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LNC Criticizes AI and Pirates · Large Nerdron Collider

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  Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Welcome to the large Ner Droun Collider podcast,
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  Speaker 1: the podcast that's all about the geeky things happening in
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  Speaker 1: the world around us and how very excited we are
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  Speaker 1: about them. I'm Ariel Caston, and with me, as always,
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  Speaker 1: is the delightful Jonathan Star.
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  Speaker 2: I got turned into a dracula?
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  Speaker 1: You got Wait? How'd you get turned into a dracula?
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  Speaker 1: Are you on my discord?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? Did other people get turned onto on a dracula?
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  Speaker 1: No? I was talking about vampires on a discord channel
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  Speaker 1: that was distracting me earlier. No, how'd you get why'd
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  Speaker 1: you get vampire? Vampired?
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  Speaker 2: I didn't say I got vampired? I said I got
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  Speaker 2: turned into a dracula.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Dracula is a vampire.
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  Speaker 2: So so uh. Yesterday I went out for a stroll
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  Speaker 2: with friend of the show, Shaye Lee, and we decided
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  Speaker 2: to explore a trail called the Mountain to River Trail,
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  Speaker 2: not realizing how long this trail actually was, and we
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  Speaker 2: didn't go that far. We went about a mile down
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  Speaker 2: the trail.
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  Speaker 1: Did you go over the river and through the woods.
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  Speaker 2: We did go over a highway, but we didn't go through. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: there's a pedestrian bridge. It's not really a highway. We
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  Speaker 2: went over a very busy street on a pedestrian bridge.
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  Speaker 2: We didn't get to the river because that was another
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  Speaker 2: nine miles away and we did not walk that far,
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  Speaker 2: but we did walk through a cemetery anyway. On this walk,
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  Speaker 2: we had a conversation about how we both find it
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  Speaker 2: funny whenever someone refers to vampires as draculas, which usually
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  Speaker 2: is done for comedic effect, right, Like, it's not purposeful.
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  Speaker 2: You don't really run into that many people who will
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  Speaker 2: reference a vampire as a dracula, but we just even
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  Speaker 2: though it's not a really you know something, you really
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  Speaker 2: run into it in real life. We both find it
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  Speaker 2: funny whenever anyone does that. It's cheap comedy and it
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  Speaker 2: works every time on us. So that's that's why I
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  Speaker 2: said it delightful.
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  Speaker 1: Delightful. Did I go walking anywhere this past weekend? I
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  Speaker 1: feel like I did, but I don't remember.
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  Speaker 2: We'll have to go. We'll have to have you join
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  Speaker 2: us on some of our walks. We tend to do
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  Speaker 2: it during the week when it's not crazy on all
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  Speaker 2: the different pathways, so that does make it harder for you.
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  Speaker 2: But maybe sometime we can do like a like a
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  Speaker 2: group stroll somewhere. There's a selection of walking trails that
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  Speaker 2: are a good distance out and it would be a
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  Speaker 2: heck of a trek for you because it's on the
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  Speaker 2: southeast side of the city, but or outside the city.
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  Speaker 2: But the trails lead to a monastery which has got
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  Speaker 2: amazing architecture. Yeah, and I've never actually I've only seen pictures.
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  Speaker 2: I've never actually been, but it looks amazing.
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  Speaker 1: I would like to go to there. Yeah, I don't
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  Speaker 1: think I did much walking this weekend. I played I
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  Speaker 1: played D and D and I saw Josh Johnson. So
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  Speaker 1: that was fun.
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  Speaker 2: That's great, that's cool. Yeah. The weekend I did, I
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  Speaker 2: celebrate my anniversary twenty eight years. So my partner and
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  Speaker 2: I we went to a vegetarian restaurant here in town
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  Speaker 2: that apparently is Billie Eilish's favorite vegetarian restaurant in Atlanta.
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  Speaker 1: Oh nice.
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  Speaker 2: We did not see her, although Addison Ray had a
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  Speaker 2: concert right across the street, so we got to see
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  Speaker 2: lots of very young people dressed in almost kind of
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  Speaker 2: anime style clothing waiting in a extremely long line to
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  Speaker 2: get into the venue.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if I know Addison Ray, but I mean, like,
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  Speaker 1: the name sounds familiar, but I don't think it's listened
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  Speaker 1: to her stuff.
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  Speaker 2: So she she's She rose to prominence on TikTok apparently,
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  Speaker 2: and I have seen her, but only in stuff like
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  Speaker 2: she was in Thanksgiving, the Eli Roth horror movie. I
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  Speaker 2: saw her in that, but I had no idea. I
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  Speaker 2: had to look her up. Like at first, I had
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  Speaker 2: to look up who is it that's playing at the
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  Speaker 2: Eastern because there's so many young people waiting in line.
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  Speaker 2: And when I say young, I mean like they literally
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  Speaker 2: like a range of teenager to say, mid to late
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  Speaker 2: twenties like that. But I'm I'm fifty, so that is
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  Speaker 2: very young to me. So yeah, I thought, well, whoever
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  Speaker 2: it is, they're really popular with the young'ins. And I
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  Speaker 2: looked it up and I saw I was asking Ray,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm like, Okay, well, now I need to look
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  Speaker 2: up who this is because the name didn't ring any
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  Speaker 2: bells for me either.
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  Speaker 1: I do a lot of tiktoks, so I don't make them,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm on there a lot, so likely I've heard her,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm just not connecting the name to the music
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  Speaker 1: that happens a lot.
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  Speaker 2: Ye well, and and I am so detached from all
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  Speaker 2: because you know, I'm not on any social stuff anymore.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't except for YouTube and a very small
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  Speaker 2: subset of subreddits, and that's it. So I don't, I don't.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not aware of pop culture anymore. I've definitely reached
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  Speaker 2: that point of old age where I am completely out
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  Speaker 2: of touch and I'm aware of it. And that's okay,
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  Speaker 2: Like I realize that's that's for the young people, and
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  Speaker 2: it's okay that I don't know what it is. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's it's six or seven. I don't know what that means.
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  Speaker 1: I might know. I had to have to hear it
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  Speaker 1: in context, okay, And as.
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  Speaker 2: The point is, it doesn't mean anything.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, okay, uh, I like I don't know, I have.
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  Speaker 1: My brain's just short circuited there. And I'm not even
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  Speaker 1: grumpy old I'm just I'm pretty like I know I
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  Speaker 1: know some of the really like current slang too. I
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  Speaker 1: even use a little bit of it.
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  Speaker 2: So I think I think I misused. I think it's
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  Speaker 2: technically just six seven, but it's it's accompanied by like
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  Speaker 2: sort of like a like you're weighing things hand gesture.
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  Speaker 2: Six seven. But apparently that's like a whole mean trend
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  Speaker 2: on social that uh like, I only find out about
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  Speaker 2: this when it leaks into some other format that I
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  Speaker 2: actually still consume.
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  Speaker 1: Nice. Nice. So each week I will bring a new
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  Speaker 1: current slang that I am also technically tooled for and
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  Speaker 1: use it at Jonathan.
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  Speaker 2: Or what a real a real fun game for you
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  Speaker 2: would to present to me something that you claim to
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  Speaker 2: be slang and I have to figure out if it
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  Speaker 2: actually is slang or you just made it up.
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  Speaker 1: That's gonna that's gonna take a lot of work. We'll
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  Speaker 1: see if I'm up to that at some point.
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  Speaker 2: That's that's fair.
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  Speaker 1: Uh Like, it's not like the actual slang is easy.
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  Speaker 1: Making up something that you'll believe is slang.
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  Speaker 2: I hear you. Yeah, No, that's tricky because like like
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  Speaker 2: you're like, how dumb do I go? Because sometimes like
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  Speaker 2: modern slang to an old person like me can seem
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  Speaker 2: exceedingly dumb. But you know, when you're trying to make
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  Speaker 2: something up, you want it to be believable, and you're like,
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  Speaker 2: I can't make it too dumb.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I had to look up what Bosh meant
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  Speaker 1: the other day.
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  Speaker 2: Oh was I were you like watching an English comedy
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  Speaker 2: or something.
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  Speaker 1: I was watching task Master. I just finished season seven,
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  Speaker 1: Series seven, and uh, Carrie Gotten, Gotten him Gotten. Carrie
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  Speaker 1: and Greg the task Master used bosh a lot in
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  Speaker 1: a very funny way, and I was like, let me
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  Speaker 1: see what that means, because there's there's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: like British vernacular that I would love to adopt. I
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  Speaker 1: like it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but you want to make sure it's not super
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  Speaker 2: rude before you start using it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so like I'm not going to use the C word.
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  Speaker 2: Well no, yeah, that's so casual over there that it
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  Speaker 2: is shocking to American years.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah for sure. Okay, Well enough dithering. I got
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  Speaker 1: a question for you.
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  Speaker 2: Shoot hit me with your question.
