Episode 106: Quarantine Question Session

just full blown belting out like singing. You know, in l A, we have how many performers and they got to, like, I don't know, keep doing their stuff. So like somebody was hardcore, like just belting out of their apartment. Oh yeah, that's It's so funny because that's what I definitely felt, because you know, I was doing super Punch at at home and I just put up a green screen, just go at it. And like typically when I'm in the studio, Supermuch is a fairly loud show, like I'm usually yelling

a lot. They brought my uh, I have like a megaphone that I would use intod of mic, but I was like, I gotta do all that because it's also a late night show, luckily Eastern time late night, but it's from eight to eleven my time, eleven till like two am their time. Uh So it's so the first like night, I like I heard the neighbor like kind of like knocking down, you know how they do. I'm a bottom neighbor. So they were like stomping um and I was like, and I just kind of kept going.

I was like, well, they are in for it. And then luckily they stopped, because if they had the audacity to do it now. I was just putting Naomi to bed a couple of days ago, and it sounded like they were doing like w w e up there? Like do you think they were working out? I don't know, but I know they have kids too because I I

hear the like the classic kid neighbor. But yeah, so they they're I think like they just got like like they must have like when we started it wasn't when Actually, yeah, it's true because when I started doing it from home, it wasn't they the kids didn't have to stay home yet, and now that the kids have to stay home, they don't complain because they know their kids are loud as hell. So it worked out I have. The neighbor next to

me has a dog, and I can hear it. Wake up everyone, Like I can hear the little scratching, like the that only dog, like the weight of the dog, like I can just you know, it's very much not a cat unless it's like like pound cat. Um. But yeah, it's really funny. And my dog, I'm sure that they can hear. Luckily, everybody in my apartment complex is animal friendly.

But Molly, my dog, loves to if she gets a little pent up, she'll do this thing where she does little tiny sprints from the side of the apartment to the other. UM, my sweet little babe. This week, we uh, we asked a bunch of y'all to what you wanted to ask us. UM. We haven't always done that. We've taken you know, started to take more UM letters from from our listeners and and this week we opened it up to everything. Try to keep it NERD related. I

don't know if you notice. If you I had to add NERD related in my n A, on Insta or else, UM, I'm sure would have gotten a different type of d m s. But we're going to try to get to as many as possible. UM. But first up, I have one right off the bat. This is from Anichia sixteen. She said, besides the DBZ guys, what other anime guy do you think is super hot? I feel like I might have mentioned this sometime in the last two weeks, but definitely Joe Joe and Joe start. Yeah, yeah, you're

talking about being beautiful, pretty and he's thick. Yeah, you've already heard me compliment how well they capture the the the overall body mass for for the for those characters, you know, they don't they make sure that you know, those boys are swollen. But also he has like big beautiful lips too. I just love all the features, Like I just love um the effort that was put into

just the beauty. I just I love it. Um. If you do you have a question that you wanted to answer, Oh yeah, yeah, this one's one of those those fun ones. But they but Charles Xavier, which we've you know, on another episode established that is his real name, as what is our dream impossible crossover like seeing a my Hero academic Damia Academy crossover, something along those lines, And my impossible one is doing a movie adaptation of the Marvel versus d c. I don't think it'll work. That was

going to be mine. Yeah, it's yeah, because you know, the comics are good, and they keep like hinting that they might do it in comics again. But I'd love to see not only just them just that happened. But I hope they play with it and maybe even include Deadpool so that we can have a character. And they're making fun of some of the people who have been on both sides, uh for sure, like some of these Google battles that they lost, Um well was it Captain

Marvel slash Shazam? But um yeah, I I totally agree. Maybe this pandemic will bring everyone together and they'll stop fighting about who is better. Yeah. I want to see that too, just because it's why not. You know, I don't know how much longer Mother Earth is going to be. You know, we're gonna Mother Earth will can will exist. I don't know how much longer we will with all all all of the plagues and the and the and the flooding and the alive the final Apocalypse signs happening.

So go ahead and make DC and Marvel come together. Um. I was gonna say something dumb like they should fight, like global warming or something. But I mean that'd be funny. All right, you stand by your stand by your little goofy picks. But I've been stuck in this uh it's like the Happening. I actually loved the beginning of the happening. I thought it was really creepy and then it turned out that it was like the Earth trying to kill us,

and I was like that makes sense. Yeah, oh yeah, no, I've there's been so many there's so many uh takes on the happening. But I had a group of friends that really did like it, and I think, I think, yeah, I think it's a fun twist. But you know, because I like what it's the Earth And I was like, yeah, I mean you're not doing it in a fun way where it's a fictional version and not talking about that a coronavirus is the re and the Earth is healing. Yeah, I think it's a fun concept. Um. This is just

our dumb pitches. Please don't write us, Okay, this is from d part Um two. Is there a network of nerd creatives of color? Can there be? There's actually several there's geeks of color that our friend Dorian created, highly recommend following them. They do a lot of amazing coverage. He's really built a huge platform. Um Nerds of Color is another great one that is out there. Um. I think I follow Black Heroes Matter, which is another great one. Uh,

there's so many. I mean really just go on you know, on Twitter and Instagram and like finding these spaces. Um, but there's a lot of meetups they'll do, uh just dope, you know, they tweet out dope job opportunities that they run across. I think there's also writers of Color. If you're a writer, Writers of Color on Twitter is great. They're constantly tweeting out different job openings from different places. Oh yeah, no, that's I think. Yeah, I think you're right.

