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LNC Takes the Helm · Large Nerdron Collider

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  Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Welcome to the largen or John Collider Podcast,
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  Speaker 1: the podcast that's all about 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 aerial caston and with me as always is the
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  Speaker 1: Tops of the Tops Jonathan Streetland and it is.
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  Speaker 2: It is a glorious thing to be a pirate king.
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  Speaker 1: So stop stealing my thirty seconds or less.
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  Speaker 2: My dude, no do it. Listen, You've got at least
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  Speaker 2: twenty seven seconds left out of that one.
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  Speaker 1: Sure that's true? Is that from Pirates of Penzance?
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  Speaker 2: It is? It is? That is the pirate King's song
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  Speaker 2: in Pirates of Penzance. Oh better far to live and
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  Speaker 2: die under the brave black Flag. I fly.
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  Speaker 1: I have listened to some music for my I've never
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  Speaker 1: actually seen it.
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  Speaker 2: Oh we should watch that next time we get to
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  Speaker 2: get together, because like so the film musical version, sorry
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  Speaker 2: when they geek out about Gilbert and Sullivan.
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  Speaker 1: Operettas this one, Well, the whole show isn't out do it.
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  Speaker 2: So. The film version is based off a production of
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  Speaker 2: Pirates of Penzance that was mounted at Central Park for
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  Speaker 2: their outdoor theater and Kevin Klein was in that production,
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  Speaker 2: as was Linda Ronstadt. You know, there were quite a
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  Speaker 2: few people who would reprise their roles in the movie version,
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  Speaker 2: the exception being the actress playing Ruth. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: who played her in the Central Park. I've seen it,
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  Speaker 2: and I don't know the actress's name, but Angela Lansbury
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  Speaker 2: came on and took over the role of Ruth for
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  Speaker 2: the film version, and it's very entertaining. It does take
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  Speaker 2: some liberties with the original material, like not all the
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  Speaker 2: songs are exactly the same. They drop a few verses
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  Speaker 2: for some of the songs are so some of the
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  Speaker 2: songs are shorter than they were. They also include a
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  Speaker 2: song from a different Gilbert and Sullivan play called Ruttigor,
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  Speaker 2: and they retooled the lyrics and put it into parts
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  Speaker 2: of Penzance. And it also happens to be my favorite
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  Speaker 2: song in that version of the musical.
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  Speaker 1: You just like that song.
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  Speaker 2: I love I love the operetta, I love it, I
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  Speaker 2: love it. Actually, Pirate King is also great. It's a
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  Speaker 2: great and they're all great songs, but that one's really good.
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  Speaker 2: But the Rudiger one is just fun because it's a
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  Speaker 2: patter song and by the time it starts has three
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  Speaker 2: characters sing a verse in it. There's Frederick Ruth and
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  Speaker 2: then the Pirate King, and Kevin Klein plays the Pirate King.
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  Speaker 2: And by the time it gets to Kevin Klein's part,
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  Speaker 2: the tempo has sped up to a point where he's
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  Speaker 2: just like rattling it out machine guns style, and it
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  Speaker 2: is really impressive watch. Plus Kevin Klein is just delightful
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  Speaker 2: in his physicality and his character choices, so highly recommended
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  Speaker 2: if you have not seen it, it is it's definitely
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  Speaker 2: an odd watch because they do it as if they
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  Speaker 2: were filming a staged version, Like there's clearly backdrops right
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  Speaker 2: instead of an actual on site location, and they don't
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  Speaker 2: do anything to hide that. But it's not done as
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  Speaker 2: if it's a filmed stage production, right. It's they're on
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  Speaker 2: sets and stuff. But it's very entertaining. Kevin Klein makes
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  Speaker 2: that movie. He is just so funny.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I will say I have been enjoying the clips
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  Speaker 1: that I've seen from the current run on Broadway with
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  Speaker 1: David Hyde Piers.
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  Speaker 2: Playing the Major General.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, which is the song that I know both from
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  Speaker 1: you know Broadway Radio and then also from Mass Effect.
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  Speaker 1: I am the very model of his scientist Hilarian but
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  Speaker 1: but he looks lovely. I didn't know there was a
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  Speaker 1: song where everybody just plays mediocre washboard.
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  Speaker 2: Well that that I'm guessing is the Broadway version, but
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  Speaker 2: so yeah, because the Broadway version we talked about it,
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  Speaker 2: i think before it actually went up, but it's it
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  Speaker 2: reimagines Penzance as being Louisiana instead of instead of off
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  Speaker 2: the coast of England, and that the idea is that
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  Speaker 2: the orchestrations would be updated to have more of a
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  Speaker 2: kind of New Orleans jazz sound to them. And it's
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  Speaker 2: funny because every clip I watch that I've seen, like
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  Speaker 2: they typically are very short clips. It's almost like a
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  Speaker 2: montage over and over. But I don't think I've ever
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  Speaker 2: recognized a lyric in full in any of those clips,
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  Speaker 2: where I'm like, either they're changing things or they're pulling
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  Speaker 2: from some of those dropped verses that I'm less familiar with.
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  Speaker 2: I have seen The Pirates of Penzance produced as an
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  Speaker 2: operetta on stage with all the original orchestrations and everything,
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  Speaker 2: but that was, oh, good lord, maybe thirty five years ago,
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  Speaker 2: so it's been a while they.
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  Speaker 1: Do it because they did it the washboards at the Tonys.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's a part of We Sail the Ocean Blue.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, but I think in.
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  Speaker 1: That song they, at least in this version, they mentioned washboards.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, that's why they're playing washboards. It was
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  Speaker 1: like it wasn't bad, but it also wasn't like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's a bunch of actors playing washboards. It wasn't like
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  Speaker 1: there are some. Now I'm geeking out, there are some
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  Speaker 1: really elite like washboard players do just more than the yeah,
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  Speaker 1: sort of a noise. I've my bandmate has found one.
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  Speaker 1: She does classes in Canada, and we just keep hope
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  Speaker 1: she comes to the States to teach a washboard class.
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  Speaker 1: Because I play mediocre washboard, but I sure would love
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  Speaker 1: to play a really good washboard. It's a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And on my end, i'd really like washboard abs,
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  Speaker 2: so I mean me too.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, actually, you know what, no, because when you
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  Speaker 1: look at a washboard, it's all crinkly. It's like all
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  Speaker 1: of these fine lines across It would.
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  Speaker 2: Be kind of okay, son, too many packs. This brings
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  Speaker 2: me to our question for the week, which I have
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  Speaker 2: not shared.
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  Speaker 1: Stomach.
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  Speaker 2: I have not shared with Ariel, but it's a natural
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  Speaker 2: lead into the question which I did not anticipate when
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  Speaker 2: I wrote this question. I did not, you know, I
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  Speaker 2: guess I predict the future. So the question is what
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  Speaker 2: ship from genre fiction would you most like to command?
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  Speaker 2: And it can be any type of ship, so it
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  Speaker 2: could be a boat type ship, it could be a
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  Speaker 2: space ship starship. But if you could command any fictional ship,
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  Speaker 2: which one would it be?
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  Speaker 1: I was trying to think of a funny like romance
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  Speaker 1: ship to put in there.
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  Speaker 2: But you don't need to try and find a way
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  Speaker 2: to not answer my question.
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  Speaker 1: I mean you said any kind of ship, and that's a.
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  Speaker 2: Kind of an actual ship, like a vessel that takes
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  Speaker 2: you from one place to another. Blaze.
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  Speaker 1: So like my initial, my initial like just off the
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  Speaker 1: dome sort of a response would be Moya from Farscape.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to think about it too hard because
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  Speaker 1: the being an organic ship does have some like s
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  Speaker 1: quick factor to it, the fact that pilot is just
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  Speaker 1: stuck there all the time. But also Maya has the
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  Speaker 1: wonderful little dr ds and the amount of electronic items
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  Speaker 1: I have named after dr ds in my house is
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  Speaker 1: non minimal, so including like my roomba and computers and
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  Speaker 1: things like that. So uh yeah, probably Moya. Good answer, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: not talent, he's too temperamental.
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  Speaker 2: That's Moya's son.
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  Speaker 1: In Farscape, there Leviathan's. They're a space creature that are.
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  Speaker 2: Also used as ships. Well, in my case, I would
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  Speaker 2: answer either, uh, the Jolly Roger, which is Captain Hook's ship,
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  Speaker 2: and Peter Pam.
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  Speaker 1: I mean that's a good one.
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  Speaker 2: It's a really good ship, especially the version that is
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  Speaker 2: in Hook. I love. I don't like the movie Hook,
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  Speaker 2: but I love the costumes and I love that pirate
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  Speaker 2: ship set. It is not it is not for me.
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  Speaker 2: I was almost said, it's not a good movie. But
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  Speaker 2: that's not fair. It's not for me. I don't like
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  Speaker 2: the pacing for an adventure movie. I don't don't. I
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  Speaker 2: don't like most of the performances apart from Dustin Hoffman
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  Speaker 2: who and and oh me he also Bob Hoskins. I
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  Speaker 2: loved them, but everyone else I kind of didn't like.
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  Speaker 1: See I love Gosh all of a sudden now I
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  Speaker 1: want to say Paul Robelino, but that's not his name.
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  Speaker 1: Dante Basco not the same person. Yeah, yeah, but I
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  Speaker 1: also like Dante Basco like in other things. He's also
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  Speaker 1: a voice actor, and like the cartoon Avatar and stuff.
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  Speaker 2: I think he's very talented. I just don't like this
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  Speaker 2: performance in that movie, which you know, I don't like
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  Speaker 2: Robin Williams performance in that movie. It's just not it
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  Speaker 2: doesn't work for me. But I love the sets, I
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  Speaker 2: love the score, I love like I love all the
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  Speaker 2: technical aspects of it. I don't like the make Believe
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  Speaker 2: Feast part. I don't like that part. But anyway, Jonathan,
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  Speaker 2: I don't. I just said, okay, but I like I was.
