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- 0:10Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Welcome to the Large Ner Drunk Collider, the podcast.
- 0:13Speaker 1: It's all about the geeky things happening around us and
- 0:15Speaker 1: how very excited we are about them. I'm Ariel casting,
- 0:18Speaker 1: and with me, as always, is the ever patient Jonathan Strickland.
- 0:23Speaker 2: All of the tourists covered in oil. They're wasting away
- 0:28Speaker 2: again in Margaritaville. I mean, I think it's a line
- 0:33Speaker 2: from the song.
- 0:34Speaker 1: I think I either need to scare the margarita drinkers
- 0:37Speaker 1: away or we need to change what time we record.
- 0:40Speaker 1: But of course as soon as we do that, they'll
- 0:42Speaker 1: change their margarita time.
- 0:44Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, it's five o'clock somewhere. As the Great James
- 0:47Speaker 2: Buffett would say.
- 0:49Speaker 1: Uh, right here, it's not five o'clock. Come on.
- 0:53Speaker 2: Well, you know what, I'm in a Jimmy Buffett mood,
- 0:56Speaker 2: So I'm okay with it. I know it's frustrating, but
- 0:59Speaker 2: we're going to soldier on. Because it's been a couple
- 1:01Speaker 2: of weeks since we recorded.
- 1:03Speaker 1: It has just vacations and then busy work.
- 1:07Speaker 2: Yeah, trying to catch up on work after vacation. That
- 1:10Speaker 2: was that's why we didn't record last week. We were
- 1:12Speaker 2: going to but both of us were kind of still
- 1:17Speaker 2: trying to get above water with our workloads post our vacations.
- 1:22Speaker 2: But regarding that, I know we have a question this week.
- 1:26Speaker 2: Before we get to the official question of the week,
- 1:28Speaker 2: which Ariel has brought to us, I just want to
- 1:30Speaker 2: ask you, Ariel, did you enjoy your vacation?
- 1:35Speaker 1: I did. I went on a cruise, and the cruise
- 1:39Speaker 1: ship I went on was a little smaller than some
- 1:41Speaker 1: of the cruise ships I've been on, but having a
- 1:45Speaker 1: balcony with a hammock on it was a game changer.
- 1:50Speaker 1: And then my final day of the cruise, which wasn't
- 1:54Speaker 1: even a c day, is we went to the like
- 1:57Speaker 1: the private island that all cruise ships have, yeah morning,
- 2:00Speaker 1: and then we sailed overnight. And after we took off
- 2:04Speaker 1: from port, we had been at sea a couple of
- 2:07Speaker 1: hours and a thunderstorms had been predicted all week, but
- 2:11Speaker 1: we had remarkably good weather everywhere we went. However, we
- 2:14Speaker 1: ended up getting into like a rain storm with distant thunder.
- 2:18Speaker 1: So sitting on the porch with the rain hitting the
- 2:22Speaker 1: railing and the waves and then the thunder roaring in
- 2:25Speaker 1: the background was really cool and fun.
- 2:28Speaker 2: Yeah, and you didn't have to worry about one of
- 2:31Speaker 2: the components that's on the present and the cruise as
- 2:34Speaker 2: I take because you were on a cruise line that
- 2:37Speaker 2: famously is for adults only.
- 2:40Speaker 1: Yes, and by adults only they mean eighteen and over
- 2:43Speaker 1: because they were parents who did bring their like older
- 2:46Speaker 1: teenagers and stuff. Yeah, I went on Virgin Voyages. They're
- 2:53Speaker 1: a very inclusive cruise ship. The entertainment staff worked really hard.
- 2:57Speaker 1: I will say most of the shows were. And this
- 3:00Speaker 1: is because I'm jaded from like working Renfest. When you've
- 3:02Speaker 1: got acrobatics of like aerial silks are working on a
- 3:09Speaker 1: pole or stuff like that, or like body balancing, I've
- 3:13Speaker 1: seen a lot of it, so yeah, it takes quite
- 3:16Speaker 1: a bit to impress me. They all worked really hard
- 3:19Speaker 1: and tried really hard, and like this setup was really
- 3:22Speaker 1: cool and fun. There was one show that reminded me
- 3:25Speaker 1: of The Adventurers Club. It was super interactive. It was
- 3:27Speaker 1: a game show and that had a very impressive aerial work,
- 3:33Speaker 1: so that was not me work in the airwork. So
- 3:38Speaker 1: that was really fun. But like other things like the
- 3:42Speaker 1: trivia and the games and stuff like that, the cast
- 3:45Speaker 1: was so hard working and so pleasant and so fun.
- 3:50Speaker 1: The food was pretty good. I would say that it
- 3:52Speaker 1: was better than like, I think the best food I've
- 3:56Speaker 1: had on a cruise so far, because I haven't been
- 3:58Speaker 1: on Disney Cruise is Holland America, and it was better
- 4:02Speaker 1: than their general food. It was maybe not as quite
- 4:04Speaker 1: as good as their high end you have to pay
- 4:07Speaker 1: extra for it restaurants, but you don't have to pay
- 4:09Speaker 1: extra for any of the restaurants, so it's a and
- 4:12Speaker 1: they're all fun experiences. So yeah, I had a wonderful time.
- 4:15Speaker 1: Did you have a good vacation?
- 4:18Speaker 2: I did. I went up to the Pacific Northwest. So
- 4:20Speaker 2: first thing about my vacation is that it was a
- 4:23Speaker 2: dramatic drop in humidity, and even though the temperatures were
- 4:27Speaker 2: in the eighties, it was so comfortable to walk around.
- 4:31Speaker 2: I was like it felt like I had a superpower.
- 4:34Speaker 2: Because those of you who don't know, Ariel and I
- 4:37Speaker 2: both live in the Atlanta area, and our humidity is
- 4:40Speaker 2: always high, like especially in the summer, it's always eighty
- 4:44Speaker 2: percent or higher, and it is brutal. It is not
- 4:48Speaker 2: just the they say, you know that old line, it's
- 4:50Speaker 2: not the heat, it's the humidity. That's true, because when
- 4:53Speaker 2: it's really humid, you know, you sweat, but your sweat
- 4:56Speaker 2: doesn't evaporate because the air is already saturated with liquid.
- 5:01Speaker 2: So you don't cool down because your sweat can't evaporate
- 5:05Speaker 2: and take heat away from your skin. So you just
- 5:08Speaker 2: get swampy and hotter and hotter, and you can actually,
- 5:12Speaker 2: you know, like, you can suffer overheating even if it's
- 5:16Speaker 2: not quote unquote that hot that particular day. Now that
- 5:20Speaker 2: being said, we're also currently well right now today I
- 5:23Speaker 2: think it's below ninety, but for most of this week
- 5:26Speaker 2: it's been in the mid to high nineties.
- 5:28Speaker 1: So let's say we've had a lot of rainstorms, which
- 5:32Speaker 1: do drop it down, but only temporarily.
- 5:34Speaker 2: Yeah, and then it just becomes even steamier, right Like,
- 5:36Speaker 2: if the rainstorm happens before it's maybe eight or nine pm,
- 5:41Speaker 2: then it's even worse, like an hour after the rainstorm's over.
- 5:46Speaker 2: So being in the Pacific Northwest or the humidity was
- 5:49Speaker 2: so low, it was just so glorious to walk around
- 5:52Speaker 2: and not feel like I was immediately just drenched in sweat.
- 5:58Speaker 2: We were in Seattle for a while where I had
- 6:00Speaker 2: my first experience with a bikini barista. Establishment I did.
- 6:06Speaker 2: I told you this story.
- 6:07Speaker 1: Right yes, you did. But you're welcome to tell everybody
- 6:10Speaker 1: else if you want.
- 6:11Speaker 2: I mean, I'll tell I'll tell the story because it
- 6:13Speaker 2: is funny. It's funny, and it was not it was
- 6:17Speaker 2: completely unintentional, and it's exactly the kind of crap that
- 6:20Speaker 2: happens to me. So my partner and I we stayed
- 6:25Speaker 2: in an airport area hotel for the first night because
- 6:28Speaker 2: we came in we were landing at like eight pm
- 6:30Speaker 2: local time to Seattle, which is eleven pm for us
- 6:34Speaker 2: here on the East Coast, and we knew that we
- 6:36Speaker 2: would be tired, and we didn't want to have to
- 6:38Speaker 2: then after getting off the plane, get through the airport
- 6:42Speaker 2: and get on either a train or an uber or
- 6:45Speaker 2: whatever and take a ride into Seattle in order to
- 6:49Speaker 2: get to wherever we were going to be staying. We
- 6:50Speaker 2: didn't want to do that, so we thought, for the
- 6:52Speaker 2: first night, we'll just stay at an airport hotel. The
- 6:55Speaker 2: next day we'll check out, we'll head into the city
- 6:58Speaker 2: to the place we'll be staying at for another couple nights,
- 7:01Speaker 2: and we'll figure all that out, you know, that day.
- 7:04Speaker 2: So we stayed at an airport hotel that was south
- 7:07Speaker 2: of the airport. The airport in Seattle is south of
- 7:09Speaker 2: the city itself, so we're getting closer and closer to Tacoma.
- 7:13Speaker 2: Actually all right, so we stay at this airport hotel.
- 7:17Speaker 2: It's fine, nothing special, but the next morning, my partner
- 7:22Speaker 2: wants to have coffee because she can't function unless she
- 7:25Speaker 2: has had a sufficient amount of coffee, which is more
- 7:28Speaker 2: than I will have. And we started looking for places
- 7:32Speaker 2: that were in walking distance and we found a couple.
- 7:35Speaker 2: One of them was called Like There was like a
- 7:37Speaker 2: Mexican bakery and coffee shops, so she decided we should
- 7:40Speaker 2: go there. We walked there. Turns out it's just a
- 7:43Speaker 2: small bakery and their coffee shop was really just a
- 7:46Speaker 2: drip coffee maker, like the kind you would have at home,
- 7:48Speaker 2: maybe slightly larger, but still the same principle. And that's
- 7:53Speaker 2: not what my partner wants. My partner wants an espresso
- 7:56Speaker 2: coffee drink, like a latte or a moca. So we
- 7:59Speaker 2: decide we're going to go to a second choice, which
- 8:01Speaker 2: was called I'm Not Gonna Put Them on Blast. It
- 8:04Speaker 2: had a name that was kind of punk rock ish,
- 8:08Speaker 2: So we start walking toward this punk rock ish named
- 8:12Speaker 2: coffee place, and as we're getting closer, like still a
- 8:15Speaker 2: couple of blocks away. I look and I'm like, oh,
- 8:16Speaker 2: it looks like it's just a little drive up coffee shack,
- 8:19Speaker 2: which those are all over the place in the Pacific Northwest.
- 8:23Speaker 2: But my partner's like, screw it, I need coffee. So
- 8:26Speaker 2: we keep walking, and as we get closer, I'm like, huh,
- 8:29Speaker 2: there's a neon sign in the window of and I
- 8:32Speaker 2: call it the fluozy pose. It's an outline of a
- 8:35Speaker 2: woman in recline with one leg up in the air.
- 8:39Speaker 2: It's kind of thing you would see on like the
- 8:40Speaker 2: mud flaps of trucks back in the day. They have
- 8:43Speaker 2: a neon version of that in the window. I'm like, oh,
- 8:45Speaker 2: I guess they're really going for the kind of psychobilly
- 8:50Speaker 2: aesthetic that the name would have suggested. But then I
- 8:53Speaker 2: also see a sign on the wall of the establishment
- 8:56Speaker 2: that says bikini Barista. And I turned to my partner.
- 8:59Speaker 2: I said, right, this is a bikini barista place, and
- 9:03Speaker 2: my partner says, I do not care. I need coffee.
- 9:06Speaker 2: So we're going to walk up to the drive through
- 9:09Speaker 2: window of this place. A middle aged couple on foot
- 9:15Speaker 2: standing at the drive through window and a very nice
- 9:18Speaker 2: young woman in sheer lingerie, as in there was nothing
- 9:24Speaker 2: left to the imagination, turns and serves us bemusedly, and
- 9:30Speaker 2: I said, I know that this is a drive up window.
- 9:32Speaker 2: If it makes you feel better, I can make the
- 9:34Speaker 2: noise of an engine, and she says, yeah, you should
- 9:36Speaker 2: probably do that, and went, okay, put a put a
- 9:38Speaker 2: pudd a, pudd a pudda. It's a classic car. Put
- 9:41Speaker 2: a put a put a pudda. And trying to cut
- 9:44Speaker 2: the tension and everything, we order a couple of Moca's
- 9:46Speaker 2: most expensive coffee drinks have ever bought in my life
- 9:48Speaker 2: ten bucks apiece, because you're not really paying for the
- 9:52Speaker 2: coffee when you go to those places, but my partner
- 9:56Speaker 2: does desperately wanted coffee. We also found out that this
- 9:59Speaker 2: particular barista was originally from Georgia, so we had lots
- 10:03Speaker 2: in common. Anyway, we ordered, and I turned to my
- 10:09Speaker 2: partner and said, I am so glad you were with me,
- 10:12Speaker 2: because if you had sent me by myself, I would
- 10:15Speaker 2: have returned and said, Becca, something happened and it's not
- 10:19Speaker 2: my fault, and you never would have believed me. So.
- 10:24Speaker 2: But I also think the story that that barista is
- 10:27Speaker 2: going to be able to tell is equally as funny
- 10:31Speaker 2: of this middle aged couple from Georgia walking up to
- 10:35Speaker 2: the drive through window to legit just by coffee.
- 10:39Speaker 1: Well, I like that the barista had a good sense
- 10:43Speaker 1: of humor because in those situations, that's a wonderful thing
- 10:48Speaker 1: to have. And yeah, apparently looking into it, because I
- 10:51Speaker 1: had to look up the place when you told me
- 10:53Speaker 1: about it. Here's a bunch of those in that area.
- 10:56Speaker 2: Oh yeah, No, the Pacific Northwest has tons of bikini
- 11:00Speaker 2: rista establishments. They started in like the early two thousands,
- 11:03Speaker 2: but there have been tons of them since then. And
- 11:06Speaker 2: it ranges right like some places it's legit a bikini
- 11:10Speaker 2: barista place where they're wearing bikinis and they might be
- 11:13Speaker 2: pretty skimpy, but they're still wearing something. Some of them
- 11:16Speaker 2: do like themed days, where some days they might wear
- 11:20Speaker 2: something even more risky than a micro bikini or whatever.
- 11:24Speaker 2: Then this place I think was just kind of I
- 11:27Speaker 2: don't want to call it trashy because the barrista was
- 11:30Speaker 2: very nice, but it wasn't a part of town not
- 11:35Speaker 2: known for being particularly classy, I'll put it that way.
- 11:42Speaker 2: But again, like she was a nice person and everything.
- 11:44Speaker 2: We just it was just a weird, incredibly awkward situation.
- 11:49Speaker 2: The rest of my trip fantastic. I got to see
- 11:51Speaker 2: killer whales in the wild, loved it, had a wonderful time.
- 11:57Speaker 2: Went to the Museum of Pop Culture, had a great
- 11:59Speaker 2: time there. That's like Urdrunk Collider at the museum.
- 12:01Speaker 1: So yeah, h wait, how did you know there were
- 12:03Speaker 1: killer whales? Were they carrying carrying like knives? Uh?
- 12:07Speaker 2: There were wanted posters up everywhere, so we knew. Yeah,
- 12:11Speaker 2: they were like on the the most Seattle's most Wanted list. No,
- 12:16Speaker 2: I mean obviously we could see the markings and everything. Yeah,
- 12:19Speaker 2: we saw a pod. Well it's actually a couple of pods.
- 12:22Speaker 2: I think in total, there were around ten individuals that
- 12:25Speaker 2: we saw, which was pretty cool.
- 12:27Speaker 1: Oh, I'm gonna narrow cast about the sea real quick,
- 12:29Speaker 1: just because I haven't been able to talk to you
- 12:31Speaker 1: about this. Did you know that the Georgia Aquarium added
- 12:33Speaker 1: binterongs to their exhibit.
- 12:36Speaker 2: As in like the isn't that a primate or a mammal?
- 12:41Speaker 1: It's a mammal. It's like a cat with a long
- 12:44Speaker 1: tail that smells like popcorn. They've added River Explore, but
- 12:47Speaker 1: they also have like otters there, so they have other mammals.
- 12:50Speaker 2: Right, it's not a primate, it's I was thinking private
- 12:52Speaker 2: because they have like prehensile tails, right.
- 12:54Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, but they kind of look like
- 12:59Speaker 1: if a cat and where wolf had a baby.
- 13:01Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, I know of them. I didn't know
- 13:04Speaker 2: that they were at the aquarium. I haven't been to
- 13:06Speaker 2: the aquarium in a year or so.
- 13:08Speaker 1: They've just been recently added. And I think that's so exciting,
- 13:11Speaker 1: just because you were talking about seeing killer whales, which
- 13:13Speaker 1: the Georgia Aquarium does not have.
- 13:15Speaker 2: But thankfully, yes, they do not do well in captivity.
- 13:19Speaker 1: No, they're like reading up on it because I think
- 13:23Speaker 1: we talked about like Free Willy getting Yeah, we did
- 13:26Speaker 1: previous stuff.
- 13:27Speaker 2: There's a new Free Willy coming out. Yeah.
- 13:29Speaker 1: Yeah that killer whales don't do well in captivity. But
- 13:33Speaker 1: that's also the only time they're ever violent against humans.
- 13:36Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and the there's never been a a an
- 13:40Speaker 2: incident of a killer whale attacking a human in the wild.
- 13:45Speaker 2: There have been incidents of killer whales messing with with
- 13:51Speaker 2: boats in Europe. Uh And I remember so our one
- 13:55Speaker 2: of our tour guides gave her hypothesis as to why
- 13:59Speaker 2: that happened, and said there was a couple of juvenile
- 14:02Speaker 2: mail orcas. So it's kind of sounded like it was
- 14:05Speaker 2: just like Orcas from the wrong side of the tracks
- 14:07Speaker 2: who just like to mess with people. But I can't
- 14:10Speaker 2: remember exactly what her hypothesis was, so I don't want
- 14:13Speaker 2: to put words into her mouth. I will say the
- 14:18Speaker 2: excursion we took was fantastic. It was meant to be
- 14:20Speaker 2: like three and a half hours. We were actually out
- 14:22Speaker 2: there for I think four hours total, and we saw
- 14:26Speaker 2: a sea otter, we saw several seals, and we saw
- 14:29Speaker 2: the orcas and that was great.
- 14:32Speaker 1: So jealous, so jealous.
- 14:36Speaker 2: It was nice. I highly recommend it, like if you've
- 14:38Speaker 2: got the money and you want and you go up.
- 14:41Speaker 2: We were in Anacortes for that, which is north of Seattle,
- 14:45Speaker 2: and Anacortez also has a ferry that connects it to
- 14:49Speaker 2: the San Juan Islands. Both Anacortez and the San Juan
- 14:52Speaker 2: Islands are known for having lots of boat excursions that
- 14:56Speaker 2: go whale watching, so you've got lots of options there.
- 14:59Speaker 2: But yeah, it was a great experience. I really enjoyed it.
- 15:03Speaker 2: The uh the whole time was just nice and the
- 15:10Speaker 2: scenery is spectacular, Like I love the tropics, like that's
- 15:14Speaker 2: my happy place is like the Caribbean. But I could
- 15:19Speaker 2: easily be persuaded to Pacific Northwest with some of the
- 15:22Speaker 2: vistas they have. I just would have to resign myself
- 15:25Speaker 2: that you know, three hundred days out of the year
- 15:29Speaker 2: probably wouldn't be able to see them because of all
- 15:30Speaker 2: the clouds and rain.
- 15:32Speaker 1: Yeah, for me, it's largely friends that keep me in.
- 15:36Speaker 1: I mean also the film industry, but it's largely friends
- 15:38Speaker 1: that keep me in the area.
- 15:40Speaker 2: But you would be in the Pacific Northwest, so you'd
- 15:43Speaker 2: just be a short hop over to Vancouver for all
- 15:45Speaker 2: those Vancouver acting jobs.
- 15:47Speaker 1: That is that is so very true.
- 15:50Speaker 2: The problem is that all the casting tends to still
- 15:52Speaker 2: happen mostly in Los Angeles.
