So in this lecture we've been talking a lot about the behavior of polynomials we talked about the in behavior What happens is go to the far right and the far left We talked about the factor theorem and how it's related to the x-intercepts of the function The next thing I want to talk about is the idea of a turning point That is places on the graph where it changes directions now We've talked about these before turning points are really just gonna be our local Minima and our local maxima or the local extrema that we've talked about before So you see this idea about turning points be aware. This is nothing different than what we've talked about before We're talking about our local extrema the thing that I want to make clear about turning points though is that in this situation a Turning point on a polynomial is always going to be a smooth transition. You don't have something like like Nothing like lightning bolts or zigzags or whatever when you turn directions on a polynomial It's always going to be a smooth transition Always a rounded turn. Oh, it's nice and smooth It doesn't poke you when you try to patch your polynomial right here The number of turning points the number of extrema on a polynomial graph if f is a polynomial degree in the Number of turning points will be at most In I let me let me say this again the number of x intercepts on F is at most in Okay So a function can never have more than in x intercepts on its graph a Consequence of this has to do with turning points a consequence that every polynomial has a most x or has at most in X intercepts where in is its degree if the number of turning points is at most in minus one You can't turn directions more than in minus one times and the idea behind it is essentially the following I mean admittedly that the true argument comes from calculus here I mean we look at the derivative of a polynomial, which is itself a polynomial But if we had like say for x intercepts, what are the possibilities? We can kind of get something like this In order to match up with for x intercepts best case scenario in terms of turning We kind of get like four turns in there are three turns in the graph there one less than the degree there And again that the argument is a little bit more complicated than that But when you're graphing a polynomial, you cannot put too many turns on the graph You can't have more turns then one less than the degree of the polynomial And so with that in mind, we are now ready to play our everyone's favorite game show. Who's my graph? Imagine we have a polynomial function listed here on the screen We have f of x equals x to the fourth plus five x cube plus five x squared minus five x minus six Now our eligible Bachelorette today she's looking for a graph to complement her formula now Let's learn a little bit about our bachelorette today She is a polynomial of degree four and her leading term is x to the fourth on that's so great So from this we can learn a lot about her in behavior her Constant term negative six right here I want to mention corresponds to her y intercept because if you have a Constant pollen or if you have a polynomial you plug in zero to find its x intercept you plug in zeros for all of the x's But as the constant term doesn't have a zero, that's the only thing that resides That's only thing left over when you plug in zero to find the x intercept And so now let's meet our eligible bachelors today We have four graphs that want to be matched up with f of x right here So what can we say about these functions? What are some things we can say well? Are so these are some of the questions that are our functions going to ask her graphs right here So graph graph a what are you compatible? Are you a good match for our function f of f of x right here? Well? A here is going to say things like the following well when you look at my in behavior I have the in behavior of an even function. I point up on the left-hand side I point up on the right-hand side. So I'm an even degree function with a positive leading coefficient Oh, our our function f is swimming over such a comment right there Function a also tells us I should say graph a also tells us that I have exactly three turning points on my graph Which indicates that my degree does not exceed four. Oh, oh our lady here is really loving this so far This is so great. This is so amazing So good and so so far she should put little notes right here. She really likes she really likes graph a He's got the right leading term. That's exactly what what she needs It points up on both right and left-hand side has the right number of turning points. It's it's no more than three That's great Well when we come over and look at graph B graph B actually proposes to be the exact same way He's like, uh, I'm graph B right here. I also am a positive Even-degree polynomial. So on my right-hand side, I point up on my left-hand side. I also point up I am a true optimist and on that degree. I'm always pointing up my number of turning points is also three Which is one less than four, which means my degree does not get bigger than four. Wow Such good options for our function f today. She's looking both Graph a in graph B when we come over to graph C, though, let's see. I mean he Tries to tries to act like things are going on right here. It's like, oh, I'm a I'm a positive even degree polynomial as well I'm pointing up on the left. I'm pointing up on the right That means my leading coefficient is positive and my degree is even but and so yeah our function f She really likes that but then when she counts the number of turning points that he has one two three four five If you have five turning points, that means the degree in is at least six That's not compatible with our with our bachelorette right here. So she's gonna turn down graph C He is not the right choice for her Too many turning points too many turning points. She only wants a graph who is gonna have at most three turning points We look at graph D and the first thing she sees is that graph D does in fact have three turning points Just like she would just like she would like but wait a second Well, the graph is point the end behavior is pointing in the same direction That does indicate to her that this function is an even degree polynomial turns out There's no odd polynomials whatsoever in our group today. That's great But notice everything's pointing down this would tell us that the leading coefficient of this graph here is Negative and so we got graph D here. It's like I hate everything. I'm a pessimist his leading coefficients negative And as such that's not gonna be compatible for For our lady right here. So she's gonna turn down graph D as well So she's got to come back to graphs a and b which they both had positive in coefficients. They both had even degree They wrote even degree with the turning points at most three which would indicate that yeah These could these are likely x the leading term is likely some positive coefficient times x to the fourth But how does she decide which one it is which one to choose here? Well, it turns out the finding the final description We're gonna use here is going to be that constant term right the constant term corresponds to the y-intercept When you look at graph a graphs graph a has a positive Y-intercept because it intersects the y-axis above the x-axis graph B under the hand We can see has a negative x or y-intercept So if everything created equal B turns out to be the most compatible function for F right here It had the correct in behavior pointing up on the right it can point it up on the left It had the correct number of turning points It had it most three now just to be clear not every x to the fourth graph will have three turning points It could have only maybe one turning point But you can't have more than three turning points if your degree is four and then finally it had the correct y-intercept And so therefore It our our winner of today's game who is my graph is gonna be graph B And so our function the graph are gonna go on a very romantic date to the to the most romantic Restaurant in town and we'll let them we'll let them go have their time together And that also brings us to the end of our lecture today lecture 23 in our series about polynomial functions everything we talked about in this lecture was to help us better understand Graphs of polynomial functions as illustrated in our little game show we played here in the next lecture We're gonna we're gonna practice We'll we'll learn a little bit more about things that go into graphing polynomials And then we'll put all of that to the test and start grabbing graphing our own polynomials So stay tuned for our next episode which hopefully you should see the link for that on the screen right now


Next question is from Koni Chua. Is it normal to progress on some lifts but regress on others at the same time? If not, what could be the problem? Of course. You can, but it's not as common. Usually to regress while progressing? Yeah. I would say it's more common to progress on one and not regress on another one. But it's less common for my like, oh my God, I'm so much stronger in my overhead press and then I go squat and my squat went way down. Cause usually if you're stronger, that means that overall there's a good environment. Doesn't mean you can get stronger at everything. Oh, well I can give you an example. Well, okay. So progress and regress less likely. Progress and stay the same. Very common. Very, very common. But even could potentially regress depending on you do it. And an example that I see all the time is, let's say you, this is a new lift for you. Maybe you've never really dead lifted consistently. And so you start doing it. And what's great about that is your, the gains and the progress is like, cause it's, you're learning the movement. So there's this amazing like learning curve of just constantly seeing yourself level up, level up, level up. And you could be seeing that while also diet, not being ideal, sleep, not being ideal. And you may not be doing, on the lifts that you've been doing forever. So maybe you've been bench pressing forever, right? But you've never dead lifted consistently in your life till you start listening to mine properly. These guys always talk about dead lifting. I'm going to start doing it. So you start doing it. And you're like, man, I'm getting good and good at dead lifting. But man, my benches either staying the same or I even had a bad week and got worse. Well, when you, and this is where the context matters is if you are learning a new movement, sometimes you will see even progress in that lift, even when all other things are shitty. Like your diet's kind of off, your sleep isn't well. It's cause the dead lift is so new and you're improving on the movement every single time. But then it's starting to affect the other things that you've already gotten pretty good at. And so you regress in that area. So in a situation like that, that makes sense. You would be surprised. The reason why I would say it's not as common, except for that's a really good example that you gave Adam is because when you're regressing on lifts, let's say you're overtrained or you're overdoing a lift or you're lacking sleep, typically it's a systemic thing. You'll notice it all over. Like I'm just weaker overall. Now you could definitely overtrain a movement, cause some problems and other movements, not so much and still improve, but that's more rare. So I would say in this particular case, it's probably either what Adam's saying or the lift that you're regressing in, you may need to look at your programming. Like, okay, here's a good example. Dead lifts and squats, right?   I mean, and I've definitely noticed this in terms of like the time length in between of when I haven't been practicing one of the major lifts. Like so, there was a period where I didn't bench for a substantial amount of time, cause I was like so focused on getting better at pull ups, getting better at pulling movements and then going back, I definitely went down substantially in terms of performing my bench press. But it was just because I wasn't stimulating that muscle group I used to like it. But it was just, it was a time length thing and it really came back pretty quickly. But it was to see that sort of take on, you know, progression with my ability to pull up was substantial. And then I definitely fell off one bench. This question actually highlights a really cool strategy that I used to do because we talked about this, right? When you're in a caloric deficit and you're trying to do like a cut, like a really hard cut. Like one of the hardest parts is the mental hurdle, right? Cause you get weaker in everything. So one of the strategies I used to do on cut since I'd be, I was doing it so frequently is I would actually pick up a new exercise that I wasn't doing. Like I hadn't done in a really long time. Like example of one that comes to mind right away and was during when we were competing, it was during when we were writing programs and the circus press was just not like a common exercise that I had done in the past. And I'm in a major cut and I'm getting weaker on everything. Cause I'm cutting drastically consistently for weeks for a show. And so I'm watching my bench go down. I'm watching my deadlift go down. But then all of a sudden I introduced the circus press consistently into my routine and I'm actually getting stronger every week.  So I like this question for that reason because this could happen. I always think that a lot of what we do with training to get in really good shape, a lot of it's this mental warfare that you're constantly playing all the time. And a strategy that helped me was when I know that I'm in a caloric deficit and I know I'm cutting consistently and I know I'm gonna get weaker, it's inevitable, is actually reintroducing movements that I don't do frequently into my routine so I have like a win. So I can be like, oh cool, let's keep strong. This used to happen to me when I'd cut and I'd be cutting and then I'm like, wow, I could do more pull-ups and I realized cause I'm lighter. Cause you're 25 lighter. Yeah, there's that, there's also that, yeah.


