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LNC is Upfront about being geeky · Large Nerdron Collider

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  Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Welcome to the Larger nurdern Collider podcast, 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 Caston and Vinny is always is the brilliant
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  Speaker 1: Jonathan Strickland.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, wide the gates and.
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  Speaker 1: Let the podcast begin. There we go.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, yeah, I.
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  Speaker 3: Said that because Ariel's about to go in and serve
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  Speaker 3: her second sentence of playing at the Georgia Renaissance Festival.
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  Speaker 1: You know what. I I am glad that we had
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  Speaker 1: a break in between the two weeks that we're playing,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm glad that we're only playing two weeks, partially
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  Speaker 1: because I'm just so busy outside of fair, partially because
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  Speaker 1: I'm out of shape. But I did really enjoy playing
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  Speaker 1: the first weekend, and thank you for coming out again.
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  Speaker 1: This second weekend. We're trying to add more music to it,
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  Speaker 1: so we're going to play additional songs, even though our
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  Speaker 1: sets are all the same length, so we're just having
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  Speaker 1: to like play each song less try kind of like anyhow.
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  Speaker 1: But I do really enjoy performing and I'm looking forward
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  Speaker 1: to it.
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  Speaker 3: Oh good, And you're also playing at different stages, Like
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  Speaker 3: you'll play the same stage at least once, right, but
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  Speaker 3: you get to play a couple of the other stages too.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So we're doing Drunk Monk twice and then Tavern
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  Speaker 1: on the Hill once and Brewers Pub once.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so you get to do the grand tour of
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  Speaker 3: the pub stages.
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  Speaker 1: Although the second our second set is at Tavern on
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  Speaker 1: the Hill and our third set is at Drunk Monk,
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  Speaker 1: and we have fifteen minutes to get from one set
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  Speaker 1: to the.
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  Speaker 3: Next, which is doable, but it is like, you know,
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  Speaker 3: you always feel like you want to hustle so that
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  Speaker 3: you can get there, get set up and everything. You're
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  Speaker 3: not you know, starting late, and it honestly, things that
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  Speaker 3: are totally achievable when the festival is empty do become
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  Speaker 3: much more challenging when there are people there in your life.
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  Speaker 1: And it's also later in the season in hot although
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  Speaker 1: the weather has not been too bad and even this
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  Speaker 1: weekend knock on wood, it's not going to be too bad.
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  Speaker 1: I remember fair days where we hit feels like one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and five.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and definitely we were hitting the nineties, especially toward
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  Speaker 3: the end of the run, you know, because we Georgia
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  Speaker 3: Festival typically would stretch into the first weekend of June.
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  Speaker 3: This year is a little different because Memorial Day hits
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  Speaker 3: a little earlier than usual and that's our penultimate weekend,
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  Speaker 3: and then the final weekend will be the last weekend
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  Speaker 3: in May, so it ends a little earlier this year
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  Speaker 3: than in other years, which is a nice change of
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  Speaker 3: pace for all the performers, because, yeah, like on those
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  Speaker 3: days where it would either hit or flirt with ninety
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  Speaker 3: and you're out there in costume like it was, you
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  Speaker 3: really had to be vigilant and up on consuming enough
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  Speaker 3: water to replenish yourself. And like some of us got
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  Speaker 3: real good at sipping just enough water so that we
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  Speaker 3: stayed hydrated without having to go and use the privies.
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  Speaker 3: We there was like a science to it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it really was. Which I hit last weekend because
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  Speaker 1: I was talking with one of the other band folk
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  Speaker 1: not in my band but from a different band. I
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  Speaker 1: was like, oh, yeah, I pulled a bit Tina this
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  Speaker 1: weekend and they're like, oh, awesome, drink more water.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah no, you don't. You don't wanna. You don't want
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  Speaker 3: to air on the side of not drinking enough. Because
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  Speaker 3: we've had We've had performers go down from heat exhaustion
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  Speaker 3: in the past, and.
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  Speaker 1: I think I think both you and I have been
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  Speaker 1: affected negatively by the heat in the past.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there was.
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  Speaker 3: There was a couple of days and it wasn't even
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  Speaker 3: when it was like at its hottest when it hit
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  Speaker 3: me the worst.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but listen, my heat tolerance is less now, overall
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  Speaker 1: less because of the amount of times that I never
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  Speaker 1: got like full out heat exhaustion, but the amount of
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  Speaker 1: times that I flirted with it from not drinking enough
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  Speaker 1: or pushing myself too hard. It's one of those things
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  Speaker 1: that like you're told and when you're young, you're like,
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  Speaker 1: I'm stronger than that, but it really does affect you.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, And yeah, like you said, your tolerance
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  Speaker 3: goes down if you if you start having those like
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  Speaker 3: close calls or even to the point of heat exhaustion.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it doesn't take as much to set you
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  Speaker 3: off the next time. So it's a slippery slope kind
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  Speaker 3: of thing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: We had, Yeah, we had a performer one year. I
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  Speaker 3: will not name names. She knows who she is, not
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  Speaker 3: that she's listening, But we had a performer for a
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  Speaker 3: few years where it was like you could tell the
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  Speaker 3: time of day by when she would kind of fall out,
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  Speaker 3: is what we'd call it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, those.
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  Speaker 2: Were those were rough.
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  Speaker 1: But I do love that you alluded to the Renaissance
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  Speaker 1: Festival because there's one thing that kept happening to me,
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  Speaker 1: and by the end I was just laughing so hard
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  Speaker 1: that kind of have And at the beginning of this
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  Speaker 1: episode today, which is I know what I'm going to say,
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  Speaker 1: I know how a thing starts, and as soon as
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  Speaker 1: the words start coming out of my mouth, I second
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  Speaker 1: guess it. So at Fair we sang this song called
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  Speaker 1: Spanish Ladies. We sang it every set, which is fine,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people like it, and every time I
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  Speaker 1: go to start it, I would be just about to
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  Speaker 1: see the first words and immediately think, that's not how
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  Speaker 1: this song starts, And it is how the song starts.
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  Speaker 1: I know how the song starts. But like there's this
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  Speaker 1: weird balance between being cognizant about what you're doing and
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  Speaker 1: just going in like a fugue state, which happens when
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  Speaker 1: you're at Fair and you're hot. Your body just kind
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  Speaker 1: of enters a fugue state and you kind of oftentimes
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  Speaker 1: don't realize till the end of the day because you're
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  Speaker 1: in some other world. But at the end of this episode,
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  Speaker 1: I start talking, I'm like, this isn't how this podcast starts.
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  Speaker 1: Yes it is. Nope, yes, nope.
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  Speaker 3: I mean I had that happened to me with tech stuff,
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  Speaker 3: and I hosted that show for seventeen years, and there
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  Speaker 3: were times, like there are times well into the run
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  Speaker 3: where I'd be like, is this right? This doesn't feel right,
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  Speaker 3: And it was totally right. But yeah, I was gonna say, like,
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  Speaker 3: for me, Spanish Ladies is hard because I always want
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  Speaker 3: to sing it. I want to sing the verses to
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  Speaker 3: the tune of the chorus because in Jaws, Quint sings
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  Speaker 3: the first verse to the tune of the chorus.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, well, I think we sing Spanish Ladies technically correctly,
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  Speaker 1: but we do that to people with Wellerman all the
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  Speaker 1: time because they want to sing Wellerman the traditional way,
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  Speaker 1: and that's not how my band does it. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you can pick it up because it's pretty dang repetitive.
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  Speaker 3: But like, yeah, it was fun seeing you, and I'm
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  Speaker 3: hoping that this weekend is a great triumph for your
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  Speaker 3: band and you have a wonderful time. And then the
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  Speaker 3: following weekend, the Memorial Day weekend. On that Monday is
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  Speaker 3: when I'll be haunting the festival once again for my
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  Speaker 3: one and only performance the season.
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  Speaker 1: I hope you have the most fun that Monday evening
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  Speaker 1: after Fair's over, but you know, probably you wouldn't want
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  Speaker 1: to go after that. I'm going to go watch. Josh Rubin,
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  Speaker 1: who we had talked about in a previous episode, is
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  Speaker 1: currently filming a movie in the Atlanta area, performed with
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  Speaker 1: Dad's Garage and Drama Tech, which is the drama department
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  Speaker 1: of a technical college in Atlanta that turns out some
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  Speaker 1: really great art artists.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and we've actually we performed improv for them once.
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  Speaker 3: Here's a news were you Were you part of that?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and then we also we also were part of
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  Speaker 1: their black Box Improv Festival and one time I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if you were there when we did this, but
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  Speaker 1: they had like a workshop that was like a twenty
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  Speaker 1: four hour workshop.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't do that one, Okay, I definitely did do.
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  Speaker 3: It's weird because I'm when it comes to improv, I
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  Speaker 3: really love workshops. I love that experience, and I really
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  Speaker 3: detest performing.
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  Speaker 1: I get it. I get it. I did a straight
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  Speaker 1: up improv workshop. Recently, my good friend and also one
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  Speaker 1: of my acting coaches was had an improv workshop and
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  Speaker 1: it was really fun to brush the dust off. But
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  Speaker 1: it was also like no pressure because it was just.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, why that's why I like the workshops because
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  Speaker 3: it's playing with no stakes, right. I mean, you could
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  Speaker 3: argue that when you're performing, the fact that there are stakes,
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  Speaker 3: that's something you shouldn't concern yourself with anyway, because that's
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  Speaker 3: just going to make you second guess yourself or not
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  Speaker 3: go with your first instinct, which is really you know,
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  Speaker 3: the rule of improv is you should go with your
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  Speaker 3: first instinct. Always say yes, always escalate, always go with
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  Speaker 3: your first instinct, always take the first out. Those are
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  Speaker 3: the basic rules which you can fudge with within reason,
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  Speaker 3: but if you don't, if you don't ever adhere to them,
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  Speaker 3: then it's just becomes a chaotic mess with.
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  Speaker 1: It the guideline of if you feel ridiculous, you're probably
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  Speaker 1: doing it right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, And uh, I just I get very hard on
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  Speaker 3: myself because I'll like, as soon as I'm backstage, I'm like,
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  Speaker 3: oh man, that was a bad choice I made or whatever. Like,
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  Speaker 3: So I prefer workshops where I don't tend to do that,
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  Speaker 3: but yeah, I don't. I think I'm kind of past
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  Speaker 3: all that anyway. So uh, but I'm so glad you're
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  Speaker 3: going to get a chance to see them. I can't
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  Speaker 3: wait to hear about how it goes. I don't think
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  Speaker 3: I'll be able to make it because I'll be grabbing
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  Speaker 3: a ride with somebody else in order to leave the festival,
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  Speaker 3: so I will not be in charge of my own fate.
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  Speaker 3: And it's a person who is infamous for being has
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  Speaker 3: to say goodbye to everybody. I'm like, I'm like, let's
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  Speaker 3: do the let's do the French exit or the Irish
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  Speaker 3: escape or whatever. Let's just leave. It's fine. And this
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  Speaker 3: person is more like, let me say goodbye to this
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  Speaker 3: person whose name I do not even know, but I
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  Speaker 3: do pass them on occasion, so I need to say
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  Speaker 3: goodbye to them.
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  Speaker 1: I used to be that way, but I also used.
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  Speaker 3: To not sleep, So yeah, I.
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  Speaker 2: Value my time too much.
