What drives someone to turn their love for Japanese culture, anime, and manga into a successful podcast? Kory from "The World is My Burrito" podcast joins us to share his inspiring story and the role the Jacksonville podcast community played in his journey. We bond over our mutual passion for pop culture, recounting our experiences at various conventions and the shared values of reliability and professionalism in both podcasting and photography.
From amateur snapshot enthusiast to professional event photographer, Kory recounts the early days of his journey and how networking with seasoned photographers opened doors to incredible opportunities. We discuss the importance of building a strong portfolio, the value of professional relationships, and capturing the magic of convention events.
Ever wondered how vibrant community cultures can shape creative careers? We dive into the grassroots efforts that have cultivated Jacksonville’s creative scene, highlighting local heroes and the initiatives they've championed. Our conversation takes a nostalgic turn as we explore the profound influences of franchises like Godzilla and Gundam on our creative paths. Plus, we wrap up with two fun movie-based games that promise to test your film knowledge and keep you entertained!
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What drives someone to turn their love for Japanese culture, anime, and manga into a successful podcast? Kory from "The World is My Burrito" podcast joins us to share his inspiring story and the role the Jacksonville podcast community played in his journey. We bond over our mutual passion for pop culture, recounting our experiences at various conventions and the shared values of reliability and professionalism in both podcasting and photography.
From amateur snapshot enthusiast to professional event photographer, Kory recounts the early days of his journey and how networking with seasoned photographers opened doors to incredible opportunities. We discuss the importance of building a strong portfolio, the value of professional relationships, and capturing the magic of convention events.
Ever wondered how vibrant community cultures can shape creative careers? We dive into the grassroots efforts that have cultivated Jacksonville’s creative scene, highlighting local heroes and the initiatives they've championed. Our conversation takes a nostalgic turn as we explore the profound influences of franchises like Godzilla and Gundam on our creative paths. Plus, we wrap up with two fun movie-based games that promise to test your film knowledge and keep you entertained!
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Welcome to your go-to source for entertainment. Wait for it Gaming, wait for it Anime PLUS ULTRA. Mr Eric Almighty and Phil the Filipino yeah, they've got you covered and all you gotta do is wait for it. This is the Wait For it Podcast.
Speaker 2:Hey everyone, welcome back to the Wait For it Podcast.
Speaker 2:I am your co-host, phil Smith, aka Phil the Filipino, and joining me, as always, is your other co-host, mr Eric Almighty.
Speaker 2:And Eric, we are here with the May edition of the Creator Spotlight and what continues to be, as we say each and every single month, our favorite episode of the month, because we get to hang out with some friends, both old and new, and get to talk to them about you know, what they're passionate about and, at the end of the day, that's kind of what this podcast has always been about. You know, this podcast is a passion of ours so we can talk about, you know, video games that we're passionate about, movies that we're passionate about TV shows and movies and video games that we hate passionately. That's what this has been all about here at the Wait For it podcast, and Eric, this month's guest, is. You know we we're not deviating from the plan, that we are just having really, really great creative individuals and a friend that we've gotten to know over the last year or so and, you know, can't wait to see him again very, very soon at Bold Matsuri.
Speaker 3:And can't wait to have this conversation with him today. Yeah, and I think that's what ultimately led us to bringing this guest on was just the vibe that we got from all of those interactions at the convention. We're always very busy, we're always up to something, but our guest made it a point to always check in with us, see how we were doing, took great care of us at these conventions with what he does and, in addition to that, is also a fellow podcaster. So I mean, duh, we had to bring him on. We're welcoming in Corey, the World is my Burrito podcast.
Speaker 1:And, corey, how are you doing, are you ready to jump into this episode of creator spotlight and talk some pop culture? I am doing very well and I am very excited to get in on this, especially because you don't have a ton of these, so it's like still getting in on the ground floor. I'm still part of the what will be the original sweepings that you know eventually become something that's much more structurally sound. But yeah, no, this is really cool. It's good to be on. It's been a lot of fun because, like I was a Phil, I've known of kind of for a little bit seeing through the Jack's podcast community. Eric, I don't remember if I'd ever actually met you in jacksonville, but did meet you at ocala comic-con last year.
Speaker 3:I think that's where. That's where it all started, right. So yeah, first, if I'm correct, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1:So no, it's. It's been a lot of fun, you know, getting to hang out with you guys and see you at, like each convention, because like, obviously the first time was great and then now every time I see you, it's especially on my end the photography end, uh, which I mean you guys commented as much in reverse but like, having someone you can be confident in is very nice for both professions, because it's like you don't have to be like jesus christ. Like you know, are these guys gonna run like an hour and a half? Yeah, like you don't have to be like jesus christ, like you know, are these guys gonna run?
Speaker 1:like an hour and a half yeah like you know, oh yeah, are y'all just gonna like not have any good questions or not interact with people well, or like not be able to control the flow? Because I've been in some very bad panels and people who are very bad with their time and it's like every minute you waste of my time I I'm missing out on photos of other people.
Speaker 2:You know.
Speaker 1:So it is really nice where it's like. I think you know the very first panel I saw you do, I was like all right cool. You know we talked about it plenty in advance but it was like everything was pretty clockwork and yeah, no, it's great.
Speaker 3:And it's been great to hang out with you each time since then. Yeah, I definitely think that this is going to be more of the same. And, phil, obviously there's a lot that we have looking forward to for a bold mat story. But before we kind of jump into that, I'll kind of start off our first question, corey, because before I think you did photography, you were kind of in that podcasting realm as far as what we may have known about you Like I definitely have. I didn't get to meet you, but I had heard about your podcast prior. I don't know how I came across it, but when I put the two together, oh, the guy that we know as a photographer, he also has a podcast. Hey, I know that podcast. Tell our audience a little bit about your podcast, what it's about and what inspired you to start it and continue it to this day.
Speaker 1:So the world is my burrito. Um, it was the, the final name, and it started as an idea in like 2019. I'm a big fan of it's predominantly Japanese stuff. That's just kind of what I grew up in watching a lot of anime, you know, reading a lot of manga, seeing a lot of Japanese movies, be they live action or animated. As a kid I was actually really interested in Japanese history and the Japanese language. It was my second language, which I had learned for quite a few years. The fluency is long gone, but I at least still know enough of it.
Speaker 1:But yeah, I remember talking a bunch with Botter. I'd been on Shortbox a couple of times and one day we're talking I want to say it was behind Spliffs in 1949, that little alleyway where they always used to have musical events, and he was like you should start a podcast and it hit me and it's like I probably should. Like I spent a shitload of time, you know, reading and researching for no reason, like I'll just get. You know that ADHD hook on something and just not be able to let it go. So kind of the reason why it exists is as a creative outlet. Uh, I dive into stuff anyways, so why not have it a little bit more of a focal point and I can learn a little bit more than maybe what I expected and hopefully inform other people, because there's there's so much to be known. There's always whack history behind something, and sometimes I think the question that doesn't get asked is why something exists, and if I can find that out, that's even better.
Speaker 2:I can relate to that, because Eric will get upset with me because I'll end up on these random YouTube tangents when I'll watch a video of something that I previously did not have any interest in before. Mind you, so very recently, what they got upset with me for and I say they because it's a lot of my friends I watched like a 30-minute YouTube documentary about what's going on with Akon in Africa and I was like totally fascinated by it. And then I watched another video about, about. It was some film that I had no intention on seeing. I watch a lot of those where I'm like, well, I'm curious about this movie but I'm never going to watch it. So let me find a YouTube channel that will explain it essentially scene by scene, and I'm like, wow, I'm glad I didn't see that movie, but I am glad that I know more about.
Speaker 2:Oh, it was Argyle. Even though I've seen Argyle and it was horrible. I watched like a 45 minute like history about Argyle because I wanted to know how did this terrible movie get made and where does it fall in line with the Kingsman franchise, and I watched that movie. So, or that YouTube video. So Eric will get mad at me because, instead of watching, like I don't know, something in my watch list or my queue. I'll be like that's an interesting YouTube video. I think I queue. I'll be like that's an interesting youtube video.
Speaker 3:I think I'd like to go down that rabbit hole. I'm mad at him now.
