that the fight was fixed and like oh well, you know, you know, my guy paid like 20 million just to even show up, so it didn't even matter if he won or lost, and like okay, for the most part. Like yeah, uh, tyson had um Paul for like at least three the first three rounds and then he was starting to lose and that's when Paul started to catch up on him and like started to pull out the win and then ultimately, like it went through all eight rounds and Paul won because he landed the most hits.
Speaker 1:But you know, like you know, that's why I'm kind of glad I didn't watch the whole fight. It was like just tell me the highlights and I'll piece together what happened. You know, I don't know, I, I I'm just kind of glad I'm not one of those folks that spent five hours, just a whole lot, for you know nothing. You know like that's just me. The second uh thing and sports news. Uh, you remember ray gun from the olympic sports event on the 2024 olympic sports where she was doing that weird ass break dancing all right, so check this out. She decided to be like hey yo, you think you can do better than me? I'll give you ten thousand dollars if you can dance better than me. And I'm like look here, lady, you must got money to spend, because the whole black community can roll up on you and be like easy money where's that money, let's get a look but y'all got anything you want to add on to all this I do excuse me
Speaker 3:go ahead, ring the bell. First off, we're hitting up with this Jake Paul Bush, with this BS. Right I, as a person who's gone through amateur boxing when I was younger, I want you to understand me. My coach would have cussed me the fuck out If I did anything that Jake Paul or Mike Tyson did. One, right I. This was not a fight. I say again, this was not a fight, this was a charity event. Yeah, this was a charity event. Why? Because, folks, here's what the contract read for them One Mike. All Mike had to do was last two rounds.
Speaker 3:If Mike lasted two rounds, mike got 20 mil. Jake Jake had to last four rounds. If Jake lasted four rounds, jake got 40 mil.
Speaker 1:Really, oh, okay, this is what they wrote out.
Speaker 3:This is folks was talking about this, all on tiktok. And I want to be understood, right, I want y'all to understand, and folks, you, y'all and folks was trying to be like, oh, he's an old man, that's why he ain't got no more. Understand me, and I want y'all to hear me very clearly, because if you've seen this man, if you've seen his Instagram, if you've seen Tony Baker's Instagram, I want to be known. You're telling me that, within the time span of what happened, from the time this started to now, to the point where he was up in the fight, you're telling me he lost all that power and we saw what the hell he did to his trainer. Last I checked, his trainer had to wear an entire and I mean an entire. I believe it was a body glove where he had to have that entire body padding because the fight hit him Anywhere that was not padded.
Speaker 3:That motherfucker was out, all right, but okay, once again, we knew this fight was rigged. It was rigged on both sides. You wanna know why I say this? Because, hey, jake, now that makes you look bad Nigga. You couldn't knock this man out, but you knocked out everybody else. It makes all of your other fights. Look, suspect you telling me you can't knock this man out. I don't get that. Somebody should've got knocked down somewhere. There should have been a knockdown somewhere, but neither one of y'all went down. All y'all did was basically dance around the ring.
Speaker 3:Oh no, oh no, oh no. Can't nobody even make a claim for Jake Paul off of this? That's why I say I'm not mad at the fact that Jake Paul won. I'm mad at how they won the body, because either one of them should have had at least a knockout. Somebody in there should have had a knockdown. If you are not going to have a knockdown, then don't write this off as oh, this is a real fight. They only did that so that way Jake could have the quote-unquote prestige. Mike didn't care about prestige, no more, mike, oh Mike, oh. Mike didn't care about prestige, no more. Mike was like alright, I'm good, I'm getting paid, mike didn't want to be under my pocket.
Speaker 3:Mike didn't care about nothing else except for the money. Mike wasn't even and the words are for real Mike wasn't even mad at that man. Mike didn't care about that man. They did that just so. That way, it was a publicity stunt. So that's why I'm like to me.
Speaker 3:Hey, I get it, but y'all could have wrote this off as something a lot better and, before anybody else comments on this, do a better job, right? Alright, now I gotta speak as a dancer as well, as a person who has danced and a person who has done breakdancing, um pop, um choreo like I've sat there singing, done it. You know what I'm saying. Like I've been around the block with this. As a person who even learned the history of TPP, the Bronx Boys, tpg, the Bronx Girls, like to block with this. As a person who even learned the history of tpp, the bronx sports, tpg, the bronx girls, like those groups that literally started this, not just oh, okay, you was in it for play, play and you just in it, you know, for for slight, for slight fun, or whatever. Nah, I actually learned the history of it. I'm going to be real with you. Right, she issued that challenge to the wrong motherfucker and no, I'm not talking. I mean if you would have said to the big time, that's cool yeah you outclassed them.
Speaker 3:You know what I'm saying. You outclassed them. I give you that. But when you're actually asking for dancers, b-boys and shit, like I'm not fitting, to front you there's an entire community of that. I know ain't no way you can stood a chance against them. Anybody that came off, so you think you can dance. That was in atlanta.
Speaker 1:If you know who blueprint is, by all means blueprint kills her bro, I was thinking like anybody from you got served in ATL like bro. They will fucking stomp you to the ground.
Speaker 3:Let me tell you something you got served in ATL as Trey. We gonna, I'm gonna knock that shit right.
Speaker 3:Let me go ahead and hit this out the way. Them right there, them relative actors, and I'm gonna be real with you when you want real dancing and real dancers once again. And I'm going to throw their names out here Dragon House, go get Dragon House. Yeah. Reason being I say that is because damn near everybody knows Glitch, iglide, you know Blueprint, like these are names that are known, and the reason why I say these names are known is because they go to actual competitions. These are people that you still see on a day-to-day, that will play around on TikTok nowadays and dance a little bit here and there, but I promise you put the money up and tell them hey, there's a competition going on. Yeah, I'm going to see someone like Jab and tell them hey, there's a competition going on.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm gonna see someone like Jabberwocky like doing this.
Speaker 3:These are actual, freaking, actual dancers. You know what I'm saying. Or if you wanna get some hell, go get tight eyes.
Speaker 1:Mmm yeah.
Speaker 3:Go get tight eyes, that's okay, you know what I mean, like If you want real dancers that are actual, that are still Actual Actors, and everything you go to. Um, not you Got Certain, and like that you go to Uh, what's the freaking movies? Uh, jesus, it's on the tip of my tongue. What's the freaking movies? Jesus, it's on the tip of my tongue. I swear to God, but it has the characters Moose, one of the main dancers in this match at Step Up 2? Yeah, step Up. Go and get those people from step up. Why?
Speaker 3:because those are actual because those are actual dancers and the reason why I'm telling y'all those are actual dancers and the people that you see are you got served and whatnot are not relatively dancer. More so, actors and stuff. Because, once again, as it is and it's not just me saying about the competitions and stuff, but their repertoire speaks for themselves Versus like you saying, like Omarion, omarion ain't dancers, they can dance. There's a difference between you can dance versus you being a dancer. Can dance versus you being a dancer.
Speaker 4:It's like so you Think you Can Dance the TV show versus America's Best Dance Group? It's like.
Speaker 2:Both of them is good shows.
Speaker 3:So you Think you Can Dance actually had dancers on them. Abdc, america's Best Dance Group, had actual dancers on them.
