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LNC Goes on a Pony Ride · Large Nerdron Collider

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Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Welcome to the large ur Droun Collider podcast.
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Speaker 1: The podcast it's all about the geeky things happening in
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Speaker 1: the world around us and how very excited we are
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Speaker 1: about them. I'm Ariel Caston, and with me, as always
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Speaker 1: is the lovely, wonderful Jonathan Strickland.
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Speaker 2: Break me off a piece of that kit cat bar.
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Speaker 1: Okay, it's gonna be hard to fit through the webcam.
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Speaker 2: It's okay, I can't eat it anyway.
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Speaker 1: Well, listeners, thank you for joining us today. We've already
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Speaker 1: had all of our geeky conversation before we hit record,
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Speaker 1: But know you.
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Speaker 2: Missed us talking about geeky cruises and geeky trips to
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Speaker 2: geeky other countries to watch geeky plays featuring geeky actors
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Speaker 2: and a geeky show. Yeah, we went all about that stuff,
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Speaker 2: and now we're just gonna talk about the stuff what
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Speaker 2: we wrote down.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I guess we should start like last week.
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Speaker 1: I remember, he with if we've watched or done anything
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Speaker 1: geeky this week?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, So for me, I mean, it's not that geeky,
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Speaker 2: but I did try and I caught up on night
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Speaker 2: Court and one of the more recent episodes of night
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Speaker 2: Court has a wonderful little nod to the fact that
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Speaker 2: John Larrachet played a Klingon in Star Trek three The
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Speaker 2: Search for Spock. If you recall, in Star Trek three,
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Speaker 2: Christopher Lloyd aka Doc Brown and Back to the Future
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Speaker 2: played the leader of a crew of Klingons, and John
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Speaker 2: Larrachet was one of that crew, And there's a I
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Speaker 2: don't want to spoil it, but there's a very cute
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Speaker 2: reference to that in that episode of night Court. I
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Speaker 2: will say this, I keep watching Night Court. I keep
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Speaker 2: feeling like it's a show out of time, because it
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Speaker 2: really does feel like it belongs back in the eighties
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Speaker 2: and nineties with their very corny humor and over the
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Speaker 2: top laugh track, Like it just doesn't feel modern at
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Speaker 2: all when we got used to like all those shows
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Speaker 2: like The Office and Parks and rec and stuff where
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Speaker 2: you had the more almost documentarian style of comedy. It
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Speaker 2: really feels like a weird throwback. But I still enjoy
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Speaker 2: the performances, and I still enjoy some of the gags.
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Speaker 2: I just don't feel like I don't feel like I
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Speaker 2: could say it's a good show.
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Speaker 1: I agree with you, and I'm gonna say, you know,
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Speaker 1: I was like, oh, you told us about the Christmas special,
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Speaker 1: and so wondering what to watch, I was like, oh,
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Speaker 1: I should watch a Christmas special and start catching up
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Speaker 1: now that Night Court's coming back out. And then I
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Speaker 1: realized that I had stopped at the wedding episode in
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Speaker 1: season one where she was on the rooftop with her
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Speaker 1: dress and they're like, hey, let's use the courthouse for
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Speaker 1: a wedding, and I thought that was the season finale,
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Speaker 1: but there's like six episodes after that, five or six
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Speaker 1: episodes after that, so I'm actually so I watched a
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Speaker 1: Christmas episode and then I had to go back and
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Speaker 1: start watching last season. But I do want to catch
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Speaker 1: up on klingon Night Court. And then I think this
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Speaker 1: week Raj from Big Big Theory will be on there.
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Speaker 2: Cool, And that's that's pretty much it for me. I
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Speaker 2: don't I can't think of anything else I've done that's
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Speaker 2: particularly geeky. I've been really kind of trying to get
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Speaker 2: back into the swing of things with work and stuff. Obviously,
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Speaker 2: when you when you have a bunch of medical stuff,
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Speaker 2: it can waylay you and then like you're just trying
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Speaker 2: to get back into like the pace of things. That's
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Speaker 2: kind of where I'm at now. But Ariel, what about you?
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Speaker 2: What sort of geeky things have you enjoyed recently?
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Speaker 1: So much? I haven't watched more Fargo, but that's okay.
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Speaker 1: I feel like that's only tangentially geek.
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Speaker 2: That's like, Yeah, it's kind of like. I still haven't
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Speaker 2: caught up on True Detective and I keep meaning to.
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Speaker 2: I keep thinking I need to watch it, and I haven't.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but I'm almost caught up on Percy Jackson. I'm
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Speaker 1: kind of delaying this last one because Lance Reddick plays
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Speaker 1: Zeus and that's still a little sad he passed away. Recently,
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Speaker 1: I've started Fantasy High Junior year on Dropout, which is
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Speaker 1: so weird and I have so many theories and I
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Speaker 1: don't want to ruin it for anybody if anybody here
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Speaker 1: also watches it, but it's been interesting. And then I
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Speaker 1: watched the second season of He Man so he Man
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Speaker 1: Revelation I think is the second season, but it's interesting
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Speaker 1: because it's not counting it as a season. It's counting
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Speaker 1: as it is its own show on Netflix, so there's
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Speaker 1: only five episodes, even though it is a continuation of
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Speaker 1: what happened in the previous five episodes by the same
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Speaker 1: voice actors and Kevin Smith and all of them.
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Speaker 2: So gotcha. Okay, Yeah, it's I mean, just like.
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Speaker 1: The first season or the first series. At times it
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Speaker 1: was a little heavy handed in the message, but it's
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Speaker 1: he man, and I thought it quite enjoyable.
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Speaker 2: Never known to be subtle, mister he Man.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's that's it for me. I think.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I plan on indulging in a lot more stuff
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Speaker 2: in the near future. I've got some books and stuff
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Speaker 2: I want to jump into and you know that kind
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Speaker 2: of thing. So maybe maybe by the next time we record,
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Speaker 2: I'll have some more geeky stuff to talk about from
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Speaker 2: my own personal life. But for now, I suppose we
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Speaker 2: should just get into the swing of thirty seconds or
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Speaker 2: less because we got a whole bunch of them. Yes, okay, well,
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Speaker 2: and I believe I start, do I not? You do? Okay?
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Speaker 2: All right, all right, here we go. Warner Brothers Discovery
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Speaker 2: has their new Kara Zora l aka Supergirl, and it's
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Speaker 2: not Sasha that's the actress who played the character in
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Speaker 2: last year's The Flash. Instead Millie Alcock, who played young
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Speaker 2: Princess Raniera Targarian in the pert season of the House
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Speaker 2: of the Dragon will be donning the cape and tights.
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Speaker 2: This version is said to be more emotionally damaged than others,
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Speaker 2: so that should be fun.
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Speaker 1: I am still excited to see what James Gunn does
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Speaker 1: with the universe. I like, oh, sorry, okay, this is
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Speaker 1: three seconds of us anyhow. Next, also speaking of fun
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Speaker 1: and not dark psych haging myself, Haley Atwell is now
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Speaker 1: going to be a part has been announced as a
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Speaker 1: part of the voice cast for Rogue Trooper, which I
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Speaker 1: believe is one of the stories in the two thousand
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Speaker 1: a D kind of anthology comic. I'm not super familiar
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Speaker 1: with two thousand a D, but I do know that
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Speaker 1: other things that have come out of that have been
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Speaker 1: like Judge Dread and the writer is Jerry finley Day
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Speaker 1: who wrote Watchmen or was oh no, sorry huh. It's
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Speaker 1: written by Jerry Finley Day, and Dave Gibbons, who is
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Speaker 1: the artist for Watchman, is involved. This tells you how
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Speaker 1: much I know about all of this specifically, but it
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Speaker 1: should be interesting. Other voice actors in it include Jamaine
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Speaker 1: Clement from Plat of the Concords and Matt Barry from
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Speaker 1: what we do in the shadows, and I think that's exciting.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. I like all those actors, and Hayley Atwell is dreamy.
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Speaker 1: And they also they also break down kind of what
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Speaker 1: the story is about in the article that we'll post
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Speaker 1: on our website.
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Speaker 2: Excellent. Okay. Back to Warner Brothers, Discovery and the DCU.
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Speaker 2: So James Gunn says that Peacemaker season two is his
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Speaker 2: next project once he wraps up Superman Legacy. This is
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Speaker 2: another one of those pesky points of connective tissue between
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Speaker 2: the just concluded DCE EU and the upcoming not really
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Speaker 2: a fresh slate d CU. I'm not complaining as a
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Speaker 2: look forward to the second season, but the DC situation
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Speaker 2: remains pretty messy in my opinion.
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Speaker 1: Continuing on the messy DC train, Sue Squad Killed the
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Speaker 1: Justice League video game got released to some people for
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Speaker 1: early access with a huge bug recently where when they
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Speaker 1: started the game, they finished the game with everything unlocked
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Speaker 1: and spoilers. The game was like pretty much immediately taken down,
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Speaker 1: and they started looking for the bug for that to
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Speaker 1: fix it, because nobody wants the complete game unlocked as
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Speaker 1: soon as you start it, well not nobody, probably most
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Speaker 1: people Rock said. He says that they've now identified the
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Speaker 1: bug and it's the fix has been rolled out. It
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Speaker 1: has been up and down for maintenance since then. But
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Speaker 1: you can play the game now because it's out today
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Speaker 1: for everybody, the February second, as we're recording.
