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LNC Wishes You a Happy Halloween · Large Nerdron Collider

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  Speaker 1: Hey everybody, welcome to the Large Nerdron Collider podcast, the
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  Speaker 1: podcast that's all about the geeky things happening in the
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  Speaker 1: world around us and how very excited we are about them.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Ariel Kasten, and with me as always is the
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  Speaker 1: wonderful Jonathan Strickland.
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  Speaker 2: I saw Lon Chaney walking with the Queen.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, I'm getting some major deja vu and I don't
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  Speaker 1: even know what that is from.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, it's from... it's from werewolves of London, which you
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  Speaker 2: did know because we talked about it in the unreleased
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  Speaker 2: half recorded, not even half recorded one 10th recorded episode
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  Speaker 2: that we bailed on because we were having still having
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  Speaker 2: echo issues, which by the way, we still are, but
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  Speaker 2: now I'm muting my microphone after every time I stopped talking.
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  Speaker 2: And I use the exact same opening line then, but yes,
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  Speaker 2: is a line. From Werewolves of London by Warren Zevon,
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  Speaker 2: great song, often gets a lot of airplay around Halloween.
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  Speaker 2: If you aren't familiar with it, listen to it. His
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  Speaker 2: hair was perfect.
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  Speaker 1: I realized after I said I didn't remember what it's
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  Speaker 1: from that I did, but that was like a full
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  Speaker 1: week ago, almost. Not quite. We were recording on the
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  Speaker 1: weekend because I've had a crazy busy schedule. But yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's Halloween weekend. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, I'm all ready to sit out front on my
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  Speaker 2: stairs and hold a bunch of candy and watch as
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  Speaker 2: no one comes up. I can't really blame anybody because one,
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  Speaker 2: the townhouse I live in is very close to a
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  Speaker 2: major street, so most of the trick-or-treating actually happens further
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  Speaker 2: back into the neighborhood. And two, one of the downsides
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  Speaker 2: of my townhouse complex is that we don't have any
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  Speaker 2: like streetlights set in the courtyard. They're all set on
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  Speaker 2: the street level. And the courtyard is deep enough that
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  Speaker 2: it gets pretty darn dark up close to the doors.
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  Speaker 2: And even with my outdoor light on, it's still pretty dim.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm going to sit out there, probably have a
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  Speaker 2: little lantern with me. And I'm going to see if
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  Speaker 2: anyone is brave enough to come to that part of
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  Speaker 2: the neighborhood to get themselves some chocolates.
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  Speaker 1: We usually have one or two kids show up here,
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  Speaker 1: which is no surprise. If you've been listening to the
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  Speaker 1: show for a while, we bemoan the fact that we
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  Speaker 1: don't get a lot of trick-or-treaters every year because it's
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  Speaker 1: fun to encourage dressing up and playing and giving back
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  Speaker 1: to the community a little bit. I also have candy.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to sit out front. I do have
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  Speaker 1: a big cling picture on my front door with a
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  Speaker 1: cat with little blinking red eyes and then purple lights
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  Speaker 1: around it. I'll have a little trick or treat lantern
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  Speaker 1: out on my front porch and my lights on. So
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  Speaker 1: hopefully I'll get one or two. There are a few
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  Speaker 1: more kids in my neighborhood this year and whether they
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  Speaker 1: are not, they go around trick or treating. I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: but I also really like all the candy we got.
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  Speaker 1: So if I'm stuck with it, Oh no.
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  Speaker 2: In my case, I think all the chocolate that is
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  Speaker 2: unclaimed will go to Becca's office because I'm trying my
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  Speaker 2: best not to have too many sweets. I recently, started
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  Speaker 2: going back to the gym. Uh, Jim hates me and
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  Speaker 2: I hate Jim. I'm Dwight from the office and I
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  Speaker 2: hate Jim. Uh, but I have been, I've gone five
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  Speaker 2: times so far tomorrow, which will be the day of
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  Speaker 2: Halloween will be the sixth time. And hopefully I can
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  Speaker 2: keep this, this party going.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: The reason I, why I sit outside or is twofold.
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  Speaker 2: One is so that there's at least some visibility that yes,
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  Speaker 2: there's someone there who's giving out candy and, please come
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  Speaker 2: by and trick or treat. And two, we don't have
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  Speaker 2: the doorbell going off every 10 or 15 minutes and
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  Speaker 2: driving Tybalt crazy because, you know, if a doorbell goes off,
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  Speaker 2: he loses his little doggy mind. And y'all, if you've
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  Speaker 2: been listening to, you know, large neutron collider for a while,
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  Speaker 2: you've heard Tybalt give us two cents in the background.
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  Speaker 2: That's through a door in a different hallway. So imagine
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  Speaker 2: being right there. He just decides he has to announce, hey,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, there's someone at the door in case
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  Speaker 2: the doorbell was not a big enough clue.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Tybalt is pretty opinionated. Wonderful. Wonderful. I love Tybalt
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  Speaker 1: to death, but my cats don't bark. You're right. I'm
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  Speaker 1: pretty good with candy. If I have it in the house,
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  Speaker 1: I can have just like a small piece on occasion
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  Speaker 1: to like. tell my body, Hey, dinner's done. You've had
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  Speaker 1: a little dessert now. Um, I actually like getting like
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  Speaker 1: at Christmas, uh, Tony usually gets me a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: interesting chocolate bars and I'll just take a square off
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  Speaker 1: at night. Cause one tiny little square is enough. So, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, our Reese's big cups are a little bit
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  Speaker 1: bigger than that, but that's a treat.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I I'm pretty good about it myself, but I
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  Speaker 2: figure like the fewer temptations that are around the better.
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  Speaker 2: And I've got, I've got access to a lot of
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  Speaker 2: savory snacks because, uh, Becca and I have become enamored
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  Speaker 2: of Indian snacks, like fried rice snacks. They're so good. Maruku,
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  Speaker 2: that kind of stuff. So good. But, you know, I
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  Speaker 2: try to limit myself to a piece or maybe two
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  Speaker 2: pieces if I'm feeling naughty. So I figure if I
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  Speaker 2: can keep that up, that's good. And one way of
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  Speaker 2: making sure I keep that up is just limiting the
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  Speaker 2: number of opportunities I have. Because it's also... I'm one
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  Speaker 2: of those people you, you probably know people in your
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  Speaker 2: life who are like this, or maybe you are like this.
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  Speaker 2: I'm one of those people where if I start getting bored,
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  Speaker 2: eating is kind of a go-to activity for me and
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  Speaker 2: it's not a healthy behavior, but it is something I
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  Speaker 2: find myself doing. Like it's not that I'm hungry. It's
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  Speaker 2: just that I'm looking for something to do. And Hey,
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  Speaker 2: that Maruku ain't gonna eat itself.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm, I'm kind of similar. I don't have
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  Speaker 1: a lot of food noise, but, I also just don't
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  Speaker 1: lose weight when I don't eat. And I have messed
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  Speaker 1: up my metabolism a couple of points from like continuing
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  Speaker 1: to cut calories because like workout is not losing weight
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  Speaker 1: and I'm not losing weight. I'm on a GLP-1 now.
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  Speaker 1: So I actually have to be careful in the other
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  Speaker 1: direction because yesterday all I ate was a cup of
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  Speaker 1: oatmeal for breakfast, once leftover soft taco from Taco Bell,
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  Speaker 1: which is not healthy food, but it's actually higher in
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  Speaker 1: like protein versus like fat and carb, then a lot
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  Speaker 1: of foods you can get fast food and it's cheap. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: and then a handful of popcorn for dinner. And that
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  Speaker 1: was like maybe a third of the calories I should
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  Speaker 1: have eaten for the day. So, but that's, that's not,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not on a GLP one to try to lose
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  Speaker 1: weight easier. I'm on a GLP one. Well I am,
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  Speaker 1: but it's because I don't lose weight just by diet
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  Speaker 1: and exercise alone. I've tried.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I, uh, it's one of the reasons why I
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  Speaker 2: started going to the gym was because not that I've
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  Speaker 2: been diagnosed. So really it's kind of a, a foolish
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  Speaker 2: thing for me to do, but it's that I had
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  Speaker 2: been reducing my calories and going on a lot of walks,
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  Speaker 2: but I had not seen very many results in, in
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  Speaker 2: weight loss. And so part of it was like, well, one,
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  Speaker 2: I want to make sure that I'm not going to
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  Speaker 2: lose muscle instead of fat. And so I need to
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  Speaker 2: start doing some strength training. And two was to avoid
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  Speaker 2: like insulin resistance, that kind of thing. So yeah, We'll
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  Speaker 2: see how this goes. Last time I weighed myself, it
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  Speaker 2: looked like I had dropped five pounds, but that could
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  Speaker 2: just be the fact that my analog scale that I
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  Speaker 2: have is not calibrated properly because it's still not returning
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  Speaker 2: to zero regularly. So I'm like, I've either lost five pounds,
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  Speaker 2: I've gained five pounds, or I'm the exact same weight
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  Speaker 2: as I was.
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  Speaker 1: I'm in the weird place where I've lost some weight,
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  Speaker 1: which is great. That's what the GLP-1 is supposed to do.
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  Speaker 1: But I've also been dealing with back pain. So I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if it's muscle weight that I've lost because
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  Speaker 1: I also track my inches because when you're working out,
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  Speaker 1: like your actual weight will increase if you're doing strength training,
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  Speaker 1: even if you are losing inches. So that's just, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I try not, I try to go more based on
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  Speaker 1: that than the actual scale, but I know like my
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  Speaker 1: doctor goes on the scale. So I'm trying to keep
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  Speaker 1: track of it, but it's a journey. And I am
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  Speaker 1: proud of you, Jonathan, for being on this journey of
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  Speaker 1: health because you're my friend and I want you around
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  Speaker 1: for a really long time. And I'm going to I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to attempt to do the same.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I appreciate it. There were some hurdles in my
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  Speaker 2: way because, like, I don't have a gym close to
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  Speaker 2: me and I don't drive. So the gym I go
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  Speaker 2: to is one point seven miles away. So I walk.
