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LNC Resolves to Be Geekier in 2026 · Large Nerdron Collider

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Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Welcome to the large Ner Junk Collider podcast.
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Speaker 1: The podcast it's all about the geeky news 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 it. I'm Ariel cast and with me is always
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Speaker 1: is the brilliant Jonathan Strickland.
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Speaker 2: Happy New Year, half beebirs date yep, just Frosty this
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Speaker 2: new man. So, Ariel, how long is today's episode going
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Speaker 2: to be?
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Speaker 1: Very very short? Yes, I say that we might end
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Speaker 1: up talking for four hours, but.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but it would just literally be us chatting because
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Speaker 2: we both did some digging during the week between Christmas
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Speaker 2: and New Year's Day. It turns out that Hollywood's pretty
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Speaker 2: quiet at that time. There was really not that much
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Speaker 2: more to bring up. I had like a horror movie trailer. Uh,
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Speaker 2: there's like a movie called Apex that looks like yet
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Speaker 2: another take on the most dangerous game, you know, hunting
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Speaker 2: humans kind of thing, but not a whole lot. There's
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Speaker 2: like the Avengers doomsday stuff, but that's been leaking like crazy,
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Speaker 2: right with the Captain America and Thor and next I
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Speaker 2: think is x Men.
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Speaker 1: So there was a bridget a bridger O Lord Almighty,
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Speaker 1: there was a Bridgerton trailer and a wonder Man trailer
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Speaker 1: and a Moumpet Show trailer, but not much.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the Bridgerton trailer, by the way, In case you're
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Speaker 2: wondering what this this season storyline is, it's Cinderella. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: it's just Cinderella like literally instead of a instead of
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Speaker 2: a slipper, it's a glove. But it is Cinderella. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: So we we didn't really put together a show because
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Speaker 2: there just wasn't enough to stitch together. But we did
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Speaker 2: want to say happy New Year to all of you
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Speaker 2: and to say that we will be back next week
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Speaker 2: with an actual show. Uh, just for have you seen
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Speaker 2: anything cool since the last time we recorded?
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Speaker 1: This has been my RESTful holiday. So I have watched
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Speaker 1: so much. I am caught up on Fallout.
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Speaker 2: I'm an episode behind, so I need to watch episode three.
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Speaker 1: Yes, I've finished season one of Pluribis.
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Speaker 2: So did I great? Loved it? What do you think?
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Speaker 1: I love the direction the last couple of episodes took
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Speaker 1: and the journey they took us on as viewers because
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Speaker 1: it made us question what was okay, what wasn't? Who
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Speaker 1: was okay who wasn't? And I thought it was all
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Speaker 1: handled incredibly. Well, it's one of those shows that make
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Speaker 1: you think and talk.
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Speaker 2: Yes, I also I love that it's interesting to me.
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Speaker 2: Not to give too much away, but we now have
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Speaker 2: two protagonists, neither of whom are particularly likable, but you
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Speaker 2: understand where they're coming from.
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Speaker 1: The second can protagony. Yes, that's the thing. The second protagonist,
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Speaker 1: I couldn't tell. There were moments I hated him. At
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Speaker 1: moments I'm like, well that was really decent.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, it's interesting, like just like just like Carol,
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Speaker 2: he has his own he has his own voibles and quirks. Yeah. Also,
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Speaker 2: you learned that he can fit handily into the trunk
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Speaker 2: of a car.
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Speaker 1: You know, Hollywood puts a lot of people in car trunks.
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Speaker 1: It is hard for me to do.
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Speaker 2: I've been I've been in one before because you know,
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Speaker 2: scamming drive in theater used to be a thing.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, I've watched all of Task Master New Zealand
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Speaker 1: that is available to watch. There's technically a sixth season,
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Speaker 1: but that's not on YouTube, so I couldn't watch it.
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Speaker 1: I tried real hard to find it, and I've started
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Speaker 1: Task Master Australia. Australia. That was so bad I watched
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Speaker 1: a Bit Christmas for the first time this year. That
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Speaker 1: was really cute, like a kinder Christmas story.
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Speaker 2: Nice.
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Speaker 1: No, that's the one with Neil Patrick Harris where he's
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Speaker 1: talking to his daughter about when he was a kid
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Speaker 1: and he really wanted a Nintendo for Christmas.
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Speaker 2: Oh, I remember, I remember vaguely seeing the trailer for that.
