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LNC Wants to Meet Some Disney Villains · Large Nerdron Collider

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  Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Welcome to the Large Ner Drunk Collider, the
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  Speaker 1: podcast that's all about the geeky things happening in the
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  Speaker 1: world around us and how very excited we are about them.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Aerial Caston and with me is always is the
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  Speaker 1: amazing Jonathan Strickland.
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  Speaker 2: I am a good boy. I had a salad for lunch.
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  Speaker 1: Oh. I thought you're gonna say you're a good boy.
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  Speaker 1: You're a nice dog in a horror movie.
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  Speaker 2: Oh no, I still need to watch that. I haven't
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  Speaker 2: seen that one yet. But no, no, I am. I'm
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  Speaker 2: proud of myself for having just a modest but tasty
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  Speaker 2: salad for lunch. I had, and I mean an actual salad,
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  Speaker 2: not like potato salad, not macaroni salad, not one of
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  Speaker 2: those Midwest salads.
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  Speaker 1: Those are actual salads.
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  Speaker 2: Those are salad. I had one that had greens and
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  Speaker 2: stuff on it.
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  Speaker 1: Potato salad is all the food groups if you do
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  Speaker 1: it right, mine, it's fruit. You should not put raisins
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  Speaker 1: and potato salad.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not a big fan of anything like. Same
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  Speaker 2: for tuna salad. I don't like ones that where you
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  Speaker 2: get like the raisins or cranberries or something in those,
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  Speaker 2: but chicken salad. No, still no, No, I don't want
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  Speaker 2: apples in my chicken salad. I know people who swear
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  Speaker 2: by it, and I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm saying
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  Speaker 2: it's wrong for me.
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  Speaker 1: No, that's fine. I like fruit in my chicken salad,
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  Speaker 1: but not in my tuna salad or my potato salad,
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  Speaker 1: which is interesting.
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  Speaker 2: What about your egg salad? No, get a good old
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  Speaker 2: slice of banana and that egg salad, just the consistency alone.
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  Speaker 1: So before I met my husband, apparently he and his
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  Speaker 1: friends were hanging out one time and one of his
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  Speaker 1: friends decided to put skittles and m and ms in
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  Speaker 1: the same candy bowl unwrapped.
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  Speaker 2: So clearly clearly a psychopath.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, and putting banana an egg into an egg salad
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  Speaker 1: feels like about the same level.
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  Speaker 2: No, I will say I do. I do enjoy the
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  Speaker 2: old Southeastern delicacy of a banana and mayo sandwich like
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  Speaker 2: that was the thing that was kind of Depression era
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  Speaker 2: when food was hard to come by, super cheap, But
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  Speaker 2: it continued to be kind of a staple, particularly in
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  Speaker 2: the Southeast, more in the Carolinas than Georgia. But I
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  Speaker 2: grew up in Northeast Georgia, so closer to the Carolinas.
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  Speaker 2: And I know some people who just think that that's
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  Speaker 2: the weirdest thing they've ever heard, like bananas, and like mayo.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, Duke's mayo has to be Duke's mayo
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  Speaker 2: because it's tangy yea never never ever miracle whip. Not
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  Speaker 2: salad dressing.
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  Speaker 1: No miracle whip.
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  Speaker 2: No, it just doesn't work. Like it's the tanginess that
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  Speaker 2: that balances the sweetness of the banana. And it needs
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  Speaker 2: to be like you need to get a banana that
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  Speaker 2: hasn't gone too ripe, because otherwise it's just gross. Right Like,
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  Speaker 2: once it goes too ripe, forget it. That's banana bread territory.
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  Speaker 2: That's where that is destined to go.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Now, I will say, like I do really like
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  Speaker 1: sweet and savory together. And maybe it's just I haven't
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  Speaker 1: tried fruit in my tuna salad. It's a different vibe
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  Speaker 1: because I do love fruit in my sushi. You put
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  Speaker 1: some apple or some banana or some mango and some sushi,
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  Speaker 1: and I am all for it.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm not gonna criticize you. I can't. It's
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  Speaker 2: very rare when I am allowed to have sushi these days,
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  Speaker 2: I get because my partner is somewhat terrified of me
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  Speaker 2: dying from an allergic reaction. Reasonable it's gotten more, it's
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  Speaker 2: gotten more sensitive as I've gotten older, and so you
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  Speaker 2: you know, there's some sushi places where they are meticulously careful,
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  Speaker 2: and if you explain to them, I love sushi, but
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  Speaker 2: I cannot have shell fit, they will be very good
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  Speaker 2: about making sure that the space they're using and the
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  Speaker 2: tools they're using are uncontaminated. But you know, you can't
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  Speaker 2: count on that, and so I just don't go anymore.
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  Speaker 2: And it's kind of sad because I really, I genuinely
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  Speaker 2: loved sushi. I just can't risk it anymore.
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  Speaker 1: It might be one of those things where if like
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  Speaker 1: you get a wild hair, you should like get some
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  Speaker 1: fish from the fish counter.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I get like sushi grade two now or something.
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  Speaker 1: It makes sense. I would even say, like go to
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  Speaker 1: an h Mark, but I don't know how they prepare.
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  Speaker 2: Their I'd probably go to the cab Farmer's Market, which
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  Speaker 2: is now we're really narrow casting.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I went to so when I was at too
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  Speaker 1: some I went to a twosome emporium chocolate emporium while
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  Speaker 1: while I was out in Florida one of these recent times,
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  Speaker 1: and they asked my allergies and I told them, and
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  Speaker 1: they came out to ask me if vegetable oil was okay,
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  Speaker 1: because they're like, it doesn't list the vegetables in it,
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  Speaker 1: and then they'd put something else on there that like
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  Speaker 1: I told them no, tomatoes, right, that was it because
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  Speaker 1: I'm on allergy shots now, but they couldn't tell from
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  Speaker 1: the vegetable oil. So they came out and they checked
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  Speaker 1: with me. And I've never had anybody go that detailed
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  Speaker 1: in checking. But when it came out, I had these
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  Speaker 1: little light tear drop peppers on it which were hole
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  Speaker 1: and I could pick them off and it was fine.
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  Speaker 1: But I was like, are these tomatoes? Are these tear
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  Speaker 1: drop peppers? And they're like, oh, they're tear drop peppers.
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  Speaker 1: Let me go back and research if you can have them,
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  Speaker 1: which I knew I couldn't because I'm aware, but I
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  Speaker 1: was like sure, And they went back and they looked
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  Speaker 1: it up and they gave me all this information on
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  Speaker 1: this food and like, I've never had that happen before.
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  Speaker 2: Wow. Yeah, I was about to say, like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: if you're going to a boutique chocolate place, then you
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  Speaker 2: would have to keep an eye out for stuff like cayenne, right, Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: like the Mexican chocolates where they add some pepper to it,
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  Speaker 2: that kind of stuff, because I know you're sensitive to
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  Speaker 2: that as well.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it is. It is better because of
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  Speaker 1: my shots, but there are still some things that I
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  Speaker 1: just can't do. I we talked about this recently. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna get off this bunny trail.
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  Speaker 2: Well, then let us let us move over to what
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  Speaker 2: our question of the week is. And this question of
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  Speaker 2: the week was provided by Ariel.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and then I promptly forgot to think about it.
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  Speaker 1: But the question is, what do you think is the
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  Speaker 1: best romance movie? It doesn't have to be geeky, but
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  Speaker 1: if it is, that's cool.
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  Speaker 2: I do have an answer for this, and in fact,
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  Speaker 2: after cutting out a lot of hemigan haying, I have
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  Speaker 2: written down my answer physically, I've written down my answer
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  Speaker 2: on a notepad. But I want Ariel to answer first
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  Speaker 2: because I'm worried that if I give my answer, Ariel's
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  Speaker 2: just going to piggyback onto it. So I want to
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  Speaker 2: hear your answer about what you think is the best
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  Speaker 2: romantic movie.
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  Speaker 1: Do I piggyback on your answers a lot?
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  Speaker 2: No, not at all. But I want to make sure
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  Speaker 2: that it's possible that you will independently pick the same
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  Speaker 2: movie I picked. I don't want to influence you, but
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  Speaker 2: I have written my so even if you pick something
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  Speaker 2: totally different than I fully agree with you, I still
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  Speaker 2: have my answer that I wrote down that I have
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  Speaker 2: to stick to.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So like I have the movie that like all
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  Speaker 1: of my geeky friends pick, but I'm not going to
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  Speaker 1: pick that one, even though I.
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  Speaker 2: Do very much love it, which is.
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  Speaker 1: The Princess Bride, which I'm guessing is what you wrote. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it is what he wrote. But there are two other
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  Speaker 1: movies that I really like. One of them I don't
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  Speaker 1: even even know if it would count as a romance,
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  Speaker 1: but I like them both for similar reasons. And one
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  Speaker 1: is The Court Jester by Danny k which is just
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  Speaker 1: also one of my favorite movies of all time, because
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  Speaker 1: the women in that are very strong and the men
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  Speaker 1: are very comedic, and it makes for a fun like
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  Speaker 1: romantic dynamic that you don't get to see all the time.
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  Speaker 1: The other one is Crazy Rich Asians, which I freaking
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  Speaker 1: love and I love it because the conflict does not
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  Speaker 1: come from the relationship between the romantic leads. It comes
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  Speaker 1: from outside forces. So neither romantic lead has done anything
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  Speaker 1: to cause any conflict, and they're both trying to problem
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  Speaker 1: solve to fix the external conflict. And so many times
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  Speaker 1: in romantic movies you see the conflict where it's like, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know you did this and I'm mad at you
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  Speaker 1: or whatever, or you know, there's there's an even power dynamic,
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  Speaker 1: and I like when those two things are not there.
