Are you ready to unravel a Miami mall mystery involving a rumored alien encounter and a police spectacle? Let's get weird with it this New Year as we dissect the mayhem and ponder the scarcity of inside footage and electronic malfunctions that left us scratching our heads. But that's just the tip of the iceberg. We dive into the oddities surrounding venomous spiders named Hercules and the unexpected perils of lion encounters, proving that the real world can be just as fantastical as any fiction.
We're not all about the peculiar; we also celebrate creativity and the power of setting goals rather than resolutions. Imagine running a marathon backward—sounds bizarre, yet we explore this eccentric exercise and its surprising benefits. And as we honor the friendly rivalry between literary icons Tolkien and Lewis, join us in considering the languages that might shape our future, be it Spanish, Chinese, or even Elvish.
Finally, for those who thrive on the cutting-edge of culture, we've got a segment that's all about the latest in anime and indie gaming. From dark plotlines to superheroines and games that connect friends around the globe, we're showcasing how small teams with big ideas are redefining entertainment. So buckle up, embrace your unique self, and let's kick off the year with a dose of curiosity and excitement. Remember, life's too intriguing to not stay a little weird. See you in the next one!
Are you ready to unravel a Miami mall mystery involving a rumored alien encounter and a police spectacle? Let's get weird with it this New Year as we dissect the mayhem and ponder the scarcity of inside footage and electronic malfunctions that left us scratching our heads. But that's just the tip of the iceberg. We dive into the oddities surrounding venomous spiders named Hercules and the unexpected perils of lion encounters, proving that the real world can be just as fantastical as any fiction.
We're not all about the peculiar; we also celebrate creativity and the power of setting goals rather than resolutions. Imagine running a marathon backward—sounds bizarre, yet we explore this eccentric exercise and its surprising benefits. And as we honor the friendly rivalry between literary icons Tolkien and Lewis, join us in considering the languages that might shape our future, be it Spanish, Chinese, or even Elvish.
Finally, for those who thrive on the cutting-edge of culture, we've got a segment that's all about the latest in anime and indie gaming. From dark plotlines to superheroines and games that connect friends around the globe, we're showcasing how small teams with big ideas are redefining entertainment. So buckle up, embrace your unique self, and let's kick off the year with a dose of curiosity and excitement. Remember, life's too intriguing to not stay a little weird. See you in the next one!
What about last week? So here's what had happened was here's what happened. So about last week?
Speaker 2:What about last week?
Speaker 1:So here's what had happened was here's what happened. So over Christmas break, I know we told you all we were going to be gone for one week and then we were going to be back after New Year's. It didn't work out that way. What had happened was we both got busy and realize we both forgot. So I texted Jesse and I was like do you want to record? And he was like yeah, and then we agreed on a day and then I kind of forgot what day it was.
Speaker 1:He forgot, and I'm like dude, and then he couldn't do it the next day we had a little bit of scheduling issue. But what happened?
Speaker 2:We're back.
Speaker 1:We're back. Happy New Year's everybody. We are back. The world is back in the building. Jesse, don't be depressing, this is a new year.
Speaker 2:Is a new, I mean there's new year.
Speaker 1:All the crazy stuff.
Speaker 2:we're going to talk about New year. New me is a strange new year?
Speaker 1:Oh, we have, you know what? This is the perfect season for us, though, because, with strange news, we get to keep our job. Weird world, weird world, variety. We get to keep our job. And, man, do we have some weird?
Speaker 2:stories for you today.
Speaker 1:So let's just say 2024 has started off with a bang. Yeah, in a big way. It is come back, like a lot of people say, in a big way. Big statues too, apparently, oh my gosh, I can't even express to everybody how much weirdness we've got in the show today and how much craziness there is as well, and also we're going to be talking about a lot of funny and hilarious New Year's resolutions.
Speaker 2:Oh man, the first one we read was maybe it had me crying. Well, matt, fall over on the floor.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was dying. Maybe we're not going to give it away yet, but maybe you all have major New Year's resolutions. I know for me I don't make New Year's resolutions. I kind of set myself goals, because if you make a New Year's resolution I tend to not follow them.
Speaker 2:I stick to one goal at a time.
Speaker 1:If I make goals for the year, I follow those a lot more. So I'm definitely not making resolutions because I feel like you're just tripping yourself. Remember when you were a kid, you had reverse psychology and you were like, in order to get you to do something, they would tell you not to do it. Yeah Well, it kind of works that way with me with New Year's resolutions, Like if I tell myself I'm going to do something and then I tend not to do it.
Speaker 2:I tell you not to do something and you do it, so I can do that for you and just setting goals and kind of combating that reverse psychology a little bit by setting goals instead of I use it on you all the time.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:It's just I got to share them like, nah, it's all right, Hold off. And then you're like I'm going right now. Yeah, it doesn't work for me.
Speaker 1:New Year's resolutions does not work for me. And then, finally, today we have more anime news. We have a huge season of anime and some of them.
Speaker 2:New stuff and returning stuff.
Speaker 1:New stuff and returning stuff A lot of returning seasons this year. There's also some anime movies that we will talk about and some new animaes that have graced us with their presence that are actually quite interesting. I think Jesse will find them quite interesting as well.
Speaker 2:The thumbnails definitely grabbed me. Oh, my goodness, ooh what's that? Ooh shiny.
Speaker 1:What's that?
Speaker 2:Hot chick, we're like. Squirrels over here, we're like ooh shiny, what's that? No, but no that's freckins, they're like shiny silver.
Speaker 1:But there are some animaes that are really good and some really amazing plot lines that are coming out this year that are new, that are different, and the reason why we like anime is because a lot of our movies and shows come from those kind of plot lines and story writers. So we will be talking about that as well. Let's dive into just the weirdness that's going on with this.
Speaker 2:Alright, we started with what I think we're starting with With this first story?
Speaker 1:I think so. So let's get into it right after this. Yeah, alrighty, so this first story. Let's just start off by saying we left you all in the last episode with a Christmas black hole story of them discovering a black hole. We're going to follow that up with some more weirdness called the Miami Incident, and that's what I think everybody is calling it right now the Miami Incident. What started off as a simple, I want to say, street gang fight, kind of I don't know it, was a bunch of kids. The first thing we heard about this story was a bunch of kids that might have sticks. That was the first thing I heard.
Speaker 2:One sparkler sticks or something Didn't hear anything about this.
Speaker 1:It's got to be something. I mean, their sticks probably sparkled. It was probably sparkly sticks, I don't know. We heard about some kids causing some trouble at the Miami mall, but what made this incident famous was the fact that somebody took a video and claimed they saw a 10 foot tall alien, gordon F Lem, outside the Miami mall. No Multiple.
Speaker 1:Not just one right, this story gets weirder. First of all, it's not till three days later. I've got one, two. This is two days later than an actual news source covered it. Okay, this one up top was a day later. There was two days later. An actual news source covered it. Mind you, nobody was saying anything about this story at all, except for an Instagram video and a TikTok video.