Speaker 3:I can't put them two together like okay, okay because the super crew because legitimately, like I mean, super crew literally had dancers on them, like they have dancers. These were okay, and I only say this because this is relatively a two-part section. But on ABDC, these crews that they pulled, these are street crews. These ain't crews that literally had things before, like when they first started. No, they pulled these people off the street. These are street crews that signed up. No, they pulled these people off the street. This is a street crew that signed up, like Jabbawockeez didn't have anything big before they got to ABDC. And they tell you that, no, abdc helped us, you know, put us in the limelight and we got more shows after because we got known, but before then, nah, once again, these are people that practice, just like how, like I said, guys in a Dragon House practice. They practice literally going to the parks or basically putting a cardboard down somewhere and literally just, you know, hey, we dancing here, there, everywhere. That's just how it went. So that's why I say these are actual, actual crews Over in, so you Think you Can Dance.
Speaker 3:A lot of them, a lot of the people there, they win their solo. But once again, you had people that were crews in here. You had entire crews showing up for each other. You had entire crews showing up for each other, like. So that's why I say like this, this, when it comes to the dance scene, if you're going to be real about it, that dude better tell it. You're asking for people to face, you're asking for people to battle you and you want people to battle you.
Speaker 3:Okay, cool, there are B-boys out here that literally said and I quote had we known? Because most folks didn't really take it serious that they were. I guess they said they were going to be doing it at the Olympics this year. I didn't remember it. So when I saw it I was like, oh shit, they did say they were going to do that. But I'm going to tell you right now, had it been taken way more serious than what it was, a lot of the people that were there wouldn't have placed, because you have way more B-Boys and I'm talking about B-Boys that are not relatively known. They're known, but they're not known like that, because the majority of the time you have to be within, you have to know about dancing and you have to know about the competition known as Red Bull BC One. So if you don't relatively know about Red Bull BC One, then you ain't going to relatively know about them. A lot of them people want to put it over there. Oh, shoot, lady, don't do that.
Speaker 1:My whole thing is like with Raygun, she kind of run the dinner bill, kind of like what happened with I know we're going to talk about it a little bit when we get down the line but kind of like how with Drake, with the whole rap civil war, how he told Metro, why don't you make some drums? I'm like all right, bet, I'm going to make this beat and everybody can jump on it and y'all get a free beat based on who does it better. I'm like, hey man, like see, look, y'all need to stop doing that Most definitely, please, please, stop doing that.
Speaker 3:Don't set yourself up, feel you.
Speaker 1:But uh, tuck, mj, you got anything you want to add on to all that.
Speaker 2:No, I'm good.
Speaker 1:Good Uh, mj you got anything, I'm good.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know that was good. Uh, with that being said, let's go ahead and get into the game news now, with gaming soon like a day, all right, the game of the Year Wars coming up with the game awards. Here are the nominees we got Astro bar, we got a lotatro, we got Black Myth, wukong, elden, ring, shadow of the Urge Tree, final Fantasy VII, rebirth and Metaphor Refuntazio. Those are the nominees. We're going to talk about that. We're going to talk about the rest of this here.
Speaker 1:In a recent investor call, sony has reaffirmed its commitment to major single-player games from 2025 onward and pointed to Dos Ayose and Death Stranding 2 on the beach as two RAs slated for next year. Microsoft gaming boss Phil Spencer has confirmed the company's plan to release an xbox handheld, but stressed that it will be years away from release. Uh, mel madorita you remember her from arcane? Uh, she's gonna be a playable character in league of legends in 2025. Now, see here, right there, real quick. I'm just say that I kind of knew that. I knew, like the way they would kind of put the direction that they had with the character. Oh yeah, there's no way she's not going to be in the game, and I almost want to play the game because of her. But I'm like, nah, I'm good man.
Speaker 3:I'm most like.
Speaker 1:I'm going to be playing Marvel Rivals because like it's looking kind of good. That's coming out in December 6th, by the way, so I hope y'all going to be on there Like I'm playing different characters on that. The Witcher 4. It has progressed from free production to full scale production. Developer, cd Project Red 6, while Also revealing that Cyberpunk 27.7 has sold 30 million copies. So, okay, good.
Speaker 1:Pokemon trading card game Pocket makes 12 million In the first 4 days after Launch on October 30th. One Pokemon TCG Pocket player recently worked out that it could take almost two years of daily play to collect every card in the set. Wow, okay. Pokemon Go developer is using the data collected by players to train an ai to essentially be able to auto complete real world locations with only a limited amount of information. I'm like, ah, we can't do that. I mean, come on, like the way it was set up and all that, uh, but anyways, demon Slayer collaborated with Fortnite for Chapter 6, according to a recent link. I don't know what I leave. Damn, it's a record, god damn it.
Speaker 1:No Man's Sky developer Hello Games has held hitting a very positive Steam user review user rating for the very first time in eight years after the game's controversial launch at Slam by Players. Yeah, it wasn't that impressive at launch, but I'm kind of the Gathering it released its foundation set and also, uh, the Marvel Secret Layer Drop, where there was a whole bunch of scalpers and whatnot and a whole bunch of people got real busy about not getting theirs. But I'm sitting here like if it's anything like the PS5 thing, like back in 2020, I'm like, bro, like, honestly, if it being like limited supply, what did you expect? That was it for gaming? Um doug you, you got anything you want to add on to gaming news, anything at all oh no, I ain't got nothing to add on to gaming.
Speaker 1:Okay, gotcha.
Speaker 2:Besides, call of Duty is game of the year, but you know.
Speaker 1:Okay, mj, anything you got to add on To gaming.
Speaker 4:Astro Bot is game of the year. There's nothing. It should just win. Why Call of Duty? I'm excited to find a fantasy dream. That's it. That's it for gaming.
Speaker 1:All right, how low is the floor? How are you feeling about the game?
Speaker 3:Cool beans, here we go, nominees. The only three I see really truthfully up here and y'all might find this crazy as hell and it's a wild thing to say these three but the only three that I can see you relatively winning this is Astro Bot Black, myth Wukong and Elden Ring, shadow of the Air Tree and Talos. Wait, but you're a Final Fantasy head why not Final Fantasy?
Speaker 1:No, no, no, I was thinking those same three things, like because you they were popping off Before you.
Speaker 3:Because, right, the reason why I'm not saying Final Fantasy Is because right now Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth. It's not complete, it's not a whole complete game right now.
Speaker 1:So like Real quick, real quick. I'm glad you said that right there, because I was just gonna ask, because I'm not hating, I like Elden Ring, but my whole thing is should a DLC be up for Game of the Year though?
Speaker 3:Wholeheartedly, as much as y'all, and I'm fixing to get to that. I'm so glad you want the hard phone. I'm fixing to get that to you. Bitches, bitch ass niggas, hoes, motherfucking, goddamn dick-suckers and goddamn niggas that be behind Target that want to goddamn perpetrate that. I'm not gay, but you in the closet-ass motherfuckers. Shadow of the Iron Tree is still. Irregards to whether it's a DLC or not, it's a part of the game. Therefore, it puts Elden Ring back up there. So hush your goddamn mouth. Go suck a lollipop, sit your ass in. I'm so sick of that. Ooh, it's a DLC. There's a section for DLC. You can put it over there in DLC. Like we ain't seen games get multiple spots before on the Freaking Game Awards.
Speaker 3:The fuck man. If y'all were on six, y'all would be goddamn flat. Ooh, ooh. Y'all motherfuckers are the reason. The saying is out there. Y'all make my ass itch. Ooh, Ooh. Like we can't have multiple. Like we can't have one thing in multiple spots.
Speaker 4:Not as itch.
Speaker 3:Oh my God. But I'm just saying, right, legit, them three are the three. That's relatively there, and they ready to go. I'm ready.
