Latest / Large Nerdron Collider / LNC Takes Us For a Ride

Transcript

LNC Takes Us For a Ride · Large Nerdron Collider

• 0:12
  Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Welcome to the Largener Drunkliner the podcast. It's
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: all about wikieky things happening in the world around us
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: and how very excited we are about them. I'm aerial
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: cast in and me, as always, is the ever diligent
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: Jonathan Strickland.
• 0:25
  Speaker 2: There be grimlins up here in this podcast.
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: You got grimlins, I've got landscapers. Also, I forgot to
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: close my door, but we'll see if that's a problem.
• 0:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, We've had a few little hiccups on our
• 0:39
  Speaker 2: way to recording this episode. For one thing, I'm not
• 0:42
  Speaker 2: in my normal space. I'm having a little staycation, so
• 0:46
  Speaker 2: I'm actually in a totally different house, totally different microphone
• 0:49
  Speaker 2: that is not playing nicely with riverside, which is the
• 0:54
  Speaker 2: the web service we use to connect with each other
• 0:57
  Speaker 2: and record. So if this episode sounds a bit funky,
• 1:01
  Speaker 2: apart from the fact that Ariel and I are both loopy,
• 1:04
  Speaker 2: that might be why.
• 1:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a good thing you can't see me at
• 1:08
  Speaker 1: least today. Jonathan looks perfectly fine.
• 1:11
  Speaker 2: No, hey, listen, I think Ariel looks perfectly fine.
• 1:18
  Speaker 1: You're getting old. You need your eyes checked.
• 1:19
  Speaker 2: Now, I mean I am, I am getting old. That
• 1:22
  Speaker 2: part of it, and honestly, I do need my eyes checked.
• 1:26
  Speaker 2: I keep getting I keep getting all alert saying it's
• 1:28
  Speaker 2: been more than a year.
• 1:31
  Speaker 1: Well I was joking because I don't think you're old,
• 1:33
  Speaker 1: but thank you. Yeah, it's it's Friday. Yay.
• 1:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, We've got a lot of stuff to talk about,
• 1:43
  Speaker 2: but oddly enough, most of it doesn't really This is
• 1:47
  Speaker 2: an odd episode because we have more material outside of
• 1:52
  Speaker 2: our lineup than inside, which is simply because it was
• 1:57
  Speaker 2: unusual in that the trailers and stuff released this this
• 2:00
  Speaker 2: week where mostly for properties that don't really fall into
• 2:04
  Speaker 2: neatly into the geekosphere. There's some that are kind of debatable,
• 2:08
  Speaker 2: and of course I've got my little horror hutch, which
• 2:10
  Speaker 2: I'll talk about more when we get there.
• 2:12
  Speaker 1: But you severely cut down.
• 2:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, because I was. I don't want there to ever
• 2:18
  Speaker 2: be a segment on Large Nardron Collider where it's like
• 2:20
  Speaker 2: and here's twenty five minutes of Jonathan talking like that
• 2:23
  Speaker 2: already happens. I don't want to make it a whole thing.
• 2:26
  Speaker 1: I'm sleep deprived. I could take a nap. No, I'm kidding,
• 2:28
  Speaker 1: I'm kiding.
• 2:29
  Speaker 2: It is true. That's true. Like Ariel's gonna go and
• 2:31
  Speaker 2: catch some z's while I talk about horror for a bit.
• 2:34
  Speaker 2: But no, I have decided I'll go in and talk
• 2:36
  Speaker 2: about it. Now. I've decided for the horror hutch, I
• 2:39
  Speaker 2: want to try and limit it to three on average properties.
• 2:45
  Speaker 2: If there are a lot of horror movies, and I
• 2:46
  Speaker 2: want to try and select the three that I think
• 2:48
  Speaker 2: are the most interesting or worth talking about, and then
• 2:53
  Speaker 2: anything else can just be either. If it fits in
• 2:56
  Speaker 2: the full lineup, that's where it will go. If it doesn't,
• 2:59
  Speaker 2: then we'll just not worry about it, because this is
• 3:01
  Speaker 2: not a horror podcast. You know, horror does fall into
• 3:04
  Speaker 2: the geek genre. I would argue, depending upon you know
• 3:08
  Speaker 2: your preferences, but even I have like borders I put
• 3:14
  Speaker 2: up around horror, like we've talked about it, where like
• 3:16
  Speaker 2: if it's a psychological horror, it's harder for me to
• 3:20
  Speaker 2: put into the geekosphere as opposed to supernatural or slasher horror.
• 3:25
  Speaker 2: And that's just in my head. Yeah, so we have
• 3:33
  Speaker 2: might as well go ahead and get started. The first
• 3:35
  Speaker 2: thing we have is a question. This week, I propose
• 3:38
  Speaker 2: the question. It is a question that I have asked before.
• 3:42
  Speaker 2: Ariel pointed that out and I was pretty sure even
• 3:44
  Speaker 2: when I wrote it. I was like, I think we've
• 3:46
  Speaker 2: done this one. But as I mentioned, I think last week,
• 3:50
  Speaker 2: we grow and change as people, and sometimes our answers change.
• 3:53
  Speaker 2: So Ariel, your question is, if you can make an
• 3:56
  Speaker 2: amusement park ride out of any geeky, proput pretty or concept,
• 4:02
  Speaker 2: what would it be.
• 4:05
  Speaker 1: It would be the New Fantastic Four movie.
• 4:08
  Speaker 2: Oh cool, So you got to see that? I did.
• 4:10
  Speaker 1: I saw it last weekend, and yeah, I'll talk about
• 4:15
  Speaker 1: it in what we watched. But I think that the
• 4:18
  Speaker 1: just the aesthetic of the world and the way they
• 4:21
  Speaker 1: did the action would make a great thrill ride and
• 4:24
  Speaker 1: also just be a fun world to walk through. It's
• 4:27
  Speaker 1: like futuristic retro.
• 4:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's kind of like what Disney World wanted to
• 4:34
  Speaker 2: do when they were redoing Tomorrowland, right where they wanted
• 4:37
  Speaker 2: to make it that retro futurism. But even that can
• 4:40
  Speaker 2: be tricky. I think a retro futurism said in like
• 4:43
  Speaker 2: the fifties sixties would be a lot of fun. I
• 4:46
  Speaker 2: agree with you, that would be a really cool amusement
• 4:48
  Speaker 2: park attraction. Like I would love to see a ride
• 4:51
  Speaker 2: based on that, especially if it was a ride that
• 4:54
  Speaker 2: could tap into the rich history of Gonzo Bizarro crazy
• 5:01
  Speaker 2: Fantastic Four villains, because we only got a hint of
• 5:04
  Speaker 2: that in the movie. Like I wanted to mention to you,
• 5:07
  Speaker 2: but I thought it was be a spoiler that even
• 5:09
  Speaker 2: though John Malkovich was cut as the Red Ghost, the
• 5:14
  Speaker 2: Red Ghost is still sort of kind of there.
• 5:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, it was an interesting choice, you know, but
• 5:21
  Speaker 1: it was a good movie, so I accept their edits. Yeah,
• 5:27
  Speaker 1: but yeah, anyhow, I'll talk more about that in a second.
• 5:30
  Speaker 1: I guess I could talk about it now I don't
• 5:32
  Speaker 1: either way.
• 5:34
  Speaker 2: Well, I'll go ahead and give my answer for the yes,
• 5:38
  Speaker 2: the amusement park ride thing. So I thought I would
• 5:42
  Speaker 2: actually really dig a dark ride like haunted house attraction
• 5:48
  Speaker 2: kind of thing, modeled after a movie such as Poultergeist,
• 5:53
  Speaker 2: something that has, you know, a little bit more fear
• 5:57
  Speaker 2: factor going for And I'm talking about the original pulter
• 5:59
  Speaker 2: Geist from the eighties, not the remake that I have
• 6:02
  Speaker 2: yet to see because I've heard bad things, but the
• 6:04
  Speaker 2: original one with like Craig T. Nelson in it. I
• 6:08
  Speaker 2: would like to see a dark ride version of that
• 6:13
  Speaker 2: caliber of a haunted experience where it is scary without
• 6:17
  Speaker 2: being gruesome, Like it's not it's not gory or anything,
• 6:22
  Speaker 2: but it's very atmospheric and very scary. Preferably something that
• 6:26
  Speaker 2: could take advantage of effects similar to what you would
• 6:29
  Speaker 2: see in a Disney's Haunted Mansion ride, where it's more
• 6:33
  Speaker 2: than just the you know, the very basic animatronic thing,
• 6:37
  Speaker 2: not even animatronic, but just like creature that leaps out
• 6:41
  Speaker 2: and then slowly retracts back into place. I would love
• 6:45
  Speaker 2: to see something like that that could be really spooky
• 6:49
  Speaker 2: and you know, like a werewolf barmnsas spooky and scary
• 6:54
  Speaker 2: but not being gross.