Speaker 2:I saw it first on Instagram. Yeah, I'm not saying, I'm referring to it as Nephila.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I agree. I saw it first on Instagram, but I didn't see the alien part. I saw the cops part.
Speaker 2:I didn't see the cops.
Speaker 1:I don't think until so what makes this story strange is, at first everybody was thinking this would be just a small group of kids. Apparently it was a bigger group, so my guess could have been street gang violence, but I don't know. But apparently there was a big fight in front of the store and the cops respond. Now the way the cops respond is what's weird about this whole story. We have a video and I'm gonna pull it up right now. Let's see if I can pull this up here and for our listeners. This video is somebody who's he's not speaking English, he's speaking Spanish, but he is up top on top of the building, looks like Recording down on this cops response. And what makes this so weird is that this is not one cop, this is not two cops, this is not even 10 cop cars. This is like 70 cop cars lining the street in front of this mall for this incident.
Speaker 1:Now again, what made this video blow up was somebody recorded a video saying they spotted a 10 foot alien. That went viral, because it really is a funny idea to think the aliens are shopping down in Miami, but I would say only in Florida, like the destroy stuff. I feel like they'd be in Florida. If anywhere, I feel like they'd be in Florida. I mean, we have rockets that launch from Florida. We have a bunch of weird things that happen in Florida. I feel like if anywhere there might be aliens. So this response is what's weird?
Speaker 1:Now, from what I heard over the weekend, there are videos of people claiming that not only was this street shut down and I would like to look this up, because I don't know if this is true or not, so I'm going to look it up right now Not only the street was shut down, but let me look up something and see if anybody has any news about it, because somebody was claiming on a video that the airport was shut down as well in Miami at the same time. Nobody knows why. Uh, bunch of guesses.
Speaker 1:Now, somebody claimed it. I don't know if they even, if anybody talked about it or not. Uh, scoramations, yeah, see, there's nothing on it. So if there was a closure or anything like that, they don't even have anything on it. But what makes this crazy, like I said, is that nobody was talking about it for the longest time and that there are 70 cop cars at this place, like it was cops lined up and down the street. All for this one response. Now, to me it seems a little extreme for just a street gang violence, or you know, just a small I don't know how big this group of people were. They don't have any video of it inside, and that's another thing. If something conspiratorial happened inside the mall, wouldn't we have video of it? Would somebody pull out their phone?
Speaker 2:Uh, normally you'd think, somebody would.
Speaker 1:You would think somebody would, but we don't have any kind of video or anything of anybody inside the mall.
Speaker 1:They are not allowed to cops confiscated all the funds or the cops did not respond to the alien claim until two or three days later, so they're just now responding to the alien claim. They're not saying anything about what happened in the mall. I also heard rumors of people having electronic trouble during this incident, but whatever they're doing, whatever they did in the Miami incident, there is no one talking about it. I don't see any TikTok videos. I don't see any Instagram videos. It is complete and utter silence.
Speaker 2:Well, all the cops, they're quite faithful people, I guess they're.
Speaker 1:They're doing something. I don't know what happened.
Speaker 2:They're lying, obviously.
Speaker 1:I don't know what happened in the Miami incident.
Speaker 2:I don't need that many cops for yeah.
Speaker 1:Why is there a hundred cop cars? But look at this. This is just insane. If you go to the video, you can go to the Miami Herald, which reported on this a day later.
Speaker 2:There's still other ones on the side of the street.
Speaker 1:Look at that.
Speaker 2:Look, you got that line on one side, and then look, there's a couple over on the other side too.
Speaker 1:There's still one right there moving you would not have even if you had a riot at the mall which this could have been a riot Even if you had a riot, which is what they're calling at at the mall, you would not need this many cop cars.
Speaker 1:I wish I had been there, man, I don't want to. I would like to see one. So we needed somebody with a camera inside that area where the riot was, because there is something obviously going on that we do not know about and no one is reporting on this. They completely shut down the incident, like there's a few new sources, but they're just talking about the cops response to the alien claim, that's it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but 70 cop car 70s, we're saying 70s.
Speaker 1:And with the hundreds of people you would show up to a claim like that. Yeah, it's weird and you would think, with the hundreds of people, there would be some sort of we'd hear something like it was gang on gang violence, or this kid started it, or we even hear that, yeah, we'd even hear like who started it and why? What's going on? If it was just kids causing trouble, we even hear that we need to dig deeper. Yeah, so we will follow up with this story. Hopefully somebody.
Speaker 1:I would like a leaked video. I hope somebody in there got video and they just didn't tell anybody out about it and they just leak it like three weeks later. So that would be sick. If any of you were there during that incident and you've got video, please send it to us because that would be awesome yeah.
Speaker 1:Or if you got an Instagram or a Tik Tok, that would explain more. This story was one of the weirdest and I'm like look, not even a day, this was not even six, six days in, eight days, in not even six days into the new year. And we got an alien claim and I'm like welcome to 2024 baby.
Speaker 2:I'm saying it'll be the last.
Speaker 1:So I mean oh my gosh, talk about weirdness. All right, going along that line, we've got another story for you. If aliens was not your thing.
Speaker 2:That's not the craziest thing that happened. Apparently, there's a black guy in Africa claiming to be Jesus.
Speaker 1:If you thought was if you thought Jesus was coming back and you're a Christian or just a person of the faith, somebody is already claiming to have come back.
Speaker 2:But funny thing is this guy's married, so that's clearly not Jesus.
Speaker 1:Oh there, he says there's a reason for that Jesus would not be married. I know, I know, I'm just telling the audience what's going on. All right, he says there's a reason for that. He does have 12 followers that are claiming to be his disciples. Also, there's a whole community of people following this guy.
Speaker 2:It's sad to see you. Honestly To me.
Speaker 1:I don't know how many quote unquote miracles he's proclaimed. I haven't heard anything. I haven't seen anything. We have a video that somebody reported on it and actually did video and did a whole news report on this guy. If you want to see it, it's on Facebook, just look up. Man claims to be Jesus Christ has been discovered in Africa. It's literally on Facebook. There's a whole documentary on it. It's about 10 minutes long. I didn't see anything in the documentary of what we've seen so far to would suggest that this guy is actually Jesus at all. And I don't think, personally I don't think Jesus Christ would be out here bragging about being Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2:No, it says biblically that he's going to come to the clouds, like with lightning, and there's going to be so many other signs, I know I know so many people want it to happen so badly.
Speaker 1:I don't think this is it. This is just my opinion. Take it with a greatest soul. If you want to judge for yourself, go to Facebook, look up this video. It's insane. I've, I've, oh man, it's insane. I've known believers for a long time. I've been a believer myself for a long time. This is one of the crazier news stories I've ever seen in my life. But we will see right. I think time will tell with this dude.
