[00:00:03] What's his signature strategy? So, yeah. Honestly, I've paid money like in, I would say an obnoxious amount of money for a pint of ice cream before. Like a small little pint of ice cream. What's the most you've paid for that little like cup of ice cream?
[00:00:45] I don't need ice cream. Yeah, I was that child. I can't talk to you. Wow. The last episode of the year and this is when you decide to spring this on me? I like Alia's face.
[00:00:57] Alia is not making a noise, but her face is just utter horror right now. Like I'm like, doesn't tolerate 90 ice cream. OK, it turns out I found out recently that I actually like gelato. But until forever, I thought gelato was just ice cream with a fancy name.
[00:01:13] So, I mean, smoking eggs, isn't it? No, but I've paid up to eight or ten dollars for one little pint of ice cream. Like I've gone to that level in my wife's like, why would you spend that much
[00:01:25] on ice cream because it has Boba in it, like Boba balls in the Yuppie. Was it worth it? Yes, every time I've seen it and I'm like, do I get it? Do I even? It's expensive, right? It'll carry it everywhere. Like, yeah.
[00:01:39] I think I've only seen it once, but I'm a sucker for Boba anything. Like if it's Boba, I'm like, cool, I need it. You don't like Boba. So this is I may ask you as a question. You guys know what the other guy was, right? Pico de Gallo.
[00:01:54] Yeah, Pico de Gallo. It's not a weird right? It's a normal thing, right? Yeah. So like every time I go to a Mexican restaurant here in Austin, I ask for Pico de Gallo. And every single time they'd be like, no, no, no.
[00:02:05] One place, which is they have two locations, one by my house and one by my work. So I'm like, I should like this place. I go there and ask for it. They literally go, Pico de Gallo? Yes, Pico de Gallo. See, Pico de Gallo? Yes.
[00:02:16] And then so all right. So she walks off, so she's going to get it. And then I hear her around the corner talking to somebody else going, Pico de Gallo, Pico de Gallo, Pico de Gallo. Pico de Gallo. And then they never bring me anything, right?
[00:02:26] So I'm like, what is so weird about this that I eat it with every taco? So then I found one food truck near my school that when I go there and ask for it, they just immediately give me a bag. I'm like, yes.
[00:02:37] So now I go there every day and spend way too much. Is that not like a normal thing? I thought it was like everybody in Brownsland, everybody in the valley has it. Yeah. But like apparently. It's just a pinch, man.
[00:02:47] Since I made a food desert, apparently, and for worth, there are a couple spots that will give it to you and some won't. They just don't have it. You know, we have they really give you green avocado sauce. Yeah. Yeah. The green sauce. I like the green sauce.
[00:03:05] I like enjoying it. No, but there's a difference. There is a green sauce. I like the, you know, the tomatoes and everything else. The green sauce, the green salsa, salsa verde, right? But then there's the green, like it looks like something you saw
[00:03:19] in Star Wars, like that green. Like green, you know, it's mech on my wall. It's better than it is when you get the blue milk and sourced turn of chocolate milk. It becomes green now. Just there you go. That's what it is. That's what it is.
[00:03:32] But guys, I think we should start to show you ready? Yeah. You know that's pretty much and welcome. Thank you. I don't know. You saw me go into my ranch. You know what? I love it. Take two, please. Here we go.
[00:03:49] Hello, that's pretty much and welcome back to my pretty much podcast. My name is Freddie with me tonight is my friend. When yours Mr. Kevin Garcia. Calm, say what's up, Kevin? What's up, Freddie? And I didn't say that. I mean, I'm a little off.
[00:04:05] Throw you off because it's the last video of the year. Last audio of the year. Last audio, last video. I want to do something with this. We can't just let it sit. You guys are cold and cold and put that other voice. Of course, it's my friend.
[00:04:16] My in yours. Spiced illustrations. Elia Maria. Say what's up, Elia? What's up, Elia? See, I would try to do some cheering kind of noise and background, but I can't really whisper or make a loud noise because I kind of lost my voice last week.
[00:04:34] And I'm just barely getting it back right now. We're going to ask you all the questions. Everything. Full disclosure. Everybody was sick. All right, guys. Most everyone was sick. Everyone had something. Do you know what's funny enough? My son is sick. He was sick yesterday. Yeah, that's hilarious.
[00:04:48] Wait, did you just say it's funny that your son is sick? Wait for it. Wait for it. My child was sick. Wasn't feeling well. You know what do Latinos do? Just drink some vapor rub and roll around in a blanket or something and you'll be OK, right?
[00:05:02] Drink some vapor rub, rub a blanket on your chest, whichever. Yeah, exactly whatever. Hey, my wife tells me that she would eat vapor rub. They would eat it when she was a kid. I almost did. COVID really made me want to eat it. Let me tell you something.
[00:05:17] Yes, she would eat it. She would eat it. She was definitely eat it. And so anyway, so it's funny because I go to the doctor and I'm thinking, oh man, well, the cold, the flu, something right? The doctor comes in. Well, it's not the flu. It's not strep.
[00:05:30] It doesn't have COVID, but he's obviously sick. And I go, well, what is it? He has the B flu. Now, like the B flu. What are you talking about? And my son is like, I said, I don't know. Do you hang around bees? And he's like, no.
[00:05:43] Like what is the B flu? Apparently it's just a variant of the flu. There's A flu, which is the one everybody worries about. Then there's the B flu. So you're basically going to your son and saying, look, you're supposed to be an A student. Damn.
[00:05:59] Now you give me this. No, I told him, but are you probably are you? Why are you like, I'm he's like, I'm pro B, but I'm not pro B flu. And I was like, OK, go away.
[00:06:12] All the bees are disappearing and we find out that's where they are. That's where it's going, but Kevin was sick. Ella was sick. So we couldn't record for you guys, but we're going to give you a fun show tonight. Yeah, and recapping and talking about the year
[00:06:24] and just looking forward as well to 2024 and see where we go from here. But of course, remember, you guys can keep up with us at my Piedimos podcast on all social media and our website, my Piedimos podcast.com. And I love the way of the website.
[00:06:40] Dude, the website is great. It's easy, it's clean, colorful. It's a direct everyone. I'm like, go there, go there. Where you want to listen. You have one of us and you can watch us there, listen to us there and read some stuff there, too, by the way.
[00:06:55] So but further ado, here we are, guys, the last show of the season. You know, we've stretched this out further than we usually do. We're usually done right around Thanksgiving. But again, life, it is what it is. Mr. Kevin Garcia dot com.
[00:07:09] How is the TikTok total going this year? I mean, we're getting close. It ticked up a little bit, but not much, mainly because I was sick. So I couldn't do a new video for like a week and a half. So. But what's funny, Elia?
[00:07:22] Did you I mean, I know you follow Kevin and of course everything that he does, because he's so magnetic in what he does. He was sick yet, but yet he was not sick enough to reply to somebody trying to correct him on a Marvel fact.
[00:07:39] On one of his videos. Listen, there's nothing that will kick you well enough than when you got to do it to him. It's like, oh, he wasn't completely wrong, though. That's the thing because I reposted. You couldn't let him have it. You couldn't let him have it, though.
