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Could 'The Last of Us' be the last of Jonathan? · Large Nerdron Collider

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Speaker 1: Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Large in a Drunklider podcast,
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Speaker 1: the podcast that's all about the geeky stuff happening in
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Speaker 1: the world around us and how very excited we are
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Speaker 1: about it. I'm Ariel casting, and with me, as always
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Speaker 1: is the brilliant, wonderful Jonathan Stricklin. There's been a murder.
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Speaker 1: What what are you all right? Jonathan? I'm fine. No,
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Speaker 1: I'm just saying you're slighing it. Oh well, thank you.
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Speaker 1: That's very kind of you today. How are you doing, Ariel?
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Speaker 1: I'm good. I'm good. I'm recording in my taping space
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Speaker 1: today as opposed to where I normally record, so that's exciting.
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Speaker 1: You get to look at me with the full on
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Speaker 1: blare of film lights. Well it's it's funny because you
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Speaker 1: have a you know, obviously our our lists can't see this,
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Speaker 1: but you have like a light blue background, and it's
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Speaker 1: almost like your your recording like outside, and you have
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Speaker 1: the camera set very low and pointed towards the sky,
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Speaker 1: and I expect to see like birds and clouds and stuff,
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Speaker 1: maybe Superman. It will distract me and the listeners won't
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Speaker 1: be able to see it, but I will do like
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Speaker 1: little hand puppet birds and Superman's and Spider Man's in
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Speaker 1: the background just for you, Jonathan. That's awesome. I sense
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Speaker 1: that it will have absolutely no impact upon the quality
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Speaker 1: of our podcast. Probably not, probably not so this week, Um, yeah,
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Speaker 1: it was a lighter news week and I was debating.
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Speaker 1: I didn't actually talk to Jonathan about this, but I
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Speaker 1: was debating doing one of our listeners suggestions because I
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Speaker 1: really want to get to them. And then like last minute,
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Speaker 1: we got some news and then I also got an
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Speaker 1: audition who and a couple of other things. So it's
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Speaker 1: gonna just be a light newsweek episode. But that's, uh,
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Speaker 1: that's fine, and that's fun. Yeah, we won't we won't
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Speaker 1: predict that this is going to be a short episode
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Speaker 1: because every time we do, we prove ourselves wrong. But uh,
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Speaker 1: there's more room for for us to to kind of
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Speaker 1: improvise and and extemporize. But we were going to start
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Speaker 1: off this light news episode by making it even lighter
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Speaker 1: with one of our patented thirties seconds or less segments. Yes,
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Speaker 1: and I think you start this time, don't you, Jonathan?
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Speaker 1: I do, so I am going to start the timer now.
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Speaker 1: Netflix's co founder and co CEO Read Hastings is stepping
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Speaker 1: down from his CEO role, which came as kind of
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Speaker 1: a surprise. He's co CEO along with Ted Surrandi's and
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Speaker 1: now the former CEO of the company will be taking
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Speaker 1: read hastings place. And uh yeah, read hasting is gonna
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Speaker 1: be executive chairman, so he's still gonna be part of
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Speaker 1: the company. This was a pretty big surprise change. Done,
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Speaker 1: well done, Jonathan, Um all right, I'm ready, if you
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Speaker 1: are sure, get ready and go alright. So, for three
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Speaker 1: and a half years, Marvel movies have not been allowed
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Speaker 1: to play in China, and that um is getting fixed.
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Speaker 1: So China is now allowing Marvel movies again, and they're
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Speaker 1: going to show Anti Man, Quantum Mania whatever that title is,
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Speaker 1: thirty seconds spam. Yeah, well you you you are finished early. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I know this is big news from Marvel. We know
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Speaker 1: that China is a huge market. It's also one that
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Speaker 1: has a pretty restrictive content regulations on it, and so
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Speaker 1: it's not it's not difficult to get banned in China
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Speaker 1: and um and a lot. That's also why a lot
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Speaker 1: of movies when they're creating bad guys start using fictional
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Speaker 1: places now because as they don't want to get banned
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Speaker 1: in markets and lose out on that sweet sweet money.
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Speaker 1: M hmm, Okay, I'm gonna do my next one and
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Speaker 1: I am gonna go. So you remember Tron came out,
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Speaker 1: came out in n two, and then we got Tron Legacy,
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Speaker 1: which came out like two decades later. Well, now we're
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Speaker 1: finally hearing that Tron three is on track to go
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Speaker 1: with Jared Leto as part of it. Apparently he's been
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Speaker 1: a big champion for the project for quite some time.
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Speaker 1: So no clear cut case on when this might come out,
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Speaker 1: but Tron three isn't the works. We also know the
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Speaker 1: tron Roll roller coaster is opening up in Disney World
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Speaker 1: this April, So there you go. Yeah, I was abouna
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Speaker 1: say on track? Was that was that? Purposefully it wasn't,
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Speaker 1: but I will allow the pun to continue. Yeah, I'm
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Speaker 1: quick aside. I'm not super excited about Jared Letto in general,
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Speaker 1: but hopefully if he's a fan of the property, it'll
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Speaker 1: be a good movie. Yeah, I you know, same page.
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Speaker 1: I I actively do not like Jared Leto, not for
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Speaker 1: his acting, but but for his off screen shenanigans in
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Speaker 1: his method acting case. Uh so, I'm not a fan
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Speaker 1: of him that way, But if this means that he's
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Speaker 1: going to have I don't know, like fluorescent light tubes
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Speaker 1: implanted into his skin, go for it, all right? You ready? Yes? Go?
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Speaker 1: So Avatar, you know that movie that came out a
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Speaker 1: long time ago, and then we just got another one,
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Speaker 1: The Way of Water, not The Last Airbender. Um, the
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Speaker 1: new Avatar movies apparently are not all going to have
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Speaker 1: Jake Sully as a narrator. James Cameron said that the
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Speaker 1: narrator is going to change for each subsequent movie. Come up.
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Speaker 1: Sorry for to all you Jake Sully fans. I you
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Speaker 1: know what. First of all, I don't think those words
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Speaker 1: have ever been spoken. Uh. But second of all, I
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Speaker 1: want to say, like, like, honestly, I this is where
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Speaker 1: I have to admit that I had not opened up
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Speaker 1: every single link in our lineup. I legit thought this
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Speaker 1: was going to refer to Avatar the Last Airbender. Oh yes,
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Speaker 1: because that's what James Cameron does. Um, well, it doesn't
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Speaker 1: say James Cameron in the show notes. It says it
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Speaker 1: in the link. If you read the link, I did
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Speaker 1: I did, I just said I didn't click on it.
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Speaker 1: You think I'm going to read something. Click on it
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Speaker 1: if you read the words in the link. I just
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Speaker 1: read the description, uh slash, James Dash, Cameron dash fires Dash,
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Speaker 1: Jake dash, Selly dash as Dash avataras narrator, and then
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Speaker 1: a whole bunch of numbers. Here's the thing. All I
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Speaker 1: did was get as far as new Avatar narrator for
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Speaker 1: each sequel. That's as far as I read, and I
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Speaker 1: went no further. But I've got another one to do,
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Speaker 1: so I'll just go ahead and do it now. Outlander,
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Speaker 1: the series that's about a woman from the World War
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Speaker 1: two era who finds herself transported back in time to
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Speaker 1: eighteen century with Scottish Highlanders, is getting an eighth and
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Speaker 1: final season. But do not despair Outlander vans, because there
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Speaker 1: is also a prequel season called Outlander Blood of My
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Speaker 1: Blood going into production, and the creator of the Outlander
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Speaker 1: series is behind it, so it will be true to
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Speaker 1: form done. I have many thoughts on that, but this
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Speaker 1: is the thirty seconds are less sections. I am curious
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Speaker 1: about your thoughts. I full disclosure, I have never seen
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Speaker 1: an episode or read any of the Outlander books, so
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Speaker 1: we have a lot of friends that won't watch Outlander
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Speaker 1: because as much romance and whatever as as there isn't it,
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Speaker 1: there's also a lot of um, non consensual stuff in there. Um.