• 6:57
  Speaker 1: Woolf a mids so not scary, not as far as
• 7:04
  Speaker 1: like Cabin in the Woods.
• 7:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, nothing like that. Like I was thinking it over,
• 7:10
  Speaker 2: I'm like, I wouldn't want anything. I certainly wouldn't want
• 7:13
  Speaker 2: anything as gruesome as like saw or hostile or anything
• 7:17
  Speaker 2: like that. Like That's that's typically where you often see
• 7:21
  Speaker 2: the haunted experiences kind of go like in that direction,
• 7:25
  Speaker 2: for things like nether World or you know, the Universal
• 7:29
  Speaker 2: Studios Haunted haunts or Six Flags haunts, those kind of things,
• 7:33
  Speaker 2: they tend to go toward violent and gory. That that
• 7:38
  Speaker 2: approach to horror and I would love to see more
• 7:42
  Speaker 2: unsettling and tense kind of horror where it's you know,
• 7:47
  Speaker 2: it's it's that feeling of like if you've ever been
• 7:49
  Speaker 2: in a place that was unfamiliar to you that seemed
• 7:52
  Speaker 2: just unsettling and unwelcoming. Not violent, but like it's creepy.
• 7:59
  Speaker 2: That's what I want. I want that creepy. That's I
• 8:02
  Speaker 2: love ghost stories. I love that creepy feeling. That's kind
• 8:06
  Speaker 2: of my favorite genre of horror. I'll watch violent horror
• 8:09
  Speaker 2: as well, but that doesn't resonate with me nearly as
• 8:13
  Speaker 2: much as a really good ghost story, and that's kind
• 8:15
  Speaker 2: of what I'm after.
• 8:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I can totally see that. I would. I would
• 8:18
  Speaker 1: be behind that that as well. One other thing Universe,
• 8:22
  Speaker 1: So I know that there's a big, like kind of
• 8:24
  Speaker 1: theme park that's sort of D and D Fantasy adventured
• 8:27
  Speaker 1: that's out there, that's so little independent thing, And I
• 8:30
  Speaker 1: know that Universal has done like kind of like their
• 8:34
  Speaker 1: Halloween horrorites. They've done like a special like D and
• 8:37
  Speaker 1: D sort of thing, But I would love like a dedicated,
• 8:40
  Speaker 1: high budget Disney Universal kind of D and D section
• 8:44
  Speaker 1: of a park.
• 8:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the last time we did this. The
• 8:48
  Speaker 2: answer I gave was like dragon Lance the uh, which
• 8:52
  Speaker 2: is officially one of the campaign worlds re Dungeons and Dragons,
• 8:56
  Speaker 2: but it's like its own fantasy series written by Margaret
• 8:59
  Speaker 2: Weis and Trace Hitman, So that would fit right into
• 9:02
  Speaker 2: something like that. And you know, I imagine taking the
• 9:06
  Speaker 2: technology of Avatar flight of passage applying that to you know,
• 9:11
  Speaker 2: you're a dragon Lancer and you're flying through a fantasy
• 9:15
  Speaker 2: setting like that to me would be incredible, So I'm
• 9:18
  Speaker 2: fully on board with that. Plus, like all the other
• 9:20
  Speaker 2: potential things you could do would be lots of fun,
• 9:23
  Speaker 2: you know, having like the quintessential tavern where you can
• 9:27
  Speaker 2: actually go and get drinks and snacks or whatever, and
• 9:30
  Speaker 2: then occasionally adventures just meet up there and then head out.
• 9:34
  Speaker 2: That would be fun.
• 9:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I agree. Or the other one and this
• 9:38
  Speaker 1: is another one that's like similar to existing, but I
• 9:42
  Speaker 1: like it so much better. Like we've got Jurassic Park stuff.
• 9:45
  Speaker 1: But I would love a Dinotopia Mmm.
• 9:49
  Speaker 2: That would be fun.
• 9:50
  Speaker 1: Because it's like if you're not familiar. Dinotopias also falls
• 9:54
  Speaker 1: into one of those kids books that, like I feel,
• 9:56
  Speaker 1: needs a resurgence every once in a while. It'll get
• 9:58
  Speaker 1: like a little miniseries or something, but it's never gotten
• 10:00
  Speaker 1: like a big budget movie or whatnot. But it's it's
• 10:04
  Speaker 1: a world where people and dinosaurs work together. They both
• 10:07
  Speaker 1: have their own like societies and technology, and for the
• 10:13
  Speaker 1: most part, learned to coexist. And it's just really cool.
• 10:16
  Speaker 1: It's a really cool, imaginative world.
• 10:18
  Speaker 2: So good answers well, And I'm always curious to hear
• 10:22
  Speaker 2: what our listeners think, if there are any properties out
• 10:26
  Speaker 2: there that our listeners are like, I would love for
• 10:30
  Speaker 2: there to be an amusement park version of this. Let
• 10:32
  Speaker 2: us know, because, like I mean, there's probably tons of
• 10:35
  Speaker 2: stuff that we haven't even thought about that really would
• 10:37
  Speaker 2: be super cool. Like I still regret that I by
• 10:41
  Speaker 2: the time I finally went to Las Vegas, it was
• 10:43
  Speaker 2: after the Star Trek experience had already shut down. My
• 10:47
  Speaker 2: parents got to do it, and they loved it. Of
• 10:50
  Speaker 2: course they've also written Star Trek books. But by the
• 10:53
  Speaker 2: time I got out there, there was only like a
• 10:56
  Speaker 2: couple of touches that remained from the old Star Trek experience,
• 11:00
  Speaker 2: and now they're all gone. But the very first time
• 11:02
  Speaker 2: I went, there were still a couple of things still there,
• 11:05
  Speaker 2: but none of the experienced stuff was actually still going,
• 11:08
  Speaker 2: and I regret not having had that chance to go
• 11:11
  Speaker 2: through that myself. So that's always one of those two.
• 11:14
  Speaker 2: But yeah, yeah, hit us up, like, if there's stuff
• 11:17
  Speaker 2: that you think would be really cool, I would love
• 11:18
  Speaker 2: to hear your thoughts on it. They're probably, you know,
• 11:21
  Speaker 2: properties I haven't even really encountered that. I haven't you know, thought.
• 11:24
  Speaker 1: Of same disease. I mean, I could go on and on. Okay,
• 11:29
  Speaker 1: so we've gotten from what we would like to see,
• 11:31
  Speaker 1: so let's go to what we have seen.
• 11:33
  Speaker 2: Okay, for me, it's nothing. I because at first I
• 11:39
  Speaker 2: was like, oh, I should mention the thing I went
• 11:42
  Speaker 2: and saw by myself, but no, it was Fantastic four,
• 11:44
  Speaker 2: which I had already talked about. I yea, you know again,
• 11:48
  Speaker 2: I've gone on the Soul staycation and I'm a walk
• 11:52
  Speaker 2: away from a theater, but I haven't made time to
• 11:56
  Speaker 2: be able to actually go and see anything. I do
• 11:58
  Speaker 2: plan to see weapons, but I haven't seen it yet,
• 12:03
  Speaker 2: and perhaps see the naked gun, but I haven't seen
• 12:05
  Speaker 2: that yet either. So the only thing I've watched is
• 12:08
  Speaker 2: just like YouTube videos, and none of it is particularly
• 12:12
  Speaker 2: in the geek space. I am now watching my dog
• 12:16
  Speaker 2: who just he just got out of bed and now
• 12:19
  Speaker 2: he's walking around. So if if yeah, if I go silent, that's.
• 12:24
  Speaker 1: One well, you know, thank you Tibbert. That was a
• 12:29
  Speaker 1: wonderful interjection. I've watched a bunch of stuff. I watched
• 12:36
  Speaker 1: The Fantastic Four. I thought it was a better story
• 12:40
  Speaker 1: than Superman, like more cohesive, like its own little capsular thing.
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: As Jonathan said, you don't really need to be familiar
• 12:48
  Speaker 1: with Marvel to watch it, which is great. I've watched
• 12:55
  Speaker 1: a bunch of task Master, which is just the most delightful,
• 12:59
  Speaker 1: low key, half a brain but hilarious thing to watch.
• 13:04
  Speaker 1: I'm watching more dropout stuff, cloud Word, Hoe and Smarty Pants,
• 13:09
  Speaker 1: watching more Love, Death and Robots, which continues to disturb me,
• 13:12
  Speaker 1: and watching Strange New Worlds, which continues to delight me.
