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The Made Up Adventures of the LNC · Large Nerdron Collider

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  Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Welcome to the Larger or Drunk Collider, the
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  Speaker 1: podcast that's all about the geeky things happening in the
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  Speaker 1: world around us and how very excited we are about them.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Ariel Castin, and with me, as always, is the
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  Speaker 1: ever awesome Jonathan Strickland.
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  Speaker 2: My dogs are barking.
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  Speaker 1: Your dog is barking, that's true.
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  Speaker 2: My dog is barking, like he started barking just as
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  Speaker 2: we hit record. So we may have some Tiblet input
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  Speaker 2: in this episode.
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  Speaker 1: Well that's you know, I always appreciate Tibblet's opinion.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, he's got some very strong opinions about
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  Speaker 2: some of these stories that we're going to be covering today.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I guess, I guess I just have a
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  Speaker 2: dog who's really tapped into geek culture.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it makes sense. It makes sense because you're tapped
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  Speaker 1: into geek.
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  Speaker 2: Culture more or less.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes sometimes animals, you know, animals resemble their owners or
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  Speaker 1: vice versa.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, so, as always, we figured we'd start off
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  Speaker 2: by chatting a little bit about stuff that we have,
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  Speaker 2: you know, kind of experienced in the geek sphere over
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  Speaker 2: the last week. Uh, you want me to go first,
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  Speaker 2: You want to go first, Ariel, you can go first,
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  Speaker 2: I can go first. Okay. So I binged Mister and
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  Speaker 2: Missus Smith the series on Amazon. I saw that it
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  Speaker 2: was on I was like, I'll check this out, and
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  Speaker 2: I watched the whole thing, and I don't know if
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  Speaker 2: I liked it.
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  Speaker 1: See usually when you say I binge something and I
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  Speaker 1: watched the whole thing over a week, it means that
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  Speaker 1: you loved it and you couldn't put it down.
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  Speaker 2: I found it really interesting, but it's so it's, first
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  Speaker 2: of all, it's hard to kind of categorize Mister and Missus.
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  Speaker 2: It's certainly got comedic elements to it. It's got like
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  Speaker 2: a lot of comedy woven in there, but it's kind
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  Speaker 2: of like sly ry comedy, not the kind of comedy
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  Speaker 2: that makes you laugh out loud most of the time.
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  Speaker 2: There's a couple of moments in a couple of episodes,
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  Speaker 2: sometimes provided by a guest star like John Taturo or
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  Speaker 2: Ron Pearlman. They did moments that made me kind of
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  Speaker 2: actually chuckle, but otherwise it tended to be kind of
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  Speaker 2: a treatment on the pitfalls of relationships. Right because the
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  Speaker 2: whole premise of Mister and Missus Smith, the series, if
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  Speaker 2: you're not familiar, is that these two people have both
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  Speaker 2: interviewed with this mysterious company that operates essentially a spy service,
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  Speaker 2: and each of them gets hired to become a spy.
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  Speaker 2: And then they're paired together without ever having met each
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  Speaker 2: other before, and they're they're given the aliases John and
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  Speaker 2: Jane Smith. And the premise of the series as it
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  Speaker 2: goes on is that these two people who had no
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  Speaker 2: previous connection start to make a connection with one another
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  Speaker 2: while also trying to fulfill these various jobs that they're
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  Speaker 2: given by the agency. And it's entertaining, but it gets
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  Speaker 2: super dark when it starts treating like the relationship issues,
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  Speaker 2: because these are two people who are already kind of
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  Speaker 2: messed up in their own ways, like the Jane has
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  Speaker 2: got sociopathic tendencies and John is sort of an arrested
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  Speaker 2: development in a way. He's a mama's boy.
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  Speaker 1: If he was an arrested development, that would be a
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  Speaker 1: much funnier show. Yeah it was.
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  Speaker 2: It was not like that. So anyway, I watched the
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  Speaker 2: whole series. It ends on sort of a cliffhanger, like
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  Speaker 2: no spoilers, but it ends in such a way where
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  Speaker 2: you question whether there could be a season two. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: there will be, but they're gonna have some splaining to do,
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  Speaker 2: and I've got a terrible feeling that if they do
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  Speaker 2: a season two has almost to kind of screw you
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  Speaker 2: to the audience. They won't explain anything, or at least
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  Speaker 2: but we'll see. Yeah. So, like, did you ever watch
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  Speaker 2: Sherlock Ariel the Benedict Cumberbatch. Yeah, so you might remember
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  Speaker 2: in Sherlock there's obviously the reference to Reichenbach Falls, where
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  Speaker 2: Sherlock falls off a building and appears to die, and
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  Speaker 2: then the next season he comes back and everyone thinks
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  Speaker 2: they have an explanation for how he survived, but at
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  Speaker 2: the end of that episode, you still don't have an
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  Speaker 2: actual answer as to how he survived. That's what I'm
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  Speaker 2: afraid they're going to do with mister and Missus Smith
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  Speaker 2: begets a second season. Anyway, I watched that. I also
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  Speaker 2: watched the most recent episode of night Court, which, as
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  Speaker 2: we know, has the actor who played Raj in The
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  Speaker 2: Big Bang Theory. He was a guest star on that episode.
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  Speaker 2: I would say it's one of the stronger episodes of
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  Speaker 2: night Court that I've seen. Still feels like a sitcom
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  Speaker 2: out of time. It still feels like it belongs well
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  Speaker 2: into the early nineties, but it was I think a
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  Speaker 2: better episode than a lot of the other ones. And
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  Speaker 2: I finally watched the horror comedy film Freaky, which is
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  Speaker 2: the play off of like Freaky Friday, it was originally
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  Speaker 2: called Freaky Friday the Thirteenth, where a high school young
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  Speaker 2: woman and an aging serial killer swap bodies. Vince Vaughan
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  Speaker 2: plays the aging series Real Killer. I gotta say, pretty entertaining,
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  Speaker 2: directed by the same guy who directed the Happy Death
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  Speaker 2: Day movies, and of course we've heard rumors of their
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  Speaker 2: potentially being a Happy Death Day Freaky crossover in the future,
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  Speaker 2: which would just be like so much meta it would
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  Speaker 2: melt my brain. Anyway, that was what I experienced this week.
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  Speaker 2: Still haven't watched a second episode of True Detective season four.
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  Speaker 2: Still haven't gotten there yet.
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  Speaker 1: So I also watched Night Court. I am not caught up,
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  Speaker 1: but I did watch the episode with Knell and I
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  Speaker 1: are guest starring in it, and I agree with you,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like a lot of the jokes landed better
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  Speaker 1: they felt. Some of the jokes felt very forced and
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  Speaker 1: some felt very natural, And once it felt natural, I
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  Speaker 1: laughed a lot, and Canell Nyer is a great actor,
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  Speaker 1: and Melissa, I think is yeah, is a great actress.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like the fault in the show, it does
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  Speaker 1: feel out of time, and I feel like part of
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  Speaker 1: it is like their characters oftentimes are unbelievable as human beings.
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  Speaker 1: Like Kanell Nyer's character, Raja's character. He played it very well,
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  Speaker 1: but it was he played a fashion designer during fashion week,
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  Speaker 1: but he was so out there that it was hard
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  Speaker 1: to believe that that was a real human. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if that makes sense.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, nightcoret has always featured cartoonish characters, right,
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  Speaker 2: Like I always think of Brent Spiner's character on the
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  Speaker 2: original run of night Court, where he plays like the
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  Speaker 2: hillbilly character who something terrible has always happened to his family. Hello, Honor.
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  Speaker 2: It's a that character. So that's kind of a staple
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  Speaker 2: for night Court. Yeah, so I totally get it, Like
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  Speaker 2: anytime you're going to have a night Court episode, most
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  Speaker 2: of the guest appearances or incidental characters are going to
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  Speaker 2: come across as being cartoon because that's night Court.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. That episode also had Jennifer Lewis in it, who
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  Speaker 1: has done many prolific things, but I think most people
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  Speaker 1: will probably know her as the grandma in Blackish. She's phenomenal,
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  Speaker 1: so she was also great. I also finished the season
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  Speaker 1: one of Percy Jackson. I say that there's only one
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  Speaker 1: season of it out right now, but I suspect there'll
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  Speaker 1: be a second, and I loved the ending. I feel
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  Speaker 1: like if Percy Jackson had been out when I was
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  Speaker 1: a child, I might have been more into that than
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  Speaker 1: Peter Pan, because it really left me with this feeling
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  Speaker 1: of wonder, like I could be the kid of a
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  Speaker 1: Greek god. But it also was more true to Greek
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  Speaker 1: mythology than like Disney's Hercules was, which is not a
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  Speaker 1: hard thing to do, not a high bar. Yeah, although
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  Speaker 1: I will say I don't think this is a spoiler,
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  Speaker 1: and if it is, we'll beep it out. In the
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  Speaker 1: last episode ode, one of the characters says that they're
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  Speaker 1: being taken to Disney World as a part of their
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  Speaker 1: foray into the human side of the world of things
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  Speaker 1: and doesn't understand what it is, and she's like, what
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  Speaker 1: do I need to do? And Percy's like, you just
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  Speaker 1: need to be a kid, and I'm like, Disney, way
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  Speaker 1: to put a Disney commercial in your own Disney show.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah right, I heard you like Disney, so I put
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  Speaker 2: Disney in your Disney.
