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Spirited Discussions and Blue Aliens · Large Nerdron Collider

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Speaker 1: Hey, everybody. Welcome to the large new Drunk Latter podcast,
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Speaker 1: the podcast that's all about the giggy things happening in
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Speaker 1: the world around us and how very excited we are
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Speaker 1: about them. I'm Ariel cast In, and with me is
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Speaker 1: the co host. I am most thankful for uh, and
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Speaker 1: not just because he's my only one, Jonathan Strickland. Ariel,
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Speaker 1: we don't have time for introductions. There's too much news.
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Speaker 1: Oh crap, you're right, I'm so sorry. Oh there's not
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Speaker 1: even time for apologies. Yeah, So what we've decided to
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Speaker 1: do is we're gonna start this episode with a brand
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Speaker 1: new segment that we're originally calling thirty seconds or less.
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Speaker 1: That's right, We're going to cover some very quick news
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Speaker 1: items within thirty seconds each and if we haven't finished
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Speaker 1: describing it by the time thirty seconds are up, too bad.
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Speaker 1: So I'm going to start the luck and you're gonna
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Speaker 1: tell me about God of War and they're weird trailer
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Speaker 1: starting now. Okay, well, weird trailer is actually not even
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Speaker 1: quite right. They did a comic video of like a
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Speaker 1: therapy session with Ben Stiller and John Travolta and a
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Speaker 1: bunch of people were all they were all dads with
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Speaker 1: their kids and they wanted to act like the god
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Speaker 1: of War. Um. And it's hilarious. I wouldn't call it
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Speaker 1: a trailer, but it was a lot of fun and
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Speaker 1: it's uh, it makes me excited for the next video game. Bam,
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Speaker 1: And there was There was about five seconds of actual
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Speaker 1: gameplay photagenet and done at twenty eight seconds. Good. All right,
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Speaker 1: that's one down. We're moving on to the next one.
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Speaker 1: And because I'm looking at the timer, uh Ariel gets
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Speaker 1: to take this one too. Okay, so we knew that
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Speaker 1: we heard a while back that Tim Allen was coming
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Speaker 1: back as Santa Claus in The Santa Claus for a
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Speaker 1: new series on Disney Plus, and we got the first
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Speaker 1: trailer for it. It looks like in this world, the
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Speaker 1: Santa Claus family, Um, if you followed the previous three movies,
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Speaker 1: uh are now kind of given up their time at
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Speaker 1: Santa Claus and struggling with it. And uh, if you
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Speaker 1: like the Santa Claus is you should check out the trailer.
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Speaker 1: There you go. Yeah, apparently some sort of mistake has
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Speaker 1: happened in the wrong person in Santa Claus and we
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Speaker 1: are done with time on that. Okay, all right next
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Speaker 1: The Eternal Daughter. I should probably explain what this is,
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Speaker 1: shouldn't I, because I actually was the one who brought
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Speaker 1: this up. Okay, I'll bring it up. Here we go
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Speaker 1: and starting the clock. The Eternal Daughter is a ghost
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Speaker 1: story style movie starring Tilda Swinton. She actually is playing
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Speaker 1: two parts. She's playing her mother and daughter, or a
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Speaker 1: mother daughter pair rather both played by Tilda Swinton. This
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Speaker 1: is not the first time Tilda Swinton has played multiple characters.
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Speaker 1: She also did that in Subspiria and it looks really
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Speaker 1: creepy in atmospheric looks like it's super slow moving and subtle.
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Speaker 1: So it might not be for everyone, but it's totally
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Speaker 1: my jam and I am done. Yeah, I think it's interesting.
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Speaker 1: I think the twist will be that she is going
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Speaker 1: to be her own grandpa. Okay. Next we have the Machine,
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Speaker 1: which I'm also going to make you explain, Jonathan, I'm
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Speaker 1: watching the clock alright. So the machine. It is Bert
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Speaker 1: krisher stand up comedian. He used to do this bit
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Speaker 1: where he would explain how in Florida State University he
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Speaker 1: ended up inadvertently joining the Russian mafia on a school
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Speaker 1: trip to Russia, and they've decided to make a movie
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Speaker 1: inspired by that story. It looks like it's absolutely ridiculous.
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Speaker 1: You should also know this the same comedian that the
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Speaker 1: film Van Wilder is actually based off. All right, two
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Speaker 1: seconds to spare. Next, we have the Norwegian monster movie.
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Speaker 1: It's not even the Troll, it's just troll. Okay, sorry,
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Speaker 1: try it's going okay, So this is Yeah, it's subtitled.
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Speaker 1: It looks fun. There's a lot of bit of what
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Speaker 1: there's a little bit of comedy, and it's this this
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Speaker 1: town where a giant troll comes to life and then
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Speaker 1: reeks havoc on the town, kind of like Godzilla King Kong.
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Speaker 1: They actually even make mention to the King Kong in
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Speaker 1: the trailer. It's going to be on Netflix. It looks
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Speaker 1: like fun to me, but I like Big constermats and
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Speaker 1: it is clearly Norwegian in Origen. It will have subtitles
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Speaker 1: and I'm not making any apologies for it. We are done,
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Speaker 1: all right, So that was fun. We also hope that
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Speaker 1: you had fun over the Spooky Halloween Halloween Times and uh,
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Speaker 1: Jonathan and Ibl said that we were going to watch
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Speaker 1: Werewolf by Night for Halloween. Yes, we did. We We
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Speaker 1: both said that we would both watch Werewolf by Night.
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Speaker 1: We made a solemn promise to our listeners that both
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Speaker 1: of us would watch Werewolf by Night. But one of
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Speaker 1: us decided not to watch Werewolf by Night. Yes, and
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Speaker 1: that one of us is Jonathan Strickland In I did
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Speaker 1: watch it in full, honestly, honesty. I did not get
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Speaker 1: to watch it on Halloween night, but I did watch
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Speaker 1: it this week. Um. Delightful, delightful. It was can't be
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Speaker 1: very much like everybody probably who's listening has already watched
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Speaker 1: it knows, but I loved it. It It felt very like,
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Speaker 1: very true to the old pulpy monster movies. I felt
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Speaker 1: like between the characters there was actually a little bit
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Speaker 1: of dissonance as far as where they fit into like
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Speaker 1: a pulp genre, old black and white movie. I felt
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Speaker 1: like the lead two characters fit very well. The antagonist
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Speaker 1: kind of felt a little bit more like a spoof
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Speaker 1: on such of a thing, a little bit extra campy,
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Speaker 1: and then some of the other supporting characters felt a
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Speaker 1: little modern to me. But all in all, a lot
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Speaker 1: of fun, very enjoyable. The end is phenomenal, and yeah,
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Speaker 1: I really loved it. That's great. It's interesting. I still
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Speaker 1: do plan on watching it, It's just it got away
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Speaker 1: from me. I was watching Cabinet of Curiosities instead the
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Speaker 1: giamat do you think of it? Um? I'm not finished
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Speaker 1: with all of them. I've watched five episodes so far. Um.
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Speaker 1: They are of varying degrees of quality and tone. Like
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Speaker 1: they're all horror, some are a little more body horror.
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Speaker 1: Some of them are a little more like almost like
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Speaker 1: campy horror, not not as campy as something like Evil Dead,
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Speaker 1: but definitely in uh kind of a dark comedy tone.
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Speaker 1: And the one I found most upsetting is the I
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Speaker 1: think it's called The Outsider had Kate mccuchee, who I
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Speaker 1: know from her her performances in Garfunkel and Oates. Um,
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Speaker 1: she is great in it. The story it's a body
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Speaker 1: horror story. But the thing that disturbed me wasn't the
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Speaker 1: body horror. It was a character transformation, not like a
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Speaker 1: not like a literal body horror style transformation, but a
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Speaker 1: real change of a character who changes, in my mind
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Speaker 1: for the worst. And it was so upsetting to me
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Speaker 1: that I was like, that's the most effective part of
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Speaker 1: this horror story. And I think that's what was intended, um,
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Speaker 1: which I thought was really cool, like it's a horror
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Speaker 1: movie that or horror short in this case, that affected
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Speaker 1: me not because of the horror elements, but because of
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Speaker 1: the implications of the choices of character mix. I mean,
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Speaker 1: I've said I completely believe that I've said before that,
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Speaker 1: especially in like example, Supernatural, because I haven't watched Cabinet
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Speaker 1: of Curiosities, it sounds like it probably would not be
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Speaker 1: for me. Um in practice, Uh, that the most effective
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Speaker 1: monsters are the ones that could be really real people.