• 13:15
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. Episode four of Strange New Worlds was
• 13:18
  Speaker 1: the best ever. It was everything I wanted in a
• 13:22
  Speaker 1: rocket can. It harkened back to Old Og and Star
• 13:26
  Speaker 1: Trek the next generation, and it just delighted me so
• 13:29
  Speaker 1: much that I texted all of my friends multiple times,
• 13:32
  Speaker 1: including John and that who doesn't watch the show, to
• 13:34
  Speaker 1: just talk about it because it was so delightful.
• 13:38
  Speaker 2: I'm glad that you're getting so much enjoyment out of that.
• 13:41
  Speaker 2: I still have not pulled the ripcord to watch it.
• 13:44
  Speaker 1: Well, like that episode in particular started off with like
• 13:49
  Speaker 1: like like original series, kind of aesthetic on purpose, kind
• 13:54
  Speaker 1: of camping it, and then it the episode has to
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: do with the hol of deck, but I know John
• 13:59
  Speaker 1: has like, well, the deck doesn't come in yet, like
• 14:01
  Speaker 1: testing a proto type of it. And they did it
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: in a very good real good reel is not the
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: right word. They did it in a very good way
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: that fits within the universe correctly, I think. But like
• 14:12
  Speaker 1: they hit every tone of everything I love about the
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: Holid Deck in that episode, and it was so just
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: Chef's kiss this week was also really good. This week
• 14:21
  Speaker 1: was because they tend to like alternate like a more
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: fun and a more serious, which I like this one
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: was a little more serious. It's still a lot of fun,
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: really cool concept. I don't want to run it for
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: anyone who hasn't seen it because it just came out yesterday,
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: but it was it was really good.
• 14:36
  Speaker 2: Well that sounds great. Yeah, I'm just riding the mute
• 14:40
  Speaker 2: button as my dog walks around the house, drinking water
• 14:44
  Speaker 2: and barking. I uh, if you hear click click noises,
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: By the way, that's my dog's toe nails on the
• 14:51
  Speaker 2: hardwood floor.
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: It's not a philociraptor. I so, but my favorite thing.
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: Like so I liked, I loved Fantastic four. I thought
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: Superman was more fun, but Fantastic four was, like I said,
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: a better story. I love Star Trek to Stranger Worlds.
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: But task Master is just delighting me so much. And
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: I'm watching it backwards. So I watched the latest series
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: and then series eighteen seventeen. I just finished up fifty
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: or I'm finishing up fifteen today. It's it's like I
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: can't ever go on hot ones because of my hot
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: sauce allergy. Even though I'm on allergy shots now. I
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: don't think I'll get to a point where I can
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: just im Bible a whole bunch of hot sauce. But
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: I will know I've made it if I ever get
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: to be on task Master.
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: I have a quick question for you, though, as far
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: as task Master, because I've seen both of these variations
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: and I don't even know what my answer is, But
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: do you obviously task master. The whole concept is that
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: these comedians are given various tasks of varying degrees of
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: difficulty to complete. They're usually very challenging to complete, at
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: least the way it's written down. If you're taking it
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: at surface level.
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: My courages lateral thinking.
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, right, So my question for you is, do you
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: prefer the tasks where there's an answer to how to
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: do the task, but you have to look around for it,
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: like you know, you need to turn on a switch
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: and then a black light will illuminate instructions or something
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: like that. Or do you prefer the ones where the
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: people come up with a creative way to complete the
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: task that is perhaps in the spirit of the task,
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: but not by the letter.
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: So for as a viewer, I prefer the ones where
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: they do the lateral thinking, where it's really creative and
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: they come up with a way that Alex and Greg
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: didn't the hosts did not anticipate that breaks the system
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: they put in place, but still still completes the task
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: without breaking any rules. Those are my favorite, usually just
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: because the contestants are so delighted in themselves. I do
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: like the ones where they have to look around and
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: find out because that's very escape room, and I love
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: doing escape rooms, so they're all fun. I think I
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: would excel better at the ones where you have to
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: look around for something, but I enjoy watching the creative ones.
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: And I an improv. One of my favorite things to
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: do is to take a word and to turn it
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: into something that it doesn't mean but sounds similar to.
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: So like, I played a Cube game with my old
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: improv troop and the word was coroner, like the person
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: who takes care of corpses, and I took it to
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: be like, I've been standing on this coroner all day,
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: just waiting, and like that kind of thing is my
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: favorite thing. So like betting, Yeah, yeah, I like those
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: a lot too, But I also really do enjoy when
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: Usually the way it works.
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: If you've seen a a season of Task Master, you've
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: surely come across this at some point. But it'll be
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: a thing where they all struggle to complete whatever the
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: task is, and then at the end they'll reveal that
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: there was a simpler solution right there in view, but
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: you know you had to look for it to find it.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: That really only works for the ones where no one
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: looked right, no one thought to look, and so the
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: reveal just makes them all get even more like kind
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: of frustrated because it's after the fact and they're like, oh,
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: the whole time, there was like there was a light
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: switch I could have flipped because there was nothing in
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: the rules that said I couldn't flip the light switch.
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: I just assumed I couldn't, and it turns out I
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: totally was allowed to do it. Those are really fun,
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: but I also really like the ones where it turns
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: out only one of them was assigned the task and
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: they just assumed that everybody got it, and so they
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: find out through the course of the show, Wait, no
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: one else had to do that.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And it's so interesting. It's so interesting to see
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: how different people respond because they all know what they're
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: getting into, right, Like just like on Dropouts Game Changer,
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: sometimes the contestants act frustrated, and maybe they are because
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: they thought they were too clever and then messed up somewhere,
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: but like, like, you know what you're getting into, so
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: you can't be too upset that they're asking you to
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: do these things. That's what you've agreed to. But it
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: is funny to watch each group of people like their
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: dynamics because I'm currently like I said, in series fifteen,
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: and they have been like going to bat for like
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: the word banana counts as getting a banana out of
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: a tree even though there was an actual banana in
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: the tree kind of a thing, and like arguing for
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: and against each other's points in a way that I
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: haven't I haven't seen any of the subsequent series. Do
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: maybe it happens more earlier on because I haven't gotten
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: there yet, But it is really interesting to watch to
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: the different dynamics. I definitely have like favorite people every series,
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: and I kind of want to put them all together
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: in like a.
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: Like a like All Stars.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that would be fun.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: I have to admit, like every time I see it,
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: because that's almost always a clip that I'm watching, like
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: it's like a particular task that's been you know, isolated
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: from the rest of the show, and I need to
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: just sit down and watch episodes from beginning to end,
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: as opposed to this piecemeal approach I've been doing. But yes, yeah,
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: it's the Mansuka stuff that I saw was delightful, Like
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: he clearly was having such a good time being on
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: that show that it was exactly the entertainment I needed.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he was great. He kind of invited himself on
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: the show, and then he destroyed their sets. Is the
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: big thing that goes around on YouTube. Our mutual friend
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: Kate was over for a craft day and she mentioned
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: that he tends to be a little bit more like
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: antisocial germ at first, so I was surprised that he
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: wanted to go on it. But apparently all of that
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: stems from a food allergy, so I completely understand that.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I know that he had food poisoning on
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: his like last filming days while he was there, and
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: that made it more complicated. But you can't tell when
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: you're watching, like, it doesn't it doesn't come across. But
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: like in later interviews he talked about that. Well, now
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: that we have chatted a lot about what Ariel has watched, sorry, no, no,
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: it's good because like again, I didn't see anything this
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: past week. I really racked my brain too, because I
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: was like, did I watch anything, like even on Prime
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: or whatever? But I don't. I don't think that, at
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: least I don't think I've watched anything new. So everything
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: I watched was just like older YouTube videos and stuff.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: Let's talk about thirty seconds or less. And I don't
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: remember who goes first, because I know, like, okay.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: Good, I go first. Yeah. So first things first, Hamilton,
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: the filmed version that we got on Disney Plus is
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: now coming to theaters for the first time. It released
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: a little trailer. It's just it's just a little teasery thing.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: There's nothing particularly special about it other than lin Manuel.