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Speaker 2: This, Yes, all right. Also this week, Sony held its
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Speaker 2: PlayStation in State of Play event and showed off trailers
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Speaker 2: for a whole bunch of upcoming games, including, but not
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Speaker 2: not exhaustively, there's a new Sonic game called Sonic x
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Speaker 2: Shadow Generations. There's a free to play Silent Hill game
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Speaker 2: called The Short Message that's available right now. There's a
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Speaker 2: remake of Silent Hill too on the way there. And
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Speaker 2: we got some peaks in some games like Judas, which
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Speaker 2: was from the creator of BioShock, as well as a
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Speaker 2: sequel to the fantasy game Dragon's Dogma. And finally Death
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Speaker 2: Stranding two. You get the pee a lot more. That
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Speaker 2: was a thing in Death Stranding. I don't know, let
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Speaker 2: me tell you.
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Speaker 1: I haven't. I haven't played it. I've heard it's interesting,
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Speaker 1: but it also doesn't sound like it's super for me.
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Speaker 1: Speaking of interesting and not super for me, But I'm
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Speaker 1: willing to give it a try. Henry Cavill's Warhammer forty
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Speaker 1: thousand is still in the works. He couldn't really talk
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Speaker 1: about what's going on, but he says big things are
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Speaker 1: happening and they are very excited. I make because he's excited,
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Speaker 1: and when I like Henry Cavill, I'm excited about the
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Speaker 1: things he gets to do where he gets to be
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Speaker 1: a bit more of a goofball like Argyle one of
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Speaker 1: the trailers we're going to talk about later in the episode,
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Speaker 1: and then just his geekiness about Warhammer. I hope that
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Speaker 1: translates into a great story.
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Speaker 2: So I don't know. I've heard it's just gonna be
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Speaker 2: seventy two hours of him painting miniatures.
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Speaker 1: So I mean some people, some people would fall asleep
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Speaker 1: to that, Jonathan.
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Speaker 2: That's true. It is like ASMR Okay, Yes, were you
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Speaker 2: a fan of the not really a zombie Zombie movie?
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Speaker 2: Twenty eight days later? And it's sequeled twenty eight weeks later. Well,
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Speaker 2: get ready because Sony has picked up the next sequel
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Speaker 2: twenty eight years later. Alex Garland, who wrote twenty eight
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Speaker 2: Days Later, and Denny Boyle, who directed it, are behind
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Speaker 2: the sequel. Killian Murphy, who starred in the original movie,
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Speaker 2: is an executive producer of the new film, and he
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Speaker 2: may even act in it, though that hasn't yet been confirmed. Rage.
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Speaker 1: I actually liked those scary movies.
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Speaker 2: I did like I had not seen. I haven't seen
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Speaker 2: twenty eight Weeks Later, but twenty eight Days Later is
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Speaker 2: one of my favorite horror films.
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Speaker 1: It's really well done. It's really well done. The story
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Speaker 1: was great, so I liked it a lot, and not
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Speaker 1: just because David Lecleston Wasn't it Dennis Villeneuve. I probably
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Speaker 1: mispronounced that. I actually looked up how to pronounce his
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Speaker 1: last name because I'm sure it's not Villanovo, which is
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Speaker 1: what I keep saying in my personal life. When I
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Speaker 1: read it said that after Done three, he is done
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Speaker 1: making Dune movies. So Dune three will be Messiah. It's
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Speaker 1: probably gonna take a while after this second one comes out,
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Speaker 1: because it took six years to make the first two.
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Speaker 1: I personally think that that's a great choice, because I
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Speaker 1: think the further you get into the Dune books, the
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Speaker 1: weirder it gets.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. Sidney Sweeney takes a break from being euphoric
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Speaker 2: to star in a religious themed horror film titled immaculate.
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Speaker 2: Sweeney plays a young nun who finds herself in the
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Speaker 2: family way despite you know, not having had sex, but
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Speaker 2: she worries that the father of her unborn child is
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Speaker 2: not of divine origins. The trailer includes some very disturbing
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Speaker 2: imagery and looks like a harrowing supernatural thriller. It is
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Speaker 2: not aerieal related, so I didn't make her watch it.
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Speaker 1: Thank you. You're the best. One of the many, many
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Speaker 1: reasons we're friends. Less scary is it? Cake has been
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Speaker 1: renewed for a third season. That's the show on Netflix
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Speaker 1: where they try to make cake look like unedible objects.
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Speaker 1: Usually sometimes it's other edible objects.
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Speaker 2: And.
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Speaker 1: Judges have to decide whether it's cake or the real object.
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Speaker 1: It's the schlocky and it's fun, but it's also super creative,
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Speaker 1: or it's yeah, whatever, it's schlocky and it's fun and
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Speaker 1: it's super creative.
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Speaker 2: There we go. Finally, Blumhouse has a cool collaboration coming
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Speaker 2: up with the Stanley Hotel in Colorado. The Stanley Hotel
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Speaker 2: served as the inspiration for the Overlook Hotel in Stephen
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Speaker 2: King's novel The Shining Now the hotel has ten thousand
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Speaker 2: square foot events space, and Blumhouse intends to use that
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Speaker 2: as a sort of horror film museum, showcasing props and
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Speaker 2: costumes from Blumhouse's own rather impressive catalog of horror films,
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Speaker 2: TV series, and games. Now, keep in mind, this is
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Speaker 2: not the same hotel that shows up in the film
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Speaker 2: version of The Shining. That was a hotel that was
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Speaker 2: in Oregon, not in Colorado.
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Speaker 1: Interesting. That does sound fun, though I need to still
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Speaker 1: watch The Shining.
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Speaker 2: It's a classic.
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Speaker 1: I'm told that maybe that's not actually a good decision,
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Speaker 1: but I feel like that's one that if I don't watch,
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Speaker 1: I am missing out. I do feel like this so
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Speaker 1: our meat of our episode. I also feel like could
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Speaker 1: have just been a very extended long thirty seconds or less,
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Speaker 1: but we'll probably talk about a lot of it. So
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Speaker 1: our that's our thirty seconds or less. I failed this
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Speaker 1: week at keeping it at thirty seconds. I apologize. I
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Speaker 1: owe you.
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Speaker 2: I don't know a coke. I script mine out now
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Speaker 2: to try and avoid going too long, because if I
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Speaker 2: extemporize it will go forever. But we have lots of
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Speaker 2: stories that we want to chat about in our regular lineup.
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Speaker 2: First up, we have a sad bit of news that
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Speaker 2: we lost a legend, a Broadway legend this week, Cheeta Rivera,
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Speaker 2: and she starred in numerous very famous musicals including Bye
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Speaker 2: Bye Birdie. She was Rosalita, and my favorite Rosalita of
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Speaker 2: all the Rosalitas. So we just wanted to say, like,
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Speaker 2: we salute Cheita Rivera and her incredible contributions to art.
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Speaker 2: She was a phenomenal, vibrant actress for many years.
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Speaker 1: Yes, and it's very sad to take a complete one
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Speaker 1: eighty on what we're talking about. Quantum Leafs getting a
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Speaker 1: second season, which is cool. Collider shared a clip from
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Speaker 1: season two, And this was a show that I wanted
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Speaker 1: to watch and then completely fell off my radar and
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Speaker 1: I forgot it existed. But I went and I watched
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Speaker 1: the clip for season two and it actually looks really
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Speaker 1: cute and the characters look likable, and so now I
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Speaker 1: want to go back and watch it again.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought the clip looked good. I thought it
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Speaker 2: looked like it felt like it had a little bit
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Speaker 2: of that same energy of the original Quantum Leap series
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Speaker 2: and yet updated right, like it didn't feel like it
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Speaker 2: was stuck in that same era, but it felt like
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Speaker 2: it was like in spirit. It was a spiritual successor,
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Speaker 2: so I think it looks like it's pretty high quality.
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Speaker 2: I too, did not watch the first season. I had
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Speaker 2: probably some preconceived ideas about what was going on. What
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Speaker 2: I thought was interesting is that between seasons one and
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Speaker 2: season two there's been a three year jump in time,
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Speaker 2: so that we've seen a few shows do that, Like Ariel,
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Speaker 2: you mentioned the last time we recorded that you finished Barry,
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Speaker 2: So I wonder how you felt about that particular time jump,
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Speaker 2: because that threw me off the first time I saw it.
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Speaker 1: It was easier because I was binging it, I will say,
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Speaker 1: because ideal in the absurd. Sometimes it was it was
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Speaker 1: a little bit like is this is this real?
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Speaker 2: Yeah? No, I spent like the whole time going like,
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Speaker 2: is this going to turn out to just be a fantasy?
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Speaker 2: And it's I'm going to be spending this whole half
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Speaker 2: hour waiting to find out that it's a dream. But no,
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Speaker 2: But yeah, I think it looks like a a like
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Speaker 2: a well made show. I don't know if I'm gonna
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Speaker 2: watch it, Like I might try it out and see,
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Speaker 2: because it at least looks like it could be pretty
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Speaker 2: entertaining and goodness knows I could use something that's not yeah,
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Speaker 2: as dark and gritty as a lot of the other
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Speaker 2: stuff I've been watching recently.
