Geekology 101

172: Geeked Out

• Diego Aguirre & Joshua Aguirre • Episode 172

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WE'RE BACK!

After a much needed (and very long hiatus), we're back to update you on what we've been geeking out over these days and what we're simply tapped out on... or rather... geeked out!

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Diego:

So uh, buddy, you know how we say. We're gonna go on hiatus for like a month or two. Yeah, I feel like if we don't come back soon, it's gonna be like a year or two.

Joshua:

Yeah, I feel like it's the same thing.

Diego:

I think it's time to come back.

Joshua:

We're back.

Diego:

Welcome back to Geekology 101. My name is Diego and my name is Joshua. And uh, yeah, so we left you guys waiting for like a year and a half.

Joshua:

Um.

Diego:

No, not a year and a half. What's it been like a year? And?

Joshua:

a few months A year and a couple months.

Diego:

Yeah, it's been a lot.

Joshua:

Um Our bad.

Diego:

Our bad, but uh, yeah, we know we've. Uh, I don't know, I feel like we needed that break to, like you know.

Joshua:

Reconstruct what Geekology is gonna be.

Diego:

Right, joshua, also needed to, like you know, start approaching puberty and like, start sounding more like a man.

Joshua:

I don't sound like a man, though.

Diego:

If we compare the audio from back in the first episode of Geekology 101. Oh my god, you know what? Uh, please play that audio.

Joshua:

So the world of Bendy is basically where you play as this former employee named Henry and you have to escape basically Bendy. Who is this like monster in the game?

Diego:

Yeah, I. I think you're sounding a little bit more mannish these days, yeah.

Joshua:

Yeah.

Diego:

Man, a lot has happened during this whole hiatus that we've taken. That's been like a year and a few months now and one of them, of course, is that you have turned 11.

Joshua:

That's true.

Diego:

Yeah, um, I think that during this whole year we've gone through quite a bit of changes when it comes to geek them and stuff that we're geeking over, geeking out over, has kind of shifted a little bit.

Joshua:

Yeah, definitely it has for me.

Diego:

Yeah, um, I think that we are geeking out over new things and we're kind of geeked out on a couple of things.

Diego:

It's like a little bit too much already, you know, uh. So we figured, why not make this comeback episode um, all about that, just to catch you guys up on where we are right now, what we're geeking out over, what we're like totally geeked out on, and um, just, uh, yeah, tell you where we're at these days, all right, so so first to talk about the stuff that we're just geeked out on like we're tired of a few things.

Joshua:

It's just too much.

Diego:

Yeah, all right. So I think for me, during his last year especially, the thing that has become the biggest shift is my excitement overall with the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Joshua:

Yeah.

Diego:

I think that entire time of like when the Disney plus series started coming out and then, like the what is the phase four that we're in, it all started playing out, man, I just it was just like disappointment after disappointment, with like a nice little thing sparkled, sprinkled in.

Joshua:

Like every couple of every couple of projects, there was just like one good thing yeah.

Diego:

But overall, I think that the thing that has like haunted me most during this entire phase four of them of the MCU has been how disjointed everything feels like this is supposed to be the beginning of a new saga, the multiversal saga.

Joshua:

And like there's most of the stuff that is in this multiverse saga is, doesn't that doesn't even have to do with the multiverse.

Diego:

Yeah, and just some of the stuff that does is really go like. You know, the Wanda vision is fantastic and will continue to be fantastic, but then how they treated Wanda in multiverse of madness was kind of questionable.

Joshua:

Yeah.

Diego:

And then I liked the grounded stuff, like I liked the black widow movie, but honestly that movie came around like five years too late. Also, I loved the Hawkeye series. You know that was a lot of fun.

Joshua:

Has nothing to do with the multiverse.

Diego:

Not at all. Falcon and Winter Soldier that was a fun series.

Joshua:

Nothing to do with the multiverse.

Diego:

Then you've got the Shang-Chi was really good.

Joshua:

That was a good movie.

Diego:

That was great.

Joshua:

Nothing to do with the multiverse?

Diego:

Probably nothing now.

Joshua:

Yeah, not at all and like.

Diego:

I don't feel like there's any puzzles being put together, puzzle pieces being put together to complete a big picture of where it is that this thing is headed, like the fact that we know where it's headed. It's headed towards Secret Wars.

Joshua:

Yeah, and then there's Kang. Kang has been introduced throughout all of these and I guess like he is supposed to be the next big bad guy. He is the big bad guy right now, but not everything that is coming in in this saga like has to do with Kang at all. Like a lot of the stuff that is in this multiverse saga is really grounded on Earth. Yeah, yeah.

