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LNC Ain't No April Fool · Large Nerdron Collider

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  Speaker 1: Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Large nor Drawn 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 Caston, and with me, as always,
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  Speaker 1: is the superb Jonathan Strickland.
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  Speaker 2: I am taking bets on how often I will mix
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  Speaker 2: up the names Project Hail Mary and Mother Mary.
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  Speaker 1: H four times.
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  Speaker 2: You could very well be right. I know, it's just
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  Speaker 2: I know it's gonna happen. There's going to be a
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  Speaker 2: part where my brain will be in cruise control. I
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  Speaker 2: am going to say either Mother Mary or Project Hail Mary,
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  Speaker 2: but mean the other one, which means for about fifteen
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  Speaker 2: twenty seconds, whoever I'm talking to is going to be
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  Speaker 2: like really confused.
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  Speaker 1: Well do you do? You talk to more people on
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  Speaker 1: this podcast than me?
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  Speaker 2: Not more people on this podcast, and honestly not that
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  Speaker 2: many more people than you, but and just I mean,
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  Speaker 2: like it's you friend of the show, say Lee, and
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  Speaker 2: my partner and my dog, who honestly wouldn't care if
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  Speaker 2: I mixed it up.
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  Speaker 1: I thought you were talking about our listeners, which there
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  Speaker 1: are more than that.
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  Speaker 2: But I don't no, no, no, no, no, listener. I don't.
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  Speaker 2: I'm talking to you. They're listening to us. Okay, I'm
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  Speaker 2: okay talking to them.
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  Speaker 1: Just making sure. Yeah. Well, if I sound irritated to
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  Speaker 1: any of our listeners or at you, Jonathan, just know
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  Speaker 1: it's not. It's that I thought I was done with
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  Speaker 1: the leaf blowers today.
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  Speaker 2: But they have returned.
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  Speaker 1: They have returned. It makes me great listening.
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  Speaker 2: I know I had. We had the the landscapers descend
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  Speaker 2: upon the town homes earlier this week, and it was
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  Speaker 2: particularly loud this time. I will say, Fortunately, whatever that
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  Speaker 2: weird rhythmic like engine sound was that was going on
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  Speaker 2: for days and days and days, I haven't heard it
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  Speaker 2: for a while. So whatever it was, I guess is over.
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  Speaker 1: Either the motorcycle circus has left out or the serial
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  Speaker 1: killer exhibit has gone.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, could have been the serial killer exhibit. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know what would Maybe it was a serial killer who
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  Speaker 2: was like an AC repair man or something and they
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  Speaker 2: just had a very loud AC sound or something. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know. I'm just glad it's gone. I'm also glad
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  Speaker 2: Ariel that we are not recording or publishing this episode
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  Speaker 2: on April first, because it means that our listeners can
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  Speaker 2: trust the things we say. But it does lead us
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  Speaker 2: to the question of the week.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, which is Jonathan is asking, am I asking your question?
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  Speaker 1: Go ahead and have any fun geek do you? I
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  Speaker 1: was just reading it, but it's not a complete sentence,
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  Speaker 1: So let me start over. Do you have any fun
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  Speaker 1: geeky April Fools memories?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? How about you? Do you?
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  Speaker 1: Sure?
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  Speaker 2: Okay? Cool? Well moving on. No. So, so I put
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  Speaker 2: this in because obviously we did just have April Fools,
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  Speaker 2: and I know there are a lot of people who
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  Speaker 2: like have a knee jerk negative reaction to April Fools
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  Speaker 2: because there are so many companies out there that take
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  Speaker 2: it as an opportunity to do just really bad marketing,
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  Speaker 2: and a lot of stuff just isn't funny or it
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  Speaker 2: ends up being kind of mean spirited in the way
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  Speaker 2: that it misleads people, whereas I always like the ones
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  Speaker 2: that were very just overtly silly. And so for me,
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  Speaker 2: one of the companies that used to do this a lot.
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  Speaker 2: The company doesn't exist anymore is Think Geek. Is the
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  Speaker 2: retailer Think Geek, and they had tons of different April
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  Speaker 2: First gags, some of which would later become actual products.
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  Speaker 2: And my favorite example is one of those, and it
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  Speaker 2: was the ton Toon sleeping bag, as in a modeled
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  Speaker 2: after the Tonton from Empire strikes Back, and the sleeping
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  Speaker 2: bag was lined with a pattern that made it look
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  Speaker 2: like ton Toon inards and you know, you might ask, like,
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  Speaker 2: what's the temperature like inside a Tonton sleeping bag and
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  Speaker 2: the answer is it's lukewarm. Yeah, but anyway, that was
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  Speaker 2: my one of my favorites. And for those who are curious,
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  Speaker 2: Think Geek was owned by GameStop, which ultimately kind of
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  Speaker 2: folded Think Geek into the overall company to kind of
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  Speaker 2: streamline things, so Think Geek has its own entity no
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  Speaker 2: longer exists. Resident Beast Think Geek.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I did like Think Geek stuff, and I've
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  Speaker 1: even bought a couple of things that went from April
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  Speaker 1: Fools to real product. I think those are my most
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  Speaker 1: fond ones this year. I did have a few that
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  Speaker 1: I liked too, just because I kept forgetting it was
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  Speaker 1: April Fool's Day and they legit got me. And then
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  Speaker 1: one that was just like, oh, that's so plausible and delightful,
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  Speaker 1: which is Dragon composted on social media that they had
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  Speaker 1: heard their fans, and they were going to do a
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  Speaker 1: dragon Con cruise.
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  Speaker 2: Which not outside the realm of possibility. Comic Con has
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  Speaker 2: done comic Con cruises.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and there's the Joe Coo Cruise which just happened
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  Speaker 1: for this year, which is also huge and geek and
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  Speaker 1: has expanded past geek musicians. But when you click on
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  Speaker 1: the link to learn more about it, you get rick rolled,
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  Speaker 1: which is delightful because I was like, twin Cons just
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  Speaker 1: too big for a cruise, but because it kind of is.
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  Speaker 1: But the two that got me this year were actually
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  Speaker 1: product advertised, and one is I have. We aren't getting
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  Speaker 1: paid for this, but I'm gonna share it because I
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  Speaker 1: was just One was that Tea Drops said they were
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  Speaker 1: bringing back an old product, which was tea in bags
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  Speaker 1: bagged tea full of microplastics.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, obviously very much against their mission statement.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so like the More, At first, I was like, well,
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  Speaker 1: maybe they came up with a better bag in the
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  Speaker 1: More you regularly, Oh yeah, this is April Fools. The
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  Speaker 1: second one got me so good because I'm on this
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  Speaker 1: health journey that I sent it to my friend not
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  Speaker 1: realizing it was April Fools, which was Heatonist, which does
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  Speaker 1: The Hot Ones Interviews sent out an email that they
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  Speaker 1: had a new product for a way Hot sauce like
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  Speaker 1: Keith's Way Hot Hot Sauce, where it had protein in it,
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  Speaker 1: which is also completely plausible, and I was I don't
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  Speaker 1: do hot sauce, but my friend Sarah does, and I
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  Speaker 1: sent it to her and she was like, oh, I
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  Speaker 1: would so get that, but it's probably April Fools and
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  Speaker 1: I'm like.
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  Speaker 2: Dang it, yeah, because everything, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Everything has protein in it now, although I'm sure it's
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  Speaker 1: like claiming a watermelon is organic, right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I used to do well. First of all, I
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  Speaker 2: used to be on social media, but I'm not anymore.
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  Speaker 2: But when I was on social media, I would occasionally
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  Speaker 2: post April Fools gags on my status, and I always
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  Speaker 2: tried to go with something that I felt was just
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  Speaker 2: a little bit too far on the believability scale to
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  Speaker 2: be taken seriously, Like I didn't want to go so
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  Speaker 2: crazy that you knew from sentence one that it was
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  Speaker 2: just a joke. But I always tried to make it implausible.
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  Speaker 2: But after years of people reacting to my status as
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  Speaker 2: if it were truth, I came to the realization that
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  Speaker 2: maybe maybe I should just not because like I wasn't
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  Speaker 2: ever being mean spirited. I wasn't. The joke was always
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  Speaker 2: kind of more on me than anything else. But like
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  Speaker 2: people would get excited for me because I would be
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  Speaker 2: like posting about some sort of weird opportunity, and again,
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  Speaker 2: it was always something that was strange and stretched believability,
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  Speaker 2: but people were so excited for me, and I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: this feels bad because they were like genuinely feeling good
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  Speaker 2: for me, and I'm just making a joke. I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna stop doing this. I can't. It doesn't feel
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  Speaker 2: good anymore.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean there is definitely a fine line.
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  Speaker 1: It's it is an art form to do a good
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  Speaker 1: April Fool's joke that doesn't make you or anyone else
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  Speaker 1: feel bad.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Like, like I would never want to do one
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  Speaker 2: of those really tacky ones, like like you know, like
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  Speaker 2: relationship related ones or pregnancy related ones like those to
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  Speaker 2: me are always the worst. So the ones I did
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  Speaker 2: were always about like some sort of weird achievement that
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  Speaker 2: didn't make any sense in my mind. But then I
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  Speaker 2: also know from the get go that it's fake, right,
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  Speaker 2: Like if I were coming at it without knowing it's fake.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe I would buy into it too.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well there's this guy that. First of all, my
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  Speaker 1: company always does really fun ones, like they send an
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  Speaker 1: internal video going like click here, and then they talk
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  Speaker 1: about a new product that they're bringing out and it's
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  Speaker 1: always delightful and fun, or like a new HR initiative
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  Speaker 1: where everybody gets a ballpit since we I worked for.
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  Speaker 2: It, like the dash con Prize.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, my company is entirely remote, so that's why. So
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  Speaker 1: this year was like remote work has benefits, like you
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  Speaker 1: look fifty years younger, So it was in line with that,
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  Speaker 1: a product in line with that. But uh, there's a
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  Speaker 1: there's a guy I follow on YouTube, slash TikTok who
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  Speaker 1: does Adventures in Arida, does role for Sandwich. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if you've ever seen that.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes I have, Yeah, yeah, m bim Bam contributed
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  Speaker 2: to that at one point with like the Wild Magic.
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  Speaker 1: List, a Wild Magic List. They've done a few role
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  Speaker 1: for sandwiches themselves with him in conjunction, which is interesting
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  Speaker 1: because they all have different dietary preferences and some of
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  Speaker 1: them are a little bit more narrow than others. But
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  Speaker 1: that makes it for fun, it makes it extra fun.
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  Speaker 1: In the past, he has done April Fools episodes, like
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  Speaker 1: there is one where he rolled one on everything and
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  Speaker 1: every one on every list was none so bread, none cheese,
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  Speaker 1: none meat, you know, and it was very funny because
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  Speaker 1: it took you a second to get it. This year,
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  Speaker 1: his April Fools stroke was it was just a normal
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  Speaker 1: sandwich episode, normal role for sandwich episode. It was a
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  Speaker 1: weird sandwich.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, yeah, that's a cute series if you're not
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  Speaker 2: familiar with it, Like it's all about randomizing all the
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  Speaker 2: different elements that go together to make a sandwich. Obviously
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  Speaker 2: it's based on whatever he happens to have, like on hand,
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  Speaker 2: but some of them, some of them sound really weird
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  Speaker 2: but turn out to be like, at least according to him,
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  Speaker 2: pretty good. Some of them are monstrosities that should be
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  Speaker 2: banished to the nether realms.
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  Speaker 1: Oh and he has that he has So I own
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  Speaker 1: his cookbook and my husband bought it for me for
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  Speaker 1: a gift because I found the series and now he
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  Speaker 1: shares it with me, and so he has a section
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  Speaker 1: for like, really you should definitely make the sandwich sandwiches
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  Speaker 1: and almost there, I'm going to let you experiment to
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  Speaker 1: figure out because like it's not bad, could be really amazing,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm going to let you figure out how to
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  Speaker 1: tweak it to make it really amazing. And then the abominations,
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  Speaker 1: but it gives you the recipe and like in case
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  Speaker 1: you just want to torture yourself too, and then there's
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  Speaker 1: a section on how to build your own role for
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  Speaker 1: Sandwich Challenge.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's such a cute idea. I'm glad that he
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  Speaker 2: saw a great success because it was such a a
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  Speaker 2: creative this idea that he had. Well, now that we've
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  Speaker 2: talked about April Fools and geekness and such, let's talk
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  Speaker 2: about what we have watched since our last recording. And
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  Speaker 2: we took some time off because I was out of town.
