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- 0:10Speaker 1: Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Large nor Drug Lighter podcast,
- 0:13Speaker 1: the podcast that's all about the geeky things happening in
- 0:15Speaker 1: the world around us and how very excited we are
- 0:17Speaker 1: about them. I'm Ariel cast In, and with me, as
- 0:21Speaker 1: always is the super duper John and In Streetland.
- 0:25Speaker 2: Up, Up and away in my beautiful balloon museum.
- 0:32Speaker 1: Balloon museum. Yeah, we're talking about balloon museums.
- 0:35Speaker 2: And it's right. It's right across the street from the areel. Like,
- 0:38Speaker 2: there's a balloon museum across the street from I went
- 0:42Speaker 2: to it this week. I'll talk about it in a second.
- 0:45Speaker 1: I thought, so you think you could dances across the
- 0:48Speaker 1: street from you.
- 0:49Speaker 2: That's also Listen, there's a lot that's across the street
- 0:52Speaker 2: from me. It's a big complex and one of the
- 0:55Speaker 2: things that's in there is a balloon museum.
- 0:59Speaker 1: I need to visit you or often apparently, which I mean, yes,
- 1:02Speaker 1: that's true. Maybe we do. We'll do. We have talked
- 1:06Speaker 1: about like once a month doing a in person video
- 1:09Speaker 1: recording of this podcast, so if we can figure out
- 1:12Speaker 1: those logistics, then that's likely to happen.
- 1:15Speaker 2: Yeah, So welcome everyone to our podcast. We're going to
- 1:20Speaker 2: start as we always do, by talking about stuff what
- 1:23Speaker 2: we have seen and done since the last time we recorded,
- 1:28Speaker 2: And if you want, I'll just go ahead and go first,
- 1:30Speaker 2: since I talked about the Balloon Museum, So yeah, there's
- 1:33Speaker 2: a Balloon Museum exhibit. It's in the Pullman train Yard,
- 1:37Speaker 2: which is very close to where I live, like in
- 1:40Speaker 2: walking distance, and I went there this past week, partly
- 1:47Speaker 2: as a celebration for my wife's birthday, partly just to
- 1:50Speaker 2: see what was all about. And it kind of spans
- 1:56Speaker 2: the gap between a legitimate exhibition and one of those
- 2:02Speaker 2: Instagram pop up museum experiences. You know what I'm talking about, right,
- 2:07Speaker 2: areel like.
- 2:07Speaker 1: The yeah, yeah, like the Candy Topia or the Slime
- 2:13Speaker 1: the really gross slime places.
- 2:16Speaker 2: Yeah. I want to say there was like a doughnut
- 2:17Speaker 2: inspired one as well, besides the Candy Topia one. But yeah,
- 2:21Speaker 2: those things where you realize that it's only made for
- 2:25Speaker 2: you to go in and take selfies, where there's all
- 2:28Speaker 2: this stuff around you, and that there's nothing else to
- 2:31Speaker 2: the experience. This felt like it had a little more
- 2:34Speaker 2: substance than that, a little more not a lot, but
- 2:39Speaker 2: it involved a lot of artists who had created essentially
- 2:43Speaker 2: like inflatable sculptures of different types, like some of them
- 2:47Speaker 2: were very abstract, some of them were less. So my
- 2:52Speaker 2: favorite room was a corridor where they had smoke filled
- 3:00Speaker 2: soap bubbles flying through the air while they projected like
- 3:04Speaker 2: laser lights as well, so it had this really cool
- 3:08Speaker 2: lighting effect and the little smoke bubbles were neat when
- 3:10Speaker 2: they would pop right. That was really cool. They also
- 3:13Speaker 2: had a huge swimming pool like area filled with thousands
- 3:20Speaker 2: and thousands of black balls, so it was a ballpit essentially,
- 3:27Speaker 2: and people were given the opportunity to free fall, not
- 3:31Speaker 2: jump into, but freefall into the balls and then stay
- 3:36Speaker 2: inside the giant pool filled with balls to watch like
- 3:41Speaker 2: a little video component to this piece. I did not
- 3:46Speaker 2: get into the pool, but both of the people I
- 3:48Speaker 2: went with did.
- 3:51Speaker 1: Did they survive the ballpit?
- 3:54Speaker 2: They did. Both of them lived, although friend of the
- 3:58Speaker 2: show Sheha bruised her petwo d oh yeah, like when
- 4:03Speaker 2: she did her fall back, like she her butt hit
- 4:05Speaker 2: the base of the pool because it's not that deep,
- 4:08Speaker 2: like there's no deep end. It was large but not
- 4:12Speaker 2: deep because you need to be able to get up
- 4:14Speaker 2: and walk around to get yourself to the edge and
- 4:16Speaker 2: pull yourself back out again. But yeah, she said that
- 4:20Speaker 2: when she fell backward, she hit her butt a little
- 4:23Speaker 2: too hard. As I said, I did not get in
- 4:27Speaker 2: and so I did not experience this myself. But yeah,
- 4:30Speaker 2: it was cute, like I don't know if it's worth
- 4:34Speaker 2: almost forty dollars a ticket cute, But well.
- 4:39Speaker 1: I mean, ballpits are not balloons. I'm sorry. Like I
- 4:43Speaker 1: will call a pop tart a sandwich, but a ballpit
- 4:45Speaker 1: is not a balloon.
- 4:47Speaker 2: Yeah, it's first of all, pop tart a sandwich. Well
- 4:51Speaker 2: that's going to come back later in this episode. But yeah,
- 4:55Speaker 2: I agree, bubbles aren't balloons either are technic. But it
- 5:01Speaker 2: was still my favorite. Yeah, it was neat. I thought
- 5:05Speaker 2: it was a neat experience. Like, I didn't dislike it.
- 5:08Speaker 2: I definitely felt the price, as I said on a
- 5:12Speaker 2: social media post, was overinflated to use a balloon joke,
- 5:17Speaker 2: but still kind of a cool experience. Other than that,
- 5:21Speaker 2: I watched the most recent episode of Dick Turpin, which
- 5:24Speaker 2: is the second to last. It's the penultimate episode for
- 5:27Speaker 2: this season and ended in a bit of a cliffhanger,
- 5:31Speaker 2: which made me wish that I had just waited until
- 5:34Speaker 2: the end of this week to watch both parts back
- 5:38Speaker 2: to back, so now like what I have to look
- 5:40Speaker 2: forward to tonight is the conclusion of that story. I
- 5:44Speaker 2: also started playing starduw Valley for like the twentieth time
- 5:49Speaker 2: because Update one point six released this week, and so
- 5:54Speaker 2: it's crazy to me that the creator of that game
- 5:57Speaker 2: continues to push out updates to years after its initial
- 6:02Speaker 2: release and adding incredible value. Like he did some stuff
- 6:06Speaker 2: that was just like little quality of life improvements in
- 6:10Speaker 2: the game, but he also added like legit, like like
- 6:15Speaker 2: substantial content in there, and so I'm really enjoying it.
- 6:20Speaker 2: It actually has pulled me away from Like a Dragon.
- 6:22Speaker 2: I was about to go into the final chapter of
- 6:26Speaker 2: Like a Dragon, the most recent game in what used
- 6:31Speaker 2: to be called the Yakuza series. I was in chapter
- 6:34Speaker 2: thirteen and there are fourteen chapters, and I put it
- 6:37Speaker 2: down to switch to Stardu Valley, and I think that's
- 6:43Speaker 2: it for me. So what about you, Ariel. I've been
- 6:45Speaker 2: chatting for way.
- 6:46Speaker 1: Too long, so I've been adding stuff while you were chatting.
- 6:50Speaker 1: I've also been listening. I've never played Stardu Valley or
- 6:54Speaker 1: the Yakuza series, although the latter has interested me.
- 6:57Speaker 2: You gotta play Starduo Valley by the game play Stardo Valley.
- 7:05Speaker 2: It's one of those games where it's like Civilization, where
- 7:08Speaker 2: it has that one more turn kind of aspect to it.
- 7:11Speaker 2: You'll complete a day and your progress saves when you
- 7:14Speaker 2: get to the end of the day, and then the
- 7:16Speaker 2: next day starts, and the temptation to just go into
- 7:20Speaker 2: that next day and not walk away is incredible.
- 7:24Speaker 1: I maybe I will do it when I've got someone
- 7:27Speaker 1: to hold me accountable, because I don't need a game
- 7:29Speaker 1: like that in my life. I have so much to do.
- 7:32Speaker 2: I understand this.
- 7:35Speaker 1: I'm trying to get my like I will play it
- 7:37Speaker 1: at some point. I will that, And as soon as
- 7:39Speaker 1: I get I figure out what machine I want to
- 7:42Speaker 1: play balder Skate three on and get that machine, I'll
- 7:44Speaker 1: play that too. I did last weekend after we recorded
- 7:50Speaker 1: Watch a Friend. No, it wasn't last week, it was
- 7:54Speaker 1: two weeks ago, but I didn't talk about it. I
- 7:56Speaker 1: watched a friend play Unicorn Overlord, which is an interesting
- 8:03Speaker 1: turn based game where you set up all of your
- 8:05Speaker 1: characters to do their stuff beforehand, and then you just
- 8:07Speaker 1: watch them fight. You don't make decisions in the middle
- 8:11Speaker 1: of the battle, but the weirdest thing about it was
- 8:15Speaker 1: a lot of like the character and costume design was
- 8:19Speaker 1: very incongruous to me. There was a noble who is
- 8:24Speaker 1: dressed like an exotic dancer. Not that that's a bad
- 8:26Speaker 1: way to dress like it would be a fun cause
- 8:29Speaker 1: play to do, but it kind of a lot of
- 8:31Speaker 1: the characters design didn't necessarily match with the kind of
- 8:34Speaker 1: character that they were sure, and it was a little
- 8:37Speaker 1: bit weird and funny, but it was interesting. But this
- 8:41Speaker 1: week I saw Ghostbusters The Frozen Empire.