Speaker 2:I'm literally fuming at this, at that, hearing that I watched a 30 minute youtube video the other day about the walking dead season four. I haven't watched the walking dead in years but I was curious about season four.
Speaker 3:You actively shit on the walking dead I just don't get it I don't understand why you would spend the time. We're not going to go there, phil.
Speaker 2:Next question. Next question you want to talk about a con later?
Speaker 3:I don't want to talk about a con. I was going to let it go. I was going to let it go, but you brought up the fucking terrarium for like the fifth time in the pre.
Speaker 2:Oh well, that's just the thing. I love watching terrarium. I don't want to hear about the terrarium.
Speaker 3:I don't want to hear about a con and Canada on YouTube.
Speaker 2:Make sure you give them a follow. I'm not doing this project creator to see you guys know but I will add to that real quick.
Speaker 1:I have watched three, so specifically the trilogy of 50 shades of gray. I have watched three YouTube videos. It was one person who was, you know, reviewing each one of them, breaking down the films. I think it was Folding Ideas, but one of the film critics I follow, you know, breaks down each movie, each of those episodes. I want to say those are the ones that are about as long as each movie, and I have also listened to how Did this Get Made? Podcasts cover each one of those movies. So I have now invested the Lord of the Rings extended editions worth of time into a film franchise and book franchise that I do not give a shit about.
Speaker 2:See, I'm telling you there's something that's just interesting about learning how these movies were made or like what went into them being made. I'm trying to find the oh, it's her name is Amanda the Jedi on YouTube and she does it. She does fantastic, like film breakdowns, and the one that I watched recently was a film called oh it was the imaginary friend horror movie. Again, I'm never going to watch that, but I wanted to know what happened in the movie so I watched it. It was like a 35 minute video. It was a good time. She's great.
Speaker 3:We should have her on For the record, though. Again, this wouldn't be such a problem if Phil didn't then immediately crap on me when I fall into TikTok algorithms. So, I'll watch series through a set of TikToks.
Speaker 2:That's not the same.
Speaker 3:I don't understand that feels biased. I feel targeted.
Speaker 2:Watching a TikTok about a show that you've never seen before is not the same about watching the creation of said movie or show.
Speaker 3:I watch multiple TikToks. I've seen like an eighth of Ted Lasso.
Speaker 2:Nope, nope.
Speaker 1:I don't want to hear it.
Speaker 2:One eight you got it measured out yeah, three to three seasons of character development. You've watched tiktok videos. I don't want to hear it. I don't want to hear cory actually brought up a good point talking about how, like this is still as far as creator spotlight we're still within the first year of this. We need to get people like original 12 pins or t-shirts or something like that. The first year of Creator Spotlights. We should get something made for them.
Speaker 3:That would be interesting.
Speaker 1:I'll wear that with pride.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it would be like a Pokemon badge, so we need to do that. But, corey, you mentioned how important it is just to be in sync with your con neighbors, like your convention neighbors, and again, just from the very get-go, like your convention neighbors, and like, again, just from the very get go, working with you for the first time. We knew like, oh, this is going to be like smooth sailing, you know, and it's been that way ever since, and we love working with you. What got you into? How did you get into the convention game? As far as photography, it's a very competitive market. You know people are vying for these spots and you know the shots that you take are always so great and you get them out to us so quickly, which is also fantastic. So how did you get into you know this, this circuit when it comes to convention photo taking?
Speaker 1:So it actually all started with GAM. I've done a lot of event stuff. Like events were probably where I started with photography when I was like 18. So, eric, you know me as someone who, like, is a podcaster who does photography. I've had a camera in hand since I was 18. I started doing it professionally and like actually taking people's money in like 2017, 2018, something like that, but I've done tons and tons of events. But I've done tons and tons of events. And then in 2015, 2016, uh, I went to it was gamvengers, took a bunch of photos and uh, at that point, deviant art was still not crap and posted photos on deviant art and I don't remember how not a cesspool yeah it's.
Speaker 1:I opened up deviant art I don't know, like a year or two ago and was like nope, closed it turn around traveler yeah oh man, but yeah, I just like got in contact with ryan somehow I actually don't remember what method I used, but I sent him stuff and he was like hey, if you want to be a part of the next one, you can. So, um, uh, I photographed the next event as part of gam and then every year after that I was part of the like marketing photography team. One of the event photographers as well as one of the people who was helping set everything up, um, so that, like, I had plenty of events to do there, and how I got into this particular scene was, unfortunately, justin drain, who's pretty well known in jacksonville as a an event photographer he had to move up to, he had to move up north, he had to leave the state chicago okay, illinois, just outside of chicago, yeah yeah, I always want to say idaho and it's like I know it's not no, it's not the same yeah
Speaker 1:so illinois, which is a little bit better. But yeah, he, he moved up there and basically like sent people my way because, while we had never officially worked together, he would show up to events that I was shooting, like game-related events, and sometimes I would show up to events that he was shooting. So we always had connection. I always tried to keep in touch with him and I moved to the Tampa area almost three years ago now, but I've still maintained contact with him. So when he left, he basically just shot everyone, my information.
Speaker 1:So it is one of those where it's like take tons of photos and, you know, show people what you have, because you never know when someone might have to, like, leave pretty quickly or, you know, have a career change, cause even in photography, event stuff is fine, but you know, say, if I start getting busier with weddings or something, events are going to have to take a back seat. Some of them anyways. But yeah, it's, that's really all it was was just taking tons of photos and I did. I unfortunately did a ton of work for free, but you know, essentially all the free stuff is what helped me improve my craft. And so then, like when I sent stuff to Ryan, you know, even now I can look back at some of those photos and it's like I still like these photos. You know they capture the essence of what I like to capture now yeah, build up that resume, that portfolio.
Speaker 2:That's always huge and I assume obviously it would be incredibly important for a photographer. It's interesting that, like you know, justin sent, you know, sent your stuff the way of Bold and Collective Con and all those conventions and like, very similar to Eric, like we have this opportunity because a friend of ours, you know, botter, we talk about him all the time he was just on, what Did I Miss a couple months ago through Bold Matsuri our way, because he knew, you know, anime was a little bit more of our wheelhouse and you know, just, it just shows how important networking is. But also, just like I remember the very first Bold Matsuri we did with Maxwell a question, because I saw an interview she did years ago and she was like one of the most important things in this business when it comes to voice acting. But I think it applies to all networking is just don't be a dick, just be a nice person and make for these friendships.
Speaker 2:And you know every convention, eric. We come away with five new friends that we want to have on the podcast and it's, and it's the best. Do you have an event that is like your holy grail, like that you want to? Is it like a let's stick with conventions? Is it like a San Diego Comic-Con, new York City Comic-Con, something that maybe we don't even think of, c2e2, something like that? Do you have one you want to shoot? That's on your bucket list?
Speaker 1:So for now, because G-Fest is over, I think my ideal convention would actually be New York City Comic-Con. So like New York City Comic Con. So like New York City Comic Con is the one that announces, usually, anime, maybe like the tokusatsu stuff, if there's something worth announcing. Well, last year they had three Ultraman suit actors Well, suited actors. They didn't actually ever show their faces, they didn't have the character that they represent there, it was just literally three ultramen, and I did not know this until days before, uh, nycc started. And then I saw a photo of one of the ultramen at night in, like the middle of the neon area of new york city. Oh yeah, and I was. I was like, oh my god, like I would love to do this so bad, because there's just nothing cooler than seeing that, you know, like the actual suited Ultraman just walking around, you know, amidst all these neon lights. It's like you, that's a set that you just can't make anywhere yeah, new Yorkork city comic-con is definitely like on our list too.
Speaker 2:I think the problem is it's different from like san diego or la comic-con, which we have attended, because we're gonna go with like six, eight people and you're not gonna find a six to eight person airbnb in the city for, uh, for new york city comic-con. So that leads you to, okay, I gotta get a hotel and then we gotta fly into the right airport and all that kind of stuff, and it's just like so much of a hassle that it hasn't happened. It will one day, uh, that you know we'll make it happen. Same thing with chicago, like you can stay a little bit outside of the city, um, but like with new york, where do we stay? You know what? What are we gonna do? How are we gonna get there? So, eric, that's definitely been the hold up with new york city comic-con for New York City Comic.
Speaker 3:Con for sure. Yeah, and I think I saw an email where, like the rollover information, I had to do something where I like lost it Every year.
