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LNC Doubles Down in Length and in Spiders · Large Nerdron Collider

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  Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Welcome to the Large nerdron Collider podcast, the
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  Speaker 1: podcast that's all about the geeky things happening in the
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  Speaker 1: world around us and how very excited we are about them.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Ariel cast In, and with me, as always, is
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  Speaker 1: the spooky Cookie Jonathan Strickland.
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  Speaker 2: I'm also a spooky cookie. Yes, wait what, I'm a
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  Speaker 2: spooky cookie. I'm like a snicker doodle. That's terrifying.
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  Speaker 1: You can say that again, short Bread.
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  Speaker 2: Now I don't nice. I like that. You can say
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  Speaker 2: that again. Shortbread is pretty awesome. So, Ariel, before we
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  Speaker 2: really jump into this funny thing, I was actually listening
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  Speaker 2: to some old LLENC episodes during the iHeart era, and yeah,
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  Speaker 2: because I was, well, it doesn't matter why, but I did,
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  Speaker 2: and I forgot that I used to do something at
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  Speaker 2: the beginning of every episode that I haven't done in
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  Speaker 2: a really long time. Do you remember what I used
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  Speaker 2: to do at the beginning of episodes?
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  Speaker 1: You just did it. You just asked me a question. John.
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  Speaker 2: That's right, I'm gonna ask you a question. Just did so. Finally,
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't, but I didn't. I didn't preface it with
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  Speaker 2: saying I'm going I've got a question for you. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: So Ariel, my question for you, now, knowing that Halloween
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  Speaker 2: is not your favorite holiday, what is your favorite fall
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  Speaker 2: food or drink?
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  Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, I thought you're gonna ask me my
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  Speaker 1: favorite scary movie, which I had to answer earlier today.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, the moment someone asks you what your
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  Speaker 1: favorite movie is, you forget all movies in that genre.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, right right, You'll be like, uh, my favorite scary
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  Speaker 2: movie is Harry and the Hinder sins like you were
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  Speaker 2: scared by that. Listen, I'm I got this. I'm working
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  Speaker 2: with what I got. I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 1: Today it's Cloverfield Lane, which I do. I actually do. Stay.
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  Speaker 1: It's a very good movie.
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  Speaker 2: It's a fantastic I actually really like that movie until
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  Speaker 2: you get I don't. I don't hate the third act,
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  Speaker 2: but I love the first two acts of that movie,
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  Speaker 2: and the third act is.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I get it. With anything that's kind of suspenseful
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  Speaker 1: thriller like that, I feel like the story always kind
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  Speaker 1: of the build up to the answer is always better
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  Speaker 1: than the answer.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, the build up's better than the payoff. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I think I still think the payoff's great. But without
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  Speaker 2: going into spoilers, John Goodman is my favorite part of
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  Speaker 2: that whole film. So draw some conclusions there about why
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  Speaker 2: I like the first two thirds.
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  Speaker 1: And I think I think the first Cloverfield and I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure we've talked about this, so I'll keep it. The
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  Speaker 1: first Cloverfield is also very good and very scary and
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  Speaker 1: like viscerally scares me at one point, to the point
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  Speaker 1: where I was like, I've seen this twice, It's that's enough.
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  Speaker 1: But I just I feel like Cloverfield Lane ten. Cloverfield
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  Speaker 1: Lane does a really good job at balancing the humanity
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  Speaker 1: with the scary, with the suspense. It's not too gory,
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  Speaker 1: but it's still frightening. So I just think it's really good.
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  Speaker 2: But more importantly, what's your favorite autumnal food?
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  Speaker 1: I was just stalling because I don't I didn't prepare
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  Speaker 1: for this answer, so I don't.
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  Speaker 2: Have Yeah, I didn't tell you.
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  Speaker 1: I've now forgotten every food that ever exists. A peach cup. No,
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  Speaker 1: that's what I had for lunch.
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  Speaker 2: Part of my lunch. Decided to get off the gushers
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  Speaker 2: and coffee for an episode.
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  Speaker 1: Like normally I grab food after this, I won't have
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  Speaker 1: time today. I think, oh gosh, I really like Now
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  Speaker 1: is this just a Halloween style foods or does this
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  Speaker 1: go into like.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you can do Thanksgiving too, Like I said, I
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  Speaker 2: know Halloween's not your favorite.
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  Speaker 1: So I think you know what hot muld apple cider.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, you stole my answer. Oh no, hot apple cider
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  Speaker 2: is my favorite. My favorite autumnal uh a dish. I
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  Speaker 2: guess it's not even dish drink.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I like it. I like actually I
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  Speaker 1: like all things apples. So one of my favorite autumnal
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  Speaker 1: activities is to go apple picking, and then I'll make
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  Speaker 1: various kinds of apple pies. I'll make like apple monkey bread,
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  Speaker 1: I'll make.
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  Speaker 2: Do you go up to like the Mercier orchard area
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  Speaker 2: up toward Blue Ridge.
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  Speaker 1: Or I do go apple picking and l a j
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  Speaker 1: not at Mercer Mercier Mercer Yeah, Mercario McCary. Uh No.
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  Speaker 1: I go to Hillcrest, And the reason I go there
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  Speaker 1: is just simply because, like I went as a kid
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  Speaker 1: on a bunch of field trips and just stuck with me.
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  Speaker 1: So it's it's cool sentimental value. Yeah. Plus they have
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  Speaker 1: an apple pear combo that is really good.
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  Speaker 2: I've never done apple picking, but I do love I
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  Speaker 2: do love hot apple cider, Like, that's one of my favorites.
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  Speaker 2: And although like it's very easy to go overboard on
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  Speaker 2: the spice blends for that if you if the spice
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  Speaker 2: blends are too strong and I can't even taste the
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  Speaker 2: apple because the spices, that turns me off. But uh,
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  Speaker 2: something that's got a nice balance to it, Like, I
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  Speaker 2: also don't just want hot apple juice. There has to
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  Speaker 2: be a balance. Yeah, so I do like that. I
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  Speaker 2: once made homemade hot apple cider, starting with whole raw apples,
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  Speaker 2: and I will never do that again.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, but it sounds amazing.
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  Speaker 2: It was good. It was just a lot of work.
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  Speaker 1: I am working on. So a couple of years ago,
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  Speaker 1: I started making apple spiced apple cider shortbread cookies m M.
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  Speaker 1: And then I mixed them with dolcea de leche to
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  Speaker 1: make like a caramel apple sandwich cookie. And I'm still
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  Speaker 1: working on perfecting that.
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  Speaker 2: But well, now that we got the all important throwback
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  Speaker 2: to the classic iHeart era LLENC episodes, let's talk about
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  Speaker 2: the stuff that we have watched since our last recording,
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  Speaker 2: one of which is something that we've each watched. And
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  Speaker 2: it's funny because since our last recording, like half of
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  Speaker 2: the episodes have come out.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, which is Agatha All Along? What do you think
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  Speaker 1: about it?
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  Speaker 2: Jonathan, Yeah, I'm enjoying it. I I was worried at
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  Speaker 2: first when I watched the very first episode that it
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  Speaker 2: was going to take a while to really build into
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  Speaker 2: something that I was enjoying. But the second episode got
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  Speaker 2: there right away. The third episode was good, and then
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  Speaker 2: I know, we chatted offline how you felt the fourth episode.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it wasn't bad, but it didn't quite live
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  Speaker 2: up to the same of the first three. My partner Becca,
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  Speaker 2: she agrees she felt the same way. I didn't feel
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  Speaker 2: that way. It's not that I loved the fourth episode,
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  Speaker 2: but I enjoyed it kind of on a different level
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  Speaker 2: from the other. First of all, to a case anyone
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  Speaker 2: hasn't been watching Agatha All Along, it's the gayest show
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  Speaker 2: in the MCU. Like, it's as gay as gay can
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  Speaker 2: be in the MCU. There's so much gay and I'm
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  Speaker 2: here for it.
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  Speaker 1: Man.
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  Speaker 2: It was awesome. There was a lot of sexual tension
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  Speaker 2: in episode four that I was like, I didn't know
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  Speaker 2: I needed this till it happened.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it was an episode two as.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it was, but episode four, they were like, hold
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  Speaker 2: my beer. Also, there was a great, big musical number
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  Speaker 2: in episode four, and I'm a sucker for a musical number.
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  Speaker 2: So I've really enjoyed it. I'm curious about where it's going,
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  Speaker 2: as we'll get into in the thirty seconds or less.
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  Speaker 2: I narrowly avoided a spoiler, and I'm trying to do
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  Speaker 2: that because I'm enjoying the story they're telling. And while
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  Speaker 2: I am intrigued and I have questions, I'm okay with
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  Speaker 2: waiting to get the answers, kind of the same way
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  Speaker 2: I was with WandaVision. Like a lot of us get
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  Speaker 2: used to when a series will just dump all its
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  Speaker 2: episodes at once and you can just bend your way
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  Speaker 2: through it. I kind of like having a week to
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  Speaker 2: build up suspense, intention, and anticipation. So I've been enjoying that.
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  Speaker 2: What's been your take on the series.
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't very excited about it, you know, in general,
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  Speaker 1: witchy things are not always my cup of tea. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: But I enjoyed it a lot more. I thought the
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  Speaker 1: second episode was incredibly strong and really grabbed my attention
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  Speaker 1: and and made me invested in what was happening next.
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  Speaker 1: And I thought the third story did a really good
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  Speaker 1: job at that as well. And also the third episode.
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  Speaker 1: Third episode had some really cool like tie ins to
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  Speaker 1: to regular life that I thought were really cool and
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  Speaker 1: kind of demystified some stuff almost and I thought that
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  Speaker 1: was really Neat the fourth episode it was fine. It
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  Speaker 1: gave I don't I don't know how to talk about
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  Speaker 1: it without spoiling I guess the musical number thing to
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  Speaker 1: me was kind of a one trick pony thing. It
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  Speaker 1: it gave me first episode of gallivant vibes.
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  Speaker 2: Mmm, I think uh. I like the fact that so
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  Speaker 2: there's a collection of which is an Agatha all along.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think that really spoils anything. But there's a
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  Speaker 2: coven of witches and they are on essentially a quest,
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  Speaker 2: and part of that quest is there's a test that's
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  Speaker 2: kind of geared toward each of the individual witches, like
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  Speaker 2: each each test is specified to a different witch in
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  Speaker 2: the group. And so as I'm watching, I'm thinking, well,
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  Speaker 2: that means that the future episodes we're going to get
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  Speaker 2: are going to be more instances of these tests. So
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  Speaker 2: knowing that, I felt a little bit better because it
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  Speaker 2: just means that we're going to get variations on this
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  Speaker 2: in the next couple of episodes, probably unless they depart
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  Speaker 2: from the formula, which they might do. WandaVision did that,
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  Speaker 2: but I'm alright with that. But I feel like it
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  Speaker 2: didn't feel like it was treading water to meet, which
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  Speaker 2: is what a lot of series end up feeling like.
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  Speaker 1: So the tests are fine. I love that the test
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  Speaker 1: are kind of keyed to different characters or situations or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: I'm totally fine with that. That is not the problem.
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  Speaker 1: I thought that the test that they gave this particular
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  Speaker 1: character in this episode, who I think is one of
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  Speaker 1: my more favorite characters in the series, was a little
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  Speaker 1: bit weak. I compared to the last test and the
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  Speaker 1: second episode, there wasn't. I didn't feel the same like
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  Speaker 1: emergency of direness at all, Like it didn't feel like
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  Speaker 1: they were seriously about to lose it every second to me.
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  Speaker 2: Gotcha.
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  Speaker 1: Also the way that they beat the test, Like, I
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  Speaker 1: like it. You've got all these accomplished vocalists, right, you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna use them. But that's the one trick pony for me,
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  Speaker 1: because I've already heard that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but this was the rock version of it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but I had new verses, But.
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  Speaker 1: I don't need like, and I realized that I'm in
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  Speaker 1: the minority, and for everybody who loves it, that's fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: I am so glad. It's like the first episode of Galivant.
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  Speaker 1: They kept singing the same song over and over and over,
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  Speaker 1: just with like different words, and it got so frustrating
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  Speaker 1: to me, and I'm like, Okay, I've heard this now.
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  Speaker 1: It is no longer impressive. Now it makes me feel
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  Speaker 1: like you were too lazy to write another piece of music.
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  Speaker 1: So and I say this as a band who does covers,
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  Speaker 1: like I don't want more than one cover of it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I understand that. Yeah, And it is definitely one
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  Speaker 2: of those shows where they work the motif of the
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  Speaker 2: song and do practically everything, like, I will not be
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  Speaker 2: surprised if before this is done, they come across a
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  Speaker 2: music box that plays a music box version of the
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  Speaker 2: Witch's Road, Like, that's gonna be yet another thing. If
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't happen, that will surprise me. But yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: understand what you're saying, Like, I agree that using the
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  Speaker 2: same piece of music, even with different arrangements, can get
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  Speaker 2: a little bit tiresome. So I totally get what you're saying.
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  Speaker 1: Well what sorry, Sure, sure, I understand that it is
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  Speaker 1: an act I felt like Catherine and Hans over acting
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  Speaker 1: felt a little out of place at times, like her Bravado.
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  Speaker 2: It's her performance in general is interesting because it is
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  Speaker 2: more heightened than any of the others, with the exception
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  Speaker 2: of possibly Aubrey Plaza. Yeah, Aubrey Plaza is also kind
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  Speaker 2: of like chewing the scenery, but she.
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  Speaker 1: Feels Aubrey Plaza feels more grounded to me, like, I
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  Speaker 1: believe her choice is a little bit more And I
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  Speaker 1: think Catherine Han's a phenomenal actress. I just a couple
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  Speaker 1: of times this past episode it felt out of place.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I will say the costume design for that episode
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  Speaker 2: was crazy, Like it's one of those things also where
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  Speaker 2: they were making direct references to real rock and roll
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  Speaker 2: musicians like Jennis Joplin and Share and that kind of thing.
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  Speaker 2: But it was kind of crazy just seeing those A
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  Speaker 2: lot of double side tape used in that episode.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, for sure, for sure.
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  Speaker 2: So what else did you see besides Agatha all Along?
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  Speaker 1: Not much? Oh well, I guess a little bit more
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  Speaker 1: than what I've got written down here. I finished Kevin
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  Speaker 1: all Along. I loved it. I thought it was a
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  Speaker 1: great journey. I like the way it wow.
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  Speaker 2: Kevin all Along man Agatha, not.
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  Speaker 1: Kevin all Along, Kevin Kinnef himself based half off of
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  Speaker 1: Kevin all Along. I want I finished Kevin Kineff himself.
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  Speaker 1: I loved it. I thought it was great. I thought
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  Speaker 1: the way it ended was really good. I've been watching
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: Welcome to Wrexham, which neither myself nor my partner are
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  Speaker 1: soccer fans at all. We like hockey and football, but
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  Speaker 1: soccer just I think it's it's it's got a lot
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  Speaker 1: of action like hockey, but nobody ever scores, so it's
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: it's I don't know, it's not quite our thing, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm loving Welcome to Rexham. I think it is such
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: a great heartfelt piece on the people of a small
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: town that is just beautiful. And I watched the first
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: two episodes of season three of Oxmachina last night.
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  Speaker 2: Oh cool, so the animated series.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, first three episodes dropped last night. I've only
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  Speaker 1: watched too because I watched them with a group and
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  Speaker 1: we do two episodes a night.
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  Speaker 2: Cool. I watched quite a few things since that last recording.
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  Speaker 2: I watched episode two of The Penguin, which took a
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  Speaker 2: while for me to be able to watch. Because they
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  Speaker 2: premiered the first episode on a Thursday, they didn't have
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  Speaker 2: episode two until not the following Sunday, but the Sunday
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  Speaker 2: after that, and now their premiering individual episodes on Sundays,
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  Speaker 2: so it was like a ten day gap between episodes
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  Speaker 2: one and two. So we haven't had episode three yet
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  Speaker 2: as we're recording this. I thought episode two was good.
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  Speaker 2: I think that that I still don't really love this
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  Speaker 2: version of the Penguin. I think Colin Ferrell's performance is phenomenal.
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  Speaker 2: He disappears into the role, but the I'm still not
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  Speaker 2: crazy about the penguin just being kind of a thug
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  Speaker 2: who plays all sides and is playing so close to
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  Speaker 2: the edge that he's bound to get cut, right, Like
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  Speaker 2: that's the whole thing. I will say. Oh, I can't
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: remember the actress's name, Kristen something or other. She plays
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  Speaker 2: Sophia Falcone. She is one so good and two it's
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  Speaker 2: fun to see her play a menacing psychopath when she
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  Speaker 2: also has a look that makes her look really vulnerable
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: because that juxtaposition where it turns out she's not the
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  Speaker 2: vulnerable one in the room, right, she gives off the
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  Speaker 2: view that that looks like she's the one who's going
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: to be the victim, but she's the victim miser, which
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  Speaker 2: I think is fascinating. So I am enjoying the Penguin,
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  Speaker 2: even though I don't care for this version of the character.
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: I like the series. I watched a film called Onyx,
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  Speaker 2: The Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls, and it's it's
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: a done by a guy who's had had this character
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  Speaker 2: for years and years and years. He's this kind of
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: very odd, adhd, geeky, satanist kind of character, and I
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: mean he's appeared in videos for years and years on
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  Speaker 2: lots of different platforms. But they did a feature link film.
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  Speaker 2: It was like a crowd sourced, crowd funded fat link film.
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  Speaker 2: So I watched it, and parts of it are entertaining,
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  Speaker 2: but overall I did not care for it. I still
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  Speaker 2: watch the whole thing, though, I got through the whole thing. Congratulations, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: or I'm sorry. I watched a few episodes of The Mentalist,
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  Speaker 2: which I never watched when it was on, but was
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: one of those things that's just kind of like a
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  Speaker 2: little compilation of moments popped up in my YouTube recommendations.
