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LNC Has an Echo echo echo. . . . · Large Nerdron Collider

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  Speaker 1: Hey everybody, welcome to the Large Nerdron Collider podcast, the
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  Speaker 1: podcast that's all about the geeky things happening in the
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  Speaker 1: world around us and how very excited we are about them.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Ariel Kasten, and with me as always is the
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  Speaker 1: amazing Jonathan Strickland.
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  Speaker 2: Has anybody seen my tambourine?
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  Speaker 1: Um, I might have it. I have a tendency to
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  Speaker 1: borrow people's tambourines and then forget to give them back,
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  Speaker 1: despite the fact that I have two of my own. Oh.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that does prove that anything can happen on Halloween.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, were you quoting a song?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I was quoting the song Anything Can Happen on
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  Speaker 2: Halloween from The Worst Witch, performed by the beloved and
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  Speaker 2: recently departed Tim Curry.
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  Speaker 1: Ah.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I'm not as familiar with that one. There's a
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  Speaker 2: bit toward the end where he's singing about how anything
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  Speaker 2: can happen on Halloween. And he goes on and on
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  Speaker 2: and all these like, your dog could turn into a cat.
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  Speaker 2: Like all these things. But at the end, he's like
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  Speaker 2: doing a bunch of rhymes for Halloween. Like, has anybody
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  Speaker 2: seen my tambourine? It is one of the cheesiest things
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  Speaker 2: pieces of Halloween media. And I love it. Unironically, I
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  Speaker 2: would never, ever tell anyone it's good. It's just entertaining,
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  Speaker 2: but it is called the worst witch. I think it
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  Speaker 2: has Feruza Balkanet maybe as the witch, like Mildred Hubble.
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  Speaker 2: It's based off a book, I believe. Anyway, if you
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  Speaker 2: haven't seen the worst witch and you just want to
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  Speaker 2: see some really cheesy acting, uh, and an unforgettable performance
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  Speaker 2: by Tim Curry, who's only in for one scene. He's
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  Speaker 2: a rock star wizard character. You should check it out. Again,
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  Speaker 2: I don't claim it to be good. I claim it
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  Speaker 2: to be entertaining.
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  Speaker 1: Fair enough.
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  Speaker 2: So we are here together at last, despite... Lots of
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  Speaker 2: technical glitches that we tried very hard to work out
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  Speaker 2: before we started recording, but to very little effect. So
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  Speaker 2: there may be some bumps that go in the night
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  Speaker 2: for this podcast. I'm trying to keep the Halloween thing going.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. Bumps in the night.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we aren't sure what the issue is this time.
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  Speaker 2: We were troubleshooting for a while.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and of course it's back real bad now, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm just going to ignore myself. I'm so used to
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  Speaker 1: doing that anyhow.
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  Speaker 2: It wouldn't be an LNC without some sort of technical difficulty.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe if we stop saying that, it'll stop being true.
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  Speaker 2: Or if we ever actually figure out a way for
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  Speaker 2: us to be in the same room at the same
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  Speaker 2: time where You know, if there is a technical issue,
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  Speaker 2: we're both right there to figure it out.
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  Speaker 1: I swear we're going to figure it out at some point.
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  Speaker 2: One thing we haven't figured out are questions, because I
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  Speaker 2: didn't put a question of the weekend this week again.
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  Speaker 1: We have your old one that we never did use,
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  Speaker 1: which was the Mount Rushmore.
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  Speaker 2: Of fictional characters. Yeah, but the more I thought about that,
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  Speaker 2: the more I was like, how do you even like
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  Speaker 2: this way to broad, right? Like if I sit there
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  Speaker 2: and think of fictional characters, that's such a huge spectrum.
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  Speaker 2: Because I was like, well, I'd probably put Hamlet on there.
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  Speaker 2: But like, you know, so I keep thinking like maybe
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  Speaker 2: I need to narrow that down where it's like the
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  Speaker 2: Mount Rushmore of, let's say like the Mount Rushmore of
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  Speaker 2: Saturday morning cartoon series from your youth. That would be fantastic.
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  Speaker 2: I think that could work. So if I were doing that,
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  Speaker 2: I'd say like, well, Gummy Bears is up there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I think that was a great show.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, hilariously. My band is doing a song called wave
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  Speaker 1: over wave at pirate Palooza this year. And my, one
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  Speaker 1: of my bandmates wrote a little recorder bridge for the
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  Speaker 1: middle of it. And it sounds just like the gummy. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: not exactly, but my brain only hears the gummy bear
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  Speaker 1: theme song when she plays it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I, um, I did one of those little YouTube
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  Speaker 2: quizzes where it was guests, the eighties cartoon based on
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  Speaker 2: the theme music. And, um, my partner was there with
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  Speaker 2: me and the gummy bears, my partner did not watch
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  Speaker 2: hardly any Saturday morning cartoons. So most of this was
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  Speaker 2: foreign to her, but the gummy bears tune came on.
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  Speaker 2: And afterwards, after the whole thing was over, she was like, man,
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  Speaker 2: there were really a lot of crappy songs for eighties cartoons,
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  Speaker 2: not specifically calling out gummy bears, but just kind of
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  Speaker 2: making a blanket statement. I was like, I was like, well,
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  Speaker 2: The Gummy Bears theme slaps. It does.
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  Speaker 1: It does. And I really like the Alicia Keys cover
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  Speaker 1: of it as well.
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  Speaker 2: And I said DuckTales also slaps.
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  Speaker 1: Darkwing Duck slaps.
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  Speaker 2: Tailspin slaps.
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  Speaker 1: Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers slaps.
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  Speaker 2: Hated it. Can't stand it.
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  Speaker 1: You can't stand the theme song?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I guess the theme song's fine.
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  Speaker 1: Some times, some crimes. All I can sing right here.
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  Speaker 2: By the time that show came out, I was no
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  Speaker 2: longer watching. So it misses me. I don't have nostalgia
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  Speaker 2: for that. So, but like things like, um, these aren't
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  Speaker 2: Saturday morning cartoons, but like tiny tunes or animaniacs to
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  Speaker 2: a lesser extent, or even freakazoid to a little bit, uh,
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  Speaker 2: of an extent. Um, you know, when you get to,
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  Speaker 2: to cartoon theme songs, like I could go on and
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  Speaker 2: on cause I already have.
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  Speaker 1: There's, there's only one thing I remember in all of
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  Speaker 1: freakazoid and I loved that show. And it's when he
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  Speaker 1: taught the audience, um, how to say who cut the
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  Speaker 1: cheese in French. And do I remember how to do it?
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  Speaker 1: Not exactly. And whenever I tell somebody that, they look
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  Speaker 1: at me like I have seven heads.
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  Speaker 2: But we can talk a little bit about the stuff
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  Speaker 2: we've seen since the last time. Now, there's something you've
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  Speaker 2: seen that I've not seen, and I am really eager
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  Speaker 2: to hear more about your reaction to it. But I'll
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  Speaker 2: just get my one little thing out of the way.
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  Speaker 2: I watched the short film Biohazard. This is a it's
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  Speaker 2: being called a fan film, but it's essentially telling a
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  Speaker 2: very small section of the Resident Evil seven storyline. And
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  Speaker 2: it was made by the actor Chandler Riggs, who you
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  Speaker 2: might remember as Coral on Walking Dead. He wrote, directed
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  Speaker 2: and starred in this short film adaptation called of a
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  Speaker 2: small segment of Resident Evil 7. And I thought it
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  Speaker 2: was fine. It was short, and it ends on kind
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  Speaker 2: of a cliffhanger-type thing where you get the feeling that
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  Speaker 2: this is almost like fishing for the opportunity to do
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  Speaker 2: a more long-form adaptation. But it's also so... close to
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  Speaker 2: the source material that you question whether or not it's
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  Speaker 2: needed because you've already got it in the game. Whereas
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  Speaker 2: I like Zach Kreger's approach where he's like, let me
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  Speaker 2: take the vibe of resident evil and some of the
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  Speaker 2: lore of resident evil and use that to make a movie,
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  Speaker 2: but not just retread stories and characters that have already
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  Speaker 2: been established.
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  Speaker 1: Have you watched it?
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  Speaker 2: I have not yet seen it. That's on my list,
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  Speaker 2: but it's, but I I'm saying I respect that approach
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  Speaker 2: more because, And I know that he got a lot
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  Speaker 2: of flack from people who were like, they really wanted
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  Speaker 2: to have a Chris Redfield story or a Leon Kennedy
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  Speaker 2: story or something like that. And I'm like, you've got those,
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  Speaker 2: they're the games. You don't need that. I would much
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  Speaker 2: prefer a, an original story, but, but steeped in that
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  Speaker 2: lore and atmosphere, which is why I'm, I'm very eager
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  Speaker 2: to see it. I'm hoping I can see it this weekend.
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  Speaker 2: There are like three or four movies I have on
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  Speaker 2: my list of things I want to see this weekend,
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  Speaker 2: but there's only so many hours. I want to see
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  Speaker 2: Street Fighter. I hear it's really funny.
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  Speaker 1: I hear it loses the plot, but it's still a
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  Speaker 1: fun journey.
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  Speaker 2: I heard that there's no plot, so it doesn't lose anything.
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  Speaker 2: They don't try to have a plot. I heard it's
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  Speaker 2: not a martial arts film. It's a comedy film. And
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  Speaker 2: I'm like sold. I will go see it. I have
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  Speaker 2: heard I want to see Resident Evil. I want to
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  Speaker 2: see I actually want to see Digger. The crazy thing
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  Speaker 2: is I didn't want to see Digger until I found
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  Speaker 2: out what the twist was. And now I do want
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  Speaker 2: to see Digger, which tells me that maybe I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I go back and forth on this because I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: should the trailers have given a nod to the twist
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  Speaker 2: or I think more people would have gone to see it.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, I don't even know what the twist is.
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  Speaker 1: I've I I've watched the trailers and I could, I
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  Speaker 1: cared so little. I did not pick up a twist.
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  Speaker 2: The twist I think would make you, I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if you would be interested enough to see it, but
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  Speaker 2: you would at least go, Oh, but I'm not going
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  Speaker 2: to say why it is on here. Just in case.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody out there wants to enjoy discovery.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the thing. I really like Dr. Strangelove, right? It's
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  Speaker 1: got a vague Dr. Strangelove love vibe to it, but
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  Speaker 1: it's just too close to stuff that currently irritates me.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so. I don't, I can't talk about
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  Speaker 2: more without kind of encroaching on the twist, but I
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  Speaker 2: want to see digger street fighter resident evil, maybe other
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  Speaker 2: mommy as well. That looked like that was going to
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  Speaker 2: be pretty creepy. So there's like a bunch of, Oh,
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  Speaker 2: And you can see everything. I want to see that
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  Speaker 2: one too. There's like so many things out there. And
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  Speaker 2: then there's all the streaming stuff. So I just don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Cause I know that a disclosure day and end
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  Speaker 1: of Oak street are currently on streaming. I never saw
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  Speaker 1: back rooms. So I need to see that. I need,
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  Speaker 1: I still need to see weapons. Heck. I have a
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  Speaker 1: lot of stuff on my watch. I want to see
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  Speaker 1: the new resident evil. Cause I actually really liked the
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  Speaker 1: TV series. I've never played the games and I know
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be too much for me. So I
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  Speaker 1: do have to wait for that one to come to TV. Um,
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  Speaker 1: but I want to see street fighter. I'm actually seeing
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  Speaker 1: that tonight. Um, I want to see, you can see everything.
