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LNC Gets Alienated · Large Nerdron Collider

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  Speaker 1: Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Large Neurdron Collider, the podcast
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  Speaker 1: that's all about the geeky things happening in the world
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  Speaker 1: around us and how very excited we are about them.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Ariel casting, and with me is always is the
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  Speaker 1: brilliant Jonathan Strickland.
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  Speaker 2: Star Trekking across the Universe. Doo uh, howdy, Ariel, howdy?
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  Speaker 2: Did you? Did you have a nice Fourth of July holiday?
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  Speaker 1: I did? I gosh, what did I do? Like? Someone
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  Speaker 1: came over and we did stuff.
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  Speaker 2: We still haven't figured out who it was.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm trying to know. I went to dinner one
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  Speaker 1: night and then there was just random hang and then
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  Speaker 1: the next day, Oh yeah, I had people over and
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  Speaker 1: we played the new task Master board game.
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  Speaker 2: No, how'd that go? Fun?
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  Speaker 1: It was so much fun. We had a couple folks
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  Speaker 1: over who who were like, oh, yeah, I want to
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  Speaker 1: play that when I got it, So we invited them
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  Speaker 1: over and but they one of one of the people
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  Speaker 1: who came over also wanted to do other stuff. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: we could write some music because it's some people I've
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  Speaker 1: helped write some music with during the pandemic. My husband
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  Speaker 1: used to be in a band with them and so
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  Speaker 1: they opted for that for the first half of the day,
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  Speaker 1: which really didn't lead to anything. And then we went
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  Speaker 1: to dinner, and when we got back from dinner, everybody
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  Speaker 1: was in a food coma and so nobody wanted to
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  Speaker 1: play the game anymore. They're like, well, let's write music,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm like, the original goal of the day was
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  Speaker 1: to play a game. I feel bad because I wasn't
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  Speaker 1: grouchy at anybody else because of course it's their holiday too.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna let people pick what they want to do, right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, oh, man, I was looking forward to this,
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  Speaker 1: so my poor husband had to deal with some secret grumpiness.
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't mad at anybody. I just was like, oh.
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  Speaker 1: And then they just all sat staring at a wall
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  Speaker 1: because everybody was in a food comas. So Tony set
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  Speaker 1: up the game and sure enough, it's the kind of
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  Speaker 1: game where you don't need to have energy. It will
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  Speaker 1: give you energy to play it nice because you're on
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  Speaker 1: a timer and nothing is super passive, like I think
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  Speaker 1: the most passive games we had. I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: ruin it because basically it's a board game, but it's
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  Speaker 1: mainly do what you can wherever you are right. So
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  Speaker 1: it comes with a little place where you can put
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  Speaker 1: everybody's markers with their name and then the score, and
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  Speaker 1: you can move them based who's in first, second, third,
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  Speaker 1: and last. And then you get these little boxes with
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  Speaker 1: little props that you need for certain games. You fill
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  Speaker 1: them up and then you have ten. So it's built
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  Speaker 1: like a legacy game, but you don't have to play
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  Speaker 1: it like a legacy game. You can't just play it
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  Speaker 1: different people every time however you want. You get ten
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  Speaker 1: sealed on the BA and each envelope has the six
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  Speaker 1: tasks for the game, and there's a separate little cardholder
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  Speaker 1: with prize tasks and tiebreaker tasks. One side is price task,
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  Speaker 1: one side is the tiebreaker task. So you pull a
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  Speaker 1: random prize task slash tiebreaker, and you open a random
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  Speaker 1: envelope and on the back of the envelope it tells
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  Speaker 1: you like anything you'll need like this for this episode,
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  Speaker 1: you'll need paper, pencil, egg, four eggs, whatever, and so
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  Speaker 1: you just read down. And the way it's set up
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  Speaker 1: is they suggest that you change a task master for
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  Speaker 1: each so you have the person who does the prize
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  Speaker 1: task who also participates in the prize task, and then
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  Speaker 1: you switch out who's the task master for each additional task,
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  Speaker 1: so everybody gets a chance to participate in, a chance
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  Speaker 1: to judge, and then if there's a tiebreaker task or
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  Speaker 1: an end task, everybody participates in that too. So, just
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  Speaker 1: because people were worried about energy and not knowing how
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  Speaker 1: to play, we had one task master for the entire game.
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  Speaker 1: I got second place. It was just a ton of fun.
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  Speaker 1: It's the task are varied there. Some of them were challenging,
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  Speaker 1: but in a good way. And one of them I
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  Speaker 1: was just like, what am I going to do? This
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  Speaker 1: is my own home and I don't even know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to do for this task. You know. The
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  Speaker 1: only the only downside I could possibly see for people
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  Speaker 1: is that if it's not your home and it's not
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  Speaker 1: somebody you know, well, finding the things you need to
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  Speaker 1: like for a crafting task or a creativity task might
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  Speaker 1: be difficult. I was willing to be like, if you
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  Speaker 1: need something, let me know. If you're looking for something,
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  Speaker 1: let me know and I'll point you to where it is.
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  Speaker 1: And thankfully, the people who have met my house have
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  Speaker 1: often like slept over or cat sit, so they're familiar
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  Speaker 1: with my home and they're also not afraid to go
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  Speaker 1: digging through drawers.
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  Speaker 2: So so you also, if you're hosting, you need to
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  Speaker 2: be cool with people rifling through your stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, And like my rules were like, please don't
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  Speaker 1: break or ruin anything, like I mean, or if you
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  Speaker 1: need if you think you might ruin something, let us know,
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  Speaker 1: like if you're if you're concerned, but I try, you know,
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  Speaker 1: just please don't break something that means something to me, right, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: drawers are open. If you find something in there that
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  Speaker 1: you don't like, I'm sorry you went through that drawer,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, I trust them not to steal.
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  Speaker 2: From me or anything that's on you. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but I think I was the most destructive person.
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  Speaker 1: Like I threw an entire glass of ice across my
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  Speaker 1: room at everybody. So wow, it was a little bullet ice,
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  Speaker 1: so they weren't like hard, it didn't hurt anyone.
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  Speaker 2: I was mostly thinking of the glass.
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  Speaker 1: Oh I just I took the glass, and I like.
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  Speaker 2: Oh icy, So I out of it, right, I thought
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  Speaker 2: you meant you threw a glass full of ice.
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  Speaker 1: I screamed and held a glass and chucked a full
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  Speaker 1: glass of ice, the ice out of a full glass
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  Speaker 1: of ice at people.
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  Speaker 2: I get it.
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  Speaker 1: So that was that was fun. How was your Fourth
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  Speaker 1: of July weekend? I know what you did, but let's
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  Speaker 1: tell everybody else.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So I went up to Ella j which is
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  Speaker 2: in North Georgia. It's it's north of Atlanta to south
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  Speaker 2: of Blue Ridge, and we had rented a little cabin there.
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  Speaker 2: Friend of the show, Shay League, came along with me
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  Speaker 2: and my partner Becca and Tibbalt the Wonder Pup, and
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  Speaker 2: so Shay had like a loft above the living space
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  Speaker 2: area and we had a little bedroom and yeah, it
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  Speaker 2: was just kind of hanging out and spending time in
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  Speaker 2: this nice cabin. We ate lots of stuff. We cooked.
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  Speaker 2: I had originally planned on going out to eat more
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  Speaker 2: because it was kind of a belated birthday celebration for me,
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  Speaker 2: and I was like, I'll cook for a meal, but
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to cook for every meal. But that
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  Speaker 2: didn't work out so well because we had some weather
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  Speaker 2: issues and other stuff. So we ended up cooking more
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  Speaker 2: than I had planned, but still had a good time.
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  Speaker 2: I made a killer peach cobbler because we went to
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  Speaker 2: a local farm picked up peaches. It's first time I
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  Speaker 2: ever tried to make a peach cobbler, and surprisingly it
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  Speaker 2: turned out better than I could have hoped, which is,
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  Speaker 2: you know, that's never that's never a guarantee when you're baking.
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  Speaker 2: But I was very careful to follow the recipe pretty closely.
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  Speaker 2: I did. I fudged a little here and there with
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  Speaker 2: stuff like the amount of cinnamon I used. I used
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  Speaker 2: a little bit more than what the recipe called for.
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  Speaker 1: It turned out making You should always use a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more unless it's saffron.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and so yeah, that was a It was really nice.
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  Speaker 2: We watched seventeen seventy six on fourth of July, because
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  Speaker 2: that's an annual tradition for me. Is I watched the
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  Speaker 2: musical seventeen seventy six because, as we all know, it's
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  Speaker 2: it's one hundred percent historically accurate. The Founding Fathers did
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  Speaker 2: stop to sing and do dances and stuff throughout the
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  Speaker 2: entirety of me.
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  Speaker 1: I fully fully believe that's true, and we've just written
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  Speaker 1: it out of history books.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but that was fun. And then I also, this
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  Speaker 2: is skipping ahead, but I also watched a series I
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  Speaker 2: had been very much looking forward to, but I'll save
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  Speaker 2: that for the what we watched section. Other than that,
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  Speaker 2: like it was pretty chill. We didn't, like I said,
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  Speaker 2: we didn't go out and do much. We just kind
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  Speaker 2: of stuck around the house and relaxed. But honestly, I
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  Speaker 2: think I needed that. This is one of those things
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  Speaker 2: where I did not overplan, which was nice because you
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  Speaker 2: know me, Ariel, like, I go into planning mode and
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  Speaker 2: it becomes almost regimental and it's not great.
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  Speaker 1: I do that too sometimes for sure.
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  Speaker 2: Especially from things like Disney. Oh yeah, but then you're
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  Speaker 2: spending so much money that you're like, I want to
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  Speaker 2: make sure I maximize my enjoyment so that I feel
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  Speaker 2: like this was a good value for money experience, which
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  Speaker 2: is almost impossible with Disney, Like as much fun as
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  Speaker 2: you have, it's so expensive anyway. So that's what I did.
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  Speaker 2: But let's move on to the actual question of the week.
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  Speaker 2: And this was inspired by the fact that we've got
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  Speaker 2: a couple of different stories this week about movies and
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  Speaker 2: TV shows with aliens in it. So my question was,
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  Speaker 2: what's your favorite film featuring aliens? And that's aliens with
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  Speaker 2: a little A meaning it can be any kind of alien.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't have to be a xenomorphaalien.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I thought about this because there's it's just somebody
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  Speaker 1: once said, they're not asking necessarily your favorite of all time,
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  Speaker 1: you can ever change it. What's your favorite right now?
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  Speaker 2: Which and also this is literally a favorite film that
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  Speaker 2: has aliens in it. The aliens don't even necessarily need
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  Speaker 2: to be the focus of the movie.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, there's just so many options, right, Like there's
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  Speaker 1: so many great movies.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I wrote down I wrote down one winner
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  Speaker 2: and a bunch of honorable mentions.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just gonna I'm a big sci fi fan, so
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  Speaker 1: like there's always Star Trek and Star Wars I love.
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  Speaker 1: I think my favorite long standing and this is me
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  Speaker 1: knowing that I'm fully forgetting a thousand of or other
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  Speaker 1: movies with aliens in it that I absolutely love is
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  Speaker 1: Galaxy Quest.
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  Speaker 2: Oh that's a great answer.
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  Speaker 1: It is because it's it's like Star Trek, but also
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  Speaker 1: pick like cheeky, which I love. It's got a brilliant
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  Speaker 1: cast of actors. Yeah, it's just one that still makes
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  Speaker 1: me laugh to today. And then follow up is just
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  Speaker 1: because it's recent in my mind, I really really enjoyed.
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  Speaker 1: This is a spoiler but not anymore Projectail Mary.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's not a spoiler in the trailer
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  Speaker 2: you see it, Yeah, right, like if you if you
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  Speaker 2: somehow missed all the trailers, then sure you don't know that.
