Street Fighter (2026): The Game, the Lore, Roman Reigns, Cody Rhodes & the Rest of the Fight Game Cast | Popcorn & Piledrivers

0:10 [SPEAKER_00]: All right, we are back with popcorn and piled drivers and folks, this is gonna be the, let Jeremy Cook episode of the show. [SPEAKER_00]: Oh man, because he knows the lore of this game and this story. [SPEAKER_00]: And I only, I mean, I was there during the Street Fighter 2 arcade craze, like I was, [SPEAKER_00]: probably went 13 or 14 went when that all happened. [SPEAKER_00]: And I'll tell you a quick story. [SPEAKER_00]: The only real story I have about Street Fighter 2. [SPEAKER_00]: This game was so popular. [SPEAKER_00]: It wasn't just at Arcades. [SPEAKER_00]: It was at 7.11, it was at liquor stores.

0:53 [SPEAKER_00]: It was at, of course, it was at like pizza parlors and stuff, but like actual liquor stores were like, huh, we're gonna figure out a take advantage of this game. [SPEAKER_00]: So I was with a friend walking down the street, or I think it was right, and we were right in our bikes. [SPEAKER_00]: And he's like, I want to play Street Fighter. [SPEAKER_00]: And I was like, okay, I didn't really know what the deal was. [SPEAKER_00]: So we put our bikes down and we're at the liquor store. [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm thinking, we'll be here five minutes, like, no big deal, leave my bike down. [SPEAKER_00]: All good. [SPEAKER_00]: there was a line to play this game there was like five kids who had their quarters ready in their pockets in their low plastic baggies and they were going to get their street fighter in so my buddy at the time I haven't I literally haven't talked them to high school but he was like well I want to play this game so we sat there and we waited and waited and he finally got in and he played a little bit and I was like okay like I can see this game [SPEAKER_00]: And it was an hour later, and then I turned around and my poor bike was gone.

2:03 [SPEAKER_00]: Bomber, that's how in real life, in real life. [SPEAKER_00]: We were all, like the time just flew by so quickly because this game was so damn popular. [SPEAKER_00]: And like, that is the first thing now, of course. [SPEAKER_00]: You know, we all rented it when it came out on Super Nintendo because you had to sit there and play it. [SPEAKER_00]: Well, I mean, I was a, I must, I still have more of a sports gamer than anything else. [SPEAKER_00]: So I, you know, rented it for friends. [SPEAKER_00]: And if people wanted to come over and hang out, I was the kid with the super Nintendo. [SPEAKER_00]: So we would do that. [SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, like that is my main memories getting my bike stolen. [SPEAKER_00]: Shree fighter too. [SPEAKER_01]: My first memories were I grew up in hunting to beach as some of you may know.

2:50 [SPEAKER_01]: Back then, there was a storm like 88 that basically decimated the entire peer that was hunting to beach. [SPEAKER_01]: And underneath the awning to the peer was a little shop area in which there was an arcade. [SPEAKER_01]: And it was like this dirty wet, like, had no business serving that many of the electronics and like this wet beachy kind of area. [SPEAKER_01]: But here we were. [SPEAKER_01]: And that was my first introduction to Street Fighter 2. [SPEAKER_01]: We were in 1991 when I'm 10 years old down in the beach. [SPEAKER_01]: When my mom drops me off for junior lifeguard and said, I have to kill an hour every day for the summertime. [SPEAKER_01]: And I have like two, 15 quarters. [SPEAKER_01]: Like it's supposed to be like my food money and food stop.

3:33 [SPEAKER_01]: And I'm like, I'm going to spend a dollar this at like Street Fighter every day. [SPEAKER_01]: And I played [SPEAKER_01]: real and like like you said there was a line but they're also like half a dozen of the consoles all over the place. [SPEAKER_01]: So if you didn't have the one you go to the other. [SPEAKER_01]: But they're always like that one the one that you like the one cabinet that was in that one place the one spot and you just kind of play there you're just like yeah this is this is where I feel good at it. [SPEAKER_01]: At 10 years old, when you first have that feeling of like, oh, okay, this is what it feels like to be playing at the arcade, something inside you, just kind of like, what's all on in the game or in you just kind of activate and Fernando who's in the, um, who's in the chat says that Street Fighter 2 is the greatest video game ball time that a lot of people that feel that way and for a lot of people, it was their first video game.

4:26 [SPEAKER_00]: I would say, and that's an interesting question. [SPEAKER_00]: What is the best coin-op arcade game of all time? [SPEAKER_00]: What would you answer that? [SPEAKER_01]: I think it is. [SPEAKER_01]: I think one, it launched a fighting style that is used to this day. [SPEAKER_01]: And, [SPEAKER_01]: There were going to be an interesting story in one of the books that I have about Street Fighter 2 in which, you know, the cabinet life cycle, the first one of the Street Fighter was like in the late 80s and then the cabinet for Street Fighter 2 of 1991 and the life cycles of of all these were.

5:09 [SPEAKER_01]: six to nine months and then you're just you're done and all the developers of the game like no no no we need to keep doing this and the executives at Capcom were like all right yet our top five distributors in the room and see if they'll buy 1000 of the cabinets if we do an update of this game instead of a new game [SPEAKER_01]: And they had the meeting, and within a minute of the meeting starting one of the top distributors said, hey, I'm going to buy a thousand. [SPEAKER_01]: You want to go play some golf, and a product of it, and another distributor bought two thousand. [SPEAKER_01]: And that's how we got a super street fighter, too. [SPEAKER_01]: And we got a number of these other additions, and they just kept turning out more and more addition.

5:52 [SPEAKER_01]: The confident in this game, [SPEAKER_01]: out the gate, it changed how arcade cabinets are portrayed of, rather, like, Pac-Man, or some of the other Donkey Kong, the thing that launched out the gate, or Street Fighter 2. [SPEAKER_01]: That to me is like the argument of the greatest cabinet game of all time. [SPEAKER_00]: I'll probably go NBA Jam as my favorite. [SPEAKER_00]: And I would say, if I was thinking about this the right way, what is the game that I spent the second most time? [SPEAKER_00]: And I will say, I didn't, I wasn't playing a ton of arcades as a kid, because [SPEAKER_00]: I had video game system since I was like six years old.

6:40 [SPEAKER_00]: So my household was not really without a video game system since I was a real little kid. [SPEAKER_00]: So that's where I would play most of my games. [SPEAKER_00]: But I would say Russell Fest would be number two for me. [SPEAKER_01]: Wow, you know, I like that game and I always felt like I was chasing the opportunity to play it at the arcade. [SPEAKER_01]: Like it was always like somewhere I would want to be and like I couldn't go play the game and it was always like right there and I want to play it. [SPEAKER_01]: But I never got the opportunity to and so I And go like chasing that opportunity kind of thing, but I will tell you the the two game looks that growing up that if it wasn't Street Fighter 2 that I was playing.

7:21 [SPEAKER_01]: was, uh, the side score game where you can play four or six people at a time. [SPEAKER_01]: You will be shocked to know that Edcman with, uh, Cyclops Wolverine, uh, that was really fun. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not even an Edcman fan and that game was fun. [SPEAKER_01]: All-time or game and they just ported that to all the the local system so you can go ahead and play that whenever you like and then the the Teenage of Ninja Turtles Ninja Turtles and Simpsons very similar. [SPEAKER_01]: The Simpsons will go a lot of fun and they have never really put that game back out onto the port. [SPEAKER_01]: I think it would be a mentally popular if they managed to put that one back up. [SPEAKER_00]: Hey, and for Street Fighter for NBA Jam, those games were at the right time in which they immediately had super Nintendo versions and then later Genesis version.

8:12 [SPEAKER_00]: So you know, you could play those at home, Russell fest never had a home version of that game for whatever reason they had home versions. [SPEAKER_00]: of WWE games, but not Russell Fest. [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know why that one did not carry over to the [SPEAKER_01]: You know, you can do it in the cabinets because you're not selling that many cabinet, but all of a sudden you're paying out, regular for every individual copy. [SPEAKER_00]: Well, I'm sure Vince wasn't even really paying anybody right. [SPEAKER_01]: But if you did, and then after he was barely paying people for tapes, Jesse Ventura had to get his money for tape, but he could get trouble for it.

8:52 [SPEAKER_01]: So if he committed to doing like multiple video game systems, all of these guys, like you saw that Nintendo version that they did. [SPEAKER_00]: I think it was got awful terrible the first thing that the first Russell Mania game was really the one with band band big alone doing the cart we all got you're the most fun part of that time actually the WCW game that came out at the same time around the same time was way better but still the very first NES version of pro wrestling was the better was the best wrestling game up until you know many years the guy with the star face I don't remember what his name was star man star man star man star man but yeah that that was iconic [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and then of course you get the Nintendo 64 versions of the WCW games and WWE gets that license and you get the WWE games and then you're like, oh man, now you're just playing with all your friends because I still work at Blockbuster video so after the store would shut down and we'd clean up we'd be playing.

9:46 [SPEAKER_01]: We'd be playing until 2 o'clock in the morning, WW versus W. The great equalizer, though, was when, you know, PlayStation, PlayStation 2, the Sega Saturn, the DreamCath, they all came out and the processing power of all those video game home engines was enough to rival what those playing in the cabinets at the arcade. [SPEAKER_01]: So when you played Street Fighter 2, I'm Super Nintendo versus the cabinet. [SPEAKER_01]: There were downgrabbed to the experience because they wanted to match it, but they couldn't do it with the processing power of the 16-bit Nintendo. [SPEAKER_01]: But if you got to the PlayStation, if you got to these others, you found a very comparable experience to what you were playing in the arcade.