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  Speaker 1: I want to hit you with my question. Well, bam,
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  Speaker 1: what is the coolest Halloween costume? And it has to
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  Speaker 1: be from Halloween that you have ever done?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this was tricky for me. Fair warning. Ariel did
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  Speaker 2: share this with me before we started barely barely, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: like maybe five minutes before I started recording. And it
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  Speaker 2: is tricky simply because I haven't dressed up for Halloween
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  Speaker 2: in a long time, and because we don't get trick
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  Speaker 2: or treaters there's not much point unless I'm going out
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  Speaker 2: someplace where we're doing some sort of Halloween themed activity.
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  Speaker 2: But for me, and also I dressed up in costumes
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  Speaker 2: for a lot of other things, so it's easy for
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  Speaker 2: me to conflate them, right. Like I almost said, I
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  Speaker 2: almost said kabuki mask from Big Hero six, but I've
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  Speaker 2: never done that restrain. Yes, it was just for dragon Con.
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  Speaker 2: Same with like Renaissance Lex Luthor, that was just for
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  Speaker 2: dragon Con. So instead I thought of this. It was
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  Speaker 2: essentially my Renaissance Festival costume. Like it's the same one
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  Speaker 2: I wore in my last stint as the Admiral and
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  Speaker 2: as a Robert Camembert Marquis de Roquefort, but it had
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  Speaker 2: I had a dragon mask. So it's this very ornate
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  Speaker 2: Renaissance Festival costume, noble costume, like with a black doublet
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  Speaker 2: with the red shirt underneath and you know, gold accents
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  Speaker 2: and then this red dragon mask I wore, and I
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  Speaker 2: wore that for Halloween, and I thought that was a
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  Speaker 2: pretty cool looking ensemble when it was all together, and
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  Speaker 2: I even sent you a picture so you could see.
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  Speaker 1: You did it is really cool. I will post it
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  Speaker 1: for people on Discord and hopefully our website. No no
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  Speaker 1: promises on the ladder, but I'll definitely get it on
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  Speaker 1: Discord because it is a really cool costume and it's
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  Speaker 1: a cool picture you've got of it too.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's one of those where like the light is
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  Speaker 2: kind of behind me, so it's cast me in shadow,
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  Speaker 2: because it's one of those customs that definitely looks best
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  Speaker 2: in low light for the mask. Like the costume itself
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  Speaker 2: looks great in daylight, but the mask in particular looks
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  Speaker 2: better in that low lighting situation. But what about you,
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  Speaker 2: what's your coolest Halloween closet time?
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  Speaker 1: So I don't remember a lot from when I was
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  Speaker 1: like an older kid slash young adult, because a lot
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  Speaker 1: of them were like, oh, I got this cute prairie
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  Speaker 1: dress and I feel a little sexy and it so
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  Speaker 1: let me wear that. But as an adult, once I
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  Speaker 1: got into the LARP community, I got invited. I've started
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  Speaker 1: getting invited to Halloween parties. Like as a kid, I
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  Speaker 1: would do Halloween stuff around my community. It was really
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  Speaker 1: great because you know, I lived in an apartment complex
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  Speaker 1: and everybody got involved and did fun things and we
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  Speaker 1: all went out as a giant group. I had a
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  Speaker 1: I was very fortunate to have a very I'm going
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  Speaker 1: on a big bunny trail here, have a very active
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  Speaker 1: community life and community built in when I was growing
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  Speaker 1: up in my where I was living, so I don't
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  Speaker 1: remember a lot of those, but as an adult in
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  Speaker 1: the LARP community, I started getting invited to a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of parties and they always had a theme, and so
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  Speaker 1: I've actually had quite a few that I have thought
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  Speaker 1: have been really fun. The two that stick out most
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  Speaker 1: in my head because they're always kind of one of those.
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  Speaker 1: I've got a month. Let me see what i can
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  Speaker 1: throw together. But the two that fit most in my
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  Speaker 1: head is Indiana Joan of Arc, except for it was
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  Speaker 1: Joan from mad Men carrying an arc with a with
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  Speaker 1: a Martina. It was carrying the Arc of the Covenant
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  Speaker 1: from Indiana Jones with a Martini glass inside of it.
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  Speaker 2: So for your next costume, I recommend you wear a
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  Speaker 2: hat on top of your other hat.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I get it, but it worked out well. And
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  Speaker 1: then the other one I liked was one year the
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  Speaker 1: theme was fear fears or phobias or something like that.
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  Speaker 1: So I went as the fear of abandonment and I
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  Speaker 1: turned a big old teddy bear. I had into a backpack,
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  Speaker 1: and I dressed up like a little kid, and I
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  Speaker 1: bought a balloon and mostly deflate like a helium balloon
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  Speaker 1: and mostly deflated it and went around asking have you
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  Speaker 1: seen my mommy? Wow, I don't think I have a
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  Speaker 1: picture of that one. I do think I have a
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  Speaker 1: picture of Indiana Joan.
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  Speaker 2: Of arc Jeez. Nice to inflict psychological trauma upon others.
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  Speaker 1: I mean it was that one was literally what do
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  Speaker 1: I have? What can I pull together? Last minute? But
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was a clever, a clever, like not
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  Speaker 1: a fear everybody would necessarily go to when you go
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  Speaker 1: to a Halloween party.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, and that's.
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  Speaker 1: What I like, write botusqu do you remember your very
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  Speaker 1: first like, what is the very first Halloween costume?
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  Speaker 2: I remember?
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  Speaker 1: If you can remember.
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  Speaker 2: Any Okay, well, all right, so my mom. You've met
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  Speaker 2: my parents. My mom loved to make costumes for me
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  Speaker 2: and my little sister, so we had lots of different costumes.
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  Speaker 2: And I'll tell you one I remember for sure that
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  Speaker 2: doesn't make me cringe, because there is one that does
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  Speaker 2: make me cringe, and I'm not sharing that on here,
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  Speaker 2: but the one that doesn't make me cringe is They
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  Speaker 2: dressed me up as a Ghostbuster one year, and so
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  Speaker 2: I had a proton pack that was like a cardboard
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  Speaker 2: box that been coated with like tinfoil and had some
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  Speaker 2: LEDs poking through that actually lit up and had a
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  Speaker 2: little like you know wand that came within and everything.
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  Speaker 2: And that was one of my favorites as a kid
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  Speaker 2: because I loved the movie Ghostbusters. I was the perfect
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  Speaker 2: age to watch that movie and not completely understand everything
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  Speaker 2: that was going on because I was still a kid,
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  Speaker 2: so I did none of the Bill Murray sleeves, buckets
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  Speaker 2: stuff really made sense to me. But I loved the
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  Speaker 2: movie for its you know, creativity and everything and like
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  Speaker 2: you know lines like what about the Twinkie those? I
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  Speaker 2: thought it was the height of comedy, and so I
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  Speaker 2: was really pleased to to have that as my Halloween
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  Speaker 2: costume one year.
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  Speaker 1: I never dressed up as Ghostbusters as a kid, but
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  Speaker 1: I did at one of my lart parties. I dressed
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  Speaker 1: up as Janine. And they don't sell slimmer balloons, so
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  Speaker 1: I had to buy like a green heart balloon and
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  Speaker 1: turn it into a slimer by like taping a mouth
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  Speaker 1: and eyes on it.
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  Speaker 2: And arms on it and things like that, and then I.
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  Speaker 1: Had a little slimmer floating around with me. The first
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  Speaker 1: Halloween costume that I remember, and I think I was
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  Speaker 1: like four or five at the time. It was before
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  Speaker 1: I moved to Georgia, so I was under seven, and
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  Speaker 1: I dressed as Butterbear from the Wuzzles. But it was
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  Speaker 1: like one of those old old costumes where it's like
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  Speaker 1: the like the sheet kinda like with the plastic mask.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, where it's like it's like you're
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  Speaker 2: wearing an oversized pillow case that has the print of
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  Speaker 2: a character on it and then the plastic mask with
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  Speaker 2: the thin band of like the string of elastic that
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  Speaker 2: cuts into the back of your head.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I uh I. I loved it. I loved the Whustles.
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to find a picture of it because I
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  Speaker 1: know it existed.
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  Speaker 2: But well, I mean it's also from an era before
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  Speaker 2: there was like widespread use of the Internet or anything
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  Speaker 2: like that. So yeah, you know, it's it's like, when
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  Speaker 2: I think about stuff from my childhood, I'm amazed if
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  Speaker 2: I can even find representations online because I mean, at
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  Speaker 2: this point they're antiques, right, Like it's not or vintage.
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  Speaker 2: If you want to be kinder, they're vintage, and so
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  Speaker 2: you know it's it's unless it was something that really
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  Speaker 2: struck a chord in my generation and that there's since
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  Speaker 2: been replicas made. It can be hard to find some
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  Speaker 2: of that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I I can find a couple of the other characters,
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  Speaker 1: but I can't find I can't find butter Bear. She
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  Speaker 1: was a little yellow bear that was also a butterfly
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  Speaker 1: with little flower antenna.