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  Speaker 1: I know people who avoided the trailers until they saw
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  Speaker 1: the movie, my husband being one of them.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just that now the movie's on streaming, so
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  Speaker 2: I think you can. I think you're safe for me.
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  Speaker 2: I wrote down Star Wars a new hope. Still probably
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  Speaker 2: my favorite movie that involves aliens, Even as soured as
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  Speaker 2: I am on the Star Wars franchise in general, the
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  Speaker 2: first trilogy still holds a special place in my heart,
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  Speaker 2: the first two more than the third, but I still
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  Speaker 2: like the third as well. But honorable mentions. I have
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  Speaker 2: Battle Beyond the Stars, really trashy Roger Korman produced sci
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  Speaker 2: fi flick which we talked about in our seven Sons
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  Speaker 2: of Seven Samurai video, The Last Starfighter, which you know,
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  Speaker 2: cheesy eighties era sci fi film, really much, really good, considering,
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  Speaker 2: like you know, it wasn't a super high budget movie
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  Speaker 2: the way some of the others were. I also have
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  Speaker 2: Earth Girls Are Easy, which is not a good movie,
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  Speaker 2: but it does have some Julie Brown songs in it
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  Speaker 2: that made me laugh. I actually don't think that's a
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  Speaker 2: good movie at all, but I had to include it.
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  Speaker 2: I also wrote down Aliens. I like Alien, but I
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  Speaker 2: think Aliens is more of an action film than a
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  Speaker 2: horror movie. But yeah, it's a really good action movie.
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  Speaker 1: It's a scary action movie.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, It's Starman is another one that's a that's a
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  Speaker 2: John Carpenter film, But unlike other John Carpenter films, it's
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  Speaker 2: actually very sweet. It's a very sweet movie. Uh yeah,
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  Speaker 2: those are just a few. The Navigator is good, although
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  Speaker 2: it does I guess. Yeah, the ship is an alien.
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  Speaker 1: And it's filled with aliens, always aliens in it.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I forgot, Like it's been so long since
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  Speaker 2: I've seen that movie.
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  Speaker 1: Well that's the thing is I love it. It holds
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  Speaker 1: a place in my heart because it was it falls
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  Speaker 1: right into the same like doctor Who Peter Pan kind
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  Speaker 1: of a vibe.
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  Speaker 2: Right sure. Yeah, it doesn't hurt that Paul Rubens voiced
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  Speaker 2: the ship.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, but it you know, trying to show it
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  Speaker 1: to someone nowadays. It's slow and it's long, and it's
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  Speaker 1: old sci fi though the puppets are still great. So like,
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  Speaker 1: I love it because it's nostalgic. I don't know that
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  Speaker 1: I mean, try it. You might love it still nowaday,
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  Speaker 1: but it is very vintage feeling.
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  Speaker 2: I actually just thought of another one, and the reason
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  Speaker 2: why I thought about is because you've talked about it
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  Speaker 2: being slow moving. Buckaroo Bonzai. I love Bucker Bonds. I
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  Speaker 2: love John Lithgow in Buckaroo Bondsi he plays an alien
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  Speaker 2: in it. Spoiler. I love that movie. I showed that
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  Speaker 2: to a friend of the show, Shay Lee, and she
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  Speaker 2: was like, this was the most boring movie you could
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  Speaker 2: have ever shown me. She really didn't like it, which
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  Speaker 2: you totally get it, like it's it's not her thing.
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  Speaker 2: I am still totally head over heels enamored with that film.
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  Speaker 1: It is great lines. Yeah, I think it's fun.
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  Speaker 2: No matter where you go there you are such a
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  Speaker 2: dumb line and I love it so much. All right, Well,
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  Speaker 2: then let's talk about stuff we watched since the last
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  Speaker 2: time we recorded. And I hear that you watched a
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  Speaker 2: big tent pole summer movie, blockbuster.
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  Speaker 1: Feature about aliens.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, but yeah, but notably it was not in your list.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so I watched Supergirl and I I want to
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  Speaker 1: preface this by saying that Millie Alcox, is that her name?
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  Speaker 2: Millie Alcock did.
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  Speaker 1: A phenomenal job. She was a wonderful, wonderful actress, and
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  Speaker 1: it's hard to it's hard to talk about without spoilers.
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  Speaker 1: There were some very good moments. I thought it was
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  Speaker 1: an understandable journey on how to get her from a
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  Speaker 1: place where she was at the end of Superman to
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  Speaker 1: and explain kind of why she was the way she
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: was at the end of Superman into a place where
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  Speaker 1: she can fully act as Supergirl. So this movie was
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  Speaker 1: that vehicle, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Kind of her heard her hero journey into embracing embracing
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  Speaker 2: more of a heroic kind of yah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. But it also deals with like her past trauma.
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  Speaker 1: It is a darker, grittier movie. It had some funny moments.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't have quite as many jovial moments as I
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  Speaker 1: wanted for the movie, which you know, I knew it
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  Speaker 1: was going to be a different a different vibe, and
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  Speaker 1: and so I was I wasn't trying to expect like
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: a full comedy Guardians of the Galaxy Superman kind of a thing.
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  Speaker 2: But some of the oh, I'm sorry, I was just
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  Speaker 2: gonna say, but like, if you watch the trailer, you
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  Speaker 2: would be forgiven for thinking, oh, this feels very Guardians
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  Speaker 2: of the Galaxy ish, right, because the trailers made it
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  Speaker 2: feel like, Oh, it's like a Guardians of the Galaxy
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  Speaker 2: kind of movie. That's the impression I got. So it
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  Speaker 2: was kind of surprising to me to hear that, Oh no,
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  Speaker 2: when you watch the full film, it's not really that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, they didn't pull some punches I thought they
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  Speaker 1: would pull. Some of the music choices were weird, and
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  Speaker 1: some of them I thought were weird in a fun way,
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  Speaker 1: and some of them I thought were weird and a
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  Speaker 1: this just feels incongruous way it. They introduced a side
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  Speaker 1: character who has a sword and is like seeking revenge,
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  Speaker 1: like cast classic revenge story. Who I guess this is
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  Speaker 1: a spoiler. It kind of is a un Her storyline
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  Speaker 1: to me felt like a Chekhov's gun that was never fired.
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  Speaker 1: The sidekick.
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  Speaker 2: No payoff.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, just the way they built her story, I
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  Speaker 1: felt like it didn't have good payoff. The the things
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  Speaker 1: that she they made important in that story never really
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  Speaker 1: got utilized in a way. The villain was truly despicable,
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  Speaker 1: like you wanted this character like You're like, there's no
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  Speaker 1: way this character can go on after the things he's
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  Speaker 1: done right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, hurting a dog at the very beginning is.
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  Speaker 1: Like hurting a dog at the very beginning. And then
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  Speaker 1: this is also kind of a spoiler, but I feel
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  Speaker 1: like it's a good trigger warning to have because I
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  Speaker 1: wish I'd known I had had it. It deals with
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  Speaker 1: like child human trafficking, which is horrible to deal with,
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  Speaker 1: So I wish I had had that trigger warning. I'm
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  Speaker 1: trying to do it in ways that don't spoil the
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  Speaker 1: story specifically, but he was truly despicable, but at the
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  Speaker 1: same time, he was also unremarkable. He was just unlikable.
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  Speaker 1: He was just a complete horrible person I found. So
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  Speaker 1: it was, you know, the best villains are the ones
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  Speaker 1: that you almost like you hate yourself for being, like,
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  Speaker 1: I understand why you're doing that. There was none of that.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there are people out there who are motivated
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  Speaker 2: purely by greed, yes, right where you're like, Okay, I
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  Speaker 2: understand why you're doing it. I still hate you because
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  Speaker 2: you're a terrible person.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. They set up a couple of things that I
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: thought would be interesting through lines for Supergirl because one
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: of the problems that we've talked about this before was
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: Superman and Supergirl is that they can't just have their
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: powers all the time. One of the things that always
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: happens in a Superman a Supergirl movie is either there's
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: a godlike creature that they have to fight or they
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: lose their powers because otherwise they're just too powerful. The
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: movie's over in five.
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: Minutes, Yeah, exactly, Like, how do you present a hurdle
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: for them to overcome when they can fly and move
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: planets with the strength of their Kryptonian bodies. Yeah.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: However, the amount of times that they fridged Supergirl in
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: this movie became frustrating.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: Every planet's got a red sun or.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean literally, I think she had her
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: powers for less than ten percent of the movie.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: Wow, her full powers.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: So like already trying to kill a dog, and then
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: like I was like, well, they're going to do that,
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: but there's gonna be enough moments focusing on that. But
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: it was really hard not to focus on that, which
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: you know is hard for me anyhow. And then just
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: all of this other dark stuff and Supergirl not having
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: her powers and the Lobo was fun. Everybody was a
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: good actor, that's the thing. Everybody did a great job
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: with what they were given. I just I didn't find
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: the story fun or compelling enough, or it didn't have
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: to be fun, but it had to be compelling enough.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: But I am excited for where Supergoat Girl goes from here.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: I don't think it deserved to get panned as hard
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: as it got panned. I have friends who loved it,
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: and I'm so glad that they did it. Just I
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: tried to set my sight slower, and I think maybe
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: my expectations were still a little too high. It also
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: had no Easter eggs in the credits.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: Oh no stingers or anything like that, none, huh.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: Which surprised me. Jason Momoo was great as Lobo. I
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: think they misused him or and or underutilized him, but
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: what he did was great. What he did was phenomenal,
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: and in the moments that he and the side ca
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: are interacting were some of like my favorite moments in
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: the film. So I think it is still worth seeing,
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: especially if you're excited for the James Gun universe. I
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: don't think it was a horrible movie.
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: I just.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: Don't think it was as remarkable as it could have been.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: And I hate to say that, so.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: You'd say, like, like, is it safe to say you
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: didn't enjoy it as much as Superman.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: No, I enjoyed Superman much.
