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LNC Crushes on Fictional Characters for Valentines Day · Large Nerdron Collider

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  Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Welcome to the Large nur John Collider podcast,
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  Speaker 1: the podcast that's all about the geeky things happening in
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  Speaker 1: the world around us and how very excited we are
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  Speaker 1: about them. I'm Ariel Castin and with me is always
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  Speaker 1: is the wonderful Jonathan Strickland.
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  Speaker 2: Happy Valentine's Day to all you lovers out there.
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  Speaker 1: Oh are we doing like a nineties radio show this week?
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  Speaker 2: No? No, that was that was the grand extent of
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  Speaker 2: my My Smooth Operator delivery.
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  Speaker 1: You could try to do it the whole episode.
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  Speaker 2: That would be pretty fair, It would be it would
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  Speaker 2: be disastrous.
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  Speaker 1: Just just because we uh we you know, skipped last week.
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  Speaker 1: It feels like we haven't recorded in forever, but.
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  Speaker 2: That's not creat we've had. Yeah, we've kind of accidentally
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  Speaker 2: gone to a bike weekly schedule, but it's just because
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  Speaker 2: of various travel and other conflicts that have popped up
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  Speaker 2: that have precluded us from being able to record. And
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  Speaker 2: in fact, Ariel and I are both going to be
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  Speaker 2: traveling later today. So this is going to be I
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  Speaker 2: say this every time and it never is true, but
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  Speaker 2: a quick episode of Larger Drunk Collider.
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna chinx this.
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  Speaker 2: We've got a lot of stuff on here. We do
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  Speaker 2: less than we did because I was brutal when I
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  Speaker 2: went in to edit stuff out.
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  Speaker 1: You really were, But you also added in some thirty
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  Speaker 1: seconds or less last minute. I'm glad I looked, because
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  Speaker 1: I was like, oh.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well yeah, but those are thirty seconds each. So
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  Speaker 2: I figured that adding a couple of those is okay.
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  Speaker 1: That is fine. No, it's fine to add thirty seconds
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  Speaker 1: or less. But I was like, it does takes a
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  Speaker 1: little longer than thirty seconds to turn up.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, you gotta read. Yeah, some of them
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  Speaker 2: have multiple points, and then you have to decide, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: which one of these am I going to present, because
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  Speaker 2: if I try and present them all, it'll be a
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  Speaker 2: four and a half minutes or less, yeah, for sure.
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  Speaker 2: But before we get into any of that, we have
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  Speaker 2: some formalities to get through, the first of which is
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  Speaker 2: our question of the week, and in honor of Valentine's Day,
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  Speaker 2: that glorious day of greeting cards, convincing us that we
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  Speaker 2: need to set just one day apart to tell our
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  Speaker 2: loved ones how much they mean to us and forget
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  Speaker 2: about them the rest of the year. My question to you,
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  Speaker 2: Ariel is who is a fictional character crush that you have?
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  Speaker 2: And this is not to suggest that you only have one,
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  Speaker 2: or even that you have one. Maybe you don't. But
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  Speaker 2: is there a fictional character upon whom you have crushed?
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  Speaker 2: Let's set aside a certain mayor of the Georgia Renaissance Festival.
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  Speaker 2: We all know about that one.
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  Speaker 1: Well, now, I don't have any answers, No I do.
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  Speaker 1: I've had several crushes. And it's hard because everybody knows
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  Speaker 1: that I kind of dissect things as I watch them,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm looking at it from both the meta perspective
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  Speaker 1: of being an actor and also from whatever we've kind
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  Speaker 1: of done that my whole life. Like I had a
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  Speaker 1: crush on various rolls of Dick van Dyke throughout his life.
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  Speaker 1: Who hasn't but and and sometimes it's like a particular
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  Speaker 1: actor's performance of for instance, Gary Oldman and Rosea Grants
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  Speaker 1: and Guildenstern are dead. I had a crush on his character,
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  Speaker 1: which then led to a crush of Gary Oldman.
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  Speaker 2: I think that.
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  Speaker 1: Gonna say I was gonna say, mister Tumnus when I
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  Speaker 1: was a kid.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, But I don't know that that's freaky.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that that's true. Well, it's like a
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  Speaker 1: nice character when you're reading a book. It doesn't always.
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  Speaker 2: Getting into ghosts.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, okay, how many people have had crushes on Disney's
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  Speaker 1: Robin Hood the Fox or gadget.
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  Speaker 2: That is legit? That is legit there, yeah, or or
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  Speaker 2: the the Max's love interest in a Goofy movie that
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  Speaker 2: was a big one for or if you want to
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  Speaker 2: go with Warner Brothers, Lola Bunny like that's another.
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  Speaker 1: So like it's it's not that like and personality is
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  Speaker 1: a lot of it for those characters. I think as well.
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  Speaker 1: It's not that I'm like, oh I find it in
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  Speaker 1: this fox sexy, but like there's a charisma that they have, right,
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  Speaker 1: and there's a kindness that mister Tumnins has. But I
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  Speaker 1: think one of I mean there's so many. There's so
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  Speaker 1: many because like I just I love great, interesting personalities.
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  Speaker 1: I love roguish characters. So I think the one that
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  Speaker 1: has followed through for a good while is Gambit from
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  Speaker 1: The X Men. I mean, not every iteration. Sometimes he
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  Speaker 1: can be a bit whiny, but uh, he's such a
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  Speaker 1: fun character. And I used to think he was super
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  Speaker 1: cute and cartoon with his little crop tops.
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  Speaker 2: Having a lot today?
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  Speaker 1: What is wrong with that?
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't a criticism, It wasn't a criticism, It was
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  Speaker 2: just a statement.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah. I mean so like, I've had a lot
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  Speaker 1: of quote unquote crushes, but a lot of it is
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  Speaker 1: just like half of them are admiration for the performance,
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  Speaker 1: and then half of them are like, oh, that's a cute,
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  Speaker 1: fun character that you know. And then of course, like
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  Speaker 1: I want to say doctor Who, but I have not
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  Speaker 1: crushed on every iteration of doctor Who. But no, Christopher
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  Speaker 1: Ecleston definitely, Yeah, yeah, definitely Christopher Eccleston's ninth doctor.
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  Speaker 2: Me clarify a little.
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  Speaker 1: Bit, Yeah, so yeah, what about you? Like, I could
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  Speaker 1: go on and on and on. There are tons of
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  Speaker 1: characters that I'm like, Oh they're attractive or oh they're
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  Speaker 1: fun or oh whatever, what about you?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, So when I wrote this question, I thought Ariel
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  Speaker 2: might give me one. I did not expect to get
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  Speaker 2: so many.
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  Speaker 1: I gave you so many because I ran out of
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  Speaker 1: time to superpair it down.
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  Speaker 2: You also know, you also know, like I joke all
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  Speaker 2: the time about so and so is my girlfriend, So
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  Speaker 2: you know that this hits me real frequently because when
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  Speaker 2: I say so, and so is my girlfriend. What I
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  Speaker 2: really mean is like, there's usually a performance or a
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  Speaker 2: character this person has played that I just found really
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  Speaker 2: captivating and attractive. Although in the case of at least
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  Speaker 2: well really in the case of at least two of
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  Speaker 2: my fictional girlfriends, it's also because they are extremely charismatic
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  Speaker 2: and charming and quirky in press junkets.
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  Speaker 1: So yes, But I will say in that case, even
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  Speaker 1: though many celebrities do put on a public front that
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  Speaker 1: is not necessarily their private self, Yes, an actress at
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  Speaker 1: a press junket does not count as a fictional character crush.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not doing that. I'm just saying. I was just
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  Speaker 2: clarifying that there are characters upon whom I had a crush,
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  Speaker 2: and then there are other examples where that crush I
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  Speaker 2: think possibly extends beyond character to the actor portraying that character,
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  Speaker 2: or at least the public facing persona of that actor.
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  Speaker 1: I mentioned a couple of those myself.
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  Speaker 2: So so back in the day, this is no longer
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  Speaker 2: true because it would be disturbing. But back in the day,
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  Speaker 2: I would have said Willow from Buffy the Vampire Slayer,
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  Speaker 2: like I thought Alison Hannigan's performance as Willow, especially in
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  Speaker 2: the first four seasons of Buffy, was just so adorable
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  Speaker 2: and relatable and I just had a big crush on her.
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  Speaker 2: But I mean, we were both much younger than these days.
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  Speaker 2: I would not say that to me. The one I
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  Speaker 2: would go to is probably Lucy MacLean from fall Out.
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  Speaker 2: That's the Okay, that's Ella's character, my one of my
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  Speaker 2: fictional one of my fake girlfriends. Is what her character, Lucy,
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  Speaker 2: the main character in the Fallout series, And the reason
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  Speaker 2: is because she's very Her character is very sweet and compassionate,
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  Speaker 2: and she has a very strong sense of justice. And
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  Speaker 2: she's very capable too. She's not, like, you know, just
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  Speaker 2: a klutz or something. She's actually quite capable. But she's
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  Speaker 2: also naive and a bit impractical. Like the realities of
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  Speaker 2: the world around her don't allow for her very black
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  Speaker 2: and white view of justice. Right Like it's she comes
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  Speaker 2: into conflict with her own moral center and the world
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  Speaker 2: she finds herself in, and that's where a lot of
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  Speaker 2: the drama comes from, like a lot of her character
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  Speaker 2: development comes from. And your hope as a viewer, at
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  Speaker 2: least my hope as a viewer, is it doesn't change
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  Speaker 2: her from who she really is deep down that somehow
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  Speaker 2: she's able to preserve that. But you know, realistically, you'd say, like, well,
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  Speaker 2: you either have to adapt or you get wiped out.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll see. Uh, if she does have to compromise
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  Speaker 2: over and over again, that's gonna get progressively more challenging
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  Speaker 2: for me as a viewer. But it could be really
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  Speaker 2: good drama anyway, Lucy's my my answer.
