Supervillain Draft

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referring to raisins as zombie grapes. Today,

we are... Oh, my poor dog. Oh yeah, your dog's

name reeks. I forgot about that. Sorry. Bats!

Zombie dogs are kinda cool. But today we are

doing another draft. We've done a few so far.

We started with a superhero draft, moved into

the action hero draft. So, fittingly, we're gonna

go evil, and we are going to be doing the super

villain draft this time around. For those that

don't know - I'm twirling my mustache hair and

also twirling my pubes. That is vile. That is

a new version of like patting your stomach and

rubbing your head. It's That's just evil to the

imagination. Oh Man, so well, there's a mental

image I didn't need today Well, yeah, we'll get

into more of what the super villain draft will

entail in the short bit But before we get to

that, how's week been going for you guys? This

week has been Uneventful, I don't know I concur

as well I've done nothing but write and then

just have something random on in the background

that I don't have to pay attention to yeah, I

kind of did that too because I was like I Spent

the whole weekend sort of rearranging my comics

and my long boxes and stuff trying to organize

them better Oh God, and like I I took out like

a bunch I found like a bunch more doubles that

I had so I took all of them and everything And

i kind of was like playing some movies in the

background and stuff so that was kind of cool

isn't that like the trials of hercules to try

and arrange and like get everything adjusted

in your long box i had. It could be contained

by by one floor of the house i had two floors

apart yeah you get super spread out with your

stuff there's shit all over the floor there are

piles of comics all over the place and i was

like. Small cities of comic books stacked up,

so you're like Godzilla walking through them.

No, they're like little towers. I was up to like

probably 11 or 12 that night before I got everything

back together and it was crazy. But it was a

glorious time, was it not? Yeah, it was. But

and I one of the movies that I had on the background

was the new Conan movie with what's his name?

Jason Momoa. And I finally got to see that. So

that was cool. But Aquaman? It's probably best

to watch that movie while doing something else.

Yeah, but it kind of made me feel like I had

a comic shop because it's like I'm doing stuff

with my comics and I have like a movie playing

in the background that's from the comics. Did

the guy from Comics on the Green at all show

up and be like, you know? No, because I didn't

see any questions. Very nice, Craig. So you've

been you've been writing at all? You've been

in the writing room? I have been writing but

nothing that will probably get revealed and hopefully

I'll actually finish it as opposed to other stuff

that I write that gets like maybe an eighth of

the way done and I just stop writing and I move

on to something else to write or reading something

so yeah I've probably just been wasting my time.

Hey, I mean, you know, it's good to be creative

in some ways. Can you give a hint of what you're

writing, like format wise, comic book, novel,

story, play, musical? Comic book and the title

that I think I'm going with so far is called

Dead to Rights. Interesting. Yes. I'm curious

if it's gonna be like a return of the superhero

draft where you had that epic story to begin

it and it was like, you know, it was just like,

yeah, bringing up front and like we've lost this

already. Well, I didn't do that this time around

for the villain draft. So I'm not sure if I'm

exactly doing that for the comic draft or for

the comic I'm writing either. All right. Well,

we'll keep that in mind. My week has been. Rather

uneventful as well. I don't know. It's just that

time of year been kind of busy at work. Interesting

enough. We at my work We had a bunch of like

trainings and in one of the trainings we had

to do a role play It was me with another guy

and role play with some lips. Yeah. Yeah, how's

it going? Uh, yeah, he was a pizza deliverer.

Yeah You were a nurse Yeah, no, but uh, it was

the thing regarding like leadership or whatever.

So we wanted to be fun We wanted to have a good

time with it. So we ended up uh role playing

as the new england patriots And I was getting

fired because I only unpumped 11 out of the 12

balls It was just you know, it was a good time.

No, I don't know nothing amazing but it was just

one of those things where it's like it was him

and I are the only guys in the entire like Training

so it was just kind of funny. But uh Besides

that I didn't have the opportunity to watch a

movie and and I'm coming getting caught up with

all the 2014 movies. So I needed something to

kind of cleanse the palate, as they would say,

you know, get a refreshing new taste because

sometimes you haven't really watched older films

in quite a while because you get so caught up

with what's now. So to make the top 10 list and

be ready for the Oscars. So I had the opportunity,

you know, watching some old films. One thing

I did. Is we watch the hustler, but i'm not going

to go in much detail on that because I recorded

an episode of m wire with t of j1 mike that will

be released shortly but the movie i will be talking

about there was this movie called suddenly and

The only thing I knew about it was that it was

starred thanks to natra But I you know did some

research it's directed by louis allen also stars

serling hayden and james gleason And it opens

up on this town that you would associate with

any type of town during the time of Andy Griffith.

You start with a sheriff played by Serling Hayden,

and it's this really tight -knit small town called

Suddenly, ironically because everything happens

really slow there. The sheriff there knows everyone,

it's that type of town. It's just a good old

boys type of situation. Things kinda change though

when they find out that the President will be

stomping in the town for a short while, and also

before the President gets there, Secret Service

have arrived to inform the Sheriff, played by

Hayden, that there was a recent threat against

the President, so they have to be extra tight

-knit with all their security. During the same

time, Frank Sinatra appears with two other characters

that show up at this one house that's overlooking

train station as FBI agents. When the sheriff

and the other Secret Service arrive at that same

house, it's revealed that they actually aren't

FBI agents, but the people that were there to

kill the president. So they kill the one Secret

Service agent, they wound the sheriff, and then

they, along with the occupants of the house,

are left waiting in this room as they wait for

the president to arrive. And 80 % of the movie

ends up taking place in this one living room

with this gun. pointed straight at where the

president will be arriving. In the house are

just a woman who's a widow, her son, and her

father -in -law. What's kind of interesting about

this story is that it's kind of an interesting

reflection of World War II because Frank Sinatra's

character is a World War II veteran. who kind

of has not gone over World War II in a lot of

ways. He became a killer during World War II

and he kind of got addicted to it. In a way,

he's like a victim of PTSD before PTSD was a

thing. And there was an interesting dichotomy

with his character compared to Sterling Hayden,

who's this stereotypical all -American man that's

like if Andy Griffith and John Wayne had a kid.

It'd be this guy. He's older. He's I know, imagine

that. But so they have this back and forth where

Hayden's like, speaking about true patriotism,

Sinatra is, you know, this unhinged, like, crazy

dude who just like, clearly enjoys killing and

he sees this opportunity to kind of get back

to it. So he's doing it for an unknown reason.

He's saying he's getting paid by some government

agency. Clearly this is happening during the

red scare. So a lot of influences from, you know,

a communism scare at that time. It's very heavy

on the propaganda in that end. It's, you know,

it's a little bit dated, but it's actually really

fascinating, mostly because of Sinatra's performance,

who is not a guy I've ever really associated

as a really strong actor. But in this, he's actually

really good. He's really convincing as this crazed

guy who's just out to kill. He keeps the energy

going in the movie for the entire time. Without

him, this movie would not work. It's needed in

some end. It was a thriller for the time. You

know, today's days is a little bit slower pace,

but I think it's still pretty good, especially

for those people that like movies that take place

in one day or take place, you know, in one primary

location. But what's kind of interesting, too,

is that there's a lot of history that surrounds

this film, mainly because, you think about it,

it's a sniper who is killing a president. This

happened in 1955. Well... You know, not too long

after this movie is released, about eight years

or so, President Kennedy gets assassinated. So

when that happened, this film was actually kind

of taken from circulation, so much so that now

it's in the public domain because no one ever

updated their copyright. So you may have seen

a lot of DVDs, bargain bin DVDs of this movie

suddenly just because it's in the public domain

now. So, you know, there's no copyright to it.

It's also supposedly the film that we are Lee

Harvey Oswald watched before he killed John F.

