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Never Play Off Godzilla at an Awards Show · Large Nerdron Collider

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  Speaker 1: Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Large Ner Drunk Collider podcast,
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  Speaker 1: the podcast that's all about the geeky things happening in
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  Speaker 1: the world around us and how very excited we are
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  Speaker 1: about them. I'm Ariel Castin and with me as always
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  Speaker 1: after our holiday extended break is Jonathan Strickland.
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  Speaker 2: I am not dead yet. Yay, Yeah, I mean it
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  Speaker 2: was close call, y'all. Yeah, are our extended hiatus wasn't
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  Speaker 2: just because the holidays. I don't mind saying this because
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  Speaker 2: I've said it on some other podcasts. I had a
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  Speaker 2: significant medical scare. December thirtieth was the first one, but
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  Speaker 2: another one happened the following week, and it resulted in
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  Speaker 2: having to get surgery, and then I had the recovery
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  Speaker 2: from surgery, and it's just been kind of a nightmare situation.
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  Speaker 2: Ariel has been very patient and supportive through the entire process,
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  Speaker 2: and I am thankfully through the worst of it as
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  Speaker 2: far as I can tell. Your fingers crossed and back
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  Speaker 2: to talk about things what are geeky?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there was a whole bunch of that happened in
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  Speaker 1: the past few weeks, but we're going to ignore a
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  Speaker 1: lot of that and talk about what's new. And as
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  Speaker 1: far as patient goes, I mean like I've had auditions
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  Speaker 1: and I've had other stuff to do, so like.
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  Speaker 2: She was busy, she wasn't spending the whole time giving
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  Speaker 2: me puppy dog eyes and saying I sure hope you're
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  Speaker 2: feeling better, just you know, but she did check in,
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  Speaker 2: so yeah, I don't want to give the wrong impression.
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  Speaker 1: Also, like I want to say, one of our listeners,
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  Speaker 1: one of our listeners on discord was like, I can't
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  Speaker 1: wait for Ariel to admonish you or to get back
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  Speaker 1: to aerial admonishment again. I'm going to try not to
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  Speaker 1: admonish you too much because I don't want you to
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  Speaker 1: have to recover from any sick burns along.
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  Speaker 2: With yeah, yeah, considering that my illness was related to
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  Speaker 2: high blood pressure, like I can just hold that over people.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, please don't upset me. You'll kill me.
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  Speaker 1: But any time that I gave you puppy dog guys
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  Speaker 1: and asked if you were I sure hope to you're
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  Speaker 1: feeling better, it was genuine. There was no ulterior motive
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  Speaker 1: because your health, my friend, is the most important thing
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  Speaker 1: to me.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you so much. And so we have
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  Speaker 2: a pretty ginormous episode lineup. We'll see if we can
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  Speaker 2: cover everything, but we've got a ton of stuff to
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  Speaker 2: talk about. Like Ariel said, obviously a bunch of news
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  Speaker 2: has come out since we had to take our break,
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  Speaker 2: and we're really just focusing on the things that happened
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  Speaker 2: over the last week because to do everything would I mean,
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  Speaker 2: we'd have to have like a three hour long episode.
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  Speaker 2: And I think a lot of that is because obviously,
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  Speaker 2: during the course of the strikes, there really couldn't be
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  Speaker 2: any progress on any any meat stuff, at least any
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  Speaker 2: media stuff that was in the world of TV or film.
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  Speaker 2: And now that those have been reconciled and resolved, the
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  Speaker 2: floodgates are open.
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  Speaker 1: Floodgates are open, and lots of productions are starting back up,
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  Speaker 1: and that's awesome for actors as well as for viewers.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, do I don't remember, Jonathan, remind me, do
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  Speaker 1: we start with what we've watched or do we start
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  Speaker 1: with thirty seconds or less?
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  Speaker 2: Wow? I don't remember either. I think actually we usually
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  Speaker 2: start with what we've watched and then we go into
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  Speaker 2: thirty seconds or less, And if not, that's how we're
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  Speaker 2: doing it today.
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  Speaker 1: Rockin'. So I've watched a bunch of geeky media over
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  Speaker 1: the holidays and the new year. I finished Barry, I've
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  Speaker 1: started Squid Games. I watched that Batman Ugly Christmas cartoon
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  Speaker 1: special that I was like, oh, it's so ugly. It
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  Speaker 1: was really cute. It was very ugly, but it was
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  Speaker 1: very very cute. I finished Echo, I started Fargo, I've
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  Speaker 1: restarted Skyrim, and my husband has started playing Dave the Diver,
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  Speaker 1: which is a game that Jonathan also enjoys playing. And
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  Speaker 1: then I watched an episode of Has Been Hotel. But
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to like it because it's kind of a
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  Speaker 1: more adult cartoon and it's got a b it's a
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  Speaker 1: musical and it's got a bunch of Broadway star actors
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  Speaker 1: in it. But they really lean into like the depravity
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  Speaker 1: of the story, and it's not funny. So that's the
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  Speaker 1: thing is, you can have cussing, an adult humor and
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  Speaker 1: sexy jokes and all that stuff and it can be hilarious.
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  Speaker 1: And everything just fell flat to me. It felt like
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  Speaker 1: they were trying to push it into be edgy.
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  Speaker 2: And gotcha, yeah, where they're leaning so hard on that
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  Speaker 2: that they're doing it at the expense of actual clever writing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and then like the storyline is also one
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  Speaker 1: of those ones that's like a little bit of a
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  Speaker 1: stretch for me based on my upbringing, But yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: give it a fair shot. And yeah, the joke, it
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  Speaker 1: just wasn't as funny as I had hoped it would be.
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  Speaker 1: But the music is banging, Like the music might be
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  Speaker 1: the best TV music I've heard. It might be tied
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  Speaker 1: for schmcago after Gallivant, not counting the first episode.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Uh for me, really the geeky thing. So I
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  Speaker 2: watched a lot of old stuff, like I finally watched.
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  Speaker 2: I went through and watched all the movies that have
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  Speaker 2: been made so far in the hell House series. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: and I had seen the first one before. If you're
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  Speaker 2: not familiar, hell House is a found footage horror franchise,
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  Speaker 2: with the first one taking place in the Abadon Hotel,
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  Speaker 2: this fictional hotel that's supposed to be in New York.
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  Speaker 2: They actually use a real abandoned hotel that's used for
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  Speaker 2: things like like Halloween haunts in Pennsylvania. Anyway, it's about
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  Speaker 2: this crew that's trying to turn the Abadon Hotel into
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  Speaker 2: a haunted house, and it turns out it really is haunted,
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  Speaker 2: and then hilarious Halloween hyjinks ensue. And by hilarious I
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  Speaker 2: mean horrifying and grotesque to ask, Yeah, Well, there are
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  Speaker 2: four movies in the series so far. Three of them
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  Speaker 2: take place in the Abadon Hotel. The fourth one, which
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  Speaker 2: in some ways is a prequel, like it takes place
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  Speaker 2: in modern day, but they're they're investigating something that happened
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  Speaker 2: in a time before the other movies that occur in
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  Speaker 2: the franchise. I actually think the fourth one is probably
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  Speaker 2: the strongest of the series so far, which is unusual, right,
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  Speaker 2: Usually with horror franchises, you start off super strong and
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  Speaker 2: then maybe you can get a little close to the
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  Speaker 2: brilliance later on. But this is one of those cases
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  Speaker 2: where I actually think the fourth movie might be the
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  Speaker 2: best one of the bunch. I don't know that I
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  Speaker 2: can recommend it. Like, if you want to see some
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  Speaker 2: sort of semi schlocky found footage horror, it falls into
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  Speaker 2: the same traps as other found footage. Mainly you'll be
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  Speaker 2: left asking why would anyone be filming this? Right? That's
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  Speaker 2: the big problem with found footage, unless you're doing something
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  Speaker 2: like security cameras that are supposed to be on all
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  Speaker 2: the time. You're left with the question of why would
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  Speaker 2: anyone bother to this is so mundane, there'd be no
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  Speaker 2: reason to waste time filming it until something scary happens.
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  Speaker 2: But you wouldn't have known something scary was gonna happen
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  Speaker 2: before it happened. So it does fall into those same traps,
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  Speaker 2: but it's it's fairly entertaining. The third one is perhaps
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  Speaker 2: the schluckiest of the bunch, which in some ways is fun.
