Interview with Nate Crocker and Matt Fridley on Podcasting

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new year and we're kind of finishing up on the

whole syndicated spotlight. Even though these

guys aren't syndicated, they're more so in the

core of the network. I am talking with the...

No, I want to get this right. So just give me

a minute here. Talking to the former co -hosts

of MWire Weekly, the current co -hosts of Weekend

at the Movies, we dropped Optimus Solo off at

a mac and cheese factory, so he's no longer with

us at this point in this episode of the podcast.

I have with me Mr. Nate Crocker. Hello, sir.

Hello. And Fridley Sin. Matt Fridley. Hello.

Hey, hey. i don't want to get on some of that

mac and cheese factory if you let me know where

that's at so basically what this is folks is

exactly what we were doing in episode sixty eight

through seventy three when myself and potentially

steve megatron at times came on and talked with

our syndicated staff we're going to talk to matt

and nate and kanna Let you the network and listeners

our fans hear from them a little bit more considering

Weekend at the movies hasn't had an episode and

I Don't know month and a half or so. So But that

that obviously couldn't be helped, you know Look,

you know when I've always said this when life

gets in the way podcasting should be the last

thing you should think about Yeah, I've always

said that. So what, other than Kevin twisting

your own arms, what made you want to become podcasters

or do the podcast with him? Well, Nate got asked,

right? Kevin was like, yeah. Because I think

Dan was stepping down and he was like, hey, Nate

and Kevin lived with each other at the time.

And so Kevin was like, hey, Nate, you want to

join me on this podcast? And it's funny, because

Nate and I had just started hanging out again.

Nate and I have been best friends for forever.

But we've lived in different cities for a lot

of the last three, four years. So he had moved

back. We were just getting back in the swing

of things, meeting up weekly and whatever. And

I just happened to hear them talking about it.

Like, hey, maybe we could talk about that Superman

movie. We just watched that Superman movie. I

was like, I just watched that Superman movie,

too. And I was like a little kid, like, oh. I

wanna do that too. That sounds like a lot of

fun. I don't know, I first started listening

to podcasts, I don't know, four or five years

ago, with Kevin Pollock. He does a lot of really

weird stuff. Sometimes he'll do one or two episodes,

then leave it for six months, then come back

to it. But I really like just talking, walking.

Talking, walking. Where he just interviews a

celebrity pretending to be Christopher Walken.

And that's how I got into podcasts. And I don't

know, I never really considered it for years,

even ever doing it, because doing anything on

the internet always seems like you got all these

hurdles to jump. And so the idea of Kevin being

like, hey, I don't have a co -host. We need somebody

to join in. It really was like, hey, that's all

the hurdles. All I got to do is show up. It's

usually when I tell anybody, like if I want someone

to co -host with me, I'll say, look, I'll do

all the work. All you gotta do is show up and

talk. Anyone can do those two things. Uh -huh,

exactly. What about you, Nate? What was your

origins for podcasting or wanting to... Other

than Kevin asking you to do the show, did you

have any inclinations before that to actually

do podcasting or had you listened to podcasts

before? Not really. I listened to... Fantasy

Fiction was before we started. Was that was like

December and then yeah, yeah, so I started listening

to the fantasy fiction podcast that Dom and Josh

do from the continue show and That really got

me into podcasts and then I Had listened to a

few of Kevin's episodes and it always was like

the audio quality is not that great And I've

always been like an audio quality Nazi So when

he was like, hey, do you want to do it? I was

like, yeah. And can I record? And can we do this

with the mics? And can I use all of it? Because

I have the Adobe Suite that I legally am paying

for and everything. Wait, I thought you only

paid for that once. You're still paying for it?

Well, I have the subscription. So it's like $35

a month. Don't know keeps him up to date on everything.

Yeah, everything's updated so it's like I always

like looking for new ways to use it because I

mean obviously I do with the artwork But I there's

so many other programs that I'm always like trying

to figure out how to use them so I was like really

excited to be like I could use this stuff and

and Yeah, so I don't know. I'm always excited

to like work on projects and stuff so That's

pretty much just how I say and I mean we were

watching movies Kevin and I so I was like I watching

all these movies and I've always been a fan of

like reviewing and like critiquing stuff But

I never had an outlet for it, and I found it's

very difficult It's way more difficult than I

assumed because I like I'll watch a movie and

then kind of be like how would you think that

one? I'm like I liked it And yeah, for me, it

was a little hard in the beginning. I've been

at this seven years now. The network's been online

for five and a half, nearly six years. This June

1st will be our six year anniversary. So I've

been doing podcasting for just about seven years

now. What was hard for me was going in and actually

doing the recording, getting the recording done

as far as... I still remember the very first

episode I recorded, because I was doing a one

-man show. I didn't want to say a solo podcast,

because he would think I was talking about him.