Kennedy that's kind of what the lore to it and

For some reason yoing bull the guy who makes

all the crappy movies that are based on video

games We had a remake in 2013 starring Ray Liotta

and Dominic Purcell the guy from prison break

played Trinity and now era or sorry now the flash

so So the kind of kind of a geek connection there

in a little bit, but yeah, it's suddenly it's

currently on Netflix It's an okay movie. I think

I said it's mostly for Sinatra's performance

You should go out and check it out. But a decent

watch I gave it kind of three out of five stars

and letterbox But it was just kind of fun to

see an older film because I've been caught up

in 2014. What's it called again? It's called

suddenly Suddenly suddenly suddenly Susan suddenly

Susan. Yeah But yeah, so that's what I've been

watching. I've been talking way too much. But

Chuck, I know that you were watching not necessarily

something that was older, but about the past

as well. Am I correct? It was. It was a newer

show, but about something way older. But it was

a special little mini -series that was on the

History Channel this week. It was called The

Sons of Liberty. Which we proved is not a prequel

to The Sons of Anarchy. Right. Right. Totally

different universe. I think it's like the 917

universe or something like that. Oh, OK. But

I hear they're doing a reboot, though, so they're

all becoming one universe. Yeah, that would be

nice. We should talk about that. This is like

a mini series. Like I mentioned, there's three

parts. Each episode was two hours, actually.

So it's like a six hour thing. I'll be honest,

I didn't watch. All of them, but it's basically

about the early American Revolution and like

the events leading up to it in Boston, Massachusetts

and the start of the revolutionary war and the

negotiations of the second continental Congress

and all that good stuff and which resulted in

the signing of the Declaration of Independence,

which I think is kind of an important document.

I'm not sure. It's as important as Twitter. Yes.

Okay, I wonder what wouldn't fit because it's

more than 144 characters, but you know, it's

it's got it's got its importance I'm sure you

can slim it down into into into one tweet Have

everybody favorite it John Hancock would be the

first But yeah, it's I saw good amount of the

second episode and I saw the entire last episode

the finale where it kind of resulted in getting

into the actual war and stuff like that but it

centers around like the main characters that

we all learned about in history class like John

Adams and Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson

and some others but it also talks a lot about

Samuel Adams too and They talk about beer and

his beer. Yeah. Oddly enough, one of the sponsors

of the show on the History Channel. Funny how

that works. But I really thought it was a really

entertaining show. It was great. I guess probably

the first thing that could come to mind because

this this has been happening a lot, but a lot

of people are criticizing it for its historical

accuracy, including me. Including me. Yes. Well,

I read some articles on it and stuff and I started

seeing like how how different things were and

you know you start to realize that it's. It is

the history channel and they are sort of embellishing

to make it look better and but honestly, you

know, you're getting into and you turn on the

station that has a show called ancient aliens.

So how much how much were aliens involved in

that? I was waiting for that guy to come on with

the crazy hair. I love that guy. It's like who

fired the first shot aliens. But yeah, there's

this website. I think it's called all things

liberty dot com, but they sort of. They sort

of give bullet points for each episode as to

like what they got wrong and everything and it's

actually pretty astounding like the things that

they Got wrong, but I wanted to read this quote

from the history channel Like this is what they

affixed to their project and it says that they

they sort of build this series as a dramatic

interpretation of events and a work of historical

fiction because You know, it's not meant to be

an exact telling of the events so to speak but

their little tagline is it says that the goal

of the miniseries was to capture the spirit of

the time convey the personalities of the main

characters and focus on real events that have

shaped our past. But there's a whole lot of gaps

in there that they sort of made assumptions and

for instance they gave i think it was john adams

some pretty crazy ninja skills when he was fighting

some brits. You know, he takes he takes out like

three or four guys in the woods and he's like

he has these ridiculous fighting skills and everything

I'm like, how does that work? I don't know, you

know, he's a William Neeson of his day. I know.

I will tell them in the red coats like Paul Revere,

tell them that I'm going to be taken. Paul Revere

was in it, by the way, but there's really no.

big name actors in this that I'm familiar with.

I mean, there's some that I've seen their faces

here and there, but nobody I could really read

out by name like, oh, yeah, I know that guy.

But I thought the acting was good in it. The

guy that played General Gage for the general

of the British Army. I thought you were going

to say Grievous for a second. Yeah, that's what

I mean, but it's really inaccurate. No, there

was the rules of two, you know, there could only

be two British leaders. This is getting really

convoluted here. I think you need to reboot it.

They. Was it oh yeah, I was talking about a general

gauge the guy that played him actually did a

really really awesome job I really liked him

because you kind of like you're watching it and

you really start hating him really and this guy

is a giant douche and But it just kind of makes

you realize what what a good job He did of acting

in that role, but regardless of how accurate

some of the things are it's really a good watch

I would highly recommend it like they said it

gives you a good feel for the time. It gives

you a feel for the spirit of the time and that

sort of the spirit of everyone unifying to make

their own country and everything. And it was

it was really entertaining watch. I like some

of the stuff was pretty cool because they were

going into like how they they would just take

over people's houses and use them for, you know,

for their soldiers for a place to stay. Some

people disputed whether that actually happened

or not, but. In the one scene they actually go

into john hancock house because john kane hancock

had a lot of money at the time he was very rich

and had a nice home and everything so they sort

of just walked into his house and just like took

his house and sort of made it their own but.

Like i said regardless of whether those things

are true or not the way they convey is really

really good and it's really well done in my opinion

but definitely give it a watch if you're into

history at all for history buff and. I know you

guys are to some degree and I know, uh, I know

Dan, you're into that stuff occasionally. So.

Yeah, definitely. I'm curious with it being a

TV show, like how well is production value? Does

it seem like a TV show or is it, is it kind of

considering kind of the massive, uh, something

like that? It's got things like the costumes

and the staging. Is that like seem kind of real

or is it kind of feel like there's a small budget

there? No, I, I mean, to me, it feels like a

notch above a TV series. Like it's. You know

i wouldn't say movie quality but it's like it's

like in between you know like something you might

see in like a an independent film type of thing

i don't know the costumes are great i thought

you know the the set pieces were really well

done i'm thinking of this one scene really sticks

out to me where they search uh they search this

one guy's farm and they hit all their weapons

and uh They didn't find anything so they they

proceeded to beat the man anyway and that the

guy was just about to shoot him and. A bunch

of the the rebels were gathering in the woods

just outside the field and raised the guy was

about to shoot and they all started firing and

like moan him down. And it was it was really

well done like the way like they built the suspense

and like so they're they're sort of telling the

story but they're doing it in a very. In a in

a way that really grabbed your attention and

like keeps you watching so Obviously in order

to do that you need to be a little bit inaccurate

But you know now I like the way that they the

way they did everything with the set pieces and

stuff so Cool. Yeah, definitely. We'll have to

check it I saw so many previews of it and I just

like I'm gonna watch that when it comes on and

then it did and I missed it Yeah from what I

from what I read it. I got um Each of the episodes

got about three million viewers, which wasn't

as much as the flash premiere, but. Well, that's

real history. Which is up around five million.

So just got to throw that in there. But but no,

that's you know, that's not bad, especially for

being a two hour show. Like I know it's a lot

to ask people to invest that in a TV show, especially

that runs from nine to eleven at night. So kind

of impressive when you think about it. Yeah,

then I think it was history of that one show

too, which was about like the early 1900s like

the the ventures of that time like Like Henry

Ford and a few others. Oh the history of us,

wasn't it? Something like that. Yeah, I meant

to see that but I never did either Yeah, I never

saw that that that looked really good, too, but

I would say like based on some of the bits and

pieces I've saw I've seen from their different

miniseries. This was definitely on par with them.

So If you have any experience with those, it's

kind of like that. This is interesting. Alrighty.