[00:07:54] No, no, no, I just gave him I just gave him a disappointed dad look is what I did. But but here's the thing. I reposted the videos of my ramp from almost a year, actually a little bit over a year ago
[00:08:05] when we talked about Black Panther, Wakanda forever. And I just kind of went off on the depiction of Namor, because I was an am still a defender of the idea that yeah, you could make him a Mesoamerican character. You could make him representative of both this fictional country
[00:08:22] and also a realistic ethnic group. Really cool idea. But I was not a fan of how they executed it. So I was just going off. And one of the examples I gave was not the best example I could have given if I wasn't ranting.
[00:08:36] So one of my viewers responded with a video saying, you know, that was not accurate. And I responded back saying, well, it was kind of accurate, but not really. And I said, don't don't don't dumb it down. This guy did like a three four second video
[00:08:52] like, but it's in the comics, right? And you work for Marvel. And then that's it. He also had the best accent ever. That was like the coolest accent that I have minute video explaining himself. Seven and a half. Yes, seven and a half.
[00:09:06] Well, no, I also use that time because after responding to him, then I responded to other comments that were made because they were. I had a few people, you know, making comments on this year old video.
[00:09:17] So I was like, all right, well, long to make in the comments, I'll go and respond to them all together in this video. So that was just the kickoff. So I started with him. Don't come back. Kevin Garcia underscore calm people. That's what he's trying to say.
[00:09:27] Don't come back. Kevin Garcia. No, I'm saying. I mean, because then I will give you. I will better promote your channel by responding to your video. See, see, see, see. I'm just going to build my my empire. You got to have in videos. Yeah, I'm never.
[00:09:43] I'm going to reply to each one. I get hit 10,000 before you. You know, I got my. I'll be honest. I got my. I'm going to stand. So my twitch, my twitch wrapped in review and the spice illustrations was, I think the top channel that I watched on there
[00:09:59] with like 300 something emotes and I think like 40 hours watched or something like that. So if you're not following spice illustrations on twitch, please do. Please do. Yes, yes. And I'm I well, I don't know how to use twitch.
[00:10:13] I do follow Elya on all of the other social medias. I'm sorry. Honestly, your your cartoons, your both still and animated cartoons are just so much fun. Thank you. I follow them. And I know somebody in particular who recently got a Monica Rambo
[00:10:28] drawing from you and she cannot stop talking about it. Yeah, look at that. Look at her. She's ecstatic everybody. But yeah, go follow. Oh, no, I mean, she's happy knowing people enjoyed my art. No, I still have your she did a family portrait of my me and
[00:10:44] my family, by the way, hangs up in my in my room, me, my wife and my kiddo. So we love spice illustrations. And she did a drawing of me being cannibalized by the other members of my Primoz podcast. So I think we should have kept the naked Kevin.
[00:10:57] Yeah, there's the naked version, everybody. Yeah, thankfully, you know what? Yeah, give me to 10,000 on TikTok. I'll drop. There you go. Yeah, that's a threat. You know what? You mentioned the wrapped. I did the Spotify wrap because my students were like, oh,
[00:11:10] Garcia Garcia, we have to see what's on your spot of her. And I don't know what they think is going to be on there. Because every day I'm playing the same playlist and PR and PR. Well, no, it's it's I haven't played this like rated for school.
[00:11:22] It's got. Yeah. But the point is, is that like I did the Spotify wrap because they wanted to see it and guess what it had as the number one podcast I listened to. Of course, it has to be my previous goals must have a corral. That was second.
[00:11:39] That was second. But my first no, I'm not kidding. David Bulls was second, but I did have my Primoz podcast as a first. I have the latest that I always play at school is I'm looking up right now. 109 hours and 41 minutes long. So yeah.
[00:11:56] So yeah, it's always the same playlist that I play. I wonder, do I still have my mind saved? I think it stays there, though, like the rap. It just stays there for for the year. For me, I know. I'm very proud. Yeah, but it was interesting.
[00:12:11] What was yours? What was your like? What was your takeaway from 2023? Because. Musically on my Spotify, if we're using that since we're on that platform, as well, my side said that my number one band was Queen. No Beatles, rather. But my number one song was Queen.
[00:12:30] Another one bites the dust. And I was like, that makes sense. Power Anthem. There you go. Rock out. So I'm very I'm actually happy with my rap this year because it shows that I've been I've been listening to a lot more like Latine people for sure.
[00:12:45] Saeib is my number one artist or top artist, mainly because that's why I play during the stream, but they make Latine, Boston, Nova Low-Fi. That's really, really awesome. Oh. So I really enjoyed their music. They are all number two amazing EDM DJ from Mexico.
[00:13:31] I don't know what Low-Fi means, but I know that I've been enjoying any music. Oh, dude, it's so good. This is very I don't know what it stands for, but it's super chill. Is it just the opposite of high five?
[00:13:43] Well, it's just kind of like it's almost recorded. They you know how you have your beats that are really high definition clear these are more like mono, if you will, instead of stereo and they're mixed, but they're still very chill, very relaxed.
[00:13:56] And they kind of just their own genre. I really dig it. Callie Uchis was my number one. Talking about Latine performance. Yeah. The Beatles, K-Flay, which another great, great performer. She's awesome with her music, the Misfits and the Dephtones. The Dephtones. Oh, good choice.
[00:14:16] And I mean for me, like talking about Latine music, I was in podcast. I want to give a little shout out here. Yeah, I have been listening to make sure I pull it up here.
[00:14:30] So for podcasts, of course, we came up because I always listen to to our stuff, right, my famous podcast, but it's also the I believe called the. Where are they left behind? Left behind podcast. They are a Latino hosted show as well. They're both filmmakers.
[00:14:49] They're young, recent graduates. I think one went to UCLA. I can't remember where the other co-host went to school, but they're both filmmakers, both Latino filmmakers out of Los Angeles. And they always recommend great music and they recommend great films. They talk about everything we do.
[00:15:04] Oh, pardon not left behind. That's a different one. Hand Me Down podcast. I was going to say, let's be the Christian. Yeah, it's called the Hand Me Down. Yeah, there you go. Hand Me Down left behind was a song I listened to earlier. It's all my.
[00:15:17] That makes sense. OK. Yeah, yeah. It's called a Hand Me Down pod. So check them out. They're really, really cool. And they recommended a singer that I was like, I didn't know anything about. And I've been obsessed with them recently and it's called The Sacred Souls.
[00:15:33] And they're more like a neo soul and Latinos play music, more like 50, 60 soul music, and they have an African American lead singer. Amazing voice to check out the sacred souls. That was that's what I would recommend.
[00:15:47] Whenever you want to one of those chill, great vocals, just something safe. You can play in the classroom, Kevin as well. It's just dope to have on that. Definitely. Pretty lady, you got me. So weak. Pretty lady, you got me. So weak.
[00:16:28] Yeah, I think about the songs too. A lot of times they do have some kind of weird meanings like, for example, my number one, the number one Beatles song that I had was Paperback Writer,
[00:17:08] which is funny for me because number one, I mostly just play this music in the background. So I have no idea which song is going to play the most. Number two, because it's a song about a guy that wants nothing more than to be
[00:17:19] a published author and he's like, please, please don't be a manuscript. I just want to be a published author. And I have two completed works that have been just sitting at two different publishers for the past year.
[00:17:38] And I just heard from them recently, both of them, and said, yes, twenty twenty four is when they're going to publish. So I'm like, OK, finally, finally. I'm going to look forward to. Yeah, twenty twenty four.
