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You may have seen Isabel. Yola. What's up? Here a face you also have seen before but it's not Carrie. It's Noel Wiggins. Oh Hi didn't see you there. I've been wanting to do that my entire life by the way I'm so on to do that. Oh, what is up everybody? I don't know. Well, thank you for having me So thank you for being for having me on I have notes because I have some notes. He has some notes It's true. This is can in fact Noel if you sleep paper in loosely paper You will see more frequently of this upcoming month, but I do want to show you guys a face You haven't seen here before but he's handsome. It's George Penga Oh Not the reason why we're definitely on time George was the most punctual out of all of us, but it's okay for everyone in chat's going for perfect Thanks George for joining us and onto our next guest. You have seen him before and he's just as handsome. It's Joshua Kazemi He's back Real quick isa I I'm gonna have to interrupt you for a second because I just want to say I am loving your hair right now You were you were moving around and I was like, yo, what are you what type of product is in a I was like, yo It's there's so much volume. I was like, I'm loving that hair It was like one of those like the doll sass soon commercials at one moment. I was like, yo, I see you. I see Shut up It's not just the volume. There's like a the fact that you're on camera. You can still see that like that healthy shine So many nutrients like I'm I'm absent of all of it. I have none of those nutrients I Think most of in case you guys don't know most of my interactions with Noel is Noel will compliment me And I'll tell him to be quiet I have so many compliments for easter like trust me and I hate it. No, I don't hate it He makes me feel special, but I hate it But yeah, hello, welcome guys I have no It's Some new faces welcome George Hello, I Was surprised to be here. I Think I got asked because they were like We need somebody who likes animation and It's available at this specific time of day That's exactly how the conversation Those are the exact words I was like, hey, dude, you like You like being available The hundred the you know hundreds of people that work at Rooster Teeth you put the Venn diagram. It's like George right there But I'm happy to be here. Is that theme song always the theme song I've watched a couple of Yo, it is off the chain Is that the best thing song in the company I I'll say this contrary to popular belief. I do not know how to freestyle, but that beat makes me Yes, it makes me believe I'm literally bought the spit bars the moment like oh But then I show up and I'm like no no, well, I gotta you gotta remember your limits, bro You're gonna have to write it down Unlock some ability in your brain Maybe this is what if In front of the chat, this is this is your spark. No, well, this is it But just know that if I do freestyle just know it's it's it's written It'll never be real it'll never be off the dome not like that They just memorize all their yeah, the freestyle part is the beat you do it on not the actual words you're saying I Love how they have their phone nowadays, and they're just like rapping wall still on I think I saw like doja cat do that one so under whatever like live freestyles before and the before times and I was just like Okay, I See I see George, thank you for being on thank you Josh. Thank you for being on easy Thank you for for having me as a co-host. No, I was the co-host now Do my best. I will I will serve you. Well I always get them direction wrong whatever I know right can never oh I pointed in the right direction. Oh good job. No, well Yeah, that's why As if it was gonna like change up on you Now Who knows Mike might do some tricks later? Just to get on your goose I did want to highlight that George is new and I think it's only fair to talk about you George Could you tell us what you do? Could you tell us what you do at Rooster Teeth and What your day-to-day is like Sure, so my name is George Panga. I am the marketing coordinator here at Rooster Teeth Productions Which means basically means that any Anytime information needs to be transported or assets needs to be transported or whatever between the departments at Rooster Teeth It is my job as well as you know My boss and my boss's boss to make sure that gets to whomever it needs to get to that's my primary job When I first got hired at Rooster Teeth Two years ago now I was in events and my job was to just make RTX go and I was I called myself the Grand Poob of the Guardians They don't know I called them that but I did So I was in charge of all of our guardians we love them and day to day lately has been a lot of stuff for Black Heritage Month actually it's a lot of Coordinating different conversations getting new assets made getting some fun stuff that we have Announced could be announcing a little bit later this month coming up So I can't tell you too much about my day-to-day right now, but generally it's not too bad. It's a lot of meetings and slacks Yeah, it's like meetings and slacks about meetings about slacks Do you do you miss being in the office? I think mostly the answer is yes But I'd like to hear from your mouth if the answer is yes. Yes 100% absolutely I went so I went from The office to the apartment that my roommate and I my roommate Tim who actually met the Rooster Teeth We went to a house because in the apartment I worked at a a giant 10-foot like a These are card tables like the one used for like for beer pong is what I usually for most Oh my god Yeah, so I had my tiny bedroom and a 10-foot table that went from basically wall-to-wall and I had a camping chair And I would just sit there and I sat there and that's how I worked just like this for for four months and then we moved into the house and got a real desk and real chair and The only thing that I realized that entire process is man. I missed the office I'm imagining you like at the table and then like you're in The middle but then on the sides you still have like the red solo cup Rand randos are like playing like beer pong At the beginning of quarantine At the beginning of quarantine I set up the laptop on the end of one table and then I would call friends on weekend Just like FaceTime or whatever and I would go I would go spontaneous beer pong And I would have the camera would be aimed at the other side of the table and I would