- 8:46Speaker 2: Right as those Ghostbusters let it go.
- 8:52Speaker 1: And you know, my husband said that he wasn't able
- 8:58Speaker 1: to turn off his brain enough to enjoy it. And
- 8:59Speaker 1: they're definitely things about it that could have been that
- 9:06Speaker 1: are done is the wrong word. I felt a couple
- 9:09Speaker 1: of pieces were not necessary, or some of the plot
- 9:15Speaker 1: was a little convoluted. But I enjoyed the journey. Interestingly enough,
- 9:20Speaker 1: I enjoyed the journey to get to the battle more
- 9:23Speaker 1: than I enjoyed the battle. By the time I got
- 9:24Speaker 1: to the battle, I was a little bit like, is
- 9:29Speaker 1: this movie over or is this like a midway through
- 9:31Speaker 1: the movie battle, But up to that point I enjoyed it.
- 9:36Speaker 1: The family dynamics were amazing. That was a lot of
- 9:39Speaker 1: fun to watch. The special people that they brought into
- 9:42Speaker 1: the Ghostbusters organization were a lot of fun. I felt
- 9:48Speaker 1: very much like they had pulled some inspiration from Dropout
- 9:51Speaker 1: or Dimension twenties on Sleeping City. But it was fun
- 9:59Speaker 1: I enjoyed. But the movie I thought was going to
- 10:01Speaker 1: someplace nostalgic that it didn't end up going to. And
- 10:07Speaker 1: afterwards my husband and I were talking about it and
- 10:09Speaker 1: he also thought the movie was going to go to
- 10:11Speaker 1: this specific place.
- 10:12Speaker 2: I don't.
- 10:12Speaker 1: It's a new enough movie. I'm worried about giving spoilers.
- 10:16Speaker 1: But it had to do with you know, past specters
- 10:20Speaker 1: and things like that.
- 10:22Speaker 2: So like a Vigo thing. You thought Vigo was going
- 10:25Speaker 2: to show up.
- 10:26Speaker 1: No, no, I didn't.
- 10:30Speaker 2: Wellow, so we're talking like maybe like a Gozer or
- 10:32Speaker 2: something in that case, Okay, got it.
- 10:35Speaker 1: Not Vigo, not Goes are more inconsequential ghosts. But I
- 10:39Speaker 1: did like a lot about the movie. I thought it
- 10:41Speaker 1: was a lot of fun. The jokes landed, the easter
- 10:43Speaker 1: eggs were more well incorporated. So Afterlife was very much
- 10:47Speaker 1: a love letter to the original Ghostbusters movie. We've said
- 10:50Speaker 1: this quite a few times on this podcast, but all
- 10:52Speaker 1: of like the Easter eggs and all of the callbacks
- 10:55Speaker 1: were very apparent and they were much more well integrated
- 10:58Speaker 1: into this movie where it felt like a story and
- 11:01Speaker 1: not just a bunch of callbacks.
- 11:03Speaker 2: So that was great.
- 11:05Speaker 1: And then the actor. There was an actor in the
- 11:12Speaker 1: mid credit end scene who is a regional actor and
- 11:14Speaker 1: he's a really great guy, and I was super excited
- 11:16Speaker 1: to get to see him be in it because he
- 11:19Speaker 1: had posted on social about his journey to get the role.
- 11:24Speaker 1: And it was a really interesting conversation because apparently when
- 11:28Speaker 1: he got the audition, he had no idea what it
- 11:30Speaker 1: was for. It was dummy sides like they do with
- 11:32Speaker 1: really big movies, but they needed a body scan and
- 11:34Speaker 1: this was right after like the strike, and he was like,
- 11:37Speaker 1: I don't know if I can do this. I really
- 11:39Speaker 1: need more information, and just his journey to make the
- 11:43Speaker 1: decision to audition for it anyhow and how well it
- 11:45Speaker 1: turned out. So I was glad to see it work
- 11:48Speaker 1: out for him. But that was good. Now I'm talking
- 11:51Speaker 1: way too long. In anticipation of watching the new Roadhouse movie,
- 11:55Speaker 1: my husband watched the original Roadhouse movie and I watched
- 11:58Speaker 1: the second half of the original Roadhouse movie.
- 12:02Speaker 2: Well, the question is in that second I don't remember
- 12:05Speaker 2: where it falls in the film. Did you get to
- 12:07Speaker 2: hear the immortal line pain don't hurt? I don't know
- 12:13Speaker 2: that was in the first half.
- 12:14Speaker 1: Then this this last week, I was also super super busy,
- 12:18Speaker 1: so I was exhausted by the time I got to Roadhouse.
- 12:23Speaker 1: But I will tell you the movie it's die like
- 12:28Speaker 1: it's ware shows right. It doesn't hold up incredibly well,
- 12:33Speaker 1: but it's immensely more fun if you imagine that every
- 12:37Speaker 1: other attractive guy in the film who plays like a
- 12:40Speaker 1: villain or adversary is someone else who auditioned for Patrick
- 12:45Speaker 1: Swayze's role and didn't get it.
- 12:47Speaker 2: Hmm, that just.
- 12:49Speaker 1: Makes it a lot more fun.
- 12:50Speaker 2: It's roll insider baseball. The longer you're an actor, the
- 12:53Speaker 2: more I'm gonna have to deal with these kinds of things.
- 12:56Speaker 1: No, I was just I was like, he kind of
- 12:58Speaker 1: looks like Patrick Swayzee. I wonder if he condition for
- 13:00Speaker 1: the main role and didn't get it, and now he's
- 13:02Speaker 1: the villain, and so it's kind of like a real
- 13:05Speaker 1: life fake adversarial thing. Just funny, funny brain miss Sure.
- 13:13Speaker 1: I've watched the first couple of episodes of X Men
- 13:16Speaker 1: ninety seven, which is the cartoon that's the continuation of
- 13:20Speaker 1: the old X Men cartoon. I'm really enjoying it.
- 13:23Speaker 2: It's good.
- 13:24Speaker 1: It's yeah. I had to be reminded of a couple
- 13:29Speaker 1: of things from the original cartoon because it's been a
- 13:30Speaker 1: long time and I didn't go back and watch it.
- 13:32Speaker 1: But I'm really enjoying the story so far. It's given me,
- 13:35Speaker 1: like very much the feel of like the Wolverine podcasts
- 13:38Speaker 1: that came out a few years ago and all that.
- 13:40Speaker 2: So it's great cool.
- 13:42Speaker 1: And then yeah, and then three Body Problem is out
- 13:44Speaker 1: and I want to watch it, but my husband just
- 13:46Speaker 1: got the book for Christmas and doesn't want to watch
- 13:50Speaker 1: the show till he's read the book. So I guess
- 13:54Speaker 1: I'm holding off on that one.
- 13:56Speaker 2: I mean, you could always try and watch it yourself
- 13:59Speaker 2: and just potentially deal with that being a strain on
- 14:04Speaker 2: your relationship, because that typically is what happens in my household,
- 14:08Speaker 2: is that one of the two of us will end
- 14:10Speaker 2: up jumping ahead and the other ones like you betrayed me.
- 14:16Speaker 1: I do that with like pitch meetings and ordinary sausage
- 14:19Speaker 1: videos and how it should have ended some things like
- 14:23Speaker 1: that TV shows we tend to wait for each other.
- 14:26Speaker 1: I did watch all of Last of Us without Tony
- 14:29Speaker 1: because he wants to play the video game first, and
- 14:32Speaker 1: he's not ready to play the video game yet. But
- 14:34Speaker 1: I was like, Hey, I'm gonna do this. I hope
- 14:36Speaker 1: you don't mind. He's like, nah, it's fine. So he'll
- 14:40Speaker 1: probably read Three Body Problem well before he plays Last
- 14:43Speaker 1: of Us though, so.
- 14:45Speaker 2: Well. But before we go any further, it's time for
- 14:49Speaker 2: us to segue into our beloved famed segment thirty Seconds
- 14:54Speaker 2: or Less, where we guarantee, not a guarantee, that we
- 14:58Speaker 2: will cover the following stories each in thirty seconds or less.
- 15:05Speaker 1: And this first one doesn't really belong in the thirty
- 15:07Speaker 1: seconds or less. It's that Lewis Gossitt Junior passed away
- 15:10Speaker 1: the day or it was announced the day of our
- 15:12Speaker 1: recording this. He's eighty seven years old. He's a very
- 15:15Speaker 1: prolific actor. He won like an Oscar and an Emmy
- 15:18Speaker 1: for being in Roots the original. He won an Academy Award,
- 15:22Speaker 1: I think for being in an officer and a gentleman.
- 15:24Speaker 1: But he's done a bunch of geeky stuff too. He
- 15:27Speaker 1: was in the new Watchman TV show for HBO. He
- 15:29Speaker 1: was in the nineties Punisher. He had a guest role
- 15:32Speaker 1: on psych and Stargate, and he was in Jaws three
- 15:36Speaker 1: D and Enemy Mine in a voice in the Batman cartoons.
- 15:39Speaker 1: So he did a lot of cool stuff and apparently
- 15:43Speaker 1: did a lot of good things too. So go out
- 15:46Speaker 1: and watch something that he's done in geeky remembrance.
- 15:50Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, there's tons of options. He was a prolific actor,
- 15:54Speaker 2: so yes, okay. Moving on. In the Robots to Our
- 16:00Speaker 2: Jobs category, actor Sarah Poyser says that the BBC agreed
- 16:04Speaker 2: to replace her with an AI voiceover or an unnamed project.