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  Speaker 2: I had offered to record while out of town, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm glad that Ariel talked me out of it because
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  Speaker 2: it would have been a disaster. So thank you Ariel
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  Speaker 2: for talking sanity in to me.
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  Speaker 1: Well, listen, I love our listeners, and I missed when
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  Speaker 1: we don't get to chat with you because we always
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  Speaker 1: get feedback on episodes, and I love it. I love
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  Speaker 1: getting having those conversations. But your mental health and my
• 12:38
  Speaker 1: mental health also are important.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and it would have been it would have
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  Speaker 2: been difficult. There was no space in the place I
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  Speaker 2: was staying at that would have been good for recording
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  Speaker 2: because there were just two rooms really unless I want
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  Speaker 2: to record in the bathroom, which was a third room.
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  Speaker 2: Three rooms total, so not really a good place. I
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  Speaker 2: used to hang out without the input from either a
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  Speaker 2: partner or a dog. So anyway, but I have watched
• 13:08
  Speaker 2: the first two episodes of The Urbs again because because
• 13:13
  Speaker 2: Becca watched the first two with me and she likes them,
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  Speaker 2: so the plan is for us to continue. We just
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  Speaker 2: haven't sat down to watch more yet, but she enjoyed
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  Speaker 2: them the same way I did, so the plan is
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  Speaker 2: to watch the rest of the series. I understand that
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  Speaker 2: you went ahead and watched the whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: I did. I finished it, and I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: spoil anything at all. Yeah, I what I will say
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  Speaker 1: is I think that it was a really good series
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  Speaker 1: and it could be contained to one season and it
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  Speaker 1: could also extend to two seasons. And I think which
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  Speaker 1: because I don't think it's been renewed yet, but whichever
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  Speaker 1: way it goes, I think that it was a great
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  Speaker 1: journey so far.
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  Speaker 2: Great and that would be Yeah, I'm glad to hear
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  Speaker 2: that it's not one of those where it ends like
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  Speaker 2: at a cliffhanger and you're just like, well, are we
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  Speaker 2: going to even get a resolution or not. So I'm
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  Speaker 2: glad to hear that. I also watched the beginning of
• 14:15
  Speaker 2: the film Mercy. This is the one with Chris Pratt
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  Speaker 2: where he's a police officer who is put on trial
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  Speaker 2: by AI and he has like ninety minutes to prove
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  Speaker 2: his innocence or at least to reduce suspicion below a
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  Speaker 2: certain thresholder else he'll be executed at the end of
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  Speaker 2: those ninety minutes. I watched the beginning of it and
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  Speaker 2: turned it off because I did not like it, and
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  Speaker 2: I felt, this is my opinion that it's not very good.
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  Speaker 2: After I popped online and looked at some other reviews.
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  Speaker 2: I am not alone in this opinion, but I'm not
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  Speaker 2: here to say that the movie's bad. I'm just here
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  Speaker 2: to say, like, I really didn't like it, and I
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  Speaker 2: felt that it was kind of lazy, so I bailed,
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  Speaker 2: and I don't feel badly about it. There you go.
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  Speaker 1: I have been watching a lot of stuff because I've
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  Speaker 1: recently decided to be an adult and have a normal everyday,
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  Speaker 1: same time wake up time, which I did anyhow because
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: I work a day job, but that I was going
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: to make it earlier so I could also work out
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: in the mornings. But my treat for getting up and
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: working out first thing in the morning, before I've eaten
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  Speaker 1: or had coffee or anything, is to put on a
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  Speaker 1: TV show while I work out, So I'm watching it
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  Speaker 1: and entertain myself while i work out. So doing that,
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: I have finished all of one piece live action all
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: of Man on the Inside season one in season two,
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  Speaker 1: So there's that, and then I'm watching a bunch of
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: stuff still a Tony Jerry Duty Company retreat, which I
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: know you said you can never do, fallow out the pit,
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  Speaker 1: shrinking the urbs. It's still enjoying all of those we have.
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  Speaker 1: We Oh, this was great For April, Fool's Dropout came
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  Speaker 1: out with a full length episode of On a Bus
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  Speaker 1: a dimension twenty on the Bus run by. Have you
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  Speaker 1: not heard about this?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 1: So there was a game changer a while back that
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  Speaker 1: was like like a shark tank. Basically, pitch your idea
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  Speaker 1: and one of these three contestants will fund it, and
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  Speaker 1: then whoever gets the most whichever idea gets the most
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  Speaker 1: likes on YouTube wins.
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  Speaker 2: So it was oh, I do remember that bit? Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: because it wasn't wasn't vic in this one. In that one.
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  Speaker 1: She she had a pitch, Yes, they had a pitch. Sorry.
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  Speaker 1: And then one of the pitches was by Katie Maravich
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  Speaker 1: for a Dimension twenty series of On a Bus where
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  Speaker 1: she was the dragon Master, and they released like a
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  Speaker 1: five to seven minute clip of it, and it was
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  Speaker 1: hilarious because Katie does not know how to judge and master.
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  Speaker 1: And so this year on April first, they dropped a
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  Speaker 1: full length episode where she came back. She calls that
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  Speaker 1: five to seven minute clip the first season, and this
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  Speaker 1: was the second season and it's barely more organized. And
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  Speaker 1: it was interesting because I found it fun and cheeky,
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: where you know, it's all played up for films. So
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: it felt like to me that whenever the four people
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: playing were all dms. A Aan gar Brendan Lee Mulligan,
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  Speaker 1: Matt Mercer, and then Jasmine I don't remember her last
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  Speaker 1: name at the moment. I haven't watched as much of
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: her stuff, but she did the Coffin Run series of
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  Speaker 1: Dimension twenty and has done a bunch of other really
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: cool things, and they all get really frustrated because they're like,
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  Speaker 1: what is this, Why are we rolling initiative? There's nothing
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  Speaker 1: to roll initiative against, like, you know, ridiculousness. And Katie
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  Speaker 1: would pull stuff in from all the games that they had,
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: Like she had a prop brought in from Critical Role,
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  Speaker 1: and she was using a cup that was the DM
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: cup for Jasmine, and like point she used one of
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  Speaker 1: Brennan's monologues and like all this stuff, and I found
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  Speaker 1: it fun and cheeky and just like a way to
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: goof at this thing that they all get to do.
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: That's so wonderful. And some of my friends were like, oh,
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: it was really kind of a deconstruction of how role
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: playing looks and hit them in a sadder or meaner
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  Speaker 1: way of like how role playing looks to the general
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  Speaker 1: public and how ridiculous it is, and everybody is allowed
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: to interpret art their own way, right, And I'm just
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  Speaker 1: sad that it landed that way for them, because it
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: was ridiculous and fun to me and sometimes infuriating, but like,
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  Speaker 1: in a way.
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  Speaker 2: I can understand that, Like as someone who has played
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: role playing games, though not in decades, at this point,
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: but as someone who has played them in the past, Like,
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: I totally get that there's that kind of prejudice or
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: bias that some people have about role playing games in general,
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: because I recognize it in myself because I feel it
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: toward LARPs.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's fine, which must.
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: I mean, but I recognize it. I'm like, you know
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: what I get that, I feel like it's weird to
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: me that I can RPGs, I can reconcile in my
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: head and LARPs. I'm like, I've been tempted to try it,
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: but I never have apart from like one kind of
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: not even really a LARP, but one semi LARP at
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: a convention once.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, it is not for everybody, and that's
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: completely fine, But what I will say is what makes
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: LARP so magical as the immersion.
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: So, like my husband, even though like there was Calamity
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: and then Eclipse where you're both LARPs that I was
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: involved with, had aspects that he would enjoy, Like the
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: primary weapon was a NERF gun and he was big
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: into NERF guns at the time. He didn't think he
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: would be able to he didn't think the immersion would
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: be enough for him and that's completely reasonable, you know,
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: and it's okay to have your own hobbies and not
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: share hobbies with the people you love, and you know,
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: everybody gets to enjoy their own things, and that's fantastic.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: But what makes LUP so special and why it doesn't
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: translate to film as well, is because you are in
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: that situation. I brought my old roommate out to a
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: larp once and she thought it was gonna be so dumb.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: She just did it to because she loves me and
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: she was humoring me. And she got out there and
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: we were both out as NPCs. We weren't even playing
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: the game. We were NPC's. We had a goal, we
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: knew it was going to happen, and some monsters came
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: up and we both got scared and ran away because
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: we didn't have any weapons. And she was like, I
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: can't believe I was actually scared at that, Like I
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: was afraid that they were going to kill me. As like,
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: because you're in this character headspace, you have a goal
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: and you're invested in that goal in that character, even
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: if for a brief moment, and so like, if you
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: don't have a way to protect yourself and you die
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: and no one finds you. You're like, ah, so, yeah,
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: it's the immersion and if you haven't done it, there's
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: no reason that it should draw you unless that's something
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: you're specifically seeking. But you know, it is interesting. I'm
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: sorry I went on a tangent.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: No, it's fine, it's fine. I was like, uh, you know,
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: I I don't disagree. And also, like we both worked
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: at for the Georgia Renaissance Festival. We've talked about that
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: numerous times. There's obviously a stigma against people who work
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: at renfares too, right, Like, and I understand it. I've
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: met people who helped define that stigma. Yes, yeah, there's
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: a lot. There are a lot of people who work
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: at renisons festivals who are very well adjusted and you know,
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: human beings who can interact in social situations flawlessly, no
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: matter what the context, and there are those who can't. Yes,
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: and that's okay, But but the what's not okay is
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: defining an entire subculture by one part of it, right, Like,
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: that's not the cool thing. So I get it too,
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: But it's it's funny because like I understand the reaction
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: of feeling like like something is playing up aspects of
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: a hobby that people think is ridiculous, and how that
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: can feel like a bummer because you're like, man, we
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: already take catch so much flak for this, but I
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: also think, like it's ridiculous this. I don't mean for
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: this to go off on this crazy tangent, but like,
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: we live in a we live in a world like
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: in the United States and another parts of the world too,
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: where people who go and do like full on face
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: paint and dress up for like sporting events, is like,
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: that's just being a super fan. It's like not considered
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: to be you know, dorky or whatever. And you have
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: entire groups of people who go out and they get
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: so invested in a sporting event that afterward, whether it's
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: a win or a lose, they burned down the city
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: where it happened. And I'm like, why is this something
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: that we're all just like, yeah, I mean, that's a
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: sports fan and it's not considered a negative. And meanwhile,
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: me and my buddies who aren't hurting anybody and just
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: rolling some dice and make playing pretend we're the weirdos.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's definitely gotten less away from that. You know,
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: in recent years, and I want to saying like.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: Oh sure, because yeah, i'd say that. I mean, really,
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: the last thirty years we've seen Yeah, we've seen it.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: And really i'd say everything after say mid nineties, we
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: started to see a change, right yeah.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And because like my band was out playing a
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: miniature Renaissance festival this weekend and one of my bandmates
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: and she's like, she's young, she's our youngin was like,
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: I'm surprised there's such a great turnout for this, and
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: I'm like, Renaissance festivals are super in, Like they're super in. Yeah,
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: So like that that might have been counterculture at one point,
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: and it still is for some people. I mean, it's
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: not everybody's jam, but it is pretty mainstream at the moment,
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: which is awesome.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: Reminds me I do need to buy tickets for GARF
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: in advance because they do sell out. Now. It didn't
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: used to be the thing where you could buy tickets
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: for a specific date.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it is. It is insane to me that GARF
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: is selling out. And also this year, I guess for
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: anybody who is local that listens and wants to go
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: to the Renaissance Festival, if you haven't bought your tickets.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: They are also reducing capacity to make it a better
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: experience for everybody who goes.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: You know, on the busiest days. I would have loved
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: that as a street character, Like light days were a
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: lot of work too, ironically, yeah, because you're just constantly
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: looking for something to do, and if it was a
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: very light day, you're like, well, I've already told that
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: story to that group of people, so I'm not going
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: to be able to do that.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: So it's a lotzi day.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, But it seems like garf this year. And again
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: I haven't been, but band is filling in for a
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: couple of weekends this year. It looks like it's going
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: I know, we've complained a lot about Renaissance festivals in
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: the past. It looks like it's going in a good direction.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: But they're also doing stuff that'll make it more comfortable
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: for patrons this year. So they're putting in some additional
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: privies that will help people get in and out in
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: case they have like a privy emergency, so they won't
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: have to wait in line, because sometimes there's lines for
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: like the nice privies.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the ones that can actually flush.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah and have ac they're putting in some water bottle
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: filling stations, which is nice.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: That's great, man. I love all this like I have
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: high hopes when I go that, I'm going to sit
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: there and think, Ah, things are better than they were
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: when I worked here, and that's a good thing.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: That is my hope. Everything that I have seen thus
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: far this year makes me very hopeful. So but I
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: hadn't even gotten through all of my stuff, so new
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: stuff that I've watched the interviews for the new season
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: of task Master, which comes out April ninth.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: I watched the first episode of Last One Laughing of
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: season one. Season two just came out, but I was like, eh,
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: like most of the actors on most of the comedians
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: on it are from task Master. I love how this
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: is gonna sound horrible. I don't have a better word
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: for it, So if you need to bleep it, that's fine.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: How incestuous the British comedy scene is. It's like being
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: in a theater camp where everybody dates everybody, except for
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: every show uses everybody.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm not saying all the British Atlanta Atlanta
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: theater community is pretty similar.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's why I said, like, you know, like
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: a theater camp where like, because you know, you're with
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: your like people and it's a smaller group of people,
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: so you're like, well, let's see if any of us click.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: But yeah, that's a joke. I also watched Project.