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Speaker 2: I think we even talked about it years ago.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it was just cute. The kid actors
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Speaker 1: were really good, the adults were great. You know, is
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Speaker 1: an amazing movie. No, but it was a delightful movie
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Speaker 1: For Christmas Day, I watched both seasons of Smiga Dune
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Speaker 1: and I started the first episode of Death by Lightning,
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Speaker 1: which is that one about Charles Gatto.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and Garfield James Garfield. Yeah, not the cat the President. Yeah. Wow,
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Speaker 2: you watched way more than I did. I watched, Like
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Speaker 2: I said, blur of Us, I'm an episode behind on Fallout.
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Speaker 2: I did get my wife hooked on Superstore.
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Speaker 1: Oh good.
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Speaker 2: So we watched season one on New Year's Eve. We
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Speaker 2: watched because there's only eleven episodes, but still, like that's
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Speaker 2: a lot, right, But we started watching at around six
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Speaker 2: or seven pm, so we were able to watch it
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Speaker 2: all the way up to the point where you know
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Speaker 2: the ball drops or whatever. Here in Georgia it used
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Speaker 2: to be the peach drop, but they got rid of
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Speaker 2: it this year. And then we wished each other happy
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Speaker 2: to Year, and then went to bed, and then we
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Speaker 2: since we both had the day off yesterday, we're recording
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Speaker 2: this on the second of January. We watched all of
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Speaker 2: season two. We binged a twenty two episode season in
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Speaker 2: one day.
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Speaker 1: Episodes like ten minutes, right, so.
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Speaker 2: Half an hour. But still she likes it, but finds
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Speaker 2: it the cringe humor hard to endure. And it's not
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Speaker 2: like all the humor is cringe, but a lot of
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Speaker 2: it is. And I told her the character I thought
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Speaker 2: was the cringiest, and I had forgotten in the first
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Speaker 2: season there are other characters who are far more cringy.
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Speaker 2: So she thought it was crazy. But then in season two,
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Speaker 2: my pick really stepped up to the plate, and she's like, Okay,
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Speaker 2: I see what you were saying. I'm like, yeah, you
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Speaker 2: gotta remember I was up to season five when we
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Speaker 2: started back on this, so but uh, but yeah, anyway,
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Speaker 2: that's not very geeky, but it is. I enjoy it
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Speaker 2: because Mark McKinney, isn't it And he was a member
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Speaker 2: of Kids in the Hall and I was a huge
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Speaker 2: Kids in the Hall fan. And occasionally some geeky actors
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Speaker 2: very occasionally will show up and at Sean Gunn has
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Speaker 2: a cameo in one episode, like he plays a customer
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Speaker 2: for one scene in one episode. So, and there's an
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Speaker 2: Olympics episode that has a bunch of Olympic athletes as
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Speaker 2: just little visual cameos, including oh, what's her name? The gymnast?
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Speaker 2: Do you remember the gymnasts who did the smirk where
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Speaker 2: she had like her lips all screwed up to one
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Speaker 2: side of her face, like she's doing this little pose
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Speaker 2: where she's got you know, this little little if you
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Speaker 2: do Olympic smirk. Hers is the first picture that comes up.
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Speaker 1: I was not a huge Mikayla Maron fan.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but you know who I'm talking about. She has
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Speaker 2: a cameo in it where she's trying on an outfit
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Speaker 2: and looking at herself in the mirror, and of course
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Speaker 2: she does the smirk. So cute little moments like that.
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Speaker 2: There's a bit where Terry Lipenski is walking down the
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Speaker 2: down the aisle and they have a slippery floor sign
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Speaker 2: out and she slips and then does a full pirouette
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Speaker 2: and then keeps going. Just cute, little little gags like
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Speaker 2: that that I thought were cute. Anyway, that's really all
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Speaker 2: I've seen, Like I haven't. There's a lot of stuff
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Speaker 2: that's on my list of things that I want to
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Speaker 2: check out, but I just haven't yet. So and any
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Speaker 2: do you have any New Year's resolutions at all, or
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Speaker 2: any particular geeky ones.
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Speaker 1: I mean, just the same stuff that I try to
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Speaker 1: do every year. Try to make sure that I'm getting
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Speaker 1: my workouts in, especially since I'm on a GLP one now.
