S7 EP14: Gila Girl, Cocktails & Henry Barajas

[00:00:00] Que Ondas Primos, Primas y Primes. Welcome to My, My Primos, My Primos, My Primos Podcast. My name is Freddy. My name is Kevin Garcia. My name is Elia Maria Matrize.

[00:00:11] This is Chikuma. Whenever I can make it. My Primos Podcast discusses all things fandom and pop culture from comics, movies to whatever obsession we have this week. But with the Latine, Latine, my Latine perspective, remember

[00:00:24] we're all Primos. We're all Prima. We're all Primos no matter what part of the world we're from. I had trouble reading a thread on threads. I was like, this thing is literally called threads. It says part one.

[00:00:37] How do I get to part two? And when I clicked comments, it said make a comment. I'm like, no, no, I want to read the comments. Oh, no. Hey Ondas, Primos, Primas and Primes and welcome back to My Primos Podcast. My name is Primo Freddy.

[00:00:49] Welcome to the show. With me tonight is my Primo and yours Mr. Kevin Garcia dot com. Say what's up, Kevin? What's up, Kevin? What's up, Kevin? Kevin Garcia filling that hole everybody in my heart. In the hole. In my heart. In my heart. In the hole.

[00:01:03] In any other hole. Any hole in a storm or something like this. Well, well, hey, any hole in a storm, right? Anyways, but also of course joining us tonight. Welcome back Miss Spice Illustrations. You were missed very, very much. I lived.

[00:01:19] You lived. She lives. Hey, what's up Spice Illustrations? What's up Spice Illustrations? She lives. Changed it up. Helps other people live with her charity work. I love it. That's true. Am I going to say like JDRF nominated Spice Illustrations? Look at that. Look at that.

[00:01:40] What is that about, Elia? People don't know what we're talking about here. So yeah, for those who don't know, I am an ambassador with the JDRF now called Breakthrough T1D. That's the juvenile diabetes research, right?

[00:01:51] Yes, but now they've rebranded so it's not just exclusively juvenile diabetes centered. It's everyone type 1 diabetes. So I'm an ambassador with them. I do streams to raise money and they have the Blue Heart Awards coming up in two weeks. And I was nominated for a couple of categories.

[00:02:07] So congratulations. I'm excited. Yeah, definitely. I'm excited. Well, I'm excited tonight too because we have somebody coming back. We haven't had him on in a while. You know, he's always friendly online. We've hung out. We've had a couple of drinks.

[00:02:20] Couple of, you know, there was an argument, I don't see a debate between the right way to make an old fashioned between Chikume and this guest. I'm talking about multi-talented Mr. Henry Baraja. Say what's up, Henry? Hola, primo si prima. Who? Who are we? Okay, that's that.

[00:02:40] I haven't thought about that since, you know. Who was the argument with? I didn't know it was Chikume. The other primo that's like the beach ball, the Wilson on the island of the show. He was out right now for a bit. He'll be back soon.

[00:02:58] We have a very, very, very welcoming and open paternity leave. It's like four years. Let me go. I think the US should adopt that as well. Yeah, come on. I think just for context for people, this was at the Texas Latino Comic-Con Hotel Bar lobby.

[00:03:19] At like 11 at night or something. I remember it was so much fun. Yeah. And I remember talking about it, but I didn't realize it was, you know. It was a very much enjoyable conversation to be a fly on the wall, too,

[00:03:37] because I am not 100% versed on cocktails and the right way. And literally, I love you guys walk up to the bar. The bar is empty. There's nobody there. Oh yeah, that's what happened. That's right. And the lady, the nice woman in the world behind the bar, she's like,

[00:03:53] That's great. What do you guys want? It was her first day or she never, she's not a bartender. Oh no. So I had, it was fine. It was really, it was really cool because, you know, like she was just doing this job that obviously a lot of people,

[00:04:08] you know, pass up on or they're just, they don't have staff for. So the hotel bar was open, which is very unusual. And at that time anywhere. And she didn't know how to make a cocktail. And I worked in bars and we will talk about the book,

[00:04:24] but I taught her how to make an old fashioned. And I guess somebody else had a different idea of what an old fashion is. So I love how that's the thing. Cause she coming, you walked up to each other and we're like, okay, let's make this happen.

[00:04:37] And then you started spouting off ingredients and she, no, no, no, it's this way. And you're like, bro, no, it's like, You started like drop your. I don't, I mean, What's the correct one is cause I love old fashioned.

[00:04:51] If you're such an expert on this, you should write a book about it. Yeah. We'll get there. Definitely. Definitely. But Kevin Garcia. Of course, Henry, but I'll ask these are our guests tonight. Our usual host as well.

[00:05:05] But pretty much remember follow us at my Piedmont's podcast for all our posts, check out our content. Mr. Kevin Garcia does a lot of reviews recently for films. We put them on there as well. I do a couple of reviews too.

[00:05:17] And of course we put some of Elia's work on there. She's a, if you haven't noticed her new summer logo is out. She designed that for us. It was pretty fun. I'm a fan of it. So check out, of course her work.

[00:05:25] You know, she does the commission sometimes, you know, never know. Throw spend those coins that we said about the web tunes, right? It's been the coins. Let's help each other along. By the way, I caught up on the. I'm like an episode.

[00:05:36] Like I want to say like chapter 84, 85 of the kiss bet. Okay. It's really good. I saw in the chat that you're like, Oh, Yeah. Fucking Patrick. There you go. I thought I'm going to say no. If you know, you know. But tonight. But tonight, Henry, Henry Henry.

[00:05:54] Well, let's talk about you tonight. Let's just kind of talk about your culture up to what you've been up to. What's going on? What's going on? Yeah. He looked at all number one. That's the cheese. Cheesepa comics. I am in a yeah.

[00:06:09] So I was approached last, well, I guess two years ago. To write a story for the cheese for universe. And I was like, Oh, I'm going to write a story for the universe. Hector Rodriguez and. And David Bowles.

[00:06:30] They reached out to me and there was a bunch of amazing people involved. And they gave you, they gave us all a list. Like who. You know what interests you? And I was, you know,

[00:06:41] I guess I was quick on the draw and was able to pick Kila girl. And I was like, Oh, I'm going to write a story about a girl named Angela. Who is the daughter of. Of. You know. Of a character and it was a,

[00:06:58] it was fun to take something from scratch and. And turn it into something that who you know, you never know if it's going to move on and do, you know, live beyond me, but it's basically about this girl named Angela, who on her 18th birthday.

[00:07:11] It comes to cheese spa. And I think that's the, that's the thing about the character and the abilities of that of a lizard. And growing up in Tucson, you know, you see lizards everywhere. You know, the halo monster is around. So.

[00:07:24] Someone who had been really wanting to work with Sally. Salome Antoinette. Someone who I just really respect their work and who's always hustling and who's always looking. You know, to work and, and it was such an. You know, It was such a really cool experience for me.

[00:07:44] I mean, I was very excited about it because I was like, you know, we got started and when the script was done, she was able to draw it. She was sending me pages and panels and ideas like every day. And that's like something you can't.

[00:07:57] You can't buy and you can't, you can't teach. Someone with that kind of hustle. For. For, you know, for making comics. Now for people joining us with cheese spa. I mean, I think it's a really cool thing to have people just born with

[00:08:13] powers that show up around their 18th birthday. They are called cheese buzz. Sparks. And a lot of us here, we've had, we've had a bunch of other cheese boat writers on as well. An artist. I love that. You're taking your, your, your. Your history.

[00:08:28] I was gonna say from the desert. But your history from the Southwest and tying it into the character. How much of that is, is your hometown? Well, it's not my hometown. It was, it was like one of those things where I decided to put, put it in Chicago.