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  Speaker 1: I want to see wild horse nine, which is the
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  Speaker 1: one with, um, Sam Rockwell and John Malkovich.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, where the CIA agents. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. It's got pretty good reviews. It's got like a 94%
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  Speaker 1: fresh on rotten tomatoes as opposed to street fighter, which
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  Speaker 1: is critical 43, but audience 80, which these movies usually
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  Speaker 1: skew that way.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Um, And then I want to see, well, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I kind of want to see Wicker because I've heard
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  Speaker 1: such good things about it. And I'm, while romance is
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  Speaker 1: not always my genre, I love the idea of age
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  Speaker 1: appropriate romance that has like some good message behind it.
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  Speaker 1: But I may have to wait to watch that one
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  Speaker 1: at home because I know my sensibilities and I might
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  Speaker 1: be embarrassed watching that in the theater with other people.
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  Speaker 2: It looks like it's pretty twisted and it's got my vote.
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  Speaker 2: Is that out already?
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  Speaker 1: I think it comes out. If it's not already out,
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  Speaker 1: it comes out super soon. Yeah. October 23rd.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. So it's next weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I was, I was thinking that it wasn't because I
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  Speaker 2: was like, God, if that's out too, because there's also,
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  Speaker 2: there's like the streaming series. I forget her name, but
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  Speaker 2: there's the, it's the YouTuber and it, I remember the
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  Speaker 2: subtitle is, is witchy AF and it's all, all about,
• 12:20
  Speaker 2: you know, the, the, the history of witchcraft and Wicca
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  Speaker 2: and Satanism and all this other stuff, but told through
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  Speaker 2: a very kind of snarky approach. So I've got that
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  Speaker 2: on my list. Like there's just, there's so much. And
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  Speaker 2: then there's something that you watch that's definitely on my
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  Speaker 2: list and I have not had a chance to crack
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  Speaker 2: it yet.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. And I know that's the 2024 big fat game
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  Speaker 1: show of everything.
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  Speaker 2: Please don't even tease me, Ariel. You know what I'm
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  Speaker 2: talking about.
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  Speaker 1: So I did watch that. It was hilarious because Noel
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  Speaker 1: Felding and Richard Ayoade are, I'm getting to it. I
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  Speaker 1: promise I will. They were on a team together and
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  Speaker 1: they were amazing. And then Chelsea, it was just a
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  Speaker 1: really good, I was getting clips of it on my TikTok.
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  Speaker 1: And so I was like, oh, let me watch that episode.
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  Speaker 1: I'm running low on things to watch. So that was
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  Speaker 1: really good. Taskmaster continues to be great. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: say this real quick and then I'll get to the
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  Speaker 1: one you want to talk about just because we're going
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  Speaker 1: to talk about it for a while and this other
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  Speaker 1: stuff doesn't really. I watched Day Ones, which is a
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  Speaker 1: short film by the son of one of the people
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  Speaker 1: from the state.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's Ken Marino's son.
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  Speaker 1: So it wasn't great. It was fine. The humor didn't
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  Speaker 1: really hit, but I love everybody in it. There were
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  Speaker 1: a couple bits that made me chuckle. We also saw,
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  Speaker 1: we didn't include it in our show notes, a trailer
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  Speaker 1: for Killer Tomatoes Organic Intelligence, which, cute title, which I
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  Speaker 1: also get the vibe that somebody's kid made this movie
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  Speaker 1: and they were enabled by their parent.
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  Speaker 2: Attack of the Killer Tomatoes is a cult classic horror
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  Speaker 2: monster movie spoof. They came out, I want to say
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  Speaker 2: in the early 80s. And this looks like it's almost
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  Speaker 2: a reboot of that. Like it has several of the characters,
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  Speaker 2: not the actors, but the same characters in this as
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  Speaker 2: were in the original. And yeah, the trailer makes it
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  Speaker 2: look like, oh, it's the first movie, but now with
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  Speaker 2: like AI type stuff added on to it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's got a couple of names that I didn't
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  Speaker 1: expect to see. Eric Roberts and David Cockner. I got
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  Speaker 1: to work with David Cockner once tertiarily and he was
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  Speaker 1: very sweet.
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  Speaker 2: I thought it was weird that Walton Goggins plays the tomato.
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  Speaker 2: Does he?
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 2: This is me lying.
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  Speaker 1: Alluding.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: But the thing that Jonathan wants to hear me vaguely,
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  Speaker 1: only vaguely talk about is Vision Quest. That came out
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  Speaker 1: this week. And because I was feeling a sad, pitiful
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  Speaker 1: person yesterday after getting a medical procedure, I bought, I
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  Speaker 1: resubscribed to Disney Hulu to watch it.
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  Speaker 2: And it's just the first two episodes right now, right?
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  Speaker 1: It's just the first two episodes. I don't recall when
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  Speaker 1: the next episode drops.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's weekly.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it is weekly. I just don't remember what
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  Speaker 1: day of the week.
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  Speaker 2: Gotcha.
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  Speaker 1: But first of all, I am, I have never been
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  Speaker 1: so frustrated at a streaming service tier method before because
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  Speaker 1: it was like, get this for $ 12. 99 a month. Well,
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  Speaker 1: that's if you want the ad-supported version. If you don't
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  Speaker 1: want ads, it's $ 19. 99 a month.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Well, if you want to buy it for six months,
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  Speaker 1: it's $ 19. 99 a month. If you want to buy it
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  Speaker 1: for a month, it's $ 21. 99. 99 a month. And I
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  Speaker 1: know that the ad version would have done a similar up.
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  Speaker 1: So like when it's like, Oh, it's 1299 for this
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  Speaker 1: streaming service. And it's really 2199. It's not even the,
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  Speaker 1: like that's expensive, but I know you're paying for a lot.
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  Speaker 1: And for things like vision quest, which I have, I
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  Speaker 1: did enjoy, you know, I don't mind paying for my media.
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  Speaker 1: I just wish it were more upfront.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it's that, that kind of door buster gets
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  Speaker 2: you in to the, to the signup sheet stuff. Same
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  Speaker 2: thing for like gems. Like we've seen it so many times. And,
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  Speaker 2: and I mean, the reason why it's there is because
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  Speaker 2: it works, but it's so frustrating as a consumer. You
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  Speaker 2: can't sit there and think like, do any of the
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  Speaker 2: decision makers ever, are they ever in charge of, of
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  Speaker 2: subscribing to stuff in their own household? And if so,
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  Speaker 2: do aren't, aren't they frustrated by this? And if so,
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  Speaker 2: why do they keep doing it? Besides profit.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. And so like, yeah, um, I like, and
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  Speaker 1: I chatted with Tony, I'm like, we don't have to
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  Speaker 1: get it. Cause like that it's, it feels bait and switchy.
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  Speaker 1: And I hate that. I hate that so much. Yeah. Um,
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  Speaker 1: but he's like, I mean, the cost is fine. I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: I know. I just don't like that. Oh, it's going
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: to be this much. And by the end it's almost
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: doubled in price. Um, and I w I mean, I
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: would have actually gone for the ad version cause I
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: don't care. I know we tend to pick up our phones,
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  Speaker 1: but it's also more likely you're not going to put
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  Speaker 1: your phone back down and you won't pay attention.
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  Speaker 2: But you said you enjoyed the show.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Can you expand on that without spoilers at all?
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  Speaker 1: Yes. So we know from the trailer that it is
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  Speaker 1: a mix between real world and then Vision's Mind Palace, right?
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  Speaker 1: That's what I'm calling it. That's just what I'm calling it.
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  Speaker 1: And so the first episode, there's a lot. There's a
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  Speaker 1: lot to jam in. They do start off both episodes
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  Speaker 1: with some recaps, which I think is really wonderful for
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  Speaker 1: the people who haven't seen the movies or haven't watched
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: them in a long time because some movie stuff does
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: tie in. I think more so than WandaVision, more so
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: than Agatha all along. I was talking to a mutual
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: friend of ours and I was like, who loved WandaVision,
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: but hadn't seen Agatha all along and was interested in
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: Vision Quest. I'm like, you should probably watch Agatha all along.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: She goes, yeah, I just wasn't, I was done with
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: MCU by that time. I'm like, it is so vaguely
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: Marvel that it might as well not be.
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a far enough, like there's no, I don't
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: think of any other reference besides the Wanda stuff. There's
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: like no other reference to Marvel in it.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And even that it's, it was really, you just
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: need to watch WandaVision, which if you haven't, you absolutely
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: should anyhow. Cause I think WandaVision is one of my
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: favorite TV shows of all time. Just because it was,
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: especially the first three episodes were really something special.
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Not, yeah. I liked it all the way through,
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: but it obviously like the, the, mystery of the weird
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: genre hopping and the occasional glitches were intriguing but yeah
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: i i enjoyed it other than the two things everyone
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: was expecting that did not pan out and i'll go
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: ahead and say them because they're both they've both been
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: revealed since then yeah one was that mephistopheles was going
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: to be or mephisto rather was going to be involved
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: in some way, which never panned out.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: He is in the MCU now. Sacha Baron Cohen plays him,
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: but not in WandaVision.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: That's why I said they have since been introduced, but
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: they weren't introduced in WandaVision. Mephisto was one of them,
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: and the other one was the Fantastic Four, because there
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: were these vague references to an exploratory team, and the
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: thought was, oh, that's going to be the Fantastic Four,
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: and it wasn't. But then, of course, subsequently, we got
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: the Fantastic Four movie that brought them into the MCU.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: So you could argue that that blame should rest solely
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: upon the shoulders of the fans who were watching. But
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: I feel like there were at least a couple of
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: sly nods in the series that you could reasonably interpret
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: to be the things that people were hoping for.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: There was only one Easter egg I had to look up.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: I mean, there are probably more that I just missed,
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: but there was one Easter egg that they really alluded
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: to that I had to look up, but it's really cool.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: I think the story is good. The first episode, there's
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: a lot to jam in. So it kind of feels
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: like I'd had a friend say, it feels like they
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: don't know what they want the story to be yet.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: And I think it was just, they were trying to
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: introduce a lot of elements, but it was still a
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: really fun episode. I still quite enjoyed it. And the...
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: the second episode was even better. There was something, there
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: was a scene that was so good in episode two
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: that it actually made my husband tear up a little bit.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: Like it was that moving.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: I look forward to seeing this then. I mean, I
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: was already looking forward to it. Partly because I'm like, well,
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: like you, I think the WandaVision and Agatha all along
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: have been particularly strong in the, in the MCU canon.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: And I was eager to see the conclusion of this
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: trilogy of stories. And then also like the goofy thing
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: is I'm looking forward to seeing members of mischief theater
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: in the MCU.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. He, that's a Henry Lewis, correct?
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: Henry Lewis and Jonathan Sayre, I think is the little guy.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: They're both very funny. Um, I won't tell you their
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: names if you haven't looked it up because it's very funny.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: Emily Hampshire's in it. James, obviously James Spader. Brilliant. Paul Bettany.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: Brilliant.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: Uh, Diane Morgan is in it, which I think is
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: hilarious because she recently did that Android series. Um, and
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: she's very funny. Um, yeah, all around very good casting. Um,
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: I just, yeah, I, I really enjoyed it. I am
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: looking forward to the next episode. I started to look
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: up what day it drops and I immediately forgot cause
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: I got sidecast by all of the happy memories. Um,
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: I think it drops on Tuesdays. So that's at least
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: when the first episode came out.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: Well, I look forward to, to watching that. Hopefully my
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: partner and I will make some time this weekend to
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: watch those two episodes. There's a, Like I said, there's
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: just a growing list of things I need to see.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: So that's on it.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: While it's not one where I feel like it is
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: absolutely imperative to avoid spoilers. It's always a better journey.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: Well, and considering that you and I are constantly crawling
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: the various geeky, you know, reaches of the internet for
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: news to cover on this show. It's only a matter
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: of time before I run into a spoiler that just
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: wasn't masked properly.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: So I definitely want to see that. I love the
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: joy of discovery of those shows. Like I also enjoy
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: it being a weekly drop because it makes it feel
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: like event television. And since I don't watch regular TV anymore,
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: that's the only time I ever get that experience.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I, I really like it too, because when everything's bingeable,
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: it takes forever. And stuff comes out at a similar time,
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: you forget about stuff. But if you're like, oh, on
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: Tuesday nights, I do this. And then on Thursday nights,
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: for me at least, I know some people prefer to
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: binge everything in one day. The big thing for me
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: was to support this show when it came out one
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: way or the other quickly, because that is part of
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: the metric that they determine on whether they're going to...