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: Better, gotcha. Yeah, I still haven't seen it, and I
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: still plan to because, like you know, I'm definitely curious
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: about it, but I'm glad to have at least lowered
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: expectations going into it. I did hear one song that
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: was from the soundtrack, which was a cover of the
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: Jimmy Eat World song The Middle, and I actually I
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: kind of liked the cover. I don't like it as
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: much as the original. I think the original you I've
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: done that at karaoke. I love the original song, but
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: I actually dug the cover. I didn't think the changes
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: were fairly subtlely slowed it down a little bit and
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: then rearranged the music a little bit, but nothing like
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: wacky and none of that, none of that horror movie
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: schlop where they like, let's take the song, put it
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: in a minor key and make it creepy.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I I liked how they used that song. I
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: thought it was good. I thought it was fun and
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: it surprised me. There's another moment where they use like
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: Girl from Epanema, and I don't want to spoil when
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: they use it, but I felt like it was misused
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: and it didn't hit gotcha because it felt it felt
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: like it it didn't feel like like he man was great,
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: like the moments when they used the songs were like
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: perfect to highlight what was happening at that moment, or
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: like yeah, even even with Guardians of the Galaxy, where
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: it's it's either funnily fitting or ironic when they play
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: that song, I didn't feel.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: Like it fit. Maybe it's one of those things. I
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: don't know this, this is just speculation, but I feel
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: like with James Gunn, like he has in mind what
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: songs he wants to license for specific moments, and of
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: course there's never a guarantee that you're gonna be able
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: to get that license. I mean, if you've got Disney
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: Move money, you got a good chance, but it's no gant,
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: never a guarantee. But I feel like it's not just
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: insert song here, right, It's like a very specific thing.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: Whereas from the way you're describing this, it sounds almost like, oh,
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: we know, we want to have a song to highlight
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: this moment or to uh, you know, put a button
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: on this moment. But maybe they either they didn't have
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: a specific song in mind, or they couldn't get the
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: rights to whichever song they had in mind, and so
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: they had to go with something else. It doesn't quite work,
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: that's what it kind of sounds like. Or it may
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: just be someone who's just not as confident in that
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: kind of filmmaking.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I will say there were three things that I
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: absolutely loved, love loved about this movie. One Millie al
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: Cox's performance and everybody's performance, but specifically, I thought the
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: journey that she took emotionally was moving and I very
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: much appreciated it. Two the special effects. They used a
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: lot of practical puppets. That's awesome, and it felt it
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: felt like more Star Wars. And they also they also
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: didn't shy away from using inhuman looking characters to be
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: people that were interacted with, you know, not just background
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: characters like it's This is one of the problems I
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: know that we've talked about with Star Trek is that
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: so many of their aliens look like humans with different skin.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: Or yeah, or some sort of prosthetic yeah on the face.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: But that's it.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: A lot of these aliens looked truly alien, which I
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: think is so important in the DC universe. That's that's
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: a huge part of it. And like with Lantern's upcoming, like, yeah.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: If you're gonna get nort in there, you need to
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: have some weird look at aliens.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, So they did that phenomenally and I love
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: that they used so many practical effects for that. And now,
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: what was the third one. I've heard some people complain
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: about what they did with Superman's parents in the Superman
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: movie hm, and they didn't do that with Supergirl's parents.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: Her parents were wonderful.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: Which explains why she's such a piece of crap.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: It does actually if you again, I don't want to
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: spoil anything, but in the journey of her story from
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: her birth to coming to Earth and all of that,
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: you know, I think it's canonical that like Superman came
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: to birth to Earth as a baby, right, yes, but
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: Supergirl never.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: Did, depending upon I'm not gonna ever say never, just
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: because there's always so many different variations of these characters
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: over the years. But yeah, my understanding is that she
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: was already at least like a teenager, if not a
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: young adult when coming to Earth. Yeah, so from I understand,
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: like she was part of the city that got shrunk
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: or something in a lot of storylines, and then something
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: happens where she is expelled from that city and she
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: ends up being on Earth. That's this is me talking
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: about stuff that I read like three decades ago and
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: barely remember.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: That's that's basically what happens in this movie. They show
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: that that's what happens. I just that's also what I remember.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: Her origin kind of being is like she's got this
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: cousin that she's never met because he was sent as
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: a baby. And it's not that she's necessarily older than him,
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: but it's that they had a different upbringing and when
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: they were sent to Earth. So this movie in that
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: way does handle the deal with that, and it makes
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: a lot of sense for where it makes a lot
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: of sense for her journey and all the bits and
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: pieces and why this movie has the tona has. But like, like,
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: I know, my parents didn't love the fact that this
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: is a spoiler if you haven't seen the Superman movie
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: when they translate what his parents say. I don't remember
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: if this is truthful or if this is like manipulating it,
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: but apparently his parents are like, you need to rule
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: over Earth, not protect Earth, which is some people didn't
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: like that.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: Now I think it's supposed to be that that is,
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: in fact what his Kryptonian parents said. But the fact is,
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: because he was raised by decent human beings, the lessons
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: he learned were like he comes to realize, Oh, just
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: because my parents wanted me to do that and I
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: didn't understand that for so long doesn't mean that I'm
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: forced to follow that way my real parents. I consider
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: my real parents to be my earth mother and father,
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: which I like.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: I think it's a cool twist. But I understand why
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: some people may not care for that choice.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I understand that too. I want to say, I
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: want to say that that kind of approach with cal
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: El's parents is has been done before, like it might
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: have even been done in Smallville, but I didn't was small.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: Like I remember he started to find messages from his
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: dad in Smallville, but I don't remember much more about that.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: And I think that's around the time when I stopped
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: watching so but something tells me that there is at
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: least one other depiction of Superman beyond the comic books
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: that has a similar kind of story to it.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and and and again, I don't I don't
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: mind that, you know, as long as he's an upstate
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: like he's supposed to be the epitome of like aspirational, right,
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: So as long as Superman remains aspirational, I'm fine with
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: those choices because you can get to that endpoint several
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: different ways that are all completely logical and reasonable and
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: a fun journey. So but yeah, it had some really
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: good moments in it good. I just wish overall it
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: had been a little stronger, because.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: I just.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: I like Supergirl as a care and I think she's
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: fun and she does have a little bit more freedom
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: than Superman, and I want her to be successful in
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: this franchise.
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: It would be fun to have a female led superhero
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: movie where it all feels like all the pieces fell
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: into place properly. Yeah, Because like I don't want it
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: to continue to be a thing where the critics will say, yeah,
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: female led superhero movies just don't work, because I don't
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: believe that. I think you have to have the right
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: pieces in place, just like with any movie, Like, if
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: you don't have the right pieces in place, it doesn't
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: matter what your movie is about, it will not work properly.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: And I think one of the major problems we've had
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: is that a lot of female led superhero movies just
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: haven't had those pieces in place, and so what we
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: get is a subpar movie. And then you give fuel
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: to the people who are like, a woman can't be
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: the anchor for superhero movie. It just doesn't work. And
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: I just find that so disingenuous and so so insulting. Yeah,
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: and I'm like, listen, we can look at tons of
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: male led superhero movies that are garbage. Yeah.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And the thing is like even in the in
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: the Snyder verse, which I know I didn't hate as
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: much as other people, but I also felt had a
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: lot of shortcomings, including like editing, you know, still cast
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: amazing people, Harley Quinn, the Emancipation of Harley Quinn, and
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: the Birds of Prayer whatever that full title is that
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: I don't remember offhand. All of the actors in that
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: were fantastic. Is there're various super villains or superheroes or
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: power players with a so so script. Wonder Woman Gal
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: Gadot was phenomenal. I thought she did a great job.
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: I would say the first two thirds of the first
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: Wonder Woman movie are great superhero film material, and the
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: last third is okay, And then the second movie has
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: massive problems.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, so, But in the first movie I liked
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: it felt very Captain America, right, yeah, similar, yeah, similar
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: sort of a vibe. I thought Yalgudo did great. I
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: loved the supporting characters, the end, the villain, and the
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: end was not fun for me. It wasn't like it
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: was offending me. It was just not engaging.
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: Honestly, it kind of was like the same problem we
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: saw with a lot of Marvel movies, like Captain America
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: had that same issue. I think the first Iron Man
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: movie had that same issue. You know.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I just think for me at the beginning of
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: the Wonder Woman movie, and I did like it the
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: longer I sit with it. She had great moments to
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: be heroic where she was like she didn't need to
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: know what was going on to know it was right
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: and wrong, and that was phenomenal. However, the amount of
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: times they focused on her being a fish out of
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: water and having to have someone explain something to her
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: got a little old.
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was. Having a couple moments like that is
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: fun because it kind of human eye is your your
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: protagonist and it adds a little humor. But if you
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: lean on it too much then you're like, okay, but
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: we get it.
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: But we have also had it's not superhero movies, but
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: we have had very strong women characters leading without needing
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: a lot of help, who I think could be considered superheroes.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: Like the way that Hidden Figures is written, that lead
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: character like write a superhero like that.
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: Same with the Alien movie.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: Yes, that was what I was about to just say, like,
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: it's not that they don't have a support system, it's
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: that they are fully capable as an individual.
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Linda Hamilton and Terminator Too. Yeah, you know, not
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: so much in all the different sequels because I think
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: that they over corrected. But in Terminator Too, she's a
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: believable badass. Yeah.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: And I feel that way about the characters in the
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: Emancipation of Harley Quinn. It's just that well, one, that
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: movie came out like right as everything shut down, so
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: it didn't get a huge chance in the theater. And
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: two like the storyline was just okay.
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I tried watching it and it didn't hold my attention.
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: But maybe I'll try and give it another go because
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: I do like all the people who are involved in it,
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: well to an extent, not everybody. There's some notable exceptions,
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: but like the I think Margot Robbie is as Harley Quinn,
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: she's one of the great like superhero performances in the
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: last decade her she understood the assignment. As they say
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: in every variation, like, it's not exactly the same Harley
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: from movie to movie. It's slightly different, but it's never
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: such a deviation that you would say, oh, that's not
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: Harley Quinn.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, yeah, even in he Man, which I recently watched.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: In Mortal Kombat Too, which I think, okay, Mortal Kombat,
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: who did not the story in Supergirl is better than
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: the story of Mortal Kombat Too, But I think I
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: had more fun watching Mortal Kombat Too's just more levity
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: in it, which is not just not to say that
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: that's right and Supergirl was wrong in the amount of levity,
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: but like both of those had strong female characters who
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: were independently strong of their situations or their support team. Yeah,
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: which is wonderful, And it's not that the movie was
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: solely focused on them and they were the hero. It
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: was a he Man movie, but she was a fully
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: capable individual, which I liked. Well, uh, Supergirl was too,
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: but they kept pridging her.
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: Okay, well, now you should ask me what I watched.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, oh, I also watched Larry David.
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you said that you were disappointed.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was really great again, really great support actors.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: And then it was just Larry David being Larry David
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: in every situation.
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: Which could have like some amusement factor. But I would
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: imagine that if that's just if that's your go to joke,
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: I would imagine it does get a little old.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: It's a series of vignettes, so when it's that joke
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: in every vignette in the episode, it does get.
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: All I guess, like you could hope that it's one
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: of those jokes where it's funny that it gets less funny,
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: but then you stick with it so long it comes
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: background to funny again. I mean, you could hope for that,
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: I mean, and again.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: The supporting characters were also funny, and each each each
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: vignette in the first episode is I won't to watch
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: the first episode, each vignette the supporting characters become more funny.
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: The last vignette in the first episode is Rosa Parks,
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: and her performance is hilarious. She does such a good job.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: But then it's also just Larry David not shutting.
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: Up so deeper de repetitive.
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: Yes, what did you watch? I'm so sorry. We've talked
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: a very long time about stuff, and I went on
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: very many bunny trails in it.
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: What did you eat? We talked? I'm sorry, No, listen, Ariel,
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: I'm the one who edits this. I look at the
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: wave files, like Jonathan, you need to let Ariel talk. MO.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: You did talk. You had some very salient points.
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: That's true. I did. I even butted in when it
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: was your turn. All right, Well, first of all, I
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: forgot to put this on the spreadsheet, but I did
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: last night. Go and see a performance of y'all Mark
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: in July. So here in Atlanta we have a there's
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: a guy named Toover Paine who is a screenwriter and
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: he's written several Hallmark Christmas movies, and typically in the
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: holiday season, he and some improvisers from Dad's Garage Theater
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: will work together and do an improvised Hallmark Christmas movie.
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: They call it y'all Mark, and they'll do numerous performances,
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: but it's always made up on the spot. While following
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: the extremely formulaic structure of a Hallmark Smith's movie. So
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: the joke is like, if you've seen one, you've seen
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: all of them, because they they it's like romance novels.
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: They follow very similar formulas, but that gives you plenty
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: of room to play around and to mess with the formula.
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: So that's what y'all Mark is all about. It was
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: so much fun, great job all around, and it's great
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: to see next. I saw the entirety asterisk of Widows Bay.
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: The asterisk is because I fell asleep in the last episode,
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: dozed off. I missed probably about forty percent of it,
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: but I woke up for the end, so I know
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: how it ends. But I mean, we had been watching
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: it all day long. It's it's like ten episodes, so
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: but I really, I really enjoyed it. I think Widow's Bay.
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna say anything
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: new because it's tons of people have talked about this
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: for like a month, but Widow's Bay is very well done.
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: They have a lot of fun with different horror tropes.
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: It's not just seaside Town Lovecraftian style horror. That is
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: a big part of it, but it's not the only part.
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: They play around with other horror tropes as well, and
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: the characters are fun, the jams they get in are interesting,
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: and yeah, I really recommend it. I will say, despite
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: my groggy nature, toward the end of our marathon viewing session,
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: I did one hund predict a major plot point outcome
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: and felt quite vindicated before I dozed off.
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: Oh wow.