There's tons of resources and you know, uh, the w g a's website has uh, you know, resources for things like that. You'd be surprised, you know, not not being like, oh, just just just google, but like you honestly would be surprised if you just look up if you google things like Diversity's Fellowship to virtually diversity Scholarship, and there's uh

and even if you aren't a person of color. Because I know this will be a follow up upon hearing this, if you just look up Writer's Fellowship new writer entry level Fellowships. Uh, there's also options there too. Taking it from that dope question back to some nerdy debates, Uh, mc dasty with a spicy opening before the questioning, Uh, the m c U is currently better than the d c E. I avoided that question there there there there are people with Batman avatars on Twitter who would come

at you if you said that. But uh, you know I agree. Uh. But do you think it's because the executives that Marvel are fans? I actually don't think it's necessarily that. I've said this many times and many again, which is the they Marvel figured out the formula of not trying to make a superhero movie. They just make a specific genre of movie that happens to involve superheroes. And the reason I know that's true is because the DC movies that work are the ones that do that.

Wonder Woman is a war movie, but it happens to involve superheroes. Shazam is a coming of age movie that happens to involve superheroes. Uh, even Aquaman. You know that that one is a a royal, a royal exchange of power movie. Uh. But almost I'd almost call it a fairy tale, you know. I almost say Aquaman has like

a fairy tale spin on it. And I think that's why some people love it and some people don't, because if you really kind of if you take well Man the hero out of it and like changed it to Prince of Atlantis, like that's a that's a fairy tale story, and you have people who are down for that, and you have people who are actively against that and try and use every every chance they can to talk about how much they think Disney is whacked because they're as fun as a wet rag on a hot day. Well,

that's actually pretty fun a wet rag on a cold day. Well, what I was going to say, because I know you're talking specifically about the d C EU, and I guess, kind of going off of what you said, if he is that, I think d C does a really great job of their standalone films and so they're really different.

Marvel has has a way of like bringing all of these stories obviously that we saw in Endgame, an Infinity War and Endgame, and even in Spider Man, which is not owned um, which is not on Disney Plus because it's Sony um, but uh, they bring all these stories together, and I feel like d C is actually, like the ones that you named are really great stand alone ones, um, and I personally feel like they've done a really great job over the past couple of years of doing that,

even um with Joker, which you know, was I think nominated for an Academy Award. I don't know, I don't pay attention to award them, but I'm asking. I know he's asking specifically about the DC, like all the Justice League blah bah blah like all that. But I do want to say d C as a as a company, I think has done a good job with those stand alone origin story that's like their bread and butter, and that's they do a really good job of those. And so I think it's kind of just comparing two completely

different things. Now. It's not like I'm saying that Marvel doesn't have those origin stories, because they do. I just think that these are such different franchises. I mean, one of my favorite superhero movies of all time is Wonder Woman. I think that that that movie is just so flawless to me. So saying you know that these films, I don't even know if I would compare that film. I guess it gets compared to um Captain America, But I

don't like actually comparing these franchises a lot. Like we have another question that Star Wars and Star Trek, which is like even more different than these. At least these two are somewhat comparable Marvel in d C movies, whereas Star Wars and Star Trek you're like now talking about like a film franchise. Well, I guess they're both film

franchises now, but like just totally different. And I actually don't like comparing these, So I'm I'm in the minority where I feel like they've both done a good job. It's just they have some flops, like both of them, maybe one has really bad flops. But um yeah, but DC Stay and Alone origin stories are pretty magnificent. Yeah, all right, do you have another question you want to jump into since I asked them? Yes, Sorry, that was

a really long one. Um. Also I tried to I try to not upset anybody that I'm auditioning forever, so I see the beauty in both of the franchises. Um, here we go. If he This is from C. Kevin Bight. Four favorite Saturday Morning cartoons growing up. For me, I grew up in the specific end of nineties beginning of Adds ABC morning cartoon that was Recess Pepper and um what else was in that block? The Adventures of Winnie the Boo. I do remember that. Um yeah, so that

was my specific Saturday morning cartoons. I also think Wayne Head was Saturday Morning. Did you ever watch that? I don't thought. Okay, yeah that was solid Wayne Wayne Head was really good. So those were my specific Saturday ones. M yeah, No, for me, it was it was clear I had that. I was in that four Kids anime block, Anime training Wheels, so Ugio, Pokemon, all that stuff I was.

