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Half of LNC is Old · Large Nerdron Collider

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  Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Welcome to the Large Nurjohn Collider Podcast, the
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  Speaker 1: podcast that's all about the geeky things happening in the
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  Speaker 1: world around us and how very excited we are about them.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Aeriel Caston, and with me, as always is the
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  Speaker 1: amazing Jonathan Strickland.
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  Speaker 2: Woo. You say it's your birthday, Well, it's my birthday too,
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  Speaker 2: Happy pally.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't it like a couple of days before a birthday,
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  Speaker 1: couple of no today after birthday.
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  Speaker 2: Today is my birthday. As we record this, this is
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  Speaker 2: my birthday. June twenty sixth is my birthday.
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  Speaker 1: My calendar is not a liar. I read the wrong
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  Speaker 1: day on my calendar. Happy, happy birthday. And here's the thing.
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  Speaker 1: I know it's your birthday today. This is my brain
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  Speaker 1: was like, oh, look at what you're looking at. That's accurate.
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  Speaker 2: It's fine, Like I don't. I don't consider my birthday
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  Speaker 2: to be important enough. Like the folks who remember they
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  Speaker 2: reach out. It's nice, but you know, I'm not on
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  Speaker 2: social media anymore so, like I'm not on any of
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  Speaker 2: those those platforms where it automatically will lert you like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: it's someone says birthday today, Like I'm not on those anymore.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, I know that that's where like that,
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  Speaker 2: that's how I relied upon knowing everyone's birthday. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we kind of offload things that we used to just
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  Speaker 2: have to remember or write down or something. We offload
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  Speaker 2: that to technology, and then if we move away from
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  Speaker 2: that technology, you know, you're kind of boned.
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  Speaker 1: So well, but here's the thing. You remember my birthday,
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  Speaker 1: and I normally do remember your birthday. I have it
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  Speaker 1: in my calendar as a backup, so I don't forget.
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  Speaker 1: But I also have all of my loved ones birthdays
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  Speaker 1: in the calendar, so I don't forget. The problem is
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  Speaker 1: when I forget what day it is. When I'm looking
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  Speaker 1: at the calendar.
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  Speaker 2: Your birthday is easy to remember. For the month, I
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  Speaker 2: just add six and for the day, I just divide
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  Speaker 2: mine by two. I mean, it's true, it's true.
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  Speaker 1: I hadn't even ever thought about that. Oh geez, okay, okay, look,
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  Speaker 1: I was looking at a way. There was a you're
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  Speaker 1: not on social media, so you didn't see this. Someone
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  Speaker 1: was posting the way to do like fraction of a
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  Speaker 1: percentage math easily, just to flip it into the percentage.
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  Speaker 1: And my brain was blown and this is one of
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  Speaker 1: those situations. But happy, happy birthday.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. It's just insight into how my brain works
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  Speaker 2: because like, so, my partner's birthday is on the same
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  Speaker 2: day of the month, it's just a different month, right,
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  Speaker 2: So I know her birthday easily because it's the same
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  Speaker 2: day as mine, just different month. And our anniversary is
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  Speaker 2: two days after our birthday on a different month, So
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  Speaker 2: that's easy for me to remember. Like I'm like, man,
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  Speaker 2: as well as I make sure that all of these
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  Speaker 2: events line up to within a certain range, it's very
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  Speaker 2: easy for me to remember. But yeah, when it comes
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  Speaker 2: to birthdays, I know, I know Becca's, I know yours,
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  Speaker 2: and I know Shay's, and I know my sisters. And
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  Speaker 2: then once you get past that, I'm like, I need
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  Speaker 2: to look that up again.
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  Speaker 1: Do you have to look up your parents' birthdays?
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  Speaker 2: I do every time every time I have to, because like,
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  Speaker 2: like I mean, I know what months they appear they're in,
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  Speaker 2: and I know like generally when in the month it is,
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  Speaker 2: but I always forget the actual day. For some reason,
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  Speaker 2: I can't get that to stay in my head.
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  Speaker 1: Like I know my mom's birth date just because she's
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  Speaker 1: very close to like she narrowly misses another calendar event.
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  Speaker 1: But remembering anybody's age is at some point I had
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  Speaker 1: to put like their birthdate year down so I could
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  Speaker 1: remember everybody's age, because, especially after COVID, time.
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  Speaker 2: Is just yeah, yeah, no, it was. I was not
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  Speaker 2: good at remembering things like that before COVID, but certainly
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  Speaker 2: after COVID it's way worse like I was. I was
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  Speaker 2: actually talking with a neighbor about this the other day.
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  Speaker 2: I said, I've always been terrible with things like names
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  Speaker 2: and dates. I've it's just it's hard for me to
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  Speaker 2: hold on to that information. But since COVID, it's almost impossible.
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  Speaker 2: It's like by the time you're finished telling me something,
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  Speaker 2: it's already left my head.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Part of this might be because during COVID I
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  Speaker 1: switched to working at home mostly, but uh, like before
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  Speaker 1: it would I'd have the occasional day where I'd be like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: it's only Thursday and it would be Friday or vice versa.
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  Speaker 2: Right, No, the vice versa is the worst, by the way.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean, and that's the way it more
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  Speaker 1: more often happens. But like just being off by a day,
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  Speaker 1: what happened occasionally, it's doubled in the frequency. So that's
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  Speaker 1: where I am this week.
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  Speaker 2: Wasn't Wasn't there like a week like maybe like a
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  Speaker 2: week or two ago where I was talking to you
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  Speaker 2: about like, oh man, when we have to record tomorrow
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  Speaker 2: and you're like, Jonathan, it's Wednesday, it's not Thursday. And
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, oh no.
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  Speaker 1: I mean you had a bunch of stuff going on,
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  Speaker 1: sure and I And the only reason I knew because
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  Speaker 1: I was having the same thing that week was because
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  Speaker 1: I had just changed for us for something else that
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  Speaker 1: I was like, oh, this is this, No, that's two
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  Speaker 1: days away.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, it's just that that realization that you're a day,
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  Speaker 2: you're a day behind where you thought you were is
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  Speaker 2: just and then you've that means you've got another day
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  Speaker 2: of work before you get to where you thought you
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  Speaker 2: were going to be. Wef that's a tough one.
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  Speaker 1: Darn being switched to an alternate timeline.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, let's let's let's talk about speaking of time.
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  Speaker 2: Our question involves time this week. Our question of the
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  Speaker 2: week this week is what is a geeky way to
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  Speaker 2: celebrate a birthday? Because it's my birthday?
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  Speaker 1: Oh are you? Are you looking for like any surprise?
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  Speaker 1: Parties that I've planned.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no, one, listen. There have been like two
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  Speaker 2: attempts to do surprise parties in my past, and neither
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  Speaker 2: of them went well. So uh. In both cases it
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  Speaker 2: got spoiled well before the actual party time, and I've
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  Speaker 2: given up hope on ever having a surprise party.
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  Speaker 1: It's I have once or twice a few times been surprised. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: So the way that I have mainly geekly celebrated my
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  Speaker 1: birthdays has been to go see a geeky movie. For
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  Speaker 1: a long time, it was the Star Trek movies came
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  Speaker 1: out every other year around my birthday. It's not that anymore,
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  Speaker 1: but like when it was TNG, it was it was
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  Speaker 1: a pretty consistent thing. And then when that wasn't happening,
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  Speaker 1: it was Lord of the Rings. And then we tried
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  Speaker 1: for Hobbit and we didn't complete that.
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  Speaker 2: We did two out of three of the Hobbit movies,
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  Speaker 2: and I don't even remember the first one because I
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  Speaker 2: fell asleep twice.
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  Speaker 1: I don't remember anything that happened in either of I
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  Speaker 1: remember like bits and pieces, so saying I don't remember
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  Speaker 1: anything is not correct. I could not tell you the
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  Speaker 1: extended plot of the Hobbit, because The Hobbit is a
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  Speaker 1: short book, so to make it three movies is you're
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  Speaker 1: adding stuff. But I have I still haven't watched the
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  Speaker 1: third part.
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  Speaker 2: Ever, saying like I've never watched it. I've seen bits
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  Speaker 2: of it, never watched it all the way through. And that,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, that's my favorite book of all time.
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  Speaker 2: I actually have a copy of it on a shelf
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  Speaker 2: like Ariel can't see, but I'm pointing to my right,
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  Speaker 2: to my right side, there's yeah, yeah, my right, there's
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  Speaker 2: a copy of The Hobbit. It's like a classic. It's
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  Speaker 2: the green hardback bound version with the gold lettering and
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  Speaker 2: beautiful edition. Favorite book of all time. And I cannot
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  Speaker 2: make myself watch that third movie because because the first
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  Speaker 2: two lost me so hard.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, So a few of those times it's been
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  Speaker 1: a surprise that that was happening. It was mainly like
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  Speaker 1: my now husband kind of organizing it and being like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: let me invite everybody to this movie that we're already
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  Speaker 1: going to go see. So like I knew I was
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  Speaker 1: seeing the movie right. But that hasn't happened in a while,
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  Speaker 1: partially because there haven't been great birthday movie and partially
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  Speaker 1: just because everybody's busy and my birthday is during the holidays,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm busier during the holidays now, and that's you know.
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  Speaker 1: I've had some parties, but they've never been giant, and
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  Speaker 1: that's just because of when my birthday falls, and that's fine.
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  Speaker 1: I was asked how I wanted to celebrate one of
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  Speaker 1: my more recent milestones, and I was like, I haven't
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  Speaker 1: thought about it because also, in time wise, my brain
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  Speaker 1: hasn't caught up to my actual age, which is not
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  Speaker 1: that old, but still it thinks I'm a year or
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  Speaker 1: two behind. And it's may be because I didn't celebrate that
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  Speaker 1: milestone but we had stuff going them.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, I mean, like, as someone who is now
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  Speaker 2: over fifty, I can understand that.
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  Speaker 1: I still don't believe it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, all right. So so my answer is to have
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  Speaker 2: a way to celebrate a geeky birthday. Well, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna celebrate it tonight with a bunch of friends
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  Speaker 2: and family, all going to see a production of Gutenberg
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  Speaker 2: the Musical here in Atlanta. It's their closing weekend. If
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  Speaker 2: you're not familiar with the musical, it's very silly, it's
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  Speaker 2: a very meta musical where it's these two would be
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  Speaker 2: show creators pitching their show to the audience in the
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  Speaker 2: hopes that someone in the audience is a Broadway producer
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  Speaker 2: and that they will take the show and produce it
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  Speaker 2: on Broadway. And it's a show about Johann Gutenberg, the
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  Speaker 2: inventor of the printing press, except that the two show
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  Speaker 2: creators have done less than the bare minimum of research,
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  Speaker 2: and so it's really just an excuse for them to
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  Speaker 2: write a musical. And it's charming, it's endearing, it's very silly.
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  Speaker 2: I will say, because I've seen this production once before.
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  Speaker 2: I saw it in well, I saw the preview of
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  Speaker 2: this particular production, and I saw an older version of
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  Speaker 2: it back in twenty fourteen. I will say that they
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  Speaker 2: have softened some of the edges that were in the
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  Speaker 2: two fourteen version, which I think they had also done,
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  Speaker 2: like it actually did have a Broadway run like a
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  Speaker 2: couple of years ago. But yeah, they softened some of
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  Speaker 2: the edges, because there's some jokes that were definitely edgier
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  Speaker 2: back in twenty fourteen that are they're still there, but
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  Speaker 2: they've been definitely softened.
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad. I feel like there are some works where
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  Speaker 1: like you view them as a product of their era, right,
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  Speaker 1: and then there are some works where if you can
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  Speaker 1: make the adjustments and keep the quality, please do it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I think the humor in those edgier jokes was
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  Speaker 2: more about how the show creators are oblivious to how
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  Speaker 2: offensive they are being, like because there's there's not malicious
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  Speaker 2: intent behind it, it's just that they're oblivious. So that's
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  Speaker 2: where the comedy came in. It's like, oh, it's the
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  Speaker 2: thing they're saying isn't funny, but it is funny that
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  Speaker 2: they're saying it because they're just so clueless that it
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  Speaker 2: didn't occur to them, right, Yeah. And then they're like, okay, well,
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  Speaker 2: how can we achieve that same outcome without going quite
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  Speaker 2: so hard? And so when once you see the show,
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  Speaker 2: if you're curious, I'll because, oh, here's spoiler. Ariel's going
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  Speaker 2: to see the show tonight. She's going to be one
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  Speaker 2: of those one of those friends that's going to be
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  Speaker 2: there at the show. On you. Once you've seen the show,
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  Speaker 2: maybe we'll chat about not I can tell you about
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  Speaker 2: some of the jokes that got changed slightly. Yes, some
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  Speaker 2: of the lyrics were changed too, which surprised me because like,
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  Speaker 2: I've heard them the song so much. I fell in
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  Speaker 2: love with the show when I saw it in twenty
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  Speaker 2: fourteen because it's just so that's it's so endearing.
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  Speaker 1: Did it originate in at Dad's Garage.
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  Speaker 2: No, It's an upright Citizens Brigade production. So it was
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  Speaker 2: one of those things that started off as like a
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  Speaker 2: sketch and then gradually they kept adding to it until
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  Speaker 2: it became a fully fledged play. In twenty fourteen, Dad's
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  Speaker 2: Garage got the rights to do a production of it,
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  Speaker 2: and that was when Dad's Garage was kind of homeless.
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  Speaker 2: The theater was in a one building. The landlord of
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  Speaker 2: that building sold the building off where it got demolished
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  Speaker 2: and turned into like mixed use retail space. In the meantime,
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  Speaker 2: they shared space with another existing theater not too far away.
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  Speaker 2: That's where they did the initial production of Gutenberg in
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  Speaker 2: twenty fourteen, and then I was just like floored because
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  Speaker 2: it's two actors who are effectively playing two dozen characters,
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  Speaker 2: and you know they're doing it all within direct view
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  Speaker 2: of the audience. It's not like they go off stage
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  Speaker 2: or anything. They're right there the whole time, and it's
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  Speaker 2: just it's incredibly demanding as a performer, and I'm just
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  Speaker 2: so impressed with actors who are capable of doing that.
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  Speaker 1: So, I mean, we've done a two manch show and
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  Speaker 1: albeit you were the same character throughout, there were a
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  Speaker 1: lot of changes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but that was one. That was a one though,
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  Speaker 2: so it was a little easier. You know, this is
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  Speaker 2: like a This is like a two acts with different voices,
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  Speaker 2: and like if you're singing, you're singing in that voice.
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  Speaker 2: There's some characters that both actors play at some point
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  Speaker 2: in the show, so that means like whoever establishes it
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  Speaker 2: in one scene, like the other actor is trying to
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  Speaker 2: do their best to do the same style performance with
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  Speaker 2: that character. So it's I mean, like I was just
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  Speaker 2: totally charmed by it, obviously, and so I'm very much
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  Speaker 2: looking forward to tonight because I've I've been talking this
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  Speaker 2: up to my friends. My biggest fear is that everyone's
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  Speaker 2: going to go and they're like, Wow, this really sucked.
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  Speaker 1: No, you know, I will like it, and I am
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  Speaker 1: so excited to do this with you. I know that
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  Speaker 1: there have been some years where I haven't been able
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  Speaker 1: to celebrate your birthday with you, and that always sucks.
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  Speaker 1: Because you're one of my closest friends. So uh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but uh, that's not the only geeky way you celebrate
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  Speaker 1: your birthday.
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  Speaker 2: No, I, what are you What are you alluding to?
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  Speaker 3: Like, because now I'm.
