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Trekcast Supplemental: Best New Sci-Fi of 2023 · Star Trek Podcast: Trekcast

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  Track the Galaxy's most Unpredictable Star trek Podcast. There we are. I love
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  that music. I love that music. It's a fun song. It is
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  it is fun song. Welcome to trick Cast. Absolutely. Yeah. How's
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  it going? Man? Good? Good? Uh? Just for those watching,
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  this is a supplemental So it's not a real show. I guess it's
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  just the two of us. No, it's just a fake shows, a
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  fake show. Right. We can't do a real show without without Dan exactly
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  exactly. Yeah, he's the he's what is he the glue that holds us
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  together? Or that sounds about right? That sounds about right. Okay,
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  although we literally could not do this show without you, right, that's true.
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  I mean you know yeah, if you ever like walked off of a
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  cliff, yeah, I guess Trek Cast would just die. It would just
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  end, it would stop. Yes, So we need to we need to
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  protect the Daniel. That's right. Let's keep him safe. I'm the servant,
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  the dog catcher. Chad Biz Chas bissays the dog catcher. He also
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  says good morning, yeah Horne Chas Biz Yeah. Yeah, oh man,
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  So how was your week? What did you do well? So yesterday we
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  had a little friend miss get together the party for the friends. Yeah yeah,
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  so we did a little uh white elephant gift exchange something you might know
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  it as a Yankee swab. Yeah so uh yeah, and uh played a
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  little bit of a movia movie trivia. We do a we do a game.
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  So on the Adam Carolla Show that I used to listen to, they
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  do a couple of movie trivia games. One's Throtten Tomatoes game where you have
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  to guess the score of the of the movie, and the other one was
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  called Totally Topical t Bow Trivia Time Today, and that's the game we played
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  yesterday. And that's where I read off the description of the movie until somebody
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  figures out what movie I'm talking about and they chime in m okay, and
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  then you know, whoever gets the most points win. So played a little
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  bit of that. That was fun. Had had a pasta bar and oh
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  yeah yeah we uh it was like a pot luck for ours, okay cool.
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  I was so busy running other errands that I didn't have time to make
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  anything or go get anything, so literally, I just bought a bucket of
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  chicken from Popeyes and brought that. That's perfect. It was such a hit
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  I would I got at all. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Everyone was
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  just like, oh my god, you brought chicken. Yeah right right.
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  They were like, yes, I planned this the entire time. Yeah,
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  oh that's great, that's great. And it was like talking about, oh
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  yes, I paint hestakingly made this and it took so long, like just
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  kind of bragging about the recipes. Like everybody's still talking about the chicken.
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  Yeah that's great. Yeah. We usually have it a couple of weeks before
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  Christmas. It's far enough away where you know, people haven't gotten crazy pulling
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  their hair out with last minute Christmas stuff. But we all did decide though
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  that Popeyes is much better than the Colonel. We don't. I mean,
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  the only time I ever have Popeyes is every once in a while. I'll
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  have it when I'm when I'm on the road when I'm driving my semi.
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  But we don't have a Popeyes nearby. So we have something called Lee's Famous
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  recipe that's probably something you guys don't have out there, and it is a
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  really I think it is a regional thing and it's it's like a KFCA,
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  only way better. Okay, So yeah, yeah, with the cole Slaw,
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  and then and the mashed potatoes and yeah, so now I'm getting hungry,
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  right, We've got so much leftover pasta? Oh my god. Yeah.
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  Uh so we bought I bought like three bags of like giant bags of
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  salad, and only about half of it. Half of one bag i't eaten.
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  This is what happens when we start talking about food. People start talking
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  about it too. People start shiving in for us. That's great. Yeah,
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  people start driving it. I love it. I love it. All
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  right, Well, let's let's get to the news. I actually have some
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  news stories for us. Awesome, let's do it. Star Trek News.
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  Okay, so our first news story comes to us from CNBC. And I
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  don't know if you've seen these rumors, but they are quite swirling around and
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  it sounds like, uh, some things might be changing at Paramount and early
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  talks are allegedly underway to bundle Paramount Plus with Apple TV. Yeah no,
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  I didn't hear that one. Yeah, so this is not a for sure
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  thing, but it is going around and apparently it made the stock prices for
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  both Apple and Paramount jump on Friday. That's when the rumors started getting out.
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  And the idea is Apple TV and Paramount are kind of like lower tier
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  compared to like Disney Plus and Netflix, so help each other. And also
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  they kind of have different target groups because they were saying that Apple TV is
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  more like prestige television and like goes after big awards, whereas Paramount is more
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  just general audiences and they have a great big back catalog that does not have
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  So they really do compliment each other. So, Okay, I've been thinking
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  about getting Apple TV because I've heard great things about for All Mankind. Yeah,
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  I've heard that too, So I did the free trial. This is
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  funny. This came out because earlier this week I did the free trial of
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  Apple TV because I wanted to watch the Monarch Show and I didn't know this
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  about their free trial. You only get to see the first episode of one
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  of each show. Oh so you can't like binge. No. They on
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  the getting Smart They yeah smart. Yeah, and it's and there's a big
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  pop up you when you click on se An episode two. It's like,
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  all right, we'll pay for it. Oh wow. Yeah, they're they're
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  catching on. I mean there used to be like HBO used to have a
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  free trial, a month long free trial, and people would just you know
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  what, like when the when the Snyder cut came out paper like, all
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  just get the free trial, and you know they'd have it for a month
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  and then Binge watched Everything DC and you know Max got wise to that.
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  Yeah, I think Apple, you can only watch like a little bit of
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  the movie, like the first ten minutes or something, then its off.
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  Yeah, okay, yeah, it's nuts man. So we don't know what
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  the new price would be of the bundle if it even happens. We don't
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  know when it would happen. I'm guessing next year, but the estimates are
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  it would be cheaper than getting the two on their own, which makes sense,
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  right, So yeah, there's one more streaming service I'm probably going to
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  get sucked into. Well, you know, if we got you on the
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  show, the show will then pay for it, right, exactly, exactly,
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  all right, And then our next new story comes to us from Entertainment
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  Weekly. This is kind of a big deal because we've talked about it so
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  much, but we now have officially the SAG after union has ratified their contract,
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  so thank goodness. Yeah, so they're they're going back to work officially
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  for sure. And it's done roughly seventy eight percent of the voters voted in
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  favor and they only had thirty eight percent turnout, So yeah, that's kind
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  of interesting. That is interesting. Yeah, that much higher turn out to
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  authorize the strike vote than the actual strike you know, agreement. So I
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  wonder what that said. I'm sure that says something. I'm just not sure
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  what it says. But you know, from what I've read online, there
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  are a lot of people feeling very defeated and didn't even bother to vote,
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  So I'm guessing that's what it is. They still think that the AI protections
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  are not good enough. But now you know, I've read a little bit
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  about that too, and I kind of tend to agree because they left a
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  lot out in the open. Yeah, but yeah, and apparently the union
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  is telling them, well, we'll go back in three years and we'll we'll
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  fight for it. Then well it's too late at that point, right right.
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  Well, like it's like Dan said the last time we talked about it,
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  you know, once you let that slip in, uh huh, then
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  you're never going to get it out right, so right, And I you
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  know, I've dealt with unions too, and that's that's true. Once Once
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  they get something past you, it's hard to get it out. Yeah.
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  So yeah, so I mean it's good for us in a way, and
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  that like, yeah, that means the strange world is going to get starty
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  getting shooting soon. So yeah, that's that's true. That's true. We're
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  all happy, I mean, all the the audience members, all the consumers
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  of the product are happy. We're glad to have this behind us, you
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  know, because we're part of this too. I mean, the people who
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  are consuming this, this product, they are very much a part of this,
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  right, so right, you know it affects us, Yeah, absolutely,
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  But yeah, so there you go. And then our last news story
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  comes to us from Yahoo Entertainment. Bit of sad news for US Star Trek
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  fans. But it looks like Playmates has canceled their Star Trek Action figure line.
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  They say that sales have not been good and so they are dropping it
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  like a bad habit. This is now this second toy company in recent years
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  to drop Star Trek Action figures. McFarland Toy's did release two figures years ago
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  and stopped after that. Then the license went to Playmate and Planmates is done.
