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I Want a Bigger Butt for Christmas · Large Nerdron Collider

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  Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Welcome to the Larger or John Collider Podcast,
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  Speaker 1: the podcast that's all about the geeky things happening in
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  Speaker 1: the world around us and how very excited we are
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  Speaker 1: about them. I'm Ariel Caston, and with me, as always
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  Speaker 1: is the wonderful Jonathan Strickland.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna need a bigger butt, a bigger.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, did you write it Finding Nemo Jaws mash up?
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  Speaker 2: It didn't tell me I should have, but I didn't. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: After I said it, I was like, oh, but I mean,
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  Speaker 2: let's be fair. Finding Nemo already has a Jaws reference
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  Speaker 2: in it because the Great White's name is Bruce, and
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  Speaker 2: as we know, Bruce was the name of the mechanical
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  Speaker 2: shark in Jaws. Spielberg named it after his lawyer, I believe.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, we we'll have some Jaws stuff to talk
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  Speaker 2: about a little bit in this episode. But more importantly,
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  Speaker 2: welcome to Large nar Drunk Collider. As Ariel said, we're
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  Speaker 2: so glad to get our streak of two episodes in
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  Speaker 2: a row without a break, really going strong.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, although fair warning, you may all be witnessed to
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  Speaker 1: my descent into madness today. Uh, your girls running on
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  Speaker 1: four hours.
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  Speaker 2: Sleep yeah, and and your boys in a in a
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  Speaker 2: boiler room.
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  Speaker 3: So, uh, this is fun. Also, I feels like a
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  Speaker 3: new Saw movie.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like I've been put through a Saw
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  Speaker 2: movie this week, Ariel. It has been a tough week
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  Speaker 2: on me.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry, but I'm glad you're here.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 2: I'm glad I'm here too. Uh like that. I don't
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  Speaker 2: wanna I don't want to downplay it. This is one
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  Speaker 2: of the highlights of my week is being able to
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  Speaker 2: spend some time with my dear friend Ariel where we
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  Speaker 2: get to cavetch about the and celebrate things and and
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  Speaker 2: catch up with each other because we don't get to
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  Speaker 2: hang out as often as I would like. So this
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  Speaker 2: is always a bright spot in my week. This week
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  Speaker 2: was in dire need of a bright spot. So that's
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  Speaker 2: that's where I'm coming from, and not the surface of
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  Speaker 2: the sun, that is the outside. Oh no, yeah, it's
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  Speaker 2: actually I should say, like as hot as it's been
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  Speaker 2: here in the Southeast, I know, there have been like
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  Speaker 2: areas of the United States that have been hit way
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  Speaker 2: worse this summer. Like, I mean, seriously, if you look
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  Speaker 2: at our weather this summer, it hasn't been as hot
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  Speaker 2: as some previous years. Like I remember years where we
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  Speaker 2: would hit over one hundred degrees and we haven't really
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  Speaker 2: done that. I think there was like one point in
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  Speaker 2: June where we were kind of flirting with it, but
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  Speaker 2: July has largely been low to mid nineties. Which don't
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  Speaker 2: get me wrong, it's still hot, but it's not as
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  Speaker 2: bad as it could be.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's the humidity.
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  Speaker 2: Really, Oh my gosh, it sure it surely is. If
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  Speaker 2: I don't get tippled outside before nine am, it's like
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  Speaker 2: I was in a swimming pool by the time I
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  Speaker 2: get back to the house.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a lot, it's a lot.
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  Speaker 3: I went. I went to a larp. I think I
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  Speaker 3: told you this.
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  Speaker 1: I went to a larp last weekend and there wasn't
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  Speaker 1: a c It was at de lightful time. My bandmate
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  Speaker 1: was there and she gave me one of her paper
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  Speaker 1: fans to borrow, and not three minutes into using it,
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  Speaker 1: I could no longer fold it up because it was
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  Speaker 1: so damp. But it hadn't touched water, it had just
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  Speaker 1: been waved.
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  Speaker 3: Through the air.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's it's pretty rough. So y'all, if you're
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  Speaker 2: in a place that's that's particularly hot, whether it's humid
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  Speaker 2: or dry, heat or whatever. Stick, keep yourself hydrated, take
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  Speaker 2: care of yourselves. And that's gonna segue us nicely into
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  Speaker 2: our question of the week, because someone who would not
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  Speaker 2: give you such nice and helpful advice would be a villain. So, Ariel,
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  Speaker 2: who is your favorite villain in fiction? You know you
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  Speaker 2: gave me this question. I haven't come up with an answer.
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  Speaker 1: I gave it to you, yes, like and both times
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  Speaker 1: my brain went to the same place. But I don't
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  Speaker 1: think it's my favorite villain. So my favorite villain type
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  Speaker 1: is one that really believes in what they're doing right.
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  Speaker 1: They've got, whether it's good or bad, it's great conviction,
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  Speaker 1: and they they genuinely think like they're like for instance,
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  Speaker 1: I saw Superman this weekend. I'll talk about a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more, but Lex Luthor's conviction in that was amazing,
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  Speaker 1: and then he is convicted at the end spoiler. He
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  Speaker 1: made me, he made me feel for him, and I
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  Speaker 1: was mad about it. So but I think, like when
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  Speaker 1: you ask me that, my gut reaction is Captain Hook,
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  Speaker 1: because I like Peter Pan and there have been so
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  Speaker 1: many great versions, not the Disney Captain Hook, but there
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  Speaker 1: have been so many other great versions of Captain Hook
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  Speaker 1: and then honestly kind of I love Gary Oldman in
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  Speaker 1: the fifth element.
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  Speaker 2: He is that is a fun he's just fullen.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if he's got conviction, but he's delightful.
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  Speaker 2: He It's fifth Elma is such a weird movie because
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  Speaker 2: he doesn't the villain, doesn't have that much screen time,
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  Speaker 2: and also is eliminated with quite a bit of the
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  Speaker 2: movie left to go, and so it's it's an odd
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  Speaker 2: like it's not designed like your typical Western narrative is.
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  Speaker 2: But uh, but yeah, he seems to have a lot
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  Speaker 2: of fun chewing the scenery. And I've seen interviews with
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  Speaker 2: Oldman who was like, uh, for the longest time, he
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  Speaker 2: wasn't too happy with his performance in that movie, just
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  Speaker 2: because it was so over the top and weird. But
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  Speaker 2: then he says, I have since come to appreciate its
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  Speaker 2: place in film and in fandom. But it took my
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  Speaker 2: family showing me the film in that light for me
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  Speaker 2: to get it, because he was just thinking of it
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  Speaker 2: purely from like it's just this truly ludicrous project and he's,
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  Speaker 2: you know, being so hammy in it. But it's exactly
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  Speaker 2: fitting for the type of movie that Fi film is.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So I'm sure there are other I know there
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  Speaker 1: have been other villains that I've watched where I'm like, man,
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  Speaker 1: their performance was so good, like you relate to them
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  Speaker 1: and you feel for them even though they're doing something horrible.
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  Speaker 1: None of those are coming to mind right now. So
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  Speaker 1: that's the answer you get. What about you? I think
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  Speaker 1: you know your answer.
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  Speaker 2: I tend to like really theatrical villains, like truly theatrical ones.
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  Speaker 2: But what well, first of all, what do you think
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  Speaker 2: my answer is Captain Hook? Oh okay, all right, well
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  Speaker 2: you got me. That's one of the ones I wrote down.
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  Speaker 2: I wrote down. I wrote down like three technically, but
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  Speaker 2: I could have written down four. So when I said,
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  Speaker 2: was Hook, And like you said, I like a lot
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  Speaker 2: of different portrayals of Hook. I actually do like the
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  Speaker 2: Disney version Hans Conried. I like his versional lot, but
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  Speaker 2: I also love Dustin Hoffman as Hook and Jason Isaacs's Hook.
