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LNC Wants You To Be Our Valentine · Large Nerdron Collider

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  Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Welcome to the Larger Drawn Collider Podcast, a
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  Speaker 1: podcast that's all about the geeky things happening in the
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  Speaker 1: world around us and how very excited we are about them.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Ariel casting and with me as always is being delightful.
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  Speaker 1: Jonathan Strickland, will.
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  Speaker 2: You be my Valentine?
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  Speaker 1: I think you already got one.
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  Speaker 2: I mean I've got more than one, you know me.
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  Speaker 2: Just Valentine's pouring in from all corners of the world.
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  Speaker 1: I mean that is true, that is true.
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  Speaker 2: That's all those little goofy cards. They're actually goofy saying like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, a hilk, I love you, that kind.
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  Speaker 1: Of stuff I miss. I miss. First of all, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: we're recording on Valentine's Day. Happy Valentine's Day to everybody
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  Speaker 1: I miss. Like school Valentine gift exchanges that was delightful
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  Speaker 1: and a good candy hall those little heart lollipops with
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  Speaker 1: like the white lettering.
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  Speaker 2: On them, Yeah so good. Those are Hershey's kiss is
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  Speaker 2: also always a standby. Yeah. I liked it because we
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  Speaker 2: were all kind of obligated to give one to every
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  Speaker 2: single other student so that you wouldn't be the pariah
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  Speaker 2: left out?
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  Speaker 1: Did you also have to make like your your bo
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  Speaker 1: you had to like decorate a shoe box to collect them.
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  Speaker 2: I recall doing that vaguely. You gotta remember also, I
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  Speaker 2: am old as dirt, so I vaguely remember that. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I ended up giving Beca a couple of geeky Valentine's
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  Speaker 2: Day gifts, so might as well mention that since it's
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  Speaker 2: on theme. I gave her a coffee mug that says,
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  Speaker 2: uh maw wige is what brings us togev today. Nice,
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  Speaker 2: and I got her a Jorgees Spackle t shirt from Incanto.
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  Speaker 2: I am orge a Spackle. And I got her a
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  Speaker 2: Haunted Mansion shirt where it's the stretch portrait of the
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  Speaker 2: young woman in a dress and a parasol walking across
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  Speaker 2: the tight rope over like alligators. I gave her that
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  Speaker 2: as one of her presents. Nice and Yeah, she liked
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  Speaker 2: all of those. And she gave me hot sauce and
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  Speaker 2: hob and yarrow peanut brittle.
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  Speaker 1: Oh interesting. Yeah. I haven't done anything for Tony. That's
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  Speaker 1: because we just got back from a vacation and it
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  Speaker 1: was not the cheapest vacation. It wasn't the most expensive either,
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  Speaker 1: but we just got back from a vacation, so we
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  Speaker 1: might go out to dinner tomorrow. But right, that's it.
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  Speaker 2: I think a vacation is kind of like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: just saying it's an early Valentine's Day story.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, And we usually get each other a little something,
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  Speaker 1: but this year, this month has been a little crazy
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  Speaker 1: for us both, so we're just we're giving each other
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  Speaker 1: the gift of like relaxation.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, and no pressure and no.
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  Speaker 1: Pressure like nicely. Valentine's Day lands on a three day
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  Speaker 1: weekend for many people, including both of us who are
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  Speaker 1: very fortunate. So the long weekend, we're gonna watch some
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  Speaker 1: severance with some friends. We're getting them into. None of
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  Speaker 1: our friends have Apple TV, so.
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  Speaker 2: You're gonna become the first one's free house.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, so we're going to do that. We might
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  Speaker 1: go to dinner. I've got a tabletop game I'm playing
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  Speaker 1: on Sunday, so.
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  Speaker 2: Whereas I'm taking my niece to disney Land out in California.
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  Speaker 1: It'll be so much fun.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So that's gonna be. That's gonna be what we
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  Speaker 2: do early next week. We're just doing a one day
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  Speaker 2: each at each of the parks and then flying back
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  Speaker 2: and then then I'm I'm home for two days and
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  Speaker 2: then I turn around and fly to Katar woof. I
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  Speaker 2: know that's gonna be. So we don't know if we'll
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  Speaker 2: be record over the next two weeks. I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: try to record next week because I will be home
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  Speaker 2: for a couple of days, so I should be able to.
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  Speaker 2: But the Friday after that, it will depend on whether
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  Speaker 2: or not I'm conscient.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, and full disclosure, Jonathan's awesome and put together
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  Speaker 1: the lion's share of today's episode, and that'll be my
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  Speaker 1: responsibility next week.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, because you were on vacation this week and I'll
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  Speaker 2: be on vacation next week. So yeah, Well, let's talk
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  Speaker 2: about stuff what we have seen since the last time
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  Speaker 2: we recorded. We both continued to watch Severance, so we're
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  Speaker 2: both caught up as of today, although episode five drops today,
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  Speaker 2: so we haven't seen that one yet.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's already out because the reviews are
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  Speaker 1: already starting to come in. Did I read them? No,
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  Speaker 1: this is one show I actually do not want spoilers for.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I managed to watch episode four without having seen
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  Speaker 2: any spoilers. Part of it is that now that I'm
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  Speaker 2: off so social networks it's way easier for me to
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  Speaker 2: avoid spoilers than it was before, for sure, But I
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  Speaker 2: gotta say, like, without spoiling episode four, it was not
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  Speaker 2: what I expected based upon the end of episode three.
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  Speaker 1: No, No, not at all. Yeah, but I liked it.
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  Speaker 2: I liked it too. I was frustrated at first because
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  Speaker 2: I feel like there's a little bit of a rug
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  Speaker 2: pull situation going on with Severance where they set something
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  Speaker 2: up and then instead of paying it off, like it's
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  Speaker 2: like Chekhov's gun, except instead of them showing off the gun,
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  Speaker 2: and then later in the play they fire the gun,
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  Speaker 2: they show off the gun, and then three plays later
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  Speaker 2: the gun is fired. Right.
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  Speaker 1: I was about to say, they do resolve stuff, It's
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  Speaker 1: just not a right way. Although I guess the one
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  Speaker 1: spoiler I didn't manage to avoid is they might resolve
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  Speaker 1: some stuff more quickly this episode. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, well, we're both caught up on that. But other
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  Speaker 2: than that, you actually went and saw yourself one of
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  Speaker 2: them horror movies I keep hearing about.
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  Speaker 1: I did because I was, like I said, on vacation,
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  Speaker 1: some of our friends were there, and a few of
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  Speaker 1: our friends really like horror movies and also like drop
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  Speaker 1: Out and Josh Ruben. We went to see Heart Eyes,
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  Speaker 1: which we've talked about on the show a few times. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: rom com meet cute meat scream with a murderer, like
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  Speaker 1: a serial killer who kills couples on Valentine's Day, or
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  Speaker 1: not even on Valentine's Day, but you know, that's a
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  Speaker 1: good day for it.
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  Speaker 2: It.
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  Speaker 1: It was really cute. Some of the stuff they could
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  Speaker 1: have gone a lot more graphic with and they didn't.
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  Speaker 1: There were like four or five times when it got
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  Speaker 1: pretty graphic, but there was a lot of like suspense
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  Speaker 1: leading up to it, so I don't know how much
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  Speaker 1: of that was just me anticipate it. There were a
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  Speaker 1: few moments where I just had to close my eyes.
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  Speaker 1: But it was a really good balance between the scary
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  Speaker 1: and the cute, the cute and funny. You know, it's
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  Speaker 1: like if a Hallmark movie met Scream but more clever.
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  Speaker 2: That's great, though, So you enjoyed it overall.
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  Speaker 1: I did enjoy it overall. Again, I had interest in
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  Speaker 1: it because I like Josh Ruben. I think he's a
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  Speaker 1: funny guy, and I think he did an amazing job
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  Speaker 1: to write. He didn't write Hard Eyes. I don't think,
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  Speaker 1: but he did direct it, and I think he did
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  Speaker 1: an amazing job. So yeah, it was. It was a
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  Speaker 1: if you like scary, suspenseful movies and don't mind a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of gore and a little bit of like
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  Speaker 1: blue humor, there's a little bit of it, not too
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  Speaker 1: too much, but a little bit. Yeah, it's it's just
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  Speaker 1: a fun popcorn movie.
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  Speaker 2: Cool. Yeah. And what else did you watch?
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  Speaker 1: Well? I watched pop Culture Jeopardy one episode away from
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  Speaker 1: being caught up. They're in their quarterfinals. The final episodes
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  Speaker 1: of copercrat Kai dropped yesterday, so Thursday, so I'm watching that.
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  Speaker 1: We're two episodes in and the second episode of this
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  Speaker 1: final release of series shares a mutual like artsy friend
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  Speaker 1: of ours Brian Troxel, who just was hilarious so funny.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: And then episode episode twelve, which is the one we
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  Speaker 1: ended on because eleven and twelve were the first two
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  Speaker 1: of the ones they released in this final round, ever,
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  Speaker 1: was ended on such an uplifting, positive, happy note that
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  Speaker 1: like I was crying, good crying, and like I was like,
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  Speaker 1: this is what I needed to lift my spirits today.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm really enjoying it, especially where they left off
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  Speaker 1: the second part of season six, the final season. The
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  Speaker 1: way they're picking it back up, I'm really into.
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  Speaker 2: So that's great.
