Superhero News and Comic Con Coverage

This is Jason David Frank and you're listening

to the Geek Cash Radio Network. You are now on

the inside of what I like to call the circle

of trust. We are all connected in a great circle

of life. You know something Bert? I think you

and I are going in circles. It feels like we're

going in circles. The Circle is now complete.

When I left you, I was but the learner. Now,

I am the master. Because it's a circle. Yeah,

we heard about the circle. Yeah, it's what William

would say. Hi, this is Greg. This is Chuck. And

this is Dan, and we are Talking in Circles, brought

to you by the UCAS Radio Network, a podcast that's

all about the base. No trouble. And I say no

trouble because I say that song wrong and it

always pisses off my wife, but I'm doing it anyways

because I'm a rebel. But what do you think it

is? Trouble or trouble? I say it's trouble, but

I like saying trouble because it's wrong. So

I always I always think it's trouble, too. Yeah.

No. Anyways, I have no idea what you're talking

about. Personally, I'm all about the trouble.

Yeah. Yeah. I'm a little bit about the trouble.

I am all about that base, though. I am all about

that base. But anyways, this week we have a special

episode for you, episode 40. We don't typically

get into news, but there's so much dropping at

the moment. There's so much going on with New

York Comic Con and whatnot that we'll be getting

into a lot of that, the segment, the second segment,

the DC news, the Marvel news, all the craziness,

all the speculation. But before we get to that,

how's the week been going for you guys? This

week was kind of tough. Mainly because of the

outcome of the Orioles baseball series. Yeah,

that was that was pretty pretty brutal Get get

swept four games and they they couldn't do a

damn thing No after they lost that first game.

I just I don't know. I'm like it's done. I was

just angry. Yeah Yeah, there's so many chances.

It was a bad way to go very disappointing and

then on top of that Dolphins lost with three

seconds left on the friggin clock because they

couldn't fall on a fumble and because Aaron Rodgers

is Aaron Rodgers. He he double checked the defense

and found a mismatch. Oh, I saw that game. And

I was I was watching that and I'm like, I feel

so bad for Chuck. Yeah, I was actually listening

on the radio because I was out, but it was on

ESPN radio. So at one point it was like, you

know. They just missed the fumble, but that caused

a fourth down. I'm like, okay, just stop them

here. They convert it Like two plays later they

score like son of a bitch I was pretty bummed

out about that, but I felt bad for you until

the Giants played and I'm like I don't feel bad

for Chuck anymore I've got a nice text from Greg.

I'm like I can I know a Twitter message from

Greg You can hear me yelling from in from Baltimore

and I'm like probably you probably could have

My saving grace for the weekend though was that

I did defeat Greg in fantasy football You bastard

my team is horrible this year. Yes And this week

I played Dan so yeah You're going down or maybe

not. I don't know Are pretty solid team. I'm

foreign. I think we're both foreign to you. So

it's a good potential playoff matchup. Watch

us tie. We'll have like down to the tenth of

a point. We'll have like one twenty three point

two four. Yeah. Well, we've had two wins this

year in our league where people will have one

with less by less than a point like you had one.

You had one that you lost and then there was

another one last week. I mean, that's just kind

of brutal. So but anyway, it's great. I am one

in four. Ouch. Yeah, that's gotta hurt well,

you know when you have adrian peterson and what

happens happens. It's kind of it's hard to it's

hard to overcome. Yeah, that's tough But besides

all that how's your week been going greg? Besides

football, uh pretty good. Uh, i've recently joined

tinder i'm, not sure if you guys know what that

is I do use it to start small fires No, not that

kind of tinder even though their logo is a little

uh flame type of thing But Tinder basically is

like a kind of find people around you type of

app. It's a social app. It hooks up to your Facebook

and it'll take your picture and put it on there.

Sorry, I just got an image of that it was like

for blind people because you said you said find

people around you But uh but it'll find people

in a certain radius that you could display a

certain age group and everything and some people

use it to find like girlfriend, boyfriend, or

more sexual relationship, or they find people

to hang out with. So it's basically to find people

around you to do any of those sorts of things

with. Really known for sexual relationships,

that's where it's getting its notoriety. That's

not a word. I'm on there to see if maybe I could

find a lady friend, but not that way and more

of a relationship. Been on there for about two

days now. It's been pretty good so far, but I

finally got my first hooker to message me. Nice.

Nothing like the first time, right? Yeah. So

I thought you guys, it's a very short exchange,

but I thought you guys would like to hear it.

Let me pull up Tinder. I'm curious what a hooker

and troop would look and sound like that I'm

guessing a lot of used guys when when talking

is that No, um Apparently it went away. That's

sad. Um, but anyway, she actually looked good

if that's what she actually looks like but she

It's a little cute blonde and she had this Dog

in the picture that she was kind of holding on

to and had her face next to him and it was very

curly furry Looking dog. I'm like, oh, that's

cute. And so I messenger after we both got a

match because you could go Swipe left or swipe

right swiping left rejects the person swiping

right is you like the person and so Like we got

the match and everything. So I wrote her a message

I'm like your dog is very cute and he looks very

fuzzy and then she goes Hi, I'm an escort and

you can you can do anything you want with me

for a hundred and twenty five dollars an hour

Wow, yeah just right to the Trying to be like

kind of setting up, like maybe you want to hang

out sometime. She was just like $125. You could

do anything you want to me. I'm like, oh, she

was in a hurry because Liam Neeson was interrogating

her boss. I've never even considered going to

a person like that. But when she did that, I

was like, wow, actually, that's really cheap.

She's got she's got a special gallon, you know

It was it was pretty cheap Yeah, hepatitis are

free though. That's nice. So yeah, you get that

for free. Yeah, so it comes with the package

I'm sure it does. I'm sure it does Wow, so yeah,

I don't have any hooker stories this week. Unfortunately,

or fortunately I should say Yeah, I think she'd

be very very excited about that but I do have

like I don't know if you ever experienced situations

like I like to call it instant karma where something

happens and it just makes you feel good because

someone does something stupid and kind of gets

This one happened in real life where I was stuck

at a red light. It turns green and I'm like kind

of far down and I know that like I have enough

space to kind of get this red light because get

through this green light because it's one of

those lights that doesn't last long but for whatever

reason this one car decides to just that's going

the opposite direction starts just going through

Delight really slowly as if like he's trying

to sneak through if no one would notice. I don't

know what he was doing But he's like, uh, like

he does like us like a rolling stop and just

kept going and eventually goes through the light

And I'm like, that's weird and like I'm not gonna

get through the light now. I'm like, what a jerk

I was kind of getting angry but I see him go

by and There's a dump truck kind of in front

of me in the left lane Him and but then suddenly

I see a car turn right, which is a left only

turn like what's that guy doing? And I realized

it's a cop car He immediately turns on the lights

and turns and pulls this guy right over for going

through the light. It was awesome I'm like that's

gotta suck like immediately. I'm like nice You

must not have saw him to kiss a dump truck was

like blocking the cars You couldn't see that

it was a cop car there. You see him go through

and immediately it was like the cop just like

I was like, oh, OK, I guess this is happening

now. So it reminded me of another time, too,

when I was stuck at a red light. And I was actually,

it was first in line. It was myself. A cop was

behind me and a person to my left. And I was

actually kind of worried because there was a

situation where I passed a cop out when I was

driving really fast. And then he pulled out.

I'm like, oh, crap. I might get pulled over for

speeding. But then we're stuck at this red light.

There's no one going in the other direction.