And Greg, I know you didn't necessarily, you

know, you were all about writing this week, so

you didn't get to watch anything, but you did

have a few things you wanted to discuss, so.

Yeah. I'll turn it over to you. First off, I

wanted to get a little bit of a taste drought

for people that I've gotten the fourth book of.

Saga so people can look forward to that coming

up is i am definitely excited to read that i

just pick that up this past weekend and i can't

wait to dig my nose into it and check it out

it is very good. Everything that that's going

on saga is really great one thing i should interject

with sorry i just thought of this as you brought

up saga and i probably should have started the

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All the nominees have been selected based upon

votes from fans. And now we are voting on those

nominees and then there'll be a word show sometime

next month. And we let the history channel write

our disclaimer. So our goal is to, you know,

retell the historical events of pop culture.

In an entertaining way, even if they're inaccurate.

Yes, especially with Anne Frank shitting in a

bucket. That is our goal. Which may or may not

have happened. Sorry to interrupt you, Greg,

but you inspired me, so I had to pick it up and

go from there. No, that's cool. But yeah, definitely

excited to read that. But I also had something

that I wanted to talk to you guys. Well, two

things that I wanted to talk to you guys about.

The first one being. Very much in the news the

past two days. We record this on Thursdays, by

the way Measles no, I don't have measles I have

I have no itchy red marks on my entire body.

So we're all good ladies No, cuz your parents

aren't crazy. You're immunized right also that

But I'm sorry. We're being really mean to Greg.

We keep all the time during all the other episodes

and they're a little bit more spread out. You

guys are just getting me all on. So it's totally

fine. But I just wanted to get your guys' opinion

on the casting for Ghostbusters three or whatever

they're going to name it. Oh, the Ghostbusters

female edition. Yes. Have you guys heard about

that? Apparently, Dan has. Have you heard about

it, Chuck? Yeah. Yeah, I did hear about that

the other day. I just wanted to get your your

input on the whole thing cuz i'm kinda. I'm not

sure how i really feel about it i was like i'm

kinda sprain my ankle. Well so it's not there

no it's most McCarthy person wig katie mckinnon.

And I am completely racist and do not remember

the black lady's name. But I think she's from

Saturday Night Live, too, right? Yeah, she is.

And she kind of like Ernie Hudson. She kind of.

So that's kind of a good casting there, so. I

want us aren't like two or three of them from

SNL at one point in time. Yeah, I think all what

all what? Yeah And Melissa McCarthy pretty much.

It's the same crazy character in all of her movies

for the most part I'm tired of her for a little

bit. So I'm not too too pleased about that Kristen

wig I think okay And I don't know anything about

the two other girls, so I can't really But I

would have liked it if it was just like a total

180 from the original of four guys and just going

four girls. It just seems, I don't know. I'd

rather see like a mix than just all random, all

four girls. No offense, ladies. This is kind

of like my take in just to clear things up the

the other person is Leslie Jones That's her name.

Oh, and yes her in Kate McKinnon are both front.

We're currently on SNL as of right now Kristen

Wiig obviously was on it previously Now personally

like yeah, I agree with you that McCarthy most

McCarthy just tends to play that same role over

and over again I did like it in a bridesmaids,

but I get I get kind of old but she is capable

of doing more like she was She had a decent performance

in Saint Vincent last year where she played more

of a human being. So instead of an amorphous

blob. Yeah, not just like the crazy like I'm

going to. My worry is that's kind of what she'll

be doing the way I look at it I would rather

that or not be a Ghostbusters 3 or remake or

reboot as I like Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters

2 I'm good. I don't need anymore. I'm fine. But

if you're gonna do it I think going with a female

cast actually is a smart idea in the sense that

you're you know, you can't obviously Get the

original cast. I mean Harold Ramis unfortunately

passed away Bill Murray has no interest in doing

it Dan Ackroyd really wants to do it but Dan

Ackroyd Is far past the ability that you know

the really bring someone to a movie in Ernie

Hudson who knows nothing but trouble with Dan

Ackroyd. Maybe they can really make a remake

to nothing but trouble Dan Ackroyd probably looks

like his character from the cone heads by now.

So if you try to get four guys to replace them

I think that you run the risk of they are they

just gonna do impersonations of the other guys

like I know people talk about Shannon Tatum or

Chris Pratt I mean, I understand that and but

I think by doing this you and Going with an all

-female cast you don't have to worry about the

comparisons as much to the original You can kind

of do your own thing. I actually really like

Kristen Wiig. I think she's really funny I think

she's also a really strong actress. She was really

good last year in Skeleton Twins. Yeah, I agree

with that cast Was it I agree with her being

cast? Yeah, the other two I don't know much about

keep him kidding. I for what I've seen From her

inside of nightlife. I really liked Leslie Jones

I honestly not too familiar with so I really

can't comment on on them But I don't know like

like I said it rather it not happened, but I'm

okay with it I'm not I don't think it's gonna

be All that fantastic puff by he or puff I who's

going to be doing the who's the director who

did bridesmaids? He did the heat. He's coming

out with another movie this year called What

is it called something the spy or something like

that with Melissa McCarthy again? I don't know

like I'm worried. It's gonna be just along those

lines not unique You're not like not in the mode

of the classic Ghostbusters. So It's not a make

-or -break for me. I'm about as excited as I

would have been but I don't know Chuck What do

you think? Think I'm kind of feeling I'm kind

of in the same vein you are if it's anything

like Like you mentioned the heat there's another

one she did called identity theft Some other

ones like they were they were sort of funny,

but if it's if they're gonna do that same exact

type of humor It's kind of going to be like,

you know, it's getting a little old, you know.

Yeah. So many times you can see her struggling

to get over a counter that you're like, I get

it. It's funny because she's like, I get it.

And I don't know if you guys are familiar with

the TV show that she's in, Mike and Molly at

all. I have not watched it. I do think she's

very good on there. I think that's a different

role than she has played in those movies. So

she is capable of that. And I didn't see that

other movie that you mentioned in so I can't

really comment on that but I I think if they

really get a good writer and do this the right

way it could be very successful but if it's if

it's that type of comedy again and if it's like

a I don't know what you would want to say like

if it's like a girl power thing and they're they're

all like hunting the ghosts of their ex -husbands

and sucking them up things like that's gonna

be annoying so It's gonna be like Spice Girls

movie. I have zero problem with them casting

four women I think it could be a great idea if

it's done correctly, but just don't overplay

that like Stupid comedies so much. I don't know

It's something I think what made you especially

so good is Bill Murray and without him It's like

I don't know if it's gonna gonna work cuz if

you look at some of those lines that he says

I don't think are funny out of many other people's

mouths are funny because they're Bill Murray,

right and I just, I don't think we need another

Ghostbusters anything to be honest with you.

So, I don't know. Maybe they could bring, you

know what, why don't they just bring back the

real Ghostbusters cartoon and then we can stop

there. Have we done Ghostbusters on our sequel

reboot destroy game? We have not. Okay. Cause

I couldn't, I was trying to remember if we did

and what we said or not, but. No, no, no. But

Greg, I'm sorry, I guess we gave our opinion.

So what were your overall thoughts? Well, I kind

of gave mine. I don't really I'd like to see

it more of a mix than all just women for the

most part. Is it just because you'd rather see

a variety or is it just the idea that like what

is it about casting for women that you find that

you think is. I think it's just the variety for

the most part special since I don't want to see

Melissa McCarthy in there for the most part so

I figure you could at least split it up to the

two I just don't want there's just something

about going the extreme of like okay we had four

guys so now we have to go for women like it I

don't know what it is about that but it just.

It just rubs me the wrong way that since we had

four guys, now we have to have four women. It

just doesn't seem really right to me. Either

way, Sigourney Weaver is one of their girlfriends.