Speaker 1:See, that's the thing I keep hearing, that floating around like hey yo, like dlcs game of the year. I mean like, let's be honest, there was like not a whole lot of strong choices. If anything else, like oh no, hold on, hold on, wait a minute. Astrobot was fun, black myth wukong is good. But outside of that I'm like thinking like, is this all we got now? I would say, out of those three, those are the strongest choices for me.
Speaker 3:Nothing gets brought up. I'm just saying. They're the strongest choices. And to the Quote, unquote, off brand professor up here Talking about something Call of Duty is great. Call of Duty is great. Call of Duty is nothing but DLC. That's it what you mean? Off-brand Call of Duty is nothing.
Speaker 4:Call of Duty is off-brand.
Speaker 3:I said what I said. Call of Duty.
Speaker 4:Define off-brand.
Speaker 2:You wasn't with us shooting in the gym Define off-brand. You wasn't with us in the gym. Define our brand. You weren't with us in the Pokemon Center with me and the other professors.
Speaker 3:You're not even great value.
Speaker 2:That's what we saying Me and Professor Oak was thugging together. We went to college and you're not even Dollar General worthy.
Speaker 3:Dang dude, Wow. So anyway, like I said before, right, Call of Duty is nothing but DLC and I don't care how it hurts y'all feelings.
Speaker 2:Gundam is trash, you say.
Speaker 3:Call of Duty DLC, because this is because All the Gundam universe is trash.
Speaker 2:Oh, oh, oh, Wait, what'd he say?
Speaker 4:No, no, no.
Speaker 3:What'd he say? I knew that would hit his attention. I didn't quite hear that. What'd you say?
Speaker 2:Gundam is trash.
Speaker 3:Oh okay, cool, cool me, bet, bet, bet. Don't you say shit about my hero, don't you say shit, I understand that you upset, you know, I understand that you upset that. Uh, you know my hero, my hero, can't even make it out to top 20, can't even make it to the top 10 Damn, it can't even make it to the top 10, let alone the top 5. But I understand, you know, once again, it'll never be a big three.
Speaker 3:It'll never be a big three. All my such ass, but don't try and joke me. I digress, oh my god, I digress. We're going back, jp, who's side you on, like I said. Like I said, we're going back to this, so give it so give it a go.
Speaker 3:Anyway, now, outside of Sony, sony, the fact that you're trying to reaffirm your commitment to make a single player game, guess what? Check fuck up. You also need check fuck up Because you've dropped the ball way too damn much. You've dropped the ball on your consoles. You've dropped the ball on your consoles. You drop the ball on your games, and this is coming from a person who is a dedicated fucking Sony fan. You dropped it. Take your damn L, go sit in the corner and work on your shit.
Speaker 2:At least they put out the patch to update the portal. Now you don't need a PlayStation 5 just for the portal, which is the start. Don't don't need a PlayStation 5 just for the Portal.
Speaker 4:Which is the start, don't you still need? I'm confused. We already got the Switch.
Speaker 3:Yup, yeah.
Speaker 2:It's the new age PSP, that's it.
Speaker 3:It was supposed to be the PSP, but then there's like you need a PS5 to play it, oh Okay, they seen what they fucked up. They seen what they a PS5 to play it, oh Okay.
Speaker 2:They seen what?
Speaker 3:they fucked up.
Speaker 2:They seen what?
Speaker 4:they fucked up and they fixed it.
Speaker 3:How long that took.
Speaker 2:It took too damn long.
Speaker 3:Because, in all honesty right, listen to me. I'm a person that said, and I quote hey, I can't get a PS5 because every time I try to go to the PS5 it's sold out everywhere, so I will abolish it. The same man, oh no, you, ps5 is so. That, basically, will admit, was a hunk of junk now you know this can't be the same manufacturer.
Speaker 1:This can't be the same manufacturer that gave us the PSP and talking about oh, suddenly you need the console For the handheld to work. I don't, how do y'all go backwards, like for people who, uh, seem to be very stingy about backwards compatibility on their recent consoles?
Speaker 3:that's very backwards law, because see, like I said, right, this is how you would have got everybody to afford a ps5. If you've just been like, all right, cool, you don't need this right now. You don't have to have a ps5 boy play on your on the Portal. You can go ahead and buy Portal. It acts as if it's the PS5.
Speaker 1:The only difference is it acts as if it's the PS5.
Speaker 3:That's just basically what it is.
Speaker 2:You just can't play it on TV, yeah it could be double money, but they don't want no money. They want to take the Apple approach and drop the same shit.
Speaker 3:I don't give a damn.
Speaker 1:Microsoft. You know what. Speaking of which Microsoft, let's talk about them real quick. I didn't put this in the nerdy news, but I like how the developer I don't know if it was Phil Spencer himself, but somebody from Microsoft was throwing shit, talking about oh well, we don't need to do those mid-cycle upgrades like the PlayStation does with the PS5 Slim or the Pro. We don't need to do that.
Speaker 3:I mean most definitely they don't. They don't, and I'm going to get to that too. But, like I said, here's my thing and my take. On this right when we're here, where Phil Spencer literally confirmed that they're trying to get an Xbox in here I do, on this right when we're here, where Phil Spencer literally confirmed that they're trying to get an Xbox handheld, I do Guess what right If Xbox actually does what they're supposed to do and you give me a portal-type handheld, but with Xbox kind of deal, where basically, hey look, I can have Game Pass on the go instead of having to worry about my computer or my system, I can have game pass on the phone. So, having to have to worry about my computer or my sister, I can have game pass on the go. What? Not by all means I will drop money into it. I will take your time in the worst of all. Take your time, baby. Take your time, go ahead.
Speaker 1:fix all them bugs, get it out there I'm thinking about it still have a steam deck at this point.
Speaker 3:Like I know it was like hot for like a second you wanna know why because people still are like okay, hey, I can play steam games on the go, but not only that, I can just put emulators and ROMs on there. And I got, oh look, I have a Steam Deck and I have a Nintendo Switch Without having to pay for the Nintendo Switch prices. So that was the whole thing. That's the reason why I was like you know what, looking at some of this other stuff, I might have to look into it, but most definitely Like so, microsoft, take your time, I am very proud. I can say wholeheartedly that I am proud of Xbox for coming along as they have. Yes, I know y'all literally are on a heart. Y'all are a heartbeat away from death's door. We understand Microsoft, we get it. We know y'all want to stop with gaming because nobody relatively wants to rock with you and y'all feel like nobody want to rock with you as far as the consoles go. My thing is keep it. Keep it Now.
Speaker 3:now um these next two, uh, about you know, about Mel being a playable character in League, and then the Witcher 4, you know, and everything else I'm not really to be caring about. I'm gonna be real with you, I don't, I don't TCG pocket. Tcg pocket to the canterbock. And be real with you, I don't, I don't. Tcg Pocket. Tcg Pocket that's another mobile game that got people a goddamn chokehold, motherfuckers out here. But once again, once again, if you ever played Duel Links you ever played Duel Links you understand why. But TCG Pocket got motherfuckers on a chokehold out here playing. You ever play Duel Links, you ever play Duel Links. You understand why. But TCG probably got motherfuckers on the chokehold out here playing, but spending so much money. But they spending dinero, cash. And I'm going to be real with you right Now, pokemon supposedly went and upgraded their whole TCG live.
