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Hormones That Go Everywhere · Large Nerdron Collider

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  Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Welcome to the Large Nerdoun Collider podcast, the
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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 aerial casting and with me as always is the
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  Speaker 1: forever Young Jonathan Strickland.
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  Speaker 2: I have a feeling I'm sure you did forever Young
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  Speaker 2: in a recent episode, because like maybe the last one
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  Speaker 2: may I think. So, I just have a recollection of
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  Speaker 2: you trying to say it was Neil Diamond who sang that,
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  Speaker 2: and it wasn't. Oh yeah, anyway, Hi, everybody, I had
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  Speaker 2: a birthday this week and I'm still recording today.
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  Speaker 1: I'm you know, I'm just trying to reinforce that birthdays
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  Speaker 1: are meaningless and that you are just as awesome as
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  Speaker 1: I am.
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  Speaker 2: Certainly young at heart, I will put I'll agree to
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  Speaker 2: that because another way of putting that is I am
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  Speaker 2: juvenile and sophomooric.
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  Speaker 1: So I just want to pass along to you, Jonathan,
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  Speaker 1: that we had some people on discord ask how they
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  Speaker 1: could sing Happy Birthday to you, and I said they
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  Speaker 1: could send recordings to us and I would compile them,
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  Speaker 1: but nobody wanted to sing it all by them. By themselves.
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  Speaker 1: But just so you are aware, if you haven't popped
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  Speaker 1: on recently, that our listeners also wash you a happy birthday.
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  Speaker 2: Well, if they had gone to that Shonies like I
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  Speaker 2: told them to last week, they would have been with
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  Speaker 2: a big old group of people singing me happy birthday.
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  Speaker 1: I think someone tried. Uh they said the shones was closed.
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  Speaker 2: They went to the wrong it's the other abandoned shones. Y'all.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, I can't spell everything out at the end
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  Speaker 2: of the episode.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you do a pretty good job.
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  Speaker 2: I will say, yeah, Well, well, we've got some stuff
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  Speaker 2: to talk about. It's actually a slightly lighter week than usual.
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  Speaker 2: Course that you know, the writer's strike is continuing to
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  Speaker 2: have an impact on that. But we do have a
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  Speaker 2: selection of stories and a few trailers to chat about,
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  Speaker 2: and of course we're going to start it all off
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  Speaker 2: with thirty seconds or less.
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  Speaker 1: Our first item we want to talk about is that
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  Speaker 1: Chadwick Boseman, aka the original Black Panther of the MCU,
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  Speaker 1: will be getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of
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  Speaker 1: Fame next year twenty twenty four. You know, everybody knows
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  Speaker 1: he passed away in twenty twenty and I think it's
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  Speaker 1: really cool. I think he definitely deserved it from everything
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  Speaker 1: that people say about him. He was a super awesome
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  Speaker 1: guy and also just a really phenomenal actor. So I
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  Speaker 1: am glad to hear.
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  Speaker 2: That me too. And in a related note, in an
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  Speaker 2: interview with Verse, Anthony Mackie plays Sam Wilson aka the
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  Speaker 2: new captin America in the MCU, revealed that he had
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  Speaker 2: been petitioning Marvel to be part of the MCU as
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  Speaker 2: early as twenty ten, only he wasn't aiming for the Falcon.
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  Speaker 2: Mackie's target was the Black Panther, whom he said he
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  Speaker 2: loved since he was a kid. When he finally got
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  Speaker 2: a call to come on into the MCU, he was
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  Speaker 2: offered a role, but he wasn't told what it was,
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  Speaker 2: so he took a chance and said yes. So thanks cap.
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  Speaker 1: Next, we're going to just talk briefly about Doctor Who,
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  Speaker 1: and if jonathann't like Doctor Who, this would be a
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  Speaker 1: bigger conversation. But Kataku recently posted an article after Doctor
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  Speaker 1: Who official started releasing images of the upcoming doctor and
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  Speaker 1: their adventures that Doctor Who is finally getting sexy again
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  Speaker 1: because well, the costumes are pretty dang awesome. And a
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  Speaker 1: little bit sexy. My question is, and I actually want
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  Speaker 1: you guys to like weigh in if you like Doctor Who,
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  Speaker 1: does Doctor Who need to be sexy? I always preferred
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  Speaker 1: like grumpy uncle Doctor Who, though I did have a
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  Speaker 1: big crush on Christopher Eckleston.
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  Speaker 2: And she would not shut up about it. Okay, forget
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  Speaker 2: Hot Girl summer this year, it's hot game in summer.
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  Speaker 2: Not only does Neil Gaman have the second season of
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  Speaker 2: Good Omens coming out, but on August fourteenth and fifteenth,
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  Speaker 2: the film adaptation of his novel Cora Lion returns to theaters.
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  Speaker 2: Not only that, but this limited release features never before
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  Speaker 2: seen footage. The fantastical, spooky and heartwarming story is a
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  Speaker 2: mussy and I would be totally sold if they also
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  Speaker 2: said there was another they might be Giants song in it.
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  Speaker 1: Did you watch this first one?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? Yes, I really liked Coralon quite a bit. I
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  Speaker 2: thought it was a very good adaptation and a great
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  Speaker 2: kind of I think of it as one of those
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  Speaker 2: sort of edgy children's stories, kind of on the level
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  Speaker 2: of like a Willy Wonka, you know, the road doll
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  Speaker 2: kind of stuff. It had a lot of those same
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  Speaker 2: sort of features. To me.
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  Speaker 1: Interesting. Yeah, I haven't watched it yet, but I keep
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  Speaker 1: being called I should.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it's good, It's good. You definitely should. That is
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  Speaker 2: one of those that you do need to watch. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: there's we've talked about this before. Ariel has some notable
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  Speaker 2: blind spots in her in her geek them past, She's
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  Speaker 2: not seen some very important geeky movies.
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  Speaker 1: Up is not a very important geeky movie, okay, And
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  Speaker 1: everybody has gaps, okay. Next story among Us, which is
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  Speaker 1: a video game where everybody is in a spaceship and
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  Speaker 1: somebody is the impostor, and it's basically where Wolf video
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  Speaker 1: game form. Somebody sabotages their teammates and everybody has to
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  Speaker 1: guess who it is and stop them. Is turning into
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  Speaker 1: an animated series in development by CBS Studios. It's being
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  Speaker 1: worked on by the people who did The Regular Show
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  Speaker 1: and Infinity Train and Big Mouth and Star Trek Lower Decks,
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  Speaker 1: which one of those is kind of a children's show,
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  Speaker 1: Infinity Train before it disappeared. The rest are pretty adult.
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  Speaker 1: So if you like among Us, you might get to
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  Speaker 1: watch it, but you know, maybe don't show it to
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  Speaker 1: your kids until you've checked it out.
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  Speaker 2: First, I was doing wires. You was doing wires, and
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  Speaker 2: among us I was doing wires. I was doing wires,
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  Speaker 2: So I'm not the I'm not the the trader. I
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  Speaker 2: was doing wires.
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  Speaker 1: I played it for like my friends played it for
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  Speaker 1: one week during the pandemic, and then everybody kind of
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  Speaker 1: fell off because.
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  Speaker 2: It's kind of like jack Box. I think I had
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  Speaker 2: one big jack Box game with a bunch of folks
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  Speaker 2: and then we never played it again. Okay, shame.
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  Speaker 1: I own every jack Box, and I should invite you
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  Speaker 1: to play some of them.
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  Speaker 2: You should. I don't know why you don't. I'm delightful,
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  Speaker 2: all right, you are. Someone has found the unique the
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  Speaker 2: One Ring card in Magic the Gathering, but they aren't
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  Speaker 2: coming forward to identify themselves, though you'll be glad to know.
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  Speaker 2: They're a regular customer of comics shops, so this isn't
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  Speaker 2: one of those Willy Wonka situations where some random got
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  Speaker 2: hold of it. They also had the card authenticated by
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  Speaker 2: a collectible grading company called PSA, which said, yep, this
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  Speaker 2: here is the one Ring by golly, and already people
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  Speaker 2: are offering up to two million bucks for that thing.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, that's that's a lot of money.
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  Speaker 2: For a card.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I mean, if it's what you like, is what
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  Speaker 1: you like. I'm not I'm not going to diss your geekdom.