Speaker 2:He's going to get. He's going to get a. You think I'll get exposed? Yeah, yeah, 100%.
Speaker 1:I think so too, but we will find out he's going to trip up. One way or another, we will find out.
Speaker 1:Oh, dude, really, Time will tell, we will find out soon. But if you think that this guy is, as might even be, remotely close, go go. Go find out the guy who did a video on it. He has a comedy channel, but he's legit reporting on this like a real news story, like he's not. He hasn't said anything funny yet. He might at the end, I don't know, but he's actually reporting this like a real news story. I mean, this guy and Kenny has got like followers and everything you guys got to check this out. So man who claims to be Jesus Christ has been discovered in Africa.
Speaker 1:We've got a whole list of other weird news stories for you today. We're going to find out which ones we want to. Do you ready, jess? Oh, yeah, let's get it All right. So we are back at AP newscom if you want to follow along. This one was fun and I thought Jesse would like this one. So, if any of you do, you have Christmas blues, are you? You glad it's over? Yeah, I'm glad it's over. Yeah, okay, I'm not, because really, christmas really came too fast and we didn't really get to celebrate Christmas all that much, and I'll tell you why. The day after Christmas, all of these stores were filled with Valentine's Day stuff already the 26th, not not like February, not January.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, the 26th of.
Speaker 1:December they were filled with Valentine's Day stuff and that made me sick to the stuff.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was the first time I've ever seen that that was disgusting, bro.
Speaker 1:Like a little legit. You can't have anything sacred anymore. I don't think there's anything sacred anymore.
Speaker 2:They're just like cash grab dude.
Speaker 1:It's all about greed. And now like they're right into houses like man. We didn't even have a chance to even celebrate Christmas or even appreciate it.
Speaker 2:Everybody I talked to this year Valentine's stuff and Christmas stuff in the same like joining I'lls. I remember that it was like what the heck?
Speaker 1:We didn't even get to celebrate it, bro, like we didn't even get to enjoy it for what it was.
Speaker 2:Mind you messed up.
Speaker 1:Mine was I had to send you in Ohio. I didn't even snow that much, so there's that too, which it usually snows here. If you don't know Ohio weather or Midwest weather, it usually does snow, but it didn't even snow, and so it didn't feel like we got to celebrate it at all. But here's a good one for you Unsold Christmas trees are on the menu for elephants and bison at the Berlin Zoo.
Speaker 2:See you can, I was. I thought you meant people were eating them earlier. When you said, I was like what?
Speaker 1:No, but I didn't know this. I didn't know elephants could eat Christmas trees. I didn't either. Did you know that? Like I didn't know this? All right, so let's get into this. Actually the first time I've seen anything about that I'll let you read some of it, just go for it.
Speaker 2:Berlin. There's a bit of post Christmas cheer on the menu for elephants and other tenants at the Berlin Zoo. They can chomp on Christmas trees that didn't find a home. The tree treats were unwrapped Thursday and what has become an annual event Elephants tore off branches with their trunks and either gobbled them or tossed them around their enclosure. The European bison nestled into the trees before starting to munch on them, and reindeer sniffed and played with the conifers. The zoo takes only fresh, unsold trees from select vendors. It doesn't accept trees from the public which could contain chemicals or leftover decoration.
Speaker 1:Now I can attest from living in the country. Deer do eat trees Like. Especially if you try to grow like a brand new pine tree, they tear those up. Dude, we have had so many times where we've had to, like, build something around the pine tree or put them a certain way so that deer don't eat them, and so I know that much. But I didn't know elephants were into eating trees, or bison. Now it doesn't take your dirty tree, Jess, so you can't send the tree after you use it because they won't take it. I don't even own a tree. You can't take the ornaments off and go here. Here's the tree.
Speaker 1:I don't own one of them either. They only accept unused or unsold Christmas trees from vendors, which I mean if you had an elephant or bison, you could. You could have your own business with it.
Speaker 2:They don't eat plastic either.
Speaker 1:So yeah, I don't know that. I didn't know the elephants were into that sort of thing, but apparently they are. Apparently that is you know. If you have an unsold tree at your business, you can distribute them to the elephants and the bison. It's food for the elephants and food for the bison. So not only do we not celebrate Christmas, we're going to end it on a munch.
Speaker 2:Why not?
Speaker 1:I thought that was good man. All right, we're going to go to another story that I know Jesse's going to love. What is it? What is it?
Speaker 2:The largest male specimen of the world, must venomous spider has been found in Australia. Ooh, spiders, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, this is one of Jesse's favorites Creatures, creatures of all time and also his favorite topic that he likes to talk about. So I thought it was very appropriate to usher in the new year with a Jesse related story. It's something he likes to talk about.
Speaker 2:He goes, Matt talks more than me. He's got to get me. Yeah, I got to give him to talk a little bit. Man, he got to help me out a little bit.
Speaker 1:This was updated on January 4th of this year. All right, sidney with fangs. What am I reading? Are you going to go for it?
Speaker 2:Go for it, go for it With fangs that could pierce a human fingernail. Oh, that's not very impressive. The largest male specimen of the world's most venomous erected. What do you expect?
Speaker 1:Dragon jaws. Are you wanting dragon jaws to come out? And just I?
Speaker 2:want them to like bite into the fangs With fangs that pierce your car. Heck yeah, yeah, I want spine and rib crushing fangs, dude you remember the movie Eight-legged Freaks? Yeah, but bigger, I'm telling you, bigger. The largest male specimen of the world's most venomous erected has found a new home at the Australian Reptile Park what, where it helps save lives after a member of the public discovered by chance the deadly Cindy, or Sidney Cindy.
Speaker 1:Sidney, sidney, who's Sidney? I'm going to name it Sidney.
Speaker 2:Or Cindy Dang, I can't even. Final Web Spider dubbed Hercules. Really Hercules was found on the central coast. Got to make them sound mindy. I have heard of the Hercules spiders Actually About 50 miles north of Sidney. It was initially given to a local hospital, the Australian Reptile Park said in a statement Thursday. Spider experts from the nearby park retrieved it and soon realized it was the largest male specimen ever received from the public in Australia.
Speaker 1:So if you want to be scarred, go to AP News. Do they have? Yeah, okay, here's the dimensions. Spider measured 7.9 centimeters from foot to foot and that's still on the same grade, so 3.1 inches, 3.1 inches.
Speaker 2:Surpassing the park's previous record holder from 2018.
Speaker 1:And so look still a little guy to me. Still a little guy to me. It's not as big as the tarantula, but pretty decent size. I mean you're talking about this big.
Speaker 2:I can hold them in my hand. I guess Record holder from 2018, the male funnel web named Colossus.
Speaker 1:What? That's probably about the same size as some tarantulas, I'd imagine.