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Speaker 1: That's that's the problem I've been had, and it's been
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Speaker 1: having and it sounds like there's some dark stuff and
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Speaker 1: I'm actually going to I'm horrible and my reading comprehension
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Speaker 1: is bad. It's the remaining episodes of season two, So
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Speaker 1: some of the episodes have already been out, but it's
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Speaker 1: been over a month and they took like a mid season.
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Speaker 2: Break, so gotcha, So they've been on hiatus.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's that's what's going on. But yeah, if
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Speaker 1: you watch Condom Leap, you can now catch up, and
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna try to catch I think I'm gonna catch
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Speaker 1: up from the beginning because I do think even if
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Speaker 1: there's some darker moments, it'll be lighter than things like
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Speaker 1: Squid Game and Barry and Fargo.
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Speaker 2: Fargo.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm like, I want to watch something light. What
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Speaker 1: can I do? Okay, So now we're watching Hell's Kitchen.
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Speaker 2: Because I know, right when that's it's kind of depressing
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Speaker 2: when you're looking around for something lighthearted and the only
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Speaker 2: things that are available are in sort of the reality
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Speaker 2: television genre, because even in reality television, you know, there's
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Speaker 2: some stuff that's just fun and lighthearted and enjoyable, but
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Speaker 2: there's other stuff where it just feels trashy, and you're like, like,
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Speaker 2: can I please get maybe some fictional like narrative stuff
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Speaker 2: that is more lighthearted, perhaps something perhaps something that's maybe
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Speaker 2: a little more sophisticated than Night Court. And so far
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Speaker 2: the answer has been no for me.
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Speaker 1: I mean, so like, there are lots of sitcoms out there,
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Speaker 1: and I tend to I tend to get get into
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Speaker 1: sitcoms later, like it took me. I watched a little
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Speaker 1: bit of New Girl and then I had to come
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Speaker 1: back to it, like a year or two later. I
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Speaker 1: didn't catch up till after it had ended. Same thing
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Speaker 1: with Blackish, I did. I was watching Blackish when they
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Speaker 1: had the final season, but I wasn't caught up. I
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Speaker 1: started watching that late gosh all sorts of stuff. Parks
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Speaker 1: and rec Office I both started late Abbot Elementary. I
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Speaker 1: started on Time, but I've fallen behind on I feel
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Speaker 1: like that's it's half ninety sitcom and half modern sitcom,
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Speaker 1: but it's also very true to the educational system. So
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Speaker 1: maybe that's a good one if you haven't tried it.
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Speaker 1: I do know that this new season is going to
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Speaker 1: have some like drop out people on it. A couple
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Speaker 1: of people who cycle through their cast are going to
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Speaker 1: be on season three of Abbot Elementary.
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Speaker 2: So from Dropout TV.
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Speaker 1: You mean from yeah, from drop out TV, so check me,
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Speaker 1: and I can't remember the other person.
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Speaker 2: Well that's cool. Well, speaking speaking of season two's, our
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Speaker 2: next story is about the trailer we got for Halo
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Speaker 2: season two. I will admit I did not watch Halo's
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Speaker 2: season one. I watched this trailer and it's clear that
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Speaker 2: it's covering some of the same material as the Reach
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Speaker 2: game in Halo, which I know how that story ends,
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Speaker 2: so I'm not sure that I'm going to tune into this.
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Speaker 1: I don't know how that story ends. I watched like
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Speaker 1: the first episode and a half, maybe two episodes of Halo.
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Speaker 1: It wasn't bad, but it was one of those ones
20:30
Speaker 1: that like it might have moved too slow to keep
20:35
Speaker 1: keep my attention from the time of stopping it to
20:37
Speaker 1: starting it again, right.
20:39
Speaker 2: I mean, if you don't really connect with a character
20:41
Speaker 2: to the point where that can pull you through, that
20:44
Speaker 2: can be a real problem. And I wasn't getting a
20:46
Speaker 2: whole lot of personality in this trailer, But again, it's
20:49
Speaker 2: a short, little trailer, so it may very well be
20:51
Speaker 2: that I just haven't seen. Like the only personality I
20:55
Speaker 2: was getting was from a character who clearly is meant
20:58
Speaker 2: to be something of an antagonist. And I'm like, well,
21:01
Speaker 2: your most interesting character, as far as I can tell,
21:03
Speaker 2: is the bad guy. And that's a problem. But I
21:07
Speaker 2: don't know. Maybe that was just because the way the
21:09
Speaker 2: trailer was constructed.
21:10
Speaker 1: It might be I know, Master Chief is kind of
21:13
Speaker 1: he's a straight man, right.
21:15
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's he's like the He's like Jack Reacher, right,
21:18
Speaker 2: You're like, he's an enormous mountain of muscle with a
21:23
Speaker 2: limited personality and just a determination to see his duty through.
21:29
Speaker 2: And that's about it.
21:30
Speaker 1: And I love Pablo Schreiber. He played he played the
21:35
Speaker 1: the Leprechaun in American Gods, so I know that he
21:39
Speaker 1: can He can be effervescent and a ton of fun
21:42
Speaker 1: to watch. So it might it might be the scripting,
21:46
Speaker 1: it might be the character. It might be I didn't
21:48
Speaker 1: give enough of a chance.
21:49
Speaker 2: Well, uh, not to spoil it or anything, but if
21:52
Speaker 2: you want to know a little bit about the reach story.
21:55
Speaker 2: All I can say is rocks fall, everybody dies.
21:59
Speaker 1: Okay, that's actually helpful because I'm the kind of person
22:02
Speaker 1: who tries to remember to visit does the dog die
22:05
Speaker 1: before I watch anything?
22:07
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, Well, and that's that's assuming that they're going
22:11
Speaker 2: by the same story that the games did. But here's
22:14
Speaker 2: the other thing. I have. The other obstacle I face
22:19
Speaker 2: when it comes to really any video game, like an
22:24
Speaker 2: adaptation of a video game into some other form of media,
22:28
Speaker 2: it's that the thing that made the video game interesting
22:31
Speaker 2: to me was the fact that I was in control
22:33
Speaker 2: and that I was the one experiencing these things, even
22:37
Speaker 2: if it's vicariously through the avatar of a video game character.
22:40
Speaker 2: I'm the one who's dictating all that stuff, and that's
22:43
Speaker 2: where it's interesting. Making that interesting for me to watch
22:47
Speaker 2: is a lot harder.
22:49
Speaker 1: Yeah, not everything can be last of us.
22:54
Speaker 2: Very true.
22:55
Speaker 1: I still have friends who are like, I lived through
22:57
Speaker 1: the video game and I got to control it. I
22:58
Speaker 1: don't need to watch the TV show And I'm like,
23:00
Speaker 1: you do, but you do. I mean, I haven't played
23:02
Speaker 1: the video game.
23:02
Speaker 2: But you do. Yeah. The last of us is I
23:05
Speaker 2: would agree with you. Is an exception to the rule.
23:08
Speaker 2: They did a great job in adapting the story and
23:12
Speaker 2: making it something compelling to watch, not just play.
23:16
Speaker 1: Yeah, something that I don't know, I'm curious to find
23:22
Speaker 1: if you found it compelling to watch is the trailer
23:25
Speaker 1: for the Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy, which is
23:28
Speaker 1: going to be an Amazon cartoon. It feels kind of
23:30
Speaker 1: in the in the vibe of Lower Decks or the
23:39
Speaker 1: episode of Invincible where they're on the space station with
23:42
Speaker 1: not Invincible but all the aliens.
23:45
Speaker 2: The vibe I got was like a less vulgar Rick
23:51
Speaker 2: and Morty without it being as without it being funny. Okay, yeah,
23:58
Speaker 2: I watched the trailer and I'm like, none of this
24:00
Speaker 2: is even remotely funny to me. And these are like
24:03
Speaker 2: talented actors who are voicing the characters. It's not the
24:08
Speaker 2: performances that are falling flat. I'm just like watching the
24:12
Speaker 2: setups and jokes, because that's what they are. They are
24:15
Speaker 2: set ups and jokes. It's not like it's meant to
24:17
Speaker 2: be a drama. If it were a dramatic animated series,
24:21
Speaker 2: then obviously saying it's not funny would not be a criticism.
24:25
Speaker 2: But Ariel, I didn't. I didn't find anything in that
24:29
Speaker 2: trailer to be even remotely amusing. At the end of it,
24:32
Speaker 2: I thought Amazon famously has cut way back on not
24:38
Speaker 2: as much as Netflix did, but cut way back on
24:41
Speaker 2: things like animated series. How did this get by and
24:46
Speaker 2: other stuff get the chopping block? I don't understand.
24:51
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, okay. I thought it was just me because
24:54
Speaker 1: I watched it and I'm like, do I even put
24:56
Speaker 1: this in? But it is a you know, it's a
24:58
Speaker 1: it's a sci fi cartoon, so I did. But yeah,
25:01
Speaker 1: it also wasn't funny to me. And I know, like
25:04
Speaker 1: if I talked with my friends about it, they'd be like,
25:06
Speaker 1: why is Boxmakna only getting a season three?