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah. But I was like, as I was watching, I
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: was like, Okay, here's what I think is gonna happen,
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: and I called it. That was right. And what's really
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: funny is that for a good portion it looked like
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: I was like, it looked like it was going somewhere else,
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: but then turned out like, oh no, it's just this
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: one other piece of information, Like, oh, it turns out
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: Jonathan was absolutely right. But that was that was all me, guys.
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: I'm just brilliant that way. Honestly, I just thought, how
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: would I have written this?
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: So was it? Did it get scarier after the first episode?
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: There are moments that have some creepy slash scary factor
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: to it, but nothing that would even remotely come as
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: close as something like your average scream film or anything
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: like that. Like, I don't think it got I don't
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: think it got scary, scary, They got a little tense
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: and a little creepy at points, but it really was
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: more like an atmospheric horror thing, which is really my jam.
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: Like I love horror in general, but like, if you
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: can make a creepy atmospheric horror, like a ghost story
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: horror movie, I really love those.
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I want to watch it. I just have
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: to make sure that Tony doesn't like it before I
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: plow on without him understood.
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's well worth a watch. Like, the
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: thing that you have to get used to is that
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: each episode is kind of a slightly different horror story.
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: Like there, it does tie all together. There is a
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: narrative that carries through, but you know, like the fog
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: that you see in the first episode, don't expect that
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: to ever come back again.
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: Okay, Oh oh that's sad.
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: It might. I'm not saying it won't, but it will
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: not be the focus of every episode.
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, I mean I liked that when I watched
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: love Craft Country, Like that was what I found the
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: most intriguing, Yeah, was that they changed horror styles each episode.
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: So yeah, it almost feels like an anthology series. It's
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: not because there is more of a narrative that carries
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: through because you have the same characters and things do progress.
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: There were moments where I was like struggling to figure
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: out how much time had passed between one episode and
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: the next episode, because like I was just thinking, Oh,
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: it's going to pick right up where it left off,
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: and then oh, no, clearly this is months later, that
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: kind of thing. And that was a little tricky, like
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: that might have just been maybe I wasn't paying enough attention, right,
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: Like if you make your your your media really well,
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: then your audience should be able to pick up pretty quickly,
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: like how much time in general as fast, not like
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: to the second or anything, but oh this is a
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: couple of weeks or a couple of months or even
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: a year, you know. Yeah, but still highly recommended. All right, well,
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: then look forward to I look forward to talking to
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: you about it because I think I think there'll be
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: elements of it that you'll really dig and some things
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: that you'll just find absolutely absurd, which is on purpose.
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: It is a it is a horror comedy. Yeah, there
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: was one moment in an episode that otherwise was pretty
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: darn serious that made me cackle, and it was a
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: very subtle thing. It wasn't like a big joke. This
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: is a little subtle moment and it made me laugh.
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: And actually I think it startled Timbalt because everyone else
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: was just quiet because it was it was kind of
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: a sedate episode otherwise. But all right, let us move
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: on to thirty seconds or less and Ariel takes the helm.
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: Oh oh yeah, So Emmy nominations have come out and
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: Widows Bay got a lot of them. The Pit got
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: the most deserved, Hacks got second most, but Widows Bay
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: came in third. It also we also got nominations for Pluribus,
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: which is awesome, Night said, The Seven Kingdom, Stranger Things,
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: Spider Noir, and wonder Man got some Best Actor and
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: Best Technical nods. So another geeky Emmy's season.
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: Nice. We'll see how many actual trophies these properties take home,
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: if any, all right, well, then next up Kiinji Tanagaki,
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: who directed the Hong Kong action film The Furious, which
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: we chatted about briefly earlier this year when the trailer
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: came out. His next project is The Reckoner, which will
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: be written by Derek Kolstad. He wrote John Wick and
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: the Star is none other than Peter Dinklice. And that's
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: all we know right now, but I am intrigued.
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: Tracy Ullman is joining season two of Alien Earth along
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: with a couple George R. R. Martin character actors, one
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: from Knightly Southern Kingdom and one from Game of Thrones.
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: I enjoyed the first episode of that, and I need
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: to get Hulu back so I can watch the rest
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: of it.
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: Well, I'm a big fan of the Exorcist, which of
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: course is a possession film which is steeped in Catholic mysticism.
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: I am now curious about an upcoming film called The Dbook,
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: which is a possession film steeped in Jewish mysticism. Steve
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: Gutenberg is going to star as a rabbi who's called
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: upon to expel the spirit of a dead man who
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: is inhabiting a young woman's body. It's an adaptation of
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: a play written by s Anski and filming recently wrapped.
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: We talked about Terminator a little bit and great thing.
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: If you're not familiar with the second Terminator movie, It
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: is coming back to theaters on August twenty ninth for
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: its thirty fifth anniversary. Yeah, it's a fun movie. I
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: don't know how it would look on a theater screen nowadays,
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: but we'll see.
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: I think of Terminator too, kind of being to the
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: Terminator franchise what Aliens was to the Alien franchise for sure,
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: you know well. Paramount announced it will release an untitled
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: animated film directed by Dan Trachtenberg and adapted from the
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: comic book Freddie the Thirteenth. The comic was created by
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: Yehudi Mercado and follows the misadventures of an uncle who
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: is he accidentally kills a supernatural monster and then he
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: has thirteen days to break a curse before he becomes
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: the new version of that monster. But at the same
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: time he's babysitting his niece and nephew whoops a daisy.
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: Uh. Warner Brothers is making a new Free Willy movie.
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: They're having Mary Margaret Koons and Jade Haley Bartlett to
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: do the reimagining, to write it, and they're working with
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: the Russo Brothers as well. Tony not Tony, sorry, Jonathan
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: gave this to me just to like harm me because
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: I don't like Free Willy. I'm not excited for Free
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: Willy too, And because Margaret, Mary Coons and Jade Haley
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: Bartlett I believe have both worked on some horror stuff.
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: I'm afraid it's going to also be scared.
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: The Russo brothers that won't be scary.
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: There are moments of their stuff that is scary.
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: They aren't the Duffer brothers. So all right, well, are
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: you ready for a movie about time traveling cowboy. It's
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: called The Devil's Train and Trevor Donovan will star as Hondo,
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: who is a Hollywood stunt man who's trying to rob
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: the titular train, and as you move from car to car,
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: it transports them into different time periods. Jack Hudson will
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: play a character that Deadline describes as quote demon possessed
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: baddie cyborg blondie end quote huh yeah.
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: Things that might also make you go huh, but don't
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: necessarily need to. Dolly, a true original musical is coming
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: to Broadway. Now. I knew about this a while ago
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: because Dolly Parton was actually having auditions for Dolly Parton
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: impressionists on social media, so you got to watch everybody
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: try to be here. It was really cool. It was
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: a lot of fun, but I hadn't heard about when
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: it was actually coming out. And now we know it
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: has an official opening of January nineteenth, twenty twenty seven.
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: It's going to feature a lot of her songs. Dolly
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: Parton says her whole life'spit a musical, which is true
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: of anything to be a jukebox musical. I feel like
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: this one really earns it.
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: Fallout fans have been a bit befuddled by Bethesda. That's
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: hard to say quickly. The success of the Fallout TV
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: series prompted a lot to ask why is there not
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: a new Fallout game to capitalize on this excitement and popularity. Well,
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: Bethesda's pretty slammed with the next Elder Scrolls game. So
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: old pal Obsidian Entertainment, which is the company that made
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: Fallout New Vegas, is going to take the helm of
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: the next Fallout game, which is super exciting. Because Fallout
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: New Vegas. A lot of people will look at that
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: and consider it a high point of the franchise.
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: Oh, speaking of video games, I should have put this
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: in what I watched. I finished Stretch and I started
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: Dragon Age Inquisition.
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: I got an Xbox Series X nice and all I've
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: done is play an old Xbox three sixty game on it,
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: and then some Minecraft I.
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: Only got Dragon Age Inquisition because it was being sold
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: with Mass Effect and Drameda, which I started and got
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: like three quarters of the way through and never finished.
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: But then when I went to go play it again
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: and actually finish it, I was like, I don't know,
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: do I want to It might all seem too familiar.
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: Mass Effect is hard for me to get into. Like
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: that first game. I get the sense that that series
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: improves dramatically as it goes along, or at least the
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: second one is like a huge improvement over the first.
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: And I want to like the first one, but I
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: wasn't connecting with it, and and that's a bummer that is.
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, at least the gameplay gets significantly better in the
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: second and third ones. Yeah, and I did like the story.
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: I know a lot of people don't like how the
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: story ended, but I think they've released some DLC where
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: you can where it fixes at.
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: I think the biggest issue is that people were kind
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: of irritated that. You know, the game makes you feel
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: like all your choices really matter, But then as at
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: least as it was initially released, it turns out that
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: one of three outcomes can happen, which makes you sit
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: there and say, did any of my choices really make
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: any difference? Because if it's all leading to just one
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: of three outcomes, it feels like it feels like it
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: was kind of futile.
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: Well, it's not even that it was one of three outcomes.
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: It was that there wasn't an outcome for certain styles
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: of play, or like the outcome if you were playing
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: a certain alignment with your character really was kind of
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: it felt like an fu because it's like, oh, you've
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: made this choice, You've played the entire game. This I
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: don't remember which it is, but I think is like
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: an upstanding person with these viewpoints, and now if you
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: choose the ending that matches with that, it doesn't really matter.
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah. It makes me think of games where the UI
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: is confusing, where you're given different potential responses to like
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: someone says something to you, got different potential responses and
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: you're looking at the way the responses are written out
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: and you're like, well, none of these really fit the
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: way I'm playing my character, but I guess this one's
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: the closest, and you pick it. It turns your character
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: into an enormous jerk face and you're like, that's not
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: how that read to be at all.
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: I'm having that issue with Dragon Age Inquisition. First of all,
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: they make me press the options button on my PS
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: four controller to get to the menu where I can
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: level up my characters or see the map, and that's
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: such a hard button to hit. It's all like you
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: have to like dig in there. I don't like them,
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: but it's not that I dislike the game. I just
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: don't like the way the controls are set up. But also, yeah,
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: I'm like, I think I'm going to pick this one
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: because this is how i think my character. I'm like,
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: that's not how I read that option at all.
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, geez. That happens in a lot of like Fallout
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: games too, and as well as the big one for
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: me was La Noir because the game play was not
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: well discribe and you would have like different ways to
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: interrogate somebody, and one of them was like, like there
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: was one where you would believe what they were saying,
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: one where you're like directly challenging them, and then there
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: was one it was labeled something like doubt. But if
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: you pick that one, your character would just turn into
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: like a raging psychopath threatening whoever it was, And you're like, no,
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: I was just doubting them. I wasn't like ready to
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: beat the crap out of them or whatever. And I
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: think later on A rock Star, I think it's a
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: rock Star that's behind l A Noir. I think they
• 50:35
  Speaker 2: went and changed the wording a little bit so it
• 50:39
  Speaker 2: made it a little more clear what that third option was.
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: I remember playing that game and going like, man, I
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: have just like I don't care how awful this criminal is.
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: The way I'm playing this cop character. He's a psychopath.
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: It needs to be stopped.
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I had a lot less. I've only playing
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: balder Skate three. I only had that issue once or twice,
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: which is pretty impressive because there's so many options there.
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and yeah yeah, and the voice acting is
• 51:09
  Speaker 2: so much fun with all the characters responding and stuff. Yeah,
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: let us move on to a section that this week
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: we're calling stuff that snuck in while we left the
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: door open for too long.
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And one of the things can happen when you
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: leave the door open too long. Ooh, I'm talking good
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: right now, is that your produce can spoil. So our
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: first trailer is for something called bad Apples.
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah. General premise here is that Sirsha Ronan is playing
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: a beleaguered teacher and one of her class members is
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: a real piece of crap. He's just a terrible kid
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: and it's kind of wearing her down. And then she,
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: maybe accidentally on purpose, kidnaps him, and everybody seems to
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: be happier for it. But it also her prolonged exposure
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: to him is changing her as a person, so she's
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: starting to take on some of his less attractive personality traits.
