Everything&Nothing: A Collection of Thoughts

I am a huge fan of anime so naturally when they started making Dragon Ball Z for consoles I was immediately intrigued. Obviously the game changed throughout the years which the addition storylines and characters that game had to evolve.  Eventually the game go to the Xenoverse version of the game which I enjoyed a lot. I enjoyed the game because it had a little bit of an open world feel to it, but it still had the traditional fighting genre feel. Same goes for Xenoverse 2, so when the newest one, Dragon Ball Z Kakarot, released I was again intrigued.  The Game was a disappointment When I first saw DBZ: Kakarot I the game play looked solid and the game overall looked like it was going to follow the traditional story arc, but what I didn't realize was that it changed from the fighting genre more to an open world RPG.  When I started the game up, I thought the initial phase of the game was like a tutorial which is why you couldn't go to the main menu, but after about 10 minu...

I like Matthew McConaughey. He seems like a good guy and he has been in several movies that I love, so his recent string of interviews have be really interesting and for the most part I haven't really heard him say anything to make me change my opinion of him. His recent interview with Russell Brand was interesting and what really caught my attention was their conversation about politics, specifically the 2020 election.  Brand makes a comment in which he says that he doesn't like to hear people say that others are stupid for voting for Brexit and Trump. To which McConaughey replies with his point of view about how it's hypocritical for people to expect Trump supporters to accept the results of the election when in 2016 people reacted much the same way when he won.  Essentially the conversation gets to a point where McConaughey suggests that people should reframe their conversations about politics in order to find a way to meet in the middle.  I didn't find anything over...

We all remember that one time JaVale McGee missed that wide open dunk and everyone knows he’s got 3 championship rings (2 with the Warriors and 1 with the Lakers), so it’s safe to say we all know about his basketball career's highs and lows, but did you know he’s a Grammy nominated music producer as well? Back in February of this year, JaVale McGee tweeted about a song he worked on with Justin Bieber. McGee helped write and produce the song ‘Available’ on Justin Bieber’s newest album Changes. McGee tweeted that 2020 is a year of growth and that it was a dream of his to be a music producer. Working with Justin Bieber isn’t his only dabble into the music business though. Back in April 2018, McGee released his own album entitled Pierre and in that following September he let it be known that he was working with one of his teammates at the time, Lonzo Ball, on some other music. McGee has said that keeping his basketball life and his music life separate is hard because on the one hand y...

If you haven't seen the Umbrella Academy on Netflix, you should. It's a really good show if you're into comic books and super heroes.  What is it? The Umbrella Academy is a show on Netflix about a group of children that were all born on the same day. A man named Sir Reginald Hargreeves, went around the world to find these children because they had special abilities. Out of the 43 children born that day, Hargreeves was able to obtain 7. He raised these children to harness theirs powers and work together to save the world.  Hargreeves is a hard man and seems very eccentric which translated into a poor father figure. The children had their disfunctions, but instead of helping them deal, Hargreeves would push them harder with training teaching them that those were just hard life moments.  One of the character with issues stemming from childhood traumas was Vanya. Hargreeves seemed to exclude her from the rest of the children making sure to let her know she was just average co...

  I have always been a huge Johnny Depp fan; to me the man is the epitome of cool. He has this swagger about him and I think for me when I watched Pirates of Caribbean for the first time it is when I really saw how cool he was. I mean, to be able to go from Edward Scissors hands to Jack the Pumpkin King to Jack Sparrow was just this awesome transformation through some of my favorite characters and then he was a freaking pirate! It's like how much cooler can this guy get?? You could almost go so far as to say I have a man crush on him. The dude is fashionable, trendy, a rock star, and a phenomenal actor, who doesn't have a crush on the man?? (You're a liar if you say you don't and I'll no discussion about it.)  "Alright, but what does that have to do with anything???" Right, glad you asked. I woke up this morning and I was lying in bed scrolling through my news feed when I saw an article about how the Animaniacs new season had a joke in there about Johnny D...

  I love stand-up comedy and Kevin Hart is one of my favorites, but last few specials kind of missed the mark for me. Don't get me wrong, I think he is a great stand-up comedian but his last few specials were kind of flat and while they were entertaining because it is after all Kevin Hart, they weren't as funny as some of his earlier stand-up specials.  I can't say I was overly excited to hear that Kevin Hart had a new special on Netflix, but within the first few minutes of the special, I could this one was different. The first thing you can tell is that he is a lot more comfortable which he attributes to doing the show in his home versus some large venue. That smaller more imitate feel really helped his storying telling and confidence. In some of his prior shows I felt like he was trying too hard to retool some of his older jokes to make them a little bit more broad audience friendly but in this special he actually takes time to address the changing relationship between fa...

Not gonna lie, I haven't seen Hubie Halloween and as I much as I don't want to, I know my curiosity will get the better of me because I do love old school Adam Sandler and I am hoping that he can either find something new that makes me excited to have seen it or at least make me feel like he isn't shameless money grabbing. I have followed Sandler's career since I first saw Big Daddy. Then I watch Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore. Since those days I have seen every thing from Little Nicky to Uncut Gems and even Spanglish (F*cking loved it. Such an underrated movie) but most of his work sort of just feels like a shameless cash grab. Far be it from me to say that it is not hard work coming up with new fresh ideas. I know it's hard to please every one but at what point do you say maybe it's time for me to stop being the star and find someone else to play the leads in the movies I write? Sandler has always used essentially the same team to do his movies and I love tha...