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Speaker 1: Not necessarily to lose weight, but it does help. And
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Speaker 1: I need to lose weight because I have a back injury.
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Speaker 1: But you know, it's important if you're on one of
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Speaker 1: those to make sure you're getting a lot of protein
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Speaker 1: and eating healthy and getting all your nutrients and working
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Speaker 1: out because it can make you lose muscle mass. And
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Speaker 1: as a woman that's especially important not to do so
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Speaker 1: work out more. I am working on mindfulness. So I'm
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Speaker 1: a notory you know this, Jonathan. I am a notorious overthinker,
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Speaker 1: and I don't want to do that anymore. So that's
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Speaker 1: this is my year to break that habit.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think if I had any gentle advice for you,
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Speaker 2: it would be to say no to more things. Ariels
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Speaker 2: has a tendency to say yes to every opportunity, which
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Speaker 2: I understand to an extent because you never know which
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Speaker 2: opportunity is going to be the big one, or maybe
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Speaker 2: you'll meet somebody that would be really useful for you
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Speaker 2: to know, or even just you know, making friends and
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Speaker 2: all that kind of stuff. But it also means that
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Speaker 2: I worry about Ariel becoming like Bilbo Baggins and being
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Speaker 2: butter stretched over, spread over too much bread, like spread
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Speaker 2: yourself too thin.
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Speaker 1: Listen, I don't know how not to hustle, but yes,
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Speaker 1: I am working on that, like I want to. So
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Speaker 1: I love doing so many different things, so many hobbies,
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Speaker 1: and I want to make sure that I have time
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Speaker 1: for that and also time to like work on my house.
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Speaker 1: It's sadly I don't have any super geeky, super geeky resolutions,
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Speaker 1: but they will all enable me to do more geeky things,
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Speaker 1: I think.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I get that. Yeah, I don't have a whole
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Speaker 2: lot of geeky resolutions other than I do want to
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Speaker 2: try to get to the theater to see more films
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Speaker 2: this year if I can. I saw a few last year,
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Speaker 2: and overall, I enjoyed my experiences. I didn't have any
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Speaker 2: like terrible movie going experiences, like one of those where
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Speaker 2: you know people are not paying attention or talking through
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Speaker 2: the whole thing or whatever. I didn't have any of those,
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Speaker 2: which I'm thankful for. But I also feel like there
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Speaker 2: were some movies that I could have seen that that
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Speaker 2: I wanted to see, and I just let come and
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Speaker 2: go and now I'm just waiting for them to Like
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Speaker 2: The Long Walk is a great example, though I don't
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Speaker 2: know who would go to see that with me. I
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Speaker 2: probably have to go by myself on that one. But yeah,
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Speaker 2: Shay wouldn't do it either. Becca wouldn't do it either.
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Speaker 2: So it starts to my list of people that I'm
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Speaker 2: willing to hang out with starts getting real small once
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Speaker 2: you knock those names off of it. But yeah, I
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Speaker 2: do want to try and get to the theater to
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Speaker 2: see more movies this year if possible, especially since with
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Speaker 2: the fate of Warner Brothers Discovery still not fully decided
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Speaker 2: that could potentially have a huge impact on the theater
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Speaker 2: industry in general, no matter who gets it, whether it's
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Speaker 2: Paramount or Netflix, right, So I definitely want to have
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Speaker 2: that experience when it's warranted. Not every movie I think
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Speaker 2: merits a trip to the theater, but for the ones
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Speaker 2: that do, I want to make more of an effort.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. And I tried to see The Stranger
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Speaker 1: Things Finale in the movie theater. Originally I was like,
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Speaker 1: I have to. I know, when we first talked about
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Speaker 1: it coming out on Thanksgiving than Christmas the New Year's
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Speaker 1: I was like, well, that's horrible. I hate that because
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Speaker 1: I'll be busy, but it was really nice to have
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Speaker 1: something to sit and do that was new. I was
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Speaker 1: just like, oh, yes, we're going to do that now
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Speaker 1: after Thanksgiving and after Christmas and on New Year's Eve
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Speaker 1: while waiting either for New Year's Eve to happen or
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Speaker 1: you know, needing some downtime after the holidays. So it
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Speaker 1: actually ended up being very nice to have that available
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Speaker 1: and new to watch. I try to see it in
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Speaker 1: the theater on New Year's even everywhere was sold out.