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  Speaker 1: But I thought, you know, the show was very well done.
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  Speaker 1: I watched it because my one of my nephews is
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  Speaker 1: super into Greek mythology and I was too as a kid.
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  Speaker 1: Like it's it's not super kid friendly, but it is
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  Speaker 1: super kid interesting. I would say, sure.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, like, like, you got to think about some
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  Speaker 2: of the stuff that came out when we grew up.
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  Speaker 2: I think as we get turned into adults, we start
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  Speaker 2: to misjudge what kids are capable of watching. Because when
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  Speaker 2: I look back at the stuff I watched as a kid,
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, you know what, I don't give kids enough
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  Speaker 2: credit because I turned out okay, and look at some
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  Speaker 2: of the stuff I watched.
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  Speaker 1: That's true. I mean, it's it's very true. Some of
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  Speaker 1: it maybe is stuff we shouldn't have watched as kids,
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  Speaker 1: that's a whole conversation in and of itself, you know,
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  Speaker 1: But some of it is stuff that, like we can actually,
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  Speaker 1: you know, depending on the child's maturity, they can comprehend
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  Speaker 1: and understand and understand the right and the wrong in
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  Speaker 1: a situation. Because Greek God certainly did some wrong stuff
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  Speaker 1: in the mythology.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, now more often they did wrong stuff
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  Speaker 2: than they did right stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah. But you know, also there's stuff I watched
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  Speaker 1: as a kid that when I watch now, I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: I watched that as a kid, because it just went
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  Speaker 1: over my head. That being said, I didn't think I
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  Speaker 1: would like Percy Jackson. I actually really enjoyed it. I
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  Speaker 1: look forward to a second season. I will watch it.
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  Speaker 1: You know. It helps that there were so many like
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  Speaker 1: hard hitting guest stars in the show, just a really
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  Speaker 1: phenomenal cast. And you know, I'm still watching season one
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  Speaker 1: of True Detective. I know you are. You have watched
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  Speaker 1: season three, and you've only watched part of season two,
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  Speaker 1: and you've only watched the beginning of season four. But
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  Speaker 1: does it keep like a supernatural bent through the anthology series.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, I can say that so season one has
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  Speaker 2: hints of the supernatural, although you can. I don't want
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  Speaker 2: to spoil it for you. But you're often left wondering
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  Speaker 2: is there actual supernatural stuff going on? Or is it
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  Speaker 2: merely that the perception of all these characters is such
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  Speaker 2: that they can't be certain? Right?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I know enough about season one to
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  Speaker 1: know that that's like I know who the villain is.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So season two there's no supernatural element to it,
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  Speaker 2: Like it's not supernatural. It's more like politics and organized crime.
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  Speaker 2: That's kind of the element for season two, which honestly,
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  Speaker 2: at first I kind of liked because I felt that
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  Speaker 2: it was more grounded until you get half way through
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  Speaker 2: the season when it just goes bonkers, and then I
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  Speaker 2: kind of I did watch all of season two, more
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  Speaker 2: or less. I think I scrubbed through a couple of
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  Speaker 2: episodes toward the end because I just was losing patience
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  Speaker 2: with it. But I wanted to see like the really
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  Speaker 2: important scenes, so I did that. Did not watch season
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  Speaker 2: three at all. Don't know anything about it really. Season four,
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  Speaker 2: from what I've heard, I've only, like I said, I've
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  Speaker 2: only seen the first episode. But from what I've heard
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  Speaker 2: season four, it does go back to that supernatural element
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  Speaker 2: that season one had, but cranks it up like in
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  Speaker 2: that first episode of season four. If there's not something
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  Speaker 2: supernatural going on, I don't understand what the reasoning could
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  Speaker 2: be for some of the stuff that happens. Right Like,
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  Speaker 2: it's like it doesn't make sense for this to happen
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  Speaker 2: in the real world, so there has to be a
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  Speaker 2: supernatural element.
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  Speaker 1: The trailer gave me like a very Mountains of Madness
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  Speaker 1: sort of a vibe.
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  Speaker 2: Oh no, it's got a very Lovecraftian kind of feel.
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  Speaker 2: But I mean that's because again it's it's also touching
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  Speaker 2: on the work of Robert Chambers, who was a contemporary
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  Speaker 2: of HP Lovecrafts.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, well the first and the fourth episodes, maybe
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  Speaker 1: not the second and third.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, first and fourth seasons, yes, yeah, yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Which is a little sad to say, because, like I
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  Speaker 1: was talking with Tony, who has watched both some of
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  Speaker 1: Fargo season one with me and some of and has
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  Speaker 1: watched what we've seen of True Detective season one with me.
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  Speaker 1: He's not big into like police procedural shows in general,
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  Speaker 1: and but he likes True Detective better than Fargo because
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  Speaker 1: True Detective, even though the situation seems maybe possible supernatural
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  Speaker 1: as opposed to just people doing crappy stuff, the characters
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  Speaker 1: feel more real. But it is that supernatural bet that
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  Speaker 1: I think is also keeping him interested.
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  Speaker 2: So the characters feel more real, except I don't think
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  Speaker 2: mc connaugh seems real. He's great, he's fantastic. He's doing
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  Speaker 2: an amazing performance. He does not seem like a real person.
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  Speaker 2: He seems like like the kind of person a writer creates.
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  Speaker 2: He doesn't seem like someone you would actually encounter.
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  Speaker 1: He seems like the protagonist of of a Cathulian novel,
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  Speaker 1: Like he's he's already lost his mind slightly. So I
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  Speaker 1: get that, but I find his I find his performance
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  Speaker 1: believable in the character that he's playing. Whereas like Fargo,
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  Speaker 1: the performances are phenomenal, the actors are great, but they
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  Speaker 1: are all kind of like characters instead of people, not
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  Speaker 1: all of them, some of them are people, but it
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  Speaker 1: is it is, you know, a coin style of zany dryness,
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  Speaker 1: dry zaniness. There we go. That's a it's a little
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  Speaker 1: harder to put into the real world, even though it
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  Speaker 1: could be because they're they're you know, stereotypes and stuff.
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  Speaker 1: So that's what I've I've been watching. I mean, I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna be real honest, Like, we're going through the shows
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  Speaker 1: that I've started keeping a list of all the shows
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  Speaker 1: that we say we want to watch and all the
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  Speaker 1: movies that we say we want to watch. So when
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  Speaker 1: we hit a point where like, what do we want
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  Speaker 1: to watch. I start like, I pull a chunk of
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  Speaker 1: that list up, I'm like, let's pick one of these.
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  Speaker 1: There's a bunch of stuff missing from it. It's a
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  Speaker 1: work in progress. But that's where we are now. While
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  Speaker 1: I wait for The Last Airbender to come out, while
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  Speaker 1: I wait for Life and Beth Season two to come out,
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  Speaker 1: which is a wonderful show. There's a couple other shows
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  Speaker 1: that are coming out in February, Showgun, which we're going
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  Speaker 1: to talk about, and like The Bear Season three just
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  Speaker 1: started filming, so that's a why ways away, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: looking forward to. So, yeah, I'm just biting time right now.
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  Speaker 2: Sure. Well, and I'm just the kind of person who
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  Speaker 2: I have to be in the right mental space to
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  Speaker 2: watch something new, and I'm far more likely I'm one
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  Speaker 2: of those folks who is really guilty of going back
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  Speaker 2: and watching something I've seen a billion times before rather
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  Speaker 2: than committing to a new thing.
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  Speaker 1: There's there's a comfort in that, and also there's a
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  Speaker 1: lack of commitment. You don't have to commit time because
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  Speaker 1: if you need to stop in the middle of it,
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  Speaker 1: you've already seen it, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Or even just have it go while you're no longer
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  Speaker 2: paying direct attention to it. Yeah, all right, well.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry, one more thing. We did try to watch Spider
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  Speaker 1: Man Across the Universe over the weekend, but we had
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  Speaker 1: to stop it because I got a last minute called
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  Speaker 1: to be on set for something and I had to.
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  Speaker 2: Prepare for that.
