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2025 Is Looking Pretty Scary · Large Nerdron Collider

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  Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Welcome to the Larger Drunk 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 aerial cast In and mcne, as always, is the
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  Speaker 1: delightfully wonderful Jonathan Strickland.
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  Speaker 2: It's a snow day.
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  Speaker 1: It's technically the day after a snow day, but there's
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  Speaker 1: still snow. Wow.
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  Speaker 2: We couldn't record on the actual snow day because Ariel
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  Speaker 2: Doune lost power, and it turns out that's one of
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  Speaker 2: the things that you need in order to record a
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  Speaker 2: podcast over your computer.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well I lost power and then it came back,
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  Speaker 1: but then everything was behind because of course, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't do anything. So we're recording a daylight and
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  Speaker 1: that's fine. And I had prepared for losing power because
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  Speaker 1: I live in a place with a lot of big
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  Speaker 1: trees and they haven't buried our power lines, so that
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  Speaker 1: just happens.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I lucked out. We didn't lose power, so we
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  Speaker 2: I was just I was just working, working like crazy.
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  Speaker 2: But now we're ready to record, and first up, we
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  Speaker 2: usually talk about what we watched. That's the last time
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  Speaker 2: we recorded. I can't help but notice in our lineup
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  Speaker 2: the aerial you don't you didn't write anything down.
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  Speaker 1: No, I was going to put that in yesterday, and
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  Speaker 1: then this morning I've been waiting for a repair person
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  Speaker 1: who still hasn't shown up. So no, it's not there.
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  Speaker 2: So it's a surprise. What have you been watching?
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  Speaker 1: I watched all of Creature Commandos. Uh huh. I started
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  Speaker 1: watching Dungeons and Drag Queens season two. I've only gotten
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  Speaker 1: like twenty minutes through the first episode. Only the first
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  Speaker 1: episode is out, but I've only gotten like twenty minutes
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  Speaker 1: through it. It's a bit more like background music music,
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  Speaker 1: background noise. And then today, this morning, I did watch
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  Speaker 1: the first episode of Pop Culture Jeopardy.
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  Speaker 2: Pop Culture Jeopardy.
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  Speaker 1: Yes you should know about this because I sent it
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  Speaker 1: to you and they were casting. They were looking for
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  Speaker 1: teams of three. You didn't seem to want to bite,
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  Speaker 1: and neither did our mutual friend Jen. Unfortunately, it's hosted
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  Speaker 1: by Colin Jost and you have three teams of three
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  Speaker 1: with like a fun team name. So like episode two,
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  Speaker 1: the one of the teams, it just stuck in my
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  Speaker 1: mind because I think it's a clever name. They're Tinker
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  Speaker 1: Taylor quiz show guys nice and you answer questions about
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  Speaker 1: pop culture, and there's like eighties bands, there's sports, there's
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  Speaker 1: current stuff, there's social media stuff, Like they asked about
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  Speaker 1: the kid who got auto tuned who loved Coorn and
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  Speaker 1: it's cute and it's fun, and I would have said
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  Speaker 1: I would have done. I knew about fifty percent of questions,
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  Speaker 1: which is pretty good for Jeopardy quite honestly. Yeah, so
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  Speaker 1: like there's a lot of modern stuff, and there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of but they don't just do modern like they
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  Speaker 1: asked about eighties bands and things like that too.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, I like to think that I would be
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  Speaker 2: sporadically okay at that game. Like I don't think i'd
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  Speaker 2: be strong enough to be one third of a team
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  Speaker 2: and be really reliable. Like there's certain things where I
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  Speaker 2: feel like I've got a pretty darn good handle. But
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  Speaker 2: first of all, Ariel, you know about my tendency to
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  Speaker 2: use the wrong name for people, because I'll, yeah, if
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  Speaker 2: two people have similar names, I'm always gonna end up
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  Speaker 2: picking the wrong name to mention. So that would be
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  Speaker 2: a big hurdle to overcome in our team. But like,
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  Speaker 2: also like I love I love music, but I'm not
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  Speaker 2: like I love music. I love listening to music, but
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  Speaker 2: I don't dive into things like bands. So there can
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  Speaker 2: be a band and I can even own like multiple
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  Speaker 2: albums by that band, but I could also be you
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  Speaker 2: could ask like who's in that band, and I wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: be able to tell you because I like, I'm more
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  Speaker 2: focused on the listening experience and not so much learning
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  Speaker 2: everything I can about the people who make the music.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, I think I would only be semi useful
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  Speaker 2: in those kind of situations. Also, I personally find game shows,
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  Speaker 2: like like participating in game shows to be super stressful,
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  Speaker 2: unless it's like a jackbox kind of thing, in which
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  Speaker 2: case that's just fun.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it is a lot easier to answer questions
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  Speaker 1: from your couch than behind a podium, for sure.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I would freeze up. So yeah, people are like,
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  Speaker 2: why didn't we even bring this guy?
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  Speaker 1: But like some of the questions, I was just like, yes,
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  Speaker 1: I just know this answer, Like what cartoon character has
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  Speaker 1: football shaped head? It's hey, Arnold, you know stuff like that.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, I mean I guess I could get
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  Speaker 2: who lives in a pineapple under the sea?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, do you do you know who Angelica Pickles is
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  Speaker 1: related to who she calls all dumb babies. It's a
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  Speaker 1: it's a cartoon from No.
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  Speaker 2: Regrets. I know of Rugrats, but I never watched it,
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  Speaker 2: So all right, Well, so Creature Commandos, the first twenty
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  Speaker 2: minutes of the the Drag D and D Show, drop Out, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: from Dropout and and a little bit of pop culture Jeopardy.
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  Speaker 1: I guess also after midnight, but that doesn't count. That's
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  Speaker 1: what we put on when we don't know what else
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  Speaker 1: we want to watch.
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  Speaker 2: Gotcha for me? I finished Squid Game season two. I
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  Speaker 2: had watched I think the first four episodes when we
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  Speaker 2: recorded last time, so there were only like a cup
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  Speaker 2: three left. So I finished that wolf really curious about
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  Speaker 2: season three now, really wondering where it's gonna go. Uh I.
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  Speaker 2: I also watched Creature Commandos all the way through. I
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  Speaker 2: saw the the whole series. It's it's short enough, harrowing,
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  Speaker 2: but short also weird because there's a lot of humor
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  Speaker 2: in it. But uh it's even more grim than James
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  Speaker 2: Gunn's Suicide Squad movie where he like he very freely
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  Speaker 2: starts killing off members.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it to me, it's and it's also much more
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  Speaker 1: gory because it's cartoons, they can amp that way up, right. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: So for me, it falls somewhere in between Invincible and
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  Speaker 1: The Boys.
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  Speaker 2: Quite honestly, Yeah, I can see that. It's it's a
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  Speaker 2: it's a challenging watch at times. I don't think it's bad.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's a good, good show. Uh. It's one
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  Speaker 2: of those where if I had seen that before I
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  Speaker 2: had seen anything for the next Superman movie, I definite
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  Speaker 2: would start be getting nervous about the Superman film because
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  Speaker 2: it is so dark that I would worry that that's
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  Speaker 2: kind of the direction that Superman would go in, like that,
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  Speaker 2: like that would be the general direction for DC. Because
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  Speaker 2: if you think about the James Gunn DC entries so far,
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  Speaker 2: you've got the second Suicide Squad movie, You've got Peacemaker,
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  Speaker 2: and you've got Creature Commandos, and all of them are
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  Speaker 2: about anti heroes and they're all pretty grim sou If
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  Speaker 2: you just thought that that's how the DC universe was
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  Speaker 2: gonna go, then you might be really worried about Superman.
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  Speaker 2: But based on the stuff we have seen from the
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  Speaker 2: Superman teaser, I am still optimistic that that's going to
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  Speaker 2: be something I want to I want to watch me too,
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  Speaker 2: Me too. I also watched the first episode of Superman
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  Speaker 2: and Lewis. I totally missed that series.
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  Speaker 1: When it was on cartoon.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, this is the live action one, the air
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  Speaker 2: over kind of thing.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, what did you think of the first episode?