25:09
Speaker 2: Uh?
25:09
Speaker 1: But this is coming out you know?
25:12
Speaker 2: Yeah? No to me, Like that's a legit criticism. I'm
25:15
Speaker 2: as I said, like, when you know that stuff is
25:17
Speaker 2: getting cut, like it's not going to make it to production,
25:24
Speaker 2: and then you see something like this, You're like, who
25:26
Speaker 2: is the one calling the shots? And is it dude?
25:30
Speaker 2: Are they like married to someone who made the show?
25:33
Speaker 2: I mean it just doesn't make sense.
25:36
Speaker 1: I mean, different people like different things. I don't like
25:39
Speaker 1: has I should, but I don't like Hasban Hotel. I'm
25:44
Speaker 1: glad other people do because I want every musical television
25:47
Speaker 1: show to be popular so that we get more musical
25:49
Speaker 1: television shows. But like, some people find it hilarious and
25:53
Speaker 1: I found it not funny.
25:55
Speaker 2: So well, I agree with you that this was not
25:59
Speaker 2: a very funny trailer. Maybe other people do find it
26:02
Speaker 2: really funny. I shouldn't say it's bad, I know, I
26:05
Speaker 2: should avoid that. I should say it did not at
26:08
Speaker 2: all resonate with me. And you know, maybe it was
26:12
Speaker 2: just a really bad trailer. Maybe it turns out that
26:15
Speaker 2: if I were to watch the show, I would get
26:16
Speaker 2: a lot of enjoyment out of it, So I'll try
26:19
Speaker 2: to keep an open mind. But it was not a
26:21
Speaker 2: good first impression.
26:22
Speaker 1: Yeah, kind of like Dungeons and Dragons Honor among Thieves
26:27
Speaker 1: did not have good trailers.
26:29
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, that also didn't give a good first impression.
26:31
Speaker 2: When I finally saw that, I thought it was entertaining.
26:36
Speaker 2: I still didn't think it was great, but I will
26:38
Speaker 2: say the malfunctioning illusion of the Bard made me snort coffee.
26:46
Speaker 2: I was laughing so hard.
26:48
Speaker 1: Yes, very good, so funny. Maybe it's ghosts. Maybe ghosts
26:54
Speaker 1: are in charge of the new Amazon lineup and they're
26:56
Speaker 1: just out of touch with what live people want.
27:00
Speaker 2: Well, then we need to bust them. Oh that's.
27:06
Speaker 1: No, you're right. If they're not giving us good television,
27:08
Speaker 1: then we need to bust them. Uh that's our very
27:11
Speaker 1: smooth segue into the new Ghostbusters Frozen Empire trailer.
27:15
Speaker 2: Yeah, which shows us a lot more of Ray. You know,
27:21
Speaker 2: we give a lot more of the old Ghostbusters in
27:25
Speaker 2: this one, and it's cute. Like, I thought this trailer
27:29
Speaker 2: looked pretty entertaining. I thought it looked like so when
27:34
Speaker 2: I remember when I still haven't seen Ghostbusters after Life,
27:37
Speaker 2: and I know, I know I am way behind on this,
27:40
Speaker 2: but those trailers were after Life made me feel like, oh,
27:45
Speaker 2: they're reveling in the nostalgia of the first movie, but
27:50
Speaker 2: they're not making it like as funny of a comedy
27:54
Speaker 2: like they're they're they're making reverence of all this stuff,
27:58
Speaker 2: but it's not like the whole point of Ghostbusters is
28:01
Speaker 2: that it's a goofy comedy about pest control. But this
28:06
Speaker 2: is more like, oh, let's hold up all these things
28:09
Speaker 2: as iconic imagery and make it less about it being
28:14
Speaker 2: a really kind of dry, funny, witty comedy. And so
28:18
Speaker 2: it kind of lost me. This one. Feels like it's
28:21
Speaker 2: recapturing some of that comedic ground, thanks in large part
28:26
Speaker 2: to Bill Murray, and I'm hopeful that it will be
28:31
Speaker 2: something that resonates more with me.
28:33
Speaker 1: So I will say the main characters of Ghostbusters Afterlife
28:37
Speaker 1: are kids. So that's something like if that just turns
28:40
Speaker 1: you off, you're not going to enjoy it. And I'm
28:42
Speaker 1: not saying that it does. What I will say is, yes,
28:46
Speaker 1: Ghostbusters Afterlife is a love letter to the first two
28:49
Speaker 1: Ghostbusters really the first one, but the first two Ghostbuster movies.
28:54
Speaker 1: And it is funny and the characters are charming. It's
28:58
Speaker 1: got Paul Rudd, you know, he's Jen You're generally funny. Yeah,
29:03
Speaker 1: But but the kids do a great job too, at
29:06
Speaker 1: least the main.
29:08
Speaker 2: Girl in it does.
29:11
Speaker 1: I found I found the bits that were not the
29:14
Speaker 1: love letter to Ghostbusters more funny and more charming and
29:20
Speaker 1: more endearing and more engaging than all of the self
29:23
Speaker 1: referential stuff it did in Afterlife, because that was that
29:27
Speaker 1: it felt very Shrek asking, like see what we did,
29:30
Speaker 1: We're referencing something.
29:31
Speaker 2: You love, you know, and some of it kind of
29:34
Speaker 2: like how when Futurama came back, futuraa like that first
29:38
Speaker 2: episode when Futurama came back the first time, it was
29:41
Speaker 2: so self referential that I'm like, please get over yourself
29:45
Speaker 2: and just make a funny show again.
29:47
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, So, like I love dan Aykroyd and I
29:51
Speaker 1: love the bit if someone says you're a godray you
29:53
Speaker 1: say yes or whatever the line is, uh, but being
29:58
Speaker 1: like it, you could see it coming up from a
30:00
Speaker 1: thousand miles away. And after Life when they reference that
30:03
Speaker 1: line and then I was like, Okay, you're just you're
30:05
Speaker 1: referencing this line because everybody loves this line, so you
30:07
Speaker 1: wanted to put it in. I agree with you. This
30:10
Speaker 1: one feels more like it has more of the charm
30:14
Speaker 1: of the original Ghostbusters to me. My husband would disagree.
30:17
Speaker 1: He still doesn't know what to feel about it. But
30:19
Speaker 1: I think that's because they're including the characters, but they
30:21
Speaker 1: aren't leaning so heavily on their previous success.
30:24
Speaker 2: Yeah. Again, it feels more like an extension of the
30:28
Speaker 2: Ghostbusters film as opposed to a let's pay reverence to
30:35
Speaker 2: this very funny comedy from the nineteen eighties. So I
30:39
Speaker 2: think it's a better step. And again, maybe if I
30:43
Speaker 2: watch Ghostbusters Afterlife, I'll come away with a different opinion.
30:46
Speaker 2: It's just those trailers kind of turned me off on
30:48
Speaker 2: it because it felt it felt like it was leaning
30:51
Speaker 2: too hard on the let's find another way to reference
30:55
Speaker 2: an iconic moment from those first two films. There's some
30:59
Speaker 2: cute stuff that happens in this trailer, so I definitely
31:03
Speaker 2: feel like this is something I'll enjoy more. I'm hopeful
31:10
Speaker 2: once it comes out, I do look forward to seeing it.
31:12
Speaker 2: By the way, side note has nothing to do with
31:16
Speaker 2: the movie, but there was a Fenn Wolfhart sighting among
31:20
Speaker 2: our friend group this past week. Oh really Yeah, because
31:25
Speaker 2: I was out walking along the Chattahuci and got a
31:31
Speaker 2: text message from our friend Mandy and she said that
31:35
Speaker 2: Finn Wolfhart was in the bar that she works at
31:38
Speaker 2: and she was trying very hard not to fan girl out.
31:42
Speaker 1: That's adorable, I am. I know I've had to fight
31:48
Speaker 1: fangirling before, but it's it's not something I do super
31:53
Speaker 1: super often because I'm just very like one. I'm a
31:58
Speaker 1: little bit of an introvert and a little socially awkward,
32:00
Speaker 1: but I'm acutely aware that this other person probably gets
32:04
Speaker 1: bothered all the time and may not want it. Now,
32:07
Speaker 1: that's not true for all all celebrities. Some people love
32:10
Speaker 1: hearing you know, just a nice I really enjoy your work,
32:12
Speaker 1: thank you. Everybody enjoys that, right, But yeah, I'm always
32:16
Speaker 1: I'm always hesitant to ever be like, oh my god,
32:19
Speaker 1: this person, I love you.
32:20
Speaker 2: So yeah, no, I feel the same way, like I
32:22
Speaker 2: always I try to take those moments like only when
32:29
Speaker 2: I feel that pretty certain that I'm not going to
32:31
Speaker 2: bother them, like they're not in the middle of something else,
32:33
Speaker 2: Like I would never ever walk up to anyone while
32:36
Speaker 2: they're eating, for example, ever, Like that's never gonna happen.
32:41
Speaker 2: In fact, I had the opportunity to say hi to
32:44
Speaker 2: Tim Curry while he was eating and I did not
32:46
Speaker 2: take it, and that nearly killed me, but I did it.