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  Speaker 1: If you have that kind of expendable money, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and you.
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  Speaker 2: Can also maybe maybe you should think about if you
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  Speaker 2: do have that kind of money, maybe you should think
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  Speaker 2: about adopting a podcast.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, it's just just just saying, okay, So I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if you can all hear the thunder that's
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  Speaker 1: going on in the background of recording today because it's
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  Speaker 1: storming out. But apparently the sky gods are angry at
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  Speaker 1: Paramount Plus because they are taking down a bunch of shows,
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  Speaker 1: just like HBO Max did, or Warner Brothers, Discovery and
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  Speaker 1: Disney did. The things that are coming off of Paramount
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  Speaker 1: Plus are Grease, Rise of the Pink Ladies, which I'm
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  Speaker 1: sad because I was going to watch it, along with
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  Speaker 1: the second season of Strange New Worlds. Maybe y'll still
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  Speaker 1: get to before they take it down, Star Trek, Prodigy,
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  Speaker 1: Queen of the Universe, and The Game. It's everybody trying
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  Speaker 1: to gain tax right offs to get some money back because,
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  Speaker 1: as we've talked about before, a lot of the streaming
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  Speaker 1: services are struggling to make a profit. Right now, that's
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  Speaker 1: a huge, big mess.
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  Speaker 2: Well, let me tell you something that's been a mess
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  Speaker 2: for years and at least another year will continue to be.
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  Speaker 2: Joel McHale has an update on that community movie we've
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  Speaker 2: all been waiting for, and he says it will be
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  Speaker 2: shooting quote unquote next summer. It was supposed to shoot
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  Speaker 2: this summer, but then we got a writer strike and
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  Speaker 2: the actors may still follow suit. McHale mentioned that Donald
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  Speaker 2: Glover is confirmed to return. Glover himself acknowledged that in
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  Speaker 2: an interview earlier this year, and that maybe they would
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  Speaker 2: even get Pedro Pascal Saddy Like.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so I know that I am the person who
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  Speaker 1: has continued to take thirty seconds or less off the
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  Speaker 1: rain this week. Has Petro Pascal been in community?
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  Speaker 2: He was in a table read during the pandemic when
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  Speaker 2: they did one of those zoom table reads. He stepped
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  Speaker 2: in and joined the cast. And so they're just talking
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  Speaker 2: about bringing him back, and I'm like bringing him back.
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  Speaker 2: He was never He was never formally on the show.
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  Speaker 2: He was in a state. Although I mean, I would
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  Speaker 2: love to see Pedro Pascal in a community like his
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  Speaker 2: appearance in Saturday Night Live is one of my favorites. Like,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not a huge SNL fan because a lot of
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  Speaker 2: their sketches I just feel are floundering around in search
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  Speaker 2: of a hook, and rather than being, you know, just
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  Speaker 2: a really funny joke, they or maybe they have a
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  Speaker 2: really funny joke, but it's patted out with like seven
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  Speaker 2: minutes of other fluff. But the Pedro Pascal one had
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  Speaker 2: some genuinely ridiculous, absurd sketches that I really liked, and
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  Speaker 2: mostly it was because you could see how much Pascal
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  Speaker 2: was having on the show. So I'm all for more
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  Speaker 2: Pedro me too.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, if you watch any of his interviews outside
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  Speaker 1: of the Hot Ones interview, he seems like a really
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  Speaker 1: fun guy. So his Hot Ones interview wasn't bad. He
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  Speaker 1: just I mean, it's definitely one of those interview shows
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  Speaker 1: where it takes you off guard, and he definitely seemed
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  Speaker 1: more subdued than he shows up in a lot of
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  Speaker 1: his interviews. But we all know that actors have a
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  Speaker 1: public face and you know, a private face, and everybody
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  Speaker 1: has comfort levels, right, so you can't judge people off
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  Speaker 1: of one interview. I might ask you to erase all.
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  Speaker 2: This well I don't. I mean, you can ask.
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  Speaker 1: Will you do it?
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  Speaker 2: Who knows?
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  Speaker 1: I love Pedro Pascal if in case it stays in,
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  Speaker 1: I love Pedro Pascal. He's a great actor. He seems
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  Speaker 1: like a really fun guy. He seems like he'd be
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  Speaker 1: a super cool hang.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, Jonathan, Yeah, Well, you've obviously spent most of
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  Speaker 2: this week digging that hole you got yourself into. Did
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  Speaker 2: you watch anything on top of that?
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  Speaker 1: I did. I've watched a bunch of Gigee stuff this
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  Speaker 1: past week. First of all, the dubbed version of New
• 11:16
  Speaker 1: Trygun Stampede has come out, and so I watched the
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  Speaker 1: first episode of that. I really enjoyed watching Trygun for
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  Speaker 1: the first time in my twenties, and then the movie
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  Speaker 1: when it came out. I couldn't tell you a huge
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  Speaker 1: amount about the story because it's been since since I
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  Speaker 1: watched it. This new series has made a lot of changes,
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  Speaker 1: partially to just the structure and the order in which
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  Speaker 1: they tell the story, and also they've replaced some characters,
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  Speaker 1: which is very sad for me. But overall, I very
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  Speaker 1: much enjoyed it. I love the art style of the
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  Speaker 1: new series. I watched most of Peter and Wendy on
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  Speaker 1: Disney Plus, which is a movie, not a TV show.
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  Speaker 1: So so many things I'm thinking our TV shows lately
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  Speaker 1: that are not.
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  Speaker 2: But you didn't you watch all of it.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't get a chance to finish it, okay, Like
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  Speaker 1: I had to leave out before I could finish it,
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  Speaker 1: because I thought it was a TV show, like I'll
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  Speaker 1: turn on for forty minutes now and then I'll watch
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  Speaker 1: it for forty minutes later. But no, it's like a
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  Speaker 1: two hour movie and I just haven't had a chance
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  Speaker 1: to go back yet. I think it's really cute. I
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  Speaker 1: think that, like in the first seven minutes. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if you saw the message I sent you, Jonathan,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm like, I really like the way they've updated
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  Speaker 1: the intro to this story because they made the parents
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  Speaker 1: actual people in characters, and I liked it, and they
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  Speaker 1: made it like a little bit more realistic to the
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  Speaker 1: struggles of growing up and what all that means. There
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  Speaker 1: was some more heartfelt conversations, and like even the dad's
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  Speaker 1: interjections were a little bit more toned and I not
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  Speaker 1: so blustery and reasonable. You might still think they're unreasonable,
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  Speaker 1: but they were more believable and came from a place
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  Speaker 1: of love. It felt like the only thing I'll say, like,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's still Peter Pan. You know, it's still Disney,
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  Speaker 1: so it's not hugely like Edgy. The only thing I'll
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  Speaker 1: say is that they made tinker Bell like nice and
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  Speaker 1: likable and kind and understanding. And while that's delightful, like
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  Speaker 1: she's supposed to the fairy is supposed to be kind
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  Speaker 1: of a creature of emotion. She can only hold one
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  Speaker 1: emotion at a time, and like the book, and I
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  Speaker 1: feel like she loses something by being a little less
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  Speaker 1: bratty within the context of Peter Pan. I know tinker
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  Speaker 1: Bell has plenty of other movies where she's delightful. I
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  Speaker 1: know that at her appearance at the park, she's delightful.
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  Speaker 1: But I feel within the context of Peter Pan, you
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  Speaker 1: lose something when you get rid of that edge to her.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that's uh. The feeling I always got
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  Speaker 2: was that she's supposed to be sort of the personification
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  Speaker 2: of mischieff, so you do kind of miss out on
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  Speaker 2: something when she's not a little bratty. But Neil I
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  Speaker 2: I I go back and forth, right like, I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: I like different interpretations and stuff, So I don't necessarily
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  Speaker 2: get all been out of shape over these sort of things.
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  Speaker 2: But I also there are times where if you make
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  Speaker 2: a departure big enough, then you're left asking the question, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: why did you make that choice? I get that you
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  Speaker 2: made a choice, and there's nothing wrong with making a choice,
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  Speaker 2: but you should also be able to articulate why you
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  Speaker 2: made that decision. And I'm not sure that there's, like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, a compelling reason for that. But then again,
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  Speaker 2: I didn't. I wasn't involved in making it. They got
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  Speaker 2: my emails, but they never responded, so.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so like, I mean, I'm sure they have reasons.