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, this trailer had a lot of twists and turns.
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: It started off feeling like the good Son and then
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: quickly turned like you know where, you've just got that
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: kid who is dangerous and then when yeah, and then
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: turned into we talked about a trailer for another movie
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: where a couple kidnaps a trouble kid and like justifies
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: it keeping him in their basement because he's got emotional
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: regulation problems and behavioral problems and they just keep him
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: locked up to basically brainwash him.
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's like chained in their basement, which is very
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: similar to this. Yeah.
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it is interesting because this trailer, Yeah, it goes
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: from like this you're scared for sorsa sirsia because of
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: this kid to what is she doing? And like it
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: feels like at the beginning like she's like, I don't
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: know what to do with him, just gonna leave it here,
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: and I'm gonna do this and leave it here until
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: I can figure out what to do. And then of
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: course everybody, like you said, every seems happy. But then
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: at certain points it feels like they're actually connecting and
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: like building a relationship down there.
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, which in turn is making her into a worse person. Yeah,
• 53:16
  Speaker 2: it's it's definitely a dark comedy, like a pitch black
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: dark comedy, which you know, the Brits do a great
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: job with that, Like the folks in the UK and
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: in Ireland, they're really good at dark as night satire.
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: It looks terrifying to me but also interesting.
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know that I could like this. This
• 53:39
  Speaker 2: definitely looks like the kind of movie that would be.
• 53:41
  Speaker 2: This is going to be challenging to watch, not in
• 53:43
  Speaker 2: a bad way, but it's like challenging you as a
• 53:46
  Speaker 2: viewer to watch it. And like, sometimes I can be
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: in the mood for that kind of dark satire, but
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: it needs to be I need to be in that
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: mood otherwise this is not going to go over well
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: for me, but I think it looks interesting as well.
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: It comes out September eighteenth. This might be one I'll
• 54:05
  Speaker 2: have to watch at home. I don't know if I'd
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: be comfortable enough to go out to the theater and
• 54:11
  Speaker 2: see this with other people. Maybe I would, Honestly, it's
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: hard to say. If it were playing in someplace like
• 54:16
  Speaker 2: the Plaza or like the Midtown Arts Cinema, I might
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: be able to dig it then because it would be
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: all the other weirdos going to that theater.
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, it's definitely one that I might try to
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: see also at home. The next trailer we have is
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: for a movie called The Wrong Girls. It is Christen Stewart.
• 54:40
  Speaker 2: And Aliah shawcat Thank You.
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: I was like, I'm seeing her face. I just looked
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: at her name and I've immediately forgotten it. Who are?
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: It's a stoner comedy but featuring girls, which I think
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: is the thing we see less of. I'm not big
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: into stoner comedy, so maybe there's a bunch of them
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: out there that I just don't.
• 54:58
  Speaker 2: I'm not familiar with that many female led stone that
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: comedies almost all of them might think of It's like
• 55:03
  Speaker 2: two dudes and most of the time, Seth Rogan is
• 55:05
  Speaker 2: one of them.
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: And I say that I actually don't know how. I
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: don't remember how Kristen Stewart or Elisha Cott identify, but
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: for the log line of the movie.
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: And the title and the title, yeah the girls.
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, I was just saying that because I
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: thought that one of them might.
• 55:29
  Speaker 2: That Kristen Stewart might have identified as non binary binary.
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And I want to be disrespectful.
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: But the characters, the characters are identified as female, at
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: least as far as otherwise the title would not make sense.
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And basically it's they they're down on their their codependent,
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: they're down on the luck, their luck, they're stoners, and
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: they come across this funky drug that apparently they were
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: not supposed to take and then kind of get babysat
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: by the government.
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's hard to say. Like it looks like there's
• 56:00
  Speaker 2: like some big pharma stuff going on. There's some crazy hitmen.
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: There's like apparently a case of mistaken identity, although that's
• 56:08
  Speaker 2: not really evident in the trailer. I just saw it
• 56:12
  Speaker 2: in a description for the movie. Like the trailer didn't
• 56:15
  Speaker 2: give me any feeling like they were misidentified. As somebody else,
• 56:20
  Speaker 2: but they are definitely being pursued by people with lethal intent.
• 56:25
  Speaker 2: Seth Rogan, I just mentioned him. I didn't mean to.
• 56:27
  Speaker 2: I have forgot that he does a voice in this
• 56:29
  Speaker 2: Seth Rogan and Kamilon and Johnny voice a couple of
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: cats that, you know, it's not clear in the trailer
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: if the cats, if anyone is hearing the cats, or
• 56:42
  Speaker 2: if that's part of like the side effects of the
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: drug that the two girls have taken or what like.
• 56:48
  Speaker 2: It's not really clear, but it is kind of funny
• 56:49
  Speaker 2: that they were in there. It looks wacky as as crap.
• 56:55
  Speaker 2: Christen Stewart and Aliah Shawkat their characters are such losers
• 57:04
  Speaker 2: and like the response of everyone around them is, I
• 57:07
  Speaker 2: can't believe I have to put up with this.
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: So that I am torn on this one because I
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: don't really like stoner comedies, but I do enjoy them
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: occasionally if they're well written. And I also like bizarre
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: mad cap adventure stories. Right yeah, uh, it's got such
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: a phenomenal cast like Keith Stanfield, Gina Davis, Kamil Nanjianny,
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: Tony Hale. But also one of the things that they
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: said what they used in the trailer to like be
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: like from these creators, as in, you should be excited
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: that these that the creators of these movies also is making.
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: This movie was Sausage Party, and I cannot stand that movie.
• 57:50
  Speaker 2: I'm wondering if that's just because of Seth Rogen.
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: I mean, possibly they could have picked Seth. Rogan's has
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: such a broad portfolio, they could have pick something better.
• 58:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Like if it had been like Pineapple Express or something,
• 58:03
  Speaker 2: it would make way more sense. This comes out August fourteenth.
• 58:08
  Speaker 2: I'm not a stoner comedy kind of guy, but this
• 58:11
  Speaker 2: and do you remember I can't even remember the title
• 58:13
  Speaker 2: of it now, but do you remember that trailer we
• 58:15
  Speaker 2: watched the movie where it's the two guys who accidentally
• 58:19
  Speaker 2: take like a a potentially lethal dose of this crazy
• 58:24
  Speaker 2: drug and like they have to get some pizza in
• 58:26
  Speaker 2: them and they're literally just like two floors up in
• 58:29
  Speaker 2: a dorm and the whole movie is about them trying
• 58:31
  Speaker 2: to figure out.
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: How to go pizza party and with gattin Matezaro.
• 58:36
  Speaker 2: Or Yeah, this is kind of making me think like
• 58:40
  Speaker 2: those two movies were whack a doodle enough with their
• 58:43
  Speaker 2: premise where I'm like I might want to watch this
• 58:47
  Speaker 2: even though I am not a stoner comedy guy. So
• 58:50
  Speaker 2: the wrong girls in that one were like the two
• 58:52
  Speaker 2: where I'm like, it's no guarantee that they're going to
• 58:55
  Speaker 2: be great, but they they have a hook to them
• 58:59
  Speaker 2: that I find like the idea is entertaining to me,
• 59:03
  Speaker 2: So I hope it would be a fun thing to watch.
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, Next, we've got a full trailer for Idiots.
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: It's it's in the same like feel, which explains a
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: lot more about the story. I say, because when we
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: watched the teaser teaser, I was like, I don't think
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: I can't really understand what's going on here, but I
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: don't think I like it.
• 59:27
  Speaker 2: It was like two guys just freaking out in the
• 59:29
  Speaker 2: car with a third guy sitting in the backseat.
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, which is what I thought you were referring to
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: when you're talking about Pizza Party or whatever its name is.
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is different. So this is the movie is
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: about these these two kind of dufices played by Dave
• 59:41
  Speaker 2: Franco and O'shee Jackson Junior, who end up Pizza Movie
• 59:47
  Speaker 2: is the other one. Okay, Yeah, I got to what
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: I was saying with Idiots.
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: No, really, I just this is great audio. I'm you
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: guys are all welcome. You know, I have anything I
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: wanted to say was just.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 2: Pick it on me. Dave Freco and O'Shane Jackson Junior.
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 2: My office, by the way, is about eighty seven degrees
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 2: at the moment, So sorry, I just thought i'd point
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 2: that out for no reason other than to get maybe
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 2: a little bit of slack and grace. No, Dave Franco
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 2: and Ohe Jackson Junior, I'm not actually upset. They're playing
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 2: these two kind of losers who get roped into work
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 2: for this. It's almost like a transport slash chauffeur service
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 2: kind of thing where they are tasked with taking an
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 2: overly privileged, rich drug addict to rehab. And it turns
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 2: out this rich drug addict is he's probably the kid
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 2: from Bad Apple's all grown up like he's just a
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 2: he's a terror. He's absolutely awful, and so they encounter
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 2: a series of misadventures, including a semi automatic rifle wielding
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 2: Peter dinklic.
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: So bizarre.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, No, I was upset because the So this is
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 2: one where I don't think it was the official YouTube
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 2: channel for the production company. It was one of those
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 2: where it's like, you know, Rotten Tomatoes or you know,
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 2: one of those that just aggregates trailers, right, because they
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 2: had it where it was idiots and then it had
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 2: like Peter Dinkledge trailer or whatever it had. The thumbnail
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 2: was Peter Dinglidge and in the trailer he's there for
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 2: like a blink and you miss it moment. So I'm
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 2: not expecting a whole lot. But it comes out August
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 2: twenty eighth. This also is not usually my thing, but
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 2: I'll probably wait for it to come out to streaming
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 2: because I have a feeling that a lot of the
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 2: comedy is just not going to hit for me, Like
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 2: it's just going to be for a different kind of
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 2: person than what I am. The stuff that is going
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 2: to hit I think will hit hard. I just don't
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 2: think it's going to be consistent.
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's it's not the main focus of the movie.
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: The next one is a John Travolta vehicle called The
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: Gentleman Thief, which is just about a guy and his
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: I guess kind of shady, less successful brother who wants
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: him to go on a heist, and so it's the
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: less successful brother trying to get the successful thief brother
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: on a heist and everybody likes the successful brother. Like,
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: that's what I got from the trailer. It might be
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: completely wrong, but that's what I got.
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 2: No, that's what I feel too. It's like John Travolta
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 2: is a retired art thief who used to be like
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 2: the best in the business, and his younger brother has
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 2: roped him into another heist. I'm sure it's going to
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 2: turn out those younger brothers like in like real trouble.
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 2: If they don't hist this or whatever, it's wild. So
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 2: John Travolta is playing the older brother, Lucas Haas is
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 2: playing the younger brother, Ariel. Can you make a guess
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 2: is how many years separate those two without looking it up?
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: No, I can't.
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 2: Twenty two Jeese Louis. John Travolta is twenty two years
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 2: older than Lucas Haas.
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: Technically possible, it's very unlikely.
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, and as far as I can tell,
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 2: they're supposed to be full brothers, so technically possible, exceedingly unlikely. Although,
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 2: although John Travolta doesn't look like he's seventy two because
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 2: he's had a lot of work, looks like John Travolta.
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 2: It's true.
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: It's not that. It's so. There was one point in
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: time where I saw John Travolta and I'm like, ah,
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: your face looks so tight. It's hurting me to look
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: at you, you know, Like I hate to say that,
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: but that was my genuine reaction. And he can do
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: whatever with his body he wants. I think he looks
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: pretty good now, but he doesn't look like like I'd
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: see a picture of him and I'm like, who is that. Oh, yeah,
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: that's John Travolta. You know.