I love scary movies but I hate those scary movies list that come out. Most times I read through them I feel like they only pick the top rated movies and throw in a few classics they've seen. Sometimes even the "critically" acclaimed movies are crap and the only reason they were so popular is because they had a bigger budget or were able to secure a more popular cast; throw in a few jump scares and you have a blockbuster title.  One thing I will not discount is the fact that most of these lists are comprised by the person's preferences. Someone might watch Oculus and think it's a terrible movie while others might think it's the scariest thing they have ever seen, so I won't say that my list is the end all be all but I will say that I have seen all of these movies and I can guarantee that there are more than a few on this list that I think you will like.  The reason I picked these 75 movies is because each one of them left me feeling uneasy after watching an...

  If you've been keeping up with Dr. Disrespect and Twitch, then you know there still isn't much to go on. Dr. Disrespect was banned from Twitch earlier this year and Twitch has still not yet addressed the ban publicly and Dr. Disrespect is carrying on outside of Twitch as if nothing has happened.  One interesting thing to note is that a few weeks ago he seemed to hint at the reason that Twitch had banned him during one of his live streams.  "Master Chief Navy here says Rich Miller. Hey Rich! Imagine the Navy going in there and getting rid of you, huh. Just out of no where. And then bringing in 3 new cadets. Because you know what, they said man, even though he's going to turn Master Chief, that's a big huge salary. Imagine that Rich. But thankfully that doesn't happen to you." He seems to hint at the idea that he is being replaced by other streamers because he (Dr. Disrespect) would want too big of a salary for an exclusive contract. If you are familiar wi...

  Saturday afternoon, UFC 254 saw one of the greatest fighters in UFC history, a rising star, defend his title, and then promptly retire at 29-0 as a professional fighter.  Admittedly, I did not see the fight, but I followed both fighters enough to know who they are and what to expect. When I talked about the fight during my podcast, I said that both fighters were great wrestlers and that the only way Gaethje would win is if he made Khabib stand with him by cancelling out Khabib's wrestling. I think one thing we all thought would affect the fight is the fact that Khabib lost his father due to Covid. Khabib's father was a huge presence in his life and he mentioned that it was the first time he was going to have to face a challenge inside the octagon without his father. After the fight, during his post-fight interview, he said he talked to his mother for 3 days and that she didn't want him to fight without his father by his side. He promised this would be his last fight; a re...

The US Justice Department capped off a long investigation into Google by mounting formal charges against Google claiming the company has violated multiple antitrust laws. Essentially the DOJ is claiming that Google has gotten too big and uses their position to the determent of corporate competitors and consumers.  I can see why this would a concern because we do in fact have laws the are supposed to ensure a level playing field for businesses, but is curious to me is why they are going after Google now when you have other companies that have been doing the exact same thing for years, what's Google doing differently that other companies are pretty much getting away with the same thing... Here's what I mean:  Walmart is one of the nations biggest retailers both online and brick & mortar locations. Walmart sells groceries, clothes, auto parts, furniture, kitchen appliances and more; they even purchased that Jet.com to boost their online presence to compete with Amazon. Amazon...

As we get closer to the election, the news about Hunter Biden is starting to heat up. Emails have surfaced that indicate that Biden may have arranged a meet between his dad and some Ukrainian businessmen that he was work for or with at the time. I had a chance to look over the emails and there wasn’t anything overtly alarming in them. Most of them seem like normal business emails, so I am left wondering where all these ties to wrongdoing link all the way to Joe Biden. Here’s what I know: I know that Hunter Biden had a drug addiction, I know that he landed a position with foreign company and that foreign company happened to be a little bit shady, and I know that during this time, at least at some point, Joe Biden was Vice President. I know that’s not a ton to go on but based on the facts, those are the only ones concrete enough to build any real plausible story from. Based on those concrete facts, let’s talk about those emails and what the implications are. People are saying that Joe ...

I have been a user of social media since the early days of Myspace. Those were the days when you could customize the HTML to change the background and really customize your space. You could organize your top friend’s list but one thing that didn’t change from the real world was the drama. Mean spirited social media posts aimed at fellow students. Nasty email messages being circulated; it wasn’t anything any different than those nasty notes getting passed in school or those vicious rumors being spread behind your back. Fast forward 14 years, and I see the same things on social media and the internet as I do in real life and the only real difference is that when people say horrible things on the internet, there are vastly more people there to co-sign on the nastiness. Example: A girl posts a selfie and a man posts a nasty comment about it. Other men who agree with the comment can like and/or comment with the original comment whereas in public if a man should be so bold as to say someth...

  On a campaign call, Trump decided to belittle Dr. Fauci during a wildly baseless rant about how people are sick of Covid. He would later go on to poke fun of Fauci's age with a poor joke about him being here for 500 years but to that I say, wouldn't that make him someone to listen to? I mean, after 500 years the man's got to know a little something right? They don't call him doctor for nothing. Trump later claims that if Fauci was in charge a half of a million people would have died by now, which, according to reports is a very real possibility under Trump's watch come January. ( click here to find out more )      "People are tired of Covid. I have these huge rallies," Trump said, phoning into a call with campaign staff from his namesake hotel in Las Vegas, where he spent two nights amid a western campaign swing. "People are saying whatever. Just leave us alone. They're tired of it. People are tired of hearing Fauci and all these idiots."  ...

Ice Cube is probably one of my all-time favorite celebrities. To see someone from the black community that’s older than I am have such a level of success in the entertainment industry gives myself and other people a light at the end of the tunnel, so to speak. What I mean by that is, we see that if we work at something we could be like him one day but we have to put in whatever effort it requires. He’s always maintained that street attitude all the while learning and growing as a human being which is why I think he started this whole idea of the contract with black America. I mean, when you go from rags to riches and you see everyone around you the same skin color as you still struggling, still getting killed by the police and just overall stuck in the same mess he was in all those year ago when he was rapping about it with NWA, I am sure he asked himself what more could be done. With all his money and influence he sought out some people and put together the contract with black America...