[00:18:12] Man, you know, looking ahead is fun, but let's talk about twenty twenty three guys. You know, we wanted to talk about stuff we were into. We've used rap as a jumping off point, which is awesome. You know, Walter would have been here.
[00:18:23] He's all about music and he was freaking out, but couldn't make it. You have to go look at Christmas lights or something with the family. But hey, it is what it is. Once they start blinking in a certain pattern, you just stare for a while.
[00:18:34] I was like, I was shaking on the ground. I was talking to you. The government always on the ground. You're OK, Kevin, look at all the lights. Look at all the lights. But one thing that we didn't get a chance to do this year before we jump into
[00:18:49] kind of what we've loved and dug this year is we're going to do a quick little I guess we call it quick chat, quick review on the Marvels. So that came out. Yeah, there's a lot of things that kind of slip through the cracks, right?
[00:19:00] And the Marvels is the biggest ones been weighing on me because well, it was in the news a lot recently for negative press and then positive press and then lack of everything. So it's just kind of crazy.
[00:19:14] Disney actually pulled it from theaters as far as I know, which is like unheard of for a Marvel movie this week. So that is crazy. Yeah, I actually wanted to go see it at the IMAX the second we came out and it was already gone from the IMAX.
[00:19:26] And I say, hey, huh? Hmm. Hmm. Well, Kevin, let's start off with you. What do you think about the Marvels? So the thing about the Marvels is, is that leading up to it, you know, there was the strike going on.
[00:19:41] So, you know, I was respecting this and not doing any tick talks about the movies. There were the actors obviously were respecting it. They're even directors like, you know, Christian Christian who Mercado who talked with us about if you were the last he didn't,
[00:19:57] you know, want to do a video during that, even though it's not his union just out of difference, right? So it's like it seems like, you know, there was a lot of that happening. But people who didn't mind talking about it were all the people
[00:20:11] that were going to be bashing a woman led person of color led movie. It's the first Marvel movie to have a black female director. You know, it's the first Marvel movie to have an all female main cast,
[00:20:25] much less mostly person of color main cast, you know, and they were bashing it left and right to the point that there was a lot of negative reviews and nobody could say anything. Then the day before the movie came out, the strike was declared over,
[00:20:39] although that still hadn't actually been signed yet or whatever, was declared over. So the day it came the day before it came out, people were like, no, no, no, wait, it's good, but it was too late. Like the damage had been done. You know what I mean?
[00:20:50] Um, and so unlike, you know, other movies like when Captain Marvel came out, there was a lot of negative press, but Brie Larson was all over, you know, talking about it. And that's why they hated her even more because she was talking back.
[00:21:00] And it's like no one was talking back to them. So it was just them having that, that, that mouthpiece. And I'm not going to say it's the best movie ever, but I enjoyed it. You know, I enjoyed it.
[00:21:12] Like if you're going to list all 33 Marvel movies in a row, it's definitely in the top half for me. It's definitely in the top half for me. It's definitely way up there. It's, it's, you know, better than the Incredible Hulk, which I still cannot rewatch. It's so boring.
[00:21:26] Um, it's, it's better than the terminals, which is just bad. You know, it's better than, than I put it better than the Iron Man sequels, you know, uh, you know, so it's like, it's, it's a man. You pulled it. I know.
[00:21:40] I wouldn't say it's better than the Guardians movies. I know. I wouldn't say it's better than, than I actually, one of the ones who enjoyed Thor Ragnarok. Um, you know, I also enjoyed the first Thor because it was something new.
[00:21:55] I enjoyed the first Captain America because it was, yeah, I'm nostalgic for that golden age kind of stuff. Sure. But like it's, it's good, you know, it's genuinely good. And the thing that really got me is a lot of the reviews said one or two things.
[00:22:07] One was this has no Marvel references. The people, you know, and which this had more comic book references in this movie than any Marvel movie I've seen in several years, which is crazy to me. That's even a phrase I can say.
[00:22:19] Um, and then the second thing I heard was it was just, it was two, uh, studio made just for the demographic. And I was like, they're literally in the comics, all named Marvel and they team up on a regular basis in the comics.
[00:22:33] This is exactly what that is. Um, in fact, what the review that really annoyed me the most was the one from the New York times where it was a woman reviewer who literally opened by saying it's like a studio created girl group.
[00:22:46] And I'm like, did they call, you know, no way home a studio created boy group? You know, they all were named spider and they all were teamed up together. You know, it felt very. No, yeah, I hear you. I think it's this.
[00:23:00] It's kind of that it goes that way, you know, that it's that that's touted that way for this film just because of who's involved. Right? Um, I'll give you my, my bit here.
[00:23:11] I think the movie was on our scale and we can go deep and what not out of five, it was a two and a half, maybe a three. Um, I went to IMAX. I went, I even sprung for the wobbly seats that you can pay for that
[00:23:24] shake and wiggle and jump to try to get my wife. My wife said that if it wasn't for the jumping seat, she would have fallen asleep. I was excited to watch this movie. Um, for me, I loved the interaction between the three female characters. I love that.
[00:23:41] I think it will work well if it was like a series that we followed and they kind of dealt with stuff together. That'd be kind of fun to watch. But on this film, it felt very kind of smashed together literally and figuratively.
[00:23:54] Uh, and there was one scene that bothered me. It's going to be a spoiler. I'm sorry. I'll have to address it. Well, let's be honest. Most of our audience probably hasn't seen the movie. Oh, all right. Go ahead. The scene where they go to the singing planet.
[00:24:10] I have a comment on that. Continue. No, we're not before we dive in. Elia has comments and here we go. I know, I know, but still. The singing planet felt more like, hey, do you remember that Brie Larson knows? No, has been known to sing.
[00:24:25] I didn't even know that. I was like, it was like, as if someone said, let's remind people that she had one point has sung songs. And you know what? What if marketing? Hey, come over here. Do we need another Disney princess?
[00:24:42] It felt that that scene there made me feel like, oh, what happened? That made it tank for me. Okay. At that point, here's what's funny to me. I wanted more singing. See, because here's the thing. If there's only one musical. You're telling me small. No, let me explain.
[00:24:59] Let me explain. There's only one musical number in this movie. It feels out of place. But if it had two or three and the other two were smaller and we just had one bigger song, then it would have been balanced.
[00:25:08] It would have been like, oh, there's an opening bit. Like if they did an earlier bit in that planet where she's leaving that planet, there was a song and she's like, I can't believe this. And then the audience is in on the joke because she's gets there
[00:25:17] and she's like, oh, I'm so embarrassed as opposed to, yeah, I hope you read the trailer, you know, hope it's all the trailer. You don't know instead of that, it's like, then the audience is in on that joke that she's embarrassed about the singing.
[00:25:28] And then they would have to do a third song during the battle itself where Monica could sing, Kamala could sing and the bad guy would be forced to sing back at them, which would have been hilarious. And I would have loved it.
[00:25:41] If you would have written the movie, Kevin. No, no, but here's the thing. Apparently a lot of that was filmed. But it was cut because the producers were afraid it was too, I don't know, girly to to non action movie.
[00:25:56] But like, I think by cutting it, it seems so out of place there. And the funny part to me is that scene and all of the cat goofiness are literally taken from the comics. They literally happen in Captain Marvel's comics. She goes to the musical planet.
