Episode Transcript
[00:00:18] Speaker A: Welcome to Friendly Competition, a podcast to discover the best of all time. I'm Nick Carey alongside my co host and best friend, Cody Lena. We discussed various pop culture topics and narrow down to truly the best of all time.
[00:00:31] Speaker B: Or as we like to call it, the boat. Before it's a foot on the boat. We put him to a sweet 16 style tournament. We argue each round till we decide a winner. Nick, what country do we use? We decide. He steps foot on the boat.
[00:00:40] Speaker A: Whatever the hell we want. Cody, you want to tell him what we're talking about this season?
[00:00:43] Speaker B: Absolutely. We are talking about the X Men. We've got it down to the final four and we're going to figure out the best one. And you know what criteria we're going to use the most of? Shut up, Nick. We can use whatever we want. We're going to use fashion this time because I have a fashion point to make.
[00:00:57] Speaker A: Okay, make. Make your gonna make the fashion plan. Do you want me to go through the. Do you want me to give people. It doesn't matter.
[00:01:04] Speaker B: Okay. Versus classes. Nightcrawlers. Wolverine. I gotta start with storm. Storm, okay? I've been watching. I've been Wa. I did a lot of research, watched a lot of the cartoon. And Nick, Storm not only came, not only is she our african queen who control the weather.
[00:01:16] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:01:17] Speaker B: Great, great, great. She's the only X Men with fashion power, okay? She has fashion power. All the other X Men have their bag full of their gear or even colossus. When he turns silver, he's still wearing whatever clothes he had on his colossus store. Can strike herself with lightning and be wearing fashion change. Okay? And we need to discuss.
[00:01:37] Speaker A: It's the greatest power. It's the greatest costume change in history. Taylor Swift wishes. Taylor Swift wishes. In the middle of her eras tour, lightning would strike her and just immediately, bam. Look at me, bitches.
[00:01:51] Speaker B: Like in a different fashion, dude. Can you imagine her?
If any other, any other person had that power, they would lead with it. Storm is so powerful. It's not even on her notes. It's not even under, like, special skills. She doesn't even put it there. She has dance, can drive a stick shift. She knows three languages. Doesn't even mention she can do fashion magic.
[00:02:13] Speaker A: Honestly, I kind of always assume that's just what Dazzler's power is. Is. It's like fashion. That's what I'm always like. Is that what you're up to, Dazzler? You're always looking nice. You always seem to. You always seem to have a little outfit that you're in.
[00:02:24] Speaker B: Yeah. That she had to carry around of where? Not storm.
[00:02:28] Speaker A: Cody, I.
I don't know how to tell you this.
[00:02:33] Speaker B: Tell me it though. I need to hear it.
[00:02:35] Speaker A: I think you'll still respect it. But one of the things that they don't tell you about storm along with fashion powers that she is a up close magician.
[00:02:47] Speaker B: Oh, my.
[00:02:48] Speaker A: Like really great with like, you know, up like slightly coins.
[00:02:53] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:02:54] Speaker A: And it's just a quick change. She had the outfit on under it, bro.
[00:02:59] Speaker B: That's more impressive than the lightning.
[00:03:01] Speaker A: She's like, she can't get hurt by lightning. So she's like, I bet you I could trick these bitches. I bet you if I.
[00:03:07] Speaker B: The lightning strikes, burns off her whole clothes and she's wearing clothes underneath it.
[00:03:11] Speaker A: And then she like, bam. Storm bitches. And they were all like as they should.
[00:03:15] Speaker B: As they should.
[00:03:16] Speaker A: Yeah, it is just. But like the thing is. That's a really cool trick. You really need to see her shell game trick, dude.
[00:03:24] Speaker B: Okay. I.
[00:03:25] Speaker A: What she does with shell game. Like, you think you've seen every shell game, Nick dog, I would.
[00:03:31] Speaker B: I can't agree with you just for one reason. We were watching an episode my wife walked through. She probably did like three minutes research with me on that.