Oh, I guess I guess I feel like a mixture would

just be more problematic, though, in some ways,

because then like you run into the issues of

like they're sleeping together or something.

Yes. Like, you know, yeah, like kind of a relationship

dynamics that could be kind of tiresome or something

like that. I think it'd be a little bit less.

Like why how would that team form in a way? I

don't know plus you can think of like chemistry

wise I wouldn't be against to make sure but it

It would be a little bit more difficult depending

on who you get like if you do like Bill Hader

in there Over like Melissa McCarthy, I'd be like

all for it. That'd be sweet. I don't know I'm

like I want to be against to make sure but I

think I don't know like I said I think the big

thing about it casting for women over Casting

a new for no for new guys is that you don't have

to worry about trying to Redo what the other

movie did you can kind of do your own thing?

I just I'm not trying to be misogynistic or anything.

It just doesn't seem right to me for some reason

All right, fair enough You said you it was another

thing. Yeah, just one more thing I was wondering

if you guys would help me out with the decision

that I'm trying to make As we all know that I

do the Loot Crate subscription where you get

box in the mail every month you pay like I think

it's like 12 bucks every month then you get this

box in the mail and it's got a whole bunch of

five to six goodies in it. Sometimes there's

a puff vinyl figure, sometimes there's t -shirts,

comic books and there's like a lot of Loot Crate

exclusive that you won't get anywhere else. but

today my Twitter has been blowing up with Marvel

declaring that they're teaming up with the people

at Funko who do the pop vinyl and they are doing

collector Marvel's collector corpse or core depending

on how you how you like to say that I go with

the core but uh they they are now coming out

with box subscription and it's every other month

and it is $25 and um let's see i might uh comic

book book resources and i'm gonna just read a

paragraph here the debut box which ships in april

will feature items from avengers age of ultron

including an exclusive six inch iron man hulk

buster pop vinyl which they have uh below in

the photo a t -shirt sporting one of four exclusive

designs, another stylized vinyl figure, and two

premium accessories. I'm wondering if I should

do the Marvel box or if I should stick with Loot

Crate. So far I'm kind of leaning towards the

Marvel box because it's a little bit more categorized

towards more specific something that I like as

opposed to the Loot Crate which every once in

a while goes off my taste a little bit. With

the video game, but they're a little bit more

exclusive video game type of thing fans. So I

was wondering your guys opinions. So it's twenty

four or five dollars per crate or per crate for

twenty five dollars per box. It's not a twenty

five dollar per month thing. OK. And it seems

like they have a little bit more. It sounds like

there's going to be higher quality stuff in there.

And how much is the crate? Loot crate is twelve

bucks a box approximately i forget the exact

price but it's around twelve bucks. If you had

asked me personally i probably would go marvel

because with there's so many with the crater

so many different fandoms like. I am like i'm

not a big doctor who fan and i'm guessing there

probably would be made a possibility having something

from doctor who or other things i'm not into

yeah that's when i got a. What's the the video

game from back in the day where the aliens descend

on the town? It was Mario on Atari The aliens

invade invaders space invaders yes invaders I

have a black tie now with little white space

invaders on it It's a skinny tie and I'm like

I'm not ever gonna wear this I mean, I guess

the benefit is to get two for the price of one

compared to the Marvel thing and the fact that

you did get that awesome kitty shirt with That's

mean the skull yeah there's some winners every

once in a while like the the batman joker pop

vinyl which i really like but this one seems

like it's gonna be maybe like a pop vinyl and

everyone exclusive to that crate so. I would

probably go with the marble one cuz you're i

think. There's not much surprise there, except

you kind of know what you're getting. But at

least you're not getting things you don't like

most more likely, I guess. I don't know, Chuck,

what do you think? Yeah, I would probably lean

more towards the Marvel one if it was me personally,

but only for the same reasons, though, because

I'm mostly a Marvel guy. But yeah, like a lot

of the other fandoms like you mentioned, I'm

not really into. But like you do get some good

stuff every once in a while, though, Greg. So

it's like. You know if they throw in like a star

wars thing or yeah, i just got a exclusive the

first issue of star wars I got a variant cover

for it. That's exclusive to loot crate Yeah,

but it's stories you hear that the darth vader

comic book has like been the most like best -selling

comic book in years That marvel's coming out

with yeah a few weeks. Yeah, I did hear that

really though. I don't know i'm almost thinking

maybe go loot crate because it is cheaper and

My guess is you'll probably get more of your

money's worth, depending on how much you get

with the Marvel one. Just to make things more

complicated for you. I'd say go neither and start

collecting Marvel Legends. Yeah, that's pretty

cool. I'll put some stuff in the show now so

you can check that stuff out. More boxes, things

to buy. That seems to be the thing now. There

are a lot of different ones. There's Nature Box,

which is like a snack food one. There was a Japan

box, which is all like different snacks You can

just get in Japan look like a mountain Mountain

Dew Cheetos and like all those crazy tick KitKat

flavors and stuff No, thank you. You don't like

KitKats I just I don't like the weird combination

of flavors that they put in things like it's

probably Shrimp flavored KitKat. Oh god. Oh that

sounds disgusting They probably have it in Japan

though. They probably do they would but uh before

we go before we take a break we're going to talk

about one quick thing and if it was a release

this week and that is interesting enough we're

going to get in super villains well this team

is goes against one of the best super villains

of all time and that is the fantastic four and

their trailer the you know this highly contested

movie that hasn't even been released yet finally

released its trailer This week and kind of curious

to hear what you guys had to think had to say

about it I know there's not much there you don't

get a huge amount just kind of overall sense

of what it's gonna be like, but Knowing everything

you did going in and now seeing the trailer are

your are you more hesitant or more likely to

go see the movie? I'll be honest. I guess before

I saw this I'll start with that. I had zero interest

in this movie to begin with I actually kind of

liked the first Fantastic Four movies, minus

some of the scripts of the Silver Surfer. But

for the most part, I enjoyed the casting. I thought

Michael Chiklis was fantastic as the thing and

Joan Graffard, I thought did a great job. And

also Chris Evans. I think a lot of different

people could have played the invisible girl,

but I did enjoy those movies. And this one for.

And it's not for like some of the more controversial

reasons, but just for the reasons that it seemed

like they were going to drastically change the

story. That sort of turned me off. But I mean,

looking at the trailer, to me, it looks like

a it looks like a good space movie. Looks like

a looks like an exploration movie, sort of. I

sort of got the the feeling that you got when

you saw the first trailer for like Interstellar.

Yeah, you know what I mean? It's like sort of

that just that sense of adventure and discovery

like you're going out into the unknown We're

you know, we're searching for things and it looks

like a great space Odyssey I'm just just not

sure if it's gonna be a great comic book story.

I Don't know if it's if it's going to convey

the story that well, maybe it will I know Stan

Lee Reportedly, I guess read the script and he's

like a great He's a big fan of the changes they've

made and he's like all on board with it and everything

so So has it written Marvel movie that Stanley

hasn't said it's gonna be great. Yeah pretty

Electra is gonna be awesome. He's like, oh you're

doing another property of mine and making you

know hundreds of millions of dollars. I love

it Stop smiling now, that's what I mean. I'm

not sure if it's gonna convey that same Comic

feel that the other ones did but maybe that's

not necessarily a bad thing Because it may end

up being like like a great space Odyssey like

a really cool exploration type of thing and Like

an origin story. So maybe you don't see a lot

of like, you know fighting with bad guys Maybe

you don't see a whole lot of dr. Doom or anything

like that But I guess time will tell you know,

I I'll look forward more to the second trailer

and see what they have in that Greg, what do

you think? I think it was another more origin

story, because we don't know the origin of Fantastic

Four yet, whoopee. And I thought it looked kind

of like the first Star Trek movie. I'm not sure

if it was because we had a lot of kind of field

situations going on. But yeah, my opinion didn't

change of not super interested. I've probably

mentioned it before, but the Fantastic Four comics

aren't really my favorites because it's just

Reed Richards going, oh, shit, we've got this

giant problem. Run around, run around. Oh, wait,

I just built something. You guys, it's all good.

