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Star Wars Gets Bigger and Smaller at the Same Time · Large Nerdron Collider

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  Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Welcome back to the Large Nerd Drunk Collider
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  Speaker 1: after a bit of a break, where the podcast it's
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  Speaker 1: all about the geeky things in the world around us
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  Speaker 1: and how excited we are about them. WHOA, I am
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  Speaker 1: rusty at this intro. I'm Ariel casting and with me
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  Speaker 1: as always. Is this stupendous and today kind of wacky
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  Speaker 1: Jonathan Strickland, The forest is strong in this And but
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  Speaker 1: wait did we get did we finally get that Young
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  Speaker 1: Guns Star Wars crossover we've been hoping for? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: the day is early yet, Ariel, as far as we know,
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  Speaker 1: that has in fact been announced as we're recording this.
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  Speaker 1: That is true because Star Wars celebration is happening. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think we're gonna get that mash up. It's just you.
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  Speaker 1: You were mighty country, my friend. Well you know, I'm
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  Speaker 1: a little bit country and then a teeny tiny bit
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  Speaker 1: rock and roll. Yeah. Yeah, So yeah, we've been gone
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  Speaker 1: for a couple of weeks. Jonathan had some travel and
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  Speaker 1: then I had some travel. But we are back now
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  Speaker 1: and excited with the plethora of geeksphere happenings that are happening. Yeah, No,
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  Speaker 1: it's a it's gonna be a jam packed episode filled
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  Speaker 1: with news plus you know, some chitter chatter from your
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  Speaker 1: two beloved hosts. But in order for us to get
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  Speaker 1: this ball rolling, because Ariel, she's got places to go
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  Speaker 1: and work to do, so we're gonna jump right in
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  Speaker 1: with thirty seconds or less. Yes, And the first thing
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  Speaker 1: is that it looks like Warner Brothers is planning to
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  Speaker 1: adopt Terry Potter into an HBO Max series. They're in
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  Speaker 1: the final stage of negotiations. We knew this was happening
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  Speaker 1: because as I've already said that, he wants to make
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  Speaker 1: more Harry Potter's Superman, Cameathrone, Lord of the Rings, Sex
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  Speaker 1: in the City, all that stuff. He's like, it's been
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  Speaker 1: so long since we've had these movies. I'm like, it's
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  Speaker 1: because we've already had these movies. Anyhow, it looks like
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  Speaker 1: that is still going forward despite anybody's excitement or not
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  Speaker 1: excitement about that. Yes, indeed, all right, I'm up next,
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  Speaker 1: and my first thirty seconds or less is about a
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  Speaker 1: film adaptation of Lore. Now, this is not the podcast
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  Speaker 1: series by Aaron Mink, but rather a novel written by
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  Speaker 1: Alexandra Bracken, which Hollywood reporter says is Hunger Games meets
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  Speaker 1: Greek mythology. I don't know if I really am down
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  Speaker 1: for that, but then hey, I'm old, so this sounds
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  Speaker 1: like it's like a young adult kind of appeal thing. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: Amy Pascal is going to produce she produced Spider Man,
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  Speaker 1: and then Joe Shrapnel and Anna Waterhouse are going to
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  Speaker 1: be writing the screenplay. So this is very, very early
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  Speaker 1: on in the whole phase. But yeah, I thought it
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  Speaker 1: was interesting. If there are any lower fans out there,
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  Speaker 1: I hope you're looking forward to a film adaptation. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I originally thought this was an adaptation of the comic
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  Speaker 1: book Laura Olympus, but to be fair, I'm not familiar
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  Speaker 1: with the novel, so the comic could be based off
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  Speaker 1: the book. I don't know. Sorry, that's the only That's
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  Speaker 1: the only like interjection I have. All Right, the next
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  Speaker 1: thirteen seconds of lest we got an announcement from the
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  Speaker 1: Rock that Mowana is getting a live action adaptation and
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  Speaker 1: that he will be playing Mauie. You know, he's got
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  Speaker 1: a really close relationship with the story in Hawaii's kind
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  Speaker 1: of where he's been a large portion of his life,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't know I super loved him as Maui
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  Speaker 1: and the cartoon. It's another one of those ones where
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  Speaker 1: I feel like trying to take it out of animation
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  Speaker 1: and put it into faux real life it might lose something.
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  Speaker 1: And also like, I love the kind of roundly bulky
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  Speaker 1: Mauie we got in the cartoon and that isn't the rock.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure he'll slay the part, but at the same time,
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't have the look I want. Yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 1: And here's my little interjection. I'm also going to say,
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  Speaker 1: like it, I understand people who are getting frustrated with
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  Speaker 1: these remakes of animated films out of Disney, particularly when
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  Speaker 1: we're starting to see like even shorter time spans between
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  Speaker 1: when the original came out and when the remake is
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  Speaker 1: coming out. It does feel a little not great to me.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't think Mowana is one that is really
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  Speaker 1: ripe for a live action film. However, that being said,
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  Speaker 1: having a movie where Pacific Islanders get more representation, that's
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  Speaker 1: a good thing. So I don't really feel bad about that.
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  Speaker 1: I just kind of wish they were tackling a different
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  Speaker 1: Pacific Islander based story. Well we'll get to that later. Also,
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  Speaker 1: this leads right into you know, maybe some of the
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  Speaker 1: reason that they are remaking some of their older stuff
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  Speaker 1: is to do with the reason some of the reasons
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  Speaker 1: people are speculating for your next thirty second or less right,
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  Speaker 1: which is Bob Eiger, the CEO who replaced Bob Jpek,
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  Speaker 1: had a lot to say to shareholders in a phone
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  Speaker 1: call earlier this week, and part of that involved a
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  Speaker 1: seventeen billion dollar investment in Walt Disney World over the
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  Speaker 1: next ten years. Now, the word investment to me suggests
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  Speaker 1: that this is about adding to the Walt Disney World area,
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  Speaker 1: not just supporting its day to day operations. And I
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  Speaker 1: think this also probably has a lot to do with politics.
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  Speaker 1: We won't really get into it, but Disney is kind
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  Speaker 1: of in an embad old disagreement with the state of Florida,
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  Speaker 1: and I have a feeling that this was Iger saying, hey, Florida,
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  Speaker 1: we're pouring a ton of investment in your state, so
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  Speaker 1: maybe back off a bit. That's the feeling I got.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, we'll surely have a lot more to say
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  Speaker 1: about this as actual projects are announced over time. All Right,
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  Speaker 1: The next thing is, it looks like talks are in
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  Speaker 1: the way to get a fifth installment of the Shrek franchise,
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  Speaker 1: which it's been over ten years since the last Shrek
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  Speaker 1: movie and well unless you count post in Boots, which
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  Speaker 1: came out last year, but they're looking to get the
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  Speaker 1: original cast. On the one hand, I definitely think like
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  Speaker 1: the jokes don't all hold up anymore because it's been
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  Speaker 1: over ten years and they were all very timely. On
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  Speaker 1: the other hand, do we really need more Shrek? That
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  Speaker 1: was thirty two seconds whoops? Yeah, and yeah. I have
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  Speaker 1: nothing to add to that other than I never really
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  Speaker 1: I never really got the full appeal of Shrek in
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  Speaker 1: the first place, But we could have a whole episode
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  Speaker 1: dedicated to DreamWorks versus Disney and their philosophies. Instead, I'm
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  Speaker 1: moving on, And the next announcement we have is that
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  Speaker 1: we know that Lelo and Stitch is getting its own
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  Speaker 1: live action remake like so many other Disney animated films,
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  Speaker 1: And now we know the actress who will be playing
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  Speaker 1: the young Lelo. Her name is Maya Kia Looa, and
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  Speaker 1: she will be playing Lilo in Lelo and Stitch. The
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  Speaker 1: only other person that I know for sure has been
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  Speaker 1: announced as being part of this is Zach Gallafanakis, and
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  Speaker 1: as far as I know, they have not revealed what
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  Speaker 1: character he is playing. My guess is Stitch. All right. Next,
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  Speaker 1: if you are a fan of Street Fighter and you
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  Speaker 1: have been craving a wonderful Street Fighter movie since Ralph
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  Speaker 1: Julia was in one way back in the day, you're
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  Speaker 1: in luck because Legendary Pictures has gotten the rights to it.
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  Speaker 1: They're the people who didn't go throwing Godzilla or sorry
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  Speaker 1: no Godzilla versus Kong, Detective Pikachu and Dune, and they
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  Speaker 1: have acquired the film and TV rights to Street Fighter.
