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Elvis Thinks Being a Secret Agent is Alright Alright Alright · Large Nerdron Collider

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  Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Welcome to the large nerg On Collider podcast,
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  Speaker 1: the podcast that's all about the geeky things happening in
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  Speaker 1: the world around us and how very excited we are
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  Speaker 1: about them. I'm aerial casting, and with me, as always
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  Speaker 1: is the super brilliant Jonavan Stricklin. Let's Bowl, Let's bowl,
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  Speaker 1: Let's rock and roll. Indeed. Yeah, how are you doing
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  Speaker 1: a real I'm you know, I am. I am doing
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  Speaker 1: Pecha keene. I am. Lots of cool geeky things on
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  Speaker 1: the horizon for me. Uh. You know, my band's playing,
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  Speaker 1: Uh an improvised D and D in the next month,
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  Speaker 1: and a bunch of other fun things. How about you.
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing pretty well. I've got a lot of cool
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  Speaker 1: geeky things in the works. Uh. Next month, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: go see an improvised D n D show and my
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  Speaker 1: friends band is playing. So that's cool. Yeah. For those
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  Speaker 1: who are are curious, especially for those in the Atlanta area,
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  Speaker 1: the Dad's Garage Theater Group has been doing an improvised
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  Speaker 1: D and D show for several years now, and Mark Mere,
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  Speaker 1: who was the voice actor for the Male Commander Shepherd
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  Speaker 1: and has been on lots of other stuff, is the
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  Speaker 1: creator of that format. He comes down on occasion to
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  Speaker 1: d M or Dungeon Master, the improvised show. He's going
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  Speaker 1: to be there that weekend, and Ariel's band is going
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  Speaker 1: to be playing as well, so she's she's part of
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  Speaker 1: the entertainment and I'm really looking forward to it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we're you know, we're not going to be on the
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  Speaker 1: big stage. We're just a lobby band. So you know, no, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: You're not just a lobby band. You are the musical
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  Speaker 1: accompaniment to a night of revelry, you know what that
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  Speaker 1: is true. I'm very excited about it. We're pulling out
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  Speaker 1: songs we haven't done in a while because normally we
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  Speaker 1: you know, lately we our biggest gig has been Pirate
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  Speaker 1: paluza Um. Not that we don't do other stuff, but
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  Speaker 1: like that's that's our standard gig. And so we've got
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  Speaker 1: like our set of music that we do. But because
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  Speaker 1: this isn't a pirate gig, it's a D and D gig,
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  Speaker 1: we're not doing all the Pirate songs. So we're pulling
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  Speaker 1: a lot of other songs that I absolutely love back
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  Speaker 1: out of the closet um or a drawer or wherever.
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  Speaker 1: We've put them. I don't know. I don't keep track
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  Speaker 1: of that. And we're also working up some fun, new,
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  Speaker 1: incredibly geeky stuff. I'm super super excited. Yes, And just
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  Speaker 1: in case you're wondering what the heck Pirate Pelouza is,
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  Speaker 1: because Ariel just dropped that as if it's a sorry,
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  Speaker 1: I just assume everybody knows every every talk like a
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  Speaker 1: Pirate day or right around there. We here in Atlanta
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  Speaker 1: have this pub crawl where a bunch of people dress
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  Speaker 1: up like pirates and stumble pubb to pub and it
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  Speaker 1: typically ends with a big musical performance at the end
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  Speaker 1: of the day. It's actually a celebration of the birthday
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  Speaker 1: of and who, who also organizes the thing, and Captain
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  Speaker 1: Drew as we call him, And sometimes I show up
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  Speaker 1: as a representative of Her Majesty's Navy and we end
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  Speaker 1: up having um a rivalry between the two of us.
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  Speaker 1: But I haven't been there and quite some time, but
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  Speaker 1: it's it's a it's a fun, rollicking time. Again. If
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  Speaker 1: you're in the Atlanta area, search for Pirate Buloza when
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  Speaker 1: it starts coming around, you know, mid September, and find
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  Speaker 1: out when and where it's going to happen and almost
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it always happens in decater. Yeah, but I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 1: I just dropped a bunch of stuff anyhow, lots of
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  Speaker 1: geeky stuff happening in our personal circles, but also a
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  Speaker 1: lot of geeky stuff happening in the world. Um that
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  Speaker 1: we're going to get into this episode. But first, I
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  Speaker 1: wanted to say thank you to listener Terra for reaching
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  Speaker 1: out and giving us her review on the book The Power. Um.
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  Speaker 1: It has made me more excited for the for the
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  Speaker 1: movie The I guess it's a TV movie coming out. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: This is the story about young women discovering that they
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  Speaker 1: have evolved the ability to essentially harness electricity, at least
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  Speaker 1: according to the trailers we've seen, and that this in
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  Speaker 1: turn shifts the power dynamic. Whereas young women would typically
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  Speaker 1: be at a disadvantage from a power standpoint, now the
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  Speaker 1: literal superpowers they have allow them to change that. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we were really appreciative of getting that review because it
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  Speaker 1: confirmed the things I thought the the film would be about.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, I told Ariel before the show, I said, man,
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  Speaker 1: if I were wrong, then that is the most misleading
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  Speaker 1: trailer I have ever seen. But I wasn't wrong, which
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  Speaker 1: there's the first time for everything. Yeah, I was say
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  Speaker 1: you're you're pretty wrong because you watched all the way
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  Speaker 1: through the first season of Elma. I'm kidding. If you
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  Speaker 1: like Filma and you listen to the show, that's fine. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I was gonna talk about that after thirty seconds or
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  Speaker 1: I but we'll go ahead and do it. We can
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  Speaker 1: go ahead and no, no, let's let's listen. Let's rip
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  Speaker 1: that band aid off shell we um. So yeah, I watched. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: I watched the last like I guess the ninth and
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  Speaker 1: ten episodes of Elma. I'm assuming those the last ones
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  Speaker 1: for this season because they wrap up the storyline. You
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  Speaker 1: find out what has happened to Velma's mother, and you
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  Speaker 1: find out who's been killing all the popular girls, and
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  Speaker 1: you find out why. And yeah, it doesn't get better.
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  Speaker 1: It is just as miserable and experience. In fact, it
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  Speaker 1: might even be a more miserable experience by the end
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  Speaker 1: of it as it was at the beginning. And I
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  Speaker 1: wanted it to be good. Like I like shows that
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  Speaker 1: that poke fun at the source material that inspired them, right,
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  Speaker 1: Like I like Sea Lab, I like The Venture Brothers
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  Speaker 1: and even though the Venture Brothers isn't a direct adaptation
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  Speaker 1: of something from before, it's you know, obviously taking taking
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  Speaker 1: shots at Johnny Quest and series like that. Um, but Velma,
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  Speaker 1: just I I kept feeling like it's it's a cynical
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  Speaker 1: attempt to cash in on an I P while not
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  Speaker 1: really honoring that I P at all, and not not
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  Speaker 1: even being clever with how they're subverting the I p's.
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  Speaker 1: They do think that, yes, they I'm not gonna say
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  Speaker 1: what I was gonna say, just backed off because in
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  Speaker 1: my head I thought, no, that's gross and you don't
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  Speaker 1: need to say it. But they there was a joke
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  Speaker 1: in either of the episode nine or episode ten. I
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  Speaker 1: watched them back to back. There was a joke in
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  Speaker 1: one of those where, uh, they say something about sitcoms,
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  Speaker 1: are making a joke about sitcoms, and and Velma just
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  Speaker 1: casually says they are like, oh, so it's always looking
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  Speaker 1: backward and not innovating in any way. And I'm thinking
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  Speaker 1: that's what this is. I mean, that's the joke. But no, no,
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  Speaker 1: though it was not a self aware joke, are you?
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  Speaker 1: I am certain it was not a self As I
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  Speaker 1: watched it, I'm like, this is not being delivered at
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  Speaker 1: all as being a self aware thing, because it's being
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  Speaker 1: so offhandedly mentioned. It's not set up as look, we're
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  Speaker 1: doing the thing, we're joking about it just to me.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, if it was self aware, it was delivered
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  Speaker 1: in such a way that you don't get that feeling,
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  Speaker 1: which means it's a failed joke either way. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I will take your word for it. I'm sorry I
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  Speaker 1: even questioned you because I didn't make it through the
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  Speaker 1: first episode. It just it was not my cup of
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  Speaker 1: tea that you made the right decision. Like I, I
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  Speaker 1: kept hoping for it to get better or for the
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  Speaker 1: storyline to have a payoff that was that made the
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  Speaker 1: whole effort worthwhile it ever did, and I wanted it
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  Speaker 1: to be good, Like I really did want to enjoy this,
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  Speaker 1: and I kept giving it chance after chance, and I
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  Speaker 1: just didn't like it. And I mean to go into
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  Speaker 1: all the reasons why, I would obviously take like a
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  Speaker 1: full episode, So we're not gonna burden you, our beloved listeners,
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  Speaker 1: with that terrible fate. Yeah. Instead, um, how about we
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  Speaker 1: go to thirty seconds or less and then we can
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  Speaker 1: talk about anything else that we saw that maybe brought
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  Speaker 1: us joy. Sure, that sounds great. Uh. And the first
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  Speaker 1: thing in thirty seconds or less actually brings me quite
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  Speaker 1: a bit of joy, which is that we're getting a
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  Speaker 1: live action Spiderman noir series at Amazon, which is interesting. Um,
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  Speaker 1: that is coming to Amazon and not Disney Plus. But
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  Speaker 1: I guess that's because it's it's Spider Man and that's sony. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: But it's being written and produced by orn Usil, who
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  Speaker 1: did the Lost City formerly known as a Lost City
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  Speaker 1: of d That's that Sandra Bolock Channing Tatum movie that
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  Speaker 1: was incredibly dorky and and wrote but also a lot
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  Speaker 1: of fun. Uh. It's set in the nineteen thirties. I'm
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  Speaker 1: really excited it's got The series is being developed with
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  Speaker 1: the producers of Spider Man into the Spider verse. Um. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: super excited. Yeah, No, that that sounds cool. I doubt
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  Speaker 1: they'll get Nicholas Cage. That's fine because he voiced it.
