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Max Minimizes at the End of the Year · Large Nerdron Collider

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Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Welcome to the Large nor Drunk Collider podcast,
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Speaker 1: the podcast that's all about the geeky 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 Castin, and with me, as always,
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Speaker 1: is the ever so Merry Jonathan structs. I'm on vacation,
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Speaker 1: That's why you're ever so merry.
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Speaker 2: I'm assuming I'm certainly extremely merry right now. Yeah. In fact,
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Speaker 2: I'll be going to Mickey's very merry Christmas party in
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Speaker 2: a few days when I go down to Florida. But
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Speaker 2: right now, I'm still in Atlanta, and we wanted to
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Speaker 2: make sure we got an episode in before I went
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Speaker 2: on vacation because right now we don't know whether or
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Speaker 2: not we'll be able to record one next week. I
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Speaker 2: hope we can, but I'll be traveling back on We
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Speaker 2: record on Fridays, and I'll be traveling back on Friday,
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Speaker 2: and I still have to go and pick up my
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Speaker 2: dog from my parents' house, which is not close to
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Speaker 2: the Atlanta airport, nor is it that close to my house.
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Speaker 2: So we'll see whether or not Ariel wants to stay
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Speaker 2: up that late and record an episode.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, well, and we'll see if you are feeling
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Speaker 1: up to it too, because yeah, that is fair. If
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Speaker 1: you aren't, then that's good. That's gonna make for some
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Speaker 1: interesting listening.
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Speaker 2: So, yes, that's true. We can get a very grouchy
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Speaker 2: Jonathan like, yeah, whatever, let's talk about this geek crap.
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Speaker 1: It'll be all Grinch episode.
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Speaker 2: It'll be all Grinches all the time. Merry Christmas, you
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Speaker 2: have filthy animal. We're gonna We're gonna chat first about
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Speaker 2: stuff what we have seen recently, because both Ariel and
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Speaker 2: I actually have something to talk about, uh in this
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Speaker 2: segment before we go to our thirty seconds or less.
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Speaker 2: So Ariel, tell me about your experience is watching geeky
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Speaker 2: stuff over the past couple of weeks. Sure.
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Speaker 1: So I finished the season two of Loki, which was
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Speaker 1: fun because I picked it back up right after the
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Speaker 1: Calamity finale and it was the episode where they're in
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Speaker 1: Chicago at the World's Fair, and so that just felt
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Speaker 1: very thematically appropriate. But I finished it. I liked it.
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Speaker 1: It was fun. I don't think I liked it as
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Speaker 1: much as season one, but I liked it. I watched
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Speaker 1: all of this Scott Pilgrim takes Off, which is the
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Speaker 1: Netflix cartoon series, and that was just such a delight
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Speaker 1: the first episode. If you haven't watched it yet but
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Speaker 1: you like Scott Pilgrim and it's on your list, I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna warn you the first episode starts off and you're like,
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Speaker 1: am I just watching the movie again? But that's not
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Speaker 1: the case. Stick with it. It's ridiculous. Make sure you
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Speaker 1: watch the credits at the end because the guest stars
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Speaker 1: that they have doing voice work on the show is
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Speaker 1: also phenomenal. And then I watched the first Doctor Who
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Speaker 1: episode of the new series and I loved it. I
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Speaker 1: loved it. I was so good to have Russell T.
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Speaker 1: Davies back. I thought it was a fun story. I
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Speaker 1: learned that my cat, if anybody's on the discord saw
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Speaker 1: me post this, that my cat is actually a Doctor
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Speaker 1: Who alien, because they've been talking about it a little
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Speaker 1: bit over there, And yeah, I just thought it was
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Speaker 1: I just thought it was a lot of fun. I
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Speaker 1: thought it was a lot of fun. I loved seeing
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Speaker 1: Donna back. And then I watched a first episode of Invincible,
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Speaker 1: but I won't talk about that because that's what I watched.
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Speaker 1: I'm not the most Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Did you watch the first episode of season two of Invincible,
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Speaker 2: or the first episode of Invincible full stop. Season two.
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Speaker 2: Got it of season.
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Speaker 1: Two because I was like, I need something that's a
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Speaker 1: little bit lighter than Barry, and I think I might
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Speaker 1: have chosen wrong.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. No, Invincible is grim and gory and violent and depressing.
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Speaker 2: Season two is real depressing. So if you're not familiar
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Speaker 2: with the concept of Invincible, the story is that there's
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Speaker 2: this incredible superman like superhero named Omni Man who has
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Speaker 2: a son, and his son takes on the superhero name
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Speaker 2: of Invincible, and his son is learning how to use
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Speaker 2: his powers and everything, and then his son finds out
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Speaker 2: that his dad isn't all he thought he was. He's
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Speaker 2: not a hero at all. He's a terrible, terrible, terrible,
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Speaker 2: terrible person. And that's putting it lightly. And season one
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Speaker 2: is pretty much all about how that kind of leads
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Speaker 2: up to a big confrontation. Season two is kind of
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Speaker 2: the aftermath of that and people trying to pick up
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Speaker 2: the pieces and move forward and people living with the
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Speaker 2: choices they made. And there's a lot of comedy in
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Speaker 2: the show. It's not like it's all super dark and grim.
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Speaker 2: It's kind of like the Boys that it has this
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Speaker 2: take on the superhero genre that is not like the bright,
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Speaker 2: shiny Superman take on it, that's much more dark and gritty.
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Speaker 2: Season two has some interesting episodes that are not all
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Speaker 2: about the character Invincible, which is kind of interesting as well.
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Speaker 2: And they're releasing this season in two chunks. So the
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Speaker 2: first chunk was four episodes, so I watched all four
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Speaker 2: of them because I had watched the first season and
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Speaker 2: I enjoyed it, which is a weird thing to say,
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Speaker 2: because sometimes it was very very upset while watching it.
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Speaker 2: But I thought it was very well done. Whereas Buriel
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Speaker 2: watched a lot of stuff that she found delightful, this
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Speaker 2: was not delightful, but it was compelling.
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Speaker 1: That's good to know. Would you say that it's darker
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Speaker 1: than Barry.
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Speaker 2: No, No, I would say that Barry. Okay, Barry's final
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Speaker 2: season is bleak, like it is bleak. Barry's final season
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Speaker 2: is bleak. Especially, gosh, there's some there's some hard stuff
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Speaker 2: in that final season. Okay, Yeah, I.
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Speaker 1: Why I am watching Invincible first.
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Speaker 2: It's two different It's two very different kinds of dark. Right,
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Speaker 2: Like Barry, it's watching a tragedy unfold because you are
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Speaker 2: already pretty sure where this is gonna lead like it's
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Speaker 2: hard to imagine very ending with a happy ending, Like
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Speaker 2: it's just hard to imagine that being possible, and so
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Speaker 2: you're really just watching a train wreck in very slow
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Speaker 2: motion unfold. Invincible, there's still a possibility of a happy ending,
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Speaker 2: but the odds are high that it's gonna cost an
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Speaker 2: awful lot to get there.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. I will say I find Invincible easier to watch
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Speaker 1: than The Boys because it's not not live action. It
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Speaker 1: doesn't feel as gross, like there's a lot of violence
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Speaker 1: and there's a lot of gross stuff in there. Yeah, well,
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Speaker 1: I feel like it's a more compelling store.