Diego:

I don't know. It feels almost like when the time of the multiversal saga does come around. It almost feels like it's going to be forced in, like forced together.

Joshua:

Yeah.

Diego:

And that's going to suck because we're talking about multiple universes, entire universes that are supposed to be clashing and collapsing in Secret Wars and I just don't feel like we've gotten a proper enough introduction to any of those Like multiverse of madness introduces to that alternate universe.

Diego:

I forget what Earth it was, but where, like Charles Xavier was writing the classic X-Men yellow wheelchair thing and John Krasinski was Mr Fantastic, but now like he's not going to be the Mr Fantastic for the MCU, so clearly like they're like recasting the Fantastic Four or casting the Fantastic Four for the official entry of that, those characters, into the MCU.

Joshua:

But then is the Fantastic Four really going to have to do with the multiverse?

Diego:

Well, there's a chance, apparently, that they, like rumors, go around you know they always do and there's a chance that the Fantastic Four are going to end the beam from an alternate Earth, which would kind of explain why they're not available, like in the history of the MCU as we know it right, because it'd be kind of ridiculous if the Fantastic Four existed in the official MCU Earth 616.

Diego:

And we've never, heard of them. Yeah, that'd be bananas. Like that wouldn't make sense at all. So, yeah, like, plus there's Jonathan Majors and his whole personal drama. You know, like that hasn't really helped out at all because, like, there's been uncertainty on like, okay, what the hell is going to happen to Kang now? Like, is Jonathan Majors going to continue being Kang or they're going to have to recast Kang, and all that stuff is very unsettling, you know, for the future of it. But again, most importantly, it's just that it doesn't feel like pieces are being put together and then the movies that are trying to move it forward are too much about that, like Quantum Mania, for example. That movie was kind of pointless, aside from introducing Kang.

Joshua:

Yeah, aside from introducing, like the actual character of Kang, like not even Kang the Conqueror. Yeah.

Diego:

There was really no purpose for that movie. It was like some moments were cool but it was a CGI fest that just felt like, okay, you know it's, I don't know much in nano tech. Yeah, it was weird and I almost feel like Marvel should learn from the movie Infinity War and, like, be okay with giving a bad guy his own movie.

Joshua:

Yeah, why not? You know Thanos, he was like that guy in infinity war pretty much.

Diego:

He was like the protagonist of that movie and it played out very, very well. It was a really good, really good movie. So, yeah, then there's like on the Disney plus series side, like She-hulk. She-hulk was, the more that I think back on that show, the less I like it, the more ridiculous it seemed. I Really hate the way that they treated Daredevil in that show.

Diego:

Yeah that was this. Like all that, all that happened in that show. What daredevil was like introducing him basically as like a more lighthearted, more goofy version of Daredevil from the Netflix series, and that just sucks like yeah.

Diego:

Yeah, I was already worried about what they were gonna do, bringing bringing Daredevil into the MCU, coming from that like awesome Netflix show which you still haven't seen. And yeah, sure enough, man, like they, this show looks like it's gonna be a light version, a diet version. The overall Cohesiveness of of the new what should we call it, the new phase, is just not doing it for me, man. I think I honestly think that Marvel should have quit while they were ahead with the Infinity saga. I really think that they should have Stopped there and figured out a way to fully reboot after that point.

Joshua:

Yeah, like everything from Iron man, the first Iron man, all the way up until endgame. Yeah, those that was like peak comic book.

Diego:

Yeah.

Joshua:

I feel like that was endgame should have definitely been the final movie, that would. That would have been a perfect movie to wrap everything up, and then they could have just restarted or they could have tried working on something new entirely.

Diego:

But you know what I think they should have done, what, and anybody who's listening to this podcast from like the beginning knows that I'm always Talking about the ultimate, my ultimate Marvel universe in the comics.

Joshua:

I yeah.

Diego:

I am always talking about that thing and I write out here, outside the doors of this recording booth, we have my entire comic book collection. It is vast. It's vast my heart covers from, from the ultimate universe. But look, listen, the ultimate universe is its own, separate universe, right? Yeah, now if I would have been Kevin Feige, I would have been like Infinity saga and 616. Let's restart from scratch with Earth 1616.

Joshua:

That's the, that's the ultimate universe.

Diego:

Let's restart there from scratch. Everyone gets a fresh start. Brand new Spider-Man. We can get Miles Morales in there. Get the Fantastic Four in there. Bring the X-Men like. You could build an entire freaking saga. Yeah, using the X-Men and the Fantastic Four without even touching the Avengers, if you didn't want to or bring in new, new versions of the Avengers. They're all a variance, right.

Joshua:

Yeah.