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  Speaker 1: Giving you a disapproving bangering, which I don't think actually works,
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  Speaker 1: but I tried.
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  Speaker 2: I like the Pirate ship set a lot, so that
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  Speaker 2: Jolly Roger would be one or the US Reliant from
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  Speaker 2: Star Trek Wrath of Khan. It's the ship that Khan
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  Speaker 2: common Deer's. I've always loved that ship design with the
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  Speaker 2: Nay cells that are underneath the ship disc. It's my
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  Speaker 2: favorite Star Trek Federation ship.
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  Speaker 1: Gotcha. I do have two. I have two runners up because,
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  Speaker 1: like I said, Moya is just my initial instinct. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the runners up is the ship from Flood to the Navigator.
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  Speaker 2: Because okay, Paul Rubins.
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  Speaker 1: No, I don't want to command Paul Rubens.
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  Speaker 2: I mean you would be.
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  Speaker 1: That's the voice actor within the mythos of the world.
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  Speaker 1: The ship, I mean, I can't believe I'm saying the tartist,
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  Speaker 1: but no one commands the tartst The Tartets commands itself.
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  Speaker 1: You just go for the ride, right. I guess the
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  Speaker 1: same could be said for the ship and the Flood
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  Speaker 1: of the Navigator. Does that have a name? The ship
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  Speaker 1: and the Flood of the Navigator.
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  Speaker 2: I think the kid gives them a name. It's been
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's been like forty years since I've seen
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  Speaker 2: that movie, but I want to say the kid probably
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  Speaker 2: gives them a name at some point.
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  Speaker 1: I just the spaceship is the Trimaxian drone ship from
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  Speaker 1: feilan Oh. They name it Max Okay. The other the
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  Speaker 1: other ship is the Hispaniola from Mupet Treasure Island.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, that's good. I mean, I also wouldn't say no
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  Speaker 2: to the Queen Anne's Revenge from Pirates of the Caribbean,
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  Speaker 2: even though that particular movie is terrible, That ship looks amazing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I just a crew of Muppet pirates sounds like
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  Speaker 1: I mean, not like short term like an Airbnb kind
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  Speaker 1: of vacation for time.
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  Speaker 2: I was about to say, like, like the day you
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  Speaker 2: guys get cabin fever, It'll be entertaining for about three
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  Speaker 2: and a half minutes and then it's just gonna be maddening.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Well, that that concludes our question of the week.
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  Speaker 2: Let's talk about stuff that we've watched.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 2: We took a day a week off obviously because we
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  Speaker 2: had the fourth of July weekend and we were both
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  Speaker 2: busy with holiday stuff, so we've been gone for two weeks. However,
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  Speaker 2: in my case, that doesn't mean that I racked up
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  Speaker 2: a ton of geeky watch time. I did watch K
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  Speaker 2: Pop Demon Hunters, the animated film that's done by the
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  Speaker 2: same team that does the Spider Verse movies. I thought
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  Speaker 2: the animation was great. I thought the performances were lots
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  Speaker 2: of fun. I thought the story was just okay. I
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  Speaker 2: thought that actually, if they had taken some of the
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  Speaker 2: songs out and dedicated that time to characterization and developing
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  Speaker 2: the plot, it would have been better. But I understand
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  Speaker 2: that it needed to have K Pop in it because
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  Speaker 2: otherwise it's not K Pop Demon Hunters, So I get it.
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  Speaker 2: I just feel like, there were a lot of things
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  Speaker 2: that I had questions about that are never answered and
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  Speaker 2: it would have been nice to at least hint at them,
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  Speaker 2: and it really didn't. So I was I would give
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  Speaker 2: it like a C rating if I were giving it
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  Speaker 2: a greade. It passes, may maybe a C plus like
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  Speaker 2: C plus B minus territory.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Then I also watched the third episode of Squid Game
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  Speaker 2: and started the fourth episode, and then I decided I
• 13:14
  Speaker 2: have to nope out because while I was kind of
• 13:17
  Speaker 2: hoping for you know, character struggles against unrelenting challenges but
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  Speaker 2: comes out on top, I'm now convinced that that's not
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  Speaker 2: how this is going to end.
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  Speaker 1: Oh no.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm like, look, if I want to be miserable,
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  Speaker 2: I would just watch Walking Dead.
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  Speaker 1: So I mean, yeah, so.
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  Speaker 2: I decided to pull the plug on it. Like it's
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  Speaker 2: kind of like my brain is screaming at me because
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  Speaker 2: it's that thing where you leave something unfinished and your
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  Speaker 2: brain's just like you just you need to tie up
• 13:48
  Speaker 2: those loose ends. You got to finish it. But I'm like,
• 13:51
  Speaker 2: I just I don't know, I just can't. So I'm
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  Speaker 2: out for Squid Game. I don't care if they make
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  Speaker 2: another season. It's just it's too mean and too cynical,
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  Speaker 2: and I understand why it is, but it's not what
• 14:05
  Speaker 2: I need in this moment in my life. So Ariel,
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  Speaker 2: what have you been watching?
• 14:12
  Speaker 1: I have been watching murder Bot, which we all know
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  Speaker 1: on Apple TV. I am so excited about it. It's
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  Speaker 1: the final episode came out last night today. I haven't
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: watched the final episode yet, but I'm really enjoying it. Also,
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: after I was trying to find the the thing, I
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  Speaker 1: shared about it with some of my friends. But after
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  Speaker 1: today's episode, Martha Wells is dropping, who is the author
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: of the murder Bock Bought series, dropping a new murder
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: Bot book. So exciting, just to tide you over until
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  Speaker 1: hopefully season two. I don't think it's been greenlit yet,
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: but it's such a delightful show, Like it's everything I
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: want in a show. It's maybe it's right up there
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: with like Watchman and for my favorite shows, but also
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: like fun. It's just fun. The performances are great, there's
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: a lot of comedy. Sanctuary Moon is worth it for.
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  Speaker 1: It's worth it for Sanctuary Moon alone, which is the
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  Speaker 1: fictional show within the show that because the plot behind
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: murder bot. I think we've talked about this before. Is
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  Speaker 1: it's a it's a like a sentient robot, part organic,
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  Speaker 1: part machine that hacks its governor module, which means it
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: doesn't need to obey humans anymore. Humans kind of gross
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  Speaker 1: it out. Human functions, human emotions, all that stuff. And really,
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: now that it's free, just wants to spend all day
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: watching like serial television, like soap operas and stuff, and
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: it's delightful to watch all of the characters grow. But
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: one of the fictional his its favorite fictional series is
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: Sanctuary Moon and that's full of celebrities and it's hilarious.
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: So that I watched the final uh bracket competition of
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: After Midnight. I have some episodes of After Midnight to watch,
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: but the show's over now. But it was a goofy
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: popcorn potato chip kind of a TV show that I
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: really enjoyed for a while. I've started the new season
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: of The Bear and I'm enjoying it. We continuing to
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: watch everything that comes out on dropout TV, because you know,
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: so like cloud word ho and Game Changers. The latest
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: Game Changer if you haven't watched it, Jonathan's There's a
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: Price of Right Prices Right Wheel and they play it
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  Speaker 1: like a flux game m where the rules keep changing.
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  Speaker 2: The rules.
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but they each rules. So you spin the wheel,
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  Speaker 1: you get a rule. That rule applies to the person
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  Speaker 1: who spun the wheel only, and so they have to
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  Speaker 1: wear them on their body. And then they get like
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  Speaker 1: modifiers and prompts, and if they do the prompt right,
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  Speaker 1: they can shred a rule. They get chances to like
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  Speaker 1: flip rules and change them out. It's delightful. The way
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  Speaker 1: it ends is so off the wall, it's just amazing.
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  Speaker 2: So that sounds like a Moose Master mixed with the
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: Big Wheel from Prices Right.
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  Speaker 1: A little bit. And then I've been watching the latest
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  Speaker 1: season of task Master, which has also been a delightful
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  Speaker 1: amount of fun.
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  Speaker 2: Mm hmm, so cool. Yeah, I've heard that that the
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: new season of The Bear is more bearable than the
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: previous season for some I was I was hearing I
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: think it was a different podcast where I was hearing
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: some of the hosts kind of win John about season
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: three saying that it felt like it was a lot
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: of treading water, like setting stuff up and not paying
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  Speaker 2: it off, and that that feels like season four is
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  Speaker 2: correcting that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, for sure. And I mean part of that
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: is because it came out like right as soon as
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: like they had to rush as soon as the strikes
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  Speaker 1: were done, right, and there was a writer strike and
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: an actor strike, so that that kind of there were
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  Speaker 1: I mean there was, there was. I thought a lot
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: of fun and a lot of fun is such a
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: subjective word in season three of The Bear, but I
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: am enjoying season four. I feel like there is character
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: growth happening and momentum and that is a lot of fun.
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: And so yeah, that's I enjoy it. It is definitely
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: not for everyone. It can be a stressful show, but
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  Speaker 1: I find it rewarding as well.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: Well. Speaking of rewards, how about you reward our listeners
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: with some short news items in our thirty seconds or less.
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: Sure. Yeah, it's a great way to tell me to
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: stop talking so long.
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  Speaker 2: No, No, not that, it's just like I was just like,
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  Speaker 2: I have nothing to add to this, so I'm just
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  Speaker 2: gonna move it on.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: It's good, but I would highly recommend Murder But like
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: I know, you've got a long list of shows. Watch
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: murder bot.
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: Okay, watch it, watch it, watch it. It's it's actually
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: so good. You know the thing that's on my list
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: that I am definitely seeing next though, right what Superman?