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  Now that doesn't mean we won't get any Star Trek toys, just action
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  figures, right right, playmates will still really ships and what they call role
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  playing items, so like phasers and Troy quarters and things like that. But
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  also looks like Super seven has stopped their line, their reaction line of Star
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  Trek figures, those were apparently not selling, and it looks like only was
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  it EVO six XO six will continue with their with their figures. Those are
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  the really high end, similar to like a sideshow collectibles, like the five
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  dollars, really nice figures, super detailed, super detailed, particulated, so
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  those look like will continue. And then also another company, I forget the
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  name of them, Hya Toys, will continue. They have the Trek license
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  the movie ones, so Christoper, you're Chris bying Kirk and all those guys.
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  Okay, that was so far looked like they will continue, but it's
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  not guaranteed. So yeah, I'm surprised that it lasted as long as it
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  did. I mean, I I have a small you know, I have
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  a collection of of the figures, but to be honest with you, I
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  haven't bought one. Yeah, in a very long time. I don't collect
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  them anymore. And you know, when I when I go by the toy
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  section at a Walmart or Meyer or whatever store, you don't see a lot.
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  You don't see a lot of figure, you know, figures in general.
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  Like I didn't even know that was still really a thing. My kids
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  have never collected figures of anything. But then again, kids nowadays don't really
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  they don't really buy or ask for toys anymore. It's more electronics. It's
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  video games, it's accessories to the video games and things like that. So
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  it doesn't surprise me that playmates were it. Yeah, I do, you
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  know, discontinue making them. But that's also you know, that's that's that's
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  a good news bad news kind of thing, because you know, the bad
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  news is they're not going to be making anymore. But for collectors, the
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  good news is they're not going to be making them anymore. Right, So
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  that's that's what Awol says. You know, do you think the prices will
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  go for the money bay, That's hard to say, man. They the
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  problem is like these you have maybe two waves of New Star Trek figures.
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  They're half waves, right, They didn't do all of like one crew in
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  a wave, like they were saying, only partial of the Prodigy Crew got
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  released, So it's hard for a collector. It's hard for a collector.
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  They want everything, I know, like myself. I went to the Target
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  store here in town. They had them for maybe a week, and they
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  didn't sell and they were on clearance right away. Do you remember what the
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  original price point was? I think they were like twelve bucks, Okay,
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  all right, something like that. I don't think the older ones are going
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  for a whole lot. Anyways, I was at a comic I was at
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  a comic con maybe a couple of years ago, and I remember looking at
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  the finding a booth with like the old original Star Trek the next generation Playmates
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  I think figures, and I mean the prices they were charging for them were
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  pretty close to original retail. Yeah, he could buy him for eight bucks,
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  yeah, eight dollars. Yeah. And I've got all the ones that
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  I've got are all out of the box. They're all missing everything. The
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  couple of things that I do have that I'm kind of proud of. I've
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  got three different versions of Jordi, two of which have removable visors, but
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  again, all mine are out of the box. I I actually display mine,
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  and you know, so I and I have the back, the the
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  like the package back into some of them. But you know, I'm not
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  a I'm not like a true collector of them. I just like to,
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  you know, play with him. Abol says he's got an Insurrection Starfleet Type
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  two Phaser and a TG Trick Harder. So that's cool. Oh yeah,
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  yeah yeah, but yeah, man, I it sucks. It sucks they're
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  not going to sell him. It sucks that they didn't sell to begin with,
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  you know. So yep, it is what it is. But I
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  had the original Bridge play set. Yeah, they might release some playsets,
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  they said, some revamped you know, recolored, right. But when I
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  was a kid, I also love to destroy things and take things apart.
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  So you know, I've got like a wall of that placeet left and the
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  rest is completely gone or lost. So see. And my thing is,
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  I was not into Star Trek as a kid. I didn't get into Start
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  Trek until like I was like twenty okay, so for me, like it
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  was I never had the toys. Yeah. I was actually talking to a
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  buddy of mine yesterday at the party and he's a huge Star Trek guy,
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  has always been and grew up with it, and he didn't have a lot
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  of the toys either. It just it wasn't a toy you play with.
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  It was just a show you watch, right, right, Yeah, it's
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  you know, I've got a friend that tried, he said, he tried
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  to get into Star Trek. Now, I've been friends with him since kindergarten.
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  Yeah, his name is Mark, and he's actually the one that got
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  me through somebody he knew. He's the one that got me all the Star
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  Trek a big giant box of Star Trek toys from a fan of good friend
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  of his that passed away. And he told he was having a conversation with
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  me about you know, when he was a kid and him and his brother
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  used to you know, they would play Ghostbusters and Star Wars and stuff.
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  They tried to play Star Trek and it was like for a kid, there
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  was not much to do. Yeah, let's have diplomacy, right exactly.
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  So it's a lot easier to swing lightsabers around and you know shoot a proton
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  pack that it is to you know, number one set of course for Verdian
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  three, right right, yeah, yeah, And from that point of view,
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  I get it. Yeah, but yeah, I you know, it
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  sucks, but it is what it is yep. All right, Well let's
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  get to our main topic. Fun will now commit. All right, So
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  our main topic is, since it's supplemental, we're gonna be talking about the
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  best news sci fi for twenty twenty three, either shows or movies. We're
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  just gonna kind of talk about what we've seen. We've got a couple of
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  lists to kind of help us out here. There's a lot out there.
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  I have not seen everything. I don't know about you. Oh, I
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  haven't seen hardly. I don't get a chance to see a whole lot of
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  I've you know, some of the main Star Wars stuff. I've seen some
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  of the main DC stuff I've seen. But I'm not as deep of a
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  sci fi geek as as some people are, right, So I don't I
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  don't dive as deep. But what what? What? What are some of
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  the things you wanted to bring up? Well, let's let's kind of good.
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  We'll go through what's kind of come out, and we'll talk a little
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  bit about him. One of the early ones earlier this year was Megan the
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  Robot. I don't know if you saw that kind of horror. I am
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  not in the horror movies. I did not see it. My wife did,
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  and I I saw, you know, I saw the cliff notes in
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  form of trailers and things like that. The concept seemed interesting. And I
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  don't know if they played the horror part well or not. That's not my
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  genre. But my my problem with my problem with movies, well, no,
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  not movies like that. My problem with them trying to bring that concept
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  to life is I can't imagine and then next twenty years, the AI part
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  I get totally, totally believable. I think an AI could go one of
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  a thousand different directions. It could be nice, it could be evil,
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  it could be whatever. The physical robot itself is what I have a problem
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  with. I don't think they can make anything that's four feet tall kick my
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  ass, right, maybe hey, maybe I'm just maybe I've maybe they could,
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  But I just in the next twenty years, I don't see any company
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  making a four foot tall doll that could take this guy. So, hey,
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  yeah, I challenge you. Yeah you don't want that challenge if you're
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  a major robotic company. Yeah you want to fly me out to Silicon Valley?
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  Yeah. I like horror movies, right, and and Chucky is like
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  my favorite, Like he's my favorite horror villain. Yeah, if there is
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  rumors about Megan versus Chucky, I don't know if that's a real rumor as
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  much as just people would like to see it. Sure, and Chucky in
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  his show has taken slight digs at Megan, and they're both owned by Universal,
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  so it is possible. Well, Chucky's more fantasy too, right,
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  I mean, yeah, Chucky's like Voodoo and yeah, but the Megan movie,
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  what was interesting about it is, yes, it is Ai to the
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  m degree, and part of what makes Megan such a threat is it's not
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  her physicality herself, but because she is Ai, she can control computers around
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  her and all that. So it's not just her taking you out, it's
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  what she can do to take you out. Gotch So yeah, so I
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  thought it was a good film. I love horror, cheesy horror movies,
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  so I'm down for it. But yeah, okay, let's see, I'll
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  probably watch it, Okay. Yeah. Another one that came out this year
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  was we had some Marvel. A lot of Marvel is kind of sci fi.
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  So one of them was ant Man in the Wasp Quantum Mania. Yep,
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  yeah, that's the one. A lot of people did not enjoy.
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  It was a solid sea. Yeah, very much to see. Yeah,
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  I thought it was yeah, a see, it wasn't great. It wasn't
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  terrible. Although they did kill Kang with a bunch of ants and I'm supposed
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  to think he's scary. Yeah, they did. You know, these Marvel
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  movies, it's kind of like, do you you might not be old enough,
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  but do you remember watching the original Jurassic Park in the theater? Oh?