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  Speaker 2: nearly two miles. I work out for an hour and
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  Speaker 2: then I have to walk another two miles back home.
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  Speaker 2: And it took a lot of willpower to just get moving.
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  Speaker 2: And that's one of the reasons why now I'm like
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  Speaker 2: really determined to keep going because I know that if
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  Speaker 2: I let myself slip, that that's just a, a quick
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  Speaker 2: journey to not going at all. And in fact, yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: like I had been going right after work, but yesterday
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  Speaker 2: I had laundry going. So I didn't want to leave
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  Speaker 2: the laundry going while, no one was home. So I
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  Speaker 2: waited for it to finish, which meant I didn't get
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  Speaker 2: to the gym till 9pm. So I work out till 10pm.
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  Speaker 2: And that means I didn't get home till like after 1030,
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  Speaker 2: having done all this walking and working out and stuff.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm trying to avoid those situations too, because obviously
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  Speaker 2: anything I do that makes it more of a challenge
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  Speaker 2: to get to the gym means I'm more likely to
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  Speaker 2: say like, Oh, I'm just going to skip today. And
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to do that. If I can help it,
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  Speaker 2: I want to remove the, it's kind of like the
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  Speaker 2: removing the temptations. I want to remove the excuses I
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  Speaker 2: could make because I know me now before what y'all
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  Speaker 2: don't know, maybe is before COVID. I was like in
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  Speaker 2: the best shape of my life. I was like, I
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  Speaker 2: was muscular. I was, you know, I was in really nice.
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't thin. I wasn't skinny like it was back
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  Speaker 2: when Ariel first met me. But then I was probably
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  Speaker 2: at an unhealthy weight the other way.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you were pretty thin. You were pretty thin pre-COVID.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like a lot of us were thinner pre-COVID.
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  Speaker 1: And some of it is just getting that activity level
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  Speaker 1: back up is hard but hey i know you guys
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  Speaker 1: didn't all decide i mean you probably did because you
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  Speaker 1: like if you're listening you like to listen to us
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  Speaker 1: ramble but let's maybe we should move from like the
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  Speaker 1: old timers it's hard to be healthy podcast into our
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  Speaker 1: show notes for today because i know that uh i
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  Speaker 1: have a time limit and i'm sorry y'all i wish
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  Speaker 1: i could talk forever i know we've missed a few
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  Speaker 1: weeks so.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I already went through and trimmed our show
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  Speaker 2: notes a little bit, but there's just so much to
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  Speaker 2: get through, including some really heavy stuff. But before we
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  Speaker 2: get into that, let's talk a little bit about stuff
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  Speaker 2: we've seen since the last time we chatted. We both
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  Speaker 2: have been watching Vision Quest, although I'm two episodes behind
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  Speaker 2: now because I didn't watch the ones that came out
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  Speaker 2: just this past week. But I've watched the first four episodes.
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  Speaker 2: I'm enjoying it. I don't think I like it as
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  Speaker 2: much as WandaVision or Agatha all along yet, but I'm
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  Speaker 2: willing to wait and see if there's going to be
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  Speaker 2: a moment where I'm like, oh, now it's all really
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  Speaker 2: clicking into place. I'm enjoying it a lot, so I
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  Speaker 2: don't want to make that sound like I'm not having
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  Speaker 2: a good time. And then I also watched Mortal Kombat 2.
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  Speaker 2: Ariel saw this when it was out in the theaters.
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  Speaker 2: I finally watched it streaming, and I gotta tell y'all,
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  Speaker 2: I did not like it. I think I didn't like
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  Speaker 2: it because I didn't think the story was very interesting,
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  Speaker 2: and it was really just there to hang a lot
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  Speaker 2: of fights on, which I understand. It's Mortal Kombat. You
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  Speaker 2: shouldn't necessarily have super high standards. That's not really what
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  Speaker 2: this is all about, but I found it frustrating because
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  Speaker 2: I didn't like the story at all. And the fights
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  Speaker 2: didn't really interest me that much. So by the end
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  Speaker 2: of it, I thought I actually liked the first Mortal
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  Speaker 2: Kombat movie more. And by that, I mostly mean the
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  Speaker 2: Scorpion Sub-Zero storyline in the first Mortal Kombat movie. The
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  Speaker 2: storyline of the protagonist, the one that they very quickly
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  Speaker 2: get rid of in Mortal Kombat 2, was less interesting
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  Speaker 2: to me. But it was also still frustrating to me
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  Speaker 2: that they we're like, well, let's just sweep this character
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  Speaker 2: under the rug.
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  Speaker 1: So, I mean, I get that. I think they learned
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  Speaker 1: from the first one where they tried to put in
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  Speaker 1: an interesting story that people didn't want that. And that's
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  Speaker 1: why there's less story in this one. And they just
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  Speaker 1: get to the fighting. I agree. The fights could be
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  Speaker 1: more interesting. There were one or two that I kind
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  Speaker 1: of liked. I really liked Baraka. He was fun. And
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  Speaker 1: I also agree that in the first movie, the best
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  Speaker 1: part is like the first 10 or 15 minutes was some,
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  Speaker 1: with Scorpion and Sub-Zero. I did like it more because
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  Speaker 1: of the way they swept the character under the rug
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  Speaker 1: in the second movie, or not the way, the timing
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  Speaker 1: in which they did it. Because there's a lot of character...
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  Speaker 1: It's been out a while. There's a lot of characters sweeping.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of characters die, and he wasn't the first,
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  Speaker 1: so I was okay with it. But I completely understand
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  Speaker 1: your critiques, and it's definitely like... on the movies that
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  Speaker 1: I was looking like the popcorn movies, I was looking
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  Speaker 1: forward to watching for excitement. It is not the lowest
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  Speaker 1: on my list. I actually found more entertainment out of
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  Speaker 1: it than I did super girl. And I hate to
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  Speaker 1: say that, but, uh, it, it was, it's on the
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  Speaker 1: low end. Uh, I liked the other things I watched
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  Speaker 1: much better.
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  Speaker 2: Well, uh, the way I keep thinking of it like this,
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  Speaker 2: it would be like, if you went and saw a
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  Speaker 2: new hope and you're like, Oh, I found Luke a
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  Speaker 2: little irritating, but at the end he was a decent protagonist.
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  Speaker 2: And then you go see Empire Strikes Back and they
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  Speaker 2: kill Luke off in the first 30 minutes. And they're like,
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  Speaker 2: now Han Solo's the main character. That would have been
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  Speaker 2: really rough.
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  Speaker 1: Han Solo wasn't the main character?
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  Speaker 2: Well, even if he was, he still gets stabbed through
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  Speaker 2: the chest in episode seven or eight.
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  Speaker 1: I don't I don't remember. I like, and I like
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  Speaker 1: star Wars and I didn't mind the last three movies, but, um,
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  Speaker 1: they definitely weren't the strongest. Um, but part of the
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  Speaker 1: reason I don't remember is I'm tired. I have had
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  Speaker 1: shows or rehearsals all week long.
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  Speaker 2: So, uh, well, I'm glad you can take a break
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  Speaker 2: from being famous to talk to your friend, Jonathan. Can
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  Speaker 2: you tell me about some of the things you've seen
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  Speaker 2: since the last time we chatted?
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  Speaker 1: Yes. And first of all, I'm going to, you skipped
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  Speaker 1: your question. Uh, That you have up there. Oh, what?
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  Speaker 2: What? I don't even remember writing it. What was the
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  Speaker 2: question of the week?
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  Speaker 1: It was what, in your opinion, is the worst candy
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  Speaker 1: to get at Halloween, which for me is either bit
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  Speaker 1: of honeys or circus peanuts. I think you forgot it
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  Speaker 1: because we did talk about it last week before we
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  Speaker 1: had to bail.
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  Speaker 2: See, in my head, we had done that for the
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  Speaker 2: episode before this one. I didn't realize that that was
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  Speaker 2: part of I didn't realize that was part of this episode.
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  Speaker 2: So that's my bad. Yeah, you said bit of honey
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  Speaker 2: or what was the other one?
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  Speaker 1: Circus peanuts.
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  Speaker 2: Both of which are I actually like bit of honey,
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  Speaker 2: but it's it will take the fillings out of your
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  Speaker 2: teeth if you got any. So you got to be
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  Speaker 2: super careful with them. Circus peanuts are an abomination. But
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  Speaker 2: the answer I gave to my own question of what
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  Speaker 2: is the because I said not just candy, but what's
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  Speaker 2: the worst treat to get when you're trick or treating?
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  Speaker 2: In my opinion, it was wax lips. I think wax
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  Speaker 2: lips are terrible.
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  Speaker 1: I used to like them, like the very slight cherry
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  Speaker 1: flavor I liked and the fact that you could chew
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  Speaker 1: on them. I used to like to chew on things,
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  Speaker 1: I think because I have TMJ kind of scratched an
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  Speaker 1: itch for me when I was a kid. It ruined
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  Speaker 1: my teeth, but that's okay. I've since fixed them and
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  Speaker 1: stopped chewing on things as much. I know you also
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  Speaker 1: mentioned that you didn't care for candy corn as much,
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  Speaker 1: which is similar to bit of honey. They're both a
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  Speaker 1: honey based candy. So that's interesting to me.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's the consistency of candy corn. It's
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  Speaker 2: not so much the flavor. It's got this half gummy,
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  Speaker 2: half chalky consistency that I don't care for. There are
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  Speaker 2: a lot of chewy candies that just from a sensory standpoint,
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  Speaker 2: I don't like. So things like gumdrops. I don't like gumdrops.