Diego:

Yeah, tell a whole saga Like three phases worth, just like you did with 616. Tell the whole saga of the 1616 universe, and Then the next saga is the multiverse of saga.

Joshua:

What was, what were the three phases of the 616 universe?

Diego:

I Mean you're gonna like break down movie wise.

Joshua:

No, but like just what would, whatever they called.

Diego:

No, they were all essentially parts of the say of the multiverse of the Infinity saga.

Joshua:

Oh, it was always the phases, the phases of the you know batches of movies.

Diego:

Basically, yeah, but imagine that. Imagine if they would have just paused. 616 told the whole story of 1616, right? And then brand new trilogies, brand new characters, fresh Perspectives and all that stuff.

Diego:

You don't have to worry about connecting everything with the 616 world and everything that you've done up to that point and then cross that crap over. Bro, can you imagine if, like Loki, for example, the show Loki would have been introduced as a way of Phasing, of crossing these two paths together, like imagine the story of Loki being told but what you're seeing is like the coming together of these two universes?

Diego:

Yeah and then maybe like multiverse of madness, that the whole purpose of that thing is to explain the whole incursion thing. But now we're not just like on the side of earth 616, wondering like I wonder what else is out there. It's like no, we've seen both universes. Yeah and we know how they're gonna come clashing together and like we can't wait because it's gonna be like I don't know what 20 years of cinema history Coming, both halves coming together. Imagine a secret wars like that. Imagine a multiverse ol saga like that.

Joshua:

That would have been epic If Marvel had made the MCU in that way, then that that incursion movie could have been like the biggest oh my god, now that that's something that surpasses endgame.

Diego:

Yeah for a fact that surpasses endgame. Instead, what do we have? We have we have this weird awkward thing where it's like Little pocket worlds that we're being introduced to and we have no clue yet how all of it is gonna come together, and it's I don't know man. It just it's not. It hasn't done it for me, it hasn't been it for me so most of the good things in this newer phase mm-hmm are all Like, not related to multiverse like

Diego:

take Guardians 3, great movie Amazing movie, one of the best from this phase but I mean Nothing to do with the movie. I mean, even though I can't blame James Gunn, though, man, james Gunn is like, he's like okay, yeah, I'll complete my trilogy, but I'm not gonna help, I'm not gonna get all this, make this movie a mess. Trying to be no weave into whatever else you guys have going on with this multi verse crap but yeah, I pay attention to that at all, man at all.

Diego:

So I think the MCU is something that I'm kind of geeked out on In a negative way. I at this point I'm not really like hyped, I'm not really excited for anything coming out of the MCU. I'm just like I'll be there, I'll catch it. You know I'll check it out, but they don't have my buy-in like they had before. They really don't like I rather rewatch the old MCU movies More than what I'm looking forward to new ones.

Joshua:

Yeah.

Diego:

I think Thor love and thunder kind of did it for me. I was like this is, this is nonsense.

Joshua:

I feel like the last MCU movie that really had me like Insanely, insanely hyped.

Joshua:

Mm-hmm was.

Joshua:

I don't even know if you can even call an MCU movie Spider-Man. No way home yeah that had me like, actually like geeked out.

Diego:

Yeah, that was epic, I'll tell you, the one movie that I am kind of hyped for is Deadpool 3.

Joshua:

What does?

Diego:

that one might do for the Fox universe, what what no way home did for the.

Joshua:

Sony Spider-Man side.

Diego:

Yeah, it seems like that's what they're going for, and if that's it but it's gonna be confirmed that, like even Jennifer Garner as Electra's coming back, and like Ben Affleck as their devil is coming back, I'm down for that, bro.

Joshua:

Yeah.

Diego:

I'm so down for that, just because you know like I grew up with those movies and they mean a lot. You know it's like that was my Marvel universe before MCU existed. So so, yeah, we'll see how it all plays out, but I, yeah, I can't say that I'm as excited. What about you? What's one thing that you're geeked out on?

Joshua:

I think one thing that I am Geeked like, a little too much geeked out on is Anime. Hmm, I was like crazy about anime. Yes, I was watching my hero, academia, which is a good show.

Diego:

Attack on watching that.

Joshua:

Yeah, we were. Attack on Titan, probably my favorite anime.

Joshua:

Mm-hmm.

Joshua:

Maybe second or third favorite. Yeah, yeah and then I was like Naruto. Yeah, I was watching all that, but I feel like I don't know. I feel like with these like newer anima's, like there are definitely still good anima's being put out.

Diego:

Yeah, yeah, but like what?

Joshua:

like. I mean, there's like the live-action one piece.

Diego:

But that you count that as an animal.

