Debuting What Are The Chances Game

Hey, this is Bill Corrales from the Sketches

Indiegogo campaign and you're listening to Talking

in Circles on the Geekcast 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?

What? 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

third. Now I am the last. Because it's a circle.

Yeah, we heard about the circle. Yes, we're familiar

with shapes. Hi, this is Chuck. This is Greg.

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

brought to you by the Deepcast Radio Network.

the podcast that likes to play the odds. I say

that because today we're debuting a new game

called What Are The Chances? And we'll be getting

to that in our second segment. We'll give it

a little bit more mysterious until we get there.

But before we get to the fun of that new game,

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

was awesome because my whole saga with my office

flood is finally over. Nice, nice. Our office

has been repaired at least were at least my section

anyway, so we were able to move back in on Monday

and Never thought I would miss my desk so much

So glad to be back there did you do like a slow

like run up to it like, you know in the movies

where Now I kind of just stood there and like

just like took a deep breath and like took in

all the smells That that new carpet smell and

everything nice nice Very cool. Yeah, that's

always good, you know. Doesn't like a little

formaldehyde in the morning. Yeah. Better than

me sucking a cramp room with a bunch of people.

So that makes sense. Yeah. And the tattletale.

And the birthday boy, Greg, man, how's your week

been going? Thanks for sticking that in there,

Dan. I'm doing pretty good. I had to visit the

doctor today. I've got like this weird throat

issue going on. But then on top of that, for

like years now, I've had this issue where I can't

When i wake up in the morning i just feel like

crap it feels like somebody has been like laying

on top of me the entire nights whenever i wake

up sorry that was me. Dammit chuck i told you

about that i thought we discussed this no but

uh so i had that issue going on and so he was

going over like different things like like other

symptoms that may have played into it and so

he was asking if there was like anything that's.

stressing me during my REM cycle, the rapid eye

movement. So he's asking if I've been having

dreams or anything. And then he phrased something

quite how you expect a doctor not to phrase something.

I mean, he's quite an older gentleman at this

point, but he asked me if I had boners. Which

is I thought quite odd. I'm not sure if I displayed

it or not on my face And then the boner on your

face is that yeah Where I constantly keep the

boners on my face, but but then he went into

morning wood. I'm like Once in a while, but not

that many that I think it's affecting my REM

cycle like So that that that was an interesting

Midway break through my day You should have asked

him that same question back. Were you like, yeah,

I do. Was he like, what are they like? I miss

them so much. Yeah, it was awkward. I don't know

what else to say. That definitely would be awkward.

It's like, what's the technical word? I think

it's boner. Like, no, that's not the technical

word. There are so many better words to use.

Yeah. And before that, I was talking to his physician's

assistant. She was a little bit more professional

by using the word stool instead of shit or crap

or poop. Yeah, I need a shit sample. There's

this bucket, can you put shit in it? You can

set it on that stool over there. There's a nice

spot quarantined over there in the corner. Perfect.

Shit in this bag and set it on that stool. Speaking

of shit Mexican food, uh, no, uh, I actually

For last week we ended up talking a lot about

Mexican food and I ended up going chipotle nice

last week and it was during lunchtime so it was

rather busy and The lady in front of me She like

didn't get rice or beans What's the point of

her burrito, then? What is the point of your

burrito at Chipotle if you're not getting rice

or beans? Exactly. Well, this is where the fun

starts. The guy gives her the chicken meat or

whatever. You know, the chicken or meat, depending

on what it looks like. And it was a normal amount.

And when he did that, she's like, I know you're

going to give me more than that. And he's like,

well, I just gave you the normal amount. And

she's like, well, I didn't get any other stuff,

so I should be getting more. And I'm like, I

want to be like, that's not how that works at

all. Like, that's not how that works. I can't,

like, not get fries and then thinking I'm getting

an extra hamburger. It's like, that's not...

You can do that? No, you can't. But she's like,

I'm just saying, like, if I was a customer, like,

that's how I would feel. Like, I would feel like

that you should be giving me more because she

is the customer. I know. So the guy's like really

confused. He's like, I can't. This is just and

she's like being really, really hard. on him

and eventually he's like looking around I guess

he sees his manager's not there so he puts a

little bit extra on her plate but he's like then

she's like thank you and but then he gives this

like disgusted face like like scoffing at her

but she's still looking at him so I'm like why

would you do that like she's looking like it's

like so she goes off I mean off like crazy screaming

and yelling and then she looks at me he's like

can you believe what he just did can you believe

it I'm like I just want a burrito bowl. That

was my goal. That's it. I just want to get my

food. It's just I don't have that much time.

It was she was crazy. And then she actually caused

the two people that were in front of her just

to walk out of the line and leave completely

because she was just being super ridiculous.

It was just insane. It was just. Yeah, I did

get my good news is I did get my burrito bowl,

though. Though I was sitting down to eat it and

I was put some hot sauce on it, but I guess someone

was being a jerk So they you know, the hot sauces

have that thing in it. So it does not that much

comes out at once They took that out. So just

don't they poured a bunch of hot sauce right

into my burrito bowl You had a burning fire of

a burrito bowl Yeah, the thing is I loved it.

So jokes on them, but I paid for it later. I'll

just say that so volcano bowl Exactly. So that's

been my week. It's been rather busy work wise

and whatnot. But I did get an opportunity to

watch a few things and catch up with a few things.

HBO like two weeks ago kind of came out with

their new slate like every so often they have

like their, you know, those, their TV shows that

debut and it was Game of Thrones, Veep and Silicon

Valley. And, you know, I watched all those and

they're pretty much what you expect. I wanted

to kind of touch on silicon valley the most though

and greg have you have you watched that at all

no i think you might look at greg because it

has kumail nanjiani on it who i know you'll listen

to the indoor kids podcast yes i do so he's a

major character in that um and he's rather funny

there was actually he had a really in the last

episode had a really one of the best bits going

on because uh his his brother made this uh this

app called bro and long story short he involved

him going around a room telling people what the

word bro meant in other languages and it was

quite human it was it was rather funny what was

kind of interesting about silicon valley is that

they actually had a character like an actor who

was in the show passed away he died after the

filming of last season but before the filming

of this season so they actually had played that

into the storyline a little bit that's always

a weird situation shows It really is but I think

they did it really well because I think it really

fits the humor of the show and the way they kind

of handle it I loved it last season. I think

it's like stepped it up and it's been just as

funny like like last year It was it was good

and it got better and better and I think it's

kind of state sustain that since last year So

if you're you know, you like comedy you like

kind of I'd say a little bit It's a little bit

more raunchy and it's you know, it's Mike judge

who you know who did office space? Idiocracy

and you know, he had that type of sense of humor

and like he's really good at satirizing different

situations and you know with office space it's

that Office environment obviously and this is

the new tech boom like industry of the near the

Silicon Valley Google industries and like it's

really great at like poking fun at realistic

things and It's good satirization because it

feels real like it feels like this could kind

of happen. It's not too off the walls where it's

like this is Questionable I could see this kind

of being a thing happens, but uh It's interesting

just like how much of my TV watching is HV on

Saturday nights. It's like that is like the one

time I watch television, but But Greg I know

you again you being the intellectual one you

being the smart one and Books and everything

you're reading all these books and whatnot. So

what children's book did you read recently? No,

just joking I do know that you did read some

things. I am actually rather curious because

I did start reading ready player one It's been

really great to hopefully talk about that more.