- 15:54Speaker 1: I mean, you'd also not be too far from that either,
- 15:58Speaker 1: so yeah, I mean before but not as far as
- 16:00Speaker 1: Georgia is. Now, a lot of casting is done by
- 16:03Speaker 1: self tape, but there's like SAG recently, not that recently,
- 16:08Speaker 1: in the last couple of years adjusted their modified local
- 16:12Speaker 1: higher rules and so they don't really have that anymore.
- 16:15Speaker 2: So well, you know, moving onward, you did have a
- 16:20Speaker 2: question of the week, but I propose we hold that
- 16:23Speaker 2: off till next week simply because we talked, or specifically,
- 16:26Speaker 2: I talked so much about naked Coffee that I think
- 16:29Speaker 2: it might be good just to move on to talk
- 16:32Speaker 2: about what we've watched since the last time we recorded.
- 16:34Speaker 1: Sure, do you want me to go first, or do
- 16:37Speaker 1: you want to go first?
- 16:38Speaker 2: I can go first, but it's gonna be a lot
- 16:40Speaker 2: more on me just talking.
- 16:41Speaker 1: If you want, I'll go, then we'll just break it
- 16:43Speaker 1: up some because I know otherwise you're going to feel
- 16:45Speaker 1: bad when you edit this episode. So, because work has
- 16:49Speaker 1: been so busy and I've had a bunch of doctor's appointments,
- 16:53Speaker 1: work to work on my back, and things like that,
- 16:56Speaker 1: so I haven't had a whole lot of time or
- 17:00Speaker 1: brain to watch TV. But I did do some cool
- 17:03Speaker 1: things I think since the last time recorded. I saw
- 17:06Speaker 1: Spider Man Brand New Day.
- 17:09Speaker 2: What did you think?
- 17:10Speaker 1: I think it's my favorite Marvel movie in a good while.
- 17:14Speaker 1: It had the right amount of action, it had the
- 17:16Speaker 1: right amount of like heart and humor. It was a
- 17:18Speaker 1: good storyline. My husband thought that there was a little
- 17:22Speaker 1: two bit too much going on, a little bit too
- 17:24Speaker 1: much going on, but he also still enjoyed it. He
- 17:29Speaker 1: just thought there were so many new elements added all
- 17:31Speaker 1: at once, in different plot lines and stuff.
- 17:34Speaker 2: Yeah, I can see that. It almost felt like it
- 17:37Speaker 2: almost felt like two movies put into a single movie.
- 17:41Speaker 2: So I understand where he's coming from. And spoiler alert,
- 17:44Speaker 2: I also saw Spider Man Brand New Day, and it's
- 17:47Speaker 2: my favorite of all the Spider Man movies.
- 17:49Speaker 1: Yeah, it was so good. My friend after she saw
- 17:53Speaker 1: it was like, is this Tom Hollands last movie? I'm like,
- 17:54Speaker 1: a better freaking not be. They've left some things vaguely unresolved.
- 17:59Speaker 2: Well, and he has said since then that he will
- 18:02Speaker 2: keep playing it for as long as they want him
- 18:04Speaker 2: to keep playing, and he.
- 18:05Speaker 1: Knows that eventually they'll replace him with somebody else because
- 18:07Speaker 1: they'll need a new Spider Man. And he's also cool
- 18:10Speaker 1: and supportive of that. So I love actors who are
- 18:13Speaker 1: more committed to the story and the audience's benefit than
- 18:17Speaker 1: their own. Yeah, seems like a stand up guy. I Also,
- 18:22Speaker 1: it was very hard for me to ignore the fact
- 18:26Speaker 1: that and it has been the fact that Tom Holland
- 18:31Speaker 1: and Zendia have such great screen chemistry, but they also
- 18:34Speaker 1: they have like this, it seems like this really wholesome
- 18:37Speaker 1: and good relationship in real life as well. It feels
- 18:40Speaker 1: very fairy tale, and it also makes me more invested
- 18:43Speaker 1: in the stories they're telling together.
- 18:45Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's fun to watch them on the press
- 18:47Speaker 2: tours because they they they're so good in interacting with
- 18:52Speaker 2: whomever they're whomever's interviewing them, as well as with each other.
- 18:56Speaker 2: And there's always the fun, little cutesy moments where it's
- 18:59Speaker 2: like Tom will Zendia and she's like, don't you tell
- 19:01Speaker 2: too much? That kind of stuff, Like those are always
- 19:04Speaker 2: those cute little bits. Also the fact that both of
- 19:06Speaker 2: them starred in the two biggest movies of the summer
- 19:09Speaker 2: back to back, Like that's crazy it is.
- 19:12Speaker 1: And I also really liked because this isn't a spoiler,
- 19:15Speaker 1: we knew the Punisher was in this. I really liked
- 19:18Speaker 1: his involvement in the in the movie, especially after he
- 19:22Speaker 1: did his like standalone Netflix styled Punisher film that was
- 19:27Speaker 1: so dark. This is like the other side of it.
- 19:29Speaker 1: I don't know if he's having a redemption arc or
- 19:31Speaker 1: if this is a different universe, but it was really
- 19:33Speaker 1: wonderful and he and Tom Holland also had amazing chemistry,
- 19:38Speaker 1: So yeah, that was.
- 19:39Speaker 2: Really yeah, and they've worked together multiple times, and they
- 19:42Speaker 2: also worked together in the other biggest movie. Did you
- 19:45Speaker 2: see The Odyssey as well?
- 19:46Speaker 1: I haven't. I read you told me about some stuff,
- 19:49Speaker 1: and I don't know if I'll be able to handle
- 19:51Speaker 1: it or not because I don't know how much of
- 19:53Speaker 1: it there is.
- 19:54Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, there's some stuff. There's some animal stuff in there.
- 19:59Speaker 2: But also, I will say, anyone who's seen it, I mean,
- 20:03Speaker 2: it's been out so long now, there's no spoilers really,
- 20:05Speaker 2: and also it's an adaptation of a poem that's been
- 20:09Speaker 2: around for literally thousands of years. It gets so loud.
- 20:14Speaker 2: Like I know other people have commented on this. I
- 20:18Speaker 2: went into a laser AMC showing of it. So that's
- 20:21Speaker 2: not even their Dolby theater, right, Their Adobey Theater is
- 20:24Speaker 2: the one that has like the really crazy sound system,
- 20:27Speaker 2: and by the end of it, my partner and I
- 20:31Speaker 2: were both like that was uncomfortably bordering on painfully loud
- 20:37Speaker 2: at parts.
- 20:38Speaker 1: I had that issue with the Dune movies because some
- 20:42Speaker 1: people are like this sound mixing is so great. I'm like,
- 20:44Speaker 1: sometimes it's really quiet and hard to hear, and sometimes
- 20:46Speaker 1: it's like breaking your ear drums. So I don't agree,
- 20:50Speaker 1: but I'm glad you enjoyed it.
- 20:52Speaker 2: Most of the time. In my case, like the sound
- 20:54Speaker 2: and I can never got so quiet that I couldn't
- 20:56Speaker 2: really hear what was being said most of the time,
- 20:59Speaker 2: maybe once or twice the movie because my hearing is bad.
- 21:01Speaker 2: That's not the movie's fault. Well, it might be the
- 21:03Speaker 2: movie's fault now because the loungdparts got so loud that
- 21:07Speaker 2: may have further damaged my hearing. Polyphemus's cries, the cyclops
- 21:12Speaker 2: his cries in particular, were very loud, and there were
- 21:16Speaker 2: some other moments where the soundtrack you know, is supposed
- 21:19Speaker 2: to like represent oppression, the suppressing, like tension, and that
- 21:24Speaker 2: got super loud too, like to a point where if
- 21:27Speaker 2: I had gone to the Dolby one, I probably would
- 21:29Speaker 2: have wanted to have brought ear plugs. That's how crazy
- 21:31Speaker 2: it got.
- 21:32Speaker 1: Great in concept, not great in execution. I yeah, I
- 21:39Speaker 1: also this is a little side tangent. When I was
- 21:42Speaker 1: looking up that, I also looked up the Last House
- 21:45Speaker 1: because I saw that there was like an honest trailer
- 21:47Speaker 1: or a pitch meeting or something like that for it.
- 21:51Speaker 1: And I am glad I did, because I don't think
- 21:53Speaker 1: I can watch that one even more than I I'm
- 21:55Speaker 1: worried about Odyssey.
- 21:57Speaker 2: Guessing there's a little animal harm in that.
- 22:00Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't want to ruin it for anybody. I
- 22:03Speaker 1: can let you know later if you want spoilers, or
- 22:06Speaker 1: can let our audience know. I don't know how much
- 22:07Speaker 1: of a spoiler it is, but it's enough that I
- 22:11Speaker 1: don't think I would be able to handle, at least
- 22:13Speaker 1: that I might have. I would say that I could
- 22:15Speaker 1: fast forward it through, but I think it keeps coming up.
- 22:19Speaker 1: But also now I know the entire story, and that's fine.
- 22:23Speaker 1: I also have watched all of the episodes of the
- 22:28Speaker 1: new season of ted Lasso, and I'm very glad it's
- 22:31Speaker 1: back because it's it definitely deals with issues, and they're
- 22:37Speaker 1: definitely problems that they have to solve, but it's such
- 22:40Speaker 1: a feel good show that like, sometimes just the feel
- 22:43Speaker 1: good makes me teery, because I'm like, I really needed
- 22:46Speaker 1: this today, and I'm very much enjoying the new season.
- 22:49Speaker 2: I will say there's a new Mitchell and Web sketchow
- 22:53Speaker 2: new Ish. It's been out for a while, but it's
- 22:55Speaker 2: called Mitchell and Web aren't helping, I think is what's called.
- 22:58Speaker 2: They have a sketch where they are specifically kind of
- 23:06Speaker 2: firing shots at Ted Lasso. It's like, I didn't know
- 23:09Speaker 2: you could be a comedy and not have jokes. And
- 23:12Speaker 2: it was just very It's mostly them talking about how
- 23:15Speaker 2: it so feel good, and then they they talk they're
- 23:19Speaker 2: making a whole sketch about how they're going to write
- 23:22Speaker 2: something that's just feel good and wholesome, and there are
- 23:24Speaker 2: no jokes at all. Because whenever you put a joke
- 23:27Speaker 2: in as a joke writer, you feel a lot of
- 23:29Speaker 2: anxiety because you're hoping, like are people going to laugh?
- 23:32Speaker 2: Are they going to be offended by it? Did I
- 23:34Speaker 2: tell the joke? Right? But if you just leave jokes out,
- 23:37Speaker 2: it's fine, And so I'm like.
- 23:39Speaker 1: Wow, yeah, I mean, they're definitely entitled to their opinion.
- 23:43Speaker 1: It makes me laugh out loud, even because there is
- 23:46Speaker 1: some formulaic to it, right, Like there are certain jokes
- 23:49Speaker 1: that they bring in every year because people expect them
- 23:51Speaker 1: or it's like a recurring thing.
- 23:54Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, but.
- 23:55Speaker 1: A lot of the jokes this season have genuinely made
- 23:57Speaker 1: me laugh out loud. They've even made my husband Lie
- 24:00Speaker 1: felt loud a couple of times, and that's hard, so
- 24:03Speaker 1: I'm really enjoying it. Of course, this season's focusing on
- 24:05Speaker 1: them starting a women's club. If you've watched stuff about
- 24:09Speaker 1: British football and probably other countries too, but I mainly
- 24:13Speaker 1: just watch about like welcome directsm and and you know
- 24:16Speaker 1: this kind of stuff. Women's teams go hard and they
- 24:21Speaker 1: deserve some recognition and stuff.
- 24:23Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, so Spider Man and Ted Lasso, anything else,
- 24:28Speaker 2: a lot.
- 24:28Speaker 1: Of drop out, a lot of smash, a lot of
- 24:31Speaker 1: I've learned that Amazon has just streaming channels, so like
- 24:34Speaker 1: they have one channel that is just Far Escape all
- 24:37Speaker 1: the time.
- 24:39Speaker 2: So some of that you just you just tune in.
- 24:42Speaker 1: Yep, and half the time it's the same episode because
- 24:44Speaker 1: there's only so many. There's onlyly five seasons of Far Escape,
- 24:47Speaker 1: and then the long movie when they got canceled and
- 24:49Speaker 1: then made a movie and drained all of Australia out
- 24:52Speaker 1: of its pyrotechnics to make the movie. And then this
- 24:55Speaker 1: weekend I'm gonna watch Lanterns. I've heard really good things
- 24:57Speaker 1: about it. I'm trying not to get my hopes too
- 25:01Speaker 1: high because that's it kind of leans into my question
- 25:04Speaker 1: that will bring up in the future. But like I've
- 25:06Speaker 1: said it before, if you go in with lower expectations,
- 25:09Speaker 1: then there's a good chance you'll enjoy it.
- 25:11Speaker 2: I've heard. I've heard some decent things about it. I
- 25:13Speaker 2: have not looked into it specifically because I too plan
- 25:17Speaker 2: on watching that this weekend. I was waiting so that
- 25:20Speaker 2: Becca can watch it with me, because otherwise I have
- 25:23Speaker 2: a feeling it's something that we would at least like
- 25:26Speaker 2: to experience together at first, and then you know, she
- 25:30Speaker 2: can make the determination whether or not she wants to
- 25:31Speaker 2: stick with it.
- 25:32Speaker 1: But the other thing is I've just had like every
- 25:35Speaker 1: Tuesday right now, I have my actual play, so that's
- 25:39Speaker 1: making content instead of watching content. And then on Wednesdays
- 25:42Speaker 1: I've been having for like the last few weeks. In
- 25:44Speaker 1: the next few weeks in person rehearsals for Dragon Con,
- 25:47Speaker 1: I'm performing Friday night, Saturday night, and Sunday night. So yeah,
- 25:53Speaker 1: I've been a bit busy. Okay.
- 25:55Speaker 2: Yeah, So so if you if you go to Dragon Con,
- 25:58Speaker 2: look at the uh the perform says that Ratsy is doing.
- 26:01Speaker 2: That's the rad Atlanta Theater Corporation.
- 26:05Speaker 1: I am the recurring joke you wrote in for the
- 26:08Speaker 1: new character. Yeah, with about Ratsy, I'm the other person,
- 26:15Speaker 1: and since you know the other character I'm playing, I
- 26:17Speaker 1: think I'm gonna get progressively angry angrier each time I
- 26:20Speaker 1: do it.
- 26:22Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess part of me thought that maybe maybe instead,
- 26:26Speaker 2: So yeah, we have a joke. The actual organization is
- 26:28Speaker 2: called Artsy the Atlanta Radio Theater Company, but I have
- 26:32Speaker 2: a recurring joke where a host for one of the
- 26:34Speaker 2: performances keeps getting the name wrong. I now think that
- 26:37Speaker 2: maybe I should have done that where the person correcting,
- 26:40Speaker 2: instead of whispering in the ear of the host, gets
- 26:44Speaker 2: on the god mic to say the actual, the proper one.
- 26:48Speaker 2: But then I'm like, ah, whatever, though this will be
- 26:50Speaker 2: some fun visual gags for the radio theater.
- 26:55Speaker 1: Company, I mean, if you still think that's a better idea,
- 26:57Speaker 1: I don't mind not walking up and doing the gag
- 26:59Speaker 1: bit it. I can, you can. We can have whoever's
- 27:03Speaker 1: running the like the board or whatever do it.
- 27:06Speaker 2: I don't want to take first, they don't want to
- 27:08Speaker 2: take anything away from you. Second, I think as long
- 27:11Speaker 2: as you're able to stage it in a way where
- 27:13Speaker 2: it works and isn't too clunky, it's fine.
- 27:16Speaker 1: Well, listen, I actually have had this conversation with one
- 27:20Speaker 1: of the directors. One of the other pieces of Artsy
- 27:25Speaker 1: there are, and you know this, there have been in
- 27:29Speaker 1: the past, naming no names, a lot of people who
- 27:32Speaker 1: are very attached to the roles that they have played
- 27:36Speaker 1: for the organization.
- 27:37Speaker 2: Yes, for for decades, for literal decades.
- 27:42Speaker 1: Yeah. So when I started, it's better now. It is
- 27:46Speaker 1: definitely better now. But when I started, most of the
- 27:49Speaker 1: roles and most of the pieces were guys, and there
- 27:51Speaker 1: were a lot of women, and most of those women
- 27:53Speaker 1: already had claims to the roles because Artsy will reprise
- 27:56Speaker 1: scripts because people like that. And it was frustrating to me,
- 28:01Speaker 1: and I understood it, and for a while I had
- 28:03Speaker 1: that mentality too. I'm like, oh, I finally got a
- 28:05Speaker 1: piece and I really enjoyed doing it, so I want
- 28:07Speaker 1: to do it again. And of course that's completely reasonable.
- 28:11Speaker 1: But as Artsy has grown and as new, young, amazing
- 28:15Speaker 1: talent has come in, I'm like more amazing than when
- 28:18Speaker 1: I started. I'm like, you know what, I enjoy this role,
- 28:23Speaker 1: but if somebody else knocks me out of the water,
- 28:25Speaker 1: I want them to have it. I'm not precious about
- 28:27Speaker 1: the role you gave me. I want other people to
- 28:29Speaker 1: have opportunity to I've been doing this long enough that,
- 28:35Speaker 1: you know, yeah, so, like they're doing for Halloween, because
- 28:40Speaker 1: my band is playing the Halloween show, which is not
- 28:43Speaker 1: at DRAGONCN that's somewhere else. There's a piece that I
- 28:47Speaker 1: have done a role in before, and I talked to
- 28:49Speaker 1: the director this week and I was like, Hey, if
- 28:52Speaker 1: you want me to do this role again, that's totally fine.
- 28:55Speaker 1: I'm not offended if you're going to do auditions, and
- 28:58Speaker 1: I'm absolutely not offended if you cast somebody else. You know,
- 29:04Speaker 1: yeah so, And I think more people have been having
- 29:07Speaker 1: that attitude, but like it's I think it's really important
- 29:10Speaker 1: because you want to foster new talent and you want
- 29:13Speaker 1: to foster new excitement in these art forms, and you
- 29:15Speaker 1: can't do that if you don't include people.
- 29:18Speaker 2: And this is it's complicated by the fact that this
- 29:20Speaker 2: is an organization that at its core started with fans
- 29:25Speaker 2: working together to create you know, radio audio style performances,
- 29:31Speaker 2: and you know, it's it's it's growing pains of transforming
- 29:36Speaker 2: from a group of like minded fans into more of
- 29:40Speaker 2: an actual theater company. Which is not to say that
- 29:44Speaker 2: the people who are fans were necessarily, you know, not
- 29:47Speaker 2: capable of giving great performances. I don't mean to say that.
- 29:50Speaker 2: I just mean to say that the things that work
- 29:53Speaker 2: for a group of fans and the things that work
- 29:55Speaker 2: for a theater company are not It's not a Venn
- 29:58Speaker 2: diagram with a total circle, right, there's overlap, but there's
- 30:01Speaker 2: also areas that are outside of each other. So yeah,
- 30:05Speaker 2: it's a I an envy having to make those kind
- 30:09Speaker 2: of decisions because again, if you're all friends, that also
- 30:11Speaker 2: makes it harder, right.
- 30:12Speaker 1: Well, I mean, but because we're all friends, I know
- 30:16Speaker 1: that it's not a slight Yeah.
- 30:19Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just it's it's tough because you're like, if
- 30:23Speaker 2: you are the director, you know, the fear is that
- 30:26Speaker 2: you're going to hurt someone's feelings, even if that's not reality,
- 30:30Speaker 2: that's what the anxiety is.
- 30:32Speaker 1: And but on the other hand, there are scripts, there
- 30:34Speaker 1: are series where people are like, I want you to
- 30:37Speaker 1: come back and play this character when I bring this
- 30:39Speaker 1: character back, and I'm I'm like absolutely, So it's not.
- 30:43Speaker 2: Well, is that everything you watched?
- 30:46Speaker 1: Sorry, I talked for a really long time to help
- 30:48Speaker 1: you feel I'm sure it was on purpose to help
- 30:50Speaker 1: you feel better about you talking for a really long time. Next,
- 30:52Speaker 1: I'm kidding.
- 30:53Speaker 2: Well, now I don't need to because you covered Spider Man,
- 30:56Speaker 2: so we won't. We won't belabor the point. I mean,
- 30:58Speaker 2: I loved it, I said, Uh. We talked a bit
- 31:01Speaker 2: about the Odyssey, which I also saw, and talked about
- 31:03Speaker 2: how loud it was. I liked. I liked it. I
- 31:08Speaker 2: liked it. I didn't love it. I liked it. There
- 31:11Speaker 2: are parts of it that I didn't like so much.