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  Speaker 1: But anyway, all right, so let me do my next
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  Speaker 1: here's mine. Uh, and I'm gonna go. So you remember Gladiator.
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  Speaker 1: You remember Gladiator that was Braveheart. But in Braveheart, but
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  Speaker 1: in Roman Armor that was it wasn't three hundred, it
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  Speaker 1: was one It also wasn't Pirates of the Caribbean. But
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  Speaker 1: if you listen to the musical score for Gladiator, you
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  Speaker 1: would be forgiven for thinking it was the same as
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  Speaker 1: the musical score for Pridens of the Caribbean. They sound identical.
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  Speaker 1: It's crow in a skirt. Yeah. Well, we're getting a
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  Speaker 1: sequel that nobody asked for, and it's gonna follow Lucius,
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  Speaker 1: who was the few of Commodus, the bad guy from Gladiator,
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  Speaker 1: and it comes out in nice Yeah. I went a
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  Speaker 1: little over there. Sorry about that. It's my fault. I interrupted.
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  Speaker 1: You listen and some people, some people did want to sequel.
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  Speaker 1: That's why we got Robin Hood anyhow. Uh uh my turn. Okay, uh.
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  Speaker 1: We're getting a God of War TV series. That's not
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  Speaker 1: super new news, although it did kind of fall off
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  Speaker 1: the radar for a while. Now we've got a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of news that it has started production and that
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  Speaker 1: they're keeping all the values of the game but also
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  Speaker 1: expanding upon the world. It's interesting that they're saying they're
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  Speaker 1: keeping the values of the game, because I'm guessing that
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  Speaker 1: just means they're keeping like the main plot in there.
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  Speaker 1: Well my guess, okay, so my guess is that if
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  Speaker 1: you look at the the most recent to God of
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  Speaker 1: War games, that's where anything that remotely can be related
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  Speaker 1: to the word values can be can be ascribed because
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  Speaker 1: in the previous Kind of War trilogy it was such
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  Speaker 1: excess and there was a lot of sexy Schmexi stuff
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  Speaker 1: in it, or incredibly exploitative and kind of gross stuff
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  Speaker 1: depending upon your perspective. UM, a lot of a lot
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  Speaker 1: of like a lot of service to juvenile male fantasies.
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  Speaker 1: But then you look at the more recent kind of
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  Speaker 1: War games and it tends to be stories about a
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  Speaker 1: father attempting to raise his son to be a survivor,
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  Speaker 1: but also trying to make sure that his son doesn't
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  Speaker 1: fall into the same kind of trapped that he did.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm thinking that that's gonna be it. And my
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  Speaker 1: initial knee jerk reaction to this news aerial was that, man,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think we need that, But then I didn't
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  Speaker 1: think we needed the Last of Us series, and holy cats,
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  Speaker 1: was I wrong. But we'll talk about that in a bit. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I would say I'm not cut up to that. Um. Also,
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  Speaker 1: I've I haven't watched the most recent God of War
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  Speaker 1: game because I didn't play the last one. But my
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  Speaker 1: my husband played Data War um and I watched that,
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  Speaker 1: and so you know, I haven't watched Data War two,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm excited for it. Okay, we have way gone
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  Speaker 1: over thirty seconds on that one. Well, yeah, it's but
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  Speaker 1: that was fair. Okay, here we go. So, uh, Discovery
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  Speaker 1: Plus is going to remain a standalone service, which is
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  Speaker 1: odd because it's also merging with HBO Max. The HBO
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  Speaker 1: Max Discovery Plus merger is going to bring some but
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  Speaker 1: not all, of Discoveries content to it. Discovery Plus will
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  Speaker 1: stay as it is, probably because there's a fear that
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  Speaker 1: if the price of subscription goes up a whole bunch,
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  Speaker 1: everyone would cancel, and so we're going to have to
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  Speaker 1: streaming services rather than consolidated. I'm real quick. I'm interested
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  Speaker 1: to see what gets moved over to HBO Max and
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  Speaker 1: what doesn't. What they think HBO Max people will want
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  Speaker 1: to watch from Discovery Yeah, I'm honestly, the more of
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  Speaker 1: this goes on, the more I'm like, why bother even
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  Speaker 1: doing the merger still, because i mean, apart from the
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  Speaker 1: fact that you're there slashing the content that's on HBO
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  Speaker 1: Max and it needs to be replaced with something. I
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  Speaker 1: just don't get it because I'm like, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: about the average HBO Max owner. I know that I
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  Speaker 1: have no desire for any discovery content on my HBO Max.
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  Speaker 1: They they said that they there has been discovery content
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  Speaker 1: that I have liked, but they have said that they're
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  Speaker 1: done cutting content and going to start making new content. Now. Okay, uh,
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  Speaker 1: so we'll see if that happens. Next story. Do you
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  Speaker 1: dot com likely by Monday. Cool. Uh, next up one
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  Speaker 1: of mine. So, Mark Hamill, a a Looke Skywalker, is
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  Speaker 1: going to be selling signed Star Wars memorabilia, which is bomkers.
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  Speaker 1: It's the sort of thing you think, why is Mark
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  Speaker 1: Cambell's selling the stuff? Well, it's to raise money. Specifically,
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  Speaker 1: he's raising money to contribute to the Ukrainian Army as
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: they face the continuing Russian invasion of their country. So yeah,
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: you can look up the the stuff on on Politico.
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  Speaker 1: Skywalker himself. Pretty cool, all right. Next, we are getting
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  Speaker 1: a documentary about John Candy. It is being made by
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  Speaker 1: Colin Hanks, which is Tom Hanks's kid, and Ryan Reynolds.
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  Speaker 1: It's with full cooperation of Candy's family, and I think
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  Speaker 1: it's pretty cool. We'll get to see a little bit
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  Speaker 1: about what inspired him to do and he did in
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  Speaker 1: a little bit about his personal life. His humor didn't
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  Speaker 1: always hit me like as my favorite kind of humor,
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  Speaker 1: but he seemed like a nice guy. So yeah, a
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  Speaker 1: comedy legend out of Canada. It was part of SCTV uh.
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  Speaker 1: He was in lots of very popular movies in the eighties,
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  Speaker 1: and I was shocked to learn he died at the
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  Speaker 1: age of forty three from a heart attack. I'm older
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  Speaker 1: than that. All right, Well, let me do my last
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  Speaker 1: one before I dwell too long on my own more
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  Speaker 1: tality and that is so you're you know that Fast
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  Speaker 1: and Furious franchise. I know you all know it. You
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  Speaker 1: don't need to answer. Uh. Then Diesel has said that
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  Speaker 1: he would love Robert Downey Jr. To be in the
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  Speaker 1: next one. It was just kind of like a fan
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  Speaker 1: casting thing when he was asked about it, because he has,
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  Speaker 1: without giving too much away, the idea of this tech
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  Speaker 1: mogul who's creating cars that are capable of driving themselves,
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  Speaker 1: and how that's the antithesis of Dom Torreno, who's all
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  Speaker 1: about family and Dodge chargers. Anyway, probably not going to happen,
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  Speaker 1: but that was kind of his dreamcasting. It's I be
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  Speaker 1: it's just because he likes iron Man like it's it's typecasting,
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  Speaker 1: is what it is. Yeah. No, he's thinking of like
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  Speaker 1: a combination of Iron Man and Elon Musk. That's what
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  Speaker 1: he's thinking, right, Like, Um, I have not watched a
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  Speaker 1: single Fast and Furious movie. I am listening to the
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: Worst Idea of all Time? Did I tell you about
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  Speaker 1: this areal? No you didn't, but please do so. So
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: The Worst Idea of All Time is a podcast where
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: the the two hosts Tim Batton, Guy Montgomery will typically
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  Speaker 1: pick a movie that they have to watch repeatedly throughout
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  Speaker 1: the series, and then they talk about every single week,
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  Speaker 1: so like they did Grown Ups to every week for
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  Speaker 1: a full year, for example, or Sex in the City
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  Speaker 1: Too for a full year. Right now, what they're doing
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: is they're working their way through the Fast and Furious
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  Speaker 1: franchise by watching each film in the franchise the number
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  Speaker 1: of times that it appears in the like as its numbers,
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  Speaker 1: So like Fast and Furious nine, they're watching nine times. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I think you did tell me about this, but it
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  Speaker 1: seemed like such a I don't know, the idea scared
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  Speaker 1: me and so maybe I've blocked it out of my point.