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  Speaker 1: Nice, Nice, I do have more, and some of them
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  Speaker 1: are more embarrassing, but yeah, like Grog from Voxmakina.
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  Speaker 2: Or you know, Cubert. Anyway, let's move on to you
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  Speaker 2: were not supposed to mention that one. I mean, like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, when he found out, he was just cursing
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  Speaker 2: up a storm. I think, I don't know. It's just
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  Speaker 2: a little word bubble with symbols in it. Uh, let's
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  Speaker 2: talk about what we've watched since last time we recorded,
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  Speaker 2: and it has been two weeks, so Ariel, have you
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  Speaker 2: have you watched anything in those two weeks.
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to remember. I have been watching lots of
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  Speaker 1: the Pit, Like I'm fully caught up on the Pit, right.
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  Speaker 1: I don't remember if I mentioned this before, so I'm
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  Speaker 1: sorry if it's a repeat. I did make my husband
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  Speaker 1: watched the first episode of Monarch Legacy and Monsters, and
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't for him, so I need to watch the
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  Speaker 1: rest of it myself. But that's okay. I've started to
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  Speaker 1: re I've finished Fox Makina. We've started rewatching Fallout now
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  Speaker 1: as a group watch, so I just watched episode one
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  Speaker 1: for the second time. I haven't watched episodes three or
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  Speaker 1: four of Night of the Seven Kingdoms because of a
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  Speaker 1: moment that you mentioned. And it's not that I won't
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  Speaker 1: watch the show, it's that I have to be in
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  Speaker 1: a place where I'm okay skipping over that part.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a section that the full length of the event.
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  Speaker 2: It's not like it's focusing exclusively on it, but it
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  Speaker 2: does cut back. Is last like a minute and a
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  Speaker 2: half in episode three, and it's a very upsetting animal
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  Speaker 2: harm sequence, and it's I hate.
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  Speaker 1: It and I will definitely hate it. And you're supposed to.
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  Speaker 2: Write like, yes, yeah, no, it's it's meant to be upsetting.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's one of those events that tells you how
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  Speaker 2: bad the bad guy is.
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  Speaker 1: And the bad guy is very, very, very bad, and
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  Speaker 1: obviously there's no animal that was actually injured in the filming, but.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, yeah, yeah, but it's like does it make it easier. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: when you get to a point where the special effects
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  Speaker 2: are so convincing. Like I think, ultimately we all know
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  Speaker 2: if we go and see a movie where that like
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  Speaker 2: let's say there's a lot of gore, we all know
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  Speaker 2: that it's you know, movie magic, it's faked. But if
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  Speaker 2: it's really convincing, it can still really impact you. And
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  Speaker 2: that scene had a big impact. I was really upset,
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  Speaker 2: and I was like, I have got to warn Ariel
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  Speaker 2: before she watches this episode.
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  Speaker 1: Is it a very long scene.
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  Speaker 2: It's like a man and a half. Like it starts
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  Speaker 2: like I think I gave you the time stamps. I
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  Speaker 2: think it starts at like minute twenty nine and within
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  Speaker 2: like thirty minutes and thirty seconds, then it's kind of
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  Speaker 2: moved on, like the the aftermath of that moment, Like
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  Speaker 2: there's narrative aftermath that continues, but the visual aftermath has
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  Speaker 2: kind of ended at that point. And like I said,
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  Speaker 2: it's not like it's staying a minute and a half
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  Speaker 2: on this horrific moment, but it keeps cutting back well
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  Speaker 2: because it's it's people reacting to what has just happened,
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  Speaker 2: and then you know, seeing the continuation of that terra,
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  Speaker 2: I'm dancing around it just in case people out there
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  Speaker 2: haven't watched this show yet and they want to.
• 12:39
  Speaker 1: So yeah, there is one other show I've started since
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  Speaker 1: I am about I have like three more episodes left
• 12:46
  Speaker 1: of season six of New Zealand task Master, and then
• 12:50
  Speaker 1: I need to start on There was another show I
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  Speaker 1: don't remember. It's an actor who's traveling abroad that one
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  Speaker 1: of our listeners recommended. That's another Australian show that I
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  Speaker 1: want to check out. But in the meantime, I have
• 13:05
  Speaker 1: started shrinking on Apple TV.
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  Speaker 2: And you're enjoying that this was the one where you
• 13:10
  Speaker 2: accidentally watched episode one of season three.
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  Speaker 1: First Yes, Yes, which made it feel like a big
• 13:16
  Speaker 1: old sitcom, And there are definitely sitcom moments, but when
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  Speaker 1: you start on season one, episode one, it's a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more dramaedy.
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  Speaker 2: It is.
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  Speaker 1: Jason Siegel from Forgetting Sarah Marshall How I Met Your Mother,
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  Speaker 1: the newer Muppet movie, and Harrison Ford playing therapists, and
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  Speaker 1: it is an adult show. It is not for kids.
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  Speaker 1: They deal with a lot of adult topics, but it
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  Speaker 1: is delightful and It is heartwarming and it's moving and
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  Speaker 1: I've cried a few times, and I really enjoy it.
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  Speaker 2: I remember, first of all, it sounds like it's good
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  Speaker 2: and I need to check it out. That I remember.
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  Speaker 2: I want to say it was. Amazon used to have
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  Speaker 2: this issue where their TV series they would have different
• 14:02
  Speaker 2: intriges for different seasons. So instead of like instead of
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  Speaker 2: it all being grouped under one and you would just
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  Speaker 2: sequentially move through and when you got to the end
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  Speaker 2: of season one it would automatically go into season two.
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  Speaker 2: You had to actually find the other season and click
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  Speaker 2: into it and everything. It was so clunky, and I
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  Speaker 2: hated it because you could fall into the same trap
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  Speaker 2: you did where yeah, you try and watch something and then.
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  Speaker 1: Well we have Apple TV through Amazon, so that is
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  Speaker 1: exactly what happened. I'm also watching Downton Abbey. I had
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  Speaker 1: watched up to the end of season three and then
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  Speaker 1: I stopped because I knew what happened. And one of
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  Speaker 1: my favorite characters left the show. But and so they
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  Speaker 1: killed him off because he wanted to leave the show.
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  Speaker 1: Which is a good way to write off a character, right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't have to worry about them coming back.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And it's not one of those like we don't
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  Speaker 1: like him anymore, we want him off the show. He
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  Speaker 1: was like I'm moving on, and like, okay, well, we
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  Speaker 1: gotta deal with your character because he's a main character.
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  Speaker 1: But I watch it on several TVs, so like I'll
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  Speaker 1: watch it while I'm working out downstairs, or I'll watch
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  Speaker 1: it upstairs while I'm putting away laundry or whatever. And
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  Speaker 1: Amazon can't remember even though I'm using the same account
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  Speaker 1: every time where I am, so it'll be like I'm
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  Speaker 1: playing you episode one of season one, I'm playing you
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  Speaker 1: episode four of season six. I've never watched season six
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  Speaker 1: and I've never I'm definitely not in the middle of it.
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  Speaker 2: What the heck? That is weird? Yeah, I mean because
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: I definitely were a multi screen household in that I
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  Speaker 2: will often watch things on my computer and if Becca
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  Speaker 2: and I want to watch something together, then we'll put
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: it up on the TV. And I haven't run into
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: that particular issue before, but that I can see how
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  Speaker 2: that's frustrating. The only way that would even make sense
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  Speaker 2: to me is if there were two separate accounts, like
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  Speaker 2: one of them was yours and one of them was
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  Speaker 2: your partners.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, and we do. And because we have cat sitters,
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  Speaker 1: we actually have a third account, which is four guests,
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: or like, we have house guests a lot. So we're like,
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: if you're watching our cats, feel free to use our
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  Speaker 1: streaming services. Or if you're visiting our house and you
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  Speaker 1: want to watch your own thing or a show that
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  Speaker 1: we're in the middle of, feel free, here's your own.
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  Speaker 2: But this way, it's not going to mess up your algorithm.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, yeah, but and like so there is the
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  Speaker 1: thing of like, especially when I was when I started
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  Speaker 1: out Mabby and I was rewatching it season one through three.
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  Speaker 1: I had watched and so I understood that it was
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  Speaker 1: getting a little confused.
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  Speaker 2: Where I was.
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  Speaker 1: But anyhow, that's enough about me. What have you been watching? Uh?
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  Speaker 2: So I am all caught up on Night of the
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  Speaker 2: Seven Kingdoms And as harrowing as that one sequence in
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  Speaker 2: episode three was, I really liked episode four a lot. Arguably.
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  Speaker 2: Episode four is where our hero finds himself at his
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  Speaker 2: lowest point, Like it's that point of the story. But
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  Speaker 2: it was handled very well. It didn't it never like
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  Speaker 2: it felt like he was facing overwhelming odds. But I
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  Speaker 2: never felt the bleak despair that I associate with Game
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  Speaker 2: of Thrones, so that's something is nice.
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  Speaker 1: Crazy Brathians still crazy and nice. If you can't say that,
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  Speaker 1: that's fine. Uh, yes he is okay, yeah, I mean
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  Speaker 1: you want to spoil it, It's fine.