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  Speaker 2: So that was one thing I did. The other thing
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  Speaker 2: before it came out, before the first episode of season
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  Speaker 2: four of True Detective came out, I decided I wanted
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  Speaker 2: to read Robert Chambers The King in Yellow because that
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  Speaker 2: that's a co election of short stories that Robert Chambers
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  Speaker 2: published before Lovecraft really got his start that kind of
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  Speaker 2: fall into the weird fiction category, at least some of
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  Speaker 2: them do, and it involves things like creating fictional works
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  Speaker 2: of literature that end up having like supernatural powers, the
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  Speaker 2: main one being a play named The King in Yellow
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  Speaker 2: and if you read it, you go bonkers. And that
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  Speaker 2: was a big influence for the first season of True Detective. Well,
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  Speaker 2: I knew that the fourth season was coming out, and
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  Speaker 2: that it appeared to go back and reference stuff from
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  Speaker 2: The King in Yellow. So I thought, I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: read this, and while I was sick, I read the
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  Speaker 2: book stories. Probably not the best state of mind to
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  Speaker 2: do it, but I thought they were pretty pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: Like not I wouldn't say they were brilliant, but I
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  Speaker 2: thought they were well written and interesting. And then I
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  Speaker 2: watched the first episode of season four of True Detective.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's very well made. I lament the fact
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  Speaker 2: that there are no really likable characters, that all the
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  Speaker 2: protagonists are deeply damaged and not very likable, which I
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  Speaker 2: get is a film noir trope, but it makes it
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  Speaker 2: hard for me to connect with the show. But it
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  Speaker 2: is very well made and it's interesting. It does jump
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  Speaker 2: around a bit, to the point where I feel like
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  Speaker 2: it's doing it in an effort to make it seem
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  Speaker 2: very spooky, supernatural, mysterious, But when the filmmaking itself is
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  Speaker 2: creating that kind of disorienting effect and it's not just
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  Speaker 2: the story, it feels a little bit gimmicky to me.
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  Speaker 2: I still think it's well done. I need to watch
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  Speaker 2: the second episode. I just haven't gotten around to it yet.
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  Speaker 2: But those are what I've really been focused on. Nice.
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  Speaker 1: I was going to ask, I'm glad you like the stories.
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  Speaker 1: I was going to ask if you had read right
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  Speaker 1: before you got sick, because then that might have been
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  Speaker 1: the cause.
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  Speaker 2: But right, yeah, I shouldn't have read the book because
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  Speaker 2: that's what caused my blood pressure to skyrocket. I read.
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  Speaker 2: I think I started it. I might have started it
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  Speaker 2: before I got It's hard because, like the last few
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  Speaker 2: weeks are all jumbled up in my head. That blood
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  Speaker 2: pressure thing. It was so bad that I couldn't think coherently,
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  Speaker 2: and it was so bad that when I went to
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  Speaker 2: the emergency room the second time, I don't remember it.
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  Speaker 2: I don't remember the emergency room at all. I remember
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  Speaker 2: the ICU, but that was hours after I had arrived
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  Speaker 2: at the hospital. I was in the emergency room for
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  Speaker 2: hours and I have not They gave me a lumbar
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  Speaker 2: puncture and I don't remember it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's good. That's a good thing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I hear.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I've not had one, but I'm just going
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  Speaker 1: to assume that's a really good thing. YEA great. Well,
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  Speaker 1: that's the stuff that we have done. I'm sure there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot more but that's just like the top of
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  Speaker 1: mind stuff. So now let's jump into our thirty seconds
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  Speaker 1: or less. Some of these might be like fifteen seconds
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  Speaker 1: for me, Jonathan, I'll try to pad them out.
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  Speaker 2: No, don't, don't pad them out if they're fifteen seconds there,
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  Speaker 2: some of mine are probably going a little long. So
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  Speaker 2: let's just let's just do what comes naturally.
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  Speaker 1: Awesome, all right, Well, I get to start today, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm starting with the fact that if it has been
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  Speaker 1: announced that Jillian Anderson is joining the cast of Tron three,
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  Speaker 1: she'll be there with Jared Leto, Jody Turner Smith, and
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  Speaker 1: Greta Lee. Tron is known as Tron three, is being
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  Speaker 1: called tront Aries, and they have started filming, and that's
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  Speaker 1: that's about it. I love the first Tron movie. The
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  Speaker 1: second Tron movie was okay. I I have no expectations
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  Speaker 1: for the third.
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  Speaker 2: I feel I feel the same like I think. The
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  Speaker 2: first Tron movie is fun, slow, second Tron movie is beautiful,
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  Speaker 2: and the soundtrack is banging, but is kind of a mess.
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  Speaker 2: So here's hoping the third one can really nail it. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: One lesser known conference that happens each year is called
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  Speaker 2: Cinema con that's when studios meet with theater owners and operators.
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  Speaker 2: Sony is sitting this year's event out, but it's business,
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  Speaker 2: not personal, as the company is trying to make up
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  Speaker 2: for lost time due to the recent strikes in Hollywood.
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  Speaker 2: So it's not that Sony doesn't love you theater owners.
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  Speaker 2: They just need to wash their hair that weekend.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I wonder how many people are going to
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  Speaker 1: have be affected by that when it comes to cinema
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  Speaker 1: con All right, I have my stories wrong in my lineup,
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  Speaker 1: but the next one is that Invincible season two. Heart
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  Speaker 1: two has a release date and it is March fourteenth.
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  Speaker 1: So Jonathan and I have both watched the first half
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  Speaker 1: of season two. It's rough, it's real rough at times,
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  Speaker 1: and got kind of left with Invincibles on an alien
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  Speaker 1: planet after battling some filter miites. So you won't have
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  Speaker 1: to wait too long to see what happens next if
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  Speaker 1: you're following that storyline.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, all right, Hey you got Magic the Gathering
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  Speaker 2: cards on my board game clue? Hey you got a
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  Speaker 2: board game clue on my Magic the Gathering cards? Say, yep,
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  Speaker 2: that's right, there's a Magic the Gathering and clue or
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  Speaker 2: a clue dough if you have to be a brit
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  Speaker 2: collaboration coming out, it's called Ravnica Clue. Addition, up to
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  Speaker 2: four people can play at a time and it comes
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  Speaker 2: with booster packs and stuff. It's available for pre order now.
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  Speaker 2: It comes out later, I think in February, and it
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  Speaker 2: retails for a wop in seventy dollars.
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  Speaker 1: Golly, I do feel like it doesn't play like traditional clue.
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  Speaker 2: No, I think it. It does apparently play like some
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  Speaker 2: sort of combination between Magic the Gathering and Clue. I
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  Speaker 2: read the review of it. I cannot say that. I
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  Speaker 2: actually I feel like it's something you have to experience
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  Speaker 2: to really understand, because I couldn't quite grasp what the
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  Speaker 2: playthrough is like. But it's at least interesting.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Yeah, I might have to tried it at
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  Speaker 1: some point next in our thirty seconds or less. Apparently,
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  Speaker 1: my viral push to become the Thing in the New
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  Speaker 1: Fantastic Four movie may not be as successful as I
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  Speaker 1: was hoping it was. There is a rumor that Moss,
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  Speaker 1: that Evan Moss Backrack, is being considered for the role
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  Speaker 1: of the Thing. I love him. He places cousin in
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  Speaker 1: the Bear, and he was also micro in the Punisher.
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  Speaker 1: He's a really phenomenal actor. I like him a lot.
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't be like too mad if he was a thing.
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  Speaker 1: But also I still want to be Ben Grimms. So
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  Speaker 1: you know, we'll have to see whether that rumor's true.
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  Speaker 1: When it things like Marvel and DC and big major
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  Speaker 1: studio stuff, you can't you often can't talk about it
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  Speaker 1: yes or no. Like you can't say no it's not me.
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  Speaker 1: Yes it is me. Sometimes you can say no, it's
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  Speaker 1: not me. But also wishful thinking, So we'll have to
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  Speaker 1: wait and see.
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  Speaker 2: Also, sometimes when they say no it's not me, it's
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  Speaker 2: totally them. They they just changing. Yeah, they're just trying
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  Speaker 2: not to get in trouble all right. Through Dangers untold
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  Speaker 2: and strikes unnumbered. The latest Deadpool sequel has wrapped filming.
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  Speaker 2: The film, which at one time drew eyre as it
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  Speaker 2: seemed it would continue production through the writers strike with
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  Speaker 2: actors you know, just making stuff up on camera, is
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  Speaker 2: now finished with principal photography. The movie is slated to
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  Speaker 2: release on July twenty sixth of this year. Get Your
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  Speaker 2: Chimichanga's Ready, Okay?
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  Speaker 1: Next, Kit Harrington, who is John Snow in Game of
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  Speaker 1: Thrones is producing a TV thriller, very British Western. It
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  Speaker 1: takes place in the Lake District of the United Kingdom,
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  Speaker 1: and it's called, uh something like the City of Dust.
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to Empire of Dirt. I was close. City
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  Speaker 1: of Dust, Empire of Dirt. They're close. It's a working title.
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  Speaker 1: It's about a big city boy who returns to his
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  Speaker 1: family farm in the Lake District for a cousin's wedding
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  Speaker 1: and discovers that his family has been doing major, major
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  Speaker 1: drug deals. One, I can't wrap my head around what
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  Speaker 1: a very h what a very British Western would be,
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  Speaker 1: if that equates to American westerns at all or is
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  Speaker 1: a completely different thing. And two the description sounds like
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  Speaker 1: breaking bad, and I don't I don't know if I
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  Speaker 1: would have called breaking that a Western.
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  Speaker 2: Southwestern is what I would call it. Because you know
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  Speaker 2: that Albuquerque has that very unique kind of sensibility. I
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  Speaker 2: will say they've If you need to see a British Western,
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  Speaker 2: just watched John Cleese and Silverado. It's just one English
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  Speaker 2: actor in an otherwise American movie. But he is a
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  Speaker 2: lot of fun as an English sheriff.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, John Cleese is a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, what's all this? Then? All right, Mortal Kombat two,
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  Speaker 2: the film sequel, not the video game sequel, has wrapped.