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  Speaker 2: I thought it was okay. Like, I thought it was interesting,
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  Speaker 2: like the whole idea of Superman. You know, this is
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  Speaker 2: kind of late in the Superman career in the sense
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  Speaker 2: that he has married Lewis Lane and they have twin boys,
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  Speaker 2: they're both fourteen years old, Jordan and Jonathan. And I
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  Speaker 2: thought it was okay, Like I liked. I liked the
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  Speaker 2: take on Superman. I liked how the challenge for the
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  Speaker 2: character was more about how does he balance being a
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  Speaker 2: father and an active member of a family when he
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  Speaker 2: also has to be like Earth's guardian. So it's interesting
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  Speaker 2: I could see where if it was if it's not
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  Speaker 2: handled well, I could find it tiresome after a while,
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  Speaker 2: like if that just becomes like the ongoing Oh well,
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  Speaker 2: but I need my family needs me too. Part of
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  Speaker 2: that being that at the beginning of the first episode,
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  Speaker 2: he has not revealed to his sons who he is
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  Speaker 2: so they don't know that he's Superman and that that's
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  Speaker 2: not really a spoiler. He does reveal it like in
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  Speaker 2: that first episode. So but like that was the genesis
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  Speaker 2: for some of the drama. His kids are like, you
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  Speaker 2: lied to us for fourteen years, and you know, I'm
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  Speaker 2: glad that they did have that revelation happen in the
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  Speaker 2: first episode because if that had been like an ongoing
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  Speaker 2: thing in season one, I think that would have been
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  Speaker 2: really tiresome. So I thought it was okay, I don't
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  Speaker 2: I'm probably will stick with it. I've heard a lot
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  Speaker 2: of good things about the series in general, and it
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  Speaker 2: just it popped up as on one of the streaming
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  Speaker 2: services I saw that it was available for me to watch.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, you know what, I never gave this
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  Speaker 2: a chance. I should go ahead and do it. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that's what I've seen.
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  Speaker 1: Nice. I also watched like the first couple of episodes
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  Speaker 1: of Superman and Lewis. It never really grabbed me. But
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  Speaker 1: maybe I just didn't give it long enough. Maybe I
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  Speaker 1: didn't give it the ten episodes that I gave lost.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's I think I feel like it's one that
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  Speaker 2: I could be on the cusp either way right, Like,
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  Speaker 2: it's not one where I'm like, oh, I have to
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  Speaker 2: see what happens in episode two. It's like, well, if
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  Speaker 2: I watch episode two, I'm sure I'll think it's fine,
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  Speaker 2: and maybe I'll stick around for episode three. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's not one where I'm like, oh, gosh, I gotta
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  Speaker 2: find out what happens next. It's not not that kind
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  Speaker 2: of series.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, but I liked a lot, so I think
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  Speaker 1: it grabbed me the least of all of the Airoverse
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  Speaker 1: series beginnings, maybe tied with Supergirl, but I ended up
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  Speaker 1: getting into Supergirl, So yeah, it's fine. I've liked a
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  Speaker 1: lot of the aeroverse. I fell off of all of
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  Speaker 1: the shows before they ended, but gotcha.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know watched really any of the aero Verse stuff.
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  Speaker 2: So I'll occasionally see clips on like YouTube or Facebook
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  Speaker 2: or something which is clearly from one of those, but
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't tell you which show because they never have
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  Speaker 2: the attribution on the video.
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  Speaker 1: The musical crossover between Flash and Supergirl was a lot
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  Speaker 1: of fun.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I hear, because I was like people who
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  Speaker 2: had background in musical theater also being in these shows,
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  Speaker 2: and so yeah, I wish I had kind of gotten
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  Speaker 2: into it, But at the same time, I remember feeling
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  Speaker 2: frustrated because that was the DC era where they've very
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  Speaker 2: much made the decision to separate the TV universe out
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  Speaker 2: from their cinematic stuff, and they were doing such a
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  Speaker 2: in my opinion, such a slapshot kind of approach to
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  Speaker 2: their cinematic universe that I was like, well, why did
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  Speaker 2: you choose this? If you had gone with a more
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  Speaker 2: integrated approach, you might have, Yeah, you would arguably not
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  Speaker 2: have the bankable stars who are you're leaning on to
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  Speaker 2: be the anchor points for your movies. But your movies
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  Speaker 2: aren't good and no one's going to see them more
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  Speaker 2: than once anyway, So why not just go ahead and
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  Speaker 2: take a risk on these people who have a proven
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  Speaker 2: following on TV and use them in the movies too. Well,
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  Speaker 2: we have a lot to talk about in today's episode,
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  Speaker 2: partly because we did push it back one day and
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  Speaker 2: the news just keeps on a coming so.
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  Speaker 1: And we don't have a whole lot of time.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so let's let's just barrel on over to thirty
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  Speaker 2: seconds or less and I am up first. Avengers Doomsday
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  Speaker 2: is moving into production soon, and we've got rumors of
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  Speaker 2: some of the folks who will be in it. Reportedly,
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  Speaker 2: there will be around sixty characters appearing in the film.
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  Speaker 2: They might include Charlie Cox's Daredevil, Chris Evans potentially as Nomad,
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  Speaker 2: the return of Elizabeth Olsen as the Scarlet which the
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  Speaker 2: Thunderbolts or whichever ones of the Thunderbolts that survived, and
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  Speaker 2: possibly a new Tachala black Panther thanks to the Multiverse.
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  Speaker 2: More on that at the end of thirty Seconds or Less.
• 13:22
  Speaker 1: We talked about earlier in an earlier episode how Edgar
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  Speaker 1: Wright is redoing The Running Man, and we knew that
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  Speaker 1: he casts Glenn Powell as the main character. Well, now
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  Speaker 1: we know who he's casting as the host. It is
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  Speaker 1: Coleman Domingo, who you might know from rustin which I've
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  Speaker 1: never even heard of, or if I have, I've forgotten.
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  Speaker 1: Who was also in was is in Euphoria, And I
• 13:45
  Speaker 1: think the thing most cooled me is he was in
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  Speaker 1: Sing Sing, which is in a movie that I've heard
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  Speaker 1: wonderful things about that I still need to watch.
• 13:55
  Speaker 2: Cool Do you remember the TV series Grim, which ran
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  Speaker 2: for six seasons and ended in twenty seventeen. It combined
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  Speaker 2: dark fairy tales and police procedurals into a series in
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  Speaker 2: which the lead protagonist finds out that he's a grim
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  Speaker 2: or a guardian destined to hold back dark mythical creatures.
• 14:13
  Speaker 2: After lying dormant for many years, Josh Berman is reportedly
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  Speaker 2: writing a feature of film set in the Grim Verse
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  Speaker 2: for Peacock. It's meant to appeal both to fans of
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  Speaker 2: the show and people who haven't seen the series.
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  Speaker 1: I tried to get through an episode of that and
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  Speaker 1: couldn't quite. Maybe I'll get through this. Holes is a
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  Speaker 1: movie from two thousand and three that Disney did based
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  Speaker 1: on a nineteen ninety eight novel by Lussacker. It's about
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  Speaker 1: a kid who gets sent to a detention camp and
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  Speaker 1: has to dig a bunch of holes. A bunch of
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  Speaker 1: millennial younger millennials think it's like the greatest movie of
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  Speaker 1: all time. It eludes me a little bit, however, it
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  Speaker 1: is getting a has been It has gotten a show
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  Speaker 1: order for Disney, plus this time with a female lead
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  Speaker 1: instead of which is good because he's way too old
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  Speaker 1: for the role now. Anyhow So, if you were a fan,
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  Speaker 1: that's something to look forward to.
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  Speaker 2: Charloa buff Ah, you've a bowl. What a great Okay,
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  Speaker 2: if you are not familiar with the Shilah buff music video,
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  Speaker 2: you have to go watch it. You probably are because
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: it's like a famous meme. Anyway, you've a bowl. His
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: name is synonymous with cinematic garbage, and Armie Hammer, whose
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: name is well, this is a family show anyway. News
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  Speaker 2: broke this week that Armie Hammer has a role he
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: can really sink his teeth into. I don't know if
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: you saw what I did there. Anyway, it's called it's
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: called the Dark Knight, but it's not that Dark Knight.