I just built this machine over here. We're all

hunky dory. So and I seriously don't want to

see another Fantastic Four origin story. It looks

like they're changing it, though. It doesn't

really look like they're getting shot off into

space. Did anybody else kind of feel that way

or is it just me? I felt like they were just

in these containers and kind of like Captain

America kind of transformation type of thing

Yeah, I wasn't sure I almost took it that they

were in that container. They were already in

space Okay, that was kind of like my assumption

because there's that one image of them the like

the ending image of them before them standing

there with like a crazy light Shining from the

sky sky that looked like it was kind of in space

I could be wrong But my I took it as like that

was like they were going in there for protection

from like the cosmic storm possibly or something

Yeah, no, okay, but I like it could be way off

and that I have an idea, but I don't know It

just doesn't seem very interesting to me. I'll

probably see it I'll probably go with Chuck or

something, but I'm not I ain't going so oh you're

not no What's going on I'm not a whole heck of

a lot interested in it. I'm I'm more interested

in the reaction by people like, I don't know,

because I'm not. It's already been told, like

I wasn't excited about the Spider -Man reboot

either, because it's like it's just too, too

soon, too soon. More into the this MCU stuff

with the Avengers. Yeah, see I don't I don't

disagree with the idea of retelling an origin

I guess the idea is the question is how much

of the movie is really on the origin of the Fantastic

Four is it just a small bit in the beginning

or is it the entire film because I agree Re -seeing

an origin does get kind of tiresome. I know a

lot of people Are hating on this movie and for

legitimate reasons there been a lot of rumors

that have come out that are questionable but

the thing that kind of has me the most excited

to just kind of the people that are involved

with it like The cast I love, I actually wrote

an article on Geocache Radio, why the reboot

will work. Just kind of saying like, there are

some positives here. I really love the cast.

Like Miles Teller, I'm a big fan of from Whiplash

last year. Even Spectacular Now. Michael B. Jordan

was great for Fruitville Station. He was in The

Wire. Kate Mara was in House of Cars. She was

great in that. Jimmy Bell has been in a ton of

stuff. He's actually been he was a kid actor

with Billy Elliot and been he's having like a

pretty steady career since then and I liked a

director who did Chronicle and Thought he did

pretty really well with that with a small budget

and made some really inventive action sequences

So I I thought like yeah that there's I know

rumors that Dr. Doom is a blogger or something

like that, which is kind of weird and I'm really

wondering what that's really about. But also

Toby Keble, who was in Dawn of the Planet of

the Apes last year playing Koba, which was one

of my favorite villains of the entire year last

year, was great. So I'm thinking, well, maybe

you could really make this character work. The

trailer, it is really ominous. Personally, when

it comes to the Fantastic Four, Greg, I'm also

not a fan. So hearing that they're changing things

actually has me more excited because... I, the

way I look at it is most people are like Greg

and I think like myself that are not all that

invested in the Fantastic Four. Most people,

you know, you go to cons, you don't see much,

see really anyone dressed up as the Fantastic

Four. It's not a comic people really talk about

all that much. So if anything needs an update

or needs a new take, it would probably be them.

So I'm okay with them kind of more going based

upon what the Ultimates did or what have you.

Not saying it's definitely going to work, but

I think I can get what they're going with and...

Think the tone is a little heavier than I expected

It seems a little bit more serious and I think

interstellar is a really good comparison It does

seem like that like if I watched that trailer

and didn't know it was a Fantastic Four movie.

I would have never guessed it's a Fantastic Four

movie. Yeah, that's the feeling I got I Think

I'm more optimistic than other people. I do think

there's a possibility that this will be completely

awful, but I don't know I I like I kind of like

the trailer personally like I thought I had I

got much more from the Fantastic Four trailer

than I did the Ant -Man trailer just because

I thought there's at least a little bit more

personality in it a little bit it felt like an

event compared to the Ant -Man trailer which

just felt kind of standard so I am hopeful that

it will not be the trainwreck that many people

think it's gonna be but I could be wrong so All

right anything else before we take a break Don't

believe Feels like already. Well, yeah Well,

interesting enough like I mentioned With dr.

Doom. Well, that's a perfect lead into our super

villain draft that will be coming in just a short

bit before we get to that We've got to pay the

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gonna do another drafts getting into the super

villain draft this time around and this is the

first time you listen to a draft It's pretty

basic runs the same lines and the same rules

as any other like NFL drafts or anything like

that So the order is based upon the winners of

the last time we did something like this when

we tried to create the ultimate Saturday morning

cartoon and For that I finally once after all

these drafts. I finally end up coming victorious

and took first place. So I get first pick. Then

Chuck gets second pick and then Greg. And then

the second round, we're not doing the snake draft.

All gets first pick again, kind of like you do

with the NFL. We did the snake draft for the

first time. It ends up just being kind of more

complicated with three people. So it's a little

easier doing it this way. And we're going to

have five different rounds of. Choosing different

villains we can choose any villains from comic

book universe The only difference is to say if

I choose a villain from say if I take a character

We're not doing superheroes, but if we did superheroes

and I took Wolverine from the age of apocalypse

Well, then no one else could choose a different

Wolverine from a different universe that character

is off the board So any character Marvel DC what

have you anything is available. This has to be

a super villain from comics so and then at the

end we're going to be then explaining what our

team concept is going to be and then at keycastreader

.com I will be having a poll for you to vote

to decide who won super villain draft so rules

are simple good got it good great so let's start

things off here I have first pick Kind of tough

a lot of pressure, you know, don't want to don't

want to do a ryan leaf blow it You got to pick

a strong character You need someone who is going

to carry your team is going to be that lynchpin

is going to be that franchise player that people

can go to so Thinking like there are a lot of

great villains out there some people I look through

a lot of rankings of best villains out there

and no one really ranked this one number one.

But for my story, I think he's perfect. So I

have to go with number one for this character.

Kind of alluded to him a little earlier when

he talked about Fantastic Four. And I'm going

to go with, oh, am I taking it already? You know,

the thunder from Latveria. Doctor. The entire

story was based around that. Fuck me. You don't

even like Fantastic Four. No, I'm kidding. I

didn't mean to take your character, Chuck. I

wasn't sure. I thought, I assumed you were going

to go Magneto. So I'm like, you know, I'll go

with Doom. So I thought, I don't know. Well,

hopefully, yeah. So I'm going Doctor Doom. I'll

get into why very shortly. So I feel bad for

you, Chuck. Yeah, sure you do. Could've done

some trading. Could've got some picks, you know,

later. I don't know what we could've done. But

anyway, so now it's on to you. So Doom's off

the board. Who are you going with? Boy, this

is tough now. I have some other characters that

I don't think you guys are interested in. Although

now I don't trust that notion so much. But I

will try to save those for the later rounds with

my strategy. Oh, boy. Who else would be my leader?

I need a good leader guy. I have a couple of

backups. Is there anyone here that's a good leader?

My name is leader. I think that guy lacks a little

self -confidence when he used to call himself

the leader. He definitely puts lifts and issues.

And this is warhead. All right, let's go with.

Would have been my second in command, but let's

make him the leader. I'm going to go with apocalypse.

Ah, mother. That was my net. All right. Well,

hey, I'm up into trades. You know what? We can

talk about that. See how things go. All right.

So we got doom. We got apocalypse. Off the board,

some epic villains there, Greg. Hopefully, we

didn't steal yours. I am not going to follow

up with a stellar villain here. Squirrel girl.

No, she's not a villain. She is if she wants

to be. I'm going to go with Mystique. Interesting.