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Speaker 2: Invincible doesn't have the other form of abuse. Besides, like
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Speaker 2: Invincible's violence is all just pure violence. You don't have
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Speaker 2: a lot of like male on female forced violence kind
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Speaker 2: of stuff that happens in The Boys. Yeah, and I
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Speaker 2: mean that like in the Boys first season, that's a
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Speaker 2: thing and it doesn't let up in frest episode. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: it's not like it is beyond unpleasant, very compelling television,
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Speaker 2: but incredibly unpleasant. Invincible does not have that element, but
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Speaker 2: it is really dark.
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Speaker 1: Gotcha. I did watch one more thing today before popping on,
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Speaker 1: so I didn't add it to the notes. But Dropout
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Speaker 1: has released a trailer for their new show, Very Important People.
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Speaker 1: And if you haven't seen it, Jonathan or anybody who
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Speaker 1: has drop Out who also listens to our show, I
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Speaker 1: know there's a couple of you. It looks so much fun.
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Speaker 1: I laughed so hard at one point my husband called
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Speaker 1: out for me at the room to ask if I
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Speaker 1: was okay.
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Speaker 2: So I'll have to check that out. Oh I did. Also,
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Speaker 2: what did I talk about this last time? I don't
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Speaker 2: think I did, because I think I watched it in between.
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Speaker 2: But tell me if I did, I watched the whole
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Speaker 2: hell House series.
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Speaker 1: You did talk about watching some horror movies. I don't
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Speaker 1: remember which one.
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Speaker 2: It might have been the Hellhouse series. So out of consideration,
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Speaker 2: I will not dive into my thoughts on the hell
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Speaker 2: House series A part to say that, in case this
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Speaker 2: is reiterating, parts one and four I thought were good,
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Speaker 2: and parts two and three I thought were entertaining in
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Speaker 2: parts but otherwise not that good.
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Speaker 1: Hey start and finish strong, and what's in the middle
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Speaker 1: doesn't matter as much.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, Well, I think that leads us well
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Speaker 2: into our thirty seconds or less segment, which again is honestly,
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Speaker 2: like when we get through this and we start talking
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Speaker 2: about the stories in our main lineup, arguably they all
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Speaker 2: could have been thirty seconds or less.
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Speaker 1: But we'll see, Yeah, this might be a shorter episode,
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Speaker 1: so we'll see. Maybe it'll all be thirty like a
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Speaker 1: minute in under I don't know, Okay, So the first
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Speaker 1: thing we have is Shane McGowan passed away. If you
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Speaker 1: don't know him, he was the front man for the Pogues.
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Speaker 1: I think he was sixty five when he passed, Yes,
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Speaker 1: sixty five. He passed away from encephalitis. He honestly hadn't
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Speaker 1: been healthy for quite a while, but he passed peacefully
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Speaker 1: with his family and friends. You know, it's sad that
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Speaker 1: it happened right now because the Pogues wrote fairy Tale
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Speaker 1: of New York, which is a Christmas song, and now
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Speaker 1: we're hitting the Christmas season. So I don't know if
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Speaker 1: that's poetic irony or if it's just sad, but certainly
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Speaker 1: his passing is sad, and to everybody who loved him,
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Speaker 1: you know our cumnolences.
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Speaker 2: Yes, And I know thirty seconds are less, but I'm
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Speaker 2: a huge Pogues fan. That's fine. Kirsty McCall, who I'm
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Speaker 2: surprised you didn't take it. Well, you were the one
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Speaker 2: who submitted it. Chirsty McCall, who was the other singer
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Speaker 2: in Fairytale of New York. She also tragically passed away
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Speaker 2: years and years ago. So now both of these singers
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Speaker 2: featured in that song have passed on, and it's an
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Speaker 2: amazing song. It is not a happy Christmas song, and
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Speaker 2: there's also some foul language in it, just to keep
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Speaker 2: you on the up and up. It is not your
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Speaker 2: typical Christmas song. But yeah, very sad to hear of
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Speaker 2: his passing. All right, here's my first thirty seconds or less.
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Speaker 2: Now that the various strikes are over, we're hearing a
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Speaker 2: lot about various productions getting back up to speed, and
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Speaker 2: one of those is Venom three, according to star Tom Marty. Now,
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Speaker 2: originally the plan was to release Venom three on July
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Speaker 2: twelfth of next year. That has now been pushed back
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Speaker 2: to November eighth, so still for next year. So in
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Speaker 2: case Craven and Madam Webb don't have you excited, which
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Speaker 2: would be sane, then maybe the next film in the
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Speaker 2: Spidey without Spidey spin off will excite you. So there
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Speaker 2: you go.
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Speaker 1: I stand by it. I liked the first Venom. It's
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Speaker 1: the only one I've watched. Okay. Another thing that picked
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Speaker 1: up production very briefly was Beetlejuice Too. Apparently when a
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Speaker 1: strike happened, they only had a day and a half
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Speaker 1: of shooting left and now that's over. They're done with
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Speaker 1: principal photography. It's supposed to come out I think later
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Speaker 1: this year. Oh yeah, it's supposed to come out in September.
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Speaker 1: I am excited that Willem Deflow is playing a deceased
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Speaker 1: action star turned detective, so he's basically playing Bruce Campbell,
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Speaker 1: which is enough for me to see the movie all
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Speaker 1: by itself. But I'm glad that they were able to
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Speaker 1: get everybody back to finish up because I know how
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Speaker 1: frustrating it is to be so close to the end
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Speaker 1: of a project and not be able to complete it.
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Speaker 1: That gives me anxiety.
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Speaker 2: That's also not the last time mentioned Willem Dafoe in
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Speaker 2: this podcast, but anyway, next up, Marvel has tapped Michael
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Speaker 2: Waldron to write both upcoming Avengers films that would be
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Speaker 2: The Kang Dynasty and then Secret Wars. Waldron is the
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Speaker 2: creator of the MCU streaming service Loki that Ariel talked
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Speaker 2: about just moments ago, and that of course introduced Kang
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Speaker 2: to the MCU. Waldron also wrote Doctor Strange in the
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Speaker 2: Multiverse of Madness, So you know, your mileage may vary.
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Speaker 2: It's not all good. Currently, the plan is for The
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Speaker 2: Kang Dynasty to premiere on May first, twenty twenty six,
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Speaker 2: and Secret Wars on May seventh, twenty twenty seven, so
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Speaker 2: we got a while to wait. Yep.
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Speaker 1: Next is something we talked about a while ago, which
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Speaker 1: is the sequel to This is Spinal Tap. It is
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Speaker 1: still in the works. It begins production in February, starring
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Speaker 1: Christopher Guest, Michael McKeon, and Harry Shearer. But apparently we're
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Speaker 1: also going to get some fun guest stars like Paul McCartney,
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Speaker 1: Elton John and Garth Brooks. I like this is Spinal
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Speaker 1: Tap a lot. I wonder how a sequel will hold
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Speaker 1: up current day, because I haven't watched it all too recently.