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Speaker 1: People are far scarier than zombies or werewolves or vampires
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Speaker 1: or anything like that. Well, and this is a character
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Speaker 1: who you are, you are encouraged to sympathize with early on,
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Speaker 1: and that also makes it harder right when you're when
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Speaker 1: it's a character you sympathize with, and you're just watching
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Speaker 1: this character make decisions that you know are not the
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Speaker 1: right ones and they continue to do it, and it's
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Speaker 1: just kind of crushing. Not and I'm making this sound
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Speaker 1: like it was a harrowing experience to watch. It wasn't.
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Speaker 1: I just felt like it was effective. Um. Also, if
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Speaker 1: you really want to see this is a different episode
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Speaker 1: of Cabinet of Curiosities, but if you want to see
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Speaker 1: Crispin Glover attempt a turn of the century New York
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Speaker 1: acts accent, complete with things like I holed about that
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Speaker 1: you were at wit like that kind of thing. Uh,
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Speaker 1: this is the show for you because he's in an
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Speaker 1: adaptation of HP Lovecraft's Pickman's Model, and the accents in
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Speaker 1: that are they're almost cartoonish because we're so far removed
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Speaker 1: from that era and that specific accent. But everyone who's
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Speaker 1: got a major part in it really commits to that accent,
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Speaker 1: and it it's hard to get used to. Well, you know,
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Speaker 1: Crispin Glover is an interesting person, and I would say
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Speaker 1: sometimes hard to get used to anyhow, Ted Where's Where's
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Speaker 1: the corkscrew? Ted? Head? We just want to where the
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Speaker 1: corks go? You know, I don't know him personally. He
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Speaker 1: just he makes some interesting acting choices, which often can
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Speaker 1: be fun to watch. He seems very interesting. Yeah. I
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Speaker 1: also just made a reference that Ariel does not get.
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Speaker 1: I would not expect her to get. But I'll explain
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Speaker 1: it later because we'll be talking about something related to it. Yeah, Okay,
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Speaker 1: So okay, now we do have news. We said we
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Speaker 1: had a lot of news. We do have a lot
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Speaker 1: of news. And the first couple of things. We're going
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Speaker 1: to talk about our news surrounding our favorite Disney plus
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Speaker 1: Marvel show, One Division. Right. First up is that we
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Speaker 1: now know we're getting a another One Division spinoff. We're
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Speaker 1: already getting an Agatha spinoff, but we're also going to
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Speaker 1: get a Vision spinoff, Vision Quest. And for anyone who
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Speaker 1: hasn't seen One Division yet and wonders, how the heck
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Speaker 1: can you have a Vision series after he died in
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Speaker 1: uh Infinity War, um, well, spoil or alert you need
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Speaker 1: to watch One Division. But in that they the Sword,
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Speaker 1: the successor to Shield, is able to replicate the robotic
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Speaker 1: elements of Vision, and then the dream version of Vision
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Speaker 1: shares his memories with the robot version, and we get
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Speaker 1: a brand new robot Vision that has the memories of
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Speaker 1: his previous self. But we haven't seen him since then.
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Speaker 1: He disappeared at the end of One Division. He flew
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Speaker 1: up into the sky and we don't know what he's
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Speaker 1: been up to, and Vision Quests sounds like it is
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Speaker 1: going to pick up where that left off. Maybe that
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Speaker 1: means we'll also get Elizabeth Olsen back as as Wanda,
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Speaker 1: even if it's just in flashbacks and memories. Yeah, I
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Speaker 1: guess we'll have to see it's it's been. I mean,
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Speaker 1: back when one Division ended, it was real tight liped
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Speaker 1: on whether we were getting any more Paul Betany's vision.
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Speaker 1: So now we'll see if we get more Elizabeth Olson
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Speaker 1: as well. I hope so, um, I really I really
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Speaker 1: want those two kids to make it. Uh yeah. As
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Speaker 1: as my wife says about Wanda in Doctor Strange and
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Speaker 1: Multiverse Amantis, she says, they did her dirty, they did
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Speaker 1: do her dirty. Also, I get the Harkness did her
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Speaker 1: dirty in WandaVision, and we know that as you said,
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Speaker 1: that is we're getting the the spinoff with her. But
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Speaker 1: now we know that Aubrey Plaus is going to be
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Speaker 1: in it, which is interesting to me because as soon
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Speaker 1: as that news broke, one of my friends was like,
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Speaker 1: I really hope she plays Lenny from Legion. I don't
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Speaker 1: know if. Yeah, we don't know what she's gonna play.
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Speaker 1: We don't know if she's actually going to play someone
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Speaker 1: who's from the Marvel Comics world, or if it'll be
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Speaker 1: a brand new creation like like Dottie that mL Callfield plays.
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Speaker 1: We don't know what. You know, Dottie's Mephisto. Well, we
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Speaker 1: we know that we know that we all wanted Dottie
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Speaker 1: to be Mephisto, and maybe it will turn out the
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Speaker 1: Dottie is Mephisto, and this will be like the biggest
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Speaker 1: swerve where Marvel says, you know what, You're right, we
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Speaker 1: probably should have pulled the trigger and made her. But
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Speaker 1: this though the first time around. Yeah, they're really good
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Speaker 1: at if not planning those things, making it seem like
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Speaker 1: they planned those things for in advance. Um, I feel
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Speaker 1: like they're better at it towards the beginning of time.
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Speaker 1: Now there's so much Marvel that sometimes it can be
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Speaker 1: a little sloppy, but I still enjoy it. Um. Something else.
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Speaker 1: I think it's been driving me crazy since you added
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Speaker 1: this to the list, Jonathan, because uh, we're getting a
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Speaker 1: wonder Man Disney Plus series. I feel like they alluded
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Speaker 1: to wonder Man in one of their other Marvel TV
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Speaker 1: shows and I cannot, for the life of me, figure
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Speaker 1: out which one it was or what it was. But
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Speaker 1: in my brain, I'm like, oh, yeah, they talked about
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Speaker 1: wonder Man, and we talked about how that would be ridiculous.
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Speaker 1: Driving me crazy. It's it's it's interesting because like it's
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Speaker 1: a character one of the more obscure Marvel characters. I
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Speaker 1: would say um and he. In the comics, Uh served
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Speaker 1: as the the actual personality for Vision talking about Vision
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Speaker 1: and again, so you know we in in the m
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Speaker 1: c U they took Friday or actually Jarvis, they took
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Speaker 1: Jarvis from Tony Stark's AI that was in his suit
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Speaker 1: and that became the basis for Vision. But in the
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Speaker 1: comics it was wonder Man, and wonder Man started off
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Speaker 1: as a first he started off kind of as a
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Speaker 1: Tony Stark competitor. He ended up becoming a villain, had
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Speaker 1: a change of heart, turned into a hero. Presumably the
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Speaker 1: m c U version is going to be totally different
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Speaker 1: from that. We know that Yahya abdul Matine the second
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Speaker 1: is in talks or actually I think I was signed
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Speaker 1: on to play wonder Man, which is cool. So I'm
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Speaker 1: I'm really curious about this because I don't know what
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Speaker 1: to expect. It's it's definitely going to be different from
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Speaker 1: the comics, which is not a bad thing as we
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Speaker 1: have seen in previous SIMCU stuff, but but it means
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Speaker 1: that I don't know where they're going with it. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I find that exciting though, like because there is so
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Speaker 1: much that is pretty predictable in Marvel, especially as you
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Speaker 1: get into like later phases, because they've already established so much.
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Speaker 1: It's it's nice to have some surprise, not so night surprise.
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Speaker 1: And I love the way you added this to our
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Speaker 1: show notes is uh, you put we're getting another Eternals movie,
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Speaker 1: so m c U has a second chance to make
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Speaker 1: Jonathan care Yeah, so peak behind the Curtain. I handled
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Speaker 1: the lineup for the most part this week because you're amazing.
