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LNC Has an Animated Discussion · Large Nerdron Collider

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  Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Welcome to the Large Ner Drunk Collider the podcast.
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  Speaker 1: It's all about the geeky things happening in the world
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  Speaker 1: around us and how very excited we are about them.
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  Speaker 1: I'm aerial casted and with me as always after our
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  Speaker 1: long break is so wonderful.
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  Speaker 2: Jonathan Strickland, We're rusty and I'm dusty.
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  Speaker 1: There was a similar joke in and I'm Fussy. There
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  Speaker 1: is a similar joke in the dropout show I saw
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  Speaker 1: this weekend. No. I paused because I was going to
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  Speaker 1: say welcome back, but I'm like, it's better for a
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  Speaker 1: second half of a show if we just went to
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  Speaker 1: like a commercial break or something.
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  Speaker 2: H Yeah, So we were gone for a couple of weeks,
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  Speaker 2: so we're a little out of practice. We also, we
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  Speaker 2: showed great restraint because we didn't include every single story
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  Speaker 2: that broke since the last time we recorded. Otherwise this
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  Speaker 2: episode would have to be approximately six hours long.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And as much as we love chatting with each other,
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  Speaker 1: which we did for a copious amount of time before
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  Speaker 1: even starting our recording today, six hours is a lot.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. But you know, I came up with a question
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  Speaker 2: of the week like twenty minutes before we started to
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  Speaker 2: jump on the call, actually probably a half hour before
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  Speaker 2: we jumped on the call, and then I probably did
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  Speaker 2: not think of my own answer. So I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: him and Hall and ask Ariel, hey, if you could
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  Speaker 2: spend a day with any animated character, who would it
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  Speaker 2: be and why?
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  Speaker 1: Uh So, like this is not again. It was a
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  Speaker 1: last minute question, so I haven't really thought it out.
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  Speaker 1: I probably have an answered that's better than this one.
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  Speaker 1: But this is my gut reaction in the moment answer,
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  Speaker 1: which is Grog from Voxmak in the cartoon series. He's
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  Speaker 1: a big, all of a sudden goliath barbarian, and I
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  Speaker 1: like to think of myself in real life as a barbarian,
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  Speaker 1: and so I just I feel like the antics would
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  Speaker 1: be wonderful. Probably also get on my nerves, but I
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  Speaker 1: think it would be more fun than not.
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  Speaker 2: It's a good answer. I guess it looks like you
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  Speaker 2: were judging me. No, I'm not judging. I'm still thinking
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  Speaker 2: and I'm having trouble because my brain don't work so good.
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you. I'll tell you what my first reaction was,
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  Speaker 2: which was going to be more of a joke than
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  Speaker 2: actually being sincere, which was Jessica Rabbit because she likes
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  Speaker 2: guys who can make her laugh. And I'm like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: I got that, But no, I think let's see you
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  Speaker 2: know what, probably Danger Mouse. I was a big Danger
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  Speaker 2: Mouse fan. It's a cartoon that a lot of people
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  Speaker 2: may not know that much about it there if they
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  Speaker 2: didn't watch a lot of UK television. But back in
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  Speaker 2: the day nickelode And used to have the original run
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  Speaker 2: Danger Mouse episodes air, and I became a big fan.
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  Speaker 2: Danger Mouse kind of like a parody of British spies,
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  Speaker 2: like you know, James Bond being the prime example, and
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  Speaker 2: kind of a cool character, also very silly, And I
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  Speaker 2: didn't watch There was a reboot series that went on
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  Speaker 2: for a little bit, but I haven't seen any of that,
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  Speaker 2: so I don't know if it measures up well to
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  Speaker 2: the original Danger Mouse run. But yeah, and I mean
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  Speaker 2: also I dressed as Danger Mouse once upon a time.
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  Speaker 2: That was one of the costumes my mom made for
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  Speaker 2: me back when I was a kid and we were
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  Speaker 2: going to science fiction conventions.
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  Speaker 1: That is a really good answer. I mean, the truth is,
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  Speaker 1: there are a lot of cartoon characters I'd probably want
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  Speaker 1: to hang out with.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, line, there are a lot that I wouldn't want
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  Speaker 2: to hang out with, you know, like Starscream from Transformers.
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  Speaker 2: That guy seems like a drag.
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  Speaker 1: A little bit. Yeah. Yeah, but uh I didn't answer
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  Speaker 1: fisto from he Man.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I decided. I decided this was gonna be our
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  Speaker 2: question because, uh, when we go through our episode, the
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  Speaker 2: very last story we have is it relates to a
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  Speaker 2: an animated film that we didn't think we were ever
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  Speaker 2: gonna get us get to see.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but that's that's you probably all figured it out already,
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  Speaker 2: but for those who haven't, we won't spoil it yet.
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  Speaker 2: That's something to look forward to at the very end
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  Speaker 2: of the episode.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I will. I will save my thoughts because I
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  Speaker 1: have many, and I am so sorry Jonathan. It looks
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  Speaker 1: like my camera has frozen. Are you still hearing me?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I can hear you just fine, But yes, you
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  Speaker 2: you have been the same frozen.
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  Speaker 1: Picture for the last for the.
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  Speaker 2: Last like three minutes.
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  Speaker 1: Uh no, horror.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Well, let's talk about stuff that we've seen since
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  Speaker 2: the last time we recorded. I'll go ahead and go first,
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  Speaker 2: just because I know that you saw something pretty cool
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  Speaker 2: and I want you to have plenty of time to
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  Speaker 2: talk about it. I watched the entirety, that being ten
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  Speaker 2: episodes of the first season of The Fall and Rise
• 5:17
  Speaker 2: of Reggie Dinkins. That's the sitcom. It's done in sort
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  Speaker 2: of a Parks and Rex slash The Office kind of style,
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  Speaker 2: where Daniel Radcliffe is playing a documentarian, a disgraced filmmaker
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  Speaker 2: who takes on a job of doing a documentary film
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  Speaker 2: of a disgraced former NFL player who was kicked out
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  Speaker 2: of the NFL for betting on himself in games. And
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  Speaker 2: he always argues like, I only bet on myself, I
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  Speaker 2: never bet against myself. But he gets kicked out for
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  Speaker 2: gambling on his own games. And the purpose of the
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  Speaker 2: documentary is supposed to be an attempt to redeem Reggie
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  Speaker 2: Dinkins in his name in the public space. And I
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  Speaker 2: saw the first episode weeks ago and thought it was good.
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  Speaker 2: But I finally sat down and watched the entirety of
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  Speaker 2: the series, and I think it really I think more
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  Speaker 2: people need to watch it. It is on Peacock. It
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  Speaker 2: is worth watching. I think it's a better first season
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  Speaker 2: than either The Office or Parks and Rec I think
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  Speaker 2: it's more consistent, it's funnier, and I think it'll just
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  Speaker 2: get better from here, and it's already pretty darn good.
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  Speaker 2: Like I wouldn't call it great, but it has the
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  Speaker 2: potential for greatness. Everyone who's on it does a fantastic job.
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  Speaker 2: They're all exceedingly entertaining. Daniel Radcliffe is not afraid of
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  Speaker 2: looking like a total dfist. It is. It is worth watching.
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  Speaker 2: The only other thing I have on here is Ariel
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  Speaker 2: and I independently both auditioned for Disney TV YEA as
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  Speaker 2: voice actors. Yeah it was that was great, No go ahead. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: I was just gonna say, like, yeah, they had a
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  Speaker 2: whole list of different sides to choose from different characters.
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  Speaker 2: You were to pick three and do a slate recording
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  Speaker 2: and then one of each of the you know, the
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  Speaker 2: three sides that you would pick, you do you know
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  Speaker 2: three of those and a song if you choose, and
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  Speaker 2: then submit it through this website and then hopefully here back.
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  Speaker 2: I have not heard anything back. I have heard Ariel's auditions.
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  Speaker 2: She chose one of the same characters I did, and
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  Speaker 2: she did a better job. Gosh darn it.
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't say I did a better job. We just
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  Speaker 1: had different takes on it, which is fantastic. The do
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  Speaker 1: date was not that long ago, and since it was
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  Speaker 1: an open call, it's probably gonna take them a while
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  Speaker 1: to get through. So, especially since they asked for three
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  Speaker 1: different basically scenes from everybody, it's going to take them
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  Speaker 1: a while to get through all of the submissions. So
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  Speaker 1: I suspect if we heard back, and the winners basically
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  Speaker 1: get like a week long boot camp at Disney for
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  Speaker 1: voiceover animation, and that's not till July, so I don't
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  Speaker 1: think we would hear back. Would have heard back by.
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  Speaker 2: Now, Yeah, and I'm not expecting to hear back. It
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  Speaker 2: was more like I wanted to do the experience just
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  Speaker 2: kind of to challenge myself and have some fun. And
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  Speaker 2: the character sides they have, they had a really nice variety,
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  Speaker 2: So just picking the three I wanted to do ended
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  Speaker 2: up being a fun challenge all by itself.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was hard because you want to pick ones
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  Speaker 1: that are different enough from each other, but also ones
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  Speaker 1: that just really speak to you because part of the
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  Speaker 1: audition this is actually important and a lot of voiceover,
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  Speaker 1: especially for animation or video games, is they want you
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  Speaker 1: to be able to improv. Yeah, as a character.
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  Speaker 2: In fact required that as part of the audition. They
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  Speaker 2: had a Billward says, here's the scenario, improvise a line
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  Speaker 2: that fits the scenario. So that was kind of fun, and.
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  Speaker 1: They want to make sure you've got a good idea
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  Speaker 1: of the character and not just oh I picked a
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  Speaker 1: fun voice.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. One of the characters was almost exactly like my
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  Speaker 2: Renaissance Festival character I played for years and years and years,
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  Speaker 2: So that one was a breeze, Yeah, I think so.
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  Speaker 1: The character that we both did, I think was really
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  Speaker 1: good because it is something outside of the way I
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  Speaker 1: normally sound, So it was a really good deviation. But
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  Speaker 1: the other two I think might have been a little
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  Speaker 1: too similar.
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  Speaker 2: They weren't think. I think you sounded different enough in
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  Speaker 2: each of them where it was distinct. I had a
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  Speaker 2: similar fear, like I was like the voice I did
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  Speaker 2: for this character and the voice I did for that
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  Speaker 2: character are pretty close. But the other issue is that
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  Speaker 2: I was trying to do voice of character who was
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  Speaker 2: signific agantly younger than I am.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, I just watched a video of a voice
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  Speaker 1: actor who works a lot, who's whose professional works a lot,
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  Speaker 1: talking about playing younger people, and it was it was
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  Speaker 1: a really interesting video. Did you sing a song I
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  Speaker 1: did not.
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  Speaker 2: I did not want to force anyone to have to
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  Speaker 2: hear me sing, so I chose not to.
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  Speaker 1: Oh sadness, I did, but it was really hard to
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  Speaker 1: pick a song that I'm like, I sound good acapella
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  Speaker 1: on this, So.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not sure what I would have picked had
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  Speaker 2: I done an a cappella song, Like, I wouldn't want
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  Speaker 2: to do anything Disney because that it's kind of like
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  Speaker 2: when you go into a musical audition, you don't want
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  Speaker 2: to bring as your audition piece a song from that musical.
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  Speaker 2: Like that's kind of like just bad etiquette for actors.
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  Speaker 2: Typically in musical theater settings, you want to find something
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  Speaker 2: that is in a similar tone to whatever you are
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  Speaker 2: auditioning for, but you don't want it to be that
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  Speaker 2: show same thing. Like I didn't want to because I
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  Speaker 2: would have otherwise done the beginning of guests on because
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  Speaker 2: I would have sung as Lafou, But then it would
• 11:07
  Speaker 2: have just been me doing an impersonation of Lafou, I mean.
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  Speaker 1: Just voice acting. That could have been helpful, Yeah, especially.
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  Speaker 2: If they're like, hell, we need another Lafou Let's.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, look it's I love Disney, but they like
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  Speaker 1: their sequels. I think. I guess it's because kids also
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  Speaker 1: like sequels, so you never know. But yeah, it's like
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  Speaker 1: you don't want to wear the band two shirt to
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  Speaker 1: the concert.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, exactly, don't be that guy. So that's the stuff
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  Speaker 2: I saw in a bit about what we both did.
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  Speaker 2: But Ariel, you also have seen some stuff I'm sure
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  Speaker 2: since the last time we recorded.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, not as much as usual because my my folks
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  Speaker 1: were visiting last week and it was an absolutely wonderful visit.
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  Speaker 1: But like, we did watch some TV, but it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: like anything super geeky or it was something that I've
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  Speaker 1: already watched, Like we watched through the verbs and stuff
• 12:00
  Speaker 1: like that. Most of the way, we did play Sunderfolk,
• 12:04
  Speaker 1: which is animals trying to keep their underground town from
• 12:09
  Speaker 1: dying and fighting ogres and mushrooms and things like that.
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  Speaker 1: That it's a four person game and it's tactical cooperative,
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  Speaker 1: and everybody plays on their phone, and we completed the
• 12:19
  Speaker 1: entire game, all four of us, So that was a
• 12:20
  Speaker 1: lot of fun. I'm watching the new season of task Master,
• 12:25
  Speaker 1: which is delightful. I watched the series season finale of
• 12:32
  Speaker 1: The Pit. It's not a serious finale Thank goodness. It
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  Speaker 1: was very good. I've watched through all of the English
• 12:39
  Speaker 1: Last One English speaking Last One Laughings. I really liked
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: South Africa Australia. They had one comedian that everything was
• 12:50
  Speaker 1: a gross sex joke and it was just so gross,
• 12:54
  Speaker 1: and that comedian Whuilch stripped down to his birthday suit
• 12:59
  Speaker 1: several times, like that's not cool, right, Like comedians know
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  Speaker 1: each other, and I know that comedians often have a
• 13:06
  Speaker 1: bit of a rise a rye or a blue sense
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  Speaker 1: of humor because they're trying to like it's that shock
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  Speaker 1: value that gets them because they live in the comedy industry.
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  Speaker 1: Not all of them, but a lot of them have historically,
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  Speaker 1: it seems like. But this guy just he wrot. I
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  Speaker 1: did not enjoy watching him. So so that was an
• 13:25
  Speaker 1: interesting experience. And then I went to see on Tuesday
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  Speaker 1: night drop Out Improv, which was several members from the
• 13:33
  Speaker 1: Dropout cast and community doing an improv show. It was
• 13:37
  Speaker 1: Theater Sports. Mainly it was Jeremy Coolhayne, Jess McKenna, who
• 13:41
  Speaker 1: I've seen twice because I've gotten to see an off
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  Speaker 1: book the last two times it's come to Atlanta, Jacob Waizaki,
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  Speaker 1: his grandma was in the audience and that was delightful.
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: Kurt was the host. There was also Giovanni who was
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  Speaker 1: really funny, and Kimiya before I'm not gonna slaughter her
• 14:02
  Speaker 1: last name because without reading it it's harder for me,
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: but Kimmi is like my favorite. She and zach O
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  Speaker 1: Yama both are really good at like support and then
• 14:10
  Speaker 1: giving one liners. It was a wonderful show. They had
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  Speaker 1: a version. Some of it was stuff like challenge or
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: debate or whatever, and some of it or like World's Worst,
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  Speaker 1: and those were okay. But they did a couple like
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  Speaker 1: audition or a made up musical, and they also did
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: a version of musical Torture that I hadn't seen before,
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: and I really liked where they would do a scene
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  Speaker 1: and when the music played, they had to sing. But
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't like the musician's going to cue you up
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  Speaker 1: for a short song and you're going to sing it
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  Speaker 1: and then you can go back to the scene. It
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: was when the music started playing, whatever wherever you were
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  Speaker 1: in the sentence, you started singing, and when the music stopped,
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  Speaker 1: you went back to talking. And so sometimes it was
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  Speaker 1: just like two notes like dot dude, and they'd be like, ah,
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  Speaker 1: have going to this corner. Yeah, like the music styles
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  Speaker 1: would change. It was very funny, and because it was
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  Speaker 1: so quick paced on the music coming on and off,
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  Speaker 1: it was hilarious.
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  Speaker 2: That's great.
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  Speaker 1: It was a really good time. Yeah, it was a
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  Speaker 1: really good time. A couple of my friends were there
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  Speaker 1: and they got interviewed for the story behind the final
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  Speaker 1: musical that they made up, and that was also pretty funny.
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  Speaker 2: So yes, it's funny because at one point you suspected
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  Speaker 2: that perhaps if he would have been part of it,
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  Speaker 2: because he went to our local Renaissance festival and did
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  Speaker 2: a little social video post about it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I but he didn't show up at the show.
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  Speaker 1: It could just be that the person that he was
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: there with might be one of his partners and she
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  Speaker 1: might be on cast.
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  Speaker 2: Oh wow, that's cool.