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I will say, like I wrote down that this
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 2: looks like, you know, it looks like it's a significant
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 2: step down from a heist movie like Ocean's eleven. But
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 2: it doesn't look terrible, right. It looks like a average
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 2: kind of heist movie with that sort of quippy kind
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 2: of dialogue between characters. There's a point where the younger
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 2: brother says they're playing three D chess. It's I think
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 2: you mean four D chess. All regular chess is in
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 2: three dimensions. I'm like, Okay, that's kind of funny. That's
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 2: a funny little gag. Like I want to give credit
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 2: where credit is due. This is not coming to fault
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 2: theatrical release. It is getting a limited theatrical release on
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 2: July thirty first, but oddly enough, it actually comes to
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 2: digital on July twenty eighth, so it comes out digital first.
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 2: My guess this is just a guess. I don't have
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 2: any information on this, but Travolta at least a couple
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 2: of times has had it his contract that his movies
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 2: have to have a theatrical release, and so I'm wondering
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 2: if that was also the case with this. I do
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 2: not know. I could be wrong, but yeah, I think
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 2: this looks like a fine action heist movie. Yeah, it
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 2: looks like it would be entertaining. It's the kind of
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 2: thing that if it were to come on Basic Cable,
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 2: I'd probably watch it.
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And I do really like Lucas Haas. He's done
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: several things that I really enjoy, most recently Spider Noir.
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: Actually I don't know if that's most recently. That's the
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: most recent thing I saw him in, but I think
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: he's done Mars Attack, he was in Righteous Gemstones. He's
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: a great actor and I think very versatile, and I
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: like him a lot.
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 2: So then we get the latest in a long line
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 2: of Jason Statham beat him up movies, this one's called Mutiny.
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 2: Ariel's facial expression tells me that she will be first
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 2: in line to get tickets to see this wall to
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 2: wall kicking action film.
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: I was actually surprised it was in our lineup because
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: I first saw the trailer before I saw Mortal Kombat too.
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 2: Really, well, it's because like it didn't. I didn't see
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 2: it on YouTube until this week.
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: Oh no, no, like it it just got posted to YouTube.
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: I think it was one of those trailers where it
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: came out in theaters first. But I've seen this trailer.
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: Maybe I saw it.
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 2: Happens a lot, we just don't. I just don't go
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 2: to enough movies to see the trailers before they come
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 2: to YouTube.
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 1: I normally don't either, but I think the reason is
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: because I saw this trailer. I'm like, this doesn't feel
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: like a trailer that would get a movie.
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 2: It feels like a direct video kind of thing or
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 2: direct streaming. Yeah.
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: So basically, it's Jason Jathon Stathon.
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 2: J Ja Ja Tanning Sham.
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: Is on a boat and he commits mere to me
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: by beating people up and stabbing them. Like that's the whole.
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 2: It.
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 1: I don't know why this trailer upsets me so much,
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: but I'm like, this feels like the I and I
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: think Jason stathum No, It's okay. It's been a long
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: week and I've been very busy, and so I only
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: have like a half a brain cell right now. Jason Statham,
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: I think has done, can be very funny. I think
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: he can act. I think he's very good at action stuff.
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 2: Like, he can be charismatic.
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just I don't care for a lot of
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: his projects, and this is one of them that just
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: really didn't appeal to me for some reason.
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 2: No, I feel like this one falls in the same
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 2: category as like The Working Man or The Beekeeper. Like
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 2: it's all these very sort of generic action film projects
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 2: that they don't have a whole lot of personality to them.
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 2: Like Statham is clearly the best component of all these movies,
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 2: and he continuously does a good job, whether the film
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 2: really merits his efforts or not. But yeah, I agree
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 2: with you. There was nothing in this trailer for Mutiny
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 2: that made me think, oh, this is a standout of
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 2: all those recent action films that Jason Statham has been in.
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 2: And I'm sorry to wonder if he's just like taking
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 2: jobs one just to keep working. But also like if
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 2: your job, if you're known as an action star, you
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 2: have a limited time span of how long your career
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 2: is going to last in that particular role, right, because
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 2: you will reach a point where your body is just
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 2: not going to be capable of doing the stuff that
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 2: you were doing you ten years before. The information I
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 2: wrote down here is he plays a former Special Forces
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 2: slash police officer named Cole Reid who now works as
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 2: private security, but he's framed for a murder, so he
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 2: has to escape capture while also trying to bring down
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 2: a conspiracy. It comes out August twenty first. Yeah, as
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 2: you can tell, neither of us are particularly enthusiastic about
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 2: this one.
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: I do. I do want to say, because you said
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: there is a time limit, and there definitely is. However,
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: Jason Statham is fifty eight and Counter Reeves is sixty one.
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 1: And it used to be that if you were in
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: your forties you were old for an action hero unless
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: you were using stuntmen. But you know, one of the
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: a lot of action Tom Cruise is also.
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 2: Liam Neeson is like one hundred and thirty seven.
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and like we had the whole thing read
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: the movie read about older action people is kind of
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: when we first really started seeing it in cinema, and
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: I'm so thankful for it. So that bar has moved.
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 2: I just think, like, well, stay them in particular because
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 2: his his is such a very physical kind of action movie.
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 2: Like it's a lot of like martial arts kind of
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 2: fight sequences and stuff that that's going to get increasingly difficult.
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 2: A lot of the ones you were talking about are
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 2: ones where someone's using a gun a lot. I mean,
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 2: John Wick has definitely like the gun fu kind of
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 2: stuff going on.
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: And I think, what's his face does in the Nobody.
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 2: Movies, Oh, Bob Odenkirk, thank you.
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 1: I think he beefed up to do some of his
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: own stunts too, didn't he?
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, If you watch those movies carefully, you're like,
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 2: this is a pretty slow moving action sequence here, not
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 2: that Like everyone does a great job, but I wouldn't
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 2: call it a really super kinetic like maybe the bus
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 2: fight is fairly kinetic.
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: But well, but I do think like for him, I
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: don't know if I'm recalling this story correctly, but it
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: is at least similar to this, Like he had a
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: heart attack when filming the first Nobody.
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 2: He had a heart attack while doing Better Call Saul.
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: Better Call Saul, and it encouraged him to get in shape.
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 1: So he's like like this saved his life.
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no shade. I mean, Bob Odenkirk does a
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 2: much better job as an action hero than I ever would.
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 2: I'm not no shade on him. I'm just saying, like,
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 2: you watch that bus fight sequence and it's good, Like
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 2: it's framed really well, it shot really well, it's choreographed well.
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 2: But if you're one to watch something that's like super
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 2: fast kinetic, you watch Shang Chi and that mus fight sequence,
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 2: it's like night and day.
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's true.
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 2: But it's not to say that one is better than
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 2: the other. Like it's all part of storytelling. If if
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 2: it serves the story, well then that's what you need
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 2: to do.
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 1: For sure, for sure. And I'm going to serve this
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: podcast well because apparently I've been talking way too much,
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: and let Jonathan take over for a bit.
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 2: Oh you want to go on over here to the
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 2: horror hutch areas.
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 1: I mean want is a very strong word.
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 2: Well you're in luck because this time there is no
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 2: horror hutch. There's a horror hatch. So I'm just gonna
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 2: open this and lower you down. I'm sorry. I would
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 2: go in first, don't worry. Well, I would hand you
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 2: this torch, but it would set fire to all the
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 2: cobwebs and then you would really be in trouble. Don't worry.
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 2: They have that many legs just because they want to
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 2: give you a hug. All right, I'm gonna come on
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 2: down over here in the spider layer, all right. So
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 2: first off, Ariel, obviously I have more movies in the
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 2: Horror Hutch than I normally do, and it's only because
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 2: we had so few for our show. Notes. So did
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 2: you watch any of these trailers?
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 1: I watched the first one and the last one.
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 2: Okay, so you watched Where Wolf and you watched Buddy correct. Okay,
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 2: let me walk you through. So, first off, where Wolf
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 2: is spelled w E R w U l F. This
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 2: is from Robert Eggers, so the spelling makes sense because
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 2: he's also the one who did the vivich Uh. And
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 2: then Nou. I thought, first of all, we saw like
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 2: a teaser for this before, but we saw the actual trailer. Now,
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 2: I think this might this has potential to become my
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 2: favorite Robert Egger's movie, which is saying something because I
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 2: liked pretty much all the ones I've seen. It looks intense,
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 2: it looks grotesque.
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it, but it also looks like a really intriguing story,
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 1: Like it's I want to see it more than The
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 1: Vivich or Nosparatu, but I also don't think I'll be
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 1: able to handle it. It looks a bit too intense for me, honestly,
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 1: and you know I like monster movies. It also the
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 1: trailer to me, where will some vampires have become sexy lately?
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 1: And I know that that's part of the whole vampire stick,
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 1: like that's part of what that monster is. This does
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 1: not feel like a sexy werewolf movie to me, No.
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 2: Looks it looks grotesque and painful. Like it makes me
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 2: think of if you've ever seen an American Werewolf in London,
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 2: which is a horror comedy. This is not a comedy.
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 2: Werewolf is not a comedy, but an American were Wolf
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 2: in London is. But the transformation sequence in American Werewolf
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 2: in London is horrific and it looks so painful and
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 2: it's all practical effects. It was amazing. This looks grim
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 2: and dark. It's set in thirteenth century England. Aaron Taylor
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 2: Johnson plays the character of a farmer who is cursed.
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 1: That was Aaron Taylor Johnson.
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 2: That was Aaron Taylor Johnson's The Ways is My family
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 2: is Cuturst. That's him, geez. The dialogue is largely in
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 2: Middle English. I cannot tell you how much I love that.
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 2: But it also means that the majority of people who
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 2: go to see this are going to struggle because like
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 2: Middle English is what the Canterbury Tales and the and
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 2: Sir Gawain and the Green Night were written in. So
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 2: you like Juanda Depri with the Shoasuta sort of stuff
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 2: like that's not easy for the modern ear to translate.
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 2: But as someone who focused on Middle and Old English
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 2: literature when I was in college, this is thrilling to me.
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 2: Willem Dafoe is in this. He's been in several of
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 2: Egger's projects. Now he looks like he's having a great
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 2: time and not like he's having fun. He's like acting
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 2: his butt off, and I love it.
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 1: Same with Lily Rose dep she was in and she's so.
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 2: This comes out, and so is Aaron Taylor Johnson as well,
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 2: so you can think of like they did a vampire movie,
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 2: now they're doing a werewolf movie. It comes out Christmas Day,
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 2: December twenty fifth. Uh. I desperately want to see this,
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 2: but I have a feeling this is one of those
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 2: that no one I know will go see it with me.
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 2: Friend of the show Shay Lee probably would, except I'm
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 2: almost certain there's gonna be some form of child endangerment,
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 2: if not outright like child harm or child death in
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 2: this movie.
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 1: I it's one of the ones that I'm like if
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 1: I know because I'm familiar, I've seen like American Werewolf
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 1: in London, probably all the way through by the bits
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 1: I've seen, But but like I might be able to
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 1: handle it if I'm aware, But I also don't know
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 1: that I know that, Like if I go to watch
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 1: like a parental if I go to read a parental
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 1: guide view on it, they're gonna be well when they're
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 1: gonna be like this is too intense for babies, but yes,
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 1: but also like they're just gonna be there's a lot
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 1: of this and a lot of that, and it's not
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 1: going to be like specific, So I don't know.
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 2: Well, if you're curious about my ranking of Egger's films,
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 2: I'd say The Witch is still number one for me.
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 2: I believe you did the Lighthouse, that'd be number two,
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 2: and Nosferatu would be number three, and maybe he's done more,
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 2: but those are the ones I can think of off
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 2: the top of my head. And I enjoyed.
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 1: Was the Lighthouse of Horum.
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 2: Kind of.
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 1: Two old guys in a tower.
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 2: Well, it's it's sort of like a sense of dread
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 2: and madness as it slowly creeps in, like that idea
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 2: of isolation and madness, and kind of similar to the Shining,
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 2: you know how being isolated ends up creating this environment
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 2: that allows for madness to creep in. But anyway, I like,
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 2: I've liked all the movies that I've seen from Robert
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 2: Egger so far, and if I've forgotten any then that's
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 2: on me. Next up, we have night Borne. This was
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 2: one you did not watch, correct, I did not watch it. Now.