[00:03:37] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:03:38] Speaker B: And she walked through, Walt. It was rogue and storm shopping at a mall. And Storm was wearing a pink t shirt and some very smart capris with sandals. It was the most 90 thing you've ever seen. Yeah, and then she gets hit with lightning and she's wearing the full big boots one piece.
How come every dude. That's why she must have fashion powers. I don't know why I'm on this, but everyone else is like, everyone else. Everyone else wears. Either wears their gear all the time or under their clothes.
[00:04:04] Speaker A: Like. Yeah, clearly. Like. Like Cyclops is like always, man.
[00:04:08] Speaker B: She goes to the beach and she's got beach drip.
[00:04:10] Speaker A: She goes to the bikini and you're like, there's no way there's turn into storm lightning. Quick change.
[00:04:17] Speaker B: It's not a quick change. It's fashion power.
[00:04:19] Speaker A: It's a quick change. I'm telling you it's a quick change.
[00:04:22] Speaker B: I wrong. I'm telling you it's fashion power. Do we need to settle this? Only way we know how.
[00:04:27] Speaker A: The only way we'll continue talking about this is through the.
[00:04:32] Speaker B: I'm saying that's a huge thing. That's a huge.
[00:04:35] Speaker A: I thought we were going to talk about Storm's mohawk.
[00:04:37] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:04:38] Speaker A: Cause this feels like. Where do you land on Storm's mohawk.
[00:04:42] Speaker B: I mean, in my mind, I don't see Storm with the mohawk. I see the nineties cartoon storm.
[00:04:46] Speaker A: I like my flowy hair storm.
[00:04:48] Speaker B: I do, too. But sometimes you gotta have a badass haircut to let people know you're here to throw hands.
[00:04:53] Speaker A: I do. I think. See, and I think that's what it was more about. I think people were sleeping on storm.
[00:04:58] Speaker B: For a while there. Yeah.
[00:05:00] Speaker A: I don't think people were, like, recognizing storm for, like, how badass she is.
[00:05:06] Speaker B: How can you take her seriously? She rose up into the fight with some wonderful sandals, a pink top, some capris on. You don't think Lightning's gonna strike her? She's gonna turn to a bad bitch with a mohawk.
[00:05:17] Speaker A: Yeah. And so it just feels like they were like, all right, everyone's down. Everyone. No one's given storm. How do we. How do we retcon her the quickest? And they're like, what if we just gave her a massive mohawk? Is she into punk music? Not at all. Oh, okay.
What if she would it. Would it. How would it have been anti punk if you were, like, the ramones and, like, the Ramon, like, Marvel comes to you and is like, hey, our character, storm would, like. We want to license your image so she can, like, wear, like, a band tee, essentially. Cause she's going to be punk rock.
[00:05:50] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:05:50] Speaker A: Is it selling out?
[00:05:52] Speaker B: No, absolutely not. You got to sell to the X, Mendez.
[00:05:55] Speaker A: Right.
[00:05:55] Speaker B: It can't.
[00:05:56] Speaker A: Right. It's gotta always be fine.
[00:05:58] Speaker B: Fuck that, Nick. It's only selling out if you charge him.
[00:06:00] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. You just give it away. You're like, yeah, take it. That'd be dope.
[00:06:04] Speaker B: That's dope as fuck.
[00:06:05] Speaker A: She's rocking, like, a dead Kennedy shirt. You're like.
[00:06:09] Speaker B: She comes in with Operation Ivy, and you're like, what is going on? Ska punk, dude. Storm, dude. Okay.
[00:06:15] Speaker A: If Storm is just in her earbuds, fucking bumping Skaen. That is my. That is my queen. Like, that's all I want, is for her just to be orchestrating a lightning storm to fucking less than Jake, you know?
[00:06:31] Speaker B: Like, yep, that'd be badass.
[00:06:34] Speaker A: Oh, it's all I want.
[00:06:35] Speaker B: Superman playing by Goldfinger. She's murdering. Oh, so good. Okay. Colossus.
[00:06:40] Speaker A: Colossus.