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  Speaker 1: So our one of our mutual friends was suspecting that
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  Speaker 1: might be the case. I guess I'll be able to
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  Speaker 1: confirm when I'm there in another week. It doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 1: But what does matter is it seems like if he
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  Speaker 1: had a good time, it seems like the dropout cast
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  Speaker 1: had a good time in Atlanta, which is really great.
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  Speaker 1: I was kind of worried because I've never seen a
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  Speaker 1: more My therapist tells me I'm neurodivergent, and I believe her,
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  Speaker 1: But also I've never seen a more neurodivergent audience in
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  Speaker 1: my life. Half of the half of the suggestions they
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: gave were things like Kennesaw dragon con frolic con, things
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  Speaker 1: that if you aren't in Atlanta and you don't know
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  Speaker 1: what it is, what are you going to do with
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  Speaker 1: that suggestion?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it's meaningless. It would be like constant lyon Avenue
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  Speaker 2: and well, if you don't that's just a name. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: if you're not if you're not from Atlanta, that doesn't
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  Speaker 2: mean anything, or shooting the hooch, like, yeah, if you
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  Speaker 2: don't know what that means.
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  Speaker 1: I mean they got they got the content context clues
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  Speaker 1: well enough, and they did a really great job. They
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  Speaker 1: had amazing like recall, So you know, that's a huge
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  Speaker 1: thing in improv is recalling back to an earlier thing
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  Speaker 1: because it's it's funny when you're able to tie it
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  Speaker 1: back in.
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  Speaker 2: The audience always loves that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they did that superbly. There was someone in the
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: audience who booed at one thing and that was funny,
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  Speaker 1: but then they thought it was funny to boot at
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  Speaker 1: a lot of things, which I found.
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  Speaker 2: A little Yeah, see, that's the Those are the kind
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  Speaker 2: of moments that discourage me from going to like improv
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  Speaker 2: or stand up. Like anytime where the audience feel like
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  Speaker 2: someone in the audience feels like they are more entertaining
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: or a big part of whatever is going up on stage,
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: and I tried to resist that, like once in a
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: blue moon, that person will be me. But usually it's
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: because there's a moment that gets so awkward that I'm
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: cutting the silence. Yeah, Like there was a moment that
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: a Dad's Garage show where a character said the first
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  Speaker 2: half of his catchphrase, but it became pretty obvious that
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: there were maybe four people in the entire audience who
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: knew what the second half of the catchphrase was and
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: nobody else did, and so it was just quiet, probably
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  Speaker 2: for like two seconds, but it felt like an eternity.
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  Speaker 2: So I very meekly finished the catchphrase and the actor
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  Speaker 2: on stage stopped, turned to me and said thank you, Jonathan,
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  Speaker 2: and then they continued. So it was funny, but I
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: was like, even in the moment, I wasn't sure that
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: what I was doing was right.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, And like this this person or these people
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: who did it. I think that they were trying to
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: be supportive to the moment that was being had.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I just.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: I and this is maybe more of a me problem.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: The cast seemed to roll with it, and that's totally fine.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: Jessey Jeremy Kulane was also in the cast. I think
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: I started with that yeah okay, but like one of
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: the moments it was like, we're going to cut to
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: our sponsors, and a bunch of people booed, and I
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: can kind of get that, but like if you keep
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: doing it, then they weren't trying to heckle, but it
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: felt that way to me. I was like, yeah, the
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: moment his past, this is anyhow, it's neither here nor there.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: The audience had a good time, the show was great.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: It seems like the cast had a great time, which
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: I really do hope. I would love for them to
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: come back. But it was I'm glad that I went.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: It's the sort of show that I think would do
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: really really well during dragon Con season.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: I think so too. That was one of the suggestions
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: was dragon Con, and they didn't know what it was,
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: which made me a little sad because I keep hoping
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: they'll come to dragon Con, especially since Sam has seen
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: you know, it's probably the cast members not knowing, because
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: Sam has definitely seen posts from dragon Con, but people
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: dressed up like him doing Game Changer, or like Vic
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: Mchaalis as a giant squid. So Sam is at least
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: aware that this thing exists.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: But yeah, yeah, but like again, if you're not from
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: the Southeast, or if you haven't lived here in a
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: long time, you don't really understand what the significance is
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: within the culture of the kind of geek community that
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: tends to have a pretty strong overlap with the dropout
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: TV audience.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, but all in all a plus experience.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: I would do it again, maybe in a different venue,
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: maybe in a different venue. The venue was not the best,
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: but you know what, if it were in that venue,
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: I know the things that bothered me and I know
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: how to avoid them. It was a little bit of
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: frustration getting into the show, but one percent worth it.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: Well, I'm glad that you had a good time, and
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: I'm glad that you were able to have a good
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: time because like all the frustrating things that happened to Ariel,
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: and we're not going to go into them, but they
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: happened like mostly at the very before the show even started.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: So for you to be able to have a good
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: time after that, that says a lot to the experience, right,
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: because like I know, I've gone to things where something
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: happens before stuff get started. That just sours me on
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: the entire experience, and that sucks, and.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: Then I'm cranky. And I don't want to be the
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: cranky person at a dropout show because like that community
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: is generally so loving and supportive of each other.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's why we're like, tell you what, I'm just
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: going to go and hang out in the bathroom for
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: two hours. Everyone's gonna think like I'm the wrong element
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: at the dropout show because I'm just hanging out in
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: the bathroom, Like, no, I'm just trying to spare everyone
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: my bad mood.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, but it was good. I spared everyone my
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: bad mood and it was a wonderful time.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: And you had a good time. Well, I'm so pleased
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: to hear that. I was. I was eager to hear
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: so I had not heard yet from Ariel how the
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: show went. I wanted to wait until we had this
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: conversation because I figured that I could delight in it
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: the same as you listeners. So I'm glad that we
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: got a chance to hear about that. I'm glad you
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: had that experience. I know that you're keeping the theater,
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: the live theater experience going strong because you've got plans
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: to see a musical coming up not too long from now,
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: So that's gonna be cool.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: I might try to go see my friend is there's
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: like a Shakespeare in Hollywood play that's going on in
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: Tucker right now that my friend is in that, I
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: might go try to see. It's only playing for two weekends.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: But so Becca, I didn't say this like my partner Rebecca.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: She went up to take her mom to a performance
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: of improvised Shakespeare over at Princeton University, and she said
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: it was spectacular. She said it was so funny, and
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: we saw it twice when it was here in Atlanta.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: But she said it was a truly spectacular show and
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: that her mom had a great time. So I'm glad
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: to hear that that turned out really well. So that's
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: another thing. If you like, even if you don't really
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: like Shakespeare, but especially if you do like Shakespeare, if
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: you have the opportunity need to see the Improvised Shakespeare
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: Company perform in person. Make sure you take that effort.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: It is well worth it. They are so incredibly talented
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: and entertaining, and you can tell that they really enjoy
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: surprising each other because like they almost take pride in
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: finding ways to make everybody else on the team laugh
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: and it's fantastic.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, if they're in your town, definitely check them out.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: My husband is also like, he doesn't hate Shakespeare, but
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: he's not a huge fan. He loved it, Like I
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: came out with a headache.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: I laughed so hard when I saw Yeah, no, it was.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: It was quite the experience. I highly recommended. We have
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: no connection to those folks at all. We just are
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: great admirers.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: Yep. The closest connection I have is I have family.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: Sorry, I was like, is Aeriel pausing because she does
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: have connection? And I just lied? Or no, she was
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: yawning because I'm so close.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: Oh it's still the bad picture. Okay, yeah, I forgot.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: You can't see me. No, I was yawning. The closest
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: connection I have is that I have family that lives
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: in Chicago and they go see it kind of more regularly.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: So yeah, there's there. They have one troop in Chicago
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: and one in LA but they also tour around. So
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: apparently they're going to be in Denver for like two months.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: Oh wow yeah? Uh all right, Well, is there anything
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: else that you you saw or do you want us
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: to move on to our thirty seconds or last segment?
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: I don't think there's anything else I saw that is
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: worth mentioning.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: Okay, noki, Well then uh let's let's let's get that
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: theme music ago and then here we go. Some sad
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: news to start us off. This week, we learned of
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: the passing of Patrick Muldoon, an actor that sci fi
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: geeks might know as Sander Barclow in the movie Starship Troopers.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: He was a working actor who appeared in dozens of
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: film and TV projects throughout his career. He passed away
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: on April nineteenth, at the too young age of fifty seven.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: We wish his family and loved ones comfort in their
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: time of grief.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: Next news on murder, she wrote, So Jamie Lee Curtis
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: is doing a murder. She wrote, movie that was going
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: to come out in December twenty second, twenty twenty seven.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: Now it's coming out on February fourth, twenty twenty eighth.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: The studio has moved it just because there are less
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: other movies coming out during that time for it to
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: compete with, which you know, I love Murder, she wrote,
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: and I love Jimmy Lee Curtis, so I definitely have
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: interested in seeing it. But there are a lot of
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: the current population that maybe are not familiar with Murder,
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: she wrote, So I think that is a wise decision.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and it also avoids the stereotypical January release, which
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: is in Hollywood circles known as the month where you
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: put films that you don't expect to do very well.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: So hopefully in February it'll it'll find an audience. All right. Well,
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: the cast for the live action Elden Ring film is
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: coming together, and I'm pleased to see that. Peter Sarah
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: Fenowitz's name is on that list. Other actors involved include
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: Tom Burke, Havana, Roselu, Sonoya Mizuna, Jonathan Price, another one
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: of my favorite actors, Ruby Cruz, John Hodgkinson, Jefferson Hall,
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: Nick Offerman, Kit Connor, Ben Wishaw, Kaylee Spanny, and Emma Laird.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: I think, actually Ariel and I might be the only
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: people who are not cast in that movie yet.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I is Elden Rings. That's not the same one
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: as Elder Scrolls. Correct.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: No, Elden Ring was made by the same group that
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: did Dark Souls, but it has George R. R. Martin's
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: work as part of Like He Was. He helped create
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: the mythology around that video game.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: I am excited for it. I just wanted to make
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: sure I wasn't I thought they were separate, but I
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: wanted to make sure I wasn't accidental.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're absolutely right. Yeah, no, it's listen, video game
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: names are confusing. You had every right to ask that question.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: Yes. In other news in Atlanta News, actually Green Bank
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: is starting filming which is a creature feature being done
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: by Josh Ruben with an astounding cast Tatanya, Tatiana Maslani.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: I swear I can speak my old Nanjianni Nan Gianni,
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: Jim Lushi, Brittany O'Grady and Taylor john Smith working with
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: like people from Walking Dead and Shoot what's the other
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: one that they did Suicide Squad and Twelve Years of
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: Slave and Fallout and like just Star Trek Strange New Worlds.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: It's an amazing cast, it's an amazing crew. It's filming
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: in Atlanta. I haven't gotten an audition for it. I
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: wouldn't be able to tell you if I did, but
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: I haven't, although I went back and looked and I
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: did at least see an audition come through, But I
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: totally miss that Josh Rubin was involved in it. Anyhow,
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: it's really cool. I'm glad that they're filming this in Atlanta.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: It has to do with the quiet space in is
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: it West Virginia? I believe so, yes, Green Bank where
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: they do a lot of scientific research. So there's very
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: limited like electronic airwave radio stuff like cell phones aren't
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: allowed and things like that.
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: It's like a radio dead zone because they want to
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: be able to do things like use like radio telescopes
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: and you can't have any interference in the area if
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: you want to get very precise scientific measurements.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, way for me to bury the lead.
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: No, no, like well, and also Josh Ruben. The reason
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: I gave you there's another Josh Ruben story you'll have
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: in a second. But the reason I gave them to you,
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: of course, is because he has appeared on Dropout TV.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I really liked his last movie. I'm glad he's
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: doing another one. I'm super glad he's doing in Atlanta.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: Who knows. Maybe they'll show up at the Renaissance Festival
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: too one weekend.
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And also, I mean you've been watching test Master,
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: maybe you'll see well, now, Johnny in person.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: Not fantastic on task Master. I'm really enjoying watching him
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: do the show.
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: So yes, yeah, And as I said at the top
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: of the show, we are rusty and dusty. This is
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: three seconds or less. Here we go again. Musician and
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: composer Jorge Rivera Haran began working on a musical adaptation
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: of Homer's the Odyssey while he was in grad school.
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: He divided the epic poem into sagas, which are essentially
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: a little like mini adventures that Odysseus goes on throughout
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: the entirety of the story, and he shared his progress
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: on platforms like TikTok Now. The project, titled Epic, is
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: poised to become an animated musical produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. Well,
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: poke out my eye and call me poly femous, all right.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: Poly femous. I actually love the music from it, and
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: I'm very excited. Going back to Josh Rubin, We're getting
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: a heart eyes too. The last one was announced, started
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: filming in twenty twenty four in February, and came out
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: and twenty twenty five in February. We don't know if
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: the same actors will be involved in the next one
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: because they're still in the writing process. But I think
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: that's pretty spectacular.
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: Absolutely well. From the floors of Tokyo to London, Town's
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: a go go. Everyone is ready to listen to a
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: vampire rock out while they dance alone. And now you
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: can because Vampire Less Stat. The Land Court's cover of
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: Billy Idols Dancing with Myself is now available on platforms
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: like Apple Music and Spotify. Sam Reid plays the Vampire
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: rock Star and AMC's the Vampire Less stat and it's
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: his version you can rock out to. Ooooh it's magic,
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: you know, dancing with myself? Uh oh, come on, let's
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: dancing with all right? Anyway, that is our thirty seconds,
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: our last. It's time for us to move on to
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: a segment that we like to call stuff we thought
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: we should talk about, even though there ain't no Elves
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: or aliens in them.
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess that's true. Well, the last one might
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: have some elves or aliens in it. So the first
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: thing we have is a trailer for a movie called
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: Hershey This is not the story of mister Slugworth competing
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: against Willy Wonka. This is, I guess, the semi based
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: in truth story of how Hershey's came to be the
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: chocolate company.
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the founder Milton S. Hershey and his quest to
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: create a chocolate factory at a time when chocolate was
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: not really the candy dujoure. I thought the trailer felt
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: like it was really trying to be a more grounded
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: version of Willy Wonka. Like it felt like, let's tap
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: into the wonder and the wistfulness of Willy Wonka, but
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: you know, make it grounded in reality. That's that's the
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: feeling I got from this trade.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: I did too, and then I had to remember that
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: Hershey's is a real entity that even has a theme
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: park now, and Willy Wonka possibly stole a little bit
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: from them.
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but I get the feeling. I would say that
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: they're they're probably cherry picking, but maybe they're chocolate picking
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: these stories they want to do. Alexandra de Dario is
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: in this playing Kitty, Milton's love interest. Richard Kind is
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: also in it. I want to point out this movie
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: is produced by Angel Studios. They're out of Utah, and
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: they typically not always, but they often produce films that
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: have kind of a Christian slant to them, and I
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: think that kind of comes through in this trailer as well.
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: Not to say that there's any like like overt Christian
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: you know, themes or anything, but it just feels kind
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: of nice, like I'm not sure there's going to be
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: too much conflict in this movie.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: I mean, they also did sketch. They really do like
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: smaller budget, more family friendly stuff for sure, but they
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: also did that sketch one with Darcy Cardon about the
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: girl who drawed Druid scary bobsters.
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah. Also Daniel dan and.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: By a lot of Christians just saying yeah, Daniel.
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: David Stewart is also in this. I know his work
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: from musicals rather than from film and television, but I
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: just when I saw that name, I was like, oh,
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: that's interesting. This comes out November twenty sixth. I don't
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: know how to feel about this, Like, I'm sure the
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: early days of Hershey were not as dark as say
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: the years around two thousand when it came to light
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: that Hershey wasn't really tracing the source of their chocolate
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: too closely. So there became this big controversy about how
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: some of the chocolate, some of the farms where they
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: were getting their chocolate were making use of child slave labor.
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: And then and then there was like more controversy as
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: it just became clear that Hershey was finding it real
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: challenging to find other sources, like like it was taking
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: way too long for them to segue away from operations
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: that were making use of forced child labor. So but
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: that was not in that was not Milton Hershey's day.
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: But still it's.
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I haven't done that research. I don't know, but
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: I I you know, I don't blame you for getting
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: Greatest Showman vibes off of it.
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I mean the same. Well, I think the
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: thing that really set me off is that we just
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: got the the biopic for Michael Jackson, which does not
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: address any of the more challenging aspects of that man's life.
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: And so, uh, it's one of those things where I'm like,
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: I I worry about stories that are perhaps a little
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: to complimentary or not critical enough, Like it doesn't have
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: to be a you know, a whole movie trashing a person,
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: but at least to you know, kind of give a
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: full view of a person's life. I think is more
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: more honoring someone than just saying this was Willie Wonka
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: but without the magic.
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I don't know it. I, like I said,
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: haven't done a lot of I don't ever think we
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: covered Hershey on business on the brink.
