Now We're Thinking

On this episode, we are joined by our favorite guest Alex Serrato. We start the episode up with sports news, Mike Tyson vs Jake Paul, and getting Alex’s and Alonso’s opinions on the fight. We react to Mike Tyson’s message to Jake Paul and his intense training. Alonso tells us about his trip to Sin City, Las Vegas. We collectively come together and react to the sad passing of Akira Toriyama, we look back on moments in Dragon Ball and discuss what we loved about it and how it affected us and affected anime today. If you had The Dragon Balls what would your 3 wishes be? Justen gives us his spoiler-free review of Jujitsu Kaisen Zero and to wrap up on this episode’s anime discussion we look back at 2023 best anime award winners. Is the U.S. banning TikTok? We go over why it’s getting banned and the effects it has on the younger generation, could the algorithms on social media affect the younger generation like it does us? Oscar reads a Mr. Beast tweet saying how short-form content is overplayed and how good storytelling and quality content can make a comeback in the future. We end this episode with the Boeing whistle-blower incident and theorize about what could have happened to him.

In this Small Thoughts Episode Justen and Oscar react to the sad passing of famous Japanese manga artist and creator of Dragon Ball, Akira Toriyama. Oscar wonders, are all Latinos from Spain? We try to get into the head of Christopher Columbus and the Spaniard on why they conquered others, for power or just fun? A surprise caller joins us on this week’s episode. In sports news we react to Mike Tyson and Jake Paul upcoming boxing match and LeBron James reaching 40k! We dive into Jonathan Majors past arrest and discuss if the situation was different how would it have ended, are cops more aggressive against certain people than others in America? Is social media getting more dangerous? We discuss the dangers of social media and how it can give out your location and information, Oscar shares his incident of how social media can be dangerous in most unexpected situations. A person has been charged and arrested for the murder on the set of Rust, we discuss and see if it was the right choice. Justen gives his spoiler-free review of Kung Fu Panda 4. Is Alonso secretly a Mickey Mouse actor?

Justen got the boyz Turkish snacks and we reacted and tasted them. Alonso announces he's gonna get surgery. Oscar watched "Madem Web" and reviews it with the boyz and gives his honest opinion. Alonso asks the boyz how anime is becoming normalized now more than ever growing up and what the future can hold for anime. We discuss animators in Japan being overworked. We then discuss and review Donald Trump going to Sneakercon and releasing his new shoes called, "Never Surrender High-Tops". We then discuss the newly released Apple Vision Pro, and Tesla Cyber Truck. We tie this to Neural Link and Google Glass and see how far we're going into the future. AI developing too fast, and the pros and cons of all this technology being released, Is it too much for the next generations?

The boyz in this episode are joined once again by our fellow mate Alex Serrato and we all react to the Deadpool & Wolverine Trailer. We later review a list of all the best Marvel films ranked by the highest-earning films. Alonso then tells us all the new movies releasing this year in 2024 like Venom 3, Kung Fu Panda 4, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, Kraven The Hunter, Kingdom of The Planet of The Apes, and Joker 2. Alex brings up animators in Japan being overworked and discusses some anime. Best Batman cartoons? We then go over the Super Bowl game and reflect on how the game played out. As well as looking ahead and talking about the World Cup coming to North America! 

In this episode, the boyz react to Drakes's new leaks and we ain't talking about music. We then discuss the Grammys and Best Rap album of 2023. Then debate who deserves the best Rap album of 2023 and look into who has the most Grammys of all time. Super Bowl talk, Alonso and Oscar bet on the Super Bowl against Justen and predict who will win. We then look back throughout the years of the Super Bowl halftime shows and see which ones were the best! Oscar pitches Alonso and Justen the show Griselda on Netflix and discusses it. The boyz then talk about OG famous Latinas and crown a queen of Latinas! DEADPOOL 3 discussions and we react to rumored cameos to appear in the movie.

Justen and Alonso come together for this episode of Small Thoughts and discuss Oscar missing this episode having COVID and then tell their stories of going through COVID. Justen reveals he's going blind. Justen asks Alonso what famous event in the history of mankind would he want to relive or see. Alonso responds by wanting to see an event in the future of people going to Mars and what if the movie, "Arrival" were to happen. 

A special guest Alex Serrato joins us on this episode. Alonso has a dream about Oscar.  Alex explains his point of view on going to Mexico and getting hammered with Oscar. Alex and Oscar go to the Utah Sneaker Convention. SCENARIO TIME; We get into Climbing Mount Everest and the boyz come up with a special Olympic-type game involving homeless people and crackheads.  

Justen watches Godzilla Minus One and tells us how this is the perfect Godzilla movie. This New Year's special will discuss and look back on the year 2023 and talk about the best moments we've experienced and also our low moments of the year. As well as moving forward into 2024 what we're looking forward to and what we've learned from each other. We play a questionnaire game where we assign someone the title for the current topic we are discussing for example; who has the biggest character development of 2023? Who was the funniest person on the podcast in 2023? Then we get into the details of why and bring up stories to prove our points. Lastly, we get into our New Year's Resolutions and unveil our Apple replays of 2023!

The boyz come together and fool around to discuss the newly released Spider-Man 2 Insonamic game. We come up with villain roles for each other. As well as talking about funny memes and reels we send to each other. Alonso and Oscar's birthday is around the corner and discuss plans. Oscar's story when he was Jewish for one day.  Justen makes them do the Spicy One Chip Challenge. We tell scary stories of paranormal activity and aliens stories that we've encountered. We give each other roles in the Star Wars Universe. Then we wrap it up by ranking our best Halloween characters in a fight. 

In this Small Thoughts episode, we have Justen and Oscar talking about their experience going to Travis Scott's Circus Maximus concert. They also discuss their Thanksgiving as well as Justen's birthday. They both discuss what they're thankful for and as well as look back on Black Friday memories they've had growing up and debate whether Black Friday is dead or a scam.