With the Transformers Generation 1 podcast I

started back in 2008, I went into it where I

was sitting up straight. My face was two inches

away from the microphone, and I have this stern

look on my face. Think of the deadpan guy on

the radio in Good Morning Vietnam before Robin

Williams takes over like the guy delivering the

news It's like today in Saigon, you know that

kind of thing. Okay So as I'm doing all this

I'm like wow and by the time the network got

into its first year first Six months or so eight

months. I just sat back and just talked and just

relaxed Um, but that, that for me was probably

the hardest part. Um, another difficulty I have

is sometimes concentrating on the material. Okay.

It depends on the top. Well, it depends on the

topic. If it's a topic that is just so God awful

that it's like, it's not even that I can't, it's

so God awful that I can't even tear it to shreds

because it's, it's, it's so bad. There are just

no words. That would be 1985's Mass cartoon,

but... Alright, so, where... Matt, I think I

probably know where you got yours, but Nate,

where did your nickname come from? Adolfo Shabadoo?

Yes! Alright, so, you know, you know, Breakin',

the movie Breakin' and Breakin' 2 Electric Boogaloo?

The actor that is in that movie his turbo turbo

is it turbo turbo and I think that his names

um It is credited as like Adolfo Shabadoo What's

his last name quintess or something? Yeah, it's

a weird so Adolfo Shabadoo like I use that for

a long time for my PSN name for the PlayStation

Network and I don't know when when it came time

to make a Twitter because I didn't make a Twitter

before actually doing the podcast because I don't

I don't do social media really like I have a

Facebook and I haven't been on it in like two

months like ever since I got married I really

haven't even checked it so like Adolfo Quinones

okay anyway so so Yeah, I was like Adolfo Shabadoo,

that's a good name. It was funny actually when

he made the Adolfo Shabadoo I also didn't have

a Twitter. He like he made his Twitter slightly

before me and I was like, well, I'll just be

Ozone is Adolfo Shabadoo. I was like I'll just

be Turbo who is Michael Boogaloo Shrimp Chambers,

but at Boogaloo Shrimp was already taken. I don't

know how Adolfo Shabbity was it and Boogaloo

Shrimp was. So I went with a nickname that they

gave me at work. I've got a dozen nicknames.

Everyone's got different nicknames for me at

work. Like Fridley sent Fridley sent. Yeah, so

you're a white rapper I mean, that's more acceptable

now. I mean back in the 90s. We were an oppressed

people, but now it is well between vanilla ice

and then in 2000s and you know M &M You guys

have a long way Much like Milly Vanilli set back

the hip -hop by you know, he stole his thing

from Queen and set us back a hundred years Mike

likes weird references. I've listened to his

podcast The funny thing is I can follow all of

what he just said and they can't folks You just

asked what's going on. Nate does this interesting

thing, like where he asks what's going on. No,

no, no. He pretends to not follow. He's like,

what's going on around? Like, like really, he's

he's following. I know what's going on. Like

what I'm saying is, why are we talking about

vanilla ice on this podcast? Well, because of

his nickname, Fridley sent, which I assumed you

got from 50 Cent, which is a African -American

rapper. I made the. No, he got it from. From

vanilla ice. Yeah. Oh, gee. Fridly ice, that

sounds more like, um... No, see, if I was gonna

go off of vanilla ice, it'd be ice ice Fridly.

Ice ice Fridly. Or, like, Fridly ice sounds like

a really good drink. A really shitty beer. No,

no, no, or like a low calorie, crystallized or

whatever. Drink Fridly Ice. It's got zero sugars.

You are not sweet at all. Really old, slurpy

flavor. What's that? Sounds like a really, really

old, slurpy flavor. I can get down on that. We

don't have a 7 -Eleven though. I gotta say, Nate,

when I first saw your nickname, I'm like... Yep.

Is he a Nazi lover of Scooby -Doo? What the hell

is going on there? You gotta look into it. It's

the new trend. Yeah. I'm not just gonna be blatant

about it, even though I was really blatant about

it and just using that exact name. He's dropped

a hyphen. Did I drop it? Yeah. You can't have

a hyphen in your Twitter to the handle. All right,

so what was the first movie you guys ever remember

seeing as kids? Whoa. Oh, wow. You said hard

hitting. Yeah, no, that's an interesting one.

