2025.09.26: The Robot from Star Wars

Don't get it twisted.

Hey, we're recording the podcast.

Good morning to you, wherever you are, because it is

for September 26, 2025.

My name is Bernie Burns, sitting right over there.

Wish her happy holidays.

It's Ashley Burns.

I had to ask everybody.

It's some kind of holiday.

It's my holiday.

I got a pumpkin spice latte yesterday after we went out.

We went to Starbucks.

You look so cute in your Uggs.

Time to comment was 38 seconds before I actually made a comment about it.

Yeah, but what was my comment?

Something about my best life.

I was living my best life.

Yeah.

Right.

So what, yeah, so it was a supportive comment.

See, you're implying that I was making a judgy comment.

I waited until this morning to make fun of your Ugg boots.

When you would go on the internet and all these guys would show up in the comments and make nice comments, was that better?

How about this?

Just let me live my life.

Don't comment on my life.

I did it, and I supported you for living your best life.

It was good, by the way.

I enjoyed my pumpkin spice latte.

There's something about it that I don't know.

I don't prefer the pumpkin spice as much as I like the classic chai, I guess.

Ashley gets a chai latte

with almond milk.

Indulge me.

Go ahead.

What is chai?

So, uh, chai, I mean, it's just tea?

It's a spice tea specifically chai is like what in in the starbucks universe it's like a very specifically like indian spice tea right and then they they actually they don't even use the tea they have like a condenser flavoring yeah like a condensed syrup of it or whatever or a mix uh and then they like just add milk to it yeah okay okay so it's like curry latte basically

it's taking on a whole new meaning you say that judgly like you don't get chai lattes all the time Yeah, yeah I just don't know what chai is.

Like, I feel like it's trying to be something that it's not.

It's actually tea, but they're trying to pretend like it's not tea.

Well, you can have a tea latte.

You can have, I mean, you've had London Fogs, and that's like a black tea latte with lavender.

Yeah.

Also, it's like when they, when, like, when you go to like a chip shop here, it's like, do you want, like, curry has become a flavor as opposed to an entire category?

of dishes.

It is true that you can get at, you go to the chip shops here and you can get like a curry sauce and you look at it, and it's like this, you're never putting this on rice, right?

Like, this isn't, this isn't curry curry, right?

But it's like, it must use curry powder as a flavoring.

Also, curry is a pretty broad category.

Now they just have curry flavored, right?

It's like they've chosen one, right?

And that's going to represent the whole curry.

Did you do a bracket?

Is that how you decided what curry, which curry won?

You got a bracket?

Speaking of brackets.

I knew that was a segue.

Ashie wants to talk about her fat mirror.

She can't just wait.

Hey, we're going on,

there's not going to be any uh public episodes next week.

We're going on a little bit of a holiday.

So, I'm going to need

to do for your fat bear.

You're going to need to keep track of the fat bears yourselves next week, guys, because it's uh, the fat bear week ends the 30th of September.

There's another thing I need to ask you about.

It's in the video game world, but I'll put a pin in this for a second.

There's something I'm very confused about time-wise.

Okay, everyone's talking about something that I thought came out a year ago.

Go ahead, go ahead.

All right, pin bears.

All right, so I have some

pretty startling updates.

First of all, Grazer Jr.

got knocked out.

I mean, I got to say he was up against 609, who was looking pretty fat at this point.

And it was a pretty decisive win.

No.

You showed me something, though, that you haven't talked about before, which is on the voting site.

They have before and after.

Oh, yeah.

It's great.

So

when they launch the poll, they now have like, they'll have a picture of what this bear looked like in like June or July and what this bear looks like in September.

So you can see their glow up, right?

And

you can judge.

fairly.

And as a result of the fair judging, 128 Jr.

got decisively knocked out by bear 602 in the latest round of voting.

And this is fairly impressive.

32 chunk got a had a decisive win over bear 901.

And I wasn't sure, I thought bear 901 was looking pretty good, but the votes the otherwise chunk got more than double the votes of 901.

And 602 had like quadruple the votes of Grazer Jr.

So this was a decisive

nicknames.

All of them.

Some of them get nicknames.

Some of them get nicked.

I don't know why like Chunk and Grazer have nicknames.

I don't know why they don't all get nicknames, but you know, it's fine.