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  Speaker 2: And so then I went and started watching some episodes,
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  Speaker 2: and I want to like it more, but I don't,
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  Speaker 2: And I think the big reason for that is if
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  Speaker 2: you don't know what the Mentalist is, it's a crime
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  Speaker 2: procedural drama. The main character is a guy who used
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: to pose as a psychic, but he's he's clearly not
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  Speaker 2: Psychics don't exist in this world. He's not a psychic.
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  Speaker 2: He was a fraud but now he uses the same
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: powers of observation he used to great advantage as a
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  Speaker 2: fraudster to try and help solve crimes while he's on
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  Speaker 2: the hunt for a serial killer who dramatically changed his
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: family dynamic. Let's put it that way. That's a family
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: friendly way of putting it. But I find it frustrating
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  Speaker 2: because I find that I think I keep wanting him
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  Speaker 2: to do more with his skill set that he developed
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  Speaker 2: as a psychic and for him to kind of relate
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  Speaker 2: how he used that as a psychic, but they don't
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  Speaker 2: do that very much, so it just comes across as
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  Speaker 2: like a yet another variation off Sherlock Holmes, Like it
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  Speaker 2: just feels like another hyper observant person who is at
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  Speaker 2: least assumes he's the smartest person in the room and
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  Speaker 2: usually he's right, and he also comes across very smug,
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  Speaker 2: and so I'm like, I don't like this guy. I
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: like all the other characters, but I don't like him,
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: and I don't think I'm going to watch this anymore.
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: It's funny too, because I watched several episodes in the
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: first season and then I tried to watch several episodes
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: in the second half of the sixth season because spoiler,
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: he does eventually track down and eliminate the serial killer,
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: but that happens in like the first third of season six.
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: So I was curious. I was curious, how do they
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: continue the story after he's achieved the goal he had
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: at the beginning of the show. And the answer to
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: that is not very well. So, yeah, I was not
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: a fan. Probably I'm not going to watch any more
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: of it. I gave it a good go, but I'm
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: kind of disappointed with it. And the other thing that
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: I'll mention is I saw here in Atlanta. I went
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: and saw a performance of The Ghastly Dreadfuls, which is
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: a Halloween puppet show for adults that the Center for
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: Puppetry Arts puts on. They've put on a version of
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: this almost every year for like the last twenty years,
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: and I had seen all the individual pieces before, but
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: in an exciting turn, almost the entire cast is new. Like,
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: there are two people who have been in previous Ghastly
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: Dreadfuls before, maybe some of the others have sat in
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: as fill ins or whatever, but they weren't. It's typically
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: an ensemble piece that uses the same actors year after
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: year after year, so to see it where almost the
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: entire cast is new was really kind of exciting. It's
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: the same stories that I've seen before, but told in
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: slightly different ways. And the puppetry is phenomenal. So if
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: you're in Atlanta and you're looking for a live performance
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: to go to that's going to get you in sort
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: of the spooky silly side of Halloween. I highly recommend
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: the Ghastly Dreadfuls.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I haven't seen Ghastly Dreadfuls, but the puppetry for
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: Center Art Puppetry Center for the Arts is really good.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: So I'm good at names.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you said all the words that are in
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: the name.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: Center for Puppetry Arts. I got it. Ha ha.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: Well, now that we've gone through that formality, let us
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: turn once more to our beloved segment, the one that
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: our fans cry out for every single time, thirty seconds
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: or less, and I'll go first. So, the second season
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: of Gremlins The Wild Batch launched this week and the
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: series shifts from China to San Francisco, California, which sets
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: up the story of how Gizmo found his way into
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: an old curiosity shop at the beginning of the original
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: Gremlins film. The original director of Gremlins, Joe Dante, has
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: indicated he would be open to doing a third Grimlins film,
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: but ultimately, quote, that's up to the audience. End quote.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: So let's just all promise to go and see Grimlins three.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: Same goes for season three of the Wild Batch, and
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: they can keep making that too.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: For sure. Paramount is making a live action hybrid Rugrats
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: movie for those of you who watched drug Rats in
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: the nineties us Theousins. I don't remember. I think it
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: was both. Anyhow, It's being helmed by director Jason Moore,
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: who worked on Pitch Perfect and also such things as
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: Avenue Q and Shrek the Musical, and also it's been
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: written by mikey Day. I don't know which characters they're
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: gonna make live action and which they're gonna make CGI
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: because all of the people characters look really weird. So
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: maybe Raptar, the Godzilla like toy will be the only
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: live action character.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: Here. I was hoping that they would trust Tara Strong
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: up as a baby and make her play the live
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: action character. Not too long ago, we mentioned that Josh
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: Brolin had turned down the role of Hal Jordan in
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: the upcoming DC series on HBO called Lanterns. Now, we
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: know who will be making sure that evil won't escape
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: his sight, and that's Kyle Chandler, whom you might know
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: from Friday Night Lights or Super Pumped. The series is
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: still casting and it's going to be shooting here in
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: Atlanta starting in early twenty twenty five. And I nominate
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: Ariel to play good Nort.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: Sure, I'll play that character. Which one's good Nort.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: Good Nor it's the big furry green lantern.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: Sure, I'm in. I'm totally in. Okay. Next, Lady Gauga's
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: coming out with two albums I believe post Joker Foley
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: I do. And one of them is called Harlequinn and
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: the other one is called LG seven, which I'm guessing
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: is Lady Gauga seven with like thirteen songs, one of
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: them came out already on September twenty seventh. But yeah,
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: that's interesting. I bet her music will be good. The
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: movie is not getting greater piece.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, and here's the interesting bet that I referenced
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: earlier in this episode. I often get really upset because
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: a lot of media outlets will break a story about
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: geeky stuff and include spoilers in the headlines in the process,
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: But Forbes' is paulled. Tassi did not do that in
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: his article that's titled Rio Vidal and Teen's True Names
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: and Agatha all Along leak via Funko Pops. Now, I
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: did not read this piece because I do not want
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: to be spoiled, but I do want to give Tassi
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: a shout out for doing the right thing and keeping
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: the spoilers inside the article. For the record, he says
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: he would have rather avoided spoilers as well.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: Yeph spoiler. No, I don't have a spoiler. I have
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: no segue for this last story of mine, which is
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: that there is a new movie coming out called The
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: Electric State by Joe and Anthony Russo from who or
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: Who worked on Infinity War and Endgames. And it's about
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: a girl who's looking for her brother in a society
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: that's trying to rebuild after AI took over, and then
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: the humans want and put aid in kind of like
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: their own little section of the world. And it's just
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: it's an interesting piece on what makes you human when
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: you gain consciousness and who who are who's really human
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: after all? Is it the people with flesh and blood
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: and hearts or AI who have might not be horrible,
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: See this whole time, I was hoping The Electric State
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: was going to be a reboot of the State, the
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: sketch comedy group.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: Teeth in the Electric Mayhem.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: No, well, I mean it could be.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: It could be the characters of the State.
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: Because those guys, of course, they've gone on to do
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: tons of other stuff, like Michael Showalter and Michael ian
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: Black and Joe Yeah. Yeah, so many of them have
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: gone on to do lots of other stuff. Well, we
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: got that fun stuff out of the way before we
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: get into all of our news items. One thing we
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: did want to mention is that since the last time
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: we recorded the Geeks fhere, we've actually had several losses.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: In the last couple of weeks, but one in particular
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: we wanted to give a shout out to was Dame
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: Maggie Smith, who passed away since the last time we recorded.
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: Maggie Smith, of course, has been in tons of different plays, movies,
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: TV shows for geeks. She might best be known as
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: Professor McGonagall from the Harry Potter series, but Maggie Smith
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: has been in tons of other stuff as well.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's sad. Another one I'll say is said that
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: passed is John Amos, just because he passed a couple
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: of days ago and also influential actor and partially in
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: the geeksphere. Very sad.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: Yep. We also lost Gavin Kreele, who was a Broadway actor,
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: So for Broadway musical geeks, I mean, like I said,
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: there were quite a few that passed away since the
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: last time we recorded. So our hearts go out to
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: all their friends and family, even the.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: Ones we didn't mention. We're sorry if we didn't mention.
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, I mean it was We didn't want this
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: to become an in memoriam episode. So we're going to
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: move on and talk about a whole bunch of different
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: teasers and trailers that came out over those last two weeks,
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: one of those being a fairly lengthy teaser for Thunderbolts asterisk.
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: So that's of course going to be the group of
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: anti hero slash villain types who band together as a
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: kind of Dark Avengers. In fact, I've heard a lot
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: of folks speculate that the asterisk on Thunderbolts is to
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: indicate that in the movie, they're going to end up
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: becoming the Dark Avengers. That might be the case, we
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: don't know.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the trailer is good. I'm gonna be real honest.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: My husband shared the leak trailer from I guess Comic Con,
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: so I had already seen most of it, but it's
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: definitely better in actual release high definition. It looks good enough.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: There is a jumping spider in here. Get away from me.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: I don't like you.
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: That's an exciting little moment for all of our listeners
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: back home.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: My my, I don't know if you're gonna keep it in,
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: but I'm gonna describe it like you are. My best friend.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: Slash sister has several jumping spiders as pets. I have
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: a rachnophobia, so it's really wonderful that I.
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: That's what I got.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: That I didn't kill it. I'm gonna scare it away.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: Hold on, go shoot bye, Eat the bugs, eat all
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: the nats in my home. Don't come near me.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: I haven't decided if I'm going to keep this or
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: not yet.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: You can cut it if you want, but you're welcome
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: to keep it in. I'm fully it's gone. I can't
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: see it, so it's fine, okay.
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so Thunderbolts. Ariel really liked the trailer, except for
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: the part where the spider jumped on.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: Too many spiders. Too many spiders.
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: Were there? Were there just the right number of spiders
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: for the second trailer of Red One.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: Yes, just the right amount of spiders for Red One,
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: which is none that I can remember. We got the
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: second trailer for it. Red One is Dwayne Johnson and
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: Chris Evans, save Santa Claus. There were no spiders, but
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: there were two rock'm Sockham robots, which delighted me and
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: I I'm looking forward to this movie. I really enjoyed
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: the nw Jumunji movies, and I'm looking forward to this
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: not Jamunji installment of ridiculousness. Ridiculousness cool.
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is one I think I'm gonna skip.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: But it's unfortunate.
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: I'm glad that you are excited for it.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: Yes, well, you didn't watch the two nu Jumunji movies either,
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: did you. Nope, they were look Tony is a can
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: be a grumpy personnickity person sometimes, and he enjoyed the
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: nw Jumunji movies, both of them. He was not looking
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: forward to them, but he quite enjoyed them. They're actually
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: pretty good.
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: Well, next up, we got a trailer for the film
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: Canary Black. This is a spy film. Kate Beckhamsale is
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: the star of this movie. It's coming out on Amazon
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: on October twenty fourth. And yeah, it's like a bang bang,
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: shoot them up spy movie thing.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm glad Kate Beckinsale is getting to do actiony
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: stuff again. I guess she has been, but she didn't
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: for a while. This honestly doesn't feel very new to me.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: But it looks fun.
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it made me think of like it
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: kind of falls into a lot of the the the
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: action spy type films that we've seen over the last
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: several years. Like clearly it's heavily inspired by stuff like
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: James Bond or Mission Impossible and a lot of those
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: other like second tier spy movies. I'm sure it'll be
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: entertaining enough, you know. I'm hopeful that it will be
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: something that is worth the expense of having made it.
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: I think it looks expensive.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: It does, I've got good talent in it. I will
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: say I did confuse it with both Red Sparrow and
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: Atomic Blonde.
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: At first, so fair enough. I mean, like especially Atomic Blonde,
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: it definitely has that kind of energy going for it.
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: Whereas the next movie we have, we talked about this
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: film on a previous episode where we got a teaser
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: for kind of a black comedy horror kind of film
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: called Rumors. Now we have a longer trailer. I assume
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: this was not something that was triggering your fear response,
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: because I don't think it looks particularly scary.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: No, it's not. However, one of the stories we dropped
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: because we got full trailer for the platform too, totally
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: triggered my ick. Nope, can't watch it fears, So I'm
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: glad we dropped that. No, Rumors looks interesting, it's they
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: the trailer. It's elf compares it to like I guess
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: Night of the Living Dead meets Doctor Strangelove or is
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: it evil dead Doctor Strangelove.
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: Either probably, I think, oh that's a good question. The
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: zombies or the zombie like things seem to move more
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: neither living dead to me than evil dead. But yeah,
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: the Doctor Strangelove totally makes sense. This is the film
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: where it's about a bunch of world leaders who are
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: meeting at a summit to try and hash out their
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: response to global crises. And then meanwhile, crazy weird stuff
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: starts to happen and they're all kind of caught up
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: in it. And so how do these how do these
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: world leaders survive during this bizarre, almost supernatural kind of
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: crisis while also still trying to solve the world's problems.
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: The answer is from the trailer, not that well. Yeah, yeah,
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: there's like bog corpses that maybe reanimate in a giant
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: brain and like people's minds get taken over. It gave
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: me very like bubbajotep vibes.
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's a good that's a good one, because yeah,
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: that was definitely a horror comedy. And yeah, I think
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: this looks like a better film for Kate Blanchett than
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: say Borderlands.
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: For sure, for sure, still comedic and maybe action y,
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: but you know, I think Borderlands had a better video
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: quality than Rumors, But Rumors has a better video quality
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: than the next trailer you want to talk about.
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: Well, that's because the next trailers for a series that
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: is specifically trying to evoke that nineteen eighties slash nineties
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: era VCR experience. And so we're talking about the trailer
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: for VHS Beyond, the latest of the VHS series. There's
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: quite a few of these at this point.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: It's funny because I know someone who is in one
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: of these. Uh because Justin Justin, Justin Welburn was in
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: one of the previous entries of VHS. And I'm also
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: I'm a fan of a uh, a game creator and
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: YouTuber who is in this one, VHS Beyond. So I'm
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: looking forward to seeing this one and seeing how how
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: how her performance comes out because she's not an actor,
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: but uh, the she's in a piece that was written
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: by Kate Siegel, who is the partner of Mike Flanagan,
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: who did all like The Haunting of Hill House and
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: that kind of stuff. So m hm, So yeah, I'm
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: I'm curious about this one. It actually sounds to me
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: like this one is a big step up compared to
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: some earlier ones. But it's funny because, like I've I've
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: known some of the people behind the scenes of this series,
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: people who have directed one or two. Actually, now I
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: think about I knew one of the actors from the
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: first VHS as well. But yeah, I put it in
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: here because I'm a fan of what they're trying to do.
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: It's always an anthology series, so it's a series of
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: different shorts that get grouped together in a film, and
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: typically there's like some connective tissue between the shorts that
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: access kind of bridging material. But uh, did you watch
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: the trailer, Aeriel.
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: I did not watch much of the trailer.
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: No.
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: I put it on two point speed. I put it
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: on two time speed and blop bloop, nope, nope, nope, nope,
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: nope all the way through.
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: Good lord, I am gonna have to arrange a horror
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: movie night and just have Aeriel over and we're gonna
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: watch some horror movies that that that are entertaining and
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: not like Squidgy or whatever, just just to kind of
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: like dip your toe in.
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: I occasionally watch horror movies. I need to be well
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: aware of what's going to happen in it. Beforehand. It
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: can't have body horror, it can't be torture porn, and
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: if it deals with creatures in the dark, I don't
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: do well with that.
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: So that does that does eliminate a lot of horror?
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, so, I mean but like, I've watched Cabin
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: in the Woods. I watched it knit to both the
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: originals and the new one. I watched The Stand, which
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: I don't really think counts as horror. You know. I
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: watched Jaws, an Attack of killer clowns from Outer Space,
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: and Jurassic Park, and those are all scary. I watched
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: the one where Will Smith was with his dog and
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: there were vampire type creatures from us.
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: Is that legend?
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: Legend? Yeah, so I've watched, I've watched I watched scary movies.
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: I watched all of season one of Last of Us
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: except for one episode, which dealt with people monsters, not
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: monster monsters. So I like some horror. And I also
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: like the trailer for season two of Last of Us.
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: Yes, that's our next, our next item of discussion. It's fine,
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: but yeah, we got the trailer for season two, and
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: it gives a hint about some of the stuff we
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: can expect. It does seem to be setting up some
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: stuff that happens in the second game of Last of
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: Us Last of Us Too. We've already heard that the
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: story they're going to tell is going to span across
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: two seasons, so I understand why if you've played Last
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: of Us Too you will too. But yeah, it definitely
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: looks like it's going to be really intense. It's weird
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: because I actually don't know if I'm going to be
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: able to watch this one because I know what happens
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: in the game, and I don't know that I want
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: to see it in the show.
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: I've not played either game. I know one of the
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: things that happens, it's I it's if you're referring to
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: the thing where Laura Bailey, who voices a certain character
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: in Last of Us to the video game, got death
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: threats because of something her character did, like real life
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: death threats to her and her family based off of
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: what her character did, then I know about that.
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that would definitely be it. No one deserves death
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: threats for something that happens within a fictional universe. I
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: think we both can come down firmly on that side.
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, So I hope that the actress who portrays
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: that character in the show does not have similar problems.
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: Hopefully whoever lost their mind and did that in the
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: first place has since regained their faculties. Yeah, I it
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: looks good. It definitely does look more intense. The first season,
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: the trailers made it seem like it would be creepy
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: and there would be tense moments, but it also had
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: a lot of like heartfelt in it. This trailer also
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: has some heartfelt, but I do feel like it leans
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: more on the scary crap is going downside of it.