- 16:09Speaker 2: She posted a screenshot of a message that said, quote,
- 16:12Speaker 2: sorry for the delay. We have had the approval from
- 16:15Speaker 2: BBC to use the AI generated voice, so we won't
- 16:18Speaker 2: need Sarah any more end quote. So you might remember
- 16:22Speaker 2: this issue was a cornerstone during the sag after strikes
- 16:26Speaker 2: here in the United States, and I have to say,
- 16:28Speaker 2: not a great move, BBC.
- 16:31Speaker 1: Yeah, they're they're realizing that it makes me mad. And also,
- 16:35Speaker 1: not everything was settled for voice actors. There's still a
- 16:38Speaker 1: lot of reasonable to do there. Yes, So are you
- 16:47Speaker 1: old enough to remember Sister Act or Sister Act two. Well,
- 16:53Speaker 1: apparently for like ten years now, they've been talking about
- 16:57Speaker 1: making a Sister Act three, maybe a direct to streaming
- 17:01Speaker 1: movie for Disney Plus. They talked about they started talking
- 17:03Speaker 1: about it in twenty fifteen. In twenty twenty they said
- 17:06Speaker 1: maybe a Disney Plus streaming thing. Apparently, according to Vie Goldberg,
- 17:11Speaker 1: it's still in the works. I liked Sister Act. If
- 17:15Speaker 1: they can give me a good story, I wouldn't mind
- 17:18Speaker 1: a third one. I don't know how much of an
- 17:21Speaker 1: audience it will have because I don't know how many,
- 17:24Speaker 1: like newer generations have watched it.
- 17:27Speaker 2: I mean it depends. Did you know that there's a
- 17:29Speaker 2: Broadway musical Sister Act.
- 17:32Speaker 1: Yes, but it's so very different and they don't use
- 17:34Speaker 1: any of the pop tunes like to me, sorry, we're
- 17:36Speaker 1: going off thirty seconds here. To me, Sister Act is
- 17:39Speaker 1: like the precursor to all of like the soundtracks to
- 17:42Speaker 1: things like The Suicide Squad or Guardians of the Galaxy
- 17:45Speaker 1: or whatnot, Like they did Jukebox musical, right, yeah, yeah,
- 17:52Speaker 1: the musical is not that.
- 17:54Speaker 2: The reason why I asked is like, like there's some
- 17:56Speaker 2: people who might their familiarity with sister act might only
- 17:59Speaker 2: be the broad Way musical, which is weird to think about,
- 18:01Speaker 2: but anyway, Okay. Back in twenty twenty one, Netflix treated
- 18:06Speaker 2: viewers with a trilogy of Fear Street films adapted from R. L.
- 18:09Speaker 2: Stein novels. Those three stories were interconnected, and now we're
- 18:13Speaker 2: getting a fourth film titled Fear Street prom Queen. It's
- 18:17Speaker 2: set in nineteen eighty eight and it will feature a
- 18:21Speaker 2: cast including India Fowler, Susanna sun Nis Strasa, David Ayacono,
- 18:27Speaker 2: and Ella Rubin. And I don't recognize any of those names,
- 18:31Speaker 2: but I am old.
- 18:33Speaker 1: Yes, I haven't watched Fear Street. Speaking of old, are
- 18:39Speaker 1: you old enough to remember American Gladiators? Uh? So, apparently
- 18:45Speaker 1: they're American Gladiators, which was kind of like, hey, fight
- 18:50Speaker 1: people with foam weapons like cool are being on TV
- 18:55Speaker 1: mixed with Ninja Warrior had spun off to the UK
- 19:00Speaker 1: and that has had a reboot. Gladiators in the BBC
- 19:05Speaker 1: was so big that its first episode, which recently launched
- 19:12Speaker 1: I think is the largest launch that the BBC has
- 19:16Speaker 1: had in nearly a decade. They've had ten million viewers
- 19:20Speaker 1: after twenty eight days. So they're getting a second season,
- 19:24Speaker 1: So yay hitting people with pham polls on balance beams.
- 19:30Speaker 2: That's also where the joke in Dodgeball came from, where
- 19:33Speaker 2: he's introducing his team that includes a guy named Laser
- 19:37Speaker 2: and a guy named Blazer. Like it was clearly like
- 19:42Speaker 2: a joking reference to American Gladiators.
- 19:45Speaker 1: Well, I watched the Goodness out of American Gladiators when
- 19:48Speaker 1: I was little.
- 19:49Speaker 2: I enjoyed it as a kid too. I thought it
- 19:51Speaker 2: was great. It was a great like I always wanted
- 19:53Speaker 2: to be the guy firing tennis balls out of the
- 19:56Speaker 2: tennis ball cannon while people are running behind various like
- 20:01Speaker 2: cover and trying to fire back. I was like, this
- 20:03Speaker 2: is awesome. Well, remember that Hollywood auction that we mentioned
- 20:08Speaker 2: a couple of episodes ago. One item that commanded a
- 20:10Speaker 2: massive seven hundred and eighteen thousand, seven hundred and fifty
- 20:14Speaker 2: dollars bid was the door that killed Leonardo DiCaprio or
- 20:19Speaker 2: it saved Kate Winslet. It really just depends upon your
- 20:21Speaker 2: point of view. But I'm talking about the prop door
- 20:24Speaker 2: used at the end of Titanic. According to Hollywood Reporter,
- 20:28Speaker 2: it's made out of balsa wood, which even by home
- 20:31Speaker 2: depot standards is overpricing. Sorry, you can tell. You can
- 20:38Speaker 2: tell when Aerial gets distracted and starts typing things where
- 20:40Speaker 2: there's a long delay.
- 20:42Speaker 1: No, I mean it was. It was funny. I liked it.
- 20:45Speaker 1: I liked the home Depoat dig I was. It was
- 20:48Speaker 1: just I was like, I wonder if it's still wet
- 20:50Speaker 1: like Colin Ferth's shirt was. I think it's a different Anyhow, Apparently,
- 20:57Speaker 1: did you ever want to own a cinema line, a
- 21:01Speaker 1: movie house franchise, because apparently Alamo Draft of House Cinema
- 21:06Speaker 1: is up for sale. We don't know the price, but
- 21:11Speaker 1: apparently their numbers have been doing better than the overall
- 21:15Speaker 1: domestic box office numbers. So if you've got millions or
- 21:20Speaker 1: billions of dollars to spend and you want to own
- 21:22Speaker 1: a movie theater line, now's your chance.
- 21:27Speaker 2: Yeah. Alamo Draft House has a reputation for being like
- 21:31Speaker 2: a film goer's theater chain, where they have very strict
- 21:34Speaker 2: rules in place and if you if you break those rules,
- 21:37Speaker 2: you will be told to leave. And that includes things
- 21:40Speaker 2: like texting during a film that kind of stuff. But
- 21:45Speaker 2: the chain also has not been without its own list
- 21:48Speaker 2: of controversies, which we're not going to get into here.
- 21:53Speaker 1: I'm sure that they're selling.
- 21:54Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sure that folks in Austin, Texas are a
- 21:57Speaker 2: bit nervous about who might take over that cinema because
- 22:03Speaker 2: it has a long and beloved history in that town.
- 22:06Speaker 2: But speaking of beloved, I love Florence Pugh. That could
- 22:12Speaker 2: be the end of this thirty seconds or less piece
- 22:14Speaker 2: right here. But one of the reasons I love her
- 22:17Speaker 2: is for the amount of f's she gives when it
- 22:19Speaker 2: comes to showing folks backstage looks at her work, which
- 22:23Speaker 2: is zero. She gives zero of them. So she recently
- 22:26Speaker 2: posted a short video on Instagram showing a quick glimpse
- 22:29Speaker 2: of goings on during Thunderbolts filming, which is happening right
- 22:33Speaker 2: here in Atlanta, Florence. If you are listening, let's go
- 22:37Speaker 2: grab tea. I know just the place.
- 22:40Speaker 1: Aw, that's sweet. Yeah, don't know which. I have a
- 22:44Speaker 1: guess which soundstage actually something at. But did you know
- 22:49Speaker 1: that there's also a bunch of soundstages up in Doraville?
- 22:53Speaker 2: Now I did not. I only know the ones that
- 22:55Speaker 2: are south of the city.
- 22:57Speaker 1: You can see them from two eighty five.
- 23:00Speaker 2: That's the perimeter. That's the perimeter that goes around the city.
- 23:03Speaker 2: For those of you not in the Atlanta area.
- 23:06Speaker 1: Yes, and if you're inside the perimeter, you're itp.
- 23:10Speaker 2: Ha ha that's me. You're cool.
- 23:11Speaker 1: And if you're if you're outside the perimeter.
- 23:14Speaker 2: Of your trash area and not cool.
- 23:17Speaker 1: But also I live in Roswell, which is right on
- 23:20Speaker 1: the border of Sandy Springs, which to me is still
- 23:22Speaker 1: Metro Atlanta. So I'm insert raspberry here. I'm not going
- 23:26Speaker 1: to actually spit into my microphone. That's gross. Uh, last
- 23:30Speaker 1: thirty seconds or last story, not last fee oh shoot,
- 23:36Speaker 1: last story for me, this is what happens when I'm
- 23:40Speaker 1: looking at my tabs and not The lineup, uh, which
- 23:44Speaker 1: are four is in the works and there are over
- 23:45Speaker 1: four hundred people working on it. CDPR confirms that is
- 23:49Speaker 1: two thirds of their studio. It sounds like eventually they're
- 23:52Speaker 1: going to ramp up to that being their main focus.
- 23:55Speaker 2: Uh.