So I'm always looking for a good book recommend

Well, I'd recommend everything that this gentleman

writes. His name is a Lee Martinez a dot space

Lee Martinez and He does a whole bunch of great

books that I'm really into he did this book called

Monster he did another one called Divine Misfortune

and he has like quite a few books I still need

to catch up on all of them but this last one

that I read was Emperor Mollusk versus the Sinister

Brain and it's as you can tell it's a science

fiction story and it's goofy as all hell not

completely goofy just the premise is kind of

goofy of this alien creature From I forget exactly

which planet it's either Jupiter or Venus if

that gets kind of like all slammed together But

he's he's a very intelligent being and he's a

mollusk pretty much with a great intelligence

intelligence greater than anybody else really

in the universe and he takes over our planet

and It's him versus a sinister brain pretty much.

It's a lot of fun It's got this tone that you

don't really take it too seriously. So it's just

a fun read and I go through his books very quickly.

It seriously took me about a day to read this

book, like seriously one day just hardcore reading

and I got it finished. Hardcore reading. Hardcore.

That's how I do, you know. Sounds dangerous.

It sounds really dangerous. Do you wear like

pads? I do wear protection. Sounds like the next

History Channel special. For those reading boners

that you might get. Do you feel like if this

was made into a movie, it would be something

that they would make fun of on Mystery Science

Theater 3000? I have a feeling it would be a

movie satiring all the other science fiction

movies. It's not going to take itself any seriously

whatsoever. It's definitely goofy. but a lot

of fun and you get flying around in this spaceship

that he has and he goes to the he's the emperor

of planet earth and he's going to the grocery

store to pick up his groceries and the bag boys

pissed at him and he has pretty much the whole

earth mind controlled he hasn't taken it by taking

us by force but he has the whole world essentially

mind controlled and he's kind of giving up on

his whole This whole sinister taking over of

worlds game he's kinda retired wants to get over

that but people are after him since he's kinda

pissed people off back in the day so. So it sounds

like it's like around the sense of humor something

like future Rama would would you say that's the

case yeah kind of a little bit less on the fart

jokes probably. It's a little bit more PG I would

say you definitely let your. Kids read it. I'm

not sure if they're gonna understand all of it,

but uh, it's not completely that at home, but

it's it's just as funny. I'd say Awesome. Cool.

I might have to have to check that out. Is it

like a kid length of a story? I don't know. It's

hard to tell because I read it on uh kindle Oh,

yeah, that's always tough. Yeah, you got uh A

percentage is how much you're through but his

books aren't Ever really that long and seriously

I did I did read it in a day 20 within 24 hours.

I I started and finished reading this book. So

I'm assuming it is it is a length that is is

good for a younger person and my happy birthday

30th at your ass Hey, this film that it feels

nothing at all different now No, it doesn't I

exactly felt the same way very cool So I'm gonna

have to check that out once I finish the book

that I'm currently reading which will probably

not be a for a long time because books are hard

and No, they're not you finish them in a day

damn I do Maybe a comic book maybe graphic novel,

but what I do finish in a day is a movie trailer

And there have been a lot of movie trailers kind

of being released. Funny, we talked about a few

last week, and of course, like, not long after

we finished recording, the Batman v Superman

trailer actually does come out. And, Chuck, I

know you did get the opportunity to see Batman

v Superman. There's been a lot of people talking

about it by the time this has come out, but I

think it's still worth talking about. So, you're

a huge Superman fan, we know that. So considering

that, what were your thoughts? on the batman

v superman dawn to justice return of man of steel

dark knight returns superman oh shit is that

the official name that we're calling it or that's

that's the european title so it's a working title

well to be honest i think like i wasn't too excited

about this movie to begin with just from what

i've been seeing but Honestly, I think the trailers

left me even more disappointed. I was not happy

with it at all and to me like I Know I understand

what Zack Snyder is trying to do he's sort of

trying to display Superman as like a guy that

you know, he's a hero coming into his own. He's

not the the full -fledged The full -fledged hero

of high morality that we all expect like right

off in the beginning So he's sort of given him

some obstacles some hurdles to go through and

some trials by fire to where he gets to that

point, but I Really have to question whether

this guy understands the character of Superman

like I really don't think he gets it sometimes

and At first, I didn't want to say that because

I thought, well, you know, I don't want to insult

the guy. I'm sure he's a longtime fan. I'm sure

he understands Superman. But that was until I

found this quote that he that he said, and this

was back a while ago. This was before he was

hired on for even Man of Steel. But he was actually

quoted as saying in this world, if Superman really

existed, he'd grab all the world leaders together

in a room and say, behave or I'll kill you. What

and I'm sorry that is not Superman at all that's

not even close to his character so Batman yeah,

I know and just looking at this trailer. It's

like Okay, he's saying like People are like really

idolizing Superman and in this in this context

like in the city of metropolis Which doesn't

make sense to me to begin with because he destroyed

half the city Why would you be building statues

and monuments and people worshiping him and stuff

like that? But the first and foremost point is

that Superman would never allow himself to be

worshiped like that. He's a very humble guy,

a very humble person, and he would never accept

that sort of, I don't know, attention upon himself.

Like, it just... Don't know I had so many problems

with that like I actually saw this really funny

video that I think Someone one of our one of

our podcasting friends put up on their Facebook

page I don't know if you got a chance to see

that Dan, but it was actually like this Sarcastic

video that someone did saying like how great

the trailer was But but the whole time honest

trailers. I think was that I'm not sure I think

I Think maybe DJ from simplistic reviews put

it up I saw it on his Twitter and everything

and I thought the video was perfect. We'll see

if we can find the link and put it up in the

show notes or something, but yeah I thought it

was it was just perfect because the guy was just

kind of saying everything that I said, you know,

maybe a little bit more eloquently even but Just

being sarcastic the whole way about how oh Zack

siders nailing this character like he knows exactly

how he's supposed to be like he wants to be worshipped

by everyone he wants all the attention on him

and like at the end you see like a Simpsons clip

where Homer Simpson like opens the door. He's

a go by the way I was being sarcastic and he

slams the door I Stop that fit perfectly. I love

that analysis of the trailer, but yeah, I don't

know I'm not too excited about this movie, to

be honest. I don't hate Superman like Greg. I'm

not a huge Superman fan like you, so I'm kind

of somewhere in the middle. And I was somewhere

in the middle when it came to Man of Steel. There

are things I liked and things I didn't like.

There were little elements of the trailer that

I found interesting, like how they incorporated

Jesse Eisenberg in the trailer. Like there's

a little bit of a snippet of him talking, which

I'm assuming will play a role. I get what they're

trying to do, but I feel like it's This movie

makes sense if in more so than like Christopher

Nolan universe in a lot of ways where It's like

the Dark Knight return story, which is what they're

kind of taking from feels like the end of a universe

or the end of a saga not the beginning of it

I think what makes the Dark Knight return that

storyline work where you see Batman and Superman

fighting is that it's a relationship that eventually

got to the point where they're at odds. They

kind of, you know, it grew over time and just

finally hit the breaking point. It reminds me

of something like the Star Trek reboot where

Star Trek in the darkness, they try to recapture

what happened in Star Trek, Wrath of Khan, where,

you know, you have the infamous moment between

Kirk and Spock, but it doesn't have the same

impact in the remake because you don't have that

build up and I feel that's the same thing here

and these are two characters that are going to

be on the screen for the very first time and

they're they're facing off against one another

and I don't know if that's I get like where it's

coming from but I feel like it if the goal here

is to kind of build the DC universe is that the

best place to start maybe it is I just I question

that I to me it just it seems like that's Like

that's always a question looming right in the

background is like what if these two people faced

off like that? It there's always that tension

that it might happen that like okay. This is

where you know This is the argument that does

it but when you meet when you have that argument

already settled at the beginning You kind of

lose that throughout so I don't know. Yeah There

might be a way to spin it. I think like you mentioned

Greg, sorry, you mentioned Chuck. I don't feel

like he gets the character of Superman and just

how brooding he is and what's great about the

Batman Superman Rivalry is that they're so different

and it doesn't feel like they're very different.