just be throwing balls Just to see who would play I got it. I got I got like three or four people to play along So personal question as well, uh, what animation do you like George? I am Very all over the place in terms of the animation I like but I will say that I've recently discovered because again, I What is this cord? So my favorite my favorite animated Property is the boondocks My second favorite is Cowboy bebop which was the first anime like a lot of people that I was introduced to I'm very much a music person in my heart if If your music is good, I can forgive a lot of things And so so somebody was like, hey, uh, there's this anime. I know you say you don't like anime, but There's this one that has a lot of really cool jazz in it And so I was like, all right So the jazz drew me in and then I fell in love with cowboy bebop and then a friend of mine Avery who knew I loved cowboy bebop introduced me to Samurai shampoo, which I realized full circle influenced the boondocks, which really just explains why I like So does that mean you also like uh lo-fi hip-hop is oh, yeah, do you like to do you like to study? I feel like with a cat right here Yeah, yeah, I feel like if I'm listening to hip-hop and I don't feel like I either need to think about The most complicated things in the world or take a nap Then it's not hip-hop That I want to listen to Man cow cowboy bebop. Yeah, just like when you said like it did the same for me where It it just kind of hit at the right age You know like I was trying to like watch cartoon at night and all that stuff And you know, like you had the whole like a adult swim situation But yeah, cowboy bebop to me some of the best music Really probably like The anime itself. I'm just going all over the place because like in my head. I just think so much of cowboy bebop I would say the best thing outside of the music of cowboy bebop is the fact that it ends Yes, it has a definite ending and when that ending hits Oh, it hits you right in the feel bad and then like it's this weird like cathartic feeling of you're like it ended I don't know how I feel about myself. What's happening in life. What do I do? But it's such a great show. I love anime, but some some certain animes One piece just kind of keep going and it's like They they just go so long that like I don't even want to watch it because I'm wondering, you know Do I have 400 years left in my life? I don't know. I don't know So like cowboy bebop, what is it 24 26 episodes one of the two and it just ends and it's such a good ending Oh, I love it. You you're in quarantine now. No, well, though, so I mean if you oh, yeah, so in quarantine years I I have enough That's what it is quarantine years equals like one piece episode What arc are you on? That's pretty good Um, do you oh, I do have a general question. Do you guys prefer the music for cowboy bebop or or samurai tabloon? Or is it in apples and oranges situation for apples and oranges? You're asking me if I like rapper jazz better like that's That's hard Yeah, okay. Yeah, we're on the same page. We're on the same page some of that music. Oh, it's too. It's so classic Yeah See, I think you already know where I'm going I didn't have to finish I just had to finish that little that little bar and you already knew I don't even know I You don't like it's it's one of those things to where like I don't speak Japanese But I will certainly try and then with that song you're just like I I'm impressed You just got to make the general sounds get you just got to get there a little bit, you know, no one's asking I don't think you said anything, but it sounded good Right, it sounded right. I think by the end of this episode we can get you to freestyle. That was pretty close Hey, hey, well, you know, we'll see how this We'll see how it works out That's the goal. That's the goal. I'm I'm officially in my mind. I'm just saying right now get Noel to freestyle by the end of the month and then We'll get like the whole audience here as in like the everyone every guess that we got on we'll like put them We'll put everyone in a room and then I don't know why I just imagine no one the last I have no to the month coming up off the dome and just like Oh I have pyrotechnics in the back. I got a whole light show. Oh, that would be just great screen. No, I'll just great screen I wasn't ready. I wasn't ready for any of this. This is all off the dome. Hold on. Let me activate this firework I have I have one line for you that you have to use. I just thought about it. Oh, please Oh off the dome. So I don't wow Wow, that's that's my I'm giving you that one I see George. Are you dude? Are you a ringer bro? Do you ghost ride? I'm giving you that I mean if you if you use that line, then yes, I do ghost, right? If I if I tossed you about a if I tossed you a cool George Washington, um Which is a one dollar bill How uh, how much would you write and then if and then if you wrote a lot George Washington has a twin brother Of George Washington I really thought I'll hit you with the two dollars. I really thought you were gonna say how about some cool ranch Doritos in all Speaking speaking of like random thought about cool ranch Doritos as a kid My entire life. I thought it was called cooler ranch I can believe that I could I don't know why I don't know why I I I'm I'm on your side on this one Noel because I probably have said that once or twice in my lifetime Cooler ranch. I could have swore it was cooler ranch at one point and then and then and then the mandela effect hit us and then Only I remember that that's my story. Yeah our man mandela You ever you ever wake up sometimes in the middle of the night and think yourself What if the term mandela effect is a mandela effect and nobody knows actually called? Oh my god No, that's too many layers. Did you sleep that night George? Do I sleep any night Issa? I got my answer Open I like almost don't want to go to our topic sheet because I just like talking with you guys Um just to be topical Even before we hit some stuff Uh, a couple of things that came up During this last week shout out of course to our very frequent special guest aired win for bringing this up in our groups like um We got a pacific rim the black which is a new animated series in the pacific rim Franchise uh, that'll be released on netflix March 4th and it is 3d animation. It is done by the same studio that did all that other 3d anime like agin Godzilla