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  Yeah, yeah, okay, So do you remember how you felt when
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  you walked out? Yeah, okay, that that sense of I mean,
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  you were just in awe, you were I was excited, we were gonna
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  get chicken nuggets. Oh well, there you go, there you go.
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  But you you remember that feeling you had of yeah, absolutely, you felt
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  just amazed at this amazing thing. And then a few years later, let's
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  let's move forward to like Jurassic Park three. Jurassic Park three was technically a
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  superior movie. It had I'm sure that the special effects had had, you
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  know, grown by leaps and bounds, and there was a ton more dinosaurs,
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  a ton more action sequences, and you walked out of the theater going,
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  yeah that was right. Yeah, it's the same thing. With these,
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  you know, I mean, ant Man uh three is technically a fastly
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  superior movie special effects wise to the original Iron Man. I mean, there's
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  no question about it. There's probably five hundred times more VFX shots in that
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  movie, and they probably spent you know, three times as much money on
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  it. And you know, but you didn't the first time you walked out
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  of Iron Man, you were buzzing. Yeah, and you just didn't feel
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  the same way about Man three. Yeah, I think we've gotten used to
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  it. But I also think that the storyline just wasn't that good. So,
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  yeah, the storyline was That's another thing they do with these movies,
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  is they in addition to thinking that the VFX, the visual effects and all
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  that have to be more complicated, they also think that the storyline has to
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  be more complicated, right, And that's not necessarily the case, which is
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  why I did like and it might be on your list. I did like
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  Guardians three. That was the next one I was going to bring up.
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  Okay, Guardians three was great, Yeah, but was heartfelt more than it
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  was you know, explosions and right and all that, because they dial it
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  back. Yeah, they dialed it back, and they made it they made
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  it not. So you know, that's another thing with all these Marvel movies
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  is you know what what's at stake after you've saved the universe? Right,
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  And and that's what Guardians three did so well, is yeah, they made
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  the steaks so much smaller. Really, the stakes was just instead of the
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  entire universe, it was just about one person. Yeah, well that's why
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  I like, there's there's a there's i think on Reddit, somebody put their
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  pitch for a Batman movie, right since we're going to get a new one
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  in the new DCU, and uh, the idea was basically, Batman has
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  to rescue a kidnap child and that's that's the movie. And it's yeah,
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  it's him being a detective going through Gothams underworld trying to rescue this one kid,
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  and that that would be perfect. Yeah. Really, it's a great
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  Batman story, is it is? It plays on all of his sometimes all
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  of his strengths that aren't really you know that, Like you just said,
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  the the detective part, Yeah, you know, there wasn't in the Dark
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  Night trilogy. I mean, he wasn't much of a detective. And you
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  can have him like questioning poison Ivy you know, Penguin. You can bring
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  in all those characters, right, but the scenes alone would be yeah,
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  great, it would be great, you know. Yeah, but yeah,
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  I really do think scaling it back. And speaking of scaling it back,
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  the next movie on our list The Flash. Okay, yeah, yeah,
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  let's get there. Yeah, let's get there. What did you think of
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  The Flash? You have to remember, this is a movie that had been
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  in the works for years. They had plenty of time to make it great
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  and then to overthink it and then give it, give us what we got,
• 24:53
  and you know, it was trying to do so many different things and
• 24:59
  didn't succeed at any of them. Correct. But all that said, I
• 25:03
  don't think it's as bad as people just crap on it, right, I.
• 25:10
  I think it's it's fine. I think there's some pretty good, heartfelt
• 25:14
  moments in it. I think it's it's sad how good Ezra Miller actually is
• 25:21
  in that role in that movie and he'll never play it again. Right.
• 25:26
  You know, it was great to see Michael Keaton, you know, oh
• 25:30
  yeah, sponsor named Sasha Kayelle Supergirl. He was great. You know,
• 25:40
  what's his name, zod? I forget his real name, Mike Shannon Michael.
• 25:47
  He was very clearly the already cash a Jack. Oh yeah. In
• 25:52
  fact, I think the actor said, uh that that's the pretty much the
• 25:56
  only maybe not in so many words, but yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 26:00
  So you know, have I I saw it in the theaters. I think
• 26:04
  maybe, you know, like a month ago, I had a really bad
• 26:08
  cold. I think I maybe watched it again then, who knows. I
• 26:11
  was in that cold delirium and high on cold medicine. But oh, you
• 26:15
  didn't watch what was what was the movie you said you watched when? Oh
• 26:18
  Star Trek? Yeah, no, Start Trek two thousand and nine. Oh
• 26:22
  Star Trek two thousand and nine. That's oh yeah, no, that was
• 26:22
  on the list for sure. But okay, not just watching that on repeat?
• 26:26
  Right? Yeah? Yeah right? So yeah, all right, Uh,
• 26:33
  let's see what else is on this list that we can talk about.
• 26:37
  Oh yeah, uh, another superhero movie, A lot of superhero movies,
• 26:40
  Spider Man across the Spider Verse, the Miles Morals cartoon movie. Yep,
• 26:45
  I just watched it last a couple of weeks ago. Oh would you think
• 26:48
  I loved it? I did not know that it was going to be a
• 26:51
  cliffhanger. Yeah, yeah, I'm like, because it's getting to be like
• 26:56
  the Hour and a half bark and I'm like, uh, They're not going
• 26:59
  to wrap this up many times soon, are they? No, they're not.
• 27:03
  I thought it was fantastic. I really did. Yeah, you know,
• 27:07
  the way that they and spoiler alert for anybody who hasn't seen this,
• 27:12
  but the way they brought in some live action people I thought was really really
• 27:18
  fun. Yeah, they really know how to tell a story. These the
• 27:23
  folks that do the animated stuff, They really know how to tell a story.
• 27:26
  Oh for sure, for sure. Yeah. I thought it was really
• 27:30
  good. I had a lot of fun with it. I like that they
• 27:33
  brought in Spider Man twenty ninety nine. Yeah, so I thought that was
• 27:37
  cool. Another movie on the list. I didn't see this one, but
• 27:41
  I'm very interested in seeing it. I don't know if you saw it.
• 27:44
  It's on Netflix. It's called They Clone Tyrone. No, I never even
• 27:48
  heard of it. Yeah, so apparently it's a sci fi movie that also
• 27:52
  is a inspired by the seventies black exploitation films and has slapstick comedy and conspiracy
• 28:00
  theories all through it. It's got John Boyega in it and Jamie Fox it's
• 28:04
  supposed to be really good. So oh yeah, yeah, it's got a
• 28:12
  ninety four percent on Rotten Tomato. So yeah, I'll have to check this
• 28:18
  out. What's it? What's it available on Netflix? Netflix? Okay,
• 28:22
  yeah, they cloned Tyrone, another new sci fi film that we got this
• 28:29
  year, just a few months ago. The creator I heard of it.
• 28:33
  I haven't, I haven't seen it. I saw it. I went to
• 28:38
  the theaters see it. I don't know about you and your area, but
• 28:41
  over here we have regal theaters and you can pay like twenty bucks a month
• 28:45
  and you get the pass you can go to the time you want. So
• 28:49
  me and a buddy, that's what we do, like just about every weekend.
• 28:52
  Okay, okay, we've got I don't think we don't have regal theaters.
• 28:56
  We have a similar deal of okay theaters around here. Yeah, but
• 29:03
  yeah, this movie, it's all about a war between AI and humanity,
• 29:08
  but humanity is the addressor okay, trying to control AI. And I was
• 29:15
  like, we don't want to, like, we just want to live in
• 29:18
  harmony. It's totally cool. And yeah, what was his name? John
• 29:22
  David Washington is the lead in it. He is Denzel Washington's son. He
• 29:26
  might know him from a tenant. I was gonna say, I don't recognize
• 29:30
  a ton of actors in this. Yeah, Ken want Nobby's in there.
• 29:34
  It was directed by Gareth Edwards. He directed the first new Godzilla film,
• 29:40
  the one that kicked out the monster verse. Okay, yeah, Chasmis is
• 29:45
  right. It's an all right film. The special effects were amazing, absolutely
• 29:48
  true, and I believe the budget was only like eighty million dollars, but
• 29:53
  it was. Yeah, it's a great, great film if you get the
• 29:57
  chance, highly recommend. It can get now on digital. It's available on
• 30:03
  blue rays and a DVD on December twelfth. Yeah. Another film you could
• 30:07
  watch tonight. It's on Hulu. It's called No One Will Save You.