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  Speaker 1: Curious getting a house for the weekend and doing karaoke game.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I've done that quite a few times. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I What's one of my favorite things to do is
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  Speaker 2: like finding a place. Usually it's up over in the
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  Speaker 2: La j Or Blue Ridge area in the mountains of
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  Speaker 2: North Georgia. I'll usually get like a cabin sometimes once
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  Speaker 2: it was like a lake house down over in south
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  Speaker 2: of Georgia, the south of Atlanta, not Georgia. And I'll
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  Speaker 2: invite a bunch of friends over to stay, and we'll
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  Speaker 2: cook food and we'll eat, and one of our friends
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  Speaker 2: will bring his insane karaoke setup, like professional grade karaoke
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  Speaker 2: set up, and then we'll just sing all weekend long.
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  Speaker 2: We'll play games, watch terrible movies, sometimes good movies. We
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  Speaker 2: watched Jaws last year. Yeah, and then, and I forgot
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  Speaker 2: how scary it was until I saw my friends hiding
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  Speaker 2: their faces. But I mean it's because I have seen
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  Speaker 2: it so many times. Right, there's nothing in it that
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  Speaker 2: surprises me now, but I forget that for someone who
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  Speaker 2: hasn't seen it, there are things that are shocking in
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  Speaker 2: that movie anyway. Yeah, that is the other way that
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  Speaker 2: I typically will experience it because, like you, Ariel, having
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  Speaker 2: a summer birthday kind of sucks because, like, especially when
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  Speaker 2: you're growing up, it means like all the kids are
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  Speaker 2: already out of school and scattered to the four winds,
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  Speaker 2: so you know, you can't really ever have a party,
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  Speaker 2: like even in school, your party would be lumped together
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  Speaker 2: with all the other summer kids, so it'd be like
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  Speaker 2: one one party for like six kids, like you don't
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  Speaker 2: feel special or anything. So but even as an adult,
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  Speaker 2: it still can be hard in the summer months to
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  Speaker 2: find things to do. So yeah, but I think there's
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  Speaker 2: a good answers.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I do have two more like honorable mentions that
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  Speaker 1: were not my birthdays but friend's birthdays that are very interesting.
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  Speaker 1: One is, my husband doesn't share his birthday with anybody.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't celebrate his birthday, so his friends made up
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  Speaker 1: a febter days when's your birthday Febterday. It's not a
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  Speaker 1: real day, so they won't celebrate it, and they picked
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  Speaker 1: day to be Febterday, And one year they made him
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  Speaker 1: sit in the middle of a bunch of folding tables
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  Speaker 1: and he had to play several different board games, Chess, dodgeball,
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  Speaker 1: all at the same time in the middle of those tables.
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  Speaker 1: So like he's playing Chess and dodging a ball and
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  Speaker 1: playing Katan and dodging a ball.
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  Speaker 2: I imagine that that the dodgeball think gets very destructive
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  Speaker 2: as far as the gameplay goes.
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  Speaker 3: For the other games, yes, but it's very sparing.
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  Speaker 1: And the other thing is one of my friends he
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  Speaker 1: loves chocolate chip cookies, and so for his birthday. I
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  Speaker 1: don't organize this. I just participate. And it's been a
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  Speaker 1: long time. This is back when I had more time
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  Speaker 1: and bandwidth. They would do something called cookie Con, and
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  Speaker 1: every cookie Con had a different theme, but it was
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  Speaker 1: always centered around cookies. So one year it was the
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  Speaker 1: World of Food of Cookies, so everybody made different international
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  Speaker 1: food dishes out of cookies. So I like made cookie
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  Speaker 1: tacos that looked pretty realistic. I was proud. And then
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  Speaker 1: one year he got a whole bunch of different cookies
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  Speaker 1: each and again I did not organize. This is too
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  Speaker 1: much work for me. Even when I had more time.
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  Speaker 1: He got a bunch of different cookies that were like
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  Speaker 1: all different dollar amounts at the beginning of the day,
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  Speaker 1: and then throughout the day there were a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: different activities that he could choose to do, but he
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  Speaker 1: had to pay cookie dollars for everybody to do them
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  Speaker 1: with him, and all of his cookie dollar dollars that
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  Speaker 1: he spent went into the cookie jar, which was a
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: clean trash can with cookie jar written on it because
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: he loves cookies so much. And then at the end
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: of the day it ended at a location. Everything that
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: went in the cookie jar were like the party favors
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: for everybody who was participating, and then he got to
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: keep the rest of the cookies.
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: So interesting, Yeah, it's like you can have fun, but
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: to do so, you must first sacrifice some of the
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: cookies that have been brought to you.
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and then like, of course there were some really
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: nice cookies that were gifted as well.
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: Sure, sure, I just think I just thought. I was
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: just like, I was like, your fun comes at a price,
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: and I'm like, oh I like that.
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean, And that's why I was sharing
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: it because it was interesting and it was geeky. I
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: can't take any other credit for it, but I just
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: thought it was interesting.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: So well that those are I think some exhaustive answers
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: to the question what's a geeky way to celebrate a birthday?
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: Let's talk about stuff we've watched since the last time
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: we recorded, And unlike most weeks, I kind of went
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: ham Yeah. This is partially because my Becca had to
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: go up to see her family. She's been going back
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: and forth last couple of weeks, and so she was
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: gone for several days, which leaves me by myself, and
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: that's never a good thing. So I filled up some
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: of the spared time by watching movies. And so in
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: one day in the morning, I watched back Rooms into
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: the theater saw a screening of Backrooms, and then that
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: same evening I went and saw Obsession. So I got
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: two different two of the trendy horror movies done in
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: one day. I'll say I liked Obsession a lot. I
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: liked back Rooms. I thought it was interesting because, like obviously,
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: if you dive into the law of backrooms, there's lots
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: of different conflicting theories as to what they are and
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: what they represent. The movie takes sort of a stance
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: on that without going to you know, literal, but I
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: found it really interesting. It was like it was an
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: interpretation I hadn't encountered before. Now, to be fair, I
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: haven't really explored the lore of backrooms before, but I've
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: enjoyed some of the depictions right in short videos or
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: video games that kind of thing.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: Does it cause much sanity loss?
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: Uh? Yeah, no, there's yeah, there's significant sanity loss in
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: back rooms, that's safe to say. Yeah. I would say
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: that backrooms kind of explores themes of you know how
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: we talked about how a lot of sci fi and
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: horror and fantasy and stuff recently has been exploring the
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: concept of grief, like there's some in this lineup we'll
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: be talking about that do that. This case, it was
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: more like exploring the concepts of things like shame and
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: guilt and self loathing and how that also feeds into
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: anger issues like all the and it's not again, it's
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: not overt, but it's there. Like it's one of those
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: things where like, oh, interesting, I see what they're exploring.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: Obsession is it's kind of much more obvious in many ways.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: But Indie Navarad's performance in obsession is so good. Everyone
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: does a great job. She's getting a lot of attention
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: because she has the most dramatic, flashy part of all.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: But everyone does a great job. But the way she
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: handles being a truly terrifying presence for this tiny little
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: like she's five foot tall, but she's so scary in
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: the movie, I was very much taken with it. Although
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: it does involve an animal death early on, and that
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: becomes a plot point at multiple points throughout the film,
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: and that I was not expecting and it really hit
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: me home, like it put me off at the very
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: beginning of the movie and I never quite got back.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: But I was able to appreciate the film. I did
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: think it was an incredibly effective scary movie. I also
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: watched Time Addicts. Have you heard of this movie?
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: I don't. I think it's the only one you watched
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: this week that I've not heard of.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: So Time Addicts is a a weird sci fi film
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: out of I believe, Australia, and the story is that
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: there's a couple of junkies and they are tasked by
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: their dealer to go and steal this stash of drugs
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: being held at a drug house and it turns out
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: the drugs allow you to travel in time, and you
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: travel to whichever time you were last thinking of. So
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: if you were thinking of like February nineteen twenty, that's
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: where you would end up. If you were thinking like, gosh,
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: I wonder what the far off future of twenty seventy
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: three is going to be, that's where you would end up.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: Same location in space relative to the Earth, Like you're
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: not like just floating in the middle of space because
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: the Earth has moved through, but you know, same location,
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: but different time period. And it's very weird. It's it's
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: very heinlen actually, because it made me think of all
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: you zombies where you're like, Okay, how many more weird
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: cause out loop things are we going to encounter? And
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: the answer is a lot. There are a lot of
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: causality loops in that movie. I thought it was good.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: It's hard because, like, the characters aren't very likable. They grow,
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: they grew on me over time, but they're not good people.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: And then I watched Guns of Kimbo. That's the Daniel
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: Radcliffe action movie where it's set in a dystopian future
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: where there's this organized crime group that shoots like video
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: of all the stuff they do and forces people to
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: get into like like death combat with each other. And
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: so Daniel Radcliff's character gets pulled into this and has
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: guns bolted onto his hands so he can't put them
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: down or anything. And it's mostly a story of his
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: survival and then attempt at rescuing his ex girlfriend. And
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: then I finally watched Running Man the right how is guns?
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: Kimo guns and Kimbo's Okay, it's very stylized Tomorrow Weaving,
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: isn't it as well? And uh they did their best
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: to make Tomorrow Weaving look ugly, which is hard to do.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: But uh, yeah, I I thought it was entertaining. I
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: probably won't never watch it again. It wasn't anything that
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: was like, oh I gotta see this again. It was fine.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: And I saw the Running Man, which you had seen
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: when it came out, and I finally watched it now.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: But I did watch it. I watched it on TV.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, okay, yeah, I thought it was good. Uh
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: it also, I was surprised at the ending because it
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: did not end the same way that the novella ends
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: like I thought. I thought it was going straight for
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: the novella's ending. And I was like, oh, man, this
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: is going to be such a downer, and then the
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: movie ends the way it does, and I'm like, oh
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: he put in a happy ending spoiler by the way.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: But I really enjoyed the ending. I thought it fit
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: the story that was told, because there were some changes
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: throughout it.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it was a kind of a nice juxtaposition
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: of The Mist because like Frank Darabuht's version of The
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: Mist ends on a much more grim note than the
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: novella does. The novella ends on a rough note, but
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: there's still hope, whereas the ending of Dara Bunce the
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: Myst is maybe the darkest thing I had seen in
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: a very long time.
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: I also think that this Edgar Wright version of Running Man,
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: which first of all, I did not expect as many
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: quippi amazing Edgar Wright moments at the beginning of it,
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: Like there was a lot of like I say this
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: word and this word is behind me kind of stuff.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: Incidentally, Yeah, it's very similar to like his opening sequence
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: in Baby Driver, right, Like, yeah, like Edgar Wright really
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: likes to play with words and music on screen at
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: the same time that action is happening.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: But I also feel like, Running Man came out at
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: a time where there were a lot of people who
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: were just struggling with things, and it was just a
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: really hard time for a lot of people, and I
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: feel like giving it a more hopeful ending.
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: Was the correct cull.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, because I mean that's ultimately The Running Man is
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: about a world where the divide between the haves and
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: the have nots is even more dramatic than it is
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: right now, and the main character has been penalized for
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: being a good, decent human being in this very corrupt
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: world and blacklisted from work, which puts him in a
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: truly hopeless situation. So that's like, that's to set the
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: stage for why he agrees to be in The Running Man,
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: because literally his family's survival depends upon it. Yeah, yeah,
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: what about you. You've watched a lot of stuff too.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: I did. I started this newest season of Task Master Australia.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry to our listener Matt, who doesn't like it.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: I feel like the task Master's a little bit kinder
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: this season, which I don't mind. I watched the first
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: episode of Widow's Bay.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: Why'd you think I liked it?
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: It was neither as funny or as scary as I
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: anticipated it being.
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: Kind of a little more middle little. I'll say this.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: I love Stephen Root in it.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, his character was great. There were a couple
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: of moments that genuinely made me laugh in the first episode,
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: and I felt like the end was ramping up to
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: more scary, right it was the setup episode. Yeah, my
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: husband watch it with me because I was like, well,
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: maybe this is a show we can do. He loves
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: Stephen King, and while it's not a Stephen King story,
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: it does, you know, pay a lot of homage and
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: he loves Stephen Root. So we tried it and he
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: afterwards he's like, I don't think I liked that. I
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: don't know what it was. So he's going to try
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: second episode with me. You probably won't like it from
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: what I understand of how the show grows, and that's okay,
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: which means I'll probably watch it by myself, but once
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: it happens, I'll watch the rest of it by myself
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: because I did like it. I watched Seven Dials, which
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: is we talked about a while ago on the show.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: It's about a girl whose father dies and she tracks
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: down the secret society that she thinks killed him. Turns
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: out the girl in it is not as young as
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: I thought. She's like marrying age back when we first
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: talked about it, and it's not just her father's death
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: that spurns her that way. I thought it had some
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: interesting twist and turns it wasn't my favorite who done
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: it mystery novel, but it wasn't bad. I thought the
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: person who played the main character was really good and
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: had some great supporting actors as well, some amazing cast
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: in it. But it ended at a weird place. It
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: ended it a place where it's like, we're definitely getting
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: a sequel because it was a mini series, because we're
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: just ending in a really weird like kind of the
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: way She Hulk ended. We're just ended in the middle
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: of a moment for me, and I didn't care for
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: that because there are a lot of shows that, as
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: we'll talk about later in this episode, that don't do
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: well and don't get sequels. So it's a it's a
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: really big shot to take and if it doesn't pay off,
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: it can be frustrating for the viewer. And then over
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: the weekend, I didn't realize that there was a thing
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: called Summer Ween, and apparently I was appreciating participating in it.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: Because we watched Scream five, six, and seven.
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: So what what's your review of Screams five, six, and seven?
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: Because I know there's some people who like within that
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: that grouping, they really don't like certain entries. Like I
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: want to say, it's six that a lot of people
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: didn't like, but I could be wrong about that.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: Six wasn't bad. Six I did dislike any of them.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: Six took place still in the same hometown and was
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: kind of interesting or sorry no, sorry. Five took place
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: in the hometown.
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: And was kind of interesting.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: Six is the one that takes place in New York.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I didn't hate it. It did feel like
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: it was missing something.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: Well, Sydney for one thing.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: I mean, that was fine, honestly.
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: Is that the one that Jack Wade is in?
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: No, that's five? Okay, yeah, I mean I don't want
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: to spoil anything. He's he's in five. He plays a
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: bigger part than one movie. But six, six was fine.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: A lot of people said five and six were more
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: gory than seven, and seven did have less gory moments,
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: but the gory moments it had, which is the most
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: recent one where Sydney comes back the the gory moments
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: that it had.
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: Were a lot more graphic mm.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: Which compares to four, which also had some graphic deaths
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: in it, but as opposed to like four, where you
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: see somebody after they've you see them get attacked, and
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: then you see them after the attack and you get
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: to see some of their insides, in seven you get
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: to watch those insides come to the outside.
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: So I mean, those don't belong out there.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: No the big Here's the thing. I loved the characters
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: they set up in seven. I really enjoyed. I really
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: enjoyed Sydney and her family, and I thought it was
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: really great. And then at the end the motivation for
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: the Ghostface Killers really fell flat for me.
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that. So I still haven't seen I
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: don't even know if I've seen four. I know i've
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: seen one through three. I think I say this every
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: time we talk about the screen movies, is that I
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: don't remember anything after three. I probably have seen part four,
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: but I don't remember it, and I've definitely not seen five,
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: six or seven.
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: But to watch four for six sure.