Yeah, I know What about their characters is gone

in conflict? You know, this is Superman who's

killed, you know, this is maybe that's the issue

I mean, this is Superman who? Certainly is not

willing to do what it takes and cross that line

and that's just the defining factor of him and

Batman and so I don't know it just it makes me

wonder yeah, even like looking at something detailed

on the trailer where like you see Batman and

his armored suit and Superman's kind of hovering

up in the air a little bit and Batman's like

tell me do you bleed and Superman just kind of

like crashes down onto the roof like slams down

really hard almost as if to intimidate him and

I'm like I really don't think that is something

Superman would do he's gonna try to like discern

what's happening in the situation try to work

it out first he's not just gonna like Try to

intimidate someone like that in my opinion. I

don't know but What did you think of the Batman

suit? I thought it looked really cool even like

the you know, the movements and everything looked

very natural and I mean I Thought it looked good.

It didn't look too bulky Not really so Ben Affleck

looks gigantic the dude is yeah. Yeah Certainly

has the look of Batman. I gotta get it looks

like they're kind of showing him older He's got

a little bit of gray hair in there and stuff

Which is kind of interesting that they're starting

out with him old because it's like Makes me wonder

if they're gonna have like someone else take

over as Batman like they're gonna introduce a

Robin of some sort but One thing at one point.

I forgot to bring up was I know I mentioned about

Where they're coming from with this movie is

to like make make you see a Superman that he

killed Zod in the first one. So He's kind of

living with this guilt. He's living with You

know letting all these buildings collapse and

all these people who obviously had to have died

in this huge catastrophic battle So I see like

that they're trying to do that and they're trying

to say like yeah He's he's going through some

trials and stuff But my my point that I want

to make is the whole point of this character

is that he was found by a family That raised

him a certain way to be better than that It's

kind of like they threw those values totally

out the window of how he was raised. They're

saying he's learning by his battles, yet we're

just going to throw away his whole adolescence

and how he was raised by these people. We're

just going to forget that part of the story.

It's stupid to me. Maybe that's the issue. And

one thing, I mean, say what you will about Smallville

was corny and everything, but something I think

that they did better was they portrayed Clark

Kent's emotional side much better than the Man

of Steel movie. Like even to the fact where like

Jonathan Kent was like when that tornado was

coming by the underpass and Clark wanted to just

kind of zip out and save him and. Jonathan like

held up his hands like no because he didn't want

everyone to see him The clerk from smallville

would have did it anyway Like he would have just

dealt with the consequences after because that's

his father like who wouldn't save their father

from dying like if you have the power to like

You wouldn't just like he's telling me to stay

here. So I'm just gonna stay here. So Yeah, you

put the hand up you have to respect the hand

I mean, let's get a kryptonite bracelet on like

why the hell did he not save him? I don't know.

Spoiler alert for Man of Steel. Yeah, so that's

depressing. Greg, I know you haven't seen the

trailer, but do you have any interest in Batman?

Not really. You got the character Superman, who

I'm not a big fan of, like Dan said. And then

you've got Batman, a character I do enjoy, but

played by an actor who I don't think really can

act, so... It's not my my kind of taste DC is

not doing that great. If you ask me make mine

Marvel Well, well switch gears into a different

a different trailer that drop maybe not as infamous

as that of Batman vs Superman but it does come

from a world where I do have a special place

in my heart for it because one of my favorite

movies of all time is is Jurassic Park and we

are getting a new New drastic world movie this

year and a new trailer did come out giving us

even further information and what it's gonna

be like so Chuck kind of keeping that theme going.

Are you at all? Are you more excited about Jurassic

world? Do you think it's gonna come to the levels

of the original film or do you feel like it's

gonna be a Inadequate sequel like some of the

other ones like lost world or I'm still ranting

over Superman versus bad No You know, I really

did like the Jurassic World trailer a lot. I

think it's obviously going to be hard to get

to the level of the first one. I mean, I don't

think either of the other two movies could. But

this one does seem interesting. They have some

some new concepts, a little bit different take.

You obviously have Chris Pratt, who is a dynamic

addition. Star Lord, man. It seems like it seems

like I'm really going to like his character in

this movie. Like, I just kind of like, just from

the trailer, you kind of not fall in love with,

but you kind of really appreciate what he's doing

in just the trailer in the couple of seconds

that you get to see him. But yeah, it totally

has a man crush. He's a cool guy, you know, the

Prattster. I liked it a lot. Yeah, I'm along

there with I gotta say from the get -go. I was

really hesitant about this movie Just you know

the idea of doing it such a long time after the

original movie You know, it doesn't have Spielberg

attached as director the first trailer. I liked

it I was like, well, it's better than I expected

and I was super worried about the idea of like

genetically altered dinosaurs that they were

talking about but from what I got in the trailer,

I think I'm gonna be okay with it because I think

I Do kind of wish they didn't show that dinosaur

until the very end until we got to the actual

movie I do wish they can held that off because

it was weird where they kind of showed them but

not in like full effect So it was it was like

they were trying to hide him while still showing

him at the same time Which was kind of hiding

him right under our nose Exactly exactly, but

there are a lot of a lot of great money shots

that look money shot Chris Pratt a lot of money

shots That that look look pretty great I think

the idea of actually having the park working

is a good idea. I think it can lend to a lot

of cool things and ups the stakes in a natural

way. The big worry for me is it's just going

to trend a lot of the same ground it's already

been worn. worn down already. I mean, there were

a lot of shots very reminiscent of the first

Jurassic Park, of course. I mean, kind of expect

that to a certain extent. There's only so many

ways a dinosaur can eat someone. On the toilet

being the best. It's hard to top that, let's

be honest. That was probably a high, high moment

of all cinema is when a lawyer got eaten while

on the toilet by a dinosaur. Cannot it can that's

kind of where they should have just stopped making

movies all together, right? It's like alright,

we're done. We've done it all wrap it up guys

wrap it up pack it up early even but I do like

you said Chris Pratt and Jessica Chesky stain

and even brought back the one guy who was in

the original Jurassic Park movie who was a Like

a technician who was in like CSI. I believe we're

law and order one of those guys. Okay He was

the Asian guy. I feel And he looks exactly the

same as he did when the original Jurassic Park

came back, but yeah, I don't know Well, I don't

know if I'll be seeing it in theaters just because

of when it's coming out But that's not because

of the movie that's more but yeah, I am I'm looking

forward to it I keep I'm actually quite excited

for it. I just hope it doesn't I like the one

the one line that Chris Pratt has in the trailer

where You know, they're kind of explaining why

they need why they needed to genetically engineer

a dinosaur because she's saying like, every time

that they've brought out a new gimmick, like

the attendance has spiked and everything like

that. But so she said, you know, they cross all

these dinosaurs and genetically modified one.

And he's like, well, it's like, why do you need

to do that? Dinosaurs aren't wow enough. Like,

yeah, I kind of agree with that. I feel like

they put that in there on purpose because, like,

that's going to be like people's reaction to

it. So they kind of address that up front. Yeah,

it almost feels like more of a dig at like the

concept of today and How we have to up everything

like it almost seems like it's almost like them

saying This is kind of ridiculous. Why are we

doing this? We have something as great as dinosaurs

Why do we got to go beyond that and maybe saying

that's kind of the Hollywood of today we kind

of can't appreciate even like the As something

like as great as dinosaurs we have to make it

something more complicated indeed, that's very

Very cool. All righty. Anything else before we

take a quick break? No, I'm good. Sounds good.