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, which makes sense again from the context of the
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: second game. Yeah, just like The Walking Dead, the Last
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: of Us ultimately ends up exploring more about the things
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: that humans do two and four each other more than
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: any of the monster stuff. Right, like that, the monster
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: stuff is a present and constant threat, but the real
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: issue is how do you interact with humans when everybody
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: is put into survival mode? And so that's going to
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: be cranked up to eleven. I think for the Last
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: of Us season two, I'm sure it's going to be phenomenal.
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: I bet that they're going to have some episodes that
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: will be significant departures from the game we got that
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: in season one, and my favorite episode, maybe my favorite
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: episode of television ever was a massive departure, and I
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: thought it was an absolutely beautiful episode.
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: Was that the one with Nick Offerman? M hmmm, yeah, yeah,
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: that was That was a heartbreaking, wonderful episode.
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: Long long time. That's a great, great episode.
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I definitely am going to try to watch season
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: two of Last of Us I I so far have
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: enjoyed it far more than I have enjoyed Walking Dead.
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: I've said this before because I felt like there was hope.
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: I don't know if that will maintain in season two,
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: but I hope that they continue to find a good
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: balance because that's what made season one really spectacular.
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: Agreed, Well, then, next up, we got a trailer for Ballerina,
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: which is a spin off film from the John Wick series.
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: We talked about this, I think like a year or
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: two ago we were talking about how there was gonna
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: be a Ballerina film, and now we got a trailer
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: for it.
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: The only thing I really have to say about is
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: that if you've missed john Wick, this will this will
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: probably scratch that itch.
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, if you miss john Wick and Black Widow didn't
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: come out recently, enough Black.
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: No, there was another, like I think two john Wick
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: films since the last Black Widow movie have there.
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: I just Ballerina looks good, but it looks like this
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: the Black Widow storyline.
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: Yes, it does look a lot like Black Widow. Also,
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: John Wick does show up in the trailer, so he
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: will be in the movie.
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, it could be. They could do an MCU
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: crossover because john Wick is called the Bobba Yaga and
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: there's one an ant Man just saying.
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: Is there a Bubba Yaga an ant Man.
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: It's a whole running gag with David dust Mulchian.
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: Oh man, I'm gonna have to go back and look
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: it up again. Yeah, because it's like he never shows up.
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: But I think he's like to Baba Yaga. He says
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: it a lot.
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: I'm not.
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: I think I'll have to look that up because I've
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: only seen the ant Man movies. I've seen each of
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: the ant Man films one time because my partner has
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: a phobia about insects in general, so she'll never go
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: see any of those. I've never bothered to rewatch them.
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: But I don't remember that at all. I do know
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: that Bobba Yaga is kind of a mistake in John Wick.
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure that they meant a different Russian term
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: for boogieman that sounds kind of similar to Bobby Yaga,
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: But Bobby Yaga is like a Hungarian witch who lives
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: in a hut that walks around on chicken legs.
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: So yeah, also, I guess kind of speaking of funny mistakes, haha,
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: there we go. Our next trailer is for a movie
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: called get Away about a family who makes a possibly
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: dire mistake, and it's presented in kind of a funny way.
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Nick Frost is sort of anchoring this film as
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: the patriarch of the family that goes on vacation to
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: a close knit community where you get the feeling like
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: they probably engage in pagan practices, Like it's giving me
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: wicker Man energy. But imagine, like imagine National Lampoons wicker
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: Man where the Griswolds are on vacation in Europe and
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: they stumble upon a village that does paganistic rituals.
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, apparently in the past there there was a
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: bunch of mishaps and maybe cannibalism and a bunch of
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: killing people in the storyline of this movie. On the island,
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: and so this family is warned not even to go there.
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: I suspect it's gonna be vaguely hot, fuzzigh in like
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: there's it's definitely messed up, but in a different way
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: then we're expecting.
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: That would be great. I would love for them to
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: subvert expectations and for it to be a kind of
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: rug pole thing and not just be, oh, yeah, the
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: thing we're obviously setting up that's actually what happened. That
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: would be a little kind of a disappointment, I think.
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: So I hope you're right, because I think that would
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: be a lot of fun. I mean, it looks like
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: it looks like it's it's going to be entertaining, at
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: least as far as the trailer. Like that looked entertaining
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: to me. So this is one that I will probably
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: check out.
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it looks funny. It does look pretty bloody as
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: a warning.
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: But yeah, but if you like your horror comedy and
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: you don't mind a little blood, check it out at
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: least watch the trailer.
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, so Jonathan, Yeah, what did you think of
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: the the next trailer?
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: So this is for a series that's going to be
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: on Peacock called hysteria, and it's about a group of kids,
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: like teenagers who or maybe young adults, but I think
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: they're supposed to be teenagers. But they they form a
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: band or they're in a band that they decide they're
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: going to cater to create liketan satanic music in order
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: to tap into the satanic panic that's going on, because
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: they realize that if they do that, if they court controversy,
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: it's going to get people to pay attention to them,
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: whereas if they were to just be a band and
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: play their music without the gimmick, maybe no one would
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: pay attention. So it's kind of that idea of like,
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: there's all this satanic panic going on, why don't we
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: just exploit that for our own personal gain? Which I
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: appreciate the premise. I'm not sold on watching the series yet.
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the series feel it's very much like, well, it's
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: got Bruce Campbell for one.
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: So you know that is that's a big selling point honestly.
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, but it feels like kind of like Buffy
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: meets Stranger Things, because they do accidentally You did blit
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: out for a second, so I don't know if you
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: said this, but they do accidentally summon things, and you know,
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: I like the concept kind of it amused me to
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: watch the trailer. I don't know if I will watch it. Yeah,
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: but I also really like Bruce Campbell, so it's hard
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: for me not to give something he's in a shot.
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: Same and also, like I lived through the Satanic panic,
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: Like I was growing up when that was going on,
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: where it was covering music and role playing games and
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: TV and movies, more movies than TV. There wasn't much
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: horror television on in the early eighties, but there was
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: a lot of horror movies. There were a lot of
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: heavy metal bands where there was the rumor of backmask
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: game where supposedly you had all these backward secret messages
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: that were satanic in nature or whatever. People were worried
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: about dungeons and dragons and that would corrupt people's minds
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: and they would think they were casting spells for real,
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: and next thing you know, they're worshiping the devil. So like,
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: all of this is based off stuff that was really
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: going on, especially in the eighties, So that has me
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: kind of interested just because watching something that's sort of
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: set in that world that's kind of satirizing it that
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: that hasn't appealed to me. But I again, this trailer,
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: I don't know, it was like it had all the
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: pieces that should absolutely hook me. I'm not convinced yet.
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it didn't quite hit the mark. I agree. Speaking
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: of not hitting the mark, I will say the title
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: of the next movie that we got a trailer for
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: did not hit the mark for me so much so
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: that when we first saw the title, or maybe I
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: had this conversation with Tony not you, Jonathan, I was like,
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: I bet this is a survivalist mountain climbing movie, and
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: that's a movie called Elevation.
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it turns out it's it's not really it's not
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: like Cliffhanger with Sylvester Stallone.
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: It's not that Rushmore mount Rushmore or whatever I.
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: Was gonna say. Rushmore is a movie about election in
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: a high school.
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: Watched it.
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: There's no climbing, at least well social climbing, but otherwise
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: Rushmore is a different thing. But yeah, so this this
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: is a film with Anthony Mackie and Marina bakerund in it.
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: So we've got some geek geek actors in there, or
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: at least they're known for Greek properties. Anthony Mackie being
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: Falcon slash Captain America in the MCU, Marina Backeran being
• 50:47
  Speaker 2: in Deadpool as well as in Firefly. So we've got
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: some folks who are known for their their appearances and
• 50:55
  Speaker 2: other geek properties. And yeah, the the one line description
• 51:01
  Speaker 2: of this is a single father and two women must
• 51:04
  Speaker 2: venture from the safety of their home to face monstrous
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: creatures in order to save the life of a child.
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: So it does feel like it's in that realm of
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: almost like post apocalypse kind of films where aliens or
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: monsters have really started to force the survivors to be
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: super careful and protect themselves, so things like a quiet place,
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: that kind of stuff, where there was that movie, what
• 51:33
  Speaker 2: was it? Was it halle Berry? Who's in a film
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: where everyone has to be tethered something like that where
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: they have to Yeah, I think you're right. I think
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: it is Never Let Go where they're all tethered to
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: their house. It feels like this is yet another entrigue
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: into that subgenre of sci fi horror, and I'm like,
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: how many versions of this are we going to get?
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: There was a Nick Cage variation of this not long
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: ago too, so.
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it is interesting. You mentioned A Quiet Place,
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: which is also they bring that up during the trailer
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: because I think some of the team who worked on
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: A Quiet Place worked on this movie, and the aliens
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: seem kind of similar to that, or the aliens from Diren.
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: Repeat, Live Di repeat, Live Di repeat. I love Every
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: time this movie comes up, I think you choose three
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: different words to be live, laugh, love, eat, prayed repeat.
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: Yesh live laugh, let them have it.
• 52:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I love it. Listen. I'm on board to work
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: on a project that works with that title.
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: Cool, let's get let's get a Hollywood budget and get
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: that going. Yeah. This actually, I mean it looks it
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: looks good.
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: It does look good. I don't know if it's going
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: to differentiate itself enough from those other examples of this
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: subgenre to have it stand out. Like I think that's
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: part of the problem I have is that it's kind
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: of like after Blair Witch came out and there were
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: a lot of movies that were trying to tap into
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: that same kind of vibe, but you can't really recreate
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: that success. And I'm feeling that this is it's in
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: danger of falling into that trap. Now, maybe it's good
• 53:28
  Speaker 2: enough to stand on its own and I'll be happy
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: to admit as much once I if I do watch it.
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: Once I watch it, but I worry that it does
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: kind of feel like it's a copy of a copy almost,
• 53:43
  Speaker 2: and I'm not sure that there's enough there to have
• 53:46
  Speaker 2: it like elevate ironically, elevate above all the competing films
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: in this subgenre.
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: Very clever, even though obviously slightly unintentional. Speaking of a
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: copy of a copy. We finally got a full trailer
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: for a second full trailer, first full trailer for Nosparatu.
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: I think it's the first full trailer for Nosparatu.
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: Teezers and trailers seem so similar nowadays.
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I like to think of teasers as being here's
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: the aesthetic for our film, and maybe a couple of
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: hero shots of actors that you know, and then the
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: trailer is here's all the spoilers that we should have
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: kept for the film. Yeah, so we got nos Faratu
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: trailer now. Not the original Nosfaratu. The Silent film was
• 54:35
  Speaker 2: very much a ripoff of Dracula. All the character names
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: were changed, but it was Dracula, and the design of
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: the vampire was done in a much more kind of
• 54:47
  Speaker 2: rat like, animalistic appearance as opposed to suave vampire and
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: like a tuxedo in cape or something. So this one
• 54:58
  Speaker 2: is staying true to that silent film version, at least
• 55:02
  Speaker 2: as far as designs go. It looks very dirty and
• 55:06
  Speaker 2: dark and and scary and intense. So what did you
• 55:12
  Speaker 2: think of this trailer?
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: I thought it looked a lot like bram Stoker's Dracula
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: put under the filter of Penny Dreadful. So basically, just
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: let's yes and to the gore.
• 55:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I can't. I can't argue with that.
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: Like I mean, I mean, like the was it Copola?
• 55:30
  Speaker 2: Who did Yeah, Francis Ford Coppola's Francis Ford Coppola's bram
• 55:35
  Speaker 2: Stoker's Dracula, Yes.
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: On ice. Yes, you don't want to mix fake blood
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: with ice, so he gets so, so you.
• 55:44
  Speaker 2: Don't want to mix Keanu Reeves with Dracula either, But
• 55:47
  Speaker 2: we got it anyway.
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: I mean, I thought he did fine in bram Stoker's Dracula.
• 55:53
  Speaker 2: How how how recently have you seen that movie?
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: I watched portions of it on a plane in a
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: couple of years ago.
• 56:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I'd be.
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: Cuvertions of it because I can't bring myself to watch
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: anything with sexy bits on a plane. In case there's
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: a kid.
• 56:11
  Speaker 2: Watching, I'd be curious to hear what your take is
• 56:15
  Speaker 2: if you were to watch it now. I personally think
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: Keanu Reeves gives one of the worst performances in his
• 56:23
  Speaker 2: career as well as in the film. And he's not
• 56:26
  Speaker 2: the only one there are like Gary Oldman's fantastic Anthony
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: Hopkins feels like he's in the wrong movie. But I
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: do love his performance.
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think. I mean, I'm sure part of it
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: is colored by the fact that, like I remember, like
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: my first my introduction to horror that I liked was
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: reading Frankenstein and reading Dracula in like a graphic novel
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: version Frankenstein. I would it's hard to call that horror,
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: but uh but yeah, so, like there's just there's probably
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: a little bit of built in bias there. I do
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: like the old classic Universal monsters. I don't I don't
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: know if this one's gonna hit that vibe.
• 57:20
  Speaker 2: For me, though, Yeah, I think this one looks intense.
• 57:24
  Speaker 2: Uh yeah, I'll be I'll probably watch it. I do
• 57:29
  Speaker 2: like the basic story of Dracula, which is again pretty
• 57:33
  Speaker 2: much what Nosferatu is. I I also am still tickled
• 57:40
  Speaker 2: that Willem Dafoe isn't it because Willem Dafoe was in
• 57:44
  Speaker 2: Shadow of the Vampire many years ago, where that was
• 57:48
  Speaker 2: supposed to be kind of a behind the scenes look
• 57:53
  Speaker 2: at what the making of Nosferatu was all about, and
• 57:56
  Speaker 2: the joke being not really joke, it's not really a comedy,
• 57:59
  Speaker 2: it's kind of attire, but the gag being that they've
• 58:04
  Speaker 2: cast an actual vampire to be Nosferatu, and Willem Dafoe
• 58:09
  Speaker 2: plays that character who was Max Shrek In the actual
• 58:14
  Speaker 2: production of nos Faratu was an actor named Max Shrek
• 58:17
  Speaker 2: who played the vampire Count Orlock. So in Shadow of
• 58:22
  Speaker 2: the Vampire, Willem Dafoe was Max Shrek, so he was
• 58:25
  Speaker 2: the Nosferatu vampire. He has a great line that was
• 58:28
  Speaker 2: in all the trailers where the director is yelling at
• 58:32
  Speaker 2: him for having bitten the lead actresses. Why didn't you
• 58:35
  Speaker 2: just eat the script girl? And he says, ee lee,
• 58:39
  Speaker 2: and it's just a ridiculous, ridiculous line. The rest of
• 58:43
  Speaker 2: the movie is not as funny, by the way, but
• 58:45
  Speaker 2: it is cool that Willem Dafoe is in nos Farrtu
• 58:47
  Speaker 2: as well.
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: That is nice. It's also fun that Nicholas Holt is
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: in nos Feratu as he was He's playing essentially, I
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: think Keanu Reeves' character, but he was also in another
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: vampire movie, Renfield.
• 58:59
  Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, he played Renfield in Renfield with Nick Cage
• 59:03
  Speaker 2: playing that version of Dracula. So yeah, it is funny.
• 59:08
  Speaker 2: Wat Renfield is okay. I wish it were better. I
• 59:12
  Speaker 2: wish it were better. It's not bad, it just it's
• 59:16
  Speaker 2: one of those where you were, at least for me,
• 59:19
  Speaker 2: I walked out of it thinking that movie had a
• 59:24
  Speaker 2: couple of really good ideas and a couple of them
• 59:28
  Speaker 2: turned out okay, and that's that's how I felt. Now,
• 59:31
  Speaker 2: other people might love Renfield, which is totally fine, totally legit,
• 59:36
  Speaker 2: but yeah, for me, it was one of those kind
• 59:37
  Speaker 2: of missed opportunity movies where I didn't I wasn't angry
• 59:41
  Speaker 2: that I watched it, but it wasn't It didn't hit
• 59:44
  Speaker 2: my favorites or anything like that.
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: Gotcha? Gotcha? Well, Uh, something that you've talked about kind
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: of did hit you in the right way is the
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: Yakuza video game series. Because we've talked about a TV
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: show that's coming out, and now we've got a full
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: trailer for it.
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's for the Like a Dragon series. So Like
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 2: a Dragon is the official name of that video game series.
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 2: Here in America. It was called Yakuza for most of
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 2: the games, and then just recently they've made the switch
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 2: over to Like a Dragon, where Yakuza then becomes a
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 2: subtitle as opposed to the main title. But yeah, Like
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 2: a Dragon we're getting the live action series. We got
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 2: a trailer for it. It is based on earlier entries
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 2: in the video game series and looks like it's gonna
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 2: be a really stylized crime procedural drama kind of thing.
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 2: Now I guess not procedural crime drama.
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it looks it looks good. I really like that.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: There are in the cinematography. There are a bunch of
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: tricks that they do that make it feel like a
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: video game at points stylistically without making it feel too
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: cgi or too cheesy, and I really like that.
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I totally agree. I think they've got a good
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 2: balance of the style for this, which is tricky. I
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 2: am curious how zany it will get. Those games have
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 2: some pretty crazy stuff happen. It's not the main part
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 2: of the storyline, but it happens in all of them.
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 2: It's kind of like Grand Theft Auto in that way,
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 2: where you get just little little side quests or side
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 2: characters who are really weird. So like, are we going
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 2: to have an episode where a bunch of grown men
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 2: who are like in their fifties or dressed like babies?
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Will there be entire episodes dedicated to karaoke?
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 2: I sure hope.