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  Speaker 2: If it's more firm than that, like if it's a
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  Speaker 2: firm gummy bear candy, or even more of a softer
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  Speaker 2: gummy bear, I'm okay with those. But for some reason,
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  Speaker 2: stuff that's like in the gumdrop family or candy corn,
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  Speaker 2: you know, that there's some textural thing that just doesn't
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: flow right with me. And I'm not saying that people
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: who enjoy it are bad. I'm just saying I'm not
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: one of you. I.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: Uh, I'm, I'm on the opposite side. I don't like
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: the flavor of candy corn. It's okay in a very
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: tiny amount. I don't mind the texture. The texture to
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: me is almost gritty and I don't mind that texture. Uh,
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: but bit of honey is, I don't like the flavor
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: of either. Um, and I like honey. I used to
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: not like honey. I used to think it tasted like
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: the bee barf that it's actually is hold on. But yeah, I,
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: I like honey now, but I don't like those honey candies.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: I think just cause it, it tastes like, I used
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: to say this all the time about food. I didn't
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: like it tastes waxy. But in those cases, it does.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: But wax lips I liked because I expected it to
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: taste waxy. I do have I want to ask your
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: opinion on to like love, hate other love, hate candies.
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: What do you feel about red Twizzlers? And what do
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: you feel about Charleston shoes? Because I know those are
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: also ones that people either love or hate.
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: So I am not a Twizzler or red vine kind
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: of person to me. I can't. I don't even taste
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: flavor with it. Like there's something that's subtly sweet and
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: that's the best I can get out of those things.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: And otherwise they're just kind of, you know, chewy and
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: I've never understood the appeal of them. I can't remember
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: the last time I had a Charleston chew. So I
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: can't answer that because I, I, I have no memory
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: of what they're like. Um, I'm sure there are other
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: candies that if I got them when I was trick
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: or treating, I'd be like, Oh man, I I'll just,
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: either give this to my sister or my parents or
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: we'll just throw it out or whatever. Cause it's just
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: no one wants them. Like I've never been a big
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: fan of Tootsie rolls, for example, but, uh, I mean,
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: I would have them on occasion, but like one or
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: two Tootsie rolls would do me for a year. And so, uh, I,
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: but I can't remember what Charleston chews taste like. So
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: I can't really answer that question.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: I'm also not a red Twizzler or red vine fan.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: I can't say it's licorice because it feels like it's
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: not actually. I don't mind a little bit of licorice.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: That's another one I used to hate that I don't
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: mind anymore. Charleston's shrews are the ones that are like
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: a white nougat on the inside and then chocolate on
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: the outside. And if you eat them fresh, they're just
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: kind of really chewy. But if you freeze them, that
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: nougat almost becomes like a honeycomb kind of texture and
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: it cracks. And then it, as it thaws in your mouth,
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: it gets chewy. And I really love that. Like it, it,
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: I had to get used to it. My mom actually
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: showed me that hack. Thank you, mom. So, but now
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: I love them and I haven't had one in forever.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: I might have to go grab one now.
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: Well, it's a good, a good tip that maybe one
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: day I will try if I somehow come into possession
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: of a Charleston Chew. I don't see that happening, but
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: you never know. All right. Well, now can you talk, please,
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: about the, because I know you saw a different movie
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: that has a lot of fighting that's based off a
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: video game since the last time we chatted.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: I did, yeah. So I guess I'll talk about that
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: one first. I did go see Street Fighter in the theater.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: I saw it, I guess, technically opening night. Like it
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: was out Thursday, but the official date was Friday. And
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: I saw it that Friday. In a theater with a
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: bunch of other people. And there was like a little
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: bit of chatter, but it was mainly just people being like,
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: oh man, that was dope or whatever and laughing. It
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: was really fun. It was fun. It was so dumb.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: The storyline is also not great, but it was a
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: lot of fun. Um, I really liked the music in it.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: I thought that the scoring was good. Um, I feel
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: like masters of the universe used their timing a bit
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: better for the music in the movie. Cause that's like
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: a big thing nowadays, these goofy movies, you know, ever
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: since guardians of the galaxy is, is fun music, recognizable scoring. Um, and,
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: and street fire did a good job. The acting in
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: it was really good. Like it could have been one
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: of those movies where the actors were just there for
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: a paycheck because it is such a dumb movie, but
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: it knew what it was. It was funny. It had
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: some great like cinematic visual turns that I didn't expect
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: that were kind of like got you to the audience
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: that I don't want to spoil, but they were so fun.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: And I can't wait till you see it so I
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: can talk with you about it. But also like the
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: actors really tried. They were really committed to the characters
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: and it completely sold it. And like it was tense
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: and heartwarming. The fights were good, exception of where they
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: were just ridiculous because, of course, it's Street Fighter. The
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: chemistry was good. Yeah, I really enjoyed it.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: Quick question. Who was your who ended up being your
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: favorite character?
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: As if I can remember all of the character names,
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: I think is it. So I actually really ended up
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: liking the lead character. I think his name is Ken.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: And I also liked Ryu. They had a really good chemistry.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: I really liked them playing together. But I think, is
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: it Guile who has the flat top?
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Guile, who is played by Cody Rhodes, WWE wrestler.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he was hilarious. I loved the character. It was great.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: I also think it was wonderful that they used Orville
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: Peck to play the masked character. Vega. Yeah, because Orville Peck,
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: if you don't know, is a music musical artist who
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: always wears a mask. And Vega is a character who
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: also always wears a mask. So it was there were
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: times where like he was shirtless. And like afterwards, my
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: friends and I were talking, we're like, yeah, he wasn't
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: as ripped as we expected Vega to be. But it's
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: because they did this meta casting, which he was great acting.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: It was hilarious. I loved it. Yeah, everybody did a
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: great job. there um some of the people who were
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: in it were actual martial artists or ma artists or
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: wwe some of them were not um one of the
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: women she played a minor character and she actually is
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: like a badass martial artist she was in the last
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: season of cobra kai um like she was a minor
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: character but she stole every scene she was in and
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: i can't remember her name at the moment but it
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: was really great it was really great um it was
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: a Tuesday night after my actual play after my shadow
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: city mysteries game, I couldn't sleep. I was just kind
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: of wired. So I ended up watching, I was like,
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: I'm just going to watch one episode, but it was
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: so good. I watched both. I, I loved it again.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: This is another thing. I can't wait for you to
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: catch up. Cause I really want to hear your opinions
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: on if it has caught you and everything gels for you.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: I I'm caught up on taskmaster. I'm watching always sunny
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: and daredevil born again, because I got Disney plus two.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: watch vision quest um i'm enjoying daredevil born again but
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: it's not really catching me like the first season did
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: or like the old netflix show did season one and
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: two of that um but it is good uh i
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: also watched the ryan reynolds um he played oh my
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: gosh i can't remember his name all of a sudden
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: he played benedict in much ado about nothing.
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: He's also puero kenneth branagh yes.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: The Ryan Reynolds, Kenneth Branagh, Apple movie Mayday, where Ryan
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: Reynolds is the fighter pilot, the Navy guy who goes
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: down in Russia and is rescued by Kenneth Branagh. It
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: was funny. It was really cute. I quite enjoyed it.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: Is it like a phenomenal movie? No, but it definitely
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: was not what I expected, but also in a good way.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: I immediately texted my mom and dad. I was like,
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: you guys should watch this. I think you'd enjoy it.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: And then the other thing I've been doing I used
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: to listen to a lot of like spooky podcasts around
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: the Halloween season. And so I started listening to Magnus Archives.
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: Okay, cool. One spooky podcast everyone should listen to is,
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: I think it's the 13 Days to Halloween, something like that.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: That's what it's called. Specifically, you should listen to season two.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: Cause there's this guy who plays a doctor in one
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: of those episodes. Who's real good at voice acting. And
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: he gets to voice act against Kathy and the Jimmy,
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: even though the two people never were in the same
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: building at the same time.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. He is real good. You should listen to it.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: Do you know which episode it is?
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: Uh, I should. Since I did it, this was years
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: ago though. This was, this was years ago when I
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: did this, but it was like, it was well into
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: the season, but it was the, So each season of
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: the show has like an overarching story that links everything together.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: But each episode itself is kind of like more of
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: an anthology, like an entry in an anthology. And I
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: think mine was called The Doctor. And I had a
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: lot of fun. I kind of bugged the showrunners because
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: I was like, I knew them. And I was like, hey,
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: you know, if you ever need anyone, just do like
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: a minor voice role or whatever. I'm totally available and
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: I would love to do it. And they ended up
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: giving me an entire episode and it was a lot
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: of fun. There was a one point where they did
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: some digital manipulation of my voice and it was to
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: the extent where I didn't recognize that it was me.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: And I thought they had replaced me with Kathy to
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: Jimmy for the line. And then it was like, no, no,
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: that's you. We just altered your voice digitally.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: Amazing. Amazing. That's, that's a lot of fun. Uh, yeah,
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: go listen to that. Um, Jonathan is a great voice actor.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: We used to do a lot more voice acting together.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: It's been a bit, though. I still have not seen
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: You Can See Everything Everywhere All at Once, but.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: Wait, okay. Do you mean you haven't seen You Can
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: See Everything, the documentary about Elizabeth Holmes, or you haven't
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: seen Everything Everywhere All at Once, the fantasy action movie?