I was drinking into my veins. I was trying to like play Ugo against the players as the match went on, which is if you don't know physically impossible, you cannot do it. Uh Like. I was straight up, um like had my deck and went. But the thing is is, like it's impossible because they can't react to the moves you're you're making and you can't and they're not attacking your specific car you know, cards either. But I tried with my hardest to do that because I was so

into that whole that holes the series. I I loved it. Yeah, Pokemon Saturday Morning was also my jam definitely. This is this is so funny. Um, this this is interesting because I'm curious to your thoughts because, uh, you know, I think we've we've both been married before and we both have thoughts of relationships and all that. But the question

is should you marry a non nerd? And you know, there's there's two knee jerk reactions, one being like yeah, of course and one being like no. And I think there's two immediate reactions yes and the other is no, yeah, because because I feel both ways. But like, more specifically, I think it's just how they treat your nerd dumb Like do they do they look at it as like, oh, you're doing something childish? Do they look down on it?

Do they not? You know, I've I've there's been relationships where it's hard because you know, uh, if you've you know, play video games to make money, it seems like you're just playing video games and and and even though you are working. You know, it's it's real funny in this industry because like you're going like if you go into a comedy festival, it looks like you're just going to a different uh state city just a party and drink and and goof off, and you're kind of doing that,

but that's part of the job. You're also like networking building relationship with other comics when if so, if they can't see you doing those things, and this is more specific, like if if it's your career, uh, then then that's

gonna be hard. But also just like if they can't understand that that's why you like it, or they can't give it a chance because obviously, yeah, there's gonna be sometimes that you want to sit down together and watch something and if they can't watch, you know, something nerdy with you because they're just like so adverse to it, that's gonna put a strain on your relationship. For me, though, my knee jerk is, what do you mean non nerdy?

Because I feel like a lot of people have like this haughty opinion, like they hold themselves really in high esteem for being into like anime or comic books or video games. When you can be nerdy about a lot of things, like if I think of my little brother, he works on cars, that is a world that I do not care about, but like that's nerdy to me to know all that stuff. There's people that are super into science, and um, I consider even stuff like my

friends are super nerdy about makeup. Makeup artists are insane, like they know types of brushes, color palettes, like they can do special effects work like that to me is nerdy. So I think I would also broaden what you consider nerdy and do you care about their interests that they're into. My ex mark ellis that we have had on here is the biggest sports nerd I have ever met in

my life. He can tell you every Super Bowl. He can tell you stats of players that played in the eighties, Like that is his thing and it comes in handy because he does stuff for like ESPN. But that's really nerdy as hell. He has a ton of baseball cards that he collects, like he also has Magic the Gathering cards,

So like those are two different types of nerdy. So I would just say I feel like this this question gets lotted at women a lot for being not nerds, and I'm like, but they're nerds about different types of things and they and they know those things really well, and so that to me is just I guess that's my knee jerk. Is like just because they're not into the specific things you are. As long as you guys

respect each other, it might be an opportunity. Another thing about Mark was he was a huge rock and roll nerd, like same thing. Knew all this stuff and I in an attempt to get to know him better because I didn't. He was eight to ten years older than me, so he came from a different generation than I did. Uh. He was very much an eighties kid, and so I listened to Duff mccagan's Guns and Roses audio biography, which I found fascinating because it's not a world I'm from,

and I thought that was really cool. So listening to like the backstory on Pearl jam or Van Halen, I'm like, I do not know the this world, and I find this really cool. He doesn't watch a lick of anime, so that was like something I was trying to introduce him to. But I think, as long as you're like, hey, this is really neat, I want to get to know

your world. I think as long as y'all can be respectful of each other in your interests, because I mean, if your person is not into anything that's kind of weird and a red flag and are they a mannequin um, But I bet they're into something that they know really well. So yeah, okay, so me next, maybe this one. This is from D M. Coop. What movie do you wish was in theaters the day they open back up? And I'm going to take that as something that has been in theaters in the past and or is coming out.

So for me, what do I want to see in theaters again? You know what? I actually would not mind seeing Into the Spider Verse in theaters again in imax. I think that would be really dope. I wouldn't mind if when theaters open backed up, they just were like rewarded people by showing it. A Yeah, that would be fun. I I look forward to the double feature that's definitely gonna have happened when the sequel eventually comes out, because,

like I said, I missed seeing it in theaters. It was just one of those That's the funny thing with movies,

and that's the funny thing with uh. Also, just how we um how we me meaning you and us and people in our industry just are all have so much media to digest that sometimes it'll just pass you up and like I don't I don't make it any easier by also being like deep into video games and streaming so that I just have so little time, which is why it's been fun going through the backlogs and uh in Quarantine and just like also buying, uh just deep blue rays of stuff that that there's something to blind

buying where it's like I haven't seen it. I know I'm probably gonna like it, but it would be funny if I did. And I have this blue ray. Um. But like I've had to, I've been doing a lot of purchasing because since I can't leave, all I do is spend money. Um And I got the whole Higho Miyazaki collection and uh so because before that I only