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: What I was gonna say though, is that, like I
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: did watch the Red Letter, media guys kind of talk
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: about the Scream series, and they made some observations that
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: I feel I would agree with assuming I had watched
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: all the episode all the movies, but even the ones
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: I have watched, I feel this and that part of
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: it is that they're too formulaic, like the idea that
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: in pretty much every entry of Scream, the big reveal
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: at the end is that, oh, it wasn't just one person, right,
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: like it's it's two people. Usually. I don't know if
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: that's the case for every single one, because again I've
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: only seen a few of them, but if that becomes
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: the established formula, then it becomes in increasingly difficult to
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: handle that as you go on, because you're like, well,
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: now you've got to come up with justifications for two
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: people to do this thing that other pairs have been
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: doing in the past.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: I feel like four and five did okay, some of
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: the motivation was redundant from previous series. Six I thought
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: the Killers had a very good motivation, But by five
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: and six they're flat out saying there's net Like at
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: the beginning when like Gail or Sidney is dealing with
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: the people like Jenna Ortega, right, They're like, there's never
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: just one killer. You didn't handle it, just know you're
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: gonna still have problems.
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: Right yeah yeah, which again like it kind of makes
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: you think, well, you need to break out of that formula.
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: The thing the Red Letter Media guy said that I
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: thought was funny was that they should, at this point
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: just make a STAB movie, but make it like Stab six.
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: Don't make Stabs one through five, Just release Stab six
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: as its own standalone movie to kind of be like
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: a meta meta commentary on the screen franchise.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: Is interesting because they talk about stabs like they actually happen.
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: Since they start being based on Gail Weather's books, it
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: turns out I actually like the story and the characters,
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: most of some of the characters in the screen movies.
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: I just don't like the violence, right, it's scary to me.
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: I don't. I need to know what gore I'm going
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: to be seeing so I can look away if it's
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: too much for me, which I do.
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: I watch.
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: I read the reviews before I watched every single one,
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: But up until watching Scream seven, nothing about Scream seven
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: had been spoiled for me, so I went into it
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: blind as too. You know, we knew some characters who
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: had previously died were showing up, so I didn't know
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: what was going on there. And I appreciated that Scream
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: six does actually break out of the formula because they
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: show you a Scream who one of the ghost Fist
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: killers is at the beginning of the movie, which was
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: really interesting to me. I like, I'll mention that. But again,
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: I really liked seven. I liked the way they brought
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: in the old like the legacy CA characters. I thought
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: it was interesting and timely. I really loved the main characters.
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: I just the villains, like at the big reveal at
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: the end, were just dumb.
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: So yeah, that's a problem when like the climax of
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: your movie is dependent upon the reveal. It's kind of
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: similar to how I feel about a lot of Shyamalan movies,
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: where if you didn't know there was a twist, maybe
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: it would be fine, but since he kind of established
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: that that was his shtick, then you're just constantly waiting
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: for the twist to happen. And it's like it's hard
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: for a twist to be satisfying if you know it's coming,
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: Like even if you don't know what the twist is,
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: if you know there is a twist, it's hard for
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: it to be satisfying if you know there's something like
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: that on its way. It's when you don't know and
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: it surprises you, that's when it could be delightful. But again,
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: it's it's weird to call Shyamalan movies formulaic because they're
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: so different from each other, but they all have that.
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: They all seem to be dependent upon some sort of
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: twist or reveal, and that's that's part of the issue. Well, anyway,
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: anything else you've watched screen movies Taskmaster seven dials.
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: No, I might go see Supergirl this weekend. If I do,
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: I'm going in with very low expectations because the reviews
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: are fair to Middland.
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's kind of disappointing. I was really hopeful that
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: it was going to be like, really well received, but
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: I agree, like all the reviews I've seen have been
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: at best mixed.
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: But honest, honest trailers reminded me that I liked the
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: old Supergirl movie and that was dumbest.
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: Toast So my gosh, set feminism back thirty years.
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: Yes, but I still enjoyed it. So if I can
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: enjoy that, as long as I set my expectations low,
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: I will have fun, and everything I've heard is that
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: the actress who plays Supergirl is fantastic.
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: So the Milli Alcock something like that, Yeah, yeah.
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: I was like, Milli, it's Milli, but it's not Millie
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: Bobby Brown. So instead I'll just.
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, just just him and Hall around it. Uh, well,
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: if you go and see it, you have to let
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: me know what you think. I don't. I don't think
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: I'm going to go see anything this weekend because like
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: being a birthday weekend, We've got a few plans, Like
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: I know that we're doing a birthday dinner thing Sunday
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: night with a friend of the show, shay Lee. We're
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: going to go to a vegetarian restaurant that I like
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: a lot, and that's that's gonna be like my birthday
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: dinner and dinner because like tonight, because we're going to
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: go see a show, can't really go to a dinner
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: first because it's just not enough time, especially when you
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: factor in Atlanta traffic on a Friday.
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: I wish, I wish I could go to your birthday dinner.
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: I'd really like to try that place. I just I
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: have plans, And then I did try to go to
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: a restaurant this week and it's still a dinner at
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: a restaurant is still a little bit long in my
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: back recovery.
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: So yeah, I can understand that, like.
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: The movie is good because I'm reclined and I'm supported.
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I definitely wanted to invite you. By the way,
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: if you have like a cushion you can bring with
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: you to Dad's garage theater. The seats were honor essentially
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: like folding chairs, and they have a cushion. But it's
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: then so if you need something like that to help
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: with your back and everything, I would recommend bringing one.
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: Thanks, thanks for the suggestion.
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, because like I keep thinking, I need to
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: get one for myself because by inevitably, by the time
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: an hour has passed, I'm thinking my butt hurts. So
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: all right, Well, with that helpful hint of narrow casting
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: for anyone who's in the Atlanta area and wants to
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: go see Dad's gross show and sits far house, right,
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: let's move on to thirty seconds or less. I get
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: to go first, So let's get going. Paramount already received
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: the go ahead from the US Department of Justice to
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: gobble up WBD, which is no big surprise because Paramount's
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: owners are buddy buddy with the current administration and now
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: in the EU, the European Commission has until July seventh
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: to decide on the deal. Indicators suggests that the EC
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: will ask Paramount for a few concessions, but that big
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: deal will in fact go through SI.
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: Speaking of sy we have just learned that Ponies will
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: not be renewed for a second season on Peacock. It
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: was the one that starred Amilia Clark and Haleelu Richardson
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: as wives of spies in the Cold War. It's sad.
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: I did enjoy that show and it ended on a
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: really big cliffhanger, which then goes back to my earlier
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: saying that like ending on a cliffhanger is rough nowadays,
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: and like Burrows, which I enjoyed more than Ponies and
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: also didn't get renewed, it had an ending that I
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: was happy with as an ending, so it works as
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: a standalone season.
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: In twenty fourteen, the What We Do in the Shadows
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: mocking then or introduced us to a world populated with
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: goofy vampires, werewolves, and other beasties, and it spawned a
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: TV series that, in my opinion, managed to be better
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: than the already great original film. Now, in an interview
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: with Nexus Point News, Jamaine Clement says they're working on
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: a sequel to the original movie.
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: Yay. And you might think that that sequel is the
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: new animated Dark Shadows show that is coming from Warner
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: Brothers Animation, but it is not. That is based off
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: of the classic nineteen sixties gothic soap opera where a
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: not a dinosaur nowadays a vampire moves in with a
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: dysfunctional family. It was then rebooted with Johnny Depp a
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: little later by Tim Burton, but now it is coming
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: back as a TV show by the creator of Dreamers
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: and Discovery of Witches and called The New Wife.
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: I gotta say that if they rebooted Dark Shadows and
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: replaced the vampire with a dinosaur, it would be like, dude,
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: I have got to see where this is going. Like,
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: I don't know that it's going to be good, but
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: I have got to watch it.
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean well, and to be fair, certain generations
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: uses dinosaur to me an old person and vampires are
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: pretty old.
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: Usually fair enough, fair enough, I'll give you a pass
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: on this one. The keep in mind that you're talking
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: to someone who's officially older today. Way back in nineteen
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: ninety nine, I enjoyed the experience of seeing the original
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: Blair Witch Project film in a dark, quiet theater. It
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: was super creepy. There have been sequels and games that
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: shot off from that original movie, none of which actually
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: appealed to me. But now Lionsgate is aiming to release
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: a reboot of the original film story on September twenty fourth,
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: next year. The movie has not yet gone into production,
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: which I think is pretty scary.
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: That is something I didn't find scary, and I guess
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: not enough people did because it got canceled. Was Kevin
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: Bacon hunting demons like he did in the TV show
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: Bondsman that got canceled, But don't worry, he still hasn't
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: gotten enough of demons because he will be in a
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: horror thriller movie called Summoner done by Amazon MGM Student
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: Studios and Jeremy Slatrier who wrote Mortal Kombat to and
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: Umbrella Academy. I like both of those, and I do
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: like Kevin Bacon, so hopefully this will get a better reception.
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: Well. Spoiler alert for Minions and Monsters, which comes out
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: July first, Collider reports that none other than George Lucas,
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: the Daddy of Star Wars, will be voicing a character
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: in the upcoming Illuminations picture. Apparently, Lucas is a big
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: fan of the Little Yellow Goobers and I'm not making
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: that up, and that's what led to him lending his
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: voice for this role. It has not yet been disclosed
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: whom he will be voicing.
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: I just learned I don't like calling George Lucas daddy.
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: We're getting We might be getting a Magic School Buss movie.
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: I say might because it's been greenlit, but also they
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: talked about making it several years back and it didn't
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: actually come through then. This time it will be written
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: and directed by Rob Letterman, who did Detech Pikachu, which
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: was pretty decent and starring Elizabeth Banks. Now, nobody can
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: replace Miss Frizzle Lily Tomlins Miss Frizzle in my mind
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: because that's who I grew up with. But Elizabeth Thanks
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: is a great character actress. I didn't think she would
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: nail Rita Rapulsa in the Power Rangers movie, and boy
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: did she sell it hard. So I think she'll do
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: a great job.
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: We never got an official crossover between the Boys and Invincible,
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: but we are seeing some cross pollination, as Variety reports
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: that Jack Quaid, who was Huey in The Boys, will
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: voice the character Chris aka Gravitator in season five. That's
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: a techno genius who makes a super suit and uses
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: it to steal stuff. We also learned that Invincible has
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: already been greenlit for season six.
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: Wow, that's that's a lot of torment. So if you're
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: a fan of The Lord of the Rings, you might
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: like the Rings of Power series, which is getting remade.
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: It was announced that it was getting a third season
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: last year, and it looks like we'll be getting it
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: at the end of this year. It's one of those
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: shows that it got caught in the timeline of pandemic
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: and writer strikes and things like that, so a little
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: bit of a little bit more time than people are
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: comfortable with between seasons and announcements.
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: Gendy Tartakovski created the popular animated series Dexter's Laboratory back
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: in the nineties, and now he's poised to unleash a
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: new animated show titled Heist Brothers. It follows the story
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: of three brothers who happened to be Frogs who Rob
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: a Bank. The series will consist of ten episodes at
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: fifteen minutes each, and we'll come to adult Swim once
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: it's ready to go.
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: That sounds cute. Critical Role is expanding beyond their tabletop games.
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: They have a lot of ideas in the works with Amazon,
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: a lot of animated stuff, including some futuristic sci fi
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: things that we haven't seen before. I find this interesting.
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: In his interview with I Think Collider, he Sam Raigelke,
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: one of the producers for Critical Roles, said that these
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: are stories that he believes in and will be telling
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: whether people saw them or not. So that's really exciting.
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: DreamWorks is really banking on that Shrek love carrying forward.
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: Not only will we get Shrek five that's coming out soon,
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: but now the Hollywood Reporter says that in twenty twenty
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: eight we will get a standalone Donkey film that is
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: titled Let's See Here Donkey. I feel I felt like
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: a real ass saying it that way. The film series
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: has made nearly three billion bucks globally, so I guess
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: it's no surprise that we're getting more in the franchise.
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, that's before they see how the new Shrek
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: comes out.
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: Are Yeah, so yeah, I mean there's definitely, like, I'm
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: sure there are a lot of a lot of millennials
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: who have kids of their own now who have fond
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: memories of Shrek when they were growing up, who want
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: to like continue to watch them movies or whatever. I was,
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: you know, as a gen xer, like that first Trek movie.
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: I saw the first two. I think I said this
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: in the last episode and then I just bailed. So
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: I don't have any real interest. I have no dog
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: in this fight. But in this fight, no donkey, no
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: pussing boots in this fight.
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought, I'm glad you said in boots. I
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: didn't know if you were going.
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: To just say no, no puss in this fight. No,
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: I wasn't gonna. I wasn't gonna. I wasn't gonna attempt fate. Listen,
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: at my age, I need to take everything carefully. But yeah,
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: I I I mean, if it does well, it does well.
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: I just don't have any interest in it.
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: I just I'm looking at the things that have gotten
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: reboots or sequels recently that I thought would do well,
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: like he Man, Because there are large millennial millennial crowds
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: that have liked it and previously made movies that are
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: nostalgic do well in recent years, and it didn't do great.
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: So if you really don't hit that younger audience as
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: well and target them as well, it may not do well.
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: And I don't feel like the first Shrek. I felt
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: like the first trailer for this new Shrek really relied
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: on kids. Do like Shrek, and there's a whole Puss
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: and Boots at Universal's studios, like whole Puss and Boots area,
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: But I don't feel like I felt like the first
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: trailer really focused on those millennials. So we'll have to see.
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, and I would say that he Man would
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: really be more of a gen X thing anyway, and
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: we're notoriously not enthusiastic about anything.
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: Well, you know, Shira, what is? I do feel something
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: like something could cross from gen X through millennial through
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: gen Z because there's been the really successful reboot. Like
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: even my niece, who is just now a teenager, loves
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: Sheira because of the cartoons. So it's just making sure
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: that you're appealing to multiple demographics.
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: I mean, I really did want to see he Man.
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: I just unfortunately things lined up in such a way
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: that I could not get out to the theater before
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: it left. Ye, And so now I'll just have to
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: wait till it's streaming. And that's that's unfortunate because I
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: feel like it's definitely one of those movies where the
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: spectacle plays out well on the big screen.
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: I think so too. You know what I will say
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: is I was worried, based on its performance in the
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: movie theaters that it may not get a sequel or
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: second life, despite the fact that it's set up for
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: some pretty cool things that I'd be very excited to see.
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: But they really are hoping that it'll do well on streaming,
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: and that might mean that if we do get a sequel,
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: it'll come straight to streaming. But I would anything I'd
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: be happy with. So it's not like an amazing movie,
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: but it was a lot of fun and I really
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: enjoyed it.
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: I mean, sometimes you just want a really entertaining film,
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: like it doesn't need to be deep or anything like that,
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: just needs to be entertaining. I actually the reviews I
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: heard from again, even like the Red Letter media guys
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: who are notoriously you know, snobby, but also schlubs, like
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: they're snobby schlubs. Yeah, they liked the he Man film.
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: They were like, it had the right tone it you know,
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: it was They felt that it was a little long,
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: but other than that they enjoyed it. Well, it was
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: over two hours. Yeah, that was part of the problem,
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: was that because it was two hours twenty minutes. Like
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: when I initially was looking at it, I was like,
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: I could go. It was one of those times where
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: I was by myself. I could go, but I might
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: fall asleep in the theater because it's it'll be overwell
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: past my bedtime. Let us move now to something less
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: less embarrassing, and we're going into our section that we
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: call stuff that crept in here while nobody was looking, Yeah,
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: at least.
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: While I wasn't looking. But here's your thing. I did
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: actually try to add to the lineup this week, but
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: every time I came in to add something, Jonathan had
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: already gotten it. So I did add of it.
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was. I was kind of like obsessively keeping
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: up with the news this week. It doesn't always happen.
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: I think maybe because we are taking next week off
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: because I'll be heading out of town for the Fourth
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: of July weekend, so we will not have an episode
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: next week, so maybe I was just like there was
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: some guilt fueling my activity.
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: Never feel guilty, never for anything ever, unrepentant Jonathan.
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: And that is that is my supervillain origin story.