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: I've seen everything everywhere all at once, although not until
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: last year. But I have not seen You Can See Everything.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: That's the next movie on my list, just because we
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: talked about it on Business on the Brink. We talked
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: about Theranos. And it just seems like such an interesting,
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: like social, like it's interesting because Nathan Filder, the documentary guy,
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: he's known for being awkward. But also I've heard that
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: the movie really makes you examine like how your perception
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: of people change when you spend so much time with them.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: I think that's important to like discuss and know and
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: point out.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I, it's really having a moment. Like it's, it's
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: one of the most successful documentaries ever. And it, and
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: I've heard a lot of like, there's like a moment
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: in the movie where it's just everything kind of changes,
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: which is interesting to me. And I have yet to
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: see it as well. And it's definitely on my list.
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: It's just one of those things that one of the
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: other downsides of going back to the gym is that it,
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: it takes away, even more of my limited free time. And, uh,
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: so I have not yet made the time to go
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: see it, but I definitely want to, and I don't
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: expect it to be the end all documentary about Elizabeth
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: Holmes and, and, you know, who she is as a person,
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: because I still think that there's a lot of performative
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: behavior going on there that isn't really giving you a
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: true glimpse at the person, but it's To me, it's
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: kind of fascinating because I don't want to throw medical
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: terms around, especially since I'm not a doctor or anything,
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: but there are elements about her personality that remind me
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: of qualities that are often associated with things like psychopaths.
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: And it's not like that's an unusual thing to find,
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: especially in business and especially in the tech business. There
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: are a lot of leaders who seem to exhibit those qualities.
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: And I think that's kind of fascinating and I mean,
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: legit scary.
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. Now, I'm not a medical doctor, but
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: I have because I haven't seen it yet. I sadly
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: did get some spoiled really early on about some stuff
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: in the documentary.
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: It's fine.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: I still want to see it. But I have listened
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: to a lot of therapists, psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, people who are
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: in those fields talk about it and they say similar things.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: So obviously they're not her doctors, but it is a
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: fairly common observance for her. So, yeah, we'll have to
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: talk about it once you and I do get to
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: see it. I I've been back and forth on if
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: I want to see it in the theater or not,
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: because I did see a Tik TOK clip where there
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: was a theater watching it and everybody was just laughing
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: at every moment because it was so absurd. And I
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: don't know if I want that. Yeah.
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: There's, there's a delicate balance, right? Because like sometimes that
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: kind of environment can be fun, but if you genuinely
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: are engaged with the material and you want to hear
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: what happens next, it could get frustrating and, uh, and
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: make it a really bad experience. Like I can think
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: of times where I saw movies where the crowd interaction
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: was off the chain, but it was also the kind
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: of movie where that really wasn't a problem. Like I'm
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: thinking of the first time I finally saw the room,
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: which was well after it had already, like it had
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: probably already peaked in that cult film participation and was
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: on the decline, but it was still pretty high when
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: I saw it. And, Yeah, it was really hard to
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: pay attention because everybody's treating it like Rocky Horror. And
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: for me, it was the first time seeing it. But
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: I spent most of that screening just screaming, what is
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: happening over and over again? I don't expect that to
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: be the case with You Can See Everything, but I
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: hear what you're saying. There's a delicate balance between being
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: in an engaged audience, which elevates the viewing experience, and
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: being in a rowdy audience where it detracts from it.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: For sure. I do expect to go, what the heck
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: is going on at every given time? Just even though
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: I know, just because I don't understand. But let's go
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: ahead and move on into our 30 seconds or less.
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: And we've got a few bits of sad news to
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: really start off. So first up, Patrick Stewart, famed actor
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: of stage and screen, passed away this week after a
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: brief battle with Alzheimer's. Stewart is famous for many roles,
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: not least of which is Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: Trek The Next Generation. Then there's Professor X in the
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: X-Men movies of the early 2000s. It's a character that
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: we're going to see one last time in Avengers Doomsday.
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: He was 86 years old and we're very sad about
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: his passing.
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: Definitely. I was trying to figure out a good day
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: to celebrate Patrick Stewart's death. contributions to my life like
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: 9 25 is 9 to 5 is the Dolly Parton
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: day now also passed away this week Walter Koenig who
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: was Chekhov in Star Trek he was also in Babylon
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: 5 apparently a really nice guy I got to work
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: with him very briefly once as in like I got
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: to escort him from one room to another and he
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: was just very sweet to me as well he was
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: 90 our love goes out to his family too he
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: was from the original Star Trek.
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah Dame Judi Dench has said in an interview with
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: BBC Radio 4's show Today that her eyesight has deteriorated
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: to the point that she can no longer act on
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: stage or even read a script, suggesting that perhaps her
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: long-lauded acting career has come to an end. She's been
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: active since the 1950s. She's famous for roles like M
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: in the James Bond series, starting with GoldenEye. She was
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: Queen Victoria in Mrs. Brown. She was Queen Elizabeth I
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: in Shakespeare in Love. And of course... Who could forget
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: her as old Deuteronomy in Cats?
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: I had forgotten. Thanks for the reminder. I do look
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: forward to seeing what she might be able to do next.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: Other sad news, but not quite as sad as those
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: first three, sad in a different way, is that EA
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: has shut down BioWare, which means that the next Mass
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: Effect game is not going to happen. All of those
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: people have been... let go and the game has been
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: scrapped and it's really sad. There was a leak of
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: like some game in game footage that they had been
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: doing like, and it looks phenomenal. And I'm just, I'm
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: heartbroken because I love the mass effect games and I'm
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: heartbroken for all of those amazing game developers.
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Unsolved mysteries was a television series, exploring cold cases
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: in the paranormal and the show itself would sometimes die
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: only to come back later. Like, okay, check this out.
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: 1987 to 1997, it was airing on NBC. Then from
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: 97 to 99, it moved to CBS. Then it goes quiet,
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: comes back to Lifetime Television in 2001 to 2002, then
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: goes quiet again. Then Spike TV from 2008 to 2010,
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: then quiet again. Then Netflix brought it back for some
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: volumes from 2020 to present. And now a video podcast
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: version will launch on YouTube with host Jordan Murphy. Technically,
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: it actually already launched. It launched on Thursday, October 29th,
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: which is the day before we were recording this. And
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: I think they should just get around to solving those
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: ding dang darn mysteries.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: Agreed. Another thing that's a mystery to me is why
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: we're getting another alien movie. Well, not why we're getting
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: another alien movie, but why the alien movie that is
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: being written is related to Prometheus and Alien Covenant as
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: opposed to the new Alien Romulus, which brought new life
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: back to the franchise. But lo and behold, we are
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: getting a new film. It's being done by Aaron Guzikowski,
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: who also, I believe, worked on Raised by Wolves, and
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: that's all I got on that.
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: The Weekly World News is probably best known as that
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: tabloid newspaper that used to show up in grocery store
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: checkout lines with stories about Bat Boy and other weird
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: flights of fancy. That version is long gone, but the
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: company still remains and is going to fund a run
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: of a comedy series called helmed by Ben Garant, who
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: you might know from stuff like The State and Reno 911.
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: The series is said to be largely improvisational and will
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: see reporters out in the field capturing those wild stories,
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: which sounds interesting to me.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: That does sound interesting. Something else that sounds interesting to
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: me is U.S. is getting a version of Last One Laughing.
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: It will be hosted by Nick Kroll, who I am
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: very hot and cold on. Like some of his stuff
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: I think is very clever and some of it I
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: just think is so, so gross. But I think as
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: a host, he'll do decently. I really enjoy the last
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: one laughing series overall. It is comedians trying to make
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: comedians laugh. So it can get pretty out there in
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: its humor. I just started watching actually the Halloween special
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: for the UK version. That's something I forgot to mention
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: I watched. So I look forward to this one as well.
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: And Glee fans will have something to sing about because
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: Disney Plus and Hulu have ordered a reboot series of
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: the Ryan Murphy project. The original series, which followed the
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: misadventures of Glee Club members at a high school, ran
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: from 2009 to 2015. Apparently, at least some of the
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: original cast are going to be in this reboot, though
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: whether they'll return as the former students they played before
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: or as brand new characters remains to be sung.
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: That's it. Show's over.
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: Now we have to move on to the section that
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: everyone knows. We call it this every single week. It's
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: called some stuff that asked if it could crash on
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: our couch for the weekend and we didn't have the
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: heart to say no.
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: This time, I do feel like everything in this category
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: is at least by association in the geekosphere. Uh, and
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: the first of all is the banana ball film. And
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: you might be like, what's banana ball. Banana ball is
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: the Harlem globe trotters. It's the Savannah team of Harlem
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: globe trotters, but for baseball, uh, they do like musical
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: numbers and acrobatic stuff and all that in between plays. Um, it's, uh,
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: it's a team that's made up of, of, it's not
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: just like a man, a men's team. Um, a lot
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: of people who are like former Broadway stars are in
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: it or actors or dancers. Um, It's always very fun
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: to watch their clips. I actually just entered their lottery
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: for tickets upcoming.
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: I also entered their lottery for upcoming tickets. The tickets
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: are hard to come by. They do a lottery system
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: where you win the right to buy tickets because they
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: have such a limited number and they don't want people
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: to just like swoop in and buy up huge banks
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: of tickets and then scalp them down the line. They're
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: trying to keep it fair. But even in places like
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: Truist Park, they sell out.
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: So if you've never seen the Savannah bananas, you should
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: check them out on YouTube. There are some full games
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: up on there. I think also on Disney plus they
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: might have some.
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: And they'll also like live stream their games as well. Yeah.