• 30:11
  It is a little bit of sci fi, a little bit of horror.
• 30:15
  It's about a woman whose house gets invaded by aliens and how does she survive
• 30:19
  the night. Really interesting film. One of the other kind of like gimmicks
• 30:26
  of the film is there is no dialogue in the entire script. Oh really,
• 30:30
  okay, yeah, so it's her she has to emote, she has
• 30:34
  to you get context cluses for what's going on. The aliens don't talk either
• 30:40
  they kind of like have a weird little voice to each other, but that's
• 30:44
  about it. Yeah, Bronson's right. It is a good movie. Really
• 30:48
  liked it. Some people don't like the ending, but yeah, I thought
• 30:52
  it was pretty good. Another one I'll have to check out. Yeah,
• 30:56
  definitely throw that on your list. That's kind of what we do, this,
• 31:00
  give people stuff to watch over the Christmas bak break. You know where
• 31:03
  is that available? Yeah, I'm looking some of these up as Yeah,
• 31:10
  yeah, for sure, for sure. Yeah, another one we talked about
• 31:14
  before the show started. Blue Beetle, Blue Beetle. Oh man, that's
• 31:19
  my people's black panther. That's your Yeah. I was trying to figure out
• 31:26
  a way to dance around that. But yeah, I'll just say okay,
• 31:29
  yeah, yeah, because I was trying to figure out a way to I
• 31:34
  was trying to figure out a way to ship on that movie without being insensitive
• 31:37
  to you. No, I I liked the movie, Okay, I'm as
• 31:47
  Yeah, I loved the lead in that. We I think he was great
• 31:52
  in Cobra Kai. Yeah, he's a he's a good I think he's a
• 31:59
  good actor. You know, George Lopez is great in that. Susan Sarandon
• 32:06
  as the as the she is twirling her mustache all throughout that movie. That
• 32:09
  that was my like, oh, come on, that's exactly what I was
• 32:14
  thinking Toiling Your Bus Pass. It was the negatives for this movie for me,
• 32:20
  where it was it was a little bit cookie cutter. It's very much
• 32:23
  Ironman Jr. Yeah. Yeah. The other one I was thinking of was
• 32:29
  not just Iron Man, but a little bit of Shazam. You know.
• 32:35
  Yeah, boy boy meets ancient tech slash powers and then sort of has a
• 32:44
  the entire movies about him trying to come to terms with those powers. At
• 32:45
  first he doesn't want them, then he does want them, and then he's
• 32:47
  trying to figure out how to use them and then yeah. So but other
• 32:52
  than that, they should have got a little bit more inspiration from Flight to
• 32:54
  the Navigator the eighties. Yes, yeah, one of my favorite films.
• 32:59
  Yes, it's very similar in that respect. Yeah. Uh, Jesus says,
• 33:04
  you forgot about your Zam No we didn't, and that's okay. Yeah,
• 33:08
  and Xam's aren't really sci fi. It's more mystical and right, right,
• 33:15
  so you watched the Zama the Gods. Okay, yeah, it's fine.
• 33:22
  But Blue Beetle. I loved it. You know, I'll watch it
• 33:23
  again. Should I may watch it tonight. You may watch it tonight.
• 33:28
  Yeah, that's available. I'm snowed in tonight, So you're what snowed in?
• 33:34
  Really? Yeah, there's it's not that there's a lot of snow,
• 33:37
  but it's that it snowed, it melted, and then it refreezed, so
• 33:40
  it's very Yeah. So yeah, after the show, I'm gonna run and
• 33:45
  go grab my groceries and then that's it. Like you're gonna hunker down.
• 33:50
  I'm gonna hunger down. Okay, Okay, So but yeah, Blue Beetle.
• 33:57
  Let's see, there's some other ones on here. There's one I really
• 34:00
  wanted to see that that I did not get to in the theater because it
• 34:02
  came in went in the theater. It's called Jewels. It's an elderly man
• 34:07
  but friends an alien. How do you spelled jewels? To spell j U
• 34:16
  L E s. You might recognize it when I show you the picture.
• 34:23
  So that's it. I don't know if you saw those trailers. Okay,
• 34:29
  it's got Ben Kingsley in it. No, yeah, it's an independent film.
• 34:36
  It's not even ninety minutes it's it's eighty seven minutes. It's got an
• 34:38
  eighty four percent on Rotten Tomatoes. So yeah, it says it's got shades
• 34:45
  of Cocoon and e t in it, and it's a sweet comedic story with
• 34:51
  full of heart, so okay. Yeah. So the tagline is Milton Saves
• 34:55
  lives a quiet life of routine in a small western Pennsylvania, but finds his
• 35:00
  day up ended when a US extraterrestrial pastor in his backyard. All right,
• 35:10
  well I just took Yeah, you can rent it on Prime or Apple TV
• 35:15
  or whatever. It's about six bucks to rent, so there you go.
• 35:20
  It must be an independent yeah, I think so. I think so,
• 35:25
  which they had. Dependent movies usually have some of the best writing and storylines.
• 35:31
  Yeah, there was another film. I wrote it down, so I
• 35:37
  don't know if you saw. Red. Litter Media kind of did their recap
• 35:39
  of overall movies for twenty twenty three this week, and one of them they
• 35:45
  brought up was this independent sci fi film. It's not on this list,
• 35:49
  but they brought it up. And I have not seen this. It looks
• 35:52
  fantastic to me. A poia apo r I A. I'll put it in
• 36:00
  the chat. So people can look it up if they want. But the
• 36:02
  premise is a family member of this man, I think it's his wife.
• 36:07
  They said she was killed by a drunk driver, and his next door neighbor
• 36:15
  just happens to be making a time machine. But the way the time machine
• 36:19
  works is you can't send somebody back in time. It only sends a single
• 36:24
  neutron through time right either forward or back. Okay, So what the neighbor
• 36:31
  tells the guy is like, look, if you want, we can send
• 36:37
  the neutron and kill the drunk driver before he kills your wife. The neutron
• 36:44
  through him and it'll it'll disrupt his body and kill him. So that it's
• 36:47
  the fallout of that and what happens. That's some interesting ethical yeah ramifications.
• 36:55
  Yeah, so it looks really good. It's you know, nobody famous in
• 37:00
  it. But yeah, but that's the movie list and these guys. I'll
• 37:07
  put the articles where we got these in the in the descriptions, so you
• 37:12
  guys can check these out to see what you like. So and then on
• 37:15
  rank or we have a list of sci fi TV shows which I have not
• 37:20
  watched a lot of these I have not I probably haven't either, but like
• 37:25
  there's one on there. A couple of Apple TV ones have been very sci
• 37:30
  fi, like Silo, which is supposed to be really good hm with Rashida
• 37:35
  Jones and Rebecca Ferguson in common. I don't know anything about it. It's
• 37:39
  a ruined and toxic future community exists inside a giant underground silo. I mean
• 37:45
  that sounds cool. Yeah. Yeah. Severance is one that I know a
• 37:52
  lot of my friends love that I have not watched. I haven't seen it.
• 37:55
  Yeah. It's got what's his name, Adam Scott in it, and
• 37:59
  it's like this weird dark work comedy that's also sci fi based, So I
• 38:04
  have heard of it, yes, Yeah. One that I have seen the
• 38:07
  Last of Us. Yeah, I I've seen it in passing, as as
• 38:15
  the rest of my family's seen it, but I haven't. I haven't watched
• 38:17
  it myself, so see. And I'm a big Mandalorian fan, so Paeder
• 38:22
  Pascal is great for me. So yeah, the Last of Us was good.
• 38:28
  One that I know that a lot of us on this show have watched
• 38:30
  The Cards season three that came out. Now, that was the one about
• 38:36
  the old Starship Captain, right, that's right? Okay, Yeah, I
• 38:42
  think I do remember watching that. His name was Riker. Yeah, yeah,
• 38:45
  Riker. That's right. Yeah, he had a strong beard as well.
