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Little Mermaids and Tiny Krakens Mean Something is Fishy · Large Nerdron Collider

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Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Welcome to the Large or Drunk Collider podcast,
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Speaker 1: the podcast that's all about the geeky things happening in
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Speaker 1: the world around us and how very excited we are
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Speaker 1: about them. I'm arielcasting and with me, as always, is
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Speaker 1: the superbly super Jonathan Strickland. Hey, y'all, what's going on
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Speaker 1: Are you talking to me? And then if you're talking
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Speaker 1: The things that are worth doing, We're putting a little
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Speaker 1: elbow grease into is what I'm saying. Now. Y'all might
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Speaker 1: recognize that I just got back from the south By
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Speaker 1: Southwest that the that their conference in the Austin, Texas
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Speaker 1: and uh yeah, it rubbed off on me a little bit. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you're you're a Texas Accidents getting real good there. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's not at all inauthentic. Uh yeah, So we're gonna
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Speaker 1: talk a little bit about some stuff that happened at
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Speaker 1: south By Southwest. Sadly I didn't get to see it
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Speaker 1: till after I got back. But yeah, but it did happen. Uh,
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Speaker 1: And we're just gonna jump right into our thirty seconds
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Speaker 1: or less because we've got a good handful of stories
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Speaker 1: to cover today. Yes, so I will get started now.
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Speaker 1: So that south by Southwest stuff I was talking about.
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Speaker 1: Disney showed up and showed off a couple of things
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Speaker 1: at the conference, including a tinker belt effect where an
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Speaker 1: tinker belt, not an actor playing tinker belt, but tinker
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Speaker 1: belt can appear as actual life sized tinker belt, that
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Speaker 1: meaning fairy size in things like a little lantern and
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Speaker 1: fly around. It's essentially telepresence technology used to create a
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Speaker 1: magical character interaction looked really cute on stage. They also
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Speaker 1: showed off a Judy Hops robot on roller blades that
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Speaker 1: demonstrated how robots can really elicit an emotional response even
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Speaker 1: if they don't look totally cartoonish. And these could be
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Speaker 1: potential things we might see incorporated in the parks in
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Speaker 1: the future. Yes, all right. Next, we got news that
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Speaker 1: the Wicked Part one movie, based off of the musical
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Speaker 1: Wicked novel by I can't I was going to do
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Speaker 1: like some push sapphire, but whatever, it's a bad reference. Okay, anyhow,
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Speaker 1: Wicked Movie Part one is getting moved up from December
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty four to November twenty seven, twenty twenty four.
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Speaker 1: I guess they figure Thanksgiving is better than Christmas for
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Speaker 1: people who want to watch this movie. That's maybe thirty seconds. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Part Part two is actually going to hold onto its
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Speaker 1: date to be around Christmas time twenty twenty five. So
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Speaker 1: while Part one is getting moved up as of now,
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Speaker 1: Part two will be holding its date. So this one
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Speaker 1: is one of the aerial titled sad News for Jonathan,
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Speaker 1: and I had to click through to find out what
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Speaker 1: it was. The sad news. Yeah, I don't read your ls.
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Speaker 1: We have established this io Interactive, the video game company
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Speaker 1: is not developing, not currently developing another Hitman game, which
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Speaker 1: is not actually a big surprise to me. They are
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Speaker 1: hard at work on a James Bond themed game, which
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Speaker 1: I imagine is going to pull liberally from the work
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Speaker 1: they've done with the Hitman series. And they also have
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Speaker 1: the World of Assassination Hitman three ongoing offering, so it's
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Speaker 1: kind of a living game. So I'm not entirely shocked
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Speaker 1: that this is happening. I do like the Hitman series,
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Speaker 1: and I do hope that they returned to it before
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Speaker 1: too long, but again not a big surprise. Yeah, okay,
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Speaker 1: so Jonathan's not as sad as I thought. Next, we
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Speaker 1: have news about D and D on Our among Thieves.
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Speaker 1: There was an early screening screening at south By Southwest
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Speaker 1: and the critic reviews have actually been better than I expected.
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Speaker 1: Not one hundred percent, but it's like eighty nine right now. However,
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Speaker 1: a couple of things we learned about the movie is one,
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Speaker 1: there is an easter egg in the fight scene. If
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Speaker 1: you like the old eighties D and D cartoon like
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Speaker 1: Jonathan and I do, you can see those characters briefly.
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Speaker 1: And also, for Amazon Prime members, there is a preview
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Speaker 1: screening of this movie which is coming out March thirty first.
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Speaker 1: On March nineteenth that select theaters, you can buy your
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Speaker 1: tickets through Amazon dot Com. Pretty cool. So next up,
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Speaker 1: we have a mysterious Zack Snyder tweet. He sent out
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Speaker 1: a message on Twitter that had the caption hashtag pulls circle.
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Speaker 1: There was a video and in the video you heard
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Speaker 1: a voice say incoming transmission from Lord dark Side and
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Speaker 1: then told you to save the date of April twenty
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Speaker 1: eight or thirty twenty twenty three. I think we know
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Speaker 1: what that means. Destination wedding. Dark Side's getting hitched. You
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Speaker 1: have been invited. We're all going to get to go
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Speaker 1: and watch those nuptials. Don't know who he's marrying, goodness,
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Speaker 1: could be anybody, but yeah, no, we honestly have no
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Speaker 1: clue what the heck is up with this. Zack Snyder
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Speaker 1: has not really been part of the whole DC stuff
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Speaker 1: for a while, since he had to step back after
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Speaker 1: handling a personal track. Yeah. Yeah, Next, we have just
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Speaker 1: a rumor that various actors are in talks to be
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Speaker 1: in Garamel Dots Toro's live action Frankenstein, which is also
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Speaker 1: a rumor. He's kind of been poking at that for
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Speaker 1: a while, but we don't know if that's actually going
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Speaker 1: to be his next live action thing. But now people
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Speaker 1: are saying that he's talking to Andrew Garfield, Oscar Isaac
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Speaker 1: and me a Goth to be in it again. Total rumor.
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Speaker 1: I'd be all for. I think I've said this before,
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Speaker 1: Guillermo del Toro, Frankenstein, and I think those actors will
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Speaker 1: be really good in it, so hopefully this is true.
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Speaker 1: Totally Yeah, I mean like it's right in Del Toro's wheelhouse.
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Speaker 1: He's a big fan of monsters, and in most of
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Speaker 1: his monster movies you find out that the monster isn't
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Speaker 1: the real monster. It's some normal looking human who's the
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Speaker 1: real monster. And that is the story of Frankenstein. So yeah,
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Speaker 1: I think it would be a perfect fit. Next up,
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Speaker 1: James Gunn has announced that he will be directing the
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Speaker 1: Superman Legacy movie, you know, the one that a certain
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Speaker 1: Gerrault will not be part of. Yeah, this is kind
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Speaker 1: of an interesting announcement because, of course, James Gunn is
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Speaker 1: known for directing the Guardians of the Galaxy films and
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Speaker 1: the Suicide Squad movie The Good One The Bad One.
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Speaker 1: And I'm I don't know how to feel about this,
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Speaker 1: because I do trust James Gunn's abilities as a director,
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Speaker 1: but I also feel that he comes across a bit
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Speaker 1: more cynical and dark than I want my Superman. I
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Speaker 1: know this is thirty stake canser list. I just have
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Speaker 1: to say something in this because I went read the
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Speaker 1: Hollywood Reporter interview with James Gunn on this and he
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Speaker 1: was hesitant to write a script for this because he
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Speaker 1: didn't feel like he had a good story and he
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Speaker 1: wanted to give Superman the respect he deserved as an
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Speaker 1: upstanding character. And then he came up with a script idea,
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Speaker 1: and then he even didn't want to direct it, like
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Speaker 1: he was hesitant to both write the script and direct it.
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Speaker 1: And it wasn't until he was done with the script
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Speaker 1: that he was like, oh, man, I now I'm really
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Speaker 1: passionate about the story and I want to do it.
