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Jonathan Gets Short With LNC · Large Nerdron Collider

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  Speaker 1: Hate everybody, and welcome to the Large Nerdron Collider, the
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  Speaker 1: show about all the geek things going on in the
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  Speaker 1: world and how excited we are to live in a
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  Speaker 1: world it has all those geeky things. I'm your host,
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  Speaker 1: Jonathan Strickland, and with me, as always is Jonathan Strickland,
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  Speaker 1: Large Nerdron Collider creator and my beloved co host. Ariel
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  Speaker 1: is currently under the weather, and we skipped last week
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  Speaker 1: because we had some travel stuff going on and we
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  Speaker 1: hate having to skip two weeks in a row, and
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  Speaker 1: plus there's a bunch of short news items we just
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  Speaker 1: wanted to cover really quickly. So while Ariel convalesces, I
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  Speaker 1: thought I would just give a quick rundown on what
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  Speaker 1: we would have talked about and hopefully we'll be able
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  Speaker 1: to chat about this more when she gets back. So
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  Speaker 1: let's just go through this, shall we. First off, we
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  Speaker 1: found out that the next Spider Verse film won't be
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  Speaker 1: coming out until twenty twenty seven. That's rough. I still
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  Speaker 1: need to watch the most recent Spider Verse movie. I
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  Speaker 1: understand it's incredible and I have no doubt about it,
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  Speaker 1: but yeah, it's gonna be a couple more years before
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  Speaker 1: we get the next entry. It makes sense. Animation takes
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  Speaker 1: a lot of time, and those folks over there, they
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  Speaker 1: do amazing work. The animation in the Spider Verse movies
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  Speaker 1: is some of my favorite that I've seen in years.
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  Speaker 1: Dave Fincher is in talks to direct a follow up
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  Speaker 1: film to Quentin Tarantinos Once upon a Time in Hollywood.
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  Speaker 1: If you're unfamiliar with that, it's a story that mostly
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  Speaker 1: follows a kind of a nineteen fifties era westerns actor
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  Speaker 1: and his stunt coordinator slash stunt double best friend as
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  Speaker 1: they encounter late sixties early seventies era Hollywood and the
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  Speaker 1: Charles Manson family. It's a real, real family picture. Anyway.
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  Speaker 1: There's talks of David Fincher to direct a sequel that
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  Speaker 1: Quentin Tarantino would script, but of course he would not
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  Speaker 1: himself direct, which I think is interesting. Next up, Hulu
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  Speaker 1: has picked up The Testaments, that is a sequel series
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  Speaker 1: to The Handmaid's Tale. Here's the thing I was unaware,
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  Speaker 1: or maybe I was aware then forgot about it, that
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  Speaker 1: Margaret Atwood, the author of The Handmaid's Tale, had penned
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  Speaker 1: a sequel in twenty nineteen. It's called The Testaments, and
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  Speaker 1: so Hulu has picked this up. This sequel series would
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  Speaker 1: follow several years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale,
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  Speaker 1: and it mostly features how there is a growing resistance
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  Speaker 1: to the government of Gilead and an attempt to overthrow
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  Speaker 1: said go So it sounds really interesting to me. Next up,
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  Speaker 1: we had Cinema Con over this past week. Cinema Con
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  Speaker 1: is a big convention that happens in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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  Speaker 1: It's where theater owners get together and various Hollywood studios
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  Speaker 1: kind of try to wine and dine those theater owners
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  Speaker 1: in an attempt to get more promotion for movies. It's
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  Speaker 1: meant to be a mutually beneficial kind of relationship thing,
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  Speaker 1: and a lot of stuff happened there. So. For instance,
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  Speaker 1: Zoe Saldana presented footage from Avatar Fire and Ash. This
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  Speaker 1: is the third of the Avatar films, and from what
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  Speaker 1: I hear, is pretty impressive. The footage from this particular
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  Speaker 1: convention has not yet made it to the Internet. It
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  Speaker 1: probably will at some point or another. But one of
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  Speaker 1: the things that is special about Cinema Con is that
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  Speaker 1: these theater owners and operators get a chance to see
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  Speaker 1: stuff before the general public does. So the Fire and
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  Speaker 1: ash was you know. It was some amount of footage
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  Speaker 1: that comes out later this year in December, And according
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  Speaker 1: to James Cameron one, it's supposed to be the most
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  Speaker 1: emotional of the Avatar films so far. I can't really
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  Speaker 1: comment on that because I haven't bothered to watch either
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  Speaker 1: of the other two. And it's also supposed to be longer,
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  Speaker 1: and so you might think, wow, Part two was already
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  Speaker 1: more than three hours long. Well, you might want to
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  Speaker 1: skip the extra large coke when you go see Part three.