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: And, and it is very much like Harlem Globetrotters, although
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: they'll play against other teams that also have, you know,
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: kind of wild and acrobatic players. So you'll see people
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: who will do things like they'll do a backflip before
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: catching a ball or, They'll, uh, be on stilts while
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: they're playing pitcher, whatever it may be. And it's just a,
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: a very fun thing. And I love this, this movie
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: that's coming out. The banana ball film is all about the,
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: kind of the, the, the, uh, uh, the establishment and
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: then the rise in popularity of the Savannah bananas and
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: what it took to get them there. And my favorite
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: bit in the clip that we watched is they have,
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: you know, actual important people in baseball saying, yeah, they're
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: not making fun of the game. They're making the game fun.
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: And I love that perspective where it's about creating joy.
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: It's not about, you know, saying, Ooh, baseball, what a
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: funny game. Like, Oh, look at all these weird rules
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: and stuff. It's more about let's have some truly joyful, ridiculous, absurd,
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: fun moments while playing a game. It, this movie is
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: going to premiere on, here in atlanta at truest park
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: on june 12th but it's going to come to disney
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: plus and hulu this coming fall so fall of 2027 um.
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: I like i like the stuff they do and i
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: like the joy they bring and i like their inclusivity
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: but um i will probably wait for it to come
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: to streaming i probably won't go watch it.
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: If i'm invited i will go This is what we
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: have to do. We have to establish ourselves as pop
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: culture commentators and then get invited to stuff like this.
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: You're 100% right. If we get invited to be pop
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: culture commentators at this, I would be delighted to go
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: and delighted to talk about it and support it. So yeah,
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: you're 100% right. All right.
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: Next up, we have a film trailer for an action thriller,
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: which I feel like the movie's trying to capture a
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: combination of Coen brothers quirkiness with Quentin Tarantino, super cool
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: edgy type stuff. It's called best pancakes in the County.
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: Perhaps the most notable element of this film is that
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: Nicholas cage is playing a character just known as the SOB,
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: although they use the actual name for that, uh, as
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: his character and that his makeup makes him, uh, not
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: quite unrecognizable, but certainly unattractive. Uh, but the basic premise
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: appears to be that there's a convergence of various baddies
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: on this one diner. And most of them are like
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: corrupt federal agents. And then you've got this SOB character
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: and that they're all after something valuable. Justin Long is
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: also in it looks very stylish, uh, and, There's a
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: lot of humor built into it as well, although I
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: wouldn't call it a comedy. I'd call it an action
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: thriller first and a comedy second. But what did you
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: think about this trailer?
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: I think that they were going for all the things
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: you said. However, the comedy didn't land for me. It
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: honestly felt like.
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: I left the trailer going, what actually is this story?
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: It's just these people coming in from... for this heist,
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: this diner waitress has more going on to her, but
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: we have no idea what, and why, why is Nicholas
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: cage wearing a pig nose prosthetic?
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: Like, did you ever see the, um, all right. So
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: I'll tell you about a couple of movies. This reminds
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: me of it kind of just from a style slash
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: substance balance. It reminds me a little bit of, I
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: think it's two smoking aces is what the movie was called.
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: It was about a bunch of hit, uh, hit men
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: and assassins all descending upon a casino in Vegas where a, uh,
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: like a famous magician and the son of, uh, a
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: powerful crime Lord, uh, is the target that everyone is
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: going after. And it felt like it was just like the,
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: the story was just a flimsy premise to have a
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: bunch of cool hit men versus hit man type of
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: action sequences or, uh, on a similar note, but a
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: better story, but still kind of the same bullet train.
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: Like those are movies where I'm like, it feels like
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: the story is just there so that you can have
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: these action sequences hang on that story. I feel bullet
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: train does it better than smoking aces does. I don't
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: know how this movie will stack up, but I mean,
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: stack is appropriate because it's best pancakes in the County.
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: Very clever. I did see Bullet Train. I didn't see
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: Smoking Aces. I liked Bullet Train, Smoking Aces. I don't know.
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: This side just didn't grab me. But the next thing did,
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: which was a trailer for, we had talked about in
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: 30 Seconds or Less, a TV show called Dig. It's
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: coming out on Peacock. It stars Amy Poehler and Hugh
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: Laurie and then has this huge, amazing supporting cast. It's
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: about A woman, I guess, students who are doing a
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: dig in. I know they filmed in Greece. Does it
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: take place there? Yeah.
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: So they're working at an excavation site in Greece. They discover.
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: So it's the log line is, quote, four archaeologists are
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: working at an excavation site in Greece when they discover
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: a secret that puts them in the midst of an
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: international conspiracy. End quote. So Amy Poehler is playing one
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: of the four archaeologists, one named Elise. but I have
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: the feeling that some of like one of them I
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: think is supposed to be kind of a, uh, uh,
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: a naive young, you know, like this is her first
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: big assignment kind of thing. One is a woman who's
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: more used to being a curator and not like an
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: in the field archeologist. And she's much more concerned with
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: appearances and things like that. So like, there's a lot of, um, uh,
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: interplay between the four archaeologists who don't necessarily like each
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: other either, but they have to band together because whatever
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: it is they find puts them in harm's way. And
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: like you said, there are some incredible supporting actors in this.
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: Justin Law, not Justin Long, sorry. I was reading the
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: wrong note for the wrong thing. Jason Mantzoukas. Jason Mantzoukas
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: and Brantley Mulligan are playing supporting characters in this. Kava
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: Novak of What We Do in the Shadows has a
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: guest spot in this as well. And yeah, it looks,
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: it looks like it's going to be entertaining. This is
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: based off a book, by the way, it's, it's a
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: novel titled excavations by Kate Myers came out a few
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: years ago. So I'm, it comes out November 23rd. There's
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: 10 episodes. It looks to me like all 10 are
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: going to drop on the same day, at least according
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: to what I saw. So you can just binge the
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: whole darn thing if you wanted to. But yeah, I
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: was entertained by this trailer.
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: Me too. A couple other people have mentioned in it,
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: Geraldine Visser, Viswa Nathan is in it. She plays one
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: of the main characters. I'm just mentioning because she was
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: also a miracle worker. She was one of the main
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: characters in that, which you haven't watched yet, but you
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: should because you'd enjoy it. And then Max Greenfield, who
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: is Schmidt on New Girl. But I think he's a
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: very funny actor. Yeah, I also think it looks really good.
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: I also really like the other stuff that they worked on.
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: Like it's from the same people who did The Good
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: Place and I love The Good Place. So I am
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: looking forward to that. And it's not just because Brennan
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: Lee Mulligan.
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: Is a part of it.
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: Well, what I am now looking forward to is taking
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: my dear friend Ariel down this rope ladder. We're going
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: to just descend very carefully. I think you probably noticed
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: by now the rope ladder is actually a giant spider
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: web that we're slowly descending. And that, yeah, that skittering
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: noise means they're coming to see us. But before they can,
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: I'm going to open up this here cabinet so we
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: can go into John Boy's Horror Hutch. And as always,
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: I must turn to my beloved co-host and ask her
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: the very important question. Did you watch any of these trailers?
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: Maybe I should just stay outside the hutch. I mean,
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: it's difficult talking without getting that echo. So maybe I'll
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: just meet you when you come back out. I actually
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: did watch the first two.
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: OK, well, then I will ask you your opinions about
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: the first two. The first one is called Trauma or,
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: Monsters All. I have issues with that title because grammatically
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: it makes no sense. But it's Trauma or Monsters All.
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: And it's an independent horror film by Larry Fessenden. Now,
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: I have not seen Fessenden's movies, but this is the
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: convergence and conclusion of several stories that he created in
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: other films. And each film focused on a different type
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: of monster. So in this movie, a writer moves to
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: a town and then publishes an article where she talks
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: about hidden monsters in the town. But based on the trailer,
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: it kind of felt to me like it was sort
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: of figurative language, you know, like how some people are
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: real monsters in secret. That's what it felt like to me,
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: except this brings out actual, like for realsies, literal monsters
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: and not in a funny way. It's not done as
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: a comedy. So this is a monster horror movie. And
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: like I said, these monsters were created in previous Fessenden films.
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: So there's a movie called Habit, which features a vampire.
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: There's one called Depraved, which features a monster that's essentially
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: a Frankenstein's monster. Then there's a movie called Blackout that
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: has a werewolf in it. And this film is kind
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: of a crossover of all of those. The characters that
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: had been established in those other movies all appear in
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: this film. It comes to select theaters on November 4th. Ariel,
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: what was your reaction to this trailer?
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: It felt kind of like they were going for a
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: being human or is it being human? Yeah, the the
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: vampire werewolf ghost story that was in the UK that
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: then can came to the US because it feels like
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: it deals with the I've also not watched any of
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: Fessenden's previous stuff but this one feels like it's dealing
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: with the uh social aspects that these monsters are based
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: on a bit which I think is pretty interesting um
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: It looks lower budget, but it also stars Letitia Hallard,
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: who had a very big role in season two of
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: The Pit. So that was fun to watch. Am I
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: going to go see it? No, but I did find
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: the trailer interesting. Also, Larry Fessenden has made this really
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: work for him, but he looks like the child of
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: Jack Nicholson in Beetlejuice.
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: I feel like I would need to first watch his
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: other movies before this would make any sense to me
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: at all or have any impact on me. And I
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: don't feel the need to go see those movies. So I,
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: like you, feel that I'm going to be skipping this one.
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: But I did want to bring attention to it. The
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: trailer was kind of interesting. The next one, which I
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: know Ariel must have watched because I labeled it Cosmic Horror,
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: but it's very low-budget Cosmic Horror, is a movie called
• 50:28
  Speaker 2: Beyond the Drumlins. You might wonder what a drumlin is.