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  Speaker 1: The episodes are very funny. I've been listening to them,
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  Speaker 1: and that's how I've I've only experienced Fast and Furious
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  Speaker 1: nine because they're still watching it. They haven't they haven't
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  Speaker 1: moved down to eight yet. But that's that's sort of
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  Speaker 1: like the where I'm at. Also, by the way, as
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  Speaker 1: we are recording this, in fact, a couple of hours
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  Speaker 1: before we recorded this, the trailer for Fast ten came
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  Speaker 1: out and I forgot to look it up before we
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  Speaker 1: went to record. But here's the thing. And I feel
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  Speaker 1: this way about a bunch of stuff we talked about
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  Speaker 1: like last year or last week, and even with one
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  Speaker 1: of the things we're going to talk about this week,
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  Speaker 1: uh is, people are like, oh, the first trailer has dropped,
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  Speaker 1: but the teaser trailers are so long now and so
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  Speaker 1: show so much that they're not really first trailer trailers anymore.
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  Speaker 1: We've already seen stuff for the new Fast and Furious movie. Well,
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  Speaker 1: the only thing I saw was a shot of everybody
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  Speaker 1: getting out of various cars, which is why a new
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  Speaker 1: Dodge charger, because I saw that one of them was
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  Speaker 1: in a Dodge Charger. But I mean, it's I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: I like, I have no connection to these movies. They're
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  Speaker 1: they're so outside of my interest that I've just never
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  Speaker 1: really gotten into them. But I don't begrudge people join them.
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: They definitely seem like the kind of movies that you
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: need to see in the theater because it just isn't
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: going to translate to like a home theater experience. But um,
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: but it doesn't have enough to pull me into it.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: I guess maybe if someone were to, you know, start
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: up a marathon day where they're going to show every
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: single film in the Fast franchise, and they paid me
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: to do it, maybe then I would do it. Well,
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: I was going to say, I have been meaning to
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: watch the Fast movies because I hereafter the first couple few,
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: they get, you know, kind of funny, although they seem
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: real serious again, so I don't I don't know. Well, Yeah,
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: the thing that the hosts say is that the biggest
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: problem they have is Bevin Diesel's character has no sense
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: of humor at all, Like, no, there's no humor to it,
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: not just sense of humor, no humor, and that watching
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: a humorless character through an action film ends up becoming
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: kind of a drag drag racing I guess, And so
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: they they're not looking forward to the other films in
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: the series. Yeah, but hey, listen, you might like Fast
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: and the Furious. You didn't think you'd like night Court,
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: and you loved the latest episode. I mean I didn't
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: love it. I liked it, I said, I said that, Okay.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: What I said to Ariel was that I thought it
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: was probably the best of the bunch so far. I
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: don't think that. I still don't think it's a good show.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: I think it. I think it does. It is very
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: much the spiritual successor to Night Court. It still has
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: that sort of corny, dated sitcom style that I just
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: thought had completely passed out of fashion, so I was
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: shocked to see it. But um yeah, I just uh,
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: I thought it was entertaining. I thought it was perhaps
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: the best episode they had so far, and I definitely
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: felt like episodes four and five were a traumatic improvement
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: over episodes one through three. Mm hmm, yeah, yeah. I
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: feel like the characters get more comfortable in who they
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: are and they have to establish less. Look, I took
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: a I took a class on on pilot episodes recently,
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: and I feel like the first three episodes of Night Court,
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: we're all trying to do what the pilot episode does,
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: which is established the characters and relationships, which means nobody.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: Everybody is trying so hard to get certain points across
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: and in certain key items across that maybe they aren't
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: as relaxed into the characters in the story yet. I mean,
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: there are very few pilot episodes that I just truly love. Yeah, No,
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: I mean the same like there are there's some where
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: the pilot episode stands out pretty well, but very few,
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: and nightcord In particular, I felt like they were taking
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: shortcuts where characters we're making jokes about each other that
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: they really like. We hadn't seen these relationships develop at all,
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: so the jokes didn't really land because we didn't see
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: the stuff that led to the joking. Um Like, one
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: of the court clerk in particular, makes a joke about
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: how the judge is always trying to look into the
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: lives of the people who are appearing before her in
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: order to fix them. But we hadn't really seen that,
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: and so it didn't really work for me in that sense.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: But anyway, I do think episode five was an improvement.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: We also since the last episode we've both seen Waconda forever,
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: right yep. Um I liked it. I did not love it.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: I you know, I've heard a lot of people have
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: a lot of veried opinions on it. Um I liked
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: it more than than Tony did. Uh. I thought everything
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: dealing with the passing, well, everything dealing with the passing
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: of Techalla because Chadwick Boseman passed away wrecked me. It
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: just completely wrecked me every single time throughout the entire movie.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: Um I, the plot wasn't the strongest, but I did
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: like the underwater city design and the character design of
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: the Atlanteans. Yeah, except they're not the Atlanteans now, but
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: the name More and his people, Yeah, I thought, um,
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: Black Panther gave us kill Monger, who was a villain
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: who had a pretty cool backstory, like one where you're like, oh,
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: I get why he is the way he is and
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: what his motivations are. Now More or nay More was
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: very much the same, right, like you understand where he's
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: coming from and why he's concerned. Although I think they
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: took like they had to take some shortcuts with that
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: in order to fit in all the other stuff, like
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: giving the passing of T'Challa enough weight and acknowledgement so
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: that it would be a fitting tribute to Chad Chadwick.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: Otherwise it would be like a h An insult, right,
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: So I think it kind of struggled due to that,
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: And um yeah, it's also I don't know, I just
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: I don't like sureI very much. Um. And I don't
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: know how much of that is me being biased because
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: I have issues with the actress. I don't know how
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: much of that is just due to the way the
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: character is written and performed. I just know that. As
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: the movie was unfolding, I was like, I do not
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: like her, Like I like every other character in this
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: movie more than I like her, including now More I
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: So okay, I thought that No More was um he
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: was way more charming than I expected him to be
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: in the comics. He's just like a complete jerk. He's
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: such a butt head. But he was kind of charming,
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: which I think you need again. You need to relate
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: to the villains. You need to know that they will
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: honestly believe what they're trying to do, you know, all
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: of these things. They did great with that. Um. I
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: So I liked Sherry in the first movie and this one.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: I didn't think that her character had quite enough arc
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: of growth between the beginning and the end, Like I
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: wish that it had been more of a journey instead
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: of kind of like a flat line with a vague spike. Yeah, um,
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: I I will say that, Like I did not like,
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: uh what they did to the door dormlanage? Is that there?