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  Speaker 2: He's fun. Has He only has a small moment in
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  Speaker 2: the fourth episode, but it's a good one. It's it's
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  Speaker 2: it's a nice one. I also watched The Moregan, which
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  Speaker 2: is an Irish horror film that I was really excited
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  Speaker 2: to see because i like Irish folklore and mythology and
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  Speaker 2: I'm familiar with the mythology behind the more Agon, which is, uh,
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  Speaker 2: it's a little complicated. You can't give a definitive answer
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  Speaker 2: as to who is the Morigon because different areas of
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  Speaker 2: Ireland had different legends around this mythical character. She is
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  Speaker 2: often depicted as like a goddess of war, and she's
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  Speaker 2: often depicted as being a trinity of goddesses, but in
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  Speaker 2: this particular one, she is a singular goddess, largely a
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  Speaker 2: goddess of revenge, specifically one that that avenges the misdeeds
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  Speaker 2: done against women by men, so kind of like a
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  Speaker 2: screw the patriarchy kind of kind of thing. And I
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: was excited to see it, and like, there's this big
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: exposition dump at the beginning of the movie kind of
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: trying to run through who the Morgan is in this
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: particular you know, instance of the Morgon, and it's it's
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: set in modern day where there's like an archaeologist who's
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: going to this remote place in Ireland, on an island
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: off the coast of Ireland, to look for evidence of
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: an actual person who might have been the inspiration for
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: the Morgan. Kind of like how some people believe there's
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: a possibly an actual person who could have been the
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: inspiration for King Arthur. Kind of like that. I was
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: looking forward to it, and then it turns out to
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: be kind of just a slight twist on your standard
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: demonic possession story horror story, and it really disappointed me
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: because I had high hopes that this was going to
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: be rich in Irish folklore and it became much more
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: of a kind of by the numbers demonic possession horror movie,
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: and I was let down. I also, I'm caught up.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: I've watched all of Fallout season two, so you're in
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: for a treat. And I mean, as long as you
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: don't care about the fact that if you were to
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: ask yourself at the end of the season, what progress
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: has been made narratively and your answer is not much,
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: and you're still okay with it?
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: Good, Yeah, I'm fine with that. When we were initially
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: watching it and we got through season three, Tony was
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: already feeling that, like, this isn't going anywhere.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the it's more about world building in characters, and
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: I still like that. There's been a couple of complaints
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: I've seen from a lot of fans. One big that
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: you know, narratively, not much is happening. Like if you
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: were to say, what's the story that's unfolding, it's hard
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: to say because not a whole lot advances as far
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: as that goes. And another is another complaint I've seen
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: is that there are too many character storylines, which is
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: partially why the overall narrative doesn't get pushed forward. You
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: have too many individual characters who are in different situations,
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: so you keep going back to character character, character, character,
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: plus backstory for some characters where it's pre war stuff,
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: and it just you're like, of course, you don't get
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: any advancement of the story. You have too many threads.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: And I get that complaint too. I don't think it's unwarranted.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: I'm still enjoying it, even though I see the validity
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: of those criticisms. And then finally, I also it was
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: overdue because I did watch the first season when it
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: came out, but I watched Twisted Metal Season two, which
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: is really more about the actual Twisted Metal tournament, and
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: it has a lot of the same problems as Fallout
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: in that narratively, not much happens. It's mostly an excuse
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: to have like set pieces and character moments. I still
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: enjoyed it for what it was, and it's hard for
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: me to be critical of something that's about such a
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: dumb series of video games. So I'll just say that,
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: like at the end of it, I wasn't really satisfied,
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: but I was more entertained than not. Even though they
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: did also swap out nev Campbell, who was in the
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: first season, she was not in the second season. Instead
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: they got Oh I can't remember the actress's name, but
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: she was Madison with two wins and a y. But
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: it's not where you think nice.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: I'm glad she's getting more work. That's interesting. I've been
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: wanting to watch Twisted Metal. I currently have Peacock. You know,
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: that's not one of the ones that I always keep,
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: but I currently have it because we did watch the
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: Giant Football Extravaganza.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the very large game, the.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: Very large game that was not so great this year,
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: and I'm really mad that the Kicker did not get
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: MVP because they scored the majority of the game.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: Yes, no, when I when I was reading up because
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: I didn't watch it. But when I was reading up,
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: I talked about how this kicker made all five attempts
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: successfully and was like, for the longest time, the only
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: person to score in the game did not win MVP.
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: I'm like, well, this is rigged.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, apparently they let you go in and vote and
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: you can vote multiple times, so I voted as much
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: as I thought was reasonable for this poor kicker.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and yeah I was. I was sad.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: Like everybody stayed at around after the game was over.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: Not every we had a couple of people over, but
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: they stayed over to see who would be the MVP,
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: as we're all hoping the Kicker and it didn't happen.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: The commercials were okay. There were a couple of really
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: good ones and then a bunch of the thing that
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: annoys me where like they're like, hey, the trailer for
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: this movie is out, but go to YouTube to watch it.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: So we're going to talk about some of those later
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: in the episode.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, not as many as we had planned, Yeah, because
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: we did have like the Mandalorian and grogu in there
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: at one point. But I was like, I'm pretty sure
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: everyone has heard about this already, because it got some
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: backlash because people were confused by it, and I'm like,
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: it's clearly I thought it was. Yeah, it's clearly spoofing Budweiser,
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: Like it's that's obviously what it is, and that this
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: is not not what the actual movie is going to
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: look like. But you know, again, I can kind of
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: get it because Star Wars doesn't traditionally do that kind
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: of thing, Like you'll get the goofy stuff for like
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: all the merchandise high ends, but you don't get the
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: goofy stuff for the actual, you know, promotional material for
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: the film itself. So I can kind of see why
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: people would get a little bent out of shape about it.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: But I saw it and I was like, well, this
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: is clearly just for you know, brand recognition, you know,
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: putting it in people's minds that this movie is coming out.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: This is obviously not an actual sequence from the movie.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought it was clever that they were spoofing
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: on the commercial. I did like the I think it
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: was Budweiser's commercial this year. I actually really liked that.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: It was heartwarming. I know this is not a sports podcast,
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: but I do want to mention that there were two
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: commercials that both used music from Mister Rogers Neighborhood, and
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: while neither was a bad commercial, I loved the use
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: in one and I hated the use in the other
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: because interesting. There was one for the Boys and Girls
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: Club of America, and that was fine and it was good,
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: but it came after the first one, which was Redfinn,
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: and the message of the commercial was helping out your
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: neighbors right in times of need, like if you're missing
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: an animal or missing a puppy, your puppy gets lost,
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: or a tree falls in front of your house because
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: of a storm, and like it was just everybody helping
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: each other and that was wonderful. But they took won't
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: You be My Neighbor and they put it into this
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: really mellow, sad, slow key, and they made it depressing
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: and I was like, I cannot abide this.
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: So it's kind of like kind of like the go
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: to horror movie thing where let's take a song that's
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: associated with like upbeat, happy, optimistic stuff and slow it
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: way down and make it creepy.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, great, so for make it sad And
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: I'm like, well, you can't do that with that song.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: But but yeah, I just I'm sorry we were talking
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: about it.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: I had to Oh, no, I think that was that
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: was relevant. Well that's that was all I had to
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: say about the stuff I've watched. I'm sure there's other
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: things that I've watched, but nothing's coming to mind. And
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: those were the specific genre stuff that when I mostly
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: wanted to complain about the Morgan because I had such
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: high hopes it was fine for what it was. Don't
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: get me wrong. It's not like it's a bad movie
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: I was. It just fell so far short of what
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: I was hoping for. I get it.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: There is a solution to this, Jonathan, because you love
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: Irish folklore so much, make the movie you want to see.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: I have to wait and see if that Adam Scott
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: film is going to be the movie I want to see. Fair, Fair,
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: because that looks that also looks weird and steeped in
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: Irish folklore, so I am looking forward to seeing that.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: When it's out all right, well, then let us sachet
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: down to the thirty seconds or less room. It's right here,
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: so we don't actually have to go anywhere, and I
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: will begin so here Oi Ago Josh Tomorrow, the head
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: of Disney Experiences, an overseer of all things theme parks,
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: has scored a fast pass to becoming the new company CEO.
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: Outgoing head boss Bob Eiger named Tomorrow his successor. The
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: board unanimously approved that decision, and Dana Walden, who was
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: co chairman of Disney Entertainment, will hold a new position
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: of President and Chief Creative Officer.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: From Disney to Netflix, we are getting a professional pro
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: shot of Stranger Things the First Shadow, which is the
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: Stranger Things musical that premiered in the West End and
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: they came over to Broadway. They're filming it, I think
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: this weekend, so they've canceled this weekend of shows, but
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: it will eventually be coming to Netflix.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: Cool friend of the show, shay Lee will be excited
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: to learn about a musical adaptation of Practical Magic. It's
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: currently in development. Alice Hoffman, who wrote the book, is
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: working with Nora Jones, Greg Wattenberg, and director Maria Friedman.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: No telling when it will be ready for previews, but
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: you can satisfy your practical magic needs this coming September
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: when a sequel to the film adaptation comes.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: Out inconceivable, No, it's not, but are either is apparently
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: an adaptation of The Princess Bride for Broadway. Apparently I
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: finally got there. There was a workshop for this musical
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: adaptation recently, with Alex Brightman playing Billy who is the
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: grandson slash narrator, and a bunch of other wonderful people.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: I think this would make a great musical and if
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: Alex Brightman is involved, I definitely want to see it.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Severance has been a big hit for Apple, and
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: now Apple owns it so Previously, Severance was produced by
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: a third party company called Fifth Season that Apple has
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: officially taken over after spending nearly seventy million dollars on
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: acquiring the property. The plan is for the series to
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: go at least four seasons, with possible spinoffs in the future.
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: So let's get the Department of Choreography and merriment in here.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: Fast and Furious has another movie. Did you know the
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: last one came out in twenty twenty three. It feels
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: like it was just yesterday. Anyhow, The new movie will
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: be called Fast for Ever. I guess Vin Diesel is
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: hoping to eventually become bionics so he can continue to
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: be Fast Forever. It will come out in theaters on
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: March seventeenth, twenty twenty eight.