10:31 [SPEAKER_01]: And now with a PS5 and a Switch 2 and, you know, Xbox whatever it is now, theme, death, and whatever you got. [SPEAKER_01]: you can play it exactly the same like pay to play anywhere else and now you have all of these competitions because everyone can compete with each other. [SPEAKER_01]: And I think that probably the biggest argument for Street Fighter being the Alzheimer's like NBA Jam created a legacy of game but Street Fighter is still there. [SPEAKER_01]: You know like [SPEAKER_01]: 30 years later, 35 years later, we're on Streetfire Sick. [SPEAKER_01]: We got pro wrestlers that I'm wearing shirt of doing signature captures for characters in the game.

11:11 [SPEAKER_01]: And [SPEAKER_01]: For a major franchise, you know, you talk about the major franchise that's out there like Super Mario, when you develop a Sonic, Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, the Street Fighter franchise, the final franchise. [SPEAKER_01]: A lot of those Capcom franchises really do stand the test of time and monetarily are pretty high value for the entirety of the gaming world. [SPEAKER_00]: All right, we'll stop talking about video games here and we'll learn into the show. [SPEAKER_00]: I was a calico vision person when I was a kid and I think my parents bought the calico vision after it had already kind of run its course, it was super cheap, but it had like a whole library of games.

11:56 [SPEAKER_00]: There's a game on that system called Mr. Do. [SPEAKER_00]: That game was so replayable. [SPEAKER_00]: It was ridiculous. [SPEAKER_00]: Mr. Do, if you ever see Mr. Do, that was the game [SPEAKER_01]: Nintendo's my first system. [SPEAKER_01]: I went all the way through the Nintendo ecosystem. [SPEAKER_01]: I think I had every system at one point in my life. [SPEAKER_01]: But when I was gaming in the game cube, yeah, I had a game cube. [SPEAKER_01]: What about the fit? [SPEAKER_01]: I had a fit. [SPEAKER_01]: And I mean, I mean, I mean, the we fit I didn't have a Wii U like the one in between the switch and the way I felt like the regular Wii was going to be fine. [SPEAKER_01]: And then I didn't really play it all that much, but when I was like 9 or 10 years old, I want a contest on the TV for the TV channel K count 9 and Southern California where I want to take a Genesis.

12:49 [SPEAKER_01]: So I got I was the cool kid that had both the Sega Genesis and like a super Nintendo But I like focus more on the super Nintendo game, but I would only get Genesis games that were a comic book like games with comic book characters that you could only play on the Genesis Yeah, yeah Genesis was better for all the EA sports games that I like. [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, jump on tennis sports top football clutch [SPEAKER_00]: That was not EA. [SPEAKER_00]: That was, uh, I forget the license to have that. [SPEAKER_01]: I don't remember what it was, but it was, but that was the game I played. [SPEAKER_01]: And then, uh, we played the, uh, the NHL, the hockey game NHL. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, NHL was definitely. [SPEAKER_01]: And I mean, four, I think was the one that I played all the time.

13:30 [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, 94 was the legendary one. [SPEAKER_00]: No, well, yeah, 94 was legendary. [SPEAKER_00]: But 95 was the first one where you had, like, [SPEAKER_00]: like more things to do, um, right. [SPEAKER_00]: So that was the launch. [SPEAKER_00]: But okay. [SPEAKER_00]: So, um, yeah, I was an Nintendo guy. [SPEAKER_00]: I did have the Genesis, and then I went Sony and I said, F U, uh, Microsoft and I've stayed Sony. [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I have a guess five today. [SPEAKER_00]: So, all right, let's, let's move on. [SPEAKER_00]: Let's do it. [SPEAKER_00]: How do you, how do you want to talk about? [SPEAKER_00]: the lore of this game. [SPEAKER_00]: I have some information, but, you know, if you want to lead kind of your understanding of the story and the legend of this game, because it's Street Fighter 2, of course, being that it's number 2.

14:17 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not the first Street Fighter. [SPEAKER_00]: So there's a game before Street Fighter 2. [SPEAKER_00]: So how do you want to talk about that? [SPEAKER_01]: I think the best way to do it is just to tacitly admit that this movie is so very meta to the creation of the game and how the game [SPEAKER_01]: The game's lore was tried to be represented in the movie, because we started out with the original Street Fighter tournament six years earlier in 1987, which is reflective of the creation of the Street Fighter franchise by Capcom, with the cabinet and the initial outpouring. [SPEAKER_01]: So I thought that was like a really interesting like, okay, they're trying to [SPEAKER_01]: link everything about the creation and and this property so that it just has kind of like tie it.

15:07 [SPEAKER_01]: So when you're watching this movie, everything it seems very deliberate. [SPEAKER_01]: The coloring and backdrop, the just the shading and the scene to the sunlight, they're all supposed to represent levels of the game without you're fighting at. [SPEAKER_01]: And I think when we're talking about it, I want everyone to just kind of have that in the back of their head that there are very stylistic choices that are incredibly deliberate and are meant to harken back to very specific aspects of the original Street Fighter game and all the iterations afterwards. [SPEAKER_01]: We had a super Street Fighter represented with a Kuma being in that one.

15:50 [SPEAKER_01]: Roman Rames, we had Dan Hibiki, which was a character from the Louis Street Fighter Alpha, and he wasn't in the original. [SPEAKER_01]: He was one of the only characters that wasn't in the original Street Fighter II lore. [SPEAKER_01]: He was in the prequel theory, which came out after and right before Street Fighter III, and then we had Kami, which was a character from Street Fighter II, the new Challengers, and not one of the original [SPEAKER_01]: from the original game. [SPEAKER_01]: The only one that we didn't have live action as a result ended up being sagot, which was the second-to-last boss of the original game. [SPEAKER_01]: And he represented in the cartoon, [SPEAKER_01]: cartoon kind of frequent storytelling.

16:37 [SPEAKER_01]: So I guess the best way to explain that is there were there were flashbacks and they were all done in animated style. [SPEAKER_01]: So if you were going to the movie and not expecting part of it to be a cartoon, there are animated flashbacks and I'm sure it's their short. [SPEAKER_00]: It's not dominant. [SPEAKER_00]: And here's my question since you want to talk about the movie at the start. [SPEAKER_00]: And I have some information for the history and stuff that we can go back to, [SPEAKER_00]: Was there enough fighting in this game? [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, in this movie. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah? [SPEAKER_01]: But I felt like... [SPEAKER_01]: I felt like there was a very deliberate blueprint of making sure that every single character got two minutes, or three minutes, in which it was their time to shine.

17:24 [SPEAKER_01]: And other characters got more predicated on whether they thought the person playing the character had charisma or something to do. [SPEAKER_01]: There's got to have been a plenty left on the cutting room for this movie. [SPEAKER_01]: But for the most part, yes, because there were so many [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, now, so here's a follow-up, then. [SPEAKER_00]: Yes. [SPEAKER_00]: Based on the way that they did this movie, I think they believed that they were going to do more than one. [SPEAKER_01]: They 100% believe that we're going to do. [SPEAKER_00]: What, whether that happens or not, I'm not sure because this movie is probably going to lose money. [SPEAKER_00]: But if the idea was to do more than one movie, do you have to stuff it so much with this first movie?

18:12 [SPEAKER_01]: No, because what they did is they just threw everything at the wall to stick right there were a lot of balls and motion you know we started with one main villain and then we ended up with two main villains and then we ended up with one main villain and a cliffhanger at the end [SPEAKER_01]: with a number of dangling cliffhangers left completely unresolved. [SPEAKER_01]: I don't think a single character died, so everyone is, everyone who's contractually obligated to return can return. [SPEAKER_01]: I believe one of the actors said that they're contracted for three movies. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, which bold doesn't mean that option needs to be picked up, and I think [SPEAKER_01]: There's a chance that they could run it back for another one, you know, they, I think Capcom has a little bit more money to burn than we all realize and feel like if it's an investment and if they only get two out of it instead of three that's fine, but in the long run with the property being what it is and the long lasting nature of it and the stars that are in it.

19:19 [SPEAKER_01]: it'll be an investment picture that's like an investment move for them that'll just be in perpetuity and people will go back to and it'll just be kind of part of something that they can do where at some point they could do a version of the game that's all the motion captures by the actual cinematic wrestlers and and actors like there are things about why they made this movie that are kind of outside the box. [SPEAKER_01]: that they could do, that people don't typically like think about but they have this opportunity because they own all the IP to work it. [SPEAKER_01]: So like the the movie version of the game, they could do one point and go from there.

20:00 [SPEAKER_00]: All right. [SPEAKER_00]: Well, let's say this here because [SPEAKER_00]: as a film, and we've seen this with where Marvel and DC are at today, which is if you build it, the fans will come out and droves, but it has to be good. [SPEAKER_00]: And not only good, it almost has to be great because we've seen so much of this in the last 15 years. [SPEAKER_00]: And that's where I think the [SPEAKER_00]: I think if this movie was great, it really sets up what you could do in the future. [SPEAKER_00]: Because like you said, there's so many different versions of this game.