Joshua:

But I mean, like there's the bleach, like there's a new bleach type season stuff. There's still anime. I don't know. I don't know what happened. It's just something that clicked like I'm still Interested in those worlds, but I feel like attack on Titan. They dropped like an hour special of an episode and then they just like stopped, like there's nothing. Nothing new has gotten has came out from attack on Titan since that came out. Yeah and it's like really weird.

Diego:

I'll tell you was really obsessed with anime for tonight.

Joshua:

For night.

Diego:

I'm not stop man.

Joshua:

Yeah, I mean you did two kaisen. They just collaborated with that. Yeah, that is a good anime. But I don't know, I feel like anime is just not as interesting to me anymore.

Diego:

Yeah, I guess I think it was it was it had reached like a zenith of Trendiness. I feel like people who had nothing to do with anime were suddenly all about anime. Yeah and I think that, just like any other trend in pop culture, like it just kind of came and went. Yeah mind you, there's still plenty of like diehard anime fans. You know who catch whatever. Whatever comes out.

Joshua:

I think I never.

Diego:

I've never been that. You know. I did nights of the zodiac, I did dragon ball and so a few here and there, you know, throughout the years, but I've never been like a diehard anime fan, so I can't even that claim to to be one of those people and I think that anime is some of the best anime, like Moving animation, that we have like out yeah like stuff like Naruto, stuff like Hunter hunter, stuff like Joe, just bizarre adventure attack on Titan.

Joshua:

That is like actual, like good, like that's that it's good cinema.

Diego:

Yeah, oh, no doubt yeah but I don't know.

Joshua:

It's just something about the direction that it's going in that I I can't really Say that as much as in as much of an anime fan as I was back then.

Diego:

Yeah, another thing that I'm personally tapped out on is like and I think the majority of the world is is the DC movies. Like man, dc has had a rough ride when it comes to movies and it's weird to me that, like now you've got James Gunn taking over the creative direction of the DC universe and Still even with it, with like all these plans that they've announced, that the gods and monsters phase of movies and all that stuff, like they still can't get people excited because they can't freaking, let go of this night, reverse characters and actors and movies like they keep saying that, oh, this movie is gonna tie in great to the new franchise, like they said the flash, oh it's gonna restart, yeah, and then it didn't Just, it just got rid of the flash right and then they said, oh, blue Beatles gonna tie in great, which I guess there's not anything that actually ties into this night of ours.

Joshua:

No, there's nothing that shows that it's in the new. You know that at all.

Diego:

Poor blue beetle. It got stuck in this weird limbo where it's like it probably shouldn't have come out. They probably should have shelved it like that back on movie.

Joshua:

I mean I read it for tax purposes. It was a good movie.

Diego:

It was yeah, it was a good superhero origin movie. Yeah, it wasn't like extraordinary, it wasn't anything huge, but like as far as like superhero origin movies, it did its job and it did it well. It was cool. The perspective of Latin American characters was really cool Overall, like the fighting, all that stuff was really neat. But it's again stuck in this weird limbo, like Shazam is apparently gonna continue on into the DCU and like who knows what's gonna happen with this Aquaman 2 movie. Like we don't know what that set in the previous universe or like the new universe. The end of the flash set up that the there is an Aquaman played by Jason Momoa in this new universe.

Joshua:

There's a different universe and then in the flash, the universe that Jason Momoa is playing Aquaman in. At the end George Clooney is Batman. I'm like bro. I feel like he's just like, so disjointed.

Diego:

Yo look, I think Ezra Miller kind of messed everything up. I think that what they ended up doing was throwing him into some obscure part of the multiverse, yeah, so that like they could say, like okay, this character kind of ran his course and he has a future there in that universe, but we're never visiting that universe again. Because who wants to go to a universe where George Clooney is Batman, you know?

Joshua:

Yeah, yeah, not gonna happen.

Diego:

So, yeah, you know it's like it. I really wish that they would have just stopped, made a pause for like two, three years, let people just detox from all the craziness of the Snyderverse, and then the Snyderverse should have ended. Honestly, it should have ended with the Snyder cut. That's it. That's it. That should have been the end of the Snyderverse. Let it all be put to rest, but like instead even Wonder Woman. Even Gal Gadot says that she's gonna be involved in the Wonder Woman more.

Joshua:

It's really weird that there are actors carrying on and then like there's gonna be a different Batman actor.

Diego:

Superman. How do you pair the new Superman guy right, the new actor who is like a pretty young dude and everything?

Joshua:

How do?

Diego:

you pair him with Gal Gadot Wonder Woman.

Joshua:

I don't think.

Diego:

Even with Jason Momoa. Aquaman like no, it's weird, man Like it's weird just seeing new characters.