• 38:50
  He did indeed he did. Yes, that was People seem to have
• 38:53
  liked it that season three. I'm about ready to rewatch it. Actually nice,
• 38:59
  it's a season it's it's gonna be the first season of Star Trek that
• 39:01
  I've got. I've rewatched since Enterprise because I haven't watched I haven't rewatched any
• 39:08
  of the entire seasons of any of the New Trek. I've watched certain episodes
• 39:13
  over okay, another sci fi series that came out this year, and or
• 39:22
  yes, I have I have thoughts, Okay, go ahead, well okay,
• 39:28
  and I think I've talked about this before. I it's a thriller,
• 39:35
  okay, all right, and I don't I don't like thrillers. I like
• 39:40
  Star Wars. I like the characters. So I for for me, for
• 39:46
  enjoyability alone, I gave it a C. Now. I know I'm in
• 39:52
  the minority on that everybody loved and or everybody thought it was just so great
• 39:58
  and it you know, from a storytelling perspective, it was for me personally,
• 40:02
  it was you know, just a lot of like you know, ducking
• 40:07
  behind alleys and things of that nature. And you know, I'm also in
• 40:10
  the minority that the movie that it's leading up to help me out here,
• 40:19
  Ohgue Rogue one. Rogue one was also not my favorite Star Wars movie,
• 40:23
  and I know I'm also in the minority on that one too. But I
• 40:29
  haven't watched Rogue one in a while, so I'm once and Or season two
• 40:31
  comes out, I'm I'm going to rewatch Rogue one. Okay, So,
• 40:37
  I mean I love them both. I love and Or. I love Rogue
• 40:39
  one, but yeah, that's fine. I thought it was a great spot
• 40:44
  spy, thriller type show, political intrigue, that kind of thing. Yeah,
• 40:47
  so yeah, I dug it a lot. Also, Star Wars basically
• 40:52
  had The Mandalorian season three or four, whichever one it is that came out.
• 40:59
  Yeah that yeah, yeah, that was fun. We also had The
• 41:05
  Boys gen V that was the animated spinoff, right, yeah, okay,
• 41:12
  I have not watched that. No, no, no, not that animated
• 41:14
  spin off, the the College Base, all the college based okay, yea,
• 41:17
  yeah, yeah, no, I haven't seen that one yet. Yeah,
• 41:21
  it's great, it's so good, but it's very much the Boys it's
• 41:24
  yeah, okay, yeah, Chasmis brings up Scavenger's reign. I know about
• 41:30
  this show. It's an animated show. It's supposed to be just amazing,
• 41:37
  and yeah it's really good. But yeah's see what else is on this list.
• 41:45
  Strange New Worlds season two. Yeah, I think I I think I
• 41:51
  saw that one too. Yeah, it's all right, Yeah, it's all
• 41:53
  right. Someone was better in my opinion, Season one was better. We
• 41:57
  talked about this last week. Yeah, you know, there there is no
• 42:02
  formula anymore. It used to be the first two seasons of a show sucked
• 42:06
  and then the just the second season. You know that the first season sucked,
• 42:09
  and you know, if you try to look at it from a Star
• 42:12
  Trek perspective, I don't know. These these shows are created by people.
• 42:17
  People are, you know, make mistakes. I don't think they found their
• 42:22
  footing in season two. It seems like they sort of knew what they were
• 42:25
  doing in season one. Hopefully for season three, since they had the break.
• 42:30
  Yeah, they had the the you know, the time in between because
• 42:37
  normally they they're they're in you know, some sort of pre post production of
• 42:42
  they have an idea of where they're going at least an idea, right,
• 42:46
  But with this season, you know, they couldn't even start writing it until
• 42:51
  apt I think, is that true? Is that? Do I have the
• 42:52
  timeline right? They couldn't start writing season three of Stranging Worlds until season two
• 42:57
  had aired. Not that they couldn't, they just weren't yet. Okay,
• 43:02
  they kind of dictate the way they do that. But then the writer's strike
• 43:06
  happened, so they weren't finished. So I know that because the writer's strike
• 43:14
  ended and then the actors one was still going or I think like another month
• 43:17
  or six weeks, so there's a little bit of lead time where they have
• 43:22
  written scrips, right, But so like we're in aque, they're in a
• 43:25
  unique position though to be able to accept and utilize feedback from season two or
• 43:34
  season three, correct, And that's normally not the case. That's normally not
• 43:38
  the case because they shot season two as season one was being released, so
• 43:45
  they had already had their scripts, they had already decided to do whatever they
• 43:49
  were going to do. So yes, now they have the chance for feedback
• 43:52
  and we'll see what they do. Hopefully they adhere to some of the feedback.
• 43:59
  Yeah, you know, I just want more Exploring in my Exploring show.
• 44:02
  Absolutely, well, maybe we'll get that with Star Trek, Star Trek
• 44:09
  Lombardo, Star Trek Discovery. Yeah, maybe maybe who knows Chess Visit and
• 44:17
  a Wolf for talking about Invincible, Oh you're right. Yeah, yeah,
• 44:22
  that's also a good show. Season two just started up. I love that
• 44:27
  show. So that was a good show. I'm looking forward to watching that.
• 44:30
  Another one on the list is Monarch Legacy of Monsters. I've only seen
• 44:35
  one episode thanks to Apple TV, so okay, yeah, I will say
• 44:40
  that one episode was fantastic, really all right? Yeah? Yeah, Well
• 44:45
  if they do that thing where they merge like you said they might, you
• 44:52
  know, I'll probably get the bundle and yeah, be able to watch all
• 44:57
  these all these good shows. Like I said, I wanted to an opportunity
• 45:00
  to watch for all mankind. I would recommend it. Man, it's it's
• 45:06
  pretty great. There's a bunch of other shows on here that I have never
• 45:10
  heard of, like The Rig or Lockwood in Company. I don't I don't
• 45:15
  know any of these, No, never heard of them. Yeah, Rick
• 45:21
  and Morty, I guess the new season started up. The final season of
• 45:23
  Doom Patrols started. I just speaking of Doom Patrol. I just watched because
• 45:30
  I got HBO Max. I just watched Titans. I've been to a series
• 45:37
  that was fantastic. I really enjoyed it. I'm a big DC guy like
• 45:43
  that. That's my jam. Yep. And I really had trouble with Titans
• 45:47
  at first, right because it does not fit conventional DC lore. No.
• 45:52
  But when I finally decided, okay, this is going to be an else
• 45:57
  World's in my head, Okay, when I accepted it as an else Worlds,
• 46:01
  ye, then I got into it. Yep, Yep, I sort
• 46:04
  of had the same feeling. Yeah, once you accept it for something outside
• 46:07
  the general you know, storylines, then yeah, absolutely. Oh Jesus brings
• 46:14
  up Doctor Who, Megosta Doctor Who. So I am probably the only person
• 46:21
  here or listening to this has never seen a single episode of Doctor Who.
• 46:24
  I don't think Dan has either. I think I'm the only one on the
• 46:27
  trail that has. Out of Doctor Who. They're having some specials right now
• 46:32
  on Disney Plus. There's I think three specials. The third one just came
• 46:37
  out yesterday. I haven't seen it yet, but I'm going to. Uh,
• 46:39
  those are great jumping on points. Man. If you've never ask if
• 46:44
  I wanted to start. Yeah, basically, anytime there's a new doctor,
• 46:49
  which is like every two or three seasons, it's always a good jumping on
• 46:52
  point because okay, they're starting fresh and you can and you can start over.
• 46:58
  These are kind of cool because it's David Tennant and David Tennant was one
• 47:01
  of the best doctors and they do a lot of good recap about his overall
• 47:07
  stories and what has happened, so they do a pretty good job of catching
• 47:09
  you up. David Tennant is the one that played I think he played kill
• 47:14
  Grave in Jessica Jones. Correct. Yeah, yeah, you do want him
• 47:19
  to yell Jessica a lot, and he doesn't do that. Heels Donna a
• 47:24
  lot in these shows. But yeah, that's his companion. But yeah,
• 47:30
  it's great. The new one, the one that came out yesterday, has
• 47:34
  Neil Patrick Harris in it. Love him. Yeah, so that'll be good.
• 47:37
  And apparently these three specials connect together they have been, so I'm pretty
• 47:44
  excited to watch it. After the show, I'll check it out, Like,
• 47:46
  you know, I got to play some ketch up with that. You
• 47:49
  know, it's very Star Trek like in that it's it's a lot of moral
• 47:54
  dilemmas trying to figure out what's the good answer are in a hard situation.