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Speaker 1: And our friends either that's a trigger and rightfully so,
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Speaker 1: or they think it's lazy writing um rightfully so, even
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Speaker 1: though it is, you know, not was not uncommon back then.
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Speaker 1: They don't need to watch it. And I totally get that,
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Speaker 1: but I have seen a out of it, and one
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Speaker 1: I feel like, yes, we're getting to a point where
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Speaker 1: the show needs to end because we're in colonial America now.
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Speaker 1: But also, uh, I feel like if you're watching the show,
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Speaker 1: you're watching it for the interpersonal relationships with Claire and Jamie,
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Speaker 1: and I don't think a pretty cool will give you that. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's going to be about his parents. Yeah, I guess,
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Speaker 1: I guess that's I guess that's okay. I you know,
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Speaker 1: his parents apparently were interesting people. I just yeah, I mean,
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Speaker 1: you know, maybe maybe when we start getting promotional materials,
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Speaker 1: you'll take a look and you'll say, oh, heait, hold
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Speaker 1: on more steamy Scottish people, sign me up. I mean,
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Speaker 1: if I don't say that at least twice a week,
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Speaker 1: am I even living? Right? Are you ready for your
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Speaker 1: next one, Yes and go. So there's that Hulu show
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Speaker 1: Only Murders in the Building that has Selena Gomez and
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Speaker 1: Martin Short and Steve Martin in it. Well, they're getting
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Speaker 1: another big name added to the upcoming He's in season three,
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Speaker 1: and that is Meryl Street. She's an amazing actress. She
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Speaker 1: can do comedy and drama, drama and dramedy and everything
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Speaker 1: in between. So I look forward to seeing what she
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Speaker 1: brings to the show. Cool. Yeah, I mean she's She's
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Speaker 1: a phenomenal actress. Also, like one of the more charming
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Speaker 1: interview subjects I've seen. I remember watching Graham Norton and
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Speaker 1: her appearance on that and she was just she absolutely
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Speaker 1: commanded the couch as one of the interviewees, to the
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Speaker 1: point where Mark Ruffalo kind of totally fell over himself,
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Speaker 1: which was adorable. All right, Well, then here's my next one,
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Speaker 1: and I'm gonna go. So. Amazon Prime as the day
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Speaker 1: we're putting this podcast out, released a teaser for Invincible
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Speaker 1: season two. It features the character of Invincible chatting with
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Speaker 1: um the alien guy whose name I forget, and it
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Speaker 1: gets into a very meta discussion of why it's taken
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Speaker 1: so long for the second season to come out, like
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Speaker 1: they actually give animation explanations and then they say that
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Speaker 1: it will be out by the end of this year. Done.
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Speaker 1: I liked season one. I didn't actually get a chance
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Speaker 1: to watch this teaser, um, but um it was. It was.
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Speaker 1: It was good. It's not for everybody, but it was good.
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Speaker 1: It's cute because the aliens like, well, I haven't seen
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Speaker 1: much of you. Why have you been up to He's like, oh,
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Speaker 1: you know, sketches, coloring, uh, posing for motion like all this,
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Speaker 1: Like he was giving all the animation steps that you
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Speaker 1: have to go through in order to create an animated series.
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Speaker 1: And like, like I said, it was very meta. So
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Speaker 1: you don't you don't see anything like any hint of
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Speaker 1: where where the second season is going to go. There's nothing.
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Speaker 1: It's just these two characters talking in a diner. But
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Speaker 1: it's very cute. All right. Are you ready for your
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Speaker 1: your ultimate US or less news item? Of course? I am,
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Speaker 1: why why even ask and go? So for everybody who
11:03
Speaker 1: had the reaction when it was announced that Hugh Jackman
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Speaker 1: was going to be Wolverine in Deadpool three, but didn't
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Speaker 1: he die in logan, don't worry, the news has broken
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Speaker 1: that he in fact, got permission from Logan director James
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Speaker 1: Man James Mangold to play Wolverine again. Uh. I still
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Speaker 1: have no idea how how, but uh, it's sure to
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Speaker 1: be fun. You know, now that they've introduced the multiverse
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Speaker 1: in the m C. You you literally could just say
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Speaker 1: this is a parallel version of well, like it's not
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Speaker 1: the same Wolverine as the Logan Wolverine, so there are
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Speaker 1: a lot of different options, or you just say, well,
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Speaker 1: this happens before the story of Logan happens, Like, there
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Speaker 1: are a lot of different options, and I think they'll
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Speaker 1: be just fine. But I am really eager to see
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Speaker 1: this simply because the friendship between Jackman and Reynolds is
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Speaker 1: such a fun one to watch that I imagine there's
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Speaker 1: no there's no hope, but it spilling over onto screen.
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Speaker 1: So I'm really looking forward to that me too. Okay,
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Speaker 1: here's here's here's my last one or did you I'm sorry,
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Speaker 1: did I cut you off? Did not? Okay, Well, then
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Speaker 1: here's my last thirty seconds or less news item and go,
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Speaker 1: hey fans of the Chucky series, good news, it's renewed
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Speaker 1: for a third season. And yeah, yeah, I mean like,
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Speaker 1: here's the thing. I have not watched any of the
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Speaker 1: Chucky series. I've heard that's entertaining, but I haven't seen it.
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Speaker 1: I have watched at least a few of the Child's
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Speaker 1: play movies, although I didn't get I keep hearing that
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Speaker 1: the like Bride of Chucky is a great movie and
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Speaker 1: all this kind of stuff. I haven't seen those yet.
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Speaker 1: I've seen the first couple, which are definitely more of
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Speaker 1: the cheesy kind of horror movie stuff that we're used
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Speaker 1: to back in the like nineties and and all that.
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Speaker 1: But I haven't you know, I haven't been a good
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Speaker 1: horror fan. I haven't seen these. You know what, not
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Speaker 1: every horror is for everybody. I honestly didn't know we
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Speaker 1: got past a season one of Chucky. Well we did,
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Speaker 1: and now we're getting a season three. So uh this
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Speaker 1: lets us segue over into the news now, now, Ariel,
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Speaker 1: did you want me to chat about the stuff what
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Speaker 1: I've been watching first or do you want to just
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Speaker 1: go through the news and then finish out the episode
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Speaker 1: that way? Huh? Well, that is a good question, Jonathan,
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Speaker 1: and not one I've given any thought too. And being
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Speaker 1: a person who is paralyzed by decision, it's great. Uh,
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Speaker 1: you know, let's go ahead and talk about what you
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Speaker 1: watched in that way, when you get all depressed, we
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Speaker 1: can bring it back to some happy stuff. That sounds
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Speaker 1: good because our first news item is also depressing. But anyway,
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Speaker 1: um yeah, okay, So since the last episode, I watched
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Speaker 1: the first four episodes of Velma, which is the you know,
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Speaker 1: tongue in cheek Scooby Doo prequel following the character of
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Speaker 1: Velma luh and uh and sort of like alternate universe
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Speaker 1: versions of the Scooby Gang with no no Scooby present.
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Speaker 1: And it's It's received a lot of mixed reviews. My
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Speaker 1: own personal opinion is that it's I don't find it funny.
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Speaker 1: I'm not saying the show isn't funny. I'm saying I
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Speaker 1: don't find it funny. I appreciate what they're going for,
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Speaker 1: because they're going for a kind of Venture Brothers or
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Speaker 1: Sea lab One kind of thing where they're satirizing the
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Speaker 1: the original property as well as making like relevant cultural
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Speaker 1: references and jokes and and I get all that. And
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Speaker 1: it's not like I disagree. I just I don't know
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Speaker 1: the execution of it doesn't work for me. So um again,
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Speaker 1: I don't think it's a bad show. I just maybe
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Speaker 1: it's I'm too old to appreciate it. It's interesting because
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Speaker 1: there was a bit of, um, a little bit a
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Speaker 1: huge amount of uproar on the internet because everybody thought
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Speaker 1: that it was like the humor was outdated. And I
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Speaker 1: do think there is a place for satire in today's community,
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Speaker 1: but I like, you know, Brooklyn nine nine ended because
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Speaker 1: people wanted a more situational, relatable, kinder humor currently, and
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Speaker 1: you know, maybe maybe it's just missed its mark. I
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Speaker 1: know some people feel like maybe it's putting a little
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Speaker 1: bit too much politics or controversial worldviews into it, um
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Speaker 1: in a way that like, you know, I'll okay, I'll
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Speaker 1: just say it that they feel like some of the
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Speaker 1: jokes are are outdated, white boy conservative type jokes UM.