20:42 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, I don't know if they would do the prequel version of the game. [SPEAKER_00]: But but there's so much IP out there. [SPEAKER_00]: There's so much so many characters. [SPEAKER_00]: There's so many stories that [SPEAKER_00]: If this first one is bonkers, and it just does great, you're really setting up the franchise. [SPEAKER_00]: And that's what I think the problem is, like I think this movie is fine. [SPEAKER_00]: Like it is viewable, it was, I don't even know if it was funny as much as I understood the wink winks. [SPEAKER_00]: But, [SPEAKER_00]: The problem with this movie is the problem with why people aren't going to see the DC stuff or the marble stuff like they used to unless it's the Avengers because they're waiting for word of mouth to come out because they don't want to feel like they were misguided into going to see this great spectacular thing.

21:38 [SPEAKER_00]: Like this this movie was like a B minus or C plus to me. [SPEAKER_00]: If it was an A, this thing would be printing money for 20 years. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, the auto's about a B and that it was actually exactly what I thought it was going to be and it's a problem though. [SPEAKER_01]: Right. [SPEAKER_01]: So here's here's where I look at it and you and I may have very fundamentally different points of view on this, but [SPEAKER_01]: I feel priced out of going to go to see a movie. [SPEAKER_01]: And so it is costly. [SPEAKER_01]: It is not cheap to go to the movies. [SPEAKER_01]: And so I have made a mental decision before the movie even really come out.

22:18 [SPEAKER_01]: If I'm going to even consider going to see this movie in the theater and for a variety of reasons, I made the decision to go see this movie in the theater. [SPEAKER_01]: It did not matter to me, you know, [SPEAKER_01]: whether it made a whole lot of money or not personally, but I understand as a business property, yeah, it needed to print a certain amount of money. [SPEAKER_01]: But what I'm saying from this is there are a lot of people like me that [SPEAKER_01]: If I'm going out to go see a movie and I'm going to spend two or three hours in my life and I'm going to spend 45 minute watching previews And I'm going to spend 30 dollars at the concession stand. [SPEAKER_01]: I want to make sure that the movie I'm seeing is a fucking banger.

23:01 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you know, and that is the crux of the movie experience right now where I went on a Tuesday morning. [SPEAKER_01]: It's been $8. [SPEAKER_01]: I walked into the theater. [SPEAKER_01]: stomach to the 25, 30 minute could previews. [SPEAKER_01]: I watched the movie and I left. [SPEAKER_01]: It was a perfect experience for what I needed it to be. [SPEAKER_01]: You know, I didn't spend too much money, I didn't do anything. [SPEAKER_01]: I had a good time watching the film and I walked out and said, I'm to exactly what I expected to be, along with the 10 other people that were in the theater with me on a Tuesday morning watching this movie, 10 days after it came out. [SPEAKER_01]: And it was like everything about this experience [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know how you get people to come out to create a fun movie that will just manage to make you turn your brain off.

23:52 [SPEAKER_01]: That is unfortunately not enough to compel the average person, to go see a movie on a property that they have something familiarity with, based off of growing up and knowing without a guaranteed feeling that you're gonna walk out getting your money through it. [SPEAKER_01]: Because there are so many things that people wanna make sure [SPEAKER_00]: Now, what you are actually saying is why movie stars and marketing matters because how do you get somebody out of their chair? [SPEAKER_00]: Everyone is very comfortable at home these days. [SPEAKER_00]: We love our TVs. [SPEAKER_00]: We love how a warm our home feels.

24:33 [SPEAKER_00]: and so how do you get somebody out to go to the movies? [SPEAKER_00]: Well, you compel them by having movie stars, you compel them by having something that they know that that is supposed to be good and then you also have word of mouth and that's where the movie like this fails because the people who are like you, they all saw it and they knew they were going to see it. [SPEAKER_00]: The people who are like me, except I did see it, are waiting for the Jeremy's of the world to say that movie was dope. [SPEAKER_00]: But when you say, it was exactly what I thought it was gonna be. [SPEAKER_00]: Right, I'm like, okay, I don't need to see it then.

25:15 [SPEAKER_01]: So that's where I don't get around to it when it's all on. [SPEAKER_00]: I literally would not need to see it unless I knew it was good. [SPEAKER_00]: If I knew it, but you know, I go to the movies at least three times a month. [SPEAKER_00]: So it's probable that I would have seen it even without us doing this show, you know, Cody Rhodes and Roman Reigns are in it. [SPEAKER_00]: I have some curiosity based on that. [SPEAKER_01]: What they really wanted was all the people who watched WWE, who watched AEW, who watched New Japan, who watched TNA, to see these wrestlers that they were familiar with at some point to be like, oh man, my wrestler that I watched in these shows is going to be in the community. [SPEAKER_01]: I should go check it out.

25:55 [SPEAKER_00]: Out the fly, isn't that, though? [SPEAKER_01]: what's the floor? [SPEAKER_00]: We see them every week. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and the part of me that I was seeing of the floor was like the company charged an arm in a leg for you to go see them there, why are you going to spend more money to go see them in a movie? [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, for short. [SPEAKER_00]: No, no, no, no, no, this is not I'm not shooting on the idea. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not shooting on this movie. [SPEAKER_00]: I was fine, but what I wanted. [SPEAKER_00]: I wanted this movie to be a banger so that they would make more because I think it's a such a fun idea for a franchise and my worry is that they may they may do another and they may have another shot at the at the apple and then they may make the movie that this one needed to be but my worry is that there's just not going to be you know they're going to kind of stop and then they'll have to redo it but if this was a banger out of the gate [SPEAKER_01]: You know what, you know what, it's entirely possible.

26:51 [SPEAKER_01]: They go animated the wholeness movie. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that, I mean, those scenes were completely solid. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, but I mean, they get all those guys to do voice acting instead and the budget goes immediately down and they could do everything that they want to do you've got all these like choice voice actors and if it makes money and there's a demand you can run it back is a live action version like down like but like you can continue the story and create it and given the ways that they've already incorporated the animation and the live action. [SPEAKER_01]: you just lean in more on the animation. [SPEAKER_01]: If you really felt like there was a way to make money off of the property. [SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, I get what you're saying, it just...

27:31 [SPEAKER_01]: It wasn't impactful enough as an innovative fresh movie, both catching the audience like wanting to see it. [SPEAKER_01]: And I think there was that kind of lack of confidence by putting it out in October when it could have come out in August, it could have gotten a bigger push around summer slam, some of these other things going on. [SPEAKER_00]: I thought the trailers were really fun too. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I think everyone just had a great talk like, I think the campaign, [SPEAKER_01]: Appeal to the people will support to appeal to, but in debt appeal to the people it needed to appeal to. [SPEAKER_00]: All right, let's go through my notes of the lore and you can host a crack wise on on the phone. [SPEAKER_00]: So the origins we go back to 1987, like you said, uh, the designers, uh, to Kashi Nishiyama and Hiroshi Matsumoto built the original Street Fighter as an arcade game.

28:25 [SPEAKER_00]: The lone martial artist Ryu fights, you know, when I was younger, I thought it was [SPEAKER_00]: fights his way through ten opponents across five countries in a worldwide tournament. [SPEAKER_00]: A second player could take control of Ken Masters, his American rival. [SPEAKER_00]: The specific special moves introduced the Hadookin, the Shoryukin, and the Tatsumaki, I don't even know how to pronounce that other move. [SPEAKER_00]: Uh, became the signature series techniques and are still the most, uh, the move's most casual fans can name on site. [SPEAKER_00]: Did you ever play the original Street Fighter? [SPEAKER_01]: briefly a couple of times and I lost interest almost completely did you know originally the controls for that were pneumatic kind of like you put your hand over and you move around like a like a square track pad but it broke so many times.

29:19 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh gosh. [SPEAKER_01]: Shotcom sent out like a hack fit with actually had the controllers like the the traditional joystick in the two [SPEAKER_00]: Street Fighter 2, 1991. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: So they first tried to pass off the unrelated brawler, final fight as the sequel, and it didn't stick. [SPEAKER_00]: Do you remember final fight? [SPEAKER_00]: I do remember final fight. [SPEAKER_00]: Do you remember final fight? [SPEAKER_00]: I think so, uh, I kind of remember as a side scroller, isn't it? [SPEAKER_01]: Uh, it is. [SPEAKER_01]: It is one of the fighting game like double dragon where you are double dragon is really fun too.

30:02 [SPEAKER_01]: Where you're basically fighting against criminals in the city and there was the big guy with uh, with the pants and the suspenders and he was the mayor of the city, Dan Hagger and I actually thought he was [SPEAKER_01]: a cameo easter egg in the movie is the guy trying to, like, pull chumli out of, of, uh, Metroland or whatever wherever they were at. [SPEAKER_01]: Um, I will generally like, is that the dude from Final Fight? [SPEAKER_01]: And also because he was just so, like, over the top with the mustache and the kind of the, the seller that I really just think, I'm actually looking up right now to see if it was an easter egg because I meant to look at it at any time. [SPEAKER_01]: But yes, I am aware of Final Fight continue.