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  Speaker 2: It's a sequel to the twenty twenty one movie, which
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  Speaker 2: was okay. I mean that movie started off great. I
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  Speaker 2: think the Scorpion sub Zero fight at the beginning is amazing.
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  Speaker 2: But the new movie is going to feature Carl Urban
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  Speaker 2: as Johnny Cage, and other faces that you can expect
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  Speaker 2: to see include Shao Khan played by Martin Ford, Princess
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  Speaker 2: Katana played by Adeline Rudolph, and Kwan Chi played by
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  Speaker 2: Damon Harriman, as well as more. I got high hopes
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  Speaker 2: for this one. We'll see.
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad you've got high hopes. Yeah. The last one
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  Speaker 1: was Fair to Midland.
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  Speaker 2: I agree, Fair to Midland is like, my favorite Mortal
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  Speaker 2: Combat movie is still the nineteen nineties one, the original
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  Speaker 2: nineteen nineties live actual one. It's schlocky as heck, but
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  Speaker 2: I still like it more than the twenty twenty one film.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, same. All right, I'm digging deep into the
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  Speaker 1: rumor pool today, you guys, because the next thing is
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  Speaker 1: that apparently some people found the producer of Zelda in
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  Speaker 1: a Universal Parks video with them building kind of universal
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  Speaker 1: langismatic something like that. Yeah, and then after someone posted
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  Speaker 1: that video it got like almost immediately taken down. But
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  Speaker 1: now folks are wondering if we're going to get a
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  Speaker 1: Zeldas section to our Mario world. It would be cool,
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  Speaker 1: it would be smart.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it'd bean neat, It would definitely Uh, it would
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  Speaker 2: definitely pose a huge competition to Disney, which honestly I
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  Speaker 2: think is necessary. I think Disney needs to have that
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  Speaker 2: kind of crazy competition up against it to kick them
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  Speaker 2: into gear because, yeah, the Parks, I feel have been
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  Speaker 2: a little neglected. All right. AMC has released a trailer
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  Speaker 2: for The Ones Who Live, which is yet another spin
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: off of The Walking Dead. This is the one that's
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: going to bring back Rick Grimes and Nichean, because if
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: there's another penny to be wrung from this franchise, they
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: are going to find a way to do it. The
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: trailer looks grim and hopeless. It reinforces the message that
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: humans are just the worst, and isn't that what you
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: need in an election year. It comes out February twenty fifth.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, Well that's it for our thirty seconds
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: or less.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I obviously have feelings about how nihilistic and grim
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: the Walking Dead series is.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: Well something it tells you something when I've watch WALKI
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: Dead and I watched Last of Us, and Last of
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: Us seemed hopeful, comparatively.
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: Agreed, I mean, and that, yeah, we won't get into like,
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: even though the end of Last of Us has a
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: definitively dark message to it, we don't need to get
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: into spoilers or anything in case people haven't watched it yet.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: That series is brilliant, But I would agree with you
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: that even with the ending of the Last of Us,
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: it still feels more hopeful than the Walking Dead does.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: All right, Now, let's see how much of our other
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: news we can get through.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Like, as per usually, we decided to dwell a
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: little on thirty seconds or less. But I mean we're
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: both rusty.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and he's not just talking about my hair color.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: All right, So we have a bunch of stuff that
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: we're looking forward to. I'm going to just go over
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: that real quick. Things that I'm looking forward to, The
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: silly Argyle movie that looks like a mix between the
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: Lost City of d and Kingsman and Bullet Train and
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: Stranger than fiction. Look's dumb fun. We're getting a second
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: season of Life for Beth, which, even if you're not
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: an Amy Schumer fan, this is a fantastic semi autobiographical
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: story of her life and deals with like meeting her
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: husband who then got an adult diagnosis of autism, even
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: though he's a mischel like and he's a Michelin star chef,
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: so it deals with that and it's just really good.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: It's really good. I'm looking forward to Avatar the Last Airbender,
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: which we'll talk about in a little bit. And then oddly,
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: normally I hate scary movies, but I'm vaguely intrigued by Abigail,
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: which is a story about a little ballerina girl who
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: gets kidnapped and then turns out to be a vampire
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: and turns all of her kidnappers into vampires.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's given me a little bit of a Let
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: the Right One In energy, which if you have not
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: seen Ariel, I think you would really dig it, like
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: it's more of a drama than a horror movie. Either
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: Let the Right One In or Let Me In, which
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: is the English version of it, but I which I
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: haven't seen, so I can't say I prefer Let the
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: Right One in because I've only seen Let the Right
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: One in, but Let the Right One In was just
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: brilliant and kind of dark. So for me, I would
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: say things I'm looking forward to include Furiosa. I really
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: am looking forward to Furiosa. A lot that comes out
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: this summer. Borderlands I'm looking forward to just to see
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: what the heck it like. I cautiously look forward to
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: it because I haven't seen enough of it to know
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: whether it's going to look relatively good. Beetlejuice two, it's
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: another one that's coming out this fall that I'm kind
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: of curious about. Those are like the big ones. I mean,
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: I probably will see the sequel to Joker because I
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: saw the first one, but I have the more distance
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: I get from seeing the Joker the first time, the
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: less I like it. So I'm not sure if I'm
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: going to be, you know, fully on board with that
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: by the time it comes out. But those are the
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: ones that are really Oh in Nospharatu, I want to
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: see Nosaratu four December twenty fifth. It's Christmas Day, that's.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: Right, That's right. Yeah, I'm looking forward to many of
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: those things too. I do, I do have interest in
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: Let the Right One In. I like, I don't mind
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: monster movies. I just don't like gory horror.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: That there's a little bit of gore and let the
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: Right One In, but that's not really what the movie's about.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: Like it's it's got moments of that which do shock
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: you out of the moment, but it's it's not like
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: unrelentingly gory, which is why I think it's it's actually
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: kind of a sweet and some what sad friendship story,
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: which is why I think it. Like I saw it
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: in the movie theater and I was blown away. I
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: thought it was great.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And I think that's part of it for me
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: with scary movies is it's got to have like a
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: good intriguing story and maybe some like uplifting bits or
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: some sort of hope in there somewhere. If it's just
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: scary for scary sake, it's.
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: Not for me. Yeah. Yeah. Now, I think it's something
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: you could give a try. I mean, I would never
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: tell you that you have to see it. I just
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: think it's something that you potentially could find value in.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: So something that unfortunately hasn't found a whole lot of
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: value in the month of January is live theater. The
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: month of January is always tough for Broadway specifically, and
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: that's partly because you know, it follows December, which is
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: a big travel month. Lots of people go to New
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: York for the holiday season, and there they will often
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: seek out theater. But January tends to be a much
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: less travel month, so you don't have as many tourists.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: And it also is like, if you're in the you
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: know you're after the Tony season. Uh So, a lot
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: of shows, if they haven't received huge accolades, may find
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: that their audiences have dwindled down to like half full
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: or something. Uh And it's expensive to produce a show
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: on Broadway. It's expensive to keep a show running on Broadway.
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: So it's not unusual, as Tom Jones would say, for
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: shows to close in January. It's just this January we
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: got quite a few closings that have either happened or
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: have been announced. So like Gutenberg the Musical, which you know,
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: I knew was going to be a short run anyway,
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: it's a two person show. It's hard to make something
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: like that run for real.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: Names.
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you wouldn't expect it to run forever, but
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: it's closing. Mind Mangler, which is a spin off of
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: Magic Goes Wrong, is closing. How to Dance in Ohio,
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: which I understand is a really uplifting show. It involves
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: people who are on the autism spectrum who are actually
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: playing the characters who are on the autism spectrum. It's
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: supposed to be phenomenal, but it just hasn't been getting
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: the crowds. That one's closing soon, Sleep No More, which
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: is the incredibly immersive show. It's the retelling of the
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: Scottish play that one's been running in New York for
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: quite some time and it's fairly well known, but it's
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: closing this year in March. And Kimberly Akimbo, which won
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: the Tony for Best Musical as it's announced that's going
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: to close in April. So yeah, lots of closings coming
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: up in the near future.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: I mean that we always get new musicals, so like
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: Boop the musical, I expect that to come to Broadway soon.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: Dead Outlaw is opening. I know this because my friend
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: who is in Shucked, which also either just closed or
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: is closing this month, is now cast in Dead to Outlaw,
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: which is a comedy that's opening and sounds pretty funny. Yeah.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: But good thing is some of these shows that when
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: they close on Broadway, they go on tour. So like
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: Beatle Juice is currently on to tour, Shucked is going
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: to be on tour. Clue there's a clue that's coming
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: to the twenty twenty four twenty twenty five Broadway touring
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: season that there there hasn't Is it just straight to touring?
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: Did it?
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah? I hadn't heard of a clue on Broadway, So
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: my guess is that, uh, it did not have I mean,
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: if it had a Broadway run, I didn't hear about it.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, So I mean it is sad. I hate
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: I hate to see shows close before there before they
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: want to. Thankfully there are new shows up and coming
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: as well.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, let's get into some news. One bit
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: of news that has obviously been a big part of
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: the entertainment world is that we got the announcements for
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: Oscar nominations.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and a bunch of people were kind of upset that,
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: Like I'm just going to get to the controversy, right,
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: A bunch of people were upset that Margaret Robbie and
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: Greta Gerwig did not get nominated for like Best Director
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: and Best Actor, although Barbie has a lot of nominations.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't like when Oscars are like, well,
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: nominate this person, or this person wins because it's their time.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: So for them to get nominated just because they were
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: women who made a woman empowered movie, I don't know,
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: it feels it feels a little false to me. I
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: loved Barbie, but there are lots of women directors and
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: amazing actresses of color who are who are not dominated
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: this year in place of that, So it's still this
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: Oscars might break a lot of new records.