[00:08:42] Just cause you know, I've been to Chicago and it takes place in Chicago. So. You know, everything's always in New York or LA. And I know a lot of stuff was happening in Texas. That was something that I heard from David. And yeah, I just wanted to give.

[00:09:01] I just wanted to like, take this character, put it in another city that. Really? You know, is such a, if you've ever been. It's it's it's not East coast, but it's not Midwest. It's it's very much an amalgamation of both cultures and personalities of people that are like.

[00:09:18] You know, they're nice, but they're like. They're not patient or they're not like. You know, they're not gonna like. They're not going to blow smoke up your keister. Yeah. So yeah, so they're very direct. And I kind of wanted to have that, that style of in the book.

[00:09:36] But but but like just to answer your question. If you read the comic, there is a distinct color of the costume that gets, you know, changed at the end. But that is definitely like a nod to Hila, the Hila monster,

[00:09:54] which we were kind of really trying to inject into the lizard of choice. But it was really like I wrote like I wrote the script on a train ride from San Diego Comic Con back to L.A. I got sick. I guess it was last year.

[00:10:15] Yeah, so I started I was like listening to Elric, the albino fantasy series and the dark elf. Yeah, the dark elf and his whole thing is his blood is killing him, which I think is a very cool power or like something that can that you can

[00:10:36] like hang a lot on. And so I decided to make the character diabetic. And I know a lot of people that diabetes, you know, runs rampant in my family. I'm lucky that it hasn't caught up to me yet.

[00:10:52] But that was definitely a inspiration, which was fun to take the the Elric character and try to like use that element as as a way as for a superhero. You know, it's not really. And he has sent a great message today out of nowhere.

[00:11:10] We're talking about the episode tonight reading your book. What did you send? Yeah, we'll say it was it was awesome. Yeah, it was something like, God, just to see a character with with diabetes,

[00:11:21] like I feel seen, you know, like I don't read a lot of comics that have or anything in general where you see representation not just of diabetes in general, but type one. Like they reference insulin and just the moment where she was just like

[00:11:37] God living with a chronic illness. I'm like, I feel that I feel that like, I don't know, it felt good to like read it and see that in there for sure. That was fun. Yeah, no, it was, you know, as a writer, you get to you get

[00:11:49] to act like you have these things, you know, you get to like, wow, yeah, man, my, you know, just have these like I'm joking. But seriously, like in all seriousness, it's it's it's one of those things

[00:12:01] where you're like there is such an emphasis on, you know, like how do you write? And one of the challenges and why I don't do superhero comics on my own is what how do you make something that resonates with people today?

[00:12:16] Like, how do you make something that, you know, like when I read Spider-Man, it was like that was it. And that was the idea of like, how do I write a comic book that's superhero genre that I hope a kid finds and sees their life and or at

[00:12:33] least this time in what kids are dealing with? I mean, the room, sorry to cut you off. I don't want to miss this. I'm going to lose it because I'm a different other stuff. But, you know, we talk about, you know, connecting with something, right?

[00:12:47] Not to give too much out of the way of the book, but there's scenes in the book that talk about the youth being displayed here doing things that youth are doing now. Right. It's not like when we grew up and you saw, hey, yeah, the

[00:12:58] older kids are doing this. The college kids are doing this or, you know, we have to. Oh, I'm in high school. I'm in junior high. I can't have a voice. I can't really go out there and do something. I'm kind of scared or skittish, but your characters don't.

[00:13:10] This is what kids my age, my kids age pardon are doing. They have the balls to kind of go like, no, I know what's up. This is all a fucking game. Like, let's stand up for ourselves. So I really yeah, you're doing that, man.

[00:13:22] I really enjoyed that about the book. Well, you know, it's interesting that you say that I'm working on something else that touches on a historic protesting within the Chicano community. And specifically, I think like that is, you know, the Chicano

[00:13:42] movement was started in schools and started with high schools here in East L.A., started with the college campuses and the so this was being done in the late sixties. If you look up 1968 Chicano history in general, such a big year for brown people.

[00:14:01] So that was kind of what I was trying to pay homage to and also recognizing what kids talk about and do today just because, you know, there is a supposedly a safety net for kids to go out and protest and exercise their First Amendment rights because you're

[00:14:20] hoping cops aren't going to attack children. But, you know, that as we've been seen and doesn't always happen. So but yeah, that was the goal was like, hey, how do we how do we talk? You know, Sally identifies as queer, the character identity, you

[00:14:36] know, as much as we could express in an issue, we try to flush out the character. It's obvious or an ally. We haven't, you know, we tried not to explore sexual orientation in the book just because, you know, there's only so much you could do with 20 pages. Yeah.

[00:14:56] You're setting up a hero. So it was fun to to like try to parrot what's happening, but also honor what has happened before us. Well, I appreciate that you specifically put a spotlight on kids arguing for trans rights and also a lot of science that

[00:15:14] says specifically black trans lives matter. That's something that's important to a lot of my students. And it's just it's one of those things that has strangely become a battleground lately for some reason. And I don't know, I guess I wasn't expecting to see it in

[00:15:30] the book and I'm really glad it's there. Was that something specifically that you wanted to make sure was was was there in the book? Yeah, I mean, it's it's you know, how many times do you open up superhero or whatever?

[00:15:44] How many times do you open up superhero origin story and they're chasing a random guy in a car that just like robbed a bank? You know, it's always like a dude in a car downtown and they're shooting and the cops are like toppling over and the hero like

[00:16:01] this is just barely saves a day. I think it's important to, you know, take step to establish as much like the character. He'll a girl is always going to be cool and is always going to be like the, you know, the source of the kinetic energy.

[00:16:18] How do you connect that with the characters secret identity or who they are as a person? So, you know, it was a good way to get around having to come up with something that like really, you know, puts that character in its suit so quickly.

[00:16:37] And so you see them wearing and you know, they're wearing and like, you know, emphasizing their they are who they are as a moral in their moral compass and their moral standards and who they are as a person. So yeah, like and that's the thing.

[00:16:55] Like these are supposed to be for kids like these comics like you hope and pray to God that a child picks up a comic book and hopefully that's the book that gets sets them on a horrible life of reading comics and spending all their money whatever they can.

[00:17:11] Yeah. Yeah. So that's that was the goal is to trap someone into a relentless horrible life of being a comic book reader. Welcome when they're young and that's what it is. That's what it is. But if 13 year old me picked this comic up for sure, for sure.

[00:17:29] That's the goal is for 30 year olds to look back and say my 13 year old self would like this. That's what we're really old made. I have a quick kind of a question to me. You mentioned yourself earlier that you don't necessarily run towards a superhero book.

[00:17:45] Am I am I fair to say that when I make my own comics, you know, like I'm reading Ultimate Spider-Man for the first time in, you know, the new series I'm assuming. Yeah. The Jonathan Hickman stuff. I'm surprised I'm enjoying myself. I have one of them right here.

[00:18:05] Yeah. Cheetah Chetto and Wilson, you know, I got I got all five issues here. Really? I'm. Yeah, no, I love superhero comics. I grew up on superhero comics. But for a long time, if you wanted to write superhero comics in

[00:18:22] this industry, you had to do anything but superhero comics because just because it just it does it doesn't look good on you if you're just doing your your version of Spider-Man. Yeah, sure. And it just doesn't, you know, so but the goal is to make a

[00:18:40] comic and to tell a story. So but yeah, I mean, my goal when I write a comic or when I start writing a series is my own at least, you know, independent creator own work is to do something that is not

[00:18:55] like, you know, just not something you can find elsewhere just to do something that people can resonate to in a different genre or different kind of set of characters that, you know, that avoids capes really. Yeah.