All right. So we're going to take a quick break.

And when we come back, we'll be talking about

a variety of different topics as we debut a new

game. What are the chances? And I'm going to

tell you, they're pretty great. So we'll see

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a new game and it's called what are the chances

and it's a simple game What I'll be doing is

I'll be giving out statements about pretty much

anything and what Greg and Chuck will be doing

myself as well We'll be telling you what the

chances are of that statement becoming true.

So something like, you know, what are the chances

that Greg will hook up with Emilia Clarke zero

percent the chances that What are the chances

that Greg would freak out Emilia Clarke if they

ever met in real life and we would respond? 150

percent because that's a good possibility that

that's gonna happen. So it's the idea of providing

a percentage of To whatever statement that has

been spoken if you are someone who watches different

sports programs You probably see something like

this on PTI or other things like that So kind

of taking that but geek defying it in a fun way.

So we should be interesting. We'll see how it

goes The week that this podcast is released,

Age of Ultron will be debuting, of course, at

least in the U .S. For some reason, the U .K.

gets it before us. I don't know what we did wrong,

but for whatever reason, we tend to get it a

week later. We know that the British are a superior

race because they have Emilia Clarke. Second

reference in the span of five minutes. So I think

isn't she American? I heard something about her

being over in Britain. I'll look it up. I don't

I see I see I seriously don't stalk her but I'll

look it up right now Well, you know, they they

have Charlie Cox too. So that's pretty impressive.

Yeah, that is that is pretty impressive You go

on I'll shout out in the middle of something

you're saying and completely sidetrack everything

But anyways, with the idea that Age of Ultron

will be debuting, London United Kingdom 28, she

is also 5 '2". Thanks Greg, mystery solved. Thank

you internet. My question is, what are the chances

that we get a Spider -Man cameo in either the

Avengers or Ant -Man for this past summer? Knowing

that Spider -Man was recently... acquired again

by Marvel Studios. Greg, what do you think the

chances are that that happens? I've heard a lot

of talk of them saying that Marvel's not going

to have anything whatsoever. They're going to

completely avoid that in the Avengers for now.

Damn it, I have to put a number on this. I'd

say there's a slight chance. I'd say about 25

% at least. So quarter quarter of a chance. It's

better than 12 % of an idea or whatever that

was from Guardians of the Galaxy But there might

be if anything it's gonna be at the end of the

movie with that little post credit scene or whatever

I think I don't think it's gonna be in the main

movie Maybe a little reference in the background

to it, but I don't think it's gonna be anything

too major I think they're gonna drop the big

bomb with the movie itself Plus plus from what

I've heard they haven't even haven't casted Peter

Parker spider -man yet Cool cool, so Chuck do

you agree Greg says 25 % you going higher lower

or about the same? Well first I have to ask you

a question Sure, would it have to be Actual spider

-man appearing or could it be like a reference

to Peter Parker? Maybe in in text or writing

or something like that Since we kind of know

it's not even been cast yet, let's just say a

reference of any sort. If we're saying reference,

I don't know. I like, you know, at first I was

thinking, well, I don't think it's going to be

in the Ant -Man movie. That doesn't make sense

to me. But the more I thought about it, that's

just Marvel's style, like doing it in a movie

that you wouldn't really expect. Like just kind

of bring in the Easter egg in because they're

just trying to like spark interest for like other

things. And tie them in more securely, but you

know, I'm gonna go uh, I'm gonna go 40 percent

Okay Interesting so because you think about it

like we got a doctor strange reference in winter

soldier And I would say I did not expect that

at all. So they are not foreign to dropping in

those different different hints. Yeah, it's kind

of where you least expect it Yeah, so I I'm gonna

go I'm gonna go considering we're thinking each

of Ultron or it man and just the reference I'm

actually gonna go above both of you guys and

say 50 % I think it's a 50 -50 shot that we get

some small tidbit because you think about blast

Avengers movie they almost had They were trying

to get in the image of the Oscorp building to

kind of throw in To the avengers battle, but

they didn't happen in time. So I could see there

being something Maybe if it's like even like

a daily beagle aspect in the background or something

So I could see some sort of spider -man related

Easter egg there in some way, uh, maybe small

Maybe maybe easy to mess especially if it's an

ant -man because you know how tiny those things

can be but uh, I don't know. I think there's

a good possible maybe like You'll see ant -man.

It'll be next to a spider and there'll be some

sort of like you know, reference to Spider -Man

and Radioactive. Yeah, that'd be cool. I think

there's going to have a little bit of something,

maybe. We'll see. We'll see for sure. So to go

into a different realm altogether kind of going

into the realm of sports. I don't know if you

guys saw the news I'm sure if you watch ESPN

you heard about it because it's if they're probably

having a small party hearing this and that's

that team Tim Tebow is coming back to the NFL

because he was recently signed by the Philadelphia

Eagles So my question is What are the chances

that Tim Tebow becomes a starter quarterback

for the Philadelphia Eagles sometime in the upcoming

season? Chuck, I'll start with you for this one

since we ended with you last time. Wow. Starting

quarterback? At some time. Not beginning, just

at some time during the season that he becomes

a starting quarterback. Oh, boy. I'm going to

say 5%. saying there's a chance you know I really

I really hate that the flack that this guy's

getting like he really doesn't deserve it the

only reason people are annoyed by him is because

the media and especially ESPN just talks about

him non -stop and for whatever reason they have

a love affair with him and LeBron James and Johnny

Menzel but if it wasn't for that I mean he's

a good guy regular guy like Stop hating on them.

It's it's ESPN's fault. Let's hate on them. So

but um Yeah, the eagles currently have uh, five

quarterbacks on the roster Doesn't I know they

have mark renell not mark renell, but uh mark

sanchez. Yeah sanchez and uh sam brafford and

now tim tebow. Yeah, they also have uh barkley

from the guy from usc And uh, there's another

guy too. I can't remember right now, but um There's

also talk that they're going to possibly draft

Mariotta. I don't know if that's true, but right

now, the roster size for the NFL teams is so

huge that they're at about 90 players right now.

So the odds that Thibault is even going to make

the team are pretty low. And then to be the starting

quarterback, I'm going to say about 5%. Greg,

do you have any idea? Do you care? 0%. Yeah See

I could see Chip Kelly just being that type of

guy who wants to just prove that he can make

his system work for anyone Where he's like, you

know what? I can even take this guy who was out

of the NFL and Make him work within my system.

I could see is that arrogant? NFL coaches tend

to be Well, I'm thinking about the number of

coaches that like, you know, we'll pick up players

that have long overstayed their welcome or you

know have had so many problems, you know, and

they think I mean have you seen Bill Belichick?

Yeah Yeah, so I could see that happening like

you make a good point Chuck that there's a lot

of talent in front of him Though a lot of the

talent tends to get injured a lot, you know,

Sanchez gets hurt a lot You know Sam Bradford

gets hurt a lot Barkley. I mean he got hurt last

year too. So I do think he gets more flack than

he deserves, for sure. I don't think he's an

NFL -ready quarterback, but I would say that

it's about a 10 % chance, mostly because of the

fact that the people in front of him have a tendency

to not make it through 16 games. So we'll see.