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: Coming from a person who that statement is very much
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: do as I say, not as I do. I'm a
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: notorious apologizer. Okay. So yeah, So the first thing is
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: a I guess a documentary, yeah, called How to Live
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: on Earth, which, instead of focusing on how we're killing
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: the Earth, focuses on maybe some solutions. And I find
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: that pretty exciting.
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: It's also interesting because from what I can tell from
• 50:47
  Speaker 2: the trailer, what they do is they get a bunch
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: of people together and these are people who have been
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: affected by various disasters that have been the result of
• 50:57
  Speaker 2: climate change or at least you know, influenced by climate change,
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: and having these people come together and have conversations about
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: the state of the world and potential solutions. And it
• 51:09
  Speaker 2: is pitched as a hopeful documentary. It's hosted by Benedict Cumberbatch,
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: so hopefully they don't have any penguins in there, because
• 51:18
  Speaker 2: he can't say the word.
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: He probably can now he's heard enough of it. I
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: will say, like in business, they always tell you to
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: couch bad information in between good information, right, like the
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: sandwich method, and instead of bringing a problem up, bring
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: a solution up. So from that standpoint, I think it's
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: really cool because even even if some of the things
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: causing these issues can't be agreed upon or can't be
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: changed by an individual person, looking at here is an
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: effect that is happening. How can we fix this effect?
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: I think is a really great idea.
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a valuable conversation. It needs to happen more frequently,
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: so I agree. It actually came out today in the
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: United Kingdom, but it is coming to I believe, YouTube
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: in September. So while I don't think we're going to
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: get like a theatrical release here in the States, we
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: will be able to see at this fall on YouTube,
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: So that's cool.
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: It is. Next, we have a trailer for something called
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: The Dink, which I had no idea what it was
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: about because I don't play pick a ball, which is
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: apparently what it's about. However, it does start several people
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: that I enjoy, like Jake Johnson, Mary Steinberg, Aaron Chen,
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: who the only reason I know about Iron Chen is
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: because of Task Master Australia, which is maybe why I
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: enjoy that series so much, is because I get to
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: learn about some really cool comedians and Ben Stiller.
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so the premise here is the main character is
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: a tennis player, and he's kind of he's like the
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: son of a guy who owns a tennis club, and
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: he's a jerk face. But then he aggravates an old
• 52:56
  Speaker 2: injury and he is told by his doctor that in
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: order to get into you know, tennis playing shape again,
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: he should pick up pickleball, which is you know, not
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: as demanding physically, at least not for his wrist, which
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: is why he's injured to play. And it's also exploring
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: like the snobbery between tennis players and pickleball players and
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: you know, the omnipresent pickleball phenomenon. I feel like this
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: movie came out maybe two years too late, because like,
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: pick a ball is still definitely a big thing, but
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: it's not like in the craze phase that it was
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: like a year or two ago. Like you, Ariel, I
• 53:39
  Speaker 2: have never played pickleball. Once upon a time, when I
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: was young, I made some solemn promises to myself, not
• 53:46
  Speaker 2: because I thought felt very strongly about them, but I
• 53:49
  Speaker 2: thought that they were promises that would be easy to keep.
• 53:53
  Speaker 2: So in other words, I was like, I'm going to
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: hold these promises close and they'll be easy to keep
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: because I have no interest in breaking them. I have
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: broken all of them since then, but one of them
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: was I promised I would never bowl. I have bowled
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: since then. But I kind of feel like I'm in
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: that way with pickleball now, like not only have I
• 54:11
  Speaker 2: never played it, but I kind of at this point
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: don't want to know how it is played.
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, there is a moment in this trailer where
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: Jake Johnson is playing against a very old person who
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: I think is played by Ed Harris, even though he's
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: not actually that old. If it's not, I legit thought
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: he was playing pick a ball against Dick Van Dyke
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: so much so that I had to look up whether
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: Dick Van Dyke was in this movie. He is not,
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: and it is not him, but I was so excited
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: for a very brief moment.
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah. It comes out July twenty fourth on Apple TV,
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: so this is one for the Apple TV Plus subscribers
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: out there. I don't think I'll watch it, Like it's
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: just like if it were if it went a little
• 54:55
  Speaker 2: crazier in the trailer, so it felt like it was
• 54:58
  Speaker 2: like a distant cousin to some like Dodgeball, Maybe then
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: I would watch it because Dodgeball was just so dumb
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: that I really found it entertaining. This feels like it
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: doesn't quite go hard enough in that direction.
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: I feel like that might be because for the similar
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: reason that everybody on Brooklyn nine nine was happy when
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: the show ended. It's not that it wasn't a great show,
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: but because humor sensibilities were changing. So this did feel
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: like a spiritual sister to me, or spiritual sequel to me,
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: were like sister, that sequel, it's not a sequel where
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: it did feel like Dodgeball with those changed sensibilities.
• 55:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, kind of like how I was talking about how
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: some of the jokes in Gutenberg have changed since the
• 55:35
  Speaker 2: last time I saw it. That's fair enough. Yeah, So,
• 55:38
  Speaker 2: you know, check out the trailer for the Dank if
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: you are into sports comedies and maybe it'll be your
• 55:44
  Speaker 2: kind of thing. Next up, we got kind of a
• 55:47
  Speaker 2: trailer for Digger. It's more like a teaser, and it
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: was mostly a retrospective on the career of one, mister
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: Tom Cruise, a little known actor. So let me give
• 55:59
  Speaker 2: you my opinion about the retrospective. First, sure, I felt
• 56:02
  Speaker 2: like what they were trying to do is to convince
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: us that Tom Cruise is not just a movie star,
• 56:06
  Speaker 2: he is an actor. Like that's what it felt like
• 56:09
  Speaker 2: to me, is like, no, really, he's an actor, not
• 56:12
  Speaker 2: just somebody who's a big name movie star.
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: I agree, because going into it, I'm like, watching this,
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, you know what, Tom Cruise has played
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: a lot of roles I liked, but most of them
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: were not action hero. So it's less that I think
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: that Tom Cruise is a bad actor and more I
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: feel like a lot of his roles are very.
• 56:33
  Speaker 3: By the book action hero like cookie cutter.
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: Very cookie cutter like leading man kind of stuff. And
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: I was once told and I didn't believe it for
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: the longest time because I just wanted to be the
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: ingenue that it's better to play the villain or the
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: character because it's just more fun.
• 56:49
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: You can tell in the moments where like where he
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: does play characters that he has a lot of fun.
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: He commits. He is great at playing a character or
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: goofy person.
• 57:00
  Speaker 2: I think like his character Les Grossman and Tropic Thunder
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: remains one of my like I didn't even recognize him
• 57:07
  Speaker 2: when I because I didn't know he was in the movie.
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: I didn't recognize him when he first came on. I
• 57:11
  Speaker 2: figured out who he was before the end of the movie,
• 57:13
  Speaker 2: but like when he first showed up, I didn't know
• 57:16
  Speaker 2: it was him. And then later I was like, oh,
• 57:18
  Speaker 2: my god, is that Tom Cruise under there? And then
• 57:21
  Speaker 2: of course by the end when it reveals like in
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: the credits, but he plays such a truly offensive, horrible
• 57:29
  Speaker 2: person to great comedic effect in that movie that I
• 57:33
  Speaker 2: was like, oh, he can act. Yeah, I'm just not
• 57:38
  Speaker 2: used to seeing him do it.
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And like Day After Tomorrow, he does play an
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: action hero, but he starts off as a schlub, right,
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: he starts off as well. Yeah, And I love that movie.
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: It's one of my favorite roles for him because it
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: really has a good balance there. So again, I think
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: it's not that he's a he's a bad actor. I
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: think he plays characters well, and I think he's a
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: good He plays the roles he's given well. It's just
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: most of those roles are uninteresting roles. In maybe an
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: interesting movie.
• 58:09
  Speaker 2: So yeah. So that brings us then to the actual
• 58:13
  Speaker 2: teaser for Digger, which is a movie about an oil
• 58:16
  Speaker 2: tycoon who decides he is going to try and save
• 58:20
  Speaker 2: the Earth from the very problems that his own industry
• 58:24
  Speaker 2: has created. That's that's the way I've seen it described
• 58:27
  Speaker 2: as a dark comedy, and the teaser part is very short,
• 58:31
  Speaker 2: like they had to make enough time for them to
• 58:34
  Speaker 2: convince us that Tom Cruise can act.
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and it looks like he's playing closer to a
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: role like his his tropic thunder.
• 58:42
  Speaker 2: Kind of a guy yeah, less gross men.
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I think he will do great in this role.
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: He does have good comedy instincts. However, I think this
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: movie I'm going to find infuriating.
• 58:55
  Speaker 2: Well, I'm sure, like I kind of want to see
• 58:58
  Speaker 2: I know we saw another teas like ages ago for
• 59:01
  Speaker 2: the same movie, but we haven't seen like a trailer yet.
• 59:05
  Speaker 2: I want to see a trailer to decide whether or
• 59:07
  Speaker 2: not this is something I'm actually gonna go check out.
• 59:11
  Speaker 2: But it has potential, Like it doesn't seem like it's
• 59:15
  Speaker 2: going quite in the direction of say a Coen Brothers movie,
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: but it's kind of in that same general ballpark and
• 59:22
  Speaker 2: I find Coen Brothers movies. Often Coen Brothers movies, by
• 59:25
  Speaker 2: the way, I fall in love with them, but only
• 59:27
  Speaker 2: after I watch it twice. Usually the first time I'm
• 59:30
  Speaker 2: like frustrated. Yeah. Yeah. Big Lebowski was that for me.
• 59:34
  Speaker 2: The first time I saw it, I was like, I
• 59:36
  Speaker 2: don't like this at all, and then the second time
• 59:37
  Speaker 2: I saw I was like, oh no, wait, I actually
• 59:39
  Speaker 2: love this.
• 59:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it could be a very good movie.
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: The synopsis could be incredibly frustrating to me, so I'll
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: have to see how they're going with it.
• 59:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it comes out October second. Next up, we got
• 59:54
  Speaker 2: a trailer for a movie called The Debut, which is
• 59:58
  Speaker 2: sort of a musical comedy. It's written and directed by
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 2: Jesse Eisenberg, which.
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: Is interesting because I'm not always a fan of his stuff,
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: but this trailer I am super into. It's about a
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: middle aged woman who auditions, I guess for a local theater.
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah it's a community theater and it's an original musical.
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And she's the only person who auditions for the
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: role and she doesn't really have the ability, but she
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: gets the role because she's the only person who auditioned
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: for it, and the director is Paul Giamatty, and it's
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: kind of like a more heartfelt version of Barry's journey
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: as an actor in the show Berry.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So Paul Giomotti is not playing himself, just to
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 2: be clear, he is playing he's playing. He's playing a
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 2: director who's also like a frustrated actor, like someone who
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 2: wanted to be a big actor and just never got there.
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 2: And the woman is played by Julianne Moore. The character's
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 2: name is Mona. I had to look it up, and
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 2: she's we see like Jerry kind of break her down
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 2: and then try to build her back up. And the
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 2: thing I saw online where I was like, oh crap,
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 2: this is this is that same story is there's an
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 2: episode of The Simpsons called a street Car named Marge
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 2: or something like that, where Marge auditions for a production
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 2: of street car named Desire, gets cast in, it gets
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 2: broken down and built back up and then is incredible.
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 2: And I'm like, oh no, oh no, it is that
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 2: episode of the Simpsons, but hopefully fleshed out way better.
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 2: Here's here's the weird thing. It's it's supposed to come
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 2: out this year, but the only release date I could
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 2: find was for Mexico, So if you're in Mexico, it
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 2: comes out December third.
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I I really like.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 2: Paul G's money and he's very entertaining.
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And as an actor, so being being an acting
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: coach or director who's abusive to actors unconsensually to get
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: a desired outcome is a very bad thing. It's a
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: very toxic trait that has been in Hollywood for a while. However,
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: as an actor, having people who've been willing to work
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: through me, to with me, to get past walls, which
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: is sometimes a very difficult and uncomfortable process because as
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: a person you're constantly putting up walls. You're told not
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: to show your emotions or what you really think and
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: to be a pleasant person, especially in the business world.
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: So to break down past those things sometimes can be
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: very difficult. And it is also very nice to have
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: someone if it's really a desired outcome you want to
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: have to work with you on that. So this felt
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: less abusive to me and more like that latter circumstance.
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, it's hard to say just from a trailer obviously,
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 2: like are we going to have a segment of this
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 2: movie where this seemingly nice but somewhat reserved and shy
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 2: woman like mistreated in order to get to where she
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 2: needs to be. Is that going to be a significant
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 2: part of the movie. It's hard to say from the trailer.
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 2: It may be that that's how it starts, and maybe
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 2: there's like a change of heart type of thing where
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 2: or Paul Giamatti's characters like this, there's a real human
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 2: being that I'm hurting here, I need to back off.
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 2: We don't know, but yeah, the trailer looks like that.
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 2: The whole thing is well done. There are a lot
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 2: of other folks who are in the film as well,
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 2: who are names besides Jesse Eisenberg, who also, of course,
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 2: in addition to writing and directing, shows up in it,
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 2: but at least he's not cast himself as a main character.
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: I do hope that it gets a US release. I'm
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: very interested in this. Watching it, I was like, well,
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: that looks fun because it's very relatable.
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 2: To me, And well, I was gonna I'm going to
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 2: segue this one if you don't mind, because because I
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 2: think like very loud yard work. Our next series shares
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 2: a title with the feeling that you tend to experience
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 2: around this time.
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: Each week yeah, yeah, and I'm sorry it's a to
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: Margarita day today. Guys. We might look at changing when
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: we record to avoid it in the future.
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but the series we're talking about is called Furious,
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 2: the emotion that Ariel must suppress every time it's done
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 2: to record when the yard folks are there. This is
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 2: coming to Disney Plus Slash Hulu. It's always weird to
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 2: talk about, like a crime series or a horror series
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 2: coming to Disney Plus. It just feels weird. But this
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 2: is a crime procedural. The general premises you have an
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 2: FBI agent, like a newly in the field FBI agent,
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 2: who believes she's on the trail of a potential serial killer,
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 2: and her colleagues are kind of dismissing her because those
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 2: are so rare, and you're like, yeah, everyone thinks that
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 2: they they've got a serial killer when they start that
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 2: kind of thing, except she really does. And yeah, I said,
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 2: her colleagues say she might be grasping at straws, but
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 2: she ain't. She's grasped a serial killer. The series premieeres
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 2: on July twenty seventh. What did you think of the trailer?
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: I mean, I thought it was fine, I'm glad Emmy
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: Rossam is getting more work. I've never met her, but
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: she is the cousin of a friend of my friend group,
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: so I'm glad for her to get more work. I mean,
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 1: she works, right, she was in She's been in several things,
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: but I'm always glad to see her doing something new.
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: It felt very killing Eve, right. It feels like the
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: big thing, like their big cell point is that the
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: serial killer is a woman. But it just felt like
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: killing Eve to me.
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 2: I was thinking of it feeling like a little gosh.
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 2: I don't even know what the series was called. Is
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 2: it Mayor of Easttown? It was kind of making me
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 2: think of that about the the woman investigator who is
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 2: facing lots of skepticism even from her own like colleagues
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 2: and law enforcement while she so she's facing a battle
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 2: on two fronts, one to actually stop a killer, in
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 2: two to get people to even listen to her in
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 2: the first place.
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: Is it Mayor or Mayor?