Live from Las Vegas, it's theCUBE. Covering VMworld 2018. Brought to you by VMware and its ecosystem partners. Welcome back, this is VMworld 2018. You're watching theCUBE with Justin Warren. I'm Stu Miniman and we've got a nice presence here front of the VM Village right next to the Solutions Expo. We're over the three days. We've got about 95 guests and 75 interviews. Have a welcome back to the program. Lynn Lucas is the CMO of Cohesity. People were commenting a little bit about our presence here, but I don't know. I think Cohesity has a little bit of a bigger footprint and a few more people have been talking about you there. So first of all, welcome back to the program. Well, thanks very much for having us. Yeah, we've been so excited to be here at VMworld. It's obviously a core set of customers, a core part of our business. And yeah, we thought we'd make a little bit of noise the first night. Yeah, the booth is hopping, people are lining up. You usually have some games you're doing. I know I'd seen it at Cisco Live. Yeah, maybe give people just a little taste of what Cohesity's doing at the show. Well, sure. So, you know, we do have a great, amazing marketing team here and they've got some cool games going on in the booth. But what it's really about is bringing folks in and talking about how we can help them with their consolidating their data silos. And so we've also got eight demo stations in their live theater presentations. Adam Rassner, who was here on the program earlier. From AutoNation. AutoNation, CIO is speaking again today. And what we're here to do is really talk to customers about how we can help them really modernize their data center and move into a hybrid cloud world. Yeah, it's always interesting.  But then there's also the new stuff. So Cohesity, you have a mix of that, new product announcement, Helios. Maybe bring us through, you know, what customers are really digging into and bring us up to speed on Helios. Yeah, absolutely. Thank you for mentioning that. Well, there's a broader trend, which of course you guys have been covering, which is data's fueling business, but data is fragmented. It's in all these silos. Cohesity's been addressing that for the last several years with Cohesity data platform, hyper-converged secondary storage. Helios now adds to that offering and provides a single global unified view of all your secondary data and applications. It's a SaaS-based service, but it's not just a dashboard or a monitoring. It is active management, which is really going to bring about great efficiencies for the IT organization. I was speaking to your CEO, I think it was yesterday, we had a briefing and he walked me through some of that and I actually spoke with your customer at AutoNation last week as well and they gave me an update on things. And it became quite clear to me that something I'd misunderstood about Cohesity, that it wasn't just about data protection. That's just sort of the first thing that you do with it. AutoNation mentioned this as well, that they'd started using Cohesity for data protection, but then they realized that, well actually I could use this for secondary data storage and they'd already had the platform, they'd bought it a couple of years ago and these additional features just arrive on the platform. So is Helios another one of these features that just gets added to something that you've already made an investment in? So thanks for calling out those use cases. So Helios is actually available as a freemium offer right now and it's intended for customers that have multiple sites, whether those sites be LA, Tokyo, Dubai, but also in the cloud because Cohesity offers capabilities if you're in Azure, if you're in AWS and now Google Cloud as well. So our new freemium addition of Helios is going to give that global view, that ability for IT to at a glance see how all of their secondary data and apps are working, do they have any capacity needs coming up and the ability to roll out automated policies globally. And so this is where we hear a lot of interest from IT because infrastructure really frankly has been so primitive, right? When you think about it, most of it are protected in the last century and they spend so much time just trying to keep things up to date and keep the complexity down and Helios offers a single way to manage all of that and there's a lot more coming in Helios over time because it's got machine learning capability built into it. So I think you're going to see just the beginning right now and a long list of things that'll be coming out over time that will really help IT advance their operational efficiency. Yeah, Lynn, definitely. Multicloud is one of the top things we've been seeing at this show and it's matured VMware's position, their partnership with AWS and some of the other providers. Help us understand how Cohesity lives in this multicloud world and the things like the VMC and all those, how do those tie together? Yeah, great, great question. So, you know, customers, as you said, they're in a multicloud world and what most organizations are understanding is that two things, one, they've got to choose the cloud for the right set of workloads, right? It's not a panacea, it can be more expensive if it's not thought about in terms of the use cases that they're looking for. It obviously has a massive advantage in terms of elastic scalability, compute power and the other thing I think that now is becoming more to the forefront is that the cloud is created for IT just as many silos and if you're a multicloud organization which most are, well now you've got silos of different types between the two clouds. So Cohesity is creating with Helios a single operating model across any environment whether that be cloud, core or edge and that is really what we aim to do is create that invisible kind of layer so that IT can focus more on helping the business. I was talking to a prospect here just a couple of days ago and because we're so today instant gratification oriented the CEO just says, hey I need that file or I need this deleted maybe because of GDPR and the IT teams are obviously struggling with how does this happen when I have such complex infrastructure silos? Helios is the first step in helping to solve that. Yeah, Lynn I'm wondering there's so many players that want to be that platform across the multicloud world. VMware put their case forward as to how they do this. Microsoft has pretty good positioning when we talk about hybrid cloud. Can you speak to how Cohesity can be across these environments, how partnerships, alliances, ecosystem help put this together because no single company can do it all. Totally agree with you. I mean I don't think any vendor today could operate on their own. It is an ecosystem. So first and foremost, VMware is our partner and the cloud providers are our partners along with many other companies that are here, Nutanix, Pure. We operate in the secondary world, right? The secondary realm first and foremost and that's the 80% of the enterprise data and infrastructure that hasn't had a lot of innovation. You pointed out it started with data protection. There's a little bit of pain points there but it extends to file, to test dev, to analytics and we really provide that compliment to VMware for customers that are looking for a way to modernize their data center where Cohesity can back up, instantly restore VMs in the case of a disaster, also move them up to the cloud for test dev then spin them back when they're ready to come back into production. So we're a real compliment to the primary environment. I'd like to dig into that a little bit, Lynn. So one of the things that when I'm talking to vendors and particularly with customers, they sometimes take a solution to remove some pain points but then once they've actually got something in place, there's all of these new possibilities that it opens up for them and particularly around the silo aspect, could you maybe give us an example of a customer who's been able to realize a new opportunity once they use Cohesity to remove some of that siloing and now they can build things on this platform that they've purchased? Great question. So one of our customers, you've talked about AutoNation, but let me bring up another one, a Manhattan Associates, large organization, software organization also started with Cohesity with data protection and then realized we can use the same platform for consolidating file services. It allowed them to instead of adding OPEX in the form of additional teams to manage their very massively growing environment to reinvest those teams in actually a new model for the business which is to bring out more capability for the business in a faster time than they would have otherwise. So a lot of what we talk about is the operational simplicity that we bring. For every business, what they invest that in or reinvest those resources in is going to be different but it enables them in that case to do more in their core business which is serving their manufacturing supply chain customers in a more efficient way. And that's quite important I think for IT teams to be able to join with the business and to show that they're actually providing new value rather than being seen as just a cost center which we hear that from IT teams all the time, they're quite sick of being, well you just cost, you're not involved in strategic decisions that are important to the business. So having a platform something like this means that you can be part of those conversations, you can get a seat at the table and be involved in creating new value for the business. Yeah, absolutely.  