saw Ponio. So now I've seen kikiS Delivery Service and my neighbor doctor Row and I'm gonna check out like Spirited Away Princess Mononoke, which you know, I'm probably gonna make Naomi sit that one out. It seems like it's a little too intense for her. Um. But some of these, like I'd love to go back and see some of those in theaters, and like some of the older film things too, because there's something like the Egyptian they'll to play like reprint of film stuff, and you know that's

that's always dope. I'm trying to go through the top I can't remember which it might be Rotten Tomatoes, but it's like the top one hundred horror films so that I can officially step into even though I'm a horror baby, I want to officially be horror queen. And and like some of those are like so old really we're talking like some of them are non speaking, They're like silent films. But um, I find that fascinating, like you said, like going back and watching like black and white films and

stuff too. I need to get on that game. Oh yeah, no, that's the that's a that's something I've been trying to do more because you know, with who shot you, I'm just so used to doing these like um the you know, these like contemporary films. But talking with Dre and Alonso who like her, you know Drea who like she you know, programs film festivals, and Alonso, who has been like a movie fan, we're doing this thing called, uh this is your movie life when we talk about our favorite films

at different points of our life. And like Alonso has always been like a movie fan you know, like he's talking about all these like steamed movies that he was into like when he was like twelve. Yeah. Yeah, Um, we have to take a really quick break and then we're going to hop back into more of your questions right after this, and we are back still taking your questions.

If you have another one for us, yeah, yeah, I have one loaded up which I'm I have to talk to this question because I have uh their their battle cry tattooed on me, which was who would you cast as?

Nay More? And that is a good one. I never really do much fan casting because I feel like when you get deep into that type of stuff is how you see someone, uh you know, you have someone casted and like you freak out because they don't look like how you pictured them because you spent um, you spent so much time thinking that this would be the perfect

look I'm looking. So I looked up actors who are in their thirties to like get my eyes going, and it's so funny the stark and like actors who you're like, yeah, they're they're in their thirties. That's why I would picture and then like parks see you June who Sue June who I'm like, no, you're you're in your thirties, but you could still play twenty uh and you you know

he got who else there was? There's Hughan Been also like if I think for for most people of color, I'm gonna look have to look in the forties section. But something that excited me is like a like Daniel Radcliffe a because I'm thinking because he's like, like, tell me if this makes sense to you, this this word I'm about to create, which is they have to be like hate hot, like they have to be hot, but not so hot that you're like on their side, like hot and you hate them, you know what I mean?

Like so like me like yeah, but not almost villainous, like because he since he's like this anti hero, it's almost like you you like you you you you you can't you don't trust him, but you're like, damn, you're hot because his whole thing is you know, he is like this attractive king. He is like very entitled, but he's like very proud and he has are you not

literally describing Michael B. Jordan as kill Monger? I mean yeah, But here's the thing is I if I'm going to switch up casting and not do kill Monger, which you are right, Uh, Michael B. Jordan has kill Monger. I see that. That's uh, that is that is a good one because he was never a villain in my eyes. Uh, but he was like but you could see that you can't necessarily trust. Yeah. Yeah. So so I'm so, I'm I'm looking and I'm thinking, and I would like it

to either be um. I mean, it could be whoever they find to play him, like I I don't care, but he is he's like white presenting. But I think also would be interesting if they went with an Asian American actor or an Asian actor. He doesn't look white presenting in a lot of the panels I'm looking at. In fact, most of the casting is of Asian actors, but he looks Afro Asian and many of these well that's because you know, they use a lot of Afro features to make superhero bodies. But you know that's a

different You're right, you're you You're so true. Like he definitely has because he also has like the eyebrows that they would use when they would make racist Asian like his like early stuff when his eyebrowser hyper arched. I'm like, oh, that's almost like a food man shoe ask But yeah, you're right, Um, he's just this man is a person of color. I think I'm gonna I think I'm gonna

take it back. I'm gonna go with you. Nay More is a thousand percent Asian, which makes sense because that was just my first in my head, I was looking for Asian men, so maybe yes, sublimity I always knew, but you know, I fell into the trap of like unless they explicitly state the person, because you know that you can't have a person of color in a comic without them having some heavy arm. Uh well, in that regard, I mean, I think that he could look old enough

and he just finished combat. But Louis tan Oh good casting. He definitely is hot, but you don't trust like the untrusted, you know, like he could play a villain, orda hero or in between antihero. So we're thinking of you. My question is from Star Killer seventeen o one. They say, what's your favorite episode of the Twilight Zone? So mine has actually changed a lot, which I love. I feel like each year I try to have like a new one that I'm in love with, even though I've seen

them all. I think they've changed depending on the situations that I'm going through in my life. Slash the World UM for for the longest time, my favorite episode was The Midnight Sun, which feels relevant. It's where this painter it's the end of the world. It's the last day on Earth actually, and and the Earth is moving closer to the sun UM and so all of her paintings are melting. It's like, what is it like to live the last day on Earth? UM has a twist ending,

of course, as they all do. Then my favorite changed to The Howling Man as I got into my peak horror because it has so many horror elements. It's like black well, they're all black and white, but it's black and white at night it's raining. You run into this cult. You have this howling Man that they actually did. They mixed the sounds of They did a man that was howling and it didn't sound right, and they took like a wolf that was howleing and it didn't sound right.