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: No, we never did.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so you know, I haven't done the research into
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: his life. I don't know what the early days were like,
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: you know, I I guess I my old school heart
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: is like, oh, everybody is just going to view this
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: as a fictional story based on a real life thing.
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: But I guess some people don't. Yeah, I don't. I
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: don't know. I haven't seen the movie. I also haven't
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: watched the Michael Jackson biopic. But yeah, I can understand
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: your concerns. I might see it and see where it goes,
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: because it could just be that some of those darker
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: things aren't shown in the trailer. If there are darker things.
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: Well, to continue on the road of Angel Studios, that's
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: also the company that produced the next movie that's on
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: our list, which is Angel and the bad Man. This
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: is actually a remake of a nineteen forty seven western
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: that starred John Wayne. This one has Zachary Levi and
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: Tommy Lee Jones among other people. Obviously, the original story
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: is about a gunfighter who is wounded and shows up
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: at a Quaker family's farm and they nurse him back
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: to health, and then he kind of has a struggle
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: over whether to continue his life as sort of a
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: bandit and an outlaw or to leave that part of
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: his life behind him and embrace more of a peaceful
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: future the way the Quakers did. And so it's a
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: contemplative piece. I don't know if that's going to be
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: exactly the same thing, but it does sound like the
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: kind of story that Angel studios would want to tell.
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: I feel like you're really bashing them.
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: Well, I'm not bashing them so much as I feel
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: like they have a certain perspective that informs not all,
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: but a lot of the films they produce. And it's
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: not necessarily a bad thing. I mean, like a lot
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: of movie studios have that perspective. It just is like
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: when I see something like that, I think, Okay, yeah,
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: this seems to follow my perspective of you could just
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: argue it's a bias that I have.
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: I think it is because there are like, there are
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: people who've been on Dropout who do stuff Freddie Wong
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: for instance, who has done stuff with them and things
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: like that. You know, they do a lot of family
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: friendly stuff. They certainly do have some things that lean
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: very faith based, and they have some stuff that don't.
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: But I understand, I do think, but I think that
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: this story is one worth telling. Like I think a
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: story of someone who has had a past, a violent past,
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: who then has the opportunity to change who they are
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: and to change their way of life and to see
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: that struggle play out, I think that that's a compelling story,
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: and clearly it's compelling enough to remake it.
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: So Yeah, I never saw the original, but this, like
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: the story log line, does sound interesting to me. I
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: do like like westerns.
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: I'm guessing Tommy Lee Jones is playing the father of
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: the young woman who's the love interest in this story.
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: I don't think Tommy Lee Jones would be playing the
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: bad guy.
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and Angel Studios is actually named after Angel investors
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: that help with crowdfunding into finance organization and organize productions,
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: so they tend to run on smaller budgets.
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I just think of them as the studio out
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: of Provo, Utah, which is also very much in the
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: Church of Latter day Saints territory. To get it. It
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: comes out in October this year, it doesn't look bad
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: like it actually looks like it'll be It's interesting to
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: me that anyone's even making a Western, just because I
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: don't know how well Westerns have been performing. There's been
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: a few kind of load to mid budget westerns recently,
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: so from a business perspective, I just find it surprising
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: that people are making them. But I know that there
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: are like neo Westerns, like things like Yellowstone or whatever
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: that have been immensely popular, So perhaps that's the reason.
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: And like I think it's I think it's cyclical, right,
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: and maybe it's one that doesn't get ground into the
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: dirt because like for a while, we had a whole
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: bunch of Noirs come out yea, or a whole bunch
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: of like the State kind of sci fi, and we've
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: had like around the same time, I think a Million
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: Ways to Die in the West, which was a seth
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: McFarlane far in production production, and we also had Aliens
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: versus cowboys, you know, we recently had a Magnificent seven
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: come back out, so like, there are even some of
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: Marble's what if has been in the West, So like,
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: I think it is just one of those things that
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: just like pops up every so often to see if
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: it's a current trend.
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it is definitely part of America's mythology, right, Like,
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: it's a big part of America's mythology in its history,
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: So it's understandable. It's just one of those things where
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: it's like, I'm always curious about what resonates with audiences,
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: but to be fair, I'm also at an age where
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: I am less and less likely going to be able
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: to answer that question. Like I'm shocked when anything resonates
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: with an audience at this point, because I have the
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: perception that most younger audiences don't have the attention span
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: to sit through a television episode, let alone a film.
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it is interesting, and then there's like a whole
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: group of people who are who are trying to get
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: away from social media and smartphones altogether.
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: So yep, that's kind of me yep.
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: But let's let's go ahead and move on sure to
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: Night and Day, which is a Virginia Wolf story, because
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: things like I ge think Christy and Virginia Wolf also
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: come around and cyclical.
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is kind of interesting because, at least from
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: the trailer, it looks to me like the story mostly
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: follows the character of Catherine. But if you read Night
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: and Day, there are four characters, two men and two women,
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: who are kind of the primary focus of the story.
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: There's a lot of supporting characters, but those are the
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: four who the story revolves around. But the way this
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: trailer plays out, it makes me think that Catherine is
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: the main character and everyone else is supporting. It's also
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: odd because at least the version that we we pulled
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: for our show notes, the version I pulled for our
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: show notes talks about Lily Allen being in this. Lily
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: Allen does not blake Catherine. She plays Mary, who is
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: in the novel one of the other main one of
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: those four characters I just mentioned, but in this it
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: looks like she plays a supporting role. So but generally speaking,
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: it's a story about a woman who has high ambitions
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: to to pursue academic studies in the Victorian age, but
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: she is encountering massive resistance because you have an entrenched
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: patriarchy that's in charge and they don't. There's extremely misogynistic,
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: and so she's really finding it difficult to get acceptance
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: in this world where she clearly has passion and the
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: intelligence to be an important contributor. But yeah, that's kind
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: of the the basis for the story. Oh and that
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: and her family really just wants to get married.
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I also has did you mention it has the
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: guy who was the husband in the Burbs.
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: Jack Whitehall?
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: No?
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: I did not mention that, but he is in it.
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah. It looks fun. I almost wonder if, like, maybe
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: they're focusing on Lily's story and then maybe they'll come
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: out with a sequel that focuses on one of the
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: other person's stories. I've never read Night and Day, so
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: I don't think I've read a lot of Virginia Wolf,
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: to be honest. But it looks good. It looks fun.
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: It looks like there are charismatic characters in it, and
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: people fighting to do the things that they love and
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: that they think are important and trying to gain agency
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: in life. And I really like that kind of story.
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: So I'm very interested in it me too.
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: I think it looks like it's well made and all
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: the actors look like they're doing a great job. You've
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: got also folks like Jennifer Saunders and Timothy Spall who
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: are in it. This comes to UK cinemas on June nineteenth.
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: I am not sure about US distribution right now. Hopefully
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: it will make its way across the pond to us.
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: And I'm guessing also the aerial that your lawn workers
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: have returned. Either that or you're making margarita's.
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: I wish I were making a margarita. Yeah, my lawn
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: workers have returned because they love me that much.
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: Well, let's just.
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: I'm so sorry everyone. They were silent all morning. I
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: might talk to them and be like, hey, can you
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: not do this around this time on Fridays and focus
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: on other parts of the neighborhoods.
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: Let's just call them for what they are. They're a
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: bunch of idiots.
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: They are not. But the people in our next trailer
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: definitely are. I don't know. Actually, I don't think James
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: Franco is an idiot. He's one of the actors in
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: the next thing. Idiots is the trailer.
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: Actually it's Dave Franco, but.
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: Which is what I meant. I rescind my previous comments.
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: I do not think Dave Franco is necess really an idiot.
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: But sorry, it's the loan workers. They're throwing me off
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: my game totally. Yeah, this this movie is kind of
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: a heist movie, but it also feels like a ninety
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: stoner movie with like craft humor.
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: In it and lots of violence and.
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: Lots of violence. That is what I got from That
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: is the entirety of what I got from the trailer.
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: I was gonna say, there were only like one or
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: two moments in the trailer that made me laugh, So
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: watching it, I was kind of like, this is idiotic.
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: It's hard to it's hard to laugh because the trailer
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: is made up of such short little snippets of the film,
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: and it's usually someone getting hurt somehow because it's just
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: like lots of little punch shots, not actual punches, but
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: you know, like boom boom boom, boom boom, So you
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: don't really get to see the setup or anything. You're
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: just seeing a lot of payoff, and that has like
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: you know off, Yeah, has a limited efficacy for me anyway.
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: But Dave Franco and O'shee Jackson Junior play the titular idiots.
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: I'm guessing Peter Dinklage is also in this movie. The
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: basic premise is that these two idiots are tasked with
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: getting a rich, spoiled, privileged teenager to rehab and then
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: they encounter all sorts of weirdness along the way. Originally,
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: this movie was meant to star Luke Wilson and Tracy
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: Morgan in it, and it had a much ruder title,
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: one that you know, we don't we would not say
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: on a family friendly show like ours. But this version
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: comes out on August twenty eighth.
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm gonna skip this one.
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: I I might try and watch it, but it doesn't
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: really look like my bag either. It might it might
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: be it might be weird enough for me to enjoy,
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: but it looks almost like it's the kind of thing
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: where it's supposed to just the comedy is supposed to
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: just come from shocking the audience, and I have a
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: pretty low tolerance for that. I'm like, Okay, sure, I
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: get it, but do you have another trick besides that one? Yeah,
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: it's like a horror movie that's just jump scares I'm like, yeah, okay, quiet,
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: and then it gets real loud, real fast. Do you
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: have any other tricks up your sleeve? Because this gets
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: old fast?
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: Speaking of people whose tricks get old fast, I feel
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: that way about not everything, but a lot of things
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: that Sasha Baron Cohen does. Or are we not ready to?
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: Oh, we're ready, We're ready. Okay, let's do it. Yeah,
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: So you're talking about Ladies First, which is a new
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: comedy coming out with Sasha Baron Cohen playing the lead character.
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: He is a chauvinistic businessman, like a business leader, but
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: then he gets bunked on the noggin and when he
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: wakes up, he's in an alternate reality where women are
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: the top of the social order and men are second
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: class citizens, and he tries. He finds it difficult to
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: navigate this world, and he finds himself like all the
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: women in the world where he's you know, he's usually
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: doing his whole chauvinistic I'm the man in charge kind
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: of thing. They just find that so adorable, so cute.
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean so, I've not been a huge
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: fan of his comedy, like Ali g or Borat or whatever.
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: I do like like the stuff he's done in musicals,
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: so his Little Bit and Sweety Todd and Limz I
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: thought he did very good. The clips I've seen of
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: him in Ironheart have also been pretty good. It's not
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: that I think he's a bad actor. I just don't
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: like that humor. But this one actually kind of looks
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: fun to me.
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah. It's based loosely off a French film that the
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: English title is I Am Not an Easy Man. And
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: it also has as Richard D. Grant, isn't it. I
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: love Richard D. Grant that man. That man does not
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: know how to leave scenery intact, he will chew every
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: piece of it in a three mile radius and I
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: love him for it. And yeah, Rosamond Pike is also
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: in This comes out May twenty second on Netflix, so
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: if you have Netflix you can check it out. But yeah,
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: I think this looks like if it's if it's really
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: done in a fun way, which is why the trailer
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: makes it look it could be a pretty fun satire slash,
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: you know, commentary on social politics as they exist in
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: What would happen if you flip those on their head?
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, I agree, And it's not play it's over
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: the top, but it's not too over the top as well.
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: So the last one we have in stuff that doesn't fit,
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: which I mean if it's for me, but I'm sure
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: there's a whole group of people listening who don't even
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: know what it it is, which is what's the story Wishbone,
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: which is a document mentory about the TV show Wishbone,
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: which was a little doggie teaching kids about literacy through
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: fantasy play.
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, this dog, this this Jack Crystal Terrier named Wishbone,
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: would imagine himself playing a part, usually the lead, but
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: sometimes a supporting character in classic stories, and that could
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: be anything from a novel to a poem to you know,
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: all sorts of classic works like theater. I think there
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: was a Romeo and Juliet One as well. But he
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: usually imagines himself in one of the pivotal roles, and
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: it's kind of a retelling, and it's in the framework
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: of a dog living with a modern day family, and
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: usually it's the kid who's been assigned something for school
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: and the dog's like, oh, I love that story, and
• 50:59
  Speaker 2: then you get like this version of the story told
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: with the dog as a central character. Wishbone has a
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: very special place in my life because my dad wrote
• 51:09
  Speaker 2: several books in the Companion book series. He wrote Be
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: a Wolf, which was obviously be a Wolf. He wrote
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: Salty Dog, which was a version of Treasure Island. So like,
• 51:22
  Speaker 2: when you put this on the list, I was like,
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: does Ariel know that dad wrote these books?
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: I didn't. And here's the thing. I like, Wishbone came about.
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: I think like after a time that I would generally
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: watch Wishbone. But I taught daycare for many years, so
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: maybe it came on in a time where, like I
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: was old, bit older, but still able to enjoy it.
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: I don't remember the exact timing of it, but I
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: know I figured it completely missed you, other than the
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: fact that it's a Jack Russell and I know you
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: like Jack Russell Terrier.
• 51:53
  Speaker 2: I mean, honestly, Wishbone's the reason why the first dog
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: my partner and I got was a Jack Rustle, because we,
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: you know, we thought Wishbone was cute. We thought, you know,
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: my dad was starting to write the books. And then
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: we got a dog and we named him Falstaff, and
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: Falstaff the Jack Crystal Terrier. We got fal Staff, and
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: then we had thisby and now I've got Timbolt, so
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: it's all Shakespeare names.
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: But yeah, I feel ashamed for not knowing because I've
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: known you for what twenty twenty plus years now.
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: It's fine, it's fine, but yeah, if you if you
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: do a search for Wishbone and Brad Strickland, you'll see
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: some of the books. So Dad wrote a couple that
• 52:32
  Speaker 2: were kind of kind of kid's versions of various classic stories.
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: But he also did a spinoff series where it was
• 52:45
  Speaker 2: a mystery series with Wishbone serving as like the Detective,
• 52:49
  Speaker 2: which which were not based specifically on like a classic
• 52:53
  Speaker 2: novel or something. It wasn't Murder on the Orient Express
• 52:56
  Speaker 2: with a dog, although.
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: I would watch you know, maybe I did know this
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: and I forgot because brains. But the trailer is really
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: nice because when you listen to them all talk, they're like,
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: we couldn't have done it without this dog actor because like,
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: I don't know how, but he really understood the content
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: he was putting out there.
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he had a lot of personality and I don't
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: know how easy it was to get the shots because
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: there is one point where one of the people was like,
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: like you can tell what he means because he's just
• 53:28
  Speaker 2: saying like this show had a dog and kids, because
• 53:33
  Speaker 2: like the W. C. Fields, or at least the quote
• 53:36
  Speaker 2: often attributed to W. C. Fields is never work with
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: kids or animals because they're just so difficult to work with.
• 53:43
  Speaker 2: And this show had both. But yeah. The documentary comes
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: out on PBS here in the United States on May
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: twenty seventh and runs through June ninth, but then it
• 53:53
  Speaker 2: will be available for rent on video on demand starting
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: June tenth.
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: I'm excited for it.
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, look's cute.
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm gonna have to tamp down my excitement for
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: a bit, I fear.
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: Oh why because it's time to check out Watson John Boys,
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: Horror hotch.
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah can I can I check out?
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: Nope, You've got to come along. But hey, hey, there
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: are absolutely no spiders this week because all the all
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: the spiders are on holiday because it's their spring break.
• 54:25
  Speaker 2: It comes a little later in the year for them,
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: so right now they're currently swarming Lego Land.
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: So instead, that's fine, that's fine. I'm not at Lego Land.
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: That's yeah.
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: Fine.
• 54:35
  Speaker 2: Instead, we just have this dusty old cabinet that's for
• 54:38
  Speaker 2: some reason filled with jars of teeth, plus some movie trailers. Okay,
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: So first up, we have a film called Sick Puppy,
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: and I said, the couple that slays together stays together.
• 54:55
  Speaker 2: So in Sick Puppy you have a couple and the
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: woman has married a serial killer. I assume they're married.
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: Maybe they're just dating, but anyway, the woman she's she's
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: with a serial killer. She knows he's a serial killer.
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: She's not thrilled about his extracurricular activities. So at one
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: point he decides like he's gonna stop being a serial
• 55:18
  Speaker 2: killer and he's gonna take up He's going to really
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: focus on on his art in order to express his feelings.
• 55:24
  Speaker 2: And his art is pottery, but he's not good at it.
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: And his change in behavior means that he starts to
• 55:32
  Speaker 2: no longer be the man that she fell in love with.