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  Speaker 1: And maybe we'll get a good movie. We'll see, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean hope. Springs Eternal, the Mortal Kombat film was
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  Speaker 1: almost good. It definitely had moments that were really cool visually,
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  Speaker 1: although I think overall it kind of was a dud.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, I would love to see a great
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  Speaker 1: Street Fighter movie. Honestly, I think the original Street Fighter
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  Speaker 1: film is entertaining, but not entertaining because it was a
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  Speaker 1: good movie. Okay, because raw Julia is amazing. I mean, yes,
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  Speaker 1: that is undeniable. That's just a truth. Okay. My next
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  Speaker 1: thirty seconds or less, so Josh Freedman has been tapped
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  Speaker 1: to rewrite Fantastic four film for the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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  Speaker 1: The original writers were Jeff Kaplan and Ian Springer, who
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  Speaker 1: were mostly known for doing work in the comedy genre. Well,
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  Speaker 1: they've gotten the boot, and now Josh Friedman is going
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  Speaker 1: to do apparently a full rewrite of the script. He
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  Speaker 1: is more known for science fiction. He co wrote War
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  Speaker 1: of the Worlds and some other sci fi works as well,
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  Speaker 1: So perhaps this is an indication that the Fantastic Four
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  Speaker 1: film is going to have a fundamental change in tone
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  Speaker 1: and go from being maybe a more lighthearted comedic story
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  Speaker 1: to one that's a bit more grounded in tropes of
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  Speaker 1: science fiction. Yeah, we'll see. There's just so a little
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  Speaker 1: known about it. Okay. Next is that The Ballerina, which
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  Speaker 1: is a spin awesome spin off of john Wick, is
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  Speaker 1: getting a release date of June seven to twenty twenty four.
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  Speaker 1: You know, that's not too bad since john Wick four
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  Speaker 1: just came out, and if you're one of the people
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  Speaker 1: who contributed to its seventy three plus million box office
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  Speaker 1: so far and you're sad that there's not any more,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's not too long of a wait for you.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, that's that's about it. That's yeah, yeah, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not gonna give any spoilers related to John Wick four,
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  Speaker 1: but I have questions. I haven't watched it yet. I won't.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna spoil it for you or for anyone
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  Speaker 1: else out there. Okay, moving on. So there is a
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  Speaker 1: graphic novel called Helicious, which is a comic book about
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  Speaker 1: the granddaughter of you know, Satan, who is kind of
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  Speaker 1: wreaking havoc and being a prankster in Hell, but she's
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  Speaker 1: sort of kind of trying to find her own way.
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  Speaker 1: And then she finds out that her favorite rockstar is
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  Speaker 1: scheduled to die, so she's determined to bring him down
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  Speaker 1: to Hell, even though it turns out that's not really
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  Speaker 1: where you're supposed to be. And then they go on
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  Speaker 1: misadventures together. And now it's being turned into an animated series,
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  Speaker 1: and Anthony Keatis, who's best known as being the frontman
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  Speaker 1: for Red Hot Chili Peppers, is attached to star, presumably
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  Speaker 1: as the rock star Briggy Bundy. Interesting concept. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if i'll watch it. Something else I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if i'll watch because I never watched the original is
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  Speaker 1: it looks like Amazon has ordered a TV TV adaptation
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  Speaker 1: of the movie Cruel Intentions, which was book based on
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  Speaker 1: the book Dangerous Liaisons. I haven't watched or read either.
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  Speaker 1: It looks like they were looking to make this show
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  Speaker 1: as early as twenty twenty one, and it's not the
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  Speaker 1: first time they've tried to make a show back in
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  Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, they tried to make a Cool Intentions show
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  Speaker 1: back in two thousand and four, we got Cool Intentions three.
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  Speaker 1: So um, yeah, if that's your jam, maybe you'll have
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  Speaker 1: something to look forward to. Yeah. To me, the reason
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  Speaker 1: why I wanted to even include this in our lineup
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  Speaker 1: is just because the basic story has a very long
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  Speaker 1: lineage right from being you know, a book too, like
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  Speaker 1: there was a play, there was the you know, the
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  Speaker 1: French interpretation. Then there's the American interpretation John Malkovich in it,
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  Speaker 1: which then, by the way, informed one of the greatest
• 12:26
  Speaker 1: music videos of all time walking on Broken Glass by
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  Speaker 1: any Lennox. Then you had Cruel Intentions, the teenage version
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  Speaker 1: of the story. And now we've got this and I'm
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  Speaker 1: to me, it sounds like, Hey, Euphoria did a really
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  Speaker 1: good job getting a lot of eyeballs. How about we
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  Speaker 1: do a different version of euphoria where everyone is just
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  Speaker 1: out and out, ready to sleep with one another and
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: have no issues messing with each other. It's hard for
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  Speaker 1: me to say go ahead, no, go ahead, I was
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  Speaker 1: gonna say, it's hard for me to say what I'm
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  Speaker 1: thinking and keep it family friendly. Also, I didn't realize
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  Speaker 1: you had such strong feelings about cruel intentions. Maybe we
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  Speaker 1: should have moved it to the actual storyline. No, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: I suspected that would be a quick and done No. No,
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  Speaker 1: it's just it was just more of like an and
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  Speaker 1: you know, being interested in its lineage. I don't have
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  Speaker 1: much to say about the actual content other than you
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  Speaker 1: know it. It has its audience, and there are different audiences.
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  Speaker 1: There's like the cerebral audience, and then there's the oh audience. Sure,
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  Speaker 1: all right, okay, last one, here we go? Or not
• 13:42
  Speaker 1: the last one? Not the last one? I forgot we
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  Speaker 1: added more? Okay, all right, sorry, sorry, sorry the third
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  Speaker 1: to last. Okay. So, one of the stories we have here,
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: it's that My Adventures of Superman and animated series that
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: is a lighthearted DC animates. It's actually going to adult Swim,
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  Speaker 1: which is a weird place for it to go because
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: it doesn't feel like an adult swim kind of series
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  Speaker 1: to me. But it also has Jack Quaide voicing the
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  Speaker 1: character of Superman slash Clark Kent. I think that's hilarious
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: because of course, Jack Quaide is also in the series
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  Speaker 1: The Boys, where his arch nemesis is essentially an evil
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  Speaker 1: version of Superman. But you know it should it looks interesting.
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  Speaker 1: The little sneak peek they have is cute. There's not
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  Speaker 1: much you can say about it because it's it's a
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  Speaker 1: very short snippet, but I'm looking forward to it, m
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  Speaker 1: all right. Next is Paramount Plus. If you don't have
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  Speaker 1: Paramount Plus or if you've dropped it right now, you
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  Speaker 1: can get a three month now through April twenty six.
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  Speaker 1: After that it will automatically roll over to a paid membership,
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  Speaker 1: so just be aware of that. Five dollars a month
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: for ad supporting or ten a month for no ads,
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: or bundle with showtime for twelve a month, glad if
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: you've been wanting to catch the latest season of The
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: Card in Heaven, wanted to pay for it, or have
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: already caught up on all the other Paramount Plus stuff
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: and dropped it for the time being. Hey, you've got
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: an opportunity. Yes, it is one of the several streaming
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: series services that I do not subscribe to currently, so
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: maybe i'll think about it. Okay, here is the last
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: story for real season. This is what I get for
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: looking at my tabs instead of looking at our show notes. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Our final story is that we get a teaser for
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  Speaker 1: Muppet Mayhem, which is about the Electric Mayhem. That's the
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: band that is in the Muppet Show universe. And it's
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: just a teaser, so we don't get a whole lot
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  Speaker 1: to it, but it does make it look like it's
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: kind of your standard biopic documentary about a rock band,
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  Speaker 1: So that to me seems like it could be a
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  Speaker 1: lot of fun. These are characters who are typically in
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  Speaker 1: a little supporting role. It's very rare to have them
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  Speaker 1: take front and center stage. So I hope that this
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  Speaker 1: project makes it a really fun story that we can,
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  Speaker 1: you know, think of as having that true Muppet chaotic
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  Speaker 1: experience in it. I thought we'd chat just briefly about
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: some of the stuff we've been up to since we
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: took our two week hiatus. One of the things I
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: thought was interesting I still haven't watched. I haven't seen
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: Dudgeons and Dragons yet. But I've been really surprised at
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  Speaker 1: how reviews have on. You know, for the most part,
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  Speaker 1: been pretty pretty positive for that movie. Yeah, both critically
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  Speaker 1: and and audience wise. It's been pretty fresh. Including friends
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  Speaker 1: of mine who very much loved D and D kind
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  Speaker 1: of all across the spectrum of how they like to
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  Speaker 1: game and what kind of stories they like, have enjoyed this.
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  Speaker 1: It's not from what I hear like. It's just good fun,
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  Speaker 1: is what I hear. With a couple with a lot
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  Speaker 1: of really good Easter eggs and maybe a couple of
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  Speaker 1: tier jerkers if you like either Systems or Lore. Um,
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  Speaker 1: I'm seeing it this weekend. Awesome. Yeah, No, I've got
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  Speaker 1: the theater mostly to myself. Well, what day are you watched?
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  Speaker 1: How I like it? Sunday evening, Easter Sunday evening. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'll be I'll be watching nieces try to find eggs,
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  Speaker 1: and depending on how they are, I might still be
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  Speaker 1: doing that at that time. Listen. I also I like
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: to do Easter stuff, so I'll be doing Easter stuff
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  Speaker 1: in the morning, and then I have a game, and
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  Speaker 1: then after that game, I'm gonna go watch the movie.
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  Speaker 1: So um, but it's not a D and D game,
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  Speaker 1: it's a it's a different system. Well that's cool. I
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  Speaker 1: am eager to hear your thoughts on it. I almost
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  Speaker 1: went to see it last weekend, but just didn't get
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  Speaker 1: my act together to do it. Something else that we saw,
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  Speaker 1: or at least we always saw the reactions to was
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  Speaker 1: for the Super Mario movie, which is out now, and again,
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  Speaker 1: most of the reviews I've seen have been pretty positive.
