We have Gigi in the house, so let's bring her on board. Hi, I am a hot mess today. Hi.  That's okay. I'm at my construction site. Okay. So what do you got for me? And just remember, I'm pretty hard on people. That's okay. Let's have some fun. I met a guy on Millionaire Match a week ago, and we've been back and forth, and we've talked on the phone. He's been very honest with me. He's in a situation ship, and he doesn't want to be. And then he invited me to join him in New Orleans at an event that he's attending. Should I go? So he's currently in a situation ship with someone else. Okay, so, and now I would ask, does this person know they're in a situation ship or does the other person, in other words, does the person know they're in a situation ship? Or is it just you, it's Gigi, you disappeared. Okay, there you are. My point is, is first, to determine if he's in integrity, does the other person know they're in a situation ship? That would be something I would ask him. You're frozen, right? Oh, there you are. Okay. Number two, why are you interested in someone who's in a situation ship? Let me ask that question. So we were talking before he told me about the situation ship. And in just in conversations, he doesn't want to be in it. And I have a whole list of questions that I wanna ask him when I finally meet him face to face. And one of them is, why are you in the situation ship? How long have you been in it? And does the other person know that she's in a situation ship? Yeah. And can he give her up? Because I've already told him, I don't wanna be in a situation ship. I don't wanna be friends with benefits. And if he's not willing to give that up, we're done. Yeah, so it's interesting, because you asked me originally, your original question, should I go meet him? But you've already said, when I meet him, I'm gonna ask him these things. So you're not really asking me my question, asking me whether or not you should meet him. Okay? Now, if you were genuinely asking me that, and I doubt you're going to listen to my advice, I would say run, forest run. Okay, but I don't think you're gonna listen to me. And let me tell you what I think is gonna happen.  I say that with about an 80% certainty that that's most likely. And I know, you might be thinking, well, Jonathan's using reverse psychology on me, or I won't sleep with him, but trust me, if there's physical attraction, it is, I mean, let me put it to you this way, he will most likely try his hardest to sleep with you. Well, that drops to 50% because he didn't drink. He doesn't drink, okay. So it would just, yeah. Alcohol just makes, you know, what was that line in the movie? Alcohol drops their inhibitions. Oh, it was in, it was in the ghosts of girlfriends past. So anyway, all the advice on the bulletin board says run, run, run, I've given you my advice, but I have a feeling it's deeper. I think this is a deeper question of why are you even interested in somebody who's unclean? There's no, he's not clean, he's dirty right now. I don't mean that, I don't mean that his character, okay? I'm just saying he's involved with someone else. So what in you is attracted to a person that isn't rather clean? And again, when I say clean, I don't mean, you know, I just mean he's tangled with somebody else. So it's a red flag, and I was interested in him before I knew that. So it's not like I got interested because of that.   A true woman of her sovereignty, her self-worth, her self-esteem, her self-respect would say, you know what, thank you for being so transparent with me. I really appreciate your honesty. That takes a lot of bravery because a lot of men won't be honest. I will tell you that that doesn't align with my value. One of the fundamental values I have when getting to know someone is I like to date one person at a time. So if a person is dating multiple people, I don't feel that's very clean. I think the respectful thing to do is let this person know that you're going to exit out of this relationship. And then I might be interested in meeting you in the future. I might be interested in meeting the future. But right now, I don't feel comfortable because that isn't alignment to who I am as a person. Well, that conversation will happen. And there will be no signs. Well, you'll have to report back to us. And I get a text in New Orleans, what's that? Well, I understand, you know, the thing is, is right now, most people are significantly lonely. I'm not suggesting that about you, I'm generalizing here. And because of that, this is a nice vacation. It's an opportunity to step out of your zone. You're welcome to do whatever you want, Gigi. I'm here to say this. But it's also a reflection. If you're willing to accept a crumb, it's really a sign of more individual work you may want to consider for yourself. That's just an observation off the cuff. You know, you take that for what it's worth. But I'm only accepting a crumb if I let him into my life.  Right now, he's in your life. Don't misinterpret. He's already in your life. He's occupying space. You guys, show me your text messages.   He's already in your life. He's occupying real estate. Harry Sky says, Gigi, higher standards. I mean, no disrespect. I've been where you are. Folks, I've been where she is. So I get it. It's human nature because you've got a white body. How many men are online and you start a communication with them and then you find out they're married. They're not divorced. They have a serious relationship. So how many people are truly clean online? And if you want someone truly clean, then don't get online. Well, first off, yeah, we all, okay, there's no doubt we all have a residue, you know, from our past. I would say, you know, it's, the question is how many, the question isn't how many people are truly clean. That's not the question because we live in an emotionally dysfunctional world, yourself and myself included, okay? With that said, the minute somebody demonstrates a red flag, in this particular case, for me, that's a deal breaker, okay? There's a difference. That's not a red flag. Red flag means ask more questions. For me and most everybody watching, they're gonna say this is a deal breaker for them. So it's, and you might, I recognize you might say, well, Jonathan, this is the pool I'm dealing with. But when you make a stand for your sovereignty, when you make a stand for your self-love, I meant to actually read, this is so ironic because I did a post today on Instagram. I have to read this to you because this totally illustrates this. The meme says, by the way folks, I'm just gonna switch screens here for a second. The meme says, you bring a lot to the table and it's okay to act like you own your work. That's what the meme says. And I wanna read to everybody what I wrote, okay? And it says, in the dating marketplace, many humans settle for a warm body instead of the right person. Lack of self-love is often the culprit because most of us were never taught to embody healthy self-esteem. While there are many who have an exaggerated sense of self, which is attractive at first, to those who are slightly lacking, the way to break free is to make a stand for your sovereignty. There is no accident I posted this. There's no accident you're on here and there's no accident you should have been listening to this. There is no accident. God, universe, spirit, as I called Gus, wanted me to share this with you and you're given an opportunity to make a stand for your sovereignty. And I'm here to say, if you meet him, what's the old expression?  You've already aware of this information and you're still going out to see him. That's fool me twice. But I know you'll argue against me. I know you'll argue against me. I'm not arguing against you. I'm taking it under advisement. Okay. Because I'm not the one settling, I'm not the one settling for the warm body. He is, he's settling for the warm body.  Bravo. Gigi, can I reach into the- Well, I appreciate your time. All right, thank you, Gigi. Give me you a big gigantic shot, the better hug. Merry Christmas. Happy holidays. Happy holidays.