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  Speaker 2: Jason Isaacs has like the most evil delivery of a
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  Speaker 2: hook I've ever seen, which I love, which is just
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  Speaker 2: him very casually killing a fairy like he's not even
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  Speaker 2: he's not even looking. Pan I think is the name
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  Speaker 2: of the movie. I think I liked that one. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: he's he's looking over a log and he's spying on
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  Speaker 2: Peter and meanwhile there's a fairy like right next to him.
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  Speaker 2: Without even looking, he just very casually says, I don't
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  Speaker 2: believe in fairies and kills the fairy, and I just thought,
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  Speaker 2: what a gloriously evil act. And yeah, I really liked
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  Speaker 2: his version of Hook.
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  Speaker 3: That's my favorite live action version of Peter Pan straight.
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  Speaker 3: And yes, he's my favorite Hook.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I think Dustin Hoffman is my favorite Hook because
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  Speaker 2: he's just so silly as well as theatrical and and
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  Speaker 2: something about that just really sings in me. Even though,
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  Speaker 2: as we've said in this very podcast, I don't like
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  Speaker 2: that movie as a whole. I like his performance a lot.
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  Speaker 2: Darth Vader is another one. Like in the original trilogy,
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  Speaker 2: I loved Darth Vader in episodes four, five, and six,
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  Speaker 2: And in novels, I have to do a shout out
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  Speaker 2: to Stephen King. I like a lot of Stephen King villains,
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  Speaker 2: like Randall Flag from the Stand is pretty nasty, but
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  Speaker 2: my favorite is Leland Gaunt from the novel Needful Things.
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  Speaker 2: He's kind of a snake oil salesman who has in
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  Speaker 2: the modern day. He comes in and takes over an
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  Speaker 2: antiques or a curiosity shop, and the things he sells
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  Speaker 2: to people ends up like feeding on and amplifying their
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  Speaker 2: darkest desires and thoughts. So if someone is kind of
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  Speaker 2: greedy this like cranks it to eleven, you might say,
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  Speaker 2: that's another that's more foreshadowing for a different thing we'll
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  Speaker 2: be talking about later. So yeah, those are those are
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  Speaker 2: my favorite villains in fiction generally speaking.
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  Speaker 3: Nice.
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  Speaker 2: Nice.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like it's gonna drive me crazy. You know
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  Speaker 1: this happens every time you get asked a question and
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  Speaker 1: you no longer remember anything.
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  Speaker 2: Ever, this is why I'm trying to give them to
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  Speaker 2: you ahead of time.
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  Speaker 1: Now, I know, I know there was a villain I
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  Speaker 1: saw recently, and it wasn't in Spooper Man. It wasn't
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  Speaker 1: in Spooperman. Gosh, eh, I'll remember later.
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  Speaker 2: I think i'd probably put doctor Frankenferger up there too,
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  Speaker 2: from Rocky Horror. Are they really a villain? I mean,
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  Speaker 2: Frankenfurter turns everybody into stone at one point. Okay, okay,
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  Speaker 2: uh so it's hard to say, like, but Frankenfurter is
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  Speaker 2: certainly self obsessed. If nothing else and very theatrical. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: understandable since it was originally a stage show. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that that's a Those are good answers, though, I'm curious
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  Speaker 2: what our listeners think, like, who are some of their
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  Speaker 2: favorite villains in fiction, whether it's in literature or televison
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  Speaker 2: or movies or whatever. I would love to hear, you know,
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  Speaker 2: some thoughts, because there, I'm sure I could come up
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  Speaker 2: with a very long list. Ursula would have been another
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  Speaker 2: one I could have easily added. She's again, a very
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  Speaker 2: theatrical villain from Disney, So.
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  Speaker 1: For sure, I am trying to think if there's anybody
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  Speaker 1: theatrical like any books, sorry, any book villains that I
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  Speaker 1: truly love got off hand.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it could be. I mean, don't put you
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  Speaker 2: on the spot or anything. We'll circle back to it
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  Speaker 2: at some point, I'm sure, because I always end up
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  Speaker 2: recycling questions I've asked before, because we change as people,
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  Speaker 2: so sometimes our answers change. Yep. Then let us move
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  Speaker 2: on and let's talk about stuff we've watched. It's the
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  Speaker 2: last time we recorded. I can easily go first because
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  Speaker 2: I haven't watched a ding dang darn thing. I haven't
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  Speaker 2: I haven't watched any films or series that I can
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  Speaker 2: think of anyway since the last time we recorded. I
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  Speaker 2: am keeping an eye out for Comic Con News because
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  Speaker 2: that's going on the weekend that we're recording this.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, which, let me just say, I feel like there's
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  Speaker 1: so many trailers that are being dropped right now, like
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  Speaker 1: the official teaser trailer for it, or the Stranger Things
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  Speaker 1: Broadway trailer that are being released today, yesterday, whatever that
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  Speaker 1: we've seen before.
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  Speaker 3: I can swear that we've seen.
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  Speaker 2: It before, but some of them are are new trailers,
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  Speaker 2: but they'refore things that have been out, like the Stranger
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  Speaker 2: Things Broadway trailer. We did have in our lineup for
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  Speaker 2: a bit. And then I thought, I have sworn the
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  Speaker 2: show was already up and I looked as like it
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  Speaker 2: started in March. So this, I guess it's Netflix's op
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  Speaker 2: chance to try and promote the show further and try
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  Speaker 2: and get more tickets sold. But that show's been up
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  Speaker 2: for months, I think.
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  Speaker 3: So I think it opened in the West End and
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  Speaker 3: this might be the Broadway.
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  Speaker 2: Well Broadway open in March, Okay, West End had opened
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  Speaker 2: up earlier too.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but like last minute, I almost added a trailer
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  Speaker 1: for It or Welcome to It, Welcome to Day, and
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  Speaker 1: it was the official teaser. We already got a teaser,
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  Speaker 1: and when I watched it, it looked exactly the same.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, because I remember we talked about Welcome to Day,
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  Speaker 2: about how like if you were if you had read
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  Speaker 2: the novel, it was like the children from the novel version,
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  Speaker 2: because in the novel the kids are kids in the
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  Speaker 2: nineteen fifties or early nineteen sixties, and then they're adults
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  Speaker 2: in the nineteen eighties, and then of course the film
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  Speaker 2: adaptation pushes that forward where it's the adults are modern
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  Speaker 2: day and they were kids in the eighties. So the
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to Dairy I was watching, I was like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: this is like, this is like watching an adaptation of
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  Speaker 2: the children's sections of the original. It set in the
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  Speaker 2: appropriate timeframe.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, I get a question for you. Are you
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  Speaker 1: gonna go see Fantastic Four this weekend?
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  Speaker 2: I haven't bought tickets yet, I'm I might. I've already
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  Speaker 2: seen some reviews that are tepid, right, Like they're not
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  Speaker 2: they're not awful, No one's slagging off the movie, but
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  Speaker 2: they seem like like, yeah, well, yeah, it just it
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  Speaker 2: seems like they're more in line with some of the
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  Speaker 2: other more recent Marvel movies, where it's just like, eh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it could have been good, and that the
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  Speaker 2: performances apparently are quite good, but that the story is
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  Speaker 2: where it kind of falls flat a little bit. Based
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  Speaker 2: upon what I have seen, I haven't read any review
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  Speaker 2: in full detail because I don't want spoilers. I did
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  Speaker 2: get a spoiler today while reading a different article about
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  Speaker 2: some cameos that are in it.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's, that's the one that I I was afraid
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  Speaker 1: I had.