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: Oh the guard? Yeah? I my my partner knows the
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: name immediately. And I'm a bad fan because I keep
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: forgetting Well now I'm looking it up. So everybody gets
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: to listen to my Clickie Klack's you just can't say
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: the guards, no, the door malaje or dormlaj anyhow they
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: put them in these like supersuits, which I didn't super
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: super like and and my husband was like, the coolest
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: thing about them is how they're so like just completely
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: badass as they are with their you know, with their
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: pipe spears um, and to kind of take that away
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: lacked something, And I agree, I agree, Yeah, it does
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: seem to take a step back, like it's also um okay,
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: let me just say this, like so you know, it's
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: in the trailer, it was in the film, the bit
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: with Reee Williams where she's forging her suit apparently and
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: she knocks out the heart shape out of Iron that
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: that doesn't that that's like not even part of the
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: fine finished suit, Like that's there's you see nothing in
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: there that looks anything like that in the finished suit.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: There's there is a heart shape in the suit, but
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: it looks very anime. It feels cartoonish compared to maybe
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: Iron Man. And I don't mind that because maybe that
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: fits I'm not as familiar with Iron Hearts, so maybe
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: that fits the comics more. But yeah, that that little
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: rough heart wasn't visible. Just I was like, like, that
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: looks like that was just there to be in the
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: trailer to hint, to hint at the Marvel fans die
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: hards that that really was in the movie. Yeah. No, no, no,
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: But I'm saying, because it doesn't actually show up in
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: the film as as part of the suit at the end,
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: that that was obviously just there too to be like, hey,
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: guess who this is. Um I liked her. I like
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: the actress, and I'm looking I'm looking forward to seeing
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: iron Heart the series me too. I had many friends
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: who thought that the Naymarsh community looked like Navi from Avatar.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't know. I haven't seen it. I feel like
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: in the actions means where they're obviously um you know
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: c g I distant blue people jumping around. I could
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: kind of see it, but close up, I really liked
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: the detail in like how like they were uh more
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: skin toned, closer to their mouths, and then as it
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: went out they turned bluer because it's a they explain
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: it in the movie. If you haven't watched it yet,
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: I don't want to run it for you. Um So
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: I kind of liked that detail. It's uh, you know,
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: I think for most people, like we're the ones who
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: are way behind on this one because this movie came
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: out last year and we just finally watched it. Uh.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: I will say this, I liked it more than Doctor
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: Strange and the Multiverse of Madness. I liked it way
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: more than the Eternals. Um, did you like it more
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: than Aquaman? I've only seen well, I've only seen wa
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: Kinda Forever once, but I've only seen Aquaman once and
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: it was a long time ago. And I don't think
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: I liked Aquaman very much. Like I found it off putting.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: I didn't enjoy it. Um. But anyway, that's kind of
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: our take on Wakonda Forever out of curiosity, Ariel, you
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: said you're not caught up on Last of Us. What
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: episode have you last watched? Um? I just finished episode two. Ah, Arial,
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: you're you're holding off on the best episode so far.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: I think I started like I started like the first
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: five minutes of episode three, and then I had I
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: got pulled away. Um, So I'm I'm working on it
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: well episode because episode five comes out today as we're
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: recording this. Because they don't want to release over the
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: Super Bowl, which is, Yeah, the superb Owl is going
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: to be on Sunday, so that's why we can't have
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: Last of Us come out the same day that the
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: superb Owl takes fly. So so yeah, we're gonna get
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: that today instead. And episode four also great. Doesn't hit
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: nearly to the same degree as episode three did for
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: me as emotionally, but as an episode it was great.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: So I kind of like that though, because you know,
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: the first episode was very emotionally hard hitting, and then
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: the second episode was still like, still emotional, there's still
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: bad things that happened, but it was a much easier watch, right,
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: And then episode at least according to you, for me,
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: episode one wasn't horrible because I didn't know what to expect,
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: so I had a little bit less like anticipation for it.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: You know, Episode three again very emotional, very um heart
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: string pulling, and then so like they're giving you, yeah,
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: an episode to recover. They're not making it all difficult,
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: which is especially great for anybody like me who maybe
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: is not doesn't have the time always to watch them
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: when they come out. So I have not watched two
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: in a row. Uh my, as I said, my friends
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: and I are also watching Hunters, which is an Amazon
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: series which deals with you know, very very serious subject matter,
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: and watching two episodes of that in a row is
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: real difficult. Yeah, well, I look forward to catching up
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: so we can talk about it, because it's I'm the
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: only one like my My partner is not watching this
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: with me, so I have no one to talk about
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: listen this with, and it's driving me crazy. Listen, my
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: partner is not watching it with me either, and it's
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: not that he doesn't want to. It's that it's playing
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: the game. He hasn't played the game yet, um, but
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: he feels like he should play the game first because
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: he doesn't want to ruin the game. But I'm like,
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: you know what happens, I'll probably convince him. But unlike
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: Stranger at the beginning of Stranger Things, I think I've
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: grown to a point where like, I've watched the first
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: two episodes by myself and I was fine, so it'll
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: be good. I also don't think that that it's I
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: don't think it's as as gross horror scary as a
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: lot of other zombie type films. Also, I saw this
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: whole thing on I think it was the Mary sue
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: about we shouldn't call them zombies because they're not zombies,
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: and then other people pointed out, hey, you know, zombie
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: originally did not refer to the resurrected dead. It referred
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: to people who were under magical influence to the point
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: where they are essentially hypnotized and they have no real
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: willpower of their own. They're still alive. So by that set,
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: you can still call this a zombie series. Yeah. I
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: think really the naming thing is kind of it's kind
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: of pointless to go through it because, um, you know what,
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: you know what someone means when they say zombie, like
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: you're thinking, okay, largely mindless, uh and and eager to spread.
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: But to me, zombie doesn't even like to me, if
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: you're being actively controlled by someone using magic so that
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: you don't have your own mental capabilities, which I know
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: I have a lot friends who have issues watching that
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: kind of a thing, right, Um, because it's scary to
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: think of not of having somebody else being in control
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: of your faculties when you are not. That's that's a
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: horrible thought, right Uh. That to me feels very active,
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: and I think it should be different than than zombie,
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: which to me should be creatures or a group of
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: creatures that are being controlled passively by another entity. Interesting.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: That's interesting because again, like the original version of Zombie
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: was all about kind of a voodoo who do sort
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: of uh element, which was more of that that you know,
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: some practitioner using people as there there you know, slaves
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: essentially through the use of these magical abilities. But that
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: that's a you know, debate that will go on forever
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: whether you call them zombies or not. It's fine. I
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: do think though that the series doesn't have the same
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: kind of gross out terror that a lot of zombie
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: films have, but it has a lot of psychological tension
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: and and some of that comes from the zombies, but
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: for me, just like in the game, most of it
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: comes when you're encountering other people. Listen. That's that's always
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: the hardest for me to pretend monsters are so much
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: less scary than well, and The Walking Dead really kind
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: of has traumatized everybody because that was that was a
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: lesson that was hammered home every single darn episode of
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: The Walking Dead is that people are the worst zombies.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: Zombies you can deal with because you know what they're
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: gonna do. But people are terrible. I that that is true. Also,
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: the scariest episodes of Supernatural are the ones that are
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: dealing with just horrible people and non supernatural monsters. Um
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: that that one of the convention where you've got all
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: those irritating convention attendees the worst uh moving God. So
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: we do have some news that we thought we might
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: talk a little bit longer about. I think we did
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: pretty well with our thirty seconds or less. We only
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: had a couple that went way over. Yeah, we only
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: only like most of them. Uh, we do. We do
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: want to say that we're not going to talk about
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: any of the ads that are supposed to air during
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: the Super Bowl because Aerial plans on watching it and
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: she doesn't want to be spoiled. Yeah. Yeah, Like, to me,
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: talking about a commercial before it airs is just kind
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: of why. But for me talking about a commercial after
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: it airs, I'm also like why. And I realized it's
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: exactly what the ad executives want you to do, which
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: is why I don't do it fair enough. Except I
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: talk about trailers all the time on this show. They're
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: a little bit different. Um, not really, but in my
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: in my head, I'm going to say so I feel better.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: So the first thing we wanted to talk about is
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: amc UH announced that they are doing tiered pricing for
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: going to see a movie. Yeah, the idea being that
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: you know, based upon the site lines that are available
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: in the theater, you will pay a different amount for seats.
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: So like seats that are in the front row or
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: that are way off to one side or the other
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: will be the cheapest seats. Seats that are in the
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: center further back are going to be more expensive. And
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: those ones that are right in like that center area
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: where like a lot of theaters have that that very
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: wide divide between the front half of the theater in
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: the back half the theater. I don't know about anyone else,
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: but like my go to is getting some seats in
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: the middle of the row that is behind that wide divide,
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: Like that's that's the space that I like. I know
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: some people really like the back of the theater, but
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: those are going to be the ones that are going
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: to be the more expensive. And um, I mean, you
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: understand why they're doing this money, but the reason they
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: gave was bullpucky in my humble opinion. Explain. So the
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: reason that was given was that AMC wanted to give
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: viewers the chance to secure the specific seats they want
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: in order to see UH any given film. And I'm
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: thinking we already have that because we have reserved seats
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: in a lot of theaters, so you don't need tiered
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: seating for you to achieve what you say the goal is.
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: We got that. We we have solved that problem. We
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: no longer have to show up at the theater two
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: hours early to wait in line outside the theater so
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: that we can get our favorite seat. We can just
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: reserve it. What you're doing is ascribing value to the
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: most desired seats so that only the people who are
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: willing to pay that much get them, and may be
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: people who don't get to go to movies that often
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: don't even have the you know, they might be like, well,
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: I can't really justify spending five dollars more per ticket.
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: Let's say to get these great seats, we're gonna go
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: and sit off to the side. And it's just like,
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: it's such a change from the way we go to
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: movies here in the States that it really sticks in
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: my craw It's very clearly based upon things like the
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: way theater tickets are are priced, Like if you were
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: to go see a show on Broadway, you would find
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: that there are entire banks of seats. They have very
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: very different costs associated with them, and it's usually for
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: things like line of sight and how close or far
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: away you are to the stage. You know, so a
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: couple of things. They also want people to sign up
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: for their Stubs program because AMC is saying that if
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: you are a stubbs member, those some of those premium
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: thieves will be waived. Um. But the front row definitely
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: is a worse viewing experience, even if, in my opinion,
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: even if you have a reclining seat. I know, I
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: know some people who think that if you have a
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: reclining seat, it's perfectly fine. But I just find it
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: hard to follow everything. Yeah, I can't. I can't do it.
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: Like I will miss stuff in the movie because I'll
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: be looking at one quadrant of the screen and something
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: else happens in a different quadrant, and then later in
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: the film I'll be like, well, where did that happen?
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: And like, oh no, that was in the upper right corner.
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: You were looking at the lower left corner. But I honestly,
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: if I'm sitting on a far end of a row,
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: which I'm guessing will also be cheaper seats. Yeah, it's
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: not a bad viewing experience as long as I'm far
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: enough back. Yeah, it's it's fine. I just have that
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: like I don't. I also don't like the feeling of
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: leaving a theater and I can't turn my head to
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: the left or to the right because I've been holding
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: it in that position. Especially considering that you directors out there,
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: you know who you are. You directors who are determined
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: to make every movie four hours long. Stop it, stop it.
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: You are a menace and you have to stop. Look.
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: One of our friends, who holds an Oscar party every year,
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: watched a bunch of the Oscar movies recently and was like,
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: why are they all over two hours? This is unnecessary?