Speaker 3:You know the trading card game, which was the online thing to the TCG Live, right, all right, tcg Live has not relatively had any talk about it for a hot second, but you're supposed to be able to do a lot more stuff better on there. Go buy your decks and everything else. But who talking about that? Right now, tcg Pocket is where it's at Because legit people out here prepping, spending gold I'm talking about they buying or not Like it's once again. It's just like how Duel Links was when Duel Links first popped out. Oh yeah, hey look, we're waiting on the next boosters, we're waiting on the next expansionosters, we're waiting the next expansion packs, we're waiting on these to see what, what new, what new uh mods coming out, what new decks is gonna come out, like man. This is why I was like, yeah, pokemon has the right outlook for certain stuff. They do, they have the right outlook for certain stuff, especially once they add trading. When trading goes live, oh, oh, y'all are done.
Speaker 3:I mean a lot of games are done because for all the people that literally been out here trying to get certain cards and whatnot, man, yeah, yeah, y'all cooked. Any other games y'all playing at the moment?
Speaker 1:Nah, y'all cooked.
Speaker 3:Yeah, y'all entirely cooked. And then, on top of that and I say this wholeheartedly on top of that, um, the fact that you know, this game is still being very popular, whereas Pokemon Go literally has, you know, came out with its allegations I missed its allegations and stuff. And folks are like man, nah, you know, I'm not playing Pokemon Go, no more. Y'all basically out here tracking folks. Eh, tcg got motherfuckers in the show code. That's all I'm gonna say. Tcg got motherfuckers in the show code. Demon Slayer, I want to ask a question for the people in the back, because I know I need to ask for them because they can't see it when is our One Piece stuff?
Speaker 3:Because, Fortnite, y'all said, and I quote you, and it was leaked hey, we're supposed to be getting One Piece stuff.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that is kind of crazy. Where's my?
Speaker 3:one piece.
Speaker 1:With.
Speaker 3:Demon.
Speaker 1:Slayer, it just felt like okay.
Speaker 3:How you going to Demon Slayer right now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like it just felt kind of obvious that they're going to do Demon Slayer. But that is crazy. Now that you've mentioned it, I'm like how come there isn't any one piece shit in there, because it was rumored.
Speaker 3:And once again, ladies and gentlemen, go to Reddit. You'll see where it's all messed up.
Speaker 1:Reddit is your friend, 4chan is your friend as long as you know how to read these things. I mean, you would think they would ever since Loopy Gear 5, but I don't know, Maybe I'm tripping.
Speaker 3:No, no, no, but it was rumored. Once again, you see how this one is, according to leaks. Yeah, it's the same way, with leaks dropped. Oh, here's the One Piece stuff. Oh shit, but we just didn't get a date. Same way with Demon Slayer. Demon Slayer, they ain't gotta date yet, so we're still up in the air. My thing is why you can still do both, but why is it that One Piece has not? So we're still up in the air. My thing is why you can still do both, but why is it that One Piece has not? Why the One Piece stuff hasn't dropped? Folks waiting on One Piece stuff. We've been waiting on One Piece stuff for a while.
Speaker 3:Just saying To end this off real quick because I wanted to get to the up stuff I don't relatively care about. No Man's Sky no Man's Sky is one of them. Games that's just like hey look, you fell into a niche. You are for niche players. You're not out there. You fell into a niche player and I know a lot of people bashed you, but you're for niche players. It wasn't meant for everybody. Yeah, the Magic Gathering Foundations and Marvel, secret Lair stuff folks, we've already put something out here about it. Go check it out. If you have not checked it out, please go take a listen. I'm going to say this real quick, though. Since we did a Marvel secret lair, hey, can we get DC.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 3:I would like for us to at least get some DC and this is just me being fake, you know what I'm saying. I would like for us to get some DC, secret Lair stuff, even though I know for a simple fact if you drop DC anytime soon, I'm not going to be able to get it, because the scalpers are going to hit that bitch up, just like we did with the Marvel shit Like legit, nobody couldn't buy this stuff. That's my only gripe.
Speaker 1:That's my only gripe on it.
Speaker 3:Listen what pissed me off, is that?
Speaker 1:couldn't buy this stuff. That's my only gripe. That's my only gripe on it. No, you know what, tal? Listen, what pissed me off is that I'm in some of these Magic the Gathering groups, right, and some of them would straight up go on there and tell them hey, I bought multiples of the Marvel Secret Layer drop. I don't even play the game, like you know, know, I play other games, but I just thought you know it'll be a good opportunity, so I'll sell it to you all for for like 400.
Speaker 1:And I'm like people got so mad and all that shit. And he was like oh well, whatever, if you have a problem with it, go argue with your mama, so shit. And I'm like see, that's the thing. It would be one thing if you were actually a player, if you bought the secret lair drop for yourself and maybe some of your friends. Okay, I can understand that you did that for yourself and your part, I can understand that, but you're not even a player and you just fucking scalping like that man, get the fuck out of here Like legit, legit, legit.
Speaker 3:But hey, I can't fault scalpers on that one, because Magic Gathering community, hey, you raised the prices on cardboard. Ooh, this card here is about $600. $600, you say so? You willing to drop $600 for this? Yeah, hell, yeah, oh, okay, boy, you stupid, ain't, no damn way. Once again, for the people in the back, I'm not going to pay rent or three times my rent prices for a $60 deck. I can't do it. And for Professor Tug and Miriam, so that way y'all can understand, there's a deck out here that costs at least $3,000 and I want you to understand. I say the following words that's cheap.
Speaker 1:That's cheap If you want a tourney smasher. That's why you gotta pay like At least half a year of Rent just to build a tourney Smasher. Y'all smoking that good, y'all smoking that good.
Speaker 3:K2 pay like at least half a year of rent just to kill the attorney's message. Once again, y'all smoking that good K2. I swear to God, Y'all smoking that good K2. Because I cannot, I will not pay no exorbitant ass prices for no damn cardboard. I'll go and proxy that bitch, I'll make it myself. I promise you, I'll make and proxy that bitch, I'll make it myself.
Speaker 1:I promise you I'll make it myself. And that was the crazy part about this Marvel Secret Layer Drop how it encouraged a whole bunch of people you know what proxy home players. Perhaps I treated you too harshly.
Speaker 3:That part, that part, but other than that, that's my take on gaming. Once again, I'm off my soapbox until we get a certain thing.
Speaker 1:All right, gotcha, let's go ahead and move on to the music news. Now with music, just a couple of things. Oh man, like there was a whole bunch of things that happened, but like not a whole lot, but it was big. First of all, let's talk about how Kendrick Lamar surprise released his new album on GNX 12 new tracks total. It reached number one on Apple Music in 100 countries and surpassed 300 million streams.
Speaker 1:As of reporting Drake, he is suing iHeartRadio for the artificial inflation of certain songs, such as Kendrick Lamar's Not Like Us. Not Like Us, ah, not like us. Yeah, okay, lil Wayne. He has now been charted as Billboard's Hot 100 chart. For 21 years straight, he has had 187 songs on the chart and his record-breaking streak of a Hot 100 hit continues thanks to a recent feature on tyler, the creator's new album on chromacopia. Check out that album, by the way, if you haven't already. Uh, speaking of tyler, he becomes the only rapper to chart a number one album in 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, which is four consecutive years in a row. And, last but not least, you can now buy the original Halo Trilogy soundtrack on. Buy them. That means Halo Combat involved Halo 2 and Halo 3, which honestly had like the best tracks as far as I remember. I know Halo, reaching and whatnot had like good soundtrack and background, but like I definitely remember the original, like you know. You know, but let's talk with the maestro himself. Professor Tuck, how are you feeling about the music news?