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  Speaker 2: Spoiled for you the other day, Oh, because you saw
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  Speaker 2: it on IMDb.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, because well I watched a thing and then
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  Speaker 1: I went on a deep dive.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think I would have. I don't think I
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  Speaker 2: would have picked up on the cameos, right, because, like,
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  Speaker 2: the cameos are of actors who are in a pretty
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  Speaker 2: obscure only I mean.
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  Speaker 3: Only one of them I've seen in other things.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's in an obscure piece of cinema that
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  Speaker 2: technically you should not be able to see. I have
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  Speaker 2: seen it because I have a bootleg copy. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think I would have picked up on it.
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  Speaker 2: I think later on I've been like, oh, I didn't
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  Speaker 2: know that was that person.
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  Speaker 1: I'm delighted that it happens. We'll leave it there because
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to spoke. I will say that it
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  Speaker 1: is eighty nine percent Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes critically, and
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  Speaker 1: then ninety two percent fresh audience.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: The people that I know that have seen it have
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  Speaker 1: really enjoyed it. They felt like it was a love
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  Speaker 1: letter to Kirby and hit all the spots the previous
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  Speaker 1: movies kind of failed.
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  Speaker 2: Well it's good to hear.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, like not everything landed, but enough did.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I'll have to check with Becca to see what
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  Speaker 2: she thinks and whether or not, you know, she wants
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  Speaker 2: to go and see it this weekend because we just
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  Speaker 2: haven't made any plans. But uh, I mean I wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: object to it. I would like and I would like
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  Speaker 2: to see it before everything is spoiled for me.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's all it's all Red Ghost, all of it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. They said that they cut John Malkovich. They lied.
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  Speaker 3: It's it's John Malkovich plays every role.
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  Speaker 2: It's ninety six minutes of Yeah, it's being John Malkovich
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  Speaker 2: two Fantastic four. Yes, I really want to see that now, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: all right, well you said you saw super Duperman. What
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  Speaker 2: did you think of it?
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  Speaker 3: I was delighted.
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  Speaker 1: My husband felt like Superman didn't do much and didn't
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  Speaker 1: really have a good super arc, and we we kind
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  Speaker 1: of disagree on that. Like we came in and without
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  Speaker 1: giving too much spoilers for the movie, because I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: there are people who listen who still haven't had a
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  Speaker 1: chance to see it, you kind of come in on
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  Speaker 1: the middle of Superman's arc, which I like, and it's
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  Speaker 1: it's a story of perseverance to me, so I quite
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  Speaker 1: enjoyed it. I thought Frickin' Nicholas Holt was amazing as
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  Speaker 1: Lex Luthor like to make me even briefly care for
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  Speaker 1: such a horrible creature as he was was amazing. Jimmy
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  Speaker 1: Olsen spot on, I I loved.
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  Speaker 3: I loved all the casting for it.
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  Speaker 1: I even loved mister mister Terrific, even though like Echo
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  Speaker 1: Kellam is like my favorite mister Terrific.
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  Speaker 3: This guy won my heart over.
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  Speaker 1: But I didn't feel they put Kat Grant in the
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  Speaker 1: Daily Planet staff, which she she's a part of it.
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  Speaker 3: She's, you know, a cool character.
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  Speaker 1: I felt like she was underutilized or I didn't like
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  Speaker 1: the way she was utilized.
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  Speaker 2: I mean she was, she wasn't. She was barely used
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  Speaker 2: at all in the movie. Like I know, the actress
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  Speaker 2: has also been in other James Gunn projects, so this
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  Speaker 2: is someone that he's worked with before. So I think
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  Speaker 2: that that's part of it, is that he brought on
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  Speaker 2: people he likes to be able to be in the movie.
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  Speaker 2: But I agree that she didn't get a whole lot
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  Speaker 2: to do.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think she's a good actress. I just
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  Speaker 1: for that character, it felt weird to me, but everything
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  Speaker 1: else landed.
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  Speaker 3: I was worried.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I don't like stories with animals, and there's
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  Speaker 1: some animals in the story, and I was able to
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  Speaker 1: I liked it.
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  Speaker 3: So that's good.
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  Speaker 2: You don't like stories with animals because you're worried about
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  Speaker 2: the animal getting hurt. Let's be clear, yes, because otherwise
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: it just sounds like you hate animals.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: I'm worried about them getting hurt. There were several animals
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: in Superman without going into detail, and I came out of.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: It, okay. I mean he saves a squirrel that's been
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: talked about. It's been talked about a lot.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: I love it. It made me so happy. But I
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: thought it was very good. I thought it was a
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: lot of fun. I loved Crypto. I have a hard
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: time saying that because it sounds like cryptocurrency.
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're gonna clip that and we're gonna put Ariel
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: in front of a bitcoin symbol. I love Crypto, don't.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: But no, I liked Crypto, the Cryptonite dog, Kryptonian dog.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: I really enjoyed it. I actually, I very much really
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: enjoyed it. It was great to see names of people
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: that I know who worked on it. Yeah, I've also.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: Watched what Oh, what did you think of Guy Gardner?
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: He he was good. I agree that, you know, he.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: Like he was older than I'd expect Guy Gardner to be,
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: but it was also totally fine.
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: There's no reason he can't be that age.
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I love Nathan Fillion's performance as Guy Gardner. I'm
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: looking forward to a Peacemaker to see a little bit
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: more of him, and I'm hopeful that, you know, we'll
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: get to see even more in Lanterns.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, I'm it makes Here's the thing being able
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: to make such a hopeful movie, because the Superman movie
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: is is rather hopeful. Really, gives me, really gives me
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: hope for the DC franchise moving forward. Like, and I
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: know that not every movie is going to be that way,
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: They're all going to have different tones, but I think
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: that's such a I talked about this last week. I
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: think that's such a good choice and a good decision
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: I am. I am hopeful for what comes next. I'm
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: on I'm working backwards through task Master. So I'm on
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: series seventeen now.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: Is that the one? The one before? The most recent
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: two before?
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, so Jason Manzukis is in the most recent one,
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: which is nineteen eighteen.
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: Was Great.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: Seventeen has Nick Muhammad who is in ted Lasso, and
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: it's it's delightful.
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: It's just delightful.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: I will watch through as many seasons as I can.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: It's free on YouTube right now, so watch it while
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: you can. And then I'm still going through Love, Death
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: and Robots. And at this point, like, I appreciate the
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: creativity and I appreciate the artisticness and the performances.
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: It is.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: It's a lot in many different ways, and at this point,
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: I think I'm watching it just to snark on it
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: with my friends. There's a lot of episodes of Jenna Taylor.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: So we've got a Genitalia account going on, which helps
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: me get through it because we all know me and
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: I like implied better than explicit. So but that's what
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: I've watched this week. I also did a lot. I
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: would have done more, but I was actually prepping for
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: the actual play that I'm about to be doing.
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: We just had our first meeting on that.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think you mentioned that you got cast
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: in that.
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: I didn't.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: So a while ago I talked about a video game
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: that's coming out that some of my very good friends
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: are working on called Shadow City Mysteries, a clockwork noir,
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: and they have written a five Y companion piece to it,
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: and we're starting an actual play. I believe it goes
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: up in October, but we're starting our pre production now.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: It's an amazing cast. It's so many great people, and
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: the character concepts are really wonderful. I'm very much looking
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: forward to it. Uh, you know, it took it took
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: some It took some reading because it is like a
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: new world and there are some new rules and some
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: fun cool things in it that are not regular five E.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: So I had to familiarize myself with all of that
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: Shadow City mysteries, a clockwork noir is a steampunk noir
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: kind of a story, all of that sort of intrigue,
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: all of the color has been sucked from the world
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: and different you know, powers within the world and people
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: within the world have different conspiracies about how that happened
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: and why it happened. There are still a few things
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: with color, but it's far and few between, mainly some
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: technology and some magic. It's going to be a lot,
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: a lot of fun. Yeah, you'll have to keep us
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: informed when that is starting to come out. I'm sure,
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: Like if there's like a trailer or anything, we'll talk
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: about that too.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so I'm gonna to hear more.