Joshua:

It's weird seeing new actors with actors from the past universe that are had to have, that aren't from the old universe but are still the same.

Diego:

I think they're messing themselves up DC by doing that. It's kind of like, honestly, it's like more of the multiversal curse of DC, Like it's the same crap that they got going on in the comics. It's always some multiversal crap happening. There's constantly characters jumping from one universe to the next and it's annoying. It gets really annoying old after a while. So I am geeked out on the DC universe Again. Like the Marvel, like the MCU, I'll be there. But you know, and I think that that is part of what has like made me prefer to stay away from too much visual content, too much like video content. I prefer the more obscure superhero stuff like the boys or like invincible. I prefer stuff like that. And aside from that, I've just been like really keeping my head stuck into graphic novels and comics a lot recently.

Joshua:

Like my hardcover collection has grown.

Joshua:

You are reading a lot of comics, buying Batman comics. Oh yeah, let's like that.

Diego:

My Batman hardcover collection is legit. Man, that thing is huge and honestly, I've been reading ongoing. They spawned Predator Alien big game. I've been reading what else? The Vigil from DC really cool. It was like an Indium based superhero team Brand new characters, completely new characters, new stories, nothing necessarily tied into the major universe.

Joshua:

Those are the guys that out red hooded red hood, yeah, yeah yeah, those guys, I saw them during the Lazarus the.

Diego:

Lazarus Planet event in the comics and I was like, oh, I need to check more about these guys. So as soon as they announced the Vigil comic series, I was like, yeah, I'm jumping on that. And then there's some horror stuff that's happening in Marvel, like the incredible Hulk has a run happening. That is all horror themed.

Joshua:

Yeah, and you said, it's like when he transforms. It's like the Hulk is like bursting out of his body, like the skin is tearing out Ripping Bruce Banner apart to become the Hulk. It kills him every single time he transforms.

Diego:

Yeah, it's pretty visceral. I'm also reading the Blade series. This new Blade series in the comics that started up, blade, of course, is like all horror themed. You know, yeah, what else. Miles Morales just got suddenly a horror twist in the comics. Oh really, yeah, blade showed up at the end of the latest issue telling him that because he encountered a vampire.

Joshua:

Oh, Miles did.

Diego:

Yeah, and his spidey sense is going nuts and I think that something supernatural has to do with that. So Blade showed up, Blade and his daughter Bloodline, and apparently they're gonna like team up with them to do something in this latest series. So yeah, horror is the name of the game. Man DC also just wrapped up this thing called the Nightmares series.

Diego:

With the K yeah of course, yeah, and that was really cool. That was like this new villain called Insomnia, who basically put all of the heroes in the world into this deep sleep and he made them face their worst fears in their nightmares, and all the while trying to, like, take control of the world, on the outside world and the real world. And so, like Deadman, had to possess Batman body.

Joshua:

Is that main continuity?

Diego:

Yeah, yeah, definitely main continuity. That was really cool. So it's like horror is really big in comics right now. It's huge, huge, huge. All the independent comics like my God, the horror themes are really, really deep.

Joshua:

I mean even stuff that isn't main continuity, like you have Deceased.

Diego:

Yeah.

Joshua:

Yeah, that's a really good series.

Diego:

Heck, yeah, man, it just ended. The last chapter was released, really With DC's War of the Undead Gods. Yeah, I got the hardcover and I've been meaning to read it. That's like gonna be, that's gonna be the ending to like one of my favorite DC series ever. Man, that is such a great thing. And for those of you who don't know, deceased it's like De-ceased it's basically a DC comics version of the zombie outbreak. Yeah, and it's really cool. It's pretty cool. It's original and like tailored to like the lore of the DC universe.

Joshua:

It's really neat and like the virus it started by, like Dark Side, it's really cool.

Diego:

Yeah, marvel is bringing back Marvel zombies actually. Oh really, it's almost like a retelling of Marvel zombies, but it's gonna be all in black, red and white only. Yeah, I'm looking forward to that. It should be pretty cool. Also got, like, this crossover comic between Wolverine and the ghost writer that I wanna check out. It's called Weapons of Vengeance. That just started. I got issue number one that I gotta check out, but this is a good opportunity actually to shift over into the stuff that we are actually geeking out now. So for me, of course, like I just mentioned, comics is one of them.

Joshua:

Yeah, you're really big on comics. Yeah, yeah.