32:51
Speaker 2: But yeah, I feel the same way, Like it's it's
32:53
Speaker 2: a concern because I get it. For you as a fan,
32:57
Speaker 2: it's an incredibly special like once in a while lifetime moment.
33:01
Speaker 2: But for them it's like the fiftieth time that day
33:04
Speaker 2: they've met with someone where they were having that special
33:07
Speaker 2: once in a lifetime moment. So it's a very different
33:11
Speaker 2: experience on the other side. So I agree with you.
33:13
Speaker 2: I try to I try to rein it into and
33:16
Speaker 2: I'm sure that our friend Nandy kept it professional and
33:19
Speaker 2: just restricted her fangirl moments to text messages to friends.
33:25
Speaker 1: And that being said, outside of like dragon con or
33:28
Speaker 1: like sets and whatever, I rarely see celebrities. I know
33:32
Speaker 1: they're all over Atlanta, and either I just don't notice
33:34
Speaker 1: them or I'm never in the right place at the
33:36
Speaker 1: right time. And that's fine. Yeah, I will say, like,
33:40
Speaker 1: if I were in an elevator with a celebrity and
33:43
Speaker 1: I happen to make eye contact with them, because you know,
33:45
Speaker 1: sometimes you can't avoid it, I would be like, hey,
33:48
Speaker 1: by the way, you're awesome. I like your work, and
33:50
Speaker 1: then stare straight at the doors until I got out.
33:53
Speaker 2: Yeah. I lack observational skills, so I have a feeling
33:59
Speaker 2: that they're our celebrities around me more frequently than I
34:03
Speaker 2: I realize, and it's just the fact that I am
34:06
Speaker 2: so unobservant I just don't notice.
34:08
Speaker 1: But also, you're a celebrity yourself.
34:11
Speaker 2: Oh shush, shush, No, I'm not really. I'm Internet famous
34:15
Speaker 2: at most so.
34:19
Speaker 1: Nowadays, or if you're.
34:20
Speaker 2: Buying a Toyota, you might see me on the Toyota TV.
34:23
Speaker 2: But that's about it, all right, so let's let's move
34:26
Speaker 2: on and talk about our next trailer, which is, for
34:29
Speaker 2: a u a fictional retelling of something that happened in reality,
34:36
Speaker 2: which is that the story is about a group of
34:40
Speaker 2: World War Two commandos who took on some pretty seriously
34:46
Speaker 2: dangerous missions to help the UK's cause during World War Two.
34:52
Speaker 2: But as serious as that sounds, the trailer for the
34:56
Speaker 2: film version makes it look like a fun series of
35:01
Speaker 2: crazy hijinks a la The Suicide Squad, the James Gunn version.
35:07
Speaker 1: Yeah. I thought it was maybe another movie by the
35:12
Speaker 1: Argyle people, but it's by It's it's being directed by
35:15
Speaker 1: Guy Ritchie.
35:16
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, it's we should probably say the title yeah, oh.
35:22
Speaker 1: Sorry, Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, which is, you know, a
35:27
Speaker 1: group that Winston Churchill put together, which when I watched
35:30
Speaker 1: the trailer, I did not know that it was a
35:32
Speaker 1: real thing. I was like, this is just fun. But
35:35
Speaker 1: it does look fun, largely because they're letting Henry Cavill
35:38
Speaker 1: be a goofball.
35:39
Speaker 2: Yeah, and Carrie Elwys is in it, and the guy
35:42
Speaker 2: who's playing Reacher in the Amazon series Reacher, he's in it,
35:47
Speaker 2: which I hear good.
35:47
Speaker 1: Things about, but I haven't watched yet.
35:49
Speaker 2: I've watched it. The second season's not good. I did
35:54
Speaker 2: not like it, but I the first season was fairly entertaining,
35:58
Speaker 2: but the second season I had real problems with. But
36:01
Speaker 2: but he's he's fine. He's a good, good enough actor,
36:04
Speaker 2: and he's enormous. I mean, he is a huge dude.
36:09
Speaker 2: So it'll be The action looks great. I mean it's
36:13
Speaker 2: a Guy Richie film, so of course it looks great.
36:15
Speaker 2: Guy Ritchie is great at directing action sequences. Henry Cavill
36:21
Speaker 2: does look like he's an unhinged maniac in it. I
36:26
Speaker 2: think it looks like it'd be a really entertaining film.
36:29
Speaker 2: It will be, by the way, absolutely one not accurate
36:34
Speaker 2: to how things really unfolded in history. It's just inspired
36:39
Speaker 2: by a true story. Because I'm pretty sure that the
36:42
Speaker 2: person that the Alan, I think it's Alan Richardson, but
36:45
Speaker 2: it's the guy who played Reacher. I'm pretty sure that
36:48
Speaker 2: guy and the guy that Henry Cavill is playing never
36:52
Speaker 2: really worked together. They were both commandos during World War Two,
36:57
Speaker 2: but I don't think that they were working with each other,
37:00
Speaker 2: and so I think it's like a lot of liberties
37:02
Speaker 2: are taken with the historical facts. But that's that's in
37:06
Speaker 2: order to make an entertaining action film, and I'm.
37:09
Speaker 1: Fine with that. I you know, I should I should
37:13
Speaker 1: read a book or watch a documentary if I want
37:15
Speaker 1: the actual history. That's not what I go to. That's
37:19
Speaker 1: not what I look to for entertainment personally.
37:22
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is not This is not Oppenheimer is what
37:26
Speaker 2: we're saying.
37:28
Speaker 1: Which I still have yet to see, but I guess
37:30
Speaker 1: I should watch it.
37:31
Speaker 2: Wow, it's just so long. It's heavy too. It's a
37:34
Speaker 2: heavy film.
37:36
Speaker 1: One of our mutual friends is like, there are funny
37:38
Speaker 1: moments in it.
37:39
Speaker 2: And I'm like, well, there are. There are funny moments
37:42
Speaker 2: in it. I mean some of some of them are
37:44
Speaker 2: kind of funny in that ry, sort of sarcastic way.
37:48
Speaker 2: But yeah, yeah, I.
37:51
Speaker 1: Stopped at the barbiehalf of the Barbieheimer.
37:53
Speaker 2: Yeah.
37:56
Speaker 1: Something else that I haven't watched are any of the
38:00
Speaker 1: Redespicable Me movies that have.
38:01
Speaker 2: Come out, which means you're gonna be really behind when
38:05
Speaker 2: Despicable Me four comes out.
38:07
Speaker 1: Yes, which the trailer looks cute. Agreed, it feels more
38:14
Speaker 1: like a sequel to The Incredibles than to Despicable Me.
38:19
Speaker 1: From what I know about Despicable Me.
38:20
Speaker 2: Agreed. I've seen the first Despicable Me. I remember very
38:25
Speaker 2: little about it, other than, of course, the fact that
38:28
Speaker 2: the minions are little agents of chaos and are appear
38:32
Speaker 2: to have been specifically designed to move merchandise, and.
38:36
Speaker 1: They like bananas.
38:38
Speaker 2: They like bananas, and they like physical humor. It's yeah,
38:45
Speaker 2: I agree, like this, this looks like it's fine. I
38:48
Speaker 2: don't actually considering some of the previews we saw, like
38:52
Speaker 2: compared it to the second best hospital in the galaxy,
38:55
Speaker 2: it looks far more entertaining to me, Like, yes, you know,
38:59
Speaker 2: it just it looks it doesn't look like it's necessarily
39:02
Speaker 2: for me, But it does look like it's a really
39:04
Speaker 2: well made, entertaining film. So it's nice because I don't
39:09
Speaker 2: look at it and think, oh, well this is they're
39:11
Speaker 2: just walking through the paces and they're just you know,
39:15
Speaker 2: milking this franchise to get as much money as possible.
39:18
Speaker 2: It looks like they actually put a put real work
39:21
Speaker 2: into making it and entertaining silly movie.
39:25
Speaker 1: I agree. In fact, it might be the most appealing
39:27
Speaker 1: Despicable Meat trailer I've seen to date.
39:30
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what, I think I agree with you
39:32
Speaker 2: on that. You know.
39:36
Speaker 1: So if I had kids that dragged me out to
39:40
Speaker 1: go see it, I think I would enjoy it and
39:41
Speaker 1: I would be okay.
39:42
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I can't imagine any other scenario where I
39:46
Speaker 2: go see this movie if you got paid, sure, yeah,
39:53
Speaker 2: if people want to start paying me to see movies,
39:55
Speaker 2: then yes, I think that would be lovely.
39:59
Speaker 1: Yeah. Anyhow, the next thing we've want to talk about
40:03
Speaker 1: is we've got first looks at Universal Epic Universe in Orlando.
40:09
Speaker 2: I believe, yes, this is the third of the Universal Parks.