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  Speaker 1: So that will be the next geeky thing that I watched,
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  Speaker 1: probably this weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not sure what will be the next thing
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  Speaker 2: for me. It'll largely depend upon my schedule coming up
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  Speaker 2: over the next few days. Got a medical procedure I
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  Speaker 2: get to have on Monday, so that's always gonna be fun.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll see. Maybe maybe Tuesday, I'll just be like,
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  Speaker 2: all right, I don't want to do anything else except
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  Speaker 2: watch like stuff that I've been missing out on. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but that kind of wraps up the what we've been
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  Speaker 2: into recently. Now, why don't we jump on over to
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  Speaker 2: thirty seconds or less?
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  Speaker 1: Sounds good and you start this week?
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  Speaker 2: Yep, here we go. Universal has announced that the next
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  Speaker 2: Jurassic World film is due out in twenty twenty five,
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  Speaker 2: so I guess it's a good thing that they're currently
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  Speaker 2: in talks with David Leitch, the director of Bullet Train
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  Speaker 2: and many more films. To direct it. I mean, y'all,
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  Speaker 2: announcing a movie a year out before there's a director
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  Speaker 2: is something. The film is supposed to launch a quote
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  Speaker 2: new Jurassic era end quote, which seems like a contradiction
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  Speaker 2: in terms to me, and it might mean that Owen
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  Speaker 2: thunder Guns isn't going to be in it.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, let's strive yet more. Next, Birds and Co Production
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  Speaker 1: has gotten rights to make a movie of Jimmy Stewart's life,
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  Speaker 1: James Stewart. They're working with his daughter, Kelly Stuart Harcourt.
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  Speaker 1: You know, obviously there's there's Jimmy Stewart had an interesting life.
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  Speaker 1: You want an oscar and then he joined the Air
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  Speaker 1: Corps and then he came back and needed It's a
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  Speaker 1: wonderful life. But it seems like this story will really
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  Speaker 1: focus on a bunch of positive stuff and be like
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  Speaker 1: an uplifting, sort of heartwarming review of his life.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, do you want more Game of Thrones? Too bad,
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  Speaker 2: You're getting it anyway. That's right. Expect another Game of
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  Speaker 2: Thrones prequel spinoff series coming your way in the near future.
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  Speaker 2: This one is reported to focus on Agin's conquest or
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  Speaker 2: Edgen's conquest as an edgend targarian who united six kingdoms
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  Speaker 2: under the Iron Throne. So this happens ages before the
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  Speaker 2: events of the original series. Here there will be dragons,
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  Speaker 2: but there will not be Jonathan because I'm out.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: I almost made a very inappropriate comment. But we keep
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  Speaker 1: this show fairly family friendly, so I will withhold. Are
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: you old enough to remember Robby and Michelle's high school Reunion,
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: a story about two women who are super awkward but
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: totally ruled their high school reunion. Well, if you are,
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: you might be a cult fan of it, because I
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: don't know. I watched the movie and I feel like
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: it's a cult kind of movie. Anyhow, they're making a
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: sequel that will probably be like the fortieth High School
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: Reunion of Romy and Michelle with Mira Sorvino and Lisa Kudro.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: So it's making its rounds right now, like Alan Cummings
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: is coming to Atlanta to do a Q and A
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: while they reshow it. So that's super interesting, huh. Well,
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: following the delightful Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Mutant Mayhem Animated
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: Film is an upcoming animated series launching on Paramount Plus
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: this summer, and it's called Tales of the teenage Mutant
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: Ninja Turtles, and like Newton Mayhem, it comes out of
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: Seth Rogan's studio. There's a teaser trailer that's out now
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: and it has much of the same charm and humor
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: as the film, but with a noticeable step down in
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: animation quality. That's super cool. Okay, Next, it's about ding
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: daying time. In twenty twenty five, we are going to
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: or maybe I guess in twenty twenty six, we're going
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: to have a new category at the Oscars, which is
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: Best Achievements in Casting. It's really about time that casting
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: directors kind of get nods for the work they do.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: It is long and hard, like now being in the
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: active world, it's long and hard work. And you know,
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: casting makes a movie or a television show, so they
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: definitely should be able to get their props. I know
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: there are other awards that acknowledge them, but I'm glad
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: that the Oscars are doing it too.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, I know it's thirty seconds or less,
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: but if I may, yes digress just a bit. Yeah,
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: you can tell because there are films out there where
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: the casting was so difficult that the film famously had
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: to recast someone after things got started, because even during casting,
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: you might think, oh, all the pieces are there, only
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: to find out when you're actually shooting the film that, oh,
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: the pieces don't fit together the way I thought. So
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: that happened on Back to the Future, it happened on
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: The Lord of the Rings movies, like, casting directors have
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: a very tough job, and when they do their job
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: well and you get an incredible ensemble that can really
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: turn a film into something truly special.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and if sary and maybe we should have put
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: this in the conversation part. You know, I part of
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: my job as an actor is continued education. Like you
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: should always be working, and if you're not working on
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: a project, you should be doing education. You should be
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: practicing your acting, you should be taking classes, you should
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: be doing workshops and connecting with casting directors. So I
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: sit on a lot of workshops and calls and like
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: lectures from casting directors. I listen to them speak a lot,
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: and the numbers that they have to go through, Like
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: if you figure they'll get like tens of thousands of
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: submissions for a role like less if it's a very
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: specific role, but you know, for a generic role of
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: like a nurse, too, right, They have to cast that
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: and they might get tens of thousands of submissions, and
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: from that they might have to pick hundreds of people,
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: and then they have to watch all those people and
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: knock it down to less and then they have to
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: deal with the people who say they're going to audition
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: but don't put stuff in. It's a lot of work
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: and they work all the time.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And on top of that, they also have to
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: deal with studio politics, right, because there are times where
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: the casting director might say, oh, I've seen an audition
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: that's perfect for this part, but the studio is like, no,
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: we want someone who's bankable, right, we want someone who's
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: a box office draw. And even if they're not right
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: for the movie, they're the one that you have to catch. Like,
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: It's just there's so many different elements that they have
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: to deal with.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I have to fit within budgets. And that's hard too,
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: because you want to make sure that you're making both
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: the actor, that both the actors and the studios are
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: getting a fair deal. And while they may not set
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: those budgets, you know, that's a lot of it's a
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: lot of work anyhow, they deserve it. I'm super excited.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: I know that a lot of casting directors have been
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: wanting this for a while, a lot of actors have
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: been wanting this for a while, So I'm super super excited.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: Okay, well, I apologize for completely derailing that thirty seconds,
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: but we still got some more. So here's the next one.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: So we got a trailer for an upcoming horror film
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: called Late Night with the Devil, and it tells the
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: story of a fictional late night talk show that makes
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: the very poor decision of bringing on an apparently possessed
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: young woman who belonged to a satanic cult on the show,
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: and then hilarity ensues. The trailer evokes a sort of
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: early nineteen seventies feeling. I know it's supposed to be
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: set in seventy seven, but it feels early seventies to me.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: And it comes to theaters on March twenty second, and
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: I did not make Ariel watch it.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: Thank you. I you know, I trust you. If you
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: say it's one I could handle or not, I.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: Think you probably could. But it was you know, I
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: didn't feel the need to inflict it on you.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: I appreciate that. I appreciate that I love the one
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: that you did inflict on me this week?
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: Well, that one was so dumb, but we'll get to it.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: Yes for sure. Sure, So sometimes life imitates art and
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: art imitates life. And I'm asking myself if Christian Bale
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: is actually Batman, because right now he's building twelve foster
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: homes in California to help children who don't have other
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: homes stay together with their siblings and also get prepared
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: for moving into the real world. He credits his father,
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: who is very big into philanthropic works, and I think
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: it's pretty cool.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: That is really cool. Good for him. All right, this
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: is going to sound familiar, but just stick with me.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: We got a trailer for an upcoming horror called night Shift.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: This is not the nineteen eighty two night Shift with
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: Henry Winkler. This blunt stars Phoebe Tonkin as Gwynn Taylor,
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: a young woman who takes on a gig as a
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: night shift manager of a creepy motel. But then she
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: finds out the motel is way more than just creepy
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: because threats, supernatural and otherwise begin to pop up. It
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: looks really atmospheric. The trailer has a nineteen seventies vibe
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: to it. What is going on, and I didn't make
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: Ariel watch this one either.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: I feel bad for making you watch these alone now,
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: like the grass is always on the other side.
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: I love horror movies though, so it doesn't bother me.
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: I also think you can handle this one, honestly, but
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: it was one of those things where it's like, I
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: don't want to load our whole run down with horror
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: movie trailers.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: I appreciate that, you know. Honestly, I was debating on
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: if I watched The Shining because I do feel like
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: that is a horror movie that I need to watch
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: just for cultural significance, whether I should do the Kubrick
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: movie or I should watch the television mini series.