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Speaker 1: And you know, I haven't watched it, so I don't know,
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Speaker 1: but it is interesting because, uh, well Minde Kylen got
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Speaker 1: a lot of backlash for it, and she says she's
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Speaker 1: not necessarily conservative, and also she didn't write the episodes,
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Speaker 1: so the joke it's more like there are a lot
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Speaker 1: of jokes that are about how people of Kelory characters
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Speaker 1: saying things like Uh, why aren't you happy we're seeing, uh,
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Speaker 1: for once, we're seeing a white guy go to prison? Uh, unjustly,
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Speaker 1: like we should be enjoying this that kind of thing.
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Speaker 1: And I'm like, I get, you know, I'm getting the satire,
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Speaker 1: like I see where the edge is. It just doesn't
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Speaker 1: feel like it's hitting to me. And I can certainly
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Speaker 1: appreciate a show that takes same at things like the
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Speaker 1: patriarchy and white supremacism and all this kind of stuff.
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Speaker 1: I think that that's warranted and needed. I just don't
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Speaker 1: feel the show does it very well. But again, it
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Speaker 1: may just be that that's because it's through my own filter,
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Speaker 1: and perhaps other people get a lot more value out
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Speaker 1: of it than I do. Yeah. I mean again, that
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Speaker 1: goes back to why there are so many different kinds
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Speaker 1: of shows for different kinds of people. Um, yeah, I'll
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Speaker 1: price stick with it. I'll price see because I think
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Speaker 1: there's like eight episodes in the season or something, and
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Speaker 1: I've watched half of them, so I'll probably stick with
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Speaker 1: it to see how the storyline plays out. But yeah,
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Speaker 1: moment to moment it is, I haven't laughed once. It
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Speaker 1: has not made me laugh a single time, and I
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Speaker 1: haven't been sitting there determined not to laugh. I'm like,
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Speaker 1: I'm I'm ready to engage. It just hasn't hooked for me.
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Speaker 1: That's okay, because then you watched the laugh of us, right,
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Speaker 1: but it wasn't the laugh of us. Now. No, if
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Speaker 1: it had been the laugh of us, I might have
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Speaker 1: made it through without crying. No, it was the last
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Speaker 1: of us um. Okay. So I don't want to give
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Speaker 1: any spoilers because there may be people out there who
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Speaker 1: haven't played the game and who planned to watch the
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Speaker 1: show and just haven't gotten to it yet. Okay, So
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Speaker 1: I'm not going to give spoilers. I will say in
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Speaker 1: in the most general sense possible, that both the video
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Speaker 1: game and the show have an extremely traumatic event occur
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Speaker 1: that ends up shaping one of the protagonists and makes
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Speaker 1: that character who they are. And so you understand why
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Speaker 1: this character is making decisions and behaving in certain ways
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Speaker 1: because you've seen the trauma this character has gone through. Now,
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Speaker 1: I have played the game, and uh, I got to
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Speaker 1: this point in the game and it's early. It's like,
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Speaker 1: within the first ten minutes of playing the game, I
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Speaker 1: got to this point in the game arial I nearly
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Speaker 1: had to put the controller down and just walk away,
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Speaker 1: because that's how hard this moment hit me. And I
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Speaker 1: don't I don't typically get emotionally invested in video games,
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Speaker 1: but but the way this this moment was played out
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Speaker 1: in the video game, it is so emotionally heartbreaking that
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Speaker 1: I wasn't sure I would be able to continue. And
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Speaker 1: and there are other like also very emotionally traumatic moments
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Speaker 1: that happened within the course of the game. So I
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Speaker 1: spent the first half hour of The Last of Us,
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Speaker 1: which the episode one, which is like an hour and
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Speaker 1: a half long. It's a very long episode. I spent
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Speaker 1: the first half hour dreading this moment, and like, I'm
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Speaker 1: sure you've had the experience where you've watched something that
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Speaker 1: you've seen before and you're kind of wishing that something
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Speaker 1: different could happen, but you know it can't. Yeah. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's how I was for the first thirty minutes of
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Speaker 1: this episode, wishing so hard that it wouldn't go the
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Speaker 1: way I knew it was going to go. And when
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Speaker 1: it did go the way it was gonna go, which
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Speaker 1: is what it had to do in order to define
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Speaker 1: these characters, I had to pause the playback because I
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Speaker 1: was sobbing. I mean, so there's there's definitely a place
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Speaker 1: for that, and and well done for them being able
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Speaker 1: to hit those emotional moments, so clearly, right, yeah, there's that.
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Speaker 1: I mean again, I don't want to give much away,
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Speaker 1: but I would also say that the the event is
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Speaker 1: it leverages a trigger that I think wold affect most people.
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Speaker 1: So it's like, in some ways you might argue that,
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Speaker 1: oh well they took It's kind of like when you
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Speaker 1: see a see a movie and an animal gets hurt.
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Speaker 1: Like like when you see that happen, you know, you're
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Speaker 1: like you realize, oh, well, they orchestrated for this to
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Speaker 1: happen in the story because they wanted the audience to
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Speaker 1: feel a certain way, and it almost comes it can
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Speaker 1: come across as being a crutch or cheap. You can
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Speaker 1: make a similar argument for the beginning of this, but
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Speaker 1: they handle it in such a way where even if
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Speaker 1: you were to make that argument, you'd still have to say, well,
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Speaker 1: it was really freaking effective. Got you, got you. I
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Speaker 1: do plan on watching this first episode and then you know,
20:39
Speaker 1: maybe I'll say whether or not I had a similar reaction. Um.
20:45
Speaker 1: The interesting thing to me is, I know horrible things
20:48
Speaker 1: happen in the game, which is why honestly I haven't
20:51
Speaker 1: played it because I play video games to be entertained
20:54
Speaker 1: and as amazing as the story and the acting in
20:56
Speaker 1: the Artist and it like, it just seems so so sad.
21:01
Speaker 1: But the trailer for the Last of Us actually made
21:03
Speaker 1: me feel like more hopeful than with The Walking Dead
21:05
Speaker 1: per se um. Yeah, I think I think we're gonna
21:11
Speaker 1: have to judge it episode by episode because at least
21:16
Speaker 1: in the game, uh, you spend up pretty much an
21:20
Speaker 1: equal amount of time trying to avoid and or kill
21:25
Speaker 1: essentially zombies. That's not what they are, but you might
21:28
Speaker 1: as well just call them zombies and other really bad people.
21:32
Speaker 1: And it's very similar to Walking Dead in that way, right,
21:35
Speaker 1: Like Walking Dead, the theme of that show eventually became
21:39
Speaker 1: the real monsters are other human beings. The zombies are
21:42
Speaker 1: totally predictable. You know what they're gonna do, you know
21:44
Speaker 1: how they're gonna behave, But other people are unpredictable and
21:48
Speaker 1: they're terrible. That's what That's what The Walking Dead taught us. Well,
21:51
Speaker 1: it's not that different, at least in the video game
21:55
Speaker 1: version of the Last of Us. Not to say that
21:57
Speaker 1: every single person that they encounter is terrible, but there
22:00
Speaker 1: is no shortage of terrible people that populate the world
22:04
Speaker 1: of the video game. So we'll have to see how
22:06
Speaker 1: that plays out in the show. Um. I suspect they
22:09
Speaker 1: won't lean into that too hard because if they do,
22:13
Speaker 1: then it just becomes walking dead, except this time it's fungus. Yeah. Yeah, Um,
22:19
Speaker 1: I guess we'll we'll see. Uh. Everybody I know who
22:23
Speaker 1: has seen it, whether or not they've had that giant
22:25
Speaker 1: emotional reaction, and most of the people I know probably
22:27
Speaker 1: would have um have said that it's really well done.