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: So I hope we get those inny bits too. I
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: didn't really see any of them in the trailer. Yeah, yeah, same,
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: But you know, I guess we have the two seasons
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: of the Brother's Son or the one season we have
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: a Brother's Son for that true.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 2: Next up, we got a trailer for a new series
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 2: coming out from Apple TV Plus. It stars Billy Crystal,
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 2: but he's not playing like the sardonic, sarcastic comedic character
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 2: he usually would play. It's called Before, And it looks
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 2: to me like there are a lot of elements where
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 2: it's sort of the unreliable narrator thing of are the
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 2: things you're watching? Are they sort of supernatural in nature?
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 2: Or is it psychological in nature? And we're kind of
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 2: getting a glimpse into mental illness, that kind of thing.
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 2: Hard to say, but I will say I thought the
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 2: trailer was pretty effective.
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: I did too. It gave me, like slightly A lot
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: of the trailer focuses around Billy Crystal and this kid,
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: and the kid gives me like good sun vibes the
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: good Son because it's just kind of a kid who
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: seems to either have to have some sort of premonition
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: or not be completely okay.
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he seems troubled is the word I would use.
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, but it does look good. It looks scary.
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: I'm interested to figure out what is real and what
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: is not. Something else that I think is cool about
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: this because you said it's got Billy Crystal playing like
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: a serious character, which I'm all for. He looks phenomenal
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: in the bits I've seen of it. It's also got
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: Judith Light from Who's the Boss. And it's also got
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: Rosie Perez in it, so I love that.
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the trailer shows that the people who
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 2: are all in this are doing really good work. I'm
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 2: curious enough where I will probably checked this out to
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 2: see if it's something that I kind of vibe with
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 2: or if it's going to be something that I'm just like,
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 2: I appreciate what this is doing, but it's not for me.
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 2: I just don't know yet, but I'm probably going to
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 2: check out the first episode. Honestly, there are a lot
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 2: of things that have been on Apple tv Plus that
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 2: I ended up really liking. But I also recognize that
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 2: it's a dangerous time to get emotionally attached to good
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 2: content on Apple tv Plus because Apple just recently, like
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 2: did kind of a massive budget cut for their content
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 2: on that platform.
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, and Paramount just closed it in their TV
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: division recently too, which we talked about. There are things,
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: I will say there, at least in Atlanta, there are
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: some things being made so we won't be completely without content,
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: but it is scary. It's scary from a I'm looking
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: forward to these things. They better not cut Murder Bond Diaries,
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: is all I'm saying. Yeah, that would be a bad choice.
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 2: Well, moving from Apple tv Plus over to Netflix, we
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 2: also got a trailer for an upcoming series it's going
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 2: to debut in December of this year, called No Good Deed.
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 2: It's a comedy series and has a lot of recognizable
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 2: names in it, including Ray Romano, Lisa Kudro, Linda Cardellini,
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 2: Luke Wilson is in it, Dennis Leary is in it,
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 2: and more. And the basic plot is that it's three
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 2: families eyeing to buy the same house, which they all
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 2: think will solve their problems. And now that I say
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 2: the premise out loud, I'm like, there's not really a
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 2: big geek connection to this. But it does look like.
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: Linda Cardellini was in Avengers.
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 2: There we go.
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: That's looking.
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 2: That's all we needed. But yeah, I think it looks.
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 2: It looks fun, It looks it looks like it could
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 2: be a fun series. Also, Dennis Larry's in it. Dennis
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 2: Larry was in one of the Spider Man movies. Don't
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 2: ask me to tell you which one. I think it
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 2: was one of the Andrew Garfield ones.
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no, yes, it was in one of the
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: Andrew Garfield ones. He played Gwen Stacy's dad. I think
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: this is done by the same team that did Dead
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: to Me, which I heard was brilliant. It's actually on
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: my short list of shows to watch when I run
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: out of Wrexham. But but not the same story and
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: not the same vibe at all. It actually gives me
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: vibes of a different TV show from Netflix that also
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: kind of didn't get a whole lot of play, which
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: is the woman in the House across the street from
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: the Girl in the Window, Oh.
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 2: Right, right, right, the spoof of those movies where Karen
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 2: observes what appears to be a crime, and the movie
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 2: the movie is largely about did what they see actually happened?
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 2: Or did they misinterpret or imagine? And yah, was it?
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 2: Was it? A what's her name? She was? Anna? And Frozen?
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: Kristin Bell?
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 2: Kristen Bell? Was she in that?
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: Yes? Okay, yeah, yeah, So it kind of gives me like,
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: obviously the premise is not quite as zany at first glance,
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: but I am very interested the cast alone, and it's
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: a dark comedy, so I yeah, I can't finish a thought,
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: but I do want to see it.
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 2: Well. And the last thing we have on our list
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 2: is a highly anticipated entry in Netflix and it's season
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 2: two of Squid Games. So we got a teaser. The
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 2: teaser does not really I mean, it doesn't give you
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 2: any insight into what's going to happen for season two.
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 2: It's really following very briefly following the morning of one
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 2: of the employees who goes out and tries to find
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 2: potential contestants in the Squid Games. So there's no real
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 2: insight into what's going to happen in season two at all.
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 2: It's more like atmospheric.
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we just know that there's going to be a game.
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: We did get a previous teaser for it. This is
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: the second teaser, I would say for Squid Games two.
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: The first one vaguely showing some people from the game,
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 1: which I guess is a spoiler for me because I
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: haven't finished season one. But that's okay.
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 2: Well, and season one's good. I mean, I do recommend
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 2: watching all of it, but yeah, don't expect a lot
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 2: of returning faces.
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: Now, I don't it. It is so dark. Oh yeah,
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: it is so dark and just I won't even say
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: to start disturbing because I know the premise. So it's
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: not like the premise is super like catching me off guard,
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: but it's upsetting and sad, like it's heartbreaking.
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 2: So yeah, well, I mean it's meant to be one
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 2: of those that really shows like this huge gap between
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 2: the haves and have nots. It's the same kind of
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 2: basic underlying structure that you have in stuff like Hunger Games,
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 2: right where the whole ideas, you've got these very influential,
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 2: very wealthy people who see the less fortunate as just
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 2: being fodder for their own amusement and nothing more. Like
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 2: they don't see him as human beings. They see him
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 2: as like, these are people whose lives don't matter, So
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 2: it doesn't matter if we make them compete against each
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 2: other to the death, because who's going to miss them?
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 2: Like That's it's very very cynical, but that's the whole point.
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it is interesting because they have even though it's
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 1: a similar premise, they have very different feels because in
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: hunger games they pit the people against each other or
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: against the elements and the bourgeoisie, I guess have kind
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: of a hands off approach to the killing, whereas in
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 1: squid games that is not the case.
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it's not typically the contestants turning on each other.
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 2: It's them against whatever the game is, and the people
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 2: who are behind the scenes and squid games are very much,
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 2: at least indirectly responsible for each and every death. Like
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 2: even if they say, oh, I didn't pull the trigger,
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 2: I'm like no, but you're the one participating in this
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 2: what you consider to be a spectator sport or a
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 2: betting game. Yeah, it's it's dark stuff, and I'm sure
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 2: season two will be equally as dark. It'll be interesting
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 2: to see how they try to further the narrative, if
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 2: they bother to or if they'll just make it more
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 2: like it's a sense season one, just with new characters.
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 1: I have thoughts because we know that one of the
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: survivors comes back.
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so we'll have to see how that plays out.
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 2: I'm sure it'll be another big hit. I mean, Squid
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 2: Games was kind of one of those phenomenon type shows
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 2: when it came out, so I suspect season two well,
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 2: I mean it may not reach the same heights. I
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 2: don't know. Maybe people have moved on, but I think
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 2: there'll be plenty who will be curious to at least
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 2: check out the beginning of season two. Yeah.
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 1: I agree, and that's all we have to talk about.
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 1: If it's a slightly weird episode, it's just we had
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: some connectivity issues. Maybe Jonathan will keep them all in
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 1: and you'll get to hear a wonky sort of an episode.
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 2: I'm actually dreading what it's going to be like when
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 2: I download these files and whether or not mine is
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 2: going to be one file or like twelve different files,
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 2: because mine was the connect that kept dropping out.
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 1: So if you've gotten this episode and you've gotten this far,
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 1: then Jonathan has survived the editing games.
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: But Jonathan, if people want to reach out to us
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: to ask a question or to be like, whoa dude,
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: you did it. Great job editing, which you guys should
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: do all the time. Anyhow, how do they do that?
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 2: So you're gonna go to your front door, open it
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 2: wide and step right. Then you're going to car, but
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 2: just be careful so that you don't get hit. And
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 2: then this is really important, make sure when the duck
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 2: shows up, you feathers everywhere, so it's going to be
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 2: a mess. But from there you're going to and you'll
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 2: wonder where the candy came from. That's not really important. However,
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 2: immediately you're going to turn to your left. That's when
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 2: you're going to see a man in a tan jacket
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 2: and you're going to say, I know you from Nightvie
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 2: and that's why I like the weather. That's when I'll
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 2: answer your question.
• 1:13:13
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• 1:13:15
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• 1:13:18
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• 1:13:28
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• 1:13:30
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• 1:13:34
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• 1:13:37
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• 1:13:39
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• 1:13:42
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• 1:13:45
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  Speaker 1: I am Ariel watching through my fingers Casten and.
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 2: I am Jonathan. We're also okay from the cloud of
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 2: chlorine gas Strickland.
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I forgot about that one.
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been a crazy couple of weeks.
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Hey, everybody, Welcome to The Larger and Drunk Collider,
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 1: the podcast that's all about the geeky things happening in
• 1:14:35
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• 1:14:37
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• 1:14:41
  Speaker 1: is a delightful, gracious, wonderful patient. Jonathan struct I have
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 1: I like that feels like it needs to be a
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 1: Broadway song.
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, that's a reference to something that happened in
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 2: pre show conversation. And I will not answering any questions.
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's fine, it's fine. But if you're going, hey,
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 1: why are you recording this week? You said once again
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 1: you would not be recording, and you are. It's because
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 1: Hurricane Milton. We were supposed to drive down to Florida
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 1: on Wednesday, and we decided to hold off so that
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 1: we wouldn't be driving down in the middle of a hurricane,
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 1: which was the correct decision to make.
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 2: And when when Ariel says we, she doesn't mean me
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 2: an Ariel. I was not going to Orlando. Ariel was
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 2: going with some friends. This was actually the rescheduled trip
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 2: to the Orlando area that now has to be rescheduled again.
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 1: I mean, in the grand scheme of things, it's small
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 1: potatoes compared to you know what people have gone through.
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 1: Sure in Florida, I will say like I had on
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 1: like weather stormchasers on all day and that was I know,
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 1: you didn't for your sanity's sake, but just watching it
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 1: was insane.
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 2: I mean I would. I was occasionally checking the news
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 2: and that was enough to see some of the footage
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 2: which was really concerning. I also noticed that the hurricane,
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 2: both Helene and Milton, have provided ample opportunity for people
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 2: to make use of technology to create misinformation around the hurricanes,
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 2: which is infuriating. Including I don't know if you saw
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 2: this areal, but there was some apparently it originated out
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 2: of Russia, but there was some AI generated photographs that
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 2: were supposedly showing Magic Kingdom flooded like waste high water
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 2: flooding the Magic Kingdom, and anyone who had been to
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 2: the Magic Kingdom looking at those photos could say, that's
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 2: not real, that's AI. There are too many details that
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 2: are wrong. But it was one of those attempts to
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 2: attempt to, you know, paint a picture that was not realistic.
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 2: For one thing, anyone who's a real Magic Kingdom fan
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 2: knows that if it flooded that badly, things have gone
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 2: really wrong. Because the Magic Kingdom is not on the
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 2: ground floor.
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. And Disney is open today. They close
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 1: for Wednesday and Thursday and they're open today Friday. That's
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 1: just I hadn't seen that. I have heard about some
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 1: of the misinformation that's been going around, just even politically
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 1: about it, which we're not going to get into because
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 1: that's not what this podcast is about.
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, goodness knows, I do not need my blood pressure
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 2: to go up.
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but it was interesting that FEMA's like, in the
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 1: scope of natural disaster we need to do is now
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 1: also misinformation.
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, Like it's not hard enough to respond to
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 2: these things at the scale that they already are. Let's
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 2: throw massive amounts of misinformation that can end up impeding help.
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 2: Let's not do that, y'all. Let's all just let's all
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 2: just agree to do our best to help where we
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 2: can and stay out of the way where we aren't
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 2: able to help. Like, I'm not shaming anyone who can't,
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 2: you know, lend help one way or another. There are
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 2: plenty of people out there who aren't in a position
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 2: to do so. But like, don't make things more difficult
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 2: for people. Not that any of our listeners do that,
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 2: I'm sure they don't. Just just in general. When I
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 2: say you, I mean whomever it is that's doing this stuff.
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure, and also check your sources.
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 2: Always a good idea.
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I myself mis relayed some information this week because
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 1: I was searching it and I'm like, oh, here's the answer,
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 1: and I didn't check deep enough and I was wrong.
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 2: It happens to me too, Ariel. You like I've I'm
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 2: older and supposedly had at least the opportunity to be wiser,
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 2: although I am certainly not, but I am definitely older
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 2: than Ariel, and I still fall victim to this too.
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 2: I mean, heck, I've fallen victim to it on the show, because,
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 2: as we've discussed in previous episodes, people are using fan
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 2: edits and ai and stuff to generate like fake movie trailers,
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 2: and if I'm not paying attention, I'm like, oh, I
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 2: didn't even hear that this movie was a thing, and
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 2: here's a trailer for it, and then only for Ariel
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 2: to say like, yeah, the reason you hadn't heard about
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 2: it is that's not real.
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 1: I mean, we both do it, and we both hold
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 1: each other accountable. It's why it's such a great friendship.
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, that's the thing is we known each other
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 2: long enough where occasionally we can say, hey, I'm not
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 2: saying you're stupid, but you're doing something that's kind of dumb.
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, speaking of dumb. If I sound a
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 1: little raspy today, it's because last night, and in a
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 1: fit of trying to get some dopamine, my husband and
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 1: I went to CC's to try their chicken and lawful pizza,
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 1: which wasn't as ridiculou as it sounds, but I did
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 1: splurge and have some Supreme pizza there as well, which
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 1: had a red sauce. So now I'm a little bit Yeah.
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 2: Aerial has a has a sensitivity to a whole bunch
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 2: of different foods, but among them are night shades like
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 2: tomatoes and stuff.
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 1: So and you know green peppers that you get on
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 1: a Supreme pizza, Well that delicious.
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 2: It does make me think that in March, assuming that
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 2: they keep with the the Taco of the month that
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 2: their Austin, Texas locations do in March, we need to
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 2: go to Torches because they have a chicken and waffles taco.
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 2: It's amazing. I get it without the bacon because I
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 2: don't eat pork, but apart from that, I get it
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 2: as is and I love it. It's called the Rosco nice.
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 1: I have had a chicken and waffles taco before. Velvet
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 1: Taco sometimes has the.
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 2: Okay, that's also a Texas based chain that got here
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 2: in Atlanta, so I mean no big surprise of Velvet
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 2: Taco got as well. But yeah, it's Torchies. Does we
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 2: just got a Torchies. I think I've probably talked about
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 2: this in a previous episode, but we just got a
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 2: Torchies fairly recently, and they do a Taco of the
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 2: Month and at least the last couple of times I
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 2: went to south By Southwest, which happens in March in Austin, Texas.
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 2: The Roscoe was their their special taco and and I
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 2: fell in love. It was it was love at first bite.
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 1: That that does sound No, it does sound really good.
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 1: I will say one of the things my husband and
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 1: I do is make food mistakes, and we don't always
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 1: talk about it on the show because one, I don't
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 1: know how many people are interested into I don't want
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 1: torture Jonathan. But I have also had the chicken and
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 1: waffles basket and Robin Flavor of the Month, and that
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 1: was no bueno for me.
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't that doesn't sound like something I will say.
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 2: I have had a couple of ice cream flavors that
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 2: on when I first heard what they were, didn't appear
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 2: to me, but upon tasting them, I was like, oh, no,
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 2: this is okay, Like I think the one that it's
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 2: really not that unusual. Though at the time I felt
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 2: that it was like this ice cream came from Mars
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 2: or something. It was rosemary and olive oil.
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 1: M that sounds good.
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 2: It actually was quite good and it had you know,
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 2: it wasn't a savory ice cream, but it did have
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 2: savory notes, but that that just made the sweetness stand
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 2: out more.
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 1: I found a recipe for a concord grape rosemary and
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 1: black pepper sorbet that I have been dying to make,
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 1: but we haven't had concord grapes in our grocery stores.
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 1: And our mutual friend Sasha has had many concord grapes
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 1: this year, and I'm very jealous.
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 2: Oh that must be Are they still in Chicago Land area? Yes, okay,
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 2: so it must just be that like Chicago scooping up
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 2: all the concords. I mean, maybe you go try them
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 2: with the cotton candy grapes. Sweet it gets.
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, Oh I do like cotton candy grapes.
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 1: I like gum drop and the moon drops better, but
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 1: I do like the cotton candy grapes. Yeah, we make
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 1: food mistakes. I have some beetlejuice spiced apple Fanta downstairs.
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 1: I have a pack of the Coca Cola Oreos as
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 1: well as a few cans of the Oreo Coca Cola
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 1: in my home. I still have cans of Peepsi.
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 2: We need to get you the Doctor pepper baked beans.
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 1: I've tried them, oh have you?
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah? No, I just learned that those things exist this week,
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 2: so I didn't even know.
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 1: I I bet if you made them fresh, they'd be
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 1: pretty good out of a can. They were not for me.
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 1: They had this chemically taste to them that I.