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  Speaker 2: Just you know, it's spelled the same way as you
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  Speaker 2: know the other Dark Knight. It kind of sounds like
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: an asylum level Batman ripoff. I guess there really will
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  Speaker 2: be more horror films made this year.
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  Speaker 1: I'm so torn about that. We'll talk about that later. Uh.
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: Separ Season two is coming out soon, but unfortunately their
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  Speaker 1: Red Carpet from Meire has been canceled. It was supposed
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  Speaker 1: to happen on January thirteenth, and because of all the wildfires,
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  Speaker 1: which we will also talk about happening in Los Angeles,
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  Speaker 1: they have decided to make safety their first priority, and
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  Speaker 1: that's wonderful. Apple is also donating to the relief efforts
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  Speaker 1: on the ground in La for in Pasadena and all
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  Speaker 1: those places where the wildfires are happening, which is really
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  Speaker 1: good of them because they need to get them under control.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of damage happening. If you haven't seen
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  Speaker 1: that in the news yet, it's really sad.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's sobering the amount of damage that's happened. Well,
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: what's your favorite scary movie? Is it one of the
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: Scream films? Because there's gonna be another one Scream seven.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see the return of nev Campbell after she sat
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  Speaker 2: out of recent entries due to pay negotiations breaking down.
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  Speaker 2: But now the series is without two of the actors
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  Speaker 2: who are meant to be the bridge to the next era,
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  Speaker 2: those being Jenna Ortega and Melissa Barrera. Radio Silence will
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  Speaker 2: be e being the movie but not directing it.
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  Speaker 1: Very interesting. Caitlin Hill and Angelo massagly I did not
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  Speaker 1: look up how to pronounce his last name before recording
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  Speaker 1: Like a dorc two actors from School of Rock are
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  Speaker 1: now getting married, and it's super cute because it ended
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  Speaker 1: up being kind of a cast reunion of their wedding
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  Speaker 1: ended up being like a cast reunion, which is lovely.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't seen School of Rock, but I know I
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  Speaker 1: need to.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's cute. These were two of the kids who
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  Speaker 2: were in the band in School of Rock, and they
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  Speaker 2: grew up fell in love and it's like marrying your
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  Speaker 2: childhood sweetheart, but it's your childhood sweetheart. Have you met
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  Speaker 2: on a Jack Black movie?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and they did, like they lost touch and then
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  Speaker 1: they reconnected, So they didn't date from the time they
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  Speaker 1: were on the movie together.
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  Speaker 2: That would have been weird anyway, they were just little kids. Well,
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: do you remember earlier when I casually mentioned that T'Challa
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  Speaker 2: slash Black Panther might show up in Avengers Doomsday. Well,
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  Speaker 2: when Jadwick Boseman passed away, Disney Slash Marble said they
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  Speaker 2: had no intention of recasting the part, but it seems
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  Speaker 2: like they might have changed their mind at this point,
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  Speaker 2: and rumors are swirling that the company is actively looking
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  Speaker 2: for a new Black Panther, perhaps using the old multiverse
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  Speaker 2: to explain how that will come about. And I guess
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  Speaker 2: they don't see Shurry as being an anchor being, which
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  Speaker 2: only makes sense if you've seen Daredevil and Wolverine.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know how to feel about that.
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  Speaker 2: I have feelings I do too, but thirty seconds or less,
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  Speaker 2: I'll save it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, do you want to be a part of
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: an arctic exhibition in Georgia? Well, Mota, not MoMA, the Metro,
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: the Museum of Modern Art in New York, but MODA,
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: the Museum of Design in Atlanta is doing a fiber
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  Speaker 1: art installation by Adrian Baker. It's called Threads of Change.
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  Speaker 1: It's inspired by the Micorsy old fung guy that sustained forests,
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  Speaker 1: and you can participate if you do fiber arts. You
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: can make fiber art strand one to six inches wide
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  Speaker 1: and up to fourteen feet long out of any fiber, yarn,
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: or fabric or whatever and send it to be a
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  Speaker 1: part of this big fiber micosial network that they're building.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of cool. We'll put the link to all
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  Speaker 1: of the details if that's the thing that you do
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: in our show notes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I was actually curious about participating in this, but
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: I wasn't sure if there was mushroom for my work.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: Ha ha, I didn't know you did. I was going
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: to say I didn't know you did fiber arts, but
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: then you punned, and so I'm guessing you don't.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: I mean it felt right.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: You could just I guess not a bunch of felt together.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: Just buy some like craft felt like Michaels and just
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: together for.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And then everyone's like, wow, Jonathan, this is the
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: worst art I've ever seen. I'm like, well, it's made
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: you talk so mission accomplished. As Ariel mentioned, one of
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: the well really our top story that we have in
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: our lineup is that the fires out in California are
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: affecting hundreds of thousands of people. There have been we
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: have tragically lost several people in those fires. Already, lots
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: of homes have been destroyed or at least severely damaged.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: There are so many fire fighters who have tirelessly been
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: working to get them under control. Massive, powerful winds have
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: been making it really challenging to control these fires because
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: they just keep blowing embers around and spreading it further,
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: and California has been rather dry over the last years.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: It's it was a kind of a perfect storm set
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: of conditions for this kind of thing to happen, and
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: obviously it's affecting, you know, lots of people in all
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: walks of life out in California, not just the entertainment industry,
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: but the entertainment industry as well has also been affected
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: from the you know, obviously productions having to hold off
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: on getting started, to people in the industry losing their homes.
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: One of my co workers lost his home out there. Yeah,
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: so it's it's a big deal and it is making
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: a huge impact, is it is?
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: It has been like whiplash seeing any kind of social
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: media on this. I know you don't stay on the
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: socials as much as I do, Jonathan. There are some
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: people who are very supportive and kind and loving, and
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: then there are some idiots out there who are like, well,
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: I don't care if this big rich person lost their home,
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: and it's like, you know what, yes, maybe they can
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: financially weather it a little bit better, but it's still
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: their home. It's still their life. They're still losing things
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: that they can't replace. Like, be nice. A fire is
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: not somebody being a jerk to other people. A fire
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: is devastating and horrible for everybody who gets affected by it.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: Like yeah, yeah, And if it were something where it
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: was like it's a magic fire and it only affects
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: the really bad people, then sure, whatever, we'd be like well,
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: this appears to be some proof that there is a
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: higher power that is looking out for the rest of us.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: But that's not what we're seeing. We're seeing a fire
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: that's obviously affecting people, whether they are multi millionaires living
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: up in the hills or someone who's living in an
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: apartment complex with like, you know, hundreds of other folks
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: and they're all evacuated because the fires are spreading out
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: of control. It's or like things like the Getty Museum,
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: which houses tons of irreplaceable art and having it, you know,
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: potentially threatened by by fires as well. This is like
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: serious stuff, and you know, it's it's it's weird to
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: talk about it in the context of how it affects
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: pop culture, because it's obviously so much bigger than that.
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: But it is one of those things that also is
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: going to impact, you know, how stuff rolls out, Like
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: there's probably gonna be some delays and productions. I wouldn't
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: be shocked after this, because Hollywood just loves itself so much.