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: You should watch the Kubrick movie. Do not watch the
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: televid It is so.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: Bad, Okay, but it's closer to the book from what
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: I understand.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: Yes, it's closer to the book, but that doesn't make
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: it good. Just because it's closer to what Stephen King
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: wrote doesn't mean it's good. Awesome. The kid, the kid
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: in the TV series, Oh my god, I could not
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: stand him.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: Gotcha, gotcha? I have Well, we'll see there. There are
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: certain movies that are hard for me.
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: To watch.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: I know this is three seconds or lesser failing because
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: I know, like like the shining will be hard for
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: me to watch beyond the subject matter, because I know
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: how crappy Kubrick was to the act god Shelley Devall.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, famously horrible to her.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, which you know, there are some actors who are
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: method who don't mind being brought to a place, but
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: that should be a conversation with a director and an actor.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: It should be like a consensual sort of a thing.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: It's you know, like Copper from Stranger Things was talking
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: on a hot One's thing, like if he's gonna be
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: mad at somebody, he wants to get mad at them.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: He doesn't stay mad at them, but like he wants
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: that emotion to be real. That's a very method actor thing.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: But he had buy in with his co actors on it,
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: who are like, yeah, I'm cool getting there with you
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: and then stepping away. You know, what Koprich did was abuse,
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: and that's not a Yeah.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: There are a lot of filmmakers in the seventies who
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: were extremely cavalier in how they would get their actors
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: to be in the right place emotionally. I mean, you'll
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: hear stories about directors who did things like fire prop
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: guns near their actors in order to get them unsettled.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: If you ever read what the Actress at the beginning
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: of Jaws, there's an actress, a character who swims out
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: into the ocean and she's the first one to get
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: attacked by the shark. And you never really see the shark,
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: but you see what happens to her. If you hear
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: about how they achieved the effects of her getting jerked
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: around in the water, it's sounds like something that would
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: qualify as torture. So, yeah, it's it's a very Yeah.
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: I totally get the reticence to watch the shining knowing
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: the kind of trauma that was visited upon actors in
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: order to get the performances.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: Well, it's like you never want to know how the
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: sausage is made, you know, I would have issues. I
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: would have a silly I don't know, it's probably not silly.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: I would have issues watching Apocalypse Now because of one
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: of the scenes that they filmed and knowing that it's
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: real and then yeah.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: You're talking about an animal death scene.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yes, even though now understanding kind of the
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: situation behind it, it's a little less horrific, but it's
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: still horrific to me. I wouldn't want to watch it, right,
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: and then like watching The Crow, which I love the
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: movie The Crow, but knowing that Brandon Lee got shot
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: and killed in that movie makes it a lot harder
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: to watch.
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, Well, we still got a couple more
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: thirty seconds or less that we got to go through,
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: and then maybe we'll actually have discussions that we intended
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: to be discussions.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, So, speaking of horror movies, Ghostbusters is getting
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: a popcorn bucket that is not as creepy as the
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: Dude popcorn bucket. I'll let you guess which one I
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: think is a horror movie.
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: I have not seen either of these popcorn buckets, so
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: I don't even know why talking about it.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: So, the AMC does these themed popcorn buckets, and for
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: Dungeons and Dragons it was a D twenty, which is
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: really cool. Some of our friends actually took them in
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: turn them into like lighting fixtures or whatnot. Fordune, there's
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: an entire SNL skit about it. It's a sandworm coming
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: out and you reach into the sandworm's mouth, to a
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: sandworm's mouth to get the popcorn and it's really inappropriate.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: After Midnight does a bunch of jokes about it as well,
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: and then the new one for Ghostbusters Frozen Empire is
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: a ghost trap, so the actual bucket is like the
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: b coming out of the ghost trap with the popcorn
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: in that it looks really cool. I'm actually probably gonna
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: buy one of these, regardless of how I feel about
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: the movie, which I'm excited to watch. But even if
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: I weren't, I would be buying one of these because.
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: It's just too cool. I got too much junk in
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: my house. I cannot get more junk. But let's move on.
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: So finally, Sony is making life harder on anime fans.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: The company is sunsetting the Fundamation streaming service in April
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: and they're merging it into crunchy Role. But more than that,
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: Fundomation users who had purchased streaming titles are going to
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: lose access to those streaming titles in this merger because
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: crunchy roll does not have a similar service. So these
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: digital copies that they were supposed to be able to
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: own quote unquote forever are going away because forever it
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: doesn't last that long, I guess. Plus they'll have to
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: pay more because Sony plans to hike Crunchy Role subscription
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: fees starting next year. Ouch.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that is ouch indeed. And finally we're at our
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: end of thirty seconds or ten minutes or.
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: Less, yeah, depend on depending on the topic. And now
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: we can talk about the stuff what we put aside
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: for the actual episodes, one of which is that so
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: we're recording this the weekend of the superb Owl, which
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: is going to come out and tell us whether or
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: not we have six more weeks of winter on Sunday.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: I thought it told us whether we had six more
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: weeks of football.
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe you're right, Ariel. Yeah, so we're talking about
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: the big Game, right, the Big Game or the superb
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: Owl that typically is marked by a couple of things.
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: Usually it's a disappointing football game and a whole bunch
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: of commercials. And one of the things we've been keeping
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: an eye on is rumored ads that we might see,
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: like movie trailers that we may very well see as
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: the game plays out. These include there's a suspected Deadpool
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: three trailer that would play a trailer for Wicked, maybe
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: a trailer for Quiet Place. But we did get a
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: Quiet Place trailer already online and perhaps some other trailers
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: coming out as well. But again, like some of these
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: trailers have come out this week, and sometimes that happens, right,
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: Sometimes we get like stuff coming out before the super
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: Bowl comes out because apparently now it's good to have
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: super Bowl ads shown before the super Bowl, even I
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: don't understand how it all works. But yeah, once again,
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: it looks like we're going to get a lot of
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: different geeky movie trailers plus all the other a silly
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: and not so silly commercials that come out on your
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: typical Super Bowl.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I try to avoid them. I know that
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: there's a Patrick Stewart Hey Arnold commercial out there and
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: I haven't watched it yet because I'm they're going to
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: show this during the super Bowl, and even though it's
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: been out well before, I want to watch it during
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: the super Bowl. When I watched Super Bowl because I
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: sometimes like watching football games if it's a good game.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: But there was one commercial I watched last night that
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: popped up on YouTube. It was a Groundhog Day Lay's commercial.
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: Have you seen this, Jonathan, No, I don't watch commercials, Ariel.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: It's well, I watched them on you I choose, I
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: choose to watch them. And also, like a lot of
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: streaming services are putting in commercials now into like our
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: lowest tier of subscription.
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: And that's true, and you can't avoid that, right Like
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: if Amazon does it, Peacock does it.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: Sure, Yeah, So I understand that that sucks for a
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: lot of people who don't want commercials, but also if
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: you want a lower cost of watching your show and
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: they aren't making money, this is a way for them
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: to try to keep that going. So lower cost equals commercials.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: That's just how you fund a television. It stinks, but like,
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: I'm not surprised and I'm not mad, honestly, but I
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: also audition for commercials, so you know. But I opted
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: to watch this one on YouTube. It was a Lays
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: did a Groundhog Day commercial with Steven Tobolowski, who was
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: in Groundhog's Day.
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, And I was like.
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: Oh no, this is a Super Bowl commercial. I can't
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: watch it. It's not it came out on Groundhog's Day.
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: But it's like a three minute commercial because it just
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: keeps happening over and over with each time with a
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: different Lays flavor, and it's him in a grocery store
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: checking out with the grocery attendant. Uh. And and it's
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: it's very funny, is what I'll say.
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: I say, does they say bang?
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: He might? I don't know. He's playing like Murray's type
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: of character in it, right, But it's delightful. I would
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: suggest watching that commercial. It was fun, but I was
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: really afraid turning it on that it was a Super
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: Bowl commercial. But I thought it was funnier that it
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: came out on Groundhog's Day to celebrate celebrate Groundhog's Day.
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, so so we're we'll keep an eye out
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: because obviously we'll probably talk about some of these trailers
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: in the next step of large Nerdron Collider. Like I
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: am definitely, I definitely want to see the Deadpool three trailer.
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: I'm the closer we get to Wicked being a thing,
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: the less excited I am about it. So I guess
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: I'm a little curious about it. But I don't know.
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: I'm not getting a super good feeling about the Wicked film.
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: I mean, the fact that they decided to divide it
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: into two movies really bugs me.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because the stage play isn't long enough to be
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: two movies, is it.
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: No, but the Hobbit wasn't long enough to be three
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: movies and they still did it.