got some opening bid action. Okay, good. I'll let you you can just kick off after do the start. Do I? Do I? I guess I could talk about the rat in the wall, but he's gone. You got a rat in the wall. We had a rat in the wall the other day. Also, the mysterious gushing water inside of the other wall. They had to score on the attic and beacon. I remember that. Spackle house. It was hard to tell. Alright, I'll just start. You can do your opening bit. Okay. Did you push it? Yep. Alright. It's Wednesday, February 3rd, 2021. I'm rim. I'm Scott and this is Geek Nights. Tonight we are talking about Lupin, the third, the first. Whenever you're ready. Okay. Do you think? So two days ago ish, right? Sunday night through early yesterday, there was a blizzard in New York. It dumped a whole ton of snow, like top 10 snows of New York. It was big time snow. It was the kind of snow where if it wasn't COVID times, I literally would have taken days off work and like gotten myself upstate to stay at a ski place. If it wasn't COVID times, I would have stayed in like it was COVID time. Yeah, I also would have gotten a snow day. Oh, my outfit absolutely would have closed. Oh, yeah. It wouldn't have been like actually work from home like all day. It would have been the work from home as in, yeah, do what you can. But yes, no, it would have been closed. Closed. Yeah. Anyway, so when it snows like that in New York, right? You don't really want to order food delivery, even if you can, because that is such a jerk move, right? Right. Food delivery people shouldn't be risking their life to bring you a dinner when in the middle of a blizzard. Right. My policy has always been that if the weather's bad to a certain point, I'll just give a giant tip like 20 or 30 bucks. And if it's on that point, I won't order it. If it's raining or something like, and I really need the food, maybe I'll do it and pay a lot, you know, but there's a line. There is a line. And you can tell that most people agree with this policy because every time I looked out the window, you did not see any delivery people. So I think I saw one on like the morning after, right? I saw one and that was it. Right.  You're like, damn, I want money, right? I'm not making, I'm not making anything today, but also, damn, I don't want to go outside or get in an accident. Who knows what, right? So it's a tough, tough spot. I don't know, but I, you just feel guilty doing it. Right. So anyway, it comes this morning and you look outside and the road is clear, it's perfectly plowed and melted and it's not precipitating and the sun's out.  But now I'm in a situation where without guilt, I can order delivery with a big old tip on there. Yeah. But it already got warm enough. Snow's already like melted significantly. Since we've been inside for a few days and fresh direct canceled our delivery for good reason, right? We needed some food. So the day the blizzard happened, I put in a delivery slot for Thursday. Yeah. We ours is also Thursday, but we had what like a Monday. Oh, I luckily happened to have gotten a Saturday, so I was good. Anyway, point is needing food, roads clear, guilt gone, tip big. I'm okay ordering bagels for breakfast, right? That'll carry us for, you know, whenever. So we're to the bagels, you know, and I'm going, getting ready to bike inside like I've been doing in the morning. And the bagel, I realized is suspiciously late, right? It should have been here already, right? So I go and I check, you know, I'm looking at the thing, what time it said it was going to be here. It said it would be here, like, you know, 837. It's already like, you know, closer to nine or whatever.  I forgot to click delivery. The default is pick up. I must be sitting at the bagel place. And the thing is, if I go to get bagels outside, there's close places that are not even at the subway. But if I get delivered, there's a better bagel place that's further away. Yeah. Like if I go out to get a breakfast sandwich, there's a place I'll go. But if I'm ordering a delivered breakfast sandwich, there is a very specific, different place I will go. That's right. So I had to suddenly not bike inside this morning, not do any normal morning stuff and instead put clothing on, which is why I'm wearing clothing. I was about to say, you're wearing like a real shirt. Like I got outside. I got all these Hawaiian shirts that I usually would wear, like just when I'm lounging around. So I'm doing like that because they kind of look like a dress is shirt because there's technically a collar. And I just got pajamas on otherwise. Yeah, I know, right? So I had to go outside this morning all the way down the road to get the bagels. They were just sitting there waiting for me. You know, it's almost a nice excuse to just be outside, though. Like I look forward to the excuses. I gave a huge tip, which I guess should have gone to me. Instead, I guess the bagel preparers have that money now, which is fine. But yeah, hopefully. I mean, hopefully it goes to them and not to like the owner of the place if there was no delivery. I'm sure they see it. Well, because Amazon just got hit with like stealing the tips from all their drivers. Like that was a big thing. The way the systems work usually at these places is, you know, you go into any restaurant in New York City, especially a takeout delivery type restaurant. They have a tablet and maybe even a printer if they're more old school, right? But usually just the tablet sitting there, like maybe one tablet per service or one tablet with all the services, some kind of setup. And they can see exactly the invoices of everyone putting in orders, right? And then they transfer that over to their internal system, right? Usually printing out a ticket for like, you know, the receipt for what to make and stuff, right? So it'll say on there, you know, I've seen it because you can it's right there. You can see it. It says such and such. You're going to tip, right?  So if at the end of the month, you know, the owner comes back and is like, here, $1 for everybody. They'd be like, I saw what people were tipping. Yeah.  It just don't seem right. So anyway.  I was surprised. Usually Wednesdays we struggle unless we've watched something to geek by it. Yep. Yep. Yep. So I think the most important one to me personally is about who you're going to call. So when we were kids, right? There was Ghostbusters the movie, Ghostbusters 2 the movie. Yep. Right. There was the Ghostbusters cartoon that was not the one that we wanted to watch. Exactly. I didn't even know about that one until internet time. I used to watch it. It didn't air where I lived. It aired where I lived and it was like there were kids who watched it and knew about that and even the original live action show. Like, yeah. There was some other show called Ghostbusters that was cartoon that had nothing to do with the Ghostbusters movie. It's the one with the Jeep and the giant gorilla. Like that's how you know it's not the real Ghostbusters. It was basically a scoop you do knock off, right? As far as I remember.  Anyway, so, but then the real reason like kids were fans of Ghostbusters in, you know late 80s, early 90s times, right? Whenever those times were, I guess. I guess that was the time, right? Yeah. Was not because of that original movie. You know, although we did watch it and enjoy it. I love that movie as a little kid. Right. But Ghostbusters carried forward with greater fandom instead of just, you know there were a lot of like single movies that kids were a fan of, right? That didn't carry, you know? For example, like Robocop, right? No, Robocop had the cartoon that I watched. But Robocop cartoon was not a long lasting deal. Well, when the Robocop cartoon faded away so too did Robocop fandom among kids. There was kids knew the predator but there wasn't a predator cartoon for them to watch. Right. So thing, you know, you needed to keep, you know, in those days, there was no internet. You needed to keep some production up, right? To have kids carry on with your property like Ninja Turtles did, right?  All the time, it's still going, right? So Ghostbusters had to Ghostbusters keep going. There was a cartoon that, you know, called the real Ghostbusters. And there was also a toy line to go with the show. I had all those goddamn toys. Oh, my God. The best toy, the one I had was that, that like made old lady witch where you pulled her hat up and there was an eyeball under there and she pulled her whole head up. Like her whole body opened up like a mouth. So the thing about that, like those toys were basically based on the cartoon, not the movie. And the cartoon, unlike all the other cartoons we were watching in that era, even though I was actually starting to watch anime in that era, because my family got me into it.  Oh yeah. And that's kind of why it was so popular with kids.  And then we watch He-Man like, wow, what's this plebian boring cartoon compared to the Ghostbusters? And it actually, the Ghostbusters, the real Ghostbusters cartoon didn't stray too far from the movie, right? It's usually a lot of times, even as a kid, you can get angry at like, you know, poor adaptations, right? You know, the sort of thing like, hey, it took Tom Bombadil out, right? That sort of thing, right? You know, even as a kid, you'd get angry at that sort of stuff.  Yeah.  Yeah. But the real Ghostbusters cartoon, it wasn't exactly the same, right? Let's not get carried away. But it followed that like the canon of that movie's universe. It was not a friend of the Ghostbusters, he's not in the movie. He was a one time enemy that they did. But if you think about the Ghostbusters movie, what it implies that no one in the movie addresses is like this Cthulhu-esque existential terror world that humans inhabit briefly. And the cartoon just leaned into that. The real Ghostbusters was a great cartoon. I remember it being a great cartoon, right?  