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  Speaker 1: So those are my answers.
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  Speaker 2: So do you believe that the pellet with the poisons
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  Speaker 2: in the vessel with the pestle.
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  Speaker 1: Uh No, But the flagon with the dragon has the
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  Speaker 1: Brew that is true.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if that's from the palace palace. The
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  Speaker 2: dragon works well too, but it's the chalice from the
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  Speaker 2: palace has the Brew that it's it's true.
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  Speaker 1: Listen, they go around and mix it up so much
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  Speaker 1: that I'm not sad when I can't remember the exact
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  Speaker 1: order of things.
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  Speaker 2: The thug with the mug is no. Those are good answers. Yeah, No,
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  Speaker 2: Princess Bride is mine. I mean, that's kind of a
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  Speaker 2: in many ways. It is a very easy answer, like
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  Speaker 2: it's all about true love. It's a very silly movie,
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  Speaker 2: but it's also very sweet movie. It's also the movie
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  Speaker 2: where Mark Knopfler of the you know, the same guy
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  Speaker 2: from Dire Straits who did Money for Nothing and Chicks
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  Speaker 2: for Free, he did the music for the Princess Bride,
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  Speaker 2: and we took the song Storybook Love and had that
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  Speaker 2: as an instrumental version of that as the recessional music
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  Speaker 2: at our wedding. So there's a special place romantically for
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  Speaker 2: me for that particular movie for sure.
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  Speaker 1: That's why sugar Rush is a romantic song for me. No,
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  Speaker 1: it's not. But that was my cake cutting song.
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  Speaker 2: That's that's that's why f the police. I'm dating myself
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  Speaker 2: with those references.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, it's not like you don't date yourself
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  Speaker 1: every week.
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  Speaker 2: That's true purpose, it's true. Yeah, most of the time,
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  Speaker 2: it's on purpose. Occasionally it's just like, oh yeah, he's
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  Speaker 2: old man, yelly get passing clouds. All right, Well, that
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  Speaker 2: was a good That was a good answer to that question.
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  Speaker 2: It's gonna be a lot of editing for me to
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  Speaker 2: fix that up so it flows correctly. But that's mostly
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  Speaker 2: my fault.
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  Speaker 1: Well, listen, if the episode starts right here, because of
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  Speaker 1: all of the foibles at the beginning, it's not going
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  Speaker 1: to be too bad.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we had a We also had a technical
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  Speaker 2: glitch like eight minutes in or six minutes in, so uh,
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  Speaker 2: all right, Well, then let us move on to talk
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  Speaker 2: about what we have watched since the last time we recorded. Now, Ariel,
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  Speaker 2: you had a lot of travel that you did. I
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  Speaker 2: had a little bit of travel, but mine was like,
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  Speaker 2: I flew out to the place where I went to
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  Speaker 2: on Friday. I'm not gonna reveal it yet, but I
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  Speaker 2: will reveal it, and then I flew back on Sunday morning.
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  Speaker 2: So I wasn't gone that long. But did you have
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  Speaker 2: a chance to watch anything?
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  Speaker 1: Barely? Barely? Like I am very backed up. I have
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  Speaker 1: two episodes of the Pit I need to watch. I
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  Speaker 1: put down that I watched it because I thought I
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  Speaker 1: was going to watch it Wednesday, and then I just
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  Speaker 1: slept a whole bunch. I recovered from travel a whole bunch.
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  Speaker 1: But I have watched some more Shrinking. I finished season one,
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  Speaker 1: which I really like, which is the Jason Siegul Harrison
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  Speaker 1: Ford both play therapists, but their lives are also a mess,
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  Speaker 1: because therapists are also people. I watched the latest episode
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  Speaker 1: of Make Some Noise, which was delightful. On drop out,
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  Speaker 1: I watched episode A Fallout again because we've started over.
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  Speaker 2: I'm watching can you say two? Do you mean episode two?
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  Speaker 2: Period or episode two? Season two, Season.
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  Speaker 1: Two, episode two?
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  Speaker 2: I got it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I've watched some more down Abby. I'm in season
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  Speaker 1: five now, and I watched a little bit more of
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  Speaker 1: the Fall of the Azi Fang, which is the current
• 12:27
  Speaker 1: critical role actual play that Brendan Lee Mulligan is dming.
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  Speaker 1: I am not at all caught up. I'm only on
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  Speaker 1: episode nine, but I've started catching up mainly because I
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  Speaker 1: can't watch the current season of Dimension twenty without my
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  Speaker 1: husband because he's actually watching this season.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, so you have to be able to coordinate
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  Speaker 2: your schedules to be able to watch it. Yeah, understood.
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  Speaker 1: And I have just been going to bed early like
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  Speaker 1: a responsible adult.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes it's it sounds boring, but it sure does feel
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  Speaker 2: nice when you actually get enough rest. It's it's rare,
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  Speaker 2: but when it happens, boy, it's nice.
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  Speaker 1: Someday, Someday I'll tell you what.
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  Speaker 2: It feels like. Yeah, I look forward to that day.
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  Speaker 2: I watched I'm Caught up on Night of the Seven Kingdoms. Boy,
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  Speaker 2: that was a violent episode, but it had to be
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  Speaker 2: because it was going to be. It's set during a
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  Speaker 2: jousting tournament, so it's part of the joust so yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it gets violent. I watched a couple more episodes with
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  Speaker 2: my partner of a superstore, so we are very slowly
• 13:39
  Speaker 2: making our way through the final season. I think we've
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  Speaker 2: only got maybe a handful of episodes left. It is.
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  Speaker 2: The last season is very different because of the departure
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  Speaker 2: of one of the main characters, and without that person's presence,
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  Speaker 2: the show does. I mean, it's still it's still fun
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  Speaker 2: because everybody does a great job on that show, but
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  Speaker 2: it does throw things off a bit. And then finally,
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  Speaker 2: this isn't a show or a movie or anything. But
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  Speaker 2: you know, I did mention last week that if you
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  Speaker 2: tracked me down at Meowolf at the installation I was
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  Speaker 2: going to, you could ask me any question. Clearly, no
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  Speaker 2: one had any questions to ask me because I went
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  Speaker 2: all the way through the Real Unreal in Grapevine, Texas
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  Speaker 2: for the Mao Wolf installation, and no one once came
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  Speaker 2: up to ask me a question.
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  Speaker 1: So maybe they just got lost. So I've only been
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  Speaker 1: to Omega Mart in Vegas. Yeah, but that place is amaze.
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  Speaker 1: It's amazing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so is the real unreal. The real Unreal is
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  Speaker 2: structured so that it looks like when you first walk
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  Speaker 2: into the entry building part, you're looking at the exterior
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  Speaker 2: of a suburban house, okay, and there's like a garden
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  Speaker 2: shed on one side, and there's some other stuff that's around,
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  Speaker 2: and then you can walk into the house and explore it.
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  Speaker 2: But just like with Omega Mart, there are secret passageways
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  Speaker 2: that open up into other dimensions and there's some really
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  Speaker 2: fun stuff to discover. I'm not going to spoil anything,
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  Speaker 2: because just walking around, even if you don't get invested
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  Speaker 2: in the storyline at all, just walking around is fascinating
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  Speaker 2: as far as the story goes. We thought it was neat,
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  Speaker 2: but we again felt like we had only barely scratched
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  Speaker 2: the surface because there's just so much to go through
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  Speaker 2: that you're like, I have a limited number of hours,
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  Speaker 2: so if I stop too long to do this, I
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  Speaker 2: may miss out on something else. Also, I'm feeling a
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  Speaker 2: bit self conscious that I'm hogging this one resource that's
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  Speaker 2: meant for everybody, right, Like it might be a computer
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  Speaker 2: terminal or a tablet or a smartphone or a book,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and just to be sitting there reading you
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  Speaker 2: really become very aware of your read speed.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, for sure. At least at Omega Mart when
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  Speaker 1: I had to do computer stuff, there were several computers.
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  Speaker 1: So is the storyline without giving it away, is it
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  Speaker 1: similar to Omega Mart or is it different.
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  Speaker 2: Enough in some ways because with Omega Mart you learn
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  Speaker 2: that Omega Mart starts off with you walking into like
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  Speaker 2: what looks to be a grocery store, but the closer
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  Speaker 2: you look at the products, the more you're like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: this is weird, right, And then you start to learn
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  Speaker 2: weird things about the person who founded the store, and
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  Speaker 2: then weird things about the corporation that grows up around
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  Speaker 2: the store, and weird things about the family that are
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  Speaker 2: involved in that with the real unreal. The baseline this
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  Speaker 2: is this is something you see immediately as you're walking
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  Speaker 2: in if you're just paying attention. The baseline is there
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  Speaker 2: is a ten year old boy who has gone miss
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  Speaker 2: saying he and his mom have moved in with one
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  Speaker 2: of his mother's friends after the boy's father has passed away,
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  Speaker 2: so mother and son, because she's not able to support
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  Speaker 2: them otherwise, move in with a friend who also her.
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  Speaker 2: The friend also has a father who is in declining health,
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  Speaker 2: and the boy and the father become friends. And the
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  Speaker 2: boy finds that there are that this house is actually
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  Speaker 2: an interdimensional nexus and decides to try and see if
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  Speaker 2: he can find a way to help his friend who
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  Speaker 2: is in declining health, and as in the process, disappears.
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  Speaker 2: So that's kind of the basics, and you learn way
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  Speaker 2: more if you walk around and read everything.
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  Speaker 1: Gotcha? So do you like one better than the other?