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: Since Suman tomorrow morning.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: I want to see it this weekend, but maybe maybe
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: I'll see it Sunday evening. I have a friends. Two
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: of my friends are getting married tomorrow and I'm so
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: excited to be a part and get to help them
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: with that, and that will be my day well worth
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: putting Superman off. But I do want to see it.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: I would have tried to see it last night, but
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: I spent seven hours at the dealership trying to get
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: my car fixed.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: So yeah, and I am currently of the age where
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: I can no longer do the midnight premiere stuff anymore
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: and still function the next day.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but I look forward to hearing what you think.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: I'll try to see it as soon as possible so
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: we can talk about it in a non spoilerly spoilery way.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: Here sounds good. Also, I listened to the latest episode
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: of Saw Bones, which the suggestion on that episode was
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: from Jonathan and it was a great suggestion and it
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: was a wonderful episode. If you don't like bugs, it
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: might give you a bit of the but it was
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: very good.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: I wrote in with a suggestion. It was based off
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: something that they mentioned in the episode that happened just
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: before that, which was all about folk remedies for bugstings,
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: and they mentioned the Schmidt pain scale for stinging insects.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: And I said, you know, I think that would make
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: a really good episode if you just dove into that
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: further as opposed to just mentioning it. And so they did.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: And Sydney, who is the main smart I mean, Justin
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: is a smart person too, but Sydney is the family doctor,
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: so she's the one who's got a lot of like
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: the medical knowledge.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: Also, Frickin loved your suggestion. She was so happy you
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: gave it to her because it gave her this whole
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: like research avenue to go down. So yeah, just props
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: for props is to you, my friend.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: Thank you. Well, Lynn seconds now gently go to the
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: thirty seconds or less and I believe you. Maybe first yes,
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: she want me to Derailie again.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: I'm kidding, Okay. Night at the Museum by Sean Levy
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: with Ben Stiller as kind of the lead guy who
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: is the night watchman of the museum. I am told
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: I've never actually seen one of the movies all the
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: way Through is getting a new movie. They're really popular.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: I have so many friends who really like them. Hopefully
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: this I need to watch it at some point to
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: see what all my friends are talking about. And hopefully
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: this new one will live up to prior joy and expectations.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: After more than twenty years and millions of dollars spent,
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: Warner Brothers has allowed the film rights to expire for
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: a new adaptation of Akira. Over the years, folks like
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: Leo DiCaprio and Taika White Titi were involved. It even
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: went into pre production more than once, only to get
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: shut down and retooled. Some versions were more faithful to
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: the source material than others, but none of them made
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: it all the way through. I hope someone actually makes
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: a documentary about this failed project.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: M Sillipsist Films is making a top secret service movie.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: It's based off of a action comedy comic book by
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: Zach Keller. They describe it as Midnight Run, a movie
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: I have not seen but I assume is like Lethal
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: Weapon and forty eight Hours, another movie I have not seen,
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: but I assume is like Rush Hour, an Air Force
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: one which I have seen, so like an elite kill
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: team I'm reading the log line. An elite kill team
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: assaults a remote Montana ranch to young secret Service agents
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: must protect the retired president they were assigned to only decide,
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: only to discover that he's like linked to an old
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: alien cover up. I ended up paraphrasing at the end
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: because it's long. That could be fun.
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: You heard it here first, the Hollywood Reporter has Okay,
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: let's let's get the sillies out. Okay, okay. The Hollywood
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: Reporter has an article about casting for the remake of Highlander,
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: a project that I keep forgetting is happening. Henry Cavill
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: will be Connor McLeod, the character played by Christopher Lambert
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: in the original. So who's going to replace Sean Connery
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: as Ramirez, Well, that would be Russell Crowe. Marissa Abella
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: will also star as an immortal swordswoman and one of
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: McLeod's former loves. I think they're trying to set up
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: a franchise here, so in that sense there can't be
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: only one.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: We're getting a new TV show called The Pirate King,
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: which stars Rob Briggle and Jordiana Brewster. It's about a
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: guy who to try to reconcile with his family. He's
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: like he he's a marine with PTSD and addiction issues.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: He joins. He joins a group of pirate re enactors
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: and tries to repair his relationship with his family. You know,
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: I'm a LARPer so and I played a pirate Paluza
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: for years, so anything with pirates and reenact gets my
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: immediate attention.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: Uh yeah, And just as a quick addition to the
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: thirty seconds or less bit, the article talks about it
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: being based off the real pirate Uh and let's see
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: what was the name again? I had it, had it
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: in front of me a second ago. The real pirate
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: mister Willis Todd Willis. So I looked this up because
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: it's like, I've never heard of Todd Willis. He's a
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: pirate reenactor. So the fact that they referenced him as
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: a pirate captain but he's a reenactor was kind of
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: funny to me. Okay, back to thirty seconds or Less.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: Mahash all Ali was recently promoting the debut of Jurassic
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: World Rebirth and found that the one thing that is
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: even more persistent than a hungary dinosaur would be questions
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: about vampires. Day Walker's blade, specifically when asked about an
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: update to the beleaguered project, Ali deflected and said, leave
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: me out of it. He wasn't dismissing the film, but
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: he does seem like he'd really love to talk about
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: literally anything else.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: Because he has no answers. So much so that some
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: of the costumes for a previous iteration of this movie
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: that he was supposed to be attached to were sold
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: to the movie Sinners to be used that. Apparently, Blade
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: was supposed to delve some fit into nineteen thirties politics
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: and race relationship relations and it looks like the new
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: version will not. But it did provide some pretty amazing
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: costumes for Sinners.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: There we go, and that's thirty seconds or less. We
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: meandered a little bit. Boy, he made it through. All right, Well,
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: let's see.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: Too much, not too much.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: We'll talk about a few things now that we kind
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: of pushed into the not really a fit for our show,
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: one of which you could argue possibly could fit. But
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: it's a little twee, So we'll get to that.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: But it's more than a little twee.
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: It's exceedingly twee. It's like, Hey, who's going to make
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: the next Juno? Except make it animated and a musical slower. Yeah,
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: we'll talk about that when we get to it. But
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: first up, we got a trailer for the next entry
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: in the train Wreck documentary series on Netflix. You remember
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: we talked about another one of those just a couple
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: of weeks ago. There's a boy balloon boy. Yeah, there's
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: been a whole bunch of these. Obviously, the one that
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: I saw for this episode was storm Area fifty one.
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: So this is back when a few years back, like
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: ten years ago now, where there was essentially this this
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: kind of growing movement along certain areas of the Internet
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: to gather at the boundary of Area fifty one, which
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: is the popular name for I think it's room Lake.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: I think it's groom Lake.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: It's it's a it's in Roswell, New Mexico.
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: No it's not.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: It's not.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: No, it's not in Rosweld, New Mexico. How much those
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: two those two spots are hours apart. Okay, it's often
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: it's often conflated with Roswell, New Mexico because Area fifty
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: one is often used as a point of interest for
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: UFO conspiracy theorists, so often the two get conflated. But
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: they are not in the same area. So it's a
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: Groom Lake or Grovelake, I can't remember. Anyway, it's it's
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: a it's a top secret like essentially an air Force
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: research and development facility where they designed and prototyped things
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: like spyplanes. But because of the secrecy and its remote location, uh,
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: and because these aircraft could often do things that other
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: aircraft just could not do, there was this whole rumor
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: about it being like a place where alien activity was happening.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: Groom Lake, Groom Lake.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: Thank you. And so way back, you know, in the
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: mid two thousands twenty tens, it was like people joking about, hey,
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: if we all showed up, they couldn't shoot all of
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: us because it is like top secret, and they were
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: like signs saying, like trespassers could be shot. They would have,
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: you know, teams of people patrolling the perimeter line making
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: sure that folks were staying out a super top secret facility.
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: It's it's crazy because it's a secret facility everybody knows about.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: And then this this online trend became like a craze
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: and tons of people started showing up to an area
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: that just was not was not built to handle that
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: many people, and so this looks like a fascinating documentary.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: It does, especially since the people who kind of organized
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: it were like, well, I thought it was funny at
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: the time. Whoops. Apparently this is a craze that can
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: either I learned about and completely blocked out of my memory,
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: or just I was unaware of it.
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: Just it.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: I don't know, like I get the alien craze, you know,
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: I used to like aliens in the nineties in early
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: two thousands when aliens were cool, because they were for
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: a while, like as a as a fashion aesthetic. But yeah, no,
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: it just blows my mind that people would do this.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: I don't want to mess with any top secret facilities.
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is one of those things where like the
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: secrecy is what really bred the fascination, and it just
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: kind of fed in on itself over and over again.
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: The documentary comes out July twenty ninth. I might want
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: to watch this because way back when I was a
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: writer for HowStuffWorks dot Com, I wrote the article how
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: Area fifty one works.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: Oh, very interesting, Yeah, I will. I should go read
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: that article. I will also say every time you put
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: in one of these train wreck things, I think it's
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: another movie from Amy Schumer, so fair enough.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: We next had a trailer for a series that's coming
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: out on Amazon Prime. It's a six part series of
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: six episodes called The Assassin. It has Keeley Hawes as
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: a retired hit woman named Julie and her grown son.
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: Freddie Highmore is playing a guy named Edward. That's Freddie
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: Himore is not her son. Freddie Higmore is the actor
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: who's playing the son Edward. Yeah, it's hot in my
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: office and my brain no worse anymore.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: Also, Freddie Himore used to be a kid and now
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: he's an adult, so.
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well he used to play like a very young
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: doctor on The Good Doctor.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: And also was the kid in Bates Motel.
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: Yes, so like. Based upon the preview, it looks like
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: this is a case where Edward is unaware that his
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: mom is a former assassin and then like people from
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: her past are coming after her for one reason or another,
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: or after her son possibly, and so she has to
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: kind of come out of retirement in order to stay alive.