See, I also don't think he's as terrible as everyone

says, because I've watched the guy, and trust

me, I've seen a lot worse quarterbacks. He's

a great running back, Chuck. He's a great running

back. Yeah, but I mean he led the Broncos to

a playoff win when he was with them I mean events,

you don't you don't get that way being a terrible

quarterback. He does have some talent I've seen

much much worse quarterbacks in the league And

yeah, they're called who was quarterbacking the

judge right now and she knows Smith Smith or

you know, yeah, I feel like his accuracy is always

really It's always a question in my book, but

we'll see how it goes. We're for sure So we're

kind of jumping around a great deal, but it's

what's fun of it Well, you know what since we're

in we're talking about football and the draft

is actually coming up this week as well It's

kind of crazy, you know Avengers and the draft

are debuting in the same day So we talked about

the Jets and my question is What are the chances

the New York Jets draft a fictional character

in the upcoming NFL draft? Should I go first?

Go ahead. I guess there's got to be at least

one percent chance. Now, that being said, I think

if Rex Ryan was still there, there would be a

much higher percent chance because he would he

would draft someone that has nice feet or something

like maybe Shane Flacco from from from maybe

he would maybe he would draft Beast because he's

got those nice big feet. Kind of check out but

yeah freck trying with there was there I'd go

at least 50 % but right now I'll go the one Greg

any idea yeah, I'd give it higher freck shrine

was there as well. I'll also go with 1 % Well,

you know I could see them trying to draft air

but the golden receiver so I mean he He can he

can rack up the yak. That's for sure. But well,

you know what? The sad thing is them drafting

a fictional character would not be the worst

thing they drafted in years Can't hurt them but

no He would probably just help their cell fictional

character can't do a butt fumble Speaking of

the NFL did you guys see that? I don't know if

you noticed this but the the schedule was released

and of course there was a hour -long special

on ESPN just to talk about the schedule, which

is hilarious because that's the Giants are playing

both the Dolphins and the ice The Vikings will

lose every single game. I smell a small little

little food bit coming on I think so. Week four,

they're playing the Dolphins, I think in the

Greek 15 or four. It's later in the season they

play the Vikings. Should be interesting. So we've

got a halfway decent chance since the Giants

always seem to do a little worse as the season

goes on. Yeah. No denying, Dan. I'd say that's

not true. That's not false. That's not false.

So moving into a more real life question. Oh,

not really. But so coming up this summer, we're

going to have a debut of a new TV show and on

AMC called Fear of the Walking Dead, the infamous

spin off that they've been talking about for

some time now. So my question is, what are the

chances that the upcoming spin off Fear of the

Walking Dead will be as good as the original

series? Greg, what is it going to be the same?

uh creative staff as the walking dead i think

they had an input in it i don't think it's not

based upon the robert kirkman comic book but

i do think he did assist with story i think i

think quite a few of them are involved from what

i read like there's there's four of the four

or five of the same creative team that are going

to be still involved oh cool so um i i give that

pretty pretty good chances i'll give it um a

75 chance If they have the same writing staff

and everything, and if they get characters as

good as the original series, I think that should

go quite well for them. Interesting. Chuck, do

you agree? I'm hesitant to go that high just

because it's such a rare mixture of excellent

acting and good storytelling and writing and

everything that's going on right now with the

original series. it's really gonna be hard to

duplicate even with the same creative team. I

will give them at least 50%, I think. Interesting,

yeah. Oddly, I'm gonna probably fall kind of

in the middle of you two. My worry is it's not

based upon anything, and I feel like any time

you try to do this and try to create something

from nothing, in a world that was based on like

a known property. It doesn't work really well,

but we have seen spinoffs work. Better Call Saul,

the spinoff of Breaking Bad was quite good recently.

No Flash has proven to be quite good, though

the Flash is based upon its own comic. But for

one, I don't like the title. I don't know. If

you're The Walking Dead, it just sounds like

it's going to be confusing. Like you think you'd

want to try to separate it a little bit, you

know, but maybe just trying to cash in on that

name. And it did take two seasons for The Walking

Dead, I think, to get its footing, maybe three.

They really kind of get to being a really good

show. I think it took some time to get there.

So I don't know. The Walking Dead also has a

very successful show where all they do is just

talk about the show. So I think that's a big

boom for it as well. That's a good point. Thank

you. Yeah, that's very true. Maybe that makes

sense. That's why they kept the title. So does

that mean they're going to have like Fear the

Talking Dead? Is that going to happen starring

Chris Otter? They talked about that on his, uh,

his Nerdist podcast, the one of the ones I recently

listened to and he said he would do it. He enjoys

doing the talking dead. And so if he gets paid

for doing that, it's another job. So Chris Hardwick

will take it. He loves to work that man. I give

that, um, uh, 35 % chance of coming through.

So I would go in between. You got, you said 75

and Chuck, you said 50. So I'd probably go like

65 percent. I think they're you know it knowing

that some of the original some of the writers

are carrying over but I don't know it just seems

to me it's just I worry some though. I guess

it's a good sign that amc has already like Greenlit

the second season already. So maybe they just

have faith in it. So we know So looking into

the future even further not this summer, but

next year we have the return of the Teenage Mutant

Ninja Turtles. I know none of us were big fans

of the film that came out last year. Is that

right? It was awful. Yeah, it was pretty bad.

Yeah, yeah. So we do know, we talked about a

few weeks ago that Casey Jones will be Stephen

Amell. Rumor is that also Bebop and Rocksteady

will be debuting. They're going to be showing

up. I don't know how you guys feel about that.

Yeah, they're going to kill those characters

too. So considering they have those characters

they have Casey Jones they have the opportunity

to run basically the entire cartoon and one movie

What are the chances that the new Teenage Mutant

Ninja Turtle movie brings upon us the Armageddon?

100 % but only in my brain Because I will be

raging. Yeah, I'm not looking forward to that

at all I did not care for their latest try at

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and I don't know

I feel like they're gonna ruin those characters

as well It'll be interesting to see at least

how they portray the characters, how the animation's

going to look for them, because I'm assuming

they're going to be completely CGI. I would guess

so. Yeah. What was the quote? What am I presenting

again here? What are the chances it brings upon

the Armageddon? I'm not sure about Armageddon,

but if I was going to say how much rage is it

going to bring out of fandom, I give it at least

a 60%. Chuck, what do you think? I agree. I think

it's going to be, it's going to be right up there

for sure. I mean, I like the fact that Steve,

even Amel is attached, but I feel like it's kind

of a drop in the pond, so to speak. Like, I don't

know how much influence he's going to have on

that. I don't know if they're going to work him

into a relationship with like April O 'Neill.

I hope he has his shots, but. I'm gonna go with

I'm gonna go with 75 % Yeah, I'm gonna go I'm

gonna go 75 % as well There's one chance that

it won't happen and maybe that's if it doesn't

get released. So that's the possibility It just

it was funny because I saw news about the Teenage

Mutant Ninja Turtle Stuff and then underneath

it I saw information about the volcano in Chile

that happened. I'm like, I wonder if one caused

the other That's on that's why it had me thinking

but I don't do you guys see that at all the volcano

eruption in Chile that happens Yeah, I did see

there's some crazy pictures with that with the

lightning and stuff. Yeah, it's insane because

it's so close to a city and everything so I'm

like I Feel like it's like Dante's peak happening

all over again They also gonna have to go through

an ass acid -filled lake yeah yeah that was the

scariest part of that movie for me it was that

acid -filled lake yes the the acid that ate through

the boat but not the oars yes the key the key

to that so uh man classic don't forget the indestructible

tires on that truck when they were driving through

the lava yeah yeah or the the fact that uh You

had the volcano also come out that year, where

Tommy Lee Jones outran an explosion. He's more

limber than you would believe. I guess. So also

talking about failures, we talked about Marvel

a little bit, we talked about Ant -Man already,

but you know, we saw the trailer and I think

the new one, I think we all kind of thought it

does look like it's getting better. But it doesn't

seem like it's having near the excitement of

any of the other Marvel films, even Guardians

of the Galaxy. So my question is, what are the

chances that Ant -Man is Marvel's first failure?