I know right that most of IT unfortunately has been investing, I think it's 80%, maybe 80% plus in just keeping everything running and the business gets so frustrated and creates shadow IT. Another customer of ours of Verizon subsidiary, XO communications, another example where instead of having to, I believe, invest in seven more folks just to manage their data protection and their file storages, once they were able to invest in Cohesity because of the simplicity, not having so many vendors, not having the complexity of managing silos of infrastructure, they took that same budget and were able to invest it in doing more for their government clients. Impressive. Lynn, I wonder if you could give us some of the company update, number of customers. We talked a little bit about the product, but just kind of step it back at a corporate level. Yeah, so the solution's really resonating. We had the good fortune to put out some news about our fiscal year. We grew 300% year over year in revenue, which is, I think, fantastic growth for any company. We're certainly super pleased with the confidence our customers having us. We saw a 76% growth in new customers, Q4 over Q3. And this is primarily folks that, I think, are seeing the benefit of moving to a modern, scale out platform for data protection. As you mentioned, there are others now starting to discover file services. We feel that we haven't even tapped that. And these are, we've mentioned some customers, but others like Hyatt, US Air Force, so there's some very large enterprise and government customers that have seen the benefits in the secondary world of adopting the new scale out hyper-converged platform. That's great. Lynn, last thing, we were talking about multi-cloud. I think you added some news you wanted to share about where else we might be seeing Cohesity and theCUBE. That's right. So let's break the news here. So we are super pleased to have theCUBE at Microsoft Ignite in the Cohesity booth. We are very excited about that opportunity, Microsoft, and as you're obviously being very strong partners with Cohesity, we do a lot of work with them. And we're excited to bring theCUBE to the Microsoft customer set and your global audience watching worldwide in about a month's time, I think. Yeah, Lynn, absolutely. We really appreciate the partnership. Yeah, for those that don't know, look, we'd love to cover all the shows. We do over 110 shows. Microsoft shows have been on the top of our list and we've talked with Microsoft. We have lots of guests on the program from Microsoft of the years. We've had Satya Nadella on. We've had Brad Anderson on. But it threw the partnership with Cohesity. We're there. We're going to have lots of editorial guests from Microsoft, from the ecosystem, our independent coverage, but with Cohesity as our host. So thanks again. I'm happy to have you guys there and make the opportunity. Microsoft, obviously a massive player in the IT ecosystem. It's important that you guys cover what's going on at that show. Okay, great. So, of course, you can always check out the Cohesity website. All the places there to find where we'll be, check out theCUBE.net. For Justin Warren, I'm Stu Miniman. Always great to catch up with you, Lynn Lucas. Thank you so much. Thank you. And we'll be back with lots more. Thank you for watching theCUBE.


Well, Bow was gonna be mad, but guys, long story short, I am still short AMC. I'm making another $230,000 on this short right here. Wow, let me cover some of this short. Give me a second, guys. Let's cover some at 3801, covering, cover some at 3801. I am up about $700,000 now. As you can see by the title of this video, this is my single biggest day of my entire trading career. I have been trading for about seven years now, seven years now to get to this point of making a half a million dollars in one day, which is, I made a house, I literally can't believe it. I'm in shock, right? And I kinda wanna walk you guys through my process. I kinda wanna walk you through guys through everything.  Thank you to the AMC Reddit Diamond Hands people. So let's start off with how this move happened, and then we're gonna start going into the cycles, right? So in January, guys, in January of 2021, GameStop and AMC went crazy. This was a message board, bulletin board style pump where all these Wall Street Bets people were buying out of the money call options. And basically, I don't wanna overcomplicate things. You can look up gamma squeeze on Google. But basically what they were doing is they were buying these way, way, way out of the money options. If the stock was trading at 50, they were buying options at 100, 200, 300. And what that does is it forces options call sellers to buy the stock, to hedge their position. This is all very complex stuff. But what you have to realize here is it causes a domino effect, right? So in January, these stocks jumped up and then they tanked back down. I would say about 50% of the people that were involved in January probably dumped their positions. I went to the club in Miami and the bottle girl had AMC. The bathroom guy had AMC. My boy, Dan's, his doctor had AMC, right? My cousin had AMC back then and they didn't know what they were buying. They were just buying something for the sake of buying it. And what ended up happening is after January, these stocks dropped 50%. Most people unloaded their shares, most people got out of it and that was it. I would say 99% of the time a setup like that happens, 99% they do not rebound. They never come back. I've been doing this seven years and maybe out of the seven years the thousands of stocks that I've traded, thousands, maybe one or two have come back. So there's a 99% chance these stocks don't come back. Now let's fast forward to last week, right? Last week, for whatever reason, AMC started running. I think they had news that they finished out their offering and because they finished out their offering, the stock started to ramp up and started to go higher. If you look at the chart, there is a daily chart breakout around $20. So what ended up happening is every single person that sold AMC in January that lost 50% of their money, they started feeling FOMO.  If I just held, I would have made money. This is going to the moon. This is going to GameStop, okay? And what ends up happening is those people that missed out and sold started buying it again. Now a new inflow of demand started coming in the door. Okay, while that new demand was coming in the door, we also had the same thing that happened on GameStop. All these people are buying way, way, way out of the money options. So last week, they were all buying, the stock was at like $18, $19 and they were buying the 30 calls and the 39 calls, right? So technically what that means is, excuse me, what that means is the faster that that stock gets to that call level and breaks above it, the faster those people that sold those calls need to buy the stock to hedge themselves and protect themselves. So the major thing was the $30 calls last week, okay? And on Friday, on AMC last Friday, we had a first red day setup. So the stock ran from $20 to, I think it was like $33 or $30 on Thursday. So 20 to 30, okay? 20 to 30 on Thursday. Thursday it opened up, it hit 35 and it started to make its way back down. I think the red to green level last week was 26, 27. So when MIC last week, we nailed the first red day setup on AMC, right? Stock was continuing higher and we needed to remember, there was a lot of helpful commentary on Twitter mentioning that those $30 calls, the market makers would want them to go under $30 so that they could win their bet. Again, guys, this is all very complex stuff that you don't really have to worry about. You just have to understand that there's something bigger going on here than just the Wall Street bets people, okay? So we had an amazing first red day setup on Friday. Last Friday was my brother's birthday, so I was actually trading it while we were on like a yacht party. So I did really good. I had a six figure day, it was awesome. Now fast forward to Monday, the stock closed red at $26. Monday, for whatever reason, they started gapping it up again. Okay, now we're going through something different. Usually after a first red day setup, the stock tanks and goes back down. In this specific first red day setup, the next day, it should not bounce as big as it does. It was Tuesday because Monday was mortal day, sorry. So on Tuesday, it should not bounce and reclaim the previous day's highs, right? So long story short, the same thing happened again.  