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: That's true, that's true. Yeah, that makes me less excited. Also,
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: the hit or miss with movie musicals turning musicals into movies, like,
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: it's hard to get that same magic. It's not impossible,
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: but it is hard.
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah. You can, like, for every Little Shop of Horrors,
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: which I think, like, you can argue it's a very
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: campy movie, and it is, but I think it's a
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: successful movie musical. For every one of those, you end
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: up with something like Rent, which was not a success,
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: or Mean Girls, which recently came out and a lot
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: of people who are fans of the stage musical absolutely
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: hated it. For the record, I have not seen the
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: film version. I've seen some of the musical numbers that
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: were released as YouTube videos, and I was not a fan.
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: But again, sometimes you just say, you know what, this
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: was really better suited for a different medium and there
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: just was no need to transport it to this one,
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: and that's why it doesn't work.
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like, especially with stuff like Mean Girls,
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: I get, which I haven't seen as well, but some
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: of those you have to lean into the camp in
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: a way that you normally wouldn't on camera because it
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: becomes less believable. But like, the musicals that I think
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: really hit the mark are things like Little Shop of
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: Horrors or Producers or ABC's Once Upon a Mattress with
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: Tracy Ullman.
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, or Cats. You know Cats really.
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: The PBS version of Cats, the PBS version of Into
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: the Woods, and the PBS version of Joseph in the
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: Amazing Technicolor dream Coat. Those are all fine.
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: The film version of Cats leaned super hard into the
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: camp and it turns out you can make that mistake too.
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but they put buttoles on the Cats.
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: They know they didn't. They didn't. There is not a
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: butthole edit. What they what they did was they put
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: buttholes in the cast. There were a couple of buttholes
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: in that cast, James Corden, So.
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: I just yeah, I the PBS version of Cats. I
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: watched ad Nauseum, which was just a recorded stage version
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: basically like I watched that NonStop. I love recorded stage
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: versions of shows, even if they end up being a
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: different experience from actually going to see it in person.
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: It's just it's really cool.
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I like them. It's weird when I watch a
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: filmed version of a stage production where they take advantage
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: of being able to have different camera angles and stuff,
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: because that actually takes me out of it, because I'm like,
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: I have never been in a theater where they just
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: let me get up out of my seat and run
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: across to the other side of the theater and sit
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: down in a new seat and watch the stage from
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: that side.
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: I have been, but I was the stage manager at
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: the time.
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: Oh, and there was no one watching the show. I mean,
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: come on, I.
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: Mean there were Okay, so didn't run around the stage,
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: but would run around backstage to another seat and sit
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: on the other seat from the wings.
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I did that as an actor multiple times. But
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: that doesn't like count. Okay, tell you what. Let's talk
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: about something else. Let's talk about Avatar the Last Airbender.
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: You mentioned that you were looking forward to this, and
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: we even got a little bit of an additional tease
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: of the upcoming Netflix series, the live action remake of
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: Avatar the Last Airbender, which to the I still say
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: looks like it's pretty faithful to the original source material
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: and also looks charming.
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: It does, and like I so, I liked Avatar the
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: Last Airbender I'm not as like as huge of a
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: fan as, let's say, like your partner is, but I
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: really liked it. And when I watched these little clips
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: of these trailers, I just feel like I'm I'm watching
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: a yes and version of the cartoon in the best way.
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: Like the characters feel very true to the characters in
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: the cartoon, and they look similar, but it's it doesn't
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: feel like they're being campy or cartoon ish. And this
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: latest trailer shows I think her name is grand Grand
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: she's the grandmother of the Water tribe talking about Aang
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: and we get to see a little bit more of
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: his personality and I just think it's all spot on.
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: I'm very excited. I hope this does well. The other
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: day on TikTok, I saw Daniel day Kim read thirst
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: tweets about his Fire Nation character. He was also on Lost,
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: but it took me to watching that thirst tweet TikTok
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: video to realize that he was the same actor. And
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: it was very funny because like one of them was
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: like I would let him burn me and he's like, well,
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: that's the point. The villain he's from the Fire Nation,
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: So the cast kind of like with one piece. The
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: cast all looks like they're having a lot of fun
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: with it, and I like the little behind the scenes
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: peaks that Netflix is giving us because you want a
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: show to be as fun to make as it is
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: to watch, or vice versa.
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: So yeah, I will say like the bits I've seen,
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: especially with Ayang, make it look like like he's genuinely
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: having a good time, and if he's not, he's a
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: very good actor to make it appear that he is.
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: Like it. Just again, it kind of comes across as
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: that wide eye, ready for adventure kind of spirit that
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: you would associate with the character, and it really is
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: coming through, at least in these trailers and teasers. And
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: it kind of comes back around to that earlier discussion
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: we had about how casting directors have a really important
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: job because if they had picked different actors, you might
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: not have gotten that same sort of spirit to come
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: through in the performance. And again, I'm judging things on
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: trailers and teasers, and it's the job of the people
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: who cut the trailers to get the best possible stuff
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: to represent the series to convince people to watch it.
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: So maybe when I see the series, I won't feel
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: the same way. But based on everything I've seen so far,
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: it's been really encouraging.
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, based on what you've seen so far of the
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: new Showgun TV series, what do you think of that.
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: I haven't watched it because you wrote long in the
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: notes and I was running out of time, so I
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: skipped it.
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: Gotcha, So is making a television show called Showgun, which
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: if that sounds familiar, because there was I think an
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: old movie or television show called Showgun.
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: Yes, I believe.
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: So it looks beautiful that the sneak peak is like
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: five minutes long, maybe longer, so it is a long
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: sneak peek. The showrunner, Justin Marx, says that the core
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: theme of the show is agency and control over the
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: path of one's fate. But this is another one. We're
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: listening to the actors talk about the experience of making
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: it and the importance of making it and of all
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: of these cultures like coming together and finding understanding is
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: really cool. I don't think I watched the old Showgun,
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: but I am very much looking forward to this one.
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: I hope they do a really good job of it.
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: I saw the pictures and the you know, the art direction,
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: the costuming, that kind of stuff. Looks really really good.
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: So while I have not yet watched the first look,
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: which you know, maybe one twentieth of the entire thing,
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: I did take a look and scrolled through and looked
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: at some of the images and stuff and read up
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: on some of the things. So it does definitely look
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: like it'll be like it looks to me like the
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: kind of thing that's been cared for, like there's been
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: a lot of attention to detail, right, not something that's
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: just sort of thrown together. Sometimes I get a little
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: antsy about these kinds of projects because so often the
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: version we get here in America is sort of the
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: White Savior kind of approach, right, Like it's Tom Cruise,
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: who's there to show all these samurai how they can
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: be real good at what they do. And I'm like,
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: it doesn't feel good.
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, which was my concern with this too. But
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: it doesn't feel like that's going to be the case
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: that that's good. It's I think it's like a reporter
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: who goes to Japan, I think. But I've been looking.
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: I've been reading a lot of stuff this week, so
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: my brain is not retaining at all, but it feels
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: I hope it's not a White Savior story. It doesn't
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: feel like that from the There are additional trailers about
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: it that are not five minutes long. If you are
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: so inclined at some.
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: Point, yeah, I will definitely check at least one of
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: those out. Next up, we've got a story about Xbox
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: and it's it's from Kotaku, and the Kotaku piece is
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: largely kind of talking about a particular subculture of Xbox fans,
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: like the hardcore hardcore Xbox like devoted. They're essentially referred
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: to in the piece as like a cult, and these
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: are the kind of folks who they don't like any
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: deviation from suggest that Xbox is the end all be
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: all of video games, or at least console video games.
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: And I have met people who are like that, both
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: both in the Xbox camp or the PlayStation camp or
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: the Nintendo camp or sometimes you know, like people joke
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: PC Master Race, like that's a whole reference to that
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: kind of called. Personally, I'm like, whatever consoles got the title,
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: and it's fun to play, That's what I like. But
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: the whole point of the story is that Xbox is
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: looking to potentially take some titles that used to be
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: Xbox exclusive and to open them up for other platforms.
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: And apparently some people in these groups are like, this
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: is gonna be the end of Xbox. You're giving away
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: exclusivity and now Xbox doesn't mean anything, and I'm just like,
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: grow up.
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I guess I could have picked a more
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: impartial article on it to talk about, but I do
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: think it's important to also kind of acknowledge that there
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: are people who are super exclusive about stuff like that,
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: and honestly, I prefer things that are cross platform me too.
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: And I mean we also understand, like Microsoft just recently
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: acquired Activision Blizzard, and part of that acquisition was Microsoft
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: bending over backwards to promise that it wasn't going to
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: turn all the Activision Blizzard titles into Xbox exclusives that
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: would not run on other platforms. Otherwise they were not
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: going to be allowed to have that acquisition go through.