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  Speaker 3: I like everybody, don't get me wrong, but like you know,
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  Speaker 3: I don't need to have a special moment with each
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  Speaker 3: and every person before I depart the area. Well, let
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  Speaker 3: us move on to our question for the week, which
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  Speaker 3: Ariel came up with I had I had one, but
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  Speaker 3: I was convinced it was one that we have done
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  Speaker 3: probably multiple times before, and you had a much better one,
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  Speaker 3: which is that you know, we had Mother's Day over
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  Speaker 3: the last weekend, and your question was, who's your favorite
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  Speaker 3: mom from like a geeky property like television series or
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  Speaker 3: movie or whatever. So I'm curious who you put down
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  Speaker 3: as your favorite geeky mom.
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  Speaker 1: Sure, well, first time you can answer yours, because if
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  Speaker 1: I could get a reboot, it would be Galivant. But
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  Speaker 1: also Gallivant was only really really good because of Timothy Audmnson,
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  Speaker 1: So I don't know I go back to. But uh,
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  Speaker 1: there are so many good geeky moms on TV and film.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to pick two. That one that I think
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  Speaker 1: doesn't get enough enough props, which is the mom from Gremlins.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, because she.
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  Speaker 1: Doesn't have a huge role, but when the crap hits
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  Speaker 1: the fans, she gets stuff done.
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  Speaker 3: Like, yeah, she's really good at hitting that that puree button.
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  Speaker 2: On the blender.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but like she doesn't freak out. She you know,
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  Speaker 1: she accepts the situation and makes smart decisions. And you
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  Speaker 1: see that so infrequently, you know, especially for parents. Parents
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  Speaker 1: are often and the dad in Gremlins is a little
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  Speaker 1: bit bumbling. Parents are often kind of like the goofy
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  Speaker 1: foil when kids are the heroes of a story.
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  Speaker 3: See also all the Transformers movies that yeah, wats his
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  Speaker 3: face did?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah for sure. And then in TV it's it's geek adjacent.
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  Speaker 1: I think uh Loralai Gilmore Gilmore Girls.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I think Gilmore Girls.
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  Speaker 3: Only counts as geeky because other properties often reference Gilmore Girls.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, it's it's got it's got a quick
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  Speaker 1: repartee that I happens a lot in like the geek community.
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  Speaker 1: I think because it's it's a very it's a vaguely narrow,
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  Speaker 1: divergent speech pattern of.
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  Speaker 3: What and it's also kind of complementary of the the
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  Speaker 3: vision of the geek as the quick witted, you know,
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  Speaker 3: bon bo bon mole.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, and then everybody in that show has been
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  Speaker 1: in like very geeky properties Supernatural to heroes to Guardians
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  Speaker 1: of the Galaxy, Superman and just all of these things.
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  Speaker 1: Even the the Grandfather played Eddie Munster at one point.
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  Speaker 1: So it's it's it's like an honorary geek sphere thing.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Well, I'll allow it.
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  Speaker 1: And again just because the mom and the daughter had
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  Speaker 1: a really good relationship and the mom was a intelligent person.
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  Speaker 1: I mean she made mistakes because the humans, But.
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  Speaker 3: I like that, Okay, that good answers. I just have
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  Speaker 3: one answer, although well it's it's like an answer with
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  Speaker 3: like sub answers under it because of the because of
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  Speaker 3: the actress.
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  Speaker 1: Involved, we could call it one answer.
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  Speaker 3: I mean it's it's an actress who did more than
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  Speaker 3: one thing in the series that I'm referencing. So my
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  Speaker 3: my choice was Waxana Troy. Okay, the counselor Troy's mother,
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  Speaker 3: who who is like the over sext fem fatale mother
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  Speaker 3: who's con instantly like trying to fluster Captain Picard. Like her,
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  Speaker 3: that's her greatest joy in life is seeing if she
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  Speaker 3: can get Captain Picard to be flapped. But as we
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  Speaker 3: all know, Captain Picard is unflappable. And I love that character.
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  Speaker 3: It's such a fun character. She's just so like blase
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  Speaker 3: about how sexual she is. And the character was played
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  Speaker 3: by magell Or Migelle Barrett, who was the wife of
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  Speaker 3: Jeene Roddenberry. Geene Rodberry was the guy who created Star
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  Speaker 3: Trek and she wasn't just laws on a Troy. She
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  Speaker 3: also provided the voice of the computer and pretty much
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  Speaker 3: every every version of Star Trek up to her passing
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  Speaker 3: in two thousand and eight, so she was also the
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  Speaker 3: voice of the ship's computer. So she was kind of
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  Speaker 3: a mother in that way too. She was like a
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  Speaker 3: mother to the entire crew. But yeah, that's my choice, Like,
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  Speaker 3: and it was hard. Like you mentioned, there are a
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  Speaker 3: lot of really there's also a lot of really crappy
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  Speaker 3: mothers and geeky stuff. Like usually if there's a crappy mom,
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  Speaker 3: the mom is the bad guy. But yeah, but there's
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  Speaker 3: some really fun ones out there, And this was just
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  Speaker 3: like when I thought of her, I was like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: I gotta go with her.
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  Speaker 1: I think I think that's a great choice because she's
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  Speaker 1: very confident, you know, it's it's she's and she's very
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  Speaker 1: sure of herself, which is something that for a long
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  Speaker 1: time in television we didn't see. I do love there.
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  Speaker 1: There is a trend now, and it might just be
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  Speaker 1: because of the cultural shift or the demographic shift we
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  Speaker 1: have had at least in the US, that there are
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  Speaker 1: more older competent women in film and television than there
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  Speaker 1: used to be who are filling more roles than just mom,
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  Speaker 1: but also who are being showed that you can be
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  Speaker 1: a mom and be a badass at the same time.
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  Speaker 1: And I love that. I love that.
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  Speaker 3: So like when we were growing up, you essentially had
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  Speaker 3: the Golden Girls and that was about it, right.
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  Speaker 1: There were some others, but yeah, the Golden Girls are
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  Speaker 1: one the ones that are still referenced today.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean, like if you I'm sure,
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  Speaker 3: if I were to dig down, i'd be like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: there's this thing that ran for two seasons that no
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  Speaker 3: one remembers, but like, you know, Golden Girls was the
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  Speaker 3: one that sticks with me where I was like, this
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  Speaker 3: is a depiction of older women who are still like,
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  Speaker 3: they're still pursuing romantic interests, they have ambitions, they've got
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  Speaker 3: you know, quirks, and that was fun and not something
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  Speaker 3: that you would see and usually other depictions of women
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  Speaker 3: who were older than say, let's be generous and say thirty.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I'm so glad that shift has changed because
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  Speaker 1: I didn't get into film acting until I was thirty.
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  Speaker 1: So yes, thank you for exploring that question with me.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, And now let us talk about stuff we watched
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  Speaker 3: since the last time we recorded. For me, I'm still
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: reading up on the Boys. Let me tell you. I
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: read up on the last episode and I'm so glad
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  Speaker 3: I'm not watching it right now.
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  Speaker 2: And they and that was.
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: The penultimate episode, like the next one is the series finale,
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  Speaker 3: And all the warnings that have been going out are like, hey,
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: don't expect everything to get tied up, and I'm like, really,
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  Speaker 3: do we really? Okay, I mean, you're not selling me
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: on wanting to watch it. You're doing the opposite in fact.
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: But I have not seen any more of Invincible yet.
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: I am still watching that one. I just haven't gotten
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: back to it. But I did watch the first episode
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: of Widows Bay. That's the Apple TV Plus series that
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: is a horror comedy, and it's like seaside town horror,
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: so something like The Fog or Midnight Mass And I
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  Speaker 3: watched the first episode and really really enjoyed it, like
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: it gave me. It reminded me of Shat of the
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: Dead a little bit, but not quite leaning as hard
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: into comedy as Shawn of the Dead Dead. Like there's
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: it's undeniably a comedy, it just doesn't push quite as
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: hard as Shawn of the Dead Dead and I love
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: shann of the Dead. That's my favorite of the Cornetto trilogy.
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: So I highly recommend Widow's May if you have Apple
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: TV Plus and you like, if you like that kind
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: of atmospheric, seaside horror stuff, because you can tell that
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: the showrunners like it too. They're not just making fun
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: of it, They're they're like, here's a new version. It
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: just also happens to have comedy in it. And Stephen Root,
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: to the surprise of absolutely no one, is fantastic.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: I watched a couple of episodes of Barry this weekend
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: with my in laws because they hadn't seen it, and yeah,
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: Stephen Route is just astounding.
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah, the transformation he makes in that show in the
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: last season, Like I was like, I was like, I'm
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: never gonna buy this, and then within like halfway through
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: the first episode, after his transformation, I was like, no,
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: I buy it.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. So I have two questions about Widow's Bay. One,
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: how gory is it?
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: So far?
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: Not gory at all? Okay, there's like there's like a
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: little bit of kind of Revenant sort of spookiness, but
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: nothing nothing on the level of like blood and guts.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: Cool. I'll look up Revenant on Common Sense Media, so
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: I know it levels spookiness that is.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: Like kind of like a zombie but not a zombie.
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: Gotcha somewhere between zombie and ghost.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: Okay, And my second question, this is the trailer that
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: we talked about that had the cannibal poster on the wall,
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: and I.
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: Was like, okay, which which they reference and they joke about,
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: but you don't.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: See anything, Okay, Okay, cool.
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: It's actually it's actually a really funny little sequence because,
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: like the mayor, the premise is that the mayor of
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: this little town has invited a New York Times travel
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: writer to come and visit the town, and what the
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: mayor is trying to do is to show this guy
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: a good time and to essentially sell the town so
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: that hopefully the writer will give a write up in
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: the New York Times and thus drive tourism to the community,
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: because otherwise, this is a town that is just slowly
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: decaying over time, like its infrastructure is falling apart. They
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: don't have the population to help really support repairs.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: And keeping the town running.
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: So his hope is to revitalize the town through tourism
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: and be able to improve everyone's lives. The problem is
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: it's a town that's populated by a bunch of really
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: crabby people.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: Gotcha. Well, I'll definitely have to give it a try,
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: because you know, there's a bunch of stuff coming out
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: soon that I'm excited for, but it isn't out yet.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: I actually made a list so I wouldn't forget any
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: of it this time. Normally, I just make a list
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: of all the shows I want to watch, and I
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: don't pay attention to their release dates sometimes because there
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: are times like now when Shrinking and The Pit are
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: both done for the season. They're both coming back, but
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: you know, I'm like, what do I watch now? And
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: then a lot of stuff is very short seasons and
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: I watch it in two days and I'm like, crap, So.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: Did you see that?
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: Did you see that the next season of The Pit
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: is going to be set in November and it'll have
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: like holiday related stuff happening as part of it.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: I saw that it was going to be set around Thanksgiving,
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: which is the hugest holiday for my husband, who is
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: from Pittsburgh, so though it's huge for him here in Atlanta,
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: so I'm excited for it. Also, it's coming out in January,
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: so it's not a huge wait. You know, some things
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: like we're going to talk talk about upcoming stuff soon
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: in the episode. But you know, when Severn season two,
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: I guess season two, season three, season two ended, everybody's like,
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: how long is it going to be till we get
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: another one? They say, it's going to be a shorter
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: period of time before until we get the next one,
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: not three years but hopefully. But but yeah, the pit's
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: coming out quick and I appreciate that.
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, So what have you watched since our last recording?