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Speaker 1: But he seems like he's really passionate about wanting Superman
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Speaker 1: to be you know, upstanding and an ideal of a
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Speaker 1: person and like the good, bright, shining beacon and maybe
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Speaker 1: a world that has become more cynical. So I think
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Speaker 1: he could do something good with it. If he really
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Speaker 1: wants to let Superman and be Superman, I am for it. Sorry,
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Speaker 1: I had to interject that because the article is really nice,
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Speaker 1: we'll post it on our website. Okay, next thirty seconds
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Speaker 1: or less. It looks like john Wick Chapter four might
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Speaker 1: be the last chapter for a while. Director Chad style
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Speaker 1: Leski said that he and Keanu Reeves are probably done
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Speaker 1: at least for a bit. They're open to possibly more stories,
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Speaker 1: but for now there unless they come up with a
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Speaker 1: really good idea. It looks like John Wick is going
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Speaker 1: back into retirement. But you know you'll get more in
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Speaker 1: the franchise if you like it, because Ballerina is coming
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Speaker 1: out and John Wick will be making a cameo in that.
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Speaker 1: So yeah. Next up, a Japanese film maker has recreated
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Speaker 1: or remade the movie Cube. You might remember this independent
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Speaker 1: horror movie where a group of strangers wake up and
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Speaker 1: find themselves trapped inside this cube shaped maze that keeps
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Speaker 1: shifting around. It's full of deadly traps. Well, there's now
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Speaker 1: a Japanese remake of that and it's coming to stream
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Speaker 1: box on April eleventh. I watched the trailer for it.
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Speaker 1: It looks like a pretty faithful recreation of the original
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Speaker 1: Cube movie. Nice. That's something I haven't seen now that
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Speaker 1: John Rice Davies is back. No, that's not the correct person.
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Speaker 1: Russell T. Davies is back in Doctor Who. Oh Lord
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Speaker 1: help me. We might be getting a spinoff show focused
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Speaker 1: on Unit with Jemma red Grave as Kate Stewart. She
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Speaker 1: was a really good character in the Doctor Who series.
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Speaker 1: And if they don't call this new series total Unit,
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Speaker 1: I will be disappointed. Okay, if John rees Davies doesn't
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Speaker 1: show up and end up being in that series, I'll
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Speaker 1: be greatly disappointed because I was all excited when you
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Speaker 1: started that one off. Okay, next up, there is a
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Speaker 1: rumored television series based off the science fiction film Gatica
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Speaker 1: that came out many many years ago. Ghandica is set
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Speaker 1: in a near future world in which humans have figured
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Speaker 1: out how to genetically modify human babies to try and
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Speaker 1: create perfect children, right, people who are not going to
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Speaker 1: have any sort of tendency toward disease, People who are
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Speaker 1: going to be superior in every physical and mental way.
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Speaker 1: And it's a story that follows an invalid, someone who
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Speaker 1: hasn't been altered, as he attempts to chase his dream
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Speaker 1: of becoming a space explorer, which is impossible without being
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Speaker 1: one of these genetically altered people. That was the film.
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Speaker 1: Where apparently going to get a television series set in
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Speaker 1: that world, which to me is really interesting because we
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Speaker 1: have a lot of discussions between halves and havens that
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Speaker 1: are going on today, and I think science fiction always
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Speaker 1: gives us the oportunity to explore those kinds of ideas
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Speaker 1: in interesting ways. Speaking of series, we're getting a series
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Speaker 1: of Lego sets based off of Indiana Jones. We're getting
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Speaker 1: the Escape from the Lost Tomb from Raiders of the
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Speaker 1: Lost Arc, We're getting the Temple of the Golden Idol,
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Speaker 1: and we're also getting a fighter plane. They come out
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Speaker 1: on April first. This article from Nerveice says it's not
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Speaker 1: an April fool's joke. They're kind of smaller sets. I
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Speaker 1: haven't seen the fighter plane, but at least the Temple
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Speaker 1: ones look like smaller sets or only six hundred pieces,
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Speaker 1: so they aren't as pretty as a lot of their
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Speaker 1: collector sets. I don't I don't know how well they'll
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Speaker 1: take off right for adult Lego guys, but it is
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Speaker 1: nice because it's the first time in ten years that
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Speaker 1: they've done an Indiana Jones themed set, so it is
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Speaker 1: it's cool that it's come back around. Obviously, we're getting
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Speaker 1: the Die of Destiny later on, so I'm sure that
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Speaker 1: this is partly to take advantage of that. But yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's our thirty seconds or less. That friendship comes with
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Speaker 1: ups and downs, and now we're gonna talk about the
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Speaker 1: stuff what we've watched. Yeah, so I've been busy, so
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Speaker 1: my what I've watched has kind of gone around what
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Speaker 1: my husband is also watching. So we started History of
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Speaker 1: the World Part two. I want to say like forty
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Speaker 1: five percent of the skits are kind of cute, some
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Speaker 1: of them really make me laugh, and then some of
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Speaker 1: them I'm like, no, why why, Like there's a typhoid
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Speaker 1: Mary skit that's just I don't I don't like it.
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Speaker 1: I just don't like it. You could probably surmise why,
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Speaker 1: but I'm not going to go into details. Um, you know,
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Speaker 1: it's it's very mel Brooks. There are a lot of
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Speaker 1: like really old mel Brooks sticks in there, but there's
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Speaker 1: also some fun and cute and clever stuff in there, so,
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Speaker 1: you know, really really good cast, at least the people
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Speaker 1: that they've cast are able to tell his jokes. Well.
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Speaker 1: We also finished a season two of Foxmachina, not a
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Speaker 1: kid friendly show for any of our families listening. Who
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Speaker 1: liked D and D box Marketer, Yeah no, the very
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Speaker 1: the very first episode of season one of Voxmachina makes
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Speaker 1: that a bund yeah. Clear, But we finished that and
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Speaker 1: enjoyed that and are looking forward to future stuff. We
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Speaker 1: know we're getting a season three and also a season
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Speaker 1: of the mighty nine. And I started lockwell I've almost
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Speaker 1: finished Lockwood and Co. Which we talked about in a
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Speaker 1: previous episode. It's the Kids are ghost Fighters Corporately in London.
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Speaker 1: It's based off of a series of books, and I
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Speaker 1: feel like the show misses a little bit of explanation.
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Speaker 1: You might get earlier in the books than you do
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Speaker 1: in the series. But overall, it's a great cast. It's
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Speaker 1: a lot of fun. It does a really good mix
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Speaker 1: of like suspense mystery mixed with some scary, Like the
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Speaker 1: first episode was kind of scary and then some comedy.
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Speaker 1: It was like it was like Stranger Things meets Umbrella
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Speaker 1: and Academy. So I'm enjoying it cool. That sounds good,
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Speaker 1: Like I have not yet dipped my toe in that.
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Speaker 1: So I that's it. Will join the list, the ever
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Speaker 1: growing list of things what I need to watch and
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Speaker 1: you oh. I binged all of the first season of
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Speaker 1: Shmega Dune. Second season's coming out later this year. Schmegadoon,
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Speaker 1: of course, is the series on Apple TV in which
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Speaker 1: a modern day couple are having some relationship issues. They
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Speaker 1: go on sort of a couple's retreat. They accidentally wander
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Speaker 1: off the beaten path and end up in a land
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Speaker 1: that is modeled after nineteen fifties Arab musicals like Oklahoma
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Speaker 1: and Brigadoon and Music Man and things like that, and
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Speaker 1: they're trapped there until they can find true love and
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Speaker 1: it's kind of their misadventures in the land of musical
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Speaker 1: The man in the couple hates musicals and the woman
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Speaker 1: loves them and is very knowledgeable about them. Uh it is.
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Speaker 1: It is an entertaining watch. Like it is. It doesn't
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Speaker 1: get a cynical as I thought it might. It's actually
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Speaker 1: pretty sweet. Um it does have you know, it has
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Speaker 1: a bit of an edge to it, but it's a
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Speaker 1: it's a gentle edge, like it's not nearly it's it's
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Speaker 1: nothing like what you would see with a Parker and
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Speaker 1: Stone musical, for example. Nothing nearly that edgy, but it is.