For whatever reason, the car to my left just

goes. For no reason whatsoever and and I could

see the cop like behind me because i'm looking

through my rear view mirror and you see the look

on his face, which is like Wait, what it's like

running the world. It just happened. He's like,

all right. Well, okay, and it turns out it's

like pulls him right over i'm like The cop was

right behind you. Why would you go through the

red light? That dude got really nervous and was

like, oh shit. What do I do? I'm just gonna go

Yeah, it was like Am I at Sam's Club? Is this

like a free sample or something? What the hell?

It's like free parking. I apparently, you know,

collect $500. But yeah, anyways, that was just

kind of a funny story. I love those instant karma

situations where someone does something stupid

and then they get paid for it immediately. And

another situation that happened this week. I

had the pleasant experience of watching a documentary

and while watching it, the first thought and

the only thought that was running through my

head while watching it was like, this is a perfect

movie to bring up during the podcast. I was thinking

of like the one documentary that Greg took about

a long time ago with the craziness of the ventriloquist

and whatnot and like how insane that movie was.

Well, this movie it's called The Final Member.

and You laugh and your idea of what member could

mean. Yeah, you're actually probably right It

is that age -old story about a man Well, you're

more right than you realize About a man in Iceland

with a dream his dream was somewhat realized

because he runs You know one of those everyday

shops that you see all over the place. He runs

a penis museum so This Icelandic man, he runs

the world's largest penis museum. I thought the

world's largest penis museum was the Washington

Monument. Maybe largest in length, but I think

he wins in girth. Girth? Okay. Me too. Me too.

But no, it's a real thing. It's a real documentary.

There was this guy basically in Iceland who...

He wanted to to build he collected penises from

different animals from all different work different

like from rodents to Whales to cows to anything

you have you and it's cool. I'll have three penis

wine That I don't know he had so many in his

collection that eventually had to open up a museum

and actually gained notoriety and it became rather

famous and So he has basically penises from all

these different animals from everywhere really,

but there's one he does not have. Can you guess

what the one penis he doesn't have is from? His

own. You'd be surprised how close you are to

being correct. I lost you guys, that's why I'm

not laughing. The one... penis that he does not

have and he longs for. He longs for this penis.

Oh, he longs for it? He does. He says his life

would not be complete if he cannot get his hands

on this penis, which would be a human penis.

He has all these other penises except for human.

It would just fill a hole inside of him. It would

it really would the funny thing is though. Oh,

obviously you're making jokes here But the documentary

is actually rather interesting and it takes it

somewhat seriously and it becomes the story just

about You know this guy coming up with this dream

and trying to have this happen And the funny

thing is the guy who runs the penis museum is

probably the most normal person in the entire

documentary It seems like an everyday, you know,

just guy but what happens is like he you know,

it's put out there that He wants a human penis

for his museum and he has two potential people

One of the potential people is an old elderly

man who lives in Iceland who's like one of the

most famous Iceland people ever and of course

No one we wouldn't have no idea who he is because

we're Americans and that's how we roll. But uh,

there's like four people Like yeah, we make up

like half the population of Iceland. But yeah,

he did a lot of extraditions early on and like

he went to a lot of places in Iceland that no

one ever went to. He became famous and he's very

proud of his promiscuous lifestyle. Like he mentions

that he's basically been with over 300 women

and whatnot. He's, you know, he's like the playboy

of Iceland and he's like, but right currently

he's in his nineties and he's promised to donate

his Unit I hope the museum curator gets that

one at a discount. It sounds very heavily used.

I Think he wants a new model think it'd be a

good way to go I mean something with that high

mileage count you think a car 300 ,000 miles

He's probably done that a lot himself. So but

now well, the funny thing is though it comes

with the other person who's willing to Well,

that's actually becomes part of the documentary.

Like what exactly, we'll go into this display.

I say that because like the other guy who is

willing to donate his personal belongings to

this museum, he is an proud American man. I see

like in his late 50s or early 60s. Oh, the sad

thing is you'll just wait till I talk about what

happens with this guy. Not to be mean, but like

you look at him and. I'm like that guy looks

like a trial molester. Like he just he has that

face. He just looks now He just looks he's a

weird -looking dude He's a really tall like like

a doughy looking guy, but he is an oddball everyone

else I think in the film was rather heartfelt

and honest. This guy's just crazy as as day is

long He is intent on donating him his self to

meet this museum even if it means that he will

do so before remove it before he passes away.

He's nicknamed his penis Elmo or I should say

his wife has nicknamed his penis Elmo and he

has a plan on making a comic book dedicated To

himself because he's so proud of his tickle me

elmo Or don't tickle me elmo No, not there, but

he is a crazy crazy dude like he goes all out

It's to the point he talked about usa and whatnot.

He shows a lot of american pride because it's

a tattoo Where you should not get a tattoo of

stars and stripes to show off that way when it's

displayed it would show his american pride Uh,

it is he's a crazy guy. Uh, he I thought I feel

and there's this great part with this Icelandic

guys talking and he's talking about this guy

who's wants to donate himself He's like he just

will not stop sending me messages and he sends

me photos after photos and he's been sending

this guy photos of himself He's sexting him He

really is he's sectioning him pictures of Elmo

dressed up in different outfits like Yes, like

the village people or like a mailman or like

It's like all these different like outfits and

whatnot. Are you treating it like a little doll

or something? It's absolutely insane The guy

just completely is thinking it's normal in some

of that stuff it like you have to have to see

it to believe it there's this scene with this

female doctor who when he goes in to have a the

possible procedure of getting it removed and

you see him going in to examine what she'll be

operating on and then suddenly you hear her say,

huh? You you have a little bit of a stars and

stripes here and his reaction is His reaction

to that is oh, yeah, that was a fun day. So So,

yeah craziness that's all I'll say Again, that's

the final member. It's on Netflix. I would recommend

it. I think I'm making a lot of jokes here, but

it's actually an interesting documentary. Did

Carol watch that with you? No, she didn't. And

I'm glad she didn't walk in on me watching that,

because it would be hard to explain that one.

It's like, why? What are you? It's a documentary

about a penis museum. I don't think that makes

it better. No, no, but you know, again, it's

on Netflix Interesting watch it came out earlier

this year. So anyways, let's get out of this

hole as quickly as possible. That's what he said

Greg I know that you recently got another Loot

Crate. Is that correct? That is correct. I got

the October Loot Crate and it is the theme of

fear Ooh, we're spooky. It's October. But in

this Loot Crate, we have gotten a Death by Kitten

t -shirt. Nice. Which is a black t -shirt and

it's got white printing on it of a whole bunch

of cats formed together to make a giant skull

on the t -shirt. Death by Kitten, that is awesome.

I still not better than the idea of Death by

Dolphin, but it's close. Yeah, I pulled that

out of the box and I was like, yes, this is awesome.

This is the best thing that's going to be in

here. I know it. Next up is a toxic candy waste,

which it looks essentially to me like it's a

warhead that they just repackaged into something

that says toxic waste and has a toxic waste barrel

on it. That's all it looks like. Then there's

a sledgehammer pen. which I, I, it was like in

this little coffin. It was a little cardboard

box that was terribly constructed and was just

taped onto the other side of the box, which I

thought was a little weird. But you open that

up and there's this sledgehammer with a saw on

the one end of it and the sledgehammer down the

other end. And if you pull the sledgehammer out

of the saw, the sledgehammer is a pen. Interesting.

The saw is like a little cap. Yeah, I thought

that was pretty interesting. I think it writes

with red ink as well. It looked really well constructed

and everything. But it's just kind of weird and

next is uh, how to survive a shark nato book

So it's going off that um sci -fi movie shark

nato with uh bimbo and dude from 90210 I thought

you meant when bimbo I thought you meant the

dude from 90210 No, it's the other one with the

botch boob job to read. Yes. Yeah Is step one

of that book bad acting step two bad plot and

that I don't know. I didn't read it yet, but

it does have the the author is Andrew Shaffer

and it says with contributions by Finn Shepard

and April Wexler, which is their characters.