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: And I agree, Um, we used to get great movies
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: for an hour and a half. And other thing that
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: the at least the article in the Verge that uh,
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: We're going to link to about AMC siteline pricing if
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: you want to learn a little bit more, thanks the
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: question if you don't have a sold out theater, how
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: do you make sure someone who's bought a less expensive
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: ticket doesn't sit in a more expensive seat because I
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: know so many people who move around, and especially like
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: during the pandemic, where I've only bought tickets two shows
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: that like are pretty much empty. And then you're like, okay,
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: but I've got two other people or four other people
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: in the theater with me because it's a late at
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: night show or middle of the day on you know,
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: you know, it's it's it's not a popular time, it's
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: not a prime viewing time, and so I picked seats
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: far far away from them, and then they moved to
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: seats closer than me, and I'm like no, and I yes,
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: that does happen. I also want to point out something
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: else you mentioned earlier that this is in part an
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: attempt to get more people to sign up to a
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: m C S stub service. Everyone out there, I'm sure
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: is already aware of this, but I'm just going to
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: re emphasize it. That's because that means that every time
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: you you are purchasing tickets at AMC, they're gathering data
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: about you, and that data has value, and so they're
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: making money off of your information. So it's not like
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: it's not so much that you're getting fees waived, you're
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: getting those fees offset by the data that they are
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: harvesting from your participation in that program, and so keep
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: that in mind. Like it's important to remember. I know
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: that we can't really control our information to any decent
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: extent in this country because that's just not been a
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: priority here in the States, but it's always good to
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: at least mindful of it so that you understand what
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: you're trading away when you get in these programs. Now,
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: I say that as someone who actually has an AMC
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: Stubs membership, so I was aware that what was going
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: on when I did that, But I think people need
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: to keep that in mind. I do. I do think
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: it's interesting because that's not something I had thought of.
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: But at the same time, I'm like, every time I
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: watch a TV show or YouTube clip and there's a
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: commercial that I don't skip, that information goes somewhere, you know.
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: And for AMC Stubs, if they're trying to figure out
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: what kind of commercials or movies I want to watch,
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: then you know, yeah, just just how to market to you.
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: I mean based upon like if you're going to a
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: lot of Marvel movies, for example, you might discover that
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: you start seeing more ads for geeky stuff. And part
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: of that could be not just that AMC has your data,
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: but that they sold it to someone else who's making
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: use of it like that. It's just things to keep
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: in mind. Um And and you know it's I am.
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: I am clearly not a fan of this decision. I
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: think it's ultimately going to hurt AMC more than it
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: will help it, because you've already got a lot of
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: people who are kind of like me who are saying
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: I don't see the benefit of the theater experience in
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: most cases. So I'm not going to bother going. Well, really,
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: you're giving another reason for those folks not to go. Yeah,
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: if you've got different opinions, we'd love to hear from you,
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: you can write us and tell us. We'll tell you
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: how at the end of the show. But speaking of
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: falling prey to advertising, Jonathan, I want to talk about
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: this six thousand, one hundred and sixty seven piece Rivendell
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: set from Lego. Well, I have always been curious how
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: much does it cost to build Rivendell? Yes? And now
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: you know, yeah, does it say yes exactly? It's fours.
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: It comes out on March a little a little less
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: than a month away. It is the largest Lord of
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: the Ring set that we have gotten from Lego, and
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: I will admit Lego has gotten so much of my money.
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: We have so many Lego sets in my house and
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: we decorate with them. So yeah. At first, I was like,
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: they're just going to live in the basement, which is
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: kind of our geek entertainment center. It's where we've got
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: like our one up console and are all of our
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: movies and comics and things like that and games. Um,
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: but now they've like, I've got the Bond's Eye Tree
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: and it's sitting up on my fireplace mantel. And Um,
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: my husband doesn't listen to this podcast, so I can
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: say I bought him the Bird of Paradise Lego set
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: because Birds of Paradise play a large part in Far Escape,
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: which is a show that he really likes. Uh for
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: Valentine's Day. So um yeah, but we've got the piano,
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: We've got the ns We've got the n S TV.
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: We've got the Bad Plane, We've got uh Yoda, We've
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: got the Ghostbusters Firehouse. We've got a sturdy night Yeah. Um,
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: we've got a We've got Optimist Prime, who is really
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: cool because he actually transforms into a truck and then
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: back into Optimist prime without you having to like disassemble him.
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: That's awesome. Yeah, I have none of these things. They
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: are fun, they are fun, but they take up a
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: lot of space. That's why I do not have these things.
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: I have no space to take up. All my space
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: is already taken up by too much stuff. So but
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: I mean, for Lord of the Rings fans who are
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: also Lego fans, I think this could be one of those,
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: you know, put it on your wish list type of
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: of sets. I'm a Lord of the Rings fan, I've
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: got a tattoo to prove it, but I am not
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: I'm not a Lego guy, So this, while I appreciate it,
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: is not on my you know, like, could someone please
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: buy me this list? Fair enough? I think that, Um,
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: I think that the detail in the set is really spectacular.
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: Um the d Any, any kind of like recreation set
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: that Lego does for adults, has a lot of really
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: cool hidden details, and I think that's awesome. Um the
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: thought that they put into making it a good building experience.
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: Because the Rivendel set, which again you can uh either
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: look up you can either google it or you can
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: go to our show notes and we'll have it. There
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: has so many characters in it that are all lego figures.
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: It it feels a little bit more cartoony to me
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: than maybe some of their other recreation sets, but I
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: still think that the detail is spectacular great. I look
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: forward to them releasing the Loft Lourean set where you
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: can get the version of glad Riel where she becomes
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: great and terrible, awesome, silvery and her hair is going
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: all over the place. I look forward to that set. Uh.
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: Speaking of Great and Terrible, are you now looking forward
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: to History of the World Part two? Because we got
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: a new trailer which they called the first trailer, but
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: we already saw a teaser trailer which was also a
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: full on trailer. So yeah, I'll say this, I thought
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: this trailer was better. There were some jokes that I
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: actually found pretty amusing. Uh, I'm not like sold on it.
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm going to ultimately feel like
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: there are more jokes that hit than miss, but I
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: will say I think this was a much better trailer
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: than the original one we got. Also, I will say
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: that for a brief moment there I was convinced they
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: had wholeheartedly stolen from the musical Something Rotten. I I
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: agree with you. I had the same exact thought because
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: in the trailer Shakespeare talks someone tries to sell a
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: musical to Shakespeare and in the musical Something Rotten, in
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: case you are not aware, in case you're not a
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: Broadway geek like we are, Something Rotten is the story
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: of this down on his luck playwright who is a
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: contemporary of Shakespeare's and he's sick of Shakespeare hogging the spotlight,
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: and he goes to a soothsayer who predicts that there's
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: going to be this form of entertainment, the musical, that
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: will be huge. Unfortunately, the soothsayers looking into the wrong century.
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: So he convinces this playwright to make a musical so
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: that he can end up being the celebrated playwright of
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: London as opposed to William Shakespeare. And for a moment,
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: there's a joke in this History of the World to
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: trailer where it feels like they're going down a very
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: similar path. There is a subversion there although that we
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: also got to see moments from a musical number. It
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: just happens to be a musical number. About I think
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: Stalin Maybe I wasn't sure. It's Jack Black Yeah yeah, um,
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: which you know, great singer, so uh so yeah, I
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: thought the trailer was better too. I'll probably watch it
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: and go in with absolutely no expectations, um of anything good,
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: and then maybe I'll chuckle. Um. I will say there
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: was a joke that did make me laugh, but I
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: also can't repeat the joke in this podcast. But it
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: has to do with a certain famous book. Oh yes,
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: that also made me laugh. Also made me laugh. Um.
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: Going from funny too scary. We got a new trailer
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: for The Consultant. We talked about this a few episodes back.
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: It's um Christoph Waltz being basically this guy who comes
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: into help run a company when their leadership dies, and
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: it's really creepy and it looks like there's a lot
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: of like kidnapping and murder and scary stuff. And it
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: just reminded me of that old children's book Miss Nelson
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: is Missing, but like darker and Miss Nelson is missing,
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: there's a school teacher nobody ever listens to her, and
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: so she goes out sick and this uh, this horrible substitute,
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: Miss Viola Swamp comes in and it's very mean to
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: the kids that the kids are like, oh man, we
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: wish we had Miss Nelson back. And then at the
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: end it turns out Miss Nelson was Miss Viola Swamp,
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: but the kids never found out. They just behave better
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: for her. I don't know. It feels like a very
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: dark version of that. Here's something that I think is
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: really fascinating. Aerial mhm. I realize I'm familiar with the
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: book you described, but I had no idea what you
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: meant when you wrote it in our show notes, because
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: I had no memory of that story just based on
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: Mrs Nelson or Miss Nelson. But as you described, I'm like,
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: oh my gosh, I've read that book. I know what
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: you're talking about. It's it's one of those books that
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: you know, it's been a long time since I read it,
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: because it's been a long time since I've either taught
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: children or have been a child. But it's integral to
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: like my growing up. It's one of those books along
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: with like Phantom Toldbooth and Never Ending Story and Lord
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: of the Rings that just stuck in my memory. Donotopia.
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: Um yeah, I uh so, this is the Consultant. The
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: series is actually based off a book. Oh, okay, so
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: it's not missing, but not miss Nelson is missing. No,
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: not that one. I forget the name of the author.