Probably Star Wars for me, because it was one

of those things back in the day. They would air

Star Wars every year on USA Network. And I remember

like looking forward to it, like being like,

oh, it's coming up in a month. You know cuz I

didn't know him on the VHS like some of my friends

did and so it was like I remember always looking

forward to seeing that every year They would

you know do one a day like Friday Saturday Sunday

or something? No, you're not talking about it

in theaters. You're just talking about movies

No, just in general Wow the first you can remember

seeing as a kid like probably some Popeye cartoons

from Geez um, I don't know Lion King I remember,

I remember, Lion King. To be a similar question,

the first movie I ever remember seeing and not

just blindly being a child and being like, yes,

I love that movie because it's a movie. Because

I was a really nerdy kid, I guess. Yes. Yes.

So the first movie I ever had that I ever had

the capacity to review was Jurassic Park 2, I

want to say. Sometimes I say 3, sometimes I say

2. It was 2, was the one. Jeff Goldblum. Jeff

Goldblum's in like all of them. Well, no, I mean,

he was like he was a central character and it

was the one where they come come to like New

York, like T -Rex in New York. And then three,

they go back to the island. So it's two. Yeah.

I legitimately remember coming out of that theater.

I was like, I don't know, eight years old or

something. And I was just like, wow, I didn't

know Hollywood could make a bad movie. Because

I didn't have the capacity. I figured, well,

all this money gets spent, it's always good.

And that was the first one I ever, I guess, reviewed.

Do you have a concept when you're eight about

Hollywood spending money on movies? I don't know

if that was that. You know, like I said, I was

a nerdy kid. I pushed on my glasses. I don't

even know if I wore glasses when I was eight.

Yeah, I too. OK, so I... Like when I was younger,

I remember really liking Quentin Tarantino films.

Like when I was like 12. Which is weird. I think

that's probably the right age to get into Quentin

Tarantino. It's so not the right age to get into

Quentin Tarantino. It's about the right maturity

to like all of the stuff he does, but not to

understand all of the subtext and whatnot. He's

got a point. There's a lot of fake gore and a

couple of jokes that are blue. I just remember

like really caring about cinematography when

I was a kid for some reason. You always have

and always will. Like I started watching DVD

commentaries when I was like 12 or whatever,

I don't know. I've never seen a single movie

all the way through with commentary. Oh my gosh,

I would watch, I would like, I think... Like

I remember clerks and watching the commentary

on clerks and then Jeff Smith is just or Kevin

Smith. Sorry. He's just like like talking about

all the shots and like what he had to do to make

a film. And I was like, that sounds like fun.

And I don't know. It's a hard thing to do is

make films, but I always wanted to do it. We

dabbled. We dabbled. We have we have some really,

really terrible movies on Vimeo. Yeah. Like,

like, I still use that. They did in 2004. No,

six, six, six, seven. Because no, it had to be

seven, eight, because that was before YouTube

could have HD. Yeah. YouTube was this really

crappy website that if you wanted to throw up

like essentially vine quality stuff, you could.

The Mio was like hey if you want to be a legitimate

artist on the internet I bought a $400 video

camera just to make stupid movies. Yeah Did it

have a giant shoulder mountain was about the

size that you know came halfway out in front

of you and went halfway behind you No, although

my dad had a VHS recorder like that. No, this

was a very small handheld, you know, it's like

2008 at this point It amazes me, more specifically,

and I hate to say this, but it's the only reference

I can come up with. In reality television, like

Big Brother, it amazes me how far, in 15 years,

that show has been on the air for, even though

they're up to Season 16 or whatever else, it

started in 2000, so that show has been on for

15 years at this point. In the year 2000, I remember

them just having these giant... ceiling -mounted,

completely super long cameras and then now this

year they're like wall -mounted, almost invisible

rotators at this point. The technology has come

so far when it comes to video cameras. It's very

interesting. All right, so what kind of, so you

guys aren't just into movies even though you

do a movie podcast on our network here, but What

kinds of movies do each of you really gravitate

towards? Do you have a favorite genre? Do you

have a genre you will not watch? I don't have

a genre I won't watch, but I tend to gravitate

towards anything that is light -hearted and is

just fun. But, I don't know, probably like romantic

dramas I'm not really into. That's probably the...

I mean, it depends. If it's really good, then

if I hear about it being really good, I might

watch it. What's the one romantic drama that's

really good? It's got everyone, love actually.

Love, yeah, I haven't seen that one. Like it's

got bits of comedy sprinkled in, but it's actually

really good. We should sit down and watch it

just so you can see something from a genre you

don't normally watch. I also, I don't want to

say I won't watch any movie genre, but I don't

want to watch like anything incredibly graphic.