[00:06:41] Speaker B: He's so badass. Strong, hard. You're the. Nick actually did a lot of research, too. Nick, do you want to give us a rundown?
[00:06:46] Speaker A: Yeah. He is from Russia. I actually. It was intra. Like, in the way that, like, X Men. I really feel like the. The creators of X Men were really trying to do some damage control or, like, PR. Like, they weren't. It was the cold war, right? We're in the cold war. And it's insane that, like, one of the good guys is russian. But that just goes to show you how much, like, Stan Lee and, like, all those guys were, like, on some shit, they were on that tip of, like, why are we even in this fight, you guys?
[00:07:16] Speaker B: Hey, man. They're firm. Stanley's a firm believer that everyone can be a superhero.
[00:07:21] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:07:21] Speaker B: It means. That even means dirty, fucking smelly, vodka drinking, hooten, ass kicking rooskies. Okay.
[00:07:29] Speaker A: Yeah. And that. That's how dedicated they were to being like, no, no, no. Everyone can be good. Just trying to teach that lesson.
[00:07:35] Speaker B: I think Colossus brought down the Berlin wall. They don't like to talk about it. I.
[00:07:41] Speaker A: And that was just because he. And why? To get to the other side.
[00:07:44] Speaker B: To get to the other side.
[00:07:45] Speaker A: He's like, wait, he was. He was looking down at his maps and he was like, he's like, oh, the restaurant I really want to go to is, oh, it's in fucking East Berlin. I hate not. They're like, you can't go, colossus. You. You'd have to. He's like, fuck that, dude, I'm getting pierogies. Dude, I'm fucking getting my pierogies. And just crash through the Berlin wall. And they're like, well, I mean, if it's already down, let's just send. Let's kick it off.
[00:08:08] Speaker B: Let's kick it off. I mean, he's great. I think he is fun and strong, but storm, come on, dude. Not only can she control the weather, she can fly. She's clearly one of the leaders of the X Men. If Cyclops goes down, storm steps up, she's number two. Like, don't sleep on her. And then she got fashion power.
[00:08:27] Speaker A: Yeah, I.
[00:08:28] Speaker B: She's got a third power.
[00:08:30] Speaker A: She also rides motorcycles.
[00:08:31] Speaker B: Rides motorcycles. Badass.
[00:08:33] Speaker A: Colossus can't, because he's so big and heavy.
[00:08:36] Speaker B: He can't turn into colossus. Do you think it changes the density? It has.
[00:08:40] Speaker A: They've done. They've. Well, at least they've shown that in the Deadpool movies. Okay, so where it's like, he's clearly heavier and human.
[00:08:48] Speaker B: So he's like a 200. I'd say he's 200, 4260 easily.
[00:08:52] Speaker A: Yeah, he's.
[00:08:53] Speaker B: He's already.
[00:08:54] Speaker A: He's like six, seven before he lost probably three.
[00:08:58] Speaker B: So he's three.
[00:08:59] Speaker A: He's probably three. Billy's, already. So he's already a big boy, and.
[00:09:03] Speaker B: Then he becomes dog. Okay? He's that strong and that big. Do you think he's that shredded, or do you think he's supposed to go to the gym?
[00:09:11] Speaker A: That is the question. Isn't it, though? Because, like, would your bot, does the body already? Is it just going over your skin? Right. So.
[00:09:20] Speaker B: Because all of it, like, rogue is super strong, and she does not look like that.
[00:09:24] Speaker A: Right, okay.
[00:09:25] Speaker B: And right. Even Superman, different comic book world, he's super strong. Is Superman shredded? Absolutely. But not like, colossus is shredded. No, I think.
[00:09:33] Speaker A: And he's that big guy. Shredded. Like, it's hard. The bigger you are like that when you're doing the kind of workouts he's doing, it's hard to be like. He's like, size, you know?
[00:09:42] Speaker B: Can you imagine being naturally strong, strongman side, and you still have to eat at a calorie deficit? Like, what are we even doing here, bro?
[00:09:50] Speaker A: What am I. What is going on?