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: I mean, obviously they're not going to renew this, but
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: it's the metric on where they determine success is... how
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: many people watched it when it opened and how many
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: people finished the series in a reasonable time since it dropped.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And that can, that can mean that the people
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: who worked on it get continuous employment, which means you
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: also get more quality stuff. Right. So like there, even if,
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: even if you are, well, they're not going to make
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: another vision quest and they're not going to make another
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: Wanda vision. They're not going to make another Agatha all along.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: they might make something else that you'll like just as much,
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: but you know, watching this, if you're a fan and
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: this is the kind of thing that you're into watching
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: it when it comes out is a good way to
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: help guarantee that next thing follows. Otherwise it may be like, Oh,
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: we've lost too much steam. So we're not going to
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: bring that, that creative team back to get again. Yeah. So, okay.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: Well you saw vision quest, you saw that, the big
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: fat quiz show of the year from a couple of
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: years ago.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: Just Taskmaster. Chloe Petz is my favorite contestant right now.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: I did not expect that to be my favorite contestant,
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: but they really show up and try. They don't try
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: too hard. They try just enough. And it shows because
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: they've won most of the episodes so far. So that's it.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: Well, then I suppose we should move on to a
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: segment that we're calling got half a minute. Uh, and
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: originally Ariel started, but then we realized that the story
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: that we were starting with was already out of date.
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: So now I start and here we go. Last week,
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: we learned production on the Batman two stopped indefinitely as
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: director Matt Reeves had to deal with a private family matter.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: This week, we learned Steven Soderbergh has been brought on
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: to finish out principal photography on the film, and Matt
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: Reeves will be supporting the production remotely. We are glad
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: that the project is back on track, but more importantly,
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: we're glad that Reeves can be there for his family.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: Definitely. Next bit of news, Cynthia Erivo is rounding out
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: the cast of Bad Fairies, which is an animated musical
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: film that we already know Catherine Tate and Jonathan Groff
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: and Kylie Minogue are a part of. It comes out
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: May 21st in 2027. It's got really great musical folk
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: behind it, like Lucy Moss of Six, the musical, Florence
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: and the Machine, and Ian Eisendrath, who you probably don't
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: recognize the name, but he was a part of Demon Hunters.
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: Woo!
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: I know how to talk. That's it.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: There's a horror thriller film taking shape under the streets
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: of New York City. The film is called Mole People,
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: directed by Rob Savage. That's the guy who's behind the
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: film Other Mommy, which I still need to go see.
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: Lakeith Stanfield and Ben Mendelsohn have signed on to star
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: in the movie, which is about a disturbing society of
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: people living under the New York City streets. Chud Anybody?
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: The next thing is we're getting a sequel to Gnome Alone.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: It's called Game of Gnomes. When I was reading this article,
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: because Jonathan's the one who found it, I will say
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: I had to read it like four times. I was
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: a little bit late to our recording. And part of
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: it is because as I read the description of this movie,
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: because I never saw Gnome Alone, like I think my
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: brain short circuited. I was like, do I just not
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: understand English? None of this is making sense to me.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: In the sequel, Chloe and Liam travel back in time
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: to save mankind from warring families and the dreaded troggs
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: with their gnome allies, Quicksilver, Zooks, and Fear at their side.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: I should have just read it out loud. It's much
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: more easier to understand when.
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: You do that. Next up, R.L. Stine and Tooby are
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: continuing their working relationship. We've got Pumpkinhead and its sequel
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: out this year. And next year, we're getting Afraid of Clowns.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: All of those are based on Stine's stories in a
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: couple of horror anthologies. But next up will be an
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: adaptation of his 1989 book, The Babysitter, about a young
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: woman who takes a babysitting job while there's a violent
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: criminal on the loose and shenanigans follow. That's coming in 2027.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: We also learned that we're getting a pilot, I guess
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: it's a TV show, of Spaceship Earth, uh, Featuring Catherine Laga-Aya,
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: who is the live-action Moana, and Deacon Phillip from Brothers
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: Save Us, about teenagers who get sent away when an
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: imminent global cataclysm happens, and they have to, I guess,
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: fight time itself or something like that. It's teenagers from
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: all over history. It's weird. I don't know what to
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: think about it.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure that they all have to get on
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: an Omni mover at some point. And then Judy Dench
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: talks to them about the Phoenicians. All right. Okay.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: Listen, I would love that.
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: The spaceship earth is a great ride and I won't,
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: I won't Brooke any.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: Discussion on the matter, but the TV show.
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, that it, yeah. When you think about rides
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: that are ripe for being adapted into films or series,
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: that one does not leap to mind usually. Well, anyway,
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: Ron Perlman has backed a creator-focused funding platform called Waterfall.
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: There's no E in that, by the way. And he
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: started that last year and submissions are now open for projects.
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: Funds include $ 150, 000 set aside for a feature, $ 75, 000 for
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: a TV pilot, and $ 5, 000 for 10 other projects. So
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: creators can submit their proposals. Waterfall executives will choose the
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: candidates to be voted upon. Ultimately, it is the audience
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: that gets to vote on who gets funded, which I
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: think is kind of cool.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's pretty interesting. Uh, lastly, we finally got the
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: name of the new movie, a mummy movie coming out, uh,
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: that comes out October 15th, 2027. It is mummy, the mummy,
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: not mummy, the mummy book of the dead, uh, I
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: have been so excited about this movie because Rachel Weisz
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: and Brendan Fraser are both coming back. However, Fraser, uh, however,
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: the way that they're talking about it in the Hollywood
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: reporter article, it makes it sound like it's going to
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: be scarier than the previous movies were, which were a
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: little spoopy, but also very funny. Um, And that makes
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: me a little hesitant.
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: I'm sure it's going to be more adventure than horror still.
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: I can't imagine them turning it into an outright horror movie.
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: They would lose their audience. Yeah. Well, let's move on.
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: I technically had one other one, but.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: Oh, did you? I don't see it on here.
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: Well, because I took it off because it's about a play.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: Okay. I'll let me just always got to have the
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: last word. No, I'm kidding. I'm absolutely kidding.
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: I wasn't even supposed to have the first word, but,
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: but no, I'll, I'll read it over just really quickly.
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: Just knowing that this is something that already happened in
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: New York, but now it's going to happen in Manchester,
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: United Kingdom. So it's Ian McKellen and, uh, Golda Rashovel. Well,
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: or Rashovel, I don't know how to pronounce her name
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: or reprise their roles in a production of the play
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: and arc, uh, And I use play in the loosest
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: terms here. It's going to be produced in Manchester. It's
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: actually a mixed reality piece. The actors appear as holograms
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: in front of an audience. The audience sits in the
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: round without shoes on while wearing AR headsets. And the
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: actors perform in front of a ring of 52 cameras
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: to achieve the effect. I couldn't find anything that says
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: the actors perform it live each time. So I'm guessing
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: that this is all prerecorded, which really just makes it
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: a VR movie experience, I guess. Anyway, it's about being
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: guided through the human experience from birth to death. It
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: was already produced in New York this year at a
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: kind of experimental theater area called The Shed. So I
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: wanted to call it out because if people were interested
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: in that and they're in Manchester, they could check it
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: out this coming spring. And the reviews I read were mixed.
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: Most of them said that it was an interesting use
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: of technology, but it kind of distracts from whatever the
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: message is and that the message itself, maybe not is
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: maybe not as, as like, uh, compelling as it could be,
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: but that Ian McKellen is really good in it. No
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: big surprise there. All right. Let's talk about stuff that
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: we tried to kick out, but it keeps finding its
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: way back in. Uh, and the first up is a, that's.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: An unfortunate way to say this with this first one.
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, yeah. I mean, I didn't think about that
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: when I wrote it. This first story is about a
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: biographical drama adaptation of the memoir Being Human, an unrepentant
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: memoir of a disability rights activist. And it tells the
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: story of Judith Heumann. H-E-U-M-A-N-N.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and it looks really good.
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: Compelling.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to figure out what to say. I love
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: it because there are so many people in it it's
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: so much disability.
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: Representation opportunity. Yeah.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: Presentation opportunity, stuff like that in the, in the acting world,
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: which I know can sometimes be a bit of a challenge.
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So the, the actual story here is about disability
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: activists who, who petitioned the government to adapt accessibility standards
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: so that You know, we could make the world a
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: more accessible place for those who have various disabilities. So
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: things like making sure that buildings have ramp access, that
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: kind of stuff. You know, the really basic things that
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: are incredibly important in order to have a fair society
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: that is accessible to everybody, not just, you know, those
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: who don't have a disability. And the film, the trailer
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: actually has quite a bit of humor in it. It's,
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: you know, it's obviously not a comedy. I don't want
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: to give the wrong impression. But there's a lot of
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: humor in the trailer, which makes it look like it's
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: going to be a moving and at times humorous story.
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: And you get Mark Ruffalo as a frazzled and somewhat
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: closed-minded government representative. So that's kind of fun. It comes
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: out November 6th on Apple TV +.
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: We also got a trailer for 12, 12, 12, which
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: is a heist series.
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: Ariel's just given up on the show at this point.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: No, no.
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: Being human was nice, but I didn't have good words
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: to explain that. I liked it. It wasn't what I
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: expected because it's a play on being human, which was
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: a British and then a U S TV show. I,
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: it may not actually be a play on it, but, uh,
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: that's where my brain went. So I didn't quite have
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: the words to describe it, but it does look good
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: and interesting. It just wasn't what I expected when I
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: first put it on 12, 12, 12, 12 is like
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: oceans 11, but not really. It's, it's a bank heist
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: where they're like you, it takes 12.
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: 12 months to plan to plan.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: 12 hours to pull off. And then if you don't
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: catch them in 12 days, you're never going to, but
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: it looked so like cookie cutter to me. That's the problem.
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: Well, Anthony Mackey plays an FBI agent and he also
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: has the best name ever. Cause it's Jack Strickland. So, so,
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: so big props to my fellow Strickland, Anthony Mackey. Uh,
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: that's the thing about Strickland men. We look good. The, um, uh,
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: but yeah, this, he, he's the guy who's trying to
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: track down the criminal who's responsible for the planning and
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: the execution of the heist. Uh, this also comes to
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: Apple TV plus on November 13th. And so if you're
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: into heist stuff, you should probably look at this trailer,
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: see if it's, you know, interesting you, uh, I feel
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: kind of the same way you do Ariel, as much
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: as I'm joking around with it. Uh, it's just, you know,
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: it's not my thing really. Like the whole cat and
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: mouse stuff, if it's done in a specific way, it
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: can be, it can capture my attention, but this looks
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: much more dry and serious. Like there's, it's not playful
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: like an oceans movie.
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. It's just kind of meh, but Anthony Mackie,
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: is always cool.