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: I certainly did. I did not know. It's apparently a
• 50:35
  Speaker 2: sloping hill that's created by glacial movement. but apparently has
• 50:39
  Speaker 2: no bearing on the story of the film whatsoever. But
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: in ways similar to Dig, a professor and several academics
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: are going into kind of an archaeological assignment within the woods,
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: and one of the academics touches a mysterious stone, and
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: then apparently that academic goes a little bit weird and
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: and that there's some elements of cosmic madness and stuff,
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: but this is super low budget. It's a people-in-the-woods kind
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: of movie. The reviews I've seen, because this movie's been
• 51:14
  Speaker 2: screened at multiple festivals and stuff, the reviews I've seen
• 51:18
  Speaker 2: have been rather disappointing. At best, they call it sort
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: of a mediocre film. It is, however, nice to see
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: someone tackling cosmic horror, even if it's on a low budget.
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: I don't have a date for you because the trailer
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: just says it's coming soon. So Ariel, am I being
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: too unfair?
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: So when the trailer first started, I thought it was
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: actually a higher budget movie. Like just the opening scene
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: with like the, I think it had some drone footage
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: and some good music felt very like a 24 or
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: like British mystery horror film. And then as it went on,
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: I'm like, Oh, this is lower. This is lower budget.
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: It kind of reminded me of the Lovecraft short story. Actually,
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: I don't know if he wrote it or if somebody
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: else did and it was included in an anthology of
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: his books. I haven't read much Lovecraft because he's very
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: problematic and also very scary, but I did read a
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: book of shorts once. There was one about the mounds
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: where it's one called The Mound. This vaguely reminded me
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: of it just from the thing of like digging into
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: the earth and finding things you shouldn't. It was fine.
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: It wasn't amazing. I don't think you're being too harsh.
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: Okay, good. I hate judging things without having seen them,
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: but after reading the review, I'm like, I also have
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: a limited number of hours on this planet, so maybe
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: I should prioritize them differently. And then we have a
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: trailer for a folk horror film from Italy. It's been
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: out in Italy for a while, but it's just now
• 52:50
  Speaker 2: coming to Shudder on November 27th. It's titled The Holy Boy.
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: Holy as in holy, holy, holy. Not not holy as
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: in he's got holes in them. And or he's a
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: whole person. Yeah, it's not that kind of hole. It's
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: holy as in godlike or god loving. So this is
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: the story is about a former national judo champion. You know,
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: those guys who is assigned to be the phys ed
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: teacher at a school in this little remote village in
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: the Alps. And the town is full of people who
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: seemingly don't have a care in the world. And everyone's
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: super nice and everything. but then it's revealed that there
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: is a boy in the village who, when you hug
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: the boy, it takes away all your pain. But if
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: you don't do this, you know, regularly, if you don't
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: go and, and hug the boy on a regular basis,
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: you start to go through kind of withdrawal. And so
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: it's a story that's about like ethical conflict and self-determination. Like,
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: like if there was a child who was capable of
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: this sort of healing behavior, uh, you know, does exploiting him,
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: does that, is that a bad thing, even if it's
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: bringing peace to other people? And, you know, the town
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: is obviously incentivized to keep the boy under control so
• 54:11
  Speaker 2: that they can continue to live a pain-free existence. And
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: is that even human if you're living without any kind
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: of pain? So some interesting philosophical questions, as well as
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: the actual dramatic tension of does this boy deserve to
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: have this kind of existence? What happens if the boy
• 54:30
  Speaker 2: wants to have a life of his own? And, you know,
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: that's sort of how the story all plays out from
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: my understanding. So I thought it was a pretty interesting trailer.
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: I might try and check this one out. It is
• 54:42
  Speaker 2: an Italian with, you know, English subtitles. Like I said,
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: it comes to shutter November 27th. That is a barrier
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: to me because I used to subscribe to shutter, but
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: I haven't for more than a year now. So, um,
• 54:54
  Speaker 2: but who knows? Sometimes I just get on a wild
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: hair and I'll, I'll resubscribe, especially cause shutter has an
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: enormous library. And while I'd say 95% of that is
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: kind of garbage, the 5% that's not is really good. So, uh,
• 55:09
  Speaker 2: that's it. Um, well, gosh, I was gonna open the
• 55:14
  Speaker 2: door and have us get out of the hutch, but, um,
• 55:18
  Speaker 2: I don't know. So many spiders on the other side.
• 55:20
  Speaker 2: It looks like they're just holding the door shut. I
• 55:22
  Speaker 2: don't think I can even, Oh, I can see a
• 55:23
  Speaker 2: little legs poking through the gaps and stuff, but I don't,
• 55:27
  Speaker 2: Oh wait, there's a way in the back. Okay. We're
• 55:29
  Speaker 2: going to go to our actual show notes. Ariel, I'm sorry.
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: It does mean we're going to have to have a
• 55:35
  Speaker 2: quick stop over in Narnia. So for us, we're going
• 55:38
  Speaker 2: to be like feeling like seven years have passed, but
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: for our listeners, it'll just be a second. So here
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: we go.
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: I always feel like, uh, Oh, man, it's snowy here.
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: I thought it would be summer in Narnia. I always
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: feel like I want more time. So this is pretty cool.
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but now we get into our actual show notes
• 55:57
  Speaker 2: and this might seem like I did a switcheroo on
• 56:00
  Speaker 2: Ariel because our first trailer is for a movie called
• 56:03
  Speaker 2: Sleigh Ground, which sounds like it's a horror movie and
• 56:07
  Speaker 2: it has the trappings of a horror movie, but it's
• 56:09
  Speaker 2: not actually a horror movie. It's more of an action thriller.
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: Are you sure? Because I watched it and it felt
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: like a horror movie to me.
• 56:19
  Speaker 2: It is not a horror movie. It is an action thriller.
• 56:23
  Speaker 2: So it's it's the story of a man who wakes up.
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: He's in a haunted house attraction. So not a haunted house,
• 56:31
  Speaker 2: but like the Netherworld style haunted house attractions, you know,
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: like a place you go to pay to get scared
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: by scare actors and everyone around him. His co-workers are
• 56:42
  Speaker 2: all dead. He's the only one left alive and he
• 56:45
  Speaker 2: has no idea what has happened. Meanwhile, law enforcement want
• 56:48
  Speaker 2: to capture him because I mean, he's the one survivor
• 56:51
  Speaker 2: in this event. And so of course he's obviously going
• 56:53
  Speaker 2: to be a suspect. He's trying to solve what happened
• 56:58
  Speaker 2: in that place, why he was left alive, all that
• 57:01
  Speaker 2: kind of stuff before he's caught and accused of being
• 57:06
  Speaker 2: the one to commit these crimes. Cause he doesn't have
• 57:08
  Speaker 2: any memory of anything that, happening so it's actually done
• 57:13
  Speaker 2: as a whodunit kind of you know missing memory sort
• 57:19
  Speaker 2: of story but it is within the trappings of this
• 57:22
  Speaker 2: happening in a haunted house attraction so it's not a
• 57:24
  Speaker 2: horror movie technically it's a thriller it comes out January 29th.
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: I still think I'm gonna skip it I might watch
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: the next movie though the trailer for it feels very
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: cringe it's for a movie called Love's Company it stars
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: Rachel Dratch uh it's like misery but if misery were
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: a comedy.
• 57:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah this is this is pretty much a straight up
• 57:47
  Speaker 2: parody of misery where rachel dratch is taking on the
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: role that kathy bates played in the film adaptation of
• 57:54
  Speaker 2: misery misery obviously obvious originally was a stephen king novel
• 57:58
  Speaker 2: uh this looks very silly in a way that i
• 58:03
  Speaker 2: think is is is good like it doesn't look silly
• 58:06
  Speaker 2: bad to me it I don't know how it'll appeal
• 58:09
  Speaker 2: to younger audiences, but the sense of humor definitely appeals
• 58:13
  Speaker 2: to me.
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. Some of it did, and some
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: of it felt too much for me. In this one,
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: the guy who's held captive is an actor. Rachel Dratch
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: really loves him, but then he disappoints her with his
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: actions because he does not have his life together, and
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: he's a mess, and he's a drug addict. And she
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: just keeps getting more and more disappointed by him. And
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: he also needs like a career boost. So then he's like, no, no,
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: you got to take me back and hold me hostage
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: longer so I can use it for my publicity. Yeah,
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: I'm torn on this one.
• 58:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I do like the idea that he goes from
• 58:53
  Speaker 2: being unwilling captive to she becomes the unwilling captor because
• 59:01
  Speaker 2: she starts to realize that the parasocial relationship she's built
• 59:05
  Speaker 2: up in her head doesn't match up with the person
• 59:07
  Speaker 2: that she's actually got captured in her house. And that's
• 59:12
  Speaker 2: kind of a fun take, too, where a person realizes, oh,
• 59:15
  Speaker 2: you aren't the same as the idea of you. Now
• 59:19
  Speaker 2: I don't really want to go through with this anymore.
• 59:22
  Speaker 2: This comes to video on demand on November 10th. I'll
• 59:25
  Speaker 2: probably check it out because I do like Rachel Dratch
• 59:28
  Speaker 2: a lot. And the trailer... amused me quite a bit
• 59:32
  Speaker 2: so i feel like this is something i would at
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: least give a chance to i mean unless it's going
• 59:37
  Speaker 2: to be some ridiculous amount of money to rent it
• 59:40
  Speaker 2: in which case i'll be like i like the idea
• 59:43
  Speaker 2: of it enough i don't need to experience the actual thing.