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  Speaker 2: In some ways? I like the Real and Real more
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  Speaker 2: in that some of the pathways between spaces are a
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  Speaker 2: little more interesting to me than the ones at Omegamart,
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  Speaker 2: like the pathway from the front of house where the
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  Speaker 2: store is, to everything that's behind the scenes. That's really cool.
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  Speaker 2: But once you go through that, the rest of the
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  Speaker 2: transitions are slightly less impressive. Not that they're bad, but
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  Speaker 2: I felt that the Real Unreal was kind of consistently impressive.
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  Speaker 1: Interesting, interesting. Well, I look forward to visiting it someday.
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  Speaker 1: I'd like to visit all the Meo wolfs, but none
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  Speaker 1: of them are really close by.
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah. No, they're very much a Western United States thing, right. Well,
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: it's from a group that I think originated out of Albuquerque,
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: New Mexico. So if Atlanta were to ever get a
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: Meo Wolf installation, I think that'd be pretty cool. I
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: think it would be one of those things where people
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: coming into the city for Dragon Con would be like,
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: all right, we're gonna go a day earlier than we
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: normally do, so we can do Meo Wolf before the
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: convention starts.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I definitely think Atlanta could support a Meowolf. We
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: do have like art communities, like we've got like the
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: Goat Farm and stuff like that, but none of it,
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: none of it is the same vibe that is literally
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: just like a maker community.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, because I think I think meal Wolf started
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: with artists who were all kind of individually working on
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: their own work, their own projects, and then they gradually
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: started to collaborate with one another on stuff, and then
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: those collaborations became more and more intricate, and that kind
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: of organically grew into hey, let's create an entire walk
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: through experience, Like I don't think. I don't think they
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: set out to do that initially. I think it just
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: kind of organically got there.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and the Northeast does have some similar vibe type things.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: I don't remember what they call, but if we had
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: some friends who've gone to like houses with weird art
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: installations and bizarre rooms and stuff like that, but it's
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: not as in depth immersive.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and there's some immersive theater projects too, right, Like
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: there's a few that are in New York. There are
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: a couple that occasionally are make the rounds in the Southeast.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: And then you have other elements that are kind of similar,
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: like a lot of escape rooms share a little common
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: DNA with some of the elements of Male Wolf. It's
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: just Male Wolf. The emphasis is more on the art
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: and there's not really an escape, it's more of an experience.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. Well that's super exciting and I'm glad
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: you got to go do that.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, me too. I mean, I'm sad that no one
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: had any questions for me, but I guess, you know, guys, just.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: I had questions, but I was too tired to travel
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: at west.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah you were. You had gone south and I had
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: gone west. All right, Well, then let us move on
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: to our thirty seconds or less. And I believe I'm first,
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: am I not?
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: You are first?
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: Okay, I'm first and last? Sorry about that, y'all. All right,
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: well here we go. We kind of missed this back
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: when it was first announced, but Mystery Science Theater three
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: thousand is coming back again again, this time to celebrate
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: the series twentieth anniversary. So we're getting four new episodes.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: That's what's being kickstarted. Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy, and Brian
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: Corbett are all returning, so is Pearl Forrester and Doctor
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: Forrester and tv S Frank will be appearing in one
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: of the four episodes as guests. Jonathan Colton is doing
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: the new theme song. Cool.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's super exciting. I remember one of my first
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: Joco cruises, the MST three K, my second one. THEMST
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: three K guys were there and it was really neat.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: Drop Out, that television streaming service that Jonathan and I
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: like and I constantly talk about, has added a new
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: sub service. You can actually get it alone, or you
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: can get it as a part of your normal dropout subscription,
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: which is drop Out twenty four to seven. This is
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: especially exciting for people like husband who likes to turn
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: on the TV and then not worry about what they're watching.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: They're starting with all of their Dimension twenty seasons on
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: a marathon, and then we'll switch to just showing other
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: shows full time. So if you're one of those people
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: who likes to turn on the TV and then not
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: have to pick what you're watching, there you go.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: Okay. The Warner Brothers Discovery acquisition saga continues on one front.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: You've got filmmakers like James Cameron saying Netflix acquiring WBD
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: would be awful for filmmakers theaters. You've got paramount folks
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: foaming at the mouth wanting to scoop up all WBD assets,
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: and regulators in the European Union are expected to open
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: up an antitrust probe about the whole thing, no matter
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: who wins.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: Yikes, yeah, Jeeves, this is some Yeah, yikes is correct? Okay.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: Paddington Bear in Happier News is becoming a presenter at
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: this year's Baftift Film Awards. Will be presenting the award
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: Best Children's and Family Film, of which the most recent
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: Patty Toon movie was not considered for last year. But yeah,
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: that's kind of cute and fun. If you haven't seen
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: the Paddington Bear puppet for the Paddington Musical, which is
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: what they're using. It's phenomenal. It is a great amalgamation
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: of artistry and technology.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like Jim Henson level of puppetry. If the
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: House of the Dragon and The Night of the Seven
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: Kingdom series aren't enough Game of Thrones for you, how
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: about seeing a live production of a show set in
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: West Euros in person. The Royal Shakespeare Company in Jolly
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: Old England will premiere Game of Thrones The Mad King
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: in Strafford upon Avon this summer. The story will be
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: set a bit more than a decade before the events
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: of the television series.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: I don't know if I'll see that, Okay, Tom Middlson
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: Haley Atwell, speaking of Europe, are bringing their version of
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: Much Ado About Nothing to Broadway. It will be a
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: limited ten week g run. We don't know when it starts.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: I have signed up for ticket announcements, though I suspect
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: they will be very expensive and sellout in under five minutes.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: I am going to talk to you after the show
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: for you to give me the link to where you
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: sign up particular announcements since I need to do that
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: too okay for sure. JJ Abrams is producing a horror
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: thriller that's titled Skeletons. Bree Larsen is attached to play
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: the lead. Abrams brought his proposed project to the European
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: film market, where it prompted a bidding war between Warner brothers,
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: Ara mount Meon and Sony. Sony won out with a
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: healthy chunk of change for the movie. Not much is
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: known about the film other than J. T. Mohler as
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: co written the script and it will direct.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: Interesting, also interesting. Kristen Bell has been added to the
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: voice cast for Sonic four. She will be playing Amy Rose,
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: which feels I guess because her character is pink, but
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: it feels more of a normal name than any of
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: the other characters, So I'm a little.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: Bit thrown all right. Well. Video game, film and tv
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: ahabitations are all the rage these days, after if you
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: managed to reverse the long tradition of them totally sucking.
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: Next up is Dead by Daylight, a game that pits
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: one player as a killer, usually someone like Freddy or
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: Jason or whatever, against a group of other players who
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: are survivors who are trying to escape. David Leslie Johnston
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: mcgoldrigg that's his name, and Alexandra Asia are writing the script.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: Start your Generators.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: Sorry, I tried to go on a deep dive, but
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: I didn't have enough time. Charlie's Angels is coming back,
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: this time done by the people who did the proposal
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: in Crazy Rich Asians, which I didn't know. They were
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: done by the same people as I mentioned before, Crazy
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: Rich Ape Occasions is one of my favorite villains.
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: Wow, that was play Dilly really less than thirty seconds? Okay,
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: Donuts Donuts. Ryan Kugler wants to believe, the director behind
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: such films as Black Panther and Sinners, is now casting
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: for his X Files project. Now, there's conflicting information as
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: to whether this is a continuation, a revival, or an
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: outright reboot of the series. Interestingly, Gillian Anderson recently said
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: she would consider returning with Kugler at the Helm to
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: play Dana Scully, which is a big change from how
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: she felt just a few years ago. So here's hoping
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: very interesting.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: I still need to watch that show. Okay. Devin Sawa,
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: who I know from being the kid in Casper and
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: one of the dudes in Now and Then, is joining
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: Disney Channel's Coven Academy. He's playing a teacher and it's
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: about these teenage teenage which which is so maybe like
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: a Sabrina the Teenage Witch kind of thing.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: Well, uh, Walt Disney fans, Walt Disney World fans, I
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: should say, are starting to get excited as a rumor
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: is circulating that the company wants to go back to
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: the drawing board with their villains Land concept for the
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: Magic Kingdom. So, according to Lynn Testa, who often hears
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: scuttlebutt about the Parks, quote, imagineers have been told to
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: think of bigger, bolder ideas, budget secondary end quote, which
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: sounds devilishly fun to me.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: Very interesting. I'm surprised they're already revamping it.
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: Well, I think the thing is that the so here's
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: the deal. Josh Tomorrow, who was the head of Disney Parks,
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: is going to be the next CEO of the company.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: So the going theory right now is that Tomorrow looked
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: at this and said, you know, this isn't enough. We
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: need to go bigger with our plans than just doing
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: the you know, this version of Villain's Land. It's not
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: ambitious enough, particularly in the wake of Epic Universe right,
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: Like Epic Universe kind of open people's eyes to what,
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: you know, truly immersive theming can be, and Disney was
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: like the king of that. But they're kind of starting
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: to lose a little bit of ground. So I feel
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: that this is in part a desire to invest more
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: in the parks. It's in part recognition that Epic Universe
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: is a bit of a threat and that, you know,
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: maybe maybe we'll see the parks get a little bit
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: more love with Josh Tomorrow as CEO. I'm not gonna
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: count any chickens before their hatch though, because I've gotten
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: my hopes up before.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: But here's the thing, Like some of the lands in
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: Epic Universe are super immersive in their cue, and some
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: of them are just you wait in a line, right,
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: It's just you're in a nice looking land. I think
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: what really makes Epic Universe a step above at.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: Least characters are the street characters, much.