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: So yeah, he's great. Uh, and from my understand, pretty
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: fun guy to work with. Uh, then we have a
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: trailer for a, an anthology film. So it's a film
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: that's made up of multiple stories. It's called Deville. And
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: the reason it's called that is because sort of the,
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: the binding element of all these stories is a coupe
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: Deville car, uh, that passes through different people's hands over
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: the course of many decades. And so you get to
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: see the stories of different people who come into contact
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: with this car. There's a good chance that at least
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: one of these people comes into contact with this car
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: while that car is in motion.
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: The problem is, at least to me, the trailer didn't
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: really show much of the car at all.
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: No, the trailer. Yeah. The trailer did not make it
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: clear that the car was kind of the And I
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: don't know if the car plays a big part in
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: it or if it's literally just the car is kind
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: of the way we get from one story to another story.
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: But also I would say that the trailer made it
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: look like it was one story, right? It didn't make
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: it look like it was an anthology of stories. So
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: that was also a little confusing. There's no release date
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: for this yet. I will say like this does look
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: like at least the part that's in the trailer looks
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: like a gritty thriller. Now, I don't know if that's
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: going to be the case for all the stories in
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: the anthology or if maybe we just got to see,
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: you know, excerpts from one of the stories there, because
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: that's kind of how it felt to me. But maybe
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: we saw stuff from multiple stories and you just can't
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: really tell.
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't I don't know how I feel about this.
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe when we get closer. Well, first of all,
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: we don't know when we'll get closer because there's no
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: release date. So. I mean, we'll always get closer because
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: that's how time works, but we don't know when it'll
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: come out yet. But maybe later we'll get trailers that'll
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: shed a little more light on this. We also have
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: a trailer for something that almost fits into either the
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: Horror Hutch or our show notes, which is called The Body,
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: which is a series that's coming to Netflix on November 11th.
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah. This one is just not for me. It's about,
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: it's about, it's like, it's like, bring it on meets
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: the craft. I'd never watched the craft. I don't know.
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to figure out a good.
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: I think more from what was that movie? I actually
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: saw it. It was the one where it was all
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: the girls had fruit names, but it was all about
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: like initiating someone into their coven. All in that case,
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: it was all about performative sisterhood, forbidden, forbidden fruits. This
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: does not look like it has that kind of sense
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: of humor to it. This looks more like a thriller
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: slash horror kind of thing. it's set in a religious
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: girls school and there is a dance troupe and there
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: is a new student who is auditioning to be part
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: of the dance troupe. And then they have like this
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: party that gets kind of out of hand. There's drugs
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: at the party. They do like.
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: A, a, a. Hazing initiation. Yeah.
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: Hazing initiation. That's essentially like a, a simulated sacrifice. And then.
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: then there's like this fear that they've gone too far
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: and that, you know, they're going to get into trouble.
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: And so they're going to, everyone's supposed to be sworn
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: to secrecy and not, you know, reveal that something has happened. And, uh,
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: you know, all that kind of plays out. And then
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: there's like, I wrote that there's sort of elements of
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: the crucible, you know, the, the, the play, the crucible
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: where it, but it would be with the focus on
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: the young women who are attempting to manipulate and, um,
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: act out in ways that are ultimately dangerous and sort
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: of the consequences that, that follow that. This looks interesting
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: to me, but in a way that makes me also
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: feel like I can't watch it without feeling like a pervert.
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: I didn't get pervy vibes from it, but I'm a
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: different demographic than you. It just felt, mean and disturbing
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: in a way that i would not enjoy almost like
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: if american horror story put in elements of righteous gemstones
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: and then took out all of the humor yeah.
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: No i can see that um like i said it
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: comes out november 11th on netflix it this is one
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: that i i don't know i might try to watch
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: the first episode and see how i feel about it
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: but it's i'm on the fence um I mean, I
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: hope it's.
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: Good and I hope people enjoy it. Just because it's
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: not for me doesn't mean it's not fun.
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: You know? Yeah. Next up, we have a trailer for
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: something I know I have no plans on seeing unless
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: I just happen to have nothing to do and it's
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: on streaming at that point. And that is The Beekeeper 2.
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: I'm still disappointed that The Beekeeper, first of all, I
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: thought that the first Beekeeper movie also came out this year.
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: I was like, oh, that's quick, Statham. but I'm just
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: disappointed that the beekeeper series is not about the person
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: who keeps the bees and the wicker man.
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: Nice. So yeah, the beekeeper in this series is like
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: a black ops agent type, like someone who essentially like
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: the elite soldier. I can't even remember how they explained
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: it in the first film. I did watch it. But
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: I remember very little about it because it kind of
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: bleeds into every other Jason Statham action film. I think
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: it was slightly better made than some of the other
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: ones he's been in over the last couple of years.
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: But the the plot on this one is that the
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: other beekeepers have gone rogue. So now it's down to
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: Statham to stop all the others. And it looks dumb
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: as hell. And if you told me that I had
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: taken over for writing Jason Statham movies, I wouldn't doubt
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: you even for a second. It comes out January 15th
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: in theaters. It's released by Amazon MGM. So I imagine
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: it'll show up on Amazon Prime not too long after
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: its theatrical release.
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: I mean, if you like Jason Statham movies, have fun.
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: If you like Baywatch, good news for you. We are
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: getting a new series that looks like it is a
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: continuation of the original series, not the comedy movie we
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: got with The Rock and Zac Efron a while ago.
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: And in this series, um, It focuses around Hobie Buchanan,
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: who is the son of Mitch Buchanan, who I think
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: might have been an original Baywatch character. I never watched Baywatch.
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: It was David Hasselhoff's character.
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: So this time it's Stephen Amell, which I can see
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: the relation.
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: It's Green Arrow.
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: It's Green Arrow, who reconnects with his daughter, Charlie Vale,
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: his estranged daughter. daughter.
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: So she's, she is, she is David Hasselhoff's granddaughter in this. Yes.
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: When she wants to work as a lifeguard. And of course,
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: Hobie's like, well, it's so dangerous. She's like, no, but
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: this is like in our blood. Um, I think it's
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: interesting because it looks like it focuses more on the
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: daughter character than necessarily on Stephen Amell's character.
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I, I mean, it, it looks like cheesy, you know,
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: primetime soap opera kind of stuff. Um, It's never been
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: my bag. I was never a Baywatch person. I did
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: see that there is at least one actor from the
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: original series who is in this playing the same character
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: that he played in the original series, and that is
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: David Chokachi, who plays Cody Madison, who first showed up
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: in season six of the original Baywatch run, according to
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: a wiki that I looked at. I don't know anything
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: about him or his character or what his relationship is
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: with any other character or why he out of everybody
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: is the only one to come back. I don't know
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: any of those things. I do know that this comes
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: out January 27th on Fox and also that I will
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: not be watching it.
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: So again, I never watched Baywatch. I never really watched
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: 90210 or One Tree Hill or Dawson's Creek or any
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: of those like teeny bopper soap operas. So it doesn't
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: super appeal to me there. I do feel like I
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: felt less. I saw less bouncy boobs.
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I was going to say that you don't
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: get the Pamela Anderson or Carmen Electra running in slow
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: motion bounce cam that you got in the original series,
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: which I would say is an improvement. Not being the
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: age I was when the original Baywatch came out. If
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: I had been watching Baywatch, I'm sure it would have
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: made a very big impact on me, but it just
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: wasn't my thing. Yeah. Now, I will say that if
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: Star Trek Next Generation had people running in slow motion
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: and tight bathing suits, I probably would have even liked
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: it more than I already did. But they didn't. And
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: I didn't watch Baywatch.
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: We also got a trailer for a show, a comedy
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: series coming out called Minimum Wage.
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: About.
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: It's a restaurant called the Slice Club. It's a slice club.
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: It's a pizza chain. And it focuses on one particular
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: location of it that is just not being profitable. And
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: it looks both very cringy and also very funny, despite
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: the fact that it looks like it's skewing towards a
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: younger audience. And by younger, I mean Gen Z, older
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: Gen Alpha.
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So I have a little more information about this.
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: First of all, the real geek connection here is that
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: Randall Park plays the owner of of the pizza franchise
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: and he's there to find out why this particular location
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: is the only one that isn't profitable and of course
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: randall park is you know beloved in geek circles for
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: numerous reasons a large part of that his work his
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: work with the mcu has been tons of fun both
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: in like wandavision and the ant-man movies then uh the
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: other thing i wanted to say is that this is
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: based off a short form web video series from American
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: high shorts. So a lot of the cast, in fact,
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: I think all the principal cast come from the web
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: based version of that. So that's kind of cool that they,
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: they were able to make a bigger series based off
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: the same premise and characters. And that, which by the way,
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: I've never seen. So I, I don't have any experience
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: with this. I just found out about this when I
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: was looking into the show. but also these are short
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: form is, well, I guess it's technically long form, but
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: they're like 12 and a half minutes long, the episodes.
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: So it's almost like the length of like, uh, uh,
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: like an adult swim show where you would get two
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: segments that would each be about 12 and a half
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: minutes long for one episode. Uh, it comes to Netflix
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: on October 26th. There are, I think 28 episodes in
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: total for the season.
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: Which means it'll still run the length of a regular series.
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah it's like 14 episodes of a half hour show
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: essentially but uh yeah i i thought it looked cute
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: it i didn't find it particularly like gut-bustingly funny or
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: anything but i could see where you know the humor
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: was uh so yeah if you are a big randall
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: park fan or you're a big fan of this this
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: series because you watched it when it was on things
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: like youtube and tiktok then you should check this out
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: when it comes to Netflix on October 26th.
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you should. And then lastly, we got the trailer
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: for season two. Jonathan wrote series two, despite the fact
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: that it's a U.S. production.
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's short, short number of episodes, so it
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: might as well be a U.K. series.
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: For The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins, which I
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: liked and Jonathan loved.
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: I love this show. I'm so glad it's back for
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: a season two. I wasn't sure that that was going
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: to happen when I watched season one. I was like,
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: oh man, I feel like this show was made for
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: me and that's not good because I don't know that
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: enough other people will watch it to justify it coming back.
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: But luckily it is. So if you're unfamiliar with The
• 50:04
  Speaker 2: Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins, the basic premise is
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: is that Tracy Morgan plays Reggie Dinkins, who is a
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: disgraced former football star who got kicked out of the
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: NFL because he was betting on himself. And he maintains
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: that since he was betting on himself, he was obviously
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: playing hard and he shouldn't be punished for it. But
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: of course he was gambling on games that he was playing.
• 50:28
  Speaker 2: And so he got kicked out and he's hired a
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: documentarian played by Daniel Radcliffe to try and create like
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: a promotional piece about himself so that he can get
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: back into the good graces of the general public. Cause
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: a lot of people hate him because since he got
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: kicked out of the NFL, his team kind of fell
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: apart without him. And so all the locals hate him
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: because they feel that he's the reason their team sucks. Anyway,
• 50:57
  Speaker 2: season one was great. Season two looks like it's equally ridiculous.
• 51:01
  Speaker 2: Tracy Morgan is, is very Tracy Morgan as Reggie. And
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: Daniel Radcliffe is sometimes the straight man, but sometimes he's
• 51:09
  Speaker 2: just as weird and silly. And their chemistry is fantastic. Like,
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: I did not anticipate it being as good as it was.
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: The season two starts on November 2nd on NBC, and
• 51:22
  Speaker 2: then new episodes will air the day after they come
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: out on TV on Peacock.
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: I thought the chemistry was really good. I did feel
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: like the jokes kind of started losing my attention after
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: a while. But this season also has at least a
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: guest appearance by Jeremy Culhane. And so I obviously have
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: to watch it.