So wait a minute. Is it is it a book on how to

survive? The movie or how to survive an actual

sharknado? I want to say movie, but I think it's

an actual sharknado. Lots of popcorn and soda,

bathroom break every five minutes. Remove all

logic from brain. Close your eyes. Put earmuffs

on. And the next one is. oh brother art print

and it's uh if you've been watching um walking

dead which i'm only still up to the end of season

two it's got a um i don't remember the names

from it but the dude that's always got the crossbow

darrell darrell and his uh his zombified brother

darrell is crying and they're like both little

baby cutesy versions of themselves and it just

says oh brother at the bottom And then next we

have what I think is the second best item in

the Loot Crate was the Walking Dead issue 132

and it's got an exclusive cover for Loot Crate.

It's got a zombie that's all kind of mashed up

and he's got a Loot Crate t -shirt on. It's a

rather simple cover. But the the zombie, uh drawing

looks pretty decent So i'd say that's probably

the second best thing that came out of the loot

crate Have you have you read any of those walking

dead comics at all? I actually have the first

graphic novel and that is it so far i'm i'm trying

to catch up. I have a whole bunch of stuff that

i'm Trying to read through uh, why the last man

uh walking dead and so i'm on the second behind

i'm on the second Omnibus or whatever right now

currently so I'm like a little bit ahead of the

show, but they're catching up. So You gotta buy

the next one Dan. I know I know technically I

didn't buy this one and barring it I've been

barring it for about a year now. So yeah Then

the next item we have is a slashes and bites

temporary tattoos which I'm 29. Well, what the

hell am I going to do with all this stuff? Well,

let's be honest, the Sharknado book, that might

come in handy. Yeah, I'm actually going to read

that. I'm actually going to wear the t -shirt

and I might actually use that pen for something

and I'll read the Walking Dead thing. The prints,

I don't know what the hell I'm doing with that.

I'm not going to use the temporary tattoo of

freaking 29. You know what you should do, though,

for your Tinder photo, the shirt for the cat

holding the Sharknado book with the temporary

tattoos on your arm. You'll get so many likes

or whatever. I don't think so. No, you won't.

Even suddenly that prostitute will message you

again and the price will go up by $100. It's

like for you, it's double. yeah damn yeah well

i'd rather it go up than down the price it'd

be feel weird if she's like yeah it's only 10

bucks i'm like eh there's something wrong with

these goods here but then the the last item that's

in here is a smite gift card which i have no

idea what the hell this is um it says fast and

free voice communication for gamers I have no

idea what that is, to be quite honest. It's just

this little piece of paper with a redeem code

on it. I don't know what it is. I don't know

what I'm going to use it for. So that one's just

kind of useless. And of course, this comes with

a special design button that goes with the theme

and it has Loot Crate October 2014 on it. So

that's that's the Loot Crate. Once again, a couple

interesting things in there, like the t -shirt

was really awesome, but nothing. Well, the t

-shirt blew me out of the water a little bit,

but everything else was just kind of like hum

hum ho okay or ho hum okay. Would you think this

week last month was better than this month currently?

Well, I liked the little vinyl figure and the

fact that I got an action figure and a little

vinyl figure. I thought that kind of made it

a little bit cooler. But the t -shirt really

brought up the lacking, lacking, lacking this

of this one, I think. So with that does like

everyone get the same thing or is it just like

yeah, everybody gets the same thing except they

they do this thing called a mega crate which

one person I forget one or two people will win

this mega crate and it'll come with stuff like

this $65 controller for your gaming console wireless

headphones and Millennium PC Gunner, gaming eyeglasses,

a zip -up hoodie, and a six -month subscription

to Gamefly. So that one, it's like $3 ,000 because

you got the Troller 65, headphones are $300,

PC's $2 ,500. The eyeglasses are $80, the hoodie

is $80, and the game fly is $90. And then they

also have mini mega crate, which could be won

by 10 people. And it's got another headset that's

a little bit cheaper than the other one from

the mega crate, some badges, a beanie, and a

t -shirt for the other mini crate. Yeah, well,

it seems interesting. I mean, I mean, I guess

the cool thing is you never know what you're

gonna get, which is kind of cool. Yeah, and it's

like a Christmas gift. This one came a lot quicker,

I thought, than the first initial crate. I didn't

even know it was coming and it just appeared

the one day and I got really excited when I got

home. That's the one cool thing. It's like a

Christmas day for like one day every month, which

is kind of neat. Cool. So how did how did they

know what a t -shirt size to send you or is that

something that you've picked when you signed

up? When you sign up. Yeah, exactly. When you

sign up, they they ask you for your t -shirt

size. OK, I was I was hoping they didn't just

send you like a small or something and now child

medium. Oh, no. Then you appear in a Transformers

movie and they say, oh, you went to find a tighter

t -shirt. Now, like you said, they ask you upfront,

which was kind of a good plan. They have that

sorted out quite well. Very nice. Very cool.

All right, Chuck, I know you've also been keeping

up with all the fall TV shows, correct? You've

been watching a few, especially the superhero

stuff. Yeah, I've been hitting the TV shows hot

and heavy this fall. I guess the first one I

could talk about is I'd like to revisit a little

bit of Agents of Shield. I've been hearing positive

buzz about season two. Would you back that up?

Yeah, absolutely. I know we talked a little bit

about it in spots here and there before, but

I know, like, obviously after Captain America

Winter Soldier movie. It kind of changed things

with Hydra, Infiltrating Shield, so that the

show, of course, started to reflect that, and

it actually got better because of that. At the

end of the first season, it ended definitely

better than it began, but still wasn't quite

what I was looking for. I've seen the first four

episodes, I think it is, of this second season,

and so far it's really great. I was really impressed.

They're bringing on a lot more new comic characters.

They're having cameos. I know I think it was

the season premiere. They had Maria Hill make

an appearance and the first two episodes featured

the villain absorbing man. Nice. Which was awesome,

I gotta say. Was he better than the absorbing

man in the original Hulk? It's one absorbing

man. I mean, drunk Nick Nolte flying around the

clouds as lightning. Yeah, he's really good.

Great absorbing alcohol. But, you know, exactly.

But yeah, this one's really cool. I actually

think and don't quote me on this, but I'm pretty

sure that the guy that got to play absorbing

man played Penny's boyfriend on Big Bang Theory.

Nice. That huge muscular guy. I think it's the

same guy, I'm not sure, but it kind of looked

like him. But they got this huge, like, muscular

guy, and the effects that they did were pretty

good, actually, pretty decent for a TV show,

with them absorbing different materials and everything,

and they had kind of a geek moment where he grabbed

this chain, and it had this, like, thing attached

to the end that looked like a wrecking ball.

So it's kind of like his classic comic look,

which was like an improv thing. But you could

tell they threw it in there as an Easter egg

for the fans. But that was a really cool episode.

So just watching him absorb different materials

and stuff was really cool. So with that, like,

how did they explain his powers? Was it was it

related to like Thor and at all? Or was it completely

different? No, they they didn't really get into

his origin too much. They just said that they

refer to him as a gifted. OK, I guess when they

know when they encounter these people because

they don't they don't have all the intel on the

background of the person yet so they just say

like oh you know they they spotted this guy that

you know stole something from hi or something

from whoever let's be careful because he's a

gifted and um that's interesting but yeah all

these different materials metal and stone and

glass and all these things and then there's a

thing uh where they they had this material from

like that was made of star dust somehow that

was like three times denser than diamond or something

like that. So he absorbed that and he was like.