[00:26:11] She is almost forced to marry the prince, but a friend of hers marries the prince instead. And it's all for political reasons. It's just a political marriage and the whole cat thing. There's even a scene in the comics where they have to get a bunch
[00:26:21] of the flurkens into an escape pod and escape a battle like that happens. It felt like, and then please chime in here. My thing was we're even getting to the cat stuff, but the singing. If you're going to lean into it, lean into it.
[00:26:35] Like you make it super campy, but you didn't. And it felt like I don't really want to do this, but I'm doing it. And look how good I sound as I. Yeah. My man is. So so yeah, I'll like my opinion.
[00:26:48] So for background, I'm not a Marvel person. I'm not. I it's not my jam. You're a one piece person. I am a one piece person. No, yeah. But I was like, I'll watch. I didn't know anything about it. Didn't whatever.
[00:27:02] I didn't know where in the timeline it goes. I just went in. I I'm not going to lie. I was disappointed in it myself. However, I'll go into why I was disappointed, but there's a reason why I didn't
[00:27:14] like usually people are like, this is why I didn't like it. Don't go watch it. I didn't know about the background of it all. The the the female director, everything like that. And I've seen on social media, little girls posing with the posters and all
[00:27:29] that. And I'm like, why the hell do I want to put my negative opinion out there when those little girls are like so hopeful? Yeah. So I'm like, I can dislike something, but I don't have to like trash about it.
[00:27:39] But here's the thing, I think your opinion is valid because part of why I loved it is because the second I saw the cat eating too much, I was like, oh, I know what's going to happen. The second they got to the planet where she's embarrassed.
[00:27:53] I'm like, ooh, it's the singing planet. And I think I think this movie was made more than most other Marvel movies for comic book readers. And I think that's with detriment. I think somebody who knew it going in would enjoy it more than somebody who had no idea.
[00:28:11] Yeah, and I get that feeling too. And one thing I don't know, it just seemed and this is like an actor thing for me. It just seemed like everyone wasn't really in it. And I'm sure that has like something to do with the fact that like they had
[00:28:23] to re shoot and reschedule so many things that it probably does. The chemistry is not there. But I don't know, it just seemed disingenuous for a few actors for me. The flow was really weird. That the musical scene, I got whiplash.
[00:28:38] I was like, wait, where the fuck are we? I will say, I like Brie Larson a lot better than the first movie. Yeah, Brie is amazing. She's an amazing actress. I've seen her in so many other things that like when I see people get on her acting,
[00:28:49] I'm like, y'all don't don't not with this movie. I will be honest. I'm not the biggest Brie Larson fan, not because of her personal politics. I love her personal politics, but because I just not enjoyed her in a lot of movies. You know, there's a movie.
[00:29:04] I think with this film, though, like it was set up to not only bring her out from her shell because Captain Marvel and Amelia and if you're not too much. But in the previous films has been just this thing. Weird. Too far into the whole dark loner thing.
[00:29:20] Like how they took away all of her emotions and then wouldn't let her have them back. It was why would you do that to your main character? Exactly. You know, people can compare her to Wolverine, but Wolverine was allowed to cry.
[00:29:31] You know, she wouldn't even, you know, react emotionally. Yeah. This is why I like to say the thing that made the movie that like worth it for me. And it was also a moment where I think there was it was just me and some
[00:29:47] dude and his grandma sitting behind me in the theater, like it was empty. But like I when the cat scene happened, I was like, this is really happening. What? And I hear like music starting to come in and I'm like, I didn't recognize the music.
[00:30:04] I did because I'm a theater kid and I was I am I was based on so hard. I was like, why is this music? Laughing behind me. I'm like, y'all are playing memory. I'm like memory. Yup. Stupid or poetic and I should be giving you an Oscar.
[00:30:20] You know what I'm saying? It's both. It's both. It's weird. I shouldn't understand it. Like it's like, OK, I don't get it. I was like, why is this song so clear? I was rolling.
[00:30:30] I'm like, oh my God, I don't know if this is poetry or the dumbest thing I've ever seen. But I love it. Yes. Yes. And so I was like, you know what? Worth it done over.
[00:30:40] So I thought it was so funny and also like a smart way to get everyone to fuck out of there. But also for villain was very like. I want to say like.
[00:30:53] When they did, they all have the A flu because they were like, oh, we can beat her up pretty easily. Like it didn't feel like a real threat. And it's like, yeah, it just didn't make me feel like, wow, I'm worried for these people or worried for them.
[00:31:07] Because I felt that way. I was like, I don't I'm not feeling empathy. I'm not really. Yeah. So with the villain, they literally so while most of this movie I've said was based on comics so closely that I was anticipating stuff.
[00:31:21] The villain literally only have appeared in two comics. The villain showed up in one comic where they took over the Korean power after the Supreme intelligence taken out and a second comic in which they were assassinated. That was literally it.
[00:31:33] So I was like, there's so many great cosmic villains. They could have had her play. And I'm like, why not have her like use the same actor but be a bigger more interesting villain? I don't know. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, yeah.
[00:31:48] I also did not know that she was Loki's wife. I didn't know either. I was like, dang. It's been to me. The actor is the wife of Tom Ilson. Oh, yeah. By the way, Loki was dope. And you haven't watched it. It's amazing.
[00:32:00] We had a whole episode about it. You should go back and listen pretty much if you haven't yet. The Loki episode is fun. But but do watch that that finale because I don't want to spoil it without being in the spoiler episode.
[00:32:12] It was just the most powerful series finale I've ever seen. I had chills. I mean, before we move forward, because there's other things you want to talk about and we really didn't get to cover. But Loki, man, is one of my top favorites this year. Hands down.
[00:32:28] Performances, performance wise, it's just awesome. What other things stood to the cracks this year that we never really went over or want to touch on before we move forward? Well, for the past past two weeks, we both we've all been sick. So we couldn't record anything.
[00:32:58] But like I saw Godzilla minus one and you know, I want to see that so bad. You know, when Ellie was mentioning being in a theater with with somebody else as they're cracking up over over the song,
[00:33:08] I I had somebody say next to me who I didn't know them. They're just some stranger, right? This woman, I don't think she's ever been to a Godzilla movie in her life. She was horrified every time Godzilla was on screen.
[00:33:21] Like this, I am not kidding, because this is the most emotionally intense Godzilla movie. I am one of the people that really loved Shin Godzilla. I love Shin Godzilla because it was it was not so much a monster movie
[00:33:35] as it was a political procedural where the main character is the government of Tokyo, which is hilarious, because there's no one main character. Shin Godzilla, this movie has a main character and it set the closing days of World War Two to about five years after World War Two
[00:33:51] in Japan, and it is so emotionally gut wrenching that every time Godzilla is on screen, you can feel everybody who has lost with his feet go down. You know what I mean?
[00:34:01] And I don't mean in the whole like gory way that was it in The Man of Steel, which I just I still hate that movie. You know, we're just like, look at the people crushing in the gravity.
[00:34:10] You know, that's just that's just a director wanting to play with his toys. This was like they don't have to show any of the deaths, but you know it's happening and it's just so painful. And the lady next to me was just like, oh, like every time.
[00:34:24] And she was she was like in her late 20s, maybe early 30s, just horrified by the acts of Godzilla and the idea that a Japanese made movie, which which, you know, they have their reputation for being like, oh, they're the silly ones.
[00:34:37] Remember the original Godzilla was a dramatic movie. Oh my God, yeah, so good. So yes, I mean, watch Godzilla. Speaking on Godzilla, because me and my son love Godzilla. We love we love it.