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: I loved any time Daniel Radcliffe was found out to
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: be doing underhanded stuff because it was just funny to me.
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: I mean, Daniel Radcliffe is hilarious. Have you watched Miracle Worker?
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: I still haven't seen it. It's on my list. I've
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: seen clips and it looks amazing, but I have yet
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: to watch it. You would love it.
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: You would love all three, maybe four seasons if you're
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: able to get the fourth season.
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: I will say that also the Megan Thee Stallion appearances
• 52:11
  Speaker 2: in the first season of The Fall and Rise of
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: Reggie Deakins are highlights. They are so good.
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: She is great. She is fantastic.
• 52:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a great, great little, those are great moments. Anyway,
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: if you check it out and it's not for you,
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: it doesn't hurt my feelings. Like I said, as I
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: was watching it, I was like, oh no. this feels
• 52:31
  Speaker 2: like it's just for me. So, but now it is
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: time for us to take a dark turn. And if
• 52:40
  Speaker 2: you listen carefully, you will hear the staccato plucking of
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: a violin strings, which can mean only one thing. There's
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: a spider in the podcast and he's not the friendly
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: neighborhood type. He's shepherding us inexorably toward a towering cabinet
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: where we find ourselves trapped in In John Boy's Horror Hutch.
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: I don't get any of the references. Is that like
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: some Pied Piper thing? Or like We're Frankenstein?
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: If you ever watch any horror movie where there's spiders,
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: you almost always hear like the kind of noise that's
• 53:16
  Speaker 2: supposed to indicate that spiders moving around. It's that staccato
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: like plucking of violin strings. It's kind of atonal. Yeah,
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: that's where I was going with that. It's very Halloween.
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: That's what I was going for.
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: I've never seen Halloween.
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: Not the movie halloween i'm talking about the season.
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: Like the vibe yeah me too no i'm.
• 53:36
  Speaker 2: Kidding like i know that you're big on thanksgiving but
• 53:39
  Speaker 2: you have to acknowledge halloween.
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: I like halloween i like we've talked about it i
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: like apple picking and.
• 53:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah candy yeah uh first question of course is ariel
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: did you watch any of the trailers that are in
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: this list.
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: I did not because you did not include any of
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: the ones.
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: That i sent to you So just out of pettiness,
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: I see.
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: No, it's not out of pettiness. It's just like if
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: you had included those, I would have seen them because
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: I watched them before I sent them to you.
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: The one you sent me was a teaser that didn't
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: even have anything in it.
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: And the Attack of the Killer Tomatoes.
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: Which doesn't fit into the horror hutch.
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: It does for me.
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: Ariel claims it does for her because she has an
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: intolerance to nightshades, but that doesn't make it a horror movie.
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: I have an intolerance and an allergy, but my allergy
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: is under control right now because of shots. Regardless. Regardless, no,
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: I I knew Exorcist Martyrs. It technically that trailer did
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: come on last night while I was watching like a
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: Smosh video. But I I knew to turn my eyes
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: away just like I could barely get through the other
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: other mommy trailer, which, by the way, my husband and
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: his old roommate went to see a movie and they
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: saw that trailer and they were they came back livid
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: because the name is an other mother trailer. Yeah.
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, it could have been mummy, mummy, but, uh, or,
• 55:02
  Speaker 2: or mummy dearest. So, you know, first of all, we
• 55:05
  Speaker 2: have the exorcist martyrs, uh, which I talked about last
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: week because I was anticipating the trailer being out in
• 55:12
  Speaker 2: time for us to talk about it then, but it
• 55:14
  Speaker 2: came out about a couple hours after we had finished recording,
• 55:18
  Speaker 2: but I have to chat about this. This is Mike
• 55:20
  Speaker 2: Flanagan's exorcist film. It looks dark. It looks intense. It
• 55:25
  Speaker 2: looks gory. Scarlett Johansson plays a detective who's investigating a
• 55:30
  Speaker 2: series of killings that are eerily similar to those of
• 55:34
  Speaker 2: a serial killer that she apprehended 13 years earlier. And
• 55:37
  Speaker 2: that serial killer was then later executed. But now there's
• 55:42
  Speaker 2: a new killer who's using very similar methods and has
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: even left her character's name scrawled in blood at a
• 55:51
  Speaker 2: crime scene. And she starts to uncover this apparent evil
• 55:56
  Speaker 2: connection between different serial killers throughout the history of the
• 56:00
  Speaker 2: United States, suggesting that there's like a deeper evil that's
• 56:05
  Speaker 2: at play here. And meanwhile, she's also trying to protect
• 56:08
  Speaker 2: her own child. There are a lot of different celebrities
• 56:11
  Speaker 2: in this movie, as well as Flanagan regulars. And it
• 56:15
  Speaker 2: looks scary as heck. So I'm on board because the
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: people who are in this movie, like the A-list celebrities,
• 56:21
  Speaker 2: they're all really talented people. Then all of Mike Flanagan's workers,
• 56:27
  Speaker 2: like the people who have been in a lot of Flanagan,
• 56:29
  Speaker 2: things like Rahul Kohli, for example, they're phenomenal in Flanagan's work.
• 56:34
  Speaker 2: Like they, they work so well as an ensemble under
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: his direction that I'm really eager to see this combination, right? Uh,
• 56:42
  Speaker 2: this comes out March 12th. I will be there. I
• 56:45
  Speaker 2: am a big exorcist fan. It also is reminding me
• 56:48
  Speaker 2: more of the exorcist three, which, uh, I love The Exorcist.
• 56:53
  Speaker 2: I think that's a perfect movie. The Exorcist 3 I
• 56:57
  Speaker 2: don't think is a perfect movie, but I think it's
• 57:00
  Speaker 2: almost as good as the first one. It's a very
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: different film, and this feels like it has some connective
• 57:07
  Speaker 2: tissue to that, and that I find fascinating. Next up,
• 57:11
  Speaker 2: we have a trailer for a movie called River. this
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: one is less interesting to me, but it's got really
• 57:18
  Speaker 2: good reviews. So it's about a group of siblings who
• 57:21
  Speaker 2: go to a river in the countryside in order to
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: spread their father's ashes and also swim in the river,
• 57:26
  Speaker 2: which is kind of like, I don't know what order
• 57:30
  Speaker 2: of operations they follow, but that seems like that's real important.
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: Like if I dumped a loved one's ashes into water,
• 57:37
  Speaker 2: I don't think my next instinct is to get into
• 57:39
  Speaker 2: a swimsuit and jump into the water too.
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: Absolutely not.
• 57:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. Because in the trailer, you can
• 57:46
  Speaker 2: never tell, right? But they'd come across a psychotic, faceless
• 57:54
  Speaker 2: man who starts to stalk them and attack them. And
• 57:59
  Speaker 2: I feel like it kind of falls into that category
• 58:02
  Speaker 2: of people out in the country are insane killers who
• 58:04
  Speaker 2: are just waiting for civilized city folk to come across
• 58:07
  Speaker 2: their path so they can terrorize them. And I am
• 58:10
  Speaker 2: not a big fan of that trope. Because I feel
• 58:12
  Speaker 2: that it creates some pretty nasty stereotypes. However, it is
• 58:17
  Speaker 2: very popular in slasher film genres. And like I said,
• 58:21
  Speaker 2: this has had screenings at film festivals, including the Toronto
• 58:26
  Speaker 2: International Film Festival. And it got a really good reaction.
• 58:30
  Speaker 2: And it was supposed to just come to Shudder. But
• 58:34
  Speaker 2: after the screening at the film festival, there was a
• 58:36
  Speaker 2: bidding war. of production companies to get distribution rights to this.
• 58:41
  Speaker 2: And Blumhouse ended up winning that bidding war. So now
• 58:44
  Speaker 2: it's coming out in theaters on January 15th. I think
• 58:46
  Speaker 2: that's cool. Like anytime a project is able to be
• 58:49
  Speaker 2: elevated from streaming only to theatrical release, that's cool. And
• 58:54
  Speaker 2: maybe this movie is way more than what it appears
• 58:56
  Speaker 2: to be in the trailer. Because again, like I even
• 58:59
  Speaker 2: looked at the Rotten Tomatoes score. Granted, this is just
• 59:01
  Speaker 2: from the people who are at the film festival, but
• 59:03
  Speaker 2: was that like 94%? It's pretty incredible. And then we have, oh, sorry,
• 59:08
  Speaker 2: you were going to say something.
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: No, I was just saying that is pretty incredible.
• 59:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Then we have deadbolt. This is a home invasion
• 59:16
  Speaker 2: horror movie. You could almost just say that you kind
• 59:19
  Speaker 2: of know what to expect. It's about a politician. She
• 59:22
  Speaker 2: comes home to find that a door that she was
• 59:24
  Speaker 2: sure she had closed and locked is actually cracked open
• 59:27
  Speaker 2: and And then it turns out that, you know, there
• 59:30
  Speaker 2: are a couple of people who are targeting her. And
• 59:34
  Speaker 2: so then becomes like a paranoia survival horror movie set
• 59:37
  Speaker 2: in her house. I don't like home invasion horror movies
• 59:42
  Speaker 2: that much. That's just not my thing. But it does
• 59:46
  Speaker 2: come out on digital on November 13th. So if you
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: are someone who like, you know, you like the strangers
• 59:51
  Speaker 2: or funny games or those kind of things, you might
• 59:54
  Speaker 2: want to check it out. It's not for me. And
• 59:57
  Speaker 2: then I wanted to mention there's an Arabic horror series
• 59:59
  Speaker 2: called obsess that's coming to Netflix on October 30th. It
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 2: looks interesting. It looks like it's playing on both Asian
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 2: and Western horror tropes and it centers around a woman
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 2: scorned kind of plot line. And I just thought, I
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 2: don't see that many examples of horror out of the,
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 2: the Arabic world. So I found that interesting.
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. Um, if I had had more time,
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: that might've been the one that would, would have been
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: the trailer that I would have watched the most.
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Uh, we can now get out of our, our
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 2: little horror hutch here.
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: Can we, is, is the spider going to let us
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: out of the cabinet?
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, no, he's already gone. He had, uh, he
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 2: was double booked.
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 2: He's got a violin economies, rough man.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: You got to really hustle.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 2: There's a violin concert down the street.
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: He's got to be at, uh, you know what we thinking,
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: you're speaking of the hustle game. Uh, we totally missed
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: a 32nd or less, uh, article where Brennan Lee Mulligan
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: just got cast in a TV show called Dig alongside
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: Amy Poehler, Max Greenfield, and Jason Manzoukas.
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 2: Wow, that's a great group.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: It is, and it's based on Kate Meyer's book Excavations,
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: which I've never read, about a team of dedicated archaeologists
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: who spend their summer working on a dig site in Greece.
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: I only mention because... Brendan Lee Mulligan really hustles.
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 2: It's got, it's gotta be a comedy with that cast.
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 2: Like it can't be a drama.
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: I will be watching it. That's just, what's going to happen.
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, it sounds, sounds like it'll be an interesting watch.
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 2: All right. Well, it's time for us now to talk
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 2: about stuff that's actually in our show notes. First up
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 2: is one that I added late in the game. So
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 2: I don't know if you got, did you have a
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 2: chance to watch the trailer for dead end job?
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: I did.
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 2: Cool. This is a Korean series, and it's about a
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 2: guy in Korea who is working lots of jobs to
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 2: try and make ends meet, and he sees an ad
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 2: for a staffing service that's called Spider, and he goes
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 2: to check that.