- 23:55Speaker 1: They've made a bunch of promises and also said they're
- 23:57Speaker 1: not going to have a bunch of releases. So oh,
- 24:00Speaker 1: it's weird what their production schedule is. But hopefully with
- 24:03Speaker 1: that many people, which are four, will be a good output.
- 24:07Speaker 1: I've never played a Witcher game. I've only watched the
- 24:08Speaker 1: TV shows.
- 24:10Speaker 2: I started Witcher three, and it was a game that
- 24:15Speaker 2: was so deep and so broad that I fell off
- 24:21Speaker 2: of it relatively early on, just because I felt like,
- 24:26Speaker 2: kind of like in a game like Skyrim or the
- 24:29Speaker 2: Fallout series, where there's so much stuff you can do
- 24:33Speaker 2: that it distracts you from the stuff you're supposed to do.
- 24:37Speaker 2: And also it didn't help that I felt like I
- 24:40Speaker 2: was really bad at combat in the game, so like
- 24:45Speaker 2: it was a perfect convergence of things that made me
- 24:48Speaker 2: kind of fall off of it. That being said, the
- 24:51Speaker 2: scope of those games, it's so huge that I'm not
- 24:55Speaker 2: surprised that there are four hundred people working on it. Okay, Yeah,
- 25:01Speaker 2: We have the confirmation that the final season of the
- 25:03Speaker 2: long running series Red Versus Blue will publish this year
- 25:07Speaker 2: starting in May. Co creator Bernie Burns returned to write
- 25:10Speaker 2: the series and co creator Matt Hullum directed it. We
- 25:13Speaker 2: got a trailer that showed the stakes are really high
- 25:16Speaker 2: for the former residents of Blood Gulch Canyon, and yet
- 25:19Speaker 2: the series still sports the goofy humor. It's known for
- 25:22Speaker 2: glad to see that the series will get a fitting end,
- 25:26Speaker 2: because that wasn't a guarantee since Rooster Teeth is getting
- 25:29Speaker 2: shut it down.
- 25:29Speaker 1: Yes, and I put in my notes Red versus Blue
- 25:33Speaker 1: is taking the far Escape finale approach, which is by
- 25:35Speaker 1: ending with a movie, but for a film. But they
- 25:39Speaker 1: aren't having to wait years after being surprised canceled thinking
- 25:44Speaker 1: they're having a next season. So that's good. Yeah.
- 25:48Speaker 2: So that was a long version of thirty seconds or
- 25:50Speaker 2: less where we didn't live up to our guarantee. Sorry,
- 25:53Speaker 2: you can get a refund for this episode at the end,
- 25:55Speaker 2: which will be zero dollars.
- 25:58Speaker 1: Yes, So now onto our regular stories, which might be
- 26:05Speaker 1: more thirty sec or less than our thirty seconds or less.
- 26:07Speaker 1: I don't actually think so. We were kind of worried
- 26:10Speaker 1: this was going to be a short episode earlier this
- 26:14Speaker 1: week because news was a little bit slow. But it
- 26:17Speaker 1: doesn't actually look that way.
- 26:19Speaker 3: No.
- 26:19Speaker 2: Yeah, Thursday morning it looked like we had a very
- 26:23Speaker 2: light episode, but then everything kind of started coming out
- 26:28Speaker 2: late yesterday and then today as we record this. One
- 26:31Speaker 2: thing that was on our lineup from the beginning because
- 26:35Speaker 2: Ariel put it there is the trailer that we got
- 26:39Speaker 2: for the Penguin series or Pinguin series of your Benedict Cumberbatch.
- 26:44Speaker 1: Oh, I thought you were telling me, I typoed No.
- 26:48Speaker 2: No, that's how there was this whole joke about how
- 26:51Speaker 2: Benedict Cumberbatch narrated a documentary about animals, including penguins, but
- 26:56Speaker 2: could not say the word penguin.
- 26:59Speaker 1: Yes, I mean, if you say it enough, it stops
- 27:02Speaker 1: being a real ward.
- 27:03Speaker 2: That's true.
- 27:04Speaker 1: Fully acknowledged that penguin is penguin is one of those. Yeah,
- 27:09Speaker 1: so this trailer we know. I've said it recently. I
- 27:14Speaker 1: didn't care for the Robert Pattinson The Batman movie. I
- 27:18Speaker 1: felt like it was too long. I did feel like
- 27:23Speaker 1: several people gave very good performances. And despite the fact
- 27:26Speaker 1: that I think it's ridiculous to cast Colin Ferrell in
- 27:29Speaker 1: something where he has to be in a fat suit
- 27:31Speaker 1: and completely unrecognizable, I think his Penguin performance was really.
- 27:35Speaker 2: Good for what it was. Yeah, I mean, it's clearly
- 27:37Speaker 2: not It's not the classic depiction of the penguin, but
- 27:42Speaker 2: then again, neither was Danny DeVito's Penguin and the Tim
- 27:46Speaker 2: Burton film right like that was a big departure from
- 27:49Speaker 2: the classic version of the care and The Riddler was
- 27:51Speaker 2: a huge departure from the classic depiction of the Riddler. Yeah,
- 27:55Speaker 2: so the one criticism I saw from I want to
- 28:00Speaker 2: say it was one of our mutual friends, but I
- 28:02Speaker 2: can't remember who it was now, so I'm not gonna
- 28:04Speaker 2: I don't want to misattribute. But the complaint I saw
- 28:07Speaker 2: was that the Penguin in this series came across as
- 28:11Speaker 2: looking like no more than your typical gangster slash crime
- 28:15Speaker 2: lord type character. And I'm inclined to agree.
- 28:21Speaker 1: Yeah, I kind of feel like it gave me sopranos vibes.
- 28:25Speaker 2: I mean, not that it was done poorly, but like,
- 28:29Speaker 2: you watch it and you're like, I don't even necessarily
- 28:32Speaker 2: understand why he gets the name penguin at all. You know,
- 28:39Speaker 2: it doesn't feel like that's an appropriate name for this character.
- 28:43Speaker 2: He definitely feels more like a a ruthless gangster type
- 28:50Speaker 2: and less of the more flamboyant Batman villain. Keeping in mind,
- 28:56Speaker 2: of course, that all the Batman characters have gone through
- 28:59Speaker 2: mats of tonal shifts throughout the history, because I mean
- 29:03Speaker 2: that comic book has been around for almost a century, right,
- 29:06Speaker 2: so clearly things change depending on what era you're reading.
- 29:10Speaker 2: But still, yeah, it felt a little weird to me.
- 29:13Speaker 1: It felt weird to me too, But also seriously, call
- 29:19Speaker 1: it's Colin Ferrell, right, yeah, completely unrecognizable.
- 29:23Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, like.
- 29:25Speaker 1: I stared him, like, there's nothing about this person that
- 29:27Speaker 1: looks like the person that's playing him.
- 29:29Speaker 2: So unrecognizable that I would have I would have accidentally
- 29:32Speaker 2: called him Colin Firth. But that's also because my that's
- 29:34Speaker 2: also because my brain does that thing where if there
- 29:37Speaker 2: are two names that are similar, I will mix them up.
- 29:41Speaker 1: They're they're both from Across the Pond and Colin, and.
- 29:46Speaker 2: They both have a last name that starts with an F,
- 29:48Speaker 2: you know.
- 29:49Speaker 1: And I'm sure they've both worn wet shirts on a
- 29:51Speaker 1: film at some point.
- 29:52Speaker 2: Yes, I mean there are definitely moments where Pegwin looks
- 29:55Speaker 2: like he's been doused, so uh yeah, So it doesn't
- 29:59Speaker 2: look bad. It just doesn't make me think of the Penguin.
- 30:02Speaker 2: So I think it's still probably going to be a
- 30:05Speaker 2: compelling show to watch. I'm just not sure that at
- 30:08Speaker 2: the end of it, I'm going to think, well, yeah,
- 30:11Speaker 2: that makes a good entry into this Batman mythology, or
- 30:16Speaker 2: if I'm going to watch it and just say that
- 30:17Speaker 2: was a good gangster series. I wish that they hadn't
- 30:21Speaker 2: bothered to make it connected to Batman.
- 30:24Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 30:24Speaker 1: Yeah, So in my household, we watched Gotham for a
- 30:29Speaker 1: little bit and fell off quickly because it just was
- 30:31Speaker 1: tonally all over the place. Yeah, it was. It was hard.
- 30:36Speaker 1: We never tried Pennyworth. I did think. I think I
- 30:38Speaker 1: watched like one episode of it, or most of an episode,
- 30:42Speaker 1: and it just didn't grab me. And maybe that's because
- 30:43Speaker 1: I wasn't starting from the beginning, or maybe it's because
- 30:46Speaker 1: I didn't watch Gotham. This feels like it's probably separate
- 30:50Speaker 1: from that, because it's based off of The Batman, which
- 30:52Speaker 1: was separate from that. So maybe, I mean it's if
- 30:57Speaker 1: it's gangster related, we'll probably watch it.
- 31:01Speaker 2: Yeah, I hope it's good. Yeah, me too. I mean,
- 31:03Speaker 2: out of no other reason that I'm curious to see
- 31:07Speaker 2: what other, if any Batman references make their way into
- 31:10Speaker 2: the show, or if they don't, then that really does
- 31:13Speaker 2: raise the question of why did this need to be
- 31:15Speaker 2: a Batman spin off. Something else that you put into
- 31:19Speaker 2: our lineup early on, before we were thinking that we
- 31:23Speaker 2: weren't going to have much to talk about, was a
- 31:25Speaker 2: trailer for an animated anthology of Loose takes on grim
- 31:33Speaker 2: fairy tales called Grim Variations.
- 31:37Speaker 1: Yes, it's anime. I don't know if there's going to
- 31:40Speaker 1: be a dubbed version. The trailer is subtitled I don't know.