• 55:35
  Speaker 2: So then she decides to try and be a supportive
• 55:38
  Speaker 2: partner and help him get back into the axe swing
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: of things, kind of by by getting him back onto
• 55:45
  Speaker 2: the serial killer lifestyle. So it looks like it's it's
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: horror plus some satire and dark comedy, Like the trailer
• 55:53
  Speaker 2: really stresses the horror more like it's it's absurd. It's
• 55:57
  Speaker 2: an absurd premise. But the trailer doesn't make it zany
• 56:02
  Speaker 2: like the trailers much more on the horror side of things.
• 56:05
  Speaker 2: I don't know if the film is going to feel
• 56:06
  Speaker 2: the same way, but it's interesting comes out May twenty second,
• 56:10
  Speaker 2: So that was one of I actually had a ton
• 56:13
  Speaker 2: of movies in this section and I narrowed it down
• 56:16
  Speaker 2: to three, and that's one of the reasons I chose
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: this one is it thought it had an interesting premise.
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: Next we have Yes Affect. Did you watch these?
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: By the way, I did not. I was wondering if
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: you were going to ask me. I thought about it,
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: and then I was like, okay, I'm running out of time.
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: So usually I leave them for last in case I
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: have time, and.
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: One of them I specifically told you do not watch, and.
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: I couldn't remember which one and that in its name,
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: so I was like, you know what, let's just skip
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: it this week. I'm so sorry. I want to be
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: a supportive podcast partner with you, but uh no.
• 56:50
  Speaker 2: Totally fair, totally fair. So next up, we have Affection.
• 56:55
  Speaker 2: So here's the summary of what this movie is about. Quote.
• 56:58
  Speaker 2: Afflicted by a mistake serious condition that resets her memory,
• 57:02
  Speaker 2: Ellie becomes trapped in a cyclical nightmare with a man
• 57:06
  Speaker 2: who claims to be her husband. She must soon uncover
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: the horrifying truth of her existence before she forgets it
• 57:13
  Speaker 2: all again. End quote. So it looks like there's a
• 57:16
  Speaker 2: lot of like gas lighting in this where the man
• 57:18
  Speaker 2: who says he's her husband is saying things that may
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: not in fact be true, but because she isn't able
• 57:25
  Speaker 2: to remember, she can't falsify them, and he may not
• 57:31
  Speaker 2: be what he seems to be. That that's the way
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: the trailer is is pitching this. It looks like it's
• 57:38
  Speaker 2: a pretty intense movie.
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: It does.
• 57:41
  Speaker 2: The trailer does start with a trope I hate, which
• 57:46
  Speaker 2: is person on the ground, zoom in, person suddenly gasps
• 57:52
  Speaker 2: and wakes up, Like it's just like, I'm like, can
• 57:54
  Speaker 2: you search your trailer some other way? Except in this case,
• 57:57
  Speaker 2: her eyes are open. She's like face down on asphalt,
• 58:02
  Speaker 2: but her eyes are open. But then she and she
• 58:03
  Speaker 2: appears to be dead. Then suddenly she goes like that
• 58:06
  Speaker 2: and like, oh, it's one of those trailers. It comes
• 58:10
  Speaker 2: out May eighth. It looks interesting. So again I picked
• 58:13
  Speaker 2: that one to talk about specifically because it was more
• 58:17
  Speaker 2: of an interesting take on horror than some of the
• 58:19
  Speaker 2: other stuff I saw. The third one, I have a question, yes, please,
• 58:23
  Speaker 2: do they lean.
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: More into horror or thriller suspense in the trailer?
• 58:27
  Speaker 2: Actually, I would say probably more thriller suspense in the trailer,
• 58:31
  Speaker 2: but there's definitely horror like. It's one of those also
• 58:34
  Speaker 2: that has like the quotes that come up as the
• 58:37
  Speaker 2: movie starts, like as the trailer starts, like like this
• 58:40
  Speaker 2: this film will stay with you long after it's over.
• 58:44
  Speaker 2: That kind of thing, those sort of quotes.
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: It was briefly on my list and now it's gone again.
• 58:48
  Speaker 2: I mean, I think you could totally watch the trailer
• 58:51
  Speaker 2: for Affection. I don't think it's the kind of movie
• 58:53
  Speaker 2: you would necessarily gravitate toward. I think you could handle it,
• 58:58
  Speaker 2: but it doesn't feel like an aerial movie to me.
• 59:02
  Speaker 2: I do think it looks interesting. I might check that
• 59:04
  Speaker 2: one out. The third one is one I had trouble with.
• 59:08
  Speaker 2: This is the one I told you do not watch,
• 59:10
  Speaker 2: and that is the trailer for Saccharin. Now that's not
• 59:13
  Speaker 2: me saying that this is bad. It's me saying like,
• 59:17
  Speaker 2: I struggled with this trailer, and you know me. So
• 59:23
  Speaker 2: it's an Australian horror movie. So, first of all, Everything's
• 59:25
  Speaker 2: upside down. Uh, that's just a joke. No, it's not.
• 59:30
  Speaker 2: It is Australian, but it's not. Nothing's upside down. Uh
• 59:34
  Speaker 2: it's But it was probably the hardest trailer for me
• 59:36
  Speaker 2: to watch for this this batch of trailers, largely because
• 59:40
  Speaker 2: the sound design. So that sound design includes a whole
• 59:44
  Speaker 2: lot of squishy noises and eating sounds, so because of mesophonia.
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: That really gets to me. But the log line for
• 59:53
  Speaker 2: this one is quote, after succumbing to an obscure weight
• 59:56
  Speaker 2: loss craze involving the eating of human ashes, lovelorn medical
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 2: student Hannah finds herself terrorized by the ghost of the
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 2: person she's eating. End quote. So cannibalism automatically tells me
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 2: it's a no no for Ariel, even though I mean,
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 2: they're eating like human ashes. These are people who have
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 2: died them and cremated. But even so, I'm like, that's
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 2: that's bordering on aerials. No, no, list it is.
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: Although I did just listen into a saw Bones episode
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: where they were talking about how people in olden times
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: used to eat powdered mummy, so.
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, I remember reading about it because I
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 2: was like during the Egyptology, early Egyptology phase of like
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 2: the early nineteen hundreds in England in particular.
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so it is interesting that they're leaning on that
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: old kind of thing.
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, this is it's also a film that seems
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 2: to be spiritually tied to other movies like The Substance,
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 2: which you know, they tend to be kind of commentaries
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 2: about self image and societal expectations for how a woman
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 2: should look, that kind of thing, Like, you know, The
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 2: Substance was all about aging, and uh, Saccharine looks like
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 2: it's more about you know, body size, like weight, that
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 2: kind of thing, and you know, fitness reviews suggest that
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 2: it doesn't quite land as far as social commentary goes
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 2: like it has the idea but doesn't really stick the
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 2: landing based upon the reviews I was looking at. But
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 2: it does have a whole lot of gross out horror moments.
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 2: So if you're the person who's like, man, I really
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 2: like something that pushes the limits of my boundaries, then
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 2: this might be it for you. It looks like it's
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 2: too much for me. It's not like yeah, well just
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 2: because like again like mesaphonia, like any eatings, like muck bang,
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 2: that kind of stuff. Just it gives me the hebgb's
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 2: I can't take it. This comes out May twenty second though,
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 2: and then before we get out of the Horror Hutch,
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 2: I do have some quick mentions. I'm not going to
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 2: go into detail, but there are trailers out for Hungry,
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 2: which is a hippo attack movie, the Devil in Silver,
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 2: which is the latest installment in AMC's The Terror Anthology series.
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 2: There's a teaser for Evil dead Burn, and there is
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 2: a trailer for Passenger, which looks like a combination of
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 2: I Know what you did last summer and it follows.
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 2: I didn't think any of those were as interesting as
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 2: the three I picked, which is why they are not
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 2: in the Horror Hutch and greater detail, and now it's
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 2: time for us to move on to the actual lineup.
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: It's interesting because I feel like hungry hungry hippos, which
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: is what that is, and Evil Deadburn could almost go
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: into a regular lineup.
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 2: But yeah, yeah, they probably could have, but like, well,
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 2: first of all, you don't like animal movies, so I
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 2: wasn't gonna subject you to that. But Hungry, I mean hungry,
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 2: it's like Jaws, but it's a hippo an evil dead burn.
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 2: It's a teaser where I feel like it's more like
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 2: giving you the feel for the movie as opposed to
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 2: an actual trailer. So I don't know that they merit
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 2: much more discussion than that.
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: Fair enough, Well, I'm happy to leave your horror hutch
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: because I think the teeth are winking at me.
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah. It's weird, right, yeah, yeah, as a spider. So
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 2: it's as Dan Halsen would say, you are cursed. Ariel
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 2: doesn't get that because she doesn't watch professional wrestling.
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: I don't know. No, I don't get it. I am
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: wondering how you got so many eye teeth into the jars.
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 2: I mean, it wasn't me. I just own the hutch.
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 2: I don't put the stuff in it.
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: That's interesting. So it's like a sublet then.
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, kind of like you know, it's I don't ask
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 2: any questions. It's uh the name on the lease is
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 2: a Modius. I don't know.
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: Okay, okay, okay, Well we'll leave it there, just like
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: soon we will be leaving the world of good omens.
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so I didn't We did actually include this in
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 2: the lineup with a link to the trailer for a
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 2: couple of reasons. Those who have been following know that
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 2: Good Omens. One of the people involved with Good Omens
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 2: was Neil Gaman. Neil Gaman obviously had a massive controversy
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 2: erupt about his behavior and his alleged abuse toward women,
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 2: and so we didn't really feel comfortable talking about it
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 2: for that reason, even though Neil Gaman did not have
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 2: any involvement in what is being called Good Omens Season three.
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 2: The other reason, though, is that I haven't watched Good
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 2: Omens season two, so I didn't want to watch season
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 2: three because clearly it might spoil stuff for season two.
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 2: I still haven't decided if I'm going to watch it,
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 2: right I kind of feel complicated about the way I
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 2: feel about Harry Potter, and so part of me wants
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 2: to watch it because I do think that David Tennant
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 2: and Michael Sheen do great work, think that Terry Pratchett,
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 2: who co wrote Good Omens, did amazing work. So I
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 2: kind of want to see it, but I haven't, so
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 2: we have not. Actually I haven't watched this trailer, but.
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: It's out if you have. I did watch season two,
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: I don't remember when it came out. In relation to
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 1: everything else, I think it came out beforehand.
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it came out before news had really
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 2: broken about gaming.
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: But I do really like That's the sad thing is
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: I do really like Terry Pratchett and his work, So yeah,
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: I will. It's out there if you.
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 2: Want to watch it, yeah, yeah, And there's no judgment
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 2: if you're if you're totally into it, like I'm. I
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 2: think this is a personal decision for each person, and
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 2: there's no right or wrong except on a personal level.
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 2: It does come to Prime video on May thirteenth. It
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 2: is a ninety minute movie, so this is not like
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 2: a full season the way season two was, because once
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 2: that game and stuff started to come out, it really
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 2: affected like there were questions for a while but whether
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 2: or not they were even going to do any more
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 2: work at all on Good Omens, And the compromise was
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 2: that Gamen would not be involved and instead of doing
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 2: a full season, they would do like a ninety minute
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 2: wrap up of the story that was set up in
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 2: season two.
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, which which I think was a good decision. The
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: next thing we have is for another duo movie, but
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: this one there's a bigger age difference. It's Mandalorian and Grogu.
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Grogu' is much older than the Mandalorian.
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah well yeah, yeah, because he's like fifteen the Mandalorians age.
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 2: He's got to be like in his thirties, you know,
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 2: maybe Scal.
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 1: I also don't know Pedro Pscal's age.
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 2: Well yeah, I get the feeling that Mandalorian is younger
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 2: than Pedro Pascal, but who knows. This is the final
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 2: trailer for the Mandalorian and grogu And the one thing
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 2: I wrote down first of all, I wrote down there
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 2: was a lot of use of John Williams's various themes
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 2: from the Star Wars or saga like the Force and
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 2: the Imperial March has a little moment in it. And
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 2: there's a lot of Sigourney Weaver as a rebellion slash
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 2: republic leader. And there's also a lot of cutesy stuff,
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 2: which nothing wrong with that, it is cute.
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: There's also so much CGI.
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 2: There's a lot of CGI. There's some there's huts speaking English,
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 2: which threw me off.
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, buff huts. Buff hut sounds like a like a
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: protein bar.
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 2: Or or like like yeah, like there's pizza hut and
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 2: then there's buff hut. If you want to if you
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 2: want to look like a pizza got a pizza hut.
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 2: You would think that that's where Java and his kin
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 2: would go, but no, they went to buff Hut.
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: I get that there's some some creatures in the movie that, sorry,
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to harp on this too much, that
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: probably need to be CGI, because to make a puppet
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 1: of them would and pull it off would be a
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: little difficult. But I feel like CGI for the creatures
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: is relied on too much. They look CGI to me,
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: and yeah, frustrating.
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 2: When you compare it to something like the creatures in
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 2: Return of the Jedi, for example, where even with the
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 2: ones where you're like, well, that's clearly a puppet. Yeah,
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 2: it's a puppet, but it also looks real, as in
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 2: it's something that's really in that space. Like there wasn't
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 2: a person looking at a tennis ball against a blue screen.
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 2: It's an actual thing that has physical presence in the space,
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 2: and that makes a difference. Actually, one of the best
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 2: jokes in the Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins involves
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 2: Daniel Radcliffe's character dealing with tennis balls representing different things
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 2: on screen in a Marvel movie he supposedly was directing.
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 2: I don't want to ruin it. But when that moment
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 2: played out, I was like, I feel you.
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 3: Daniel Radcliffe, Yeah, well, I mean like even on things
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 3: where you do eat CGI, like we've talked about and
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 3: fall Out, how the they're not death eaters.
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 2: They're oh gosh, death clause. Yes, it's funny because I
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 2: went up on it too, like you said it, and
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 2: I'm like, I've played all the Fallout games and I
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 2: can't remember. I know what you're talking about. Yeah, death clause.
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they did use CGI on them, but they used
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 1: it to enhance puppets because it's more valuable to have
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: something to react against. Yeah, you know, or they believe
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: so I believe so too. You know, it's my very
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: that is an opinion, and like, yeah, I just I
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: prefer personally Star Wars puppets to CGI.
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, me too.
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: Glad that Grogu is majority puppet.
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 2: So question though, CGI aside, did this trailer make you
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 2: want to see the movie?
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: I mean I did enjoy the Mandalorian series. I did.
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: I less enjoyed it as a as a footnote in
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 1: the Book of Boba Fett.
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're like like two episodes become Mandalorian episodes.
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're part of it is Luke Skywalker and the
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: other part is my favorite shop on the Citadel.
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 2: But I mean, considering what the other episodes of Book
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 2: of Boba Fet were, maybe it was for the best.
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: Maybe maybe so I do like it. I it's one
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 1: of those ones that like, yeah, I'll watch a Mandalorian
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: and Grogu movie. It's fine. I liked enough of the story,
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 1: even in the third season. I feel like it was
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 1: one hit, one miss, one hit, one miss for me.
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: But I don't know that it's worth me going to
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 1: the theater for because the CGI looks too CGI for
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: me to say, Well, the special effects, and this is
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: no qualm to the people who are working on the
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 1: special effects. They are cool looking monsters, but it's not
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: one that I am feeling to drive to go to
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 1: a theater. Yeah, creatures, aliens, they are some of them.
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: They aren't monsters. There might be a monster I mean,
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 1: like monstrous.
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 2: But there's been so much Star Wars content that I
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 2: just have not felt the need to see. This falls
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 2: into that category. I watched the first two seasons of
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 2: The Mandalorian and I enjoyed them. I never watched season three.
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 2: The Book of Boba fet really lost me, and I
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 2: kind of just got disenchanted. I never saw the final
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 2: movie in the Skywalker saga, so I never saw episode nine.
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 2: And it's just like this, this kind of falls into
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 2: just a general bucket of Star Wars content that does
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 2: not speak to me to the point where I feel
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 2: the need to go see it. Like, I'm sure I
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 2: will see it at some point. Maybe I say that,
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 2: but I have no plans to watch episode nine.
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: You haven't watched episode nine. You haven't watched Soka, you
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 1: haven't watched the Sith one.
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 2: You haven't watched I haven't seen what's the and Or?
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 2: I haven't watched it, and I hear, I hear that
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 2: and Or is probably the one that I'm most likely
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 2: to actually enjoy. I know you didn't really dig that much,
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 2: but I know, based on other people who like similar
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 2: stuff to what I like, it sounds to me like
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 2: I would really get a lot out of that show.
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 2: But I've never watched it.
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 1: I think you would, but I think you would need
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 1: to get past the first three episodes.
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah that's often the case, right, But like, I haven't
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 2: watched any of the animated stuff. I haven't watched. No,
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 2: there's more obi Wan. I never watched the Obi Wan series. Like,
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 2: there's just a ton of stuff that I have not seen.
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: And the animated anthologies.
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I haven't watched any of the animated stuff. I
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 2: tried to watch some of the was it the Clone Wars?