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: I almost turned it off at that point.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 2: But it's not like actual spiders. It's representative of webs
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 2: and stuff. And he ends up being in these very
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 2: strange assignments that are in like these reality bending situations.
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 2: It's very surreal. It's like a surreal horror series, a
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 2: little bit of sci-fi to it too. Uh, I don't really,
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 2: I can't really compare it to anything other than like
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 2: some of the world bending stuff you'd see in things
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 2: like Dr. Strange or the matrix or dark city.
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: Uh, with other elements of things like dead boy detectives.
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 2: Everything everywhere all at once a little bit maybe like
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 2: that kind of surreal sort of element to it it
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 2: looks pretty weird and it comes out october 30th on
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 2: netflix um i i thought it looked interesting.
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah i'm i i actually really want to watch this
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: it also gave me even though i haven't watched the
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: movie or played the game yet station eight or platform
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: eight vibes or something like that.
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah. The one where you're, you're, you have to look
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 2: for anomalies. And if you see one, you turn back.
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: If you don't see, this guy didn't have to look
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: very hard.
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 2: No, no, it was not subtle when the hallway you're
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 2: in is turning like rotating so that now you're having
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 2: to walk on the ceiling. It's not subtle.
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, but it looks really interesting. It looks fun
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: and creative and I'm, I'm for it.
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And then we've got a trailer for a movie called,
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 2: That is in Ariel's wheelhouse because she's the monster girly.
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 2: We've got a trailer for Godzilla minus zero.
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: Which is the sequel prequel to Godzilla minus one, which
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: is the first Godzilla movie to have been nominated for
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: an Oscar.
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: Did they even win?
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 2: I can't remember. They might have. Actually, I think they
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 2: might have. But the this one takes place two years
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 2: after Godzilla minus one. And I looked up some information
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 2: about it, which is not evident in the trailer. Like
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 2: in the trailer, you see lots of like destruction and
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 2: chaos and returning characters from the first film. And you
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 2: also see, you know, obviously you see Godzilla. What you
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 2: don't see is the other monster that's also in this
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 2: movie and is a big element of it.
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: I didn't even look up anything about this other than
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: the trailer.
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 2: Get her off. who starts off as Ghidorah and then
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 2: becomes King Ghidorah by the end. And then it ends
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 2: up being a Godzilla versus Ghidorah kind of movie. This
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 2: has already been released in Japan, but it's getting a U.S.
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 2: release with an early IMAX screening era starting November 3rd
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 2: and then going to wider release on November 6th.
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: How are the reviews? Because I know what made Godzilla
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: minus one so successful is that it focused on the
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: people more than the monster.
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 2: It's an excellent question you raise and i don't know
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 2: the answer because like it's played in japan and i'm
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 2: sure there have been plenty of english-speaking critics who have
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 2: seen it but i didn't look for any of those
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 2: reviews gotcha.
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: Well i i look uh rotten tomato says it's at
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 1: 95 so yeah i like the first one.
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 2: Uh i mean it has some of the, the Eastern
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 2: storytelling elements that are somewhat hard to parse from a
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 2: Western tradition, but that doesn't make it bad. It just
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 2: means it's, it's a different approach to storytelling. Yeah. Things
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 2: like things like weird tonal shifts from serious to humor.
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 2: Although there's not much humor in Godzilla minus one.
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but good movie. We got a trailer for, a
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: New York comic-con trailer for blade runner 2099. We had
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: gotten a previous, I don't know if it was a
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: teaser or trailer. It felt trailer length to me. Yeah.
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 2: Without giving too much detail about what was going on,
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 2: but yeah, this is taking place 50 years after the
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 2: last film. And this is a series, not a movie.
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: Sorry. I keep forgetting.
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 2: No, it's fine. Like it's, you know, it's, it's the
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 2: first time we get a blade runner series.
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 2: So, Uh, this one is talking at this point, the
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 2: replicants have taken over and, uh, it's a Michelle Yeoh
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 2: who's in this one.
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 1: She plays.
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So she plays a replicant, uh, blade runner who
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 2: is nearing the end of her life. Like she's in
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 2: the final days of her life. And her partner is
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 2: a human who's posing as a replicant and they are
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 2: meant to track down rogue replicants. Uh, so interesting. interesting
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 2: take on this when all the others were much more
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 2: focused on, well, humanity and their relationship to replicants that
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 2: they had created to do real crap jobs until the
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 2: replicants decide they don't really, they want to have more
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 2: of a say in their life. Seems reasonable to me.
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 2: This comes out on prime video on November 25th. There
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 2: are eight episodes total and they're all going to drop
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 2: on that day one.
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: I feel like the first trailer for this looped me
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: and more, although obviously not enough for me to remember
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: that it was a series. Yeah.
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 2: But I think it, you know, I mean, it looks
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 2: like a Blade Runner like story. It has that appearance
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 2: Blade Runner. I have to admit Blade Runner is one
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 2: of those franchises that I want to like more than
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 2: I actually do. When I sit down to try and
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 2: watch Blade Runner, like I'm pretty good. at things that
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 2: are slow moving and methodical, but Blade Runner tests my patience.
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the original is really slow and I remember liking it,
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: but have I gone back to watch it anytime recently? No,
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: but it is very slow. My husband fell asleep during
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: it and now won't watch anything Blade Runner.
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 2: There's a sequence of slow walking through a building that
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 2: I swear lasts four days. It's so, so slow. And
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 2: I have I have never made it all the way
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 2: through Blade Runner 2049. I started it and it started well,
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 2: but I never finished it.
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: It's just like there's something to be said for noir pacing.
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 1: Noir pacing can be great.
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 2: This is long.
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: It's long.
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, this is this.
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: I would wager to say almost the Batman. long, just
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: a better payoff.
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 2: I like the Batman, though. I well, I like the
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 2: Batman until I didn't. I liked it. I liked it.
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 2: I liked elements of it. I didn't feel that the
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 2: Batman was a particularly good detective that I thought was unfortunate.
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 1: I liked the casting, but I felt like. Like the
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 1: beginning sequence where he's walking in the dark. Oh, Batman's coming.
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: Five minutes later, Batman's still coming. And now the lights
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: are out.
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 2: And I can't see anything. You are being so stingy.
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 1: I fell asleep in the theater during the car chase.
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I fell asleep twice during The Hobbit when we
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 2: went for your birthday.
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: That's fine. You don't have to like The Hobbit. I
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: don't have to like The Batman.
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 2: And both times was chase sequences. Yeah.
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: I think the acting, I also fell asleep during whichever
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: Harry Potter movie had spiders way back when, way back when,
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: when it first came out and was in theaters. I like,
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 1: you don't have to like the Hobbit. I also particularly
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: didn't like the Hobbit. I don't have to like the Batman.
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 1: I thought the casting and the acting was great. I
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 1: just thought the story and the pacing were bad.
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 2: I don't know. The pacing, the pacing wasn't the thing
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 2: that bothered me about the Batman. What bothered me about
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 2: the Batman is that Batman is a, crap detective in
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 2: it he's he's decent at at taking and throwing a
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 2: punch but he's terrible at solving crime.
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah like i get that batman can't solve a crime
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 1: at the beginning like can't solve everything at the beginning
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: of the story or there's not a story right But
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 1: something at any point would have been good.
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 2: All the things that are all the all the solutions
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 2: are from other people, not from Batman.
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 2: Like, I mean, Pennyworth is the guy who comes up
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 2: with some of the solutions.
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, and this this shows you exactly where like. Again,
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 1: for me, it was largely everything just took so slow
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 1: to pay off. That when I was watching when they
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 1: were in the courthouse and the joke, the Riddler was
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: like going to explode the dude's head in the courthouse
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: or whatever. I found myself going, oh, my God, just
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 1: do it already. When normally that would be something that
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: terrifies me. I'm like, can this scene just be over now?
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: And it wasn't because I was scared. It's because I
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: was getting bored.
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 2: It's interesting. Yeah. Like, like. i i understand where you're
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 2: coming from it was a completely different experience from the
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 2: one i had where i was just i was getting
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 2: frustrated but i wasn't bored but um it is interesting
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 2: that that but i will say blade runner and blade
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 2: runner 2049 both managed to bore me when i the
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 2: last time i attempted to watch them uh and that
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 2: may be saying more about me than it says about
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 2: them i mean.
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: I feel like everybody is losing a little bit of
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 1: attention span nowadays.
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah. I mean, even like, I feel like I've,
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 2: I'm better than a lot of people cause I got
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 2: off social media. So that helps. But, um, yeah, I
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 2: don't know. There's just some of it. Sometimes it's that slow,
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 2: deliberate pacing just isn't compelling enough for me to stick
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 2: with it. And that's, that's, I've always felt that blade
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 2: runner had amazing visuals, like a really cool style and
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 2: vibe to it. And some really interesting character choices too. Yeah. But, Um, uh,
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 2: part of it is the sticking to that noir model, right?
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 2: Where your main character is not necessarily very dynamic or interesting. Uh,
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 2: that's the case with a lot of noir movies where
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 2: like the detective is not a particularly typically they're flawed,
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 2: but they're not very interesting. That's certainly the case for
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 2: the first blade runner. Harrison Ford is like, it's not
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 2: his fault either. It's the way he was directed. He's
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 2: a wet blanket. Like he's like no personality whatsoever. Um,
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 2: And depending upon your interpretation of the movie, there may
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 2: be a reason for that. But yeah, I guess this
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 2: is all to say, I don't think I'll be watching
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 2: Blade Runner 2099 simply because I don't think this is the,
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 2: if the other two movies couldn't get me on board
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 2: of Blade Runner, I don't see this one doing it either. No.
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 1: So let's go from Blade Runner pacing to Guardians of
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 1: the Galaxy pacing because we got a trailer for The
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 1: Magician's Nephew, which is not MCU at all. But I've been...
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 1: Go ahead.
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 2: Sorry. I interrupted you.
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 1: I have heard... I have read in a lot of
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 1: the reviews that people are like, oh, this is C.S. Lewis'
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: Guardians of the Galaxy. Based on the trailer.
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 2: Clearly it's not, because Guardians of the Galaxy, we have
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 2: lots of different songs. And this just has the most
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 2: overplayed song in the history of Western rock and roll
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 2: in it.
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 1: Yes. So for those who haven't heard, Magician's Nephew is...
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 1: The is chronologically the first book in the Chronicles of
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 1: Narnia series. It's not the first book that came out.
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 1: Greta Gerwig is doing it. She directed, you know, Barbie
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 1: and Lady Bird.
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 2: But not Wonder Woman 1984, as I previously.
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 1: No, we talked about this in last week a little bit.
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 1: And I had mentioned last week that she had said
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 1: that she was inspired by rock operas and that like
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 1: some of the the time period and stuff would change
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 1: and things like that. Watching this trailer, I will say
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: that the time period was nebulous enough that it did
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 1: not bother me at all. Like the real world time.
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 1: And once you're in fantasy world, it doesn't matter. I
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 1: thought the casting was great. I thought the visuals were stunning.
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 1: So I watched the trailer twice the day it came out.
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 1: First on my phone and I was like, hey, Jonathan,
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 1: have you seen this? And then the second time I
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 1: watched it on my TV at home and they hit
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 1: very differently.
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 1: Between the two. Um, I, when I watched the trailer
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 1: the second time at the end, when cosmic Aslan came
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 1: out and kind of like roared Narnia into existence, it
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 1: actually moved me. Um, cause I'm a huge fan of
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 1: the books. Just nobody's surprise. Uh, But you are right.