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: Because family Never Dies, areel you to just turn into
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: cgi A twenty four has acquired the rights to the
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise and plans a series with The
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: Long Walks writer JT. Moulner directing and Glenn Powell as
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: an executive producer, though not appearing into the series. So
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: this franchise began in nineteen seventy four with an ultra
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: low budget film that influenced countless filmmakers, particularly in the
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: slasher subgenre. Molmer has already said the series will not
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: be a remake of the original film.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: I'm hoping another thing that will not be a remake
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: of the original film is the new Mummy movie coming
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: out with Brendan Fraser and Rachel Wwice. Yes, Yes, anyhow,
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: we've known about it. We knew that it was happening
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: for a bit, but now we have a release state,
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: which will be May nineteenth, twenty twenty eight. I want
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: them to take their time because I want it to
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: be as fun as I remember the Mummy movies being,
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: but also it feels so far away.
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: An Irish filmmaker whose first name I can't pronounce, but
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: whose last name is Robinson posted a fifteen second AI
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: generated video showing Tom Cruise in hand to hand combat
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: with Brad Pitt. And he made it with c Dance
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: two point zero, which is a product from Chinese company
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: Byte Dance that's the former owners of TikTok. This has
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: prompted the MPa to condemn Byte Dance for IP infringement
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: because the tool has to train on existing works in
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: order to create this stuff, and screenwriter Rhet Reese has
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: proclaimed with great cheerfulness, it's likely over for us.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: Wow, well it's not over for the teenage mutant Ninja Turtles.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: I was a teen. Because I'm reading the article as
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: I talk. Paramount is doing all of the turtle things.
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: So they're releasing a animated series that is going to
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: be four minutes long. Each episode like Spidey and His
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: Amazing Friends, which I didn't know was a four minute episode,
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: so short form video. They're coming out with two different books,
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: one that is adult themed and one that is kid themed, merchandise,
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: all kinds of fun stuff. I don't hate it.
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm all for good tmn T stuff as long
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: as it's good. I mean, that series has been around
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: for ages and has had multiple incarnations, the original being
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: more of a gritty spoof of comic book tropes, specifically
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: stuff like Daredevil, and then others being obviously much more
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: lighthearted and geared toward kids, and I'm cool with all
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: of it as long as it's done. Well.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, nothing will ever beat the nineties movies.
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: But well it's only because you're such a huge fan
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: of Vanilla Ice Baby. Yes, Go Ninja Go Ninja Go, Jacob.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: That is a fantastic song. Sorry, I just got so loud.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: There Go Ninja, Go Ninja Go is fantastic.
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: Are you also a big fan of mc Hammer's Adams
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: Family song from from the end of the Adams Family Movie.
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: I don't know if I remember that one.
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: They do what they want to do, say what they
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: want to say, Live how they want to live, play
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: how they want to play.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, obviously I'm not because it is I think I
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: saw the Adams Family movie. It's not that one did
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: not stick with me. Wow.
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: Okay, Well, first of all, it might have actually been
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: used for the sequel. I don't know if it was
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: in the original film or not, but it was. Yeah.
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: I think it's the original film because I know they
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: have cousin it speak in it, and I don't think
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: because it really shows up in the second movie very much.
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: All right, let's talk about non genre stuff that we
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: forgot to take out of the lineup.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah. The first one is almost fitty. It's called American Classic.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: It's a TV series that's coming out about an actor
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: who goes back to his hometown where it all started
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: and has to save the town with a production of
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: Our Town. Can I say Town more times?
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: At stars Kevin Klein as the lead character. He's kind
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: of a washed up actors who's got a very fragile ego,
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: and he finds out his mother has passed away, which
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: is what prompts him to go back to his hometown,
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: and there he finds out that the town's theater, which
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: is where he got his start, and he has a
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: huge amount of nostalgia for it is going to be
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: essentially demolished in order to make a casino, and so
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: it's kind of his let's put on a show and
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: save the town theater. So it's very that's like a
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: classic trump like that makes me think of the eighties, right,
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: like we gotta save the rec Center the that's the
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: plot of of a break in two Electric Boogaloo. But
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: our town really, yeah, not the best choice in my opinion.
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: Laura Lenny is also in this. She plays I think
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: she's Kevin Klein's sister in law and she's also the
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: mayor of the town.
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: And she's also his ex.
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: Yes, she used to date him. Now she's his sister
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: in law and she has a very low opinion of him.
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: She thinks that he kind of ditched the town and
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: the only reason he came back was for himself and
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: not for anyone else. Yeah, there's a lot of drama
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: going on, but it's actually a comedy, Like if you
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: watch this trailer, it is it's got lots of silly
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: moments in it. And it comes out on March first.
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: The first two episodes drop on March first is on
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: MGM Plus, which is not one that I subscribe to,
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: so I'll probably have to just hear about this.
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I never watched Once upon a Time in Hollywood,
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: so this next trailer has absolutely no meaning to me.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: It was confusing during the big game what happened? And
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: also like the entire I'm gonna let you I will
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: let you talk about it in a second. The entire
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: trailer seemed like one giant look how racy we are.
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: We can't even show you?
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: That was it? Well, I mean it's written by Tarantino.
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: It's gonna be that way where you like, how do
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: you how do you advertise a Tarantino written screenplay on
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: broadcast television. Well, you can either cut around all the
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: stuff that you can't show, or you get real cheeky
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: with it and you use very over the top censorship
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: too to be able to display things. David Fincher actually
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: directed this, so it's a Tarantino written but not directed film.
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: And Cliff Boo is a character from Once upon a
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: Time in Hollywood. He was a stuntman and in the
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: film he was Leonardo DiCaprio's kind of like friend and
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: driver slash bodyguard type type person. In the movie, it's
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: indicated that he may have been responsible for his wife's
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: death and on a boat and then like disposed of
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: her body, but it's never actually answered in the movie
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: whether or not he's guilty of that. You never know,
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: you never find out. And he's he's really laid back
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: and extremely confident, confident enough to take on Bruce Lee
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: and win because that does happen in Once Upon a
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: Time in Hollywood. It definitely looks like it's got a
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: lot of attitude and a lot of humor. It's a
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: it's a action comedy, drama SERI or film. Rather. There's
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: no date for when it's coming out yet, but it
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: will be coming to Netflix.
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: It is interesting that Tarantino is going straight to Netflix,
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: and two that they played the trailer at one of
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: the most expensive times to play the trailer and not
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: have a release date.
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I don't know what the strategy is. I
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: don't get paid enough to figure that stuff out.
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: I was.
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is not is by
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: a long stretch, not my favorite Tarantino movie. I appreciated
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: what it was doing, but it's not one that I
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: feel like revisiting very much. It feels a little too
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: up its own butt. Yeah, we like sure, you know,
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: it's one of those movies that Hollywood loves because it's
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: a movie about movies, and the industry gets very self
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: congratulatory at times and self like like aggrandizing, and I
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: feel like Once upon a Time in Hollywood does that
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: a bit. However, this trailer actually looked more entertaining to
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: me than Once Upon a Time in Hollywood did not
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: that I think. I don't think it was a bad movie.
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: By the way, I just if you give me like
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: a list of Tarantino films, it probably would be pretty
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: close to the bottom for me. I think that the
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: filmmaking was incredible, but as a movie I actually prefer
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: other Tarantino films.
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: Makes sense.
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: We also have a trailer for a beloved series returning
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: from cold storage.
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that makes it sound like they're in the morgue.
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: Well that is part of a hospital.
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: It's true. We've got the trailer for the Scrubs continuation.
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: It's not a reboot, but it kind of also works
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: like a reboot because they've got a whole new cast
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: of characters, including the old characters. It's interesting. It does
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: feel like They're gonna put a lot of heart into
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: it and a lot of cheeky humor.
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it feels like it's very much in keeping with
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: the original series kind of tone.
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. It is also interesting the timing for it
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: because the pit is out, which is also trying to
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: add a lot of heart but also a lot of
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: realness to what happens in an er. So I wonder
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: how it will do. I liked the original series of Scrubs.
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: I thought it was fun and funny, and I'm glad
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: they got so much of the cast back and some
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: of the new actors for the new round of interns
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: look fantastic.
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I know that they're still working on trying
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: to get more of the original cast to potentially be
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: in future episodes. Like, you know, one of the big
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: open ended questions was where's the janitor because he was
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: such a huge part in the original Scrub series, And
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: the last I saw was that they were like, they're
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: very much interested in having him come back, but you know,
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: it was one of those things where they have to
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: figure out how to, you know, how to make that
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: work both narratively and with people's schedules and demands and stuff.
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: That actor was on I think season one, either episode
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: seven or eight of Shrinking.
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: Oh well, now we can walk into this this dark
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: cave that I found right over here with all the
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: bats and the spiders. Lots Man, there's even more spiders
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: than there were in that hutch the last time we
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: opened it.
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: You just want to finish this episode by yourself, don't you.
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: I mean, there's there's one spider wearing a fedora and
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: talking like Nicholas Cage. But I told him he's not
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: allowed to talk yet because that's later. Okay, But but
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: the rest of them are all tell me it's time
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: for John Boy's Horror Hutch. Now, Ariel, you had told
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: me that you had watched at least some of some
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: of these trailers.
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: Yes, I watched the first one, The Hermit The Hermit.
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: So uh yeah. Lou Forreigno, the who I always will
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: think of as the Incredible Hulk from the nineteen seventies.