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: This comes out July twenty fifth on Amazon Prime.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: Like a less funny version of Fubar. We also got
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: a trailer for Troubleman, which stars Michael Jy White, who
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: I love. I love Michael Jai White as an Atlanta
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: PI who's searching for a missing R and B artist.
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he teams up with Method Band, which is awesome.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: Michael Ji White has done a lot of stuff, a
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: lot of different genres of movie and characters and things
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: like that, but he tends to go back to movies
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: that are vaguely at least vaguely reminiscent of like black
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: exploitation movies, sometimes more than vaguely, and it's it's a
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: very like particular style, but he does it's so flipping.
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, this this trailer looks like there's lots of
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: fun kickfighting in it as well as as well as
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: like fighting what what John Wick might consider gun Fu,
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: although I think gun Fu actually came out of what
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: was it? Equilibrium? Was that the name of the movie
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: with Christian Bale? Yeah? I think it was. But yeah,
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: it's it's it looks like it has a good sense
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: of humor, a great sense of action, and a lot
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: of style, and hey, we got to represent our Atlanta
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: stories too.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: For sure. Kickfighting in gung Fu feels like it would
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: be a great cover band name.
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this comes out August first, So yeah, I'll probably
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: watch this because it looks like I mean, it also
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: looks like method Man and Michael j. White have really
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: good on screen on screen chemistry with like Michael Jai
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: White playing like the competent, capable, serious character. He's got
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: a little bit of a sense of humor to him too,
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: but it's like a there's an edge to him. Metha
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: man comes across as being a little more not silly,
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: but a little more humorous.
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it looks like it's gonna be a good duo.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: I need to watch his Michael Jay White's Western. I
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: didn't ever watch that when I came.
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I need to see that one too. It
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: looked like it would be a lot of fun. Like
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: I've the stuff I've seen him in are all like
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: they kind of fall into that direct to video martial
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: arts action film category. It's also a shame that he
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: had a scene in kill Bill that was cut. I
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: would have loved to have seen him in kill Bill,
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: and I've seen the deleted scene, but it would have
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: been fun for that to have been in the movie.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. And next we've gotten back to the
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: twee wee it's twee. There's a trailer for Boys Go
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: to Jupiter, which is like the slowest paced comfort guy
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: meets up with a girl and then there's an alien
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: in her backpack and some music.
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: It's so Jupiter in the case of the trailer. So
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: first of all, Jupiter in this case is not referencing
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: the planet. It's Jupiter Florida. It's set in Florida. It's
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: set between Christmas and New Year's. The main character's name
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: is Billy five thousand, don't know why. He hustles as
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: a gig economy worker doing deliveries for a fictional app
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: called Grubster and runs into a former classmate who whom
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: he always had a crush on. This is also where
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: he encounters the alien named Donut, and then very slow
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: tweet adventures follow as they are pursued by Doctor Dolphin
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: voiced by Janine Garoffalo, who wants Donut back. She runs
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: a mega corporation that makes orange juice.
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's it's a cute story. It also
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: stars Jack Corbett cole Escola, who recently won a Tony
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: for Omary on Broadway, and Demi edit Jueybee, who is
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: huge geeky does a lot of dropout stuff.
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's uh so, I can't say that this trailer
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: grabbed me at all. It's not my style, it's not
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: my but it does. It does make me feel like
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: this is this is the latest version of Juneo but
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: updated for today's audiences.
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and last and stuff that doesn't fit. We
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: got a trailer for the new season at King of
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: the Hill where everybody's all grown up.
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Season fourteen, Peggy and Hank are returning to Arlin,
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: Texas after Hank had taken a job doing propane out
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: in Saudi Arabia. So now they're back in the good
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: old us of A. But things just ain't the same
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: as they used to be, as Hank might say, and
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: so it's them trying.
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: To that's a good impression.
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: Thanks them trying to navigate. Hey, you know what you
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: get with the last name like Strickland, You get a
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: lot of King of the Hill references because of Strickland propanee.
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: Oh yes, oh, Strickland. Like in the eighties it was
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: principal Strickland from Back to the Future. But then you know,
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: late nineties, two thousands, it was King of the Hill, references. Yeah,
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: so Bobby is now in his twenties and is working
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: as a chef. Lots of hilarity ensues this well debut
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: on August fourth. It's going to be on Hulu and
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: Disney Plus. And I mean, yeah, like for anyone who
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: was a big fan of King of the Hill, this
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: should be a lot of fun. I don't know how
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: they're going to address I can't remember the character's name,
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: but you know, sadly, the actress who provided her voice
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: passed away many years ago now.
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: But it was it. Well, they've had two voice actors
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: pass away.
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: Yes, that's true.
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: Johnny Redcorn also.
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: Yes, yeah that was terrible. That was terrible. What that Yeah,
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: it was recent.
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah it was Britney Murphy played lou Anne.
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: But yeah, that comes out August fourth. So for those
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: who are Mike Judge fans, you got something to look
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: forward to. And now we can move on to stuff
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: that's in our show notes. So the first thing that's
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: on our actual show notes is a discussion point, which
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: should be fun with a lot of lag. But it's
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: because we got some information about a spinoff series for
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: the Big Bang Theory. We knew this was going to happen.
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: This has been in the works for a long time.
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: It is titled Stuart Fails to Save the Universe. They
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: shot a pilot and the pilot has been ordered to
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: series and the premise is bonkers.
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: I mean so, despite having people connected to that show
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: that I love, not like, not directly, but semi directly,
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: Big Bang Theory was never my jam. I felt it
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: was a caricatures and geek culture instead of the honest
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: humor of geek culture. But that's just me. For people
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: who love it, great, for people who worked on it, amazing,
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: But this one, I don't know. It's so out there
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: that I have to give it a try.
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so let me let me give a quick update
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: on what this premise is because it's wild like this is.
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: Keep in mind, Big Bang Theory was more or less
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: a grounded sitcom. It certainly did delve into caricatures of
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: geek culture, like you were saying, Ariel, and I agree
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: one with everything you said. Like I thought, there were
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: some early episodes that had promise, like I think of
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: this one episode in season one where they accidentally order
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: a full size replica of the time Machine thinking that
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: it's a smaller model and then they end up pretending
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: to travel through time, and everybody starts running around like
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: in fast motion to simulate the fact that someone, the
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: person sitting in the time machine is traveling through time,
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: and I'm like, this is adorable. This is very much
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: a geek culture thing. I love it, And then everything
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: else felt like it was a geek face. I guess
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: it was not good, but yeah, Stuart Save fails to
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: save the universe? Is the premise is that Stuart breaks
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: a device that Leonard and Sheldon had built, some sort
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: of I assume quantum device that opens up wormholes to
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: other parallel universes, and then he starts to encounter variations
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: of people I'm supposed I guess people he knows, so
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: I'm guessing that gives the opportunity for people to return
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: to this series as different versions of characters that they've
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: played in Big Bang Theory. That's a wild premise, Like,
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: that's a science fiction, crazy premise for this show. That
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: again is a spinoff of a much more grounded sitcom.
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: And the only other example I can think of off
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: the top of my head that is similar to this
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: is how Mork and Mindy was a spin off of
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: Happy Days.
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean or Mork and Mindy in Happy
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: Days at All.
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: Mark showed up in an episode of Happy Days, and
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: that is what gave the network the desire to launch
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: his own sitcom.
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: Gotcha, gotcha because Stuart did show up in his comic
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: book shop, did show up a lot more in Big
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: Bang Theory.
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: Yep. Yeah. He played a much larger role in the
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: last couple of seasons too. Like in the early seasons,
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: he was just someone who you would occasionally see, maybe
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: once or twice a season as the as the characters
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: went to the comic book Shop.
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I will give it a shot. Why not?
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: Yeap. Other folks who are in it are Lauren Lapkis
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: plays Stuart's girlfriend Denise. Brian Posain. I love Brian Posaan.
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: Lauren Lapkus is hilarious. I love Brian Posane too. He's
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: playing a geologist named Bert and John Ross Bowie as
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: Barry Kripkey, another character that was established in Big Bang Theory.
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: He's a quantum physicist. Yeah, this is just a it's
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: kind of whack a doodle crazy, but I mean it
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: has been picked up like it's it's not just a
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: dead pilot. Although that would have been a fun one
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: to listen to on Dead Pilot Society.
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah for sure. Uh. Something else that is is not
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: dead but is at least delayed is sub Nautica. To wow,
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: going from time travel in a comic book store to
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: time travel in water planets? Uh not really?
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: Is it a time travel? No? Yeah?
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: I mean you like travel like.
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: Yes, you did, and it does take time to get
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: to where you're going. So I guess in that way
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: like all time traveling, like.
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: It takes, but like you're traveling a good period of time.
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: I think at the beginning of the sub Nautica two
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: trailer it says, where you're traveling this many years, light years, hours, whatever.
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: Now I'm not remembering. Now you're making me question my memory,
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: which is probably a good thing anyhow. Subnautica is a
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: game where you explore alien ruins in a giant ocean
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: and you take samples of different sea life, and then
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: there are these giant leviathan things that try to eat
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: you and kill you. So part of it is very
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: cozy ocean. If you find the ocean cozy like I do,
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: im part of it. Part of it is terrifying. I
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: have this game on my metaquest. I get so motion sick,
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: I can't even get out of the initial pod.
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's a it's a resource gathering and base
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: building game as well, right, it has all those different
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: features to it. I can't imagine navigating this game in VR.
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: I think I would. I think I also would feel
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: like hurling just by just by looking around the startup area.
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's a very pretty game. I love watching
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: like plays of it and clips from it, both the
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: terrifying and the cozy. Sub Nautica two is a vowing
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: for multiplayer which is fantastic, but they have delayed the
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: release of it until twenty twenty six. They say that.
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: The studio says it's because there are a couple of
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: features that aren't working quite like they want it to,
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: which I fully back in support holding off until the
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: game runs great. Some people think it might be because
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: of a change in leadership, but that's just a rumor.