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Speaker 1: So instead of just putting in something like trailer for
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Speaker 1: so and so, I I had a little commentary in
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Speaker 1: our lineup and yeah, I so yeah. I I did
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Speaker 1: not like the first Eternals movie. I didn't hate it
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Speaker 1: the way some people did. I just felt that it
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Speaker 1: was not really terribly engaging and I didn't like I
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Speaker 1: didn't like the chronology of the film. I didn't like
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Speaker 1: how the film played with time because I didn't think
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Speaker 1: it was I thought it was more confusing and less
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Speaker 1: effective than it could have been if it had been
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Speaker 1: played sequentially. Yeah, I had I think they had some
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Speaker 1: a few cool concepts that none of were effective. Like
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Speaker 1: I would say like I might be closer to hate
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Speaker 1: from from dislike or didn't care about. But um, I
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Speaker 1: hate such a strong word, I know, like wasting it
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Speaker 1: on movies. I like that exactly. I like that they
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Speaker 1: did a lot for representation in the Eternals, like you
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Speaker 1: had some great representation in there, and I like seeing that,
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Speaker 1: But I almost feel like there's not enough substance there
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Speaker 1: to make the representation mean anything. I agree, but I
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Speaker 1: also think that you were wrong in your commentary because
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Speaker 1: we don't know if we're getting another Eternals movie. We
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Speaker 1: just know we're going to see those characters again. Okay,
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Speaker 1: fair enough, fair enough, We know that the Eternals are
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Speaker 1: coming back. Maybe they'll come back for the next Avengers
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Speaker 1: film and they'll a sorry, we have to sit this
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Speaker 1: one out to We don't even have a good reason why.
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Speaker 1: It's just we have to invent a reason why we
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Speaker 1: don't get involved in big galactic conflicts because we totally
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Speaker 1: should have been in on that whole Thanos thing. It
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Speaker 1: doesn't even make sense within the context of our own movie,
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Speaker 1: but we're out. The whole movie doesn't even make context
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Speaker 1: in itself because there's a giant like Titan Angel thing what.
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Speaker 1: I don't even remember what they're called at this moment
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Speaker 1: and sticking out of the ocean and celestial. We've definitely
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Speaker 1: had movies since the timing of the Eternals in the
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Speaker 1: timeline that don't address a giant celestial sticking out of
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Speaker 1: the ocean. Well yeah, I mean they're well, I guess
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Speaker 1: depending on where that ocean is, like if it's not
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Speaker 1: close to New York or Los Angeles. Although it would
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Speaker 1: have been great to have had it would have been
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Speaker 1: great to have a throwaway joke and she Hulk about it.
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Speaker 1: That would have been hilarious. Yeah. Anyhow, I guess we'll
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Speaker 1: see what happens they do. They did set up a
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Speaker 1: lot of things that well, I don't care if they
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Speaker 1: get resolved. You know, I'm sure people do. Um. I
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Speaker 1: know there are people who enjoyed the movie. The next
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Speaker 1: thing we're going to talk about is the sequel to Enchanted,
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Speaker 1: a movie that came out so many years ago that
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Speaker 1: some of our listeners may not have watched it. Um.
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Speaker 1: But it was a story about a cartoon Disney princess
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Speaker 1: who came to New York and brought her magic into
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Speaker 1: New York and like it went from cartoon to live action,
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Speaker 1: fell in love and started a family and now we've
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Speaker 1: got this sequel where she's discontent with her real life life.
17:30
Speaker 1: Surprise surprise, UM, and Shenanigans happened. When they first announced
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Speaker 1: that Disenchanted was going to happen, I thought for sure
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Speaker 1: it was going to be a divorce movie, and that
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Speaker 1: concept did not appeal to me at all because I
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Speaker 1: loved Enchanted so much. I thought it was such a happy, fun,
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Speaker 1: uplifting movie. This new trailer has turned me back around,
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Speaker 1: and I think I'm really interested in it again. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: So it seems to be playing on the trope of
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Speaker 1: when you when you get established and you moved to
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Speaker 1: the suburbs and you're settled down, and then you start
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Speaker 1: to feel discontent with your life because you're in the suburbs.
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Speaker 1: You're not living that exciting life you did when you
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Speaker 1: were younger. Um. Like, we've seen so many stories in
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Speaker 1: America in particular that have dealt with this, Like this
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Speaker 1: idea of the suburbs is kind of where you you
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Speaker 1: experience a long, slow death, Like that's kind of that's
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Speaker 1: kind of the motif. By the way, one of the
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Speaker 1: two of us lives in the suburbs and the other
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Speaker 1: one doesn't the city. The one who doesn't live in
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Speaker 1: the suburbs also didn't watch where Wold Finite. I am
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Speaker 1: close enough to the city ros we always have things
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Speaker 1: filming here. It's like the city it's it's Atlanta white,
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Speaker 1: it's not. I mean, things literally are filming across the
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Speaker 1: street all the time from me. So um anyway, anyway,
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Speaker 1: that seems to be what this is about. And she
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Speaker 1: she gets the chance to make a wish to make
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Speaker 1: her life more fairy tale ish, and we start to
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Speaker 1: see our beloved former princess character kind of descend into
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Speaker 1: villain character. But she's not the only villain in town,
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Speaker 1: so we get a villain off and I think this
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Speaker 1: could be fun. I'm hoping that what they do is
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Speaker 1: that they also make fun of some of the movies
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Speaker 1: they've done in order to explore villains, specifically Maleficent. I
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Speaker 1: would love to see like those be kind of the
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Speaker 1: targets of some of the jokes, because the first film
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Speaker 1: was clearly making jokes about the cliches associated with Disney Princess.
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Speaker 1: I would like that as well. I'm very much looking
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Speaker 1: forward to it. If you have Disney Plus, you'll be
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Speaker 1: able to watch it, because that's where it's coming out.
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Speaker 1: It's not going to be a theater release, unlike the
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Speaker 1: sequel to Avatar, not The Last Airbender. Blue People in Space, No, no, No,
19:52
Speaker 1: Blue People in Space. You know Blue Pocahonas. Yeah. Like,
19:57
Speaker 1: I still have never seen the Stavatar film. I feel like,
20:02
Speaker 1: if I know, some people really liked it. I watched
20:05
Speaker 1: it like three times, partially just because of different groups
20:08
Speaker 1: that wanted to go see it. It was long, it
20:12
Speaker 1: was okay. I wouldn't say that the story was anything fantastic. Really,
20:16
Speaker 1: the point to see it would be to watch it
20:18
Speaker 1: on the big screen in three D, or to watch
20:20
Speaker 1: watch the Pretty c g I And I've done that
20:23
Speaker 1: now and I'm good. Yeah, I I feel nothing about this,
20:30
Speaker 1: kind of like the Eternals. I feel nothing about Avatar. Um.
20:34
Speaker 1: I watched that. We got the trailer Avatar the Way
20:37
Speaker 1: of the Water and m or the Way of Water.
20:40
Speaker 1: There's not the Way of the Water. Ah. I watched
20:44
Speaker 1: the whole thing, the whole trailer, and at the end
20:47
Speaker 1: of it, I was just like, I have no desire
20:51
Speaker 1: to see this. It doesn't make me one of the
20:52
Speaker 1: much the first one and it doesn't make me want
20:54
Speaker 1: to watch this one. And I fully admit, I am
20:57
Speaker 1: not the audience for these movies. It is just it
21:00
Speaker 1: just doesn't appeal to me. Um But I know that
21:04
Speaker 1: there are people who really like them. Although it's funny
21:06
Speaker 1: because most of those people that I meet are incapable
21:08
Speaker 1: of naming three characters from them. They can tell you
21:11
Speaker 1: that the alien species is called the Nave. They might
21:15
Speaker 1: be able to say Sully, that would be like one monsters,
21:18
Speaker 1: that's not even he's blue, but he's not. Uh No,
21:25
Speaker 1: I think you're I think you're right. There might be
21:26
Speaker 1: a thing anyhow. Um So I do have feelings because
21:32
Speaker 1: the trailer looked better than when the one that I
21:34
Speaker 1: saw in the movie theater. Um the first trailer they
21:39
Speaker 1: released for this When I saw it in the movie theater,
21:41
Speaker 1: I just thought it looked worse than the original movie.
21:43
Speaker 1: This one is not quite as bad that. Again, I
21:45
Speaker 1: was watching it on my computer and not on a
21:47
Speaker 1: big screen. Also, it's gonna be an over three hour movie.
21:52
Speaker 1: Why why that upset me so much? I couldn't even
21:55
Speaker 1: read the article about it. I read the headline, I
21:57
Speaker 1: read you sentences and I said, Nope, I can't and
21:59
Speaker 1: I closed it. Yeah, even the article was too long
22:03
Speaker 1: for Ariel who needs her films to be in TikTok style?