Speaker 2:I get it every year, yeah. And I was like not this year, nycc, I don't know.
Speaker 3:We're just getting steps further away, but to kind of bring it back home. You know, corey, I think one of the cool things is getting to learn more about your story. You know, you kind of get to paint a picture when you meet somebody, and especially in this local community. I think it's really been great. The people that we've also interacted with you mentioned Ryan, justin. We're all friends of Botter. I'm just very curious from your point of view, how is that kind of like community based-ness in Jacksonville? What has been your perspective on it? How has it helped you? Because for us we obviously owe a great deal to Botter, the Jaxx Podcasters United, but, like you mentioned, with GAM and the conventions locally that we've been a part of, there's just so many great things. So I'm kind of curious what impacts you the most from like a local community standpoint? What impacts you the most or what means the most to you from that aspect?
Speaker 1:So I'll give you a comparison because it's like I can generalize it. But it really does represent all the people I know, from Botter to Ryan, to the boys over at the Straight Chilling podcast, to like Bold City, longsword so many places that I know in Jax. We moved to Tampa about three years ago and, like everywhere you go, there's all of their downtown, there's art everywhere. There's entire parking garages that are painted and about I think once a year a lot of these places update their art. So you have rotating murals. It's everywhere. It's definitely not graffiti, it really is wall art. And there's so many different music venues that you can go to. There'll be like live music outside. Everything here is easy, it's just there. Like art is part and parcel with the Tampa area and in Jacksonville I was involved with all the same things with the podcasting community with DJ Mass Appeal.
Speaker 1:The same things with the podcasting community with dj mass appeal uh, like doing the music stuff, because he was trying to kind of bring about more music producers in jacksonville. You have ryan who's trying to make a bigger nerd scene in jacksonville and the jacksonville community. The only reason anything is where it is is because of blood, sweat, tears, because it is not the city agreeing with anyone, it's not the city trying to make anything happen, it's because someone would not stop. And you know the JPU like. I just remember when Botter was only just the short box and I remember like, like the vague murmurings of wanting to get involved with more podcasters in the community. And then one day jpu exists and then one day it's kind of big and now you know me being one of the people on the like outer end of it.
Speaker 1:So many people have left jacksonville and gone somewhere else but they're still very involved with the jpu because it's like, no, someone worked really hard for this. Like this wasn't. You know. It's not like, oh yeah, there's a mcdonald's in jacksonville and a mcdonald's in tampa and they're the exact same thing. No, you have this like home created thing that again, blood, sweat and tears went into and years of their lives went into, versus something that's just manufactured somewhere else.
Speaker 1:And you know, not knocking the art scene around here, it's great to have that available, but it was really cool in Jax, where it's like you had to know a guy. It's like, oh, you want to be part of the music scene? Oh yeah, dj Mass Appeal has these beat battles once a month and you know he performs at rain dogs uh, like beats brunch and bubbly oh you like horror. Hey, have you heard of the straight chilling podcast? Um, every now and then, like they took years and a few hundred episodes to start hosting podcasts in sunray, which was the same as short box, and it's like I don't know. I I'm always so proud to think of like what, where I've seen these people come from and what they've done. Just, and all of them basically started the same behind a yeti in like a shitty room and terrible audio quality that you literally cannot hear.
Speaker 2:Okay, so you did listen to our-. Oh, corey went way back into the archive, that's exactly what I was thinking.
Speaker 3:He did listen to the earlier episodes.
Speaker 2:We're literally sharing a Blue Yeti that we got at a pawn shop.
Speaker 3:That's how this thing started, God we got to go send you the deleted files that we definitely took down. No, we don't. Those are the ones where we cough and sniffle and even when we were sick we were like editing, what's that?
Speaker 2:No, don't need any. If Zencaster didn't put it together itself, we'd be like, well, the episode can't come out because we don't know how to edit, we can't do it, I don't know. I can't download these files individually and just manually do it myself. That is absurd. I'm not going to do that. But yeah, you make a good point and that goes to show you. Whenever they go to PodFest in Denver and they talk about the JPU and people are like, how did you do this? You know what I mean.
Speaker 2:Other things when you were talking about other events here, eric, we actually just met a couple people at the Jax Creators Meetup, right, right, and that's not even just podcasters, that's so many other things and so many other creators that we didn't even know existed in the city. One of the things, cory uh, I don't know if you were around when this was going on. Uh, remember, commentary down at uh, I think it was down at five points. It was a, it was a stand-up comedy and uh spoken word night down at I have not heard of that yeah, that's.
Speaker 2:The thing is like there's so many different things going on.
Speaker 2:I don't know if it still goes on anymore, but like just the fact that something like that existed in jacksonville was really cool. And you know, and also coming from dallas, where I mean, at the time I wasn't podcasting, so I don't know if there's like a community out there, but, like, all I could speak on is the stand-up comedy community, which was, which is very relatively tight-knit but also still kind of like there's a lot of tribalism there and there's a lot of tribalism here when it comes to stand-up in jacksonville as well. But like, when you see what they did, you know between ryan, between blythe and botter, and then the people again that also do the jack's creators meetups, what they are doing is kind of it it's really unheard of and you talk about it, like you said in Tampa, corey, like you're not really seeing anything like it. It's pretty crazy that it's it's working so well here and continues to grow. It really kind of puts things in perspective like how lucky you are to have that kind of community.
Speaker 1:So yeah, absolutely One. Like one other callback to a very recent interview with the limit breakers is you know they were very small and not that they're, you know, big time just yet, but they performed live with mega ran. Like I was able to go to that concert and winter haven, winter park. One of those two and it's that dude's been performing for a while and they were just up and like or I think he was the one who reached out to them was like hey, yeah, that's what they said you know, perform with me and they offered to redo.
Speaker 1:I think, everything. I think there's only one pre recorded track for that entire concert.
Speaker 3:Limit Breakers are awesome and it's a great callback because again, there's so many like amazing people working at these events, working locally, getting to meet each other, and I just think that that's super cool. Corey, the thing I kind of want to focus on with you is you know, you talk so much a little. You talk so much about your podcast and a little bit about what kind of inspired that. I'm really curious what are your kind of pop culture inspirations, both on the American and Japanese side? You mentioned the influences of both that came to you.
Speaker 3:Obviously, an example for me, like Phil knows, although my love for Star Wars has kind of whimpered a little bit, it's still in my veins. It's one of those core components. While I had a long time before I really understood my obsession into anime and got into that, dragon Ball was always a early inspiration. I was obsessed with that as a kid. So I'm very curious what are those major franchises or kind of pop culture things out there that really kind of added to your inspiration for what you do, both in photography and in podcasting, and just the things that you like when you go down that rabbit hole on a YouTube video? What are those pop culture moments or franchises for you?
Speaker 1:So the start of everything is always Godzilla Like. That was my childhood, watching the terrible American edit of Godzilla vs Megalon. It was one of the most readily available VHSes seeing a ton of the terrible like 60s and 70s Godzillas, but it, uh, that's always the core of it because Godzilla is real. If you've ever heard Steven Spielberg talk about Godzilla, he has a lot of like great things to say. That was his inspiration for Jurassic Park. Because Godzilla is real. Uh, you know it's a dude in a suit, so there is something tangible there. The creature may not exist in our reality, but Godzilla is real. Uh, everything they did was real.
Speaker 1:There's so much that goes like on behind the scenes, on the photography, and I like to have that passion of like. How can I be, you know, as creative as the people who were trying to make Godzilla so realistic? You know what kind of crazy stuff did they do? But it's there's so much history behind it. Like on the podcasting end, I got a book in 2011 or 2012. It was the revised edition of david collott's a history and filmography of toho's godzilla franchise and I read that. That was the first time I ever really got behind the scenes stuff and I was like, holy shit, this is amazing.
Speaker 1:You know, learning about the creators that, like, one of them was a prisoner of war, one of them essentially like had a fall out with his family because he didn't want to play traditional Japanese music even though he had learned it. You know they were all kind of anti what the military was doing. Um, you know, they weren't really big fans of Japan going about and warring with people, which isn't something that you hear a whole lot of from that era. Um, so they were rebels and they made this monster movie about mankind's hubris. And it's like, how insane is that?