the 3d Godzilla animated movie and I know there's more and I know I've watched a few or I know of them I just can't remember off the dome. I'm gonna use that term now. Thanks guys So that's neat uh for continuing the pacific rim franchise um Do you guys do you guys follow? Did you watch the second pacific rim actually because I did it? I just watched the first one. Yeah, I just watched the first one Yeah, I mean because it gets more it was a it was the the appropriate evolution because it was going anime anyway So like we might as well get you know, like the first pacific rim You know, it gave you that vibe of like the robots move like you would imagine a robot wood where everything feels slower Because they're giants and for some reason giants all move is is time different for for giants. I don't know Maybe gravity. It's different. So then that means I don't know anyway Mandela effect is the Mandela effect of that. You can talk about space sometimes. Anyway, um But when you got to the second pacific rim the robot man, you got like samurai looking robots You got robots with like a mace and they're just moving like Gundams at this point, which I'm all about I'm all about That's what it is. Yeah, you don't have to worry about the story You don't have to worry about like who is it is it uh my man John Boyega is in the second one right and he plays the son of the What is it? We're taking back the apocalypse. I don't know that was my Idris Elba impression And I think I got very did you say we're taking back the apocalypse? Is that what the lion is? I don't know. We're canceling the apocalypse. We're canceling that makes way more sense. Yeah I thought we were just taking it back We're co-opting it We're taking it and we're just putting it right here Can you imagine can you imagine if he was really like giving that speech that that speech that was supposed to like Get the troops going everyone know they're about to die and they're like, yo We need the most motivational speech ever and he's like we're taking back the apocalypse and everyone's just like Wait, does that make any sense to y'all? I don't know. He was doing so good I was ready to die until he said that sentence that didn't make any sense You know, it's like the one line he's been thinking about He's been thinking about that one line for months If you need me It's like you've been thinking about that one line for months. That's how he started the speech Like that was the line he came up with first and then he worked the speech bachelors and messed up messed up the line at the end Well, that's how you do it You got to write the body of your of your essay first and then and then you can do the conclusion and in the intro And you know you gotta get to the one line for your freestyle That's true. That's you're jumping off point. Just go off the dome off the dome Maybe that's the title of your freestyle off the dome. I think so Off the dome is going to be the title of my new podcast where I literally just Whatever comes to my brain immediately and I don't George I have no monies for you, but I just greenlit that. Yes. I just Good one. Let's let's do it. Who do I who here can improve? We're doing it. It's live And so that means whatever we say here. Yeah, it's on like that means whatever we say here has to happen I have a lot of broadcast ideas that nobody wants to do I'll green light all of them with my mr. Washington and his twin brother mr. Washington I like twins Is that like a buck 25 or We'll see how that works That's a good point. That's a good point. We'll see how inflation works out after after this year Oh Wait, hold on. I see something in the chat here. Hold on from from bruno mp torres 1994 cooler wrench doritos are introduced now the flavor is simply, you know, see look at that Bam take that mandela. Take that. No, I'll allegedly believe it Allegedly, we should just call it. That's a great idea. George. We should call it that from now on the allegedly mandela The allegedly mandela One more topical thing I'd also like to mention as well So, I don't know if you guys know this comic artist adam alas Not to be confused with the an adam alas that we may have known already But comic artist specifically adam alas blows up Short short film filmmakers of keratin for plagiarizing his idea Um, I don't know if you've seen this. It's like a long twitter thread, but the comic maker basically the Let me try to summarize it. He made a comic where This guy clipped his nails and would bury it and then he comes back one day and it turns out there's like another human in this Place where he buried his nails. I don't exactly know the concept or if there's like a fuller story behind this But one of the things that the filmmakers mentioned even is that they took direct inspiration from his comic Only they didn't pay him or credit him um, they even say it in a lot of like different articles and tried to get him to like, uh, promote, uh, the Film but the comic artist himself did not actually endorse it and said that he wasn't Into this idea unless I think correct me if I'm wrong unless he was being paid in some way or compensated um But this came up and it's definitely it was making waves on twitter and if only I wanted to bring it up If only because it's definitely an interesting Mmm line or boundary of like The idea of homage influence copyright and we're all creative people So I'm sure we have different opinions about like this this kind of thing So have you guys heard of this until? So I'm just kind of curious like how does something Because it feels like this isn't going to be the only time it's going to happen But like how do things get so far into like I'm just blown away that it gets so far into the production That yeah, you know after the film is made like that means pre-production happened They had conversations. They had emails and slack messages and people sent out, you know like You know like call times and things like that like it happened And then not only did they do the pre-production they shot it and then they edited it together And then it goes and starts, you know playing in festivals and it's doing great And then they bring it up to you know, like the the the comic book or like like the artist like like the originator basically So I'm just more or less really blown away by how something can get that far With with a person's like, you know ideas or property and you know finding that