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: Hill Mary all right, the the film that I'm going
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: to be mixing up with Mother Mary. So how is
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: how is Anne Hathaway?
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: She was great. It looked like she did some moisturizer
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: on her skin.
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: They called her rocky in this, but no, it was good.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: I haven't read the book, and but it was delightful.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: It was a wonderful, wonderful journey from beginning to end.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: It's done by the same person who did The Martian.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: Different feel, different story, but just as fun. I might
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: have even liked it better because it was a little
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: bit more science fiction and a little less science faction.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: The science fiction as well, but.
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the factions and science are scary, those biologists versus physicists.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but you know what I mean, Like The Martian
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: was was a little bit more rooted.
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: In right, right, Yeah, yeah, it was. It was a
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: near future take, obviously because we haven't actually sent anyone
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: to Mars yet.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: But without trying to like spoil anything for any anybody
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: who's not familiar and has avoided the trailers. My husband
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: knew nothing going in. He didn't watch any of the trailers.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: He knew that it was by the same guy who
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: did The Martian.
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: That was it.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: So but it was really good. I highly recommend it.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: It's a two and a half hour movie and it
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: is at times a slower pace, but I never felt like,
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: is it over yet? Oh man, this is moving slow,
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: like not at once.
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: That does remind me I'm going to go see a
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: movie tonight.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: Oh which one?
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: Forbidden Fruits?
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: Oh? Have fun.
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: That's the one about the young women at the mall
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: who have kind of formed a coven and a new
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: young lady joins them and it's all about kind of
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: like performative sisterhood and stuff.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: So yeah, the Craft circa Mean Girls, circa.
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: Mal Rats, circa Heathers.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: Not seen Heathers. Oh that's Mall Rats or the Craft either.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: I've really just seen Mean Girls.
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: I've seen I don't. I think probably Malerats is probably
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: the least applicable, except for the fact that it takes
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: place in the mall.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: Is that the one where Steve Busheney pretends to be
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: a high.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: Schooler in Malrats. Gosh, I don't remember. I don't remember
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: that at all. I mean, it has been years. I've
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: only ever seen Malrats once and it was well after
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: its theatrical run. I saw it on home video. But
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: I don't remember. That doesn't mean that it didn't happen
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: because I only saw it the one time. I just
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: remember it being very like. It was funny. I didn't
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: think it was a bad comedy, but it did have
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: a lot of juvenile humor in it. Not it was
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: a Kevin Smith movie. So yeah, but yeah, I look
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: forward to seeing that. I will report back on what
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: I thought next time we record. But for now, how
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: about we segue or segu over to our thirty seconds
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: or less section.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: Sure, I will start that. I will say, like I
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: thought we had been recording for a lot longer than
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: we've been recording. And yes, I know that the clock restarted,
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: but because we have a clock on how long we've
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: been recording, but it's still less time than I thought.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: I thought we had been talking for like an hour
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: and a half already, So this is great. Yeah, I start.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: So the first thing is that season two of The
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: Pit is coming to a close. Don't worry if you
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: love it, It's already renewed for season three. But they're
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: doing something kind of cool, which is they're releasing the
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: finale a few days early in Alamo draft houses, and
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: any and all healthcare professionals active or retired can reserve
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: a seat with a ten dollars food beverage voucher, which
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: means that like, you can get a half off movie night.
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: That's awesome. Bad Robot, the production company founded by JJ Abrams,
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: is going through some downsizing and a relocation as Abrams
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: moves the studio from Los Angeles to New York City.
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: Not sure if this means the studio will be focusing
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: on fewer projects, but there are a couple that are
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: coming out soon, and be talking about one of them
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: a little later in this episode.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: Interesting. I was hoping maybe moving to it, but close
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: ish enough. Disney is doing a nationwide search for merging
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: voice actors focused on the art of animation. This is
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: pretty cool. It is free to submit yourself because you
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: shouldn't ever pay for an audition, and they give you
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: several scripts that you can pick from and ask give
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: you a bunch of good directions. So if you are
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: an aspiring voice actor or wanted to get into voicing animation,
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: or you watched One Piece and fell in love with
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: Tony Tony Chopper, you can submit. There's a link through
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: the Deadline article, which I will include in our show notes.
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: Maybe I should do that.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: I think you should. It's for eighteen and over, so
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: it's not focused at children.
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, Weapons was a big hit last year, and
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: Amy Madigan won an Oscar for her turn as the
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: malevolent aunt Gladys. We're going to learn a lot more
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: about her in a pre well titled Gladys. And now
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: we know that two Zach's Gregor and Shields are co
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: writing the script. Zach Gregor was behind Weapons, and Zach
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: Shields has worked on stuff like Godzilla Versus Kong movies.
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: So that's cool.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: That is cool. Wonder Man, which is the latest Marvel
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: TV show is getting a second season, is same actor,
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: same creative crew. Apparently the first season went really well.
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: I still haven't watched it. A lot of my actor
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: friends told me that the first episode is really cringe
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: and hard to get through. I think, and you told
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: me that.
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: John yail I bailed after like five minutes.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: I couldn't do it, but it's popular enough to get
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: a second season, which is pretty impressive for a Marvel
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: TV show.
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: Well before he pops up in Spider Man Brand New Day,
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: the Punisher will get his own TV special titled The
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: Punisher One Last Kill. It comes out on May twelfth,
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: that's the same day that the season finale for Daredevil
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: Born Again season two launches and John Burnenthal, who plays
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: the Mercenary, also co wrote the special.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: Uh so uh. Donna to Riko was an actor in Baywatch.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: I believe I never watched it, but now she is
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: doing a mystery travel series on YouTube which is called Mythbound,
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: where she will be traveling to locations quote unquote travels
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: to locations around the world, investigating some of the most
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: well known myth, legends and mysteries, placing herself at the
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: center of each investigation. So if you like cryptids, this
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: might be for you.
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Sure. Hope that she goes to find Mothman and
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: that she brings with her her chapstick, which only makes sense.
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: If only makes sense if you ever watched the preview
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: to Mothman with Richard Gear and it's I'll talk about.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: It I thought it was a I thought it was
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: a bay Watch reference, and I'm like, cool.
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: No, that was that was a Mothman reference. That trailer,
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: like that little bit and the delivery of the line,
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: because it's it's Richard Gear is in a phone booth.
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: I think it's Richard Gear. I could be wrong about that.
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: The actor playing the lead is in a phone booth
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: and he's on the phone with the apparently the Mothman,
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: and he says, what am I holding in my hand?
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: And the voice on the phone goes Chapstick. And so
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: it's just whenever I talk about Chapstick, that's how I
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: have to say it. Now, all right back to thirty
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: seconds or less. I totally derailed that. Here we go. Well,
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: last Halloween to be debuted adaptation of a story from R. L.
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: Stein's Nightmare Hour titled Pumpkinhead, the Gateway horror film aimed
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: at teens, was a big hit for the platform, So
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: it should come as no surprise that this Halloween we're
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: getting a sequel titled, also no surprise, Pumpkinhead two. It
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: sounds like this is a super quick turnaround from concept
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: to finish film, and I hope it's spooky.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: I'm not into Pumpkinhead, but if they do Pumpkin Pie two,
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: I'm all in. Starfleet Academy is getting a second season,
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: but that is it. They did not get renewed for
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: third despite getting a fairly good rating on Rotten Tomatoes,
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: they did not reach the Nelson's top ten. I'm sad
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: for that, but I am glad there's some transparency as
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: to why it didn't get renewed.
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: The reunion series Wizards Beyond Waverley Place will take a
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: bow over the course of a four part event on
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: Disney Plus this summer. The originals original no Wizards of
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: Waverley Place pan I made this a tongue twister. The
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: original Wizards of Waverley Mary sitcom debut in two thousand
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: and seven, and star Selena Gomez has served as an
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: executive producer for this reboot series, and she will make
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: her directorial debut on the first part of the four
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: episode arc, which is pretty neat.
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: That is pretty neat. Also pretty neat. Doctor who might
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: be going to HBO? This is just a rumor. I
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: think they partnered in the past. I don't remember. My
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: brain is fuzzy there and I forgot to look it
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: up before we're recording. Whoo, It's like the offer hasn't
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: been there, but now that it's being like positive, they
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: might look at it. I guess all that kind of
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: depends on how everything goes with the acquisition.
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: Now. Yeah, yeah, Well, sometimes in order to get ahead
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: and show business, you got to spend some dough like
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: a million bucks. And the head in question is that
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: of the protocol Droid C threebo from the Star Wars franchise,
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: because in a live auction from prop Store, a light
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: up C three bo head fetched one million, fifty eight
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: four hundred dollars, which is still less than half of
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: what Darth Vader's lightsaber went for at a previous auction.
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: Still, though, the limited series Amadeus, or as I like
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: to call it, Amadu because it looks exactly the same
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: as the original movie that Sky is putting out in
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: the UK, is getting a US release. It will be
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: on Stars starting. Even though it look similar, I'm still
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: kind of.
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: Interested while we wait with cautious skepticism for the next
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: Lord of the Rings movie. Game developer Crystal Dynamics, which
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: is known for the tomb Raiders series, has been creating
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: a new Lord of the Rings game. According to Insider Gaming,
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: the intent is to create a game that can quote
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: compete with Hogwarts legacy end quote, but with no clarification
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: on what that actually means.
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: A bunch of my friends lately have been really digging
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: the Dungeon Carl, Oh, Dungeon Karl.
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: This is Yours Wizards Beyond the Waverley Thingies.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: Dungeon Crawler Karl book series. Well, now it's getting a
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: TV series on Peacock. The creative team behind it is
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: Chris Yost and Seth McFarlane.
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: Cool Variety reports that a pro shot version of the
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: Broadway production of Six will hit movie theaters this summer.