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Speaker 2: I think it'll be fun to have like the whole
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Speaker 2: aging rock star element in there, kind of like you know,
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Speaker 2: sort of spoofing off of bands like the Rolling Stones,
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Speaker 2: you know, and the original film also had a ton
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Speaker 2: of interesting supporting characters and cameos and like Fran Dresher,
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Speaker 2: Billy Crystal. You know, there were a lot of people
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Speaker 2: that if you watch the film, you're like, oh my gosh,
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Speaker 2: that guy is in it. It's pretty cool, all right.
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Speaker 2: James Cameron has said that Avatar three is in post
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Speaker 2: production and will continue to be in post production for
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Speaker 2: two more years. Will they plan premiere date around Christmas
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. Avatar four is currently expected to debut
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Speaker 2: on December twenty first, twenty twenty nine, and Part five
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Speaker 2: on December nineteenth, twenty thirty one, which will put it
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Speaker 2: twenty two years after the original Avatar film. Also, Cameron
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Speaker 2: plans to become a New Zealand citizen next year.
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Speaker 1: Good for New Zealand. I do like in the article
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Speaker 1: you posted, which will put in our show notes when
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Speaker 1: all of these actors start thinking about how old they
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Speaker 1: will be when when the series ends. Speaking of speaking
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Speaker 1: of old series, did you know that the movie Hook,
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Speaker 1: the story about Peter Pan who has grown up and
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Speaker 1: become an accountant and now goes back to never Land
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Speaker 1: to fight Dustin Hoffman along with Pretty Woman, You was
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Speaker 1: originally going to be a musical. Neither did. I yeah,
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Speaker 1: but apparently if you did, or if you're just finding out,
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Speaker 1: but it's still excited about it. The News movie soundtrack,
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Speaker 1: the expanded movie soundtrack that they're releasing for the movie,
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Speaker 1: will include some of those musical numbers, and that is
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Speaker 1: exciting to me. I look forward to them actually putting
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Speaker 1: it up on stage, and I wonder if Jonathan will
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Speaker 1: like it better as a musical.
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Speaker 2: Oh man, I wanted to like that movie. I love
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Speaker 2: Dustin hoff performance, and I love that you referred to
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Speaker 2: Julia Roberts as pretty woman. All right. Lion's Gate has
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Speaker 2: secured the rights to adapt the Stephen King's story The
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Speaker 2: Long Walk into a film. That story is set in
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Speaker 2: the dystopian future in which kids compete with each other
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Speaker 2: on an epic walk, with the last one left standing
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Speaker 2: the winner and for the losers, well it's pretty grim. J. T.
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Speaker 2: Mulner will write the adaptation, and Francis Lawrence, the director
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Speaker 2: of The Hunger Games The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
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Speaker 2: and Ladders, is going to direct.
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Speaker 1: Interesting. I never read The Longest Walk, but I've heard
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Speaker 1: it synopsized to me, and it disturbs me. Something else
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Speaker 1: I've never done has played Grand Theft Auto. But for
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Speaker 1: everybody who's looking forward to the next Grand Theft Auto game,
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Speaker 1: the trailer for six arrives on Tuesday, and by that
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Speaker 1: I mean the fifth So yeah, I know people have
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Speaker 1: been waiting for it. So for all those GTA fans,
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Speaker 1: congratulations and happy holiday.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. I'll be in Epcot on that day, so I'll
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Speaker 2: probably have to watch it when I get back. Maybe
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Speaker 2: I doubt i'll even by the time I get back
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Speaker 2: to the hotel, I'm not going to be conscious, so
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Speaker 2: let's just be honest. It'll be a few days for
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Speaker 2: me to wait and see it. Eli Roth's horror film
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Speaker 2: Thanksgiving was a surprise hit, having been inspired by a
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Speaker 2: tongue in cheek fake trailer for the double feature film
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Speaker 2: grind House sixteen years ago. And I hope you have
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Speaker 2: room for seconds because the Hollywood Reporter says Roth will
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Speaker 2: return for the sequel, which tri Star Pictures plans to
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Speaker 2: release in twenty twenty five. I thought Thanksgiving was a fun,
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Speaker 2: schlocky horror film, very heavy on the gore, but that's
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Speaker 2: Roth's style.
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Speaker 1: Interesting. Also interesting, the US Postal Service announced that they
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Speaker 1: are they announce their twenty four season stamps, which they do,
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Speaker 1: but this upcoming year, we are getting a series of
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Speaker 1: D and D stamps to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of
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Speaker 1: Dungeons and Dragons. They're all based off of previous like
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Speaker 1: cover artist books.
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Speaker 2: And things like that, and other art like official artwork
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Speaker 2: from D and D.
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Speaker 1: But they're delightful. They're delightful.
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Speaker 2: Cool roll to save against lost mail, all right, hah. Finally,
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Speaker 2: Universal Pictures released a second trailer for the upcoming film
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Speaker 2: Night Swim, which is about a supernatural evil lurking in
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Speaker 2: a swimming pool attached to a house. As far as
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Speaker 2: I can tell, the film's inspiration is a short film
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Speaker 2: from the same director that was made several years ago.
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Speaker 2: It was also called night Swim. You can see it
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Speaker 2: on YouTube. It is two minutes forty five seconds long
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Speaker 2: once he cut the credits off. I know because I
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Speaker 2: actually watched it a year ago when I got on
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Speaker 2: a short horror film kick and I have no idea
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Speaker 2: how they stretched a thin concept, not even a premise
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Speaker 2: like this. It's so short, it's like just an idea.
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Speaker 2: There's no story. I don't know how they stretch that
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Speaker 2: to be a feature link film, but it comes out
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Speaker 2: on January, so I guess I'll find out.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you can watch that. I tried to watch the trailer.
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Speaker 1: I got five seconds in. I'm like, I'm gonna have
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Speaker 1: to watch this with no sound on double speed. I
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Speaker 1: still couldn't do it. I like swimming at night.
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Speaker 2: I know, okay, and you know what, like, I really don't.
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Speaker 2: You know, maybe it'll turn out to be a great
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Speaker 2: horror film, but I think part of the problem is
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Speaker 2: that some of these horror shorts, they're so effective because
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Speaker 2: they're leaning very heavily on evocative imagery and very like
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Speaker 2: shocking twists that only work in the context of a
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Speaker 2: very short production, and you can't really tease that out
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Speaker 2: over the course of like ninety minutes or whatever. There
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Speaker 2: was that one I can't remember what the name is now,
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Speaker 2: but there was that one short film where there's a
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Speaker 2: woman she's in her house and when she turns off
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Speaker 2: a hall light, she sees a silhouette of a figure
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Speaker 2: menacingly stand. When she turns it on, there's nothing there.
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Speaker 2: And then she turns off the light and she can
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Speaker 2: see it again. And they turned that into a full
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Speaker 2: length film and it didn't do so well. And I'm
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Speaker 2: just wondering if this is going to be the same
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Speaker 2: sort of thing.
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Speaker 1: I guess, well, I guess you will see, so we're
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Speaker 1: onto our regular news. But it was real hard not
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Speaker 1: to just segue into another thirty seconds or last by
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Speaker 1: saying there's gonna be some stuff soon that you won't see,
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Speaker 1: at least on Max.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Actually I made so. There's a full list that
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Speaker 2: you can read that Warner Brothers Discovery published on their
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Speaker 2: press release page. And I have a selection of some
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Speaker 2: of the stuff that's leaving. This is just a sample,
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Speaker 2: but for example, Frisky Dingo, the adult swim series is
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Speaker 2: leaving delocated, a different adult swim series is leaving. The
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Speaker 2: Man from Uncle is gone. Annabel, Annabel Creation, and Annabel
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Speaker 2: Comes Home are all going. The Avengers, not the Superheroes,
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Speaker 2: but the nineteen ninety eight film adaptation of the British
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Speaker 2: TV series is going. But good riddance. It's terrible. It's terrible.