type of information Coming to you after the fact and then they then they have the audacity to be like hey dawg can you uh Can you like promote this for us? That'd be kind of dope. That's the crazy part like the entire thing There's levels of crazy to this, but it's like all right first. I'm gonna take your idea and then I'm gonna do your idea And then when my when your idea is big because I did it. I'm gonna make you promote it That's the entire plan I I do want to mention to chat a c-elect and hodge lit. Thank you very much They mentioned that the origin of the comic the comic artist said it was about his rebirth after leaving buzzfeed And moving on with his career. So, you know the classic like why I left buzzfeed kind of people I say it's also personal. Yeah, it's personal on top of that very yeah Yeah, and um one of the things that uh adam calls out is like it's it's pretty much shot for shot And they weren't ever really clear about where the inspiration came from so it seems like they're trying to hide it So it's It's it's a kind of messed up. What's the name of the movie? Uh Keratin Oh, I Yeah, I don't know Chad help because Chad help if the name of the comic is keratin Oh, yeah Audacious, yeah, basically the audacity Yeah, I mean there's there's definitely those those fine lines between like homage and Yeah inspiration and all that but I think anybody who again I this is just from what I've been told in this in this Podcast and I haven't done any further looking into it, but based off of just that I feel like it's pretty obvious. It's not an homage at that point. You're just right. It's just theft It's like yeah, I stole everything in your house and put it in mine. I didn't steal your stuff I just made an homage to your house I do I do feel like to to a certain extent I believe that like There's nothing totally new under the sun like We've we've told a lot of stories again and again And what's important is like how you tell it and your specific kind of voice and vision for it Yeah, like I when I was reading up on this story I heard I read the premise and I thought well I've seen something like that before like scrubs did a very similar like bit where It's it's definitely different where turk varies a testicle and then a clone of turk pops up and and and like attacks him And it's in a fantasy But the thing that got me was that is that it's the it's the shot for shot Like when you see the two shots next to each other the compositions are identical and it seems like Even by that alone the tone is similar and so it's it's more than just like taking any idea It's like they took his idea and his execution and it's it's one step further than just like it seems one step further than just homage to me Mmm Wow, I'm wondering if they like had like storyboards and then like yeah They drew their own they drew their own for like for the rest of the film But then like occasional like this comic like will pop up in the storyboard and everyone's like what's this about? I don't know We got all the pieces to remake it. So might as well just use it I mean they could have just used his web comic and storyboards and they'd be like these are fantastic boards I love the color and it just pops up every once in a while in the storyboard Yeah, this is that that's that's messed up Uh, why would you ask them to promote it? I don't know off the dome I can't remember the entire concept off the dome I Want to do a mid-roll, but I just learned this information right now. So I'm throwing a curveball at everyone Jeff Bezos just announced that he's stepping down as CEO of amazon Gonna let that ruminate I I don't I don't know I just heard and I'm like, yeah I just read about that before we got on and I couldn't find out the why of it all like it's it's kind of his plan I think it's third quarter. He'll be out and he's they've named a replacement and everything But I don't know why he's leaving I mean like when you are officially like the richest man in the world Like at some point are you wanting to uh Use some of that money, I guess like you're trying to you know, like he's saved enough for his doomsday device And it's ready to just to just hit the ground running quarter four Yeah, yeah, I would I would be very impressed if like his next venture in life is I'm gonna try my hardest to use all of my money as quick Like I'm gonna try to use it and try to just like run out because I don't think it's Physically possible for him to run out of his money. Like he just has so much of it I just think them I don't even know like I forget like what the number was But it was just like one of those things to where like every second he was making thousands and thousands Oh, yeah, like dollars per second in a day And I'm like man like it's a challenge. Can I spend this money before I die exactly? That's his new thing. Can I can I spend this money? I turn my life into blank check What a great movie I I remember back in the early 2000s everybody's talking about like yeah Bill Gates makes so much money that he could walk down a sidewalk And if he saw a hundred dollar bill it would cost him money to bend down and pick it up And that was in the early 2000s. So just imagine like how much money Jeff Bezos would have to find Just like sitting on the sidewalk for him to even think about going over there to get it See for me, it's a it's a it's a dime It's a like that's it like if I see a dime, I'm like, okay. All right. I'm interested But for him that I assume the man's got to be like, yo, how much is that? Is that a hundred thousand? Not not not worth I feel like I get bored of things and money and stuff at that point like Hey guys, did you did you know that 10 percent of one billion is 10 million dollars? Look at that. Look at that. No, sorry. That's one percent. It's one percent. I dare him I challenge I challenge Jeff Bezos to try to spend all of his money before he dies I challenge you bro off the dome He has a very shiny dome to go off of oh true. Yeah The perfect off the dome that's the that's the episode title same just so you know What is the cheapest thing sorry before we we jump off because again, this is just how my brain works What do you think is the least expensive thing Jeff Bezos does in a week? like Like obviously not the normal stuff like get up and take a shower although like his pressure could be like thousand dollar And his shower itself is yeah, so like what do you think