Welcome to We Are
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Technologies User Friendly 2.0 with host,
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Bill Sikkens technology architect.
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And this is User Friendly 2.0 as always
I'm your host Bill Sikkens.
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Joining Bill Gretchen
welcome to this week's show.
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Hello to you and to our American.
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Listen, I hope you all had a wonderful
Thanksgiving holiday.
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And for everybody else,
think of us as we now have to go on diets
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for the next six months.
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So here in the States,
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this is a holiday weekend and it's,
you know, kind of a nice break.
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And one of the things that's
been unofficially adopted is the Friday
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after Thanksgiving is on Thursday
and Friday, being kind of like a day
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to spend with the family.
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And so at least we got one a year now,
which is better than not.
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All right.
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On that note,
what do we have in the news this week?
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Okay.
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Massively overthinking.
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How do we make better the mMORPG genre.
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All right, so before anybody ask
the question that doesn't
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know, that stands for massively
multiplayer online Roleplaying
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game, just ask Sheldon in Big Bang Theory,
he explains it there.
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So what they're talking about here is
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this is a genre of game
that has been really popular.
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World of Warcraft is a very,
very well known one.
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Before that you had ever quest
and some other things like that.
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And Ultima, I believe, had one,
Final Fantasy is another one
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that basically what it is, is
you have an open world and you
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pay a monthly fee usually and go on and,
and do a lot of different things.
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That usually is built up
by your imagination.
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There's some limitations in these games
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just because they are games,
but for the most part, it is very much
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a real opportunity to be creative
and get out there and do different things.
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They kind of hit their peak
maybe ten, 15 years ago.
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And since then, while a lot of them
are still out there, they've been kind of
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getting older
and not really being updated as much.
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And then some of it's
become kind of toxic.
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One of the things that,
Blizzard, Activision figured out
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when they were trying
to deal with politics within the game
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that didn't work too
well and almost destroyed it,
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things like that.
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So what happens now?
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Is this a genre that's over with,
or is it something
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that is going to be rebooted
and made better?
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It seems like the latter is what's going
on, and there's a lot of different ideas
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out there
on how to deal with this properly,
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but the old system of basically issuing
updates and different things
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like that, that just the end of the story
line has become somewhat stale.
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So what they're doing now
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with some of them is actually living it
up, changing it up a little bit.
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And I know that there's been a fear
with the companies of,
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well,
we're going to lose a lot of our players
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if we don't do something
that is exactly the same,
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and I'm not going to give out a spoiler
alert
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here, but do knowing firsthand on
some of what's going on with this.
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The focus groups and different
things have found
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that the changes actually are
breathing new life
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into these games, and it was kind of time
to keep the same characters.
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People are very happy with knowing
what they're doing, where they're playing,
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the environment
they're in, and that kind of a thing,
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but something new
and something different to do.
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So some of the things
that are being looked at is jumping
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the storyline ahead
a couple hundred years in the mythology,
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so that you have different things going on
that uses the original storyline,
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but still, you know,
it has something new going along with it.
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So that's the really brief
explanation of it.
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What is your guys's opinion on it?
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I don't know if you've ever actually
played these, bill, I think I do have
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I've never played them.
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So. So do you guys.
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One of you,
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I think there's a lot
you're impressed with.
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What's your opinion of of
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I think that like at the stage
now, they've stagnated pretty hard.
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For the most part, some of them haven't.
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I think Final Fantasy has done
well to keep itself going.
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But, wow,
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I was stagnating when I was playing it,
and that was back at,
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What was that?
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Lich King era.
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As a well, player myself,
I think, they had some, DLC
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and updates beyond that, but it seemed
like, like the headline was saying
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it was just expanding on a storyline
that already pretty much been played out.
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You know, so but I think there's a lot
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bring new blood into it.
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So do you think the genre is over or
do you think it's just time for a reboot?
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I think it's time for a look at it,
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really discover what's needed.
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And I don't know if subscription service
is really what's going for it right now.
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Yeah, well, everything's a subscription
and you get Nicole nine and death.
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If they're going to do that,
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they need to drastically lower
the price more people involved
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or come up with another,
you know, way to monetize it.
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One company was actually looking
at making the subscription free
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or very reduced,
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but you had all kinds of commercials
in the game and the focus groups
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on that company, needless to say,
didn't think that would go over too well.
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So, you know, it's
something that the big guys
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have to figure out and not be afraid
to experiment a little bit.
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I think
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as long as they are willing to do that
and bring some new life into these things,
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people will enjoy them again
and not get involved in politics.
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I think any you you can have entertainment
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that gets deeply entrenched in politics.
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You're just going to tear everything apart
and it's going to it's going to rot.
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And that's why people go to these games
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or go to movies
or stories to escape reality.
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They want something else.
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So exactly.
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And it really that is very true.
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And the other thing with politics, it's
part of the reason why we don't do it
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here.
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It's not that
we don't have political opinions,
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but you're never going to have a situation
where somebody is not mad at you.
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So unless it's absolutely necessary,
like you're a politician,
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it's best to steer clear of that.
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I mean, there's no reason to jump into it.
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I if it's needed, but it's usually not so
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yeah.
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In other news, Hugo Boss says
trillion dollars
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AI investment
boom has elements of irrationality.
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So Google's boss
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Sander had an interview with the BBC,
which is where this comes from.
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And there's been a growing concern
in the industry that AI is above it.
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And what that means is we think back
to an example of this, the.com
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crash back in 1999,
where there was a lot of speculation
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and a lot of investment,
nobody was verifying anything.
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The pixel on
look that up if you've never heard of it.
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It's an interesting story.
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These type of things were out there
to a point where
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it just kind of blew up
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The basically reset.
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The internet didn't go away or anything,
but going beyond that, there was a lot
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more supposedly focus on
keeping things a little bit more real.
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Arguably with things like the metaverse
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that hasn't been completely true.
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But for the most part,
we haven't seen another 1999 again,
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except that we're worried about it.
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The Wall Street
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with AI, and there's a lot
of speculative investment going on.
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I think it's a little different than 1999.
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But the thing in video is
this when you get into a situation where,
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people are just throwing
free money at things and investing
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and not really doing any due diligence
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on that type of a thing, then yeah,
you can definitely have problems.
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So basically from the BBC story
and Google, he was saying that if I does
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crash it's going to affect every company
that's invested it.
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Now this doesn't mean I would go away
or anything like that,
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but it does mean that a lot of the money
that's out there would evaporate.
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And I think to some extent, we're probably
going to see at least a correction
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that is going to have
this kind of a response
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just because of where everything is at.
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And you've got some other interesting
things that are out there too.
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And one of them is how much electricity
I use.
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It's it's
not something we had with the.com bubble.
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And there are finite resources
and there's going to have to figure out
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different ways.
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You know, the usual would be nice
to be able to power these data centers
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without completely taxing and overloading
power grids
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and, you know, creating pollution
and all the rest of that.
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All right.
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Smith and Dixon rebrands
superhuman, formerly known as Grammarly.
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Yeah. And when I saw this, I'm like, what?
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What are you talking about? Right.
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Yeah, I use Grammarly.
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So it's kind of like,
oh, what is this really for?
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Anybody that hasn't used
it is in my opinion, a great AI tool
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that can be installed alongside things
like word, Google Docs, whatever.
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And as you're writing
will make suggestions
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and you have the ability to customize
what suggestions you wanted to make.
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And this can be anything from just,
you know,
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being a really nice spell checker
to suggestions.
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Gretchen, what is your experience?
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If you had to give a description of it?
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Actually,
I, I've had a really good experience.
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I'm really bad, basically at,
the punctuation situation,
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I don't know what it is.
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I, I've always been bad at spelling too,
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so this has really helped me,
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it reevaluate
how I'm constructing my sentences,
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realizing
that I need commas in certain areas,
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and sometimes I take their suggestions
and sometimes I go, you know what?
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The whole sentence needs to be redone.
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Yeah.
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And but it's been helpful
and it's not like having an editor
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who's giving their personal,
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so, emotional baggage with it.