Speaker 2:I would totally have one of those. I would one for Tessa, yeah, you would. You would definitely own one, and I'd be like bringing them with, bringing it with me. Hey, man Dude, would they put them on your shoulder? Hey, my friend wants to see. Hi to you. Would the cats kill a spider, though? They bat at them so it makes them aggressive. If you have both a cat, if you had both a cat and a spider together as pets, it's not a good idea at all. If you want the spider to be calm, do not have any other furry animal. You better watch yourself then. You like cats and spiders. I'm gonna get one.
Speaker 2:No, I'm the ones that don't have my cat. No more, I'm gonna get one.
Speaker 1:There you go, there you go. Actually, it has more on the story. Here we go. Sydney funnel web spiders usually range in length from one to five centimeters, so they can get up to five centimeters. Oh, so little, though, with females being generally larger than their male counterparts but not as deadly. They are predominantly found in forested areas and suburban gardens, from Sydney, australia's most populous city, to the coastal city of Newcastle in the north and the blue mountains to the west. So they go quite a ways. I really want to get there someday. Yeah, I would love to see Australia. To be honest, I would love to go there.
Speaker 2:I don't think I'd live there but I'd love to go there. I would, I'd stay there, I wouldn't come back. Dude, I'm telling you, I'm being serious If I go there, I'm gonna come back. Hey, you know what?
Speaker 1:Australia is a pretty popular place to live, believe it or not. I would not come back at all. Believe it or not, it's a good, it's a popular place.
Speaker 2:Hercules will contribute to the Reptile Parks Antivenom Program. Safely captured spiders handed in by the public undergo milking to extract venom essential for producing life-saving antivenom. We're used to having pretty big funnel web spiders donated to the park. However, for receiving a male funnel web this big is like hitting the jackpot, it said Emma Tenney, a spider keeper at Australia Reptile Park. Whilst female funnel-wise spiders are venomous, males have proven to be more lethal Gotcha.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't want to bet, why one? That's for sure I do. Oh, there you go.
Speaker 2:With having a male funnel web this size in our collection, his venom output could be enormous, proving incredibly valuable for the Parks Venom Program. They have a picture of one right there Of one sitting on a hat.
Speaker 1:That's a pretty decent size one.
Speaker 2:Such a little guy.
Speaker 1:But he's also deadly. So there's that. I don't want to inject him with something to make him huge. He wants to put the spider on steroids. It's the exception.
Speaker 2:Spider steroids, spider steroids. Since the inception of the program in 1981 there was not benefactality in Australia from a funnel web. Spider bite. Oh, recent rainy human weather, something not out here attacking people and sadly, Sorry. Jess. Recent rain, I know I want to act. Recent rainy human weather along Australia's east coast has provided to the, or provided, the ideal conditions for a funnel web spiders to thrive. Mm, hmm, interesting, yeah, so that's the funnel web spider.
Speaker 1:If you guys want to look us up, that's an interesting spider. Not so many amazing things, dude. This shape is kind of similar to a tarantula in a way, but it has some weird features to it and then, like, the legs are really skinny. So it's it's. It's an interesting spider, for sure. If you want to look them up, look up funnel web spiders. They tend to grow, like I said, three to five inches there. I mean, just don't get bit by a male spider. They're pretty deadly apparently. Oh, look, there we go. It says crikey, that's a big spider. Oh, they got a video of it. Buddy, right there, look at that big boy. Oh, he's got some good fangs on him though. Hey, he's got some decent fangs on him. Man, yeah, they have a video of it and they have some pictures at AP news, if you guys want to. They talk about it and they talk about funnel web spiders. Don't think I would own one myself, but I know Jesse would. Jesse would own one, more than one, actually, and more than one you would own more than one.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I would throw like a bunch of baby spiders everywhere if I could. Here you go, here you go.
Speaker 1:Take a spider. And then the last one I want to do real quick before we move on to our next section the police in Kenya suspect a man was attacked by a lion. We're going to stay on this animal trek, okay, and we have so much more news. We're going to get to more news next week in our next show, but there is just so much going on. But I'm going to go with this one because this is interesting. They suspect a man was attacked by a lion while riding a motorcycle. Now, wouldn't it be obvious? Like, did the guy Treaded clothes? We talked about this. Did the guy come into town riding the motorcycle? And they were like, hmm, same suspicious. I think I see claw marks Suspect.
Speaker 1:I think you would say like, wouldn't it?
Speaker 1:be obvious. Anyway, we're going to read this and find out. Police in Kenya on Monday recovered the body that's not good the body of a man believed to have been attacked by a lion while he was riding a motorcycle near a national reserve in the south of the country. Well, there we go. They recovered a body, so he wasn't alive. Police were notified by community members of an abandoned motorcycle along the road, so people were just driving. That's creepy. People were just driving by this motorcycle like a. There's a motorcycle here. It's been here for a while now. Now, along the road near the my rare, my rare M a R E R E. That's a mario, I don't know Mario, mario Forest, mario, mario, he was right. He was riding the forest, my Rear, he was my. He was riding a motorcycle on my rear, forest area near the Shimbah.
Speaker 2:Simba Hills.
Speaker 1:Okay, that is awfully close to Simba. What are they doing over there?
Speaker 2:Simba Hills. That's like, that's Simba with with an accent bro.
Speaker 1:That's, that's Simba with, with a list, the.
Speaker 2:Shemba Hills. He made Simba mad apparently.
Speaker 1:The Shemba Hills National Reserve, officers saw lion footprints that led from the motorcycle to a ticket where they found the remains of an unknown dead man. Oh, that's sad. According to a police report, the lion population was declining in Kenya just over a decade ago, primarily due to wild human wildlife contact.
Speaker 1:The government listed locked or, I'm sorry, conflicts well contacts and you know, the government listed lions as endangered, with an estimated population of 2000 and 2010. A more recent survey put the number at 2489, so they went up. The population went up, but with that, humans leave Malone. Well, no, that's the problem, right? They're saying he got attacked on the road and he was just on the road.
Speaker 2:so I might have been hungry.
Speaker 1:You know that that's. Kenya. That's the thing the more wild animals you have, the more you have to be careful, and being out there with a motorcycle is not the best.
Speaker 1:No, that was a dumb idea in first place, that's not the most protective vehicle when driving out in the middle of places with lions. So, audience, if you ever get the idea of driving through Africa or a place from lions, try to get something a little bit more protection, maybe a car, maybe a van, something that has a little bit more wall between you and between you and the said lion. And with that, I'm going to end it there with the weird news. We've got a lot more, but I think we're going to have to leave it till next time, man, we'll have to bring some more news in because let me tell y'all, 2024 starting off strong it is starting off strong and there's plenty of weird news, so I've got a lot to talk about, but let's get into our next section.
Speaker 2:I thought you just said where's Hennet? Make a reminder. Yeah, weird news.
Speaker 1:Oh, the weird news okay yeah, now we're on to the funny. Yeah, I got it. I got to explain everything to Jess.