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: So in some ways you can say, like, well, Microsoft
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: has an incentive to make sure they're not locking everything
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: behind exclusivity. And I get how exclusive titles can make
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: a console seem superior or special. I understand that, but
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: like you, Ariel, I much prefer things that are cross platforms,
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: so that I can play on whichever platform I prefer,
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: as opposed to being forced to stick with a specific
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: platform if I want to experience that particular title.
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: And I know some people prefer Xbox because they don't
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: like some of the things that's PlayStation has done, like
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: with Sony and taking digitally bought media off and you know,
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: they almost made it unavailable we talked about earlier.
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: So yeah, well, and I don't like I just don't
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: like the PlayStation controllers very much. Like they I don't
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: find them comfortable to hold. I prefer the Xbox controllers.
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: And that's it. Like, it's not that I don't It's
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: not that I think PlayStation gives poorer performance. I don't
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: believe that at all. I think PlayStation is a phenomenal
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: machine when it comes to performance. I just don't like
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: their controllers.
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I do prefer Xbox controllers to PlayStation controllers
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: personally as well. But that's partially because that's just what
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: I'm more familiar with.
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: Well, I like them. I like them because they're easier
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: on my knuckles, gotcha.
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: Oh wait, you let your kidneys play with your your controllers,
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: your game controllers.
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: No, but I like to set up stupid segues.
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: For a maybe stupid show.
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: Maybe. Yeah, So we got a trailer for a series
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: that's coming out on Paramount Plus for Knuckles. It's obviously
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: a spin off from the Sonic movies and with intras
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: Elba voicing the character. Uh and this is this is
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: one of those trailers we heard was going to be
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: shown with the superb Owl, but I didn't know it
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: at the time, and I just threw it in the lineup.
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: I think the trailer looks like it's not for me.
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: I have no interest in watching it. But at the
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: same time, I don't didn't think it was a bad trailer.
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I said stupid, maybe because just because it
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: fit into the line of conversation, it actually looked a
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: little cute to me. It kind of looked better to
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: me than the Sonic movies. I haven't watched them, but
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: the trailer looked better than the Sonic movie trailers to me.
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: So yeah, Well, and I've heard, like from lots of
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: people that the Sonic movies are pretty entertaining, and it's
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: folks that I trust, But like you, I haven't seen them.
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: It's again just like I haven't seen the Mario movie.
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: Like I didn't feel Maybe it's because I don't have kids,
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: but I didn't feel the poll to go see these
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: And I feel like these are movies that would really
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: appeal to like a family. Let's say that you've got
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: like maybe a ten or eleven year old, that's the
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: kind of movie that you might go and check out.
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: But as someone who has only an eight year old
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: dog who isn't even allowed in a movie theater, I
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: haven't gone to see it.
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: You see, that's why he's barking. He was barking outside
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: at the beginning of.
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: The end because I haven't taken him to see Mario
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: or Sonic.
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: Yes, that is exactly why I don't I have But
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: he's being quiet now. So we should next talk about
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: the trailer for A Quiet Place dat one.
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: Yes, that's where Tibble is right now. He's in a
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: quiet place.
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: No, I hope a quiet place, not the A.
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: Quiet Place now? Yeah, not via quiet Place. Yeah. So
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: we got a teaser for a Quiet Place day one,
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: And obviously this is another entry into the Quiet Place series,
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: this one being telling the story of what was happening
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: the day that the alien Menace came to Earth and
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: began to absolutely wreck shop as far as humanity is concerned,
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: and I thought the trailer looked pretty intense and interesting,
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: like like I've only I've only seen clips of the
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: first A Quiet Place because I never sat down to
• 50:55
  Speaker 2: watch the whole thing, and maybe someday I will, because
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: the bits I saw were interesting. I had some issues
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: because you know, it was just movie logic stuff that
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: shouldn't bother me, but my brain is stupid, so sometimes
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: it does. But it's still I could recognize that, Oh,
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: there's a lot of care that went into making this,
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: and this looks like it's a much bigger scale movie
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: because obviously, in The Quiet Place, the original one fairly
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: small cast, not a bunch of huge set pieces, but
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: this one obviously has to have some big set pieces
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: to show the devastation that happens when the Aliens first hit.
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I watched the First Quiet Place and I enjoyed it,
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: plot logicals aside, because I can watch a movie and
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: just enjoy it and then think about it later and
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: be like that's done. That's how I watched Titanic. Yeah,
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: but I didn't watch the second one, not out of
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: lack of interest, just I haven't gotten around to it.
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: A Quiet Place Day one. The trailer feels very like
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: it feels like clover Field to me.
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I can see that.
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: But I probably will not watch a Quiet Place Day
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: one because it starts off with the main character carrying
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: around a kitty cat, and that's just.
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: And you don't see the kitty cat after that moment.
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: You do, you do? Okay, She's like in a bunker
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: or a tunnel or something like that with another person
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: and she's holding the cat. But there are definitely scenes
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: where you don't see it, which means that my pet
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: anxiety will be all over the board.
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: Let me tell you this, Ariel, you do not want
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: to watch Mister and Missus Smith, Okay, because there's there's
• 52:40
  Speaker 2: a kitty cat who meets an unfortunate fate.
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: Kitty Cat introduced an episode one Kitty Cat not in
• 52:49
  Speaker 2: the end of episode eight.
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: Got you look. I watched the second season of Wheel
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: of Time as a group watch with my friends, which
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: I never read the books, and it was very hard
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: to follow. But there was also some animal cruelty in that,
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: and I yelled at my friends for not warning me.
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: I was really I was really upset at the series, okay,
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: because I felt that it was a very cheap thing
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: to do, and at the same time, it was like
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: it also illustrates you. Remember I mentioned that one of
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: the characters sort of has sociopathic tendencies. I would argue
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: it sort of reinforces that because this character, who is
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: the owner of said kat, is upset but not devastated.
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: And I'm like, y'all, if anything ever happens to one
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: of my pets, I am inconsolable.
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I'm gonna have to go hug my three
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: little fur balls when I'm done with this. Yeah.
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: Well, anyway, I think I think the trailer for Quiet
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: Place Day one, I mean, it looks intense and it
• 53:53
  Speaker 2: looks like it looked like it it's well made, Like
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: I mean, obviously I don't know enough of the story,
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: but it definitely looks like it's gonna be a pretty
• 54:07
  Speaker 2: incredible experience if you go and see it in a theater.
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, Well, what do you feel about the teaser
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: for mo Wana too?
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: Not much, because there's not much to the teaser. You
• 54:19
  Speaker 2: see a silhouetted mowana with a conk shell on a beach,
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: and she blows into the conk shell and then it
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: shows the title card for mo Wana Too, and then
• 54:30
  Speaker 2: you hear presumably Maui making a laughing noise, and then
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: it's over and it tells you it's coming out in November.
• 54:37
  Speaker 2: The thing that was surprising to me was that I
• 54:40
  Speaker 2: had not heard anything about a Mowana sequel until that
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: teaser came out.
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like I might have heard speculation, and
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: it completely left my brain after I heard it. Do
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: I think there needs to be a Mowana Too? Eh?
• 54:59
  Speaker 2: I don't know that there needs Okay, I think there's
• 55:02
  Speaker 2: two opinions I have about whether or not there needs
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: to be from a story element. I don't think there
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: needs to be one at all from a Disney is
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: in trouble because their movies have been sucking recently. They're
• 55:14
  Speaker 2: having a real issue with box office. I think Disney
• 55:17
  Speaker 2: absolutely needs a Mawana two.
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: But is that the right path to go. Shouldn't they
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: do something better but more original?
• 55:26
  Speaker 2: I mean, they tried and no one went to see
• 55:30
  Speaker 2: those movies, right, Like, Yeah, what was it? The It's
• 55:34
  Speaker 2: not Strange New Worlds because that's the star Trek Strange Worlds,
• 55:37
  Speaker 2: Strange Worlds, Strange Worlds like came Out and no one
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: saw it.
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: They also didn't advertise it.
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: Well, that's true, but the point being that, you know,
• 55:47
  Speaker 2: Disney has tried a couple of things and hasn't seen
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: a lot of success. Like you got to consider that
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: Disney's like not done great with Star Wars, They're flagging
• 55:56
  Speaker 2: with Marvel, and there are a lot of reasons for this,
• 56:00
  Speaker 2: I think. I think a big part of it is
• 56:02
  Speaker 2: that they've turned into kind of an assembly line for
• 56:07
  Speaker 2: movies where they're churning things out faster than they have
• 56:12
  Speaker 2: time to make sure they're good, especially from a story perspective,
• 56:17
  Speaker 2: story and characters perspective. They're just not doing the job
• 56:21
  Speaker 2: there and a lot of the stuff that they're offering
• 56:24
  Speaker 2: and the animation department just has Wish is another great example.