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: Talks to you a little bit.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: But it will be in theaters on September fifth, twenty
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: twenty five. Honestly, I kind of love that I saw
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: the filmed version of Disney's Newsies in the theater, and
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: it kind of gives you more of that seeing a
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: staged play field because it's on the big screen. It
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: matches scale a little bit better.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: Wonder Brothers Discovery sent a letter out to their shareholders.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: It gives us a little more information on DC's cinematic future. First,
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: The Batman Part two with Robert Pattinson will begin shooting
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: next spring. James Gunn is currently working on screenplays for
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: three films, which includes Supergirl, Clayface, and a wonder Woman movie.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: Plus we know the TV series Lanterns and perhaps another
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: season of The Penguin are also in the works.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: Next Hulu maybe going away as a standalone app. You
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: can still you'll still be able to subscribe to just
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: Disney or Hulu, but it will all be on the
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: Disney Plus app platform. Thing Bob Iger says, Who's the
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: Sea of Disney says that this should save people some
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: money and save them some money and also help them
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: make ads in such a package, ad sales better and
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: stuff like that for improved consumer experience. I guess we'll
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: have to see.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: In a cheeky short video on various social platforms, Sony
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: shared a quick look at the new Spider Man suit
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: that Tom Holland will wear in the upcoming film Spider
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: Man Brand New Day. He comes out wearing the suit
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: and says, let's get to work. The Spider emblem is
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: a little bit larger on the chest in this version.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: We also know, of course, that John Barenthal will be
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: joining the cast as the Punisher, and Mark Ruffalo will
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: also be involved. So considering that both Ruffalo and Hollow
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: are attached to this movie, I figure we'll know everything
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: about this film a year before it comes out.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: We also heard about another film that is only in
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: early development, which is Spider Punk. One of the characters
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: from the second Spider Verse movies is getting their own
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: animated feature. David Kolia is behind it and a Jon sand.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: Is as well. In twenty twenty seven, Star Wars will
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: really have happened a long time ago. It'll be the
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: film's fiftieth anniversary, which just reminds me how old I am,
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: because I saw that movie in the theater when I
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: was a wee lad. Anyway Disney could birn that for
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: the fiftieth anniversary. The film will be back in theaters
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: on April thirtieth, twenty twenty seven. Now will it be
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: the original cinematic cut in which Han shoots first and
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: there aren't nearly as many critters on screen at one time?
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: I can hold out hope, a new hope.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: I've been feeling nostalgic lately for things like Rock Band
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: and Guitar Hero. Those are games that I loved as
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: a young adult that I was actually pretty good at.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: And I'm kind of in luck, and so are you
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: if you're the same way. Because Red Octane Games is
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: getting back into the rhythm game game, it's not going
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: to be Guitar Hero necessarily or DJ Hero. They haven't
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: actually announced what game they're working on, but they are
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: working on anyone. How to Vague podcast.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: In a previous episode, we mentioned that the Highlander reboot
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: will star Henry cavill as McLeod and Russell Crowe as Ramirez,
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: the roles previously made famous by Christopher Lambert and Sean Connery, respectively.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: But who will play Clancy Brown's famous villain, the Kurgan. Well.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: I asked friend of the show Shay Lee that question.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: She got it right with a single guess. It's Dave Batista.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: At least he's in talks for it. At any rate,
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: there could be only one.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: I don't know who I'd want to play the Kurgan.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: I'd maybe say John Ceno for Dave Batista, but I
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: think they'd both do a good job. Matt Smith is
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: also playing a battie upcoming. I mean he's played a
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: bunch of batties recently, but now in Sean Levy's Star
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: Wars Starfighter movie that's upcoming. We don't know exactly what
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: the role will be. There are some rumors that it
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: might be a young Palpatine, but Matt Smith, former doctor
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: who Love It, did say that it was a really
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: groovy part and concept, really groovy, really mavy.
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: That brings us to the end of thirty seconds or less.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: Here's where the show takes a weird turn, y'all, because
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: as I mentioned, as I mentioned earlier, like, we didn't
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: have a whole lot of stuff. We've got a few things,
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: but not a lot of stuff for our lineup, But
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: we did get quite a few things for the not
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: a Fit section? So are not a fit? Section is
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: longer than our lineup this week?
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: Okay, but here's the thing, not a fit. I feel
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: like almost all of them are, except for maybe Ellen McKay.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: Are all tangentially geeky.
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah they're Yeah, they're all debatable, they're all they're all
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: border cases. First up, we got a trailer for the
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: upcoming Peacock series, The Paper, which is a spin off
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: of The Office.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, in the Office, it kind of focused around paper
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: sales and eventually how paper was getting phased out because
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: of new technology. This focus is on a newspaper. It
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: does have Oscar from the Office in it, but then
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: a whole bunch of new characters. I it didn't grab
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: me as much, but honestly, the first season of the
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: US Office also took a while to grow on me. Yeah,
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: so maybe well.
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: And Parks and Rec took a while too write, like
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: I think it took like a season and a half
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: to really find its stride. This one, like the newspaper
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: is called the Toledo Truthteller, and like the ideas that
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: I think it's a paper, it's another paper company like
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: dunder Mifflin that owns all these different paper assets, like
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: a toilet paper manufacturing business, but also a newspaper, the
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: newspaper being the Toledo truth Teller. But it's like there's
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: no journalist working for this particular newspaper at this point,
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: and a guy is brought in to be the new
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: editor in chief for the paper. He realizes that the
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: people he has to work with are at best enthusiastic amateurs.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: At worst, they're total bunglers. And that's where a lot
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: of the comedy is going to come in. And it
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: looks cute as someone who has worked in adjacent field
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: to journalism, because I would never say what I did
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: really counts as journalism. A lot of this resonated with me,
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: so I don't know that it's gonna be gut bustingly hilarious,
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: but I'm at least intrigued. Next up, we got a
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: trailer for a Brandon Fraser movie called Rental Family, where
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: Fraser I mean, like it's hard to believe some of
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: the roles that actors play. Sometimes they're playing like you know,
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: seeing Tom Cruise as a Navy pilot that kind of
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: stretches credulity, or you know, seeing Jack Nicholson as anything
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: other than Jack Nicholson is a bit challenging in this case,
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: Like it's really really stretching your believability because Brendan Fraser
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: is playing an actor.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know if I can believe it now.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: This so he's playing a guy who gets like rented
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: out to like kind of a rental girlfriend or a
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: rental bridesmaid, but for more intimate situations. And I don't
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: mean like sexy, and I just mean like family, like
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: playing somebody's dad, for instance. It looks and then like
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: where the lines blur and and if you're playing someone's dad,
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: are you essentially actually being their dad. It's really cute.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: It's a fun concept. The trailer looks absolutely darling.
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it appears at least to be set
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: in Japan, and like, you know, there are a lot
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: of American actors who have found work in Japan, particularly
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: in commercials, like Japanese commercials have a lot of very
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: recognizable actors in them because they can make a decent
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: amount of money shooting a commercial for a Japanese company,
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: and they also know that that particular stuff typically wouldn't
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: be seen outside of Japan, so like it doesn't impact
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: their image back home to do it, because before the Internet,
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: in particular, you never really had to worry about that.
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: In this case, that Fraser's character ends up going in
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: and finding out about playing this sort of role playing
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: role where he takes on the role of like a
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: family member for instance, or a boyfriend, that kind of thing.
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: And I think it's also kind of exploring kind of
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: the loneliness problem that which is worldwide, but it's it's
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: particularly focused in Japan, right, Like there's there have been
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: whole stories about the loneliness epidemic in Japan, so I
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: think it's kind of touching on that too, as well
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: as this idea of him getting this assignment to be
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: this little girl's dad essentially, and it's being treated by
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: her extended family as if he were her father, and
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: kind of the position that puts him in you know,
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: how does he how does he form a connection with
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: this young girl? How much of that is appropriate? Like
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: are you putting yourself at risk emotionally to get attached
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: to someone? And like you're just playing a part you're
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: not actually going to be, you know, dad forever. It's
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: a lot of interesting questions. I don't know how deeply
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: the film's going to go into them, but it definitely
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: looks cute. It looks like it's going to be tugging
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: on the heartstrings.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, for sure, I think I want to watch it.
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: Bred and Brendan Fraser seems to be like an absolute darling,
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: so I fully believe him in this role. Next, we
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: have a trailer for j Kelly, which is a Wikipedia
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: calls it a coming of age comedy drama.
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: I don't coming of middle age, not even middle aged,
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: cutting of late age.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah. It starts George Clutey and Adam Sandler as an
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: actor and his manager who travel through Europe and the
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: George Clooney is the actor, Adam Sandler is the manager,
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: and George Clooney plays himself. And so it's a really interesting,
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: like look on the public face that an actor gives
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: and how that isn't always necessarily who they actually are, Like,
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: I find that very interesting. That's very geeky to me,
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: both as an actor and from having worked with famous actors.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: You know, the public faces is not necessarily who they are.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: It might be a part of who they are, but
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: you know.
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: Well, And there's even a moment where someone is asking
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: Clooney about him, like all his characters end up just
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: being himself, Like he's not playing a character, He's just
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: George Clooney who happens to be a fireman, or George
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: Clooney who happens to be a cop.
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: Or what Jay Kelly, which sounds an awful lot like
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: George Clooney.