20:11
Speaker 2: It's a terrible movie. I enjoyed it, okay for everyone
20:15
Speaker 2: else out there who wants to know. It has a
20:16
Speaker 2: five percent Rotten Tomato score. Five percent of all critics
20:23
Speaker 2: gave it a positive review, and ninety five percent said
20:25
Speaker 2: it was gave it a negative review. Now Ariel is
20:28
Speaker 2: in that rare group of five percent. Me, I'm with
20:33
Speaker 2: the majority on this one. I that movie was incomprehensible
20:37
Speaker 2: and Sean Connery was terrible in it.
20:41
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it gave me such good cosplay fodder to
20:43
Speaker 1: be Emma m appeal, m appeal.
20:47
Speaker 2: Yeah, because it's it's stands for male appeal.
20:51
Speaker 1: Ha. I didn't know that, but I like it.
20:53
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's from the original series. You can go back
20:56
Speaker 2: to the original series, and I mean there's a lot
20:58
Speaker 2: of like m appeal has a lot of in common
21:01
Speaker 2: with say, Catwoman from the nineteen sixties Batman series, Speaking
21:05
Speaker 2: of which the nineteen sixty six Batman film will also
21:08
Speaker 2: be leaving Later Runner twenty forty nine's leaving Briga Dune
21:15
Speaker 2: the Conjuring too, only one in the Conjuring series as
21:18
Speaker 2: far as I could tell, that's leaving ELF. A whole
21:22
Speaker 2: bunch of DC superhero girls films called like Hero of
21:26
Speaker 2: the Year, Intergalactic Games, and Legends of Atlantis. Those are
21:29
Speaker 2: all gone at the end of December. Quick.
21:32
Speaker 1: I want to I want to interject there because I
21:33
Speaker 1: saw another article saying these DC ten DC properties are
21:37
Speaker 1: leaving Max, and it showed all of like the big
21:40
Speaker 1: like the Snyder verse ones, and I was like, this
21:42
Speaker 1: is such a click bait. It frustrated me. Now I'm
21:45
Speaker 1: sad that the superhero girls are leaving, but also we
21:48
Speaker 1: know that Max is taking a step away from Children's animated,
21:51
Speaker 1: so it's not a surprise. I hope it finds it's
21:54
Speaker 1: way somewhere else. Okay, keep on.
21:55
Speaker 2: Yeah, all these yeah, the series that are leaving that
21:58
Speaker 2: are all DC related ten to be the animated ones,
22:01
Speaker 2: except for Batman nineteen sixty six, which might as well
22:04
Speaker 2: be a cartoon. Several Texas Chainsaw Massacre movies are going,
22:08
Speaker 2: which is sad for horror fans like me. The Haunting,
22:12
Speaker 2: another great horror movie, Insidias chapter two, just chapter two,
22:16
Speaker 2: apparently the original ninety five Jumanji film with Robin Williams.
22:22
Speaker 2: That's going. The lego movie Looney Tunes back in Action.
22:26
Speaker 2: In fact, there was rumor that all Looney Tunes material
22:30
Speaker 2: was gonna leave Max, but apparently that has been walked
22:32
Speaker 2: back a little bit. Some other stuff like Scream, Scream two,
22:36
Speaker 2: and Scream three are all going. Paddington to the two
22:40
Speaker 2: thousand and four film adaptation of the Musical, The Phantom
22:43
Speaker 2: of the Opera, Good Riddance, Trick or Treat, a great
22:48
Speaker 2: Halloween movie that's going, Warm Bodies, Wonder Woman, Bloodlines is going.
22:55
Speaker 2: So yeah, it's This is just again, just a kind
22:58
Speaker 2: of a selection of some of the geek related properties
23:02
Speaker 2: that are going. It's not all of them by any means.
23:05
Speaker 2: The list is long, and you know, yes, there's the
23:09
Speaker 2: need to refresh your library every now and then, and
23:13
Speaker 2: you can't just continuously pay for larger and larger libraries.
23:17
Speaker 2: You do occasionally have to shift things out. But of course,
23:20
Speaker 2: Wonder Brother's Discovery has a pretty bad reputation for dumping properties.
23:26
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, if they didn't have that bad reputation, I'd
23:29
Speaker 1: say this is fine. It might even be beneficial to
23:31
Speaker 1: some of the actors in there. Well, I don't know,
23:34
Speaker 1: because it depends on when the the sag after contract
23:37
Speaker 1: still has not been final finalized, voted on by the
23:41
Speaker 1: actors yet, like it, that's still in the process. I
23:43
Speaker 1: think that happens this upcoming week, But if that passes,
23:47
Speaker 1: I don't know how soon those royalty adjustments happen. I do,
23:50
Speaker 1: at least for most of these properties feel like they
23:54
Speaker 1: will find their way to other platforms, which which is
23:59
Speaker 1: good because there's still good movies even if HBO Max
24:03
Speaker 1: no longer wants that as a part of their library,
24:06
Speaker 1: and then there's still good aventures. So yes, look, I
24:10
Speaker 1: also like Van Helsing and I also like Dylan Dog
24:12
Speaker 1: Dead of Night, So we all know where my dumb
24:16
Speaker 1: humor button lies.
24:18
Speaker 2: Well, it's not all bad news because there's stuff that's
24:22
Speaker 2: coming to Max and the next story is about something
24:25
Speaker 2: really exciting coming to Max.
24:27
Speaker 1: Yeah. So the Miyazaki film Spirited Away had a stage
24:34
Speaker 1: version that was kind of I think it was like
24:35
Speaker 1: one of those Fathom event things. You could go to
24:37
Speaker 1: the movie theater and see it. Possibly. Yes, yes, it
24:40
Speaker 1: was a very very limited run, and I was very
24:43
Speaker 1: sad because it didn't get to see it. But it
24:45
Speaker 1: looks like there's great costuming and puppeteering and just stagecraft.
24:48
Speaker 1: It's a thing all love about beetle jears, and now
24:51
Speaker 1: it's coming to Max on December twenty fourth, twenty fifth, twenty.
24:55
Speaker 2: Fourth, twenty fourth. I think, yeah, that's really exciting. Like
24:59
Speaker 2: you said, there's a lot of puppetry involved, and I
25:03
Speaker 2: saw little clips of this when there was the Fathom
25:05
Speaker 2: event coming up and was blown away, and I was like,
25:08
Speaker 2: how I've seen Spirited Away. That is an incredibly ambitious
25:13
Speaker 2: project to tackle. But everyone who saw it that I've
25:17
Speaker 2: talked to really thought it was phenomenal. I just haven't
25:20
Speaker 2: seen it yet, so I'm excited that it's coming to
25:22
Speaker 2: streaming me too.
25:24
Speaker 1: I may not get to watch it on Christmas Eve
25:26
Speaker 1: for Christmas Day because my husband is not as much
25:28
Speaker 1: of a fan of Miyazaki. He's watched it, but cartoons
25:32
Speaker 1: are not always his thing, so if they are, well,
25:35
Speaker 1: this is.