Speaker 2:Oh, man, music is dope right now, man. But what I really want to talk to y'all about, drake, drake, that's crazy man. Music is dope right now, man, but what I really want to talk to y'all about Drake, drake, that's crazy man. Look, let me tell you how disrespectful and crazy Drake is. He ain't nothing, man. Excuse me, aubrey.
Speaker 1:Aubrey ain't nothing man, that's all I got to say about that.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:MJ, you got anything you want to add on to the music news that's all y'all that's all he want to talk about.
Speaker 2:That's all you want to say that's all I want to talk about. Y'all know how disrespectful Drake is. You pick a fight with a boogeyman, then you get mad, cause the boogeyman did what the boogeyman do.
Speaker 1:MJ, your input.
Speaker 4:Kendrick is a mastermind, he is a villain, he is the epitome of the art of war. That man done read that book front with backwards, sideways, and done rewrote the whole narrative again At the end of the art of war, one of the things it says. It says to be unpredictable. I did not predict any of the moves that Kendrick made, did not predict a goddamn single one of them. That man made another man so upset that he decided.
Speaker 1:That was the craziest part. It was like not only was he unpredictable in all of this shit, but he was predicting all of Drake's moves. You saw RDC World clips on that rap to a Warhouse scene. Oh, he put out a song about me. I knew he would do that.
Speaker 4:I'm going to put up a song right now, bro, everything, everything, like Kendrick is scary, crazy, scary good and, like I'm not even going to lie to you, I like playing devil's advocate. I like doing it. I like trying to defend Drake to Kendrick. It's the greatest thing ever. It's so fun, because they really go ham, they really go in. Like I can't even lie Drake, though I will say this Drake is somewhat.
Speaker 1:It sounds like you're a chaos enabler. Yes.
Speaker 4:Yes, I am, unless when they start coming for jay cole, then I gotta, I gotta switch it up like y'all better leave.
Speaker 2:Oh, you're right. You're right, don't come for call you know what.
Speaker 1:Now that you mentioned that one, let me just say that you know ever since, uh, like that with um, future and metro, kendra fucking called it. When you talk about motherfuck, the big three, it's just big me nigga, because, think about it like this J Cole is out of the game. Drake excuse me, aubrey, you know how that's going. I mean, he's still going to have fans, but ever since then, the way he got cooked in this fucking Rhapsody of War, kendra's the only one left now, bro, bro, drake ain't.
Speaker 4:Drake need to disappear. Drake need to go to australia. He get ready to go on tour in australia. He need to stay there. He don't need to come back. Period. There is no more drake. I don't see see Drake being financially well off ever again. You know he got to sell his house right because he got to pay the lawyers.
Speaker 1:He need to take the Hillary Clinton route and be like just go live in the forest for a few years.
Speaker 4:Not even for a few years, forever. You know the song said we don't want to hear you say nigga, no more. We don't even want to see your face like it's, it's done. It's done.
Speaker 1:Drake squabble up hey, you know the gmx album. Can I just say, between man at the Garden and Waddup Murals, that was like my favorite. Oh, hold on, and TV Off too with Mustard.
Speaker 4:I have been saying that all around just any place that I am randomly, and do it in Walmart.
Speaker 1:Going up to a hot dog stand and be like what's up, mustard, like Mustard.
Speaker 4:Bro, just do it in Walmart one day and just see all the people with that. The junk is great, but I'm a little unhinged. Don't be me. Um, but it's it. This has been peak album, see, like this year, for hip-hop has been crazy oh, you know what missed opportunity.
Speaker 1:I didn't see any um people posting memes about starfire. You know from teen times how much he liked Muster. I'm like, hey, that's a perfect opportunity to do that meme.
Speaker 4:That is definitely a missed opportunity. Okay, okay, okay, I have to play. I have to play devil's advocate right now. I have to do it. So question would would Drake, at this point in time, do you think he actually has a viable case against UMG?
Speaker 3:Hell, no, hell, no, hell no.
Speaker 2:Yes, he does.
Speaker 3:He don't.
Speaker 2:Ooh, he don't what you mean, he don't, he don't. He don't what you mean, he don't you wanna know why.
Speaker 3:Because now, basically how it looks and actually how it fucking is, is hey, instead of going at the motherfucker when you had the fucking chance, instead of going at him and suing him for defamation of character, when motherfuckers told you out here, nigga everybody, and they, mama, who it wasn't, they didn't like you or not that made skits and I throw out Farod, because Farod literally made a fucking skit that said either A you killed this motherfucker or B this motherfucker goes to jail because of what that motherfucker said about you and your entire camp. Nigga, no, at this point, what you just did was you're trying to go now for a big dog.
Speaker 1:But that's the wild part. The wild part is how can you sue him for a defamation of character when you claimed yourself that you fed him the information that he used against you?
Speaker 3:There you go, that part so that's me.
Speaker 2:Which suit is y'all talking about? Because you're intertwining two different lawsuits. Hold on.
Speaker 3:No, no, no no no, no, we're not intertwining two different lawsuits here, because I'm going to say it right now right One, one, right, one, one right. Because what you're saying is he's still going for a very similar defamation of character lawsuit against these companies. Like, oh no, you're perpetrating this, y'all put this out here and y'all played to get more hype, which is why people were listening to it more. No, my nigga, that's not even it. And you went at a big dog, a company that literally feeds your ass as well as him, and you know the old saying Don't bite the hand that feeds you. In the music business, that's most definitely apparent, because they tell you wholeheartedly when you come at a music company, when you come at a company that specializes in music, their lawyer litigation is going to eat your ass alive if you don't know what the fuck you talking about.
Speaker 2:Well, the music executive team and you know I'm not for Drake, but statistically the music executive team that's there have been getting fed by Drake for the last 12 years, before Kendrick joined the label, because, remember, kendrick was with TDE, so it's not really him biting the hand that feeds him. They was trying to make money both ways. You can't make money both ways. You can't make money both ways. You're going to have to pick a side or you're going to have to remain on the sidelines.
Speaker 4:And if you remain on the sidelines?
Speaker 2:which is what you're supposed to do, then you shouldn't just be interjecting for one person. You should be boosting both people, which is what the food is about.
Speaker 3:Oh right, when is a company like iHeartRadio iHeartMedia in itself, spotify, pandora, these companies? They don't have to pick a side, they play what's popular. They're like that fucking DJ. If that shit don't play in the fucking club, why the fuck we got to play your music If you ain't making shit, why the fuck we got to play your music if you ain't making shit? Why the fuck we got to boost your music? We're going to do the shit that makes us money what about the alleged?
Speaker 3:just because you get in your feelings, because another motherfucker slapped your hand and said and told the truth about you, and now you, and now you want to cry in the car Because that's what the fuck he did he cried in the car.
Speaker 1:It's like what Franklin Fates said, where it's like I'm not going to get caught for your bullshit just because you don't like the way. Another nigga talk.
Speaker 3:Thank you Exactly, I'm not going to. That's exactly the shit. That's the reason why that fucking shit has been out there. I literally saw that shit. Somebody said that and was like why? And they was like legit nigga, why the fuck am I, finna get caught up in your bullshit Just because you mad the way another nigga talk? That's your fault. That is your fault, ain't. Nobody else did that but you. If you didn't want that to get as popular as it fucking was, all you had to do was hey, cease and desist. Cease and fucking desist. Those could, and then those songs would have not been played at all, because there's a cease and desist now and nobody wants that fucking goddamn hitter. But not only did you one say out loud that you gave this man the information. Two, instead of going at you, you're now wanting to go with a company on the basis of y'all promoted his music more than mine. Once again, tell me how dumb that fucking sounds.
