Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is an animated superhero film featuring Miles Morales as he becomes the new Spider-Man and joins forces with other Spider-People from various parallel universes to save his universe from the madman Kingpin.

Topics discussed:

• Into the Spider-Verse is a feast for the eyes with some sweet animation.
• The movie features multiple elements of hip-hop.
• Miles Morales is introduced to the casual superhero fan.
• Alternate Spider-characters charm the viewer.
• The score and soundtrack are loaded with a diverse mix of hip-hop.

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Welcome to Hip Hop Movie Club, the show

that harmonizes the rhythm of hip hop with

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the magic of movies.

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Today, we're discussing Spider-Man Into

the Spider -Verse, the first of the

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current animated Spider-Man films that

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We are three old heads who put their old

heads together to vibe on these films for

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you.

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I'm DynoWright, podcaster, filmmaker,

longtime hip hop fan, and "Midnight

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Marauders" by A Tribe Called Quest is in

my top 10 favorite albums of all time.

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I'm JB, 80s and 90s nostalgia junkie, long

time hip hop fan, and I had the 78 inch

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vinyl of Jam on It by Newcleus, which is

still one of my all time favorite songs.

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I'm BooGie, a DJ, long time hip hop fan,

and I'm not watered down so I'm dying of

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thirst.

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In this episode, we'll answer the

question, is Into the Spider -Verse a hip

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hop film?

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and we'll give you five key takeaways to

make you a smarter hip hop movie fan.

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Takeaway number one, the movie is a feast

for the eyes with some sweet animation.

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Takeaway number two, the movie features

multiple elements of hip -hop.

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Takeaway number three, Miles Morales is

introduced to the casual superhero fan.

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Takeaway number four, alternate spider

characters charm the viewer.

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Takeaway number five,

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The soundtrack is loaded with a diverse

mix of hip -hop.

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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is an

animated superhero film featuring Miles

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Morales as he becomes a new Spider-Man and

joins forces with other Spider-People from

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various parallel universes to save his

universe from the madman Kingpin.

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All right, very happy that we did this

film.

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What a great time.

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Let's break it down in certain aspects of

what we saw here.

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First of all, I found it very visually

stimulating and appealing.

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BooGie, you wanna take us through, like

what were some of the visual aesthetics

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that makes this movie special?

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Sure, I mean, the colors were amazing.

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It was such a vibrant film.

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I mean, it was so, such beautifully

crafted.

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I mean, it would go from feeling like it

was completely computer generated at

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times, to feeling as if you're actually

reading a comic book, which I always think

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is dope.

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I always love seeing, even in live action

films, when they switch over to a comic

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book layout.

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It's such a cool thing for me.

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And I also...

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like how at times it feels almost like

you're watching a 3D movie.

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Um, and I also like how, because they're

going into different, um, multiverses of

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sorts.

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You see that there's glitches that happen

throughout the film.

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And every time a glitch pops up, I think

it's probably one of the coolest things

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I've ever seen on a film.

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And it's just like so cool, but I always

like, you know, the vibrant colors and

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those aspects.

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So I think that's, those are probably the

things that pop out for me.

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DynoWright?

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It's a gorgeous film.

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I know it's animated and you can make it

this way, but it really is gorgeous.

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It doesn't overplay the comic book parts.

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I think it uses it really well in some

areas for emphasis and to provide color in

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the scene, storytelling color and not like

actual color.

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So sometimes you see word balloons and

sometimes you see more stylized versions

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that you would see in a comic book in

there.

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in the actual flow of the story.

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And so it's really great.

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It's so fun to watch.

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And this is maybe the third or fourth time

I've seen it.

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It's so good.

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I couldn't agree more.

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I call it the festival for the senses.

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It's just you become really engaged with

it.

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Spider-Man movie with modern animation

techniques and technology is just a genius

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concept.

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So like you both hinted at, there are

different techniques.

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They have frames, they have panels at

times, and it gives you the sense that

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it's printed art like the comic book.

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There are parts where it looks like a 3D

movie without

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the glasses, and that's intentional.

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I was watching some commentary that

director put out there and they call it

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chromatic aberration, which is a new term

that I learned.

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Sounds like you knew that one, don't you?

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So yeah, the glitching is cool because

then you can see how they move in and out

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of the other dimensions or universes.