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  Speaker 1: But the thing is like Neverland is supposed to be
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  Speaker 1: delightful at first, but flawed, right, Like that's the whole point.
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  Speaker 1: Peter Pan is supposed to be flawed, and Neverland is
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  Speaker 1: supposed to be flawed. And I think Tinkermell is supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be like the embody. Likely she's the embodiment of emotion,
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  Speaker 1: like you know, those hormones basically that go everywhere. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I don't, I don't know. I just I feel like
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  Speaker 1: it took away some of that flaw. Again, It's fine,
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  Speaker 1: they did a lot of like backstory into like why
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  Speaker 1: Captain Hook is, why Captain Hook, Why Captain Hook is
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  Speaker 1: the way he is, which I think is in.
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  Speaker 2: The original story.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, he's still a villain, but I think in
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  Speaker 3: the original story he's literally just a pirate who had
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  Speaker 3: in a previous in a previous encounter with Pan had
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  Speaker 3: his hand cut off and that, uh. Like, I think
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  Speaker 3: a lot of the Captain Hook backstory is stuff that's
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  Speaker 3: been fleshed out over the years by other authors who
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  Speaker 3: were who just wanted to give him more, like they
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  Speaker 3: liked the character and they wanted to have more of him.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Okay, Well in this one they do give
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  Speaker 1: him a bit of a backstory beyond being just a pirate.
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was kind of cool. Maybe it makes
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  Speaker 1: him more sympathetic than he needs to be, but I
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  Speaker 1: thought it was cool. And I also started watching Arcane,
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: which is the League of Legends cartoon that came out.
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  Speaker 1: That's the latest thing on my friend group group watch,
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  Speaker 1: which is interesting. It's interesting. I really like the bad
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  Speaker 1: Guy's lair. It's like underwater and there's all these prehistoric
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  Speaker 1: like sea creatures that are giant and monstrous outside that
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, this this looks delightful to me. I'd love
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  Speaker 1: to live down here.
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  Speaker 2: And then uh wait, wait, wait, fun you want to
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  Speaker 2: live under.
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  Speaker 1: The sea under the sea. Yes, John, you know that
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  Speaker 1: this is not a surprise to you.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm just I'm just continuing to flesh out
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  Speaker 2: the lore.
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  Speaker 1: Mm hmm. But anyhow, it's it's a cute story. It's
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  Speaker 1: a little slow. You don't need to know the characters
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  Speaker 1: from League of Legends to enjoy the cartoon. That I'll
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  Speaker 1: say for that. It's good. The voice acting is good,
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  Speaker 1: the art style is really cool and unique, so I'm
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  Speaker 1: enjoying it. I haven't watched Secret Invasion, and I haven't
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  Speaker 1: watched Good Omens yet. I don't think Good Omens is
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  Speaker 1: quite out yet, but I haven't watched Secret Invasion yet.
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  Speaker 2: I haven't watched either. So I've been on vacation, and
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: for the first several days of my vacation, I was
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: in a cabin up in Blue Ridge, Georgia, and oddly enough,
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  Speaker 2: they actually had a better internet connection there than I
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  Speaker 2: have at my home, which is weird because you're up
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  Speaker 2: a mountain and you're enough fairly like you're up a
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  Speaker 2: mountain where you had to go up a narrow gravel
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  Speaker 2: road that was only wide enough for like one and
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  Speaker 2: maybe a half cars. So it's kind of wild to
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  Speaker 2: be up in a place like that and still have
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  Speaker 2: better Internet than in the city of Atlanta. But anyway,
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  Speaker 2: I didn't actually watch anything new. We were watching a
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: bunch of stuff that we had already seen and just
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: kind of hanging out and relaxing. So I am well
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: behind at this point. I haven't watched any Secret Invasion either.
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: Well that's not true. I watched the first like five
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: minutes of the first episode because I wanted to watch
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: the the credits that everyone was talking about. I didn't
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: even get to the credits, but I will say those
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: first five minutes I really liked. But the only thing
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: I did do that was super duper geeky over my
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: little vacation was up in the Blue Ridge area. There's
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: a tourist trap like place Expedition Bigfoot, and it's a
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: Bigfoot museum. And I do not know if the proprietors
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: of said museum are true believers, but holy cats, it
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: is presented that way. It is not. You don't go
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: in there like it's kitchy and silly and stuff like this.
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: This is like, no, this is this is meant for
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: people who are like true believer Bigfoot officionados. So I
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: walked in. I was very polite because just for y'all,
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: since you know we're chatting about this. I do not
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: believe in Bigfoot. I do not believe in the cryptids
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: generally speaking, because I just find it unrealistic and stretching
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: credulity to think that such things would have existed for
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: so long without definitive proof as opposed to the stuff
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: that passes for proof. Also, there's a giant map of
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: Georgia Aeriel where they had put pushpins in to show
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: where there were sightings of bigfoot, and they had three
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: different colors of pushpin. There was red, which was it
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: was a sighting that was in really bad conditions and
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: it's impossible to say whether or not it was, you know,
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: a bear or a deer or whatever. Then there's yellow,
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: where it was okay conditions but it's still some level
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: of uncertainty, and then green, where it was like the
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: best viewing conditions and that people felt that they were
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: certain that it wasn't like a bear or deer or
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: something like that. And one of the green pushpins was
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: in Decatur.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: Interesting, So for those.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: Of y'all who are not in Sack Squatch, Yeah, for
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: those of you all not in Georgia, Decatur is inside
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: the perimeter, the two eighty five perimeter of Metro Atlanta. Like,
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: if you were outside of the perimeter, you would say
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: Decatur is Atlanta, right, you would just say, oh, that's Atlanta.
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: So it's a little township that's that's bordering Atlanta and
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: inside the perimeter to eighty five. And my joke was that, well,
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: of course, I mean, there's so many good restaurants there,
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: so clearly that's the place to be seen. But yeah,
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: I just I found it amusing and entertaining. I would
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: not say informative, but it did get me and Becca
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: thinking about something that we would like to do in
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: the future, possibly as like a this is how we're
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: going to retire kind of thing. I'll tell you about
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: it after, because I don't want anyone to steal my idea.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: Sure, I'm excited to hear about it. And I can
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: understand you being skeptical about cryptids because you know, unlike
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: aliens or something, they're localized, right, Cryptids are all localized
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: to a certain area and you would think that you
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: would get, like you said, definitive proof. I don't know
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: if you believe in aliens or not. I'm not saying
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: whether I do or not, but it's.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: Just like I so I don't believe, okay, aliens. That's
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: a weird thing because I'm like, I don't so much
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: believe that. I do not believe aliens have visited Earth
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: because the physics involved are so unrealistic that it is
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: very difficult to imagine any way aliens could have visited
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: us unless they were relying on some form of technology
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: that is unimaginable to us, right, because the distance is
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: involved between us and other habitable planets is so great
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: that it would take way too long to get here,
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: and they wouldn't even know about us yet because we
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: haven't even been doing stuff like sending out radio broadcasts
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: for only like a century or so, so yeah, you know,
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: anywhere that's beyond a hundred light years, they would have
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: no way of even knowing we were here necessarily. So
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: it's just very unlikely. Now that being said, the universe
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: is being so big and the possibility, you know, the
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: fact that we only know about our planet having life.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: I think it's likely that there's life on other planets somewhere,
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: maybe even intelligent life. But I think it's uh, well
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: outside the realm of possibility that that intelligent life has
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: visited Earth. Sometimes I think it's outside the possibility that
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: intelligent life is.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: Here on Earth. Yeah, now I get that. I totally
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: I could. I totally grock that.
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you watch watch a little reality TV and you'll
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: start to doubt intelligence too.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: I don't. Apparently I don't watch near enough reality TV
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: because I knew absolutely no answers to them. Actually this past.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: Week, Oh it was in a reality television episode.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: It was, And my h's been so delightfully pointed out
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: as we started watching, Hey maybe they'll talk about your
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: episode of What Not to Wear. That's not the kind
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: of reality TV show they talk about, but about it
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: stuff be upset.
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: Was it?