[00:09:52] Speaker B: Could you imagine, though?
[00:09:53] Speaker A: Could you imagine what a flex it is for him when he just whoops ass and he didn't turn into Colossus?
[00:09:58] Speaker B: Oh, that's got to be bad.
[00:10:00] Speaker A: How much shit he fucking car lands on.
[00:10:04] Speaker B: Somebody runs up there, go, Colossus.
[00:10:05] Speaker A: Got it.
[00:10:06] Speaker B: And he doesn't transform and still gets the car up. What are we doing here?
[00:10:10] Speaker A: He's like, I'm also just fucking strong as shit.
[00:10:12] Speaker B: Like, yeah, so badass. I got locked in store. Yeah, come on.
[00:10:17] Speaker A: Yeah, no, it. It's not. It's not a tough one here. And. All right, next up, we. We have Nightcrawler going up against Wolverine. Cody, do you think. What do you. Do you think the X Mendez eventually have or, like, are going to run into, like, a Nepo baby problem where there's just like. Because Nightcrawler is truly the first Nepo baby. X Men. Yeah.
[00:10:40] Speaker B: And he can hang, but, yeah, he's fine.
[00:10:42] Speaker A: In the same way that, like, in the same way that Drew Barrymore is a Nepo baby. Right. But you're like, everyone can see her on her merits, and you're like, oh, she's really good. You know? Like, so it's not that. It's not that being a Nepo baby is necessarily bad, but I'm just saying, at some point, like, what if Jean Grey. I mean, I know they do have a kid. Let's say Jean Grey and Cyclops had a kid, and, like, they're. Yeah, they're. They're a mutant, but, like, they're they're. Mutant ability is like, oh, I just know statistics really well. I can give you statistical likelihood of something off of gimme. Oh, hit me with it. Hit me with it. What's the tornado happening today? 0%. What up?
[00:11:15] Speaker B: They're like, oh, very good.
[00:11:16] Speaker A: Oh, okay.
[00:11:17] Speaker B: But like, okay, that's a, first of all, that's a real superpower that somebody does have.
[00:11:21] Speaker A: No, they can manipulate odds. I'm saying, just knowing the stat of something.
[00:11:27] Speaker B: Oh, that's, yeah. Hey, how many times does it rain on November 3? Like, on average, it's like, uh, Jesus Christ, that sucks. And also, the problem is with that, if it's a summer, if it's Gene Gray and Scott Summers kid, you know, they're going to at least be, like, captain of the varsity mutant team, right?
[00:11:44] Speaker A: Well, that's the problem is it's like one of those things where they're just like, well, no, he's more on the team for, like, his leadership. Like, I mean, not okay.
[00:11:52] Speaker B: You can as that kid has that shitty power, right?
[00:11:55] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:11:55] Speaker B: Do you think. Well, do you think Wolverine locks by Jean Grey after and he's like, you could add a kid with claws.
[00:12:01] Speaker A: Like, I'm really.
[00:12:03] Speaker B: You could right now.
[00:12:04] Speaker A: Look at all my kids. They all had claws. Every single one of them. Or at least anyone who used my DNA to make children without telling me about it.
[00:12:13] Speaker B: Gene Gray and Wolverine had a kid, and it came out with arm blades and legs, swords for legs and arms.
[00:12:19] Speaker A: For legs, in stab frenzy.
[00:12:21] Speaker B: And it has psychic powers. If we give stab frenzy psychic powers.
[00:12:25] Speaker A: The strongest mutant of all time.
[00:12:27] Speaker B: Easily.
[00:12:27] Speaker A: Easily. But no, you had to go have a baby with Cyclops. And now he just is really good at numbers. Way to go, dude.
[00:12:34] Speaker B: I saw there's one set of lore for Nightcrawler. Nightcrawler. Nightcrawler can teleport for those that don't know from shadow to shadow, so there's a shaded spot he can teleport. And on one episode of the cartoon, I think it is, they kind of go into the lore. Doug. He's like, teleporting into a nightmare world and running from in that world that's light to light. And he was just trying to avoid dying, right?