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 2: Mayor m A r e Okay, like like female horse
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 2: like cher yeah, Roalder. Yeah. I've never watched Mayor of
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 2: East Town. I only know, and I might even be
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 2: getting the title totally wrong. I only know of it
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 2: because it was like in the cultural zeitgeist at the time,
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 2: and SNL did a like a ridiculous parody of it
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 2: at one point, mostly because of the accents. But yeah, yes, yeah, yeah,
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 2: I remember. I remember that. I was like, oh, this
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 2: is I am the worst consumer of pop culture. Where
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 2: I haven't seen the thing. I've only seen the parody
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 2: of the thing.
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: It's the same here, and it makes fun of Pennsylvania accents,
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: which I know is close to both of us.
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, it has to get a glass of
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 2: water and we should all hydrate because it's time for
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 2: us to go into a pretty dry and dusty area.
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 2: Oh don't let go down the wrong pipe. We're going
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 2: to go over into John Boy's horror Hutch, which actually
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 2: this week is in a restaurant and seems pretty clear,
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 2: except that the young woman at the table diagonally opposite
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 2: of ours seems to be a little perturbed. So if
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 2: you hear someone just standing up and yelling no, no, no, no, no,
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 2: just know that you know it happens pretty much every week.
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 2: All right, that's an obsession reference. We're gonna move on. Ariel,
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 2: have you seen any of these trailers? I told you
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 2: not to watch some of them.
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: No, I didn't bother. I'm so sorry.
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 2: That's fine. I ask because you know, if you have
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 2: seen one, I want to make sure that we have
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 2: a chance to talk about it. I'll just breeze through
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 2: them as fast as I can. First up as a
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 2: trailer for a movie called Son of Sarah, which looks
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 2: a lot to me like it's inspired by movies like
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 2: Rosemary's Baby, Like there's like a maybe a demonic baby
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 2: slash may maybe instead of a demonic it's like a
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 2: baby sacrifice kind of thing. But there's this woman named Sarah,
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 2: she's extremely pregnant, who runs into her ex boyfriend. She
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 2: joins him for dinner with I think it's supposed to
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 2: be his mother, who is very creepy and ignores things
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 2: like personal space. And IMDb actually lists this as Son
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 2: of Sarah Volume one, which is troubling to me that
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 2: there could be more. This was made in Canada last year,
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 2: but is coming to video on demand on July thirty. First,
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 2: I thought it looked creepy, but kind of like last week,
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 2: it was reminding me of other stuff I've seen, like
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 2: how we were talking about how everything is kind of
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 2: a copy of a copy of something at this point
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 2: that could be unfair. It could just be because of
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 2: the trailer. So I want to stress that I don't
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 2: want to say this is a copy of a copy
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 2: of Rosemary's Baby. I don't know that for a fact.
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 2: Next up, we have The Devils. This is actually a
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 2: movie that came out in the early seventies. It's a
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 2: historical psychological horror drama made by Ken Russell, and it
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 2: tells the story of a priest in the sixteen hundreds,
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 2: an actual person who was accused of witchcraft. And when
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 2: this film was initially released, it faced massive criticism for
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 2: the extreme at the time content that it contained. Like
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 2: maybe today it wouldn't be viewed as quite as extreme,
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 2: but you know, people who were religious were deeply offended
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 2: by it. There's also a lot of eroticism in the
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 2: movie as well as violence, so there were people who
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 2: were just really not happy that this existed. And it
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 2: also had lots of censorship in various places where it
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 2: was screened, Like there it was heavily censored. But now
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 2: there's a director's cut of this that has returned all
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 2: the footage to it. It's like one hundred and seventeen
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 2: minutes long, so just shy of two hours, and it
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 2: comes out October sixteenth. I am interested in seeing this
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 2: largely because I feel like it's part of cinematic history,
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 2: and it's interesting to me that the stuff that had
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 2: been cut has been restored. Also, it just looks like
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 2: it's like it's the kind of movie that just doesn't
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 2: get made these days, because it's that slower pace seventies
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 2: kind of approach to horror, and I really appreciate that.
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 2: I say, it doesn't get made like that, but there
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 2: are a lot of filmmakers who actually do emulate that
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 2: style these days. Then there's a supernatural thriller series that's
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 2: coming to SkyTV called Possession that it looks like there's
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 2: some ghost slash whodoo type stuff going on there because
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 2: some of the story at least takes place in Caribbean areas,
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 2: and it looks like it's well made. But that's about
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 2: all I can say for it, Like, I don't have
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 2: any strong feelings on the matter. If I had SkyTV,
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 2: I would watch this, but I don't, and I don't
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 2: know when or if it will be made available to
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 2: folks in my area. So but I thought i'd yell,
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 2: shout it out, and finally, just a quick mention. I
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 2: also watched a trailer for The Bay, which is a
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 2: shark attack movie. Comes to video on demand on July seventeenth.
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 2: I did not think there was anything particularly special about it.
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 2: So that's why we're not gonna dwell on it. And
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 2: so let's go to this restaurant before we have yet
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 2: another emotional breakdown with a couple across the way. Geez,
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 2: they need to get it together.
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 1: I would I prefer that overgoing to the dusty. Look
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 1: when you said don't let it go down the wrong pipe,
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: I was afraid that the dust was actually spider eggs
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: and they were going to hatch in my lungs. So
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: this is much more preferable.
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, Just just be careful what you wish for,
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 2: That's all I'll say.
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 1: I'm not wishing for it. I'm glad it's not there.
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 3: I'm just saying, like anything.
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 2: If you come across a little twig twig toy and
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 2: you break it and you make a wish, I'm just saying,
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 2: like things can go wrong, That's all I'm saying. Like
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 2: you might think it's a nice date night, next thing
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 2: you know you're fearing for your life. Yeah, obsessions, good y'all. Uh,
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 2: not that you need me to tell you, because I
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 2: think that every other person on the planet would, possibly
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 2: the exception of Ariel has seen it.
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but also I'm not going to because of the
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 1: animal thing at the beginning.
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, No, that was rough. I was not expecting it
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 2: and it really upset me. Let's go into our show
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 2: lineup this week. It's fun because we've got two separate
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 2: Batman projects to talk about.
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and the first is we're getting a second season
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 1: of Caped Crusader, which is an animated series that is
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 1: a it's a noir style that with a lot of characters,
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 1: like there's a female penguin.
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 2: And oh, I didn't know that.
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think Commissioner Gordon's no, I don't know.
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 1: There's a there's a lot of like female, strong female
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 1: characters in it.
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 2: That's what I'm And in this one, the Riddler is
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 2: a mob boss. Like. Yeah, I'll say this, I have
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 2: not seen the first season of Cape Crusader. This this
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 2: trailer made me want to watch season one.
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 1: You should watch it. I loved it.
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 2: The animation style is very much in keeping with Batman
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 2: the animated series not maybe maybe slightly less cartoony than that,
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 2: but closer in that style than our next one is. Yeah,
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 2: I like this. So the the trailer is telling us
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 2: that crime warfare is escalating in Gotham. Bruce Wayne is
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 2: kind of struggling with the possibility that maybe his activities
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 2: as Batman have actually made things worse, because he's looking
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 2: at what the crime rates were like before he became
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 2: a vigilanie as opposed to what they are now. I
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 2: think that's really interesting. I mean, it's an idea we've
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 2: seen explored before where there's this concept that the Batman
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 2: inadvertently is creating the very villains that he faces. But
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 2: this is like kind of looking at that even more
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 2: broadly as crime in general.
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I had to remind myself Commissioner Gordon is of
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 1: course a guy, but his daughter, Barbara Gordon, who obviously
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 1: is a big character within the Batman universe, plays a
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 1: very good role in it. Renee Montoya is a regular character,
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 1: and she's amazing. It's just so good. It is so good.
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 1: I was really surprised how much I enjoyed season one,
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 1: and I'm looking forward to season two. Taking my favorite
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 1: version of the Riddler and making him a mob boss
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 1: is just it feels like putting a cherry on top.
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and there's there's a little tease of the Joker
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 2: at the very end of this trailer that you would
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 2: think that all the different variations of Batman I have seen,
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 2: and all the different takes on the Joker that I
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 2: have seen, that this wouldn't work for me. And yet
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 2: still I was like, Ooh, I was intrigued. Yeah, this
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 2: is a great, great trailer. Whoever cut this trailer together
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 2: did a phenomenal job.
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe this weekend if you get time watch season one.
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 1: They also do some really cool things with Harley Quinn's journey.
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 3: So cool.
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 2: This comes to Amazon Prime on July thirty first, So yeah,
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 2: I've got some time to be able to get through
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 2: the first season before season two comes out. And the
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 2: second Batman project we have is an adaptation of Batman Nightfall.
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 2: So this is part one of a trilogy. Way back
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 2: in the early early mid nineties, like ninety three ninety four,
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 2: we had arcs called Nightfall, night Quest, and Night's End
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 2: that these movies are telling the story of. So at
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 2: the beginning of the trailer, we find out Arkhama Asylum
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 2: has done exploded and all the inmates are running amuck
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 2: amakamakamuck out on the streets of Gotham. And also a
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 2: new threat arises, that being Bain. So we've seen the
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 2: we've seen variations of the story told in different adaptations already, right,
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 2: because Nolan's third Batman film was in many ways inspired
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 2: by Nightfall.
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I was, I was just I was just
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 1: looking that up and about to ask you because spoiler's
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 1: one of the key points is that Bain breaks Batman's
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: back and that happens in that movie.
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, So, uh, there's there's a character called
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 2: Asriel who ends up taking over for Batman after Bruce
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 2: Wayne is essentially paralyzed and Asrael. Asrael goes a little
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 2: harder than Batman, Like you know, Batman in theory, at
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 2: least in most incarnations has a strict no kill Paul
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 2: and Asrael does not. And so so part of the
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 2: story is not just Bruce Wayne's injury, removal as Batman
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 2: and spoiler alert, ultimate recovery due to supernatural forces, but
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 2: also him dealing with the fallout of Asrael's actions and
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 2: how that has sullied Batman's reputation in Gotham. So this
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 2: is the first part of that story. So we're probably
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 2: gonna see Bruce Wayne bent over backwards across Bain's knee
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 2: and then and then like Asrael being essentially pulled into
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 2: the role of taking over for Batman. Yeah, this just
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 2: says it's coming soon. There's no date associated. I did
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 2: think the trailer looked good, but again, like, this is
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 2: a story that not only was told in the comics,
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 2: but has been adapted at least loosely adapted in other forms.
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm less excited about this, and it doesn't look bad.
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 1: But I've heard that I've done heard it, like you said.
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 2: So, yeah, well speak about things you've done heard.
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, So we got a trailer for We had talked
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 1: about a few weeks ago about One Piece getting a
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 1: new animated series and anime and animated series, and now
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 1: we've got a teaser for it. And I was really
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 1: excited at first because I tried to watch the original
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 1: anime and it just didn't quite hit right. This one
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 1: looks super similar, So I don't know. For me, it
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 1: feels like maybe it's just an opportunity to start back
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 1: at the beginning.
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is this one's differentiated by being called the
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 2: one Piece as opposed to just one piece. It's a
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 2: Netflix series. It is weird because this, again, this is
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 2: another story that's been told multiple ways, right, because you
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 2: have the manga, then you have the anime adaptation of
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 2: the manga, the nineteen nineties version. Then you've got the
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 2: live action adaptation that Netflix also produced us and now
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 2: we have surprisingly good yeah, and now we have this
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 2: anime version. It comes out February twenty twenty seven, And
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 2: I mean, I wrote it looks good, but golly, how
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 2: many versions of this story are we going to get.
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 2: It's actually kind of making me think of Disney and
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 2: how Disney has that history of adapting animated films into
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 2: live action quote unquote live action, and how that trend
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 2: kind of irritates me. This is also starting to rub
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 2: me the wrong way. But it does look like it
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 2: was well made. It's just the question is is it needed.
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 1: It does look well made. Like I said, it looks
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 1: really similar to the original anime. Albeit I've only watched
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 1: a couple episodes of the original anime and I've watched
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 1: none of this, So maybe a different differentiates more than
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 1: I anticipate. Again, I just think it's maybe to provide
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 1: an easier entry point for people who want to watch
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 1: the anime, and but it's on like two thousand episodes.
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, they don't want to look and say they
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 2: don't want that feeling of why should I get into this?
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 2: There's so much I'm never going to catch up. If
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 2: they get on on the ground floor of a new adaptation,
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 2: then they can experience the story. I guess there's some
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 2: merit to that, but y'all, I mean, first of all,
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 2: there's no guarantee that this anime series is going to
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 2: stick around, right Like Netflix might abandon it after a
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 2: season or two. And then you're like, well, do I
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 2: see if I can find the spot in the old
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 2: anime where the story left off and that story cand Like,
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 2: I don't know that it makes it any easier. I
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 2: guess if everything goes well, you don't have to worry
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 2: about it because the series will just continue, and because
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 2: there's so many episodes already in existence, they're not going
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 2: to run out of story anytime soon.
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, speaking, well, no, there's no good I was
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 1: gonna try to segue this and then my segue didn't
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 1: work in my head, so now I'm abandoning it.
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 2: We're sticking with animation for a couple more stories though.
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, And next we're going to talk about President Curtis,
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 1: which I think is a series following not it's not
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 1: a sequel to Rick and Morty, but it's by the
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 1: creators following the Rick and Morty series. It's a spin
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 1: off being after Yeah, okay, it's a spinoff.
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a spin off, so it's it's. President Curtis
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 2: is a character in Rick and Morty voiced by Keith David,
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 2: who I maintained should be in everything. Yes, Keith David.
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 2: Keith David is so good. He's so good. I wish
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 2: he were in everything. Even things like sense and sensibility
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 2: that we'll talk about later would be made better with
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 2: Keith Keith David in it. And just like in modern clothing,
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 2: like he's the one person.
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 1: He'll he'll be in the New Spider Man.
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 2: So that's fun, that's awesome. I love Keith David. He
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 2: is so entertaining. So yeah, he voices President Curtis. This
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 2: is a character that's been firmly established in the Rick
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 2: and Morty series. And so he's getting his own spinoff
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 2: series where his staff will be joining him on various
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 2: adventures where he tries to protect the United States from different,
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 2: weird and extra dimensional threats. Did you see who else
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 2: is in the voice cast for this because it's.
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 1: Great Jim, Jim Rash and Stephanie Beatriz are the two
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 1: that I know. Jim, Yeah, Jim Rash being the principal
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 1: from Community and Stephanie Beatriz being Rosa from Brooklyn nine
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 1: nine and also the main character of an encanto and
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 1: several other things.
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I love all three of these people like I
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 2: love their performances. Jim Rash is one of the weirdest,
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 2: funniest guys. He also did appearances on Reno nine one
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 2: one back in the day, which was, you know, almost
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 2: entirely improvised. If you watch his segments in Real nine
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 2: one one, you're like, this man comes from a different planet.
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 2: This guy's brain does not work the way a normal
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 2: person's brain works. And he is so funny.
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 1: He really is. It's such a good kind of strange.
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 1: I didn't watch Rick and Morty. I love this voice cast.
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm gonna watch this series just
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 1: because ricked Morty was a little too gross for me.
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 2: That's fair. Yeah, it definitely does do a lot of
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 2: gross humor. It's also incredibly nihilistic, Like Rick is very
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 2: much a nihilist, and it's hard to follow a show
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 2: where like, your main character not only doesn't really believe
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 2: in anything and kind of has a very oh wow,
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 2: it is Margarita time. But not only not only does
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 2: he have this nihilistic take on the universe, but he's
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 2: also right almost all the time. So it's rough when
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 2: you have a character who doesn't believe in anything, has
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 2: this incredibly bleak outlook on the universe, and within the
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 2: context of the story, is always right. So it's like
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 2: it kind of permeates the series for me. It makes
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 2: it sort of a hopeless experience watching it. It's very
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 2: entertaining and very funny, but ultimately the message that's left
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 2: at the end is kind of just dark and depressing.