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It's a very nostalgic feel because of the

panels and comic quotes in the dialogue

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boxes.

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Very well done.

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Yeah.

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I think one of the things too, I'm sorry,

but how they recap the origin.

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They made it, they showed the comic book

cover and it's like it's flipping through

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pages and then it shows actual, the scenes

from some of the live action movies done

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in the animation.

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It's like, all right, that was kind of

cool.

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Yeah.

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There's the part where Miles Morales is

reading through the comic book is because

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his hands are sticking to the page and

he's like, well, the kind of what's

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happening next is telling the story as

he's living it, which is kind of neat.

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But you're right.

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They do each a lot of the several

characters recap at Peter Parker in the

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beginning.

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And then, you know, Spider Gwen talks

about her origin story.

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It's very similar, et cetera, because

they're living parallel lives.

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like cutting and scratching of like

turntables, but instead of turntables,

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they're like the film reels.

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So you get that nice mix and it's very hip

hop.

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Great analogy, yeah.

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Good segue too.

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So we deemed this a hip hop movie and now

we have to explain why.

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So Boogie's our resident expert on all the

different elements of hip hop and you

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wanna break it down as to like, where do

we see each of the elements of hip hop in

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this film and how?

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sure.

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I mean, like, I tell people, like, they

made this one for the culture.

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Seriously, hands down.

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They were like, yo, we got to do something

for the heads that love hip hop and read

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comic books.

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It's really, yeah it's really for kids but

they really made it for us.

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Yeah, they did.

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They definitely did.

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But yeah, just to get a little, to delve

into it.

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I mean, like it's definitely has a hip hop

soundtrack.

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I mean, you hear the music throughout the

film.

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You see in the beginning, you know, as

Miles is sketching, he's kind of going

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along with some of the lyrics.

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So you can tell he's an appreciator of the

culture and he participates actively.

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He's sketching some graffiti.

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He actually goes out.

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and creates a burner a la Beat Street,

where they sneak into where the subway,

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where trains over by - where the trains

were parked at, but instead of putting it

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on an actual train car, his uncle Aaron

shows him where a wall, where he can

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actually create a burner.

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And this is prior to him getting bitten by

the radioactive spider.

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And when Miles is not sure of himself and

if he actually fits into this whole spider

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verse of sorts.

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he finally embraces the fact that, you

know, I can do this and I'm one of them

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and I wanna help.

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And he finally dons his Spider-Man suit

and his logo was tagged.

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I was like, yo, even with like the, it's

like dripping, I'm like, yo, that was

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kinda how they did that.

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So we see those.

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And then just Miles in his everyday, his

everyday wear when he's not in his school

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uniform.

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He's very reminiscent of people who

participate in the culture.

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He's got his hoodie on.

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He's got his flight jacket, workers jacket

on.

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And he's sporting his classic throwback

Air Jordan 1s.

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My favorite sneakers of all time.

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I was like, yes.

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What a culture.

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Yes, it is.

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with a uniform, a high school uniform too.

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Yes.

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Ha ha.

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So we got the music, the hip hop that's

played throughout.

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He's singing Sunflower, which is a collab

between Swae Lee, half of Rae Sremmurd,

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and Post Malone right at the beginning.

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And he sings that throughout.

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They play Biggie Smalls, Hypnotize, which

is like, whoa, I can't believe that's in a

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Marvel film.

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like the seminal scene where he gets

bitten.

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They're doing that mashup of.

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Black Sheep's Choice is Yours, Sugarhill

Gang's Apache, and then afterwards they're

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doing Mary Mary by Run DMC, which is very

well done.

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Yeah.

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You mentioned sneaker culture too, so

yeah.

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It had a lot of those elements, sure.

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You can even see some of the, some B-boy

flavor in the choreography.

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You know, there's a lot of jumping around

and flying around stuff and, you know,

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there, you can, you can trace some lines

between, you know, breakdancing and how

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they move.

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Yeah, and you get to, I was gonna say,

Uncle Aaron is old head too, and so is

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Jeff, Myles' father, because when you take

them down to do the burners, your dad used

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to, you know, we used to come out here,

this is how we, so that was their form of

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expression back in the day, and then your

dad got into the police force, I used to,

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Aaron was telling them.

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So it was kind of like, all right, that

was our generation, you know.