But now the news, why is this news? We can now prove to ourselves whether our memory is correct. They are putting the real Ghostbusters cartoon on YouTube supposedly the whole thing eventually for free, maybe, who knows. But regardless, there's at least some episodes, at least one up there now on the Ghostbusters YouTube channel, I think, right? The last time I tried to verify if this was kid memory or if it was legit was in RIT, we pirated like one episode and we all watch it together. The one where at one point it was like, it was raining croutons. That's the scene I remember. OK. But yeah. So now, if you were not of our age or if you've never seen it, even if you are of our age, or I recommend you actually do go and attempt to watch some of this, at least to see what was up. It's a notable, noteworthy quality. You know, it was a solid show. Well, we'll find out if it was truly a solid show because you're all going to watch it and you might come back in the comments and be like, Ribbon, Scott, you're just old. Exactly. That could easily happen. So in some other news, a little bit of a geek bite. So I'm not super into the MCU. Like, I don't really enjoy a lot of those movies. But WandaVision, which I'm sure you've heard of. I'm not going to like try to explain it. But WandaVision is a show that you can just watch that is set in the plus. Yeah, it's on Disney Plus. You can't just watch it if you don't have Disney Plus. I mean, I have Disney Plus. So it's a show that appeared one episode by episode like three episodes came out and then a fourth one happened. So I've seen enough to see where it's going. And it's higher concept than I expected. I expected it to be good because of the concept, which I'll get into in a second when I watch episode one because I did because Scott, you had this idea. I didn't watch it at all. You should probably watch it. The problem is episode one is good at being a like very clever and deep homage to an era of television with a with a fun twist. Based on the still image I saw with the logo, that is exactly what I assumed the whole show would be. The second episode does that from like the next decade of television. And at that point, yeah, like it upgrades. Like imagine the first episode. I love Lucy next episode by which. Oh, OK, that's even more clever than I had given a credit for. I like and especially because the cleverest I'm sweetening the cleverest is deep as in every tiny little detail. If you're a kid who watch Nick at night or you're just old, you'll notice a lot of very subtle like bits and very subtle components. That would be a miss on people who weren't familiar with the tropes of 50, 60, 70, like in episode one, there's a moment like where some happens, they're laying in their separate beds and there are noise out the window. But they do some magic and pull the beds together. Anyway, so the second episode worried me because it was still just homage and as much as I like homage to like those areas of television, the second episode wasn't as funny as like an actual episode of Bewitched or I Love Lucy, which were both really funny shows. Right. I'm guessing here already, just as somebody who simply has knowledge of the characters, even though I don't watch Marvel movie is something going on. Is that clearly right? You know, there's the best and the only good Scarlet Witch. I don't know any comments personally that involve the vision that are any good. Even I know less about comics than you, but I can know enough to say that House of M is the only interesting storyline I've ever even heard of that involves the Scarlet Witch and Vision. I didn't know anything about. That's exactly right. Vision is an adventure who's a robot and should be awesome. Because in concept, I didn't even know he was a venture. I just knew he was a robot. I assumed he was from space. I knew he was like a robot from space and I didn't know anything else. But the point is I didn't Ultron make him or something. I don't know, something like that. But in concept, he should be really awesome. But in reality, I've never read a comic with the vision that where he was interesting or cool at all. He was lame and I keep saying lame. I'm trying not to. I know you're working on it. Working on it. And the Scarlet Witch is never. I've never read a comic book other than House of M where the Scarlet Witch was cool, other than I never cared about the Scarlet Witch other than in her relation to Magneto. It's Magneto's daughter, right? And that's that's what made her cool, not any of her powers or anything, except for House of M, which is an X-Men storyline in which she creates some alternate universe that all the mutants are trapped in.  So as soon as you tell me that the second episode is decade later, it's like, oh, this whole WandaVision thing, she's created an alternate universe. They stole from the comic books again without giving credit to the people. Yeah, it's obvious that this is a like you watch it right away. If you know anything about the Scarlet Witch, that's the first thing I thought is, OK, clearly, the Scarlet Witch has created this universe. Now, how close will it be to House of M? Like, where? What's it? What's it going to do? Like, that's the only thing I didn't know. It seems to keep happening. And I guess I noticed it more because I've been following this Twitter account. There's a Twitter account called, I guess, the Claremont run, right? Because this guy, John Claremont, who wrote basically all the X-Men comics that are famous, you know, the Dark Phoenix ones, all those were all written by this Claremont, Claremont and Byrne, but Byrne left Claremont's like the guy, right? Yeah, he's still alive, too. But they mentioned like, and, you know, they do basically it posts like one thread a morning and the threads are always great. But they talk about like, hey, they made all these X-Men stuff right in Hollywood. And all of it is based on basically mostly John Claremont's work. It's not based on the other X-Men story lines, right? It's mostly based on the original stories that John Claremont wrote. And he they didn't hire him to write the X-Men movies. They don't credit him that much. Maybe he like, you know, was a cameo in one or something. I don't know if he's getting money or what. But it's like everything they make is based on his original work. Those are original stories, right? He wrote those from, you know, in the, in the, you know, back in the day on his own. And now people are just rewriting Dark Phoenix five times over. It's like he should be getting paid five times over and he's not. So if they're doing House of M here, right? As WandaVision, shouldn't they? I don't know who wrote House of M.  But that is that person get in the credit. Are they writing this show? Right? Yep. So if you have the person who wrote the original thing, you're adapting, right? You making Lord of the Rings, the movie, you know, token is not alive. So it's understandable, right? But if he was alive, why would you just not get him to write the movie? Yes. So the problem, the only. So like here's an example of the show goes. They're doing this homage, but then like one color object appears in the first episode and Wanda sees it and kind of like gets unnerved by it and like a character kind of glitches out a little bit in a weird way and like no one can deal like trying to figure out the second episode gets weirder, like there's a few more moments like that. And my worry was the show is just going to be it's the homage plus a couple of weird things and just go through all the decades. But it did not. The third episode, everything becomes color. Now it's the Partridge family slash the Brady bunch. And also the plot escalates rapidly. And I'm not going to like spoil much because it's just worth watching because not that long so far. The fourth episode goes to basically the outside of people trying to figure out what the fuck's going on. And like it turns into a proper superhero story. And I'm actually really enjoying it. The second episode, I got a little worried. Third episode, I was unworried. And now the fourth episode, it's fun. Like I see what they're doing. I like it says that. Yeah, they pitched it to, you know, them. They pitched it that it would be based on House of M and some other stories that was already in their thoughts. And House of M was written by Brian Michael Bendis and Olivier Coypel. I knew those names. I just didn't know they were the ones who wrote it. And yeah, they don't seem to be involved. Other people are writing it. I wish I could do that.  Yeah. So I'm going to keep watching it. I'm not bored with it. I'm enjoying it more than I've enjoyed most MCU things. Hmm. I'm going to continue to not watch MCU things. Yeah. You might you could probably stand to at least watch just the first episode, because you at least will appreciate the ridiculous level of detail they put into this. But I could just watch like I dream of Jeannie. Yeah. I'm sure it's on the internet somewhere. I think Big Witch was funnier. And honestly, I love Lucy is funnier than both of those. Because the guy was an astronaut, right? So there was that whole thing going on. Yeah, I can see that. But honestly, I love Lucy is the one that I love the most. Sometimes. Of course, I was weirdly into Andy Griffith as well. Like I earnestly enjoy that show. And as a kid, I was really into dragnet because I didn't know. So in some other brief news, the one piece manga, like you all like everyone's sort of one piece. Even people don't read comics. Like they know they hear of like, oh, that's the pirate thing. Right. I don't think people fully appreciate how widely read one piece is. All right. So I want to just put this into perspective for you. Right. So here's some numbers from Wikipedia. Right. So the numbers from Wikipedia say that if you consider all Batman comics ever, right, the floppy ones, right? Because the number of trade paperbacks of Batman that have been sold are not significant, right? So the number of Batman floppy comics sold, there have been about 17,000 issues of Batman comics of one type or another since 1939. So how many? So 40, so 70 years, we're going to say, right? From 1940 to 2021, 1939, 21, 70 years, right? Of Batman comics. All of those floppy issues added up, they sold 484 million floppy comics-ish, right? Right. Based on rough numbers, right? So you got to think, 484 million divided by 40 years, divided by 12 months, because those are monthly floppies, right? Is basically the number of people, you know, ish that read Batman, right? Turnstiles. The Uniques, not the Uniques and Turnstiles. I was about to say. OK, one piece sells by the volume, right? And as 98 volumes, there are 98 volumes of one piece. And those volumes have sold 480 million. So about the same number as floppies of Batman. But you're only dividing not by 17,000 issues, but by 98 volumes. So that's your dividing by 100. So what's 480 million divided by 100? 4.8 million. What's 480 million divided by 17,000 issues, right? And then you also got to consider the years, right? Batman, it took 400 to get 424 million sales of floppies. They had to go for 70 years. One piece came out in 1997. It's only 20, not even 25 years old, one piece. That just makes me feel old, because I remember like when one piece started and I was like, ah, that show looks like it's going to be like that. Comics existed until about four or five years after three, three to five years. I guess you I get I bet in 1997. I think I didn't know about it until like 1998 or 1999. When I think back about one piece until 2000, because I was super into anime and manga in high school, but I knew one guy, only one person who was way more into it than I was. But anyway, he was like, oh, this is pirate thing, you know, one piece anime, but I guess we're not counting VTAS either, right? Yeah. But yeah, and that only that's the volumes, right? If you count the actual Shonen jumps that one piece is in, right? We're talking billions, right? So people just are not like realizing, I think, you know, scope wise in America, there's this perception of like the big two. We talked about this before, right? There's the marketing machine of, oh, yeah, Marvel and DC sell all these comics. Industries, there are big X, right? There's like big, how many big book publishers? There's less and less every day. It's like record companies. There's the big this many, right?  