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: Thanks.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: We're going to be We're going to be streaming on Twitch.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: So if you want to follow, follow the follow it
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: to see when we come up. You can you know,
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: subbed to play on words Studios, either on Twitch or
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: Instagram or any of the other platforms because it will
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: be posted there.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: Sounds great, all right, Well, I guess that brings us
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: to our our truncated section and what we try to
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: keep truncated, our thirty seconds or less an ariel I
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: believe I gave you the first one.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: This time you did Spider Man Beyond the Spider Verse,
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: which is the third Spider Man Spider Verse movie, is
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: moving back, but only three weeks now. Instead of coming
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: out on June fourth, it will come out June twenty fifth.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: Twenty twenty seven was always going to come out twenty
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: twenty seven. These movies take a lot of time to
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: get right, and they get them right, so I'm happy
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: to wait for it. They're really doing this so that
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: more kids will be out of school and able to
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: enjoy the movie. That's the primary reason. Also, internationally, it's
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: a better date. I'm fine with it.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Wow, Well, I got so spoiled with projects being
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: filmed back to back so that you only had to
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: wait like six months to a year for the next one.
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: But as you say, it takes a lot of time
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: to get that level of detail and artistry just right.
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: Well.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: Kevin Figey sat down with some journalists and talked about
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: how several recent films and series in the Marvel Cinemac
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: universe have underperformed with both critics and the box office.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: He acknowledged that too many recent Marvel projects have given
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: audiences the sense that they need to do homework before
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: they can watch the stuff, because otherwise they won't know
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: who is who or what's going on. He also admitted
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: that Marvel put out way too much stuff in way
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: too short a time. Hopefully this means the MCU will
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: soon alter.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: Course, we will see. This is an old news item
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: that kind of resurfaced. I had missed it before, so
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: now you all get to hear about it.
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: Whether you knew that or not. Mass Effect is doing
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: a show.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: Following on the success of the Fallout TV series, and
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: some of the same crew will be working on it,
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: so that makes it all very hopeful.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I hope that they're able to shepherd in a
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: great series. Whacky schmack I do right. We have mentioned
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: before that it is the fiftieth anniversary of Jaws. Gosh,
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: that movie is old. I mean, that's an old old movie.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: Fifty years That is old, people, ancient. Fifty years is
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: so old anyway. Universal Pictures is re releasing the film
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: for a limited engagement on August twenty eight that select
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: theaters and will include formats like IMAX three D and
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: forty X. So get ready to be splashed in the
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: face and splattered with blood as your seat goes buck wild.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: The date to remember is August twenty ninth. I think
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: I said twenty eighth earlier, I'll see you at the movies.
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: On day or the other.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: Leelo and Stitch two, we know what's happening, but now
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: we know that Chris Sanders is writing the script. That's
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: exciting news because Chris Sanders wrote the twenty twenty two
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: Best Way to Say That date two thousand and two
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: original Leelo and Stitch script, which was brilliant, and also
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: worked on the recent the recent Wild Robot film, which
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: I haven't seen, per my previous comment about watching movies
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: about animals in danger, but all of my friends say
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: is phenomenal. This makes me more excited for Lelo and
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: Stitch two than Leelo and Stitch one.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: The Redo that's a great subtitle. The Buffy reboot is
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: in pre production and the cast is shaping up. We
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: already knew Sarah Michelle Geller was going to return in
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: some capacity as a support character as Buffy herself, but
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: there will be a new Slayer named Nova, played by
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: Ryan Kira Armstrong. But other cast members include Folly Raca
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: to Havana Ava Jane Sarah Bach, Daniel Di Tamaso, and
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: Jack cut More Scott. I don't recognize any of those names,
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: which actually makes me more excited for this series. Here's
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: hoping that some of the original series regulars occasionally make
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: some guest appearances for sure.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: Jamie Lee Curtis announced this week as a part of
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: Comic Con. I believe that she will be in a
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: murder she wrote reboot.
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: She mentioned it on the carpet of Freakinger Friday.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: If I had read the news about it more, I
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: would have remembered that.
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: Anyhow.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: It's about an older woman named Jessica Fletcher who solves crime.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: It was originally played by Angela Lansberry.
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: May she rest in peace.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: I don't know how I feel about this being redone,
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: but if anybody can do it, Jamie Lee Curtis can.
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: Netflix has a pre season two gift for the series Wednesday.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: The Jenna Ortega series has already received a season three renewal,
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: Plus there's word that there's going to be a spinoff
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: series to follow. No details are available yet for that spinoff,
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: but nerdics Ty Goodin speculates that it could be an
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: Uncle Fester series, but it's more likely to be something
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: new that just hasn't leaked yet. That's something to snap
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: about critical Role.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: We're going to talk about them a lot this episode.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: But one of the cool things that has come out
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: is that they are working on a video game with
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: the studio.
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: I believe it's.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: Ad Hoc that did the Dispatch game, which looks really good.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: I haven't played it yet. It will be a new adventure.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: It will not be Vox Makina or Mighty nine.
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: Or bells Hell's. It'll be a brand new, fun adventure.
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: After four seasons, Resident Alien is getting deported to cancelation territory. Yep.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: The series will not be renewed once it reaches the
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: end of its current season, and that season is nearly
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: over already. Showrunner Chris Sheridan said he suspected this would
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: be the final season, particularly after sci Fi or Ciphy
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: shifted the series over to the USA Network after season
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: three finished. I hope this means that the season finale
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: will be a satisfying conclusion. Here's hoping, all right, Well,
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: now that we're done with thirty seconds or less, let's
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: talk about the one and only thing we put into
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: our doesn't really fit the show format section, and I
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: think this will be right in my I mean it's
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: hard because I'm like, if it's a horror movie but
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: it's a horror movie that is not supernatural oriented, then
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: I typically shy away from it being in the main
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: lineup because I don't know, there's this weird line in
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: my head where supernatural horror belongs in the lineup up
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: and non supernatural horror, so like your home invasion style
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: stuff belongs in. Not really a fit. I mean, you
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: could easily argue that the horror genre as a whole
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: is a fit, but I don't know. It's just how
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: my brain works. Anyway. This is for a We got
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: a trailer for a movie called The Rose Rows and
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: it's coming sometime this year. It is it's like a
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: home invasion movie but for corn, because corn, you know,
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: notorious home owners. Yeah, it's the corn is not the
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: ones being tortured. It's just it's The trailer takes place
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: in a big corn field where a young girl is
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: running around and encounter strangers who are wearing burlapsed sacks
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: as masks, and they clearly are menacing and out for blood.
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: Why we don't know the trailer does not give us
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: in from to that regard. It was kind of giving
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: me vibes of things like The Strangers or funny games.
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: But there could also be a racial component to this
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: because the bags over the head kind of obviously reminiscent
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: of the KKK.
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: So yeah, but then there's like a robot.
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: There's a robot. I don't remember the robot obviously. Oh yeah. Yeah.
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: I honestly like, I watched this trailer and I was
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: not I was not really moved by it in any way.