[00:19:12] I mean, my question, I think, kind of to elaborate a little more, I feel as though not necessarily when you don't necessarily like me, for example, if I'm writing a superhero book, like you said, it's not my goal is not to make it super fantastical,

[00:19:25] even though it's a superhero book. I try to tether it somewhat to some form of a real real life. Right. I mean, yeah. Like we're talking about. No, no, no. You. Comic superhero genre, you know, is is an interesting beast

[00:19:43] because the moment you start tethering it to reality, you start having to answer to everything that reality has. And so like, you know, there is that that argument that Batman only beats up brown people if they're stealing a loaf of bread.

[00:19:59] Like like how granular do you want to get when it gets when it gets superhero comics? So the point is, is like, you know, like invincible is a good example of like a superhero comic that is operates within its own universe and has its own conversations

[00:20:16] where, you know, the kid finds out he's a superhero by throwing out the trash, which is, you know, that's like, and then you see him in outer space killing, you know, aliens or whatever. So that that tethering of reality,

[00:20:31] you know, is to the humanity and less to reality. So for me, when I'm writing like for the first time writing HeLa Girl, the idea was how my question is to myself is what is a kid now dealing with

[00:20:51] and how do I talk about that and how do I operate in that space versus, you know, having it to deal in real life? I mean, the comic opens with the play. The idea is that this is already set like a like a shape

[00:21:09] like the I like I don't want to give this away, but if I ever get to number two, the idea is to like use that first two pages as a preamble of what is going to happen next. Mm hmm.

[00:21:22] You know, so like it's it's it's it's so it's you know, like every panel counts, you know, when you're writing comics, you're writing panels. So every like I like every time you read something, it's supposed to mean something.

[00:21:36] But to talk to just a touchback of what you're saying about tethering its reality. I mean, that's your that's your prerogative, you know, to do whatever you want in a superhero comic. You know, like you could go the guard, you know,

[00:21:49] you could go in so many different directions and the the soul and the core of it is the story. And that's what you really have to service the most. You can set it in reality. You can set it in outer space.

[00:22:03] You can set it in a different dimension or heaven or hell. But you really have to like use the mechanics of story. Well put, well put. I mean, I mean, love the book of the story.

[00:22:14] Like I said, I just kind of touching on that because I saw a lot of, I guess, real world connections that you mentioned. That was a point right to talk about what's being talked about. But I mean, I love it so far and I definitely hope that

[00:22:27] everybody listening go picks up this book. It does come out this week. So just go out and look for it. Hila Girl launches June the 19th. By the time of this recording, this is going to be out this week. It's coming Wednesday. So definitely, definitely check it out.

[00:22:42] Now take a quick break and we'll dive into some more with Henry Barajas.

[00:23:33] Of course, we're going to dive into some more and more and more geeky talk about geeky things we're into. Mr. Kevin Garcia, you wanted to talk about. That's the two guys ninja. Yeah. What the heck, man? I didn't even, I know you'd posted online, but I couldn't even.

[00:23:50] This is you have stolen my dream, man, because you did the adaptation of Teenage Mutant Turtles Splintered Fate. I mean, I think it was a very, very good adaptation. I did the adaptation of Teenage Mutant Turtles Splintered Fate,

[00:24:03] and I just love the idea of doing a turtles book. And I just want to know how that happened. And what was your experience like with the four brothers? I well, it was it was cool because a friend of mine used to work at IDW.

[00:24:21] He was the editor on the property and got me this really cool opportunity. I got to write the prequel story that happens right as Splintered Fate, the one of the first Apple Arcade exclusive games that came out last year.

[00:24:42] So it was really cool to like to get the assignment because, you know, like when you make comics and at least for me, I try to make comics is I love the medium and I have stories I want to tell.

[00:24:56] There is like, you know, there's something that that you want, you know, that it's you could do. You could write books. You could write music or whatever. But I really try to make this medium mine and having the opportunity to write this story.

[00:25:16] There you go. There's all the people that worked on it. But it's you, you know, this assignment in particular was like these characters, their voices have been in my head for years. I've been parodying them and saying, you know, like, you know,

[00:25:31] imitating them my whole life. And and it's so it was like, oh, yeah, I know what to do. And the fun thing about this comic in particular was was like I got to,

[00:25:46] you know, that you only get what I think it was like 16 pages or 20 pages or whatever. So you're like you really have you don't have much time to kind of like dive in as deep as you want.

[00:25:57] But what I wanted to say with the character really had to do with Master Splinter and Shredder and have them talk because the idea of the Ninja Turtles being in New York, having to fight the foot forever and just there being endless violence,

[00:26:13] you would think that Master Splinter would try to avoid all that and have some sort of diplomacy with the with the opposition. So, yeah, that was my like, OK, here's what I have to say about Ninja Turtles and to have that experience and to play.

[00:26:32] It was cool that I got to beta test the game. And, you know, growing up playing the video games, my first birthday was Rafael Ninja Turtle birthday themed. So, like, you know, to have that kind of full circle moment was really cool.

[00:26:52] Yeah, I mean, I had bed sheets that I probably peed on growing up. Hey, that makes them more valuable now. They're cool. I had to convince my mom to pay to join the Burger King's Kids Club.

[00:27:05] Yes. So that can get a Ninja Turtles like, you know, she had to pay for it. I was like, my mom's like, I have to pay for this stupid thing. And I go like, you have to because I get cool stickers. Yeah. All right. Comic with turtles.

[00:27:21] Yeah, I mean, and that was the other like one of those things where you get to see how the sausage is made, where the turn, you know, when you get to make your own comics, you get to do whatever you want.

[00:27:32] But then when it's Ninja Turtles, it's a multi-million dollar entity that is carefully protected and has people that go, well, Donnie wouldn't say that. And I'm just like, well, actually, Donnie would see that. Because he said it in this issue. I would watch it my whole life. Exactly.

[00:27:52] But so to have that, you know, to see like the black and white indie comic, darling, that everyone loved, that revolutionized independent comics publishing for it to be like a toy in the chest box of Paramount and Viacom.

[00:28:11] And to have like to go through that was just it was just very funny to be like, oh, OK, don't write about your heroes. I mean, that's exciting, man. Yeah, I mean, it also helps puts things in perspective like this is not yours.

[00:28:29] This issue came out a year ago. It's going to be something I can always, you know, use as a footnote in my resume.

[00:28:38] This, you know, it's something that like was exciting for 15 minutes and that you get to hang your hat on for the rest of your life, but it's not mine. And, you know, but I just bought a bunch of copies to give to for free to kids.

[00:28:51] Hey, that's the way to do it. Yeah.

[00:28:56] You know, you get to do so many things that I love and then I remember you did helm great castle like what a year or two ago, and sort of the Kickstarter and now it's like a trade from image comics right.

[00:29:08] It is. Yeah, it came out three years ago. I have my coffee somewhere here. I do have it. It's kind of like fantasy with like, like kind of the Dungeons and Dragons esque but there's a lot of like Mesoamerican influence. Yeah.

[00:29:24] You know how do you do all this this diverse stuff? I mean, I love it.

[00:29:28] Well, you know, this was a comic that spawned out of the levels the Mayo comic that I learned about that my bus for yaki family was documented by Spanish priests during the Inquisition and to be like, oh, my family dates as far back as the Inquisition, you know, like to

[00:29:51] Wow.

[00:29:52] You know, to be like, oh, like to have that like that that connection was was interesting but also something that never like came up during a Quintanilla or a family barbecue or something you know that you're you're just so far removed from the from like your history and your people.