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Speaker 2: Wow.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. And then I was like, well we could see
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Speaker 1: it New Year's Day because it was in theaters on
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Speaker 1: New Year's day as well, but we wanted to go
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Speaker 1: ahead and watch it.
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Speaker 2: So you watched, So you watched the conclusion, yep, well
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Speaker 2: was okay. Now keep in mind I've only ever seen
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Speaker 2: season one, But did you feel it was a suitable
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Speaker 2: conclusion for the series as a whole or did you
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Speaker 2: have any issues with it?
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Speaker 1: I know some people had some issues. They didn't really
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Speaker 1: hit me there. The biggest issue I had and some
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Speaker 1: other people have had this too, and I don't think
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Speaker 1: it deterred from the overall enjoyment of the final season
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Speaker 1: is there are some very emotional moments during very tense,
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Speaker 1: like time sensitive portions of stuff that was happening that
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Speaker 1: felt like they took forever to get through. And I'm like,
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Speaker 1: I know that you're having this emotional heart to heart,
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Speaker 1: but you're about to die. Yeah, abbreviate it right.
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Speaker 2: It would be like if the if the brother and
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Speaker 2: sister in Jurassic Park decided to have a deep like
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Speaker 2: reconciliation while the Velociraptor is figuring out how to open
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Speaker 2: the freezer door.
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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, and I know that, you know movie magic,
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Speaker 1: It kind the action kind of pauses so you can
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Speaker 1: have that heart to heart, but there was a lot
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Speaker 1: of that. One of the honest trailers for the final
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Speaker 1: season of Stranger Things was like, everything is exposition and
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Speaker 1: explaining the plot because it's confusing. I didn't find that
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Speaker 1: an issue at all, you know, but I felt like
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Speaker 1: there was enough show and tell. But yeah, there were
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Speaker 1: just a couple of moments where I'm like, Okay, this
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Speaker 1: heartfelt has gone on long enough. Let's but you know,
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Speaker 1: they wanted they wanted everybody to to have their chance.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, And by then you're talking about an ensemble
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Speaker 2: that's much much larger than what was in season one.
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Speaker 2: So if you are determined to have every character have
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Speaker 2: that kind of moment, then clearly that's why the run
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Speaker 2: time for these episodes is pretty darn long, Like each
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Speaker 2: one is about the length of a movie, and then
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Speaker 2: you've got a full season of them. I understand that.
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Speaker 2: I did find it heartwarming that eleven finally turned twelve.
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Speaker 2: That's good. I'm glad that happened.
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Speaker 1: All of the epilogue stuff was nice. You know, the
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Speaker 1: characters were really crying, and you know, I got misty
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Speaker 1: eyed too, and I'm sure that plenty of other people did,
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Speaker 1: partially because you've just been on this journey with these
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Speaker 1: characters for so long, and so we were like ten
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Speaker 1: years for five season. That's so much, And I'm like,
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Speaker 1: it's really not that long.
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Speaker 2: No, I mean you look at things, like, you know,
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Speaker 2: there are shows out there that would take a year
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Speaker 2: or longer between season seven, and so I'm looking at you,
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Speaker 2: and you know, you just realize, like that's kind of
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Speaker 2: the trade off you get with TV these days, Like
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Speaker 2: we're getting these these stige shows that are shorter seasons.
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Speaker 2: They're longer than a movie, so they can take their
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Speaker 2: time and tell a story that you really couldn't tell
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Speaker 2: in a movie. They're shorter than the traditional United States
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Speaker 2: version of a television season, where you'd have anywhere between
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Speaker 2: twenty and twenty six episodes in the season, because if
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Speaker 2: you did do that, if you forced it into that,
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Speaker 2: you would have just a huge amount of space that
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Speaker 2: you'd be treading water rather than developing characters or story
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Speaker 2: or whatever. And because of the production values, you can't
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Speaker 2: just churn out season after season, so there's these long
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Speaker 2: delays between them. In the meantime, you can have all
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Speaker 2: sorts of different stuff, like I don't know, a pandemic
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Speaker 2: or union strikes that really impact production. So it's a
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Speaker 2: different world than the one that we grew up in,
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Speaker 2: where you just knew, like every September you would get
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Speaker 2: a new slate of shows and new seasons and they
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Speaker 2: would last you until early June.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, But there were several moments in the epilogue
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Speaker 1: where characters were crying because of course they're all finally
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Speaker 1: able to move on in life, right whichever one survived.