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: The musical, which is really in the form of a
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: concert performance, features the six wives of Henry the Eighth,
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: who initially compete against each other before realizing that their
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: marriage to one of history's greatest monsters doesn't have to
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: define who they are. Comes out August fourteenth, And yes,
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: I stand by the fact that Henry the Eighth was
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: one of history's greatest monsters.
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: He wasn't great. There's an interesting saw Bones episode on it,
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: and how like his mentality kind of changed after his
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: horse accident, but I think that's letting him off too easy.
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he also had gout and like like, he had
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: a lot of medical issues, but yeah, I think probably.
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: I mean, this is armchair diagnosis from somebody centuries removed,
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: but I do think that after his jousting accident he
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: certainly had more issues with impulse control for sure.
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: Well it is. It is fun because I just got
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: a group of people to agree to go see six
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: with me at the Fox this year. I've already seen
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: it at the Fox, but it's coming back, and we
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: had such good time. I'm like, let's go do it again.
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: Maybe our Catherine Howard won't have mike issues this time.
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: But then I shared that this was happening and one
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: of my friends, who it's going to be their first
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: time seeing it, was like, oh man, I could have
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: just waited instead of going to live theater. Shut up.
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: I think live theater always trumps Like pro shots are great.
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: It gives people an opportunity to see things that otherwise
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: they never would get a chance to see, and I
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: absolutely love them and I think we need to have
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: more of them. I think it needs to be built
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: into the contract situation for shows early on so that
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: everybody is fairly compensated because I realized that's a big
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: part of it. I don't it's not just as so
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: easy as just put a camera in there, But I
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: would love to see more pro shots at the same time,
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: if you do have the opportunity and it's not like
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: prohibitively expensive or whatever, to experience it as live theater.
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: I always think that's the best experience.
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: And I've watched several pro shots, but it is. It
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: is very different when you watch it live. The nice
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: thing about this one is I think it's the original
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: cast from the West End?
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: Oh is it? I thought it was the Broadway one,
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: but maybe it's the West End.
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: Maybe it might be the Broadway one. I could be wrong.
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: I knew that they were filming one in the West End.
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: Oh, and maybe it is. Then I know that Haitestown
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: with the original Broadway cast shot a pro shot in
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: the West End, although I haven't heard about when that's
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: being released.
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: This performance was recorded at London's Buadeville Theater, with the
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: original West End queens reprising their roles.
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: That's awesome. That's awesome, and.
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: It is on Broadway too very long, I think longer
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: standing on Broadway than the West End. Maybe.
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, it started off. It started off as a
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: fringe festival production. Like it was. It was smaller in scope,
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: but it was a fringe festival thing that grew into
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: this kind of show as a concert like. It is
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: done in the concert style. I'm not wrong about that,
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: am I.
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: No, it's it's like watching a Spice Girls concert with
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: a light plot running through it. But I also really
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: love this whole like semi educational Broadway thing that's been
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: going on with like with like six and Hamilton, and
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: there's a couple others that I can't remember at the moment.
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: But shucked. No, it's not.
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: About the bad it's not about the bad highway system
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: in Marietta, John, It's all.
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: About Cobb County. We've got Cobb County.
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: It's not our Cobb County, I know.
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: But it was apparently they did have some fun with
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: that when they performed it here in Atlanta.
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: Oh nice.
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: I didn't see it, so I think friend of the
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: show Shay Lee saw it and told me that they
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: were they had a little fun with the fact that
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: there actually is a Cobb County here in Georgia. Uh yeah,
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: but that was not the that was not the inspiration
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: in the show. All right, Well that's our thirty seconds
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: or less, which obviously we went a little long on
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: some of those because I'm a chatty Kathy. But now
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: we're ready to move into our section called stuff we
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: decided to put here even though it ain't geeky enough, probably.
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah. And the first one is a trailer for
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: an Italian western called Heads or Tails Yeah.
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: And it features an American character and a supporting role.
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: The American an actual historical American character, Buffalo Bill Cody.
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: Buffalo Bill being played by John c Riley in this
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: The trailer makes it look like he plays a pretty
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: big part in the movie, but from what I understand,
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: it's really more of a supporting character.
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: Interesting.
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: Do you feel like you can maybe give a stab
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: at what this movie is about. I do know what
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: the plot is, if you have trouble, because I don't
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: think it's that clear in the trailer.
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: It isn't, but I think I looked it up, and
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: if I recall correctly, I did look it up. But
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: if I recall correctly, because I might not be an
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: Italian cowboy kisses Buffalo Bill's girlfriend and then they run
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: away and Buffalo Bill won't write a story about it.
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: No, that's not it. But I like your stab. I
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: like your stab. I couldn't fault you for that if
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: you just did it Based on the trailer, No, the
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: story Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show is on a
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: European tour, which really did happen. Those were actual things
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: in history. And while in Italy, there's like a bet
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: place between this guy who has all these other like
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: like cattle ranchers on his payroll versus Buffalo Bill's cowboys,
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: and the Jerkin charge is essentially betting against himself, and
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: he tells his his his cowboy to lose on purpose,
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: but the guy's pride is too great, and the Italian
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: cowboy win the competition and then witnesses the bad guy
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: roughing up his girlfriend. The bad guy's girlfriend a woman
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: named Rosa, and so then Rosa shoots the bad guy
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: and then she and the Italian cowboy go running off,
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: and then the bad guy's dad hires Buffalo Bill to
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: go out and get Rosa and bring her back to
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: the dad of the bad guy. So Buffalo Bill is
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: kind of like a bounty hunter who's doing it for
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: the money because they're running low on funds while they're
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: in Europe, and so that's kind of the story. It
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: gets really dark. Like I read the synopsis and I'm like, wow,
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: this happens halfway through the movie. But like I said,
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: the trailer I think would make you think Buffalo Bill
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: plays a central role, and I think he's an important character,
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: but I don't think he appears in the movie quite
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: as much as the trailer might have you. But again,
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: it's trying to market an Italian movie to an American audience,
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: so you can kind of understand why it's the way
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: it is.
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it looks fun.
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: To me, Yeah it looks interesting. Comes out April tenth.
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: I there's a plot element I want to tell you
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: about Ariel, because I don't know if it would be
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: your jam, but I don't want to spoil it for
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: people who may want to watch the movie.
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: Okay, well then maybe I won't watch it. I'll just
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: read the Common Sense media review at some point. The
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: next trailer. We've got in stuff what we just put
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: in here, even though maybe what I don't know is
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: for stop that train, which is airplane meets RuPaul's drag
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: race meets snow piercer.
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: Yes, on a train. That's perfect. That's one hunt. You
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: nailed it. So yeah, this is a zany comedy in
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: the vein of something like an airplane or a naked
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: gun back in the day. I feel like it. It
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: feels way more like an airplane or naked gun than
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: a lot of those blank movie movies do. For sure,
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: this trailer not everything was for me. Not all the
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: humor resonated with me. But there were some jokes that
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: legit made me laugh when I saw them.
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: I agree, there were some funny jokes. I do think
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: it's gonna be a little bit too raunchy for me personally.
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely. It definitely looks raunchier than an airplane.
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but it has a wonderful cast.
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: So yeah. So like you've got like all these folks
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: from RuPaul's drag race who are part of it. But
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: then outside of that, you also have tons of people,
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: like entertainers from all sorts of different venues, Like you've
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: got Charro. I didn't even know Charro was still alive,
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: so sing.
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: Because she has a social media presence.
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: Okay, well I don't. But Rachel Bloom so like my
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: crazy ex girlfriends, Rachel Bloom, Chris Parnell, Ricky Lindholm, Joel McHale,
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: Jerry O'Connell, Sarah Michelle Geller, Missy Bile. There's tons of
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: people in this and it definitely looks like over the
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: top slapstick, silly, corny, juvenile humor, but in a way
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: that's not mean spirited, at least not in the trailer,
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: and I kind of want to see it. It comes
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: out June twelfth.
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the next one I kind of want to see.
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: It was filmed locally, at least partially in Atlanta. Is
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: a TV show a reboot I guess of Cape Fear.
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so this will be the third adaptation of the
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: original novel was called The Executioners, I believe, but it's
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: the third adaptation to be called Cape Fear. You had
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: a film that came out in nineteen sixty two, you
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: had another film that came out in nineteen ninety one,
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: and now you have an Apple TV series. They all
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: have the same basic premise, which is that there's this
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: psychopath criminal who has been in prison and finally gets
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: gets out and he plots revenge on a lawyer or
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: in this case, two lawyers who are married to each other,
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: whom he blames for his incarceration and the details about
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: how he you know, why does he blame them? Very
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: depending upon which version of the story you see, because
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: like in one version, it's that it was a defense
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: lawyer who purposefully withheld some information that might have otherwise
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: meant that he would have been given some leniency in
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: his sentencing. In other versions, it wasn't a defense lawyer.
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: It was a person who happens to be a lawyer,
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: but they they interrupted a violent assault that wasn't taking
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: in progress and then testified against him. It all depends
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: on which version, And I don't know what this one's
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: gonna be. I think it's going to be closer to
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: the defense lawyers who purposefully withhold information because they realize
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: that Max Katie, the bad guy, is a real danger.
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: Javier Bardem is playing Max Katie in this one. Looks
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: like he looks scary as heck. Yeah. Amy Adams is
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: playing one of the two lawyers. Patrick Wilson is the
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: other one. And I have to say, the other thing
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: that really terrifies me is Amy adams Southern accent.
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: It's it's not good, no, no, but it looks.
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: It looks genuinely like thrilling, Like the show looks genuinely
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: thrilling and a little scary, which.
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, could be fun, and it should be like it's
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: it should be a scary thing, like this is a
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: tense story. The first two episodes come out June fifth,
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: and it'll be ten episodes in total, with the final
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: one launching on July thirty first, so, you know, a
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: nice summer watch for those who are into this kind
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: of psycho thriller kind of stuff. Yeah, it looks like
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: it's a going to be, like I'm interested to see
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: how they're what they're going to flesh out, because obviously,
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: like for the films, they tighten the story up quite
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: a bit in order to tell it in the framework
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: of a movie. With a ten episode series, you know,
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: is it going to feel padded or is it going
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: to feel like, oh no, that's exactly how much they
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: needed in order to tell the story this way. I
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: have a feeling it means that the creepy stuff Max
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: Katie does is going to be way creepier because it's
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: going to be stretched out over a longer time frame.
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and probably a slower noir pace. But I don't
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: know for certain.
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: One morning to you, Ariel, you'll want to make sure
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: if there's a dog involved, that you know what happens
• 50:57
  Speaker 2: to the dog, because in other versions of the story,
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: the dog is is a target for Max.
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: Katie Good good to know, Good to know, Yeah.
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: Which I think. I think that even goes all the
• 51:14
  Speaker 2: way back to the novel. So uh yeah, it's one way.
• 51:18
  Speaker 2: One way to really establish your bad guy as a
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: bad guy is having them hurt a dog that'll come
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: back later in this episode. Two.
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm so mad about it coming back, like KP fear,
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: I almost expect it, and I thank you for the
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: warning because maybe I'll skip an episode and just read
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: the synopsis for it, like it did with Last of Us.
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: But uh yeah, not about the later thing we're gonna talk.
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: About for it. I didn't know about it because I
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: had not read the comic book series that it was
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: based off of. It happens in the comic book series too,
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: But we'll get there. So before we can get there, though,
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: there is this giant like old, abandoned, rotten Victorian house
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: between us and our lineup, and it's called Spider Manner.
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: So we're gonna have to cross through spider manner. But
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: don't worry. Don't worry. It's just a name. It's not
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: really a manner. It's just a house. So we have
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: to get all the way through. We got to get through,
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: like it's on the other side. Ariel. If I go
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: through and you don't, then you're all over here and
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: I'm over there.
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: This is how much I hate spiders that I'd rather
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: tell our listening audience repeatedly that I have to use
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: the restroom and then deal with spiders. But it's fine,
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: it's fine.
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: Did you watch it?
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: It'll probably going through that house will probably solve that problem.
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: Did you watch any of these trailers? I did.
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: I wish I had skipped the second one, but it's fine.