[00:12:53] Speaker A: Yeah. What a wild, what a wild thing that, like, no one was asking, by the way. No one was like, hey, so when he goes from shadow to shadow, is there something, is he on another? Like, no one was like, oh, it's clearly like a planar thing. Like, he's going from, he's in a different. He's an alternate plane. And, like, trying to get through to the other side. It's like no one knew. No one needed that. Why?
[00:13:15] Speaker B: And it's just filled, like, murderous clowns and demons, and it's like, bruh, just stop.
[00:13:20] Speaker A: Right? I think. You don't just do the tail stuff then, man. Like, let's be clear, too. You can only teleport as far. Well, no, he can teleport as long as he's seen the thing. Right? As long as. So he can teleport, like, across a city.
[00:13:33] Speaker B: No, I think he has to be able to see where he's teleporting to.
[00:13:36] Speaker A: Yeah, I think you're right. Yeah. He has to be close enough to it. Yeah. He can't. Like, he needs to be or. Because I know the thing was, like, he's. He can go. He can if the door is closed, but he wants to go into the other room. As long as he's seen the other.
[00:13:47] Speaker B: Room, I think he's very close to it. Yeah. Because I think the risk is he'll get lost in the fucking other world and die, so. Yeah.
[00:13:54] Speaker A: Must have very.
[00:13:55] Speaker B: Sir.
[00:13:55] Speaker A: Oh, that's why. Because they were like, well, why can't. Why couldn't he just teleport anywhere? Like, the distance? Like, because he has to travel a nightmare landscape. That's why.
[00:14:03] Speaker B: Yeah. Fuck.
[00:14:04] Speaker A: You want to know? Is that why you. Are you happy? You know now? Are you happy? You asked questions. We just didn't want to make him too overpowered.
[00:14:10] Speaker B: It's, like, instantaneously. So he has to, like, decide his location and get to that door.
[00:14:15] Speaker A: Right? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:14:17] Speaker B: Do you think he ages in the hellscape? It doesn't matter. I'm voting for Wolverine.
[00:14:21] Speaker A: I know. I. I mean, it's. He's. He's fun. I did. You okay? I did. I tried so hard. I googled for days. I tried every search term that I could think of to find Nightcrawler popular. Why? And, like, the only thing I can come up with is that, for the most part, it's just seems like he's been around a long time.
Like, he's, like, one of the oldest.
[00:14:48] Speaker B: It's okay. I get that. But in my. I've been talking to people, and anytime I. No one's ever brought up Nightcrawler to me. Right. In talking about X Men. But then I was like, what about, like, Nightcrawler, if we're talking about. And they're all, oh, yeah, he fucking rules. Yeah. Oh, badass Nightcrawler. Yeah, good. I forgot about him. But he's great. So everyone loves the guy, but they can't remember it. Right, Nick. Nick. I'm so afraid I'm the night crawler of my fucking friend group. They're like, oh, Nicoti's fucking great. Why don't we think about it more often?
[00:15:12] Speaker A: I. There. There is one of my favorite when I was looking this up. This is real. Anyone can go find this right now. If you look up Nightcrawler popular, why? There's a Reddit thread. And one person asked three months ago, why does everyone love Nightcrawler so much? Now? It was taken down. It was deleted. It's a deleted post. But, like, it's like, you know, it's in that way where, like, you can't see the post, but, you know, the question was asked. Yeah, what is going on?
[00:15:36] Speaker B: Somebody killed that person.
[00:15:37] Speaker A: Yeah. They're like, don't ask questions like, oh, my. Cody, I'm telling you this now because we need to be ready. They. These fans of Nightcrawler, they're like, don't question our God. He just is the greatest. And if you can't handle that, you can die.
[00:15:53] Speaker B: Yeah. I love Nightcrawler. I have to vote for Wolverine because the only thing I'm more scared of than the Nightcrawler contingent is the Wolverine contingent. Yeah, but I know that's what I think. He's dead. Someone look up that user. Find him.