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Speaker 1: It is an enjoyable watch. I also saw the final
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Speaker 1: episode of the Last of Us season one, and uh yeah,
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Speaker 1: it unfolded as I suspected it would. They did not
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Speaker 1: depart too much from the source material and it was good. Um,
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Speaker 1: I feel like the first half of that season is
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Speaker 1: stronger than the second half, But I'm that's just my
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Speaker 1: own personal opinion, Like that's that's how it affected me. Like,
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Speaker 1: the first half hit me harder than the such. I'm
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Speaker 1: most of the way through episode four. Yeah you're still
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Speaker 1: not through episode four. Man, you've been on episode four
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Speaker 1: for like four weeks. And then finally I watched last night,
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Speaker 1: I watched Glorious. I mentioned that one the other day,
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Speaker 1: the trailer for it, where it's about a guy who
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Speaker 1: stops at a rest stop as he's driving across you know,
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Speaker 1: miles and miles and miles of road and encounters a
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Speaker 1: Lovecraftian Old Ones style god who's trapped inside a bathroom stall.
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Speaker 1: And boy does that movie go places I didn't expect
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Speaker 1: it to. It's a movie about going for sure, it's listen.
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Speaker 1: I'll say that. Okay, if you're a fan of horror,
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Speaker 1: and if you don't mind some fairly juvenile set up,
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Speaker 1: and if you are a particularly a fan of love
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Speaker 1: Crafty and horror, this movie is worth checking out. It
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Speaker 1: does get very gory. I will warn you about that.
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Speaker 1: But I thought, like for for Lovecraftian inspired movies, it's
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Speaker 1: it's up there. It's one of the better ones. Gotcha, gotcha?
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Speaker 1: I have a because I will never watch Glorious. I've
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Speaker 1: watched some other Lovecraftian dorky movies. But I won't watch Glorious.
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Speaker 1: I just I know myself. But back to Schmiga Don,
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Speaker 1: how does it? Does it fill the hole that Gallivant
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Speaker 1: left behind? Um, I think it's less cynical than Gallivant was.
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Speaker 1: I think Galliphant got a little too smarmie cynical at points.
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Speaker 1: Like I liked Galivant, don't get me wrong, but it
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Speaker 1: felt like it was a little too self aware. This
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Speaker 1: this felt like I think Galliphant's its own thing. I
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Speaker 1: think Schmiga Don Uh. If you're looking for a clever
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Speaker 1: musical series, it hits that, like, especially if you're a
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Speaker 1: fan of those classic musicals, because you will recognize every
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Speaker 1: single time they're drawing from a musical, particularly the music
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Speaker 1: Man that's the one that I think comes through that
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Speaker 1: in Oklahoma are the two that come through the most.
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Speaker 1: I would say, but um yeah, it's it's really like
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Speaker 1: if you are at all a fan of musicals, Smega
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Speaker 1: Dune is fun, and I think Chicago is going to
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Speaker 1: be a real blast because they're going to be pulling
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Speaker 1: from things like Pippin Cabaret Chicago, that kind of stuff. Cool. Cool,
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Speaker 1: Thank you for that. We have as usual, we have
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Speaker 1: our thirty seconds or less news. We now have some actual,
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Speaker 1: bigger like news item figures, the wrong word news items
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Speaker 1: that we feel like we couldn't keep to thirty seconds
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Speaker 1: or less to talk about. Um and they're going from
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Speaker 1: cynical to probably not at all cynical. Uh yeah, well
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Speaker 1: they range the spectrum. They're not organized the now. No.
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Speaker 1: So the Oscars happened over this last weekend and they
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Speaker 1: were pretty good. You know, some Brendan Frasier won an
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Speaker 1: Oscar and everything every where all at once, won a
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Speaker 1: whole bunch of Oscars and our one best song. It
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Speaker 1: was one of the better Oscar shows, I feel like.
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Speaker 1: But during that, we got a new trailer for The
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Speaker 1: Little Mermaid. Yes, and we actually get to see Ursula
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Speaker 1: in this one, and you know, I thought it looked great,
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Speaker 1: Like I thought, wow, it looks really good. I mean,
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Speaker 1: it does look like it's going to possibly I could
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Speaker 1: see people arguing that it holds too close to the
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Speaker 1: source material, that being the Disney animated Little Mermaid, because
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Speaker 1: a lot of the stuff is like almost like a
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Speaker 1: shot for shot recreation. And I see that and I
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Speaker 1: can't deny it. Right like that, this trailer did have
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Speaker 1: a lot of moments where I'm like, yeah, this feels
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Speaker 1: like they just took the original animated film and used
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Speaker 1: as their storyboard for this movie, and that I think
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Speaker 1: is unfortunate because I think it would have been better
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Speaker 1: if they had made some different choices just for things
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Speaker 1: like cinematography and stuff. Just change it up. You've got
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Speaker 1: the freedom, you should do that, in my opinion. But otherwise,
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Speaker 1: I thought, like, all the performances and stuff look good,
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Speaker 1: and I think a lot of the complaints I see
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Speaker 1: still smack of bad faith arguments. Yeah, yeah, I agree.
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Speaker 1: I think it looked good. Again. I saw the previous
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Speaker 1: trailer on the big screen when I saw it Man
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Speaker 1: in the Quantum Verse, Quantum Mania, whatever it's called, and
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Speaker 1: it looked great on the big screen too. It's got
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Speaker 1: to view a little bit because everything we've heard up
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Speaker 1: to this point is that, you know, lin Manuel Miranda
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Speaker 1: is working on it and coming up with some new songs.
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Speaker 1: Where are they going to put those new songs if
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Speaker 1: they don't veer a little bit? Yeah, yeah, obviously there's
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Speaker 1: going to be some new material. I think maybe it's
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Speaker 1: just that the trailer leaned a little too hard on
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Speaker 1: the familiar stuff, and I mean, if there's a lot
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Speaker 1: more departures, then that's fine for me. I think that
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Speaker 1: that would be good. But maybe it's one of those
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Speaker 1: things where they wanted to lean hard to get into
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Speaker 1: that nostalgia space and just show well kind of. But
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Speaker 1: it also doesn't work right because it adds fuel to
21:25
Speaker 1: the people who are like, why are you doing it
21:28
Speaker 1: this way because you could just watch the original movie.
21:30
Speaker 1: And I think that there are some validity to that
21:32
Speaker 1: argument right where you're apart from the fact that this
21:35
Speaker 1: does allow for a different casting of Aerial where you're
21:40
Speaker 1: able to get some diversity and representation in a film
21:43
Speaker 1: that had none of that in the first run. So
21:47
Speaker 1: that I think is a valid argument too. It's just
21:50
Speaker 1: I don't know. I hate seeing it sticks so closely
21:54
Speaker 1: to some of the shots of the animated film because
21:59
Speaker 1: I think it does some of those bad faith arguments.
22:02
Speaker 1: And also I just I'm like, come on, you can
22:06
Speaker 1: make other choice. I mean I get that, I get that,
22:08
Speaker 1: but just for me, for the trailer, having those scenes
22:12
Speaker 1: that I've seen before did excite me. I do want
22:15
Speaker 1: it to be different. I don't want it to be
22:16
Speaker 1: one hundred percent the same you know, I'm one of
22:19
Speaker 1: those people who, at a period of my life hated
22:22
Speaker 1: the Little Mermaid because I was like, she has absolutely
22:24
Speaker 1: no repercussions for her bad decisions. Like, but at least
22:29
Speaker 1: in the Disney version. I've grown since then. I still
22:33
Speaker 1: don't think it's the best version of the story. But
22:38
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm okay with her not being turned into
22:42
Speaker 1: a cloud of mist at the end. I mean, yeah,
22:45
Speaker 1: but like it's just and I get like it's a
22:48
Speaker 1: story about forgiveness, but I don't know, I've I feel
22:52
Speaker 1: like there's less. I don't know, I don't know. It's
22:55
Speaker 1: not the strongest, but it is fun. It is fun.
22:57
Speaker 1: It's a really fun I see what you're saying though,
22:59
Speaker 1: because I I feel very similarly to Disney snow White.
23:03
Speaker 1: The fact that the Stepsisters don't have their eyes pecked
23:05
Speaker 1: out by birds one of the That's why I meant Cinderella,
23:09
Speaker 1: Yes that the fact that the Stepsisters don't have their
23:11
Speaker 1: eyes pecked out by birds is one of my biggest disappointments. Yeah, well,
23:14
Speaker 1: it's just more of like, I don't know, there there
23:17
Speaker 1: are certain Disney films where it deals with rebellious teenagers
23:20
Speaker 1: where I'm like, that's great, that's that's true to real life, right, um.