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 2: Don't like big beans in general. Anyway, I don't know
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 2: how this became a food podcast. I was gonna say,
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 2: I'm making a chopped cheese sandwich tomorrow. That's my first
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 2: time trying to do that.
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 1: I'm super envious. Yeah, I know. I used to want
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 1: to put like some weird food thing in here every week,
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 1: and they're just more weird food things that I can
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 1: find every week, or that I thought would be interesting
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 1: to people. But also, I don't want torture Jonathan Well.
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 2: And you know we'd be stepping on munch Squad, the
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 2: podcast within a podcast for my brother, my brother and
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 2: me where Justin McElroy brings various brand eating pr announcements
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 2: into the story.
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 1: I was trying to do things that like tied into
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 1: other geek stuff like Nicholas Cage related food sham again.
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 2: Right, yeah, yeah, you find out like I mean, like
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 2: it's always fun whenever whenever a restaurant, especially like a
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 2: very like fast food or fast casual restaurant does like
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 2: a tie in with a movie release, you know, like
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 2: I think about Denny's doing it all the time. That
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 2: kind of stuff. Those are fun to talk about too,
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 2: just because sometimes the connection is so tenuous that it's
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 2: just laughable or the name is just terrible.
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Denny's does it, I hop does it. Heck, krispy
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 1: Kreme has some Ghostbuster donuts right now, which are uh unimpressive.
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 2: I mean for Krispy Kreme, you just need to go
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 2: when the light is on and get yourself a glazed
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 2: That's it, That's what I mean.
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 1: But that's just eating cotton candy like it dissolves in
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 1: your mouth so fast.
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 2: That's so good. I like them anymore so.
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 1: I like their chocolate glazed better because it gives it
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 1: a little more substance while still retaining the crispy kreamness.
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 2: Actually I prefer their chocolate glaze too, It's just that
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 2: whenever I got them hot, it was always just the
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 2: plain glazed ones.
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I have one down the road. I never
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 1: seem to be there when I have the capacity to
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 1: eat a hot, fresh doughnut and the sign is on,
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 1: like a lot of times, I'll be going. It's in
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 1: the same complex, like shopping complex is one of my
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 1: favorite Mexican restaurants, So I'll get there and I'll be like,
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 1: but I'm about to have Mexican and they have a
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 1: trisleche cake of the day.
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 2: So and while I've tempted to just see how long
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 2: we can go talking about food before we finally turn
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 2: into geek stuff, I think I am going to segue
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 2: us at least to talk about the things that we
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 2: have seen or whatever.
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 1: That's fine. I'm still totally going to talk about food
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 1: in this segment.
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 2: So it's fine, all right, awesome, awesome. Do you want
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 2: me to go first, or do you want to go first.
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 1: I'll go first because there's not really much new that
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 1: I'm watching. I watched the latest episode of Agatha, which
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 1: I thought was better than the previous episode, but still
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 1: not as good as the first couple few. I'm watching
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 1: Vox Makta and that's good. They're sexy scenes. We're more
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 1: sexy than I anticipated, which, if you know me, I
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 1: can tend to be a little bit like, oh, I
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 1: can't watch this, so but it was fine, but it
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 1: just surprised me. But it's good. I'm enjoying season three.
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 1: I don't want to give spoilers, but they are very
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 1: good at There are really cool Easter eggs, and they're
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 1: really good at setting up cinematically the different places that
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 1: they go. It's very good. I'm still watching Wrexham and
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 1: then tonight I'm gonna watch the first episode of Gastronauts
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 1: on Dropout TV. So that's fun and exciting where they
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 1: get chefs and they give them bad challenges.
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 2: Oh, I didn't. I don't think I've seen the promos
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 2: for this, so I didn't even know this was a thing.
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 1: I So I love food shows like Cut Through a
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 1: Kitchen or there's a new one called The Last Bite
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 1: that Titus Burgess hosts. Yeah, where they for the last
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 1: bite or I think it's called the last Bite. It's
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 1: like he's a hotel bell hopping there on all in
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 1: this hotel and every every chef brings like a chest
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 1: of ingredients and then they get different food challenges like
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 1: I want to beef Wellington, or I want Alfredo, or
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 1: I want this or that, but they can only use
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 1: the ingredients that they have in their chest. And I
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 1: believe that those ingredients. I haven't watched much of it.
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 1: Those ingredients dwindle down as the competition goes on because
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 1: they're using them, but the challenges are still challenging. So
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 1: in like the trailer, you see someone go like, I've
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 1: just used my last egg.
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 2: So it's one of those things where they have to
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 2: they have to kind of judge how how much they
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 2: use per dish, and maybe they hold something back because
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 2: they might need it later, but it might also impact
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 2: the quality of the dish they're currently preparing.
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 1: Yes, but like if someone asks for fish and chips
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 1: and nobody has potatoes, that's also now you have to
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 1: come up with something else to make chips out of.
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 1: So it's I love food stuff like that. Gastronauts is
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 1: a dropout show where it's a host of comedians come
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 1: up with challenges for the for the chefs that are competing,
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 1: and all of the comedians love this show. According to
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 1: the trailer, they think it's amazing some of the some
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 1: of the challenges are like hornist. Like in the trailer,
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 1: Grant O'Brien's like, I just want you to make the
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 1: horniest food, nothing more than that. No, I want to
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 1: see what they do with it.
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 2: Of course Grant O'Brien asked for that.
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so you know, I like food challenges where they
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 1: try to make something good. I say that I also
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 1: watch role for sandwich and ordinary sausage, which are horrendous
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 1: and horrifying. But generally, when I watch like a food
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 1: competition show, I like to see people overcome a challenge
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 1: to make something amazing and beautiful and tasty. And I
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 1: know that several of these dishes, while very tasty, will
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 1: be very visually unappealing, and so I'm less excited for that,
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 1: but I'm gonna watch it.
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I think the only cooking like competition show I
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 2: ever really got into was Iron Chef, both the original
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 2: version and the American version. Yeah, those I really enjoyed
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 2: both of those because I thought it was always fascinating
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 2: to see how chefs could improvise around the specific ingredient.
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 2: I always found that really really neat. But that was
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 2: the only one I ever watched. I think a lot
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 2: of them. I don't like watching because I want unless
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 2: someone's being a real jerk face, I want everyone to win. Yeah,
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 2: and so it's hard to watch because I'm like, I
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 2: don't want anyone to lose. I want them all to
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 2: do great, and so inherently that's a problem with competition
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 2: shows for me, and I get it. That's a me problem,
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 2: not a show problem.
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 1: I mean, I totally get it. If it's something like
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 1: nailed It, I don't feel too bad because everybody knows
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 1: going in it's just for the fun. But yeah, like
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 1: Great British break Bakeoff or things like that, I definitely
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 1: am like I do root for people, and I feel
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 1: sad when they leave because they're all pouring their heart
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 1: and soul into the things that they make. The other thing,
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 1: I don't know if this counts as watching. I guess
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 1: it is because it's been on YouTube mainly. Is I've
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 1: been reindulging in Epic the Musical, which is the musical
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 1: based on the Odyssey that a bunch of TikTok creators
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 1: made a couple of years ago, which is where I
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 1: got to my misinformation, because I was like, is there
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 1: a staged version of this? And Google search said, yes,
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 1: there is, it comes out in December, But upon further looking,
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 1: there aren't stage staged viewable versions. It's just the concept
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 1: album that you can watch on various streaming as far
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 1: as I can tell. But it's great. It's great music,
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 1: and Suffering is living rent free in my head right now,
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 1: so I'll.
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 2: Have to check that out. Like for some reason, I'm
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 2: sure I did hear about this, but it's not ringing
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 2: any bells. But y'all, my bell got rung so hard
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 2: this year that there's stuff that I definitely knew about
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 2: that is just not there anymore. But I need to
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 2: check this out. I'm curious about like who wrote the
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 2: music and the book and all that kind of stuff,
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 2: So I'll have to check it out after the show
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 2: is over.
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll make sure to share some links and some
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 1: fun facts.
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 2: That's awesome. I also watched Agatha all along. I also
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 2: enjoyed the most recent episode. The reveal at the end
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 2: of that episode is interesting but leaves me with more
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 2: questions than answers, which is that's kind of the way
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 2: WandaVision went too, right, Like every time WandaVision would answer
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 2: one question, it would raise like three more, and Agatha
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 2: is kind of doing that now. I don't want to
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 2: give any spoilers because that show, that episode did just
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 2: come out this week and people may not have had
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 2: a chance to watch it yet, but there's something that
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 2: happens at the end that made me go, like, Okay,
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 2: if they're going where I think they're going, they have
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 2: a lot of explaining to do that. I'm not sure
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 2: they're going to be able to manage in a way
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 2: that I'm going to find satisfying, but I'm willing to
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 2: give them the benefit of the doubt for now.
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 1: I'm curious to hear where you think they're going, but
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 1: I guess we'll have to talk about that offline.
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 2: Well, if you don't want to hear spoilers, skip a
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 2: head and when you hear me talking about either Salem's
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 2: laut or the penguin, you know you're okay. But so
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 2: at the end, of the most recent episode of Agatha
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 2: All Along, we finally see Teen kind of come into
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 2: Teen's powers and manifest a sort of headdress on his
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 2: head which looks like the Wickan headdress. Now, the character
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 2: of Wickan in the comics is one of Wanda Maximov's sons,
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 2: kind of like the reincarnated son of Wanda Maximov, but
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 2: it does there's no explanation for how that could possibly
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 2: be in this universe because he doesn't exist in the
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 2: MCU version of Earth. That's the whole point with Doctor
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 2: Strage in the Multiverse of Madness. If he did exist,
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 2: Wanda Wooden had done gone crazy and gone into the
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 2: multiverse trying to find a version of her kids so
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 2: that she could be their mom again. So that's a
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 2: real issue, like where did this character come from? Or
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 2: is it a totally different character who's essentially assuming the
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 2: role of Wickan but doesn't share the same history as
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 2: the character in the comic books. So that's that's one
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 2: of the big questions. The other big question I have
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 2: is where's Rio at the end of that episode, because
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 2: she's gone missing, and that's Aubrey Plaza's character. She's just
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 2: not there, and I'm like, what is she up to? Okay,
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 2: done with the spoilers for Agatha all along? And you know,
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 2: I could also it could be that my assumptions are
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 2: completely incorrect, so it's not really a spoiler, it's more speculation.
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 2: I watched the new not really that new, but newly
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 2: released of Salem's Lot that went straight to streaming. This
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 2: movie was supposed to come out years ago but has
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 2: sat on shelves for like two years. It's not good.
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 2: It's not a good adaptation. I'm also listening to the
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 2: audiobook of Salem's Lot. I have been for a while,
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 2: like when I take my dog on walks, I listen
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 2: to it. And the stuff they skipped over in order
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 2: to hit kind of the action points they wanted to
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 2: for the movie. It's all the it's all the character
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 2: building and all the background, like they had to skip
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 2: all of it just to get to more vampire stuff.
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 2: And I'm like, wow, Yeah, it makes the whole movie
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 2: feel rushed, Like it goes from one character in town
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 2: being turned into a vampire to suddenly there are thirty
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 2: vampires and then there's everyone is a vampire except for
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 2: these five people. That's it, Like, that's how fast it happens,
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 2: and that's like within a couple of scenes as the
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 2: movie goes on, and I was just like, this is
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 2: so unsatisfying because you're not given enough time to get
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 2: to know any of these characters. Some characters who are
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 2: really important in the book are only mentioned by name
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 2: and you don't even get a good look at their face. Like,
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 2: I get it, Stephen King makes a lot of characters
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 2: in his books. Some might argue too many characters, kind
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 2: of like George R. R. Martin, but like, it's so
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 2: weird to have these characters who played an important part
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 2: in the story in the novel get a name drop
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 2: in the film, but you don't even really get to
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 2: see them. It's kind of crazy. So I cannot recommend
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 2: Salem's Lot. I did not like it. Maybe if you
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 2: had never read the book and you just want a
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 2: vampire story, it might be satisfying. I can't separate myself
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 2: from the book, and I don't even I'm not even
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 2: a huge fan of the book. Like I'm not like
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 2: a diehard Stephen King fan. I like a couple of
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 2: his books, but I'm not like a a crazed fan
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 2: or anything. And Salem'slood is not my favorite of the
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 2: books I have ready.
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 1: No I had like that could be possible. I didn't
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 1: read Dark Tower. I was just familiar with it because
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 1: of my friend group who loved it, and the movie
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 1: was okay, it was passable, but it wasn't great and
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 1: they all hated it. That could be the same case
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 1: for Salem's Lot. But all of the reviews I have
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 1: heard about it have also been negative beyond yours.
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 2: So it's yeah, it feels pretty clunky. I understand that
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 2: there was quite a bit that was left cut out
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 2: of the film. Whether that was the director or the studio,
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 2: I don't know, but I imagine that that stuff had
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 2: to have at least helped a little bit as far
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 2: as like fleshing characters out and stuff. I don't know
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 2: that it would have made the movie any better though.
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 2: I also watched the third episode, well part of the
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 2: third episode of The Penguin. I didn't finish it. I
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 2: really need to go back and in a shit, but
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 2: it was one of those where the tension was being
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 2: turned up real high, and I was not in a
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 2: good mental space to be able to watch that and
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 2: handle it. It's kind of like Breaking Bad. Like there
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 2: were times where I'd watch Breaking Bad and I would
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 2: have to pause the episode, walk away and come back
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 2: to it in order to be able to deal with it,
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 2: because that's how delicate my psyche is. Now anyway, I'm
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 2: still enjoying it, still enjoying the performances. Hate that version
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 2: of the Penguin, but everything else, Like if I divorce
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 2: it from being the Penguin, it's great. Like if I'm
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 2: not thinking of it as Gotham and I'm not thinking
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 2: of him as the Penguin, I'm really enjoying it.
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 1: I've been trying to talk Tony into watching that, but
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 1: he didn't like me. Did not enjoy the Batman. He
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 1: was like, there was no tension. There was If you
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 1: want to play it like a noir, you need to
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 1: build the tension and suspense, and they did not do that.
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 1: It was so slow. I don't know, I'm unsatisfying.
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 2: I didn't feel I didn't feel like there were problems
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 2: with tension so much. But then you know, I actually
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 2: enjoy the Riddler component to the Batman. I just didn't
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 2: like the fact that the Batman was a terrible detective.
• 1:39:11
  Speaker 1: He was he never he never won the entire movie.
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 1: He didn't win.
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 2: No, even he doesn't like he doesn't even one of
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 2: the riddles he doesn't solve Alfred solves it.
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 1: He doesn't solve a ding dang thing.
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 2: And also he figures out that everything's going to blow
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 2: up about five seconds before it does, and like.
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 1: The moments that should have been really scary or tense
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 1: or whatever went on so long that I'm like, Okay,
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 1: just do it, just do it. Just be done with
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 1: this scene already. And I like Noir, I don't mind
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 1: a slow pace, but this was unbearable.
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 2: Oh no, I guess I just had a different reaction,
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 2: Like your reaction is totally legitimate, obviously, but it was
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 2: just a I don't think I disliked the Batman as
• 1:39:59
  Speaker 2: much as you guys did. I'm not a fan of it,
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 2: but I don't think I had as strong a negative
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 2: response to it anyway. But that's what I've seen. I
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 2: want to say there was something else, but it is
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 2: escaping me now. If it comes back to me before
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 2: the end of the episode, I'll bring it up, but
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 2: I can't think of what it might be at this point,
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 2: so I guess I'm done.
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 1: Awesome, Well, that leads us to I look forward to
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 1: talking about what we watched after Halloween, because I'm currently
• 1:40:35
  Speaker 1: trying to figure out what my Halloween night movie I'm
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 1: going to watch while kids come trick retreat is. But
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 1: until then, I.
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 2: Know I'm going to watch Long Legs tomorrow finally, so
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to that.
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I look forward to your review. That's definitely what
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 1: I could not watch. But but let's talk about I
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 1: have no good segue. Let's talk about our thirty seconds
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 1: or less. Now, I guess it's time for that.
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 2: Okay, I guess, so, I guess. I guess I'll go first,
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 2: all right, for proof that the word of mouth is
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 2: still a powerful thing. The negative reaction to Joker poly
• 1:41:16
  Speaker 2: Adieux appears to have contributed to a Tepe box office
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 2: of just under thirty eight million dollars. Domestically, reaction has
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 2: been largely lack luster for the film, which I now
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 2: actually kind of want to see because I've read spoilers
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 2: about what happens and now I'm intrigued. I'm not sure
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 2: that I'll walk away liking the movie if I see it,
• 1:41:37
  Speaker 2: but I'm more interested now than I was just from
• 1:41:40
  Speaker 2: the movie trailers.
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I also read spoilers but had the opposite reaction.
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 1: But that's cool. I look forward to your review when
• 1:41:48
  Speaker 1: you watch it. Something that I will never watch and
• 1:41:54
  Speaker 1: I do not understand is apparently Michael Bay is making
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 1: a skibbety toilet series, and I I don't understand. It's
• 1:42:07
  Speaker 1: a Jenn Alpha thing. It's like a brain rot video
• 1:42:10
  Speaker 1: that starts with a head coming out of a toilet
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 1: singing a song. Apparently the creator had nightmares like that
• 1:42:17
  Speaker 1: and it was his way of confronting it. But then
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 1: it blew up, and so now there's this whole like
• 1:42:21
  Speaker 1: battle between people with like video camera and television and
• 1:42:25
  Speaker 1: monitor heads fighting these toilet head people. And I just
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 1: don't I don't want to see Michael Bay is like
• 1:42:33
  Speaker 1: King of explosions. I don't want to see that many
• 1:42:34
  Speaker 1: toilets explode. But Adam Goodman, who's the former president of Paramount,
• 1:42:43
  Speaker 1: said that it could be the next Transformers. What what
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 1: that was more than thirty seconds? I'm sorry, Are we.