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 2: I tried to watch some of one of the animated series,
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 2: and it was clearly that it started off being more
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 2: geared toward younger kids, and I think it eventually evolved
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 2: away from that, but like the first few season, first
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 2: few episodes at least played really young, and so I
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 2: was like, well, this is not for me, and I bounced.
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 1: I do like some of the animated stuff. It does evolve.
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 1: I tried, I should go back to I want to
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 1: go back to this one. I just have forgotten the
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 1: one that's basically goonies.
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, the one that was a bunch
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 2: of kids that followed them. Yeah, I know what you're
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 2: talking about, because I don't remember what the title is,
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 2: but I remember we talked about the trailer.
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 1: I'm blanking on it as well, but I you know,
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 1: I was specifically like, I would like stuff that's out
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: of the Skywalker saga that's away from the Skywalker saga. Yeah,
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 1: that's still in the Star Wars universe, and that was
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 1: a good example of it. And just I didn't watch
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 1: past the first episode or second episode. I think it
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 1: was just there was too much at that time that
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 1: I was like, I'm gonna watch this and I'll come
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 1: back to it, and then I never went back to it.
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 2: Well, the Mandalorian and Grogu comes out Memorial Day weekend,
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 2: so it's a long weekend, which sometimes feels like it's
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 2: a studio's attempt to maximize the weekend box office numbers,
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 2: like they get an extra day essentially, so it makes
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 2: it look like it's a bigger movie than it necessarily is.
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 2: Like if you just did in a regular two day weekend,
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 2: it wouldn't have the same numbers because studios, we know
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 2: how you all work, we know you, we know you
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 2: fudge all the numbers. You are the worst. But uh, anyway,
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 2: that's what's coming out. So if you are excited for
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 2: the Mandalorian Grogu, then you don't have much longer to wait.
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 2: And I'm happy for you, and I'm sure at some
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 2: point I'll see it. I just I don't know. It
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 2: just doesn't I'm not. Honestly, I'm not sure I'm gonna
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 2: see it, but maybe I will. Uh you know, It'll
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 2: probably be playing when I'm on the Disney Cruise later
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 2: in the year, so maybe i'll see it.
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 1: I actually see it. Yeah, well, I know you're burnt
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 1: out on Star Wars, but you burnt out on Space Balls.
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 2: Oh god, all those movies, man, the one and then
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 2: that's it.
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 1: I mean, but it's essentially Star Wars.
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's a spoof of Star Wars and movies
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 2: of that type, but mainly Star Wars. Space is probably
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 2: my favorite mel Brooks movie in his later era as
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 2: a filmmaker. Like my favorite mel Brooks movie is Young Frankenstein,
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 2: followed by The Producers, followed by Blazing Saddles. Some people
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 2: I think think Blazing Saddles is his best movie, and
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 2: I think that's a valid argument. It is. My personal favorites.
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 2: Go Young Frankenstein, the Producers, the Original Producers, not the
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 2: musical and oh yeah no, the musical is not my
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 2: first of all, that movie is not good. That that
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 2: move the musical was great, The movie of the musical
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 2: is not great. But the Original Producers I love that.
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 2: Gene Wilder and Zero Mostelle in it, and it's I
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 2: love that film. I think it's better than the movie
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 2: musical version. I think the stage musical fantastic. But but yeah,
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 2: if you're going by the later period, I think Spaceballs
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 2: is better than Robinhood Men in Tights. I think it's
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 2: just a better movie. Robinhood Men and Tights committed the
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 2: terrible sin of explaining a joke after they told the joke,
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 2: and I'm like, don't do that. It doesn't do you
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 2: any good.
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 1: I liked it when it first came out. It hasn't
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 1: held up for me.
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, yeah, there were a lot of moments in
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 2: Robinhood where I was like, okay, well, first of all,
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 2: these are all the same jokes you told in Spaceballs.
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 2: Second of all, the second of all, you have a
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 2: joke that is a reference to Blazing Saddles, and then
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 2: you explain that it's a reference to Blazing Saddles, And
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 2: that makes no sense because either you understand the reference
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 2: and thus you find it funny, or you don't understand
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 2: the reference. But explaining that it's a reference doesn't make
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 2: it funny. So why did you explain it? And so anyway,
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 2: Spaceball's the original space Holes film. I actually really like
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 2: quite a bit. I still think it's very amusing. It's
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 2: got a lot of juvenile humor in it. Mel Brooks
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 2: often would include that in his stuff. I have no
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 2: problem with that. But like in the movie Spaceballs, there
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 2: is a joke about how there will eventually be a
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 2: sequel called Spaceball's the Search for More Money. Now we
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 2: are getting a sequel to Spaceball's. But we've learned that
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 2: is not what the title is.
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 1: No, it's the New One.
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 2: Yep, we got a video of mel Brooks and Finn
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 2: announcing that the title for the new Spaceball's movie is
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 2: Spaceball's the New One. That's that's what that. There's no footage,
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 2: it's just mel Brooks talking about it. It comes out
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 2: April thirteenth, twenty twenty seven, so we've got a whole
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 2: year to wait.
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I can wait. I will watch it. I had,
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 1: but I didn't watch Spaceballs for the first time until
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 1: I think last year.
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 2: Goodness, that was a movie I saw in the theater
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 2: and I laughed so hard in the theater I was
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 2: but you know, I was a big Star Wars fan,
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 2: so the jokes were all Landing for me, like all
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 2: the references, the visual references to movies like Star Wars
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 2: or Alien, they were all hitting hard. I was of
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 2: the right age, like a like a teenager or a
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 2: young teen when it came out, so all the juvenile humor,
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 2: like to me was like, oh, comedy doesn't get better
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 2: than this. So it was exactly the right movie at
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 2: exactly the right time when I was a kid. So
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 2: it there are a lot of jokes that I will
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 2: still quote, things like you know, what's the matter Colonel
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 2: Sanders Chicken? Such a dumb joke, but I love it.
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, the next the next I'm actually gonna mention
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 1: these two trailers at the same time. We should break
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 1: them out. Yeah, but the next two trailer trailers we
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 1: have are for Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat too. Yes,
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 1: and we'll talk about each trailer. But it is really
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 1: interesting to me because historically I've been more fan like
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 1: I love the original Mortal Kombat movie far more than
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 1: I love the original Street Fighter movie. Rale Juliet aside, Right, Yeah,
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 1: but I thought the first Mortal Kombat movie was goofy,
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 1: but it was also just so much fun. Yeah, And
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 1: now in twenty twenty six. I feel exactly the opposite,
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 1: at least based on the trailers.
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, like, yeah, street Fighter. Street Fighter looks like it's
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 2: a lot. It does look like an action movie, but
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 2: it looks like a can't be action movie, right, Like
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 2: there's a campy tonality to some of the movie where
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 2: it feels like they're having fun. It doesn't feel like,
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 2: let's make this as grim and gritty as it possibly
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 2: can be, whereas with Mortal Kombat it's very much this
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 2: is grim and gritty. We just have a smart ass
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 2: hero as the protagonist, and that's where a lot of
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 2: the comedy comes from. Is this, you know, kind of
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 2: jaded Hollywood faded Hollywood star Jada and Faded. I'm rusty
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 2: and dusty, and Johnny Cage is Jada and Faded, and
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 2: together we're buddy cops on a mission. Now. Anyway, I agree.
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 2: I think I think the tone for Street Fighter is
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 2: much more fun oriented and Mortal Kombat's tone is much
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 2: more Look how grim we are?
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, So in the new Street Freighter trailer, which
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 1: is a full trailer, so in the teaser, we talked
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 1: about how it looked like fun, but they were just
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 1: literally like we are doing the video game. Here's all
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 1: the dumb video game stuff for you to enjoy in
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 1: live action. Right, this new trailer shows us there is
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 1: kind of a plot, but it still looks there's a
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 1: lot of action, there's a little bit of heart, but
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 1: it still looks like they are just having fun with it.
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the fact that you have so you there's clearly
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 2: it's implied that there's history between Ken and Ryu, and
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 2: at some point they've had a falling out for some reason.
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 2: We don't know why, but the trailer seems to imply this.
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 2: We get to see Ken getting drunk at a karaoke
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 2: bar and singing the best song ever, What's Up by
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 2: four Non Blondes.
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, it's a really cool cover of it too
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 1: in the trailer.
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it was fun, Like I love that song
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 2: un ironically, like I don't think I've ever sung it
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 2: at karaoke, but I'm gonna and yeah it's a great
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 2: song and h And we also get to see lots
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 2: of characters in action, like you know, tons of characters
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 2: from Street Fighters Saga, so like Boo, Rog, Vega, Guile,
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 2: chud Lee, Cammi, A Kuma, I, Honda, m Bison, all
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 2: sorts of characters show.
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 1: I can't name a single Street Fighter character to you
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 1: other than m Bison.
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 2: Sorry for me, it was Tuesday, Rall Julia and Rall Julie.
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 2: Oh if only Gosh, Rale, we miss you.
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 1: Also, I couldn't tell that it was Jason Momoa's Blanca
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 1: in the trailer.
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah. W it's kind of like the Hulk, right, I
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 2: meant to say Blanca, not a Kuma. Oh my gosh. Anyway,
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 2: it comes out October.
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 1: I couldn't correct you.
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 2: It comes out of October sixteenth. Yeah, this, it looks fun. Meanwhile,
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 2: Mortal Kombat too, it was really more of a extended
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 2: like we saw the Red Band trailer, which meant that
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 2: there was cursing in it, and you know, it follows
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 2: Johnny Cage as he is recruited by Rayden and Sonya.
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 2: I guess it's Sonya to be part of the Mortal
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 2: Kombat tournament. So like in Street Fighter it's Ken who's
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 2: getting recruited to be part of a in this it's
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 2: Johnny Cage getting recruited to be in a tournament, and
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 2: we don't understand, we don't know why they're going for
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 2: Johnny Cage. Like Johnny Cage himself makes the the observation
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 2: that he doesn't have like robot arms and he can't
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 2: shoot lightning, so why the heck is he being picked
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 2: to be part of this tournament? And I was thinking
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 2: the same thing. I was like, this is kind of
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 2: like Hawkeye being part of the Avengers.
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and it was sonya.
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 2: Okay, good, but yeah it I mean Johnny Kate like, uh,
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 2: who is it that Keith Urban? Keith Urban is John.
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 1: As Luke Cage?
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 2: No, yeah, I was trying to remember who you had,
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 2: who you.
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 1: Had, Carl Carl Urban, Carl.
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 2: Urban, Johnny Cage. He looks like he's having.
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 1: He does. But when they first showed him, it's like, oh,
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 1: this the second movie is gonna circle around him. I
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 1: was they may look really goofy.
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this looks a little less goofy. I mean, he
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 2: still has some smart ass lines, but it doesn't look
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 2: quite as it definitely doesn't look as light in tone
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 2: as Street Fighter does.
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I will still see both of them, but
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 1: I am more looking forward to Street Fighter at this point.
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 2: Well, here's the thing. Mortal Kombat two comes out first
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 2: because it comes out May eighth, and Street Fighter won't
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 2: come out until October, so you can watch Mortal Kombat
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 2: too and just just reassure yourself that there'll be a
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 2: movie more in line with your sensibilities later in the year.
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 1: Well, listen, Mortal Kombat's kind of getting sandwiched between two
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 1: of them, because before Mortal Kombat comes out, I think,
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 1: aren't we getting he Man?
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, he Man comes out before that. I believe
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 2: he comes out.
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 1: It comes out, Oh no, it comes out after. So
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 1: it'll be Mortal Kombat two than he Man on June fifth,
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 1: and then Street Fighter in October, so you can have
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 1: a couple of palette washers.
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 2: I saw that there was a final video, a final
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 2: trailer for he Man. I didn't include that. I didn't
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 2: even watch it, but I didn't include that because we
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 2: talked about two different trailers for he Man already, so
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 2: I didn't think there was any need to do another one.
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 1: I don't think I could handle being more excited for
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 1: it than I am. I really hope it's good, because
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 1: I'm very excited for it.
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 2: It looks like it looks like it's a it's gonna
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 2: be kind of a fun summer spectacle movie, which, like
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 2: I'm all for if it's entertaining, I'm all for it.
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 2: Like I got burnt out on that stuff for a while,
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 2: just because there were so many movies that felt that
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 2: they were a spectacle, but there was nothing beneath that,
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 2: so I would get I would get bored. So I
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 2: never wanted to see any of the Jurassic World movies
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 2: for that reason, right, Like I just I was like,
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 2: I don't care about anything that's happening here. And I
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 2: still feel that Jurassic Park did dinosaurs better, so I agree.
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 1: I was recently watching a TikTok there was a girl
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 1: who was like, I wasn't bored and when Jurassic Park
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 1: came out, which first of all hurt my soul, yeah,
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 1: but also then like like a full adult saying that now,
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 1: like she was born right after, right, and I can
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 1: say that about some of the Star Wars movies myself.
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 1: So but she watched it. She was like, this is
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 1: an amazing movie. Like she was crying by the end,
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 1: which which is why I was so disappointed. When the
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 1: latest Jurassic Park movie came out. They're like, we're going
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 1: back to, you know, what we learned from the first movie,
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 1: And they didn't because the thing about the first movie was,
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 1: again it was practical effects assisted by AI and not AI,
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 1: not AI by CGI and not CGI first, yeah, which
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 1: is what really sold it and really gave you that immersion.
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that sense of wonder and scale. Yeah yeah, yeah, no,
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 2: I completely agree. Like you know, I still feel the
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 2: effects in the first Jurassic Park movie hold up better
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 2: than the stuff that came out over the last like
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 2: five years, which is crazy when you think about the
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 2: incredible advancements we've had in technology. Not to mention the
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 2: fact that, like we said before, extremely talented people worked
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 2: on the effects of these movies, and we don't want
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 2: to lay the fault on them. I think that it's
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 2: the fact that this practical approach just has more of
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 2: an impact, at least for us, like maybe for young
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 2: maybe for really younger viewers, like obviously not the one
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 2: you were talking about, but maybe for really younger viewers
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 2: it doesn't matter as much. I can't say because I'm old,
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 2: so I remember movies before CGI was a thing.
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 1: I just I don't I don't know, because I'm not
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 1: a CGI artist. I don't know what the difference is.
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 1: Because you don't even need a big budget if you
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 1: look at District nine, which have to cast was human
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 1: and half to cast was these alien bug creatures. Right.
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 1: I never got on Canny Valley with that, and that
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 1: had a shoestring budget where Hollywood's concerned. Yeah, so I don't.
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 1: I don't know where the disconnect is. And you know,
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 1: having creating creatures with CGI that look not one hundred
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 1: percent photo realistic. It's fine, It's still an art that
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 1: I cannot do, you know, so I shouldn't be so judgmental,
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 1: but for me, it does take it where I and
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 1: part of the problems I watch movies critically, right, Like
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 1: I watch them for enjoyment, but I also watch them
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 1: critically because I'm an actor and I learned from them.
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 1: So part of it is my fault.
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 2: Well, I watched them critically because I was taught to
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 2: use critical thinking when engaged with media. So it doesn't
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 2: really matter what the media is, like, I will engage
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 2: with it on a critical level, not to look for
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 2: fault or anything, but just to like, I'll start to
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 2: ask questions like, well, why was that done that way?
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 2: I think the big disconnect I have with a lot
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 2: of these CGI heavy movies doesn't necessarily involve the CGI directly.
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 2: It's more like there's this tendency to go huge with
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 2: the CGI, either with creatures that are just truly enormous
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 2: and they just don't feel real because you're like I
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 2: get no sense of actual mass with them, or there's
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 2: just a ton of stuff all happening at once, like
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 2: Marvel is really bad about this, where it's the big
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 2: fight at the end of the movie and there's just
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 2: so much happening on screen at once, and it just
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 2: is meaningless to me, Like I don't even know how
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 2: I'm supposed to feel because there's just too much stuff,
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 2: and I feel like that is a problem I have
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 2: with a lot of these movies that rely heavily on CGI,
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 2: because it's kind of like what I used to say
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 2: about people who would sing all I Want for Christmas
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 2: is you and do all the vocal runs where I'm like,
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 2: just because you can doesn't mean you should.
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 1: Not, being said. The CGI in Moral Combat too and
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 1: Street Fighter don't bother me as much because yeah, I'm
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 1: already in that fantastical place of like this is ridiculous.
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 1: I can. There are some movies that I watch I'm like,
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 1: if I put high expectations on it. I'm not going
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 1: to enjoy it, so I expect very little of it
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 1: and I have fun.
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah that's fair. Like I'm not going into it expecting
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 2: Citizen Kane, but if if a parrot does suddenly scream
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 2: at me in the middle of a movie, I'll be like, Okay,
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 2: well that's where I'm supposed to pay attention.
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know, I did enjoy parts of Mortal
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 1: Komba one. The whole thing between Scorpion and Some Zero
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 1: at the beginning I thought was beautiful, and.