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: Like what brings a Renaissance Festival a step above, and
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: Disney has had that in the past. If you look
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: at Smugglers and Smugglers run. But if you look at
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: Galaxy Edge, Galaxy's Edge, or even Toy story Land, like
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: back when both of those were they're first of all,
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: very immersive, and they're the newer parks, and when they
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: first open, they had tons of street characters. They still
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: have some, but they've cut back seriously on street entertainment, yeah,
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: and shows. So maybe that's what I hope the revamp
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: focuses on that, because, like I loved so much, even
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: just at the front of Hollywood Studios, the characters of
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: like the you know, the characters that played old Hollywood people.
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, the street performers.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Adventurous Club, which was a separate club but a
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: similar vibe.
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: Like, well, I I haven't heard anything specific about street entertainment,
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: but what I have seen is a lot of people
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: just assuming that villain presence will be a big thing
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: in the New Land, And I certainly see it as
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: like Disney. I'm sure Disney's already counting on it as
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: being like a focal point for like Halloween celebrations. Once
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: the Villain's Land is ready to go, like that's going
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: to be like Halloween Central for and they already do
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: a big Halloween celebration every year, but I feel like
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: that's going to become like the new focal point moving forward.
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: Once that land opens up. But I am encouraged to hear,
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: assuming this is true that they they said, you know what,
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: this isn't big enough, go bigger and don't worry about
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: budget that if you're an imagineer, I'm sure that that
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: is a great thing to hear.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: As long as they don't, I say this, this is
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: a weird thing to say. As long as they don't
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: make it exorbitantly more expensive for people to visit.
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: Right, well, yeah, because it is already like it's that
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: has been an issue where the price has been creeping
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: up year over year, Like every year the price goes up,
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: and it's already to a point where I think for
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: a lot of people, they're asking the question of do
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: I think the vacation I want to take is going
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: to be worth the amount of money I'm going to
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: have to spend in order to take it, And it's
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: that question gets harder to say yes to every year,
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: And part of that is because of various parts of
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: the park that have been in a sort of perceived decline,
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: like the fact that street entertainment has been cut back
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: year after year. And part of that is that just
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: the prices for everything, not just for the ticket to
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: get in, but like everything you want to eat lunch,
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: it's going to be more expensive than it was a
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: year ago, you know, way more expensive than it was
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: five years ago. So yeah, yeah, it's just like, though,
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: there are some big issues there where I would love
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: to see Disney World reach a better level of affordability
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: for the average person because it kind of sucks that
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: people like me can continue to go. And I mean
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: I love Disney World, Don't get me wrong. I love going,
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: but it kind of sucks that I can keep going
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: because I am in a point in my career where
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: I can afford to go occasionally. But but someone like
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: I think back to when I was a kid and
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: I went the first time, like a family, like the
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: family I came from, I don't know that they that
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: we would have been able to afford to go if
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: like if I I were a kid now and my
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: parents were teachers, I don't know that we could afford
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: to go to Disney World the way we did like
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: practically every third year when I was growing up.
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I mean I used to go to Disney
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: like once a year, not every year, but for several
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: years back when I was a preschool teacher and working
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: at the Renaissance Festival, and I was very poor, but
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: I was able to save up enough to do that, like,
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: and it was worth it. I could. I can still
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: afford to go to Disney. But now I'm like, is
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: the huge chunk of cash that I would have to
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: spend on that versus something else worth the entertainment I'm
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: gonna get? And because so much of the entertainment I
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: loved is gone, Like I don't, I don't know.
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: And on top of that, you're thinking things like, you know,
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: crowds have become the perception I have. And granted this
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: could just be grouchy old man coming out, but crowds
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: have become more volatile over the year, or at least
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: that's been my perception. Maybe I just never noticed when
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: I was younger. But also like as I get older,
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: managing to be active in that heat and humidity for
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: most of the year, Like if you're going to Orlando,
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: unless you're doing it in February or maybe early March,
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: it gets hot and humid and it sabs the energy
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: right out of you, especially if you're like me, you're
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: starting to slow down. So that those are all elements
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: that I think come into consideration. But my hope is
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: that we'll start to see some positive changes for the parks,
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: like we'll see a little more life breathed into them,
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: and hopefully not have that go hand in hand with
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: and only the one percent can afford to go there
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: for sure?
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: For sure. Well, here's hoping.
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: That was a good thirty seconds of less.
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: It was. I mean it was almost thirty minutes or
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: less from beginning to now. Yeah, it might be thirty
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: minutes or less after your edits.
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: I don't know that we'll get down that far. I
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: think we're still going to be over thirty. But you know,
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: all our listeners will know this by now. We don't
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: know until I edit it.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, No, I like I like it when our
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: thirty seconds are less end on, like a speaking point.
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, especially something we're both interested in.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah for sure. Well let's talk about other stuff that
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: we might be interested in but really shouldn't be at
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: our show.
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, that's the what we're calling the section now.
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: So first up, we've got a trailer for a World
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: War two film titled Pressure and yeah not under Pressure.
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: The main reason I included this was because there are
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: two actors that we associate with geeky projects who are
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: taking prominent roles in this movie. One is Brendan Fraser,
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: who is playing Dwight D. Eisenhower when he was a
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: general in World War Two, and the other is Andrew Scott,
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: who is playing a meteorologist whose name I forget now.
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: But the plot of the movie follows that the Allies
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: are planning the Normandy invasion the D Day. They're planning
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: D Day, but they want to consult with a premier
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: meteorologist to try and figure out what the weather's going
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: to be so they know what to expect before they
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: launch this attack. And the meteorologist is arguing that they
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: shouldn't go on the day that they have planned because
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: the weather is going to be too dangerous. And this
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: is all based off the truth. Like in Truth, the
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: Allies actually delayed D Day by a day in order
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: to have more favorable weather. Spoiler alert for this movie,
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: I guess, but you're seeing like Dwight Eisenhower and the
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: meteorologists kind of butting heads and arguing about balancing the
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: need for swiftness and surprise versus the need to make
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: sure that the seas aren't going to collapse your your
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: ships before they can land on the beach.
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: That is that is super interesting and something you don't
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: really consider when you think about, you know, more often time.
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this movie comes out May twenty ninth. It was
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: I found it very weird to see Brendan Fraser playing Eisenhower.
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, it's because you know, Eisenhower has got a
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: certain kind of physique, but we also know he's preparing
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: to be in the New Mummy movie and that character
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: also has a certain kind of physique historically, so it
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: is interesting. It looks like he does a great job.
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: I don't know if I will watch this. I'm not
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: as big into war movies.
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: But yeah, me neither. I think it looks like it's
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: a compelling story. That's one that you know isn't frequently referenced.
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: But yeah, so it might. It might educate people who
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: otherwise have never known that D Day was actually delayed
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: by a day. Next up, we have a trailer for
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: a psychological thriller called Past Life.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is a guy who goes through I don't
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: know the name of the therapy that you go through hypnotherapy,
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: hypnotherapy to go into his past lives to solve murders.
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: Apparently. Yeah, I think he's supposed to be a journalist
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: who's just investigating hypnotherapy. But during that process he regresses
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: to a past life where he witnesses a murder and
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: possibly is even his past self, is possibly even the murderer,
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: Like you're not entirely sure of the trailer, And then
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: he wants to work with law enforcement to revisit cold
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: cases because he's he's been this witness, And of course
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: everyone's like, you are insane, because that's not You're not
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: a witness. You weren't alive when this happened. But yeah,
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: it's an interesting twist on a thriller.
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: I thought, it is. Is it something that you want
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: to watch?
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: I'm curious, except that also, I'm not a Jeremy Piven fan,
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: and he plays the hypnotherapist, so that maybe a strike
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: against it in my eyes. I'm not saying for anyone else.
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: I'm just saying Jeremy Piven has done some things that
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: I was not a big fan of.
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: I thought, actually, like I have already forgotten what he
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: looks like, So.
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he was. He was more prominent in like the
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: nineties and early two thousands. I always think of him
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: and John Cusack in a gross point blank But anyway,
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: this movie comes out March twenty fourth in the United States.
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: It comes out April sixth in the UK. And yeah,
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: I'll probably skip it. What about you, I'll skip it.
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: I don't know if I'll skip the next one, which
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: is we got a full trailer for the movie Normal,
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: which I can best describe as the cozy Expendables.
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, or like Nobody if Nobody was a sheriff instead
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: of a cleaner for the intelligence agencies.
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, So it's very far Go esque in that
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: there's this law enforcement guy who's pretty milk toasty and
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: then gets pulled into action and adventure.
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I think the idea is that Bob Odenkirk is
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: playing this guy who he's a law enforcement officer, but
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: he applies to become sheriff of this tiny town called Normal,
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: only to find that the town is hiding like secrets.
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: Possibly it's possible that the entire town is in on
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: some sort of organized crime scheme. That's what I was
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: getting from the trailer, but that might just be me
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: and terming too much. Henry Winkler plays the mayor of
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: the town and he comes across as almost split down
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: the middle of warm and friendly and kind of unsettling.
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it looks fun. I enjoyed Nobody well enough.
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: I never watched the second one.
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I watched the first one, and I've seen clips
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: of the second one, but I never watched the whole thing. This.
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: I actually, this looks more appealing to me than Nobody
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: too did. It comes out April seventeenth. From why, I
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: understand the guy who wrote Nobody had actually written Normal first,
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: but didn't think he could get that made until after
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: Nobody was a big success.
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: That's interesting because Fargo is like, it feels very Fargo
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: to me, and that's huge.