They don't, by the way, they don't all need nicknames.

Not like all 980 of them or however many there are.

Whoever makes the bracket should get a nickname.

Like, they don't put all of them into the bracket, right?

Yeah, yeah.

Like, if you're if you're fat enough to go on the bracket, you should get a cool nickname.

You know, as you get older, Ashley,

you can watch stuff get lost to time.

And I think everyone experiences this.

Like, something was different from how they remembered it, or in some cases, it was just correct and then you watched it become incorrect.

For me,

one of the first things about that was the spelling of the word woe, how that went from W-H-O-A

to W-O-A-H.

Yeah, and that's, and now the W-O-A-H is a recognized spelling of woe.

I'm not wrong, but I know that I am wrong.

Like, it has changed.

It is now W-O-A-H.

And it's been lost and it's changed in my lifetime.

Now the word is spelled W-O-A-H.

You can look it on Google Trends and watch this shift over time.

Like it just, I think I blame it on social media.

But anyway, it's one of those things that just changes.

The other thing that I'm watching disappear is I just talked about for these fat bears

before and after photos.

Now people put up after before photos.

It's just

changing the way they do that.

They want to put the best photos.

I get why.

Yeah, exactly.

I get why is because you want to, you want people to look at the accomplishment and go, hell yeah, before they look at the other one and go, oh, no, that is an improvement.

But here's the thing.

It's the wrong order.

We read, we read from left to right.

I'm going to look from left to right.

Before comes before, after.

And so it should, I know why people do it, and I understand that I may be fighting a losing battle on this, but before comes before, after.

You're just wrong, though.

It's changing, and there's nothing you can do.

You got to let it go.

You can't die on that hill.

You'll be the person in the comments going, no, no, no, guys.

The before.

Wrong order.

Wrong order.

The before photo comes before the after photo.

That's the way that works.

Sure.

Let's get you to bed, grandma.

Yeah, exactly.

Exactly.

Just changing.

I had something like that recently last couple years where somebody put out one of these like highly collectible figurines this is like this is a memory thing less to do with things changing over time it was a highly collectible figurine very expensive of the robot

c3po from star wars yeah okay

what color is the robot c3po from star wars gold yeah he's a gold right yes gold so this is one where he was gold but he had one silver leg like his his leg was silver and i thought oh that must be like a prequel thing right a silver leg what's this like some kind of weird variant that they're charging a lot of money for and i think of all people i think it was freddie wong i was talking to about this and it was they said

no c3po has one silver leg he's always had one silver leg and i said what are you talking about c3po doesn't have a silver leg i went back and looked c3po the robot from star wars droid by the way the robot from star wars has always had a silver leg And I'm like, when did this happen?

I like lived and breathed Star Wars as a kid.

How did I not know that C-3PO,

the robot from Star Wars, has a silver leg?

So did, is it a prequel thing?

Did C-3PO get a, like, I mean, he would have all, of course, already had it in the original trilogy, but then did they explain in the prequel trilogy how he ended up with a silver leg?

No, that's a good question.

He actually ends up with a red arm at one point.

So I thought it was some reference to that.

I think I do remember the red arm.

But the red arm was a reference to the silver leg.

That's what it was.

Yeah.

And there's also a big gap in there between, well, not with Rogue One now, but there was a big gap between the prequels and the original trilogy.

So maybe he got the silver leg at some point there.

Well, is it possible to have a C3PO of Theseus?

Exactly.

At what point is he no longer C3PO, right?

He's like C3P1 at this point.

And then you'll be looking back when he gets to 10.

You'll be like, I remember the original leg.

He did not have a silver leg, but he did.

He always had a silver leg.

First scene, he's got a silver leg.

C3P1 C3P1 is when he comes out of early access.

That's right.

Okay, so explain this to me.

Are we done talking about Fat Bears?

I totally completely.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

So

I'm just saying, everyone keep an eye on it.

Grazer is up for voting today, I believe.

So we're going to see if she's making it to the semifinals.

But

Chunk, he's in the semifinals.

He's up against Bear 602.

And I got to say, 602 is not going to be a pushover.

But whoever wins between their matchup is going on to the finals.

But Grazer is up for voting today against 909.

So

really curious to see how this is going to go.

Fat Bear Marketing Department, we got to give these guys nicknames, man.