It was like really like this black, dense material.

But those those two episodes, he was in both

of them. It was like a like a two part story.

Those are really, really cool. And then I think

the third episode, they had a blizzard come back.

Donnie Gill. That was a pretty cool episode using

the ice powers and everything. But the writing

the ratings noticeably better in my opinion than

the first season They're doing a lot better stuff

for that. And did you guys know agent Coulson

is the new director of shield? I? Did not know

that I thought she'll just completely disbanded

well they are starting over and agent Coulson's

taking on the role of Luke Skywalker and restarting

the Restarting the order The Jedi Academy. Yeah.

So is it like sanctioned or is it like underground?

It's kind of somewhere in the middle. But I think

it was. I want to say the season finale of last

year, Samuel L. Jackson made a cameo as Nick

Fury, and it was obviously after the events of

Winter Soldier. But he was going underground

after all that crap happened because he's supposed

to be dead. They want Hydra to think that he's

dead. And, uh, so he went underground. He appointed

Colson as the new director of shield. He said

that he's the only one that he trusts with it.

So he pretty much handed over the reins to him

and said, uh, you know, pick the people that

you trust and start it back up. So he kind of

starts with a couple of people on his team and

gets a couple of new, new people here and there.

Interesting. I wonder if that means he'll be

in the next Avengers or not. I don't know. I'm

not really sure where they're going yet. There's.

There's some good potential there with what they're

doing. It was pretty exciting, actually. So for

those like myself that gave up after the first

few episodes of the first season, would you recommend

picking you back up? Yeah, I definitely would.

I know, like, you can kind of skip to. Maybe

the last five episodes of season one. OK, because

I mean, all this stuff in the beginning in the

middle is kind of like repetitive, like I know

they a lot of people know they they. turned the

one guy into Deathlock by giving him like cyborg

parts and stuff. He knows a lot about cyborg

parts. So it was a lot of that. And like it really

kicked into high gear after the events of Winter

Soldier and Hydra started taking over and that

reflected in the in the TV show. I would pick

up there. And then this season two is starting

to be really good as well. Cool. I might I might

have to go back I'm surprised it's not on Netflix

because I thought it would be because but it's

not currently So if he could pick any two episodes,

I would definitely watch the first two with absorbing

man. Cool Yeah, I mean, it's kind of exciting

knowing that they're bringing in more super power

characters. So that's pretty cool Yeah, and also

I just remembered something in the fifth episode

which will probably have aired by the time most

people listen to this but um They are debuting

the character of Bobby Morse from the comics,

which is Mockingbird. Oh, wow. And that's being

played by Adrian Policki, who was originally

cast in that Wonder Woman pilot a couple of years

ago. Was she Wonder Woman? Yeah. Oh, wow. The

one that NBC failed to pick up. They got her

off of the superhero free agent market and then

put her on. They got her on the waiver wire.

But yeah, she's been playing Mockingbird in episode

five. I think it's called a hand in the Wolf

House. Interesting. So they're kind of implying

possibly. I mean, she works for Hydra, but maybe

she's kind of a double agent. She's still a shield

or something like that. But we'll see how that

goes. If she's the Wolf House, I would definitely

put my hand in it. Of course, in the comics,

we know. You know, Mockingbird and Hawkeye end

up having a relationship and getting married

at one point and stuff. But I'd like to see if

eventually she makes it to the big screen as

kind of like a cameo in an Avengers movie or

something as like Hawkeye's girlfriend. You never

know. Yeah, I know. They've been tossing around

the idea of a possible Hawkeye movie or something.

That'd be interesting. Yeah. I mean, Maria Hill

has made it to the big screen, so. Yeah, definitely.

Cool. And speaking of superheroes, have you or

think? Or the one of us three that actually did

get to check out the flash pilot. Is that correct?

Yes. Yes. Probably my most anticipated show of

the fall. I was dying to see that more than Gotham.

Let's let's not talk about Gotham. I've given

I've literally given up on Gotham. I didn't even

watch it this week. I did not either. So after

the balloon man episode, I'm like, really? I

was on a date. That was the only reason I missed

that. Yeah, you're not a balloon man. Which is

like - The worst date would be better than that

episode. I was thinking like, you have a gun

to shoot the balloon. No, it was like, that's

a guy, it's a villain that ties people to a weather

balloon. Oh my god, we're all gonna die. How

could we possibly get over this? Put bricks in

your pockets and you're Hang on to a light pole.

I don't know. Anyway, sorry to interrupt you.

What so how's flash? Hopefully they meet your

expectations It did it really did. I'm not hard

to please though That's tough to be honest. I

mean it is a it is a favorite character of mine.

I love flash probably second favorite DC character

behind Superman I Like flash a lot, but this

is really it's delivering so far I was worried

about, I was worried about the graphics being

cheesy, possibly. That was one of my main concerns

because Arrow works really well because it's

grounded and nobody really has any superpowers.

So they don't really have a big budget and they

don't have to do a lot of a lot of CG stuff or

anything. But this I was a little concerned about

because I know at times Smallville got pretty

corny with their speed effects, but this actually

looks. Like pretty decent like the the running

effects. There's a couple at points that are

a little a little iffy But for the most part

they they're done really well. I I gotta say

I really like Grant Gustin as the flash so far

I think he he's doing really really well so far

not bad for a glee guy It's funny because we

just watched the My wife and I are catching up

with season two of Arrow, which is why I haven't

caught and catch the flash pilot yet and we got

to the episode with Guy Barry Allen who plays

the flash and my wife's like, where do I know

that guy from immediately? I say glee and she

looks at me. I'm like, I am so upset myself And

not only do I know that I know the character

he plays and the team he sang for I hate myself

said I told you because it would have been a

little bit more believable because Carol be like

Yeah, Greg was just looking at pretty girls the

whole time. He didn't even listen to it. He just

had it on mute. Yeah. If you told her Chuck saw

that show should be like, you're lying. It's

more believable because I would. drool over leah

michelle the whole time that would be the only

purpose for watching that yeah well i i get i

watch it second hand because my wife often watches

it and then you know i'm often in the room doing

something else but i overhear it and she listens

to the music very often so like i said i have

married to the glee problems and uh i'm just

glad the season it's the last season coming up

so anyways let's get off the glee topic and get

back into aero get back into flash Yeah, I mean,

there's there's a lot to say, but I'll leave

a lot unsaid because I know you guys haven't

seen it and maybe some people out there, but

it debuted with the most watched season premiere

on CW anyway since 09. So it actually beat out

the Arrow series premiere. Oh, wow. But I got

to think this is mostly because of the success

of Arrow. Yeah. And also the character of Baring

Allen being introduced on that show. So especially

keeping the same actor and. All that stuff you

bring a lot of aero fans over and actually using

the same exact scene that was in aero for how

the accident happened Nice being economical,

you know reusing that's always good Yeah, but

it's it's seamless though the way they put it

in like it's it's amazing how they did it like

it's just leading up to the accident that they

showed in the aero last season and Then you know

what happened after it. It's it's It's really

well done. So I guess my question would be for

you since I I've been waiting to watch Season

2 of arrow finish that before I watched the flash

Like do you think that's something I have to

do? What do you feel like I could get into the

flash without finishing arrow season 2? No, I

think you can get into flash now as long as you

saw the the tie -in episode With the flash in

arrow season 2 as long as you've seen that you

can pick up the flash right from there so This

isn't going to give away too much because it

was kind of in the in the trailer. But the first

episode of Flash, we have a cameo by the arrow.

So that's pretty exciting. Yeah, and it's cool

that that it got so many ratings considering

it was leaked online. And I know a lot of people

have downloaded it yet. It was still that popular.