So they combined the two of them to get the sound that you hear with the Howling Man. And I just love all of the tropes, the horror tropes that are in it, But currently I would say my favorite is the after Hours. I love the After Hours. I could watch it again and again. Um, it's I don't even want to give it away. Just go and watch it. I don't even want to tell you if you should watch it tonight. Um, I don't want to give anything about it away. Fantastic. I love it. It's creepy as hell.

Watch the after Hours of the original Twilight Zone. Oh yeah, um, I will say, uh, just on that, just before we move on. Uh. I wanted to ask you, since you're such a horror stand have you been dipping in and seeing how these TikTok kids are really getting into making these horror TikTok's. I feel like I've only seen a couple of them because I feel like I'm in the comedy.

I don't have a TikTok neither. I've seen like the sci fi one, especially that guy that did the one about questers that like everybody that's gone vible, I think even uh Leonard I forgot his last name, but the creator of the Blacklist, he like was like, how can I get in touch with this kid? Yea, Um, but anyways, no, I haven't. Yeah, there's there's a few one that's been popping up on my feet unfortunately, and they've they've been

pretty good. He's like, I've been really I like what these kids because there is something to like the using a short time frame to make a horror and established like a you know everything you need. There was one where like this kid he's like he like gets woken up in the middle of the night. He's like, hey, bro, you're gonna hop in the party and he's like, what are you talking about. He's like, bro, yeah, you're hopping on parties. Like, dude, I'm sleep. He's like, it says

your online and I'm watching this. The only reason I'm watching this is thinking it was going to be a comedy thing of like like and his girlfriend's playing or something. But he's like he's like he's like, no, dude, I'm not. And he like looks in his living room and there's like you just see the profile of someone playing the game and he's like staring and then like he just the face turns around and it's like a creepy face, Like, um,

this this one I did. I will say, I'm talking like the face gonna use the little work I did. Put my phone super far away from I send you if I send you the lights Out short while you watch it, I've seen I've seen the lights Out short. That's the first one. That's why I don't trust stuff on. The lights Out is terrifying. With other shorts, which which yeah, depending on I heard it too. It's one of my favorite shorts on you. I haven't seen that one. Did you see it? No? No, no, I haven't seen that.

I heard it too. And then there's another one I will find um that's about a used are more that's uh haunted that like I keep trying to throw it away and people keep picking it up and then like chucking it once people realize its haunted, saying yeah, because I already showed you. Yeah, because because I already showed you the playmation one because that was when Luce was on and we all watched those. But yeah, I'm I'm in. I'll here's the thing. I hate it, but I love

it always like love it. And if it's short, it's short enough for me to experience and get out of there, get out and just be be gone. There's a little girl in the I heard it too. Yeah, I remember, Oh my gosh. Sometimes I'll be playing games and she um and she's like, I'll be so focused that I forget that I'm at home with her because she'll be in her room playing or whatever. And then she'll come and like grab me because she will want my attention and it will freak the freaking frick out of me.

And like this is so far like it's been like like I haven't scared the life out of her from me jumping. I almost think she gets a pleasure out of it because she has yet to be like to be like oops, I'm going to do this or uh, because I'll also do a real good job of like like hugging her and stuff and be like, oh no, it wasn't you out scared? Oh wait, I have one more. Sorry. There's also one called The Smiling Man that I love.

Two am Smiling Man. It's about a guy that's walking home and he sees a man that keeps smiling that's following him. What it's like to be a woman moving on? This one was interesting. I really liked it. This one's from Jess Cunningham, who asked, is there a hobby or anything you always thought would be cool to try or get really into but haven't yet? Um, and if if this was asked a few months ago, I would have said Gundams because I was really into it. I was

just talking about this on another podcast. How like, there are so many things I was really into when I was younger than my parents didn't want to pay for, and now or not that I was into that I wanted to get into but my parents didn't want to pay for. But now I do have the money. But if i'm if, i'm I'm answering you now, so I don't cop out of that question. It's going to be three D printing. I really want to get into three D printing. That's so dope. Um, I really want to

do that too. When when Disney didn't have any of the baby Yoda, you know, toys because they wanted to keep them a secret for a good reason. Um, I think everyone was like, oh, they dropped the ball, and like, no, they kept the ball. Like I know they've lost like a billion in in merch, but like I think Jon Favreau asking them, please don't make models of this because it'll get leaked and it will spoil the show, the