22:08
Speaker 1: Why do you get at me like that? I think so.
22:14
Speaker 1: I think when I watched the trailer that one of
22:16
Speaker 1: my reactions was, this feels like it's two different stories
22:21
Speaker 1: at least, like two different big narratives going on in
22:25
Speaker 1: this one film, almost to the point where it felt
22:28
Speaker 1: like this should be two films, not one film. Not
22:32
Speaker 1: that I not that I think we need more Avatar sequels,
22:35
Speaker 1: but it just it. It didn't like as I was
22:37
Speaker 1: watching and I was like, how is this scene that
22:40
Speaker 1: I'm watching, how does that fit in with the scene
22:42
Speaker 1: I saw at the beginning of Jathan, You know, making
22:45
Speaker 1: two sequels for Avatar? That would be crazy. Who wants
22:48
Speaker 1: to like one sequel? Maybe two sequels? Not? I know,
22:52
Speaker 1: I hope you like six now I know. I know
22:54
Speaker 1: I was trying to be silly. Um a sequel that
22:57
Speaker 1: I never knew I wanted. In fact, at one point
23:00
Speaker 1: in time, I would have told you very specifically I
23:02
Speaker 1: didn't want it would be a sequel to a Christmas story.
23:06
Speaker 1: It's a story about Ralphie, the kid who's got a hard,
23:11
Speaker 1: tough kid life and wants a bb gun, but his
23:13
Speaker 1: parents don't want to get it for him because he'll
23:15
Speaker 1: shoot his eye out. A lot of people like this
23:17
Speaker 1: Christmas movie. If you've seen like a leg lamp at
23:21
Speaker 1: Christmas time, If you haven't watched a Christmas story and
23:23
Speaker 1: you've seen like a leg lamp come out at Christmas time,
23:25
Speaker 1: that's what it's from. Um. But if you don't have
23:29
Speaker 1: TBS and you haven't turned to TBS during the month
23:33
Speaker 1: of December, and you probably haven't seen a Christmas story.
23:36
Speaker 1: But like I've watched your Christmas Story, I've seen it
23:39
Speaker 1: a few times. I feel like it's a very mean
23:40
Speaker 1: spirited Christmas movie. Varies a strong word. I don't think
23:46
Speaker 1: if I don't think it's very mean spirited, but I
23:49
Speaker 1: do think it is cynical. Maybe I don't even think
23:53
Speaker 1: it's that cynical, but satirical. Probably like it's it's definitely
23:57
Speaker 1: poking fun at a lot of different friend things. Because ultimately,
24:02
Speaker 1: I feel like the movie does have a very heartwarming conclusion. Um,
24:07
Speaker 1: it's not the kind of movie where it subverts your
24:10
Speaker 1: expectations and pulls the rug out under you at the
24:13
Speaker 1: end and then you're like, wow, life is crappy, Like
24:18
Speaker 1: it has a happy ending, and it has some heartwarming moments,
24:21
Speaker 1: but it's really supposed to be. It's really the gathering
24:26
Speaker 1: of a bunch of different stories, which is how it
24:29
Speaker 1: started anyway. The guy who wrote it was writing stories
24:33
Speaker 1: for Playboy, and those all got collected together to become
24:37
Speaker 1: a Christmas Story. And um, yeah, so what we're getting
24:40
Speaker 1: now is a Christmas story Christmas where the same actor
24:44
Speaker 1: Billingsley who played Ralphie in the original Christmas Story is
24:49
Speaker 1: now an adult and is attempting to have a great Christmas.
24:54
Speaker 1: And he's thinking to himself, you know, my dad was
24:57
Speaker 1: really good at this. I should be good at this too,
25:00
Speaker 1: and he starts to encounter that things are not as
25:03
Speaker 1: simple as he It's not as easy as just wanting
25:06
Speaker 1: to have a great Christmas. But the thing I'll say,
25:09
Speaker 1: as much as I'm at best fair weather about the
25:12
Speaker 1: original Christmas Story, this trailer looks so delightful. It It
25:16
Speaker 1: has a genuineness, in like a caring nous to it
25:20
Speaker 1: that makes me really want to watch it. And it
25:23
Speaker 1: brings back a bunch of actors who were kids in
25:26
Speaker 1: the original Christmas Story to be there as their adult selves,
25:30
Speaker 1: which I think is both amusing and unrealistic because there's
25:36
Speaker 1: not a single person from my life as a kid
25:40
Speaker 1: who's in my life today. I mean, my best friend
25:44
Speaker 1: I've known since I was two. So, uh, I don't
25:49
Speaker 1: know your best friend. You do, you've met her, she
25:52
Speaker 1: listens to the show. But well, we really appreciate you
25:55
Speaker 1: since you're one of the fourth It's more than four people, Jonathan,
26:00
Speaker 1: it's more than four people. It's more than four people.
26:02
Speaker 1: I love you all. I'm very thankful for every single
26:04
Speaker 1: one of you. That is more than four Okay, uh anyhow,
26:09
Speaker 1: I think the trailers cut. You should watch it even
26:11
Speaker 1: if you weren't a fan of the original, especially if
26:13
Speaker 1: you were a fan of the original. Check it out. Yeah,
26:16
Speaker 1: as far as we know, there are no red writer
26:18
Speaker 1: bb guns going ballistic in that in that film. Yeah, however,
26:24
Speaker 1: there's We're gonna follow up with some sad news if
26:26
Speaker 1: you're a fan of the Star Girls series. It is
26:28
Speaker 1: coming to an end. Yes, once it concludes its third season,
26:33
Speaker 1: it is done zo. The good news is that the
26:36
Speaker 1: show runners suspected that that was going to be the
26:39
Speaker 1: case before the decision was officially made, and started to
26:42
Speaker 1: make preparations to try and wrap up storylines and then
26:45
Speaker 1: once they got confirmation that when they finish, that's it,
26:50
Speaker 1: they really were able to cement that. So the good
26:53
Speaker 1: news is that things should have a satisfying conclusion, like
26:58
Speaker 1: the storyline should be wrapped up. It's not a huge surprise.
27:02
Speaker 1: Stargirl is a d C based property, and we've been
27:07
Speaker 1: seeing pretty much all the TV series that are related
27:12
Speaker 1: to d C kind of get either canceled or they
27:17
Speaker 1: decide to not renew them, or in some cases just
27:20
Speaker 1: might get shelved forever um. So this is another case
27:24
Speaker 1: of that. And meanwhile, Warner Brothers Discovery will continue It's
27:30
Speaker 1: quest too cut until they bleed so that they can
27:34
Speaker 1: start making money. Yeah, because they had they lost a
27:37
Speaker 1: couple of billion dollars this past quarter or year, I'm
27:41
Speaker 1: not sure which they've lost some money. So, like from
27:43
Speaker 1: a business standpoint, I kind of understand it. From someone
27:46
Speaker 1: who whose favorite content in all of those areas is
27:51
Speaker 1: d C stuff, it's frustrating. Well, it makes me worried
27:55
Speaker 1: because in interest a full disclosure, you know, I used
27:59
Speaker 1: to work under the Discovery umbrella, right, like Discovery owned
28:04
Speaker 1: how stuff works for a while, and I saw how
28:07
Speaker 1: David Zaslov works and the shift toward progressively cheaper productions
28:17
Speaker 1: that could keep costs way down while still getting lots
28:21
Speaker 1: of views. It's set a precedent in my mind where
28:27
Speaker 1: nothing surprises me anymore. Like I expect to see stuff
28:32
Speaker 1: that might be might require more, more production, and also
28:37
Speaker 1: maybe more niche oriented. I expect to see that stuff
28:40
Speaker 1: get the acts because it's easier to produce cheaper stuff
28:44
Speaker 1: that's going to appeal to a lot of people. Which
28:46
Speaker 1: but I'm sure there's some sort of middle ground because
28:50
Speaker 1: he's also talked about wanting to do better with DC,
28:52
Speaker 1: and we can do better and we can have a
28:54
Speaker 1: better DC universe and a lot of that movies. But um,
28:58
Speaker 1: but we'll see. We know that we're getting more peace Maker,
29:01
Speaker 1: and we know that we're getting more Doom Patrol. We've
29:03
Speaker 1: talked about that recently. Look, I keep saying Peacekeeper, thank
29:05
Speaker 1: you for Escape. But anyhow, um, you know, and and
29:10
Speaker 1: he even wants to make more Harry Potter stuff, although
29:13
Speaker 1: I am done with that universe. Yeah, this isn't even universe.