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 2: I yeah, that opening was incredible. Like if the whole
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 2: movie had been at the same level as that opening,
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 2: it probably would be one of my favorite action films,
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 2: like of modern.
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 1: Era for sure. But I am I am kind of
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 1: enjoying this.
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 1: Maybe what's just coming across my algorithm right now is
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 1: this like smaller, smaller movies that are less giant action
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 1: blockbuster spectacle with the spectacles spit in here and there.
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 1: I really am enjoying that pace because I do like,
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 1: you know, the Dead Poet Society, Cider House Rule kind
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 1: of movies, and I miss them when they're all spectacle.
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 1: They sometimes lack the heart, Like you said, you don't
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 1: know what's going on, So I'm good to have them
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 1: sprinkled throughout the year.
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's when we're glad to have like Virginia Wolf
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 2: and not just an endless list of sci fi action films.
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 2: Well, if you are one of those people who are like, man,
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 2: now the Stranger Things is gone, what am I supposed
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 2: to do? I feel so drained? Well, maybe you need
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 2: to join a retirement community. How about you go visit
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 2: the Burrows.
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 1: So I am one of those people, because for a while,
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 1: it was like, it's hard when to show you like
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 1: ends because you've kind of put it into your rhythm
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 1: of daily life. Yeah, and then you have to find
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 1: a new show to do, and sometimes that takes so
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 1: much energy.
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 2: Also, it may be harder even if you didn't like
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 2: the way that the show ended.
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I didn't have a problem with it. Yeah,
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 1: And I let it be what it was, be what
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 1: it was and enjoyed it for what it was. And
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 1: I'm like, this is the story they told I'm fine
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 1: with it. This though, looks so good. Outside of the
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 1: fact that half the people the television series coming up
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 1: is called The Burrows, It's about people who moved to
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 1: a retirement home where there's this weird sci fi stuff happening,
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 1: and half the people in it, to me and probably
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 1: in real life, should not be in a retirement home yet.
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 2: I mean, they're older, it's just that they're Hollywood older,
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 2: so they don't look as old as they really are.
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 1: But I guess that's true. Alfred Woodard is seventy three?
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 2: What no you got, Alfred Molina, Bill Pullman, Gina Davis,
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 2: Dennis O'Hare. People who are fans of American horror story
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 2: will know who Dennis O'Hare is. But I think of
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 2: Dennis O'Hare as Charles J. Guetteau from Assassins. He was
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 2: in Assassins with Neil Patrick Harris and Michael Serves, and
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 2: he was he was so good in that role. Ed
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 2: Begley Junior plays a supporting character in this It's eight episodes.
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 2: All eight episodes drop on May twenty first on Netflix.
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 2: But you can tell that this is a series that
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 2: is produced by the Duffer brothers. They didn't create it,
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 2: but they produced it. And you're like, yeah, this is like, sure,
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 2: we have stranger things with kids, but what if we
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 2: did stranger things with senior citizens.
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 1: I mean I love that cast. I love Dennis O'Hara
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 1: and Alfred Molina and Alfred, Alfred Woodard and Gina Davis,
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 1: I mean, yes, and Bill like I love them all.
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 1: Dennis O'Hare is the youngest, he's sixty four. Everybody else
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 1: is in their seventies. To me, like, maybe it's it's
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 1: not a retirement home more as it is like a
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 1: retirement community. And I have friends in the film industry
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 1: who have moved into like this is an older adults community.
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 1: We don't deal with kids, but we all have our
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 1: own homes and we just get to hang out with
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 1: people in our demographic.
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 2: So, yeah, I thought it looked like it looked like
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 2: it had a little bit of Spielberg wistfulness in it,
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 2: like a you know, like a bit of wonder. Right,
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 2: it's not all just well that's weird or that's creepy.
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 2: There was like kind of like the wonder you would
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 2: see in something like Close Encounters of the Third Kind
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 2: or et.
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it looks great. I am very much
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 1: excited to watch this.
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so that comes out, like I said, May twenty first,
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 2: on Netflix, We're going to keep an eye on that.
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 2: I mean, the cast is phenomenal. There's so many great
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 2: people in this, so I'm really excited about it.
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 1: Chef's Kids. The next thing we've got is vaguely sci
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 1: fi alternate history. It's alternate history. Yeah, so it's a
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 1: trailer for Star City, which a couple of weeks ago
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 1: we talked about season five or six of for All Mankind,
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 1: which is alternate history where the space race never ended
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 1: and Russia beat us to the Moon I believe, And
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 1: this is the Soviet Union and this is a spin
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 1: off showing what happened from the Soviet Union point of
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 1: view during I guess that.
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 2: First season right where there is apparently an American spy,
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 2: or at least a spy working on behalf of the
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 2: Americans who is leaking information about their space program to America.
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 2: And so there's a lot of intrigue, you know, with
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 2: people paranoid and suspecting each other of spying on the program,
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 2: as well as the challenges the scientists face as they
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 2: try to come up with ways to make it viable
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 2: to travel and land on the Moon without you know,
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 2: killing everybody.
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 2: This this comes out on Apple TV Plus on May
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 2: twenty ninth, looks good.
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it is interesting to me because we're getting this
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 1: like alternative history, historical kind of spy stuff is like
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 1: real popular right now, This one Star City Ponies and
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 1: then that one with with Sam rockwell that's coming out.
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and then you also have stuff, you know, you
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 2: had like the Man in the High Castle and you
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 2: had the Americans, right, you had those also kind of
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 2: fall into that alternate history bucket.
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and so for like the last decade or so,
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 2: we've seen kind of a rise in this sort of stuff.
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, so that is it is interesting, but it
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 1: looks good. It looks tense, but it looks good. And
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 1: then I am I am generally genuinely curious to see
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 1: what some of the scenes that they shared are. But
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 1: I have to finish For All Mankind first.
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I need to start it, Like I've got Apple
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 2: TV Plus, but I don't watch that much stuff on it,
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 2: and I feel like I need to. I need to
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 2: take more advantage of this subscription that I have, and
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 2: I do think that the premise is intriguing. The other
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 2: thing about For All Mankind that we talked about, I
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 2: believe is that each season takes place several years after
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 2: the previous season, so it's usually like roughly a decade
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 2: that passes between seasons, so that you get to see
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 2: how this diversion from our own history, you know, how
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 2: it would in theory have progressed from that point. And
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 2: I find that really interesting too.
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I also need to start it, but like
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 1: it is top of my list of new things because
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 1: I'm looking for a new show. It's just hard to
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 1: jump into an alternative history sometimes.
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean like it's all depends. Yeah, Like it
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 2: depends on the tone of the show in my frame
• 1:38:07
  Speaker 2: of mind, right, Like there are times where I'm like,
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 2: I legit recognize that this is good or at least
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 2: that it's kind of my jam, but I have not
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 2: worked up the gumption to watch a great example of that,
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 2: I watched the first three episodes of the latest season
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 2: of Invincible, but I haven't watched beyond that, and I
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 2: haven't been able to make myself do it. And I
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 2: haven't watched any of the current season of The Boys,
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 2: even though I said I was going to because I
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 2: want the conclusion, I want to wrap up that story
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 2: because I watched the other four seasons of this show,
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 2: and I didn't enjoy it very much in large parts
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 2: of it, but I feel like I need to finish it,
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 2: but I haven't been able to work up the motivation
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 2: to actually watch it.
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I get that if it's not bringing much joy
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 1: to your life, it's really hard to do it. But
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 1: I understand wanting, you know. That's why I've watched some
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 1: of the things I've watched, just because I'm like, I know,
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to enjoy this, but I need closures. Yeah.
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 2: Well, and also, like I really like Jack quaide man,
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 2: I want to see Jack Quaid do more stuff.
• 1:39:14
  Speaker 1: So he was doing a whole bunch for a while.
• 1:39:18
  Speaker 2: It's true, It's true, like he was in he was
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 2: like he was like all my girlfriends. He was in
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 2: every movie for a while, like and and Anya Taylor Joy,
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 2: like in every single film because it was one of
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 2: the three of them, and sometimes multiples of them.
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 1: Yes, I enjoy his work. He was just in Companion, so, which.
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 2: Is great, that's a great movie. Loved it. Love Companion.
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 1: Still doing stuff so also.
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 2: In a great couple of episodes of Red Letter Media's stuff.
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 2: And also he did a couple of comedy bits that
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 2: were parodies of the Criterion Clau that series where movie
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 2: stars go into the Criteria closet and pick out films
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 2: that they think, you know, should be on their watch
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 2: list or whatever. And he was in a parody version
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 2: of that where he's in kind of like a hellscape
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 2: version of the Criterion Collection. Oh yeah, where everything is
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 2: something like Madam Webb or Morebius, you know that kind
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 2: of stuff. Yeah, it's funny.
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that is that is funny. Okay, we have to
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 1: keep going through because we still have one, two, three,
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 1: six more things.
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and we've been going for like an hour and
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 2: forty minutes. Yeah, all right, So we got a teaser
• 1:40:35
  Speaker 2: for Practical Magic two. I asked friend of the show Shayley,
• 1:40:41
  Speaker 2: what she thought about this, and she said she was
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 2: kind of sad because if you're not familiar with the
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 2: basic premise of Practical Magic. You've got this family, okay,
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 2: you got this family of of witches essentially, like, all
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 2: the women in this family are witches, and earlier in
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 2: the history of the family, a curse was laid upon
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 2: all the women, all the witches of this family that
• 1:41:05
  Speaker 2: any man who falls in love with one of the
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 2: women of this family will meet a terrible fate. Will
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 2: die essentially, and so the first Practical Magic, a man
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 2: falls in love with Sandra Bullock's character, She's one of
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 2: the women in this family character named Sally Owens. The
• 1:41:26
  Speaker 2: man dies as the curse says, and then she ends
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 2: up meeting a different man later in the movie, like
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 2: some time has passed. It's not like the next day
• 1:41:37
  Speaker 2: or anything, like, oh well, men are like Kleenex. They're soft,
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 2: strong and disposable. But no, she meets another guy. But
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 2: then eventually she seemingly breaks the curse. That's like the
• 1:41:50
  Speaker 2: big happy moment in the film, like the curse is broken,
• 1:41:54
  Speaker 2: and now she can be with this guy that she's
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 2: falling for, and that's the happy end. Except now in
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 2: Practical Magic, too, apparently whoopsie, no curse still totally was there,
• 1:42:06
  Speaker 2: because apparently the guy she fell in love with, played
• 1:42:08
  Speaker 2: by Aiden Quinn is totally dead. Ski sad, Yeah, which
• 1:42:14
  Speaker 2: I don't like. And Shaye didn't like it either. She
• 1:42:17
  Speaker 2: was upset about that. She's like, well, this is kind
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 2: of reht conning the whole like climax of the first film,
• 1:42:25
  Speaker 2: but it stars Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kimmen playing sisters.
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 2: They have aunts that are played by Diane Weiest and
• 1:42:32
  Speaker 2: Stockard Channing. Who are you know, saucy older ladies who
• 1:42:37
  Speaker 2: are also witches? This one like, there's another generation of
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 2: young women played by Joey King and Mazie Williams who
• 1:42:47
  Speaker 2: are coming into their own powers. Lee Pace is playing
• 1:42:51
  Speaker 2: a character in this who I guess is going to
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 2: end up being a potential love interest who whose life
• 1:42:56
  Speaker 2: will be in danger. It's set twenty five years after
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 2: the first movie. Since you didn't see the first film,
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 2: did you have any reaction at all to this trailer?
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 2: Did anything mean anything to you?
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 1: No? It might as well have been Focus Focus or
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 1: Beaches or Mermaid or Mystic Pizza. I have no idea.
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 1: I've not seeing any of those except for Hocus Focus. Yeah. No,
• 1:43:20
  Speaker 1: it had no no meaning to me. It was fine whatever,
• 1:43:25
  Speaker 1: I will say. Everybody looks so beautiful in it.
• 1:43:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I saw some kind of misogynistic comments about how
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 2: the practical magic in question was botox.
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 1: You know what, it's it's their bodies and they can
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 1: do what they want.
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 2: I yeah, it's not. It's it's not fair to hold
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 2: women up to a certain social norm of beauty and
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 2: then criticize them for doing it.
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, but I think they look great. Honestly, I
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 1: think it's I think Nicole Kimmen is beautiful, and she
• 1:43:56
  Speaker 1: has always been beautiful, but I think I think it's
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 1: the best she's looked.
• 1:44:01
  Speaker 2: I think Nicole Kimmon is beautiful. But gosh, I wish
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 2: she'd stop preaching at me about how important movies are.
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 1: I mean, they're important, Jonathan.
• 1:44:10
  Speaker 2: I know every time I go to yeah, that's where
• 1:44:14
  Speaker 2: we fall in love, I've been told.
• 1:44:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, oh gosh, look I like these actresses. I know
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 1: a lot of people liked Practical Magic. I hope it
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 1: really maybe I would if I watched it. I really
• 1:44:25
  Speaker 1: I lovely Pace. I hope that. I hope that it
• 1:44:30
  Speaker 1: brings joy to people's lives and does well and people
• 1:44:32
  Speaker 1: enjoy it.
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 2: And you know, yeah, I I did not like Practical Magic.
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 2: And she knows this because she showed the movie to
• 1:44:41
  Speaker 2: me and I sat through it and I had a
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 2: visceral reaction where I got real mad about this movie.
• 1:44:50
  Speaker 2: So I have no desire to see the sequel, like
• 1:44:55
  Speaker 2: I think I would just get mad for different reasons
• 1:44:57
  Speaker 2: at the sequel, largely like, yes, the first movie you
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 2: made got me angry but at least have the conviction
• 1:45:05
  Speaker 2: to stick to the ending you wrote and don't retcon it.
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, anyway, that's I have.
• 1:45:17
  Speaker 1: If you want to keep talking about practical magic too,
• 1:45:19
  Speaker 1: you can.
• 1:45:19
  Speaker 2: No, I'm good. I'm good. Let's move on to talking
• 1:45:23
  Speaker 2: about batties.
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 1: Batties and something that looks like a Goodies. So we
• 1:45:28
  Speaker 1: got a little sneak peek into Spider Noir, the TV
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 1: show with Nicholas Cage Ye, not Johnny.
• 1:45:37
  Speaker 2: Or Johnny Cage or Luke Cage.
• 1:45:39
  Speaker 1: Nope, Nicholas Cage playing Spider Man potter Man, and they're
• 1:45:46
  Speaker 1: showing us some of the villains. So we're getting Sandman,
• 1:45:50
  Speaker 1: we're getting Tombstone, we're getting.
• 1:45:52
  Speaker 2: Live Wire, live Wire, mega Watt.
• 1:45:55
  Speaker 1: Mega Watt, and then I can't remember the first one
• 1:45:57
  Speaker 1: because he's basically Kingpin.
• 1:45:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah silver Main played by Brendan Gleeson.
• 1:46:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but listening to them talk about the characters they're playing,
• 1:46:08
  Speaker 1: the struggles that those different villains are going through, and
• 1:46:11
  Speaker 1: the humanity that we don't know about yet but was
• 1:46:13
  Speaker 1: put behind those characters makes me extra excited to watch this.
• 1:46:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, where they're not just like I'm bad and I
• 1:46:21
  Speaker 2: have powers, Like it's they're more complicated than that. Like
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 2: it's it's pretty typical like in noir, usually the division
• 1:46:29
  Speaker 2: between hero and villain is thin, right, like your heroes
• 1:46:33
  Speaker 2: are far from perfect and your villains aren't necessarily mustache
• 1:46:37
  Speaker 2: twirling bad guys. There's usually like like like it's cliche,
• 1:46:42
  Speaker 2: but it's kind of the two sides of the same
• 1:46:45
  Speaker 2: coin sort of thing. And yeah, the the way people
• 1:46:51
  Speaker 2: were talking about their characters was really interesting. I also
• 1:46:54
  Speaker 2: thought it was interesting the choices because like, I'm familiar
• 1:46:56
  Speaker 2: with Sanman, I know that character. I am not familiar
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 2: with Tombstone, and I thought Mega Watt at first was
• 1:47:04
  Speaker 2: going to be Electro because he has electric powers. But
• 1:47:09
  Speaker 2: then he says, no, it's Dick Layden slash mega Watt.
• 1:47:12
  Speaker 2: So I had to look that up because I'm not, like,
• 1:47:15
  Speaker 2: I'm a casual Spider Man fan. I don't know all
• 1:47:18
  Speaker 2: these characters. And I was like, was this character? Does
• 1:47:21
  Speaker 2: this character exist within the Marvel cannon? Sure enough, Yes
• 1:47:25
  Speaker 2: he does.
• 1:47:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so can he's give you in the next Spider
• 1:47:28
  Speaker 1: Man movie too?
• 1:47:30
  Speaker 2: Oh okay, wow, Megawatt interesting?
• 1:47:33
  Speaker 1: No, not Mega Watt sorry, Tombstone.