[00:30:11] So I've always loved fantasy. I love Lord of the Rings. I love playing D&D.

[00:30:19] So I wanted to find a way to set that world and to introduce, you know, Mesoamerican history and Mexican people, brown people, Afro Latino people into the into the genre without it being like a thing.

[00:30:37] You know, like this no one ever bats an eye at this book because it's set in Mexico.

[00:30:42] Like no one ever like if this was like, you know, the, you know, if this was Lord of the Rings and like all of a sudden people show up, then you're like, oh, why are these, you know, people of color here?

[00:30:53] Like they there was a conscious decision to have the adventurers invade this space and to be the outsiders.

[00:31:00] And because, you know, it was it was it was so much fun to do that and to incorporate five E role playing games so that you when you play these games set in Azteca, you're like, oh, well, it would be natural that my character would be, you know, a Jaguar knife, whatever you wanted them to be.

[00:31:22] And they can and they could be brown and it wouldn't be weird or it wouldn't be you know, you don't have to go into depth and explaining that. So you don't have to sound the frickin trumpet to it. You know, like you don't have to.

[00:31:33] Yeah, I don't have to just lie your existence. And that's the whole point. That's always that's always a big thing for me is when I feel like sometimes characters of books like I like when they're fully into something.

[00:31:42] But also sometimes I feel like they have to justify their existence as something which is nice when sometimes it just flows. Yeah. Yeah. You don't have to you could skip that whole part. And I was that was a lazy me being lazy.

[00:31:53] But but I co-created that with Brian Balenza. We published that with Top Gal and and that was supposed to be in the Beyond Topia anthology. But I didn't read the email correctly. And he did a whole lot of his own series.

[00:32:10] And it came out to be very successful. And it's my best selling independent work.

[00:32:16] And I mean now now the best thing I've you know not the best but the most well received well read thing is that the Laura's worth the comic I wrote for the New York Public Education. You know, Unified School District.

[00:32:31] But yeah, Helm Grey Castle is the like thing that a lot of people you know like and read and it's it's pretty cool.

[00:32:38] It's pretty cool. But we made Beyond Topia with with Fair Square Comics and and now we have a spin off one issue or the first the inaugural issue of Bandits of Batavia which is the first story that was in the anthology.

[00:32:55] But it's about this character named Black Bull who is trying to who has to become a bandit to basically fight the other bandits in the government that is destroying his community in town in Indonesia. It's based on act like actual Indonesian folklore. And this is all really.

[00:33:19] This is the, the baby that is Brian Valenza who's currently a Marvel exclusive art color artist. And he really wants to become a writer. And he insisted that I help him write it.

[00:33:32] And you know if you when you get a chance to work with this kind of caliber art and team you really can't say no. So yeah art is exquisite my goodness. Yeah, very well. This is an active kickstarter right now. That is happening right now. Yeah we are.

[00:33:52] Yeah we hope that people get into it and and you know and give it a shot. It's there's a lot of really cool covers. You get to be drawn into the book if you want. All kinds of all kinds of rewards.

[00:34:09] This is awesome. Now definitely go check it out. Primo's support. We talked about always putting your money where we need it. This is why we proved that our shit is good and you'll get to make it happen. Spend those coins. Yeah. Spend those coins.

[00:34:23] Spend the coin, share it. Maybe somebody else might be in a position. Definitely. Sharing helps just as much. Sharing helps. Yep. Definitely does help. And so Henry you also I mean you're just working on stuff all the time man.

[00:34:37] You know I'm trying to like somehow bubble it all into one hour which you know we'll try. Like a boil. Really? Okay that's the way to put it. Yeah you're the boil of comic book or art. I don't know. You just ooze with talent. Yeah. Ooze. Wow.

[00:34:59] Ninja Turtles. Ninja Turtles book. I mean you know let's just put it that way. But you also work on a very I mean long running. I mean let's I don't know how to even like describe what Gilthorpe is. Oh there's some ads there.

[00:35:17] Yeah I think it was funny there was no ad until you said that. Well it is I mean if yeah it is driven by ads so it's free to read. I mean it's just added up. Yeah it's also good that they're in newspapers.

[00:35:31] Yeah it's cool because it runs in a particular newspaper shout out to The Current and they're like funny page like page is it's peanuts, doonesberry, Garfield and then Gilthorpe. Nice.

[00:35:52] Yeah you have that kind of real estate is something that I always dreamed of some I was that you know I was that nerdy kid that read the paper every day that you know read you know and it always would read the funnies.

[00:36:07] Yeah and would like you know so it is a it is an honor but yeah Gilthorpe is is a high school athletics director who coaches and mentors kids in Milford and Milford is in a place that has never been fully established.

[00:36:27] But as you see here you have Luke Martinez apologizing to his former co-worker who he was his boss but now has taken over the head coach position and tries to apologize.

[00:36:40] And I love this is one of my favorite strips I've ever that I've written you know I've written 110 scripts six you know six days a script three panels a day so we're almost hitting seven hundred and fifty. Yeah. Hundred strips have been published.

[00:36:59] But like the guy who's been drawing and has been drawing it since 2008 so he's like in like five you know thousands of strips but you have a moment where someone tries to apologize.

[00:37:12] And my favorite panels that second panel where he says I was a jerk call selfish insecure I'm still all those things. But I'm working on it. Okay it's like. Someday not today. My wife gets mad at me. I love you but I can't forgive you today. Yeah.

[00:37:34] I love you but I can't forgive you today. You can't you can't like even in art you can't let the characters apologize and go sure buddy. Yeah we're good. Yeah. That's all the way things work.

[00:37:48] I remember us having a very brief conversation that the aforementioned like midnight bar thing about guilt and you were like he was like hmm. I'm considering running guilt or in color and you know I'm like really he's like yeah why not. Why can't I do that.

[00:38:08] I was like fuck it. I don't know why can't you and then look at that we have color. What about that. I mean maybe no I think what I what I probably said was it's going to probably be in print like as a graphic novel.

[00:38:24] Okay as I misunderstood I'm like in color so I don't know why hopefully I can't talk about it yet but you'll be the first to know when can we get a graphic novel crossover between guilt Thorpe and Helm Gray Castle.

[00:38:39] Oh my god I mean that would be great. That would be great but I don't want to. I don't want any. I can't I don't really want to talk to any more lawyers than I have to. So you know what. I bet. Yeah.

[00:38:53] So Helm Gray Castle and guilt or will have to exist its own legal parameters. Legally distinct universe. Yes. But yeah so hopefully in you know it soon we'll be able to maybe who knows talk about a collected edition of the work I've done so far. Nice cool.

[00:39:20] That's exciting. That's exciting. And there's another thing we mentioned that evening about drink and whatnot. We've been hinting at it then. That was interesting. I'm telling you. I'm like what happens if Dorian goes you want to see how comic books are really made.

[00:39:33] And I was like whoa let's go. You have a book coming out man. You talked about it and I'm really excited because I am a huge fan of 90s music and alcohol.

[00:39:45] I don't know if that's universal here or not but the ultimate 90s cocktail playlist by Henry Barajas and Cassandra Reader. Talk about this book. Yes that is exciting. It is the ultimate 90s cocktail playlist with inside additions.

[00:40:07] They make some beautiful amazing hardcover cookbooks cocktail books tarot decks and that's what I was originally supposed to write one tarot deck but really editor was like yes something happened with the license and the editor was like do you like 90s music and

[00:40:26] I have a history of DJing and I just love music in general. I mean when I was a kid and even to this day it's still in my childhood living room there is a 200 CD disc changing playing machine.