Speaker 4:I just want to say this, I just want to put this out there Drake is really dumb because ever since he did this lawsuit, everybody been streaming, not like us, like it's crazy.
Speaker 1:Personally, I feel like he should have been ashamed of himself. Ever since he did the lawsuit, everybody been streaming, not like us, like it's crazy. Personally, I feel like he should have been ashamed of himself ever since he did the TaylorMade freestyle that's right. How you gonna use like, first of all, I'm pretty sure Snoop Dogg didn't consent to using his voice as AI in that shit and, second of all, you're gonna use Tupac's name into that shit.
Speaker 4:And second of all you're going to use Tupac's name into that shit? Facts, yeah, but yeah, that's all I wanted to do. I just wanted to drop that right there, gotcha yeah.
Speaker 3:Tell us?
Speaker 1:was that all you had, for that's all I got as far as it goes.
Speaker 3:I mean, don't get me wrong, everything else speaks for itself. Tyler the creator. I'm once again, I'm not even a real big Tyler the creator thing, but Chromicopia.
Speaker 4:Undeniable.
Speaker 3:Undeniable.
Speaker 4:Undeniable.
Speaker 3:Fucking undeniable. Oh for the other motherfuckers that's out here. I want y'all to know, as I watch the Super Bowl this year, when it comes up, i'ma be laughing at y'all motherfuckers with popcorn in my hand. When Kendrick comes the fuck out, and then all of a sudden, everybody, and they mama, is saying these goddamn songs. Because, hey, guess what bitch, not only did you fuck up and I'm like Miraj, I hope your ass stay in fucking Australia at this point Because, hey, bitch, that way you ain't got to turn the TV and see the fucking Super Bowl. Because, guess what ho, when you turn it off, everybody's gonna be talking about they, not like us.
Speaker 4:They not like us. It's crazy because that's exactly when the tour is. It's during the summer.
Speaker 1:Nah see, to be extra petty, they should do BBL Jersey as well.
Speaker 3:Oh, please, don't do BBL Jersey, please, please don't do BBL Jersey, because I want you to know, I want you to know Y'all going to, ooh, they gonna be mad, aubrey gonna be mad. Aubrey's gonna be mad.
Speaker 4:He definitely is. He definitely is.
Speaker 1:The only thing in books. Well, it didn't really affect books exactly, but it's just a weird take for me. I don't know. I don't know how to feel about this day, but maybe y'all might uh enlighten me on this one.
Speaker 1:So the author for tokyo ghoul right in an interview, revealed that he believes that it's better to have a terrible anime adaptation and people will read the manga instead. Now I'm like, hold on, like you can have a good anime adaptation and it'll encourage people to read the manga, kind of like how we doing with uh anime, like fucking dan to dan, uh chainsaw man jujutsu kaisen when it was popping off and all that other shit. Like you can have a good anime and that could inspire people to watch, I mean, read the manga. Excuse me, but making a anime adaptation terrible on purpose to encourage people to read your manga, I mean, I don't even think that's what happened, but more like, if you're trying to justify like, oh well, you thought it was terrible, well, maybe it'll encourage you to read the manga and whatnot, I'm like, uh, I don't know, I don't know how to feel about that, but how y'all feel about that take.
Speaker 3:As far as how I feel about that, um, I don't agree with it because, in all honesty, hey, you, you can't say that, because hey, guess what? You got stuff like solo leveling that's encouraging people to read the mangas because the anime is good. So I don't agree with that.
Speaker 1:I'm not buying that one. You can have a good anime adaptation that can inspire Hell fuck. We were just talking about Boruto during the bleach review. How like? Uh, I don't know about watching anime, but I'll definitely read the fuck out of that manga like yeah, like most definitely, but you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3:Folks like, nah, you, you know that's gonna force people to read this thing or whatnot. No, it doesn't force people to read it, because a lot of people didn't want to read. You know what?
Speaker 1:read it because a lot of people didn't want to read Boruto.
Speaker 3:You know what I'm saying. A lot of people didn't want to read Boruto. At first they were like oh, no, man, Nope, I'm not reading this, I'm not doing that. And because the anime was literally, you know, the anime was garbage. The anime was horrible for a minute. But once it got better, then it got better. You know what I'm saying. And yes, we saw that. Uh, we saw that cressler has has left the building but I didn't even notice you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3:But like, legit it's, it's. It's legit to where? Hey, you know I'm saying it's horrible. It's horrible when you hear stuff like that cuz, like no, you think you have a bad one, it's gonna want to read it's not really so, you know apparently talk you gotta.
Speaker 1:he had to go because you got all wild to ATO tomorrow. So he got things to do so I got to go. I got to go Later.
Speaker 3:Tuck.
Speaker 4:MJ, you had anything to add on to what the Tokyo Ghoul author said yeah, I think he just I'd say he's probably speaking from his own personal experiences with being the author of tokyo ghoul, like I mean, people went and started reading it because the second season was just not what was supposed to be happening, right, but it. So I think he's just speaking. I don't agree with that either. I think it goes both ways. If the anime is good, depends on the person. That that just goes down to a lot of other mitigating factors. It depends on the person.
Speaker 4:Like, personally, I didn't go read tokyo ghoul after watching the anime. I just let everyone tell me about how good the manga was instead of the anime. It didn't inspire me to want to go read it. Um, but there's been other other animes that have been so, so good that I'm like, yeah, I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go read that. Or they've been so horrible that I'm like I need to figure out what in the? Uh, dead Man's Wonderland, I need to go figure out what in the heck was going on.
Speaker 1:Oh man, that was like a good example of how, like, if you saw the anime and you're like, wait, that's it, I'm like, yeah, I don't blame you for being confused, because if you read the manga, I'm like, oh yeah, like they kind of uh didn being confused. Because if you read the manga, I'm like, oh yeah, like they kinda uh didn't do the manga enough justice because they were like way more to the manga compared to the anime uh, at least that's all I gotta say about that, but I do want to talk about a book that I finished reading, a book series I finished oh yeah, uh, if you haven't read, uh, sarah j maas's court of thorns and roses, you need to go read that series oh yeah it has taken um, it has taken the world by storm at this point because it's like the better version of Twilight.
Speaker 4:It is Twilight what Twilight was supposed to be.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 4:Really good. Okay, I haven't thought about that, but it's so good.
Speaker 1:It's such a good page and I don't want anyone to take this the wrong way, but this is how you write a female lead usually that one dude from the simpson where he just slept on the kid in back of the head, like this how you write a female lead I mean, she does it so well, so effortlessly.
Speaker 4:It's not just because the female lead is strong and she's all powerful and all this stuff I don't want to ruin it for anyone who's thinking of going to go check it out, but she is all of those things but she is also still very feminine in nature and we get to see growth in her femininity and in her strength as well and she takes power in her femininity and realizing it's such a good story. And then we have Tamlin, who would probably represent Edward, and then we have Reese, or Reese Ann, who would represent what's his name from Twilight not Edward, but the other one.
Speaker 1:Jacob, what's?
Speaker 4:his name from Twilight, not Edward, but the other one, jacob. Yeah, this is. If Bella wound up with Jacob. That's what this story is.
Speaker 1:Man. Okay, you know what I need to read this book now. It's a series.
Speaker 4:I'm like hold on. Also, we just got, so this is the news part of it. Sarah Desmos just said that she's writing the sixth book, so we're probably going to get it in 2026. Yay, and it'll be hopefully the last book in the series. We're hoping it's the last because everyone's trying to read her other series series, which are also really long.