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Yeah, it's like down already.

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It was so funny that you mentioned the

movements in comparing them to

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breakdancing because Spider-Man was always

one of my favorite characters when I used

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to draw back in the day.

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He was always one of my favorite

characters to draw.

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And it was always because he was in these

weird, crazy poses that looked like he was

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breakdancing.

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So when you said that, it was like, oh my

God, yes, yes.

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early or late 80s, 90s when Todd McFarlane

took over Spider-Man and he really pushed

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the boundaries of what his body shape was

doing.

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So yeah.

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Like his back would be arched, one leg

would be over here.

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He'd have his hand way down here, with his

arm way up there.

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Ha ha ha.

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It was pushed to extremes and it really

worked and spawned a lot of copycats.

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Yeah.

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No pun intended.

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Morales is the protagonist and he's very

likable.

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You see him in a kind of vulnerable state,

how he's singing along with his headphones

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and he doesn't know the lyrics.

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So we like him right away and he's rushing

to get ready for school and everything.

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And I just thought it was so cool that you

have a teen that's half African American,

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half Puerto Rican, and he is the

protagonist.

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So we haven't seen that.

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I don't think we've ever really seen that.

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So it was nice to see the diversity.

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So Boogie, you were, again, a resident

kind of superhero fan as well, more so

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than the rest of us.

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So you know Miles Morales?

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Miles Morales, where he first appeared in

the Marvel universe?

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You know, it was funny because I don't

know if I remember when he first appeared,

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he just kind of popped up.

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And I was like, where did this guy come

from?

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And I was, but it was so cool because I

remember like, when I first came across

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him, I didn't come across him as the young

kid.

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I came across him much more mature, and

seasoned as Spider-Man.

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And I was like, well, he's gotta show

somewhere, you know, show where he came

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from.

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But I think the cool thing was, like you

said, he pointed out that.

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You know, he has the Afro Latino thing

going on.

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And it was such a cool concept because, I

mean, Spider-Man is, you know, about as

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American as Apple Pie.

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And here they take one of the flagship

characters from Marvel and, you know, make

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them look like me.

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I used to have my hair like that back when

I was in high school, the same kind of, I

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mean, granted, my hair probably wasn't as

big as Miles Morales's, but.

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I wore my hair like that in high school.

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So I was like, wow, this is kind of cool.

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And like the tagging and the, you know,

just appreciating of the music and just

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the dress and the culture, the flavor,

everything was there.

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But yeah, I guess he just kind of popped

up for me.

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I'm not really sure exactly when he hit

the scene.

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It just like when I saw it, I was like,

wow, this is cool.

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And I just kind of embraced it.

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And then when I heard that they were doing

an animated, the animated movie.

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and he was going to be the protagonist in

it.

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I was like, wow, this is kind of cool.

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And I remember JB, you told me that you

saw it, you was telling me how good it

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was.

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I was like, oh my God, I want to see it so

bad.

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Then I finally saw it and my mind was

blown.

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Watching it prior to this recording was

like watching it for the first time.

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Even though I knew what was going to

happen, it felt those same feelings were

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there as if I just watched it.

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Yeah, it's that good.

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I mean, so I did some research in full

disclosure about Miles Morales, because I

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was curious.

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So he first appeared in Ultimate Comics,

the actual comic book, Fallout Number

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Four, which was published in August of

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But that, yeah, so he's fairly recent.

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Yeah.

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there's a storyline, the ultimate

storylines.

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Peter Parker dies and then he's the new

Spider-Man.

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Right.

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So Marvel as a whole has done a lot of

great things with diversity within the

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past decade or so.

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When you see the Marvel, the MCU, five?

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Yeah, yeah.

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was, he was always about inclusion.

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Right, right.

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I mean, Black Panther, you have Ms.

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Marvel, who's Pakistani-American.

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Yeah, that's right.

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I mean, even just, you know, Captain

Marvel having the female superhero in the

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MCU, you know, because I know there's

always Wonder Woman out there in the DC

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side, but like, yeah, there's a lot more

diversity inclusion out there.

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So people can, a lot of people can relate

to it because, you know, for years and

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years it was your white male superheroes.

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And

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not relatable to a lot of folks.

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So we get to see some of these other

spider people from other universes.

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Will you wanna take us to which ones we

saw and which one do you like best out of

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those?