22:31
Speaker 1: So it's the acting, the cinematography, everything about the technical
22:37
Speaker 1: approach to this is is stellar. Like, if this doesn't
22:41
Speaker 1: get nominated for all the awards, it will be shocking
22:45
Speaker 1: because of how well it's done. The money that they
22:48
Speaker 1: spent is evident on screen. Yeah. For for those who
22:52
Speaker 1: don't recall from the myriad of times we've talked about it,
22:57
Speaker 1: Last of Us and Rings of Power, we're kind of
22:59
Speaker 1: fighting to see who would be the most expensive TV
23:01
Speaker 1: show for streaming? Yeah, or TV show ever made? Really Yeah,
23:06
Speaker 1: And when you make TV shows that are too expensive
23:09
Speaker 1: and you don't make it back on streaming, you end
23:11
Speaker 1: up in a similar position to uh, let's say movie
23:15
Speaker 1: theaters who just don't have enough people going in to
23:18
Speaker 1: watch movies. The aerial is alluding to our first story
23:23
Speaker 1: story very conquily. Well, it's it's that the the Regal
23:28
Speaker 1: Cinema's chain is part of a larger company, sent A World,
23:33
Speaker 1: and um cent A World had filed for bankruptcy late
23:38
Speaker 1: last year. So bankruptcy does not mean that a business
23:43
Speaker 1: necessarily goes to put like it's it's a way to
23:47
Speaker 1: manage debt and to create ways to pay back creditors
23:51
Speaker 1: and that sort of stuff. It's kind of like refinancing, right,
23:55
Speaker 1: And you can get out of bankruptcy and then make
23:57
Speaker 1: a recovery and go on to be a successful business.
24:01
Speaker 1: It's not a guarantee, but it's a possibility. However, in
24:03
Speaker 1: the process of bankruptcy, you typically have to look at
24:06
Speaker 1: some real tough choices as to how to deal with
24:09
Speaker 1: the assets you have, whether that means selling stuff off
24:13
Speaker 1: or shutting things down, And in the case of Center World,
24:16
Speaker 1: the decision includes shutting down thirty nine movie theaters of
24:21
Speaker 1: the Regal Cinemas chain across the United States. Yeah, I
24:24
Speaker 1: was surprised to see none of the ones on the
24:26
Speaker 1: list are in Georgia in less side, No, no, none
24:30
Speaker 1: of them are. There are no Georgian theaters in that list.
24:33
Speaker 1: Now you have to remember Regal Cinemas has like five
24:36
Speaker 1: movie theaters, so this is this is a significant number.
24:40
Speaker 1: Thirty nine is a lot, but it's not like you're
24:43
Speaker 1: gonna hit every single state. In fact, New York in
24:45
Speaker 1: California account for several of the theaters that are on
24:50
Speaker 1: that list. But yeah, there aren't any in Georgia. We
24:52
Speaker 1: do have a Regal Cinemas and um uh what what
24:56
Speaker 1: is it? It's that the fancy schmancy u an Avalon
25:01
Speaker 1: and we also have one in just in just in
25:03
Speaker 1: Duddwoodie near Perimeter Mall as well. It Phipps Plaza that
25:07
Speaker 1: I was trying to think of. Maybe, yeah, I think
25:10
Speaker 1: it is, because that's like Fifth Plaza for those of
25:12
Speaker 1: you all not in Atlanta. Phipps Plaza is where all
25:14
Speaker 1: the rich folk go shopping. Like let's say that you
25:18
Speaker 1: you're between yachts and you want to go window shopping,
25:21
Speaker 1: that's where you go. Okay, yeah, you said fancy and
25:23
Speaker 1: I thought Avalon, but yeah, Phipps Plaza is definitely fancier
25:27
Speaker 1: than Avalon. Uh. But there are there are a few
25:31
Speaker 1: regal cinemas in in Georgia. Uh they're one of them
25:35
Speaker 1: is closing in New Hampshire and Conquered, which you know,
25:38
Speaker 1: New Hampshire isn't that pig of a state. So you
25:41
Speaker 1: know how many movie theaters today actually have I don't know.
25:44
Speaker 1: I haven't been to a movie in New Hampshire since
25:46
Speaker 1: I was a small child. Well, and this is also
25:49
Speaker 1: one of the things that makes it kind of sad too,
25:51
Speaker 1: because you don't hear about it as much. But there
25:55
Speaker 1: are certain chains that get it's certain movies, but they
26:00
Speaker 1: don't get other movies. For example, the Phipps Plaza regal
26:04
Speaker 1: cinemas I was talking about, Like every time a Marvel
26:08
Speaker 1: movie came out, you wouldn't find it on those screens.
26:10
Speaker 1: You'd have to go to one of the other, you know,
26:12
Speaker 1: one of the other theaters in Atlanta. You couldn't see
26:15
Speaker 1: it at Phips Plaza. So if you lose a theater
26:20
Speaker 1: in your in your city, it may be a bigger
26:23
Speaker 1: blow than just like, oh well, we'll have to go
26:25
Speaker 1: to this other theater instead. It may mean that there
26:27
Speaker 1: are certain films that just don't get to you. Yeah, yeah,
26:31
Speaker 1: it's unfortunate. But also you know, they need to do
26:34
Speaker 1: what they need to do to stay in business, So
26:35
Speaker 1: I completely understand. Onto some fun news. If you like
26:41
Speaker 1: Magic the Gathering and you also like Disney, and you
26:44
Speaker 1: have always always wished that these two great tastes could
26:47
Speaker 1: taste great together, you are in luck because Disney has
26:52
Speaker 1: a magic esque card game coming out uh this August. Yeah,
26:57
Speaker 1: it's called lore Conna. And apparently there's already like a
27:02
Speaker 1: a hefty market like of people trying to to corner
27:08
Speaker 1: the market on these cards, and because they're looking at
27:11
Speaker 1: it like it's a like it's a commodity, right, the
27:13
Speaker 1: same sort of thing that you would see with Magic
27:15
Speaker 1: or Pokemon cards. People buying up boxes of the things
27:19
Speaker 1: in order to sell them in As far as I know,
27:22
Speaker 1: I don't even know that these things are available yet,
27:25
Speaker 1: so I don't know how well the speculation is already happening. Yeah,
27:29
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe just uh from pre previews and
27:33
Speaker 1: promos and things like that. If you're if you're at
27:38
Speaker 1: gen Con, you can get them a little bit early
27:41
Speaker 1: instead of waiting to middle August. You can get them
27:43
Speaker 1: at the beginning of August. Yeah, and uh, apparently they're
27:46
Speaker 1: going to be three different starter decks which are called
27:49
Speaker 1: Amber an amethyst for one, Emerald and ruby for another,
27:53
Speaker 1: and steel and sapphire for a third. And then so
27:57
Speaker 1: this was what kind of determines the style I'll of
28:00
Speaker 1: play you will follow, because you know, maybe one deck
28:04
Speaker 1: favors a longer, slower style of play where you you
28:07
Speaker 1: build up your strength and then in the late game
28:10
Speaker 1: you strike. Others might be like, no, you go come
28:13
Speaker 1: out firing early on. You might not have a whole
28:16
Speaker 1: lot of like powerful cards, but you're able to start
28:20
Speaker 1: much earlier, and you figure out what style matches well
28:24
Speaker 1: with your own preference of play and you start building
28:27
Speaker 1: from there. Like that's how all the different card games
28:30
Speaker 1: I'm familiar with have worked. So yeah, you know, it's
28:33
Speaker 1: pretty typical stuff. So I imagine, like I, first of all,
28:37
Speaker 1: we know that Disney is a master of marketing and merchandising.
28:41
Speaker 1: We know that Disney fans are avid collectors. I imagine
28:46
Speaker 1: they won't be able to keep these cards on store shelves.