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: Lou Forregno plays a reclusive hermit pig farmer and he's
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: living out in the middle of nowhere when a couple
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: of young adults, like really kids, if you think about it,
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: show up because they're on like a camping trip, but
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: they get separated from the girl's father, and so this
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: girl and her boyfriend run into lou Forregno's character, who
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: is a psychotic. He hears his mother's voice in his
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: head and she's like telling him to kill them and
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: chop them up and serve them as jerky. So it's
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: definitely hitting Ariel's ick factor of cannibalism. And I apologize
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: that I did not put that in a warning in
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: a lineup. I mean, it's not done in a way
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: where it's particularly gratuitous in the trailer. At least, it
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: makes me think of movies like Texas, Chainsaw, Massacre, Friday
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: the Thirteenth, and Psycho, like all of those have elements
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: of like a domineering family figure that's controlling a big
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: killing machine. Essentially. It was screened at some film festivals
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: last year apparently. I think it was made back in
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty four, so it's you know, it's been ready
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: for a couple of years now. Also, the format's a
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: little weird because it's one where it's it's kind of
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: a story within a story where there's the final girl
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: is being interviewed about her experiences on a talk show
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: and so it's cutting back and forth between her and
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: what happened. But like my first reaction was, doesn't that
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: remove all tension? Like, if you know she's fine enough
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: to have an interview, doesn't that kind of you're not
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: scared about her not making it because you know she
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: does because she's on this talk show. But apparently there's
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: some unreliable narrator elements at play too, so maybe that
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: mixes things up. This comes out on demand on March third.
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: There are several shows where I'm like, I know this
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: person comes out okay, but I'm still so scared in
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: the moment.
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: So yeah, well, and it's also it's something that's been
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: done recently, like the first Terrifier movie did something very
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: similar to this. Next up, we have Crazy Old Lady.
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: This is one where I think you watched part of
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: it and then you nope doubt.
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: Yep. I don't remember what made me nope doubt, but
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: I was like, oh, maybe it was the.
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: Chainsaw or the red hot poker.
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: No, I made it pass the Red Hot poker, So.
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: Crazy Old Lady it was the sALS All. It's a
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: Spanish horror movie, psychological horror movie. It follows a character
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: named Pedro who is contacted by his ex girlfriend to
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: check in on his ex girlfriend's mother who has dementia,
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: and he gets whacked upside the head and chained up
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: onto a chair by said mother who has a weird
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: sense of hospitality, and it looks like there's a lot
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: of torture involved that kind of thing. It's in Spanish,
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: so the trailer has got subtitles for those of us
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: who are not schooled in Spanish. Comes out on Shutter
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: on February twenty seventh. Looks pretty low budget. It's not
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: really my thing, but I thought I would mention it
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: just because I do think it's interesting that we're getting
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: more access to horror movies made in other countries, and
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: sometimes that ends up being like really revolutionary, like they're
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: coming up with like ideas and new takes on horror
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: that are really interesting. This one didn't really scratch itch
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: for me, but then again, it is just a trailer,
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: so maybe the full film would make me feel different.
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: And then lastly, we have one that you noped out
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: of immediately, which was the trailer for our teaser for
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: Faces of Death.
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: I clicked on the link and then I read the
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: synopsis underneath it and went, I'm not going to watch this. Yeah.
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: So listeners out there of a certain age will remember
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: a movie that came out in nineteen seventy eight called
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: Faces of Death. It was done as if it were
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: a documentary, but it was actually, you know, a fictional thing,
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: and it was supposed to be presenting footage of actual
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: acts of violence and you know, acts of murder as
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: well as accidental deaths, that kind of thing, Like it's
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: supposed to be really gratuitous and exploitative. Most of the
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: stuff that was in that documentary was just created for
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: the movie, like it was. It was, it was manufactured.
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: It wasn't actual footage, but they did supplement it with
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: archival footage of other stuff, including things like animals being slaughtered, so,
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: you know, really not cool. But it did get a
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: cult following. It spawned a whole series of videos that
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: got They kind of entered into that realm of legend
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: for school yards in the eighties because I remember kids
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: talking about it. It was one of those things that
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: you know, someone got hold of a VHS tape and oh,
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: someone really dies in this thing or whatever, and I'm like,
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: I don't know why you would want to watch that
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: if that is true. First, I doubt it's truthfulness. Secondly,
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: whether it's true or not, why do you want to
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: watch it? But this upcoming movie is about a woman
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: who works at a like a video online video platform,
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: and she's a moderator, so it's her job to look
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: at things that have been flagged and review them to
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: see whether or not they violate terms of service. And
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: she comes across that are uploaded by this group that
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: appear to be a trying to replicate the scenes from
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: the original nineteen seventy eight Faces of Death, And then
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: she's trying to determine whether or not the things she's
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: seeing are real or staged. This comes out April tenth.
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: Still not my thing, not really, not my kind of
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: realm of horror, So I don't plan on seeing this.
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: These kind of things just are so mean spirited that
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: I just don't find any entertainment in them.
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: Like, I think it is an interesting edition that they've
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: added to it. Yeah, but yeah, one I don't. We
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: talked about it way way back. If you're an old
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: listener during the Walking Dead days, like there's it's hard
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: to delight in torturing somebody, Like yeah, in misery. Yeah,
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: and then also as an actor and a LARPer who
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: does non union gigs, like it is a scary thought
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: that you might sign on for something that ends up
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: to not be that people don't have a separation between
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: real life and real life and fantasy, and it's just
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: it can be scary.
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't judge people who do really enjoy these
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: sort of things. I know there are people who just
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: find like, find it really entertaining. And whether that's because
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: they just delight in the gruesomeness on screen, or they're
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: looking at it from a filmmaking perspective or whatever it
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: may be, I think all of that is valid. So
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: I don't want to I never want to suggest that
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: this approach is good or bad, just that it's not
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: for me. And you know that's okay. There's plenty of
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: stuff that is for me, so I don't need everything
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: to be that way.
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, speaking of the first thing in our actual what
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: belonged in our show notes is something that is for
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: me that maybe some people might think is not for
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: me because it could have also gone into your like
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: the annex of your horror Hutch.
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, this, I would have put this in
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: horror Hutch, had you not already added it to our
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: show lineup? And that is.
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: A trailer for I didn't know if we're going to
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: try to say it at the same time.
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: Exit eight, Yeah, which I knew as a video game.
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: Ariel was not aware that this was an adaptation of
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: a video game into a film, which to me, that's
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: fantastic because it means that you know it caught your
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: attention without you already having any connection to the source material,
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: and that tells me it's a well done trailer.
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, WHOA. The concept is that there's this guy
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: who's stuck in the tunnels of the subway, like the
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: walkable tunnels of the subway, not like the train tracks,
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: and he's trying to find his way out, but he
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: can't because it's haunted or something.
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: He keeps looping around to the same hallway over and
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: over like it's the way the way the game works
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: is that you turn a corner and then you're looking
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: down a hallway and as you walk down the hallway,
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: you reach a staircase and you climb the staircase, and
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: then you come to a corner and when you turn
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: the corner, you're looking at the same hallway you were
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: just in, like complete to the tiniest details. And the
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: way the game works and same with the movie. The
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: trailer makes us clear is you're looking for anomalies, things
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: that are not supposed to be there because one of
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: there's a poster on the wall and it has a
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: big number on it starts off with the number zero,
• 50:47
  Speaker 2: and if you don't see any anomalies, if there are
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: no anomalies present, you just keep walking, and as you walk,
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: you'll see that that poster now has the number one
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: on it, saying that you've advanced. If you see something
• 50:59
  Speaker 2: that should be there, an anomaly, you turn around and
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: go back the way you came. And then you'll see
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: that the poster number has gone up. So if it
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: was one, but you saw anomaly, you turn around, you
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: go back. Now it says two, so you've still advanced,
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: even though you had to go back the way you came.
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: If you miss an anomaly, or you turn back when
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: there isn't an anomaly but you thought there were, it
• 51:22
  Speaker 2: resets you to zero and you start all over again.
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: So that's the way the game works, and this movie
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: looks like it's pretty faithful to that general like gameplay.
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: I'm guessing some of the anomalies must be really hard
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: to spot, because otherwise that sounds like a pretty quick game.
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, some of the anomalies are insanely obvious, like you know,
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: like like if you walk in you start seeing like
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: a flood of blood slowly creeping towards you. You're like, yeah,
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: this should not be here, and you can turn around
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: and go I turn around anyhow. But sometimes it might
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: be something like there's one extra door in the hall,
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: and if you had not really paid attention, you might
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: not notice. Sometimes it's like writing that might be on
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: a poster or on a sign. Sometimes it's like you
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: might not notice that one of the doors is slightly
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: a jar this time instead of all being closed. That
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: kind of stuff. So the game, there's lots of people
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: who have done I've never played this game, by the way,
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: I've only watched playthrows. But my favorite, if you ever
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: want to watch someone who's very entertaining to watch, and
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: she does great like great anomaly based games in particular.
• 52:31
  Speaker 2: She goes by gab Smolders and gab Smolders is She's
• 52:38
  Speaker 2: Dutch but lives in England. She's if you've ever heard
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: the name Jack Septic. I she's his partner, and she's great.
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: She's fantastic. If you've not watched her stuff, her playthrough
• 52:50
  Speaker 2: of Exit eight is delightful. But she like she loves
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: anomaly spotting games and this is a pretty good one.
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: And like I said, the trailer looks good, Yeah it doesn't.
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: I mean, there's a little bit scary, there's a tiny
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: bit of jump scare, there's a little bit of like blood,
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: but it looks more suspenseful than anything with like a
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: hint of zombie land. When you come across those posters,
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: it pops up the text like you wouldn't like always
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: double tap.
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's got and it has elements of mystery
• 53:25
  Speaker 2: to it too, right, because you're like, how did you
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: get here? How do you get out? What's keeping you here?
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: All that kind of stuff.
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Honestly, the thing that appealed to me it is subtitled.
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: It is a subtitled movie, I believe, yes. And the
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: thing that appealed to me is I'm currently playing a
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: tabletop game called Triangle Agency, in which it's like a
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: very laundry files fringy sort of thing where I play
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: an employee of this organization that is trying to catch
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: anomalies that do weird things in the world and hurt people.
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: But there's more subterfuged to it than that, and just
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: the weirdness and the bizarreness of like, this isn't quite right,
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: this must be an anomaly. Really hit that. I'm loving
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: the game that mixed with now that I know it's
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: a video game, my love of Eternal Darkness and how
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: it messes with you as a player, Like, I'm all
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: in for this and I might have to play the
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: game myself.