• 1:47:36
  Speaker 2: Oh okay, yeah, Tombstone. I don't know at all. Like
• 1:47:40
  Speaker 2: I was like, well, I'm sure that is a character,
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 2: but because I thought originally that Mega Watt was Electro,
• 1:47:45
  Speaker 2: because Electro is a character I'm familiar with, right, Yeah,
• 1:47:49
  Speaker 2: but it's not him.
• 1:47:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:47:51
  Speaker 2: But this comes out on MGM Plus on May twenty fifth,
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 2: and then it goes to Prime video starting on May
• 1:47:56
  Speaker 2: twenty seventh as a Binge release, so you can watch
• 1:47:58
  Speaker 2: all of it at once if you want to. I'm
• 1:48:02
  Speaker 2: excited about this because it looks it's it's it reminds
• 1:48:06
  Speaker 2: me a little bit of the Marvel by Night the
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 2: you know, like the one they did as that one shot,
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 2: Like it's it's something outside the normal Marvel cinematic universe stuff,
• 1:48:22
  Speaker 2: and so it's tapping into things that you're familiar with,
• 1:48:25
  Speaker 2: but doing it in a way that's new. And I
• 1:48:27
  Speaker 2: really find that exciting.
• 1:48:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, And I think I think the cast they
• 1:48:31
  Speaker 1: have is really good at because they are it seems
• 1:48:36
  Speaker 1: like they're leaning into the it's not cheesy, but like
• 1:48:39
  Speaker 1: the ham of like the the nineteen forties Radio Hour.
• 1:48:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:48:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, So you can't see any of the motions I'm
• 1:48:47
  Speaker 1: doing at you because my camera's off. I keep forgetting
• 1:48:49
  Speaker 1: but yeah, like they're leaning into that vibe, but it
• 1:48:53
  Speaker 1: also still feels grounded in the trailers. So I'm so excited.
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 1: I'm so excited.
• 1:48:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I like that they do seem to be
• 1:49:00
  Speaker 2: walking a fine line between you know, they're not going
• 1:49:04
  Speaker 2: so over the top that's becoming a self parody, right,
• 1:49:07
  Speaker 2: Like you can still take it seriously, but it's also
• 1:49:11
  Speaker 2: definitely elevated over the things that you might you know,
• 1:49:14
  Speaker 2: expect in your typical superhero story. So I'm really interested
• 1:49:18
  Speaker 2: in this. I hope that I am hoping that this
• 1:49:20
  Speaker 2: turns out to be a series that we can talk
• 1:49:23
  Speaker 2: about side by side with something like Wanda Vision, right,
• 1:49:27
  Speaker 2: like a standout series.
• 1:49:29
  Speaker 1: Yes please. Or were Wolf by Night Yeah, because that
• 1:49:35
  Speaker 1: was also good. That might be my second favorite, which
• 1:49:38
  Speaker 1: also ran a fine line between camp and genuine.
• 1:49:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah it was campy, but it was so good, was
• 1:49:45
  Speaker 2: fantastic in that I still want I still want a
• 1:49:48
  Speaker 2: one shot short with Man thing.
• 1:49:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, I think we're getting a new were Wolf
• 1:49:53
  Speaker 1: by Night thing, so.
• 1:49:54
  Speaker 2: We Yeah, we had talked about that as a possibility,
• 1:49:56
  Speaker 2: so that's exciting.
• 1:49:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah. The next thing we've got is teaser for Clayface.
• 1:50:02
  Speaker 1: So moving from Marvel to DC.
• 1:50:04
  Speaker 2: Or marvel Sony to DC from Spider Man's Rogues Gallery,
• 1:50:09
  Speaker 2: which is limited but has some real gems in there,
• 1:50:13
  Speaker 2: to Batman's Rogues Gallery, which I think a lot of
• 1:50:16
  Speaker 2: people are more familiar with, just because there's been so
• 1:50:18
  Speaker 2: many different variations of it. Clayface, maybe fewer people are
• 1:50:22
  Speaker 2: as familiar unless they were like big fans of Batman
• 1:50:25
  Speaker 2: the animated series, or maybe Harley Quinn. Yeah, the Harley
• 1:50:28
  Speaker 2: Quinn animated series. Yeah, no, no, I mean the Harley
• 1:50:33
  Speaker 2: Quinn version is great. It's voiced by Alan Tudic and
• 1:50:35
  Speaker 2: he is hamming it up. And this is the version
• 1:50:39
  Speaker 2: of clay Face. It's a similar version in this so
• 1:50:42
  Speaker 2: it's not a comedy at all. This is like body
• 1:50:46
  Speaker 2: horror in this version of clay Face. But the premise
• 1:50:49
  Speaker 2: is that you have an actor, an upcoming actor. He
• 1:50:53
  Speaker 2: gets disfigured by a gangster. He turns to a shady
• 1:50:58
  Speaker 2: scientist for help to kind of regain his looks because
• 1:51:02
  Speaker 2: I mean, he's so dependent upon them for his living.
• 1:51:05
  Speaker 2: And then he gets this kind of shape shifting ability
• 1:51:10
  Speaker 2: slash horrific tendency for his face to melt into a
• 1:51:13
  Speaker 2: pile of goo, and the trailer really runs with that,
• 1:51:19
  Speaker 2: like it is disturbing in parts.
• 1:51:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's not Batman bold and beautiful. There
• 1:51:28
  Speaker 1: was a recent Batman that came out where like the
• 1:51:31
  Speaker 1: penguin was a woman and things like that, where it
• 1:51:35
  Speaker 1: was a similar story for Clay Face. So it's it's
• 1:51:38
  Speaker 1: not an unheard of origin story for him. I again,
• 1:51:42
  Speaker 1: I like, I like the idea of it's very substancy. Again,
• 1:51:47
  Speaker 1: I like, I like the idea, but I did not
• 1:51:49
  Speaker 1: like this trailer.
• 1:51:51
  Speaker 2: I thought this trailer was phenomenal and a huge risky
• 1:51:56
  Speaker 2: swing for DC because this is not something you're gonna
• 1:52:01
  Speaker 2: take your kid too. Like this looks Cronenberg level disturbing.
• 1:52:07
  Speaker 2: The part where he wipes his face and then there's
• 1:52:10
  Speaker 2: no face after he runs his hand across was like,
• 1:52:15
  Speaker 2: I was like, wow, that's nightmare fuel.
• 1:52:18
  Speaker 1: I was actually fine with that because I'm used to Clayface.
• 1:52:21
  Speaker 1: It was like the bandaged up, bleedy face staring into
• 1:52:25
  Speaker 1: the camera.
• 1:52:25
  Speaker 2: Oh. For me, it was like going from here's a
• 1:52:28
  Speaker 2: face that has features on it. He wipes his hand across,
• 1:52:31
  Speaker 2: and now it's just it's just skin. There's no nose,
• 1:52:35
  Speaker 2: there's no eyes, it's just skin over a face that
• 1:52:39
  Speaker 2: really bothered me.
• 1:52:41
  Speaker 1: Oh jeez, it's interesting how different things bothered us in that.
• 1:52:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but I thought that it looks like intriguing. I
• 1:52:49
  Speaker 2: will probably see this. I almost feel like it would
• 1:52:53
  Speaker 2: be better for me to see this and not think
• 1:52:56
  Speaker 2: of it as part of DC, but kind of think
• 1:52:59
  Speaker 2: of it as a distinct horror movie. It almost feels
• 1:53:02
  Speaker 2: like you could do that anyway. I'm sure there will
• 1:53:04
  Speaker 2: be some connective tissue, but I don't know that you
• 1:53:08
  Speaker 2: necessarily need to be interested in d C. You might
• 1:53:11
  Speaker 2: just be like a body horror kind of fan. This
• 1:53:14
  Speaker 2: might really appeal to you. For hardcore Batman fans, I
• 1:53:16
  Speaker 2: think it will appeal as well. But it's gonna be
• 1:53:20
  Speaker 2: a lot different from ninety nine percent of the stuff
• 1:53:23
  Speaker 2: that DC has put out previously. Yeah.
• 1:53:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I look to look forward to seeing how it is,
• 1:53:28
  Speaker 1: so I will have to hold back on watching it
• 1:53:31
  Speaker 1: until I read some reviews.
• 1:53:32
  Speaker 2: Well, it comes out on October twenty third, so it
• 1:53:34
  Speaker 2: sounds like it's the perfect Halloween movie to me.
• 1:53:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah. The next thing we have is a trailer for
• 1:53:41
  Speaker 1: something called The Dog Stars, which I guess is based
• 1:53:44
  Speaker 1: on a book that I haven't read.
• 1:53:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Peter Heller wrote it. It's a twenty twelve book.
• 1:53:49
  Speaker 2: This one's directed by Ridley Scott. It's a post apocalyptic story.
• 1:53:55
  Speaker 2: Here's hell, okay, here's the far fetched premise for why
• 1:54:00
  Speaker 2: the world is aerial. This just is ridiculous. So a
• 1:54:04
  Speaker 2: super flu breaks out and people don't take the appropriate
• 1:54:08
  Speaker 2: steps to protect themselves. Can you believe such a thing
• 1:54:10
  Speaker 2: as even possible?
• 1:54:12
  Speaker 1: I absolutely can't. That's preposterous.
• 1:54:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, who would imagine a world where a
• 1:54:19
  Speaker 2: dangerous disease ran rampant across the world and people did
• 1:54:23
  Speaker 2: not take appropriate measures to make sure that they and
• 1:54:26
  Speaker 2: their loved ones were safe.
• 1:54:28
  Speaker 1: I mean, I guess we should just be grateful, all
• 1:54:33
  Speaker 1: jokes aside. I guess we should be grateful that we
• 1:54:37
  Speaker 1: did not fall into the society that is shown in
• 1:54:41
  Speaker 1: the trailer for Dog Stars. Yeah, after our pandemic.
• 1:54:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the flu in the fluid Dogstars was is much
• 1:54:47
  Speaker 2: more deadly than COVID. I mean, COVID was deadly, Like
• 1:54:51
  Speaker 2: millions of people lost their lives and it should not
• 1:54:54
  Speaker 2: have happened. But in the Dog Stars, you take that
• 1:54:58
  Speaker 2: and you multiply it by a factor of like ten thousand, right, Like,
• 1:55:01
  Speaker 2: it's this massive pandemic deadly flu. Most people are susceptible
• 1:55:06
  Speaker 2: to it, most people die, only a small fraction of
• 1:55:10
  Speaker 2: humanity is left, and just like other post apocalyptic stories
• 1:55:14
  Speaker 2: in a similar vein things like the Walking Dead or whatever,
• 1:55:17
  Speaker 2: the survivors who are left are the biggest threat to
• 1:55:20
  Speaker 2: one another. It looks like the main character is a
• 1:55:23
  Speaker 2: pilot played by Jacob Elordi also stars Josh Brolin and
• 1:55:28
  Speaker 2: Margaret Qually. Guy Pearce is also in it. Benedict Wong
• 1:55:32
  Speaker 2: is in It comes out August twenty eighth. That's about
• 1:55:36
  Speaker 2: all I can say about the story, basically, because I
• 1:55:39
  Speaker 2: have not read the novel either, I don't know a
• 1:55:41
  Speaker 2: lot about it. I know there's a dog in it,
• 1:55:43
  Speaker 2: which tells me Ariel's not going to watch this, and that's.
• 1:55:46
  Speaker 1: The thing is like that don't know, Like I don't
• 1:55:52
  Speaker 1: always go for post apocalyptic movies. I'm real particular because
• 1:55:55
  Speaker 1: the breeding ze for Zachariah in middle school scarred me.
• 1:56:02
  Speaker 1: The book was interesting until you got to the end,
• 1:56:04
  Speaker 1: and I hated the end. So also had to do
• 1:56:08
  Speaker 1: with the dog and also SA and so like not
• 1:56:12
  Speaker 1: not good, not good for me. But even in middle school,
• 1:56:17
  Speaker 1: it wasn't good for me before life took its toll
• 1:56:20
  Speaker 1: on my brain and my emotions.
• 1:56:23
  Speaker 2: And made us made made people like you and me
• 1:56:26
  Speaker 2: far more delicate than we used to be. And we
• 1:56:29
  Speaker 2: weren't exactly diamond hard back then either.
• 1:56:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, and you know, I could probably use a
• 1:56:37
  Speaker 1: little bit of tough and enough, but I I don't.
• 1:56:41
  Speaker 1: The story looks interesting. Everybody looks like they're acting their
• 1:56:46
  Speaker 1: butt off in a good way. Like I would watch
• 1:56:49
  Speaker 1: this movie if there weren't a dog in it. But
• 1:56:51
  Speaker 1: I remember when I went to watch Oh Shoot, which
• 1:56:54
  Speaker 1: was the one with the vampires and Will Smith, I
• 1:56:56
  Speaker 1: am Legend. Yeah, and uh, my dog Sam had recently
• 1:57:02
  Speaker 1: passed away before I watched that. And also my very
• 1:57:06
  Speaker 1: first dog was named Bandit and was a German shepherd.
• 1:57:09
  Speaker 1: And so to go into I Am Legend and then
• 1:57:11
  Speaker 1: watch that.
• 1:57:12
  Speaker 2: Dog, Yeah, that moment. That moment is one of the
• 1:57:16
  Speaker 2: hardest moments I've ever seen it because, like you, I
• 1:57:20
  Speaker 2: love animals, and that moment is hard to watch. It
• 1:57:26
  Speaker 2: was meant to be like that's it was intentionally hard
• 1:57:29
  Speaker 2: to watch.
• 1:57:31
  Speaker 1: It was intentionally hard to watch. I've always struggled with
• 1:57:33
  Speaker 1: animal stuff, but I do like used to like watch
• 1:57:36
  Speaker 1: watching like James Harriet, you know, who is a vet
• 1:57:39
  Speaker 1: and occasionally he couldn't save an animal reading those books,
• 1:57:42
  Speaker 1: But because of the connective tissue it had to personal
• 1:57:45
  Speaker 1: experiences in my life, it was unbearable. I was with
• 1:57:47
  Speaker 1: a bunch of my husband's co workers and I burst
• 1:57:50
  Speaker 1: out in tears in the theater.
• 1:57:53
  Speaker 2: I mean I definitely I definitely felt weepy in that
• 1:57:57
  Speaker 2: scene as well.
• 1:57:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and like, even thinking about it now, tears are
• 1:58:01
  Speaker 1: coming to my eyes. Like I guess that's some good
• 1:58:04
  Speaker 1: storytelling that it's so poignant that years later it's it's
• 1:58:07
  Speaker 1: so effective to touch my emotions.
• 1:58:10
  Speaker 2: But it's not something Yeah, it's not something that you're
• 1:58:13
  Speaker 2: seeking out as an experience though, Like it's not something
• 1:58:16
  Speaker 2: really well. I sure do want to be shaken to
• 1:58:19
  Speaker 2: my core, like like every now and then, I do
• 1:58:22
  Speaker 2: want to watch something where I'm like, wow, that was
• 1:58:25
  Speaker 2: that really made me, you know, affected me emotionally. That
• 1:58:30
  Speaker 2: sometimes could be very rewarding, But it's not something I
• 1:58:33
  Speaker 2: seek out very frequently.
• 1:58:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And it's it's especially hard animals. I think I've
• 1:58:38
  Speaker 1: talked about this far. It's hard for me because so
• 1:58:41
  Speaker 1: many times if you're in the wild, like watching a
• 1:58:44
  Speaker 1: wild documentary, like that's fine. I understand that there is
• 1:58:48
  Speaker 1: a circle of life that happens that is important for
• 1:58:52
  Speaker 1: the survival of many creatures in that circle of life, right,
• 1:58:58
  Speaker 1: But even in nature documentaries where they're like I watched
• 1:59:02
  Speaker 1: one when my folks are here about beavers, and they
• 1:59:04
  Speaker 1: personified the beavers right and talked about them like there
• 1:59:08
  Speaker 1: are people in a family, and that's cool, and it
• 1:59:10
  Speaker 1: was a lovely thing. But then like watching them be
• 1:59:12
  Speaker 1: in danger, all of a sudden, I'm like, ah, this
• 1:59:14
  Speaker 1: is not the circle of life anymore. These are creatures
• 1:59:17
  Speaker 1: that you've now made me specifically care for. And so
• 1:59:20
  Speaker 1: many times it's animals that rely on us for their
• 1:59:24
  Speaker 1: safety and well being and their food, cats, dogs, things
• 1:59:27
  Speaker 1: like that. Yeah, and even are loyal to us because
• 1:59:31
  Speaker 1: we provide that service for them and that love for them.
• 1:59:34
  Speaker 1: And so to watch one those animals suffer and not
• 1:59:38
  Speaker 1: people provided that thing they're relying on. In two, watch
• 1:59:42
  Speaker 1: a human suffer because they were unable to provide that
• 1:59:45
  Speaker 1: thing that their pet was relying on them for. It's yeah,
• 1:59:48
  Speaker 1: it's too much. It's too much.