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, same basically, yeah, the same thing. So and also
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: the cast list on this is crazy, Like you've got
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: Adam Sandler and George Clooney obviously, but you also have
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: Jim Broadbent is in it, Laura Dern is in it,
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: Patrick Wilson, Stacy Keach, Greta Gerwig, and tons more. This
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: comes out November fourteenth, and it looks, it looks, it
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: looks interesting. I should have mentioned when we were talking
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: about Rental Family that comes out November twenty first. Oh,
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: and if I go even further back, the paper comes
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: out September fourth.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I will say with j. Kelly, actors are like
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: part of actor training is sometimes it is to put
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: on the persona of somebody else, like if you're doing
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: if you're playing a historical figure, for instance, or a
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: famous person that is not you. But often you are
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: told to be yourself reacting to imaginary circumstances and situations
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: because that's real, Like that feels real, right, So a
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: lot of actors are successful in like bringing their real
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: true self within a character. Some are more successful at
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: bringing their real true self just in that situation. I
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: think both are valid forms of acting.
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: I think it also like it's one of those things
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: that tends to be more pointed when the actor in
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: question has particular mannerisms or a manner of speech that
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: is really like it stands out because then that adds
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: fuel to the fire for the people who are saying, oh,
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: you're just playing yourself. So I made the joke about
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: Jack Nicholson, that's a great example. Or Christopher Walken is
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: other one.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: Or honestly, Johnny Depp since Pirates of the Caribean, he
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: kind of sounds the same and everything.
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, or what's her face? Jennifer Coolidge, who is the George?
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: She's the Christopher walking for people who who like like
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: they say, like every every dude has got a Christopher
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: walkin and every woman's got a Jennifer Coolidge impersonation, which
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: I realize is gender reductive. Yeah, I don't actually agree
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: with it.
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: But I don't have a Jennifer Coolidge. I'm not very
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: good at her. I've tried. I think I do walk
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: in better. I'm not gonna put anybody through either of.
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: Those, though, Yeah I was. I was delighted when I
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: heard Ariana Grande do a general Coolidge impression of oh
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: that's really good.
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's pretty fantastic, which you know, even that,
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: who's to say how much of Jennifer Coolidge's persona is her?
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah? Sure?
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: Or like an Andy Kaufman esque front.
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: Well, going from j Kelly to Ellen McKay, we have
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: another film with a character name as the title. In
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: this case, Ellen McKay is played by Emma mackie, and
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: the character is a lawyer and politician who's recently been
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: elected to governor. When she's in her mid thirties, which
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: come on, folks, Let's let the older people not feel
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: like total failures seeing someone being portrayed as becoming governor
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: of a state by thirty four. The trailer makes it
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: clear that at some point, I don't know how far
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: in her past, but at some point in her past
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: she lost her mom and her closest relative is her
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: aunt Helen, who is played by Jamie Lee Curtis. Her
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: father is played by Woody Harrelson, and he's kind of
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: a washed out character who's a little bit of a
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: bumbling idiot. And her assistant is played by Julie Kavner,
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: whom you would recognize as the voice of Marge Simpson.
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: That is pretty cool.
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: Oh is she also the voice of Ros in Monsters Inc. No,
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: she sounds like Ras and Monsters.
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: No, it was a dude who did the voice for
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: Ros and Monsters inc.
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: Oh, and you're right they sound similar. Though. It looks
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: absolutely lovely, very slice of life. I you know, we
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: talked about how maybe Slice of Life is coming back,
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: and which is a better phrase than I'm coming of
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: age for George Clote?
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no, this definitely looks like, at least in
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: the trailer like there was no real indicator of what this. Yeah,
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: you tell them, Timblet, you're someone who's doing lawn work nearby.
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: Tibblet has thoughts on the matter. But no, I don't.
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: I didn't pick up on there being like a strong
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: storyline at least hinted at in the trailer. It just
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: felt like it was more of a character thing.
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it feels like, and I know that you haven't
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: watched this, Jonathan, but it feels as if though the
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: Christmas episode of The Bear, we're happy because in the
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: Christmas episode, I think in season two of The Bear,
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: it's like one of the few episodes that's a full hour,
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: maybe hour plus long. It's the Dinner of the Seven
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: Fishes at Christmas time, and it's very dysfunctional, and it's
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: very tense and like you are spent. By the end
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: of the episode. You're like, thank god, not every episode
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: is this long, because man, the anxiety. But it feels
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: like a happy version of that.
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, moving on to something that is definitely story.
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: Did you say when Ellen McKay comes out?
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: Oh, I did not hang on one second. Let me
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: it's December.
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: Twelfth, Happy birthday to me.
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: Okay, Well, a project that I don't anticipate tugging on
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: our heartstrings quite as much as some of the previous
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: entries is Adulthood, which is almost like a dark comedy.
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: It's a film that stars Josh Gadd and Kaya Scotalario
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: who are siblings adult siblings who come back to their
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: childhood home because their mother has had a medical issue.
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: Her mom was getting stay at home care from a
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: nurse and then she kind of collapses in the home.
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: So they come back, and when they come back, they
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: also start exploring their childhood home and they find like
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: that the basement there's a really bad smell down there.
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: They discover that buried in the walls of the house
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: is a corpse, and they begin to suspect that their
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: parents were perhaps guilty of murder, so they decide they
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: need to dispose the body so that the sister's children
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: don't end up thinking that their grandmother was a killer,
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: even if she was a killer. Turns out, the nurse
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: later played by Billy Lord, is saying that she knows
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: about all this, and so she's trying to blackmail them.
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: They in turn turned to a guy played by Anthony
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: Carrigan who is like kind of a psycho weirdo, like
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: a crazy dangerous version of NoHo Hank, but not with
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: the crazy accent. And he's supposed to try and intimidate
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: Billy Lord into backing off, and it just looks like
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: it's it's kind of one of those kind of crime
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: black comedy type things. There's also police officers involved who
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: are investigating, you know, the two siblings try to dispose
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: of the body, which ends up start resurfacing literally and
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: cops get involved, and it just looks like a weird,
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: twisted black comedy kind of thing that comes out September nineteenth,
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: and then it moves on to video and demand like
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: six days later.
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: I'm kind of interested in this one.
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it looks it looks funny, like there are moments
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: in the trailer that look again, it's a dark comedy,
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: Like I wouldn't say this is a bright, shiny thing
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: to go watch for yucks, but if you like, like,
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: if you like Coen Brothers movies, it gives me the
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: vibe of something that's striving to be like a Coen
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: Brothers movie, but it's not nearly as it doesn't have
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: the touch of the Cohen Brothers to it.
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree, it doesn't. It's not quite Cohen Brothers.
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: It's like if Nick Frost did a take on a
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: Coen Brothers movie.
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no, that's not bad. I think I think
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: you're right on there.
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, when does zech you already said when.
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: That comes out September nineteenth. Yeah, and then like, this
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: one's got a very short theatrical window. It's literally it's
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: one of those where it's that there's probably something in
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: the contract that required it to have a theatrical release,
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: but like literally six days after it comes out in
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: theaters will be on video on demand.
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Speaking of movies that give the feels of other movies,
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: the next thing we have is a movie called Enie
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: Meani No, not the Justin Bieber song. It's n E
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: A n I E, which gives me very much baby
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: driver vibes.
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah. It stars Samorrow Weaving. She plays a bank robbers
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: slash get away driver named Edie, and her ex boyfriend
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: is a bungling criminal who turns out to be in
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: deep debt with a local crime boss, and the crime
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: boss is essentially telling him and her because she is connected,
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: because you know, she dated this guy and he was
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: I guess part of her crew at one point that
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: they owe him three million bucks or else. As he
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: puts it, I will have a guy who will pull
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: your skeleton out through your skin who and he'll do
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: it for very reasonable rates. So this also was like,
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: it's like an action movie slash comedy, with a lot
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: of the comedy being hal Samorrow. Weaving is both exasperated
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: by the fact she has to work with her ex
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: boyfriend and also worried that she's falling for him again.
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: I do love the very nineties like tagline of this movie,
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: which is He's her biggest blind spot.
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, very much a carpun type of thing. This one
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: comes out on Who Lose. This is coming straight to
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: streaming on August twenty second. I mean it looks like
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: it would be a fun distraction. I think Baby Driver
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: that can comparison is pretty accurate. Obviously it's not going
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: to have the same style as an egg Wright film,
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: but but similar tone.
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, it is bound to be fun because it
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: also has Randall Parks, Steve's On and Andy Garcia in it.
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: So yeah, great. There's a lot of like projects that
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: we're talking about today that have some really incredible casts.
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, which is also a geeky thing, like liking
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: casting is a geeky thing. The last doesn't doesn't fit
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: thing might fit into historical geekery because it's a trailer
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: for the coral coral coral.
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: The coral yeah, because it's like a choral piece coral
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: c A yeah, C H O R A L like
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: the choral movement of a classical piece. This one starts.