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I don't that that's what you said, that
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you've had this happen, but,
you know, it's very neutral.
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No, and it is.
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And it's not terribly invasive.
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You know, if you want to parse it,
you can't all that kind of stuff.
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It's actually used by
about 40 million people
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and is the most used application
of this kind.
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It's out there.
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And what's happened is you've had
two companies, that are getting together,
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coda, it's been acquired
and they're creating, a rebranded product
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that puts email a number of other tools
they had along with Grammarly together.
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It's a product called superhuman.
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There is even a rumor that the
AI suggested these names.
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So, you know, I don't know if that's true
or not, but, hey,
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we kind of want to thank,
I mean, it is possible.
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The avatar, which is now going to be used
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within superhuman
that does the actual work.
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The AI is being branded hero.
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And to that end,
you're going to have an actual,
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more interactive animated,
hopefully not like the paperclip
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or Microsoft or Bob or something,
but actually something real that,
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is there to be able to give more
of a human aspect to what it is doing.
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And the other thing
that's coming along with this also
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is the ability to specify a lot more like,
what kind of writing are you doing?
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Is it for business?
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Is it science fiction? Is it,
you know, a paper for school?
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Whatever, and it's able to advise
based on that kind of input
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and learn from it
and be able to build on top of that.
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That's a really good point,
because right now
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Grammarly is very business oriented.
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So I have to take the suggestions
carefully because when I'm it's
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trying to change dialog or suggest changes
to dialog, and I've got kids,
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I like kinds of personalities and
I don't need everybody talking corporate.
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Right, right.
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Because that ruins
the story. So, you know.
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Costco and Home
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Here's why.
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There's a lot of the bigger companies
that do this.
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And our past us,
Jeremy used to work for Home Depot,
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and I remember talking about some things
where they turn on a system,
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and it literally would be
a green monochrome monitor.
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Coming up, enter today's date.
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You know, running on
like DOS six or something.
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And these are definitely still out there.
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One of the other operating systems
that's really used,
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on the mainframe side is AS4 hundred.
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This has been around forever.
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I've done a little programing
for that in my career.
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And you look back and these computers
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are old and ancient, and they still work
and they can't be hacked.
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That's really the reason why,
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and it's kind of interesting to look at
because maybe not so much Home Depot,
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but a store like Costco, you can go in
and buy the latest computers, equipment,
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you know, tablets,
any of that kind of stuff.
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And the tablet they have,
as far as computing power goes, is
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way more powerful
than some of these systems.
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Is 400 is pretty decent,
especially for at the time
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for doing large inventories
and that kind of thing.
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But even so, what you get on the shelf
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could easily run circles around
what's being used to sell it to you.
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But at the end of the day, the systems are
either offline or on closed networks.
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Which is why they say it can't be hacked.
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The only way to keep from being hacked,
unplugged from the internet.
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In this case, they're able to successfully
do that in a lot of these situations.
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So you're looking at things like that.
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The other part of it is the ability
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that you're using an ecosystem
that already exists.
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So you're building on top of it.
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So changing out of
some of these things would require,
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you know, moving to different stuff.
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But it's kind of
funny when you're looking at
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do they go out for job openings
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and these kind of things, freelancers
for maintaining some of these systems.
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And I remember looking at one
that just came out about six months ago,
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I think it might have been for Home Depot,
but they needed a contractor to be able
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to come out and replace the Dallas
clocks in their 286, motherboards.
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So, in the day, to keep track of the time
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and date and settings,
you had a physical battery.
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They didn't have enough
Ram like we do now.
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And, you know, batteries go dead.
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And when they do,
your computer won't boot anymore.
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Can't find the hard drive.
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It doesn't know the date at the time,
you know.
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And that was the way of things to be.
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And one of the bigger problems
is, is because batteries corrode.
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That's causing a lot of problems.
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And I don't think that you can go
to the local computer story
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if there even still is one in your area
and buy a new 286 motherboard.
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Right?
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So, it is definitely unique
in that respect,
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but as long as they're maintained
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properly, they do work
and they're very stable and reliable.
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And again, don't have, you know,
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they're not susceptible to people getting
and hacking that type of thing.
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So the question might be asked, well, Home
Depot's had hacked, so it's Costco,
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but these are on the modern systems
that are connected to the internet, things
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like credit card processing
and that end of stuff which uses
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new functionality, which does
require those type of connections.
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So it's just interesting,
you know, we talked last week,
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I think it was about COBOL
and some of the old languages.
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You're looking at the same kind of thing
here.
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You know what happens
when you can't get the equipment
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anymore of that type of thing.
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And they're they're facing that.
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But the reality of the situation is that's
why they still use what they use.
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All right.
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It's that time of year.
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It is holiday time again.
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And Gretchen, I you know, every year
you went with me the last two years, I
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have the pleasure of being able to give
a presentation to a group here in Portland
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where I talk about the newest gadgets
and different things that are out there,
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which means I have an excuse to buy them
and look at it.
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Right.
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So you know, it's a lot of fun.
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And, you know, this type of thing
is geared towards who you're buying for.
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You know, here at User Friendly, we're
going to cover more tech oriented stuff.
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But there's a lot of interesting things
that go out there.
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And it's actually worth going to a store
and looking at and seeing what there is.
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Because looking at these things side
by side, there is a benefit to that.
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So one of the ones that I thought was
really cool is thing
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called for this screen pocket display,
and it's a ten inch rollable OLED screen.
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That's a tube the size of a travel mug.
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And you unroll it
and you have this nice big screen,
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you know, so it's
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you're not having to square the small
screen in your phone or whatever.
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Something like that is really kind of cool
and seems almost sci fi, you know,
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another one, it's a very useful gadget,
and this isn't exactly new,
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but the version of it is is,
the smart mug.
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Now, this came out of ten years ago,
I think initially as a Kickstarter
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or something.
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And you can buy different versions of it,
but the ones that are out this year
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kind of upgrade
the game a little bit on that
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and that, you keep your drink
at the exact temperature
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you choose, you set it
and it has the ability to warm up. Cool.
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And you also can integrate it
with your smart home so that you can ask
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your smart home to turn on your mug
and that kind of a thing.
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And it will even monitor
your hydration habits and tell you
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if you haven't had enough liquid
or if had too much liquid for the day.
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So now does it.
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Does it monitor what's inside of the mug?
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You know, it.
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It can't like, detect it automatically.
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But the app does have the ability
to tell it what it is.
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Yeah.
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So anyway.
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But, you know, it's
this kind of a thing too.
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One of the things that's down my road
that's coming out is the pixel cast.
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And this is a console game system
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that plays the old games
like Atari, Sega, Nintendo.
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But there's a couple of things
going on with this
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asking the question,
oh, there's a lot of these out there.
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Yeah, but this one's legal.
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So what it plays is actual,
real genuine stuff.
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It doesn't lag, it doesn't have problems.
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Everything works properly
and you're dealing with a situation
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where you don't have to worry
about weird software.
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I still don't think Mario Goes to Jail
is an actual licensed title for Nintendo,
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so it is on most of the,
you know, let's just say,
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behind the scenes consoles like this
you would get from Alibaba or something.
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Interesting game.
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But, definitely from there.
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Another one Gretchen,
you might like is something called
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the Nova Home Planetarium.
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And this is actually a planetarium
that you can buy for your house.
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It's 4K.
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You put it in your living room,
and it's a small version
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of the ones that we saw,
that we talked about earlier in the year
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that, allows you to be able
to have a home planetarium.
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Are you talking about the blow up dome?
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Yeah, it's a small version of that.
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It's designed to go in your living room.
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Oh, my goodness.
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So before we jump into the
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some of the other ones that are here,
they're kind of interesting.
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Is there anything specific
you guys are looking at that
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you think is cool
this year? That's a gadget.
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Anything you would want on your analyst.
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Oh okay.
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Maybe not.
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I haven't,
I haven't you know many's a little tight.
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I've been like staying away
from like looking at stuff
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to be honest.