I'm down, but I'm not out. I'm gonna keep buying. And then stock was at $30 on Tuesday, the $40 calls, the $50 calls, the $60, $70 calls, they were buying and buying and buying. And remember the previous day's highs on Friday was $35. So technically, if this breaks above $35 this week, it is again, bullish. Those option sellers that were selling those $50 calls now are buying the stock at 40, 45 and 50 to be able to hedge themselves against the $70 calls coming up, right? So this was all kind of a domino effect of option sellers getting squeezed out of their positions. The Wall Street Bets people were making thousands and thousands of percent return on these options. But if I know them, they're not selling ever because they think it's gonna go to $100,000 a share. Okay, no problem. So fast forward to what happened yesterday, right? So yesterday, these stocks looked like they were weak, right? They topped out pre-market, they went back down and it looked like the balance was failing, okay? And truth be told guys, I talked to a lot of traders, I talked to a lot of people and a lot of people lost a lot of money yesterday, okay? And the reason why a lot of people lost a lot of money yesterday is because they were oversized. They were a day early because remember guys, the same first red day setup that worked last Friday is what we are stocking for it to work again today, okay? So we're basically waiting for these stocks to go red and trigger a domino effect of selling.  So fast forward to yesterday, a lot of people lost a lot of money, everyone was early. And at MIC, we don't shy away from our losses, we like to share everything and yesterday, Bao had a losing day. Bao lost, I say like $30,000 yesterday which Bao never loses. Bao has probably been, I swear to God, on a four month win streak. On that four month win streak, I'm sure he made 10 times more than he lost, but okay. So what I remind myself guys is max pain for these short sellers and max like being as nervous as possible is the signal that the top is near. So the fact that Bao got squeezed yesterday, oh, Blackberry just went red.  Oh my God, I can't, all right, forget that.  Jesus Christ, that is literally insane. Okay, anyway, so Bao, when Bao loses money guys, usually it's the signal that the top is near because that is when shorts are at the maximum amount of pain and that is when they are at the maximum amount of risk. So I told Bao, you are down but you are not out yesterday. You better show up today because you are going to make your loss back. So let's now fast forward to what happened today, okay. So last week was the first red day setup that happened and now this week we are patiently waiting for the stock to go red so we could capitalize on this. This first red day setup is a setup that Bao has been using for 10 years to be profitable. This setup is my biggest money-making setup in existence. I make money, the most amount of money on two setups, the first red day and sympathy plays. When you combine a first red day on a sympathy play that is when I bull those in, okay. So I've been waking up very, very extremely early guys because I don't want to miss it. It could come at any moment of the day. It could come at 7 a.m. It could come at 2 p.m. It could come at 10 a.m. I don't know when it's gonna come but when it comes I want to be there.   We call that $18, guys. $18.50 and $18, we call that short. Shit, that's sick. AMC is tanking, okay. Let me focus up. So let's go to what happened today on AMC. So AMC yesterday topped out at around $72 and $73. And every time AMC broke the previous days high of the day, it ramped up at least 10 or 20% after that, minimum. Sometimes it ramped up 50%. So today, when AMC broke the previous days high of the day and didn't even go up 10%, I was interested. I said, wait a minute, maybe the stock is a little bit exhausted. Maybe there's something going on here, right? So that was my first signal. Okay, stock broke above previous high of the day, didn't really do anything. Now at 7 a.m., we got an amazing piece of news, guys. We got an amazing piece of news. The news was that AMC is doing an 11 million share offering. Okay, 11 million shares, which equates like $700 million. So I'm insane, insane number. Sorry, I'm getting so much formal. Guys, if you are an AM, give me a sec. BB, reminder to cover on Blackberry, guys. Do not be greedy. Cover and reshort if you must. So I'm reminding the members right now that are short Blackberry to cover along the way so that you don't get greedy because you could always short the bounce, guys. You would always short the bounce. So even while I'm doing this, I'm trying to guide the members. Wow, AMC is about to go new lows on the day, man.   I'm losing my train of thought. So we got the bad piece of news that came out at 7 a.m., saying that AMC is doing an offering again. And the reason why this was a great piece of news is because it was a catalyst. There always needs to be some sort of catalyst for these stocks to reverse. And it doesn't matter that the offering wasn't too big. All that matters is how the market reacted to that offering. And they started selling and selling. And all of a sudden we went from 70 to 65. Red to green was at 62. So I mentioned to the members in the room, the first test of red to green, even the first test of green to red, do not short it. Do not short it because it has come down so much, so quickly, AMC 39. Well, bow is gonna be mad, but guys, long story short, I am still short AMC. I'm making another $230,000 on this short right here. Wow, let me cover some of this short. Give me a second, guys. Let's cover some at 3801. Covering, cover some at 3801. Give me a sec. Let me cover some more at 38 if I could get it. I'll put it in order there and then we'll cover it. So far, I am up about $700,000 now, so don't tell bow. Anyway, so long story short, when it went red, I told every single person to do not short the first test of red because it is going to bounce, because it went down too fast, too quickly. It's gonna bounce. So long story short, guys, I said I'm gonna short that bounce. I shorted 65, 64, like I mentioned to the guys in the room. I guided them to short 65, 64. It went down all the way to 55 I covered. On that trade, I made about $100,000. And then again, my plan that I mentioned to the guys in the room is I wanna short a red to green rejection. And we got a red to green rejection on AMC. I shorted at $60 and I covered all the way down to 48 and 50. And then I reshorted around 50, 50, 150. I covered that. And then now here I am with this other massive short that I need to cover a little bit more of. Give me a second, okay? But anyway guys, anyway, the point is, is that every single day that this stock was moving, I made a plan of attack. I wanted to make sure I was there early. I wanted to make sure I didn't miss out on anything. I needed to make sure that I was here and planning my trades. Every single person that woke up at 8 a.m. today missed out on a $100,000 opportunity. That is why I showed up early. That is why I made sure to guide the members.   I woke up early, I guided members. We made a plan. And you know what the craziest part is? This was the best short setup ever. The best short setup of the entire year. And I saw other chat rooms going long.  And you guys are looking to go long?  AMC, come on, baby, bounce to 45. That 38 cover was dead lows, guys. You saw it, dead low cover at 38.  This is literally my biggest day ever.    Point is guys, point is these are the days that you wanna be an MIC.    Half a million dollars, well, 700 now.  So if you guys are going long AMC today, you guys are in the wrong community. You guys are in the wrong chat room.   So what I'm gonna do for you guys today is we still have our Memorial Day sale going on, okay? So if you want to join MIC and look at our chat logs, look at how we traded this stock and see real time our commentary on it. Join using our half off sale. It's on myinvestingclub.com and I'm gonna do this for you as well. Tosh, anyone that texts you AMC today at<PHONE_NUMBER>, discount the annual, discount the lifetime, give them the lowest price ever. Let's give it away, guys. Let's all learn together. Let's all do this together. See how we do it. See how we do it for real.  There is not gonna be another opportunity to learn from mentors that are here, literally 30 minutes after their trades, teaching you and mentoring you. And oh my God, this thing is tanking.  Anyway, guys, I think I gotta go because I gotta cover the rest of this position. But hit up Tosh,<PHONE_NUMBER>. Look at how we killed it today. The diamond hands are sick and the best part is, guys, this is not over yet. Tomorrow we're gonna have an even better short opportunity on the bounce. These stocks are not over yet. So I will see you guys back in the room.  And if you don't join today and you went long today, guys, you gotta get out of there. So I will see you guys later.