fun of the show. Um, so that's why you couldn't get toys for the first year of the show being out. But um, a lot of people turned to three D printing, to print yoda, um little figurines that that you could get on Etsy and whatnot. I don't know this one. I'm gonna have to think on I have to think of out this. I'm glad you answered. I don't know. My initial reaction was like hair, I wanted to try so I cannot French braid for like the life of me, I always have to have whenever you see me, like

at Panels. It's by the way, this is my comic Con even though we're not having comic Con this year. This is my comic Con secret because people will be like, how do you look so good even though everyone's sweaty and blah blah blah. I literally will um get my hair like French braided or something to from to keep it from being uh sweaty and gross. Um. My next question is from Alicia Perez. She says, what are your opinions on our rated Superhero content Harley Quinn, cartoon logan,

et cetera. What in quotes kids content would you want to see our rated version of Superhero? Otherwise I think Avatar the last Airbender would be interesting if it was a dark adult war series. Now I don't necessarily disagree with that, but to me, Avatar the Last Airbender is already has so many adult theme that I think it functions as both. Um. I don't know if it needs to have the things that we count as adult as far as like cursing, sex, like and you know, I'm

all for those things. I just think that it can. I think that it's already at a level where it attracts adult viewers just because of how mature it is now hardly I definitely couldn't show to my four year old niece, But I love it, Like that's how that character would exist in this world, in this real world UM where she's joking about having HPV or she you know, UM has guys and women that she hooks up with,

and so I like that a lot. I don't know if I need all of my like with Deadpool and and Logan, like I actually like us moving into the R rated space, but I don't know if I need everything, Like I don't know if I need to see Wonder Woman R rated. Um. So, so I think it works best with the comedic characters in my opinion because it allows them to actually like joke about a lot of

those adult things. Um, speaking of horror, I could see some of these, um, some of these franchises that might take on like a scarier note being gorrier, and that's why. But at times, I also don't know if that's necessary, Like like Joker was super violent and so that's why, among other reasons, it needed and R rating. But I don't I just don't know if there are a lot of properties that necessarily need that, unless you're like Game of Thrones where you're like needing to show someone's dick,

I mean and in need. I'm gonna go ahead and put in quotes. Here's the thing. I'm glad like they should have shown more to be and I think like Euphoria made up for that. I don't know, the boobs. The naked women to naked men ratio has been off since the beginning of film, So I'm both for showing more, um, male identifying bodies, but I also don't know, like you said, what's necessary. So yeah, yeah, I mean i'd say I say any any look, if you want to go ahead

and do that, go ahead and do that. But I think, yeah, I think it is important too, Yeah, equally show it because also just um, you know, it's it's it's it's an interesting way to think about it because it's a fun thing to that I get to think about both as a consumer and a performer. But I just imagine it would just be weird knowing my co stars are always getting naked, and then I'm just like, I don't

have to worry about that. I'd be like, all right, that just you know, and then you know, nine tones out of ten they're watching me less than me. You know, I think, yeah, I think somewhere necessary, and I think I guess some are like I'm glad that we're moving into that space. And now I guess superhero franchises were seen as kids stuff, maybe like two decades ago, but I feel like, you know, the last fifteen years, it really hasn't been. In my opinion, um, they kind of

gotten snatched away from kids, and now kids debatable. Whether you could bring a child to end game. Definitely couldn't bring my knees, but like, you know, maybe twelve and up. I don't know, there's a lot of things scared kids, Like it's not even necessarily the like some of my friends that have kids that are even like ten or eleven, they still get scared about villains and people being lit on fire and things like that. So yeah, thank you

for that question, Alicia. We are going to take a really quick break and then we'll hop back into more questions right after this. We are back. We're still taking your questions, your NERD related questions. Although if I did say people could ask us relationship advice, but we might make it worse. So I feel that nobody actually yeah, yeah, if you actually asked the to divorce people relationship advice at your own risk a question. But yeah, yeah, I

was looking at this. This one was interesting. I'm gonna do let's let's mix it up because I'm trying to look because there are a lot of like hero things and this one's good. I just want to mix it up. I don't want to always just be like best hero. Not not knocking your best hero stuff, but you know, variety, diversity what we want in Hollywood and podcast topics. Also shout out to whoever screenshot this. I do actually know. I'm not gonna put a superproducer on blast, but these

are a lot tabs open. Uh, what inspires both of you what drives you to keep going towards the things you love. That's a really good question from Lanky Kong on Twitter. I'll let Danny kick this off because I feel like I'm like, what inspires me? What you know? I was thinking about this, Um. I had shared a quote from America Ferrera today that was kind of like it talks about like rocking the boat, which I feel unfortunately a lot of us get. UM. I don't know.