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I think part of the reason why people got
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: upset is that Ryan Goslin got a nomination for Best
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: Supporting Actor as Ken, but Margot Robbie did not get
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: a nomination for Best Actress for Barbie. I did see
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: that Woopy Goldberg had a response to this and said
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: that there's no such thing as a snub because it's
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: not like it's not like collectively the Academy decided not
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: to nominate these women. It's that when you tally up
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: all the nominations, they did not receive the number necessary
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: to be listed among the nominees, and it's that each
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: individual person responded like who they thought deserved it and
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: collec colectively. That's just how it shook out. And I
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: thought that's actually a pretty reasonable way of looking at it.
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: It still stinks like it still doesn't look good when
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: the two women who were most responsible for making that
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: movie happen didn't get nominated, but the guy who played
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: the himbo did that?
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: Does America Ferrara did?
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: Yes, she did Supporting Actress Best Supporting Actress. So it
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: wasn't like it was totally overlooked. But yeah, I think
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: that that that perspective, that it's not like it's, you know,
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: a group of eight white men in a conference room
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: somewhere smoking cigars and just deciding who gets the nod
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: and who doesn't. It's not like that, and I think
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: remembering that is important. I do think. I mean, I'm
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: not big on awards. I've said this so many times.
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: I don't like awards like I don't like I don't
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: like trying to assign, you know, rankings to art. I
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: don't like saying this art is better than that art
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: like that just bothers me, especially when you're talking about
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: things that are in wildly different genres with different perspectives
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: and different messages, Like it just doesn't make sense to me.
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: And I really don't like the how it creates a
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: political discussion within Hollywood where you have these four year
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: consideration campaigns that are so shallow and so like obvious
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: and callous and gross. I think it just reduces art
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: to something that I think is so shallow that it's
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: just disturbing to me. So I'm not big on oscars anyway.
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: I do think that the people who were nominated, all
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: of them put in incredible work and that, you know,
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: I'm glad to see them get recognition. I just wish
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: it weren't in the form of a competition me too.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: I'm kind of surprised May December didn't get more gnoms
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: because they did across other awards award series like the Academy,
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: But they are nominated for Best Original Screenplay, which I'm
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: just gonna say is cool because I have a very
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: good friend who was a small role in that movie.
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: Me.
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, So it's it's kind of a very black
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: Swan esque movie. It's based on it's based on a
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: true story. It's not like exactly following the true story
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: and it's a disturbing story, but it's told very well.
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: So out of curiosity, how many of the nominated films
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: have you seen? If you happen to know?
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: Hold on, I've seen Barbie. I wanted to see Poor Things,
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: but I haven't gotten there yet.
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: Poor Things is on my list to see. I really
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: want to see it. I've heard great things about it.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I want to see American fiction. They are actually
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: a bunch that I haven't seen that I want to
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: see this year. I just haven't got it to it.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: So I've seen Barbie and then I've seen Pneumona. Okay,
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: I haven't seen Boy and the Heron or Spider Man
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: Across the Spider Verse yet. I know I could watch
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: Better Man Across the Spider Verse, but it I think
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: it came back to theaters, and if I haven't missed it,
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: I want to go see it there instead. So that's two.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: Hold on, I'm killing him continuing to go. I saw
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: May December, so that's three. I saw that one, not
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: on Netflix where it's currently streaming. I saw that in
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: the movie theater. I saw Guardians the Galaxy Volume three.
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: Mm. Hmmm.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: That's four of them. Oh, Flame and Hot has a
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: song nominated. That's awesome. Uh. And then we get to
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: the shorts, which I haven't watched. So I've seen four.
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: I've seen two. Okay, I've seen Barbie, and I've seen
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: Indiana Jones and The Dumb of Destiny.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: Oh, I haven't watched that one yet. It wasn't good.
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: I am not going to say it was not good.
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: I am going to say I did not like it
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: at all, and I wish it hadn't been made.
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: I I was it better or worse than Crystal Skull,
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: I mean better than Crystal Skull, But then the fact
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: that I had high blood pressure and had to go
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: to the emergency room was better than Crystal Skull. Oh
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: my goodness. Uh wow, that's that puts Crystal Skull on
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: part with Sucker Punch.
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I have never subjected myself to Sucker Punch
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: because I know that would be that would be truly terrible.
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: No.
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: I didn't like Dial of Destiny. They made some choices
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: that I did not care for. I felt the story
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: was kind of stupid. I don't know, I just feel
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: like it. Also, it's so far disconnected from the pulpy
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: action feel of the first two films, in particular, the
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: third one I enjoy a lot, but I don't think
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: it's nearly as pulpy as the first two movies are.
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: And then after that everything just gets further and further away,
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: and I don't like it. They also make a choice
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: in dial of Destiny that regard regarding a character who
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: appeared in a previous film that I thought was really upsetting.
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: A Okay, so there you go.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: That's unfortunate among the many. So usually when the Oscar
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: noms come out, there's like a couple movies that I
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: want to see. There's a bunch this year that I
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: didn't see that I want to see. Yeah, and I
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: just I haven't had the bandwidth to go to the
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: movie theater as much, unless it's like I took my
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: niece to see I went to go see The Marvels
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: with my niece, right, But one of the ones that
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: I really wanted to see that everybody I know who's
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: seen it has loved is Godzilla Minus one, which is nominated,
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: and it's the first Oscar nomination for Godzilla in the
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: seventy years of Godzilla.
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Now, my question is if Godzilla wins the Academy Award.
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: Are they going to have the guts to plague that
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: monster off stage? If Godzilla takes longer than thirty seconds
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: to thank everybody, I.
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: Mean probably, I bet he's I bet he she. I don't.
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: I don't know in Godzilla minus one whether Godzilla is
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: a he or she, But I bet Godzilla. I bet
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: Godzilla is more like actually temperamented like Godzuki.
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and we should say that this nomination is in
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: the field of visual effects, and it's also it's also
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: good to note that Godzilla minus one had a budget
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: of around ten to fifteen million dollars, which I would
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: argue should send a message to all those Hollywood big
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: budget films that spending two hundred million dollars to make
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: your movie look like it was a PlayStation three game
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: is not necessarily the best use of money.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah. We we already knew that it was possible to
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: make a really great visually effective movie special effects and
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: VFX on a short budget because we had just strict
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: nine right that. Yeah, what's phenomenally done.
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, if you, if you, if you, if you use
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: great cinematography, amazing lighting, and great practical effects, you can
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: make a really really great movie, and then like you know,
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: you can still use visual effects when you need it,
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: but like that combination, like if you just get the
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: right people together and you're paying them properly, you can
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: make a really effective film, great visual storytelling, and it
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: doesn't look like garbage, like like someone playing a video game.
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: And I really wish more movies would take that into consideration,
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: because I'm so tired of going in and when it
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: comes to a big action scene, I just check out
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: because it doesn't look real at all anymore.
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree. We will link to an article about
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: this on our website. I will get it up this weekend.
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: The article we're linking to is on Vulture, and I
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: love how they ended their article, which is When reached
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: for comment about this, honor Godzilla said scree on.
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: Yes, I thought that was great too. That actually did
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: make me laugh when I got to that point, because
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: I didn't expect it.
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so you don't like you don't like awards, Jonathan,
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: No idea, you like not even the Razzies.
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: Especially not the Razzies. Actually same yeah, same, same, because
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: like no one sets out all right, I won't let
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: me not use the absolutes.
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: Shark Nado.
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: That's different. That was a film made by committee. It
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: was a total like cynical approach to filmmaking. But like
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: when you're actually trying to make a movie, ninety nine
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: percent of the time, you're not setting out to make
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: a bad movie. You're not setting out to make something
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: that is poorly made or poorly executed. That's not your goal.
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: You want to make something that is going to entertain people.
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: And I think holding stuff up for ridicule when it
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: doesn't deserve it really is just really crass and tacky.
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: So I don't I don't love the Razzies. Now, occasionally
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: the Razzies are there to hold up those instances where
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: maybe it's because of like studio interference, where this is
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: to say, hey, studios, stop messing with people when they're
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: making their movie because you're just making it worse and
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: you're hurting yourself down the line, or it's to call
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: out really bad behavior, right like if a director or
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: an actor or somebody is truly a bad person, Like
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: I don't, I think those need to be called out.
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: And if it's in the form of a razzie where
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: you're like still getting the message home, but you're doing
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: it in a way that's kind of entertaining. I guess
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: it's okay, but just to make fun of films, even
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: if they are quote unquote bad ones, I just don't
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: find that particularly cool or entertaining. I will say. In
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: the list of Razzies, just like with the Oscars, I
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: have seen precisely two of the movies that are among
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: all the different nominations.
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: Which two have you seen? Well?
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: Well, first of all, I mean list off what the
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: Worst Picture nominations are, just so folks know what movies
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: were warranted as the worst according to the Razzies. And
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: there was like almost twelve hundred people who voted on this.