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  Speaker 1: And then oh and then my group watch my virtual
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  Speaker 1: group watch party got done with Arcane season two, which
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  Speaker 1: we didn't watch because we just didn't have time. And
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  Speaker 1: Tony's not a huge fan of it. Just he it's like,
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  Speaker 1: the art style is beautiful, the story is not quite
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  Speaker 1: there for him.
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  Speaker 2: Gotcha. So y'all just sat it out for this one.
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  Speaker 1: We sat that out. But we started a new one
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  Speaker 1: tonight and we're probably not going to get all the
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  Speaker 1: way through, but we started BSG again.
• 9:39
  Speaker 2: Battlestar Galactica.
• 9:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah wait, okay, wait about an hour into the mini series.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so you're talking about the reboot. Yeah, obviously not
• 9:48
  Speaker 2: the nineteen seventies era battle start Sadly, no, that was
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  Speaker 2: my Battlestar Galactica.
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  Speaker 1: You know, and that and that was mine and any
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  Speaker 1: like longtime listeners of our show will know that because
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  Speaker 1: the old one was the one that I saw first.
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  Speaker 1: Getting into the new one was really hard for me,
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  Speaker 1: so much so that if I watched the mini series
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  Speaker 1: before the actual series of the reboot, I don't remember
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  Speaker 1: it like at all.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, because that's what sets up the whole like actual
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  Speaker 2: series series.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Also, there's a character named D on the show
• 10:21
  Speaker 1: for anybody who hasn't watched it, and I cannot help
• 10:23
  Speaker 1: but call her sweet D, and it inferiences my husband.
• 10:26
  Speaker 2: And I was a bird, she's a bird. I tried
• 10:31
  Speaker 2: watching Ballistar Galadica because so many of our friends were, Like,
• 10:35
  Speaker 2: there's certain shows that if you were friends with, like
• 10:37
  Speaker 2: hardcore science fiction geeks, that you've likely been exposed to
• 10:43
  Speaker 2: and maybe some of them clicked with you in some
• 10:46
  Speaker 2: This was one of those that never clicked with me,
• 10:48
  Speaker 2: so I never really got into it. Same with Babylon five.
• 10:52
  Speaker 2: I never got into Babylon five. But you know, I
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  Speaker 2: did watch the original series back when it was on
• 11:00
  Speaker 2: the seventies and early eighties, and I love the theme
• 11:04
  Speaker 2: song to the original series, which does get incorporated as
• 11:07
  Speaker 2: sort of a battle anthem kind of thing in the
• 11:10
  Speaker 2: reboot series. It's not their main thing. Bear McCreary does
• 11:13
  Speaker 2: amazing work, so I don't want to disparage him. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: he's a phenomenal artist.
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  Speaker 1: I like I like his I like his Lost soundtrack
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  Speaker 1: better though.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, So yeah, I watched I finally finished What If
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  Speaker 2: Season three. So I watched all of What If. I
• 11:32
  Speaker 2: thought it was fine. I thought it was fine. I
• 11:35
  Speaker 2: didn't like I know some people felt like season three
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  Speaker 2: was kind of like a let down after season two.
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  Speaker 1: I think season three I liked way better than season two. Personally.
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  Speaker 2: I like, I think season one is still my favorite.
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  Speaker 2: If I'm being honest, I think season one is still
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  Speaker 2: my favorite season. But season three was fine. I thought
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  Speaker 2: that the two part finale with the whole, you know,
• 12:01
  Speaker 2: the Watchers kind of thing, got a little tiresome. I
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  Speaker 2: was like, oh, so this is the cartoon version of
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  Speaker 2: everyone's flying around everywhere and big lasers are coming out
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  Speaker 2: of them all the time and not apparently doing anything
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  Speaker 2: to anybody. It'd be kind of like if we were
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  Speaker 2: to have a fight and everyone gets a flashlight. That's
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  Speaker 2: the only weapon you have, and you're not allowed to
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  Speaker 2: use it as a melee weapon, so you're just turning
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  Speaker 2: the flashlight on and shining it at people, like, Okay,
• 12:29
  Speaker 2: but that doesn't it's illuminating me, But that's it might
• 12:34
  Speaker 2: as well be the same for these kind of characters,
• 12:36
  Speaker 2: like everybody's this cosmic level hero, even characters who shouldn't
• 12:43
  Speaker 2: be like, listen, I love Peggy Carter. I love her,
• 12:48
  Speaker 2: and I love Agent Carter slash Captain Britain. I love
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  Speaker 2: that character. She does not belong in a a fight
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  Speaker 2: between cosmic level entities. Yeah, it's like Captain America being
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  Speaker 2: involved in something like that, Captain America versus Silver Surfer.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, well, that's that's not fair.
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  Speaker 1: Except for I guess Captain Britain in this iteration did
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  Speaker 1: become kind of an anomaly, so it probably gave her
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  Speaker 1: some extra powers.
• 13:20
  Speaker 2: Maybe they never really explained any of that very well.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think about the new original character.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, the daughter of two incidental characters in the Marvel
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  Speaker 2: cinemat ulumbers who happens to be the most powerful. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: amusing like it. I it took me a second to
• 13:41
  Speaker 2: figure out who she was. Yeah, but then but then
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  Speaker 2: it clicked. And then I turned to Becca and I
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  Speaker 2: was like, you know who that is?
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  Speaker 1: Right?
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  Speaker 2: And I told her and she's like, oh my god.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, you can tell from the thing on
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  Speaker 2: her forehead it's the same character.
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  Speaker 1: And she's like, oh yeah, it took me a while too.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, I it is fine, It is fine. I
• 14:02
  Speaker 2: didn't I didn't dislike it. I enjoyed it well enough.
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  Speaker 2: I mean there were certain episodes that, like I said before,
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  Speaker 2: the the Mecca Hulk one, I just didn't care about.
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  Speaker 1: What'd you think about the shang Chi Kate Bishop episode?
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  Speaker 2: That one was okay? The Western h Yeah, the best
• 14:21
  Speaker 2: part about that for me was that Walton Goggins was back. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: Walton Goggins is. He's quickly becoming one of my favorite
• 14:30
  Speaker 2: actors full stop.
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  Speaker 1: So I bet you're excited for the next season of
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: White Lotus to come out this weekend.
• 14:37
  Speaker 2: I'm really excited about the next season of Fallout. That's
• 14:41
  Speaker 2: what I'm excited. But I also just started watching This
• 14:45
  Speaker 2: is an old series. It's been out for well not old,
• 14:47
  Speaker 2: but it's been out for a few years. I just
• 14:50
  Speaker 2: started watching The Righteous Gemstones and Walton Goggins plays a
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: recurring character on that and I love I hate the character,
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  Speaker 2: but I his performance. I hate all the character Everybody
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  Speaker 2: in that show is despicable.
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  Speaker 1: I think you're supposed to like them.
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  Speaker 2: No you're not. You're not supposed to like them. They're
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  Speaker 2: all despicable characters. But yeah, his his character is entertaining.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, that's what I've been that in Severance, like
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  Speaker 2: I said, and we already kind of talked about how
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  Speaker 2: like I'm enjoying it. I hope they stopped the rug
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  Speaker 2: pulling stuff, because to end an episode with like a
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  Speaker 2: big twist or a big event that's clearly going to
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: change everything and then the kind of put that to
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  Speaker 2: the side for the following episode is really frustrating.
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  Speaker 1: They put it to the site, they did reference it
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  Speaker 1: at least once.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, about about four fifths of the way through
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  Speaker 2: the episode, like four fifths of the episode have gone
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  Speaker 2: by with no like at one point, I wasn't even
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  Speaker 2: fully sure or if what we were seeing happened after
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  Speaker 2: episode three, or if it was something that happened before episode.
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  Speaker 1: Three, if it was a dream, or or if.
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  Speaker 2: It was a dream that was the other one. I
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  Speaker 2: was like, please don't make this a dream episode.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I get it, you know, I think that was
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  Speaker 1: kind of kind of the point. I don't mind it.
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  Speaker 1: I did. I did find, like you and I both know,
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  Speaker 1: that Luman has a the corporation with in Sefferance has
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: a LinkedIn page. For some reason, I read their description
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: and I was just so delighted that they had a
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: LinkedIn page that I forgot to actually look at the
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: rest of it. They post regular regular posts from the
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: office workplace of Lumen, including videos and memos, and it's
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  Speaker 1: hilarious nice.
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  Speaker 2: I will say there was one thing that happened in
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  Speaker 2: episode four that did make me think at first that
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  Speaker 2: it was a dream. And it was that, and I'm
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  Speaker 2: not going to give any spoilers away, but they are
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  Speaker 2: They're not inside a building, they're outside and they have
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  Speaker 2: there's a television and like a VCR essentially set up
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  Speaker 2: that plays a video in the middle of the outdoors
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  Speaker 2: with no cables or anything, and it's just playing. And
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  Speaker 2: I thought, well, this has to be a dream because
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  Speaker 2: there's no source of power to run this thing.
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  Speaker 1: So I thought so too, or it could be a
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: space within the building and not really outside. But I
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  Speaker 1: saw something on social I'm not going to say it
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  Speaker 1: here because it will be a spoiler to anybody who
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  Speaker 1: hasn't seen the episode that I don't know makes it
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  Speaker 1: makes it so that it seems like it may not
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  Speaker 1: actually be like a giant sound stage inside the Living Corporation.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I think it is supposed to be outdoors,
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  Speaker 2: just based upon like because even a giant sound stage.
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: I can't imagine being that large, and it would have
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: to be the Hola deck from Star.