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Oh hey you know
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it makes it kind of hard
I know with that type of a standpoint.
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But, Yeah, I'm thinking, for me,
cybernetic implants.
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So you want to give me something,
something a cybernetic.
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And I don't even talk about it.
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Or if we're going to
go crazy, give me a jetpack.
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I don't know how crazy that is.
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You know,
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we talk to the pilots here, and you and I
are in the process of becoming one.
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So, I think that might be a little more
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than a stocking stuffer, but,
hey, you know, yeah.
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Oh, the fact that stuff like that
exists is amazing still to me.
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You know, it just.
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Yeah, it just is there
some of the other things are wearables.
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There's a thing called the eco
hug heated scarf.
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Yeah.
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These type of things, wearable heated
things aren't exactly new,
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but there's a lot more of them this year.
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I've had the cold for a while
that you charge off your cell phone
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and it actually warms up,
so when it's really cold, that's nice.
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I've got the gloves now.
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There are other things like vests
and stuff, and now they have a scarf.
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So, you know someone in your life
that's really cold or something.
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This might be, kind of a neat thing.
405
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That's like something for my mom.
Yeah, exactly.
406
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That's what I'm thinking.
To wear it all the time.
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And, they're made from carbon fiber.
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One of the questions we got on some of
the other ones is, can they be washed?
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Yeah.
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This is, very much light washable runs
for about eight hours on low.
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It does have a battery.
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And, but it's not,
like, real bulky or anything, you know?
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Now, this next one is one
that I absolutely have to get
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because it's
just something out of Star Trek
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and it's a hollow note, sticky notes,
like post-it notes.
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And there's two ways to get these.
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One set works with your,
you know, augmented glasses,
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like your, in reality, glasses
and that type of thing.
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But the other one that I've seen,
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I haven't been able
to figure out where to buy it.
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Yeah, but it's a cube
that's actually a virtual reality phone.
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It sits on your desk,
it looks like a post-it note,
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and you can write on it everything.
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But then I've got a 3D holographic
thing on it to show it to you,
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and that you're able to interact
with and flip through and all that stuff.
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And of course, since it's electronic,
it recognizes handwriting,
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so you can search and find things
and whatnot.
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You put in a contact, you can hit it
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that adds it to your contact list,
all that kind of stuff.
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Okay, this sounds intriguing.
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So it would probably be,
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something that would save me having
all the pieces of paper everywhere too.
433
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So very environmentally,
you know, good for that.
434
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So if you're wanting to buy me something,
that certainly would be something
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I'd appreciate.
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And then the last one
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that I want to talk about,
because this is a big deal with all of us.
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Very much
we support Stem education in our schools.
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Science,
technology, engineering and mathematics.
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And as a part of that,
there's a product of science
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in a box and lab kit in the 2025 version.
442
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And this is actually something
that's great
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for the kids that they're going to enjoy,
but they're also going to learn from
444
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they're not real expensive.
445
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They start at about 100 bucks,
and you can go a lot crazy
446
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if you want to get different things
with it.
447
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But the basic one includes
sensors, microcontrollers,
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wireless modules, student
friendly experiments.
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And so on.
450
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So back when I was growing up, you know,
back in my day, I just turned 50.
451
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So back in my day, I can say that now.
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I had a thing
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from RadioShack
called an Electronic Project Lab,
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and it was this thing
with all these springs and wires,
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and it had different passive components
like resistors and capacitors and switches
456
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and things,
and even had a little microprocessor,
457
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and you would basically
build your own circuits by putting wires
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between the springs
to make it do different things.
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And that area.
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I thought that was really cool.
461
00:22:29,948 --> 00:22:32,384
Well, today it's full on microcontrollers.
462
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You can literally build in a Stem kit,
the same thing that exists in a device.
463
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You might be like, I don't know.
464
00:22:39,725 --> 00:22:43,628
We're talking kitchen gadgets and stuff
earlier that makes those work.
465
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Raspberry Pi and a or some of these
that if you're familiar with them
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that, are used
in these type of situations.
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And this actually is
something that comes in a kit
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and is something that
that is just available.
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I highly recommend them
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And read the frickin comics on YouTube.
505
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Welcome.
Thank you. Thank you for having me.
506
00:24:38,276 --> 00:24:38,743
Hey guys.
507
00:24:38,743 --> 00:24:41,313
How are you doing? It's been a minute.
508
00:24:41,313 --> 00:24:42,914
It's been a minute.
It's always a pleasure.
509
00:24:42,914 --> 00:24:46,151
I'll tell you what, I enjoy talking,
and so does the audience, because
510
00:24:46,351 --> 00:24:49,454
we always learn something kind of cool
and new and everything like that.
511
00:24:49,454 --> 00:24:52,257
But with the weather getting colder,
I understand we're going to freeze.
512
00:24:53,325 --> 00:24:56,094
Yes, it is going to be very cold today.
513
00:24:56,094 --> 00:24:59,965
So right now we're we're going to be
talking about Batman and Mr.
514
00:24:59,965 --> 00:25:00,799
Freeze today.
515
00:25:00,799 --> 00:25:03,902
So that is going to be
our topic of discussion.
516
00:25:03,902 --> 00:25:07,138
And I thought it would be a perfect,
segue
517
00:25:07,138 --> 00:25:10,742
into this cold weather that we're having,
at least on my neck of the woods.
518
00:25:10,876 --> 00:25:14,012
But, yes, let's let's dive into it.
519
00:25:14,913 --> 00:25:16,581
All right. Mr. freeze,
my favorite villain.
520
00:25:16,581 --> 00:25:18,250
And the best one.
And Batman, in my opinion.
521
00:25:18,250 --> 00:25:19,651
Let's see what you feel.
522
00:25:19,651 --> 00:25:22,621
Take her away.
523
00:25:22,721 --> 00:25:23,421
No problem.
524
00:25:23,421 --> 00:25:27,392
So, I wanted to,
start from the very beginning.
525
00:25:27,392 --> 00:25:28,226
So Mr.
526
00:25:28,226 --> 00:25:34,499
Freeze, started out, life in the comics
industry, as actually as Mr..
527
00:25:34,533 --> 00:25:35,500
Zero.
528
00:25:35,500 --> 00:25:36,067
So Mr..
529
00:25:36,067 --> 00:25:39,571
Zero, was, and,
530
00:25:39,571 --> 00:25:43,208
made his debut in Batman one 21st
February of 1959.
531
00:25:43,708 --> 00:25:46,711
He was created by, Bob Kane,
532
00:25:47,145 --> 00:25:51,483
but, also by writer Dave Wood and artist
Sheldon Molder.
533
00:25:51,483 --> 00:25:56,821
Now, when he began his mad scientist ways,
534
00:25:56,821 --> 00:25:59,791
he was really just a sort of one and done
hero.
535
00:25:59,925 --> 00:26:04,696
One and done villain, rather,
he kind of didn't have a background,
536
00:26:04,696 --> 00:26:09,601
didn't really have that much that,
was, was was about him,
537
00:26:10,068 --> 00:26:13,104
except that,
of course, he had ice themed crimes,
538
00:26:13,438 --> 00:26:18,076
and he was typically freezing people left
and right and had ice themed weaponry.
539
00:26:18,777 --> 00:26:23,081
His look was very, very different from
what, many viewers may identify with.
540
00:26:23,582 --> 00:26:25,116
Mr. Freeze.
541
00:26:25,116 --> 00:26:29,354
He had sort of an orange and red,
suit, and,
542
00:26:29,354 --> 00:26:33,491
he did have the cryo suit that, that,
that he usually usually wears.
543
00:26:34,092 --> 00:26:35,193
But he was known as Mr.
544
00:26:35,193 --> 00:26:38,363
Zero,
and he really, you know, had a one and
545
00:26:38,363 --> 00:26:41,399
done, take he froze.
546
00:26:42,801 --> 00:26:44,202
Batman and Robin,
547
00:26:44,202 --> 00:26:49,975
and was doing ice themed crimes,
and we didn't actually hear much from Mr.