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: Stuff like Love Island and.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: Love Island, The Circle, Big the Bachelor. They actually didn't
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: talk a whole lot about The Bachelor, survivor Big Brother,
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: a lot of like Real housewives kind of stuff. They
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: did have one really fun section that was guess whether
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: this is a real reality TV show or not?
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: Oh wow, that that's wild because there have been some
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: crazy reality TV shows.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: Again, I'll if you have drop out, if you're a
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: fan of that kind of entertainment, you should at least
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: watch that shiny question. Jonathan will talk about it later
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: because I don't want to spoil it for anybody.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: Who doesn't want to watch. I want to get a
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: chance to see it too. Well, we got some news
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: that we want to chat about, and I didn't actually
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: really rearrange the lineup that much other than other than
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: to put you know, the horror movie trailer's last, because
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: you know tradition. But first up, we now know the
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: actors who are going to play Superman and Lois Lane
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: in the new incarnation of the d C Cinematic Universe. Obviously,
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: Henry Cavill was let go. He's no longer going to
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: be the Man of Steel, which is very sad, especially
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: since you know that was one of the rumored reasons
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: he had left The Witcher Instead. David Corn sweat. He's
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: corn sweat, corn corn sweat. I don't know.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, anyway, David's going to bet.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: He's gonna be He's gonna be super dude. Uh. And
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: Rachel Brosnahan will be Lewis Lane. She was the marvelous
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: missus Maisel.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so David has done some things, but this is
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: kind of like his Yeah, obviously his first big DC thing,
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: and he'll be in Twisters. He was in Pearl Lady
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: in the Lake, a bunch of Hollywood and the Politician
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: bunch of stuff. I haven't watched, honestly, but knowing the
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: other people they were looking at, including Nicholas Holt, who
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: I love, and Tom Brittany, I will say that David
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: has the most like corn fed country boy look of
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: all of them.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: Like he looks like a he looks like a young
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: Henry Cavell, Like, he looks like, yeah, he looks like
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: Henry Cavell from maybe like ten years ago.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, yeah, he's so I get that. But and
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: I think Rachel Brosn will make a great lowest line.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: But I think they made the right choice. Just looks wise.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, he's also I love. He's also American, which
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: you know isn't really that important, but it always has
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: been kind of one of those things that tickled me
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: that that the most recent actor to play Superman on
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: the big screen is an English actor playing an American
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: iconic superhero.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess. I guess you're right. I guess the
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: other two actors are both British and David's from Pennsylvania. Anyhow,
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: I like the casting. I'm excited to see what comes
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: from it.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: I am. The longer we go on with the dying
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: throws of the Snyder era of the DC universe, the
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: more concerned I am of what comes next, just because
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: there's so much baggage at this point that I really wonder, like,
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: how are they going to create a new approach where,
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: you know, they can shed all that baggage and create
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: the stories they want to tell? And from what I understand, like, uh,
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: it sounds to me like like most people are on
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: the same page that they want Superman to be a
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: more optimistic and hopeful and heroic kind of story, which
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: would go a long long way to creating a new tone.
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: But yeah, like it's just it's kind of crazy when
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: you look at at like how many different versions of
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: these characters there have been over the last couple of decades,
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: and how do you how do you kind of wipe
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: the slate clean, especially when we still have these Elseworld
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: titles that are still in production even after everything else
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: is kind of wrapped down.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: You know. It is interesting though, because looking at the
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: the article from Hollywood Reporter, they mentioned only like three
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: other people have played Superman on the big screen in
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: like relatively recent years, and that's Christopher Reeves and Brian
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: and Rufe and then Henry Cavell. I think, I think
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: making Superman optimistic and uplifting and like the ideal of
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: what we want society to be is the right choice.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: And we've heard that James Gunn is going to make
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: the world around him cynical, and I only think it'll work.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: I only think it'll be new and refreshing if Superman
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: actually has a positive influence on that cynicism around him. Yeah,
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: I have a joke that might not fit in, but
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: I had to say it.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: No, I agree, I have a joke to make, but
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: it also contains, within the joke a kind of spoiler
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: for the Flash. So for those of you who don't
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: want to be spoiled about the Flash, skip ahead like
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: thirty seconds, and my joke is that's the same number
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: of actors who played Batman in the Flash.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: I was going to say, I was going to say, well, well, now,
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: I wonder if there's a fourth actor who's played Superman
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: on the big screen.
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: Well, like George Reeves was Batman and the TV series.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: And I could have sworn that they had serials that
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: that shot that were screened in movie theaters. But I
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: guess that doesn't count like a movie. It's just it
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: was a serialized short films. That was George Reeves, he
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: was Superman.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: Okay, Uh? What what about? Also? Maybe a Flash spoiler?
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I haven't watched a Flash yet. Did
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: you watch the Flash?
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: No? But I read that. I read all about it.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: Okay, wasn't spoiler if you haven't read anything about it.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: Wasn't Nicholas Cage Superman in the Flash movie.
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: I don't think he shows up. I don't think super
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: Superman's in it at all. No. But uh, but you
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: get Michael he had.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: Read somewhere that he showed up, but that's probably wrong.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: You get Michael Keaton, you get Ben Affleck, and you
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: get George Clinney as Batman in the Flash.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, so you know. I I we talked about this.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: I think again last week we're causing our own flashpoint here.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: When I was like, yeah, beyond Desert Miller, I think
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: people are just like, why get invested in the Snyder
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: Verse or anything cool they do in it, or the
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: quality of the movies. If you like the Snyder Verse,
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: if you know it's just going to be over once
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: Aquaman comes out. I do hope Blue Beetle gets pulled
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: into the new DC Universe and the gun Averse and
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: not stuck in the Snyder Verse. I hope it has
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: nothing to do with the Snyder Verse and that it
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: does really well, because I'm excited about it.
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: Very well. I just yeah, I mean, I'm hopeful that
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: it'll be something really like a nice alternative to Marvel.
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: I'm wondering if they will try to keep things from
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: being so deeply interconnected, because I think Marvel has started
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: to encounter, not started, Marvel has encountered some stumbling locks
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: due to all that interconnectiveness. Right. I think that some
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: of Marvel's problems within the world of story and narrative
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: come from the fact that you have this ever growing
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: massive amount of content that's interlaced. And while at first
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: that was amazing and I loved it, the longer it
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: goes on, the more cumbersome it becomes, and I'm worried
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: that it's going to collapse under its own weight if
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: they don't, like, figure out some better ways to approach it.
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: And part of that, I think is just what they
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: have been doing, which is easing off on the incredibly
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: aggressive release plan that they've had for content, where they
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: were just fire hosing us all with all this Marvel stuff,
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: and not all of it was very good. In fact,
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: a lot of it was just okay, and some of
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: it was not even up to the level of okay.
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: But even if it was all good, it would still
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: be too much. So hopefully d C takes a different approach.
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: I don't mind the idea of becoming a big DC
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: fan after being a Marvel fan for so long. As
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: long as the stories are good and the performances are,
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: you know, they're they're worthy.
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: I was a DC fan before I was a Marvel
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: fan because of things like Batman, the animated series, Batman Beyond,
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: Justice League and Justice League Unlimited. Like that's what I
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: grew up with. Yeah, I mean saying here, like tro
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: Into comics, I.
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: Think i think I've read way more d C comics
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: than I've read Marvel comics, so I'm come from the
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: same place. And of course, like I'm of the age
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: where you know, My first superhero movie was the you know,
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: nineteen seventy eight Superman, and that's still one of my
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: favorite superhero movies. It's very corny, it's very earnest, it's
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: very goofy's. It's a cartoonish h take on superheroes. It
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: would not fit intoday's you know esthetic, But I absolutely
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: loved it for what it was and still do. And
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: so yeah, I started off as a DC fan, but
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: like the Snyder stuff just wasn't for me. It's not
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: to say that it was bad, it just I never
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: connected with it. And it's again the folks who are
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: like big fans of that, I'm so happy for them.
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: I'm glad they've got something that they really love. It
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: just never it never was my bag. So I was
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: more of a Marvel fan than a DC fan over
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: the last gosh fifteen years. At this point, it's crazy.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean yeah, I get it. Snyder has
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: some very pretty visuals, he has some fun ideas. He just,
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: in my opinion, really really needs an editor. I say
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: this as a person who has a very hard time
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: editing down because I can't decide between which of my
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: ideas I like the best or hate the least, as
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: often is the case. Yeah, Like I get it, but hey,
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: at least, you know, Marvel in DC occasionally permanently kill
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: off characters and they don't come back, unlike you know, Futurama,
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: which keeps coming back. No events to people who like
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: future Futurama, I have enjoyed it.