• 48:00
  Sure, And you know, I was introduced to doctor who you know through
• 48:06
  like TikTok and short short treks uh YouTube shorts and things like that. So
• 48:10
  I've I've seen a lot of scenes that I guess are deemed important. But
• 48:15
  yeah, it's good stuff. It's good, but it's the same thing,
• 48:20
  you know, I was introduced. I'm I'm at the tail end of season
• 48:23
  three of Game of Thrones. I'm binge watching Game of Thrones for the first
• 48:27
  time, so I I have never seen it before, but I'm aware of
• 48:32
  some of the pivotal scenes and some of the you know, important deaths because
• 48:37
  I've seen them on social media TikTok or things like that, and so I
• 48:43
  you know, I I know when certain characters die. I know that certain
• 48:45
  characters die, but I'm still enjoying, enjoying the series. It's it's really
• 48:50
  really good. Also on this list is Quantum Leap that showed another season of
• 48:55
  that I have not seen it. Man, Okay, I'm a huge,
• 49:02
  huge Quantum Leaf fan from the eighties and nineties. From the eighties and nineties,
• 49:07
  Okay, we saw the first episode of the new one, okay,
• 49:12
  and then uh it was hard to watch the rest of them because of the
• 49:16
  NBC Peacock. I couldn't find the rest of them on online. So I
• 49:22
  don't know if they're available only on premium peacock or if you can probably yeah.
• 49:29
  See, so I was able to watch the first episode, it was
• 49:31
  okay. Yeah, So I don't know if it got any better or how
• 49:36
  that went, you know. I also don't know how how strongly tied to
• 49:40
  the original series it is. Yeah, I don't know, so, you
• 49:44
  know, but I love the original. See the original I vaguely remember as
• 49:49
  a kid, like I don't think it was an appointment TV for my family,
• 49:52
  right, we were too busy with okay, okay, yeah yeah,
• 49:59
  yeah sone yeah yeah, sure, sure, all the all the telenovelas,
• 50:05
  every single one of them. Yeah yeah, you mentioned I've seen it.
• 50:08
  Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. It's also it's the other one something like
• 50:15
  that. Yeah, that one too, that one too. There's actually a
• 50:19
  telenovella of Breaking Bad. They really yeah, it's hilarious watch that. It's
• 50:28
  not Walter White, it's it's something Blanco. Yeah oh yeah, but yeah,
• 50:37
  uh yeah, so that's the list. I'll have the full list in
• 50:39
  the show description. You know, how about Ahsoka, I know that's kind
• 50:45
  of start. Oh, yeah, that's right. Yeah, I liked it.
• 50:50
  I thought it was all right. I like seeing Hayden Christians back.
• 50:53
  Yeah, they did. They did a good job. You know, it
• 50:59
  got some complaints about some people didn't like exactly where the story went, and
• 51:02
  some people didn't like. I always confused about the complaints about Rosario at Dawson.
• 51:07
  I thought she did a fantastic job as a forty something year old Ahsoka,
• 51:15
  right, because in my mind's eye, if I were to take that
• 51:17
  teenager into twenties Ahsoka that we've seen in the animated shows, and you make
• 51:22
  her forty forty five years old, that's Rosaria Dawson's character. Yeah, I
• 51:29
  thought she did a fantastic job. She's not gonna be as plucky as she
• 51:31
  used to be. She's not gonna be quite as plucky. And you know
• 51:35
  they're also saying, well, she doesn't have the same fighting moves. It's
• 51:37
  a little bit easier to animate a lightsaber battle right than it is to do
• 51:44
  it live action. Absolutely, and also you know the moves you can do
• 51:49
  when you're eighteen are a little different than the moves you can do when you're
• 51:52
  forty five. That's true. So I don't know how it works with Jedi,
• 51:54
  but at least that's true with me, So I mean I believe.
• 51:58
  So you know, I can't do the flips as well as I as I
• 52:01
  could when I was a up. Another good one Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning part
• 52:06
  one I haven't seen. I've seen the one before that one. I haven't
• 52:09
  seen the new mission Apossible. So I'm down for Tom cruising his quest for
• 52:14
  death. Yeah it is good. Is it good? It's it's very okay.
• 52:20
  Do you have to turn your brain off? Is it just nothing but
• 52:22
  non stop act? No, it's just it's just like it's it's another more
• 52:27
  of the same with all these a lot of action, more storylines. Yeah,
• 52:31
  it's maybe the weakest storyline of them all, but it's still really good.
• 52:35
  Like it's still yeah, it's good. Uh it's got morales, isn't
• 52:39
  it. Uh? So you might know him from from Titans he was death
• 52:43
  Stroke? Oh yeah, yeah yeah yeah, so that guy is the bad
• 52:46
  guy in Dead Reckoning. Okay, yeah, very good. I've loved you
• 52:52
  some morales for for a long time. He's been a lot of Spanish shows,
• 52:55
  so yeah, you know, going back to sorry, going back to
• 53:00
  Titans. They recently did the series finale, or what turned out to be
• 53:05
  the serious finale. What do you think of that? How'd you think of
• 53:07
  the ending? It really felt like they just went, oh, this is
• 53:10
  the last one ship. Yes, yeah, yeah it It kind of felt
• 53:17
  I kind of felt the same way watching the end of that as I felt
• 53:21
  watching the last season of Discovery, like, oh, if they wanted to
• 53:23
  end it, they could end it here. It felt like they ended it
• 53:29
  the same way Discovery ended it. Not sure if it's coming back, so
• 53:31
  let's kind of wrap it up. Yeah, yeah, you know what.
• 53:38
  One of the things that really stood out to me is that guy that plays
• 53:40
  a Superboy the first season, I was like, this guy sucks right season
• 53:46
  two like he's so much better. Oh yeah, the storyline they did with
• 53:51
  him and yeah, yeah, yeah, I thought where they took that because
• 53:54
  you know in the comics too, he's he's a genetic clone of both Lex
• 54:00
  Luthor and Clark Kent was really good too. Yeah oh yeah, yep,
• 54:07
  yep, oh, which reminds me of the other sort if you're into d
• 54:12
  c h the Last Lewis Superman of Lewis oh Man. I love that show.
• 54:16
  That Lex Luthor was harsh, very similar to what they did in Titans.
• 54:22
  Yes. Yes, And they just announced that the season four is going
• 54:29
  to be the final season. So I'm a huge Superman fan. I'm wearing
• 54:34
  a Superman shirt right now. Yeah. So I loved you know, Superman
• 54:39
  Lois. What do you think of Tyler Hecklan as Superman. I think he's
• 54:45
  great. Yeah. I when he first came on uh in in Supergirl,
• 54:51
  I didn't like his look, I didn't like his faith, I didn't like
• 54:55
  a suit. He grew on me. Yeah, he he plays See.
• 55:00
  I think anybody can play a good Superman. You know, they've all done
• 55:06
  great playing Superman. Any actor you mentioned that ever played Superman. It takes
• 55:10
  a It takes a really good actor to play Clark Kent. Yeah. You
• 55:15
  gotta be able to do that, that dual role, you gotta. You
• 55:19
  gotta be able to, you know, figure out that economy of those two
• 55:22
  characters, and and and be able to play them differently enough but not polar
• 55:30
  opposites of each other that his clerk isn't like bumbling and kind of stupid,
• 55:34
  right, but he's he's a competent reporter, right, but he's still a
• 55:38
  boy scout. He's he plays that. It's subtle. That's what I like
• 55:43
  about it. It's subtle when he when he's doing Clark, he's not bumbling,
• 55:45
  but he's still a little boy scouty. Or when he confronts dudes as
• 55:50
  Clark and he's like, you know, might get in a bar fight.
• 55:52
  That scene in the diner, Yeah, he confronts his son's girlfriend's dad.
• 55:57
  That was a fantastic seed. Yeah. Before he leaves, Lois is like,
• 56:01
  this isn't a job for Superman and he's like, I'm Superman is not
• 56:06
  going Yeah that was great. Yeah, so I'm sad to see that leave.
• 56:10
  I understand there's some things going on with c W and HBO and things,
• 56:15
  but they that show has been really, really good. Oh yeah.
• 56:22
  A Wolf also says Flash ended this year. Yeah, it did. It
• 56:27
  should have ended like three years ago. I I was just talking to my
• 56:30
  son about it. My son's rewatching the Flash TV series. I I'm a
• 56:36
  huge CW fan. I'm a huge Arrow Verse fan. Yeah, I I've
• 56:40
  watched all the seasons, multiple times. Ah, the Flash should have died.