Speaker 2:Well, I'm a little slow, okay, but I'll catch up. I told you that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, into the next section and let's talk about some new year's resolutions. All right, so, jess, have you made any new year's resolutions at all? We talked about this a little bit at the start of the show. No, I have goals.
Speaker 1:Okay, yeah, same same and I think I stick with goals because for me, like we talked about, new year's resolutions just doesn't work. But in case you wanted to make a new year's resolution, we have a website and this is hilarious. The website is called joincakecom joincake you heard me right Dot com and there is some funny new year's resolutions. If you want to have a little fun with it and kind of enjoy the new year, also having a funny resolution might help you actually achieve it, I think.
Speaker 2:I think having something I think I can achieve. The first one, I think.
Speaker 1:I think something funny and fun people could actually achieve. So what is the first one on our list? Jess?
Speaker 2:I will love myself as much as Lizzo loves herself.
Speaker 1:You heard us right. This is the first suggestion on his site. We did not make this up, okay, so don't come after us. We didn't make this up. Don't get mad at us. This is hilarious. The first one is I will love myself as much as Lizzo loves herself. I think I can achieve that. I think the author likes Lizzo.
Speaker 2:Or you think you can achieve that you think you can do that.
Speaker 1:You got to learn to love yourself, though you think you can do that.
Speaker 2:It's so hard, though it's going to be a challenge.
Speaker 1:It will be a challenge. I don't think I think the next one will be hard, Because it loves herself. This will be hard for anybody in 2024 because the amount of time that I hate being online because of this reason Number two is I will pick fewer internet fights.
Speaker 2:I am not going to commit to that I will not ever commit. To that I hate to tell you. Dude, the internet is so toxic, there's no way, that would never be one of mine. I will start a fight on purpose.
Speaker 1:I think this one would be easy for me, only because I don't like being online at all. I am definitely online less than you are. The only time I am online is if I am watching shows that I like. That's the only time. What's the next one you can do?
Speaker 2:this one. I know you can do this one. There's one word in there that supersedes. You can do this one. I vow to communicate exclusively in memes. You send me memes anyway. I would take it exclusively is what puts a dent in it for me. I'm not going to communicate only in memes.
Speaker 1:That's what it exclusively means I think I could do that Honestly. How about my friends have a Sinsu Uber?
Speaker 2:I could potentially no, not going to what do you think audience?
Speaker 1:Could you exclusively just communicate in memes alone? I think in 2023, or if you were to put emojis in there, I'd understand that too.
Speaker 2:That's not exclusively me.
Speaker 1:I think that counts. I think you could definitely talk in full conversations in memes. I could do it, but I Another suggestion I saw on Facebook was exclusively in GIFs. No, I definitely knew that either way, I've been through a full conversation in a group chat before in GIFs.
Speaker 2:GIFs I think you meant GIFs like presents. No, no, no, no, like GIF, gifs, gifs.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I've been in a full conversation with people before just using GIFs Really, so I know that's easy to do. Yeah, because you just look up the phrase you want to say and there'll be a GIF for it, guarantee.
Speaker 2:I have hard time finding the ones I need for.
Speaker 1:Look up the phrase you want to say.
Speaker 2:I guarantee there's a GIF for it.
Speaker 1:I usually do I usually type it in Like there's. I can type out almost full sentences and find a GIF for it and the GIF will have that sentence in there. I like typing in like Deadpool and then finding his hearthands, or like the ones that are like nods, you know, like yeah. Like they're not important and I'm like yeah, Like, yeah, Like yeah.
Speaker 2:Like All right, how old are you?
Speaker 1:Okay, this is a funny one. Don't count me in for this one. I will finish all the DIY projects I started and abandoned in 2019.
Speaker 2:Wait- that's four years ago, or five years ago it was before COVID. That's why they put it on there, because 2020 was a COVID thing.
Speaker 1:I don't think I could do that. I don't even remember what I started in 2019.
Speaker 2:Unless you have it labeled, Unless you have it like yeah.
Speaker 1:If you have it dated. If you have it dated, maybe.
Speaker 2:This next one's pretty good. I don't have any either.
Speaker 1:We could go to Walmart. We could go to Walmart with this next one.
Speaker 2:I will be unashamed about the fact that I wear pajamas in public. That's not me, that ain't me. I don't wear the. I mean very rarely, is that me?
Speaker 1:I think I wear more sweat outfits than pajamas.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I like my hoodies and my sweat pants.
Speaker 1:Yeah Like now that I could wear.
Speaker 2:Just substitute pajamas for sweats, how about?
Speaker 1:this one. I will run a half marathon backwards.
Speaker 2:Half marathon backwards.
Speaker 1:So, like any marathon, you choose half of it. You have to do backwards. Is that legal? Can you do that without somebody kicking?
Speaker 2:you out of the race. Can you run backwards?
Speaker 1:Yeah, but can you run Dude? I want to look that up so can you Half marathon? Yeah, can you officially?
Speaker 2:run a marathon backwards. Let's start a half, or at least start a half, bro.
Speaker 1:It'd be a new TikTok trend man what?
Speaker 2:the heck Start a backwards marathon.
Speaker 1:Can you run? I can run, let's see. Is it legal For about two minutes? Is it legal to run a marathon without training? Somebody said without training.
Speaker 2:Backwards. Well, yeah, just do bad at it.
Speaker 1:It says backwards. In Ohio Is it possible to run a marathon backwards? Well, you'd get disqualified for running backwards. Somebody said when a marathon isn't extreme enough to run backwards, let's see. Let's see what people say. Will you get disqualified for running a marathon backwards?
Speaker 2:When you get too cute. Well, I mean only if there's one wrong way.
Speaker 1:Is it possible to turn around? Has anyone done this?
Speaker 2:It'd be considered a sportsman like as a coach, I don't recommend trying it.
Speaker 1:That makes me want to try it. I'd do it anyway. Okay, so no one's officially running backwards, but it said somebody got disqualified for regional meet when he turned his head around and started pumping his arms in the air right before winning a race. So I feel like if they're that touchy about it, you definitely can't run backwards. I say find a race that's legal, like ask beforehand, find a race where it's legal If you wanted to run backwards.
Speaker 1:Because I feel like people look at that and say, oh, it's unsportsmanlike and it's, it's, don't be a jerk. But what if you just want to build up your legs and run backwards? Because I don't know if people know this, but running backwards builds up your knees. You know that. You ever tried it upstairs. It's hard, it's difficult and your thighs burn and everything like it actually builds the front of your legs. I don't know if marathon runners know this, but when you're running forwards it's breaking down a lot and, yes, it strengthens your leg, but it strains your lower back. When you walk backwards and run backwards you can actually build up your knees and your resistance. So you might actually have your knees for a lot longer if you start walking backwards.
Speaker 1:Yeah, fun fact and in case you guys want to know. That is an actual fact. So, uh, yeah, I don't know. I think they should start making it legal. I mean, let's start around, let's start our own marathon.
Speaker 2:Purely backwards marathon.