[00:34:49] We watch them all the time for fun and just goof on the older stuff, because it's yes, some of them are fun on purpose. It's Ultraman and all that. I collect the magic to gathering cards that are Godzilla ones like I go nuts. I would love Godzilla.
[00:35:01] And so there is Monarch Legacy of Monsters that has held me. Yeah, I heard it's good. It's on Apple TV and the whole series is out. It's literally not to give not to confuse or whatever, but it does follow the timeline of the Congress is Godzilla movie.
[00:35:18] This this this range we're doing right now. So it goes back from the formation of Monarch when it first starts all the way to a recent attack because now in this version, because there's so many present present part in the present to where they acknowledge the presence
[00:35:37] of these Muto's, whatever the the the monsters Titans and that they are trying to find a way because there's a new a new variant has appeared. And this new variant is something introduced brand new to the Godzilla verse, if you will. And it has Kurt Russell.
[00:35:53] It has his son, Wyatt Russell, Ben Watanabe is in it. It is a great, great series. Definitely a fan of Godzilla. I recommend it. You know what's crazy to me is everybody kept talking about the Marvel's failed. Is that the end of the Disney machine?
[00:36:09] No, Disney is going to keep going. No one's worried about their stopping making Marvel movies because one movie didn't have make enough money. But I was honestly worried that when King Kong made OK money and when Kong
[00:36:22] versus Godzilla did just went past breaking even with with the advertising budget. I was like, man, I really want them to keep making these films. And I'm so glad they did and that they expanded it. I'm like, they just pushed forward. They were like, you know what?
[00:36:37] We believe the audience is there and I'm glad they did. I need to go check that out. And what about you? Anything that you watched recently that kind of slipped into the rug and nobody really popped up or something? Or that we didn't discuss here at least.
[00:36:49] Yeah. Oh, God, I feel like I watched all the mainstream crap. He's wrong with that. I'm not with that. No, I think the one I don't think it came out this year, but it was for the Oscar nom this year was RRR.
[00:37:05] Oh, I want to see that so bad. It's on my god. So I will say it's not in the native language on Netflix. They didn't put it in the. Yeah, they didn't put an Intel Agoo on Netflix.
[00:37:15] Wait, what they dubbed they dubbed it in Hindi and put that on Netflix. Oh, that's crazy. If you want to see the real version, there's a Hindi and Telugu streaming service. We bought the service. We could watch it in the actual language. Totally worth it.
[00:37:32] It's probably an honest. I'm going to be real. It set my expectations for visual effects so high that I cannot. I cannot palette a Marvel movie after watching RRR. So I like I think it's great. It's got action. It's got romance.
[00:37:49] It's got musical numbers that don't see about a nowhere. Yeah, that are distracting or like they don't seem like they should be there. It's because it's the way I was basically the special effects thing you said, though, because somebody asked me before the trailer over the top.
[00:38:04] I just want to have such amazing special effects if they don't have the budget of Hollywood. And I said, because most of the Hollywood special effects are done in India. So these are all people that have done all of the big budget movies you've
[00:38:15] watched and they're just working for their their local studios. And I'm like, yeah, that's why their budgets. Their special is so amazing. Yeah. No, it's it's really great. I recommend everyone watching the native language. It is dubbed on Netflix.
[00:38:32] So of course, like if you are like working on something, watch it dubbed because it's hard to follow subtitles. But he fights a tiger with his bare hands. I mean, I just can't see that one scene of the bridge together in the in the
[00:38:44] frame. Oh my God, I need to see that movie. I need to watch it. Actually, the song that was nominated for the Oscar was my number one most listened to song because I was like it was my jam. It was my jam. It was so good.
[00:38:58] And no, they won the Oscar for original song. So which is great because they were an international film. But no, I didn't hear many people talking about it, especially during Oscars season still people didn't really talk about it.
[00:39:11] And I was trying to tell everyone about it because it just impressed me so much. Yeah, that one. That one hit my favorites for sure. And then I can't remember the name. Everything everywhere all at once. Of course, of course. That one blew my face off.
[00:39:28] I don't know. A24 just cranks out really good stuff. And speaking of the I mentioned the the strike earlier, A24, they made deals with the unions before a lot of the other studios. They were they were willing to work with them.
[00:39:43] They came out with the trailer for their newest movie. I want to see problemista. I don't know when that's supposed to come out, but it's supposed to be A24 and it's about a Salvadorian guy, he's Salvadorian. And like the fact that he's trying to get his citizenship,
[00:39:57] he has to be sponsored by somebody and he's sponsored by the most evil person in the world that we love to hate. And I mean, maybe, Kevin, maybe you do not refuse to drink hot chocolate the way you need to in a pinch. I am anti ice cream.
[00:40:14] I'm not anti ice cream. I just don't care about it. Oh my God, anti ice cream. Everybody cancel Kevin. You know what else? I'm not big on cake. Kevin in stream. No, imagine. OK, hold on. But you love carrot cake. Well, I do love red velvet.
[00:40:31] I love chocolate. I like carrot cake. I like cheesecake. I love chocolate anything but like we can hang out the choice between like brownies and chocolate and then a chocolate cake. It's going to be everything but the cake. No, OK. Yeah. Yeah, OK.
[00:40:44] I would eat a brownie over a chocolate cake. Yeah, many day coffee cake. I'll do that. You know, I've got a seat belt on my head. I will have a Thursday's cake. Good as you should. Wet wet or medium wet or wet? Wet. Wet. I like it wet.
[00:41:01] I like it wet. I'm not going to go into that one. Like it moist. Like it moist. Super moist. Anyway, but invincible. Are you guys into invincible? Oh yeah. Because I love invincible. The first half of season two.
[00:41:17] First half of season two, which is where it kind of teeters because you teased me. You gave me three episodes and I have to wait till like April to see the other half of the season. So basically they put it on hold because they were waiting for my
[00:41:29] previous podcast to come back. Exactly. Like we're going to wait to launch with you guys, but invincible. Great story. Great. I mean, invincible free the comic books. It does break away from the books, which is fine. It makes it shorter basically because it gets to stuff
[00:41:44] that's like way later in the comics in a more thematically appropriate time framing. That's what I was getting with somebody, right? A lot of these things we talked about in the past, even with one piece, right? We talked about that and things that are adaptations.
[00:41:56] You have to kind of let it live on its own. We can't keep referencing back to the comic as much because you're going to lose out on what the vision is and what the fun is that they're bringing into it.
[00:42:06] An example, Yu Yu Hakusho just came out recently and that's the newest anime live action thing on Netflix, which is people are waiting. I mean, it just came out today for me. They're waiting to see if it's as good as one piece was because
[00:42:20] it's in that same vein. If we enjoy these shows and we give them the space they need, then we definitely got to support it. Invincible is one of those shows. What I think is great about invincible is that the first
[00:42:35] season had, I cannot say this any other way, bad animation, but it wasn't because of the animators. They had really good animators. I've been following one of the background animators that show on TikTok and the animators themselves were very good, but they weren't given a budget.
[00:42:54] There's literally like a scene in one of the episodes in the first season where they literally just have a picture of him doing this. He has fists in front of his face and they just pulled it across the screen as if he's flying and it's like,
[00:43:05] they didn't have a budget. But the script and the acting and everything else was so good that the audience came. You can tell in season two, they were like, oh, we need to pay these animators. They are seriously, seriously getting good animation out of it. Good.