Speaker 1:But that's not the point. Point is go check it out, gotcha, ah. With that being said, uh, let's tell us, did you have anything to add on to book news? You anything, I know you don't have.
Speaker 3:I don't have anything to add on to books right now. Don't worry, I will be in the future because, hey, I'll be back out getting some stuff as far as books go. But I want you to understand yes, it is coming. Better things are coming.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like I'm getting back into reading books too. There's a whole bunch of books that I got just collecting dust. Anyways, I might as well just get into reading them. Last section, before we close this out, the miscellaneous Now. Keep in mind that with some of them I just didn't know what other category to put them in, so I just put them in miscellaneous. Okay, I'll just put it here, but anyways, mount Fuji it had its first snowless October this year and all of its recorded history since 130 years ago, so that doesn't bode well.
Speaker 1:News Nicki Minaj she's announcing that plans to pursue a college Degree, with more details On her major to come. She's also shared that her student Of the game charity, aimed At helping bands with College expenses, will be resuming Soon. Okay, now Sony is in talks of acquiring Kadokawa and the talks between the two sides Are ongoing and, if successful, a deal could be signed In the coming weeks. Sony already has 2% stake in Kadokawa and a stake in Kadokawa Controlled From software, the developer of the hit fantasy action role playing game, elden Ring. Last but not least, and oh my god, this is one that kind of scares me a little bit. I mean, I just don't know how to feel about this one, but evan musk is interested in owning characters like transformers, peppa pig, pj maz, monopoly Rangers, dungeons and Dragons by purchasing Hasbro, and I'm like uh how do y'all feel about that?
Speaker 3:Alright, cool. This is where I want to jump in in a damn way. First off, that last one's what pissed me the hell off when I saw that I already was mad about this other one up here, but this last one already had pissed me the fuck off. When I saw that I already was mad about this other one up here, but this last one already had pissed me the fuck off. That's why I was like JB, jb, you done, threw, you done. Basically threw the entire motherfucking world to death at this point. First off, elon, elon, elon. Because I'm not kicking it with Elon, because, elon, you fuck with my shit. This is my shit. You're not stepping into my backyard fucking with my shit. It's not a privilege that your motherfucking monkey ass has. Fucking with Hasbro will make me cut you. I will come to you in the middle of the motherfucking night. Don't play with me. Don't play with me. Oh, why, why, why are we like this? Why?
Speaker 4:Elon Don't touch this stuff he's taking his hands to himself, bro.
Speaker 3:I don't care like why are we like this? Elon touching Hasbro?
Speaker 4:Hasbro, I am terrified of Elon.
Speaker 3:Like as a human being, I'm not terrified of Elon, but I when I tell you he wanted a few people to want to kick like a soccer ball, because why is he doing this?
Speaker 4:Yeah, everything he does. You just be like no, stop touching stuff. He, the kid in the grocery store who was always getting his hands smacked because he could not stop touching it, that poet.
Speaker 1:I was thinking that one kid where he wants to give you a Cheeto and it's like the most dirty ass covered Cheeto with his dirty ass in it.
Speaker 4:Bro, I just I don't, I don't, I don't know. Elon Musk just gets on my nerves Like he doing too much he want to. He wants to basically take over Mars.
Speaker 1:He wants to colonize Mars? Why?
Speaker 4:You know what you, a colonizer, like? Just I, just I don't. I can't stand Elon Musk. I agree with Tyler. I just can't stand him. As I agree with Tyler, I just can't stand him as a human being. I hope, never mind. I'm not going to wish the ill will of death on somebody like that, but I hope he gets it.
Speaker 3:I'm not here to wish ill will, but I'm you know what?
Speaker 4:Pickle jar. Just put him in a pickle jar and just leave him. It'll be alright. Because why are you doing this?
Speaker 3:I don't know anything and just leave him. It'll be alright Like cause. Why are you doing this Like? I don't think why.
Speaker 4:What is he gonna? Is he gonna take Transformers and then use Transformers to colonize Mars, like that, like this?
Speaker 1:No, no, no, Even better, he'll probably take Transformers and be like. It'll just be more like a publicity stunt done to like um, sell more tesla, to sell more tesla cars in that, uh, cyber truck. That you remember, the cyber truck?
Speaker 4:yeah, probably um that into a transformers movie no, no, I can't, I can't, I there. I remember a time where people would just would band together and they tell people like nah, that's a bad idea, we, we need to do that again. We need to go ahead Exactly Like I. Just, I don't understand Elon, get on my nerves. Somebody need to tell him. Nope, nope, nope. Y'all remember when Twitter first started and we would band together and say, nah, bro, that's a horrible idea. Why don't we do that? Oh, wait.
Speaker 4:Elon owns? Does he still own X Twitter, whatever? That's why we can't band together and tell him it's a bad idea.
Speaker 3:And see the fact that matter.
Speaker 1:Oh, no, no, no, I'm not getting over it.
Speaker 4:Not stop it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm like, see, the whole thing in recent times with elon is like bro, like I can't even talk about elon honestly without getting a little political and I'm like we don't got to talk about bro facts, like that's the other part.
Speaker 4:Like do you have to touch everything? Oh my god, just go sit your rich behind. Like just go sit down, you. The reason Drake got asked you listen. No, oh my god, he still looks fat. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I just I can't stand. Elon, uh, go ahead, jb.
Speaker 1:I got that. Oh, honestly, like that was like the most shocking thing, because I'm like listen, no, no, no, no, see you trying to touch Hasbro. See, when I just left out all that shit. It's like the fact that the possibility of him getting his claws into Transformers, uh, power Rangers and Dungeons and Dragons I don't know, because I know Wizards of the Coast. They have both Dungeons and Dragons and Magic Gadgets. So would that count? Does Magic Gadget count too? Because that would make it even scarier. So I'm like no, no, I don't feel comfortable with all this. I know Monopoly is one of those I'm like eh, no, I don't feel comfortable with all this. Ain't bad enough. I know Monopoly is like one of the ones that I'm like, eh well, I haven't played Monopoly in a while, but isn't it funny how, like he, if he owns Hasbro and essentially he pretty much owns Monopoly and I'm like you don't find this a little, is the irony not lost on you in this situation where I'm like pretty much trying to buy damn near everything at this point?
Speaker 1:I mean okay and it's really funny how, like we were talking about Macaulay Culkin being married to Brenda Song, and I'm sitting here like I remember London and I'm like here like uh, I remember London and I'm like bro, like you literally have everything. Like you remind me of Jordan from um Wolf of Wall Street, where he beat the um, the uh lawsuits and whatnot, and I was like his dad was telling him hey, man, you won. You already got all the money in the world. What do you need? Everybody else's money? That's the thing. What more do you want? You already own Twitter. You already own Tesla. Isn't that enough, dog?
Speaker 4:I thought we learned this in economics class. One of the main things we learned was that you can't have a monopoly right. I'm confused on what's happening in america today, because it seemed like there's a whole bunch of people monopolizing like I just I don't know.
Speaker 1:I don't know, I don't know I draw the line when there was like a big three in streaming. You know how I said before with netflix, uh, disney plus and prime video, that's the big three for me so far. Like I draw the line at a big three to where, like, okay, this is fair enough, but if y'all try to make all that into one, I'm like bro. So essentially you're reintroducing cable, but the only difference is, yeah, we can watch whatever we want whenever we want, but that depends on what's on your streaming platform and if there's going to be any censoring that we don't like, and there might be even more exuberant price increases to a point to where we might as well be paying satellite TV prices. So, uh, yeah, I don't like the idea of monopolizing shit.