- 31:15Speaker 2: Nothing like egregious, I would say, but there were bits,
- 31:19Speaker 2: so it's just like a like, I still think it's
- 31:22Speaker 2: weird that everyone speaks in an American accent. I actually
- 31:24Speaker 2: would have found it less distracting if everyone spoke in
- 31:28Speaker 2: their own native accent.
- 31:30Speaker 1: That's what I was thinking.
- 31:31Speaker 2: Like, I would have been fine with Matt Damon being
- 31:33Speaker 2: an American accent. I would have been fine with Tom
- 31:35Speaker 2: Holland speaking with an English accent, with Anne Hathaway speaking
- 31:38Speaker 2: an American accent like that, I would have found that
- 31:41Speaker 2: less distracting. It is weird to hear characters in an
- 31:46Speaker 2: ancient Greek mythological story say words like mom and dad,
- 31:51Speaker 2: Like that's just weird. It just it doesn't hit right.
- 31:54Speaker 2: But that's a minor quibble. I don't have problem with
- 31:58Speaker 2: the casting. By the way. The casting I thought was great.
- 32:01Speaker 2: I just wish that they had all been allowed to
- 32:02Speaker 2: speak in their normal accents, because I think it would
- 32:05Speaker 2: have been less distracting to me. I think I saw
- 32:09Speaker 2: a couple of episodes of Cape Crusader Season two. I
- 32:12Speaker 2: need to watch the rest of that. I have enjoyed them,
- 32:15Speaker 2: but I only watched the beginning. I watched the film
- 32:19Speaker 2: Over Your Dead Body, which that's the movie with Jason
- 32:23Speaker 2: Siegel and Tomorrow Weaving.
- 32:25Speaker 1: They find it.
- 32:27Speaker 2: So this is gonna sound weird. I wish it were meaner. Really,
- 32:34Speaker 2: it's pretty darn mean, but I wish it were meaner. Okay,
- 32:38Speaker 2: Like I I mean, this is it's kind of a
- 32:41Speaker 2: spoiler for the movie. The movie's been out forever because
- 32:44Speaker 2: it came to digital streaming. That's all I saw it.
- 32:46Speaker 2: But it's do I see it digital streaming? Actually, I
- 32:52Speaker 2: might have seen it on an airplane. I think I
- 32:53Speaker 2: saw it on an airplane. I think I saw that
- 32:56Speaker 2: when I was going to Seattle. But the ending isn't
- 33:01Speaker 2: as mean as I want it to be. Gotcha, Like,
- 33:04Speaker 2: I feel like the ending is somewhat unearned, but the
- 33:12Speaker 2: it was. I had a decent fun time watching it,
- 33:16Speaker 2: but it is kind of a mean spirited comedy. I
- 33:20Speaker 2: just wish it had gone harder. I also watched the
- 33:23Speaker 2: first four episodes of Stuart Fails to Save the Universe.
- 33:26Speaker 2: I think there might be another one out since then,
- 33:29Speaker 2: but I'm not caught up. The first three episodes, I
- 33:33Speaker 2: was like, Oh, I don't know about this, Like it
- 33:36Speaker 2: feels like it feels like comedy adjacent, like it's obviously
- 33:41Speaker 2: a comedy, but it wasn't funny to me, and it
- 33:45Speaker 2: wasn't creative enough, like the Multiverse stuff felt more like
- 33:50Speaker 2: derivative than original. It was definitely weird. It was a
- 33:53Speaker 2: weird show, especially considering that it's a spin off of
- 33:56Speaker 2: The Big Bang Theory. It was very strange and all
- 34:00Speaker 2: the cameos from other actors who have been in The
- 34:03Speaker 2: Big Bang Theory are kind of strange. It wasn't until
- 34:07Speaker 2: the fourth episode where I thought, Okay, I actually like
- 34:11Speaker 2: this one. The other three episodes I didn't care for
- 34:14Speaker 2: that much, Like it felt like it was depending too
- 34:17Speaker 2: hard on me saying, oh, I remember that person from
- 34:20Speaker 2: the Big Bang Theory, and oh, wasn't that weird what
- 34:24Speaker 2: just happened? But I didn't. I wasn't entertained really, But
- 34:29Speaker 2: the fourth one I felt differently about, so it gives
- 34:31Speaker 2: me hope for the rest. That being said, I was
- 34:34Speaker 2: never a huge Big Bang Theory fan, so you should
- 34:38Speaker 2: take that, really, you know, all of my opinions with
- 34:40Speaker 2: a huge grain of salt. And then finally, I watched
- 34:46Speaker 2: the he Man movie during the time we were away,
- 34:50Speaker 2: and I was thoroughly entertained. I won't say it's a
- 34:54Speaker 2: great movie, but I will say I had a lot
- 34:55Speaker 2: of fun.
- 34:56Speaker 1: It's a really fun movie. It knows what it is
- 34:59Speaker 1: and that's what it is used to be.
- 35:01Speaker 2: Yeah, I I My brother in law was talking about
- 35:04Speaker 2: how he felt like it didn't know what it was
- 35:07Speaker 2: because sometimes it was trying to be kind of an
- 35:09Speaker 2: earnest expression of what the cartoon was. In other parts
- 35:13Speaker 2: it was like pointing out how ridiculous. I mean a
- 35:15Speaker 2: lot of the movie they're pointing out how ridiculous the
- 35:17Speaker 2: cartoon was, and I was thinking, I'm okay either way,
- 35:21Speaker 2: Like I understand what you're saying. Like they're trying to
- 35:23Speaker 2: have their cake and eat it too kind of thing.
- 35:25Speaker 2: But I still was just very entertained, and I hate
- 35:29Speaker 2: I cannot. I hate to say it, but Jared Leto's
- 35:33Speaker 2: performance Eskeletor was actually possibly my favorite part of the movie.
- 35:36Speaker 1: It was very good. It was very good. I think
- 35:40Speaker 1: the old he Man cartoons and the new Kevin Smith
- 35:43Speaker 1: he Maan cartoon both have like a blend of ridiculous
- 35:47Speaker 1: in earnest because Prince Adam has always been an empathy
- 35:51Speaker 1: a sympathetic character. Right, Yeah, so I do think there's that.
- 35:56Speaker 1: Even though it was made to just sell toys and
- 35:59Speaker 1: it wasn't made to be very very deep. I enjoyed it.
- 36:03Speaker 1: My husband thought that he wished that he Man had
- 36:05Speaker 1: not been the the punchlines so much. I didn't mind it.
- 36:15Speaker 1: But what was your opinion on the use of music
- 36:19Speaker 1: and then also the fight choreography, because those are my
- 36:22Speaker 1: favorite bits.
- 36:23Speaker 2: I thought the use of music was pretty good. You
- 36:26Speaker 2: did get whatsap in there? Although I didn't hear the
- 36:29Speaker 2: disco version. I was really hoping here the disco version
- 36:32Speaker 2: of What's up in There?
- 36:32Speaker 1: Wasn't it in the in the credits.
- 36:35Speaker 2: I skipped through the credits so I could watch the scenes. Okay,
- 36:38Speaker 2: I didn't. I didn't watch. I didn't watch the credits themselves.
- 36:41Speaker 2: I fast forward it because I wasn't in a theater.
- 36:43Speaker 2: I was at my house.
- 36:44Speaker 1: So yeah, but the credits, I think I think the
- 36:46Speaker 1: disco versions is in the credits.
- 36:50Speaker 2: Okay, that's that's why I didn't hear it. I thought
- 36:53Speaker 2: I thought it was okay. So playing Princes of the
- 36:57Speaker 2: Universe after they had already made a Highlander friends earlier
- 37:00Speaker 2: in the movie felt a little bit like double dipping
- 37:03Speaker 2: to me, But otherwise I did enjoy it. I felt
- 37:07Speaker 2: like it did feel like this is a very eighties,
- 37:10Speaker 2: like eighties era hair metal album cover kind of movie,
- 37:15Speaker 2: is what it felt like. Yeah, it felt like the
- 37:18Speaker 2: the the action comedy version of what was it, Maggie?
- 37:23Speaker 2: Was that the name of It's Nicholas Cage movie, where
- 37:25Speaker 2: it also takes heavy inspiration from heavy metal album covers.
- 37:29Speaker 2: But that's like dark Mandy, that's it, the dark psychedelic
- 37:34Speaker 2: horror action movie. So it's like it's like the the
- 37:38Speaker 2: flip side of the coin of that, where the other
- 37:41Speaker 2: side of the coin is like, here's what it is.
- 37:42Speaker 2: If it's all bright and cheerful and stuff, as opposed
- 37:45Speaker 2: to dark and scary and grim I enjoyed it. I
- 37:51Speaker 2: had a good time. I do think. I think the
- 37:54Speaker 2: thing my brother in law found off putting was that
- 37:58Speaker 2: he thought it would have been good either as being
- 38:00Speaker 2: earnest and sincere but campy, like ridiculous but it's coming
- 38:07Speaker 2: to the ridiculous thing honestly, or to be a commentary
- 38:10Speaker 2: on how ridiculous the cartoon was. But it was trying
- 38:12Speaker 2: to be both at the same time, and that was
- 38:15Speaker 2: what he found off putting, was that, Yeah, it can
- 38:18Speaker 2: be campy, there's no problem there. It's that when it
- 38:21Speaker 2: starts to hang a lampshade on it and say, look
- 38:24Speaker 2: how campy we are, that's where it starts to get
- 38:26Speaker 2: a little weird for him. But yeah, I enjoyed it.
- 38:30Speaker 2: I Oh, I'm glad I watched it.
- 38:32Speaker 1: Okay, good. It's the kind of movie I enjoyed enough
- 38:34Speaker 1: that I wish it would get more and I hope
- 38:36Speaker 1: it gains its legs on streaming so that we can
- 38:38Speaker 1: get the things that it teased that it would want
- 38:41Speaker 1: to do next.
- 38:42Speaker 2: Yeah, there's there was a fun, little little tease for
- 38:48Speaker 2: true fans of the great Lore of he Man.
- 38:52Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and well people who.
- 38:54Speaker 2: Just collected way too many many toys like me.
- 38:56Speaker 1: Yeah, and in the end scenes, and I really enjoyed
- 39:00Speaker 1: how they justified the horrible character names.
- 39:04Speaker 2: Yeah, that was I mean, that was okay. That was
- 39:07Speaker 2: one of those moments that my brother in law would
- 39:09Speaker 2: point out and say, like, that's kind of irritating. But
- 39:12Speaker 2: I also like, there is a moment where a bunch
- 39:15Speaker 2: of characters I have like their hands on their hips
- 39:18Speaker 2: and they're leaning back and laughing uproariously for way too long,
- 39:22Speaker 2: and You're like, this would make no sense to anyone
- 39:25Speaker 2: unless they were a fan of the original cartoon series,
- 39:28Speaker 2: where characters would just do this and it would just
- 39:31Speaker 2: be treated like that's just normal, That's just something that
- 39:33Speaker 2: happens in the cartoon. And I thought it was very
- 39:36Speaker 2: funny because I was a I'm the right age for that.
- 39:40Speaker 1: I thought it was very funny too. I also felt
- 39:42Speaker 1: like when I watched the movie and I'm sorry, I
- 39:44Speaker 1: don't want to overseell this to people, but it is
- 39:46Speaker 1: a good fun ride. Well, I did find the fight
- 39:49Speaker 1: choreography like really fun to watch for once, and then
- 39:54Speaker 1: a lot of the jokes in the beginning, I'm like,
- 39:55Speaker 1: these aren't landing like that. I see what they're doing.
- 39:58Speaker 1: They are funny, They're not landing quite as well as
- 40:00Speaker 1: I'd want, and then they circled back to them at
- 40:02Speaker 1: the end, and like those particular jokes. I thought that
- 40:05Speaker 1: was a great choice.
- 40:07Speaker 2: Yeah, I would say that My biggest complaint when I
- 40:12Speaker 2: was watching it was it took a little too long
- 40:14Speaker 2: to get back to Eternia. There was a little too long,
- 40:17Speaker 2: too much time spent on Earth. Yeah, but I do
- 40:21Speaker 2: appreciate that a lot of the stuff that was set
- 40:23Speaker 2: up has a payoff later on, Like it doesn't feel
- 40:25Speaker 2: like things were set up for no reason and then
- 40:27Speaker 2: never resolved. But I do feel that like you could
- 40:33Speaker 2: have cut five minutes out of the beginning and not
- 40:38Speaker 2: really lost too much and it would have been okay.
- 40:41Speaker 2: Like it did feel like a little bit heavy handed
- 40:45Speaker 2: in the sense of he's out of his element and
- 40:49Speaker 2: he wants to get back home and everyone thinks he's crazy.
- 40:52Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, you only have to show me one
- 40:53Speaker 2: scene of that. I don't need five of them.
- 40:55Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I can get that. So, like the three
- 40:58Speaker 1: movies that I was most looking for to that aren't
- 41:00Speaker 1: like Spider Man, right, these are all camp We're Mortal Kombat.
- 41:05Speaker 1: He Man an upcoming street Fighter. Right now, he Man's
- 41:08Speaker 1: in the lead. I think street Fighter might take over
- 41:11Speaker 1: if they do it the way that they're marketing it.
- 41:13Speaker 2: But yeah, yeah, or at least at least be neck
- 41:17Speaker 2: and neck with he Man. Everything I've heard, I still
- 41:19Speaker 2: haven't seen the Mortal Kombat sequel, but everything I heard
- 41:22Speaker 2: about that was kind of like, you're fine not having
- 41:25Speaker 2: seen it. It's not like you I haven't really missed out.
- 41:28Speaker 1: I had fun. My friends seem to think that I
- 41:32Speaker 1: was gonna say Nick Fury, that's not the right name.
- 41:34Speaker 1: Johnny Starr is is maybe miscast. They thought somebody younger
- 41:40Speaker 1: and wire ers should have played him.
- 41:42Speaker 2: Do you mean Johnny Cage Johnny Cage.
- 41:45Speaker 1: Yes, they didn't agree with Keith Urban playing him.
- 41:49Speaker 2: Okay, but if Ringo Starr had played Johnny Caage that
- 41:53Speaker 2: would have been amazing. Also, it's been a much slower
- 41:56Speaker 2: moving movie.
- 41:57Speaker 1: It did learn that, like, maybe we don't need so
- 42:00Speaker 1: much backstory. We can just get into the action. But
- 42:02Speaker 1: I still enjoyed the story more than the first one.
- 42:06Speaker 1: I thought it was a lot more fun. There were
- 42:07Speaker 1: bits of it I really liked. Baracco was amazing.
- 42:11Speaker 2: Yeah, I oh not to this move. This episode is
- 42:15Speaker 2: going to be so frickin' long.
- 42:16Speaker 1: Now, I can just we can save everything else for
- 42:18Speaker 1: later if you want.
- 42:19Speaker 2: Well, I'm not gonna remember later. I was just gonna say, like,
- 42:23Speaker 2: I think, I think the biggest problem with Mortal Kombat
- 42:25Speaker 2: two is that Mortal Kombat one exists. Yes, sure, because
- 42:29Speaker 2: if they had not gone so hard with an original
- 42:32Speaker 2: character to be at the protagonist in the first one,
- 42:35Speaker 2: they wouldn't have faced the problem of how do we
- 42:38Speaker 2: pivot to Johnny Cage in the second one and get
- 42:40Speaker 2: rid of this character who was the most important person
- 42:44Speaker 2: in the first movie, And then like the way they
- 42:46Speaker 2: chose to deal with that, knowing that I haven't seen it,
- 42:49Speaker 2: I've just read about it sounds like, well, let's just
- 42:53Speaker 2: sweep them, let's almost literally sweep them under the rug
- 42:57Speaker 2: we can.
- 42:58Speaker 1: I was fine with it.
- 43:00Speaker 2: To me, though, It's just like I would almost prefer
- 43:03Speaker 2: you do another reboot and start fresh with Johnny Cage
- 43:09Speaker 2: and not have it be a sequel to the first film,
- 43:11Speaker 2: like keep all that. Like sure, I mean, you're gonna
- 43:14Speaker 2: keep the same actors and everything, But it just felt
- 43:17Speaker 2: it feels weird to be so like to dispose of
- 43:20Speaker 2: your hero from the first movie so callously and casually.
- 43:24Speaker 2: But it seems weird.
- 43:25Speaker 1: The thing is, it wasn't just him. It wasn't like
- 43:28Speaker 1: we just want to get rid of this character. They
- 43:31Speaker 1: disposed of a lot of people, partially setting up the
- 43:34Speaker 1: third movie. I had fun. I thought it was fine
- 43:39Speaker 1: because it was a recurring theme of what was happening.
- 43:46Speaker 2: Yes, storybe maybe when I watch it I'll feel differently.
- 43:49Speaker 2: I just think, like, how would I feel if I
- 43:51Speaker 2: had gone to see Empire Strikes Back and Luke Skywalker
- 43:54Speaker 2: is killed in the first like ten minutes of the
- 43:56Speaker 2: movie because you spent the whole movie before like Luke,
- 44:00Speaker 2: and Luke is annoying in a new Hope. He's not
- 44:04Speaker 2: like a super charismatic hero in that.
- 44:07Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, I could have gone in and just
- 44:10Speaker 1: ignored that the first movie happened because I knew it happened.
- 44:12Speaker 1: I was like, oh, okay, I know who these characters
- 44:14Speaker 1: are already, and that was like it, Yeah.
- 44:16Speaker 2: Okay, Well, let us move to thirty seconds or less,
- 44:19Speaker 2: which in this case is not really going to be
- 44:21Speaker 2: thirty seconds or less because here's the problem. Since the
- 44:25Speaker 2: last time we recorded, Disney held its d twenty three event,
- 44:30Speaker 2: and it released a crap ton of information. So we're
- 44:37Speaker 2: going to start with me, and this first one's going
- 44:39Speaker 2: to be easily twice as long as thirty seconds. This
- 44:42Speaker 2: will be a minute at least. Here we go, m
- 44:47Speaker 2: Here are some of the park up dates that will
- 44:48Speaker 2: take well more than thirty seconds to cover. Walt Disney
- 44:52Speaker 2: World is getting a dream Fighter returning to Journey into Imagination.
- 44:56Speaker 2: Spaceship Earth is going to get a refresh and sort
- 44:59Speaker 2: of a rebrand. The Yetti at Expedition Everest is going
- 45:02Speaker 2: to be repaired so that it moves again. Piston Peak
- 45:05Speaker 2: and Villain's Land both look pretty cool. We got a
- 45:08Speaker 2: little bit of a look at the attractions coming to it.
- 45:11Speaker 2: The Karusel Progress is getting an update Onstropolis at Hollywood Studios,
- 45:15Speaker 2: has some neat concept art and will open earlier than
- 45:18Speaker 2: expected in twenty twenty seven. That's cool. The Tropical America's
- 45:21Speaker 2: land over at Animal Kingdom will host Indiana Jones in
- 45:24Speaker 2: the Myth of the Jade Serpent, plus Antonio's Fiesta di
- 45:27Speaker 2: Acanto and a carousel ride. Disneyland and California Adventure are
- 45:32Speaker 2: getting refreshed versions of World of Color. The Magic Happens
- 45:36Speaker 2: Parade and Remember Dreams Come True Nighttime Spectacular. Tomorrowland is
- 45:40Speaker 2: getting a big update in the future. Over at Disneyland,
- 45:43Speaker 2: the Avengers Campus is going to get two new attractions
- 45:45Speaker 2: and Avengers Infinity Defense and Stark Flight Lab. Coco is
- 45:50Speaker 2: going to get a ride set between the first film
- 45:52Speaker 2: and its upcoming sequel, which we'll talk about in a second.
- 45:56Speaker 2: Space Mountain in Disneyland Paris is going to go back
- 45:58Speaker 2: to closer to its original concept, which is very Jules
- 46:01Speaker 2: Verne coded. Tokyo's version of Space Mountain is going to
- 46:05Speaker 2: get a facelift. Tokyo is also getting a Wreck at
- 46:07Speaker 2: Ralph attraction with Sugar Rush Sweet Rescue, and Disney Adventure
- 46:11Speaker 2: World in France will get a Lion King attraction. Also,
- 46:14Speaker 2: there was a bunch of stuff about the Disney Cruise Line,
- 46:16Speaker 2: but we've already gone too long.