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we got a trailer for the Yeah, we got
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: a trailer for the Hulu era of Futurama. Futurama has
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: been on so many different platforms over the years, when
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: Fox too, you know, uh, to the Cartoon Network, you know,
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: the now Hulu and all this kind of stuff, and
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: they're back again. And the trailer shows a lot of
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: a lot of shenanigans that are inspired by both real
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: world events and big science fiction blockbuster stuff. So like
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: there's an extremely dated already series of jokes about about
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: a pandemic and testing for the pandemic, and I'm like, wow,
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: these jokes would have hit better two years ago. Yeah,
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: and then there's also there's also like a joke that's
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: very clearly an homage to Dune and that kind of stuff.
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and then there's like a Wild West crypto.
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: Joke yeah, I think that was like that was a
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: combined combination of cryptocurrency and Westworld.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, which makes sense. You know, some of those
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: shows might be funny now I've seen them because I've
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: watched the trailer. Also really long trailer.
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a long trailer. I I you know,
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: it looks to me like like you trauma, like it
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: looks like the the kind of stuff that you would
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: be used to if you watched Futurama. And it's just
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: to me, it's interesting that this is a show that
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: has had multiple eras where it's been on, then it
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: was gone, then it came back, then it was gone again.
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: It says a lot about a show when it's able
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: to return so many times. Like most shows, if they
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: are gone, that's it, they're done. Then you have some
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: like Community, which got one last season on a totally
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: different platform than nobody used and so no one saw
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: it until after it became a streaming thing. But yeah,
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: most of the time, you don't get that if Futurama's
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: gotten that second chance at least twice.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, even my fellow Futurama fans, though I'm not a
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: huge I watch Futurama. I laugh. A Futurama. The people
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: who I know who really love Futurama are even like
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: even they are like, huh, we're getting another one.
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: Well, part of it, for me, at least was that
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: when Futurama came back after Fox canceled them, I got
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: a little tired of the first episode back them just
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: essentially having a never ending series of jokes about how
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: lame it was to be canceled. And while I was like, yeah,
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: I agree it was lame, but you didn't need to
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: make that like a story that could have been a
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: joke and you moved on. Uh So, it just it
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: got it felt a little too self referential, like a
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: little too like like, you know, boy, it was a
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: huge mistake to get rid of us before our time
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: kind of thing, and like just tell the stories, y'all.
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: That's that. We don't need you to to revel in this.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. Something else I'm not going to revel in
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: is the fact that the podcast podcatching app that I
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: use the most is shutting down. And like Jonathan said,
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: he hasn't rearranged these stories. I literally put them in
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: as they showed up in my feed or or or
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: came across my attention. I'm gonna be real honest. A
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: lot of the stories this week were about like anticipating
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: when next seasons of things will come out because it's
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: slow right now because of the writer's strike and negotiations elsewhere.
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: So yeah, and also it's the summer that is that
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: is also true. It's also the summer. It's so hot
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: in Georgia nobody wants to even move sure, but yeah,
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: so Stitcher is not advertising here. I used Stitcher, It's
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: just it happened to be the podcasting app app that
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: I fell into. It was easy to use, and they
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: had like the cool Marvel stuff on there, so like
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: the Wolverine podcasting series that I really enjoyed. They're shutting down.
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: Serious XM is doing that. Serious XM acquired them and
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: is doing that in an approach to getting people to
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: use their over more over arcing app that they're making.
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: That's kind of consolidation.
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah. The thing I didn't I forgot because I read it,
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: but then I forgot are you going to be able
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: to access it for free on their new app? Because
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: Serious XM is a very much a subscription service.
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: You know. It's a good question, and I don't know
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: the answer to that aerial because I don't use Stitcher.
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: I actually use the Google podcast app, which is not great,
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: but especially since Google essentially cut off its support of it,
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: but I have not switched over to Stitcher. It is
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: a shame to see this. I know that some the
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: productions are off it are going to continue, but the
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: actual app is shutting down, which probably means that there
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: are a lot of developers who are affected by this.
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: Hopefully they were given positions elsewhere within the company and
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: not just let go. I hate seeing this, Like full disclosure,
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: I work for iHeartMedia, so Stitcher was like a competitor, right,
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: so is Serious XM for that matter. But I always
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: hate seeing these things happen. I would rather there be
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: lots of really good podcatching apps out there, because I
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: think that that competition drives innovation and making decisions that
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: ultimately end up creating great change for consumers. And and
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: you get viewer and fewer, there's less incentive to innovate.
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: You just kind of you kind of hunkered down and
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: you're happy with what you've got, and that ends up
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: being not so great to the end user. Like innovation
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: is what gives you new features and new abilities to
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: access and interact with the stuff you love. So I
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: was sad to hear about this news.
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I also use the iHeart app. I'm
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: gonna be completely honest, not not to to do to
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: play favorites anything. I also use that app.
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: So but I do too. But like like I said,
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: I use the Google podcast app for my podcast, but
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: I do use the iHeart app to listen to iHeart
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: on Broadway.
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So looking back at the Engadget article, because I
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: should have reminded myself directly before this. It's been a
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: long week. They are saying that, you know, to find
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: out what's going to happen to your favorite podcasts, follow
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: their individual social media's but Stitch, your studios in your
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: Wolf Comedy network will continue to make podcasts. Stitcher's premium
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: content may continue elsewhere, and that hosts and creators will
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: determine the availability and accessibility of their shows. Also, if
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: you are a Stitcher subscriber, if that is one of
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: the podcasting apps you use and you do subscribe to it,
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: they've canceled monthly subscriptions, and if you've got an annual
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: they will actually pro rate some of that back to you.
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: So if this applies to you, don't worry. I actually
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: found out about this, not because of Engadget, but because
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: I got an email so.
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: Fun times well on our somewhat related notes, not on
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: our show notes, but I received a message. And I
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: don't know yet if this is one accurate, but I'm
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: just going to go ahead and mention it. Apparently my
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: old employer how stuff works. It sounds like they may
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: have cleared house and gotten rid of all the writers
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: and they're going to a more AI driven approach for
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: their articles, which if true, is very very sad. Don't
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: know if it's true or not, So it may turn
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: out that this was a misunderstanding or something, but golly
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: if that's the case, Like I wouldn't have the gig
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: I have today if it weren't for heal stuff works,
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: like that's how I got tech stuff. That's that's where
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: the stuff in the name of tech stuff comes from.
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: So yeah, it's kind of like it's just crazy to
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: see these these outlets that are now part of bigger
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: companies have these kind of massive changes, and it hurts
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: because you know, you know, there were real people who
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: built that service up right, There are real people who
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: built stitcher into a thing. There are real people who
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: built how stuff works into a thing, and to see
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: that kind of get wiped away, you're like, you wouldn't
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: even have this thing if it weren't for those people.
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: So I just, I don't know, I get upset about it.
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: No, I agree. I also just you know, I use
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: some AI apps because people are going to have to
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: adopt uses of AI if they want to stay current,
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: and you just have to figure out how to work
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: with it. But that being said, I don't like it
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: replacing people. It misses a certain human touch, human touch,
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: like a certain emotional connection to things, and also just
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: misses context a lot of times. If you, if you like,
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: you use an AI transcription service, they do not get
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: some stuff right, Like it's not anyhow, And that's a
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: whole part of like the whole writer struggling. Don't anyhow,
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: We've been down that path. I don't wanna.
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we might do, we might do a full episode
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: to really dive into it more deeply. But let's let's
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: go through and talk about some of the other news
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: because the next one, next news item is one that
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: really delights me. I don't you know, I'm of again,
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: I grew up in the seventies and eighties. I remember
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: when Clue the film came out, and when it originally
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: came out, if you went to see Clue in a
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: movie theater, you would get one ending. Now, if you've
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: ever watched Clue on cable, or if you've watched on
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: like a DVD or streaming or whatever, you know there
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: are three endings to Clue, and you typically get them
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: one after the other. But in the theater on the
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: initial release, you got one ending. However, if you went
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: to a different theater, you might end up seeing a
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: cut of the film that had a different ending. So
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: it was kind of a gimmick to try and get
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: people to go to the movie multiple times. It ended
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: up not working. Clue was a movie that did not
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: do well at the box office, but did really well
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: in home video.