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: So I've been continuing to watch Reggie Dinkins. It's cute.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: It hasn't struck me quite as much as it struck you,
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: though I do enjoy it. But I also want to
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: finish the season so that I can switch to another
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: streaming service for a little bit, because we have finally,
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: but we finally don't have every streaming service under the
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: sun anymore. We're watching a streaming service until we watch
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: the shows we want to watch and then switching to
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: another one. And I want to watch Malcolm in the middle.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: Life is still unfair, and I don't currently have that
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: streaming channel, so I need to switch over soon. It's
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: another reason why I'm running into what do I want
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: to watch? Is because I'm trying to get through everything
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: on one service to another. So still watching that, still
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: enjoying it, Still watching task Master season twenty one, still
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: enjoying it. This week I did watch two new things.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: One was the movie roof Man, which is the story
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: about the guy who robbed McDonald's and Toys r Us and.
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: We lived secretly lived inside the Toys r Us for
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: a while.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so it was interesting. I did enjoy it. I
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: like Channing Tatum. I think he's a great actor, and
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: I think everybody else in that movie was also fantastic.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: It's not like I was hoping it would be along
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: the lines of Logan Lucky, which is a hilarious heist
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: movie lovingly called in my household Ocean seven to eleven.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: But maybe they say that in the movie too, I
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: don't know. But it's not because it is focused on
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: a person's real life and real mistakes, and so there
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: are definitely funny moments in it, and they're definitely infuriating
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: moments of why are you making this decision? Why haven't
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: you learned from your mistakes? And it's a really good
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: example of how being kind is not the same as
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: being good or being nice. It's not the same as
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: being good. And it wasn't exactly this guy's life and
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: history to a t, but it was a lot of
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: it was really very accurate.
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: How is Peter Dinglige in that?
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: Oh, he's great. He's not super likable as a character,
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: but he plays it very well. Kirsten Dunst is great.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: What is her name? The woman who was the main
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: character in the Resident is fantastic.
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: Never saw the Resident, so I can't.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, just everybody was really good. It also had I'm
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: trying to think of the names, had Ben Mendelssohn in
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: it. It had Uzo Aduba who was I was thinking of
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: the Keith Stanfield was great. Just everybody in it. Juno
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: Temple was great. Everybody was fantastic. It just was a
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: hard story to watch because it's about a person who
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: continued to make really bad decisions while wanting a normal life.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: And the worst part is like a lot of those
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: decisions he didn't have to make. Yeah, so as is evidence,
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: But I mean, this is a real person who apparently
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: will be looking at parole in twenty thirty six. But who,
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: after his second time getting sent to jail, made two
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: more attempts to escape. Like, you can't say you you've
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: learned your lesson and then tried to do the same
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: thing over, you know. Yeah, albeit you know the US
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: This is not in the podcast where, but the US
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: prison system is not great and I don't blame anyone
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: for not wanting to be there.
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, it's not like our prison system is set
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: up to actually rehabilitate people. Yeah, which is unfortunate. Like,
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: granted you can argue not everyone can be rehabilitated. True,
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: I'm sure that's true, But it doesn't mean we shouldn't
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: have systems in place to try it is it is.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: Set from what I know, it is set up to
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: make the people in that system continue to fail.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, And which again, like you say, it's really for
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: a different show, like we would want to do massive
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: amounts of research in order to present it properly, and
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: also we probably wouldn't talk about Star Wars as much.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, but I mean but it's But what I'm
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: saying is it was a good movie. I enjoyed it.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: I'm glad I watched it. While I would have liked
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: to have support all of those actors on the big screen.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: I'm kind of glad I didn't go watch it in
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: a movie theater. It was a little slower paced, was
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: not necessarily when you need to watch it in a
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: movie theater. And then I watched the television show The
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: Four Seasons, which we had also talked about in previous episodes.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: That's the one where three couples go on vacations together
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: and one of the couple's marriages fall apart, and like
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: how those friendships and relationships evolve through the four seasons.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: So there are like a few episodes in spring and
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: then a few episodes in summer, and a few episodes
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: in fall and a few episodes in winter, and that
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: actually goes to all of their vacations during those times.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: It was I said during the trailer, I liked it
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: because it was a bunch of big comedy, almost shop
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: comedy actors being relatable, and that is still true. I
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: loved it. I loved it so hard. I watched it
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: in the day and a half and there's a second
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: season coming out, so that's fantastic. That's yeah. It was
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: just it was relatable. There was the right amount of
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: drama and comedy and heartfelt and everybody did a phenomenal job. Yeah, no, notes.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: Cool, excellent.
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: Well then I guess now we can mosey on over
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: to thirty seconds or less. In some ways, we have
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: less to talk about this week than usual, But in
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: other ways that's not true, because we have a nice
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: long discussion about the upfronts, which we will cover after
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: we get through thirty seconds or less. But let's do
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: that first. And I believe Ariel that you go first
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: this week.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: I do so. Netflix is trying to start a new division.
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: They're looking for people to build positions in it, to
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: use generative AI to make animated shorts. They're calling this
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: studio ink You Vader I n And they're looking at
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: creating short form animated content. That's a I mean, I
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: already said that I'm not a fan of this at all.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: It will The current theory is that they're going to
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: put it on like their mobile app, because that's a
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: great place to watch that kind of stuff. I don't
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: think there is a good place to watch that kind
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: of stuff right now. But that's me.
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, not just you. I feel the same way.
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: All right, Well, like I said, we're going to talk
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: more about what happened at the upfronts in a little bit,
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: but one thing I wanted to mention was Netflix's upcoming
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: adaptation of Barbaric from Vault Comics. Sheldon Turner and Robert Rovner,
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: both of whom have worked on comic book adaptations in
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: the past, will serve as showrunners. The series is about
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: a brute who's under a curse that means he can
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: only use violence if it's for good, which sounds.
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: Fun to me.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: It does. I hope they feel that in Atlanta. I
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: would like to audition for it.
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: I think it might be the yeah, yeah, I didn't
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: look to see if it was live action or animated.
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: Very well, maybe live action.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: If it's animated, I still want to audition for it.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: I do voice acting.
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: Warner Brothers Pictures Animation is doing something that I didn't
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: think was really needed, But the more I think about it,
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: the more I like it. They are committing to bringing
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: Mooney Tunes back to the big screen posts Space Jam
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: two and Coyote versus Acme. They have other animated stuff
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: that they're working on as well, like Cat in the
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: Hat and a Daffy Daffy season, which is about Elmer
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: Fudd getting into soccer, I guess. But they also said
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: that they're going to bring back little animated shorts to
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: the movie theaters and that I am super into. I
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: love the Little Pixar in little WB animated shorts before movies.
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: So yeah, one of my favorite childhood memories. Sorry for
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: the tangent, but I went to see Star Trek four
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: Voyage Home when it came out. Like there was like
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: an Atlanta premiere at one of the theaters that no
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: longer exists, but it was kind of similar to the
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: Fox Theater, like it was a theater that could be
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: used both for live theater and for cinema, and I
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: remember going and before the movie they showed a Goofy
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: short beforehand. It was the Hockey short of Goofy playing
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: hockey from the classic Disney shorts. And being in a
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: crowd of people who are laughing at a cartoon before
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: the movie starts really was is one of my favorite
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: childhood memories. I was like, I had so much fun,
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: and I had seen everyone there had seen the short before.
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: It's not like it was new and surprising, but just
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: having everyone just enjoy it was such a great time. Anyway, Sorry,
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: that was way long of a tangent, all right, So
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: adapting horror for the stage is tricky. So here's hoping
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: that John Bernenthal and Eben moss Backrack hit all the
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: spooky notes when they star in Paranormal Activity, A New
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: Story Live on Broadway. The show goes into previews on
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: August fourteenth and opens on September fifteenth, or a twenty
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: week engagement. The show has already run in places like
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: London and Los Angeles and even received an Olivier nomination.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: How do you feel about that?
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: I actually like the first Well, this is not an
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: adaptation of the first Paranormal Activity movie, but I like
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: that movie. I'm one of the few people who does. Apparently.
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: I've heard lots of people, you know, kind of dismissed
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: that film, but I actually thought it was really good,
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: especially like I saw it for the first time by
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: myself at night in the dark at home, and it
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: was great. Like, I mean, it really affected me that
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: Being said, horror on stage is hard. It's not impossible,
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: but it is hard to do in a way that
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: doesn't come across as unintentionally comedic. So the fact that
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: this has performed in other places and done well. Gives
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: me some hope. But yeah, I think really curious is
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: the best way I could describe my reaction. If I
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: plan an extended weekend to go see much Ado, maybe
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: I'll also try and see this.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: Nice nice Okay, so on, we're going to cut down
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: on tangents. I sworry. AMC Plus is the new US
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: streaming partner for BBC's Doctor Who. That is wonderful that
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: Doctor Who has a new streaming service in the US
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: that it will be on since Disney has dropped it
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: and HBO's everything is up in the air. It's sad
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: for me because I don't have AMC Plus. But Doctor
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: Who all thirteen seasons, one hundred and seventy six episodes
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: including specials, will be available starting June eleventh, So that's
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: really exciting.
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: Back to Broadway, which is about to get very weird,
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: as in weird Al Yankovic. So once upon a time,
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: lenn Manuel Miranda joked about collaborating with Al on a
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: Broadway show, but in fact Al will be teaming up
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: with Scott Brown and Anthony King. That's the team who
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: created Gutenberg the musical, and the developing show will be
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: called Dare To be Stupid and will feature many of
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: Al's ridiculous songs. Alex Timbers, who directed Beetlejuice on Broadway,
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: will direct the show.
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: I'm so excited for that. Also, we have James Bond
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: News James Bond Reboot News. So every month there is
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: some new article that's like somebody's been passed as a
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: new James Bond. Well it has it. However, we do
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: have somebody stepping in to help past that. That would
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: be mean a gold who has previously worked on pasting
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: such things as The Martian and Game of Thrones. Now
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: I really want to do a Game of Thrones James
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: Bond mashup, even though I feel like every James Bond
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: is already kind of a James Bond Game of Thrones mashup.
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: Mmmm Well.
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: There have been many adaptations of Johnston mccully's folk hero Zorrow,
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: but none of those were set in modern day Los Angeles,
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: with Zorro driving an El Camino and wielding weapons like
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: sawed off shotguns and an electric saw. That's what Joe
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: Bego says. They call him. Zorrow will be shooting for
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: with a Zorro who behaves more like the Punisher or
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: the crow. I am cautiously intrigued.
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: Cautious is the right word for me as well. Next,
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: in thirty seconds or less, We've got Denny's, does he Man?
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: They are coming out with a nationwide Masters of the
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: Universe menu, which will include such things as a he
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: Man Battleburger with a beef patty hand called Beef Bake
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: and barbecue sauce and the fixens and my also Junior
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: Gray Skills, Epic crackle Cakes which are just pancakes with
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: popping candy, Skeletar's Dark Shake verst which is a blueberry
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: strawberry ice cream shake, and my favorite Attorney's premium Breakfast Slam,
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: which features buttermilk pancakes topped with mid chocolate ice cream.
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: Wow, I'm sad we don't get Orco's hash Browns or
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: something me too. Mister Beast's production company recently came to
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: an agreement with the Union IATSI regarding the upcoming season
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: of Beast Games.
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: But now a.
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: New challenger enters the Fray. This time it's the Teamsters.
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: They represent lots of different roles in the behind the
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: scenes in the film industry, so by the time you
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: hear this episode, the standoff may have been resolved, but
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: it's possible that workers who belong to the Teamsters could
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: strike if they're not satisfied with mister Beast's offer.
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: I look, I think that people who work in the
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: industry have very hard demands put on them often. I've
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: been over this. I'm not do it yet good on them.