is the cheapest thing Jeff Bezos does in a day? man Jeff Bezos to me This is pure speculation because I clearly know who Jeff Bezos is on a personal level. I feel like Jeff Bezos Bezos Bezos Bezos. I feel like dude eats probably the plainest oatmeal. Oh my god Like I'm talking like Even some of the packet ones, you know, like the peaches and cream one or something like that But I feel like he's that like I feel like he he he just in the morning. What do you eat? I'm eating oatmeal. Are you gonna put anything in it? No, I'm good. Oh my god Flavor, I don't need that in my life right now. Like I think that's probably the cheapest thing he does in a day Salt Tyler He's trying to choke himself like with salting cracker that math makes my stomach hurt just thinking about that amount of money Oh my god Hi dog Oh dog wants me to do mid-roll. I guess that's the cue Uh, it's mid-roll time, baby We want to do a quick mention that we're celebrating black heritage month. Uh, george hinted at it earlier We're highlighting voices in the black community. Oh with special streams like this friday We're having our first and last episode with tori and crawford. Yay. There'll be some familiar faces on there This is behind the scenes thing but I joked with no, well that I was invited to the barbecue or it's more like no Well said that so I'm gonna I'm gonna put that on no. Well, I was invited you get you get you get three plates You get three plates wrapped in foil Thank you, thank you no well and of course big shout out to our first members for Helping make all of us happen. Uh, if you're a first member you can get cool discounts at the store. See exclusive content Exclusive and you can participate in chat on everything. We'll call you out Join the game joined first I don't know where that came from but um, I like it a lot everyone in chat always says it whenever you mention like first members And I kind of love it. Yeah Maybe you know So, uh, I did ask if we could go a little longer because I did want to get to Something we wanted to talk about today, which was soul Uh, soul is the newest movie from Pixar that came out on christmas day. It is streaming On disney plus in roth america Um Oh, uh stab says chelsea flubbs spelling first and wrote first. So that's why it's first I got an answer thinking stabs Thank you. So, um soul uh is uh movie about a black jazz musician who dies and he's trying to get back to life via Crazy stuff that happens in the afterlife. It's kind of like the natural evolution after Pixar's inside out um, some fun mech chicks even though It uh was not available in theaters in north america. It made 83 million worldwide still pretty good um domestic streaming it was considered successful because there's a lot of minutes in that I Man, uh streaming metrics are always a little funky to me because how do you how do you define success? Yeah, you know that You know that life, uh, but overall, what did we think about soul? Yeah, I mean, let's start let's start with uh with with our guests here because I I can I can go on Definitely about mine, but like George, what were your thoughts my man because you would watch it recently, right? I did I watched it yesterday Nice, uh, I watched it yesterday and then I got a slide saying hey, you want to talk about soul today? I went Yeah Off the dome It was it was very unexpected in the sense that I didn't see any marketing for it I was just like scrolling through disney plus superboard because I'd watched wandavision and I just was like I need another disney fix And I went soul interesting clicked on it Thought it was like soul about music should have known because it's a Pixar movie It's about somebody dying But I was pleasant I thought the I thought the art was beautiful. I thought anytime they were in the uh In basically wherever they come up with their personalities and they had like the 2d line art with all the 3d I thought that was gorgeous. I love any any movie that makes me Not want to get into animation is a movie. I love and I'll explain why because I'll watch it and I'll go. Oh my god. There are incredibly talented people here that are deserving and should be doing this And I'm glad that I'm not there to take one of their spots I I I think it's a phenomenal movie. I thought it was I thought it was fantastic a couple questionable things But I I I would give it like a like an eight and a half out of 10 Nice, nice. Nice. Cool. Cool. What about you? Josh? What were your thoughts my man? I really really liked it. Um I would say that I was apprehensive All the way through and then as it ended I was very satisfied and I really really liked it. Um One of the things that kind of I was iffy about as it was happening And I wonder if anybody else can relate to this There for the first part of the movie. I thought oh, we're doing the good place It's Pixar's version of the good place, especially when like the first little hiccup is that Um, he gets confused for somebody else. Yeah, that's right. Oh, this is the good place And it sucks because Pixar movies take, you know, five years to make so they probably started it before the good place happened And the good place completed before they were able to release it So you could just get stuck in that situation But then it very quickly becomes something else and it takes a couple turns that I didn't expect Um, but yeah, I loved I really really loved the way that it ended. I love the kind of conversations that happen afterwards like people kind of debating on whether or not I'm forgetting the main character's name, but whether or not Joe kind of Yeah, whether Joe like finally moves on and goes into the great beyond or if he should have gone back to earth and Oh, interesting gets the second chance and I really enjoy that debate because I feel like the film sets it's up Self sets itself up so that Either ending would have worked and would have been satisfying And they made a decision and then and settled with it And you either kind of like it or you don't but either way. I think that debate is super interesting Hmm. Hmm. Oh, I like that. Interesting Lisa, what were your thoughts? Uh, it's so funny enough. I think I might be like one of the rare outliers about soul Don't get me wrong. I think the last third, especially that where it hits like that really quiet climax You know, you guys know what I'm talking about with Joe at the piano Um, and then the way it ended I cried