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: I was to say, it's a shame it didn't do
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: well in the box office.
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it's a brilliant film, but it just was
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: one of those that it just didn't find its audience.
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: It's kind of like Office Space, right, It's one of
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: those movies that did not find its audience until it
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: went to home theater. But it turns out well that
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: that kind of idea of having different versions of the
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: same movie out in theaters simultaneously is happening right now,
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: and people are just now noticing that across the Spider
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: Verse has different cuts of the film playing in different theaters. Now,
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: they're not nearly as dramatically different as a fully different
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: ending like in Clue, but there's still like some some
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: noticeable differences, to the point where if you did see
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: this film twice in two different theaters, and you saw
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: two different cuts, you might be like, huh, that's not
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: how I remember it being in the last time I
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: saw it, Like you might feel like the movie's gaslighting you.
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think it's they're doing it so that
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: it feels like a multiverse. Like you said, I think
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: it's really cool. The article on Collider talks about some
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: of the differences you'll see, and yeah, they're all super minor,
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: so you're not going to miss any plot I and
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: I think I think from a business standpoint, it's a
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: really good decision because then you're gonna go see the
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: movie a bunch of times to try to catch what's different.
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: And in a time where movies are trying to get
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: bigger box office draws. Like I feel like this is
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: a great, a great I can't think of the word gimmick, strategy, strategy.
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: I think. I think I think it would be a
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: great strategy or a great gimmick if people knew about
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: it before just discovering it, you know, a few weeks
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: after the release, Like then I would say it was
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: a strategy because you would have people from the get
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: go saying, oh, I need to go see it again
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: because it might be different. But if they don't know that,
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: then there's no pole necessarily to get them to go back.
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: It's only the folks who did go back and see
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: it another time and noticed the differences that we even
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: know about this. I think it's just a really fun
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: odd like to that whole concept of variance, and maybe
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: they'll sell a few more tickets because of that, which
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: is great. I'm curious how this is going to play
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: out when it comes to home video, because are we
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: going to get like a version where you can, you know,
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: have different versions of a scene play I don't know, like,
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: or they're just going to settle on one and say
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: this is the canonical version of the story, or are
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: they going to sell fifty different DVDs across the Spider Verse,
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: and I'm gonna have to go bankrupt buying them all.
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, you'll be able to go on YouTube and
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: check check out the different versions. I'm sure. Yeah, that's
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: that's a really interesting question. I look forward to seeing
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: how it happens. I still need to go see that
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: movie like I want. I will go to the theater
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: for that movie. I just haven't yet. I know that.
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: We've had some friends talking about the fact that they're
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: saying the next movie is going to come out soon,
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: but various people are rumoring that maybe they haven't started
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: on the art and the artist. What took so long
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: for this one to come out? And you know, if
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: they have a bazillion versions of the movie, I can
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: understand it taking so long. So you know, we'll see
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: what happens whiplashing to our next subject. And if I'm
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: running out of steam, it's because I had to turn
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: off my AC to record this as getting hot in here, y'all.
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: Even with the storm. Minecraft has a subreddit, yes, and
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: they are saying that while people in the community can
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: still use that subreddit to chat with each other, Minecraft
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: is officially not using it because of all of the
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: craziness that's been happening with Reddit overall.
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so if you are not familiar with that story
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: about what's happening with Reddit, the company changed its Application
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: Programming Interface policy. That's its API. This is something that developers.
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: App developers use in order to tap into another platform.
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: So you might want to download a third party Reddit
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: app so that you can read up on the subreds
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: you're subscribed to, and it is organized in a specific way,
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: and app developers have been doing that for ages. There
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: are some really really popular third party Reddit apps that
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: came out. But then when Reddit made this policy change,
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: they essentially started to charge money to the developers for
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: however many times the app was referencing Reddit, so every
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: time the app would reach out to essentially tap into
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: a Reddit server and pull information or post information that
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: would be counted as a reference. And a lot of
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: app developers had to shut down because the fees were astronomical.
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: One of them are the really popular Reddit apps, shut
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: down because the creator said it would have been the
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: equivalent of spending like seven million dollars a year to
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: pay for these these fees that Reddit had put in
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: and as a result, because these reddit apps are so
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: popular and people hate the official Reddit app for I
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: would say good reasons. A lot of subredits have been
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: protesting this in various ways. One was to post a
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: whole bunch of memes with John Oliver. One was to
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: switch subreddits to not Safe for work category because Reddit
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: doesn't allow advertising on those types of subreddits, which means
• 50:39
  Speaker 2: it would cut out their advertising revenue. And here we
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: have Mojang, the creators of Minecraft, saying that they believe
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: in the developer's cause as well and they don't want
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: to support reddits, so they are no longer going to
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: be an active participant in the Minecraft subredit and have
• 50:57
  Speaker 2: told people if you have things you want to tell us,
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: like bugs to report all that kind of stuff, contact
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: us on our website. We're not going to use this.
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: And that's a huge blow to Reddit because the Minecraft
• 51:09
  Speaker 2: subredit is one of the largest and most active subreddits
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: on the platform.
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, but you know what, I support it. Maybe
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: you should just email them, if they're official emails to
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: tell them that you think it's a cool move.
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: If you do, yeah, yeah, same, same.
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: Okay, maybe this reddit blackout and craziness will get written
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: into Tron three, much the way that cryptocurrency and COVID
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: got written into Futurama.
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe so. So we had a little bits and
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: pieces of what Tron three is supposed to be. The
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: big news for the longest time was that Jared Lado
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: is going to be in it and is playing a
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: character named Ares. Yeah. No, I'm not a big fan
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: of him either, but he's playing it a character called Aries,
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: who is an AI character who finds a way to
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: manifest in the real world. Because if you're familiar with Tron,
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: it usually goes the other way. People from the real
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: world get digitized and inserted into the computer world of Tron.
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: Areas does this the opposite way. But now we also
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: know about another actor who has been attached to Tron three,
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: and that is Evan Peters, whom I know as one
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: of the Quicksilvers. Yeah.
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he was in both X Man and then X Men,
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: one of the X Men's and then also was in WandaVision.
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah. When the article on Hollywood Reporter said you know
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: him from Dahmer.
• 52:45
  Speaker 2: I was like, no, no, no, I don't know him
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: from Dahmer.
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: I barely know him from American horror story. I watched
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: like maybe two episodes of the Carnival one that he
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: was in quickly stopped watching it. But yeah, no, I
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: am not at all excited about Jared Leto. I'm kind
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: of excited about Evan Peters, and I'm fairly middle of
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: the road about Tron three. I watch. I like the
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: first Tron. The second Tron was fine. I watched it
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: before Joco Cruise, so maybe I enjoyed it more because
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: I was already excited for the week I was about
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: to have, So you know, maybe the third one will
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: be fine too. Speaking of cool special effects, I guess
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: is my quick to this next thing. We got a
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: second trailer for the second Dune movie and it looks
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: dooty pretty Yeah.
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: This one's called Dune Harder, and in it, John McClain
• 53:49
  Speaker 2: ends up being stuck in an airport at Christmas and
• 53:53
  Speaker 2: sand worms are running rampant, and he's like, how can
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: the same thing happen to the same guy twice?
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: Yep, that's exactly it. That's all we got to say.
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: Let's move on.
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: As with Christopher Walken, isn't it.
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: That is true? That is true? I mean it looks
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: honestly it looks more fun than the first part. I
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: enjoyed the first part. I just felt like it ended
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: at a really bad place for anybody who's not already
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: a Dune fan. I've said that a thousand times. I'm sorry,
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: you guys got to hear it again. Maybe the second
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: one will end in a better place. Because they're talking
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: about a.