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't be surprised if we get a couple of
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: years down the road a whole slew of action movie
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: set around fires.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: I mean, we already get a whole bunch of movies
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: where Hollywood gets destroyed.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: So yeah, I mean that is like a it's a
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: standby between movies where Hollywood gets destroyed or movies that
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: are about making movies right like, or just about the
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: industry in general.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, if I don't know, I was gonna say,
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: if something good can come from this, Sure, I don't.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: I don't know if all those movies said to be good.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I think mostly we just want you know,
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: we're we're sending out our best wishes for everyone out
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: there and hope that everyone is able to stay safe
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: and that the fires are under control very soon, and
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: that you know, we're thinking of them.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. Something I didn't think about until you
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: posted it was the gold Golden Globe winners. Although you know,
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: like there are people who attended Golden Globes and then
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: right after lost their homes. So that's that sounds sad hearted.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: I was trying to remember the name of the actor
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: who did. But there's an actor who want a Golden
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: Globe and then his house burned down, and I'm like, geez.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah no, that's really really tough. Like show like
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: the Hya's and lows. Uh in one in One fell swoop. Yeah,
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: there were quite a few geeky properties that were among
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: the nominees, and some of them actually ended up taking
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: home trophies. For example, hiro Yuki Sanada, who was in Showgun,
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: took home the Best Performance by an Actor in a
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: Television Series Drama. So like, that's kind of a geeky thing, uh,
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: And he wasn't the only one. A supporting actor also
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: went to Showgun. That that would be a Tadanobu Asano
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: and uh, there were a few others that were, you know,
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: I think in the the geeky sphere, Like like Colin
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: Ferrell won for his portrayal of Oz Cobble in The Penguin.
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: He had a great speech where he he thanked the
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: woman in charge of craft services on their project and
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: said that she literally was what kept the show going
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: because she made sure that everybody had what they needed.
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: And he says, we'd be filming on freezing cold nights
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: and I would be the only one overheating because I'm
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: wearing this huge costume, and she would be there to
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: make sure I had a coconut water like every thirty
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: minutes to stay hydrated. So I was like, it's cool
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: that he specifically called her out, and it got a
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: really like people responded to that on social.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that is really cool. It also looks Jodie
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: Foster won for True Detective Night Country, which I'd say
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: is geek adjacent.
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we talked about it a bit on this show
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: and it certainly. Yeah, that was that one was one
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: where I was really curious about the mystery, and then
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: by the time the mystery was solved, I was like, Oh.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: Wicked one box office achievement, and that's kind of geeky.
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, also weird that that's a category, right.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, Amelia Perez beat Wicked out for a lot
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: of stuff. And one and I didn't. This movie did
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: not even hit my radar. And then two, the one
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: clip I've seen from it must be the most unfortunate
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: clip because the song is out of context, is not
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: at all good.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: Well, I haven't seen it, so I can't really comment
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: on that. I know that to me. More one for
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: the substance, which also we chatted about in a previous
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: episode back when the trailers were first coming out, which is,
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: you know, kind of a body horror slash commentary on
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: the plight of women when they are, especially within the
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: entertainment industry, and they're aging. So it's kind of a satire.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: And I still haven't seen it. It's on my list
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: of things to see. I've heard it listed as sort
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: of like an entry point to body horror, which I
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: think is kind of interesting.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that is interesting. I've seen good things about it.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: I do not think that, I like, I want to
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: watch it, and I don't think I can.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, body horror. I'm not a huge fan of
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: body horror as a genre. Like it's the type of
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: horror I like least. I don't mind. Like if someone's
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: doing body horror in a movie and they're telling a
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: really compelling story and they've got really interesting characters and
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: all that kind of stuff, I can weather it. But
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: it is the type of horror I personally find the
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: most difficult to watch. So but that hasn't stopped me
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: from watching some films that are in the body horror genre,
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: like everything Cronenberg's ever done. But I still haven't seen
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: the substance. It is on my list of things to watch.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, from body horror to comedy horror. We got
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: a trailer for Beyond Saturday Night. Now, it's not horror
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: at all. It's just a documentary about Saturday Night Live.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: It actually looks kind of endearing.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's interesting because, of course we just got the
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: film Saturday Night which was kind of a fictional biopic
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: sort of approach to telling the story of the birth
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: of Saturday Night Live, like the first how the first
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: season came about, And this is more about the experience
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: of working on the show and like what it was
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: like being a writer, for example, on Saturday Night Live,
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: and how competitive that environment was and that it was
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: on purpose, like it was competitive by design, which which
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: arguably was meant to create the best selection of sketches
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: for the show, but could be pretty brutal. And they
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: also don't apparently pussyfoot around the years where Saturday Night
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: Live was considered to be unsalvageable.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean, I think it's important if you're
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: going to tell the history of something, I think it's
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: important to cover all of that stuff. You know. I'm
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: just sad that we didn't cover it on Business on
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: the Brink, But yeah, that would.
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: Have been a really cool episode, I mean, because it
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: would have been that I think it's nineteen eighty five,
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: I think is the season that everyone points to as
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: being like the nadeer of Saturday Night Live, where it
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: was at its lowest point. It's certainly like once the
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: original not ready for Primetime players group kind of left
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: the show and then the folks who came in in
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: the early eighties took over. Even though there's some big
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: names among those those folks, it just it didn't work
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: very well for a few years. Like there were standouts
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: like Eddie Murphy was a true standout, like he was
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: it was obvious he was star power, but like folks
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: like Billy Crystal, he did not excel at that. And
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: there's so many other names like throughout the years of
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: people who have been part of that show who just
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: it just wasn't a good fit, like Julia Louis Dreyvis or.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: Janine Garofalo and other all super talented people. Yeah, yeah,
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: it is. It is super interesting because they do go
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: to modern day, so they talked to like Keenan Thompson
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: and Pete Davidson and Amy Poehler. You know, it's not
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: just SNL history. It goes through the current day. I
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: am so I didn't grow up with it. I think
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: I've talked about this before, so once spent a lot
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: of time. I didn't grow up watching SNL. I'd see
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: occasional little clips, but it just wasn't like my family's
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: kind of thing. And Tony liked some of the older
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: stuff and then he fell off a lot of the
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: recent stuff I've been liking. I definitely like Michael Chay
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: and Colin Jos as the news reporters. I think they've
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: gotten great chemistry.
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: And particularly in the white where they have to write
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: the jokes that the other one has to read that.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: Makes me so uncomfortable. But yes, but especially since they
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: bring in Colin Just' wife, Scarlet Johansen in on a
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: lot of it's it is pretty funny. But like a
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: lot of their sketches lately have been cute to me.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: So I'm kind of getting back on the Saturday night
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: Live band.
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: Cool a little bit, a little bit, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: I hear you. I would love to watch this. I
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: love watching documentaries about things and learning about how they work,
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: like from the background, because like you're used to seeing
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: it from one angle. Unless you've worked on the show,
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: you've only seen it as an audience member, and to
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: get that insight into what it's like and to even
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: ask yourself the question of would I have done well
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: in that particular environment, or would I have found it
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: to be so competitive to be unwell coming, Like I'm
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: pretty sure that's how I would have felt like it.
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: I would have felt like, you know, I can't hang
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: with these folks, especially since I don't do cocaine. And
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: I suspect that most of those people have. Look.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: I I worked at a former job and I won't
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: say which one. And I had a coworker and I
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: won't say which one who was like, yeah, it was
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: the seventies. At some point, everybody did cocaine. I'm like,
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: I don't think that's true.
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: I can say I didn't do cocaine in the seventies,
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: but then I was also I was also like five, so.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: Thank ye, yes you did not.
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah. No, By that time, we had stopped prescribing cocaine
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: to children, so I was no longer I was no
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: longer at risk for that. Next up, we got ourselves
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: a trailer for I called it Man Meat Mountain.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: Which I thought was like a new food show. Yeah,
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: like ma Guerrillas kind of a thing.
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: It's just my pet name for Reacher because we got
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: a trailer Reacher season three. I watched season one kind
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: of by scrubbing through it. I actually watched season two
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: and questioned myself, like why am I doing this? And
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: then I saw the trailer for season three and I'm like, oh,
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: big big man meat Mountain punches stuff more and then
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: runs into it even bigger man Mountain.
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah like that. That honestly looks kind of fun. I
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: do have some friends who enjoy the show. I haven't
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: watched it personally, but yeah, one, watching Reacher get beat
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: up by a bigger batter Reacher is funny. And then
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: two in the trailer, at least they use carry on
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: My Wayward Sun, which I know does not belong to Supernatural,
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: but Supernatural used it so much that I was like,
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: if there are not ghosts or were wolves or vampires
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: or in season three of Reacher, I'm gonna be disappointed.
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: You don't see Winchester brothers casually getting killed off in
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: the background.
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, as they always don't.