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: Well yeah, but I think when you're like, if you're
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: starting out as a filmmaker, it might be harder to
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: get the funding for your movie. You know, I don't
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: know that that many people out there. Fargo television series
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: did quite well, so maybe I'm wrong. But Next Week
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: Got You mentioned Jason Siegel earlier in the episode, We've
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: got a Jason Siegle vehicle here with over your Dead Body.
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: It's Jason Siegele and Tomorrow Weaving playing a couple who
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: goes on vacation and it becomes increasingly clear that they
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: kind of hate each other's guts now and then things
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: get worse from there.
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah. In the trailer, it shows them having an argument
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: and then next thing you know, Jason Siegles tied up,
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: but not necessarily because tomorrow Weaving is off her rocker,
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: but because she suspects that he was about to do
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: the same thing to her, and so they fight about it,
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: and then you find out, yeah, they're both gunning for
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: each other.
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, literally, they are literally gunning for each other. So
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: what it made me think of was like, it made
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: me think of a slightly zanier War of the Roses,
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: or the Roses as the more recent one would been
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: at Cover Batche and Olivia Coleman. It made me think
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: of like a zanier version of that, Like, let's take
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: that idea of this couple that has maybe at one
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: time was loving and supportive or whatever, but now it's
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: become just truly toxic on both ends to the point
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: where they don't see a way out except for killing
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: the other one. And then it looks like other people
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: get involved and that there's other threats besides each other.
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: Timothy Oliphant's in this and Juliet Lewis is also in
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: This comes out April twenty fourth. So did the trailer
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: interest you? Was this something where you're like, I might
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: want to see this?
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: It did, but partially because it wasn't too gory. It
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: did feel almost tongue in cheek, right, Yeah, like tense moments,
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: but through a lens of irony. Also the trailer like
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: the not the trailer. The poster for the movie is
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: a play on the painting American Gothic, which I think
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: is hilarious and.
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: I have not seen that. I'll have to check that out.
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: I also think I'm interested in this. I want to
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: check it out. I think the roses I wasn't as
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: big on because it just is it felt so mean spirited.
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: This because of the zany nature of it, like it's
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: the same underlying like plot kind of, but this because
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: it was so over the top, I felt a little
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: bit more distance and it didn't hit me as hard,
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: although undeniably it's very dark humor.
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but not as dark as many of the things
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: that I've seen.
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: So yeah, speaking of dark, you ready to go where
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: the spiders hang out?
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: Well, every time you mentioned spiders, it changes it changes
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: my answer, which is now no.
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: Well, if it makes you feel any better, they currently
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: vacated the Horror Hutch, have they? Yeah, they're they're vacationing
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: in Florida right now.
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: I can't yet.
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: I got eight postcards, but that's all from one spider.
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: So is it just one spider in the whole?
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: I think it was the only one that learned how
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: to write. Okay, okay, anyway, So now here we are
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: in John Boy's Horror Hutch, and I gave Ariel a
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: little note saying that I felt that the the there's well,
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: there's five movies and at this time, wow, I'm sorry
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: about that there are five movies in the Horror Huch.
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: But I gave Ariel a note saying that I didn't
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: think any of the trailers were too intense or too
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: scary for her. So did you get a chance one
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: of them? You sent me? But did you get a
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: chance to watch these?
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: I you know, I was running later on my prep today,
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: so I skimmed through them.
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: Okay, all right, well then we'll go. We'll go try
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: and keep this pretty quick. First up is Rows of Nevada,
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: which is more like a mystery than a horror movie,
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: kind of ghost ship sort of thing. I don't actually
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: want to talk about it too much because I read
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: up on what this is and I feel like it's
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: the kind of thing that you want to have unfold
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: as you watch the movie, as opposed to knowing about
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: it ahead of time. But in short, there is this
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: seaside community, a fishing boat that's been missing for decades
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: shows up, and then some people in the town who
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: are kind of in desperate situation, like they're just they
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: haven't been able to make a living end up deciding
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: to become crew on this boat and take it back out,
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: and then weird stuff happens, and that's all I'm gonna say.
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: I will say. Also, the film style of this teaser
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: feels very dated. Yeah, it feels like it came out
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: of like maybe the early eighties or something.
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it rides a line between like found footage and
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: documentary almost for me.
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: For feel Yeah, it kind of reminded me also of
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: like the was it called vignetted. It's it's when you've
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: matted the frame where you make it's not the regular
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: aspect ratio that we associate with movies. It's been framed
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: in a bit like the Lighthouse was like that, and
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: this this trailer at least had that effect going forward.
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: I don't know if that's the way the whole movie is,
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: but I got that sense. It comes out June nineteenth.
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: Kind of gave me a little bit of a hindline
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: kind of feel for part of it. But I don't
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: want to say more because then I would be spoiling stuff.
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: Next up, we have a trailer for a movie called
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: Slanted that might have been the most disturbing out of
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: all the trailers I saw for this.
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: It was the most disturbing. I did eventually nope out
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: of that one because there was some body.
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: There is a little body horror. Yeah, there's some body
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: horror in it. So it's it's like the substance, but
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: where the substance was. An ajing model takes this drug
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: that gives her beauty and youth at great expense. In
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: this case, it's a young Asian woman. She's high school student,
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: young Asian high school student who feels ostracized and targeted
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: by racists, and she kind of feels like the world
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: around her doesn't accept her because she's Asian and she's
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: in a Caucasian community, and she really wants to be
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: prom queen, but she knows that no one's going to
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: vote for her. And then there's this weird guy who
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: shows up who has a clinic where he says that
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: he can give her a treatment to change her appearance
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: and essentially make her white. That's what this is. It's like,
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: it's about undergoing a surgical procedure to no longer be Asian.
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: So there's elements of body horror, family trauma because obviously
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: her family is deeply hurt by her decision. You know,
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: there's lots of you know, high school like politics and
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: social group politics sort of stuff. It looks super dark.
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: A lot of social commentary clearly is in. This movie
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: comes out March thirteenth, and yes there is there is.
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: There are body horror elements, which is why aerial Nope, doubt.
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it does like interesting. I like McKenna grace.
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: The acting looks good. Yeah, I'll have to I'll have
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: to read some common sense media to discern if I
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: could handle that one.
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm I kind of want to read a review
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: just to make sure that it's the messaging is handled well,
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: because I'm like, this could be a really dark but
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: thoughtful kind of take on this othering, you know, or
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: it could feel very exploitative. So I want to I
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: don't want to. I don't want to support art that
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: perhaps is well meaning but misses the mark entirely, you know.
• 50:04
  Speaker 2: Next up, we have The Gates. This is partially notable
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: because it is one of the late James Vanderbeek's final projects.
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: The basic plot is that a group of young black
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: men are going to have a boys' night out. They
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: get stuck in standstill traffic on the highway. There is
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: an exit that they can take, but they don't know
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: where it goes. They just figure we'll take the exit,
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: reconnect with the highway later on, and then go on
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: our merry way. Except the exit leads them to a
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: gated community like more like a compound than a community,
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: and the gates closed. But then a woman drives up.
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: She clearly has a way of going in, and she
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: asks them if they want to go into and they
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: say yes, so they just follow her in, but they
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: can't get back out again, so they circle back to
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: the house and then they see this man played by
• 50:55
  Speaker 2: James Vanderbeek kill the woman who let the men like
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: they're looking through the window and they see it happen.
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: But then he sees that they see, and then we
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: get a whole survival element of can they get out
• 51:09
  Speaker 2: of this compound? It becomes clear that James Vanderbeek's character
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: is like a corrupt religious leader, maybe a cult leader
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: maybe you know, maybe it's just like you know, extremists
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: or whatever, and so he's used to being able to
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: act with impunity because he's revered in this community he's created.
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: Comes out March thirteenth, looks really dark. It's an interesting concept,
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: and I don't know if it will actually be a
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: good movie. I suspect that it's getting a somewhat small
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: theatrical release. This is very cynical of me, but I
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: suspect James Vanderbeek's passing is what gave it kind of
• 51:53
  Speaker 2: the momentum to get a theatrical release, because when I
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: was watching the trailer, I was thinking I could easily
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: see this as being one of those straight to digital
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: kind of projects. Not that I don't think it would
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: benefit from the big screen, but I don't know if
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: it would have landed those deals without the tragedy of
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: James vanderbeek passing. Away.
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: It really was. He seems like such a nice guy.
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: But I do think that this movie leans heavy, heavily
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: on the suspense of it, like tense, tense moments and suspense,
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: and I.
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: Do like that. Yeah, this definitely has more elements of
• 52:28
  Speaker 2: thriller than like slasher horror or anything like that. Like
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: I think of movies like what was the one with
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: Hugh Grant? Was it heredic?
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: Maybe?
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: I think it was herodic, Like that one was a
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: super tense movie and I really enjoyed it for what
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: it was. Heredic. Okay, next up, we have a series
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: and actually it's a reboot. It's Girl from Nowhere the reset.
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: So Girl from Nowhere is a tie and thoughtology mystery
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: kind of supernatural series where this young woman student again
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: a high school student, shows up at schools where she
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: uncovers like lies and hypocrisy and all these scandals that
• 53:16
  Speaker 2: were hidden beneath the surface. She unearths them and then
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: everyone has to deal with them, and it eventually turns
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: out that she's an immortal entity that takes the form
• 53:25
  Speaker 2: of a young girl who then goes in and does
• 53:28
  Speaker 2: these things so that people can't just hide behind the
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: safety of their secrecy. The original series came out in
• 53:36
  Speaker 2: twenty eighteen. Now we have a reboot of that series
• 53:41
  Speaker 2: coming to Netflix on March seventh. Looks pretty good. I
• 53:46
  Speaker 2: want to say that we might have even talked about
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: a girl from Nowhere in a previous episode way back
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: in the day.