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  Speaker 2: The wuzzles were for I remember this, I remember this.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the wuzzles were like you had bumble Lion, who
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  Speaker 1: was a lion, bumblebee and things like that.
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  Speaker 2: So when you were first talking about it, I had
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  Speaker 2: no memory of this whatsoever. But the more you talk
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  Speaker 2: about the more I'm like, oh wait, yeah, no, that's
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  Speaker 2: buried in there, deep in my brain. I do remember
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  Speaker 2: these things.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So there was bumble Lion. There was Ella rou
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  Speaker 1: which was an elephant kangaroo. There was Mussol that was
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  Speaker 1: a moose seal, Hoppopotamus, which I love. Topopotamus was a
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  Speaker 1: hippo rabbit, Rinonkey, and then.
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  Speaker 2: Please Please end Me, which was just a failed mishmash
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  Speaker 2: of all the most least wanted body parts of different animals, and.
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  Speaker 1: Then there was things that like there was also they
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  Speaker 1: didn't always make sense, like Brat, which was a boar dragon.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, didn't make sense, but.
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  Speaker 1: It was cute. It was a little kid's cartoon. It
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  Speaker 1: was cute.
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  Speaker 2: So we're looking forward to hearing from you, are beloved
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  Speaker 2: listeners about your favorite Halloween costumes, either in the far
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  Speaker 2: distant past or maybe the recent past, or maybe even
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  Speaker 2: what you're planning this year, if you're playing on dressing
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  Speaker 2: up for anything. I don't have any plans that relate
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  Speaker 2: to Halloween this year, so I don't have any costume plans.
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  Speaker 2: I will be taking another trip down to Orlando, but
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  Speaker 2: we're not actually doing the Halloween party over at Disney. Instead,
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  Speaker 2: we're doing the Food and Wine Festival where we're going
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  Speaker 2: to be going and trying all the different foods. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's a double Epcot trip, so we won't be Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: The last time I went to and Wine, I won
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: the cheese badge. I was so happy. We're so very sick.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: I'm planning on trying to do that too. That's one
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: of the reasons why we're doing two days is so
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: that we can try a bunch of different little things,
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: but not like feel gross afterward. We're also kinda hopeful,
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: though you know, this might be in vain, that the
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: weather will be mild enough so that we're not feeling
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: gross just walking around in the heat.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: Like, there's so many dishes that I wouldn't mind trying,
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: except that they're so heavy, and you're like, it's boiling
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: hot and incredibly humid, and if I eat that, I'm
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: gonna feel sick.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: And then if they have the Reclet, which I like Reclet,
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: but if they.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: Have it, that's the one I'm mostly thinking of.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I like Reclet. It is a stinky,
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: stinky cheese. It smells like feet, but it doesn't taste
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: like feet. It's not like rope, is it roquefort?
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: Limburger, Limburger, Like it's stinky, but it tastes like a
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: pretty much like a Swiss cheese. But yeah, it's hot,
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: and waiting in line for it is hot, and then
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: it's you get it with like bread and pickles and
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: potatoes and it's just very heavy.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, So we're hopeful that maybe it won't be
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: too brutal as far as the weather goes. We're also
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: staying at a resort that's on the World Showcase side
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: of Epcot, so that if it does get super hot
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: and we just need to escape, we can go back
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: to the hotel and rest in the air conditioning for
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: a while before we come back out. That kind of thing,
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: because I mean, as I get older, it gets harder
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: for me to endure that kind of heat and humidity.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: Even living in Georgia, it's still rough. But anyway, that
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: goes way off kilter from the Halloween stuff. Let's get
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: the show back on track now that we're twenty minutes
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: into it and talk about the stuff that we've watched
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: since our last recording. Now it's only been a week
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: by Ariel, what you've been up to.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: So I've watched a bunch of task Master because that
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: is my go to right now. I need to watch Peacemaker,
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: but it's hard when there is so much task Master.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: I'm actually I just finished, as I said, series seven,
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: so I only have six series plus the current one left,
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: and that's a little sad to me because I'm really
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: enjoying it. I'm working backwards. I have also I finished
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: season one of Wednesday and started season two and I
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: I hold like my opinion of Wednesday season one has
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: held throughout the entire season. I think that Mortitia and
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: Gomez just didn't have the spunk and the spark that
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: they needed to really feel like the Adams family. Even
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: Pugsley was missing it some and Fred Armison, who plays
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: Uncle Fester, tried to bring it in, so it felt
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: out of place when he was doing it because everybody
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: else was so low key. I think Jenna Wortega does
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: an amazing job as Wednesday. I think she plays the
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: character very well, but I felt the other characters were
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: a little uneven to meet the Adams Family vibe. I
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: also watched the first half of episode one of season two,
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: and it seems that they have made it a lot
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: more quirky. I'm enjoying the vibe a lot more so
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: I will probably stick with season two and finish it
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: out because I heard that it was better, but I
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: also heard you should watch season one and then I've
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: been watching all of the intro videos that have come
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: out with all of my co players for my actual play,
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: and it's it's humbling and inspiring to see how everybody
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: else plays and think about thinks about their characters. You know,
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: it really gives you a great idea of like, oh
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: I should think about that, or oh I like how
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: they did that. It is really cool. It is really
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: cool to see everybody else's thought processes and I'm very
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: much looking forward to it.
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: So nice.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: What about you.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: I am caught up on Peacemaker at this point, So
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: when we last recorded, episode six had just come out,
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: but I had not yet seen it. Now I've seen
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: everything up through episode seven. Episode which is the penultimate episode,
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: Episode eight, it's the finale, comes out next week. I
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: saw the trailer for episode eight, and it's very James Gunn, so,
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: like you know, James Gunn's very good at upping the
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: stakes and the threats the characters face. And so episode
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: seven ends in a way as you would expect, in
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: that things are probably about as dark as they possibly
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: can be for our characters, and episode eight will be
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: the resolution. And so I knew going into it that
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: that was probably gonna happen, but it's still kind of
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: like it was still a pretty impactful episode. I will
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: also say that there is a twist in the season,
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: sort of. I don't think it's really a twist, but
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: there's there's something that happens in the season that's a reveal,
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: and it's wild because it was something that I suspected
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: earlier in the season ended up deciding I was probably wrong,
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: and then when it was revealed, I was like, nope,
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: I was right at the beginning.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: Nice, but well, don't doubt your.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: My instincts. Yeah. I don't want to give any spoilers
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: because I think it's worth watching. But I will also
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: say the reveal it relies on a pretty heavy cheat
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: from a storytelling process, in that your point of view
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: as an audience member has been so carefully controlled that
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: there was no way for you to have necessarily noticed
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: something thing like.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: You're smart like Johnathan.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: Or you just or you just know how James Gun works, right, Like,
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: It's it's not that I'm smart, it's just I've seen
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: a James Gun movie and series.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: Before, so two things can be true, thank you.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: So yeah, anyway, I highly recommend Peacemaker if you don't
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: mind a lot of gratuitous violence and nudity, because there
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: is quite a bit of that. Although I will say again, uh,
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: the nudity has not really been a factor in the
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: the the season since episode.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Two Okay, that is good to know and a little
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: bit uh delightful, so like, but yeah, it was just
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: episode one.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Episode one has the brunt like the vast majority
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: of the gratuitous nudity, and it's it's it. Gratuitous is
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: a tough word to use because it is being used
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: for a point, there is a reason for it, but
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: it's also being used as kind of a joke. Like
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: it it's doing it's both being important to give you
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: insight into a character's mindset and the psychology of that character,
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: but it's also being used as a joke.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, like you could show that not to
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: that extreme and still get the point across. That's where
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: the gratuity comes in.
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I suppose, But then you could say the
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: same thing. So again, not to spoil anything, but like
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: there's another character in that show who goes to incredible
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: extremes in order to quote unquote feel something, and that's
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: also you could argue gratuitous, but it's not. It doesn't
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: involve nudity, involves violence. But it's essentially two sides of
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: the same coin. It's just one is kind of a
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: heatedness stick search for, you know, try to use pleasure
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: to drive out all the darkness, and the other is
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: violence to do the same sort of thing. So it's
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: two sides of the same coin, just different ways of
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: expressing it. Which, yeah, you know honestly that that becomes
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: more and more of a thing as the show goes on,
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: in the sense that, like, I feel like it's almost
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: a little heavy handed. But but depending on how much
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: you're paying attention, you might need it to be heavy handed.
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: So you're like, oh, I get it, they're the same.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, for sure, for sure. Well I do look
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: forward to catching up on it. I also in the
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: first episode that that violence was a lot for me
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: as well.