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  Speaker 1: Trek, which way it also hurts my mind.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway, it was. It was a fun departure. I almost
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  Speaker 2: wish it had come one episode later, Like I wish
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  Speaker 2: that they had an episode that dealt more with what
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: happened at the end of episode three, then done this
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  Speaker 2: episode like Gus five, because that would have, I think,
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  Speaker 2: given us a little more time. But maybe they needed
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  Speaker 2: that in order to, you know, develop the story more.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I feel like what happened at the end of
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  Speaker 1: episode three is going was such a big thing that
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  Speaker 1: I expected to come much later in the show that
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  Speaker 1: I think it's going to be a long game sort
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  Speaker 1: of a revelation.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, let's move from the long game to our
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  Speaker 2: short game, and that short game being thirty second or less.
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  Speaker 2: I get started this week, so here we go. James
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: Gunn shared a cheeky Superman promo on during last weekend's
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: Big Game. In case you haven't seen it, the spot
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: features Nathan Fillion as Guy Gardner, the jerk Green Lantern,
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: sporting his comic accurate bowl cut, and to top it off,
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: it has the caption the only bowl I Need while
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: Fillian runs his fingers over his hairdo Fans are pretty
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: much split down the middle over whether this was a
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: good or bad idea.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: But Nathan Fillion's hair is not split down the middle.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: I actually haven't seen it. I'm sad. I'll have to
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: go look that up. If you are waiting for the
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: Dungeons and Dragons show after the Dungeons and Dragons movie,
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: while that kind of fizzled, but you're in luck because
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: Netflix has pickn up a Dungeons and Dragons series. It's
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: going to be called The Forgotten Realms. It's live action,
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: and this time, instead of being the person behind I
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: think it's Red One, it's going to be Sean Levy,
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: who is behind Stranger Things and Deadpool and Wolfe and
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: Drew Cravello from a show called Wee Crash. I don't know,
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: and of course Hasbro. I honestly like, I like Sean
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: Levy's style, and I like to changing with things in
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: Deadpool and Wolverine, and I think those are both some
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: great kind of vibes to put into Dungeons and Dragons.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: So I'm really excited.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: Cool. Well, now for our token Tolkien news item. The
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: Hollywood Reporters shared that The Rings of Power is getting
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: a season three on Prime Video, and what's more, it
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: will feature a bit of a time jump, so in
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: the upcoming season, Surron will be hard at work forging
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: his one ring. You know, that's the piece of jewelry
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: that caused all the fuss in those other movies. The
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: series is in pre production, with filming to begin in
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: the spring, So no word on when we can actually
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: expect to watch this.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: Other things that we don't know quite when we're going
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: to get to watch Starfleet Academy, the new Starfleet, the
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: new star Trek show that's coming out. Just finished filming.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: It wrapped on filming season one, commemorated it with little
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: jacket like kind of letterman jackets and pennants, and apparently
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: they would work. They worked six months, sometimes twelve hour days,
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: So I bet they're going to really enjoy the break
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: before it comes out. It looks like it might come
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: out in early twenty twenty six.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: Warner Brothers continues to milk franchises with its plans to
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: launch a new adaptation of the Harry Potter books on HBO.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: Rumor has it that John Lithgow is in talks to
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: play Dumbledore, and I suppose this means Rowlling. It's not
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: being as precious about her work this time around, since
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: last time she demanded that all actors playing her characters
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: be from the British Isles. On a personal note, I
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: will not be watching this.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: Don't do it, Lithgow, don't.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: Do it legally.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: Blonde has a prequel series coming out called el We
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: knew that, but now we know who it will be
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: playing Elle Woods, and that is Lexi Miindtree. Super lurks
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: the part, and she looks excited to do it. I
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: am not super sure what she's done. I guess Law
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: and Order and The Murder Murders. I don't watch either really,
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: but hopefully he'll be fun.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: I mean, has anyone not done Law and Order at
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: this point?
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: I mean not all of it. I've seen occasional episodes.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah. No. What I mean is has any actor not
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: been in Law and Order?
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: Yes? Jonathan?
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: Oh, I'm sorry, I meant you know, never mind. Okay.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: Our top pick for antagonist the upcoming Labyrinth sequel is
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: no longer an option. That's because Tilda Swinton has announced
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: at the Berlin Film Festival that she is taking a
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: break from filmmaking and that she won't shoot another film
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: for the rest of twenty twenty five. She's instead focusing
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: her time and talent on something else, which she is
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: not yet ready to reveal. So it sounds like she
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: will be back, but we will have to be patient.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: I wish her the best of luck. She's writing something.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: Could be that's it, that's it, that's it for thirty
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: seconds or less, I do. I will say, like that
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: John Lithgal thing. You know, he played a trans character,
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: so it is kind of odd that he is in
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: talks to play Dumbledore in the Harry Potter.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: Here's the shit. So I have friends who are in
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: the LGBTQ community who still love Harry Potter. Yeah, that's
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: everybody's individual choice, but just story wise, I look back
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: on it and it's like Titanic for me. The more
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: I look back on the story, the more I'm like, Ooh,
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: that wasn't great. This wasn't cool. That also wasn't cool,
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: And it's a whole bunch of stuff. So I'm I'm
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: not I'm not interested in a I'm sorry if for
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: anybody who still likes Harry Potter. I hope you enjoy it.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: I'm not interested.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, same like I'm not gonna begrudge anyone they're in
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: enjoy of something. It's I mean, it comes down to
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: personal choice, right, Like in my personal choice is just
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: that it's hard for me to reconcile a work of
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: art with an author who holds views that I find objectionable.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: And let's same with Neil Gamen, right, Like Neil Gaman
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: and the revelations about his behaviors are such that it's
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: really tainted all the works that he did for me. Yeah,
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: and that is I'm not saying that has to be
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: the same for everybody. I'm saying for me personally, that's
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: how it impacts me, and thus I am less inclined
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: to seek that kind of content out.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're kind of talking about that over the weekend
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: with with the Neil gam In books, because his comics
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: are very like important parts of some of my friend's
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: lives growing up, right, And it's a lot harder to
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: separate the art from the art when they're a current
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: art artist making current art.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah. But yeah, there's that whole concept of death of
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: the author where it's not a literal death, it's meant
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: meant to separate the author from the works of that author.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: And you know, like there are different degrees to which
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: that is even attainable, and it really is a very
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: subjective thing. Son Lindsay Ellis actually has some great video
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: essays about the death of the author phenomena.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know, I still own Baby Driver, although
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: I bought it before any of the actors had known issues.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: And also it supports a lot more actors than the
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: one actor who ended up being problematic out of it, so.
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: That being Kevin Spacey rather than just kind of walking
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: around that.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I just the name was not coming to my
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: brain at the exact saccond.
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I mean he paid he paid me, not
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: Kevin Spacey. Egger Wright paid me quite a chunk of
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: change for doing Baby Driver. Because my house is in it.
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: Oh nice, just in the background, Like they literally they
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: paid the hoa a little bit of money so that
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: they could set up lights and stuff around our townhouses.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: And there's a blink and you literally will miss it
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: moment where you can see the townhouses in the background.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: I have literally missed your townhouse every time I've watched
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: that movie.
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: It's when they're driving in to meet with the arms dealer,
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: and it's as they're driving in, they're driving into the
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: old Pullman train yard back before it got totally renovated. Yeah,
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: it used to be that the place across the street
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: from my house was this old abandoned train yard with
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: like big empty, decrepit warehouses. They shot tons of stuff
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: in there, including some of a falcon in the Winter Soldier.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: So there was like this whole sequence a falcon of
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: the Winter Soldier, Like that's across the street from my house.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: The problem with baby Drivers. I love that they said, well,
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: we're filming this in Atlanta, let's just set it in
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: Atlanta instead of la like we were originally planning. But
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: the piece, it's it's like they took a jingsaw puzzle.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: And I know I've talked about this before, so I
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: won't harp on it. They took the jigsaw puzzle, they
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: smashed all the pieces together, so when you're watching it,
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: the locations don't jive and it's very discombobulating.
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Like like they'll be like, oh, I'm just going
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: to go down the street and get coffee, and they
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: go to a coffee shop and you're like, oh, that's
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: not anywhere close to that part of town. Yeah, like
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: that is a good coffee shop, don't get me wrong.
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: It's just that you're going to be getting in a
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: car driving twenty minutes if you want to go to
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: that one. Yeah, but that's I'm sure it's the same
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: for anyone, like whenever they're watching something that was shot
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: in their hometown.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: I hear it because my in laws are in Pittsburgh,
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: so I hear a lot of people talk about Pittsburgh
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: having the same frustrations about.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: Well, that's all the zombies, because Georgia and all of
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: his zombie movies in Pittsburgh. Well, let's let's talk about
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: we had a whole bunch of stuff come out since
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: the last time. Now, obviously when we recorded last time,
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: it was before the superb Owl, and we talked in
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: that episode about how there were rumblings of how certain
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: studios might or might not have spots lined up for it,
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: because it turns out, you know, it's really expensive to
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: secure an ad spot during the big game. And sure enough,
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: like we only have a couple in our lineup that
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: even were shown during that game. First up, though we
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: have a spot to promote Disney Plus the streaming service,
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: and they leaned hard on a Marvel property that we've
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: already mentioned in this episode.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's the what if big Game spot, and it
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: basically asks what if there wasn't this thing? What if
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: what if Joy didn't exist? And then but the one
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: that got me was what if Bart didn't see more butts?
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: And that made the entire spot worth it to me.