Speaker 1:It doesn't have to be real long. It's gonna be just a challenge, right? You know it doesn't have to be 17 miles or anything.
Speaker 2:What's another word for it?
Speaker 1:No, you can call it a marathon, but if it's not the length of a marathon, I mean no, all marathons have different lengths, so like you could run a 3k, you could run a 5k, you could run a 1k. Yeah, you could do a one mile like a short, a short race.
Speaker 2:One mile backward race yeah.
Speaker 1:And then everybody just keeps track of their time. You would release everybody at the same time. Everybody keeps track of their time, okay.
Speaker 2:That would be.
Speaker 1:That would be interesting. Um, how about I will attempt to finally learn how to stand on my head? I know how to do that, do you?
Speaker 2:know how to do that. I don't want to. My head hurts enough as it is.
Speaker 1:My head is already in pain, hands on the other hand. Now this one? This one doesn't qualify for me, because any language that I learn when I'm traveling I plan on using. Well, you kind of told it right there. She might as well read it. I will learn a language I never plan to use. That doesn't make sense, Like I would.
Speaker 2:That's useless, unless it's the.
Speaker 1:Elven language You'll learn the Elven language. Elven language.
Speaker 2:Look, I am nerdy enough to learn the Elven language. I don't know, man, was there even enough in that to actually do it entirely, but behind the scenes.
Speaker 1:In case you wanted to know, here's another weird fact for you JRRR Tolkien actually made an entire Elven language and you can learn it. Okay, that I that is incredible, right, just for a series. Yeah, he made he. Maybe in 2024 we will learn the language. Nobody knows what dialect we are.
Speaker 2:There might be a few other nerves that recognize a few words or something, by the way, yeah, so apparently.
Speaker 1:Apparently, jarrah Tolkien came up with an entire language. Now, if anybody Doesn't know this, jarrah Tolkien, cs Lewis, were good friends and one of their big things was to try to outright each other, so it made their books so good. Was them trying to outright each other every week in an English pub, so? Or an Irish pub, I can't remember it was either English or Irish, don't quote me on that, but they met every week to try to outright each other. So J R, and who? Cs Lewis? Oh yeah, the guy who wrote the wine which Nordra. I mean all that.
Speaker 2:There was another name for that series, wouldn't there?
Speaker 1:what? Chronicles of Narnia, that's the whole series, and they they had different. Each book was a different name, but yeah, so they would try to outright each other and in that process I guess Tolkien came up with the elven language just for that series. That's insane, I would have learned some serious imagination.
Speaker 1:I definitely want to learn it. It's something nerdy. So there you go. You could find the language online you never plan to use, or you could be like me if you're interested in another country or going to another country and you want to use a language. I learned that language Japanese. The internet is available now. Probably learn Chinese. Do Chinese is definitely mandatory for the US.
Speaker 2:I think, I think.
Speaker 1:Spanish is gonna be in it mandatory.
Speaker 2:I mean, I really did try to learn that once I was to get at the numbers but not the words.
Speaker 1:I think Spanish and Chinese are gonna be very mandatory in the US in the future. Just where we're headed. What's the next one?
Speaker 2:I will learn how to juggle and recite the alphabet backwards simultaneously no, maybe, but both. Now there's no way.
Speaker 1:I'm doing that, bro. You got the last one down already, bro. Oh well, that isn't the last one, because there's 80 oh well, section, but I, you know that's all I can. I Will dance like no one is looking when I'm in a public place. I have done this before, so this can't be my resolution, so I cannot do this one because I have done this. Yeah, yeah, I'll teach you, but like it's, it's, it's kind of fun, like to pretend like nobody's looking. If you're, it's easier. If you're trying to reach a goal, like if you're trying to learn a dance and you're trying to reach a goal, it's, it's a lot easier.
Speaker 1:And there you go, people, some Funny New Year's resolutions. Let us know which ones were your favorite and which ones you guys plan to do. Obviously, if you guys have some funny ones, you want to write to us. We have a Facebook group, so write to us in the Facebook group or get ahold of us online. At weird world variety, we also have an Instagram. We didn't need to tell people more about this Instagram, so we got. I did once, maybe once or twice, but it's really easy to message us or comment or like or talk to us on Instagram. It's weird world variety with Matt and Jesse.
Speaker 2:Just like the show and I'd like somebody to potentially answer my question Is the Lizzo level of potentially pride?
Speaker 1:That's a good question. Okay, so we have some New Year's resolutions before we end this. We have some.
Speaker 2:We have some for your pets.
Speaker 1:So if you would like to do something new or fun with your pet Maybe you've had your pet a while or you just got a new pet and you're thinking of ideas that you want to do for your pet here are a few ideas that you might want to do that are good New Year's resolutions. I know somebody that's done this first one potentially already. It's very easy to do because people love pets. People love pets. I mean extremely love pets. So what's the first one? I will make my cat an internet celebrity. Yes, so he has a cat, but whoever is your pet?
Speaker 2:One idea, my pet an internet celebrity.
Speaker 1:One idea is to make them an internet celebrity, and the reason why I know this works is Because when you post any kind of pet videos or pictures, people go nuts for it, like people go crazy.
Speaker 2:Cashews dude, yeah, I.
Speaker 1:Seriously, here's a good one. I will make my human or my owner chase the ball next time we play, so your pet could be thinking that. About the next one, I was gonna say Because a hard floor you can clean and If the pets decide that one take them out, I have literally picked her up and put her on hard floor instead, like now here Don't you go, my chair, you know the carpet. Your pet might not like you if they're doing that.
Speaker 1:I'm just going to the bathroom in one spot or just throwing up on the carpet. Here's another pet, one that might make you mad. I will learn how to change the TV channels During the good part.
Speaker 1:I feel like pets. No, bro, I feel like pets are smart. I have seen so many pets, when they're in the middle of something like, say, their owners in the middle of something big report, big assignment that they're asked man dude, they will literally come down right in the middle of the last part of their report and just mess it up. They will sit on the computer. I've seen cats destroy computers and laptops during the most important part.
Speaker 1:Yep, I feel like we don't give pets enough credit, and I feel like they're a lot smarter than what we.
Speaker 2:They are.
Speaker 1:They know how to get that timing down. I swear I've seen so many like people like little wake up.
Speaker 2:I mean, I don't think they are.
Speaker 1:Ah, dude, I think they are. I feel like they are because I've seen so many people like wake up and like a cat or a dog will Come sit on their face or just do something really obnoxious. They got different clocks than we do. I'm telling you, bro, I think they know. I think they know, I think they're smarter. You know how we talked about how pets can see in multi dimensions On the one show we were talking about the ghost stories. Oh yeah, yeah, I think they're smart, bro. I think they know how to interrupt our lives just for fun, because they're family.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think they do.
Speaker 1:Alright, here we go. I will finally catch and destroy that Resolution. That's a cat. There's no way Doing that.
Speaker 2:Now.