Interesting. All right. I think we're going to

take the rhino or something. No. No, Mystique.

Toad. I don't know I Steak is a very I'm going

for a certain thing here you guys I'm going for

a certain thing all women Yes, I'm going for

all the bad girls Yeah, steaks a very versatile

character. She's a very very powerful player

on the chessboard. Yes. Yes All right going with

mystique very nice very nice. All right, so with

my next pick I'm not going to lie, apocalypse

does kind of make me have to change things around

a little bit. Maybe trades will happen. For my

story to work, I do need a powerful character

here. I need someone who can kind of hold his

own in many ways. I'm going to go over to the

land of DC for this pick and I'm going to go

with Doomsday. The person who technically kind

of killed Superman, but uh, yeah, so I'm gonna

go with dr. Doom and my next pick is doomsday

That wasn't the double D's yeah, that's actually

the name of my comic Big doomsday fan, that's

cool. Yeah All right. So Chuck, moving on to

you. I was wondering if that would be one of

your choices, because I do know you like Doomsday.

I can tell you were like listening for the reaction

after you said it. OK, well, I'm up for my second

pick. And this will be this will also be some

muscle for my team. Every team needs a little

bit of muscle. And this is one of my all time

favorite villains. I have a lot of them, but.

He's one of my favorites and that is keen marco

himself juggernaut. That's funny cuz i was like

doomsday or juggernaut like i was gonna go with

either or i'm like i'll go doomsday but i think

it's the same story damn it. I smell copyright

infringement. Alright so we got doom doomsday

juggernaut apocalypse mystique. Greg you're up

again we gone with. I am going and this is gonna

sound like a recent comic that was out i'm gonna

go with lady masterminds there was a recent x

-men where it was misty lady mastermind and a

couple others but i'm not going that way folks

i'm not going that way. So I gotta say, I'm not

too familiar with that character, but it does

sound interesting. She's very hot, and she's,

you know, Mastermind is her father, so they have

similar powers. Except I think he's dead now,

so I went with the girl version, because the

way Stuart Imogen, or however you pronounce his

name, drew her pretty damn well. All right, we're

now moving on to round three, so it's kind of...

Only three more choices gotta be kind of tough.

You gotta clean this out So now that some choices

that I wanted are off the board kind of readjust

a little bit here None of my choices are what

Dan had wanted Well, you know good for you that

huh So right now I have dr. Doom magic intelligence

got to say got my muscle that you know, I need

some firepower and Are you going with literal

firepower? Fireman! Pyro! No, I'm thinking like,

when your character can go through time and get

any weapon he wants, you can get some serious

firepower. When you're one individual that can

nearly take down the entire Avengers, you're

a person to be messed with, so I'm gonna go with

King the Conqueror. Son of a - What the - Seriously

I Just want to get a rise in it like really Not

think anyone else would want King the Conqueror,

but I'll get to I'll get to why shortly, but

so yeah, I'm going with King Alright check it

over to you, okay? Let's see this this character

is I know one of One of your more favorite ones,

Dan, so I hope he's not on your list. But secretly,

I kind of hope he is, too. No, I'm kidding. Let's

see. For my third pick, I need someone who is

going to be a great strategy advisor to the leader.

He's going to be a tactician, a very skilled

fighter. And my next pick is going to be Taskmaster.

Nice, nice. The way I arranged my team, like,

my format, like, I couldn't pick him, but yeah,

I do love that character. So, good choice, good

choice. Alright, Greg, what female character

are you going with next? Not a female character.

Whoa! Hold on. Hold the phone. I am going to

go with a guy that has a big fishing bowl as

a head, or a representation of a head. So, that

is Mysterio. Interesting that I wasn't expecting

that Putting back himself. That's right. You're

a man full mystery now Greg. That's right I got

mystique and I've got mysterious And I could

try and corner lady mastermind into that of the

lady mister mind There's two characters I have

left and I'm gonna go with this one cuz When

you think of my story, I need characters that

can dominate. Those that can go to the hole and

dominate. That sounds wrong. Yeah, I know. I'm

not going to lie. This is kind of where I was

going to go with Apocalypse, but he's off the

board because someone took him from me. So I

got to go a different side. Life's rough, huh?

Dry your eyes. Man, that was cold. I'm just teeming.

But you know what? I'm feeling very evil this

episode. Yeah, yeah. A lot of backstabbing. This

kind of wasn't necessarily on my list, so I'm

going to go off my draft board, because I thought

this character would go early. But he's here

now, and he's kind of like one of the ultimate

villains in all of comic books, and that's Darkseid.

So I'm going with Darkseid with my fourth choice.

Nice. I'm kind of surprised. I know you're a

big Darkseid fan. Chuck, so I thought you'd be

going with him, but I guess you have a different

plan, so I'm kind of curious who you're going

to go with next. He's a very interesting character.

He doesn't quite fit into what I'm doing. He

won't reveal any strategy yet, but I'm not quite

done. Let's see. Let's see. What am I on? My

number four pick, right? Yes. OK. My number four

pick is someone who is the focus of a major motion

picture this year. And what's McCarthy. Yes.

The most vile villain of the. The enemy of modern

day comedy. No, I'm referring to the major villain

from the next Avengers movie, which is Ultron.

Nice. Nice. Good choice. I need a guy who is

hell bent on domination. He can create multiple

copies of himself. be uploaded into any sort

of computer system imaginable, so very formidable.

Very nice. And he has no strings, so there you

go. And he sounds like James Spader, weirdly

enough. All right, so you going with Ultron.

Interesting, interesting. Now, Greg, on to you.

I thought I had an idea of where you're going,

but now I have no idea. What surprises you have

in store now? My next little surprise is actually

really surprising because it's a Superman villain

and we all know Greg's feelings about Superman

Yes, I did talk about myself in the third person.

That's what villains do. So don't don't criticize

but I'm going to go with Brainiac Interesting.

I like I like Superman's rogues better than Superman

himself kind of kind of an interesting combo

there. It's like Drafting a wide receiver after

I receive where you go with Ultron and go with

Brainiac. There are some simulators there. So

this brain interactive construct Nice Greg likes

seeing Superman get killed Basically is what

you're going with that seems our plot of your

story I'm gonna have the steep pretend to be

Batman and trick him and Alright, so we're already

around five, so I have Dr. Doom on my side, I

have Darkseid, I have Doomsday, a lot of Ds there,

and I have Kang the Conqueror. For my fifth choice,

I'm gonna go with one of my personal favorite

villains, maybe not favorite, I just think he's

an interesting concept and kind of a hero in

some instances, but it is Maestro Hulk, am I

saying that correctly? Maestro Hulk, yep. Going

with Maestro. For those that don't know, that's

kind of like an alternate version of Hulk from

the future where Hulk's kind of gone a little

evil and basically taken over the entire world

in the future. So I forget the name of the story

where he's... Do you remember that, Greg? Future

Imperfect? Future Imperfect, where that character

debuts. He even had a cameo in a few issues of

the Exiles comics as well. But I really like

Meister Hulk. And again, when I get into my story,

I'll make a little bit more sense as well. So

that is my team. Chuck, moving on to you, who

are you going with for your last choice? Hard

to top Maestro Hulk. I remember that iconic,

some of those iconic panels where he's wearing

the belt with the other heroes memorabilia on

it. Like he had, you know, Dr. Doom's mask. He

had Magneto's helmet. I think he had Thor's hammer,

Cap's shield, Doctor Strange's cape, and a bunch

of other stuff just showing that he defeated

them all. Yeah, pretty crazy. Let's see, my fifth

guy. I'm going to go with someone you wouldn't

expect on this team, but he has a very particular

set of skills that makes him fit in very well

for what's going to happen if he were a bad guy.