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was all hitting on different properties that Disney
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: now owns, so like, what if Joy doesn't exist was
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: referencing inside Out obviously what if Bart was referencing Simpson's. Yeah,
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: it was actually a little edgier, Like it's not like
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: it's super edgy, It's still totally broadcast worthy, but like
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: there was a bit more attitude than what I was
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: expecting from Disney.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and it also wasn't quite as close So it
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: was cute. It wasn't quite as clever as maybe I
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: was hoping going into it, because it asks what if
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: there weren't these things? And then it just repeats, but
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: there are all these things and so I was like, Okay,
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: that that feels like, I don't know.
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: It feels like it would have been better if it
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: were a two heart spot where the first half is
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: what if these things didn't exist? And then you're like
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: left with this dystopian landscape like post apocalyptic style or whatever,
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: and then go to a different commercial and then come back,
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: but don't worry, they do exist. It picks right back
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: up and everything's okay again.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I think because the punchlines of not existing in
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: the punchlines of yes they do exist were the exact same,
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: it got a little tedious.
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, not the best spot, whereas we also got
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: an updated, almost more like a teaser, really another trailer
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: for Novacane. That's the movie with Jack Quaid where he's
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: playing a character who is incapable of feeling pain who
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: gets drawn into an action thriller kind of situation. I
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: don't know that there was a whole lot in this
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: trailer that wasn't in the other one we had already seen,
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: but it clearly was cut in a different way.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was gonna say the same thing. It looks
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: like all of the beats our beats we've already seen,
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: if not in the same order.
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: It still looks like it's going to be an entertaining film.
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: Jack Quade is just incredibly charismatic. I find him fun
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: to watch. I don't know. I don't know if I'll
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: be able to stomach a full feature length film of
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: him getting battered around like crazy, even though even though
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: his character can't feel anything, just some of that stuff
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: is like body horror type yeah stuff.
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, same, same, I might, I might. I want to.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: I want to support the actors in the filmmakers that
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: I like in the theaters because that's important. But I don't.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I'll have to. I guess I'll have
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: to read some spoilers first.
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this one, this one i'd probably check out. I
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: mean it, actually, it kind of gives me some of
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: those those vibes of like those those really innovative action
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: movies like Hardcore. Henry was one where it was that
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: first person perspective action film or I can't remember what
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: the name of the movie was. It was the one
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: where a guy gets like an artificial intelligence chip in
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: his head that controls him at certain times and makes
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: him like an incredibly effective fighter. I don't remember what
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: the name of that movie was, but that one was
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: pretty clever too. This kind of gives me those vibes.
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, same what do you think about the new
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: Thunderbolts trailer? That is one that was suspected we'd get
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: and we did get.
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: I liked it. It gave us a little bit more context.
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: You know, we don't get to see the big bad.
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: We do see that there is something very bad happening.
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: We maybe do well.
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: I think we already have seen the big bad. We
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: just do you. Yeah.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: I because there's the guy who's flying around who looks
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: like super It's Century, It's Century. I think that's the
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: bad guy.
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I'm saying. But you don't really see
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: him that much in this trailer. I guess you do
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: a little bit. You mostly see the team that makes
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: up the Thunderbolts Asterisk, which is like, you know, Yelena
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: and Red Guardian and Ghost and task Master US Agent. Yeah.
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: And I like the humor on display. I like the
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: attempts at trying to create a team out of people who,
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: at one time or another have been shown as being
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: villains or at least opposed to the America of MCU,
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: you know, at some point or another, especially in the
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: case of Red Guardian. I think it's going to be
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: an entertaining film. I feel a little better about that
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: than I currently do about I haven't seen Captain America
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: Brave New World yet, but I'm feeling like Thunderbolts is
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: going to probably be the film I prefer over the
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: Captain America one. I did hear one reviewer say that
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: Captain America Brave New World is the best episode of
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: Falcon and the Winter Soldier.
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: I'd believe it. I think. I think Crispy also enjoyed it.
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but Chrispy enjoys everything.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: That's not true.
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: There's like two movies in the last ten years he
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: didn't like.
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: I don't think he liked meg I don't think he
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: liked Megalopolis.
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: That was one of the two.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: But yeah, I like that the trailer focused on not
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: just all action or not just all on snarky. It
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: feels like it's going to be a well balanced emotional journey.
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I like that. I'm curious if this is going
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: to turn out to be one of those things where
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: the team is formed by Bucky and not formed by
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: the government, it'll be interesting. Julia Louise Drevis's character, who's
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: like the head of not Hydra but well no, but
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: she's like she's like part of some black ops kind
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: of group, and I get the feeling that I'm getting
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: a real suicide squad feeling like almost like whatever she
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: does is the thing that leads to the crisis, and
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: that these characters are the ones who are left to
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: try and stop that crisis. And that's just the sense
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: I got from the trailer. I could be a billion
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: percent off on that.
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that's also what I got from it
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: as well. But we already knew that Thunderbolts was going
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: to be kind of a kind of a suicide squad
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: kind of group.
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, which is true to the comics as well.
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: So yeah, it looks like she was a member of Well, gosh,
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: I thought I had it. I mean they talked about
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: it in Falcon and Winter Soldier a little bit. They
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: talked about it, I think in Iron Man two.
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: She also shows up at the end of Black Widow. Yeah,
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: I guess she does, because she she comes up to
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: Yellina while Yellina is grieving for Natasha.
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't sorry, there's I'm wasting time because there's
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: a leaf blower outside my window and they shouldn't be
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: here on a Friday, and I'm really mad at mad
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: Leviathan Lethan is her group.
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know anything about that within the MCU,
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: but yeah, so we'll see. I am cautiously optimistic for
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: Thunderbolts more so than I like. I was really hopeful
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: for Captain America Brave New World because everything we were
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: hearing early on before, like tons of reshoots had to
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: take place, indicated that was going to be kind of
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: Winter Soldier esque. But everything I've been hearing since then
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: sounds like it's not bad. It's just you should go
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: in with lowered expectations.
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: I'm still looking forward to it because I think Sam
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: Wilson as Captain America is awesome.
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: But following up, Anthony Mackie does do a great job
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: as Sam, so yeah, I do look forward to seeing
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: more of that. And I like the Isaiah Bradley character
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: a lot too, so I'm looking forward to seeing more
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: of him.
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, me too.
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: Next up, I have a trailer here that was I
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: told Ariel she might not want to watch. So first
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: of all, did you watch this?
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: Yes? I did, because while I do trust your opinion
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: and I actually did not quite enjoy the trailer, I
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: am looking forward to the studio in general, as a project.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: It's the trailer for the studio the Apple TV show.
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: Which it starts off as a fake trailer, kind of
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: similar to what was in movies like Tropic Thunder, where
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: they're watching a trailer for a film called The dub Apocalypse,
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: where it's a zombie movie, but the zombies pass on
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: the zombie disease through explosive of diarrhea, which is just
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: as sophisticated and classy as I made it sound just then.
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: And that's the joke, right, Like, this is a studio
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: reviewing this trailer for this incredibly juvenile horror comedy, but
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: still talking about how like, oh no, we want to
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: make sure that the message gets across, but we also
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: really need the explosive diarrhea to be in the trailer.
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: That kind of thing.
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I so this this show, this trailer rather sorry,
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: the leaf floor is so distracting. Oh, this trailer reminded
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: me kind of of Future Man, that show that I
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: admitted to everybody that I kind of enjoyed even though
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: it was absolutely horrible and I don't recommend it to everyone.
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I finally saw a clip from that, and I
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: didn't know what the clip was from it first and
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: then I looked it up and this literally happened today
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: and it was Future Man, and I was like, that
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: sounds familiar. Why do I know that it's because of you?
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: And you know it was a collaboration between Josh Hutchardson
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: and Seth Rogan, who are both in the The Apocalypse trailer.
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, it looks well. Catherine Hahn is in
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: it too, and like Catherine Hahn is O'Hara some of
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: my favorite performers. So looking forward to seeing to seeing
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: more of this because obviously, if there's one thing that
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: Hollywood likes above everything else, it's shows or movies that
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: are about the Hollywood experience, whether it's one where it's
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: skewering Hollywood by pointing out all the ridiculous stuff that
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: happens there, or it's one that is just celebrating the
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: story of you know, becoming a star or whatever. Hollywood
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: loves that. So I'm sure that it'll be similar to
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: that in this as as Aeriel turns a deeper shade
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: of red and continuously mutes and unmutes or.
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: Microphone, I'm sorry, it's going to give you, guys some
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: really fantastic audio though, Just like it'll keep you on
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: your feet.
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: I'll try and remove some of the noise. We'll see
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: how well it goes. It probably won't go so well
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: because I didn't really get a lot of room tone.
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: But okay, they I usually like you nod at me, like, hey,
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: start the episode. Well I'm just giving you ten seconds
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: of room tone.
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: Well yeah, well yeah, I have regular room tone, but
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: that was before the noise. Like room tone is there,
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: so I can remove any hum or noise that's in
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: the background. But the leaf blower didn't come in until
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: like we were forty minutes in or whatever.
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they're supposed to. They used to leafblow I think
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: on like Tuesday at eight in the morning, which also
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: wasn't fantastic. But it's better than this. I wasn't made
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: aware of the change, so that's why I didn't schedule
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: recording around them. So sorry.
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: That might be because of the weather we've had here
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: in Atlanta. We had a lot of rain.
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we got flooded in yesterday.
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: Well. We also got a teaser, a big game teaser
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: for Lelo and Stitch, which, like a lot of the
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: other teasers, didn't actually show us content from the movie.
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: It showed us like Stitch running around a football field.
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: Here's the thing, thing though, Oh, here's the thing though.