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: That's a comedy horror. But anyway, we'll get to that. Okay,
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: So first up, we have Apex, which is I just
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: think it's the most dangerous game. It's really that story.
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: But Charlie's We've talked about this in a previous episode,
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: but we got the full trailer where Charlie's Theron plays
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: a rock climber. She's in Australia looking for her adventure
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: and whatever comes her way she's born to be wild,
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: and she encounters tarn Edgerton, who's playing a local who
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: is suspiciously helpful and a little creepy, and then turns
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: out to be a lot creepy and then turns out
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: to be hunting her. Allah The Most Dangerous Game comes
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: to Netflix on April twenty fourth, and I wrote, this
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: doesn't look like it's bad. It just looks really derivative.
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: For sure, And I didn't watch the thing it was
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: derivative of.
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: But it still does well. Yeah, because there's well, there's
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: a billion variations right of like crazy person hunting down
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: somebody in you know, some hostile environment, like that story
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: has been done to death. I say Most Dangerous Game
• 53:46
  Speaker 2: because that's like, that's like the the top or like
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: the original reference. And even then it's not really original reference,
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: but it's the one that everyone thinks about. Then we
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: have a horror comedy series with emphasis on the horror
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: for Apple TV called Widow's Bay, and Matthew Reese is
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: in this. He plays Tom Loftus, who is the mayor
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: of this little town in New England, and he maintains
• 54:19
  Speaker 2: that his town is just perfectly normal, despite the fact
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: that the town residents are very superstitious, and it looks
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: like it's super duper haunted and or cursed. What'd you think?
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: I didn't super like it. It was creepy enough that
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: it looks like it wasn't for me. And then at
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: the end there was a cannibalism joke, which made me think,
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: if they're going there, it's definitely enough.
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: But the joke was funny. It's this guy who's talking
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: to the mayor and he's like, what about cannibalism? And
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: the Mayor's like, oh, there's no cannibalism here, and then
• 54:57
  Speaker 2: the shot changes and you see that they're talking right
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: in front of a big framed newspaper that has a
• 55:03
  Speaker 2: huge headline that just says cannibalism across it, and he's like,
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: I don't think that's real.
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: I mean, it was funny, but it also made me
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: think that because of that joke, it probably definitely is not.
• 55:16
  Speaker 2: Fun Well, well, there's there's probably an My guess is
• 55:19
  Speaker 2: the episodes are going to be kind of like an anthology,
• 55:23
  Speaker 2: like it's I think it's really going to be episodic
• 55:25
  Speaker 2: and not more of a serial. But the first three
• 55:29
  Speaker 2: episodes of this ten part series drop on April twenty
• 55:32
  Speaker 2: ninth on Apple TV. Stephen Root, isn't it. I love
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: Stephen Root, so I can't wait to see what he does.
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: And ty West directed at least one of the episodes.
• 55:42
  Speaker 2: And I love some of Tye West's work. Yeah, like
• 55:49
  Speaker 2: The Innkeepers is great.
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: Well watch it and let me know. And if you
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: watch it and then you let me know that it
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: is for me, I will watch it. The next thing
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: we have is for a gritty reboot of the.
• 56:03
  Speaker 2: Wuzzles called Yeah It's the Fuzzy. Yeah, it feels like
• 56:08
  Speaker 2: I mean, honestly, the marketing is coyly referencing Poppy's Playtime,
• 56:14
  Speaker 2: which is a video game horror series kind of like
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: Five Nights at Freddy's where you've got like these monstrous
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: puppet like characters. This also has sinister puppets in it,
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: as well as videotapes of some strange children's TV show
• 56:34
  Speaker 2: where the host of the television show can directly address
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: the people watching the videotapes, so you know, there's some
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: weird stuff going on there. But yeah, it really feels
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: derivative of Poppy's Playtime without it actually being Poppy's Playtime.
• 56:49
  Speaker 2: The Instagram description for the movie says it follows quote
• 56:54
  Speaker 2: A group of friends who reunite at their childhood friend's
• 56:57
  Speaker 2: eerie estate after her death, where they soon uncover a nightmare.
• 57:01
  Speaker 2: The grotesque puppets from her famous children's TV show are alive.
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: Blending practical puppetry, stop motion horror, and dark humor, The
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: Fuzzies explores friendship, fame, and buried monsters. End quote. I
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: wrote that this looks really low budget, Like. It looks
• 57:17
  Speaker 2: to me like it could have just been made for YouTube,
• 57:20
  Speaker 2: Like it feels like it's a YouTube short horror but
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: stretched to feature length. It comes out on digital on
• 57:27
  Speaker 2: May first, so I don't have high hopes for this.
• 57:30
  Speaker 2: I thought it was an interesting thing more because it
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: feels like someone trying to tap into the popularity of
• 57:37
  Speaker 2: an existing IP without actually going through the trouble of
• 57:41
  Speaker 2: acquiring the rights.
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, and I wasn't trying to take over your
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: horror hutch.
• 57:48
  Speaker 2: No no, came up with a bad joke, No no,
• 57:50
  Speaker 2: And you're motivated because you want to get out of
• 57:54
  Speaker 2: this house and get to a bathroom.
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but your your spiders definitely gave me the side
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: I for trying to take over, So happened again.
• 58:05
  Speaker 2: All right, let's just let's let's let's pop out so
• 58:07
  Speaker 2: that we don't have to worry about them anymore. Well,
• 58:10
  Speaker 2: now that we are out of the creepy confines of
• 58:13
  Speaker 2: Spider manner, we can talk about the stuff that's actually
• 58:18
  Speaker 2: on our lineup. So what's first?
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: A giant crab which is similar to a spider.
• 58:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, arthropod or a decapod? Actually, yeah, Molana, we've.
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: Got fancy, fancy biology. You're one of those biology.
• 58:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, part of the biology faction. Yeah. Well, he in
• 58:39
  Speaker 2: the song Shiny Tomatoa references himself as a decapod. Look
• 58:46
  Speaker 2: it up. I know, because I do shiny at karaoke sometimes. So, yeah,
• 58:53
  Speaker 2: we got a full trailer for the live action Mohana,
• 58:56
  Speaker 2: which comes out this summer on July tenth. Yeah, what
• 59:00
  Speaker 2: was your what was your take?
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: So, on the one hand, while there will be a
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: lot of CGI, this film at least has more live
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: actors than the Lion King mm hmm. But and it
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: looks pretty. I will admit that I do not like
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: the way Dwayne Johnson looks as Maui at all. He
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: doesn't his head is the wrong size for the rest
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: of his body and they had to put him into
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: essentially a fat suit. Yeah, and then his wig looks off.
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: It's it's just a big miss for me there.
• 59:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I I didn't like this trailer. I'm trying not
• 59:46
  Speaker 2: to heap too much hate on it because I also
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: see a lot of YouTubers who kind of manufacture outrageous
• 59:55
  Speaker 2: stuff and I don't want to be that person either.
• 59:58
  Speaker 2: But yeah, but I I also feel like this movie
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 2: is only the original. The animated film is only ten
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 2: years old, right, Like, did we really need to have
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 2: a live action remake? But at the same time, I'm like, well,
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 2: of course Disney thinks they need a live action remake.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 2: Leelo and Stitch made them a billion dollars. If if
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 2: a live action remake pulls in a billion dollars and
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 2: you didn't have to come up with a whole new
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 2: story to do it, then obviously you're going to do that.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 2: It makes sense from a business perspective. From an art perspective,
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 2: it's frustrating. And that's the problem is that, like, I
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 2: don't care about the don't I don't own Disney stock.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 2: Actually I do, but it's one share. But I own
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 2: one share of Disney stock. So it doesn't really matter. Oh,
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 2: I know, right, that was a gift at some point.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 2: I don't even know where the like, I don't even
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 2: know where the paperwork kids at this point, so it
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 2: might as well not have it. But anyway, it's it's
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 2: I did not this trailer did not work for me.
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 2: I am not looking forward to this. I don't think
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 2: I'm going to see it. I am curious who they
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 2: got to play tomatoa because as far as I can tell,
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 2: that has not yet been announced. And I'm wondering if
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 2: Jamaine Clement is coming back to do the voice for
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 2: the live action And I know it's not out because
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 2: I searched before we started recording.
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: Oh dang it, yo, I was gonna be like, actually.
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 2: You can, I'm actually me if you like. But yeah,
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 2: there's not. There hasn't been any announcement yet. I I
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 2: don't know. Maybe they'll get somebody else, but like, Jermaine
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 2: would have been great to hear him come back as that.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 2: But yeah, I I didn't care for this very much.
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 2: But I also we've been on record multiple times as
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 2: not being the biggest fan of the live action remakes.
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: There are some live action remakes I do I genuinely enjoyed,
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: but I don't know that I enjoyed them more than
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: the original, maybe equal to, or I liked parts of
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: them better, because you can always tweak a story right
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: and add something good that adds stuff that you think
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: is not as good. But do I think any of
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: them were super necessary? Not really, Like I think I
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: think they might have improved the story of the Little Mermaid,
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: but because they gave it a moral at the end
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: and the entire I've said this before, the entire time
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: She's on land. It's a Rogers and Hammerstein's musical. But
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: they also added stuff that wasn't as much of a hit,
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: like Prince Eric's I'm Searching for You song that felt
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: like he was doing a scene from high school to
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: the musical. I actually liked the Little rap but that
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: Scuttle and Sebastian Doo, but a lot of people didn't.
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: And then like the Undersea stuff just wasn't as good.
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: It just wasn't as good. And in fact, they dumped
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: down the entire under the Sea song because they didn't
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: want to make a bunch of cartoony looking sea creatures
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: playing marimbus.
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 2: Oh gosh, I still haven't seen the live action ones,
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 2: so that's I mean, like, The Little Mermaid was the
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 2: Disney movie that made me fall in love with Disney
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 2: animation post the classic era. Like I had seen the
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 2: classic films, but I had kind.
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: Of the start of the next generation of animation.
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 2: It was. It was the renaissance because they had been
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 2: in a really low period where not everything they made
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 2: was terrible, but it just wasn't resonating like Fox and
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 2: the Hound, I think is a good movie, but it
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 2: didn't resonate the way you know earlier films had. But
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 2: Little Mermaid, thanks largely to Ashman and Mincoln, really hit
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 2: at the right time for me, and I did recognize
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 2: later when I finally saw the musical Little Shop of
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 2: Horrors that why it worked is because they lifted a
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 2: whole bunch of stuff they had written for The Little
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 2: Sheph of Bars and remurposed it for The Little Mermaid.
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, for sure, but it worked and it sat
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: like albeit it is the renaissance of Disney animation is
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: what I grew up with, right, that's integral to my childhood. Yeah,
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: But but I mean, I do think it was brilliant.
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 2: It was a.
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: Brilliant season for art.
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 2: Well, next up, we have a trailer for the Harry
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 2: Potter TV series. It's going to be coming out on
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 2: HBO Max on Christmas Day. I don't really have a
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 2: whole lot to say about this, apart from the fact
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 2: that to me, it just looks a lot like the
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 2: movie series, like to the point where I'm like, I
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 2: don't see the benefit of having this be a TV show.
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know, like I'm having because the group
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: of friends that we run in, I have a real
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: hard time separating this art from this artist.
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 2: Sure, yeah, I don't have any Just to get this
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 2: out of the way, I am not going to watch
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 2: this because I don't support JK. Rowling's work. It was
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 2: more like, when I was watching the trailer, I was
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 2: thinking the sets, the set design, the costumes, the lighting,
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 2: the cinematography all reminded me of the movie to the
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 2: point where I'm like, well, why does this exist?
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah? I wasn't even going to watch the trailer, but
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 1: I did, And I do think that we're in a
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: place in our storytelling arc. Storytelling changes over the years,
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: comedy changes over the years. I think we have better
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: special effects nowadays. I think there's a little bit more
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: heart and groundedness to this trailer. However, I'm also not
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: going to watch it because I also don't support get
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 1: jk Rowling. But I was never really a fan of
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 1: Harry Potter to begin with, you know, so it's not
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: a huge loss for me looking back at some of
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: the thin pieces about it. There's just a lot of
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: a lot of things that at least bordered on problematic
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: in some of her stories, although my understanding is she
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: does not have much of a hand in this.