In US comics, there's this perception of the big two DC and Marvel. And it's true that their intellectual properties of superheroes are big in the culture wise, right? But in terms of comics, they are not actually big, right? In terms of all comics sold, not even in the US, but indefinitely in the world, they are not big. It's like Batman comics are, you know, more popular than other superhero comics. But it's like in terms of all comics in the world, they are not that popular. One is the king of comics throughout all history. And you've got an even starting at one piece. You've got to go far down the list before you find that man. It's like Garfield crushes, you know, that man easily. Like Archie comics are widely read. Oh, yeah. I mean, you know, if it's the North Star crushes it, right? You know, it's like asterisks and obelisk and crush it. I assume that like probably Donald Duck comics crush it, depending on how many you include in your in your tally, right? Tin Tin probably crushes all superhero comics ever, right?   That's why I feel the need to bring it up repeatedly, right? Maybe the Scarlet Witch is involved. It takes that much repetition to sort of break the spell, right? Of false perception. Well, like, you know, what we always just talk about with conventions and the turnstile accounts and all these conventions say, oh, 200,000 people showed up at our convention. Like, nah, that's that's that's not the number everyone thinks it is. There are not 200,000 people in that building. That's what Angle Comic Con was, you know, so like 10 times bigger than Otacon. And it was really just kind of bigger than it, you know. Well, that much break. Of course, it'll be infinitely bigger than Otacon if things don't pan out for Otacon this year, which we talked about on the last show. That's true. Do we have another news or is that it? Well, skip. We'll just skip the other because the other news was just the broader convention thing. But I think we already covered that enough. Let me hit. Mark, there we go. But things of the day. So what do you got? So we both saw the same thing in a tweet today, even though the thing itself is a year old. But I snatched this thing of the day first. So deal with it. So this. Yeah, I had it queued up for the show and then Scott was like, oh, yeah, here's my thing of the day. And he sent it to me and our rule is if you send the other person your thing of the day, it's theirs. That's dibs. That's a good dibs. So there's an animation studio in London that I didn't know about. But apparently this animation studio, I looked. I did some quick research on them. They really remind me of the early days of Studio Gonzo's making commercial animations of high quality. Right. Gonzo used to do like video game intros and those sorts of things. Right. So for example, if the animated Wargroove, you know, little short Wargroove promo animation, they made that. So the thing that they made a year ago is this 90 second. Right. It's a minute and a half long. It's got it's a song and it looks like a trailer or an opener to an animation that doesn't exist. And all I want is to see the show that this was pretending to be. You might. So the show that this is made a year ago, they uploaded it, but they still it might, you know, there's been a lot of hints. It might be coming for real. It's called the mighty grand piton. And what it is, basically, you watch this in 90 seconds. You get the whole concept. There is a black girl from London and her family goes on vacation to the Caribbean to like Saint Lucia. I think one of those islands. I don't know the names. There's too many islands. Sorry, I don't know all the Caribbean. That's my bad. And on that island, it's pretty much an iron giant, you know, situation. She finds a giant robot, right?  And such and such. So this is awesome because, A, there's tons of anime like this. But, you know, little kid, giant robot, right? But it almost always involves a young Japanese boy, like 99% of the time and young white boy, like 1% of the time. It almost never involves a young girl who's got a robot to themselves and definitely not a black girl and definitely not an Caribbean island. So that's just like A plus on, not even A plus, it's S plus. This just looks great and it gives me that. Animation is great and the song is great. Yeah. It goes to, I was about to say, gave me that same feel of that two mix video, white reflection, everyone saw where everyone said, Oh, I want to see the anime of that. Like it gave me that same feeling. It's just a music video. It's like, what do you mean anime? Yeah. But here, no, I really hope that, you know, you know, we've seen some good animation coming from Ireland. Why not from the big island? Albion. Yeah. People from the Albion Island make animation about, you know, the Caribbean island that would be terrific. I hope, you know, the best thing about this, the hints about this becoming an actual show slash movie are true. But yeah, well, this is more than worth 90 seconds of your time. Watch it two times. The top comment on the YouTube video from a year ago is the whole world needs to see this. Sure. Yes. So why not? You like played the clarinet and know some music. So you know about time signatures, right? Three fourths, three, four, four, four. Like, you know what that means? Like four, four means there are your work speaking in quarter notes and there are four quarter notes in a measure, like one, two, three, four, one, two, three. Like that's pretty straightforward. But the thing that wasn't straightforward is like you got four, four, right? Yeah, which means you got four per measure, right? You got four quarter notes per measure. That's the same as one, one, one whole note per measure. It is the same. So if you made eight, eight, it wouldn't be any different. It wouldn't actually be any different. Usually it just means like you'll draw all the eighth notes out like it's it's sort of like how you'll draw all the music like two, four and four, four can be written. So there's a lot of sure. So but they're equivalent. That's why people don't bother doing. There's only certain ones people actually use unless they're ridiculous. And then there's the ones like six, eight, where it's we're talking about eighth notes, but there'll be groups of them like dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, like groups of triplets. But that still makes sense. Yeah, yeah. So what about the weird ones? Like every every kid knows that there's that weird song in the in the time signature of five for Mars, Bringer of War, the classic song. It's at five four. There's five quarter notes per measure, and it makes it unwieldy and like difficult to listen to, and it's a whole thing. What I told you that 1516 is a commonly used and amazing time signature that you probably never thought ever heard of, probably heard songs in it and just not thought about that they were 1516. You probably haven't actually heard that many because usually the way you get the feeling of 1516 is like a funk groove, which isn't often written in 1516. So this video is Adam Neely. This is a backup thing of the day because I had to scramble because I got the good thing. I had this queued up as like a backup since Christmas. This is Christmas songs like a bunch of Christmas songs you've heard rewritten into the time signature of 1516. Oh, I think I saw this. You posted it and they're all I think I posted it like in our group or maybe even in the forum, but they're all amazing. Like they're really fun to listen to.  In the middle of a moment, I'm edging toward reading books because I can't go anywhere. I'm just stuck inside and at some point I got to just not play Hades and do a non Hades thing. If I'm just sitting around. Yeah, I'm reading a game that is very book like Morty like on my second play and then I'm reading comics. But I haven't read the book club quite yet. Get there though, because the problem is overwatch has been good again. There's been a lot more catch of the flag action in the arcade, which is a problem because I'll just sit in there forever. But yeah, don't stay tuned. We'll probably be reading the book at some point in the nearing future. Otherwise, stay tuned for whatever online cons we do. The online convention scene has dried up a little bit. I think people have realized, yeah, they don't really make money. Yep. And especially for cons that are struggling to survive covid until a post covid world, there's a online cons just cost them a lot of money and resources, but don't actually get them anything. And especially online cons don't really give that same feeling that people expect. So a lot of kinds are struggling to make like a useful and good online con experience. Con is not the content provider. A con is a logistics provider. And if you don't have any need of those logistics, if you're not going to a place, so they have nothing to offer unless their brand is stronger than the brands that they can put on their platform. And it's hard because it's not like the old days where cons had content that literally did not exist anywhere else. Like anime cons in the early days were yo, kid, you want to see some anime? This is the only goddamn place you can see it at all. So most cons, even the biggest cons, right? San Diego Comic Con, the biggest con, right?  Yep. They're like a glass cannon whose sole purpose is to make people be able to buy badges, see the schedule show up. Right.  Like you see it, you know, a typical artist alley table you would see, you go find them at San Diego Comic Con.  People aren't looking at, you know, Comic Con Twitter for stuff, right? So there's not that much that Comic Con can even offer them other than the, that's not the actual con. And most of what I've enjoyed from online cons have just been panels. And that's what we do at online cons. But we could just do those on our own. Like we don't actually even need an excuse.  Yeah. That's all they have. We just do a lot less panels if we only do them live. Yep, because it's more fun to do them live. And I think we said this before, you know why we haven't made a whole bunch of videos during COVID? Because it's not fun to make videos when Scott's in Astoria and I'm in LIC. It's way more fun when we do them together in front of one camera. Anyway, so let's just get right into it. Lupin the third, the first is not only the latest like iteration of Lupin movies. And I'm saying quotes because if you look at the history of Lupin, you basically got the manga. You've got the TV series is and then you've got the specials, some of which were theatrical movies and some of which were basically O.A.V.s. Some of which are O.A.V.s. I think there were some TV direct to TV movies possibly. Yep. Basically any format of video that exists, right, any distribution mechanism for video that like Lupin has been there, right? They just keep making more Lupin stuff, right, at a steady stream for as long as Lupin has existed, you know, make a little short series here, make a movie there. And they just got coming and coming and coming. It doesn't stop with a one forever. We'll say that there's like there's a median Lupin and the these specials. Let's not talk about the TV series. Just these specials, these like movie like things, these one-offs, they vary to a surprising degree, both in tone and quality, because much like James Bond, it's like a different director takes like I'm going to do a Lupin and they'll like take these, this palette of characters and this palette of tropes and they'll construct their own Lupin. So in the same universe that has Lupin, the Castle of Cagliostro, you've got Legend of Babylon Gold. Yeah. And you've all it was the one that was mostly about Zinogada and he was the fuma conspiracy. No, no, no, no, no. That's the one about going on. He's just the normal, really good one.  