And by that, I mean the fact that it would be

the first film that Marvel fans are disappointed

with. I think it's going to be better than Superman

versus Batman, that's for sure. That was a lot

of lead up for nothing. It's iffy. I have seen

the trailer for it. It was alright. It wasn't

spectacular. It doesn't even... The trailer isn't

even really interesting, I don't think. At least

the Guardians of the Galaxy trailer leading up

to it, we were still iffy on it. But at least

it was intriguing at least. I don't even find

the trailer for Ant -Man really to be intriguing.

I'm gonna give it a high percent, I think it

is, for how you posed the question. Yeah, so

what are the chances it will be a failure? So

it would be, if you think it's gonna be disappointing,

that'd be a high percent. So yeah, I'd give it

about a 60 % chance. Marvel's been good, though.

They've really pulled stuff out of their ass

where I'm like, ah, this isn't gonna be that

great, or it's gonna be lackluster, and they've

really pulled it out of their ass. I guess Marvel

is just gonna have to prove themselves once again,

even though they've kind of secured their place

in moviedom. I still think they're gonna have

to prove themselves with this. Everybody has

a flop every once in a while. It happens. People

gotta take that blue pill, you know what I mean?

Chuck, what do you think? I'm actually gonna

go much lower. I don't think it's gonna be a

disappointment. I think it looks... I think it

looks really interesting as far as I'm concerned

but the thing that intrigues me is that I read

recently that I know Edgar Wright is no longer

attached to the movie but he wrote the first

script for it and Joss Whedon read it and said

that it was the best Marvel script that he had

ever read for any of the movies and he thought

it was going to be amazing and for the most part

they said they have kept all of the major things

that was in the script that he wrote. They only

sort of changed it a little bit. So I mean, Josh

Whedon likes it. I mean, he says he's admitting

it's better than his movie. I mean, that's that's

kind of enough for me. I think it's going to

be better than a lot of people are thinking.

I'm going to go with like a twenty five percent

chance that it will flop. I think it'll don't

get me wrong. I think it'll do good in theaters

like it'll make a lot of money, but I don't think

it's going to be a good movie. Yeah, I shouldn't.

I guess I shouldn't say flop. I should say like

a disappointment to the fans. Yeah, I got to

say the first trailer after the first trailer,

if you asked me this question, I think the percentage

should probably be like 75 percent that it's

going to be a disappointment and not live up

to the potential of the other films. After the

second trailer, though, I think that's dropped.

I think there's a better chance it's successful

than non -successful or it's better chance that

it's going to be. Uh a good film than bad film.

So i'd say i'm gonna lean right now. It's 60

40. It's a flop or 40. It's a disappointment

I do worry because you know, I like the trailer,

but it wasn't fantastic Like I mentioned, I don't

like to look at yellow jacket and the fact that

there was a lot of you know a lot of shifting

apart for that movie directors writers it kept

changing a lot to like the very last moment which

tends to Not be a good thing in some ways. So

it does have me worried a little bit But I mean

I do Guess they do trust Marvel. I do feel like

they they have their formula, you know You may

hate it, but I think their formula is good in

the fact that they can Kind of stick it in anywhere

and it will work I'm thinking it might be along

along the same lines as like the first Thor Which

is the movie I liked but it wasn't you know,

amazing it kind of I think it's gonna be a huge

step down compared to everything we got before

like it's probably gonna suffer by comparison

because we're gonna you know, It's coming after

the Avengers Guardians of the Galaxy Winter Soldier

like Marvel's on this ultimate high right now

and I think it might dip a little bit but still

be good, you know what I mean? It's like Cold

pizza the next day not as good as you had it,

but you know, there's there's still got some

charm to it. You know Good reference So uh also

kind of staying in the marble realm I don't know

if you guys saw that daredevil has been renewed

for a second season. I have seen that But there

is some bad news and the fact that that is the

show runner that they had Will be leaving and

they'll be getting something else mostly due

to like a scheduling complex or things of that

nature. So And I think last week when we reviewed

the show Chuck you mentioned how it may not be

as good because of Our expectations are higher

and now knowing there's a new showrunner. What

are the chances that Daredevil season 2? Lives

up to the hype of the first season Chuck you

want to start it with this one. Oh Interesting

question. I think you read it. I did say that

last week about the About sort of the shock value

being gone once now that we've seen the first

the first season We sort of know what to expect.

I don't think our minds can be blown much more.

I think I think I'll go with I think it's got

about a 30 % chance of living up to the first

season If I were to ask you what do you think

it's going to be not good or just not as good?

I think just not as good. I still think it'll

be really good. But one important thing that

a lot of people liked about it is like how grounded

it is. And with some of the Easter eggs that

you're showing towards the end, I feel like they're

going to start to get away from that a little

bit. I could be wrong, but I think maybe it'll

lose that sort of appeal to maybe the older audience

and stuff like that that likes it for how grounded

and realistic it is. Don't I still think it'll

be really good and I'm really looking forward

to but I just don't think it'll be Amazing like

the first one Greg, what do you think? Uh, I'm

on the fence. I'm not quite sure yet. I just

heard it from you Sorry to drop that I'm gonna

be thinking about this for days Dan. I'm not

gonna be able to sleep tonight You just ruined

everything I was very happy with the first season.

I didn't know where that was going to go when

we were coming into it with this, just everything

new. Now we've got creative people coming in

that we don't know how their take is going to

be on this. So I'm on the fence. I'm going to

go with 50%. Good, good percentage. And I think

I actually, Chuck, I might match you at 30%.

The reason being, I think it might be good, but

I think the expectations is huge and it's always

tough. to repeat yourself when the expectations

are super high. And I think we're kind of seeing

that with Arrow season three, what happened with

them and how they're not nearly able to reach

the heights of the second season. And I think,

too, like you mentioned, with it getting more

into the comic book -ness of the character, I

think that's going to be a little bit harder

to pull off, considering the budget -wise, right?

And some of that might require a little bit more

special effects, per se, or a little bit more

No grander scale when it comes to some of the

action set pieces and stuff like that. So If

I look back at Daredevil season 2, I still think

the best sequence happens sequence happened in

episode 2 So is it ever gonna get to that height

again? I don't know. I'm not sure so and Considering

we're gonna be going through four other series

by then Who knows where daredevil is gonna be

and I wasn't the biggest fan of the look of daredevil

in the last episode So I don't know my worry

is it won't reach that height again. I think

it'll be good I'll enjoy it, but it I don't know

it won't have that feeling I got from the first

season so I Will go with 30 % chance that it

lives up to that height Alright, so we touched

upon sports. Let's go back to sports just for

a little bit it's kind of fun to kind of go a

variety different directions and touching upon

That's a bad way to say this but touching upon

one of Greg's favorite players and that's Adrian

Peterson and maybe not as much anymore, but Adrian

Peterson has been reinstated with the NFL and

we do know there's some tension between him and

his current team but There is a possibility that

he might be playing for another team in those

most notably the Dallas Cowboys I don't know

if you guys saw but literally the day Adrian

Peterson was reinstated the Cowboys main website

the actual Dallas Cowboys website Posted an article

of why they think having Dallas having Adrian

Peterson would make them a contender for the

Super Bowl So I don't know why the Dallas Cowboys

website would post that but I guess they Decided

it would be get a no one to hold them their cowboys

no wind You know, Darren McFadden must feel great

about that. So my question is, what are the chances

Adrian Peterson suits up as a Dallas Cowboy for

this upcoming season? Greg, let's start with

you since you are a Vikings fan. Well, he's definitely

not going to stay with the Vikings, that's for

sure. The thing that kind of steers me away is

them picking up, I believe it was Darren McFadden.