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's a rough scene. So all right,
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: well let us segue once more to talk a little
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: bit about a lot of things in our our segment
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: that we'd like to call half a minute or shorter.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: Half a minute shorter, I like it. Okay. So the
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: first story we have is news came out I guess
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: this week about an AI actor named Tillie Norwood, and
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: then there were like reports of agencies wanting to sign
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: this AI actor. There's there's not a person behind it.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: It is a fully AI creation, like Godzilla would be
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: and the union, the sag After Union, has spoken out
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: about it, saying that producers should be aware that they
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: may not use synthetic performers without complying with their contractual obligations,
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: which generally require notice and bargaining when a synthetic performer
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: is going to be used. And that is because part
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: of what the last strike it was about was not
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: banking actors' images to be able to just invoices, to
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: be able to put them in in scenes that they
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: haven't acted in. You know, they do that with like
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: they did that in Star Wars when certain actors passed
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: away and things like that. They got permission for that,
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: But then they were also doing it for like extra
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: workers and even some actors and voice actors being like
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: but they were putting in clauses where we could use
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: it for anything, like Tillie Norwood. I I understand that
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: AI is going to be a thing. It's just an
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: computer program and it can be used as a tool.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: I am not particularly interested in watching AI creatures be
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: tell me a story, right, even when you watch like
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: a Pixar movie, it's I'm going way over thirty seconds
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: for this. I didn't mean to sorry. Ah, even when
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: you watch Pixar, there's a human actor behind behind the character.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: So that's where I'm at.
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: Well in human animators too, all right, forget it. This
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: isn't thirty seconds or less anymore. This is quick discussion
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: on AI. So yeah, CGI is different from AI. CGI
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: is just like that's that's as if you were using
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: ink and paper or pen and a canvas or a
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: paintbrush in a canvas. CGI is just another tool AI.
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: Artificial creation of things takes the human artistry out of
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: the equation. You are relying on an algorithmically driven program
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: to generate something, and so I think it's you know,
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: you have to draw a line. There is a fundamental
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: difference between the things that humans create and something that's
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: AI generated. And whether it's an actor, or it's a screenplay,
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: or it's special effects like one and a lot of
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: these things, you can tell because it's just doesn't feel right,
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: you know, doesn't feel like it doesn't feel like it
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: was created with intent. But also, even as they get better,
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: let's say that it gets to a point where you
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: cannot easily distinguished between what was generated by AI and
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: what was generated by artists. You start to question, well,
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: what's art at that point if it's not, if there's
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: no human you know, anima behind it, and it's it's
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: just depressing to me. It's like, I want to see
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: the expression of actual artists. I don't want to see
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: a bunch of numbers that randomly generated this thing that
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: I see before me. Even if it was meant to be,
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: you know, tailor made to my type of preferences for entertainment,
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: I have no interest in that. And so this is
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: in the news a lot, not just because of this.
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: AI actor and other actor organizations around the world have
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: also spoken out about this, but also because I don't
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: know if you're aware. Ariel but open Ai launched an
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: AI based video sharing social platform called Sora so or.
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: This one is super disturbing to me because you can
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: use it to generate videos that include like videos, AI
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: generate videos of say, your friends doing stuff, and I'm like,
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: I don't want to appear I don't want my likeness
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: and voice to appear online doing things that I didn't do. Right,
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: I don't care if it's on a social platform that's
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: just being seen by friends of mine. If you're a
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: friend of mine, don't do that, because that's just it's
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: it's a violation. I yeah, you know, it's it's it's
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: a thing that it's like, hey, we know that deep
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: fakes are possible, how about we make it easier to
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: create them. It's such an incredibly a moral thing to
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: do that I find it deeply disturbing. And I think
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: the only thing more disturbing than that is just the
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: casual way that Open Ai launches these things in the
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: first place, because that's a company that's run by human
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: beings and they're just casually creating this stuff and putting
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: it out there, and anyone with two brain cells could
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: recognize the potential harm this stuff can can create. So
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: and I apologize for ranting about that, but I feel
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: deeply about this stuff.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: I do too, and so like I agree, Please don't
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: please don't make AI of me doing things that I
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: haven't done. Just ask me to do things with you,
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: because that is better for everybody. Right. I am lucky
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: that anytime I have played with AI and like a, oh,
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: turn me into this character. AI does not do well
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: with my face. It's almost like my face has it was.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: I was born with one of those faces that confuses AI.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: So that's great. This is not a challenge to AI.
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: Don't recreate my face. But I also just don't like
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: it being called an actor. Right, It's not an actor.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: It has no life experience or emotion to draw from,
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: you know. Not to get into a debate of whether
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: AI could ever become cognizant and have emotion. That's a
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: different thing, you know. So like, don't sign it to
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: an agency. Agencies are for real people with real life
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: experiences to give me stories, which is what I prefer.
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: It's so much there's an honesty there, and there's there's
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: a spontaneity there that you just don't get with AI.
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: I saw a TikTok video the other day of a
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: guy who was like, let me have chat GPT have
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: a conversation with itself, and within ten seconds it got
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: stuck in a loop because it's just regurgitating information and
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: if you don't give it new information, it's like what
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: do I do?
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: So, I mean, speaking of stuck in a loop, this
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: is anecdotal and this is my last thing on this.
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: This is not generative AI, but it is AI related.
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: But my partner was telling me about how she went
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: to a coffee shop to get some coffee, oddly enough,
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: and it found it impossible to get into the parking
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: lot because in the parking lot was a driverless WAYMO
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: car and it was trying to negotiate its way either
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: into or out of the parking lot. She wasn't sure,
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: but it was just like pulling in and out of
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: the same parking spot over and over and over again.
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: And so later on, like later in the week, she
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: stopped at that same coffee shop and went in and
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: started telling to the baristas and said, yeah, how long
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: was that car out there. It's like, oh, yeah, it
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: was out there for like another forty five minutes, where
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: it just it could not negotiate its way out. And
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: I think about that, and I'm like, not to paint
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: all AI with the same brush. AI is a huge,
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: huge term. It doesn't apply to just one thing. It's
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: lots and lots and lots of different stuff at different
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: degrees of autonomy. But it's an example of something where
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: I look at that and I think, we know there
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: are limitations to this technology. Why is it being pushed
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: out there into the world so recklessly when in my opinion,
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: there needs to be a lot more R and D
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: like actual testing of this tech, like extensive testing before
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: just releasing it to a world that is going to
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: have all sorts of different people putting it to all
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: sorts of different uses, some of which will be bad ones.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well we are the test apparently.
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: But that uh, that was the first part of thirty
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: seconds or less.
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: Yes, it has been thirty minutes or less.
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: Your turn, Okay, I am now wondering whether or not
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: i'll I'm sure I'll put the music behind the first
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: one anyway, just because it'll be funny, sad, all right,
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: it's fine, okay. So, the stage adaptation of the Apple
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: TV Plus series Smegadoon had a short run at the
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: Kennedy Center earlier this year, but is now headed to
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: Broadway at the Nederlanders. The inter previews began on April fourth,
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: The show's officially opening scheduled for April twentieth, just plays.
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: It's a limited engagement that will end in September, and
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: it follows the first season of the show. So that
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: means that we won't get any Schmacago shenanigans, sadly, but
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: I hope I get a chance to catch it.
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: Well, maybe on Broadway we'll even get a third season.
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: That is, if they have gotten the new actors Equity
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: contract done for Broadway actors by that time. It is
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: there is the potential that they will go on strike.
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: Their current contract, three year contract ended on September twenty eighth,
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: and they are under negotiations. One of the big ones
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: they're talking about is healthcare. They would like the union
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: to put a little bit more towards actors healthcare, and
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: I think on Broadway that's super important because you're putting
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: your body through a lot.
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: Of stress, right, and a lot of those shows are
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: marketed on specific actors, right, So like, if your show
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: is dependent upon them, those actors being in them to
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: help market it, then you need to take care of them.
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: I know. Thirty second c lass.
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: Fish all right here, No, no, no, I can't, I cannot
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: judge you.
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: Well, there's an upcoming stage adaptation of The Hunger Games
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: that's coming to the Troubadour Canary War Theater in London
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: on October twentieth and being John Malkovich's John Malkovich is
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: being President Snow in it, but he will not be
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: appearing on stage next to the other actors. His role
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: will instead appear on screen. So I imagine this means Malcovich
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: will only have to record his performance once and the
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: actors on stage will react to pre recorded performance Malviovich Malkovich.
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: So last week I said that Henry Cavill got hurt
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: training for Highlander. Well, now despite being hurt, he is
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: back to training. Collider has pictures of him that show
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: him training with a big old boot on his leg.
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: So I'm guessing he tore a muscle or something like that.
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: That's what it looks like to me.
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: Mh. Well, Henry Cavill definitely needs to heal up because
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: word is out he has a new secondary antagonist he'll
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: be facing off against in Highlander. So not only will
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: you have to fight off Dave Batista's version of the Kurgan,
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: he'll also match wits and perhaps blades with Jeremy Irons.