548
00:26:50,141 --> 00:26:51,042
Zero.
549
00:26:51,042 --> 00:26:54,980
Beyond that, after,
after, a period of time, he,
550
00:26:55,347 --> 00:26:58,917
first started to be known as Mr.
551
00:26:58,917 --> 00:26:59,551
Freeze.
552
00:26:59,551 --> 00:27:03,822
Believe it or not, in the:Batman comic, TV show, rather,
553
00:27:04,255 --> 00:27:08,259
so in the 66 series, they dubbed him Mr.
554
00:27:08,259 --> 00:27:12,464
Freeze, and that bled over into the comic.
555
00:27:13,398 --> 00:27:14,532
And so Mr.
556
00:27:14,532 --> 00:27:17,769
Freeze was played by three
different characters in the 66 series,
557
00:27:18,603 --> 00:27:22,674
George Sanders, Otto Otto Perry Minger,
558
00:27:24,209 --> 00:27:26,177
Otto Preminger, excuse me,
559
00:27:26,177 --> 00:27:29,547
George Sanders, Otto
Preminger, and Eli Wallach.
560
00:27:29,981 --> 00:27:31,616
Wow. Let's try that again.
561
00:27:31,616 --> 00:27:34,319
George Sam, Otto
Preminger and Eli Wallach.
562
00:27:34,319 --> 00:27:37,122
Yeah, absolutely.
And oh my goodness. Series.
563
00:27:37,122 --> 00:27:38,323
Yes yes, yes.
564
00:27:38,323 --> 00:27:40,759
So, really, really interesting.
565
00:27:42,527 --> 00:27:42,961
Yeah.
566
00:27:42,961 --> 00:27:45,964
Three different appearances,
three different, actors playing him.
567
00:27:46,064 --> 00:27:50,969
And it was there that he, you know,
got his, his full fleshed out name.
568
00:27:51,336 --> 00:27:54,906
He started to be seen a little bit more
in, in some of those comics
569
00:27:54,906 --> 00:27:55,840
during that period.
570
00:27:55,840 --> 00:28:01,946
Now, the 1970s is the Silver Age
of comics, and it is a wacky wild time,
571
00:28:02,013 --> 00:28:07,886
in comics, lots of oddball adventures,
lots of really out there.
572
00:28:07,886 --> 00:28:10,355
One, one, one off adventures.
573
00:28:10,355 --> 00:28:11,856
There was a period of time or Mr.
574
00:28:11,856 --> 00:28:16,661
Freeze, you know, made a deal with,
575
00:28:16,795 --> 00:28:20,565
with a, a demon,
576
00:28:20,565 --> 00:28:25,136
a half demon from hell to exchange is,
his is,
577
00:28:26,471 --> 00:28:28,373
is is his ability, you know,
578
00:28:28,373 --> 00:28:31,810
which is, to to to freeze things, to get
579
00:28:32,043 --> 00:28:35,947
what's called cryo kinesis,
which is actually be able to manipulate
580
00:28:35,947 --> 00:28:38,183
cold and create cold characters and,
581
00:28:38,183 --> 00:28:41,286
and, and build things out of,
just from his mental powers.
582
00:28:41,286 --> 00:28:45,123
And so, you know, this kind of thing
is really, really wacky and oddball.
583
00:28:45,290 --> 00:28:48,893
What really, reinvented Mr.
584
00:28:48,893 --> 00:28:52,864
Freeze actually was, the 1992, comic.
585
00:28:53,131 --> 00:28:55,600
I keep saying comic
because comics are my life.
586
00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:59,971
The 1992 animated Batman show, that,
587
00:29:00,071 --> 00:29:04,008
team of writers,
Paul Dini and his team, Bruce Timm,
588
00:29:04,609 --> 00:29:07,712
they decided to, change Mr.
589
00:29:07,712 --> 00:29:11,516
Freeze's backstory
from just being a mad scientist,
590
00:29:11,516 --> 00:29:15,987
who was exposed to some chemicals
to actually having a thorough backstory.
591
00:29:16,154 --> 00:29:17,756
Very tragic one.
592
00:29:17,756 --> 00:29:21,025
And and it was so impactful and effective
that,
593
00:29:21,192 --> 00:29:24,529
DC decided to retcon, Mr.
594
00:29:24,529 --> 00:29:28,233
Freeze's entire backstory to and use the,
595
00:29:28,933 --> 00:29:32,704
the backstory from the animated show,
which is kind of really rare.
596
00:29:33,238 --> 00:29:35,807
So from becoming
597
00:29:35,807 --> 00:29:38,943
a mad scientist,
what they did was they changed it to Mr.
598
00:29:38,943 --> 00:29:41,446
Freeze was a cryo scientist.
599
00:29:41,446 --> 00:29:45,717
Exploring different ways
to, to freeze and unfreeze
600
00:29:46,084 --> 00:29:51,122
human beings, to preserve them, in case
there is, you know, some form of disease
601
00:29:51,122 --> 00:29:54,793
that they could not recover from
to keep them alive for a period of time.
602
00:29:55,293 --> 00:29:58,029
There's, there's different
takes on the story, but,
603
00:29:58,029 --> 00:30:00,999
usually, the story involves Mr.
604
00:30:00,999 --> 00:30:05,870
Freeze trying to cure, disease
from love of his life.
605
00:30:05,870 --> 00:30:09,140
Nora. She, she,
606
00:30:10,141 --> 00:30:12,544
on tracks, very incurable disease.
607
00:30:12,544 --> 00:30:14,679
And Mr. Freeze obviously freezes her.
608
00:30:14,679 --> 00:30:18,183
And during the process
of trying to find a cure for her,
609
00:30:18,583 --> 00:30:22,320
the accident occurs, which turns him
into this villainous character.
610
00:30:22,854 --> 00:30:26,558
He is typically trying to,
611
00:30:26,558 --> 00:30:30,328
his crimes usually involve left
to right, to raise money,
612
00:30:30,328 --> 00:30:33,698
to continue his research,
to help, his dying wife.
613
00:30:34,332 --> 00:30:37,535
Even though she is cryogenically frozen,
he wants to be with her again.
614
00:30:38,002 --> 00:30:41,005
Now, there's been lots of variations
on that on that theme,
615
00:30:41,206 --> 00:30:45,944
but that's basically been his backstory,
since 92.
616
00:30:46,277 --> 00:30:47,912
Moving forward.
617
00:30:47,912 --> 00:30:49,447
And it really is a tragic one.
618
00:30:49,447 --> 00:30:51,249
It's one of the it's it's what makes Mr.
619
00:30:51,249 --> 00:30:54,953
Freeze kind of an enduring character,
because it might sound like a gimmick.
620
00:30:54,953 --> 00:30:59,057
And there's there is a lot of cold
and ice themed villains
621
00:30:59,057 --> 00:31:04,095
and heroes in comics, but freeze actually
is quite a tragic character,
622
00:31:04,429 --> 00:31:07,999
and, he's treated
as such basically from 92 onwards.
623
00:31:08,466 --> 00:31:13,605
And, it's really, really sort of,
a unique type of character.
624
00:31:13,605 --> 00:31:16,908
I mean, as far as Batman's
rogues are concerned, I think
625
00:31:17,475 --> 00:31:20,211
maybe Clayface, and a few others,
626
00:31:20,211 --> 00:31:24,315
have this kind of tragic,
mentality to them where they're just not
627
00:31:25,383 --> 00:31:28,119
sort of evil for evil sake, which,
you know.
628
00:31:28,119 --> 00:31:30,054
Yeah, Joker would be something like that.
629
00:31:30,054 --> 00:31:32,023
Or, you know, something where
630
00:31:32,023 --> 00:31:35,627
they're they have a nefarious schemes
all the time, this kind of thing.
631
00:31:35,627 --> 00:31:40,398
He does have his schemes, but of course
they are now done with the permits.
632
00:31:40,598 --> 00:31:42,033
I did.