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: I feel like the teaser we got of Stitch like
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: kicking around the sand castles are being held up like
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: Simba and the Lion King. Those are super well rendered,
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: right because they made sure that they were spot on
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: for CED twenty three or whatever it was D twenty three, Lauren,
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: What is wrong with me today? Nothing but this this
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: super Bowl trailer? It didn't look as good.
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I I don't. I don't get why they
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: decided to go with another Like they kind of did
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: this with Leelo and Stitch in various Disney merch for
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: a long time, where Stitch would invade other character's stuff,
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: which is cute and all, but like, I kind of
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: would rather see a sequence from the film same.
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: My guess is maybe, well, one they're probably trying to
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: bank on that same kind of nostalgia, but two maybe
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: they just didn't have it ready. Could be I don't
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: know when they bought their spot. But also with like
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: the if they're doing any production in la that certainly
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: probably got camperd Yeah.
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: From the fires. Well, we'll keep an eye out for
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: more Leelo and stitch stuff. I'm still not super excited
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: about that because we already saw this movie when it
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: came out as an animated film, so I don't really
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: need to see the live action version, but I'm sure
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: they'll do a good job with it. It's just like, well, yeah,
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: but I've already I've already seen it.
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: That's okay, you can watch the Minecraft movie instead.
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we got a new trailer for Minecraft. This showed
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: a little bit more stuff of what's going on in
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: the world of Minecraft. And UH, still don't think it's
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: for me, but I think it's the sort of thing
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: that you know, some kids are gonna really think is entertaining.
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I had to. I had to go back and
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: watch it twice because at one point in the trailer,
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: Jason Momoa's character makes he crafts a couple of buckets together,
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: and I couldn't tell a chain together, chain together because
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: you can throw them. Uh, And I didn't know if
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: he called them buck chuckets or butt chuckets, and I'd
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: believe either.
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: I thought I thought it was buck chuck its because
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: it's nun chucks, but with buckets.
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: It's probably what happened. But my brain keeps wanting to
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: call them butt chuckets, well, which is what was in
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: the do Apocalypse movie. So it's fine, It's true we.
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: Got a lot of butt chuckets in that movie. Yeah,
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: it looks cute. I don't I don't know. I also
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: feel like there are too many protagonists in that movie,
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: Like I feel like, like, why do you have this
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: many characters.
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: They aren't protagonists. They're all quirky sidekicks, every single one
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: of them, including the main character.
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: I yeah, it's not for me. I'm okay with that.
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: We also got a trailer for The Wheel of Time
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: season three, which I haven't watched any of the Wheel
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: of Time stuff, so none of this really mattered to me.
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: I did think that I wish they didn't go with
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: a trailer cliche where it's the world is changing, Like
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: that's such a tired cliche that when I hear it now,
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: I'm like, I expect it to be a spoof or
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: a parody.
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: So I agree, And I think part of it is
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: because the first two seasons, you go through all of
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: the seasons just to find out you're going through the
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: same cycle. Because it's a Wheel of Time, right, it
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: just keeps cycling through. I have watched the first two seasons.
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: I've not read the books. I have dear friends who
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: absolutely love the books and the author and all that stuff.
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: I just haven't fully read a book in a very
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: long time. And like it's okay. Some of the characters
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: have cool arcs. I think I have two problems with
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: the series, and one of it is that like some
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: of the actors have that very like Stargate Stargate sci
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: fi series feel where they're just a little too shiny
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: for the world they've been put in. They have to
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: coin a gen z gen Alpha term. They have iPhone face,
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: which means they look more modern. They look more modern
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: than they do then they look like they fit into
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: the setting they've been put in.
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: Gotcha, So like things like hair and makeup and the
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: cinematography and all.
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: That accent and affectations.
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, well I remember. I want to say when
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: we first started seeing trailers for season one that this
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: was one of those things that you and I both
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: felt were like, everyone looks so clean, and that seems
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: weird in a world where you would you would expect
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: a bit more dust and dirt.
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's not. Everybody so like the I don't
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: remember her. The actress's name. Rosamond Pike plays Moraine Demrid.
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: She's like one of the main sorcerers in Wheel of Time,
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: which is I don't know what they're called weavers. Anyhow,
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: she does a phenomenal job. So the actors do a
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: great job. There are some actors who I absolutely adore
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: their performances. But the other problem, which was to the
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: other problem, there are so many characters and so many
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: plot lines, and they jump around so much that unless
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: you're familiar with the property, it's a little hard to follow.
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: It's kind of like a Game of Thrones where you
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: really need those appenda seas in the back to keep
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: everybody straight.
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, so much so that like my friends shared
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: the Wheel of Time trailer for season three on our
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: watch party chat because we watched the first two seasons
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: in watch party and my husband was like, oh, I
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: guess we have to watch the first two seasons so
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: we can watch this third one. And I'm like, no, no, Tony,
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: here you go. Season one was blood Knife. Season two
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: was a creepy wizard bondage army, and that's it. There's
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: more than happens.
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: But I was gonna say if that's all you need
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: to just summarize the entire series, that that doesn't speak
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: very highly on the show.
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: There's a whole lot more. Those were the two things
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: that seem to interest the watch party the most. And
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: I have friends who enjoyed the book, so certainly some
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: of my watch party enjoys it a lot more. And
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: I know people who like the Wheel of Time series
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: tend to like it more because they can follow what's
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: going on. But the costume design is phenomenal though I
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: will say that I love the costume design.
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: That's cool. Well, moving on and getting back to Anthony
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: Mackie again. We got a teaser for season two of
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: Twisted Metal. I actually watched the first season of Twisted Metal?
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: Did you watch any of that areal?
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: I didn't because I didn't have Peacock at the time.
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: How was it?
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's entertaining. It's I wouldn't call it great.
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: I would say it's entertaining, it's you know, it does
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: a lot with its material, considering that it's drawing from
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: a video game that was not known for its storytelling.
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: The video game series is all about driving vehicles and
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: blasting other vehicles, typically in like a demolition derby kind
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: of arena. In the footage we get for season two,
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: it shows that there's going to be a tournament. There's
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: also a quick glimpse at one of the characters. I
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: can't I don't even know the.
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: Character's name, but like, is it Calypso.
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: Is Calypso the one that has their arms shoved into
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: giant wheels?
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: No? No, no, okay.
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: So one of the the thing about Twisted Metal is
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: everybody has like a weird vehicle, the big one that
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: everyone remembers a sweet tooth. He drives an ice cream truck.
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: He's a clown with his head on fire and he's
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: insane and he was played physically by Samoa Joe the
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: wrestler but voiced by Will Arnett in the first season.
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: He's back. But there's another character who is like a
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: dude whose arms serve as the axle for a vehicle.
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: So he's got like his arms are stretched out to
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: either side and at the end of each fist is
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: a wheel and he zooms around the arena like that.
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: They have a shot of someone putting their hand into
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: the hub of a wheel at the very end of
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: the trailer. So I wish i'd remember the name of
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: that character. I've played the Twisted Metal games, but I
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: couldn't name anyone beside Sweet Tooth.
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: I haven't played the games. My brain blocked that part
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: of the trailer out. Okay, I was excited. Calypso is
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: the bad guy they introduced, who's being played by Anthony Kerrigan,
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: who was the he was in Barry. He's gonna be
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: playing Morpho in Superman. It's a great actor.
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, very entertaining actor. So I mean, like I said,
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: Twisted Metal Season one was, like I said, it is entertaining.
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: I didn't think it was great. There are other people
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: who are at Stephanie Beatrice's in it too. She's fantastic.
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: I love her. So like, it's fun to watch, but
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: it's nothing. It's nothing special. But again, considering that it's
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: pulled from a video game that's not known for its story,
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: that itself is a bit of an achievement.
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: Is it too gory for me?
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: Oh no, well, I mean it's gory, but it doesn't
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: come across as realistic to me at all. Okay, Like,
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: I guess if Gore just full stop bothers you, even
• 51:53
  Speaker 2: if it's unrealistic gore. Then, yes, it's probably too gory
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: for you, at least in certain parts, But most of
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: the time, it's just like, like I think of it
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: as like Tarantino level.
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: Gotcha, got you? I can handle most of Tarantina. I
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: can handle most of him.
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: Next up, we got a trailer for the final season
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: I believe of Handmaid's Tale, certainly season six. I don't
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: know if I think that's the final season. I think
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: that was what was announced. So I haven't been following
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: this series. I read the original novel that the series
• 52:31
  Speaker 2: is based off of. It's a phenomenal novel. It's harrowing,
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: you know. Obviously, it's set in like a dystopian world that,
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: depending upon the state of affairs at any given time,
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: feels like it's not that far off from our own one.
• 52:50
  Speaker 2: But yeah, this one's kind of interesting because it seems
• 52:53
  Speaker 2: to indicate that the Handmaidens are forming their own kind
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: of army to oppose the patriarchal power structure that dominates
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: the landscape of the setting.
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I also haven't watched it. It's honestly been one
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: of those ones that's been on my list to watch,
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: but I have to be in a really good mood
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: to watch something that dark.
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it's like I read it for AP English.
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: When I was in high school, we actually had a
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: few dystopian novels that we had to read that year
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: and that was one of them. Was like, so is
• 53:33
  Speaker 2: ap English is the lesson to learn just that the
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: future is going to be awful? And then hey, look
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: at what happened.