28:50
Speaker 1: People will be buying them up just to collect them,
28:52
Speaker 1: not even to use them and play. Yeah, I think
28:55
Speaker 1: it's gonna be really popular, especially for anybody who's still
28:57
Speaker 1: feeling a little bit hurt maybe about Magic the Gathering
29:01
Speaker 1: and Wizards of the Coast right now. Um yeah, I mean,
29:05
Speaker 1: like I remember Magic of the Gathering when that came out,
29:08
Speaker 1: and everyone referred to it as like the most addictive
29:12
Speaker 1: kind of of of playing game for for D and
29:16
Speaker 1: D fans, Like there were folks who just went nuts
29:20
Speaker 1: for Magic the Gathering cards when they first And of
29:22
Speaker 1: course it's still popular, but I mean it was such
29:25
Speaker 1: a craze. I imagine this is going to also be
29:28
Speaker 1: a craze, maybe not for the playing parts so much
29:31
Speaker 1: as for the collecting part, like I got to catch
29:33
Speaker 1: them all. Yeah yeah, uh speaking of catching things, did
29:37
Speaker 1: you catch the season trailer for season three of The
29:39
Speaker 1: Mandalorian I did. I watched it. And you know, uh,
29:46
Speaker 1: if people did not watch the Book of Boba Fett,
29:48
Speaker 1: they're probably confused because because the trailer heavily features Mando
29:57
Speaker 1: with baby Yoda, I'm not going to call grow Goo
30:00
Speaker 1: baby Yoda. And and for people who didn't watch Book
30:05
Speaker 1: a Boba fet and don't know how they were reunited,
30:09
Speaker 1: it's going to be really confusing. Here's the real kicker.
30:12
Speaker 1: I cannot actually recommend watching Book a Boba Fett because
30:16
Speaker 1: it wasn't very good. I can't either. Um, And honestly,
30:19
Speaker 1: as much as I loved the first two seasons of Mandalorian,
30:22
Speaker 1: it kind of ruined my excitement for this third season.
30:27
Speaker 1: I think as soon as I hear that theme play,
30:29
Speaker 1: I'll be back on board. I can't even do it.
30:32
Speaker 1: I was going to try to do it, but I
30:33
Speaker 1: can't that that in the like that kind of stuff
30:37
Speaker 1: like I'll be I'll be right back and like there's
30:40
Speaker 1: gonna be no shortage of Mandalorian action because you see
30:43
Speaker 1: so many people in Mandalorian armor in this little in
30:46
Speaker 1: this little trailer. So um, I kind of I still
30:51
Speaker 1: wish they didn't reunite Mando with Grogo that quickly. I
30:54
Speaker 1: think it would have been more effective to keep them
30:56
Speaker 1: apart for longer. I agree. Uh. The only other thing
30:59
Speaker 1: about the trailer, and then we'll move on, is that
31:03
Speaker 1: one of the cities that he was walking through really
31:05
Speaker 1: felt like batu. Oh yeah, yeah. It would have been
31:09
Speaker 1: funny to see someone walked by a goofy T shirt
31:12
Speaker 1: or something. Yeah, yeah, that would have been great. I
31:15
Speaker 1: would have paid to see that that that would be
31:17
Speaker 1: the best blooper. Um. Yeah, I'm sure I'm gonna love it,
31:22
Speaker 1: like I love the first two seasons. I really I
31:25
Speaker 1: love the western feel of it. I still need to
31:27
Speaker 1: watch and Or because I've heard from everyone who's watched
31:31
Speaker 1: it that that was their favorite, not just their favorite
31:34
Speaker 1: Star Wars series, but possibly their favorite Star Wars anything,
31:38
Speaker 1: and I still haven't seen it. I I liked Rogue one.
31:43
Speaker 1: I watched Rogue one twice. In fact, I watched it
31:45
Speaker 1: once right after they announced that carry Fisher had passed away,
31:48
Speaker 1: so that was rough. But uh, I couldn't get into
31:53
Speaker 1: and Or. I just it was slow, and by the
31:57
Speaker 1: time stuff happened, I didn't care about the characters. And
31:59
Speaker 1: I really didn't care about and Or, despite me thinking
32:02
Speaker 1: he was a lot of fun in Rogue one, I had.
32:04
Speaker 1: I had heard that it starts super slow and you
32:06
Speaker 1: have to get past like the first three or four
32:09
Speaker 1: episodes before things really turn up, which is unfortunate because,
32:14
Speaker 1: like you say, like that's that's enough time for someone,
32:17
Speaker 1: especially after the Book of Boba Fett. Let's be real here,
32:20
Speaker 1: after the Book of Boba Fett, if you weren't hooked
32:23
Speaker 1: by episode two Book of Boba Fett burn everyone so
32:26
Speaker 1: badly that that you really risk losing your audience. I
32:31
Speaker 1: also think in and Or they were just two because
32:34
Speaker 1: I've made it through episode four or five and I
32:37
Speaker 1: still was just like, and that's why they dropped all three,
32:42
Speaker 1: like the first three episodes. I think is is so
32:44
Speaker 1: that you could get to that third episode where something
32:46
Speaker 1: actually happens that you might actually care about. Um. I
32:50
Speaker 1: think they fall into like a flashback pit again, um,
32:56
Speaker 1: which doesn't help the show for me at least. And
32:59
Speaker 1: then without spoilers, yeah, like we know mon Mathma is
33:03
Speaker 1: in the series. You know that. I don't think I'm
33:05
Speaker 1: spoiling that. But I cared about her character. I and
33:09
Speaker 1: there were some other bits, but it was just it
33:11
Speaker 1: was there was too much to slog through, and everybody's like, oh,
33:14
Speaker 1: it's okay if you didn't like it, it it was really dark.
33:16
Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't even think it was that dark.
33:17
Speaker 1: I just felt it was boring and I couldn't connect
33:22
Speaker 1: with the people. So gotcha, Well, you are the only
33:25
Speaker 1: person I know I know who has watched it who
33:29
Speaker 1: did not connect to it at all. Like like a
33:33
Speaker 1: lot of the podcasts I listened to. There are people
33:35
Speaker 1: who just are casually saying like, yeah, indoor like I
33:38
Speaker 1: loved it. It was the best thing ever. And I
33:40
Speaker 1: keep thinking, man, I need to make time for that,
33:42
Speaker 1: because I just I haven't. I haven't sat down to
33:45
Speaker 1: watch any of it yet. You do, and I'll finish
33:47
Speaker 1: this series and then we can talk about our same
33:50
Speaker 1: or different opinions. I'm guessing you'll like it, you know.
33:53
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe if I give it a second shot, like
33:55
Speaker 1: Battlestar Galactic, the new one, I'll like it. Uh something
33:59
Speaker 1: else if I give another shot, maybe I'll like more.
34:01
Speaker 1: Is the final season of the new Animaniacs series? Ye,
34:06
Speaker 1: kind of. I was kind of surprised that they just
34:08
Speaker 1: went ahead and announced it as being the final season.
34:11
Speaker 1: And uh, I mean I get animations. Also, it's expensive
34:15
Speaker 1: and slow. We learned that from Invincible when in this
34:18
Speaker 1: teaser for this next season. But um yeah, I was
34:22
Speaker 1: like wow that that revival didn't last very long. I mean,
34:27
Speaker 1: there were bits in in the first season that I liked,
34:30
Speaker 1: but all in all, it didn't quite hit the same
34:34
Speaker 1: notes for me as the original did. And like, it
34:37
Speaker 1: can't fully right because you you have to evolve with uh,
34:42
Speaker 1: what's going on currently, because that's that's part of the
34:44
Speaker 1: fun of Animaniacs and really a lot of Warner Brothers cartoons.
34:48
Speaker 1: But it's just it fell kind of flat. It Also,
34:51
Speaker 1: I think some of the animators that worked on it
34:54
Speaker 1: also worked on Running Stimpy if I'm remembering correctly, I
34:57
Speaker 1: may not be, don't quote me on it, And like
34:59
Speaker 1: there was just a level of unattractive cartoon to it
35:02
Speaker 1: that I didn't like. Got you, Yeah, I know that.