• 1:42:51
  Speaker 2: Sure that none of that is like misinformation or a
• 1:42:56
  Speaker 2: fever dream, because it's hard to believe.
• 1:42:58
  Speaker 1: It could, but I found it on Forbes.
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 2: So yeah, that's usually a fairly reputable news source. All right, Well,
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 2: moving on the body swapping film, It's What's Inside has
• 1:43:12
  Speaker 2: a companion game that you can play with up to
• 1:43:14
  Speaker 2: five of your friends. The game captures your likeness and voice,
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 2: and then through a series of questions and prompts, the
• 1:43:20
  Speaker 2: players try to figure out who has switched with whom.
• 1:43:24
  Speaker 2: According to Collider, the game deletes all user data at
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 2: the game's conclusions, so you don't have to worry about
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 2: a digital copy of yourself floating around out there. But
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 2: if you do want to play, you better do it
• 1:43:34
  Speaker 2: fast because it ends on October fourteenth.
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 1: Interesting if you've been Jones and for more Black Panther
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 1: Wakanda stuff, here in luck because Disney Plus is working
• 1:43:46
  Speaker 1: on a new animated series. It's really going to focus
• 1:43:49
  Speaker 1: on a lot of like the history and law of
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 1: Wakanda itself. That's cool. I like what if an X
• 1:43:56
  Speaker 1: Men ninety seven? So and I like Black Panther, So
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 1: I am excited. Cool.
• 1:44:02
  Speaker 2: Hollywood Reporter notes that Rebel Ridges Aaron Pierre will be
• 1:44:06
  Speaker 2: playing the part of John Stewart in the upcoming Lanterns series,
• 1:44:10
  Speaker 2: so he'll be a younger member of the lantern core
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 2: and Kyle Chandler's Hal Jordan character will be showing him
• 1:44:17
  Speaker 2: the ropes as the two Space Cops investigative murder, so
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 2: maybe we should call the series True Space Detective.
• 1:44:25
  Speaker 1: I am very much for Kyle Chandler playing how Jordan.
• 1:44:28
  Speaker 1: I think that's a great casting choice. It's not who
• 1:44:30
  Speaker 1: what I have picked for John Stewart, but they're going
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 1: for a younger version, so who I would have picked
• 1:44:34
  Speaker 1: doesn't matter. Henry cavill is apparently going to be in
• 1:44:40
  Speaker 1: Amazon MGM Studios Voltron, which they want a bid to
• 1:44:45
  Speaker 1: do back in twenty twenty two and I completely forgot about.
• 1:44:48
  Speaker 1: But it's still happening. Don't know what he's going to
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 1: be doing in it, but it's being directed by Ross
• 1:44:55
  Speaker 1: and Marshall Thurber.
• 1:44:57
  Speaker 2: I think he's going to play the left leg, not
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 2: the not the pilot. He will actually be dressed up
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 2: as the left leg of Voltron.
• 1:45:06
  Speaker 1: Will he will he can toort his body into like
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 1: an animal when it's not.
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 2: No, he'll just be wearing like a like a cardboard
• 1:45:13
  Speaker 2: lion outfit and he'll he'll just be He'll just be
• 1:45:17
  Speaker 2: the left leg. That's it.
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 1: I'm for it.
• 1:45:20
  Speaker 2: Okay, Well, casting has begun in a so far unnamed
• 1:45:24
  Speaker 2: spin off of The Big Bang Theory. After Young Sheldon
• 1:45:27
  Speaker 2: wrapped up. I'm guessing executives were scrambling to find a
• 1:45:30
  Speaker 2: way to tap into the appeal of the show that
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 2: a lot of people loved and I didn't anyway. Kevin Susman,
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 2: who played comic book store owner Stuart, will be joined
• 1:45:39
  Speaker 2: by Brian Posine and Lauren Lapptis, both of whom played
• 1:45:42
  Speaker 2: recurring supporting roles on Big Bang Theory.
• 1:45:46
  Speaker 1: I love those I didn't like Big Bank Theory either.
• 1:45:48
  Speaker 1: I like those actors.
• 1:45:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:45:50
  Speaker 1: Oh, I love Brian Pozane and I love Lauren Lapis.
• 1:45:53
  Speaker 1: Uh uh. Broadway and Deadpool and X Men fans rejoice.
• 1:45:59
  Speaker 1: Huge Jackman has set a twelve show monthly concert series
• 1:46:03
  Speaker 1: at Radio City Music Hall, starting in January twenty twenty five,
• 1:46:06
  Speaker 1: and playing also in April, May, June, July and August
• 1:46:10
  Speaker 1: on select weekends. It's going to kind of span his
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 1: career of Broadway and musical and stuff like that. He
• 1:46:20
  Speaker 1: announced it on a video on social media with Ryan Reynolds.
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 1: That is absolutely delightful. You should look at ut well.
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 2: I have some bad news for anyone who became a
• 1:46:30
  Speaker 2: big fan of Netflix's series Chaos, in which Jeff goldblooms
• 1:46:34
  Speaker 2: Zeus is going through a mid eternal life crisis in
• 1:46:38
  Speaker 2: a modern world setting in which the Olympic Gods are
• 1:46:40
  Speaker 2: very much a thing. Netflix has canceled the series after
• 1:46:44
  Speaker 2: just one season. I did try to watch this show,
• 1:46:47
  Speaker 2: and I thought the first episode was interesting, but then
• 1:46:49
  Speaker 2: I have to admit I didn't stick with it, So
• 1:46:51
  Speaker 2: I guess I'm part of the problem.
• 1:46:54
  Speaker 1: Were me too? Okay, Scrubs might be getting a vile
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 1: Apparently they're just trying to negotiate a contract with Disney,
• 1:47:07
  Speaker 1: who owns the brand now, and I guess that the
• 1:47:10
  Speaker 1: director is or TV creator is with Warner Brothers, so
• 1:47:13
  Speaker 1: they got to figure that out. If it comes to fruition,
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 1: which it should be, it's Bill Lawrence is saying is
• 1:47:19
  Speaker 1: very close. It will be kind of a reboot and
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 1: also kind of a continuation. So it sounds like Saved
• 1:47:25
  Speaker 1: by the Bell New Class, where you're gonna have all
• 1:47:27
  Speaker 1: the new new hospital staff with the old staff popping
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 1: in every now and.
• 1:47:32
  Speaker 2: Then, or if you prefer the new version of night.
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 1: Court maybe because that could be true.
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 2: Because John Learracat came back, but everybody else anyway that's true.
• 1:47:47
  Speaker 2: To boost a car or to not boost a car.
• 1:47:51
  Speaker 2: That is the question that's being asked by some documentarians
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 2: who followed a couple of GTA players who are actors
• 1:47:57
  Speaker 2: determined to mount up production of Shakespeare's ham within the
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 2: world of Grand Theft Auto Online. This documentary is called
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 2: Grand Theft Hamlet and it covers an ambitious attempt the
• 1:48:09
  Speaker 2: two actors made to perform Hamlet with n GTA online
• 1:48:12
  Speaker 2: during the COVID nineteen outbreak. And if you want to
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 2: see it, you'll need to wait until twenty twenty five
• 1:48:17
  Speaker 2: to get thee to a cinema.
• 1:48:20
  Speaker 1: I think that's pretty cool, and it'll be the first
• 1:48:24
  Speaker 1: thing from Grand Theft Auto I've watched Netflix is It
• 1:48:30
  Speaker 1: is said that Netflix is developing a Pride and Prejudice series.
• 1:48:36
  Speaker 1: It is being written by Dolly Alderton, who wrote All
• 1:48:40
  Speaker 1: Everything I Know about Love, and it's being done by
• 1:48:42
  Speaker 1: the producer for Gentleman Jack. That sounds like a pretty
• 1:48:45
  Speaker 1: good team to work on some Pride and Prejudice. I
• 1:48:51
  Speaker 1: wonder if they'll stick true to the source material or
• 1:48:54
  Speaker 1: they will give it a news twist.
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 2: Okay, so that's it for the thirty seconds or less.
• 1:49:01
  Speaker 2: I did want to say so Lauren Lapkis. She was
• 1:49:05
  Speaker 2: in a web video series that I really enjoyed, along
• 1:49:10
  Speaker 2: with Oh, what's his name? He played Jean Ralpheo in
• 1:49:14
  Speaker 2: Parks and rec Oh. Ben Schwartz.
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 1: Ben Schwartz, Yeah.
• 1:49:18
  Speaker 2: Okay, He and Lauren Lapkis were in a web video
• 1:49:23
  Speaker 2: series called The Earliest Show where they played morning show hosts.
• 1:49:29
  Speaker 2: And the gag is that in the very first episode,
• 1:49:34
  Speaker 2: Ben Schwartz is planning on proposing to his girlfriend, but
• 1:49:38
  Speaker 2: it doesn't go well and she breaks up with him.
• 1:49:41
  Speaker 2: And then every episode after that or starting with that one,
• 1:49:45
  Speaker 2: is the Stages of Grief, where each episode is embodying
• 1:49:51
  Speaker 2: one of the stages of grief, and that's completely controlling
• 1:49:55
  Speaker 2: how Ben Schwartz's character behaves. The show was largely improvised.
• 1:50:00
  Speaker 2: It is ridiculous and makes me laugh so hard, and
• 1:50:04
  Speaker 2: like the outtakes. The outtakes are just as long as
• 1:50:07
  Speaker 2: the episodes they launched, so like, you can watch the
• 1:50:11
  Speaker 2: whole series and then another series worth of outtakes and
• 1:50:16
  Speaker 2: it's very entertaining.
• 1:50:18
  Speaker 1: I'll have to check that out. I really like Ben
• 1:50:19
  Speaker 1: Schwartz's improv I also quite enjoyed Middle Ditch and Schwartz,
• 1:50:23
  Speaker 1: which was there's Ben Schwartz's.
• 1:50:25
  Speaker 2: And yeah, I got to see them do that live.
• 1:50:28
  Speaker 1: Oh, very cool.
• 1:50:30
  Speaker 2: They came down to Dad's garage theater several years ago now,
• 1:50:34
  Speaker 2: but they performed at Dad's garage and that was great.
• 1:50:37
  Speaker 1: That does sound amazing. I'm sad I missed it.
• 1:50:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was if I hadn't known at the time.
• 1:50:41
  Speaker 2: But back then I didn't even know who I had
• 1:50:44
  Speaker 2: knew who Schwartz was because I had seen him on
• 1:50:47
  Speaker 2: parks and rec but I didn't know Middle Ditch even
• 1:50:49
  Speaker 2: though I had seen Middle Ditch in stuff. It just
• 1:50:52
  Speaker 2: he was just that guy, right, Like, I didn't know
• 1:50:55
  Speaker 2: who he was yet.
• 1:50:57
  Speaker 1: Man, I aspired to be that guy in that thing.
• 1:50:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah. No, it's a great thing to be. But like, yeah,
• 1:51:04
  Speaker 2: because wasn't he Was he in Silicon Valley or Okay,
• 1:51:09
  Speaker 2: I had not watched that series at that point when
• 1:51:11
  Speaker 2: I saw them perform live on stage, so I was
• 1:51:14
  Speaker 2: unaware of his talent, which is considerable and the two
• 1:51:20
  Speaker 2: of them together are fantastic.
• 1:51:23
  Speaker 1: That is delightful.
• 1:51:25
  Speaker 2: Well, we've got some trailers and stuff to talk about,
• 1:51:28
  Speaker 2: not as many this this week, but that doesn't mean
• 1:51:30
  Speaker 2: we won't yammer on endlessly about them and possibly work
• 1:51:35
  Speaker 2: food into them.
• 1:51:37
  Speaker 1: I haven't figured out how to do that yet, but
• 1:51:41
  Speaker 1: now I've got to figure it out for every.
• 1:51:44
  Speaker 2: Okay, so the first one is we saw a trailer
• 1:51:46
  Speaker 2: for a movie called Levels. I'll help you out here.
• 1:51:50
  Speaker 2: Let's say that multi tiered cake boom. We've put it
• 1:51:54
  Speaker 2: in there, that multi tiered cake has levels to it.
• 1:51:57
  Speaker 2: We watched the trailer for a movie called Levels. Uh.
• 1:52:01
  Speaker 1: End of story.
• 1:52:02
  Speaker 2: I think I think I would. I think I would
• 1:52:04
  Speaker 2: describe Levels as uh, the Matrix mixed with Free Guy,
• 1:52:11
  Speaker 2: but with no humor.
• 1:52:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's done by the people who did Continuum.
• 1:52:17
  Speaker 1: But even even Collider dot com compares it to the Matrix.
• 1:52:21
  Speaker 2: It is.
• 1:52:21
  Speaker 1: It is very similar. It's about a guy who loses
• 1:52:24
  Speaker 1: his wife I don't remember, uh, and then goes through
• 1:52:30
  Speaker 1: reality is not what he thinks. It's computer generated. Yeah,
• 1:52:35
  Speaker 1: it seems like.
• 1:52:36
  Speaker 2: Well it kind of falls into that that philosophical question
• 1:52:40
  Speaker 2: of what if we lived in a computer simulation? And uh, like,
• 1:52:45
  Speaker 2: if you go down that rabbit hole, it gets pretty
• 1:52:47
  Speaker 2: freaky pretty fast, because it like the the general answer is,
• 1:52:52
  Speaker 2: if it is possible that we're living in a computer simulation.
• 1:52:55
  Speaker 2: We definitely are, although I.
• 1:53:01
  Speaker 1: Just immediately became interested in looking that up and then
• 1:53:06
  Speaker 1: immediately disinterested.
• 1:53:07
  Speaker 2: So thank you, You're welcome. Yeah, well, yeah, I won't
• 1:53:11
  Speaker 2: go into the whole thing. I've talked about it on
• 1:53:12
  Speaker 2: other podcasts before, and honestly, I just I am a
• 1:53:16
  Speaker 2: very pragmatic person, and at a level where you could say,
• 1:53:19
  Speaker 2: does this actually matter if it's a simulation or not
• 1:53:22
  Speaker 2: if it seems real to us, I'm like, no, it doesn't,
• 1:53:25
  Speaker 2: it doesn't matter at all. So anyway, Levels looks like
• 1:53:30
  Speaker 2: it's playing with that kind of idea, but very similar
• 1:53:33
  Speaker 2: to The Matrix, where Neo is awakened to the fact
• 1:53:36
  Speaker 2: that what he thinks of as reality is in fact
• 1:53:40
  Speaker 2: a construct, a computer simulation, and that he is then
• 1:53:45
  Speaker 2: awakened in order to Initially it sounds like save humanity,
• 1:53:50
  Speaker 2: but then by the time you get to the Matrix too,
• 1:53:51
  Speaker 2: it's just to keep one little bit of humanity safe.
• 1:53:55
  Speaker 2: I hate the Matrix movies. I love the first one.
• 1:53:57
  Speaker 2: I hate the rest of them, although I kind of
• 1:54:01
  Speaker 2: like the fourth one. Anyway, that's neither here nor there.
• 1:54:05
  Speaker 2: Levels looks okay, I don't know. There was nothing about
• 1:54:09
  Speaker 2: this trailer that really got my interest.
• 1:54:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, nothing really cut Well, that's a lie. I was
• 1:54:16
  Speaker 1: interested when I thought it was a matrix entry that
• 1:54:20
  Speaker 1: had nothing to do with Neo and Morpheus and Trinity.
• 1:54:24
  Speaker 1: But then it's not.
• 1:54:25
  Speaker 2: So yeah, now your mileage may vary. I recommend you
• 1:54:31
  Speaker 2: check out the trailer for levels to decide whether or
• 1:54:35
  Speaker 2: not it appeals to you, because just because it didn't
• 1:54:39
  Speaker 2: stir our cups of tea or coffee or whatever doesn't
• 1:54:43
  Speaker 2: mean that it won't give yours a word. So check
• 1:54:45
  Speaker 2: it out.
• 1:54:47
  Speaker 1: That is that is some bold imagery you have. You
• 1:54:50
  Speaker 1: have laid down, Jonathan.
• 1:54:52
  Speaker 2: I have a cup of tea right here.
• 1:54:55
  Speaker 1: Next, we're going to talk about a video game. We
• 1:54:57
  Speaker 1: don't often do that, but we're in it today because
• 1:55:00
  Speaker 1: Secret Door, which is someone who came from Blizzard, has
• 1:55:07
  Speaker 1: released a look at a new game called sunder Folk,
• 1:55:13
  Speaker 1: which is like D and D or gloom Haven, but
• 1:55:17
  Speaker 1: you can play with your friends on your phone, and
• 1:55:19
  Speaker 1: that looks pretty cool to me.
• 1:55:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it looks like it's kind of like almost a
• 1:55:23
  Speaker 2: turn based strategy game where each player is controlling a character,
• 1:55:29
  Speaker 2: up to four playing at a time, going through and competing,
• 1:55:34
  Speaker 2: you know, combating against enemies and using whatever spoils of
• 1:55:39
  Speaker 2: war you get to upgrade your town back home, it
• 1:55:43
  Speaker 2: looks pretty rudimentary for you know. They talk about how
• 1:55:47
  Speaker 2: they were inspired by tabletop games and the camaraderie you
• 1:55:52
  Speaker 2: get when you play cooperatively with other people at the
• 1:55:55
  Speaker 2: same space, and I do find that really appealing, like
• 1:55:59
  Speaker 2: that's why I like tabletop games. But at the same time,
• 1:56:03
  Speaker 2: this maybe there's more to it, but it just looks
• 1:56:06
  Speaker 2: to me like a pretty pretty straightforward combat strategy tactics game.