So that's crazy. Yeah, I think I want to say

it was close to five million viewers. It was

like four point. I don't know, four point five,

four point six, something like that, which is.

Pretty good for CW. I think it might have been

more maybe I'm wrong on that. I don't know but

I know it was really high it was a lot higher

than their other shows and But yeah, like you

have I've seen the first two episodes now He's

kind of he's kind of getting used to his powers

and stuff like that, but it's it's really cool

what they're doing with it they have the whole

dynamic with a you know, love interest and stuff

with Iris West and Is that played by Danielle

Panabaker? I actually don't know her name. Is

she gorgeous? That I don't know either. She's

not bad looking. Barry Allen's a gorgeous man.

By the way, do you know your girlfriend does

not listen to this podcast? That's what she says,

but she does. And they kind of get into some

villains right off the bat, too, that were created

also by the same accident that that created the

flash. So that's pretty cool. He has to kind

of deal with these with these people that were

affected by the same accident. And I wanted to

get into a little bit of the Easter eggs. I won't

go through them all because I ended up finding

out apparently there's 26 Easter eggs in the

season premiere of Flash. That's a lot of that's

a lot of eggs to find. Yeah, they're all hard

boiled. friggin yeah, there's a ton of them and

I Saw this list I saw this article and I'm like

what I saw like three of them when I watched

it but there's a lot of little things that Really

make you step back and say wow, you know, these

guys are putting a lot of time into this They're

really doing their homework and putting these

things in for the fans. It's it's pretty amazing.

Actually I'll stick with some of the more notable

ones. I'll try not to pick anything that'll give

too much away But the first one I would mention

is Barry Allen's father is being played by John

Wesley Shipp, who was the flash of the original

Flash TV series. Interesting. Yeah. So that that

guy's playing his father. Has anyone ever watched

that original TV series? I have not. I have not.

You have, Greg. I have it. OK. I wanted to I

wanted to buy the DVD set, but every time I see

it, it's like 60 bucks. And I'm always like,

why the hell is this $60? So I never got the

chance to see it, but I always wanted to. But

there's some other things. Let's see. There's

a slow motion food drop thing. Do you guys remember

from like the Tobey Maguire Spiderman kind of

when Mary Jane trips and the tray falls and he

catches everything? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's it's

reminiscent of that. But he like he doesn't catch

anything because it's like the first time he

experiences his Speed powers, but he kind of

sees it in slow motion So he started look, you

know turning his head around and you know, no

one was moving and everything But that's when

he first notices his his speed powers and that's

actually how it happened in the comics He first

discovered his speed powers by seeing someone

trip and fall with a tray of food So they kind

of kept that original from the comics and stuff.

You see other other things like the Ferris air

facility. There's a sign which is a alludes to

Carol Farris from DC Comics, Hal Jordan's girlfriend,

if you watch the Ryan Reynolds awful Green Lantern

movie. And in the first episode, he fights, I

don't think this is a big secret because it was

in the previous, but he fights a weather wizard

who creates a tornado and he runs around the

tornado in opposite direction, which is pretty

much exactly what happened in an issue of a comic

book. Broke up the tornado by running around

it backwards. They're alluding to some other

characters. Apparently Firestorm could possibly

make an appearance down the line in this season.

I know that there was a lot of rumors about that,

so that's interesting. Because they mentioned

that the one girl's fiance died in the accident

and his name was Ronnie, which would be Ronnie

Raymond, who is Firestorm. There's a couple other

ones right down to like the names of the cops

the names of the coffee shop the the writers

name on a newspaper clipping like just really

Detailed stuff that all came from the comics

and it's just like wow these guys really put

a lot of time into this And then people have

found out that stuff, too. Geez. Yeah there's

there's also one where you see a Cell that was

broken out of in star labs and it just says Grodd

on the on the nameplate Nice so that that was

pretty interesting. That was a blatant one. That

was a really easy one to spot And then there's

a there's a newspaper thing at the end. There's

kind of a twist ending thing It's hard to explain,

but it's somehow being seen from the future And

there's a headline in this newspaper that refers

to a crisis mmm, so that was that was pretty

interesting to kind of sends a shiver up your

spine, but uh Yeah, very very cool stuff so far.

I'm liking what I'm seeing Very nice. Yeah, it's

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Alright, and welcome back. And like I mentioned...

So much superhero news just recently dropped

and we usually don't dedicate an entire episode

to news But there's so much going on. I figured

there's a lot of talk about so let's just go

ahead and do it and We'll first touch on some

of the DC stuff and what I'm gonna do real quick

is just go over Some of the news and dates that

DC dropped and I'm sure if you're listening to

this a lot of this is old news We probably already

rare it but any for those that haven't and you

know Be patient, they'll enjoy it. Well, we already

know Batman v Superman is coming out in 2016,

but we also now know there's a Suicide Squad

movie also coming out in that year. In addition,

in 2017, we have Wonder Woman and Justice League

Part 1. Interesting, interesting title, to say

the least. Coming out in 2018, we have The Flash,

which has been confirmed. Also, we know who will

be starring as The Flash, Ezra Miller and Aquaman.

We'll be starring by Drago himself Jason Momoa

both of those coming out in 2018 super jealous

of him and 2019 we have Shazam which from what

I'm hearing is not part of the DC like universe

per se but I don't know that's something we can

get into the second Justice League movie and

then in 2020 we get cyborg and Green Lantern

reboot so a lot coming on and those two those

in the upcoming four or five years. Are you sure

that's not Green Lantern 2 with Ryan Reynolds

back? It might be. We'll be doing Deadpool by

then. I hope they come out the same year. That

would be funny. But I'll ask you guys this way.

When you heard all these dates being announced,

what were your first impressions? Greg, when

you first heard all these movies are being come

out, we kind of had an idea. What were you thinking

when you saw? I saw the news drop. I was thinking,

holy shit, are they actually doing any planning

to this? Or they're like, oh shit, we got to

catch up to Marvel. Holy fuck, here's a movie.

They wrote it down on a napkin in a meeting like

10 minutes before. Yeah. Like, no, like, where

are they coming up with all of this stuff that

they're coming out with all of a sudden? And

like, how many eggs are they putting in one basket

here? Like, Yeah, it's a little bit crazy chalk.

What did you think when you heard the news? Well,

I kind of expected them to do a lot of these

characters and I knew they were building to a

Justice League movie eventually but I guess what

surprised me was kind of seeing some Some other

names on there like a cyborg movie kind of really

surprised me. Yeah, that seems random Yeah, it

seems like you could kind of put him in with

something else and also the Shazam movie that

kind of surprised me a little bit too but also

One of the first things I thought of was why

Green Lantern is so late in the slate. They're

hoping by then everyone forgets about the other

ones. They're waiting long enough. It's like

it could be mistaken, but I think they're slating

the Green Lantern movie for after Justice League

Part 2. Yeah, that's the last one they currently

have scheduled. I don't know what the statues'

limitations are on the first one, but I think

it'll be right over. There's a lot of limitations

on the first one, let's be honest. Was the same

way my first was like wow, they're throwing a

lot out there and it did feel like they were

throwing a dart at a spinning wheel while Blindfolded

like for some of these dates because it doesn't

really have any rhyme or reason to it Maybe there

is you know, maybe there is a reason to it But

just the the way it's working and I mean the

first thing that caught my eye, too was the Suicide

Squad movie. And I'm like, OK, that makes sense.