Today we have a Ushipalooza for you. Ushalooza. Yep, an Ushalooza. These are brand new. So right here I have Marvel series two packs. We have DC comics. Ooh, very nice. And we have Disney packs, which how awesome is that? Very cool. Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of the Procrastinators podcast. It is the day of the chosen battle destiny. It's the big fight time every day. I'm the best guy ever and we've got Endless Jess. Yep, here for the one topic that I'm sure nobody else on the internet has ever talked about ever. I can't wait. Munchie is here. I'm a prisoner. I'm an Alcatraz. I'm a prisoner. I need to tone for my sins. I'm, this is the only time I've been allowed to be on the internet because I'm a prisoner. I am a war criminal. Check's out. Munchie, Mumkey Jones.  Yo, Danny Phantom, he was just 14 when his parents built a very strange machine. He was assigned to view a world unseen. He's gonna catch him all because he's Danny Phantom. When it didn't quite work as folks, they just quit. Then Danny took a look inside of it. There's going to be a crash. Everything did change. His molecules got all rearranged. Okay, that's it. Didn't Danny Phantom shoot up a supermarket the other day? Yeah, that's why I'm singing it.  God damn. Wait, what? What happened?   Okay, we'll have the podcast in celebration of his exploits the other day. And lastly, we've got Mr. Tom Oliver is here. Yeah, we picked a great day to have this discussion because Adam West died today. So in his honor. What? Oh my god. Danny Phantom shot Adam West? Yeah, it's really bad. Jesus Christ. He was, he just went to the supermarket. He wanted to get some avocados, but you know, is that for real? He was 88. Like it's pretty old. Yeah. Oh man. Who's going to play Adam West on Family Guy? Selma Carlos. Retired impersonation of Adam West. Hooray. Yes. I think they wouldn't do an impersonation. I think they would just retire the character. Hard to say. He's a pretty popular character. Well, we'll see. Any case, folks, our topic today is Marvel Baby versus D. Shee. That's that's it. That's the one. I don't know, dude. I really don't know what any of this means.  Is this like an episode of the panel cast, but not the panel cast? Because pretty much this seems like a panel cast sort of. I don't think most of us are that deep in the comic book lore, except for Jesse, of course. So I think most of us will be commenting from our experiences with perhaps the the animated universes and then, of course, the new movies. And the one in particular contention today is that we, most of us, were able to go see the new Wonder Woman movie. And so with that, that really does change the game when it comes to this balance, especially in the cinematic universe. For reasons I'm sure we will get into. I was just too much of a misogynist to go see it. And by misogynist I mean poor because, you know. It changed the game by not being completely terrible. So now the favor is totally the balance is way in favor of DC now. Because for once they made a not bad movie. You know, it's really the prodigal son effect.  And to make one that's actually good is like everyone falls in love. Munchie, what are you saying?  Gal Gadot killed two children while in the Israeli Defense Force. And she is a murderer. She's not deserved to be in the United States movie at the Hollywood business. And please boycott this movie. Please do not support Zionist propaganda. And please, please God, do not see Wonder Woman. Well, that's Wonder Woman, ladies and gentlemen. Symbol of love and truth for all humanity. I will say of all of the DC movies so far, Wonder Woman is my second favorite to feature the Wonder Woman character. Who's the first that?   Batman. Hell yeah. That movie's pretty good. But I mean, Suicide Squad really just blows it out of the water in terms of sheer quality writing. See, you take what you assume is my sarcasm and then you return to the sarcasm. I wasn't joking. Batman V Superman is actually pretty great. Oh, well, looking for you, we've got the world's biggest fan of Batman V Superman. Endless Jess right here in the podcast to agree with you on that. Oh, awesome. We can agree together. I mean, yeah, it's okay. Yeah. Sure.  I'll be the angry man. I forgot, Jesse is always irrationally angry about stuff. That's correct. Well, okay. So I just wanted to say overall, I thought the Wonder Woman movie was very good. It was a little shorter than I expected it to be, but I found like... Really? It was like two hours and 20 minutes. Well, see, I didn't get that. But like the various shots of her in like the different locations, like thinking about like what, you know, and then she eventually comes that climactic moment at the end where she realizes it was milk that she forgot to write in her grocery list. Oh, goddammit. You know, that was really good. That was really an impressive character. Now, Nate, when you say you saw Wonder Woman, did you see this in a theater or did it pop up in your YouTube subscription feed? I watched it yesterday in the theater and today I watched it again on YouTube and preferred the YouTube version, but the cinematic one was pretty good too. Those fan supercuts really do make movies just so much better, you know? They really do. Okay. So let's just say, so the Wonder Woman movie was great and there's mostly one reason why.  I wonder woman is by far the coolest superhero in like the DC universe right now because she actually is a real hero. She really wants to help people. She's not going to cry. She's not going to stand there. While her father says, No, Clark, just let me die. Don't help anyone ever.  Stop my invincible son. Yeah. No, just don't involve yourself in this situation. Watch me die, son. That's what I want for you.     And she shielded those bullets. They had the cool moments. They had the slow down things. Yes, the movie was a lot of fun. Well, you know, it really is. I think it really is a lowered expectations thing because I actually saw Guardians of the Galaxy 2 last night. So I saw Guardians after I saw Wonder Woman. I think most people probably saw it before. But like, I walked out of Wonder Woman thinking, Hey, that was a pretty good movie.   It's the best DC has done so far. But it, you know, like every, like the worst Marvel movie is still better. I don't know. I really hated Thor 1. I thought it was an absolute garbage. Yeah, I wouldn't go as far as saying Wonder Woman's worse than Thor 2. No, nothing is worse than Thor 2. You're all right. Take it back. You know what? I will totally grant you that. I haven't seen either of the Guardians of the Galaxy movies, but I hear they're great and I believe them. And Wonder Woman, I definitely did not like love it. I thought that especially the male lead guy was, he was capable and he was fine and he was cool and he fucked, you know, Diana. So that was cool. But he was kind of boring. And then it felt so, I don't know if Marvel does this really consistently, but like the whole crew there was so like, milk toast. Like they had like one character trait each and they're just like, yeah, we're gonna go on a super quest. We're the A team. Didn't have a character trait each. And none of them had any characters. Well, I mean, the Indian guy was Indian and the one guy who was scared of stuff was scared of stuff. The dude with the fez was okay. I liked all the characters. I thought they were all cool and likable and like, I liked the little bond of friendship they all had. I liked that I didn't want to talk. It was weird how like the Scottish guy had this arc of like, he's afraid to pull the trigger, but he didn't actually ever get to pull the trigger. He never took the shot.  I felt like that was like literal cut content. All the signs were there to resolve that and then they just didn't do it. That's the DLC that's gonna come out two months later. Exactly, exactly. We're gonna need to see some pass.  By the way, for context, for my enjoyment of, I've only seen the movies and in fact, I hate comic books. I'm not only have I haven't seen any comic books in my redness. I don't like them and I don't like superheroes and I don't like Marvel. I don't like DC. But I thought the movies were pretty good because they were movies.  Exactly, exactly. I just can't read it. That's odd. I'm a child. I don't get it. I read a lot of mangoes all the time. I feel like most people are the opposite way, that the black and white is a turn off and they like the color better. Yeah, I know Jesse would argue that he, you know, misses color in a great way when he reads mango. There's just too many colors. It just overloads your brain. Like there's too many things to keep track of. Like there's too many colors when you think, when you look at a beautiful painting with a ton of different colors, you just get too overwhelmed.  Crush the blacks and whites. There's just too much information. You know, Mumki? There's just too much information. I mean, he might be being sarcastic, but I actually feel that way. Okay, fair enough. Me too. Well, okay, but let's get back to the point here. Marvel versus DC here. Okay, so Jesse's the foremost expert on this. So Jesse, why don't you just give us your overall impression here? I mean, you're coming from the comic book world a lot, but then of course you've seen probably more of the films than any of us. So where do you lie in this on this issue? Yeah, the same place that everyone else lies on it. Like I can't explain it in any way that's like new or exciting to people. The DC movies are just a clusterfuck. They tried to like introduce too much, too fast, and they're kind of like dark and miserable, whereas the Marvel movies are like actual fun superhero movies. And that's it. That's the whole thing. Well, I think a way that we could podcast. I think the way we could go through these is each one of us, you know, from both Marvel and DC, we say what's our favorite movie and what's our least favorite, and then we can, that's a good excuse to talk about why we feel these ways. Sure, that's true. Well, it's ironic because I mean, the whole, I mean, that's the complaint is what I just said, is that the Marvel movies are actually superhero movies and the DC movies have been sort of miserable and monotonous and tedious and shitty and DC doesn't seem to know what they're doing. That's the movie side of it. When it comes to the comic book side of it, it's literally the opposite.   