Like if it's meant to scare you. Whether it's

a thriller or a horror or a, you know, violent,

like, Texas Chainsaw Massacre type. I don't,

it doesn't do it for me. I'm not too into the

whole, like, the gore aspect of horror, but I

really like psychological stuff. Stuff that'll

give me a nightmare. I'm excited. No, dude. Nightmares

are the worst. I'm with Matt. I don't need nightmare

fuel. I love it. I do not need nightmare fuel.

I had enough nightmare fuel as a kid Freddy Krueger

and Jason and yeah for some odd reason which

board to I just I Don't know. I just haven't

I am so far away like Thrill like thrillers and

suspenseful stuff is fine, but the actual horror

genre That is the one thing where I draw the

line when it comes to movies like nope not doing

it Yeah as a kid my parents actually would call

up other parents and be like hey He can't watch

any of the Freddy Krueger stuff like he watched

one of them and he had nightmares for a week

So like just whatever you do Don't do it. So

that was always a thing Growing up my mom and

dad wouldn't let me Watch those kind of movies

for different reasons, but let's not get it.

Oh, man. All right. Let's see here. Favorite

movie of last year, 2014. Oh, cool. Oh, I was

like, I'm still in 2014 months. I was like, 2013.

Oh, no. Oh, man. Well. I'll go first since Nate's

thinking. I want to say the most enjoyable time

I had in a theater was Grand Budapest Hotel.

Oh, shoot. Like Nate went out and bought it like

day one when it hit DVD. And it was just it's

so good and so much fun and so enjoyable. And

I'm going to say that that was probably my favorite

movie. But the movie I want to suggest to everyone

is. Hercules, the second one with Dwayne Johnson

instead of the earlier one, The Legend of Hercules,

that was terrible. Because Hercules is the greatest

fantasy movie I think I've ever seen in a theater.

It blows all the Lord of the Rings out of the

water. It's better than The Hobbit. It's better

than, what was that, The 300? Either of them,

but definitely better than the newest one that

came out in the same year. So yeah. Yeah, I'm

with the Grand Budapest Hotel. I've watched it

more times than any other movie last year that

came out, so that has to be my favorite. Chef

was really good. I liked Chef. It was so lighthearted.

You knew exactly where it was going the whole

time. I know how this is going to end within

five minutes of this movie, and I know what I'm

going to see, but it was still a very enjoyable

trip. All right, outside of movies, what... All

right, so I listened to the Amazing Spider -Man

2 episode. We were very different in your Amazing

Spider -Man 2 episode. Wait, what? You had Amazing

Spider -Man 2 episode on the regular M -Wire.

Oh, right. No, no, no. I mean, I listened to

yours. I listened to yours and ours was very

different to yours. Yeah, yeah, because we don't

agree on that movie, apparently. I found that

I don't agree with most people on that movie.

You know, the only looking back on it, and I

haven't seen it since we did that that episode

of MWIRE. I just like how they incorporated.

Everything with the music in the fight scenes.

That's really what I like about it that entire

movie like the whole lightning fight scene how

the music is is Interspliced with each part of

the the cinematography as they're fighting each

other That's really my number one favorite thing

about that movie. Let's face it the spider -man

franchise probably I hate to say this because

Everyone know everyone should know by now listening

to me for seven years how much I hate when they

reboot stuff but at this point i'm thinking it

needs a reboot again i think they announced that

about a month ago are you kidding me no it's

one it's one of the three things i'm really upset

about that we haven't been doing at uh weekend

at the movies oh it's because that was that was

like i don't know if it's a hundred percent official

but yeah like the the word is out that they're

they're considering rebooting it already that's

nuts i thought i thought the story was that marvel

and sony came up with some deal with the devil

to actually have two different Spider -Man universes.

Sony can do their stuff and Marvel can bring

in their own stuff. I don't know. I had heard

it was a co -production that was going to maybe

lead to Spider -Man being in the Avengers at

some future date while Marvel doesn't hold the

rights to the movies. But again, I don't have

any legitimate information. That's one of those

things I really go for is having an actual news

source that I can point to. But that's the rumors

that I've heard. Yeah. There's some sort of deal

to do that. It's it's nuts Which is I don't know

I find it very upsetting because um the very

first amazing spider -man movie I think is probably

gonna be the best spider -man movie we're ever

gonna see Like as far as being a comic book fan

that read has read the comic books You know going

back all the way to the first one and you know

secret wars and all the big stuff and even the

little stuff Like I think that captures. What

is spider -man? the best and I don't think it's

ever gonna happen again as well yeah um I don't

I just want Marvel to be able to use the character

I don't I don't want a rebooted I'll say this

now I don't want a rebooted film where they have

a third French Spider -Man franchise and they

have to tell the origin again we know he got

bit by a mother spider we get it You know, we

don't need another origin film. I just want Marvel

Studios to be able to actually use the character.