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: So in everything that goes around comes around, we might
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: be getting again finally, an all female expendables movie. Apparently
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: this is what we know because we've talked about before it.
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: This is tried to launch several times with several different
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: people heading it. This including like stories where everybody's cover
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: is a call girl, which obviously that's more of like
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: an eighties nineties sentiment than a modern day sentiment for
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: a movie story. But the new one will take place
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: in the late nineteen nineties, during the height of the
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: Y two K era of tension and geopolitical uncertainty. So
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: all I get from this, and it's going to be
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: called expend of Bells, which I don't know, is that
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: they're setting it in the past so that they don't
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: have to excuse the sexism question hard well.
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: And the expended Bells I think is a working title,
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: So maybe that's not what it'll I mean, it wouldn't
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: surprise me if that's what they go with. But I
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: mean I can think of I can think of certain
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: people I would really want, Like, I don't think any
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: of the Expendables movies are worth watching. I'll get that
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: all the way. I wish they were, because it is
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: kind of cool just thinking about all these action heroes
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: getting to be in a movie together. But honestly, the
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: actual stories behind these are, in my opinion, not very engaging.
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: So it's like, oh, it feels like a lot of
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: wasted opportunity. But I think of people like Michelle yoh right,
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: or Linda Hamilton, you know, these these women who have
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: kicked but in action or Rothrock, Cynthia Rothrock from like
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: the eighties. She hardly anyone knows who that is, but
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: she was in lots of like load to mid budget
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: kung fu movies in the eighties, including some I think
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: she was in, like a She was certainly in at
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: least one that had like like some of Jackie Chan's
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: colleagues in it. Yeah, So like seeing folks like that,
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: even if they're just playing, you know, like the evil
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: triumvirate who's pulling the strings, but they're not actively in
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: you know, kung fu.
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: Shots or whatever.
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: I think it would be great to kind of pay
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: tribute to women who really kind of defined the action
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: hero character for women.
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: I want Geena Davis in there as well.
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: Gina Davis as an action hero. I mean, I guess
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: she was in that one Pirate movie.
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: She was in the Pirate movie she was in is
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: it Long Kiss good Night?
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: Oh? I don't.
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: I never saw that one. That might be the problem
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: because I would have thought I would have thought Sigourney Weaver.
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: Before, why why not both?
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: Though I'm not I'm not arguing. I'm just like, I
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: just don't associate Jeena Davis with action. But that's because
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: most of the stuff I've seen her in has either
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: been drama or comedy.
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: I mean, I mean that is true. But Long Kiss
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: good Night is fantastic, and she's fantastic.
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I've not seen that, So that's my fault.
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: That's super action.
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: That's not an okay.
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: I say, like, what about Transylvania six five thousand. I'm like, well,
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: there was some action in that movie, but it wasn't
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: the kind you're talking about all right, Well, that that's
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: our thirty seconds or less. Let's move on to talk
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: about the upfronts. So, first of all, if you're not
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: familiar with upfronts and what those are, it's when studios
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: are presenting upcoming projects to potential advertisers. So it's it's
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: usually like a big thing that happens, typically either in
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: New York or Los Angeles, sometimes both, where advertisers will
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: go into like a big theater area and then executives
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: and sometimes stars will come out and try to wow
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: the advertisers with here's what you can expect in next
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: year's seasons. And you know, it's sometimes that's a way
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: where we learn about upcoming projects. Barbara was one of
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: those that I mentioned in earlier in thirty seconds or Less.
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: So we've got quite a few things that were brought
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: up during the upfronts. One thing in general is that
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: we're getting more scripted series this coming season than in
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: this past year, which is nice.
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: As an actor, woo woo. I mean also as a viewer.
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I I do.
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: I can't watch the only reality TV type stuff I watch.
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: It's not really reality TV, but the closest that it
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: comes to is things like task Master, like because that's
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: not a scripted series, I wouldn't call it reality TV either.
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: It's kind of, you know, a comedy, you know, improv
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: kind of thing, more or less. But I don't. I
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: don't like reality TV. I just think of it as
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: trashy and I don't take any joy. And that's not
• 41:53
  Speaker 3: to say that I judge anyone who does. There's lots
• 41:56
  Speaker 3: of people I really like who love reality TV, but
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: I'm much prefer a scripted show.
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: I like some reality TV, so I'm not a big
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: fan of like brig Book. I did like Amazing Race,
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: but I'm not a big fan of like Survivor or
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: Big Brother or The Circle or things like that. I
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: do like cooking shows. I like fashion shows where there's
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: something being created, and then I like British reality like
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: task Master or I guess game shows QI last One,
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: laughing stuff like that.
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so I'm sorry I cut you off. That's fine, Okay,
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: I was just gonna say.
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: So.
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: We've got like a list of some of the things
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: that were talked about during the upfronts from multiple studios,
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: including like the four big broadcasters, but also streaming services. So,
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: for example, CBS is adding a series called Coupertino and
• 42:50
  Speaker 3: another one called n cis New York. They're adding a
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: procedural called Einstein, and I had to look this up
• 42:59
  Speaker 3: because I was like, Okay, what's this about. So it
• 43:02
  Speaker 3: follows the brilliant but directionless great grandson of Albert Einstein,
• 43:07
  Speaker 3: Lewis Einstein, who is a physics professor, but because he's
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: a wild card who is zany, he ends up being
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: charged with helping cops solve crime. So it sounds like
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: it's a procedural with maybe some humor in it.
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: I'm kind of for that.
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: One that's much more geeky, I think is Eternally Yours,
• 43:27
  Speaker 3: which feels like it could be as I think it's
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: brought by the same people who did Ghosts, but it
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: also feels like, yeah, it feels like it could be
• 43:35
  Speaker 3: a cousin to Ghosts or what we do in the Shadows.
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: The concept is you've got a vampire couple who've been
• 43:42
  Speaker 3: together for like five hundred years and their eternally teenage
• 43:46
  Speaker 3: daughter has fallen for a human man, and like how
• 43:52
  Speaker 3: that kind of uproots their whole existence, which could be
• 43:56
  Speaker 3: pretty fun. It sounds to me the CBS will all
• 44:00
  Speaker 3: will be canceling a couple of shows. They're canceling Watson
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: and The Neighborhood and DMVM.
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: Uh next, we got NBC. You want to take what
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: the news shows that are coming? I don't have anything
• 44:14
  Speaker 3: about any of these.
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: Uh yeah. First is The Rockford Files, which is filming
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: in Atlanta. I guess how I know. I did not
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: realize though, that David or or Boreanis is going to
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: be in that.
• 44:25
  Speaker 3: Uh Ra Boreana is nice?
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: Uh of, that's a that's a Family Guide joke.
• 44:30
  Speaker 3: That's not a new joke, Angel Fame.
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah. They've also got Line of Sunset No sorry, Line
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: of Fire, Sunset Place, and The Newlyweds, and they're canceling
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: Beautiful Minds in Stumble. I didn't watch Stumble, but I
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: think you enjoyed it.
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I did like Stumble.
• 44:48
  Speaker 3: It's Sunset PI okay, because it's Private Investigators.
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: I bet they're also located on Sunset Place.
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: So there, yes, yes, the fictional street Sunset Place.
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: Foxes at Yeah. Fox is adding Baywatch and The Interrogator
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: to their list and canceling Going Dutch.
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: ABC is adding The Rookie North, which kind of is
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: It's interesting to me. I wonder if they're gonna have uh,
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: what's his face? Just being by coastal? What's his face?
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: What's his name?
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: Oh?
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: Gosh, Nathan Billion. Ah.
• 45:31
  Speaker 3: Oh, isn't the Rookie.
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: Isn't the Rookie the Nathan Fillion cop show?
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: Yes?
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: Yes, so the Rookie North. Wouldn't that be like Canadian?
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: So he's he's I mean, that's not by coastal.
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: But I was about to say I was curious about
• 45:47
  Speaker 3: the by coastal part, Like, what is the Rookie North?
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: Said of New York.
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: Well, that's what I would think, but I guess it
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: would be the Rookie.
• 45:52
  Speaker 3: East, the North North Northeast.
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but I'll be interested. I I haven't read up
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: on it. I am interested to see who they can
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: because I think that comedic cornerstone is what makes that
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: show a lot of people like that show.
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it makes me wonder if the tone is going
• 46:09
  Speaker 3: to be similar to the Rookie, because like sometimes you
• 46:12
  Speaker 3: get these spinoffs and like the tone can be We'll
• 46:15
  Speaker 3: get to one of the spinoffs where I feel like
• 46:18
  Speaker 3: it's dramatically different from the thing it's spun off from.
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's that's the big thing for ABC. You
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: can take Disney.
• 46:26
  Speaker 3: Okay, Well, first of all, I thought it was funny
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: that the Savannah Bananas, that's the comedy baseball team you know,
• 46:34
  Speaker 3: are representing. Although Savannah is not close to Atlanta, it's
• 46:39
  Speaker 3: in the same state, but it is. It is like
• 46:41
  Speaker 3: six hours from here.
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of movie and TV stuff going on
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: there though.
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 46:45
  Speaker 3: Well, the Savannah Bananas open Disney's up front with a
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: number from the Greatest Showmen. Of course they did. Disney
• 46:53
  Speaker 3: has secured an agreement to air the Banana Bowl, which
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: is a series of baseball games played by different teams
• 46:59
  Speaker 3: that do these kind of outlandish acrobatics and performances in
• 47:03
  Speaker 3: the middle of a game, which makes me really excited
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: because I have yet to see a Savanna Bananas game
• 47:07
  Speaker 3: and I really want to.
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: They're kind of like the Harlem Globetrotters of baseball. I
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: actually found out about this because I had several friends
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: who went to a recent game in Atlanta. You can
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: sign up for their mailing list to get tickets. Like,
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: you can't just buy tickets, you have to join a lottery.
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: So I did sign up.
• 47:24
  Speaker 3: I signed up last year, but did not manage to
• 47:28
  Speaker 3: score tickets. Like I got an email saying sorry you
• 47:30
  Speaker 3: didn't get it, and I was like, oh, man, I
• 47:32
  Speaker 3: can't believe they sold out because they play major stadiums.
• 47:35
  Speaker 3: It's not like it's not like they're playing little fields
• 47:39
  Speaker 3: or something. But yeah, they sold out.
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: But it is also interesting because I know you can
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: watch Savannah or I have been able to watch apparently
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: live Savannah Banana games on YouTube. So I wonder if
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: that will go away now that they are teamed up
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: with Disney.
• 47:52
  Speaker 3: That would be unfortunately, that's an excellent question. Yeah, it
• 47:55
  Speaker 3: may just be for this particular series of games, which
• 47:57
  Speaker 3: is kind of like, you know, kind of like the
• 48:00
  Speaker 3: version of the Playoffs. We also they got a sneak
• 48:04
  Speaker 3: peek at Star Wars Ahsoka season two, and then there
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: were a bunch of announcements for Disney Slash Hulu Slash
• 48:12
  Speaker 3: FX series because they're all under the same corporate umbrella.
• 48:15
  Speaker 3: So there's gonna be a thirteenth season of American Horror Story.
• 48:18
  Speaker 3: Don't know what the subtitle is going to be yet.
• 48:21
  Speaker 3: There's going to be an adaptation of a Brett Easton
• 48:26
  Speaker 3: Ellis novel called The Shards. That novel is interesting because
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: it's a fictional autobiography of the author's final year in
• 48:35
  Speaker 3: high school in nineteen eighty one. That's also going to
• 48:38
  Speaker 3: be a Ryan Murphy production, so I expected to be
• 48:40
  Speaker 3: really trashy. He's the guy behind American Horror Story and
• 48:43
  Speaker 3: other stuff too. There's a show called count My Lies,
• 48:49
  Speaker 3: another one called The Spot, and another one called cry Wolf.