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  Speaker 1: The one negative review I saw it really wasn't even
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  Speaker 1: that negative, it was just a little more critical. Was
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  Speaker 1: in the Mary Sue and I think it looked like
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  Speaker 1: the major criticism was that the movie appeared to be
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  Speaker 1: an appeal to nostalgic millennials and that it really wasn't
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  Speaker 1: for other audiences. But I don't think that's necessarily a
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  Speaker 1: bad thing. Sometimes you just know who your audience is. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's true. And you know what, it's not just for millennials,
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  Speaker 1: because my niece and nephews are super excited about seeing it,
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  Speaker 1: so it's also for kids, so you know, I think
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  Speaker 1: I think maybe it was just that some of the
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  Speaker 1: jokes perhaps were felt like they were gearing toward me.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't seen it, So I can't really say it's
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  Speaker 1: just based upon what the review said. And like I said,
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  Speaker 1: every other review I saw was really positive, and I'm
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: like Mary Sue, you might want to be a little
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: careful and not try, you know, trying to avoid getting
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  Speaker 1: a reputation of being the poopers of the party. But
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  Speaker 1: also like when you look at most cartoons that require
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  Speaker 1: adults to take children to them, they put in jokes
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  Speaker 1: that the parents will enjoy. And if you've got a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of you know, five to thirteen year olds, because
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  Speaker 1: that in my five to fourteen year olds, because in
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  Speaker 1: my brain, those are the ones that go to the
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  Speaker 1: movies still with their parents. Those parents are more than
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  Speaker 1: likely millennials, so of course you want to appeal to
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  Speaker 1: them as well as the children, because you want to
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  Speaker 1: make it a fun experience for everybody. But not New
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  Speaker 1: New Tunes did it, Animaniacs did it, Tiny Tunes did it,
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  Speaker 1: Hannah Barbara did it. So they're just being cranky. Yeah,
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: that's that's kind of the feeling I got to now, Ariel,
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: you've been off on vacation, but has there been anything
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: in the geekosphere that you were kind of into over
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks that you wanted to touch on.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: I haven't watched any Mandalorian yet. I have seen some spoilers,
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: but not a whole lot. Honestly, while I was in Mexico,
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: I caught the last five minutes of the first Freddie
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: versus Jason movie. I caught the last five minutes of
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: Doctor Sleep, What a Else? And I watched the first
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: half of that week's Never After episode from Dimension twenty
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: while sitting by the pool. This is not to brag
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: on my vacation. It was very relaxing. I just didn't
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: spend a lot of time watching TV. And when I've
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: been home, I've been prepping for band gigs and prepping
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: for travel and trying to get work in a good place.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: So other than the standard like Connors and Mike Court
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: and stuff like that, I haven't watched much. Have you
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: still not watched episode four of the Last of Us?
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: I think I'm like three quarters of the way through now.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: So the problem is that requires more attention, as as
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: does Dimension twenty stuff. So like the things that I
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: watch in the evening, our stuff that my husband also
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: likes to watch. So and we've been just up to
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: our vacation we really needed this vacation, and up to
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: our vacation, we just didn't have a lot of brain power.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: So it was like we finished off History of the
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: World Part two, which was so so about half good
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: and about half really grown, super grown and cringe, and
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: then you know, we watched stuff that was easy and
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: lighthearted and even stuff that we've kind of already seen before,
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: just because we didn't have a lot of energy to
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: put into any shows prior to vacation, and we didn't
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: have a lot of brainpower. We were juggling a lot
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: of things to get everything ready, Like we had to
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: put my cat into boarding. This is more information than
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: any of you needed about my personal life, but now
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: you have it. So now we're back, we're going to
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: start stuff up again and start watching new stuff, and
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: I'm going to make him watch a whole bunch of
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: stuff with me. But it's kind of been path of
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: least Resistance and Last of Us requires just it requires attention.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: I tried to half watch it and that does not work. Yeah,
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: now that's that's totally fair. The really the only thing
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: like I same for me, I haven't been watching a
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: whole lot of stuff like I did. Catch up on
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: Night Court, which ridiculous. And then also I watched the
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: first two episodes of season two of Schmiga DN, the
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: Schmicago season, and man, if you love musicals and you
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: love like catching references to musicals, you need to watch
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: at least season two, Like, really, you need the first
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: season so you have the grounding. But the second season
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: so far, I think is even better and more entertaining
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: than the first one. And I say that even though
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: I'm not the biggest fan of the musicals, that they
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: are referencing stuff like Chicago and Cabaret and Pippin and
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: Hair and Sweet Charity and Sweeney Todd and Company. There's
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: a lot of Sondheim references in this one, but it's
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: it's fun like, and it's it's fun to watch them
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: poke fun at the stereotypes of musicals, my favorite being
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: a musical number about how shocking the musical number is,
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: and nothing about is particularly shocking to a modern audience.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: But they are referencing the fact that when these musicals
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: came out, they were really challenging a lot of social norms,
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: and it's just that now society accepts certain things a
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: lot more readily than it used to and so it's
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: not really shocking anymore. It's kind of like if you
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: were to go see Rocky Horror today, I don't think
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: it would be nearly as scandalous as it was when
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: it came out in the seventies. I mean, it all
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: depends on the cast members who are performing in front
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: of it. There's there's a lot of things that intent
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: will make feel darker or lighter regardless of what the
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: words or the topic is. Um I have found because
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: Cabaret is still even though it's not as shocking as
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: it was back in the day, like it still feels
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: pretty grungy to me. Well, yeah, no, no, Cabaret definitely
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: has like it has that sort of sleazy feel to it.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: And plus, I mean you have the underlying threat of
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: the Nazis all the way through Cabaret, and like that's
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: never going to feel like it's a minor thing, right,
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: That's always going to feel like it's a really dark
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: and important part of the story. Yeah. But I mean,
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: like even Chicago, I think it's because they're they are
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: dark storylines and they are kind of gritty and maybe
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: sleazy is the right word, because I can't figure out
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: what that word is like, it's not shocking anymore, but
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: it's still has that kind of visceral under I can't
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: even think of the right word. It's it's definitely that
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: visceral undertone to it, and I'm like, it's still it
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: still gives me the intended feels. Yeah, well, and like
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: the story certainly can still have an impact. It's just
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: that like certain like the song references things like I
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: have a tattoo. Doesn't that shock you? Like the characters
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: are like no, not not really, like because like that's
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: kind of a normal thing now, So that's sort of
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: the tropes that they're poking fun at. But yeah, I
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: think I think if you're a fan of musicals, you
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: should definitely check out The first season of Shmigadoon was
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: cute and had moments that I thought were really entertaining.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: I just feel like this one, the second season, already
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: is stronger than the first season was. But we're only
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: two episodes and the third one doesn't come out until
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: next week, so I have to wait a while until
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: the next one, and I'm chopping at the bit. Yeah,
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: poor Jonathan message me was like, I messed up. I
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: messed up big. It didn't relea solid once, which is
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: very funny. Yeah, because the first two episodes were out,
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: but then what they did aerial because it didn't say this,
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: but what they did and hbo oh, I'm so mad actually,
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: Apple Apple, I'm so mad at you. Yeah, it's it's
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: one of the few streaming services I subscribe to, the
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: Apple I'm so mad at you. So what you did
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: was you had episode one, you had episode two, and
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: then in the Little Carousel, they had a thumbnail for
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: episode three, even though there wasn't an episode three to
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: actually show yet. It was the thumbnail for three to
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: say like, this is coming soon. But I didn't just
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: say coming soon. So when I started pushing play, I
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: was like, oh, they dropped the whole season at once.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: I can binge the whole thing. And then two episodes in,
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: I was like, why is it suddenly switching to a
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: different series. Yeah, Hulu does that too, but it can
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: be frustrating. So anything else that you watched, No, let's
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: move on to all the news we have to talk about. Okay.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: If that sounded cranky, it wasn't. I was generally genuinely
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: interested that note. Really, Chicago is like the only thing
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: relatively geeky. That's new that I caught. Everything else I've
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: been watching has been kind of like what you were saying,
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: like the low effort sort of stuff that I had
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: in the background because I was trying to do other
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: stuff at the same time. Yeah, honestly though, Like, there's
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: still a bunch of movies that I actually want to
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: go see. So I still need to see the new
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: Creed movieum, and Redfield comes out April fourteenth, so um,
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: you know, there's there's a whole bunch of stuff that
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: has come out recently in movies that I haven't watched,
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: as well as like I still haven't seen the immeasurable
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: weight of immense immense weight of a measurable talent or
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: everything everywhere all at once or nope. Um, So I
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: am going to start putting TV stuff in there now
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: that I'm back from vacation. I'm all nice and refreshed,
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: so slightly itchy. Do you guys know that you can
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: get a rash from sargass and seaweed U anyhow? Aerial
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: can at least yes, I have sensitive skin. Um, my
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: husband not bothered at all. Um, And I'm okay, it's okay.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: It's just a little itchy. Um anyhow, Uh yeah, it's
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: a lot, so much good stuff, so much of your stuff. Okay,
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: you're right, we should we should move on though, Um yes, war. Yeah,
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: there's so much to talk about. Because if you thought
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: maybe we were inundated with Star Wars before, well you