So I'm curious to see how this is going to go.

And on the other side of the bracket, we got 910 and 856.

They're going up against each other today.

I don't have a really strong feeling about that matchup.

I feel like it's going to be fine.

If Fat Bear is going to move forward, but really, I do want to see Grazer in the final again.

I'm feeling, you know, really, there's a lot of like Grazer positive sentiment out there, and I think she's going to do it.

I love this.

This is scientists who made this.

So it's like they don't think to give them funny names or anything like that.

It'd be like a sports if they never came up with names for the teams.

I root for team number 14.

But here's the problem.

It absolutely needs to be like the, like the scientists, the people putting together the bracket who give the bears the names.

Otherwise, they're all going to be named like Barry McBarris.

Oh, it'll be terrible.

Don't let the internet in on this, okay?

You make the bracket, you get to name them.

The number of people who have waited on the t-shirt design that don't buy t-shirts, they're even calling themselves out.

It's like,

I bought one t-shirt on the internet.

I don't buy t-shirts, but here's my thoughts.

Somebody even put up a poll.

I think one of the mods, maybe Calvin, put up a poll.

And I'm like, I'm not going to look at the results of that poll.

Internet polls are just a waste of time.

But first of all, don't most people vote in a poll on the internet so that they can see the results of the poll?

Isn't that it?

Isn't that it?

And it's, well, it's also that if you ever have like a remotely jokey option in the poll, that one's going to win it.

Oh, I don't know why people do it.

Although I've kind of come around on that, because if you put the joke option in, you're letting people filter themselves out.

Exactly.

Maybe just

every poll should have one vote that's like, I don't really care.

I just want to see what the results are.

And then you can disregard all that.

Well, you know, some polling systems have that.

They have like, just show me the results.

Yeah, view results.

And you click on that one and it's like, great, good.

That eliminates the problem for everybody.

Do you, or do you go?

Well, that should win.

You go vote for the other one.

No, I think if you, once you see the results, it shouldn't let you vote.

Oh, this one only has three votes.

I'm going to vote for this one.

Yeah, exactly.

And I feel bad for like a statistical category

and personifying it.

It's the underdog.

Oh, you want to talk about video games, it sounds like.

Oh, look, there's a lot to talk about today.

So, TGS is happening.

They had the Tokyo Game Show Awards.

The Xbox handheld is up for pre-order and is apparently selling out, which I was kind of surprised by, but that's, I guess, a good sign for Xbox.

And Hades came out yesterday.

Hades 2 did, and is the now, I think, on track to be the highest-reviewed game of the year.

And it's been, by the way, a banger year.

Oh, by the way.

There are solid games coming out.

If you want to, there's deals if you live in the US.

And I saw one in New Zealand as well.

Apparently, Costco is liquidating all of their Xbox stock because of the price change that's taken place in the U.S.

So now is like a time you can buy an Xbox Series X from Costco.

I saw one that was for like 400 bucks.

I saw one that was like the equivalent of like $280 US, which is insane just for the blu-ray player alone yeah so if you have held off getting an xbox and you have a costco nearby well worth checking out for having both i mean obviously a blu-ray player by itself is like a hundred bucks

but uh yeah so the the handheld is selling out but this story of uh

hades 2 is has come out and everyone's so excited there's all this buzz on social media about Hades 2.

I've had Hades 2 installed on my computer upstairs for like a year and I've been trying to get around to playing it for a year.

Am I crazy?

No.

Did this game not already come out?

No, not exactly.

So

you probably bought it when it hit early access last year.

Yeah.

So what's happening now is the game is leaving early access and actually launching.

So the reviews are coming out of like what the game is like.

at launch, right?

Like at its now official launch state.

And the reviews, I think

it's got a 94 on Metacritic.

Like 98% of reviewers say this is an incredible game.

It's out-reviewed just this year.

Expedition 33, which up until yesterday was the number one highest reviewed game for the year.

With Metacritic.

Which Expedition was it?

33.

Needs a nickname.

Then there's the second one was Hollow Knight Silk Song, Forza Horizon 5, Split Fiction, Citizen Sleeper 2, which I I mentioned.

Did you mention Blue Prince?

Didn't Blue Prince get a massive surge when it came out?

It did.

Blue Prince is one of the top reviewed games.

Like, what it comes down to is this has been a really good year for really good games.