30:43 [SPEAKER_00]: So Street Fighter 2, it lets you pick several fighters from with genuinely distinct movesets, which sets the template of the entire genre of fighting games that has followed ever since. [SPEAKER_00]: Who did you pick to play as? [SPEAKER_01]: I played real. [SPEAKER_01]: I was real almost exclusively, but if I wanted to do outside the line, I would play Charlie, Gile, or Blanca. [SPEAKER_00]: I would play Gile almost exclusively, just because I knew how to do that that kick.

31:23 [SPEAKER_00]: But I wasn't a big big time player, but I was [SPEAKER_00]: So this movie, this game grossed more than $10 billion in inflation adjusted revenue, mostly from the arcade. [SPEAKER_00]: and sold over 14 million cartridges on the Super Nintendo and the Genesis. [SPEAKER_00]: It is, yeah, it is the goat of all fighting games and the pioneer of all fighting games. [SPEAKER_00]: Now, one of my qualms with the Super Nintendo and it's anytime you have a 16-bit game versus an arcade, which just that I was like, hey, [SPEAKER_00]: you're using a control pad, you're not using a joystick.

32:12 [SPEAKER_00]: And be, of course, the graphics are not necessarily up to snuff. [SPEAKER_00]: What was the first, like, system that was able to replicate the Street Fighter 2 cabinet? [SPEAKER_01]: I think it was probably the PlayStation 2, because you actually had the six buttons in a configuration that was able to kind of navigate that. [SPEAKER_01]: You had the diamond, the four, but you had the two, you had the extra eight buttons on top of the controller, and you could reconfigure it the way that you wanted to. [SPEAKER_01]: Super Nintendo, you had the six buttons that can match the, [SPEAKER_01]: the light mid and heavy punch and light heavy mid kick scenario that you had on and the arcade console because you remember you had the thick buttons and the joystick so wasn't until like the engine could be comparable to what the cabinet was doing because the controllers already gave you enough options and [SPEAKER_01]: you could configure the bugs the way that you wanted it to be.

33:14 [SPEAKER_01]: And that was one of the big deals. [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know when it happened, but there was also the um. [SPEAKER_01]: the flat square joystick style controller is coming out where you could actually rest it on your lap and play the cabinet style arcade in a little like box style port right there and a lot of people would prefer that because it was so authentic to the competitions that they would do. [SPEAKER_01]: I meant to ask you this, but did you catch the little note [SPEAKER_00]: No. [SPEAKER_01]: So down in Southern California, when the tournament started for the treat fighter among all the fandom, like Orange County and mainly in La Jolla, California, down in Southern San Diego, [SPEAKER_01]: Northern California was looking for a place to do that.

34:08 [SPEAKER_01]: And what ended up being the place in 1991 was the Sunnyvale Golfland. [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, wow. [SPEAKER_01]: And that was the main hub for the competitions for Street Fighter in all of California in the Northern California area. [SPEAKER_01]: And it is known for that as being is what I'm thinking. [SPEAKER_01]: I don't even know if that Golfland is still around. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's still around. [SPEAKER_01]: But it is 100% known for it's role in the pivotal [SPEAKER_01]: e-gaming system like the whole e-gaming lore like the streetfighter launched all that and need where the two places where it all starts. [SPEAKER_00]: Well, I wish I knew that so then my bike wouldn't have got stolen. [SPEAKER_01]: I had been at Alphlend and you were in your locker room a couple of miles down the way in the company.

34:52 [SPEAKER_00]: Hi, but Sunnyvale Galfland. [SPEAKER_00]: All right, the sequels, the championship edition. [SPEAKER_01]: Yes. [SPEAKER_00]: I feel like they got that one out pretty quick to take advantage. [SPEAKER_00]: I remember that you could play as, uh, you could play if the ball says in that one. [SPEAKER_00]: The end button. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: The first game you can only play the eight, the eight players of where you can [SPEAKER_00]: Who is who is created from a pro wrestler? [SPEAKER_01]: Victor Tangif and so it's all kind of tagging.

35:35 [SPEAKER_00]: And talk about talking about royalties in my man. [SPEAKER_00]: Get any money from this game? [SPEAKER_01]: Uh, no, but you shouldn't have probably gotten a cameo, you know, everybody else got a little bit of love that showed up here or there, but yeah, so the championship edition you got to play as ball wrong as Vega as Saga or embison and then you got the opportunity to also play the alternate color gear with something that people really liked as well as you didn't have to play the either player one or player to you had a couple different options for your for what color of your gear. [SPEAKER_00]: Then the hyperfitting one was just like you're playing on two X the speed or whatever. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, where you're taking a joint colon playing on all adrenaline and then what was super Street Fighter 2?

36:21 [SPEAKER_01]: Super Street Fighter 2 was I believe the new Challenger? [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, and that was where Kami, which was in the film, was introduced along with [SPEAKER_01]: They're another one, but, oh, T-Hoc, the Native American kind of Zangif mirror, but the United States, you know, Native American version. [SPEAKER_00]: So then there was the Super Turbo, then there was the Alpha series that you mentioned, then there was EX. [SPEAKER_01]: What was EX, you know, at that point, I kind of wasn't playing it all that much, but it just ended up being more and more additional stuff to these games.

37:10 [SPEAKER_01]: They added a new character like Sikura and trying to make sure that, you know, [SPEAKER_01]: It was ending the life cycle of the system, you know, like that championship, yes, it's a hyper and it's got everybody in there and it's just a little bit faster and it's a little more tuned up and then they went into the alpha series and then they went into the street signers. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and then what, what was Street Fighter 3? [SPEAKER_01]: Fighter 3 was basically the fall of the Street Fighter 2, but it didn't land the way that they wanted it to. [SPEAKER_01]: And so people don't really talk about Street Fighter 3, but you can play it, it perfectly fine, but they were never able to get people into it. [SPEAKER_01]: And a lot of people really did prefer Street Fighter Alpha, which was the prequel.

37:54 [SPEAKER_01]: kind of theories which you played a younger version of can, a version of younger version of you. [SPEAKER_01]: You met Dan who was friend with all of them and you saw where Saga got his star for the first time and you know, the more in the kuma which was a secret character from [SPEAKER_01]: I think the championship edition or super Street Fighter 2, where he was unlocked and then he became a character that you can play more regularly in the following thing. [SPEAKER_00]: So, so if we're now right now they're up to Street Fighter 6, they are. [SPEAKER_01]: It was Street Fighter 5 that really got me like eyebrow brave and my god, either intro. [SPEAKER_01]: This is looking pretty good to me and but I didn't have a PlayStation at the time.

38:37 [SPEAKER_01]: And so I did end up going into Street Fighter 6 and I kind of got into the whole Street Fighter 6. [SPEAKER_01]: engine maybe like six to nine months ago, but they're a whole world building thing that you have to do to get where you need to go and kind of kind of turn kind of the way like you do and that will be the show to kind of get where you need to go and I just wasn't there yet with that game and so I kind of put it down. [SPEAKER_01]: But I have all the characters that I can play, like I've done the season passes and I just dip into it some time to time and now I just kind of want to go in there and play as Kenny Omega's character Alex, which you can do the one we get angel and all these other things into the game and it's like, you know, I really just want to go in there and hit somebody who's the one we get angel in the get out and it's totally worth it to me now do these games still come out in cabinets.

39:27 [SPEAKER_01]: Or they just on the the now high engine power at home system just high engine power at home system, you know, you buy that you buy the copy of stream digitally and then you went up to the internet and you just start playing all these other people around the world and it's the same stuff that, you know, it'll always been some new cheating some dudes like bouncing out before the end of the game and [SPEAKER_01]: and call the same normal stuff that all the stuff that fighting online it is, but this is far and away the most competitive, the most interested fan base of all fighting games out there and everyone's trying to chase that street fighter energy with, you know, you fighting games.

40:10 [SPEAKER_00]: Alright, now tell me the story, the history lesson, which is M. Bison originally looked like Mike Tyson and then they had to reshuffle because of likeness stuff. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so I don't know exactly the whole story of it, but there's obviously a reason why you have bowrug in this game, and you have embison. [SPEAKER_01]: And you know, embison really does look like one of the like the Panama dictator that killed a bunch of people, and very thinly veiled who you're supposed to think that this guy is, but then he's got like magical power. [SPEAKER_01]: So all of a sudden, you're like, okay, and a cake.

40:50 [SPEAKER_01]: And the cape is pretty iconic if we're going to be honest like there's nothing more special the cape and I'll tell you when I've watched this movie and I'll look at sure the David Dalmothian was going to have enough like body presence to really convey and bias in and I think you was just creepy enough that it didn't matter like you was you should really good in the [SPEAKER_01]: Of course not. [SPEAKER_01]: You got a way for that guy to go down. [SPEAKER_01]: I'm saying what if we don't ever see it another one. [SPEAKER_00]: Then you'll never. [SPEAKER_01]: He beat the crap out of Trump. [SPEAKER_00]: But I guess the original Japanese version of this.

41:31 [SPEAKER_00]: The original Japanese boss was named Mike Bison and looked like Mike Tyson. [SPEAKER_00]: So they took away the full first name. [SPEAKER_00]: They made it in Bison and then they changed it up. [SPEAKER_01]: And, and yeah, I'd like to say Balrog is is is now the Mike Tyson look like I mean, you do remember the story in which Mike Tyson's punch out just became Punch out because they could not continue. [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah, because they got a trouble. [SPEAKER_01]: They at any point could have run it back, and they never have, and I think that's just more in Nintendo's image didn't want it to be tarnished with that. [SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, Ty, Ty, it was problematic during this time.