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sure I mean we have Spider Gwen who's Gwen

Stacy from another universe her best

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friend was Peter who actually was killed

and she took on the mantle as a spider

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person in her universe, you have Peni Parker

from the future she is a daughter of Peter

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and has the robot I guess tech suit type

spider-man that

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Kinetically connected.

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We have Spider-Ham, Peter Porker, one of

my old favorites from back in the day.

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And we have Spider-Man Noir who is, he's

got that nostalgic detective look about

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him and he's always in black and white.

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It's like the coolest thing.

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No matter what else is glowing color

around him, he's black and white.

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Like a 1930s detective, I think was his

thing.

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from Watchmen.

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Exactly, Rorschach from Watchmen, yes.

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The Shadow, you know?

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Yeah.

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you have a favorite, BooGie, out of all

those characters?

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I'm torn, I'm torn.

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So like I said, I remember Spider-Ham from

way back in the day.

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And I think I actually do have, I actually

do have some comic books that feature him.

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So he's always been a favorite of mine.

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And it was so cool to finally see him

animated.

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But like that black and white detective

get up always gets me too.

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Cause I've watched a lot of Dick Tracy and

you know, those old black and white

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detective movies.

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So.

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Spider-Man Noir always kind of gravitated

towards me as well.

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And I like the way he talks as well, so

it's got that cool vibe about him.

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I'm like kind of torn between those two.

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I mean, no disrespect, Penny is nice, but

those two I'm like gravitated towards

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right away.

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Yeah, DynoWright, how about yourself?

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Definitely Spider-Ham, because I too had

some Spider-Ham comics back in the day.

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I was big into the Marvel comics in grade

school and high school, so I read

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Spider-Ham whenever I could.

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That's so good.

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Yes!

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So random.

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So for myself as a bit of a Japanophile

and liking anime style, I like Peni

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Parker.

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She's my favorite.

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She's from the year 3145, so it's just

cool that she's from the future and has

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that telepathic abilities.

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So yeah, I like her.

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Just the styling of her, the way she

talks.

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It's really, really, really cool.

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But you can't go wrong with any of those

characters.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, that was really cool.

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So let's dive into the soundtrack.

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We talked about some of the songs, the old

school type songs that were featured in

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it.

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The jam that I really love was What's Up

Danger.

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I love that one.

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That really got me hype.

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That was by, I'm not too familiar with the

artists, Blackway and Black Caviar do that

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song.

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That's the scene when Miles kind of really

comes of age as Spider-Man and-

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talking about the leap of faith that Peter

Parker told him he's going to have to

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take.

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He just bears down and just goes for it.

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I love that scene.

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complementary.

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The soundtrack, all the elements worked in

this movie and the soundtrack.

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and the score really, really complemented

each other.

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Even though the soundtrack is more modern

artists that I'm not totally familiar

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with, even four years, five years later.

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But the score has a lot of old school

stuff for heads like us.

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And like you said, that that very

impactful scene where he comes of age and

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the moves of music really works.

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So it didn't really kind of didn't really

matter.

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Like I didn't know the song or like the

song really worked for that moment.

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It definitely works for that scene

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I mean, the most memorable track that

people remember is the Sunflower Song,

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which was, again, the collab between Post

Malone and Swae Lee.

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At the very beginning, it's played

throughout.

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That got a lot of airplay on Top 40 radio.

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But there's also some songs by the late

Juice WRLD.

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Coi Leray has a song, Jaden Smith as well.

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And the one, Nicki Minaj,

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has a collaboration called Familia with

Bantu, Anwil AA.

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I'm not too familiar with some of those

other artists, but that was a catchy song,

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the one, Familia.

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In fact, we went old school with this and

I rented the DVD and I think DynoWright

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did as well.

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And they had, you could watch the music

videos for that familiar song as well as

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the sunflower song with the lyrics.

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Yeah, they do a lyrics video.

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Yeah.

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It's a great soundtrack though, overall.

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Like every song you're like, nodding your

head to.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, definitely makes you nod your head.

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I mean, like you said, it's not a lot of

artists from here that I'm familiar with.

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I mean, there's a few, I mean, obviously.

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Nicki Minaj and Lil Wayne, Ty Dolla $ign,

Juice WRLD, Vince Staples, Cordae, Jaden

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Smith, Coi Leray, Post Malone, Swae Lee,

and the late Triple X-Tentacion.