There's a lot of incredibly beloved, incredibly highly reviewed games that have come out this year.

So

for

Hades 2 to top the list, that's saying something.

You know, it's weird too, because whenever you talk about Hades, I always think about the person that made it.

What a transformation of a career.

What a transition they made.

I know.

Greg Casavan, who was one of the writers, beloved writers at GameSpot back in the day, which was like an IGN competitor.

Is GameSpot?

Yeah, the Slow Runner.

Okay, the Slow Run.

Yeah, and it's like Jeff Gerstmann came out of there as well.

And it's like he went on to make all these incredibly beloved games, like Bastion, the one with the sword.

Transistor.

Transistor.

So I avoided the word transition in my head because because I didn't want this to turn out to be one extended pun.

I also found out, I was just talking about Freddie Wong, another guy from Rocket Jump, Brandon.

I just found out he's made some of the like most high-profile

VR games that I've seen.

I haven't played any of them, but I always see them.

It's always saying like very highly rated play this game, but it's like shooter.

I think it's called Boneworks or something like that.

He was involved with that.

I just saw a video that Freddy put out about how they're moving back into movies, which I'm super happy about.

Can't wait to see that stuff.

Yeah, so Rocket Jump is spinning back up.

And uh morgan webb got a game coming out what really yeah morgan webb of the old tech tv yeah she g4 tech tv she was uh what x-play yeah with uh adam sessler her her so it's interesting like how many people have uh transitioned into game development i love it i i gotta say cassavan with super giant games has been like one of my favorite stories to see i mean just I feel like the when Bastion came out, that was like a mark on the map.

That was one of those landmark Xbox Live Arcade games that said, yeah, like the little games absolutely have a place on the console.

Because up until that point, it was really, there was space for like the AAAs, but there was nowhere to distribute the little games.

Not even like Xbox Live Arcade?

Well, no, I'm saying that was one of the, that was like one of the games that I thought cemented Xbox Live Arcade as like a place for like really solid game experiences, not just like, you know.

Here's a game that was on a console 20 years ago.

That's what Xbox Live Arcade almost always retro arm of Xbox Live.

And it was for a while.

Like there were even the games that were made for it.

Like remember, Geometry Wars was like a hugely popular Xbox Live Arcade game.

And that was also obviously a very valid, incredible game experience that was, you know, very small and limited, but it did, I feel like, play

on the very classic game like Nostalgia.

That was like, it, that, it fell solidly in that category.

And I feel like Bastion was kind of doing its own thing.

That was one, if I remember correctly, Bastion was one where the level built itself out in front of you as you explored the world.

Like the tiles would click up into place and show you like the way forward as you're going along it.

It was a really, really cool game in a really cool world.

And I just, bam, great Xbox Live RKI experience.

It seems like the best hire you can make for those small, independent games is Art Director.

Like whoever can get the aesthetic that just people really like, I feel like Art Direction is honestly for sales more important than just about anything else.

Long-term gameplay is always the most important thing, but damn, it's amazing how much art direction sells those games initially.

I kind of agree that art can sell a game, but the gameplay is what will keep you actually playing the game.

True, true.

Like Factorio, I look at it now and I'm like, was this game made in 1985?

You look at the graphics for it, but the gameplay keeps people coming back.

No, I think Factorio made a very specific graphical choice to, again, sort of play on the like, maybe the Sims City kind of nostalgia look, right?

Like that was a deliberate choice.

Yeah,

the people who are into it are super into it.

It's either gameplay or their mom took Tylenol.

We're going on vacation.

I can buy that.

But

with Tokyo Game Show going on, they had their Tokyo Game Show awards.

I'm very happy to say that the game I'm playing right now, Metaphor Refantasio, won

basically the Tokyo Game Show

Game of Their Game of the Year award.

Technically came out last year.

So I assume their accounting is like from game show to game show.

What is Metaphor Refantasia?

Okay, so is that a separate game than the Persona games?

Yes,

it's by the same studio, and it's got a lot of very similar gameplay elements, but where a persona is like, I'm a schoolboy going into a magical world, and I'm also making friends and like doing quizzes and stuff.

Talking to a cat.

and talking to my cat.

Um, this is very similar, except it's like all takes place within like a fantasy world.

Instead of a friend who's a cat, you have a friend who's a fairy.