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: Well, let me make stir the pot a little more, okay,
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: so one of those leaders so okay. The developer of
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: this game is called Unknown Worlds. That developer company is
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: owned by a larger company called Crafton k r aft
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: O n Crafton essentially came in and laid off a
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: large portion of the leadership team at Unknown Worlds, including
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: a guy named Charlie Cleveland, who now alleges that the
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: reason for the delay may not be technical at all.
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: In fact, Cleveland says, no, this could go into early
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: access now today, like it's that close, but that the
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: reason why this is again Cleveland's allegations, the reason why
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: Crafton has chosen to delay it is because technically there
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: is an agreement in place where Crafton would need to
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: pay out a two hundred and fifty million dollar bonus
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: to Unknown Worlds if the company if the developer hits
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: certain thresholds. So the implication here is that Crafton has
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: purposefully sabotaged the debut of Subnotica two in order to
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: not have to make this bonus payout that If that's yeah,
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: if that's true, Like, I agree with you, Ariel. If
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: the reason why it's delayed is because the developers genuinely
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: feel they need more time to put polish on this
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: to make it something that players will really enjoy, that's
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: admirable and I agree that's what they should do. But
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: if it's because the parent company is like we don't
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: want to spend two hundred and fifty million dollars if
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: we don't have to. So let's let's pump the brake
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: so that they cannot. We are going to make it
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: impossible for them to meet their threshold. That really stinks.
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: That does really stink. I would not be for that
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: at all. But the game looks great. Maybe I'll try
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: my hand at playing it again, whether on PC or
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: I don't know if it's available on console. Surely it's
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: got to be. I didn't even look or on the
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: meda quest. I do have it like modded so that
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: it should be smoother. We'll see.
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: I have never been able to play VR games for
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: any length of time without feeling like I will never
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: be able to stand up again.
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: I tell you. So there is a beat saber. I
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: have no problem because you stand in one place and
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: everything flies at you.
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: So there's no like movement issues that I have. It's great.
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: There's also like some puzzle games that work pretty well.
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: It's just you know, if I move the way the
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: headset is telling me too, then I'm going to run
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: into furniture.
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: Well, sometimes dramamine helps me, but I had to take
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: Dramamine to play the co op version of Portal two
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: as well.
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: So gosh, well, let me tell you a movie I
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: definitely would not want to experience in VR, and that
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: is The Running Man.
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: Oh you mean you didn't You wouldn't want to be
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: a contestant on the game show they tried to make
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: of it either, Yeah, we did.
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: We talk about that in the old version of LLENC
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: years ago.
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: So I think so.
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: I think Ben Affleck was like behind that at one point,
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: like it was his production company or something. So let's
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: let's let me set the stage here. So The Running
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: Man originally is a short novel, a novella really that
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: Stephen King wrote. It might have been under his Richard
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: Bachman name, I can't remember. But The Running Man is
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: a story that was adapted loosely is putting it kindly
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: into a film starring Arld Schwarzenegger, But it only vaguely
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: had any resemblance to the underlying story, Like Schwarzenegger played
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: a character named Ben Richards and there was a guy
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: who was in charge of the game show called Killian.
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: Those character names show up in the novel too, but
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: other than that, there was really not much similarity. Now
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: there's a new adaptation coming out starring the very ever
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: present Glenn Powell. My personal opinion of Glenn Powell is
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: I find him remarkably bland. But that's me. There are
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: people out there who are probably big Glenn Powell fans,
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: and I'm sure he's a nice guy and he works hard,
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: but golly, I just think of Glenn Powell as the
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: guy you go to and you can't get Bradley Cooper.
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: I kind of think so. And yes, this game show
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: is called The Runner and was supposed to take place
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen.
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah wow, yeah, so like almost ten years ago. So
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: the story and this new movie adaptation follows the character
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: of Ben Richards, who is married and has a baby
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: who has medical needs. But this is set in a
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: not too distant future where the ability to earn a
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: living is pretty limited and Ben Richards is effectively blacklisted
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: from being able to get employed, and the corporations essentially
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: are running things and in order to keep people placid,
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: it's the whole Breton circus is thing. In order to
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: keep them give them a sense of hope without actually
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: giving them anything of material value, they have these crazy
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: game shows. They have horrible, horrible personal risk involved. Some
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: of them are just things like you're going to get maimed,
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: but you might make some money. Running Man is like
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: their top tier show, and the idea is that you
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: go on the run for thirty days and if you
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: can survive for thirty days without being captured or killed,
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: then you win a huge amount of money. The flip
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: side is there's some professional assassins who are tracking you down,
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: plus anyone who sees you out in public can attempt
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: to try and capture you. And so Ben Richards agrees
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: to go on this game show in order to make
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: money and is working hard to evade capture, despite having
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: to do things like record himself at the end of
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: every day to kind of have an ongoing record showing
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: that he's still in the play area. Essentially, they hasn't
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: just dropped off the grid. And Dan Killian in this
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: case is played by Josh Brolin. He looks like he's
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: having a lot of fun in this. Michael Sarah's also
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: in it. Ben Richards runs into some resistance fighters who
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: are trying to bring the corporations down and it gets
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: a little more complicated at that point. This looks like
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: it's much more faithful to the original story, and in
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: that sense, I'm very interested in it. I just wish
• 50:57
  Speaker 2: they had not cas Glenn Powell. Again, nothing personal against
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: him other than I don't like him. I guess that
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: is personal.
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, something kind of the definition. Listen, you personally like him,
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: you don't know him.
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: I don't know him. I just haven't liked anything I've
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: seen him in, or at least I haven't liked his
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: performance in anything I've seen him in. It comes out
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: November seventh.
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: It's a tweet version of back Bradley Cooper.
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: Now that Bradley Cooper is not the most dynamic I
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: don't think of Bradley Cooper is being a super dynamic
• 51:33
  Speaker 2: actor either, and I think even less. So, Okay, that's
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: technically animated.
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: I mean so Edgar Wright makes really fun Chase movies,
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: so I think it'll be good.
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: But also, that's right. It is anright film.
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: It is a film, and it's got a great rest
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: of the cast.
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: It just.
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: It looks like the trailer makes it look way more
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: fun than I know it's going to be. I feel
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: like it's actually going to be very bleak, and I
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: don't I want to watch it, but I don't want
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: to watch it, and I'm mad for them making me
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: want to watch it.
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: The story is pretty bleak. I mean, like, yeah, I
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: won't I won't say that the bad guys win in
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: the end, but I won't say the good guys win
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: in the end either, for certain.
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: I haven't read the book, but i've heard also speaking
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: of Bland, the Bland version of Mad Max is also something.
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: We got a trailer for.
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: Another post apocalypse movie.
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's called Afterburn. It stars Dave Batista, Like the
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: Apocalypse happens and it shuts down. I think. I think
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: the deal and you can correct me if I'm wrong,
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: is that it shuts down like modern like electronics and technology.
• 52:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a it's a massive it's a massive solar flare.
• 52:56
  Speaker 2: It's the same thing as if an e MP and
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: electromagnetic pulse had gone off across the entire plant. So
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: it overloads electronic devices and shorts them out, and that
• 53:08
  Speaker 2: includes things like power grids. This is, by the way,
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: it's it's based off a comic book, so it's it's
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: an adaptation technically.
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: Gotcha to me, Like, I know it's based off a
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: comic book. It to me, it feels from watching the
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: trailer like just an excuse to make a load tech
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: action movie.
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's so. The the premise here is that Batista
• 53:33
  Speaker 2: is a former soldier who's now kind of a treasure hunter.
• 53:36
  Speaker 2: He helps he helps acquire like rare pre disaster works
• 53:43
  Speaker 2: of art for example, and other items for clients for
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: like high amounts of money. And he's hired to find
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: and repossess the Mona Lisa, which, for some reason that's
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: not made clear in the in the trailer is being
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: fought over by lots of people with guns, and so, yeah,
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: that's kind of the basic premise there. This was a
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: movie that had kind of a false start, like it was.
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: I think they were working on this way back in
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: like twenty eighteen, but they weren't able to actually start
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: shooting till twenty twenty four.
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: Poor Batista, like he's got a run of movies that
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: have had false starts.
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I will say this one, this one, at least
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: to me from a technical perspective, looks like it was
• 54:32
  Speaker 2: better done than that other post apocalyptic movie he was doing.
• 54:37
  Speaker 2: I can't remember even what it was anymore. It was
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: like we talked about it, maybe like four months ago.
• 54:42
  Speaker 2: But it was it was like some sci fi magic
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: kind of movie thing, do you know what I'm talking about?
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: Like there was likemant mutants in it or something. I
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: can't remember it was, but yeah, it was garred. I
• 54:58
  Speaker 2: don't remember what it was.
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: Was it in the Lost Lands? Maybe with Mila Djojohovic?
• 55:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, Yeah, that's it. That's the one I
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: was thinking of. That one really didn't look very good
• 55:12
  Speaker 2: to me. This one at least looks a little better.
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: But I've never read the comic book, so I don't
• 55:18
  Speaker 2: know anything.
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: It doesn't look bad. It just doesn't look exceptional to me. Agreed,
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: So you noped out of squid Games? Yeah, but do
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: you still have an itch for, uh, for that style
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: of TV show?
• 55:37
  Speaker 2: If you're asking me if I want to watch a
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: series where people are abducted and forced to play games
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: or else they'll be killed, I think I'm good.
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: Okay, Because we got a trailer for season three of
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: Alice in Borderland, which is based off of a manga
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: and the story is that a group of people are
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: transported to a parallel universe in which they have to
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: play and win games to main alive. So it's it's
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: less like play games to die and more like to survive.
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: And it's in a parallel universe, so less uh more
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: sci fi and less stakes. No, still not selling you.