25:35
Speaker 2: A lot of this is live stage, it's not a cartoon.
25:39
Speaker 1: Yeah, he might like it better. But I will definitely
25:41
Speaker 1: watch it this holiday season because it seems like a
25:44
Speaker 1: lot of fun to do. It makes me so happy.
25:47
Speaker 1: Thank you Max for that.
25:49
Speaker 2: Yes, not everything you do is terrible, and we're glad
25:53
Speaker 2: for that.
25:57
Speaker 1: Nerdicst reported, well, I guess so. A bunch of people
26:01
Speaker 1: reported that there is a first look at Agatha dark
26:04
Speaker 1: Hold of dark Hold Diaries, dark Hold of Darkness, Dark
26:08
Speaker 1: Wing Duck.
26:09
Speaker 2: Let's Get Dangerous.
26:11
Speaker 1: Yes, Agatha dark Hold Diaries has released kind of a
26:15
Speaker 1: little behind the scenes look at the upcoming series. I
26:19
Speaker 1: really appreciate everybody's excitement and buy in, and just like
26:25
Speaker 1: enthusiasm for this project, I just am not the feeling
26:28
Speaker 1: enthused for it.
26:29
Speaker 2: Well, I'm enthused just to see Catherine Hahn do more
26:33
Speaker 2: stuff because I love her. I think she's she's got
26:37
Speaker 2: great instincts, She's a great performer, great actor, and so
26:41
Speaker 2: I'm really excited to see her do more stuff. I
26:43
Speaker 2: have no idea where they're gonna go with this because
26:46
Speaker 2: of how they did Wanda Dirty in Doctor Strange and
26:51
Speaker 2: really Agatha without Wanda doesn't it seems it's kind of
26:55
Speaker 2: like having a series about Lex Luthor and Superman doesn't exist,
26:58
Speaker 2: Like what's the point. But uh, I am. I am curious.
27:03
Speaker 2: This behind the scenes stuff is going to be included
27:07
Speaker 2: in a Blu ray of WandaVision. I didn't even realize
27:10
Speaker 2: WandaVision was going to get physical media, but I think
27:13
Speaker 2: that's pretty cool.
27:14
Speaker 1: I'm I'm glad for it in case it ever leaves
27:17
Speaker 1: streaming platforms, because that's one I would buy.
27:22
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll pick it up because that was I think
27:25
Speaker 2: that's the high water mark for the Disney plus Marvel
27:31
Speaker 2: streaming series so far, like Loki comes close, but WandaVision
27:36
Speaker 2: to me is like that is that is the standard
27:39
Speaker 2: that should be met every time. And for the record,
27:43
Speaker 2: like I've liked most of the streaming series, including Shee Hulk,
27:48
Speaker 2: which I maintain was very good, but I keep reading
27:52
Speaker 2: people talking about being trash and you're trash. Okay, maybe
27:57
Speaker 2: you're not trash, but I don't agree with your opinion.
28:00
Speaker 1: The episodes were just too short. They ended it weird places,
28:04
Speaker 1: and I feel like they could have like I get
28:06
Speaker 1: maybe ending on like a cutaway that's black and you're like,
28:09
Speaker 1: what what? But I feel like it could have been
28:11
Speaker 1: executed a little bit better. But that being said, I
28:13
Speaker 1: thought the performances were lovely and I laughed a lot.
28:15
Speaker 2: So we also got a first look at some of
28:19
Speaker 2: the images from the upcoming television series based on the
28:23
Speaker 2: Fallout series of games, including a look at the Brotherhood
28:30
Speaker 2: of Steel characters in their armor and a Vault Dweller
28:34
Speaker 2: in the Vault Dweller jumpsuit, as well as a picture
28:38
Speaker 2: of Walter Goggins as a ghoul, and they look very
28:45
Speaker 2: true to the style of the computer game series, so
28:49
Speaker 2: at least from an appearance side, it looks like it's
28:54
Speaker 2: right on track. Now, the question is whether they can
28:56
Speaker 2: nail the tone, which throughout the Fallout series has been
29:01
Speaker 2: kind of well, certainly uneven. Like, it's very hard to
29:06
Speaker 2: reconcile the tone of Fallout games because you will have
29:08
Speaker 2: moments of just absolute zany wackiness followed by the most
29:14
Speaker 2: grim of grim stuff, and it's hard to have it
29:18
Speaker 2: all kind of make a coherent story. So I'm very
29:22
Speaker 2: curious to see what path the television series takes.
29:27
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I agree. Emma Parnell, who plays Lucy looks
29:30
Speaker 1: spot on to the characters in the in the video game,
29:35
Speaker 1: you know, minus the Uncanny Valley as far as I
29:38
Speaker 1: can tell. And Walter Goggins, who still has one of
29:41
Speaker 1: the best names I've ever heard, Walton Goggins. Yeah, Walton
29:48
Speaker 1: Goggins almost looks more normal as the Ghoul than he
29:52
Speaker 1: does in real life.
29:54
Speaker 2: Yeah, Goggins plays some amazing characters, like he's he's so
29:58
Speaker 2: he's really good at being bad.
30:02
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, always a delight. This made me wonder about
30:07
Speaker 1: the Borderlands movie that has been in production crazy forever.
30:12
Speaker 1: In theory, it's still happening as of last month.
30:15
Speaker 2: Yeah, we hadn't heard really anything about that for quite
30:18
Speaker 2: some time. I mean part of that was because of
30:20
Speaker 2: the strikes, but still.
30:21
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, last month there was an article saying, hey,
30:24
Speaker 1: it's still in the works with the reshoots that have
30:26
Speaker 1: been fun and all because with the cast like that,
30:29
Speaker 1: you don't just throw it away unless you're certain.
30:32
Speaker 2: Unless you're Warner Brothers Discovery.
30:35
Speaker 1: I wouldn't gonna look. I would still happily work for them.
30:39
Speaker 2: So uh, yeah, it's just maybe your work would never
30:42
Speaker 2: be seen.
30:44
Speaker 1: You know. That's yeah, it's possible, but it might also
30:51
Speaker 1: be seen. So we'll never know, Well we won't. We
30:55
Speaker 1: might know. I'm not gonna say we'll never know. We'll
30:57
Speaker 1: probably know at some point, but not today. Next year,
31:01
Speaker 1: for Christmas, we're getting something a little bit darker than
31:04
Speaker 1: Spirited Away. We're getting a new version of Nosparatu.
31:09
Speaker 2: Yeah uh, and this is this has been known for
31:12
Speaker 2: a while, but I somehow, if I had seen this news,
31:16
Speaker 2: I had forgotten it, so I did not realize that
31:19
Speaker 2: there was another there was a new adaptation in nos
31:21
Speaker 2: Faratu in the works, and that it was coming out
31:23
Speaker 2: next year. And the cast list tickles me. You got
31:30
Speaker 2: you got like Nicholas Holt, it is going to be
31:33
Speaker 2: cast in nos Faratu. I think that's funny because he
31:36
Speaker 2: was just in Renfield, which is clearly so Nosparatu is
31:41
Speaker 2: a ripoff of Dracula. It's always been a ripoff of Dracula.