- 46:18Speaker 1: A lot of people are upset that Disney only mentioned
- 46:20Speaker 1: two movies during Comic Con. Well, that's because they were
- 46:23Speaker 1: saving more news for d twenty three, and part of
- 46:26Speaker 1: that news is the new X Men cast. Now it's
- 46:29Speaker 1: only a few characters, I'm sure they're going to have
- 46:31Speaker 1: a lot more. Right now, we have. This is gonna
- 46:35Speaker 1: be okay right now we have This is a spoiler,
- 46:39Speaker 1: a slight spoiler if you haven't seen Spider Man, so
- 46:42Speaker 1: skip thirty seconds if so. Sadie Sink as Geen Gray,
- 46:45Speaker 1: Kit Connor as Psyclops, Christopher Abadus Professor x Tamoraw Weaving
- 46:49Speaker 1: who is Hugo Weavings's niece as Emma Frost, Indy Neverette
- 46:53Speaker 1: as Rogue, Mya Boid as Storm, and Adam Driver as
- 46:56Speaker 1: mister Sinister. I wasn't on board with Adam Driver as
- 46:58Speaker 1: mister Sinister first because I feel like mister Senastor has
- 47:02Speaker 1: looked more chiseled to me. But I'm on board now.
- 47:05Speaker 2: Yeah. He's the one who made the announcement, and he
- 47:07Speaker 2: originally announced that he was playing Magneto and then got
- 47:10Speaker 2: corrected to being mister Sinister, which was cute as also,
- 47:14Speaker 2: INDI neveratty. All right, here we go. H Here's some
- 47:18Speaker 2: more film announcements and updates from d twenty three. As
- 47:20Speaker 2: a shock to none, we're getting tons of sequels. That
- 47:24Speaker 2: includes Frozen three, Coco two, the new Simpsons movie as
- 47:28Speaker 2: what was called Zootopia, three, Incredibles three, Princess Diaries, three,
- 47:33Speaker 2: Lee Low and Stitch two, a live action ice age
- 47:36Speaker 2: Boiling Point, and then we get some new stuff like
- 47:39Speaker 2: Pixar's Ghost Market and animated Fantasy that's called Clay. More
- 47:45Speaker 2: stuff was shown from hext the upcoming Fantasy animated film. Also,
- 47:49Speaker 2: they announced the Bluey movie, and they talked a little
- 47:52Speaker 2: bit about Star Wars, Starfighter, Avengers, Doomsday, the aforementioned X
- 47:57Speaker 2: Men film, and the live action Hang.
- 48:01Speaker 1: This was not discussed a D twenty three, but it
- 48:03Speaker 1: was discussed. Mah Maherschela Sorry Allie has said that he
- 48:08Speaker 1: is not in the new Blade movie. He was contracted,
- 48:12Speaker 1: but he's like, if Marvel wanted to make it, they
- 48:15Speaker 1: would have made it by now. They had me on board,
- 48:19Speaker 1: and if they don't want to make it, I'm gonna
- 48:21Speaker 1: move on. You just got to take the things that
- 48:23Speaker 1: are meant for you and things that don't come through
- 48:24Speaker 1: it just weren't meant for you. And I think that's
- 48:26Speaker 1: a very healthy attitude. Why I am sad not to
- 48:28Speaker 1: see him step into Blade shoes.
- 48:30Speaker 2: Yeah, and we still don't know if we'll actually get
- 48:33Speaker 2: a Blade movie at this point. They teased it at
- 48:35Speaker 2: the end of the Eternals, but you know how important
- 48:37Speaker 2: the eternals is to everything else. Okay, anyway, last push
- 48:41Speaker 2: for d twenty three announcements, they also included stuff about
- 48:44Speaker 2: streaming and TV series such as Vision Quest, which we're
- 48:48Speaker 2: going to chat about in a fit your friendly neighborhood.
- 48:51Speaker 2: Spider Man and Spidey and his Amazing Friends are both
- 48:54Speaker 2: returning for another season. Ahsoka season two, got a trailer
- 48:58Speaker 2: that will chat about. The Scrubs reboot is coming back
- 49:00Speaker 2: for season two. A three part mini series starring Oswald
- 49:04Speaker 2: The Lucky Rabbit, the predecessor to Mickey Mouse, is coming
- 49:08Speaker 2: to Disney. Plus, Percy Jackson's season three is also coming.
- 49:11Speaker 2: We'll mention that later as well. The Kingdom Hearts video
- 49:14Speaker 2: game series is getting an anime adaptation, and season two
- 49:18Speaker 2: of The Imagineering Story will also be coming, but not
- 49:21Speaker 2: until twenty twenty eight.
- 49:23Speaker 1: Well, why it seems that there's a bunch of good
- 49:25Speaker 1: things to look forward to a marvel, there's a few
- 49:27Speaker 1: less things to look forward to. At DC, they have
- 49:30Speaker 1: canceled both their Waller TV series and their Something of
- 49:34Speaker 1: Thermiscerra series Paradise Lost, which is the prequel to wonder
- 49:39Speaker 1: Woman TV series that they're going to work on. There
- 49:42Speaker 1: was worried that they also canceled the Booster Gold show
- 49:46Speaker 1: that Jonathan and I were both kind of looking forward to,
- 49:48Speaker 1: but it seems like they might just be looking for
- 49:50Speaker 1: a new creative team for that one and might still
- 49:52Speaker 1: want to bring it forward.
- 49:53Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, rough time. Meanwhile, back over at Marvel
- 49:58Speaker 2: for a second, but this time Tony Marvel Spider Man.
- 50:02Speaker 2: Brand New Day has done very well, and as a
- 50:04Speaker 2: gross understatement, the film reached eight hundred million dollars in
- 50:07Speaker 2: domestic box office faster than any movie in history. It
- 50:11Speaker 2: reached that benchmark in just nineteen days. That's like four
- 50:15Speaker 2: days faster than the next highest. It's around number four
- 50:19Speaker 2: of the highest grossing domestic box office films at the moment,
- 50:23Speaker 2: it could climb higher right now. Spider Man No Way
- 50:26Speaker 2: Home is at number three, and Brand New Day also
- 50:29Speaker 2: hit two billion dollars globally in box office. That's pretty
- 50:34Speaker 2: amazing Spider Man.
- 50:36Speaker 1: Yes, I love it and also well deserved.
- 50:40Speaker 2: Yes.
- 50:41Speaker 1: Duck Season, Rabbit Season, Marvel Season, DC season Back to DC.
- 50:45Speaker 1: Not only have they canceled a couple of shows, but
- 50:46Speaker 1: also are kind of in a little bit of hot
- 50:49Speaker 1: water because in the extras for Supergirl, which is already
- 50:55Speaker 1: available outside of theaters because I just didn't do that well.
- 50:58Speaker 1: They showed it behind the scenes where it looks like
- 51:01Speaker 1: they might have used AI for some of the character concepts,
- 51:06Speaker 1: and of course nobody likes that, so they've taken that
- 51:10Speaker 1: extra down. But also really, guys.
- 51:15Speaker 2: Yeah, like you can take it down, but we already
- 51:19Speaker 2: saw that existed. That unfortunately, is not the only AI
- 51:22Speaker 2: story we have this week. Eli Roth's Ice Cream Man
- 51:25Speaker 2: horror film, It hasn't actually really won over critics. It
- 51:29Speaker 2: currently has a twenty seven percent on Rotten Tomatoes and
- 51:31Speaker 2: a forty seven percent audience score, with pretty harsh. Part
- 51:35Speaker 2: of the criticism could be due to Roth's use of
- 51:38Speaker 2: generative AI in the movie. Deadline reported that Roth admitted
- 51:42Speaker 2: to using AI to generate visuals for a quote a
- 51:45Speaker 2: very small portion of a few scenes in the film
- 51:48Speaker 2: end quote, boom boom.
- 51:53Speaker 1: We knew a little while back that Ryan Hurst, who
- 51:56Speaker 1: is going to be Creatos and the new God of
- 51:57Speaker 1: War TV show for Amazon which has a two season order,
- 52:02Speaker 1: hurt himself and that would delay production from restarting until
- 52:06Speaker 1: twenty twenty seven. While he is out and now Dave
- 52:08Speaker 1: Batista is in to play Creados. The article of Variety
- 52:12Speaker 1: says that that's a better step in because he's already
- 52:14Speaker 1: in physically fit shape. But if I recall correctly, like
- 52:17Speaker 1: over the like at the end of Guardings of the Galaxy,
- 52:20Speaker 1: Dave Batista was specifically trying to step away from that.
- 52:24Speaker 2: Yeah, he's the one thing that would be a relief
- 52:26Speaker 2: is not having to maintain his physique. But you know what,
- 52:32Speaker 2: Creatos is a fun role. So all right, here's my
- 52:34Speaker 2: last one. No no, no, no. I thought we were
- 52:40Speaker 2: having a nice day at Universal's Halloween harn Nights. So
- 52:47Speaker 2: for those of you who don't get that reference from Obsession,
- 52:50Speaker 2: Universal Hollywood will play host to the Obsession character Nicki,
- 52:55Speaker 2: who visitors will actually have to look out for, as
- 52:57Speaker 2: she might just be on the hunt or her next
- 53:00Speaker 2: session and maybe it's you. Now, I have to say,
- 53:04Speaker 2: if Indy never ready popped up in front of me,
- 53:07Speaker 2: I would immediately ask if we could play video games together,
- 53:09Speaker 2: because she is super funny and is totally into computer games.
- 53:14Speaker 2: But yeah, look out for Nicky at Universal Hollywood Studios
- 53:18Speaker 2: for Halloween Horror Nights. That sounds super cool.
- 53:21Speaker 1: It does, I'm sure it does. I finally read the
- 53:25Speaker 1: plot synopsis for Obsession, and.
- 53:29Speaker 2: Well, no, the movie begins pretty early on with an
- 53:33Speaker 2: aerial no no.
- 53:34Speaker 1: Yeah, I read about it.
- 53:37Speaker 2: Yeah, but I didn't. I didn't know what was coming
- 53:41Speaker 2: and I saw it. I loved that movie. I really
- 53:48Speaker 2: I was. And honestly, Indy never Atty's performance is the
- 53:52Speaker 2: reason I love that movie. Like the movie I thought
- 53:54Speaker 2: was written well for a horror movie, but her performance
- 54:00Speaker 2: was so good, like she elevated that movie. In the
- 54:05Speaker 2: hands of any lesser performer, that would have just been
- 54:09Speaker 2: a forgettable independent horror movie. But she was phenomenal. I'm
- 54:14Speaker 2: not saying anything that people don't already know, though, so
- 54:16Speaker 2: I'll shut up.
- 54:17Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean I have seen tiny bits of clips
- 54:19Speaker 1: that also have been upsetting to me. But yeah, the
- 54:22Speaker 1: even though I know that this is absolutely on every
- 54:25Speaker 1: angle not a movie for me, I can see the
- 54:31Speaker 1: depth and the complexity of the role that she had
- 54:34Speaker 1: to play and it is very impressive.
- 54:36Speaker 2: Yeah. Also, like her interpretations of a character who is
- 54:41Speaker 2: simultaneously terrifying and pitiable is amazing. But enough of this.
- 54:48Speaker 2: It's not the Indian never Aty fan cast, though it
- 54:51Speaker 2: could be. Where instead going to switch over to talk about.
- 54:54Speaker 1: Saying I'd be not a great co host for it.
- 54:57Speaker 2: Yeah, well, yeah, you need to watch that Superman and
- 55:00Speaker 2: Lois show that she was on for like at least
- 55:03Speaker 2: a season, no, no live action.
- 55:06Speaker 1: Who is she in that?
- 55:09Speaker 2: I don't know. I didn't watch it.
- 55:10Speaker 1: I just she was in episodes of it, so I just.
- 55:13Speaker 2: Know she was in it. She was in it, and
- 55:14Speaker 2: then she she specifically asked to be written out so
- 55:17Speaker 2: that she could do other stuff.
- 55:18Speaker 1: She might have been Lana Lane or no she would yeah,
- 55:22Speaker 1: or the daughter of or something like that. I don't know.
- 55:25Speaker 1: I watched a few episodes of it. So I love
- 55:27Speaker 1: that You're like, you need to watch that show. I
- 55:28Speaker 1: did a little bit.
- 55:31Speaker 2: I didn't. I just know that she's in it. It's all.
- 55:34Speaker 2: So we're going to move on to talk about some
- 55:36Speaker 2: movies and TV and stuff that aren't necessarily deep in
- 55:40Speaker 2: the geek sphere. This is a section we like to
- 55:42Speaker 2: call this week things that made you could go yeah.
- 55:46Speaker 1: And the first one is a thing called Cooper Tino.
- 55:50Speaker 1: I was going to say a TV and then a movie,
- 55:51Speaker 1: but I actually don't remember.
- 55:53Speaker 2: It's a TV show, a.
- 55:54Speaker 1: TV show starring Luke Cage as like.
- 56:01Speaker 2: Mike Mike Mike Coulter is the actor's name.
- 56:04Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, he played Blue Kitsch. Yeah, as a
- 56:09Speaker 1: guy who's kind of been like shorted out of his
- 56:12Speaker 1: du in Silicon Valley, and so he teams up with
- 56:15Speaker 1: a lawyer.
- 56:18Speaker 2: No am I wrong, No, I just I'm laughing at
- 56:21Speaker 2: the thought of Silicon Valley because that's a different place.
- 56:24Speaker 1: Sorry, there's no Silicon Silicon Valley.
- 56:27Speaker 2: Silicon Valley would be where all the fake boobs are.
- 56:30Speaker 1: Listen, Johnny Cash and Keith Irvin are on my side.
- 56:36Speaker 2: Yeah, Johnny, Johnny Starr.
- 56:38Speaker 1: Johnny Stars. That what I said. Yeah, I had also
- 56:41Speaker 1: been looking at because I was trying to do like
- 56:43Speaker 1: over my dead body, there was a scene in there
- 56:45Speaker 1: that was similar to a scene that we had talked
- 56:46Speaker 1: about in Boys and uh, so I was looking up
- 56:49Speaker 1: characters and so I had just looked at Anthony Starr's name.
- 56:53Speaker 1: So that's mournament.
- 56:54Speaker 2: I mean, I do this all the time. I have.
- 56:56Speaker 2: I am not really throwing stones. I am amused by
- 56:59Speaker 2: the by the slips, but I do worse things every day,
- 57:05Speaker 2: mixing up people's names. So all you listeners out there
- 57:07Speaker 2: who are like, oh, Jonathan's really kind of teazing aerial.
- 57:11Speaker 2: Just know, I do this all the time, and and
- 57:14Speaker 2: it's a real problem with me, so as in like
- 57:17Speaker 2: I mix up names constantly and confidently that's the worst part.
- 57:21Speaker 2: I will confidently get it wrong.
- 57:24Speaker 1: Look, I've learned that in theater and improv. If you're
- 57:28Speaker 1: going to do it wrong, do it confidently, because that's better.
- 57:31Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, commit to the bit, as they say.
- 57:34Speaker 1: Yeah, I commit to the bit. So yeah, so they
- 57:36Speaker 1: team up to try to rectify their wrong they're being wrong.
- 57:41Speaker 2: The wrongs against them. Yeah. Yeah, So Rachel Keller plays
- 57:44Speaker 2: the other lawyer and and yeah, it's kind of like
- 57:48Speaker 2: these two people tackling these big tech, big and powerful
- 57:52Speaker 2: tech companies. So think of things like you know, Google
- 57:55Speaker 2: and open Ai and Meta and those kind of of companies,
- 57:59Speaker 2: and and how these lawyers are trying to seek justice
- 58:03Speaker 2: against corporations that have become so huge and ingrained in
- 58:09Speaker 2: politics and culture that they seem unassailable. I have a
- 58:14Speaker 2: feeling that I would like this show because I would
- 58:17Speaker 2: feel a lot of like like happiness by proxy of
- 58:23Speaker 2: seeing these companies taken down, Except then I would be
- 58:26Speaker 2: sad because it's all fiction.
- 58:28Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I think that I would. It's not
- 58:32Speaker 1: normally my kind of bag, but I really like my
- 58:35Speaker 1: culture and Rachel Keller. I've very much enjoyed things they
- 58:38Speaker 1: have been in the past, so I might give it
- 58:41Speaker 1: a shot.
- 58:42Speaker 2: Yeah, it comes out October eighth on CBS and Paramount Plus.
- 58:46Speaker 2: Next up, we've got a story that might sound familiar
- 58:49Speaker 2: to you because we talked about a movie that covered
- 58:51Speaker 2: the exact same thing. It's based off a real historical event.
- 58:55Speaker 2: We're talking about a TV series called American Hostage.
- 58:59Speaker 1: Yes, and this tea. The series stars John Hamm. So
- 59:03Speaker 1: when the trailer first started, I'm like, is this is
- 59:06Speaker 1: this Madman but spin City or sorry news Radio?
- 59:11Speaker 2: Yeah, because he's playing and he's playing a news anchorman
- 59:16Speaker 2: on AM radio, an actual historical person, Fred Heckman.
- 59:22Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and this is the one where the guy
- 59:27Speaker 1: calls up he's got somebody held hostage and he wants
- 59:29Speaker 1: to be interviewed that people can hear his case inside
- 59:32Speaker 1: with him, and then it's the hero has to deal
- 59:37Speaker 1: with the ethics of that.
- 59:39Speaker 2: Yeah. So in this case, the person who's taken the
- 59:42Speaker 2: hostage again real person Tony Kritzis, who took a mortgage
- 59:49Speaker 2: broker named Richard o'hall hostage and held him hostage for
- 59:52Speaker 2: sixty three hours. This was because Cis Curtsis felt that
- 1:00:00Speaker 2: he was treated unfairly and not given enough time and
- 1:00:04Speaker 2: leeway to be able to pay off his mortgage. He
- 1:00:08Speaker 2: felt he was in the wrong or he was being wronged,
- 1:00:11Speaker 2: and that the bank was the one in the wrong,
- 1:00:13Speaker 2: I should say. And so this really did happen where
- 1:00:17Speaker 2: this critsist took Haull hostage for sixty three hours. He
- 1:00:20Speaker 2: wired up a dead man's switch on the shotgun he
- 1:00:25Speaker 2: had that was wired to this guy's head, so that
- 1:00:28Speaker 2: if he were taken out, if critsists were taken out,
- 1:00:30Speaker 2: then the shotgun would go off. That was like kind
- 1:00:32Speaker 2: of him making sure that he would be safe. And
- 1:00:37Speaker 2: so this is really focusing on his interactions with the
- 1:00:41Speaker 2: news radio anchor Heckman. So it's taking a slightly different view.
- 1:00:45Speaker 2: The movie that came out last year was called dead
- 1:00:50Speaker 2: Man's Wire by Gus Van Sant and it focused more
- 1:00:53Speaker 2: on Critsis. This seems to be focusing more on Heckman.
- 1:00:56Speaker 2: It's also based off a podcast that was a narrow
- 1:01:00Speaker 2: of podcast telling this story. John Hamm played Heckman. In
- 1:01:04Speaker 2: that podcast as well, so this is him actually reprising
- 1:01:07Speaker 2: the role. This comes out September twentieth on MGM plus.
- 1:01:11Speaker 1: It Also it also has a couple other actors I
- 1:01:13Speaker 1: like Real Quick, Giovanni Rubisi and William Jackson Harper. William
- 1:01:16Speaker 1: Jackson Harper was cheaty on Good Place. Okay. Next we
- 1:01:21Speaker 1: have War, which is a movie about two powerful of
- 1:01:26Speaker 1: people getting a divorce and the law firms that want
- 1:01:29Speaker 1: to take advantage of that.
- 1:01:30Speaker 2: Yeah, two enormous London law firms squaring off to face
- 1:01:35Speaker 2: off against each other as they are representing the two
- 1:01:39Speaker 2: parties involved. Dominic West is playing the husband. He's like
- 1:01:42Speaker 2: a tech mogul kind of guy, and Sienna Miller's playing
- 1:01:46Speaker 2: the wife and she's like a film star and they
- 1:01:49Speaker 2: have an acrimonious divorce where the lawyers are all like,
- 1:01:55Speaker 2: you know, fronting on each other, like we're totally going
- 1:01:58Speaker 2: to take you for everything you've got the thing from
- 1:02:00Speaker 2: both sides. I also wrote that this felt kind of
- 1:02:03Speaker 2: like it's what would happen if you took a satire
- 1:02:07Speaker 2: like War of the Roses or the more recently The
- 1:02:10Speaker 2: Roses when I had Olivia Coleman, and I think it
- 1:02:13Speaker 2: was Benedict Cumberbatch in it, and then instead of making
- 1:02:17Speaker 2: it a black comedy satire, made it a procedural law drama. Yeah.