That's really all I want. I can get behind that

idea. That said, just like you said, everyone

knows the origin of Spider -Man. They could maybe

just gloss over it. They didn't give Hawkeye

an origin story at all. They didn't even give

him a solo movie. They just threw him in. He

was in Thor for two minutes and then he was in

The Avengers. Wait, he was in Thor? Yeah, remember

that? At the shield encampment around the hammer,

when Thor shows up to take the hammer back, he's

a sniper. He's about to shoot him. Jeremy Renner

and everything, using a bow. Okay. Yeah, there's

not a lot of things people remember about the

Thor movie The Thor movie is like the amazing

spider -man movie and the thing that you can

point to that people did like they are very very

similar movies and the things that they have

in common that the other movies don't have in

is a love story and I think comic book movies

are like action movies aimed more at men and

a lot of guys don't like love stories like that's

the main difference between those two and Say

Iron Man 1 or even Captain America whose love

story was barely barely touched I Had a date.

Yeah. Yeah, that's it You know I But see that

that to me and Captain America it was it was

a funny thing it was a It was a funny ironic

kind of thing. It was very lighthearted. It was

like a love story. It was like, oh, I want to

date her. She's pretty. Oh, I got in trouble

with this other lady. Oh, I'm in ice. Yeah. Oh,

I mean, you know. How could they have changed

that, though, in that movie? I mean, they had

so much going on with Red Skull and whatever

else, and him actually getting transformed. I

mean, that was really more so his. I mean, it'd

be great if they did something in three or four

or whatever they're going to do next with the

character, but... I honestly think that when

it comes to geeky movies, not just comic book

movies, but geeky movies in general, ever since

Attack of the Clones, no geek wants to see a

love story on screen when it comes to characters.

Because I'm sorry, Thor's girlfriend in Star

Wars 2 just absolutely sucked the two of them.

Oh my god, Christensen and Portman, ugh. See,

I feel like Natalie Portman and... Who was Obi

-Wan? Ewan McGregor. Those two were acting their

asses off. They're like, man, we have this crappy

script. We're surrounded by really bad actors.

And they're just trying so hard. Because you

watch them in anything. They're amazing. So it's

like, it's got to be direction. It's got to be

the script. Because those two are always great.

It's got to be Lucas. Yeah, honestly. Lucas?

Became a powerhouse in the 70s and 80s and like

by the time he started doing the prequels He

just iron grip like no one can tell me no because

it's mine And it's sad what we ended up getting

I don't think the first three the prequels are

as bad as a lot of people on the internet will

say I think there's some legitimately good things

in there, but yeah the love story in that was

no good Hayden Christian's not a very doesn't

do a good job in that I've heard he's a good

actor, which is why I want to see outcast the

one where he and Nick Cage become knights in

the mountains. I've been putting that one up

out there all day this last two weeks, but I

wanna see that, but yeah, he did a terrible job.

That said, the Thor, Thor 1's love story, also

very poorly written. It was really bad, and that

does not lend itself to that movie. That movie

was brought down by its love story, and I agree

with that wholly. It's just okay. Here's my thing

with Thor. It's not that I don't like the action

scenes in the movie It's not like I don't like

anything that we normally would like about an

action movie, but For me the character of Thor

is so unrelatable because he is supposed to be

this godlike creature from another world You

know and it just it's so I hate to say this but

the love story in that movie It's like two teenagers

just fumbling Trying to figure out because they

have no he is from a different world. He is from

different customs He doesn't get earth humor.

He doesn't get all that like the only time I

am even Interested in seeing Thor at this point

is when he's with the Avengers because that's

when it's funny and good Yeah, it's like Hulk

like Hulk movie because his Avengers movie is

Avengers time is great and isn't solo time is

Well, I don't know. I really like the Edward

Norton one, but apparently it didn't do well

enough to warrant another solo Hulk. You know,

I honestly think it's actors. It has to be the

friggin actors because Eric Bana in 2003 and

I'm sorry only because it's Ang Lee. I always

make this joke about that movie. It's Crouching

Tiger Hidden Hulk because that's all Hulk ever

did in that damn movie was just jump from From

Plateau to Plateau in the middle of the damn

desert reminded me so much of Lee's other work

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon is also doing is

jump around and fighting each other But I honestly

think it's the actor and now that and people

when I was on our Canadian friends podcasting

network this week in geek this week geek net

we Everybody on there Mike dot and all of them

just made fun of me called me a geek called me

a ruffalo supporter everyone kept Pissing on

my parade when it came to me talking about Mark

Ruffalo as Bruce Banner in the Avengers and everybody's

like No, it's not gonna be it's gonna be horrible.