• 56:19
  Speaker 2: Uh no, No, haven't haven't been convinced yet. Like I
• 56:26
  Speaker 2: watched the trailer and I thought the trailer was, uh, mysterious,
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: but I didn't have any desire to see the mystery solved.
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: Gotcha? So you are you have been turned off of
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: all types shows of that kind.
• 56:39
  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know about all, but I think
• 56:41
  Speaker 2: for the time being, I'm good. It's like, this series
• 56:49
  Speaker 2: certainly has elements of other Japanese storytelling in it that
• 56:54
  Speaker 2: I find interesting, but also hard for me to access
• 56:57
  Speaker 2: because there's just some fundamental differences between that and you know,
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: traditionally Western storytelling narrative structure, and I'm just not smart
• 57:10
  Speaker 2: enough to be able to adapt to it. So this
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: really didn't do. Plus i'd have to go back and
• 57:17
  Speaker 2: watch the first two seasons. I mean I can't. I'm
• 57:19
  Speaker 2: not going to jump into a season three of a show.
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: But if you've if you've been waiting for it, it
• 57:25
  Speaker 2: comes out in September twenty fifth.
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know something else you and I haven't watched,
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: or at least I haven't watched in completion is the
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: first season of Wednesday. We've talked about that quite a
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: bit on the show recently, but now we've gotten the
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: official trailer for season two, as opposed to the unofficial
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: teaser and the official teaser and the unofficial trailer. Now
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: we have the official trailer for season two, and it
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: at least piqued your interest, didn't it.
• 57:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I actually really like this trailer. It looks I mean,
• 57:57
  Speaker 2: it's a little more action oriented than I would typically
• 58:00
  Speaker 2: think of for the Adams family, but that's a small quibble.
• 58:03
  Speaker 2: It looks quirky and weird, and Jenna Ortega looks like
• 58:09
  Speaker 2: she's having a lot of fun while she's maintaining that
• 58:13
  Speaker 2: expressionless countenance.
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: Also, uh kubrick eyes.
• 58:18
  Speaker 2: She calls it. Oh nice, it's I'm also a sucker
• 58:23
  Speaker 2: for musical references, and I don't know if it's going
• 58:27
  Speaker 2: to happen in the actual series, but the trailer has
• 58:30
  Speaker 2: direct musical references to Phantom of the Opera, including incorporating
• 58:35
  Speaker 2: the Phantom of the Opera music into the trailer, and
• 58:39
  Speaker 2: I totally dig on that. I was like, I don't
• 58:41
  Speaker 2: know if this is going to be in the series
• 58:43
  Speaker 2: or not, but it works for me. For this trailer, were.
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: There more references than just the music throughout?
• 58:48
  Speaker 2: I mean, you've got a bit where you've got a
• 58:49
  Speaker 2: whole bunch of people at a dance wearing masks. Thus,
• 58:52
  Speaker 2: like masquerade from Phantom of the Opera. There's another mask
• 58:57
  Speaker 2: that has writing on the inside of it. Like there's
• 58:58
  Speaker 2: a lot of mask image, which I don't know if
• 59:01
  Speaker 2: you know this. Maybe I know you're not as big
• 59:03
  Speaker 2: a theater person as I am, Ariel, but in Phantom
• 59:06
  Speaker 2: of the Opera, masks are kind of an important part.
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: I don't know if you're being serious or if you're
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: nagging me.
• 59:12
  Speaker 2: I'm just I'm just, I'm just I'm just yank in
• 59:15
  Speaker 2: your chain. I thought this trailer looked good. What did
• 59:20
  Speaker 2: you think?
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: It does? Look good? It kind of looks better than
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: the first season did to me. I wonder if I
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: have to go back and watch the first season to
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: follow it. I bet they'll recap in the show. And yes,
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: I know masks play a big part. Although I've never
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: actually seen the Phantom of the Opera at a theater,
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: I've only seen the movie and listened to the soundtrack.
• 59:45
  Speaker 2: I've seen it at least once, maybe twice, but I
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: remember the I think I have seen it twice. In
• 59:51
  Speaker 2: the first time I saw it, I was seated way
• 59:54
  Speaker 2: off house right, and my view of the stage was
• 59:59
  Speaker 2: directly in line with the mirror, where like I was
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 2: looking at the mirror edge on, so I couldn't see
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 2: the face of it. And one of the big effects
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 2: was where Christine, like the mirror changes from a mirror
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 2: into glass and then Christine walks through it and it's
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 2: like this big wow moment, and I couldn't see any
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 2: of that. I just saw a woman step through a
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 2: door frame.
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: So, oh, Sad, I will tell you I am more
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: interested in the second season of Wednesday than I am
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: in Sandman Volume two.
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 2: Well before we jump into Salmon Volume two. Great segue,
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 2: But a second season of Wednesday comes out in two chunks.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 2: The first chunk comes out August sixth, the second chunk
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 2: comes out September third. But yeah, Samon's season two. Uh,
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 2: why do you think of this trailer? We got a teaser,
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 2: really not even a trailer for season two of Sandman.
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 2: A full disclosure, I didn't stick with Sandman all the
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 2: way through season one I watched up to I was
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 2: probably two or three three episodes away from the end
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 2: of it.
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: Sandman season one had two I thought, two really good episodes.
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: Both had death in them, the character death. There's a
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: lot of death in the show, but the character of
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: death was like the kind of the star of the
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: two episodes of season one that I liked. The rest
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: of the show I either didn't like, got bored, or
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: very much upset me. Honestly, the official teaser for season
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: two of Sandman, which also comes out in multiple chunks,
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: appealed to me a lot more than this actual trailer.
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: This actual trailer gives us some more of like the
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: storyline of like sand Man's going to have to pit
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: up against his siblings, but the teaser trailer made it
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: seem more fantastical, which brought me more joy than this
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: trailer does. This trailer makes me you have to care
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: about the characters you previously met.
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean there's bits the I think are interesting
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 2: from a mythological perspective, Right, So you've got like the
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 2: kindly ones that's interesting to me, you know, the kind
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 2: of like the fates, harpies, whatever you want to call them,
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 2: but like there their name is somewhat ironic. There's also
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 2: you get to see a little bit with him in Constantine,
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 2: Joan Constantine in this version. That's fun because I like
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 2: the Constantine character. I think there was a little bit
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 2: with the Corinthian in there, which I would imagine was
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 2: dealt with in the first season.
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: There was a bit with the Corinthian in there. He
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: was dealt with in the first season, but I don't
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: think entirely. Joan Constantine was also in the first season.
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, I saw I think I saw her episode two,
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 2: but it was nice seeing her back. Like, I like
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 2: the character Constantine, and I like the interpretation with Joan
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 2: Constantine as opposed to John Constantine. I like both versions.
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 2: I just found the variation like it was interesting that
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 2: they made that choice and I don't know if there's
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 2: a textual reason for that that I liked it, And yeah,
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 2: I thought, I don't think I'm going to watch it,
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 2: but I admired it for its ambition. I think it's
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 2: the best way for me to put it, Like, I
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 2: don't know that I'll watch it, but I I admire
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 2: the fact that someone was putting something so imaginative into
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 2: a series because that's a big risk. It is a
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 2: shame about all the stuff that we learned about Neil Gaiman, obviously,
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 2: Like that's a huge issue. Yeah, and you know, you
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 2: can't just dismiss it, like that's death of the author
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 2: is a thing, but it's hard to separate the work
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 2: from the person who made it. But that definitely taints
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 2: things for me. But I do think that the imagination
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 2: on screen is pretty opressive.
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: It is impressive. There's there's a lot of creativity there. Though.
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: If Martian Manhunter doesn't show up eating oreos, I'm out
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: that happens. That happened in a DC comic book for
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: this you don't know?
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, and Sandman. Early days, Sandman had some crossover
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 2: with the DC universe, but as this series went on,
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 2: there was more of a division. Like I want to say,
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 2: Scarecrow showed up in a very early Sandman comic. But
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 2: the series comes out in July twenty fourth, and then
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 2: we move on to a different season two that I'm
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 2: excited to see because it looks so stupid that the
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 2: first season was stupid too, but I enjoyed it and
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 2: it's for twisted metal.
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I want to see it. Just I haven't watched
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: season one because they don't have Peacock. That's the only
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: reason I haven't watched season one of Twisted Metal. I
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: actually got to do a little scene from it Jonathan
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: red for me for an acting class, and that was
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: so much.
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I got to read John Doe. That's the character
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 2: that Anthony Mackie plays, the main character, and I realized
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 2: very quickly, like I will never have even a tenth
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 2: of the riz that Anthony Mackie has.
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: You know, it's hard though, because Anthony Mackie at least
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: got to be like in a set with like all
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: the dressing.
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 2: It's also also he's incredibly handsome.
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: You're incredibly handsome.
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 2: Too, You're too kind.
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: But I mean, I will not deny that Anthony Mackie
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: has RIZ. Yeah, so season two looks ridiculous. I want
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: to watch it. I really want to watch it because
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: I love Anthony Kerrigan.
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's playing a character named Calypso, who is the
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 2: he does he looks super dumb. Calypso is the guy
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 2: who's arranging the the Essentially, it's like a demolition derby
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 2: battle Royale tournament, and that's exactly what the Twisted Metal
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 2: games are like, there's no real story to Twisted Metal.
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 2: It's a shoot him up game, except instead of it
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 2: being a dude running around with a gun, you're driving
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 2: a vehicle around that has, you know, weapons that are
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 2: particular to whichever vehicle you've selected. So this is going
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 2: to be more like the video game. The first season
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 2: was inspired by the video game, and honestly, I thought
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 2: they did an amazing job because I was like, how
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 2: are you going to make a story out of this game?