- 1:02:24Speaker 1: I don't know this one's for me.
- 1:02:27Speaker 2: It's not for me. It comes out debuts on October
- 1:02:31Speaker 2: first on HBO Max. But yeah, this one. I saw
- 1:02:35Speaker 2: this and I was like, Oh, this is like War
- 1:02:36Speaker 2: of the Roses, except it's not a satire and it's
- 1:02:41Speaker 2: more about the law firms than about the couple involved.
- 1:02:45Speaker 2: I'm guessing that this is meant to be like almost
- 1:02:48Speaker 2: like an anthology series where each season would be a
- 1:02:52Speaker 2: different case where you would have these massive law firms
- 1:02:56Speaker 2: facing off against each other and sort of the drama
- 1:02:58Speaker 2: that happens as they as a vibe to win a
- 1:03:01Speaker 2: court case. But I can't say that this has got
- 1:03:05Speaker 2: me on board. Now. The next thing I'm actually kind
- 1:03:08Speaker 2: of curious about, and that is a movie that's coming
- 1:03:11Speaker 2: out September twenty fifth called The Deputy.
- 1:03:14Speaker 1: Yeah. It's about a guy who kind of does not
- 1:03:17Speaker 1: have his life together but aspires to be better, who's
- 1:03:20Speaker 1: a part time deputy and wants to be full time
- 1:03:22Speaker 1: law enforcement.
- 1:03:24Speaker 2: Yeah, and he's given the task of watching a dead
- 1:03:27Speaker 2: body before the coroner shows up, and then within an
- 1:03:32Speaker 2: hour the dead body vanishes, and so the deputy is
- 1:03:36Speaker 2: very desperately trying to solve the mystery.
- 1:03:40Speaker 1: Yeah, for me, the trailer, this is something on paper
- 1:03:44Speaker 1: that I would probably really enjoy, But for me, the
- 1:03:47Speaker 1: trailer felt like it was mixing its drama and its
- 1:03:52Speaker 1: comedy weird in a weird way that wasn't quite landing
- 1:03:55Speaker 1: with me.
- 1:03:56Speaker 2: It wasn't that the content that's fair the balance. Yeah,
- 1:04:01Speaker 2: I can I can see that. Like, I feel like
- 1:04:05Speaker 2: it's striving to be a little Coen Brothers esque, but
- 1:04:10Speaker 2: very very few people can pull off a Coen Brothers
- 1:04:13Speaker 2: style movie.
- 1:04:14Speaker 1: I mean, William H. Macy definitely could. He plays like
- 1:04:17Speaker 1: the head of the department. And Tiffany Hattish is in it.
- 1:04:21Speaker 2: As a because say, William H. Macy though, has been
- 1:04:24Speaker 2: in a Coen Brothers movie, and that's.
- 1:04:25Speaker 1: Why I said he definitely could. Tiffany Hattish is also
- 1:04:28Speaker 1: in it, which is not somebody I'd think of as
- 1:04:30Speaker 1: a Coen Brothers person, but she is very funny and
- 1:04:33Speaker 1: in this it kind of seems like she's playing more
- 1:04:35Speaker 1: of a voice of reason, and I'm super down for that.
- 1:04:39Speaker 2: Yeah, Stephen Dorif and Billy Lord are also in this one,
- 1:04:44Speaker 2: So it does come to select theaters as well as
- 1:04:46Speaker 2: digital streaming on September twenty fifth. This one I might
- 1:04:50Speaker 2: check out, but I would be checking it out on streaming.
- 1:04:52Speaker 2: I don't think I go to the theater for this one. Yeah.
- 1:04:55Speaker 1: The next thing we're going to talk about is the
- 1:04:57Speaker 1: musical musical. The musical, Yes, it's about a guy who
- 1:05:02Speaker 1: loves a girl, but that girl is dating the principle
- 1:05:05Speaker 1: of a school, and so he wants to get back.
- 1:05:07Speaker 1: He's like a teacher, right I think, or next teacher
- 1:05:11Speaker 1: or something like that. I can't.
- 1:05:12Speaker 2: Yeah, he's the drama teach, drama teacher, and so to
- 1:05:16Speaker 2: get back at the principle and the girl, he stages
- 1:05:18Speaker 2: the most offensive musical possible, is my understanding of this.
- 1:05:25Speaker 2: He claims that what they're going to do is produce
- 1:05:28Speaker 2: west Side Story, but in fact, what he really does
- 1:05:30Speaker 2: is he writes his own catastrophic musical with the essentially
- 1:05:36Speaker 2: trying to sabotage the principle's hope of winning this Blue
- 1:05:38Speaker 2: Ribbon prize. Like the principles really tied up with this
- 1:05:44Speaker 2: idea of the school winning this Blue Ribbon. So the
- 1:05:47Speaker 2: drama teacher is like, this is a way to kind
- 1:05:49Speaker 2: of sabotage all that and make these kids into my
- 1:05:52Speaker 2: unwitting accomplices as they legitimately try to put on a
- 1:05:57Speaker 2: good show. That's what they think they're doing. This looks
- 1:06:00Speaker 2: like a really dark like comedy, and I am one
- 1:06:06Speaker 2: hundred percent here for it.
- 1:06:08Speaker 1: You would think I would be too, but I don't know.
- 1:06:10Speaker 1: Like the mean spirit, like the amount of effort in
- 1:06:13Speaker 1: the trailer that these kids are putting into display, and
- 1:06:17Speaker 1: knowing that he's trying to make them do the worst
- 1:06:18Speaker 1: things possible. I don't know why. It just I've enjoyed
- 1:06:22Speaker 1: stuff like that in the past. This time I'm like, oh,
- 1:06:24Speaker 1: I don't know. That makes me feel not great, but.
- 1:06:27Speaker 2: Well, it reminds me a bit of was it Hamlet too?
- 1:06:33Speaker 2: Was that actually the name of the movie it was?
- 1:06:35Speaker 2: It reminds me a bit of that, except in that
- 1:06:38Speaker 2: case it was someone who thought they were putting on
- 1:06:41Speaker 2: like that he had written a legitimately great play. In
- 1:06:45Speaker 2: this case, it's someone who's purposely trying to write something
- 1:06:47Speaker 2: terrible comes out September eighteenth. So I guess this will
- 1:06:50Speaker 2: also depend upon whether mean spirited kind of humor resonates
- 1:06:56Speaker 2: with you or not. Usually it doesn't with me. Honestly,
- 1:06:59Speaker 2: most of the time it doesn't. But I'm thinking, like
- 1:07:01Speaker 2: I kind of think, I maybe it's because I don't
- 1:07:03Speaker 2: like kids that this really appeals to me.
- 1:07:06Speaker 1: You don't like most kids?
- 1:07:08Speaker 2: Uh yeah, yeah, like like like the vast majority of
- 1:07:12Speaker 2: kids out there, I couldn't. I'm not not a fan.
- 1:07:15Speaker 1: If you would, if you had just put it on paper,
- 1:07:17Speaker 1: I've been like it, Oh, I like, I'll like this
- 1:07:19Speaker 1: one in Jonathan won't. But it's the opposite. The next
- 1:07:21Speaker 1: thing are we going to talk about is Hollywood Arts,
- 1:07:23Speaker 1: which is a TV show that is a sequel to Victorious,
- 1:07:27Speaker 1: which I guess was a Is it a Nickelodeon show?
- 1:07:31Speaker 2: It was? It was a Nickelodeon show that followed a
- 1:07:37Speaker 2: one of the Vega sisters, because it's the other one
- 1:07:39Speaker 2: who's in this one, but I think it was Tony
- 1:07:42Speaker 2: Vega was the name of the main character, but she
- 1:07:44Speaker 2: had an older sister named Trina Vega, who believed herself
- 1:07:47Speaker 2: to be like a really capable actor type. And the
- 1:07:52Speaker 2: joke was that Trina's opinion of herself was far greater
- 1:07:57Speaker 2: than her actual capabilities. So so Hollywood Arts is set
- 1:08:01Speaker 2: like The Victorious came out in twenty ten.
- 1:08:05Speaker 1: I never watched it.
- 1:08:07Speaker 2: Neither did I. We're both too old to have watched this.
- 1:08:10Speaker 2: Like this, it wasn't made for us, But Hollywood Arts
- 1:08:14Speaker 2: is a continuation where Trina Vega, the older sister from Victorious,
- 1:08:20Speaker 2: has come back to the Hollywood Arts High School in
- 1:08:24Speaker 2: order to be a substitute teacher, and the not the
- 1:08:29Speaker 2: logline I read said an unqualified substitute teacher, so she's
- 1:08:33Speaker 2: still not capable apparently. But the one person who would
- 1:08:39Speaker 2: potentially convince me to watch this as Yvette Nicole Brown
- 1:08:42Speaker 2: because she plays the principal and I really like her performances.
- 1:08:47Speaker 2: I thought she was very funny on Community. So this
- 1:08:51Speaker 2: comes to Netflix on October fifteenth. But yeah, I don't
- 1:08:53Speaker 2: have any connective tissue to Victorious, so I wouldn't like
- 1:08:57Speaker 2: anything that would be a reference to that or like
- 1:09:00Speaker 2: a sly Nod would be completely lost on me.
- 1:09:04Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, And last, we have Best of the Best,
- 1:09:07Speaker 1: which is step up but Bollywood, which I think makes
- 1:09:11Speaker 1: it better.
- 1:09:12Speaker 2: Perfect explanation. Yeah, oh yeah, No. I started this trailer,
- 1:09:17Speaker 2: I didn't even think I was going to include it.
- 1:09:19Speaker 2: I included this. This is this one I put on
- 1:09:21Speaker 2: the lineup today. I didn't think I was going to
- 1:09:23Speaker 2: include it, and then I watched the trailer and I
- 1:09:25Speaker 2: was like, no, I think I need to include this
- 1:09:27Speaker 2: because this looks like like a fun coming of age
- 1:09:32Speaker 2: kind of movie. And yeah, it is step Up but
- 1:09:34Speaker 2: for Bollywood dancing.
- 1:09:35Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, which, like I said, makes it better. I
- 1:09:38Speaker 1: love Bollywood stuff, So that's it.
- 1:09:41Speaker 2: For It's following two young women who are entering into
- 1:09:45Speaker 2: UCLA and one of them wants to join the Bollywood
- 1:09:49Speaker 2: dance team and convinces the other one to also do that,
- 1:09:53Speaker 2: and then you get all the elements of like a
- 1:09:56Speaker 2: coming of age story where you know, like you have
- 1:09:59Speaker 2: romance subplots, You've got the rival dance group that you
- 1:10:04Speaker 2: know wants to take them down. You got all those
- 1:10:06Speaker 2: kind of elements, tests of friendship, that kind of thing.
- 1:10:09Speaker 2: And it looks super cute. It comes to Netflix on
- 1:10:11Speaker 2: September eighteenth, and I don't know, I might actually watch it,
- 1:10:16Speaker 2: Like it's not typically the kind of thing I go into,
- 1:10:18Speaker 2: but I remember watching movies like this in like the eighties.
- 1:10:24Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, if I remember, I'll watch it. I have
- 1:10:29Speaker 1: the interest in watching it. I don't know that it's
- 1:10:32Speaker 1: going to stay at the top of my brain. And
- 1:10:36Speaker 1: that's now. Now, that's it for things what only Churchia
- 1:10:41Speaker 1: Air relief it. I don't remember what you said this week?
- 1:10:45Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I said things that make you go hmmm.
- 1:10:50Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh they did make us go hmm. Sometimes it
- 1:10:52Speaker 1: made us go hmmm, and sometimes it made.
- 1:10:54Speaker 2: Us go yeah. Yeah. I got old See and See
- 1:10:57Speaker 2: Music Factory. Okay, so we're gonna do John Horror Hutch
- 1:11:01Speaker 2: now and inside the Hutch this week, well, we're headed
- 1:11:04Speaker 2: into a theme park to experience their brand new Halloween
- 1:11:08Speaker 2: themed horror attraction, which is the Hairy Spider ball Pit,
- 1:11:12Speaker 2: and that's where all the balls are replaced by Harry
- 1:11:15Speaker 2: spiders that move around and stuff. And we're going to
- 1:11:18Speaker 2: talk a bit about horror movies. So first, Ariel, did
- 1:11:21Speaker 2: you watch any of the trailers?
- 1:11:23Speaker 1: I did, But we can't just move on because I
- 1:11:25Speaker 1: wasn't sure if you were saying the Harry Spider ball
- 1:11:29Speaker 1: pit or the Harry Spider's Ball's pit.
- 1:11:36Speaker 2: All right, Ariel, and now, and what is the fourth
- 1:11:39Speaker 2: part of our recording session, which is no fault of
- 1:11:43Speaker 2: either of ours. You were saying you watched some of
- 1:11:48Speaker 2: these trailers.
- 1:11:49Speaker 1: I watched the first two. I know enough about the
- 1:11:54Speaker 1: third one to know that I shouldn't watch it.
- 1:11:57Speaker 2: Fair enough. So first up, we've got a trailer for
- 1:12:01Speaker 2: a movie called Confinement. So Ariel, you saw this one,
- 1:12:05Speaker 2: what was your What did you think?
- 1:12:10Speaker 1: It felt a little derivative of things such as like
- 1:12:13Speaker 1: ready or not? Yea, the one that's with like the
- 1:12:20Speaker 1: little girl in the mask that's upcoming, that's a TV
- 1:12:22Speaker 1: show get out s Yeah, yeah, get out. There was
- 1:12:29Speaker 1: a bug. I didn't care for that.
- 1:12:33Speaker 2: It's I wrote that. It's also extremely derivative of Rosemary's Baby,
- 1:12:38Speaker 2: which is like, that's a film from the sevenies, never
- 1:12:40Speaker 2: actually watched, but yeah, well you know, pregnant woman, community
- 1:12:47Speaker 2: of people doing weird ritualistic things. Essentially, it looks like
- 1:12:51Speaker 2: it's about welcoming in the anti Christ in that version.
- 1:12:54Speaker 2: So in this case, the story follows a woman who
- 1:12:59Speaker 2: is pregnant. Her husband dies in a car accident. Whether
- 1:13:04Speaker 2: it's accident or not as hard to say because it's
- 1:13:06Speaker 2: hard to tell from the trailer. But he dies, and
- 1:13:10Speaker 2: he had been estranged from his family and had in
- 1:13:14Speaker 2: life told his wife that they should not let his
- 1:13:17Speaker 2: family around their child, who currently is unborn. But she
- 1:13:23Speaker 2: is invited by his family to come and stay with
- 1:13:27Speaker 2: them at their quote unquote cottage, which is actually a
- 1:13:29Speaker 2: mansion in the middle of nowhere, and when she's there
- 1:13:33Speaker 2: then she is coerced to doing this ceremony where she
- 1:13:37Speaker 2: lays down, they drop a bug on her belly, and
- 1:13:40Speaker 2: based on whether the bug lands face up or face down,
- 1:13:43Speaker 2: there's some sort of meaning there. She guesses that means
- 1:13:48Speaker 2: like a gender reveal of the child, but whether or
- 1:13:50Speaker 2: not that's the case, I don't know. But anyway, the
- 1:13:53Speaker 2: bug lands face up on her belly, everyone freaks out
- 1:13:56Speaker 2: like this is a big deal. Then they don't want
- 1:13:58Speaker 2: to let her leave, So the rest the movie looks
- 1:14:00Speaker 2: like it's her trying to figure out how to escape
- 1:14:02Speaker 2: from them, as well as just to try and figure
- 1:14:04Speaker 2: out what the heck is actually going on. This comes
- 1:14:08Speaker 2: out to video on demand on September. First, I thought
- 1:14:11Speaker 2: it looked interesting. It definitely does look derivative though, like
- 1:14:15Speaker 2: you said, like Ready or Not or They Will Kill You,
- 1:14:18Speaker 2: which is more recent film, or going back to Rosemary's Baby,
- 1:14:23Speaker 2: like that whole vulnerability of a pregnant woman kind of
- 1:14:27Speaker 2: a narrative as well. So yeah, it's not like this
- 1:14:30Speaker 2: feels wholly original, but looks interesting.
- 1:14:32Speaker 1: Acting definitely looks good.
- 1:14:34Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm guessing you're not gonna watch this one.
- 1:14:36Speaker 1: Probably not.
- 1:14:38Speaker 2: Okay. Next up we have APOFINNIAX. This is an independent
- 1:14:43Speaker 2: horror film slash thriller has a little dash of sci
- 1:14:45Speaker 2: fi in there. There is a total jerkface of a
- 1:14:49Speaker 2: man who's using AI generative technology to create harmful deep
- 1:14:52Speaker 2: fake videos for people that could destroy their lives, which
- 1:14:56Speaker 2: then initiates an escalating cycle of violence in the real world.
- 1:15:02Speaker 2: Apparently it comes to theaters on October second. Sean Gunn
- 1:15:07Speaker 2: is a supporting character in this or plays a supporting
- 1:15:09Speaker 2: character in this, so that was kind of interesting to
- 1:15:11Speaker 2: see him in.
- 1:15:12Speaker 1: There as not a creature role.
- 1:15:15Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, he's he's himself or not himself, but he's human.
- 1:15:21Speaker 2: I mean, he's human in the DC universe.
- 1:15:24Speaker 1: Is he he also plays.
- 1:15:26Speaker 2: He's like a billionaire, but he's also Isn't he also
- 1:15:30Speaker 2: playing like the billionaire guy who is like the jerk
- 1:15:34Speaker 2: face who the the Justice Society works for.
- 1:15:37Speaker 1: Maybe isn't that him? I think I think you might
- 1:15:40Speaker 1: be right. That's new. I don't remember. I mean, he
- 1:15:42Speaker 1: also played a human in Guardians in the Galaxy, but
- 1:15:44Speaker 1: then he was also the body for Rocket Raccoon, and
- 1:15:47Speaker 1: he also played a human in Stars in Gilmore Girls,
- 1:15:50Speaker 1: but he was real weird there. He doesn't seem weird
- 1:15:52Speaker 1: in this.
- 1:15:54Speaker 2: Yeah, uh, this this looks interesting. I think it was
- 1:15:59Speaker 2: interesting mainly because of the deep fake side to things,
- 1:16:02Speaker 2: because that's something that's actually happening, where people are making
- 1:16:05Speaker 2: deep fake videos of folks, whether they're famous or not,
- 1:16:09Speaker 2: and in some cases, in many cases, they can be
- 1:16:12Speaker 2: really harmful. So that was why I thought it was interesting.
- 1:16:15Speaker 2: The third and final one, the one that you didn't
- 1:16:17Speaker 2: watch the trailer for, is Monster The Lizzie Morden Story.
- 1:16:22Speaker 2: This is the next installation in the Monster anthology series
- 1:16:28Speaker 2: that was originally created by trash King Ryan Murphy as
- 1:16:32Speaker 2: well as Ian Brennan. Previous series have focused on Jeffrey Dahmer,
- 1:16:37Speaker 2: ed Geen and the Mendindez Brothers, and this one focuses
- 1:16:40Speaker 2: on Lizzie Borden. And that name probably sounds familiar to
- 1:16:44Speaker 2: most of you if you're not really familiar with the
- 1:16:46Speaker 2: Lizzie bordon story. This is a real story a woman
- 1:16:49Speaker 2: who was brought up on charges of murder in eighteen
- 1:16:52Speaker 2: ninety two. She was accused of having killed her father
- 1:16:56Speaker 2: and her stepmother with an ax. There's even a famous
- 1:17:01Speaker 2: nursery rhyme like poem about it. Lizzie Borden took an
- 1:17:05Speaker 2: axe and killed her father with forty wax. When she
- 1:17:08Speaker 2: saw what she had done, she gave her mother forty one,
- 1:17:13Speaker 2: which is incorrect by the way, the murders happened in
- 1:17:15Speaker 2: the reverse order. But anyway, the series is going to
- 1:17:20Speaker 2: have eight episodes, all of which will drop on Netflix
- 1:17:22Speaker 2: on September seventeenth. The thing that I thought was really
- 1:17:26Speaker 2: weird besides the fact that also they show Sarah Paulson
- 1:17:28Speaker 2: playing Eileen Awareness, who's you know, more of a that's
- 1:17:34Speaker 2: the serial killer that the movie Monster was based off of.