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: Ray finds as a as a choral director. It's set
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: during World War One in England, so early twentieth century,
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: like nineteen fifteen, nineteen sixteen. And in the story, a
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: town's chorus master, like the guy who's in charge of
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: the choir at the local church of England church joins
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: the army and goes to the front. So the town
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: is in need of a new choral master and they
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: seek out. Ray finds his character, who is known to
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: be brilliant, like he's got a great reputation and gets
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: great results. However, he's also very keen on German music
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: and worked a lot in Germany, and obviously that has
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: there's a lot of stigma against that in England. It's
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: a very strong anti German sentiment due to World War One,
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: and Ray findes doesn't really he's not really processing that
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: because he's thinking of it in terms of art. He's
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: not thinking of it in terms of we're at war
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: with this nation. So there's comedy that comes from there.
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: Also the fact that it's revealed that apparently his character
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: is an atheist, and he's and so there's some reluctance
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: for the talent members to bring him in on this
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: specifically since he'll be directing a lot of sacred music performances.
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: It looks like there's a lot of humor in this,
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: and also it looks like it's the kind of story
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: that's designed to unify, uplift, and heal, and talk about
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: how music plays a part in all of those things,
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: like music has this amazing power. I would actually compare
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: it with that regard to sinners. Obviously very very very
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: different stories, but this idea of music having this spiritual
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: role in our lives and that it can have this
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: incredible powerful impact on us. I think both movies are
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: kind of exploring that I already told Ariel, like I
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: can tell that first of all, yes, I plan to
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: see this movie comes out Christmas. I'm sure I will
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: go see this, but I can tell already, I'm gonna
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: need to bring like a whole box of Kleenex because
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: I'll be sobbing. You know. Even the trailer was starting
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: to get to me a little bit.
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure, I agree. It looks I don't I
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: don't I want to see it, but I don't know
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: if I'll be able to handle it.
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: So yeah, I think you could handle I mean, it
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: is gonna be sad because obviously it's set during World
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: War One and there are gonna be some characters who
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: don't come back from that, and it's going to be sad.
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: But I think, I mean, I'm sure you could handle it.
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: The question is whether or not you would ever be
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: in the mind space where you would want to see it.
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's what I meant. Yeah, but it looks
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: very good.
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I was very impressed by it. It was
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: kind of given me vibes of something like Dead Poet Society.
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: You know, it could fit into that kind of niche
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: of movie with perhaps a little more English humor to it,
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: with a being like zany money Python stuff.
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: Well, I guess it's time to move on to John
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: Boy's Horror Hutch. I actually only have two things I
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: thought I had three, but I forgot that I put
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: the third one at the end of our actual lineup.
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: So we have two movies to mention and Ariel, if
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: you watched the trailer store either of these, let me
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: know I did not, Okay, I ran out of time.
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry.
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: It's no, it's fine. Like, neither of these movies are
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: for you, so it's okay for you two to like
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: focus on the other ones that are more something in
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: your bag. So first up, as a movie called Shelby Oaks.
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: The trailer starts with I mean literally starts with a bang.
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: There's a knock on a woman's door. She answers the door.
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: There's a man who says she finally let me go
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: before he unalives himself on our front door stoop using
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: a pistol. So yeah, incredibly dramatic opening to the trailer.
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: And he was holding a little videotape, like one of
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: those small digital videotapes. And so she of course does
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: the responsible thing by handing it all over to the authorities. No,
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: she clears it off with some of the blood, brings
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: it to a player where she can review the footage,
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: and she discovers that the footage on the tape is
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: of her long lost sister who's been missing for more
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: than a decade. And her sister was doing like a
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: paranormal investigation type thing and went missing in this little
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: town called Shelby Oaks. So it prompts her to go
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: looking for her sister, you know, kind of like re
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: encouraged to open that back up and find out what
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: happened to her. So she goes to Shelby Oaks to
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: find information on her sister. It looks very creepy. Mike
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: Flanagan produced the movie. He did not write or directed,
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: but he is a producer on it. My favorite bit
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: in the trailer is she's having an exchange with an
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: old woman and she asks the old woman you live
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: alone out here? And the old woman says nope, And
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, I love that. Oh it's so because
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: she gives no more information and I'm like, that's so creepy. Oh,
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: it's so good. What a great choice. It comes out
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: October third. I am sold on this one. I will
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: definitely try and see this one. It's exactly the kind
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: of horror movie I was talking about earlier that really
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: appeals to me. Then we have a trailer for another
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: horror movie called Do Not Enter. This one follows a
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: group of urban explorers as they you know, trespass at
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: an old, abandoned hotel called the Paragon. And this hotel
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: had closed years ago and apparently at one point housed
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: a famous mobster who allegedly hit a fortune somewhere in
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: the hotel. So they go to check it out and also,
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: you know, do a little treasure hunting, and spooky stuff happens.
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: It looks like there might be some sort of double
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: worship element to this particular one. There's some small elements
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: of foilm footage that are included in the trailer, but
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: I get the sense, and that's just a tiny bit
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: of the movie. Most of it is done in just
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: standard cinematic approach. This one comes out August fifteenth, so
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: not too far from this. This one I'm less sold on.
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: There was nothing about the trailer that I thought was
• 50:28
  Speaker 2: particularly bad. It just didn't appeal to me the same
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: way Shelby Oaks did.
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: And that's it.
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: That's it. That's it for the Horror Hutch this week.
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: But we're not going fully away from horror because in
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: our actual what fits the first thing we're talking about
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: is a TV show that started in twenty twenty one,
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: So where are we talking about it now? Because I
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: didn't know about it or I forgot about it. It's
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: called Invasion, and it's on Apple TV and it's getting
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: its third season.
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I also either hadn't heard about it, didn't know
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: about it, or I'd forgotten about it. So when I
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: watched it. Here, let me read you what I wrote
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: in my notes. I wrote, I haven't been watching Invasion,
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: so this was mostly hard to follow for me, But
• 51:14
  Speaker 2: whatever happened before it was just the beginning. According to
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: this trailer, there's a mission to cross the quote unquote
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: dead zone and one of the members quote unquote knows
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: more about the aliens than anybody. I think I need
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: to watch the first two seasons to connect with this
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: at all, because this trailer did not work for me,
• 51:33
  Speaker 2: But that might just be due to my unfamiliarity with
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: The series comes out on Apple TV Plus on August twenty.
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: Second, so they gave me pretty sci fi visuals and
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: so it kind of appealed to me. The premise is
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: that an alien species comes to Earth and threatens humanity,
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: you know, like they do and then events unfold in
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: real time through the eyes of a handful of ordinary people.
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: So basically or of the world, the world's meets this
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: is us. Maybe yeah, and apparently the threat has now evolved,
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: and that's that's what's happening in season three. I kind
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: of you know, I like monster movies, so maybe I will.
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: I will watch season one, two and then three.
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this didn't This didn't grab me enough. I mean
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: it may be like I'll probably look at reviews of
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: what the series, you know, the reviews for the series
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: so far, just to see what people have been saying,
• 52:32
  Speaker 2: because maybe I'll check it out. But there is such
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: a long list of things that I have not yet
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: watched that, you know, I'm not going to add it
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: just based on this trailer. There wasn't enough there for me. Now,
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: our next thing I want to talk about this is
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: something that I think I absolutely want to see when
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: it comes out. It's going to be coming out on
• 52:49
  Speaker 2: Netflix on August twenty eighth and is called The Thursday
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: Murder Club. This is technically an adaptation of a novel
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: that was written by Richard Osmond, and it's set at
• 53:00
  Speaker 2: a retirement home where this group of retirees has formed
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: a Thursday Murder Club. They don't commit murder, they attempt
• 53:08
  Speaker 2: to solve murders, specifically cold cases. And originally there's three
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: of them. They're played by Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan and
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: Ben Kingsley, and they are they're like a former spy.
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: Helen Mirren is the former spy, which I totally buy.
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: I've seen Red, Pierce Brosnan is a former trade union official,
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: and Ben Kingsley is a former psychiatrist. They are later
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: joined by a fourth member played by Celia Imriy who
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: plays a retired nurse and shortly after she joins, there's
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: a current murder that happens and she convinces them to
• 53:46
  Speaker 2: use their deductive abilities to try and solve this now
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: current case. And it looks very English, it looks delightful
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: and the cast list is incredible.
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: I agree. It looks like a goof here Knives Out,
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: but with more of a collaborative feel.
• 54:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and again like it gave me, gave me reflections
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: of Red because Helen Barren played a you know, a
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: not KGB. She was actually m I six. She was
• 54:23
  Speaker 2: like a former m I six member. But yeah, other
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: people who are in this include David Tennant, so you
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: got a former doctor who Jonathan Price, who he's been
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: in tons of stuff, but he was like, he was
• 54:35
  Speaker 2: the the the governor in Pirates of the Caribbean. He
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: was also in Baron Monschausen and tons of other things.