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: Anyway, We're not going off that topic. So in middle
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: school I was in aplang English Literature, Language Arts whatever
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: it was, and yeah, the books that we had to
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: read and we got different books from everybody else, So
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: I've not read a lot of the classics that are bleak,
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: but we had to read like The Effect of Gamma
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: rays on Man in the mu Mayorgolds, and Zee for
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: Zachariah and is He Willy Nilly, which was the most
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: uplifting and it's about a woman who it's about a
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: girl who loses her legs in a car crash because
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: she was in a car with the drunk driver and
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: that was the most uplifting one. Wow, it kind of
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: showed her life past it. So we read it. We
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: also read I guess like call the Wilder White Fang.
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: I don't remember which one, but yeah, the books that
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: they pick out for impressionable teenagers in their middle school
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: and high school years are so depressing and kids got
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: enough problems already.
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I want to say for us, it was like, well,
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: I know, I read nineteen eighty four and Brave New
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: World in high school. I don't remember if that was
• 54:51
  Speaker 2: part of the senior class or not, but both of
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: those kind of fall into that dystopian, you know, authoritarian world.
• 54:57
  Speaker 2: We also read Fairy Night four fifty one. That was
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: like junior year though, But anyway, Yeah, there were a
• 55:03
  Speaker 2: ton of books that we read that all were kind
• 55:06
  Speaker 2: of about authoritarian dystopias and where your rights are restricted
• 55:14
  Speaker 2: to the nth degree, particularly if you're a woman.
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 55:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a real fun time.
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: I'm not saying you shouldn't read those books. I think
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: it's important. I think they have many of them have
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: good lessons to learn, but just some balance.
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, balance would have been nice. I agree. I
• 55:31
  Speaker 2: think all the books we read are great books, Like
• 55:34
  Speaker 2: all the books I mentioned are great books. There were
• 55:37
  Speaker 2: books we read that I don't think are great, but
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: those are personal bias, Like I will never in my
• 55:42
  Speaker 2: life ever say that I enjoy Testa The Turbovils, but
• 55:47
  Speaker 2: but that's not to say it's a bad book. It
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: just means that, like I was, like, I was so
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: grouchy having to read that. Anyway, moving on from ab English,
• 56:01
  Speaker 2: we also got a trailer for a new trailer for
• 56:05
  Speaker 2: Until Dawn.
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: And another literary classic, yeah, video game classic.
• 56:11
  Speaker 2: It continues to completely thumb its nose at the source
• 56:16
  Speaker 2: material in that it doesn't really seem to be connected
• 56:20
  Speaker 2: to the video game very much at all. It feels
• 56:24
  Speaker 2: more like what if we put Groundhog Day with Cabin
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: in the Woods it does.
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: It was an interesting trailer because a lot of it
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: is played in reverse. What I will say though, despite
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: the fact that it thumbs its nose at the video game,
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: one of the friends that I saw Hard Eyes with
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: hadn't seen that this was coming out, and before they
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: said what the trailer was. When the trailer came up
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: before Hard Eyes, they were able to identify it as
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: untilled on. So it's not so similar that it's unrecognizable.
• 56:58
  Speaker 2: Okay, well, I mean so both the video game and
• 57:02
  Speaker 2: the film have Peter, not a Scars guard Storm are
• 57:06
  Speaker 2: in it, so that's something.
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: That's in reference to this is an edit because Jonathan said,
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: and then I was like, no, it's not I know
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: the actor, and then I couldn't remember his name.
• 57:20
  Speaker 2: And then we had to stop and do a whole
• 57:22
  Speaker 2: like google thing. So we just cut all that stuff out,
• 57:24
  Speaker 2: but then we tell you about it, so you get
• 57:26
  Speaker 2: the benefit of knowing that it happened anyway that they
• 57:32
  Speaker 2: also do have. They also do say like, you know,
• 57:36
  Speaker 2: we have to live until Dawn or something like that,
• 57:40
  Speaker 2: where that the words are in there. I I don't know.
• 57:44
  Speaker 2: If I had gone into this without knowing that there
• 57:46
  Speaker 2: was going to be an Until Dawn movie and I
• 57:48
  Speaker 2: saw this playing out, I would be like, what is
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: this and then seeing the title, I'd be like, wait, no, no,
• 57:54
  Speaker 2: it's not. But I mean that's not to say that
• 57:57
  Speaker 2: it looks bad. I actually think it looks kind of
• 58:00
  Speaker 2: clever and kind of interesting. I just wish it wasn't
• 58:05
  Speaker 2: called Until Dawn because it doesn't feel to me like
• 58:09
  Speaker 2: it's an actual adaptation of the video game, so I
• 58:13
  Speaker 2: wish it were something else. Also, like the video game,
• 58:16
  Speaker 2: this movie and the video game have like fundamentally diametrically
• 58:22
  Speaker 2: opposing premises because Until Dawn. The premise is you make
• 58:28
  Speaker 2: a choice, and that choice has consequences, and those consequences
• 58:32
  Speaker 2: are going to shape the rest of the future, and
• 58:35
  Speaker 2: every time you make a choice, you're adding on to that,
• 58:38
  Speaker 2: so that the ending you come to is the culmination
• 58:41
  Speaker 2: of all the choices you've made. This movie is well,
• 58:45
  Speaker 2: that didn't work, but don't worry. The day resets at
• 58:48
  Speaker 2: the end of the day and we have to relive
• 58:50
  Speaker 2: it again and then we can do all new things.
• 58:52
  Speaker 2: So it's like it's literally the opposite of what the
• 58:55
  Speaker 2: game was about.
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: To be fair, the trailer I saw on the theater
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: was different than the new trailer out for Until Dawn,
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: So it started with Peter Stormyer. So maybe that's why
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: my friend was able to recognize it more easily.
• 59:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, so Scars Guard Stormare makes it a little different.
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: I mean I would watch a battle between the two, Yeah,
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: but still in Scarsguarden Peter storm Ayer, because like you
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: have to make sure they're evenly matched.
• 59:23
  Speaker 2: Well, would you watch a battle between Christopher Lambert and
• 59:26
  Speaker 2: a werewolf?
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: I would? It is immute. Well, are you sure christ
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: Christopher Limbert is not a were wolf? Because it makes
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: sense that if he were a Highlander, he would become
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: a werewolf.
• 59:39
  Speaker 2: He might be. He's got nasty scars on his chest
• 59:42
  Speaker 2: where clearly he had a run in with a werewolf
• 59:44
  Speaker 2: at some point. It may be that he's now Also
• 59:46
  Speaker 2: also he references them as like genetic mutations. It's a
• 59:50
  Speaker 2: very interesting take on the were So we're talking about
• 59:53
  Speaker 2: a movie called Shadow of the Wolf.
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: Yes, which, full disclosure, is a mo from twenty eighteen,
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: but this year it's gotten a resurgence because they've given
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: it an English dub.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's an Italian movie and so it's just now
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 2: being promoted because it's going to get at least some
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 2: limited playtime. I think maybe it's going straight to streaming
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 2: here in March. But yeah, you'll be able to watch
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 2: it with an English dub, and Christopher Lambert's in it,
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 2: as Ariel mentioned, was in Highlander, as well as lots
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 2: of other stuff. And yeah, it's a European take on
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 2: your typical werewolf movie.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: It's like Werewolf MCIs.
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I don't. I can't say that it compels
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 2: me to want to watch it. I didn't think it
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 2: looked bad. I just didn't see anything that made me
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 2: want to see it.
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: I mean, I like werewolf movies sometimes, and I like
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: procedural shows sometimes, so I'm not against it. Sadly, the
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: trailer didn't give us Christopher Lambert's iconic.
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 2: Laugh from from uh from Mortal Kombat when he was raided.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So it's one of my favorite things to do
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: is to send Tommy Wiseau Christopher Lambert laughs to people
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: because they're remarkably similar.
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 2: Oh wow, So yeah, we should have had him playing
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 2: Tommy Wizzou when they did the film instead of was
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 2: it James Franco.
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: The Disaster Artist? Yeah, I mean I I would. The
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: Disaster Artist was a very well done movie. It was
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: very good. I actually own it. But that's another that's
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: another pair of i'd see Tommy was Zo against Christopher Lambert.
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Uh. We also have a trailer for a very
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 2: uh uh kind of standard action thriller horror movie called Borderline.
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 2: Nothing special to say about that.
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: It's I don't know, it's so weird.
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 2: How is it weird? Ariel, I feel like.
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: You wanted me to pick up something I didn't pick
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: up on. It's about this guy who wants to marry
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: a woman, but he's also psychotic, so He also.
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 2: Like, it feels like it's a weird movie where a
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 2: stalker has managed to get access to a celebrity in
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 2: her home, but it's being played it's kind of being
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 2: played as like a dark comedy, a dark comedy, but
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 2: also a psychological thriller, right, Like think of something where
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 2: you've got like the obsessed man stalking after a woman
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 2: that he that he's fixated upon, but they've also made
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 2: it kind of a dark comedy.
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: I think that's what makes it weird for me. Is
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: like Tonally, I couldn't you know, we all watch things
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: and go, oh, this is this genre. I couldn't quite
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: figure out where my emotions were sitting Tonally as I
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: watched the trailer.
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it's it's a little unusual. Tomorrow Weaving. It's
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 2: playing the female lead, the character who is the center
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 2: of obsession. Ray Nicholson's playing the obsessed stalker who's managed
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 2: to get some compatriots together to help him in his
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 2: quest to apparently force her to marry him. Yeah, it's.
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 2: I watched this trailer and I was like, I don't
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 2: I don't have a full grasp on exactly what this is.