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: Like I didn't feel I felt like this was a
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: low budget attempt to take a basic premise and stretch
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: it into a film. Now, maybe that's unfair, maybe that's
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: not what this feature is. But I've seen so many
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: like I think we talked about last week. I've seen
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: so many projects where they took like a very basic
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: and then try to blow that into a full movie
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: when really the premise just supports like a very short film. Right. Like,
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: as a short film, it works great because you don't
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: need to establish things like character and motivation and backstory
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: or any of that. You can just have it be
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: effective and that's it. But then when you try to
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: expand that to be a full movie. Often it starts
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: to show as being a little threadbare. I'm getting that
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: sense from this trailer, but I also admit that could
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: just be my bias.
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not. I'm not. You know, it's not my
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: kind of movie anyhow.
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, No, I figured you wouldn't be like, like, Jonathan,
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: you are full of crap. I will be there day one.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, Jonathan, how dare you put this amazing movie
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: into our lineup and then disparage it greatly?
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: It was one of those where we've talked about this
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: in previous episodes too, But like when we're filling out
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: the lineup, we're doing it throughout the week, and early
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: in the week it often looks like there's going to
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: be nothing right, Like it'll be like Tuesday or Wednesday,
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: and they'll be hardly anything on the lineup. So then
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: stuff will slip in that normally we probably wouldn't include
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: because you know, it just wouldn't merit attention. And this
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: was one of those cases where it just it slipped
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: in and stayed in. But yeah, I don't know. It's
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: I love horror, but this particular subgenre of horror, that
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: kind of invasion style stuff. It needs to be really
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: well done for me to even be curious about it,
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: because there have been so many of them, and a
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: few of them have been spectacular, and a lot of
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: the others feel like a copy of a copy of
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: a copy.
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, we said, like, there's nothing in the
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: earlier week we knew comic Con was happening.
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but like the stuff about the comic Con hasn't
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: really really started to happen until today. Yeah, so's it's
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: it's very hard for us to include comic Con stuff
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: unless we were to delay recording until either late tonight
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: or tomorrow, because Friday, Friday, and Saturday are the big
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: days for comic Con. And sure some stuff happened on Thursday,
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: but not a lot.
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: Well, we'll get off of this and we'll be like, no,
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: this just came out. We wanted to talk about it
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: next week. Next week, So let's move on to the
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: things that we do.
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: Have to talk about.
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: Sounds good to me, Ariel. And the first thing is
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: another horror movie.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: You but you bear so you told me you added this,
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: and I know your thoughts on this, and you think
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: it's barely horrrific, very horrorrific.
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: It's five Nights at Freddy's too, So that is a
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: pun that Ariel's making because of Freddy Fast Bear. Yeah,
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: five Nights of Freddy to Freddy's two got a trailer release,
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: and it looks like the basic premise is, for some reason,
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: our protagonist is going to the original Freddy's location and
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: there's more like animatronic critters running a muck. And my
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: comment to Ariel was that at least in the trailer,
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: the trailer is one where it is accompanied by extremely
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: loud horror stings to signify something scary is happening, you know,
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: like that that weird, like almost scream type sound just
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: suddenly bursts into the audio. And my conviction is that
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: if you strip the audio out, like if you watch
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: this on silent, nothing would have even remotely looked scary
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: to you. It's that the soundtrack is signaling, Hey, you're
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: supposed to be scared now.
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah? Did you? Did you ever end up watching the
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: first one? No?
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: I I like the games, but again it's it's another
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: one of those things where I'm like, to me, the
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: premise supports exactly as much as the game and no more.
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: And then when you try to adapt that into a
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: different form of narrative. It kind of doesn't work, And
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: that's my suspicion. I haven't seen the first one, so
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: I can't say if it's confirmed or not. But I
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: didn't have any desire to watch the first movie, and
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: this one I feel even less desire.
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: I mean, Sames's I. The only thing that even vaguely
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: interested me in watching it was that it was Jim Henson's,
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: you know, creature Creature workshop working on the animatronics, and
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: that's fantastic. But in this trailer, it's Josh Hutcherson and
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: his not daughter niece, the little girl that he watches
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: after the events of the first one, and she's sad
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: because she misses her animatronic friends, and I'm like, did she?
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: Is it? Cannon? In the stories that a little kid
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: befriends these killer.
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: I think there's supposed to be one that is benign.
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: Like the lore of Five Nights at Freddie's is really
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: complicated and contradictory, but in at least some variations, I
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: think at the idea is that there are spirits of
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: children inhabiting some of these animatronic figures, and one of
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: them is more benign than others. But honestly, I've never
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: anytime anyone tries to go on about the law of
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: five nights at Freddie's. It's only it's only slightly more
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: tolerable than someone trying to explain Kingdom Hearts to me.
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: Oh goodness, Yeah, that's how that's how convoluted it gets.
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: See, I'm also but I'm also surprised that you put
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: five nights in freddy at Freddy's above Kingdom Hearts.
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: Well, no, if you've ever tried to watch anyone try
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: and describe what the heck is going on at Kingdom Hearts,
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: like within within five minutes, you're gonna think, well, this
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: makes no sense. Then you'll scroll down and like, and
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: there's an hour and thirty five more minutes of this.
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: It's look, it is.
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: Just Disney meets Disney Fights Final Fantasy.
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: That yes, and Final Fantasy makes no gosh darn sense,
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: is what I'm saying. That's that's the problem.
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: That's I guess. I guess that's true.
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: Well, so we know you're not excited about five nights
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: at Freddy's two, but if.
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: You are excited, I should mention it comes out December fifth.
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: Go ahappy birthday to me.
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know what we're doing for various birthday.
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: Nope. You said you don't like going to movies for birthdays,
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: so nope.
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's true.
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: Are you excited, however, or mores or any more or
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: less excited for Predator bad Lamps.
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: I haven't been invested in the Predator franchise in a
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: long time. In fact, I don't think I've seen anything
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: past Predator two. I've only seen the first two Predator
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: movies and I never watched any of the rest of it,
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: So no is the answer. But I will say that
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: the trailer itself looks interesting, like it's like a buddy
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: cop movie, but one cop is a predator who's going
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: on his first hunt and the other cop is half
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: of a synthetic from Alien.
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: Yes, which that half is what makes me interested in
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: watching it. It's el Fanning, Ellie el Fanning, I believe
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: and just heard thirty seconds sort of performance in the
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: trailer is phenomenal.
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the fact that he ends up wearing her like
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: a backpack while going on this hot like the premise
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: appears to be that this this it's sort of a
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: coming of age thing, like it's It's similar to a
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: lot of tales of like Native Americans that once they
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: reach a certain age, they have to pass a kind
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: of trial in order to be considered an adult. It
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: seems to be similar to that. So this particular Predator
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: doesn't have a helmet or anything yet. I'm guessing this
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: is how he would earn that stuff, and has apparently
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: chosen a particularly dangerous world upon which he will do
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: his hunt. And this half of an android is also,
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: I guess, in the same general location. He comes across
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: and then is able to reboot her and she ends
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: up sort of assisting him. It's an interesting concept, like
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: I can see where it's a pea, But because I
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: have not been invested in the Predator series at all
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: for so long, I don't know that this is the
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: one that's going to pull me in.
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I mean.
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: Pray would have been the one to pull me in,
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: and I've heard good things about it, but I haven't
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: watched it yet.
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: Same, Yeah, I agree. I think Pray is the one
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: that would have been more likely to get me to
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: watch it, and I've heard good things, like reviewers I
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: respect gave it, you know, not like super high praise,
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: but they said it was an enjoyable and entertaining film,
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: and this also looks like it could be. I don't know.