[00:16:06] Speaker A: Right? Go figure it out. Cause I'm. Once again, I don't understand what happened and why it happened.
[00:16:12] Speaker B: I. I can say this. I can say this. We're recording the final four right now. The next season has already been recorded. It. Well, not the whole thing, but the first four has already been recorded. It is best breakfast. If that season doesn't come out next Monday or any other season comes out. Nick and I have been compromised by the Nightcrawler contingency.
[00:16:34] Speaker A: What do you need other season? This other secret season that you're worried with, are they going to take us over?
[00:16:40] Speaker B: And that's what I'm saying.
[00:16:41] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:16:42] Speaker B: Like, what if they replace us?
[00:16:43] Speaker A: And they're like, hey, Nick and lol. This is lol. Friendly competition.
[00:16:50] Speaker B: I am Goldie, a friendly man from the. From sub America. And I'm here to tell you breakfast foods are good. I like vodka, cigarette. What is your favorite breakfast, Nicholas? I mean, Nick, my favorite breakfast is.
[00:17:04] Speaker A: Breakfast that come from official russian box.
[00:17:08] Speaker B: Yeah. If that is the show that we've been compromised, I'm locked into Wolverine.
[00:17:12] Speaker A: Yeah. 1 second. Yeah, we got a lock in Wolverine. It's. It's the only one. It just is. You got to give it to the boy. All right, here we are. Storm, Wolverine for the further belt for the boat. This one. Okay, now, what did any. Did you. Did any of your research. In any of your research, were you able to justify Wolverine outside of claws? Because I want to say, I relistened to our episode, and all we said was claws said it a lot. If you made it a drinking game, you would have passed out.
[00:17:44] Speaker B: You would have been dead. Okay, here's. The claws are cool. I think I did figure it out, right?
[00:17:48] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:17:49] Speaker B: It's the same reason the world was infatuated with stone cold Steve Austin, right? It is. Because Wolverine rolls up into the X Men. They're all cookie cutter, good guy bitches. Wolverine, at one point, opens a beer with his claw, chugs it. Cyclops says, hey, I need you to go with the team. Wolverine has his one claw still out, puts his hand up, gives him the finger, and walks off. And it's like, dog.
[00:18:12] Speaker A: I forget. When he does the middle finger, the middle finger claw is great. What a. Cause it's also very silly. You're like, yeah, I mean, there's three. Like, yeah, sure, I guess that works. But, like, every. Like, that's so badass.
[00:18:26] Speaker B: You got.
[00:18:26] Speaker A: Because he.
[00:18:27] Speaker B: He can do what none of us can. He lives outside the system, Nick.
[00:18:32] Speaker A: He gets to flip off the boss. But yet the. Like, he's still the boss's favorite at the end of the day.
[00:18:36] Speaker B: Exactly.
[00:18:38] Speaker A: He's. I mean, he is. It is truly in that manifest, like you said, in that true manifestation of, like, cult like, stone cold, where this is actually not a real person. You cannot be this.
[00:18:50] Speaker B: You can't.
[00:18:51] Speaker A: That's. That's truthfully. Why? Because if you acted in this regard, I'll even, like, just move it out to stone cold, right? If you wanted to. If you wanted to act like stone cold at your job, if you're on a construction site, right, and the boss comes down from their ac trailer telling you all to do your job, and you're like, hey, man, I'm gonna tell you right now. You shut the fuck up. And you. And then grabbed two beers, clinked them, drank them, threw them at them, and was like, go fuck yourselves. We're not doing that shit. And then they'd be like, okay, you're fired. Go, like. And then that's it. That's how that ends. Like, you. No one can. You.
[00:19:26] Speaker B: No person.
[00:19:27] Speaker A: It doesn't matter how charismatic you are. Can get away with it. So. But that's why we all fantasize about it. Like, that is what makes him a great fantasy character on a way that's like, storm's a great fantasy character. Cause she has an amazing power. She has the coolest fucking powers. She's a bad. The entire time.
[00:19:44] Speaker B: Passion powers. So cool.