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 2: Rupert Grant is in this, so Ron Weasley. He plays
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 2: a character named John. He is the husband of side
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 2: Harla's character Saga. So it's John and Saga who are
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 2: in Finland. They have a newborn baby. But the newborn
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 2: baby appears to be a bit unnatural. The baby like
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 2: bites his mom while she is trying to breastfeed him,
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 2: appears to be feeding on her blood. She also seems
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 2: to be slowly going mad. So there's like in the
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 2: trailer there's the question of all right, is this baby unnatural?
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 2: Is there something like fundamentally unnatural about this baby? Is
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 2: the mother just losing her grip with sanity and she
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 2: perceives these things? But that maybe that's not the reality.
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 2: There's the question there. It looks super intense, like an
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 2: intense horror experience. It comes to digital platforms on July
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 2: thirty first, looks like there's some finish folk horror in
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 2: there as well. So I'm intrigued by it. I say that,
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 2: what's that.
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 1: You can't say there's finished full core in there and
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 1: try to get me to watch it.
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 2: I'm not trying to get you to watch it. I
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 2: don't know if I'll be able to watch this because
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 2: that's how intense this trailer was. But I am intrigued
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 2: so and it's also again it's one of those things
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 2: like I love seeing the folk horror stuff come up.
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 2: It's like it's weird that we're in a little kind
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 2: of like spike of folk horror and folk horror adjacent
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 2: horror movies. I like that it's weird that it's all
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 2: happening at the same time. It makes me wonder what
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 2: factors kind of converge to make that happen. Next up,
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 2: we have a trailer for a movie called Feed. Technically
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 2: this is a vampire horror movie, but it has elements
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 2: of Irish folklore, so that's really got me interested. This
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 2: also looks super duper intense. It's a group of friends
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 2: who go to spend a weekend in a manor house
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 2: in Ireland. One of the friends is mourning a personal loss,
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 2: and then they accidentally awaken an ancient Irish folklore vampire,
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 2: and that vampire needs to bond with a human in
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 2: order to secure its continuing survival. And so like this
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 2: girl who is or young woman who has suffered this
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 2: enormous personal loss is kind of singled out to be
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 2: the potential new host for the vampire. That's my interpretation
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 2: of what I've seen and read about this movie. The
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 2: trailer is, like I said, super intense, a little abstract
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 2: in parts, but I have a suspicion that that's largely
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 2: from the way the trailer was cut. I just don't
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 2: know for sure, like I don't know if watching the
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 2: movie has that same experience. But this comes out to
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 2: digital platforms on August fourteenth. I will probably check this
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 2: out because, again Irish folklore, it doesn't look spectacular to me,
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 2: but it's got me intrigued.
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 1: The synopsis you gave sounds interesting, but also you put
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 1: cannibalism there, so I was like, now.
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, because it's vampire, but it's not vampire like
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 2: the Eastern European style vampire. It's it's more like a
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 2: like almost like a flesh eating ghoul kind of vampire. Yeah.
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 2: And there's definitely body horror, like there's some body horror
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 2: stuff in the trailer, and I'm sure it gets much
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 2: more grody in the actual film. Then we have She
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 2: Saw Us, I swear, I'm almost to the sorry y'all,
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 2: but She Saw Us as a movie about a legendary
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 2: witch that had a two headed child and a two
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 2: headed doll features heavily in this trailer, and you're thinking,
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 2: who the heck would make a two headed baby dolluh?
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 2: But it's about a group of documentarians. They're making a
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 2: documentary about something I don't know what it's supposed to be,
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 2: and they all get wrapped up in this witch horror
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 2: scenario thing. This one was a little weird because when
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 2: I watched the trailer, it seemed to me like all
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 2: the dialogue was done in ADR, and at first I
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 2: thought that maybe it was a foreign film and that
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 2: it had been dubbed in English. But when I looked
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 2: into it, like a lot of the names of the
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 2: actors appeared to be like English names right, or Anglicized names.
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 2: So it makes me wonder if it was just all
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 2: done in ADR. And it doesn't quite match the mouth movements.
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 2: It just seemed off. But it has a lot of
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 2: like standard horror movie demonic possession elements to it. It
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 2: comes out on September fourth. This one I'll probably skip.
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 2: It does not look interesting enough to me. Maybe that's
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 2: the fault of the trailer, but this one did not
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 2: bore me in. And finally we got a teaser for Buddy.
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 2: This just a teaser, but it's basically about a children's show.
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 2: It's got a couple different elements in it, like there's
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 2: some five night at Freddy's kind of vibes. Because it's
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 2: like these these big, colorful mascots in this children's show,
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 2: but something's really wrong about them. But also apparently there's
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 2: a bunch of kids who are perpetually caught in an episode.
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 2: So there's like the storyline takes place in the real
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 2: world where there's stuff happening, and also in the TV
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 2: world where there are these kids who are trapped in
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 2: this show. And it's got a ton of different talented
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 2: folks in it, like Kristin Milioti, Taufer, Grace Keegan, Michael Key,
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 2: Michael Shannon, and Patton Oswalt all are in the film.
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 2: And it's directed by Casper Kelly, who made one of
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 2: my favorite things ever on the both on TV and
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 2: the internet. Do you know what that is? No, Well,
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 2: it takes a lot to make us stew, especially when
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 2: it's made with me And oh yeah, yes, So the
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 2: guy behind Too Many Cooks directed this thing comes out
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 2: August twenty eighth. This is just a teaser. I'm going
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 2: to need to see more before. Like, the cast is incredible,
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 2: like this it's all funny people. Yeah, it's just the
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 2: teaser didn't do much for me. But that was again,
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 2: it was just a teaser, and part of it I
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 2: think is because it is trying to appeal to the
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 2: same crowd that would really dig something like five nights
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 2: at Freddy's. And to me, I'm like, oh, five nights
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 2: at Freddy's. That's kitty horror. I'm fine, I don't need that.
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not a big five nights at Freddy's. Person
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 1: that it's by the weapons people is interesting to me.
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 1: I yeah, it was a pretty scary trailer to me.
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 2: But nuts Well, the last thing I want to mention
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 2: real quick, these are not going to go into detail,
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 2: but I've got three shark movies to mention. Water Park Shark,
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 2: which is what it says on the ten. You might think, well,
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 2: that sounds dumb. It is. It's from the director from
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 2: the Sharknado movies. It's really dumb. The Devil's Mouth, which
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 2: is a more standard shark attack movie. And then I
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 2: just saw before we started recording a trailer for a
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 2: movie called Above and Below, which combines shark attacks and crime.
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 2: It's a crime movie with shark attacks. Antonio Benders plays
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 2: some sort of criminal who sabotage is like, he attacks
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 2: a boat that happens to have like people in a
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 2: shark cage. In the water, so they're unaware of what's
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 2: happening up on the boat. But you know, people on
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 2: the boat are getting messed up real good. And then
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 2: the shark cage gets detached, and so these two people
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 2: have a limited amount of oxygen, have to figure out
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 2: how to survive while they have you know, human killers
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 2: above and fish killers below. That's it. Those are all
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 2: the fact that there are three more shark movies to
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 2: mens like. We have just been inundated with them this year,
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 2: Shark and killer well movies. We've got a ton of them.
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, all.
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 2: Right, let's let's get out of here, all right. Uh,
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 2: let's just okay, So we have this super rickety ladder
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 2: where it looks like every other rung could easily collapse
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 2: to get us out of the hatch, or we could
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 2: just take the escalator.
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 1: How many spiders does the escalator have?
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 2: Zero spiders? Because they just the webs just get pulled
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 2: right through.
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 1: So excellent, let's take the escalator.
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 2: All right, We'll go to tell you the escalator up. Yeah,
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 2: there we go, escalators being I mean, Microsoft would like
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 2: us to believe that. But we're up here at the
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 2: top now where all the show.
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 1: Notes are up in the air.
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 2: First off, we got a trailer. Yeah, we got it,
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 2: trailer for Avatar Ang Avatar, ag are getting old and
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 2: we still haven't walked in the glow of each other's
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 2: majestic presence. So they might be Giant's joke. Avatar Ang
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 2: The Last Airbender, which is an animated film that tells
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 2: the story of Ang as a as an adult. Yeah,
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 2: you know, Airbender.
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 1: It's it's Avatar. But what if you don't feel gross
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 1: for thinking the characters are attractive?
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, and apparently searching for the possibility that there
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 2: might be other Airbenders alive again, and also trying to
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 2: maintain the piece that was created at the end of
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 2: the original Avatar series. Apparently it's in it's in danger
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 2: of falling apart. This is coming to Paramount Plus on
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 2: July twenty fifth. Was there anything about the trailer that
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 2: struck I don't know if did you ever watch Avatar?
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 1: I watched some of it. I didn't like I've watched
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 1: a lot of it, but not like straight through, if
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 1: that makes sense.
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 2: My partner Becca was really like, watched the whole thing
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 2: and I could not get into it. I tried a
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 2: couple times I.
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 1: Think it's fun, and part of the thing is like
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 1: just some of the episodes were less engaging than others.
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 1: I think this looks good.
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so too.
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 1: The story that they tell in the trailer doesn't feel
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 1: like they've told the full story, but also is enough
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 1: to be like, Yeah, that sounds like a cool story
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 1: I would like to see, So you know, I might.
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 1: I might watch it.
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 2: Okay, Well, if you do, you'll have to let me
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 2: know what it was like. I don't have paramount plus,
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 2: so I can't watch it.
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 1: I don't right now, but I've been cycling through channels
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 1: to watch things.
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Next up, we have a sci fi comedy gross
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 2: out movie called Mum, I'm Alien Pregnant.
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's so gross, Like I was gonna try
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 1: to describe it, but it's just gross. A girl gets
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 1: accidentally impregnated by her alien boyfriend and then has to
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 1: deal with that pregnancy, which is not a normal pregnancy
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 1: and involves a lot of fluid flying into a lot
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 1: of faces.
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and a lot of people who are not particularly
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 2: taking her seriously, and meanwhile she's stuck in this terrible situation.
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 2: It's obviously like a like an allegory for a situation
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 2: that some women have found themselves in, where it's just
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 2: taking that and really cranking up the extremes to make
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 2: a point, is my guess, and also to be gross
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 2: and be silly. It releases in Australia and New Zealand
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 2: over the summer. I do not have dates for North America.
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 2: But yeah, it really looks like it's satirizing elements of
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 2: pregnancy and birth to extreme levels.
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 2: The trailer if you are if you have a squeamish stomach,
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 2: this is not the movie for you. And it's not
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 2: even the trailer for you.
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 1: No, no, I it was almost too much for me.
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 1: I don't think I'm gonna see this one. I think
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 1: it's definitely gonna have some funny moments, but I think
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to be able to get through to them.
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 2: Well, I don't think you will be alone in that?
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 2: You will be not alone in that?
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 1: Am I alien pregnant? Good?
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 2: No, you're gonna I mean, I mean skipping the viewing.
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 2: You will be not alone?
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 1: Oh oh, it's your clover segue into the trailer for
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 1: Not Alone, which is Timothy shallow May and Selena Gomez
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 1: voicing two people who work at a I don't know
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 1: if it's NASA or just a generic space program.
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So Selena Gomez's character is an astro botanist and
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 2: Timothey shallam Ala Bingbong is a mechanic, and they're both
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 2: socially awkward, and they both kind of sort of feel
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 2: a spark between them as they are working to create
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 2: a plant fueled rocket ship, which that alone would have
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 2: been enough for a movie, right, Yeah, like two awkward
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 2: people who are working together on a project that brings
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 2: them closer together and how they navigate that. But obviously
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 2: that's not the only thing in this film because aliens.
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, there's an intersection in these tiny little aliens
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 1: land on Earth.