for 10 minutes and it was so hard for me to describe Uh, after a point like why I was crying so much I did get to a point because even my my so we watched it together and he he was like questioning a lot of things And I had to explain to him. I'm just like wait the reason why I'm feeling these things is because What just happened is such like Is such a moving idea and it's kind of like this like base idea that I think we all kind of operate on is like every life Not how do I put it? Uh, everyone is worth loving regardless of who they are, right? Um And the way that they did that at the end it was it was really powerful Uh, there are certain things that I definitely Uh had a lot of questions for um And where it so lands on for me is that ultimately if you had a thesis statement and you didn't exactly prove it Then I was I'm a little iffy on it So that that's how I how I viewed soul. However, technically amazing. I still cried like a bitch. Don't get me wrong um And there's definitely some like questionable things that I uh, I did want to I I was like, hmm. I definitely narrowed my eyes at which was kind of the whole like, oh Uh, Tina Fey is in his body now. I don't know how to feel about that. It made me feel super awkward um Number of levels, uh, but I think where they went with soul like They they hit a mark. I don't know if it's the mark for me specifically Okay for That's a really good perspective for for me before I I say how I feel about the movie which to you know TLDR I enjoyed it I I just I just wanted to bring up and this is spoiler. So, you know, I apologize because I was about to spoil it My man comes back at the end But no one addresses because there's not enough time because the movie ends. No one addresses. He comes back Retaining the knowledge that this man knows how the cosmos work. Yeah, this man has seen Not only the afterlife. He's seen the before and I'm like, yo, he's met the jerry's. He's met the Which by the way, which by the way, terry if you're out there mind your damn business Don't worry Don't worry about what about what joe's got going on. Just keep counting my Keep counting mind your damn business terry was like, uh, I I love that character But it was just just had to say mine your damn business. Yeah, joe Joe had like he just comes back and he's like, yeah, I'm just gonna live my life You know, like to the best I can the fullest I can I'm like, bro You can write a book right now and become like a bazillionaire if you wanted to you could become the next Jeff Bezos if you wanted to and then I challenge you in the next soul to to try to spend all your money before you die But I'd like to I'd like to counter that thought With with this wait the spend of money though No, or the no the him coming back and like telling everybody because he knows all this information I had that same thought but the And let me know if I'm wrong with this thought process But everybody can get in the zone and presumably the people that can get in the zone as depicted in the movie are also aware Of all the cosmo stuff. Oh, yeah, that's right So that would mean anybody who could get in the zone could do that and they probably do but everybody thinks they're crazy Which is what real life is Yeah So that was a picture. Thank you. Thank you. Tyler or mike. I forget who's pulling up stuff But that was a picture of the great before So What I love the movie. I thought it was great. I uh, I definitely want to ask everyone here, you know Like a thematic question of the movie, you know, like what is your spark? But real quick. I definitely just wanted to talk, you know, like because I am a aspiring cinematographer I really appreciated The you know, like the the use of color in this movie, you know, obviously, you know Using color as as as a theme or you know, like color contrast isn't anything new But I just really wanted to touch on like, you know, when when joe goes to this uh before, you know, uh The the great before everything has this really like nice Smooth soft lighting everything is very slightly blurred because obviously he's you're in this little limbo state There's a nice bluish, you know turquoise type of vibe. So really the most important are the blues and then When you get into the like the the on earth, you know, welcome to earth. This is a will smith line. I love to use Um, but we can switch to that next picture. Look at that. Everything is warmer You know, the the the lighting is a lot, you know, it's it's a lot of like point source lighting So if he's outside, you know running in the streets, you have like the harsh sun hitting him But in this case here when he's like, you know, doing his little jazz thing, you know He's you've got like the hard lights from the from the stage So I just really appreciated the use of that color and then one thing Maybe this is me in my own head, but My man's wearing a blue suit So it kind of gave me this vibe of like he's still, you know in between because even though at this point in the uh In the story, you know, he's obviously kind of return against boiler. I apologize He's kind of returned and he's kind of doing his thing and he's trying to find what he believes is his purpose Or his spark, but he's still wearing this like Thematically blue suit. So I thought it was uh, I thought it was a nice, uh, cool touch there off the dome I was gonna say that too very smart. Noelle very smart I did not notice that. That's pretty dope. Yeah, I would have. Yeah I'll be honest. I noticed that probably 30 minutes before we aired because I just watched soul really fast before we came on like the research You're putting in the work So you say you watch soul really fast for like the second time or third time second time the second time Yeah, like the first time I watched it on christmas day and then When I messaged you george about like, uh, you know like being on and then I was like, oh man What was the movie that that has done very well and you know, like an animated feature In in recent times and I was like, oh soul we could talk about that So then I pitched the idea and then I was like, I don't remember everything So let me let me pretend like I'm educated and I'll just speed through it real quick. So I think I did a pretty good job. I think I did. Okay Uh, I a shout out tyler stab and chat just went soul to soul harder Yeah, thank you. I like that Action is the spark Can it be a can be a crossover with uh