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 2: But still, yeah, I for me, it's like growing up
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 2: when I did and reading the books that I did.
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 2: A lot of that just didn't raise any flags for
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 2: me when I read it, because I've read more problematic
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 2: stuff when I was even younger than any of the
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 2: stuff that's in the Harry Potter books. I do feel
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 2: like the Harry Potter books decline in quality after book four.
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 2: I think the first I think the third book is
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 2: the strongest. That's Prisoner of Azkaban. I think that was
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 2: the strongest book, and I think Goblet of Fire was
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 2: a slight step down but still good. And then after
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 2: that I did not like the books at all. And
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 2: that was before we knew anything more about Rallying and
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 2: her personal views and how she has used her massive
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 2: platform to say some pretty terrible things about people that
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 2: we really care about. So yeah, I like, again, I
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 2: don't have any plans on watching this, and I still
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 2: harbor deep disappointment in the various actors who signed on
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 2: to be part of it. I mean, they each have
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 2: their own decisions, and they each have their own justifications
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 2: and whatever, but like, it's still disappointing to me.
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, and I can even see some I can
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 1: even understand some of the justifications. But yeah, I do
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: have We have a mutual friend acquaintance who at one
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: point in time thought they might get an audition for
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: the series because of their They posted this on social media,
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: so I don't feel too bad sharing it. They were
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: worried that they might get an audition for the series
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: because of their stature. It's a renfest friend of ours
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: and they very much look like one of the characters.
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: And then they would have to really battle with this
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: job that would help support their family and bring joy
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: to a lot of people, with the fact that none
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: of their friends would be able to look them in
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: the eye anymore. And so like even from that standpoint,
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: or like the kids who maybe don't know better who
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 1: are in it, you know, but it is still disappointing.
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, So you know, if we have any big
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 2: time Harry Potter fans out there, we're not judging you,
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 2: We're not telling you to not love the things you love.
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 2: But you know, for Ariel, it was not a big
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 2: deal because she was never a big Harry Potter fan.
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 2: For me, you know, I was. I was a big
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 2: Harry Potter fan in the book phase and I did
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 2: see all the movies before knowing what rallying was. But
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 2: after that I just couldn't justify it in my own head.
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 2: But that's a decision each person makes on their own
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 2: based upon how they feel. So there's no judgment going
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 2: out there, But just to explain that, we'll probably not
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 2: be talking anymore about it unless there's just something so
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 2: newsworthy that we just kind of have to moving on,
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 2: something that was not on my radar. I did not
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 2: even know this was a thing. There is an animated
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 2: film coming out on Netflix on May first, titled Swapped,
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 2: which is like kind of like an animal freaky Friday story.
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, done by Michael B. Jordan. It it feels kind
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: of like a more original take on Hoppers.
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 2: Okay, yeah to me, Where Hoppers is a person projecting
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 2: their consciousness into a animal robot, this is two animals
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 2: that swap consciousness between them, so they do a body swap,
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 2: they do a freaky Friday.
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, basically a bird and a ferret like creature. These
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 1: are all the creatures are kind of like a mixture
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 1: of an animal and a piece of nature, So it
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 1: is fantastical in that sense. Yeah, but it looks I
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 1: guess the thing that may remind me of Hoppers is
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: there's a fish who's like, I'll be a distraction. I'll
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 1: be their dinner. And it reminded me of a scene
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: in the trailer for Hoppers of like, okay, well you
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: can eat me now.
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah that's the rules. Yeah, yeah, the fish but by
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 2: Tracy Morgan who's like, I'll be a distraction by being
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 2: their dinner. And Michael B. Jordan plays Allie, which is
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 2: the ferret slash squirrel like critter. Juno Temple voices the
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 2: bird like critter. It looks cute, like some of the
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 2: jokes were pretty cute too, and Michael B.
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: Jordan genuinely made me laugh.
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, some nice stuff in here, Like you can
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 2: tell there's people who worked on Pixar who were part
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 2: of the story making process. Uh yeah, there's there's a
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 2: cute little intro with my be Jordan and his niece
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 2: and nephew as well, which is adorable. So yeah, I
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 2: think like this was like a fun little family film
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 2: and like it has jokes that will appeal to all ages,
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 2: not just kids.
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I am for this one. I might actually watch it. Yeah,
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 1: it might actually watch.
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 2: I mean it'll be on that flax, so may first.
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I can fast forward through any bits that upset me.
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: Because animals this cartoon looks they're not really an it
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: looks charming.
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 2: Still, they're not even real. They're not even depictions of
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 2: real animals because it's a fantasy world.
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: Listen. Still, when I watched Mickey seventeen, I got upset
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: at the aliens being harmed. So anyhow, something I will
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 1: definitely watch is the new Masters of the Universe movie,
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: and we got a full trailer for it, and everything
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 1: I see for it makes me more excited for it.
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 2: This trailer has a lot more action on Attornia like
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 2: the previous teasers were like playing with Adam as he's
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 2: trapped on Earth. These trailers feature a lot more stuff
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 2: going on on his home world of Eternia. My biggest,
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 2: the biggest bonus for me in this trailer is that
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 2: you absolutely could not tell that Jared Leto is playing Skeletor,
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 2: like it could have been anybody, And honestly, it makes
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 2: me wonder, why wasn't it anybody else? But you know,
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 2: you can't tell from it the voice, and of course
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 2: the character is Skeletor, it's not doesn't look like Jared Leto,
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 2: So it's an upgrade that So yeah, I was really
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 2: gung ho happy about that. It also is action packed.
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 2: It kind of makes me think of like the Star
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 2: Wars prequels that kind of action, or maybe a Marvel
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 2: movie that kind of action. It does not look dark
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 2: and gritty, which I'm thankful for because I don't think
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 2: that that was necessary.
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think like there will be some dark and gritty,
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: but I really do think they're hitting the right tone.
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I think it's gonna be more like high adventure
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 2: rather than like the bat.
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 1: Beyond compare we are the Gummy Bears.
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 2: Okay, differently different than Gummy Bear crossover Different Saturday Morning Cartoon,
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 2: Different one. Yeah. I thought this looked like it's a
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 2: gonna be a fun maybe not as campy as I
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 2: would like, not quite campy enough, but it looks like
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 2: it's gonna be a fun fantasy sci fi adventure.
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I agree. The next thing, we got a
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 1: full trailer for Supergirl. You definitely get to get to
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 1: see some You get to get to see oooh, I
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 1: need lunch. You get to see some Lobo in this one.
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah. You also get to see some animal cruelty in
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 2: this one.
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I may not be able to watch Supergirl.
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah. This is where Krem of the Yellow Hills shoots
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 2: Crypto the dog with a poisoned dart, and Supergirl is
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 2: told that he keeps the antidote on his person so
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 2: that she needs to go after him if she wants
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 2: to save Crypto. A young woman is telling her this,
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 2: and the young woman her family has either been killed
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 2: or captured by Krem of the Yellow Hills, so you
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 2: know she's got her own stake in this. And this
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 2: is all based off Supergirl, Woman of Tomorrow. There's a
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 2: comic book run that was titled that and many of
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 2: the elements of the story are in fact in that
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 2: comic book, which I have not read, but I read
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 2: about it earlier today when I was looking into it,
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 2: because I was like, is this something that happens in
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 2: the comic book? And sure enough, the shooting of Crypto
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 2: is part of that story. Yeah.
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 1: So here's the thing. If it weren't for Guardians of
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 1: the Galaxy three, I would be like, surely, James Gunn
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 1: is not going to kill Crypto. It's based off his dog,
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 1: and he loves his dog very very much, But.
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 2: Isn't I still haven't seen Guardians three.
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of animal endangerment in.
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 2: That sure, Yeah, and cruelty because it's a lot about
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 2: it's a lot about Rockets origin story.
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 1: Yes, And I cried hard, and like, there were parts
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 1: of it I very much loved, but because that's just
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 1: something I really struggle with, it made me hard to
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 1: It made it hard for me to enjoy that movie overall.
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 1: Not that it was a bad movie, it just gets
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 1: some buttons.
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 2: For this challenging. Yeah. This one comes out on my
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 2: birthday on June twenty sixth, so I'm sure I'll go
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 2: see it because, like James Gunn has a better record
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 2: with me than most other filmmakers. Not saying that I've
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 2: loved everything James Gun's done, but I've liked more of
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 2: his stuff than I haven't, so and I'm curious to see.
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 2: I'm also really curious to see how the movie turns out,
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 2: because there have been a lot of reports of lots
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 2: of tweaks and reshoots, maybe not reshoots, but like re edits,
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 2: like there's been like eight different test screenings of this movie. Interesting,
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 2: and they've they've changed composer three times. Like, so I
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 2: missed all that news. Yeah, well, I had it in
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 2: our thirty seconds or less at one point, but then
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 2: I cut it just because it was it was a
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 2: little more stale than some of our other points, and
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 2: I didn't want to go on too long. But yeah,
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 2: I was reading up on this. And you can't judge
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 2: whether or not a movie is going to be good
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 2: or bad based upon you know, the number of test
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 2: screenings or anything like that. Uh, it's you know often
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 2: that can give you the sense of, oh, this movie's
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 2: in trouble and it may not be able to be saved.
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 2: But I wouldn't jump to that conclusion yet. I would
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 2: say that, I'd be a little concerned, but that doesn't
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 2: mean that it's a lost cause. The fact that they
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 2: change composers three times, though, that kind of tells me
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 2: that maybe finding the right tone has been a challenge, right,
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 2: because like music is supposed to reinforce the tone of
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 2: the film and help guide you so that you have
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 2: the right emotion at the right time.
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, anyhow, Yeah, I mean, I'm gonna see Supergirl.
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 1: I have to see Supergirl. We have a geek media podcast.
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 1: I have to see it. Yeah, just a lot less
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 1: excited about it at this moment.
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 2: I understand, Like when I saw that bet like it.
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 2: I guess it helps a little bit that Crypto is
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 2: just a bit on the cartoony side, Like he doesn't
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 2: quite look like a real dog, and that helps a
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 2: little bit for me. But I can totally get it. Yeah. Yeah,
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 2: having having my own rambunctious and slightly mischievous dog myself,
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 2: it hits home as well as endured.
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 1: I love your dog, I love I love you pup pups. However,
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 1: like my my animal cruelty does have its limits. I
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 1: don't care about sandworms very much, for example. Yeah, maybe
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 1: maybe it's just because I've never met one.
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 2: Uh, they're terrible, They're the worst. Yeah, oh my god. Sandworms. Yeah,
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 2: me and Beetlejuice have the same opinion about them.
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 1: Oh no, I meant like the ones that produce.
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 2: Spice, oh, spicy sandworms. So like OnlyFans sandworms, got it. Yeah,
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 2: I'm not into sand worm. Oh oh oh, you're talking
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 2: about milange. You're talking about yes.
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 1: Dune, Yes, And I'm talking about dude. Because we got
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 1: a full trailer for Doune.
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 2: Three, which is an adaptation of the novel Dune Messiah,
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 2: which is the follow up to Herbert's original novel Dune.
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 2: Herbert wrote Dune Messiah as well. I don't mean to
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 2: imply that he wasn't involved in that. He wrote several
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 2: books in the Dune series. So this one follows like
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 2: what happens after is it? Paul, that's the character's name,
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 2: has been declared the new Emperor, and it's about kind
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 2: of like the fallout of that situation and how he
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 2: tries to direct things so that the least amount of
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 2: harm is done to people in the galaxy, which means
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 2: making choices where a lot of harm is happening to
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 2: some people in the galaxy. It's kind of talking about
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 2: like the the challenge, like there is no perfect option, right,
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 2: so you have to you have to figure out which
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 2: option you can live with kind of thing. And he
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 2: has almost godlike powers of clairvoyance. So oh, it's a
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 2: it's a challenging thing. It does feature some of my girlfriends,
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 2: so I'm.