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: ain't seen nothing yet, because they have announced a whole
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: bunch of different projects that are in the pipeline I'll
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: keep in mind, and one that isn't even Star Wars
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: come on now, that's well, I mean a couple that aren't.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: But yeah. The one of the things I wanted to
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: mention though, was that, you know, we've also seen projects
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: get pulled, right Rhan Johnson. Ryan Johnson was supposed to
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: do a trilogy that has apparently been completely abandoned. Oh sad. Yeah,
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: there was the one where oh I forgot her name,
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: the the director of Wonder Woman that she was going
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: to do. Yes, I think there was one that she
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: was supposed to do that is now kind of dead
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: in the water too. But there's a bunch you can do,
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: like a Squadron movie about X Wing pilot. Yeah. So,
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: but there is a lot of stuff that has been announced,
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: including things like when we could expect andor season two,
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: which will be like next year. I still haven't watched
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: Indoor season one, so I needed to get on that.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: They talked about, you know, the Acolyte a little bit,
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: although we go ahead, No, you go ahead, and then
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: I'll say my thought I was gonna say, they showed
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: a teaser to the crowd, but we have not yet
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: seen it as we're recording this. No, Honestly, of all
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: the things they announced, it is what I am most
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: excited about. Um, but partially because I misread what they
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: said it was going to be. Like. So some of
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: the things we are we're going to talk about a
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: little bit later because we did get some trailers. Um
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: but Accolytes on one of them, as Jonathan just said,
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: they said it's Frozen meets kill Bill. But my brain
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: went to, uh, what is that that? My brain went
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: to snow Piercer meets kill Bill, and so I thought
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: it was a very different show. Let it go, Ariel
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: now Accolyte, it seems a little bit different. So I'm
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: kind of excited about that. I also have not well
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: I started Andre, but I haven't finished it. Yeah, so
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: Acolyte is supposed to be set before the events of
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: the prequel trilogy, and it's from the perspective of the
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: bad guys who are the underdogs, and I don't know,
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: I mean, it might end up being a really entertaining series.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: I'm kind of I'm kind of over the whole. Hey,
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: let's look at this from the bad guy's point of view,
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: largely because the bad guys, at least in the original
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: trilogy of Star Wars were essentially Nazis and I am
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: not interested in being told to empathize with them. So
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: so maybe, you know, maybe it's gonna be a little different.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: But like, I'm not so big on let's feel for
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: the bad guys. I agree that is how the original
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: trilogy portrayed them, and I would be happy to keep
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: them there, But since then they've done a whole bunch
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: of lore about you know, emotion isn't necessarily a bad thing,
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: and you need a balance between the two, and I
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: don't I don't want to look at the bad guys
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: like they are good guys. But it is one of
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: the universes that I have more easily been able to say, yes,
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: both sides are wrong, Yeah, no, no, no, that's fair,
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: Like like it's hard because the original trilogy we don't
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: really get a deep look at Jedi and their philosophy
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: like that was really expanded upon by other types of
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: media like video games, books, comic books, animated series, that
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: sort of stuff where we start to see like Jedi
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: being portrayed as being almost almost like a vulcan in
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: Star Trek, Like you have to divorce yourself from all
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: emotion in order to be a Jedi. You know, even
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: positive emotions can lead to bad things, so you're not
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: supposed to be emotional at all. You're supposed to be stoic.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: And I didn't really get that sense as much in
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: the original trilogy. I got that through the build out
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: of the universe, but that really does seem to be
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: where a lot of the materials going. We also got
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: to see an actual trailer for Ahsoka, or a little teaser,
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: which we'll talk about a little bit. I thought it
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: looked good. I love the tiny hint. We got a
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: Grand Admiral Thrawn. I didn't even recognize Mary Elizabeth Winstead
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: in it. I thought you said we're talking about it later. Well,
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: now we're talking about now, Jonathan. I can't see your face.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: We've got our cameras turned off. It's hard to follow. Yes, no,
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: it's okay. Um, have you watched Star Wars, Clone Wars
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: or Star Wars Rebels the cartoons I've seen, I've seen
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: like the first episode, Like I tried to watch it
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: some of that early on, and it was before it
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: really started to catch on, so I didn't. I didn't
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: stick with it. So no, I honestly the real answer,
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: there is no gotcha. I've seen like an episode or two,
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: which you know, all of all of our mutual friends
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: and probably friends who are not mutual as well who
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: have watched those series are super excited for this trailer.
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: It hits them in all the right spots. But honestly,
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: for someone who is not as invested in those stories,
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: I did watch the Clone Wars movie, like the really
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: cool like two D animated one that happened a long
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: time ago, UM, and I liked that. But you know,
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: even as someone who is not as familiar with the
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: lore and doesn't recognize as many Easter eggs right off,
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: I still quite enjoyed the trailer. UM. I didn't expect
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: to be excited for Ahsoka Ahsoka Ashoka Asoka. I still
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: can't say her name not same here. I mean like
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: because again, neither of us were watching the media where
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: this character was really prominent. She she was Anakin's padawan
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: in the lore of like the Clone Wars and and
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: that sort of stuff. And she showed up in season
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: two of The Mandalorian and uh I was played very well.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: She also she also showed up in bubble Feed. Poor thing,
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: did she? Yeah, I don't even remember. Oh, that's right,
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: in the Mandalorian. Yeah, in the two Mandalorian ebys. Yeah. Yeah,
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: that that's why I didn't remember, because I was like,
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: I don't remember her stinking up the place, and like, oh,
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: it's because it was in one of the one of
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: the mandalori Arian episodes that was nestled into the book
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: of Boba Fett. And other than the fact that the
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: Mandalorian totally went to the Citadel from mass effect in
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: those episodes, they were kind of weak Mandalorian episodes too. Yeah,
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: but but super strong Boba Fett episodes. Yes, Okay, so
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna mark that off as talked about. Okay,
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: but we can also chat about some of the other
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: stuff that was in celebration, Like they announced so many
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: movies they announced, not just stuff that would happen before
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: the series, because there's apparently going to be a movie
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: that takes place in the era before the prequels. They
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: talked about one that took would take place after Rise
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: of Skywalker and would see the return of a particular
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: actress playing a particular Jedi. Yep, Daisy Ridley will be
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: back as Ray. The events in the new movie will
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: take place fifteen years after Rise of Skywalker. Honestly, like,
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: I like Daisy Ridley, and I kind of liked Trey.
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: I did not think that the second trilogy got or
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: the third trilogy the try the Yeah, the third of
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: the trilogy of movies. It's weird because is a nine movies. Anyhow,
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: I need more caffeine, everybody. I didn't thought. I think
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: it got a good enough reaction to warrant another movie
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: in that part of the universe I have any I
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: still have not watched Rise of Skywalker. Like, and again,
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: I've said this before on this show. If you had
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: told the young boy version of me back in the
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: eighties when I was I was the biggest Star Wars
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: fan in the world, that there would be a Star
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: Wars movie that would come out that would conclude the
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: Skywalker saga, and I would just never bother to get
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: around to watch it. I would have thought you were insane.
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: But that's the way it is, because I just the
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: Third trilogy, like, I do not like the prequels at all.
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: I am not a prequel fan. I there are moments
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: of them that I found interesting, but they're just moments.
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: As a whole. I really did not like them, and
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: I feel very much the same way about the Third Trilogy.
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: And part of the reason is because there was there
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: was behind the scenes, a big reversal over and over again,
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: right because you had Part seven. Then Ryan Johnson comes
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: in with Part eight and decides to subvert everything, which
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: is not necessarily a bad choice in its own but
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: it did upset the apple cart. And then jj Abrams
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: comes in with Number nine and tries to put everything
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: back on the track that Number seven was on, and
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: it just starts to feel like every movie is contradicting
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: the one before it, and that's frustrating from a fan experience,
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: at least for me. I'm not I don't mean to
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: paint every fan with the same brush, but that's why
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: I'm not really hooked in on another film post rise
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: of Skywalker, even though I think Daisy Ridley is a
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: great actress and I think she deserved better. Yeah, I
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: my husband and I have talked about this in at
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: length as well as you and I have. But I
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: just I'm done with the Skywalkers. Their story has been told,
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: it's been overtold. I didn't mind the Rhea Johnson movie.
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: I just it felt out of place, like you said,
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: but I kind of enjoyed it, minus the luke milking
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: some green milk. No, but anyhow, a green milking is
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: not for me. But but yeah, no, I'm just I'm
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: done with the Skywalkers. There is such an expansive Star
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: Wars universe that why are we doing all these prequels
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: in sequels that have been overtold? And I think it's
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: even kind of affected like my enjoyed enjoyment of like
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: and Or because I loved Rogue one. I thought it
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: was a great movie, whether or not you think it
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: was a great Star Wars movie because it was pretty dark.
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: I really enjoyed it. But the and Or TV show,
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: and you know, as soon as I say, stopped focusing
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: on the Skywalkers, and they focus on and Or. I'm like,
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: it didn't really hit me, but yeah, there's so much
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: to explore, and we don't need more prequels. I think
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: part of the reason I didn't like and Or was
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: it was a prequel. I had already seen the end
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: of the story. I didn't really care about the beginning.