• 54:23
  Speaker 2: Third well, I mean, there's several books in the series,
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: and this these these first two movies are just the
• 54:30
  Speaker 2: first book. So I think if they if this one
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: does really well, like the first one did surprisingly well
• 54:38
  Speaker 2: and got some good critical response too, So if this
• 54:42
  Speaker 2: one follows suit, then I think they're looking at this
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: as being another like, you know, franchise where they're going
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: to try and write it out. I mean, this Dune
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: is a series that stretches across literally thousands of years
• 54:58
  Speaker 2: in the series of books, so I'm curious if it
• 55:03
  Speaker 2: can be adapted in a series of films that an
• 55:06
  Speaker 2: audience will stick around for without making massive massive changes
• 55:12
  Speaker 2: to the story, because otherwise you're like, well, how, hey,
• 55:16
  Speaker 2: you know all those characters you loved in our last movie, Yeah,
• 55:18
  Speaker 2: they're all dead. Now this is this is a new
• 55:22
  Speaker 2: This is a new cast of characters and it's like
• 55:24
  Speaker 2: a thousand years later and oh did I say they're
• 55:26
  Speaker 2: all dead? Well, one of them has sort of turned
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: into a god, so he's still around, but everyone else
• 55:30
  Speaker 2: is dead. So and and yeah, I the biggest surprise
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: to me was I didn't realize Christopher Walkin was going
• 55:38
  Speaker 2: to play the Emperor. I don't know how I missed that.
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: I do you like that casting choice? Like, I don't.
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: I know you haven't watched it yet.
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know, because like I like Christopher walking
• 55:53
  Speaker 2: a lot, but I like him like he's such a
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: distinctive actor that it's I'm sure he'll do an amazing job.
• 56:03
  Speaker 2: The problem is that I always think of like the
• 56:08
  Speaker 2: arc typical Christopher walk In performance, you know, a little
• 56:11
  Speaker 2: bit quirky. It's kind of like Nicholas Cage, right, Like
• 56:14
  Speaker 2: it's one of those actors where you look at him
• 56:16
  Speaker 2: and you're like, and you you imagine the performance being
• 56:19
  Speaker 2: a specific way, even though that's probably not what you're
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: going to get. You're not going to get the cow
• 56:24
  Speaker 2: bell guy from that Saturday Night Live sketch, right Like,
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: they're not going to get him. But it's hard to
• 56:31
  Speaker 2: divorce that from your mind when that's such a that
• 56:36
  Speaker 2: or like the fat Boy slim Tray music video the
• 56:39
  Speaker 2: dancing Guy for a weapon of choice, like you have
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: to divorce all that from your brain when you're looking
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: at this and just and just say. I'm eager to
• 56:48
  Speaker 2: see his take on it. So I don't know how
• 56:51
  Speaker 2: I feel about it right now, but maybe when I
• 56:54
  Speaker 2: see it, I'll just say, like, oh, he did a
• 56:56
  Speaker 2: good job.
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: You're gonna be real upset at my favorite Chris walk
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: In performance.
• 57:01
  Speaker 2: What's that?
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: My favorite Christopher walk In performance is as the dad
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: in Hairspray because he was so delightful and sweet and
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: I just it was nice to see him play like
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: a happy, nice Christopher walk In.
• 57:17
  Speaker 2: I'm not upset about it. But then I've never watched
• 57:20
  Speaker 2: that version of Hairspray. I've seen the original Hairspray. I
• 57:24
  Speaker 2: haven't watched the movie adaptation of the stage musical.
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, anyhow, I really liked it. I like a lot
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: of his other performances too, but I think that one
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: was just the most relatable.
• 57:37
  Speaker 2: So well, I am curiously I liked the first Dune
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: when I finally watched it, I should I feel like
• 57:45
  Speaker 2: that's a movie that I probably should have seen in
• 57:48
  Speaker 2: the theater, but when that came out, I was still
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: very very very concerned about COVID, so I did not
• 57:54
  Speaker 2: go to the theater back then. But it's definitely the
• 57:57
  Speaker 2: kind of spectacle film that I think benefits from a
• 58:01
  Speaker 2: big screen and a big sound system and all that
• 58:03
  Speaker 2: kind of stuff. Because when I watched it at home,
• 58:05
  Speaker 2: I was like, this is good, but I can tell
• 58:07
  Speaker 2: I'm missing the scale.
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean I liked it. I'm a fan
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: of Dune. It definitely benefited from being in the movie theater.
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: Watching it at home was subpar. Of course, again, I
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: feel like they could have sped things up a little
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: bit and then stopped at a better point in time.
• 58:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it did feel like it felt like kind of
• 58:30
  Speaker 2: like Ralph Bokshi's version of The Two Towers because or
• 58:36
  Speaker 2: rather of Lord of the Rings, because Ralph Bokxhi wanted
• 58:38
  Speaker 2: to make a two part film adaptation of Lord of
• 58:41
  Speaker 2: the Rings and only got to do the first part,
• 58:43
  Speaker 2: which meant that they ended halfway through The Two Towers,
• 58:46
  Speaker 2: which is literally when Gandalf is writing to the rescue
• 58:50
  Speaker 2: at Helm's Deep, and that's where the movie ends, and
• 58:53
  Speaker 2: you're like, yeah, there's a whole lot of like we
• 58:56
  Speaker 2: didn't even get the end of that battle in that movie.
• 58:58
  Speaker 2: But yeah, the First Dune kind of in a way
• 59:01
  Speaker 2: where it felt similar to that, Like, oh, I just
• 59:03
  Speaker 2: I felt like the story was just starting to finally
• 59:06
  Speaker 2: kind of head somewhere, and now the movie's over.
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Okay, now we get to the scary trailers.
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: Kind of the first one's only kind of scary.
• 59:17
  Speaker 2: It's more of an action movie.
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, did you put in this story too, or did
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: I just put it in twice? What which story? The
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: trailer for Retribution?
• 59:27
  Speaker 2: I only see it on there once in our lineup.
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: It was in there twice. I had it in thirty
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: seconds or less. And then it's also Geek News.
• 59:36
  Speaker 2: I put it. I put it in the Geek News
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: because that's typically where we put trailers.
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: Okay, I had put it in thirty seconds or less,
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: and I had also written, hey, they mashed up speed
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: and taken.
• 59:46
  Speaker 2: For us, so we both made the same joke. Yeah,
• 59:51
  Speaker 2: Liam Neeson, it's an action movie with action movie with
• 59:54
  Speaker 2: Liam Neeson who's playing a guy who apparently is like
• 59:57
  Speaker 2: some sort of investment executive. This this you is revealed
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 2: as the trailer goes on. He's got a couple of kids,
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 2: and he's driving a car and he gets a call
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 2: and he's told that under his seat is a bomb
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 2: and that it has a pressure trigger on there so
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 2: he can't get out of the car, and that he
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 2: needs to keep driving to go to a specific location.
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 2: And it's essentially one of those where someone from his
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 2: past wants retribution on him for something and is forcing
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 2: him to go and do all these other things, or
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 2: at least try to force him to go and do
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 2: all these other things, like including like killing other people,
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 2: and he's he's balancing out. Does he do these terrible acts?
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 2: Does he try to resist knowing that, you know, both
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 2: of his kids are in the car with him, And
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 2: toward the end of the trailer, it's clear that he's
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 2: like the tables have turned, I'm coming for you now,
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 2: kind of like he's switched into taken version of Liam Neeson.
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 2: And I looked at it and I thought, man, I
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 2: probably would have been really into this trailer if it
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 2: had come out in the nineteen nineties when this kind
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 2: of movie was really a thing.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: Yes, I agree, Honestly, I was like, it's another Liam
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: Neisan movie. And I'm not saying that Liam Neeson action
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: movies are not their own geeky genre, because I believe
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: that they are. But I was like, Eh, it's just
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: another wrote Liam Neison movie. I'm not gonna put it in.
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: And then I watched a trailer and I'm like, Okay,
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: because we have personally mashed up speed with other stuff,
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: we have to talk about it.
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, and it really does like it really feels
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 2: like it's a throwback to those nineteen nineties action movies, right,
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 2: Like that's yeah, that's exactly what it f I'm like,
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 2: I wonder is this gonna work like I have. I
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 2: don't have my finger on the pulse of what works
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 2: and what doesn't work today. I am old and I
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 2: am out of touch, and I fully admit to both
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 2: of those things.
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: But everything old is new again and you're forever young, Jonathan.
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 2: That's true. You told me at I'm sorry, I forgot
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 2: dude's anility. Uh I mean, oh, I mean I guess
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 2: nineties fashion has come back, so why shouldn't nineties action movies.