Okay, makes sense.

It's a variant.

See, I'm gonna go back in my whole everything needs a nickname comment, and I'll say, like, that could just use a number, like, that could be persona 12.

That's fine, persona 5b or whatever.

So, are you gonna play Hades?

And also,

I played the first Hades, and I really liked it a lot lot because it's one of those rogue light games where you have a clean run every single time, and then you unlock something that carries through to the next run.

So it's not completely clean every time.

Like you can unlock different weapons, like the shield and stuff like that.

One of the things about it that always drove me kind of nuts is that isometric view, which is very important to people.

I just don't like working on diagonals all the time.

You know what I mean?

To me, it's like,

it's just, it's too much margin for error in the controller, and it makes me mad at the controller.

I was also, though, playing on PC.

I'm wondering if I should play it on a console.

Could be worth giving it a try at the very least.

I'm going to try it.

I don't know that I will ever finish it.

I tend to have a very limited sort of appetite and patience for roguelites.

There's only so many runs I'm going to make through the game before I'm like, well, this is my personal finish line.

I'm done.

Roguelight, it depends on how they design them because sometimes it's almost like drug addiction where it's like, oh, you did the first one.

It's like, I died immediately.

What was that?

And it's like, oh, I unlock that.

We'll now have this on this next run.

Then the next run is like seven minutes, 10 minutes, or whatever.

And you're like, okay, cool.

But then you get, and Hades is like this.

You get to the point where it's like some of the runs are like 30, 40 minutes an hour.

Like Blue Prince was the same way.

It's like,

that's too long for me to sit down and just have a run through a video game.

FTL is the same way, beloved game.

I love FTL.

But sometimes you sit down to play it and it's like, I'm going to do a quick little run through FTL.

It's like, no, you're not doing that today.

It's got, um, for me, part of, I think, the draw is probably part of the issue for me, which is once I get 30 to 40 minutes in, if I die and lose all of that, I'm gonna be pissed.

Yeah, right.

It's like, and the further I get into a run that's like, if I get further than I've ever got before and I start getting further and I start getting further, and now I've left my previous progress in the dust, I'm experiencing all this like new stuff that I didn't get before.

And then I fucking die.

Yep.

And then I'm looking at what I'm going to have to go through all over again again just to get back to that point.

I like, I get impatient with it quick.

Yeah.

And I acknowledge that that's just me as a gamer.

I will do the same

battle, like turn-based battle a billion times and know exactly which, you know, I'm like, I can use this ball against this guy and this spell against this guy.

And this guy is obviously weak to piercing attacks.

And like, like, I can do that all day.

But doing runs.

of this same game over and over, I can only do so much.

And I might have just been super shitty shitty at Hades.

There might be a point at which you get a checkpoint.

I'm super shitty at all those games.

That is also part of the problem.

Right.

Like, if you've played the first Hades, I got to the point where you kill Meg, which is like the first boss.

And I got past her.

I thought, okay, now this will be a checkpoint.

I can start.

Meg from Hercules?

How dare you?

I could start at this point.

You know, it's all borrowed from the same fables and legends, right?

So sometimes you get a good version, sometimes you get a bad version.

But, and there was also like, there was a lot of stuff in it, too.

Like, you would go back to the halls of the underworld, and like, there would be all new

cinematic conversations, essentially, every single time.

And sometimes it would unlock certain things, sometimes it wouldn't.

Then you would decorate certain halls.

And I was like, this is all too much for me.

I just want to play the game and unlock different stuff to kill things with, and that's it.

Right, but I think a lot of people like that the cinematic dialogues change run to run, right?

Like, that's how you're pulling apart the story.

Like, you get one little, it's like string cheese.

You don't get it all at once, you get one string at a time.

Yeah.

And then eventually, by the end, you've consumed the entire string cheese.

You know, exactly right.

They're halfway through they fucking just start taking big bites.

See, that's me.

I wanted to just take the big bites and be like, fucking done.

That was a delicious cheese.

Yeah, no, I get it.

I get it.

So I have had Hades too, I feel like this whole time.

And I didn't know it was an early access.

I just thought I had the game and I haven't played it this whole time.

So now it's like, am I going to start playing it because of all the hype that people have for this game?

Maybe.