- 31:46Speaker 1: Fairy Tales are one of the places where I can
- 31:48Speaker 1: get like a little bit dark in my subject matter
- 31:51Speaker 1: material and it looks really fun to me. It's basically
- 31:55Speaker 1: where like all of the fairy tale heroes that you
- 31:58Speaker 1: hear about are actually villains, which is not very unoriginal story.
- 32:01Speaker 1: There are lots of stories where like Cancel and Gretel
- 32:03Speaker 1: were actually the bad guys. So but it looks interesting
- 32:07Speaker 1: to me.
- 32:08Speaker 2: It's, yeah, six different classic stories, including the the Bremen musicians,
- 32:15Speaker 2: Like that was an interesting one to be added in there.
- 32:19Speaker 2: Some of them I felt were like very much more
- 32:23Speaker 2: loosely based on the on the originals. Yeah. Yeah, Like
- 32:28Speaker 2: you watch it and you're like, okay, this is like
- 32:32Speaker 2: like leagues away from the original fairy tale to the
- 32:35Speaker 2: point where maybe it's just a little bit of esthetic
- 32:39Speaker 2: that made its way into the the finished product, But
- 32:42Speaker 2: that doesn't mean that the episodes themselves won't be entertaining
- 32:47Speaker 2: or interesting. The art style is very nice, so I
- 32:52Speaker 2: don't know that I'm going to watch this if I'm
- 32:54Speaker 2: going to be completely honest, but I do admire the
- 32:58Speaker 2: artistry that went into it.
- 33:00Speaker 1: I will probably watch it. I'll let you know how
- 33:02Speaker 1: it is. I've been kind of craving some more dark
- 33:05Speaker 1: fairy tale after never After from Dimension twenty.
- 33:07Speaker 2: So well, something that doesn't look dark but does look
- 33:12Speaker 2: zany and like it's got a much larger budget than
- 33:16Speaker 2: it normally does. Is the trailer we got for the
- 33:20Speaker 2: next season of Doctor Who.
- 33:23Speaker 1: Yeah, it's such a different feel from like the past
- 33:31Speaker 1: couple of seasons. It's really intriguing, is what I'll say.
- 33:36Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean the money that Disney Plus has spent
- 33:39Speaker 2: on this series is on display on that screen though,
- 33:42Speaker 2: because when you look at your like, this looks like
- 33:45Speaker 2: the production value has jumped up by a large factor
- 33:49Speaker 2: compared to previous seasons of the show.
- 33:52Speaker 1: Yes, yes, it's interesting because we were going back to
- 33:57Speaker 1: Russell T. Davies as the showrunner. Obviously, the holiday special
- 34:05Speaker 1: that was solely Chruty Gottla I had mixed opinions on
- 34:12Speaker 1: because it felt the first half of it felt a
- 34:18Speaker 1: little extra goofy, and then the second of the half
- 34:20Speaker 1: of it added like a level of ominousness. That's not
- 34:26Speaker 1: the right word, but basically like there were stakes added
- 34:30Speaker 1: that made me feel like the situation wasn't dire, but
- 34:37Speaker 1: it had stakes. I'm talking around in circles here. So
- 34:40Speaker 1: I felt like the episode, while it was fun and
- 34:42Speaker 1: I liked both halves, I felt it was a little incongruous.
- 34:46Speaker 1: And this series has both of those aspects, but or
- 34:49Speaker 1: this trailer has both these aspects but maybe makes me
- 34:51Speaker 1: feel like they're blended a little bit better together.
- 34:55Speaker 2: Yeah, I was left wondering if the added production value
- 35:03Speaker 2: is going to affect the charm of the series, because
- 35:07Speaker 2: arguably some of the charm, especially for the old episodes
- 35:10Speaker 2: of Doctor Who, is how janky things were, but they
- 35:14Speaker 2: were still telling these good stories. The stories were things
- 35:19Speaker 2: that people that really affected people. I mean, you have
- 35:21Speaker 2: lifelong Doctor Who fans out there, but you watch like
- 35:24Speaker 2: those early Doctor Who episodes and you're like, man, it
- 35:29Speaker 2: looks like they might have had a budget of about
- 35:31Speaker 2: seven dollars and thirty seven cents per episode, and some
- 35:35Speaker 2: episodes they had to say scrimpa bitten, go on coupon
- 35:39Speaker 2: day or something. So this is a huge change from that.
- 35:43Speaker 2: I also say, it's fun to see a doctor who's
- 35:47Speaker 2: got a kind of sassy attitude in this trailer, because
- 35:52Speaker 2: that definitely comes across. There's a lot of groove and
- 35:55Speaker 2: style in this trailer as well.
- 35:58Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, and brilliant choice, like brilliant music choice. Yeah,
- 36:05Speaker 1: time won't change.
- 36:06Speaker 2: Me, changes from good old David Bowie.
- 36:13Speaker 1: Yeah great, I mean brilliant music choice for the trailer.
- 36:17Speaker 1: It is interesting because I read an article a couple
- 36:20Speaker 1: of months ago, a month or two ago, saying that
- 36:22Speaker 1: the Ruby, the companion, is not actually sticking around. She
- 36:28Speaker 1: might be changing out mid season spoilers. I'm sorry if
- 36:32Speaker 1: you haven't read that article. So I wonder if they're
- 36:36Speaker 1: alluding to that in the trailer.
- 36:38Speaker 2: Yeah, there's one point where he says that he promises
- 36:40Speaker 2: he'll keep her safe, and I'm like, all right, I
- 36:43Speaker 2: know you'd recently had your transformation, doctor, I know that
- 36:48Speaker 2: it hasn't been that log and therefore your memories are
- 36:50Speaker 2: probably still scrambled, but you don't have a great track
- 36:54Speaker 2: record of your companions being quote unquote safe. At best,
- 37:01Speaker 2: they're not killed, I mean.
- 37:05Speaker 1: But he also has a new a new attitude, which
- 37:08Speaker 1: is everything is possible, which is not traditional classic Who.
- 37:14Speaker 1: Usually it's like everybody dies except for this one time
- 37:18Speaker 1: kind of an attitude.
- 37:19Speaker 2: One thing that I think is a mainstay of the series,
- 37:23Speaker 2: and we saw that it in fact will be heavily
- 37:27Speaker 2: represented this year is the tendency to run away, like
- 37:34Speaker 2: running away from stuff, which is a thing in like
- 37:37Speaker 2: every incarnation of Doctor Who, and continues to be a
- 37:40Speaker 2: thing in this one. So good to see that some
- 37:42Speaker 2: traditions are maintained.
- 37:44Speaker 1: Yeah, you gotta you gotta get your like everybody who
- 37:47Speaker 1: gets done being on Doctor Who can then run marathons
- 37:50Speaker 1: no problem.
- 37:51Speaker 2: I will remember when we were in a Doctor Who
- 37:54Speaker 2: parody and we had to run and there was no
- 37:56Speaker 2: space to run in.
- 37:58Speaker 1: Yes, that was very awkward, and also the floor was
- 38:00Speaker 1: very rickety because it was on like a temporary stage.
- 38:04Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a scary time. And not just because
- 38:07Speaker 2: Ariel had to stage kiss me like three times in
- 38:10Speaker 2: that show.
- 38:11Speaker 1: I mean we've had to stage kiss in so many shows.
- 38:14Speaker 1: It's whatever.
- 38:15Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Yeah, I mean yeah, it's all hat now.
- 38:19Speaker 1: It's old hat now.
- 38:21Speaker 2: Uh.
- 38:22Speaker 1: It's also I giggle every time because the the now
- 38:28Speaker 1: I can't remember. Is it the shield tower? Is it
- 38:30Speaker 1: the Unit Tower?
- 38:33Speaker 3: Oh?
- 38:33Speaker 1: My gosh, I'm gonna lose my geek cred for this.
- 38:35Speaker 1: But the Government Tower in the Doctor Who series now
- 38:40Speaker 1: looks very much like the Avengers Tower.
- 38:45Speaker 2: Yeah, no coincidence there that Disney just happens to own Marvel.
- 38:49Speaker 1: So yeah, it's the Unit tower.
- 38:52Speaker 2: It should be. It should be that they actually go
- 38:56Speaker 2: ahead and make Doctor Who a crossover into the Marvel
- 38:59Speaker 2: universe and say it's the former Avengers Tower, because you
- 39:03Speaker 2: find out that that was being sold, like that's mentioned
- 39:06Speaker 2: in a previous Marvel movie, that they sold the Avengers Tower.
- 39:10Speaker 1: I would die in a very good way.
- 39:12Speaker 2: I think it's I think it's supposed to be part
- 39:15Speaker 2: of the Fantastic Four if I'm being honest, But I
- 39:17Speaker 2: still think it would have been funny if that had
- 39:19Speaker 2: been sold to the Doctor Who universe.
- 39:24Speaker 1: I'm all for it. I'm all for that crossover. I'm Disney,
- 39:26Speaker 1: I'm all for that crossover.
- 39:30Speaker 2: Well, it sounds like you're interested in anticipating this next season,
- 39:36Speaker 2: which is good to know because between the two of us,
- 39:38Speaker 2: Ariel is more of the Doctor Who fan than I am.
- 39:42Speaker 2: I have watched a bit, but only like I saw
- 39:47Speaker 2: the entire Eccleston and David Tennant runs, and then I
- 39:51Speaker 2: started Matt Smith, but I never got all the way
- 39:54Speaker 2: through Matt Smith's run, so I am not like the
- 39:58Speaker 2: hardcore Doctor Who fan.
- 40:00Speaker 1: Yeah, and I know several of you listeners are too,
- 40:02Speaker 1: so I look forward to chatting with you on Discord
- 40:04Speaker 1: about it.