23:25
Speaker 1: And it's fine that parents have forgiveness because parents should
23:29
Speaker 1: be understanding that these kids are trying to find their
23:31
Speaker 1: own way in the world, and that's great. And Ariel's
23:33
Speaker 1: dad is definitely stubborn. At the same time, she doesn't
23:37
Speaker 1: have like a repentant arc and so I feel like
23:39
Speaker 1: it's a little one sided. Um, and there's not growth
23:44
Speaker 1: on her part. That's all I mean. She does. She
23:46
Speaker 1: does learn the valuable lesson of don't enter into an
23:49
Speaker 1: agreement with a sea witch when he's just on the line. Um, Hey,
23:55
Speaker 1: how about how about we talk about God versus Ai?
23:59
Speaker 1: That's better? Uh? Was that? Did I finish that quote correctly?
24:05
Speaker 1: I was just trying to quote Princes Bridon I Field. Okay, no, No,
24:09
Speaker 1: it was pretty much the same. So there was a
24:11
Speaker 1: trailer for a peacock show coming out. It came out
24:14
Speaker 1: called The Chief Show. This is I'm doing real good.
24:17
Speaker 1: The show is called Missus Davis and it's about an
24:21
Speaker 1: Ai that wants this nun to look for the Holy Grail,
24:25
Speaker 1: but it's also trying to take over the world and
24:27
Speaker 1: from there it gets weird. Yeah, no it. I got
24:31
Speaker 1: a request for one of my other shows to do
24:34
Speaker 1: an ad spot for this series, but the pitch that
24:38
Speaker 1: I was given was very bare bones and just talked
24:41
Speaker 1: about a nun versus AI essentially, and I had no
24:47
Speaker 1: idea of what to expect. And then Ariel shared the
24:50
Speaker 1: trailer with me, and I watched it and I thought,
24:53
Speaker 1: this is banana. It is so so weird looking, not
24:58
Speaker 1: in the bad way, but just in a I can't
25:01
Speaker 1: believe this got made kind of way. Yeah, where it's
25:06
Speaker 1: it's in turns like dramatic and action packed and campy,
25:11
Speaker 1: and you know, you have like the sci fi black
25:14
Speaker 1: mirror kind of aspect of an AI that everyone is
25:18
Speaker 1: embracing but is not so secretly trying to undermine everything.
25:23
Speaker 1: But everyone's so attached to it, like so addicted to
25:26
Speaker 1: using it that they're not either they're not aware of
25:30
Speaker 1: it or they're willing to overlook it. And yeah, it's
25:34
Speaker 1: super super duper weird. But like I said, when I
25:38
Speaker 1: watched this trailer, I was like, well, color me intrigued. Yeah, same, same,
25:43
Speaker 1: Like I I don't know if it's going to be
25:45
Speaker 1: any good, but it is definitely intriguing. I got from
25:48
Speaker 1: the trailer kind of like Legion vibes, just with them comfortability.
25:54
Speaker 1: The characters had in a in bizarre settings that felt disjoyed,
26:00
Speaker 1: and they could have just felt disjointed because they were
26:02
Speaker 1: clips in a trailer and we weren't following the full story.
26:05
Speaker 1: But I got a little bit of like Legion vibes
26:08
Speaker 1: from it. So yeah, yeah, it's um. I mean, I say, like,
26:14
Speaker 1: pull up the trailer and watch it. See if that
26:16
Speaker 1: if it looks like it's kind of your bag, because
26:21
Speaker 1: I mean, I can't say that this feels like it's
26:23
Speaker 1: right in my wheelhouse for stuff I love, but it
26:27
Speaker 1: has enough weird components to it that makes me interested
26:31
Speaker 1: in and learning more at least to watch an episode
26:34
Speaker 1: or two and find out if I'm vibing with it. Yeah. Yeah,
26:37
Speaker 1: the next there's no good segue, Well, actually there is. Okay,
26:41
Speaker 1: so a lot of people think God is your Maker.
26:44
Speaker 1: Uh so our next story is about Meet your Maker,
26:48
Speaker 1: which is a video game. Wow, you just get better
26:52
Speaker 1: and better at this areal? Uh yeah, so this is
26:55
Speaker 1: this is a This is a game where where players
26:58
Speaker 1: can design essentially designed levels and other players can try
27:03
Speaker 1: to navigate through those levels, and so it's pitting players
27:08
Speaker 1: against each other in kind of a dungeon designer versus
27:14
Speaker 1: dungeon explorer kind of way. Yeah. I mean, I know
27:17
Speaker 1: Fortnite kind of did that a little bit, and I
27:19
Speaker 1: think maybe g Hug did too, But this is this
27:23
Speaker 1: is definitely stronger on the Minecraft Build your Arena aspect
27:29
Speaker 1: of it. Yeah, considering how creative people can get in
27:35
Speaker 1: things like Minecraft, I imagine that if this game gets
27:39
Speaker 1: a decent following, you're going to see some truly devious
27:44
Speaker 1: level designs. And you know, I watch people who are
27:49
Speaker 1: really skilled at playing games. I am not. I love
27:51
Speaker 1: playing games. I am not skilled like I definitely am
27:56
Speaker 1: not a high echelon gamer. I just enjoy playing. But
28:00
Speaker 1: I suspect there will be games or people who will create,
28:04
Speaker 1: you know, environments where I'll just say, well, this is impossible,
28:07
Speaker 1: and then I could go on YouTube and see someone
28:09
Speaker 1: like clear it in thirty seconds. It will just maybe
28:13
Speaker 1: lose more frustrating great for them, frustrating for me where
28:17
Speaker 1: everything is supposed to come easy right away. Agreed. I
28:22
Speaker 1: am so frustrated that that's not how life is. Yeah. Yeah,
28:26
Speaker 1: it definitely has like a a grungier sort of aesthetic
28:30
Speaker 1: to it than Minecraft or Fortnite. Um, you know, more
28:34
Speaker 1: like a Borderland sort of a yeah, I think, Um,
28:38
Speaker 1: you know, there's plenty of space for this kind of
28:42
Speaker 1: game play, and you know, sometimes the aesthetic is the
28:45
Speaker 1: big thing that sets it apart, because aesthetic can really
28:48
Speaker 1: inform tone, and that in turn, can can really change
28:52
Speaker 1: the feel of a game, even if the mechanics are
28:55
Speaker 1: not that dissimilar to other games. So I don't know
29:01
Speaker 1: that I'll play this one, but I probably will be
29:03
Speaker 1: checking out like level design tutorials and stuff like that
29:08
Speaker 1: on YouTube, just to see how people take the tools
29:11
Speaker 1: and get creative with them. Yeah, yeah, it'll be interesting. Next,
29:17
Speaker 1: we have a trailer for a Netflix movie I believe
29:21
Speaker 1: called Chupa about a cute choop a cabra. A bunch
29:25
Speaker 1: of my friends saw this, this trailer, and we'll like,
29:29
Speaker 1: do they do the people who make this do they
29:32
Speaker 1: not understand conversation conversational Spanish? Because chupa means sucker If
29:37
Speaker 1: you watch the trailer, they actually address that in the trailer. Sorry, yeah,
29:41
Speaker 1: they call it out. It is like it's it's got
29:45
Speaker 1: Spanish speaking cast and crew, so it's not it's not
29:49
Speaker 1: like This is a bunch of greenos who came in
29:51
Speaker 1: and decided that they were going to do Harry and
29:53
Speaker 1: the Henderson's but with a choopa cabra. It has a
29:57
Speaker 1: more diverse cast and crew that decided they were going
30:00
Speaker 1: to do Harry and the Henderson's but with a chupacabra. Yeah. Um, interesting. Yeah,
30:05
Speaker 1: it's It's like the trailer shows that it's this very
30:10
Speaker 1: cute young critter that they figured as a chupacabra that
30:15
Speaker 1: this family kind of adopts and tries to nurse back
30:19
Speaker 1: to health and protect from people who would otherwise attempt
30:24
Speaker 1: to capture and or destroy this thing. So it does
30:29
Speaker 1: fall into like the same sort of category for me
30:31
Speaker 1: as movies like Et and Harry and the Henderson's. I
30:35
Speaker 1: will admit, if they hadn't told me that the creature
30:37
Speaker 1: was a chup acabra, I would not have thought it
30:40
Speaker 1: was neither would I. I like it. It looks like
30:43
Speaker 1: a weird little mythological creature, but I wouldn't have nailed
30:47
Speaker 1: it as a chupacabra. Yeah, I mean, I guess it
30:50
Speaker 1: could be vaguely Mangie dog, but it's not quite Mangie
30:54
Speaker 1: Dog enough. Yeah, chupacabra's range from like mangie dogs that
31:00
Speaker 1: you actually see who just don't have a lot of
31:03
Speaker 1: hair and are kind of skinny, to like lizard dogs
31:06
Speaker 1: with spikes. Yeah. I was about to say, like reptilian
31:09
Speaker 1: type creatures. Yeah. Yeah, of course, chupacabre itself means goat sucker,
31:13
Speaker 1: and as far as I saw in this trailer, there
31:16
Speaker 1: were no goats that were drained of blood. So yeah, yeah,
31:20
Speaker 1: it's just a little bits understood. Guy, It's just yeah,
31:23
Speaker 1: it's just it's just just such a stitch, yeah, essentially. Yeah,
31:27
Speaker 1: Lelo and Stitch is another great example of a film
31:30
Speaker 1: that it falls into that tradition, but it looks cute,
31:34
Speaker 1: like it looks like it's a cute, little heartfelt film.