• 54:42
  Speaker 2: Richard y Grant, who was the old Loki in the
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: Loki season one, Tom Ellis who played Lucifer in the
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: series Lucifer. Lots of other folks are in this. It
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: just it looks like it's going to be very dry
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: and witty and funny and probably dark as well since
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: it is about murder. So yeah again, Netflix, August twenty eight,
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: looking forward to it.
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: It just blows my mind that Helen Mirren was in
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: Red as old Spy. She was only sixty five at
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: the time. Yeah, and now she's doing this at eighty, Like,
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: thank you.
• 55:20
  Speaker 2: She still looks amazing.
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you for moving the bar, Hollywood, I really
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: do appreciate that. Do it more. Speaking of fun casts,
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: we also got a trailer for Code three. This one
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: probably doesn't belong in stuff that fits, but honestly I'd
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: stuck it there because I was adding it from my phone,
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: so I wouldn't forget it, and then there wasn't.
• 55:42
  Speaker 2: I was wondering because I was like, why is she
• 55:44
  Speaker 2: putting Code three? And this doesn't fit.
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: So we'll we'll just cover it quickly Code three. Code
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: three follows a twenty four hour shift of paramedics that
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: are burnt out, starring Rain and Wilson and Little Ray
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: Howary Amy Carrero. Yeah, and just all of the antics, good, bad,
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: and stressful that they go through and how they're like,
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: I can't do this anymore.
• 56:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Specifically Rain Wilson is saying I can't do this
• 56:13
  Speaker 2: anymore because what he's doing is it's supposed to be
• 56:16
  Speaker 2: his final twenty four hour shift where he's also training
• 56:19
  Speaker 2: his replacement, which is the character played by Amy Carrero
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: who's named Jessica.
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe maybe we can say it fits in because
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: EMTs or superheroes.
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: Okay, I'm not going to disagree with you obviously, so
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: that you have you have painted me into a corner
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: on which I cannot get out. Also, I also think
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: it's interesting because this movie had its its festival debut
• 56:49
  Speaker 2: on September twelfth, twenty twenty four, at the Toronto International
• 56:52
  Speaker 2: Film Festival, and it will have its US theatrical debut
• 56:56
  Speaker 2: exactly one year later, September twelfth, twenty two.
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: That's kind of fun. So coming up, I mean, it
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: does look like it's gonna be a little bit raunchy,
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: so but.
• 57:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well I think it's gonna not necessarily raunchy, but
• 57:10
  Speaker 2: like you know, like if you've ever seen one of
• 57:12
  Speaker 2: those like police blotder articles in a free weekly paper,
• 57:17
  Speaker 2: or you know, one of those little articles that's like
• 57:22
  Speaker 2: weird but true stories, Like that's the kind of vibe
• 57:25
  Speaker 2: I'm getting of, like the weird stuff that paramedics can
• 57:28
  Speaker 2: see just on a daily basis, just based upon what
• 57:32
  Speaker 2: their job is.
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean it looks funky.
• 57:37
  Speaker 2: It does look fun. The next one also, I don't
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: know if this looks fun. I like the premise theoretically,
• 57:47
  Speaker 2: but I'm not sure that the trailer has sold me
• 57:49
  Speaker 2: on it. But it's a film titled Kill Me Again,
• 57:53
  Speaker 2: which falls into the somewhat tired subgenre of time loop movies.
• 57:59
  Speaker 2: We've got a lot of those over the last several years,
• 58:02
  Speaker 2: and some of them are great, like you know, Happy
• 58:04
  Speaker 2: Death Day I think is one of the better like
• 58:07
  Speaker 2: horror comedies out there, even without the time loop stuff.
• 58:11
  Speaker 2: But this one. The twist on the time loop concept
• 58:17
  Speaker 2: is that it's it follows a serial killer who goes
• 58:20
  Speaker 2: into a diner and then discovers he is in this
• 58:24
  Speaker 2: time loop. It looks like it's a pretty short one
• 58:26
  Speaker 2: based upon the trailer. It's hard to say, like, yeah,
• 58:30
  Speaker 2: maybe even less than a night, Like it may be
• 58:32
  Speaker 2: a few hours, but one hit, one hit. Yeah, if
• 58:36
  Speaker 2: he kills somebody, and of course he wants to because
• 58:39
  Speaker 2: he's a serial killer and he's just that's all that
• 58:41
  Speaker 2: he wants to do is kill people because that's how
• 58:43
  Speaker 2: simple people are. Okay, enough commentary from Jonathan, But yeah,
• 58:49
  Speaker 2: it's he gets pulled into this loop over and over again.
• 58:53
  Speaker 2: At one point, he's like claiming that he's a god
• 58:55
  Speaker 2: because he can't be stopped and he could just keep
• 58:58
  Speaker 2: killing people even though it's the same people over and over.
• 59:00
  Speaker 2: And as soon as that happens, it loops back again.
• 59:05
  Speaker 2: I started to wonder, like, here's my theory. I don't
• 59:08
  Speaker 2: know if this is the case. I have no idea.
• 59:10
  Speaker 2: I haven't seen this movie, I haven't looked into it further.
• 59:13
  Speaker 2: But my guess is that it will turn out that
• 59:14
  Speaker 2: he's dead and this is his eternal punishment, and like,
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: at first he's all excited that he gets to kill people,
• 59:21
  Speaker 2: but then he realizes that that's all there is and
• 59:23
  Speaker 2: that it's really boring and it's the same people over
• 59:26
  Speaker 2: and over and that's his eternity.
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that I mean, the premise is fun, like you.
• 59:34
  Speaker 2: Said, yeah, Like I said, yeah, from a high concept,
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: the premise is interesting. I just I don't know. Maybe
• 59:40
  Speaker 2: it's again, it could just be the trailer. Like we
• 59:42
  Speaker 2: say this all the time, it is very hard to
• 59:45
  Speaker 2: judge the finished product based upon a trailer. Sometimes trailer
• 59:48
  Speaker 2: houses do a great job, sometimes they make a movie
• 59:53
  Speaker 2: look way better than what it is, and sometimes they
• 59:55
  Speaker 2: just fail to capture whatever it is that makes a
• 59:57
  Speaker 2: movie special. And maybe that's the case.
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: He I don't know, Maybe it's like Dungeons and Dragons.
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well it could be. Yeah, Like I was not
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 2: sold on Dungeons and Dragons from the trailer, and then
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 2: when I watched the movie, I was like, this isn't great,
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 2: but it is entertaining and it has a couple of
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 2: moments that made me cry. I was laughing so hard,
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 2: specifically the illusion spell sequence that made me laugh so hard.
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 2: I had to replay it because I was laughing so hard,
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 2: which tells me like if I had seen it in
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 2: the movie theater, I would have been really obnoxious. I
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 2: don't know when this one comes out. I didn't write
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 2: it down, so I don't but like, honestly, I don't know.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Maybe if it's your thing, you can
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 2: look it up. I just didn't write it down. We
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 2: also got another kind of horror comedy film trailer for
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 2: Cold Storage. This is based off a novel by David
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 2: Kep who is better known as a screenplay writer, and
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 2: he in fact, he wrote the screenplay of this as well.
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 2: So it's zombies in the sense of like horseps, kind
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 2: of similar to The Last of Us, where it looks
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 2: like it's like some sort of fungal infection that causes
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 2: people to go kind of zombie ish, and it's not
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 2: all at once either. They retain some of their cognitive
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 2: abilities for a while because they could do things like
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 2: operate machines and things like that, which typically in zombie
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 2: movies zombies aren't capable of doing that. Liam Neeson, isn't it.
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 2: I think that's Liam Neeson and Vanessa Redgrave were like
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 2: the two big names on the cast list. I'm guessing
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 2: that that's where most of the budget was.
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: And Joe Ker, well, Joe here, he's like he's in
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: Stranger Things. You wouldn't know that, but he's pretty popular.
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, I having fallen off Stranger Things after the
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 2: first season.
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: It's like, the main young guy in the trailer got it.
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 2: It looks like it looks fine. I did decide to
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 2: read up on reviews of the original novel because I
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 2: was like, well, this novel came out, you know, like
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 2: seven years ago or something like that, so let me
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 2: look it up and see what people thought back then.
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 2: The interesting thing I found was that a lot of
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 2: people were saying, this feels like it was a screenplay
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 2: that got padded out to be a book. And I'm like, oh,
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 2: you know what, that's probably true.
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: It's probably true. You know, the trailer I think looks fun.
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: It says it's by the people who did Jurassic Park
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: and Zombie Land, which is true obviously, because David Kep
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: worked on the screenplay for Jurassic Park. I don't know
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: who did. I don't know if he was on Zombie Land,
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: but it definitely has that feel. It looks like a
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: lot of fun to me. I the kind of horror
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: movie that I could definitely get behind, so I'd be
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: happy to watch it.