42:13 [SPEAKER_00]: Could you ever beat Mike Tyson? [SPEAKER_01]: I beat him a couple of times on Ty, it was all timing [SPEAKER_01]: It's growing up. [SPEAKER_01]: I had a Japanese exchange student who was like 18 when I was like six and I watched him beat it Like watched him do it and I just realized you was like timing it and like doing a whole day Oh, and so once you see somebody do it, you know, it's possible like it's kind of grind out and eventually I did and the moment I did it I was like I don't ever need to play this game ever again [SPEAKER_00]: I was able to beat him, but it was because I would put the code in and I could not get all the way through to get to him because I would always lose to supermodule man and then I finally figured out how to beat supermodule man.

43:03 [SPEAKER_00]: So I could go from zero to Tyson and win the whole game in a single swoop without getting knocked down at some point, but that was so long ago. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, remember I remember I think the pattern of what you had to do and what order to be like certain guys is everybody had like a weakness and you had to wait for like the beats of the game to hit those weaknesses. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: Some of like when you got to Tyson and you got to like Mr. Dream of Super Macho man, those guys. [SPEAKER_01]: It was a little tougher. [SPEAKER_01]: You know what I mean? [SPEAKER_01]: Like it was flamingo doll on the second time that you face him. [SPEAKER_01]: Definitely a little tougher glass Joe. [SPEAKER_01]: Sometimes he'd say some a second time.

43:43 [SPEAKER_01]: And all of a sudden he wasn't a glassy. [SPEAKER_01]: Didn't like that. [SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, just that was the game that actually like taught me to like persevere and like you practice. [SPEAKER_01]: You can get better at something. [SPEAKER_00]: Bulbul and then the sandman and those guys would give you like a half of a second to do the thing that you need to do and if you did it a little bit too early You get knocked out if you did a little bit too late you get knocked out you got one chance ball ball had caught that energy Okay, so Let's talk a little bit about this movie. [SPEAKER_00]: Alright, you know what? [SPEAKER_00]: Let's go to 1994 give me your memories of the 1994 movie [SPEAKER_01]: I was so excited to see this movie Garrett like I would read wizard magazine and all like the the press info about Steven to Susan all these great movies that he had a hand in making like Rambo and Predator and why he was going to be an awesome movie because under siege was so awesome was Steven sick all and he got John Claude Van Damplain, [SPEAKER_01]: playing and bison and you've got Kylie Minogue who's apparently this really like attractive singer from Australia and I didn't even really like she was in this movie until I was reading up on this.

45:07 [SPEAKER_01]: I was like I was told that she was a big deal before I saw her and then I was like okay I have some extra member of this Kylie Minogue person and I think like [SPEAKER_01]: the year 1999 or 2000 hit and she was like all of a sudden a super pop star like oh yeah she was in that streetfinder movie and that's off and then you add a Ming Nau in as a chamey and this was right before she ended up being a superstar Asian actress and some of the other movies that like made me enjoy a lot club stuff like that and she ended up [SPEAKER_01]: And she ended up being in a one of my favorite Marvel shows that gets no other age of the shield and she was playing a badass like secret agent in there and a lot of it reminded me of when she was chumbly in that original film.

45:56 [SPEAKER_00]: And Julia died before this movie even came out. [SPEAKER_01]: He did, he was dealing with cancer, much like a child with both men was dealing with cancer doing some of his movies. [SPEAKER_01]: And the reason he did the movie because he knew his kids loved street fighter and wanted to eat it for them. [SPEAKER_01]: And to this day, [SPEAKER_01]: One of the quotes that he has in this movie is one of the most iconic evil guy quotes that I just love and they even call it back to it in this movie, do you know what quote it was? [SPEAKER_01]: So in the original movie, Ralajulia is doing his villain monologue to chum me about when he went to her village and destroyed everyone and killed her father.

46:40 [SPEAKER_01]: And he was like, to you, that was the worst day of your life. [SPEAKER_01]: To me, it was a Tuesday. [SPEAKER_01]: And so they did the line again in this movie and basically the same thing where dumb off to you and it's like, you thought this was going to be your greatest day or like, whatever. [SPEAKER_01]: And then you did, and it was like, to me, it was a Tuesday. [SPEAKER_01]: And I was like, you said the line, you said the line. [SPEAKER_01]: And even, and so, and so popular, actually, that I don't know if you noticed this, when Kenny Omega did the assault on Yota Suji [SPEAKER_01]: I think it was the King of Pro Wrestling back in October.

47:24 [SPEAKER_01]: The tweet that he did was basically saying to you, me coming in and attacking you is the greatest thing that ever happened to you, to me it was a Monday. [SPEAKER_01]: And you're trying to do the whole villain of like the grand villain coming in and I'm going to destroy your hero. [SPEAKER_01]: So this line that they do is so iconic that it's one of the lasting legacy of that entire book. [SPEAKER_00]: That's really cool. [SPEAKER_00]: Overall, how was this movie? [SPEAKER_01]: Hawkins, okay.

48:05 [SPEAKER_01]: Perfect, good, crawl me, went. [SPEAKER_00]: So you were okay. [SPEAKER_00]: I only think I remember about this is I was working at Blockbuster video during this time. [SPEAKER_00]: And... [SPEAKER_00]: The box, I just remember the box, John Cloud Van Dam, because he was a giant star at this point, and I, so I, in the research, it says that they had like a 35 million dollar budget and his fee alone was about one fourth, a little bit less than one fourth the budget. [SPEAKER_00]: So they're banked this whole thing on just the idea that he was playing Gile. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so I have to apologize. [SPEAKER_01]: I have to walk back something I said about the perfect comment. [SPEAKER_01]: I thought you meant the current movie.

48:46 [SPEAKER_01]: Uh, no, the the 94 movie of terror. [SPEAKER_01]: It was caught off. [SPEAKER_01]: And like then it's up there with the Super Mario movie with on the Thathkins, you know, and it really just the biggest whiff of like taking everything that you had in a movie and just completely [SPEAKER_01]: just destroying everything. [SPEAKER_01]: And I think it was a collective disappointment about this movie in which were like, man, this movie could have been awesome, but it, it just felt like it was made for TV. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, some of the research says, and I'm sure this was, this is correct that they had it at a very specific release date.

49:32 [SPEAKER_00]: And so they had to rush to finish this thing. [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, Fernando here's like, he's talking about a Jean-Claude Van Dam being very thin of the movie. [SPEAKER_01]: I would suppose that's probably the cocaine, but I can't say for sure. [SPEAKER_01]: There were a lot of hedonism, I would say, with a lot of the people feeling like they were just in it for a payday and having, you know, fun on the thing. [SPEAKER_01]: And there were absolutely people on that set that were there to do a good job, but they weren't the people that [SPEAKER_01]: the production focused around. [SPEAKER_01]: So they just kind of suffered. [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, you had West duty in there and it's like dull him. [SPEAKER_01]: Like, what a duty from last the Moe he could.

50:13 [SPEAKER_01]: Like, you had legitimately like good actor Rao Julia. [SPEAKER_01]: You had like an ensemble, but you built it around Gile who was supposed to be [SPEAKER_01]: a hardcore American Air Force pilot but somehow he had a Belgian accent and he worked for the world special forces instead of the US Air Force looking for a buddy charlie. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, kind of this kind of a mess. [SPEAKER_00]: All right, so this film that we just saw at least how long has been out like three weeks now. [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, we're heading, I think it's the end of the second week right now.

50:53 [SPEAKER_00]: So legendary entertainment acquired it and TV rights in April 2023 with Capcom co-producing Danny and Michael Philippu were the first directors announced, but they dropped out in June 2024. [SPEAKER_00]: Kittau Sakurai was hired in February 25, co-wrote the screenplay with TJ Fixman from a story [SPEAKER_00]: Sony originally dated the film for March and then dropped it from the calendar entirely after Legendary's deal with Sony expired.

51:34 [SPEAKER_00]: Paramount picked it up last year for to to put out this year and looks like the shooting went from August 18th of 25 to November 12th. [SPEAKER_00]: under the working title of punch and I guess we can talk about what you think about the cast. [SPEAKER_00]: What did you think about Andrew Koji as Ryu? [SPEAKER_01]: I think you look just there. [SPEAKER_01]: You know like he has to be the thing about Ryu is that [SPEAKER_01]: he's the player, everyone most identified with, but he's stoic and somewhat empty.

52:24 [SPEAKER_01]: And you kind of fill in the gaps of, he's a broken in this movie. [SPEAKER_01]: He's absolutely broken. [SPEAKER_01]: He's corrupted by the power that he's chasing and the fight, and they try and convey that. [SPEAKER_01]: But everything, I think the best scene that he has in this entire movie is when he goes to see Ken after their, [SPEAKER_01]: after they've been away for a while because it's really the only time he's able to show any personality with someone he's familiar with because in the entirety of the movie, he's just he's reuniting with either someone he knows and fighting them or he's encountering someone he's never met before in the movie and so is the result.