[00:43:22] But you mentioned a second ago that you can't just stick blindly to the topic and that's where Scott Pilgrim is getting some flak right now for the animation. Either of you guys watching that? My best friend watched it and told me it's not like
[00:43:39] the comic books, but I should read the comic books first. So I have them all right here. I'm getting through the comic books and then I'm going to watch the show. Yeah. See, I love Scott Pilgrim as a concept. I love the comics. I love the movie.
[00:43:52] I did love the movie. The video game is so good. You have to play the video game. It's on everything now. I can't say enough that the video game is all visually from one artist. There's Australian guy named Paul Robertson who does amazing pixel art. It's so beautiful.
[00:44:09] But anyway, It's an 8-bit beat-up up by the way you run across the screen. It is. Old school like side scroller. The old X-Men game back in the 90s. Oh nice. But the thing is this, in any version of the story, Scott Pilgrim is a horrible person. Yes.
[00:44:27] And through most of the stories, he doesn't know this and you're only getting his point of view. So a lot of people come into them going, why are you watching this thing? It's a horrible person. And it's like, I don't watch a lot of media that are about
[00:44:39] horrible people. I don't watch Always Sunny. I don't watch The Walking Dead. I don't watch shows where everybody is horrible to each other all the time. But in this case, I like it because part of it is, is he going to notice?
[00:44:54] Is he ever going to realize he's a bad person? Is everybody else noticing it? You know what I mean? And with the animation they just say, screw it, we're going to go a different way with this. Yeah, that's right. We approach everything and I'm like, I like this.
[00:45:06] I get why fans of the others wouldn't want to. But if you go into it with that, you know, deeper level of like there's a meaning behind the story, then the animation does something neat with that. So I like it. Yeah.
[00:45:20] Yeah, I've heard nothing but great things about it. Scott Pilgrim has been a blast to kind of rewatch in a sense, you know, but you get a different side of it, like you said. So yeah, have you read the books? The one thing you watched a movie.
[00:45:32] And then you watch this new series. It gets you kind of like, I know you get to experience it in a different way. I don't know. I enjoy it. I'm off for more Scott Pilgrim because it's fun. I love that universe of those characters.
[00:45:44] So one thing that we didn't talk about this season or I don't remember if we did really in depth, but was reservation dogs. So I talked about the show before. I actually met one of the actors from the show. Uncle. Yeah. He's a comic writer.
[00:46:01] He does his name is John Proudstar and he writes indie comics. And it's funny because I go, you know, there's why don't you write them? You should talk to Marvel and you write the Marvel character whose name is also John Proudstar.
[00:46:12] And he goes, I know, tell Marvel, you know. So, you know, but it's about this, these kids grow teen teen. Me, I'll say 15 to 17 year old teens growing up on a reservation in Oklahoma. And so I connected so much with those with them because they're like
[00:46:30] Primo's like you look at them and you're like, I grew up like that. I grew up in those neighborhoods with the same kind of uncles and same kind of traditions and same things that we all did growing up
[00:46:39] that I would say white America looks at it and goes, well, that's weird. That's, oh, that's interesting. And I got to see that through a different lens, but yet I feel connected. And so, yeah, like my wife she'll say like, yeah, you know,
[00:46:51] like that's our, that's our people because she's native from Mexico. She's like, that's our people. We all share the same blood. We all share the same, you know, energy, the same love for each other. But and then I'm like, wow, like that's dope.
[00:47:04] And I would want to see something like that with Latino based characters eventually because it feels like we're getting there because we talked about this fool. That was one snapshot of adults and being adulting and being Latino hipsters in LA.
[00:47:20] But also comics because Terry Blas's reptile did that exactly. Like his comic showed Latino culture without being a stereotype, without being a caricature. And it felt authentic. And I was like, I want that in other media too.
[00:47:36] I love that you said that your wife, you know, watch Native Americans and said, I'm associating with this. Earlier, Elia mentioned, you know, RRR, I've shown Indian movies from India to my students back on the border when I taught in Brownsville
[00:47:51] and they associated with the culture there because there's just so many parallels between like put a bluntly non-white cultures, you know, there's so many parallels. And so much too. You know, I'm mentioning Terry Blas, not to cannibalize here at the time,
[00:48:05] but Terry was also hosting a podcast this year of a show that I didn't talk about. I want to, he has a show called The J Word. And The J Word on YouTube, shout out to The J Word.
[00:48:16] And he and Chucho, his co-host talked about Drag Race, Mexico. And Drag Race, Mexico was so much fun to watch because it was in Mexico, it was vernacular that I was not used to 100% of the time because
[00:48:30] it's the Spanish that I speak very different than what I grew up with, they speak in Mexico. And it was a fun, John, not only through Drag Race, I love Drag Race because it's always a mess and a half, right? And it's purposefully because it's fun.
[00:48:43] But the fact that these performers were shown in the light that were very real, no one was made into a caricature of Latino or Mexicano performer doing drag. It was a drag show and we got the real behind it and I loved it.
[00:49:00] And I love The J Word for that. They really learned a lot from that show. I agree. No, Drag Race, Mexico, the way I've been watching Drag Race, Mexico is part one through 10 on TikTok because I don't have a streaming service.
[00:49:13] But no, like the overall feel of Drag Race, Mexico versus the American one, it's like night and day. I'm just like, God, it's so much fun. Everyone's so real. No one's trying to like, I don't know. It's different. They all know what it is.
[00:49:29] There's no like alliances and weird like backstabbing. It's like either your shit is good or it's not. We're just going to get it over with like that. Like you bad, I'm going to tell you. Yeah, you suck or you're good and Valentina.
[00:49:43] So everything on there has been great. So I really look forward to the next season of Drag Race, Mexico and of course more of The J Word. So go check out The J Word. Give a shout out there to Terry and Chucho.
[00:49:55] Always give more shout out to Terry. Speaking of what we've been watching, we've been really into recently. One thing I want to give a shout out to is I'm really excited because we had him on our show this season. John Avina, Avina comics. If you remember.
[00:50:40] Oh yeah, yeah. You write. All of them on Tiktok as well. Definitely please do. But one of my favorite books has been Americana and his book that he wrote and I bought recently Americana 1987. I'll say what Billy was called.
[00:50:56] And I've been loving the heck out of that too. So it's just something to look out for if you haven't checked out his work. Please check out John Avina, Avina comics on all social media.
[00:51:07] His books are great if you're into like horror and the dark reality that he presents in Americana or you have kind of like the campy popcorn horror. He has the book for you. He has lucha. He has action. He has comedy. His stuff has been great.
[00:51:25] So definitely keep an eye out for his work and look him up Avina comics and definitely follow along with me. Let me know what you think about Americana because I'm all about it. So definitely, definitely into it.
[00:51:36] You know, I like to mention that because I also want to mention some of my friends comics because I say friends because I know a lot of indie comic creators and a lot of them have been doing stuff on Kickstarter lately.
[00:51:47] A guy I've known for years he did these. He did these. He did covers for Dr. Who. The comic books back in the day for IDW and Titan Paul Hanley. He's been making his own comics lately like Medusa's Menagerie and stuff.
[00:52:06] It's just, they're just so it's like it's funny to me that it's hard for people to to notice indie comic creators because they always want to hear like they always want to hear like Alan Moore or other big names like that.