• 48:53
  Speaker 3: All of those were announced or mentioned at the upfronts
• 48:57
  Speaker 3: for Disney Slash, Hulu Slash, etc. Cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Netflix is adding some stuff. They're bringing back a
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: whole bunch of stuff. They have a big, long slate.
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: But some of the stuff is Calabasas, which has been
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: compared to like California Money. But Bridgerton so a soap opera,
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: a story about Myram Bolatar, who is a sportsperson that
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: I'm not very familiar with. I don't know if you
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: have more to say on that or not.
• 49:26
  Speaker 3: I have no idea who that is.
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: The retrievals. I didn't look into Barbaric, which Jonathan already
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: talked about, which we will have to figure out if
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: it's live action or animation. Either way, it does sound
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: fun and kind of around this time. I don't think
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: we covered it. I think technically the news came out
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: at the beginning of May, and I don't know how
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: I missed it. You know that Greta Gerwig's Narnia movie
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: will be the Magician's Nephew, and that Daniel Craig is
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: in it, and I am super and one of the
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: kids from the new Lord of the Flies. I am
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: super excited. Huh.
• 49:53
  Speaker 3: I don't know how I missed that either. This is
• 49:56
  Speaker 3: the first time hearing of it.
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, it's Oh, I'm so excited.
• 50:00
  Speaker 3: I never read the Narnia series. I mean, I'm tangentially aware,
• 50:05
  Speaker 3: and I am aware that the order of publication is
• 50:08
  Speaker 3: not the chronological order for the series. So some people
• 50:12
  Speaker 3: feel very strongly that you should read them in the
• 50:14
  Speaker 3: chronology as the narrative unfolds, and others feel like you
• 50:18
  Speaker 3: should read them in the order of publication. It's kind
• 50:20
  Speaker 3: of like Star Wars in that way. Amazon also announced
• 50:24
  Speaker 3: Rose Hill. They announced that Aaron Paul is going to
• 50:27
  Speaker 3: be on the next season of Fallout. They announced that
• 50:32
  Speaker 3: Man Meat Mountain Reacher gets a renewal for up to
• 50:35
  Speaker 3: five seasons now Ride or Die, which is a spy show,
• 50:41
  Speaker 3: was announced. Fourth Wing, which is an adaptation of Rebecca
• 50:44
  Speaker 3: Yaris's book series, a fantasy book series that's going to
• 50:48
  Speaker 3: be in the works. Delphi, which is a Creed spin off,
• 50:54
  Speaker 3: is coming up. The Greatest, which is a series about
• 50:58
  Speaker 3: Muhammad Ali, is coming up. A remake of The Thomas
• 51:01
  Speaker 3: Crown Affair with Michael B. Jordan is coming up. And
• 51:05
  Speaker 3: The Man with the Bag that has the most Santa Claus,
• 51:10
  Speaker 3: Santa Claus ever Arnold Schwarzenegger.
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: Okay, so it's not the gritty retelling of the smallest
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: wife or whatever. That is a peacawcas.
• 51:19
  Speaker 3: The man with the bag.
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, sorry, that's a don't uh weren't like whys derogatorily
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: called bags at one point. I don't know the.
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: Old heard I've heard, I've heard.
• 51:35
  Speaker 3: I've heard old bag just to describe an older woman,
• 51:39
  Speaker 3: but not necessarily a wife.
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: I'm bringing that up.
• 51:44
  Speaker 3: So it's gonna be staying in, I know. I mean,
• 51:47
  Speaker 3: unless you're absolutely determined for me to take it, on
• 51:49
  Speaker 3: which case I will. It's fine, Okay, I.
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: Don't think it's out. Listen.
• 51:54
  Speaker 3: I don't think you were off base. Old bag is
• 51:57
  Speaker 3: definitely something that's been used to describe women in a misogynistic,
• 52:01
  Speaker 3: sexist way, especially women who are who dare to be
• 52:04
  Speaker 3: over the age of thirty.
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: Like sure, I guess that goes along with our awesome
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: moms in media.
• 52:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and next, we're going the sunset for the upfronts. Now,
• 52:17
  Speaker 3: we're ready to move on to a section that this
• 52:19
  Speaker 3: week we're calling stuff for normal people, stuff for normal people.
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: And the first is we got a trailer for the
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: Rivals of Amzia King, which is about people having a
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: vendetta against a guy who raises bees.
• 52:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think the protagonist is actually the young woman
• 52:38
  Speaker 3: and that Matthew McConaughey who plays Amzia Like, he's I
• 52:43
  Speaker 3: guess you could call it co lead, Like, I don't
• 52:45
  Speaker 3: think he would call him supporting. But I was looking
• 52:48
  Speaker 3: into this and apparently the protagonist, Katerry or it has
• 52:53
  Speaker 3: to be Ka Terry's k a t e r. I
• 52:56
  Speaker 3: suffers tragedy, personal tragedy, and she returns to meet up
• 53:02
  Speaker 3: with her foster parent, who is Matthew McConaughey im Zaiah King,
• 53:07
  Speaker 3: who is a beekeeper and honey farmer essentially, and then
• 53:10
  Speaker 3: there's like this whole crime thriller element where apparently the
• 53:15
  Speaker 3: honey game is more cutthroat than you would have imagined.
• 53:18
  Speaker 3: But it looks interesting because it looks like part crime thriller,
• 53:21
  Speaker 3: part kind of Americana, part drama, part comedy.
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: The build it is kind of uplifting.
• 53:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's been screened at some film festivals already, and
• 53:32
  Speaker 3: I saw at least one description call it genre defying,
• 53:37
  Speaker 3: like you cannot just neatly categorize it.
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: It looks interesting to me. I'm definitely interested in this one.
• 53:45
  Speaker 3: It comes out well limited release on August fourteenth, with
• 53:48
  Speaker 3: a wider release the following week on the twenty first.
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the next trailer we got was something called Not
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: Suitable for Work. I was worried when I read the
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: title that it would be a little bit bluer than
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: I appreciate, but it's really not. It's a charming, little
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: I guess series coming from Disney Plus and Hulu about
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: a bunch of young twenty somethings trying to navigate work
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: and romance in life. And it looks cute and charming
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: and funny.
• 54:19
  Speaker 3: M Yeah, and it's like people who are particularly ambitious too, right,
• 54:25
  Speaker 3: Like it's not just that they're pursuing work, but they're
• 54:28
  Speaker 3: kind of obsessed with professional status as well. Set in Manhattan,
• 54:33
  Speaker 3: so perfect setting for that kind of story, and as
• 54:37
  Speaker 3: you said, it comes out on Hulu on June second.
• 54:39
  Speaker 3: It was also created by Mindy Kayling, who you might
• 54:42
  Speaker 3: remember from the Office, or if you're less kind, you
• 54:45
  Speaker 3: might remember as the evil genius who brought us the
• 54:47
  Speaker 3: Velma animated show.
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that sells me a little bit less, but the
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: trailer does look cute to me.
• 54:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 54:57
  Speaker 3: I always thought Mandy Kayling was a very charming and
• 55:01
  Speaker 3: funny actor in the Office, and this definitely looks more
• 55:05
  Speaker 3: my speed than Velma Velma. I felt was almost hostile
• 55:08
  Speaker 3: toward the audience.
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I did not. I did not watch more than
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: a half an episode of that.
• 55:18
  Speaker 3: I watched the second just the first season. I never
• 55:21
  Speaker 3: watched the second one.
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: That's why you got to be predictive of your time,
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: because you lost so much of it to that.
• 55:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 55:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, like I've never getting that time back. Next up,
• 55:31
  Speaker 3: we got a trailer for Anna Pigeon, which is a
• 55:36
  Speaker 3: character from a series of books by Nevada bar And.
• 55:42
  Speaker 3: Anna Pigeon is the titular character. She's a woman who
• 55:47
  Speaker 3: leaves the city after she suffers a personal tragedy and
• 55:50
  Speaker 3: decides to become a park ranger, and the series is
• 55:54
  Speaker 3: kind of like a procedural where she she's solving woods crimes.
• 56:02
  Speaker 3: I think it was Sasquatch who did it. Honestly, it's
• 56:06
  Speaker 3: not a comedy, or there's comedic elements, but it's not
• 56:08
  Speaker 3: a comedy. Is a crime procedural. But yeah, when and
• 56:12
  Speaker 3: I'm being a little dismissive when I say woods crimes,
• 56:14
  Speaker 3: I mean obviously, like there can be some really disturbing
• 56:18
  Speaker 3: stuff that can happen in parks or whether it's like
• 56:20
  Speaker 3: someone who goes missing or whatever. It comes to the
• 56:23
  Speaker 3: USA Network starting August seventh.
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I I don't super care about it. It does
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: have an interesting cast, though I.
• 56:36
  Speaker 3: Thought it looked like it was well made, Like it
• 56:38
  Speaker 3: doesn't look like it's bad. It's just like, if you're
• 56:40
  Speaker 3: not a crime procedural person, like, if that's just not
• 56:43
  Speaker 3: your interest, I don't think that there's enough here to
• 56:47
  Speaker 3: like pull you into it. But if you are someone
• 56:49
  Speaker 3: who likes those kind of things, like this doesn't look
• 56:51
  Speaker 3: nearly like nowhere close to as grim as something like
• 56:55
  Speaker 3: a true detective. But it does look like it's serious.
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: Well, here's the thing, and this is totally tempered by
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: or colored by me watching Lucifer with my folks while
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: they were in town when they brought in the villain,
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: Like the nature procedural stuff is interesting to me. When
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: they brought in the villain and Tricia Helfer who I
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: believe it's Tricia Helfer in the trailer, who played a
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: very soapy character on Lucifer. Like, immediately it went from
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: nature crime procedural that I would find interesting and based
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: in fact, to nature crime procedural soap opera. And that's
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: not fair. Yeah, but that's where my brain went.
• 57:41
  Speaker 3: There's a bit of like mustache twirling villainy element to
• 57:46
  Speaker 3: it that does get a little like heavy handed, you know,
• 57:50
  Speaker 3: like billionaire wants to develop on what should be public
• 57:55
  Speaker 3: protected land. And yeah, I can see that. So next up,
• 58:03
  Speaker 3: since we went from pigeon, now let's go to hawks.
• 58:06
  Speaker 2: We have the Hawk.
• 58:08
  Speaker 3: No, that's not a hawk noise, it's a close.
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah. The hawk is about a golfer. It's about particularly
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: Will Ferrell.
• 58:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Will Ferrell as a golfer.
• 58:28
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: I did like his Eurovision movie, but this does not
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: appeal to me.
• 58:32
  Speaker 3: I wrote that this felt very similar to something like
• 58:35
  Speaker 3: Happy Gilmour, where it's that kind of level of humor
• 58:40
  Speaker 3: where you've got kind of an unruly character who happens
• 58:44
  Speaker 3: to be a professional golfer. This feels like it's someone
• 58:46
  Speaker 3: who has been out of the golf scene for a
• 58:50
  Speaker 3: while who is now coming back and trying to make
• 58:53
  Speaker 3: another go at it, and his adult son, who's also
• 58:56
  Speaker 3: professional golfer, is like dismissive of him. Molly Shannon, isn't it?
• 59:02
  Speaker 3: I love Molly Shannon. Chris Parnell also is in it.