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 2: And this is going to be a tournament that's closer
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 2: to what the video game is. It means that you
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 2: get characters like John Doe and Quiet, who are introduced
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 2: in the first season, but you also get Sweet Tooth,
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 2: who is from the games. This is the character that's
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 2: physically it's played by a wrestler named Samoa Joe, but
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 2: it's voiced by Will Arnett. And then there's a couple
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 2: of other characters. There's Dollface, Mister Grimm, and my favorite, Axel.
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 2: Axel is Axel's a wild character because he is physically
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 2: playing the part of an axle of a car. His
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 2: arms are the axle and he has two giant wheels
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 2: one at the end of each arm and he rolls
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 2: around like that and it's just as bonkers as you
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 2: think it is.
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: I need to look up a picture of this because
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: oh my goodness.
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, wild right.
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: That is pretty not quite what I was picturing. I
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: was picturing someone kind of like in a perpetual cartwheel,
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: but still wild I know.
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, it's not not like that. It's more like,
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 2: more like imagine imagine a segue, but instead of the
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 2: segue part where you stand on it, there's a dude.
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I was thinking spoke, but he's an axle.
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: That is fun. Well, does it come out.
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 2: July thirty first. But one other thing I want to
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 2: talk about is that this is going to make you
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 2: wish that we were in San Diego. And I apologize
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 2: because for Comic Con come up at the end of
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 2: this month, just before the show drops, or the first
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 2: episode drops on the thirty first. From July twenty fourth
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 2: through July twenty sixth, they're having an installation near Comic
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 2: Con and it's bumper cars and it's free and the
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 2: bumper cars are designed to look like the vehicles from
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 2: the series.
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: That does sound delightful. I wish I were there, Hey someday.
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 2: Maybe Yeah, yeah. I By the way, if you want
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 2: to go to that, if you're in the San Diego area,
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 2: make sure you look up the hours because it's like
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 2: noon to four on Thursday and then noon to six
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 2: pm on the other two days. And my guess is,
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 2: because it's free, you don't even need a badge, Like
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 2: you don't have to be going to comic Con to
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 2: try this out. My guess is that thing's going to
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 2: be slammed, literally because it's bumper cars, the donkers.
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that does sound like exciting if you do go,
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: if you're listener and you go and you get to
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 1: ride a bumpercar, take a picture.
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 2: I would like to see. I'd also like to see.
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: Something else I'd like to see is the new movie
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: with Ryan Gosling called Project Hail Mary.
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 2: Yep, based off a novel by Andy Weir, the guy
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 2: who wrote The Martian, And that book's not that old.
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 2: I think it published like in twenty twenty one or
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty two, so like this is a pretty quick adaptation.
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 2: I'm guessing that the movie rights were bought almost immediately
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 2: because The Martian did pretty well, so Ryan Gosling plays
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 2: a science teacher named Ryland Grace, who, for reasons I'm
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 2: sure will become clear at some point in the movie,
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 2: is kind of conscripted to go on a mission to
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 2: a distant star to learn why stars throughout the Milky
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 2: Way are dimming. It's it's potentially leading to like an
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 2: extinction level event if too much light dims and the
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 2: Earth no longer gets the energy it needs. Now. The novel,
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 2: from what I understand, and I haven't read it yet.
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 2: I did just purchase it, but I haven't read it yet,
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 2: is told where he and he wakes up from being
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 2: apparently in like essentially an induced coma for his journey
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 2: to this distant star. He wakes up with amnesia, doesn't
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 2: immediately remember why he is there, who he is, and
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 2: so the story unfolds as like a series of flashbacks
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 2: as he's starting to regain his memory and understand what
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 2: he's doing. I don't know if the movie is going
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 2: to be constructed that way or if it's going to
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 2: be in more traditional chronological order. It's hard to say
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 2: because we just got a trailer, and trailers are cut
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 2: up like crazy anyway. But the trailer looks good.
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 1: It does look good. I had a friend because I
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: haven't read the new book. I actually had to in
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 1: the movie The Martian look up common Sense media so
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: that my anxiety could calm down. I love that movie.
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 1: I absolutely love that movie. But the first time watching it,
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: I was so scared for the characters.
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I already I had already read the book when
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 2: I saw the movie, so like for me, it was like, wow,
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 2: they did a pretty good job adapting this novel.
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but this one. One of my friends was like,
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 1: it's kind of bleak, and I was like, like The
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: Martian bleak because that turned out okay. So I've actually
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 1: read the synopsis of this book so I can determine
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 1: whether I want to watch it or not. I won't.
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: I won't spoil anything for you guys. But but sometimes,
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 1: like even if I know something bad is going to happen,
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 1: as long as I know, I'm not saying something bad happens,
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 1: I'm not saying something good happens. I'm just saying, like
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 1: knowledge is power.
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 2: But gotcha rocks fall.
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 1: They all diet, Yes, yes, just like screwtape letters. No,
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 1: that's actually not what happens in there. But the first
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 1: time I listened. I was listening to his screwtape letters
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: on a car drive to a larp through Tennessee, and
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: I kept seeing these signs for beware falling rocks. And
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: ever since then, my brain just equates that story with
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 1: falling rocks. I don't know why. Sorry, that's a complete
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 1: bunny trail, but it came out my mouth, so you'all
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 1: had to listen. And another possible thing that might bring
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: Jonathan to this movie is Milania fat Trumps in it.
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 2: Yes, she's dreamy, she's also very She's also very funny.
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 1: She's so funny. I love her on After Midnight and
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 1: like all the things I've seen her do, she's very funny.
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 2: I think of her from that Werewolf movie because she
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 2: was like that werewolf movie, the one that was what's
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 2: his name? It was also from Dropout, the guy who
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 2: was always on Ruben it was. It was like one
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 2: of his movies, and its been called were Wolf, I
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 2: don't remember.
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 1: It was called were Wolves Within.
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 2: Were Wolves Within, I have seen it. But she's she's great.
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 2: She is the best element in that. Her performance is
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 2: the best thing in that movie. Uh, the movie's not bad,
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 2: but it's not fantastic, but her performance is a joy
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 2: I all the way through. I love her all the
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 2: way through that movie. So yeah, that definitely is a
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 2: is a tick on the positive side. But like I
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 2: was already interested, I do like Andy Weer's work, like
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 2: I like The Martian quite a bit, so I'm curious.
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 2: I'm also curious, like, what's the reason for the stars dimming?
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 2: The trailer shows a moment where he does have an
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 2: encounter with an alien life form and and a little
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 2: bit of of goofiness as he tries to establish a
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 2: form of communication with this alien. Uh, that's kind of
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 2: interesting and I'm hopeful that that ends up being a
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 2: nice element of this movie. I don't anticipate it having
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 2: a super happy ending based upon Aeriel's attempt to be
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 2: to be circumspect about it.
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 1: I'm really I'm a really good actor. Maybe I'm misleading you.
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 2: Maybe that's what's happening. Yeah, I'm you fooled me so
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 2: many times. All right, Well, let's ow.
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 1: I can't I can't talk about anything else that wounded
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 1: me to my very core.
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 2: Listen, I'm just saying I know you really well. We've
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 2: known each other for more than twenty years. It's hard. No, No,
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 2: I think I'm I think I'm getting close enough to
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 2: spoiled already. Let's let's talk about something else. Let's talk
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 2: about unreliable narrator.
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 1: The movie yeah, or Scary Close Encounters of the third kind.
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 1: It's called Descendant, and it's a story about a guy
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 1: who you know, I knew this, like, gets abducted by
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 1: aliens and then can or like bunks his head and
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 1: then can draw weird alien landscapes.
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Essentially, he's a security guard. He sees some weird
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 2: lights in the sky. Next thing he knows, he's waking
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 2: up in a hospital. He's got a head wound and
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 2: no real memory of what happened to him after he
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 2: saw the lights, and then he's able to draw these
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 2: pictures of like extraterrestrials and landscapes and things. And then
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 2: he starts to suspect that maybe he's been abducted. But
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 2: there's also the possibility that the combination of the head
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 2: trauma and actual childhood trauma he experienced is what's fueling
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 2: all this. So that's why I call it unreliable narrator
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 2: of the movie is because the way the trailers cut
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 2: and I think This is a smart decision. Honestly, the
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 2: way the trailers cuts, you're not sure if he actually
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 2: did experience something that could equate to extraterrestrials or if
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 2: this is all in his head.
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, And it's not just spooky outer space stuff.
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of stuff that happens in his personal
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 1: life that is weird and maybe did did not happen,
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 1: kind of creepy, scary.
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 2: It Actually, it actually reminds me. It reminds me a
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 2: bit of a horror short called The Chair on YouTube.
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 2: Have you ever seen the Chair?
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 1: Have I seen the chair? Jonathan?
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 2: You tell me, Yeah, though I'm guessing not. Okay, So
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 2: the Chair, the Chair. Let me give a quick summary
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 2: and you'll understand where I'm coming from here. It's a
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 2: short horror film on YouTube. A man sees a chair
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 2: left out at a curb, and he takes the chair home,
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 2: and then his wife comes home. He surprises his wife
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 2: with like flowers, and she sees the chair and she
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 2: immediately doesn't want it in her house, and so he
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 2: then takes the chair back to the curb and drives off.
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 2: And then like there's this whole thing where he's having
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 2: these conversations with his wife where some in some moments
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 2: she's super nice to him, in other moments she's screaming
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 2: at him, and she brings a chair, the same chair
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 2: back into their house, and he's like, he realizes he's
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 2: lost a chunk of time, a full week of time,
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 2: and that he has no memory of what's happening in
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 2: this week. His wife is telling him that he hasn't
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 2: been himself, that he's been awful, that he even got
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 2: fired from his job, that he's alienated his friends as
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 2: well as his wife, and he has no memory of
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 2: any of this. So it gets even more absurd and
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 2: strange from there. And like again, it's a short where
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 2: you feel like, oh, I think this is supposed to
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 2: be from the perspective of the husband and give you
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 2: the sense of someone who doesn't know what to trust,
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 2: even in their own mind. This movie makes me think
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 2: of the chair.