Well, I feel like the reason that this has happened, at least in the cinematic universe, I have no idea what Marvel's doing with their comics right now.  But I think it's just because they're trying to capture the lightning in a bottle of their first successes, respectively, right? Because Marvel Studios' first movie was Iron Man and Iron Man was a fun, lighthearted, kind of like, it was a good interpretation of a comic. It's not as lighthearted as you might be remembering it being, he spends a lot of the time in an ISIS cave. Well, that's pretty lighthearted. There's, there's, I'm not like, the character is very much like. The movie makes a very favorable picture of ISIS. Yeah, they come out as the heroes. Oh, they're the real stars of that movie. But like, all of the movies that came out after Iron Man, I think very much are trying to capture like the underlying tone of Iron Man, of like, this like, it's a serious story.  There's a fun kind of just like overall tone of the movies. Whereas the DC's big thing was the Dark Knight trilogy. And that, that wasn't even so like, as, I don't know if this is just me, but I felt like the Dark Knight trilogy, as it went on, became less Batman movies and more like Christopher Nolan movies. That's true. They, I felt they became more disconnected from the canon as they got darker and he took more liberties with the character and all that kind of stuff, which was fun. They were still fun movies. But it was, you can definitely tell that when they came up with Man of Steel, they're like, okay, we're gonna make the Dark Knight Superman. That's right.  But um... No, you're right, Tom. The Dark Knight trilogy is the worst thing that ever happened to the DC cinematic universe because they're all trying to do that again, but they're failing because they're not Christopher Nolan. They finally realized though, with Wonder Woman, or at least it seems that way, they're moving in the right direction at last.  So now is the time to like... Yeah, that's part of what I've wanted to say about Wonder Woman, I guess, is that I mean, I've seen everyone praising the movie and everyone's praising it from either a movie fan's perspective or from like a feminist perspective or you know, whatever.  Right, for sure. Nobody, the character, it just isn't like relatable. Her origin doesn't make any sense, she's like made from... Like she's literally not human, she's not even human. Yeah, and like nobody in the world, and I think even now, even still after the movie, nobody can tell you what Wonder Woman's powers are because nobody knows. Like... Dude, what were those like weird blasts or something she can do? I don't know, they never talked about it, she just does it sometimes. She's a god or something? I don't know. Can anyone in the world answer me this? And don't, because it's rhetorical, because I know you can't. Is Wonder Woman bulletproof? If she hits it with her wrist.  Because Wonder Woman, I mean, they portray her as being as strong and as invulnerable as like a Superman. Like she can get hit by Doomsday in the face, and she can get up and be fine from it. But she needs wrist gauntlets to block bullets. If she was really as strong as Superman, she wouldn't need those.  So that, I think that was the biggest strength of the movie. I think the worst parts of the movie, sorry, but the interruption.  I think the parts where the movie was the weakest or faulted were actually the more superhero tropey parts, like how she has to have a big superhero battle at the end with Aries that made no sense and was totally unnecessary. Like the whole point of the movie is that Wonder Woman is realizing that there's not like a turn off switch for the evil in the hearts of men. She's like sort of losing hope, and that's losing hope in the idea of fighting. She's learning about mercy and love. That's why she hasn't fought for like 100 years by the time Batman v Superman happens. Like that's the plot of the movie. They could have done that without a big superhero god battle that was totally like counterintuitive to the whole point of the film. Yeah, it was a little weird. Like, yeah, oh, there's nuance. I killed the guy and it should still happening.  It's me, the god of war. I make war happen. Kill me and it'll stop. I'm the god of war. But then she does and it doesn't stop. Really, there really should have just been no Aries. That would have been the right way to go. Does it make sense? Are they implying that World War One was actually caused by Aries? Why was he there? He's there to make it like a little bit worse. Yeah, like he says, he says like, I didn't put evil and fear in the hearts of men. I didn't start this war.  And it's like, okay. That could have just been a guy. That could have just been the actual general. Yeah, sure. Yeah, that was dumb and yeah, as you said, was kind of counterintuitive to the point of the movie and just served to let there be a battle at the end.   Like, you know that shot where like it shows like his origin and like we find out that he's the guy where he gets like smoked down by Zeus.   The Aries, the God of War has been wearing for like thousands of years. It's like, dude. Like I thought he was in disguise, but no, that's how the God of War actually looks. Little weasel face to mustache, you know.  Like even like his motivations don't make any sense because like at first Diana thinks, well, he's Aries. He creates war because he loves war. He's the God of War. He thrives on war. That makes sense. But then she meets Aries and he's like, oh no, that's not it.  And but it's like, wouldn't him just liking war make way more sense? He's the God of War. That's like, how do you mess up that? That's a weird thing to do. I know he's the God of Truth. Jesse, God of Truth. That doesn't make, though he's not. He's the God of War. That's a lie. I think that is a lie. I was confused. You know in the ancient Greeks always said, I have three gods, one for lies, one for truth, and one for wisdom. And the wisdom. Wisdom. Wisdom. And then, so like he's fighting Wonder Woman and he's like, fine, then I'll just destroy humanity myself. If that's what you wanted to do, why weren't you doing that before? Like he apparently wants to destroy humanity through war, even though he's just as strong as a God and he could have done it at any point by just beating people up. You know what, Wonder Woman's a really shitty movie.  I take back anything good that anyone has said about Wonder Woman. You know, I totally, I usually hate this but I'm definitely one of these guys liking the movie a lot more because it's just such a shame. I mean, that's my point. It's that all of the, a lot of the movie was stupid and totally fell apart at the end and didn't make any sense. But the reason that you can still sort of forgive it, at least for me and say, well it was still a pretty good movie, is because as a comic book fan, at least they made Diana good. She was, God, her naivete and her like sincere desire to do good for the world and her like steadfast belief that like I'm an Amazon, what we do is we help people, we save the world, that's what I'm all about. Just so, so good, so good. And I actually found myself relating to her a little bit. A character who I have never been able to relate to at all before because she's been weird and obtuse and hard to understand and hard to grasp.  No, Jesse, you've missed the end point where she realizes that she's gonna keep fighting because she can still help. She can make a difference. That's wrong. Where is the Amazon island thing? Where is that? Munchie, that's not important. Don't worry about it. It was like off the coast of that German base, but it was like hidden in a mystic aura. Yeah, so like in the Mediterranean? It certainly wasn't in Amazon, I don't think. Did she, did she, well it's not in the Amazon, yeah. Is that, is her of accent Gal Gadot, is she Israeli, is that what her accent is?  Well, they were probably asking for it, Munchie, did you ever think about that? They, we gotta get her land back. How's it an attack force?  I felt like I was at a Marvel movie and then they had to force their DC tropes into the end fight. It was really desaturated and that was annoying to me. Not because I'm against the grimy ascetic, which I am, but I just love saturation so much and I just feed off that saturation. Munchie, just saying too many colors are a bad thing. I think he was making fun of me. Yeah, I was making fun of monkey, my favorite thing to do.  Yeah, let's talk about the comedy in this movie because I was actually pretty on board with most of what they were doing. We're totally diverging.  Were there jokes?  How could you forget, Munchie? How could you forget the epic joke where she's looking at his penis and she's like, what is that?  It's a watch. How could you forget? Yeah, all the jokes landed. I thought the movie was pretty funny, like none of the jokes failed to make me chuckle. And even things that weren't outright jokes, they were just sort of humorous. Like when he wraps her truth thing around his wrist to prove that he's telling the truth, like it's a lighthearted kind of fun thing that's not necessarily a joke, but I still got like a little chuckle. I really had the fear going into the movie that like all of the humor would be like, oh, the world of men is so regressive. Here's men and I don't like them. Which to me is like the opposite of what Wonder Woman should be. Shouldn't the whole point of her be that she's enamored with the world of men and enamored with sexes living together because she's been sheltered from it her whole life? She shouldn't be walking around thinking she's above it all.  And it really wasn't like there's- Yeah, not at all.  Thank God for that.   Yeah, like she learns about the world of men and she's like, yeah, cool. I've never seen a man before.   And he's like, yep, it sure is. And she's like, wow, cool. I think that's cool. I am a girl. Let's sleep together and cuddle on my boat. And he's like, okay. And then she has ice cream and she's like, well this is just the bee's knees right here.  