• 59:06
  Speaker 3: Luke Wilson apparently is in the series as well, and others. Obviously,
• 59:11
  Speaker 3: it looks like if that's like, if Will Ferrell's comedy
• 59:14
  Speaker 3: is kind of your style, then you probably will find
• 59:17
  Speaker 3: something that you enjoy in this. If you find Will
• 59:20
  Speaker 3: Ferrell to be insufferable, I don't think this is going
• 59:23
  Speaker 3: to appeal to you, but it does come out on
• 59:25
  Speaker 3: Netflix on July sixteenth.
• 59:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: I think the thing is I only watched Happy Gilmore
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: in like the last seven years because I wasn't a
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: huge Adam Sandler fan either, But my husband really likes
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: that movie, and the thing I will say, is I
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: feel like between the trailer that I watch for The
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: Hawk and Happy Gilmore, it feels like Happy Gilmore has
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: more kind heartedness in it.
• 59:51
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't know, I've never seen it.
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: It's like it's got a little bit more heart. Will
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: Ferrell's character seems a little bit more like Anchormanny, a
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: little bit more mean spirited to me.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, the only golf comedy I have ever seen. I've
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 3: seen Caddy Shack and Caddy Shack two, so that's the
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 3: only thing I could compare it against.
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: Well, Hawks like to fly east, So let's go on
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: to the East of Eden trailer. I don't know. I
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: don't know.
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 3: I don't know either. Your segways are weird.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: It's Margarita time. I'm getting distracted.
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 3: This is an adaptation of the John Steinbeck novel East
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 3: of Eden. You may know that there was also a
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 3: film in nineteen fifty five with James Dean in it
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 3: that was done in fact. Here's a fun here's a
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 3: fun bit of trivia. The nineteen fifty five version of
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 3: East of Eden was directed by the grandfather of the
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 3: director of this series.
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 2: East of Eden.
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: Interesting. Sorry side note. The four seasons TV show is
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: based off of a movie, The Four Seasons Without by
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: Alan Alda, who was in the Four Seasons TV show briefly.
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 3: Okay, so connections, which you know, always fun to draw.
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 3: So East of Eden is like Steinbeck's epic novel. It
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 3: tells the story of the Trasks and like the Hamilton's.
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 3: And what's interesting to me is, at least it could
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 3: just be the trailer. The trailer seems to really be
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 3: putting a focus on a character named Kathy Ames, who
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 3: in this series is played by Florence Pugh, most famously
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 3: known as one of my fictional girlfriends, but also has
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 3: been in like a ton of other stuff. So what's
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 3: interesting to me is that the series looks like it
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 3: really focuses on her. Well.
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 2: In the novel, she's the bad guy.
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 3: She is a villain. She does horrible things. She does
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 3: horrible things to horror to other people, purely for the
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 3: joy of seeing it happen. She is the mother of
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 3: the main characters who are allegories of canaan A. She's
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 3: their mom. She ends up shooting her husband in order
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 3: to leave the home because she doesn't want to live
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 3: on a farm, and then she ends up joining a brothel,
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 3: and then I can't remember if she actually kills the madam,
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 3: but she arranges so that the madam is out of
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 3: the picture, and then she becomes the madam of the brothel,
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 3: and she's just generally a terrible person, but in this
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 3: trailer it looks like it may be told more through
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 3: her lens. So I think it feels like, again just
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 3: based on the trailer, that they're painting a more sympathetic
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 3: picture for this character, which is I think you never
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 3: want to ascribe a thorial intent if you're not the author.
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 3: But I feel pretty comfortable saying that wasn't Steinbeck's intent
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 3: based upon how he wrote the character.
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: I do feel like there are times in the trailer
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: where she does seem kind of villainous, So maybe it's
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: her is sent into embracing that.
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 3: Maybe it comes to Netflix in the fall. I don't
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 3: have a date yet. It looks like it's really well
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 3: made and it might be very intriguing. It's just it's
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 3: always interesting to me where they're like, hey, let's take
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 3: this story that everybody has heard of, mostly because James
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 3: Dean was in a film version in the fifties. And
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 3: then I mean, if you're an American literature person. You
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 3: know Steinbeck really well, I was not an American literature person.
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 3: I was British lit. But you know, let's take this
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 3: character who was absolutely the worst and make her sympathetic.
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 3: Oh okay, Like, I don't think that that's an invalid thing.
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 3: It's just it's also weird to me to see something
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 3: presented as an adaptation if it appears that adaptation is
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 3: not a li lined with the author's intent.
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I'm not super interested in this one.
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 3: I'm glad I spend so much time ranting about it
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 3: and it may turn out, it may turn out that
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 3: I'm totally wrong, and like, I'll be happy to admit
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 3: if that's the case, because I mean, my girlfriend's in it.
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: So, I mean, the thing is, you went on about it,
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: but that's good because I've never read Used to Be,
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: I've never seen the old movie, and this one didn't
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: grab me either. So and then your description of it
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: also additionally made go, this isn't for me.
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I recommend Steinbeck's an easy read, like
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 3: for American authors. If you're talking about American authors who
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 3: are held up as you know, the classics, I think
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 3: Steinbeck is much more accessible than some other American authors,
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 3: so certainly worth reading.
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 2: Isn't any of his works really?
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 3: Not of Mice and Men?
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 2: Huh No?
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 3: Absolutely not super fast read though, but no not.
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: I mean I know the story of Mice and Men
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 1: and I've not read or seen Grapes of Wrath either.
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 3: Grapes of Wrath is a harder heat. That's just a
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 3: very long, slow, depressing story, which I mean, it was
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 3: well told, but it is.
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: Of men isn't a depressing story.
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 2: I mean it is, but it's short.
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 3: It's a real fast read, all right. Next up, we've
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 3: got another mini series. So like East of Edend is
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 3: going to be a mini series on Netflix, we've got
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 3: another one on Hulu called The Season.
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah. This is done with the people who did Crazy
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: Rich Asians, which I love. But it is about a
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: group of rich friends in Hong Kong vying for power essentially.
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's kind of like showing the well the lifestyle
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 3: of the truly rich in Hong Kong and how cutthroat
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 3: things can get even within that group as people struggle
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 3: to either maintain or more likely try to increase their
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 3: wealth and prestige.
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: It's been compared a little bit to white lotus ish,
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: which is sad because I love crazy Rijasons and I'm
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 1: not the biggest fan of Lightloadus.
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 3: I'll say that the season, like, there were moments in
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 3: this trailer that maybe again it's just the way the
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 3: trailers cut, but heavy handed is one way I describe it.
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 3: Or incredibly obvious is another way, because like there's a
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 3: scene that takes place where two characters are in like
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 3: a like an aquarium setting where the aquarium goes over
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 3: the room they're in, right, So like one of those
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 3: where there's like almost like a skylight, but you're looking
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 3: up through the aquarium, and then one of the characters
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 3: says to the other like something about there's more to
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 3: me beneath the surface.
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 2: I'm like, are you kidding me?
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 3: This is literally happening underwater, you know, And then she
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 3: has the line of being under the surface, and I'm like,
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 3: do you need to telegraph that hard?
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: Maybe they're trying I don't I this is probably not it. Again,
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: you don't want to ascribe to the author, right, But
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: maybe they are trying to grab the attention of the
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: people who are also really into vertical shorts.
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 2: Maybe Lassie.
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 3: Maybe, Yeah, I could be like, that's kind of depressing
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 3: to me if you're going to have to dumb things
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 3: down to that level, like.
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: It's always liked soap operas.
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 3: Which, yeah, no, you're not wrong. This comes out June
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 3: seventeenth on Hulu. And now I'm sorry, Ariel, we've reached
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 3: that time in the episode, you know, that time that
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 3: you don't like so much, spider time.
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 2: So here's the thing.
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 3: Though there's no actual spiders in this one, however, it
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 3: is like one of those classic dark rides, and you're
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 3: gonna have to get into this little car that's designed
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 3: to look like a giant spider with real moving legs.
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 3: So we're gonna be sitting in this car together while
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 3: I take you through the horror hutch. So don't worry
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 3: you'll be strapped down, you won't be able to escape.
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: Here we go. That's so comforting. It's like a weighted
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: blank blanket of horror.
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 3: Uh. First up, we have the trailer two eight.
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you don't want to ask me if I watched any.
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 2: Oh, Ariel, did you watch any of these?
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: I watched the first one. I tried watching the second
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: two and hat yet and I know, okay, so I
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: watched The Human Vapor. I watched The Wolf in the Lamb,
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: and I tried to watch The Caged, but.
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 3: I don't think I'll be able to get through the
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 3: Caged either, but for different reasons. Okay, So first we
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 3: have Human Vapor. This is a Japanese South Korean series,
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 3: so it's a partnership series. It's based off a sci
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 3: fi film from nineteen sixty so arguably I could have
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 3: put this in our regular show notes, but I got
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 3: the feeling that this one, at least from the trailer,
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 3: feels like it might be a little closer to horror slash,
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 3: almost like classic Universal monster movie.
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure, for sure. I watched it and I
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: was like, why is this in horror? This feels more
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: like Spider Noir. But then there was some explode blood.
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 3: So yeah, which that was surprising because like in the original,
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 3: I think the idea was that you have a person
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 3: who for some reason, I've not seen the original film,
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 3: so I don't know why the character can do this,
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 3: but he can transform himself into vapor or like a
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 3: fog like smoke, and then thus he's when he's a vapor,
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 3: he cannot be harmed. He can pass through things like
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 3: barred windows and stuff, and he can even suffocate people.
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 3: So in the original movie he does suffocate and kill
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 3: people that way, but in this one, it looks like
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 3: he expands people's lungs to the point where their bodies explode,
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 3: because we get a scene where someone's lifted up into
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 3: the air they look like they're swelling, and then we
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 3: get a reverse shot on a woman who's looking up
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 3: and then she's just splattered with blood, which does seem
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 3: like it's a little extreme compared to what I had
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 3: read about the original film, but again, haven't seen it.
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 3: Who knows, But yeah, it's it looks like it does
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 3: have elements of horror and monster movie to it. If
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 3: I were to compare it against like classic universal monster movies,
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 3: i'd say something like The Invisible Man kind of. Yeah,
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 3: it looks like there's also some humor slash comedy in it,
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 3: like Asian humor and comedy that, at least for me,
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 3: often is hard for me to connect with because I
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 3: don't have the same cultural background. So like, I see
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 3: it and I reckon it, But to me it can
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 3: feel like tonal whiplash, because that's just not the kind
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 3: of storytelling I'm used to. It's not a comment on
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 3: the quality of the work. It's a comment on just
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 3: social differences. But it comes to Netflix on July second.
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 3: It is subtitled I don't know if there will be
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 3: a dubbed version as well, but the trailer I saw
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 3: was subtitled next we have the Caged, the one you
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 3: noped out on, Mauriel. So don't worry, you're strapped in.
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 3: You got to hear it now. So the thing about
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 3: the Caged is that it's unfortunately burdened with the terrible
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 3: curse of the phrase inspired by actual events, and that
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 3: is where my problem starts.
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 1: I wasn't a fan of that either, and I know
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 1: I will let you explain why you're not a fan
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 1: of it for anybody who hasn't heard this before. But
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: if it were actual events, that's my often literal nightmare.