[00:19:46] Speaker A: And. But Wolverine is like a fantasy character in this way of like, no, he's a human fantasy.
[00:19:51] Speaker B: Yes, he's a. It's a power fantasy. We can't live. That's why no one's been able to catch Wolverine was ran. Stone Cold ran. And now we are just waiting for the next person. Right? It's like hang. Hangman. Adam page. Swerve. Swerve is the closest guy I could think of.
[00:20:06] Speaker A: Right. I'm trying to think of outside of wrestling if we have one. But, like, in pop culture. Yeah, like, this is what. Like, there's just so few of these guys that can walk that line of like, you're an asshole, but I love you.
[00:20:21] Speaker B: Megan, thee stallion.
[00:20:22] Speaker A: Ooh.
[00:20:23] Speaker B: That's the closest pop culture person I.
[00:20:25] Speaker A: Think, stallion as Wolverine make it. Ha. You cowards. At Marvel, you fucking. You would never. You liberal cucks. You would never do it, you cowards. You're too scared to do it. You don't have to pause to make Megan the stallion Wolverine I was talking about.
[00:20:49] Speaker B: Just like, personality wise.
[00:20:51] Speaker A: Nope. But no, no, I know what you were doing, but now I'm doing something else. At the end of the day, we need a new Wolverine. Because like, Hugh Jackman, while yes, he is redoning it for Deadpool. Wolverine out July 21. We're not sponsored. I just. We're hoping for, you know, Ryan Reynolds, if you count. I've added you to hashtags. Ryan Hugh. So, you know, this could be officially sponsored if you wanted it to throw.
[00:21:12] Speaker B: Yeah, we can make it happen.
[00:21:14] Speaker A: But we know that, like, there's will be a new X Men. Like, they're. They're kind of behind the scenes casting it right now. And a lot of people think it's going to be a guy named Taryn Edgerton. And he's fine and he's great. But what if when we. When we cut to when they do that scene and we watch the claws come up and then baja, and then all sudden we see that face and it's fucking Megan sound. She goes, ow, ow.
We're just like, oh, shit.
[00:21:39] Speaker B: Okay, so who, where we luck it? We gotta decide this now. I think if we're going just pure power fantasy of what I want to be. It is like, power wise, it storm. But Wolverine is like a lifestyle decision. Are we a lifestyle bread? Is that what we are?
[00:21:56] Speaker A: I gears. Okay, let's just. Let's just real quick, using the knowledge we have, which I'll be clear in a few spaces, is not going to be a lot, but I just want to do this exercise. Okay. Cartoon version. Who you going with? Based off of everything you've seen in those cartoons, who are you going with for me? Or we could go one, two, three, and 13123.
[00:22:18] Speaker B: Wolverine. Storm. Okay.
[00:22:19] Speaker A: Really? I. Yeah, I think the cartoon is where I like him the least.
[00:22:24] Speaker B: He's got claws.
[00:22:26] Speaker A: I understand, but that's where he's also, like, it feels like at his mopius sometimes.
[00:22:30] Speaker B: Like, yeah, he's kind of a schoolboy bitch in that one.
[00:22:32] Speaker A: Yeah. Okay, so I've only watched about ten.
[00:22:35] Speaker B: Episodes, so I'm not. I don't. Okay, I've watched.
[00:22:38] Speaker A: I've watched. I'm on season three right now. I'm finally. I got through Phoenix again. It's so good. It's like, maybe just like, it's just maybe one of the greatest arcs that can just be developed. It's just so good. Anyway. All right, that's fine. I also like that every time before she, like, casts, like, before she does her power, she gives, like, a little poem.
[00:22:58] Speaker B: Hell yeah, dude.
[00:22:59] Speaker A: She's always like, let the fog of the. Of the island roll.
[00:23:04] Speaker B: She always has to say something.
[00:23:06] Speaker A: You're like, wait.
[00:23:07] Speaker B: Winds of the desert, rise and bring your heat to fly me. And she like, takes off. It's like. And Wolverine just pushing.