Well, I mean,

when you see the reviews, you go, well, how could I not, right?

I mean, you've already got it.

How could you have it and see the reviews and see it's the highest reviewed game of the year and then not play it?

Not even like give it a little go.

Yeah, sure.

You're right.

You're right.

How could I not do that?

Right.

It's, it's, uh, but it is a sequel, right?

And it's, it's, I feel like I have a lot of people.

But you are interested in it enough to buy it.

It's true.

I was more so.

I'm the kind of person, though, too.

I will sometimes buy things to support them.

Does that make sense?

Yeah, it does.

And that's bitten me in the ass before.

There was some

like anime style game that I bought.

Was it called Starship or Jumpship Odyssey?

And I love the

Jump Light Odyssey.

And I was like, I want to support this game.

I'm going to buy it.

Even though I know I'm not going to play it for like six months, I'll buy the game now because I'm helping to fund the developers and all that stuff.

I went back and checked it out after six months, only to find out that they completely shuttered the game

like two weeks after I bought it.

And they were like, Yeah, we're not giving refunds for it.

Buy.

Sorry, everybody.

Or do you remember hearing about it?

We think it's good enough and, you know, or far enough, and people are like, what the fuck just happened in the comments?

You know, someone on Steam just unlocked, was the first person to unlock a Steam award for owning 40,000 games.

How?

I don't know.

I don't even know how that's possible.

There's 40,000 games on Steam to own.

Yeah.

You're bringing up something from, yeah.

There was a point in time,

this is early internet,

where some people were given accounts

that had

every Steam game in existence and also every Steam game that would ever come to be.

Oh, right.

It was like one of those were those were rare.

And those were in some companies that were then acquired by some other companies that were then shut down.

So these Steam accounts are out there.

And somebody who worked at some company that's shut down,

I came across one of these accounts at one point in time and I wonder who has that account.

Right.

Or if like if the credentials, the login credentials are just gone.

I'm being very careful.

I sincerely doubt that.

I sincerely doubt that.

I don't want to fuck up anybody else's thing that they've got, but there I have come across in my career a Steam account that was basically every Steam game that was ever made and every Steam game that was ever going to be made.

And it's like basically a lifetime gold card for the steam platform i wonder how many of those are left oh like like how many of them are left that are still working that haven't got like i don't just lost to time

how many of them haven't changed their spelling to wowa there's gonna be there's gonna be like a future archaeologist who opens a grave and it's gonna be some nerdy dude who's clutching like a yellow legal pad that has login credentials on it

you're like this guy must have been a king look at this what was this thing of enormous value that he had it's It's a modern day treasure, Ashley.

Can you imagine getting your hands on one of those?

No, no, I can't.

I mean, what would the monetary value of that even be?

I don't know what the monetary value of that would be.

I mean, you could, that would be like the GDP of a whole country.

Let me do a quick calculation on that.

That would be a lot,

a lot, a lot of money.

So I'm curious about that.

I don't, I, I might even edit all this out, this mythical thing that exists out there.

I, I never logged in as it, but I definitely came across this thing.

Speaking of mythical things that are out there, Bernie, we have a little like group chat where we just like drop links of like stuff that we're interested in and that we're like, maybe I'll talk about this.

And you dropped a note in that I can't quite puzzle out.

So I'm hoping that you can help me with it.

You dropped in a note that just says Avengers UK.

Is this coming up with like, you know, like the, there's like, you know, the British, there's Captain Britain and like, is this making a British Avengers?

What's up?

I've been ripping Blu-rays for our media server that we have.

And I'm, in some cases, I'm rebuying movies that I've bought 50 times at this point, just so I have them on Blu-ray.

It's an expense as someone who works in media that I have to make because I don't want to ever get in a situation where it seems like I'm pirating something, right?

Of course.

That would be extraordinarily hypocritical of me.

So if I'm going to rip a Blu-ray, I buy a Blu-ray.

I can't rip something from like a streaming service or something like that or a digital library that I buy.

This is the ultimate mea culpa of me telling everyone else to go digital.

And now I've got to buy everything that I bought over the last 10 years on Blu-ray.