Speaker 4:I can't Can I bring up some other news?
Speaker 1:Yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 4:Sure Y'all heard of Johnny Somali.
Speaker 1:Oh, I heard about that bitch. What happened to him this time? Last time I heard he got on. He's in jail now, but did something else happen to him?
Speaker 4:He's actually still not in jail. He's indicted. He can't leave Korea, though.
Speaker 1:Okay, yeah, yeah, he's detained in Korea. He can't leave korea, though. Okay, yeah, yeah, he's like he likes detained in oh, korean dude.
Speaker 3:Okay, he's not korean well, he's not korean no no reason why I say no, no reason why I say korean dude, is because when I, when I've heard about it, it's like, oh hey, look, you know, this guy overheating korea, basically is trying to trying to escape Korea. Facebook not even trying to escape Literally showed off the fact that they told him you can't have a passport. But he has a passport that dumb shit. So that's why.
Speaker 4:Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So, along with all of this, you know, he deep faked A video Of Of him basically kissing a Korean streamer, a famous Korean IRL streamer, claiming that that was his girlfriend. And that was the reason he was in Korea. He has now filed charges and is pressing charges against him, and that was the reason he was in Korea. He has now filed charges and is pressing charges against him.
Speaker 1:Wow.
Speaker 4:So not only is he facing possible drug charges because I think they planned it I'm not going to lie to you, I think they did plan it but they're saying that he was on drugs. Not only are they saying that, but with this new charge, he's facing an additional 17 years.
Speaker 1:See, here's the thing. First of all, when you said that he was on drugs, could be on drugs. I'm not even that surprised what he be looking sometime. And also it doesn't really help his case when he's going around antagonizing folks, picking fights with people and shit, like some dudes were like straight up like chasing him, running him down because like he was starting some shit, and I'm like, hey, man, you're not going to be talking all wild and crazy like that.
Speaker 4:Bro, he got the warning. Bro, he got the warning. So, like one of the dudes who ended up knocking him out, warned him in his chat with like hey, bro, I don't think it's a good idea for you to be picking fights in Korea, where every man here is required to get military training.
Speaker 3:That boy.
Speaker 4:Like they warned him so hard, did he listen? Absolutely not. Like they warned him so hard, did he listen? Absolutely not. So when the this korean dude came up, knocked his lights out, he was like, oh my god, how dare you assault me? What, what?
Speaker 1:like. You see, ladies and gentlemen, the more you fuck around, the more you find out.
Speaker 4:Yo, not only is he, he's also banned from Japan. So this is the other part of it. That kind of is making me really upset. He's banned from Japan for five years. He can't go to Japan for five years, but Japan is. A lot of Japanese citizens or netizens, as they like to call it are, do are now fearing not only black people, because even though johnny tamale is not black, he is ethiopian, I can't remember exactly what his race is, but even that, a lot of netizens are fearing african americans coming from here, but they're also fearing american citizens coming there and they are trying to ask their government to ban American citizens from traveling there for the next 10 to 15. Because we need to learn our lesson.
Speaker 3:I can't blame them for that.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 4:I can't. It just makes me really sad, because how dare you go to another country and misbehave that bad, like that heinously?
Speaker 1:it just doesn't make any sense and and not regret it and not truly apologize some people just don't care, like that wow, you know, I think I have too much hope in people I mean like I don't know what to say other than like some people just operate on that level of selfishness like uh, they only really care for uhselves and what's convenient for them, and I'm like I mean I think maybe we just shouldn't Do.
Speaker 4:Y'all think we should have IRL Streamers, like should that be a thing In a category or should that just be something? I don't know.
Speaker 1:It really depends On the person. Like my whole thing is, I'm not into cancel culture shit, but at the same time, it's like I actually want people who actually about something to be the ones that's leading the charge with streaming or anything. Honestly, like at least be about something, but I just not for all the shit. To where, like if you were to scroll tiktok or go on twitch or whatnot and just seem like I'm just watching a whole bunch of nothing, then yeah, no, I want you to fuck off this platform, like I'm sorry, but like I mean, or I can like just ignore you, but still, though, it's like what does this do for anybody other than yourself? That's the main thing.
Speaker 3:My thing is right. Okay, so when we say IRL streamers, y'all talking about people like Kaisenet, right, Like.
Speaker 1:I mean like I still like Kai, so I'm like that's what I'm saying, he can still do his thing Like I don't mind Kai.
Speaker 3:Okay, so we talking about people like Kai Sennett or whatever. Um, there's just like, once again, kai has saved and I give it, I give credit where credit's due Kai has saved that genre so much. Yeah. Yeah, I'm talking about Carrie, because majority of the ones that you see that get the notice. They go to cons, they get in people's faces and then they get. They wonder why they get almost beat up or banned from places because you go and you're being rude to other folks, like so on that end, I say it wholeheartedly, kai is maybe about one percent that I would say should be allowed on twitch if you want to, if you want to watch that, if you want to watch IRL streamers, if we're talking about that type of people, irl streamers, put them on Kik.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Don't put them over here on Twitch, because once again kids.
Speaker 1:Well, either Kik or Chatterbait. But you know that's me, that part. But I'm just sayingbait, but you know that's me what's chatterbait?
Speaker 4:you know what y'all can tell me later. Just tell me, y'all can tell me later, because I've never heard of it you're better off for not knowing, but uh, we'll tell you anyways, like uh, but yeah, you know what?
Speaker 4:yeah, I agree, like I like kai's content, but I also like how kai has learned his learn along the way, like what's's good content versus what's like. This is inappropriate, you know, and I just think that, like, I guess maybe nuisance content that's what I'm gonna call it, because I don't want to say IRL Nuisance content, like content creators who are just being a nuisance, who are just going around like putting their cameras in people's faces. Should that kind of content be banned?
Speaker 1:ah, jesus, but yes, like I said, yeah, yeah, yeah but for the most part that does get kind of crazy. Like, uh, I still remember um, excuse me for saying this, but like, even though it's a completely different contest but you still remember the Ricky Smiley show on the radios where he would be doing those prank calls and whatnot and just be calling people up and make all these fabricated stories that, oh, your friend or whoever told me to do this for you, and then some people can actually take a joke and whatnot. But then it gets really heated. I'm like, hey man, listen, some people just not be in the mood for that shit. So I kind of feel you on those streamers that try to prank people and be in people's faces and when they're like, hey, man, I'm just trying to live my life, I'm trying to get through my day to day, I don't got time for all this shit, and they keep bugging me.
Speaker 4:Yeah, like those people need to stop agree, agree, but yeah, I guess that's all.
Speaker 1:That's all I had uh, yeah, that was pretty much the miscellaneous news. Um, that's pretty much the miscellaneous news. That's pretty much All the news that we got. The only thing we had to add on Is that we are making More developments On the zone website that is zonealliancecom, zone hyphen alliance Dot com. We are going to try to get some merch going in January. We're going to be working on some things and ultimately, I'm going to try to work towards my goal of learning animation and game development so that way we can do some really cool shit in the future. But if nothing else, let's just go ahead and wrap this up. Uh, jalos mj, I do thank you for being on the show with me. I also thank on tuck for being on when he could and I thank you did listener, for listening to us to the end. Remember that great things are coming and stay nerdy until the next episode. Have yourself a good morning, good afternoon and good evening and, above all else, take it easy.
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