633
00:31:42,033 --> 00:31:45,103
So, in 2011, of course,
634
00:31:45,103 --> 00:31:49,173
DC revamped their entire line
of, of comics.
635
00:31:49,274 --> 00:31:55,113
They dubbed it
the New 52, and they also, change freeze,
636
00:31:55,213 --> 00:31:58,216
a little bit and change his origin story
a little bit.
637
00:31:59,017 --> 00:32:03,388
In in, in the new 52 version of of, Mr.
638
00:32:03,388 --> 00:32:07,425
Freeze, he, he's a scientist
working at the Wayne Foundation
639
00:32:07,425 --> 00:32:09,661
on cryogenically freezing people.
640
00:32:09,661 --> 00:32:14,432
And is one of his, case
studies is a woman named Nora
641
00:32:14,432 --> 00:32:17,735
who is an his wife at this time,
but she is cryogenically frozen
642
00:32:17,735 --> 00:32:19,470
because she has an incurable disease.
643
00:32:19,470 --> 00:32:22,607
And she's been frozen for
for almost 80 years now.
644
00:32:22,607 --> 00:32:27,278
At this point, he becomes
sort of obsessed with trying to cure her.
645
00:32:27,545 --> 00:32:30,848
And Bruce Wayne, who is head of the Wayne
Foundation, of course, is
646
00:32:31,249 --> 00:32:34,953
quite disturbed by his his, behavior.
647
00:32:34,953 --> 00:32:38,289
And he cancels the project or takes
freeze off of it,
648
00:32:38,856 --> 00:32:43,494
and, in a fit of rage, freeze,
you know, destroys his lab.
649
00:32:43,494 --> 00:32:43,895
And that's
650
00:32:43,895 --> 00:32:47,131
when he gets doused with his chemicals
and becomes this full fledged Mr.
651
00:32:47,131 --> 00:32:48,933
Freak. So a slight change.
652
00:32:48,933 --> 00:32:50,702
Not not too drastic.
653
00:32:50,702 --> 00:32:52,870
But, but, you know, effective.
654
00:32:52,870 --> 00:32:55,273
Effective and nonetheless. Right.
655
00:32:55,273 --> 00:32:59,010
Of course, after new 52 DC,
656
00:32:59,177 --> 00:33:02,380
reapplied their existing universe.
657
00:33:02,380 --> 00:33:05,516
It's an it's a whole story in itself
that we can talk more about,
658
00:33:05,917 --> 00:33:11,022
where they, where they then retcon
the retcon and, you know, brought things
659
00:33:11,022 --> 00:33:16,828
back to that normal, freeze actually
appears in what's known as the absolute
660
00:33:17,095 --> 00:33:22,033
universe for, for, for DC,
which is, more recent continuity.
661
00:33:22,700 --> 00:33:26,838
The absolute universe, if you guys aren't
familiar, is kind of a, a really, really
662
00:33:27,972 --> 00:33:28,206
I wouldn't
663
00:33:28,206 --> 00:33:32,043
say dark and brooding, but but it is,
it's it's, it's really engaging.
664
00:33:32,043 --> 00:33:34,012
It's. Yeah, I know it's dark.
665
00:33:34,012 --> 00:33:36,714
Yeah. It's an absolute hit with the fans.
666
00:33:36,714 --> 00:33:39,751
It's, consistently
been one of the number one comics,
667
00:33:39,751 --> 00:33:42,954
every month, absolute Batman,
every few series out.
668
00:33:43,254 --> 00:33:47,458
Absolute Batman, Wonder Woman, Superman,
Green Lantern, Martian Manhunter,
669
00:33:47,458 --> 00:33:48,726
and so on.
670
00:33:48,726 --> 00:33:49,260
The Mr.
671
00:33:49,260 --> 00:33:55,166
Freeze of that universe is, called Victor
Freeze Junior or Victor Frisch junior.
672
00:33:55,166 --> 00:33:59,170
Some people call his last name, some
people pronounce his last name is rice.
673
00:33:59,303 --> 00:34:00,271
Freeze.
674
00:34:00,271 --> 00:34:03,741
He was exposed to a prehistoric
675
00:34:03,741 --> 00:34:07,245
bacterium preserved in ice
which mutated his entire body.
676
00:34:07,378 --> 00:34:08,379
Right.
677
00:34:08,379 --> 00:34:10,081
He doesn't wear a bulky cryo suit.
678
00:34:10,081 --> 00:34:13,351
Instead, he actually becomes this lanky,
monstrous figure with red
679
00:34:13,351 --> 00:34:16,320
eyes,
pale blue skin, and ice in his veins.
680
00:34:16,654 --> 00:34:20,258
And if you've seen freeze in the absolute
universe, you would get chills.
681
00:34:20,658 --> 00:34:25,463
Similar to the Joker and the absolute
universe, it is quite frightening.
682
00:34:25,463 --> 00:34:27,498
It's not for little kids, that's for sure.
683
00:34:27,498 --> 00:34:31,702
But that version of of freezes
is really is really terrifying.
684
00:34:32,804 --> 00:34:34,739
And so that's kind of like the,
the evolution.
685
00:34:34,739 --> 00:34:36,474
I know I, I jumped around,
686
00:34:36,474 --> 00:34:40,111
you know, skipped much of the Silver Age,
the silly season, I would call it.
687
00:34:40,545 --> 00:34:44,582
But, but yeah, Frieza has been,
has been a part of Batman since almost day
688
00:34:44,582 --> 00:34:50,288
one, so he's he's definitely deserving
of that rogue's, gallery status.
689
00:34:50,288 --> 00:34:53,791
He's definitely on that Mount
Rushmore of Batman's rogues for sure.
690
00:34:55,460 --> 00:34:58,529
You know, it's interesting, I think Batman
more so than a lot of others,
691
00:34:58,529 --> 00:35:01,899
we've seen a lot of changes just as it's
developed in the original TV show.
692
00:35:01,899 --> 00:35:02,800
That was kind of campy.
693
00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:05,636
I like that, but, you know,
that's talked about with the bang,
694
00:35:05,636 --> 00:35:08,906
boom crunch and all of that stuff,
and there was always something
695
00:35:08,906 --> 00:35:11,976
on Batman's bell to fix,
whatever the problem was.
696
00:35:12,076 --> 00:35:12,710
Yeah, sure.
697
00:35:12,710 --> 00:35:16,447
It seems like it has gone down the path
of getting darker and darker and darker,
698
00:35:16,447 --> 00:35:18,349
not just with Mr. Freeze,
but the whole thing.
699
00:35:18,349 --> 00:35:21,419
And what you were talking about
there is, is interesting
700
00:35:21,419 --> 00:35:24,555
because you look at just some of the
artwork from that and it's like, oh boy,
701
00:35:25,823 --> 00:35:27,391
yeah, yeah, yeah.
702
00:35:27,391 --> 00:35:31,262
The, the last series that you mentioned,
I haven't seen any of that.
703
00:35:31,262 --> 00:35:33,898
So that that's come as a big surprise.
704
00:35:33,898 --> 00:35:35,099
My idea of Mr.
705
00:35:35,099 --> 00:35:37,768
Freeze was the 92 version.
706
00:35:37,768 --> 00:35:40,938
So exactly. Yeah. The, it's funny.
707
00:35:40,938 --> 00:35:43,941
I mean, ever since and ever since
Danny O'Neil, maybe in the 80s,
708
00:35:44,242 --> 00:35:48,379
of course, the the, the Tim Burton films
as well, in the, in the late 80s,
709
00:35:48,746 --> 00:35:52,383
they kind of revamped Batman,
took it out of that campy phase again.
710
00:35:52,884 --> 00:35:56,254
The 60s into the 70s
was definitely camp for
711
00:35:56,254 --> 00:35:59,257
for Batman and Superman and most of DC.
712
00:35:59,290 --> 00:36:02,360
But then, yeah,
it got dark and brooding, right?
713
00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:05,696
The, the, the animated, show,
714
00:36:05,696 --> 00:36:09,133
which I recommend everyone watch
because it is absolutely wonderful.