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 1: The music, they picked Stairway to Heaven, and I understand
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 1: lyrically why they might have picked that, because the Chronicles
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 1: of Narnia are a Christian or Unitarianist allegory, depending on
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 1: who you speak to. But it was just that one
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 1: song at different tempos and speeds and urgencies, and it
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 1: left you no time to feel anything.
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I hate that song, so it didn't help
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 2: for me.
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 2: So this trailer also moved me to the kitchen to
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 2: go find snacks because I didn't care about what was happening.
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry. No, it's fine.
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 1: You aren't a fan of Chronicles of Narnia, are you?
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 2: Not really. The time difference or the change in time
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 2: setting bothers me a little bit only because I like
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 2: the setup for The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 2: where you have the Penvey's children going to stay with
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 2: the professor whose spoiler alert is the nephew, the magician's nephew.
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 2: But they go to stay with the professor during the Blitz.
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 2: So that means for this to work, the magician's nephew
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 2: has to be set in the early 20th century, like
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 2: before World War One. And by changing that, you're like, OK,
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 2: You're going to have to figure out a different reason
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 2: for the Penve's children to stay with them because it
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 2: won't be due to the Blitz because that'll be in
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 2: the distant past at this point. Not that that's insurmountable
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 2: or whatever, but it does change the vibe significantly.
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 1: It does.
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 2: Because it also changes how bleak and threatening the outside
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 2: world is, especially if you're a child. When you're in
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 2: a city that is under constant threat of bombing, that's
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 2: a huge thing. So it's a changing for this doesn't
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 2: have that big of a consequence. I think for the,
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 2: for this specific movie, for the magician's nephew, it's the
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 2: subsequent stories where it would make a big difference. But
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 2: then there's the question of, will those other stories even
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 2: get adaptations? We don't know.
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, it really depends on the success of
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 1: this trailer or of this movie. I guess the trailer
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 1: to the thing I will say that, my husband reminded
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 1: me of, cause he's also like, he's also not the
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 1: hugest fan of the chronicles of Narnia series. Like, um,
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 1: he doesn't hate it, but he's not like the biggest fan.
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 1: Uh, is that the people who edit the trailer are
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 1: often not the same person who wrote the movie. So
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 1: misusing stairway to heaven may not have been Greta Gerwig's
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 1: fault and may not be indicative of how the movie.
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 2: Actually, maybe not, but considering that she, well, first of all,
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 2: getting rights to that song in particular, is no small shakes.
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 2: It takes a lot. So I would not be surprised
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 2: if she was involved in it. Secondly, the, the comment
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 2: about her being like inspired by the seventies rock, like
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 2: era kind of plays into that as well. I mean,
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 2: nothing is more iconic than stairway to heaven. The other
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 2: thing I was going to say about this is that
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 2: I thought it was, first of all, is it Daniel Craig?
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 2: Who's playing the magician in this? And they clearly have
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 2: de-aged him digitally. I mean, he looks younger than he
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 2: did in the last Knives Out movie. Anyway, I think
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 2: based on the trailer, it also looks like they've significantly
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 2: softened his character because in the book, he is not
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 2: a very nice person for most of it.
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that is true.
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 2: And in this, he looks like he's more at least
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 2: at most like willy wonka ish whereas in the book
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 2: he's essentially using the children as guinea pigs.
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah he for me did not seem that personable but
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 1: he also seemed quirky which i thought was good And
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 1: I'm looking at pictures. I don't think he looks that
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 1: much younger in The Magician's Nephew than in Knives Out.
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 1: It might just be makeup and lighting. Maybe.
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 2: There was a lot of CGI in this trailer as well,
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 2: which is understandable. That was one of those things that
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 2: a few people were critical of was just the use
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 2: of CGI. But honestly, if you're trying to tell a
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 2: cosmic story like this, I don't see how you can
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 2: do it without relying on CGI. Yeah.
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 1: Were those people also critical when Guardians of the Galaxy
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 1: did it or Lord of the Rings or?
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 2: I think they're probably the same people who are critical
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 2: of the inevitable Marvel third act slugfest where it just
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 2: looks like a video game, which I understand. Like, I
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 2: do get tired of that, too. But yeah, this comes
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 2: out February 12th. And I don't know. I might not
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 2: see it. I am not. a big CS Lewis fan.
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 2: So I was language of the wardrobe. Like I was
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 2: familiar with, I don't think I've even read that book.
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 2: I just know I was familiar with it from the
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 2: animated film that came out years and years and years
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 2: and years and years ago. I, I.
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 1: Read the series as a kid. I loved it. It's
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 1: right along with like a Connecticut Yankee and King Arthur's court,
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 1: James Elliott, James Harriet, whatever. And all that kind of stuff.
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 1: And like the, Heinlein children's stories and things like that.
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 1: So I love it. But my favorite versions of that
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 1: were the old BBC miniseries. They did several they didn't
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 1: do the entire book series, but they did several of them.
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 1: And they had like some some minor special effects and
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 1: a lot of like makeup and practical effects because of
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 1: the time it was made. But they still just hold
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 1: such a dear place in my heart because. They were
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 1: just cozy in that way.
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 2: Gotcha i love them well hopefully this movie meets your
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 2: standards and you you walk away from it feeling like
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 2: wow they really managed to to capture the spirit of
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 2: the book that's my hope for all the fans of
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 2: chronicles of narnia when they go see this it just
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 2: isn't it's not tickling my fancy that's okay yeah.
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 1: It I wasn't sure if it would tickle my fancy
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 1: and I'm still uncertain. I just like the trailer better
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 1: than I anticipated.
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah. The next two next two trailers both tickle my fancy.
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 1: The first one was a good trailer. It looks like
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 1: a cute story. I don't feel an urge to go
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 1: see it, but I do like a lot of the
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 1: aspects of it, which is the full trailer for Hex,
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 1: which is an upcoming. Is it Disney or Pixar?
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 2: This one's Disney.
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 1: OK.
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this one's Disney. It's Haley Steinfeld as is voicing
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 2: the main character. Uh, this is the one where it's a,
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 2: a young lady, a young girl. She's in school, high school.
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 2: And she learns that she is a witch as is
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 2: her mom. Her mom has fled this world of Hext,
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 2: which is a world of witches and has been trying
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 2: to protect her daughter from that world. Uh, and, and
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 2: this is the point where she can no longer protect
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 2: her daughter because her daughter has discovered her lineage, uh,
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 2: And it gets pulled into this, this magical world where
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 2: you have a cat slash caterpillar character voiced by Walton Goggins.
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 2: And that's where this, like, I was already interested in
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 2: this when we saw the teaser, but the introduction of
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 2: this character won me over big time. Cause Walton Goggins
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 2: performance was so endearing and funny.
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 1: It's like, like if the, Caterpillar Cheshire Cat from Alice
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 1: in Wonderland were incredibly redneck. Yes. And that was hilarious.
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And he has a great like no look punch
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 2: moment that is that tickled me. Like I can.
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 1: See where the character's name is Beef Roger.
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 2: I can I can see where there's a lot of character,
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 2: a lot of people who are critical of this because
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 2: they feel that it's very rote, like it like it's
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 2: following in very familiar footsteps. but it looks so charming
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 2: to me. I'm like, I don't mind that that much.
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 2: If it, if it's an entertaining variation on the story,
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 2: like that's fine to me. Now, if I were to
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 2: go and I'm like, wow, this is just like, you know,
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 2: 20 other movies I could name and it's bringing nothing
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 2: to the table, then sure. But I get the feeling
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 2: that some people just are determined to hate on Disney,
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 2: no matter what Disney puts out. And I mean, the
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 2: company hasn't done self favors with it by remaking its
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 2: classics into live action films. But this one actually looks
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 2: fun to me. It comes out November 25th and, and
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 2: I figure I'll actually go to the theater to see
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 2: this one.
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 1: I can't, I mean, if I have friends who are going,
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 1: I will, I might go like Harry Potter never really
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 1: grabbed me either. Right. I don't know why. Because I
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 1: do like the Chronicles of Narnia, but that's different. That's
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 1: more like going on an adventure in the wild kind
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 1: of a thing to me.
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 2: Well, this feels more like that to me than Harry
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 2: Potter does. It's not like she's, you know, it doesn't
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 2: feel as much of get enrolled in a school of
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 2: magic thing as it is.
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 1: It very much felt that way to me.
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 2: To me, it felt more like very quickly encountering dangerous
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 2: elements that the reason why the mother was protecting her daughter. Uh,
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 2: so I got more of an adventure feel to it
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 2: than like, uh, a school storyline. I mean, there are
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 2: elements in the trailer of her learning magic and stuff
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 2: and sitting in on that kind of thing, but it
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 2: felt more like a bigger adventure to me.
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 1: Gotcha. Well, I hope it is. And I hope you
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 1: have a lot of fun. And if my friends go
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 1: see it, I'll probably go see it too. And I
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 1: hope I have a lot of fun. Um, the next
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 1: trailer is for steps and you had brought this up,
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 1: I think in a 30 seconds or less, or I
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 1: had or something about, uh, Cinderella's stepsisters. It's an animated movie.
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 1: And I don't think either of us knew how to
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 1: feel when we heard about it, but the trailer looks
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 1: really cute.
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Uh, I liked this is from the same studio
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 2: that did K-pop demon hunters. So this is coming to
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 2: Netflix on November 20th. And it reminds me a little
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 2: bit of, uh, twice charmed, which is a, a show
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 2: that's done on the Disney cruise line. That's kind of a, a,
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 2: a retake on Cinderella, but told from the stepsisters point
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 2: of view where they're able to get hold of a
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 2: evil fairy godfather. And they're able to kind of reverse
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 2: time and attempt to prevent Cinderella from falling in love
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 2: with the Prince. This feels similar to that, except it's
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 2: more like the stepsisters are feel like they're being completely
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 2: misrepresented in the story of Cinderella. Like, what do you
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 2: mean evil stepsister? Like that kind of thing.
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 1: Which I know you and I both in the past
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 1: have been like, if you've got a villain character, you
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 1: don't necessarily need to make them sympathetic. But I feel
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 1: like the stepsisters, outside of like Rodgers and Hammerston's original
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 1: version of Cinderella, which I loved, I don't like the
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 1: rewrites they've done, tend to often be kind of represented
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 1: on a are they really bad or are they just
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 1: kind of is that their environment right would they actually
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 1: be like this on their own and if you look
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 1: at things like Ever After or Ella Enchanted not at
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 1: least one of the stepsisters is usually somewhat sympathetic.
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 2: So yeah the feeling I got from this is that
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 2: they it's not even necessarily like oh you just don't
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 2: see it from their point of view but maybe that
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 2: the story of Cinderella actually misrepresents who they are and
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 2: what they're like. And that that's where the issues come in. Now,
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 2: maybe it'll turn out that they really are kind of
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 2: nasty to their, their stepsister, but it may also be
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 2: that it's like, no, they're just moody teenagers. And, uh,
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 2: being told that you're evil when you're not is like
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 2: a big slap in the face. The trailer shows that Lilith, uh,
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 2: one of the stepsisters gets hold of the fairy godmother's
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 2: wand and then accidentally turns her sister into a frog
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 2: and makes some other mistakes that endanger the story's coherence
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 2: and so the godmother tells her that like you gotta
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 2: fix this or else everything's gonna fall apart and it's
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 2: a little vague in the trailer which I think is
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 2: fine about what's going on like is this a story
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 2: like is the world existing within a story and if
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 2: the story falls apart the world falls apart i don't
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 2: know but uh it looks super cute and uh they
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 2: team up with like a troll to try and save
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 2: their kingdom the.
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 1: A cute troll uh.