35:06
Speaker 1: I think you were the one who was telling me
35:07
Speaker 1: that you You've had that same sort of reaction to
35:11
Speaker 1: the kind of retro style Mickey Mouse cartoons that that
35:14
Speaker 1: Disney released, which I absolutely love that series but for
35:18
Speaker 1: its humor, but I do wish that they had eased
35:21
Speaker 1: off a bit on the grotesque nature, especially for Goofy,
35:25
Speaker 1: who does come across as truly grotesque in that series.
35:28
Speaker 1: I wish they had eased off of that just a touch.
35:31
Speaker 1: But yeah, I understand. I feel like the way you're
35:34
Speaker 1: describing Animaniac and the reboot is a lot like how
35:38
Speaker 1: I feel about the various revivals of Futurama. Yeah. Yeah,
35:45
Speaker 1: so you're just trying to tap into a good thing
35:47
Speaker 1: but also make it modern and it loses something. Um.
35:51
Speaker 1: That being said, the trailer for season three looks fine.
35:53
Speaker 1: Although Yacko sounds weird to me. I'll tell you what
35:57
Speaker 1: I think about because I agree that Yacko's voice sounds different,
36:00
Speaker 1: but because of his ss like there's there's a little
36:03
Speaker 1: more's to it. And if I had to guess, I
36:07
Speaker 1: would guess that the voice actor who provides the voice
36:10
Speaker 1: for Jacko has had dental work done, perhaps dentures, and
36:15
Speaker 1: that's why and that's why Yacko sounds that way. I was.
36:18
Speaker 1: I was thinking the same thing. Um, although Wacko sounds
36:21
Speaker 1: completely the same, you know. Yeah, but it's fine. It's
36:28
Speaker 1: allowed to grow. I'll probably try to catch it, just
36:30
Speaker 1: to be a completionist. I really loved the original series
36:33
Speaker 1: of Animaniacs. And you know, there are worse ways to
36:39
Speaker 1: waste an afternoon speaking of really old people trying to
36:42
Speaker 1: do comedy. We got the trailer for History of the
36:45
Speaker 1: World Part two. Yeah. So, History of the World Part
36:49
Speaker 1: one is one of mel Brooks's comedies, often viewed as
36:52
Speaker 1: one of his lesser comedies, did not It did not
36:57
Speaker 1: review particularly well when it came out. Uh. It is
37:01
Speaker 1: the film that gave us the phrase it's good to
37:04
Speaker 1: be the King, which I used. I used as my
37:07
Speaker 1: my character motto for for the Georgia Renaissance Festival for
37:11
Speaker 1: my first season as the mayor, except of course I
37:13
Speaker 1: said it's good to be the Mayor. Um, But that
37:16
Speaker 1: was my character. That was one of my character choices
37:18
Speaker 1: when I first joined the Renaissance Festival back in you're
37:23
Speaker 1: a fan of the movie, Uh, I like parts of
37:26
Speaker 1: the movie, like it really is one of his lesser works,
37:30
Speaker 1: Like if you watch it, there are moments that are
37:32
Speaker 1: really funny. There are moments that are I feel are
37:35
Speaker 1: big misses. Um. It gets a little bit like it
37:39
Speaker 1: doesn't get outright raunchy, but it plays with raunchy a
37:42
Speaker 1: lot more than say Young Frankenstein or even Blazing Saddles does,
37:48
Speaker 1: And it gets to a point where for me and
37:53
Speaker 1: I can deal with raunchy humor. But it just felt
37:55
Speaker 1: for me like it started to get a little gratuitous,
37:57
Speaker 1: Like it wasn't it wasn't so much funny as it
38:01
Speaker 1: just felt like, Okay, this is starting to creep into
38:04
Speaker 1: awkward territory where you start to worry that the person
38:07
Speaker 1: making the decisions here is a predatory man who wants
38:12
Speaker 1: to see as many young people and as little clothing
38:15
Speaker 1: as possible. But you know what, I didn't get that
38:20
Speaker 1: feeling from this new trailer. No, I didn't get the
38:23
Speaker 1: feeling like this new trailers for a comedy, Because comedies
38:26
Speaker 1: have funny things in them, I will say, Uh, yeah,
38:32
Speaker 1: the trailer didn't. There were a couple of things in
38:34
Speaker 1: the trailer that made me chuckle, but I am I
38:37
Speaker 1: am a little sleep deprived, and I didn't watch it
38:39
Speaker 1: till last night. But the thing I do like is
38:45
Speaker 1: just the in the first movie had this too, and
38:47
Speaker 1: all mel Brooks movies honestly have this. The breadth of
38:50
Speaker 1: comedic talent he's got in the movie, Like there's a
38:53
Speaker 1: comedian for everyone in there. Yeah, no, there's there are
38:57
Speaker 1: a lot of people you will recognize if you if
39:00
Speaker 1: you watch the trailer. Uh I don't. I don't know.
39:04
Speaker 1: I just felt like none of the jokes were landing
39:08
Speaker 1: for me. Now, again, it's in a trailer, so it's
39:10
Speaker 1: also out of context. Maybe with a little more set
39:13
Speaker 1: up I would appreciate it more. But uh, none of
39:17
Speaker 1: it really, none of it made me want to watch it.
39:21
Speaker 1: Um the end of history of the World Part one
39:23
Speaker 1: has a joking look at what History of the World
39:27
Speaker 1: Part two will include in it. But it's just a joke, right,
39:31
Speaker 1: It's kind of like aerial you know, like when I
39:33
Speaker 1: used to write the mildly exciting Tales of Astonishment episodes,
39:37
Speaker 1: I would end each one with a join us next week,
39:40
Speaker 1: would we hear so and so say? But the big
39:42
Speaker 1: joke was that would never appear in the next episode,
39:45
Speaker 1: Like that was just a that was just a throwaway
39:48
Speaker 1: gag at the end of an episode. In the next
39:50
Speaker 1: episode would have nothing to do with whatever the previous
39:53
Speaker 1: episode was. Same sort of thing with History of the
39:56
Speaker 1: World Part one. Night part of the joke was there
40:00
Speaker 1: was not going to be a History of the World
40:02
Speaker 1: Part two. So um, I mean, I don't know, Like
40:07
Speaker 1: I feel like a lot of mel Brooks's efforts, uh
40:11
Speaker 1: in the last like a couple of decades have mostly
40:15
Speaker 1: fallen short for me, with the exception of The Producers Musical,
40:20
Speaker 1: which I think is good but not as good as
40:23
Speaker 1: the original movie. See I like the musical better than
40:25
Speaker 1: the original movie. But I think that's just because of
40:29
Speaker 1: when I was introduced to both. That makes sense, and
40:32
Speaker 1: I totally get that like it also. I think that
40:34
Speaker 1: really does play a big part of it, right, Like,
40:36
Speaker 1: whichever one you encounter first, you're probably going to have,
40:41
Speaker 1: you know, slightly more affection for than the You're always
40:45
Speaker 1: going to be comparing the second one to whatever you
40:47
Speaker 1: saw first. Yeah. Yeah. But if if History of the
40:52
Speaker 1: World Part two is not your your cup of tea,
40:56
Speaker 1: nor any of the other things we've talked about, don't
40:58
Speaker 1: worry because Netflix just announced every movie they're making this
41:00
Speaker 1: year pretty much. Um, there's a big long list on Polygon,
41:06
Speaker 1: but the trailer because they also released a trailer on
41:08
Speaker 1: YouTube for it, just as like to teach some of
41:11
Speaker 1: the stuff. If last year was sci fi and fantasy,
41:14
Speaker 1: this year just looks like it's just a bunch of action.