Yeah, I want to watch that one again. I just forget which one it was. They're all the thing is I like them all.  Like oh, yeah, I just like Lupin like Babylon Gold. We make fun of because it's got a lot of flaws, but I would watch it again. It's worse things to watch. The one with hair, Maffordite is probably the worst one. That's a real bad one. That one just suck. But isn't that like desert something? Yeah, desert. So I think we even showed it the anime club. The median Lupin is the assassin island one. Yeah. That is the default. It's good. It's not amazing. It's not bad. It's just like, this is Lupin. He has to go to this island, you know, you know, assassins and deal with them and such and such. But there's there's actually, and this is what I want to get into before we do this review. It's a two dimensional chart because there's median Lupin in terms of quality and there's median Lupin in terms of how close to like the standard tropes is it? Because I think the thing is, you know, people, a lot of Lupin fans always talking about like the jacket color, which is always a complete case in point. This is this is closer to a green jacket Lupin, even though he's wearing red. Exactly. That's what you can't fully rely on the jacket color. But there is sort of a, you know, up to a certain point, a correlation between Lupin's jacket color, whether it's green or red, like green Lupin, it just regardless of what he's actually wearing is like the cagliostro, like good guy at heart, like always does the right thing, mischievous, but not outright evil. Right.  Right.   That manga Lupin will machine gun down an entire room of unrelated and innocent dinner party guests. Yep. To steal stuff, right? He's actually a thief, right? But the movies, you know, especially the theatrical ones, they tend to really tone it down, right? And make Lupin more of a sympathetic character. Like, yes, he's a thief, right?  He's using his thief like skills, but he cares about people.  To do thieving, right? But now the greed to overcome his other desires. But there's also this like, I don't want to say high concept, low concept, but like some of these Lupins are just like a by the book. Like, here is every Lupin trope in the correct order beginning to end. Like, go on and again, we'll show up at this point. Fujiko Mine will show up at the first part.   Chase Lupin, you know, and not catch him and then maybe catch him. But then he gets away. He's disguised, but then like you break away from those tropes and you get the ones were like, Lupin and Zenegada openly team up like for real or the ones where Zenegada tries to kill Lupin like. So there are also some of them go into more supernatural territories like the Mamo one, right? Yeah, into like weird stuff. Like what the heck is going on?  Exactly. So there's all sorts of some of them go into the supernatural territory and some of them stick to this more realistic territory, realistic in that Kagliostro is very realistic, except for the acrobatics of Lupin and that car chase, right? But there isn't like actual magic or actual wizards or actual any supernatural ghosts, right? They'll either be a hint of them, but then a Scooby-Doo reveal that they were actually some science or mechanism or they won't be there at all. So the last context before we dive straight into this movie is that there was a long period of time where the Lupin specials and shows and everything were just like kind of super bad to the point that a lot of them weren't worth watching. And then starting around the time of the Fujiko Mine anime TV series, the quality like suddenly returned. What was it like was a Jeegon's grave? What was that one? That's the next. So Fujiko Mine was like the one that like really did something interesting and different. I think we reviewed it a while ago. That show is amazing. Then after that, in a similar style is the grave of Jeegon Daisuke. Oh, that came after that? Yes. Okay. I can't remember what the order was. I trust you. I would say that that cluster of Lupin set off a Lupin renaissance and Lupin the third, the first is a top tier Lupin. It's pretty up there. It's not number one, but it's like top five, top 10 at worst. This this is what they done is the first 3D CG Lupin, right? Every Lupin before now may have used computers to help animate, obviously, but they were all 2D. You know, there may be like 3D behind the scenes. They didn't look 3D. This is like Toy Story 3D, right? Yep. Obviously looking much better than the original Toy Story because it's 2021. Yeah, we'll get into that, but it looks great. Yeah, it's like you might get hesitant. And whenever anything makes a switch to 3D like that, but this is definitely a Mario 64 situation where it works out. They manage even in 3D to maintain all of the characteristics of, you know, the characters, signature movements and looks and facial expressions and everything somehow has completely made the transition. Gigan's face is a little weird, I think. I like it, though, because it made him extra hot. Not bad. But I do think like it made it more. It made him more human and hotter. Yeah. But Lupin's face is just Lupin's face. Like there is no. So the thing that stands out the most about those the character designs in the transition to 3D that no still image is going to catch for you. They are emotive to a surprising degree, like to the point that I think this was the most acting a Lupin character has ever done on the screen. And maybe, you know, you know, that could be. But yeah, they basically I don't really see a downside to the switch to the CG thing at all, really, for this movie. I mean, it's not like it's like, as you might see, the the Ghibli 3D air wig does not look great. Yeah. In comparison, the only real disappointment is just that, like, hey, you know, I'm a fan of 2D animation, I'd like to see it carry on and not fade away. But in this particular instance, it's like the I don't think any harm was done other than the general harm to, oh, no, there's less 2D animation in the world, but this isn't a bad 3D animation. But like, no matter how hesitant someone is, like, are there complicated feelings about 3D? 30 seconds into this, you don't even remember that is 3D. You're just like gaping at the spectacle. It's just it's a movie. The movie is great and it's dives right in. There are those weird moments where the CG is like awkward or, you know, sort of, you know, breaks your fourth wall into remembering and none of those uncanny valley moments where it's too real. It's always it's still cartoony, but still right. It's great. Yep. In terms of the voice acting is top notch. Do I only watch the sub? I can't speak to the. Sadly, that some, you know, for the longest time, Lupin, all the characters had like the same voice actors. And it was only relatively recently, like in the past so some number of years that some of those original voice actors sadly passed away. Whoever they got, it sounds like Lupin. It sounds like everybody, right? There is no there was no problem basically. Whoever they got the new voice actors are sound like the old voice actors, sort of like how when there's Muppets, right? It's like, you know, it's like, yeah, it's not. Jim Henson doesn't do Kermit anymore. But if you watch a new Muppet thing, it sounds like Kermit the Frog, right? It's right. Whatever they got do, whatever they got doing it is doing it fine. It's the same situation here. Clearly, there are voice actors who can do the voices of these characters. They're just perfect. If you did a blind test and played them talking from this and them talking from older Lupins, I would really struggle to tell the difference. It's possible that even, you know, it is twenty twenty one. I don't know that they did this. I have no evidence. I don't think they did this. It's possible that they use computers to help out or to make it sound even more like the original. But whether they did or didn't, you can't tell. So what does it matter? So along those lines, the music, because it's this is set in like the mid to late sixties, like specifically, like it's a show era, like the movie is set in that time setting. And the music is the Lupin music from all out of the old Lupins. And they got to Yuji Ono. The soundtrack has like the score has 61 songs in it. And a bunch of the compositions are like that show a post war jazz stuff from old Lupins to the point that they even evoke the themes like from the songs in Cagliostro specifically to make sure it feels like a Lupin movie right to the point at the very end, you know, that song that creeps in when the movie is starting to end before the the the scene that ends every Lupin movie begins where everyone's escaping. I for a second, I thought it was actually the song from one of those other Lupins. I had to go check. Yeah, it did the same thing that every good soundtrack does when it's a soundtrack for like something that's a series, right? Star Wars, Indiana Jones, James Bond, right? Is they they have those core musical motifs, right? You know, and then they just remix and rearrange into something new and you could do a bad job of it. But you can also do a great job of it. And I don't think even bad Lupin movies don't really mess up those, you know, musical motifs ever.   They're all running away now. And Zanagata is trying to chase them and the credits are about to roll. It's new good music, but if you are a Lupin person, you identify it immediately as Lupin music. There is no question. Yep. Right. So in terms of the movie plot itself, like it's a it's a by the book Lupin, except for a couple of minor pieces, piece number one, this isn't a break from the trope because Lupin Lupin's enemies being Nazis is not uncommon. But in this case, it is like, no, Lupin versus the Nazis. Yes, it's great up. It's it's so Indiana Jones, right? It's like there are a lot of the Lupin movies where he's not outright evil, end up being very Indiana Jonesy or more National Treasure E kind of thing.  This one is like a full on Raiders of the Lost Ark. The only difference between this and Indiana Jones, right, is that Indiana Jones just sort of like goes somewhere and doesn't really do anything. He's just sort of like there getting beat up until the bad guys lose. Yep. Like who who beat the Nazis in Raiders of the Lost Ark? It wasn't Indiana Jones. It was the Nazis, God. But in it where Lupin actually uses him and his allies, right, use their skills and abilities and such to directly, you know, conquer or overcome many conflicts and challenges. Yep. So the only break from the tropes of Lupin because this movie is literally like Fujiko shows up at the moment you're thinking, I bet Fujiko is about to show up to do her thing. She betrayed like it's just by the book, except it brings the lore of Lupin himself, like Lupin the third, the ancestor of Arsene Lupin. It actually brings that first. Yes, Lupin the first ancestor of Lupin the third. Yes, his grandpa. That's right. So it brings that in directly in a way that I have never really seen in a Lupin before. In every other Lupin thing I've ever seen, they basically make no mention of Lupin the second or Lupin the first or Lupin's mom or anything, right? It's like it's just here's Lupin the third. Yeah, you know, he's the grandson of Arsene Lupin because that's why where his name comes from. But we're not going to mention that at all. We got nothing to do with it. Nothing.  