That's no man's land. I thought she was gonna say, oh no man. I could feel it coming and thank God they didn't say it. They didn't do it. It's like they set us up to expect it and then they subverted it and it was really, it was beautiful. It was wonderful, I might say. You know, I did wanna say, I have to give the movie a couple of minus points for never having the line that really was, who was that Wonder Woman just now? I don't know, I'm really wondering about her. I'd really like to know. Wonder Woman, we certainly are Wonder Woman. Yeah, we got, are we some kind of Wonder Woman?  I remember that line. Yeah, that was the greatest one.  They'll just improve from here. All right, one last thing to say about Wonder Woman.  All right, so here's the reason I like Wonder Woman. There was no Nazis in World War I. And not World War II.  World War I is sick as fuck, a ton of people died.   World War II is cooler than God and God is Goder than God. And that's my review of World War I. It's pretty good. Wonder Woman saved World War I. It was a shitty movie before then and World War I got a shitty review on Rotten Tomatoes because it didn't have a lot of humor. It was pretty desaturated. But then Wonder Woman came in to the last couple minutes of the movie and it saved World War I and I like World War I. Dr. Poison is my waifu because World War I is cool. Yeah.   I mean, one's bad enough but you get two in there. Munchy, please, that poor woman, she suffered enough.  Yeah, me too. Are you jerking off to the kids dying under the woman? You know, it's a healthy mixture. A little bit of column A, a little bit of column B. So, okay, let's do what Munchy was saying. I mean, Munchy was saying and let's all talk about maybe some of our other favorites or least favorite ones just to get the sense of how this whole thing's panning out. Munchy, why don't you tell us some of yours? Is your favorite Guardians of the Galaxy 2? No, but I did say, I do think that's better than Guardians 1 for sure. Although they're both like nine out of 10 stars in my book.  And you were complaining like, oh, the problem with DC is it's all sad and depressing. I'm like, nigga, do you know who you're talking to right now? You know this Mr. Monkey Jones?    That's my kind of movie. So I had a great time at the theater.  Dope, Doug. What's your least favorite, though? Suicide Squad. I would rather kill myself than watch it. Suicide Squad's cool, dude. I'd rather have to be part of a Suicide Squad. Not a joke. Suicide Squad's cool. Horrible. Horrible. It's fucking, it's cool. It's funny. I don't know, dude. I don't have to put Suicide Squad as one of the greatest films ever made. Yeah, you know what, they, um, yeah. I mean Wonder Woman is getting credit for being a more lighthearted DC movie, but Suicide Squad was lighthearted and that sucked a lot. Yeah. Rick Flag. The United States Marines embodying one character. The greatest, the greatest show of, like, a love letter to all of our armed forces. Rick Flag. The greatest DC character of all time. Rick Flag. He's a Marine. He's from America. He's sort of gruff, but he's got a heart of gold. Rick Flag. United States Marine.  United States Marine. Rick Flag. I don't get this bit. American, Carnate. Fights for Liberty. American Flag. Rick Flag. Same thing. It's like the American flag. It was an extra G. Rick Flag. American Patriot. Patriotism and Carnate. Rick Flag. Fighting Batman.  Batman's not American. He's Israeli.  Rick Flag tried to save those children. Rick Flag. American Citizen. I think I can already see the comments on this episode. They're gonna say, Munchy was good. Good job, Munchy. Thank you. I try my hardest. Everybody, forget 111. Post a good job, Munchy, in the comments. Yeah. Nobody, you know, none of these guys really touched on the main issue at hand except for good old Munchy. Bring it home once again. Good old Munchy reminding us all that Gal Gadot killed two children in the Israeli defense force. It's in these, it bears repeating, dude, it bears repeating. Welcome to the Gal Gadot killed two children in the Israeli defense force podcast. Episode one. What about you, Jesse? What's your favorite Marvel movie? Um, who?  Um, for, well, you know, it's not part of the Marvel universe, but I still have a soft spot for old Spider-Man 2, a true classic. That's, that's cheating. It's everybody's feeding. Yeah, it's cheating. I know it's cheating. I'm sorry. There's something deeply wrong with me. You know, I think Iron Man is like a really rewatchable, just a classic film.  It was like the best movie ever. The best movie ever. Like, I saw, I saw Guardians 2 with Digi, and when the movie was over, it wasn't even like a, yeah, that movie ruled.  Yeah. It really like boggles the mind, especially since the first one was so good and the second one is like even better. It's like- Do you, do you agree with the idea of Guardians being like this generation's Star Wars trilogy? I've not heard that before, but yes. Yeah. Yeah, I feel the same way. Yeah, I mean those movies are ironic considering there's a Star Wars trilogy coming out. I have a Russell Wall. It's dedicated to pictures of Russell in my room. I really like Kurt Russell. I really like him. I like how that implies that like the new Star Wars movies that are coming out are no-generation Star Wars trilogy. Like even the prequels were at least some-generation Star Wars. Well, I mean like the idea of it being a good thing. Yeah, I mean it's, yeah, it's very imaginative, very excited, and you don't even really have to know anything. You don't even have to be up to date on like the Marvel movie universe continuity at all. Like the movies stand on their own as their own series. That is good. Yeah. So, and how about your least favorite though? I mean Thor 2 is not- Yeah. Like it's almost like a meme that everyone hates Thor 2, but it's just like of all the Marvel movies I've seen, I remember nothing about Thor 2. It's the most forgettable thing that I've ever seen if I've seen it. I don't even remember, that's how forgettable it is. I remember one shot where Loki becomes Captain America, and then also I guess Loki killed Odin at the end, and that's it, and everything else is out of my mind. Oh yeah, I wonder if that has been like dropped, or if it still matters, because no one remembers it. It'll probably come up in the next one. My favorite movie is Iron Man 2, and my least favorite is Guardians of the Galaxy, Breakout Mission, the rather replaced the Hollywood Tower of Terror at Disneyland, California Adventure. What? That sounds amazing. What is happening? We need to, we need to inject this podcast with some juice, brother! I need to bring in some controversial opinions for everybody to argue. No, no!  Now see here, sir! You've crossed the line before, but this time, you can't possibly go back! Oh god. So you guys excited for the new Spider-Man movie that's coming out? That just looked pretty good. I'm super hyped for that. I literally like the model.  That's something we can talk about. I've never, I've, I never would have imagined I could be this unexcited for a Spider-Man movie. Yeah?  I've seen it before. I can understand that perspective for sure. Do you think this looks better than Amazing Spider-Man 2? Oh no, it looks a thousand times better than Amazing Spider-Man 2. You know what? Yeah, that's my least favorite Marvel movie is Amazing Spider-Man 1. So bad I didn't even see the second one.  They're terrible.    He's like, I don't like him. I don't, I'm not, I'm not a fan. And also those movies were made like while the Marvel Universe movies were going on, but they still couldn't get them in there.  To make Sony money. Sony to make money. Yeah, just to, did you guys hear that Sony was trying to make their own Spider-Man cinematic universe? They are. They even had plans for like fucking, Aunt May was going to have her own movie. What? Yeah. Well, no, they're still doing that. Was that movie called Titanic? Venom's coming out. Yeah, she's telling the story of how she met Uncle Ben on an ill-fated ship back in 1912. No, Aunt May is like 30 now for some reason. Yeah, but that's not part of the Sony cinematic universe. We're talking, that's Marvel. You know, you got a good point. No, I'm telling you, like they were, based off of like 40-something amazing Spider-Man though. Amazing Spider-Man 2 was meant to be their Batman v Superman, where they launch it off into eight different movies. You're going to have a Sinister Six movie. Right. Aunt May. Full movie. They're still doing Venom. Venom's coming out like next year or something, isn't it? But I don't think it's going to be related to the universe that they canceled. That's actually going to be good, though, I think. Yeah.  Well, no, because they just, they just announced a little while ago, they announced who's playing Venom. Yeah, but that's not part of, I'm saying it's part of a contained universe. Dude, that's going to be great. That's, it's Bane.  I can't remember his name. Tom Hardy's name. Tom Hardy.  Yeah. Yeah, man. What? Cool. It is cool. It's not a bad casting choice. I'm not going to lie. But no, that's like, Sony is, I guess the weird thing is that they have the rights to all the Spider-Man characters, so they can't, all of their Spider-Man movies that they're going to make won't have Spider-Man in it, but they don't have anything to do with the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It's their own Spider-Man, Sony Cinematic Universe. Minus Spider-Man himself. I'm not making this up.  Awesome. Yeah. And so it's great. And licensing deals are the best. And it makes everything good, as we can clearly see now, because we have this Marvel Cinematic Universe without Spider-Man and the X-Men. Because why would we need those? You know, I mentioned this. Poor X-Men. Poor X-Men. Oh, the poor, the poor X-Men. They all died. They're all gone. What about Logan?  No, no. That's, yeah, that's what I mean. I mean, in the continuity of Logan, the X-Men are all dead. I was getting it. No, Logan was a great movie. Yeah. And I, yeah, I forgot about that. Logan, yeah. Logan was as good as Guardians 2. I think I might like them equally now that I think about it.  