40:14
Speaker 2: It's scheduled to open in twenty twenty five, and so
40:18
Speaker 2: we got some treatments of artists renditions of what the
40:23
Speaker 2: park is supposed to look like once it's finished. There
40:25
Speaker 2: will be five lands in the park. First thing I
40:29
Speaker 2: want to say before we really get into the lands
40:32
Speaker 2: is that they talked about putting the park back into
40:35
Speaker 2: amusement park and that this is going to have a
40:38
Speaker 2: lot of landscaping, lots of trees and flower beds and
40:41
Speaker 2: water features and stuff. The artist rendition is phenomenal. It
40:46
Speaker 2: looks so inviting. It really makes me wish that Disney
40:52
Speaker 2: in particular had paid that kind of attention to landscaping
40:57
Speaker 2: for their like Magic Kingdom is nigh once you by
41:00
Speaker 2: the time you get up to the Magic, you know,
41:02
Speaker 2: to Cinderella's Castle. But like I think of like until
41:07
Speaker 2: Epcot's Journey of Water that was kind of like a
41:11
Speaker 2: concrete just wasteland. Yeah, and Hollywood Studios feels that way too.
41:18
Speaker 1: So yeah, even in the new Lands, which are very
41:21
Speaker 1: like evocative of the ip that they're built around and immersive,
41:27
Speaker 1: but there's no like Toy story Land, there's no shape.
41:30
Speaker 1: If you're there in the middle of the day, you're
41:31
Speaker 1: going to die.
41:32
Speaker 2: Yes, Toy story Land is designed to make you think, Man,
41:36
Speaker 2: I wish I were on that planet. The dune is
41:38
Speaker 2: set on because I bet it's cool and breezy compared
41:41
Speaker 2: to where I am right now.
41:43
Speaker 1: Yes, and parts of parts of Galaxy's Edge too. Yeah,
41:48
Speaker 1: I forgive it a little bit more there because there's
41:50
Speaker 1: more things for me to pop into to hide.
41:52
Speaker 2: Yeah. The Epic Universe design just looks very lush. Again,
41:57
Speaker 2: it's an artist rendition. It's not like they have finished
42:00
Speaker 2: building it. So hopefully the finished product does look like
42:03
Speaker 2: the artists rendering, because it was very pretty.
42:07
Speaker 1: But Okay, so I haven't been to Universal in a
42:10
Speaker 1: long time. I think the last time I went was
42:12
Speaker 1: shortly after they added the Mummy roller coaster, So a
42:15
Speaker 1: lot of the new stuff I haven't seen, yeah, including
42:18
Speaker 1: like Harry potter Land or whatever.
42:20
Speaker 2: Yeah, but when I went.
42:24
Speaker 1: The kind of the Atlantis area and also the Jurassic
42:29
Speaker 1: Park area, I thought, we're already pretty lush comparatively to Disney,
42:34
Speaker 1: because I had been to Disney a whole bunch.
42:36
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, those those well, specifically the Jurassic Park. Now
42:41
Speaker 2: Jurassic World area is pretty lush and jungle like. The
42:46
Speaker 2: Atlantis area had lots of water features, but otherwise was
42:51
Speaker 2: like lots of lots of buildings. This to me looks
42:58
Speaker 2: like it really does look like it's a next generation park.
43:01
Speaker 2: From the sketches we saw. The five lands include Nintendo World,
43:07
Speaker 2: so you get your your Marios and potentially your Zelda's,
43:11
Speaker 2: although they did not they did not actually tip their
43:13
Speaker 2: hand as to whether or not Zelda will be part
43:15
Speaker 2: of it. There's a how to Train maybe there's a
43:20
Speaker 2: how to Train your Dragon World, which they said, you know,
43:24
Speaker 2: there'll be attractions where, you know, maybe you'll be flying
43:28
Speaker 2: on the back of a dragon who knows. There's like
43:32
Speaker 2: a a requisite Harry Potter Ministry and Magic World, which
43:36
Speaker 2: is the one reason why I'm probably never going to
43:38
Speaker 2: this park, because I'm not telling anyone how to spend
43:42
Speaker 2: their money or how to feel about things, but I
43:45
Speaker 2: have I have deep personal objections to JK Rallying, and
43:49
Speaker 2: I cannot justify any of my money going toward her
43:53
Speaker 2: if I can help it. That's a real bummer for me.
43:55
Speaker 2: Because the other stuff at the park looks amazing, the
43:57
Speaker 2: Dark Universe stuff, which is like all the classic Universal
44:01
Speaker 2: horror monsters and attractions built around them. I really would
44:05
Speaker 2: be interested to see what they do with that. So
44:08
Speaker 2: there's a lot of like really cool ideas that are
44:13
Speaker 2: on display in these first looks, and and I don't know,
44:18
Speaker 2: I mean, I was really impressed.
44:21
Speaker 1: Me too. So I've been trying to get Tony to
44:27
Speaker 1: Universal because I feel like the rides are better there
44:30
Speaker 1: than it, Like as far as like just straight out
44:35
Speaker 1: thrill of a ride, I feel like Universal does that better.
44:40
Speaker 1: I think YEA disease like Rise of the Resistance is brilliant.
44:45
Speaker 1: It's brilliant, but it's an experience.
44:49
Speaker 2: Well, I would say things like like the Tron ride
44:52
Speaker 2: is a great thrill ride, but it lasts like a
44:55
Speaker 2: minute and a half. Slinky Dog Dash is a great
44:58
Speaker 2: little coast Like it's not super intense, but it's you know,
45:03
Speaker 2: I think I think it's like at least on the
45:04
Speaker 2: level of Big Thunder Mountain Railroad. Yeah, and you know,
45:09
Speaker 2: but yeah Disney. Disney doesn't really do the crazy thrill
45:14
Speaker 2: rides because they they err in favor of family friendly
45:19
Speaker 2: attractions that are good for the whole family. And then
45:22
Speaker 2: Universal's like, well, hold my beer, We're going to build
45:24
Speaker 2: a seals to the roller coasters. It's going to shoot
45:26
Speaker 2: you out at eighty miles per hour and then turn
45:28
Speaker 2: you upside down.
45:29
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I mean up up until batu. Really, I
45:33
Speaker 1: felt like Universal was better at making their parks. I
45:37
Speaker 1: mean more so with Islands of Adventure than with Universal Studios.
45:41
Speaker 1: So Universal Studios is great too, because it feels like
45:43
Speaker 1: a backlot.
45:44
Speaker 2: More.
45:47
Speaker 1: Inviting, more themed. Yeah, you really feel like even in
45:51
Speaker 1: like the area with like Dudley Do Right and Popeye,
45:53
Speaker 1: which are both pretty old. You know. I don't know
45:55
Speaker 1: how many of like gen Z or Jen Alpha know
45:57
Speaker 1: who they are, but like even those areas felt way
46:01
Speaker 1: more like I felt way more I was stepping into
46:03
Speaker 1: that world.
46:04
Speaker 2: Yeah, you could tell that a lot of former imagineers
46:07
Speaker 2: from Disney had done a lot of work with Universal likes.
46:11
Speaker 2: As much as I don't like the Rallying and her
46:16
Speaker 2: effects in the world, there's no denying that the Harry
46:20
Speaker 2: Potter lands that are in both Universal Studios and Islands
46:24
Speaker 2: of Adventure are some of the best themed amusement park
46:28
Speaker 2: lands I've ever seen.
46:31
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I've wanted to get Tony to Universal to
46:33
Speaker 1: see if he'd like it better than Disney, and we
46:35
Speaker 1: haven't gone yet. And this Mario World great opportunity because
46:40
Speaker 1: I think he would really enjoy that, and that would
46:41
Speaker 1: be a draw for him if we go to Japan.
46:44
Speaker 1: We'd go to it in Japan. But I don't know
46:47
Speaker 1: how soon we'll be doing that.
46:49
Speaker 2: It's a long plane ride.
46:51
Speaker 1: It is a long plane ride. I got to get
46:53
Speaker 1: my back in better shape, but which I'm working on.
46:55
Speaker 1: But you know, I wish I could buy like fractional
47:00
Speaker 1: pass and just skip that one land.
47:05
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, me too. Yeah, I wish there's like here's
47:09
Speaker 2: the past you can buy where none of the money
47:11
Speaker 2: goes to JK. Rowling. I'm like, okay, I'll take that one. Yeah.
47:16
Speaker 2: The Harry Potter Land. The Ministry of Magic Land, in
47:18
Speaker 2: case you are curious, is supposed to evoke both the
47:23
Speaker 2: Ministry of Magic from the Harry Potter series as well
47:26
Speaker 2: as nineteen twenties era Fantastic Beasts stuff. And I'm like,
47:34
Speaker 2: did are people still? Do people still care about Fantastic Beasts?
47:38
Speaker 2: Because when I watched that first movie, I was like,
47:41
Speaker 2: this is pretty terrible, So I.
47:43
Speaker 1: Didn't I also agree with you, I was not a
47:45
Speaker 1: fan of the and if you like the Fantastic Beast movie,
47:48
Speaker 1: you know we've got a lot of media for a
47:50
Speaker 1: lot of people. Sure, yes, but I wasn't a huge
47:54
Speaker 1: fan of it. However, stepping into nineteen twenties London streets
47:58
Speaker 1: does sound fun to me. In nineteen twenties like speak
48:02
Speaker 1: easy Prohibition era, Like that's that's a fun a fun
48:06
Speaker 1: jet era to dabble.