- 1:17:39Speaker 2: So apparently there's like a more modern day ish modern
- 1:17:43Speaker 2: era ish anyway moment within this series. The other thing
- 1:17:47Speaker 2: that surprised me was how colorful and vibrant this trailer was,
- 1:17:52Speaker 2: Like it like really bright colors, and I thought, oh,
- 1:17:55Speaker 2: it's nice to see bright colors again. I just wish
- 1:17:58Speaker 2: it wasn't in a trashy rhyme and murphy project. I
- 1:18:04Speaker 2: will not watch this. I don't like Ryan Murphy's stuff.
- 1:18:08Speaker 2: I've tried watching American horror story. It's just not for me,
- 1:18:11Speaker 2: and everything he's done since then just feels trashier than
- 1:18:14Speaker 2: the last thing. So I can't do this. And I
- 1:18:17Speaker 2: also feel pretty strongly they're going to be taking some
- 1:18:21Speaker 2: amazing liberties with historical accuracy while telling the story. All right, well,
- 1:18:26Speaker 2: let's let's get out of all these spider balls.
- 1:18:29Speaker 1: Yes, please, because I have enough on my back porch.
- 1:18:31Speaker 1: I don't need more.
- 1:18:33Speaker 2: Okay, well, we are now out, and let me just
- 1:18:37Speaker 2: get this one out of aurioals hair and sorry, Okay,
- 1:18:42Speaker 2: we're good. We can now go into the actual show
- 1:18:44Speaker 2: line up. Oh I should also mention I watched trailers
- 1:18:47Speaker 2: for these other movies too, but I'm not going to
- 1:18:49Speaker 2: say anything about them. Just you can check out the
- 1:18:51Speaker 2: trailers if you're into horror movies. Hollow Trees, Dark Hollow, Beware, Boyana,
- 1:18:57Speaker 2: The Other People, and Borman and the Devil, which is
- 1:19:00Speaker 2: a documentary about the making of Exorcis too. That's it, all.
- 1:19:03Speaker 1: Right, So our first actual actual trailer is for Vision Quest.
- 1:19:08Speaker 1: It is the threequel to WandaVision and Agatha All along.
- 1:19:15Speaker 1: I if Spider Man and Vision Quest are, or at least
- 1:19:22Speaker 1: the trailer for Vision Quest are what Disney comes up
- 1:19:26Speaker 1: with when and Marvel comes up with when they step
- 1:19:29Speaker 1: back and take a slower approach to Marvel things, I am.
- 1:19:33Speaker 1: I think it's working.
- 1:19:35Speaker 2: Yeah, Now, I really like this trailer a lot. Yes,
- 1:19:39Speaker 2: I really liked both WandaVision and Agatha all along. I
- 1:19:44Speaker 2: think I think I still like WandaVision more, but I
- 1:19:47Speaker 2: liked both of them a lot, and so I feel
- 1:19:50Speaker 2: like Vision Quest is gonna be another of those intrigues.
- 1:19:53Speaker 2: I also like, like, I'm just wondering how they were
- 1:19:55Speaker 2: going to incorporate Ultron, because we had heard for a
- 1:19:57Speaker 2: long time that Ultron was going to be in this.
- 1:20:00Speaker 2: And the sense I get is that this Vision, which
- 1:20:03Speaker 2: was introduced at in Wanda Vision, is a copy manifested
- 1:20:11Speaker 2: by Wanda or no, no, I'm sorry. This was a
- 1:20:13Speaker 2: copy made by that agency that was trying to recreate Vision,
- 1:20:19Speaker 2: and so the copy of Vision imbued this new version
- 1:20:27Speaker 2: of the Wanda copy of Vision imbued this new agency
- 1:20:30Speaker 2: created copy of Vision with all of the original Vision's
- 1:20:34Speaker 2: thoughts and memories. So now you have this character who
- 1:20:38Speaker 2: is has memories that are simultaneously his own and not
- 1:20:42Speaker 2: his own. Trying to resolve this, and as part of that,
- 1:20:46Speaker 2: he ends up conjuring a father figure, which ironically is
- 1:20:49Speaker 2: not Tony Stark but is Ultron.
- 1:20:52Speaker 1: Yes, who is voiced by James Spader. And let me
- 1:20:54Speaker 1: tell you, when he first appears as the trailer, I
- 1:20:57Speaker 1: did not recognize him.
- 1:21:00Speaker 2: Yeah, because James Spader did the voice of Ultron in
- 1:21:03Speaker 2: Avenger's Age of Ultron, and he reprises his role as
- 1:21:07Speaker 2: Ultron in this. But then he is asked by Vision
- 1:21:10Speaker 2: to take on a human form, which obviously he could do.
- 1:21:13Speaker 2: I mean, it's just a memory of Ultron as far
- 1:21:15Speaker 2: as I can tell. So he then takes on the
- 1:21:17Speaker 2: form of James Spader as he naturally would.
- 1:21:21Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, and the rest of the rest of the
- 1:21:24Speaker 1: voices in Vision's mind Palace don't necessarily agree with that.
- 1:21:28Speaker 1: In the trailer, it looks wonderful. It kind of looks
- 1:21:31Speaker 1: like it's going to be closer to Wanda Vision than
- 1:21:34Speaker 1: to Agatha All along, I'm excited about every single part
- 1:21:38Speaker 1: of it. At one point we do get to see
- 1:21:40Speaker 1: old school Vision again. I don't know what that means,
- 1:21:44Speaker 1: but yeah, so excited.
- 1:21:46Speaker 2: Yeah, me too. I have liked how unconventional both Wanda
- 1:21:54Speaker 2: Vision and Agatha all along were right, they weren't like
- 1:21:57Speaker 2: everything else, And I get the feeling the Vision Quest
- 1:22:00Speaker 2: is going to also be unlike other things and kind
- 1:22:02Speaker 2: of make this trilogy of standouts, I would say in
- 1:22:07Speaker 2: the Marvel universe. Also, I want to mention two of
- 1:22:11Speaker 2: the characters appear to be played, not appear to be.
- 1:22:14Speaker 2: They are played by members of Mischief Theater. That's the
- 1:22:17Speaker 2: group that does the play That Goes Wrong and the
- 1:22:20Speaker 2: Goes Wrong Show. So seeing quote unquote Robert and Dennis
- 1:22:25Speaker 2: from The Goes Wrong Universe in Vision Quest really tickled me.
- 1:22:31Speaker 2: I didn't even notice in the first time I saw
- 1:22:33Speaker 2: the trailer. It was only after I saw a Mischief
- 1:22:35Speaker 2: Theater had reposted the trailer. It was like, why did
- 1:22:38Speaker 2: they do that? And I went I'm like, oh my god,
- 1:22:40Speaker 2: that's Robert and Dennis.
- 1:22:42Speaker 1: Also, how did I miss in the trailer that Diane
- 1:22:45Speaker 1: Morgan's in this?
- 1:22:47Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, So this comes out October fourteenth on Disney Plus.
- 1:22:50Speaker 2: I am very very excited. I will definitely be watching this.
- 1:22:53Speaker 1: Yes, I am less excited for Avengers Doomsday. Jonathan and
- 1:22:57Speaker 1: I we got a new trailer. Jonathan and I have
- 1:22:58Speaker 1: both talked about how part of the issue with it
- 1:23:03Speaker 1: that's lacking the excitement is just the fact that they
- 1:23:06Speaker 1: didn't have time to set up Doctor Doom as being
- 1:23:09Speaker 1: a real threat because it kind of had to pivot.
- 1:23:12Speaker 1: This trailer tries to do that more. I don't know
- 1:23:15Speaker 1: that it's super successful.
- 1:23:17Speaker 2: Yeah, because it doesn't really tell you who doctor Doom is.
- 1:23:20Speaker 2: Like it has Susan Richards from the Fantastic Four the
- 1:23:23Speaker 2: Invisible Woman saying that or invisible girl, if you're being
- 1:23:27Speaker 2: real sexist in nineteen sixties about it, talking about how
- 1:23:31Speaker 2: Doom lost the most important thing in his life and
- 1:23:36Speaker 2: that he's now broken and dangerous. But that's telling, not showing, Like,
- 1:23:42Speaker 2: don't we don't know anything about Doom in this universe.
- 1:23:45Speaker 2: We've only seen him briefly at the end of Fantastic Four,
- 1:23:49Speaker 2: And like they're still going to have to do so
- 1:23:53Speaker 2: much work to establish who Doom is and also how
- 1:23:57Speaker 2: he got so powerful, because like he's clearly God Emperor Doom,
- 1:24:01Speaker 2: which is something that does happen in the comic books,
- 1:24:03Speaker 2: but they had decades to establish that in the comics,
- 1:24:06Speaker 2: Like there were so many Doom stories that were before
- 1:24:09Speaker 2: the God Emperor era of Doctor Doom, So it feels
- 1:24:14Speaker 2: like this is super fast tracking Doctor Doom to become
- 1:24:17Speaker 2: this like galactic threat and or multi dimensional threat. I
- 1:24:23Speaker 2: think really would be more accurate, and I just find
- 1:24:26Speaker 2: that really daunting. I'm not confident that they're going to
- 1:24:32Speaker 2: be able to pull it off.
- 1:24:34Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm also I mean, like, I will watch it
- 1:24:36Speaker 1: because Channing Tatum really won me over as Gambit, and
- 1:24:40Speaker 1: that's one of my favorite X Men characters, so I
- 1:24:42Speaker 1: will watch it.
- 1:24:43Speaker 2: I am worried about what's going to happen to him
- 1:24:46Speaker 2: though this might be his second and final appearance as Gambit,
- 1:24:50Speaker 2: because I mean, this is just speculation. But we did
- 1:24:54Speaker 2: get an announcement of who's going to be in the
- 1:24:56Speaker 2: next X Men movie, and it's all younger actors playing
- 1:24:59Speaker 2: the arts of the various X Men, with the exception
- 1:25:03Speaker 2: of Samorrow Weaving, who's slightly older, playing Emma Frost.
- 1:25:07Speaker 1: I didn't know he would get anything beyond Deadpool and Wolverine,
- 1:25:11Speaker 1: so I'll take it. And I wasn't initially on board
- 1:25:14Speaker 1: with him playing Gambit, but I am now. But also
- 1:25:17Speaker 1: we're now in multiverse territory they could do a spin
- 1:25:20Speaker 1: alone where another version of him is Okay. Yeah, early on,
- 1:25:26Speaker 1: when they first started dripping stuff for this movie, you
- 1:25:30Speaker 1: had posited that, oh my gosh, this is this doctor
- 1:25:34Speaker 1: Joom just kidnapping everybody's babies, And you're right, I hate it.
- 1:25:38Speaker 2: Well when you sit there and think about it, about
- 1:25:41Speaker 2: how they've established children in recent Marvel stuff. So you
- 1:25:45Speaker 2: had like Franklin Richards at the end of Fantastic Four,
- 1:25:49Speaker 2: or actually throughout Fantastic four you have four getting a
- 1:25:53Speaker 2: daughter essentially at the end of Love and Thunder. You know,
- 1:25:58Speaker 2: you had like all these characters who have children. Now, uh,
- 1:26:05Speaker 2: Ant Man's got a daughter, You've got Captain America has
- 1:26:11Speaker 2: a kid. Yeah, So you've got all these different children characters.
- 1:26:15Speaker 2: So it feels like I don't think that, oh, Hulk
- 1:26:20Speaker 2: has a son, although we haven't heard anything about it
- 1:26:23Speaker 2: since She Hulk. We saw him in Seahawk and that
- 1:26:26Speaker 2: was it, didn't we or do we not? I you
- 1:26:29Speaker 2: know what, I haven't rewatched She Hulk, so maybe we
- 1:26:32Speaker 2: haven't seen it, but we did hear about it. And
- 1:26:35Speaker 2: then there's a photo of him on Bruce Banner's lectern
- 1:26:41Speaker 2: and Spider Man brand new Day missed that. I didn't
- 1:26:45Speaker 2: know it until I saw a video about Easter eggs
- 1:26:47Speaker 2: in Brand New Day because it was one of those
- 1:26:49Speaker 2: things where it's just one little thing on his lectern
- 1:26:51Speaker 2: when he's teaching his class. So yeah, I think you
- 1:26:58Speaker 2: could origin and she she Hulk. So they've arguably been
- 1:27:03Speaker 2: establishing this, except I don't think they were doing that,
- 1:27:07Speaker 2: Like they weren't meaningfully attempting to do that, because if
- 1:27:10Speaker 2: they were meaningfully attempting to do it, I think it
- 1:27:12Speaker 2: wouldn't feel as out of the blue with this film.
- 1:27:16Speaker 2: I just feel like this film is trying to make
- 1:27:18Speaker 2: the best of several bad situations. It's not the way
- 1:27:21Speaker 2: I would have done it. But I am not a billionaire,
- 1:27:23Speaker 2: so why would I be in control of this franchise?
- 1:27:25Speaker 1: Yeah, I am a little said. If they're bringing kids in,
- 1:27:28Speaker 1: and I guess she's not really a kid, she might
- 1:27:30Speaker 1: be the same age as aunt Man's kid. Is I
- 1:27:32Speaker 1: don't know that Kamala Kahn's in this movie? Is she she?
- 1:27:36Speaker 2: I believe she is. Okay, I believe Miss Marvel is
- 1:27:39Speaker 2: in this one.
- 1:27:40Speaker 1: Okay, I couldn't remember. If she is, then good. If
- 1:27:42Speaker 1: she's not, then.
- 1:27:44Speaker 2: She's in she's definitely in something coming up, because I
- 1:27:47Speaker 2: remember they, yeah, there were seventy there were so many,
- 1:27:50Speaker 2: so many announcements at D twenty three that honestly, it
- 1:27:53Speaker 2: could be something else, something she should be in the
- 1:27:55Speaker 2: next X Men movie, because it was revealed in the
- 1:27:58Speaker 2: Miss Marvel series.
- 1:27:59Speaker 1: That she is a yeah, yeah, it's it's But when
- 1:28:04Speaker 1: they first dropped everybody who's gonna be in Doomsday, it
- 1:28:07Speaker 1: was to so many people.
- 1:28:10Speaker 2: Yeah, and some of them we haven't seen Hyde nor
- 1:28:12Speaker 2: hair of in any of the trailers or promotional materials,
- 1:28:15Speaker 2: So there's still people who are apparently going to be
- 1:28:18Speaker 2: in it that just haven't shown up. And like the
- 1:28:21Speaker 2: I think the best running gag so far is the
- 1:28:23Speaker 2: continuing story of Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds advocating to
- 1:28:28Speaker 2: be included in Avengers Doomsday. Yeah, because at D twenty
- 1:28:33Speaker 2: three there was another moment where Hugh Jackman was saying
- 1:28:36Speaker 2: he was asking on behalf of a friend if if,
- 1:28:39Speaker 2: in fact, maybe there were some more people who could
- 1:28:41Speaker 2: be added in, and it was apparently it was supposed
- 1:28:43Speaker 2: to be like Ryan Reynolds calling Hugh Jackman to get
- 1:28:46Speaker 2: them to ask to be in the movie.
- 1:28:48Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's amazing.
- 1:28:50Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe they'll show up in Secret Wars.
- 1:28:53Speaker 1: Here's hopin, here's hopen. We also got a trailer for
- 1:28:58Speaker 1: season two of Ahsoka, which I'd never watched Season one.
- 1:29:03Speaker 1: Season two has Grand Admiral Thron. Admiral Thron. It's got
- 1:29:09Speaker 1: I don't know if these people were in season one.
- 1:29:11Speaker 1: That's the problem. It's got.
- 1:29:15Speaker 2: Forced Ghost Anakin.
- 1:29:16Speaker 1: Yes, thank you. I was like, Hayden Christiansen, who I'm saying?
- 1:29:21Speaker 1: I realized this is not a comedy series. But he
- 1:29:24Speaker 1: delivers a line in the trailer, and there was a
- 1:29:26Speaker 1: big opportunity missed. I don't know if you noticed it,
- 1:29:29Speaker 1: but at one point, Ghost Anakin tells Ahsoka, who I
- 1:29:34Speaker 1: can't believe that was a uh that that this this
- 1:29:37Speaker 1: actress is like near fifty, she looks so young.
- 1:29:40Speaker 2: Yeah, Rosaria Dawson is flawless. Yeah.
- 1:29:44Speaker 1: But at one point, Anakin says, you're either a Jedi,
- 1:29:49Speaker 1: and I wanted him to say, or a Jed. Nay
- 1:29:54Speaker 1: missed out the opportunity.
- 1:29:58Speaker 2: Yeah that's okay, that's good.
- 1:30:02Speaker 1: It's so funny.
- 1:30:03Speaker 2: I would have been more interested in watching it if
- 1:30:07Speaker 2: that had in fact been included in the trailer. Yeah,
- 1:30:10Speaker 2: I haven't watched So I never watched season three of
- 1:30:13Speaker 2: The Mandalorian. I haven't watched any of Clone Wars or
- 1:30:20Speaker 2: Star Wars Rebels or any of those things where Ahsoka
- 1:30:23Speaker 2: was like a big part of it. So I've seen
- 1:30:25Speaker 2: Ahsoka only in season two of The Mandalorian. That's it.
- 1:30:29Speaker 2: And maybe I think she shows up briefly in the
- 1:30:30Speaker 2: Book of Bobafet. Maybe she does in one of the
- 1:30:34Speaker 2: Mandalorian episodes. Yeah, that was the only times I've ever
- 1:30:37Speaker 2: seen that character, and so I don't really have an
- 1:30:39Speaker 2: emotional attachment to this, So I have not watched the
- 1:30:42Speaker 2: first season. Granddadmiral Thron shows up, which is interesting as
- 1:30:45Speaker 2: a character I never thought I was going to see
- 1:30:47Speaker 2: in live action Star Wars. He was introduced in the
- 1:30:50Speaker 2: novels way way way way back after Return of the
- 1:30:53Speaker 2: Jedi came out. This comes out January twentieth. There's going
- 1:30:57Speaker 2: to be eight episodes. It is set between the end
- 1:31:01Speaker 2: of Return of the Jedi but before the Force awakens,
- 1:31:04Speaker 2: so it's in that era because concurrent with the Mandalorian stories.
- 1:31:10Speaker 2: But yeah, you know me, Yeah, I'm kind of done
- 1:31:14Speaker 2: with Star Wars unless just something stands out to me.
- 1:31:16Speaker 1: I'm a little burnt out too. Next we also got
- 1:31:20Speaker 1: a trailer for Percy Jackson and the Olympian season three.
- 1:31:23Speaker 1: I didn't watch season two. I really enjoyed season one.
- 1:31:27Speaker 1: This season also looks good, but I do Actually, I
- 1:31:30Speaker 1: don't have an emotional attachment to the content of it
- 1:31:33Speaker 1: because I never read the books or watched the old movies.
- 1:31:37Speaker 1: But originally I think Lance Reddick was playing Zeus and
- 1:31:42Speaker 1: so in the first season and so like, it's gonna
- 1:31:46Speaker 1: be hard to watch.
- 1:31:48Speaker 2: Yeah, I had to rely on the Wikipedia synopsis and
- 1:31:54Speaker 2: none of this means very much to me. But this
- 1:31:56Speaker 2: is the synopsis quote. When Annabeth disappears, Percy, Grover, and
- 1:32:01Speaker 2: Thalia must join forces with the hunters of Artemis to
- 1:32:05Speaker 2: stop a looming threat to Olympus. Meanwhile, Percy struggles with
- 1:32:09Speaker 2: the implications and consequences concerning the Great Prophecy, fearing he
- 1:32:13Speaker 2: could be the Demi god. It foretells end quote. I
- 1:32:16Speaker 2: got no idea what any of that means. I know
- 1:32:18Speaker 2: what Olympus is, you know, I know who Artemis is.
- 1:32:23Speaker 2: But yeah, I, as someone who is not connected at
- 1:32:26Speaker 2: all with this source material, this was totally lost on me.
- 1:32:29Speaker 2: It comes out November twentieth. It doesn't look like it's bad.
- 1:32:32Speaker 2: I just like, since I have no no anchor point,
- 1:32:35Speaker 2: it washed over me.