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: I felt like I had gotten a full story in
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: Rogue one, and I feel that way about a lot
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: of these things, even kind of acolyte Um. I just
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: I'm I am getting burnt out, and I need them to, Yeah,
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: get further away from this from this one span. Yeah,
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: focus on the horse people or the rabbit people, or
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: or go way way way a back like in Nights
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: of the Old Republic games, and you're dealing with stuff
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: that happens millennia before the events of the original trilogy,
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: so there's no connection with those characters. Because there are
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: a lot of different complaints about Star Wars that all
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: tie into this, right. One is that while it's supposed
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: to be set in a whole galaxy, that galaxy feels
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: awful small because you keep going back to the same
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: freaking planets. How many times do we have to go
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: to Tattooine right, Like, this is supposed to be a
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: galaxy filled with worlds, and yet we keep going back
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: to the same like four or five. So that's one
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: of the things. It also feels like it's a galaxy
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: where it's supposed to be huge, and yet people just
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: keep on running into each other. It's like, you know,
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: I've had that weird experience where I'm someplace where I
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: don't expect to see someone I know, and then I
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: see someone I know, and you're like, oh, small world,
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: that's amazing. But in Star Wars, it's like it happens
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: every freaking day, to the point where you're like, are
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: there only eight people in this galaxy and everybody else?
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: As a non player character, I mean, it's like playing
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: Star Wars The Old Republic, except for in Star Wars
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: the Old Republic, you come across so many new storylines
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: and people and just occasionally get somebody you recognize. So
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: it's really awesome and fun. That was the MMO they
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: came out with that developed by Bio Word. I think
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: it's still out there. Um, I have it on my computer.
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: I think I thought there was talk of them doing
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: a remaster of at least one of those, so I'm
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: not sure, but I think I think it's a remaster
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: of Knights of the Old Republic, which is more like
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: Mass Effect than World of Warcraft. Yes, but I thought
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: they did so Knights Knights of the Republic the Star
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: Wars MMO did put for anybody who hasn't played it
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: did play like Mass Effect, as in like you had
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: a different dialogue options that would branch off and into
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: different choose your own adventure lines. So yeah, and you
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: could you could either be light Side or dark Side,
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: or try and walk the middle Row. And that was
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: one of those pieces I was talking about earlier that
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: really kind of explored this idea of the Jedi being
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: so repressive with their emotions that it ultimately hurts them.
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: That was explored in those games. Yeah. We also got
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: Star Wars Goonies, which we didn't get a first trailer
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: for it, but I don't think I watched it. No, No,
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: we didn't get it. Well, the crowd at celebration got it,
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: but it hasn't been released to the public yet. Yeah,
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: it's called Star Wars Skeleton Crew and it has Jude
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: Law in it and a bunch of young actors playing
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: characters in the Star Wars universe. I don't know if
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: they're supposed to be like Jedi in training or if
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: it's something else. I don't know, because there was very
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: few details given about what this is apart from it's
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: a bunch of kids running around in the forest and
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: having adventures. I will say, you know, I've already thrown
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: there Y Sue under the bus once, but I'm gonna
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: do it again. I'll be careful. Well, I went. I
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: went to the site and because I saw that they
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: had an article about this, and the article we're referencing
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: comes out of IGN, but IGN was giving kind of
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: a rundown of the entire list of announcements, and so
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: I went to see the Mary Sue's article just about
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: Skeleton Crew to kind of get a better idea of
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: what it was about. They included a YouTube video, but
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: it was a fan made trailer where it was just
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: taking a bunch of different clips of Jude Law from
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: different films and stitching it with some scenes from different
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: Star Wars properties and putting it together as if it
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: were a trailer and had nothing to do with children
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: at all. No kids show up in this trailer at all.
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: And I'm just like can you not include fake trailers
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: as part of your actual article about this thing because
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: it gives the wrong impression. Yeah. I wonder if somebody
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: just didn't pay enough attention. Yeah, we have a lot
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: more to talk about, and we are already very far
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: into our episodes, so we'll probably pick it up. I'm
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: gonna say, let's go ahead and talk about the other
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: thing they showed at Star Wars celebration, despite the fact
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: that it's not Star Wars, which is the Indiana Jones trailer.
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: Sounds good, the new one, Yes, you've already had one
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: after you. I'm sorry. You put a lot of work
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: into organizing our lives. No, no, no, no, all around it.
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: It should totally be with the other celebration stuff. I
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: just messed up when I was when I was grouping
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: things together. No, it should not be. It's not Star Wars. No,
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: but it's lucasfilm, so you know it kind of falls
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: into that same thing. But yeah, we got a new
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: trailer for Indiana Jones. Now the people at celebration got
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: not just the new trailer, but additional several minutes of
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: footage from the film. I will say the trailer looks good. Uh,
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: I kind of wonder. In the trailer, there's a moment
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: where Indiana Jones's god daughter appears to totally um abandoned him,
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: and it really makes me wonder what's the story behind
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: that moment. But apart from that, I thought it looked
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: pretty good. If you haven't watched the trailers yet, yeah,
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: that's the character Phoebe waller Bridge is playing, honestly. Yeah,
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: I I also thought it looked good. Um. I like
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: that Indiana Jones is just a flat out going into
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: retirement kind of in the trailer. Um. Yeah, I did
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: not expect to be into this trailer and it looks
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: like quite a bit of fun. And I will probably
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: see it in the theater even Um, it definitely still
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: not gonna sit. You're not gonna set your expectations too high,
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: No I'm not. No. Yeah, well, I mean I will
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: say it does look better than Crystal Skull, but then
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: that is a very low bar for me. It's not
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: my least favorite movie. And I did see Crystal Skull
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: in the theater as well. It wasn't good. But if
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: you have a there's a different Indiana Jones that you
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: hate more than Crystal Skull. Oh no, there's just a
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: different movie I hate. Oh well, yeah, sure, no, I mean, yes,
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: there are other movies I've seen that are worse than
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, but in the Indiana Jones series,
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: I don't think there is. Sure. Sure, there are moments
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: in the rest of the Indiana Jones series that I
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: might stick down there with it, but not overall movies.
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: We also did get a bunch more stuff from Disney
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: this past week, the first of which was a super
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: awesome new trailer for Across the Spider Verse. Yeah, technically
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: I guess that's Sony, not Disney, but it is, which
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: is my fault. It's my fault again for putting it
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: in that lineup in that spot. But yeah, we think
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: of it as Disney because of course it does tie
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: into the Marvel universe in general, but Sony still has
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: the rights to Spider Man. But yeah, I really, I
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: mean Into the Spider Verse was one of those super
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: surprised movies for me, which is weird because I didn't
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: watch it when it first came out. It took a
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: little bit before I watched it, but I was going
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: into it with low expectations and then I was delighted
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: by how amazing that movie was. I have very high
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: expectations for across the Spider Verse, and so far the
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: trailer is making me feel pretty confident that that's the
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: way to go. Yeah, I failed you as a friend
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: if you went in with low expectations. I saw it
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: over that Christmas holiday that it came out in the
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: movie theater. I will say though, I love the art style,
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: but watching it on the big screen gave me a
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: little bit of eyestraam because the way that they did
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: the red blue kind of echo illustration in it while
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: it was two mirror comic books. And I've said this
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: on the show before, but if you're a new listener,
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: you get to hear it, and if you're an old listener,
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry you're hearing it again. It made it feel
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: like it was a three D movie, and it made
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: my eyes want to adjust to it like a booze
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: a three D movie, and at times not through the
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: whole movie got a little difficult for me to stare at. Gotcha,
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: but I loved this story. I only saw it on
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: my television at home. I didn't see it in the theater,
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: so I saw it when it came to streaming and
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: I was so impressed by it, and I will definitely
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: go to the theater to see Across the Spider Verse.
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: I'm very curious to find out what the what's behind
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: the conflict that we're seeing in the trailer. I don't
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: want to say too much in case people are trying
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: to to go into it without any spoilers whatsoever. Like
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: I know folks who will avoid trailers so that they
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: can really go into a film fresh, and I don't
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: want to spoil anything. But I am really wondering what
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: is the source because we get a hint of what
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: the conflict is, just a tiny and I really want
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: to know more about what is going on. I mean,
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: we get to see who, we get to see a
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: couple of the villains in more fullness or I don't
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: even know if villain's the right word. Again, if we
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: want to be in vague terms, you should watch the
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: trailer if you want to see it, if you weren't
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: worried about spoiling the movie. But I think that this
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: movie will have some really nice fun takes on the
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: key components to what makes Spider Man spider Man without
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: being too rehashed and I think they've I think they've
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: just had a lot of fun. There are even some
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: like ridiculous pop culture references in there that I was
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: honestly surprised that as many people knew them as do now.