48:08
Speaker 2: Your toes in. Yeah, I just don't need the Harry
48:11
Speaker 2: Potter stuff to make that fun, Like it could just
48:14
Speaker 2: it could just be a period appropriate like part of
48:17
Speaker 2: the amusement park. Yeah. But anyway, it does look like
48:20
Speaker 2: it's going to be really impressive. And also, I mean
48:22
Speaker 2: it's obviously a shot across the bow of Disney because
48:27
Speaker 2: for the longest time, the story was if you go
48:31
Speaker 2: down to Orlando, you book a week's worth of vacation,
48:34
Speaker 2: you spend almost all of that week at Disney. Maybe
48:37
Speaker 2: you have a day where you go to the Universal
48:39
Speaker 2: Park or both parks. Now, what Universal is saying is
48:43
Speaker 2: that by building out this third park, they're creating a
48:46
Speaker 2: week's worth of activities in one spot, so that people
48:49
Speaker 2: will be going down to Orlando not to go to Disney,
48:52
Speaker 2: but to spend a week at Universal.
48:55
Speaker 1: See. That's what I liked about Islands of Adventure and Universal.
48:58
Speaker 1: If you went at the right time, you could go
48:59
Speaker 1: through each park twice like. And it wasn't that there
49:02
Speaker 1: was a lot of stuff. It was just it was
49:04
Speaker 1: very well planned out and the queues were good if
49:06
Speaker 1: you don't get stuck in the Dudlely Do Write Falls
49:08
Speaker 1: queue Forever.
49:09
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've never ridden that ride because the I'm not
49:12
Speaker 2: big on water rides.
49:15
Speaker 1: Oh to see, Universal has the best, like the best
49:18
Speaker 1: water rides I've been on. Doudley Do Right Falls is
49:20
Speaker 1: a lot of fun. The Popeye raft ride is brilliant.
49:25
Speaker 2: I love it. I think I just don't like walking
49:28
Speaker 2: around in web jeans yeah, I get it.
49:32
Speaker 1: I get it. You know, I'm past the age where
49:34
Speaker 1: like I could go to a theme park and put
49:35
Speaker 1: my shorts in a in a locker and just walk
49:37
Speaker 1: around in my bathing suit all day. But I'm past
49:40
Speaker 1: that age.
49:43
Speaker 2: Here's the funny thing, is that being a guy, I
49:46
Speaker 2: actually have probably about to hit that age where you know,
49:50
Speaker 2: we just stop carrying.
49:53
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, it would be great if I
49:56
Speaker 1: could stop caring. It's something I'm working on to my therapist. Well,
50:01
Speaker 1: but I mean I also know Harry Potter is still
50:03
Speaker 1: important to a lot of people who are maybe not
50:08
Speaker 1: who are who are being targeted by the bad stuff
50:10
Speaker 1: as well.
50:11
Speaker 2: So yeah, it's complicated, right, I think that's something It's
50:14
Speaker 2: a decision each person has to make, and you shouldn't
50:18
Speaker 2: have me influence your decision one way or the other.
50:21
Speaker 2: Like this is a personal decision for me. I'm not
50:24
Speaker 2: advocating for anyone else to feel the same way or
50:27
Speaker 2: to perform the same way. But it's I can't I
50:30
Speaker 2: can't justify it for myself.
50:32
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just wanted to put that out there because
50:35
Speaker 1: I know we have listeners who have liked Harry Potter
50:37
Speaker 1: in the past and you know, if if it's important
50:39
Speaker 1: to your journey, I understand.
50:40
Speaker 2: I'm not going to judge. I'm not judging anyone for
50:43
Speaker 2: their fandom. Yeah. Absolutely, it's that's a good point to make, Ariel.
50:47
Speaker 1: Yeah, unless you want to play the Downton abby esque
50:50
Speaker 1: relationships in RPG, in.
50:52
Speaker 2: Which case, screw Harry Potter. No, that's just I'm just kidding. Yeah,
50:59
Speaker 2: when you put this in. When you put this in, Ariel,
51:02
Speaker 2: I was like, what, And after I read it, I thought, oh, okay,
51:07
Speaker 2: so it's not it's not literally a Downton abby RPG.
51:13
Speaker 2: I see what you mean by Downton abby esque in
51:15
Speaker 2: that it's an RPG that deals with class structure, but
51:20
Speaker 2: it also puts it in the framework of the world
51:23
Speaker 2: is going to end.
51:27
Speaker 1: Yes, it's so bizarre.
51:29
Speaker 2: So you have to.
51:32
Speaker 1: Investigate and abandoned and in who Lord and abandoned Mansion,
51:37
Speaker 1: you have to attend high society balls and then also
51:41
Speaker 1: like fight monsters, but also develop relationships in romance.
51:49
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's supposed to. It's supposed to really evoke sort
51:52
Speaker 2: of these class distinctions and divisions in society while also
51:58
Speaker 2: telling the story of impending world doom. And as I
52:03
Speaker 2: was reading this I was. I was like, it's hard
52:06
Speaker 2: for me to feel this isn't a hat on a
52:08
Speaker 2: hat situation where you like, you have a good idea,
52:11
Speaker 2: but then you over complicate that good idea by putting
52:14
Speaker 2: a different good idea on top of your good idea.
52:17
Speaker 2: But I don't know, Maybe maybe if I were to
52:20
Speaker 2: play through it, I would say, oh, I get it now. Maybe,
52:23
Speaker 2: like I can't judge it just based upon a description
52:26
Speaker 2: of the thing. I kind of need to experience the thing.
52:30
Speaker 2: I will say it sounds very imaginative.
52:35
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, like when I when I first heard about it,
52:40
Speaker 1: when I was when I was reading through the news
52:42
Speaker 1: and I was like, what what in the world? Like,
52:44
Speaker 1: I like, down, Abbey, I know that's that's a giant
52:47
Speaker 1: geek fandom, right, I was, like a relationship video game.
52:52
Speaker 2: Yeah, I will say, we haven't named the game yet.
52:55
Speaker 2: It's called Our Brilliant Ruin. That's we're getting real bad
52:59
Speaker 2: at that because we just jump into the description. But yeah,
53:02
Speaker 2: Our Brilliant Ruin is the name of the game, and
53:04
Speaker 2: they've got a They're they're launching a Kickstarter to back
53:08
Speaker 2: this h And while I have my misgivings just because
53:14
Speaker 2: it feels like it's like almost like an overcomplication. I
53:20
Speaker 2: am intrigued.
53:22
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'm sorry for not naming things. I just
53:24
Speaker 1: assume you guys are all in my brain.
53:27
Speaker 2: If there's same here.
53:29
Speaker 1: Yeah, if we ever put out an episode where we
53:32
Speaker 1: don't name any of the things that we're actually talking about,
53:35
Speaker 1: you can match them up with our show notes and
53:37
Speaker 1: then win a sticker. I will send you a sticker
53:40
Speaker 1: in the mail, no telling what it'll be.
53:45
Speaker 2: It could be, you know, it could be a sticker
53:47
Speaker 2: from he Man or Gim in the Holograms, or maybe
53:50
Speaker 2: it's an eye voted in Georgia.
53:53
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a holographic alien sticker that I got
53:56
Speaker 1: out of a quarterslought machine like fifteen years ago and
54:01
Speaker 1: then lost in a drawer somewhere and only recently found.
54:04
Speaker 2: Don't make that's it work like a rose. Don't.
54:06
Speaker 1: Maybe it'll be it could also be a temporary tattoo.
54:09
Speaker 2: Of the same. I'm just saying, don't make promises, because
54:12
Speaker 2: if you actually have to deliver, you're gonna have to
54:14
Speaker 2: track something like that down.
54:15
Speaker 1: Well, we just have to remember to name the properties
54:17
Speaker 1: we're talking about.
54:18
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, then let's I actually did.
54:20
Speaker 1: Find a bunch of that in a drawer recently, so
54:22
Speaker 1: I have it to give.
54:23
Speaker 2: Well. I actually have a similar story to chat about,
54:27
Speaker 2: which is Punk Is Dead, which is another tabletop RPG
54:32
Speaker 2: that's looking for backers, this one on backer Kit, not Kickstarter,
54:36
Speaker 2: but this one is part of the New York Borg
54:41
Speaker 2: Universe of game rules, and it's set in a post
54:45
Speaker 2: apocalyptic United Kingdom. It's after nuclear bombs have been dropped
54:52
Speaker 2: to the point where they ran out of nuclear bombs
54:54
Speaker 2: to drop, and the people who have survived are struggling
54:59
Speaker 2: in a world where weird monsters are crossing over like
55:03
Speaker 2: through a rip in reality. And you play as a
55:08
Speaker 2: member of a punk rock game, and part of the
55:11
Speaker 2: game mechanics involved the players writing punk rock songs. And
55:17
Speaker 2: I said, heck yes and back diad immediately.
55:22
Speaker 1: It does sound good, honestly the I didn't get to
55:25
Speaker 1: watch much of it because you added it late and
55:26
Speaker 1: I was driving back home.
55:28
Speaker 2: Yeah, but.
55:30
Speaker 1: Listening to the very beginning of the video on the
55:35
Speaker 1: on the fundraiser site sounded like rock band or not
55:40
Speaker 1: rock band guitar hero and I was super into.