31:36
Speaker 1: And I think every generation needs its version of et
31:40
Speaker 1: or Harry and the Henderson's or Lelo and Stitch, And
31:43
Speaker 1: until we get the live action Lelo and Stitch, this
31:45
Speaker 1: will do. And I do like that this is um
31:48
Speaker 1: dealing with mythos that is not set in the United
31:50
Speaker 1: States specifically, it's Mexico so well, not not just not
31:55
Speaker 1: only in the United States, but not like European because
31:59
Speaker 1: you know, typically the films we see it's it's a
32:02
Speaker 1: lot of either the people in the United States or
32:08
Speaker 1: the people who came over to the US and were
32:11
Speaker 1: the ancestors to the people who are now in the
32:14
Speaker 1: United States, and you rarely get to see stuff that
32:17
Speaker 1: is from other cultures. So to get something like this
32:21
Speaker 1: is cool because you get you do get that different style, right,
32:26
Speaker 1: and a slightly different take on the Granted, we have
32:31
Speaker 1: to admit it's a story that's been told many many times,
32:33
Speaker 1: as we've mentioned, but you're going to get it with
32:36
Speaker 1: a different approach, at a different point of view, and
32:38
Speaker 1: I think that makes it more interesting. I agree. We
32:42
Speaker 1: have another couple of trailers. Our next trailer is for
32:45
Speaker 1: the Big Door Prize, which I'm going to tell you
32:47
Speaker 1: at first I thought it was the show that's coming
32:51
Speaker 1: out where Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey live on a
32:54
Speaker 1: ranch together. That's not what it is. It's just by
32:57
Speaker 1: the same creator apparently. No, this is one. This is
33:01
Speaker 1: one where Chris O'Dowd, who you might remember as Roy
33:05
Speaker 1: from the IT Crowd. I remember him as the guy
33:08
Speaker 1: who sat across from me in the flight down to Austin,
33:11
Speaker 1: Texas this past week. Uh yeah, I saw Chris O'Dowd
33:15
Speaker 1: on the plane. Didn't get a chance to talk to him,
33:17
Speaker 1: which is a shame because at one point I saw
33:19
Speaker 1: that his tablet wasn't working, and I just wanted to say,
33:21
Speaker 1: have you tried turning it off and on again? Yeah?
33:23
Speaker 1: Good god, I'm glad you didn't do that me too,
33:26
Speaker 1: because he probably would have turned to me and said,
33:28
Speaker 1: I will throw you off the plane. Uh thanks, Yeah,
33:34
Speaker 1: that's well, I don't know what to say thanks or ouch.
33:37
Speaker 1: So yeah, the the Big Door Prize, it looks like
33:40
Speaker 1: from the trailer that like get well. First of all,
33:43
Speaker 1: the word the big kind of kind of made me
33:46
Speaker 1: laugh because it did remind me a little bit of
33:48
Speaker 1: big with the you know, the Sultan fortune teller type thing.
33:53
Speaker 1: Uh this this town gets this. This almost like it's
33:57
Speaker 1: a fortune telling machine where you step up to it,
34:01
Speaker 1: you put your hands on it, it prints out a
34:03
Speaker 1: card that supposedly tells you something important about yourself. It
34:06
Speaker 1: gives you a discovery about yourself and the Christodel's character
34:11
Speaker 1: is apparently reluctant to take part in this. He doesn't
34:16
Speaker 1: see that there's anything wrong with the way he's living
34:19
Speaker 1: his life currently, and the rest of the town is
34:21
Speaker 1: really getting excited about it, and everyone else is kind
34:25
Speaker 1: of flocking to this machine, and it just looks interesting,
34:29
Speaker 1: Like it looks like the science fiction trappings are there
34:33
Speaker 1: to facilitate the story, but the story isn't about the
34:36
Speaker 1: science fiction trappings. And again, to me, like those are
34:39
Speaker 1: some of the best science fictions. Yeah, yeah, I really
34:42
Speaker 1: like that. It seems like his character kind of sticks
34:46
Speaker 1: with the no in the trail at least no, I
34:50
Speaker 1: didn't dream big and I haven't really questioned my happiness.
34:52
Speaker 1: But I'm also kind of okay with that, like I
34:57
Speaker 1: have a good yeah, because yeah, and that's it the
35:01
Speaker 1: occasional sci fi story. But so many more times we
35:05
Speaker 1: get the oh, small town person just didn't dream big
35:09
Speaker 1: enough and now their life is completely changed. I like,
35:12
Speaker 1: I'm really interested. I mean, you look at like the
35:16
Speaker 1: recent Disney films, for example, and it's it's full of
35:20
Speaker 1: characters who feel they've been constrained into a small reality,
35:27
Speaker 1: but their dreams in their heart are so much bigger.
35:29
Speaker 1: Like Moana is an example, right, Turning Red is an example.
35:34
Speaker 1: You get these these these stories where it's all about
35:38
Speaker 1: someone who is not content with what they have and
35:42
Speaker 1: they want so much more. I mean, Beauty and the
35:44
Speaker 1: Beast has a freaking song about it, like there's and
35:47
Speaker 1: it's really really conceding to all the locals of that town. Definitely,
35:53
Speaker 1: but um yeah, I kind of like the idea of
35:56
Speaker 1: someone who's like, I'm content. I'm you know, I am
36:00
Speaker 1: I living the most adventurous life. No, but do I
36:03
Speaker 1: like the life I live? And if the answers yes,
36:06
Speaker 1: then why should I be pushed to want something more?
36:11
Speaker 1: If I'm happy with what I have? And I'm curious
36:15
Speaker 1: where this movie goes because it's not clear from the
36:17
Speaker 1: trailer if is it going to go or the series,
36:19
Speaker 1: I should say, is it going to go in a
36:22
Speaker 1: direction where he does feel that he has limited himself
36:26
Speaker 1: and that he opens himself up or does it ultimately
36:29
Speaker 1: get to where he's decided that he's content with what
36:32
Speaker 1: he has and he doesn't have need of this external
36:35
Speaker 1: force pushing him to do more. And I think either
36:39
Speaker 1: way could be interesting. I agree, I agree. I am
36:42
Speaker 1: very interested in this much more than this TV show
36:45
Speaker 1: about Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey living together. Yeah, well,
36:51
Speaker 1: I mean, if they're living on a ranch and they're
36:52
Speaker 1: hoping to win a big door, then that would make
36:54
Speaker 1: sense to call it the Big Door Prize. That is true.
36:58
Speaker 1: We also get a final trailer for the Super Mario movie.
37:01
Speaker 1: This one actually kind of made me chuckle a little bit.