41:16
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, Like like the extractor to with with Him's
41:20
Speaker 1: worth in it, like that kind of stuff, or extraction
41:23
Speaker 1: to not extractor. Extractor too, I think would be about
41:25
Speaker 1: a dentist abstraction to kill Luther, and I like Luther,
41:30
Speaker 1: but Luther fallen son Heart of Stone, which is awesome
41:33
Speaker 1: because it's gal Gado is an intelligence operative. But you know,
41:36
Speaker 1: it's just it's a lot of drama and a lot
41:40
Speaker 1: of action. This year there's The Mother, which is a
41:44
Speaker 1: female assassin story. Yeah, a lot of Now, there were
41:48
Speaker 1: some other things like Leo, which is an animated uh
41:52
Speaker 1: film where you've got a a lizard called Leo that's
41:58
Speaker 1: the pet of a of a of a like a classroom.
42:02
Speaker 1: And the little bit that they showed like it was
42:05
Speaker 1: you know, this trailer is just a compilation of very
42:08
Speaker 1: short clips of these various projects. But a little bit
42:13
Speaker 1: that I saw, I was like, okay, you know what
42:15
Speaker 1: that I get a little sense of the tone. I'm
42:19
Speaker 1: called me curious. I am curious about Leo. It looks
42:21
Speaker 1: like it could be cute. I don't know anything else
42:24
Speaker 1: about it, so I would need to see more, right, really,
42:28
Speaker 1: you know it maybe like the actual trailer, i'd be like, nope,
42:31
Speaker 1: I'm out. But the bit I saw it was cute. Yeah.
42:35
Speaker 1: There are a couple other movies are coming out on
42:37
Speaker 1: Netflix that I am excited about. Damsel, which is um
42:41
Speaker 1: l from Stranger Things in like a fantasy setting as
42:45
Speaker 1: a kick ass kind of a young fighter woman, uh
42:50
Speaker 1: you people, which is not a movie that I like.
42:53
Speaker 1: If you gave me the concept, I would be I
42:55
Speaker 1: would say I've seen that before. But the trailer looks
42:58
Speaker 1: really great. It's Jonah Hill and Lauren London fall in
43:01
Speaker 1: love and then their families have to meet, and it's
43:04
Speaker 1: a Jewish family and a black family, kind of dealing
43:08
Speaker 1: with all of that social aspect of everything. Eddie Eddie
43:13
Speaker 1: Murphy as the father of of Lauren London's character, and
43:17
Speaker 1: uh yeah, and the little teasers they've shown of that
43:21
Speaker 1: little the really awkward meeting in the restaurant really dial
43:26
Speaker 1: up how funny Eddie Murphy is well being like a passive,
43:33
Speaker 1: like like hard ass because he's just staring down Jonah Hill,
43:38
Speaker 1: but he's so funny in it. Yes, yes, I'm looking
43:42
Speaker 1: forward to that one. We're getting an untitled Wes Anderson
43:44
Speaker 1: rolled doll film. Uh yeah, maybe James is force fed
43:52
Speaker 1: a giant peach. I don't know. Like, we're getting like
43:55
Speaker 1: a nineteen seventies pulpy mystery caper called day Cloned Tyrone
44:00
Speaker 1: and something called Rebel Moon which just looks like Star Wars. Yeah. Yeah,
44:06
Speaker 1: so some of the stuff here, like literally we don't
44:08
Speaker 1: have enough information to kind of determine what the heck
44:14
Speaker 1: this is, but you know it, I'll say this, like
44:18
Speaker 1: when I watched that teaser the only thing that really
44:21
Speaker 1: jumped out at me initially was Leo. But again, you
44:25
Speaker 1: see like maybe three seconds of each piece, So it's
44:29
Speaker 1: so it's not like it's not like it's not like
44:31
Speaker 1: none of this is gonna be cool. It's just that
44:33
Speaker 1: I haven't seen enough for it to hook me. Yeah.
44:35
Speaker 1: I also think that Leo is the only animated thing
44:38
Speaker 1: they put in that trailer for this year. I think
44:40
Speaker 1: you're right. Yeah. Well, and we know that Netflix did
44:43
Speaker 1: some massive cuts to its animation department, like that was
44:46
Speaker 1: one of the that was one of the divisions that
44:48
Speaker 1: was hit hardest last year when the company started making cuts. Yeah. Yeah,
44:53
Speaker 1: we have two more quick stories before we wrap up.
44:57
Speaker 1: We also got because a trailer for Poleium came out,
45:00
Speaker 1: which we had talked about a while ago, but that
45:02
Speaker 1: didn't make the cut, So instead we're going to talk
45:03
Speaker 1: about the trailer for Screen six. Yeah this one. Did
45:08
Speaker 1: you watch the trailer? I did it. It looked more
45:12
Speaker 1: serious to me than I'm used to scream being well,
45:14
Speaker 1: and it also, I mean, maybe it's just the way
45:17
Speaker 1: the trailer was cut, but it also almost seemed to
45:20
Speaker 1: suggest that there was some sort of supernatural element to
45:24
Speaker 1: the killer. This time and in the past. In all
45:27
Speaker 1: the screen films, the the thing you can take home
45:33
Speaker 1: is that the killer or killers in some cases are
45:37
Speaker 1: just humans and they're dawning this outfit in an effort
45:41
Speaker 1: to terrorize certain people, and that you know, after the
45:46
Speaker 1: first film, each one ends up being like a copycat
45:49
Speaker 1: of previous killers who's determined to put their own spin
45:52
Speaker 1: on it and be the most effective killer of all time.
45:55
Speaker 1: In this trailer, there's a moment where the the ghost
46:00
Speaker 1: face killer character appears to teleport briefly because he is
46:06
Speaker 1: able to to get out of the way of a
46:08
Speaker 1: gunshot before he could be hit, And I was like,
46:13
Speaker 1: how did that happen? Like, is are they introducing a
46:16
Speaker 1: supernatural element into the screen franchise or is this one
46:20
Speaker 1: of those things that ends up being conveniently explained away
46:25
Speaker 1: in the last five minutes of the movie. I think
46:27
Speaker 1: conveniently explained away would be my guests. Either that or
46:30
Speaker 1: it's a very like Evangeli in sort of situation where
46:32
Speaker 1: you wake up and it was all a dream. Congratulations.
46:35
Speaker 1: Oh that's a good point. I didn't even think about that. Yeah,
46:38
Speaker 1: so maybe this this girl watched too many screen movies
46:42
Speaker 1: and is like in a hospital because she's in a
46:48
Speaker 1: coma dreaming about scream. Who knows. Yeah, and when we
46:51
Speaker 1: do get to see the return of several characters from
46:54
Speaker 1: previous entries in the franchise, right like Hayden Panetieri comes back,
47:00
Speaker 1: and she was in a previous screen film and and
47:02
Speaker 1: this is the first time we've seen her since in
47:04
Speaker 1: that franchise. Since that movie. Of course, um Monica from
47:09
Speaker 1: Friends shows up again. Uh, you know, she lost her
47:13
Speaker 1: she lost her love. And the last one spoiler by
47:15
Speaker 1: the way, David Arquette's character got killed in the last one.
47:18
Speaker 1: Um so, so Gayl Weathers is flying solo on this one.
47:24
Speaker 1: But well, of course we don't get any nev Campbell
47:27
Speaker 1: because she said that they weren't going to pay her
47:30
Speaker 1: enough so she refused to take on the role. I
47:32
Speaker 1: mean reasonable, that's absolutely yeah. No, I'm on her side
47:36
Speaker 1: of this, by the way, I'm I'm not dismissing it.
47:38
Speaker 1: I think that's legit. If you if you know you're
47:42
Speaker 1: worth then sticking to that and not bending just because
47:46
Speaker 1: of you know, your own association with a franchise, I
47:49
Speaker 1: think that's admirable. Yeah, especially if you've done five movies already.
47:53
Speaker 1: You're probably like, yeah, I'm ready for a change. I
47:55
Speaker 1: don't Yeah, I'm board. Uh speaking of things that have
48:00
Speaker 1: many many, many, many many many movies, we're getting another
48:03
Speaker 1: Batman animated film, which yeah, is you know, Oh, I'm
48:09
Speaker 1: not gonna say too much of a surprise. Some people
48:10
Speaker 1: might be surprised with how many Batman animated things got
48:13
Speaker 1: cut from HBO recently. Yeah, yeah, yeah, but this one
48:19
Speaker 1: is coming out to physical media like Blu ray and DVD.