Which he kind of wasn't taken three, I guess

you can say No, this guy has a very unique power

set and that's kind of why I chose him I mean,

he's a pretty cool villain. He's not a big -time

Mastermind. He's more of a muscle type of guy

and then his absorbing man interesting ass Absorbing

who just recently what he appeared on the episode

of agent of shield to start the season if I'm

not mistaken indeed And uh the actor that plays

him actually in episode of pop addled a podcast

He they had the opportunity to interview that

actor and it's actually a good interview So if

you have a chance, you should probably check

that out. It's a it's a good time So just plugging

on the podcast because that's what we do here

All right, Greg you're getting you know, mr.

Irrelevant. So are you going with with your last

choice? I'll give you guys a hint. He was the

main villain And x -men issue number two. Magneto.

No. The blob. No, that was number seven or eight.

You guys are never going to guess his name. He

appeared a couple of years ago in X -Force. It's

shit. No, it's not the shit. Is it William Stryker?

No, that's later. Is it Mastermind? No. His name

is The Vanisher. He is a teleporter. Oh, OK.

Interesting. And he recently appeared in X -Force.

He was really cool on that team because he was

a bad guy on X -Force and he kind of teleported

them around and Wolverine just kind of... Beating

the shit out of him or something like that. I

forget exactly what happened, but he got abused

on that team. So Interesting. Wow you you are

going deep with that one. So that is yeah, very

deep very relevant All right. So now the moment

of truth I know there are some big, you know,

big superheroes or supervillains that were not

taken, including Magneto and Joker, I'm sure,

and a few others. But, you know, it's all about

what kind of fits your story. And personally

for me, Magneto didn't or the Joker clearly didn't.

I needed some heavy hitters, some big powerful

guys. When we did the superhero hero draft, I

went more street level and I got crushed with

the voting. So, you know, thinking you guys want

powerful stuff. I don't know. So but here is

kind of my the tagline, the little bit of information

regarding what this comic is going to be. Villains

have often attempted to rally together to fight

forces of good, but they too often fail. Their

selfish desires and inability to think cohesively

leads to disarray and chaos. After Latveria is

overthrown by the US government forces led by

Nick Fury and Iron Man, Doctor Doom is looking

to strike back. Knowing he can't do it alone,

in the feebleness of forming a ragtag group of

evil minds, he sets his sights on a new plan,

using the most precious resource of all, time.

Traversing all new universes and dimensions,

he forms the ultimate team. With his new trans

-dimensional device, Dr. Doom can give this group

the world, well, at least during their designated

time period, teaming up to take out their greatest

foes throughout time with ease, and then split

up the entire history of time like pieces of

an apple pie. because when the likes of Dr. Doom,

Darkseid, Doomsday, King and the Conqueror, and

Maestro Hulk work together evil reigns. So basically

what the book's gonna be called evil reigns and

what they have done is they split up time. So

each person, Darkseid, has his area of time that

he's allowed to control. Dr. Doom has his area

of time that he's allowed to control. So it's

not about land, but actual time, because of this

trans -dimensional device that allows him to

control the different areas. Instead of trying

to control like a certain location. It's all

about that So I figured to be a different little

take on that because they technically don't have

to work together because they're not in the same

time period But they do in order to keep everything

somewhat cohesive. So yeah, I don't know I don't

know if that makes sense, but it's called evil

reigns spelled with the REI RE IGN s because

I am bad at coming up with titles Sounds very

interesting sounds pretty cool I find it ironic

since you in the last podcast you said there

should be less time travel stories Dan went back

in time and changed the fact that he didn't want

time travel stories That's funny because when

I was doing this I'm like I said I didn't want

time travel stories and here I am doing it, but

that's totally cool. That's All right Chuck moving

on to you I don't have a story i just like these

guys. Nice like burgers no. Let's see doctor

june was my original choice for this but i'll

just say he's away in another dimension or something

that's why he's not involved in this at all but

basically. Apocalypse creates a team of what

he believes to be some of earth's greatest champions

on the evil side of things. some that he thinks

are that really fit into his survival of the

fittest motto and the reason he creates this

team is to execute a manhunt for another person

who is beyond earth who holds in possession something

that apocalypse wants very greatly basically.

Apocalypse has very specific plans for each of

the four allies he has chosen. Each of the players

that he's chosen fit very precisely into his

plan. Each of them have a function, even though

they don't know it yet. They are led to believe

that they are equals in this matter, and Apocalypse

sort of speaks with them about how they share

his vision. For not the Android but they share

his vision for a survival of the fittest and

so forth especially Ultron since he you know

the whole destroying all of humanity thing but

they don't know yet but apocalypse once they

achieve this goal He will actually betray them

all and use the the power that they attain To

take their own and basically in imbue himself

with them basically, you know juggernaut power

from the gem of cedar act absorbing man's Magical

powers and so forth. So I know this may be sort

of cheating a little bit, but there's There's

a sixth player involved. I mentioned earlier

He's not on their team though, so it doesn't

count right? Yeah, sure sure I mean but that

I mentioned before a manhunt apocalypse is in

search of this person because We reached a time

where he's bested the X -Men. He's proved his

worth on Earth and he's ready to take it to the

next level. And he keeps hearing about a certain

Mad Titan who holds in his possession a cosmic

cube. And it's said that everyone fears Thanos

of Titan as the baddest dude in the galaxy, pretty

much. And Apocalypse takes offense to that. and

basically mounts his team who aren't technically

his four horsemen, but Apocalypse thinks of them

this way because he plans to betray them eventually.

So he takes his team to outer space in a wide

search for Thanos and they confront him and they

use their various different powers to sort of

wrest the cosmic cube away from him. And I was

wondering I was like I'm surprised Chuck to go

with Thanos, but I see like in true Thanos fashion

He was there waiting. I had the wool over your

eyes for a while there seems really convoluted

but that kind of makes sense in my head somehow

but uh sort of a You know, he plans to use absorbing

man to like even if they can't take the cosmic

cube from him sort of uses absorbing powers to

Absorb the literal power of the cube into him

sort of a siphon off some of it so that they

have it for themselves and The easy to enhance

the power of the the cedar act gem and so forth

Taskmasters got some strategy there. Do you have

a name for your team? Or did I screw you up by

taking out dr? Do a little bit says I sort of

Part of me wanted to go super corny and call

it legion of doom But I don't know. I think I

don't have a name for the team per se. Maybe

a name for the comic. Something to do is like

maybe I would call it like dual survival or something

like that. Be sort of a play on words there with,

you know, apocalypse is trying to basically pull

the wool over these guys' eyes and survive their

wrath after it all is said and done. All right.

Very cool. Moving on to greg i'm really curious

to hear what you have cuz like i have no idea

where you're going i don't have something written

down or anything too complicated my team is just

here to infiltrate and kind of take over government

organizations and make everybody confused is

all hell. and try and turn them against the heroes

to have everybody kind of revolt against mutants,

avengers, superman, justice league, all that

other stuff. So I want them to take over and

get into roles like Mystique can change and shape

her body into anybody she wants. So she could

look like the president, she could look like

other leaders around the world. Brainiac and

Mysterio can set things up so there can be television

stuff that stuff that goes out into the media

to pimp their ideas and twist everybody around

and lady mastermind can get in people's minds

and change people's viewpoints on different things

and maybe sway people to their direction and

vanisher is kind of a lynchpin member as he has

to transport these people all over the world

so they can make it all happen. Just all right.