31:44
Speaker 2: The vampire in Nosperrato is called Count Orlock, but it's
31:49
Speaker 2: essentially if you watch the original Nosferatu, it's it's an
31:52
Speaker 2: adaptation of Dracula. Then. So, but then you've got like
31:57
Speaker 2: Nicholas Holt, who was Renfield in Rinfield, which was obviously
32:00
Speaker 2: another like inspiration from Dracula. And also Willem Dafoe, whom
32:06
Speaker 2: I mentioned we were going to talk about again. He's
32:08
Speaker 2: gonna be in nos Faratu. And the thing that's funny
32:10
Speaker 2: about that is twenty years ago he was in a
32:13
Speaker 2: movie called Shadow of the Vampire. And when he was
32:17
Speaker 2: in Shadow of the Vampire, he played the character of
32:19
Speaker 2: Max Shrek. That's the actor who originally played Nosferatu in
32:24
Speaker 2: the black and white film. So it's just funny that
32:27
Speaker 2: he's also in this.
32:29
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, Also people who are in it are Bill
32:31
Speaker 1: scars Guard and Aaron Taylor Johnson, who I love Aaron
32:35
Speaker 1: Taylor Johnson. He's a great actor.
32:38
Speaker 2: Yeah, And scars Guard is actually playing Orlock, which because
32:42
Speaker 2: when I saw Willem Dafoe was in I'm like, oh
32:44
Speaker 2: my gosh, are they gonna have Willem Dafoe playing Orlock?
32:47
Speaker 2: Because that would be hilarious that he played the actor
32:51
Speaker 2: who was Orlock twenty years ago and now he gets
32:54
Speaker 2: a chance to play the character. No such luck, So
32:56
Speaker 2: I have no idea who he's playing.
32:59
Speaker 1: So I understand stand that Bill Scarsguard looks like a
33:02
Speaker 1: very GQ model version of Steve Buscemi, but I think
33:10
Speaker 1: just base level, Bill Scarsguard is too attractive to play
33:13
Speaker 1: a Nosparatu because they're ugly vampires. That's that's their whole thing.
33:19
Speaker 1: And I feel like if he makes his ugly face,
33:21
Speaker 1: it's going to be Bill Scarsguard as penny Wise as Nosferatu.
33:25
Speaker 2: Uh where his eyes aren't pointing in the same direction and.
33:29
Speaker 1: Yeah, and he's drooling with his pointy lip and.
33:32
Speaker 2: There's gonna be a lot of prosthetics.
33:35
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, there would have to be. Look, I'm excited
33:38
Speaker 1: for this. We all know I like classic monster stuff.
33:41
Speaker 1: I'm less excited to watch it on Christmas Day, but
33:43
Speaker 1: I will watch it.
33:45
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I'm well, you know what Christmas it's a
33:48
Speaker 2: time for scary ghost stories. According to you know that song,
33:52
Speaker 2: so scary ghost stories and tells the glories of Christmases
33:55
Speaker 2: long long ago.
33:57
Speaker 1: So so is count Orlock then going to find the
34:00
Speaker 1: true Christmas spirit and buy everybody a roast goose?
34:05
Speaker 2: I sure hope. So if they if they combined Nosparatu
34:08
Speaker 2: with the Christmas Carol, I'll be really happy.
34:11
Speaker 1: That would be that would be a delight. I would
34:13
Speaker 1: watch that on Christmas.
34:14
Speaker 2: H h.
34:18
Speaker 1: The next thing is also like super a delight, which
34:21
Speaker 1: is we're getting a new Karate Kid movie. And they
34:25
Speaker 1: had an open casting call for the new Karate Kid,
34:29
Speaker 1: which is just really cool. Ralph Macchio and Jackie Chan
34:34
Speaker 1: made a video and said hey, if you're if you
34:36
Speaker 1: fit what we're looking for, send in, and they got
34:39
Speaker 1: like ten thousand submissions very quickly.
34:43
Speaker 2: Yeah. Super cool. Yeah. So Jackie Chan of course was
34:46
Speaker 2: in the most recent version of Karate Kid, and Ralph
34:49
Speaker 2: Machio was the original Karate Kid and then went on
34:52
Speaker 2: to be in Cobra Kai as well, So it's really
34:55
Speaker 2: exciting to see them both involved in this new one,
34:58
Speaker 2: and of course now that we're getting a new Karate
35:01
Speaker 2: Kid as well, it's not going to be was it
35:03
Speaker 2: Jade Smith as the last one? So I'm really I'm
35:07
Speaker 2: really curious to see how this project continues, because I
35:11
Speaker 2: really I have a soft spot in my heart for
35:15
Speaker 2: the Karate Kid franchise. I really have a soft spot
35:19
Speaker 2: for the first two because I was young when both
35:22
Speaker 2: of those movies came out and very much liked them
35:25
Speaker 2: when I was a kid, So I look forward to
35:28
Speaker 2: seeing what the next story will be.
35:31
Speaker 1: It makes me surprised that you haven't finished Cobra Kai.
35:34
Speaker 2: Honestly, Yeah, I never I don't think I've even watched
35:39
Speaker 2: a full episode of it. I've seen clips of Cobra
35:43
Speaker 2: Kai like I've seen like compilation clips of different things
35:49
Speaker 2: in it, but I have not actually watched a full episode.
35:53
Speaker 1: I like it, even though at very many times during
35:56
Speaker 1: the series I was infuriated at the dumbness of both
35:58
Speaker 1: the adults and kids. I still really in the series.
36:01
Speaker 1: Back to the casting call, I am also excited because
36:04
Speaker 1: for the new Karate Kid, they're looking for someone who's
36:07
Speaker 1: Chinese or partially Chinese to play the role, and I
36:12
Speaker 1: think that's also a good choice.
36:16
Speaker 2: So yeah, and that they're looking for preferably someone who
36:20
Speaker 2: can speak English and Mandarin. Although that's that's kind of
36:24
Speaker 2: a like ideal situation sort of thing.
36:27
Speaker 1: Yeah, and also someone who is fifteen to seventeen, because
36:30
Speaker 1: I think Ralph Macchio was older when he played the
36:32
Speaker 1: Karate Kid.
36:33
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think he was approximately fifty three when he
36:36
Speaker 2: was the Karate Kid.
36:38
Speaker 1: No, that's how old he is now. I'm sure. Funny
36:41
Speaker 1: thing Tony told me. I didn't realize this. Terry Silvers,
36:43
Speaker 1: which is in the Third Movie, which you didn't like
36:45
Speaker 1: as much. I think he's a third movie, was younger
36:49
Speaker 1: than Ralph Macchio. Is younger than Ralph Macchio very old.
36:55
Speaker 2: Wow.
36:57
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it blows my mind, but it's fun trivia.
37:04
Speaker 1: We also this week got the first trailer for Furioso,
37:08
Speaker 1: which is a spin off of the most recent Mad
37:10
Speaker 1: Max movie.
37:12
Speaker 2: Mm hmm with Anya Taylor Joy.
37:16
Speaker 1: Who you love?
37:18
Speaker 2: Yes, my girlfriend Madia Taylor Joy is in the movie.
37:22
Speaker 2: I'm jealous.
37:23
Speaker 1: Also it happen my girlfriends.