Diego:

I've been definitely like getting lost in that world a lot more than I have been in like shows or series or whatever. I'm still catching stuff. Andor on the Star Wars side was excellent, One of the best Star Wars anythings that I've seen in live action. Very, very good series. Really looking forward to season two. Presumably that should be the end of that because of course, his fate we know it from Star Wars, From Rogue One. Rogue One, yeah, and I'm watching the Soka right now. And for those of us who sat through the Clone Wars cartoon series and the Rebels cartoon series, that show is like it's fanfare. You know it's a sorry. What is it called?

Joshua:

Like Fan service. Yeah, it's fan service.

Diego:

It's complete fan service man. It is seeing the Clone Wars like literally had like a live action flashback of the Clone Wars. Really, yeah, and that was really cool. We got to see like Anakin and the Soka younger dressed just like they did in the cartoon series.

Joshua:

Was it Hade and Christensen? Yeah, oh.

Diego:

Oh yeah, he came back, man, he came back. He had a little duel in the world between worlds, which is this thing that was shown in the Rebels cartoon show. Yeah, so far it's been fun. That is absolutely like a show made for fans, like Dave Filoni is directing it, writing it. That is Dave Filoni's love letter to fans who have followed his work in animation. Yeah, and I am like delighted, but I know, for general audiences, I don't know, it may not be like all that.

Joshua:

I feel like Star Wars is something that is taking a step in the right direction, you think so. Yeah, I feel like. I mean, people were hoping that they would take a break from movies after the Last Skywalker.

Diego:

Oh yeah.

Joshua:

And they did, oh yeah, and everything that has come out between that period has been really good.

Diego:

Yeah, for the most part. I think Bandol's seasons one and two were really good.

Joshua:

Season three was the end got really good.

Diego:

I guess, yeah, book of Boba Fett was fun, but it felt more like an extension of the Mando show. Ahsoka has been cool so far. Again, andor is fantastic. It's the best of the Star Wars shows in my opinion. Kenobi, for me, was really fun. I thought it was a really really good show. They're gonna finish up the Mando series with the movie Well everything it seems like where they're going is that this whole Disney plus series world is gonna conclude basically in the film.

Joshua:

Like Ahsoka, boba Fett Mando all of that.

Diego:

I think all these people are gonna have to team up and come together in some Avengers type way to probably against Thrawn, would be my guess. So I don't think that Ahsoka, this series, is gonna end with Thrawn being defeated.

Joshua:

Yeah, have we seen Thrawn in the show?

Diego:

No, not yet. Mm-mm, not yet only by name, but they already. I mean spoiler alert if you're watching the Ahsoka series and haven't gone to the latest episode, they're already over. They traveled over to whatever alternate other galaxy. It is that Thrawn was taken to by Ezra Bridger in the Rebels cartoon series, and so they're there. So they reached them. We just haven't seen them yet. We'll see, we'll find out. All right, what are you geeking out on, man?

Joshua:

What I'm geeking out on right now is music.

Diego:

Oh, yes, you are.

Joshua:

I've been in the past couple months.

Diego:

This guy loves trap music.

Joshua:

Okay, all right.

Diego:

Such a trap music fan.

Joshua:

Yeah, no, but I've been like in the past couple of months I've been looking at a bunch of different music genres. I really like R&B, hip hop, I like rock, I like a lot of music and I've been listening to I actually listening to albums Like I've never really listened to any albums before these past couple of months and I've been listening to entire albums like really appreciating how the music sounds and the message of the music.

Diego:

Yeah, I've seen you paying attention to lyrics and the flow and composition of songs, the music itself, melodies and all that stuff Like it seems like you're really developing a passion for music as an art form.

Joshua:

Yeah.

Diego:

And I was telling you the other day that, coincidentally, like it's right around your age right around 11, that I started paying attention to music. Really for the first time, and I ended up falling in love with hip hop right around that time period and again. Coincidentally, it seems like you are too man, and I've never pushed you towards that.

Joshua:

Yeah.

Diego:

Right, like I've never shoved the hip hop in your face or anything. You've seen it. You've heard it, obviously like I'm always playing it. But yeah, it seems like you just kind of developed your own thing for it.

Joshua:

Yeah, I mean I just, I love how it sounds. I love the sound of the music. I just I love that type of music.

Diego:

Yeah, we already. We talked about, at some point in the near future, like taking a trip to New York City.

Joshua:

To like visit the historical, like landmarks of. Is that the right word, Landmarks?

Diego:

Right, just historical places where like hip hop was born.

Joshua:

Like places.

Diego:

Granted. A lot of that happened, like in the projects and in the ghetto. So, so we're just drive by, we'll drive through it and you know, yeah, not linger too much. So we make more episodes.

Joshua:

Like places where, like the Wu-Tang Clan came from, places like that.