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: So cool. And this movie comes out April tenth, so
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: coming up in a couple months. Next up, we have
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: something I was alluding to at the beginning of the
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: John Boys horror Hutch. We got a trailer for Spider Noir,
• 54:38
  Speaker 2: the live action series that is tied to the across
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: the Spider Verse movies in which the Spider Noir version
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: of Spider Man is having adventures in his own time
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: and place, and just like just like in the animated series.
• 54:58
  Speaker 2: It's played by Nicholas Cage, and I love the fact
• 55:02
  Speaker 2: that both they've done this, both for the trailer and
• 55:06
  Speaker 2: for the series itself. You can watch it either in
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: full color or in black and white, because are.
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: They and like the styling is very noir, And at
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: first I was like, Nicholas Cage, I don't know if
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: I would like cast him as this kind of a character.
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: But then thinking back on like a lot of the
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: old timey radio noir mystery gumshoe kind of stories, a
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: lot of those gum shoes are a little older than
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: they ought to be to be going on the adventures
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: they're going on, and when you add Spider powers into that,
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: it's maybe a little bit more Okay.
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I do like that they have a play on
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: the old Spider Man saying, because I said, with no
• 55:45
  Speaker 2: power comes no responsibility.
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. And he did a great job in the
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: cartoons as Spider nor Spider Noir, nor Spider whatever Spider. Yeah,
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: so he'll do great. There are a couple of moments
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: in the trailer where his face looks.
• 56:02
  Speaker 2: Real weird to me, Yeah, a little a little plastic y, yeah.
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: And then other times where he looks straight up like
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: Nichlo's Cage looks right now.
• 56:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't know if they used any like digital
• 56:14
  Speaker 2: d aging or anything on him.
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. I would will I will say
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: I would watch this alone for Lamour and Morris who
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: is also in it, who played one of my favorite characters,
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: a new Girl. I know he's not playing the same character,
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: and he is an actor, but like he's just he's charismatic.
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: In the trailer for Spider Nor as well, he's just
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: such a charismatic actor that I just I love the
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: roles that he steps into.
• 56:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this looks like it's gonna be a lot of fun.
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: It's on Amazon Prime starting May twenty seventh. So this
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: is not one of the Disney ones because it's from
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: the Sony side, but yeah, Amazon Prime will have it
• 56:50
  Speaker 2: starting May twenty seventh. I wrote, looks fun as heck
• 56:55
  Speaker 2: for sure.
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: Come on, Sony, you can do it.
• 56:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you can do it. Yeah. Well, you know, like
• 57:01
  Speaker 2: there across the Spider Verse stuff has been spectacularly good.
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but their live action stuff recently has been less then.
• 57:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm just hopeful that we don't get any Morbius
• 57:16
  Speaker 2: or Craven or Madam Webb's stink on this.
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure, but I'm also very excited for it.
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: It does look fun. I'm a big Noir fan, you know,
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: I'm playing a noir actual play right now, so lots
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: of fun. We also got a official trailer for One
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: Piece season two.
• 57:36
  Speaker 2: Yep, very epic and colorful trailer. Lots of adventurous moments,
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: lots of fun little character moments there. I don't know
• 57:47
  Speaker 2: what the heck is going.
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: On me neither. I have not read the manga, I
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: haven't watched the anime cartoon, and I've only watched one
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: episode of season one.
• 58:02
  Speaker 2: You're further ahead than me.
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the first episode of season one was a little
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: bit kiddy, which I know this is. It's just bizarre, right,
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: It's just a bizarre, bizarre story. But I hear it
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: gets really good and I just need to stick it
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: out a couple more episodes that might be next after
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: Dowbn Mabbie.
• 58:20
  Speaker 2: It definitely looks like it's very fanciful, and anyone who's
• 58:24
  Speaker 2: a fan of it, I hope that the live action
• 58:27
  Speaker 2: version is living up to your expectations, because I have
• 58:30
  Speaker 2: nothing to compare it against. I have no context here.
• 58:33
  Speaker 2: Like when I watched this, I thought this looks like
• 58:36
  Speaker 2: a mad cap, fun, adventurous series. I don't understand what's
• 58:42
  Speaker 2: happening or what anyone's trying to do, but the imaginative
• 58:48
  Speaker 2: character designs the color palette, Like, it's so nice to
• 58:51
  Speaker 2: see a show that's colorful and it's not just browns
• 58:55
  Speaker 2: and grays, you know. Yeah, yeah, for sure, So that
• 59:00
  Speaker 2: really appealed to me. Starts on March tenth on Netflix.
• 59:04
  Speaker 2: And maybe I should take a moment and try and
• 59:08
  Speaker 2: watch some of this and see if I can get
• 59:10
  Speaker 2: into it, because I thought the trailer was really fun,
• 59:15
  Speaker 2: even though I didn't know what the heck was happening.
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, maybe we can race each other through watching
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: it and then talk about it, because I'm sure that's
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: what everybody wants to hear about. Is season one of
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: One Piece that came out a couple of years ago?
• 59:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I mean I just finished Twisted Middle season two,
• 59:34
  Speaker 2: and that thing's been out for months. So has it
• 59:36
  Speaker 2: really Oh yeah yeah, oh it came out last year.
• 59:40
  Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure.
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: Are you going to try The Burbs that just came out?
• 59:44
  Speaker 2: I want to. Yeah, that's on my list. I just
• 59:47
  Speaker 2: I haven't tried to watch it yet. I also need
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: to fit. We're almost done with Superstore. We're in the
• 59:52
  Speaker 2: last season of Superstore.
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: Now, so that's a huge achievement.
• 59:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's six seasons, so we're almost done with season six.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 2: I think we're about halfway through season six and then
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 2: we'll be we'll have watched all of that. But that's
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 2: also easy to watch. It's a half hour show, so
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 2: you can like watch like two or three in a
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 2: row after work, just kind of decompressing. And as long
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 2: as as long as it's not a particularly cringey episode,
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 2: you're okay.
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, for sure. Do you do you find it
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: cringey when they take a live action show that they've
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: finished and make a cartoon out of it?
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 2: Depends? I mean, are we talking like, you know, back
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 2: to the future? Are we talking I don't know, Stranger Things?
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 2: I mean either or really both are cringey?
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: Okay? If we got a full trailer for tales from
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: eighty five Stranger Things.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is the animated series on Netflix. It's taking
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 2: place between seasons two and three of Stranger Things. So
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 2: I can't watch it because I only ever watched season one.
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 2: I'm still don't know what the heck was going on.
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 2: I hear that season two is not most people's favorite.
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: No, but season three was pretty good.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 2: So but this is before season three.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: It's between so it's some liminal space. Uh yeah, I
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: mean the cartoon. I love the animation style and it
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: looks fun enough, but I think if it had come
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: out before the finale of the series, I would be
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: more excited about it.
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like a lot of people felt that
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 2: the ending of Stranger Things was kind of a letdown,
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 2: and I'm sure Netflix is going to have some challenge
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 2: getting regaining the momentum.
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: I like, I was fine with the ending, but it
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: was an ending, like it was an actual ending, and
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: so I'm as much as I enjoyed the journey, I'm
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: done with the story now. I don't mind spinoffs, but
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: it's kind of like the same issue I'm having with
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: Star Wars, right, And I'm saying this not having watched
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: the cartoon. The cartoon might be fabulous, it looks like
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: they do some fun things. Is cute, but it's like
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: you keep going back to moments before and I already
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: know how this story ends.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 2: So yeah, I feel kind of similarly about the IT stuff. Honestly, like,
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 2: do we really need another prequel series that's set, you know,
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 2: thirty years before the Welcome to Dairy Girls series?
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: We are we getting that?
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: I didn't know we were getting another another prequel series.
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 2: The idea is that they're doing well. I don't know
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 2: if it's actually been greenlit, but the idea was that
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 2: you had the films which were set in like the
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 2: twenty twenties and then the nineteen eighties for the past,
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 2: right for the kids. Then you had the Welcome to
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 2: Dairy series, which is set in the early nineteen sixties
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 2: in Ireland with the Dairy girls, and then the next
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 2: one will be like late nineteen twenties, early nineteen thirty ease,
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 2: and then presumably they'd go even further back to turn
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 2: of the century.
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: If it is not, I mean that feels like it
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: could all be seasons of the same series. It doesn't
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: even need to be.
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 2: A new ste I think I think it really would
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 2: be another season probably, but maybe not. I mean because
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 2: because at some point you're going to get to before
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 2: the town of Dairy was founded. Yeah, it'll be in
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 2: the it'll be in the geographic region, but it's not Dairy.
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: But it's always the same story, right, Like some of
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: the details might be different, but it's always the same story.
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: And you could just make one movie about that called
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: groundhog Day. Yeah, it's rounded day.
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 2: They tried to introduce something, so I famously dropped off
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 2: of the Dairy Girls Getting It Done against penny Wise series.
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 2: I dropped off because something happened that I was just like,
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 2: I'm done. This is just too dumb for me. I
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 2: can't buy to it is too it feels too much
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 2: like American horror story. Like it just it's trying very
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 2: hard to do something that I don't I don't find impressive.
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 2: But one of the revelations that happened after I stopped watching,
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 2: but I read up on it, is that penny Wise
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 2: reveals that it experiences time differently than humans, like it
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 2: has a much it doesn't have a linear experience of time.
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 2: So I guess they're arguing that you can keep going
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 2: back and things can happen that would presumably change everything.
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 2: Except I'm like, well, we do experience time linearly and
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 2: we know how it ends. So while that might not
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 2: be the end for Pennywise, because it's experiencing time in
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 2: a different way, perhaps even backward from us, the point is,
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 2: after twenty twenty, it's gone.
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, but it's still it's it's the same,
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: you know, same storyline.