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Like...

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I'm familiar with those guys, but there's

some, there's a good vibe going on with

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this soundtrack.

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I've added to my playlist right away.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, so Biggie's not on the soundtrack,

but they do play Hypnotize a bit.

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Yeah, they left the old school tracks off

of the soundtrack, but we already have

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them anyways.

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probably, yeah.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Yeah, they made the soundtrack for the

younger generation.

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They want to sell an album of, you know,

current stuff.

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Mm-hmm.

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I was looking a little bit at the cast

also.

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Spider-Man Noir was played by Nicholas

Cage.

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I didn't realize that at first.

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That got a lot of big time people for

this.

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Big time voice actors, yeah.

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John Mulaney did Spider-Ham's voice and

Liev Schreiber for Kingpin.

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Yeah.

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Pine and Lily Tomlin and Leo Schreiber and

Zoe Kravitz.

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Holy crap, it's a lot of people.

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Katherine Hahn, Mahershala Ali.

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He won an Oscar.

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Yeah, he's super talented.

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I look at all of the names, I recognize

all of these names.

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I was like, wow, that's crazy.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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a big budget film between the technology,

animation and the voice acting, et cetera.

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I think they spent like 90 million if I

read it correctly, but they've made well

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more than that, three to 400 million in

that range in box office revenues.

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Stan Lee has his appearance, it has

selling the suit, which is a nice touch.

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He's always in the films.

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This is one of his last ones, I would

think.

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Yeah.

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Nope.

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watch the special features in the DVD,

they go through.

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There's multiple Stan Lee appearances in

this film, so it's fun.

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I missed them all, except for the main

scene he's in.

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But yeah, he's sprinkled out throughout.

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I love when they do that, yeah.

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I always try to pick them out in a lot of

the other Marvel, the animated movies, I

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remember.

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Like Big Hero 6 and a few others, where

I'm like, there's the Stan Lee.

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I mean, there's a couple of, I'm sorry.

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I was looking like there's a couple of

voices in this that are actually in the

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MCU.

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They're entering, they're either in the

MCU or gonna be entering into the MCU.

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Like Hailey Steinfeld is the current

Hawkeye, you know, Oscar Isaac, Moon

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Knight, Mahershala Ali, Blade.

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You know, we've seen, Nicholas Cage is not

in the MCU, but we've seen him as Ghost

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Rider.

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Katherine Hahn is in, she's a, that's her

hardest form, she was in WandaVision.

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It's like, wow.

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It's like, it's crazy.

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It's just like, wow.

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So you guys are all in with Marvel.

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Yeah.

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Great cast.

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Great cast man.

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Even Lily Tomlin.

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Aunt May.

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Wow.

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Well, shout out to Lily Tomlin.

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The legendary Lily Tomlin.

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I love when she has all those spider

people that she's storing.

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She just nods her head.

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Yeah, she's seen it all.

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Yeah.

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I got something for you.

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Check this out.

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ha ha.

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Yeah, right.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, we're not gonna get really much into

the plot, but I remember when, I was not a

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big comic book fan, so I don't know a lot

of the backstory.

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When I realized that Uncle Aaron was

Prowler, I was like, whoa, like plot twist

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there.

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When I rewatch it again, it's like, it's a

little bit more obvious where you can see,

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but I was like blown away by that at

first, my first.

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Yeah.

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I think after the record, I'm gonna watch

the second one.

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Ha ha ha.

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Yeah, I never actually got to the other

ones, so I need to watch those.

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Boogie?

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You know what's odd is that I wanted to go

see it in the theaters and something kept

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coming up every time I wanted to go.

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So I never got to see it.

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But it's on.

449

I'll have it.

450

service now, yeah.

451

I saw it in the theater because my son

makes sure that we see it sort of when it

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first came out.

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It was good.

454

I prefer the first one because it's hard

to top this one, the original, and the

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music I think is better than this first

one.

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But it's really good.

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I mean, the animation is incredible.

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It's really good.

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It's just, and I watched it the first time

on a plane.

460

And so to have it that good in a tiny

little screen on a plane tells you

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something.

462

Yeah, I can't wait till my son is old

enough to drag me to the movies.

463

Because right now he's like, yeah, right

now he's not into it yet.