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  Speaker 1: Other stuff that was shown off at CinemaCon, Marvel showed
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  Speaker 1: off some footage from Thunderbolts. It included a section in
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  Speaker 1: which the newly formed team is storming a building, only
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  Speaker 1: to find out that the person inside the building has
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  Speaker 1: got the doors unlocked and is ready for them to
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  Speaker 1: come in anyway. It sounds like it's the first confrontation
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  Speaker 1: between the Thunderbolts and the character who will be known
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  Speaker 1: as Century, or at least in the comics, is known
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  Speaker 1: as Century. I have no idea if they're going to
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  Speaker 1: give them that name in the actual movie. And they
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  Speaker 1: also showed off a new trailer for The Fantastic Four,
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  Speaker 1: which included a look at the Silver Surfer for the
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  Speaker 1: first time, so that's kind of cool. Also reveals that
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  Speaker 1: apparently Sue Storm is pregnant. She announces that early on,
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  Speaker 1: which is it'll be interesting to see where that storyline goes.
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  Speaker 1: That's a pretty i mean super early on to introduce
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  Speaker 1: the idea of Sue and Reed having their kid. But
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  Speaker 1: this is also a world where the Fantastic Four has
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  Speaker 1: been established for a while, so it shouldn't be a
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  Speaker 1: big surprise there. Other stuff shown off at cinemacn included Soulmate.
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  Speaker 1: That's s O U l M. The Numeral eight te
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  Speaker 1: This is a spin off from Megan. The Soulmate movie
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  Speaker 1: is more about an adult companion if you get my drift.
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  Speaker 1: Jordan Peel is also there to show off footage of
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  Speaker 1: his next horror film Him. There was some more footage
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  Speaker 1: shown off from Jurassic World Rebirth. I think Bloom of
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  Speaker 1: Blumhouse came up there dressed in costume to show some
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  Speaker 1: footage from Five Nights at Freddy's Part two and other
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  Speaker 1: stuff like that. So lots of genre activity happening at CinemaCon,
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  Speaker 1: which should make our listeners pretty happy because that's what we,
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  Speaker 1: you know, like to go see that's our bread and butter.
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  Speaker 1: Disney has reportedly paused production on a live action version
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  Speaker 1: of Tangled. They were in the early stages of production
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  Speaker 1: for Tangled and following suit with all their other live
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  Speaker 1: action adaptations. You know, we've talked about this a lot,
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  Speaker 1: where Disney has relied on its established ipe to create
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  Speaker 1: new versions of those movies, which some people, self included,
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  Speaker 1: find a little tiresome. Sometimes those live action movies tend
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  Speaker 1: end up being really good, which is great. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I'm happy for it, but it's kind of tiresome to
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  Speaker 1: watch Disney go back and mind the same material over
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  Speaker 1: and over again. Anyway, Tangled is on pause, supposedly because
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  Speaker 1: of the let's say, tepid response to snow White that
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  Speaker 1: maybe this has convinced them to pump the brakes a
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  Speaker 1: bit before going any further. I think that's interesting, since
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  Speaker 1: we do have a live action Lee, Low and Stitch
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  Speaker 1: coming out very soon, and at least from the previews
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  Speaker 1: I've seen, it looks like it has the potential to
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  Speaker 1: do pretty well. We also have a live action Molwana
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  Speaker 1: that's in production, so maybe those will convince the Mousehouse
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  Speaker 1: to get Tangled back in production. Maybe not. I guess
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  Speaker 1: we'll have to see, but I can't. It seems kind
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  Speaker 1: of like a pat reaction to me to pause Tangled
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  Speaker 1: just because snow White didn't do so well. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think there was a world where snow White was going
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  Speaker 1: to do great. I mean, even taking away all the
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  Speaker 1: rhetoric and nonsense that came from critics who were determined
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  Speaker 1: to hate on the film as soon as they heard
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  Speaker 1: anything about it, take all that away, I still think
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  Speaker 1: that you wouldn't have had a huge success because I
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  Speaker 1: just don't know that snow White resonates the same as
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  Speaker 1: it did in nineteen thirty seven. I mean, the movie
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  Speaker 1: that they were taking from, the original animated film is
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  Speaker 1: almost one hundred years old at this point. Other things
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to mention before I sign off really quickly
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  Speaker 1: is that we are, of course very sad that Val
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  Speaker 1: Kilmer passed away. Val Kilmer an incredible actor, sometimes a
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  Speaker 1: troublesome actor like he had a very method approach, and
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  Speaker 1: y'all have heard how Ariel and I both don't really
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  Speaker 1: care for method actors. But that being said, he was
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  Speaker 1: in tons of stuff that falls into the genre categories
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  Speaker 1: like real genius or Willow you know, incredible performances, and
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  Speaker 1: he was really an entertaining actor. He could do drama,
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  Speaker 1: he could do comedy, and we were sad to hear
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  Speaker 1: of his passing. Other things I'll mention. While we were
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  Speaker 1: off there was the big video. There was a live
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  Speaker 1: stream that Marvel did to reveal the casting for Avengers Doomsday,
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  Speaker 1: where they showed like an almost endless array of director's
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  Speaker 1: chairs with actor names on them, my favorite being that
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  Speaker 1: Paul Rudds was on a smaller chair because he's ant Man.