• 56:49
  The TV series should have died and ended after Crisis, Yeah, because
• 56:54
  after that that's where Yeah, Armageddon, all these other storylines were just crap.
• 57:00
  The final season of The Flash was you know, I could have written
• 57:06
  it. Anybody could have written it. It was it was so it was
• 57:10
  bad. I have nothing good to say about it. I wish I did,
• 57:15
  you know, I was. I was hoping they would bring back a
• 57:16
  couple of characters. I was hoping to see maybe Patti'spivott back. I thought
• 57:22
  she was a fantastic character that they just kind of threw away at the end
• 57:25
  of season two. Yeah, you know, she had so much potential,
• 57:30
  especially them doing multiverse stuff. You know, she could have come back as
• 57:34
  as her alter ego. I just you know, they ended aarrow well yeah,
• 57:40
  but they just couldn't land the plane with the Flash. And I love
• 57:45
  the Flash series. I mean it was it was great, but yeah,
• 57:47
  it was disappointing the way the end. Well, that guy was great.
• 57:52
  He was my favorite side character of the show, and they got rid of
• 57:54
  him and it was I think that actor was just done with it. Well,
• 58:00
  he saw the writing on the wall. I mean, you know,
• 58:01
  if it wasn't good writing. Yeah, you know, I could get past
• 58:06
  some of the CGI stuff because it is a you know, it's a weekly
• 58:08
  television show. But that's no excuse for the writing. It was just so
• 58:14
  bad, all right, And I hate to crap on my favorite, one
• 58:16
  of my favorite shows. Well, let's get to some feedback we've had.
• 58:20
  Jazz was waiting for such a long time before guy, all right, yeah,
• 58:23
  so let's bring him on. Come on in he he there he is.
• 58:30
  Darkness, Yeah, hello, darkness and the orb of destinies behind it
• 58:37
  not putting out much to light either. When are you going to return that
• 58:39
  to the Bajorans? Yeah? Cot to still it from me? So there
• 58:46
  you go. It's going on. Man, what sci fi have you enjoyed
• 58:52
  this year? That Scavenger's reign was really out there? It looks good.
• 58:59
  I just haven't seen it. Yeah, it's good. It's just it's it's
• 59:01
  one of those sell me on it. What's good about it? Do you
• 59:05
  like aliens? Like I mean, I'm start Yeah. Yeah. So it's
• 59:13
  basically the ship crashes, you know, something happens to the ship, and
• 59:17
  all these people are separated on this planet, and this planet is alive,
• 59:23
  with different organisms and everything else, like the bugs and everything just like almost
• 59:30
  mutate and it's it's I can't even explain it. It's so weird. It's
• 59:36
  really out there. Okay, sounds interesting. How long are the episodes?
• 59:39
  I have thirty minutes okay, less than thirty minutes it because I think there's
• 59:45
  twelve. Okay. It's on HBO Max. And it's definitely not for children,
• 59:52
  okay, because it's pretty gory. There's those aliens do some creepy stuff
• 1:00:00
  and it's I mean, it is out there, completely out there. Okay,
• 1:00:06
  check it out. Just the animation on it, and you'll see like
• 1:00:08
  the arians and the lake kind of turn into something and infect somebody and kill
• 1:00:15
  them. And yeah, I mean the animation style. I got some images
• 1:00:17
  up right now. It looks gorgeous. Yeah, oh yeah yeah, and
• 1:00:23
  it looks like it's one of those Studio Gimbli. Yeah, it looks like
• 1:00:29
  that's what it's trying to do. Yeah, like a Miyazaki slide. I'm
• 1:00:35
  trying to think the other one. There's like a dinosaur one on a HBO
• 1:00:38
  Max and it's almost like that animation too. Okay, Yeah, I may
• 1:00:45
  have to check this out. Yeah, it is out there, really good.
• 1:00:49
  Twelve episodes you can actually finished in like two days, is well.
• 1:00:52
  And with Max, they just may remove it and you will never see it
• 1:00:55
  again. I don't know what's going on with Max. Yeah, nobody knows.
• 1:01:00
  Yes, it's Discovery purchased them. They just keep on plucking stuff,
• 1:01:02
  adding stuff. And I don't care about the Property Brothers or any of those.
• 1:01:08
  Oh Darry, Yeah, it's like hospital waiting room. What do you
• 1:01:15
  see Property Brothers all that. You go to the airport, you'll see you
• 1:01:20
  know, all the stuff like and all that stuff. Yeah. Yeah,
• 1:01:25
  so I better binge what I want to on MAX while I have the chance.
• 1:01:30
  Yeah, we'll see. You're paying premium for MAX and you expect movies
• 1:01:34
  and quality shows. But when they're got to wrap Christmas presents later, I'm
• 1:01:38
  gonna watch Crimlins while I do that. Oh nice, that's what I do.
• 1:01:42
  Like we put your Christmas tree, played Christmas movies or something like that.
• 1:01:46
  Yeah, when I rep gifts, I throw in a movie. Definitely
• 1:01:50
  Chris movie. You seem like a thousand times and it's you really don't really
• 1:01:52
  That would be Grimlins. Gremlins was one of the was one of the movies
• 1:01:58
  in the trivia game last night. So yeah, really, yeah, I
• 1:02:01
  remember my mom bought me a bunch of gizmos as a child. Oh and
• 1:02:07
  she says she watched him and all of a sudden, come back, it's
• 1:02:09
  all furry and fluffy. I'm like, oh wow, look at this gizmo.
• 1:02:14
  And yeah, because they were all on sale, like at Walmart or
• 1:02:17
  something. So she had like a bag full of gizmos because I would wear
• 1:02:22
  them out, like the eyeballs would be all rapped off, and one of
• 1:02:28
  our come back and I'm like, oh my goodness, that was excellent.
• 1:02:34
  That's great. One of our review questions last night was how many home alone
• 1:02:37
  movies there are? Oh, and apparently there's one. Yeah, but there's
• 1:02:45
  one apparently in Cannon called Pups Alone. It's home Alone. Are you serious?
• 1:02:53
  Yeah, Ransom's in it, and as is the jail Ah. Jennifer
• 1:02:59
  love you it. Oh London, You know that that could actually work if
• 1:03:07
  they had a good script for I Must Break You. Malcolm the guy from
• 1:03:13
  Generations. Yeah, yeah, I kind of need to see this movie now.
• 1:03:20
  Yeah. I'm just thinking of quotes from both of like I Must Break
• 1:03:23
  You and they say that time is the Fire in which we you know,
• 1:03:27
  it's gotta be the German Shepherds Boy. Yeah, well start Yourek Generations.
• 1:03:34
  That's the movie I'm gonna watch sometime between now and Christmas. It's got a
• 1:03:37
  Chris it's got a Christmas scene in it. Diehards this week? Oh is
• 1:03:43
  it? It's not over here? Diehard was in my trivia game last night.
• 1:03:46
  Yeah. I think they've shown it for a whole week. I die
• 1:03:51
  Hard tomorrow. So yeah, have you heard the Diehard song? No,
• 1:03:55
  I haven't. No, there's a band called Guys Night and they sing a
• 1:03:59
  Diehard song. I was thinking about the no, no, no, I'll
• 1:04:05
  put it in the Facebook group. That's amazing for you guys Facebook you talking
• 1:04:11
  about Yes, I've heard that song. It's actually pretty good. Yeah,
• 1:04:14
  it's actually it's surprisingly good. Yeah, but yeah, I'll put it in
• 1:04:16
  the Facebook group. So go to Facebook for trick Cast, join our group
• 1:04:20
  and you'll hear Guys Night. Yeah. There's another podcast that they have that
• 1:04:26
  for their intro. So oh okay, well basically there. Yeah, I'm
• 1:04:30
  not going to say the name of the podcast. Yeah, day there is
• 1:04:34
  no other podcasts only listening. We don't want, we don't want to lose
• 1:04:40
  the listeners we got. Yeah, yeah, we don't need there's no other
• 1:04:44
  podcast before you. There's no Star Trek podcasts besides this one. I don't
• 1:04:49
  want to do the others. We're the only podcast period, all your information
• 1:04:54
  here. That's right. We're bigger than you know, Joe Rogan, and
• 1:04:59
  that's right, we're bigger. Mister Beast wishes he had the numbers we do,
• 1:05:05
  that's right, that's right, poor guy. Yeah, maybe somebody will
• 1:05:11
  throw come on, who wants to get people water? And how there?