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: For sure something else i like the idea of but
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: i don't know that i'm going to experience the actual
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: thing is your dearest darkest friend with ted ramey It
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: looks like a mix between the Netflix baking, spooky baking show,
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: curious creations with Christine McConnell and, uh, between the ferns.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So sort of a comedic interview show with Ted Ramey, uh,
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 2: famous actor in a lot of low budget horror movies,
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 2: especially ones that his brother, Sam Ramey has directed. Uh,
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 2: this comes to screen box on October 30th. So, uh,
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 2: today as we record this it's out uh yeah it
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 2: the the trailer looks cute like it it has a
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 2: fun aesthetic i also don't know how it measures up
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 2: once you actually watch it like there are a lot
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 2: of these coming out right like a lot of different
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 2: kind of um gimmicky interview shows and And I don't
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 2: know if this one's going to really appeal to me.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 2: I will say that when I was watching the trailer,
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 2: I was like, I don't think I recognize any of
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 2: the people he's got on his show so far.
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: I didn't either, but I did like his little puppet
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: head friend.
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 2: Fair enough. So gets a thumbs up for puppet head
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 2: friend from Ariel. You heard it here first. Moving on,
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 2: we've got season three of the Rings of Power coming
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 2: out November 11th. I'll just go ahead and get this
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 2: out there. I'm a huge Tolkien fan. I have not
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 2: watched the rings of power at all. I was aware
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 2: that I was thinking like, Oh, it's set during the,
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 2: the second age, I think not the first stage, but
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 2: the second age, uh, in middle earth lore, which happens,
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 2: you know, thousands of years before Lord of the Rings.
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 2: But as, as I was watching the trailer, I was like,
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 2: wait a minute, that's Gandalf. Why is Gandalf in this?
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 2: Because Gandalf and the Astari are, the wizards don't show
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 2: up in middle earth until the third age. Well, after
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 2: the second age, the second age concludes with like an
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 2: enormous war between Sauron and the, and the forces of
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 2: good and middle earth. And then third age is all
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 2: about Sauron slowly marshalling his power and recovering so that
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 2: he can try it another go at taking over everything.
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 2: So the Astari don't show up until the third age.
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 2: So seeing him show up in a time where he definitely, definitely,
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 2: definitely should not be there, according to Tolkien's notes, drove
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 2: me bonkers. I'm like, I understand this is not an
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 2: adaptation of any existing material. This is new material. But
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 2: it contradicts the canon of the existing material completely. And
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 2: that's what drove me bonkers. So I think you can
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 2: tell from my attitude here, I will not be watching this.
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: If it helps, Gandalf being Gandalf is a reveal at
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: the end of season one, which is the only season
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: I watched. It wasn't that the acting was bad. It
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: was very pretty, but it just was a slog. They
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: didn't make you care enough about anybody, exception of there
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: was one dwarf character I really liked who does show
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: up in later seasons and I really liked her her
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: character but yeah this looks fine Jamie Campbell Bauer has
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: joined the cast as Celeborn that's not enough to make
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: me watch it but I haven't seen season two I
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: probably won't watch season.
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 2: Three yeah I it's not for me even though you
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 2: would think it would be the dude who has the
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 2: Tolkien tattoo but no. Next up, we've got a sci-fi
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 2: survival thriller film directed or co-directed by Idris Elba, who's
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 2: also stars in this. It's called Above the Below. The
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 2: basic premise is it's about astronauts returning to Earth and
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 2: they are stuck in a capsule as it lands and
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 2: then starts to sink in the ocean. So it's a
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 2: whole survival thriller about them trying to figure out how
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 2: to get out of the capsule and still survive and
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 2: all that kind of stuff. This comes out December 4th.
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 2: What did you think of this trailer?
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: This is the one you'd think would be for me,
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: and it was. I was like, oh, outer space and
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: the ocean, but it felt kind of ho-hum to me.
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, when I was watching it, I was like, I
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 2: think I've already seen this movie when it was called Gravity.
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't watch Gravity, though.
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 2: You should watch Gravity. It's actually... it's a decent movie.
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 2: I mean, it stretches believability beyond my capability. Like I
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 2: get to a point where I'm like, okay, but this
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 2: is just BS, but it's like, it is one of
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 2: those things where I'm glad I didn't see it in
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 2: like IMAX. I do believe I saw it in the theater,
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 2: but it's one of those things where if you ever
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 2: have that experience of like, feeling unsettled when you're watching
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 2: videos of people who are really, really, really high up
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 2: on something like on a high radio tower or on
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 2: the edge of a mountain or something like that. There
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 2: were moments in this movie that gave me that feeling
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 2: of like gripping my armrests on the chair, though, sitting
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 2: in harder just in case I fly off and go
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 2: out into space. Cause gravity is, uh, an effective movie
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 2: as far as creating that, that amount of tension. Um,
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 2: I won't call it a perfect movie or anything, but
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 2: the effects were phenomenal. And the parts that weren't patently
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 2: absurd were really compelling to me. But yeah, when I
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 2: watched this, I was like, oh, it's kind of like Gravity,
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 2: but slightly different. And I just don't know that it's
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 2: bringing enough new for me to want to jump on board,
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 2: even though I respect the heck out of Idris Elba.
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 2: And I sure hope that it was a positive experience
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 2: for him doing his first, you know, co-directing his first film. I,
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 2: I just don't like movies where like the entire movie
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 2: and maybe gravity wasn't.
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: This, but it just, Toy Story one was kind of
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: this too, as I did like Toy Story one, but
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: it felt like the entire Toy Story one felt like
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: the entire thing was a chase sequence. And so it's
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 1: just all anxious all the time. And I feel like,
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: gravity came across to me is just like, this is
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: just all anxiety all the time. Am I going to survive?
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: Am I going to survive? Am I going to survive
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: until the end? I don't like when that is, it
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: feels like the only through line in a movie. And
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: that feels what like this, the above the below feels
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: like that to me as well.
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 2: Gotcha. That's, that's, uh, you know, that's a legitimate kind
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 2: of feeling. Like I like movies where they play with
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 2: tension a lot, but I do agree that there needs
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 2: to be a balance. Like you need to have, moments
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 2: of relief for your audience or else it's just a
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 2: miserable experience. So there is a delicate approach to that.
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 2: I thought gravity did that. Okay. There are enough little
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 2: downtime moments for it to not consistently feel like this
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 2: oppressive weight is being pushed on you from the film.
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 2: But I think that that is a legit criticism for
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 2: certain types of movies. So, yeah, it sounds like that's
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 2: going to be a miss for us. Then we have
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 2: Bass X Machina. I had no idea that this was
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 2: a thing. It's an animated steampunk Western series. And I
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 2: have a log line here, which is quote in a
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 2: lawless steampunk West overrun by brutal outlaws, machines and supernatural terrors.
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 2: A father is forced to become judge, jury and executioner,
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 2: knowing that every act of justice meant to protect his
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 2: family is may ultimately cost him the very people he's
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 2: fighting to save. This comes to Netflix on November 3rd.
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 2: It is definitely an adult animated show. It's not meant
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 2: for kids. What did you think of this trailer?
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: I thought it looked good. I like some Western stuff.
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: I like some steampunk stuff. I felt like it was
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: kind of a serious take on Blazing Saddles.
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 2: It's a little, I found it a little weird because
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 2: I had so many.
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: I can't tell if Jonathan's mad at me for saying
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: that or if he just froze.
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 2: No, I just froze. It's the joys of technical issues.
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 2: So apart from writing the mute button, my internet is
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 2: being a little weird today, which is, it's been a
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 2: while since that's happened. So I guess that's like an
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 2: old friend coming home. I was going to say that
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 2: I found this trailer to be a little strange simply
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 2: because of the mixture of the fantastical with elements of
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 2: actual history because there's elements of like the Civil War
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 2: that's in this trailer where you see like Confederates and
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 2: stuff and it's odd because you're trying to figure out
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 2: okay where did the fantastical elements come in is that
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 2: just something that's always been part of this world that
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 2: we're looking into and it just so happens that this
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 2: world that has all these fantastical features also had the
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 2: same history leading up to the Confederacy in the US
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 2: and the Civil War. And I don't know the answer
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 2: to that. I don't even know if it's important, but
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 2: it's the kind of thing that sticks in my head.
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 2: Do you think you're going to check this out when
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 2: it comes out on November 3rd?
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: On November 3rd, I don't know if I remember, I'll
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: watch it. But it's not it's not one of the
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: ones that's like, oh, yes, I have to watch this
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: as soon it comes out like Vision Quest was. If
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 1: that makes sense.
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 2: No, that's fair. Next up, we've got a trailer for
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 2: a movie called Alan. And I wrote, what if E.T.
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 2: came back when Elliot was an adult and it turned
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 2: out Elliot never really matured? and it was existing in
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 2: Arrested Development. And what if it turned out that E.T.
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 2: also knew a secret about Earth that would throw Elliot
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 2: into danger? And that's sort of the premise behind Alan,
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 2: except instead of it being E.T. and Elliot, it's Alan
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 2: and Petey. I thought this looked weird. What about you?
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 1: I agree it looked weird. Alan is cuter than E.T., though,
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: for sure. The first time I watched it, I was
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 1: distracted because I watched it on my own on my
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: TV and then just got distracted by a thousand things.
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: And I was like, is Alan about to destroy earth?
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: Is that his secret? But I think I was wrong
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 1: in that assumption potentially. Yeah.
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 2: I mean, that secret could be that Alan's alien race
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 2: is on the way to destroy earth. I don't know. Like,
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 2: I don't know what the secret is, but apparently it
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 2: is something where PD has to mature very quickly to
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 2: grow up very quickly and He's a grown-ass man in
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 2: this movie. It's not like he's a kid. He's so
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 2: obsessed with the fact that he met this alien when
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 2: he was younger and then the alien disappeared. He has
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 2: to grow up very quickly to try and save the Earth.