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: So the Exorcist Believer expend Deforables, also expendables, four Meg
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: to the Trench, Shazam, Fury of the Gods, and Winnie
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: the Pooh, Blood and Honey. I haven't seen any of those,
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: so none of the ones that were nominated for Worst
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: Picture are among the ones I've seen.
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: I feel like, in the spirit in which it seems
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: like Winnie the Pooh, Blood and Honey was created, that
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: one deserves a spot.
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that feels like that's almost like a Sharknado thing, right,
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: Like it was clearly made because there was the opportunity
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: to take advantage of this ip. There was never an
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: intent to actually create anything of value beyond exploiting an IP.
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: So I agree with you that deserves its place. So
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: the two that I have seen is ant Man in
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: the Wasp, Quantum Mania. That one I saw I think
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: on a plane like, I didn't see it at the theater,
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: and the other one is Indiana Jones and The Dumb
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: of Destiny.
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: I've seen one one of these movies, and it was
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: it was. It was Quantum Mania, which I it wasn't like.
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't say it was a great movie. It certainly
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: wasn't at the top of I've talked about on the show.
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: It wasn't at the top of the marvels by any means.
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: But it was enjoyable popcorn movie. They did a couple
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: of things that I enjoyed.
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: I didn't. I did not find that much entertainment in it.
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: I would put it above The Eternals, which is the
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: worst one I've seen. I have not seen all the
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: MCU movies. There are a couple that I still haven't seen,
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: but The Eternals is probably the bottom of the barrel.
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: For me. And then I feel like things like make Too,
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: like that is a comedy, it's supposed it's not supposed
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: to be great cinema. It's supposed to be fun. I
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: feel like that one's not made by committee like Shark Nato,
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: but it is supposed to be tongue in cheek, So
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: I feel like, And my friends who enjoyed Meg one
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: really enjoyed the Meg two. So I feel like sometimes
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: it's it's it's weird to put a movie in that's
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: supposed to be funny and a little bit cheesy and
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: does it well?
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it does it well is the important part, right,
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: Because like the Sharknado movies argue that that's what they are,
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: but I've seen Sharknado. That is not what Sharknado is
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: because Sharknado is not effectively funny. It's just bad.
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And then and then some like you said, like
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: nominating actors and actresses as like the worst. These are
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: good actors and actresses. It's oftentimes not their fault if
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: their character falls flat.
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, could be the director, could be the editor. I mean,
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: there's lots of things that go into shaping a performance. Actually,
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: same thing you could argue for a great performance, right
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: like sometimes yeah, sometimes saying like best Actor and Actress.
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: This is another reason why I don't like awards. It's
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: it's it's not really fully honest, because an actor's performance
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: is a collaborative effort. Obviously, the actor needs to put
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: forth a very strong foundation, but directing and editing goes
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: so far into shaping that performance that it really is
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: a collaboration.
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, which is why I understand why a lot
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: of times, like in things like Oscars, I would assume,
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: you know, we get a lot more of the less
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: sparkly movies as nomination because there's less to hide flaws behind, right, Yeah,
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: it's a more straightforward production. My husband actually shared something
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: about this, like about editing, so he saw a clip
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: on social media about the Usual Suspects. I don't know
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: if you've seen this clip, but in the Usual Suspect
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: there's a lineup scene where everybody's supposed to say, hey,
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: give me your keys, and then they use a derogatory term,
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: which is not like impossible to say on our show,
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: but we try to keep it a little bit cleaner
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: than that, and in this lineup, when you watch it,
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: when you watch it in the movie, it's like a
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: game of make a different choice, right. Everybody says the
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: line a different way, and it's hilarious. Apparently, when they
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: were filming, they were all supposed to be nonplussed with
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: the police and deadpan, and they couldn't get their stuff together.
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: They kept cracking up and laughing, and at the end
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: of the day, the director's like, you guys aren't giving
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: me anything to work with, and that that made them
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: crack up even harder. So at the end of the
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: day they hadn't hit what the director wanted and he's like, fine,
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: we're done. We will figure it out, and it's a
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: brilliant scene.
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's all editing. The other part of that story
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: is that supposedly Benicio del Toro was breaking whend the
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: entire time. Yeah, that's and that's what was starting to
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: crack people up. Yeah, because I've seen I've seen various
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: actors talk about that scene and what was going on,
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: and about how the director was like beside himself. He
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: was so frustrated that they had spent all day trying
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: to just get this one scene and they he felt
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: like they didn't have it, and it turned out to
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: be one of the most memorable sequences, and like, when
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: you're talking about a sequence that creates an ensemble, that
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: was the one.
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I like the performances were great, but it
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: was also a lot of editing. You wouldn't have known
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: that it wasn't on purpose.
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you would have thought that that was exactly
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: how it was supposed to be. So that was, again,
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: again a show about how all of these different components
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: come together. Well, moving on, let's talk about some of
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: the stuff we have this This lineup's not quite as
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: organized as we usually do, but we've got some fun
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: stuff in the first up is the full trailer for
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: the Netflix series the live action remake of Avatar the
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: Last Airbender.
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it looks pretty accurate to Avatar the Last Airbender.
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: The effects look a billion times better than the M
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: Night Shyamalan version.
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: My friends when the trailer dropped her like, oh man,
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: this fixes all the ills of the M Night Shyamalan one.
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: And I was like, I know, I watched it, and
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: I know I didn't like it, But could I tell
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: you anything I didn't like about the movie?
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: Now? Yeah, I know that, I know, so I didn't
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: see that one. My wife did because she is a
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: huge fan of the of the animated series. I think
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: if I were to show her this trailer, she would
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: be far more enthusiastic about this adaptation because it does
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: look like it is much more true to the original series.
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: And like I said, like it just looks like it's
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: better made, not necessarily more expensive, although maybe it was.
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: Like it's a series, none of film, so obviously you
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: can't break it down. It's not apples to apples, but
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: it just looks like it it was made with more
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: reverence for the source material, and I'm glad that it
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: doesn't feel like they've tried to make it grittier or edgier. Right,
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: this feels like this is something like if I were
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: if I were ten years old, I would be so
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: on board. I would be excited about when this show launches.
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, same, I will say. I had a friend say,
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: don't get too excited because they're going to cancel it
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: after one season because a bunch of stuff that that
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: friend enjoys watching has been canceled off with Netflix, and
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: part of it is you know, cost versus intake, So
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: you know, if you like it, make sure you watch
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: it and make sure you finish it. I know I'm
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: notorious for watching a series and then getting distracted in
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: the last couple of episodes, but that really does play
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: into whether they keep a show for multiple seasons, is
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: whether people finish the season and whether they finish it
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: in a reasonably timely manner, probably like within the month
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: of it coming out. I don't know for sure, but
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: I think I think we've talked about that. I think
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: that was reported recently.
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: So, And there's also like, obviously if it if it
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: turns out that you don't like it because of whatever reason,
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: then that's legit. Like there's no shame for not liking something.
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: Like I know a lot of people who really really
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: wanted to love the Cowboy Bebop live action remake and
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: then just felt that it wasn't what they were hoping for,
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: and as much as they loved the visuals and the
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: music and everything, they did not connect with the series.
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: So when that was not not, you know, renewed for
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: another season, they were like, it's a shame, but it
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: wasn't what I wanted, So I'm not broken up about it.
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I'm not saying to watch it if you
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: don't enjoy it, but if you do enjoy it and
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: you want a second season, make sure you finish the
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: first season. Yes, it's gonna hurt the metrics and and
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: like some of that is like how much it costs
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: to make the show. But like One Piece got a
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: second season and that has a lot of special effects too.
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: So yeah, so Stranger Things has a lot of special
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: effects too. So it's not just because it's an expensive
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: show to make.
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: Wait what I could have sworn the demo? Gorgon lived
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: right down the street from me.
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: I mean they did film it in Georgia, but yeah,
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: it's true. Maybe do you hate one of your neighbors
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: that much?
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: Do I hate one about one?
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: Oh no, hey, let's move on.
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: Erry, I live near a hippie commune. Okay, so.
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: Don't. I don't want to get you all stressed.
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: There's a drum circle that meets regularly in my neighborhood.
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: Oh goodness, sorry.
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: No, no, those actually the hippies are all They're all fine.
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: It's the it's all the townies over at the Pullman
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: train yard that drive me nuts anyway, because the man
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: I still don't know what pickleball is, but I refuse
• 51:18
  Speaker 2: to learn anyway.
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: It's like Badminton.
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: Something I don't think I'm ever gonna bother learning. The
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: day I learn, I'm gonna be sad because it probably
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: means I'm gonna play it. But next up, So it's
• 51:33
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty four in case you didn't know, some days
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: I don't. And part of what happened in twenty twenty
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: four is Steamboat Willie. The original Mickey Mouse cartoon finally
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: went into the public domain because it's copyright finally expired. Now,
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: to be clear, Mickey Mouse is not in the public
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: domain Steamboat Willie, So the Steamboat Willie version of Mickey
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: Mouse is in public domain, but any other version of
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: Mickey Mouse is still under copyright. So it's kind of
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: like a rolling copyright for Mickey Mouse as different eras
• 52:14
  Speaker 2: come up than hill in her public domain. But obviously,
• 52:18
  Speaker 2: just like with Winnie the Pooh, the fact that there
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: was the opportunity to take advantage of this ip that
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: is now in the public domain meant that it was
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: only a matter of time and not a long one
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: before someone did it. And thus we have a teaser
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: for the return of Steamboat Willie, which is a movie, right, yeah,
• 52:38
  Speaker 2: and it's made in the unreal engine, so it's a
• 52:40
  Speaker 2: computer generated film, and the trailer gives you no information
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: whatsoever other than the fact that this is a horror
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: take on Steamboat Willie and that's it. Like there's literally
• 52:56
  Speaker 2: no other info about what the story could be, or
• 53:00
  Speaker 2: if there even is one.