Speaker 1:You know you always watch Godzilla. It's like, oh, this is a fun movie, you know, sure, like 1950ss Japan, but not realizing that there was so much like heart and passion put behind it. So that kind of really opened me up to really like I need to start looking more into some of this stuff. Another big thing inspiration Gundam. Uh, there's so much. I mean Gundam is just non-stop war and I will say probably the only crime that Eric has really committed was never mentioning the war crimes in the Witch from Mercury episode, because I did listen to that and you're like, yeah, the animation's really good and the story's pretty popping over here.
Speaker 3:I do not appreciate that impression. I only had 10 minutes, oh shit, what's he going to do. There's like a 14 minute that impression.
Speaker 1:I only had 10 minutes.
Speaker 2:Oh shit, he's in his bag right now but we don't know what he's gonna bring up, so I'm like low-key, kind of terrified. This is literally like what you get.
Speaker 3:I just spent the whole weekend getting like jabbed and surprised by kendrick lamar. I don't need you to add to that on this episode. I'm already in a panic, I'm already afraid.
Speaker 1:And I, yeah, I listened to episodes. Man, I've got ammo now, no, but yeah, just to see how much like passion goes into that. And for me, you know, that's that that second hit of like a cartoon can have a much deeper meaning and it's much more than that childhood lesson. You know, you've got the he-man and thundercats and stuff like that in america where it's essentially, you know, do right, don't do wrong. That's, you know, that's captain planet. There's so many things, but there's, you know, not everything is going to be like batman. You know, where batman's a little bit darker, like he, how do you do right in the face of adversity when you know there really is like a gray area there? Yeah, on, uh, I don't know, I, I can't even really think too much of the uh, the american end.
Speaker 1:I loved a lot of like planet of the apes growing up again, kind of in line with godzilla. It's people in suits talking about some pretty important messages for most of those like OG movies. But I always do like the like magic on screen where people bring something to life, where the the unreal can be real, you know and it's, and sometimes there is a genuine message and sometimes there's not and it's just, you know, turn your brain off and watch it. But sometimes those movies had a reason to exist and maybe the reason. Uh, man, one of the most powerful current franchises, dune two movies, a couple of billion dollars in the bank.
Speaker 1:The 90s dune movie was never supposed to be made by uh, david lynch. He got that gig like six to nine months before that was supposed to be made. That movie is god awful, but it is so much fun to watch. But it's even cooler when you learn the history behind it, you know. So that's like podcasting. I I love a lot of that stuff. It's been so much fun over the years to learn where things come from, uh, and sometimes why something, that you're just like, yo, this sucks. And then you learn why it sucks and then someday you go back and you're like, actually, you know what I really like this um hey cell was never supposed to exist, man, and honestly, dragon ball was supposed to stop after they found the dragon balls like 16 episodes deep. So there's so many stories behind that franchise too yeah, I love all of those cory.
Speaker 3:The one I noticed you didn't mention, uh, was the shining. Any thoughts on on that film at all, because you were pretty mad when you learned.
Speaker 2:First off, did he listen to the episode? Because if that happened, I haven't listened to it yet?
Speaker 1:Yeah, because I thought about it, because, again, I downloaded it last week. I downloaded I don't know a dozen or more episodes and when you put up that question, the Shining was one of the ones that I'd already downloaded and I was about to add it to the queue and I was like no, I'll wait, like I don't think I need that beef right now.
Speaker 3:I'm just curious you know, what is it about the Shining that you enjoy so much? Because I think it tells a lot about a person and so far you're not doing good. When did you watch?
Speaker 2:The Shining. When did you first see the Shining?
Speaker 1:I think the first time I saw it was like early 20s, like maybe late teens on the cusp of turning 20. Okay, so it wasn't like a childhood thing, and I've seen it a few times since. There is some goofiness to it. I've also read the Shining. The book is mostly great up until it's not which I think is fairly common for stephen king. Um, you're like, wow, this is a masterpiece. And then you reach a point and it's like what happened?
Speaker 1:there. Yeah, it's like you should stop. You could just not now. Yeah, the shining is great, but uh, the so what was the? The cool thing with the shining was the rig that they used to follow danny like. The visuals in that film are absolutely stunning. Again, a lot of practical effects and I I remember when I saw it when I was younger. I like seeing the book does it better because it's not two hours long, but you can see that clear shift of jack becoming insane and I I think that's actually one of those times where I realize that I like things that are kind of more depressing, because it is very sad that this guy, who's already down on his luck, just goes absolutely insane because a hotel essentially possesses him. Um, you know, he already wasn't in a good place and that left the door wide open for a possession yeah, and I think phil recapping, uh, the episode we normally don't tell people.
Speaker 3:You know you don't have to listen to it, we'll recap it. But I feel like, because we shit on it so much in that episode the rundown is, the imagery is nice, it's good to look at and Jack Nicholson Awesome. It's just the rest of that movie and we did acknowledge that because we were late to the party and we watched it so late into, like you know, when it was released. Yeah, it just did not age well enough for us to enjoy it. But uh, we didn't, we didn't. We both didn't expect to come in hating it and it being our benchmark for movies we dislike.
Speaker 1:So I apologize for that, that unnecessary because I think there, yeah, there was another episode. What was it when you did the, the scale um?
Speaker 3:yep, that's yeah. Yeah, it's like the best, the worst, the middle to the shining. It's like almost.
Speaker 1:Yeah. Almost the worst, and I will say energies, yeah Would you said like RRR, it's like okay, like I'm not going to fault you on. That is a really damn good movie and the shining can be very divisiveive. The creation of it was very divisive. Yeah, the whole thing is just a mess.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah and to talk about where we recently met up cora, you and I, at spookala. I don't know if you've if you've gone and watched uh the dead meat channel now that you've gotten to meet chelsea and james, but they have a very good. Speaking of youtube rabbit holes, they have a very good kill count for the shining, which does give me a more, a better appreciation of the film because of how it was made, the things that you were talking about as far as like the rigs and everything like that. But then you know, obviously they dive into the, the terrible treatment of the. You know the people on set and it's definitely a really good kill count. It's one of their, I think, highest viewed kill counts got 9.5 million views. It was uploaded four years ago, so I don't know if you got a chance to check out their channel since meeting them at uh spookala, but that's a good one to watch for sure.
Speaker 1:I haven't, but because I totally forgotten what the channel was called yeah um that this spookala was a lot, and it's one of those that a lot of guests.
Speaker 1:Man, they had a lot of people there, a lot of guests. I met a lot of people. A lot of people wanted photos. Like I, I don't ever give photos to like guests, really uh, you know I did send a couple of uh, you know, you and your friends and fam. You know that's a totally different thing. But like people ask me, hey, can you send photos of this? And it's like I can't. These aren't my photos and in my mind, the photos that I took of y'all are like you posing, or the one absolutely amazing photo I got of. I apologize. Who is the girl? Liz, my daughter.
Speaker 2:That's my daughter, yeah.
Speaker 1:OK, I thought so.
Speaker 2:The one where she didn't know you were taking your picture.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that absolutely horrid expression on her face. Uh, and stuff like that I don't even send to the showrunner because it's like no, this is, this is my moment and like this is my moment that I'm going to send to phil, it has become a meme within our group chat, so we appreciate you saying that because her face.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you are welcome, but yeah, no, spook hallow was a lot man I took. Uh, this is the most I think I've ever done at a three-day event. I took 4,000 photos, like a little more than, and I delivered around 1,500. So it's like the most I've ever taken and, I think, percentage-wise, the most I've ever culled because of how much was happening.
Speaker 2:Yeah, spookhalla was a blast, Definitely. I've talked about it here in the podcast. Definitely recommend it. Is it worth a three day visit? Probably not. I think you probably do two and see quite a bit. Three days was a lot and the only reason we went three days is because we got into Tampa a little bit early. I got my way night photo and autograph out of the way. But a lot of fun. So that's coming back around again in October. So they do a couple of those a year. So, yeah, spookala was a good time. Eric, I would say it's worth a day trip if, like, the right guests were there for sure. I think this fall they're doing Tucker and Dale versus the Evil Dead is like the primary franchise. That movie is awesome. By the way, we should do that for like an October late to the party because it is a hilarious horror movie. So I talked about that, I think, last week.