So I find it weird that they would do that and

pick up Adrian Peterson. But I guess McFadden

would be their third down back or something like

that. And I feel like a lot of other people will

be after him. By the way, I'm not the biggest

fan. I used to think he was a great guy, level

headed and not one of those rage players, but

back on point. Yeah, I think it's a good percentage.

I think Jerry Jones has been kind of eyeing up

Adrian Peterson from toes to top. Like that one,

I just came up with that one on the fly. I was

thinking about the first season of the league

where Nick Kroll's character was talking about

his calves. There's a good percentage he's going

to go there because that's all anybody's talking

about is Cowboys and Adrian Peterson. Cowboys

and Adrian Peterson. I've also heard of him going

to Jaguars, Buccaneers, the Raiders. I don't

think AP will have any interest in those. I think

he's looking for a ring. So I'm going to say

the chances are pretty high. I'll put it at 70%.

Chuck? I'm also going to be high too. I think

think the main thing that Everyone's sort of

looking at too is like how great the Cowboys

offensive line was last year Then I think a lot

of people Attributed to Marco Murray's success

more to that offensive line than to him So if

you put if you put in there arguably the best

running back in the NFL with the best offensive

line in the NFL you have a really scary ass uh

proposition agreed so i think that's what kind

of everyone's looking at and that's like wow

they're gonna have this unstoppable running game

and they have a really great wide receiver already

so looking at a powerhouse offense but if i can

add chuck if with adrian pearson behind a line

of that strength because the vikings weren't

that great but still they would open up holes

and when you open up a hole for that guy He just

freaking hammers his way through it. That sounds

like a sex joke. I'm sorry. It was not meant

to be that way. I'm calling it out right now,

though. Sorry, Chuck. It's all right. I didn't

really think of it as a sex joke, so it's OK.

Nor my mind. Think it'd be funny if like he actually

was worse with that good offensive line cuz like,

you know He gets the hand off and he's like,

whoa, what the hell is this big hole? Like Panics

just goes the other way holding who's holding?

But yeah, I'm gonna put it high too. I think

that's the most likely spot that he'll land I'm

gonna go I'm gonna go 65 % to the Cowboys. Yeah,

the biggest issue with it is his contract is

so he's due a lot of money I believe and it's

gonna be a tough contract for anyone to kind

of take on. I mean Jerry Jones is the one person

who would probably do that just because he loves

to make splashes you know he loves big names

he loves to kind of take those people that a

lot of other people can't stand or give a gift

and up on something like a Deon Sanders and you

know you make him into a star again or what have

you. He wanted Johnny Manziel they literally

had to rip the ticket out of his hand. The time

in a chair it's like no tell me no different

day So send some young girls to his office it's

have him take some more photos that are awkwardly

with it. I don't know what You didn't see the

photos of Jerry Jones awkwardly with like younger

girls. It was like with yeah, it's really weird

slightly jealous You know what was more awkward

though, was the footage of him high -fiving and

jumping up and down with Governor Christie from

New Jersey. That was even more awkward. Considering,

you know, he's in Jersey and should be a Giants

fan, but you know, whatever. I'm gonna go 60%.

The reason being, I'm not going any higher just

because it's a large contract they have to take

on, so I could see that being hesitant. So I

would say there's honestly maybe a better chance

that he plays for the Cowboys than anybody else,

because I could see him just sitting out and

not playing until he gets traded, but we'll see.

For sure. A lot of sports talk tonight, you know,

I'm hoping a lot of the geeks to stop listening

because of that I Don't know if you guys saw

but they did release some images of the new Star

Wars Battlefront that's coming out I believe

I've watched a trailer that was on YouTube and

if that was the actual gameplay I was seeing

it looks fucking awesome But I heard there's

a lot of stuff that they promised but they're

not coming out with in that game That doesn't

sound like a video game at all. So my question

is, knowing that there's a new Star Wars Battlefront

coming out, the graphics look great, but it does

seem like they're changing some things where

it's going to be more of just a regular first

-person shooter. What are the chances it captures

the magic that many of us have participated in

with the old Star Wars Battlefront games? And

Greg, since you saw some of the videos and whatnot,

I'll start with you on this one. Like I said,

it looks amazing if that's the actual gameplay

footage. I hate it when they have these trailers

and it's all the cinematics throughout the game

that they stitch together for a commercial. I

feel like that's a giant cheat to get more people

to buy their product. I forget exactly how you

phrase the question, so I can't really give a

percentage. What are the changes? It captures

the magic of the other stuff. well i think yeah

i feel like that even if they just keep the gameplay

like the controls the same way i think it's gonna

do a lot for it and keep the same basic setup

i think it would go a long way for it but they

usually change that stuff up so i think the graphics

are gonna push it beyond the normal game, so

I'm gonna go with like a 60%, being a little

bit optimistic there, I think, but not by much,

so. Chuck, what do you think? Or have you not

seen anything about it? I have not seen anything

about it, but to me, it sort of all hinges on

one thing for me, and that's if you can play

as different Jedi's. Because that's something

I something I loved about, especially Battlefront

2, I was a huge fan of that game. And I know

we've we've spent we've spent some much cherished

hours playing that game together. That's a lot

of fun. Yes, it is. But I love I love the fact

that you could go on different planets and plays

a different Jedi on each planet, because that's

sort of the planet they were associated with

in the movie and stuff. I just love that aspect

of it. And something else I loved about it was

that it was sort of like two games in one, because

you would have they would show the galaxy and

it was almost sort of like a chess match of where

you were moving and what planets you were conquering.

But then you would go into the battle and actually

play the battle as well. It always intrigued

me about that game. So if they're keeping a similar

setup to that, then I definitely think it's going

to rock. So I kind of. I kind of have to reserve

until I know more about it. But just for now,

I'll give it a 50 % that it'll capture the same

magic. The first images I saw of it, I'm like,

wow, that looks amazing. But the more I'm hearing

about it, the more I'm like, I don't know. It

seems like from what I'm seeing, they're not

going to be any space battles like there were

in the other games. I hated the space battles,

though. I was going to say that I wasn't a big

fan of the space battles. So maybe that's the

good thing. But it also seems like it's going

to be Maybe not have the abilities that you did

where you could just kind of free roam and jump

into vehicles and it seems like that's like where

the kind of like the the format of What is that

called battlefield when it was like that the

actual battlefield? Like that having that type

of format where you can just kind of do whatever

and be whatever characters from what i'm reading

that may not be the actual case for the game

so because of that i think it's almost going

to be battlefront in name only so i'm going to

say 30 chance it's going to be to capture that

magic and by that i mean like have that like

almost that free -flowing fun of the old games

maybe it will be its own thing but i don't think

it's going to be anything like the old battlefront

games All right. So I think we have one more

for today. And Chuck, since you just might actually

work out pretty well, because I know you said

you had one that was Star Wars related. So I'll

toss it over to you. OK. I wanted to talk about

something that we sort of found out about recently.

And I guess kind of a teaser trailer leaked online.

And that was for one of the new Star Wars movies.