[00:52:23] But like Paul Hanley, he's doing this stuff. It's like he's got this one called the unthinkables right and it feels very much like an Alan Moore book.
[00:52:33] And it's just so one of the comics I got from him recently has a random panel that has hundreds of monkeys chimpanzees at keyboards typing away to make a comic book. And literally two of them are very clearly Stanley as a chimpanzee and Jack Kirby as a chimpanzee.
[00:52:54] And it's beautiful. It is beautiful. There's a character that comes in and they're like, oh well this person's super smart. And like she's not super smart. She just knows things other people don't know.
[00:53:06] She goes, that's right because I'm the character gets introduced at this point in the comic book who was going to give some kind of great revelation. All the other people look at their own like, no, I look, I know she sounds crazy.
[00:53:16] But trust me, whenever she said something it's going to be useful. Like I said that's my purpose in the comic book. And I like the idea of a character that is self-aware enough to say that and then I didn't mean care to just pop up and do that.
[00:53:26] I'm like, yes, this is well done stuff. And then there's also a guy I've been talking to recently who goes by the comics historian, you know, you find him on YouTube a lot, Alex Grand. And he recently just said, hey, you know what? You want to see myself?
[00:53:39] And he just said I'll send you something of mine. And then he sent me five graphic novels to look at. I haven't had a chance to open them up yet.
[00:53:46] But he has the newest one is not a graphic novel but a book book, which is the understanding superhero comic books. And I'm definitely digging into these now. I just love the idea that you talk about things we haven't had a chance to cover more comics. More comics.
[00:54:01] I hear you man. I mean, let's let's say let's look at me corrected myself to it's Americana 1986 by the way that I just picked up from your comics.
[00:54:09] But yeah, I feel you there's there's writing there's books coming out not only that to give a shout out to friends of the show. I mean, we have the cheesebar comics coming out as well.
[00:54:19] I know Kevin, you're you've written one and I'm on I'm on the I'm been allowed to say that I'm writing one too down the line. I mean, I've written one and it's one of the publishers I'm waiting to have a book come out. Same.
[00:54:31] I'm scouting them to there you go. Look at that. I like that. I'm going to call it a pun. Call it that pun. Let's get a lay out there. Right in hers, you know, put it out there people energy energy into the world.
[00:54:44] But comic books, you know, we are fans of art or facts of where fans of story where fans of just graphic novels and storytelling in general. You know, we talk about representation being important and everything that we do right?
[00:54:58] No matter what it is and what content we make. And you know, I'm curious, but just just talking here because you know, no one was listening to us just us.
[00:55:10] You know, what hopes you have for 2024 when we talk about all this stuff we're into I mean not just specific things maybe but just in general like just the vibe of the industry.
[00:55:22] The the fandom, you know, what do you guys look forward to or hope for in the next year? More indie books. I mean that seriously.
[00:55:31] Yeah, I hear a lot of people say stuff like the industry is dying or whatever and honestly, people have been saying that since the 50s, every decade the industry is dying. Then suddenly there's a boost and like oh it's growing great.
[00:55:42] Oh no it's dying again and it's like no no it's not dying. It just it changes so like you know we mentioned indie comics. 20 years ago, indie comics were kind of hard to come by.
[00:55:53] You get the big thick previews phone book back because you don't know what a phone book is. And the back section the green section was always the indie books those are the ones that fight to get included in diamonds list.
[00:56:04] And every month I would order one or two from that list and if I really loved it I keep ordering it right. And that's it was difficult right now. It's just crowdfunding.
[00:56:14] You just get out there social media you put on web to and you put it on a web comic, you know, web comics took off about 1020 years ago and they're really taking off now thanks to Webtoon app.
[00:56:25] It's like, I love how much people with a passion can get their stuff out there now and I love looking forward to it. You know there's Roberto pardo pardo is a no pardo I said right the first time.
[00:56:40] It's funny because people often say his name wrong and he congratulates me on saying it right and then the one time I say it right you know. Carlos the kaiju killer, and it's amazing.
[00:56:52] And he and his brother Rick did one called gold dragon and it's just, it's a beautiful pastiche of like the old Santo movies, but it's set in a city called Santa Lucia, and the city itself is a character.
[00:57:06] And I don't mean like literally the kids didn't talk but I mean like I can feel the city's presence in the story, and it was only one 22 page issue and I'm like that's, it's beautiful.
[00:57:16] And could these people have made their book through the you know the big companies probably not what they've got noticed in the back section of previews probably not but like thanks to what we have today we can get these names out there.
[00:57:32] For sure. I agree I, I've been seeing more and more Latina names.
[00:57:39] Like I'm shouting out our people because it's hard and it's but I've been seeing more more people of la cultura just on my on my feeds, sharing their books sharing their crowdfunding and it's getting funded and it's getting shared it's getting
[00:57:55] picked up and I, and like, I don't know like five years ago probably I was thinking about like just stopping because it just wasn't. It didn't seem like we were getting anywhere with culture being represented and traction wasn't there.
[00:58:12] Yeah, it wasn't and now I'm just like everyone has a story to tell and they're getting it out there and I think as much as I hate social media. I got to thank social media sometimes because it really does help us share different works like a lot of the
[00:58:27] things that I've bought this year. None of them were big names like they're all indie self self published all this because they're like hey I wrote this story about a B and C and I'm like I haven't heard that before and like no one else is doing it I'll read it and so.
[00:58:42] No, I'm very much like I love that creators have become motivated to not wait for the big man to give them a voice but they're giving themselves a voice with their creativity and I can't wait to see what stories are coming up with that.
[00:58:59] Yeah, especially the webtoon world. Yeah for sure there I mean, yeah there's everything there's everything for you on the webtoon world like yeah it's crazy but and you've died I've died dived into certain rabbit holes I'm like wow like this is crazy.
[00:59:16] You know what I think is crazy about webtoon you mentioned like Latina creators and stuff. There is webtoon the app is from Korea, right so most of the comics on there are Korean Manhwam but they have a lot of creators from all over the world and during you know Hispanic Heritage Month they promote Latino Latina creators during Black Heritage Month they promote black creators.
[00:59:40] But what's neat is I read a lot of comics or some I didn't even realize were from Latin America. There's one I read called the I think it's called the four of them I'll look that one up in a second.
[00:59:50] And it's it's a it's just a cute slice of life high school comic and I kept noticing that that the characters were doing going to a dance class called folklore and I'm like a folklore class that wasn't dancing.
[01:00:03] And then I realized it was originally a comic from South America and they were translated to English and folklore dance was translated as folklore dance. I didn't need to say the way.
[01:00:18] So for me, I've noticed that we're on the precipice of something like we're blowing up right where it gets it's always been cool to be Latino right in the last few years everybody wants to be Latino from our sweaters to our food.
[01:00:33] To you know to our vernacular to everything to Vicks Vicks. Yeah because Vicks was affordable now it's not I'm just putting out there by the way they know. They gentrified our Bapu. They gentrified Bapu Rup. Oh my God.
[01:00:49] But if you go today if here's a tip if you go to the Mexican Latino section at Walmart there's a if you're in a neighborhood that has Latino families you're going to find a section that has nothing but Latino medicines and medications and you know
[01:01:03] and there's the Spanish version of Bapu Rup on there.
[01:01:07] It's a little more affordable like a dollar cheaper just putting it out there but what I'm getting at is that when we look at content we look at and I say the word content because that's what it is sadly the verb had the word has been used to death it's almost like a you roll your eyes when you hear it right.