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Speaker 1: I don't want to ruin that for anybody, but you know,
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Speaker 1: I was like, I bet those I don't know for certain,
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Speaker 1: I haven't looked into it, but I bet those are
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Speaker 1: the last scenes that were filmed, because that's how I
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Speaker 1: would cry if I knew my ten year project was
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Speaker 1: ending and I wouldn't get to do it anymore, that
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Speaker 1: is how I would cry. So I was projecting a bit.
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Speaker 2: It's kind of like when you see the behind the
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Speaker 2: scenes footage from the Lord of the Rings movies, where
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Speaker 2: they had been working together for months and months and
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Speaker 2: months shooting three films all together at the same time,
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Speaker 2: and like when it finally would get to be a
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Speaker 2: rap day for a particular cast member, it was always
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Speaker 2: a huge emotional release.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I'm getting cheery about it, but also you know,
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Speaker 1: it's it's Georgia. It was filmed in Georgia, where you
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Speaker 1: and I are located, and it's it is lovely to
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Speaker 1: have projects that are so successful and bring people so
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Speaker 1: much joy filmed in the state. I mean, as an actor,
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Speaker 1: I love it because I want there to be more
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Speaker 1: stuff filmed in the state. You know. And I have
17:19
Speaker 1: friends who who were in it. A Renny. I don't
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Speaker 1: know if you ever knew this or any but there
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Speaker 1: was a Reny who had a featured extra role in it.
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Speaker 1: There were a couple of people I've acted with on
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Speaker 1: stage shows that have been in it.
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Speaker 2: And I knew the the science teacher Randy Haydens. I've
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Speaker 2: known him for I've known him for years.
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Speaker 1: He kicked butt in the final season.
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Speaker 2: Oh he was still around. So that's the thing is
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Speaker 2: I have lost touch with Randy, so I didn't. I
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Speaker 2: was like, gosh, I sure, hope he's still in it.
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Speaker 2: I don't know if he is.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he was delightful, so you know it. I have
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Speaker 1: other friends who auditioned it never got in it. But
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Speaker 1: you know, there's that always that hope of like next season, right,
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Speaker 1: they like me season role for me, Yeah, and.
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Speaker 2: Like it's it's always fun to watch projects where if
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Speaker 2: I pay really close attention, usually it's the background, but
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Speaker 2: I might see people that I know personally, Like several
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Speaker 2: of the Marvel shows were like that, or where if
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Speaker 2: you paid really close attention and looked in the background.
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Speaker 1: Uh.
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Speaker 2: Like there were a couple that were shot on location
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Speaker 2: at the Georgia Renaissance Festival, which often would would lease
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Speaker 2: itself out as a shooting location in the off season,
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Speaker 2: and occasionally I would say, like, oh, there's people I know,
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Speaker 2: and I know those places I remember. I think it
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Speaker 2: was low key where I got real. I got real
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Speaker 2: personickety because they put shop signs on different shops than
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Speaker 2: where they normally would be, and I'm like, that's not
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Speaker 2: where that shop is.
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Speaker 1: I got real personicity because and I realized that they
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Speaker 1: weren't at the Georgia Renaissance Festival. But the sensibilities that
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Speaker 1: I know that happened at a Renaissance festival were not
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Speaker 1: what they portrayed in that show, and it bothered me.
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Speaker 2: Well, to be fair, I think it was supposed to
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Speaker 2: be a Renaissance festival in like Michigan or something, so
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Speaker 2: maybe they just do it differently there anyway. Yeah, it's
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Speaker 2: not really any other resolutions I can think of or
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Speaker 2: anything that are in the geek sphere. But you know,
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Speaker 2: we are looking forward to seeing what comes our way
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Speaker 2: this year. I mean, there's lots of stuff I'm anticipating.
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Speaker 2: I wish I could say I'm anticipating Avengers doomsday, but
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Speaker 2: I feel like this whole, like last couple of phases
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Speaker 2: just haven't really resonated with me in the same way
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Speaker 2: that the first three did.
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Speaker 1: So, yeah, we got a trailer for now we're kind
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Speaker 1: of vaguely talking about our show notes the view we had.
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Speaker 1: We got a trailer for wonder Man, which directly addresses that,
19:55
Speaker 1: and yet at the same time, I still have no
19:57
Speaker 1: idea what the show is.