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 1: On board with Robert Pattinson.
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 2: I don't call him my girlfriend. I mean, if he called,
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't hang up. But uh no, I'm talking about Anya,
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 2: Taylor joy And and Florence View.
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, it looks like it looks pretty. It looks
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 1: like more Dune. I'm a little upset that Dune two
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 1: wasn't titled we Aren't Done Yet, and that Dune three
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 1: isn't titled Dune and Dune.
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that the whimsy just is not really part of
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 2: that universe.
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 1: No, no, I will see it because I've seen the
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 1: other two.
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 2: They haven't seen the second one. Was it good?
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 1: Better than the first?
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 2: Okay, you enjoyed it. I thought the first one was
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 2: well done. Maybe that was my problem was that I
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 2: wasn't over the moon. But to be fair, Dune has
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 2: never been one of my favorite stories. I reckon nice.
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 2: It's importance, and I think it's an incredible achievement, but
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 2: it's never been like my go to science fiction.
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 1: I liked the old mini series one, the really weird one.
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 2: The mini series or the old like David Lynch film with.
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 1: David Lynch film. Okay, that's what I meant. Yeah, that
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 1: was my first experience with Dune, and it's weird as
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 1: heck for sure, but I enjoyed it. Yeah, but the
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 1: first movie I thought was well done. It was paced
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 1: very slow, very little happened, and it kind of stopped
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 1: in a weird place. The second one just has more
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 1: plot to it, so I think it was better and
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 1: I don't mind a slow pace, but I would have
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 1: enjoyed getting somewhere in that journey.
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 2: Well, you'll have to let me know if you do
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 2: see Dune three what you thought about it. Maybe I'll
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 2: watch Dune two. Maybe I'll be right there next to
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 2: you watching Dune three. I don't know, but that sounds fun. Yeah,
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 2: you know, going to see movies again is a nice thing.
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 2: But yeah, it's it's weird because like again, Dune, just
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 2: as I recognize how important it is in science fiction,
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 2: I don't know, it's one of those things where it
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 2: just has never clicked for me, not the way like
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 2: Star Trek did right or other even other darker versions
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 2: of science fiction. Maybe it's just that the lore is
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 2: so deep and doomed that I find it impenetrable. Like
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 2: my brain had enough space for me to be able
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 2: to do that with Tolkien, but I couldn't do it
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 2: both with Tolkien and Herbert, so I had to choose
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 2: one or the other, and I chose Lord of the Rings.
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 2: But I don't that's a fault with me, not with
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 2: the material. Next up, we've got Project Hail Mother Mary,
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 2: just Mother Mary.
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 1: And the interesting thing to me is, I think this
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 1: is the official trailer, but it is shorter and the
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 1: teaser we got.
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but it does feature some of Anne Hathaway performing
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 2: as Mother Mary in her like. She's kind of like
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 2: a Lady Gaga type character, right Like, She's known for
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 2: not provocative songs and wearing very not provocative is the
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 2: wrong word, but very eye catching fashion. And that's the
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 2: whole thing that brings her back to this person with
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 2: whom she's had a contentious relationship within the past, and
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 2: sort of the psycho sexual dynamics going on between the
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 2: two of them, and there are definitely some horror elements.
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 2: We get a little bit of whether or not it's
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 2: actual blood and gore in the film or whether it's
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 2: supposed to be like like imagery that suggests the tumultuous relationship.
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure, but A twenty four has released an
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 2: album called The Greatest Hits, you know Mother Mary's Greatest Hits,
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 2: where it's like four different songs. It's all in Hathaway
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 2: doing the vocals, and the first one, the first track, Burial,
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 2: is up on YouTube. I no because I watched it
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 2: and she does a great job, like as playing like
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 2: a pop singer type character in those amazing singer. Yeah.
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 2: So it comes out April twenty fourth. This might be
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 2: on the spectrum of horror that's actually a little too
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 2: artsy for me. There's some horror projects that I really
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 2: appreciate that there was a lot of work going into
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 2: defining the esthetic and the look and all that kind
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 2: of stuff, but it just doesn't appeal to me personally,
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 2: Like egger Wright's Last Night in Soho is an example
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 2: of that. Like, I think the cinematography is fantastic, but
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 2: I was left cold by that movie, even though my
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 2: girlfriend was in it. On you, Taylor Joy, But like
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 2: this feels kind of like that to me based on
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 2: the trailer. Now, maybe the movie I have a totally
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 2: different reaction, but the trailer it just makes me feel
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 2: like this, this is what I won't click with fair enough.
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 1: And I just need to let you know, Jonathan, Yeah,
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 1: that my husband is very supportive of all the things
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 1: I do, but he doesn't enjoy all the things I do.
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 1: So it is totally okay for you to not like
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 1: all of the things that your fictional girlfriends do.
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 2: Hey, they are real people. Okay, the relationship is totally fake.
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 2: You're right, but they are real people. I will not
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 2: have you slander my girlfriend.
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 1: Okay, okay, ok ok a, Oh got it.
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 2: So you're trying to move on to the end of
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 2: Oak Street.
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 1: So I mentioned no to the start of this section.
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 2: Let's start of the section, which is the end of
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 2: the Oak Street. The end of Oak Street is a
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 2: production from Bad Robot, which I mentioned earlier in our
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 2: thirty Seconds or Less. That's the one that's downsizing and
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 2: relocating to New York. It's jj Abrams Studio and Hathaway's
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 2: in this one too.
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 1: So it's yeah, and Ewan McGregor.
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 2: Yep, And it's the high level premise is that this
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 2: suburban neighborhood gets ripped from our reality and plunged into
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 2: a different world that's populated with, among other things, I
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 2: assume Dna SAWA's.
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 1: Either dinosaurs or Godzilla's. Yeah. It's written, co produced, and
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 1: directed by David Robert Mitchell, who his millieu is more
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 1: horror movies.
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it follows is one of his movies and is
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 2: one of my favorite horror movies from the last twenty years.
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, and he's got a few of them that
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 1: have been pretty popular. But this doesn't feel so scary
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 1: to me. I mean, it feels a little a little
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 1: tense and a little suspenseful, but it also feels fun,
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 1: like a jj Abrams sci fi.
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 2: What if I were to tell you that there are
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 2: people who suspect that this is tied in with the
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 2: clover Field universe.
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 1: I thought that when I saw it, and I would
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 1: love it, because, again, the clover Field universe is something
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 1: that well. Cloverfield Prime, which is getting a direct sequel
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 1: we talked about a few weeks ago, is terrifying and
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 1: very well done, but the Cloverfield universe overall is fun.
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 1: It's scary, but it's fun. It's that good kind of
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 1: monster horror sci fi.
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah. It's also like clover Field, we have to recognize
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 2: as a franchise that is truly manufactured. It's not an
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 2: organic franchise, and that a lot of the movies that
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 2: are in the clover Field franchise did not start off
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 2: as being clover Field movies. They they got repurposed into
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 2: being Cloverfield probably because it was an easy way to
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 2: market the movies and get a bigger audience.
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's kind of an anthology.
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, because ten Cloverfield Lane, you can tell it
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 2: was not meant to be part of that. But it's
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 2: a phenomenal movie, especially if you want to see John
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 2: Goodman be terrifying.
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 1: I need to watch the Cloverfield Project at some point.
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 2: That one. I've heard less positive things, you know, but
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 2: the same. Yeah. So I don't know if the End
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 2: of Oak Street is going to turn out to be
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 2: yet another Cloverfield kind of tangential product, but just on
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 2: its own, like the fact that David Robert Mitchell is
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 2: involved and the fact that I mean I thought it
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 2: follows was such a great horror movie. It definitely has
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 2: my interest. I want to see where this is going.
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 2: It comes out August fourteenth.
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's scary with a little bit of whimsy, and
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 1: I am so so in Oh along the lines of
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 1: scary with a little bit of whimsy. We got a
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 1: full trailer for Stranger Things eighty five, which is the
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 1: interim cartoon about the kids in Stranger Things.
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, between seasons two and three comes out on Netflix
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 2: on April twenty third, And that's all the information I
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 2: had on it, because I did not watch this trailer.
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 1: Oh it was cute. I don't and I honestly I know,
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 1: I know that you didn't hate Stranger Things, and you
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 1: also just didn't continue watching it.
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I saw the first season and then I never
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 2: saw the second one.
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 1: It's cute, and I don't think it grew like I
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 1: don't think it spoils anything from the TV show. If
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 1: you are worried about like eventually going back and watching
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 1: the series.
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 2: Well I remember we watched like the earlier trailer, like
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 2: the teaser trailer, and it did feel like it was,
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 2: you know, very much in keeping with the tone of
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 2: the TV series, maybe a little lighter based upon the teaser. Yeah,
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 2: how about that. Does the tone feel pretty much in
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 2: line with the series?
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 1: It does. Yeah, it's definitely a little bit, a little
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 1: bit lighter. I mean, they're still monsters, but yeah, it
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 1: doesn't feel dark or heavy in any way.
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I think once you go, I think once you
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 2: go to animated, unless you're really adopting like a dark style,
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 2: that's just kind of a consequence, like that's a byproduct
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 2: of that process. I think.
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it has a I like the animation style in it.
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 1: It kind of reminded me of the and the name
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 1: of it is is failing me at the moment, but
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 1: the League of Legends cartoon series that we had, although
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 1: it's not them, it's Flying Bark Productions, who actually worked
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 1: on What If, which also had an interesting art style.
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 2: Interesting. Yeah, okay, well, are you planning on watching it?
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 1: Probably I need something else to watch while I'm doing
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 1: my workouts at the very least. Okay, so not and
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 1: I enjoyed Stranger Things.
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, well that's to me, like that's that says
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 2: a lot like because you know, obviously, even when you're
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 2: trying to find things to fill up time, there's so
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 2: many options out there. That if this is one you
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 2: would actually consider, you know, being on that list. That
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 2: tells me something, right, because there's a lot of stuff
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 2: we cover on the show where both of us are like,
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 2: we felt like we should talk about this because it's
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 2: in the space, but it just doesn't have any zing
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 2: for us personally. So it's good to know that this
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 2: is something that at least has at least some zing factor.
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it does also something I'm surprised. I am
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 1: surprised we took this out of the lineup and then
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 1: we added it back in. And part of it is
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 1: because I'm kind of surprised that I'm interested in this movie,
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 1: which is we got a full trailer for the back Room.
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I think the reason maybe I shouldn't say this,
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 2: I would suspect that perhaps a reason you find it
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 2: interesting is that so far, the vibes we're getting are
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 2: closer to something like an X Files mystery as opposed
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 2: to horror.
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, So in the trailer, is it che Wotelligia
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 1: for m is talking. He talks to his therapist about
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 1: this fact that he's found this doorway into this back
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 1: room's area where it's just this giant, weird maze that
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 1: just gets weirder the further you go in.
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 2: And appears to stretch on forever.
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and then at a certain point she finds it
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 1: as well, I know that it's going to be like
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 1: I know that it's going to be scary. There are
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 1: going to be jump scares and things that pop out
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 1: and creepy stuff, because if you look at all of
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 1: this liminal space content that's already out, you know, on
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 1: the Internet, that definitely happens. And I don't like jump
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 1: scares and I don't like things hiding in the dark
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 1: because I have sleep paralysis occasionally. But it just it
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 1: interests me.
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, it comes out on May twenty ninth,
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 2: so it's not that much further into the future when
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 2: it comes out. I I'm curious about it, largely because
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 2: this is one of those things where this idea has
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 2: existed in different form factors for a few years now,
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 2: like the creepypasta stuff, where it's the you know, kind
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 2: of modern folklore, but creepypasta means copy based essentially, And
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 2: there are a lot of people who have contributed to
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 2: the mythology of the back rooms, and there's a lot
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 2: of splinters of different mythologies because there's no like one
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 2: authority that says what the backrooms is or isn't right.