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: There's a Wish was a new film that didn't do
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: great for Disney either, but then a lot of people
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: I know who saw it said it was just mediocre.
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: So it's like Elemental apparently was great, but it was
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: mismarketed as.
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: Well well because it just felt like it was a
• 56:47
  Speaker 2: mix between Inside Out and Zootopia to me, right, all
• 56:52
  Speaker 2: the ads made it feel like it was a combination
• 56:54
  Speaker 2: of those two movies, and then we got Inside Out
• 56:57
  Speaker 2: too coming Out. I don't think anyone's necessarily excited yet
• 57:00
  Speaker 2: about that. Maybe they will be when we get some
• 57:02
  Speaker 2: more trailers.
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: My nieces and my niece and nephews are.
• 57:06
  Speaker 2: But yeah, well you can tell him that Bing Bong
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: or whoever is still dead, So you can't be upset
• 57:14
  Speaker 2: that a character that never existed dies. He was imaginary
• 57:20
  Speaker 2: to start with, he never lived, So.
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Ry Ryan Reynolds in his IF movie
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: might disagree with you.
• 57:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's different, different mythology. So anyway, I don't know.
• 57:32
  Speaker 2: I'm not excited about Mowana too necessarily, Like I don't,
• 57:38
  Speaker 2: I don't really feel a desire to see it. The
• 57:41
  Speaker 2: fact that it's going to theaters says something, because it's
• 57:44
  Speaker 2: at least not a return to the era where does
• 57:47
  Speaker 2: he started to churn out those directive video sequels that
• 57:50
  Speaker 2: were so low quality. I'm glad it's not that, But
• 57:56
  Speaker 2: like I said, I can understand from a corporate perspective
• 57:58
  Speaker 2: why they would go to that well again, because they're
• 58:01
  Speaker 2: desperate to find something that hits. From what I understand,
• 58:05
  Speaker 2: the one element of Disney that is consistently doing pretty well.
• 58:10
  Speaker 2: Is the parks and everything else is kind of in
• 58:14
  Speaker 2: uh sort of sort of the doldrums right now. So yeah.
• 58:20
  Speaker 2: I also will say that someone was making another combination
• 58:25
  Speaker 2: of how Mowan is coming out the same day as
• 58:27
  Speaker 2: something else that that like in November, and I cannot
• 58:34
  Speaker 2: remember now what the other film is, but I remember
• 58:39
  Speaker 2: that someone was trying to do the same sort of
• 58:40
  Speaker 2: thing as Barbie and Oppenheimer, where you had the Barbenheimer
• 58:45
  Speaker 2: and their version of the combined was m O A
• 58:48
  Speaker 2: n E ed, which just spells moaned and like, no,
• 58:53
  Speaker 2: that is not good.
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: No, no, kah, is it wicked?
• 58:59
  Speaker 2: Yes, it's Wicked and Moana, So it just came out
• 59:02
  Speaker 2: as moaned.
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: Oh gosh, oh my goodness.
• 59:07
  Speaker 2: No, no, yeah, not good.
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: Nope. You know, but I get that Disney does sequels
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: of well done things. I don't know why they're doing
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: Winnie the Pooh, Blood and Honey too well.
• 59:17
  Speaker 2: Obviously that's not Disney, but that's not So here's what's crazy,
• 59:21
  Speaker 2: all right, Like you can tell there is a giant
• 59:24
  Speaker 2: jump forward in production value in this sequel.
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: Yes, I was gonna say the same thing, like I
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: was like, well, it looks like it's better made.
• 59:33
  Speaker 2: It looks like it's a real movie, right the first
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: the first Winnie the Pooh, Blood and Honey just looked
• 59:39
  Speaker 2: like a super It looked like what it was, which
• 59:42
  Speaker 2: was a super duper cheap slasher film taking advantage of
• 59:46
  Speaker 2: an ip that was in the public domain. And that's it.
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: Like they were exploiting and intellectual property that they could
• 59:53
  Speaker 2: exploit and then hope that that would carry it. It
• 59:56
  Speaker 2: was very much an Asylum Pictures kind of move. The
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 2: trailer that we got for Winnie the Pooh, Blood and
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 2: Honey too doesn't make it look good. It does not
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 2: look like a good movie, mind you, but it definitely
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 2: looks like they got a much bigger budget for this one.
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree. Everything I've heard from the first movie
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: is that it like it wasn't good. It was not
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: good at all.
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 2: I mean, the trailer convinced me of that before. I
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 2: didn't need to see the film to get that implication.
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: But it wasn't even like bad good or like Sharknado good.
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 2: Sharknado wasn't good either, But.
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: Okay, sorry, I meant, I meant I met Tommy Wizzou's
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: Shark Good, which also probably is not good because he's
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: trying to bank on the bizarreness of the room. I'm sure.
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, just the room. The room is is a
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 2: great example of a bad movie that's still wildly entertaining
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 2: because you're you're spending the entire time, at least the
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 2: first time you see it. You spend the entire time
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 2: saying wait what over and over again, Like I kept,
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 2: I could not help myself but ask questions out loud
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 2: when I saw it the first time in a theater
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 2: that had other people in it.
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's really bizarre. Uh, this is not in
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: our show notes at all. But yeah, Tommy, I noticed,
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: Tommy was Zoe made another one shark. Maybe we talked
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: about it last week anyhow.
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 2: I think we mentioned it offhand at one point.
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Like, it's not even that level of like, oh
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: this was bad good and people like it, so I'm
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: gonna do it again. This is maybe it is. It
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: doesn't feel the same.
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm just I'm honestly just surprised that Winnie
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 2: the Pooh, Blood and Honey Too got a budget like
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 2: like what it apparently did, because when you watch that trailer,
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 2: it really does look like a real movie, like a
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 2: quote unquote real movie, whereas the first one just didn't.
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh and the introduced Tigger in this one.
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah that's yeah. Yeah. So anyway, yeah, if you want to,
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 2: I mean, I think you can just watch the trailer
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 2: and then you're good if you if you have a
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 2: burning desire to see this movie, don't make let me
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 2: stop you. There's no reason. Like love what you love. Right,
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 2: I'm not gonna judge you for it, but it's certainly
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 2: it didn't do anything in the trailer that made me say, oh, well,
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 2: now I want to see it.
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it didn't. It didn't affect you the same
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: way that the trailer for the completely made up Adventures
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: of Dick Turpin did.
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah. No, that I wanted to see as soon as
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 2: the trailer started. I wanted to see this series. So
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 2: it's coming out on Apple TV and it's coming out
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 2: in March, and it stars Noel Fielding, whom I always
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 2: associate with The Mighty Boosh Like that was a show
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 2: that he co launched many years ago. But he's also
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 2: been on The Great British Bake Off, he's been on
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 2: What I Not Would I Lie to you? A task Master?
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 2: I crowd Yep he was. He was the weird guy
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 2: behind the red door or the green door or whatever
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 2: it was, the closet goth Yeah, the Gulf. Noel Fielding
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 2: is a very funny, very strange comedian from England and
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 2: he plays this like eighteenth century highway or would be
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 2: highwaymen named Dick Turpin who leads a hapless gang as
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 2: they attempt to rob rich people, mostly from what we
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 2: can tell in the trailer unsuccessfully. Looks really funny. There's
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 2: a lot of other like English comedy actors who are
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 2: in this that you might recognize if you've watched a
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 2: lot of English comedy, my favorite being Mark Heap, who
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 2: is playing Dick Turpin's dad. Mark Heap played Brian, the
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 2: tortured artist in the series Spaced, which was the first
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 2: big creative outlet of Edgar Wright, Simon Peg and Nick
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 2: Frost working together. And Mark Heap is a He's delightful.
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 2: I love seeing him and stuff. So I'm so excited
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 2: and yeah I watched this trailer and I'm just like,
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 2: man March can't get here soon enough. I am so
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 2: glad I haven't canceled my Apple TV subscription yet.
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I so I wasn't always a fan of
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: the Mighty Boosh. This has much better production quality. It's
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: really but it gives me like Briscoe County Junior vibes.
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 2: Sure.
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, like it's super tongue in cheek. I am very
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: interested in it. Anything that has like a it's a
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: later period than Robin Hood but sort of got that
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: merry man quality to it. Yeah. No, I'm super excited.
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 2: It reminds me a bit about Blackadder season three, but
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 2: obviously much much higher production value.
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I could see that, and I I feel
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: like Noel Felding's band of like his his gang are
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: also very comedic, but not quite as much, so it'll
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 1: be a good foil to his bizarreness.
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's gonna there's at least one character who appears
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 2: to be although presenting as female, she will be the
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 2: straight man.