The good news is you can buy like go on ebay and buy used collections of blu-rays for like like a hundred blu-rays for like 70 bucks that's a pretty good average that's a pretty good average i have a lot of like duplicate copies of inception and skyfall i don't know why those two movies people really like almost everyone has a copy really bought them and then really what got tired of oh those are just my people that i found that all like the same movies i want they have so uh so one of the movies that i kept running across when i go to rip it and it gets identified by the media server just by the name of the movie is this movie called Avengers Assemble.

It's Avengers Assemble and it's, you know, got art and everything like that.

I'm like, get this, what is this Avengers Assemble?

And I thought like, this is Avengers Assemble, the story of the Marvel cinematic universe.

Nope.

Turns out that Avengers Assemble, I never knew this, is the name of the movie, The Avengers in the United Kingdom, that they didn't release it under the name The Avengers.

You know what, though?

It's called Avengers Assemble.

I could see why.

Because there's actually already something called The Avengers that was

from the UK.

That's like, I mean, I think what I, the one that I know is actually a remake of a much older one, but there was a movie in, it was the

late 90s, early aughts, and it had.

It was the 90s because I would think I was doing sneak peek when it came out.

It was, it was, I want to say it was Uma Thurman.

Yep.

And Ray Fiennes.

I I think you're right.

And they're like British secret agents, but it's very like, it's very like comic-y, right?

Like they have their, I don't know, like the umbrella is also a shield or something.

You know, and so they have like all their spy gadgets, but they're very like, you know, they're very crazy and exaggerated.

I think the bad guy is Malcolm McDowell.

Not 100% sure on that, but it was like, so there's already something called the Avengers.

And I think that was even a remake of like a 70s TV show.

TV or TV show.

It's a TV show.

Okay.

So they've already got the Avengers.

So probably like one of those things where they had to call it something else.

Like how Burger King is Hungry Jacks in Australia.

Right.

Right.

I also feel like that they could sit you down and tell you're going to watch this movie, The Avengers, but then swap it out with League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and you wouldn't notice the difference.

Like you would be halfway through and go, wait a minute.

You know, to this day, it makes me so sad that League of Extraordinary Gentlemen apparently like jaded Sean Connery out of the industry.

Really?

Because he, I guess, he hated his experience on that, but then he had to turn down some other opportunity because he was doing this one.

Or he took the extraordinary gentleman because he was upset that he had passed on another opportunity.

Maybe it was Lord of the Rings or something.

And

he had such a terrible experience with this movie that he just stopped.

So there was a period of time where people were making superhero movies.

Batman was like the outlier.

But they were trying to get the whole superhero genre going.

And I'm sure people's agents said, you got to make this thing.

This is a superhero movie that's about to be the next big thing.

It's the classic quote from Big Short, this throwaway line that is so true is, you're not wrong, you're just early.

And that's the same thing, right?

They were just too early to the superhero thing.

And there was a lot of people who made

superhero movies.

They just made them a little too early.

And they were wrong.

And they were in a shitty superhero movie.

Yeah.

And it's like, you know, the thing is, a lot of those superhero movies were also building blocks and lessons for the ones that came after and refined the formula and everything.

I loved League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

I haven't watched it since the first time I watched it.

And I may not want to do that because sometimes when you go back to that thing that you think you loved, you find out that you didn't love it.

You no longer love it.

And so I'm not sure if I want to go back and watch that.

But when I watched it, I thought it was awesome.

Yeah.

So, Sean Connery, love you, baby.

Do you?

Sure.

Why not?

Why not?

Well, I can show you a couple articles.

Why not?

But okay.

Oh, really?

Oh, yeah.

Really?

Really?

We'll have some drops all next week for you.

Oh, no.

So if you can figure out, we were not going to do, we're not going to be here Monday with a public episode.

We'll still have content for the sponsors on the Roosteith website and the Patreon.

But we were just starting this drop contest on Monday.

So we'll use today's drop.

Good luck with this one as well.

Pretty woman, I guess, was too easy.

So here it is once again.

Don't get it twisted.

Good luck.

Good luck with finding that.

Hopefully the accent helps you a little bit there.

We'll see.

And is also a hint.

Yeah, so we'll see if that one can, somebody can solve that within a week, but maybe somebody will.

And I want to say a big thank you to Kyle Brown and Taylor Gazzo for sending us off into the weekend and sponsoring this episode of our show, patreon.com/slash morning somewhere and roosterteeth.com.

All right.

Well, that does it for us this week ending September 26th.

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