[00:40:43] So like at any given moment it'd be like rigathon or it would be like you know oldies or country or pop or rap or you know and my mom

[00:40:54] was loved calling the radio station and winning CDs and she became a staple with the DJs so we would constantly be just going there frequently and picking up stacks of CDs that they would get you know to review and to play on on the radio station.

[00:41:11] So we just had new stuff all the time. I just took advantage of the fucking Columbia house 1000s for any shit and then randomly a bill shows up and my dad said what the hell is this and I go I don't know. I don't know.

[00:41:26] I was always getting best of best of best of because I'm like I get the collection you know and that's exactly what this is right.

[00:41:34] Well this is yeah so the assignment was to come up with 75 songs and Cassandra reader who you know God bless her is an amazing mixologist and who created some of the most the coolest looking drinks.

[00:41:51] I don't know if anyone will actually be able to recreate these things and I hope they do. And, and the funny part is if you scroll down or if you click maybe. Oh no. If you go to the Amazon. Oh the Amazon one.

[00:42:08] Yeah, if you go to Amazon you'll be able to actually see pages. Oh yeah. Yeah, yeah. Look up there. The photography is actually pretty damn good like they make them pretty. Oh there you go. Yeah. Looking for like I want to. Like the year. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:42:27] Grooves in the heart, you know. Yeah, there's the Barbie girl. There you go. Well, you know you got to make it and find out. By the way I really appreciate the pun. Yeah, that was good. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[00:42:48] I'm very much a purist so like if the title is the title, you know, oh, the cash rules everything around me. That looks insane. I don't think it's on here, but the notorious, notorious DIG. Dinner Galactic. Yeah, I mean it's, it's real like.

[00:43:12] And that was the thing was like to be able to like bring like I got to work in bar so I got to like give input on some drinks like there's a Dolly Parton drink.

[00:43:21] There's a Linda Ronstadt Tucson, you know, Tucson love hometown always having to put something. There is that wild one in here too like I mean how deep. See that's the thing like you would be surprised how many good songs are in the 90s. Right. Oh, yeah.

[00:43:40] I mean, I mean, to the book. So that was the biggest problem was like we like thong songs out in it. I think that's the thing about the 90s song too.

[00:43:53] You kind of go back, go back a couple pages because if you go back, I think, go back to look and then maybe the first couple there's an actually a, is there a timeline. Yeah, yeah. It was chronological and I like that it is it is chronological.

[00:44:09] So you're drinking. Hold on a second. That first one under 1999. Is that is that the real some shitty. Get up. There's one for. No, I don't get up stand up in here. That's not 90s. The define 90s. It was like Bob Marley said get up. Bob Marley.

[00:44:29] Oh my god. Yeah, no, the fantasy. Mariah Carey. Rose. There is. I mean, it's really like we went out of our way to do a really cool playlist and to like do something that is just not the top stuff.

[00:44:47] Yeah, really tried to go out of our way and do stuff that was you know, like that was good that probably didn't get the notoriety or the chart because you know at that time it was like what was on MTV what was on the charts.

[00:45:02] You know, and with the, you know, the Napster death of the music industry. Yeah. I mean, I remember a time we talked about the CD, the CD changer right all that. We used to have like listening parties right bring a CD. Throw it on the mixer.

[00:45:20] And we just play music and whatever comes up comes up and that was the whole track. It's true. They track not eat something else. Um, yeah. I mean it depends what you're doing in the 90s. Exactly.

[00:45:38] I mean true, true. There's a lot a lot of a poison in the song. Yeah, I think that was poison. Yeah, I think it's on there. It is on their site.

[00:45:51] It's a lot of real shout out to Cassandra, just someone who was so good at what they do and she is just it was a it was a dream to work with her and she made some like my favorite one was the notorious big because it has a little burnt cinnamon piece of cinnamon on it so it looks like a joint is in it.

[00:46:14] Oh, nice. Nice. The cash. The cash was every the cream one has a dollar bill on it. Yeah, you gotta have bills. Is that how you recommend people drink it by the way? Yes. Roll it up and snort it through your nose.

[00:46:26] Guy. All right. The challenge the cream challenge. Fuck it. They tie pods for like two years. Something through their nose. Right. Yeah. Right.

[00:46:39] If you snort it and drink it fast enough, it should work in it should balance out right doesn't it cancel each other out. It goes right into the same hole. Yeah, just like. It's like what he feels the holes.

[00:46:56] It's the chemical. Yeah, I don't know where that's going to be I'm assuming bookstores Spencer's, you know, We got to buy it because we need to drink some of these drinks.

[00:47:07] I mean, that's the cool thing about doing a book book is that it's it's not just a comic book stores. You'll probably find it everywhere. You know, or nowhere. I don't know. Like, that's that's the thing. It's a record shop man. Look for like discussions.

[00:47:22] Like, would you expect to see people's living rooms sitting right there? You would. Yeah, I would. I would hope that people buy it. And for display purposes, they could do whatever they want with it. They can use it as a doorstop. Just buy it.

[00:47:35] You know, just buy it. Yeah, I feel like I'm definitely going to get it and make my like friend group be like, all right, we're having a 90s cocktail party. We'll pick one. Yeah.

[00:47:44] Yeah, there is like a mimosa margarita like, you know, there's the, you know, the old fashioned. Yeah, which is my go to it is. Yeah, it's a it's really cool. I don't know if this is intentional or not, but I think that's the trans flag colors.

[00:48:02] Yeah, I was like, I mean, that's why the books coming out in June. I guess. I mean, this was this this date was set a year ago like this because you know, like, so it's it's Pride Month.

[00:48:15] It's also interesting to like write something that is like that has like deadlines and communication and like, you know, just like real team. Yeah, like it's a really cool. It was a really cool way to work.

[00:48:28] It's an adult book. Is that kind of what you're saying? The grown up book? Well, it was cool to work in an adult, you know, capacity as the word comics.

[00:48:38] It's like, normally I'm the person that has to like pull the horse and the wagon and, you know, fix the broken axle. And like, you know, it's just so much work to where like this was like I did my job. There you go.

[00:48:56] And I'm done. I mean, you know, hopefully people pour yourself a drink from the play a song off the playlist. Which year has the best drinks? Oh, that is a good to see. That's a good question.

[00:49:11] But I think what's interesting about my research of the 90s was the 90s we think about is the late 90s. Is it? Yes. Like, what do you think of?

[00:49:25] When I think of 90s clothing, I kind of think of like early 90s with all the bright colors and saved by the bell and that kind of stuff. Other people would think grunge, you know, like, yeah, or grunge.

[00:49:36] Yeah, yeah. Like, but like when I guess like what do you think is the quintessential 90s band? 90s band? This could be a question for everybody. Yeah. Like when you think of the 90s, what's the band or what's the like song?

[00:49:47] Well, Nirvana is literally stuck in the 90s. The 91 for you. Yeah. Soundgarden? I'm also like this one here so there's probably a reason why early 90s resonate with me. Well, that was what I mean. I mean, what was it? I mean, I grew up listening to pop, right?

[00:50:05] Everything that was on the radio when I was a kid and I grew up in South Central. I grew up in L.A. So hip hop rap. Everything for me was I connect the 90s to would be grunge. It would be just straight up to fucking biggie.

[00:50:20] That's what I grew up with. Yeah. And then then early, early 90s, I would say I was still listening to like shit. Wham was still a fucking thing. You know what I mean? Yeah. And it was also a time where, you know, New Wave started, right?

[00:50:35] That was like, yeah. It was television or radio or what you could afford to buy. So like it wasn't like now where there's just new stuff every Tuesday. You can listen to it immediately, you know.

[00:50:47] So, yeah, so I think it's interesting that, you know, when I, you know, because I was like doing some research for it and talking to people about, you know, what they think the 90s was. And it was it was a lot of fun.