464

He will watch a movie at home, but he's

not into the movie theater experience yet.

465

But once he is, then I'll definitely have

a reason to stay on top of everything

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because right now I'm so behind on

everything.

467

Yeah.

468

My daughter will come with us to see it,

but I think she fell asleep during the

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second one Across the Spider-Verse.

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She's just not into it.

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Not her thing.

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That's fine.

473

This was excellent.

474

Maybe we broke some ground here.

475

We can do some more films that have a lot

of these hip hop elements.

476

What I'm hearing is the newer Transformers

has a lot of hip hop.

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from the 90s because of where it takes

place, the timeframe, and something like

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that.

479

So yeah, there's so much we can dig into.

480

Yeah, I mean, there's definitely

appreciators of the culture that are

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involved in the filmmaking industry.

482

So it's good to see them, you know, give a

nod.

483

Anything else to add on the Spider-Man to

the Spider-Verse?

484

Go see it.

485

If you haven't seen it, go see it.

486

I don't think we have to go around and do

the review.

487

We are glowing here.

488

Glowing reviews.

489

Yeah.

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keeping it.

491

We are bringing a funky flick back.

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a vault.

493

This thing is always back in the game.

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not.

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should stay in constant circulation.

496

Yeah.

497

I'm such a fan of the movie, I went out

and got this guy.

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Ha ha ha.

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it is.

500

So Boogie, hold that up again.

501

Tell the people.

502

It's the Miles Morales Into the

Spider-Verse.

503

Yeah, one sixth scale figure.

504

Yeah, I mean, it looks so realistic.

505

It's crazy.

506

Well, not even realistic.

507

It looks so much like the actual cartoon,

but I'm not even gonna go into it too

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much, but like, yeah, he's in there.

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Got a spray painted spider logo.

510

Got different heads that you put on, one

with the mask, one without the mask.

511

The only thing I don't like is that he

doesn't have Jordans.

512

He's got bobos.

513

He got bobo shoes.

514

Yeah.

515

You said there's a spray can in there at

the bottom I saw, right?

516

Yeah.

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in here.

518

Yeah, there's one right here at the

bottom.

519

Yeah, that's cool.

520

there you go.

521

he's got the cover book, different hand

poses.

522

Yeah and if I open it up he's got the

actual um the hoodie, the jacket, the

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shorts um that he wears and throughout the

cartoon as well.

524

Yeah it's pretty cool.

525

Okay, this is the back there, you know.

526

Kinda shows them.

527

This looks just like the cartoon.

528

It's crazy.

529

Yeah.

530

yeah, the technology has improved so much.

531

Really did.

532

Yeah.

533

when we watched the Biz Markie documentary

we talked about he was a big toy fanatic

534

and he had a bunch of toys.

535

I think we would share some Instagram

posts.

536

You know, remember Kwame from the 90s?

537

He's like a big toy guy.

538

Yeah.

539

He has his own toy show where he will

order like a new toy and most are hip hop

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themed and he'll like unbox them or show

them.

541

again.

542

Yep.

543

been watching some of his stuff lately.

544

The man we all know and love, Kwame.

545

Yeah.

546

Yeah, who's big into it?

547

Who goes to the actual conventions, too?

548

Yes, he went to like a spooky Halloween

one, like Monster Fest or something, side

549

effect.

550

And then, yeah, he's a good follow on

Instagram.

551

I can't wait till like one day I'll have

him out on display.

552

But right now it's not optimal, so I'm

just keeping him in the box.

553

Good plan.

554

I got lucky.

555

I mean this thing will set you back a few

hundred, set you back a couple hundred and

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some change.

557

But I got it for free.

558

Ooh, there you go.

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that there was a promo promotional thing

online or something.

560

yeah, Hot Toys.

561

And there's a couple of companies that

they were having, like throughout the

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year, they would have these different

contests and you can get points and

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different promotions.

564

We can just stack points.

565

So I stacked up all of these points and

then one day they were like, well, if you

566

don't lose your points, you're gonna lose

them.

567

So I went online and just said, all right,

I've got a few hundred dollars worth of

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points and I ordered him.

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Boom.

570

Good choice.

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Nice.

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HHMC's JB, BooGie and DynoWright.

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We got two great live events coming up.

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576

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Hmm.

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Nice.