Wait, your second movie is Suicide Squad? And

for those that don't know, Suicide Squad is a

team of villains that has to forcibly become

heroes for different reasons. Usually there's

blackmail. They have chips inside of them. If

they don't comply, they can be destroyed. So

that was weird to come out second. How do you

guys feel about that, a Suicide Squad movie really

coming out? only once after the Batman vs Superman

movie. You'd think that would be one of the later

movies because you'd think they'd try and set

up a lot of these villains ahead of time in other

movies and have them as villains in these other

movies first and introduce them that way. So

to kind of just introduce them out of nowhere,

I think that's kind of, they're making their

task more difficult for themselves. They're not

they're not on nowhere. They're not coming out

of the celestial head from Guardians of the Galaxy

Yeah, that is a bit strange though, I mean I

guess maybe they're thinking kind of get out

of the way like introduce these villains and

then You know then you have a reason that you

need all these heroes to assemble. I guess I

don't know I think it's more effective to do

a suicide squad movie when you have established

villains It's like they do with the arrow TV

show it There packs more of a punch when you

have a history with those characters, but to

do it immediately It's like what are you gonna

have general Zod who's kind of dead? Maybe I

don't know but uh, yeah, it's gonna be yeah that

that kind of caught my eye I mean, I'm excited

in some ways, you know, we did get some casting

news. Like I mentioned Ezra Miller I don't know

if you guys are familiar with him at all. He's

not been in a huge amount He was in this movie.

We need to talk about Kevin and Another man.

Hold on a second We need to talk about Kevin

right now. We do. That movie. No, it's weird.

That's a really dark, twisted film. And if you

watch that, you would never think he seems like

a superhero, because he's playing a rather evil

character in that. And this movie, Perks of Being

a Wallflower, which he's been really good at.

Everything I've seen him in so far, he's been

a really good actor. I don't know if I would

necessarily cast him as Flash, per se. I mean,

you can always surprise me, but I think it's

an inspired choice. One that kind of comes out

of left field. So I'm curious to see what he's

going to going to come. I don't know if they

announce if he's going to be Wally West or if

he's going to be Barry Allen. I didn't catch

that. But Chuck, with you being a huge flash

fan, like, how do you which one would you rather

see in the big screen impulse? I would rather

Barry Allen, to be honest, but I don't know what

I don't know what their plan is. Like, I don't

know if they're going to do anything involving

a crisis or. like what they're gonna do because

there was a whole thing where Barry Allen sacrificed

himself and then Wally West was the new flash

and then Barry Allen came back and then it was

a fake out it was really a villain impersonating

him so but I don't know I mean we'll have to

see but I like I'm a Barry Allen guy personally

but Is there any disappointment that it seems

like there is no connection from the DC movie

universe to like the Arrow and TV universe? It

is disappointing just because of the success

of Arrow and I mean, Flash just started, but

just because I see them doing it so well. And

I really wish they could use those actors or

do something with it or just just stick on the

small screen somehow with like building your

universe, maybe. But I know there's not as much

money in that as the big screen, but it is a

little disappointing. Yeah. You think they'd

at least have a cameo here or there or something,

you know? Yeah. It's possible at least for the

green arrow. I mean like who if you're gonna

have an arrow character I don't know why you

need a new one or what have you I know it's asking

a lot from people, but if you're doing this suicide

squad movie film Okay, apparently you're not

that concerned about establishing characters,

so I don't know why it'd be a big deal Not just

throw an arrow guy Yeah, an arrow guy, you know

arrow guy That hero arrow guy, you know them

guys that shoots the bow thing Yeah, that's what

they're gonna start calling him and because they

keep changing his name and we eventually arrow

guy Another thing just think about is I remember

a while back. We talked about Jesse Eisenberg

playing Lex Luthor Oh, yeah, and like how young

he is. So, you know that you look at a Suicide

Squad movie right off the bat is is Jesse Eisenberg's

character, is he going to be somehow involved

with assembling the Suicide Squad or disassembling

them? Like, is he going to be able to pull off

being that young and be in that that position

of power or something? Like, how's that going

to work? That's, you know, that's an interesting

thought, because, I mean, I think that's a key,

too, is that's coming out in 2016. That's not

that long after the Batman versus Superman movie.

And that's already shooting. It's, you know,

in production somewhat. So. I wonder like how

they're gonna work that one out. So Greg, I know

you have watched Game of Thrones. So how do you

feel about Jason Momoa being Aquaman? Personally,

I like him. Not really been a huge fan of his

acting. He does well enough. I don't really see

him fitting that character. But like you said

kind of before, maybe he'll surprise me. But

I just feel like it's... odd choice Maybe they'll

maybe DC's doing what Marvel's doing making odd

choices, but really knocking them out of the

park. So Yeah, I don't know. I it's gonna have

to be a wait and see I'm kind of hesitant on

it, but I'm Waiting to see what's going on here.

There's there's a lot of interesting choices

going on that I Didn't really expect. Yeah I

mean, we don't know yet who Aero is going to

be, or not Aero, jeez, who Green Lantern is going

to be. That's still a question mark. Who are

they going to go with? You know, you have a lot

of options there. Don't they have a guy for Cyborg

already? I thought I read that. They do have

a guy for Cyborg. They do have Aquaman. They

have Wonder Woman. They have the Flash. They

don't have Green Aero. Don't have I mean, I guess

we don't know anyone else are gonna be putting

in the justice league movie. So It's yeah, who

knows? I mean no word on like martian manhunter

or anything like that I find it odd that if that's

true about shazam not being a part of it. That's

that's really strange decision Well, that's what

i've been hearing. I mean we know that black

adam or The Rock's gonna be Black Adam. And from

what they were saying, it wasn't gonna exist

in that universe. That could be wrong. I mean,

they also talked about the Sandman movie, too,

which is which I'm surprised it wasn't in this

at all. So maybe it is a part of the universe.

Who knows? Yeah. I don't know how you could not

have Shazam a part of that universe. I mean,

he was a pretty important part of the, you know,

the Justice League back in the day. Yeah, I wonder

how they're gonna do that because like having

a kid superhero doesn't like fit into man versus

steel tone That they said last time. So yeah,

maybe maybe that's something to do with it. But

I mean black atoms are pretty I don't want to

say really dark but sort of a dark villain. So

I don't know. It's interesting. Where are they

gonna go with that? Yeah. Yeah, that's interesting.

So Are we more excited less excited after this

news for the DC upcoming universe? More I would

say more Greg. I think you have to be more. It's

just a lot of stuff there to really Take in so

you got to be excited. It's like Christmas and

you're seeing all the gifts pile up Yeah, exactly.

And you just have to wait six years to open them

Of course, you know Marvel's not be out done

because there's a lot unlike DC news this is

still kind of rumor still and things getting

kind of moved around pieces being placed but

there's a strong indication that you know Marvel

recently released an image of in 25th in 2016

that a Civil War movie may be coming or forget

the exact Idea, there's idea that Tony Stark

will be showing up the next Captain America movie

to kind of lay the groundwork for a possible

Civil War movie. So Was that somewhat surprising

that they're going civil war with the fact that

we've been seeing all this infinity gauntlet

stuff Or do you think it's just rumors and we

don't or do you think it's we're gonna not get

that until later on? I think maybe that they're

setting that up, gonna set that up in Captain

America 3, but they'll kind of coincide a little

bit with the end of the Infinity Gauntlet. And

I think it'll be kind of a transition to these

two things kind of going on at once. I think

instead of starting up with the Civil War stuff

after the Infinity Gauntlet and like trying to

refine their footing, With the new kind of storyline

going on and new pumping up stuff I think they're

trying to do it at the end of the infinity gauntlet

line. So you kind of get a So they have their

feet on the ground. They're already running.