I feel like if he and I speak as well as our friends, speak up a lot about the need for representation, and sometimes you can be seen as difficult for doing that. And I'm kind of in a space where I'm just like, I don't even know if I care anymore. Like I'm making my own shows, I'm doing, I'm writing my own stuff. Like there are people that aren't going to want to work with me because I'm loud about things that I think are injustices, and I'm kind of over it. I'm like, I'm going to make

a name for myself with or without them. So what me going is the sheer amount of stories that are still left to be told. Like I was even thinking of this. I know we talked about this last episode Iffy but with Henified, where people were like, well, this isn't my Mexican experience, and I was just like, then, then tell that story. Like it's it's great that we

are not a monolith. Like my Cuban friends can tell their story and it doesn't have to be my story, and my Colombian friends can tell their story and it doesn't have to be my story. We have so many stories to tell. And I actually had a meeting with this producer yesterday, um and I was telling him, you know the thing about animation, because I'm now diving into animation, and I'm like, the thing that's nice about it is it doesn't necessarily ask people of color to live through

to live their trauma. Again, I feel like a lot of our stories on television and film were asked to constantly show our pain. And I feel like a lot of shows that have POC and animated spaces it's like they're fighting this villain or they're trying to repair their spaceship, and like it's not dealing with a hate crime. And I was like, I kind of like that, like that's

a story that I also want to tell. And granted I wrote in the Good immigrant I wrote in this book, and I talked about my experience and my family's experience in America, and I think that that's a necessary story to tell. But is that the only story I want to tell? No? Sometimes I just want to tell a story about kids fighting dinosaurs or aliens or you know, worried about who they're going to take to prom and not necessarily the awful things that happen in this world.

And that's what I love about sci fi too, because it's like, well, they don't have to exist in this America and in this planet and in this this current state of the world, Like they can exist on a different planet that doesn't deal with this. And so I guess I would say that's what keeps me going is like the sheer amount of stories that have yet to be told and the people that have yet to really feel themselves seen um in this space. Yeah, yeah, No,

I I to go back to that hintified thing. I will say that it's right on point because I was just talking about all of this now with the show Black af uh you know, which has Rashida Jones who uh you know, if you if you were a parking parks and rec stand, like me, you would have known years ago that she is black. She's the daughter of Quincy Jones, one of the most notable black people of all time. Her sister was was Tupac's fiance and last

girlfriend before he left this earth. But seeing her on the show Black a f has caused some people on Twitter to start, um, just kind of going after this person. And then also just Kenya at home because this is

the black experiments in this and that whatever. I did a tweet about it, but I think I like Dwayne's tweet that he did this morning better, which was, imagine a world where Hollywood had a bunch of different quote unquote Black shows, and we didn't have to try and see ourselves in every single black show due to the lack of representation. What if that show could just be

a singular Black experience and point of view. Wow, what a fantasy and um, and then he followed it up with I guess I'm not in the mood to blame black people for a problem that was created, is uberated and sustained by white Hollywood, which, um, which, yeah, that's that's exactly the thing in hintified and honestly, the thing would fresh off the boat and honestly, the thing when there's gonna be uh, you know, a South Asian sitcom,

in Indian sitcom. Any any show that has a group of that focuses on a person of color has this weight to hold. And if it's not the perfect representation of what everyone on Twitter wants to see on TV featuring themselves, they start to get ding for it and and it and it, and it sucks. It really sucks. And really because like, here's one thing. If you don't like the show, just because you don't like the show, look good, sounds good, go ahead, there's no problem with that.

But if you're saying you don't like the show because of this person not being black enough, which is just offensive in itself, because yes, there are like privileges to being you know, white, passing, white presenting and things like that.

And that's a different conversation and that's definitely not a metric I want you to judge a show on, but to like to when you start using the language of black enough and what makes black, that's when you step out a line you can say that you know they've experienced privileges and they might not know this that in the third and have those separate combos. But but there's no such thing as being black enough, because what is

that metric? It's it's a BS metric that's used to divide and should not be ever used to complain about someone. Uh did you see that? Uh? I think I tweeted last week that was essentially executives that always say they want to have the authentic Latino experience, Like they just keep saying authentic, that's their word, and like, what does

that mean to you? To me? That mean when you keep saying it like that, I'm like, Okay, so you want the speedy Gonzalez, the Ricky Ricardo, the like, And I'm like, those are such heightened, the most heightened versions of us. Like you know, Grant, I have a sombrero that's hanging up in my as art in my living room.

But it's like that that's not There is a millennial Latino experience that a lot of us we don't we weren't born in our parents are a grandparents country, and we don't necessarily fit in here, we don't necessarily fit in anywhere. We fit in in our own little community, but that is still authentic, And to me, I'm like, how can this not be authentic when this is literally our story. But it was just, like I was saying with Tentified, I'm like, that is their story and it

feels pretty freaking authentic. But it's not going to be everyone's story. And that's great because then you can go and tell your own story. But to me, it's just that like are you Latino enough? Are you black enough? Is this authentic enough? It's like, well that's not that's so, like you said, problematic and frustrating. And I feel like a lot of white stories don't get that at all. They just get to make whatever story they want, and unfortunately we have When we make stuff, it has to

be for the entirety of our community. And like Dwayne was saying, I'm just kind of over that. Yeah exactly. Yeah, that was that was great. But the question, uh that that I'm trying. I guess I'm going to take my turn asking the question, which was what drives, inspires and

drives me? Uh? And I think it all comes down to, honestly, like every little dope uh interaction, every nice thing that's said to me, all that you know stuff, because I can this lee like there are a lot of fun, cool, little accolades and things you can get working in this industry and stuff, and I can kind of care less

of that about that stuff. My I think my biggest drive and hope is to try and um, I guess just to try and yet just just being like if I think I described myself as this other day where it's like if I never end up on some like comedians to look out for list or best this or that list, but at the end of the day my name comes up and someone's like, Oh, he's solid, he's great, he's he he kills it. Like that's more important to me.