That's a trope or a beat, not a trope. It's a beat that I don't think we've ever seen in a Lupin work. A Lupin movie has never been that I know of has never been about Lupin's history in any way, shape or form. And not to spoil anything. But the moment where you see it's in the title, the title of the movie is the moment when you see that hat sitting at the end of that tunnel. And that was a plus moment right there. Well, that's who's the first when they come into that whole area and the Nazi guy walks forward. All I could think was about a pious man kneeling down. Exactly. It's very, very indigent. Yeah, I can't. It's like, you know, anyway. So the only downside I can see, right? Plot wise was that while all the characters were on point, right? I think that the three typical allies, right? I think Xenogadda got the right amount of screen time that Xenogadda usually gets. Yep, because he got the extra beat of, all right. Like there's like he works in the beginning scenes, too. Yeah. Add. But Gigan, Goemon and Fujiko. Fujiko could have had maybe like one or two more things going on. But Gigan and Goemon, especially, I think, barely appear in this movie. But that's kind of by the book.  They don't appear much. But I think they're appearing in this. I don't know. I have to time it to figure out exactly. But it feels like they even have less than the usual amount of screen. I think you're right. But I think that's partly because it acts to give them one or two more scenes to bring them up to their average. I would say that the movie backed off on them a little bit because it actually took Lupon and the, you know, the new character. There's always the new character in a Lupon who's only there. The plot character is movie only. You never hear from them again every single time. It makes it gives both of them more development than they would either get in any other Lupon. Like that's the trade off. Yeah, I think that is. Well, I did particularly enjoy the villains because there's two villains like even on the movie poster, you can look at it and be like, OK, those are the two villains.  But the other one, the more main villain that gets more focus like the is actually somewhat interesting and complicated.  And the second one is like complicated relationship with granddaughter and the world. Actually cares about a person. Yeah. And as a as a villain duo, they work better than the villains tend to in a lot of Lupons. Yeah, especially since it's not always clear, right? And a lot of Lupons, it's clear that like there's a boss and there's a square boss. That's the real boss. Oh my God. The one where the boss keeps murdering the with the fly swatter with the poison one by one like that. But in this Lupon, it's not always clear which of them is like the bigger boss. There's almost like this sort of up and down between. There's a power struggle between the two of them that was never resolved until the end of the movie. At some points in the movie, like one of them is like sort of like threatening the other, like, you know, I'm in charge here. And then at other points is like, no, I'm in charge here. Right. Yeah.  And Megatron is actually in charge. It's more of a, you know, I guess I can't use Transformers again. It doesn't really fit. It's like, you know, it's like, yeah, it'd be like if there were two Megatrons and they were there at the same time. There's an active power struggle between two people who are equally powerful and equally weak just in different ways. Yes. And it's kind of interesting. Like that's more nuanced than I think any Lupon villain has ever been ever. It's true. It's true. I think and considering that the rest of the plot of the movie is so, I guess, cookie cutter, you sort of need that that like spice things up and keep some interest. I will say I'm good with how cookie cutter the rest of it was mostly because it was such it was as such visual. It was a visual treat. Like the acting was perfect. Everything was so good that it was like the best possible completely plain sugar cookie. Yeah, it's like, hey, let's make a chocolate chip cookie. It's just a chocolate chip cookie. We didn't spice it up with like, you know, some sriracha chocolate chip cookie or peanut butter chocolate chip cookie or fancy expensive chocolate. Right.  Look at that. It's a perfect circle. Exactly the right consistency and texture perfectly baked. Yeah.  Right. But guess what? The absolute perfect chocolate chip cookie.  You'd be like, no, I'm not going to eat that. The other thing I would put along those lines. The other thing I would say is I'm going to I would add this to my list of if someone had never seen or heard of Lupin at all, this would not be a bad one for them to see first. If they, yeah, I mean, you might see this first. I think it would be great. Yeah, seeing this first is perfectly because every Lupin whenever anyone sees Lupin first, if they become such a big Lupin fan that they're going deep in watching the ones who Lupin is evil, this starting one might make causes. I would I don't think that's a problem because most people get started on Cagliostro. Yeah, people already start on Cagliostro.  Yeah, this is a perfectly fine first Lupin movie. Yeah, partly just because every Lupin movie anyone, the first Lupin movie you see, you got like, you're going to learn the deal with these characters just by jumping right in. Like there's no like the origin story movie to watch.  You'll figure it out along the way. And also, it may be, you know, the fact that the some of the side characters barely appear might intrigue someone who maybe, you know, thinks if you think going on is cool or something, you think Gigan is cool and you're like, oh, I want to see more Gigan. Well, guess what? There's a whole there's plenty of other things you can watch to have a lot more Gigan action in them. Well, in case in point, the show, the Fujiko Mene anime series, that one almost does like an origin story of all the characters, but like a twisted one. But that one is the one I would not show to someone first because all that nonsense. Good for you. That nonsense is completely uninteresting to you unless you already care about and are interested in these characters. And then you see like those versions of those characters and that evolution of the like the characters together and you're intrigued by it and like you want to go deep. Someone can watch this and like, oh, I wonder what the deal is with Gigan and then watch Fujiko Mene and Grave of Gigan dice game be like, oh. So I try to think of something anything negative to say, because it wasn't like a perfect movie at all. I kind of would have liked it to be a little longer and have like one more beat. I think they already cut a lot out. I think the movie was actually edited pretty much perfectly because much like Indiana Jones and the and the the Ark of the Covenant, like that whole story, it it skips over a bunch of stuff. Like when he just rides the submarine to the destination, this movie like Lupin and the girl are about to go break into a thing. It just cuts to them having already broken into the thing. It cuts to the good part. It does do that. But at the same time, when it starts getting towards the end and you think like, oh, is the climactic thing, it felt like I was starting to feel a little bit like, ah, this is the final and it's like, that wasn't the final. There's another and then another and then it was over. And I was, I don't know. The Hitler know Fukatsu was a beat that I both didn't expect and appreciated greatly. I mean, it wasn't bad, but I just it felt like, you know, I looked at my watch at least one time, right? Not 10 times, like one time. I think part of the reason I didn't was that if I had to describe the animation, like the end result of watching everything, like kind of like we talked about in the very beginning about the animation style, it's so rich and like thick and detailed and textured and stylized, like all the little details on the screen were just such a pleasure to the eye that I kind of just wanted to keep seeing more of it longer. But to your point, the movie was edited well enough to like not make it drag on. And if they added more scenes, I might have started to feel that drag. The other thing is that some of the action scenes, right, were excellent, especially like the laser, you know, it's typical laser tunnel, right? Oh, the laser tunnel was so good. Such a cliche, right? It's like, oh, you got to get it. But the twist with the cane and the hat. The cane, the hat, but like the way it was animated. And right when it slows down for the one moment, that may be the best laser tunnel I ever seen.  You saw compared to this one, but on other parts, right? The action scenes were kind of, OK. Good, you know, nothing to write home about, right? But if you think of like other lupins, like Castle of Cagliostro, you've got like the iconic clock scene, right? Yeah. Or the swimming through the canal scene. Right. It's like this didn't have maybe laser tunnel scene is the one. But other than that, it didn't really have the X scene, right? Or it had a few like the two action scenes, the three action scenes that actually stood out the most that were actually none of them were iconic. But they were all like above average because I was trying to list them like there's the fist fight he has, which was just like cowboy bebop levels. There was the the plane fight when Fujiko comes in, like that was actually really fun.  Like that was started with the scene where they're falling out of the sky. We know exactly. But then you've got the car chase in the very beginning. Yeah, which was a car start of a lupin movie. Exactly. Come on. But yeah, you're right. Every all that there were many great action scenes, but there was no like the action scene.  All right, they're on motorcycles on that clown face. That's iconic. Very memorable. But yeah, I would like without reservation, recommend watching this movie to anyone who would listen to Geek Nights. If you if you're an anime person, if you like animation, you like animated movies at all. If you like Indiana Jones, if you like a lupin, if you know any, you should be it. Most people would be well served watching this movie. Yep. Like I would recommend this to like my dad, like I or my mom. Just like, hey, how long is it? Two hours, not even it's 93 minutes. All right, you want 93 minutes of fun. It's got got a better 93 minutes of fun. I don't know. Yeah. Right. This. Why don't you move you this pick this one? All right, I think that was a solid show. I'm also getting desperately hungry. So it was good timing.