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the beginning of the trailer is very nice and pretty,
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, this is nice, and it
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: doesn't stay that way. I will say, the beginning of
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: the trailer looks almost realistic, and then the end of
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: the trailer looks very much like I've stepped into a
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: video game.
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but there also have been a couple of video games,
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: and I can't remember offhand because it's not in our
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: show notes because it's older news that like as soon
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: as Steamboat Wally went into the public domain, they dropped
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: that character into their video game like they were just.
• 53:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, because I mean, well, I mean when you
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: think about iconic characters who have incredible value from an
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: IP perspective, and also the fact that a lot of
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: people look at the Walt Disney Company as a company
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: that has a chip on its shoulder, because that company,
• 53:49
  Speaker 2: more than any other, has been responsible for extending copyright
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: protection in the United States, Like they have lobbied so
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: hard to get copyright launch changed over and over again
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: that I think a lot of people are One, they're like,
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: I want to be able to tap into this incredibly
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: valuable character and exploit it so that I can make money.
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: And two, man, I really want to stick it to
• 54:13
  Speaker 2: Disney because they have worked so hard to make it
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: impossible to take advantage of created characters by making copyright
• 54:25
  Speaker 2: last so freaking long. So yeah, I get it, But
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: it doesn't mean that the stuff they make is good.
• 54:32
  Speaker 2: It doesn't mean that it's bad necessarily, but it's way
• 54:35
  Speaker 2: easier to make bad stuff than it is to make
• 54:37
  Speaker 2: good stuff.
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Hey, speaking of bad we got a trailer for
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: the final season of The Bad Batch by Disney.
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yep. I watched the trailer and I can't tell
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: you what the heck is. I haven't watched Bad Batch,
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: Like I haven't watched any of the Star Wars animated stuff,
• 54:55
  Speaker 2: so I haven't watched Clone Wars or any of that.
• 54:57
  Speaker 2: So I watched it and I was like, don't know
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: what's going on, don't know who these characters are, don't
• 55:02
  Speaker 2: know what the steaks are None of this matters to me.
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: It sounds like Wanda Sykes was a voice in it. Yes,
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: that's what I can tell you.
• 55:11
  Speaker 2: Apparently Wanda Sykes was piloting a ship at one point.
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I haven't watched Bad Thatch. I've heard good things
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: about it. Yeah, I think what is it? Four seasons
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: now is a fine run. Yeah, three or four seasons
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: is a fine run for a cartoon. Not everything needs
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: to be forever years long. So yeah, if you like it.
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: That trailers out if you haven't seen it already. Next
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: trailer is for something I hadn't heard about it at all.
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: It's called Constellation. It's gonna be a series on Apple TV,
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: and it's like a space thriller mind Vendor, and it
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: looks really fun. Yeah fun is that the right word?
• 55:53
  Speaker 2: It looks it looks like it would be gripping and entertaining,
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: but in like that thrilling way. Yeah. I think of
• 56:00
  Speaker 2: it as like gravity mixed with Jordan peels Us right likes.
• 56:09
  Speaker 2: It starts with a woman who is aboard the space station.
• 56:13
  Speaker 2: There's a a catastrophic accident. She uses an ejection pod
• 56:21
  Speaker 2: escape pod essentially to get back to Earth. When she
• 56:24
  Speaker 2: gets back to Earth. She returns to her family, but
• 56:27
  Speaker 2: things are not the way she left them, and there's
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: a question of like, is there some sort of parallel
• 56:36
  Speaker 2: universe thing going on? Is this a multiverse kind of film?
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: We don't have any answers to any of this, but
• 56:43
  Speaker 2: obviously things are not the way she expects them to be,
• 56:48
  Speaker 2: and that's where the tension comes from.
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because other characters notice it too. I'm interested in that.
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: I will probably watch it. Yeah, it doesn't look like gory,
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: so I'll probably watch its.
• 57:02
  Speaker 2: Sense and Mike from Breaking Bad isn't any plays of
• 57:06
  Speaker 2: a scientist And I am excited to see that.
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: Yes, me too, Me too. You know I love that actor.
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: I loved him in bucker U Bonsai. I loved him
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: in Breaking Bad and better call Saul.
• 57:17
  Speaker 2: The fact that you called him out from Buckerup bonds
• 57:20
  Speaker 2: I impresses the heck out of me because he had
• 57:21
  Speaker 2: hair back then.
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: Look, I watched Buckero Bonsi for some reason. Maybe it
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: was that like a bad movie night after I watched
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: Breaking Bad, so it was easier to recognize in that way.
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: And I watch every movie. I watch every movie in
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: that way of like where do I know them? From
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: and it's just it's a hard thing to turn off, sure,
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: because I like comparing performances, just like I like comparing
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: Anthony Ramos's performance in Transformers to his new performance in
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: Bob the Builder.
• 58:01
  Speaker 2: The fact that you put this into our lineup, I
• 58:03
  Speaker 2: was like, I'm just gonna let Ariel talk about Bob
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  Speaker 2: the Builder because I literally have no connection to this
• 58:11
  Speaker 2: material whatsoever. The fact that you used to work with
• 58:13
  Speaker 2: kids tells me that maybe you do, but I don't.
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  Speaker 1: Bob the Builder, Yeah, Bob the Builder is a show
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: for little kids. It's like a Nick Junior show, and
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: it's all about, you know, kids like construction. A lot
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: of kids like construction, so that's kind of what it's about.
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: And it teaches good values. And they're making a movie
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: about it. Jennifer Lopez's company is producing it, and Anthony
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: Ramos is like the main voice. And it's a story
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: about Bob the Builder goes to Puerto Rico. It starts building,
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: but then it has like some bad effects and so
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: he learns a lot more about the country he's in
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: and how to how to build and make things better.
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: So I think it'll it sounds like it'll be a
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: really good story in being like ecologically and locationally aware.
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: This is not the right terms, but that's what came.
• 59:02
  Speaker 2: To my brain. Yeah, regionally sensitive.
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: Maybe that's correct. That's that's it, Jonathan. You are as
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: always much smarter than I.
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  Speaker 2: It's because I didn't waste my time watching Bob the Builder.
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: Look, the amount of things that I have watched passively
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: while making coloring pages for my students is a lot.
• 59:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, listen, No, I don't actually have any
• 59:33
  Speaker 2: gripe against Bob the Builder. I don't think that Bob
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: the Builder is bad or anything like that. And I
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: like things that have messages and can help teach values
• 59:43
  Speaker 2: and concepts to kids. I like all of that. So
• 59:46
  Speaker 2: as much as I'm joking about Bob the Builder, it's
• 59:48
  Speaker 2: literally only because I'm too old for it to be
• 59:53
  Speaker 2: relevant to me in any way. And so that's kind
• 59:57
  Speaker 2: of why I just stayed out of it, because it's
• 59:58
  Speaker 2: like I don't have so I never watch it. It
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 2: was not a thing when I was a kid because
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 2: television had only just been invented. So you know, you're
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 2: not that old, Jonathan.
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: Television was invented way before you were born. It's true,
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: way before you were born.
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  Speaker 2: Well, here's the thing though, here's the thing about Bob
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 2: the Builder is that I would love I would love
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 2: to see the connective tissue between Bob the Builder and
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 2: our next story, which is the remake, the remake of
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 2: the classic action movie Roadhouse. And if Bob the Builder
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 2: showed up in Roadhouse, I would watch all of Bob
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 2: the Builder.
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: Maybe Bob, Maybe Bob the Builder built the Roadhouse.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 2: That's possible. Yeah. So so for those who somehow are cultural,
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 2: culturally ignorant of the masterpiece that is Roadhouse. It was
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 2: a Patrick Swayze vehicle rough the nineties where we learned
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 2: that pain don't hurt. That was the valuable lesson of Roadhouse. Yeah,
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 2: where Patrick swayzey plays a stoic man's man of a
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 2: bouncer for a really rough and reality bar and then
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 2: gets embroiled in local politics slash business dealings with that
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 2: involve a corrupt business owner and hilarity ensues and it's y'all,
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 2: it's terrible. Roadhouse is a bad movie. It is schlocky.
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 2: It's entertaining, especially if you like action movies and people
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 2: slug in each other, but it's not good.
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: No, However, the new trailer. The trailer for the new
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: Roadhouse looks kind of good.
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I agree. I watched this trailer and I
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 2: was like, this is the way remakes should happen, right, Like,
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 2: if you're going to remake a movie, remake it where
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 2: it's different enough, where you have an opportunity to tell
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 2: the story in a really good way, potentially in a
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 2: way that's even more effective than the original. And I
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 2: haven't seen the film, but based upon the trailer, it
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 2: feels like that's the direction they win in, and I
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 2: sure hope they achieved it.