And I think just what inspires me is being surrounded by all my creative friends and seeing us all kind of start to grow and succeed and in my peers just kind of just really um pop out, you know it is it like it inspires me because it's only a matter of time. Like I think a lot of people and I all aways say this and this is actually I don't really say this because it's something I more so say describing someone specific and trying to um, trying trying to like make a point of someone, but

essentially you're never gonna make it in this industry. Um, and I think most industries is if you can't be happy to see your peers and friends succeed. I see so many people get like bitter or get like upset of like, wi isn't it them instead of being like, look, a rising tide raises all ships, and people feel that energy. People feel the energy of you being jealous of them.

And so if you're being jealous of when they get something, I doubt when they have the opportunity to like give like help you out, they're gonna want to do that because they're gonna remember times like that. So I think there's generally two ways you can go about it. You can be genuinely excited and hyped when you see your friends getting it, or you can just be uh bitter about it and then wonder why no one likes being around you because all you do is complained about how

someone got something when you should have. And trust me, if he is not lying that people remember that. Like they're a handful of people that we follow who do that and they just can't get stuff. It's like a it's like a vicious cycle because they're so bitter and they're constantly like why not me, So that nobody wants to recommend them, so it continues to be not them. It's just wild. Um I think maybe we have time

to do Yeah, and it on a light note. Great. Um, so this question, would you rather see a DBZ live action series with kid Goku or teen adult Goku? Dang it? I thought that this question was teen adult Gohan and I was like, are you kidding me? I'm going to change the question for that. Um I would die. I would die if we got like a c W like their little high school slash college series, but instead it

was Gohan. Remember when he was going to Orange Star High School and like on the cusp of dating Fidel but like not quite and he was like, you know, still having to save the world even though Mr Satan was still taking credit for it. But um, I would die to see his daily life. I am such a prodiction slice of life type of girl. Um Ah, we need to pitch this Goku. I don't want to see tin adult Goku. Um. I love the guy, but he's clueless. I want the spice because you know Gohan, he's not

as naive as his dad. I want to see his spicy dating life. Um. But also like trying to make it to his exams and and the little baseball team he was on. Oh I would die, He Danny would die, and me teenage Danny would die. So c W please go ahead and make that. Yes, please, Yeah, I think that's the perfect note to end on Where can people find you now, Danny? I'm still at miss Danny Fernandez on all the things. Um, if you're not following me on Instagram, follow me on there. I am trying to

post my dog and people ask me. I don't know, people ask me stuff about like my feet. I don't post as much in my feet as I do on my Insta stories. So if you want to keep up with my life, I haven't gotten a TikTok yet, but I just finished. I just wrapped writing on this Netflix show, so who knows. Now I feel scared with the amount of time I'm going to have on my hands to do a lot of first traps and possibly TikTok videos. One of the things I was going to say is

I was writing on a show. The show I was writing on is show run by Julie Pleck, and she does she created a bunch of those c W shows. So you using Vampire Die Area US and like all of those, so I feel I should slide that to her. She'd be like, why why would I do this? I'd like, let me just give you the treatment. Yeah, I would be like, look, look you see how hot these people are, Like in in the sheer Amount, I would show her like one of those Facebook DBZ pages that has like

a hundred million or whatever people. I'm gonna slide it to Julie. What about and you know me right now, you can catch me at if d's on Twitch. I've super punches on Hiatus. So that's that's pretty much off for a little bit. But we'll be back May fourth, so tune in then. But until then playing, we've been playing Final Fantasy Remake, getting the Discord, Discord, dot g G Sports, Slash Salt Squad. There's been a just so many different things I just wanna talk about. That's been great.

That's been hopping in the Discord. I mean, in the Anime Club, people have been going crazy over be Star. I think that I'm gonna make that the official thing that we're watching through together. I mean, people have been helping out just in the real blank of phase, you know, which is good for people to vent let off and kind of like, you know, get get get uh the the the sadness off their chests since you know, things

suck right now, people sharing like different things. Good good gaming, as you can imagine, is popping off like crazy people getting into Valerie and all that stuff. So yeah, we're we're up to some fun stuff and you know, fans, fans of the stream, uh, fans of the stream. I'm cooking up some if d S merch too, So you know, if you, if you, if you're like man, I got bucks to spare and you haven't already been to t public dot com slash Nerdificent and bought yourself a Nerdificent shirt.

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