• 1:56:13
  Speaker 2: And if you only have control over one character a
• 1:56:17
  Speaker 2: tactic strategy game and you're paired with a bunch of dufices,
• 1:56:21
  Speaker 2: that's going to be a very frustrating gameplaying experience where
• 1:56:24
  Speaker 2: you're like, no, I need you to flank, flank, for
• 1:56:27
  Speaker 2: the good sake, just flank.
• 1:56:31
  Speaker 1: I do understand that I know a bunch of my
• 1:56:34
  Speaker 1: friends like gloom Haven, and I think to be able
• 1:56:36
  Speaker 1: to play that in like on one screen and on
• 1:56:40
  Speaker 1: phones instead of on different laptops via all a land Party,
• 1:56:45
  Speaker 1: Land Party would be fun. I do think that the
• 1:56:49
  Speaker 1: character design is really cute.
• 1:56:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you just want to be a giant polar bear
• 1:56:54
  Speaker 2: that can wreck shop.
• 1:56:56
  Speaker 1: I do want to be a Barbarian born. I don't
• 1:57:01
  Speaker 1: know if that is actually the class of the polar.
• 1:57:04
  Speaker 2: Bear, but.
• 1:57:08
  Speaker 1: Bigger the new I like the new too, and the back.
• 1:57:12
  Speaker 2: The character design does look cute. I think maybe I
• 1:57:15
  Speaker 2: just need to wait for more information about this game
• 1:57:18
  Speaker 2: before I make a judgment. I mean, I also don't
• 1:57:22
  Speaker 2: have a lot of time to play games, so I'm
• 1:57:26
  Speaker 2: the guy who plays, like who buys a title and
• 1:57:29
  Speaker 2: plays it forever and then maybe eventually buys another game
• 1:57:33
  Speaker 2: title sometime down the road. I just went back to
• 1:57:35
  Speaker 2: playing Dave the Diver. I haven't touched that game in
• 1:57:38
  Speaker 2: a year, and I started playing that again, started over
• 1:57:41
  Speaker 2: from scratch, like not continuing my game because there's DLC,
• 1:57:45
  Speaker 2: but it had been so long since I had played
• 1:57:47
  Speaker 2: I'm like, I don't remember any of this. I'm going
• 1:57:49
  Speaker 2: to start over. So I've done that. And meanwhile, all
• 1:57:52
  Speaker 2: these incredible games keep coming out that I just haven't touched.
• 1:57:57
  Speaker 1: I still haven't even played a balder Skate. I need
• 1:57:59
  Speaker 1: ad I.
• 1:58:01
  Speaker 2: Need to finish that. Oh my gosh, oh I should
• 1:58:04
  Speaker 2: have finished it by now. It's a great it's a
• 1:58:06
  Speaker 2: great game.
• 1:58:08
  Speaker 1: It's a game. So there's no shuta it's.
• 1:58:11
  Speaker 2: Just well, yeah, but like it's it. There is part
• 1:58:14
  Speaker 2: of me that wants to know the conclusion of that story.
• 1:58:18
  Speaker 2: Like I have actually managed to go without looking at
• 1:58:22
  Speaker 2: any videos or reading any articles or anything about how
• 1:58:27
  Speaker 2: that story evolves over time. And I'm in the middle
• 1:58:30
  Speaker 2: of like Act two, So it took forever for me,
• 1:58:34
  Speaker 2: Like I think. I think I was on my third
• 1:58:37
  Speaker 2: attempt of playing the game where I finally got through
• 1:58:40
  Speaker 2: Act one. Part of that was just that I kept
• 1:58:42
  Speaker 2: picking classes that I thought would be interesting, and then
• 1:58:45
  Speaker 2: I would hit a point where I'm like, Okay, the
• 1:58:48
  Speaker 2: power level of my enemies is so high and my
• 1:58:53
  Speaker 2: character is not optimized for a combat that I'm getting
• 1:58:57
  Speaker 2: my butt handed to me. So that's when I decided
• 1:58:59
  Speaker 2: I couldn't play a Bard anymore.
• 1:59:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I remember you talking about that. Well, I
• 1:59:08
  Speaker 1: am sorry. I gave added another thing accidentally to your
• 1:59:11
  Speaker 1: list of stuff to do.
• 1:59:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's fine, I'll get to it after New Girl.
• 1:59:15
  Speaker 1: After New Girl, and maybe after Nautilus. Actually, I don't know.
• 1:59:18
  Speaker 1: I don't know your opinion on this shiny new edition
• 1:59:22
  Speaker 1: that was at Disney Plus and is now on coming
• 1:59:25
  Speaker 1: to Amazon.
• 1:59:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's inspired by the works of Jules Verne, and
• 1:59:32
  Speaker 2: it is following your typical story about the Nautilus, as
• 1:59:37
  Speaker 2: in the submarine that's in twenty thousand leagues under the
• 1:59:40
  Speaker 2: sea and Captain Nemo, who is the leader in this
• 1:59:44
  Speaker 2: case of some it looks like some people revolting from
• 1:59:49
  Speaker 2: their kind of occupied territory. So it's a story about
• 1:59:56
  Speaker 2: about acting out against authoritarian forces and kind of like
• 2:00:03
  Speaker 2: asserting your freedom and kind of piracy on the high
• 2:00:06
  Speaker 2: seas using a submersible. It looks kind of.
• 2:00:08
  Speaker 1: Neat, it does. It gives me very like Indiana Jones vibes,
• 2:00:14
  Speaker 1: or like a high quality sci fi show.
• 2:00:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it makes me think of like what if Like
• 2:00:24
  Speaker 2: I don't think it looks as Quippi, It doesn't look
• 2:00:26
  Speaker 2: as quippy, but it makes me think of what if
• 2:00:28
  Speaker 2: firefly but under the ocean.
• 2:00:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think it looks good. It does look
• 2:00:34
  Speaker 1: when I said it looks shiny. It's there's this quality
• 2:00:37
  Speaker 1: that things like Stargate have, and certain sci fi shows
• 2:00:41
  Speaker 1: or Amazon shows where it's set in a time period
• 2:00:44
  Speaker 1: and all the people look too Hollywood pretty, or all
• 2:00:48
  Speaker 1: of the effects look too Hollywood pretty, or they sound
• 2:00:51
  Speaker 1: too like, they sound too modern, and it slightly there's
• 2:00:55
  Speaker 1: a dissonance in my brain.
• 2:00:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it takes you out of it.
• 2:00:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and like all of these actors seem perfectly fine
• 2:01:02
  Speaker 1: and to fit into the setting just fine. Aesthetically, it's beautiful,
• 2:01:07
  Speaker 1: but it does have that slightly Hollywood vibe to me.
• 2:01:11
  Speaker 1: But that could be because it was originally being developed
• 2:01:13
  Speaker 1: for Disney, similar to the way, uh, Willow kind of
• 2:01:19
  Speaker 1: had this modern but Willow purposely had a modern vibe to.
• 2:01:23
  Speaker 2: It, so I wouldn't know.
• 2:01:25
  Speaker 1: I never watched it, and now I can't. You didn't
• 2:01:29
  Speaker 1: watch it, no, I.
• 2:01:31
  Speaker 2: Just assumed it was always going to be there.
• 2:01:33
  Speaker 1: Oh man, well maybe maybe maybe it will come back
• 2:01:38
  Speaker 1: out at some point and you'll be about.
• 2:01:40
  Speaker 2: That'd be nice, like I find it. It's it's it's
• 2:01:44
  Speaker 2: so infuriating to think we live at an age where
• 2:01:48
  Speaker 2: we are simultaneously capable of accessing more media than we
• 2:01:52
  Speaker 2: ever have in the history of mankind, and at the
• 2:01:55
  Speaker 2: same time, we're producing more ephemeral series that just disappear
• 2:02:01
  Speaker 2: after whatever platform decides to stop carrying them.
• 2:02:05
  Speaker 1: This is why I still have DVDs and Blu rays
• 2:02:08
  Speaker 1: more Blu rays now, like I have a good mix
• 2:02:10
  Speaker 1: because like, yeah, there are some things that I want
• 2:02:14
  Speaker 1: to own, because there are days where I'm like, I
• 2:02:16
  Speaker 1: really want to watch this and now I can't. Yeah,
• 2:02:20
  Speaker 1: I don't know if I don't know if Nautilus will
• 2:02:22
  Speaker 1: be one of those, but I hope so. You know, actually,
• 2:02:26
  Speaker 1: more than like a shiny sci fi series, it kind
• 2:02:29
  Speaker 1: of reminds me of like The Mummy or Brendan Fraser's
• 2:02:31
  Speaker 1: Journey to the Center of the Earth or something like that.
• 2:02:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I can see that. It looks like it's sort
• 2:02:37
  Speaker 2: of a like not quite big budget, somewhere in the
• 2:02:41
  Speaker 2: mid budget range where it's definitely it doesn't look cheap,
• 2:02:45
  Speaker 2: but it also, like you said, it has kind of
• 2:02:47
  Speaker 2: an artificial quality to it that it could easily pull
• 2:02:52
  Speaker 2: you out if you're not you know, if you if
• 2:02:55
  Speaker 2: you pay him enough attention to it, if you're able
• 2:02:57
  Speaker 2: to switch your brain off and watch it, I'm sure
• 2:03:00
  Speaker 2: that it wouldn't be as big an issue other than
• 2:03:02
  Speaker 2: to think, like, gosh, I wish I too lived in
• 2:03:05
  Speaker 2: this time where everybody was hot.
• 2:03:08
  Speaker 1: I mean, we do live in a time where everybody's
• 2:03:11
  Speaker 1: That's not true, No, everybody's hot to somebody.
• 2:03:15
  Speaker 2: I struggle. I have a lot of bad hair days.
• 2:03:20
  Speaker 1: I will be watching it when it comes out. It
• 2:03:23
  Speaker 1: comes out October twenty fifth. I don't know if I
• 2:03:24
  Speaker 1: will watch it that soon. This month is kind of crazy,
• 2:03:27
  Speaker 1: but I am definitely going to give it a try.
• 2:03:30
  Speaker 2: Well, are you going to give the fifth, and I
• 2:03:34
  Speaker 2: think final season of Lower Decks a try?
• 2:03:38
  Speaker 1: I have to go back and give the first four
• 2:03:40
  Speaker 1: seasons a try again.
• 2:03:42
  Speaker 2: First, I did watch Lower Decks, though, didn't you.
• 2:03:45
  Speaker 1: I watched like half of the first season. It was
• 2:03:51
  Speaker 1: a few years ago, and I mainly streamlined it while
• 2:03:55
  Speaker 1: I was building a dress for a for a show
• 2:03:58
  Speaker 1: at dragon Con that I was in, So admittedly I
• 2:04:01
  Speaker 1: was a little distracted and the first episode didn't super
• 2:04:04
  Speaker 1: drive with me. But I've been told that I should
• 2:04:06
  Speaker 1: give it a second try, and so I will.
• 2:04:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah. This is this is the animated series uh and
• 2:04:12
  Speaker 2: set in the Star Trek universe. But is is overtly
• 2:04:16
  Speaker 2: a comedy.
• 2:04:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, And this trailer has a lot more of that,
• 2:04:24
  Speaker 1: and it has some Voyager tie ins at the end
• 2:04:27
  Speaker 1: of the trailer which are delightful. I don't want to
• 2:04:28
  Speaker 1: spoil it if you haven't watched the trail.
• 2:04:30
  Speaker 2: They might have also had an enterprise reference. If I'm
• 2:04:33
  Speaker 2: not mistaken. I believe so, because there was a bit
• 2:04:36
  Speaker 2: where I think they referenced the Vulcan woman in enterprise
• 2:04:40
  Speaker 2: because of the tendency that the showrunners had of making
• 2:04:44
  Speaker 2: her strip down to her underwear to go through the
• 2:04:48
  Speaker 2: the whatever process it was whenever they had to leave
• 2:04:52
  Speaker 2: or come back to the ship.
• 2:04:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, so they're pulling out all of the referential stops.
• 2:04:58
  Speaker 1: It looks I mean, it looks, it's cute, it looks
• 2:05:00
  Speaker 1: lower DEXI. I can see objectively how how it could
• 2:05:06
  Speaker 1: be a really impressive final season. I don't know firsthand,
• 2:05:09
  Speaker 1: because I have to go back and watch the series.
• 2:05:12
  Speaker 2: Well, next up, we got a trailer for a series
• 2:05:16
  Speaker 2: that's based off a story that's been told several times
• 2:05:19
  Speaker 2: before the Day of the Jackal. Like I said, there
• 2:05:23
  Speaker 2: are film versions of the Day of the Jackal, but
• 2:05:26
  Speaker 2: the story is about an assassin who is known as
• 2:05:31
  Speaker 2: the Jackal, and the series is going to kind of
• 2:05:35
  Speaker 2: feature a law enforcement agent who has a particular desire
• 2:05:41
  Speaker 2: to see the Jackal brought to justice and pursuing him.
• 2:05:45
  Speaker 2: And yeah, so the trailer kind of sets all that up,
• 2:05:49
  Speaker 2: where we get a little bit of Mission Impossible esque,
• 2:05:53
  Speaker 2: like weird Mask stuff and sniper action. What did you
• 2:06:01
  Speaker 2: think of the trailer?
• 2:06:03
  Speaker 1: I originally, well, I didn't know it was based off
• 2:06:07
  Speaker 1: a book. I've never read the book. And it looked good.
• 2:06:13
  Speaker 1: I mean it good, look good. It looks like a spy,
• 2:06:16
  Speaker 1: like if James Bond weren't a good guy, kind of
• 2:06:20
  Speaker 1: a good guy. But then I was like, how is
• 2:06:24
  Speaker 1: this geeky? But then I figured out how because Eddie
• 2:06:27
  Speaker 1: Redmain is in it, who has done many geeky things,
• 2:06:30
  Speaker 1: and Lashawna Lynch isn't it and she was one of
• 2:06:36
  Speaker 1: the superheroes in the Marvels.
• 2:06:39
  Speaker 2: Well, and just that again, like this is one of
• 2:06:41
  Speaker 2: those where if you're a fan of cinema, you may
• 2:06:46
  Speaker 2: have seen like the film adaptation of the Day of
• 2:06:50
  Speaker 2: the Jackal, and it's one of those things that kind
• 2:06:53
  Speaker 2: of jumped out at me as something potentially interested interesting
• 2:06:58
  Speaker 2: to film geeks. Although that's a tricky right, because if
• 2:07:01
  Speaker 2: you're a big fan of something, it's rare that you're
• 2:07:05
  Speaker 2: jonesing for a remake.
• 2:07:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, and I think that's very valid, and that's
• 2:07:12
  Speaker 1: very true. I just hadn't been aware that it was
• 2:07:14
  Speaker 1: a remake of something. But it does look good. I
• 2:07:17
  Speaker 1: like action I like mystery, I like intrigue. So it
• 2:07:22
  Speaker 1: looks it looks very well done. It looks like it
• 2:07:24
  Speaker 1: would be an enjoyable watch.
• 2:07:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it looks like I might give the
• 2:07:29
  Speaker 2: first episode a try, just to see. I'm not the
• 2:07:33
  Speaker 2: biggest fan of Redmain, but I mean, I mean, I'll
• 2:07:36
  Speaker 2: be glad to at least give the episode a shot.
• 2:07:40
  Speaker 1: I understand, I understand. We also got a first look
• 2:07:46
  Speaker 1: from Iwana too, and I'm gonna I'm gonna say here
• 2:07:53
  Speaker 1: that watching the essentially a trailer, right.
• 2:07:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it wasn't like it was one continuous sequence.
• 2:08:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it looked a lot like the previous trailer or
• 2:08:06
  Speaker 1: teaser that they had dropped. For the first half of it,
• 2:08:09
  Speaker 1: I'm like, I've already seen this, and it wasn't until
• 2:08:11
  Speaker 1: the second half that they started introducing some new elements.
• 2:08:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I felt the same way because I was like, oh,
• 2:08:17
  Speaker 2: it's titled first Look, maybe this will be like a
• 2:08:20
  Speaker 2: complete scene from the upcoming film, But no, it's not.
• 2:08:24
  Speaker 2: It is like a compilation of different things, like a trailer.
• 2:08:28
  Speaker 2: It made me think a couple things. The first was
• 2:08:30
  Speaker 2: that all children in Disney films sound like they have
• 2:08:37
  Speaker 2: the same voice, like Moana's little sister. When Mohana's little
• 2:08:41
  Speaker 2: sister talks, I'm like, that sounds like one of the
• 2:08:43
  Speaker 2: little kids from in Conto, right, Like, I'm just like,
• 2:08:48
  Speaker 2: I get that, it's not it cannot be the same person.
• 2:08:50
  Speaker 2: I understand that because these things must have been recorded
• 2:08:53
  Speaker 2: ages apart.
• 2:08:54
  Speaker 1: But it sounds just like the adults. I mean, if
• 2:08:58
  Speaker 1: you look at she's one of them. But also shoot,
• 2:09:07
  Speaker 1: Laura Bailey, Laura, I mean Laura Bailey, e g. Daily,
• 2:09:13
  Speaker 1: Nancy Cartwright. They're all adults who play kids professionally.
• 2:09:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but this time, Like every now and then, you'll
• 2:09:21
  Speaker 2: hear one and you're thinking, Okay, well that's not an
• 2:09:23
  Speaker 2: adult doing a kid's voice. That's a kid like you
• 2:09:27
  Speaker 2: can sort of hear it in the voice, unless they're
• 2:09:30
  Speaker 2: doing some like pitch altering in post, which is always
• 2:09:33
  Speaker 2: a possibility. Anyway, that was the first thing I thought.