29:17
Speaker 1: He wants to make more Harry Potter stuff. It doesn't
29:20
Speaker 1: say he wants to make more Wizarding World type stuff.
29:25
Speaker 1: It's I think he wants literally to bring the character
29:28
Speaker 1: of Harry Potter back, and he says that Warner Brothers
29:32
Speaker 1: Discovery would be completely amenable to making more Harry Potter
29:35
Speaker 1: movies if J. K Rowling is on board. This obviously
29:40
Speaker 1: has stirred up a lot of conversation because you know,
29:43
Speaker 1: obviously J. K Rowling is a controversial figure. There are
29:47
Speaker 1: a lot of people who have turned away from her
29:52
Speaker 1: because of her transphobic views, which she has not been
29:55
Speaker 1: shy about sharing at every opportunity, and so, um, yeah,
30:00
Speaker 1: this is a On the one hand, I'm not surprised
30:04
Speaker 1: because obviously Zaslov is going to look at all the
30:06
Speaker 1: different stuff that Warner Brothers and Discovery has that have
30:11
Speaker 1: made money in the past and say, how can we
30:13
Speaker 1: do more of that so we can make more money please?
30:16
Speaker 1: And Harry Potter undeniably was an enormous, enormous cash cow.
30:20
Speaker 1: But that story has been told, that story has been concluded,
30:24
Speaker 1: like beyond J. K Rowling, beyond the controversy there, that
30:29
Speaker 1: story is done. More pizza does not always equal more better.
30:32
Speaker 1: I have friends that will argue that, but we don't
30:36
Speaker 1: need more. We don't know. I agree, I'm with you.
30:40
Speaker 1: I don't. I think it's best to honestly, to me,
30:45
Speaker 1: the Harry Potter saga alone, uh went off the rails
30:50
Speaker 1: around halfway through, and both for the books and for
30:54
Speaker 1: the films, um, and so I have no desire to
30:58
Speaker 1: see any of this, even if J. K. Rowling had
31:02
Speaker 1: kept her views to herself and we didn't know anything
31:05
Speaker 1: about her, or if, even better, she didn't feel that way.
31:09
Speaker 1: Even if that were the case, I don't think I
31:11
Speaker 1: would be eager for more Harry Potter content anyway, because
31:16
Speaker 1: I really only like the first half of the Harry
31:20
Speaker 1: Potter saga, and after that it really it just loses
31:24
Speaker 1: its charm for me. I didn't even like that much.
31:26
Speaker 1: I mean I finally finished it, uh, I will say, well,
31:31
Speaker 1: after the series came out, I finished it. It took
31:34
Speaker 1: a long long time and it required me watching it
31:36
Speaker 1: on TV. UM. So I guess we'll see what happens there.
31:40
Speaker 1: I know that he wants to make another Superman movie,
31:42
Speaker 1: and we know Henry Cavill's coming back a Superman, so um,
31:45
Speaker 1: I'm excited for that. Um. Something else that I'm vaguely
31:50
Speaker 1: okay with in all of this upheaval is just having
31:53
Speaker 1: some of our streaming services getting combined together. Dear goodness. Yeah,
31:58
Speaker 1: we we knew that her Brother's Discovery was going to
32:02
Speaker 1: merge the Discovery streaming app and the HBO Max streaming app,
32:07
Speaker 1: and previously we had heard to expect that for the
32:11
Speaker 1: summer of next year, but on an earnings call, Zaslov
32:16
Speaker 1: announced to investors that that's going to get moved up
32:19
Speaker 1: to the spring. So we're actually getting it earlier than
32:21
Speaker 1: we thought. Yeah, yeah, so I'm I'm okay with that
32:24
Speaker 1: bit of it. Um, I think there are too many
32:26
Speaker 1: streaming services. I understand why everybody wants to do it,
32:29
Speaker 1: I don't understand all of the metrics behind it, but
32:32
Speaker 1: there are too many streaming services. If I can condense
32:34
Speaker 1: some of them, I'm okay with it being consolidated, except that,
32:38
Speaker 1: I'm just hoping that navigation will be easy, so it
32:42
Speaker 1: will be very easy to find the stuff you want.
32:44
Speaker 1: And I'm also hopeful that we're not going to just
32:49
Speaker 1: continuously here about more and more streaming series getting axed
32:55
Speaker 1: unless they are super super cheap to produce. Yeah, I hope,
33:00
Speaker 1: I hope so as well. You know, with James Gunn
33:02
Speaker 1: being a part of the mind trust behind d C.
33:07
Speaker 1: Now hopefully he's hopefully he cares. It seems like he cares,
33:11
Speaker 1: and hopefully he'll he'll fight for the things that are
33:13
Speaker 1: worth fighting for. Um, we do know that he's going
33:16
Speaker 1: to be reporting directly to Zaslov, so it's not like
33:20
Speaker 1: like there's not gonna be other layers of hierarchy for
33:24
Speaker 1: him to get through. So if I'm guessing, that's going
33:27
Speaker 1: to give us the best chance for a a kind
33:31
Speaker 1: of re reinvigorated DC. Yeah, and if he just wanted
33:35
Speaker 1: to ask DC altogether, that would be dumb and he
33:38
Speaker 1: wouldn't have hired James Gunn. But speaking of Henry Cavill
33:41
Speaker 1: playing Superman, that does mean we found out that he
33:44
Speaker 1: will not be playing the Witcher in season four. Have
33:47
Speaker 1: they released all three seasons of The Witcher season three,
33:51
Speaker 1: but at least as far as I understand it. So,
33:56
Speaker 1: I've been hearing that Henry Cavill became disenchanted, but not
34:01
Speaker 1: in the Amy Adams kind of way with with the
34:04
Speaker 1: Witcher series starting in season two because they began to
34:09
Speaker 1: depart from the source material, both the books and the
34:13
Speaker 1: video games. They were departing from that, and I, as
34:17
Speaker 1: I understand it, Henry Gavill, who was clearly very passionate
34:22
Speaker 1: about the source material he has and multiple interviews, expressed
34:26
Speaker 1: that he was really excited about about getting a chance
34:30
Speaker 1: to do this because he was so invested in the
34:32
Speaker 1: source material that he didn't like where things were going anyway.
34:39
Speaker 1: The added that complication of him going to, you know,
34:42
Speaker 1: play Superman again and presumably do it fairly frequently, means
34:48
Speaker 1: that he wouldn't really have the availability for this. But
34:50
Speaker 1: I get the feeling like this was also his choice
34:53
Speaker 1: to step away because he didn't like the direction of
34:56
Speaker 1: the series in general. Yeah, I'm and if you are
35:00
Speaker 1: disenchanted with the series and you have you know, some
35:03
Speaker 1: some actors stick with a series because that's the job
35:06
Speaker 1: they have right at pays the bills. Um. But acting
35:09
Speaker 1: is about being passionate about the story you're telling. I
35:12
Speaker 1: feel like a lot of times it's better if you are.
35:14
Speaker 1: So if you're disenchanted, um, I don't think it's a
35:17
Speaker 1: bad decision to step away. Liam Hemsworth is taking on
35:19
Speaker 1: the role, and he's a good actor, and I'm excited
35:21
Speaker 1: to see him and see what he brings to the character.
35:25
Speaker 1: I really hope they Thor's little brother. Thor's a little brother,
35:28
Speaker 1: not low Ki no his but Thor's little brother. The
35:32
Speaker 1: actor who plays Thor's little brother. I, you know, I'm
35:38
Speaker 1: excited to see what he brings to it. I hope
35:40
Speaker 1: he also brings them tightening up there writing a little bit,
35:42
Speaker 1: because it's a hard story to follow. I don't I
35:46
Speaker 1: don't know how much input he's going to have in that.
35:49
Speaker 1: Like that might be part of it is They're also
35:50
Speaker 1: probably eager to get someone who doesn't have that deep
35:56
Speaker 1: emotional investment with the source material, because then they're just
36:01
Speaker 1: they're doing a gig and you don't have to worry
36:04
Speaker 1: about them getting upset that the gig is not going
36:07
Speaker 1: in the direction they were hoping. You know. Something that
36:11
Speaker 1: we learned this week also is that Netflix has renewed
36:16
Speaker 1: Neil Gaiman's Sandman for a season two. I still haven't
36:20
Speaker 1: started watching Salmon You you did finish it. I I
36:26
Speaker 1: wanted to like it so much more than I did.