- 1:32:37Speaker 1: I like Greek mythology, and they've done a good job
- 1:32:39Speaker 1: at casting casting the right people I think in the
- 1:32:43Speaker 1: different different roles of like the Gorgons and the gods
- 1:32:46Speaker 1: and the Titans and all that. Like for instance, Jason
- 1:32:49Speaker 1: Manzukis is Dionysus.
- 1:32:53Speaker 2: Does some good casting.
- 1:32:54Speaker 1: Yeah, and Manuel Miranda is It is in it as well,
- 1:32:59Speaker 1: and he is.
- 1:33:02Speaker 2: I think it's Demeter, Demeanor, Demeter, he's playing a female no.
- 1:33:07Speaker 1: Sorry, Hermes, I don't know, or Demeter. And then and
- 1:33:15Speaker 1: then Timothy he was the king in Elephant, No, he
- 1:33:23Speaker 1: was the king in Gallivant.
- 1:33:27Speaker 2: Oh, a Munson something like that.
- 1:33:29Speaker 1: He plays Hephaestus, which is great since he now like
- 1:33:33Speaker 1: walks with you know, a Caine since his stroke. So yeah,
- 1:33:38Speaker 1: like just fantastic casting. I mean, it's definitely a kid's show,
- 1:33:41Speaker 1: but it plays really well with content that I like
- 1:33:45Speaker 1: because Greek mythology was always fun to me as a kid, So.
- 1:33:49Speaker 2: It's also kind of fun to watch something that is,
- 1:33:51Speaker 2: you know, Harry Potter esque without benefiting JK. Rowling.
- 1:33:55Speaker 1: Yes, for sure. Apparently this season also has Kate McKinnon
- 1:33:57Speaker 1: in it, so I don't know who she's playing it.
- 1:33:59Speaker 2: Oh wow, interesting, she.
- 1:34:02Speaker 1: Didn't we see her in the car at the end
- 1:34:05Speaker 1: of the trailer.
- 1:34:07Speaker 2: Maybe I watched the trailer once when I added the
- 1:34:10Speaker 2: story and I did not rewatch it for this.
- 1:34:13Speaker 1: Yes, we do see her, and now I know who
- 1:34:14Speaker 1: she's playing.
- 1:34:16Speaker 2: Who is she playing? On kave a kind in his aphrodite?
- 1:34:21Speaker 2: That's nice. I like that. Next up, we got a
- 1:34:25Speaker 2: trailer for a low budget sci fi film and I
- 1:34:27Speaker 2: included it because sometimes low budget sci fi movies can
- 1:34:31Speaker 2: be really thought provoking, like x X Makana I think
- 1:34:35Speaker 2: is It's not super low budget, but it's lower budget
- 1:34:38Speaker 2: and was a great like like small scale but very
- 1:34:43Speaker 2: thoughtful sci fi movie called District Nine. Another great example, uh,
- 1:34:48Speaker 2: this is Orion and it's about an astronaut who is
- 1:34:54Speaker 2: brought back down to Earth. Apparently all of his co
- 1:34:57Speaker 2: crewmates are dead and he has amnesia and has no
- 1:35:01Speaker 2: memory of what has happened, and there is the drama
- 1:35:05Speaker 2: is kind of trying to retrigger his memory so that
- 1:35:08Speaker 2: they can learn about things. Plus, there is some form
- 1:35:11Speaker 2: of alien life form that may or may not have
- 1:35:15Speaker 2: been responsible for the deaths, and may or may not
- 1:35:17Speaker 2: be responsible for a potential catastrophe here on Earth. So
- 1:35:20Speaker 2: there's a lot of like drama with kind of like
- 1:35:24Speaker 2: an Aliens where you've got like the company rep who
- 1:35:29Speaker 2: might be looking to exploit something, and then you have
- 1:35:32Speaker 2: the potential threat of alien life. Or it could be
- 1:35:34Speaker 2: that that's all red herrings. I'm not sure it comes
- 1:35:37Speaker 2: out October. Second. Did you like this trailer at all
- 1:35:41Speaker 2: or was it just kind of like, uh.
- 1:35:44Speaker 1: So, it vaguely it feels similar but also better to
- 1:35:50Speaker 1: some stuff that we've seen in the past. So like
- 1:35:54Speaker 1: there was that one that looked like it was a
- 1:35:56Speaker 1: spin off of Dead Space where somebody had amnesia and
- 1:35:58Speaker 1: a monster had attacked. This feels like it might have
- 1:36:01Speaker 1: a little bit more heart. It looked good, but I
- 1:36:04Speaker 1: did find the trailer a bit hard to follow.
- 1:36:08Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree with that, and I think that's partially
- 1:36:13Speaker 2: on purpose in order to maintain mystery, Like how do
- 1:36:17Speaker 2: you get people excited. It's kind of like when the
- 1:36:19Speaker 2: previous for Project Hail Mary came out and they gave
- 1:36:22Speaker 2: away something that I think a lot of people who
- 1:36:24Speaker 2: are fans of the book were like, why would you
- 1:36:26Speaker 2: give that away in the trailer, Like why would you
- 1:36:29Speaker 2: reveal this at the trailer? But at the same time,
- 1:36:32Speaker 2: the people were making the trailer like we have to
- 1:36:34Speaker 2: convince people to see the movie. Yeah, so I feel
- 1:36:38Speaker 2: like that's kind of what's going on here. But I
- 1:36:40Speaker 2: don't feel like it's made with a sure a hand
- 1:36:43Speaker 2: as far as the trailer goes. I'm not talking about
- 1:36:45Speaker 2: the film, but the trailer itself where I feel like
- 1:36:49Speaker 2: it's having that issue.
- 1:36:51Speaker 1: I mean, I didn't read Project Hill Mary, and I
- 1:36:55Speaker 1: had it spoiled for me in the trailer, but it didn't.
- 1:36:58Speaker 1: It didn't spoil it for me.
- 1:37:01Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, I think that's the thing is that for
- 1:37:03Speaker 2: people who had read the book, they are thinking, oh,
- 1:37:06Speaker 2: this should be a big reveal because that's how it
- 1:37:08Speaker 2: was in the book, right, Like I wasn't expecting it
- 1:37:11Speaker 2: when I read the book, and then there's that moment
- 1:37:13Speaker 2: and the trailer since it. It would be like if
- 1:37:16Speaker 2: on the cover of the book it tells you that
- 1:37:19Speaker 2: there's an alien, right, Like if it said that, then
- 1:37:21Speaker 2: you're like, oh, well, it's not a big deal. And
- 1:37:24Speaker 2: I understand, but like, cinema and books are two different things,
- 1:37:27Speaker 2: so I get it. I don't object to them using
- 1:37:31Speaker 2: it in the trailer and everything. I still haven't seen
- 1:37:34Speaker 2: that movie, but everything I've heard has been very.
- 1:37:35Speaker 1: Po You should absolutely add that to your short list.
- 1:37:38Speaker 1: It was so much fun. But for me, I'm also
- 1:37:43Speaker 1: the kind of person that I'm like, Okay, you give
- 1:37:45Speaker 1: me a book like The Martian and I'll read it,
- 1:37:47Speaker 1: but if you add aliens, I'm much more interested because
- 1:37:50Speaker 1: I like science fiction better than science faction.
- 1:37:55Speaker 2: Well, I mean, we haven't sent anybody to Mars yet
- 1:37:59Speaker 2: that way science.
- 1:38:00Speaker 1: I know it's also science fiction, but I was like
- 1:38:02Speaker 1: the difference between like more like realistic science fiction and
- 1:38:08Speaker 1: more fantastical science fiction. I like, personally, I can't disprove aliens.
- 1:38:13Speaker 1: The universe is so incredibly vast, so you know, I'm
- 1:38:17Speaker 1: not saying that they don't exist.
- 1:38:19Speaker 2: But you know, if they do, they're probably so far
- 1:38:23Speaker 2: away that they might as well not exist because there's
- 1:38:25Speaker 2: no real chance, barring some time warp or space warping
- 1:38:31Speaker 2: technology that we just don't have access to, there's no
- 1:38:34Speaker 2: real chance that we would encounter.
- 1:38:36Speaker 1: Or some pluribus like event or something.
- 1:38:39Speaker 2: Yeah. Uh, Next up, we got a trailer for Bad
- 1:38:42Speaker 2: day at the office, which gave me hardcore Henry vibes
- 1:38:45Speaker 2: because it's a first person perspective.
- 1:38:47Speaker 1: Film harder to watch.
- 1:38:50Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree.
- 1:38:51Speaker 1: Everything was so blurry and shaky and fast that I
- 1:38:55Speaker 1: got like motionstick watching the trailer.
- 1:38:58Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think I can watch. I wasn't. I've
- 1:39:01Speaker 2: still not seen hardcore Henry. I've seen clips, and I
- 1:39:04Speaker 2: get the feeling that hardcore Henry would probably make me
- 1:39:06Speaker 2: feel nauseated just from from motion sickness. This feels like
- 1:39:12Speaker 2: that times five easy.
- 1:39:14Speaker 1: But this is a guy who.
- 1:39:18Speaker 2: Kills somebody, well, wakes up next to somebody who's dead
- 1:39:24Speaker 2: and doesn't have any memory about what happened. So maybe
- 1:39:27Speaker 2: he killed this person, maybe he didn't. It's I mean again,
- 1:39:30Speaker 2: like it's that amnesia trope, like the one we just
- 1:39:33Speaker 2: said with Oriyan uses amnesia as well. But it's very
- 1:39:36Speaker 2: common in video games, right, because they want you to
- 1:39:39Speaker 2: be able to see yourself in the hero, and if
- 1:39:42Speaker 2: you give your hero a backstory that is, you know,
- 1:39:45Speaker 2: very unique to that character. I just I'm sorry, I'm
- 1:39:48Speaker 2: sorry I used the phrase very unique. I feel awful
- 1:39:50Speaker 2: about that because they're either unique or you're not. But
- 1:39:55Speaker 2: a unique backstory for that character means you could alienate
- 1:39:58Speaker 2: a player because they don't have that backstory. So a
- 1:40:01Speaker 2: lot of games start off with the main character having amnesia,
- 1:40:06Speaker 2: so that way you can imprint whatever backstory you want
- 1:40:09Speaker 2: on that character. I get the feeling the same thing's
- 1:40:10Speaker 2: happening in this movie.
- 1:40:11Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, this is one I'll be skipping.
- 1:40:15Speaker 2: Yeah, me too. I can't watch this. It's like it
- 1:40:18Speaker 2: made me very entertaining, but it would make me want
- 1:40:22Speaker 2: to yack. Yeah, like within within five minutes the movie started.
- 1:40:25Speaker 2: It comes out October thirtieth in the UK and Ireland.
- 1:40:28Speaker 2: So if you're over there and you watch it and
- 1:40:30Speaker 2: you managed to hold on to the contents of your stomach,
- 1:40:32Speaker 2: let us know how it was.
- 1:40:34Speaker 1: Yes, we also got a trailer for a Goldennax cartoon.
- 1:40:37Speaker 1: Goldennax is like an older video game that a lot
- 1:40:40Speaker 1: of people loved. I never played it.
- 1:40:43Speaker 2: Oh, I played it all the time in the arcade,
- 1:40:45Speaker 2: like it was an arcade game series. I played the
- 1:40:48Speaker 2: original Golden Necks in the art that was like peak
- 1:40:52Speaker 2: Jonathan going to the arcade time when that first game
- 1:40:54Speaker 2: came out.
- 1:40:55Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's cheeky and it's d and d ish
- 1:41:02Speaker 1: it's it's a little less earnest than let's say, like
- 1:41:04Speaker 1: vox Makina, but a little bit more earnest than something
- 1:41:07Speaker 1: like Futurama.
- 1:41:08Speaker 2: I'd say, yeah, it's definitely a comedy and it has
- 1:41:12Speaker 2: meta textual jokes where it's like some of the jokes
- 1:41:16Speaker 2: are referencing game mechanics in the Arcade game.
- 1:41:20Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it does look fun to me. I know that,
- 1:41:24Speaker 1: Like my husband has a love for the game, and
- 1:41:27Speaker 1: a lot of my friends do, so I'm certain I
- 1:41:28Speaker 1: will watch it. I'm also kind of like tickled because
- 1:41:34Speaker 1: if if my health journey goes the way that I'm
- 1:41:37Speaker 1: expecting it to, hopefully this cartoon will go well and
- 1:41:40Speaker 1: next year I can cause play the female barbarian character.
- 1:41:44Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, that would be uh tyrs Flair voiced
- 1:41:50Speaker 2: by Lisa Gilroy.
- 1:41:51Speaker 1: Amazing. That's amazing.
- 1:41:53Speaker 2: But she I mean, as a as a dropout fan,
- 1:41:56Speaker 2: I knew you would get a kick out.
- 1:41:58Speaker 1: She does so much that isn't drop out too. She's
- 1:42:00Speaker 1: I'm not always a fan of her comedy, but I
- 1:42:02Speaker 1: am a big fan of her acting and her creativity.
- 1:42:06Speaker 1: Sometimes she goes a little blue for me, but I
- 1:42:09Speaker 1: have I really, I really do appreciate her, but the
- 1:42:12Speaker 1: character is she's taller, she's not she's not thin. She's muscular,
- 1:42:19Speaker 1: but she's not overly muscular, like it's an attainable cause play.
- 1:42:22Speaker 1: And she's not too skimpily dressed.
- 1:42:24Speaker 2: So yeah, and then you have like the dwarf Gillias Thunderhead.
- 1:42:28Speaker 2: Did you see who's voicing Gileas not Matthew Reese. So
- 1:42:33Speaker 2: as a Widow's Bay fan, I was thrilled to see.
- 1:42:36Speaker 2: I did not recognize his voice at all. He did
- 1:42:39Speaker 2: a great job. The third protagonist is a male barbarian
- 1:42:45Speaker 2: whose name is Axe Battler. Yeah, so also I saw Sorry.
- 1:42:53Speaker 1: Also Danny Pooty plays a voice as well.
- 1:42:56Speaker 2: And ch he voices. He voices a character called Hampton
- 1:43:00Speaker 2: Hampton Squib. You can hear Danny Pettie's voice in the trailer.
- 1:43:06Speaker 2: I thought it was I thought it looked very silly
- 1:43:07Speaker 2: and funny, and I was entertained by it. I made
- 1:43:11Speaker 2: the mistake of reading some of the comments on the
- 1:43:12Speaker 2: YouTube page. There's so many people who are mad that
- 1:43:15Speaker 2: it's a comedy, and I'm like, why why are you listen?
- 1:43:20Speaker 2: You might claim to be a huge fan of the games,
- 1:43:23Speaker 2: those games were just hacking slash games. You move from
- 1:43:26Speaker 2: left to right, and you killed monsters as you made
- 1:43:30Speaker 2: your way through the game, and that is it. That's
- 1:43:31Speaker 2: as complex as it gets, really, and there's no deep
- 1:43:35Speaker 2: lore or narrative there. If you were to make it serious,
- 1:43:39Speaker 2: it would just be yet another forgettable fantasy, you know,
- 1:43:44Speaker 2: like Tolkien ripoff. And so making it a comedy I
- 1:43:48Speaker 2: think is a good move in my opinion. I'm sure
- 1:43:53Speaker 2: there are other fans. I know there are other fans
- 1:43:55Speaker 2: out there who feel differently because they commented on YouTube.
- 1:43:57Speaker 2: But anyway, this comes out September sixteenth on Paramount Plus.
- 1:44:00Speaker 1: I'm excited. Also, I'm excited about the trailer for a
- 1:44:05Speaker 1: Tale of Two Cities. It's not a story I actually
- 1:44:09Speaker 1: ever read.
- 1:44:10Speaker 2: Oh I did I read this in high school?
- 1:44:13Speaker 1: I think, But I mean it. It's the trailer looks great.
- 1:44:19Speaker 1: Harrington gets to play like both a charismatic and an
- 1:44:22Speaker 1: artist character, which is better than Jon Snow.
- 1:44:26Speaker 2: Yeah. It's interesting though, because like the character he's playing.
- 1:44:30Speaker 2: The name of the character is Sydney Carton, who in
- 1:44:32Speaker 2: the novel is an alcoholic. He's an English lawyer. He's cynical,
- 1:44:39Speaker 2: like he doesn't really believe in people anymore. He's seen
- 1:44:42Speaker 2: the worst of people so much that's destroyed his faith
- 1:44:46Speaker 2: in humanity. However, this is a spoiler for a novel,
- 1:44:50Speaker 2: So if you don't want to hear this boiling, you're
- 1:44:51Speaker 2: okay with this, right Ariel, Yeah, and me telling you
- 1:44:53Speaker 2: how this novel goes. Okay. So it's set during the
- 1:44:56Speaker 2: time of the French Revolution and as kind of like
- 1:45:01Speaker 2: he's seen, he's seen the worst in people and he
- 1:45:04Speaker 2: almost thinks that that's all people are capable of being.
- 1:45:08Speaker 2: There's another character named Charles Darnay who is played by
- 1:45:14Speaker 2: Francois Sibyl in this mini series is coming up. It's
- 1:45:18Speaker 2: a a four part mini series, I think four or
- 1:45:22Speaker 2: three parts something like that, and four part So Charles
- 1:45:28Speaker 2: Darnay and Sydney Carton, just by coincidence, look a lot
- 1:45:33Speaker 2: like each other. They are physically similar to one another.
- 1:45:39Speaker 2: In the story of a Tale of Two Cities, those
- 1:45:41Speaker 2: two cities are Paris in London. A lot of the
- 1:45:45Speaker 2: stories about aristocrats who are trying to flee France before
- 1:45:49Speaker 2: they end up getting thrown into prisident ultimately executed. Charles
- 1:45:55Speaker 2: Darnay ends up being one of those people. The woman
- 1:45:58Speaker 2: that Sidney loves, falls in love with Darnay and she
- 1:46:03Speaker 2: gets married to him. But Darnay is then subsequently captured
- 1:46:07Speaker 2: and is scheduled to be executed, so Sidney sneaks into, well,
- 1:46:14Speaker 2: he doesn't sneak into. He goes to Darnay's cell, drugs
- 1:46:18Speaker 2: Darnay and has him smuggled out, and he takes Darnay's
- 1:46:23Speaker 2: place so that Darnay can go back and be with
- 1:46:27Speaker 2: his wife, the woman that Sidney loves. And that is
- 1:46:30Speaker 2: why Sydney says at the end, when he's being led
- 1:46:32Speaker 2: to the execution he's going to be killed. He says,
- 1:46:36Speaker 2: it's a far far better thing I do now than
- 1:46:38Speaker 2: I have ever done. Is a far far greater rest
- 1:46:41Speaker 2: than I have ever known, because he has he has
- 1:46:44Speaker 2: redeemed his faith in humanity, and he feels like this
- 1:46:48Speaker 2: is a worthy price to pay. So it's a very
- 1:46:52Speaker 2: like emotional, heavy hitting ending, right, And it looks like
- 1:46:57Speaker 2: these these folks did a great job bring that story
- 1:47:01Speaker 2: to life on the screen. It comes to MGM Plus
- 1:47:05Speaker 2: on September sixth. It also will be airing on BBC
- 1:47:08Speaker 2: One in the UK.
- 1:47:09Speaker 1: So maybe Kit Harrington isn't as charismatic or whatever, as
- 1:47:13Speaker 1: I thought, but also they have to make him at
- 1:47:16Speaker 1: least people want to watch him.
- 1:47:20Speaker 2: Well, the character's supposed to be brilliant, Like he's supposed
- 1:47:24Speaker 2: to be intelligent and like, it's not that he's a jerk,
- 1:47:28Speaker 2: it's that he's he's like spiritually broken from the things
- 1:47:34Speaker 2: he's had to witness as a lawyer. Like you know,
- 1:47:36Speaker 2: he's like, like I said, he's seen the worst of
- 1:47:38Speaker 2: the worst, and he's seen the worst of the worst
- 1:47:41Speaker 2: from all different levels of society. So it's you know,
- 1:47:46Speaker 2: trying to it's like like Scrooge trying to reclaim someone
- 1:47:50Speaker 2: who has fallen so far, and in this case is
- 1:47:52Speaker 2: a self reclamation. And then there's some amazing characters in
- 1:47:58Speaker 2: that story I cannot wait to see. I'm sure I'll
- 1:48:01Speaker 2: find her terrifying. How Madame Defarge is portrayed in this series,
- 1:48:06Speaker 2: So I'm very eager to watch this.