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: Maybe it is interesting. Becky Armstrong, who is the lead
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: in It, is so beautiful that I almost got in
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: Canny Valley for a second. I was like, is this
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: an AI actor?
• 54:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, No, that's that's high praise. Indeed, you you
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: look so good we thought a robot made you.
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: Yes, And the last trailer is one that you sent me.
• 54:16
  Speaker 2: So did you actually watch this or did you just
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: send it to me because you're like you started watching it?
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: They thought Jonathan needs to see this.
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: That's what I did.
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: Okay, it's the Yeddie. This is a creature feature. I
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: thought you would dick it because it's a monster movie.
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: I mean I did. There was some really scary stuff
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: in there that felt more traditional horror than monster like.
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: I made it halfway through the trailer and then I
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: skimmed the rest. I don't I must have missed where
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: they showed the yetdie.
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you get to see like silhouettes kind of a
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: part of the eddie, and you get to see its
• 54:51
  Speaker 2: massive footprint at one point. Yeah, it's set in Alaska
• 54:55
  Speaker 2: in like nineteen forty seven, but it's it's wild because
• 54:59
  Speaker 2: it is a creature feature, and it's like a throwback
• 55:03
  Speaker 2: to movies where you have like a band of adventurers
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: who are trying to track this down. The story is
• 55:11
  Speaker 2: that two famous people have gone missing, and the children
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: of those famous people, who are themselves adults, are trying
• 55:18
  Speaker 2: to track down their missing family members while also trying
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: to find this mysterious creature. And it's kind of like
• 55:26
  Speaker 2: one of those things with a heist movie where each
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: character has their specific role. Also, one of the characters,
• 55:32
  Speaker 2: which in the trailer is referenced as the Watchdog, made
• 55:35
  Speaker 2: me think of a character from Boardwalk Empire because he
• 55:38
  Speaker 2: has like a half face mask on that mimics a
• 55:42
  Speaker 2: human face, and I think it's Richard Harrow in Boardwalk Empire.
• 55:47
  Speaker 2: That character has a very almost identical kind of face
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: mask on, to the point where I was like, did
• 55:53
  Speaker 2: you just get hold of the Boardwalk Empire mask and
• 55:57
  Speaker 2: use that? But the cast also includes William Sadler whom
• 56:05
  Speaker 2: I adore. I think William Sadler is an insanely underrated
• 56:10
  Speaker 2: character actor. I think he was death in The Bill
• 56:14
  Speaker 2: and Ted Movies.
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, he's fantastic.
• 56:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I love him. And Corbyn Burnson's in it. Jim
• 56:20
  Speaker 2: Cummings is in It comes out on April tenth, according
• 56:23
  Speaker 2: to IMDb. At least.
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I again, I turned it on because I do
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: like creature features, and then I was like, I don't,
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: I don't know, this might be too scary.
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: This one also felt like it like it felt like
• 56:38
  Speaker 2: they were purposefully baking it in a way that evokes
• 56:42
  Speaker 2: an older style of filmmaking.
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, I did like that very much because it
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: didn't feel like it was super low budget cheesy old.
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: But it did feel old.
• 56:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it feels like you. It feels like you could
• 56:55
  Speaker 2: have uncovered this from like the golden age of creat features.
• 57:00
  Speaker 2: It's like maybe the fifties or sixties, except obviously updated.
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: Like it. It wasn't a perfect thing where like, oh
• 57:08
  Speaker 2: it's like lifted out of time. This was a lost film,
• 57:11
  Speaker 2: but it it pays homage to a lot of the
• 57:14
  Speaker 2: filmmaking techniques of those movies.
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: For sure. Well, uh, I think I've spent enough time
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: in your horror Hutch.
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, let's get out of here before the spiders get
• 57:25
  Speaker 2: back from vacation.
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: Okay, now we're now we're out.
• 57:31
  Speaker 2: We can talk about our show notes, and I'm gonna
• 57:33
  Speaker 2: let Ariel talk a lot more because I talked a
• 57:35
  Speaker 2: whole bunch since I had five hole movies in that. Cool.
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: We'll see how good I do at the talk dues.
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: I mean, you know me, I'm gonna bust in anyway.
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: So the first trailer we've got, and uh, you know
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: we are. It's a shorter line up. We aren't going
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: to spend a huge amount of time on it, probably
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: now I've chinsed it and we will. But the first
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: trailer we've got is for The Mandalorian, and grogu of
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: trailer is out. I honestly forgot that Pedro Pascal played
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: the Mandalorian until they show his face in the trailer.
• 58:09
  Speaker 2: Oh well, they kept him. They kept him masked for
• 58:12
  Speaker 2: so long in the series. Yeah, like that. At the
• 58:15
  Speaker 2: point when I was watching The Mandalorian, I didn't know
• 58:17
  Speaker 2: who Pedro Pascal was. Like, I wasn't familiar with his work.
• 58:20
  Speaker 2: I didn't even realize at the time when I watched
• 58:22
  Speaker 2: the first Actually, like I think most of the first season,
• 58:26
  Speaker 2: I didn't realize, oh I've seen him on Broadway. I
• 58:30
  Speaker 2: had not made that connection, gotcha.
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: The trailer it looks like story wise, it's got the
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: same charming beats as the television show did. But there
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: are several creatures in this movie that could be practical
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: effects that are not, and I think the trailer suffers
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: for it.
• 58:52
  Speaker 2: Hmm, that's a good point. Yeah, there there's there are
• 58:57
  Speaker 2: huts in this like Job of the Hut. In fact,
• 59:01
  Speaker 2: I think it's the Sun of Job of the Hut
• 59:04
  Speaker 2: is one of the characters that the Mandalorian faces off against.
• 59:07
  Speaker 2: The general plot seems to be that the New Republic
• 59:11
  Speaker 2: is recruiting the Mandalorian to help kind of fight former
• 59:17
  Speaker 2: imperial officers who are now like warlords across the galaxy.
• 59:21
  Speaker 2: I don't know how that also ties in with the Huts,
• 59:23
  Speaker 2: who are gangsters right their crime overlords not war lords,
• 59:30
  Speaker 2: But yeah, it has you know, it's got a lot
• 59:33
  Speaker 2: of the charm of the show, you know. I don't know.
• 59:39
  Speaker 2: I still don't know if I want to see it. Like,
• 59:41
  Speaker 2: I don't think it looks bad. I just feel like
• 59:44
  Speaker 2: I've been burnt out on Star Wars unless it's just
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: something truly special, like even the stuff that I've heard
• 59:53
  Speaker 2: I need to watch. I just haven't been able to
• 59:55
  Speaker 2: work up the motivation to watch, like and Or everyone
• 59:58
  Speaker 2: tells me. Besides Ariel, everyone tells me that and Door's
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 2: the best Star Wars thing in ages, and I haven't
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 2: seen it. Now, Ariel tells me, and Door is Poopoo Kaca,
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 2: and I shouldn't watch.
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: Not what I say. I am so glad for the
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: people who love it. It's a prequel to Rogue one,
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: so I know how it ends.
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 2: That's true.
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: There are several characters in it who do make appearances
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: in later Star Wars properties. I just the beginning was
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: very slow. They released the first three episodes at the
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: same time, and they really needed to because it was
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: a slog for me personally to get through. By the
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: time I got to the end of season one, where
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: things were actually picking up, I kind of didn't care anymore.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: There were just a bunch of characters I just didn't
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: care about.
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 2: That's why she summarized it by saying Poopoo Coca to me.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's not the same thing, but I am so
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: glad that other people enjoy it.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 2: Great, even with the Mandalorian. I watched the first two
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 2: seasons and maybe the No. I didn't watch the third season.
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 2: I watched the Book of Boba Fet, which had a
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 2: couple of a couple of Mandalorian episodes disguised as Book
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 2: of Boba Fet episodes.
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: In there was such a whiff. There's some really good moments,
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: but as.
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 2: A whole it was no. It was yeah, no, the
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 2: the good was outweighed by the not so good. In
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 2: Boot it was, which is really upsetting because there were
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 2: some characters in there I loved and I wanted to
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 2: see so much more of them, And the one I
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 2: didn't want to see the most was Boba Fet because
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 2: he was boring me. But uh, like, he's so he's
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 2: like Hamlet, He's so slow to action that you're like,
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 2: come on, man, I realized that you think everybody should
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 2: just treat you with respect, but you have to earn it, buddy. Anyway.
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: I also wouldn't have minded if they had made his
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: past and his present two separate stories.
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 2: Or seasons instead of cutting back and forth. Yeah. Yeah,
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 2: it did get a little conf using at times. Well,
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 2: the Mandalorian consistently, at least the first two seasons was
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 2: consistently a more entertaining show for me. But I never
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 2: watched the third one, and so that may be part
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 2: of why I don't feel a strong need to see this.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 2: I don't think it looks bad, you know. I think
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 2: it looks a little more slick than I typically associate
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 2: with Star Wars. But the same was true with both
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 2: the prequels and the sequels. So that's an old stupid
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 2: Jonathan problem.