36:28
Speaker 1: I really did. I like I like Neil game in um.
36:33
Speaker 1: I like American gods, and I've read some of them.
36:35
Speaker 1: I've read some of the Sandman comics stuff, and the
36:37
Speaker 1: little bits that I've read have been good. But apparently
36:39
Speaker 1: I've skipped a bunch of the horrible stuff you talked
36:41
Speaker 1: about in a previous episode of this podcast. How there
36:44
Speaker 1: was like one issue of sand Man that just turned
36:46
Speaker 1: you off that happened in a diner. That episode was horrible.
36:50
Speaker 1: I hated everything about of the TV show. Because it's
36:52
Speaker 1: an episode of the TV show. Um, I could tell
36:54
Speaker 1: you which one, so you could just skip it if
36:56
Speaker 1: you do want to watch it. Um, It's just there
36:58
Speaker 1: was nothing redeeming about episode. I hated it from beginning
37:01
Speaker 1: to end. And then the next episode of Sandman was
37:04
Speaker 1: the best episode of the entire show, and then everything
37:07
Speaker 1: else just left me. Oh hum. There are some characters
37:10
Speaker 1: I liked, and most of them didn't matter and didn't
37:12
Speaker 1: come back up, And I just didn't feel like there
37:15
Speaker 1: was rewarding resolution to a lot of the things. And
37:19
Speaker 1: I get that that's part of the comic, but it
37:22
Speaker 1: just much like the ends of the She Hulk episodes
37:27
Speaker 1: of the TV show, like I felt like she Hold
37:29
Speaker 1: TV show, I felt like there's just a lot of
37:33
Speaker 1: cliff hanging that left me going, Okay, why do I care? Yeah,
37:38
Speaker 1: m hmmmm. Well, having not watched it, I can't really
37:42
Speaker 1: give my two cents on it. I've only read a
37:45
Speaker 1: few dozen Sandman comics. Uh. My my roommate in college
37:52
Speaker 1: had several of the collections, and I read like maybe
37:55
Speaker 1: the first one. So but I'm glad to hear that
37:59
Speaker 1: the story will continue for those fans who are deeply
38:03
Speaker 1: invested in the show. I'm always glad to hear that
38:05
Speaker 1: Neil Gaiman is doing well. If that means that he
38:08
Speaker 1: gets to write more twisted and skewed fiction, I'm all
38:15
Speaker 1: for Yeah. Yeah, I'm very happy for him. Yeah, the
38:20
Speaker 1: season two might even be better. Um, as the season
38:22
Speaker 1: went on, it definitely got better. I hope they bring
38:24
Speaker 1: back some of the characters I liked from the beginning
38:26
Speaker 1: of the season. I'll tell you, I'll tell you at
38:28
Speaker 1: some point, Jonathan, what episode you should watch if you
38:30
Speaker 1: don't watch any of the rest of it. Something I
38:33
Speaker 1: think we're both going to watch is the holiday movie
38:36
Speaker 1: that's coming I think out this year, Spirited. Yeah, this
38:39
Speaker 1: is the one I always think of of. Oh, this
38:41
Speaker 1: is the movie they were shooting when they did the
38:44
Speaker 1: uh Grace Kelly TikTok challenge. When Ryan Reynolds and Will
38:50
Speaker 1: Ferrell did their version of the song Grace Kelly by Mikah. Spirited,
38:56
Speaker 1: of course, is a retelling of Christmas Carol. In fact,
38:59
Speaker 1: it gets very meta about that, which we didn't really
39:02
Speaker 1: know until this trailer. This trailer goes more into the
39:06
Speaker 1: idea that the story of the Christmas Carol is one
39:11
Speaker 1: version of a story that's been told countless times throughout
39:15
Speaker 1: the years. And the trailer looks cute, except they still
39:22
Speaker 1: really haven't shown Ryan reynolds character as being particularly awful yet,
39:29
Speaker 1: Like there's some he's being snarky in it, but like
39:33
Speaker 1: I'd say, he's being snarky at the same level as
39:35
Speaker 1: just General Ryan Reynolds or Star Lord from Guardians of
39:40
Speaker 1: the Galaxy. Like he's not coming across as a miser
39:44
Speaker 1: or a terrible person. And I'm sure that that's going
39:48
Speaker 1: to be addressed in the movie, but the trailers have
39:51
Speaker 1: given me no hint of it whatsoever. So the implication
39:54
Speaker 1: I get is, Oh, we're being told he's bad, but
39:58
Speaker 1: we're not being shown that he's bad. We're just getting
40:01
Speaker 1: lots of Will Farrell getting to do goofy physical comedy bit. Yeah,
40:05
Speaker 1: it feels very much like a watered down Scrooge from
40:08
Speaker 1: this trailer that being said, I'm excited to get to
40:11
Speaker 1: see Ryan Reynolds and Will Ferrell sing and dance together.
40:13
Speaker 1: And honestly, I feel like from what I see Will
40:16
Speaker 1: Ferrell's character is that he seems nice and genuine, and
40:20
Speaker 1: I always preferred that. I love when Will Ferrell plays
40:24
Speaker 1: someone who's like genuinely nice as opposed to someone who
40:26
Speaker 1: is just so zanny. It's unbelievable. Yeah, there's definitely some
40:30
Speaker 1: zany stuff in here too, though, and it's it's funny.
40:33
Speaker 1: I mean, it's also clear that in the world of
40:36
Speaker 1: Spirited that the story a Christmas Carroll exists, right, because
40:42
Speaker 1: they make a reference to that in the trailer as well,
40:46
Speaker 1: and you're like, okay, wait a minute. So in this world,
40:51
Speaker 1: Charles Dickens wrote a Christmas Carol which apparently was a
40:54
Speaker 1: true story or based on a true story, and so
40:59
Speaker 1: those people apparently actually existed because the ghosts are referencing
41:04
Speaker 1: them as being real in history, which just it gets
41:08
Speaker 1: confusing because you're like, well, if they're real, why was there,
41:11
Speaker 1: why was there a popular Dickens story? Whatever. So yeah,
41:15
Speaker 1: I'm curious enough, I'll watch it, you know, maybe it'll
41:20
Speaker 1: be kind of similar to scourged. Maybe it'll be a
41:23
Speaker 1: lot similar to Scooged. We'll have to say. But I
41:26
Speaker 1: feel like you have to watch most and I do too,
41:28
Speaker 1: most Christmas Carol things that come out. So yeah, I
41:32
Speaker 1: feel like I try to because I do. I genuinely
41:36
Speaker 1: like the story and I don't get tired of seeing
41:41
Speaker 1: new interpretations of it and and new you know, takes
41:45
Speaker 1: on the story. So if it's done well, I appreciate it.
41:50
Speaker 1: If it if it's just like a cheap, go through
41:52
Speaker 1: by the numbers version of it, then I'm out. One
41:57
Speaker 1: version I can highly recommend, well highly as being generous,
42:02
Speaker 1: I can recommend is uh is a Christmas Carol goes
42:06
Speaker 1: Wrong by the Mischief Theater Group, the play that goes Wrong?
42:11
Speaker 1: That one is pretty funny. Yeah, I agree. Um so
42:15
Speaker 1: do you you don't get tired of that? Sorry? Do
42:17
Speaker 1: you get tired of um Frida retellings of that? I
42:22
Speaker 1: mean only when it falls in December, So not like
42:25
Speaker 1: when it falls in March. You're fine with that. No, No,
42:28
Speaker 1: when it's when it's in December, Like December is just
42:31
Speaker 1: a terrible day. I mean it's just the worst. It is,
42:35
Speaker 1: like nothing good ever happens on December. Thanks, thank you,
42:40
Speaker 1: thank you, Jonathan. I'm glad that I have nothing good.
42:43
Speaker 1: Oh crap, that's your birthday. Thanks for telling the entire
42:48
Speaker 1: wide world. No, it's totally it's totally fine. Yeah. So no,
42:54
Speaker 1: that was me obviously, just being a jerk face. Yeah. No, uh,
43:00
Speaker 1: I don't know that I would say I get tired
43:02
Speaker 1: of Friday thirteenth. I'm not that invested in Friday the thirteenth.