They're already mid -stride going into the next

part of their Saga, I guess you would call it

like I could see that I mean kind of killing

two birds with one stone Chuck what do you think

about the possibility of? Of civil war do you

kind of on the line with dreg where they're gonna

kind of do a hybrid or do you think they're kind

of? Maybe leaning towards civil war and maybe

we're gonna wait even longer for affinity gauntlet

storyline I'm leaning more toward this will kind

of delay the infinity gauntlet thing. I don't

know. I was really surprised when I heard this

because I had heard a rumor about it like a few

weeks back there was like a fan -made poster

or something that they merged a Half was like

Chris Evans, Captain America, and half was a

Downey Jr. Iron Man. And it said Civil War. And

I was like, God, it's just a stupid fan made

poster, you know? Yeah. And that was a couple

of weeks ago. And now we get this. And I'm like,

OK, maybe there is something to this. But it

was just surprising because I'm like, how are

you going to fit this in in time to to wrap things

up and not be too confusing with Infinity Gauntlet

stuff? It's just a lot to to bite off that, you

know, I don't know if they can chew it all, but.

I mean, if anyone can, it's Marvel. Yeah. I mean,

you definitely trust their brand so far. It does

make sense from the aspect that from what I've

heard about Sebastian Stan, who played Winter

Soldier, I heard he signed on for a lot of films.

Yeah, like I think like nine films or something

like that. Yeah. So if you look at, you know,

the continuum, so to speak, like you could kind

of see possibly a savor thing happening. Maybe

Captain America getting assassinated. Bucky kind

of takes over his cap. You know, maybe Steve

Rogers somehow comes back in time for the end

of Infinity Gauntlet. Who knows? But it's pretty

odd to me. I'm kind of wondering how they're

going to fit it all in. Yeah, I mean, I'm thinking

maybe they're thinking go civil war because we

know that Downey Jr. We don't know how long much

longer he's gonna be doing it like, you know,

there's been up in the air There'll be another

Iron Man movie We don't know if like if how long

he's gonna be there like we know he'll be in

the next Avengers But who knows after that so

maybe they're thinking well Civil War won't work

if you don't have the Iron Man's Captain America

Uh split so let's lean towards that now and then

we can kind of keep the infinity stuff in the

background A little bit. I mean there was a little

bit of hinting to civil war at the end of the

avengers, you know There was like an idea of

registration They kind of I felt like avengers

hinted at a lot and maybe they were just trying

to they didn't know where they really exactly

wanted to go And within the idea of civil war

there's another huge rumor again This is a lot

of rumor upon rumor upon rumor that you know,

sony is not sure what to do with spiderman. So

there's a good opportunity that they'll be bringing

spiderman into the marvel universe to either

share rights or something like that or you know

basically allow them to borrow spiderman for

the movies would be yeah do you think that's

what's a good idea to have spiderman kind of

enter into the marvel cinematic universe or would

you rather kind of continue with amazing spiderman

stuff i think it would be a great idea to bring

spiderman in uh back into the mcu you know he's

already got a lot of popularities pretty much

Marvel's poster child other than like Wolverine.

I think bringing him in would be great if they

can get the rights back. I don't know if you

guys saw that kind of drawing teaser thing that

Marvel released where it's like Captain America's

tugging on Spider -Man's one arm and Iron Man's

pulling on the other one. Like Dan mentions could

be like a foreshadowing thing of this movie.

But yeah, and I think Spider -Man is in his old

Iron Man armor or whatever was called Iron Spider.

Armor. Yeah. Yeah. I love that costume. Yeah,

that was pretty awesome. I really don't know

what they're pulling because they've been they've

been releasing a lot of teasers of like old stories.

They did a secret wars one. What else did they

do? I think they just came out on the planet

Hulk one. Yeah. Something called years of future

past or something like that. There was an age

of Ultron first Marvel zombies one, which was

random. Yeah. Yeah. So it's kind of like. What

are they trying to hint at? Like, what are they

doing with this? But just joking Sada, you know,

doing what he loves to do. Just throw things

out there and see what happens. Gosh, I don't

even know. But Greg, how do you feel about if

Spider -Man came into the Marvel Cinematic Universe?

I'd like to see him in the Marvel Universe with

the other characters. But then at the same time,

I feel like it would be a bit confusing seeing

him off in his own universe. and then all of

a sudden bringing them over, are they gonna bring

in somebody else now to play Spider -Man? I know,

a third, reboot it again. Yeah, it's just gonna,

and then having Quicksilver being in X -Men and

gonna be in Avengers, it's just a lot of confusion

I feel like in that respect. If they're gonna

have a new actor I say don't even do it because

then it just becomes way too confusing Yeah,

but bring back uh 20 toby maguire. Maybe I'll

see I like toby maguire spiderman. I'm not gonna

lie. I'm I I feel fine admitting that but uh

I know this is just a rumor at this point, but

uh That we have someone else in talks to play

dr. Strange. I think uh, even mcgregor obi -wan

himself Yeah I don't know what what your feelings

on that would be I know it's just a Rumor is

nothing's confirmed or anything, but there's

a lot of rumors flying around about this. Dr.

Strange role Yeah, I know like they were trying

to get walking Phoenix and he said eventually

it ended up not working Which I think I like

one walking Phoenix a lot as an actor, but I

just I didn't see him in a Marvel role at all.

I didn't seem like it would fit him, but I actually

really like Ewan McGregor in that role. I like

him as an actor and pretty much everything he

does, even movies I don't like that he's in.

I mean, I think he's probably one of the best

parts of the prequel, so I don't know. Yeah,

I like him a lot as an actor. So I'd be fine

with him as Strange. We all three agree on that.

Yeah. Nice. Nice. So you agree you'd like to

see him as Doctor Strange? Yeah, I also heard

a rumor or somebody making speculation or they

would like to see, which I didn't agree with.

And that's Keanu Reeves. Oh, God. Right. Yeah.

Read an article. I don't remember the whole thing,

but somebody was saying, oh, that John Wick movie.

You got a good representation of who would make

a really great doctor strange. And I'm like,

really? What? No. Maybe one of the craziest things

I've heard in a while. I've watched the trailer

for John Wick and I'm like, I don't know who

this guy is. Like, they're like, John, we're

looking for John, John, John, are you retiring?

Like, I don't know who this guy is to even feel

anything about him. And then Keanu Reeves has

crazy acting going on there. And so like, I'm

like, you know, please don't play Dr. Strange.

Shane, Shane Falco himself. Wow, I don't. Understand

that correlation one bit whatsoever. So yeah

stick to you'd be better off with like a point

break sequel Hey now that's that's been in the

works for a while at least a reboot So I like

Keanu Reeves, but no not not Man, I cannot imagine

him doing some of those spells and stuff. Oh,

that's just strange without the doctor Might

as well just get Nicolas Cage, you know, I mean,

let's be honest Anyways, yeah, so a lot of crazy

news a lot of interesting stuff out there. I'm

curious to hear what other people have to say

Who would you like to see is Green Lantern, you

know who? Are you okay with a Suicide Squad film?

How do you feel about some of this casting with

DC is DC gonna, you know, maybe overtake Marvel

I doubt it but you know I mean, I guess the other

weird thing is that how they're kind of Naming

the Justice League films like Justice League

part one and Justice League part two I don't

know if that's just a working title, but Boring.