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 2: This looks like it's less that because it's not centered
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 2: around Rick as a character, and President Curtis does not
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 2: have the same you know, philosophy and view of the
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 2: universe as Rick does, so maybe that will make a
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 2: major difference. It comes out July twenty sixth on Adult Swim,
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 2: and then episodes will be available the following day on
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 2: HBO Max. I know where Ariel wishes she were right now, Yes, on.
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 1: An island far far away, And not just because I
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 1: need a vacation, but because then maybe I can escape
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 1: the ding dang leaf blowers. Y'all. I am so so sorry.
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 1: I think they're reading my mind and they're trying to
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 1: spite me because they keep coming back onto my porch.
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 1: My porch is clean now, they've already, they've already trimmed
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 1: to the bushes and blown all the leaves away. Once
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 1: it's spite. It is spite, now, I am certain.
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 2: But the thing we want to talk about is another
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 2: animated feature, so we're talking about Forgotten Island. We got
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 2: a trailer for this animated feature, and the first thing
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 2: that I thought was cool is that it's set in
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 2: the Philippines in the nineteen nineties. It's not set in
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 2: the US. It's not modern day, and it follows two friends,
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 2: Joe and Riza or Risa or maybe it's Rasa r
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 2: Ai Ssa. I should have looked up how to pronounce
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 2: the name. They're high school high schoolers who are nearing graduation.
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 2: They're like lifelong friends. But then Joe gets upset when
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 2: she learns that Risa is moving to the United States
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 2: post graduation, and so their friendship is threatened. But don't worry.
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 2: Something happens that will bring them closer together.
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's something is they get sucked into a
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 1: portal to an island run by an evil demon where
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 1: everybody kind of when they get sucked there, gets turned
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 1: into a different sort of a person creature, like I
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 1: guess the main One of the other main characters from
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 1: the island is a character called Raw who is aware aspen,
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 1: meaning like a were dog. He's not a were wolf,
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 1: he's a ware.
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 2: Dog over there. Yeah, their dog, their castle.
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 1: Their dog who sometimes goes full dog. So then people
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 1: are just dealing with a hyper pet.
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 2: He's just dogging it.
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And apparently if you stay on this island too long,
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 1: you just forget everything.
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, your memories start to sap away. Apparently, like that's
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 2: what the demon feeds upon his memory. And I feel
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 2: like it's going to be a story where they really
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 2: demonstrate that their friendship is solid and will last throughout
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 2: the test of time no matter what happens. Afterward because
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 2: they're able to survive this, or maybe they both die
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 2: and it's just a very shocking ending. I would really
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 2: be surprised, based upon the tone of this trailer if
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 2: that happened, but it would be an interesting take.
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it looks really cute. It kind of gave me like,
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 1: even though it's not the same group, it gave me
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 1: like K Pop demon Hunter.
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, especially with like the facial expressions like that kind
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 2: of stuff, Like it had that sort of same facial
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 2: acting that you see in K Pop Demon Hunters. I agree, Yeah,
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 2: different group, but it does I feel like there's some
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 2: similarities that might have like might also be a Southeast
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 2: Asia kind of thing too. This comes out September twenty fifth.
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 2: I think it looks cute. I think it looks like
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 2: it's really entertaining. I don't know that it's going to
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 2: be like an instant classic, but I think it could,
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 2: like K Pop Demon Hunters, find a good audience.
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 1: Me too, and like I like it too. Also partially
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 1: because it plays a little bit on part of the
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 1: Never Ending Stories plotline. It was in the second Never
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 1: Ending Story movie, which was not that great, but it's
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 1: in the book where Bastian works with a sorceress who
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 1: steals memories. So I like the never Any story. I
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 1: like K Pop Demon Hunters, and so I'm excited about.
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 2: This h and I lied because we have yet another
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 2: animated feature to talk about. I thought those were the
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 2: last two, but we still have one more, and that's
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 2: called Fool Night, which is an adaptation. It's an adaptation
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 2: of a manga. So I actually read up on the
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 2: manga and what this story is, and it seems deeply,
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 2: deeply sad to me, but in kind of a beautiful way.
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 2: So the cure. First of all, what did you think
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 2: of the trailer?
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 1: I thought the trailer was creepy and ends on a
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 1: very like depressing, creepy note, so it reminded me kind
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 1: of the Spiral, But then reading the story, it's it's
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 1: sadder and more hopeful.
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So it's set in the dystopic future where for
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 2: a century, clouds have covered the sky, allowing no real
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 2: sunlight to come through. So there's been a massive die
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 2: off of vegetation, and as a result of that, there's
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 2: also a shortage of oxygen because you don't have these
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 2: plants that are able to convert carbon dioxide back into oxygen.
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 2: So you have this technology that people develop that allows
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 2: them to turn people into flowering plants. And at first
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 2: they reserve that for people who are like terminally ill,
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 2: so rather than you know, live out their last days
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 2: in anguish or whatever, they can be turned into these
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 2: plants that continue to help life on earth. But then
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 2: they start to like that's not enough to turn things around,
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 2: so they also look for people to volunteer to turn
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 2: into plants. And the process takes a couple of years.
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 2: So the deal is, if you sign over to do this,
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 2: you get given treatment. It's going to take two years
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 2: for you to convert, and in those two years you're
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 2: essentially given all the resources you need to live a
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 2: you know, a really good life. So the main character
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 2: is seeking this procedure to turn into a flowering plant
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 2: because of a series of setbacks he's experienced in his
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 2: own life. And yeah, if you read the manga or
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 2: you read a explanation of it, it seems deeply, deeply
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 2: tragic but interesting, and the trailer seems like it's it's
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 2: pretty true to that.
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it is really like you said, it's a
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 1: long process, and so you see a lot of people
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 1: who are like human plant hybrids, still going about their
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 1: day to day life, and I think that's super interesting
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 1: and visually very very so.
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it looks like it's beautifully done. It's coming
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 2: out late this year, but I don't have a specific
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 2: date yet.
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Next, we have a trailer for a movie. I
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 1: think it's a movie. It is, okay called Outer Threat,
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 1: The Outer Threat, and it's about a family whether mom
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 1: and Dad find out something they're not supposed to about
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 1: the world or the universe or something like that. They're
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 1: pretty vague and then get chased by the people who
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 1: don't want them to know that.
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, essentially it's they figured out there's intelligent alien life
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 2: out there. So you could argue that this is another
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 2: variation of Disclosure Day where the powers that be do
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 2: not want that information to get out, and so they're
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 2: being hunted in order to prevent them from spreading word
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 2: that there is intelligent life outside of Earth. So I've
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 2: seen a lot of online discourse that essentially says this
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 2: is like a low budget, different take on Disclosure Day.
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 2: I think that's probably being a little unfair, but it
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 2: is undeniably exploring similar ideas. It comes to video on
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 2: demand on July tenth. That video on demand may also
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 2: be an indicator that you know, this was never meant
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 2: for theatrical release.
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 1: So I mean, it looks interesting to me, it does.
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 2: I don't know, like, if I'm going to see one
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 2: of the two movies, it'll be Disclosure Day because it's
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 2: Spielberg and you know, which might be stacking the deck unfairly.
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 2: But I can't know for sure because I live in
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 2: a world where I know Disclosure Day exists and I
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 2: want to see it and I just haven't done it yet.
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 2: But I think if Disclosure Day wasn't a thing, like
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 2: if it wasn't coming out, I would have watched this
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 2: trailer and still said, eh, I might pass on this one.
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 1: Gotcha. It's interesting because I've heard some stuff about Disclosure Day,
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 1: and some of it is just the reviews saying like
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 1: this is a good idea, but would have played better
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 1: several years ago, which, you know, maybe that's just people
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 1: being cynical, because I think aspirational ideas are always good.
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but we're living in we're living during, We're living
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 2: through some particularly tumultuous times where certain messages may feel
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 2: like they're further and further away from reality simply because
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 2: of the realities we're living through right now.
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I wish that that hadn't gotten spoiled for me,
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 1: because I think if I had watched that message going
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 1: in blind, it probably would have hit in a nice
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 1: way for me personally. But knowing it, I don't know
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 1: if I'm going to feel cynical watching it. I do
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 1: think I still want to see it. I just it's
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 1: been diminished a little bit.
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 2: See, I haven't run into anything, so I'm not sure
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 2: what you're referring to.
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 3: And I'm and don't look it up.
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll try. I managed to be. I managed to
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 2: go into the back rooms and obsession blind apart from
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 2: having seen the trailers like I had not. I hadn't
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 2: watched any discourse on it, hadn't seen any other videos
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 2: or anything. Now I can't help like everything's being served
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 2: up to me like hopelessly obsession, because like everyone has
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 2: made their own obsession based shorts and stuff. Those are
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 2: just popping up all over the place. But luckily going
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 2: into them. I even though the obsession had been out
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 2: for like three weeks by the time I saw it,
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 2: I still hadn't had anything spoiled for me, which was nice.
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I've been able to avoid spoilers a little bit better.
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 1: I think it's just because I ran across a friend's
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 1: review of it and they didn't spoil it there, but
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 1: then that my phone picked it up, and that's my phone, gotcha.
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 1: But something that I don't think spoilers would ruin my
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 1: ability to enjoy is The East Palace, which is a
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 1: new TV series coming out.
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's out of South Korea, and it's in an
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 2: alternative history in which there are some warriors who have
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 2: like ghost sensing abilities that are attempting to slay spirits
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 2: that otherwise would threaten the living, with one of the
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 2: ghost hunters able to enter into the spirit world himself,
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 2: essentially to become a ghost, and we see a little
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 2: bit of what that transition looks like in this trailer.
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 2: I thought this trailer was incredibly stylish in the best way.
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 2: Like I'm not slapping it down with the word stylish
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 2: in this case.
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree. I thought the visuals were wonderful. I
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 1: thought the story was interesting. I'm I don't have a
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 1: whole lot to say on it other than that because
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 1: I'm just really looking forward to watching it. It is subtitled,
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 1: so I think this is one I'll be watching alone.
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 2: But yeah, it comes out on Netflix on July seventeenth.
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 2: I yeah, I thought this looks great, Like it just
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 2: looks really compelling. You should if you are into Asian
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 2: TV and film, and especially stuff that's like fantastical but
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 2: also historical or like it's emulating historical. Check out a
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 2: trailer for the East Palace. I it was not on
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 2: my radar, and when I saw this, I was like, ooh,
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 2: I need to keep an eye out for this when
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 2: it comes out on July seventeenth. Similar to the next one,
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 2: which is a Japanese film, not a not a Korean
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 2: TV series, but the next one we have, which is
• 1:36:27
  Speaker 2: a Japanese movie, I also thought looks really really compelling.
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's about a ruler.
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 2: Who it's called the Samurai and the Prisoner. I should
• 1:36:39
  Speaker 2: say the title. I didn't say what the title was.
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 1: My brain no, and I was listening to but my
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 1: brain just automatically inserted it there. Yeah, so it's a
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 1: Samurai and the Prisoner, and it's there's a ruler who
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 1: gets basically locked into his own castle and doesn't know
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 1: who's doing it and killing off people and trying to
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 1: assassinate him, and to survive he has to take advice
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 1: from a strategist who he's been keeping prisoner in his
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 1: dungeon for a long while.
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, So imagine like the lord in this case
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 2: is a samurai who has rebelled against his own lord
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 2: and has has barricaded himself in this castle along with
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 2: his forces. And it's like if you had Sherlock locked
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 2: up in jail, and you're like, man, I really don't
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 2: want to talk to Sherlock because that guy's a jerk
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 2: and he's in jail for, in my opinion, a good reason.
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 2: But on the other hand, I do need to figure
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 2: out who is killing my staff. So that's kind of
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 2: how I interpreted it. But it's this was made by
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 2: Kyoshi Kurrasawa, and I was like, oh, my gosh, is
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 2: he related to a Kira Kurosawa And the answer is no.
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 2: But at first I was like, because like, I saw this,
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 2: and I was it didn't make me think of Akira
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 2: Kurrasawa's movies. But that's like, that's such a legendary name
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 2: in Japanese cinema. I was like, Oh, my gosh, is
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 2: this guy related to him? No, it's just happens to
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 2: have the same last name, but also seems to be
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 2: I'm not familiar with Kyoshi Kirosawa's work, but apparently he's
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 2: done a ton of work in like especially like the
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 2: horror genres in Japanese cinema, and just seeing this trailer
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 2: and the cinematography and the way that the story appears
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 2: to unfold, I'm really interested in this. It comes to
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 2: theaters on July thirty first.
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm also interested in it. I don't know if
• 1:38:37
  Speaker 1: I'll go to to see the who Maybe I'll have
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 1: to go to the theater to see it with you,
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 1: because again, subtitles I can't get my partner into.
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 2: I'll go see this with you. Yeah, I would totally
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 2: be down to watch this because it's a murder mystery,
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 2: which is also interesting, like it's a historic period in
• 1:38:55
  Speaker 2: Japanese culture and it's a murder mystery. I'm like, that
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 2: is something I have never I've never seen that, so
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 2: I would love to. I would love to check that out.
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 1: Same next we got a trailer for the newest version
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 1: of Sense and Sensibility.
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was kind of hoping it would be Since
• 1:39:11
  Speaker 2: in Samurai, just so we could stay on, you know,
• 1:39:14
  Speaker 2: on theme sense and Sensibility and Samurai and also Keith David.
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 1: Maybe we did with Pride and Prejudice and zombies.
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 2: So that's true. And we do do mashups. If we
• 1:39:26
  Speaker 2: had done a mashup today, I would have done Since
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 2: and Samurai. That would have been my pitch for a mashup.
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 2: But we didn't do that.
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 1: I mean we could, we could look at it. We
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 1: could see if we could record something prior to you
• 1:39:38
  Speaker 1: going away next week.
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 2: Jane Austin has a problem because that's how I always
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 2: That's how I always started my trailers. Was So and
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 2: So has a problem.
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 1: We're already at one hour. I was gonna say one
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 1: minute in forty two seconds. We are already at one
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 1: hour in forty two minutes.
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 2: Ye, that's true. So although we're going to cut out
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 2: a little bit, like maybe thirty seconds of a noises
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 2: Margarita's I want to have a virgin Margarita so bad
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 2: right now. It is so hot in my office and
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 2: I'm so thirsty and I can't drink alcohol. So that's why.
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 2: But yeah, like you said, Since Incesibility, this has been
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 2: adapted numerous times, has been turned into a film once
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 2: before in the nineties, like Emma Thompson was in it.
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 2: It's been turned into TV series multiple times. But this
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 2: is a new adaptation, and it comes out on October sixteenth,
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 2: and it looks like it's well made, like it does.
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 1: It doesn't look like it's got anything new or different
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 1: about it. It looks like a pretty faithful adaptation, which
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 1: means I've seen it before. But I'm always happy to
• 1:40:41
  Speaker 1: see new actors do things I like.
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 2: I guess, so yeah, I mean like I've seen countless
• 1:40:48
  Speaker 2: interpretations of Shakespeare. So it's not like part of me
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 2: is sitting there like, oh, do we need another adaptation.
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 2: But then I'm the same one who's like, oh, I'm
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 2: so excited to see this new production of such and
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 2: such a that I've seen a dozen times.
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 1: I think it's because I'm not as familiar with a
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 1: lot of the actors in this one.
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Same, I didn't really recognize the cast, but they
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 2: seem to be doing a really good job at least
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 2: in the trailer. Like you said, it looks like it's
• 1:41:16
  Speaker 2: a faithful adaptation of the novel. So if you are
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 2: a Jane Austen fan, or maybe you want to be
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 2: a Jane Austen fan, but you found the books not
• 1:41:26
  Speaker 2: to be as accessible as you would like, maybe the
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 2: film version would be something that you would find more digestible.