53:07 [SPEAKER_01]: Every one of his interactions is almost stunted in a certain way because he's got to put up this wall because he's this warrior and he doesn't know whether he's in trust you or not. [SPEAKER_01]: But when he goes and sees Ken, you almost see this like the guard down is like, yeah, you're still [SPEAKER_01]: you're still just careless, let's go in on here. [SPEAKER_01]: And that's the only time that you really come off as likable, even the stuff of Bualka is more like, yeah, I still not sure I can trust you, but okay, like you're warning a lesson from this guy, rather than actually having like a conversation with him. [SPEAKER_00]: So if anybody should have died in this movie, she should have been Blanca. [SPEAKER_00]: What a, what a disaster of character, Blanco was. [SPEAKER_01]: It looks like I guess what you get when you get to produce a movie.

53:50 [SPEAKER_01]: You get to do whatever you want in the scene and just figure it all out. [SPEAKER_00]: And it was a memo of thinking. [SPEAKER_00]: I don't understand. [SPEAKER_01]: I think you've just a fan of the film. [SPEAKER_01]: It's like, yeah, I'm going to do my mobile thing. [SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to do my blog at the thing. [SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to start the film, but I get to be hanging out. [SPEAKER_01]: That stood out as like, it was jarring. [SPEAKER_00]: I was like, there's there's something here that needs to get an award for how bad it was. [SPEAKER_01]: Yes. [SPEAKER_01]: So I would say that Ryu was fine, but had he been more... [SPEAKER_01]: I don't want to say charismatic, but able to connect with the audience. [SPEAKER_01]: I think the movie would have been better.

54:31 [SPEAKER_00]: And my guess is that... [SPEAKER_00]: That's kind of part two what part two is supposed to be as his journey and figuring this whole thing out and I'm hopeful that we get a part two because I want to see these guys continue to be like stuff and the end of the movie right like when were you wins the game extreme fighter two. [SPEAKER_01]: like he foregoes the celebration and he walked the lonely road on his own and he walked into the sunset and thing. [SPEAKER_01]: And so the end of this movie is trying to pay a little bit of homage to that where he's walking the world and we rode and he realized he's a bare-fledged place. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's like wait, wait a second. [SPEAKER_01]: Hold up, hold up. [SPEAKER_01]: There it is. [SPEAKER_01]: And he comes back and he's like, yeah, I realize that. [SPEAKER_01]: So [SPEAKER_01]: I might have had a little bit too much of a challenge.

55:14 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, I could, I'm kind of cutting into one of the things that we usually do at the end, which is who else could have played somebody in this movie. [SPEAKER_00]: I think the only answer for this is Wheeler Uda, as I will just think it wasn't Wheeler Uda when the guy, you know, um, [SPEAKER_01]: Dragantly, actually, when he was on the indie, he named himself after me. [SPEAKER_01]: Like, wow. [SPEAKER_01]: Dragantly, really, like, he has a connection and he likes to name himself after you from Street Fighter. [SPEAKER_01]: So that's cool. [SPEAKER_01]: There are a reference all over the place that, like, have a secret level of view. [SPEAKER_01]: You've seen, I think, the young bunch come out with Kenny Omega, all doing like Street Fighter gear where, like, the gear, it's Halloween, right?

55:59 [SPEAKER_00]: Wasn't there a Halloween episode where they were interested in? [SPEAKER_01]: I think they did one of those, you know, like we got the Assassin's Creed stuff, but Kenny doing the Street Fighter has been one of the earliest, you know, the rivalry with Xavier Woods or whatever new name it had just blanked on it. [SPEAKER_01]: Co-C-E-C-E-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C- [SPEAKER_01]: You know, like, it would be entirely appropriate for, like, that few would be caused by it. [SPEAKER_01]: Cause everyone's got to work with a couple of like, I'm not one. [SPEAKER_00]: All right, Ken Masters, Noah sent to Neo. [SPEAKER_00]: The only thing I knew about him was he had been in some, like, Netflix movies for, like, young, young, young people, kind of stuff.

56:48 [SPEAKER_01]: I felt like the wig could have been better. [SPEAKER_01]: I couldn't get past that, but he very much had Netflix teen romance energy about him. [SPEAKER_01]: the Netflix Sabrina Teenage which kind of energy where it's like the guy has to overcome like his own demon. [SPEAKER_01]: So you can see it coming a mile away what his overall arc was going to be. [SPEAKER_01]: And while the movie was telling you it was about real, it was all, it was really about Ken, you know, like the movie was his journey from [SPEAKER_01]: Realizing that he was always worthy and he had to just get over the fact that, you know, he was held back by Dana that he didn't know, but when at the time he will be able to persevere.

57:36 [SPEAKER_01]: she did and I thought he was good and I thought he brought out good moments in other cast members. [SPEAKER_01]: You know, like those interactions that he had, his scene with others, were probably the best scene some of the other characters had in the film. [SPEAKER_01]: It's on the [SPEAKER_00]: I thought she was my favorite part of the movie, except I did not really like her storyline. [SPEAKER_00]: Like I just wanted to see her fight and she had to do this long storyline of trying to save people and show the bad people and I was like, I just want to see this woman in this tournament and she's not in it.

58:21 [SPEAKER_01]: So the issue with that would have been [SPEAKER_01]: It is very clear what Chunley's mission statement is, the entirety of the entire Street Fighter 2 lore. [SPEAKER_01]: And even when the Street Fighter 2 movie game came out, the fact that they even got Chunley into the game was a challenge because of the violence against women. [SPEAKER_01]: And so there's always been this affinity for her and then eventually got Kami in there and then you started getting more women into the thing. [SPEAKER_01]: but they've always tried to make sure that they've given like a back door. [SPEAKER_01]: She's not just a token woman character throughout the day. [SPEAKER_01]: And so she'd always been the one that has the most personal grudge against and bison, and so they used that from the original movie, the kind of lore, and all of these things.

59:13 [SPEAKER_01]: And unless you really make sure that that's her motivation, [SPEAKER_01]: The movie was going to be as unauthentic as it can possibly be without making that like a driver. [SPEAKER_01]: The fact that they didn't do any of the guy else stuff with his buddy Charlie and searching for him and why he's fighting and looking for that, I think you just missed the cutting reform but you have to do it with Charlie if you're not going to do it with guy. [SPEAKER_01]: Because they all have to have a motivation for being. [SPEAKER_00]: Um, you mentioned some of the other actors and bison. [SPEAKER_00]: Um, I guess the guy who played dollars dot doll seam. [SPEAKER_00]: Uh, he was he's a leading action star in Indian cinema.

59:53 [SPEAKER_00]: I did not know him. [SPEAKER_01]: I like him. [SPEAKER_01]: He was very charismatic. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: He was good. [SPEAKER_00]: Vega played by Orville Pack who is a musician, [SPEAKER_01]: There were clearly one of the main themes that I knew they cut on the left on the cutting board before was clearly a fight with Gile and Vega, in which Gile was going to have been cut by Vega, but it was always shown in the after-the-fact of Gile was cut by him and they mentioned it, but we kind of should have that fight. [SPEAKER_01]: You know what I mean? [SPEAKER_01]: It feels like it would have been a character moment for everyone involved. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

1:00:34 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. [SPEAKER_00]: most polarizing part of the movie, Eric Andre and Andrew Schultz, as Don Savage and Dan Don Kravaj, Savaj and Dan Hibicki. [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, I did not care either way. [SPEAKER_01]: I understood why they were there. [SPEAKER_01]: You know, like, [SPEAKER_01]: you can't play off of Ken and Ken can't play off of you, but you need somebody to play off of both of them in a way that allows their characters to have their, uh, their arc, you know, their, their development, they talk through these things, their action.

1:01:14 [SPEAKER_01]: And then you actually see Dan, you know, show redemption, show why these guys actually like having him around because he's actually like a good and loyal friend to like, you know, what people think about these two people in real life. [SPEAKER_01]: If everybody knew everything about every single person in this cast, and you wanted to make value judgments, WDU to see this movie. [SPEAKER_01]: So, you know, like, everybody's got somebody that they're not gonna like, I thought they were negligible to my experience of the movie in general. [SPEAKER_01]: I understood why they were there, but you know, if they were to see the story about the main eight fighters, and I got a good focus on three of them, and I was like, [SPEAKER_00]: All right, then I'll talk about the wrestlers involved in the UFC fighters.

1:02:05 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, Roman Reigns, he did not really have to do much acting. [SPEAKER_00]: I would say in his role here, but he got, you know, he's kind of the main boss part, one of the main boss parts at the end of the movie. [SPEAKER_00]: And, uh, [SPEAKER_00]: You know, not not in it a whole lot did doesn't do a whole lot. [SPEAKER_00]: Just test to make angry faces in an angry voice. [SPEAKER_00]: But hey, you know, he's in it and he got some sort of billing. [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know that this is something he's going to necessarily put on his resume and circle it as a great accomplishment is when he was in that movie with rock and Jason state them, he got a little bit more of what to do.

1:02:54 [SPEAKER_00]: But what do you think of Roman? [SPEAKER_01]: I thought he was perfectly fine as a kuma. [SPEAKER_01]: I was amused that it appeared that he got more screen time than most of the other actors in this film just doing basic like grunting and, you know, just angry guy stuff, angry Roman basically. [SPEAKER_01]: And it worked, I thought, I thought, [SPEAKER_01]: Not a whole lot of people could do Akuma and he understood that it just needed to be like a primal anger and like a primal brutality that they came with him and he seemed to convey it really well and I was just amused that despite the fact that all these other stars seem to get all the the top attention going into film like Cody is going to be a guy on all the stuff.