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: Probably not blades, because Irons is going to play the
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: leader of a group known as the Watchers, which were
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: introduced into Highland or television series they watch Immortals.
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: I'm much more fine with that than I am.
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: With Russell Crowe playing Ramirez.
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, whatever, I guess some things you can't get away with.
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: Well, I do love that in the original Highlander, you
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: had a Scotsman playing an Egyptian who who spent a
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: lot of time in Japan only to end up in
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: Spain and adopting a Spanish persona. This time we've got
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: an Australian pretending to be et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: So my hope is that that just means that they
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: really are leaning into the camp and the cultishness of
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: the original movie. I'm hoping yeah, speaking of cult movie,
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: I guess it's not really a cult movie cult success.
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: Kill Bill the Whole Bloody Affair is coming out on
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: December fifth, and really that means that they've taken Kill
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: Bill Volume one in Kill Bill Volume two, and they've
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: smushed them together, taking out the ending cliffhanger ending and
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: the recap in the second one and just putting it
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: all together. And it will also include a little animated sequence.
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: Interesting well. In July two thousand and seven, the Simpsons
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: movie hit theaters, and we now hear that twenty years later,
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: on July twenty third, twenty twenty seven, a sequel Simpsons
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: movie will hit the silver screen. According to Variety, this
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: will take the spot that previously was earmarked for an
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: untitled Marvel project. Probably not a bad idea as far
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: as that goes. No word on what the story for
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: this new Simpsons movie will be, but we do know
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: the television series has been renewed for a fortieth season. Yauza,
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: or as as Homer might say, whoo.
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: Nope, that was not a good Homer, I take it back. Okay. Next, Halo,
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: the TV show that had two seasons, is now on Netflix.
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: It's doing pretty well on Netflix, despite not doing super
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: well on its previous platform. It's currently I think number
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: four on Netflix. How many more times can I say Netflix?
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: John Malcolvic, Yeah, well, I mean good for Halo and goodbye.
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: Once upon a time we heard that Margot Robbie was
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: going to direct a more female centric intro in the
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, while another project, also in
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: the Pirates world, was in development at the same time.
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: It has been a while since we've heard about any
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: of that stuff now. Jerry Bruckheimer says that Robbie is
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: still involved in Pirates, but it's possible that the script
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: for her version of the film fell through. Where it
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: is the next film is going to be a reboot,
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: and it's possible that Depth will be back as Jack
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: Sparrow May.
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: If you're excited about that, that's great. I am not.
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: I mean, I like The Pirates as an idea. I
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: like the first movie a lot, and then things fell
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: off a cliff for me pretty quickly.
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: I didn't mind the second movie, and I think I
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: saw the third, but I have not kept up with it.
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: The only thing I liked in the second movie. It
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: didn't make any sense and it was totally fan service y,
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: and I still love did But the thing I liked
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: about the second movie was the very end where Captain
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: Barbosa walks down the stairs revealing that he's alive again
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: and he can eat an apple, And because I just
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: like Jeffrey Rush so much and I loved his performance
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: as Barbosa, so seeing him back was great. And then
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: the third movie. I definitely saw the first the first trilogy,
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: and I think I've only seen the second and third
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: movie once all the way through. I've seen the first
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: one multiple times, and.
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: So that the second one was it with Davy Jones, correct.
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: Yes, Davy Jones. Yeah, that was Davy Jones's locker. Yeah,
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: the third one was at World's End, and that was
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: the one that begins with like thirty different jack sparrows
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: lurching around and had the Council of Pirates like I
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: had a lot of other fan service moments. I didn't
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: like it very much. And I've tried watching the fourth
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: and fifth one at different times, and I honestly I
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: just could even stay with them.
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: I think I've seen on Stranger Tides. I think that's
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: the fourth one. I don't know, No, maybe that I don't.
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: I can't tell. It was the one with the Fountain
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: of Youth and Penelope Cruise. I did see that one.
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the fourth one. The fifth one is the
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: one that has uh Javier Bardem and I think, m
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: h because I think the I think the fourth one
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: has Blackbeard, right, it's got Ian McShane as black Beard.
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I think just there. It wasn't. The
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: subsequent ones weren't different enough for me to.
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: Care there was. Jenny Nicholson did a great video kind
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: of breaking down the Pirates films and why, in her opinion,
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: the first film is the only good one, and I
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: happen to agree with her. I'm not saying that her
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: opinion is the correct one. I'm just saying she and
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: I share the same opinion, and her main thing was
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: Jack Jack Sparrow worked great as a supporting character where
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: he was there for flavor. And also like no one
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: knew what Johnny Depp was going to bring to that character, right,
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: they didn't right the character to be this weird, wacky
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: kind of rock star sort of character. That's what Depp
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: brought to the part. But the problem is that once
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: he established who that character was, the writers began to
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: write the character as that and that's where it started
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: to go over the top and too much and felt indulgent.
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: And also they essentially made Jack Sparrow the protagonist. And
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: Jack Sparrow, I feel is better as a supporting character
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: because he ironically can affect the storyline much more effectively
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: as a supporting character than as a protagonist.
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: He's not Deadpool people.
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so I feel the same way she does. And
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: again I'm not saying that her opinion, in my opinion,
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: are the right ones, just that a lot of her
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: arguments I found myself agreeing with, even though I had
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: not necessarily articulated them that way.
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: Myself gotcha, Well, that is our thirty seconds or less
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: a could you tell sorry, half a minute or more.
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so let's talk about some stuff that we saw
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: that doesn't really fit our lineup. We've just got three
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: pieces this week in that section, which is that's nice.
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: Sometimes that's the longest segment of the entire show.
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: No, it's a reasonably lengthd lineup. We are just extra
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: long winded this week.
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: That's true. So first up, we have a British TV
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: series coming out on Apple TV Plus titled Down Cemetery Road,
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: and it stars Emma Thompson as a private investigator.
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I saw this trailer on you Like. It came
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: up in my YouTube feed and I was like whatever,
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: and I'm glad you put it in because I watched
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: this trailer and it's not Benoile LeBlanc levels of Zany,
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: but it genuinely made me laugh out loud at points,
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: like it looks like a really fun mystery.
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I wrote that it's a detective story that kind
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: of has a hard edge to it but still has
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: a sense of humor.
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, so it's not like Killing Eve level.
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: Dark, but it's not as silly as one of the
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: Ryan Johnson Knives Out movies.
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: As you say, yeah, yeah, it just it feels like
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: it would be a good watch, like a well balanced watch.
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: I mean, I can't fully tell from the trailer, but that's.
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: What I know from it, and it comes out on
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: Apple TV Plus on October twenty ninth. Also, I should
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: mention this is based off a novel, so this is
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: a series that is based off a book, so it's
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: not a whole original idea. But yeah, I thought the
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: trailer looked pretty intriguing.
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you know, there's a lot of BBC stuff
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: that I might want to watch, yeah, or British esque Yeah.
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Less intriguing to me is an action film called
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: Exit Protocol that stars Dolph Lundgren and Michael Jai White
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: as well as some other folks. But I wrote down
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: it's one of those assassins targeting other assassins movies.
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: It's spy versus spy plus one.
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I said. I also wrote it looks like Bullet
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: Train but less fun or expendables but probably less lame,
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: or John Wick but less good or.
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I feel like Dolph Lunggren had a
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: daughter in there, like fou Bar, but twins but triplets.
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's comes out October twenty eighth. I don't really
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: have anything more to say about it, Like it's it's
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: assassins being hired to target other Like it's one of
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: those where it's like this one assassin is retired, but
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: they are identified as being potentially dangerous, probably because of
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: something this guy knows, and so other assassins are hired
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: to take him out and the ultimately universe, yeah, because
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: he's still Flunderin. He also fought Rocky but he didn't win,
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: so uh but yeah, maybe maybe it looks to me
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: like they all team up to fight against the government. That's,
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: you know, pitting them against each other otherwise or something.
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: It's hard to say, but I can't care enough to
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: find out.
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: Uh. Yeah, I really just wanted to that entire little
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: bit to be us spoofing on names, but you had
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: so many more than me, and much better. The last
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: one we have is the thing with feathers. I'm so
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: sorry I said down Some Cherry Road was BBC because
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: as example TV, but british Ish, so this is also
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: this is not british Ish, but it's got a Britishish actor.
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: I think, Yeah, Penndic cover batches English. Yes, I don't know.
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: I was trying to connect my thoughts. That's fruitless, that's
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: a fruitless labor. Yeah, the Thing with Feathers looks like
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: it's taking a fanciful, vaguely fanciful look at loss in
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: mental health.