715
00:36:09,634 --> 00:36:12,703
Added to that mystique, right.
716
00:36:12,703 --> 00:36:15,573
Brought it to life in many ways.
717
00:36:15,573 --> 00:36:20,611
It was it was so great the moving the stories there, the, you know, the animation
718
00:36:21,879 --> 00:36:23,748
and, you know, the absolute universe
719
00:36:23,748 --> 00:36:27,485
is kind of pushing the envelope there
and sort of reinventing these characters.
720
00:36:27,485 --> 00:36:30,488
And I think people are really,
really gravitating towards those stories
721
00:36:30,821 --> 00:36:31,989
just because it's fun and different.
722
00:36:31,989 --> 00:36:34,625
You know, it's the
we know it's not established continuity.
723
00:36:34,625 --> 00:36:35,092
This isn't
724
00:36:35,092 --> 00:36:39,597
the Batman is just one angle, one
universe, one story that we're telling.
725
00:36:39,597 --> 00:36:42,333
So I think it's,
I think it's a lot of fun.
726
00:36:42,333 --> 00:36:45,436
And, people really seem
to be enjoying it for sure.
727
00:36:47,438 --> 00:36:49,607
You know, and I think that's one thing
about the whole superhero thing,
728
00:36:49,607 --> 00:36:52,443
because it's easy to change your universe
when you need to.
729
00:36:52,443 --> 00:36:53,711
Your stuff doesn't get stale
730
00:36:53,711 --> 00:36:56,714
and you don't have that ability
in a lot of other franchises.
731
00:36:57,215 --> 00:36:59,784
But, you know, you look around
and see all the stuff that's going on,
732
00:36:59,784 --> 00:37:00,318
and we've talked
733
00:37:00,318 --> 00:37:02,053
Iron Man and Superman and stuff past
734
00:37:02,053 --> 00:37:04,755
and this you're seeing
kind of the same type of thing.
735
00:37:04,755 --> 00:37:06,857
So it's not just DC.
I mean, Marvel does it too.
736
00:37:06,857 --> 00:37:08,693
And and you know, it's
737
00:37:08,693 --> 00:37:11,429
nothing that unusual,
but it does seem like it gets a reboot.
738
00:37:11,429 --> 00:37:13,364
What would you say about
once every 20 years or so?
739
00:37:14,532 --> 00:37:16,167
I would say even less these days.
740
00:37:16,167 --> 00:37:18,302
Probably once every ten years.
741
00:37:18,302 --> 00:37:22,673
There there is, there is either
a full continuity reboot or, an event
742
00:37:22,673 --> 00:37:25,676
that takes, you know, for an entire year,
that takes over for a year.
743
00:37:26,410 --> 00:37:28,813
And then it is reset, that kind of thing.
744
00:37:28,813 --> 00:37:31,916
I think, you know,
I think I think publishers are looking
745
00:37:32,149 --> 00:37:35,286
to have stories that are gripping,
that are interesting.
746
00:37:35,753 --> 00:37:38,823
But they also know
they've built these archetypes that
747
00:37:39,123 --> 00:37:41,392
people don't really want you to mess
with. Right?
748
00:37:41,392 --> 00:37:43,995
So nothing is ever permanent in comics.
749
00:37:43,995 --> 00:37:47,798
People do not, you know, nobody ever
really dies in comics, that kind of thing.
750
00:37:48,199 --> 00:37:52,503
But it's, you know, very rarely
do you see, like, you know, Oh, well,
751
00:37:52,737 --> 00:37:53,004
you know,
752
00:37:53,004 --> 00:37:57,675
Batman is now evil and, and that's,
you know, he's going to be evil forever.
753
00:37:57,675 --> 00:37:59,910
Now, it doesn't really work
that way, right?
754
00:37:59,910 --> 00:38:03,347
It's always it's like this very easy thing
to say in this continuity.
755
00:38:03,347 --> 00:38:04,148
Batman is evil.
756
00:38:04,148 --> 00:38:05,416
And what does this world look like?
757
00:38:05,416 --> 00:38:07,985
And it's fun
to play in those areas, right?
758
00:38:07,985 --> 00:38:10,988
But not if you stamp it
as this is a de facto change.
759
00:38:10,988 --> 00:38:11,222
Right?
760
00:38:11,222 --> 00:38:14,792
I think they I think, you know, DC
learned that from, from the,
761
00:38:14,892 --> 00:38:18,195
Crisis on Infinite Earths
back in the, in the 80s where they,
762
00:38:18,696 --> 00:38:20,131
you know,
they grouped everything together.
763
00:38:20,131 --> 00:38:24,001
They wanted to get rid of, some of these,
these titles that, you know,
764
00:38:24,001 --> 00:38:25,436
they had so many different titles running
765
00:38:25,436 --> 00:38:28,439
concurrently
that they wanted to bring it all together.
766
00:38:28,439 --> 00:38:31,409
And,
you know, they did so in a definitive way,
767
00:38:31,409 --> 00:38:34,779
but they ended up reversing that,
you know, maybe 20 years later.
768
00:38:34,812 --> 00:38:37,148
Right. And just saying, oh, no,
the multiverse is still there.
769
00:38:37,148 --> 00:38:37,982
And all these stories.
770
00:38:37,982 --> 00:38:42,320
So, I think it's fun to plan these little
different universes from time to time
771
00:38:43,954 --> 00:38:46,557
when you know, you need the person
you're rooting for to win,
772
00:38:46,557 --> 00:38:49,193
at least ultimately,
at the end of the day, I would be all for,
773
00:38:49,193 --> 00:38:52,496
you know, a movie or a series
where the enemy wins or the bad guy
774
00:38:52,496 --> 00:38:56,100
wins a little while and then it comes
back around may make a great cliffhanger,
775
00:38:56,634 --> 00:38:58,102
but at the end of the day, you want that.
776
00:38:58,102 --> 00:38:59,570
And I think we experienced that.
777
00:38:59,570 --> 00:39:02,573
You know,
some of the feedback on Avengers Civil War
778
00:39:03,274 --> 00:39:05,409
people didn't like that
because of what they were doing.
779
00:39:05,409 --> 00:39:07,011
And The Flash is another one.
780
00:39:07,011 --> 00:39:10,014
We're in the multiverse
or whatever they get on that,
781
00:39:10,448 --> 00:39:12,983
which looks an awful lot like Portland,
Oregon here.
782
00:39:12,983 --> 00:39:17,621
They have the same type of thing where
he ran into the evil version of himself.
783
00:39:17,621 --> 00:39:20,024
And, I don't know,
it just seems like the fans
784
00:39:20,024 --> 00:39:23,627
you got to have some continuity,
you know, I think so.
785
00:39:23,627 --> 00:39:25,596
I think so as well. And I think that the,
786
00:39:26,764 --> 00:39:27,531
you know, when we're talking
787
00:39:27,531 --> 00:39:29,500
about The Flash,
I think there was a lot more
788
00:39:29,500 --> 00:39:31,802
that was a problem with that film
than just the plot.
789
00:39:31,802 --> 00:39:33,571
But I but I can understand that,
790
00:39:33,571 --> 00:39:37,742
these characters, 90% of the audience
would agree with you on that.
791
00:39:37,742 --> 00:39:40,077
I was trying to be kind.
792
00:39:40,077 --> 00:39:41,445
That's understandable.
793
00:39:41,445 --> 00:39:44,348
Understandable. But,
you know, it's it's interesting. Yes.
794
00:39:44,348 --> 00:39:46,183
It is fun to play in those worlds.
795
00:39:46,183 --> 00:39:48,319
But like I said, don't mess
with the archetypes right?
796
00:39:48,319 --> 00:39:51,222
Don't mess with, like,
the basics of what this is.
797
00:39:51,222 --> 00:39:55,559
Of what what the you know, especially
the trilogy, the Trinity rather of Batman,
798
00:39:55,559 --> 00:39:59,730
Superman, Wonder Woman like don't mess
with who they are as a core of a person.