37:28
Speaker 2: Or you wanted to be Ania Taylor Joy's girlfriend? Okay, yeah,
37:31
Speaker 2: no that.
37:31
Speaker 1: I want to be Ania Taylor Joy period.
37:34
Speaker 2: Oh. I like.
37:36
Speaker 1: I like being me anyhow. The thing that surprised me
37:40
Speaker 1: because apparently I either have a very short memory or
37:43
Speaker 1: haven't been paying enough attention. Is that Chris Hemsworth isn't it?
37:47
Speaker 1: And he's playing what looks to be like a bargain
37:50
Speaker 1: Bin version of Thor.
37:52
Speaker 2: Yeah. I liked it because like, he wasn't I mean,
37:56
Speaker 2: I'm bad at recognizing people anyway, but he wasn't immediately
38:00
Speaker 2: recognizable to me. And I saw saw him in the trailer,
38:03
Speaker 2: and before it got to the point where I had
38:05
Speaker 2: his credit title show up on screen, I was like,
38:10
Speaker 2: is that Chris Hemsworth?
38:13
Speaker 1: When I first saw him, I was like, is that
38:14
Speaker 1: cri Chris Hemsworth? And then he talked him like, surely
38:17
Speaker 1: it can't be, but who the heck is that? But
38:19
Speaker 1: it is Chris Hemsworth. Yeah, I like that's he's going
38:22
Speaker 1: outside of his normal Marvel stick, which of course you would,
38:30
Speaker 1: but in the movie his character wears like a ratty yellow,
38:34
Speaker 1: ratty red cape, which just reminds me of a very
38:38
Speaker 1: like toxic Wasteland version of four.
38:44
Speaker 2: Yeah. He also he also rides a chariot pulled by
38:48
Speaker 2: a motorcycle, which is incredibly cool. Like when I saw
38:52
Speaker 2: that that design of a vehicle, I'm like, man, I
38:57
Speaker 2: love the vehicles in Mad Max. There's someone my favorite
39:01
Speaker 2: like like film design things. Also, the cinematography that was
39:06
Speaker 2: on display in that trailer was phenomenal. Didn't get a
39:11
Speaker 2: whole lot from Anya Taylor Joy apart from looking like
39:14
Speaker 2: a badass. We didn't get a whole lot of lines
39:18
Speaker 2: from her, so it's kind of hard to to target
39:21
Speaker 2: where her performance is here. I'm just glad we're finally
39:24
Speaker 2: going to get this because I remember seeing interviews of
39:27
Speaker 2: her a couple of years ago where she was talking
39:29
Speaker 2: about the filming and so it's been a while since
39:34
Speaker 2: the filming on this picture wrapped. But yeah, I'm really
39:38
Speaker 2: looking forward to it. I very much enjoyed Fury Road,
39:41
Speaker 2: and this looks like it's going to be another Like
39:45
Speaker 2: it's probably gonna be another two hour chase scene. But
39:47
Speaker 2: I'm okay with it because Fiury Road was so good.
39:50
Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel the same way. I didn't expect to
39:53
Speaker 1: like Fury Road as much as I did because I'm like,
39:54
Speaker 1: it's a giant chase scene. Normally I don't like just
39:56
Speaker 1: even though I like car stunts, I don't like movies
39:59
Speaker 1: that are just one giant chase. Yeah, I find them
40:02
Speaker 1: kind of they make me a little anxious. And also
40:05
Speaker 1: it's it's one stick throughout the whole movie.
40:07
Speaker 2: Yeah, they make me bored because, like I think of
40:11
Speaker 2: like the the the pod racing scene in the first
40:15
Speaker 2: Star Wars movie, and I almost fell asleep in it,
40:18
Speaker 2: and then when they released it on home video, they
40:21
Speaker 2: actually made it longer, Like are you kidding me? This
40:26
Speaker 2: is too much.
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Speaker 1: I feel like that movie was made for kids though,
40:29
Speaker 1: and not for you at the age you were when
40:31
Speaker 1: it came out.
40:33
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I won't. I won't go on my Star
40:36
Speaker 2: Wars rant.
40:38
Speaker 1: Yeah, we don't have time for that today. I Yeah,
40:40
Speaker 1: I really like Mad Max, I really liked Freery Broad.
40:42
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to this even though Anya Taylor Joy,
40:45
Speaker 1: as bad ass as she is, doesn't look like Charlie's.
40:48
Speaker 2: Therein to me.
40:49
Speaker 1: But you know, the Wastelands can do a lot to
40:51
Speaker 1: a person, so I'll take Yeah.
40:53
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, well, let me put it to you
40:55
Speaker 2: this way. If the Wastelands, if the if the Ravages
40:59
Speaker 2: of the Waste langs and turned an Anya Taylor Joy
41:01
Speaker 2: into a short, at least they're on They're not that bad, right, right?
41:07
Speaker 2: Go for one one gorgeous young woman into another gorgeous,
41:12
Speaker 2: slightly older woman is okay.
41:15
Speaker 1: I agree, Maybe maybe we all need a little wasteland.
41:18
Speaker 1: That's not true. The other thing I'll say is, like,
41:20
Speaker 1: I'm you and I have both kind of talked about
41:23
Speaker 1: prequels and how much do we actually need them before?
41:26
Speaker 1: But her character, like was a cool character, and we
41:28
Speaker 1: learned very little about her. So I think this prequel
41:30
Speaker 1: is okay as opposed to the next prequel we're about
41:34
Speaker 1: to talk about, which is the prequel to Ted. You
41:37
Speaker 1: know that horrible Seth MacFarlane movie about a talking teddy
41:40
Speaker 1: bear that everybody can hear.
41:42
Speaker 2: Yeah, we got a We got a trailer for a
41:46
Speaker 2: prequel series that'll run on Peacock. It is also, of
41:49
Speaker 2: course called Ted and Ariel, I want to ask you
41:53
Speaker 2: an important so did you watch the trailer?
41:57
Speaker 1: Yeah?
41:58
Speaker 2: Okay, how many times did you laugh?
42:01
Speaker 1: Zero? Oh?
42:03
Speaker 2: Hey, you laughed just as many times as I did.
42:08
Speaker 1: I you know, and sometimes I like Seth MacFarlane and
42:11
Speaker 1: I loved the Orville. This property is just not for me.
42:16
Speaker 2: Yeah, same here, Like it's just it just comes across
42:19
Speaker 2: as obnoxious and mean spirited, but not in a funny way.
42:24
Speaker 2: Like it's just Yeah, I don't know, I do not
42:28
Speaker 2: get the appeal at all, Like there's the gimmick. I
42:31
Speaker 2: get the gimmick. The gimmick Teddy Bear comes to life
42:35
Speaker 2: turns out to be a foul mouthed, pot smoking, sexist
42:41
Speaker 2: lowlife just like the guy who's his best friend?
42:45
Speaker 1: Ha ha ha.
42:46
Speaker 2: Isn't that a funny concept? The problem is that's it.
42:50
Speaker 2: That's all I see. Like, I don't see anything beyond
42:52
Speaker 2: this concept, which I don't necessarily find that funny to
42:55
Speaker 2: begin with, because I've seen other movies like Meet the Feebles,
42:59
Speaker 2: where you you take the concept of like the characters
43:02
Speaker 2: like puppet characters or Avenue Q if you want to
43:05
Speaker 2: talk about stage version, these characters that would normally be
43:09
Speaker 2: geared towards kids being actually terrible characters or whatever. I've
43:13
Speaker 2: seen it before, and I've seen it done better. So
43:17
Speaker 2: this did not appeal to me, even in the slightest.