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 2: The voice cast includes the voice cast is stacked it's
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 2: got like ali wong amanda seyfried uh stephanie sue nikki
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 2: glazer daniel radcliffe peter dinklage bet midler like it's a
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 2: crazy voice cast and yeah i i thought this trailer
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 2: was really charming.
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah and everybody who's cast is everybody is the
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 1: perfect casting choice so like not only is it a
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 1: great voice cast but if you're like who would you
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 1: cast as this voice I'm like this person.
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah I'm looking forward to this and the fact that
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 2: it's coming out on Netflix means that I have no
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 2: excuse to miss it I need to watch it and
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 2: then we've got a time loop rom-com trailer that's an
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 2: adaptation of a romance novel it's called in a holidays
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 2: d-a-z-e Yeah, it.
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 1: Is starring Maddie Ziegler, who I was is a dancer.
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 1: Sia uses her a lot in her music videos. I
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 1: didn't realize outside of Pretty Lethal, which is another movie
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 1: we had talked about a little while ago about like
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 1: John Wick meets ballerinas, but not ballerina. Oh, right, right, right.
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 1: That she had done a lot of acting. She's been
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 1: in quite a few things, but it stars her. who
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 1: keeps reliving her Christmas holidays because she thinks she's too
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  Speaker 1: afraid to admit who she likes, that she likes the
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 1: person that she likes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. She has a crush and she's too shy to
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 2: tell him how she feels. And she wishes that she
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 2: could just, she makes a fairly vague wish, which appears
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 2: to be the inciting incident for her to have to
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 2: relive this time over and over again, where she keeps
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 2: flying off with her family and, for a family vacation.
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 2: I think her dad's played by Patton Oswalt. Rob Lowe
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  Speaker 2: is also in this. And she wants to confess her
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 2: feelings to this guy. And at least one of the
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 2: time loops, she ends up kissing a different guy. And
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 2: so it just is all the cute trappings of a
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 2: romantic novel put into Groundhog Day. That's what it is.
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah. It also has Andrea Anders, who I love from
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 1: both Better Off Ted and she plays the wife in
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 1: Ted Lasso. So I wonder if any of the characters
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 1: in this are also named Ted. Yeah, it looks cute.
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 1: It looks fine.
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Apparently it's based off a book. Yes, it is.
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  Speaker 2: I did mention that.
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 1: You did mention that? Listen, okay, I'm still not all there.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if you could tell.
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  Speaker 2: Early on, I talked about how it's based off a
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 2: romance novel. This comes out December 2nd. Let me check
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 2: and see.
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  Speaker 1: Can you just cut out the bit where I said
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 1: it's based off a book?
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 2: I could, but I'm not. It comes out December 2nd
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  Speaker 2: on Netflix.
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  Speaker 1: I was actively listening to you. Listen, I think we
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 1: can all.
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  Speaker 2: Admit actively listening to me is a very tough job.
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 2: And most of the time you do a really good,
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 2: you put forth a really good effort just this time.
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 2: Not so much. Okay. But no, yeah, that comes out
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  Speaker 2: December 2nd on Netflix. So if you're, if you look for,
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  Speaker 2: if you're, you know, like I need my saccharine Christmas
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 2: romance movie and I want there to be some groundhog
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 2: day element to it, then this is probably for you. Yeah. Like,
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 2: I'm curious because Patton Oswalt's in it. Do you need
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 2: the paycheck, Mr. Oswalt? Because I can't imagine this is
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 2: a passion project of yours.
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 1: And Rob Lowe. I mean, maybe it's really fun and funny.
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe. Trailer did not really strike my funny bone
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 2: that hard, but I'm also old. So it could be
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 2: that I'm just too old and grouchy.
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 1: You are grouchy. You're not that old. I did sneak
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 1: in one last thing that you're going to have no
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 1: notes on because I snuck it in as we began recording.
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 1: which is Dropout is releasing a scripted live action series.
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 1: They haven't done that in a long time. It is
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 1: a three part miniseries called MP3. It's a video countdown spoof.
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 1: So it's going to have a lot of their cast
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 1: doing music and playing different music artists, including Lou Wilson
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 1: and Anna Garcia, who is reprising her role from Very
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 1: Important People of Princess Anna.
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 2: The European pop starlet.
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 1: Yes. So she'll be on there. Jeremy Coolhain plays the host.
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 1: His dad is played by Paul F.
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 2: Tompkins.
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 1: It's written by Zach Reno and Jess McKenna, who did
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 1: both the musical improv show on Dropout and a lot
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 1: of musical improv on there, and then also have their
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 1: off-book touring show. That's just a two-person show. That's hilarious.
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 1: I've been to it twice in Atlanta. So it looks
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 1: really cute. It comes out November 4th, I think, and
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 1: will be every two weeks.
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 2: I almost included that trailer in our show notes earlier,
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 2: but I was like, I don't really know what's going
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 2: on here. I didn't realize it was a scripted show
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 2: from the trailer because the trailer made it look like
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 2: it was... It's real bizarre. Yeah, to a point where
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 2: I was like, if this is improvised, it is a
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 2: cluster because look how many people are involved. And you
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 2: and I both know, like, every time you add another
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 2: person to an improv scene, you are courting disaster. Like,
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 2: if you've got more than... if you have more than
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 2: four people, the, the odds of you coming out with
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 2: a good scene are diminishing rapidly. Two is two is
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 2: pretty good. Three is doable. Four is shaky. And after four,
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 2: you're like, Ooh, it'll be a miracle if something good
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 2: comes out of this.
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 1: So I felt the same way watching the trailer. I
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 1: had no idea what was going on, but like princess
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 1: Anna was in it. And I thought that character was
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 1: a lot of fun. Anna Garcia is, just keeps rising
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 1: in my books as a comedian. She's so brilliant. Um,
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 1: I know that there was a game changer where Lou
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 1: Wilson and Jeremy Cool Haynes started a band and wrote
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 1: a bunch of songs. I'm not suggesting you listen to them.
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 1: They're pretty raunchy, but it was also pretty funny. And
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 1: then Paul F. Tompkins, I, his comedy style is for,
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 1: it's just for me. Yeah.
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 2: Well, he's also responsible for me almost ruining your, uh,
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 2: acting class piece earlier this week. Ariel had me read
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 2: for her in an acting class, and I won't go
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 2: into detail, but the scenario was like a courtroom trial setting,
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 2: and the urge I felt to try and adopt the
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 2: simple country lawyer character was really hard to resist.
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 1: Yep, but you did a great job because you're professional
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 1: and you care about my... ability to grow.
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah i definitely want you to i want you to
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 2: be the star and to succeed and i don't want
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 2: to throw you off or make your job harder than
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 2: it is but golly i just wanted to do that
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 2: that performance so bad.
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 1: I fully get it i like to go comedic partially
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 1: out of it's less uncomfortable to go comedic and partially
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 1: because it's just fun yeah but um But yeah, no,
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 1: he does a really good Southern lawyer as well.
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he does. On one of the dropout TV, one
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 2: of the make some noises. He plays the simple country
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 2: lawyer from Oompa Loompa land who's representing Willy Wonka. And
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 2: it is wonderful. It's so funny.
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but he's got this like. Mid-Atlantic kind of. antiquated vibe,
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 1: but also very modern humor. And I love it.
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah. If you've ever listened and if you haven't, you should,
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 2: if you've ever listened to the thrilling adventure hour, it is, uh,
• 1:36:39
  Speaker 2: done in the style of radio drama, but it's all
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 2: comedic scripts. And he and Padgett Brewster play a couple
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 2: who are, uh, they're high society socialites, but also they
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 2: see ghosts and it's, uh, the, their stories are always
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 2: hilarious and, he's in his dry sense of humor comes
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 2: through so well, like his sense of timing and everything
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 2: come up through so well in those performances and budget
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 2: Brewster has the ability to mispronounce words in a way
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 2: that would have made Catherine O'Hara so proud.
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 1: She, yes, she was, uh, who I like envisioned when
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 1: I auditioned for Hedy LaRue and how to succeed in
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 1: business without even trying. And I swear my me mispronouncing
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 1: all the words was why I got it. Um, But
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 1: I love that. Also, Thrilling Adventure Hour, freaking Mark Evan
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 1: Jackson as Sparks Nevada and Mark Gagliardi as Croach the Tracker.
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 1: Like the year that how this is such narrow casting,
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 1: but my favorite Dragon Con experience is the year that
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 1: how Lublin and Mark Gagliardi were sharing a room with
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 1: Artsy and laughed at my performance in Rory Rammer. Like
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 1: life complete.
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's great. Uh, they were, uh, so, uh, uh,
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 2: Mark Evan, is it Mark Evan Jackson's as name? Yeah. Yeah. He, uh,
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 2: he came to, uh, dad's garage for, to, to watch
• 1:38:07
  Speaker 2: a show and I met him afterward and that was
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 2: a thrill just to chat with him. Uh, and that
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 2: was before I had seen him in things like, like
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 2: the good place or Brooklyn nine, nine, but I was
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 2: familiar with his work on thrilling adventure hour. And so
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 2: just getting a chance to chat with him for a
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 2: while and to hear that voice in person was so, so,
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 2: so cool.
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah. He's been the guest on the Joko cruise a
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 1: couple of times. He has like a little charter boat
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 1: up in new England, if you ever want to take it.
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 1: And also the way that he, there's a clip online.
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 1: Cause I was not on either of the cruises he
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 1: was on, but there's a clip online where Jonathan Colton's
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 1: seeing code monkey and he comes out and just like
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 1: heckles him the entire time. And it's, chef's kiss. Yeah.
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 2: All right. Well, I think now that you've thrown in
• 1:38:55
  Speaker 2: the thing that wasn't on my notes, we're done, right?
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 1: We are done. Yeah. So Jonathan, if people want to
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 1: tell us how wrong they are for, for us being
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 1: bored during blade runner or their favorite Godzilla monster or
• 1:39:11
  Speaker 1: anything like that, how would they reach out to us?
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 2: Well, let me just say this. If you know why,
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 2: there is an echo on Ariel's side of our Riverside recording,
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 2: even though there should be no echo. And I can
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 2: see it appearing on my, when I, when she's talking,
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 2: I can see it coming through on my side, even
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 2: though I have verified the audio is only coming through
• 1:39:38
  Speaker 2: my headphones and the headphones are not turned up too loud.
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 2: And yet she's getting echo and it's driving me crazy.
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 2: And I cannot trace where this problem is coming from.
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 2: If you can tell me what that issue is so
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 2: I can solve it for the next time so she
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 2: doesn't have to hear herself echoing for the whole frickin show.
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 2: I'll answer whatever question you want.
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I hate listening to myself. But if you don't
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 1: know and you want to ask a question, you still
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 1: can reach out to us on social media, on Facebook
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 1: and Instagram and threads. We're large nerds on Collider. That's
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 1: also our website and our discord channel. We'd love to
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 1: see you at any of the places. If you want
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 1: to send us a longer email, you can at largenerdrumpod
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 1: at gmail.com. Yeah, we love hearing from you. We love
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 1: hearing your ideas. And until next time, I am Ariel.
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 1: All the information is in the task, Kasten.
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 2: I am Jonathan. Today, day, day, day. I feel, feel, feel,
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 2: feel like the luckiest man, man, man in the world. Strickland.
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 1: End, end, end.
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  Speaker 2: The Large Nerdron Collider was created by Ariel Kasten and produced, edited, published, deleted, undeleted,
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  Speaker 2: published again, cursed at, by Jonathan Strickland. Music by Kevin
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  Speaker 2: MacLeod of Incompetech.com