799
00:40:00,164 --> 00:40:03,033
But yeah, play around with that
or have them go through,
800
00:40:03,033 --> 00:40:06,470
you know, crisis or moments
in their lives, where things change.
801
00:40:07,037 --> 00:40:10,341
Civil War was interesting because
it's like, oh, Mom and Dad are fighting.
802
00:40:10,341 --> 00:40:11,776
I don't really like that too much.
803
00:40:11,776 --> 00:40:12,076
Right?
804
00:40:12,076 --> 00:40:16,280
But, I mean, it all depends on on
the type of audience that is watching it,
805
00:40:16,680 --> 00:40:17,948
what kind of fan you are, if you
806
00:40:17,948 --> 00:40:20,985
if you like, set that aside for a bit
and just have some fun.
807
00:40:21,018 --> 00:40:22,620
You'll see your characters
fighting each other.
808
00:40:22,620 --> 00:40:26,424
But but it all,
it all ended up doing pretty well.
809
00:40:26,424 --> 00:40:32,263
Spoilers for anyone who didn't, you know,
watch What's the Marvel saga so far?
810
00:40:33,898 --> 00:40:35,599
I think
at this point we can talk about it.
811
00:40:35,599 --> 00:40:37,601
If anybody hasn't seen it, though,
it's worth checking out.
812
00:40:37,601 --> 00:40:42,173
I mean, the movies were good, and,
you know, for memoir,
813
00:40:42,173 --> 00:40:44,375
I don't know,
it's like Marvel does the, in my opinion,
814
00:40:44,375 --> 00:40:47,378
does the movies better in DC,
does the TV series better?
815
00:40:47,445 --> 00:40:51,248
I don't know what it is about that,
but you I it just seems to be the case.
816
00:40:51,415 --> 00:40:53,517
You know, it's like, the same thing.
817
00:40:53,517 --> 00:40:54,251
Don't do.
818
00:40:54,251 --> 00:40:54,685
What is it?
819
00:40:54,685 --> 00:40:57,354
Get an even number of version of windows.
820
00:40:57,354 --> 00:40:59,390
Yeah. Yeah, exactly.
821
00:40:59,390 --> 00:41:03,060
Or like every, every other Star Trek
film is Or is better.
822
00:41:03,060 --> 00:41:06,063
The even numbers are better
than the odd numbers or whatever.
823
00:41:06,564 --> 00:41:09,433
But, but yeah,
I think DC is that definitely landed,
824
00:41:09,433 --> 00:41:12,436
really,
really strong with their animation unit.
825
00:41:12,670 --> 00:41:17,041
I, you know, on
a, on a, on a Saturday afternoon,
826
00:41:17,041 --> 00:41:18,676
there's a channel that we have here
827
00:41:18,676 --> 00:41:22,913
where they're typically playing
a DC animated film, and that's always it's
828
00:41:22,947 --> 00:41:25,950
worth a watch, you know,
even if I've seen it before.
829
00:41:25,983 --> 00:41:27,618
Because they're fun.
They're they're interesting.
830
00:41:27,618 --> 00:41:29,253
They've told all kinds of stories.
831
00:41:29,253 --> 00:41:32,490
There's flash point, there's doomsday,
and there's all kinds of different stories
832
00:41:32,490 --> 00:41:36,193
that they've done that, that really work
well in animation.
833
00:41:36,193 --> 00:41:39,096
And, the voice cast, the animating,
834
00:41:39,096 --> 00:41:41,832
the art, all that kind of stuff
is really, really good.
835
00:41:41,832 --> 00:41:46,203
So, yeah, I definitely,
definitely recommend checking those out.
836
00:41:46,270 --> 00:41:49,807
And, you know,
Marvel definitely has nailed the
837
00:41:50,875 --> 00:41:53,444
at least for a while
for the, you know, the good first phase.
838
00:41:53,444 --> 00:41:57,014
They were running really strong,
tight storytelling.
839
00:41:57,414 --> 00:41:59,350
Everything led to something.
840
00:41:59,350 --> 00:42:01,886
It's kind of they've kind of lost
their way a little bit.
841
00:42:01,886 --> 00:42:03,854
The quality of the films
I think are still good,
842
00:42:03,854 --> 00:42:07,858
but they're they're not as cohesive
and telling a story, as maybe as they,
843
00:42:07,858 --> 00:42:09,059
they were.
844
00:42:09,059 --> 00:42:12,062
But I think that was almost the plan,
because I think they felt
845
00:42:12,263 --> 00:42:16,267
they felt people were,
feeling the need to do homework
846
00:42:16,267 --> 00:42:20,571
before going to see a movie
or going to see if, a new TV show.
847
00:42:20,971 --> 00:42:23,941
You're saying, well, do
I have to watch all 27 or whatever it is
848
00:42:23,974 --> 00:42:26,977
previous films
before I can get into this one?
849
00:42:27,011 --> 00:42:27,545
I think they wanted
850
00:42:27,545 --> 00:42:30,848
to break that a little bit,
and that kind of did them a disservice.
851
00:42:30,848 --> 00:42:31,715
A little bit.
852
00:42:31,715 --> 00:42:36,186
But I don't know, like,
the jury's still out right now,
853
00:42:36,186 --> 00:42:40,558
whether as as people like that
strict continuity and tight storylines
854
00:42:40,558 --> 00:42:44,495
or if each film can live on its own,
I think there's positive and negative
855
00:42:44,495 --> 00:42:44,995
for each.
856
00:42:45,963 --> 00:42:46,630
Yeah, yeah.
857
00:42:46,630 --> 00:42:49,333
And I know in some
858
00:42:49,333 --> 00:42:52,570
I actually had a marvel film
that I was disappointed in
859
00:42:52,570 --> 00:42:55,573
and that was, Captain Marvel.
860
00:42:55,906 --> 00:42:59,143
I that was the first,
861
00:42:59,143 --> 00:43:02,146
Marvel film that I was ordered.
862
00:43:02,313 --> 00:43:05,549
And most of the time I was really
I still can't,
863
00:43:05,549 --> 00:43:08,552
I can't remember
the plotline of the story,
864
00:43:09,019 --> 00:43:12,990
but all the others I can pretty much,
you know, recall things, events happening.
865
00:43:12,990 --> 00:43:15,492
But I don't know what it was
about that one.
866
00:43:15,492 --> 00:43:16,860
I was really disappointed.
867
00:43:16,860 --> 00:43:19,029
So, you know. Yeah.
868
00:43:19,029 --> 00:43:24,435
Before we left, Thor Love and Thunder,
with a bad taste in our mouth.
869
00:43:24,435 --> 00:43:27,438
And it's too bad I haven't seen that one.
870
00:43:27,438 --> 00:43:28,806
It is, because that one
871
00:43:28,806 --> 00:43:32,509
was two different, I think, you know,
if if they had done that storyline
872
00:43:32,776 --> 00:43:35,613
with new characters,
it would have been fine.
873
00:43:35,613 --> 00:43:38,782
But the way it was presented
using existing, I don't know,
874
00:43:38,782 --> 00:43:42,686
I just walked out of there like Star Wars
nine, like what just happened, you know?
875
00:43:43,220 --> 00:43:45,356
Oh, I haven't seen that one.
876
00:43:45,356 --> 00:43:48,292
So that one is kind of air. Yeah.
877
00:43:48,292 --> 00:43:49,293
Okay. Yeah.
878
00:43:49,293 --> 00:43:52,062
So what did you think about the Fantastic
Four?
879
00:43:52,062 --> 00:43:54,164
Most recent one?
880
00:43:54,164 --> 00:43:55,833
So I, I liked it.
881
00:43:55,833 --> 00:44:00,471
I loved the, I love the, the universe
that whatever universe we're in
882
00:44:00,471 --> 00:44:04,842
and I think it was Earth to two,
eight, eight, I believe, or 822.
883
00:44:04,842 --> 00:44:06,143
I forget what it's called.
884
00:44:06,143 --> 00:44:10,080
But, I actually loved it, I loved it,
I love the style.