Diego:

Yeah and yeah, but we'll do some sort of recording, like video recording and stuff while we're there so that we can put it up on our YouTube channel. For me, one of the things that I geeked out on very recently was like horror movies, and I've left horror for like a long time. But I've been meaning to for a very long time to check out Shutter, the streaming service that's all like horror focused, and I did. I was subscribed for like two, three months recently and, oh my God, I saw so many, so many Shutter horror movies and series and there was like a lot of misses in there, but definitely a lot of wins, like we did some really really good content, clever original content, all done by like independent people, independent movie makers and stuff.

Diego:

Not a lot of those movies really make it onto theaters or anything like that. So it's really for like die hard horror fans and that was a lot of fun. So like, if you're into horror and you wanna just kind of like delet yourself seeing stuff that you probably won't see in the theater or that you're not gonna hear people talking about in the mainstream, check out Shutter. There's tons and tons of content in there, like all flavors of horror, anything from like body horror to slasher films, to found footage stuff, to the more spiritual, the monics stuff, all sorts of stuff. It's really a lot of fun.

Joshua:

Yeah, I watched a couple episodes of some show. Like an anthology type show right, yeah, and it was really interesting.

Diego:

Yeah, there's something like cool concepts there, for sure. What else? What else are you geeking out on?

Joshua:

I think I've been geeking out on video games. I've been playing a lot of video games recently. Yeah, you really have. I finished one of my favorite video games ever, red Dead Redemption 2, recently. I think it is one of the best stories in a video game ever. It's like so impactful, so meaningful. You get really attached to the characters in that story. I've also been playing like I've been playing Assassin's Creed 2, which I love that series. I'm really excited for the new game to come out.

Diego:

Yeah, Maraj.

Joshua:

Yeah.

Diego:

Which we just found out that it's actually gonna be released the first full console version of an Assassin's Creed game to be released on mobile.

Joshua:

Yeah, iPhone 15.

Diego:

It's gonna be released on the iPhone 15.

Joshua:

It's pretty crazy.

Diego:

Along with the last two Resident Evil games like console versions of them. That's gonna be interesting. I'm planning on hopping into the iPhone 15, so I will definitely check out Maraj on there to see what the experience is like. I'm really curious to see if they're actually gonna give like an ability to control it just on the phone or if you're gonna have to connect a PS controller to it.

Joshua:

I don't think.

Diego:

How could you right Like, how could you not use a full controller?

Joshua:

Yeah, that would be really hard, honestly, to just do everything that you have to do in those types of games. Resident Evil games.

Diego:

Unless they work their butts off to create like a very customized UI you know, On screen, on the phone screen, like yeah, you have to figure you would need a controller. But we'll see. I'll check that out. We're also like getting ready to hop on PS5 too.

Joshua:

Yeah, we're gonna like for Christmas, we're gonna be gifting ourselves up a PlayStation 5. True to yourself, there are a lot of games that we've been wanting to get that are only on PlayStation 5, spider-man 2,.

Diego:

Mortal.

Joshua:

Kombat 1, some games that I want that are on PlayStation 5.

Diego:

What games do you want?

Joshua:

Ratchet and Clank Rift Apart.

Diego:

Oh yeah, that was one of the first ones that came out with the console.

Joshua:

I don't know why they've released that only on PlayStation 5 so early.

Diego:

Very weird, especially when they were releasing, like, other games on. Oh, I think it had to do with, like, some sort of game functionality. That couldn't be done, I guess, I don't know. But yeah for me, mortal Kombat 1 is one of the big ones. Like since they announced that they weren't gonna do that for PS4 and PS5, I was like, oh no, yeah, I think it's time they're probably gonna such a big platform game. They're probably gonna start getting ready to like go exclusive with PS5 moving forward.

Diego:

So I think, it's time, I mean, we've used the heck out of the PS4, man.

Joshua:

Definitely.

Diego:

That's an epic console. It's been good to us.

Joshua:

Like our controllers, like literally one of our controllers, like basically doesn't work anymore.

Diego:

Yeah.

Joshua:

So I think it's definitely time for us to reward ourselves with the new console.

Diego:

Yes, we've been good boys. Also, a lot of our digital games will be able to be playable on PS5.

Joshua:

Because if we get a digital version of the PlayStation 5, then we'll be able to port all of our PlayStation 4 games onto it.

Diego:

Yeah, that's pretty cool. That's good because I got to finish God of War 2. I got to finish Ragnarok. I got to play the Last of Us 2. I do eventually want to play Ghost of Ushima and I want to play Dead Redemption, because I feel like I will fail you as a father if I don't.

Joshua:

Yeah, I'm probably going to disown you.