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Jake Jillenhall is a UFC fighter who gets into
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: some fights and then gets like conscripted to help at
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: a roadhouse that's been having some like bad clientele in Miami.
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 2: So actually I think it's the Keys. I think it's
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 2: in the Keys, not in.
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: Miamis, Okay, yes, in the Florida Keys. So you know,
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: a slight a similar story. Who knows if it's like
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: I can't tell if it's similar enough to be called Roadhouse.
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 2: I think it is. I mean, like it's the same
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 2: basic plot because again there's like a local businessman who's
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 2: it's like, you're what's crazy is that this is a
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 2: plot from the nineteen eighties, y'all. The plot from the
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 2: nineteen eighties is business big wig wants to have some
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 2: property owned by a scrappy small business owner. That's the
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 2: business big wig who's the main bad guy. That's their goal,
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 2: and they will stop at nothing to get hold of
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 2: that property. This is the basis of like endless nineteen
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 2: eighties action in comedy films, Like there's like Ski Lodge movies.
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 2: There are one Crazy Summer has this plot, Like there's
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 2: endless plots that fall where evil developer wants land.
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure the plot goes even further back than that.
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: I just can't name any movies, but.
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 2: It's just it's funny to me to see a movie
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 2: in the year of our Barbie four where it's that
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 2: plot brought back, and I'm like, is this because Generation
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 2: X is now reaching into their elderly years? Like, maybe
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 2: that's why this is happening. Not that I'm complaining, I'm
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 2: just asking questions.
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: Because retro things are popular again. So no, it's the
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: gen Z who discovered roadhouse, but only through tiktoks and memes.
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I'm surprised that they're able to watch anything
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 2: longer than a minute and a half. That's an old
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 2: man apparently Dutch alfa. But yeah, I watched this trailer
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 2: and I was determined to think like, oh, this is
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 2: gonna be terrible or whatever, But y'all, it kind of
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 2: looks like a fun like not a not again, not
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 2: a heavy one, not a not a thoughtful movie, but
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 2: like a fun action film, like when you have one
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 2: of the guys get his butt kicked by the good
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 2: guy to the point where his arm is broken. But
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 2: then he's like the rest of the trailer, he's like,
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 2: he seems like a pretty good guy, Like he's guys
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 2: arm in a cast and he's talking about the bouncer.
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 2: He's like, yeah, he seems like he's really got it together. Like, Okay,
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 2: I kind of need to see this.
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it looks like there's a good amount of like
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 1: humor and lightheartedness in it. Yeah, which is my favorite, Like,
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: that's my sweet spot for Jake Gillenhall movies is anything
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: where he gets to be funny, even a little funny,
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: to a lot of funny, like the Lunch Bunch Gang,
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: Lunch Set whatever. He's hilarious in that.
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 2: Well, he's great in in his behind the scenes interviews
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 2: and stuff too, like when he was doing press for
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 2: a Spider Man like his interviews along with Tom Holland
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 2: were some of the some of the most entertaining that
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 2: were out that year.
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I agree, I really enjoyed his I didn't
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: watch a whole lot of his interviews, but I did
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 1: see the Hot Ones one and that.
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 2: Was something less delightful. Yes, involves layoffs. So Microsoft finally
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 2: was able to secure its acquisition of Activision Blizzard, which
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 2: was something that took more than a year to complete.
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 2: But in the wake of that, it's not like it's
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 2: necessarily a surprise, because usually when you have big acquisitions,
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 2: you get a round of layoffs that follow as the
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 2: two organizations start to determine where there might be overlap.
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 2: But that's what we're starting to see, both on Microsoft
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 2: side and on Blizzard side. Now we specifically have a
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 2: story about Blizzard, but Microsoft likewise is doing layoffs in
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 2: their Xbox division in order to consolidate these two groups.
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 2: But yeah, we have a story here about Blizzard not
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 2: just laying off some folks, but also canceling games.
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there was an untitled survival game. It was code
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: named Odyssey that they had been working on for quite
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: a while. Apparently like it had development issues. They had
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: changed to an internal engine that made it more difficult
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: to develop, and like there's even rumors that it was
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: really just a vehicle to get new developers in, like
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: it was a recruitment tool. But it had positive reviews
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: from everybody who was able to kind of like poke
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: around in it. So it's it's sad that it's not happening,
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: and probably sadder for the people who came on board
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: to work on the project and then either had that
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: project canceled or got fired.
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I mean, obviously getting fired would be the
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 2: saddest of the various outcomes, because you know, hopefully if
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 2: they were not let go, then they can be pourted
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 2: over to another project, maybe one that they can have
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 2: some ownership of or at least feel like they've contributed
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 2: to and create something really great. We have been in
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 2: a kind of a beauty full time for games in general,
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 2: and that a lot of really really good games have
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 2: come out over the last year or so. There have
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 2: been a few clunkers too. Not everything has been perfect,
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 2: But my hope is that we see that continue on
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 2: throughout twenty twenty four and beyond, and that I hope
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 2: this acquisition, this merger will lead to some really great
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 2: creativity as the teams merge together. You always want, you
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 2: always want for the best, and you want any negative
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 2: impact to be as small as possible.
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I will. I will fully admit that I
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: haven't been following video games this past year, but apparently
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: I should.
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 2: Balder's Gate three areel You Gotta, You Gotta. I.
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: I ask for that for Christmas, and my loving husband
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 1: was going to get it for me, but we have
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: to figure out which game console we want to upgrade
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: for me to play it, because I'll probably want to
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 1: play it my lat my gaming lot. My gaming computer
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 1: is also not it's old. Yeah, so I have to
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: upgrade one of my devices that I can play Boulder
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: Skate three you on because it doesn't play on the
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: one and it doesn't play on the PS four.
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't know if I would want to play
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 2: it on console, because I mean, but I haven't used
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 2: the user interface for console. I'm very used to the
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 2: computer one and that to me works really well. But
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 2: the the character creation, the story, I haven't even like
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 2: I've been playing that game so slowly because it's so
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 2: good that I don't want it to be over.
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm sure, and we are. We are going
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: to upgrade our systems. It's just like there haven't we
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 1: haven't had a lot of time to game in my
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 1: house in the past couple of years. And there also
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: haven't been a huge amount of games that like have
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: super appealed to us. My husband's getting back into it
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: now because we're remembering, hey, this is a good way
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 1: to like be active in your downtime, like mentally active. Yeah,
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: as opposed to just sitting watching the television.
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 1: I've started playing Skyrim again on the Xbox three sixty
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 1: that we have upstairs. That's no longer supported, but it's upstairs,
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 1: so and that's fun because I got Skyrim at a
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 1: time where I hadn't played a lot of console games,
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: and so an open sandbox world was really difficult for me.
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: I'll say the interface is still a little difficult because
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 1: there's not like a good way to find all of
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 1: your quests once you're given them, other than just explore
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 1: this giant city. But it's fun. But yeah, I do
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 1: want to play Boulder Skate three that is on my list.
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: There are a couple other ones too. Tony just finished
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 1: up Data of War two and that was a lot
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: of fun.
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 2: So yeah, I want to say the gosh, what was
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 2: it called. It's not it's it's the I'm like, I'm looking.
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 2: I'm looking it up now to see if I can
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 2: find it, but like it's whatever. The Kuza series has
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 2: changed it's name too, Like the latest one just came
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 2: out that everything I hear about that sounds like it's
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 2: an absolute blast to play, and that's the one that
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 2: I want to tackle next. Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth,
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 2: that's the name of the game. I want to play
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 2: that when it's apparently you play a real dufis who
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 2: goes from Japan to Hawaii and it has all sorts
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 2: of really silly mini games and stuff, and everything I've
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 2: seen about it just makes it look really appealing. So
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 2: that's like, after Balder's Gate, that's probably the next one
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 2: I want to tackle. Anyway. All that aside, our hearts
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 2: go out to all the people who have been affected
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 2: by the layoffs over at Microsoft and Blizzard, and I
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 2: hope that they are able to find gainful employment at
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 2: o their studios really soon.
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: All right, the next thing, this is going to be
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: really quick, but I just wanted to because we talked
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: about Priorly, there were talks about how to Train Your
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 1: Dragon Live action movie being in development and the struggles
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: about making those dragons look real between you know, digital
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: effects and practical effects and creature technology. On TikTok released
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 1: some videos of them making like these animatronic versions of
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: the dragons from How to Train Your Dragon, And now
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: I'm completely on board with How to Train Your Dragon
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 1: Live action movie, Like, does the story need to be
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 1: retold in live action? No, but I think visually it
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 1: can be done.
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah. The TikTok's very impressive, especially when you realize that
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 2: that footage is like a decade old. They made those
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 2: for a stage show, a traveling stage show, for like
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 2: a decade ago, and the animatronics are enormous. Many of
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 2: them are capable of moving across vast distances of stages,
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 2: like they're not just stationary. I'm used to seeing animatronics
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 2: that are rooted in place, right like, they don't they
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 2: don't move, so you have to work around that. Well,
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 2: these a lot of them have the capability of moving
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 2: like across an entire stage and they're huge and beautifully designed.
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah that TikTok it's real short, but it's incredibly impressive
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 2: and it'll be in our show notes.