• 1:05:17
  He Bronson says, it is a good song. Where the Goat? Yeah,
• 1:05:24
  where the Goat? Thanks Paul. Yeah, yeah, the d o
• 1:05:29
  B. You know, you're like the old the old career, the d
• 1:05:33
  o B, dirty old bastards, you know. Okay, yeah, I
• 1:05:38
  was like, what does the stand for? The ogs? You know?
• 1:05:43
  Yeah? Yeah, the ogs? Yeah, so you guys go way back
• 1:05:48
  because what this podcast started away right something? Rightly? Yeah, but I
• 1:05:55
  kind of feel like the e dacks of treck Cast. You're fine, you're
• 1:06:02
  more like one yuh like yell like you want in there? Yeah, the
• 1:06:09
  pix like, hey guys, maybe, I mean I guess I could be
• 1:06:14
  the wharf of the Wharf come in a little bit later. You know.
• 1:06:19
  Hey, you know when Wharf came in, the show got better. So
• 1:06:25
  there you go. I'm too scared to ask how our numbers are have been
• 1:06:29
  since I came on later. I'll tell you later. My apologies across the
• 1:06:36
  board everyone somebody shooting and there on or whatever. Yeah, there's gonna be
• 1:06:49
  a universe where I died shortly before. Okay, alright, so track you're
• 1:06:59
  right there thinking it's like I could do that, all right, But anything
• 1:07:08
  else you want to bring up? Chess biz, Well, Mandalorian came out.
• 1:07:11
  We really didn't talk about Mandalorian this year. Yeah, it's it's more
• 1:07:15
  the same. It was more the same. There wasn't a whole lot of
• 1:07:18
  new, you know. The most disappointing season of the Mandalorian of the three,
• 1:07:25
  yeah, yeah, because the first two were excellent and then this third
• 1:07:30
  one. I was like, oh, wow, we're gonna you know,
• 1:07:32
  see what happens, Like, is baby Yoda gonna grow up a little bit?
• 1:07:38
  Do you subscribe to the theory that the Mandalorian is actually baby Yoda,
• 1:07:43
  that when it's all said and dead, he will be the Mandalorian? About
• 1:07:48
  now that you mentioned it. Yeah, I have heard that. I'm like,
• 1:07:53
  I can they could go in any direction they wanted to do. Yeah,
• 1:07:57
  I guess I could see that. Yeah, the Mandalorian was good ish
• 1:08:01
  you know, it was for me. It's like Mandalorian Season two B was
• 1:08:09
  was really good aka the Book of Bafet. But yeah, when he came
• 1:08:14
  in there and picked up baby Yoda and said goodbye Luke and went on as
• 1:08:20
  a little adventure. So well, that's the thing. I get mixed up
• 1:08:25
  between what scenes happened in the Book of Fet and what scenes happened in well
• 1:08:30
  that because you have the book and then you have a whole episode dedicated just
• 1:08:35
  to Mando yeah season and you're like, what's going on here? Where are
• 1:08:40
  we getting a Mandalorian episode. I'm really surprised that Disney has not put maybe
• 1:08:47
  season one of The Mandalorian on ABC. Ye get more to get more traction
• 1:08:54
  for it. Yeah, what they need to do is put the whole series
• 1:08:59
  on there right now. Well you could do it, like, if you
• 1:09:02
  want to see more, go to the Disney Plus. Yeah. Yeah,
• 1:09:08
  because I don't know how CBS is doing Yellowstone. I don't know how the
• 1:09:11
  numbers are right, now every Sunday they're playing Yellowstone because there's nothing to show.
• 1:09:17
  There's you know, yeah, but Yellowstone. Uh, Peacock has the
• 1:09:23
  streaming rights still, but CBS is showing it on right. Paramount is the
• 1:09:28
  one who makes them. Yeah, I'll have to get Peacock for just a
• 1:09:30
  month because I need to watch the second half of season four of Yellowstone four
• 1:09:36
  or five. But that's that show is definitely done because the Tyler Sheridan is
• 1:09:44
  having lawsuits with all kinds of people and having ballouts with everybody, and like,
• 1:09:49
  I guess his company sued the company the coffee company of that is owned
• 1:09:56
  by the guy that plays Rip Yeah, and and I guess he's had like
• 1:10:00
  like big fights with Kevin Costner and like it's a big the show. Yeah,
• 1:10:09
  there's going around and definitely big time, big time. That's got to
• 1:10:15
  be so awkward though, Like couldn't I don't know, I'm not there,
• 1:10:18
  but couldn't. Like everybody's making so much money, it's like instead of like
• 1:10:21
  suing them, couldn't you say, hey, bro, because I left my
• 1:10:25
  wife, I'll leave the show right right. He's dating Jeweler right now,
• 1:10:30
  yeah, allegedly allegedly really Okay, hey, good his soul. That's right.
• 1:10:40
  You come for the jewel of the bike, that's right. All right,
• 1:10:50
  Well, I think to mention Godzilla minus one. Oh, yes,
• 1:10:57
  the monster movies. Daniel's big on the monster movies. Yeah, it's not
• 1:11:00
  that I'm big on them, but you are really big on them. Like,
• 1:11:03
  yeah, that is the one. Okay, yeah, Godzilla minus one?
• 1:11:08
  Dude, have you seen it, Scott? I have not, No,
• 1:11:13
  go see it. Okay, Scott, as a veteran, I think
• 1:11:15
  you would really like it. Don't watch the previous. Just watch the movie.
• 1:11:20
  Just watch the movie. Okay, watch the previous. I went in
• 1:11:24
  there completely blind. I had nothing about it. Heard it's good, and
• 1:11:27
  I don't have to watch any of the like it's not connected with any previous.
• 1:11:30
  Okay, okay, I will do that. You'll have a big emotional
• 1:11:35
  awesome good. I like that. Yeah. I think is it the number
• 1:11:41
  one or I don't know that, or the the anime Boy and the Heron.
• 1:11:45
  Yeah, because Japanese right now, they're dominated in the theaters. The
• 1:11:48
  band's really big in the box office right now. Yeah. Okay. Although
• 1:11:54
  I did see a ex Twitter or whatever comment that said, like, uh,
• 1:11:59
  Godzilla minus One and Oppenheimer were two of the biggest movies of twenty twenty
• 1:12:02
  three. It's a big year for radiation. Yeah, yeah, no kidding.
• 1:12:06
  I still haven't seen Oppenheimer yet. We don't have to watch amer first
• 1:12:11
  and then watch god Zilla, so right, yeah, yeah, I do
• 1:12:15
  also pretty much leads into Godzilla. That's what creates them. He does kind
• 1:12:19
  of lead into it. Yeah, that's yeah. But I do want to
• 1:12:21
  watch Oppenheimer and then I want to watch the Barbie movie. Sob movie was
• 1:12:27
  actually movie was good. Yeah. I haven't seen either one, So yeah,
• 1:12:30
  we're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna binge both of them to one
• 1:12:32
  of these. I was probably gonna win Oscar. I don't know. I
• 1:12:36
  think he's on an act right now, Yes, I think it is.
• 1:12:40
  Yeah, but I was gonna wait until Oppenheimer was out on something. I
• 1:12:45
  know. There was big hoopla about, you know, digital media and Oppenheimer,
• 1:12:48
  and well he likes the physical media because digital well they're so greedy right
• 1:12:55
  now. So yeah, and they're not getting the residuals and that's why the
• 1:12:59
  strike happened. So yeah, makes sense. Bronson says both movies are good.
• 1:13:04
  Check them out. Yeah. Those are probably the two best like yeah
• 1:13:09
  movies of the year. So okay, okay, all right man, Well
• 1:13:14
  thanks for being on the show. All right, well thank you. Anna
• 1:13:17
  show next week. Yeah, yeah, we'll be back. Yeah, because
• 1:13:20
  that'll be the week before Christmas and we probably won't have a shoulder h yeah,
• 1:13:26
  well that would be Chris I think Christmas Day. So yeah, I
• 1:13:30
  love you guys. No, yeah, okay, awesome, man. Well
• 1:13:35
  thanks everybody for listening. Absolutely. Yeah, this has been a long one.
• 1:13:39
  I told my mom it was only going to be a short one.
• 1:13:41
  So well, all right, we'll see you guys next week. All right,
• 1:13:46
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• 1:13:50
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