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't like the CGI. I mean, I
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: understand that some things work better in CGI, but they
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: felt very cartoony, which felt a little out of place
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: for me. Also, if Grogu does not speak a full
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: sentence in a very white voice, I will be very sad.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: I did watch season three. Some of the episodes were fantastic,
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: and some of them were like really.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 2: But it's okay. Well, we are now moving on to
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 2: our trailer for Bridgerton Season four, part two. If you remember,
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 2: my biggest complaint about the trailer for season four part
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 2: one was that it's just Cinderella. It's just Cinderella, and
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 2: now we're just going to have to watch Cinderella. But
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 2: Season four, Part two is the way it's framed in
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 2: the trailer. At least, my interpretation was, this is really
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 2: about the social difficulty of people from two very different
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 2: classes falling in love with one another, and society does
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 2: not want their union to happen because of the social norms.
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it does. I've spoken with some friends who have
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: read the books, which they're like, yeah, Chapter four is
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: basically Cinderella, but it does veer a little bit. I
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: haven't watched it yet. My friends seem to like it.
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: That's what I got to say about that.
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 2: And then you put the trailer on here because I
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 2: was saying I wasn't the one who did it. I
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 2: was thoughting you had a lot to say about it.
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: The costumes are really nice, well, yeah.
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 2: Like everyone looks like they're like. The costumes always kind
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 2: of throw me too, because there's such a mix of
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 2: modern and historical. And I know that that's like, that's
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 2: like the esthetic of the yeah, of the series, But
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 2: because I have never watched the series, it's still a
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 2: shock to me when I see it because I'm like, whoa,
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 2: that's way on a place. Oh yeah, no, they know
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 2: that it's supposed to be like that I.
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: Think this see the trailer for the season bothers me
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: more than the others because I haven't read the books.
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: I've heard about them, you know, vicariously through other people.
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: Because the character that it's focusing on benefit I think
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: his name is already is kind of bucking societal norms
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: when we get into his season, because each season kind
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: of focuses on a different child or two primarily.
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: And then his family say, oh, you have to settle down,
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: and then he finds somebody who who he thinks fits
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: within his social class, which feels weird because I don't know,
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: like why you already were happy where you were and
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: then uh, and then she isn't and then it's this
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 1: big thing. I'm like, but he was already there, so
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: like that's where he started. Yeah, it feels like there
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: isn't growth there.
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 2: Gotcha, Like it's like you haven't early progressed at all. Uh. Yeah,
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 2: I mean I will say this, like again, having never
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 2: watched the series, it looks really pretty. I just I
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 2: just have never fallen into that that particular fandom.
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: It's pretty and in a vacuum. The orchestrated versions of
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: modern pop songs are very pretty.
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Also hear it gets real schmecksy.
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: It does get very schmexy. Yeah, it does. It's a
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: cheesy romance story. That's that's what it is.
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 2: And that's fine. There's there's a place for that. I
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 2: got no complaints. I'm glad that it has a fandom.
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 2: I will say, whenever they do big Bridgerton themed event
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 2: at the venue across the street from me, it's a
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 2: total pain in the tukus.
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: I believe it.
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 2: There's people parking everywhere and then you're like trying to
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 2: cross the street without hitting someone in a corset. Oh.
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: I do like historical drama, and I don't even mind
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: historical romance, but Bridgerton is it kind of at the
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: bottom of the list for me. However, I loved Queen Charlotte.
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: Queen Charlotte, I like the story of King George, the
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: madness of King George, and so the Queen Charlotte story
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: I felt cambled it with a lot of heart, and
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: I liked that a lot better.
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 2: Well, this starts February twenty sixth, so real soon. Friend
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 2: of this show, shay Lee, by the way, told me
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 2: the same thing about Queen Charlotte. She was like, I
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 2: don't think the Bridgerton's for you, but I think you
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 2: actually would like Queen Charlotte because it's very sweet.
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean there's a little bit of schmecksy in it,
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: which I know, isn't it such a problem for you?
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: But it is very It is very sweet, and it
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: deals with you know, the historical man is King George
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: to actually had uh had some issues, and then just
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: the the balance of having to deal with that and
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: also having to like step into ruling a country. Yeah.
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, supporting someone that you truly love as they are
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 2: going through a decline while also trying to shoulder their responsibilities.
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 2: I mean that's a big story.
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, especially when you're a woman in that era.
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: And also the treatments for that kind of ailment are
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: not nice.
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, pretty barbaric.
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so yeah, I recommend Queen Charlotte to you. See,
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: we did have stuff to talk about.
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 2: It well, you know, you know it's also barbaric though, right,
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 2: all barbarians, mall girls are barbaric.
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: Oh are you skipping our next one?
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 2: What is?
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: Oh?
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 2: You're right, I forgot about the AI.
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: But no, we'll talk We'll talk about mal girls First
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: and Girls are Barbaric.
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we talked about a teaser for this movie a
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 2: couple months back, I think, but we got a full
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 2: trailer for Forbidden Fruits, which I wrote down is this
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 2: is kind of like the gen Z version of the Craft,
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 2: although it's it remains to be seen whether or not
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 2: there's any actual witchcraft in it.
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it seems like the main girls are doing performative witchcraft,
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 1: like the astrological uh friend of show, She's gonna smack me,
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: but like very like trendy stuff like for looks and
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: to be cool. And then this new girl comes in
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: and is like maybe a little bit more legit. I
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: never watched the Craft. This is not super my kind
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: of story. I forgot we had even talked about the teaser.
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 2: So yeah, well, in the teaser, if I'm if I'm
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 2: I could be mixing this up with a different movie.
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 2: But in the teaser, what the feeling I got was
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 2: that they are part of this sort of cult like coven,
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 2: these three girls, and this new girl comes in and
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 2: they very mean girls ish invite her to become part
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 2: of the group, but that the implication is that they
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 2: intend to make her a sacrifice and so she's actually
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 2: being groomed to be a victim. But this trailer gives
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 2: a totally different feel where it's like they invite this
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 2: girl into their group and then she starts to kind
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 2: of become the queen Bee, like she's displacing the current
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 2: kind of head of the triad and that so it
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 2: made me think of movies like Heather's Mean Girls, a
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 2: little bit of the Craft. Friend of the show shay
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 2: Ley's told me that those are actually all the same movie,
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 2: and I'm just being mistaken. I did find an actual
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 2: premise written out, and it echoes what you were saying, Ariel.
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 2: The premise I read says, quote free Eden, which is
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 2: the name of a store in them All. Free Eden.
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 2: Employee Apple secretly runs a witchy femme cult in the
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 2: base of the mall's store after hours with fellow quote
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 2: unquote fruits, cherry and fig But when new Hire Pumpkin
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 2: challenges their performative sisterhood, the women are forced to face
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 2: their own poisons or succumb to a bloody fate end quote.
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 2: And this is actually based off a stage play which
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 2: I did not know until I looked into it. Comes
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 2: out March twenty seventh. I kind of like this. I mean,
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 2: it does fall into the same kind of heavy handed
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 2: criticism of performative behaviors that other films do. Like it's
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 2: kind of hard to call people out on being performative
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 2: without also coming across as being very heavy handed.
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, for sure.
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 2: But I did enjoy I enjoyed the preview. I thought,
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 2: I was like, this looks entertaining.
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 1: It also looks a little scary, like it could border
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 1: on a horror hutch piece.
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 2: I feel like, yeah, it probably could be, like right
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 2: on that. I think it also falls into the thriller
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 2: like thriller comedy or maybe comedy is too strong a word.
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 2: Thriller but with humor.
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you know what I find humorous.
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 2: Artificial intelligence and its potential threat to humanity.
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, yes, I was trying to come up with
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: a segue, but it didn't work because it doesn't mirror.
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 1: I find it more frustrating than anything for multiple reasons.
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 2: I find it genuinely disturbing. I find more like the
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 2: human pursuit of creating AI to be genuinely disturbing because
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 2: when you hear people who are in charge of companies
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 2: that are developing AI say, yeah, we're not really sure
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 2: how this is going to turn out. It makes me
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 2: think you are being so wildly irresponsible. And I understand
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 2: that there are other countries that are also pursuing this goal,
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 2: and the fear is whichever country gets it is going
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 2: to have like a massive leg up on everybody else.
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 2: And so therefore you're like, well, we have to do
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 2: it because if we don't do it, they're gonna do it,
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 2: and if they do it, then they're gonna lord it
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 2: over us. I get all that, but when you're also like, oh,
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 2: and also this could kill everybody, there's a problem there.
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, And it's not that so as a kid,
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 1: I loved stories that had AI right Like, I thought
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: it was interesting or scary or exciting, and now it's
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 1: just so frustrating. But part of it is because a
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 1: lot of what we call artificial intelligence right now is
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 1: not it's not intelligence, it's pattern recognition.
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 1: So it's pattern recognition that is like destroying our environment.
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So what we're talking about, because I don't think
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 2: we've even mentioned the title of it, it's an actual
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 2: documentary that's coming out. It's called the AI doc or
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 2: How I Became an Apollo Apollaloptimy So a podcast a
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 2: puckal Optimist. Yes, I'm sorry, hefalumpalus. Yeah. So it's a
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 2: documentary about AI and what we understand or don't understand
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 2: about AI, and it includes interviews with people who are
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 2: critical about the development of especially a general artificial intelligence.
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 2: That's that's the AI that we think of as being
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 2: as smart or smarter than a human, like able to
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 2: reason the way a human does, which we do not have.
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 2: We have AI that does, like you were saying, pattern
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 2: recognition and does it really well. But that's kind of
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 2: the extent of it, Like it's not able to do
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 2: abstract thought the way humans can, and even.
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 1: Its artistic stuff is pulled from human works.
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's it's aping what has been done before.