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I've had I don't know if it was
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: my friends who did this or if they heard it somewhere,
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: but I've heard Noel Felding compared to is like the
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: creepy uncle in Great British Bake Off, but he's such
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: a friendly creepy.
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah. It's also funny because occasionally with some of the
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 2: lines he does in Dick Turbin. You can hear some
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 2: of his characters from Mighty Boosh Creep and like, he's
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 2: got a character the Hitcher, He's a hitchhiking kind of
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 2: demonic character from the Mighty booshe and Who's Who's an
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 2: over the top Cockney character. You can almost hear a
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 2: little bit of that voice creeping in to some of
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 2: the performance. Yeah, totally totally looking forward to that. Can't
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 2: wait for it to come out.
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: How do you feel about Driveaway Dolls, because we just
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: got a second trailer for that.
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 2: It looks it looks good. I mean, it's a it's
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 2: a project what one of the Coen brothers is working on,
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 2: and two young women come across a mysterious briefcase that
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 2: at one point was owned by an obviously doomed Pedro Pascal,
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 2: and it's sort of like kind of got some highest
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 2: elements to it. I was telling you Ariel before we
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 2: started recording that the briefcase is giving me serious pulp
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 2: fiction vibes.
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, definitely, I think it was interesting. Honestly, I
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 1: wasn't sure if it was a good geek thing to
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: include other than Coen Brothers, but it does have Miss
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: Marvel and Pedro Pascal in it.
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 2: So it looks to me like like a movie that's
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 2: gonna have that sort of pulp fiction of like, that's
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 2: the movie I compare it to the most because it's
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 2: it's a big ensemble, lots of big characters doing a
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 2: heightened task in this case, like you know, who's got
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 2: the briefcase and all these different people are trying to
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 2: get it, which you know, makes me think of other
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 2: movies that we got fairly recently, Bullet Trained being a
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 2: great example of one, and I typically enjoy those movies
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 2: if they're well done, like they they have elements of
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 2: farce in them. They're not necessarily played up as comedically
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 2: as a traditional farce, but they have farcical elements that
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 2: work their way in. And I really enjoy action films
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 2: that that do. That guy Ritchie does like that was
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 2: like his career when he first started off. They were
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 2: all like this style of kind of wild movies where
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 2: everybody's going after the same thing for different reasons and
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 2: no one's ever really sure who has it at any
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 2: given time.
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I'll probably watch I I'm not caught up
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: on my Coen brother movies.
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 2: They do good work, but I haven't seen all of
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 2: their work. Like there are films. There's some movies that
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 2: when I saw the trailer, I was just like, Okay,
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 2: this looks real depressing. I think I'll skip it.
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: Yep. Yeah, But some of their less depressing stuff I
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: haven't seen as well I should. I didn't watch Fargo
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: till a couple of years ago. In the movie, yeah, yeah,
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: and I enjoyed it.
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 2: But yeah, and our last story, I did not put
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 2: a horror movie trailer at the end. Instead, I found
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 2: a very weird, magically realism kind of film called The
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 2: Animal Kingdom of French film that I had never heard of,
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 2: and this trailer just kind of popped up in my
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 2: suggestions and I took a look, and I thought, this
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 2: is different.
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 1: You know. That's what everybody said, That's what the trailer says.
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: That's what everybody in the comments said. First of all,
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 1: it looks beautiful and I want to watch it. It's
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: really interesting. It's about kids who start becoming animal kid
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 1: or people who start becoming animal people hybrids. However, it's
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: also kind of the plot of Sweet Tooth.
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 2: That's true. That's true. So in this case, you've got
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 2: you're right in that sweet tooth also has the oppression
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 2: element to it, right, So in this trailer, the gist
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 2: is that you've got these this race of creatures that
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 2: are these human animal hybrids, and whether they started off
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 2: as human and started to kind of mutate into animals,
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 2: or whether there's actually a separate race and there's just
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 2: this intermingling of humans and these hybrid animal humans. It's
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 2: not totally clear. In the trailer, it appears that one
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 2: of the protagonists in the trailer is a father, a
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 2: human father who fell in love with a woman who
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 2: is one of these animal human hybrids, and his son,
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 2: who's a teenager, appears to be a teenager maybe a
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 2: young adult, appears to not necessarily know that and then
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 2: finds out, and then his son is starting to undergo
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 2: a kind of transformation. So it's not really clear to
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 2: me whether there's like two separate races that are just
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 2: genetically compatible, or if this is where certain people are
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 2: transforming for an unknown reason. But what is clear is
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 2: that mainstream human society despises these hybrids. They fear them,
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 2: they consider them other. They want to either enslave or
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 2: wipe them out, and so the story that we're seeing
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 2: unfolds across that background, and it looks like it's a
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 2: pretty powerful story.
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I look forward to it. I wish my
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 1: French was better so I didn't have to read the
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: subtitles because I know that'll detry distract from the beautifulness
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 1: of the cinematography and special effects.
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but at the same time, I'm like, I would
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 2: much rather read the subtitles than to have someone do
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 2: a dubbed version, because dubbed ones just distract me way more.
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, Like I'm like, I started watching scare Games.
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 1: I'm only a couple of episodes in because I cannot,
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 1: like I have to be in the right mood to
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 1: watch it. It's like, so the concept is upsetting to me. Yeah, sure, yeah,
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 1: but it's super well done. It's another one of those
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 1: that I feel like I'm to understand culturally, I should
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: watch it.
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 2: But.
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 1: The dubbing on that The acting is great, but the
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: dubbing definitely did take some getting used to.
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, squid Game, I can see why you would
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 2: need to take breaks between episodes because it's heavy stuff.
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 2: I mean, like just the action that unfolds in your
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 2: typical episode is can be hard to watch, but then
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 2: on top of it, you have this on going commentary
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 2: that's really about things like the way the wealth gap
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 2: and classism and that kind of thing. Yeah, and that's
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 2: super heavy too, so very like you said, very well done.
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 2: I don't blame anyone who takes their time watching that.
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 2: Like that was a series that I could not easily
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 2: binge because it was it was that level of, you know,
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 2: somewhat harrowing. I needed to take them in in. Maybe
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 2: I might watch like two episodes on a good day,
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 2: but then I would take a break and pick it
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 2: back up a day or two later for the same reason.
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, that is all the stories we have to
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 1: talk about. It was a very meandering episode and also
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: double checking here a little long, not too bad.
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 2: No, not as long as last week's episode.
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 1: No, but thank you for going on the journey with us, Jonathan.
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 1: If they want to reach out to us to talk
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 1: about the superb Owl trailers and commercials they saw, or
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 1: to share excitement about any of the upcoming awesome geeky
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 1: things happening, how would they do that.
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 2: So what you're going to have to do is you're
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  Speaker 2: going to have to go out there, and you're going
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  Speaker 2: to have to really study game theory and understand exactly
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  Speaker 2: what makes games really intriguing and attractive. And then I
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  Speaker 2: need you to develop a game specifically for squids. It's
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  Speaker 2: going to be your squid game, and you're going to
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  Speaker 2: create really fun elements. You want it to be attractive,
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  Speaker 2: You want the graphics to really appeal to your typical squid.
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  Speaker 2: You want to have some game elements where like tentacles
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  Speaker 2: are really going to be important because you want to
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  Speaker 2: cater to your audience. Right. And then once you've gotten
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  Speaker 2: to a point where you feel really good about your
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  Speaker 2: concept and you've worked up, say a prototype version of
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  Speaker 2: your game, you're gonna launch that on a crowdfunding site
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  Speaker 2: like backer kid or Kickstarter or indie Go go something
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  Speaker 2: like that. Now it's gonna be tough for you because
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  Speaker 2: you are promoting a game specifically for squid, who notoriously
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  Speaker 2: are not big crowdfunders. But you're gonna launch that campaign
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  Speaker 2: and you're gonna see that your very first backer will
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  Speaker 2: be backing at the support but not actually purchasing a
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  Speaker 2: version of the game. Level for soaro, talking like five
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  Speaker 2: dollars is me and I'm gonna leave a comment and
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  Speaker 2: it's like, Hey, you got any questions you can ask me? Then?
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  Speaker 1: Interesting? Interesting, And if you've got a cephalopod allergy, or
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  Speaker 2: I think, who knows? Really?
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  Speaker 1: Who knows?
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  Speaker 2: Really?
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  Speaker 2: Cast and I have been Jonathan. I am allergic to squid.
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  Speaker 1: Strickland, that's why you didn't purchase.
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  Speaker 2: The game, right, Yeah, no, because I can't listen. I
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  Speaker 2: can't go back to the hospital again, Ariel, I've been
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  Speaker 2: there so many times.
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  Speaker 1: No, thank you, thank you for taking care of yourself.
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