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: They would always play that in their season finale, and
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: so like if you because it wasn't like at the
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: beginning of every episode you would hear the like I
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: think they might have done it a couple of different episodes,
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: but season finale was typically where you would hear it,
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: so through the Pavlovian response, you would just associate that
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: song with at least one of the Winchester's dying.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, so uh they they better, they better show up.
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: That's all that would be. That'd be funny. I I
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: don't know if I'm gonna watch it. I included this
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: because I mean it is I would argue this, this
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: bear doesn't really fit into the geeky sphere. It's in
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: action land. Also, it's in male juvenile power fantasy land.
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: Like Reacher kind of represents the guy that a certain
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: type of guy wants to be. They want to be
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: the completely self sufficient, free from any obligations, bad ass
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: who can take on any fight and come out winning
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: at the end. Like that, It's just a male power
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: fantasy the series. That being said, at least the performances
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: typically involve some charming actors, so that helps. But yeah,
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: I don't know that I'll put myself through season three
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: after having sat through season two. Who will see?
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: I understand the desire to be self sufficient and to
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: be able to win every battle, you know, especially if
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: you grow up being like the underdog. I get it.
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: It is unfortunate that that has been a predominant sort
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: of fantasy, and that a lot of not great people
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: have wanted it or tried to attain it through bad means,
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: because I don't think at its very base level, the
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: desire to be that competent is necessary.
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: Horrible, Maybe not, but it's just I don't know. I
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: worry that it plays into the the philosophies and worldview
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: of certain people who I don't I don't want them
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: walking around thinking that, you know, they get to make
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: up the rules and that rules don't apply to them.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I fully agree. Yeah, I guess. I guess that
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: side of it is not really good. Rules. Rules are
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: there for a.
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: Reason, Yeah, at least to now. Granted, Reacher is supposedly
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: like this guy who protects people who otherwise cannot protect themselves, Right,
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: that's kind of kind of his thing. But I always
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: worry that the folks, instead of thinking, oh, we need
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: to look out for each other, they're thinking, oh, I
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: want to be able to slam some guy's face through
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: the back of their head. Like That's That's what I
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: always am concerned about. But you know it's I'm sure
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: it'll be a well made man Meat Mountain series.
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know that is interesting. I'm not going to
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: believe the point, but it is really interesting how two
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: people can watch the same thing and get completely different
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: stuff out of it.
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: Sure.
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: I have this in auditions too, where I'll be like, Oh,
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: I was feeling this and I was trying to trying
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: to achieve this or relay this in a scene, and
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: someone's like, oh, I totally got this. I loved it,
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: but it was completely different from my intent, just because
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: everybody watches through their own perspective. It's just it's interesting.
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I think it's also interesting how two people could
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: see the preview for in the Lost Lands, and one
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: person could see it as, oh, this is a story
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: that's based off of George R. R. Martin's work, and
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: someone else could say, oh, this is me le Jehoviovic's
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: husband giving her more work as a protagonist.
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: I saw it and I was like, oh, George R. R.
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: Martin is gun in for a Mad.
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: Max slash Dark Tower.
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: Got that Shark Tower.
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a dark energy.
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: It was what I say, it was Mad Max meets
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: I had something else there and I don't remember what,
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: but I was kind of amazed at George R. R.
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: Martin's penchant of putting extreme weather zombies and everything.
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, there do appear to be like crazy zombies
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: in this. It has a Western sort of esthetic. There's
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: some like fantasy elements in it too, although it looks
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: like it's more Western sci fi than fantasy. Was like
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: with a dusting of fantasy. Perhaps Batista's also in it,
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: Dave Batista. He's acting across from Meela Jehovivic. And if
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: you're wondering what I'm talking about, like, she was cast
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: in a whole bunch of movies and her husband was
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: the one directing and producing those films, And this looks
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: like it's perhaps maybe maybe just a hair higher production
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: value than some of the ones she did in the past,
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: like the Underworld movies or whatever. A Resident Evil series.
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: Kate Becka, that's right.
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: Kate Beckinsale did Underworld. Yes, thank you.
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: I know.
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: I was like, I was like, it's one of those.
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: It's one that I tried watching each of those once,
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: could not get to the thirty minute mark. I had
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: to turn them off.
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: Mila Jdjojovic, I think was also in the Monster Hunter
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: based off the video game movie, and she was also
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: the one of the main villains in the David Harbor
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: hell Boy.
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: She was also obviously in the Fifth Element as.
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: Sixth Element, which which is my brain did my brain
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: went on a buddy trail. But Fifth Element. She's phenomenal,
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: She's good. I love her in that she can act,
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: and she can.
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: She doesn't always, but she can.
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's what I was gonna say. She doesn't always,
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: so it's a little bit disappointing when she doesn't, because
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: I know she can. But in this case, in this trailer,
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: it does hit me as closer to like one of
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: those less acclaimed movies that she's done. And I don't
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: know if it's her acting ability, if she's just feeling
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: a little presentational, which I only say because I struggle
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: with that in my own acting. So it's it's not
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: super judgmental, it's just game recognized game. But also it
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: could just be the dialogue that they picked out for
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: this trailer. It just seems so melodramatic.
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, which I mean that might be lifted straight from
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: the story. I don't know. I have not read the
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: story that this is based off of So I don't
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: know anything more about that. I mean, I'm sure it'll
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: be schlocky and entertaining to an extent. At least it
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: does kind of strike me as borderline asylum level, Like
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: it's better than asylum clearly, but maybe not by a
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: whole lot.
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I have no segue between In the Lost
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: Lands to Mythic Quest, so we're just gonna jump. Yes,
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: we got a trailer for season four Mythic Quest. It's
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: it feels like it should be season three, but I
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: haven't watched any Mythic Quest, so maybe that's why.
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: They Also, they, if I recall correctly, they ended up
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: having to take like a full year off because of
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: the pandemic. So so Mythic Quest is one of those
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: things that has not been regularly airing episodes or seasons. Uh,
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: it's it follows a company that makes video games. Yeah,
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: but it's a comedy. It's a comedy that does this,
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: and it's kind of Silicon Valley ish. Yeah.
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: Rob mcklhenny is the kind of the main character, one
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: of the main characters. Yeah, it looks it's it's like
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: Silicon Valley ish, but with comedy chops. Of community, is
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: what i'd say from the trailer.
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I would say that definitely kind of leans
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: a little more on the community side. Yeah, I think
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: it is kind of a merger of those kinds of sensibilities.
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: And I have to say it looks like because I
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: have not watched this series yet, but it is one
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: of those things like, in fact, if I'm being honest,
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: I didn't remember that there was a series until you
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: had this trailer on here, and then I watched just like,
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: oh yeah, that's one of those things that I meant
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: to watch and I just haven't gotten around to doing yet.
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: Same same here, And I'm like, I'm trying to get
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: my partner, my husband, interested in watching it because I
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: think he would enjoy it, but he hasn't been yet.
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I will probably give this one a shot someday.
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: When I finished New Girl, I guess there was.
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: Something finished New Girl. If you aren't enjoying it at all,
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: there was.
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: You'll never stop asking me about it.
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: You've watched some episodes, so I can say I watch like,
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: I watched like about eight I think episodes.
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: Uh, there was something else that I was supposed to
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: watch too, and I can't remember what because, like we
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: talk about this every week, I need to start making
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: an actual list, Like I say it's on my list,
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: but I never actually write anything down, and I need
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: to start doing it.
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: I told you to like mainline, oh what if? Ketch
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: up on what if?
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: Oh yes, I do need to do that well, and
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: and maybe I'll do that this afternoon because it's not
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: like I'm going anywhere.
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean you could, but why bother.
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: I don't know that I could get out of our
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: driveway if I'm being totally honest, like that's that's ice over.
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: Let me shovel my way because I do have ice
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: behind my car, But let me just shovel my way out,
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: and then I can get to you and bring my
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: snowshovel and then shovel your ice. I have a feeling, carefully.
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: I have a feeling having you drive all the way
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: across the city of Atlanta is probably not the safest
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: thing for you either, because even if you are driving
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: perfectly safe on the road, that doesn't guarantee that everybody
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: else is due.