43:06
Speaker 1: By the way, it was Friday to the thirteenth. I
43:08
Speaker 1: was referencing earlier when I talked about Crispin Glovers saying, ted,
43:12
Speaker 1: where's the corkscrew? I'm leaving out I'm leaving out a
43:16
Speaker 1: naughty word. But that's a quote from from a Friday
43:19
Speaker 1: to the Thirteenth film where Crispin Glover was one of
43:22
Speaker 1: the teenagers who gets killed. He then gets a corkscrew
43:26
Speaker 1: through the hand. I just assumed it was a quote
43:29
Speaker 1: that I had forgotten from Back to the Future quite honestly. No, No,
43:33
Speaker 1: it wasn't milkshake, chocolate or anything like that. Yeah. So
43:38
Speaker 1: we're getting on Peacock, a Friday ofte prequel series set
43:43
Speaker 1: at Crystal Lake called Crystal Lake, and you might wonder
43:47
Speaker 1: why and you would not be alone because I'd be
43:49
Speaker 1: wondering it too. For one thing, this, this particular production
43:54
Speaker 1: does not have all the rights to all the intellectual
43:57
Speaker 1: property attached to Friday the thirteenth. So, for example, they
44:01
Speaker 1: don't have the right to have to show the adult
44:04
Speaker 1: Jason in the hockey mask. So I'm guessing they'll have
44:07
Speaker 1: Young Jason, Like this is supposed to be a prequel series,
44:11
Speaker 1: Young Jason, who is supposed to be a kid who
44:13
Speaker 1: has some um physical deformities that that end up being
44:18
Speaker 1: making him the target of bullying and teasing, and so
44:23
Speaker 1: maybe this will play into that, and and potentially his
44:27
Speaker 1: mother who ends up being spoiler alert for anyone who
44:29
Speaker 1: hasn't seen the original Fright the Thirteenth movie, She's the
44:32
Speaker 1: killer and it's not Jason in the first Fright of
44:36
Speaker 1: the thirteen, it's Mrs Vorhees, his mother. Um, I just
44:42
Speaker 1: question whether this even makes sense because I'm like, if
44:46
Speaker 1: you don't have rights to the adult Jason, Um, you're
44:50
Speaker 1: not really leading to anything, right, because you can't ever
44:53
Speaker 1: lead to the point where the Jason of the series
44:56
Speaker 1: becomes the Jason of the films. Yeah, you can never.
45:01
Speaker 1: It's kind of like small Ville and wondering if Superman
45:04
Speaker 1: was ever going to get his cape, that kind of thing,
45:07
Speaker 1: and I just don't know there's anything interesting to say.
45:09
Speaker 1: They're like it. Originally, I was like, is this just
45:11
Speaker 1: gonna be a series about kids going to summer camp?
45:14
Speaker 1: And if so, why are you connecting it to Frida? Yeah? Yeah,
45:18
Speaker 1: I guess. I guess we'll see as it gets closer
45:20
Speaker 1: what they're going to do with that. Maybe it'll be
45:22
Speaker 1: something really interesting. Well, let let me let me ask
45:25
Speaker 1: you this though, arial did you ever see Friday the series? No, not,
45:32
Speaker 1: not the the old TV series that used to come out.
45:35
Speaker 1: I have not watched any Friday. So here's the here's
45:39
Speaker 1: the thing. Friday the thirteenth the series had nothing to
45:43
Speaker 1: do with the Friday movies at all. Was it just
45:47
Speaker 1: people staring at the calendar going huh, it's it didn't
45:52
Speaker 1: even have anything to do with Friday. No, it was.
45:56
Speaker 1: It was using a title and that was it. It
45:59
Speaker 1: was a reas that was similar to something like Amazing
46:03
Speaker 1: Stories or Twilight Zone, with the premise being that there's
46:07
Speaker 1: this or Warehouse thirteen later on, where House thirteen has
46:11
Speaker 1: is very similar in some ways, and that you have
46:14
Speaker 1: this antique shop and it's filled with various cursed items,
46:19
Speaker 1: and every week these two young adult characters to like
46:24
Speaker 1: a man and a woman, and they're elderly curiosity shop
46:28
Speaker 1: owner friend would go on these kind of adventures in
46:33
Speaker 1: an effort to get hold of these various artifacts and
46:37
Speaker 1: lock them away so that they couldn't cause harm. Nothing
46:40
Speaker 1: to do with Friday the Thirteen. I would totally love
46:43
Speaker 1: to see that series come back. I would watch it series.
46:46
Speaker 1: I mean, I've seen people play on that series content
46:48
Speaker 1: for a while. I mean, I think Twilight Zone. Does
46:50
Speaker 1: I know that The Thrilling Adventure Hour has it an
46:53
Speaker 1: episode or two that's similar to that with their Frank
46:56
Speaker 1: and Sadie Doyle Beyond Belief series. Um, yeah, that I
46:59
Speaker 1: would that I would watch. Maybe I'll go back and
47:01
Speaker 1: watch it. Something else that I've started watching is Rings
47:05
Speaker 1: of Power on Amazon. I know it's late, but I
47:07
Speaker 1: was waiting to watch it with my friends. We were
47:08
Speaker 1: working through Sandman because we do a group watch um,
47:13
Speaker 1: and we started on Rings of Power. The first episode
47:15
Speaker 1: was the second episode I actually quite enjoyed. But now
47:18
Speaker 1: we're going to get more Lord of the Ring content.
47:22
Speaker 1: Lord Lord of the Ring, the Lord of the Dance
47:24
Speaker 1: of the Rings content because Andy Serkis is going to
47:27
Speaker 1: be narrating an audiobook version of the Simarillian, the thing
47:31
Speaker 1: that everybody has been clamoring for. Yes, if you have
47:36
Speaker 1: sat there and thought, I want some extremely dense poetic
47:42
Speaker 1: content set in the world of not even the world
47:45
Speaker 1: of Middle Earth, because this predates Middle Earth. Middle Earth
47:48
Speaker 1: doesn't exist yet, but in in Tolkien's mythology. Good news,
47:54
Speaker 1: you'll be able to listen to it with Andy Serkis
47:56
Speaker 1: narrating it. Um. I've read The Silmarillion twice. I love
48:01
Speaker 1: it because I was a major in English lit and
48:05
Speaker 1: Tolkien was really kind of writing in this antiquated style
48:10
Speaker 1: like he was he was emulating like sagas and poetry
48:16
Speaker 1: of the early English historical era, and I appreciated it
48:23
Speaker 1: from that perspective. It is not like it's not like
48:28
Speaker 1: a novel. It's not a story from beginning to end.
48:30
Speaker 1: It's a whole bunch of different things I'll put together
48:33
Speaker 1: that are almost like a literary history of this world
48:37
Speaker 1: that eventually becomes Middle Earth. So if you love Tolkien,
48:42
Speaker 1: I think that this might be something interesting to listen to.
48:45
Speaker 1: I'll probably listen to it. I like Andy Serkis, I
48:47
Speaker 1: like Tolkien. I have read the similar Realion twice though,
48:51
Speaker 1: so we'll see if I want to experience it in
48:54
Speaker 1: a different form. I've read bits and pieces of it.
48:56
Speaker 1: I don't know if I've read it all the way through.
48:57
Speaker 1: Maybe I have definitely not more than one what And
49:00
Speaker 1: I know he won't. At first, I was like, maybe
49:02
Speaker 1: he'll do it all in his like Smigel voice, But
49:05
Speaker 1: he won't because that's not a thing. That's not a thing.
49:07
Speaker 1: Smigel doesn't exist in the stories. Like I said, it's
49:12
Speaker 1: not a thing yet. Um, but you know he's he's
49:15
Speaker 1: a great actor, and um, I'll probably give it a listen.
49:18
Speaker 1: I think it would be easier for me to listen
49:21
Speaker 1: to it then read it again or try to read
49:23
Speaker 1: it again. Okay, our last thing you better because our
49:27
Speaker 1: last story we have to talk about is Doctor Who.
49:29
Speaker 1: So we talked about David Tennant coming Back, spoilers, boilersh
49:33
Speaker 1: bliler blah blah blah blah. David Tennant coming Back is
49:35
Speaker 1: Doctor Who, at least briefly, and Jonathan had opinions on it.