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. I they already lost me in
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 2: the last series, so I'm not too We got way
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 2: off track here, but I'm not too not too fussed
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 2: about it.
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: But does does Bill scars Guard play penny Wise in
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: the series?
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah? He does. He was originally going to. Apparently they
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 2: had a different There is another character who plays a
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 2: penny Wise like, not an entity, but a person who's,
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 2: you know, dressing up as a clown. And I think
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 2: the original plan was that she was going to be
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 2: the stand in for penny Wise, but then Bill scars
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 2: Guard's schedule opened up and he was actually able to
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 2: come in and shoot anyway, and so they reconfigured it
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 2: so that penny Wise does show up in that series
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 2: and it is played by Bill scars Guard.
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: Interesting, So I did I like since we were off
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: last last week, two weeks the last time we were
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: off before last week when I went on vacation, I
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: did want to write Dairy Girls Welcome to Dairy Girls
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: mashup in which Pennywise comes out of the Irish sewers
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: and tries to attack these girls. But they've had to
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 1: deal with so much atrocity with all the political stuff
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: going on in Ireland, because I don't know if you
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: know that, like it's Dairy Girls, is being a teenager
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: in the middle of a bunch of really bad Irish
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: politics happening. I mean, it's a funny show because it
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: focuses on these teenage girls, but it's just it's during
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: a time of upheaval in Ireland and instead these girls
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: are so like mean girl that they make penny Wise
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: feel insecure about himself and he undergoes like a never
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: been kissed kind of transformation into a pretty girl. Yes,
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: and I was going to write this entire mash up
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: about it, but I ran out of time.
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 2: Mm. Well that fun story, Okay, moving on Monster. Well,
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 2: next up, we have a trailer for a science fiction
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 2: film called In the Blink of an Eye. It was
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 2: directed by Andrew Stanton. If that name sounds familiar, you
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 2: might be a big Pixar fan because he was involved
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 2: with things like Wally and finding Nemo, that kind of stuff.
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 2: And the log line for this is a fairly bare
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 2: bones one, which says the movie depicts three interconnected stories
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 2: exploring the history of the world. That's the log line.
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: I mean, now that you've said that he's done Wally,
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: I can totally see it this trailer. Yeah, the three
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: storylines are like, there's like a I don't know the right,
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 1: like a prehistoric Neanderthal neanderthal, and then a modern day
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: story about a woman who's an archaeologist and historian. And
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 1: then a future story where Kate Kennon is going to
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 1: a Kepler planet, to Kepler twenty three, I think, to
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: try to colonize because Earth is dying. I'm interested in
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 1: two of those storylines.
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it seems like this was an ambitious project. I
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 2: will say it's gonna it's slated for a release on
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 2: February twenty seventh. I will say that I went ahead
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 2: and looked at Rotten Tomatoes because like it's been screened
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 2: a couple of times. Now, granted it's early screening, but
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 2: the Rotten Tomatoes score is currently at sixteen percent.
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: That's sad.
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, which, again, to remind everybody, a low percentage doesn't
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 2: mean that a movie is atrocious. It means that more
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 2: critics gave it a negative score than a positive score. Right,
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 2: So let's say that you have determined that anything below
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 2: two point five is a negative score, anything above two
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 2: point five is a positive score, saying, assuming a score
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 2: of one to five. Let's say everyone ranked it two
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 2: out of five, so it's not a one out of five,
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 2: or even say there's one out of ten, like they've
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 2: ranked it a four, so it's not a it's not
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 2: a you know, it's not a one. That still counts
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 2: as negative. So it doesn't mean that the movie's atrocious.
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 2: It does mean that more critics have said it's not
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 2: good than critics who have said it is good. Uh
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 2: the criticism I read, I only read one that was
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 2: in Vulture, and the critic their main argument was that, uh,
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 2: it's it doesn't ever really get compelling or emotionally moving,
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 2: Like it's just not very interesting, and that there are
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 2: a lot of ideas, but that they're just not really
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 2: fleshed out in a way that is satisfactor factory or satisfying.
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 2: I should say, yeah.
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 1: I again, I am very interested in Kate McKinnon being
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 1: an astronaut space explorer.
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, very That embryos to an alien planet, Yeah, like.
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: That sounds interesting to me. That's the kind of sci
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: fi I've enjoyed in the past, and Kate McKinnon doesn't
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 1: often get to play now. I didn't watch the Roses
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: and I know she's in that, but she doesn't often
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: get to play very genuine characters.
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and she's usually playing very silly, over the top characters.
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And the clips I saw in this trailer, she
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 1: looked amazing, and I want to watch that. I don't
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 1: super care about the rest.
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. Maybe it's always also possible that the critics
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 2: who have seen it so far are you know, it's
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 2: just a drop of the bucket that most critics haven't
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 2: seen it, and maybe other people will have a very
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 2: different take. So I don't want people to just assume
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 2: that sixteen percent means this movie is a lost cause
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 2: it just means that the early early response has been lackluster.
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but let's.
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 2: Compare that to our next movie, Man Meat Mountain Versus
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 2: the Robot.
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: You mean, Halo. This is This is a trailer for
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 1: a war machine and it's good old classic army guys
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: come across a killer robot corps.
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, alien killer robot.
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah. It very much feels like it came out of love.
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: Death and Robots was one of their short stories that
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: they just maybe it got denied from the short stories,
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 1: so they turned it into a full length movie.
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 2: It made me the trailer reminded me of movies like Predator,
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 2: like the you know, the soldiers in wood wooded areas
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 2: fighting against an overwhelmingly powerful alien entity, in this case
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 2: a robot not an actual alien. Also had me remind
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 2: me a little bit of RoboCop because the design of
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 2: the robot reminded me of the D two nine, and
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 2: then also a little bit of Terminator, right like unstoppable
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 2: robot kind of on a mission. And the reason why
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 2: I said man Meat Mountain is that Alan Richson, who
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 2: plays Reacher in the Amazon Reacher series, is playing the
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 2: lead character. That's man Meat Mountain. If you ask me,
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 2: I mean, I back it.
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 1: I it might be a fun enough afternoon popcorn watch,
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: but I've got so many of those. I don't think
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 1: I'm going to get to this one.
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I this one didn't really work on. Maybe if
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 2: I were a bigger fan of that kind of late
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 2: eighties action movie model, maybe then I would want to
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 2: watch it. But like I kind of got my fill
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 2: on those now. Granted, I grew up in that era,
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 2: so I saw a lot of that style of movie.
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 2: Maybe someone you know, half my age would find this
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 2: really interesting because they didn't have that experience of growing
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 2: up in an era where like there were tons of
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 2: movies that were similar in in theme and and execution.
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 2: It comes to Netflix on March sixth, so you know
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 2: you'll have a chance to watch it if you are
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 2: a Netflix subscriber, And if this does sound interesting to you,
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 2: check out the trailer see see if it appeals. I
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 2: like Alan Richson. I think he's a I think he's
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 2: kind of interesting to watch Reacher is. It doesn't give
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 2: him a whole lot of chances to flexes his acting muscles.
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 2: He gets to flex all the other ones, but as
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 2: far as acting goes, it's a very like he's a
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 2: very stoic kind of character with like a rye sense
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 2: of humor. So I don't actually know what his ranges.
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, this will definitely show it. Next, we got a
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 1: second trailer for Disclosure Day. This one came out during
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 1: the fantastic Nocturnal bird.
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 2: Ball Yeah game.
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and it looks interesting. It shows us things we
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 1: haven't seen before and still tells us absolutely nothing.
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah. This is the film by Steven Spielberg that kid
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 2: is going places, And the basic idea is that it's
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 2: the question is what would what would be your reaction
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 2: if you were given undisputable proof that we are not
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 2: alone in the universe, that there is an alien intelligence
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  Speaker 2: that's also out there, and how would that really impact
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 2: life here on Earth? And which I think that's a
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 2: great premise for a movie. I'm like, I love that idea, Like,
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 2: you have come up with indisputable proof that there is
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 2: alien intelligence out there, how would the world react. The
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 2: thing that confuses me is this trailer also seems to
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 2: show acts of like either an alien visit or perhaps
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 2: alien invasion, And I'm like, Okay, did we learn about
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 2: them and then immediately they decide they're moving in? I mean, sure,
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 2: I just figured that we would have a little more
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 2: time because assuming that we detect them through electromagnetic radiation,
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 2: which travels at the speed of light, we would know
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 2: about them when they were still quite a ways away,
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 2: and it would probably take them a while to get here.
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 2: But that's not necessarily interesting from a movie perspective.
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 1: Little known fact this is actually season two of Purvis.
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 2: Emily Blunt and Josh O'Connor and Colin Firth, among others,
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 2: are in this. It comes out June twelfth. Anytime Spielberg's
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 2: doing a science fiction movie. I'm interested to see what happens.
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 1: I actually had an interesting conversation with Tony about this
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 1: because he's like, other than ET and Close Encounters, what
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 1: sci fi has he done? I thought they've mostly been whiffs,
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 1: and I'm like, his original sci fi is very good.
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 1: His adaptations can be a little bit iffy. But I'm
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 1: also in like the minority that liked Minority Report and AI.
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 2: So I liked Minority Report. I didn't like AI that much,
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 2: but I liked Minority Report quite a bit. Did he
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 2: do War of the Worlds? I didn't see it.
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 1: He did the two thousand and five War of the
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 1: Worlds with Tom Cruise, which was a good movie. I mean,
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 1: it wasn't the original radio broadcast for sure, but it
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 1: was a fine adaptation, much better than the more recent one.
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 1: I wasn't a huge Tom Cruise fan at the time.
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 1: As far as his acting abilities.
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 2: It was a.
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 1: Standard Tom Cruise performance. But I will say I went
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 1: home and took a nap after watching that movie, and
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 1: Lightning struck and scared the ever living daylight out of me.