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a story that is largely treating with the
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: concept of grief, which has been a big thing in
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: recent years. Like there's been so many movies and shows
• 50:47
  Speaker 2: that have been dealing on the concept of grief, which
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: probably is a reflection of the world around us, like
• 50:55
  Speaker 2: often art is obviously a reflection of what's going on
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: in the world. So not for me to pontificate about
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: why we are having so many different stories that are
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: centered around the concept of grief, but this is definitely
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: one of them. It is based off a novel. It's
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: also one of those movies where the characters aren't given names,
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: like Benedic Cumberbatch's character is named Dad and his two
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: sons are Boy one and Boy two. Like we're seeing
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: a lot of that too recently, where it's a movie
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: where characters, like, the characters aren't given names, you're given
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: the idea that they're supposed to be kind of standing
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: in for more of a concept or a type like
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: an archetype. I'm getting a little tired of both of
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: these tropes. Just this looks good. I don't mean to
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: say this doesn't look good. This looks good. It looks
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: like it's very well made. It looks like it's extremely emotional.
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: But I personally am getting tired of both the trope
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: of let's not give any of our characters names instead,
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: just give them a descriptor, and let's make this all
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: about grief. I'm getting tired of both of those things.
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: I can't understand that. You know, watching movies about grief
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: can be good, but it also takes, like it's it takes,
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: it's emotionally taxing. The name thing, well, yeah, the name
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: thing I feel like is just the inner improver and
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: me box it like that's the first thing you do,
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: is you give somebody a name, but it's mine. The
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: reviews say that it's heartwarming, So my hope is that
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: this ends up being like a a positive, uplifting movie
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: by the end of it.
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: Sure again, like I'm sure it is. It's not. It's
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: not this movie's fault that I've just been overwhelmed with
• 52:53
  Speaker 2: projects that are ultimately about grief like I you go
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: back to WandaVision from years ago. You know, WandaVision ultimately
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: love yes, and WandaVision ultimately ends up being all about
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: processing grief. Yeah, and and ultimately Wanda's failure to do that.
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: But like, since then, I just feel like there's been
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: eli Oh. The movie Elle Oh is largely about grief.
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: Like spoilers, No, I'm kidding.
• 53:25
  Speaker 2: It opens up. It opens up with you seeing this
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: kid being sad because his parents are dead.
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: Okay, no, I haven't seen it, but I was joking,
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: just just to give people an overview, a little bit
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: better idea of what this movie is, at least from
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: the trailer. So Benedet Cumberbatch is a dad with you kids.
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: I think their mom is dead and he's dealing with
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: that and he ends up. I don't know if he's created,
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: created it in his mind, or for it is actually
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: a thing that is happening. They make it seem like
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: he's created in this mind, like he's connected with ravens,
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: and so there's this giant raven creature that's like, I'm
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: not leaving you. I'm your grief. I'm gonna help you
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: through it, which is why it's called the Thing with feathers,
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: Which that's interesting, Like they never show a super clear
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: picture of the raven and hole in the trailer, and
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: I think that is an interesting artistic choice, which I
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: very much like.
• 54:16
  Speaker 2: Well, I definitely think it's a good choice for a trailer.
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: Whether or not the movie does it, I don't know.
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: But if the movie does reveal the whole Crow creature,
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: it would have been a crime to show that in
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: the trailer.
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. I mean I did, legit what. I
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: put this trailer on watching TV with my husband because well,
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: we'll put on YouTube, and I was like, is this
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: the new Crow movie?
• 54:42
  Speaker 2: No, you would have known, because it would have been
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: way worse, and there would have been a lot of
• 54:47
  Speaker 2: like like like heavy metal music that you didn't recognize
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: playing in the background.
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: Fair enough, that's it for things that don't fit. Let's
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: let's go to something that makes Jonathan happy.
• 54:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, John boys, horror Hutch. Here we are, come on
• 55:03
  Speaker 2: into my horror Hutch. Y'all, we're gonna we're gonna talk
• 55:06
  Speaker 2: about some horror. Before I began, thank you, Yes, I
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: gotta get some WD forty for that sucker, uh Ariel
• 55:14
  Speaker 2: Before we get started. Did you watch trailers for any
• 55:17
  Speaker 2: of the three? Or should I just blast through these?
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: I did not. I did not watch trailers. No, Like
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: I watched some scary trailers, and I was like, I'll
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: let you pick which ones you want to put in.
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: That's fair, that's fair.
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: I watched the trailer for a Hell House. Don't ask
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: me why I don't want to watch that movie. I don't.
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: That's the series I actually really enjoy, even the bad ones.
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: I like of that.
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: I'm surprised you didn't put it in.
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: Well, because we talked about it in a previous episode,
• 55:45
  Speaker 2: So it may be that there's a new trailer out,
• 55:47
  Speaker 2: but we talked about an older one. Uh, and I
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: just didn't come across it. But what I did see
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: was I saw a trailer for VHS Halloween. So if
• 55:56
  Speaker 2: you are somehow unfamiliar with the VHS horror franchise, it's
• 56:00
  Speaker 2: been around for a while. Actually, someone we know was
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: in one of them. Actually a couple people I know
• 56:07
  Speaker 2: were in some of them. But the VHS series, it's
• 56:10
  Speaker 2: an anthology horror story franchise, and typically the way the
• 56:17
  Speaker 2: films work is you've got a framing device story that
• 56:20
  Speaker 2: usually involves people coming across a bunch of VHS tapes
• 56:23
  Speaker 2: and then they watch them, and each VHS tape has
• 56:25
  Speaker 2: a different horror film in it. So this one, VHS
• 56:31
  Speaker 2: Halloween has a framing device, plus five distinct stories. And
• 56:38
  Speaker 2: all the VHS movies vary in quality. Some of them
• 56:42
  Speaker 2: very like some of them you just don't get any
• 56:45
  Speaker 2: really good entries. But some of them are like, oh,
• 56:47
  Speaker 2: like two of these five were pretty darn good, or
• 56:51
  Speaker 2: maybe even one of these was really good. But I
• 56:54
  Speaker 2: don't think I've ever seen one where they all knocked
• 56:56
  Speaker 2: it out of the park. This one is now a vail.
• 57:00
  Speaker 2: It's on Shutter, came out today as we record this.
• 57:04
  Speaker 2: We're recording this on October third. I hope to have
• 57:08
  Speaker 2: it out shortly thereafter, but I have sometimes been slow
• 57:12
  Speaker 2: to get these edited and published. But yeah, it's out
• 57:14
  Speaker 2: now on Shutter if you have that. Also, I will
• 57:17
  Speaker 2: say Rick Baker, the legendary visual effects like makeup effects
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: and creature effects guy. He is in this as he
• 57:28
  Speaker 2: plays a character in one of the segments. Next up
• 57:32
  Speaker 2: we have we Bury the Dead, which is a zombie movie.
• 57:36
  Speaker 2: The most notable thing about it is it starring Daisy Ridley,
• 57:41
  Speaker 2: she was ray in the Star Wars sequels, you know, seven,
• 57:44
  Speaker 2: eight nine, And in this movie, the dead begin to animate.
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: And originally, you know, first off, they are slow and docile,
• 57:56
  Speaker 2: so the government is essentially claiming that these animated dead
• 58:01
  Speaker 2: are harmless, they poise no threat. But Daisy Ridley's character
• 58:08
  Speaker 2: is looking for her missing husband, and as she is
• 58:10
  Speaker 2: searching for him, she discovers that as time goes on,
• 58:15
  Speaker 2: the dead get less docile. They become a bit more feisty.
• 58:18
  Speaker 2: And by the way, here's a big surprise. This movie
• 58:22
  Speaker 2: deals with the concept of grief an anyway, It's coming
• 58:28
  Speaker 2: out in theaters here in the United States on January second,
• 58:32
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty six. And then the third one that I
• 58:34
  Speaker 2: have on my list is called Psycho Killer Kescasse. It's
• 58:39
  Speaker 2: a story that follows a police officer who is seeking
• 58:42
  Speaker 2: out the murderer who brutally killed her husband, who is
• 58:46
  Speaker 2: a state patrolman. Turns out this murderer is a serial killer.
• 58:50
  Speaker 2: And I'm getting some vibes from Seven from this trailer,
• 58:54
  Speaker 2: like it's feeling very similar to the film Seven. The
• 58:58
  Speaker 2: marketing material is extremely quick to point out that two
• 59:01
  Speaker 2: of the producers on this film also were producers on
• 59:05
  Speaker 2: Weapons and Barbarian, But I would like to remind you
• 59:08
  Speaker 2: producers are money people, they are not creatives. Sometimes they
• 59:12
  Speaker 2: can interfere with creatives, but just because the producer is
• 59:15
  Speaker 2: involved with multiple projects doesn't mean that they're that similar.
• 59:19
  Speaker 2: Malcolm McDowell plays a supporting character in this and that's
• 59:22
  Speaker 2: kind of interesting. It comes out February twentieth, twenty twenty six,
• 59:27
  Speaker 2: and so since we're talking about a storyline where a
• 59:31
  Speaker 2: cop is seeking out her husband's killer, my guess is
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: this movie's gonna deal with grief and that's it. That's
• 59:40
  Speaker 2: it for me. From John Boys Horror Hutch.