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah. All the alien characters, including the officer that's trying
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 2: to chase them down, are voiced by Brits, which is
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 2: funny because you have Timothy Shalomey and sle Gomez voicing
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 2: the leads and then all Brits voicing Aliens. So I
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 2: guess aliens have an English accent.
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 1: I would believe it, you know, And they have history.
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 1: Do Oricley gone to a lot of foreign.
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 2: Lands, very big on colonization.
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 1: Which I don't know if these little aliens are into
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 1: But we'll see the next thing we are.
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 2: It comes out April sixteenth, twenty twenty seven. I'll say this,
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 2: I was actually more intrigued by this before the Aliens
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 2: popped up. And yes, not that the Aliens turned me
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 2: off of it, but I was like, oh, I kind
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 2: of just wanted to see the story about these two people.
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 1: It kind of felt like a hat on a hat.
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I got that same feeling.
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Next, we have a movie that apparently took a
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 1: while to come out because it was filmed before its
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 1: lead passed away. Unfortunately. It is Legend of the White Dragon,
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 1: which is a Power Rangers movie.
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 2: Well yeah, not really, not really a Power Rangers movie,
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 2: but it's very it's very much inspired by paying homage
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 2: to the Power Rangers. At the lead actor Jason David Frank,
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 2: was in Power Rangers, as were several of his co
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 2: stars in this film.
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 1: The suit he puts on looks like his Power Rangers suit.
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, the suits very are very similar. Like it
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 2: it might as well be a Power Rangers movie. It's
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 2: just not officially a Power Ranger I see, like it's
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 2: it's that is it's like the idea of well, have
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 2: we made Power Rangers but for an adult audience and
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 2: we didn't pay for the licensake of Power Rangers?
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 1: Fair enough? Okay, so it's just not got the title,
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 1: but yeah.
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's I mean, it's essentially Power Rangers. It's just
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 2: not a name. But the Jason David Frank as you mentioned,
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 2: he passed away. He actually he took his own life
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 2: a few years ago now. And then also another actor
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 2: who is in this has since passed away. Michael Madsen
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 2: is in this film, but he died last year. So yeah,
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 2: to some of the actors in this film have passed
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 2: away from the time when it was initially shot to
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 2: when it was finally going to come out. It was
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 2: crowdfunded back in twenty twenty. It will be coming out
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 2: on August twenty eighth, which is this should really seal
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 2: the deal for the whole Power Ranger thing. August twenty
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 2: eighth is Power Ranger's Day.
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 1: Oh nice.
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 2: So yeah, they're not even hiding it really.
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 1: No, I mean it it is. It's just avoid it.
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 1: It's like singing a song for as long as you
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 1: can until you're gonna get have to pay for it,
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 1: you know.
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, and I was never a Power Rangers fan,
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 2: Like that came out a little too late for me,
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 2: Like I was already past the age of when I
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 2: would watch stuff like that, So this is not something
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 2: that resonates with me, Like, I don't feel any there's
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 2: nothing about the trailer that makes me want to see it.
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 2: I don't have a nostalgia for that property or the
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 2: actors involved in there. So I'm curious if people who
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 2: were big Power Rangers fans what they think about this,
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 2: because for me, it's just like, oh, this, this looks
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 2: like it might as well be The Guy Ver or
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 2: something like that. Like it's like a mid tier sci
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 2: fi film that doesn't necessarily look terrible, but there's nothing
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 2: going for it that makes me want to see it either.
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 1: I'm interested in watching it, it'll be hard because the
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 1: way that the lead actor passed is really very sad. Yeah,
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 1: it's just was it such a tragedy. But I also
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 1: feel like official Power Rangers have been slowly moving in
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 1: the direction of better acting and a little bit grittier
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 1: because like the beginning of Power Rangers RPM, when I
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 1: watched it, I'm like this, this feels almost like a
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 1: Mad Max show. It was still cheesy, but it felt
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 1: like they were trying way harder than I expected them to.
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 1: And the Power Rangers movie with Elizabeth Banks and Brian
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 1: Cranston I actually liked.
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 2: So yeah, the original Power Rangers, obviously, for those who
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 2: don't know, was a series that was shot in Japan,
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 2: and then essentially what they did was they cast American
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 2: actors for the American version, and they replaced all the
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 2: out of costume segments with the American actors, and they
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 2: used all the footage from the Japanese stuff for all
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 2: the action sequences, which helped kept keep production costs down.
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 2: But you know, that's that's not like a super auspicious
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 2: launching pad, I would say. But I'm glad to hear
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 2: that you're interested enough to potentially check this out. Yeah,
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 2: like I said, there's just nothing for me to grip onto.
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 2: There's there's no gen x in that one for me.
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 1: So yeah, well, I guess we're Dune done Doune with
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 1: that one.
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 2: That's really nice and you said it three times.
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, oh no, Sandhorn just appeared in front of me.
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 2: Is black and white, and uh yeah, anyway, we're talking
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 2: Aboutdune part three. We're back to Timothy Sha Chalamel.
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 1: And Bingbong, which I genuinely think they missed out on
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 1: not calling it.
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah you just yeah, you can just have that. It's
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 2: both the sound effect and the title. Uh, this is
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 2: the adaptation of Dune Messiah. We had a teaser or
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 2: an earlier trailer that we talked about briefly in a
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 2: previous episode, so we don't need to spend a lot
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 2: of time here, but this does give us more of
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 2: a look into the storyline that plays out in Dune Messiah,
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 2: and uh, it looks it looks like it's going to
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 2: be a big sci fi epic. You know. Obviously a
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 2: lot of people that are incredibly talented are part of this.
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 2: They continue to be part of this. Uh, if you've
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 2: not read Dune Messiah, then you're probably in for some
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 2: pretty gnarly surprises in this movie. I will not spoil
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 2: it for you, but some big stuff happens. This comes
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 2: out December eighteenth. I thought it looked like another Like
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 2: if you had asked me could the Dune movies actually
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 2: be turned into or could Dune actually be turned into
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 2: a movie? Could it be adapted into films? I probably
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 2: would have said it was one of those properties that
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 2: would be impossible to translate to film properly. But these
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 2: I think god about as close as you possibly could.
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 2: I'd put it on par with the Lord of the
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 2: Rings movies.
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I agree. You know, the first Dune movie,
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 1: to me, was very pretty, but it was exceptionally slow
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 1: and it ended at a really weird point. The second
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 1: movie I thought was better. I think this third one,
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 1: even though Doue Messiah is not my favorite part of
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 1: the story, I think this might be the This looks
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 1: like it might be the best movie to me.
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think everyone's really hitting their stride, which is
• 1:38:55
  Speaker 2: also unfortunate because this is the last one. They're not
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 2: making anymore after this sort least villaineve.
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 1: Is not after this. It gets real weird.
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 2: So it's true. I mean, yeah, when your main character
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 2: is part human, part sandworm.
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 1: Nobody wants to spend two hours watching it and has.
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 2: Spent three five hundred years as a as a tyrant,
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 2: it's weird. Finally, this is one that caught my eye.
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 2: Just before we start recording, we have a trailer for
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 2: Momo and the Time Thieves. This is based off a
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 2: nineteen seventy three children's book titled Momo, a German children's book.
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 2: I was unfamiliar with this book. I had never heard
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 2: of it before, and the trailer is intriguing. I thought
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 2: it looked really interesting me too.
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 1: It had a very like Wrinkle in Time or far
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 1: Away Tree like sort of a vibe to it. It's
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 1: this girl who meets a fantastical turtle who brings her
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 1: to a man who's like, we need to stop these
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 1: basically time pirates.
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 2: They're stealing people's time.
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, which is you know, interesting, And also this book
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 1: was written too long ago to be like an allegory
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 1: for social media, but it surefield felt like it when
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 1: I was watching the trailer.
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, So to kind of give a little context here,
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 2: these these time thieves, they're actually in the book at least,
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 2: I don't want to give any spoilers. Okay, these time
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 2: thieves are stealing people's time, which then creates this feeling
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 2: among people that they can't indulge in activities that might
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 2: seem frivolous or just for fun because time is so precious.
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 2: They're told to save time, and ironically, while they're saving time,
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 2: that time is being stolen away from them, so they're
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 2: only dedicating time to doing the base necessities like eating
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 2: and sleeping and working, and that's it, and so it's
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 2: kind of again an examination of things like consumerism and stress,
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 2: that kind of stuff. And to that, I'm like, Wow,
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 2: what a fascinating thing to look at through the perspective
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 2: of a book that's meant for younger readers. Like, that's
• 1:41:21
  Speaker 2: kind of cool. And the trailer felt really like it
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 2: felt like it was also trying to lean on that
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 2: while not leaning so heavily that it feels like it's
• 1:41:33
  Speaker 2: preaching at you. And there's there's kind of like a
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 2: Wonka esque element to it as well. I am one
• 1:41:43
  Speaker 2: hundred percent interested in seeing this. It comes out August fourteenth.
• 1:41:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I want to see it too. It looks really
• 1:41:50
  Speaker 1: cool and fun, kind of a kid's version of Minority Report.
• 1:41:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I read the synopsis of the original book, and
• 1:41:59
  Speaker 2: now I also want to read the original book, not
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 2: in the original German, because my German I don't have.
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 2: I took German in college and I haven't studied it since.
• 1:42:08
  Speaker 2: So it's all gone. I'll fit a zaid, I'll.
• 1:42:11
  Speaker 1: Feed a indeed. Well, that is also what we're going
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 1: to say to all of you now, because we've reached
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 1: the end of our lineup, Jonathan. Yeah, if people want
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 1: to reach out to you, how do they do that?
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 2: Well, what you're going to need to do is you
• 1:42:30
  Speaker 2: need to go and have just a leisurely camping trip.
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 2: You know, nothing's super fancy, just a you know, a
• 1:42:39
  Speaker 2: nice tint, you got a nice sleep system going you.
• 1:42:42
  Speaker 2: Maybe you're out in nature, just kind of reconnecting. Gonna
• 1:42:45
  Speaker 2: look up to the sky, got to see a little
• 1:42:47
  Speaker 2: shooting star. I'm gonna, you know, make a wish. But
• 1:42:51
  Speaker 2: then you're gonna see a little flash over the hill,
• 1:42:55
  Speaker 2: you know, between you and where the star was falling,
• 1:42:57
  Speaker 2: and you realize, wait, that wasn't just a falling star,
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 2: that was a spacecraft. You're gonna make your way over there.
• 1:43:04
  Speaker 2: The spacecraft is going to be like the crashed into
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 2: the Earth and like you know, it's dug a big
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 2: trough but still intact, and the little door opens up
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 2: and this incredibly ugly yet still kind of cute alien
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 2: creature is gonna come out. You're gonna end up having
• 1:43:24
  Speaker 2: adventures together. It's gonna be remarkable. You're gonna have times
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 2: where you are trying to understand each other and like
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 2: it's clearly not quite working, and there's gonna be some
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 2: hilarious but heartwarming results with that. There's gonna be a
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 2: part where the some government scientists are gonna be chasing
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 2: you down because they really want to dissect your new
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 2: friend and find out what makes them tick. And what's
• 1:43:49
  Speaker 2: really gonna happen is that your friend's gonna get captured
• 1:43:52
  Speaker 2: by these scientists. You're gonna have to break in and
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 2: try and get them out. You're gonna turn and you're
• 1:43:56
  Speaker 2: gonna see, like this guy in a hazmat suit with
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 2: goggles on and a huge scalpel in his hand. You
• 1:44:02
  Speaker 2: realize that's me, and then you can ask your question.
• 1:44:07
  Speaker 1: Wow, way to make yourself a villain, Jonathan.
• 1:44:09
  Speaker 2: What I'm doing it for science.
• 1:44:13
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• 1:44:15
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• 1:44:18
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• 1:44:26
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• 1:44:39
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• 1:44:51
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• 1:45:03
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• 1:45:07
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