Diego:

And that other game I want to play, toofuji. Oh, seafood, there you go, seafood. I want to play that Seafood game. It's like where you got to eat sushi quick or otherwise. You age Is that what it is? You get older if you don't eat the sushi quick. Let's see food.

Joshua:

Yeah.

Diego:

Okay, as you can see, my dad joke humor has only gotten stronger and stronger throughout this last year.

Joshua:

It truly has.

Diego:

Yeah, speaking of video games, one thing that I'm definitely geeking out on right now is Fortnite. I caught the fever again.

Joshua:

Yeah, like every couple of months he catches a Fortnite fever.

Diego:

It's not a couple of months. This one was a long break from that.

Joshua:

It was, it was.

Diego:

It was like, I think, over a year.

Joshua:

Yeah, and then you went hard on Fortnite, like when I'm playing a game and then I get off for one millisecond Just to go pee or something. He gets, he takes the controller. I'm taking a note. It goes on Fortnite.

Diego:

Yeah, I will sporadically find opportunities to go on Fortnite. I don't know, man, I just caught the fever again. This new season is pretty fun, to be honest. Yeah, I think it's the most fun season in a while. And, yeah, I'm having a hell of a time and I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm ponying some folks you are Ponying Is that a word anymore. That's not a word anymore. That's not a word anymore.

Joshua:

Ponying is not a word anymore. I don't think it was ever a word.

Diego:

It was a word at a time.

Joshua:

Yeah, let's just go with that, okay.

Diego:

Yeah, Anything else that we're geeking out on. Um. What else are we on and on about? I'm, I'm. I've definitely been geeking out on the Apple TV plus shows. I know you haven't with us.

Joshua:

Oh no, Silo.

Joshua:

Yeah, I like that show there you go, we got it.

Diego:

You got a taste of Apple TV plus too. Man yo Apple. If you have not seen Apple TV plus TV, honestly, they have so many good shows. I mean everything from like Ted Lasso to the morning show, to invasion, to the uh, the Silo, to uh. What is this for all mankind Like? They have so many hit shows, some like mini series, some movies, even like Apple is like giving movie makers and show makers a lot of creative freedom and so like. There's a lot of very original stuff being put out on Apple TV plus. Do not sleep on it. I'm telling you, check it out, if you get a chance to some of the best television that I've seen in years. It's really, really good. So I've definitely been geeking out on that. Tell you what I'm ready to geek out on. It's a more geekology 101.

Joshua:

Yeah.

Diego:

Hey, we are happy to be back. It's been way too long. I feel like it's been a back and forth process these months. Like I felt the itch sometimes to come back, but we were planning on coming back with like video versions of our episodes and that was kind of holding me back for a while because we needed kind of like a better setup. And then it just like dawned on us like whatever you waiting, let's just come back in audio form, like we were before, and create separate content and video for a YouTube channel.

Diego:

So for those of you who have stuck around, we've seen the listens coming in man, Like you know, there's been weeks when it's like you know, I don't know 250, 300 listens out of nowhere and you guys are continuing to enjoy the show. So thank you so much for your loyalty. Each episode is going to be kind of like a free form conversation on a particular topic, just like we always do, and then we'll do commentary on whatever stuff we're watching, reviews that we want to give on movies and stuff over at a YouTube channel, so you can check that out. We're going to be doing YouTube shorts and some other videos that are a little bit more longer format, but the Geekology 101 podcast feed is going to come back to life. We're going to start putting out episodes again and we're really looking forward to geeking out with you guys. And yeah, we're back baby.

Joshua:

We are.

Diego:

Geekology 101 coming at you.

Joshua:

In three, two, one.

Diego:

Thank you for listening to this comeback episode of Geekology 101. Remember, if you want to learn more about us, you can hit us up on our website that's Geekology101.com. There you will find all about us, our previous episodes, a link to our YouTube channel and if you want to hit us up, you can do so by using the contact form all the way at the bottom.

Joshua:

Or if you want to hit us up through more direct means, you can contact us at G101podcastatgmailcom.

Diego:

Also remember that if you want to support the show, you can get your first month of Audible for free on us by going over to AudibleTrialcom. Thank you for supporting the show. Thanks for sticking with us. We will catch you in the next episode.

Joshua:

Bye-bye.

Diego:

Also, if you're new to the show, just if there's one episode that you're going to check out from our entire 184 episode library, you're going to want to go all the way to the beginning and look for Joshua's review of Flash's TV series.

Joshua:

Don't listen to him. No, no, you don't, no, no, you don't, no, no, no, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's also the most oppressive thing ever.

Diego:

I don't know why it sounded so depressed. That's true, I don't know. Please check out that episode.

Joshua:

Game over.

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