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Speaker 2: I haven't I haven't seen that trailer yet because I
20:01
Speaker 2: knew we weren't going to be doing a full episode,
20:03
Speaker 2: so I couldn't bother watching all this.
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Speaker 1: It talks about superhero fatigue and trying to launch a
20:08
Speaker 1: superhero show during superhero fatigue. That's legitimately the beginning of
20:11
Speaker 1: the second trailer.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I'm not convinced that it's really superhero
20:16
Speaker 2: fatigue though, you know, because I was still excited about
20:20
Speaker 2: Superman coming out, you know, and I'm still excited about
20:23
Speaker 2: Supergirl coming out. So it's I think it's more that
20:28
Speaker 2: I just feel personally for me, that Marvel made some
20:34
Speaker 2: major missteps post End Game, and some of those were
20:39
Speaker 2: unavoidable because of you know, things were happening outside the
20:43
Speaker 2: film universe, specifically Jonathan Majors, but other things. I just
20:49
Speaker 2: felt like they were making bad decisions, and they would
20:52
Speaker 2: make other bad decisions to try and correct for earlier
20:56
Speaker 2: bad decisions. It just never worked.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, And they had a formula too that they
21:03
Speaker 1: tended to follow. They'd try to address it up different ways,
21:06
Speaker 1: but it was always kind of Act one, Act two, decent,
21:09
Speaker 1: Act three fighted giant cgi monster and.
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Speaker 2: Win right or or Act three Act three hero faces
21:16
Speaker 2: off against villain version of the hero, right Yeah, yeah, yeah,
21:20
Speaker 2: like that was but that was really that's what they
21:22
Speaker 2: established from Iron Man on, Like every single time, it's like,
21:26
Speaker 2: all right, and now our hero will face essentially a
21:29
Speaker 2: bad guy version of what the hero is.
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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, and so like I mean, but they've addressed that,
21:35
Speaker 1: they know that that's an issue, they know that they've
21:37
Speaker 1: taken the steps, which is why we're getting less stuff
21:39
Speaker 1: from Marvel right now. I wish they were filming it
21:41
Speaker 1: in Georgia not the UK, but you know whatever. But like,
21:47
Speaker 1: I don't know, the thing that has made me least
21:50
Speaker 1: excited is your fan theory about Doomsday, especially after seeing
21:54
Speaker 1: the Thor snippet.
21:55
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, stealing all the babies.
21:57
Speaker 1: Stealing all the babies because Thor is talking about having
22:00
Speaker 1: a daughter and how that's so important to him. And
22:02
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh no, John, that's right.
22:04
Speaker 2: This is all about this is all about doom making
22:07
Speaker 2: a super baby super villain.
22:08
Speaker 1: Group super Baby.
22:11
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're going to conquer the world. Uh yeah. I
22:16
Speaker 2: I maybe I'm wrong. I mean, I would love to
22:19
Speaker 2: be wrong. I think it's such a dumb idea that
22:21
Speaker 2: if if I am right, I'm gonna be like, oh no.
22:25
Speaker 2: But but anyway, it's uh, I'm looking I'm looking forward
22:29
Speaker 2: to a lot of other stuff, you know. I think
22:31
Speaker 2: we're going to get, you know, some more great work
22:36
Speaker 2: from Mike Flanagan. So I'm gonna get my horror fix in.
22:40
Speaker 2: You know, we got carried to look forward to. Uh,
22:43
Speaker 2: We've got stuff from Zach Craigor who did the weapons,
22:48
Speaker 2: and it is working on I think it's Resident Evil
22:51
Speaker 2: that he's working on. It's either Resident Evil or Silent Hill.
22:54
Speaker 2: It's one of the two.
22:56
Speaker 1: Maybe it's Silent There is a Silent Hill movie coming out,
23:00
Speaker 1: visually stunning.
23:01
Speaker 2: Well, that's yeah, I think he's working on Resident Evil, though.
23:04
Speaker 2: I think he's working on a Resident Evil one if
23:06
Speaker 2: I'm not mistaken. And I remember seeing the Silent Hill
23:09
Speaker 2: trailer because there was a lot of cgi that was
23:11
Speaker 2: a little iffy, but it was an early trailer as well.
23:15
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's you're right, it's Resident Evil.