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: From John Boys Horror Hutch, let me close that door
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: for you.
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was worse. Didn't get the WD fourty yet?
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: No you can't because it is not a scary Hutch.
• 59:57
  Speaker 2: No, No, that's that's true. Yeah. Well, well, moving on
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 2: to shows that are actually or films that are actually
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 2: in our lineup. First up, we got a new trailer
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 2: for Guermo del Toro's Frankenstein and Ariel saw this one
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 2: immediately sent it to me. So since you were excited
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 2: by this, why don't you talk a little bit about
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 2: what goes into this trailer.
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so like you're like, but you already talked about
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: the deser in the official trailer Ariel and Jonathan, why
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: would you put another one in? You say, you try
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: not to do that, and that is right. However, the
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: previous trailer for this movie is told narratively from the
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: viewpoint of Victor Frankenstein. The new trailer is told narratively
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: from the viewpoint of the Monster, and I think that
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: that is really cool. So we get one trailer from
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: each side of the story. I mean, I was already
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: excited about this movie because it looks maybe a little
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: bit closer to the book than some other iterations we've had,
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: But I really like that choice.
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I also thought it was interesting that the Monster
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 2: implies at least that he can access memories belonging to
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 2: multiple people because he himself is made up of the
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 2: body parts of multiple people.
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it doesn't look like it's going to be an
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: exact the story because of that, And it also looks
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: like maybe there is a love interest.
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 2: For him possibly. Tell I'm not gonna go too deeply
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 2: into that because then it gets me into the stage
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 2: adaptation of Frankenstein that Benedict Cumberbatch was in I was
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 2: told not to watch that, so you should not watch that.
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 2: It's very upsetting in parts. But yeah, this looks I mean,
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 2: it looks really lush and really like. The horror elements
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 2: are really dialed up. It's Kiermo del Toro. You would
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 2: expect nothing less. It comes out in limited release on
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 2: October seventeenth, but it will premiere on Netflix on November seventh.
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 2: If you recall, well, this was a movie that originally
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 2: was just going to go straight to Netflix, and then
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 2: people started to demand that Netflix do a theatrical release
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 2: for it, and now that's happening. So my response to
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 2: all of you demanders out there is you better go
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 2: out and see this movie, because if you're gonna ask
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 2: for it to happen, you gotta follow through. Don't make
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 2: this be another Snakes on a Plane people.
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I did go see Snakes on a Plane
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: in the theater.
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 2: And then you do the song at karaoke.
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: This song is the best part of the movie.
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 2: That There is no argument here.
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: I did not enjoy that movie, but I really like
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: the Snakes on a Plane song from Cobra Starship. Yeah,
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: the next thing we have. Is this I guess could
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: have gone into Jonathan's Horror hutchcnically, but we didn't put
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: it there. It is a trailer for R. El Stein's
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: Pumpkin Head.
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I didn't put this in my horror hutch because
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 2: you know, Ralstein primarily rights for younger readers, like young adults,
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 2: and I like my horror hutch to be for big
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 2: boy horror movies. And I'm being very facetious, so please
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 2: don't get on to be about saying big boy there.
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 2: But yeah, I didn't put there because I thought of
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 2: this more as like a gateway horror movie. I think
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 2: of certain movies being kind of geared toward like teenage viewers,
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 2: maybe somewhere in that realm, and how those can be
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 2: kind of an entry point for horror for certain folks.
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 2: So when I was a kid, the movies that kind
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 2: of got me into horror were stuff like Gremlins and
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 2: The gate like that kind of thing, And there are
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 2: every few years we get other movies that kind of
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 2: fall into that. This feels like that to me. I
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 2: have never read any R. L. Stein books. I'm not
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 2: a Stein officionado, but this trailer looked kind of interesting,
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 2: like it. It has some very tropy bits in it,
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 2: but it still looked it still looked like it's done
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 2: fairly well, especially for a to Be original because this
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 2: is just this is You can watch it for free
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 2: on to.
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: Be Yeah, honestly, it looked kind of actually scary to me.
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Like it looks pretty intense for something that's geared
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 2: toward younger. Like when I say younger, I am talking
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 2: like maybe thirteen, fourteen years old, somewhere in that range.
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I yeah, it does look like it's a really
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: good quality for a two B movie for sure.
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 2: So yeah, the story is pretty simple. Family goes to
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 2: this small town like has like a harvest festival type thing.
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 2: They noticed that some of the towns people are acting
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 2: a little odd. They appear to be worshiping a scarecrow figure,
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 2: very pagan issue, and that there's a grouchy old man
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 2: who jealously guards a disgusting looking pumpkin. And then this
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 2: jerkface kid. It's clearly here's another trope. It's the kid
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 2: who's clearly dealing with something, and the way this kid
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 2: deals with it is by acting out like he's he's
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 2: a bad He acts out like a bad kid. He's
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 2: probably not ultimately a bad kid, because that's the way
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 2: these movies work out, but that he acts like a
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 2: bad kid because of something. You know, it probably has
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 2: something to do with an absent father figure, because we
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 2: don't see a dad in this bit, and these movies
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 2: stories tend to be pretty heavy handed with that stuff.
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 2: But the kid ends up stealing the pumpkin and thus
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 2: precipitates the rest of the action. You find out it's
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 2: very Twilight Zone ish in this little town. Not really
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 2: my Bag, but it does come out October seventeenth. It's
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 2: on two B, so you can watch it for free
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 2: once it's out.
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: Speaking of not Someone's Bag, we got a season two
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: for trailer for Has Been Hotel, which I tried season one.
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: I've got a lot of friends who really love it,
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: but it just the humor did not hit for me.
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 2: Neither the humor, nor the music, nor the characters work
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 2: for me. And you know, like the things that bother
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 2: Ariel are not the same things that bother me. Like
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 2: we are two different people with two different sensibilities, but
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 2: in this case we both agree. Like, I don't see
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 2: what the I honestly could not understand what the hype
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 2: was for this series. I guess some people just really
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 2: they like the music style and they like the art style,
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 2: and maybe they just like obnoxious characters who are terrible
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 2: to each other. But for me, I was just like,
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 2: none of this is hitting.
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, like it was. It was raunchy humor, but it
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: wasn't clever to me. Yeah, it was just put in
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 1: and oh yeah, it just didn't hit for me. The
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: original appeal for me was one I love musical television,
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: like Gallivant, like Schmigadoons, so I was excited for something
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: else along those lines. And they were using Broadway singers
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: in the show, so I loved that. Stephanie Beatriz is
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: in it. She's the voice of I don't know if
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: she's done Broadway, but she certainly has done musical movies.
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: She was the main character in Enconto. Ah Beatlejuice is
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: in it. H thank you. Yes. I was like Adam Leavin, no,
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: that is not correct. But there's a whole bunch of
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: Broadway singers in it, so that was very exciting to me.
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: And then the execution just I have friends who will
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: fight me tooth and nail on this, but they're like,
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 1: but it's so good and it does this, and it
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: does this, and it does this. I'm like, that's all fine,
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: I don't enjoy the journey.
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe it may be the kind of story that
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 2: appeals to people who have just very different life experience
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 2: than the two of us have. Right, So, for example,
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 2: you know, I don't identify as queer, but I know
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 2: lots of my friends who do have elements of this
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 2: show that they really connect to, and that's just a
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 2: point of view. I don't. I have a lot of
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 2: empathy for them, but I don't have that life experience.
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 2: So it's very possible that that's like, it's just literally
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 2: that it's not for us, which is fine, that's yeah,
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 2: you know, and it's fine for people to like it.
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 2: It just totally didn't work for either of us for
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 2: different reasons, or probably a lot of the same reasons. Anyway.
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 2: Season two is coming out October twenty ninth on Amazon Prime.
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 2: So if you are someone who really digs has been Hotel,
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 2: first of all, that's awesome. I love what you love.
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 2: Second of all, you got more of it coming by
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 2: the end of this month.
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I will say, like, I also don't identify
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: as queer, but I do enjoy stories, those stories that
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: are told. Again, it was the x Secution, it was.
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it didn't work for me either, but yeah again, anyhow,
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 2: we both know people who just absolutely love it, and
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 2: yes we don't. We don't let them into our lives anymore.
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 2: We've shut them out.
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: We love those people. Shoot, we love those people.
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 2: I need to make some calls.
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: What have you been doing? Yes you should.
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 2: Let's just get through the rest of the show.
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: Okay, okay, uh so tailor kid Boo, my tongue got
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: twisted trying to talk about the next trailer, which is
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: for Twisted Wonderland. It wasn't on purpose, but it was
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: kiss Met I guess.