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: It just it looks delightful. I agree with you. I'll
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: probably see it in the theater. Yeah, well, well, something
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: that we won't see in the theater because it's coming
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: to stret a Secret Invasion. Secret Invasion, it's not that's
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: not a movie, that's a series on Disney. Plus what
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: if I get to a movie theater really early and
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: I sitting there and I put my headphones in and
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: I watch it on my phone. That's all right, pedantic girl,
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: you can be quiet now. So Secret Invasion, obviously, this
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: is the series is going to bring back, uh, you know,
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: our our our beloved Nick Fury. He comes back to
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: deal with a big old mess on Earth that has
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: to do with um some some change links that are
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: causing all sorts of problems. And we still don't understand
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: what the whole reason behind the invasion is. Like that
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: hasn't really been touched on because last time we saw
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: anything about these these aliens, they were just looking for
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: a place to survive where they weren't going to be,
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: you know, hunted to extinction, and now it looks like
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: they're on the offense on Earth and it's like, what
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: is going on and why is it happening? We don't
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: really know, but it does look like it's going to
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: be packed with action, and there's a few returning faces
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: as well. Yes, we did actually see Nick Fury and
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: one of the crawl is that it the Cree the
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: Cree scroll scrolls and Cree you two. I met this
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: scroll the scrolls. We did see one of the scrolls
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: and Nick Fury in an easter egg after a previous
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: movie where they seem to be getting along. So I'm
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: betting it's a super complex story. It does look interesting. Again,
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: with like Star Wars and Marvel fatigue, this is it
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: looks interesting, it looks good. I'm sure it will be fantastic.
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: It's not one of the ones that I'm like super
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: excited to watch. I mean, I'm excited just to see
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: more Nick Fury, and I'm guessing this is probably going
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: to be his way of bowing out of the Marvel
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: cinematic universe by the end of it. That's my guess
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: because that kind of feels like what the current phases are.
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: It's sort of like the Changing of the guard where
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: we're seeing more and more characters from the first few
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: phases of the Marvel Cinematic Universe taking a step back,
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: either because they're retired or they dated, and then new
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: ones are taking their place. So my guess is we're
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: going to see Nick Fury take a step back at
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: the end of this series. That's just based on nothing
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: more than just my gut feeling. But yeah, I'm I
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: am anticipating this one a little bit, but like you,
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: I am, I'm feeling that burden. We'll talk more about
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: superhero fatigue in just a couple of minutes, but yeah, yeah,
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: and we gotta rush or we will run out of time.
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: Next was The Guardians of the Three final trailer. The
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: Guardians of the Guardians of the Three, Guardians of the
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: Galaxy three Final Trailer. I don't think we needed another one.
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: The first one was a mix of like fun and sad.
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: It went from like fun to sad. It was like huh, psich,
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: you're gonna cry. The second one was more fun, and
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: this third one is just sad. In fact, it is
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: so sad that I watched the trailer through on two
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: time speed so I could get through it. And uh,
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: this is gonna shock everybody, including Jonathan. This might be
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: one that I am definitely waiting for spoilers on this
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: one because I have big does the dog die anxiety syndrome? Um,
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: but uh, much like I did watch through all of Firefly,
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: but I never watched the movie afterwards because I found
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: out that Wash died. Um spoiler. Jonathan is not a spoiler.
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: Never watched betrayal. Also, you know, I'm not the hugest
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: Firefi flan firefive flan. Definitely not a fire five flan,
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: but I'm also not a huge fire five fire Gosh
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: darn it, I do that Firefly. No, I'm gonna do this.
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna do this Firefly fan. Okay, but Ariel, when
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: you were in Mexico, did you have any firefive fly
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: fan flan? Yes, and I brought some good throw it
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: at you. Okay. Actually I didn't have any flan in Mexico.
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: I'm more of a tres le chaise, but uh, yeah
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: I had. I will say that that. Yeah, I agree
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: with you that this No, that's a lie. I had
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: sweetcorn flan and it was really good. Oh good. Yeah,
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: this trailer is really emotional, and like we've been James
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: Gunn has said from the get go that this was
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: going to be a truly emotional conclusion to the Guardians
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: of the Galaxy films, at least as far as he's doing.
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: You know, maybe you will get a different incarnation of
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: that group in the future. Like that's possible because there
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: have been different versions of Guardians of the Galaxy in
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: the comics, So maybe we'll get that. And we don't
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: know which ones are going to make it through and
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: which ones aren't. I've talked about in the past about
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: the characters I thought who are not gonna make it.
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: But we'll see. Yeah, this looks like it's gonna be
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: a tough watch. Yeah. I may not watch it. I
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: just may not watch it. We'll have to see something
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: else I'm uncertain if I'm going to watch. Is the
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: Pixar movie Elemental. Uh. This is weird because every time
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: a new trailer comes out, it feels like it's a
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: different thing than what the previous one was hinting at,
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: because like I think we I think I mentioned that
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: it felt like it was a combination of what was
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: it inside out and Zootopia. Yeah, yeah, that it felt
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: like it was that. Now it feels like it's less
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: that and more of a star crossed lovers kind of story,
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: like two people who should not be matched up have
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: developed feelings for each other kind of thing, which is
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: vaguely's Utopia also turning red about generational expectations. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: it looks cute like this one. This one doesn't hook
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: me the way some trailers have for past Pixar films,
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: where I saw it and then immediately thought, oh man,
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: I can't wait for that to come out. But I
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: could definitely see myself seeing this one. But it might
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: be one of the ones where I wait until it's
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: streaming and I don't go see it on the big screen.
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: I agree. I love the art style. This story just
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: feels like it's already been told to me, And it's
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: not a bad story. Specifically, it feels like it's already
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: been told by Pixar. Yeah, now that's fair. I think
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: that's a total fair criticism. All right. Apparently my speaking
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: has also translated to my typing, because next we're talking
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: about the Blue Beetle trailer. But I totally typed it
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: as a Boo Beetle trailer, which also works. Yeah, yeah,
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: we we had I think we had had a teaser
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: for Blue Beetle previously, but we actually got a full
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: trailer for it. The internet went kind of crazy because
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: the Blue Blue Beetles dad calls Batman a fascist, and
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: I'm like, why, One, why do you care so much?
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: And two this is the superhero's dad who is obviously
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: a little out of touch, so you're not necessarily supposed
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: to agree with him, like I mean Batman also, like,
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: first of all, there's so many different incarnations of Batman,
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: we don't even know which one he's talking about at
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: this point. But um, I mean, but yeah, I would
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: definitely say Batman's a vigilante, vigilante, not a fascist. But
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: there are there are versions of Batman where he's portrayed
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: as more I mean actually most of the time, he's
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: not portrayed as a fascist at all. In fact, quite
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: the opposite, because he's about yeah, he's about fighting against
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: what he perceives as being evil, even if it breaks
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  Speaker 1: the law, whereas Superman is typically the one who's portrayed
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: as the fascist because he follows the law. Even if
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: the law is unjust. That's kind of the whole point
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: of the Batman versus Superman stuff that Frank Miller did
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: years ago. But anyway, I was unaware of the brewjaha
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: because I'm not on social media anymore, so I didn't
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: even know that that was like a thing. I just
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: thought the trailer looked fine. You see, I think the
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: trailer looked like a lot of fun. I was really
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: worried because it's I was worried about two things. I
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: was excited about Blue Beetle because if we also get
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: a Booster Gold, which I think we've heard about. I
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: think James Gunn has said we're getting Booster Gold. Right. Yeah, well,
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: at least that was there was a point where that
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: was definitely the case. I don't know if it still
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: is with all the different changes that have happened in
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: the DC universe. That being said, blue Beetle and Booster
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: Gold have a very fun relationship. So I was worried
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: about two things with this movie coming out, both of
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: which seem to not be the case. One, I was
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: worried about it getting scrapped like that girl, and it didn't.
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: But that's because it's coming out in movie theaters. I
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: honestly thought it was coming out on HBO, so that
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: on me two, I was worried it was going to
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: be like Zach Snyder Dark, which I didn't think it
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: could be. You know, I don't think it should be.
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: Rather it could be, it shouldn't be. It looks like
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: a lot of fun, I think, and I I love Jolo, Marion, Duenna,
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: Enya May Duan. Jeff looked up how to pronounce his name,
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: but I can't talk today, so forgive me no. I
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: was going to say that it kind kind of gave
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: me vibes of if you took Iron Man and mixed
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: it with the greatest American hero. Oh see that. I
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: love both of those. So but it is interesting because
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: there are you know, this is not the only previous
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: DC movie that hasn't gotten scrapped, some of them because
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: they were way far into development. But um, you know,
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: like James Gunn said, the flat the upcoming Flashpoint movie
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: is like one of the best superhero movies he's ever seen,
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: which kind of leads into and I'm sorry if you
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: have something else about Blue Beetle to say say it
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: now before I awesome, Okay, which watched the trailer. If
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: you like Blue Beetle, you might like it. I mean,
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: name my blue car after it. Anyhow, It's not a
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: Beetle though, so that's going to be confusing. James Gunn
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: was talking about how superhero fatigue is a real thing,
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: because you know, everybody's talking about it with Gardens in
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: the Galaxy three and him taking over DC, and he
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: says that he doesn't even think it's fatigue of superheroes.
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: It's fatigue of story. If you don't have a story
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: that connects to people's hearts and a story that people
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: can really invest in what is happening to the characters,
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: if it's all spectacle, then that's what causes a fatigue.
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: And you know, I honestly I kind of agree with him. However,
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: there have been so many superhero stories told that that
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: is a mighty challenge to do. I'm guessing that Blue
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: Beetle and Flashpoint both have decent stories for James Gunn
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: to be behind it. But yeah, it is another thing
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: that makes me vaguely optimistic about him taking over DC
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: is the knowledge because I really agree with him that
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: fatigue comes from not having a good story, because like
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: Wanda vision was phenomenal. Right, yeah, no, I feel the
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: same way. I think this is how I feel about
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: action movies too, right, Like if if it's just an
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: action film where stuff explodes and people go fast. This
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: is why I cannot stand the thought of trying to
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: watch Fast and Furious, because to me, those movies come
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: across as if they're about nothing else other than the spectacle,
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: especially the further in you go, And so I have
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: no interest in those movies because if there's nothing for
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: me to connect with on an emotional level, what do
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: I care? If a bunch of CGI cars are barely
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: dodging out of the way of CGI obstacles, it doesn't
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: mean anything. And the same thing, Yeah, I need to
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: have I need to have characters that I actually care
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: about to at least some degree. Otherwise there are no stakes.