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 1: Gotcha? Gotcha? Yeah? I mean it looks good. The acting
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 1: looks great. I'm not familiar with the lead guy, but
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 1: it has Sarah Bulger and Charlene and Moya and It,
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 1: who are both phenomenal actresses. It looks very well done.
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 1: It might be too scary for me, but it looks
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 1: very well done.
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it comes out August eighth.
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 1: And then the last trailer we have to talk about
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 1: today is for a property I didn't think I would
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 1: want to watch, but after watching the trailer, I am
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 1: all in. And that's for the remake of Red Sonia.
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I was really curious what your take would be
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 2: on this because we chatted about this particular project ages
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 2: ago when it was just going into production. And now
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 2: we've got a trailer, and I'm interested that you said
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 2: you're all in and you want to watch it. Can
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 2: you expand on that talk to me about it, because
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 2: I had a very different reaction to this trailer, But
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 2: I genuinely was hoping really that we would Yeah, I
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 2: was just kind of hoping we would each have a
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 2: different perspective. So I would love to hear what made
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 2: you like buy in?
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 1: So I the comic book, and I'm not super familiar,
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 1: but the comic book is about this female barbarian and
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 1: it's one of those comic books that, while I haven't
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 1: read it, it just appears that it's it's meant to
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 1: be like sexy girl art m hmm, And this trailer
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 1: makes it feel they they joke about the sexy girl
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 1: costume like the traditional red Sonia costume in the trailer,
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 1: and I don't mind scantily cloud women, but it feels
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 1: like there's more of a story and there's more of
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 1: an arc for the character than outward appearances. Then I
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 1: expect it is what I'll say, it looks fun in
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 1: actiony and periody of like trying to save my village
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 1: sort of a story.
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 2: And it's fantasy, so yeah, because there's like there's creatures
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 2: that are obviously not earthly creatures you know, that are
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 2: from this fantasy because very cone in the barbarian esque. Yeah,
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 2: there's a great joke where she's being forced into essentially
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 2: gladiator combat and she's presented the scale male bikini and
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 2: she's like, was this supposed to protect? Oh it's not,
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 2: but the crowd's gonna love you in it. I was like, well,
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 2: that's a pretty funny joke to essentially like skewer the
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 2: whole male gaze aspect of this character, and to also
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 2: explain why she's wearing it as opposed to like she's
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 2: chosen to wear totally ineffective armor into battle. I did
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 2: like that part, but it felt to me like, first
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 2: of all, the digital video quality took me out of
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 2: it because I don't know something about the way the
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 2: digital video looked where I was like, this looks a
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 2: little too soap opera e to me in the quality
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 2: of the images. And also it was giving me like
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 2: early to mid two thousand's fantasy epic energy.
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 1: I think I feel like that's more this like the
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 1: IP than necessarily the film quality for me, Like you
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 1: do certain stories and they're gonna have a certain feel. Yeah,
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 1: you do one the Barbarian or King Arthur, they all
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 1: have a certain feel.
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah. It's also one of those movies where every line
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 2: in the trailer is like pure shlock, and not that
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 2: there's anything wrong with that, but it just comes across
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 2: as like, gosh, is this movie just gonna be schlock
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 2: all the way through? Or are there going to be
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 2: any moments where you feel like, oh, that was kind
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 2: of a genuine moment there. I can't say, because the
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 2: trailer was all pure schlock. Maybe that's what red Sonya needs.
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 1: I mean I thought it was a fun trailer. I
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 1: don't mind the schlock. I will say though, like another
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 1: selling point for me because I am that person who
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 1: will go see a movie because there are actors in
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 1: it that I like. Uh, Hannah John Kimmon is in it.
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 1: She plays ghost in the MCU mmm, the phasey one
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 1: in Thunderbolts Ghost okay, And Robert Sheehan is in it,
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 1: who played Klaus an Umbrella Academy, and he's there's such
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 1: a funny ah, such an amazing actor. They're they're funny,
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 1: they're they're they're very vulnerable, just superb. So I'm excited
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 1: to see Robert and other stuff. That's another big selling
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 1: point for me.
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 2: Honestly, Well, I uh, I hope that you get a
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 2: chance to see this and then tell me about it
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 2: and whether or not I should like get over myself
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 2: and watch it, because I could totally just be completely
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 2: off base about this, right, like it just I don't know,
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 2: this trailer didn't hit me right, but maybe that's just
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 2: because the way the trailer was cut. The movie does
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 2: come out August fifteenth, and it will hit digital platforms
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 2: on August twenty ninth, So even if you're not like
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 2: able to go to a movie theater near you, showing
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 2: this in a couple of weeks will then be available
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 2: on digital platforms.
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 1: I do wonder though, because sometimes you have issues with
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 1: like the video quality, and I know that you have
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 1: frame rate sensitivity. If watching it in a theater would
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 1: be better than watching it on a TV, if it
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 1: would read better.
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 2: I don't know, Like I'm one of those people who
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 2: immediately turns off the smoothing feature on a television because
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 2: I can't stand it. I mean, it's great if you're
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 2: watching sports. If you're watching sports, it's fantastic, makes you
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 2: really feel like you're looking through a window at whatever
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 2: sporting event is. But for narrative storytelling, I hate it
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 2: because it makes me feel like it makes me feel
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 2: like I'm looking at a set as opposed to I'm
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 2: looking at a world.
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 1: I've had that issue. I had that issue with Supernatural,
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 1: maybe with the Boys too.
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 2: Maybe I had it twice on your birthday. My birthday
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 2: was yeh because the Hobbit.
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 1: Hobbit, well, that had its a whole slew of problems.
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 2: To the point where I never saw the third one.
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 1: Me neither, you know me neither.
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 2: We saw the first two in theaters and we never
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 2: saw the third one.
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I can't. I can't keep apologizing for this.
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 2: I know, well, you know, like I get it made me.
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 2: I tell you the valuable lesson it taught me. It's
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 2: that if I do things for my birthday, I don't
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 2: want to do a movie, not because I think that,
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 2: you know, there's the chance that people won't enjoy the movie,
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 2: but because I really like talking with my friends and
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 2: people hate it when you do that in a movie theater.
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 1: So I'm gonna I'm going to amend what you say.
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 1: You don't want to only do a movie, because we
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 1: totally watched Jaws for your birthday.
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 2: But that was that was in the privacy of a
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 2: cabin that was just us too, so like, and people
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 2: were talking during it, and it did irritate the shit
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 2: out of me. I'll bleep that out, but that did.
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 1: I mean. So the thing is like, you know, when
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 1: Lord of the Rings came out, when the original trilogy
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 1: came out and I went to see that on my birthday,
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 1: or when like Star Trek movies came out and I
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 1: went to see that on my birthday with my friends.
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 1: The people generally, I can't say everybody, but generally the
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 1: people I went with were invested enough in those properties
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 1: that they were also engrossed in the movie and we
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 1: talked about it afterward.
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the thing, Like you need to have the
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 2: post movie plan, right, you got to have the we're
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 2: all gonna convene at this place and we're going to
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 2: talk about what we just saw like that. That makes sense.
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 2: It's just when I want to celebrate somebody like the
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 2: thought of sitting in the dark for well it's a
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 2: Peter Jackson movie for seven hours. Then it's just not
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 2: appealing to me.
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 1: Ah noted noted for future, if movies ever start coming
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 1: out on my birthday again, that I want to see
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 1: something is coming out this year on my birthday that
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 1: I'm not unexcited about. I don't remember what now.
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the December December could be a rough time because
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 2: I mean you'll get you'll get Christmas movies occasionally, but
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 2: usually those will come out like round Thanksgiving. But you
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 2: also tend to get like weird horror movies released in
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 2: December for some reason, Like I guess it's all the ones, right, Well,
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 2: this wasn't good enough for us to release in time
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 2: for Halloween, so.
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 1: It might be it might be either Wake Up Dead
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 1: Man or.
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 2: Ana con Oh, yeah, I can see you wanting to
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 2: see both.
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 1: Of those anti Conda less So I don't like creepy,
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 1: creepy real life future futures.
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 2: But it's gonna be a it's gonna be a comedy,
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 2: like it's a horror comedy. Like Jack Black's involved in
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 2: that one, right, well, the original, the original is a comedy,
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 2: but not for the right reason. The original is unintentional.
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 1: Unintentionally yeah, yeah, yeah, but yeah, I don't know where
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 1: we were going with this.
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 2: I don't either. It is hot and there's a thunderstorm
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 2: rolling in outside my door.
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, movies, birthdays, YadA, YadA, YadA. But we're at the
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 1: end of our episode. So before the thunderstorms kick you
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 1: and possibly meet back offline, how can people reach you?
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 2: So you're gonna go out at night and look up
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 2: at the sky and you're gonna be looking for a
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 2: really wild light show and when you see it, you're
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 2: gonna just kind of wake up some time later. How long.
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 2: You can't say what happened to you, You can't say
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 2: where are you? You're not sure, but you're gonna wake
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 2: up and you're gonna have a little little button next
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 2: to you and if you push that button, you'll hear
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 2: my voice, come over and ask you what you want,
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 2: and you get to ask me one question. Now, if
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 2: that question isn't what time is it? Where am I?
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 2: Who am I? What am I doing here? I don't
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 2: know how useful it's gonna be to you, right like
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 2: I can answer anything. You go ahead and ask me
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 2: whatever you want. But if it's not one of those,
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 2: I don't know it's gonna be a lot of help
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 2: in your immediate future. So all I'm saying is think
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 2: carefully before you ask me things, because everybody gets one.
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 2: But that's it.
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 1: Oh shoot, I guess I can't ask you anything else now. Well,
• 1:28:41
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• 1:28:43
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• 1:29:08
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• 1:29:10
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• 1:29:12
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