Speaker 1:I've seen lots of dogs become friends with birds, yeah, so I know I don't think they're face or something.
Speaker 2:Oh, I will sing the song of my people when my humans are sound asleep. That sounds like a dog one.
Speaker 1:I will tweet out a beautiful song a half hour before the alarm clock goes off. That's a bird one for sure. I will demand only wet food and refuse the rest. Cat that's? That's definitely a cat. One could be a dog. Don't have dried food. Dogs have dried food.
Speaker 2:I mean a little bang for human food, dude yeah don't spoil them too much. I will fall asleep on my human so that they cannot move for the rest of the day.
Speaker 1:That could be Idiot. Yeah, yeah, I will always drink from my humans water glass. Yeah, yeah, that's true. I do that, or parakeets, or whatever like which one is less germy, though which one is. Man that's hard, honestly, because they put less Potentially depend on. I would agree, and the reason why is cuz tracking cats and dogs also clean themselves.
Speaker 2:A bird is a track around litter like a cat.
Speaker 1:It's not dragging anything around like a dog and a bird is A bird is not cleaning itself with his tongue? Yeah, it does.
Speaker 2:They kind of like like good, like this with the feathers, with the beak in there.
Speaker 1:I know, but that's more their head.
Speaker 2:I've never seen a bird like themselves.
Speaker 1:I think it's my, I think it's still less germy than a cat or a dog, as weird as that sounds. I would definitely agree with you on that.
Speaker 2:I would say birds, unless it's flying around pooping or something, then you might have a problem.
Speaker 1:Well, dude, that was insane.
Speaker 2:I don't know All right.
Speaker 1:So again, if you guys have New Year's resolutions or your pets have New Year's resolutions? Write us at Instagram we're at World Variety with Matt and Jesse or Facebook. We're gonna move on to the last part because we're running out of time. We have some exciting Anime announcements for winter and for the 2024 year in general. We have tons of stuff coming back and also brand new shows, so we're gonna talk about that next. We have a lot of anime news for you. 2023 was a crazy year for anime, I tell you. There was a ton of shows More than I've ever seen, honestly and I think anime is becoming more and more popular. 2023 was also the year we got the first NFL football and anime collaboration of all time. Anime has never been this popular. Yes, that sounds super weird. It was crazy. The, the what was it? The Buffalo? Was it the Buffalo Bills? I want to say the Buffalo Bills Y'all can correct me on that, but it was their stadium was doing a one-piece collab.
Speaker 1:They actually had the actors from one piece at the football game that makes sense, and they had like animations in the stadium from one piece so they would show the camera on somebody. It would show like the wanted poster, oh okay, but like it was so cool. And so this is the first year Because I remember watching anime. I don't know if you've watched the anime this long, because I don't know how long you've watched anime I watch it.
Speaker 2:I watch it in spurts.
Speaker 1:Right right between live action. How long have you watched it, though? Like did you watch it.
Speaker 2:I'm an anime, since I was a kid dude.
Speaker 1:Okay, so I remember watching anime before much as you. That's fine, but like I remember and you might remember this too, but anime wasn't popular now Before just consider closely 90s, in 2000s, you were called names and Probably made fun of, if you were sure watching anime because everybody thought it was for kids. Like a lot of people were like, oh, why would you watch anime?
Speaker 1:It's like you're such a nerd or whatever, and like I, remember, I remember, I didn't say anything about me watching anime because I Didn't want to get made fun of growing up as a kid like that was gonna happen to me, no matter what, and so Like not like I cared, like I didn't really care. I just didn't want to add to Like you just don't want to you know what's?
Speaker 1:the extra nonsense, and you know it was something I like personally. Anyway, I think I got really into it like deep into it because I didn't really get deep into anime and to college. And then I got into college. I got like binging How'd you have for that the time? For well, almost got kicked out of college my first year, oh oh. But it wasn't cuz I anime revelation time. It wasn't cuz I anime, though that was because I was just slacking in other areas of my life up top.
Speaker 1:I had to sit down with my counselor and basically they kind of like gave me an intervention.
Speaker 2:Like hey, hey, the trash.
Speaker 1:God. God was basically like you need to wake up now. We gotta leave you peak up Um oh Anyway, I remember watching anime before it was popular. I know this is a big debate, especially with Christians, about whether or not you should watch anime. I think that's BS, because anime is just another TV genre, it's or you can discern what you watch Like, you'll know what the plot line is. They basically tell you in the first episode what the anime is going to be about.
Speaker 1:Wow, a lot of them are raunchy, so I can understand, yes, and then you can understand people's awareness, but you can also determine what you're going to watch, what you're not going to watch. You should have that discernment. If you are a Christian, it doesn't mean you shouldn't watch anime.
Speaker 2:Oh, he's going to tell me if he won't be watching it?
Speaker 1:Yeah, you'll get a notice and kind of like your spirit whether or not you should watch it. Also, some anime is really dark so that's also another reason to kind of steer your away. But that's just the same as like okay, if my friends are watching horror movies, like I tell them, hey, that's not a good idea. But they're like oh, I still want to watch horror movies. It's like all right, well then, you're letting that into your house.
Speaker 1:So just be aware of that, I boy, it isn't much possible. Yeah, so like, for me, anime is just another genre of TV. You just have to know what you should watch and what you shouldn't, and you kind of determine that for yourself as you go. There are plenty of anime that are family friendly. So if you have a family that's interested in anime, there are very popular animes right now that are family friendly, that everybody could watch and you'd be fine. But there are again, like we said, there are plenty of anime that are not family friendly, not at all, that you should really discern whether or not you should watch it.
Speaker 1:But everybody has those guilty pleasures, right? Like I talked to so many people. They're like oh, I like to watch this TV show or I like to watch that TV show and it has murder and violence and love and trauma and crime, and I mean that's not really great for our spirit either. So you know what I mean. So like I think there's a hypocritical thing there. And also take in mind, like we said before, many of our movies and shows that we have today came from anime plot lines Like they are that good at writing, like all these new ideas come from imaginary artists and thinkers and writers and people that develop these stories which, by the way, I'm okay with because I don't know about you. I don't want to see the same movie in the theater all the time.
Speaker 1:I really want to make my own anime, so I would I kind of enjoy it. So now the anime is super popular, we have tons of it, and 2024 is no exception. We have a new show. It's called Soul Leveling. Now this one's controversial. This one might get dark. I'm not really sure where it's going to go. I know the first episode for me was kind of dark, but it's also kind of interesting. It's about this kid who's trying to be an adventure like everybody else, but he's the weakest of the week and I mean like the worst adventure rank, but he's basically doing it for his family because he needs the money, of course. That's it. That's all there is to it. That is the entire plotline of this new anime, and I'll tell you what the new one the first episode was insane, not family friendly. Don't recommend it for families. But if you're an adult and you're into adventure, definitely one I would check out. I don't know how dark it's going to get, so don't quote me on that. It might get really dark Might get extremely dark.