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 2: It's not creating something new. And this documentary, the documentarian
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 2: sits down not just with critics, but with the leaders
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 2: of some of these AI comes who are pretty forward
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 2: about saying, yeah, we can't guarantee that this is going
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 2: to turn out great, and honestly, we don't really know
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 2: what's going on. And I'm like, then why do you
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 2: keep doing it? I mean, I especially for somebody like
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 2: open AI I get that they get billions of dollars
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 2: of investment, but they spend that like it's not a
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 2: profitable company. They lose tremendous amounts of money.
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  Speaker 1: I kind of keep hoping, keep hoping that it'll the
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 1: fad will die down eventually, because yes, these companies are
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 1: not profitable, and the amount of money that they would
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 1: have to spend to be are charged to become profitable.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think anybody would want to pay currently. I
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 1: hope people wouldn't want to pay for AI's current capabilities.
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 2: I think what they're hoping to do is reach a
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 2: point where AI is capable enough to become like a
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 2: necessity in various realms of life, where you don't have
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 2: to charge a huge amount for it, but it is
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 2: incorporated into everything, So all those little individual charges all
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 2: start to add up. But on top of that, even
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 2: if you're not concerned about the existential threat that AI
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 2: could potentially pull pose to humanity, even if you're like, okay, no,
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 2: we're going to be fine about that, there's no getting
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 2: around the fact that AI is dependent upon massive data
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 2: centers that in turn require huge amounts of water to
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 2: keep them cool, so they're an enormous drain on resources
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 2: wherever they're located. Also, they consume huge amounts of electricity,
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 2: and if your electricity is coming from things like natural
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 2: gas or coal or whatever, like if it's a fossil
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 2: fuel that's contributing to pollution and climate change. Like it
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 2: is such a big picture problem beyond just AI is dangerous.
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 2: Like even if AI works perfectly, it's still such a
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 2: huge tax on resources that it is still a problem
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 2: here in Georgia. And we're not alone this, but here
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 2: in Georgia there are massive political debates coming up about
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 2: data centers. You know, there are people who are protesting
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 2: that and calling out to ban data centers opening in
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 2: the state because of the the drain that would put
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 2: on local resources. So this documentary looks like it's pretty
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 2: well done. I mean, the fact that he does call
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 2: it himself an optimist at the end of it tells
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 2: me that maybe he feels better about than I do.
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 2: But maybe after I watch the documentary I'll feel that
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 2: way too. It comes out March twenty seventh.
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 1: You'll have to let me know, because watching the trailer
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 1: gave me ajita. But I do like the play on
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 1: Doctor Strangelove.
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, me too. Doctor Strangel is one of my
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 2: favorite movies, so I just.
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 1: Appreciate that, and we're going to skip to our final trailer.
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 1: I did have one other trailer that I had very
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 1: little to say about. So unless you want to talk
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 1: about season three of House of the Dragon, I.
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 2: Wrote Targerian's being all targarian ish, lots of dragons and
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 2: battle scenes. But I haven't watched this, so I don't
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 2: know what's going on. Comes to HBO in June.
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 1: That's maybe a new ruler. Yep, there we go. So
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 1: but if you like House of the Dragon, the season
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 1: three trailer has dropped.
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 2: It comes out in June. There you go. Yes.
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 1: Lastly, we did get a full trailer for Toy Story five. Yep,
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 1: Toy Story Retirement home.
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, forced retirement. Yeah. So this We talked about this
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 2: before because we had heard about what the log line was.
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 2: Where Bonnie who? So if you miss Toy Story four
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 2: and Toy Story four, Woody splits off and finds bo Peep,
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 2: who is a lost toy. But she she has embraced
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 2: that she doesn't belong to any kid, and she's also
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 2: dedicated her life to helping other toys that have been
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 2: kind of lost or abandoned. Woody ends up joining her
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 2: with that, so he no longer he doesn't come back.
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 2: In Toy Story five, Jesse has kind of taken on
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 2: Woody's role of being the leader of the toys, and
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 2: Buzz is kind of her right hand space ranger. And
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 2: then Bonnie gets a lily Pad it's like a Leapfrog tablet,
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 2: so it's a little tablet computer, and she becomes engrossed
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 2: and obsessed with screen time and the toys are neglected
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 2: as a result. So Jesse reaches out and contacts Woody
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 2: out in the wilderness. I did not realize that they
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 2: had a walkie talkie system that would work between them. Yeah,
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 2: he must not be that far away and calls for help,
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 2: and so he comes back to try and help the
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 2: other toys with this issue, and then adventure ensues.
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I kind of thought when we heard that Conan
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 1: O'Brien was going to be the voice of Smarty Pants,
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 1: that he was going to be the main antagonist. But
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 1: that's wrong.
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, is smarty Pants? Even in the trailer? He probably is?
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 1: And I just didn't even they show smart So I
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 1: looked up the character art they showed smarty pants very briefly.
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 1: I don't know if that character had a chance to speak.
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 2: Hmm. I don't even know what the character looks like.
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 1: It's like if if it's like a precursor to a
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 1: lily pad.
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The little thing it's
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 2: like it looks like almost like a little calculator toy
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 2: or something. Yep, now I'm seeing it. Yeah, kind of
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 2: like a speaking spell, but much more primitive. It's only
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 2: got like three buttons on it in a little handle. Yeah.
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 2: I do remember seeing I remember seeing that character in
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 2: the trailer, but I did not realize that that's I
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 2: had totally forgotten that Conan O'Brien was part of this. Yeah.
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 2: I think it looks fine, but Toy Story four kind
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 2: of lost me hard.
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 1: I I haven't watched anything since Toy Story three.
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 2: And why we still think they all think they're gonna
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 2: die and they all grab hands as they're slowly being
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 2: dropped into an incinerator.
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 1: Yep, yep, very very Rackshack and Benny.
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 2: It was a super happy, fun thing for your kids movie.
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I dealt with going away to college and all
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 1: of the feels with that.
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 1: I'm glad people are still enjoying Toy Story even if
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 1: I have fallen off.
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I I'll maybe I'll go see so like Toy Story.
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 2: The first Toy Story was the first movie I saw
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 2: with my partner when we just started dating. And I
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 2: had already seen it before, but she had not, and
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 2: I had to convince her to go see it because
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 2: she's like, I'm an adult woman. Why would I go
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 2: see a movie called Toy Story. You gotta trust me?
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 2: And I finally convinced her to go. And I am
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 2: not really joking when I say convincing her to go
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 2: see Toy Story gave her a better idea of who
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 2: I was, which in turn was a big stepping stone
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 2: on the way to eventually becoming engaged in getting married
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 2: and being married almost thirty years later.
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 1: I love that. I love that. That's so wonderful. That
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 1: makes me like Toy Story one better.
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 2: But like, even with that connection to Toy Story, I
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 2: don't know, Toy Story five just hasn't really grabbed me.
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 2: And maybe it's just that that my love is for. Honestly,
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 2: I just love the first two movies. I thought the
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 2: third movie was fine. I didn't think it was bad,
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 2: but it didn't sink into me the way the first
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 2: two films did, and really the first movie was the
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 2: most effective on me, and I think the reason for
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 2: that is just because that's how I That was my
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 2: first exposure to Pixar, apart from I might have seen
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 2: one of their short films first, but I don't remember,
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 2: but it was definitely the I mean, it was their
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 2: first feature of film, and that joy of discovery is
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 2: not something you can repeat by definition, So.
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 1: For sure, for sure I did. I did like Toy
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 1: Story one the first time I watched it. I can't
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 1: really rewatch it myself because it's just the constant chase
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 1: feel of it. I don't care.
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah it is. It is like it is like one big,
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 2: long chase movie. Although the tea party scene is still classic.
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's wonderful. I enjoyed it at the time. It's
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 1: just it's not a big rewatch similar with like, you know,
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 1: things change it as you get older, like I could
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 1: used to be able to rewatch Finding Nemo. I still
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 1: love the original stage play at Animal Kingdom, which has
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 1: changed since and it's not as cool, but you know,
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 1: it's just when you're just constantly in that panic mode
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 1: in a story like it's hard to.
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 2: Have the STA. Yeah, that's why they needed to have more,
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 2: like big musical numbers and break it up the way
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 2: Blues Brothers did, and then it would have been a classic.
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 1: I've never seen Blues Brothers.
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 2: Oh, it's so good, Ariel. It is essentially one long
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 2: chase movie, but they have big musical numbers in that
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 2: breaks it up so you don't feel like it's a
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 2: chase movie the whole way through.
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 1: Excellent. I will add it to my list. It was
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 1: already kind of their, but I will make sure that
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 1: it's not in the.
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 2: I want to be there. I want to be there
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 2: when you watch it because.
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 1: Maybe maybe the next Cabin weekend.
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't. I honestly don't know if it will
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 2: resonate with you the way it does with me. But
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 2: it's I love that movie. It's so ridiculous excellent.
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 1: Well, I look forward to watching it, and I look
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 1: forward to our next episode, but we've hit the end
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 1: of our show. Notes. Yes, and so Jonathan, if people
• 1:24:01
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• 1:24:04
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• 1:24:06
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• 1:24:08
  Speaker 2: to do it is you have to convince me that
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 2: House of the Dragon is something that I should care about.
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 2: But you can't just do it by arguing with me.
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 2: You need to take a note from the other Game
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 2: of Throne story we talked about in this episode. You
• 1:24:27
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• 1:24:34
  Speaker 2: up House of the Dragon in a way that is
• 1:24:36
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• 1:24:39
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• 1:24:41
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• 1:24:46
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• 1:24:50
  Speaker 2: but I think it needs to be at least as
• 1:24:52
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• 1:24:54
  Speaker 2: Epic Universe. And so if you can't accomplish that, I'm
• 1:24:58
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• 1:25:00
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• 1:25:03
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• 1:25:05
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• 1:25:07
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