- 40:05Speaker 2: Yeah honest. So next up, we have a trailer for
- 40:09Speaker 2: an animated film called Mars Express, which feels like it's
- 40:14Speaker 2: pulling together a whole bunch of ideas from other science
- 40:19Speaker 2: fiction stories like Isaac Asimov's I Robot and Blade Runner,
- 40:25Speaker 2: particularly Minority Report. Minority Report another one. Yeah. It features
- 40:31Speaker 2: a woman who's a detective in the police force. Her
- 40:36Speaker 2: partner is an android, and there are some cases in
- 40:41Speaker 2: which robots are acting out against humans, which is not
- 40:47Speaker 2: something they should be able to do, which again is
- 40:50Speaker 2: akin to like Isaac Asimov's Laws of Robotics. And I
- 40:55Speaker 2: watched this trailer and while I kept thinking, oh, this
- 40:58Speaker 2: is reminding me of X, Y and Z, I still
- 41:01Speaker 2: thought that it looks interesting and that this is one
- 41:05Speaker 2: I'm actually kind of looking forward to.
- 41:09Speaker 1: Same same. I was a little confused at the beginning
- 41:12Speaker 1: because the studio making it is g kids. Yeah, I
- 41:15Speaker 1: was like Is this a kid's Is this a kid's
- 41:18Speaker 1: It is not a kid's film.
- 41:19Speaker 2: No, it's it's immediately a parent this is not meant
- 41:22Speaker 2: for children. But I had the same reaction. I was like, Oh,
- 41:25Speaker 2: this is going to be a show for children, and
- 41:27Speaker 2: then it starts like Nope, totally wrong about that.
- 41:32Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, apparently this studio does make you know, adult,
- 41:37Speaker 1: not like adult adult, but like movies for grown ups
- 41:42Speaker 1: that are not for kids too. It's just an interesting,
- 41:45Speaker 1: confusing name. The art style for the trailer is simplistic
- 41:53Speaker 1: in a way that when I started watching the trailer
- 41:55Speaker 1: I didn't think it would work, but I actually really
- 41:57Speaker 1: liked by the end.
- 41:58Speaker 2: Same. Yeah, it's in an anime style, but it's in
- 42:02Speaker 2: an anime style that you might associate with much older
- 42:06Speaker 2: anime properties, stuff like some of the films that were
- 42:10Speaker 2: coming out in the late seventies early eighties, like that era,
- 42:14Speaker 2: as opposed to stuff that you would see today. And
- 42:16Speaker 2: I agree. I felt had the same initial reaction, but
- 42:20Speaker 2: by the end I was on board. Yeah, this is
- 42:23Speaker 2: one where again I don't know that they're going to
- 42:25Speaker 2: be saying anything new necessarily, but the combination of elements
- 42:31Speaker 2: like the fact that you've got some procedural in there.
- 42:34Speaker 2: There's some sort of noir detective work in there. A
- 42:36Speaker 2: llah Blade Runner, you've got the story again similar to
- 42:39Speaker 2: Blade Runner, where you've got rebelling robots. It's enough components
- 42:46Speaker 2: to make me want to check it out.
- 42:48Speaker 1: Yeah. Same same Speaking of components, like the sandwich components
- 42:53Speaker 1: of a pop tart.
- 42:55Speaker 2: I told you we were going to come back to that.
- 42:57Speaker 1: What do you think about the trailer for Unfrosted?
- 43:01Speaker 2: So, yeah, Unfrosted it is a Jerry Seinfeld directed it
- 43:08Speaker 2: and also accident. I think it's this directorial deboot.
- 43:13Speaker 1: I believe.
- 43:13Speaker 2: Yeah, he's daybooting in this one, and uh uh yeah.
- 43:19Speaker 2: It looks very funny, like it's it's making me think
- 43:23Speaker 2: like it's a sillier, more exaggerated story than some of
- 43:29Speaker 2: the other like product based biopic style films we've gotten
- 43:35Speaker 2: in the past, Like we got the one that was
- 43:37Speaker 2: about flaming hot cheetos. I felt like that one was
- 43:40Speaker 2: less whimsical. This one whimsical is even the wrong word
- 43:45Speaker 2: less comedic. This one's clearly comedic. It's stocked with comedic
- 43:50Speaker 2: actors who are playing various roles from like supporting to
- 43:55Speaker 2: like Cameo. It looks very silly in a lot of ways,
- 44:02Speaker 2: and obviously is taking some serious liberties with the actual
- 44:06Speaker 2: history of the pop tart. But yeah, I was entertained
- 44:10Speaker 2: by the trailer. I would probably watch this.
- 44:13Speaker 1: Yeah, I was, I'm gonna I was like, I'm gonna
- 44:17Speaker 1: click on this, and I'm going to decide not to
- 44:18Speaker 1: even add it to our lineup. But it was such
- 44:22Speaker 1: a farcical retelling of the colleg's history. I'll be interested
- 44:26Speaker 1: to know after watching it how much of that stuff
- 44:29Speaker 1: actually happened, if maybe not in the same exact way.
- 44:33Speaker 1: It just looks hilarious. Afterwards, I had some friends and
- 44:35Speaker 1: be like, man, I could I wish I could just
- 44:37Speaker 1: sit around and record having record having fun with my
- 44:40Speaker 1: friends and then make money off of it and call
- 44:42Speaker 1: it my job. I'm like, well, you could. You just
- 44:44Speaker 1: depend on if people liked it. But I expect people
- 44:46Speaker 1: will like Unfrosted.
- 44:47Speaker 2: There's I mean, like, it's not like this is new territory.
- 44:52Speaker 2: Adam Sandler has made that his career for almost his
- 44:56Speaker 2: entire career is get your friends together some companies into
- 45:01Speaker 2: spending millions of dollars on you, and just goof off
- 45:06Speaker 2: for like three months and then put a movie out
- 45:09Speaker 2: at the end of it. Is the movie worth watching? It?
- 45:11Speaker 2: Absolutely not. But you got Pizza Hut to pay for it,
- 45:15Speaker 2: so it's okay.
- 45:17Speaker 1: It's that middle part of getting Pizza Hut to pay
- 45:19Speaker 1: for it, that's the tricky.
- 45:20Speaker 2: Yeah, the first thing you need to do is get
- 45:22Speaker 2: on SNL and become a breakout star. But yeah, yeah,
- 45:29Speaker 2: it's It's something that has me interested, largely for the
- 45:34Speaker 2: same reason why I liked movies from like the Dodgeball
- 45:38Speaker 2: Anchorman era, where it's an ensemble that looks like they're
- 45:42Speaker 2: having fun while they're making something and that pulls through
- 45:47Speaker 2: on the screen. So yeah, something that almost pulled us
- 45:52Speaker 2: in through the screen was that Sony released a short,
- 45:58Speaker 2: the Spider within a Spider Story. So this is part
- 46:02Speaker 2: of like into the Spider Verse and everything like that.
- 46:05Speaker 2: And it's a six minute long animated short. Uh, and
- 46:11Speaker 2: it's got some heavy stuff in it, so much so
- 46:14Speaker 2: that I gave Ariel one trigger warning before she watched it,
- 46:19Speaker 2: but it was one trigger warning too few.
- 46:23Speaker 1: Yeah, So it deals with it deals with mental mental
- 46:28Speaker 1: struggles in young people and and helps to destigmatize talking
- 46:34Speaker 1: about it with someone because a lot of these a
- 46:37Speaker 1: lot of things that people struggle with. You feel alone,
- 46:41Speaker 1: but you aren't alone, and you should talk with somebody
- 46:45Speaker 1: about it, whether it's a friend or a family member
- 46:47Speaker 1: or a professional. So this this is working to destigmatize that,
- 46:50Speaker 1: showing that even superheroes do with that, and yeah, they
- 46:53Speaker 1: they really really do. But yes, at one point in
- 46:56Speaker 1: this movie, Miles Moreles gets sleep paralysis, and I thought
- 47:01Speaker 1: they did a really good job of relaying the feeling
- 47:06Speaker 1: of being in it and then kind of realizing that
- 47:08Speaker 1: you're in it and trying to fight your way out
- 47:10Speaker 1: of it, even though I don't necessarily see a big,
- 47:12Speaker 1: shadowy figure with glowing eyes most of the time. But
- 47:18Speaker 1: then but then it turns into a spider that turns
- 47:21Speaker 1: into a bazillion tiny spiders crawling all over him. And
- 47:24Speaker 1: that is why I'm afraid of spiders, is because I
- 47:27Speaker 1: squished his spider ag nest once and had tiny billions
- 47:30Speaker 1: of tiny spiders crawling all over me. It probably wasn't
- 47:32Speaker 1: actually billions, but it sure felt like it, and I
- 47:34Speaker 1: had the creepy crawlies for days, and I got bit
- 47:37Speaker 1: by the mom spider.
- 47:38Speaker 2: I mean, he had one crawl out of his mouth.
- 47:43Speaker 1: Sorry, you had to listen to that noise.
- 47:45Speaker 2: You left out the part where the one crawls out
- 47:47Speaker 2: of his mouth.
- 47:48Speaker 1: I think my brain blocked that out of my memory
- 47:51Speaker 1: for my own health. Thank you.
- 47:52Speaker 2: Yeah, you're welcome. There's also the ones that crawling near
- 47:54Speaker 2: his eyeballs and stuff. Yeah, no, it's it's a visceral moment.