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: If there are no stakes, then yeah, why do I
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: care if someone wins or loses? Right? If there are
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: no emotional stakes, then it doesn't matter. So I feel
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: the same way that James Gunn was saying. I think
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: the pace at which these things have been coming out
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: has made it almost impossible to create stories that have
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: really good resonance because you're just constantly moving on to
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: the next thing. And I think part of the problem
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: here is that we have seen Marvel and Star Wars,
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: like Disney in general, set these crazy release schedules that
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: end up making it very difficult to tell stories that
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: resonate and still also get check all the other boxes
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: for spectacle right, and so we end up with spectacle
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: often spectacle that suffers from very obvious CGI, which again
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: just makes it feel empty and you don't have the
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: anchor there for the audience to really care about what's
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: going on. Yeah. Yeah, Also, I mean some of it
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: is superhero because as much as I love those stories,
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: I'm really Jonson for some new stories. So let's talk
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: about some new stories coming out. The first is we
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: got a trailer for Simulant, which first I read is Stimulant. Listen,
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: my speaking and typing has also gone over into my
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: reading my reading, because like yesterday, my friends shared a
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: an article about a serial coming out that had like
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: raspberry and blueberry flavored cereal and then macaron flavored marshmallows,
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: and I thought it said macaroni and I was extra confused,
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: and I thought Simulant was Stimulant. So when you put
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: aka Blade Runner, But from the replicant perspective, I was like,
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: how does that match? And then every time they said
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: simulant in the trailer, I heard stimulant. Yeah. So the
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: little snide subtitle I put about Blade Runner from the
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: replicant perspective pretty much tells you kind of the vibe
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: of this movie. It's it's set in a future, not
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: too distant future next Sunday, a d maybe, where it
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: is possible to create robots that are almost perfect replicas
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: of people. And the way the movie seems to be
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 1: positioning it is that this is a way that a
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: company you know, makes money by by convincing people who
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: are grieving due to the loss of a loved one
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: to get a replica of that loved one. The replicas
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: are generally unaware that they are a replica. They think
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: of themselves as being the continuation of the person who
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: has died. And so your main character is a guy
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: who finds out that he's not human, he's a simulant.
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: He encounters a person who is trying to free simulants
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: so that one they're aware of what they are, and too,
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 1: they do not have the RoboCup like restricts programmed into
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: them that otherwise prevent them from having free will. And
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: I'm like, all of these ideas that are being explored
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: here I've seen before, but this does at least look
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: pretty slick and interesting. Uh. It's it's not like it's
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: a new concept, but it does look like at least
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: it's executed. Well. Yeah, it also doesn't look like a
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: sequel or a spinoff of something directly, even if it
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: is in spirit. But no, I agree, it's it's not
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: a new concept. It seems like AI sentience. I'd be
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: really interested to look at a timeline because it because
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: it comes and goes. It like it's like the tide Um.
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: Whenever we get AI movies, we get a whole slew
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: of them, and then they all go away. Because we've
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: got another artificial intelligence getting sentience movie to talk about
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: in a couple more trailers if you want, we can
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: even just jump to that since it is thematic, I mean,
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: it's fine with me, sure. Sure. So the other one
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: is called The Artifice Girl, and it is about an
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: AI that is so realistic that basically the authorities think
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: that it is a real girl who's gone missing, and
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: they go after her creator. But then it turns out
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: that that AI has a will of her own and
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: is using it kind of deviously, yeah, overtly deviously. The
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: trailer doesn't spoil too much, right, but it does tappen
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: too something that is like a legitimate point of discussion
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: within the AI community, which is there's this general concept
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: of how do you protect the world from a superhuman
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: intelligent artificial intelligence? Right, if it reaches superhuman levels, how
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: do you make sure that that doesn't end up hurting people?
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: And one argument you have often heard if you if
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: you follow those fields, is you would design the system
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: in such a way where it's standalone. It's not connected
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 1: to other systems. Right, there's an air gap, so it's
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: not like it's connected to the internet, so that it
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: could not somehow break free and then take control of
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: other stuff. And that way you've isolated it and you
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: can still use it for what it was meant to do,
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: but it can't escape its confines. And then people who
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: argue against that say, no, you've said already it's superhuman,
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: which means it will be able to figure us out
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: better than we can, which means it will find ways
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: to convince us to remove those restrictions and to allow
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: it to escape. There's even a guy who ran an
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: experiment where the experiment was he went on a message
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: board and he invited people to role play as if
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 1: he were the AI in the box, and he says,
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: if I can convince you to let me out of
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: the box, you have to come on this forum and
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: tell people that you did, but you cannot tell them
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: how it happened. You can't reveal any information. This is
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 1: just a thought experiment to see if I can convince
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: you to let me out of the box. And you
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: don't give any more details. And sure enough, every time
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: you ran it, sooner or later the person would go
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: on the forum and say I let him out of
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: the box. And it's like, okay, well, if that's possible,
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 1: then AI could do it. That seems to be kind
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 1: of the underlying tone of this trailer. Yeah, first of all,
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: that's really cool. I hadn't heard of that before. It's
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: it also to me like if you're superhuman, maybe you
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 1: don't need a human to let you out of the box.
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: Maybe you'll figure a way to break out yourself. Yeah,
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 1: but you know it is it is a very long
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: standing cover one if those people knew that he was
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 1: actually human and not an AI. You know, I don't
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: know if that's swayed there. Yeah, decisions at all, sure,
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: But how much artificial learning makes you sentient? You know? Yeah,
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: Because that's the point is AI's learned so much that
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: they basically developed their own opinions and things like that,
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 1: as opposed to it just being programming. And it's really
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: hard to tell the difference sometimes. Heck, my best friend
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: slash sister has an AI puppy, and like it is
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 1: hard not to treat that thing like a real puppy.
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean, that's the thing is that like,
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: AI can be very very good at simulating things that
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: we associate with life. But the question then is at
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 1: what point in the complexity would you just go ahead
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: and say this is life. It's just life in a
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: different manifestation than what we're used to versus this is
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: just a very sophisticated program that's running on rules that
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 1: you can't necessarily see. But it's literally just a series
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 1: of rules. And if you were to strip all that away,
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 1: you just be left with circuits and no nothing else,
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: Like there's no other kind of intelligence or soul or
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: anything else. You would associate with it. I mean, but
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 1: if you just strip away like my my flesh and
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 1: my muscles, you end up with just a skeleton. Right. Um,
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 1: It's it's a very complex question. It's a little scary
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 1: to think about as especially as like a people pleasing,
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 1: bleeding heart person like you know I am and I
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 1: know you you are? Often yeah, no, always, you know Ariel.
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 1: I'll say that at the end, we'll just learn the
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 1: lesson that the skeleton was inside you all alone. I mean,
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: that is true. But this is this is too complex
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: for me. I need I need us to talk about
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 1: something much less serious and much less difficult to understand,
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 1: which is this new Barbie movie that's coming out the
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: new trailer. Look, I was you guys heard us talk
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 1: about it. I was not really on board for a
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 1: Barbie movie. I was happy for the people who wanted it,
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 1: but I didn't want it. But now I really really
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 1: do want this movie and I'm looking forward to it. Yeah.
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: I Uh. The thing that appeals to me about it
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 1: is that it feels cheeky without going overboard, right Like
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 1: it's they're clearly winking and nodding to the audience. It's
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 1: like you were saying earlier it's got stuff in it
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 1: for the adults, where the adults are totally going to
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: pick up on the cheeky humor that's being delivered, and
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 1: the kids are just going to enjoy the surface level story. Yeah,
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 1: it's I you know, I don't know if this is
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 1: a kids movie, We'll have to see. It also has
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: a lot of Barbie lore if you if you have
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: played with Barbie for a long time and remember some
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 1: of the old iterations that fail or succeeded. Honestly, I
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 1: would be in this movie just to watch Ryan Gosling
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 1: and Simu Liu have a Ken off, which from this
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: latest trailer trailer is definitely happening. Yeah, I'm in it
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 1: just for that. Well, so Seemulu is in Simulant as well.
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 1: I will watch that actor in many things because he's
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 1: very good. Yes, and good for him for landing very
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 1: different roles. That's cool too. But one I think it's
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 1: hilarious that they're living in a world where most people
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: are named either Barbie or Ken. Obviously there are going
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 1: to be other names too, because Barbie does have her
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 1: friends in the lore, but a lot of the characters
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 1: are just called Barbies. So they just call each other
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 1: Hi Barbie, Hi Barbie, how are you Barbie? That kind
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: of stuff that that cracked me up. And I'm very
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: very curious about whether or not they actually make it
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 1: into the real world. I'm assuming they do, but you
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 1: do see a sign at one point where it says,
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 1: this way to the real world. So if you look
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 1: so part part of this latest along with this latest trailer,
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 1: they came out with a bunch of advertising for all
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 1: the different characters. One of them is like, this is Barbie.