[00:23:14] Speaker A: Yeah, I don't think she needs to. I think that's for flavor. I think she just likes doing that.
[00:23:20] Speaker B: She's got a fucking. All right, I like that. Okay.
[00:23:22] Speaker A: Anyway, okay, so cartoon. All right, so we're split. Okay. All right. All right. All right. Right. Movie.
[00:23:27] Speaker B: Wolverine.
[00:23:28] Speaker A: Wolverine.
[00:23:29] Speaker B: Yeah. Comic book. Comic books. I picked up. I picked up a comic book. I read series one through five of the return of the X Men. It's one where they go back in time. Okay, minor spoilers for the first book. First issue, the X Men in the future tech restore. X is dead. Cyclops has joined Magneto. He's gone full rogue. They go back in time to go get Cyclops from the previous X Men to go talk to him in the future. It's fucking wild. All right. And that one is storm, for sure.
[00:24:00] Speaker A: Yeah, I like. I like a storm. I. So we're basically. So that was nothing.
[00:24:04] Speaker B: Yeah, it was nothing. All right. All right, I'm going.
[00:24:07] Speaker A: I think I gotta go storm.
[00:24:08] Speaker B: I think I have to go storm as well. At the end of the day, I think I have to go storm. Wolverine is a lifestyle choice. He's like Stone cold. And here's the thing. Stone Cold can't be your favorite.
[00:24:17] Speaker A: No, no. It doesn't say much about you.
[00:24:20] Speaker B: Yeah.
This will be a better convert. We said at the beginning, this whole thing we're giving you your favorite for when people ask, Storm is going to be. Give you a conversation to go somewhere, say, wolverine. That's nothing.
[00:24:30] Speaker A: Exactly. You. You think it's something. Cause you're giving them an answer to the question, but it's actually not an answer in any way, shape or form because there's then nothing to say. Cause it's like. It's. It's just the most obvious.
[00:24:43] Speaker B: It's like st. Vanilla ice cream.
[00:24:44] Speaker A: Right? It's like, oh, yeah, that makes sense. Like that. The only response to like, who's your favorite X Men? Wolverine. Yeah, that makes sense. Okay. Like, storm, like, oh, what do you like, do you like, like, now you can be like, do you like Mohawk? Storm, do you like, like, what? What's your favorite thing? How badass. Her fashion powers.
[00:25:00] Speaker B: Fashion powers. Bring that up. Yes. I'm not gonna storm.
[00:25:02] Speaker A: All right, I'm. I'm with you here. I think we got a lock in storm. And that is it. Storm, welcome to the boat. Congratulations. And I mean, it's going to be clear. It's going to be smooth sailing from here because we got. We got storm on the boat now. So.
[00:25:16] Speaker B: Hell yeah.
[00:25:17] Speaker A: Thank you all for listening to this episode of Friendly competition. If you want about Chuboys, a few things that you can do, as always, share with a friend, tell a friend, wherever you're listening to this, make sure you hit that. Like that. Follow that. Subscribe and wherever you can give us those five stars, please.
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[00:25:43] Speaker A: As always, shout outs to Charizard for that intro music. You want to hear more of their stuff. And over to band camp, type in Charizard. Replace the vowels with sixes. That is going to be it for us, folks. Like Cody said, we hope we have a new season coming out next. Next week should be about breakfast.
But just know we would never give this up. We would never give it away to anyone. So if you ever hear someone else doing this, they've killed us.
[00:26:10] Speaker B: Yeah, for sure. Absolutely.
[00:26:12] Speaker A: Because we're not. We're also not going to make great hostages. Let's be clear about, though, they'd be.
[00:26:17] Speaker B: So fucking annoyed they couldn't keep us in the same cell.
[00:26:19] Speaker A: I'm getting.
[00:26:20] Speaker B: There's no way I'm getting one through.
[00:26:22] Speaker A: The eyes pretty early on. So until then, I've been Nick Carey.
[00:26:26] Speaker B: And I'm Cody. Lena. See you on the boat.