23:17
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm looking forward to the Muppet Show. I'm looking
23:20
Speaker 2: forward to that for the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary.
23:23
Speaker 2: Oh god, I'm old. Yeah, there's stuff like that that
23:28
Speaker 2: I'm really looking forward to. And obviously we're going to
23:30
Speaker 2: be surprised throughout the year. There's going to be stuff
23:32
Speaker 2: that we weren't anticipating that's going to really delight us.
23:35
Speaker 2: So I'm looking forward to all of that.
23:38
Speaker 1: Yeah, me too, Me too. Something I am doing this
23:41
Speaker 1: is not geeky, but I'm going to add this because
23:43
Speaker 1: I find it very helpful this year. This past year
23:47
Speaker 1: just flew by, and I did a lot of geeky stuff,
23:49
Speaker 1: and it's hard for me to remember all of it.
23:51
Speaker 1: So I'm journaling every day.
23:53
Speaker 2: Nice.
23:53
Speaker 1: I did it in twenty twenty four, Like, even if
23:56
Speaker 1: it's just a voice note in a little app on
23:58
Speaker 1: my phone, I did it in twenty twenty four, and
24:01
Speaker 1: I enjoyed every like that day didn't speed by? I
24:05
Speaker 1: didn't go. Where did the time? That year? Sorry didn't
24:08
Speaker 1: speed by? I didn't go Where did the time go?
24:10
Speaker 1: And I remembered a lot more of the things that
24:11
Speaker 1: I did. So that's something I'm doing. I encourage everybody
24:15
Speaker 1: to do it, even if it's just like today, I
24:17
Speaker 1: had a really good lunch, you know, just something to
24:20
Speaker 1: make sure that you're being present because you want to
24:25
Speaker 1: enjoy the good moments.
24:26
Speaker 2: Yeah, certainly. I have found that as I get older
24:29
Speaker 2: and have medical whipses, my memory is not what it
24:32
Speaker 2: used to be, So that advice would be I should
24:36
Speaker 2: take it. I should do the same thing. On a
24:39
Speaker 2: related note, I think you and I should set aside
24:43
Speaker 2: a day this coming festival season to visit the Georgia
24:49
Speaker 2: Renfair as patrons, not even dressing up necessarily, just like
24:54
Speaker 2: patrons walk around, see what has what's different, because this
24:58
Speaker 2: will be the second year of it under new ownership,
25:01
Speaker 2: and I would argue the first full year of it
25:05
Speaker 2: kind of embracing its new identity. Like they had a
25:09
Speaker 2: spring season, but that was kind of already set in
25:12
Speaker 2: motion before the change in ownership happened, and they had
25:15
Speaker 2: a limited fall season which I did not go to.
25:19
Speaker 2: And this coming spring will be their first brand new
25:22
Speaker 2: season with everybody like like who is new, being fully
25:28
Speaker 2: in place for the whole process. So I'm curious to
25:30
Speaker 2: see how that pans out. I've heard good things from
25:36
Speaker 2: friends of people who are working there. I have not
25:39
Speaker 2: heard anything from people working there directly, but that's because
25:42
Speaker 2: I'm not on social media.
25:45
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've talked with one person who was working there
25:49
Speaker 1: directly who is enjoying it. But I would I would
25:53
Speaker 1: very much like to do that, and then we can
25:54
Speaker 1: talk about it and hopefully have some like positive infest news.
25:58
Speaker 1: We can talk about christ show.
26:00
Speaker 2: Yeah maybe maybe if I'm feeling super duper like ambitious,
26:06
Speaker 2: I'll bring my portable recorder and we'll do a field recording.
26:11
Speaker 1: Oh that would be delightful.
26:13
Speaker 2: I don't know that I'll actually do that.
26:15
Speaker 1: But well, along those lines, I would love to, so
26:20
Speaker 1: you know, we did that that video series a while ago. Yeah,
26:24
Speaker 1: every time I go back and watch it, I love it.
26:26
Speaker 2: It was cheesy, yes, but yes, very dorky and corny,
26:30
Speaker 2: but that's my sense of humor.
26:31
Speaker 1: I really enjoyed doing it, and I'm really proud of
26:33
Speaker 1: what we made, and I would love to do more
26:35
Speaker 1: of that. And this is a stretch goal because I
26:39
Speaker 1: know I need to say no to more things, and
26:42
Speaker 1: I don't currently have a computer that I can edit
26:46
Speaker 1: insanely edit videos on, but I would like to get
26:48
Speaker 1: some sort of video content going again.