[00:50:59] And I'm working on another book. Can't really say what or when this deals with. But I'm back in this grind of listening to stuff. OK, OK, man. I'm all about the music. I'm all about going back or just sharing that because we do that here.

[00:51:17] We talk about things we're into be it music, be books, be whatever we're into.

[00:51:22] And right at this point of the show, we always try to bring something up that we've kind of been really hyperfixated upon recently or something we're really into, be it old or new or what have you. So, you know, let's start with with Kevin.

[00:51:36] How about that? What's something that you've been kind of into recently, something that everybody can kind of go look into as well? Well, right now there's some comics that I've been really getting into and really enjoying.

[00:51:48] Jonathan Hickman just wrapped up his first, I'm assuming, storyline of gods, which is, by the way, G period, O period, D period, S period for reasons that have never been explained. I'm enjoying it. It's kind of like cosmic and also his usual cloak and dagger weirdness.

[00:52:05] So it's always good. I mean, cloak and dagger in the sense that it's all spy stuff, kind of not the actual characters, not the characters. But I've also you mentioned that you said you like Ultimate Spider-Man. I highly recommend the current Ultimate X-Men run by Peach Momoko.

[00:52:21] It's been getting a lot of detractors saying that it's too... Well, they... To say what kind of detractors it's getting, I really have to explain that Peach Momoko based the entire thing off of her childhood growing up in Japan.

[00:52:40] Naturally, that leads to people saying that it's not the X-Men they want it to be. I will say though that I really like it though. Give me a second. I'm going to put this up here for a second.

[00:52:53] I mean, it's historically known that X-Men are the worst fan base. You know, just really terrible people. Kevin, you're horrible. I am. Well, that's the thing. I actually have not been reading a lot of X-Men lately. Well, it's just like... It's not Kevin, but I really like them.

[00:53:12] It's Kevin. Yeah. I'm just saying like when a person starts writing for X-Men or works on X-Men, there is a warning from other X-Men people to say like, be careful.

[00:53:24] These people are very, very protective of the most obscure characters you've never heard of and don't plan on even thinking about. Nah, I bet man. I also hear that it's very good, but it's not a traditional X-Men comic. Let's see.

[00:53:45] Yeah. So it's definitely not a traditional X-Men comic, but it still feels X-Men. Instead of being about a team of kids, it's about one specific kid as she's realizing that she's different and weird and has something not natural happening to her.

[00:54:00] And it's like slowly she's being introduced. I don't even think they've said the word mutant yet. And it's this idea that she's slowly being introduced to this world of like something bigger is out there. And I think the art style alone is freaking people out.

[00:54:14] It's Peach Moko's art, but it's also the story is quintessentially Japanese. I mean, it's dealing with stories of suicide and depression and things that are being brushed under the rug as adults don't want to discuss it. Yeah, these kids died. Let's not talk about it anymore.

[00:54:30] And at the end of each issue, Peach has a page up that kind of gives the cultural context for what was happening in that issue. And I'm honestly I'm loving it. I'm loving this. I'm loving Ultimate Spider-Man.

[00:54:44] And it's just it's freaking me out how the haters are getting the bulk of the microphone, I guess, for lack of a better word. But I'm really enjoying it. I adore this art. This is amazing.

[00:55:00] I mean, she's already done a few other series for Marvel, but this is her first like from one of her first. But this is her latest from scratch. That's just her take on the X-Men.

[00:55:10] And it's it feels very much like I'm reading a manga that is about one girl figuring things out. But the thing is, it has all the stuff in there. There's the Shadow King. There's kids with powers that know something they haven't told her about yet.

[00:55:24] You know, it's all kind of developing. It works really, really well. So, yeah, I highly recommend this one. How about you, Freddie? What are you reading? What are you watching or listening to? I'm doing a couple of them. So I have been reading a new book.

[00:55:39] Me and my son and my wife have been trying to do like a book club here at home just to kind of keep them reading during the summer. Just because, you know, he reads comic books, but I want him to read some novels, some books.

[00:55:50] Wait, wait, wait. Time out. Time out. Time out. He's reading comics. He's reading now. Remember, he wasn't reading comics. He wasn't. Now he is because I'm like, hey, let's go pick up the books. And he's like, I have comic books I can read.

[00:56:02] And I go, cool, read those. Let's have a book club on that. You know, it was fun to have a Watchmen book club. It was fun to have. Wait, you had a you had your how old is your son? Fourteen. Okay. But he's a mature 14 year old.

[00:56:18] He's very apt to that. Yeah. He started them off with what? Well, he wanted to read Animal Farm and I'm like, fuck yeah, I'll read Animal Farm with you. It's got cute little animals in it. They talk. Yeah.

[00:56:32] And two licks, two licks, four licks good. You know, like that's, trust me. But we went to the store and he's really right now leaning towards horror. And so we found a book called Episode 13. And let me find the author for us.

[00:56:48] But it revolves around those shows you see like on Discovery where they go like debunked haunted houses and they go, oh, we're going to go inspect this haunted house and see if it's really haunted by a ghost from the 1800s, you know?

[00:57:04] And so it takes place with the team and they actually have a web show and it's the 13th episode of their first season and they're blowing up like they're just getting super popular.

[00:57:14] They're getting picked up by a network and they're kind of hitting that that threshold where in the beginning it was a really good show because it's a husband and wife team with their friends and the wife's a scientist. And she her whole gig is to debunk everything.

[00:57:29] And she and so people love seeing that whole interaction, right? The husband's a 100% believer. The wife's like, no, it's not going to happen. But now it's kind of going downhill. No one's really digging the show anymore. It's kind of lost its magic.

[00:57:42] But they go to this place apparently that was a like a home, an institute that was built just to study the paranormal. And the whole crew from in the 70s just disappeared and then it was abandoned. And that property had never been investigated.

[00:57:59] No other like show or team ever went there to look into it. Kids would hang out and party there. There'd be apparently they hear voices or see things, right? And the property is being sold and demolished it. So they're trying to go there before that happens.

[00:58:11] And this will be the episode that brings back the show. But when they go through it, it's actually like something dark and sinister is going on.

[00:58:19] So you get to see a peek of how if you know anything about production, how reality shows are kind of doctored and they're all not really reality. They're all doctored and controlled as actors. There's there's jealousy in between all of the pairs of the characters on the team.

[00:58:35] Some wants to leave. They're throwing so much money at them to do a spinoff. But at the same time, there's a fucking evil spirit in there like poisoning them slowly or like people are disappearing one by one. It's really we haven't finished it yet.

[00:58:48] So we're going to go ahead and show you the episode 13 by Craig DeLui and show the cover here so you guys can take a look at it on stream here. Sure. Present real quick. Saving it on Goodreads. There it is. But is it good?

[00:59:09] That's what I'm full of my doubt. That's a great cover. That is a good cover. Yeah. See if it comes up. There it is. Great book. Great book so far. We're really enjoying it.

[00:59:21] So we're all reading it on our own and then we're going to talk about it and do all that. And then music wise, because I talked about Stereo Lab last week because I was all embarrassed Stereo Lab for a while.

[00:59:32] I have been head over heels over this person. I think I mentioned the last year and end of the year music as well. Lola Young. I just really don't want to hear it right now. Can you shut up for like once in your life? Listen to me.

[00:59:57] I took you nice words of advice about how you think I'm going to die lucky if I turn 33. OK, so yeah, I smoke like a chimney. I'm not skinny and I pull a Britney every other week. But cut me some slack. Who do you want me to be?