brink and it could be like Soul skaters Team pup insides returns. Oh, right for the chat if you don't know about late 90s Disney channel like movies Brink is where it's at like Amazing, I love It's okay, I know I it's a fantastic tyler. I love it. It's so much fun. I want his spark was in line skating Oh, thank you. Thank you tyler. Thank you johnny tsunami Okay, disney had these bangers of like extreme sport films in the late 90s early odds What a what a great time to be alive Um, I did I want to circle back to that question you asked no, well, what is everyone's spark? I like kind of like that What is everyone's spark? No, well, George, please do us do us the honors my man. What is my spark? Honestly after watching that movie, I still didn't understand the difference between the spark and the purpose I feel like they didn't explain that very well. They tried to like Cram it in at the very end and be like, oh, yeah, this is the lesson of the movie get out of here. So Uh, still any point five I told you sucker for music you give me some good music I'll forgive a lot of things Um, but yeah music music is my spark. I'm not a musician uh Anymore, but I I love being around it. I love hearing it sound. I love I love I love different sounds. I uh I love finding music. I love sharing music. I I mean before roosterteeth. I that's what I did for seven years was just work in and around music Oh Yeah, that's that's that's my spark Bring in music to the masses Who's your who's your favorite musician right now top top musician right now Of all time off the dome off the dome. You can't of right now or of all time Right now right now, uh, jid who has been is a rapper from atlanta has been on repeat for me But if you look at my spotify and believe what they tell me every single year, uh, most of what I listen to is Emojin heap or sade Hmm According to spotify But spotify doesn't know my youtube listening habits. So Yes But yeah, I'm very much a yeah, like jid right now Emojin heap all the time sade all the time, uh Give me give me some some, uh Been listening to a lot of Who is it? Who is it? I'm listening to right now shuffle shuffle playlist on shuffle What type of music did you did you have growing up? Like what what were the influences that like your parents put on you? So my parents, uh, are from the democratic republic of congo formerly known as xaire Um, so a lot of the music that I listened to was not in english Uh, it was it was either in french or it was in lingala, which is a band two dialect to speak in the xaire um and My cousins though are very american, so it was very much It was like around the early 2000s where I started to recognize my love of music Like when I was getting to like middle school high school age. So it's a lot of uh, Give me give me any any 2000s like r&b Give me give me any like frankie beveley and maize Uh any any any song that was featured in a tyler perry play. I I One of my my when my closest friend is my best friend His name is his name is tony his family is very much into like 80s music and like 70s music and stuff They're cuban. He's half cuban and half italian and so I picked up a whole lot. I didn't know any beatle songs until I was a sophomore in high school Just because I was never exposed to it until I met them. So I learned about the Beatles in high school. I learned about uh name some other like really big I don't want to say like white people But I was thinking yeah, I was I was aware I was aware of yeah, the beach boys I knew they existed, but I hadn't listened to a song of theirs until I was in high school Um, just like nickleback Is what we're talking about cold play, right? the fray nickleback transcends rice And anybody who says they don't like nickleback is a liar because the only reason why People hate nickleback is because they're super popular and the only reason they're super popular is because everybody loves nickleback Stop lying to yourselves. Stop lying to people That's my take. Thank you That was a gift. That was a gift Hey josh, what's your what's your in the zone? Yeah, what's your what's your spark josh? Let's let's go to josh Oh man, let's uh, I'm torn between the two the two aspects of production Like I feel so lucky that we get to we get to work in production because this is what I love doing um, I I really love Writing I really love every part of the writing process Like when the first draft is terrible and you have you have to beg people for notes And you get to implement notes and rewrite it and rewrite it and rework it that part is so So satisfying to me I love coming up with dialogue and and figuring out how characters sound and how they bounce off of each other And what they would do in a certain situation that part is so fun Um, but it's either that or like it's really hard to beat watching the final product with a crowd with an audience I've got I've been lucky enough to do that a couple times and it's so Satisfying like that's when in soul when they when they show people in the zone That's where I that's more my brain went to like that's when I feel like I'm in the zone when I'm like listening to a crowd React to something you made something that you were involved in You know when they're watching in a dark theater and they're laughing or they're Whatever, you know, it's like that that feeling is awesome And I I first had that in high school and I've been like chasing it ever since Love it Issa do you want to go do you want to go I want to know more about issa right now shut up Um, I was thinking about it just because you I know you did mention that um Or george, I know you said there is like this difference Between purpose and spark So it's you know, just trying to remember that that's not necessarily a purpose in life But it's kind of like what makes you want to live I think um is how I would Determine that man and I don't know if I have quite the answer But there's two things that kind of come to mind and and one of them is love because I'm a romantic at heart But don't at me if you say you like me. I will tell you to shut up I will I will turn away Um, george. Don't don't george. Don't george. Don't Don't don't okay George shut up But I love love shipping is my reason But I think the other thing I could think about is dance actually um Fun fact, I was really into hip-hop dancing in middle school high school and that's because of my siblings um It was definitely part of those