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  Speaker 1: There was a sneak peak of Superman that gives us
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  Speaker 1: an extended look at the section where Crypto helps Superman,
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  Speaker 1: but not before being a very rambunctious doggie. We got
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  Speaker 1: a Mortal Kombat two trailer. We got trailers for horror
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  Speaker 1: movies like Bring Her Back. We got one from Megan
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  Speaker 1: two point oh, which makes it look like it's a
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  Speaker 1: Terminator movie where Arnold comes back and then the good
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  Speaker 1: guy I mean, Megan two point zero is giving me
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  Speaker 1: Terminator too feels. We got a trailer for Final Destination Bloodlines.
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  Speaker 1: We got a trailer for Karate Kid Legends. We got
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  Speaker 1: one for Star Wars. Tales of the Underworld. We got
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  Speaker 1: one for Star Trek Strange New Worlds season three. We
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  Speaker 1: got one for an Apple TV Plus series called Fountain
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  Speaker 1: of Youth. We got one for the reboot of the
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  Speaker 1: Naked Gun series. It actually is a sequel really because
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  Speaker 1: Liam Neeson is playing Frank Drebend, but he's playing Frank
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  Speaker 1: Drebend Junior, the son of Leslie Nielsen's character. I saw
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  Speaker 1: of positive comments on that trailer. I will say I
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  Speaker 1: did not like it. I did not like the trailer
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  Speaker 1: very much, but it was just a very short, little
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  Speaker 1: moment and I don't know. Maybe when I see more
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  Speaker 1: of it, I'll feel differently, but it feels a little
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  Speaker 1: too Seth macfarlaney to me, Seth MacFarland has a sense
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  Speaker 1: of humor that I feel approaches my sense of humor,
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  Speaker 1: but then takes a wild turn and the two of
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  Speaker 1: us just don't quite gel. Which is not to say
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  Speaker 1: that he is bad at what he does. His work
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  Speaker 1: is incredibly popular. Just means that personally I don't resonate
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  Speaker 1: with his work. Not a diss on him, it just
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  Speaker 1: doesn't mesh. And also I wanted to call out. We
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  Speaker 1: got a trailer for a documentary called Not Just a Goof,
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  Speaker 1: and it is a documentary about the making of the
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  Speaker 1: Goofy movie. And for all you millennials out there who
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  Speaker 1: have defined your personalities around a Goofy movie, good news.
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  Speaker 1: You've got a documentary talking about the making of that film,
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  Speaker 1: which I think legitimately is a great and fun comedy.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure I buy how important it is based
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  Speaker 1: upon the documentary trailer, but I think it's a worthy
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  Speaker 1: film and an entertaining one. Maybe it's because I don't
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  Speaker 1: have kids that might be it. I might just be biased.
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  Speaker 1: All right, that's it. That's everything that was on our
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  Speaker 1: lineup for this episode. Oh also, we saw a trailer
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  Speaker 1: or I saw a trailer for Neighborhood Watch that I
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  Speaker 1: thought looked interesting, but that didn't really fit our lineup,
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  Speaker 1: so it was going to go into our We're just
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  Speaker 1: going to mention this, but we're not really going to
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  Speaker 1: spend a lot of time on it category. So those
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  Speaker 1: are all the different trailers and stories that we were
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  Speaker 1: going to cover. Like I said, maybe Ariel and I
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  Speaker 1: will have a chance to talk about these in more
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  Speaker 1: depth in our next episode, but I really just wanted
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  Speaker 1: to let y'all know what we were going to talk
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  Speaker 1: about because it wo'd be ashamed for all this to
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  Speaker 1: go by without us having any commentary on it at all.
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  Speaker 1: I hope all of y'all are doing well. If you
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  Speaker 1: want to reach out, well, listen to another episode and
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  Speaker 1: listen to how Ariel says you can do that because
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  Speaker 1: I'm not on any of those social medias are anything.
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  Speaker 1: So I am a leaf on the wind. Watch me sore,
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  Speaker 1: and until next time I have been Jonathan. I am
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  Speaker 1: not Han, but I am solo. Strickland. The Large Nerdron
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  Speaker 1: Collider was created by Ariel Caston and produced, edited, published, deleted, undeleted,
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  Speaker 1: published again. Curse That by Jonathan Strickland, music by Kevin McLeod.
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