Hey everybody. Welcome to Friends from Work. If you're just joining us, this is a podcast where we talk about all things in the Marvel

Cinematic Universe and sometimes things that aren't in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

I'm Kyle Skona Will.

I'm Robbie Earl.

And this is an episode where we're going to be talking about Guardians of the Galaxy

Volume 2.

But before we get started, I just wanted to say, wasn't it kind of fun having Kyle Cousins

join us on the Guardians of the Galaxy

one episode last week, Rob? It was very fun. I felt a little outnumbered as the only non-Kyle

in the group, but other than that, it was a great experience. I still need to get a picture of him

in that full get-up to share. Oh, absolutely. Can we kind of moving forward? Why today can we not have someone that looks, you know, strikingly like Yandu?

I'm not sure I have anyone in my life that looks like, Jandu. I know. I feel like it would also be a little unnerving if we did have anybody in our lives that looked like Yandu. Maybe just paint anyone blue. Right. No, it was great having Kyle around.

Guardians is such a fun, kind of different universe within the MCU to explore. It's true.

And there is such a fun childlike Star Wars vibe to these Guardians movies that I just really enjoy it.

Yeah. Yeah. Okay, let's talk about Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 2, though.

Yes. Okay, so Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 2 came out in 2017. It was preceded by Dr. Strange,

followed by Spider-Man Homecoming to give people sort of an idea of the release

order. However, as we've said multiple times, James Gunn is insistent about the fact that Guardians

volume 2 is supposed to take place, I mean, like right after the first one.

We have this discussion, but we landed on it takes place months later.

Yeah, that feels right to me. Because if you notice at

the very beginning of the movie, it starts in 1980, then it says 34 years later, which puts it at

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