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 1: This is also Barbie, with different actors in there as
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 1: they're Barbie characters. This Barbie's a mermaid. This Barbie's a diplomat.
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 1: This is a Ken. You guessed it. This is also
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 1: a Ken. Hey, this is a Ken. There's only one Alan,
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 1: which if you don't know who Alan is, don't feel bad.
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 1: It was a Barbie figure at one point, but very
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: very briefly. And there are some spoilers as to whether
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 1: or not that happens in that marketing. I won't tell you,
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 1: Jona Hunt. I don't know if that told you, but
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to go into it more. However, that
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 1: marketing is hilarious. I also really like that, um, some
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: of the some of the Barbies are definitely plus sized,
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 1: and it was a more recent thing that Barbie came
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 1: out with different body types and heights and things like that,
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 1: which one meant they could sell more clothes because your
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 1: clothes won't fit across all Barbies. Two minute was a
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 1: little more realistic, but they didn't really have any very
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 1: plus size Barbies. It looks like there are some more
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 1: plus size actresses playing Barbies in this, of which I
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 1: would consider myself a plus size actress right now, so
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 1: that's not a distant anyway, and I'm very excited for that. Yeah,
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 1: I I have to admit that this trailer, and again,
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 1: it gives me vibes of like the Brady movies. They
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 1: came out the Brady Bunch films, where you know, they
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 1: were both paying homage to this source material while also
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 1: being super you know, cheeky and silly about it and
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 1: just just having fun with the concept. This. This has
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 1: a lot of the same vibe to me. Yeah, the
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 1: next three trailers I didn't know super about. They look interesting.
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 1: I don't know a whole lot about them. Let's go
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 1: through them super super quick because we're looking super super
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 1: long and you still have to tell people how to
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  Speaker 1: contact you. So yes, we have Hip Hypnotic, which is
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  Speaker 1: a movie coming out with um oh my gosh Ben
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  Speaker 1: Affleck about a guy whose daughter has been kind of kidnapped,
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  Speaker 1: and the villain is someone who has hypnotic powers. He
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  Speaker 1: can speak to you and make you do what he
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  Speaker 1: wants or believe what he wants. And it's very slick
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  Speaker 1: how they portray that in the trailer. I think it
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  Speaker 1: looks very good. Yeah, it makes me think of mister
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  Speaker 1: Purple from the why can I not think of her name?
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  Speaker 1: The Jica jess Thank you Jessica Jones. Yeah, it makes
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  Speaker 1: me think of the Purple Man from Jessica Jones. And
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  Speaker 1: it's the same sort of thing as like the fiction
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  Speaker 1: of this world is that there are people known as
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  Speaker 1: hypnotics who have learned how to manipulate sound and eye
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  Speaker 1: contact in these sort of things to essentially erase your
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  Speaker 1: willpower and turn you into their puppet for a given
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  Speaker 1: amount of time, and then they have you do whatever
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  Speaker 1: it is and then you end up taking the blame
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  Speaker 1: for it. That seems to be the long and short
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  Speaker 1: of the basic premise. I think it looks interesting. I
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  Speaker 1: think if I can get past the ridiculous conceit of
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  Speaker 1: the film and I can just buy into it, and
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  Speaker 1: if I could just say, like, just think of it
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  Speaker 1: as magic, it's just magic, then I think I can
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  Speaker 1: handle it. Them is that I have a lot of
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  Speaker 1: like skepticism about hypnosis in general, that I have to
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  Speaker 1: get past its first. It's a superpower and yet that's
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  Speaker 1: not a lot. That's what I have to do, though,
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  Speaker 1: I have to think of it as a super human
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  Speaker 1: kind of concept as opposed to no, these are people
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  Speaker 1: who just managed to develop the skill, and I'm like, Okay, no,
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  Speaker 1: you gotta If you say it's superpowered, then I can
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  Speaker 1: totally go with you on this trip. But otherwise it
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  Speaker 1: starts to make me get antsy, which is weird. Personal
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  Speaker 1: hang up, I get it. That's what you have to
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  Speaker 1: do with half to sci fi out there, Like source
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 1: Code is a fun movie if you don't think about
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  Speaker 1: the fact that it's not source Code in any way whatsoever.
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  Speaker 1: That the other two movies we have one is Silo,
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  Speaker 1: which is an Apple TV movie coming out, so yeay
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  Speaker 1: excited to getting to watch that about it's basically like
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 1: The Truman Show meets Fallout, which Jonathan might disagree with
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  Speaker 1: my my think about that, as a bunch of people
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  Speaker 1: who are in a silo kind of bunkerish kind of
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  Speaker 1: situation been told they can never go outside, they have
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  Speaker 1: images of what's outside, and they start questioning it about
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  Speaker 1: what whether that's really the outside or not, or whether
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 1: they've been put in here and lied to, And every
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 1: so often people kind of try to subvert the system,
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 1: and then if you say you want to go outside,
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 1: they'll put you outside and you'll never hear from them again.
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  Speaker 1: So everybody assumes that they've been dyed or horribly destroyed
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 1: or whatever. Again, not a new concept, but it looks
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  Speaker 1: well done and I'm actually interested to watch it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's based off a series of books that were written
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 1: by a person who first started just by doing self
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  Speaker 1: publishing through Amazon's platform, and this is one of those
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 1: crazy success stories that occasionally happens for people who are
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 1: doing that sort of thing. His works got optioned to
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  Speaker 1: be published internationally, and the film rights got optioned and
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 1: now it's being turned into a movie. So it's an
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  Speaker 1: awesome success story on that regard. I would also say
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 1: that in addition to fall Out and Truman Show, I
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 1: would throw in a little bit of urine talent the
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 1: musical in here where no spoilers for You're in Town,
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  Speaker 1: but there's a whole thing about what people are being
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  Speaker 1: told and their suspicions about how that might not line
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  Speaker 1: up with what is real, and so yeah, it's it
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  Speaker 1: looks to me like a pretty cool adaptation of something
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 1: that I had not heard about until I saw this trailer. Yeah,
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 1: and the last is something that when you hear about,
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 1: you're going to are still, which I think I already mentioned.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of a documentary. It is a documentary where
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 1: Michael J. Fox himself is included about Michael J. Fox,
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 1: about his rise to fame and then his fight with Parkinson's.
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  Speaker 1: You hear that and you go, oh, this is going
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 1: to be really depressing, and I'm sure they're going to
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 1: be some very sad, heartfelt moments, but the trailer for
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  Speaker 1: it makes it look exceptionally uplifting, and it's really really
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  Speaker 1: amazing to watch Michael J. Fox create this piece of
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  Speaker 1: media to both celebrate his successes and his trials and
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  Speaker 1: give people hope who maybe are all so dealing with Parkinson's. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I've seen interviews in the past with Michael J. Fox
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  Speaker 1: where he was addressing his fight with Parkinson's and the
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 1: way his family has helped him and everything, and it's
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  Speaker 1: always been a mixture of inspiring and entertaining. I'll never forget.
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  Speaker 1: There was a great one where he was talking about
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  Speaker 1: how someone on Twitter was calling him out about using
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 1: his condition and leveraging it for sympathy or something, and
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 1: like it was a really nasty tweet, right, like it
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 1: was someone being really trollish toward him. And he doesn't
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 1: really he says, you know, I don't really use social
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 1: media that much. So my son told me, Like I
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 1: was like, I don't know how I should respond to
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 1: this guy. And my son told me just type in smh.
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 1: And so he did, not knowing what stood for it, and
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 1: and he says, what does that mean? He's just shaking
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 1: my head. And it was about like Parkinson's and about
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 1: how Parkinson's had affected him, and so then the shaking
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 1: my head ends up being a meta Joe because of
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 1: course with Parkinson's he has less control over his motive functions, right,
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 1: And it was like it was the best because the guy,
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 1: the guy who was trolling him came back with like,
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 1: you're the king man, that was the best response you
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 1: possibly could have done. And it just shows like Michael J.
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 1: Fox maintains a real positive outlook and a sense of
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 1: humor about things, even in the most difficult of situations,
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  Speaker 1: which is incredible. So I am really eager to see
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 1: this documentary. Me too, Me too. And what a great
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 1: thank you for sharing that story he had another one
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 1: I hadn't heard. What a great way to end this episode.
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 1: If you've stuck around with us for this well over
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 1: an hour episode, thank you. We've really we hope you're
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 1: geeking out about these things as much as we are.
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 1: If you want to write to Jonathan, how should they
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 1: do that, Jonathan, Well, what they'll have to do is
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 1: they will have to stare out at the slowly rotating
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 1: spiral shape and take slow, deep breaths and gently start
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 1: to feel their eyelids getting heavier and heavier untill they're
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 1: all almost closed. And just as their body starts to
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 1: sink into the surface they're sitting or laying on, as
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 1: they feel themselves slip away and their will power becoming
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 1: my own, they should slip twenty dollars and then the
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 1: envelope and then leave it under that rock. Over on
• 1:22:30
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• 1:22:33
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• 1:22:36
  Speaker 1: my fingers, he will be awake. What what just happened? Um?
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 1: I feel like I should foolishly give away about twenty
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• 1:22:53
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