49:39
Speaker 1: And now there's a video kind of talking about it
49:41
Speaker 1: that I did not realize was a twelve minute video
49:44
Speaker 1: and did not have time to listen to you before
49:46
Speaker 1: this episode. So take it away, Jonathan, Yes, okay, so so.
49:51
Speaker 1: Joe Brennan on YouTube posted a video called the Real
49:57
Speaker 1: Reason David Tennant is back as Doctor Who. And if
50:01
Speaker 1: you remember from our last episode, I was cynically worried
50:07
Speaker 1: that the reason they went with David Tennant is because
50:10
Speaker 1: they're saying goodbye to Jody Whittaker, who has the audacity
50:16
Speaker 1: of being a woman, and they're about to move on
50:20
Speaker 1: to Judy Godway, who has the audacity to be you know, black.
50:24
Speaker 1: And thus the going back to David Tennant is a
50:29
Speaker 1: way of cushioning between these two choices for Doctor Who
50:34
Speaker 1: don't fall into the same pattern as like most of
50:39
Speaker 1: the previous doctors who were white and mel So that
50:44
Speaker 1: was my worry was that this was a way to
50:46
Speaker 1: try and reset so that you didn't go from from
50:54
Speaker 1: unconventional pick to unconventional pick and lose your audience. What
50:59
Speaker 1: Joe does in this video, oh is he says, you know,
51:02
Speaker 1: it's really more about the fact that Chutty is busy
51:07
Speaker 1: shooting other stuff, including the Barbie movie and that and
51:11
Speaker 1: that he's not available to shoot any Doctor Who in
51:14
Speaker 1: the near term, but it is the sixtieth anniversary of
51:18
Speaker 1: Doctor Who, and they're like, Jody is done, chut, he's
51:22
Speaker 1: not ready yet. Do we just go radio silent until
51:27
Speaker 1: he is available and then we start shooting and then
51:30
Speaker 1: those shows won't be ready for months later and we
51:33
Speaker 1: miss out on that. Or do we give fans something
51:36
Speaker 1: they like as a bridge between the previous doctor and
51:42
Speaker 1: the next doctor and they chose to go with the
51:44
Speaker 1: second option. And I really like that take. I really
51:48
Speaker 1: like the idea that this is something where we're trying
51:52
Speaker 1: to tell great stories and entertain the fans while we're
51:59
Speaker 1: waiting for the logistics to line up so we can
52:02
Speaker 1: make more new episodes. If that's the case, then I
52:07
Speaker 1: would feel so much better. Like my cynical reaction would
52:10
Speaker 1: be I could just dismiss it. I mean, I don't
52:13
Speaker 1: know much about Russell T. Davies personally. I like what
52:17
Speaker 1: what he's done with the franchise in the past, and
52:19
Speaker 1: I would hope that his motivations would be closer to
52:21
Speaker 1: what this YouTube commenter said than to your fears. I
52:25
Speaker 1: certainly know that there are people who are just butt
52:28
Speaker 1: heads in the Doctor Who fandom, but I'd like to
52:30
Speaker 1: think the majority of people aren't. But you know that's
52:35
Speaker 1: just because it's a fandom I love and you know
52:38
Speaker 1: it anyhow, I hope that that's the case. That I mean,
52:41
Speaker 1: it makes a lot of sense. I I, if I
52:44
Speaker 1: were a showrunner, would not want to miss out on
52:46
Speaker 1: the sixtieth anniversary of a show simply because my new
52:49
Speaker 1: star is not ready yet, you know. And it's great
52:51
Speaker 1: that they're being considerate about Chooty's schedule. So, um, yeah,
52:58
Speaker 1: that's that's some hopefully happy news to end on. Um.
53:04
Speaker 1: You know, it's it's been really great. We don't have
53:06
Speaker 1: a mashup this week. Hopefully we'll get back to those soon. Um,
53:10
Speaker 1: before we wrap up, go ahead, all I was gonna
53:14
Speaker 1: say is that, yeah, we'll get back to the mashups
53:16
Speaker 1: as soon as geek News calms the heck dewn Yeah.
53:19
Speaker 1: Yeah uh. And And speaking of geeks and all of
53:22
Speaker 1: our listeners that are more than four Jonathan, thank you
53:25
Speaker 1: to Gregory for reaching out to us this past week
53:27
Speaker 1: and sharing your Halloween photos of your family. It was
53:30
Speaker 1: absolutely lovely, love them, love them, love them. Thank you
53:35
Speaker 1: so much. Yes, and just so you all know, as
53:40
Speaker 1: long as this episode was, we actually cut four stories
53:44
Speaker 1: from our lineup, and if you can guess what any
53:48
Speaker 1: of those four stories were, we will call you out
53:53
Speaker 1: by name and say that you are a smarty smarty.
53:57
Speaker 1: So I am just going to highlight those in our
54:00
Speaker 1: line up so that way don't forget that you're smart. Jonathan, Yeah,
54:07
Speaker 1: that's me. I don't remember which ones they were. Oh,
54:10
Speaker 1: is this one? This one? Here? This one? They are
54:13
Speaker 1: not going to guess that one, Jonathan. No, I know
54:16
Speaker 1: if they guessed that one, I will be If you
54:19
Speaker 1: guess the one that I just highlighted, Ariel will call
54:21
Speaker 1: you might have been it might have only been three stories.
54:25
Speaker 1: Oh no, oh yes it was. You know it was
54:28
Speaker 1: three because we moved one of them down to the
54:30
Speaker 1: bottom when we did theyds. Also, if you like the
54:33
Speaker 1: thirty seconds or less, like we had to risk, a
54:36
Speaker 1: listener recently tell us that they wanted to hear more
54:38
Speaker 1: about independent film and TV shows and things that are
54:40
Speaker 1: not necessarily Marvel, DC, Harry Potter, the Big you know,
54:43
Speaker 1: the Big Star Wars. So if you like that too,
54:46
Speaker 1: we'll certainly try to keep We're certainly trying to cover
54:48
Speaker 1: them but if you like the thirty second, like, hey,
54:50
Speaker 1: here's the things I should check out, let us know
54:52
Speaker 1: because we'll keep doing it. Yeah, because we're you know,
54:55
Speaker 1: we look deeply at the news for this kind of stuff.
54:58
Speaker 1: But part of the challenges that a lot of the
55:01
Speaker 1: news outlets are focusing on those huge franchises, and so
55:09
Speaker 1: sometimes the smaller stuff slips through the cracks and we
55:12
Speaker 1: don't get a chance to to see it until people like,
55:16
Speaker 1: you know, you've got like a couple of people raving
55:19
Speaker 1: about it. Like the example I would say from this
55:22
Speaker 1: past year would be everything everywhere, all at once. That
55:25
Speaker 1: was one of those things that because of word of mouth,
55:28
Speaker 1: that became a big thing. But when it first initially
55:31
Speaker 1: came out, um, it just had its own, like very dedicated,
55:36
Speaker 1: small group of fans who definitely allowed it to Oh
55:42
Speaker 1: something we forgot to mention. As of recording this today,
55:45
Speaker 1: November four, The Weird Our movie is now actually available
55:49
Speaker 1: on Roku. I know I said it was available back
55:51
Speaker 1: in September, but that was just at film festivals. Now
55:53
Speaker 1: it is actually available on the Roku channel. Check it out.
55:56
Speaker 1: It is funny. I watched I watched the first half
56:01
Speaker 1: of it. I had to stop because I was like,
56:03
Speaker 1: I was like, I actually have to get to work now.
56:05
Speaker 1: But I watched about half of it this morning, and
56:08
Speaker 1: the thing that I love about it most is that
56:11
Speaker 1: it is doing a great job at making fun of
56:14
Speaker 1: rock and roll biopics and or biopics if you prefer.
56:19
Speaker 1: But it's doing a great job at taking those beat
56:22
Speaker 1: for beat and showing how ridiculous they are. And like,
56:25
Speaker 1: you watch it and you're like, this is so stupid,
56:28
Speaker 1: and then you think, but it is exactly like every
56:31
Speaker 1: other rock and roll biopic I've ever seen. That's awesome.
56:34
Speaker 1: I can't wait to watch it. I'm going to have
56:36
Speaker 1: to work, wait at least until I'm done with work,
56:38
Speaker 1: probably till my husband is to just because he wants
56:40
Speaker 1: to watch it too. And now we really are done
56:43
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56:45
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56:48
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56:51
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56:54
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