Today on the Marvel Cinematic Universe podcast, we're going to be discussing the state of the nation.

Sorry, state of the MCU.

Where are we going and what we've got to do until the next thing comes out?

It's, we're going to be here a while by ourselves.

We've got to entertain ourselves.

Zombies got moved up a little bit.

Oh, okay. That's cool.

I'll let him more ever hear about this.

Welcome to the Marvel Cinematic Universe podcast. My name's Matthew Carroll.

And I'm Jeff Randall and embarrassed at that intro.

No, man. That's great. Great intro. How's it going, buddy? I'm scared, Matt. I'm scared. No. We've got so long until the next property. Don't be scared. We do, we have a little while. This is going to be fun. We haven't had a, like, the beginning of this year, we sat down to try to, like, scope out our year and think about, like, some cool episode ideas and stuff and, like,

come up with some, like, clever things we could do that aren't just, like, answering feedback

or responding to stuff.

And then we sat down to do that and realized, oh, there's not an opportunity to do that until

August.

Because there's been content or content constantly since the beginning of the year, basically. We've had a gap here or there, but it's been a week or two at a time. We now have a two-month gap. So we're going to be doing some fun episodes coming up, hopefully. And we thought we'd start today. We've got a few news bits, and then we're going to do kind of state of the MCU now that we have fantastic four numbers in like what do we

think this is going to look like um what does this mean for the future of the MCU because it didn't

do as well as it would have hoped one would have hoped yeah like based on our reactions you

would think like oh man this is, you would think, like, oh, man, this is making, you know, a billion easily.

And, um, well.

Yeah, no, it didn't.

And, and this thing is the, the, the, the whole conversation we're going to have, quality versus numbers and what's mean and how, what does this mean for the position of the MCU?

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