- 1:48:09Speaker 1: I'm excited because now there's enough stuff on MGM plus
- 1:48:11Speaker 1: that I can justify getting it.
- 1:48:14Speaker 2: That is also a good point.
- 1:48:16Speaker 1: Yeah, we also got a trailer. This is just my
- 1:48:19Speaker 1: intro into everything. Because we're running along, we've had so
- 1:48:22Speaker 1: many technical issues, so I apologize I sound like a
- 1:48:24Speaker 1: broken record for the Vampires of New Orleans, which is
- 1:48:27Speaker 1: a docu drama that mixes like the legends of vampires
- 1:48:32Speaker 1: with the history and folklore of Louisiana or New Orleans.
- 1:48:39Speaker 1: I love that concept.
- 1:48:42Speaker 2: Yeah, it looks like it's mixing like an actual, original
- 1:48:46Speaker 2: fictional story with a documentary style investigation into the vampire
- 1:48:54Speaker 2: like subculture of New Orleans. I love that one of
- 1:48:58Speaker 2: the people they interview just outright says, you want to
- 1:49:01Speaker 2: know about the history of vampires in New Orleans. There
- 1:49:04Speaker 2: wasn't one before Anne Rice wrote her book.
- 1:49:06Speaker 1: Yeah, I love that. There's a lot of clever writing.
- 1:49:10Speaker 1: It does feel like the beginning of the trailer and
- 1:49:13Speaker 1: the end of the trailer are two different movies.
- 1:49:16Speaker 2: I think that's intentional. Like I said, I think part
- 1:49:19Speaker 2: of it is documentary. Part of it is a cinematic
- 1:49:23Speaker 2: adaptation of a story that the director originally wrote. So
- 1:49:27Speaker 2: the writer director is a guy named Andrew Wrackige. I'm
- 1:49:32Speaker 2: not sure. I'm probably mispronouncing his name anyway. He created
- 1:49:35Speaker 2: the YouTube channel a ton Shay Films atun hyphen s
- 1:49:41Speaker 2: h Ei Films, and he's known as an activist. He
- 1:49:46Speaker 2: did apparent I haven't watched it, but he's done a
- 1:49:50Speaker 2: series that was about the mythology of the Lost Cause,
- 1:49:57Speaker 2: reframing of the Civil War, which attempted to like that,
- 1:50:01Speaker 2: that's an attempt from people who are apologists for the
- 1:50:05Speaker 2: Confederacy to say it was never about protecting slavery or whatever.
- 1:50:09Speaker 2: He did like a multi part series debunking that, Like, no,
- 1:50:13Speaker 2: it was totally about slavery. I read up on the
- 1:50:17Speaker 2: story that served as the inspiration for this. He had
- 1:50:21Speaker 2: written a story, and he admitted that his story was
- 1:50:28Speaker 2: heavily inspired by Anne Rice and her story about Louis
- 1:50:32Speaker 2: who is, you know, an aristocrat in Louisiana before he's
- 1:50:36Speaker 2: turned into a vampire. And in the Vampire Diaries or
- 1:50:41Speaker 2: diary no interview with the vampire, not Vampire Diaries. That's different.
- 1:50:43Speaker 2: Interview with a vampire. I am see. This is where
- 1:50:46Speaker 2: I screw up all the names. Like I said, I
- 1:50:48Speaker 2: think I said Vampire Diaries earlier, but it's interview with
- 1:50:50Speaker 2: a vampire in that you know, he refuses to prey
- 1:50:56Speaker 2: upon humans. He's not going to attack humans. In Andrew's version,
- 1:51:02Speaker 2: similar except that he doesn't view people of color as
- 1:51:05Speaker 2: being human, so he'll feed on them, and this is
- 1:51:10Speaker 2: this is meant to make that character evil, like this bad,
- 1:51:14Speaker 2: like to show how this kind of mentality, Like it's
- 1:51:19Speaker 2: absurd because you're taking it with vamporism, but it's a
- 1:51:22Speaker 2: mentality that some people actually do hold that people of
- 1:51:25Speaker 2: color are not really people, which is on the whole
- 1:51:29Speaker 2: of it absurd and horrifying. Yeah. So I don't know
- 1:51:35Speaker 2: if that's what ultimately ends up becoming the story for
- 1:51:38Speaker 2: this narrative that's in this movie, but it's interesting that
- 1:51:44Speaker 2: that's a perspective he was taking. It comes out on
- 1:51:47Speaker 2: September twenty seventh on limited screenings. It gets a wider
- 1:51:50Speaker 2: release on October first. Interesting, So I am curious. Everything
- 1:51:56Speaker 2: I've heard about this guy is that he continues to
- 1:51:59Speaker 2: get more adept at creating compelling videos and films.
- 1:52:06Speaker 1: I love that. I in my brain, I thought it
- 1:52:09Speaker 1: was closer to something like what we do in the Shadows,
- 1:52:11Speaker 1: where the story and the documentary were more like intertwined.
- 1:52:16Speaker 2: Yeah, and they might be. I don't know. I haven't
- 1:52:19Speaker 2: seen it.
- 1:52:19Speaker 1: Which is which is why the trailer it seemed weird
- 1:52:22Speaker 1: to me. But your explanation makes me much more interested
- 1:52:24Speaker 1: in it. Next from vampires to Violent Nights. We got
- 1:52:30Speaker 1: a trailer for Violent Night two. I did not like
- 1:52:32Speaker 1: Violent Night one, and this trailer has a major ick,
- 1:52:36Speaker 1: one of my major icks in it. But the end
- 1:52:40Speaker 1: of the trailer, I'm like, why do you want to
- 1:52:42Speaker 1: Why are you making me want to watch this movie?
- 1:52:44Speaker 1: Because I do everything up to this end reveal, which
- 1:52:47Speaker 1: is missus clause I don't care about. But you've revealed
- 1:52:51Speaker 1: missus clause, and now I care.
- 1:52:53Speaker 2: I misremembered I thought you liked Violent right.
- 1:52:58Speaker 1: I like the actors in it, and I felt like
- 1:53:01Speaker 1: it had no heart.
- 1:53:03Speaker 2: Maybe it was friend of the show Shade Lee who
- 1:53:05Speaker 2: liked Violent Knight.
- 1:53:06Speaker 1: Okay, Like I was like, I expect to die hard,
- 1:53:09Speaker 1: and I just found none of the characters likable except
- 1:53:12Speaker 1: for the little girl.
- 1:53:14Speaker 2: I didn't really care for the first one that much either.
- 1:53:18Speaker 2: In this one, Santa Claus finds out he's been put
- 1:53:21Speaker 2: on the Naughty List because he's lost the true meaning
- 1:53:23Speaker 2: of Christmas, and then apparently has to help a bunch
- 1:53:27Speaker 2: of people in a mall face off against a ruthless
- 1:53:31Speaker 2: gang of ne'er do wells who are doing the bidding
- 1:53:34Speaker 2: of some like corrupt businessman or something and I'm like,
- 1:53:39Speaker 2: is the true meaning of Christmas capitalism? Because of because
- 1:53:43Speaker 2: this seems real weird, like it's starting to get into
- 1:53:47Speaker 2: a in Kirk Cameron territory as far as the true
- 1:53:49Speaker 2: meaning of Christmas. So, yeah, I watched this trailer. I
- 1:53:55Speaker 2: don't think your massive ach is actually in this. I
- 1:53:57Speaker 2: think so a character does get and.
- 1:54:01Speaker 1: Then and then they show them eating bits.
- 1:54:04Speaker 2: No, no, no, I think the guy's eating a cookie.
- 1:54:06Speaker 2: I don't think he's eating part of the dude. I
- 1:54:09Speaker 2: think it's two separate scenes that are not connected to
- 1:54:12Speaker 2: although maybe it is the flesh cookie that gets cut.
- 1:54:15Speaker 1: Out from the flesh cookie.
- 1:54:17Speaker 2: Yeah, because the guy's using cookie cutters and Santa's using
- 1:54:20Speaker 2: cookie cutters is like brass knuckles. So maybe it is the.
- 1:54:23Speaker 1: Flesh compression that I got that it's like a human
- 1:54:25Speaker 1: crack one.
- 1:54:28Speaker 2: You could be right, yeah, yeah, because it's cooked meat.
- 1:54:36Speaker 2: Kristen Bell is playing Missus Claws.
- 1:54:37Speaker 1: And I'm all in for her playing a badass Nordic
- 1:54:40Speaker 1: missus Claws.
- 1:54:42Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, warrior woman missus Claws. I'll probably watch this
- 1:54:48Speaker 2: because I watched the first one, but I did not
- 1:54:50Speaker 2: like the first one very much, and I don't like
- 1:54:52Speaker 2: that take on Santa Claus honestly, Like, if you're going
- 1:54:56Speaker 2: to make him an action hero, why make him so
- 1:54:59Speaker 2: vulnerable because he takes so much damage.
- 1:55:03Speaker 1: He's also but just a complete heel for most of it.
- 1:55:07Speaker 1: And I understand what story they're trying to tell there,
- 1:55:10Speaker 1: but they don't tell it well. I thought both Violent
- 1:55:14Speaker 1: Night and Red One were cheesy, but at least I
- 1:55:17Speaker 1: had fun with Red One.
- 1:55:20Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't like either of those, but I can
- 1:55:22Speaker 2: see how you could have more fun with Red One. Like,
- 1:55:24Speaker 2: I'm not criticizing anyone who enjoyed Red One, It just
- 1:55:28Speaker 2: neither of those movies worked for me. I saw both
- 1:55:30Speaker 2: of them, and both of them kind of left me cold,
- 1:55:33Speaker 2: but for different reasons. But I can totally get where
- 1:55:36Speaker 2: you might find little bits of Red One pretty fun.
- 1:55:41Speaker 1: Finally, also because I knew people in it, so it
- 1:55:43Speaker 1: was fun to see them.
- 1:55:44Speaker 2: That helps. Finally, the last thing, This was the last
- 1:55:48Speaker 2: thing that I added to our list because I saw
- 1:55:50Speaker 2: it literally like two hours before we were to record.
- 1:55:53Speaker 2: We got a trailer for a YouTube web series eight
- 1:55:57Speaker 2: episode web series called Pain in the Net. It's a
- 1:56:01Speaker 2: horror comedy, more comedy than horror, but uh, it's It's
- 1:56:05Speaker 2: about a young woman named Ruby who's an aspiring actor
- 1:56:10Speaker 2: who's somewhat frustrated because the apocalypse has happened and turned
- 1:56:14Speaker 2: Hollywood into a post apocalyptic horror where her landlord is
- 1:56:17Speaker 2: now a zombie who still talks to her about violations
- 1:56:22Speaker 2: she's done in code for putting up shelves and stuff,
- 1:56:25Speaker 2: and her roommate is a vampire.
- 1:56:28Speaker 1: Yeah, and there's a romance there, which is fine. I
- 1:56:34Speaker 1: don't know, it could be really funny, it could really
- 1:56:37Speaker 1: fall flat.
- 1:56:40Speaker 2: The bits I saw I thought looked appealing, but I
- 1:56:43Speaker 2: see what you're saying, Like, I don't know if the
- 1:56:46Speaker 2: end result is going to be sustainably funny. But I
- 1:56:49Speaker 2: like what they're trying to do. And the jokes that
- 1:56:51Speaker 2: I saw in the trailer I thought were pretty entertaining,
- 1:56:54Speaker 2: Like they're they're decent. They weren't, you know, they weren't
- 1:56:57Speaker 2: leaving me on the floor or anything. But it was
- 1:56:59Speaker 2: better than a lot of the stuff I saw on
- 1:57:02Speaker 2: Stuart Fails to Save the Universe. First three episodes fair enough,
- 1:57:05Speaker 2: and I stuck with that long enough to go to four.
- 1:57:07Speaker 2: So this comes out September. Seventeenth episodes will be released
- 1:57:10Speaker 2: weekly leading up to Halloween, so it will be one
- 1:57:14Speaker 2: of those things where you know you'll see an episode
- 1:57:16Speaker 2: and you got to wait a week for the next one,
- 1:57:17Speaker 2: which I actually kind of liked, Like I liked it.
- 1:57:20Speaker 2: I like it with Pluribus, I like it with It
- 1:57:22Speaker 2: was torture for Wanda, Vision and Agatha all along, and
- 1:57:26Speaker 2: I know Vision Quest is going to be the same way.
- 1:57:28Speaker 1: Yeah what you said, and I missed it? What is
- 1:57:31Speaker 1: this coming out on.
- 1:57:33Speaker 2: YouTube? So this is a YouTube web series so it
- 1:57:35Speaker 2: comes out September seventeen.
- 1:57:37Speaker 1: Also, something not in our show notes, but I just
- 1:57:39Speaker 1: want to mention it would have gone into the things
- 1:57:41Speaker 1: that make you go huh? Is that the season three
- 1:57:43Speaker 1: of the Pit trailer just dropped. I haven't watched it yet,
- 1:57:46Speaker 1: but I know I like it because I like the Pit.
- 1:57:48Speaker 2: Okay, well, one other thing I would have thrown in
- 1:57:50Speaker 2: there too, although I would have thrown this into the
- 1:57:53Speaker 2: probably our actual show notes is that a movie I Hate,
- 1:57:59Speaker 2: The Greatest Showman as getting a stage musical adaptation going
- 1:58:02Speaker 2: to the London's West End next year.
- 1:58:04Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I know somebody in.
- 1:58:06Speaker 2: It in the West End version? Yeah cool?
- 1:58:10Speaker 1: Yeah?
- 1:58:10Speaker 2: You who do you know who's in.
- 1:58:12Speaker 1: A searwheel performer. Did you come see me when I
- 1:58:17Speaker 1: was in when I was in Joseph an amazing technicolor
- 1:58:22Speaker 1: dream coat?
- 1:58:23Speaker 2: Yes with Joseph, Oh wow wow? Moving up?
- 1:58:27Speaker 1: And so he went to he went to not to
- 1:58:30Speaker 1: put him on blast. I won't mention names. He went
- 1:58:33Speaker 1: up to Canada to study with Sarcasla and then it
- 1:58:35Speaker 1: did a bunch of different sort of stuff with different
- 1:58:37Speaker 1: companies up there. I believe I heard that like end
- 1:58:41Speaker 1: of last year he was going over to London to
- 1:58:43Speaker 1: work on the Greatest Showmen. That I could be wrong.
- 1:58:46Speaker 1: It may not have been at the West End, but
- 1:58:47Speaker 1: I can't imagine it would have been elsewhere.
- 1:58:49Speaker 2: So what may have been the like wherever they were
- 1:58:53Speaker 2: workshopping right like building the show, because you have to
- 1:58:56Speaker 2: do all of that before you move over to the
- 1:58:58Speaker 2: West End typically, Like So it's just one of those
- 1:59:02Speaker 2: things where The Greatest Showman is a movie where it
- 1:59:07Speaker 2: feels to me like it's all style, no substance, It's
- 1:59:11Speaker 2: all very shallow, and plus it's about P. T. Barnum,
- 1:59:14Speaker 2: who was kind of a garbage human being. I would
- 1:59:18Speaker 2: have liked it more had it been about a completely
- 1:59:20Speaker 2: fictional person, but instead trying to turn a garbage human
- 1:59:25Speaker 2: being into a whimsical Willy Wonka esque character just really
- 1:59:29Speaker 2: rubbed me the wrong way. It's like if you went, Okay,
- 1:59:32Speaker 2: this is being over dramatic, but it'd be like if
- 1:59:35Speaker 2: you were going to see a movie that was about
- 1:59:40Speaker 2: Charles Manson but saying he was actually a pretty pretty
- 1:59:43Speaker 2: fun guy, you know.
- 1:59:46Speaker 1: Okay, So he played it at the Bristol Hippodrome in
- 1:59:50Speaker 1: the UK this year. I don't know if he's going
- 1:59:54Speaker 1: over the West End yet, but.
- 1:59:56Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that would be where they were probably workshopping
- 1:59:59Speaker 2: the because like even though it even though Great Showman
- 2:00:03Speaker 2: is a movie musical, that doesn't mean it's easily adapted
- 2:00:06Speaker 2: into stage format.
- 2:00:08Speaker 1: Okay, I do believe he is going over to.
- 2:00:12Speaker 2: The West End. Good for him, Like I love that
- 2:00:16Speaker 2: people are getting gainful employment in the arts through this show.
- 2:00:21Speaker 2: That's about the best thing I can say about it,
- 2:00:23Speaker 2: because I really disliked the show. There's one number in
- 2:00:27Speaker 2: the show I like, maybe two. I do like the
- 2:00:31Speaker 2: Million Miles song. It just goes on too long and
- 2:00:33Speaker 2: it's broken up too much. But I also like the
- 2:00:37Speaker 2: song where he's making the deal with the dapper guy.
- 2:00:42Speaker 2: I can't even remember what the song is called, but
- 2:00:44Speaker 2: that one was fun and I liked it mostly because
- 2:00:46Speaker 2: the bartender in the back is doing some very complicated
- 2:00:50Speaker 2: choreography and I think he might have even been the
- 2:00:52Speaker 2: choreographer for the movie. But that was my favorite part
- 2:00:56Speaker 2: about that because it felt the most like a musical.
- 2:00:58Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, yeah, Once once I can confirm confirm that
- 2:01:03Speaker 1: this person I know is in it, I'll totally I'll
- 2:01:06Speaker 1: totally lift him up because he's a really cool guy
- 2:01:10Speaker 1: and also incredibly talented.
- 2:01:12Speaker 2: So I'm glad to hear that he's a cool guy too,
- 2:01:14Speaker 2: because like, it's nice to have those stories instead of
- 2:01:18Speaker 2: this guy who was a real jackass when I was
- 2:01:20Speaker 2: in the show, it's now doing this big, amazing thing
- 2:01:23Speaker 2: and I hate him so much.
- 2:01:24Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's that's exciting. Thank you for last minute
- 2:01:29Speaker 1: squeezing that in. But that is the end of our episode.
- 2:01:33Speaker 1: It's been super long, Jonathan. Do you want to tell
- 2:01:35Speaker 1: people how to reach out to us?
- 2:01:37Speaker 2: I already did. The problem is that part of the
- 2:01:39Speaker 2: show got dropped when we were having so much lag.
- 2:01:42Speaker 2: So if you can go back and find the part
- 2:01:45Speaker 2: of the show that I did not edit or publish
- 2:01:48Speaker 2: where I explain how you can touch with me. Please
- 2:01:50Speaker 2: just follow those very simple directions. It's literally like I
- 2:01:53Speaker 2: decided just to give to create an email address just
- 2:01:56Speaker 2: for this, and I gave it out in that section.
- 2:01:58Speaker 2: But I never believe in doing things twice. So you're
- 2:02:00Speaker 2: going to have to find that email address in the
- 2:02:02Speaker 2: lost bit.
- 2:02:03Speaker 1: Some porschemucks are going to get some really weird emails.
- 2:02:08Speaker 2: It's going to take a lot of guesswork on your
- 2:02:09Speaker 2: on your behalf dear listener to figure out what email
- 2:02:13Speaker 2: address you need to send that to.
- 2:02:14Speaker 1: Yeah, you can also reach out to us on social
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- 2:02:20Speaker 1: That's also our discord handle. You can find our show
- 2:02:23Speaker 1: notes at www dot large narge on clutter dot com.
- 2:02:26Speaker 1: It is a little outdate. This episode will definitely be
- 2:02:29Speaker 1: on there. You can also email us at Large Inner
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- 2:02:36Speaker 1: hearing from you. The things are tired of me, the
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- 2:02:49Speaker 1: We love you being a part of our Utu family
- 2:02:51Speaker 1: and until next time. I'm Ariel, how did that spiderball
- 2:02:55Speaker 1: get in here? Castin?
- 2:02:57Speaker 2: And I am Jonathan. The song I was thinking about
- 2:03:01Speaker 2: from Greatest Showman is called other Side Strickland.
- 2:03:04Speaker 1: It's called the Other Side Strickland.
- 2:03:06Speaker 2: No, no, it's called other Side Strickland.
- 2:03:10Speaker 1: Oh there's a dash, Okay, I got it?
- 2:03:11Speaker 2: Got it? J Yeah, No, that was like the large
- 2:03:14Speaker 2: Nerdron Collider was created by Ariel Caston and produced, edited, published, deleted, undeleted,
- 2:03:23Speaker 2: published again. Cursed at by Jonathan Strickland. Music by Kevin
- 2:03:29Speaker 2: McLeod of incomptech dot com