• 1:41:33
  Speaker 1: I do feel like, sorry, I'm trying to remember. I
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 1: do feel like they maybe made Colonel Brandon a little
• 1:41:38
  Speaker 1: bit more age appropriate, as opposed to the last version
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 1: of it, where Alan Rickman was so much older than
• 1:41:45
  Speaker 1: Kate Winslet.
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 2: Well in the novel, she's sixteen and he's thirty five. Yeah,
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 2: so so like it's you know, he is supposed to
• 1:41:56
  Speaker 2: be more than twice her age, although Alan Rickman, like
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 2: by the time he was appearing and stuff, was already
• 1:42:03
  Speaker 2: well into his forties. But yeah, I think it looks
• 1:42:07
  Speaker 2: like a good adaptation. Next up, we have a trailer
• 1:42:10
  Speaker 2: for what I believe is a short film. I don't
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 2: think this is a full length feature because everything when
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 2: I was doing searches, it was just coming up as
• 1:42:17
  Speaker 2: a short film. But it's called Tide's Eye.
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's about a female pirate and a monk warrior
• 1:42:26
  Speaker 1: who the monk warrior sounds very American to me.
• 1:42:30
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, no, not no accent at all, apart from
• 1:42:33
  Speaker 2: American or maybe Canadian.
• 1:42:37
  Speaker 1: The female pirate sounds a bit uk ish. Yeah. Is
• 1:42:43
  Speaker 1: this like a little indie short thing?
• 1:42:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah? So okay, this is going to make you laugh.
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 2: Because I went down you'll understand why I had to
• 1:42:51
  Speaker 2: go down a rabbit trail.
• 1:42:53
  Speaker 1: I was kind of surprised you included it, honestly.
• 1:42:56
  Speaker 2: I well, because it's pirates, Like, it's you know, it's
• 1:42:59
  Speaker 2: into that geeky themed, but it is a short film.
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 2: It's it's low budget, but it's shot on actual boats.
• 1:43:06
  Speaker 2: Like it's not you know, it looks like it looks
• 1:43:09
  Speaker 2: like they did a good job in at least finding
• 1:43:11
  Speaker 2: locations and stuff to shoot this in, which is interesting
• 1:43:14
  Speaker 2: to me. It doesn't look like it's particularly like, you know,
• 1:43:20
  Speaker 2: compelling story. The basic ideas that the pirate and the
• 1:43:24
  Speaker 2: monk are individually after a relic called the Tide's Eye.
• 1:43:28
  Speaker 2: They both get captured by their rivals of each other
• 1:43:31
  Speaker 2: by the way, they don't like each other, but they
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 2: both get captured by yet another rival, and then they're
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 2: forced to work together in order to try and get
• 1:43:38
  Speaker 2: hold of this relic. The reason why I went down
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 2: a rabbit hole is I look to see who was
• 1:43:44
  Speaker 2: involved in this project, and one of the names was
• 1:43:47
  Speaker 2: Fiona Leonard. Yeah, now that name made me go like that.
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 2: They made me go like, hold on, because we both
• 1:43:55
  Speaker 2: know a Fiona Leonard who is heavily involved in things
• 1:43:58
  Speaker 2: like the Renaissance Festival. And you're thinking, I don't think
• 1:44:02
  Speaker 2: it could be the same person, but maybe it could
• 1:44:06
  Speaker 2: be the same person because she certainly has, you know,
• 1:44:09
  Speaker 2: an interest in things that are of like Renaissance and
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 2: I radical natures. So it is not the same fional
• 1:44:16
  Speaker 2: in an different person. But it was funny because that's
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 2: what made me go like, wait, now I need to
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 2: look at this more closely. I don't I like the ambition.
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 2: I don't think this is going to be something that's
• 1:44:31
  Speaker 2: going to be notable enough for it to really stand
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 2: out other than the fact that they shot on really
• 1:44:37
  Speaker 2: nice locations.
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 1: As I say, like, the cinematography looks quite good.
• 1:44:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it looks like it's well made. It just I
• 1:44:45
  Speaker 2: don't know that it was worth making.
• 1:44:47
  Speaker 1: You know, apparently the actor who plays Adrian was in
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 1: the substance.
• 1:44:53
  Speaker 2: Oh, I did not go that far. I didn't look
• 1:44:56
  Speaker 2: at any of the people who are performing in it.
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 2: I just I went to the IMDb page largely just
• 1:45:02
  Speaker 2: to figure out like, is this actually a feature length film?
• 1:45:05
  Speaker 2: I think it's a short. I don't know how long
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 2: of a short it is. It also doesn't have a
• 1:45:11
  Speaker 2: specific date related to its release, other than apparently the
• 1:45:16
  Speaker 2: filmmakers have said it will come out this year.
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 1: It's a short. If I have the if it comes
• 1:45:23
  Speaker 1: across my feed, I might watch it.
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, as long as it's, like, you know, maybe no
• 1:45:28
  Speaker 2: longer than say, forty five minutes or so, maybe i'd
• 1:45:30
  Speaker 2: I'd check it out. If it's more than forty five minutes,
• 1:45:33
  Speaker 2: I'm like, Oh, I'm gonna wait for Ariel to tell
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 2: me whether or not it's worth my time.
• 1:45:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, so we'll see the next thing we have.
• 1:45:42
  Speaker 1: I think it will be worth my time. Is something
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 1: that feels very as Mavian. You talked about Hindlin earlier.
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 1: This feels very as Mauvian to me.
• 1:45:51
  Speaker 2: This feels very Kubrickian.
• 1:45:52
  Speaker 1: To me, which is Clara and the Sun.
• 1:45:56
  Speaker 2: And the reason why I say it feels Kubrickian is
• 1:45:58
  Speaker 2: because it made me think of a artificial intelligence.
• 1:46:02
  Speaker 1: Isn't that asmov?
• 1:46:03
  Speaker 2: No, that was Stanley Kubrick's movie that was completed by
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 2: Steven Spielberg because Kubrick died during the production of it.
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 2: AI Artificial I. Robot is Asimov okay, but AI Artificial
• 1:46:19
  Speaker 2: Intelligence was not. So I read this is based off
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 2: a novel by the way, by Kazuo Ishiguro. I read
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 2: the synopsis of the novel. I will not spoil anything,
• 1:46:34
  Speaker 2: but if I go see this movie, I think I
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 2: may need to bring Kleenex with me.
• 1:46:42
  Speaker 1: It did look like it had some very sad and
• 1:46:45
  Speaker 1: some very touching moments to it.
• 1:46:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So, the the basic premise is it's set in
• 1:46:50
  Speaker 2: a future world where there are some genetically engineered kids
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 2: who are gifted, like they're able to learn things more effectively. However,
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 2: they tend to be taught at home, so they lack
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 2: socialization with other folks. So a company caters to families
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 2: that have these kids with these artificial friends or af's
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 2: and Jennett Ortega plays Clara, one of these artificial friends,
• 1:47:20
  Speaker 2: and she's actually an older model that this one. Young
• 1:47:25
  Speaker 2: lady Josie decides she wants Clara to be her artificial friend,
• 1:47:30
  Speaker 2: and Clara believes the Sun to be an intelligent like organism,
• 1:47:39
  Speaker 2: and the artificial friends are solar powered, so she has this,
• 1:47:43
  Speaker 2: you know, she revers the sun and the trailer is
• 1:47:49
  Speaker 2: very charming and intriguing, and like I said, it does
• 1:47:52
  Speaker 2: remind me a lot of AI artificial intelligence in some ways.
• 1:47:55
  Speaker 2: So does the next movie. Spoiler alert, It comes out
• 1:47:58
  Speaker 2: October twenty third. Jenna Ortiga is playing against type because
• 1:48:02
  Speaker 2: she's playing kind of a cheerful character, cheerful sort of
• 1:48:04
  Speaker 2: innocent character, not like the dead pan kind of Aubrey
• 1:48:09
  Speaker 2: Plaza sort of character that she typically gets associated with.
• 1:48:12
  Speaker 2: And I like that too.
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I she has in the past done some more
• 1:48:18
  Speaker 1: cheerful stuff and I really like it. I understand why
• 1:48:21
  Speaker 1: she's leaned into like the creepy vibe because that's everybody's
• 1:48:24
  Speaker 1: excited about it, and you know, it keeps people's excitement
• 1:48:27
  Speaker 1: for Wednesday up for sure.
• 1:48:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and she does a great job at it.
• 1:48:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, But it's delightful to see her play a
• 1:48:34
  Speaker 1: cheerful character as well, because she's just a very talented actor.
• 1:48:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I will say that that definitely comes through
• 1:48:41
  Speaker 2: in this trailer, Like I think I'm gonna want to
• 1:48:45
  Speaker 2: see this. Natasha Leone is also in this movie, and
• 1:48:47
  Speaker 2: she seems to be very entertaining as well. Annie Adams, Yeah,
• 1:48:51
  Speaker 2: I definitely want to see it, but it's gonna wreck me.
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, So.
• 1:49:01
  Speaker 2: I don't want to spoil anything, but yeah, it's there's
• 1:49:04
  Speaker 2: gonna be some emotional moments in this movie. Like I
• 1:49:06
  Speaker 2: have a feeling like it's gonna hit me in a
• 1:49:09
  Speaker 2: way like Up Dead. I had no idea that up
• 1:49:13
  Speaker 2: was gonna hit me so freaking hard right out of
• 1:49:15
  Speaker 2: the gate. And then it was like, hey, let me
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 2: crush your heart in the first ten minutes of this movie.
• 1:49:22
  Speaker 1: Which is why I will not catch up.
• 1:49:24
  Speaker 2: It is great.
• 1:49:25
  Speaker 1: It is so much though you and everybody else tells
• 1:49:27
  Speaker 1: me that, but I so maybe I won't watch Clara
• 1:49:30
  Speaker 1: in the Sun because I don't do well with heart
• 1:49:33
  Speaker 1: crushing lately.
• 1:49:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, sometimes sometimes it's cathartic, though, right, Like, I
• 1:49:38
  Speaker 2: don't know about you. I'm not afraid to say this.
• 1:49:42
  Speaker 2: I feel better after I have like a real good
• 1:49:44
  Speaker 2: hard cry if particularly if I've been like super anxious
• 1:49:48
  Speaker 2: or stressed out or whatever. Sometimes I don't know that
• 1:49:50
  Speaker 2: that's gonna be the case till I like watch a
• 1:49:52
  Speaker 2: sweet video and then it's it's like in Scrooge, it's
• 1:49:56
  Speaker 2: scrooged it's Niagara fuls.
• 1:50:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean I get it. There are times
• 1:50:02
  Speaker 1: where like I'm so stressed and I'm like, I just
• 1:50:04
  Speaker 1: I don't feel great, and then I have an amazing
• 1:50:05
  Speaker 1: cry And it's not even something I've planned. I haven't
• 1:50:08
  Speaker 1: even necessarily watched a sad video, but it's like your
• 1:50:10
  Speaker 1: body's like I just need to release some pressure and
• 1:50:12
  Speaker 1: then you feel better. I get it. I do get it.
• 1:50:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that you would appreciate movies like that
• 1:50:20
  Speaker 2: for what they are, but I understand, like it's it's
• 1:50:22
  Speaker 2: a hard sell, right because you're like you're going into
• 1:50:25
  Speaker 2: it knowing that this is going to make you feel
• 1:50:28
  Speaker 2: some big feelings, and like that can be intimidating.
• 1:50:32
  Speaker 1: So it's just at this point right now where like
• 1:50:37
  Speaker 1: I think this is because as an actor, I'm working
• 1:50:39
  Speaker 1: on breaking down those walls we talked about earlier. That's sometimes,
• 1:50:44
  Speaker 1: and it's fine. It's a thing I do like to explore,
• 1:50:46
  Speaker 1: and it's a thing I need to explore because I
• 1:50:48
  Speaker 1: need to continue to grow as a person and as
• 1:50:49
  Speaker 1: an actor and healthy emotions and all that that. Sometimes
• 1:50:52
  Speaker 1: when I'm in my feels, it is hard to get out.
• 1:50:58
  Speaker 2: Of them understand stand, Yeah, you know, I've been there. Well.
• 1:51:04
  Speaker 2: Moving on to a similar like again, very similar in
• 1:51:09
  Speaker 2: the themes anyway, a film called Sheep in the Box.
• 1:51:14
  Speaker 2: This is a movie in which there's a couple who
• 1:51:19
  Speaker 2: had a kid, a son, who passed away in a
• 1:51:22
  Speaker 2: hit and run incident, and then they are given an
• 1:51:26
  Speaker 2: opportunity from a company called Rebirth to have essentially a
• 1:51:31
  Speaker 2: robot copy of their son created for them. And so
• 1:51:37
  Speaker 2: it's kind of like a story about family dynamics, about
• 1:51:41
  Speaker 2: how the father feels that this is not necessarily the
• 1:51:44
  Speaker 2: healthiest thing, the mother is unable to let go, you know.
• 1:51:49
  Speaker 2: Is this technology hindering the grieving process? Is it helping
• 1:51:53
  Speaker 2: the grieving process? Then there's the question of does this entity,
• 1:51:58
  Speaker 2: this robot, should have its own autonomy, should be able
• 1:52:01
  Speaker 2: to make its own decisions. Is it fair to create
• 1:52:04
  Speaker 2: something that appears to be intelligent but is only there
• 1:52:07
  Speaker 2: for the purposes of consoling or assuaging the pain of
• 1:52:12
  Speaker 2: somebody else. All these things are wrapped up in it,
• 1:52:15
  Speaker 2: and unfortunately, according to the reviews, it doesn't do a
• 1:52:18
  Speaker 2: good job at any of it, which.
• 1:52:21
  Speaker 1: Is a shame because it very much gave me. I know,
• 1:52:23
  Speaker 1: you said Kubrickett Ai brick In, Yeah, Kubrickian, thank you.
• 1:52:29
  Speaker 2: That's what I made that up. So there's no reason
• 1:52:32
  Speaker 2: you should be able to say it.
• 1:52:34
  Speaker 1: No, but that's what I was literally trying to say
• 1:52:37
  Speaker 1: and it just didn't come out. It kind of reminds
• 1:52:40
  Speaker 1: me of like Juno Temple's character in Good Luck, Have Fun,
• 1:52:43
  Speaker 1: Don't Die, if it were heartwarming or the Electric Grandmother.
• 1:52:50
  Speaker 2: Reminded me, you've just sent me back on like PTSD
• 1:52:54
  Speaker 2: emotional flashback with that one.
• 1:52:57
  Speaker 1: Maybe a little less creepy than the Electric Grandmother.
• 1:52:59
  Speaker 2: Ask me questions, I'll tell you no lies that that
• 1:53:04
  Speaker 2: How deep does a film need to be for me
• 1:53:07
  Speaker 2: to be able to quote it? Literally forty years since
• 1:53:11
  Speaker 2: I saw it like it was.
• 1:53:14
  Speaker 1: The like it gave me the weirdest combination of emotions
• 1:53:18
  Speaker 1: at every given moment ever.
• 1:53:21
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, because like equal parts like endearing and menacing
• 1:53:26
  Speaker 2: and like, you don't know, you don't know if it's
• 1:53:28
  Speaker 2: going to come across as like a like it almost
• 1:53:31
  Speaker 2: feels like it was shot like a horror movie, but
• 1:53:34
  Speaker 2: it's not. It's not a horror movie, but it feels
• 1:53:36
  Speaker 2: like it was shot that way. Anyway. The We're good
• 1:53:38
  Speaker 2: enough track.