[01:00:12] Because I'm too messy. And then I'm too fucking clean. You told me get a job and you asked where the hell I've been. And I'm too perfect. So I open my big mouth. I want to be me. Is that not allowed? And I'm too clever.

[01:00:32] And then I'm too fucking dumb. You hated when I cried and this is that time of the month. And I'm too perfect. So I show you that I'm not a thousand people. I can be me when you hate the fucking law. You hate the fucking law.

[01:00:56] And Lola Young has been just tearing it up for me. Some really raw emotion out of this woman. Her latest single is called Messy. And it, I don't know what it is, man. She tapped the nerve.

[01:01:11] And when I hear this song, it just hits where I get like I have to sit back and I don't know about you guys. I'll experience that song. It makes me shut the fuck up and like just sit there and listen and experience it.

[01:01:25] And all her stuff, you go down the rabbit hole with her stuff. It's raw. It connects on a certain level, man, that I haven't felt in a long time. So I can't say enough about Lola Young and check out Messy.

[01:01:37] If Messy hits the court with you, just go down that path. You won't regret it. Lola Young, 100 percent. Lola Young. Elia, what about you? Oh man, I feel like I got two weeks to catch up on stuff because I was sick last week.

[01:01:53] Real quick, I'm all caught up on Bridgerton. Still waiting for the Latinos to show up. However, however, honorable... Are there Latinos in Bridgerton? Not yet. They have a lot of, there's a lot of cultural representation from around Europe and Asia and Africa. But still no Latinos.

[01:02:15] However, however, in the latest episode we get a whole new jump of them tomorrow. So that's what I'll be doing after stream. But in the last episode during one of the hot and spicy scenes, a rendition of Pitbull's song orchestrated classically with play. No fucking way.

[01:02:31] So that's our Latino rep right there. Did you lose your shit? Are you Pitbull Vando? She misses worldwide. I'm misses worldwide. There's Pitbull right there. It's so funny because everyone was telling me or like sharing like there's a Pitbull song, there's a Pitbull song. I'm like, okay, whatever.

[01:02:48] I'll watch it. And it took forever to get there. I'm like this better be good. And the scene where they played this song, I was like, like it was that kind of scene. So it's good. Still waiting for more Latinos, but we'll see.

[01:03:02] I will speed run the new movies that I've seen since last episode. Let's do it. Real quick. All right. Men in Black. Dope. Amazing. The first one. I like that. The first one. I haven't seen it. Okay, catching up. All right. That was awesome.

[01:03:20] I already want to watch the second one. Corpse Bride. I okay. So I'm a Tim Burton person. That's not my favorite. I feel like they rushed it too much. I feel like they did to develop the story more. It doesn't have Tim Burton strength nor the animator strengths.

[01:03:32] Like it's good, but it's not great. It's not. Well, and we looked it up and it came out the same year as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which is also Tim Burton. I'm like, why would you ever make two movies? That one was more of his. Yeah. Yeah.

[01:03:45] But yeah, that's either here or there. The producers. I still haven't seen that yet. I need to watch that. I love the producers. I loved it. I thought it was awesome. Okay. It's not my favorite. Yeah. Not my favorite, but it was fun.

[01:03:57] I mainly need to watch it because it's like, as I understand it, the whole plot is basically what's happening to Max right now to, to formerly HBO. Yeah. Yeah. Speaking of which, I got to buy that this weekend. The new house of dragons coming out. Oh, okay.

[01:04:11] I thought you were talking about buying all of Max because yes, I'm buying all of HBO. Get it away from that guy. Space Jam. I'd never seen Space Jam, even though I was, I was a 90s kid. Nostalgia. Nostalgia boom. I'm like, this is so meta.

[01:04:26] It's so meta and silly. And now you're looking forward to the sequel? There's a sequel. It already is out. The one with LeBron James. It came out a few years ago and it was a flop. Oh, it's on Max. It also came out during the pandemic.

[01:04:40] Well, yeah, that doesn't help. Dang. Well, I'll update y'all on that once I get it. Don Cheadle is on it. It's for kids. Oh, okay. It's like the first movie. So yeah, maybe you'll like it. It was enjoyable. It was camp. Yeah, I liked it.

[01:04:54] And finally, the Weird Al movie. The one where Daniel Radcliffe plays Weird Al. I need to watch that one too. No joke, you guys. The humor is top tier. Like it's, cause it's written. It's written as a spoof of his own life. And it's so unapologetic.

[01:05:13] Like the humor is unapologetic. It like, it's, I was like, we had to pause it a few times cause I was like, we's laughing. No, I thought it was really well done. And I've been a Weird Al fan since the eighties. I need to watch that.

[01:05:26] Oh, then you'll love it. You'll have fun. You'll have fun. A biopic in a lot is the Pharrell Lego movie. Have you guys seen the trailer for that? Oh yeah. I'm actually interested in that. That looks so fucking good. By the way, biopic or biopic?

[01:05:40] I've always said biopic. I don't know. I've always said biopic. Are we going to decide it right now? I also say biopic. I didn't. Okay. So it's two and two. All right. I feel fair on that. How do you pronounce collab, collab or collab? Collab. Collab. Biopic.

[01:06:01] Well, that Pharrell movie, like it's cool and it's literally a Lego movie about his life. What the hell? I love it. It's cute. We might watch the trailer and we're like, okay, who approached who?

[01:06:16] Did Pharrell say, I want to make a Lego movie or did people go, hey, Pharrell, make a Lego movie? You know, it's like, it has to have been. It was Pharrell. That's all Pharrell all the way. So I love the Neptunes. I love all that stuff. I'm excited.

[01:06:29] Somewhere out there, there's the first person to do a stop motion Lego thing and posted on the internet. And that person created an entire genre now. Yeah. You know, I want to know who that is. Right. I think Henry, you know, Lego Batman's hilarious. It's fucking awesome.

[01:06:46] The best Batman movie. Well, that went to theaters. The best Batman movie that went to theaters. I do like Batman and Feudal Japan fighting the Joker. That was a great one. I love that one. So good. I watched it twice.

[01:07:02] I mean, it was so good because every, every trope, every anime trope was in that fucking movie. They fought mechs out of castles. And so good. I'm sorry. I only saw that scene. It's so good. I'm sorry. I only saw that scene. It's so good. It's so good.

[01:07:20] What about you, Henry? What are you? I mean, you're reading books. You're drinking drinks, singing songs. What are you in? What is going on with you right now? What's going on? Yeah. A friend of mine, Tina Horn, put out a new comic called D-Prog.

[01:07:33] It's about a private investigator who helps people escape cults. Oh shit. It's about a guy who's trying to get out of a old school video rental store. Nice. That's cool. Yeah, it is rated mature. So it's not for the primo Freddie family book club.

[01:08:01] So you'll have to wait for that one. We'll see, man. I mean, we're working our way through the Tarantino catalog right now. Yeah, there you go. Oh God. We thought as far as Jackie Brown. I think that's probably appropriate for Elia Maria's streamer fans. So that's kind of...

[01:08:15] There you go. Yeah. You're the right answer. I just, I rent a lot of stuff from the library. So I rented Todd Browning's sideshow Shockers and recently watched Freaks, which is a 1932 film. Oh, okay. I've always heard about it. I've always seen stills.

[01:08:38] So you're finally one of us. A freak, yeah. One of us. Sorry. Yeah, no, it's an incredible movie. The ending is weird, but it's such a good movie. Well, so I have the DVD. It's the Criterion Collection version.

[01:08:54] So they have like an explanation that they had to alter the ending because it was too sad. And so there is a line in the ending that doesn't have it, doesn't give you the full context, but it kind of does. Yeah. It's a really wild movie.