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they do a lot of stuff that's incredibly impressive. Okay,
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 1: we get a few more stories. We got to kind
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 1: of rush through them at this point because I am
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 1: running out of time. The next is that Disney has
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 1: introduced their new hollow tile floor, which everybody's like it's
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 1: the closest thing to the Hollow deck and I was like, oh, great,
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 1: like images projected, but no, it's a really cool floor
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 1: that we'll do everything it can to bring you back
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 1: to a certain spot on the floor no matter where
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 1: you move.
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah. The idea being that the floor is made up
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 2: of these hexagonal tiles. Each one is essentially an omnidirectional treadmill.
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 2: And imagine that you're standing in the center of a
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 2: room and you take a step forward, and take another
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 2: step forward, and take another step forward, but you're not
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 2: actually moving forward with regard to the rest of the room.
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 2: You could use this in something like virtual reality settings
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 2: where you've got a headset on and so you can
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 2: feel like you're actually moving through a virtual space. But
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 2: you can also use it to move objects around on
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 2: the floor, Like you could put a solid object on
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 2: one part of the floor and have it through these tiles,
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 2: zoom across, or change directions. Like they said, you could
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 2: use it in like a Star Wars type of feature
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 2: where you're using the force and you're moving your hand around,
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 2: and by moving your hand around, you're guiding an object
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 2: to move around the physical space, which does sound really cool.
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 2: So they've got a lot of ideas of uses beyond
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 2: virtual reality to things like stagecraft and stuff. It's really neat.
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 2: I would love to learn more about how it works,
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 2: but really they just showed it off while they were
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 2: inducting a Disney imagineer into the Inventor Hall of Fame,
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 2: which was pretty awesome.
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Also, I feel like watching that person walk on
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 1: it and then like you can have multiple people on
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 1: the floor at the same time. The way that I walk,
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 1: I would get to the end of the room before
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 1: it could bring me back to the center.
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah. It's clearly still in a prototype phase right, Like,
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 2: it's not designed. It's not designed yet to be able
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 2: to handle person walking at a real stride at a
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 2: real pace, so it's like everyone's doing like you can
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 2: either think of it as toddler steps or old person
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 2: steps where you're going pretty slow and making pretty short
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 2: steps in order for it to compensate. But that makes
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 2: sense because it's new technology, and plus it's I'm sure
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 2: it's going to be super challenging to make it so
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 2: that you could walk at a regular pace or even
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 2: maybe run without potentially catapulting the person across the room
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 2: and slamming them into a wall.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's very cool. We'll also have a link
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  Speaker 1: to that article and video in our show notes at
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  Speaker 1: largener john collider dot com. We have two more quick trailers,
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  Speaker 1: and the first one is a Dev Patel and Jordan
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  Speaker 1: Peel collaboration called monkey Man. At first I was confused.
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was another season of Hit Monkey. It
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  Speaker 1: is not at all.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, this is like a revenge action film where
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  Speaker 2: you've got like the beaten down, downtrodden character who's trying
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  Speaker 2: his best to right wrongs. And it's an action film,
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  Speaker 2: a fighting film, And y'all, the trailer looks real good
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 2: if you like action movies, Like, if you like fighting films,
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  Speaker 2: I think this looks like pretty pretty spectacular.
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  Speaker 1: It's like if they cast Dev Batel as John Wick
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  Speaker 1: but then put him into like a UFC movie.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I think this one looks really entertaining. I
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  Speaker 2: definitely want to check it out. And then our final one,
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  Speaker 2: of course, I couldn't let it go. I couldn't. I
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  Speaker 2: could not do this. No, I couldn't.
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  Speaker 1: I said, I wasn't going to demonish you. But you
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  Speaker 1: could have let it go. You could have put this
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  Speaker 1: anywhere else in the lineup and ended on a happy
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  Speaker 1: monkey Man.
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  Speaker 2: Listen, listen, skeptic monkey Man will make you believe. If
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  Speaker 2: you know what that reference is, make sure you shout
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  Speaker 2: out to us, because if you know what monkey Man
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 2: will Make You Believe comes from, I'm really impressed. But
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  Speaker 2: our last trailer is for of course, as his tradition
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 2: on large NERD drunk Collider, a horror movie tradition I established,
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  Speaker 2: and it's called stop I Love You.
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  Speaker 1: I hate this. Yes, it's The opening scene is a
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  Speaker 1: woman laying in bed and it looks like she can't move,
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  Speaker 1: so it looks like it's sleep paralysis, which I get.
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  Speaker 1: And it's really disturbing because then a little creature comes
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  Speaker 1: in to mess with her and I hate it. I
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  Speaker 1: hate it so much.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So the trailer shows that the main one of
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  Speaker 2: the at least one of the main characters, is a
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  Speaker 2: woman who makes stop motion animated features and the figure
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 2: she makes are pretty grotesque, and she's working on a project.
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  Speaker 2: And then this little girl comes in and decides that
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  Speaker 2: she thinks the story that the woman's trying to tell
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  Speaker 2: is boring and tells her a terrible, horrifying, scary horror story.
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 2: And then the puppets seem to be having a mind
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 2: of their own. But is it in her mind? Is
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 2: it really happening? Is it supernatural? Who knows? But it's creepy.
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 1: It's creepy. Why is her daughter so creepy?
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  Speaker 2: Is that her daughter? I just thought it was a
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 2: little girl.
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  Speaker 1: I assumed it was her daughter. But it could be
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  Speaker 1: just a little girl. It could be the little girl
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 1: in the story that she tells, although they don't look alike. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: this passes my threshold of horror that I'm comfortable with.
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  Speaker 1: But if you like it, enjoy the movie.
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  Speaker 2: No, this, this looks this looks really interesting to me,
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  Speaker 2: Like it intrigues me. My worry is that it's going
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 2: to be one of those things where the trailer makes
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 2: it seem like it's one kind of movie, and then
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 2: when you see the film, it's a different kind. Not
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 2: that the different kind is necessarily worse or anything, but
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 2: sometimes that feels like, Oh, you didn't know how to
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 2: market this movie, so you ended up creating a trailer
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 2: that's misleading. Hopefully that's not the case here, because I
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 2: think the story they seem to be hinting at in
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 2: the trailer is one I want to hear.
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 1: Cool. You'll have to You'll have to let us know
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 1: what you think when you watch it.
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 2: Will I'm not, I'm not.
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 1: I know better that one? That one I know better.
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 1: There are certain things that I'm told Ariel do not.
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 1: That's one of them. That night swim. Well, that brings
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 1: us to the end of our very long show. We
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 1: will try to make our shows a little bit more
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 1: personal sized pizzas in the future, but we just had
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 1: so much to catch up on. Thank you for all
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 1: of your patients in our hiatus and for listening. And Jonathan,
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 1: if they want to talk to us about any of
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 1: the myriad of things that we've discussed today, how can
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 1: they reach out.
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 2: Well, you're going to make your way down to the
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 2: local hospital, and when you get there, you're going to
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 2: go into the actual gift shop of the hospital. And
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 2: when you walk into there, you're going to see lots
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 2: of just weird stuff that you just wouldn't associate as
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 2: a gift shop. I mean, they're going to have things
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 2: like flowers and stuff like that, but you're gonna see
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 2: like aprons. Who needs an apron when you're in the hospital,
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 2: But you're going to walk up to those aprons, and
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 2: when you look behind the third apron hanging from there,
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 2: you're going to see a weird little Christmas ornament and
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 2: it's going to be the figure of a badly burned doll.
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 2: And this badly burned doll is going to slowly turn
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 2: its head and look at you. And when you look
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 2: into its eyes, you're going to feel yourself as if
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 2: you're falling forward, toppling head over heels, falling into a
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 2: deep void that exists behind this doll's lifeless eyes, and
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 2: you'll hear the sound around you kind of become muffled
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 2: and dull, like something heavy is sitting on either of
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 2: your ears, and you'll start to feel like it's hard
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 2: to breathe, like the air has grown really thick and humid,
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 2: And just as you're starting to panic, as you can
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 2: feel your heart beating so fast it's going to burst
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 2: out of your chest, You're going to fall through a
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 2: sheet of ice, and on the other side of it,
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 2: you will be in a featureless world standing there, and
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 2: in front of you will be me, and I'll be
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 2: trying to take these frickin' EKG stickers off my chest
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 2: and I'll be screaming a lot because it's pulling all
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 2: the hair off my body. And I'll say, yeah, what
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 2: do you want? And you can ask me your question.
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 1: Just use baby oil. That's what they use on television
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 1: to get tape off of hairy bodies. Yeah. If if
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 1: you need a different way to reach us, I don't
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 1: even I don't even know. If you just need a
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 1: different way to reach us, you can reach out to
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 1: us on social media. Let's see if I can remember these.
• 1:22:37
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• 1:22:40
  Speaker 1: it's called x now. And on threads and Instagram and
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 1: Facebook we are a large neur drunk collider. Uh, And
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 1: then also on Discord we're a large neur drunk collider.
• 1:22:52
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  Speaker 1: join the discord and talk about the things that you
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 1: watch and enjoy and get conversations going. We've had a
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 1: couple about like Doctor Who and some other stuff and
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 1: if you want to email us, we are a large
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 1: nerdron pod at gmail dot com. And I think that's it.
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 1: We do have a blue sky, but I'm really not
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 1: on there, so until next time. Yes, that's what goes next.
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