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 2: Either it's coming out on March fourteenth, and it's coming
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 2: out both in theaters and on digital platforms at the
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 2: same time. So I think it looks interesting enough where
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 2: I kind of want to see it so that I
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 2: want to see how it plays out and what the
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 2: tone is all the way through, whether or not they
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 2: manage to keep that tone consistent, because if they can,
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 2: I think that's amazing. If it ends up being one
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 2: of those things where it's just wildly swinging from groller
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 2: to comedy, then I don't really I don't find that
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 2: as compelling.
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: It's a legit scary attitude that's you know, if it
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: falls into that category for me, of like, monster movies
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: are easier to watch because you're not going to I'm
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: sorry for anybody who believes otherwise, you're not going to
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: run into a werewolf or you know, a vampire that
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: can turn into a bat. In real life, you can
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: run into these people with these horrible attitudes and views
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: on life in real life. So that gives it like
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: this deep rooted, unsettlingness. Yeah, but also it does look
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: interesting and well made.
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it also is like how do you handle that
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 2: kind of story material in a way where you're not
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 2: you're not coming across as dismissing anyone who's actually been
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 2: through a real experience of someone being obsessed with them
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 2: or stalking them. Yeah, right, because like, obviously this is
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 2: a movie, it's heightened reality. There's a lot of intentional
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 2: comedy injected into this film. But how do you do
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 2: it in such a way where you're not just saying, like, see,
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 2: everyone's just making a big deal out of nothing.
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's interesting. I mean I didn't I've I've
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: only had like brief experiences with people who are stalker esque.
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: I had somebody in middle school who would wait outside
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: my classroom door and like hound me and then spread
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: rumors about me, and that was un fun.
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 2: You had that guy at the Renaissance Festival, the bald
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 2: guy who would always show up at your car and
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 2: expect you to give him a ride home.
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: Oh no, that was prearranged stockeriness.
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 2: Meet me at my car and I'll give you a
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 2: ride home.
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and thankfully the school one, my teachers were very
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: they couldn't stop the rumors. The guy started telling people
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: that we had been having like adult kind of relations
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 1: and that was uncool in sixth or in seventh grade,
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: but like I would have a physical negative reaction to him.
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: He would imagine upsetting to me. But you know, again,
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: thankfully I had teachers in my corner and I never
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: felt in a very unsafe place. However, I used to
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: respond to a lot of people on Facebook, like I
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: get messages, and a lot of them started off very
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: just just nice, you know, and I was trying to
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: network and a lot of them ended up being really
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: creepy guys. And usually I'm like, I'm not interested, leave
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: me alone, and then I'd block them. There was one
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: guy this was like a week or two before Dragon Con.
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: I was performing at it, and I was promoting the
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: show so people who were could access my page knew
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: where I was going to be, and he was like
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: I will make you my wife. You just wait and
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: you see and stuff like that. Wow, And then I
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: had to go and like so I was like, you
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: need to stop this, leave me alone, And I took
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: the idea off of Facebook and case I needed it,
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: and I blocked him. But then like having to go
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: to dragon Con a week later, that is full of
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: people Like normally when you perform with Artsy, you volunteer,
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: you hand out bookmarks, so you were at the table
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: or something like that in that year I had to,
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: and thankfully they're very understanding. I'd be like, I'm coming
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: to do the show, and then I am leaving because
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: I I Am not comfortable putting myself in a situation
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: with all of these people right now. Because yeah, so yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 2: So like in any film that's gonna be taking any
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 2: sourt of subject matter like that and treating it as
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 2: a thriller comedy, you're you're hopeful that they do it
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 2: in such a way where you know, yes, it can
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 2: be entertaining, but it's not it's not essentially equating all
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 2: those situations as being a big nothing burger kind of thing. Yeah,
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 2: and with a title like borderline, I'm guessing that that's
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 2: referencing like almost like borderline personality disorder. Yeah, so we'll
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 2: have to see. Uh. Of course that also falls into
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 2: that oother trope of people who are struggling with mental
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 2: health are the bad guys, right, So there's a lot
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 2: of tropes that you got to be super cognizant of
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 2: when you're writing a story.
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: I feel like borderline could also be not necessarily borderline
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: personality disorder, but like those people who are like, well,
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: they're borderline bad but they do just enough.
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 2: Good, right, or or they're they're borderline normal but there's
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 2: something just a little off about them.
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll have to.
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 2: I'm curious about it because, like I like samorrow weavings work,
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 2: so i'm i'm. I think a lot of the film
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 2: is going to be dependent upon her performance and how
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 2: her character is shown reacting to this stuff. I think
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 2: that's gonna determine a lot of it, because at least
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 2: in the trailer, she seems like she's mostly annoyed.
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I guess we'll see. I'm kind of interested
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: in this one. We're gonna move on to the next
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: trailer because I need to start it off by saying
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: that the trailer for the next film, I think it
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: is although it's a Hulu property. If you say that
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: your top five favorite movies are Ryan Stone, The Apple Repo,
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: The Genetic Opera, Mad Max, and Hunger Games, you are
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 1: in luck.
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 2: I think also Six String Samurai would maybe, yeah, you
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 2: would fit in there. Six String Samurai would.
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: Be there, and Lulan Rouge. Seven favorite movies.
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 2: It's a movie called Odessa. It is sad than the
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 2: dystopic like post apocalyptic kind of future. The protagonist appears
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 2: to be a musician who believes in the power of
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 2: music and bringing light into the darkness. The visuals are
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 2: pretty out there, like this trailer. When I watched it,
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 2: I was thinking, I don't I don't really fully understand
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 2: what this movie is, but I think that that's the point,
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 2: and I kind of dig it like it's taking some
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 2: really big swings.
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. And it stars Sadie Sink. She she
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 1: plays I'm guessing Odessa, Yes, she plays Odessa. Sadie Sink
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 1: you would recognize as Max from Stranger Things. She's a
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: great actress. It also has Regina Hall and other people.
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 2: It.
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 1: I like it because it starts off with kind of
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: like a folksy Devil went down to Georgia vibe, and
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 1: then it turns into The Apple, which is a really
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 1: bad old musical movie. I'm not saying it's gonna be bad,
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: but it's got the vibe of like small town person
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 1: becomes famous pop star.
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 2: But in a really weird world. Like Yes, another one
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 2: I would I would cite would be Sargent Pepper's Lonely
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 2: Hearts Club Band, the movie that the Begie's made that
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 2: was inspired by and I mean used the album from
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 2: the Beatles for all the music.
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: Don't know if I ever watched that one.
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, Steve Martin is in it. He plays
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 2: Maxwell from Maxwell silver Hammer. George Burns is in it. Yeah, wow,
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 2: Sergeant we gotta have we need to have a bad
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 2: movie night and we need to watch Sergeant Peppers. It is.
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 2: It is not a good movie. Aerosmith plays an evil
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 2: band that does come together. Yeah, it's it's crazy. It's
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 2: a crazy film. Not good. But I remember watching it
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 2: as a kid in thinking like this is a bonkers movie.
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 2: And Odessa kind of gives me that same sort of
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 2: bonker's energy. Again, not the quality. I'm not saying anything
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 2: about the quality, just that it's so different from everything else,
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 2: and to me, that's what's really interesting.
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Who was another really bad musical that had like
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 1: a Geene Simmons was like the bad guy, and I
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 1: want to say it was like Sylvester Stallone was a
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 1: good guy. I don't know, it was really.
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 2: Weird Sylvester salone in a musical.
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 1: I don't I don't know, I don't remember it is,
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: but everything I'm looking up is like Rocky the musical.
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 1: That's not what I'm looking for.
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 2: Who did you say was the bad guy?
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 1: Maybe like Gene Simmons.
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 2: Geene Simmons so like, uh so the front man for Kiss?
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know. Maybe it had John Stamos.
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 1: It was really weird cast.
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 2: Oh no, the John Stamos one. Yeah, I know what
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 2: you're talking about. John Stamuels plays a guy who's a
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 2: student and a spy, and Gene Simmons is the head
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 2: of like this cult like gang.
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: So it wasn't Stallone, it was it was Staymos. I
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 1: was just getting my dark head haired s names mixed up.
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 2: The only reason I know that is because Red Letter Media,
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 2: whom I've mentioned many times on this podcast, did a
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 2: best of the Worst where that was one of the
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 2: movies they watched.
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 1: I've watched it. It is not good.
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't. Again, I don't want people to sit
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 2: there and think that we're saying Odessa is going to
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 2: be a bad movie. It's just it's just a very
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 2: unusual approach, and to me, that's really interesting.
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, Like the trailer just visually reminded me of
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 1: a bunch of things. As I was going through it,
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 1: so I'll be interested to see how they tie it
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 1: all together.
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 2: And last, but not least, we also got a teaser,
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 2: not for a movie, not for a TV show, but
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 2: for a section of a theme park.
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 1: Yes, Dark Universe at Epic Universal Universal.
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 2: Epic Universal Epic Universe, I think is what they call it. Yeah,
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 2: so that's this is the new park that Universal Studios
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 2: is opening the spring in Orlando, Florida. Uh. And one
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 2: of the many lands of that of that park is
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 2: dedicated to the classic, the real classic universal horror movie monsters.
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 2: Not those classics quote unquote that they had on Dropout TV,
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 2: and not all of the.
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 1: Man with an Ape Ape with a Man brain.
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, all that stuff was not really classic. Those were
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 2: Those were just movies that happened to have been produced
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 2: by universities.
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Uh. The trailer honestly made it look less impressive
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 1: than I'm picturing it.