37:04
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie. Yeah, I agree. I felt like
37:07
Speaker 1: this one had a little more humor. I mean it
37:09
Speaker 1: was it was more Luigi and h Bowser heavy than
37:14
Speaker 1: Mario heavy. Also, you had a little bit of Princess
37:17
Speaker 1: Peach in there, so I got to hear my girl
37:18
Speaker 1: on you. Taylor Joy shout out to my girlfriend, why listen, Jess,
37:25
Speaker 1: because she doesn't know who I am and wouldn't care.
37:33
Speaker 1: I like that you're speechless after I make a casual joke.
37:37
Speaker 1: I was trying to come up with something clever, but
37:40
Speaker 1: nothing clever came to my brain. Story of my life.
37:45
Speaker 1: I will say this like like it's funny because I mean,
37:48
Speaker 1: maybe I just maybe it was just the sound on
37:50
Speaker 1: my computer when I watched it. But while I know
37:54
Speaker 1: it's Jack Black doing the voice of Bowser, it didn't
37:57
Speaker 1: sound like super Jack Black to me. No, it didn't.
38:01
Speaker 1: And even though I know that it's um Charlie Day
38:04
Speaker 1: doing the voice of Luigi. It didn't sound super Charlie
38:07
Speaker 1: Day to me. See, I could pick out Charlie Day
38:10
Speaker 1: better than I could Jack Black. Like there were little
38:12
Speaker 1: turns of phrase that Bowser said where I said, Okay, yeah,
38:16
Speaker 1: they're starting to get But it sounds to me like like,
38:18
Speaker 1: at least in the bits we saw that Jack Black
38:21
Speaker 1: was kind of holding back on his Jack blackness. He
38:24
Speaker 1: wasn't he wasn't going full Tenacious D in his vocal performance.
38:30
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean it look cute. I still don't
38:33
Speaker 1: think I'm going to see this movie, like when it
38:36
Speaker 1: comes out. I'll watch it when it's available on street.
38:38
Speaker 1: If I have a free day, I might go see
38:40
Speaker 1: it with my nieces, with my niece and nephews, but
38:43
Speaker 1: I wouldn't go see it on my own. Also, I'm
38:46
Speaker 1: gonna get some hate. I don't hate Chris Pratt as Mario.
38:49
Speaker 1: When I watched the trail, I'm like, oh, that's fine,
38:51
Speaker 1: that's totally fine. Um, that's just me. Yeah, I just yeah,
38:57
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't. I don't have any strong
39:00
Speaker 1: opinion one way or the other. To be fair, though,
39:04
Speaker 1: I also have even though I am fully aware of
39:07
Speaker 1: who Mario is. Obviously you can't be even remotely interested
39:12
Speaker 1: in games and not know it. I have owned very
39:17
Speaker 1: few Mario based games because I didn't have the major
39:21
Speaker 1: consoles where Mario played a big part. I didn't have
39:26
Speaker 1: the original nes or the s Ands or snees if
39:31
Speaker 1: you like. I had the Nintendo sixty four, but I
39:34
Speaker 1: never had Mario sixty four, So like, I don't have
39:38
Speaker 1: as deep a nostalgic connection to the character as some
39:41
Speaker 1: other people do. Yeah, yeah, okay, a few more stories
39:46
Speaker 1: to go through. This next one. I put in our
39:49
Speaker 1: show notes that my husband couldn't know about this, but
39:51
Speaker 1: he already does. Enter the Gungeon is making an arcade Cabinet.
39:55
Speaker 1: They actually announced it a few years ago, and some
39:58
Speaker 1: people thought it got scrapped. But it is coming out
40:00
Speaker 1: and it's going to cost nearly six thousand dollars. Oh boy, yeah,
40:05
Speaker 1: I don't. I'm not familiar with this game. Can you
40:08
Speaker 1: tell me a bit about it? Oh? Yes? Enter the
40:10
Speaker 1: Gungeon is like, um, it's a what's what's hades? That
40:16
Speaker 1: kind of game? A rogue light, yeah, rogue light. Yeah,
40:20
Speaker 1: it's like a rogue It's a rogue light game where
40:22
Speaker 1: you go through is this little dude and you pick
40:24
Speaker 1: up different guns and you shoot, and everything's like a
40:27
Speaker 1: gun pun um, and you shoot bullets. It's gung because
40:31
Speaker 1: it's a gun dungeon, yes, but it's it's like there's
40:35
Speaker 1: a rapid fire raptor the Gatling goal, which is a
40:40
Speaker 1: super buff dude with like a bird head um um.
40:45
Speaker 1: It's very clever and it's very funny um. And it's
40:49
Speaker 1: just a you go through multiple times and you shoot
40:51
Speaker 1: and you you know, you it resets each time, and
40:54
Speaker 1: there's not really a good save, but like you can,
40:57
Speaker 1: you can level up, so each time you go through,
40:59
Speaker 1: you've leveled up, you know, get better guns and stuff
41:01
Speaker 1: like that. But surprisingly, my husband doesn't even like guns,
41:08
Speaker 1: and he absolutely loves this video game, both of them
41:12
Speaker 1: that have come out. But I do think that, you know,
41:16
Speaker 1: being the good responsible partner that he is, we probably
41:19
Speaker 1: will not spend six thousand dollars on on arcade cabinet.
41:21
Speaker 1: We might go to North Carolina to play it because
41:24
Speaker 1: there are going to be versions of it at various
41:27
Speaker 1: arcades as well. So it's a little bit higher end
41:30
Speaker 1: obviously by the price point, but also by the build
41:32
Speaker 1: than a one up cabinet. Yeah, I have I have
41:37
Speaker 1: thought about getting an arcade cabinet, probably more like a
41:42
Speaker 1: main machine for my little my little house in the
41:47
Speaker 1: middle of nowhere. But you know, it's hard. It's hard
41:52
Speaker 1: for me to justify it. It's an expense, and I
41:56
Speaker 1: haven't I've never pulled the trigger on it. But I
41:59
Speaker 1: thought about it because I like a lot of classic games,
42:03
Speaker 1: and so I've thought about doing that, being able to
42:05
Speaker 1: play all these older games that otherwise I wouldn't have
42:08
Speaker 1: access to. But for a brief while I was looking
42:12
Speaker 1: at getting a pinball machine, and six thousand dollars is
42:15
Speaker 1: a lot for an arcade game cabinet, but it's nothing
42:18
Speaker 1: compared to what pinball machines cost. And I very quickly
42:22
Speaker 1: talked to myself out of getting a pinball machine. I mean,
42:25
Speaker 1: like it can it can be a fun item that
42:28
Speaker 1: you save up for. We have the teenage Mutant Ninja
42:32
Speaker 1: Turtles one up arcade and we play it occasually and
42:36
Speaker 1: kids really love playing it when they come over, but
42:39
Speaker 1: we don't use it. Six thousand dollars worth, yeah, yeah,
42:43
Speaker 1: those those are usually in the hundreds of dollars, right, Like,
42:45
Speaker 1: that's like typically sub one thousand dollars. If you're getting
42:49
Speaker 1: a main cabinet like one that has potentially hundreds of
42:53
Speaker 1: games on it, which by the way gets into dodgy
42:55
Speaker 1: legal territory too. That's usually between a thousand and two
42:59
Speaker 1: thousand dollars for most of them, unless you're going like
43:02
Speaker 1: all out, and then if you want a pimball machine,
43:04
Speaker 1: you're looking at eight to thirteen thousand. Pimball machines are
43:08
Speaker 1: so cool, but I would not want to deal with
43:09
Speaker 1: the upkeep. Yeah, No, you'd have to do lots and
43:12
Speaker 1: lots of maintenance on it to keep it in playable condition. Yeah.
43:16
Speaker 1: Speaking of playing games, Magic the Gathering Boy has a
43:22
Speaker 1: Lord of the Rings set, and one of the things
43:25
Speaker 1: that they've done with this Lord of the Ring set
43:26
Speaker 1: is they've made one the one Ring card. Yeah. To
43:32
Speaker 1: be clear, there are multiple the one Ring cards, but
43:35
Speaker 1: there's one variant of which there is just one period.