- 47:59Speaker 2: Like as I was watching it him, I was like, Wow,
- 48:01Speaker 2: this is like serious horror level stuff. But again, it
- 48:06Speaker 2: comes back around to him to Miles reaching out to
- 48:10Speaker 2: his dad to talk about some of his struggles. Obviously
- 48:14Speaker 2: not to talk about him being Spider Man because that's
- 48:16Speaker 2: still a secret, but a way of him talking about,
- 48:20Speaker 2: you know, how he's challenged to live up to the
- 48:25Speaker 2: expectations that he's under Like it's tough because he obviously
- 48:29Speaker 2: can't talk about how he's exceeding expectations in one area
- 48:32Speaker 2: of his life, but that's affecting him in other areas.
- 48:36Speaker 2: It's something similar that Peter Parker stories have explored in
- 48:39Speaker 2: the past as well. And also the release is done
- 48:44Speaker 2: in connection with a nonprofit organization called the Kevin Love Fund,
- 48:49Speaker 2: which is all about destigmatizing these conversations about mental health
- 48:56Speaker 2: particularly among youth. So it's it's good to see that
- 49:02Speaker 2: one Sony is offering up this incredibly high platform for
- 49:09Speaker 2: storytellers to use to get these messages across, and two
- 49:13Speaker 2: that they are partnering with an organization specifically geared toward
- 49:18Speaker 2: addressing these issues.
- 49:21Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I check them out.
- 49:24Speaker 2: It's also a good short.
- 49:27Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's really good. It's it's beautiful, of course,
- 49:30Speaker 1: all this Spider Verse stuff is and it's it's yeah,
- 49:35Speaker 1: it's it's a really good short. I enjoyed it. Minus
- 49:38Speaker 1: the spiders.
- 49:38Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think. I don't think Becca is going
- 49:40Speaker 2: to be able to watch it. I don't think I
- 49:42Speaker 2: can show it to her.
- 49:44Speaker 1: No, I like Spider Man. I'm almost I can almost
- 49:48Speaker 1: handle jumping spiders on a case to case basis if
- 49:51Speaker 1: it's just in a picture, because my friend owns like
- 49:53Speaker 1: a whole bunch of them. But uh yeah, uh something
- 49:59Speaker 1: that I can I don't think I can handle anymore
- 50:01Speaker 1: on a case to case basis. But I've been proven
- 50:03Speaker 1: wrong before and I might be proven wrong again. Is
- 50:06Speaker 1: that Pirates of the Caribbean are still planning on rebooting.
- 50:10Speaker 1: We had talked about this a long time ago, back
- 50:14Speaker 1: when Margot Roby said that she was trying to pitch
- 50:16Speaker 1: of Pirates of the Caribbean and it got turned down
- 50:18Speaker 1: and canceled. We even did like a little mashup about it,
- 50:21Speaker 1: but apparently that's not maybe exactly the case. And also
- 50:26Speaker 1: post strike, everything is still in the works.
- 50:28Speaker 2: Yeah, So this largely comes from movie producer Jerry Bruckheimer,
- 50:35Speaker 2: who has said that the current intent is to reboot
- 50:40Speaker 2: the series. Essentially, it seems like there's the implication that
- 50:45Speaker 2: it would not be practical to continue the series as is.
- 50:50Speaker 2: A lot of people have used that to draw the
- 50:52Speaker 2: conclusions that it's because of Johnny Depp's problems that he's
- 50:57Speaker 2: encountered over the last couple of years, and that it's
- 51:00Speaker 2: kind of an attempt to distance from the actor so
- 51:04Speaker 2: that they can continue to tell stories and rake in
- 51:06Speaker 2: huge amounts of money without having to deal with the
- 51:08Speaker 2: pr nightmare of having an actor on your cast who
- 51:13Speaker 2: has got some problematic issues going on in their personal lives.
- 51:17Speaker 2: So whether this actually manifests into a real project remains
- 51:23Speaker 2: to be seen. But I mean, it shouldn't come as
- 51:28Speaker 2: a surprise that there's still a move to try and
- 51:32Speaker 2: reboot the series because Pirates of the Caribbean did rake
- 51:35Speaker 2: in boat loads to use an appropriate term, boatloads of
- 51:41Speaker 2: cash for Disney, although it was diminishing returns film to film,
- 51:48Speaker 2: So like, the first two did really well, and then
- 51:52Speaker 2: after that they did less well. Still great like still
- 51:55Speaker 2: bring in lots of money, but not as much as
- 51:58Speaker 2: the earlier entries did.
- 52:00Speaker 1: I think the first two were really fun movies. I
- 52:02Speaker 1: thought the third one was passable. But I think the
- 52:07Speaker 1: reason that they were so good at the start and
- 52:09Speaker 1: that they had diminishing returns is because it was new.
- 52:12Speaker 1: It was something in the like the Veins of Lord
- 52:14Speaker 1: of the Rings, but fun and piety, and we hadn't
- 52:16Speaker 1: had it before rebooting it. I don't think it's going
- 52:19Speaker 1: to do the same thing well.
- 52:20Speaker 2: And it also was kind of a shock because here
- 52:24Speaker 2: was Disney making a film adaptation based off of a ride,
- 52:30Speaker 2: and I think the only other time they had done
- 52:33Speaker 2: that was Haunted Manchet. So no one had any expectation
- 52:37Speaker 2: that Parts of the Caribbean was even going to be
- 52:39Speaker 2: worth watching, and it turned out the first one was
- 52:42Speaker 2: a fun, if clunky adventure film. I still maintained the
- 52:47Speaker 2: first film's got some real issues with the plotting, and everything,
- 52:52Speaker 2: partly because they were still writing the screenplay when they
- 52:55Speaker 2: started filming it, so they were kind of like they're
- 52:58Speaker 2: kind of like laying the train tracks while the train
- 53:01Speaker 2: was barreling down. But but I still think out of
- 53:06Speaker 2: all the films that I have seen, which granted I
- 53:08Speaker 2: think is only the first three, it's the best of
- 53:11Speaker 2: the bunch, I think.
- 53:14Speaker 1: I've seen four or five of them. Maybe there's only
- 53:17Speaker 1: four or five. I didn't see the last one.
- 53:19Speaker 2: That's the fifth one, I think.
- 53:21Speaker 1: Okay, so I've seen four.
- 53:22Speaker 2: So you've seen the one with Penelope Cruise, right, yes,
- 53:25Speaker 2: but not the one with Javier Bardem.
- 53:28Speaker 1: Not the one with Harvey. I've seen like ten minutes
- 53:31Speaker 1: of the one with Harvey. Javier Bardem, I've only I
- 53:36Speaker 1: don't remember.
- 53:37Speaker 2: I've only seen the clips that were pretty much used
- 53:40Speaker 2: in the trailer where it's like Javier's gargling black mouth
- 53:45Speaker 2: wash while trying to talk. But that's all I remember.
- 53:51Speaker 2: Next stop, we got to look at some artish artist
- 53:56Speaker 2: not artish artist renditions of the Isle of burke Land
- 54:03Speaker 2: for the upcoming new Universal Studios park, and I was
- 54:09Speaker 2: really impressed with the plans, like whether or not that's
- 54:13Speaker 2: what it looks like when it finally is real is
- 54:17Speaker 2: another thing. But the artist renditions, I'm like, man, you're
- 54:23Speaker 2: gonna make me want to go to this place even
- 54:25Speaker 2: though you still have a Harry Potter Land attached to it.
- 54:30Speaker 1: Yeah. I was saying the same thing for those who
- 54:32Speaker 1: don't know. Isle of Burke is How to Train Your Dragon,
- 54:36Speaker 1: which is a delightfully fun movie.
- 54:38Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 54:38Speaker 1: I've only seen the first one, but it's a lot
- 54:41Speaker 1: of fun. Yeah. The plans look great. It looks like
- 54:45Speaker 1: there's gonna be a good mix of like immersiveness and
- 54:47Speaker 1: theater and food and rides and interact The whole thing
- 54:51Speaker 1: about Epic Universal is that it's it's interactive, right, It's
- 54:59Speaker 1: getting you some augmented reality. So I'm really excited to
- 55:02Speaker 1: see these these attractions as more information comes out about
- 55:06Speaker 1: them as they get built, even though there's a Harry
- 55:10Speaker 1: Potter Land, because they also have Dark Universe, and they're
- 55:12Speaker 1: also going to have the Mario World, which they've got
- 55:14Speaker 1: one in Japan.
- 55:16Speaker 2: And they have one in California too.
- 55:19Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, yeah, this I feel the same way. I
- 55:24Speaker 1: want to go to there. I don't want to go
- 55:26Speaker 1: to the Harry Potter section of it. Yeah, but I
- 55:28Speaker 1: want to go to the rest of it. I wish
- 55:30Speaker 1: there was a way to like buy a three quarter.
- 55:32Speaker 2: Pack, yeah, where like, could you please make sure that JK.
- 55:35Speaker 2: Rowling doesn't get any of this money? Yeah. The Harry
- 55:40Speaker 2: Potter lands at the other Universal Studios parks, I think
- 55:44Speaker 2: are probably serving as a large amount of inspiration for
- 55:48Speaker 2: Epic Universe, because you had spaces there where if you
- 55:53Speaker 2: bought a special wand an interactive wand you could go
- 55:57Speaker 2: to specific locations within the park and wave the water
- 56:00Speaker 2: around and stuff would happen right like, you would essentially
- 56:05Speaker 2: get like an effect of some sort, something would light up,
- 56:09Speaker 2: you'd hear a sound cue, you might even get like
- 56:11Speaker 2: some animatronic action going on, that sort of thing. And
- 56:17Speaker 2: I think that that ends up being kind of the
- 56:19Speaker 2: starting point for the ideation behind Epic Universe. Not that
- 56:24Speaker 2: everything's going to be exactly like that when it comes out,
- 56:27Speaker 2: but that I think that was kind of they were like, well,
- 56:30Speaker 2: look at what we've already done, how can we do
- 56:32Speaker 2: that but bigger and throughout all of these different lands
- 56:36Speaker 2: in different ways. So that's why I think it's really
- 56:38Speaker 2: exciting personally of all, I don't know if you have
- 56:41Speaker 2: a favorite out of all the pictures that were uploaded,
- 56:46Speaker 2: and we'll have a link in our show notes to this,
- 56:49Speaker 2: But for me, my favorite was a Viking boat ride
- 56:53Speaker 2: that involves water cannons.