• 2:09:38
  Speaker 2: I also think, like all the trailers so far seem
• 2:09:43
  Speaker 2: to be fairly limited on how much Maui they're showing,
• 2:09:46
  Speaker 2: which makes me wonder how much Maui shows up in
• 2:09:50
  Speaker 2: the film. I would not actually be upset for Maui
• 2:09:53
  Speaker 2: to not be in it all the way through. I
• 2:09:55
  Speaker 2: think the character works best as kind of an exclamation point.
• 2:10:01
  Speaker 2: But yeah, I'm I think it looks good. It's kind
• 2:10:07
  Speaker 2: of like Frozen. I never really felt the need for
• 2:10:09
  Speaker 2: there to be a sequel. I felt that the original
• 2:10:13
  Speaker 2: story kind of is a perfect encapsulation of a tail.
• 2:10:17
  Speaker 2: There's no need to extend the narrative. But it doesn't
• 2:10:21
  Speaker 2: look bad.
• 2:10:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree on all of those points. I don't
• 2:10:28
  Speaker 1: think it's necessary, but it looks fine. It looks like
• 2:10:31
  Speaker 1: maybe one of the better sequels. It's maybe more interesting
• 2:10:34
  Speaker 1: to me than Frozen two, which I also haven't seen,
• 2:10:36
  Speaker 1: but Frozen didn't super appeal to me either.
• 2:10:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't need to see Frozen two, then, Like
• 2:10:41
  Speaker 2: I have seen Frozen two, and I think I might
• 2:10:45
  Speaker 2: like Frozen a little more than you do. It's still
• 2:10:48
  Speaker 2: not like I don't feel the need to ever watch
• 2:10:50
  Speaker 2: it again, but I did not like Frozen two.
• 2:10:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and after my long tirade about adults who play kids,
• 2:10:59
  Speaker 1: it is absolute not an adult playing Moana's little sister.
• 2:11:02
  Speaker 1: It's a young a young girl whose name is Khalisi
• 2:11:07
  Speaker 1: Lambert Suda so Kalisi it's her first name.
• 2:11:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, ah, okay, no comment, all right?
• 2:11:15
  Speaker 1: Adorable adorable little girl.
• 2:11:18
  Speaker 2: I'm sure the girl is absolutely adorable. Uh yeah, so
• 2:11:23
  Speaker 2: Trayler looks fine. What did we need a sequel to
• 2:11:26
  Speaker 2: mo Wana? Probably not? Did Disney need a sequel to
• 2:11:28
  Speaker 2: mo Wana? Probably you're not.
• 2:11:32
  Speaker 1: You're well, yeah, maybe.
• 2:11:37
  Speaker 2: I mean Disney. Disney's had kind of a imperfect track
• 2:11:42
  Speaker 2: record when it comes to straying from their established ips.
• 2:11:46
  Speaker 2: In recent years, They've got some good ones, like Incanto
• 2:11:49
  Speaker 2: was great. I still think Turning Red was fantastic.
• 2:11:53
  Speaker 1: I thought it was delightful, you.
• 2:11:55
  Speaker 2: Know, and I understand that. Yeah, there is that fear
• 2:12:01
  Speaker 2: that if you if you invest in creating all news
• 2:12:05
  Speaker 2: stories and you're not relying on existing IP, you're not
• 2:12:09
  Speaker 2: guaranteed to find an audience, although I think the more
• 2:12:13
  Speaker 2: recent examples of that being a big thing largely also
• 2:12:17
  Speaker 2: fall in a failure to market the film properly.
• 2:12:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well they did market like they came out with Wish, right,
• 2:12:26
  Speaker 1: and that was marketed well and technically new, but it
• 2:12:33
  Speaker 1: was just pulling a character from other stuff essentially.
• 2:12:36
  Speaker 2: Well and a lot Yeah, and that one had pretty
• 2:12:41
  Speaker 2: mid word of mouth, right, Like, no one, I don't
• 2:12:43
  Speaker 2: think anyone said, oh this is terrible, but a lot
• 2:12:45
  Speaker 2: of people said it's nothing special, and that kind of
• 2:12:48
  Speaker 2: killed the momentum. I still haven't. I still haven't seen it.
• 2:12:52
  Speaker 1: I had a few people who I know who thought
• 2:12:54
  Speaker 1: it was a bit contrived, so you know, but then again,
• 2:13:01
  Speaker 1: they even in that they didn't completely divest themselves from
• 2:13:04
  Speaker 1: previous ip it was.
• 2:13:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's true, it's it was. It was sort of like, hey,
• 2:13:12
  Speaker 2: let's dip our toe and act like we're going to
• 2:13:15
  Speaker 2: make a cartoon version of Once upon a Time? Yeah,
• 2:13:19
  Speaker 2: once And they didn't, but they aren't.
• 2:13:22
  Speaker 1: Isn't Ilio? Isn't that a Disney movie? And that's out?
• 2:13:28
  Speaker 2: That sounds familiar? Is it? I'd have to I'd have
• 2:13:33
  Speaker 2: to look it up. Are you looking it up now?
• 2:13:35
  Speaker 1: Ellio? Yeah? Elliot is a Disney film that is about
• 2:13:40
  Speaker 1: the boy who uh like his mom is in the
• 2:13:45
  Speaker 1: space program or something and you three Aliens or something.
• 2:13:49
  Speaker 2: We saw like a we saw like a teaser teaser
• 2:13:52
  Speaker 2: thing about this like ages ago, right.
• 2:13:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and it's not coming out till June thirteenth,
• 2:13:57
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five.
• 2:13:59
  Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, that's why I barely remember it. I remember.
• 2:14:03
  Speaker 2: I do remember that we covered this and talked about it. Briefly,
• 2:14:07
  Speaker 2: but I have no other recollection. I remember when I
• 2:14:10
  Speaker 2: I want to say that my reaction of seeing it
• 2:14:13
  Speaker 2: was that I would need to see more before I
• 2:14:16
  Speaker 2: would really be sold on it.
• 2:14:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and for all we know that it doesn't look
• 2:14:22
  Speaker 1: like it from the teaser, the trailer they came out with,
• 2:14:26
  Speaker 1: but it could just be all of the aliens from
• 2:14:28
  Speaker 1: Lelo and Stitch for all we know.
• 2:14:30
  Speaker 2: So well, we have one. We have one last story,
• 2:14:35
  Speaker 2: which is dumb.
• 2:14:38
  Speaker 1: It is dumb. So you know how Nintendo was like, hey,
• 2:14:43
  Speaker 1: look out for the cool new thing we're doing.
• 2:14:46
  Speaker 2: It's not the hardware, new hardware.
• 2:14:49
  Speaker 1: New hardware we're doing. Unless they are playing a terrible,
• 2:14:53
  Speaker 1: horrible joke, it is not that cool. It is an
• 2:14:56
  Speaker 1: alarm clock that I would break out a frustrate in
• 2:15:00
  Speaker 1: less than one day.
• 2:15:02
  Speaker 2: It's supposed to be reminiscent of your classic wind up
• 2:15:08
  Speaker 2: alarm clock, the little round one that you would wind
• 2:15:11
  Speaker 2: up and have a little alarm bells on top and
• 2:15:13
  Speaker 2: a clacker that would go back and forth when the
• 2:15:15
  Speaker 2: alarm goes off. Except this one is Wi Fi enabled,
• 2:15:19
  Speaker 2: so it's got a digital clock face. It's not actually
• 2:15:22
  Speaker 2: an analog clock the way your classic alarm clock is
• 2:15:27
  Speaker 2: and instead of ringing a bell at a really loud
• 2:15:31
  Speaker 2: and obnoxious volume, it plays music and sound effects from
• 2:15:37
  Speaker 2: various Nintendo games in an effort to get your butt
• 2:15:40
  Speaker 2: out of bed.
• 2:15:42
  Speaker 1: And it's got like a calm mode and an aggressive mode.
• 2:15:44
  Speaker 1: The aggressive mode gets louder and more intense as time
• 2:15:47
  Speaker 1: goes on. But it does such things as like you're
• 2:15:50
  Speaker 1: laying in bed and you roll over, and with your
• 2:15:53
  Speaker 1: body movements it will make coin ding noises from like
• 2:15:58
  Speaker 1: Mario Brothers games.
• 2:16:00
  Speaker 2: So every movement, congratulations, you've got bonus points by moving
• 2:16:06
  Speaker 2: in bed.
• 2:16:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, or platoon splats which sound very similar to gunshots
• 2:16:12
  Speaker 1: and I don't want to wake me up at all.
• 2:16:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah. You can wave at the at the clock in
• 2:16:18
  Speaker 2: order to snooze it. Getting out of bed turns the
• 2:16:21
  Speaker 2: alarm off, and you can have an alarm clock, just
• 2:16:29
  Speaker 2: an alarm clock. It doesn't do anything else but be
• 2:16:32
  Speaker 2: an alarm clock and play some Nintendo noises for the
• 2:16:36
  Speaker 2: low low price of one hundred dollars.
• 2:16:39
  Speaker 1: Cheez Louise.
• 2:16:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, like Ariel, when was the last time you needed
• 2:16:44
  Speaker 2: an alarm clock?
• 2:16:47
  Speaker 1: I actually got one a year or two ago for Christmas,
• 2:16:52
  Speaker 1: but that's because sometimes I like to be woken up
• 2:16:56
  Speaker 1: to the radio, and I don't like using my phone
• 2:16:58
  Speaker 1: for that because I like having my phone on silent
• 2:17:00
  Speaker 1: because I get so many freaking messages.
• 2:17:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah that see, Yeah, that's totally understandable. Yeah, you don't
• 2:17:07
  Speaker 2: want to get notifications in the middle of the night,
• 2:17:09
  Speaker 2: waking you up all at all hours. Like my phone,
• 2:17:13
  Speaker 2: after a certain amount of time goes into sleep mode,
• 2:17:16
  Speaker 2: like after like I think it's ten thirty or eleven, No,
• 2:17:22
  Speaker 2: it's eleven thirty. At eleven thirty, my phone goes into
• 2:17:24
  Speaker 2: sleep mode and it stays that way until seven am
• 2:17:27
  Speaker 2: unless I specifically turn it on to wake it up.
• 2:17:32
  Speaker 2: But I can set an alarm before seven am and
• 2:17:36
  Speaker 2: it'll play the alarm. It'll just suppress everything else. So
• 2:17:39
  Speaker 2: for me, I'm like, I don't. I can't think of
• 2:17:42
  Speaker 2: a time where I would need a digital Now, granted,
• 2:17:45
  Speaker 2: if I were a kid and I didn't have a phone, which,
• 2:17:48
  Speaker 2: by the way, I strongly feel that kids shouldn't, but whatever,
• 2:17:52
  Speaker 2: I don't have kids, so who am I to say.
• 2:17:55
  Speaker 2: I just feel weird about kids having phones. But maybe
• 2:18:00
  Speaker 2: it's because I was old and I didn't get my
• 2:18:01
  Speaker 2: own phone. Until I was like twenty. Anyway, I had a.
• 2:18:05
  Speaker 1: Phone as a teenager, but it was a Nokia brick
• 2:18:09
  Speaker 1: you know.
• 2:18:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I cell phones weren't really a thing until I
• 2:18:12
  Speaker 2: was in college, and I couldn't afford one at that point,
• 2:18:15
  Speaker 2: so it wasn't until I was out of college until
• 2:18:17
  Speaker 2: I got one. But yeah, the I can see a
• 2:18:20
  Speaker 2: kid needing to have a digital alarm clock, but I'm like,
• 2:18:23
  Speaker 2: are you going to spend one hundred bucks for a
• 2:18:25
  Speaker 2: now clock for your kid?
• 2:18:27
  Speaker 1: I did not spend one hundred bucks on my alarm
• 2:18:30
  Speaker 1: clock at all. Well, I didn't spend anything. It was
• 2:18:33
  Speaker 1: a Christmas gift. But mine also has a light because
• 2:18:36
  Speaker 1: I because of my sleep paralysis that I sometimes get,
• 2:18:40
  Speaker 1: I don't like falling asleep in the dark. If I
• 2:18:42
  Speaker 1: hear a noise, I like having a little bit of
• 2:18:45
  Speaker 1: light until like there's somebody else in the room with me.
• 2:18:49
  Speaker 1: My jerk cats don't always stay in the room with me,
• 2:18:51
  Speaker 1: and sometimes they're the one causing the noises and they
• 2:18:53
  Speaker 1: freak me out.
• 2:18:56
  Speaker 2: I about to say, like, like, there are gonna be
• 2:18:58
  Speaker 2: times where you definitely don't want someone in the room
• 2:19:00
  Speaker 2: with you, because if you went in by yourself, and
• 2:19:03
  Speaker 2: now there's someone in there that's a problem.
• 2:19:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but it has a light that I can adjust
• 2:19:08
  Speaker 1: the color and the brightness. And that also keeps me
• 2:19:10
  Speaker 1: from like turning on the TV for uh, because for
• 2:19:13
  Speaker 1: a while I was turning on the TV like on
• 2:19:15
  Speaker 1: a black screen on like Amazon with some wave noises.
• 2:19:19
  Speaker 1: But you know, looking at a TV before bed is
• 2:19:21
  Speaker 1: not the smartest. So now I turn on my alarm
• 2:19:24
  Speaker 1: clock light that goes off after a certain amount of time,
• 2:19:28
  Speaker 1: and a sound machine, and it's much better.
• 2:19:30
  Speaker 2: Did friend, did friend of the show Shaye Lee inflict
• 2:19:33
  Speaker 2: upon you her nighttime ritual of playing YouTube videos on
• 2:19:38
  Speaker 2: her laptop while you were because you roomed with her?
• 2:19:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, oh well she was doing that. She was finishing
• 2:19:44
  Speaker 1: up a show and also writing for the podcast. So yeah, eventually,
• 2:19:51
  Speaker 1: like I left the light on for her for a while,
• 2:19:53
  Speaker 1: and eventually I had to be like, Okay, I'm turning
• 2:19:56
  Speaker 1: the light off. You can still watch whatever you want,
• 2:19:58
  Speaker 1: but I'm turning the light off.
• 2:19:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I love shaye Ley to death, but her
• 2:20:03
  Speaker 2: sleep habits are a little wild to me.
• 2:20:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm so distracted because there's a creepy jumping spider
• 2:20:12
  Speaker 1: somewhere in here.
• 2:20:12
  Speaker 2: With me.
• 2:20:13
  Speaker 1: I have also spent we have spent a lot of
• 2:20:15
  Speaker 1: money in our household on a daylight alarm clock. But
• 2:20:19
  Speaker 1: that's because it slowly gets brighter for like people with
• 2:20:23
  Speaker 1: seasonal effective disorder, it slowly gets brighter to imitate sunlight.
• 2:20:28
  Speaker 1: If you have to get up before the sun is
• 2:20:29
  Speaker 1: fully up so that you have a better wake up experience.
• 2:20:32
  Speaker 1: That's not for me, but we have one in my house.
• 2:20:34
  Speaker 1: Sometimes they use it.
• 2:20:37
  Speaker 2: Okay, Well, apparently some people still have use for digital clocks.
• 2:20:42
  Speaker 2: The rest of us have entered into the twenty first
• 2:20:44
  Speaker 2: century and we have other technology that does have for us.
• 2:20:48
  Speaker 1: So tell you that simulate sunlight for you.
• 2:20:52
  Speaker 2: Actually, my phone does have that mot method too.
• 2:20:55
  Speaker 1: Nice. I don't know if mine does, but it probably
• 2:20:58
  Speaker 1: this clock is pretty bad or my phone would not
• 2:21:01
  Speaker 1: be able to produce the same kind of light.
• 2:21:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well no, it wouldn't be bright enough for that.
• 2:21:07
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't want that setting anyway. I wake up before
• 2:21:11
  Speaker 2: anyone else does in my house, so including my dog.
• 2:21:15
  Speaker 2: All right, Well, I think that's it. I think that's
• 2:21:18
  Speaker 2: all the trailers, that is it.
• 2:21:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, So if you have anything to talk about about
• 2:21:25
  Speaker 1: any of these things that we talked about and you
• 2:21:29
  Speaker 1: want to tell us about it, to talk about it
• 2:21:31
  Speaker 1: to us. I'm good at words, now, Jonathan, how do
• 2:21:34
  Speaker 1: people talk to tell us to do?
• 2:21:37
  Speaker 2: So, You're gonna set your alarm clock, not your phone,
• 2:21:42
  Speaker 2: but your alarm clock for seven fifteen in the morning,
• 2:21:47
  Speaker 2: and when the alarm goes off, you're gonna snooze it twice.
• 2:21:50
  Speaker 2: And after the second time, you're gonna turn it off.
• 2:21:52
  Speaker 2: You're gonna get up, you're gonna do your morning routine,
• 2:21:55
  Speaker 2: and then you're going to go outside and you're going
• 2:22:00
  Speaker 2: to just take a moment to enjoy the cool morning air.
• 2:22:05
  Speaker 2: And then you're gonna take a little stroll down the road,
• 2:22:10
  Speaker 2: just down the road a little bit until you're at
• 2:22:13
  Speaker 2: a safe distance from your home and everybody else. And then,
• 2:22:18
  Speaker 2: like your life depended on it, I want you to
• 2:22:21
  Speaker 2: scrunch your eyes up tight and to clench your hands
• 2:22:25
  Speaker 2: into fists, and really with all the force you can manage,
• 2:22:30
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna need you to voop your hurting. And if
• 2:22:33
  Speaker 2: you do that, I'll show up and I'll answer your question.
• 2:22:36
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• 2:22:40
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• 2:22:52
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• 2:22:58
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• 2:23:02
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• 2:23:14
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