885
00:44:10,080 --> 00:44:11,615
I love the storyline.
886
00:44:11,615 --> 00:44:15,586
And it was it was, you know, it
it it did what it needed to do, right?
887
00:44:15,586 --> 00:44:16,954
It told a story.
888
00:44:16,954 --> 00:44:20,024
It it brought in such a big character
like Galactus.
889
00:44:20,024 --> 00:44:21,992
I mean, literally and figuratively.
890
00:44:21,992 --> 00:44:24,028
Extremely large character.
891
00:44:24,028 --> 00:44:27,064
I like that this world was modern,
892
00:44:27,064 --> 00:44:30,267
but also had this, this retro feel to it.
893
00:44:30,267 --> 00:44:30,501
Yeah.
894
00:44:30,501 --> 00:44:35,105
And that the world was not filled
with superheroes like the Fantastic Four.
895
00:44:35,105 --> 00:44:37,408
Were the superheroes, right? Yeah.
896
00:44:37,408 --> 00:44:41,178
They were so confident
in being able to do anything.
897
00:44:41,512 --> 00:44:42,646
They weren't cocky about it,
898
00:44:42,646 --> 00:44:45,649
but they were very confident in like, hey,
we will take care of you.
899
00:44:46,016 --> 00:44:49,787
And then they come across something
that absolutely they could not handle.
900
00:44:49,787 --> 00:44:52,156
Right. At least until the end.
901
00:44:52,156 --> 00:44:53,791
I honestly thought the film was
902
00:44:54,758 --> 00:44:55,926
it had a happy ending.
903
00:44:55,926 --> 00:44:58,929
I thought it was going to have
a more down, ending.
904
00:44:59,830 --> 00:45:02,166
I honestly thought that they would
they would actually.
905
00:45:02,166 --> 00:45:05,536
So, Well, guess for anyone who's seen
this, who's not, hasn't seen it.
906
00:45:05,536 --> 00:45:09,373
Rather, I thought they would
actually fail, in their mission,
907
00:45:09,373 --> 00:45:11,341
and the Earth would get there,
Earth would get destroyed,
908
00:45:11,341 --> 00:45:16,280
and they would be forced to come to Earth,
616 of Marvel,
909
00:45:16,714 --> 00:45:22,186
and then warn everyone about, you know,
Galactus coming or something like that.
910
00:45:22,186 --> 00:45:25,289
But it had a more upbeat
ending than than what I thought.
911
00:45:25,489 --> 00:45:27,424
But I did like it very much.
912
00:45:27,424 --> 00:45:29,960
So how did you how did you find it?
913
00:45:29,960 --> 00:45:31,295
I actually enjoyed it.
914
00:45:31,295 --> 00:45:34,998
And,
I not really, a fantastic horror fan
915
00:45:34,998 --> 00:45:37,601
or have much knowledge about the group.
916
00:45:37,601 --> 00:45:42,005
I just remember that it was always
the big guy was unhappy
917
00:45:42,139 --> 00:45:44,475
and the brother was always doing
something stupid.
918
00:45:44,475 --> 00:45:47,611
And I'm glad they stepped away from that.
919
00:45:48,312 --> 00:45:49,780
Yeah. Absolutely.
920
00:45:49,780 --> 00:45:50,380
Absolutely.
921
00:45:50,380 --> 00:45:53,083
I think it was like I said, yeah,
totally great stories.
922
00:45:53,083 --> 00:45:53,517
I think.
923
00:45:53,517 --> 00:45:55,586
I think everyone played their roles
924
00:45:55,586 --> 00:45:58,789
well, I, I'm interested to see where
it's going to go.
925
00:45:59,323 --> 00:46:04,261
You know, Doctor Doom
is, is a big, big villain, right.
926
00:46:04,261 --> 00:46:08,265
And some of the rumors I'm hearing
are pretty insane of what they're filming.
927
00:46:08,265 --> 00:46:11,401
Right now or doomsday and,
928
00:46:11,401 --> 00:46:14,471
and they're filming
then the next one after that as well.
929
00:46:14,972 --> 00:46:17,441
So it's pretty,
it's pretty epic sounding.
930
00:46:17,441 --> 00:46:19,143
Whatever is going to come about it.
931
00:46:19,143 --> 00:46:22,079
But,
but yeah, I'm really interested for sure.
932
00:46:22,079 --> 00:46:22,379
For sure.
933
00:46:24,081 --> 00:46:24,381
Yeah.
934
00:46:24,381 --> 00:46:27,084
That's great. All right. Well,
send in your questions as always.
935
00:46:27,084 --> 00:46:30,621
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read the freaking comics on YouTube.
936
00:46:31,054 --> 00:46:32,656
Both amazing things.
937
00:46:32,656 --> 00:46:36,093
The deep dive into these subjects
and I'll tell you what.
938
00:46:36,093 --> 00:46:39,930
But Michael, before we started doing this,
you know, comic books, I liked them,
939
00:46:39,930 --> 00:46:41,632
but it wasn't
my since we've started doing this,
940
00:46:41,632 --> 00:46:45,536
I've had a much bigger appreciation
for a lot of the stories
941
00:46:45,536 --> 00:46:48,806
and stuff, and I've kind of gone back
and checked it out and yeah, I don't know.
942
00:46:48,806 --> 00:46:50,040
I appreciate it more than I used to.
943
00:46:50,040 --> 00:46:52,442
So it's nice having backstories.
944
00:46:52,442 --> 00:46:54,178
That's amazing. That's that's great.
945
00:46:54,178 --> 00:46:55,012
That's what I love.
946
00:46:55,012 --> 00:46:57,981
I do believe comics are meant to be read.
947
00:46:58,081 --> 00:46:59,049
Yes.
948
00:46:59,049 --> 00:47:02,519
You can get some really nice
comics framed, but if you buy a comic,
949
00:47:02,519 --> 00:47:05,522
it's to read it and not just frame it
and look at the cover.
950
00:47:06,089 --> 00:47:07,291
Enjoy those stories.
951
00:47:07,291 --> 00:47:10,561
There's so much to tell every day
I'm adding,
952
00:47:10,561 --> 00:47:15,365
I have a little YouTube short
where I'm telling a fun story of facts,
953
00:47:15,566 --> 00:47:19,770
some kind of character, and,
and it's just never ending.
954
00:47:19,770 --> 00:47:21,572
It's a well that keeps, keeps on giving.
955
00:47:21,572 --> 00:47:22,840
So definitely check it out.
956
00:47:24,675 --> 00:47:26,643
All right, well, until next time.
957
00:47:26,643 --> 00:47:28,846
Let us know what you think about Mister
Freeze.
958
00:47:28,846 --> 00:47:30,380
Michael. Thank you.
959
00:47:30,380 --> 00:47:32,082
Thank you very much, guys.
960
00:47:32,082 --> 00:47:35,452
You know, Batman has been,
kind of a love hate relationship
961
00:47:35,452 --> 00:47:38,021
with me over the years. All the new Mister
Freeze I'm going to love.
962
00:47:38,021 --> 00:47:39,523
I already know that,
963
00:47:39,523 --> 00:47:42,025
but it's kind of interesting
to talk about,
964
00:47:42,025 --> 00:47:42,359
you know, like,
965
00:47:42,359 --> 00:47:45,729
what Michael was bringing up about
how these things change the seasons or the
966
00:47:45,729 --> 00:47:49,399
the universes rather change
and all that kind of thing.
967
00:47:49,733 --> 00:47:51,335
And to see how they go forward with it.
968
00:47:51,335 --> 00:47:55,372
And from one of my understanding is,
is the, Mister Freeze movie
969
00:47:55,772 --> 00:47:59,910
that will be coming up is kind of a hybrid
of some of these things.
970
00:47:59,910 --> 00:48:03,280
So the Mister Freeze character in there,
except the best parts
971
00:48:03,614 --> 00:48:06,617
of a lot of the different parts
of the Batman genre.
972
00:48:06,984 --> 00:48:07,684
Until next week.
973
00:48:07,684 --> 00:48:10,454
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