- 56:56Speaker 1: Yes, yes, Universal still whole as my favorite water rides
- 57:02Speaker 1: between Universal and Islands of Adventure. They have the best
- 57:05Speaker 1: water rides, yeah, of any theme park I've ever been to.
- 57:08Speaker 1: So I'm very excited for this water version of the
- 57:12Speaker 1: Men in Black ride where you shoot targets and each
- 57:14Speaker 1: other with water guns. Well to I no, no, I'm
- 57:20Speaker 1: also I'm also all of their depictions have dragons in
- 57:22Speaker 1: the sky, and if there are not dragons flying around
- 57:25Speaker 1: the Isle of Burke, I'd be highly disappointed.
- 57:29Speaker 2: Maybe they can go to the Balloon Museum to get
- 57:31Speaker 2: some ideas. Yeah, I was gonna say, like turning from
- 57:37Speaker 2: this amazing ideation to a sticky situation. There's a kickstary
- 57:42Speaker 2: campaign you wanted to talk about, which I am here
- 57:45Speaker 2: to tell you has definitely made its goal.
- 57:51Speaker 1: Yes, so the kickstarter campaign. One of my friends, so
- 57:55Speaker 1: I have a D and D group, and our DM
- 57:56Speaker 1: of the D and D group, who is amazingly creative,
- 58:00Speaker 1: sent us sent our group this link and I just
- 58:02Speaker 1: thought it was too fun to to not share, which
- 58:10Speaker 1: is Gummy Quest Delicious Fantasy gummies there, they're not gummy
- 58:15Speaker 1: bears because they're shaped like dragons and slimes and.
- 58:19Speaker 3: Demons and dice demons and yeah, and they all have
- 58:25Speaker 3: in paladins and wizards and all kinds of spice worms
- 58:29Speaker 3: and things like that with fun, fun flavor names.
- 58:34Speaker 1: They were looking to raise thirty five hundred bucks and
- 58:36Speaker 1: they're almost at two hundred thousand right now. But if
- 58:41Speaker 1: you want a pack of one hundred and fifty gummy
- 58:44Speaker 1: bear D and DS, that D and D minis that
- 58:47Speaker 1: you can stick on your board and eat later, including
- 58:49Speaker 1: like health potions. They also give you like little health
- 58:51Speaker 1: potions and dice and things like that. You can join
- 58:54Speaker 1: the kickstarter because that way you'll be one of the
- 58:57Speaker 1: first people to get it for one hundred. For one
- 59:01Speaker 1: hundred and fifty gummies, it's like forty two dollars. Yeah,
- 59:05Speaker 1: it's is still a lot of money, but it's a
- 59:07Speaker 1: lot of good.
- 59:07Speaker 2: But it's eighteen dollars cheaper than what they're gonna sell
- 59:10Speaker 2: it for later because because they said that they're their
- 59:13Speaker 2: MSRP is sixty bucks for one hundred and fifty of
- 59:16Speaker 2: these things.
- 59:18Speaker 1: Yeah, what I will say is, at least the pictures
- 59:21Speaker 1: they have of it, these are very intricate candies for
- 59:25Speaker 1: being squishy candies.
- 59:26Speaker 2: Yeah, I think they look great. I would be tempted
- 59:33Speaker 2: to back this if they had plant based versions because
- 59:39Speaker 2: a lot of gummies, essentially most of them include gelatin
- 59:44Speaker 2: as an ingredient. Gelatin is derived from animal products, which
- 59:48Speaker 2: means that my wife and I we don't eat gelatin
- 59:51Speaker 2: based gummies. We did find a couple of companies that
- 59:54Speaker 2: make really good plant based gummies that we enjoy quite
- 59:58Speaker 2: a bit. But my I guess is that they went
- 1:00:02Speaker 2: with a mix that is best suited to hold these
- 1:00:06Speaker 2: intricate shapes, and that might not be the best use
- 1:00:11Speaker 2: of the plant based stuff. Like I don't know that
- 1:00:12Speaker 2: you could get this intricate with the detail. But while
- 1:00:18Speaker 2: I don't think I'll be ordering any because I don't
- 1:00:20Speaker 2: think I could eat them, they're really like. The designs
- 1:00:24Speaker 2: are really cool. I mean, I'm going through all of them,
- 1:00:27Speaker 2: and I love their names too. They're also punny, like
- 1:00:35Speaker 2: you've got like the palm eye granite for the pomegranite,
- 1:00:39Speaker 2: which is a beholder.
- 1:00:41Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, or that's really the best one. There's Owlberry,
- 1:00:48Speaker 1: which is also quite good.
- 1:00:49Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, well, there's Subterranean Spice, which is like it's
- 1:00:53Speaker 2: like a giant It's essentially a sandworm from Dune, is
- 1:00:57Speaker 2: what it is.
- 1:00:58Speaker 1: But that's not And then there's just one called death Yep.
- 1:01:00Speaker 2: It's just death yep.
- 1:01:03Speaker 1: Or Healman aid. Anyhow, we will, like, like Jonathan said,
- 1:01:06Speaker 1: we'll link to it in our show notes. Our website
- 1:01:08Speaker 1: is up today and I will get these show notes
- 1:01:10Speaker 1: up this weekend. You know, maybe they'll make enough money
- 1:01:14Speaker 1: that they can also do not a plant based version
- 1:01:17Speaker 1: of this in the future. Really this it just hit
- 1:01:21Speaker 1: me at a time because I had just seen D
- 1:01:24Speaker 1: and D had released a video on TikTok of Tristan
- 1:01:27Speaker 1: Falcone talking about how gelatinous cubes get their flavor, which
- 1:01:31Speaker 1: is they start off flavorless and they pick up their
- 1:01:34Speaker 1: flavor from all the things that they count. Yeah, it
- 1:01:38Speaker 1: was very funny.
- 1:01:39Speaker 2: And then I got very cobold flavored latinous cube.
- 1:01:44Speaker 1: Yes, yes, so so that that so it was. It
- 1:01:49Speaker 1: hit me just at the right time to amuse me.
- 1:01:52Speaker 1: And yeah, I hope it amuses you too.
- 1:01:55Speaker 2: Cool. Well, I think that wraps up this episode, and
- 1:01:59Speaker 2: while it's not as epic as last week's, it definitely
- 1:02:03Speaker 2: ended up being longer than what we thought it was
- 1:02:05Speaker 2: gonna be yesterday morning.
- 1:02:08Speaker 1: Yes, so my dear friend, Yeah, I gotta ask, sure,
- 1:02:15Speaker 1: go ahead? How do people? How do people reach out
- 1:02:19Speaker 1: in contact?
- 1:02:20Speaker 2: So, what you're gonna have to do you is you're
- 1:02:22Speaker 2: gonna have to listen. I've been watching a lot of
- 1:02:26Speaker 2: food competition, like food eating challenges on YouTube recently, and
- 1:02:31Speaker 2: that's what inspired me. What you're gonna have to do
- 1:02:34Speaker 2: is you're gonna have to track down a gelatinous cube.
- 1:02:37Speaker 2: I'm talking a ten foot by ten foot by ten
- 1:02:40Speaker 2: foot cube of gelatinous material. There's gonna be stuff floating
- 1:02:45Speaker 2: in it. Not all of it's gonna be edible, Like
- 1:02:48Speaker 2: there's gonna be armor and swords and maybe a halfling
- 1:02:52Speaker 2: foot or two in there. You're gonna have to eat
- 1:02:55Speaker 2: all of it. I mean, I need to see a
- 1:02:57Speaker 2: clean plate. You are not allowed to get up and
- 1:03:01Speaker 2: leave the table and go to the bathroom. That's a
- 1:03:03Speaker 2: cheater move. We all know you're going to go there
- 1:03:05Speaker 2: so that you can puke it up and come back
- 1:03:07Speaker 2: out and finish off the cube. Note, you've got to
- 1:03:09Speaker 2: finish it in a single setting. The professional food competition
- 1:03:14Speaker 2: rules apply here. I will not give you a time
- 1:03:18Speaker 2: limit because that is a significant amount of food you're eating.
- 1:03:21Speaker 2: But once you finish it, you're gonna have a server
- 1:03:25Speaker 2: come over to say that the meal is comped because
- 1:03:28Speaker 2: you finish the whole thing. That you do, get either
- 1:03:31Speaker 2: a T shirt or hat, your choice of I ate
- 1:03:34Speaker 2: the gelatinous cube. Your picture will go up on the
- 1:03:37Speaker 2: wall and then you'll see the manager come over and
- 1:03:39Speaker 2: what do you know? It's me, And then you can
- 1:03:41Speaker 2: ask your question.
- 1:03:42Speaker 1: Yeah, And if you're not into Survivor style food challenges,
- 1:03:46Speaker 1: you can reach out to us on social media or
- 1:03:48Speaker 1: you know, if you don't eat animals like Jonathan, you
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- 1:04:05Speaker 1: you can also email us at large nurdron pod at
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- 1:04:10Speaker 1: collider dot com, where we have all of our show
- 1:04:13Speaker 1: notes and also an invite to the discord. I think
- 1:04:17Speaker 1: that about covers it, so until next time, I am
- 1:04:22Speaker 1: Ariel one of those gugbies better tastes like Mountain Dew Caaston.
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