It's gonna be worse than Ed Norton. It's gonna

be this it's gonna be that and Look what happened

it turned into a billion dollar success, and

he's probably the best banner. We've had since

the 70s television show At least in my personal

opinion. But with Thor, I can't find anything

to relate to him at all. Like I said, I prefer,

and I don't know if you guys like this series

or not, I prefer when Thor is funny and interacting

with the Avengers. I love Superhero Squad Show.

I love that show. You know, how he was portrayed

in that was just great. What other comic book

movies or superhero movies do you guys like or

not like? Well, I'm very easy to please. I, you

know, I think that the Thor's love story was

very poorly done. But I like all everything Marvel's

done since they've gotten all the things that

they do have rights to do. I've been good. Almost

any movie that's had a third one, though, has

been you know, just thumbs down for me. Like,

honestly, and this might be the thing that people

will think I'm a terrible movie comic book guy,

but I don't like the Dark Knight trilogy. Like,

at all. A lot of people don't. Like, especially

the third one. Like, I haven't even seen the

third one. Like, it just looked that bad to me.

Like, the second one, I think, was overhyped.

I think it was a decent movie movie, but not

a very good Batman movie. And then the first

one was just a wreck. like just legitimate holes

that don't make sense the second one I always

have trouble when it comes to like I'll watch

it and then I'll get like halfway in and be like

I just saw some good Joker scenes I'm done like

Christian Bale doesn't excite me or he's not

it's terrible Batman even worse Bruce Wayne yeah

there's a worse bad group but he's bad he's bad

at both Heath Ledger does an amazing job acting

in that movie and that's all that movie has going

for it I could just watch the Joker scenes and

be done with that one Yeah, I like the Dark Knight

Batman Begins I like it once we actually see

but like the last Third of the film when we actually

see Batman doing stuff All right, so we're gonna

get into some strange geek territory here folks

and please remember these are just opinions okay,

so Matt From worst to first, who are your favorite

actors that have played Batman? Least to favorite.

Least to favorite? Well, then I'll just say Christian

Bailor out the bat. Of the original, the four

that were from the 80s to early 90s, there was

just Michael Keaton and George Clooney. Michael

Keaton, George Clooney, Val Kilmer. Kevin Conroy.

Okay, let me spit live -action film We throw

if we throw Kevin in there it's hands down Kevin's

the best all around I mean is Batman to every

I'm gonna throw it out. I haven't seen the the

40s and 50s serials like I want to see those

really bad But I haven't seen them so I can't

rate that guy, but uh we'll say And what no who

was the guy that I just said the the Dark Knight

guy he's Christian Bale Bale um Worst the best

Christian Bale Val Kilmer Probably Clooney after

that like no you do he's better than kill. Yeah,

really no you do you I don't like Val Kilmer

Cluny then Kilmer. Well, I don't know man. I

enjoy the Cluny movies. Cluny did nothing. No,

no the the Cluny movies are good for their what

they are yeah, but Cluny is terrible as Batman

in those. The only line that he had that was

even remotely funny was, this is why Superman

works alone. Yeah, no, like, see, that's why

I love Clooney, is that like, in that movie,

in those movies which are over the top and ridiculous,

kind of like, they're kind of like the Dark Knight

meets Adam West for no reason at all. Like, Joel

Schumacher was just going crazy with those. Like,

he is like, he's not either of those guys and

he doesn't belong at all and I find that even

better. Thankfully Clooney only played him once.

I still, I will defend Kilmer to the day I die

as a good Bruce Wayne. Not a good Batman, but

a good Bruce Wayne, because I thought he really

did justice to the emotional tones of the character

that was presented in Forever. I'm gonna have

to rewatch that one again. Those two... Like

how I need to rewatch Batman and Robin because

I fell asleep last time we watched it Yeah, I

only got about two -thirds in you didn't get

you only got half the ice puns. Yeah, that's

really Top -notch so then I guess after that

would be Who do we got left? We got a the guy

key Keaton and Adam West and I don't know I think

as far as a serious Batman Keaton's probably

done the best job and as far as Batman Adam West

has done the most entertaining job, but but the

problem is Like when I think about Batman, I

don't think about Michael Keaton at all. Yeah.

Like Batman in the movies is the least interesting

part of the movies. It's almost always. Yeah.

The rogue gallery is what brings you in. Yeah.

Because they're varied and he isn't. Yeah. He's

the sentinel justice, yada yada, hiding the shadows.