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: Maybe it's partly because it's not really focusing on human characters,
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: and that's what I find more interesting about the first
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: two Predator movies. It's humans who are on the receiving
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: end of one of these, like you know, seemingly unstoppable killers,
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: and that is more interesting to me than a story
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: where an alien you know, killer is facing off against
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: other alien monsters. Like, wow, that's getting closer to a
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: kid in a sandbox playing with toys. Yeah.
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll tell you what though, Well, do you want
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: to say when it comes out?
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: Before I say my November November seventh.
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I am more interested in Predator bad Lands than
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: I am for the new War of the World's, which
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: I missed was even even happening.
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: I'm sane. I thought it was a fake trailer at
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: first when I saw the thing, and I was like, wait,
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: is this a real thing? And I had to do
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: some searching because I was like, I had not heard
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: of anyone doing another adaptation of War of the World's,
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: like you know, it was two thousand and five. I
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: think when Tom Cruise's version came out so twenty years ago,
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: which seems crazy to me, Like it seems like it
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: was way sooner than that. But and maybe I'm wrong,
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: maybe I've got the year wrong. But this adaptation, it
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: feels like it's a new take on you know, how
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: would we tell War of the World's today? Because the
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: original was a radio drama, right, and this one is
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: told almost like found footage, because it's not really found footage,
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: just like streaming footage. Right. Everybody, all these different characters
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: have access to a camera. Maybe it's their cell phone
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: or maybe it's something else. And ice Cube plays a
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: character who's kind of he's kind of like the man
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: in the chair, who's who's watching all these different feeds.
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: From what we can tell, there are other people like
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: Evil and Gooria is in it. Clark Gregg is in it,
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: so it's kind of got a gorilla style to a
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: lot of the footage.
• 44:48
  Speaker 3: I looked it up on the IMDb list.
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: Well, according to according to the search I did, he's
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: in it. Maybe maybe the search was wrong. Maybe it
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: was one of those where it was like the AI
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: put it together, it was just fan casting the film.
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: This one's coming out on Amazon Prime Video on July thirtieth.
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: I did not like this trailer.
• 45:15
  Speaker 3: I didn't either.
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: I will give them props for trying to figure out
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: a way to make the story new and cool.
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: It just kind of fell flat for me.
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, Like I was curious because again, it seemed
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: like it came out of nowhere, like neither of us
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: had heard about this project at all. But yeah, it
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: was just a miss. Like again, it could just be
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: the trailer. Like, I never want to suggest that the
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: actual finished project isn't worth watching. It may be that
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: the people who cut together the trailer just did in
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: a way that doesn't appeal to me. And maybe if
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: I watched the movie I'll feel differently. But I don't
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: feel a strong pull will watch this one.
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: I've seen it enough, I've listened to it enough.
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: It comes out, like I said, July thirtieth, on Amazon
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: Prime Video. So it's just a couple of days away
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: when it'll be available. Let's let's talk instead about an
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: R rated animated feature that is like an else World's
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: take on Batman.
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: So the latest Batman animated feature I believe got uh
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: announced at Comic Con is as tech Batman.
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, very weird. So this young as tech is behind
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: a movie theater in an alleyway when his parents are murdered,
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: and no, and pearls go, no, I didn't watch that.
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: I didn't watch the trailer, so oh you didn't. No
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: I did, I did. I have a lot of I
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: have a lot of thoughts about that trailer.
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: So is one of them that the art style Vay
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: Glee reminded you of Venture Brothers.
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: I didn't write that down, but now that you say it,
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: I could totally see it. I wrote, I wrote as
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: a joke. I wrote down A young Aztec sees his
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: parents murdered by a conquista door in the alley behind
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: a movie theater. He sees a conky star kill his father,
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: but he then decides to take on the guys of
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: the scariest thing he can think of, bats because he
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: hasn't encountered smallpox yet. And uh and then I said,
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: also a young woman in a puma costume, a la catwoman,
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: and a joker conky star character. Also the conky stoor
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: who killed his dad, I think turns into a two face.
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: Yes, because because Jaguar woman slashes him in the face.
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and also there's a poison ivy like Aztec goddess character.
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: I said, it looks kind of silly, but I'm also
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: kind of here for it. I mean, I don't object
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: to it. I don't object to it. I actually like
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: the reimaginations of Batman and putting them in different time
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: periods and different contexts, and maybe this would be the
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: one that I'd watched and I'd go, wow, they were
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: really imaginative fitting this into like an Aztec storyline that's
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: kind of neat, you know, the conquistad or colonial era.
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: That's kind of cool. Yeah, but there are a lot
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: of other timelines and places that I think would have
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: gotten my attention more effectively.
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: They've done so many of them, and I've watched so
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: many weird Batman cartoons because of my friends. This one
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: feels like it would at least fall in the middle
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: of the pack. I think the thing that reminds me
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: of Venture brothers with it, And I don't know why,
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: I could just be completely off base.
• 48:52
  Speaker 3: The trailer is cut in a way so that.
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: The beats feel like they should be comedic, even though
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: they aren't really that funny.
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I see what you're saying. I mean, I
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: think it's like they are paying homage to the material
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: that Venture Brothers was spoofing, right, because Venture Brothers was
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: spoofing stuff like Johnny Quest, right, And this feels like
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: it's kind of along the same lines as Johnny Quest,
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: only way more violent. Like I said, this is R rated,
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: it's not. It's not like a Johnny Quest adventure series.
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: It's darker and more violent than that. It comes out
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: September eighteenth, and according to the trailer, it's coming out
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: on quote digital end quote. What that means who's to get? Say,
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: maybe just video on demand.
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: So the next trailer I was super excited to watch
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: and then guess what what, I completely forgot to watch it.
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: You didn't watch the trailer for good fortune?
• 49:53
  Speaker 3: No, I saw the teaser when we talked about the.
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: Tea, okay, But the trailer actually gives a piece of
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: inf that is not in the teaser at all, okay,
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: and is fundamental to the story of the movie, which.
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: Is that Canna Reeves is actually Bill from Bill and Ted.
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: No, or Ted for Bill and Ted. No, he's not
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: Ted Theodore Logan. So he's an angel, He's Gabriel And
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: like this is the one we talked about a couple
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: of weeks ago, where's he's like a low level angel
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: who's typically in charge of making sure people don't die
• 50:28
  Speaker 2: while they're texting as they drive, you know, he reaches
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: over and touches their shoulders so that they look up
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: and avoid getting into a head on collision, that kind
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: of thing. But then he decides he wants to do
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: bigger and more important things, and he comes across as
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: he's in Sorry's character who is a down on his
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: luck guy living out of his car, you know, working
• 50:57
  Speaker 2: in the gig economy, and he's really upset because in
• 51:01
  Speaker 2: his mind, he did all the things he was supposed
• 51:04
  Speaker 2: to do, but he cannot succeed. And meanwhile, his character
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: is envious of Seth Rogan's character, a character named Jeff
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: maybe supposed to be like Jeff Bezos because he has
• 51:18
  Speaker 2: a tech bro this tech bro guy who lives in
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: a huge mansion. It's just incredibly wealthy. And so Keanu
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: Reeves is like, well, maybe I can teach you that
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: Jeff's life is not the amazing experience you think it is,
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: and so he does a swap. He swaps it so
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: as he's in Sorry now has Seth Rogan's life and
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: vice versa, and then his superior comes to him and
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: is like, why did you do that? It's like, well,
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: it's because he believed that money could fix all his
• 51:53
  Speaker 2: problems and why do you find out that money fixed
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: most of his problems? And so like the rest of
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: the movie appears to be that he has to try
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: and convinces he's and sorry to give up this, you know,
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: life of wealth and privilege and to swap back. And
• 52:14
  Speaker 2: he's like he could not care less about how tough
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: Seth Rogan's life is right now. He's like, I know
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: how tough it is. I lived it. I am not
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: going back. And there's a moment in the trailer of
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: Keanu reeves it's now working like as a line cook
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: or maybe like a dishwasher at a dirty, old, grimy diner,
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: and Seth Rogan's like begging to be returned to his
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: normal life. And that element Like I didn't expect the
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: life swap element because none of that was in the
• 52:50
  Speaker 2: original teaser. And when I saw this, I was like,
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: I was already intrigued by this movie, but this just
• 52:56
  Speaker 2: makes it look even funnier to me, for.