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, foo Bar is a thing which I still have
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: like one more episode of that. But I'm enjoying it.
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: It's schlocky, but I enjoy it. By the way, if
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: you're newer to the show and you haven't checked out
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: our old video mashups uh we mash up speed with
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: Snakes on a Plane. You can find it on YouTube
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: under larger drunk Collider. It's one of those. Like my
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: third favorite episode that.
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 2: Was a that was a really tricky one because we
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 2: shot that one on location.
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, wait, what.
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 2: As when we weren't We weren't in my office, Like.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, well listen, half of the ones in your office.
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: We still like had to step out into the actual
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: world to tape bits. If you look at being human
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: and almost human for instance.
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 2: Those we were all on the side walk out in
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 2: front of my place, it was we didn't go far.
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: Well, snakes on a plane, we were at my house
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: and my sidewalk. It's also location is location all the.
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 2: Way across town from our our home studio, is all
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 2: I'm saying.
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: Oh well, I guess it depends on what you consider
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: a home studio, whether it's where we filmed more episodes
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: or where we filmed the first episodes. That's not even
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: an argument we need to have. They were both wonderful
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: filming locations. Yeah, next we're going to talk about we
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: only have two more things. I thought this was going
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: to be a short episode, but then we talked about
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: aliens and Bigfoot and all kinds of stuff.
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 2: And we also have to cut out like like two
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 2: or three minutes of Aeriel having to leave her computer
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 2: to go check on a car alarm.
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't want to leave my car bleep in
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: if it was my car because of thunder. It wasn't
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: my car, Okay. Next we got a trailer for third
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: Times at chart Charm bird Box, Barcela. Try saying that
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: five times fast if.
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 2: You want to, If you want to say it the
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 2: way they do, it would be bird Box Barthlona, because
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 2: you got that. It's that's all you say, Barcelona a
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 2: Barcelona Barthola. Yeah. This is a sequel to the film
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 2: bird Box, which you may remember. It features characters who
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 2: have to uh cover their eyes wear blindfolds because there
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 2: are these creatures that if you were to see them,
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 2: they would drive you crazy and you might do like
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 2: something seriously self harmful or turn psychotic or otherwise become
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 2: a danger to people. And so you have a population
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 2: of folks who are going through the world blind and
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 2: they only take the blindfolds off if they're in an unknown,
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 2: safe location. And then occasionally you have pockets of people
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 2: who have done gone crazy because they laid eyes upon
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 2: whatever these critters are. And uh, yeah, this one set
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 2: in Spain and it's on coming out on Netflix and
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 2: the trailer is creepy.
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I didn't. I had a real hard
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: time following the first one because of course I was
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: just listening to the audio. I had my blind fold on,
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: So yeah, that's a lie. I didn't watch the first
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: one because I thought it would be too scary. It
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: is weird because, like I watched A Quiet Place, which
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: I feel like is the hear no Evil version of
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: bird Box. Like bird Boxes see no evil, quiet places here,
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: no evil speak no evil. I don't know. Maybe yeah,
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: so there you go. No, I didn't, but I haven't
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: watched bird Box. I do like the concept of this
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: new one of the people saying nope, we're gonna we're
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: gonna face this fear. We're not gonna be blind to
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: the things out there. What can harm us?
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 2: I think those are bad guys.
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: Though, Oh well, I take it back.
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 2: I think. I think what happens is that they they
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 2: have they have retained some higher level thinking, but they
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 2: are essentially subjects of the critters want drive everyone else insane.
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 2: That's my That was my take based on the trailer.
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: That's less cool then I'm gonna be honest. I watched
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: the trailer at two time speed, which I do with
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 1: some of the scary ones.
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 2: You gotta stop doing that.
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: It makes the scary ones more fun.
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 2: I need you to I need you to really sit
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 2: in the scare.
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: Okay, well I did with our next trailer. If that helps.
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 2: The next trailer is not scary, that doesn't count.
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 1: There's some face saws. It is totally.
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 2: Scary, Okay, we're talking about Five Nights at Freddy's. We
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 2: got a full trailer, and my take is that this
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 2: movie looks like it has zero scares in it. Nothing
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 2: in it made me feel at all creepy or scary.
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 2: Part of the problem, I feel is that this gimmick
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 2: has been done to death already by both the games
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 2: and by other films that were obviously inspired by the games,
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 2: and that there just isn't enough there for me to care.
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 2: And so I watched this trailer thinking I felt nothing.
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: I watched the trailer, and first of all, we had
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: talked about it previously when the teaser came out and
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: was like, how much of is Josh Hutcherson going to
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: be in this full movie? Or is he going to
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: be in it like Drew Barrymore was in Scream like
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: the first five ten minutes spoilers if you haven't watched
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: the original Scream. I only watched it two years ago
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 1: or somewhere around there. And he's going to be in
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: a lot of it. It looks like it is weird
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: to me that he is maybe playing a dad because
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: in my head he's still eighteen in the Hunger Games.
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 2: I know that's not fact, but it's It's also frustrating
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 2: that they're doing the old horror movie trope of give
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 2: character a kid in order to have someone to put
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 2: into danger, you know, and have someone for the character
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 2: to try and defend.
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I will say most of the trailer didn't look
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: super scary to me. It maybe had some jump scares,
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: like some suspense. I'm okay with that. Sometimes sometimes I
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: hate it. There were two moments at the end of
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: the trailer, one with the face head saws whatever, they
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: were that, I like, my brain just went off into
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: imagination land of if those made contact with a person,
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: what they would do, and that super creeped me out.
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: And then like the final beat of the trailer, which
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: I don't want to ruin for anybody watching. The trailer
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 1: was supposed to be funny, but I was talking about
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: it with one of my other friends and they had
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: mentioned a way in which that could be super creepy
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: and horrifying, which is if one of the two people
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: I don't know how okay, you know, I'm just gonna
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 1: say it, if you haven't watched a trailer and you
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: don't want to be spoiled the two. There's an uber
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: ride at the end of the trailer. The little girl
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 1: from the trailer is in the uber along with Freddy fasbear.
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: One of my friends was like, what if that is
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 1: Josh Hutcherson and he's been turned And I'm like, that
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: is super creepy and I hate it.
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 2: Thank you so Or maybe it's just like one of
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 2: the kids and that's the one good one.
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: I mean Freddy. Freddy does become a good guy in
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 1: a later Five Nights at Freddy's movie, I believe or
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: video game, I believe.
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 2: I was really confused because I thought at first he
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 2: was Freddie Fastbender and I was like, that doesn't look
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 2: like Magneto.
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: It's no anyhow. That's what we got to talk about.
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: If you want to tell us what you think about
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: bird Box or my lack of understanding of it, or
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: five nights at Freddy's, or you know, whether you believe
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 1: in aliens or Bigfoot, and you want to tell Jonathan
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 1: about your definitive proof of cryptids, you can write us
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: and tell us how should they do that, Jonathan.
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 2: Well, you're gonna go deep into the woods in northern Georgia,
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 2: up in the mountains. You're gonna try back this critter.
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 2: It's moving around. You see these normous tracks on the ground,
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 2: and occasually on a bush you pass, you'll see a
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 2: little tough to fur and once in a blue moon
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 2: you're gonna find yourself some feces and uh yeah, just
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 2: just try and pass those by as as you can.
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 2: We all know it's unpleasant. You're gonna track that thing
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 2: for three days. Every night you're gonna hear the chatterer
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 2: and whales of the critter you've been on the track
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 2: of for that whole time and getting closer and closer,
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 2: and by that third day, just as the sun is
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 2: getting ready to set, you're going into dusk. You're gonna
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 2: see off in the distance in that weird crouching half
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 2: walk with arms swinging wildly. It'll be me, and I'll say,
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 2: dang it, you found me. What you want to know?
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 1: If we had only known that Jonathan was it was
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: Jonathan all along.
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, which is weird because my feet aren't even that big.
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 1: No, no, I mean at least they've never struck me
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 1: as such. I will admit I have not spent a
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: lot of time looking at your feet. If if you
• 1:11:12
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• 1:11:14
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• 1:11:21
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• 1:11:29
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• 1:11:31
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• 1:11:34
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• 1:11:42
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• 1:11:50
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