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 2: Being, well, because a lot of it is, you know,
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 2: obviously a guy in a a CG. You know, background
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 2: kind of thing. So the gimmick is that you've got
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 2: these two people who are walking off from like a
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 2: fast food restaurant, and this portal appears and it's the
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 2: it's the gate that you would pass through at Epic
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 2: Universe in order to go into the Dark Universe section
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 2: of the park. And the guy in this this these
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 2: two friends, there's a man and a woman. The man
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 2: walks through while the woman's like, we shouldn't go into that.
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 2: And then you see him like apparently being on rights
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 2: and going past the Wolfman and waving at Frankenstein's monster,
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 2: and Dracula turns into something bats or blood or something
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 2: or maybe bloody bats, who knows. And then he comes
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  Speaker 2: back out and tells her you got to come through this,
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 2: and they they both walk through the portal. I think that, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it didn't do much for me because but part of
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  Speaker 2: it is that we've been following the development of this
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  Speaker 2: park and so like seeing the stuff like the miniatures,
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  Speaker 2: the models and stuff for the parks and the artists
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 2: renditions and everything that to me was way more effective
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  Speaker 2: in getting me excited about this than the trailer.
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 1: Spot was same talking about the advanced technology behind the animatronics,
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  Speaker 1: which in the trailer they show a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: and I can't tell if they're the actual animatronics or not.
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 1: It didn't look as good in the trailer unfortunate. What
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  Speaker 1: has also been getting me excited. I know you're not
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  Speaker 1: on social media to see this, but maybe I'll find
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 1: some links and share it is they've been, like there
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 1: have been people who been like driving past at the
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 1: Universe because it's a lot of it is built, and
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 1: like taking video from outside of like them running the
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  Speaker 1: tests because you can see some of it, and like
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  Speaker 1: or I think little legal leaks about, like oh, here's
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  Speaker 1: this little dragon that you can meet or whatever in
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 1: the how to Train Your Dragon section. Yeah, the in
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 1: Celestial Park, I think it's called the Dueling rollercoaster, lit
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  Speaker 1: up at night running is so pretty. It looks like
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 1: just two shooting stars. I love it.
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  Speaker 2: At least one of the hotels that's in the Epic
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  Speaker 2: Universe area is open already, and so influencers have stayed,
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 2: not at the main hotel, which has its own entrance
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 2: into the park, but one of the secondary hotels. They've
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 2: stayed there, and some of that hotel looks out over
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 2: Epic Universe, and again it's not the same as the
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 2: view you would get at staying at their you know,
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 2: the premiere hotel that's at one end of the park.
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 2: But I've seen some of that already where there were
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 2: people taking like long range photos of the park and
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 2: there wasn't any of the test stuff going on at
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 2: that time. So I'm sure I'll have to check out
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 2: what it looks like, because you know, I definitely would
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 2: love to see the Dark Universe stuff in particular, like
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure I would enjoy the How To Train Your
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 2: Dragon and the Super Mario World sections too. It's too
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 2: bad that they were never able to figure out a
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 2: fourth section.
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that they could do well. Let me, Celestial Park
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  Speaker 1: has rides.
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  Speaker 2: Celestial Park, Yeah, they're supposed to be five, but really
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 2: they only figured out four.
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 1: Four Yeah, yeah, shame, but I mean four is still
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 1: a lot of park to go to, it is. I
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 1: just hope that they don't price it like Disney is
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 1: pricing things lately, so it's just unattainable.
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, totally. I feel the same way. Like just
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 2: finding out that the market can bear these crazy prices,
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 2: especially if you want to do things like you know,
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 2: bypass lines or whatever, is different from saying like, oh,
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 2: let's do that thing, right, Like, I still get better
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 2: because I think back it wasn't that long ago where
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 2: Disney offered the fast Pass stuff for free, right, you
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 2: just had to remember, you just had to know how
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 2: to use it. But if you knew how to use it,
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 2: you could do it for free. And of course now
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 2: all of that's behind a paywall, with some of it
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 2: behind an even bigger paywall, and if you want to
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 2: go really bonkers, you can drop you know, like five
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 2: hundred dollars a person I liked.
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 1: I enjoy going to Disney. I know how to make
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 1: it magical when I'm there. Usually I can't imagine spending
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 1: that much on it.
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean like it had already reached a point
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 2: where going to a Disney park is a real extravagance.
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 2: I mean it's always been kind of an extravagance, but
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 2: it's gotten to a point where it's out of the
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 2: reach of a lot of people, or if they're able to,
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 2: they're maybe able to go once every like ten years
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 2: or something, because it's so expensive. And it just feels
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 2: like the choices they've made have brought it closer and
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 2: closer to Oh, this is a park for rich people,
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 2: and if you're not a rich person, you're not really
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 2: gonna get the most out of this. Like you might
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 2: be able to afford to go, but you're not going
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 2: to be able to afford to actually enjoy yourself because
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 2: all the stuff that makes it a fun time costs extra.
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I went. You know, I know you
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 1: go more often than I, but I went last year
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 1: and I was just upset because the whole reason I
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 1: decided to go was because I could get tickets that
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 1: were like the price I used to go at when
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 1: I could afford it on my single person salary that
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 1: was not a lot, but I could. It was a
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 1: goal that was save uppable too. And I bought the
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 1: tickets and then something happened where we absolutely could not go.
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 1: So we changed the date and every time we had
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 1: to change the date twice, and every time we did
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 1: it bumped the price up and I had to pay
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 1: the difference. And I'm like, once you buy the tickets
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 1: to the park, Disney used to be about magical experiences,
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 1: they should honor that ticket within a like within a year.
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 1: I understand if like you bought a ticket five years
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 1: ago and you couldn't go unless it was like extranuating circumstances,
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 1: that maybe they would work with you because it's such
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 1: a magical story to share.
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's I get it to a point, because
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 2: otherwise I could see people abusing the system. Where like, oh,
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 2: I bought a ticket to go in you know, mid September,
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 2: which is, you know, a fairly relatively light time because
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 2: kids are getting back into school and stuff and all that,
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 2: so there's not as big of a crowd. But I
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 2: can't go. So I want to have this bumped to
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 2: the week between Christmas and New Year's which is the
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 2: busiest time of year. I get why that would be
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 2: an issue, right, Yeah, And Disney, in order to deal
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 2: with crowds, or at least this is what they say
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 2: in or to deal with crowds, they price the more
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 2: popular parts of the year higher, and so the slower
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 2: parts of the year are priced lower. So it gives
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 2: an incentive for you to go to one of the
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 2: lower price parts of the year and a disincentive to
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 2: go to one of the higher ones. But as you
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 2: say that then means that if you bought tickets and
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 2: something comes up and you need to change it, then
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 2: it really does stink that you've saved up with this
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 2: one date in mind, and through no fault of your own,
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 2: you have to change your date. But you're gonna have
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 2: to pay extra in order to do it.
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, and like it was hard because it overdoubled
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 1: the price of my tickets to go. Yeah, and that
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 1: was frustrating.
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 2: That's hard. I mean that's like for a lot of people,
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 2: that would just mean they wouldn't have been able to
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 2: afford to go, and they would be out the money
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 2: of the initial ticket.
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because you don't get a refund. And that's the thing.
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 1: I could get a refund. I would understand that would like, Okay,
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 1: you can't move your ticket to from mid September to
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 1: the week between Thanksgiving and Christmas? Can I get a
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 1: refund because I wasn't able to go?
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 2: Like it's so, you know, I'm going to Disneyland this
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 2: this next week on Monday and Tuesday. I'll be at
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 2: Disney Lane, California. Don't stalk me, but oh man, but
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 2: I'm going to be there with my partner and our niece.
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 2: And I decided I was going to buy us the
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 2: multi lane passes, which is the what Fast Pass used
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 2: to be, right, it's that thing. It's for their basic rides.
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 2: It doesn't it doesn't even apply to their top not rides.
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 2: Those you have to buy a single pass access to
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 2: so Rise of the Resistance and Radiator Springs are the
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 2: two rides where you have to buy an extra pass
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 2: if you want to buy mess the normal line.
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 1: Not any of the things on Marvel Campus.
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 2: No, No, Guardians of the Galaxies actually on their normal
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 2: multipass lane. So I purchased it. Now I'm buying multipass
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 2: for two days for three people, so six multipasses total.
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 2: Keep in mind, I've already bought the tickets to go
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 2: to Disneyland, but just that add on of the multi
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 2: lane passes added two hundred and fifty dollars. Well, that's
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 2: before you take into account things like how are we
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 2: getting from La to Anaheim. It's before you factor into
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 2: things like the hotel stay and all that kind of stuff.
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 2: Like it just again like we can afford to do it,
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 2: so we're doing it. But it's frustrating because there's so
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 2: many people who would love to be able to have
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 2: that experience who are never going to be able to
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 2: because it's just it's prohibitively expensive, to the point where
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 2: I'm like considering easing off on the whole Disney stuff
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 2: in the hopes that perhaps there will be an adjustment
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 2: to kind of react to how things have gone in
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 2: a different way, maybe bring those prices down so that
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 2: more people can actually experience it. We could have an
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 2: entire podcast talking about the challenges around the whole park system.
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 2: But I think the important thing for us to remember
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 2: is that we both really want to see what the
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 2: Dark Universe turns out to be. Yeah, because it looks
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 2: like it could be a really fun themed area, particularly
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 2: at night, Like that's where that place is going to
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 2: really take off, right, Yeah, and I really want to
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 2: experience that. And but that's despite the trailer we saw,
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 2: not because of it.
• 1:25:53
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• 1:25:56
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• 1:25:59
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• 1:26:02
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