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it feels a lot more like Zombie Land than
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 2: say The Last of Us, right, Like it has that
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 2: kind of vibe to it. Yeah, this trailer. I don't
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 2: know that I'll see this in the theater, but I
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 2: could totally see myself watching it when it's on a
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 2: streaming service. It comes out twenty twenty six, That's the
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 2: best I can do. I don't know the specific date.
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 2: But and then the last thing I added like shortly
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 2: before we started recording, because I just saw it pop
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 2: up and thought I thought Ariel would be interested, because
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 2: I know that Ariel is interested in Scandinavian culture and
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 2: she's interested in monster movies, and this is both. It
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 2: is a film called Kraken.
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: You're You're mostly right. I am interested in Finnish culture,
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: which is not considered a part of Scandinavia, but I
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: do also like Scandinavian culture. Okay, fine, now it's true.
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: I actually I did not know that the Kraken was
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: a Scandinavian monster. For some reason, I thought it was
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: like Greek.
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 2: Or well, yeah, because because Clash of the Titans made
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 2: the Kraken a Greek monster, but it was never part
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 2: of Greek mythology. It was part of Scandinavian mythology.
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: I just learned that today.
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 2: I mean like, there were a lot of kids my
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 2: age who just grew up thinking the Kraken was part
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 2: of Greek mythology, and which is understandable because that's the movie.
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 2: Doesn't bother to make the distinction.
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: Kind of like dragons and unicorns and mermaids, they kind
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: of go all over right a lot of culture.
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 2: And there are there are sea monsters in Greek mythology,
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 2: like Schillad stuff, but obviously those are different courbdis and
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 2: that kind of thing.
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, this looks it looks like a monster movie. Nothing
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: about the Monster Movie particularly interested me, other than the
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: fact that the beginning of it, when they were talking
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: about the fish reminded me of the fish Doorbell in
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: the Netherlands, which I think is an absolutely brilliant idea.
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 2: Have you heard about this door bell? No?
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so it basically is and you can actually watch
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: this online. This is a bunny trail. I learned about it,
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: I think on John Oliver, but it's it's in the
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: Netherlands and there's basically like this damn and when the
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: fish starts showing up at the dam, once you can,
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: like if you're watching the doorbell, you can report if
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: you see a fish, and once they've seen enough fish,
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 1: they know to open the dam for the fish.
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, you know what, I think I have heard
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 2: of this. I did not know that it was referenced
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 2: as the fish doorbell, but I totally get why it
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 2: would be.
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so all over the world you can watch for
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: fish to come to this dam and like report them
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: if you see them to help them get to the
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: other side.
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 2: Well, this trailer is shot where it has characters speaking
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 2: in Norwegian, but also other characters speaking in English, which
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 2: is interesting to me. I only saw that they have
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 2: a release date for Norway for October twenty fourth, So
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 2: I don't know if this is going to get global
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 2: distribution or not. I would imagine it will, But the
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 2: basic plot appears to be that there's this fish farm.
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 2: A group of Japanese business folks are visiting the fish farm,
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 2: potentially I guess, to see about whether or not they
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 2: will invest in it. There's also a scientist there who's
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 2: using sonic technology like sonic waves to run experiments, and
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 2: apparently this drives the fish nuts. But beyond that, it
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 2: looks like it drives something more monstrous that lives deeper
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 2: in the fjords, thus the Kraken. It irritates the Kraken,
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 2: and the Kraken ends up cracking heads when is irritated. Yeah,
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 2: I thought it looked. I was like, well, you know what,
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 2: I would watch this. This looks this looks wacky to me.
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 2: I don't know that it will ever get like a
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 2: theatrical release here in the US, but it definitely looked.
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 2: I love watching horror movies from other cultures that you know,
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 2: it's not just England or the United States or Australia
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 2: or New Zealand. Like I love watching ones where it's
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 2: from other places in Europe because, for one thing, it
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 2: tells me what other people consider to be scary or
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 2: interesting mythology, and you learn more about a culture that way,
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 2: and I like that. I think that's pretty interesting stuff.
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 2: But yeah, I haven't don't know if it'll ever get
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 2: the chance. I did find it interesting that there was
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 2: another film called Kraken that also came out this year,
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 2: but at least that's the English translation for the title
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 2: is Kracking. And this was a Russian film that came
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 2: out earlier this year that featured a rescue mission. It
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 2: was a naval rescue mission in search of a missing
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 2: submarine and a monster under the sea appears to also
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 2: be involved. And I was like, oh, that's how cool
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 2: that we get two Kracking movies in the same year.
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 2: Not that I don't I don't know that I'll ever
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 2: get a chance to see the Russian one either, but
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 2: I just thought it was interesting.
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it is interesting because when you first of all,
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: the art is kind of similar Tiny vessel giant octopus.
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: I for both, but it's kind of hard to find this,
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: this Norwegian one, so good find.
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it just it was. It was one of those
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 2: that just popped up on my recommended for you on
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 2: on YouTube, and I was like, I gotta check this out.
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 2: And I apologize for okay, okay, I just had to
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 2: check this too. I wanted to give Ariel a recommendation
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 2: if she has not seen it, because now I'm speaking
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 2: about like European horror movies. This one's a horror comedy
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 2: found footage style thing, but it's a troll Hunter. Oh
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 2: do you ever get the chance? Oh, have you seen it?
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: I've seen bits of it.
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 2: It's that one I think, like, I don't think it's
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 2: so scary that you would find it off putting or anything.
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 2: It's certainly like most of the scares are things where
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 2: you see something large moving, but it's not you know,
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 2: you're you're too close to be able to get a
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 2: really good look at what it is. Like you just
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 2: see part of it moving and that's it. But yeah,
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 2: if you if you ever want to watch a European
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 2: it's it's really a horror comedy in some ways. I
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 2: would recommend troll Hunter. It's a very entertaining movie. And
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 2: I from years ago is like ten years ago when
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 2: it came out.
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: I'll add it back to my list.
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that one's a good one. I saw a lot
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 2: of European horror moviies over this was pre pandemic. I
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 2: remember I went on a kick where I watched a
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 2: bunch and that one stood out to me as one
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 2: that was really entertaining. There were other ones I watched
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 2: that also I thought were quite good, but they were
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 2: they are not your thing. A reel.
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I'm not surprised, not surprised. Well, that is
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: all we have for this week. It wasn't too bad
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: for all of our Loop de Loop Denis.
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we did have some technical issues in the middle
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 2: of recording, so that's telling me that this will probably
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 2: be not that much more than an hour long, which
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 2: is one of our shorter episodes.
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, hey, go us if you want to let us
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: know anything, Jonathan wo I lost the thread there, Huh.
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 2: If they want to each me, what they're going to
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 2: have to do is you're going to have to go
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 2: and learn to be a chiropractor, right, You're gonna have
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 2: to enroll in whatever school is teaching it. I don't
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 2: really believe in chiropractice, so I don't really think of
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 2: it as being a true medicine. But that's me then,
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 2: I'm an old man who yells at passing clouds. Don't
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 2: pay attention to that. But if you really need to
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 2: ask me something, you are going to have to be
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 2: a chiropractor first. Why Because my back needs cracking, just
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 2: like the last two movies we talked about. So if
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 2: you can be you know you can, you can be
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 2: the person to add the crack into my back and
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 2: in a way that's not going to injure me. Then
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 2: you sure ask me a question, I'll be happy to
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 2: answer it. If you can hear me or the sound
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 2: of my old bones popping.
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: Better cracking for your back in than craking for your bacon. Yes,
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 1: if you want to reach out to us another way,
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 1: like if you're allergic to cracking back in seafood, like
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: Jonathan actually is, I don't think you'd be able to
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 1: eat cracking. You'd probably want to avoid it.
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 2: I mean, I could probably give it a try, except
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 2: that my partner would forbid me from doing it because
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 2: she's had to drive me to the emergency room too
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 2: many times already.
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, Anyhow, if you want to reach out to
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 1: us in a normal way, you can do so on
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 1: social media on Thread and Instagram and Facebook or large
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: nur drunk Collider that's also our discord handle. You can
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: find an invite to the discord on our website www
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 1: dot large end drun Collider. It is a little bit
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: out of date, but I will be getting it back
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 1: up to date soon. You can also reach out to
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 1: us long form. Our email is large neurdron pod at
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 1: gmail dot com. We love hearing from you. We love
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 1: peeking out with you. And until next time, I am
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: Ariel under the seacast, and.
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 2: And I am Jonathan. I've changed my mind. I want
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 2: my amusement park ride to be modeled after Timeloop movies,
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 2: so you never able to get off Strickland. Nice, Nice,
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 2: get your money's worth. The large Nerdron Collider was created
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 2: by Ariel Caston and produced, edited, published, deleted, undeleted, published again.
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 2: Cursed at by Jonathan Strickland. Music by Kevin McLeod of
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 2: incomptech dot com