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So, in this video you will see how we can edit the rows inside the query editor. So, in the last video you have seen about the basic introduction of query editor and you have go through on the query editor. So, here we will see two options first for the keep rows and second for the remove rows. So, in the keep rows we will see five options. First for the keep top rows, keep bottom rows, keep range of rows, keep duplicate rows, keep error rows and inside the remove rows you will again see the five options. First for the remove top rows, remove bottom rows, remove range of rows, then remove duplicate rows, then remove error rows. So, you will see these options, let's move to power by desktop and here as we seen in the last video we have loaded these three files inside the query editor. So, here as we can see the first file that is Australia, so first row and second row is not the correct as we are expecting. So, these two is a dummy rows for us, so we just want to remove these two rows. So, for that we will have an option for remove top rows. So, before going to remove top rows, here go to on home ribbon and reduce rows. Here we have keep rows and remove rows. Inside the keep rows we are having five options as I told you and in the remove rows again we are having five options. So, we just want to remove top two rows, so for that we can use remove top rows, we can select two and click on OK. So, here as we can see top two rows has been removed and in the applied steps we can see we are having this removed top rows and if we did any mistake then we can directly cancel this and our last step and data will be stored as last step we did. So, here we just want to remove top two rows, so we can again remove top rows and two. Now looks good after that here we can see the first row that is not the data row it should be the header. So, for that here we are having four options use first row as header or go to on transform ribbon and here we are having this option use first row as header, so we can click on this and in the applied step it is added two steps first for the promote headers and second for the change type. So, in the Power BI latest version we will see these options for change type automatically. So it will detect the data type of the columns automatically and this step will be added. So just cancel this we will do in the later. After that again we can see we are having these blank rows. So these are not the correct as we want. So we just want to remove these blank rows. So how we can do this? So for that go to on home ribbon, go to on remove rows here we are having for remove blank rows. So once we remove this then we can see we have removed this data and now we can see we are having this NA over here. So these are not the correct. So we just want to remove these NAs from the table. So how we can do this? So go to on remove rows. If we remove the error then it will not be work because these are not the error rows just do it and we will see. So step is added but NAs here because these are the string values like character values for NA. So these are not the errors. So just remove it we can filter those rows which are not required for us. So for that we can use NA and just unselect this and click on OK. So we will see we have removed the NAs but I would not recommend to use the search option for the filtering rows because if anything is having like NA like any character which is containing NA that will also be unselected. Here we are having the integer values that is why I have used it and it is working fine but if you will have any string values and that may have the NA in the other characters so that will be unselected. So I would suggest don't use this search for filtering the rows. Now it looks good and we made a great progress. After that just move to on UK and here again we just want to remove these two top rows so go to on remove rows, remove top rows and to now click on OK. So top rows is removed here we just want to promote the header as the first row. So we can use this option so this is promoted and this step is added so we just want to cancel it. And here again we can see we are having these blank rows so we just want to remove these blank rows so go to on remove rows, remove blank rows. So now it looks good and we made a great progress. Now go to on US and inside the US again we just want to remove top two rows. So here we can select two now click on OK. After that we just want to promote the header and extra step is added so we just want to cancel this. So after that we just want to remove these NA so again we can use the search option for us but I would not recommend to use it if we are having the character data type for the column. Now click on OK that looks good and we have edited the rows so what we have learned in this video we have learned how we can remove the rows and in the keep rows if we want to use the keep top rows so go to on keep top rows we just want to keep top 10 rows so we can select and here we can set the number of rows as 10 now click on OK. So here we are having only top 10 rows other rows are removed so we don't want to use it and in the keep bottom row so data will be in this table from the bottom and we can select the number so how many rows you want after that keep range of rows so here first row and number of row so we just want to start from 2 and we want only 2 rows so it will start from 2 and we will have only 2 rows so this is for range of rows after that we can keep duplicates it will keep the duplicate values only after that keep error if we will have any error rows in the table so it will keep only those so this is for the editing rows so I hope you have understand how we can edit the rows so in the next video we will see how we can append these 3 tables because our output should be a single table so in the next video we will see how we can get the single table so thank you so much for watching this video see you there thank you.


News and analysis from Big Data SV 2014 is brought to you by headline sponsors, Actian, accelerating Big Data 2.0. And WAN Disco, we make Hadoop invincible. Hello, everyone, welcome back to our wrap up of the Big Data SV, Big Data Silicon Valley, Innovation Hour event, Silicon Angles the Cubes, Big Data event in Silicon Valley. This is an augmentation to our Big Data New York City event, hashtag Big Data NYC and this is the hashtag Big Data SV. I'm John Furrier, the founder of Silicon Angle and I'm excited to say we had a great event, over 44 interviews here on theCUBE over two and a half days, we talked to a lot of people. We had a party, all of our community, all the CUBE alumni and their friends came last night. Great event, everything's happening here. Great show from a new standpoint at Stratoconference, a lot of buzz sold out the whole show, a lot of activity. I'm John with Jeff Kelly, chief analyst for Big Data at Wikibon and Jeff Frick, GM of our CUBE business. Jeff, CUBE was a success again. CUBE was a success, this is our second show that we've done ourselves to go out and do our own Big Data SV and we're really excited with the response of the community, really excited about the interviews that we had and some of the insight that we saw. It takes a lot of people to put a big show one like this and it's really a nice thing when we pull it off and it works and I think we've got some good info. Yeah, and I think people get to know the CUBE, it's our 50th year, we have a lot of CUBE alumni. Now, it's like, hey, CUBE alumni, this is getting kind of played, right? We've interviewed over 3,300 people almost over the life of the CUBE and we'd like to stream the data. We are about providing the data unfiltered, extracting the signal from the noise. We love talking to smart people, extracting the knowledge and sharing it with you. That's our mission, we're looking forward to continuing to do that. We want to thank our underwriters who got us here. Thank you very much. If you're interested in sponsoring more of the CUBE so it gets bigger and better, we're happy to talk, talk to Jeff about that. But getting back to the data and extracting the signal from the noise, Jeff Kelly gave a big presentation keynote at Strata today presenting his data on the market study, survey sizing, Jeff, your take on the feedback and the data that you're getting from the field. Well, I think a few takeaways I had from this week. Number one, I think it's great that the conversation is moving away from the technology and more to the business value, what the technology enables. So that's a good sign for the market. It's a good sign for all these vendors out here and it's a good sign really for enterprises who can now actually look to some of these providers to actually deliver value and not just a set of technologies and essentially more work. You've got to integrate them and get things running inside your organization. Some other things that I thought were really interesting was again the business focus and talking more to business people rather than just IT. We had Cloudera on talking about their enterprise data hub strategy and how it really enables them to shorten that conversation about the tech and the guts of the technology. So they're not talking so much about Hadoop and Flume and Scoop, they're talking about business value to a business person. And that's really the kind of up level conversation that's gonna move this market forward. A few other things that I think the partnerships that were announced, we're gonna see more of that this year, I think that's critical again to getting big data into the enterprise. We saw MapR and EP Vertica with a big announcement. Of course, another big one was Hortonworks and Red Hat. So you're gonna continue to see that this year, I think, rather than some of those big product announcements because now a lot of the technology is kind of starting to solidify around Hadoop and some of the other things that you can do with it thanks to Yarn and some of the other innovations we saw last year. And now it's about implementing it, making it real in the enterprise. So we're starting to see some settlement of people finding their swim lanes, as we say. Amongst the players. And obviously, this industry would not be possible without all the great work at Cloudera when they first started, they were the first company in. Amarawa Dalla, Jeff Hammerbacher, Michael Olson, Kristoff, Basile that we be data. Those guys, they started the movement and the folks at Yahoo then spun out for Hortonworks. That was a seminal moment. I think when history is written, I think they're gonna look back and forget about all the little mudfights going on and open source and they're gonna look at those guys and saying that's really what it's all about. And I talked to Michael Olson about this and they have a mission. From day one they've had a mission and then the Yahoo guys became Hortonworks. Again, the mission of Hadoop is the real deal. That's the big story here, that it's a done deal. And the open source community continues to evolve and storage, compute, algorithms, the tools, the decision tools are all becoming open source and open source is now the core lever for the massive innovation and change. So that's a big story. And I think at the end of the day, competition will still happen and it's good to see that but they're set a limit into their groove.  