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: Sure, For sure, also swapping seth rogen as he's sorry,
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: it feels like a good match.
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I think you should. Definitely when you
• 53:08
  Speaker 2: get a chance, watch the trailer.
• 53:10
  Speaker 3: I plan on watching it tonight.
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: I meant to watch it before the lineup, but for
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: some reason, I went, oh, I've watched az Tech Batman,
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: I've watched spinal Tap two.
• 53:20
  Speaker 3: I'm good.
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: No, No, it's okay, because I didn't watch three in
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: a row. So uh but but the next one, I
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: the next one I did watch, okay, because because you
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: you sent me the link I did.
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: We finally got a trailer for spinal Tap two, which
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: is not its official name. But I didn't write that down.
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: I bet Jonathan did.
• 53:46
  Speaker 2: Did.
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: Oh but it, you know, not the re release of
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: the original one, but spinal Tap two.
• 53:55
  Speaker 3: The end continues.
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: It's a great name.
• 53:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah it man, they look old.
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: I mean it's forty one years later. Yeah, and they weren't.
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: They weren't Spring Chickens when they made the first one.
• 54:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah. No, but here's the thing.
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: It's still like it looks like more of the same,
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: but it absolutely looks hilarious.
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they're being reunited because like we see them in
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: different lives like Nigel is now. I think it was Nigel,
• 54:32
  Speaker 2: who's part of a mariachi band, and one of them
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: is now like chilling cryptocurrency, and another one is working
• 54:40
  Speaker 2: in a cheese shop, and.
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: It gives us the impression that they've gotten together and
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: broken up a whole bunch of times. There is a
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: moment where they're looking for a new drummer and they
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: ask Questlove and he's like, I don't want to die,
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: and it made me laugh so hard.
• 54:57
  Speaker 2: It was great. It was very self aware. It's yeah,
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: it's like literally every single one of your drummers dies, uh,
• 55:05
  Speaker 2: which is a gag established by the first film. The
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: It's great. My favorite moment was the reveal that Elton
• 55:14
  Speaker 2: John is in the movie and is covering Stone Hinge,
• 55:19
  Speaker 2: similar to how Like. It makes me think about earlier,
• 55:23
  Speaker 2: much much much earlier in Elton John's career, he covered
• 55:27
  Speaker 2: songs by The Who, which also included him doing Pinball
• 55:32
  Speaker 2: Wizard for the film version of Tommy and I just
• 55:37
  Speaker 2: love that. That was I totally did not expect it,
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: so when it happened, it delighted me. Uh. The teaser
• 55:44
  Speaker 2: only gives a very small amount of footage from the
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: new film, Like the first half of the teaser is
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: stuff from the original This is Spinal Tap. So yeah,
• 55:53
  Speaker 2: it's just the tiniest glimpse. But uh, I mean, I
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: was already on board before there was a teaser. I
• 56:01
  Speaker 2: love the movie. This is Spinal Tap. It's one of
• 56:03
  Speaker 2: my favorite comedies. So this comes out September twelfth, and
• 56:06
  Speaker 2: I'm sure there'll be other trailers and stuff, but I
• 56:09
  Speaker 2: don't need to see on my I'll be there.
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, uh next. This is something that I have
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: been excited about for a while. So a while ago
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: they announced that the second campaign of Critical Role, The
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: Mighty nine, would be getting a cartoon like Fox Makaa,
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: and they released I'm.
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: Sorry, wait, wait is it mighty nine or is the
• 56:31
  Speaker 2: Sensual seven?
• 56:33
  Speaker 3: I thought you said you didn't watch this?
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: Okay, I lied, I'll watched this one.
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: It's it's the Mighty nine is the name of the campaign,
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: and that's the name of the cartoon. But in the
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: trailer they call themselves the Centual seven or Ester does
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: Jester does this?
• 56:51
  Speaker 3: So I I came to.
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: Critical Role kind of kind of later, just because I
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: didn't have the time to sit through the campaigns for
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: a while, and I've listened to Oox Macna and I'm
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: most of the way through Bell's Hells and mighty nine,
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: and I think mighty nine is my favorite.
• 57:08
  Speaker 3: It's a group of people who.
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: You know, group of adventures, but it's a very fun
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: party and it's that I don't even know how to
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: describe it.
• 57:21
  Speaker 3: But the little the little teaser for it.
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: Was very funny and also probably not kids safe at all.
• 57:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, what I took away from the trailer keeping in mind,
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: I haven't seen nearly as much critical role. Uh, and
• 57:39
  Speaker 2: I haven't I'm not as familiar with the material. I
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: do know bits and pieces, could have seen little clips.
• 57:44
  Speaker 2: That's how I tend to consume their stuff, is that
• 57:48
  Speaker 2: I watch clips out of context and like, uh, I
• 57:52
  Speaker 2: don't know what's happening, but this is a cute little moment.
• 57:55
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 57:55
  Speaker 2: The thing that I that surprised me was is it Mauritia?
• 57:59
  Speaker 2: Is that her name? She she has a monk character? Yes.
• 58:04
  Speaker 2: The thing the thing that surprised me is that I,
• 58:06
  Speaker 2: for the longest time I would see clips of her
• 58:08
  Speaker 2: where she the performer would wear shirts where the sleeves
• 58:14
  Speaker 2: had been cut off or ripped off, and like she
• 58:16
  Speaker 2: had this whole thing about not wearing sleeves, and her
• 58:19
  Speaker 2: character design has sleeves, but they're not attached to like
• 58:23
  Speaker 2: a shirt. They're just like sleeves that are on, like
• 58:27
  Speaker 2: free floating sleeves on her arms, and I thought, well,
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  Speaker 2: that's funny.
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I like it. Maricia Mursia also did was
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: it mma?
• 58:36
  Speaker 2: She she was in the YouTube Clash of the Creators. Yeah,
• 58:41
  Speaker 2: it was.
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  Speaker 1: Boxing boxing, So I love I love kind of the
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: parallel during that time of those two things.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I watched that one because again I knew some
• 58:54
  Speaker 2: of the characters. The character designs kind of threw me
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  Speaker 2: off because that wasn't the same as how I envisioned them.
• 59:01
  Speaker 2: But it looks like it'll be a pretty entertaining series.
• 59:05
  Speaker 2: We also got an early look at the next season
• 59:09
  Speaker 2: of Vox Makana. This one, I will be straight. I
• 59:11
  Speaker 2: did not watch this trailer.
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  Speaker 3: That's fine, honestly, if have you watched the cartoon.
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  Speaker 2: At all, no, I think I saw the very first
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  Speaker 2: episode and I did not stick with it, not because
• 59:23
  Speaker 2: I didn't think it was good. It just was one
• 59:25
  Speaker 2: of those where there was so much other stuff going
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  Speaker 2: on that I let it slip.
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: Well, and honestly, I'll say the first episode of season
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: one of Vox Macana is not my favorite. It's kind
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: of like a standalone and it does set stuff up,
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: but it also feels a bit dis like, incongruous, and
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: then the rest of the season is phenomenally better this though,
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: if you what I will say is, if you have
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: watched the cartoon of Vox Macana, but you have you're
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: not familiar with the actual campaign arc, you may want
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: to skip the sneak peek at the new season because
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: it will give you some spoilers about things that happened
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: at the end of season three.