[01:01:22] I know when you create something. When you create something that is not the expected subject matter or expected theme that gets me excited because I am ready for a Latino version of Atlanta.
[01:01:42] You know where it's like wacky off the wall stuff happens that is not your typical like hey I went to work and I came home and I'm struggling and the Raza and on the weekends you know I deal with this drama and this problem.
[01:01:58] I don't want to deal with exploitation like with American dirt. I don't want to deal with with that. I want to see the the heady. It had to remind me about American. Mr. Robot. I want to see like these. Not Mr. Robot.
[01:02:12] Love and robots right like I want to see this like X files but Latinos like we have that we like we saw a little bit with Chris and Mercados movie right a little bit of that. That that is expanding. We're able to.
[01:02:26] A blue beetle so we're getting those opportunities so I want to see more of that breaking away from the norm.
[01:02:32] Why can't me and earlier write our Rosie Pound cake story that we've been talking about for the past five years and kind of and let's just do it but we got to be like you know is anybody going to read it.
[01:02:42] We got to be a little more brave because of what it is. We got to be a little more brave.
[01:02:47] You know and I think that that's going to happen and I have that that energy coming from from 2024 that we're going to see a lot more Latino creators breaking away from the norm. And I'm sort of hungry for so I hope to see it. Yeah.
[01:03:02] I'm rooting for everyone. Absolutely. Seriously Kevin you seem to have something in your mind. Your brow has been very very very. Very very very very. You know we're at the end of the year.
[01:03:14] We've been talking about stuff we missed stuff that that that we we wanted to do something we enjoyed.
[01:03:20] I feel like it's time to think about like stuff that we're thankful for stuff that we really are glad we were able to do you know like I was really glad that that we've been able to talk to you know movie directors actors to comic book creators you know I'd like to do more of that next year more creators musicians.
[01:03:40] I know that I am the least musically inclined but I still think it's something that should be part of the podcast. I'm really glad to do it and honestly one thing I'm really grateful for is. Elia joining us you know it's nice to have more voices come on.
[01:03:58] No yeah I mean Elia of course first and foremost Elia because I've been friends with Elia for a while so I was a fan. Oh I've not I've been enemies. I've been enemies. My friend. Moral. Moral.
[01:04:12] But above you know I'm excited that she joined the show because I love her energy I love her vibe I love that she is a force of nature don't underestimate Elia she's going to make something happen. I can go.
[01:04:28] No I'm really thankful that y'all y'all let me join the fun. I would say I'm proud to be the diversity hire but that doesn't work in this environment. I mean let's be fair there was there was a lot of news on the show you know.
[01:04:41] Yeah a lot of guys on the show and you know. There you go there you go you can you can pull that card. I was talking brown.
[01:04:49] Let's pull like for me like you said I would love for the show to just keep growing and doing more like we did earlier right we talked about different directors filmmakers more comic book creators I love talking about representation and office. I love facets for me honestly. Right.
[01:05:06] Yeah I've always been able to approach people and talk about social media it's allowed me to be able to get that personal touch on these creators and just put myself out there.
[01:05:13] And I want this show to just feel like a place where and I don't know if you want to stuff you know kind of like give myself some props but. If you want to get out there. You got to go through us.
[01:05:24] You know what I mean it's almost like oh I got to get my people's podcast because that's going to put me in front of the right people because.
[01:05:29] The community that we're in really do support each other guys like I appreciate everyone out there listening to this show because everyone out there that's a creator consumer you don't have to be a creator you can be a fan.
[01:05:41] But as long as you're involved you're allowed to be a fan. Be a fan. I like the public community. Part of the community. It is it really is. So part of the podcasters were all part of that community. Yeah we were small but we are we are loud.
[01:05:59] And I always say we got to make noise as I said in the beginning I'm saying again because we got to support like you said the indie creators support our people support the community and I want this show to be that for a platform for anybody that's willing to put themselves out there be genuine representation being that forefront and having fun.
[01:06:17] I want people to come on here and at least everybody that has come on as express that they've enjoyed themselves had a good time.
[01:06:24] And that's what I want to do for this show is to keep growing growing and growing and welcome more people you know down the line we get more people to join the primos right and that's just yeah come on how many people do Latinos have. Well. Well.
[01:06:44] Then we reached the end of the show. We reached the end of the season. We reached the end of the year for us know we do take a little break here for the next couple of months will be in touch on social media.
[01:06:56] I definitely want to promise not to be sick next year. Oh man I hope the amount of cons you visit I can't promise that but I am thankful for our conventions. I'm thankful for our conventions.
[01:07:09] I know that the no comic con which you know earlier Kevin of course have a huge hand in that and I'm excited to see what the show does next year makes America on and Latin comics Expo on the West Coast.
[01:07:22] And we want to just invite us to come over. Well when they pay for our flights like Javier told me one time. I want to go so bad. I will go where you were you've resend me you know I want to lick the Fresno ground. No you go.
[01:07:37] You don't want to go to Fresno. There's nothing but math out there in Fresno. Don't do that. But come out here to Southern California. A lot of fun. Primoz I want to just say thank you all for listening.
[01:07:49] Thank you for this is our I don't even know what year this is Kevin six six years doing this give or take. And make sure because I feel like I've been doing it for I guess if you're having fun you don't realize how many years it's been. Yeah.
[01:08:02] I want to just again. I have you guys say your piece here before we end our night. But Primoz I want to thank you all for listening. I want to thank of course such a cool man.
[01:08:12] They've helped out in the beginning and we have changed how we do things but I feel like we're going to grow. I want to thank all the listeners out there of course keep following us on all social media. I'll be there and new things to come.
[01:08:25] I'm sure we'll have new things new podcasts and new ideas out there. So I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart from myself my Primo. Walter is not here and myself to start at the show.
[01:08:37] Thanks everybody for listening and Kevin I'll hand it over to you. Well I just want to say Primoz keep on preening. Hey.
[01:08:49] What about you what do you have for the Primoz there and being in the show because everything you said is all I could think is that everything you said I'm just echoing that I can't say anymore and that you said it for me.
[01:08:58] I can chop everybody's speech up. You're so poetic. Just mine. What do you got for us.
[01:09:06] No I'm very grateful for everyone here like everyone in the community you know like I couldn't have gotten an opportunity if I didn't reach out to the community to possibly get a book published to be on the podcast to co run a convention.
[01:09:21] That's all our community coming together you know like I don't know I'm just grateful that you know we all give each other chances.
[01:09:28] We all give each other and we all I think the thing about like just the community in general is we help each other grow so we can all grow together and that's what I see happening and I love it. Let's keep it up and do it harder in 2024.
[01:09:44] Another show. Don't clip that don't clip stop. Let's do it harder. Do it harder. And what kind of threats that just kick is it. This is my last podcast you guys. And I think it's nice and what is the right word. Moist moist. Oh my God.
[01:10:07] I hope everyone has a moist 2024 have the most moist and harder holiday that you could possibly have. Wow guys. I love the energy. Have a moist wet. You know. Kevin you teach my people here this.
[01:10:25] I said nothing that I don't mean literally I am obviously referring to the consistency of cake. Yeah me too. Safe safe all about cake. Well everybody and take what is it. You've made me almost choke up with this talk of cake. But thank you guys.
[01:10:43] I said my peace. We love you all pretty much till next time. We out.