Speaker 1:For those that know the manga, it might get really dark, but I think I said that one wrong earlier. Metallic rogue I think it's Rouge. It might be Rouge, I don't know anything about that.
Speaker 2:As rogue as R-O-G-U-E.
Speaker 1:But here's the plotline Young girl named Rogue carries out an operation to take out nine androids who threatened humanity. So she's kind of a superhero, sounds like. We've got speaking of non-family friendly. We've got Blue Exorcist coming back, another adventure, one that's funny, I don't know. This one's not family friendly either, but it's called Moonlit Fantasy. It's more for adults, but it's a comedy, the one here, freerun. I can tell you what this one's about Freerun, freerun I can't remember, I can't say the name.
Speaker 1:Beyond Journey's End. So after this party defeats the final Demon King and saves the world, basically they retire and some of them die, some of them break up and they kind of go about their day. And the central character is this elf girl who has to figure out what to do because she's immortal. She lives on forever. She's usually immortal, right. So it follows along that plot line to where she's got to figure out what to do after her party dies and after they've retired and moved on. So she's by herself. So eventually don't worry, doesn't stay sad Eventually she meets new people, she makes new friends and goes on new adventures, and that's what this one is about. A lot of good reviews came out of this one. It's very popular right now, and so I've watched maybe six or seven episodes.
Speaker 2:That's a sequel to another one.
Speaker 1:No, that's just how it begins. So it begins with them saving the world and what she does afterward. Now I've watched six or seven episodes. You will laugh, you will cry. It has every emotion you can imagine.
Speaker 2:I cry when I laugh.
Speaker 1:It's crazy. It's very heart-wrenching. It's one of those serious animes that are very like drama specific. So, yeah, also new stuff coming in. Let me find another one for you guys here. Another good anime that's coming out is the wrong. Let me see if I can find it. It's the wrong way to use healing magic. I think it's called. I wanted to show this one to Jesse because this one is hilarious.
Speaker 2:It sounds like the great lyric which I'm waiting for season two of.
Speaker 1:Yeah, which was all about a healer who went to another world and yeah, it was great. So this one is the wrong way to use healing magic. I was explaining the plot to Jesse earlier. I don't know if it's family-friendly yet. The first episode was fine, so I don't know it could be family-friendly. I'm not sure yet. Okay, so I will let you guys know as soon as I find out.
Speaker 1:But the first episode was basically this high school kid, and he's not. He's the least popular kid in school. He's not very out there, he's just liking his own life and minding his own business. Right, he stays after school, realizes he doesn't have an umbrella for the rain. He left his somewhere or somebody took it Once. He sees an umbrella that he could use, but he decides not to grab it. Well, two kids that walk up to him after school were the student senate. They happen to be the most popular kids in school and they decide to help him out, give him an umbrella and they kind of all walk home together.
Speaker 1:Now the funny part is they all become friends in kind of a relatively short amount of time and you find out that the most popular kids in school have their nerdy little things about them, that they oh yeah, but it's kind of comic relief and it's really cool. Well, as they're all learning this, suddenly a magic circle appears below them on the street and they disappear. They end up in another world, summoned by a kingdom that wants them to become heroes. Now, in this other world, they have magic powers the girl and the guy that was super popular. They have these really good magic powers that the kingdom is excited. Well, when they find out what the unpopular kids magic power is, they all stop in fear. And he doesn't know what's going on. And as you as a watcher, you're watching this, you don't know what's going on, not giving away the whole show. They find out that he has healing magic. Well, it's pretty rare in this kingdom.
Speaker 1:So they're freaking out, they're flipping out, they're like no, he can't go to her. He can't go to her. He can't go to her. He's like who's this Her? What are you talking about?
Speaker 1:Well, anne walks, the other protagonist of this series, and she happens to be a general, and this general, just like the the cleric series that we watched, has a crazy training regiment for anybody that goes under her. So they're scared that he's going, that she's going to tear this kid up limb from limb like military style and he has no idea what he's gotten himself into. So, as you can imagine, there's this whole comic relief about him being trained under her, saving the world. This whole thing really funny, definitely recommended. Looks family friendly for now I don't know, I'll tell you down the line if it's not, but for now does look family friendly and hilarious, very hilarious.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, here's one that's not family friendly but I also recommend because it's adventure. If you like adventure, recommend in 2024, the unwanted undead adventurer, which is kind of funny. There is some comedy to this one, but it's more about this guy trying to survive and what happens is this guy gets killed in a dungeon because he needs the money, like we all do, going out adventuring for money, gets killed in a dungeon and comes back as an undead monster. We know how he's alive or why he's alive, but he has to figure out how to survive in this dungeon and he finds out that he can defeat other monsters and basically, like video game style, level up. So he's got to survive in this dungeon and he's got to figure out whether or not he can communicate with humans again or figure out a way to become more human himself, so that he can get back to his home adventuring all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2:You think you're good.
Speaker 1:Well, you'll just have to watch to find out, won't you? Too many? There's too many. There is so much coming back and we have so many season twos and season threes. I've already told Jesse about some of them. One of them is really funny, called magic and muscles, that one's coming back for season two.
Speaker 1:That one's hilarious, a lot of fun, has some very dry humor to it. Kingdom season five is coming back. Kingdom is a, I want to say, was it Chinese, japanese? I don't know if it's Chinese or Japanese, but it's a warfare style anime. So if you like war strategy Kingdom, I definitely recommend it. And then let's see anything else we've got. We've got tons of other. I mean you could, okay, just go to Crunchyroll News or go to any anime news site. There are like tons that are releasing this year. I know that we're getting another Eminence and Shadow movie. I know that we're getting a movie bro. A movie, a live action, no, just a, just an anime movie. Live action would be kind of weird.
Speaker 2:They wouldn't go on. There's no way.
Speaker 1:But we're getting a lot of stuff this year in anime. So if you're a fan of anime, you have every right to be excited for 2024, and we are excited for you. There you go, we catch it all. Weird news, weird news Weird resolutions.
Speaker 1:Funny news. Funny news, anime news, funny look at news. Oh man, and you know what? Next week we're going to travel to another place and give you some travel ideas, and I think next week we should bring back some more food stuff, maybe some sports or maybe some games. We should talk about the gaming world and what they're going through right now. I will tell you that there are a couple games that are made by small time creators that are absolutely killing it. Really, they're making EA look like kindergartners. I mean, like they are destroying the game right now, and it didn't take a lot of money. This game that I'm talking about, that went viral, that you'll find out about next week, literally is $10. And you can play with your friends and it went viral. It's incredible.
Speaker 1:So, we will talk about that next week. And you know what, from the WWV, everybody Stay weird, stay weird. And we hope you all have a blessed new year. We hope all of you fulfill your goals and just kill it this year. So see ya Until next time. Okay, zia Later. Bye.
Speaker 2:I, I I.