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: I feel like most of the main roads, because they
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: also pre treated, are probably in a pretty good shape.
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: Right now. We've been above freezing for a couple hours
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: now at least, well, at least in Rosswell, I guess
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: you guys got a little bit more snow than we did,
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: which is unusual. Usually the further north you go, you
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: get more snow.
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: But yeah, we were in a band where it was
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: heavy snow. So yeah, it was a few inches actually
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: of snow here, So it's unusual for Atlanta.
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: I mean, we got like two to two and a
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: half here.
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: But yeah, okay, well we got one more story before
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: we take a dark turn.
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and this one I almost added to our lineup
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: and then I didn't, but you did, so I'm glad.
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah. It's an animated series on Netflix that starts airing
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: on January eleventh, which is the day we're recording this.
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: So it's out now called Sokka Moto Days.
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah. It's based off of manga so I said that, right. Yep,
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: it's based on I know I said that, right. I
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: don't even know why I asked, like you second guess yourself.
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: You know I've been there.
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: Uh You're like, I know this is right, but now
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: I don't know if I know that it's right because
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: I've thought about it. I thought about the game, and
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: now I've lost the game. Sorry everybody, Uh sucker.
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: Just lost the game.
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry.
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: Uh. Yeah.
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: It's based off of manga. It's about someone who is
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: like a hit man. It's kind of like John Wick.
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: If John Wick retired to have a decent sized family
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: and like.
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: A bodega, yeah, like you, or he's running some sort
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: of like pizza restaurant or something.
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and gained a little bit of weight.
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: You mean a significant amount.
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: Of weight, and and like things don't go horrible. I
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: mean in the trailer, Sakamoto, mister Sakamoto has h retired
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: from hit manning and then people are coming after him.
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: But it looks a lot more lighthearted than John Wick.
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: They don't like kill his family and his dog as
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: far as I know.
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and he has like, uh ridiculous reflexes, like he's
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: able to catch bullets that have been fired at him
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: with chopsticks. And so it's very over the top anime
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: action and it looks really entertaining.
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it kind of feels like cozy assassin action.
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: Cozy who knew that that was going to be a subgenre?
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: Not me? Yeah, yeah, it looks cute. So yeah, that's
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: out today. January eleventh, the series just hit Netflix. I
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: have not watched any of it beyond the trailer yet.
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: Same, same, but I'm adding it to my list.
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: Okay, now can Yeah, it's because this is this is
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: Ariel's prediction come true.
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: I didn't mean. I didn't mean. It wasn't my prediction.
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: It was j Peterson's prediction. But I'll let you do
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: your intro because I stepped on your toes.
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: Oh no, it's fine. I was just saying. Last week,
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: we were talking about howrror movies we're likely to have
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: kind of a big year because they are they typically
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: our lower budget, they have a high return. Typically they
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: get more audiences into theaters. We saw last year that
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: really where the money is is in the family friendly stuff,
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: the stuff that's made for people with kids. That's the
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: stuff that really drives box office return. But if you're
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: looking to make a profit, then making horror movies is
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: a way to go because they typically don't have that
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: large of an investment. They usually do pretty well in
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: the theater, assuming you didn't, you know, make an absolute
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: mess of your movie, and you can turn them out
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: pretty fast. And while we're you know, it's too early
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: for us to say whether or not that's taking effect.
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: But we are seeing trailers for a whole bunch of
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: horror and horror adjacent movies and series coming out, and
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: so the next let's say, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: eight trailers on our list all fall within the horror
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: family of genres.
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: So here's the thing. I can like a scary movie
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: or show, especially if it's clever and that's not all
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: that it's got going for it. But I do feel
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: like a lot of horror is not clever and just
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: dips into dark and mean subject matter without anything redeeming.
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: And I feel like there's enough of that in the
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: world right now that I'm kind of I understand it,
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: and I have even seen and read some really amazing
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: horror in the past couple of years. But I'm kind
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: of I want to I feel like we're at a
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: point in time where we should focus on more good things.
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: I understand what you're saying. I think that horror can,
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: when done well, explore ideas and topics that can teach
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: us important lessons, right, I mean the heck you go
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: back to the Grim's fairy tales, and ultimately many of
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: those were about mind dear parents, don't go wandering off
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: in the woods, like basic things that are important for survival.
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: I think horror still can fall into those sort of
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: categories to this day if it's done well. But to
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: your point, Ariel One, it's not always done well. So
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: sometimes it's just like we just came up with an
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: idea of how to depict people being attacked by something
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: and they're powerless to stop it, and isn't that entertaining?
• 50:35
  Speaker 2: Or it'll be like, hey, we told all those stories
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: like four years ago, yeah, and now we're going to
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: be telling them all over again.
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And the first the first one we're going to
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: talk about is the Last of Us season two teaser.
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: But here's the thing. I'm going to be completely honest.
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: I watched everything, all of the horror trailers that you
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: put up, exception of the two that you highlighted to
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: warn me, Hey, maybe don't. But I didn't watch the
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: Last of Us season two trailer because I was like, oh,
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: I already watched that, but no, I watched last week's
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: Last of US season two trailer and not this week's.
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sorry, it's fine. It's just a it's a
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: very short teaser. And it just it has a little
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: bit more of a like, it feels a little more
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: narrative in nature, like the last one was a lot
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: of disjointed shots where you couldn't really tie what's happening right,
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: Like you didn't know is this even in chronological order?
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: Are we seeing this from all different parts of the series.
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: This one looked a little bit more like it was
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: setting up one of the antagonists. And I'm not going
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: to spoil anything because I think people need to watch
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: it if they're going to watch it. I don't. I
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: still am not sure if I'm going to watch it,
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: But yeah, it looked it made it look very tense
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: and dramatic, focusing mostly on the human stuff. But then
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: that's what the first season too, and honestly, it's I
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: think the more interesting thing, Like, yeah, you know, the
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: monsters are there to provide tension and pressure, but they're
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: not really what the story's about.
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: Humans doing horrible things is way scarier than monsters doing
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: horrible things.
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, because because we're not likely to run into a
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: mushroom powered monster out there, but we definitely can run
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: into people who have bad intentions.
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I will probably watch the last of US
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: season two, unless there are episodes that I just need
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: to completely nope out of and I'll let you know.
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe the episode where they have finger sandwiches. You
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: might want to know.
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I will let me know where that is in
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: the game.
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: I'm making it up, so I don't know.
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: Okay. The next thing, I almost added this to our
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: our lineup, and then I noticed you did because Jonathan
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: was way ahead of me, and everything I found to
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: talk about this week he had already found. So the
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: next is a trailer for a horror comedy site called
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: new Topia.
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's coming out on February seventh, and it is.
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: It's it's like a kind of a sort of a
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: romance story, or like a this couple or would be
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: couple wanting to find each other in the midst of
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: a zombie outbreak.
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: I don't remember. I thought at the beginning of the trailer,
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: like they broke up and then the zombie outbreak happened,
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: and they're like, maybe we should reconnect.
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I think you're right. I think that
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: is it.
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: So who else are we going to reconnect with?
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it turns out all my other options are currently
• 53:41
  Speaker 2: trying to chew my brains out.
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it does look very funny, kind of like Daybreak
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: was the one where like all the high school kids
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: were just living in a zombie apocalypse and that was
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: just it. I don't know, it looks funny. It looks funny.
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: What was the one with the Christmas music where it
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: was the that's.
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: The Return of the Living Dead and it doesn't come
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: out till next year.
• 54:05
  Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no, no no no, it's one
• 54:07
  Speaker 2: that's already been out. It was a musical. It was
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: a zombie musical. I don't musical. It was a musical,
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: not a sousical. A musical. What do you talk? Why
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: do you talk?
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: Zombie Christmas musical? I can't spell zombie Christmas? Anna and
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: the Apocalypse.
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: That's it. That's the one I was thinking of. I've
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: only seen it the one time. I was like, maybe
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: it's like that. Yeah, I'm looking forward to seeing more
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: about that. It looked it looked entertaining. Then we get
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: into a whole bunch of I guess it's understandable because
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: AI has constantly been kind of a source for sci
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: fi horror, Like we've had that, that's been a thing forever.