Yeah. Hey, I mean, it's better than Batman versus

Superman, Don V. Justice, Volume 2, also appearing

Wonder Woman 2. You know, so. It's almost as

good as Alexander and the terrible, horrible,

bad day. Yeah. Yeah. I wanted to ask you guys

if you heard this story. Maybe I found it on

some crackpot website. I have no idea. But. See

if it rings a bell. I was reading something about

somebody was interviewing our DJ about doing

an Iron Man 4 and he said he would only do it

if a certain director would do the movie. Oh,

I could have sworn he said he wanted Clint Eastwood

to direct the movie. I see. I also heard that

he was trying to get Mel Gibson the director

of the movie. Oh, yeah. It was Mel Gibson. I'm

sorry. Yeah, it was. I yeah, I believe he was

championing monk that I believe that is true

I don't know if it was a joke or what have you

but yeah, but it's funny cuz like I feel like

every Robert Downey Jr has been a lot of doing

a lot of press because of the judge movie and

like every Interview he's done. He said something

different. You sound like Howard Stern He said

they're not doing it and then he was an Ellen

DeGeneres saying that oh, we are doing Iron Man

4 I just don't think he has any idea. He's like,

yeah, sure. We are. I don't know maybe Or you

could have just been name -dropping Mel Gibson

because he knows there's no chance in hell that

that would happen. Or he could be going, I got

a second chance, so let me give this guy a second

chance. Yeah, that's true. Or maybe just, what

the hell? Let Mel Gibson play Doctor Strange.

See, I like Mel Gibson as a director. He's done

a lot of good movies. I thought Apocalypse was...

a rather good movie. He did Passion of the Christ

and Braveheart. I like him as an actor, but as

a human being, he is awful. Yeah. Yeah, true.

He's awful. But I do think you make a good point,

though, Greg, that maybe Robert Downey Jr. is

like, you know what? I was kind of in the same

spot. So maybe trying to give a throw a bone

out there. Yeah. Throw a bone out there and just

hopefully he doesn't try to hit someone with

it, I guess. I don't know. But threw me a frickin

bone here, people. Any other news or anything

like that? That we wanted to mention. I know

there was like a talk of impossible X -Men TV

show that I don't know if that's true at all,

but apparently it's supposed to like Get into

what happens in between Days of Future Past and

X -Men Apocalypse Would that be a good idea or

is that just way too much? I don't know how they're

gonna get the characters like yeah bad bad idea

say You're not getting James Mcdavore and Michael

Fassbender, so I don't know what you're thinking

there. You got a good thing going, just stick

with it. You know, wrap it up with apocalypse.

Exactly, exactly. Nice apocalypse bow. Yeah,

nice apocalypse bow. But yeah, so I'm curious

to hear people's thoughts on all the different

news and whatnot. Before we go we like to end

each episode with a letter and shock I know you

began this podcast by talking about the misfortune

of the Orioles and how they lost and uh It's

it's sad. It is for those that don't know i'm

located in baltimore So Orioles are a big thing

right now and unfortunately they were eliminated

in the alcs in four games But i'm writing a letter

to the Orioles and it's I think a little bit

upbeat. So i'm uh, just to kind of put everything

in perspective Dear Orioles Recently, you were

sadly eliminated from the playoffs, but don't

fret. Although fans are no doubt disappointed,

you've won an even bigger battle. You have made

the Orioles' name to be respected again. Not

too long ago, the Baltimore Orioles were the

sub -D area of Major League Baseball. A place

most people went only if they were forced to

or had no other options. Losing season after

losing season began to add up and it appeared

that the Orioles' magic was dead and buried.

Then glimmers of hope began to appear, and all

began to kick in when a young prospect center

fielder named Adam Jones was acquired. Then Matt

Weeders appeared and appeared to be as good as

advertised, J .J. Hardy stepped up as an impressive

shortstop, and finally Nick Marchakis, the long

embedded Nick Marchakis, had a team around him

of Major League talent. When the power of Nelson

Cruz and Adam Jones also delivered, Baltimore

became a legit contender. Through the combination

of well -designed farm system and good signings,

Baltimore started turning things around. Perhaps

the best move was picking up Buck Schulte -Waltzler,

who's clearly the Jedi of baseball managers.

Why am I saying all this? In order to understand

what you are, you always got to remember where

you came from. Just because we didn't exceed

this year doesn't mean that you failed. You provided

a season to remember, a season full of celebration

and amazing moments. You just lost to a team

that was playing better. a team in Kansas City

who also share the pain of Baltimore fans of

a constant losing season after losing season.

So if you're going to lose to anyone, let it

be them because they deserve it just as much

as we do. This season proves it's possible to

turn around or any franchise. I know the Raiders,

Jacksonville, Jaguars, and Browse fans have been

waiting for a while to see a real team take the

field. Take it from a man who knows. True fandom

makes it through the tough times. It makes those

great times even sweeter. Oh, and those Major

League Baseball fans that think Baltimore is

a one and done, please keep doubting, because

one thing is for certain, we won't stop proving

you wrong. Sincerely, battered in Baltimore.

Do do do do do do do that was a big thing going

on in Baltimore was hashtag won't stop and then

when I lost I'm like apparently they stopped

But uh, yeah it I know it's it's sad but I like

a picture Yeah, it's gotta kind of keep in mind

like if you ask anyone like three or four years

ago the Baltimore Orioles were making to the

ALCS I think nine ninety nine percent of fans

would take that so Good luck kansas city royals.

I honestly hope that you beat whoever you have

to play because Nice to see a team that hasn't

won this world series since 1985 win it again.

So But uh, yeah, I think that'll do it for this

week's episode We appreciate you guys staying

tuned in and we'd love to hear your ideas and

thoughts about all the stuff We talked about

today and there's tons of different ways to get

in contact with us. You can email us You can

send us email directly at talking in circles

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and you cast radio .com We're also on Facebook

and Twitter just search talking in circles GC

RN and Greg you were also on Twitter Or did you

honestly quit this time? I honestly didn't quit.

I'm still at the Crate Forge Retweeting everything

Funko has for Prizes. Win this if you retweet,

retweet. So you don't, if you follow Greg, you

don't have to follow Funko. It's like killing

two birds with one stone. It is. And Chuck is

still the Jason Manzukis of GeekCast, of Talking

in Circles. He's still not on Twitter. Probably

have GeekCast radio too. Yeah, probably social

media. Yeah That's understandable. Honestly,

you're not missing a whole lot. Anyways, that'll

be it for this week We'll be back next week same

time same channel same podcast feed but for now

This has been Chuck. This has been Greg or Keanu

Reeves and this has been Dan and we've been Talking

in circles. We'll see you next So do you also

know Kung Fu? Is that is that? Kung Fu Panda?

I know Kung Fu Panda. You and I go way back.

You are the one. Kung Fu Panda is delicious,

you know. Kung Fu Panda King Express. I might

order that tomorrow. I'm going out for Chinese.

By going out for Chinese, you don't mean like

a Chinese person on Tinder, do you? That could

be a possibility. We all know that I have yellow

fever. I heard Tinder does deliver, so there

you go. Oh, they deliver? They'll come right

to my house? I mean, I don't know. It says in

your location, right? I'm sure that the person...

It just gives you a city. It doesn't give a street

name and everything like that. I'm sure you can

find a way. The question is, if they're not there

in 30 minutes, what do you get free? Herpes.

Hey, hey, what's going on? How much has it gone?

Pretty good How are things how does that bodily?

My bodily emergency, let's just say the Nazis

would have found me I would not have been safe

in the attic not a bucket big enough Sounds like

a Michael McDonald song. Ain't no bucket deep

enough. Friedrich, what is that smell? Can't

make my football picks in eBay. No matter how

hard I try. Well that's what it looks like I

picked my fantasy football team from. Well they

do have fantasy auctions. It's either that or

weather .com because I have Storm Johnson as

one of my running pets. That's the best name

ever. Stormy Johnson. He needs to be a weatherman.

Or porn star. Or both. The first weatherman porn

star. There's so many things you can do with

that. I have a letter for both episodes. One's

about the Orioles and one's about traffic. I'm

guessing inspiration for both games is from the

game nights.