Yeah. And then they're all over the top and different.

Yeah. I mean, I care more about Christopher Walken

than I do Bruce Wayne. Christopher Walken? Christopher

Walken was the best part about Batman Returns.

The rest of that movie sucked, other than the

giant duck boat. Where was Christopher Walken

in Batman Returns? Are you kidding me? He was

Max Shrek! Yeah, I remember that. I remember

Danny DeVito being a really great guy. Oh my

god, how do you not remember Christopher Walken

as Max Shrek? I probably saw it in the mid to

early 90s and like twice. And you haven't seen

it since. Like, I definitely, two years ago I

read, I have the actual comic book adaptation

and I don't remember anyone looking like Christopher

Walken in that either. They didn't, we weren't

able to capture his Walken -ness. It's only one

extra long book. It's like an annual. So they

probably just couldn't keep all of that storyline

or whatever. I don't know. He was the one. He

was the one. What did curiosity do to the cat?

He was he was Max Shrek. He was Salinas boss

who shoved her out. Oh, is he the only shooter

like six times and then push it out a window?

Yeah, I remember that scene. I don't remember

walking. Yeah, he doesn't even do enough in that

movie. Is that all he does? Yeah, that's all

he does. Kills her in the beginning. Kills her

in the beginning, and then he tries to be the

political advisor to Danny DeVito's Oswald Cobblepot.

I'm sorry, folks. michael keaton's two portrayals

as batman 89 far surpasses returns returns to

me out of those four movies returns to me is

my least favorite it's probably the worst one

for me i just other than michelle pfeiffer in

the catsuit and seeing the hilarious joke of

the duck boat i just cannot get behind batman

returns at all whatsoever It's just so bad. Alright,

let's see. Favorite comic book series of 2014?

Oh man, I haven't read. See, the issue with comics

is I was huge into them. Huge that was really

where we bonded was yeah comic books namely the

series 52 right after uh, uh Then I went to college

and I racked up a ton of student debt and now

I'm paying that off And I don't have any money

for comics. There's like nothing in my budget

for comics. I haven't read a comic since 2012

probably Really? It's been three years since

you read any comics Wow to but I mean sometimes

well Don't even count and also I completely got

out of superhero comics like I'm if I read a

comic it's gonna be an independent one I'm gonna

read like I was really into chew. I don't know

if you know chew. Oh, yeah We we actually cut

my buddy JT and I we covered the first two volumes

on the pull bag last year Yeah, I read like the

first like 12 issues or something. It's really

good I haven't read them yet Geez So, yeah, I

don't know I haven't I haven't reading comics

at all but that being said Captain Marvel is

my favorite DC superhero and Captain America

is My favorite Marvel Super Captain Marvel doesn't

exist anymore. Uh Yeah, you should Sam whatever

as that was a very angering mistake that they're

never gonna change So I guess I, I mean, I haven't

been, sadly, I haven't been to Niels, which is

the place we go for comic books. Probably, well,

place we used to go for comics. Nate hasn't been

to Niels in like five years. I haven't been there

in, I don't know, like eight months. I want to

say the only book I bought religiously in 2014

was X Factor because Peter David is my favorite.

But I bought every issue of the current X Factor.

except for what's still in my stack, because

I haven't been there in eight months, so I've

got another eight issues to buy. I haven't read

a single one of them. I think it's on issue 20

or something. I haven't read a single one of

them. I haven't even finished the previous X

Factor series. I've got them all, though, because

I have to support Peter David whenever he does

something I enjoy, and I enjoy X Factor, because

I do enjoy cape books on like Nate. But the most

enjoyable comic book I read that was actually

published in 2014 was the first issue of The

Serenity Ongoing. I really like Firefly. Serenity

was a turn that I wouldn't have liked, but it

was enjoyable. I like almost everything Joss

Whedon does. And so I'm gonna say that that was

the most enjoyable comic. I enjoy comic. I enjoy

superhero comics. It's just... To keep them all

straight and have a ton of like like basically

for me if they're gonna be referencing other

comics I need to buy those comics and I just

I know I can't keep up. There's too many comics

to buy. Yeah, that's that's the same way I am

because it's like oh Okay, death of the family

in 2012 or whenever it was death of the family

when the Joker comes back And he has no face

and this and anything and it's like, okay, so

we're gonna do these seven issues in Batman You

know the the Batman series and then we're gonna

have all these other issues and all these other

titles that you'll you know that are all gonna

be tie -ins and I'm like oh God, but but I'm

with you Nate this year is past year in 2014

Specifically more so because of what DC does

and how they handled stuff that I just don't

care of how they've done the job that they've

done I've also stepped away from superhero books.