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: I'd have to look it up again. But he's an
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: author who has a ton of books that are mostly
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: following the the the title format of the and then
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: whatever it is, like the consultant, the waitress, the accountant,
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: things like that. The author is Bentley Little, Bentley Little,
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: and uh and Bentley Little does not give interviews, He
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: does not tend to promote his books. Uh, really leads
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: a very private life. And I was unaware of the
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: fact that this was based off a book till I
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: looked into it a little further and UM, yeah, I'm
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: curious about it because it does look pretty intense. I
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: wonder how close it will follow the book. I know
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: that previous adaptations of Little's work. I've got the hiccups, y'all.
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: This is like this show is going to go off
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: the rails even more than um. But no, I know
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: previous adaptations of Little's work have taken great liberties with
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: his storytelling. And I don't know if how he feels
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: about it because he doesn't give interviews. But it's assume
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: he's irritated, though I guess the money all spends the same. Um.
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: The this trailer looks interesting. I think there's going to
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: be kind of a dark humor to it as well.
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: But the question I kept asking myself is if I
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: were in that situation, wouldn't I just like for real
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: Z's quit. I mean I would. Maybe they don't feel
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: like they could quit, or maybe they try and it
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: doesn't work. Um, and you might be going, well, this
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: this sounds more like intrigue. Why is it? Why why
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: do you have in geeky news? It's because it's like
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: a game company that the dude takes. It's like a
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: mobile gaming company. And that from why I understand, they're
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: supposed to be this merger that then falls through, and
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: that's why the consultant is called in is to fix
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: things after that. But as Ariel mentioned, there also appears
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: to be the murder of the boss. Or maybe it's
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: the suicide, or maybe it's a suice. Maybe it's a
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: murder that's made to look like a suicide. We don't
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: know yet. The trailer is purposely vague about that, which
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: makes sense. Um, Christoph Waltz just looks terrifying, as he
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: often does, even when he's even when he's playing characters
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: who aren't. I agree, I agree, um onto onto a
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: trailer that's a little less terrifying. Uh. The creative team
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: behind Spider Man into the Spider Verse has been up
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: to more stuff than just working on Spider Man War.
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: They're also behind a new series coming to Netflix called
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: cartoon series called Agent Elvis. Yeah, how do you feel
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: about this? You saw the trailer? I'm sure I don't so.
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: First of all, Matthew McConaughey voices Elvis, which is and
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: he sounds exactly like Matthew McConaughey. He does. He doesn't
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: sound even remotely like Elvis, unless you think Matthew McConaughey
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: already vaguely sounds like Elvis. Yeah, if you think someone
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: who has a Texas accent sounds like someone who was
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: from Memphis, then yes, like some people are Southern accent
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: agnostic and they don't know. But so, I didn't think
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: that this was a show that ever needed to happen.
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: It looks kind of cute, there's some cute little jokes.
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: It feels like, um, a more family friendly version of
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: Archer A little bit to me. Um. I do like
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: that they've got Elvis's families, um involvement, involvement and okay
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: behind it because I feel like that's important. I thought
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: it was weird because it doesn't look like like they're
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: they're making Elvis look very capable being an agent, right,
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: it doesn't. It doesn't look the comedy is going to
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: come from Elvis being fish out of water, not really
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: suited for this. It's weird. Why did they pick him?
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: He ends up being really capable at it, which just
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: I sit there and I look at and I think,
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: I don't I don't really understand the hook for the show.
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: So there are things where he's like, oh this, and
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: the person is like, like, there's a bit in the
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: trailer about what about this pen? Well, maybe that's just
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: a nice pen, you know. Yeah, But then he then
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: he throws the pen across a room and hits a
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: guy in the neck and kills him with it. But
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: it's but it's still just a pen um that he
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: can kill people with it. Like I'm laughing at you,
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: I'm not laughing at the show. Now, if I watched
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: the show with you and you try to explain all
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: the jokes to me, then I'm gonna be laughing, but
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: again not the show. Maybe that's what we need to
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: do with element No. So I feel like maybe it's
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: a get smart toit you ation, because because I can
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: get smart, he is a fish out of water. He's
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: not all there, but he is also very capable. Yeah,
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: I I don't know. Maybe maybe I'm just being too
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: harsh on it. I will say I looked into it
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: because I was curious who else was voicing, and there
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: I was wondering who was voicing his partner. It's Caitlyn
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: Olson Um and I didn't I didn't know that at first.
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: I had to actually had to go to the Netflix
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: page to find the information because I am dB only
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: lists Matthew McConaughey and the cast um Caitlyn Olson. I
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: love her. I love her, I love her and always sunny.
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: She's great, she is fantastic. She is very funny and
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: very talented. So I was wondering because I thought I
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: recognized the voice, but I couldn't place it. Uh. I
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: would probably watch at least a little bit of this
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: just to see what's going on, whether or not it
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: clicks for me. I mean, it's only fair, right, I
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: watched all of Thelm for goodness sake. Yeah, yeah, you
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: know what I will say though, I really like the
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: artistic style of it. It does look cute, like it's
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: interesting because it it doesn't. It doesn't immediately look exactly
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: like anything else, which is great. Right, It doesn't feel
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: like they're copying the style of some other cartoon property. Yeah,
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: I agree, I agree. Um oh man, we were almost
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: at now we have so much left to talk about, Okay,
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: So going on from something we don't know if we
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: need to something I personally don't see a need for
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: it all, which is we're getting a reboot of White
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: Men Can't Jump like the movie the original was Okay,
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: it was never something I felt needed to be revisited,
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: like we've got that movie. Yeah, no, I'm I completely
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: agree with you. It's one of those where it's like,
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: is there anything new to say that the original film
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: didn't say? Maybe say it in a way that's not
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: quite as dated, Like you could definitely do that, which
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: I think they've done if you've watched the trailer they
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: do they have updated some references. Yeah, it's it's just that,
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: um yeah, like like out of all the different stories
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: to tell, even to retell that one like. Generally speaking,
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: my thought is, if you're going to do a remake,
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: pick something that did not work for whatever reason, and
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: then make it in a way where it does work.
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: And that, to me is much more interesting than taking
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: something that worked just fine for what it was. It
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: wasn't brilliant, it wasn't groundbreaking, but it was successful. It
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: was it was not seen as a failure of a film,
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: either critically or commercially. Why remake that the original still there? Yeah,
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: which had Rosie perez and and Woody Harrelson and uh
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: Wesley Snipes. I think, Um, I mean again, I enjoyed
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: the movie. Fine, I was probably a little bit old,
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: Like I was probably a little bit young to fully
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: enjoy the movie. When I watch it, I'm gonna be
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: quite honest. Um, But yeah, I mean, if you like
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: White Man Can't Jump, if you're really like, if you're
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: like I like this movie, but it's outdated and I
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: want something that feels a little bit more current. Great,
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: I'm super excited for you. It looks the acting looks
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: good in the trailer, and it looks well shot. It's
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: just to me, I've got that story already. Yeah, I
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: mean I guess, I guess. So, like again, if you're looking,
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: the other reason I would think of a remake is
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: you want to tell a story that has been told before,
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: but you want to bring it up to date so
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: that current audiences can appreciate that story. White Men Can't
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: Jump does not quote unquote jump to mind as one
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: of the ones that I would pick for that kind
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: of treatment. But you know, it may turn out that
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: this is as big or bigger of a success as
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: the original. Yeah, I mean we didn't think that A
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: Top Gun. Well that was a sequel. But let's talk
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: about a different sequel then. Okay, I know what you
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: did last summer? Well, yeah, I was staying at home
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: because there was a pandemic going on. No, the it's
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: not a sequel. Oh it is a sequel. Um, I
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: was gonna say, it's no, it's a sequel to the movie.
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: I know what you did last summer. Yeah. So for
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: those who are unfamiliar with this horror series, so during
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: this time, there were a couple of horror series that
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: that kind of got uh some legs. Scream was the
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: big one, and we're still getting screen films to this Day,
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: and another one was I Know What You Did Last Summer.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: The original movie had a group of kids who are
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: being irresponsible and driving down this dark road when they
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: hit a fisherman. Uh. And then they they rush off
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: trying to pretend like nothing happened, and they all swear
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: them each other to secrecy, and then my dog goes crazy.