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 3: Well, the problem I have is that actual events, it
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 3: typically is something like someone claims that at one point
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 3: a chair moved a little on its own, but in
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 3: the movie it's that the nun from the Conjuring comes
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 3: out and eats your face, And I'm like, okay, this
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 3: goes beyond taking poetic license. So in reality, the Cage
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 3: references a building in Essex, England that was used as
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 3: a lock up, mostly for people who were like really drunk,
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 3: like they were they were being locked up for public drunkenness. However,
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 3: there is a local legend, it's unsubstantiated, but a local
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 3: legend that it was also used to hold a woman
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 3: who was accused of witchcraft before she was later put
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 3: on trial and then hanged in the late sixteenth century.
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 3: Now it's true that there was.
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 2: A witch or not a witch.
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 3: There was a woman accused of being a witch who
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 3: was subsequently hanged. The part that's not substantiated is that
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 3: she was ever put into this particular house that again
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 3: was used as a lock up. So that's the basis
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 3: for the inspired on actual events. There are people who
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 3: have claimed that it's a really haunted building, including someone
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 3: who when they were selling it, you had all these
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 3: like hard to believe stories about things she had supposedly
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 3: experienced in the house that she ascribed to paranormal activity,
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 3: not the movie, but the actual paranormal activity. The movie
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 3: looks like it's more of your standard ghost slash which
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 3: film like a little bit of full car mostly a
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 3: ghost story set in the modern day. It does not
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 3: look like it's a particularly remarkable version of that. To me.
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 3: I think it's leaning pretty hard on that inspired by
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 3: actual events claim. And the release date is to be announced.
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 3: I haven't seen anything that actually gives her release date yet.
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 3: I am particularly hard on films like this, and it
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 3: may be that someone who's more of a you know,
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 3: casual horror fan who doesn't really care about that actual
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 3: events thing, might watch this trailer and say, no, this
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 3: looks like really creepy and really good, and it has
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 3: a little bit of some creepy visuals and stuff. I
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 3: just feel like it's not doing anything that hasn't already
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 3: been done in countless other you know, ghost slash possession
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 3: slash witch movies. And then finally we've got the Wolf
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 3: in the Lamb. This one you said you also watched, Yeah,
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 3: but I.
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 1: What, I couldn't quite follow what the story was unless
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 1: it's just the good sun set in the Old West.
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 3: Not quite, but you know, Okay. It is an America
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 3: on a folk horror movie. It is set in the West,
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 3: eighteen seventies Montana. You have a character who is a
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 3: widowed school teacher. Her name is Joe Beckett, and she
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 3: has a son named Henry, and Henry, like other children
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 3: in the region, vanishes at one point, and then a
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 3: few days later shows up again, but he's he's changed,
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 3: his behavior has changed. Meanwhile, there are other problems that
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 3: are mysteriously happening, like you know, livestock growing ill, that
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 3: kind of thing, and you get the population is becoming
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 3: increasingly paranoid and panicked over what might be happening and
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 3: whether or not there's like a supernatural cause to it,
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 3: which makes me think a little bit of movies like
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 3: The Witch kind of This is actually already out. It
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 3: released late last month on digital platforms, but I only
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 3: just saw the trailer this week, and I thought, I
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 3: want to talk about it because it is interesting to
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 3: me that it's combining horror with like period drama, right,
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 3: and you don't get a lot of those. Like The
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 3: Witch is one of my favorite horror movies of all time,
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 3: so I'm curious about this.
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 3: I don't know that it's gonna I don't know that
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 3: it looks significantly scarier than The Caged. Honestly, it looks
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 3: kind of like on the same level. But I am
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 3: at least I didn't say it was inspired by actual events.
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I don't think this. I think the Cage
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 1: will looks scarier to me, but.
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 3: It definitely is, and it's definitely engaging in more trobish
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 3: horror things like you know, like the like the rictus
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 3: grin of a character, like that kind of stuff. It
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 3: the Cage has more of that going for it.
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm hoping that the atmosphere and the wolf and
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 3: the lamb does a lot of the heavy lifting, but
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 3: having not seen it, I don't know for sure. I
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 3: just want to quickly mention some of the other ones
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 3: that did not make the cut. We got another, yet
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 3: another trailer for The Back Rooms that looks surprisingly decent
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 3: for yeah, for a movie based off a meme slash
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 3: series of you know, independent horror games. We got a
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 3: trailer for Chum And I feel weird saying this, but
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 3: it's another thriller that features a psychopath who uses human
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 3: victims as bait for a shark. It's like if I
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 3: had a nickel for every movie that had that premise,
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 3: so to have two nickels, which isn't much, but it's
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 3: it's surprising that it happened twice to quote Duffin Schmertz.
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 3: You might remember the Australian movie Dangerous Animals, which also
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 3: had a similar premise. And then we have a movie
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 3: that I have to mention because the title is the
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 3: best title ever, which is The Grim Rapper.
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I wrote that it looks like a pretty.
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 3: Low budget revenant revenant film, similar to something like The Crow,
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 3: but but that title boosts it significantly, like I might
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 3: have to watch this just because I respect the title
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 3: that much.
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's it looks like we're at the end
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 3: of the right so you can now undo all your restraints,
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 3: a seat belt and we can get out of the
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 3: Spider Mobile.
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 1: Let me see if they actually unlock.
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 3: Okay, good, Yeah, I wasn't gonna make you said in
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 3: the rest.
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 2: Of the time.
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 1: That's good because I yeah, you know me about the
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 1: time we get to the Horror Hutch, I'm really sad
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 1: that I drink too much water, and even sadder that
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 1: it isn't a good excuse for me to step away.
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 3: The nice thing is we have just a few movies
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 3: to talk about in the show notes, and one of
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 3: those I think we can really skim over, specifically the
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 3: Magic Faraway Tree. Because we have talked about that a
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 3: couple of times in the past.
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but it has a US release date now, so
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 3: we can mention that.
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and the first thing we've got to talk about
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 1: is this show an HBO show. You mentioned it. I
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 1: think in last week's episode two, Stuart fails to save
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 1: the Universe. Y. We got the teaser for it, and
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 1: much like we suspected, it does not feel like it's
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 1: the same tone as Big Bang Theory.
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, this is the one I was specifically referencing when
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 3: I said spin offs that don't feel like the original
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 3: product that it's spent off of. Like Young Sheldon felt
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 3: like it was a spin off of The Big Bang Theory,
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 3: you know, whereas this, it's done in a totally different style.
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 3: It's not done in your classic sitcom style and has
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 3: a very different feel to it. I'm still not convinced
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 3: that this is actually going to work as a series.
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 3: I could be wrong, you know, maybe this will be
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 3: a hit, but it feels so different to me from
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 3: The Big Bang Theory. I'm not sure it's going to
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 3: appeal to the fan base of that show.
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, it's really interesting because I showed it to
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 1: my husband who is not a huge fan of The
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 1: Big Bang Theory. You know, it's not that he dislikes
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 1: the actors, but he just is a fan of the story.
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 1: I know that the show can be divisive among geek
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 1: groups for his portrayal of that demographic of people, and
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 1: he was like, weird because to him it felt tonally
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 1: like Future Man, which is a show I know I've
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 1: talked about before but you haven't seen yet. But he
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 1: doesn't like the characters from the Big Bank Theory.
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that does make it harder, right, Yeah, he loves
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 3: Future Man.
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 2: I don't know if I will watch that.
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 3: I was not a fan of The Big Bang Theory either,
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 3: and this is part of me wants to watch it,
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 3: just because it's such a weird premise to you go.
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 3: I guess the closest thing I could compare it to
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 3: is that Mork was technically a spin off from Happy Days,
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 3: And like, if you were to compare Happy Days in Mork,
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 3: you'd be like, Wow, that's weird that Happy Days spawned
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 3: a series sitcom about a naive alien learning about humanity.
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 3: That's such a weird thing from a show that was
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 3: like a pastiche of nineteen fifties Americana. I guess that's
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 3: the closest I can compare. But this comes out on
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 3: HBO Max on July twenty third. Maybe I'll check it out.
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 3: It's definitely not on my priority list. If it's if
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 3: I do watch it, it's because I just got a
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 3: hair or a wild hair to do it.
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna give it a shot because, like I said,
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 1: I do like the actors behind the characters, and I
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 1: like the tone of Future Man. It doesn't feel quite
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 1: as raunchy as Future Man did. But I love Lauren
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 1: Lakiz and she's in it, and I want to watch
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 1: her before I think.
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 3: If I'm not mistaken. That's the same comedian who was
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 3: also in a morning show spoof with Oh why can
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 3: I not think of his name?
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 2: He was?
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 3: He played the incredibly obnoxious guy on Parks and rec
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 3: Ben Something. He was also the voice of Sonic the
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 3: Hedgehog Anyway, Ben Schwartz, Ben Schwartz. So she and Ben
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 3: Schwartz were in a web series, a short time short
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 3: form web series was largely almost entirely improvised, that where
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 3: every episode was a different stage of grief, because the
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 3: whole premise is that Ben Schwartz's character proposes to his girlfriend,
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 3: who turns him down. So every episode is a different
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 3: stage of grief as he's processing the fact that he's
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 3: been shut down. And it's worth seeing if you haven't
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 3: caught it, because it's that and just the excerpts like
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 3: the stuff they didn't use, which is equally as funny.
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 3: Moving on, however, we got a full trailer for Wildwood.
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 3: We talked about this one ages ago because there was
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 3: like a behind the scenes making of video. You might remember,
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 3: like them delicately adjusting the Golden Hawk or Golden Eagle character,
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 3: which I believe his voice by Angela Bassett, so queen.
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 3: This this is from Laika Studios. They did Coraline and
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 3: Cubo and the two Strings and tons of other stuff.
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 3: They do phenomenal art. This also looks incredible. It's definitely
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 3: dark fantasy, like I put it up there as an
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 3: even darker than something like Labyrinth.
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 1: It looks like, yes, and it looks like it's going
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 1: to be super.
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 3: Sad, potentially potentially sad, like I think I mean, like
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 3: the basic premise is that you have a young woman
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 3: whose baby brother is kidnapped by mystical forces. Which is
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 3: essentially that's Labyrinth, right, you know, but in this case,
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 3: it's like in Labyrinth, it's a spoiled girl who resents
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 3: her baby brother who's really her half brother, and in
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 3: this one, it's a young woman who dotes upon her
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 3: baby brother. She genuinely loves him, and so his his
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 3: abduction hits are hard. I think I think it looks amazing,
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 3: and it's got an incredible voice cast.
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 1: It really does. I think it looks beautiful. Like I said,
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 1: the story might look a little sad. It gives me
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 1: like Bridge to Barrett, Sorry, Bridge to Tabithia meets Line,
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 1: the Witch in the Wardrobe meets.
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 3: Redwall, maybe a little bit of Oh I don't Jonathan.
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 3: You should know better than to start a sentence before
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 3: you can remember the title of the thing.
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 2: Wrinkle and Time.
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 3: That's what I was looking for.
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 3: Some of the voice actors involved include Kerrie Mulligan, Jermaine Clement,
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 3: the aforementioned to Angela Bassett, Queen Tom Waits, Richard E. Grant,
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 3: whom you might remember, I love because he leaves no
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 3: bit of scenery unchewed, Mark Evan Jackson, who I also
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 3: think is a phenomenal actor and great at Comedy as well,
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 3: and it comes out on October twenty third.
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is this is getting potentially added to my list.
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 1: I have to make sure the dog doesn't die, the
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 1: proverbial dog. I don't know if there's an actual dog
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 1: beyond some villains that look more easily.
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 3: There are a lot of animals or animal like critters
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 3: in this, so you never know, but I'm definitely gonna
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 3: check it out. Like I like like his stuff anyway.