Speaker 3:It wouldn't be a bad choice at all. I think I was interested in Spookala and then you mentioned how many days you were going. I was like nah.
Speaker 2:I'm not going to. It's not going to work. That was a Flynn thing. It was Scream, which is her franchise, so we went and hung out with her and she had a blast. So that was yeah. Yeah, it was a good time yeah, and you know, luckily, the.
Speaker 3:The days we're looking forward to coming up are only two days at bold, matsuri in june and cory. I'm very curious, as you're getting prepared for this I'm not sure. Let us know if you've actually been to bold, because it is a fairly new con here. You know we've obviously been here from the start, but whether or not it's your first bold, what are you looking forward to at this one, especially in that potential capacity as a fan? And with the guest list that's lined up? I got a couple of names I can rattle off as a reminder. But what are you kind of looking forward to at this next event here in Jacksonville?
Speaker 1:So this will be my first bold. I don't. I don't actually know when it started and if I've been gone for like over three years.
Speaker 3:Uh, 20, 21, 20. Yeah, it was like right around the pandemic, right phil yeah, because our first one.
Speaker 2:I remember we had to wear masks, so I think it was like 2021, maybe 2021 yeah okay so I we were already gone by, then.
Speaker 1:Fourth one, so then they might have had one in 20. Oh, this will be the fourth one, okay yeah yeah, yeah, so we were already gone.
Speaker 1:So, uh, I, I'm pretty sure I have quite a few friends who've gone to it. I keep up with a lot of the jacksonville conventions based on what like friends have said. Um, so, like I you know, may it rest at peace I've still never been to a hall mat, and now that's done with. But we now have bold matt and jacks this time, I don't know. I'm looking at the cast.
Speaker 1:Uh, I've seen a couple of these people before and, honestly, uh, I, so I I don't get like, generally get into the whole debate of like subs versus dubs. For the most part, I agree that it's a dumb conversation, other than sometimes when a character's personality is completely stripped from them and, like the American one is just wrong. Like, as much as I have nostalgia for and, in my own way, love the American Goku's, not Goku, that's not how Goku's written, it's not how Goku talks. Goku's an idiot and he talks way too smart in English. So, a lot of these people I have never actually heard their voices, but what I do sometimes that could actually be kind of why it's fun is because I have no idea what these people sound like, um, but also because they're dubbing, you do get to hear a different side of the story. Um, I have heard, uh, american voices, like American VAs at Infinity Con before and they, I don't know it's. It's interesting to hear that uh, inside baseball of, like maybe when they learned if a character lived or died, and like bringing that into the recording studio with them.
Speaker 1:But it's always kind of fun because, like, some of them listen to the character in Japanese to kind of get you know, what do they sound like? Are they high pitched? Are they low pitched? Are they angry? You know, are they determined?
Speaker 1:You know, as as much as I love uh Christopher Sabbath, I don't like his all might. I feel like it's a little bit off. It's very Sabbath and it's not very all might. But you know it's not going to change the fact that, like he's voiced some of my favorite heroes of all time or villains, vegeta. But no, it's no, I love hearing everyone's story and while I do generally try not to come really in direct contact with anyone, because normally if I'm seeing someone, like it's behind the curtain and I try not to involve myself with them because they're taking a break They've just spoken with 300 people and you know they probably don't want to speak with one more, but every now and then I'll get you know a quip in or if I see you know if they're reading a book or something like. I always love popping something out with them. But man bull mat only lists kind of what they're most known for, not everything that they've done. So I might have heard some of these people before.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that happens a lot, where you'll go and look at their behind-the-actor studio or behind-the-voice-actor page and be like, oh shit, they did this character. So you'll always find and whenever we do our research and preparing for the conventions, I think they also very much appreciate when you recognize them for those smaller roles that maybe they're not as known for and because that role made some sort of impact on you. So, yeah, the guest list for Bull Med Surrey is great. I am looking forward to meeting a lot of these people and seeing some people again, eric, that were at Ocala last year earlier in the year.
Speaker 3:I should say yeah, no, we have a couple people coming back, like you mentioned, cory, a couple familiar faces, uh, on the jujutsu kaisenen justin. Uh, briner is going to be huge. Uh, hopefully the caveat they need to get sabbath here. I think that would be so, so cool. And it's very funny that you bring up that All Might thing, because I do love him as All Might. But I have learned very quickly as my love for anime has grown, like Christopher Sabat's, in everything as Christopher Sabat, and we just kind of accept it because he's so great at his job. But I know immediately. I'm like there he is, that's him. I know the voice.
Speaker 1:He's inescapable.
Speaker 3:He's inescapable. Know the voice, um, but I did inescapable, he's inescapable, um. You know, from our lens, cory, we have a really great experience, not only with the audience, you know. A lot of people then come listen to our podcast at the next show. They say how much they like our content or how much they're glad to see us again. That keeps us going and gets us really excited and honestly, it kind of incites our fandom and continues to grow that flame Phil brought up.
Speaker 3:You know the little things like bringing up characters, that that they're not known for the voice actors and you get to make a little connection. Brina Palencia was at one of the Ocala shows or one of the Jacksonville shows here and she voices Chopper in one piece. But she also voices a character, the main character in a small anime called Snow White and the Red Hair, and when I told her that my wife loved that show, she actually signed something for my wife just for the simple fact that we brought it up. And I told her she was a big fan, she met her, she said hello, she had to get ready for a flight.
Speaker 2:She had a specific print for her For that show. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:So like that stuff gets me excited for the next show to keep doing it. It incites just a little bit, here and there, my love for anime and pop culture. All that to say, corey, from the lens of the camera. What does that do for you being on that side, getting to take the pictures of people at these conventions and then getting to see the pictures afterwards, like what does that do for you and what type of enjoyment do you get when you do that at these type of conventions? What's that kind of like feeling that you have? Do you have any emotional ties to those you mentioned a little bit about Spookala, but just elsewhere, how has that kind of you know impacted you?
Speaker 1:So what I generally tell people, my favorite style of shooting is a stalker. That's why you normally see the big lens out, not the small lens, because I like to be very far away. But the reason I do that is because I noticed over the years that the further away you can get, the more natural the interaction. Um, and you know, I as an official event photographer it's super dope, uh, depending on the setup. But you guys are familiar with the uh world equestrian center and they have the you know, the covers back there. But I love also sometimes going back there and like sneaking the lens out in between the pole and the drop cloth to be able to get people acting naturally and it's, uh, almost like an empathic. You know, seeing that wonder in someone's eyes, yeah, so I don't gatekeep anime, even if there's something I don't like. You know, seeing that wonder in someone's eyes, yeah, so I don't gatekeep anime, even if there's something I don't like. You know there might be something that's a little bit better along the way, but it doesn't change the fact that there was always that magic.
Speaker 1:As a kid, like I remember when Dragon Ball Z first came out, I remember when, god, I would wake up, I think at like 7am on Saturdays to watch Visions of Escaflowne on the Spanish channel. I do not speak Spanish, but it was just so cool to be like, oh, I have no fucking idea what they're saying, but like, whatever's happening right now is super cool and I love capturing those moments with people. It's like you. You guys know good and well that a lot of these conventions are filled with teenagers, adolescents, and you know there are those occasional like super young kids that are there and fortunately, nowadays it's like we've all seen our terrible anime. All the older people there have already seen a lot of crap. We already had to wade through stuff. So we get where these kids are coming from and I don't know.
Speaker 1:I love capturing moments like that where you be it a little kid or a teenager or something who's getting to meet a VA and that's their introduction. Maybe Demon Slayer is their introduction. Maybe Demon Slayer is their introduction. Chainsaw Man's their introduction, and they get to see this person. Cause, what was it?
Speaker 1:I got to meet Justin Cook, who voiced Yusuke Urameshi from Yu Yu Hakusho, and that's one of those series that it's like that, one you can and should watch in English, but it's such a great series and that was one of those series that it's like that one you can and should watch in English. But it's such a great series and that was one of the first series that it was like oh, anime is like actually pretty good storytelling. It's not Dragon Ball Z when it's just a lot of screaming and powering up. So seeing him, you know, I get that my my own moment of like, oh my god, like this is Justin Cook. You know, this is Yusuke Urameshi. The only thing better would be beating Savit who did Kuwabara. But even before I got to meet him, there's this little kid who's just telling him something like little kids do. Little kid doesn't know who the hell he is. He's just telling him something and Justin Cook's interacting with him and to be present for that and to be able to capture that moment is great for me. It's like, no, this is cool that someone else gets to experience what I missed out on.