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so I did not know this before I started
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 2: looking into it. But this is based off a turn
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 2: based game, uh that that has been out for a while,
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 2: And so this is an anime series that is set
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 2: in a world that has a magic school that it
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 2: seems to be incredibly similar to a certain magic school
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 2: about you know, pig Boils and I'm sorry Hogwarts. Anyway,
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 2: this particular magic school has seven distinct houses, each of
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 2: which is centered around a classic Disney villain. So those
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 2: villains include the Queen of Hearts, who is the central
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 2: figure for the first bit of the series, the evil
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 2: Queen from Snow White, Ja'afar, scar Ursula, Maleficent, and Hades.
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah it, so, I said, as soon as because you
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: put this trailer on here, as soon as I saw it,
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 1: I sent it to our mutual friend Jen because she
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 1: also loves Disney greatly and also likes a lot of
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 1: like those anime shows that have a similar vibe. And
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: what I said, I was like, I sent this to
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 1: you because it reminded me of Disney's Descendants, which is
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 1: a Disney Plus TV show about the children of famous villains,
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 1: meets the Orian host Club, which is an anime about
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: and a manga about a private school. And she was like,
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 1: that is exactly what I thought to it. I'm so excited.
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: So yes, not necessarily new ground anywhere, but it could
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 1: be a lot of fun.
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, So this comes out in October twenty ninth, which
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 2: is a pretty crowded date at this point with all
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 2: the stuff we've been talking about. But yeah, it definitely
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 2: looks very stylized. Didn't look like something that I'm going
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 2: to really get into, but I can totally see how
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 2: people would be jazzed about it. So yeah, check out
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 2: the trailer if you're curious. We also got a full
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 2: trailer for Zootopia too. I don't really have anything to
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 2: say about this one though, other than to say it
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 2: just shows how, you know, Nick and Judy are investigating
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 2: pursuing an investigation while essentially against orders.
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. It looked heartwarming, it looked fun.
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 1: It made me laugh. There were little bits in it
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: that made me laugh. I wasn't gonna go see Zootopia too,
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: but I think I am going to go see Zouotopia too.
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 2: I enjoyed the first one well enough. I mean, it's
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 2: got some elements in it that I find irritating, but overall,
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 2: I enjoyed the movie. This one comes out November twenty sixth,
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 2: so I'll probably see this one too.
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: Cool. What about Charlotte's Web?
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 2: All right? So this is a three episode mini series
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 2: that's coming to HBO Max and it comes out of
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 2: Sesame Workshop. I'm a sucker for the nineteen seventy three
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 2: animated film So Good. I love it.
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 1: It was so good. I don't think I'd ever watch
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 1: it again, but I loved it.
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 2: Templeton the rat is fantastic in that one. I think
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 2: it's Paul Lynd. It does the voice for him. But
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 2: it's it's such a it's such a good adaptation. This
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 2: looks like it's very sweet. It looks the animation style
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 2: is very cute. The voice cast has some great folks
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 2: in it, like Amy Adams, Randall, Park Rosario Dawson, Elijah Wood,
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 2: Gene Smart. So, you know, really interesting and strong voice cast.
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 2: But I I'm cool with the nineteen seventy three version.
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 2: That's that's no aspersions to this one. It looks like
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 2: it's really well done. I just I'm like, well, I
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 2: already have a really good adaptation.
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but it.
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 2: Looks it looks like it's it's made with a lot
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 2: of love, and it's already available. It's available now on
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 2: HBO Max.
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 1: You know, I think I feel the same way as you.
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 1: I love that some of the classics that I enjoyed
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 1: growing up. Even though I don't like spiders now and
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 1: I don't like animal stories, Charlotte's Web does hold a
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 1: a warm place in my heart, and specifically Templeton, like,
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: anytime I hear a voice like Paul Lin's, I amase
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 1: it even if it's not him, I immediately think of
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 1: Templeton from Charlotte's Web, right, But you're right this it
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: is also a cartoon, So the original cartoon I think
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 1: holds up well enough that it didn't need to be remade.
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 1: But maybe it's just because it's a new release. I
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 1: don't mind it. It looks really cute.
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, and I can understand like some kids
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 2: kind of are reluctant to watch things that are older
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 2: just because it doesn't follow the same kind of art
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 2: style and format that they're accustomed to, which I guess,
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 2: you know that's legitimate. It's not like I don't seek
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 2: out a lot of stuff from say the fifties and sixties,
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 2: Like you know, I'm not going to go watch classic westerns,
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 2: but I do like postmodern westerns, So I get it.
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 2: Like i've I think it's just a natural way. So
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 2: I understand the need to do new adaptations to introduce
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 2: people to works that otherwise they might not bother consuming,
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 2: whether it's the original novel or the nineteen seventy three
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 2: adaptation or whatever. So yeah, no objections here. But again,
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 2: I feel like my version's always going to It's kind
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 2: of like Willy Wonka. My version is always going to
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 2: be the seventies one.
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I agree. Last thing we have is Reading Rainbow.
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 2: It is coming back, yes, but not with LeVar Burton.
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 1: No, this time it is with.
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 2: Oh my god, I had his name, Michael Threats.
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 1: Michael Threats, who is a librarian who is famous on
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 1: TikTok and does a lot of literacy advocacy and mental
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 1: health advocacy, and so he will be hosting this new show.
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 1: The trailer for it. NBC News posted a trailer for
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 1: it that was also shared I believe on Instagram. It
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 1: looks absolutely darling. I am super into this and I
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 1: wish I had kids so I had a better excuse.
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 2: To watch it. Yeah, it's It premieres on October fourth
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 2: on YouTube, so by the time you hear the show,
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 2: it'll either be almost out or totally out. So yeah,
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 2: it's it's exciting to see it come back. LeVar Burton
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 2: tried to bring back Reading Rainbow several years ago, but
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  Speaker 2: ran into some copyright dispute issues with the the PBS
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  Speaker 2: station that first essentially launched Reading Rainbow, so they didn't
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  Speaker 2: really get as far as even though there was a
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  Speaker 2: huge crowdfunding support for it, it didn't get to take off.
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  Speaker 2: This is a fully you know, licensed piece of work
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  Speaker 2: that's coming out. It's kind of sad LeVar Burton is
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  Speaker 2: not a part of it. I hope that it's going
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  Speaker 2: on with his blessing, but at the same time, Threetz is,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's impossible to argue threats. Is very much
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  Speaker 2: a strong advocate for reading and for mental health. Like,
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  Speaker 2: even though I'm not on social I've seen some of
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  Speaker 2: his stuff and I've always been impressed with how he
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  Speaker 2: presents himself and how frank and honest he is with
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  Speaker 2: his own mental health challenges. So I think it'll be
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  Speaker 2: I think it'll be a really valuable piece of educational
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  Speaker 2: entertainment out there, And like Sesame Street, it's one of
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  Speaker 2: those things I think has a needed place out there
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  Speaker 2: in the world.
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  Speaker 1: I agree. I agree he's going to have celebrity guests
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  Speaker 1: and readers for books, which is cool. He is not
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  Speaker 1: as polished as LeVar Burton, Like he's not an actor, right,
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  Speaker 1: so his delivery is not as polished as bar Burdens
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  Speaker 1: was from what I have seen this far, but it
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  Speaker 1: is very like our honest and charming so I like it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's it. That's that's our lineup this week. So no,
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  Speaker 2: we're not doing another two hour plus episode today.
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  Speaker 1: No. No, I'm actually surprised it's so short because when
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  Speaker 1: we were watching it originally, I was like, oh, this
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  Speaker 1: is going to be forever when.
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  Speaker 2: I was watching o'clock. Yeah, that's because our first thirty
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  Speaker 2: seconds are less. Went on for ten minutes. But I'm sorry, no,
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  Speaker 2: it's okay.
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  Speaker 1: I'll go put myself in the long winded corner. Okay, Okay, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: So thank you all for listening. Thank you, thank you
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  Speaker 1: all for being awesome and nerdy, and Jonathan if they
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 1: want to reach out about the things that we've talked about,
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 1: how did they do that to talk to you?
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  Speaker 2: Okay? So I've decided that what I'm doing is I'm
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 2: generating an AI version of myself, And so all you
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 2: have to do is find the website where the AI
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 2: Jonathan is hosting and ask your question. I do recommend
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 2: you get there early because that AI Jonathan is going
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 2: to be trained on whatever people say to him, and
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 2: we all know the Internet people are going to be
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 2: saying some truly terrible things. So if you want to
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 2: hear the closest thing to actual Jonathan's response. You need
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 2: to get there fast because by the time you get there,
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 2: if you drag your feet at all, it's going to
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 2: be some sort of alternate universe monster Jonathan version who
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 2: enjoys kicking puppies and spitting on old people. So I
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 2: would recommend you know, if you really need to ask
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 2: me a question, you get on it and find that
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 2: Ai Jonathan out there. And here's another hint. He might
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 2: be speaking span.
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  Speaker 1: guys again, and until next time, I am Ariel, I
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