• 1:53:40
  Speaker 1: But but it does like that. I think looking back
• 1:53:42
  Speaker 1: on it, I totally didn't clock this as a child
• 1:53:44
  Speaker 1: watching it, but like death is scary, oh yeah, yeah,
• 1:53:49
  Speaker 1: and so it like but you get through it and
• 1:53:51
  Speaker 1: there's still love and that's it kind of embodies all that.
• 1:53:53
  Speaker 1: This gave me a very similar feel.
• 1:53:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this was what I was alluding to when I
• 1:53:57
  Speaker 2: was talking about, like a lot of stories that we've
• 1:54:00
  Speaker 2: encountered over the last few years have really been exploring
• 1:54:03
  Speaker 2: the concept of grief, and this one seems to do that.
• 1:54:05
  Speaker 2: But it also seems to be exploring this idea of
• 1:54:10
  Speaker 2: sentient machines and whether or not they deserve to have
• 1:54:13
  Speaker 2: their own autonomy and agency. And I think that was
• 1:54:16
  Speaker 2: the problem, is that there are too many ideas that
• 1:54:21
  Speaker 2: are in the mix for exploration and none of them
• 1:54:26
  Speaker 2: are sufficiently explored. That seems to be the consensus among
• 1:54:29
  Speaker 2: the more negative reviews that I've seen, and even the
• 1:54:32
  Speaker 2: negative reviews, most of them aren't going hard as saying
• 1:54:38
  Speaker 2: this is not a good movie, but more like this
• 1:54:42
  Speaker 2: was an ambitious attempt that fell short of what it
• 1:54:45
  Speaker 2: was trying to achieve. That seems to be the consensus
• 1:54:48
  Speaker 2: that I've seen Now, to be fair, this movie I
• 1:54:50
  Speaker 2: think has only been screened at a couple of festivals,
• 1:54:52
  Speaker 2: so it's not like every film critic has weighed in,
• 1:54:56
  Speaker 2: so it may be other people will feel very differently
• 1:54:59
  Speaker 2: from the ones that have initially reviewed. It comes out
• 1:55:03
  Speaker 2: July twenty fourth. I just thought it was interesting again
• 1:55:08
  Speaker 2: to come across movies that appear to be exploring similar concepts,
• 1:55:14
  Speaker 2: Like they're not telling the exact same story, because like
• 1:55:16
  Speaker 2: Clara on the Sun, it's not the same story, right,
• 1:55:18
  Speaker 2: Like it's you know, it's not the same things as
• 1:55:21
  Speaker 2: Sheep in the Box, but like they're distantly related.
• 1:55:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:55:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, sometimes sometimes when you're a ghost, you also have grief.
• 1:55:35
  Speaker 1: So this next one, I guess could technically be related.
• 1:55:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is Ghosts the Possession of Buttonhouse. So this
• 1:55:43
  Speaker 2: is a continuation of the UK TV series Ghosts, and
• 1:55:49
  Speaker 2: it is there's not a lot about what the actual
• 1:55:54
  Speaker 2: movie is going to be about, like it is a
• 1:55:56
  Speaker 2: movie that's a continuation of that series. Some people were
• 1:56:00
  Speaker 2: surprised that it's going to be a movie it comes
• 1:56:02
  Speaker 2: out October twenty third, as opposed to like a TV special.
• 1:56:05
  Speaker 2: But the guesses I've seen online is that if spoilers
• 1:56:11
  Speaker 2: if you haven't watched the UK version of Ghosts, But
• 1:56:17
  Speaker 2: at the end of that series, the two human caretakers
• 1:56:22
  Speaker 2: of the hotel, Allison and Mike, have chosen to sell
• 1:56:26
  Speaker 2: the hotel, and because they're now new parents, they sell
• 1:56:32
  Speaker 2: the hotel because otherwise the cost of maintaining it and
• 1:56:34
  Speaker 2: everything that is just too high, and the ghosts actually
• 1:56:38
  Speaker 2: give them their blessing of you should go off and
• 1:56:42
  Speaker 2: take this opportunity to take care of your family because
• 1:56:45
  Speaker 2: you have life to live and we don't. Kind of
• 1:56:48
  Speaker 2: a sad, you know, bittersweet ending. But then it jumps
• 1:56:52
  Speaker 2: forward in time where the hotel has been turned into
• 1:56:56
  Speaker 2: like this luxury like golf destin nation or something, and
• 1:57:02
  Speaker 2: the family comes back to stay and revisit with all
• 1:57:07
  Speaker 2: the ghosts who are still there in this new luxurious hotel.
• 1:57:13
  Speaker 2: And so the guess work most people have is that
• 1:57:16
  Speaker 2: this is going to be taking place in between those
• 1:57:18
  Speaker 2: two time frames in the last episode, like in between
• 1:57:22
  Speaker 2: when they've decided to sell the house and when it
• 1:57:26
  Speaker 2: gets turned into this luxury destination.
• 1:57:29
  Speaker 1: Got you because I have seen some of the US ghosts,
• 1:57:32
  Speaker 1: but I haven't seen I haven't seen the UK one.
• 1:57:37
  Speaker 2: I think all of them, all the ones I've seen
• 1:57:40
  Speaker 2: are really good, and they're different enough where they can
• 1:57:45
  Speaker 2: stand on their own. Like, you know, the US one
• 1:57:49
  Speaker 2: at first is very close to the UK one, but
• 1:57:51
  Speaker 2: it's kind of like the US version of the Office
• 1:57:54
  Speaker 2: where it finds its own story and its own voice,
• 1:57:58
  Speaker 2: and I think it's quite good. The UK one will
• 1:58:02
  Speaker 2: always hold a special place in my heart because I
• 1:58:06
  Speaker 2: just think there's a chemistry there and it's a UK
• 1:58:11
  Speaker 2: It's an English sensibility that informs that that show that
• 1:58:15
  Speaker 2: just isn't in the US version. Doesn't mean that I
• 1:58:17
  Speaker 2: necessarily think it's better, but it appeals to me more.
• 1:58:21
  Speaker 1: I think I think the UK version of the Ghosts
• 1:58:23
  Speaker 1: would appeal to me more as well. From the trailer,
• 1:58:25
  Speaker 1: I can see the chemistry that happens between the characters
• 1:58:28
  Speaker 1: and it definitely feels like the US version comedy is
• 1:58:31
  Speaker 1: a little bit more broad, which doesn't always hit as well.
• 1:58:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know, obviously, like each incarnation of Ghosts,
• 1:58:39
  Speaker 2: like certain character types carryover, Like there's certain characters who
• 1:58:43
  Speaker 2: are obvious copies.
• 1:58:45
  Speaker 3: Right, Like there's the like the Scout leader.
• 1:58:48
  Speaker 2: The Scout Leader is one, or there's the politician in
• 1:58:52
  Speaker 2: the UK one, or the businessman in the American one
• 1:58:54
  Speaker 2: who's always walking around with at any pants on because
• 1:58:57
  Speaker 2: that's how he died. But there are other character that
• 1:59:00
  Speaker 2: are unique to wherever the location is, Like in the
• 1:59:04
  Speaker 2: UK they have a Neanderthal or a caveman type character.
• 1:59:09
  Speaker 2: In the United States they have a viking instead of
• 1:59:13
  Speaker 2: the caveman. But it's essentially playing the same characters. But no,
• 1:59:17
  Speaker 2: they had a viking, and yeah, there's other differences as well.
• 1:59:22
  Speaker 2: But this looks like it's gonna be fun. It'll be
• 1:59:26
  Speaker 2: fun to revisit those characters because, like I said, it's
• 1:59:29
  Speaker 2: it's a great cast and a great series. If you
• 1:59:33
  Speaker 2: haven't watched Ghosts, it's well worth your watch because it
• 1:59:36
  Speaker 2: is a genuinely funny and sometimes touching series, sometimes very sad.
• 1:59:43
  Speaker 2: Like there's some moments where you're just like oh, because
• 1:59:46
  Speaker 2: like characters will find out things about their death that
• 1:59:49
  Speaker 2: they didn't know about and you're like, oh no, but
• 1:59:52
  Speaker 2: it's never told in like a mean way.
• 1:59:55
  Speaker 1: I haven't reached the sad parts yet, thankfully.
• 1:59:59
  Speaker 2: Well, when you get to the poet's death that episode,
• 2:00:03
  Speaker 2: I'll skip it. No, no, no, it's worth watching. It's good.
• 2:00:06
  Speaker 2: It's like it's again, it informs you a lot about
• 2:00:08
  Speaker 2: the the characters involved in the story.
• 2:00:12
  Speaker 1: But yeah, well we've also been a little bit more
• 2:00:16
  Speaker 1: informed with the characters in the story of Stuart fails
• 2:00:20
  Speaker 1: to save the Universe because we got a full trailer.
• 2:00:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this comes out July twenty third on HBO Max.
• 2:00:25
  Speaker 2: We've talked about this series before, so I don't think
• 2:00:27
  Speaker 2: we need to spend too much time on it. But
• 2:00:30
  Speaker 2: basic premise, it's weird because it's so different from the
• 2:00:34
  Speaker 2: series it's spun off from, Like this is a spin
• 2:00:36
  Speaker 2: off of the Big Bang Theory, but it is not
• 2:00:40
  Speaker 2: done in a sitcom style like Big Bang Theory, nor
• 2:00:44
  Speaker 2: is it done in like the comedic style of Young Sheldon,
• 2:00:49
  Speaker 2: like it's it's a comedy sci fi series. And Chuck
• 2:00:53
  Speaker 2: Laurie said he wanted to challenge take on something that
• 2:00:57
  Speaker 2: would be challenging to him because for most of his
• 2:00:59
  Speaker 2: career it's been focused on two people sit on a
• 2:01:02
  Speaker 2: couch and and and they say funny things. So it's like,
• 2:01:06
  Speaker 2: let's do something different. And I'm like, I agree with
• 2:01:09
  Speaker 2: you doing something different. It is wild to me that
• 2:01:11
  Speaker 2: you've tied this in with the Big Bank Theory.
• 2:01:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, honestly, the full trailer made it feel a
• 2:01:17
  Speaker 1: little closer to Big Bang Theory because there were, and
• 2:01:19
  Speaker 1: it makes sense for where Stuart's coming from, being a
• 2:01:22
  Speaker 1: comic book store owner, a lot of pop culture references
• 2:01:26
  Speaker 1: in this big trailer that weren't necessarily in the first one.
• 2:01:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just weird because the conceit here is that
• 2:01:33
  Speaker 2: there's this device that opens up portals to alternate dimensions
• 2:01:39
  Speaker 2: where you can pop into an a parallel universe where things,
• 2:01:44
  Speaker 2: you know, you might find some of the same people,
• 2:01:46
  Speaker 2: but they'll be in very different situations, and like the
• 2:01:48
  Speaker 2: whole world will be different and sometimes in fantastical ways.
• 2:01:52
  Speaker 2: And I'm just like, well, that's such a huge lead
• 2:01:54
  Speaker 2: from the Big Bang Theory, right, because like you have
• 2:01:57
  Speaker 2: to start from the idea that this machine could exist
• 2:02:01
  Speaker 2: in the universe of the Big Bang theory. And that's
• 2:02:05
  Speaker 2: where I hit my first stumbling block, because I'm like,
• 2:02:07
  Speaker 2: as much as I didn't like the Big Bang Theory,
• 2:02:10
  Speaker 2: it was pretty much rooted in reality, Like you know,
• 2:02:14
  Speaker 2: it wasn't there wasn't like a science fiction element to it.
• 2:02:18
  Speaker 2: So it's it's just it's that initial leap that I'm
• 2:02:22
  Speaker 2: finding hard to take. If this were its own thing,
• 2:02:26
  Speaker 2: independent of the Big Bang theory, it would actually be
• 2:02:29
  Speaker 2: easier for me to kind of buy into.
• 2:02:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. It kind of also feels like it's lightly
• 2:02:37
  Speaker 1: treading on some Melbrooks sensibilities.
• 2:02:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, there's the question is there about Kin Chuck
• 2:02:45
  Speaker 2: LORI do a series that works as like this sci
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  Speaker 2: fi action comedy and not something in a more, you know,
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  Speaker 2: traditional TV show format. And I don't know the answer
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  Speaker 2: to that. I guess we'll find out on in July
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  Speaker 2: twenty third.
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  Speaker 1: I will give it a shot. I I love Lauren Lapk.
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  Speaker 3: So lap kis, did you see that series?
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  Speaker 2: I think I mentioned this to you on a previous episode,
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  Speaker 2: but it's like good Morning something or other, but it's
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  Speaker 2: like it's her and it's been Schwartz playing anchors on
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  Speaker 2: a morning news show. It's a little web series and
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  Speaker 2: I think the earliest show, no have Yeah, you need
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  Speaker 2: to watch that. You need first of all, you need
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  Speaker 2: to watch the earliest show. It's each episode is pretty
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  Speaker 2: short and it's I won't spoil it. You should watch
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  Speaker 2: the earliest show. There's only like five episodes. They're short,
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  Speaker 2: they're very entertaining. After you watch those episodes, then you
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  Speaker 2: need to watch all the supplemental like deleted scene type stuff,
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  Speaker 2: because it's equally as funny. And in some cases you're like,
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  Speaker 2: oh man, I'm sad that they chose to go with
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  Speaker 2: the cut that ends up in the episode as opposed
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  Speaker 2: to this alternative cut. But in other cases you're like, oh, yeah, no,
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  Speaker 2: that never would have worked. It's funny. But because it's
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  Speaker 2: a largely improvised show, like it's it's structured but improvised,
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  Speaker 2: So definitely check it out.
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  Speaker 1: I'll definitely have to do that. And that brings us
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  Speaker 1: to the end of this exceptionally long episode that will
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  Speaker 1: hopefully tide you over till back after the fourth of
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  Speaker 1: July weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so hopefully nothing geeky happens in the next like
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  Speaker 2: two weeks.
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  Speaker 1: If it will, we can chat about it on discord.
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  Speaker 1: But before I tell you how to do that, Jonathan,
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  Speaker 1: do you want to tell them how to reach out
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  Speaker 1: to us?
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  Speaker 2: Well, you're going to have to plan for me a
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  Speaker 2: surprise birthday party, and it needs to be a really
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  Speaker 2: good and positive surprise. It can't be like surprise, I
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  Speaker 2: have an axe. That's that's a bad surprise. I don't
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  Speaker 2: I don't want that kind But you're gonna have to
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  Speaker 2: plan a very good surprise birthday party, and that's going
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  Speaker 2: to be rough for you because my birthday only lasts
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  Speaker 2: let's see, oh about no No eight and a half
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  Speaker 2: more hours, and I'm probably not going to get this
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  Speaker 2: episode up in time for it to go out on
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  Speaker 2: my birthday, So that means well, in that case, you'll
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  Speaker 2: have a whole year to plan before my birthday rolls
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  Speaker 2: around again. But yeah, if you can throw a positive,
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  Speaker 2: successful surprise birthday party for me that I actually enjoy,
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  Speaker 2: I'll be happy to answer any questions you might have.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and if your question will no longer be relevant
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  Speaker 1: in a year, you can reach out to us other
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  Speaker 1: methods on social media. We are a larger Ner Drunk
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  Speaker 1: Collider that's also our discord handle. You can also find
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  Speaker 1: our show notes at our website www dot largener Drunk Collider,
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  Speaker 1: where you can find an invite to the discord, and
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  Speaker 1: if you want to send us a longer message, you
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  Speaker 1: can do so via the old fashioned email way at
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  Speaker 1: large nerdon pod at gmail dot com. We really do
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  Speaker 1: love geeking out with you and hearing from you. And
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  Speaker 1: until next time, I am Ariel, This Margarita tastes like
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  Speaker 2: And I am Jonathan. Robots make me sad. Strickland e boo.
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  Speaker 2: The Large Nerdron Collider was created by Ariel Caston and produced, edited, published, deleted, undeleted,
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