Speaker 1:You know, growing up, when anime was weird, when, like, you're kind of the outcast and the only place that you could talk to other anime nerds was at like library clubs, and those people were fucking weird. So you know it's, it's good to see that community. It really does always come down to capturing those moments and, again, just envisioning myself in their place, where it's like, god, look at the wonder in their eyes, look at how happy they are to see this person and a lot of the the vas on the other end of it not just the attendees, but on the vas. When someone hands them something, uh, a piece of art, maybe it's a gift, maybe it's something that's like hyper unique. But to see their appreciation for this stuff, where they're like, oh my god, like I don't even know this thing exists, you're like, wow, you know, they're just people, you know they they had a wonder at some point in time in their life too, and as a va, they probably do. I'm sure they have to. So it's just cool that it's like, no, they're, they're still normal people, just like us. And then when you guys are up there interviewing them, that's always fun, I'm sure I, I'm sure you know, for someone like me I would probably get tired of answering the same question over and over and over again. But still there's that magic where, like you, hear them talking about how it was that they got into this process. I distinctly remember I say distinctly. I can't remember if it was chainsaw man or jjk, where someone had commented that, like, a lot of the vas are very up to date on the manga, partially because they love it, partially because they want to see if they have a job in the next couple, partially because they love it, partially because they want to see if they have a job in the next couple of months and it's like this stuff's so much fun. You know, it's just so neat to see these people being people and to hear again, just like this magic behind it.
Speaker 1:Anime for me, I guess, is Disney for people. You know, 50 years ago, you know, disney just has existed. It's always been in the zeitgeist, growing up as a kid it's unavoidable, and then anime is like that new thing. So anime was the. You know, anime is my Disney. I get to see that wonder, I'll be that dude.
Speaker 1:I knew a dude who was in his eighties or nineties that a retired military, really serious dude, had Disney stuff in his house. Like if you'd ever met this guy you'd be like yo, this, this guy's a hard ass and he was. He was swick, he fought in some wars, he did some bad shit and disney everywhere. He fucking loved mickey dude, love going to disney world and it's like that's gonna be me. I'm gonna have like my Godzilla stuff up and, you know, maybe a signed Chris Sabat signed photo of Vegeta and Kuwabara at some point. You know, I hope to be like that years from now and that's that's what the photos do for me. This also goes for the horror end of things. Y'all are in the anime side, so that's kind of why I'm on that. But horror the same exact thing, anime side, so that's kind of why I'm on that. But horror the same exact thing. There's nothing better than seeing like a freaking five-year-old with like a jason mask on or covered in fake blood going to see a suit actor.
Speaker 2:You know for a movie that they should not be watching at that age, but that's with anime too, that's with a lot of the anime too, like why are you watching this?
Speaker 1:who's letting you watch that so extensive answer. But yeah, that's um. Yeah, it is something I'm passionate about because I love others passion for it and that's what I love to capture, and I love looking at a photo and smiling because it's like god, like this. This was someone's like highlight of maybe the next year of their life, you know, or maybe they'll remember this till they die.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and they'll comment on that too, like they'll. You'll see it on Instagram or Facebook, wherever it is. Like that's me in the whatever cosplay. You know that was out, there's me. You know they get excited when they see that.
Speaker 2:You know, and one of the things I always tell people that are on the outside of this world that we are in, you know, when they're like they've never been before and I'm like well, listen, like these conventions, these events, it is sometimes the only opportunity that a lot of these kids get to be themselves and they also see friends that they haven't seen in the longest time. That's how we are now, eric. We see Corey and we see our vendor friends. You know we see them a couple times a year. I compare it to a high school or college reunion. You get to be with everybody and hang out and go hang out at the convention, but also outside.
Speaker 2:When they get the opportunity to be themselves and not have to worry about being judged, that's always the best One thing. That's great, eric, and I'm sure you've noticed this too, because whenever we do Collective Con or um ocala comic-con, we're always posted up near the front and you always hear people like I've never been to one of these before and, like you, just see that raw excitement in their face as soon as they come in, and that's always really great too. I love seeing that. That's definitely one of the best parts I think.
Speaker 1:Uh, just one other quick kind of anecdotal thing, but one of my favorite things to see is you're like a little kid. There was a family dressed up as demon slayer. I want to say it was at ocala comic-con last year, but one of the ones in the equestrian center they were all dressed up in demon slayer and uh, I remember talking to the parents because I took a photo of the family and the parents had commented that like we have no idea what this is and I'm like that's even more awesome, that like this little kid's dressed up as tanjiro, like one of the main characters, and the parents are like sure, let's do it. You know why not support the kid?
Speaker 3:yeah, they're gonna be really shocked when they turn on episode they when they watch it. It's going to be an interesting situation but, corey, wonderful answers to a lot of questions that we had and I know we were really excited to get our audience to know you and to get to know you a little bit ourselves, which will set us up really nicely to have a little bit of fun here as we get towards the end of the episode.
Speaker 3:Fun for who well, one of us is definitely gonna have fun. Uh, whether or not that's phil is a great question, so what I'm gonna do is kick us off with our first game. I kept these both as movie-based games, so let me go ahead here it's like 10 questions about the shining I.
Speaker 3:I will tell you right now, none of these are the shining okay. Okay, because I I only wanted to talk about that movie once and we did it. So that's where we are. Um, let me go ahead and present our game. This is going to be movie taglines and you guys should see my screen, so we'll go ahead here and play the way we're going to play this game. Each prompt for the movie tagline is going to show and a blurred image clue is going to appear in the background. This is a speed game, so we're going to start it off pretty fast. Whoever answers it first gets the point. So feel free to be off mute. Shout it out when you know it. I will read the tagline, but you can absolutely interrupt me if you know the answer. And again, an image in the background, blurred, will show. There's going to be five rounds here, so five movies, five taglines. The person with the most points at the end wins. It's pretty simple. So the real question is are you guys ready to play?
Speaker 3:let's do it all right, cool, we're gonna jump into movie number one. And the tagline reads the terrifying motion picture from the terrifying number one bestseller is this it no what is that?
Speaker 2:I see why you said it as well. Yeah, uh, the number one, the terrifying motion picture from the terrifying number one bestseller is that old boy. Is there an old boy book? Nope, no, old boy.
Speaker 1:Don't think so. What is that Not the witch?
Speaker 3:What is that? Oh, my god Life of Brian.
Speaker 1:Life of Brian based on the Bible.
Speaker 3:No, that would have been a very.
Speaker 2:You're giving Eric too much credit. Money Python's Life of Brian.
Speaker 3:That would have been very interesting.
Speaker 2:No, I will say that Saw no not.
Speaker 3:Saw. I will say that the creature in the upper right corner I probably should have shown more of, but I didn't want to give it away. Creature.
Speaker 1:Barbarian. Nope, it's too late. Nope, can we have a clue? Okay, different clue, I guess, Like slightly moving it over.
Speaker 3:Nope, it's too late, nope.
Speaker 2:It's already too late. Can we have a clue? Okay, a different clue, I guess a different clue.
Speaker 3:This creature is in the ocean.
Speaker 1:Oh is it? No, that's not a book, Hold on.
Speaker 2:What is that?
Speaker 1:Ah, yes.
Speaker 3:Deep Blue.
Speaker 2:Sea, the number one best-selling book Deep.
Speaker 3:Blue Sea. That is the closest guess you're going to get to without saying it, the man's going to say Jaws or Sphere. It is Jaws. What scene is?
Speaker 2:that? Are you going to show us the scene?
Speaker 3:No, it's just an image of the shark. Oh, okay, okay, no, just an image, it's a shark in the corner. Hey, listen, this is the first time we're playing this one, so feedback has been received. Okay, all right, but listen, that's our first one, so it's obviously going very well. Movie number two the tagline reads you don't get to 500 million friends without making social network enemies nice, it is the social network very good, good, all right Movie number three. The tagline reads it's our planet, it's their war.