1:03:42 [SPEAKER_01]: The end of the day, it just really felt like your home when it was one of the primary focuses of the film when the film was playing and I want you to like dad just track for Roman. [SPEAKER_00]: It's it's not that he's really distinct though. [SPEAKER_00]: He doesn't stand out in a way where you're like, oh, who's that guy? [SPEAKER_00]: He stands out in a way where you're like, okay, it's not really doing anything. [SPEAKER_00]: He's just he just looks like this guy. [SPEAKER_01]: Not even not even that. [SPEAKER_01]: It is, it's one of the, yes, it is okay. [SPEAKER_01]: I can see the real-life version of this cartoon character being played by this guy and it worked for me and I am okay with it. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I'm talking about people who have no idea who Roman is. [SPEAKER_01]: Right, but if they, if they have no idea who Roman is and they have no idea who a Kuma is, you're lost, you're just like, I mean, they, they probably know who a Kuma is.

1:04:29 [SPEAKER_00]: Right. [SPEAKER_01]: But if they know who a Kuma is, they'll look at Roman and be like, you know what? [SPEAKER_01]: I accept this, you know, to like that, that's where I'm coming from. [SPEAKER_01]: It's like, they didn't, he didn't need to have an Oscar worthy performance, he just needed to work as the character brought to life and he did. [SPEAKER_00]: Cody Rhodes, great is I think he gets the most acclaim for kind of his personality, but I've also seen a lot of people who just did not like the how this character worked in this movie. [SPEAKER_00]: So you got some praise for him, you've also got some dismay just based on who the character is. [SPEAKER_00]: What [SPEAKER_01]: A lot of the portrayals of him that people consider authentic are a lot more like ice man played by the alkylman in top gut.

1:05:24 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, like stoic, I'm going to kick your ass and not say a whole lot of words, you got the sonic boom and like the the sonic kick and he actually did the kick in the film, which was actually a lot of fun, but I don't think he did the sonic boom. [SPEAKER_01]: I don't think so either. [SPEAKER_01]: I probably would have been in the Vega saying if they'd done it at all. [SPEAKER_01]: I thought he was great. [SPEAKER_01]: I thought he was a breath of fresh air into the film and a lot of the lines that he had made me laugh and made me smile and [SPEAKER_01]: I'll be honest, I kind of didn't see Cody Rhodes after a while after a song Gile, which I think is the best compliment I could give it. [SPEAKER_01]: If that, I felt like I was watching Cody Rhodes play Gile, and I was totally like, I did not see Cody Rhodes anymore.

1:06:08 [SPEAKER_01]: I saw a Gile being played by Cody Rhodes, and I was like, okay, you know what, he understood the assignment. [SPEAKER_01]: So I thought he did a good job. [SPEAKER_00]: I, I was surprised initially at kind of the tact of the character and the, um, the one liners and the jokes and, but at the same time, if you are looking for humor, [SPEAKER_00]: It's mostly going to come from his one-liners in this movie. [SPEAKER_00]: There's some prep falls and stuff that people might be, you know, that there's some Ken stuff where he's just a drunkard, but from actual, like, timed one-liners in charm, I think he kind of is the main person who supplies that in this movie.

1:06:54 [SPEAKER_00]: Whether you like the way that the character is written or not, [SPEAKER_01]: He's also an active narrator. [SPEAKER_01]: He's constantly giving you information in the film that you need for context in order to understand the relationships and all these other people had, like the dull theme relationship and him being in the bathroom stall when all these other people are having conversations. [SPEAKER_01]: And he serves as kind of this link to like, well, how did this one person figure this all thing out? [SPEAKER_01]: And he really just kind of the center of that web. [SPEAKER_01]: And I kind of find it interesting and he does have a lot of value within the plot. [SPEAKER_00]: Heroic go to as he's in one.

1:07:37 [SPEAKER_00]: He's in one scene three minutes naked is it one scene and in order for you to take his spot in the tournament he's got to beat up Eonda. [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, they had to get him into the film somehow. [SPEAKER_01]: And if you're going to pick a guy to do it, it's Roku Gono, which they basically mocapped his face on your fat suit, or a CGI, and he had him just basically fight Ryu in a bathhouse spa room, and they're both just wearing towels. [SPEAKER_01]: So let's say, send my naked fight, in which the towel staff happens, and Ryu gets the win over Gono, [SPEAKER_01]: or Edmund Honda or whatever, and that's the end of one heroic you go to in the film by far the least amount of screen time of any of the original eight characters in the street fighter.

1:08:32 [SPEAKER_01]: I am honestly not surprised, but since you already had a guy from Japan, Honda didn't need to be there apparently, so that looks that Alexander Volkanovsky. [SPEAKER_00]: plays the character of Joe. [SPEAKER_00]: Vulcanovsky is the only real fighters far as I know in this entire movie so he could probably kick everyone's ass. [SPEAKER_00]: But he plays the character that I had no idea existed. [SPEAKER_00]: Who is Joe? [SPEAKER_01]: I think he might have been one of the original like fighters and the original Street Fighter. [SPEAKER_01]: You know, just like there's a guy named Joe that you fight in there and you just want to those brawlers. [SPEAKER_01]: That's kind of what I was taking away from because I was kind of scrambling to think of who the sky was and then there was just kind of like a cipher energy with them.

1:09:20 [SPEAKER_01]: There was like, I think he's meant to be there for a reason and then we find out the reason was. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, he's got to be the one that does. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: And I guess in the, let's see, here's here's some information that I do have, so Joe is the character, okay, so yeah, you're right. [SPEAKER_00]: he is the the evil version of him. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, he he's the one who who casts that which if a character you can play an action figure you can buy there's a whole dark read dark can aspect of these characters that is a very familiar store.

1:10:09 [SPEAKER_00]: All right, so the movie the budget was 82 million. [SPEAKER_00]: uh... it is probably around that as far as what it's earned so far uh... if we're talking uh... all of domestic and worldwide uh... so hopefully it has a few more legs here to to get over that hump uh... and then you know and then it'll come to via streaming and all that's been all the game or it's that are in the physical media are going to buy that blue ray [SPEAKER_00]: The 4K, yeah, heck yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: I have a steel book for doing it. [SPEAKER_00]: So there was a, there was another Street Fighter movie that had come out in 2009 called Street Fighter, the Legend of Chun Lee.

1:10:53 [SPEAKER_00]: Do you remember this one? [SPEAKER_01]: No, but I have photos of it from this book and it looks unbelievably terrible. [SPEAKER_00]: Um, let's see. [SPEAKER_00]: Is there anything else? [SPEAKER_00]: So, okay. [SPEAKER_00]: So the director said that a sequel is already being written pending how audiences respond to this one. [SPEAKER_01]: Okay. [SPEAKER_00]: If you're to make a guess, do we get a second movie? [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: I think so too, my hope is that when it does hit streaming, and all, you know, renting it, all that stuff that it does make up a good amount of money so that they can do a second one, I want to see Cody and Roman and, you know, those guys, able to do another movie.

1:11:38 [SPEAKER_00]: It's good for their careers. [SPEAKER_00]: But let's just let's make the movie a little bit better. [SPEAKER_01]: Let's make it like there was a blueprint that's very similar to human and the master's of the universe movie where it's like, okay, we know that it's not going to do gangbusters in the theaters, but you got it, but why why would you take that why would you take that angle though? [SPEAKER_01]: because Capcom had money to burn and they felt like an investment kind of their property. [SPEAKER_01]: That property bring an billion for them. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, but the idea between making it, of course they wanted the movie to be good.

1:12:19 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not saying you need to make some movie to be bad, but to take the time and make sure that this thing is bigger than life, like that, I just feel like, [SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes these IP driven vehicles, what they rely on is they rely on their sickle fans, they're hard to get a fans. [SPEAKER_00]: Yes. [SPEAKER_00]: And I understand that there is a balance. [SPEAKER_00]: You do have to make sure that those fans enjoy it because if they don't, then they're gonna shit on it and then that will be bad for them. [SPEAKER_00]: So you do have to do that. [SPEAKER_00]: But at the same time, [SPEAKER_00]: You do have to make it big enough for the casual general audience who goes, I'm only going to see stuff that my friends tell me is really cool because I don't want to I don't want to waste money or risk the chance of watching something that I don't think is worth it and that's where I think this this stuff misses like he meant to I know you were super jazz about him and I was like [SPEAKER_00]: I want him and to be really good because then more people will see it.

1:13:21 [SPEAKER_00]: But if it leans a little bit too much to the hardcore fan base, then you're missing the big picture of why you go to the theater in the first place. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: I thought both of them appealed to the fan base, but did not hit the bull guy for the greater mark on both of these films. [SPEAKER_01]: And I think it is close enough that it still can be effective. [SPEAKER_01]: But no, they did not. [SPEAKER_00]: Did you think they're going to make a second [SPEAKER_01]: I do. [SPEAKER_01]: Okay. [SPEAKER_00]: I hope for he man as well that, you know, they, they do a little bit better in hitting that overall big deal. [SPEAKER_01]: The reality is is. [SPEAKER_01]: with these IPs that have a familiarity and a built-in audience of generational transformers that they're making another film on these.