I that's kind of cool cuz I think mystique is

a good person to do that cuz she's she tends

to like yeah, so it's a mind game the first x

-men where she takes over for the one senator

who I'm Being horrible nerd and not remembering

silly Kelly yeah and and it's kinda little bit

scrawl invasion which i feel bad about that the

bendis comic. Just get the ending yeah that's

right i've got all those kind of mix together

and i didn't really come up with the title but

i guess with all the missed kinda names i'll

call it the mysterious. Nice alright so we have

you rains my team dual survivors. Chuck's team,

mysterious Greg's team, and what I'll be doing

is putting up a poll at GeekCastReader .com for

you to vote to see what team you felt won the

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you. All right, so that that is a superhero draft

and we like to end each episode with a letter

and this week We're kind of doing something a

little bit different We did one of these a way

back when and it's from don't reply comm where

there are Correspondence with I'm sorry don't

even reply comm where there is correspondence

between people and regarding Craigslist and This

one that we're gonna be doing is regarding a

hedge trimmer and the craziness that ensues So

the original ad is pull hedge trimmer for sale

Homolete electric hedge trimmer great condition

$50 obo don't know our best offer email me our

best offer. I'm an idiot $50 or best offer email

me at Russ and at gmail whatever address so in

this skit Greg will be playing Russ the person

who is trying to sell this hedge trimmer I'm

going to start as the agitator who likes to play

games with Russ. So the first email is from me

to Greg or from me to Russ. So here we go. I

should mention that in the photo you see the

hedge trimmer, but in the background There's

also a pretty old looking deranged shovel. I'll

put a link in this in the show notes that you

can take a look at it. It's kind of, you know,

kind of one like your crappy like wooden shovels.

It looks like, you know, maybe not in the best

condition. So keep that in mind as we go through

the story. Hey, Ross, that's a really nice shovel

you have in the picture. Is it for sale? Mike.

Sorry, guy. Only selling the hinge trimmer. I'll

give you $10 for that shovel. Can't you read?

The shovel isn't for sale. You drive a hard bargain

on that shovel. I'll give you $15 for it and

that's my final offer. Here is my final offer.

Shut the hell up and leave me alone. Later from

another email account. So in this instance, this

is when the person decided to email from a different

email account pretending to be someone else.

So Chuck, go when you're ready. Okay. Hey, I'm

emailing you about the shovel. Your asking price

of $10 sounds fair to me, and with the free extension

cord, that's a steal. I'll take it. What are

you on about? Shovel isn't for sale. Excuse me?

That's not what your ad says. My ad says nothing

about the shovel. I'm selling the hedge trimmer,

not the shovel. Look again. Nowhere is a shovel

mentioned. Quit dicking me around this ad says

you're selling the shovel and Then a new ad appears

saying I am selling a beautiful Durable and reliable

shovel this bad boy won't let you down no matter

what you're digging Give me ten bucks, and it's

yours. I'll throw in a 25 -foot extension cord

pictured below as well for free Email me at Russ's

email address warning. This is where it gets

kind of you know Controversial. Warning, I will

under no circumstances sell this shovel to any

Jews. So if you're a stinking Jew and you want

to buy this shovel, don't even think about it.

Wait, who's next, Craig? I can assure you I'm

not Jewish, so you can stop pretending you aren't

selling the damn shovel. Oh my God. I swear I

didn't put that up. Somebody's messing with me.

Can you send me the link to that ad so I can

have it taken down? Sorry, I can't find the link

anymore. My wife needed to use the computer,

so I had to delete my browsing history because

I was looking at porn earlier. It was somewhere

in the Stuff for Sale section, if I'm not mistaken.

So does this mean I can't buy your shovel? Now

after that ad was posted about not selling to

the Jews, it led to another email from a different

account. Dear anti -semi -douchebag, I got a

bone to pick with you. I came across your ad

in my search for a new shovel and it seemed like

a great deal. Until I read your disgusting comment

about not selling the shovel to Jewish people.

How the hell do you think that is acceptable

in this day and age? What does it matter what

religion someone is for you to sell them a shovel?

This is absolutely despicable and an outrage

to the Jewish community. You make me sick. Sincerely

not buying your shovel of hatred, Mordecai Goldstein.

I don't have a problem with Jews at all. Someone

else put that ad up to mess with me. I can't

find where it is. Can you send me the link to

the ad, please? Why don't you shovel your Nazi

bullshit to someone else? This Jew isn't buying

it. Now after the ad has been posted, Rush decides

to email me back, demanding the ad to be taken

down. Look, you little prick. I know you put

that fucking ad up on, and you need to take it

the fuck down right now. I'm not selling that

fucking shovel. Get over it and quit being immature,

you son of a bitch. I'm sorry, I thought I was

doing you a favor. I wanted to see how many great

offers you can get if you decided to sell that

shovel. I'm not selling the fucking shovel. Let

it go. Tell me this asshole, if you were doing

a favor, then why did you put that shit up about

Jews in there? Honestly, I detected some strong

anti -semitic undertones in our initial conversation.

I just kind of assumed you were anti -semite.

My apologies. Take the ad down! And lastly, an

email from another account. Good afternoon! I

saw your ad shovel for sale. I'm more interested

in the axe you have in that picture. Are you

selling that axe? I'll give you $20 cash for

it. Dave. That's so cool to do that to someone

but so funny. To be fair, he did have undertones

of anti -Semitism. He deserved buddycap. He tried

to sell a hedge clipper. It's funny. Have you

guys ever tried to sell anything at Crackpot?

I have not. Actually, yes, I did. I sold... I

sold my mom's truck on there. So she didn't know

she didn't know that I was like no, okay I Saw

something once and it was like so really odd

like I don't even when I was selling and I got

a response It was so creepy. It's like saying

yeah I can pay I can give you the money for this

but what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna I'm going

to be calling you at a certain location please

be there pick up a package that you will then

deliver to this other location and you'll get

the money. What is this Die Hard 3? I'm like

yeah I'm gonna not you know transport your drugs

or get murdered by you so yeah. Which is really

odd. Please be at this payphone at this exact

time. Simon says. This is kind of creepy. I couldn't

tell if it was... Pick up the suitcase out of

the garbage can on the right. Then we're going

to need to go to this little waterfall section

to get approximately four gallons in this five

gallon drum and then put it on this weight to

disarm this bomb. Watch out for falling rocks.

It is really creepy though, and it's honestly

very sad, isn't it? Like, there's people that

have actually gotten, like, you know, murdered

by, like, freaking psycho, like serial killers

on there or something. Yeah, there was the Craigslist

killer or what have you. That's why you always,

if you're gonna sell stuff on Craigslist, you

do it on the, you know, you do it at a... It's

a lot of people around. I think that guy was...

Be very cautious on Craigslist people. Yeah,

I think that guy that was with like cuz there's

a you know a personal section in Craigslist where

it's more about you know Encounters with ladies

and man and transgender Don't discriminate Dan.

Yeah, I think this said this anti -semite person

is getting into your head a little bit there

Casual encounters with garden tools Very nice,

but yeah anything else before we bring this episode

to a close. I don't think so All righty, so there

are tons of ways to get in contact with us you

can email us at feedback at geek ass radio comm

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Twitter at movie revolt Greg. You're so all you

are also on Twitter because it was blowing up

earlier, so Like that package that that guy was

trying to make you deliver I am at the crate

forge Very nice and Chuck is in Twitter in spirits,

but the best way to get in contact with us Like

I said, it's by going to geek cast radio .com

or nerli .co .uk But yeah, but anyways that is

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 Russ

and I'm not gonna sell you that damn shovel that

damn axe or anything else and This has been Dan

and we've been talking in circles and we'll see

you next week the ironic thing is 50 bucks for

that shovel. Pretty good deal. I thought that

was really expensive for that shovel. No offense.

It was very rusty. Like you can get a brand new

one for probably $15. I haven't checked out the

depot. Yeah, but that has like the horizontal

handle, which is you can get much more leverage

with that. Oh, OK. It's limited edition. It'll

make them like that. It's autographed by Bob

Views. No, I don't want to get it signed by Bob

Bieler, I want to get it signed by Al. Al Borland.

Al Borland in Finland. Al signed the shovel,

I don't think so.