Speaker 2:Oh, War of the Worlds.
Speaker 3:No.
Speaker 1:No, Is this that future war movie with? Was that Pratt?
Speaker 3:No, it's not the Tomorrow World, phil. The Tomorrow World has come twice now, so random that that's coming.
Speaker 2:I'm not watching the Tomorrow World.
Speaker 1:Eric, come on, give me a shot, it's so bad.
Speaker 2:It's so bad it's good. I'm not watching the Tomorrow War.
Speaker 1:I don't know about that.
Speaker 2:What is that? Is it one of the Planet of the Apes?
Speaker 1:movies looks no it's no war. That looks like a xenomorph, but I know it ain't. I feel like, oh, wait a minute, hold on a second, it's avp it is.
Speaker 3:It is alien versus predator. Wow, very good what?
Speaker 2:what is that scene in the background? There we go that's just them.
Speaker 3:That's just them like staring, like his he's staring oh, I thought it was like yeah that is a xenomorph.
Speaker 2:Yeah, see, that's why I thought. Planet of the Apes, because I saw the bridge, I thought it was a bridge.
Speaker 3:Honestly not a bad guess, all right. Movie number four. The tagline reads grab life by the balls. Dodgeball Shit. I'm going to give you both that point. That is correct.
Speaker 2:It is Dodgeball a true underdog story.
Speaker 3:All right, so with that one, we'll call that one, we'll just call that an even tie. So that way we'll determine a winner here. All right, your future is in its hands.
Speaker 2:Movie number five what's the Johnny Depp scissor movie? No Terminator 2.
Speaker 1:Is it T2?
Speaker 3:I'm going to give it to you because it is the Terminator.
Speaker 1:The Terminator okay.
Speaker 3:It is Terminator, all right.
Speaker 2:I've never seen the Terminator films.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but I mean, if you look at it, look at his eye, his eye is pretty visible. Oh, I see it now. I see it now, but I wouldn't have guessed it. Look at his eye. His eye's pretty visible. Oh, I see it now.
Speaker 2:I see it now, but I wouldn't have guessed it. They're about to do Terminator on the Kill Count, so maybe I'll watch it soon.
Speaker 3:Phil, just stop it, stop it.
Speaker 1:Okay, very good, that was our first game that was very successful.
Speaker 2:I've got to say that was good. I feel good. Yeah, that was good. Alright, as per usual.
Speaker 3:Phil lost, but that's okay Because we do have another game. In this game, phil, you put together, we are going to do Guess that Movie off the Letterboxd review.
Speaker 1:Oh, my yes, these.
Speaker 3:Letterboxd reviews for context are less than a star on letterboxd.
Speaker 2:Man, I have heard this game.
Speaker 1:Now you know One episode, yeah.
Speaker 2:Now you know how all the shit I have to get through to find these reviews.
Speaker 3:Honestly very difficult.
Speaker 2:Interesting people on letterboxd.
Speaker 3:Very difficult.
Speaker 1:All right, I was going to say if you ever need inspiration, what you should do for a different game is a terrible movie, but read the five-star reviews.
Speaker 2:Because I've done that for books. Sometimes that's such a good idea.
Speaker 1:And it's like what the fuck were you reading?
Speaker 2:Because it wasn't the same book that I read.
Speaker 1:You could do that for movies. I'm sure I do like that. It's the same book that I read you know you could do that for movies.
Speaker 3:I'm sure I do like that For this one. To remind us, if you haven't seen this game before, this is Guess the Movie based on the review. Again, letterboxd scores. I'm going to read the review and both of you will get a chance to answer. This is really for bragging rights. Whoever has the most at the end wins, and it'll probably be Corey if there's a tie. So that's just how the game works.
Speaker 1:It's just how it works.
Speaker 3:I don't make the rules you do. Oh, this is your game yeah.
Speaker 2:You kidnapped my baby. What are you doing?
Speaker 3:All right, first movie, somehow one of the worst movies I've ever seen. The dialogue and the four subplots are all running at the same time. For some reason the french are involved. There is a shot at the opening of the movie of some iguanas and I dare to argue that's the best scene of the movie. For clarification, I'll let uh cory go first, then phil. Uh, this is going to be a specific movie, so so if this movie has multiple iterations, I need to know which movie you're talking about.
Speaker 1:It's Godzilla. 98. Yep.
Speaker 3:It is Godzilla 1998.
Speaker 2:Why the gum? It makes us look more American.
Speaker 3:I heard the light bulb go off at the French. I thought the iguanas was going to give it away. Okay, all right, our next movie. Why was this movie edited like a PowerPoint presentation?
Speaker 1:That's a great question.
Speaker 3:Glad the pugs are normal in the future. They call me Dr Worm. Good morning, how are you? I'm Dr Worm. I'm interested in things. I'm not a real doctor, but I am a real worm. I am an actual worm that sucked.
Speaker 2:This is an actual review of a movie. What movie?
Speaker 1:The Pugs In the future? What? It's not Men in Black, but that was my first thing, but someone. I'm just going to say I think someone tapped speech to text accidentally With the whole they call me Dr Worm it has to.
Speaker 3:I will tell you that Dr Worm is more important than Pugs, if you haven't seen the movie.
Speaker 1:That's so terrible.
Speaker 2:Men in Black is a good answer, but those are roaches, though not worms.
Speaker 1:Well, and it's not in the future. I don't think.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, that's true, Any of them were Dune Dr Worm.
Speaker 1:No way Are there Pune Dr Worm. No way Are there pugs in it.
Speaker 2:How can it?
Speaker 1:possibly. Well, you did say they didn't matter.
Speaker 2:Yeah, maybe they meant to say pigs.
Speaker 3:Phil locking in your answer. With what Dune?
Speaker 2:Shit Two no.
Speaker 3:Okay, so Dune part two Corey, you go on the Men in Black route.
Speaker 1:Sadly, I think this is. This might be David Lynch's Dune, because I think he has a point.
Speaker 2:I think he's on to something. Oh, the OG Dune.
Speaker 3:I didn't even think about that, it is so funny that this came up naturally in conversation, because I've made this game.
Speaker 1:It is the 1984 version of Dune Because yeah, I was like there is yeah that's so right because as soon as you said dude, I was like god damn it. I think there is a bug in there. Like I hope he doesn't guess the original. So funny.
Speaker 3:Yeah, exactly the way I hoped it did.
Speaker 1:All right, so cory, up to one oh, actually real quick little bit of trivia. Paul atreides, that actor right there, is the dad in Fallout.
Speaker 3:In Fallout yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:He's so good. He's so good. I think he forgets that he tries to forget he was ever in that movie.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think. Oh, my God, Patrick Stewart does too.
Speaker 2:Patrick Stewart is in the original Dune.
Speaker 1:Sting is in the original Dune. Sting is in the original Dune.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, I do somehow know that, oh Sting.
Speaker 3:Alright, let's get to our next film. Awful and boring in every way. My first experience with this film was being at my rich friend's house and we usually played Xbox there. But he wanted to watch the movie and we sat there waiting for a gorilla to show up and he never did before I left. Watching the full movie later made it even worse. That friend is now a drug dealer.
Speaker 2:Waiting for a gorilla to show up? Okay, which one of?
Speaker 1:these. It's Peter Jackson's King.
Speaker 2:Kong. I was just thinking that.
Speaker 3:Are you both locking that in?
Speaker 2:let me read it again. Awful and boring every way. A rich friend's house and we usually play the xbox. Detail is so random, yeah um, I am also yeah I think peter jackson, because he doesn't show up. They would have had to leave before the natives scene, which is possible.
Speaker 1:It is lengthy yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, I'm also locking in Peter Jackson's King Kong.
Speaker 3:You guys would be right.
Speaker 2:It's a great video game, by the way. The King Kong Xbox game and PS2 game very good, better than the movie probably.
Speaker 3:The movie does get shit on a lot. It's not a bad movie, it's just. It's a movie Just like the current Monsterverse, it sure is the movie of all time.
Speaker 1:What we're not going to do is talk about the Monsterverse.
Speaker 3:That's fine.
Speaker 2:Second most successful cinematic universe in film history.