1:14:07 [SPEAKER_01]: There are no IPs out there that the theater, these movie companies, these TV shows, these video games, are truly comfortable, like investing in as an unproven property and they're relying on the things that [SPEAKER_01]: already have an existing fan base and have some private proven commodity and we're just going to get more of it. [SPEAKER_01]: It's going to be more mortal combat. [SPEAKER_01]: It's going to be more streetfire. [SPEAKER_01]: It's going to be more mega man. [SPEAKER_01]: It's going to be more super Mario, you know, like a final fantasy. [SPEAKER_01]: All of these things are going to be the things that [SPEAKER_01]: they're going to be making and some of them are going to blow you out of the water like the the lantern show that just kind of showed up and it was just like kind of a revelation for people because it was unproven and it was just something that appealed to a higher end audience.

1:14:55 [SPEAKER_01]: These things are possible but you have to put the care and you have to put people into it that can both balance a love and affinity of the property and also making a good product. [SPEAKER_01]: And I believe this film. [SPEAKER_01]: suffered from a desire to be as authentic to the product as it could possibly be, which is a lot of things that people demand when a movie like this comes out. [SPEAKER_01]: But what you see is a cost to the actual quality of what you are coming out and because what you are doing is creating a series of moments in which you are reminded of something that you saw earlier rather than a cohesive [SPEAKER_01]: From the first place.

1:15:44 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it was almost like they made this movie and they were like We have to do a little bit of this thing because then people will get mad at us if we don't And that is the list of the stuff that you had to check off. [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, and that's what this movie was and it was done in a way Where it was like okay, we want to make sure all of these guys get their fight and we get their special moves in [SPEAKER_01]: how do we make sure that this all happens in some way shape or form? [SPEAKER_01]: And so that guy all fight that presumably have the Vega, probably had a lot of those boxes that checked off, but they saw an opportunity in another part of the scene where they could do that same thing. [SPEAKER_01]: And so they said, OK, we can cut this. [SPEAKER_00]: Would you think about the music, by the way? [SPEAKER_01]: uh, I had a great time with a 93 soundtrack because that that's why that's my bread butter butter buddy and uh, even even the, uh, the four non blogs, the ones going on like that, that's paying to me in a way that I was like, I'm ashamed of that I love this.

1:16:43 [SPEAKER_00]: What about the two legit to quit the M family that I loved it so much? [SPEAKER_00]: The only thing that is an end of the score was amazing. [SPEAKER_01]: You just don't want to not understand. [SPEAKER_00]: No, for an end, this is old as us, I think. [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know. [SPEAKER_01]: You just okay. [SPEAKER_00]: Um, the, uh, [SPEAKER_00]: The only thing I didn't like is when Balrog comes out, played by 50 cent, he comes out to a two-pox song that has an adjusted line in it. [SPEAKER_00]: So I'm wondering if two-pox had like two different versions of this song, but that song, and of itself, doesn't come out till 1996. [SPEAKER_01]: So do you think I'm trying to get my typhoon?

1:17:24 [SPEAKER_00]: Ah, let's see, what was Tyston doing in 93? [SPEAKER_01]: Was my memory for this movie? [SPEAKER_00]: No, no, I'm, but if the movie is set in like the early 90s, who is he going to play? [SPEAKER_01]: He can't play, but I can't, or ball rug, yeah, why not? [SPEAKER_01]: Why can't play ball rug? [SPEAKER_00]: Because he's Mike Tyson. [SPEAKER_00]: Mike Tyson doesn't implicit in this world. [SPEAKER_00]: But Mike Tyson is believes he's bigger than this world. [SPEAKER_00]: So he's not going to play a character in this world. [SPEAKER_00]: He's like, he's going, like, no, no. [SPEAKER_01]: Mike Tyson probably never considered playing this for, or they never considered Mike Tyson for this. [SPEAKER_00]: I, you, it's probably like, why this guy's unstable. [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if we could ever work with him. [SPEAKER_00]: But Mike Tyson, did you ever see the Rocky Six movie essentially called Rocky Balboa?

1:18:15 [SPEAKER_01]: not all the way through. [SPEAKER_00]: So Rocky and the reason I'm mentioning this is because we'll talk about what we're doing next. [SPEAKER_00]: So Rocky Balboa faces Antonio Tarver whose name is Mason Dixon. [SPEAKER_00]: Mason [SPEAKER_00]: And Rocky is like a 50 year old man, and so he wants to fight the champion as like an exhibition. [SPEAKER_00]: And so they have to they have to tell the audience that Rocky is from like the late 70s and the 80s, but this is the early 2000s or the mid 2000s. [SPEAKER_00]: So how do we bring the mid [SPEAKER_00]: Max Kellerman is one of the announcers Jim Lampley is one of the announcers Larry Merchants one of the announcers Mike Tyson is in the crowd As Mike Tyson Even though Antonio Tarver is boxing as Mason the line Dixon and Rocky bubble is in this so it's like yeah, this is weird thing, but We are going to do our next movie in November [SPEAKER_00]: Uh, it's I play rocky.

1:19:27 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if we'll actually record it in November because I play rocky comes out around Thanksgiving time. [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. [SPEAKER_00]: Um, I think they're doing some sneak previews next weekend. [SPEAKER_00]: I haven't seen if I'll be able to see those, but I'm hope I'm hoping. [SPEAKER_00]: Um, but they will, uh, we're going to do I play rocky, which is the story of how the movie Rocky. [SPEAKER_00]: was created. [SPEAKER_00]: So it's in kind of an interesting, you've been really excited for the whole time. [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know that I'm excited. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm just super intrigued. [SPEAKER_00]: Like I know the rocky franchise up and back. [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, this is your bread and butter. [SPEAKER_00]: And I like if I'm going to nitpick anything, it's this movie.

1:20:10 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to nitpick the hell out of it. [SPEAKER_00]: As I'm watching it in real time, I'm going to be nitpicking it. [SPEAKER_00]: But I just think it's a fun idea for this show that we're [SPEAKER_00]: So Fernando says Roy Jones Jr. should have been in the tarver role. [SPEAKER_00]: He was supposed to be, but my man wouldn't call Slime back, so he didn't get to be in the movie. [SPEAKER_01]: So this is a little outside baseball or inside baseball for the audience. [SPEAKER_01]: You and I are going to go see a movie next week together. [SPEAKER_01]: Are you gunk, sir? [SPEAKER_01]: Mine is zero. [SPEAKER_01]: Are you going to watch gunk, sir? [SPEAKER_01]: Mine is one before I have it on for K. You're going to rewatch it? [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, well, I've been seen it before so I will never feed up before never seeing God's Godzilla My you need to fit that immediately.

1:20:54 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I have it on 4K It is a fantastic film and you should watch it you should turn the call off and watch it immediately Well, I have a lot of stuff to do tonight That's what I'm going to have a great game. [SPEAKER_01]: You have that great game that's true Anyway, I hope you watch out for maybe tomorrow though because I hope you watch out so [SPEAKER_00]: because I'm going to watch it before we go so good. [SPEAKER_00]: 100% oh good. [SPEAKER_00]: Um, the, uh, the thick, so okay. [SPEAKER_00]: So real quick, I'm going to see a movie that you are frowning upon tomorrow. [SPEAKER_00]: So, oh, you're going to go through that one. [SPEAKER_00]: The Elizabeth home, so I, I, I, I, I, I had to set aside three hours. [SPEAKER_00]: This movie is so long.

1:21:34 [SPEAKER_00]: But, um, I do have so I will figure out a way to watch the Godzilla movie. [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, you can watch it instead of wrong Monday night and really know. [SPEAKER_00]: I can't because then I have to do take down with Paul on on Tuesday where we're talking about raw and we're talking about the new Japan show you're doing on Tuesday not on Thursday [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, because we're going to come back on Thursday with an episode of the fight game podcast because Paul and Jeff are not going live on Wednesday. [SPEAKER_00]: Cause Jeff is out of town. [SPEAKER_00]: He's I think Jeff has some medical thing that he's got to do. [SPEAKER_01]: But just a love it. [SPEAKER_00]: So Paul and I will talk about it on Thursday.

1:22:15 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: So I've so that that's why my schedule is just crazy. [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, Ben, well, well, uh, maybe we'll talk about that at some point, [SPEAKER_00]: My nephew is a Godzilla sickle. [SPEAKER_00]: And he's a lot of thick. [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, but I'm he's a lot of like 11. [SPEAKER_01]: And he's I'm going to do a little bit of it's just so good. [SPEAKER_01]: So good. [SPEAKER_01]: All right. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, get out of here. [SPEAKER_00]: That'll be it. [SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, next movie will be the I play Rocky and then you got you're going to have a big Thursday. [SPEAKER_00]: Uh, speak in strong style talking about the New Japan big show.

1:22:57 [SPEAKER_01]: Don't rest looking them preview fallout. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I'm looking. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm excited for that show. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I'm a, I don't think I'm just going to show up on that show, but I think you're going to show up during the World Tag week to mess with the real hero here. [SPEAKER_01]: We want to get that one going. [SPEAKER_01]: Just that's a, a decidedly MGS thing to show up and know what it's got some like in a random town in Japan. [SPEAKER_01]: Just really. [SPEAKER_00]: All right. [SPEAKER_00]: That is it from here for Jeremy. [SPEAKER_00]: I am WG. [SPEAKER_00]: We will see when we see you piece out.