43:21
Speaker 1: Yeah, especially like I could even maybe understand if they're
43:24
Speaker 1: like this shows how the main character got to be
43:26
Speaker 1: that foul mouth, you know, sarcastic, poor minded person, But
43:34
Speaker 1: it doesn't do that. And even Scott Grimes, who plays
43:36
Speaker 1: the data in it, who I love from the Orville
43:39
Speaker 1: and He was even in my very favorite Christmas movie
43:41
Speaker 1: of all time way back in the day, The Night
43:44
Speaker 1: They Saved Christmas. He played one of the kids. He
43:47
Speaker 1: couldn't even save this trailer for me.
43:49
Speaker 2: Yeah, I yeah, this was a total miss for me
43:53
Speaker 2: as well. Maybe folks who are big fans of Ted
43:57
Speaker 2: the film, no shade on you. If you like that,
44:00
Speaker 2: that's awesome. It's just your taste is different from Mars.
44:02
Speaker 2: That's totally cool. Different tastes are great. Maybe you will
44:06
Speaker 2: find the series trailer to be knee slappingly hilarious, But
44:11
Speaker 2: for me, it was just like, I do not I'm
44:15
Speaker 2: not gonna hate watch this. I did that for Velma,
44:17
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna do it for this. Am I am good?
44:22
Speaker 1: Yeah, the next trailer you're gonna have to talk about
44:25
Speaker 1: because I you added it and I didn't get to
44:27
Speaker 1: watch it before.
44:28
Speaker 2: Oh okay, So this is This is a series that
44:31
Speaker 2: Bruce Campbell is hosting. It's called Discontinued and according to
44:35
Speaker 2: the trailer by Bruce Campbell. By the way, this is
44:39
Speaker 2: not a fictional like narrative based series from what I
44:43
Speaker 2: can tell, but it does have a premise, and that premise,
44:47
Speaker 2: apparently is that the year is twenty thirty seven, and
44:50
Speaker 2: it's a dystopian future and everybody is kind of locked away,
44:55
Speaker 2: and for some reason, Bruce Campbell has to talk about
44:59
Speaker 2: different stuff that has been discontinued, and like, I'm talking
45:03
Speaker 2: about real stuff in the real world, So like there
45:05
Speaker 2: would be an episode that would go into an actual
45:09
Speaker 2: thing that is no longer really a thing. So like
45:12
Speaker 2: VHS tapes could be an example, right, because those have
45:16
Speaker 2: been discontinued. No one is making new VHS tapes. The
45:19
Speaker 2: last company to do that stopped a couple of years ago.
45:23
Speaker 2: So that could be an episode to talk about the history,
45:25
Speaker 2: evolution and then the discontinuation of the VHS tape. That
45:31
Speaker 2: would be an episode. But not just that. It's things
45:33
Speaker 2: like television series or various specific products. That kind of
45:38
Speaker 2: thing so very weird that they have it set in
45:41
Speaker 2: this premise, set in a dystopian future. But I dig
45:46
Speaker 2: the idea.
45:47
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, me too. I do dig that idea, and
45:51
Speaker 1: I will look forward to watching the trailer when we
45:53
Speaker 1: get off of this episode. And that is it. Jonathan,
46:01
Speaker 1: If our dear friends want to talk to us about
46:04
Speaker 1: any of the things that they've talked about that we've
46:07
Speaker 1: talked about today, or that they've talked about. Really, they
46:10
Speaker 1: could just share their day with us too. How do
46:12
Speaker 1: they reach a slash you?
46:15
Speaker 2: That's pretty simple. So tonight, when you go to bed,
46:20
Speaker 2: that beloved stuffed animal that you've had forever and ever
46:23
Speaker 2: is going to make its way right up to you
46:26
Speaker 2: and start talking with you, and you're going to reminisce
46:30
Speaker 2: about all the great times you had together. But over
46:33
Speaker 2: the course of the conversation you're going to discover this
46:36
Speaker 2: stuffed animal is a pretty terrible person. But it's still
46:42
Speaker 2: the stuffed animal that you loved as a kid, So
46:45
Speaker 2: you can't just throw it out. I mean, this is
46:49
Speaker 2: this stuffed animals stuck with you, thick and thin, So
46:51
Speaker 2: you're gonna have to just sort of endure its company,
46:54
Speaker 2: and day after day, the stuffed animal is going to
46:58
Speaker 2: be walking around with you and calm on your life
47:01
Speaker 2: and occasionally embarrassing you to terrible degrees, apparently not realizing
47:08
Speaker 2: that it's doing that. But it's gonna be making you
47:11
Speaker 2: feel like crap in front of people you love. By
47:15
Speaker 2: the same time, it's gonna be like, oh, I'm sorry,
47:17
Speaker 2: I didn't know, And you're gonna have to forgive it.
47:20
Speaker 2: That's gonna go on for about three months until you
47:24
Speaker 2: have reached a point where you can just no longer
47:26
Speaker 2: even stand to look at this thing, because that's how
47:29
Speaker 2: angry it makes you. And you're going to be trying
47:32
Speaker 2: to go to sleep, and it's going to be talking
47:34
Speaker 2: to you about some terrible thing that you did when
47:36
Speaker 2: you were five years old, and it's the sort of
47:39
Speaker 2: thing that would keep you up if you just like
47:41
Speaker 2: you're about to drift off and it suddenly pops into
47:43
Speaker 2: your head and you just feel ashamed and angry at
47:46
Speaker 2: yourself all over again. He's gonna really start twisting the
47:49
Speaker 2: knife on that. You're just gonna turn to your stuffed
47:51
Speaker 2: animal and you're just gonna start ripping it apart, like
47:54
Speaker 2: you're gonna tear its head off, and it will be
47:56
Speaker 2: screaming the whole time. It will be screaming the entire
48:00
Speaker 2: time you'll be ripping its arms and legs off. And
48:03
Speaker 2: then when it's laying there in pieces next to your bed,
48:07
Speaker 2: the head will look and say, Jonathan wants to know
48:11
Speaker 2: what your question is. You can ask it and then
48:14
Speaker 2: I'll hear and I'll send you an email and.
48:16
Speaker 1: If you've man, we really need to get you to
48:19
Speaker 1: write some more mashups because these are getting dark. If
48:23
Speaker 1: you've given your stuffed animals therapy or just sent them
48:27
Speaker 1: to the Island of Misfit Toys and so you can't
48:29
Speaker 1: or won't do that. You can also reach out to
48:31
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48:40
Speaker 1: I still don't remember the handle on Blue Sky, but
48:43
Speaker 1: I'm not on there much right now, And if you
48:47
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48:58
Speaker 1: Thanks to everybody who's who piped in about dotor who
49:01
Speaker 1: on the discord this week. We love those conversations. You
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Speaker 1: all super super wrong and in the happy beginning of
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Speaker 1: December until next time, I have been Aeriel uh mist Caston.
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Speaker 2: And I have been Jonathan. I'm on vacation Strickland, Fuck
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