That's the feminist agenda in action. They got to say that. They're trying to cover up the fact that Gal Gadot killed two children in there. That's what feminism has always been about.   So you're saying that feminism is the next scheme by Ares to cause strife and horror in the world? It does cause a lot. In Wonder Woman 2, 3, aka the third sequel, like the third first sequel, Ares is going to come back and he's going to start a new gamer gate, but this time like with the real people and it's going to be great. Looking forward to it. Feminism has started the most bloody, the bloodiest war of all and that is the internal war inside me as I struggle to decide how much of a cool feminist I truly want to be. The bloodiest war of all, the period war. Is that a period piece? Yeah, Jess, I got a question for you. It's the bloodiest war because women will be fighting in it. Jess, since you actually read the comics, are there any comic storylines that you think should be adapted into film that haven't been done so yet? Shit, yeah, a lot of them. I mean, there was a, like one of my favorite Wolverine stories, which they couldn't do now because the whole Wolverine story is over, but it was like a Wolverine story where like you just get introduced to him as this woman's neighbor and she doesn't know anything about him, but she gets kidnapped and like it takes him six issues to even pop his claws and then he just like slaughters an entire camp full of like kidnappers and it's the coolest thing ever. Also, you know, there's tons of stories like with the X-Men and the Marvel Universe at large that you could never do just because the film universes aren't connected. Like there's a story where like Wolverine gets brainwashed by Hydra and kills everybody and has to fight all the superheroes and it's the coolest story ever, but they couldn't do it because yeah. I'm sure there's some- That cool, bro. Why do we do that? I'm sure there's a bunch of Batman stories that they could do except they only ever want to do like the Dark Knight Returns over and over again. Yeah, I would. Honestly, I think Batman the Long Halloween would be fun to watch. Yeah, that's like- I really like those comics. It's a great story because you could, and then like stories like that where you get to see like Batman's entire Rogues Gallery of Villains like over the course of a year like in the Long Halloween or like how cool would it be to get like a really like a spooky director like Guillermo del Toro or something and do like Arkham Asylum, Haunted House on- A Serious House on Earth or whatever. That sounds fantastic. Just the story of Batman being trapped in Arkham for a night and running into all of his kooky villains and it's like a trippy scary, like a horror movie with Batman. That would be a way cooler standalone Batman movie than anything they've done recently and I think that's what they should focus on more in general is more standalone movies because a lot of them get bogged down and come- They're kind of doing not animated films but it's just it's not the same thing. Yeah. I really like Lego Mr. Freeze. It should be Lego Batman movie.   That's a good idea. Did that come out this year, too? There was a Lego Batman movie. Yeah, it came out this year. That was last year, I think, right? No, that was February this year, dude. Oh, so Wonder Woman is the fourth best of superhero movies this year.    Yeah, does that count? Can we count it? Oh, of course it can. Of course. I didn't even- Okay, okay. I forgot all about that. I didn't see that one. Lego Batman is the first one. And I really like Mr. Freeze's level because there's ice cream in it. Nate, I hope you have a lot of questions on Twitter ready for this episode. Oh, you know it, brother. Okay, that's actually, yeah. We've been building this episode up amongst ourselves for months and it turns out we have nothing to say on the subject. Everything really is like- It's just cut and dry. Marvel's better.  That's a good idea, Tom. We should all put it to a vote. There's five of us. Let's decide once and for all. What's better, Marvel or DC? Before we launch away, okay. Are we decided that we're only talking about the cinematic universe? Is that the whole- No, we're talking about everything. Yeah, book comics. Okay, no. Okay, well, forget the comics because there is one area where DC is unparalleled, un-fucking-paralleled. And it is the animated universe. Absolutely.   I think I did a video on that. You guys don't like the Spider-Man cartoon where Drake Bell is the voice of Spider-Man? Oh, dude. You know, I really was a kid. I did like those. I really like Spider-Man from the early 90s and the X-Men. The X-Men cartoon holds up. It's really good. It's really funny. This one's for you, Morph. Yeah, Marvel had good cartoons, too. But yeah, the DC animated universe is like supreme and awesome and great. I really love Batman beyond. I know that it's like kind of like the redheaded pet child, but it's so good.   And the killing joke. I love the killing joke. That was so good. Oh, dude. No. Okay. No. No. No. No. No. I always wanted to watch Batgirl get fucked. By Batman. By Batman. Come on. Her tits.  Ouch, God. I'm wearing my Brony shirt right now, as a matter of fact.    I always bring this up.  No, I know what we're going. It's great. Yeah. It's the one where Terry, he's grown up more. He's grown up from the Batman beyond days. And he's looking around. He's like, what's my deal?    It's the whole scene. And here's it from Amanda Waller. Like Batman's nemesis when they were young.  And Batman's like, yo, I'll take care of her.       Everyone's going to die.  And he's like, yeah, what of it?  He's like, yeah, what of it, bitch?  And he's like, yeah, I'm not going to hurt you. We're just going to sit here. I'm going to be with you while you're dying.  That is the greatest Batman moment of all time.  And nothing beats it. Oh my god. I mean, like, that's like the kind of like heart and like soul of these characters that like defines them.  It's just like, we're just going to have everyone be like really angry. Well, that's why Justice League is going to save us, dude. Justice League is going to fix all the problems in the DC universe. I'm ready for it. Man, I'm so jealous of your optimism. But I went to the movies yesterday. Like the Justice League trailer came on. I was like, OK, time to get beer now. It feels like DC like can't stop making really obvious mistakes. Like a couple years ago, Ben Affleck was going to write and direct his own Batman movie, which would have been cool because he's actually a good writer and director and also a good actor. And he was actually really good as Batman. Like he was the best part of that movie. Oh for sure. But now he's not directing it anymore. And they're like rewriting the script and it's like, why would you do that? Why? I think that like he was trying, but like the executive meddling was just too much.  OK, well, here's a question then. Like, do you think that the reason, because like here's the thing, we had Fox and Sony doing all these Marvel films for a while and they were OK. They had like their hits and misses. And then DC did their thing and they have their hits and misses and they're missing more often than not. But the reason Marvel's doing so good is because like there's like one guy head of the show who's like in charge of everything.   But there's this one guy who's just like that guy. He's he's in charge of the whole show. And like I really feel like that like very clear sense of direction.   So it's just like I don't know I feel like that's a huge part of why. It's not just like oh Marvel understands it or Marvel has better characters or whatever. I think it's because like there's a very clear like power hierarchy in terms of how Marvel Studios is set up and you can make executive decisions like that that trickle down through the rest of the production which like DC clearly doesn't have their equivalent at this point. And incidentally I'm becoming aware that like most of the stuff I really love from DC was like a decade ago at least. So yeah let's talk about the actual best DC movie.  He like eats a bird. He eats raw fish. Michelle Piper's really hot in that movie. Everything's all weird and kooky because it's Tim Burton.   The end. That is a good movie. What about what is it Batman and Robin? The greatest Batman.  The best nipples on the suits.  It is very it's very it's more comedy movie but it's very funny that scene. I love trying to get rid of the bomb. He can't get rid of the bomb. The ducks are there. He doesn't want to hurt the baby ducks or the baby people. He can't get rid of a bomb. That's great. Good movie. Tower of Terror was such a cool ride. Why would they take it out on a place regarding the galaxy? It's like not even that popular.  When you go to California adventures you have to go on the Tower of Terror because it's just so cool. You know the Twilight Zone is such an interesting. Look they decided that instead of just having a single Tower of Terror they're going to terrorize everyone there by taking it away.  Baby Groot. Yes! Oh my god! That too. Baby Groot was annoying. And thank god that he is only a baby for that movie and won't be a baby again, hopefully. Yeah, they really pushed the marketing on Baby Groot a lot and it got a little oversaturated. I was getting minions vibes from it. Yeah, oh no. He wasn't like, he didn't ruin any scene he was in at all. I mean he worked in the movie but just like the marketing and like the hype surrounding Baby Groot himself is pretty obnoxious. He was there for the normies. But yeah, I was going to say the post credit scenes need to die because Guardians of the Galaxy 2 had like seven post credit scenes and they were all completely worthless and didn't mean like oh here's a Captain Marvel thing maybe and here's a fucking, Stallone has his own crew now and here's like teenager Groot and I'm like They're doing something with Captain Marvel now?   They had to make you feel uncomfortable.


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