43:40
Speaker 1: That's it one version of it in the world, one
43:44
Speaker 1: out of one, it says on the card itself. But
43:46
Speaker 1: this is this is a variant, so they will be
43:48
Speaker 1: other the one rings. And I want to say that
43:51
Speaker 1: in case we have any listeners out there who one
43:54
Speaker 1: day are opening up a booster pack and they have
43:57
Speaker 1: a one ring and they totally lose their mind. You
44:00
Speaker 1: need to check and see if it has that zero
44:03
Speaker 1: zero one out of zero zero one, because if that's
44:07
Speaker 1: the case, you'd best put that sucker in plastic and
44:13
Speaker 1: playing out your retirement. You have hit the jacket. Yeah, um,
44:19
Speaker 1: it's it's a It's an interesting concept and I would
44:23
Speaker 1: never want to play with that card if I got it. No, no, no,
44:27
Speaker 1: I mean this is so I have mixed feelings about
44:31
Speaker 1: these kinds of things, like I think. I mean, from
44:34
Speaker 1: from the producer side, it totally makes sense, right because
44:37
Speaker 1: you are going to inspire a ton of people to
44:40
Speaker 1: drop a ton of money on your product. People are
44:43
Speaker 1: going to be buying up booster packs like crazy in
44:46
Speaker 1: the hopes of being the one to get the one.
44:50
Speaker 1: So I totally get it from that perspective. As a player,
44:54
Speaker 1: it would and I'm not, but if I were a player,
44:57
Speaker 1: this sort of thing would kind of get under my
44:59
Speaker 1: skin because turning the thing that you enjoy playing into
45:04
Speaker 1: a collectible discourages you from actually using the thing that
45:08
Speaker 1: you're buying. Yeah, and I kind of don't like that
45:13
Speaker 1: too much. And if you did use it, then you
45:17
Speaker 1: would be inviting the rest of the community to criticize
45:21
Speaker 1: you for using something that they see as being a
45:24
Speaker 1: one of the kind valuable car. Yeah, so there's no
45:28
Speaker 1: winning really Yeah. Yeah, you get the wondering and you lose.
45:31
Speaker 1: But that's kind of like the story. So um, yeah,
45:35
Speaker 1: you gotta go chuck it in your nearest volcano. Yep uh,
45:38
Speaker 1: speaking of chucking things, yeah, right until the volcano. Yeah,
45:42
Speaker 1: we're not getting a season two of Willow, which is sad,
45:47
Speaker 1: but I'm also not surprised because I watched Willow more
45:53
Speaker 1: because I wanted to like it, then because I actually
45:55
Speaker 1: liked it. That's a that's a tough criticism right there.
46:00
Speaker 1: That's a tough review. I have not watched the Willow series.
46:05
Speaker 1: I love the film. I loved it when I was
46:09
Speaker 1: a kid, and I still enjoy it today, even though,
46:13
Speaker 1: like you know, you can watch that movie and you
46:14
Speaker 1: can recognize that it is not, by any stretch the
46:18
Speaker 1: perfect fantasy film, but it has lots of fun elements
46:21
Speaker 1: to it. I have a niece who's named after a
46:24
Speaker 1: character in Willow, so this is like a film that
46:28
Speaker 1: means a lot in my immediate family. But I hadn't
46:32
Speaker 1: watched the series yet, and I even though I hadn't
46:35
Speaker 1: watched it. I was sad to hear this news because
46:38
Speaker 1: I would love to see a fantasy series that's based
46:44
Speaker 1: off an original I p that's not based off like
46:48
Speaker 1: an existing book series or something, or a spin off
46:52
Speaker 1: of something that was from a book series, that kind
46:55
Speaker 1: of has the freedom to create its own mythology. And
47:00
Speaker 1: that's kind of what Willow was, and it's a shame
47:02
Speaker 1: that that's not going to get a chance at a
47:05
Speaker 1: longer life. So I agree. And even though my criticizicism
47:09
Speaker 1: was harsh, there were things that I liked about Willow.
47:11
Speaker 1: I thought the actors were great. I liked a lot
47:15
Speaker 1: of the like the costuming, which is well a lot,
47:20
Speaker 1: not all. Some of it just felt very out of
47:23
Speaker 1: place for me, and maybe that was the point, but
47:25
Speaker 1: they didn't make it clear that was the point, so
47:27
Speaker 1: you just sat there wondering. So, like in the middle
47:30
Speaker 1: of one of the episodes in the middle of this season,
47:33
Speaker 1: you come across a couple of people and they're in
47:35
Speaker 1: like blue jean prospector gear. It's the only time you
47:38
Speaker 1: see it in the show. Everybody else is in this
47:40
Speaker 1: like weird mix of fantasy medieval night's tail kind of
47:45
Speaker 1: punk esque clothing, and this is the like it veers
47:51
Speaker 1: from it, like the you see it in a trailer.
47:54
Speaker 1: The Brownies wearing graphic teas, I'm fine with, but for
47:56
Speaker 1: some reason, these people in this like eighteen hundred Jane
48:01
Speaker 1: get up, just felt out of place to me. Maybe
48:04
Speaker 1: it was the point it wasn't clear, it wasn't made clear.
48:07
Speaker 1: But the big problem I had with Willow is they
48:09
Speaker 1: had so many good ideas and so many places concepts
48:14
Speaker 1: for what the show could be, that they didn't lean
48:17
Speaker 1: fully into any one of those concepts, and so it
48:21
Speaker 1: just felt like they were half committing to a bunch
48:24
Speaker 1: of half ideas. But it had a lot of potential,
48:28
Speaker 1: and I would really love if you watch it, Jonathan,
48:30
Speaker 1: for you to give your opinion, because you might have
48:32
Speaker 1: a completely different opinion. The actors were phenomenal, and there
48:37
Speaker 1: were bits of the story that were great, and I
48:38
Speaker 1: would have watched a second season. I just it it
48:42
Speaker 1: felt like they, like half of it wanted to be
48:44
Speaker 1: Game of Thrones, and it felt like half of it
48:46
Speaker 1: wanted to be Night's Tale. And you gotta either commit
48:51
Speaker 1: to one or to both or whatever, and if you
48:53
Speaker 1: want all of these different areas of your fantastical world
48:56
Speaker 1: to be completely different genres. That's all so fine, you
49:00
Speaker 1: just have to commit to it and you have to
49:02
Speaker 1: build that understanding into your story. Yeah, that's tough because, like,
49:07
Speaker 1: you know, how do you set up the tone of
49:10
Speaker 1: your show too, so that you're not constantly alienating your audience? Right, Like,
49:15
Speaker 1: if people are tuning in because oh this is scratching
49:18
Speaker 1: that Game of Thrones itch, and you know I bounced
49:23
Speaker 1: off House of Dragons for some reason, then you'd be
49:27
Speaker 1: upset whenever it would move to something more adventury and lighthearted. Meanwhile,
49:32
Speaker 1: if you're into the adventure lighthearted stuff, you might say, like,
49:34
Speaker 1: why is this turning into a grim Game of Thrones episode? Yeah,
49:38
Speaker 1: you know, you really run the risk of alienating your
49:40
Speaker 1: audience that way. So it's a shame because again, I
49:46
Speaker 1: never want a project to fail. I often will, you know,
49:51
Speaker 1: find fault with a project or decide that it's not
49:54
Speaker 1: for me. But it doesn't mean I wanted to do badly,
49:57
Speaker 1: and certain they would have preferred to have seen this
50:03
Speaker 1: series see great success and continue onward. It's also like
50:07
Speaker 1: we're also in that era where any series that's going
50:11
Speaker 1: to have semi high to high production value and thus
50:17
Speaker 1: have costs like serious costs associated with it. Those shows
50:22
Speaker 1: are going to be on thin ice unless they are
50:25
Speaker 1: just pulling in crazy numbers like Last of Us I
50:28
Speaker 1: think pulled in crazy numbers. Yeah, so its place is
50:33
Speaker 1: pretty much established. But Wheel of Time surprisingly did pretty
50:36
Speaker 1: well because they get a second season. But yeah, yeah,
50:41
Speaker 1: it's you start to also wonder how much of that