Speaker 3:Okay that's not saying much, but okay, that's fine. Our next movie, what could have been a fun, swashbuckling sequel to arguably one of the most iconic adventure films ever, is instead punctuated by some very poor dialogue. Ropey cgi, an annoying kid who can't seem to stop using cringe americanisms, and the complete watering down of a female character into someone who says, oh my God, a lot and then dies Cool.
Speaker 1:Swash buckling sequel. No, ropey, cgi, that throws that out.
Speaker 2:A female character says oh my God, a lot. And then dies.
Speaker 1:Cool, cool. A female character says oh my god, a lot and then dies cool, cool swashbuckling.
Speaker 2:I'm tied up on swashbuckling as well iconic adventure films uh I can't think of a female character that just dies in a sequel, though. I can't think of a female character that just dies in a sequel, though um okay, I think, I, I think, I know anything you know.
Speaker 3:Phil, are you gonna lock in a guess here?
Speaker 1:I don't know oh no, there's still no CGI man. I keep thinking of things that could definitely fit but there's no CGI in them.
Speaker 2:A complete watering down of a female character.
Speaker 3:This is so funny, Phil, that this is the one that's stumping you the most.
Speaker 2:Great, this is so funny. I'm like. Looking around my room it says, oh my God, a lot in die that says oh my god, a lot in die.
Speaker 3:I will say. I will say, swashbuckling is not an exact accurate quote here. Okay to use. Everything else is pretty on point. Swashbuckling can be misleading, but I understand why they said it in a way okay, I'm so.
Speaker 2:I'm lost here.
Speaker 3:I'm going to make you put out a guess then.
Speaker 2:What's your guess? Godzilla, king of the Monsters.
Speaker 3:Okay, godzilla, king of the Monsters, corey.
Speaker 1:What's your gut telling you? Oh, we already had a Godzilla movie Shit.
Speaker 3:I forgot about that.
Speaker 1:I'm thinking it's an indiana jones movie and is there one you're gonna pick? Oh man, if there's a kid who can't seem to stop using cringe americanisms, there's no cgi, okay, it's. I'm just gonna say temple, uh, temple of doom. Um, because everything except the cgi fits.
Speaker 3:Temple of doom, but kingdom of the crystal skull indiana jones is such a great guess, considering that this franchise is sometimes a just talked about our love for the mummy returns. It was very hard to hear you struggle with this one that was, that one is. Uh, that was that one was tough, that was whatever the mummy returns is fantastic.
Speaker 2:I don't know who that person is.
Speaker 3:I'm gonna go look them up actually dox them right now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, right now.
Speaker 3:All right, here's the last one. I think, phil, you can only tie at this point, but we'll give it a try. All right, so our last movie. I really hate this film, not just because of how bad it is, but also because it damaged the franchise for a while until the new trilogy brought the franchise back to new heights. The two biggest criticisms I have with it are the very bad acting and the terrible plot. It also has one of the worst final acts and endings I've ever seen in a film that could be anything.
Speaker 3:There's so many franchises this one may be the hardest one, but it's freaking hilarious because it fits this episode very well.
Speaker 2:Okay. Damaged the franchise for a while until there was a new trilogy, so that limits it. New trilogy One of the worst final acts and endings I've seen in a film it's, it's so generic, but I I'm trying to think of the like.
Speaker 1:Is this a very recent review or is this like a little bit? You know, a couple of years ago, probably pre, maybe, pre, maybe, pre pandemic.
Speaker 3:I would say it. Yeah, I would say it's pre pandemic, I believe. I don't believe this was a recent review.
Speaker 2:This is going to be like.
Speaker 3:I don't think it's really spoilers to say, but because there's been a new trilogy, this, this will kind of let you know this is a older movie, so this isn't like a recent movie.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm going to guess. I can't remember the exact name of it, but the original planet of the apes.
Speaker 3:4 with, if you know. Do you know the year it came out or who stars in that one?
Speaker 1:god. Uh well, I know the. Probably the other thing that I know would be the synopsis. That's the one where they're worshipipping a nuclear bomb, because by then Heston was already gone. I don't remember any of the actors in that one.
Speaker 3:Okay Film.
Speaker 2:Jurassic Park 3. Just because I can't think. First off, I don't know the name of all the Star Wars movies, so I wouldn't be able to give you the name of a Star Wars film and I'm trying to think of other trilogies, like newer trilogies. No, that wouldn't be it.
Speaker 1:Because I asked about how old the review was, because there was only a trilogy of new Planet of the Apes movies just a couple of years ago I think. Now we're on four or five.
Speaker 3:Yeah, the one about to come out uh, so you're, I think you're talking about. Are you talking about beneath the planet of the apes? Is that like it's?
Speaker 1:probably 70s. Okay, like, oh god, yeah, 70s because okay, so pretty far out there.
Speaker 3:I was curious because you're so fucking close. It is 2001's. The planet of the it really is.
Speaker 1:So this one's so bad, even though the new okay, I guess it's how I was is that the wall I was one of?
Speaker 3:the apes, it is the walberg oh the tim burton one the a apraham lincoln at the end damn it.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, oh, I should have guessed that.
Speaker 3:I've never even seen that, but admittedly asked because I was like maybe he's trying. And then when you said the synopsis, I was like no, that's not the one I know yeah, that's oh, man, I.
Speaker 1:It's so funny that I was so close and yet so far I've never actually seen that one.
Speaker 3:I've never seen it either honestly not bad at the time. I'm sure going back to watch it it'd be a terrible experience but I remember enjoying that when I was younger. But I can admit it's like. Paul giamatti is good but he's like creepy the ape is trying to make love to mark walberg the whole movie and then, again. Abraham lincoln, you can't beat that abraham lincoln it's it's tough, but uh, yeah, good job.
Speaker 3:2000 cinema great job, cory. I felt like that was a pretty fair two games and you won both, so nothing really changed here exactly hey I did.
Speaker 1:I did nail the, the alternate swashbuckling. I was at least close and I was only one movie off, because I have put the 2001 planet of the apes out of my mind yeah, yeah, you almost had a clean sweep.
Speaker 3:Honestly, you were very close, but those are my games. That is pretty much a nail in the coffin for Phil.
Speaker 2:I think he's just never going to win them. Never going to win them, Phil. That's cool. I run games too. It's fine A couple weeks.
Speaker 3:You do Jeopardy and I do bad at those, I know. But I can switch it up, we'll see. Oh my god, alright, well, corey, this has been a blast. So much Fun to be able to do this with you. Phil. Anything else? Before we kind of wrap everything up, we Give Corey a chance to kind of plug His stuff. Everything will be in the show notes, of course, but any last words before we start wrapping up.
Speaker 2:No, just Corey, it's great to see you and excited to see you here in a couple of months and hang out with you and, yeah, we appreciate you taking the time. So please let everybody know all of our audience know where they can find all of your work and anything else you'd like to plug.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so for the podcast end. Uh, you can search the world is my burrito? Into the pod catcher. For social media, search twin b podcast. That's tw imb podcast. For photo stuff search like the letters. They'll have the link in the show notes, but the letters you want to search are ktorj, that should that should pop up. K Torgerson photography and that's where you can find like all the stuff that I work on. I actually should probably start updating which events I'm going to be attending so that I can, like, look forward to seeing people. But yeah, I'll be at bold, matt, I'm doing. I think there's going to be another Ocala comic-con this year, I'm pretty sure, and Spookala in October. So I know for sure those are the next three big things that I'm going to be doing.
Speaker 2:There you go and, as mentioned, everything will be in the show notes of this episode. So again, corey, can't wait to see you here in the next couple of weeks or so. For those of you that are looking for not only Corey's stuff but also all of our important links, you can find it in the Linktree link in the show notes of this episode. Follow us on social media, the most important ones being Instagram, tiktok, as well as our growing Discord page. You can also support the show a couple other ways. Leave the way for a podcast as well as the World Is my Burrito. Five stars on any podcasting site that you possibly can Helps with the algorithm, helps with all of that stuff. We would very much appreciate it. Also, share the episode. Tag us, let us know that you're listening, let other people know that you're listening. All of that goes such a very, very long way, but if you find yourself wanting to support the show maybe a little bit extra and join a very special community, eric will let you know how you can do that.
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Speaker 2:We're on TikTok.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, I keep forgetting to plug the Twitch.
Speaker 2:That's what I'm here for it's new.
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