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that would scare the ever loving daylight
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 2: out of me even if I hadn't seen the movie
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 2: just then.
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 1: I mean, it didn't strike me struck outside.
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 2: Well, I know it didn't strike you because you don't
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 2: have superpowers.
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 1: Do I? Anyhow, I liked it just fine. I feel like, yeah,
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 1: his original stuff is usually better to me than like
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 1: his adaptations or his sequels. So some of his adaptations
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 1: are great, the original Jurassic Park, but you know anyhow.
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this one's based off a story that he came
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 2: up with. David Kepp wrote the screenplay, but it was
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 2: based off a story from Spielberg himself. So I definitely
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 2: want to check this out because the man puts together
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 2: some really entertaining stuff, and if it actually is thought provoking,
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 2: that's a huge bonus. I'm not going to count on that. Like,
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 2: I do think it's a very interesting question of how
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 2: would the world be affected if we had proof of
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 2: alien intelligence, because I do think it would be disruptive
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 2: is too small a word, like, in some ways, I
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 2: think it could end up being catastrophic. So I do
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 2: think it's an interesting subject matter to pursue, although I
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 2: do think if you were to restrict yourself to that,
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 2: it would also probably be very dry. Yeah, so you've
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 2: got to have some spectacle in there. Okay, next up,
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 2: we only have two movies left, and this one is
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 2: the weirdest one on our list. I think it is
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 2: a trailer for a film called Operation Taco. Gary's so like, yeah, I.
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 1: Don't know how I feel about this one. It's it's
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 1: about two brothers, one who's a conspiracy theorist and one
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 1: who's not.
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 2: Played by uh oh gosh, Simon Rex I think is
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 2: one of them.
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and then Dustin Milligan who played the the vet
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 1: on Ship's Creek. They get they get caught up in
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 1: a conspiracy about aliens, and it turns out the conspiracy
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 1: theorists are kind of right.
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 2: Maybe it's hard to say based on the trailer, like
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 2: is this really happening? Is it like a hallucination? Who knows?
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 2: Because because this trailer is so weird, it is a comedy.
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 2: You can tell it's the comedy partly because Jason Biggs
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 2: is in it billed as Jason Biggs, like he's playing himself.
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 2: Brenda's song is in it, so she's married to mccullay Culkin. Yeah.
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 2: I was about to say, like, maybe maybe we'll get
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 2: to see Brenda and McCully on the Red carpet when
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 2: they're promoting this film, and yeah, I pretty much wrote
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 2: the same thing you said, Like, it follows a conspiracy
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 2: theorist who ropes his more practical brother into a misadventure
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 2: in an effort to uncover a massive conspiracy. Comes out
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 2: February twenty seventh, so it's coming out real soon. It
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 2: also Doug Jones is in it. I love Doug Jones.
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 1: I was about to say, I I haven't watched a
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 1: lot of his stuff because he does a lot of horror,
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 1: but anything that's not horror, I try to see him in.
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah. He you know, like for a long time you
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 2: wouldn't know him because he was always playing monsters right
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 2: like he was. He played a couple of the monstrous
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 2: characters in Pan's Labyrinth, most famously both Pan and the
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 2: Pale Man. Pale Man is still one of the creepiest
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 2: monster designs I've ever seen. I love that creature. He
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 2: was in the original hell Boy film. He was Abe
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 2: Sapien the body. Yeah, the voice was David Hyde Pierce,
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 2: who reportedly later was kind of mortified that they didn't
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 2: use Doug Jones as his performance as just the character.
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 2: He felt like he felt genuinely badly, because that wasn't
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 2: his intent and he didn't know coming into the project
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 2: that that's what was going to happen.
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and Doug Jones is a phenomenal all around actor,
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 1: not just a creatures.
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 2: He's one of the funniest supporting characters in What We
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 2: Do in the Shadows, the TV series, he's the Baron,
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 2: and as the Baron, he's phenomenal. He's so funny.
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 1: He is very funny, and What We Do in the Shadows.
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 1: He's also one of the best characters in Star Trek Discovery.
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 1: He plays sorrow and is just absolutely wonderful. And he
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 1: seems like in real life. Now mind you, I have
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 1: not like spent time with him, and I don't get
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 1: to see stuff of him outside of like conventions or
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 1: TV or social media, but he seems like a really wholesome,
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 1: upstanding guy.
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah. He's also in hocus Pocus, So for you millennials
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 2: out there, go nuts. Yeah. I think this trailer is
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 2: so strange that I do kind of want to see it, because, like,
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 2: even though A says we're watching it, I'm like, I
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 2: don't know if I would like this, but it's so
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 2: not what you typically encounter in entertainment, I kind of
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 2: feel like I need to see it, Yeah, for sure.
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 2: And then finally we have a silly little animated film,
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 2: the Minions and Monsters movie. I'm sure that there was
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 2: a trailer for this during the ginormous Game of Feet.
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 1: There was a there was a Hey, this trailer is out,
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 1: go watch it.
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 2: Got it?
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 1: Uh?
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 2: So, yeah, this is yet another Despicable Me spin off.
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 2: Can you guess just without looking it up? Ariel, can
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 2: you guess how many installments of Despicable Me there have
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 2: been when you when you combine them with the Minions movies.
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 2: I'll give you a hint. It's less than ten.
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 1: Seven.
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, you got it in one. There have
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 2: been seven installments. When I saw there have been seven
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 2: movies in the Despicable Me franchise, I was like, I've
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 2: only ever seen the first one and I remember nothing
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 2: about it.
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 1: I haven't seen any I haven't even seen Despicable Me.
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 1: I just guessed that was like that was based off
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 1: of heart. Yeah, it felt like there had been seven.
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 2: You were right, like it's trying to catch up to
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 2: the Fast and Furious.
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's pretty fast and furious about doing
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 1: that too. This is honestly the one that has appealed
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 1: to me the most from trailers.
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah. It's set in the nineteen twenties, apparently when the
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 2: Minions are trying to make a movie and they need
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 2: to have a monster in their monster movies that they're
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 2: out looking for Kaiju.
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 1: And they summon.
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 2: Babyuu Yeah, a little baby Cuthulhuh. That made me crack
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 2: up when I saw that it was a little baby Cuthulhu,
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 2: and I was like, Oh, this is this looks so silly.
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 2: I might have to watch. I kind of have a
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 2: low opinion of the Minions movies. I don't think that
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 2: they're necessarily bad or badly made or anything. They're just
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 2: I'm just like, these aren't for me, That's that's okay.
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 2: But when I saw this one, I'm like, maybe these
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 2: are for me and I've just been an ignorant, sour puss,
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 2: grunchy grumpy face. This comes out July first, and the
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 2: trailer was fun Like it was silly. Again, not something
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 2: I typically seek out, but it has a sense of
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 2: humor about it that I think is pretty appealing as
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 2: long as it's not all about banana farts.
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I will say, like, I'm not. I haven't
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 1: been a huge fan of the Minion concept, but it
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 1: is funny to watch my friends crack up who have
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 1: also not watched Minions anytime drop out personality does a
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 1: Minion impression.
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so I know, I know there's we have some
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 2: mutual friends who are big Minions fans.
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 1: So, I mean that's great. Ridiculousness is not a horrible
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 1: thing to get enjoymentality.
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 2: Yes, listen, if you were to present me two people
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 2: and one of them's like, I am a die hard rider,
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 2: die Minions fan, I love them, and the other one
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 2: was I like all the stuff that that what's his name?
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 2: The producer who's behind like American horror story and you
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 2: know all those things. Like if they're like, I'm a
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 2: diehard so and so fan, I'd be like, I'm gonna
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 2: go with the Minions percent.
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I thought you were gonna say, yu'll bowl, but
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 1: that's fine too.
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 2: Well that would No one's a die hard you a
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 2: ball fan, right except except for you. You've a bowl.
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 2: You've a bowl maybe, but other than that.
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I'll see how this one does. I might,
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 1: I might, I might catch it on like streaming.
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it looks cute. Like maybe if I had, uh
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 2: you know, maybe if my my younger niece is like,
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 2: let's go see this, maybe I would go see it
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 2: with her. Yeah, but yeah, I certainly wouldn't go to
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 2: the theater to see it because people would think that
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 2: I was being a creep.
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, I don't know, but maybe maybe a fifty
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 1: year old.
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 2: Man going into a movie by himself that's just filled
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 2: with kids, it would not look good.
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 1: I mean, go, if you go at the right time,
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 1: you'll be the only person in the theater.
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 2: At her that's true. Yeah, if I go in the
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 2: middle of the day when there's you know, everyone should
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 2: either be in daycare or school.
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 1: And I feel like they're trying to appeal more to
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 1: the millennial gen X, because I don't know how many
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 1: kids super no or like Cthulhu. And also like, I
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 1: don't know how many kids are super into like you know,
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 1: the twenty Periods piece.
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 2: I mean, I get that, But at the same time,
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 2: I think about the Warner Brothers cartoons I watched when
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 2: I was a kid that had tons of references to
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 2: Golden Age cinema actors that I had not encountered yet. True,
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 2: like you know, like carry Grant or whatever, And I'm like,
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 2: I have no idea who these are, but I think
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 2: the cartoons are funny. I think it's funny when the
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 2: rabbit makes the hunter fall down.
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I mean, but those references were put in
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 1: there for adults.
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 2: So that's what I'm saying. It's like, yeah, I'm just saying, like,
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 2: I think that that even people who aren't haven't been
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 2: exposed to that particular area of film might still find
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 2: quite a bit of enjoyment in it. Just it's done well, true, true. Okay,
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 2: Well that that's all of it. That's all the stories
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 2: in our lineup, and we're wrapping up right at around
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 2: the hour and a half this time.
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not as long of an episode for skipping
• 1:27:14
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• 1:27:16
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• 1:27:20
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• 1:27:51
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