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 3: Kubo in the Two Strings was something I went to
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 3: see without knowing much about it, and I was absolutely
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 3: charmed by it.
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 1: That's I keep meaning to watch that one I never
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 1: have and I know one of our friends is upset
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 1: when people haven't seen it.
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 3: I'm guessing her to talk about Lucas is a fact, okay,
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 3: but our mutual friend who's also an animator and brilliantly talented.
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, I keep meaning to see it. I need
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 1: to write that down so I watch it sooner rather
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 1: than later. Since I'm looking for things to watch. Seeing
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 1: of things I would like to watch, I would like
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 1: to watch the Fall of Sir Douglas Weatherford that I
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 1: had not heard of before today.
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I didn't know about this until I saw the trailer.
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 3: This also looks charming, although it's described in at least
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 3: as a dark comedy. The premises, you have this character
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 3: named Kenneth who is a tour guide who is absolutely
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 3: obsessed with this historical figure from his town named Douglas.
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 3: Sir Douglas Weatherford's known as like an inventor and philosopher,
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 3: and Kenneth dresses up as Sir Douglas as he's giving
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 3: historical tours and explaining about this figure that he idolizes.
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 3: And then a TV production crew comes to town in
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 3: order to shoot a high production fantasy series, and that
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 3: is overshadowing the actual historic relevance of the town. And
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 3: so Kenneth is struggling with the fact that this fictional story,
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 3: this commercialized fictional story, is eclipsing what he sees as
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 3: the real relevance of the space and kind of his
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 3: existential crisis that comes as a result of that.
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I just I have this place in my heart.
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 1: I don't know what started it for darker, slower paced
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 1: British stories, slightly comedic that. Yeah, I don't know why.
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 1: Maybe it's because I like the madness of King Georgia.
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 1: Third or something like that.
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 3: But it's just there's something very English about the desire
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 3: to preserve history and the kind of rail against obsolescence.
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 3: Like there's one of my one of the songs I
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 3: love by the Kinks. I love a lot of their songs,
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 3: but one of the songs by the Kinks that I
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 3: really love is called Village Green Preservation Society, and it's
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 3: it's this little song about a small English town where
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 3: there's this this group of citizens who work really hard
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 3: to try and preserve the ways of life that they
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 3: found to be meaningful, and they push back against attempts
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 3: to modernize or perhaps pave over elements of that. This
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 3: reminds me of that which also that song was also
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 3: used to great effect in Hot Fuzz, which also had
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 3: elements of this, but obviously in a much more comedic
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 3: and violent way.
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, this looks charming. I definitely want to watch it.
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it comes out June twelfth in the UK. I
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 3: have not seen an American release date. Doesn't mean it's
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 3: not coming, but I don't know what it is if
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 3: it is out there.
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm hoping it does come out this way for sure.
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 3: Next, we got another British project, The Magic Far Away Tree.
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 3: This is one that we have talked about several times.
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 3: The only reason I included it here is because now
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 3: we do have the US release date. It's already out
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 3: in the UK, but now it'll be coming out in
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 3: the United States on August twenty first. If you don't
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 3: remember the premise of this, it's a family that moves
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 3: from the city to the countryside. The family has three
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 3: children and the two older children. There's two daughters and
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 3: a son, and the older daughter and the son are
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 3: both kind of addicted to technology, but they move to
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 3: a place where there's no signal. There's not even any
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 3: electricity in the place they're moving into initially, and how
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 3: they are resentful of being relocated to the countryside, and
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 3: then the youngest daughter ends up finding out that the
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 3: neighboring woods is inhabited by magical creatures like fairies, and
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 3: then there's like a whole magical story that unfolds and
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 3: looks very very very English and charming. Comes, like I said,
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 3: comes to the US on August twenty first. But we've
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 3: talked about this a few times. Andrew Garfield has placed
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 3: the dad in this particular family, so definitely looks very imaginative,
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 3: kind of reminds me a little bit of Rhode Doll,
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 3: like Willy Wonka or James and the Giant Peach, that
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 3: kind of esthetic.
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, for me, it gave me a phantom tol
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 1: Booth aesthetic because yep, because it's a little this trailer
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 1: shows a tiny bit more of like snarkiness, not mean spirited,
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 1: but just quippiness, which I'm actually more interested because of
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 1: this last trailer.
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so I'm glad that's coming to the US. I've
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 3: been curious about this one.
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 1: I like.
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 3: Stuff that is good for like created a way for
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 3: kids to be able to enjoy it, but in such
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 3: a way that it doesn't feel like it's dumbed down,
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  Speaker 3: so that adults can enjoy it too, And there's a
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  Speaker 3: there's a delicate art to that, and I don't think
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  Speaker 3: very many people have mastered it. So I'm hopeful that
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  Speaker 3: this will be something that you can go and watch
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  Speaker 3: as an adult and still be delighted by it.
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  Speaker 1: I feel exactly the same way. And then the last
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  Speaker 1: movie we're going to talk about is one that Jonathan
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  Speaker 1: didn't want to add, and I'm just mean to add it.
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  Speaker 1: I included it I'm just I honestly thought this would
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  Speaker 1: be in the stuff what normal people like, but well.
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  Speaker 2: It was this is this is where you put it
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  Speaker 2: on the lineup.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I just stuck it in because I was on
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  Speaker 1: my phone at the time. Anyhow, we'll keep it quick.
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  Speaker 1: It's a movie called seventy two Hours and it features
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  Speaker 1: Kevin Hart who gets sucked into a young guy's bachelor trip.
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  Speaker 1: The young guy's being like half of the cast of SNL.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, of all the digital short stuff, right yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And he's in this film. He's forty, which is not
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  Speaker 1: Kevin Hart's actual age, and everybody, of course is calling
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  Speaker 1: him old because they're all young twenties, which is frustrating.
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  Speaker 1: And then it goes into like this dude wears my
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  Speaker 1: car Harold and Kumar at Whitecastle's style Adventure, which I
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  Speaker 1: think it is really interesting that in a more emotionally
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  Speaker 1: aware society we're going back to that humor.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it definitely is a film about like excess and
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  Speaker 3: bad decisions and how this grown man you could probably
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 3: the word that I left out there, but this grown
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  Speaker 3: Man ends up like kind of going along with all
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  Speaker 3: the shenanigans, partly because you know, he's he's doing it
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  Speaker 3: so that he, as part of his job, can understand
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  Speaker 3: what young people are into and how they respond to
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  Speaker 3: stuff like that's the premise as to why he's agreeing
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  Speaker 3: to do it. He accidentally gets pulled into a group chat,
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  Speaker 3: but through that he's actually invited to be part of
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  Speaker 3: this ridiculous debauchery of this bachelor party Bachelor weekend. And Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: as I watched this trailer, I was like, I have
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  Speaker 3: a real problem because the whole like most of the
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  Speaker 3: jokes are about how this guy is too old, and
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  Speaker 3: I am more than a decade older than the character.
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  Speaker 2: I'm also older than the actor playing the character.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but I mean that's the whole thing is it's like,
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  Speaker 1: you aren't really old at that age, but it's that
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  Speaker 1: I saw a social media content maker say something make
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  Speaker 1: a song about like a thirty something existential crisis, because
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 1: between the ages of thirty five and thirty eight, you're
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  Speaker 1: both told you're wait, oh gosh, you're old, and also oh,
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  Speaker 1: but you're so young, and like, what do you to
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  Speaker 1: do with that?
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  Speaker 3: I will say that there's a certain friend of hers.
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 3: Let's say, for example, it's friend of the show Shaye
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  Speaker 3: Lee who will occasionally make a reference of how she
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  Speaker 3: feels old, and I'm like, girl, read the room. I'm
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 3: nearly twenty years older than you, so maybe think before
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  Speaker 3: you speak.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, it drives me crazy when people who are
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 1: much younger like I'm so old, And I get that,
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  Speaker 1: Like as your life changes, you mature and you're like,
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  Speaker 1: oh gosh, what was I before?
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  Speaker 3: And occasionally you do have those just just those moments
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  Speaker 3: where you're like self reflective and you realize how much
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  Speaker 3: has changed in you know, a relatively short span of time,
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 3: and I get it, Like that's a big thing. But
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 3: but you know, you need if the people around you
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 3: have not only been through that but also subsequent changes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe maybe dial it back a.
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  Speaker 1: Little well, and you know, a lot of what people
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 1: have called old up until very recently. Again, this goes
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 1: back to the Awesome Moms and in women kicking button
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 1: in media, not to not to be labor the point,
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  Speaker 1: but like it's an outdated marker of old because people
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 1: are living longer, people are healthier longer, people are having
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 1: kids later in life. So what media has called old
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 1: for so long isn't isn't.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: This film comes out July twenty fourth, As you may
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 3: have surmised, I do not plan to be in attendance
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 3: at them.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I was laughing because I play I play
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 1: a changeling larp and in it, my character is a
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 1: stunt person and is involved in a movie with Ana Garcia,
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 1: who is often on dropout, and she is a stunt
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 1: double in this movie. Apparently. I saw her in the trailer.
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, who does she play? And I looked
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 1: it up. Oh, she's just a stunt double. So I
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 1: find that very funny on a just bubble.
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  Speaker 3: That's that's wild. Well, that is I believe the last
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 3: story for the episode.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe her stunt double. Maybe maybe there's a stunt double
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 1: for her.
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 2: I don't know that I believe is the last story.
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 1: I think it's a stunt double for Anna Garcia, but
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 1: she's not listed as a character. Okay, anyhow, that is
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 1: the last story. Thank you all for listening, Thank you
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 1: all for writing in and talking to us and telling
• 1:37:03
  Speaker 1: us your thoughts on episodes, Like you think Star Wars
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 1: has a lot of sexiness, it's just all the dudes.
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 3: Is that what people wrote in after I said Star
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 3: Wars needs to have more sex appeal?
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 1: I had one person who wrote me it was like,
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 1: I think Star Wars has plenty of sex appeal. Every
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 1: single man in that movie is hot.
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 3: I'll raise you a grand moth Tarkan.
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 1: Touche. But anyhow, Jonathan, if people do want to write
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 1: in and tell us their thoughts, like maybe who they
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 1: think are great moms in media geeky media, how would
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 1: they do that?
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 3: Well, if they want to contact me, they're going to
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 3: have to find a wormhole to another dimension, one where
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 3: I invented podcasting and then, over the subsequent years of
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 3: clawing my way into social relevance, I have now crowned
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 3: myself King of all relevant Media around, or Karma for short,
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 3: King of Karma, and us gather companions as you seek
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 3: an audience with Karma, and you will journey through dangerous
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 3: territories like the Valley of Silicon as well as Cupertino, California.
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 3: You will face such dastardly opponents as the Wizard of
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 3: Waws and Mark Zuckerberg, and through multiple trials and tribulations,
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 3: you will make your way to my throne where I
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 3: sit atop a pile of old video game consoles and
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 3: I wonder aloud why there aren't more podcasts hosted by
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 3: white dudes who talk about obscure titles from the Sega Genesis.
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 3: And then you will supplicate before me, at which time
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 3: I will notice you, but I'll make you wait another
• 1:38:37
  Speaker 3: five or six minutes before I acknowledge you, whereupon at
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 3: that point you may ask your question.
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 1: Wow, that is definitely an alternate universe because you've never
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 1: complained that there aren't enough white dudes in podcasting. Yeah,
• 1:38:51
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• 1:38:54
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• 1:38:56
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• 1:38:59
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• 1:39:02
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• 1:39:23
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  Speaker 1: the Why did I put my notes down so I
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