I want to read Marvel and we did do, and I have

read Marvel before, I'm just not current with

any Marvel titles, but DC that they cancelled

Batman Beyond. They're canceling Arkham Manor,

which just started this past year. Sadly, the

only title I think I'll probably be getting from

them the rest of this year is their He -Man title,

which is a licensed property. I've gone more

towards creator -owned or other licensed properties.

IDW is the king of comic book publisher when

it comes to licensed properties. They have Transformers,

they have Turtles, they have G .I. Joe, they

have Ghostbusters, which sadly is ending. But

with Image Comics, I read to, let's see what

else, Sex Criminals, Cowl. At this point, I'm

just looking for really interesting books. I

don't have a specific genre as long as it appeals

to me, like if I read a little blurb about it

or whatever else. Who is your most hated comic

book villain? The one you just absolutely cannot

stand at all From like a like I don't like this

guy he's so evil or like a man he's never written

well You pretty much just don't like them all

around okay Honestly for a mixture of the two

I don't like Lex Luthor I feel like I feel like

you know There's a lot of interesting parallels,

especially between the movies. He does a really

interesting job in the movies, back in the Richard

Donner days. In the comic books, I don't know,

I rarely like him. In Smallville, I didn't watch

much Smallville, but what I saw in Smallville,

I didn't like him. I just don't like Lex Luthor.

Like I mean he doesn't have like I feel like

he's supposed to be the he's the everyman Fighting

the the everyman but like he's the the downtrodden

Goliath David situation, but it's like I don't

like him. He's like he's not relatable. He's

very rarely written like a genius and He's just

not entertaining to me Hmm Nate I I don't even

know because if a comic book villain isn't intriguing,

I've already forgotten about him. I get you.

I get you. So I don't know. Cool. Cool. All right.

So what can we expect from you guys in the future?

Do you guys even know? Well, so Weekend at the

Movies was... Kevin out to a solo's like baby,

right? Yeah, that was the one he did that I know

he did and he's been there from the beginning

um and He has since gotten a very serious relationship

that The day that they can spend together her

only day off in the week is the day that we're

both free to record That's that's what killed

it And then I got married and then went on a

two week vacation. Nate and I also, Nate and

I did another podcast together, not syndicated

anywhere, just us doing a thing, just to give

it a try, see what it was like without Kevin.

And it was a lot of fun, but then, just in a

very short succession, almost about a month after

we stopped recording Weekend of the Movies, Nate

got married, which involved a bachelor party

and then preparing for the wedding and then.

the thing you do after the wedding? What is that?

The honeymoon. And the preparation for the honeymoon.

And then once they got back, they moved out of

Kevin's house. So they had to do a movie. It

was just immediately chewed up all the time.

We couldn't do that podcast either. And then

that one has a lot more to it than Weekend at

the Movies. That said, I haven't talked to Kevin.

But I am literally just itching to do it again.

It's one of those things that really bothers

me. And if we have to try to find another day,

or if we do it without Kevin and he jumps in

sometimes, I don't know. But I really miss this.

Especially when I did the wars episode just recently.

It was just like, this is where I belong. This

is what I should be doing at least. Even if it's

only an hour or two a week, it's something that

I need in my life. Yeah, you know once you get

into pod It's kind of like that old saying I

Thought I was out and they pulled me back in

you know Once you get into podcasting. It's really

really hard to drop it I mean some people might

be able to depending on how their personalities

are but Once you pick it up, and you have a knack

for it you and you really really enjoy what you're

doing It's it's a hard thing to step away from

Yeah But like really really like you said when

when the hurdles start coming. It's the last

thing that you do Oh, yeah, but it's right there

in your mind Yep, absolutely All right. Well,

I hope this gave everybody a little insight into

Matt and Nate and Who knows we might see them

in other things on the geek cast or radio network.

I do know Since this episode is probably going

to go up the Friday after the tournament is over,

I do know are both are both of you going to be

on the championship? If I'm if I'm invited, I'm

going to be there. Well, sure. I mean, I was

only in one of the rounds, which is a sad thing.

Yeah, because I work at UPS. And so when you

guys were going to record late at night during

the week, it was like, no, I like I'm going to

even if I recorded, I would have to. close my

mic, close my laptop, and run out the door to

get to work. It just wasn't gonna work. And I

was also gonna have to lose an hour of sleep

to do it. So as soon as Christmas was over though,

I was right there. Awesome, awesome. uh... but

yeah who knows uh... you know you might you might

see these guys elsewhere on the cast or network

and hopefully weekend at the movies will return

soon uh... coming up next on the geek cast radio

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