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  Speaker 3: We did.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's funny though it's it's a very heist kind
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: of a sneak peek, which is delightful.
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  Speaker 3: And also we got news that we will be.
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: Getting a season five of Vox Machina after season four
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  Speaker 1: comes out, and that it will be the final season.
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  Speaker 2: Wow. Well, I'm glad they were able to get like
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 2: the whole story plotted out so that they could tell
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 2: the arc as the way they wanted to tell it
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 2: and not just have it be oh well, we got
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 2: about you know, two thirds of the way they are,
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 2: So I'm happy to hear that they were able to
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 2: get closure.
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah. We also got a teaser for the new season
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: of Percy Jackson on Disney Plus. I watched season one.
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: It's a it's you know, it's a Percy Jackson in
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: the Olympians. It's based off of a book series. I'm
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: guessing this is one of the ones that Jonathan did
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  Speaker 1: not watch.
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 2: That's one of the ones I did not want. I
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 2: also just want to point out, just to tease Aeriel
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  Speaker 2: a little bit, that originally in our lineup, it was
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  Speaker 2: written as Percy Jones.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what's wrong. I got four hours sleep, Jonathan.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was just thinking it must be Indiana's nephew.
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: Well, look, originally when I was talking about Superman, I'm
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: like Kat Dennings, it's Kat Grant. Kat Dennings is an
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: awesome actress.
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  Speaker 3: So it's been a it's been a couple of weeks
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 3: for me.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: But yeah, so Percy Jackson, it's it's about a kid
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: whose father is an Olympian and then he goes and
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: discovers intriguing in his inheritance and all that kind of stuff.
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: Season one, for being a kid's show, was pretty entertaining.
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: I really enjoyed the casting in it. Season two also
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: looks very good. There's going to be some Sei ad adventures.
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: Jason Mansukis is in it.
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  Speaker 3: I'm very much.
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: Looking forward to it. I don't really have much more
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: to say. It's a fun trailer. If you liked season
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: one or we're baguely intrigued, you should.
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 3: Check them out.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 2: Cool. We also got a quick trailer for a new
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 2: batch of episodes in the series Pokemon Concierge. So this
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 2: series has been out for a bit, but it was
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 2: just episodes one through four, So now where you've got
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 2: a trailer for episodes five through eight. General plot here
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 2: is that you've got these humans who are running kind
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 2: of a resort for Pokemon, and they're trying their best
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 2: to accommodate different types of Pokemon to give them a
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 2: relaxing vacation. It's a pretty sweet story for a world
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 2: that's ultimately all about subjugating animals and forcing them to
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 2: fight each other. And this one is done in a
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 2: style that is reminiscent of stop motion animation. I don't
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 2: think it actually is. It looks to me like it's
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 2: computer generated, but it's done in the style to make
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 2: it look like stop motion and it comes out September
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 2: fourth on Netflix. So it's cute if you have youngins
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 2: or interested in Pokemon. I think that's who the audience
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 2: is for this. It doesn't look to me like it's
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 2: going to be particularly well suited for older viewers. I mean,
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 2: they'll be like little bits and pieces there, but it
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 2: came across as skewing much younger to me. What did
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 2: you think?
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: I agree, Unless you like super cozy stuff, then it
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: might also appeal to you.
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 2: That's true. Yeah, if you need something where you're like
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 2: I just need to watch cute characters do cute things
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 2: and be silly, then by all means, this looks like
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 2: this is going to deliver that.
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Speaking of speaking of stop.
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 2: Motion animation, yeah, yeah.
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 3: We got the most bizarre game tiler this week.
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 2: YEP.
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 3: I won't say most bizarre like the.
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: Trailer the zombie game trailer that had the beaver mascot was,
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: I would say arguably weirder.
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so Dying Light I think so.
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: But we got a trailer for a video game based
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: off of the nineteen sixty four stop animation Rudolph the
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: Red Nose Reindeer movie.
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah. The rankin Bass film, which I have. You know,
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 2: I have a lot of connection to personally because my
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 2: sister has performed in a puppet theater version of that
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 2: rankin Bass, like an actually licensed version of the rankin
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 2: Bass Rudolph Thereatnos Reindeer for several years now. It ends
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 2: up being something that she both enjoys and also is
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 2: incredibly hard on her physically because they typically do lots
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 2: of performances and the puppets are incredibly impressive, but they're
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 2: really heavy. But all's that to say is I've had
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 2: a lot of Rudolph in my life. My sisters had
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 2: even more Rudolph in her life, and not once did
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 2: I think, gosh, I sure wish there was a video
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 2: game where I could play as these characters.
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and the video game feels I mean, they look
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: like the characters, but it also feels like something that
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: would have come out like ten years ago.
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 2: I agree. Like the character designs. They're obviously modeled after
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 2: the Rank and Bass characters little figures that they made,
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 2: but it's not stop motion. It's it's computer animation to
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 2: make it look like the characters, so the way they
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 2: move is not quite the same as what you would
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 2: see in the cartoon, which takes some of the charm
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 2: out of it for me. Also, the gameplay looks really
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 2: really simplistic, which again it could be that this is
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 2: meant for younger players. There's nothing wrong with it, but
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 2: it doesn't look interesting to me. Like it looks like
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 2: a very basic three D platformer. It's just that you
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 2: get to play as Rudolph Clarice Hermie.
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 3: I mean, I guess if you always wanted to.
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 2: RBG in that world, I maybe there's no art doesn't
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 2: only there's a very much RPG element to it, though
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 2: it's just like a little avatar, right, Like, none of
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 2: this really struck me as appealing. It is coming out
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 2: for pretty much all platforms like PS four, PS five,
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 2: Xbox Series X and S, Nintendo Switch, and Steam. So
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 2: if you are like a Rudolph completionist, or you've got
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 2: a little one who loves Rudolph and would like to
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 2: play a game in that world, like by little one,
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 2: I mean maybe around eight or nine, because I think
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 2: younger than that platforming would be frustrating, and older than
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 2: that it wouldn't be very interesting.
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 3: I agree.
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 2: I agree.
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: Well, Happy Christmas in July. Hey, yeah, it actually.
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 2: Is yeah, I wouldn't mind it, because then I wouldn't
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 2: be turning into Shrek in my office.
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mentioned I said it was as a joke,
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: but it is actually July twenty fifth, so yeah, I
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: guess thematically appropriate. That is all we have to talk about. So, Jonathan,
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: if people want to reach us, how.
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 3: Do they do?
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 2: So I'm hiding in a cornfield. You need to come
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 2: find me cool if you don't.
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 1: Want to, if you're allergic to corn you can reach
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: out to us on social media on Facebook and Instagram
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: and threads. We are Large Nurturing Collider. That's also our discord.
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: You can find all of our show notes on our
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 1: website www dot Large nurdron Collider dot com. I might
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: be a week behind, but I'll get that updated this weekend.
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 1: I'll also have a link to the actual play that
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: I'm doing if you want to follow that. And yeah,
• 1:08:16
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• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: Neurdrum Pod at gmail dot com.
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  Speaker 3: We love you listening.
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: Thank you for being a part of our geeky family.
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 1: Until next time, I am Ariel. I hope Jonathan doesn't.
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 2: Melt caston and I'm Jonathan. I'm lost in Amazemaze Strickland
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 2: the large Nerdron Collider was created by Ariel Caston and produced, edited, published, deleted, undeleted,
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  Speaker 2: published again. Curse That by Jonathan Strickland. Music by Kevin
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