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: Doesn't like the idea of a sequel to I know
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: he did last time. I think he doesn't like the
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: idea of an undead fisherman with a giant hook hunting
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: people down and killing them one by one, like originally,
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: like it's done where it feels like it's supposed to be. Oh,
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: the fisherman didn't die and eventually recovered and then is
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: now seeking vengeance on the people who were responsible for
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: his his accident, his injuries. Uh. But then by the
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: time you get into the sequels, you're like, well, that's
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: just can't possibly be. He's like some revenant. He's like,
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: he's like Freddie or Jason or Mike Myers. He's this
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: unkillable force that keeps coming back. And I don't know
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: what drove them to go and do another sequel, But
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: Freddie Prince Jr. And Jennifer Love Hewitt, who both appeared
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: in the original film, are said to be in talks
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: to appear in the sequel. Um Maybe it's yet another
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: another example of well here was the really popular series
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: that the kids who saw it back when it first
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: came out are now adults, possibly with kids of their own,
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: so let's tap into that market again. I would be
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: shocked to learn no, no, we we realized we just
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: hadn't told the whole story and we just had to
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: get back to it because I don't think that I
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: don't think I know what you did last summer falls
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: in that category. Yeah, i'd agree, But you know, as
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: much as I sometimes get grumpy about this, like, at
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: the same time, there are properties that I'm like, please
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: redo this, give me an amazing Phantom Toldbooth movie, because
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: that's what I love and what I want to share
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: with my kids. So I get if that's something that
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: was like really integral to your childhood and you want
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: to share it with your kids. But you know they're
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: going to have the Goonies effect if they watch it,
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: where they just don't like it because it's too outdated. Yeah,
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: I get it. I think what Ariel is trying to say,
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: is remake Krall? For goodness sakes, we need a new crawl.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: I would watch it, um too. I love Krall. Okay,
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: it's not good, but I love it there. Look, they're
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: are movies that are not good that I love, and
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: there are movies that are not good that I wanted
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: to love that I just don't. I can't find anything redeeming. Um. Yeah,
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: but your cruel tattoo tells it all. She's got the
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: clave tattooed on her right shoulder blade, y'all? Is he
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: telling the truth? You likely won't find out. Okay, let's
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: move on. Chang Chang Chang ship. Wow, great, listen here,
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: beauty school dropout. I'll take it from here. So our
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: next story is that we got another trailer for Grease,
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: Rise of the Pink Ladies, the series that that traces
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: the origin of the Pink Ladies gang that we see
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: in both Greece and Grease too. Uh. And we had
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: already seen a trailer for this we know, or at
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: least a teaser, so we knew that it was going
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: to introduce characters who are attending Rydel High years before
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: the first film takes place, and that these are the
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: young women who are the founders of the Pink Ladies.
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: And in this trailer we got a little bit more
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: of a look at each of the members, kind of
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: get an idea of where their place is within the
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: society of Right L High, what the the mood and
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: culture is of the high school. It's pretty much what
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: you would suspect, uh. And we also got a word
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: for word recreation of the Pink Ladies Pact, which was
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: not in Greece. It was in Greece too. And and
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: y'all know, I love Greece too. I love Greece too.
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: I think it's a better I don't think it's a
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: good movie. I think it's more entertaining than the original Greece.
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: And I will go to my death thinking that not
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: for everybody, but for me, Greece Too is wonderfully bad.
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: I I would agree that Greece too is wonderfully bad. Um.
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: We also got some music, so we got to hear
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: some of the singing that will be in the show.
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: You know, it's it's interesting because I watched Greece at
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: a time where you know, I didn't think it's super
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: deeply about it when I first watched Greece because that
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: wasn't where I was in life. And I always thought
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 1: the pink ladies were like the cool kids, but in
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: this trailer, like it never dawned on me before this trailer,
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: quite honestly that these pink ladies were not the cool kids. Yeah,
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: that they capitalized on their not coolest coolness to become cool.
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 1: Did you ever see the film cry Baby the John
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: Waters cry Baby, but it's it's been a while, cry Baby,
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: Um is sorry. I watched a lot of critical role
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: and they have beaten that into me. But no, uh
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: So in cry Baby, you also have clicks in high school,
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: and you've got the squares who are all very straight laced,
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: clean cut kids, and you've got the drapes, and these
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: are sort of the the dregs of society. They're like
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: the punks, the the greaser's, the all the different type
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: of characters that you would associate with the t birds
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: in Greece. And I feel like that is more of
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: a model of what we're seeing here, right, Like, these
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: are outcasts who have found each other and they bond
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: over their shared uh outcast nature, and that's where they
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: find that by by bonding together, they can be a
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: real like force in right l high and like this
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: makes total sense, Like she I I got the feeling now,
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: like they're not the popular kids. They're the kids that
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: parents warned their children about, like don't hang out with her,
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: she's a bad influence. Those are the kind of kids. Yeah, yeah,
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: uh well, I'm going to watch this. I'm I'm kind
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: of I'm kind of looking forward to it. Um, Jonathan,
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: let me ask you, were you ever a fan of
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: the TV show Luther. I have not watched Luther. I've
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: seen so like I've always seen like the trailers and
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: always thought, wow, this looks amazing, like really really good.
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: It's it's the the story of a cop who's more
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: than willing to bend the rules a bit in order
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: to sometimes just not just been outright break rules in
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: the pursuit of his duties. And he's also perhaps a
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: little like shady in some ways. And I thought it's
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: kind of like The Shield but English, and and I
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: hadn't never seen it. I watched the trailer for The
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: Fallen Sun, which is the film the Luther movie that's
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: coming out, and holy cow, it looks good, like just
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: Elba looks he's so good I agree it like it
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 1: starts off. The trailer starts off with him in jail. Um,
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: so if you haven't watched the series, that's where this
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: character starts off and kind of escaping to hide a killer. Um, yeah,
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: it was. I watched a little bit of Luther when
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: it first came out, and it was very dark, and
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: at the time that was not something I incredibly appreciated,
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: So I didn't watch enough of it, but I did
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: like what I watched. You know. It's just one of
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: those things where you're like, when you're going, what do
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: I want to watch? And if you don't feel like
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: something super darky, just don't go back to it. Right.
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: Um this, this trailer looks fantastic everything except for Andy
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: Serkis's hair. Andy Serkis plays the villain in this, and
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: his hair is weird. It's listen, Ariel. His hair is
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 1: so important, clearly that's his motivation for becoming a killer.
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: Just just too much volume. It's just his hair is
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: bad and he has to act out it's so bad. Um,
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: you know, I I look forward to Andy Serkis is
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: a good actor, he plays a good villain. I look
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: forward to watching it. I'm gonna watch this. I don't
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: know if I need to watch all of Let me guys,
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: if you've watched all of Luther, let me know if
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: I need to watch all of Luther too to watch
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: Fallen Sounder. If I could just jump into the movie,
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: they've written the movie, well, I can just jump in.
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: It definitely looks really compelling. Like the trailer is very
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 1: very well done. It's you know, you wrote in our
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: notes here that it gives a very double O seven
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: kind of vibe, and I totally get that as well,
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: Like it's double O seven mixed with a little Jason
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 1: Bourne Idricelba. And by the way, if they remade the
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: board identity and put Idris Elba And even though he's
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 1: older than Matt Damon was when he made those movies,
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: Holy crap. When I watched that, is it isn't that? Who? Um?
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, why can't John Krasowski is playing right now?
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: Oh Born? Maybe I thought he was playing Reacher. You're
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 1: you're right, he's playing Wait, no, no, he's not Reacher
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 1: because Reacher is a different series. Is Oh he's playing
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: He's No, we're mixing up all of our our stupid
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 1: white heroes. Uh. He was Jack Ryan Jack Ryan, Yes,
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: from like like I think of him from The Hunt
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: October and Clear and Present Danger. But yeah, so he's
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 1: he's following in the footsteps of people like Alec Baldwin
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: and Harrison Ford. Uh No, I would love to see
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: Idris Elba in anything. Just keep keep casting him. He's great.
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 1: I agree, I agree. All right, we have two more
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 1: news stories He's probably could have gone into thirty seconds
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 1: or less, which is Disney released a bunch of sequels.
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: We're getting Toy Story five, another Frozen, and another's Utopia,
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: which I think are necessary. No, they announced these first
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: of all. Okay, they announced these during an earnings call,
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 1: because we're in the the span of time where publicly
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 1: traded companies hold earnings calls with their investors to say
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 1: how the last quarter of the last year went. With Disney,
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: it went all right, except for the fact that they're
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 1: still planning on cutting seven million dollars, and it sounds
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: like that's all coming from the parks, which for people
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: who were really excited about possibly seeing Bob Iger invest
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 1: more in the parks, it's probably a huge disappointment. They're
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 1: also laying off around seven thousand employees which is really tough.
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 1: Training is still losing money. Not a big surprise there, um.
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 1: But in the process they announced these these sequels. Uh.
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: It does not do the many favors among the Disney
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 1: fans who have been saying that the company has been
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: creatively bankrupt and is leaning far too heavily on established
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 1: I p instead of creating new stuff. That being said,
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 1: we did. We have received lots of new Disney films
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 1: over the past few years, like Turning Red and Incanto.
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 1: You know those were those were those were not sequels
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 1: to existing properties, and they're fantastic. Um. But yeah, I
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 1: in particular, I am disappointed to hear there's going to
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 1: be yet another Toy Story movie. Toy Story four was
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: unnecessary already. I don't know where they go with Toy
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 1: Story five because spoilers for anyone who hasn't seen Toy
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 1: Story four. But the toys are split up now like
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 1: Woody is no longer with the gang. It's the reunion show.
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 1: Please no, please no, just look, I didn't watch Toy
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 1: Story four, despite the fact that there were some new characters.
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 1: They added that I thought looked fun um, you know,
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 1: Duck get funny, and well they had to sell more toys. Yeah, um,
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 1: but I didn't watch it, but yeah, I think it's unnecessary. Okay,
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 1: maybe we could get a seconds Utopia, but um, I
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: don't know. I also don't think Frozen three is like
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 1: I really, I mean, I get it, like Frozen is
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 1: like a huge money maker for or Disney. As his
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 1: Toy Story, I don't know. I I've seen. I've seen
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 1: the Toy Story franchise. I have to tell you that,
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 1: in my opinion, the first film is probably my favorite,
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 1: simply because that was also I saw it when it
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 1: came out. Actually, one of the first dates I ever
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 1: went on with my partner was Toy Story, the original
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: Toy Story. I took her to see it and she
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 1: was not convinced she would like it, and by the
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 1: time we walked out, she was like, you were right.