like asian dance crews that you may have seen on youtube kind of a thing like I was in that scene um And we're on the east coast specifically So it was a smaller crowd compared to what the west coast was like back in the early 2000s um And so like josh when you're talking about like what gets you in the zone to me Like what gets me in the zone is actually like thinking about dancing or like dancing to songs and things like that So it's like yeah, something along those lines is what I would say Yo, I just want to I just want to see isa dancing with the Jabba walkies right now. Oh my god Oh, I would love to see that. America's best dance crew dance crew. Yes. Thank you, josh. Thank you Of every season of that show of all the dance crews. They were the actual Oh, they're the only ones that anybody still knows about like they're still they're still in things It's true and I appreciate that like you don't know who they are still I mean like relatively speaking like you may know, you know individuals But like you don't know if that's this person because they got masks because they know it's not about it's It's not about like them individually. It's about when they come together And then that's them in their zone. Oh, man. Isa, please be a jabba walkie There's there's there's who who's to say she isn't a jabba walkie Oh Oh my gosh. They all wear masks. Mind blown off the dome off the dome. That's it. Mind blown off the dome Mandela allegedly I would I would say for for me my my spark Has been wanting to just tell stories. I am I'm I kind of hopped on the whole vibe of like, what do I want to do very late in in Not relatively speaking like I would say I didn't realize I wanted to get into film Or really just telling stories until I was roughly like 27 28 And so I've just been you know at it just wanting to tell stories I just kind of realized that as a kid I just always told stories and even if I just kind of told them to myself I just really enjoyed that so I don't count that as my purpose But I see that as my spark because And maybe this goes into my actual purpose. I really enjoy Trying to positively affect other people's lives and I feel like maybe I can do that through storytelling, so You know, I don't know. I mean I kind of now that like Isa like that was a dope story. Now. I kind of want to dance I kind of want to like There we go, here we go free sell free sell and dance damn A whole performance. I think my bones are a little too old for that. I don't think I have enough ACL in my knee. Is that the is that what it's called? I think I'll tear the ACL instantly the moment I try to do a windmill that ACL is gone. Why would you start with a windmill? Oh my god, because Johnny tsunami you got to go big or go home go bigger go home. Tyler. I know you're smiling All in no, well at the middle school dance and everybody's like this Super far apart and his he's gonna go not windmill No, no, we're going in we're going in windmill right now back triple backflip right now. They're like bro You don't have to go that hard. These people will remember me forever. Why did you show up already sweating right now? I was warming up man. I was warming up I like how you mentioned that your bones are old and already people in chatter like wait, how old is no Well, he doesn't look older every time. No, well says how old he is I I get confused and then remember I know that already I'm the the hints is I I'm pretty sure I could say out of this Panel of amazing people. I am probably the oldest and I will say I can guarantee you I'm the oldest No, well is older than me And I'm turning I'm turning 29 at the end of the month. So oh you are And and and no well is more than a couple years older than me. So that gives you a hint As to how I'll say this I went into high school and graduated high school before you got to high school Like when no one was saying when no one was saying like At 27 28, I figured out I wanted to be a storyteller. That made me feel comfortable sitting here right now Just not figuring out what I want to do in my life. That's how old no well is Me before that me before 27. I was basically terry. I was terry from soul and that's why I say terry mind you Damn business. All right mind your business figure out your spark And counting is done is not the purpose Secret noel is whenever someone is like wait, how old is noel? You like get younger The magic words that unlock the fountain of youth. So it's just like this cycle of you'll just keep looking younger One of my bucket list goals has always been to like work with ferrell williams But it's just because he's a vampire and I want to be a vampire with him And I just think we'd have a cool name, you know ferrell and noel or noel and ferrell, whichever We could do it all If you guys got into the same room, I don't know We'd we'd Benjamin Button the whole time. Yeah, we would just just d8 There's a special club for the vampires and that'd be you noel um Uh ferrell and Keanu Reeves Oh, no, we got to throw in a jared leto in that mug jared leto that man The vampire club So, uh, I want to say thanks guys for joining us. I will uh find george. I'll say it. I like you I like you two noel. I like you two josh This is arguably a room full of my arguably favorite people arguably Allegedly allegedly, thank you Uh, but really I appreciate y'all for spending time with me and with the group. Uh, that was that was a great hour Thank you for having us. Yeah Thanks for kevin. Uh, uh, thank you. Oh, so so my outro right now is thank you noel. We'll see you again Thank you george. We'll also see you again. Uh, thank you josh. We'll see you again too. Look at that Chat since you're here. Look at us. Look at us. Look at us. Look at us. We'll see each other. Look at us. Look at us. Sit in here. Look at us. Look at us. Thanks guys, thank you so much. Since chat since you're here check out that little research, uh, there's a new episode premiering on friday for first members Um, and since you're still here, you should definitely check out, uh, staying zen stay zen with katyn Um, shout out katyn is also also very good. I like katyn too. There. I said it Don't look at me. I love katyn. She's the best eventually isis gonna like so many people and forget one person That's that's probably true george. George has read me off the dome Uh, thanks guys. That's our show. See you next week. 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