Well, yeah, I mean, if you're talking about Hadoop specifically, I agree with you. I think all three of the kind of the pure play Hadoop vendors, Cloudera, Hortonworks, and MAPR are kind of finding their identities. Cloudera specifically really, I think has had a really interesting last six months or so with their introduction of the enterprise data hub and really focusing on, or not worrying so much about whether they're proprietary or open source, focusing on what they do well, the strengths that they have and really simplifying the message, simplifying the pricing, making it easier for their customers to understand what they do and how best to engage with them. So great job by Cloudera, they're set for a really big year if they can execute and by all accounts, they're ready to do that. From Hortonworks, they have in waivers from day one. They're open source, they're gonna leverage the community, they're gonna leverage partnerships to get out into the enterprise and really get to scale. So they've done that last year with partnerships with Teradata, with Microsoft, SAP and others. This year is about, again, for them it's also about execution, executing those reseller arrangements, getting the Teradata Salesforce out there, reselling Hortonworks, same with the SAP Salesforce, et cetera. So they're also primed for a big year if that pans out the way they expect and MAPR, MAPR give them a lot of credit. They're not ideologues, they focus on solving real problems for real customers today, whether that's open source, proprietary, some combination. They support open source projects, but they're not shy of injecting their own IP when they think that's gonna help customers. They had that great partnership announcement with HB Vertica. So I think all three of them are finding their way. There's still gonna be plenty of squabbles this year. There's competition, there's gonna be plenty of back and forward banter, but I think you're right. They're finding their own groove and there's a lot of, this is a big market as we saw, there's room for everybody. Okay, well I took some notes down throughout the interviews and I wanna share with you my summary of kind of what happened here in the moment in time of big data Silicon Valley or big data SV. Obviously I mentioned storage, compute, outroads and tools are all the key. Hadoop as a platform is viable, analytics continues to be the holy grail application and everything else around is kind of filling in and you're starting to see the swim lanes from the vendors, as Jeff was pointed out. I think the real focus I heard here was the next step is the ecosystem. You start people talking about their ecosystems and that's a normal conversation around evolution around platforms. Outside of that, one of the key highlights from a topic standpoint is the business focus is number one and it's greater than a POC and we're seeing no real discussions around POCs. They're talking about budget. So the business conversation is not a bad thing. In Silicon Valley, people don't have those conversations normally but right now, if you're not talking about business outcomes and business model value, then you are irrelevant and that is clearly coming through this show and entrepreneurs and companies out there who have high valuations or high hopes, if you don't have that business conversation dialogue, you will be left out in the cold. So that's very clear from the show here. Two, data science continues to evolve and be a very hot topic. The notion of scale has been checked. That's kind of behind us. Hadoop checked behind us. The key conversations around data science is discovery, adaptive data, insights for the data, decision tooling, making it easier and to extend to that as a whole new category topic, I'm gonna put down as the interface problems around data, whether it's a mobile app or graphs or making it simplifying, the interface problem is really a big deal. Joe Hellerstein kind of highlighted that in our conversation with that and that's key. And then fourth, open source continues to dominate and will not stop in my opinion. It's really changing the computer science equation both from how computer science is being done and then the effects of the disruption. And then finally, the past, the yarn, the in memory, these are topics that are gaining big steam. What is a platform as a service for big data? Yarn has got a lot of traction. In memory of Spark is clearing the runway and that's gonna continue to change the data workflows and how this integrates into the business platforms which converts into IT, et cetera. And finally, my honorable mention topic is always gonna be emerging out and that's internet of things. Internet of things is front and center. That's gonna be a big part of the conversation this year on top of those topics. So in summary, I've had to kind of boil up the topics, business, data science, interface problem, open source dominating, past, yarn, in memory, data workflows and internet of things. So to me, Jeff, that is my take on what's happening and it's great news for everyone. The growth is there. Couldn't agree more. I mean, you said it well. It's up level to conversation, talking about open source, data science, really moving towards that value conversation which is really where, that's when you know the market's starting to really become mature. Yeah, and I think looking down the road a little bit further I think Joe also said, hello, senior, it was one of our last guests. What happens to the way you think about problems when storage and compute power is basically infinite and free? Which it's not there yet but it's the old economics curve, it's absolutely approaching that line. And so how do you readdress your problems? How do you think of the way you attack your problems in this kind of new world? And we're very quickly headed that way. We are at the open compute forum with now open source is getting into the hardware side of the business, which is a whole another disruption that we're gonna soon see. All the armchips going into that piece kind of disrupting the x86 dominance which has been locked in for such a long time. I think that's the other one. And what he also said, he was a great guest professor at Berkeley so he's a little bit further thinking down the road is there's a whole new rash of opportunities that are coming because of this way to look at data. Jeff, I want to ask you, you were out managing the front and making sure everyone's coming in. Our team here did a great job, props to the whole CUBE team. I want to ask you a question. You know, with the party last night, we saw the community of the CUBE kind of coming together for the second time. What were some of the things that you've heard from folks? You had a lot of chances to prep the guests. You were scheduling, you were interfacing with all the party folks. What's the vibe of the CUBE? We were sitting behind the desk all day. What was happening out there? I think the vibe is positive. I just talked with Sarkin and Pauline before she came in and she said, how do you like doing your own events? Is that a good thing or a bad thing? And I told her, it's really a good thing. It's a new challenge for us, but it's an opportunity to bring our community together in a unique way. And we're seeing, as you said, I think at the parties, a lot of biz dev going on, people know each other and it is a small community of people that are changing the world in big data and cloud. And I think we're really fortunate to be able to participate and get the tech athletes, as we love to call them, on to tell the stories because we had big companies here this week and we had small companies, we had new partnerships and we had emerging people coming out of nowhere. So it's a really exciting time to be in the tech space. We're really excited to be able to go out to these events and bring the folks to you and the audience to hear from them and see what's going on. I've been through a bunch of booms and busts in the valley since back in the early 90s and this one feels like a great boom but what's different is it's based on real business value and we hear repeatedly time and time again that in these really large scale operations, if you can eke out small percentages of deltas, the impact is enormous because you're talking about a big numerator. So it's exciting. I think people are excited to be here and I think big data NYC in the fall is gonna be another great show. Well, we love talking to the tech athletes and I think that's the key thing about the party highlights for us is that we've interviewed a lot of people, a lot of people watch, we had over 100,000 live views on just on the live stream. So again, the interest is there. We're happy to bring it to you and you know what? We love doing it and the social relationships that come out of the data that we're streaming, the raw materials unfilter and I think the beautiful thing about this new social media world that we're living in is that the value of the data in context to being unfiltered, a lot of people make up their own mind and we're proud to do that. We would not be able to do it without the sponsors. So Jeff, share with the folks out there, some of the folks who helped underwrite our independent data streaming operation. Yeah, again, thank you very much. So it's Acti and Wendisco as our featured sponsors. Thanks a lot for coming in and supporting Big Data SV. We had Alterics, Cloudera, InfoObjects, MapR, who's a great sponsor of theCUBE, Syncsort, HP Vertica, we did the HP Vertica data show last year, Trasada and Squirrel. So again, thank you so much to all those companies for underwriting us. If you stop by theCUBE, if you're able to make it by the Yosemite Room where you've seen us on the road, you see we've got a lot of people, a lot of gear. We can't do this without underwriters helping us out and so big shout out to them. Also why I've got a minute, just big thanks to the guys that you don't see behind the lights here in the studio. Mark and Matt, Alex, Andrew, Greg and Mick who are working hard. They're up early, they're up late. They're working over at the board. And of course a big shout out to our Dave who aren't with us here. Dave Vellante had to go back early. And then Dave Butler who keeps us all on track back in Boston. Yeah, and Chris and Nicole, and then Chris and Nicole, the blog, getting all the blog posts out there. We want to put as much content as possible at siliconangle.com. Look, go to wikibon.org for all the free research, all the free content. We're glad to bring it to you. And you know what? I had people come to me last night and said, I want to have hashtag Big Data Chicago. And so we'll definitely be in New York. So Big Data NYC and Silicon Valley will be continuing to do this. But we might bring it on the road. There's a lot of interest. If you want to help us there, just let us know, contact Jeff. Or if you want to talk to theCUBE, we'd be happy to do your events. Again, we want to go where the action is and we will go wherever it takes to find the signal from the noise. That's our mission. This is theCUBE. Thanks for watching. This is a wrap for Big Data SV. We'll see you on our next CUBE show.