50:44
Speaker 1: is sunken cost fallacy where you've got a studio saying, well,
50:48
Speaker 1: we can't back off now because we already poured so
50:50
Speaker 1: much money into it, so we need to do at
50:52
Speaker 1: least one more sea. But yeah, it's a it's a bummer,
50:56
Speaker 1: not again, not terribly surprised Disney went so hard in
51:01
Speaker 1: streaming that, and then you know, the financial showed that
51:06
Speaker 1: they came up way short when it came to costs
51:10
Speaker 1: versus revenue. I'm not surprised that this happened, but it's
51:14
Speaker 1: still a yeah. I mean, and honestly, the number of
51:17
Speaker 1: successes to the number of failures Disney has had, and
51:20
Speaker 1: I wouldn't even call Willow a failure. Again. I think
51:23
Speaker 1: you should watch it, Jonathan, and I want to hear
51:25
Speaker 1: your opinions. Once you do, I because you might absolutely
51:29
Speaker 1: love it. I know some people who absolutely did, and
51:32
Speaker 1: I had fun. It just wasn't everything I had built
51:36
Speaker 1: up in my mind for it to be. I guess,
51:38
Speaker 1: you know. But the amount of successes Disney has had
51:40
Speaker 1: to the amount of failures is really remarkable, because I
51:47
Speaker 1: they've had a lot more successes than failures. I feel like, yeah,
51:52
Speaker 1: I agree, but I mean we're kind of talking about
51:57
Speaker 1: artistic success, whereas like when you're talking thinking about financials,
52:02
Speaker 1: it's a totally different argument. Like, even if it is
52:04
Speaker 1: artistically a great achievement, if you are spending twice as
52:09
Speaker 1: much as you're bringing in, you can't sustain that. That's
52:12
Speaker 1: just you know, you're gonna you're you're throwing money in
52:15
Speaker 1: a hole. Even if it's a very pretty hole, it's
52:18
Speaker 1: still a hole. And just to make abundantly clear, if
52:21
Speaker 1: they ever do come back with a Willow second season
52:24
Speaker 1: and need to cast someone in my age age and
52:26
Speaker 1: rate look type range, I would one thousand bazillion percent
52:30
Speaker 1: to do it, and not just because I like acting,
52:31
Speaker 1: because I do think it would be fun. Um. Yeah,
52:34
Speaker 1: And if they ever need someone to dress up like
52:37
Speaker 1: a girl's Scout, which, as we all know, is just
52:39
Speaker 1: a grown up brownie. I'm your dude. We have one
52:44
Speaker 1: last trailer we want to talk about, which is Ruby
52:48
Speaker 1: Gillman Teenage Kraken. Yeah, and this is funny because we
52:51
Speaker 1: could have put this right after the new Little Mermaid
52:53
Speaker 1: trailer story and they would have you know, dovetailed together,
52:57
Speaker 1: but instead we're book ending. They would have started a
53:00
Speaker 1: battle on our spreadsheet that would never have ended. Yeah.
53:03
Speaker 1: So Ruby Gilman teenage Krack. And it's an animated film.
53:08
Speaker 1: And I told Ariel that to me, it feels like
53:12
Speaker 1: it's what if Ursula was the good guy and Ariel
53:15
Speaker 1: was the bad guy in The Little Mermaid. That's Ruby
53:18
Speaker 1: Gilman Teenage Kraken. And you felt like I was kind
53:22
Speaker 1: of on the right track with that, right, I felt
53:24
Speaker 1: like you were exactly on the right track with that.
53:26
Speaker 1: It's a mermaid and a kraken who are pretending to
53:29
Speaker 1: be humans. We don't really either of them look like
53:33
Speaker 1: humans at a school and then they get into a
53:36
Speaker 1: fight and the Mermaid is evil and the Kraken is good,
53:38
Speaker 1: and the Kraken has superpowers and then they both turn
53:41
Speaker 1: into like Godzilla type creatures kaiju. Yeah, they turned into
53:46
Speaker 1: Kaiju and that is that? And Jonathan's like, is this
53:49
Speaker 1: stream Works just throwing shots at Disney because if so,
53:52
Speaker 1: it's getting old? Well yeah, because like I think back
53:55
Speaker 1: to Shrek, and I get it. Shrek is beloved by
53:58
Speaker 1: an entire generation. I don't understand you, people who are
54:02
Speaker 1: who love Shrek. I don't. I do not understand you.
54:06
Speaker 1: But to be fair, I was older when Shrek came out,
54:10
Speaker 1: and I recognized that Shrek in many ways was designed
54:16
Speaker 1: to be an fu took well Disney World animation that
54:21
Speaker 1: they were calling out Disney, because I mean, there's a
54:25
Speaker 1: whole backstory to it where the guy who founded DreamWorks
54:29
Speaker 1: was he had an axe to grind against Disney. He
54:32
Speaker 1: had previously worked as an executive at Disney, and so
54:36
Speaker 1: they built in these these insults and jabs at Disney
54:40
Speaker 1: into their animated features. And like, if you if you
54:46
Speaker 1: strip that stuff out then and just made a really
54:50
Speaker 1: fun story, I think I would like it more. But
54:53
Speaker 1: because I could detect the hostility that was underneath the
54:59
Speaker 1: stories just didn't sit well with me. I mean, not
55:03
Speaker 1: to say that the not to say that the disputes
55:05
Speaker 1: weren't justified, right, I'm not saying anything about that. It's
55:09
Speaker 1: just that to work your gripe into a franchise of
55:13
Speaker 1: animated films feels petty to me maybe, And I feel
55:18
Speaker 1: like it's still going on now, and that the fact
55:21
Speaker 1: that this movie is coming out around the same time
55:24
Speaker 1: that we're getting the live action Little Mermaid, and it
55:27
Speaker 1: does feel like it's Little Mermaid but turn on its head,
55:32
Speaker 1: just makes me kind of think that it's back to
55:35
Speaker 1: that that model of, you know, rather than trying to
55:39
Speaker 1: tell our own stories and outdo Disney that way, we're
55:42
Speaker 1: going to outdo Disney by taking their stories and then
55:46
Speaker 1: inverting them. And I don't know, it just doesn't sit
55:49
Speaker 1: well with me. Yeah, you know it. I guess we'll
55:54
Speaker 1: have to see it. I mean, they're kids always like
55:58
Speaker 1: Mermaid stories. Correct. Well, here's the thing, though, arieal like
56:01
Speaker 1: the actual trailer I think looks great. I think the
56:03
Speaker 1: movie looks great. Like if you were able to completely
56:06
Speaker 1: divorce it from any sort of potential comment on the
56:11
Speaker 1: Little Mermaid film, I think like it looks sweet, it
56:15
Speaker 1: looks cute, it looks funny, like the Mermaid character is
56:18
Speaker 1: like an Instagram celebrity type. It's got a lot of
56:22
Speaker 1: elements to it that I'm like, this is really clever
56:25
Speaker 1: and I like it. It's only when you get to
56:28
Speaker 1: the meta of the movie where I start getting uncomfortable.
56:31
Speaker 1: But the movie itself, I actually think it looks really good. Yeah. Well,
56:35
Speaker 1: if you listeners out there think that the movie also
56:37
Speaker 1: looks really good, or if you think no harm, no foul,
56:41
Speaker 1: you should write us and tell us, Jonathan, how can
56:44
Speaker 1: they do that? Well, first, what you're gonna have to
56:47
Speaker 1: do is book yourself on a journey on a vessel,
56:50
Speaker 1: a three masted ship. She'll be called the Leaky Bucket,
56:55
Speaker 1: and you'll set to see and on the third day,
56:58
Speaker 1: your compass will be heard in each way with no
57:02
Speaker 1: no one which weighs north or south. And you'll continue
57:05
Speaker 1: to sail right into a giant fog bank, and in
57:09
Speaker 1: the middle you'll hear that all the sound dead ends
57:12
Speaker 1: at that point. At the top of your lungs, scream
57:15
Speaker 1: out your question to the heavens, and the fog will part,
57:19
Speaker 1: and you'll see me sitting on a island and I'll
57:22
Speaker 1: say you didn't have to yells a loud ye lubbered,
57:25
Speaker 1: and then I'll answer it. You'll lubbard if that's too
57:28
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