48:22
Speaker 1: That's that's so, it's not like coming to HBO Max streaming.
48:26
Speaker 1: It's like the way this advertisement works as they're talking
48:29
Speaker 1: about the actual physical copies you can go and buy.
48:32
Speaker 1: And I don't know about you, Ariel, but I've actually
48:34
Speaker 1: started to do that again because I've gotten tired of
48:37
Speaker 1: titles like the licensing agreement expiring and then suddenly I
48:41
Speaker 1: can't access the thing I wanted to watch, so I've
48:44
Speaker 1: started buying them again. Um. But yeah, So this one
48:48
Speaker 1: is based off a three comic book run from the
48:52
Speaker 1: early two thousand's that was part of the else Worlds
48:56
Speaker 1: uh titles of d C and else Worlds. We're kind
49:00
Speaker 1: of more of a horror fantasy based uh take on
49:06
Speaker 1: d C characters, so it was separate from the main
49:11
Speaker 1: timeline of stories for DC characters. It wasn't cannon in
49:14
Speaker 1: other words, but it allowed writers to create situations that
49:19
Speaker 1: you typically would not see in those comics, which is
49:23
Speaker 1: why if you watch this trailer, you might first get
49:25
Speaker 1: turned off on the fact that there's a lot of
49:28
Speaker 1: supernatural stuff going on in this trailer, to the point
49:32
Speaker 1: where you're thinking, even Rachel Ghoul had limits to the
49:36
Speaker 1: amount of supernatural stuff, but there's it's going crazy in
49:39
Speaker 1: this one. But it turns out because it's from this
49:41
Speaker 1: else world line and in the original comics, the original
49:46
Speaker 1: comics had and you'll love this areal a very strong
49:49
Speaker 1: love craft Ian element to them. That is pretty cool.
49:53
Speaker 1: I mean, like same with DC Dark. You know, if
49:57
Speaker 1: you look at because even though I was I was
50:00
Speaker 1: read about Snyder doing that, Like there's there's a whole
50:02
Speaker 1: line of DC Dark comics and cartoon movies with Constantine
50:06
Speaker 1: and Sitana and Etrogon and um, swamp thing maybe thanks
50:13
Speaker 1: swamp things. Apart the Dark Universe, I don't recall um. Yeah,
50:16
Speaker 1: I think you're right, yeah, swamp thing. Yeah, I almost
50:19
Speaker 1: said man thing, but that's Marvel that's Marvel. Yeah, so,
50:22
Speaker 1: uh you know this, this just kind of ties in
50:24
Speaker 1: with that. I honestly didn't give a second thought other
50:26
Speaker 1: than to go, oh, yeah, that must looks kind of interesting.
50:29
Speaker 1: I almost had like a Scooby Doo reaction to it. Uh.
50:34
Speaker 1: Turns out it was the Penguin all along. I would
50:36
Speaker 1: have gotten away with it too if it weren't for
50:38
Speaker 1: you and that lousy sidekick um oppression. Thanks. I don't
50:45
Speaker 1: know where. I don't know which piguin I was even
50:47
Speaker 1: attempting to impersonate at that point because it didn't sound
50:50
Speaker 1: like any of them. But yeah, I think it looks
50:54
Speaker 1: it looks neat like I it's I've only seen a
50:57
Speaker 1: few of the Batman animated films, Like I remember, I
51:00
Speaker 1: saw the Red Hood one, and I saw there was
51:05
Speaker 1: a Phantom one. I want to say that was This
51:08
Speaker 1: was like three decades ago at this point, I think
51:12
Speaker 1: when that one came out. But I always enjoyed them.
51:15
Speaker 1: It's just that I was never deep enough in the
51:19
Speaker 1: Batman fandom where I would collect all of them, so
51:23
Speaker 1: I've only seen a fraction of the ones that came out.
51:25
Speaker 1: But this one looks pretty good. Yeah, I agree, I've
51:27
Speaker 1: seen so many Batman animated movies because my husband and
51:32
Speaker 1: I have a friend that whenever he comes in town,
51:34
Speaker 1: he brings like six and he's like, Okay, which Batman
51:37
Speaker 1: movie are we watching tonight? And I only watch half
51:38
Speaker 1: of them with them. But you know, so there's like
51:41
Speaker 1: Batman in the teenage Muntant, Ninja Turtles, maybe that's Superman anyhow,
51:45
Speaker 1: There's a lot of DC animated stuff. Yeah, and a
51:50
Speaker 1: lot of it's fun. Um yeah. So uh, you know,
51:55
Speaker 1: continuing on our trend for this month, I'm really looking
51:59
Speaker 1: forward to twenty any three and a lot of this
52:01
Speaker 1: stuff that's coming out. Um me too. I mean, like,
52:05
Speaker 1: I know I sounded kind of gloom on a lot
52:07
Speaker 1: of this stuff, but again, part of it is just
52:09
Speaker 1: that I haven't seen enough to really get a feel
52:11
Speaker 1: for whether or not it's going to click with me.
52:14
Speaker 1: But you know, there's some stuff like like The Last
52:17
Speaker 1: of Us. I'm I don't know if I'll be able
52:19
Speaker 1: to watch the whole series, And the reason is that
52:22
Speaker 1: it is so well done. It's affecting me so so
52:29
Speaker 1: well emotionally, like well as an It's it's very effective
52:32
Speaker 1: at doing it that I don't know if I have
52:35
Speaker 1: the stamina to withstand the whole thing, but it's incredibly
52:39
Speaker 1: well done. That's completely reasonable, because you know, when you
52:43
Speaker 1: ingest media, it's it's got to bring some sort of
52:46
Speaker 1: positive value to you. And if the negative toll is
52:50
Speaker 1: greater than the positive value, then it's not worth watching.
52:53
Speaker 1: And that's not to say it's a bad show, but
52:54
Speaker 1: you know it, trauma is trauma, so yeah, it might
52:58
Speaker 1: just be. You know what's weird are here's the And
53:00
Speaker 1: it sounds so pretentious, so I apologize before I even
53:03
Speaker 1: say this, But what's weird is that because I played
53:06
Speaker 1: the video game, and because I controlled characters where these
53:11
Speaker 1: things were happening to those characters, in a way, it
53:15
Speaker 1: feels like I have gone through this, and now this
53:18
Speaker 1: is making me relive the feelings I had when I
53:21
Speaker 1: went through it, and and I and I know that
53:24
Speaker 1: that that almost diminishes what real trauma is. And I
53:28
Speaker 1: don't mean to do that. I just mean that the
53:30
Speaker 1: feelings I have as I watch it, it's pulling up
53:33
Speaker 1: the feelings I had when I played the game and
53:35
Speaker 1: amplifying them. And I don't know if I can take it.
53:39
Speaker 1: I don't think that sounds pretentious. I think that's, you know,
53:42
Speaker 1: a very good insight into how you're feeling watching a show,
53:45
Speaker 1: and that's really interesting actually, so thank you for sharing that. Um,
53:50
Speaker 1: if anybody else who's listening out there has watched The
53:53
Speaker 1: Last of Us or you know, is excited about Mandalorian
53:58
Speaker 1: season three or any of the other things we've talked
53:59
Speaker 1: about it, you should write us and tell us. Yes,
54:02
Speaker 1: if you want to tell us what you're thinking, what
54:05
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54:08
Speaker 1: dun and when the waves are laughing at your feet
54:13
Speaker 1: and the sun is setting below the horizon, just as
54:15
Speaker 1: the final light of dusk fades, the first breeze you feel,
54:20
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54:23
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54:27
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54:30
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54:34
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54:37
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54:40
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54:44
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54:54
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54:57
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54:58
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55:01
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55:05
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55:07
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55:08
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55:12
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55:18
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55:20
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55:24
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