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 2: So you've got all these different conflicting stories about the
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 2: back rooms. You've got all these different interpretations, including like
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 2: YouTube horror shorts or video games that are set in
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 2: this concept of the back rooms. So it is interesting
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 2: to see yet another take another interpretation. And I think
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 2: the benefit, assuming that people aren't being pedantic jerkfaces, the
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 2: benefit is because there's so many already existing and conflicting
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 2: interpretations as to what the backrooms are, this movie could
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 2: do anything and it could still be a legitimate interpretation
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 2: because because there's no one true correct version.
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I probably won't.
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 2: Well, I don't know.
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 1: I'm interested in it, and I also think that it's
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 1: going to terrify me.
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 2: So that's but that's that's kind of the That's kind
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 2: of the fun thing about horror movies, though, is that
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 2: you know, it's like a roller coaster. You're scared, but
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 2: you're also safe. You know you're safe, You're probably safe.
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 2: I mean sometimes say safe.
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 1: Listen. I don't know if I told you this, but
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 1: in a timeframe that I viewed short enough before I
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 1: went to karaoke with you. Recently, I watched Scream four,
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 1: so when I was driving to the karaoke place, I
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 1: had to turn around several times to make sure the
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 1: ghost face was not in my backseat.
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 2: It makes me think back when I first saw The
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 2: blair Witch Project, like in its initial release before, Like
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 2: back when the marketing for blair Witch Project was all
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 2: about creating these websites that maintained the fiction that it
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 2: was actual found footage and not, you know, not a movie.
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 2: Not that I felt that it wasn't a movie. By
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 2: the time I saw it, I knew it was a movie,
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 2: but it but like the buying into that was fun,
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 2: like that was a fun part of the horror. But
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 2: what wasn't fun was the drive back home because we
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 2: had to go pretty far out to find a theater
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 2: where we could see it, and it involved taking like
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 2: surface level streets that were not particularly well lit and
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 2: driving through like dark, surface level streets through rural parts
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 2: of Georgia at night. After you've seen the blair Witch
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 2: Project was an experience.
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 1: I believe it. I believe it.
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 2: Well, we've got one more thing on our list, and
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 2: I'm letting Ariel take it because this is this is
• 1:36:27
  Speaker 2: up her Street but.
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 1: Not Oak Street. Did you watch it at all?
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 2: I didn't get a chance to.
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 1: Okay, So a couple of weeks ago, Dropout sends a
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 1: weekly update about kind of like a little TV guide
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 1: email about what's coming up this week on their streaming channel.
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 1: We all know that I love the streaming channel. It's
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 1: a lot of improv teche content and creative storytelling and
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 1: I enjoy it. And they were announcing their new Dimension
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 1: twenty series that's up coming, and it was weird because
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 1: the little teaser video they released was called Purpi p
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 1: U r Pee.
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 2: Now, before we get too far, Dimension twenty, that's their
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 2: real play, their actual play, Yeah, tabletop roleplaying game series, right, yes, okay, yeah, So.
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 1: They have different seasons and sometimes it's based on D
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 1: and D and sometimes it's based on kids on bikes,
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 1: and oftentimes they've made their changes to these game systems.
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 1: They have never stopped blowing up game system which is
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 1: absolutely amazing that they released for free and I can't
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 1: wait to play it. So this Purpi trailer. Usually in
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 1: these trailers for the actual plays, they show some of
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 1: the sets and some of the people playing it, and
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 1: this time, they just showed like weird stock AG's footage
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 1: of like it felt like a mio Wolf situation or
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 1: an eerie Indiana situation, and you didn't know who was playing,
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 1: and you didn't know what the game system was. And
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 1: then a week later they released the actual trailer and
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 1: it turns out that the events do in fact take
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 1: place in this town called Purpi, which I'm guessing is
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 1: going to be bizarre, but it is called City Council
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 1: of Darkness, and they're all vampires and they seem like
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 1: goofy vampires, including a vampire who thinks it's a superhero
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 1: and that when you get via a vampire, you get
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 1: superhero powers. And a dude bro and his fellow dude
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 1: bro vampire, and then a vampire who looks like he's
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 1: from Roadhouse, like the main character from Roadhouse, who all
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 1: live in this weird town. It's based off of the
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 1: White Wolf Vampire the Masquerade system with again it's home
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 1: brewed based off of that, so they've made some changes
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 1: to it, and I don't know, I'm interested in it.
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 1: It looks fun and the characters look goofy. It's their
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 1: main cast, so they have seasons with their main cast
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 1: and then they have seasons with other players that tend
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 1: to be a little shorter. But I was kind of
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 1: looking forward to an eerie Indiana.
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, it still sounds funny because like we
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 2: we live not far from where the World of Darkness
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 2: studio was founded, Like it was founded in Stone Mountain, Georgia,
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 2: which is not that far away.
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 1: I have several current friends who used to work for them.
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so seeing something that's using their game system but
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 2: is very much not a World of Darkness kind of
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 2: concept is pretty funny.
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 1: They do say the name of one of the things
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 1: in World of Darkness, so it is, but it's been tweaked.
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 1: And I also have friends who work on the game
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 1: systems for Dimension twenties.
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 2: So yeah, I just think it's funny. I just think
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 2: it's funny to take something that was like we were
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 2: around when World of Darkness and The Vampire of the
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 2: Masquerade and you know, were Wolf and Mage and all
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 2: of those spinoffs. Changeling Faye, I think was one all
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 2: of those different there's one of those like Wraith. There
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 2: are all these different spinoffs of that that were all
• 1:39:59
  Speaker 2: based off mostly you know, horror themed mythology, but also
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 2: stuff like you know, Irish and European mythology. But anyway,
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 2: uh it for the most part, the people who played
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 2: those games took it really seriously.
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 1: So see, I mean, I'm currently playing a changeling game
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 1: and I take it not serious.
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I'm seeing the dimension twenty at take where
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 2: it's more, it's a little more silly. It's kind of
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 2: a refreshing experience for me because again, and bringing back
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 2: to that whole bias and prejudice thing, one of the
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 2: one of the stumbling blocks I would run into are
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 2: people who would take this stuff so seriously that it
• 1:40:48
  Speaker 2: felt like parody to me, like or it was just
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 2: so it was so it got a little cringey. But
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 2: I mean that's where they got their enjoyment. And I
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 2: shouldn't be just just because of that. But it was
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 2: hard not to because there were some people who were
• 1:41:05
  Speaker 2: like embracing that so hard, and I'm like, dude, you
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 2: were listening to a weird Al Yankovic album like twenty
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 2: minutes ago. You're not you are not Master of the Night.
• 1:41:16
  Speaker 2: Let's lighten up, Francis.
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, and to be fair, I am still very
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 1: excited for this game. I love the people involved in it,
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 1: both the ones that I know and the ones that
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 1: I don't, and they do good work, and they make
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 1: fun stories, and they play these games in a way
• 1:41:34
  Speaker 1: that is delightful. And I'm sure it will still be
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 1: very eerie and erie Indiana and MIAWOLFI in the setting
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 1: that these vampires live in. It was just an interesting
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 1: gotcha yeah, kind of a moment.
• 1:41:49
  Speaker 2: Maybe it'll be like maybe it'll be kind of like
• 1:41:50
  Speaker 2: night Welcome to night Vale.
• 1:41:53
  Speaker 1: Ish very possibly. And I suggest watching the trailer because
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 1: you might really enjoy it and you might get that vibe.
• 1:41:59
  Speaker 1: And if I want to play a meow Wolf specific RPG,
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 1: there is one out called Taverse that got kickstarted that
• 1:42:08
  Speaker 1: is a legit me Wolf game that I also had
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 1: friends that worked on. So I just need more time
• 1:42:17
  Speaker 1: for more actual plays in my life, or not actually
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 1: more RPGs in my life.
• 1:42:21
  Speaker 2: I mean, I still have never gotten the one that
• 1:42:26
  Speaker 2: I wanted to get off the ground going. And I
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 2: have all this material that I wrote for this world,
• 1:42:33
  Speaker 2: this world that I created, and have never ever played
• 1:42:37
  Speaker 2: a session of it. I start to question whether I
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 2: ever will.
• 1:42:42
  Speaker 1: Well, maybe at your next cabin day, we can play
• 1:42:45
  Speaker 1: a one shot and.
• 1:42:47
  Speaker 2: That would be fun. That'd be fun because it's a
• 1:42:49
  Speaker 2: it's it's set in a sort of fantasy world of piracy,
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 2: So a one shot pirate adventure could be a lot
• 1:42:56
  Speaker 2: of fun.
• 1:42:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, just to get your feet wet.
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, well that if your feet are getting wet,
• 1:43:03
  Speaker 2: then things have gone poorly. But uh yeah yeah cool.
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 2: All right, Well I think I think that's everything for this. No, no,
• 1:43:15
  Speaker 2: it's you're not. I'm not on blast. It's literally, like
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 2: I mean, everyone out there who's ever tried to organize
• 1:43:22
  Speaker 2: a game, you know how complicated it is, right because
• 1:43:25
  Speaker 2: you have to have the time. Then you have to
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 2: hope that enough other people have that same time available
• 1:43:31
  Speaker 2: for you to actually have a session, and it's hard,
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 2: like unless it's your job, it is hard to make
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 2: that that commitment and you know, yeah, it's it's hard
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 2: to find a time that works with everybody. So like
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 2: that's just the reality of it. And goodness knows, like
• 1:43:52
  Speaker 2: with our jobs and everything, it's complicated, especially since a
• 1:43:57
  Speaker 2: lot of a lot of the people we know and
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 2: you like have gigs over the weekend. Well maybe they're
• 1:44:04
  Speaker 2: performing or something, and it just means that the days
• 1:44:07
  Speaker 2: that I do have off not all my friends have off.
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that is true, but I am delighted that there's
• 1:44:14
  Speaker 1: so much opportunity for geekree regardless of whether you can
• 1:44:19
  Speaker 1: play a game or watch a game. So yeah, that's
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 1: that's it. That's all I've got.
• 1:44:27
  Speaker 2: So I got cool.
• 1:44:30
  Speaker 1: This is gonna be a two hour episode yo.
• 1:44:32
  Speaker 2: Somewhere around there a week. Yeah.
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 1: Anyhow, I'm sure you guys all really enjoy the slowdown
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 1: of energy at the end of our episode.
• 1:44:41
  Speaker 2: I mean, you're the one who does the lead out,
• 1:44:43
  Speaker 2: so I'm like, this is all Yeah, I know.
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 1: So, Jonathan, if people want to ask you a question,
• 1:44:48
  Speaker 1: how do they do that?
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 2: So you're gonna need to make an NPC in my
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 2: so far unplayed D and D campaign. That's kind of
• 1:44:56
  Speaker 2: fantasy on the high seas, so high fantasy if you will,
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 2: That NPC needs to be querky and fun and have
• 1:45:06
  Speaker 2: a distinct point of view. You can make an NPC
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 2: that is meant to be an ally to the player characters,
• 1:45:14
  Speaker 2: or perhaps an obstacle or enemy even But since you
• 1:45:19
  Speaker 2: don't have access to the huge amount of information I've
• 1:45:23
  Speaker 2: created about this world, the mythology of that world, why
• 1:45:27
  Speaker 2: the world is broken up into various archipelagos and island chains.
• 1:45:33
  Speaker 2: You're going to have to make some guesses, and the
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 2: more accurate you are, the more likely I'm going to
• 1:45:38
  Speaker 2: accept your NPC submission if you don't nail it, which
• 1:45:42
  Speaker 2: I realize is hard to do without access to all
• 1:45:44
  Speaker 2: their info. If you don't nail it, I'm sorry, I'm
• 1:45:46
  Speaker 2: just not going to be able to answer your question.
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and if you don't have time to add another
• 1:45:51
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• 1:45:53
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• 1:45:59
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• 1:46:03
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• 1:46:09
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• 1:46:13
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• 1:46:20
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• 1:46:22
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• 1:46:24
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• 1:46:26
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• 1:46:28
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• 1:46:32
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