55:42
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a it's it's such a weird idea. That
55:47
Speaker 2: you're like, you know, like this adventuring punk rock band
55:50
Speaker 2: and part of your the way you survive is through
55:54
Speaker 2: composing punk rock songs. Uh, it just was very creative. Again, Like,
56:01
Speaker 2: it's interesting because both our brilliant Ruin and Punk Is
56:06
Speaker 2: Dead are set in these in one case soon to
56:10
Speaker 2: be apocalyptic world, in the other case a post apocalyptic world.
56:15
Speaker 2: They're taking these very both cases, very English kinds of
56:21
Speaker 2: concepts because we're talking about the English version of punk rock,
56:24
Speaker 2: like you're talking about like sex pistols kind of punk rock,
56:27
Speaker 2: as opposed to the New York style like Ramones and such.
56:31
Speaker 2: So it's they to me, like they go hand in hand.
56:36
Speaker 2: It's so interesting that both of these are are launching
56:40
Speaker 2: for for for crowdfunding at the same time.
56:44
Speaker 1: My my off the wall fan theory, they are the
56:49
Speaker 1: same world, just one pre pop pre pop apocalypse in
56:53
Speaker 1: one post podcast.
56:53
Speaker 2: I agree. I think that that's the case.
56:58
Speaker 1: Yes, all right, we have two stories left.
57:03
Speaker 2: Yeah, as is tradition, although who knows this. After a
57:09
Speaker 2: heart to heart talk with Ariel before the show, it
57:12
Speaker 2: may not be in traditioned much longer because we might
57:15
Speaker 2: I might show mercy to her because I don't want
57:20
Speaker 2: to emotionally scar my co host and dear friend, We've
57:23
Speaker 2: got a couple of trailers for some horror movies that
57:26
Speaker 2: are coming up in the first up is a trailer
57:28
Speaker 2: for a film called Taro. And the immediate reaction I
57:33
Speaker 2: had from watching this concept as a bunch of teenagers
57:37
Speaker 2: find this cursed deck of Tarot cards and they do
57:40
Speaker 2: a Tarot card reading and then they are all slowly
57:43
Speaker 2: being hunted down by various malevolent forces. My first reaction was,
57:49
Speaker 2: this feels so similar to me to the premise of
57:53
Speaker 2: Talk to Me, which was that movie with the the
57:57
Speaker 2: dismembered hand, and you would hold the hand and you
58:00
Speaker 2: would say a little chant. You would have like spirits
58:04
Speaker 2: take you over briefly, because again that was like done
58:08
Speaker 2: as the style of a bunch of kids playing a game.
58:11
Speaker 2: This feels very much the same, but it didn't look
58:15
Speaker 2: as well made or creative to me. Based upon the trailer.
58:21
Speaker 1: I would have to agree there it gave me the
58:24
Speaker 1: vibe of a not fun evil power arrangers, like all
58:32
Speaker 1: of the card people are evil power rangers or something
58:39
Speaker 1: to that effect.
58:40
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I wanted to like it more, but instead
58:45
Speaker 2: what I did was I sent it to friend of
58:47
Speaker 2: the show, Shay, because she used to read tarot cards
58:51
Speaker 2: all the time for her friends, and I thought her
58:54
Speaker 2: reaction was going to be that she would be rolling
58:58
Speaker 2: her eyes at how they depicted it and just be like,
59:00
Speaker 2: this is so so Hollywood for them to interpret tarot
59:05
Speaker 2: cards this way. Instead, her response was I want to
59:08
Speaker 2: see it.
59:10
Speaker 1: Of course, of course it could. So when I said
59:14
Speaker 1: Power Rangers, it doesn't look that fun, maybe like a
59:17
Speaker 1: super dark episode of Supernatural as well.
59:21
Speaker 2: I felt like there was a little bit of oh,
59:23
Speaker 2: I don't know. I was going to say final Destination,
59:25
Speaker 2: but not really. I guess the talk to me is
59:29
Speaker 2: probably the closest analog I can give.
59:33
Speaker 1: Yeah. And then our last trailer is for Lovely, Dark
59:38
Speaker 1: and Deep, and I started watching it and then I
59:40
Speaker 1: stopped because I wimped out.
59:42
Speaker 2: So Aerel explained to me she enjoys camping because she
59:47
Speaker 2: has something broken in her brain and likes to forego
59:52
Speaker 2: the comforts of a civilized home in the city.
59:58
Speaker 1: And so.
1:00:00
Speaker 2: I say this as as someone who grew up in
1:00:01
Speaker 2: rural Georgia. But no, it's a story where there's a
1:00:07
Speaker 2: woman who takes a job as a park ranger. She
1:00:11
Speaker 2: is stationed at this one particular park where there have
1:00:15
Speaker 2: been some disappearances in the past, and then there are
1:00:19
Speaker 2: all these indications that's something supernatural and creepy is going on.
1:00:24
Speaker 2: The trailer also describes it as being an intrigue that's
1:00:28
Speaker 2: in the cosmic horror genre, although I honestly, Ariel, you
1:00:33
Speaker 2: know I mentioned that before the podcast, that it does
1:00:36
Speaker 2: say it's cosmic horror, and that's kind of your jam.
1:00:39
Speaker 2: You love cosmic horror, But I'm I don't know that
1:00:42
Speaker 2: the trailer really depicts it in a way where the
1:00:47
Speaker 2: cosmic horror element seems evident to me. So it may
1:00:52
Speaker 2: still not be your thing, right, It may just be
1:00:54
Speaker 2: that someone described it that way, But I thought it
1:00:57
Speaker 2: looked intriguing because it does give like this sort of
1:01:00
Speaker 2: the mystery of what actually is going on, what sort
1:01:03
Speaker 2: of elements are at play. Is there really supernatural stuff happening,
1:01:08
Speaker 2: or is this stuff that's just happening in the main
1:01:10
Speaker 2: character's mind. Do we have an unreliable narrator situation going on?
1:01:15
Speaker 2: I don't know the answer, but I thought the cinematography
1:01:19
Speaker 2: looked good and it has me interested, So I will
1:01:25
Speaker 2: probably see.
1:01:26
Speaker 1: This great I will give the trailer another shot. And
1:01:32
Speaker 1: then if you see it and you're like, this is
1:01:33
Speaker 1: totally your jam Aeriel, yes, I will go see it, right.
1:01:35
Speaker 2: And if I see it and I say don't because
1:01:38
Speaker 2: you want to continue to enjoy camping, then you won't
1:01:42
Speaker 2: go see it. Correct.
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Speaker 1: And you know what Johnathan said, this tradition may end
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Speaker 1: and let us know. I just want to like end
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Speaker 1: on a happy story every once in a while. But
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Speaker 1: if you guys really like ending with my discomfort, I'm like,
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Speaker 1: that's more important to me.
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Speaker 2: So just let us know.
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Speaker 1: And Jonathan, how can they let us know?
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Speaker 2: Well, the way you'll let us know is that you're
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Speaker 2: going to go out into the woods and walk out
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Speaker 2: until you find an old, abandoned shed where the door
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Speaker 2: is just barely hanging on by a hinge. You're going
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Speaker 2: to open the door of that shed and walk in,
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Speaker 2: and you're just going to barely be able to see
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Speaker 2: as little rays of light, shafts of light are shining
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Speaker 2: through the gaps in the wooden boards, barely illuminating the
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Speaker 2: interior of that shed. And there you will see a
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Speaker 2: collection of mannequins, all of which are missing various limbs,
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Speaker 2: and they all have faces drawn on their heads, but
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Speaker 2: there's something wrong with the faces. They're halfway sliding off.
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Speaker 2: It's almost as if the skin that would be there
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Speaker 2: was just slothing from their skulls. And as you stand there,
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Speaker 2: they all just slowly turned towards you, and as one,
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Speaker 2: the remaining arms slowly reach out and then hand you
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Speaker 2: a birthday cake because it's your birthday and they want
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Speaker 2: to celebrate, and they sing a happy song and they
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Speaker 2: give you presents and then they say that you are
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Speaker 2: the best. And then at the end, I'm gonna come
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Speaker 2: out and I got a little pony for you, just
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Speaker 2: like you always wanted. And then I say, what's your question?
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Speaker 2: And that's the happy note I'm ending on.
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Speaker 1: Thank you. That's delightful. I'm fine with that too. I
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Speaker 1: like little ponies, well little Sebastians as it were. And
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Speaker 1: if I don't know, if you're allergic to ponies. You
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Speaker 1: and discord. We are a large enur drunk collider. I'm
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Speaker 1: just trying to remember them all. We're technically on Blue Sky,
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Speaker 1: but that's different and I don't remember offhand, and I
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Speaker 1: don't I haven't. I will eventually start using that as well.
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Speaker 2: He doesn't remember how the log in anymore.
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Speaker 1: I mean, you're not entirely wrong and you have to
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Speaker 1: figure it out every time. It's just the handles for
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Speaker 1: that are so long. I kind of like this ending.
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Speaker 1: you can reach us until next time. I have been aerial,
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Speaker 2: published again, cursed at by Jonathan Strickland. Music by Kevin
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