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: But I expect We're going to see a lot more
• 54:58
  Speaker 2: of that in the wake of things like Chad GPT
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: and all that stuff. And so for the next three movies,
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: we've kind of got technology and horror combos. So first
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: up is a film called Cassandra, which comes out February sixth,
• 55:14
  Speaker 2: and this is go ahead.
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: This is kind of like Megan, but if Megan was
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: on a more rudimentary body and the face was on
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: a TV screen.
• 55:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, so kind of like some of the robots
• 55:27
  Speaker 2: in Fallout New Vegas. But uh yeah. I felt like
• 55:32
  Speaker 2: as I was watching this, I was like, isn't there
• 55:35
  Speaker 2: a movie that's almost exactly this same premise except it's
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: a more humanoid looking robot and it came out like
• 55:44
  Speaker 2: last year in twenty twenty four, And I'm almost certain
• 55:49
  Speaker 2: there is like it was like a nanny robot or
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: something and very similar in many ways to Megan, And yeah,
• 55:56
  Speaker 2: this feels like it's another version of that. There is
• 55:59
  Speaker 2: like a conspiracy element to this about the company that
• 56:05
  Speaker 2: makes the robot and the persona that's been embedded in
• 56:10
  Speaker 2: the robot having like a history with the family.
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: That's yeah, it seems like they based her off a
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: real person. I think the movie you're thinking of is
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: called Subservience with Megan Fox.
• 56:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that is that. Yeah. So, like I said,
• 56:24
  Speaker 2: there's been so many of these, well and then and
• 56:26
  Speaker 2: then that's also similar to the next one, which is Companion,
• 56:31
  Speaker 2: another robot movie that comes out January thirty.
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: First, Yeah, when the teaser for this came out, I
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: didn't know it was about a robot, and I almost
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: added it to our lineup, and then I didn't because
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: it was just it seemed like a.
• 56:47
  Speaker 2: Torture porn movie, like a psycho sexual thriller kind of movie.
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, like Misery but sexy.
• 56:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's Companion. The female character lead is a robot,
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: apparently a companion robot. You can draw your conclusions as
• 57:07
  Speaker 2: to what that means, and that things go wrong fatal
• 57:11
  Speaker 2: attraction style but with robots. So yeah, it's fatal attraction,
• 57:16
  Speaker 2: but a robot. Glenn Close is a robot.
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: And it's got Jack Quid being creepy jack.
• 57:21
  Speaker 2: Quaids So yeah, it also made me think man jack
• 57:25
  Speaker 2: Quaid has been busy.
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but like with a broad spectrum of roles, which
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: is great, you.
• 57:31
  Speaker 2: Know, yeah, yeah, no, good for him. I'm just like
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: surprised to see him, and so like, my boy is
• 57:36
  Speaker 2: starting to turn into my girl Anya Taylor Joy being
• 57:39
  Speaker 2: in every single thing that's ever been made. Yea, which
• 57:43
  Speaker 2: is fine. I like Jack Quaid a lot too. So yeah,
• 57:47
  Speaker 2: I thought I thought Companion looked interesting. I actually thought
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: Companion looked more interesting to me than Cassandra does.
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: I agree. I agree. It feels like it gives the
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: characters more agency. Plus it's got it's got Harvey Gulian
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: in it. But I was going to say Bowen Yang,
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: and I knew that that was not right. Bow and
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: Yang was in Wicked Harvey Gulian. They are nothing like
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: each other. No, it's got Harvey Goulian in it.
• 58:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, what we do in the shadows kind of action
• 58:18
  Speaker 2: going on. One of the trailers that I highlighted saying
• 58:23
  Speaker 2: that Ariel didn't need to watch it if she didn't
• 58:25
  Speaker 2: want to, this one you could have watched, like it's
• 58:27
  Speaker 2: not it doesn't have anything in it that would squik
• 58:30
  Speaker 2: you out, Like this is not one that you would
• 58:32
  Speaker 2: find too gory or too like gruesome or anything. It
• 58:36
  Speaker 2: was more that for the purposes of time, I didn't
• 58:39
  Speaker 2: want you to have to worry about it. But it's
• 58:41
  Speaker 2: a movie that was actually made a couple of years ago.
• 58:44
  Speaker 2: I think it was twenty twenty three. It's called creep Box,
• 58:47
  Speaker 2: but it's getting its release on January twenty fourth, and
• 58:52
  Speaker 2: the premises there's a essentially like a computer scientist type
• 58:57
  Speaker 2: guy and he tragically he's lost his wife. His wife
• 59:02
  Speaker 2: has passed away, and he has constructed a technological device
• 59:07
  Speaker 2: that he hopes will be able to detect and prove
• 59:12
  Speaker 2: that there's an afterlife because he has this deep need
• 59:16
  Speaker 2: to reconnect with his wife and is become really obsessed
• 59:21
  Speaker 2: with it, and his colleagues are concerned for him because
• 59:26
  Speaker 2: they worry that he is kind of losing his grip
• 59:29
  Speaker 2: on sanity in this pursuit of this goal. And it
• 59:34
  Speaker 2: looks like it's it's very low budget kind of approach
• 59:37
  Speaker 2: to it, but it's the kind of science fiction thriller
• 59:40
  Speaker 2: horror stuff that I find particularly compelling. Like if I
• 59:44
  Speaker 2: were to compare it to another kind of low budget
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: sci fi movie, I would say something like Primer, okay,
• 59:52
  Speaker 2: where it's just like it's a very thoughtful movie and
• 59:57
  Speaker 2: so it's not about spectacle, but it is about like
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 2: exploring certain ideas and philosophies and using technology as sort
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 2: of the method to do that.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: Gotcha, Well, if I could have watched Creepbox, did you
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: mean to accidentally highlight dark Match instead?
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 2: No? No, dark Match had been on there already, So
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 2: that one. I was like, you probably have already seen
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 2: it because that's been on there all week.
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: Okay, because it does sound like I could have watched,
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: I would be interested in watching the I will go
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: back and but hey, I'll finish a sentence.
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 2: I got it. So like Creepbox might be up your street.
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 2: But Dark Match, which was is a really gruesome horror
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 2: movie set on the backdrop of a pro wrestling kind
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 2: of situation, isn't.
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: That's yeah, so Dark Matches is about uh, I think
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: the lead character is a female wrestler who gets involved
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: in this underground wrestling match where they delight in like torturing, hurting, naming,
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: and killing each other. And so yes, that's that goes
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: into like the horror torture horror kind of thing that
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: is not my jam. It just feels like it delights
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: in gruesomeness and meanness.
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 2: Well, I think the premise and yeah, I don't think
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 2: there's any bigger story being told here. It's more like
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 2: this is a high concept that has been turned into
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 2: a movie, right, And the chi concept in this case
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 2: is what if there's this satanic cult led by actual
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 2: professional wrestler Chris Jericho, but the satanic cult that lures
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 2: up and comer or want to be pro wrestlers to
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 2: come out and put on a show, but then forces
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 2: them to wrestle for Realsi's to the death as kind
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 2: of a sacrifice to their dark god. I think that's
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 2: kind of the vibe I'm getting from this trailer. And
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 2: to me, it was like, oh, it's combining two things
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 2: I enjoy wrestling and horror movies, but in a way
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 2: that I probably won't like. So it'll be like a
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 2: really bad recess Peanut butter Cup.
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll just I'll stick to Queen of the Ring,
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: thank you.
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 2: I'll probably still try and watch it.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the next one, I am torn on this. So
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: the next trailer we talked about a teaser for, but
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: now we've got a full trailer. It's for Heart Eyes,
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: which has a very like scream esque vibe. The full
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: tra it's it's about a serial killer who kills couples
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: on Valentine's Day, but kind of kind of tongue in cheek.
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: I'm torn because on the one hand, it looks incredibly
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: gruesome and like a thing that would just upset me
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: and I'd have to constantly keep my eyes closed. And
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: on the other hand, one, I really like the idea
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: of a healthy couple being like the main protagonists and
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: maybe getting through it together. Like I like that. You
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: don't really see.