[01:09:12] There is a graphic novel out there called Nobody's Fool by Bill Griffith. And he has been doing Zippy the Binhead comic strips for years, but he did the biopic comic. Whoa. Oh, tight as fern. Tight as fern. Of Zippy the Pinhead.

[01:09:34] You know, I love that you brought up Freaks. That's a movie that has a lot of people with like limb differences, body differences, facial differences. The main character is a little person. And then there aren't a lot of movies with that in it.

[01:09:52] And one of my favorites as a kid was Time Bandits. And as I understand it, they are remaking Time Bandits right now without a single little person. Oh, wow.

[01:10:03] And when Terry Gilliam, the original director, found out, he literally just walked out of the set and he's like, wow, I can't believe it. Yeah. It's like what happened? Yeah. They made a TV series out of Willow. Yeah, it's pre-coded. The movie is amazing. It's pre-coded.

[01:10:19] So it's a pretty interesting movie. It was not well received when it came out, but it has since got its flowers. It is an interesting film. I'm also like doing a noir. So I've been stuck in 1930s.

[01:10:35] So if I were to tell you what I'm listening to and reading, I would sound like a 100 year old boring man. You might sound like me. What's the 100 year old boring man playlist right now? Give me a couple songs.

[01:10:49] I think everybody here would probably dig an old school band that came out in the 90s. So one of the goals of this comic I'm writing that I don't really want to get to, it's a Chicago noir. Yeah, you're good. But it's called Pachuko Boogie.

[01:11:19] I dig the name already. It gives already a lot of way of what I'm doing. But yeah, check out Pachuko Boogie. That's a good one. When it comes out. No, the song. I thought you said that was the name of your... I don't know.

[01:11:40] What if I Pachuko Boogie? Pachuko Boogie. All right, definitely. So yeah, the idea was to incorporate jazz that was made by Mexican-American brown people into the story because you never see it. Unless you're watching the movie Pachuko. Or the mask. I consider Jim Carrey's the mask Mexican representation.

[01:12:06] You know what? You're not one. I mean, it's true. It's got a latina in it. There's literally a Pachuko song in it. Hey, Pachuko. It literally is named Pachuko by Big Bad Buddha Daddy, right? He's wearing a Pachuko... Royal Count Revue. Royal Count Revue. I forgot.

[01:12:25] I used to know who it was. I think it was Royal Count Revue or Big Bad Buddha Daddy. It's the Poppa Daddy's who did... Pachuko? Zutsu Riot. They did Zutsu Riot. Pachuko, I believe was... You're going to make me look it up. Damn it.

[01:12:38] I hate looking up stuff. Royal Count Revue. I knew it. Royal Count Revue. Royal Count Revue. Yeah. No, I love all that stuff. I'll sit here and just listen to everything people can recommend me. I have this whole thing where I tell people, hey, check this out.

[01:12:53] No one listens to me for two years. And then later on they blow up. And they're like, I fucking told you two years ago. I got lowly young on the cube. Please do. And tell me what you think, man. But Primos, this is ending our show tonight.

[01:13:07] I want to thank of course Mr. Henry Barajas for joining us. Thank you for having me. Henry, no. Where can people find you, man? Shout out your socials or anything else you want to throw out there. Just take the floor. We were talking about Kara.

[01:13:17] You can find me there. I'm everywhere. You can find me in the Gildthorp comment threads having arguments with 80-year-olds. And in the hotel lobby bars in Texas. Having arguments with bartenders. Having arguments with Primos. And teaching bartenders how to make a drink. All right, Henry, right now.

[01:13:41] What is the straight up most basic? What is that cocktail? What is the old fashioned that we need to make? You have to buy the book. Buy the book, everybody. At Henry J. Barajas. Elia, is there anything you want to promote?

[01:13:55] I know you have some cons coming up this week. By the time this goes, I think we have some good news. Yeah, I do have a con this weekend. So by the time this is up, it will already be done. But be looking out on my socials.

[01:14:05] I'm going to be part of two TTRPG streams coming up for charity. On two separate channels. One on Wesselhausen. One on another world tabletop. So look out for those. Join in if you can and let's raise some money for charity. Agreed.

[01:14:17] The Primos need to do a TTRPG at some point. We really do. It's a good thing. I think we're going to have a lot of fun. I think we're going to have a lot of fun. The Primos need to do a TTRPG at some point. We really do.

[01:14:29] It's happening. It's something in the works. We can't talk about it. Be like, Henry, I can't talk about it. Something in the works. I could. I would. I'm telling you. We've been there. I believe you, man. I believe you. That's what the hotel bar conversations are for.

[01:14:46] What do you have coming up? Is there anything coming up that we need to look out for? Or are you back on TikTok? I have ended my self-imposed exile. They were literally flagging. Again, I don't have a number. Three out of every five videos. I don't know.

[01:15:04] But because four of them got flagged permanently, they said if a fifth one with 30 days gets flagged, I would get banned. And I was like, you know what? I'm just not going to post until those 30 days have run out.

[01:15:16] Well, those 30 days have run out, so I'm posting again. And right now, honestly, I keep checking it to see if it's got another flag notification. I keep checking. It hasn't happened yet, but I'm waiting for it. Watch out, TikTok. He's going to come with a flood.

[01:15:29] He's going to do an overwhelming. We'll see. Also, I've got a couple of conventions coming up. Greater Austin Comic Con and this little one that I think some of you guys have heard of called the Text Latino Comic Con in Dallas. Oh yeah, WrestleCon. MaluchaCon.

[01:15:44] Yeah, it's coming up. I think. MaluchaCon is happening. Yeah, we've heard about that one. It's coming up July 20th. We'll be there. I don't know. I know Henry was a guest last year, so we hung out.

[01:15:54] Yeah, no, I had an amazing time and I hope you all have a good old fashioned. Old fashioned. That was totally planned. Yes. Very much. All right. So now replay the episode back and drink every time we make a reference to an old fashioned.

[01:16:17] That's a built in drinking game for today. There you go. You try to knock out our listeners. Be it old fashioned movies, old fashioned music, old fashioned. Look at that. It just comes up over and over again. I'm going to give you guys a minute.

[01:16:29] You've got to make the cocktail. Do that back. Yeah. Literally. It's a whole thing. We drink it. We listen to it. We watch it. The next book is going to be the by Primos drinking game. Yeah. Going to have a list of all the best drinks.

[01:16:43] Every time we interrupt each other, we take a drink. Is that how it's going to work? Yeah. And at any time somebody introduces themselves by saying hi to themselves. That's every episode. We get four shots right there. More references to me and holes.

[01:17:00] There's a lot of that going on everybody. I'm going to give you an old drink. Last week Primos, uncomfortable family. It's the best kind of thing we can talk about. It's everything man. This is what we're all about. It's what Primos do. We hang out.

[01:17:14] If we can't drink together, we can talk about drinking together. But Primos, thank you guys for listening. As always watch us on YouTube, Spotify, and of course check out our website at MyPrimosPodcast.com. And Primos as always, no matter where you're from, we're all Primos. Good night.

[01:17:30] Good night. This episode was hosted by Elia Maria Madrid. Check her out at Spice Illustration. Kevin Garcia. Look for his socials. Check out his socials at Kevin Garcia underscore com. We want to thank our guest, Mr. Henry Barajas.

[01:18:10] Check him out at Henry J. Barajas on all social media. And check out Hila Girl coming out this week, June 19th at the local comic shop. Music is provided by Dean Polor.

[01:18:22] Check out their main and of course Primos you can check out the show's website at MyPrimosPodcast.com. And all of our social media. This is Primo Freddy and as always remember no matter where you're from, we're all Primos. Till next time, Primos. Yes.