26:51
Speaker 2: Yeah for Llenc, well, yeah, we can totally. And you know,
26:54
Speaker 2: one other thing we can even explore doing now we're
26:57
Speaker 2: just now we're just having a meeting about her show
27:01
Speaker 2: on the show it hey, but yeah, we one thing
27:04
Speaker 2: we could consider doing is we can create YouTube versions
27:09
Speaker 2: of these these podcasts. Not necessarily if we wanted to
27:12
Speaker 2: keep the video, we could, but because we are using riverside,
27:16
Speaker 2: so we can technically record video and make it a
27:19
Speaker 2: video podcast. Uh, but then we have to worry about
27:23
Speaker 2: what we look like when we're recording, which.
27:25
Speaker 1: Right now I look real good because Jonathan just helped
27:28
Speaker 1: me with an audition.
27:28
Speaker 2: Yeah, aerial looks like a million bucks, and I look
27:32
Speaker 2: like I look like nine miles of bad road.
27:36
Speaker 1: But that's not normally the case. Normally I look pretty rough.
27:39
Speaker 1: I've rolled out of bed.
27:41
Speaker 2: But what we what we can do is we can
27:43
Speaker 2: we can have the audio against like a static image
27:47
Speaker 2: like the logo, right, and just have it up on YouTube,
27:51
Speaker 2: just so it's another point where people can listen. It's
27:53
Speaker 2: not like we're monetizing this show anyway.
27:55
Speaker 1: So no, but I mean I would I would like
27:59
Speaker 1: to get some video content of us doing so. I
28:02
Speaker 1: would like to make more creative stuff with you, Johannah.
28:04
Speaker 2: Yeah, those sketches were a lot of fun.
28:06
Speaker 1: Yeah, if we ever have the time and energy or
28:09
Speaker 1: even just get together and put on a camcorder and
28:11
Speaker 1: record in or.
28:12
Speaker 2: Room together, yeah, no, we definitely. That's another resolution I'm
28:16
Speaker 2: making right here and now, is you and I record
28:19
Speaker 2: at least one episode this year in person, in the
28:23
Speaker 2: same room, so that we can really react off each
28:27
Speaker 2: other and not worry about times when I accidentally jiggled
28:30
Speaker 2: the cable to my microphone, dropping our connection, which has
28:34
Speaker 2: happened twice since we started recording this for sure.
28:37
Speaker 1: So all that to be said, we haven't discussed it before,
28:41
Speaker 1: but you know that means us getting together in the
28:43
Speaker 1: same place to record. And if that's a move that
28:45
Speaker 1: we make, we might be adjusting our release schedule a
28:48
Speaker 1: tiny bit.
28:49
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, because this is also the year when I
28:52
Speaker 2: have to go back into the office, So we'll see
28:55
Speaker 2: how that affects me too. I might be like, screw it,
28:57
Speaker 2: I'm not leaving for anything else, but yeah, we're going to.
29:02
Speaker 2: We're going to. I think leave it there for now.
29:04
Speaker 2: We wish you all the happiest of New years. We
29:08
Speaker 2: hope that twenty twenty six is a great year for
29:12
Speaker 2: all of you out there. And remember, like, celebrating the
29:16
Speaker 2: stuff you love is a beautiful thing. Inviting other people
29:20
Speaker 2: to love the things they love is a beautiful thing
29:22
Speaker 2: as long as it's not hurt anybody, that is. And
29:25
Speaker 2: then and you know, be part of the community, be
29:29
Speaker 2: supportive of one another, love each other, and you know,
29:33
Speaker 2: like and subscribe, Yeah, that.
29:36
Speaker 1: Would be good. And tell tell you yeah, tell your friends.
29:38
Speaker 1: Like Jonathan said, if you want to reach out to
29:41
Speaker 1: us to share your geeky New Year's resolutions or things
29:45
Speaker 1: you're excited about for twenty twenty six, please do. And
29:49
Speaker 1: I'm just kind of stepping over Jonathan here, but on
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29:56
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Speaker 1: and until next time, I am Aeriel Uh. Today I'm
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Speaker 1: going to party like it's twenty twenty six Caston.
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Speaker 2: And I am Jonathan insert joke here. Strickland The Large
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