• 1:59:50
  Speaker 2: Totally. I get it. I get it, Like I don't
• 1:59:54
  Speaker 2: like a lot of entertainment that uses animal in that way, Like,
• 2:00:01
  Speaker 2: you can do it in a way where it's true
• 2:00:03
  Speaker 2: to the story, and I think it serves the story.
• 2:00:06
  Speaker 2: I'm still not gonna like it, but at least I
• 2:00:08
  Speaker 2: respect it. The ones I don't respect are where it
• 2:00:12
  Speaker 2: feels like it was a calculated decision in an effort
• 2:00:16
  Speaker 2: to elicit a particular emotional reaction from your audience. Right,
• 2:00:21
  Speaker 2: same thing for like the way a lot of women
• 2:00:23
  Speaker 2: are treated in horror and thriller and in action movies,
• 2:00:27
  Speaker 2: where well, we need to show that the bad guy's
• 2:00:30
  Speaker 2: really bad, so let's show him hurting a woman in
• 2:00:32
  Speaker 2: some way that's the signal to the audience of this
• 2:00:36
  Speaker 2: is a bad person. I'm like, you're treating the woman
• 2:00:40
  Speaker 2: like a prop that's not good, and you're so blatantly
• 2:00:46
  Speaker 2: trying to manipulate me emotionally that I've I'm detaching emotionally
• 2:00:50
  Speaker 2: from the movie and I'm just mad at you. Now.
• 2:00:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, So I will look up as the dog
• 2:00:58
  Speaker 1: die and the dog stars and based kind of my.
• 2:01:04
  Speaker 2: I mean legitiision on that totally. Yeah, I get you.
• 2:01:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because the story does look interesting and it looks
• 2:01:09
  Speaker 1: well acted and it looks intriguing.
• 2:01:11
  Speaker 2: But yeah, the trailer's great. So if you haven't seen
• 2:01:13
  Speaker 2: the trailer for the Dog Stars, definitely check it out.
• 2:01:15
  Speaker 2: Like it's like part of me was a little it
• 2:01:19
  Speaker 2: was hard to get me engaged because I've seen We've
• 2:01:21
  Speaker 2: seen so much post apocalyptic storytelling over the last decade
• 2:01:26
  Speaker 2: and a half that it was hard for me to
• 2:01:29
  Speaker 2: kind of engage with it. But I think it is
• 2:01:31
  Speaker 2: very well made.
• 2:01:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Uh. And next, I think these next two trailers,
• 2:01:36
  Speaker 1: at least Fox Maco, we're going to talk about Vox
• 2:01:38
  Speaker 1: macht In. Next. We got the trailer for the new season,
• 2:01:40
  Speaker 1: which comes out in a couple of weeks. That's good,
• 2:01:44
  Speaker 1: looks the same. One of my friends said, they're very shouty.
• 2:01:47
  Speaker 2: Yes, they're very shouty, and and they own up to
• 2:01:50
  Speaker 2: the fact that they cause a lot of uh damage.
• 2:01:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, but it looks fun. I am. I'm excited
• 2:02:00
  Speaker 1: for it. I do. While I enjoyed the actual play
• 2:02:03
  Speaker 1: of Mighty nine better, currently I'm enjoying Vox Knocktta Better
• 2:02:07
  Speaker 1: as a TV cartoon.
• 2:02:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this comes out June third. I watched the trailer.
• 2:02:13
  Speaker 2: Sometimes I don't watch the trailers for these things simply
• 2:02:15
  Speaker 2: because I hadn't, you know, engaged with the previous seasons.
• 2:02:19
  Speaker 1: I did boil anything for you.
• 2:02:20
  Speaker 2: Well, it couldn't because I don't know anybody, and I
• 2:02:23
  Speaker 2: don't know who they are or what they're doing. So
• 2:02:26
  Speaker 2: I watched the trailer and I was like, well, it
• 2:02:29
  Speaker 2: looks like I mean, it kind of looks like what
• 2:02:31
  Speaker 2: you would expect in the Dungeons and Dragons campaign, which
• 2:02:34
  Speaker 2: is that as you get further along in the campaign,
• 2:02:38
  Speaker 2: characters get much more powerful, which means that the challenges
• 2:02:42
  Speaker 2: they face have to be much more intense in order
• 2:02:47
  Speaker 2: for it to be a challenge, right, Like, if you
• 2:02:49
  Speaker 2: have a level twenty character, going up against an orc
• 2:02:53
  Speaker 2: is nothing, right, Like, there's no point, Like you just
• 2:02:57
  Speaker 2: obliterate them and there's just a pile of ash where
• 2:02:59
  Speaker 2: the orc will us. But so so obviously everything has
• 2:03:03
  Speaker 2: to get bigger and more intense. Uh so really, I
• 2:03:08
  Speaker 2: just watched it going all right, yeah, yeah, it's it's
• 2:03:11
  Speaker 2: like it's like the first season, but but but bigger
• 2:03:14
  Speaker 2: and more of it.
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  Speaker 1: I do think you would enjoy it if you.
• 2:03:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I watched the first cartoon. Ok, yeah, I watched
• 2:03:22
  Speaker 2: the first episode and it didn't grab me. But I
• 2:03:24
  Speaker 2: remember you saying like, yeah, you kind of kind of
• 2:03:26
  Speaker 2: get through that first one.
• 2:03:28
  Speaker 1: So yeah, some people really liked the first episode because
• 2:03:31
  Speaker 1: it felt like it gave the tone of the show.
• 2:03:33
  Speaker 1: But for me, like it was, it felt so so
• 2:03:37
  Speaker 1: different to me.
• 2:03:38
  Speaker 2: Then, Yeah, I felt like I was dropped in a
• 2:03:41
  Speaker 2: group and I didn't know who anyone was yet, and
• 2:03:44
  Speaker 2: I didn't. I didn't I hadn't warmed up to anyone, right,
• 2:03:48
  Speaker 2: so I didn't like anybody yet, and no one is
• 2:03:52
  Speaker 2: particularly likable in that first episode. So it's hard for
• 2:03:57
  Speaker 2: me to get invested because I'm like, well, you had
• 2:04:00
  Speaker 2: one shot to make me like people, And if I
• 2:04:03
  Speaker 2: already knew who everyone was, I would already like them,
• 2:04:06
  Speaker 2: right like, because I if I was already a fan
• 2:04:08
  Speaker 2: of the real play, then I would be invested and
• 2:04:11
  Speaker 2: I would be like, oh, this is cool. I know
• 2:04:13
  Speaker 2: who these characters are. But I don't know who these
• 2:04:15
  Speaker 2: characters are, so I watch it, I'm just like, Wow,
• 2:04:19
  Speaker 2: a bunch of jerk faces. I don't want to watch
• 2:04:22
  Speaker 2: the show about a bunch of jerk faces. I don't
• 2:04:23
  Speaker 2: care what they're doing.
• 2:04:24
  Speaker 1: So the big, dumb, tall jerkface is my favorite. That
• 2:04:29
  Speaker 1: was the cartoon character I mentioned at the beginning, Yeah,
• 2:04:32
  Speaker 1: I like they are a rogues gallery for sure, but yeah,
• 2:04:37
  Speaker 1: gotta give it three episodes.
• 2:04:39
  Speaker 2: Okay, fair enough. And then finally, the movie that inspired
• 2:04:46
  Speaker 2: the question of the week when it just took us
• 2:04:48
  Speaker 2: two hours and five minutes to get there, is Coyote
• 2:04:52
  Speaker 2: Versus Acme. This was the movie that infamously Warner Brothers
• 2:04:57
  Speaker 2: Discovery shelved and rode off for tax purposes after it
• 2:05:02
  Speaker 2: was finished essentially like almost ready to the point of
• 2:05:07
  Speaker 2: being able to be theatrically released, and for the next
• 2:05:10
  Speaker 2: couple of years we were convinced we were never going
• 2:05:13
  Speaker 2: to see it because in order for them to show
• 2:05:15
  Speaker 2: it means that they would have to make up the
• 2:05:18
  Speaker 2: difference on the tax cut that they took by writing
• 2:05:21
  Speaker 2: it off. So we're like, well, that's never going to happen.
• 2:05:24
  Speaker 2: But it happened, and now we're going to get Coyote
• 2:05:28
  Speaker 2: Versus Acme, And the trailer came out and what did you?
• 2:05:31
  Speaker 2: First of all, can you kind of give an overview
• 2:05:33
  Speaker 2: of what this movie's about.
• 2:05:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's about coyote who gets always gets injured, chasing
• 2:05:42
  Speaker 1: after the road runner yep, going to court for them
• 2:05:45
  Speaker 1: to determine whether it is the Coyotes fault for his
• 2:05:48
  Speaker 1: injuries or whether it is Acme's faulty products. Yes, at
• 2:05:52
  Speaker 1: fault for his injuries. The two lawyers are Will Forte
• 2:05:58
  Speaker 1: and John Cena.
• 2:06:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Will Forte is the Coyotes lawyer and John Cena
• 2:06:02
  Speaker 2: represents ACME.
• 2:06:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And here's the thing, here's my Apparently the trailer
• 2:06:11
  Speaker 1: got great reviews and previews. Here's the thing. For me,
• 2:06:15
  Speaker 1: never been a big cut Coyote or Roadrunner fan, even
• 2:06:19
  Speaker 1: though I did like the original Space Jam, and I
• 2:06:21
  Speaker 1: did like it was big o commercial. I did like
• 2:06:24
  Speaker 1: the original Space Jam, and I really loved Roger Rabbit.
• 2:06:26
  Speaker 1: You know those things where you've got the people and
• 2:06:29
  Speaker 1: the cartoons interacting fairly similar, seamlessly with each other. I
• 2:06:34
  Speaker 1: think it's a great it's it's a challenge, and it's
• 2:06:37
  Speaker 1: really cool art form.
• 2:06:39
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 2:06:41
  Speaker 1: I couldn't care less about this trailer. I'm glad that
• 2:06:44
  Speaker 1: it's being released because I hate that it got shelved
• 2:06:46
  Speaker 1: for tax purposes. But it did not grab me.
• 2:06:51
  Speaker 2: I enjoyed the trailer. I don't feel the need to
• 2:06:54
  Speaker 2: go see the movie when it comes Like, I could
• 2:06:56
  Speaker 2: watch this on my TV and not feel like I
• 2:06:59
  Speaker 2: missed any thing, but I did like the trailer. I
• 2:07:02
  Speaker 2: will say like I wouldn't say it was the biggest
• 2:07:06
  Speaker 2: road Runner and Coyote fan, But during the Chuck Jones
• 2:07:10
  Speaker 2: era of Warner Brothers cartoons, there were a few of
• 2:07:13
  Speaker 2: those where I would find them legitimately funny, or at
• 2:07:16
  Speaker 2: least a few gags in an episode funny, like oh,
• 2:07:20
  Speaker 2: that's that's clever, Especially tricks that you could use in
• 2:07:25
  Speaker 2: the animation art form that would not work anywhere else.
• 2:07:28
  Speaker 2: Those are the sort of things that I found funny.
• 2:07:30
  Speaker 2: But now here's the problem is that those tricks were established,
• 2:07:34
  Speaker 2: you know, more than half a century ago at this point,
• 2:07:38
  Speaker 2: so they are well known at the now, Like it's
• 2:07:42
  Speaker 2: not new and surprising because we we've seen, you know,
• 2:07:47
  Speaker 2: they're they're ingrained. But I still found it the concept amusing.
• 2:07:53
  Speaker 2: I think Will Forte as like an ambulance chasing lawyer
• 2:07:57
  Speaker 2: who's trying to bring trying to Aaron brocka which against
• 2:08:01
  Speaker 2: Acme is kind of interesting. John Cena as an opposing
• 2:08:05
  Speaker 2: attorney is lots of fun. I love seeing John Cena
• 2:08:07
  Speaker 2: being a dufis so and there's lots of there's tons
• 2:08:11
  Speaker 2: of cameos obviously. Lots of Warner Brothers cartoons characters show
• 2:08:14
  Speaker 2: up in this Porky Pig, Tweety, Daffy, fog Horn, leghorn bugs,
• 2:08:19
  Speaker 2: they all. They all appear at at least some point
• 2:08:23
  Speaker 2: in this movie Roadrunner obviously. So I'll probably watch this.
• 2:08:29
  Speaker 2: I don't know if i'll see it in the theater
• 2:08:30
  Speaker 2: or not. Maybe I will. But I think I liked it.
• 2:08:34
  Speaker 2: I definitely liked it more than you did. I don't
• 2:08:36
  Speaker 2: know that I would call it a slam dunk, but
• 2:08:39
  Speaker 2: like you, I'm also glad that it's getting a release
• 2:08:42
  Speaker 2: which I have never seen.
• 2:08:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I didn't hate it. It just it
• 2:08:48
  Speaker 1: didn't appeal to me. I think I wanted the trailer
• 2:08:50
  Speaker 1: to be funnier. Maybe it will be funnier.
• 2:08:52
  Speaker 2: Honestly, it would be like if a movie came out
• 2:08:55
  Speaker 2: right now that was a Tom and Jerry movie, I'd
• 2:08:57
  Speaker 2: be like, I don't know, it's not going to do
• 2:09:00
  Speaker 2: anything for me. I never like Tom and Jerry, so
• 2:09:05
  Speaker 2: even if it's really well made, like I have almost
• 2:09:08
  Speaker 2: a negative connotation with Tom and Jerry because I never
• 2:09:11
  Speaker 2: found it entertaining even as a kid. So you know,
• 2:09:15
  Speaker 2: if that's the way you are. Then I don't think
• 2:09:17
  Speaker 2: that that you know that this this trailer is going
• 2:09:20
  Speaker 2: to change your mind, but I'm hopeful that it will
• 2:09:26
  Speaker 2: land well with the right audience. I did think that
• 2:09:28
  Speaker 2: the animation didn't look quite as good as I was
• 2:09:31
  Speaker 2: hoping it would.
• 2:09:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, it wasn't Roger Rabbit for sure.
• 2:09:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, which is kind of a shame. Like I was
• 2:09:37
  Speaker 2: watching it, I was like, huh this, you know, I
• 2:09:40
  Speaker 2: was kind of hoping the animation would. I'm glad that
• 2:09:43
  Speaker 2: they're sticking to the in large part for most of
• 2:09:45
  Speaker 2: the characters, not Foghorn Leghorn for some reason, but for
• 2:09:48
  Speaker 2: most of the characters, they're sticking pretty close to the
• 2:09:50
  Speaker 2: character models from the classic Warner Brothers cartoons. But the
• 2:09:56
  Speaker 2: actual like like sell to sell motion of the animation
• 2:10:02
  Speaker 2: didn't look as smooth as I was hoping.
• 2:10:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Now I need to look at fog corn Lahrn
• 2:10:08
  Speaker 1: because I don't remember what he looked like in the trailer.
• 2:10:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, maybe it was the angle or whatever, because
• 2:10:14
  Speaker 2: it was shot low and up toward fog Horn, but
• 2:10:18
  Speaker 2: he just didn't look right to me.
• 2:10:21
  Speaker 1: He looks the same to me. H.
• 2:10:24
  Speaker 2: Maybe it's just that there was a shot toward the
• 2:10:26
  Speaker 2: end where it's like because it like that does not
• 2:10:29
  Speaker 2: look like Foghorn Leghorn. But I'm curious about this one.
• 2:10:35
  Speaker 2: I'm glad it's coming out. Finally comes out August twenty eighth.
• 2:10:38
  Speaker 2: So does this mean that maybe one day we'll actually
• 2:10:42
  Speaker 2: see the otherwise lost to time Batgirl movie. Probably not,
• 2:10:47
  Speaker 2: but who knows?
• 2:10:49
  Speaker 1: I hope so. And I bet it was fog Horn
• 2:10:50
  Speaker 1: lake horns jacket because he doesn't normally wear a jacket.
• 2:10:53
  Speaker 2: That's true. He usually is going nudy.
• 2:11:00
  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know. Maybe handsusis feather suit. I
• 2:11:02
  Speaker 1: don't remember, but that is a question for another time.
• 2:11:06
  Speaker 1: Because we've reached the end of our lineup, in the
• 2:11:08
  Speaker 1: end of our very long show. You know, when we
• 2:11:10
  Speaker 1: miss one week, it's doubly long, and when we miss
• 2:11:13
  Speaker 1: two weeks, it's a little more than that. So thank
• 2:11:15
  Speaker 1: you for sticking through and listening and joining us for
• 2:11:19
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• 2:11:25
  Speaker 1: to us. Jonathan, how can they do that?
• 2:11:29
  Speaker 2: They can listen to you because this has been a
• 2:11:30
  Speaker 2: long episode. And then like I need to run across
• 2:11:34
  Speaker 2: the Street before another thirty minutes goes by, if I'm
• 2:11:36
  Speaker 2: going to get the T shirt I need to get
• 2:11:38
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• 2:11:39
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