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 2: This comes to Netflix on November 12th. I believe this
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 2: is an Australian production as well. It definitely has that
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 2: kind of Australian sense of humor woven into it, which
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 2: is not exactly the same as something like the uk
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 2: or the us but it's still funny uh so an
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 2: odd looking project i might check this one.
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  Speaker 1: Out yeah i will say though as weird as alan
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  Speaker 1: looks it does not look as weird as our next
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  Speaker 1: teaser uh called the jillian i i it's about these
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  Speaker 1: old people who want a baby and they get this
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  Speaker 1: horrible thing. And Richard Ayoade is the narrator. And it's
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  Speaker 1: just so weird. I want to like it. And I just,
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  Speaker 1: I'm creeped out by it.
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  Speaker 2: So I watched the whole thing. It's a, it's a
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  Speaker 2: short that just came out today. When today, when we
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 2: record this again, it's Friday, October 30th. So Halloween Eve,
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  Speaker 2: Halloween Ene. And it's on, Harry Hill's YouTube channel and
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  Speaker 2: it's a 15 minute short and it is exactly what
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  Speaker 2: you say in that there's this old couple Jill and
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  Speaker 2: John and Jill is she wants nothing more than to
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  Speaker 2: have a baby and John rightly points out that they
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  Speaker 2: are senior citizens and that ship has sailed but she
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  Speaker 2: prays to a saint and she drugs her husband's food
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  Speaker 2: with Viagra and then Uh, and then this baby is
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  Speaker 2: mysteriously left on their doorstep. And by baby, I mean monstrosity.
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  Speaker 2: It looks like a truly, uh, like someone who, who
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  Speaker 2: went and interviewed for a Jim Henson's creature shop and
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  Speaker 2: they never stopped screaming after he showed him what he made. Um,
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  Speaker 2: and the whole thing is truly absurd and surreal and weird.
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  Speaker 2: And Richard Iowati is only in it for a little bit,
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  Speaker 2: but it is pretty funny. Um, I don't know that
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  Speaker 2: I can recommend it because I don't like, I thought
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  Speaker 2: it was funny, but I also appreciated just how absurd
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  Speaker 2: and surreal it was. And I think a lot of
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  Speaker 2: people would be, it would be lost on them, but
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  Speaker 2: it's up there on YouTube for free to watch. It's
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  Speaker 2: called the Jill on J I L L O N.
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  Speaker 2: Cause it's a combination of Jill and John's name. Jill on. I, I,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if it's for me.
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  Speaker 1: The next thing is for me, though, and that's Kunk
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  Speaker 1: on Cinema, which is Diane Morgan's famous character, Philomena Kunk.
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  Speaker 1: She had an old series, Kunk on Earth, I think.
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  Speaker 1: I never watched that one. But I'm also late to
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  Speaker 1: the party of loving Diane Morgan's humor. So I first
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  Speaker 1: watched her on Last One Laughing UK. And now she's
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  Speaker 1: on Vision Quest. So this is another like, between the
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 1: two ferns kind of awkward interviews about cinema. And I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, her humor just really hit me in the
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  Speaker 1: right spot. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: If you're not familiar with the character, Philomena Kunk, she,
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  Speaker 2: she is a very ignorant person who's asking, like she's
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  Speaker 2: asking these questions in a very sincere and earnest way,
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  Speaker 2: but they're always ridiculous. And it's mostly based upon her
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  Speaker 2: having a fundamental misunderstanding about some basic, fact about, you know, uh,
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 2: the history or geography, or in this case, cinema. And
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 2: she has these, these scripted interviews with people where it's
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 2: like you said, between two firms or Jiminy Glick is
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 2: another one. I think about like the celebrity interviews, Martin
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  Speaker 2: short would do as his character of Jiminy Glick, where he,
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  Speaker 2: he does come across as like the, the, terminally underprepared
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  Speaker 2: interviewer who really couldn't care less about his interview subject
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  Speaker 2: and is really just there to say something else silly.
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  Speaker 2: And it looks like this is going to be very
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  Speaker 2: similar to that. Philomena Kunk is a fantastic character. If
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 2: you're not familiar with that character, again, there are like
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 2: compilations on YouTube of Kunk being truly ridiculous as she
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 2: talks to various experts in different fields, depending upon what
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 2: the special's about. like whether it's about history or it's
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 2: about a specific location, that kind of thing. This comes
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  Speaker 2: out November 15th on Netflix. It looks delightful.
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  Speaker 1: It does. I look forward to it. The last trailer
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  Speaker 1: we have is for a fantasy romanticy. That's the word
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 1: for it called eternal return. I actually got distracted watching
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  Speaker 1: this trailer. So I think it has something to.
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  Speaker 2: Do with maps. Well, it does have something to do
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  Speaker 2: with maps. Thanks, as always, Ariel, for your keen commentary
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  Speaker 2: on all things pop culture. Okay, so Naomi Scott plays
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  Speaker 2: a woman named Cass. Cass has recently suffered an enormous tragedy.
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 2: Her partner and bandmate dies in a plane crash. And
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 2: she's in deep grief. And she... encounters a man named
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 2: Virgil played by Kit Harington, who appears to be capable
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 2: of building maps to a person's emotional past. And that
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 2: using a special sort of compass kind of device, people
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 2: can actually enter into their own past using these maps
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 2: so they can visit their past. And of course she
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 2: wants to visit her past so that she can reconnect
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 2: with her lost partner. But at the same time, Virgil
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 2: himself seems to be developing feelings for Cass. So there's
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 2: the complication there. This comes out December 4th. I wrote
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 2: that this was giving me what dreams may come kind
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 2: of vibes because it feels very impressionistic in a way.
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 2: Not as directly as what dreams may come. I mean,
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 2: that was like people literally entering into famous paintings, that
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 2: kind of stuff. But this feels... from a vibes perspective
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 2: to be similar, at least based upon this trailer, keeping
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 2: in mind, I have not watched the full film. I,
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 2: I wish I had, I'm really sorry.
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 1: I did try to watch this, but I didn't see
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 1: that it was on the list until I was going
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 1: back through everything today and I was running short on
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 1: time and I got distracted. I'm so sorry, Jonathan. I'll
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 1: watch it again right now. I don't have a good
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 1: enough idea of if I want to see it because
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 1: it obviously didn't keep my attention enough to fully watch it.
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  Speaker 2: It looks like it's kind of got a cozy whimsy
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 2: to it like it makes me are you familiar with
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 2: like the slew of games that have come out over
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 2: the last five years or so that are all like
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 2: little cozy shop games where you're making potions or you're selling,
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 2: you know, uh, odd plants to the people of town.
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 2: And they have elements of like very, very cozy kind of, uh, uh, aesthetic,
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 2: but they also have perhaps a little bit of darkness
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 2: to them. Not like a lot, but like there's a
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 2: little fairytale darkness involved. That's kind of what this feels
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 2: like to me. I don't know that it looks compelling
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 2: enough for me to want to see it. But I
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 2: can imagine like maybe if I were much younger, that
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 2: this would be something that would kind of appeal to
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 2: me in that stage of life as an older person,
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 2: not as much, but it doesn't look like it's bad
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 2: to me so much as, I might not be in
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 2: the right place in my life where this feels compelling. Uh,
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 2: and to be fair, I did add this today because
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 2: the trailer came out today. So it was one of
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 2: those things where a lot of the stuff that's been
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 2: on our list has been there since we tried to
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 2: record this last week, but that was a newer piece. And, um, yeah,
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 2: that's it. That's, that's, that's the end of our show
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 2: notes for this week.
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Uh, Sorry, it's a slightly shorter episode at a
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 1: full hour and 20 minutes. But Jonathan, if people want
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 1: to reach out to us to tell us what their
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 1: least favorite thing to receive trick or treating is or
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 1: to tell us about any of their thoughts on the show,
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 1: how would they reach out to you?
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 2: Well, all you have to do is on Halloween night,
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 2: come by and trick or treat at my house. Cause
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 2: like no one ever does. And I'll just be so
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 2: thrilled that there's somebody else there. And it's not just
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 2: me sitting on a lawn chair on my stoop with
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 2: my portable speaker playing werewolves of London on repeat next
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 2: to me. It'll be nice to have another human to
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 2: talk to. Now, granted, I'm not going to tell you
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 2: where I live. Uh, that's creepy. You're just gonna have
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 2: to figure that out on yourself on your own. Um, uh,
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 2: I'll tell you this. It's not in Detroit, uh, And
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 2: as soon as you can find me not in Detroit
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 2: on Halloween, I'll tell you all the stuff you want
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 2: to know.
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 1: And if you do figure out where Jonathan lives and
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 1: you get lost on your way, you can still reach
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 1: out to us via social media. on Facebook and threads
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 1: and Instagram or large nerdron collider. Uh, that's also our
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 1: discord handle. That's also our website, www.largenerdroncollider.com. You can also
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 1: send us a longer form email. We love hearing from you.
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 1: Our email is largenerdronpod at gmail.com. Thank you for being
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 1: a part of our, uh, geeky and sometimes spoopy community.
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 1: We really do love geeking out with you. Have a
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 1: safe and wonderful Halloween if this episode comes out before then.
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  Speaker 1: And until next time, I am Ariel below the above, Kasten.
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  Speaker 2: And I am Jonathan. I saw Lon Chaney Jr. walking
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 2: with the Queen, Strickland. The Large Nerdron Collider was created
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 2: by Ariel Kasten and Produced, edited, published, deleted, undeleted, published again,
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  Speaker 2: cursed at, by Jonathan Strickland. Music by Kevin MacLeod of Incompetech.com.