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 2: That, right, No, Yeah, Usually in horror movies it ends
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 2: up being two people who are maybe in a couple
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 2: but not together, but they hook up and that's what
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 2: that's what marks them for death because they have they
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 2: have broken a rule and the killer will will see
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 2: to them shortly.
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and like it's it's crazy. Rich Asians is
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: not a horror movie, but I really loved that movie
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: because the main couple and that was also a healthy couple. Again,
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: you just don't see that that much. And then two,
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: the other reason I want to watch it is because
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: it's directed by Josh Ruben, who I think is a
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: very funny person. He's on Dropout TV a lot, and
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: I always think he's delightful. He's an incredible actor. I
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: haven't watched the other stuff he's directed, I don't think.
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 2: But oh, you haven't seen were Wolves then.
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: No, I haven't seen. I should see Where Wolves Within?
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: Also with Harvey Gulian and then.
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 2: Squirrel Girl. Oh, I know, I know who you're talking about,
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 2: but I never remember her name. She was also I
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 2: think the Best Buy, Like she was the AT and
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 2: t oh at and T. It was AT and T. Yeah,
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 2: she was, she was in lots of Yeah. Uh she is,
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 2: she is. She is the best component of Where Wolves
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 2: Within by far. Uh. Where Wolves Within is not a
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 2: terrible movie, but she is, uh, the best element in
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 2: that that movie. It's not it's not great, but it's
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 2: not bad.
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: She she is a very funny person. She she is often.
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: She's been on after MINNTE a few times, and I
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: think she's also been on Dropout TV, and I think
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: she's incredibly funny. I'm really sad we never got to
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: see her Squirrel Girl series. Uh, but I mean this
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: looks like a clever horror movie. I'm just afraid it's
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: going to be a little too gruesome for me.
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought when I first saw it, I was like, oh,
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 2: this looks this reminds me of Thanksgiving. The eli Roth movie,
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 2: but not as over the top as far as both
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 2: the comedy and the horror comedy elements like it. It
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 2: looks almost more like a like it's leaning harder on
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 2: the horror side than the comedy side, at least in
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 2: the trailer, as I recall, but I have to watch
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 2: the trailer again. Maybe I'm just forgetting the comedic bits.
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 2: I just in my mind the way I remember it, it
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 2: came across more like a very stylized serial killer kind
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 2: of movie.
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 2: And then the last film we have is another one
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 2: I highlighted, so Ariel, you have not watched this one?
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: No.
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 2: This is for a horror movie called free Lance, and
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 2: the story is about a young woman who is a
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 2: video editor, and she's a freelance video editor. So she's
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 2: always hustling looking for her next gig, because it says
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 2: in the trailer like sometimes the jobs are in and
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 2: sometimes they're not, and so you can have times where
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 2: you are struggling to make ends meet because you're not
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 2: finding work, which is very much in the freelance life.
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 2: And she gets this opportunity to work on a video project,
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 2: and she's like working from home and everything that will
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 2: pay her a hefty amount of money for the amount
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 2: of work she would have to do, so she agrees,
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 2: and then she gets the tape sent to her, and
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 2: she discovers that something really horrifying is captured on tape,
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 2: and the implication is that it's like a snuff film,
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 2: like it's like actual people being killed on tape, and
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 2: she's being told to edit the video, and then she
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 2: starts to experience really creepy stuff and you can't be
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 2: sure if it's in her head where maybe she's imagining
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 2: it because of the stuff she's had to watch, or
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 2: if it's actually happening because she has not turned in
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 2: the edit on time, and that maybe whatever group or
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 2: person made the video as coming after her, you don't
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 2: really know. Looks extremely creepy and disturbing, which is why
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 2: one of the reasons why I highlighted it because I
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 2: was like, hell, Ariel does not need to see this,
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 2: but yeah.
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: I've done video editing. That's you describing it was almost
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: too much for me.
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 2: Well, and like it makes me think of the people
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 2: who used to do like content moderation first sites like
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 2: Facebook right where, and it's almost always outsourced to countries
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 2: like in Asia or Africa, where people are having to
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 2: go through enormous amounts of material and look for signs
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 2: of stuff that that violates platform policies. And the stories
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 2: out of those places are heartbreaking because you hear about
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 2: people who have essentially the equivalent of PTSD just doing
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 2: their job because they've seen so much terrible stuff. And
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 2: this kind of reminded me of that.
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, for sure, I have watched Freelance, but it
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: was the John Cena Allison Brie action movie I'll oh
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: Romancing the Stone, and I've only seen the first three
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: quarters of it.
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 2: I forgot that that was even a thing.
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: Maybe the first two thirds. I was watching it on
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: a plane and I didn't get to finish it. I
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: liked what I saw.
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe I'll watch that while I'm flying to Katar.
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 2: I'm not looking.
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: That's an interesting choice.
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, well, well who knows what will be on
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 2: the entertainment system. I'll have plenty of time to watch
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 2: lots of stuff. I understand it's a fourteen hour flight,
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 2: so whoof I hope you.
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: Get a comfortable seat. My friend me too.
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 2: But that's it. Those are all the stories and trailers
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 2: and stuff that we rounded up for this week. I'm
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 2: sure we miss something because inevitably we'll stop recording and
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 2: then like forty five minutes later, Ariel will send me
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 2: a message saying, hey, look at this.
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: God no, this time it'll be like an hour and
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: a half later because I do have to jump into
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: an audition when we're done with this. But yes, uh yeah,
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: thank you all for listening with us and joining us
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: in the new year. You know, the new year is
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: a time for picking up good habits that you've dropped
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 1: through the last year. So if you have enjoyed what
• 1:09:21
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• 1:09:25
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• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: to let you know about how they've enjoyed the show
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: or things they enjoyed to see, how do they reach you.
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 2: Well, you're going to need to take a long weekend
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 2: and you're going to have to rent a cabin on
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 2: man Meat Mountain, and you're going to go up to
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 2: man Meat Mountain where just like six foot four inch
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 2: tall muscular dudes are just wandering around punching stuff. Like
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 2: you go to get a subway sandwich, they punch all
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 2: the ingredients and then hand it to you saying there's
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 2: your sandwich, and you just say, yes, this is exactly
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 2: how I wanted it, because you don't want to end
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 2: up like the sandwich. Or they're out fishing, but they're
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 2: not using fishing rods and nets and stuff. Now they're
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 2: just wading into the water and punching at it. Or
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 2: maybe you need to catch an uber or a lift. Well,
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry to say, instead of a car pulling up,
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 2: it's going to be a six foot four inch tall dude.
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 2: He's just going to punch you till you get to
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 2: your destination. It's going to be a rough weekend, is
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 2: what I'm saying. But the nice thing is you're going
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 2: to get through it. And at ten am, at the
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 2: end of that long weekend, you're getting ready to check
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 2: out of your cabin. You'll see that there's a little
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 2: cleaning crew that's pulled up so that they can come
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 2: in and turn the place around for the next folks
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 2: to visit. Man Meet Mountain, and you'll notice that I'm
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 2: getting out of the car because now that I'm no
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 2: longer hosting tech stuff, I got to pay the bills.
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 2: And you'll see me in my little vacuum cleaner carrying
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 2: it up to the front door and you can ask
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 2: me your question then yeah.
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: And if you're just too amused by people punching water
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 1: and punching things like look, I love watching the slaps
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 1: giving episodes of How I Met Your Mother. So if
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 1: you're too distracted and entertained to ask Jonathan a question,
• 1:11:13
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• 1:11:20
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• 1:11:26
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• 1:11:28
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• 1:11:32
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• 1:11:36
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• 1:11:38
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• 1:11:42
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• 1:11:44
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• 1:11:47
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• 1:11:51
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• 1:11:55
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• 1:12:01
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• 1:12:05
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• 1:12:08
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• 1:12:12
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• 1:12:16
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• 1:12:19
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• 1:12:23
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• 1:12:25
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• 1:12:29
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• 1:12:31
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