They're doing a separate set of movies called

Star Wars anthology and the first one's gonna

be called Star Wars Rogue one Did you guys get

a chance to see the trailer that leaked? I did

not I didn't know about that And I I didn't know

about these so recently either but these are

these movies are You know they exist within the

Star Wars universe But they're not necessarily

tied to a specific trilogy so there's sort of

Maybe filling in gaps between trilogies or between

movies or something like that We've found out

that they're not really gonna star any Jedi's

or anything like that but the the basic plot

all they sort of have for the first one Star

Wars Rogue one is that It's set sort of when

the Empire was in power It says rebels set out

on a mission to steal the plans for the Death

Star and this is set to come out I believe December

of 2016 So one year from when the force awakens

come out. Now, the teaser trailer sort of showed

a Thai fighter kind of flying through this lush

vegetation on this jungle looking planet sort

of thing. And like off in the distance, you sort

of see something like kind of looks like a cloud.

And then you start seeing it's like curved more

and you're thinking, OK, well, maybe it's like

the planet's moon. That's kind of like right

on the horizon there. But as they get closer

to it. The thing is huge, it's gargantuan, and

you actually see that it's the Death Star. And

it's just off the surface of this planet. And

the thing is just massive, it looks so cool.

And they sort of have the original Obi -Wan Kenobi

with the voiceover explaining about how the Jedi

have always protected the galaxy and stuff like

that from forces of evil. So my question is...

What are the chances that these Star Wars anthology

movies are going to be as big of a success? with

the fans as the actual trilogy movies Wow, that's

that's an interesting question as big as a success

huh with the fans it's I would say it's a good

percentage because it's maybe tying into a lot

of the those stories that they people have talked

about or, you know, imagined for such a long

time. Specifically the fans, I would say there's

a bigger percentage there than with the general

public. Like, I don't think financially they're

going to be as big considering there won't be

Skywalkers or won't be Jedi. So, but with fans,

maybe they'll take more ownership because they'd

feel like they're made more for them. So I'm

going to, I'm going to go high and say good,

like 90 % chance that these will be just as successful

just because it's something in the Star Wars

universe and something completely different than

I think people might find refreshing. Yeah, and

I will add that so far George Lucas is listed

as on board as a writer. Oh, never mind 14 %

Craig what say you Well, he's not gonna direct

I don't know I feel like they they'd have Lucas

right a little bit and then they'd go get a couple

other people to go over it If you remember, he

wasn't all him on the original trilogy. He had

people looking over his shoulder telling him

whether it's going to be right. But for the prequels,

he just was kind of madman, god, what he says

goes, and that's it. But I think it's going to

be pretty great. If he has a little bit of somebody

over his shoulder looking at his stuff, I think

that's when George Lucas really comes through.

So I'll say it does a pretty good job, but I

do think the drop in. Jedi and that kind of stuff

will be interesting, but it the concept sounds

interesting It sounds kind of like a spy movie

in space which kind of intrigues me a lot I mean,

it doesn't sound like it's gonna be like a moonraker

anything like that I've never actually seen that

specific James Bond movie. It's awful. It's one

of the worst ones I'll give it like a 70 % Being

optimistic once again Yeah, one thing I will

say this is just sort of a personal take that

I've Taken I mean they said there won't be any

Jedi, but they didn't see anything about the

Sith Yeah, so to me Darth Vader's got to show

up in there somewhere. I would hope anyway Maybe

maybe I'm wrong, but they to me you would get

it. You got to have Vader in there somewhere

but I think you know if they're gonna have an

absence of even like han solo and luke and yeah

i mean that's gonna be hard and stuff like that

i'm gonna go i'm gonna go about uh 70 as well

but just because i think the you know everyone

just goes so crazy over star wars stuff and the

fact that it's another actual star wars movie

it's not like an animated it's not a cartoon

like i still think the fans are gonna be pretty

happy with it and dan maybe you've heard of this

guy i'm not up on my directors like you are but

uh the director attached to this is gareth edwards

yeah he's a guy who did godzilla oh okay he did

godzilla and he did uh monsters so yeah so so

that means that Probably won't see much screen

time of the actual Death Star We'll see it on

the news when we're One of those, you know, one

of the huts you'll see the news of the Death

Star in the background, but that's about it That's

it there's an image as you go to sleep tonight

just think of the think of the huts watching

TV The Death Star is messing with reception again

Alrighty, so that's it for what are the chances

and I like to hear what people have to think

of it and if you aren't wondering what the percentages

mean and ultimately they mean nothing kind of

like the points and whose line is it anyway so

but everything's made up and but the news stories

are real so I guess I don't know but before we

go and end this episode we like to end each episode

with a letter and tonight I have a letter and

you'll never guess what my letter is about especially

reason number seven because it's a doozy and

and that's reference to what I'm actually talking

about today and that is all those websites that

feel the need to editorialize headlines and topics

just to create classic clickbait making something

otherwise trivial sound amazing the key to this

process is twofold first we are promised something

we would never know or believe. No matter how

trivial, no matter how moronic, no matter how

much it doesn't even relate to something you

care about, they underestimate your intelligence

and assume you will never believe what they have

to tell you. For example, you'll never be able

to believe all the different ways you can make

a grilled cheese sandwich. You'll never be able

to believe all the different ways you can boil

water. All these moronic different intakes that

they have that mean absolutely nothing and for

some reason yet we still click on them. The next

step of this phrase is to insert words like epic

or extreme takedown that jazz things up for no

apparent reason whatsoever. Something like, you

won't believe this random celebrity that had

this epic takedown of today's hot topic or news

item. Websites have become nothing but fluff

stories that have little content, but they get

away with it because they have this infamous

gimmick that leads to the clicks. The clicks

are where the cash is coming from. Mean and the

thing is these websites are good at it as well

Look how look at the empire that BuzzFeed has

created making moronic lists about nothing Do

you remember these classic lists and these are

real lists from BuzzFeed? 14 hedgehogs with things

that look like hedgehogs 18 photos of Albert

Einstein being super chill Or this may be the

best thing ever For some reason a list of 35

people who just realized that Seth MacFarlane

is actually hot I don't understand that. What

is like What why would that ever need to be created

even Seth MacFarlane probably like that? It's

got to be the dumbest thing in the history of

the world. So why is this an issue? Why does

who really cares about this? You don't really

necessarily have to click on it Good point. The

thing is, quality content is becoming an endangered

species. Instead of getting attention because

what you're doing is important to know you're

something interesting to say, websites are becoming

popular and being nothing more than glorified

bumper sticker factories with these statements

that are eye -catching but mean nothing. So next

time you see a link to click on the 12 epic tape

downs that you never expect. Stop. Wait a minute.

Don't click on that link. Don't forward that

message or retweet that tweet. Save it for something

that really matters, like going to geekcastradio

.com and reading my list of the 50 best Marvel

movie moments, because you'll never guess what's

the number one. I promise you it's an epic time.

Definitely agree with that, Dan. Yeah, I just

it's just an epidemic it's just it's all you

know, it's sad is when a website as big as yahoo

does it Like so like they are one of the worst

like I hate going to Yahoo I changed it away

from my my home page because I just get so sick

of like Clicking on these stories and it was

like the dumbest thing ever totally misleading

headline Now that we literally have changed the

meaning of literally to mean, you know with emphasis

We're doing the same thing with incredible. You'll

never believe you know Epic these all these words

are becoming meaningless Pretty much but But

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from my voice But anyways, that'll be it for

us 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 Chris Pratt, Star Lord, Dinosaur Wrangler

extraordinaire. And this has been Dan, and we've

been Talking in Circles. We'll see you next week.

I gotta say the idea of having a dinosaur army

might be the coolest thing in the history of

the world. That's true. And that's not an overstatement,

I promise you.