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 1: That was amazing, and and so that I have special
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 1: emotional attachment to that movie. I think Toy Story too.
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 1: First of all, I had one of the most heartbreaking
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 1: songs ever recorded play in the middle of that and
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 1: be like, hey, do you want to cry now, because
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 1: we're gonna make you do that. Um, and then uh
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 1: was just really heartfelt and entertaining and then Toy Story three,
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 1: I tend really, I know a lot of people felt
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 1: like they were completely like devastated by that. It didn't
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: affect me like that. See, that was like I guess it.
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 1: I guess it's just a point of where where you
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 1: are in life. And I'm not saying like how old
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 1: you are, but just where you are in your journey
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 1: of life on on how that affects you, because I know,
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 1: for like me and our good friend jen Uh, Toy
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 1: Story three was incredibly emotional. Um for me, it was
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 1: the most emotional of all of them. But then again,
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 1: I liked Toy Story one, but I felt like the
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  Speaker 1: second half was just a giant chase scene and that
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  Speaker 1: got boring to me. Um, which I know you dislike
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  Speaker 1: and disagree with, and so I'm sorry for even bringing
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  Speaker 1: it back up. No, No, I think I think it's
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  Speaker 1: a valid criticism. I I found it and entertaining watch.
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  Speaker 1: But you're right, I mean it is pretty much of
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  Speaker 1: an extended chase sequence. M hm. Um. So like, honestly,
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  Speaker 1: if you break down a lot of like pixarchist neat movies,
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  Speaker 1: so they turned into that. I mean, cars has to
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  Speaker 1: be right because it's all about rais. Yeah, cars a
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 1: little bit. Finding Nemo, um so and I love finding Nemo.
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  Speaker 1: Best best musical at Disney World, um when it was there,
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  Speaker 1: but just you gus had a few misses. I know that. Um.
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  Speaker 1: Someone was telling me that there, like their new Tron
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  Speaker 1: coaster was not necessarily as well thought out as it
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  Speaker 1: could have been, based on like the size of sizing
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  Speaker 1: the the size of the average size of of the
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  Speaker 1: park attendee in the US versus the average size of
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  Speaker 1: the park attendee in Tokyo, which is where the tron
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  Speaker 1: cycle Shanghai, Shanghai. I am sorry, I am very wrong.
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  Speaker 1: Please forgive me Shanghai. Uh. There's just like the average
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  Speaker 1: person is a different size, and they didn't resize the
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 1: cars to suit, which is honestly an oversight. I'm surprised
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  Speaker 1: they made Yeah me too, um. You know uh, I
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 1: am not a tall guy, so I suspect that I'll
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  Speaker 1: be able to right it just fine when I next
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  Speaker 1: go to Disney, which will be in December. Um, and
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  Speaker 1: maybe Ariel will be there too. We don't know yet,
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  Speaker 1: depends on my amount of p t O um. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: well we'll have to see. Um. I know that Disney
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  Speaker 1: has good things in the work that are not at
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  Speaker 1: least not derived off of other Disney pre established movies.
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  Speaker 1: They might be derived off of other works, But um,
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  Speaker 1: I am excited about things in the Disney milieu, but
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  Speaker 1: that are coming up. But I just, yeah, these these
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  Speaker 1: three things, why, why is this what you're announcing? I
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  Speaker 1: think they should be direct to like streaming direct to
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  Speaker 1: Blu ray. Yeah. Yeah, well it's it's kind of like
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  Speaker 1: back of the old director VHS tape days where we
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 1: got all the different sequels to Disney films King and
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 1: Aladdin and all that. Yeah, Bob Iger did say, although
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  Speaker 1: and I'll believe it when I see it, but Bob
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  Speaker 1: Baker did say that the creative side, for you know,
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  Speaker 1: being like all the the shows and films and stuff
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  Speaker 1: that are produced, that they were going to take a
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  Speaker 1: more methodical and thoughtful approach to that to make sure
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  Speaker 1: that they produce things that are proud of and that
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  Speaker 1: are that that meet the standard and not just turn
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  Speaker 1: stuff out, which I would actually really welcome. I feel
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 1: like Marvel has suffered from that a bit Star Wars certainly,
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  Speaker 1: I feel has suffered from that. So if if that's
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  Speaker 1: actually true, uh, and if they really do focus on things,
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  Speaker 1: and if the people who have the really cool creative
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  Speaker 1: ideas actually get the opportunity to tell the stories that
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 1: they're thinking up, I think that would be incredible. I
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  Speaker 1: am skeptical just because like when you're announcing stuff and
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  Speaker 1: it's all sequels to existing I p. It doesn't seemed
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  Speaker 1: to back that up. But you know, we'll hold out hope.
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  Speaker 1: I mean also like there's that awkward there's that awkward
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 1: adjustment of like chap Pick leaving and coming back and
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 1: everything from the pandemic, So like there is a little
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 1: bit of grace there, but it definitely is to me
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  Speaker 1: falling below what they have set their standard as well,
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 1: and he he did. Tiger also did say he reiterated
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 1: that he is not back for good. His plan is
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 1: to lead the company for a couple of years while
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 1: creating a better succession plan. I'm i which is good,
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 1: but like he was involved in the last succession plan
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  Speaker 1: and that's when shape It came in. So I don't
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 1: again like I'm holding out hope, but I am not
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  Speaker 1: overly confident. But you know, maybe maybe in a couple
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  Speaker 1: of years we'll say, wow, what a phenomenal trad insformation
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 1: and keep in mind, like, as as hard as I'm
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  Speaker 1: coming down on Disney right now, I still love a
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  Speaker 1: lot of the stuff that they've produced over the last
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  Speaker 1: couple of years. It's it's not really the company's fault that, uh,
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 1: or at least it can't be entirely their fault that
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  Speaker 1: A lot of the stuff that I saw didn't resonate
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 1: with me, but things like Incanto totally yeah. Yeah. Um,
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 1: well we're uh, we're coming to the end, just like
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 1: our last story. Uh. We got a trailer for the
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 1: final season of The Flash. I haven't watched watched the
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 1: last couple of seasons. I honestly thought the show was
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 1: already over. Um it looks I mean, it looks good.
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 1: If you like the Flash, it looks like they're they're
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 1: really working on tidying and tidying it up. But at
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 1: the same time, it kind of feels like more of
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 1: the same to me. I, Um, I've missed a few
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 1: episodes of The Flash. I've missed the last eight seasons. Um, okay,
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 1: and this is the trailer for season nine. Mm, so
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 1: I haven't seen any but you know, if if you
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 1: are if you are a completionist, or if you really
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 1: like the Flash. I really liked the first few seasons
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 1: of The Flash. It wasn't a perfect show, but it
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 1: was quite enjoyable, and I liked all of like the
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 1: crossover episodes of everything. Um, yeah, the trailers out, so
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 1: now you can kind of see what you're in for.
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 1: Is the story wraps up? Yeah. I thought the trailer
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 1: looked looked good. I mean like, as I was watching it,
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 1: I was thinking, Okay, I don't have the context. I
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 1: don't know who these characters are, I don't know what's
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 1: immediately going on here. But if you divorce yourself from that,
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 1: I thought the trailer was well made. I thought people
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 1: look like they were really putting their all in the
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 1: production of the show. Like, it looked good. It looks
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 1: like a good show. It's just a show that I
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 1: never started to watch, which is like, looking back on it,
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 1: I think it's kind of crazy that I never got
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 1: into all the DC television and stuff, because, unlike the films,
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 1: I felt the TV universe of DC was doing things
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 1: in a way that made a lot more sense to
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 1: me than the films did. And and for me, because
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 1: I did watch many seasons of Arrow, and I gave
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 1: up on Legends of Tomorrow far too soon. You know.
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 1: I watched some of Constantine, the little bit we got
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 1: of it, and I watched a lot of The Flash. UM,
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 1: and I watched a lot of Supergirl. UM. I thought
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 1: the casting in these shows it was really really good.
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 1: Grant Gustin as as the Flash is endearing. I really
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 1: like him as the character. I really like Iris West,
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 1: I really like Joe West, I really like Cisco um
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 1: and and all of the other characters. UM. I can't
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 1: remember all the actor's names at the moment, but I
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 1: have really enjoyed the casting. I've really enjoyed their acting.
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 1: The writing hasn't always been great, but their performances have
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 1: always been stellar, to the point where sometimes I have
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 1: preferred them over the movie versions. Well. I mean, I
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 1: remember when they were talking about the casting of Justice League,
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 1: where you had a very vocal fan base of the
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 1: Flash television series fans who were incredibly disappointed that they
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 1: went with Ezra Miller. Yeah, but I mean, you know,
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 1: and Ezra Miller's character for all of the actors flaws,
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 1: UM was interesting. It was a really interesting take. UM.
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 1: But yeah, I I really like Grant Gustin. UM. I
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 1: think he would have been great in the movies, you know.
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 1: But in this new d C you we will get
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 1: someone who can crossover if needed, or will cross over
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 1: if they show up in both TV and movies. Um.
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 1: But just as the Flash is coming to an end,
• 1:22:45
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• 1:22:49
  Speaker 1: of it with us. Yes, it's been an epic episode,
• 1:22:53
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• 1:22:56
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• 1:22:59
  Speaker 1: to here. Ariel will me to hear some of it.
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